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

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Speaker 1 On today's part of my take, we have our good friend Ryan Whitney on to talk hockey playoffs. They're starting tonight.
We also have

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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.

Speaker 1 Speaking of basketball, NBA playoffs started, so we're going to talk about every game we saw this weekend.

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Speaker 1 Welcome to part of my take. Today is Monday, April 17th, tax day.

Speaker 1 Oh, Oh, done, bro. Oh, no.
No tax day.

Speaker 5 File that extension.

Speaker 1 Yeah. And NBA.
Oh, no.

Speaker 1 You did them. NBA playoffs have begun.
Uh-oh, Hank's saying, no.

Speaker 6 No, yes, I did. Yes, I did.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 5 Yeah, well, John Morant has a pretty much broken hand. Yep.
That's the diagnosis of it. He basically broke his hand.
He fell on it. It looked bad.

Speaker 5 He can't, the official report was that he can't unball a pair of socks with his right hand.

Speaker 1 So that's normally a test. Yeah.

Speaker 5 Was that a shooting hand or was it the hand that he uses to play basketball?

Speaker 1 I was going to say, what was worse, the pretty much broken hand or the fact that the entire internet was like not his, not his gun hand

Speaker 1 all at the same exact time. But yeah, he got hurt.
Giannis got hurt. Back, blew out his back.

Speaker 1 That looks like, I feel like Giannis is going to play. He's a gamer.
And then Tyler Hero broke his hand.

Speaker 5 Yep, that was an officially broken hand. And Anthony Davis had a stinger.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 5 It looked bad because when he went to the locker room right before halftime,

Speaker 5 he was like, he was looking at his hand. He was like, I can't feel my entire arm.
But he had a stinger. He came back in.

Speaker 5 But the real story out of that game was Austin Reeves. Yeah.
Austin Reeves, aka him.

Speaker 1 He is him. Well, Hail Billy Kobe.
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.

Speaker 1 We'll get to Austin Reeves, who was fantastic.

Speaker 1 Max's Sixers started off our playoff journey.

Speaker 1 There's a question in the room of whether Max even watched the game.

Speaker 5 No, he watched the game. He watched the game.
But it was... You watched the entire game, right?

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 1 I watched the whole game. That's false.

Speaker 7 I watched most of the game for sure.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 So, what was your big takeaway from the game?

Speaker 5 For most of the time. James Harden is fucking back.

Speaker 1 James Harden.

Speaker 1 Not injured yet. The Sixers broke a franchise record for most threes in a playoff game.

Speaker 1 I told Max, I whispered to him before we came in here because, listen,

Speaker 1 I've been through it with the city of Philadelphia, the Eagles. We're not going back down that road.

Speaker 1 What happened? Shut up, Hank.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 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.
And I'm rooting.

Speaker 1 Well, I'm rooting for one person now. No team.
One person. And his name is Beball Paul.
Because that was electric.

Speaker 1 I don't know if everyone in this room saw it, but Paul Reed, the backup center for Embiid, his Twitter handle is Beball Paul, which is a great Twitter handle. He went off.
He scored

Speaker 1 11 points in 13 minutes. And the entire crowd, Philly crowd, was chanting Beball Paul when he went to the free throw line, and it was just a beautiful, beautiful moment.

Speaker 5 Good sports down. Now, I would also ask, did they put anything on the Jumbotron to make them chant Beball Paul?

Speaker 5 Because when Embiid was at the free throw line, they had to start flashing the MVP chant. That wasn't an organic chant

Speaker 5 that was sent down from above. Well, that's a mark of good ownership, actually.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 5 Is by having something like that flashed on there.

Speaker 1 B-Ball Paul also had a quote after the game when he was asked about b-ball Paul. So this is from B-ball Paul.
Paul Reed, he said, five for six, a couple dunks, a couple rebounds, a couple steals.

Speaker 1 That's what Paul Reed do.

Speaker 1 He said that himself. That's what B-ball Paul does.

Speaker 1 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.
It was like, yeah, I'm B-ball Paul.

Speaker 5 I like basketball. This is Paul.
He likes to play basketball.

Speaker 1 B-ball Paul.

Speaker 5 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.
He's a bomb that's waiting to explode. Yep.

Speaker 5 But from what we've seen so far, James Harden, I think we can say is back. He's back to having expectations where he should be James Harden in the playoffs.

Speaker 1 We should also just remind people that we've seen one playoff game and we're going to overreact to all of it.

Speaker 5 Yeah, now, I also watched, you know, I 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.

Speaker 5 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?

Speaker 5 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

Speaker 1 in the East. And

Speaker 1 the Big Three. He forgot about B-ball Paul.
The Big Three. It actually, you know what's funny too? And like, I'm half joking, but.

Speaker 1 Embiid does need someone to give him at least a little bit of break because Embiid has had playoffs in the past where his body has broken down, gotten injuries.

Speaker 1 Ball Paul might be the missing link. And PJ Tucker was awesome, too.
I feel like he was all over the place.

Speaker 4 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Well, you don't know.

Speaker 1 This is disgusting.

Speaker 7 I watched 85% of the game on Saturday.

Speaker 6 Sound?

Speaker 1 Wait, hold on a second.

Speaker 1 Hold on a second. And I don't want to skip ahead.
Hank, what were you doing on Saturday?

Speaker 1 That's a great question. So was I.
You were playing golf.

Speaker 6 I had to golf, and then I had to be at the NYV.

Speaker 1 When was your tea time? My tea time was 11.30. Huh? Really? Yeah.
That's fucking lie.

Speaker 5 You had to.

Speaker 1 It was at 11.30.

Speaker 5 What do you mean had to golf?

Speaker 6 I had to golf, and then I had to go to the NYV.

Speaker 1 What do you mean by no name?

Speaker 5 What do you mean had to?

Speaker 6 Frankie, Frankie is someone we work with foreplay as 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.

Speaker 6 And the golf course is a great place to do that.

Speaker 5 Yeah, you were closing deals out there on the golf course.

Speaker 1 Pretty much.

Speaker 5 What new ideas did you guys come up with?

Speaker 6 We have a great idea coming up that we're going to shoot this summer.

Speaker 5 You'll be involved. Oh, what is it?

Speaker 1 It's called the Writer Cup. Oh, you already had that idea, though.
Nice. I'm calling Frankie right now.

Speaker 8 I think it's a great name.

Speaker 1 Thanks, Jake. Very cool.

Speaker 6 It's a very cool name.

Speaker 1 Frankie's not picking up.

Speaker 6 But to answer your question that you haven't asked, I

Speaker 6 didn't see the beginning of the game, checked my phone there up 30. I didn't watch a second of the game.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's.

Speaker 1 I should have known you were projecting on Max.

Speaker 5 Now, Hank, is this just because you're laser-focused on the 76ers?

Speaker 6 I'm not laser-focused. I was focused on the Hawks, but then, again, I looked at my phone after golf.
They were up 30. I was like, all right, game's over.

Speaker 1 Series done. Yeah.
Wrapped it up. All right, last thing on Sixers Nets.

Speaker 1 Din Witty,

Speaker 1 we have to watch this because he has been talking a big game. And

Speaker 1 this was his first game since Kyle Kuzma called him Din Shitty, which is a great, absolutely fantastic nickname. Din Shitty.
And he wasn't good. He was just throwing lobs to no one.

Speaker 1 Din Shitty is like his career might be over. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I don't want to overstate it, but when you get called Din Shitty,

Speaker 1 it might be a rap. No, that's...

Speaker 5 It's almost as bad as Westbrook. You're right.
Because Westbrook, you can yell all the time in mixed company. Din Shitty.
Din Shitty might actually cut to the core worse than Westbrook.

Speaker 1 It's such like a seven-year-old thing to say that you know, like

Speaker 1 the

Speaker 1 adult

Speaker 1 mature side of your brain is like, who cares? That's a stupid insult. Like, come something different.
But then everyone can revert to like seven years old and be like, Din Shitty, he ended you, dude.

Speaker 1 It's over. It's a very funny thing.
Yeah, Din Shitty. He said he's on Din Shitty Island.
But yeah, he was bad. And

Speaker 1 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 regular season.

Speaker 1 So how will Din Shitty respond to being called Din Shitty? And not at all. And yeah, not well right now.
Not well is the answer. Okay.

Speaker 1 Celtics Hawks. Hank,

Speaker 1 what'd you think?

Speaker 6 I thought it was a great game. Al Horford played 38 minutes at six points, nine rebounds, two assists.

Speaker 6 Jalen Brown played 37 minutes, had 29 points, 12 rebounds, three assists. That's a great, he had a great game.

Speaker 1 How are his handles?

Speaker 6 Tatum.

Speaker 1 Any turnovers?

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 5 I want to give a shout-out to the broadcast team for doing probably seven minutes non-stop on his hand injury. Yeah.

Speaker 5 And for talking about the different types of bandages that he's used to try to cover up the five stitches from picking up the vase. Yeah.
The vase. I guess it worked, whatever they're doing.

Speaker 5 There was one option where he had like three fingers taped together. They've tried everything.
So he's got the most medically looked after hand in America right now. I'd say it's working.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I also have something for you, Hank. A little, if we wanted to do like a signs, Jersey Jerry signs situation.
I read an article.

Speaker 1 Did you know that Joe Missoula likes to get choked out?

Speaker 1 In bed?

Speaker 5 No. No, no, in like jiu-jitsu.

Speaker 1 Jiu-Jitsu.

Speaker 1 He's got a jiu-jitsu instructor who has, he's, so the story goes, he, when he got the job, whatever it was, September, whatever it was, he immediately found a jiu-jitsu gym in Boston, called the guy, got the instructor, has been learning jiu-jitsu.

Speaker 1 It's been helping with his breathing, getting out of, you know,

Speaker 1 the lead of the article is: once you get in a chokehold, your brain, your mind goes cuckoo. And so, like, trying to figure out, you know, tough situations, everything.

Speaker 1 But the weird part of the story, so his jiu-jitsu instructor, oh, here's Frankie Borrelli. Let's just see.
Hey, Frankie. Yo.
Hank, Hank, copped to it, but you guys golf yesterday.

Speaker 1 What time is your tea time?

Speaker 1 Like 11. Okay, all right.
But he didn't watch any of the Celtics game.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 He said he didn't see any of it. But we played really fast.
Oh, okay.

Speaker 1 All right. Thank you, Frankie.
All right. Bye.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 I can't get that word out. Jiu-Jitsu instructor

Speaker 1 started giving him lessons all the way through February. Joe Missoula 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.

Speaker 1 He just didn't tell him. He'd be like, Joe Missoula 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.

Speaker 1 So I think Celtics nuggets have to be the signs, right? Could be. For his jiu-jitsu instructor.

Speaker 5 I just love the idea of a coach trying to simulate high-pressure situations in any way possible to the point where he just hires a guy to physically choke him out

Speaker 5 so that he can.

Speaker 5 He should have just signed Lattrell Spreewell.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 5 That would have been a better use of time.

Speaker 1 Yeah, be an assistant coach. But yeah, so you're feeling good, Hank.
This is a no-issue series.

Speaker 6 Yeah, if this goes six, we're in trouble. Okay.

Speaker 1 Trey Young, by the way, his last seven playoffs.

Speaker 6 I don't think Stevens is really, really good.

Speaker 1 Well, and Trey Young's last seven playoff games, eight for 49 from three. I don't think that's good.
That's like 20. Yeah, but that's less than 20%.

Speaker 5 Yeah, but you remember that one sick game that he had in the garden?

Speaker 1 Yeah, he needs to just play the Knicks.

Speaker 5 Yeah, play the Knicks every single time.

Speaker 1 Yeah, but that feels bad.

Speaker 5 It's going to be Walk in the Park for Hank. So 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.

Speaker 1 Yeah, don't use any of your energy on this series.

Speaker 6 No, listen,

Speaker 6 this is a big two weeks for me. Every night playoffs.
Playoff Bs.

Speaker 1 But you guys are going to be out in two weeks?

Speaker 6 No, but every night, like the way the schedule works in these first two rounds.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 6 Yeah, I mean. There's games every night.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it should. If all goes well for you, it should be like the next two months.

Speaker 1 I guess. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 5 It's a lot of sports. A lot of sports.
Do you have time for that?

Speaker 6 Yeah, I've cleared my schedule.

Speaker 6 I told you guys I'm grinding.

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 1 we're

Speaker 1 now, what, a quarter of the way to Armageddon in the Pardon My Take studio. Sixers Celtics.

Speaker 1 I don't think it's going to be that bad.

Speaker 6 And Max knows it.

Speaker 6 like it's going to be where celtics are going to smoke them max is going to get excited for like a quarter when they go up or something sixers will do something really stupid as an organization

Speaker 6 i'm not like

Speaker 6 my sights are are much farther than the philadelphia 76ers got it is it for max it's like that's his super bowl which again we know how that goes i'm focused on a on a championship it's chip or bust for you yeah what about bball paul that scare you at all i literally didn't hear that name until you started talking about him today so it should scare you Beball Paul fucking around.

Speaker 6 And Speed can't even play well.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, but it doesn't matter. Beball Paul will play well.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 And it was sick.

Speaker 5 That's Beball Paul.

Speaker 1 Dude, Beatball Paul thing. Yeah, that's what Paul Reed do.

Speaker 1 Quoting Paul Reed. Okay.
Next up, we have the Knicks Cavs.

Speaker 1 The Knicks, Knicks, by the way, this was 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.

Speaker 5 Let's go.

Speaker 1 So the Knicks,

Speaker 1 big playoff win. I think it was the first time they won a Rode game one in like 20 years plus.

Speaker 1 And yeah, the Knicks, they looked good.

Speaker 5 I'm just pumped for the garden. I can't wait for the Knicks to play meaningful basketball in the garden.

Speaker 5 It's very cliche to say, but it is, it's more fun 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.

Speaker 5 But having New Yorkers do the thing where they freak out only to get their dreams crushed is very fun.

Speaker 5 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.

Speaker 1 Max, are you... 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.

Speaker 7 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.

Speaker 5 Whoa. That's a big statement.

Speaker 1 History of the game. This game also,

Speaker 1 again, we're overreacting to stuff.

Speaker 1 It did kind of...

Speaker 1 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?

Speaker 1 Because Mobley was soft as shit. Like that, that box out at the end of the game when he just let Julius Randall run right by him with 10 seconds left after they were they played good defense.

Speaker 5 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.

Speaker 1 Mobley just sat there while Julius Randle bullied right through him. But it's just, it is funny watching.

Speaker 1 I know the Cavs, like, 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 a like Darius Garland's their second-best shooter, and he, I think he took like no shots in the fourth quarter.

