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Introduction and Episode Preview
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off my dish till the day I D.I.E Focus till my mission complete Never stops that victory from the jaws of defeat
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is popping off with the mouth. I'll leave your body feel weak. Switch your face and grit your teeth. Cause everything else will have your outlook look bleep. Death is the time for sleep. Meet your maker rhyme.
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Never slow down, never stop. I'm always on my grind. In any mountain, I will climb. Reach my physical climb and I ascend to the peak.
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Introducing Omar, the Professor Fonseca, and the Professor Seminal Mendes.
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Yo, yo, yo, what up, friends? Welcome to another episode of the Professor Seminal Mente. I am your host, Omar, the Professor Fonseca, and I thank you, as always, for tuning in. We've got a huge day of news ahead of us to catch up on. Yes, it has been a couple weeks.
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Since we did the news headline program, if i had a bunch of stuff going on, traveling, covering various events, as well as doing a bunch of other
Sports Highlights and Discussions
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different shows. If you haven't been checking out Sunday Showdown, the football recap show, please check that out every Sunday.
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And as well, tomorrow we will have our World Series preview on the channel. Please make sure you subscribe to Ball and Buds. Handy QR code right up there at the top. Scan that bad boy.
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It will take you to our link tree. Find all our social media at Barland Buds, B-A-L-L-A-N-D-B-U-D-S, World Series preview.
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As well, we will have our NBA season preview next week. And as well, in between there, we'll have a couple of boxing, combat sports, other shows as well as Sunday showdown every Sunday. So ball and buds kicking into full gear. And I've got another surprise. Total evisceration. Yes, it's been talked about for so long, but it is coming true.
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I take Jake and yours truly, the sports professor, will battle it out for Sports Takes Supremacy. That'll be coming here in the new year. So stay tuned. We're working on making sure that's coming out every Tuesday.
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So full slate ahead for Ball and Buds. We appreciate all the fans. Thank y'all so much for tuning in. Again, my name is Omar, the Professor Fonseca. Let's kick this bad boy off. All right, first of all, let's start off the sports world. Yes, indeedy.
00:03:09
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Let's talk about it. There is only one great word in sports and that great well there's lots of great words but the greatest word in sports game seven yes game seven tonight shout out big rube
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Yes, sir. Thank you for tuning in. ah Game seven tonight. Yes, indeedy. The playoffs have been awesome thus far. ah What we have now is tonight the Toronto Blue Jays at home playing against the Seattle Mariners. The Mariners had the edge tonight.
00:04:00
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They were up Toronto last night, put a whooping on them, tied up 3-3. Yes! So excited. I love nothing more than a Game 7 in sports. It's coming on here tonight at 8 o'clock Eastern in just about two hours, an hour and a 40 minutes now. So we're looking into that game.
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Great series thus far, back and forth. I, as you know, before the series started, ah picked pick the Mariners to win this series. I was a little hesitant there ah because I wasn't sure. They were both really, really good teams.
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Blue Jays overall, the better... I guess you can't say better because Seattle's a little more spunkier, a little younger. They got the big dumper who should be the MVP if you're asking the sports professor.
00:04:54
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Let's get that straight. You got a catcher with 60 home runs. Catcher in baseball, if you don't know, is also the leader of the team, basically the point guard, the captain, the quarterback. So shout out to them. But yeah, going to be a great game. Looking forward ah to that tonight. But did you see?
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Woo! Did you see? In the Dodgers series clinching win. wow
00:05:27
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Holy cannolis. I really need to, you know what I need to do? I need to pare down all my sound bites because now I don't know where they are because I added too many and I can't give you the Ric Flair woo because I don't know ah where they are. So you're just going to get my woo.
00:05:46
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Go, hey, oh, Connie. I mean, is there anything else to be said about this show? Tremendous ball player compared to Babe Ruth when he came in the league.
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He has proved nothing less and only more than that. Only be just the cherry on top, which he hasn't really done yet, although they did win.
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ah ah The Dodgers did win the World Series last year already. Joe Hayotani had one of, if not the most amazing performances, sporting performances, not only in baseball,
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but in sports history in any sport ever. ah My man, Shohei, my brother, this dude went out, and as we all know, right, he is a he's as we like to call it, right, little ambidextrous action.
00:06:58
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He's both a pitcher and a great batter as well. So not only um is he able to strike out some of the world's greatest hitters, but he is also able to mash balls straight out of the ballpark, and Shohei Ohtani proved no different in the sweep over the Milwaukee Brewers by the Los Angeles Dodgers.