Speaker 1 But Donovan Mitchell, history repeating itself, he has played 40 playoff games. He scored 30 plus in 20 of those 40, and he's exactly 10 and 10 in those games.
That's awesome.

Speaker 1 So it's like the like he just will go off, he will take a ton of shots, and then his big man won't help him.

Speaker 5 So when I was watching this game, it's and you might call me casual for picking up on this for the very first time, but have you ever heard of Sunny, the soft drink?

Speaker 1 Sunny, like,

Speaker 1 Sunny Delight. Yes, Sunny Delight.
No, just which we know that was. I learned the other day that Yoohoo is not chocolate milk.

Speaker 5 It's chocolate water. It's chocolate drink.

Speaker 1 It's chocolate water. Yes, that looks like Hank and Billy didn't know that.
No, no, I knew that.

Speaker 1 I was never a Yuhoo fan, so that doesn't surprise me. That's why it's Starry Go Starry.

Speaker 5 It's called Starry. Yeah, I was going to say Sunny.

Speaker 1 Sonny, I knew it wasn't Sunny.

Speaker 5 Starry, the Lemon Lime Sports Drink. It's the official soft drink of the NBA.
I've never heard of it until this week.

Speaker 5 And

Speaker 5 you can't find it anywhere. But it's all over all these NBA commercials and all over every NBA game.

Speaker 5 I'm not sure that Starry exists.

Speaker 1 Oh, so it's a Sierra Mist rebrand.

Speaker 5 Is it Sierra Mist?

Speaker 1 Yeah, they're just saying goodbye to Sierra Mist. PepsiCo is replacing the lemon lime soda with Starry.

Speaker 5 Now, is it the same formula?

Speaker 1 Because

Speaker 5 I was a Sierra Mist stan.

Speaker 1 Interesting. Starry.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 That's a weird name for it. Sierra Mist was a great name.

Speaker 5 Sierra Miss was a great drink, too.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's the mist off of a fucking mountain.

Speaker 5 But yeah, it's everywhere. It's everywhere in the NBA right now.

Speaker 5 And you can't find it in a store.

Speaker 5 I don't think it... They made it a fake soft drink.

Speaker 1 All right, I'm just going off this. Is Starry better than CRMist? We found Starry to be decidedly different from its predecessor.
For one thing, it's noticeably less sweet. Oh, which is good.

Speaker 1 Which is good.

Speaker 1 They're saying, which is good. I'm not.
Seltzer water. Yeah, CRMS was made with real sugar while star uses high fructose corn syrup because it was less cloying.
What is that word?

Speaker 1 C-L-O-Y-C-I-N-G. So sorry, citrus flavor read cleaner and crisper than in the older formula.

Speaker 5 It's less sweet, but it's got high fructose corn syrup instead of sugar.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 This feels like a big enough change that they should have to like say, hey guys, you know Sierra Miss? Yeah, of course we know Sierra Miss. It's gone.
Starry's here.

Speaker 1 This is probably Sierra Miss is popular.

Speaker 5 Yeah, but it was good.

Speaker 1 But it really wasn't.

Speaker 5 You literally drank Gatorade Zero and Mezcal mixed together.

Speaker 1 That's fact or fiction.

Speaker 1 That's delicious.

Speaker 1 But Hank, what I'm saying is Sierra Miss is an alcoholic drinker.

Speaker 6 We're talking about soft drinks.

Speaker 1 You're going hard. It's still, though, a brand that everyone knows.
Like, all right, so maybe not presidential press conference.

Speaker 5 Amber alert alert me do it on the phone where it's like 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 serious this does feel like a Biden special much like Joe Biden invited Iowa to the White House to try to get those votes in the primary this is a big handout to big corn yeah to the corn series

Speaker 1 yeah true Good point

Speaker 1 I've been in on big corn for a long time yeah but but get deeper on starry find

Speaker 6 Are they the ones blowing up the milk factories?

Speaker 1 Who's behind this?

Speaker 5 Yeah, all the cows exploded?

Speaker 1 That was Yoohoo.

Speaker 1 They probably did that. Right?

Speaker 5 Anyways, look into Starry.

Speaker 1 Okay, that was Cavs Knicks. I'm excited for that series.
By the way, we're watching Clippers Sons as we tape, so we will recap.

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 it is always fun to just overreact to all this and have it be just completely wrong.

Speaker 1 But it looks like it's a good game.

Speaker 1 Sons are still struggling.

Speaker 6 This is where Westbrook, having him on your team is a disaster. You just don't want him to have a ball.

Speaker 1 He's demanding it.

Speaker 6 It's like, give it to Kawhi. Westbrook, if he gets the ball, he's just going to shoot it.

Speaker 1 His teammates are doing it.

Speaker 5 And if you've ever been the shittiest player on a court in pickup, you know exactly this situation where you're wide open and somebody looks at you and then immediately looks away from you.

Speaker 5 He's clapping.

Speaker 1 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 the stee. They're not giving it to him.

Speaker 5 He just said, I'm on this YouTube.

Speaker 1 Give Westbrook the ball. Look at him.

Speaker 6 He's pissed.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 6 He's been playing well for the Clippers, but this exact situation is when there's just no way it goes well.

Speaker 5 You either got to get him out of the game or you have to just

Speaker 5 let him take every shot. Yeah.

Speaker 6 You have Kawhi. Kawhi should be point guard for the Russian.

Speaker 1 Is he stat line right now? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Three of 18 from the field.

Speaker 4 Yeah.

Speaker 1 That's going to shoot his way out of it.

Speaker 1 He's got to shoot his way out.

Speaker 5 It's West Shitty.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Oh, let me do a quick ad and then we'll get to the rest of the games.

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Speaker 9 That's where Snickers comes in, man. That thing is packed.
Roasted peanuts, nugget, caramel, milk chocolate. It's like the MVP of candy bars.

Speaker 9 And when you bite into it, boom, it sorts you out, gets your head back in the game of life, satisfying your hunger. Remember this.
Snickers handles your hunger so you can handle everything else.

Speaker 9 Snickers satisfies, man.

Speaker 3 That's a winning play.

Speaker 1 There was just a Starry commercial.

Speaker 5 I just saw it, yeah. Yeah.
It doesn't exist. I looked high and low for it.
Meaning I went to two separate bodings.

Speaker 1 Well, we gotta. I mean, it will exist officially when Frank does a soda review.
That's true. That will be the moment that Starry has arrived, but he probably has it on the back burner.
Starry. Damn.

Speaker 5 Okay. So, just from the little research, as of January 9th, 2023, Sierra Miss was discontinued and they weren't making any more of them.

Speaker 1 Something happened.

Speaker 5 That's what I need to know because I don't really care that much about a new brand coming out. Right.
But when they discontinue something,

Speaker 5 I want to be notified so I can go to the store and stock up on Sierra Miss.

Speaker 1 Dude, do you know

Speaker 1 Stone Wheat Thin? Or no, Stone Wheat, what are they? Wheat Thins? No, no, no, not Wheat Thins.

Speaker 6 What are they called? Stonehenge. No.

Speaker 1 Stone Wheat Crackers. Is that what they're called?

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, Stone Wheat Thins. Yeah.
Yeah, you know the blue box? Not wheat thins. Yeah.
They just completely ended that. What the fuck? I had to buy some on eBay.

Speaker 5 Yeah, then you got to hoard them. Yeah.
And then you got to get mad at guests that come by and accidentally drink your CRMist.

Speaker 1 Wait, these crackers are gone forever.

Speaker 5 Yeah, that's tough. Yeah, see?

Speaker 1 These ones, you probably recognize them. Oh, what the fuck? Yeah, gone.

Speaker 5 Forever.

Speaker 5 If they ever discontinue Hint of Lime Tostitos, I'm going to need at least like four weeks' notice for that so I can just hoard it like people were hoarding like PPE equipment when you started COVID.

Speaker 5 Just have a garage filled with it. Yeah.
Searamist was always second fiddle to Sprite, though.

Speaker 1 That's because you have a small mind.

Speaker 5 You have a small mind, Bill.

Speaker 1 Oh, you're not saying not even close to second fiddle?

Speaker 1 Yeah, not even comparable. Are you?

Speaker 1 discontinued?

Speaker 6 They just got

Speaker 6 ran out of the building. Would you put

Speaker 1 number two?

Speaker 6 Seven up is better than CRMist.

Speaker 5 Disagree.

Speaker 5 You know what? You're exposing yourself as not being a real Taco Bellhead.

Speaker 6 I am a real, trust me, I am a real Taco Bellhead, and I voice my concerns to the highest levels that I could.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 6 CRMS sucks.

Speaker 1 Ooh, you feel that strongly? Mountain Dew, great. So we got to see if Stars.
Sprite, great. Well, yeah, Mountain Dew is, I mean, come on,

Speaker 1 now on a totally different head, right? But Pepsi

Speaker 1 and Koge are close.

Speaker 6 Pepsi and Koge are very close. Really

Speaker 6 doesn't matter to me one way or the other. Die, Pepsi, Diet Coke, same thing.
Sprite and Sierra Mist,

Speaker 6 by far the widest margin in terms of those two companies sodas.

Speaker 5 You're eating out of the hand of Big LeBron. The LeBron James endorsement got you to be like, Yeah, I love Sprite.
I wish I want to be like LBJ.

Speaker 1 You have said that.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 It had been a long time, and they absolutely delivered because that was an electric, electric environment.

Speaker 5 Light the beam, the ultra-light beam in Sack Town.

Speaker 1 It was so fun.

Speaker 5 The environment did look awesome.

Speaker 5 They showed up. Shout out to Kings fans.
That looked like the funnest place in the world to be.

Speaker 5 But I think a very underrated sound that you hear in NBA games is like a Steph Curry 3 that silences a guy. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 The one he get from the corner? Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 The crazy silence that happens right after where everyone just goes, oh shit, not again.

Speaker 1 And that clip of Steph just running everywhere. Like he is, it's got to be so annoying.
So they asked DeAaron Fox afterwards, and he actually brought up, he was like, remember when J.R.

Speaker 1 Smith said, like, Deli almost died? Because Deli almost died. Deli almost died.

Speaker 1 He had to get IVs and like be in like a.

Speaker 5 You know what? I 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 too.

Speaker 1 Yeah. So DeAaron Fox is like, yeah, that's how I feel.
Like he,

Speaker 1 it's very hard to chase him around. He just never, ever, ever stops moving.
But yeah, this game was awesome.

Speaker 1 I actually think, put a pin in this, Jake, please, for us, when we do Kentucky Sports Radio this summer, does this count as a tournament win for Cal? Absolutely.

Speaker 1 Because De'Aaron Fox and Malik Monk both in their playoff debut go for over 30. De'Aaron Fox had the second most

Speaker 1 points in a playoff debut. Luca was number one a few years ago.
He had 38. He was sensational.
So

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 5 It should also count as a win over Davidson in

Speaker 5 that Sweet 16.

Speaker 1 Yes, but I am like,

Speaker 1 you know, like people who listen to this show a long time, we are true sports fans in that we love like just fan bases that have been kept out forever.

Speaker 1 And the Kings, like they've gone through so much shit trying to move the team, always being the like forgotten team out in the West, like forgotten team in California.

Speaker 1 So it was, it felt like a special night. I know they still have a lot of work to do, but we're big believers in like you have to enjoy the ride.

Speaker 1 So if you're a Kings fan at that game last night, you should be celebrating like you won a a championship. I know there's a lot more to go, but like enjoy the ride.

Speaker 5 What percentage of people in the crowd that day did not remember being alive the last time the Kings won a playoff game?

Speaker 1 Probably at least like

Speaker 1 15.

Speaker 5 I'd say like 20% of fans there.

Speaker 1 So yes, celebrate.

Speaker 1 Anyone 20 or anyone like 22 or younger?

Speaker 5 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, then that's still a cool experience for you to remember the first win.

Speaker 1 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,

Speaker 1 no matter what happens, first time Kings and Warriors play in the playoffs, is it kind of a win-win for Northern California because both teams' fans can go to the opposing teams' arena? Yeah.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 But just imagine asking a coach after losing the game being like, but like this region, kind of where we won as a region.

Speaker 5 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.

Speaker 1 Crazy, crazy. So yeah, congrats to the Kings.
Still work to be done. I think Jordan Poole got hurt.
Another one that we got, he rolled his ankle.

Speaker 1 And Wiggins had a chance. Wiggins was, I mean, it was the first time he played in a long time.

Speaker 1 That three in the corner to basically win the game, like, that was like a, whoa, the Warriors aren't completely unstoppable.

Speaker 5 I would say that this is a win for Northern California for the district because you've got, yeah, the, the Kings came out, they showed out in their home arena, that's great.

Speaker 5 And then the Warriors prove 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.

Speaker 5 That's exactly what happened last year with Steph Curry.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I'm excited for the rest of this series. I feel like every game is going to be awesome.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 who's going to win this? Fuck it, man.

Speaker 5 As a fan of points, this is maybe my favorite series. If you like points, this is the place to be.

Speaker 1 It's so much fun.

Speaker 1 Yeah, first time two

Speaker 1 teammates making their debut scored over 30 cents.

Speaker 1 I'll give you the team in the year, if you want to guess. Little Jeff D.
Lowe trivia. Yep.
1993 Hornets.

Speaker 5 1993 Hornets.

Speaker 1 You might get one of them, you won't get both.

Speaker 5 Larry Johnson. Nope.

Speaker 6 Muggsy Bogs.

Speaker 5 Nope. Alonzo Morning.
Yes.

Speaker 1 And

Speaker 1 Illinois legend. Dee Brown.
Kendall Gill. After head.
Kendall Gill and Alonzo Morning.

Speaker 5 Hornets were unstoppable at the VA Jam.

Speaker 1 Yeah. A little trivia for everyone.
Just go around. Give you a little trivia to walk around.
I have another one for you later.

Speaker 1 All right. Lakers, Grizzlies.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 I mean, Austin Reeves is him. He literally said it.
He's him. And Rui Hachimura.

Speaker 5 Rui Himchimura.

Speaker 1 Yeah, I threw out the question, but like,

Speaker 1 can LeBron and A.D. support Rui Hachimura and Austin Reeves enough for the Lakers to go deep?

Speaker 5 It's funny that you would go that pejorative route against LeBron James, Big Cat, 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.

Speaker 5 Oh, he sees the future.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and

Speaker 5 I think he gave a shout out to, it 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.

Speaker 5 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.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and I mean, it was

Speaker 1 John Morant getting hurt is obviously the big story because if he's hurt, the Grizzlies are cooked.

Speaker 1 But

Speaker 1 our friend Kirk Goldsbury. 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.

Speaker 5 It's huge.

Speaker 1 So it was big for the Lakers.

Speaker 5 Yeah, I mean, Austin Reeves is just, he's just good.

Speaker 1 He's not, he's Billy Colby.

Speaker 5 I like that name. He's from Arkansas.

Speaker 5 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.

Speaker 5 Just throwing fives in at the sturgeon.

Speaker 1 He's awesome. He's awesome.
He's legitimately very good. And yeah.

Speaker 5 He's filling that Alex Caruso role very nicely.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it was fun to watch. It was fun.

Speaker 1 I'm not going to totally overact and be like, oh, yeah, maybe everyone's right. The Lakers are, everyone being everyone on ESPN, the Lakers are a legit title threat.

Speaker 1 But if Austin Reese is going to be this good, then, yeah, I guess. They made every shot.

Speaker 5 And if Rui Hachamura is going to be this good, which he's not. Rui Hachamura is not.

Speaker 1 He was 11 for 14.

Speaker 5 He was awesome tonight. He was flexing on people.

Speaker 1 29 points.

Speaker 5 He was really, really good tonight.

Speaker 5 I don't think that he's going to be able to continue that because I've watched enough Rui Hachamuri basketball in my days that I know what to, I expect a significant regression from Rui.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 5 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.

Speaker 1 We also had a LeBron quote that I love for multiple reasons, but he was asked

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 So 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.

Speaker 5 Because it's wide open. Because any team can win.

Speaker 1 Any team could win it. Yep.
Any team. The Hawks?

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah, sure.
Okay.

Speaker 1 They could win it all.

Speaker 5 Yeah,

Speaker 5 the actually it is wide open. Besides the Hawks, legitimately.

Speaker 1 And maybe the Nets.

Speaker 5 Yeah, Nets. I guess now with

Speaker 5 the Heat with

Speaker 1 Giannis maybe out.

Speaker 5 Heat culture.

Speaker 1 yeah it could be back it's back we brought it back to life yeah it's wide open what do you say hank

Speaker 1 nothing what nothing what

Speaker 1 nothing

Speaker 1 this is i'm now 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 ballmer's freaking out balmer's escaping the double fist i love ballmer 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

Speaker 1 He is a crotch grabber, but not in a like in a sexual assault way, more like just exciting.

Speaker 5 In a boys will be boys way.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 5 He's a classy groper like Jim Nance.

Speaker 1 Yeah, exactly. Exactly.
It's all class. Yeah, so now the Clippers are up five.
Priscilla's probably sweating.

Speaker 5 The sons are dead.

Speaker 1 Oh, man, Westbrook. Westbrook beating Chris Paul because that is how we will spin it when we have him on again.

Speaker 5 If the Suns had Westbrook, you have to imagine that they would be instant title teams.

Speaker 1 It will be an

Speaker 5 could Westbrook and Kevin Durant on the same team?

Speaker 1 How could that lose? How could that lose? All right.

Speaker 1 There's a minute and a half left, so we'll update it. Bucks, heat.
So, first of all, Jake, congratulations on eliminating the Bulls on Friday night.

Speaker 11 Thank you.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Sorry.
No, I honestly, like, that was

Speaker 1 one of those rare sports moments where whatever happened, I was just going to be like, okay, I'm in for that.

Speaker 8 Yeah, I'll be honest, I was in the same boat.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Like, if the, if the Bulls won't, but now I'm back all in.
Yeah, if the Bulls won, I would have been like, oh, shit. Like, maybe they could give the Bucks a series.

Speaker 1 And when they lost, I'm like, all right, maybe we can get lucky and get Wembinana somehow. But the Heat, Jimmy Butler.

Speaker 1 Should we update the rankings?

Speaker 5 Jimmy Butler, I think he's number 15 in the NBA.

Speaker 1 He had 35-11 tonight.

Speaker 1 He also, he controlled that game against the Bulls. And, I mean, the only thing that this whole game is basically how injured is Giannis.

Speaker 5 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.

Speaker 5 Also, he's just that, he's got the body type and just the

Speaker 5 freak athleticism where anytime somebody like that is injured, I just assume that they'll be able to just recharge overnight.

Speaker 5 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.

Speaker 1 That's what I'm saying. Like,

Speaker 1 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.
Yeah. Like, even if he's not back in the game, like, ah, no, he'll be fine.

Speaker 1 He'll play the next game.

Speaker 5 Unless I can see bone, then I'm like, Giannis is going to get back in. He'll be okay.

Speaker 1 Yeah. It was also,

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 They cut it to six at one point. Yeah.
So obviously they need Giannis for the rest of the playoffs.

Speaker 5 The Wiley veteran, Kevin Love, had a great play today. Did you see what he did at the foul line?

Speaker 1 No, he had 18 points.

Speaker 5 He had 18 points, played well. He can turn it on in playoff time.

Speaker 5 He got cut when I think it was Portis shoved him over on a rebound. Okay.
And he cut his elbow.

Speaker 5 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 to the refs.

Speaker 5 He's like, hey, I'm bleeding right now, so that they can take it, they get a free timeout out of the situation. Oh, that's great.
That's a veteran move, right there. That is a veteran move.

Speaker 1 Shout out, Kevin Love. All right, anything else from the first

Speaker 1 Nuggets

Speaker 1 Timberwolves, we will talk about on Wednesday. Yeah.
So you're in a pickle. Well, I am, because

Speaker 5 it's my Nuggets against my Timberwolves. Yeah.

Speaker 8 It's guaranteed a team in the

Speaker 1 second round.

Speaker 8 It's going to say Elite Eight, but it's not what they call it.

Speaker 5 No, we can call it the Elite Eight.

Speaker 11 The Western Conference semifinals.

Speaker 5 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.

Speaker 5 So to be in the Elite Eight, have one of my big futures in the Elite Eight, I'm very happy with myself.

Speaker 1 So the other trivia I had was about the Nuggets.

Speaker 1 So New York Times, fake news, but they did write an article basically being like, I think they said that it was the Nuggets' Nuggets, like 42nd or something

Speaker 1 playoff appearance.

Speaker 1 38th. Yeah, 38th, but that was counting ABA as well, which we don't count.

Speaker 5 We don't acknowledge that.

Speaker 1 It is their 28th

Speaker 1 playoff appearance without winning a finals, and they've never been to a final either.

Speaker 1 Who are the three teams ahead of them?

Speaker 8 That have made the playoffs consistently, but never winning.

Speaker 1 Never won a final. Never won a final.

Speaker 5 In basketball or basketball.

Speaker 1 Kings?

Speaker 1 Kings is one of them

Speaker 1 sons yes sons lead with 32

Speaker 1 sons have played in the finals though haven't they no no with not win a final yeah

Speaker 1 no

Speaker 1 they haven't they they're not on this list in terms of playoff appearances

Speaker 1 it's like total playoff appearances without winning a final got it rockets no no hakeem you're missing an obvious one knicks The Knicks have won a title. The Jazz.

Speaker 1 The Jazz have 31 playoff appearances. So I did look it up for all sports.
You guys can probably guess the

Speaker 1 NFL ones, the top ones.

Speaker 5 Browns.

Speaker 1 Browns are two with 29 playoff appearances, no Super Bowls.

Speaker 5 Dolphins? Dolphins. No, they've won.
Yeah, they've won.

Speaker 1 The first one is perfect.

Speaker 4 The first one should be easy.

Speaker 5 Lions?

Speaker 1 No, no, because they haven't made the playoffs enough. Vikings, 31 playoff appearances, no Super Bowls.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's Vikings, Browns, Titans, Bills, Chargers, Lions are all the way down because you've only made it 17 times.

Speaker 5 But if you count the ABA stats, which we don't, then the Nuggets are number one all-time across all sports.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 5 That's really not that many playoff appearances.

Speaker 1 Well, it's because every franchise has won a World Series because baseball's been around for so fucking long

Speaker 1 that everyone has made at least one one in 1902.

Speaker 5 The Akron Groomsman. Right, exactly.

Speaker 1 But yeah, Nuggets are underrated, painful franchise.

Speaker 1 Yeah, so we'll see. Your Nuggets versus the Timberwolves.

Speaker 5 Listen to Timberwolves. I win either way.
Yeah, you do. This is a free roll for me.

Speaker 1 You should make the split jersey. Like the lady with the LeBron jersey, all three.

Speaker 5 So ironically,

Speaker 5 maybe the worst thing for me would be if the Timberwolves won the series.

Speaker 5 Yes. Because then they 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.

Speaker 1 And yeah, everyone's like, I thought you were a Nuggets guy.

Speaker 5 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.

Speaker 5 I was a Nuggets guy two years ago, two and a half years ago. I've been riding these Nugs.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 I've been doing nothing for you. Back when the Nugs were mid.

Speaker 5 So are the Suns dead? Is this like saving Private Ryan?

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, 109, 108. We should watch.
Let's watch the last 28 seconds.

Speaker 1 Man, the Sun's losing this in the first round.

Speaker 1 Again, it's only one game.

Speaker 5 Very tough, though.

Speaker 1 And playoff P will not be participating in the first round.

Speaker 5 Memes has to do the meme where he sends it the bat signal for A.J. Teddy's.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Get that memory.
And by memes, you mean you? No, no, that's memes.

Speaker 5 That's his go-to.

Speaker 1 Memes. Memes got to be pumped up for Islanders.
All right, 28 seconds left.

Speaker 1 109, 108. Clippers.
Who has the ball? Clippers?

Speaker 1 Look at Stan Van.

Speaker 5 Oh, it's Van Gundy's season, big thing.

Speaker 1 Oh, we're getting Van Gundy to death.

Speaker 5 Do you think that Jeff and Stan Van Gundy are the two brothers that look the least amount alike of any prominent brothers?

Speaker 5 Because they do not look like they're related.

Speaker 1 Good question. Well,

Speaker 1 I don't want to say it.

Speaker 1 What? Say it.

Speaker 1 Howie Long Jr. does not look like Chris or Kyle at all.
Okay. Yeah.
I feel bad about that, but it is true. He's a great guy.

Speaker 1 And he's actually going to be in the NFL longer than them because he's accounted for the Raiders.

Speaker 1 Westbrook.

Speaker 1 Oh, my God. He's so

Speaker 1 fouled.

Speaker 5 He's going to miss at least one of these free skills.

Speaker 1 He's so fouled.

Speaker 8 Give me the ball, Coach.

Speaker 1 He was just, he was like, this is my game. I'm taking over.

Speaker 5 It's Russell Westbrook time. Russell Westbrook.

Speaker 1 Yeah, don't give it a qui.

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 1 It's me.

Speaker 5 You also should not wear the number zero if you're, objectively speaking, the worst player on your team. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah. But he, he also, the problem with Westbrook is he's a triple-double.
His body looks just as good as it was like 10 years ago. Bomber's freaking out.
You know what I mean? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Like, if he got a little fatter, I feel like people would be a lot nicer to him. Been like, ah, you know, athletes, you know,

Speaker 1 they get over 30.

Speaker 1 But like, even his jumping and everything.

Speaker 5 No, he hasn't lost a step.

Speaker 1 Right, exactly.

Speaker 5 Maybe he's just gotten worse.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 5 He's gotten faster.

Speaker 1 It's very hard to watch because you're like, wait, he should be the same guy.

Speaker 5 He can get more shots off, so he misses more shots. All right, here's the second free throw.

Speaker 1 Oh, here we go. Now, only one ball.
Who takes the last shot? Devin Booker or KD?

Speaker 5 It's KD time. You think so?

Speaker 1 Yeah. But it's Booker's team.

Speaker 5 Look at you. Emotional?

Speaker 1 Or

Speaker 1 they don't need a three.

Speaker 8 Depends. Because it advances

Speaker 8 17.7 down three.

Speaker 1 No,

Speaker 1 yeah, you might be right, Jake. All right, I'll do the who's back.

Speaker 5 I love being that guy who just says they don't need a three here.

Speaker 1 But you can say it. A lot of us does it every time.

Speaker 5 You can say it with like three seconds left. They don't need to need a second.

Speaker 1 Yeah, a lot of teams do that. Yeah, in the NBA, at least.

Speaker 4 What do you guys think is the actual benchmark?

Speaker 1 Like seven seconds?

Speaker 5 I would say 10.

Speaker 1 10? I would say 10. Well, it's different in college and NBA because...
Here you can advance. Yeah.

Speaker 1 NBA, I'd say 6.

Speaker 1 College, I feel like you need it with like 8.

Speaker 5 But you can always sound super smart around your friends and just be like, they actually don't need a 3D.

Speaker 1 They don't need a 3. You don't go right to the hoop.

Speaker 5 Yeah, it could be a four-point game with like 5 seconds left. They don't need a 3.

Speaker 1 Yeah, they just need two twos, two quick twos. All right.

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Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 1 Chris Paul to inbound. You know, he's not taking a shot.
No chance.

Speaker 8 Phoenix has one timeout.

Speaker 1 What are you running at, coach? What are you running at?

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 5 Fat or skinny? Skinny.

Speaker 6 Okay. With his dad and his son, Enrico Bosco, our co-worker, kept trying to get his attention and was just kept yelling at him at the end of the game, what are you running here, coach?

Speaker 1 Coach!

Speaker 6 And he couldn't even hear him, but.

Speaker 1 He just kept on saying that. He kept going, coach, coach, we're running.
That's also.

Speaker 1 Hey, coach, you foul here? We fouling here? That's also like the final four is... If you yell coach at the final four,

Speaker 1 it's like yelling dad or mom at a playground. Like, everyone is a coach there, everyone's even the people that aren't coaches.

Speaker 1 Like, all the coaches go to the final four. Yeah, coach, what are you running?

Speaker 5 Jeff did not respond to Rico.

Speaker 1 Damn, what do you think he would have run? The San Diego State play that won?

Speaker 5 Yeah, probably that. Just drive to the baseline.

Speaker 1 Yeah, almost go out of bounds. No, he hated that play.
Rico hated that play.

Speaker 4 Even after it went in, he was really should have been.

Speaker 1 He was like, oh, the process is bad.

Speaker 5 Too early to run winner.

Speaker 1 Ghost Bob.

Speaker 6 My who's Bach

Speaker 6 is Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Speaker 1 Oh, here we go.

Speaker 1 Oh, no, there's a replay. Yeah.
Why is Arnold back?

Speaker 6 Arnold was doing, he did a viral video where he was like,

Speaker 6 there's a pothole in his neighborhood that he said all his neighbors were complaining about. And so he did this video where he went out and filled the pothole.

Speaker 6 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

Speaker 6 did this whole PR.

Speaker 1 Booker. Booker with ball.
Going to basketball. Oh, Westbrook.
Westbrook. Westbrook.
Westbrook.