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Shohei Ohtani, get this, y'all. listen to this stat line right here. Six innings pitched, zero runs given up, two hits given up, and 10 strikeouts over six innings, right?
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But Oh, wait, that's not all. There's more. What did he do as a batter? He only went on to hit three home runs.
00:07:57
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One of them mammothly just went out of Dodger Stadium completely and four RBIs. So what are we talking about here right What are we really talking about comparisons of actual sports performances?
00:08:17
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We have Michael Jordan's flu game. right We have Tiger Woods winning the U.S. Open on a torn Achilles. We have, ah even in baseball, you've got Don Larson's perfect game in the World Series. um If you look at just...
00:08:38
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pitching and hitting performances within the same game. Shout out to Tony Reale, my brother from around, the former Around the Horn sports fame has a blog out.
00:08:51
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I think it's on Substack called I Love Everything About This. Y'all should definitely check it out. Daily newsletters. It's it's a good one. It's a good one. I like it. But anyways, he gave me, he gave us the down low on this.
00:09:02
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There are only three players ever to eat or two, two players other than Shohei. to have a stat line close to him in a baseball game. And one of those didn't even happen ah in terms of a good pitching performance.
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One of the guys gave up four runs over five innings. So we're automatically going to eliminate that, right? But in terms of one guy named Don Wise, he, and this was... um I mean, this was back in the day.
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ah he pitched a no-hitter and had three home runs. Now, this was in a regular season game, not a, ah you know, divisional series clinching game, but nonetheless, a pretty epic performance if you're throwing a no-hitter and hitting three home runs.
00:10:03
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The pitching performance was better than Shohei's. Shohei only pitched six innings, but again, magnitude of the game, the pressure, the competition at that point.
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And that's when you have to go with Shohei over Mr. Don Wise. Salute to him. I didn't, as a baseball, I would consider myself a baseball purist or no not necessarily a historian, but I know a lot of baseball and I did not even know that that gentleman had had that performance.
00:10:32
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So shout out to him. I also don't know much about I shouldn't say I don't know much. I do know a lot, but I don't know everything about baseball back in the 50s, 60s, and 70s.
00:10:43
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I was not alive at that time. Please excuse me. But anyways, point holds. Shohei Otani produced one of ah the best sporting performances of all time, and in my opinion, the greatest baseball player.
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single
Criticism and Rankings Discussions
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performance of all time. What do you think? Did you, do you think the same? hear here. We got a little bit of volume fluctuation here. Is that the same?
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Are you still hearing me? I can move over a little bit. Let me scoot the microphone a little closer over. We're going to make sure our lines are good. Let me make sure we got a nice little There we go. How's that? Does that sound a little better? Hopefully that's good.
00:11:24
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Go back over here. All right. Hopefully that clears it up. All right. Thank you for that. Anyways, so that was, again, a crazy one. But, yeah, we'll see what happens. Whoever wins this game tonight will move on to face the Los Angeles Dodgers in the World Series.
00:11:43
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As much as we don't like the evil empire type things within sports, And i even though I don't like it, I did pick the Dodgers too, that they were going to repeat as World Series champions before the season.
00:11:57
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Again, don't want to see it, but ah probably going to expect that it's going to happen now. Maybe the rest hurts them a little bit since they'll have off till Friday when the World Series starts. So we'll see about that.
00:12:12
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Shout out my brother Scott. What's up, my brother? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Talk about my trash Raiders. Yes, yes. We can always chat about my trash Raiders. If you saw Sunday showdown yesterday, our NFL college football show after the day games before the night games, we trashed them pretty hard.
00:12:33
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Horrible performance. abhorrent ah to say the least. 31-0. I turned the game off early. I actually was pissed off, so I went to the gym and had a little workout instead. um Yeah, just it's just... just
00:12:51
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Just horribleness. And we just haven't been good in so long. I'm going start calling it the curse of Gruden because, first of all, we haven't even been good since Gruden was coach.
00:13:04
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Then we trade John Gruden, and then we stink until we get John Gruden back. And then we're good again for that period. And then we get screwed and he gets taken away from us and we suck all over again. So I'm going to call it the curse of John Gruden.
00:13:20
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We will not be good again until he is back. But no fear. I believe after Pete Carroll's tenure is done here within the next year or two, he's not going to fired this year. They'll give him another year.