Speaker 6 I take back everything I said.

Speaker 1 Wow.

Speaker 5 Game-winning play. Fuck.

Speaker 8 He blocked it and got it off of Booker, and they get the ball.

Speaker 6 That is a tough look for me.

Speaker 8 No time outs for the Flippers.

Speaker 1 That was a great play by Westbrook.

Speaker 1 Damn. That's why you have him.
He's the worst type type of plays.

Speaker 8 He's been in these positions.

Speaker 1 Oh, Booker is an idiot. That was, if

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 If he had kept his eyes on the ball, he would have been able to catch that and put it in.

Speaker 5 That's a good look for those of us that rock Balls Beachware in the summertime, too, considering what Russell Westbrook wore to the game.

Speaker 1 Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 1 Okay,

Speaker 1 so he filled in a pothole.

Speaker 6 He filled in a pothole,

Speaker 6 but it was actually a trench that had been dug for utility work.

Speaker 6 So they have to go and basically undo the work he tried to do.

Speaker 5 Yeah, but he was just trying to be a good neighbor, right?

Speaker 6 Yeah, and film it and post on the internet.

Speaker 5 Yeah. It's going to be.
He wasn't doing it for clout.

Speaker 1 He was just letting everyone know.

Speaker 5 Schwarzenegger doesn't need clout.

Speaker 1 He's the governor. Should be Phil.

Speaker 5 He's the Terminator. Yeah.

Speaker 6 The mother whose back was Matt Fitzpatrick.

Speaker 1 Ooh. Yes.

Speaker 6 Won,

Speaker 1 what was it, Jake? The

Speaker 6 RBC Heritage, the plaid jacket.

Speaker 6 Beat Speet in a playoff. Playoff, uh, Speet had a chance to win with the putt.
Barely, oh, yeah, I guess we talk about it with Chiclet's coming up.

Speaker 1 Clippers win game one.

Speaker 5 Sons are dead.

Speaker 1 Wow. Put a fork in them.
I think the over-under was

Speaker 1 225, by the way. And he just dumped for no reason.

Speaker 5 Westbrook was just pointing at his nipple.

Speaker 1 I don't think that was his heart. That was like his left peck.
His right peck. But it's his heart.
Chris Paul.

Speaker 1 Oh.

Speaker 1 I guess.

Speaker 5 That was a weird place to point out your heart.

Speaker 5 There looks to be some confusion on the court right now.

Speaker 1 Yeah, everyone is just kind of standing around.

Speaker 1 And Chris Paul's like, don't worry, guys, I've been here.

Speaker 1 I lose playoff games. Like, it's my job.
Oh, is it technical? For hanging on the rim, maybe?

Speaker 1 Oh, that would be great for the over-under was 225.

Speaker 1 225.

Speaker 1 If they call it technical here, that would be fucking hilarious.

Speaker 1 Yeah, the Suns are dead. Sons are dead.
Oh, Westbrook's yelling at the crowd.

Speaker 1 That feels like something Westbrook might want to take back because, well, no, you know what? Three for 19 might be sustainable. And the defensive winning play.

Speaker 1 You could do that every game.

Speaker 5 Shooting 15%?

Speaker 5 Yeah.

Speaker 5 If it dips below 10, then I'd say that you can't win with that.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Oh, they're going to call this dunk back?

Speaker 1 Yeah, maybe for hanging on the rim.

Speaker 5 They can't take the dunk away.

Speaker 1 No, they can't take take the dunk away. I was just wondering why they were replaying Westbrook.
All right, so Arnold back.

Speaker 6 Arnold back, Fitzpatrick back, Speeth almost back, playing really well. I think he's going to win a major.

Speaker 5 Yeah, I kind of agree. Speeth has been awesome recently.
He just has to eliminate. He has to get rid of those shots where the camera cuts to him and he's just like hitting out of a tree.

Speaker 5 If he just eliminates all those real bad fuck-ups, yeah. The true Speeth experience.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 That putt was tough. Yeah.
I felt bad.

Speaker 5 I don't think you can get closer to going in.

Speaker 1 And you can tell when he looked at it, he was like, God damn it, what the hell happened here?

Speaker 6 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.

Speaker 5 Do you really need another one? He's already got the plaid jacket.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 5 Who cares? The plaid jacket is a sick gift, though.

Speaker 1 Yeah. I like it a lot.
All right. Who's your who's back, PFT?

Speaker 5 My who's back is Netflix. Netflix is back.
So Love is Blind was supposed to be on tonight. They're doing the reunion show.
Do you guys watch Love is Blind?

Speaker 1 I watched the first season. I have not watched this season.

Speaker 5 Spoiler. 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.

Speaker 5 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

Speaker 5 different way to think about TV.

Speaker 6 But they're not doing it live.

Speaker 5 They're not doing it live. They were trying to broadcast it live.

Speaker 1 It's bullshit.

Speaker 1 Wait, so it's not live?

Speaker 5 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.

Speaker 5 They should think about doing shows that are all online that people could just watch whenever they wanted.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and maybe I was thinking about it because I was looking through all the apps I watched.

Speaker 1 They should figure out a way to bundle Netflix and like HBO and I'll just pay one price.

Speaker 5 Yeah, no, and even maybe get some of the live stuff.

Speaker 1 For HBO and Warner Brothers.

Speaker 6 Yeah.

Speaker 5 HBO, Warner Brothers.

Speaker 1 Just bundle it all together and I'll just pay one like monthly bill to another company.

Speaker 5 And 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 television.

Speaker 1 That will never work, though.

Speaker 5 That's a stupid idea.

Speaker 5 My other who's back is Blinkorn A2. Because Blinkorn A2 played their first show in I don't know how many years as a trio, Mark Tom Travis.

Speaker 5 They played at Coachella, which I'm still not 100% sure what Coachella is.

Speaker 1 It's all the cool kids.

Speaker 5 It's a vibe. Coachella's literally vibes.

Speaker 1 And it fucking rocked.

Speaker 5 They were really good. They looked like they cared.

Speaker 1 Are they doing Lala?

Speaker 5 I don't know what they're doing, but they rock. And so I'm definitely going to go see them when they play here in New York.

Speaker 5 Because Blink 182 is one of those bands, I think the band that most defines people in our, me and Big Cat's age group, like our childhood. Blink 182 was...
They were bigger than big.

Speaker 5 So it's good to see them back and playing as a trio guy.

Speaker 1 I love Blink 182.

Speaker 1 I did like Everclear a little more.

Speaker 5 Everclear was good.

Speaker 1 Everclear. They were good.

Speaker 6 I was a big simple plan guy.

Speaker 6 And Good Charlotte

Speaker 6 and some 41.

Speaker 5 Yeah, I mean, without Blink 182, though, Simple Plan, Good Charlotte probably don't exist.

Speaker 1 Blink 182 is.

Speaker 1 I mean, that everyone can, like, if you show a picture of the nurse, like, you're like, oh, that's Blink 182, one of the best albums ever.

Speaker 5 Janine, and it's funny.

Speaker 6 And their songs stand the test of time way better.

Speaker 1 They're great sing-along songs.

Speaker 5 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.

Speaker 5 And he's playing with Tom, who is like, when he doesn't care, he's one of the worst guitar players in the world. Yeah.
And if you're Travis, you have to hate that experience. But they were locked in.

Speaker 1 They were locked in. It was awesome.
All right. I got two who's backs.
My first who's back is...

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Speaker 1 We have to have a serious talk with the AWLs.

Speaker 5 So you gotta take a seat.

Speaker 1 Yeah, so

Speaker 1 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,

Speaker 1 maybe year two-ish,

Speaker 1 we thought it'd be funny to have everyone say, hey,

Speaker 1 suck my dick as the greeting for, hey, I know you. You listen to part of my take, suck my dick.

Speaker 1 It kind of spiraled because we realized people were just yelling it in the real world, suck my dick, just yelling it out of car windows. It got weird.

Speaker 1 We asked people to stop doing it. Everyone was cool about it.
We stopped doing it. We don't say that anymore.

Speaker 5 That's what we say instead.

Speaker 1 We don't say that anymore. So we have a new thing that has maybe kind of dipped into: hey, this is real world.

Speaker 1 We have to, as a podcast and AWLs, and this, I'll say it right now.

Speaker 1 Is it the seventh?

Speaker 5 Eighth? We're in year eight.

Speaker 1 So you're in the eighth takes.

Speaker 1 Eighth takesies are coming up, and we will take away AWL's chance for an eight-peat.

Speaker 1 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,

Speaker 1 we've gone too far. So this is our serious talk, and

Speaker 1 I'm going to go even further and say, if you see someone saying it, permission 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.

Speaker 1 So we want Max to do well.

Speaker 1 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 meat to ball yeah that's after a shot or since he's italian mamma mia yeah no or how about how about this we should just do this to see if we can maybe maybe just get him going in the right direction how about let's go max that's a good one like 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.

Speaker 1 LGM. He will know it.
So he'll know it. He'll give you a little tip of the cap.
Let's go, Max. That's what we got to be saying.
No more pervert. That is officially canceled.

Speaker 1 We have canceled it 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

Speaker 1 previous pervert comments are completely pardoned

Speaker 1 from AWL prison. So if you said it last year, you said it last week, you are clean.

Speaker 1 you did nothing wrong anything that any pervert that is said from this date forward you're in jail yeah just what about just yelling homosexual no no no it's not

Speaker 1 wanting to be silent no say let's go max what 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 a ball out of the fucking sand and people are like hey what's up pervert We got to stop that.

Speaker 1 People are looking. It's weird.
It's fine.

Speaker 6 Max should try not hitting in the sand.

Speaker 1 Okay, Hank, you're really not helping us.

Speaker 1 I'm trying to have a serious conversation.

Speaker 6 Sorry, I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 So, no more perverts.

Speaker 1 Actually, you know what? Here's a perfect way to do it. If you see Hank in public, call him a pervert.
Great. So

Speaker 1 he is the one.

Speaker 6 Throw a number at the end there, too. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I love that. No, but seriously, we are asking everyone,

Speaker 1 we love Max. We love having him come on the show.
We love 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.

Speaker 1 When he starts winning, you know what? If Max wins, is he playing next weekend?

Speaker 5 I'm not sure.

Speaker 1 If he wins in the next two months

Speaker 1 and he hears zero perverts, he will

Speaker 1 donate $1,000 to a random AWL.

Speaker 5 And I'll match.

Speaker 1 I will also match.

Speaker 1 And I'll double. So three people will get $1,000.

Speaker 8 I believe he is playing in the Zurich Classic of New Orleans.

Speaker 1 Okay, but if he gets one per chances there,

Speaker 1 if he gets one single pervert, then that deal is completely off. So that is a real deal.

Speaker 1 If he wins any tournament the rest of this summer and he hears no perverts, he will tell us, I will give $1,000 to a random listener. PFT will give $1,000 to a random listener.

Speaker 1 Max will give $1,000 to a random listener. That's pretty funny.

Speaker 5 That sounds easy. All you have to do is not say the word pervert.

Speaker 1 Yeah, so police each other.

Speaker 5 And again, we do accept that this is ultimately on us.

Speaker 1 Oh, it's 100% our fault.

Speaker 5 We gave him the award last year.

Speaker 1 But not going forward. Not going forward.
Now it's on you. Everyone.
And you are the best listeners in the entire world.

Speaker 1 It is funny that we have the ability to like these things happen because we know everyone's just passionate.

Speaker 1 But no more pervert. Or lottery balls.

Speaker 1 We'll work on that. Yeah, we'll work on that.
Let's try to.

Speaker 5 Hey, couldn't you just get the lottery ball correct? Yeah, let's.

Speaker 1 I had to try and let's snuff out the perverts, then we can go to the lottery ball, okay? Is that fair? All right.

Speaker 6 I figured I'd try since we were on the topic.

Speaker 1 Yeah. no well you weren't listening for half of it

Speaker 1 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,

Speaker 5 sorry, kids. You know, I hate to get all

Speaker 5 real like that.

Speaker 1 Two random AWLs. I'm not going to go to the ball game, but I'll send you to a ball game.
You know, sport.

Speaker 1 Grab your mitt.

Speaker 8 The New Orleans is actually a team event. It's Max Homa paired with Colin Morakawa, and they're calling themselves Team Homokawa.

Speaker 1 Okay,

Speaker 1 those are both of our guys. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Team Homo.

Speaker 5 So we want a clean weekend from the AWLs.

Speaker 1 November. Let's build on that.
And then we build on that.

Speaker 5 Yeah, let's just take it one game at a time.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it's not easy to change. Okay, Billy.

Speaker 5 My Who's Back is also a day at the Ball game. Day at the ballpark.

Speaker 1 Yeah, this take stinks, Billy. No, you know what you're saying.
No, you stinks.

Speaker 5 How many games have you been to this year?

Speaker 1 I have

Speaker 1 two guys.

Speaker 5 How many games have you gone to in the stadium? Okay.

Speaker 1 You're talking about baseball.

Speaker 5 Yes. Billy.
Yes.

Speaker 5 I actually agree with Billy's take.

Speaker 1 What is the take? I fucking hate the pitch clock.

Speaker 1 I hate the pitch clock. Why the pitch clock is?

Speaker 5 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 wasn't in the bleachers.

Speaker 5 I sit down there, and guess what? Like, I'm watching the game, I'm trying to chit-chat, socialize, like how I usually do.

Speaker 1 You're not watching the game.

Speaker 5 No, he's just chit-chat. So, the whole point,

Speaker 5 the whole point is that

Speaker 5 I feel like I'm rushed at a table at a restaurant that's trying to flip tables. Yeah, like get out of here.
So, I agree with this take for games that you attend in person. Yeah, I do.

Speaker 5 On TV, it's a million times better.

Speaker 1 But hold on. I totally understand

Speaker 1 better on TV. But his...
Okay.

Speaker 5 When I go to the ballpark and I watch a daytime baseball game, I want that time to never stop.

Speaker 1 Okay.

Speaker 5 I correct or fiction.

Speaker 5 Take me out to the ball game. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 Does it say, I don't care if I never get back?

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 5 Yes, it does. It's a fact.
I want to be able to be unaccounted for for the whole day. Yes.

Speaker 1 But this is Bill River. But Billy, you can...

Speaker 1 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 the game, socialize, not watch the game.

Speaker 5 I like to watch the game, but the thing is...

Speaker 1 The game is still the exact same amount of game.

Speaker 5 Right. But there's more time spent in between.

Speaker 5 I want there to be more fuckaround time. So if I get food, I don't miss anything.
Yep, right, right.

Speaker 1 Like, if you're not doing that, you know.

Speaker 5 It's a few minutes between

Speaker 6 how many food stops are you going to do?

Speaker 5 I like to walk around the stadium. I like to.

Speaker 1 See, this is the part that I don't understand because you could also, like,

Speaker 1 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.
But

Speaker 1 you know, you could go to the ballpark for five hours still.

Speaker 1 If you wanted to.

Speaker 5 Your argument of like, I like to not get there on time does not help you with this.

Speaker 1 And also, I like to just walk around the stadium and watch in from different places and eat different.

Speaker 5 Like, I want to eat a hot dog and a steak sandwich. And there's like a bunch of vendors I like to hit news in this day.

Speaker 1 Go for batting practice.

Speaker 5 Okay, that is true, but

Speaker 8 steal Zach Hampel's shine.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 5 I just think that a little bit of the experience

Speaker 1 has been taken away. I'll downgrade my initial reaction of its terrible take because you're right.
I have not been to a game, so I have to judge it myself.

Speaker 1 Because I do agree there is a part of 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.

Speaker 1 But the pitch clock is awesome.

Speaker 5 It's like a pass. I bet it's amazing on TV.

Speaker 1 It's yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 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.

Speaker 5 But, like, you know, like, let's say you're with somebody else and, you know, they don't know.

Speaker 1 Why do you have to be so high girl?

Speaker 5 Let's say you're with it's like the whole point of baseball game is a perfect date because there's so much time in between to explain what happened if to someone who doesn't know the game.

Speaker 1 I feel like you don't know all the rules to baseball. I do know all the rules.
All of them? Yeah.

Speaker 5 How do you, what's a balk?

Speaker 5 It's when he gets caught looking at the wrong time.

Speaker 1 What?

Speaker 1 No, you're just talking about your girlfriend getting mad at you.

Speaker 1 No, no, no. That was an easy one.
That was an easy one.

Speaker 5 No, no, when the pitcher gets caught, like, he goes to throw, but he does it too much. And then...
But he does it too much.

Speaker 6 What degree angle?

Speaker 1 Explain it. Infield fly rule.

Speaker 1 What? Yeah. Infield fly rule.

Speaker 5 You don't know Seam. All right.

Speaker 1 Okay, I don't know Seam that one. But

Speaker 5 it robs a good amount of the game.

Speaker 5 Okay, I think the best take to make is just that when you you go to a, 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.

Speaker 5 I think this might be

Speaker 1 just day games too, because like a night game, you know, like 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.

Speaker 1 Like on a Tuesday night game. But yeah, you're right.
I'm going to wait till I go to a game in person and I'll report back. So I'm downgrading the take is not terrible anymore.

Speaker 5 I think it's a solid B take.

Speaker 5 On the Billy curve, that's an A take.

Speaker 1 It's a pass time.

Speaker 5 It's like a leisurely activity.

Speaker 5 So everyone's going to keep going to Yankee Stadium. But what if it's like

Speaker 5 Houston where you have to drive and you have to spend like some people take an hour and a half traveling there for only two hours?

Speaker 1 You could just go earlier.

Speaker 1 I know. Okay.

Speaker 5 But then at the same time, when you go earlier, there's not that much action.

Speaker 5 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 like you wish that you had more time to get drunk.

Speaker 1 Which I'm saying, you could just go to the you go to batting practice or you go to a bar after.

Speaker 5 You left the game feeling too sober. No, no, it was more that it just felt really quick.

Speaker 1 Right. How long was it?

Speaker 5 It was, I think it was two hours.

Speaker 1 That'd be so funny if it was like, it was

Speaker 1 three hours and 45 minutes.

Speaker 5 It was two hours and like seven minutes, I think. They're going to get rid of the pitch clocks that are adjusted for the playoffs, right?

Speaker 1 I think that kind of rules. Can we, you know what? I'm on Yankee games.

Speaker 1 I'm just judging because I watch all the Cubs games, and it's so awesome just being like, it's action all the time. Yeah.
Whereas it used to be you just like zone out.

Speaker 5 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.

Speaker 5 The turn back the clock night where you just don't have a pitch clock.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
They got to. That's what I want.

Speaker 5 They got to get rid of it for the playoffs. Oh, you know why? But it is, it's a million times better to watch baseball on TV.
Between that and those thick-ass juicy bases, I'm all in, baby.

Speaker 5 By the way, you know why? Also, it was going by so fast that no one realized that Germaine, German, Domingo German, was having a no-hitter.

Speaker 5 German? German. Jay, can we get a little fact?

Speaker 1 Germany? Hermann. Herman.

Speaker 1 Okay. Well, that G should be there.

Speaker 5 But then halfway through, everyone's like, oh, shit, he's on on the way to a no-hitter. But since it was going so fast, no one was able to recognize that and not say anything.

Speaker 5 Then seven people were exclaiming, like, oh, my God, no-hitter.

Speaker 1 And then, of course, there was a hit, three hits, like right after everyone went. A zero-hitter, you mean?

Speaker 6 I like to bring a book and keep track of all the stats player by player. That can help with that sometimes.

Speaker 5 Oh, you score key.

Speaker 1 Like a score, yeah. You score key? Yeah.
Hank's never done that, but it is. I actually do.
I wish I were one of those guys. I always see it.

Speaker 6 I used to score key in high school or like 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

Speaker 1 I I'm I've changed my opinion.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 5 I just feel that like you know how whenever there's a change there's like one person that gets over overlooked in the change. And I was a little overlooked.
Billy was overlooked.

Speaker 5 Not enough time for him to do that.

Speaker 1 They didn't consult you? Yeah.

Speaker 1 Why did you think of Billy who wants to get drunk?

Speaker 5 We actually should have sent Billy down to a spring training game to see how the rule changes would impact

Speaker 5 just a young drunk fan.

Speaker 1 Yeah, it would have been funny if Rob Manford had Billy in a lab being like, wait, his BAC is only 0.15.

Speaker 1 Something's off.

Speaker 5 No, but even the bleachers weren't as rowdy. That was another thing.
That's sad. I know.
It's just like the atmosphere kind of changed in the ballpark. You know, I'm 100%, I'm not a big seam head.

Speaker 5 Like, I like, I watch games, I watch playoffs, but like, I love baseball because I love going to the stadium, being like a fan, like, like, not a casual, but like, I still like

Speaker 1 the team.

Speaker 5 We need to destigmatize the word casual. It's fine to be a baseball casual.
100%.

Speaker 5 I'd say like 90% of baseball fans are casuals. Yes.
Which is okay.

Speaker 1 Yes.

Speaker 1 Hockey.

Speaker 5 Hockey. No, it couldn't be me.

Speaker 1 No, you're a die-hard, Hank.

Speaker 6 No, but I'm not. No, I'm saying in theory, though, in general, for other people.

Speaker 1 For other people, yeah. No, I'm not sure.

Speaker 1 Hop on the bandwagon.

Speaker 1 I just want to because it's 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 casuals are what make the sports world go round

Speaker 5 fill the seats but yeah billy you did get overlooked i'm sorry but like economically that's going to impact sales of everything well that's why the brewers extended their beer sales but even food so like for example i like felt like i couldn't be up with so they should legalize marijuana at the ballpark.

Speaker 5 Get people hungrier. No, but they'll be thinking they're missing the game.
Like, I 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.

Speaker 5 I think there's a compromise to be found here. One, I think you're on to something that daytime baseball games should have.

Speaker 5 You want to be there longer. And two, you can also go a little bit earlier and see batting practice, which is fun.

Speaker 1 And go to the bar after.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 5 Also. Or maybe have you just lost your ability to drink fast billy oh no no no this might be a personal situation

Speaker 5 because me i know that if 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 billy i'm hammering curious

Speaker 1 lines no but you not if you're built like me like i get i two at a time i get right back this is honestly more about let's say you go to a game it's about walking around like you you go to the game oh i think that's i think it's better

Speaker 1 less time like like well i guess for kids like if i'm taking my kid i'm right that's

Speaker 5 awesome but let's say it's the other way around where you always went like you're you're taking your dad you don't see him that much anyway got it and then all the times like rob is like you could go to a bar after with your dad well uh billy just curious this has nothing to do with your take what 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 i used to love going like to the bars around yankee stadium and then just waiting for the ticket prices to drop like super low and like get sick tickets with your buddy and then like go in.

Speaker 5 Yeah, with game time, you can always get those low prices, though. It's important to remember that, right? Even with game time.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Even with game time.

Speaker 5 Like snagging a legends ticket.

Speaker 1 What day was it, Saturday? Yeah.

Speaker 5 That was a good game. It was a great game.
Rizzo went off. LeMayhew, Judge.

Speaker 1 Sick. Oh, my God.
All the guys.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Go ahead, Jake.

Speaker 11 By the way, keeping score with pencil, great.

Speaker 8 Just very underrated thing to do.

Speaker 1 Oh, you don't use a pen?

Speaker 8 Or pen. Yeah.

Speaker 11 I mean, sometimes there's like a late, the official score can change it from like, I don't know.

Speaker 1 Anyways, mine's kind of similar to Billy. My who's back is rules being rules.

Speaker 8 Cody Bellinger received a standing ovation

Speaker 8 returning to the Dodgers, returning to L.A., and he got called for a pitch clock violation.

Speaker 1 He did it 0-1.

Speaker 5 He did. Yeah, he was like acknowledging the crowd that we're all on their feet.

Speaker 1 Not in the box. Not in the box.
Sorry, rules are rules. Rules are rules.
Rules are rules.

Speaker 8 Yeah, but I think that's one where it should be a little gray area.

Speaker 5 Yeah, but umpires don't have a gray area. No, they don't.
They don't.

Speaker 1 All their strikes. They're the thin blue rules.
They're thin rules.

Speaker 11 There's no jump balls in baseball.

Speaker 5 I can't believe that we didn't mention the biggest baseball story of the weekend.

Speaker 5 The possum that's living in the

Speaker 1 athletics press box. The A's TV

Speaker 1 away booth. Yeah.

Speaker 11 The Mets crew was not there.

Speaker 5 Respect the Biz.

Speaker 5 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.

Speaker 5 So they make them broadcast the game from a different room because that room, that's the possums now, and you can't kick that thing out. I'm sure there's some qualified

Speaker 5 animal control specialists in Oakland that might, if you gave them a call, they'd probably be able to retrieve the possum and get him out.

Speaker 5 But for whatever reason, they're just kind of saying, okay, this possum lives here now. Yeah.
Which I respect.

Speaker 1 I do too.

Speaker 5 I think if the A's, they beat the Mets tonight, right?

Speaker 1 No, the Mets won.

Speaker 5 Oh, but no, Frank said Frank didn't count.

Speaker 11 He should have lost two out of three.

Speaker 5 Yeah, so the Athletics basically beat the Mets two out of three games this series. If it's working, you got to.
It's the Rally Possum.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 5 Don't you dare touch that possum.

Speaker 1 A's are just.

Speaker 1 It is a disaster.

Speaker 1 Okay. Good who's backs, everyone.
Let's do some hockey playoff preview with Ryan Whitney and Merles. Before we do that, PFT, you got a quick word from one of our sponsors.

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Speaker 1 playoff hockey time. We've got our good friend Ryan Whitney in person in studio, and he brought a special guest.
It is Merle's Matt. EBR.

Speaker 1 Yeah, EBR. Everybody rides from Spit and Chicklets as well.
Let me just say this right off the top. Merle's one of the best gamblers I know.
And

Speaker 1 Spit and Chicklets, their YouTube, has added programming for the playoffs.

Speaker 1 So Merle's and Colby Armstrong, who played in the league as well, who's on the broadcast for the FTNYNY PD game, they're doing everyday recap and set you up for bets every single night, right?

Speaker 1 Correct. On the Spit and Chicklets YouTube.
It's going to be awesome.

Speaker 1 Basically, Witt was like, how can I figure out to have someone do my job for me?

Speaker 1 No, you're wrong. You're wrong.
You're wrong. I can keep working twice a week and just golf.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 And by the way, you say he's the greatest gambler. He gives out winners at an amazing rate.
He still always loses.

Speaker 4 Somehow he's giving out winners, and he's like, I lost again this week. I'm like, why don't you just take only the picks you give out? No, he just live bets Jordan Speet.

Speaker 13 Because my friends like you give me Jordan Speeth today.

Speaker 5 He should have won. That was a good bet.
That was a good bet.

Speaker 1 Two putts to win.

Speaker 5 Two putts to win. One touched like 300 degrees in the half and lipped out.

Speaker 1 But Merle's is the best because he lives half the time, half the year in Sweden. And so he has all kinds of weird European hockey bets.

Speaker 1 That like, I'll wake up at seven in the morning and he's just screaming into a microphone, be like, We got the fucking Russian, like, second league over five and a half goals.

Speaker 1 I'm like, All right, I'm in. Fuck it.

Speaker 4 He texted me. He's like, Wit, I have a tip about the second league in Slovakia.

Speaker 1 I'm like, Is it on the varsity sports book? He goes, Yes, I don't know how. We have them all.
He's like, No, we do.

Speaker 4 He's like, They're plus 135, but there's 14 guys out from the other team with food poisoning. And I hammered it.
It was like, they won like 10-0.

Speaker 1 I was like, Merle's. Oh, genius.

Speaker 1 But yeah, Merle is the best. So let's do some playoff preview.
It is the best time of year.

Speaker 5 I have a question for Merlet 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.

Speaker 5 Can you walk me through that and tell me what we should be looking for?

Speaker 13 Well, I'm not into that thing, but I can tell you my wife was into it big time.

Speaker 1 The girls do it.

Speaker 13 The girls do it in the north. They take the snooze and they put it in there.

Speaker 13 And Finland isn't a scandinavian country a little known fact but these guys are the craziest with that no that's little known well finland doesn't 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've put so much snooze up their lip These guys I played hockey with, that they couldn't stuff it up there.

Speaker 13 Oops, sorry about that. Stuff it up there.
They get them a little machine and they shoot it up.

Speaker 1 Like a syringe. And by the end,

Speaker 13 the chew is way up here.

Speaker 5 Oh, that's mainline and dip. That's awesome.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 4 Well, Eric Carlson, first defenseman since Brian Leach in like 92, to get 100 points this year on San Jose. He just packs lips the entire game.

Speaker 1 It's like, I love that.

Speaker 4 I'm like, that's kind of a baller move.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 4 I have one Sin

Speaker 4 Zin six, and I'm just like, oh,

Speaker 1 yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 You don't need a mouthpiece if you pack enough Zin up there, right?

Speaker 1 Just easy.

Speaker 5 Have your entire mouth filled with pillows.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Yeah.
All right. Let's do it.
So I don't know. where let's start with the East.
Okay.

Speaker 4 Let's start at the top.