00:13:32
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But after that, John Gruden will return. And unfortunately, to say Davis will never sell that team in the Davis family. oh life.
00:13:43
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ah Rest in peace to the legendary Al Davis, by the way.
00:13:50
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All right. and And your Bears aren't that much better, so don't even get me started on that. But we will talk a little bit of football, though. ah Did you see that amazing comeback yesterday that the Broncos pulled off on the Giants?
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Wow.
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It was awesome. um going i mean Going into the fourth quarter, the Denver Broncos faced and a yeah well more than 18.
00:14:24
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it got it got It was worse at the start of the fourth, but with six minutes left in the fourth, they still had 18-point deficit that they were behind the New York Giants, and they came back to win the game.
00:14:40
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So what does that mean? Let me give you a professor's fun fact here. NFL teams, when leading by 18 or more points in the final six minutes, like the New York Giants were winning yesterday, have 1,602 consecutive games. Let me repeat that.
00:15:00
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consecutive games let me repeat that the Broncos pulled off something that has not happened in 1,602 consecutive games. Shout out my brother, Hot Take Jake.
00:15:13
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A team had not lost when leading by 18 plus with six minutes to go in that many games. Crazy. Denver scores 21 actual unanswered points in the last 548 capped by a 42-yard touchdown pass.
00:15:30
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This comeback ranks in the top five most statistically improbable wins in NFL history. The win probability was less than.10.
00:15:42
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point 1%. So talk about a miracle. How crazy was that? Yes, I agree. I agree. Very, very crazy ah miracle for the Broncos there.
00:15:59
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By the way, let's talk about a little power rankings. This is going into tonight's action. So you see my power rankings here. Let blow that up a little bit for you.
00:16:12
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So again, remember, this is this was going into tonight, so this is before tonight's games. Tampa Bay still at number one from last week. We will see what happens tonight as they are part of that ESPN Monday night doubleheader, which by the way, we will talk about in just a second. Is that going to continue?
00:16:32
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A lot of people don't like the doubleheader on Monday night. What about you? Do you like the doubleheader On Monday night, the Buccaneers first, the Lions tonight, Buccaneers going in to Ford Field um as well. We have the Texans ah going into Seattle for the late game.
00:16:53
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ah So anyways, looking at this, The Tampa Bay Buccaneers led by mvp candidate Baker Mayfield going out there and just throwing the rock all over the field, leading them to a 5-1 record. Going in to see the Detroit Lions at Fort Field. This is going to very, very tough game.
00:17:13
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Detroit is pissed off. that they lost last week. They are going to try to um use this as a revenge game to get back on track. Tampa Bay going into a hard-to-play Detroit forward field, especially where Jared Goff plays very well.
00:17:30
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I have Detroit winning this game in a close game. The line is five and a half, ah but I have I wonder what the spread is, because when we went over the spread yesterday, I believe it was 42.5. And I remember it was 5.5 as the Detroit Lions favorite.
00:17:52
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Let me check that real quick just to make sure that is the same. I don't want to give any of my ah betting people out there any wrong information. So give me one moment out there. Let me get that for you. Let's see what we got here.
00:18:06
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Monday night football, we got the Detroit Lions. And yes, okay, I get that. Just give me the damn... ah There we go. All right. Here we are.
00:18:16
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Buccaneers. Yeah. So six and a half favorite now Detroit and the spread. I apologize. 42 and a half was the other game. 54 and a half is the spread here.
00:18:27
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So again, I got the Lions in a, I got it closer than a touchdown. I got the Lions by three. So we are going to do a 30 to 27. Okay. game Lions over the Buccaneers here in that second Monday night doubleheader.
00:18:43
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I got the Seahawks beating the Texans yet ah here. Excuse me. The Texans are going through a rather rough season. We all thought it was a sophomore slump for C.J. Stroud, but it seems to have extended a little bit. Seattle is a three-and-a-half home favorite here.
00:19:00
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The spread is now down to 41-and-a-half. I do have Seattle winning this, and I have the opposite here. actually I actually have Seattle winning by more than three-and-a-half here. I have them winning by a touchdown instead, so this is going to be more of a game, whereas the other one was a little bit lower.
00:19:15
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ah closer of a game. I'm going have Seattle winning this game. Let's go with a, I like a 24-17 home victory for Seattle there.