Speaker 1 Hank, did you want to ask the question that you've been dying to ask about the Bruins? Because I know you're tuned in. You had like a third line question, right?

Speaker 1 We'll save that for the end. Oh, okay.
All right. Oh, okay.
As he hits Google.

Speaker 1 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.
They are the one seed.

Speaker 1 They're playing the Panthers. Tell us, because it's dumb to just sit here and be like, oh, yeah, they're going to win it all.
Tell us if they don't win it all, why? What's their one weakness?

Speaker 1 Because I feel like everything I've read, heard, they don't have one.

Speaker 4 They really don't. It's crazy.
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.

Speaker 4 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.
Great player.

Speaker 4 Hathaway from Washington, a great fourth line, like Boston-style Boston-style player.

Speaker 4 And then all of a sudden, like last minute, they get Tyler Bertuzzi, who, when he's on, and he has been since he came to Boston, can be like a point-per-game guy. He's playing like third line.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 I think the only way that they don't make it to the cup final, no, I should say that.

Speaker 4 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 Almark.

Speaker 4 I don't know the last time Agoli led the league in goals against and save percentage. I wish I had that down.
Maybe it's never happened.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 You did bring up back in the day, I think the other team was the 77 Canadiens. There were ties, and there were also less games, I believe.
So if you want to talk about maybe, and they won the cup.

Speaker 1 And I think the Red Wings, too, had a year.

Speaker 4 96.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 4 Also, the Lightning in 2019, who ended up getting swept in the first round. One of the biggest shockers the NHL has ever seen.

Speaker 4 So that's the one thing on Bruins fans' mind is like, you could be this good, and it's just a different volume.

Speaker 1 The president's cup trophy.

Speaker 1 That is the curse. Not since 2013 in the Blackhawks has the team known.

Speaker 1 Won the cup.

Speaker 5 Can we say that if the Bruins don't win the Stanley Cup, this is the biggest disappointment in the postseason of all time? Ooh.

Speaker 4 With what they did, yeah.

Speaker 13 Yeah, when you set the league record for points, it's a disappointment. You have to do it.

Speaker 4 That is what sucks. And I think that's why Bruins fans have so much anxiety.
It's like, none of this matters.

Speaker 4 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 seven on the cup and something happens, it is what it is.
It's hockey, yeah.

Speaker 4 It's hockey, but I think that they are without a doubt, it's win or a complete failure.

Speaker 5 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.

Speaker 4 Well, his third line, the guy in the third line he knows about once he goes on Google.

Speaker 1 He had a bad game that night. Yeah.

Speaker 5 Is there a difference in playoff speed in hockey? Because we always hear about it in like NFL, NBA to a certain extent sometimes, where guys just like flip the switch. Is it faster?

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 Murroll's was Crosby's first roommate, by the way. That's how he's basically like still in the game somewhat.

Speaker 1 No, every yeah, everyone in the Chicklets

Speaker 1 organization, you just have to look up, like, did they get drafted by the Penguins in the early 2000s? Basically,

Speaker 4 it's the Penguins JV players.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah. When I met Colby last night, I was like,

Speaker 1 where have I heard his name? And I googled him. I was like, oh, yeah, he was drafted by the Penguins.

Speaker 4 But so we had a horrible team. I believe we finished second to last our rookie year, Crosby's rookie year, I should say.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 It's back when they did one through eight. Ottawa was a great team.
That year, they ended up going to the cup cup final. But game one up in Ottawa.
We're ready. We just had a great year.

Speaker 4 It's our first, all of our first playoff games, besides like Mark Recke and some vets. First period shots were 20 to nothing Ottawa.
Jesus.

Speaker 4 And it was something, and I remember saying, like, oh my God, like, I went to a game actually when I was 11 years old. My dad took me to my first playoff game.
And

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 4 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 once, well, this is Monday, once tonight starts. All right.

Speaker 1 So off of that, similar betting question. I obviously like betting overs.
Merles, you can shoot here too. And I know Elio is going to, I mean, we all saw Mr.
Ice. I love Mr.
Ice.

Speaker 1 I'm a nice person, but last year in the playoffs, he was cold. Things went bad.

Speaker 1 Is it just simply guys are now willing to block shots that that changes everything?

Speaker 13 That's half of it the other half is the refs start putting the whistles away so there's less power plays and that and that's a major contributor to that yeah and empty netters guys are less likely to shoot if it's going to resist

Speaker 4 no so they've changed this is one of the things with analytics and and doing the the number the number crunching

Speaker 4 back when i played and and forever before that you never ice the puck and 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.

Speaker 4 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 face-off.
We'll live to fight another day.

Speaker 4 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 help an over.
But the NHL has got so ridiculous with the scoring.

Speaker 4 And 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.

Speaker 1 That's scary.

Speaker 4 And so maybe we might see some games go down to six, but it's tough in the playoffs to be getting these eight goal games like we saw all regular season.

Speaker 5 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.

Speaker 5 Who would be your second favorite coming out of the East?

Speaker 1 So

Speaker 4 it's between the Devils and the Rangers for me.

Speaker 4 I know.

Speaker 1 Show respect to the Rangers.

Speaker 4 I actually picked the Rangers in that series. Today we all picked him.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 He's a Devils diehard, and the Devils were 3-0-1 against the Rangers this year, so they're kind of the, they're somehow the underdogs in the series.

Speaker 4 I don't really, 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.

Speaker 4 And even if Toronto does beat them, they then get the Bruins in the second round, which would be a great series.

Speaker 4 But Rangers, Devils, winner, I think, goes on and plays the Bruins in the Easter Conference final.

Speaker 1 Is that your same pick, Mark?

Speaker 13 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.

Speaker 13 But the only way they're going to win the Stanley Cup is if Shosturkin stands on his head. You take him, Con Smythe, plus 2,300.

Speaker 1 Oh, I like that.

Speaker 13 So I'll be going over to Jersey tomorrow and doing my Shosturkin, Khan Smythe winner.

Speaker 5 He's the best goaltender in the NHL, right?

Speaker 4 I've gotten in a lot of arguments with Rangers fans that Shosturkin last year had a record-breaking season, Vesna winner, best goaltender award. And Sorokin is a Russian.

Speaker 4 They played in the KHL together the same few years. Sorokin came over, I think, a year later.

Speaker 13 They would play against each other, CSK, SK, in the finals every year when they were over there.

Speaker 1 That's crazy.

Speaker 4 And he was unreally. Led the league in shutouts this year.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 And without Sorokin, the Islanders probably were a lottery team.

Speaker 1 So I, speaking of

Speaker 1 long shot bets, I put in something. I have something for the West.
You broke my heart. Yeah, yeah.
We'll talk about that in a second.

Speaker 1 But, and tell me this is probably the dumbest thing, but Islanders to win the East 21-1.

Speaker 1 Because

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 This feels like, you know, the Rangers, like you were talking, a lot better than them. But if you have a good goaltender, you got a fighting chance.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 And because of that, they don't have to deal with Sorokin.

Speaker 1 And Islanders are getting a little healthier, too, right?

Speaker 4 They got Barzell back, who missed, I want to say, the last 25-ish games.

Speaker 4 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 Merles.
People are picking the Islanders a lot in that one.

Speaker 13 I'm trying to find Sorokin con Smythos because that's the way to do it then. The only way they're getting there, the same thing, is is with the East.

Speaker 1 But I'm not going to pick them to win it. I'm going to pick them just to win the East.

Speaker 13 But then you can hedge

Speaker 13 plus 5,000.

Speaker 1 Oh, okay. Okay.

Speaker 5 It's pretty good.

Speaker 1 All right. So you mentioned the Leafs there.
Are they finally going to win a series?

Speaker 4 Okay, so we went over our Stanley Cup preview today for Chickots. Check it out.

Speaker 1 You know, it's getting to the next one. No, you're listening to it right now.

Speaker 4 Yes, I'm so bad with figuring out that it's not today when we're whatever.

Speaker 1 Do you podcast?

Speaker 4 That's how pathetic I am. I still can't figure out that this isn't today as we're listening or you're listening.
Sorry, I digress.

Speaker 4 The Leafs are set up to finally do it. I went on this rant.
I said.

Speaker 1 To do what? Get it. To get out of the first round.
Yeah, I don't think he's saying this.

Speaker 4 To get out of the first fucking round.

Speaker 5 Since when, 1998?

Speaker 4 2004, I believe it was. Okay.
And

Speaker 4 they just had a monster year. They made some great trades.
They grabbed Noel Achari who's a kind of a grinder, fourth-line type guy that you need in the playoffs.

Speaker 4 They grabbed Jake McCabe from the Chicago Blackhawks, good defenseman. They grabbed Ryan O'Reilly, which is a con smyth winner for the the St.
Louis Blues. He was injured.
He's back.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 1 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

Speaker 1 a series. First round.

Speaker 1 That's how low the bar has gotten.

Speaker 4 Now, if they get out of the first round and the Bruins are, I think they get rid of the Panthers in five.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 5 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.

Speaker 4 They are a

Speaker 4 true disgrace of a franchise. And Toronto fans, they hate me, but you just look at what they have.

Speaker 4 And granted, there's a salary cap, so there's no argument in terms of spending money, but like they are the epicenter of the hockey world. It's like everything goes through Toronto.

Speaker 4 Their fans are so cocky, yet the team hasn't won a Stanley Cup since 1967. So they have this amazing young core.

Speaker 1 They have

Speaker 4 a GM who's kind of a wizard.

Speaker 4 He's been really good analytically and all these things, and they still can't get out of the first round.

Speaker 1 Sounds like Cowboys. If they don't do it this year, I say they should move the team.
They should move the team. And the airport.
What?

Speaker 4 I don't want to start twitching.

Speaker 1 Why didn't you go to that little airport right by the city?

Speaker 4 Because that...

Speaker 1 That one's sick. I've flown into that airport.

Speaker 4 I was coming back from Edmonton. So if you're going to Toronto, Billy Bishop's perfect.
It's like a little island.

Speaker 1 It's unreal, easy.

Speaker 4 Toronto Pearson International Airport is the worst airport on earth. I spent 23 hours there.
I could tell you that for a fact.

Speaker 5 I like that take to move the maple leafs.

Speaker 1 Yeah, to Hamilton, to Hamilton. To Hamilton? Yep.
Okay.

Speaker 5 Full disclosure, I have the Leafs. I took a few trends on the Leafs.

Speaker 4 Everyone took the Leafs on chicklets except for myself.

Speaker 5 I took the Leafs to win the Stanley Cup.

Speaker 4 So it's because they're winning two in a row.

Speaker 5 Two series?

Speaker 4 No, two cups in a row.

Speaker 1 They have a conversation on business and all that kind of stuff. Me and Biz to the Google Classroom.

Speaker 1 Yeah, okay.

Speaker 4 They have a great team.

Speaker 4 I'm not denying that fact. It's just they are chokers.

Speaker 5 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.

Speaker 5 Eventually, that damn has to break.

Speaker 1 Well, also, because Chad Kelly told us that the Leafs owners, the Sons, are like huge PMT listeners.

Speaker 5 Yeah, that's true. Also, that.

Speaker 1 So I might have something i'm a leaf

Speaker 4 when i just call them a disgrace no it's the leaf you did we didn't yeah leafs year i believe in the leafs yeah i'm a well-run organizer they are a great team i will say that i'm a beliefer this year okay you just got a belief okay you can go up and stand in like the little like what do they what do they call that where they all stand and watch the game and you see them heartbroken every year yeah yeah yeah where yeah it's jurassic park for the uh raptors i don't know what they call the arboretum yeah yeah probably something stupid like leaf land gonna get all protein bars generally taste the same, but not one bars.

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Speaker 1 All right, so any other team in the East that we want to mention? I mean, the Devils. Devils are.
I hate that the Devils, the Devils do score goals, right? And they also have brothers on the team.

Speaker 1 They got, yeah, Luke.

Speaker 4 Luke Hughes just left Michigan. He's a stud defenseman.

Speaker 4 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 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 uh 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.

Speaker 4 You 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 neutral zone.

Speaker 4 So that's kind of my saying in terms of that they're not going to get it done. But the Devils fans, I'll shout these guys out.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 So the Devils in the next five to seven years will be competing for college.

Speaker 5 That's a mark of good ownership right there, wouldn't you say? Like, good job, Josh Harris.

Speaker 6 100%.

Speaker 1 I don't know who that is.

Speaker 4 He's the owner of the Nets.

Speaker 5 He also owns the 76ers and probably the Commanders.

Speaker 1 I'd say

Speaker 1 maybe not, right?

Speaker 5 Probably the Commanders soon. Yeah.

Speaker 1 I thought a Duke basketball player.

Speaker 5 Oh, you guys have been paying attention to that guy?

Speaker 4 I don't know. Well, he's a Final Four winner.

Speaker 5 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.

Speaker 4 I heard he already has the cash ready to go right into Snyder's pocket.

Speaker 1 Well, that's not true.

Speaker 5 He has one billion. He says he has a billion dollars in cash, and he'll get the rest of the $6 billion to him within a week.

Speaker 1 That's an IOT. That's a good launch.

Speaker 4 Hey, that's a Lamborghini.

Speaker 1 You might want to hold on to that. Exactly.
No, I was going to say the Devils, and this is just my dumb sports brain.

Speaker 1 I hate that they score goals because I'm just like, they shouldn't score goals to the Devils from the 90s. I know.

Speaker 1 Everyone in their mind thinks them. When, like, Oregon, the last couple of years, they haven't been playing like 70-point games,

Speaker 1 it pisses me off because i can't adjust exactly i don't adjust the mid-90s decades 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 off yeah right it just fucks you up and you're just like i'm not i 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 best athlete in all of sports right now.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 4 In Big Cat's eyes,

Speaker 4 the sixth player ever to get 150 points in a year is a bum. I got you.

Speaker 1 Go ahead. I don't make the rules.
Okay, fair enough. I don't make the rules.
I decide who's a bum.

Speaker 5 No, it's fair what Big Cat's saying, which is do it in the playoffs. Right.

Speaker 1 Do it now. Yep.
And then we'll be best friends for life.

Speaker 5 All the great ones win Stanley Cups.

Speaker 4 No, no doubt. And I, so, in terms of that argument, like, 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.

Speaker 4 I think he will win a Stanley Cup, but what he did this year.

Speaker 1 What, as a ring chaser late in his career? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 1 That's a hot take. But

Speaker 4 the Leafs, I'm sorry, the Oilers finished the year 14-0-1. They made a trade for a guy, Matthias Eckholm.
He's a Swedish defenseman. He played in Nashville for the past, I don't know, eight years.