00:19:26
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So those are your power rankings there. Shout out my brother Canteen. How you doing? Appreciate you, my friend. Thank you for tuning in. Y'all check out the bottom line sports as well as Let's Talk Sports Network.
00:19:39
Speaker
Indianapolis Colts at number two. Indianapolis is just, I mean, They haven't slowed down yet. They have not slowed down yet. I keep saying, and I know it's eventually going to happen. I just don't know when yet.
00:19:53
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Daniel Jones will turn back into a pumpkin. Don't you worry about that. Pumpkin time is upon us as I lose my mouse. ah So I don't know what I'm ah looking at.
00:20:06
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um But anyways, we'll see if that continues with Indianapolis right now, as we talked about on Sunday showdown. They have to be in the playoffs pretty much as long as they don't have a a complete fall off the cliff.
00:20:18
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Buffalo, Philadelphia, 4-5. four five Yes, um ah Buffalo is on a bye. Philadelphia coming off that victory yesterday over Minnesota. San Francisco, good victory last night. Even though they're banged up and injured, they still had a great victory at home. Keeps them at 6. Seattle, we'll see what happens. They're there at number 7. Los Angeles held serve, whooped ass as they should have yesterday, thirty five to seven in the game.
00:20:51
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The Green Bay Packers moving in to your top 10. Jordan, as Hot Take Jay calls him, Jay Love Live. ah or ja I don't know what he calls Anyways, Green Bay Packers playing really, really good ball.
00:21:06
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And if you think about it, the only thing they had a blemish on their resume is a tie to the Dallas Cowboys, which, by the way, 40-40 tie.
00:21:16
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You can't tell me. i didn't buy Maybe my defense wasn't up to snuff that day, but although the Cowboys' offense is really good. So you know what? Packers are a super contender. And then finally, rounding out the top 10, you're going to say, Omar, what the hell is this?
00:21:32
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You're going to say, I thought you were the sports professor. And im gonna say, you know what? You better shut show. Mama, shut your mouth. ah Yes, the Pittsburgh Steelers are in there at number 10. You're going to say the Pittsburgh Steelers.
00:21:45
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They just lost to the Bengals 33-31. And just yesterday, sports professor, on Sunday showdown, you said this was a bad victory for Pittsburgh. Yes, all of these things are true.
00:21:56
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I did say that. But also, if you know the sports professor, you will know I completely despise and hate the Denver Broncos and the New England scam atriots.
00:22:11
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So that being said, as a moral ah to myself, I could not put either one of them in the top 10. I believe they're both phony anyways. Will they get into the playoffs? Probably they'll both sneak in, as I said.
00:22:26
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on Sunday's showdown, but I still don't want them to, and I still hate them very much. So even though the Pittsburgh Steelers lost, I'm being very petty and very bitter at this moment, and I am not allowing either of those teams in my top 10.
00:22:40
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And it's my power rankings, so I can honestly do whatever the heck I want to do. And you're going to accept it because you're watching the program. All right. Thank you for watching. Make sure you subscribe to Bowling Butts.
00:22:53
Speaker
Cool. All right, let's talk a little MVP race. We talked about this yesterday on Sunday Showdown with AP Alan Perales coming through. Y'all tune in to Let's Talk Sports Network.
00:23:05
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AP and the crew out there doing big things. By the way, I got to get this put on. I got to get us put back on Let's Talk Sports, especially Sunday Showdown. AP, I need to holler at you about that.
00:23:15
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ah But anyways... ah What about the MVP race? It's always quarterbacks. Always, always, always we're seeing quarterbacks in the MVP race, winning the MVP race.
00:23:26
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College Heisman's are usually in college are our quarterbacks as well. You know, I, the sports professor, always advocate for non-QB Heismans and MVPs because i think it's I think it's actual bullshit.
00:23:42
Speaker
It's BS that they they always win the award when there are so many other deserving players that have really good seasons. And it's like they have to have a really outstanding season ah not even an outstanding season, a super, super, super outstanding season to win the MVP or else they get offensive player of the year or whatever. And this goes for the countless amounts of running backs and wide receivers that have had season upon great season upon great season.
00:24:09
Speaker
So that being said, let's talk a little bit about Jonathan Taylor. ah Also, John Robinson.
00:24:20
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right Also, Christian McCaffrey, all backs having great years. ah Jonathan Taylor leads the NFL with 697 rushing yards and a projected 27 touchdowns, which would be crazy.
00:24:36
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um Plus, he's with the Colts, which are the best record six and one in the league with over, get this professor's fun fact on Jonathan Taylor, over 50 percent of offensive yardage coming from Taylor or play action based off of his runs.
00:24:54
Speaker
So, ah you know, it's still a long way to go. We know the voters don't like voting them in, but I always like seeing it. And I like this trio of running backs that are performing well, especially JT because rest in peace to my best friend, Jonathan Taylor, who passed away a few years ago, but they share the same ah name.
00:25:12
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So it's pretty cool. Uh, So anyways, there you go. That's your MVP possibilities there, but we'll probably still be a quarterback.
Football and Basketball Updates
00:25:20
Speaker
And with the way Mahomes has been coming on lately, I mean, well, we'll see.
00:25:27
Speaker
You know, they like to pick him, especially with the Chiefs. By the way, let's talk about what we talked about earlier. ESPN Monday Night Football doubleheaders.
00:25:38
Speaker
Yes, the much maligned doubleheaders. I know everybody on Sunday Showdown yesterday was, ah, we don't like them. ah You know what? Look, I like it.
00:25:51
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I love them. I got multiple TVs. So I put one game on each TV. If I want to watch baseball or wrestling, I got multiple laptops. I got multiple phones.
00:26:03
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I can put multiple things on multiple screens and watch them all at the same time. So I'm all for the more the merrier in sports. You're not ever going to see me complain because even if there weren't two football games on, I would still have something else on on the other TV trying to watch it anyways.
00:26:17
Speaker
ah So that being said, They may be going away. Why? ah yeah ESPN, although I've been broadcasting more back-to-back overlapping Monday Night Football games for the past three seasons, is going into an equity deal with the NFL. As you know from watching this lovely show here, you that yeah ESPN bought rights to NFL media, including Red Zone, among other things, including a record-tying 25 games in the regular season and two more playoff matchups.
00:26:55
Speaker
When they made this deal back in August, august excuse me yeah ESPN got a 10% equity stake in the league valued at $2 billion.
00:27:10
Speaker
The deal is still subject to approval from the U.S. government, but if it is to happen in this deal, ah yeah ESPN will control more games.
00:27:24
Speaker
So ESPN will be looking to possibly air. um Well, they don't want to necessarily, but With the way that it's working with ratings, especially, they may have to switch to one, back to the one single Monday night football game. There will also be international contests on NFL Network, as well as all of CBS, Fox,
00:27:51
Speaker
all of the cbs fox peacock amazon prime games as we start to really separate and segment you know where we watch our sports and by the way that's going to segue perfectly because i'm going to tell y'all where you get to watch nba this season in a little bit i got a chart for you very very fragmented may i say but the league typically releases their schedule in may If the deal is still in limbo and ESPN still has all the say in the games that they play instead of being merged with the NFL and the NFL having a say, they're probably going to continue the doubleheaders.
00:28:34
Speaker
But if the deal is agreed to and now NFL has a little bit of saying things, they will most likely go back to the single Monday night games is what they say. So what are the ratings on it? 2024 Monday Night Football Games, here's your professor's fun fact, averaged 15 million viewers per game so far that for the six doubleheader games this year, week two, week four, week six.
00:29:00
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um The combined average, or sorry, the... the only one of, excuse me, the games was above that average.
00:29:13
Speaker
And that was the Bucks Texans that got 17 and a half million viewers. Now, This is where I kind of see a dichotomy here.
00:29:25
Speaker
So they average $15 million right on single-game viewership. They only have one game this year that beat that, all the rest of them, including Jets-Dolphins, pretty bad game, $8.5 million, so substantially below.
00:29:40
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um But if you combine ah the games in Week 4, it was 21.5 million viewers. And if you combine the week games in week six, it's 22 million viewers.
00:29:52
Speaker
So yeah, you can't always control the quality of games, but That's still more viewership than you had gotten in single. Now, the dichotomous argument in that case from the network would be, oh, well, if we can get 15 million alone, let's just do that and get the viewers on the other game at another point in time.
00:30:11
Speaker
Fine, but at those prime time is when you get those most viewers. At those other slots, you're not going to get nearly as many viewers. So I think it would even out. and Again, I'm no network executive, but you know, with my tabletop napkin math that I'm doing in my head right now, it looks like it would probably even out over time.