Speaker 4 Unreal player, offensively, defensively, was the one guy the Oilers needed. You know, when one team needs like one piece, they got it.
Yeah.

Speaker 4 So it changed where all of a sudden Darnell Nurse is a defense in there. He's a little overpaid.
He makes $9.25 million. Well, he doesn't have to be the number one demon anymore.

Speaker 4 He slides down to number two. All of a sudden, he plays against the second and third lines.
He looks that much better.

Speaker 4 Eckholm'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.

Speaker 4 34%, I think, they finished at. Nobody's ever done that.
And they've just been on a tear that's been like the 1987 Oilers. It's just, it's wild.

Speaker 1 How about goalie? So goalie's another question. No, Merles is shaking his head.
Merles, you take this hole.

Speaker 13 The goalie is so unproven.

Speaker 1 Oh, it's just.

Speaker 1 Well, everybody's unproven until they prove themselves, right?

Speaker 1 And he's a rookie.

Speaker 1 He's up for rookie of the year.

Speaker 5 Yeah, so this guy could be, he could be the truth.

Speaker 1 But is he good?

Speaker 13 He's been the last time a rookie goalie won the San League Cup.

Speaker 4 Cam Ward, maybe?

Speaker 5 I was going to say Cam Ward.

Speaker 1 Patrick Waugh before that.

Speaker 4 And then before that, it was,

Speaker 4 who's that guy who writes the books, the Canadian's legend? Ken Dryden. Ken Dryden.

Speaker 13 Yeah, he came.

Speaker 13 He played his college season, then went into the playoffs.

Speaker 1 That's insane.

Speaker 5 So is Goalie a little bit of a question mark?

Speaker 4 Yeah, he's a rookie. I mean, he could be unreal.

Speaker 5 What about this? If you were to say, you say he's the best athlete in the world, right?

Speaker 4 He was the best athlete in team sports.

Speaker 1 But how many minutes does he play a game?

Speaker 4 If you guys do this again, I'm walking.

Speaker 1 It was so funny when we put that hat on. People went

Speaker 1 to the game. It's so bad.
These guys don't have anything about hockey.

Speaker 4 I was like, people really, like, believe that?

Speaker 1 Why could he be so good? Why isn't he playing?

Speaker 1 Why are they ever taking him off the ice?

Speaker 4 Can you imagine a guy in northern Alberta?

Speaker 1 It's like, this guy makes a young man. He's playing 54 minutes.
These fucking idiots. Who's that guy with the sunglasses on?

Speaker 5 How many minutes does LeBron James play per night?

Speaker 1 I'm not talking about it.

Speaker 5 Let's think about that. What, 40 minutes?

Speaker 1 Are we doing this? Just ask yourself a question. How many snaps does Patrick Mahomes take on offense? All of them? Yeah.

Speaker 13 Hey, the guy in the police team played more minutes than Connor does. That's nice.

Speaker 1 Very, very quick.

Speaker 1 He's a cop.

Speaker 5 If you were to take, and this might be a really, really dumb question.

Speaker 5 If you were to take, if you were to clone Connor McDavid, if an entire team was made out of Connor McDavid's, every role on the team,

Speaker 5 like if you're talking center, left-wing, defenseman, and goaltender was all Connor McDavid, do they win the Standling Cup?

Speaker 4 I don't answer stupid, dumb questions for you guys.

Speaker 1 You're trying to go viral. Do they?

Speaker 1 We need defensemen. I'm curious.

Speaker 13 Don't pit me against my boss here.

Speaker 1 We need defensemen.

Speaker 5 That's a simple fucking question.

Speaker 1 You can't get fired. You were part of the Penguins organization.
Yeah, you've got a job for life. It's like a mafia.

Speaker 4 If we have 20 Conor McDavids, yes, we win the Stanley Cup.

Speaker 1 Okay, all right. So then he might be.
We actually probably sweep every round. All right, so he might be good.

Speaker 5 Now they're going to get mad at you being like, Ryan Whitney doesn't know anything about hockey.

Speaker 1 Exactly. Oh, they already know that.

Speaker 1 They're already aware I don't know anything about hockey. I'm not, I am yet to make my decision on Connor McDavid.
I'm not saying he's bad. He's got to win this Stanley Cup.

Speaker 4 Okay, so if he wins it next year, he's a bum. I get it.

Speaker 1 No, no. Well, maybe if I bet on him, but this year is a legacy year for him and me personally.

Speaker 1 One-on-one.

Speaker 1 Okay, okay. I don't know what I'm saying.
I don't want to call it a bum. I don't want to call myself.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 1 Is that really? I'm always an Oiler.

Speaker 4 It's in the locker room.

Speaker 1 So I'm an Oiler. I can go there whenever I want.
Any Oiler can.

Speaker 4 And what scares me is they're playing the LA Kings first round. I said today on Chicklets that the winner of that series is going to go to the cup final.
And L.A.

Speaker 4 right now, if you want to throw in a nice little future, I think on Barstool, they're 20, what'd you say?

Speaker 13 25 to 1. They're good.

Speaker 4 They're very good. So that's a pretty nice little bet to throw in if you want to maybe hope for an upset.

Speaker 4 And they're also, I think, like plus 190 in this series, which seems a little bit little bit of a stretch for me. Maybe like plus 150 would make more sense.
But LA is a really good defensive team.

Speaker 1 Are they pinged up, though?

Speaker 4 Yeah, Fiala's injured, so that's like their number one player.

Speaker 4 But they have two really good Andre Copitar and Philip Deneau are shut-down defensive centers that could possibly slow down McDavid and Dreitseitel.

Speaker 4 Dreiseidel, I can't say a guy's name, and I'm an Oiler.

Speaker 1 Once an Oiler always answer. Once an Oiler, always an Oiler.
I'm an Oiler right now. I knew that Fiala was hurt.
I've been doing my research just on this Oilers-Kings matchup.

Speaker 4 The only thing

Speaker 4 that is a little bit of a kick in the dick for being an Oiler,

Speaker 4 and you're now an Oiler, is...

Speaker 1 Yeah, I'm a once an Oiler, always an Oiler.

Speaker 4 It's the 10-10-30 starts, but it's playoff hops.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, right.

Speaker 4 But you get the triple over time, and it's 3.30, and you're up with the Kings.

Speaker 1 I didn't even think about that. I know.
God damn it.

Speaker 5 That sucks.

Speaker 1 Okay, well,

Speaker 1 I'll be like a first-period Oiler. Oh, sweet.
What a fan.

Speaker 4 What a fan this guy is.

Speaker 4 They're up 3-0. You're like, yeah, they wake up.

Speaker 1 They're down 6-3. When my son wakes me up at 3 in the morning, I'll check and I'll fire off a tweet for the Oilers.

Speaker 5 That's always the best when you wake up in the middle of the night during the Sale Cup playoffs and a game is still going on somehow.

Speaker 5 You get to catch the end and then act like you watch the other one.

Speaker 1 Those are so great, too. The late starts to go to overtime and you feel like you're watching it with seven people online.
It's like there's only a few of you left.

Speaker 1 It's like three in the morning, two in the morning. Yeah.

Speaker 4 Those are the best. Well, not in the playoffs, baby.
We got the whole city of Edmonton watching every single minute. Yep.

Speaker 13 Big cat, I got a room for you over in Sweden. Come over there.

Speaker 7 The game drops at 4.30 in the morning.

Speaker 1 4:30 in the morning? Yeah. Oh, fuck.
We're going in the wrong direction.

Speaker 13 Yeah, but we'll go down early and then get up with the kids.

Speaker 1 Yeah. We'll watch the oil.
I might need to go to Hawaii for this cup run.

Speaker 4 Oh, that would be a great place to go.

Speaker 1 Yeah, all the games, you know, the puck drops at like 5 o'clock.

Speaker 4 No. 5 p.m.

Speaker 1 What do you mean? No, 8 p.m.

Speaker 4 No, they're six hours behind East, so it would be

Speaker 1 7.30. Yeah.
Okay. We got it.
We figured it out. Time zones.
Not ours. 7.30 in Hawaii.

Speaker 4 Perfect. All right.
Maui Four Seasons, best hotel I've ever stayed at. That's not a humble brag or anything.

Speaker 13 That makes no sense. I got to step in here.

Speaker 1 I got to step in here.

Speaker 13 7.30 is when it starts in Edmonton. So it can't be 7.30 in Hawaii.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah. 4.30.
4.30. Right.
It's at 5 o'clock.

Speaker 5 Because right now it's about 2 p.m.

Speaker 1 Yeah. As we're recording this.
Yeah. Thank you, Laurels.
I was right.

Speaker 1 I knew I got the invite in here for a season.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 1 Oh, man. Hawaii.

Speaker 1 Maui's the one place I've ever been where it's like everyone I thought overrated it. It was like it's underrated.

Speaker 4 Yeah, that place is a joke.

Speaker 1 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?

Speaker 4 Yeah, a big kick in the dick. Gabriel Landiskog, their captain, who was unreal in the cup run last year.

Speaker 4 he was that injured last year where he needed knee surgery in in the offseason and he's still not back also 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 oh so they and they lost cadre um 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.

Speaker 4 It's just, they got too much going on in my mind to get it done.

Speaker 1 What about the Kraken?

Speaker 4 I think they're going to get waxed.

Speaker 4 I feel bad saying that because the fans 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.

Speaker 4 But Vegas is really good. They're feeling it right now.
And I think Seattle maybe wins a game at home and probably loses in five, maybe six.

Speaker 5 That's all I want, really. I want them to win a home game just for that crowd.

Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah, for that abnest. And I also just want to watch Vegas's pregame where they do all the lights and shit.
Oh, yeah. It's like they come out with the

Speaker 1 warrior with like a sword.

Speaker 5 It's like medieval times on acid.

Speaker 1 It's the best.

Speaker 4 And most people in the crowd are on acid.

Speaker 1 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?

Speaker 13 Jets could be dangerous, but the real, I know you guys are big value guys. Dallas stars at plus 1,700.

Speaker 13 Or do my little scam, and you take Ottinger at plus 3,500, Con Smythe. This guy is huge.
He blocks everything, and they have a really nice skilled team.

Speaker 4 Yeah, last year they weren't even really expected to do anything. They took Calgary to game seven first round.
I think Ottinger had 60 saves.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 Jamie Benn bounced back from having kind of a tough

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 6 I got a dumb question.

Speaker 1 Yeah. Okay.
Sagan?

Speaker 1 He's back. He's back a little.

Speaker 1 He's back a little bit. I didn't know.

Speaker 6 I didn't know.

Speaker 6 I was waiting for you to say something. I was like, is he in the league still?

Speaker 13 Yeah, it's funny you say that, though. This Wyatt Johnson, I've had NHL coaches tell me he is like the next Bergeron.
There you go. That's how good this kid is.

Speaker 4 And he's only 19 years old.

Speaker 1 Damn.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 They have like a great vibe around their team. You guys know Ryan Reeves,

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 It sounds stupid, but they have a close niche.

Speaker 1 No, you need this. You need these.
It's little things. Yeah.

Speaker 4 It's little things. So that's going to be, I picked Dallas in seven, but if Minnie wins that one, it wouldn't shock me.

Speaker 1 Like,

Speaker 1 when I was looking, getting ready for this interview, I was like, I kind of like the devils just because they have brothers.

Speaker 1 Because you know that if they go deep, they'll be like, you hear about the Hughes brothers?

Speaker 1 It didn't really work out for the Sedine brothers, but you get my point. Like, there's those little stories become big things.
I love that, too.

Speaker 5 That's the most hockey thing. I'm shocked that no one has done that yet.
Yeah, it's like, we're just going to do our post-game interviews with shirtless.

Speaker 4 I think people did it, but just never named it.

Speaker 4 It got a name.

Speaker 1 Cheers always does this. Hell is interviews with shirt on.
Counterpoint Minnesota Sports.

Speaker 4 Exactly. And Minnesota is known as a team.
They're like, not as bad as Toronto, but they struggle to get away from the first one.

Speaker 1 They usually choke in the second round, it feels like.

Speaker 4 They choke in one of the first two rounds.

Speaker 1 Yeah. That's, yeah.

Speaker 4 But this, they have this Kareel Caprisov

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 That's the term, right?

Speaker 1 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?

Speaker 4 Well, Merle's played in Merle's Merle's played in every country in the world that has

Speaker 1 how many countries did you play in?

Speaker 5 I played, I think, 26 different countries.

Speaker 13 I played at least one game in.

Speaker 13 And then I lived in like 13 different ones.

Speaker 1 Did you list them all?

Speaker 13 It would take me a little time. I'd like to be listeners.

Speaker 1 Your top five.

Speaker 13 I played the weirdest places like Kazakhstan, Belarus, China, South Korea, Japan.

Speaker 1 Whoa. Just name a couple.
What's Japanese hockey like? He loved it.

Speaker 13 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.

Speaker 4 Tell them about the restaurants.

Speaker 13 The food is amazing.

Speaker 13 These owners or 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.

Speaker 13 That's awesome. Yeah, it's so it is the most amazing place, clean, safe.
I'd let my wife go out for runs in the middle of the night. No problem.
Nothing's going to happen.

Speaker 4 Not like Chicago guys. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 1 There you go. There you go.

Speaker 5 Hey, by the way, it's very nice that you let your wife go out of the house.

Speaker 1 I want to.

Speaker 1 I know. What a guy.

Speaker 4 Yeah, he really believes in men and women being equal.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 They don't even know. They're just like, oh, this guy's got to be famous.

Speaker 1 He's a tall guy. I want to convince everyone he was Roger Ferrer.
That's true. He does kind of look like that.

Speaker 6 Yeah, he hired a security guy and he got mobbed.

Speaker 13 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.

Speaker 13 It was nuts. And another thing they would always do is this little Russian doctor would come over to you with a with a handful of different colored pills.
Matt, take this.

Speaker 13 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 later.

Speaker 1 No, I would have taken them.

Speaker 4 So listen, so I played for Sochi.

Speaker 4 It was actually a first-year team over there when I was over there.

Speaker 1 And I think maybe like... You were at the bottom of your life.

Speaker 4 That was my last year playing.

Speaker 1 I remember because we started talking right then. You were like, yeah, I was low.
I was low.

Speaker 4 I was actually like waiting for the rundown to come down.

Speaker 1 I know. I was like, I remember you eating me up.
I was like, the rundown comes. You're like, why is it late?

Speaker 1 And then you got, you guys. I'm like, dude, don't you play professional hockey? I was like, that rundown sucked.
It ruined my whole day.

Speaker 4 But so I'm going to say 10, 11 games in, I noticed guys right after warm-ups, before puck dropped, they'd go into the doctor's office and they'd come on. I'm like, what's going on in there?