00:30:30
Speaker
We will see what happens. I will keep you updated here. Make sure you're subscribed at ball and buds. B-A-L-L-A-N-D-B-U-D-S. Yuck sports says club or D. Yes, that is correct. Yuck sports.
00:30:44
Speaker
um but yeah You are watching the wrong program. ah Salute my brother. You know what it is. Sending you my best. All right.
00:30:56
Speaker
Cool. So what about college football? College football is heating up. Look at our AP Top 25 poll for the week.
00:31:08
Speaker
Wow. We see something really crazy there in the top five, don't we? A little craziness in the top five. We had a huge shakeup this weekend, y'all.
00:31:22
Speaker
First of all, Miami unbeaten, lost to Louisville. and We had two other unbeatens in the top ten, Texas Tech as well, losing. So let's get into all of the chaos that happened in college football today.
00:31:41
Speaker
By the way, the only unbeatens that remain um in the ACC are Georgia Tech, Virginia, and SMU. Whoever thought they'd say those words, right?
00:31:53
Speaker
But let's take a look at our AP Top 25 reigning, defending, undisputed college football champions, the Ohio State Buckeyes. The Ohio State Buckeyes are there at number one.
00:32:08
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um What is that? Here, move out the way. There you go. Are there at number one, Indiana. Holy cannolis. Are you kidding me? Indiana, a basketball school?
00:32:19
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the You mean the Hoosiers, the one they made the movie about? You mean Isaiah Thomas? What are we talking about? The great Isaiah Thomas? What are we talking about right now? The Indiana Hoosiers.
00:32:32
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number two in the rankings, and don't miss out there at number 10. Shout out where I taught for three glorious years.
00:32:43
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The Vanderbilt Commodores at number 10 anchors. Away. Yes, let's go. um Oregon, number six. Georgia Tech, number seven. Ole Miss, number eight. a Great game with you with Georgia there.
00:32:59
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Miami's still at number nine. Again, a lot of chaos ah with the other unbeatens losing and them also having a real ah all other good wins, um except that FSU loss at the beginning of the season keeps them in the top ten.
00:33:14
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BYU, number 11, Notre Dame, number 12, Mormons and Catholics back-to-back, wowzers. ah ah Notre Dame, though, ah good victories, right? First, they went ahead and took it out on on USC there this past last weekend after having a couple of good other good wins, puts them back into playoff contention.
00:33:38
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um Oklahoma after that Texas loss rebounding. Speaking of Texas, moving up as well after that Kentucky win. Virginia. Virginia keeps moving in. Shout out to my home state Cavaliers.
00:33:53
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Everybody out there in Charlottesville, um ah the non-racist ones at least. ah and Anyways, Tennessee, Knoxville, let's go, volunteers. You see it, Tennessee there. You know, hey, it was a tough loss to Alabama, but Alabama, as you can see, they're in the top five and doing really, really well. Louisville.
00:34:17
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They're at number 19, LSU number 20 after losing to Vanderbilt. Rounding out top 25, Cincinnati, the aforementioned Texas Longhorns, Illinois, Arizona State, and A, Clutch B, my brother, yo, Michigan Wolverines moving into the top 25. I did see your text.
00:34:36
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I have reached out already. I will get to you when I would get a response on that. had to jump into the show, so I'll text you afterwards. Let's give it into the athletic. A shout out to the athletic here. Matchup tracker for our AP Trap 25.
00:34:49
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Athletic for our brackets as they would look today. So let's take a look at these brackets. What we would look at if they were going in right now So we would have buys for the Ohio State Buckeyes, Alabama, Crimson Tide, Indiana Hoosiers, Texas A&M Aggies would all get buys. Then in that first round, you would have Ole Miss versus ah Notre Dame, Oregon versus South Florida. Look at South Florida getting in there. That's beautiful to see ah you know what is usually
00:35:27
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Not as a – well, it's not a Power 5 school, so there you go. It's nice us ah group of five school getting in there. Miami and then texas versus Texas Tech, and then Georgia versus Georgia Tech, an in-state battle.
00:35:41
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Wow, who thought they'd see Georgia technical – getting into the playoffs, man, crazier things have happened, but we may see a lot of non-football schools starting to get in.
00:35:52
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And that is the parody of NIL, everybody. That is the parody there, is that we are going to see more and more teams being able to get in because of the fact that they that there are going to be more chances for losses as the talent disperses.