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 So we were playing Dynamo Moscow, a really good team in the KHL. Warm-ups went in.
I was like, doc, I get IVs. He's like, yes, yes.
Wait till you

Speaker 1 waiting till you ask.

Speaker 4 So I went in. He gave me the IV.

Speaker 4 I had the best game of my life. I was flying.

Speaker 4 I don't know if it was speed. I don't know.
It was Russian gas.

Speaker 4 I was on the ice.

Speaker 4 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 like 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

Speaker 13 did you keep taking 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

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 1 He's like, I need some fucking Russian gas. I'm like, but we're in America.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 So the Russian guys, they obviously can't use it in America. But what, like, do they ever talk about it?

Speaker 4 Oh, do you remember the year? Do you remember the year Ovie went home in the middle of the year?

Speaker 4 He went home, something happened with his family, and he came back and he scored like 40 goals in the next 20 games.

Speaker 1 He's hard worker. What happened over there? He's a hard worker.

Speaker 5 That's all there is to it.

Speaker 1 It's a quick trip home. All right.
So give us both you guys.

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Speaker 1 All right, give us your cup final matchup and who's taking it all.

Speaker 4 So I picked today that my final matchup is Bruins Oilers. Okay.
And

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 1 No, once an Oiler or Olives.

Speaker 4 I don't, I just,

Speaker 4 I don't see them losing. I think they get it done.
So Bruins over Oilers.

Speaker 5 It's a massive, massive disappointment for Connor McDavid.

Speaker 4 Well, for Big Cat.

Speaker 1 A lot of people are saying, no, he'll be a bum. I'd have to send out this.
Basically, Dan Marina.

Speaker 4 He'll be the first heart trophy, Art Ross trophy, Rocket Richard trophy winner to be a bum.

Speaker 1 A bum trophy. Although all I've seen, I'll send him one.

Speaker 5 They have a lot of participation trophies in Hocks. Fair enough.

Speaker 1 Yeah, and Merles?

Speaker 13 Yep, I'm on Oilers out of the West and the Rangers out of the East.

Speaker 13 We're going to see a parade in Manhattan as soon as we get rid of you, Mushes, and New York Rangers this summer.

Speaker 1 So I'm still losing this matchup. Yeah, you're fucked.

Speaker 4 God damn it.

Speaker 1 You're fucked.

Speaker 1 I want Rangers Oilers.

Speaker 1 7-1.

Speaker 6 I just want to see the city fight with each other for Rangers. Or Rangers Islanders, sorry.

Speaker 4 Did you say you wanted the Rangers to win the cup?

Speaker 6 No, I want the Rangers to play the Islanders. Second.

Speaker 4 Rangers Devils is just as good, though, because they have history playing 1994, Stefan Mateau, and double overtime. Like, the Rangers Devils gets me going even more than Rangers Islanders.

Speaker 1 Would that be the second-round matchup if the Rangers and Islanders both win? Yep. Yes.
Wow.

Speaker 5 Yep. 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 Kane, right?

Speaker 5 So I took a future, and then their odds went down. They went in the wrong direction after they got cane.
Why that happened? Did it?

Speaker 4 They got worse?

Speaker 5 Yeah, they got worse from when I logged this in.

Speaker 13 I believe they have the best win percentage in the entire league since the trade.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 1 why would there

Speaker 1 go down?

Speaker 4 They might know something we don't, boys.

Speaker 4 Well, Pasha did say that Kane's going to choke and be bad in the playoffs.

Speaker 1 Yeah, because he's known for that. What?

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 1 Okay, Pasha. That's a devil's lunatic right there for you.

Speaker 6 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Bill, you got any questions for the guys?

Speaker 5 How was your weekend, Ryan?

Speaker 4 That was so. No, he's like,

Speaker 1 what did you have for lunch? Yeah, how was your Saturday on a Wednesday?

Speaker 5 How was the Saturday?

Speaker 4 It was great. Yeah, I took the kids to the park, got a sandwich.

Speaker 1 Well, no, we had a lot of fun.

Speaker 1 Oh, yeah, that was Saturday shit.

Speaker 5 Were a lot of the Russian players juicing as well? Good question, Billy.

Speaker 1 Yeah, great question.

Speaker 4 I would say in the KHL, yes.

Speaker 1 They're like, yeah, 80, 90%. I think you're taking some sort of thing.

Speaker 4 They're on something that would be illegal in our league.

Speaker 5 I'm going to guess if you have your body hooked up to a wall, you're probably...

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 5 but like, does it help with hockey? Good question.

Speaker 4 When you think of steroids and just like football steroids getting jacked, I would say no.

Speaker 4 But for something that could help with like your wind and like being able to lactic acid getting out quicker and stuff like that.

Speaker 4 So you might know different type of steroids that could do different type things.

Speaker 1 But yeah, it could no doubt help.

Speaker 10 Like blood doping?

Speaker 1 Boom. There you go.

Speaker 4 And Russia's never been known for blood doping, have they?

Speaker 1 Don't watch Icarus.

Speaker 5 No, they play it clean. Did I see that? That Biz isn't jerking off anymore?

Speaker 1 Yeah, so Biz is going

Speaker 4 Biz is going celibate until the leafs lose. So I said, all right, well, good.
You'll come in about 12 days.

Speaker 1 He's going to have a wet dream.

Speaker 4 I said that. I go, I would pay a lot of money to have a wet dream.

Speaker 5 Are we talking celibate or are we talking not jacking off?

Speaker 4 I thought celibate was just not coming.

Speaker 1 He's not coming.

Speaker 4 No loads.

Speaker 1 He's doing no loads. No, no fat.
Load medicine.

Speaker 1 no sex no no jerk imagine if he gets like super smart that's how

Speaker 1 he's like george can't do right and all of a sudden biz is making perfect sense

Speaker 4 biz is like hanging out with elon we're like uh biz and then he just comes and he's like what

Speaker 4 but yeah he's he's doing no loads huh and he's not drinking and yeah he he he goes on um 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 chiclets um we we finished all-star like the whole weekend.

Speaker 4 We had a successful weekend doing interviews and stuff. And we had one left and it was Rod Brindemore the next morning, head coach of the Carolina Hurricane.
So we all went out and had a good night.

Speaker 4 And

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 And then at the end of the interview, he said goodbye.

Speaker 1 Didn't ask him one question.

Speaker 4 and Rod Brindemore at the end goes, Good job, Biz.

Speaker 1 That's so perfect.

Speaker 4 God damn it. Yeah, so we're ready for playoffs.
It's an exciting time. If you haven't listened to Chicklett's, please check us out.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 1 No, no, no, no, no, you guys work way too much. And you got Colby and Merle doing.

Speaker 4 Yeah, and then

Speaker 4 they got Chicklets game notes, which is once a month, and then they got their new once a day.

Speaker 1 Well, they had their little podcast notes once a month.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 And I'm going to be a part of the first one, which is today, as you listen.

Speaker 5 Do you want to take a second to just roast the NBA?

Speaker 1 Anything about this?

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 He had about 14 abs on his stomach, but it was a little bit of a ridiculous outfit.

Speaker 5 He's doing tarps off.

Speaker 4 Well, it was tarps on, but just unbuttoned. Okay, okay.

Speaker 1 Yeah,

Speaker 4 the NBA is just whatever. It is what it is.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 4 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.

Speaker 1 Oh, you do hate that they take that much time off.

Speaker 4 It's It's just like, what's the grind about a hockey every other day? Is that's part of like winning the cup, is just like battling the war of attrition.

Speaker 4 And NBA players, they get so much rest between every game, and they don't even play all the regular season games.

Speaker 5 Yeah, 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?

Speaker 4 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?

Speaker 4 He's like, I want to watch basketball. I was like, no.

Speaker 1 It's like, pretty simple.

Speaker 4 But we can watch college basketball. He's like, well, okay.

Speaker 1 These guys stink.

Speaker 1 All right. Well, thank you, boys.
No offense. Appreciate it.
Go check out Spitting Chicklets.

Speaker 13 Do we get a chance?

Speaker 1 Of course, you have. Of course.
Oh, look how mad Hank is.

Speaker 4 I love seeing Hank not win.

Speaker 5 Of course you. Fuck.
You think he'll ever get it?

Speaker 4 I said the last time here, never.

Speaker 1 Never.

Speaker 1 It's just a chance for the two of you. No one else is in that.

Speaker 1 What happened?

Speaker 4 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?

Speaker 5 Yeah, yeah. Big Cat and I were each going to contribute $5,000, I think, to Hank if he got it before the end of the regular season or before the end of NFL season.

Speaker 1 And then we felt bad taking his money to it. So we made him put it in a pot, and then PFT ended up winning it anyway.

Speaker 5 But I won the pot because I took Hank's guess for the number because he guessed too early. So I took his number.

Speaker 1 Yeah, so you guys both get a guess. This won't count.
This counts official. You know what? Fuck it.
Let's all guess. Yeah, come on.

Speaker 1 I was like, we can't do it alone. Yeah, let's all guess.
19. Oh, I haven't said numbers yet.
Oh, okay. Sorry.

Speaker 4 I'll switch.

Speaker 1 You're last now because this all is.

Speaker 4 Oh, no. Yeah.

Speaker 1 Number 10. Somebody take 19.

Speaker 1 I'll take 19. Fuck you.
I'll do 99.

Speaker 6 17.

Speaker 1 16.

Speaker 1 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.

Speaker 1 All right, wait. What was it? 69.
What was yours, Hank? 17.

Speaker 5 Actually, can I change mine?

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 5 I want to change mine 97.

Speaker 1 Okay. Oh, for Connor McDavid.

Speaker 4 For McDavid. Yeah.

Speaker 1 All right. Smart.
38. 38.

Speaker 1 18, Jake. What do you got? 20.
20. Go ahead, Wick.

Speaker 4 28.

Speaker 1 28. All right.

Speaker 5 Hank, what'd you pick?

Speaker 1 Hank, have you ever gotten this?

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 4 It's amazing. He's never gotten it.

Speaker 1 What'd he take?

Speaker 4 17. And everyone's gotten it.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yep. I got it four times.
Oh, 82. Oh, fuck.
82. What a bummer.
Yeah. Moral duties.

Speaker 4 Hey, but I had 28, so it kind of counts.

Speaker 1 Why? No, that's not super cool. I'm dyslexic.

Speaker 4 Are you going to try to make fun of me?

Speaker 1 Yeah, I will. All right, fair.
All right. Thank you, boys.
Thank you. Wine, Ritney.

Speaker 1 Give it up for Chicago.

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Speaker 1 Okay,

Speaker 1 great show, everyone.

Speaker 1 Henry,

Speaker 1 you already had one chance today.

Speaker 1 How many, what are his chances up to?

Speaker 1 Total?

Speaker 11 Well, he's shout out Stat Hole Sports, right? Jeffro.

Speaker 1 He did a blog.

Speaker 1 What was that? Someone farting here?

Speaker 5 I think the chances of Hank not getting a lottery ball correct at this point are like 1.57.

Speaker 1 It's just crazy.

Speaker 8 It's pretty close to the chances you have of getting it.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 1 Yeah.

Speaker 8 Around 1%.

Speaker 1 Falling asleep.

Speaker 1 You had two chances today.

Speaker 6 I've had one chance.

Speaker 1 Hank, you should keep 0 for 2.

Speaker 5 You should keep score.

Speaker 1 What are you talking about? You're not going to get it.

Speaker 6 I'm getting it.

Speaker 1 Oh, you're going to get it right now?

Speaker 11 According to Jeffro

Speaker 1 in his blog, his order of combat. What does that mean?

Speaker 6 What is Jeffro?

Speaker 5 He's Tat Hill Sports.

Speaker 1 54, 50.

Speaker 6 Is he Mike Rowe's son named Jeff? Or is like

Speaker 1 Jeffro one name?

Speaker 4 I'm not going to maybe help you get it.

Speaker 1 You won't read it. I'm not reading it.

Speaker 5 It's like Jethro, but Jeffro.

Speaker 1 Got it. All right.
Numbers. 69.

Speaker 6 I'm going to go 99. JJ Watt tweeted at me over the weekend.

Speaker 6 What did he tweet you?

Speaker 6 Hank, just checking in. How are we coming along on the lottery ball? I still believe in you.
Damn. I didn't respond yet.

Speaker 1 I think you should respond. You haven't responded?

Speaker 6 I was drunk last night. I was like mad, and I was like, I'm not.

Speaker 6 I'll say this till tomorrow. And I...

Speaker 6 This is me responding.

Speaker 1 No.

Speaker 5 A lot of people out there have.

Speaker 1 But I'm doing good, JJ.

Speaker 6 Thanks for checking in. I appreciate you reaching out.

Speaker 1 How angry and

Speaker 5 how foolish Hank's been on the podcast recently, corresponding directly to frustrations with not getting the lottery ball. I'll guess 17.

Speaker 6 I'm going to guess 99.

Speaker 1 You know what? I'm going to go.

Speaker 1 What were Jethro's numbers? Stadhole. His name's Stadthole.
Yeah. He says, this makes no sense.
You can't be a stat guy.

Speaker 11 54, 50, 49, 48.

Speaker 6 Those are just subjective guesses. There's no stats behind it.

Speaker 5 Hank, shut the fuck up. I'm going to take.

Speaker 1 I don't even need to read the blog. I'm going to take a new one.
Shut the fuck up.

Speaker 5 I'm going to take a new one, 26. Never been picked before.

Speaker 1 Well, he'd never, never come out before. It's never come out.

Speaker 5 It's never been. Yes, it's never been the correct answer.

Speaker 1 Max

Speaker 1 20.

Speaker 5 Honestly, Hank's the most statistically impressive out of all of us for his, like, his score. At being bad, yeah.

Speaker 1 No, but like,

Speaker 5 his record is just statistically.

Speaker 1 What is it, Hank? 99?

Speaker 5 Oh, I just saw 99.

Speaker 1 Oh, I just saw 17.

Speaker 1 14.

Speaker 1 So, would you like to fourth time? Would you like to apologize to me?

Speaker 5 Because I said you were 0-2.

Speaker 6 No.

Speaker 1 Well, you were.

Speaker 6 No, when you said it.

Speaker 1 Yes, you were.

Speaker 6 No, I wasn't. Yeah, you were.
Factor fiction.

Speaker 5 It was always going to be worse.

Speaker 1 You were always going to not get it.

Speaker 1 17 literally was like right there. If I had won with 17, what would you have done?

Speaker 6 That vacation.

Speaker 6 My two two months of grinding would be halted.

Speaker 1 Hank's threat is just vacation.

Speaker 1 All right, see you everyone Wednesday.

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