00:36:10
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So as we have more ah teams able to give out not just NIL, but also that new $20.5 million in revenue that they're going to be able to give out to all of their student athletes, which is going to be a de facto salary cap, when you have that,
00:36:29
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You're going to have talent disperse across the country, which is going to allow you to have more parity within your sports. So we're going to see more and more of this happen. Unbeatens are going to go down more and more.
00:36:42
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Not only are we going to see three loss teams in the playoffs, but at some point, probably not this year, but at some point, we're even going to get a four loss team. in the playoffs. And I know you're saying I'm crazy, but I guarantee you watch it's going to happen. Eventually we will get a four loss team in the playoffs. Mark my words. You can hold the sports professor to that.
00:37:05
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So yeah, craziness there, but there's your college football update for the week. All right. NBA starts tomorrow.
00:37:20
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Woo! The NBA starts tomorrow! Yeah! Yes! NHL in full stride, MLB World Series, NFL in full stride, NBA a-coming!
00:37:36
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Woo, we are in full throttle for the winter season. Yes, my Celtics will suck. No, that is o okay. I'm not going to cry myself to sleep. We've been good for a few years now, and we won the championship.
00:37:49
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And me and my dad, my pops, got to go see game one courtside. Still balling on you suckers. Y'all can hate, but you ain't got it like me.
00:38:00
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Holler at your boy when you see me in the... street All right. That's a little Street Professor rhyme for you there. Did you hear the new intro song? If you didn't, stay tuned in the outro. Street Professor dropping gems on these fools.
00:38:14
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All right. Anyways, NBA. Let's move it in. Suns in five, says Clubber D. Ha, ha. Man, just Devin Booker there. We were talking about a shout out my brother Bobby G. By the way, that gives me a chance to plug the NBA show next Wednesday, 8 p.m. Eastern. Bobby G will join me. Hopefully we'll have Jay from Unfair Sports. I'm go try to talk ah to a couple other people, see who we're going to get on. Unfortunately, Mel will not be able to join us, but y'all tap in.
00:38:44
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Mandow Sports, Unfair Sports, and as well, Bobby G at the Audible Podcast. ah But we talked about y'all having just Devin Booker there and how it's going to be sad times.
00:38:55
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ah So your sons, my Celtics, and others will be at the table terribles this year. But yeah, NBA tips off tomorrow night. Let me blow this back up so you can see it a little better.
00:39:08
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The Rockets versus Oklahoma City is your tip-off game, followed by Golden State versus the Lakers. All of these teams are NBA championship contenders. And you say, what, Omar?
00:39:26
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You mean the over-the-hill Warriors are still in contention? Yes, there has been an opening and a bridgement, if you will, With all the injuries around the league, including to my beloved Celtics and Jason Tatum, Tyrese Halliburton with Indiana, among many, many others.
00:39:45
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We are seeing a widening and opening of, ah and a lot of the former powerhouse teams like the Nuggets and others are coming back down towards the pack.
00:39:58
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So we are seeing an open opportunity for many teams around the league to win this year. Let me, ah first of all,
00:40:09
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I'll come back to this slide and I'll tell you about the de fragmented viewing. But first, let's give you the power rankings, the and NBA power rankings. This comes directly from NBA.com.
00:40:22
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At number one, should be no surprise to anyone. You're reigning, defending, undisputed Oklahoma City Thunder champions. Shout out my brother Jay from Unfair Sports.
00:40:35
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They, as we know, just rolled last year, and we talked about it last week on Bobby G's Audible podcast, basketball season preview Wild Card Mar.
00:40:47
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Will they go for the 73-win victory that Golden State set? or will they say, well, hey, Golden State said that, but also lost, wink, wink, to Bobby G and Walker Mar in the finals, so we don't want to end up like that.
00:41:04
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We're just going to try to ah have the best record and kind of manage like the Celtics have done the past few years until we get to the playoffs and then turn it on there. Led by SGA, led by Chet Holmgren, we are looking, again, forward nothing to being them to them being, excuse me,
00:41:23
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the best team in the league. SGA, just you know a very efficient player. um So we we look forward to seeing them play. At number two, the aforementioned Denver Nuggets, NBA.com has them at number two.
00:41:41
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ah Look,
00:41:44
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We'll see ah what happens. They made some moves in the offseason. They did bring Bruce Brown back, which is going to be awesome for them. um Jokic still good enough, still in his prime, still in his MVP era, as they are saying.
00:42:01
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So we'll see if they can actually... continue to keep up the high level of play. We know they fired Mike Malone late into the season, right before the playoffs.
00:42:14
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And it seemed to have given them a little bit of a jolt at that time. We'll see if it continues into this season, especially losing Michael Porter Jr.,
00:42:26
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Cleveland Cavaliers, Bobby G's Cleveland Cavaliers at number three, uh, the best team in the, in the, uh, in the East last year, the number one seed, they are a very, very strong team led by Donovan Mitchell.
00:42:41
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Um, yeah Evan Mobley, uh, Jared Allen, Darius Garland, the total team is good. yeah I mean, they got DeAndre Hunter in there. So,
00:42:53
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You're not expecting anything less than the Cleveland Cavaliers to most likely be the number one seed there in the East, but hold on. Wait just a second there.
00:43:04
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What's that? What is that I hear? if yeah If you watched Bobby G's basketball preview, that would have been the sign, or rather the sound, the sign, the sound of the sports professor,
00:43:21
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puking his guts out in the background because he picked the New York Knickerbockers over the Cleveland Cavaliers in the Eastern Conference. Now, I do still think the eastern the Cleveland Cavaliers will have the number one seed and the best record, ah but Spoiler to my season preview next week, I do think the Knicks, and as a Boston Celtics fan, it makes me sick to my stomach to have to say that, but I do think the Knicks will be the Eastern Conference ah champion representatives this year in the finals. So again, that's a little tease for you to tune in next week to the NBA.
00:44:02
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season preview since i now I can't give you my Western Conference team. But anyways, moving on in the power rankings, the Knicks are at number four in your NBA.com power rankings. Look, Brunson is an MVP candidate.
00:44:15
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You cannot deny that. I know they tried to look at me sour on the program when I said that he could win the MVP and that he was. But you know, hey, it is very, very possible. I mean, personally, probably going to be SGA a second time, but I don't like picking repeat winners, which is why i didn't pick Ohio State to repeat, even though I thought they would.
00:44:34
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ah Number five, Minnesota Timberwolves, surprisingly, because a lot of other publications have them in the top 10, but not in the top five. But the NBA.com has Minnesota in the top five, saying that they've done what they've needed to do in the past few years and that they think that they can get over the hump.
00:44:54
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I don't necessarily agree with the power rankings per se. I do agree with OKC, Cleveland, and New York. being in the top five. I would not necessarily have Denver and Minnesota there, maybe Denver.
00:45:10
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I actually have LA Clippers and Houston, both above Denver in the West. So again, tune in next week to the NBA season preview. Make sure you subscribe to Ball and Buds.
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00:45:36
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By the way, the GMs did a survey, and so what did they say as a predictor for who will win the NBA Finals? Surprise, surprise, the GMs, 80% of the GMs polled, chose the Oklahoma City Thunder with the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Denver Nuggets tying it and second with 7%.
00:46:01
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percent So blowing it out the water, Oklahoma City Thunder was chosen as the GM's favorite How about MVP? Who did the GMs choose? sixty seven percent 67% say Nikolai Jokic will get his fourth MVP.
00:46:18
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Fourth. What is that, Booker T? Listen up, man. The fact of the matter is this. On the five-time, five-time, five-time, five-time WC... Ha ha!
00:46:31
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yeah WCW. wo Can you dig that? Suckers! I should have played the whole thing. But anyways, four is what he would be going for. Fourth MVP.
00:46:46
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Luka Doncic comes in second at 10%. in third eight percent but Who would you choose to start a team? Overwhelmingly, you know who it was.
00:46:58
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GMs chose Wemby, Victor Wemba and Yama with the 83% choice there. ah Who is most likely? ah Let's see. I don't want to give that away because that's one of my choices that they picked.
00:47:13
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Let's see. Ch-ch-ch. Okay, that's all for the major awards there. But yeah, shout out to the NBA season starting tomorrow. Really excited. So where, oh, where can you watch the NBA?
00:47:23
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Here you go. I got it there for you. The sports professor went out and did the hard work. Monday nights, Peacock. Tuesday nights, NBC. Round Ball Rock is back, baby.
00:47:37
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get it in it and and dan ah then I don't want to get copyrighted. I'm just going to talk here like it is in the beat of Round Ball Rock, but I am talking.
00:47:50
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So then maybe I can get copyrighted NBA on Tuesday. yeah ESPN Wednesday. Cracked myself up.
00:48:02
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Prime Video Thursday and Friday, ESPN Friday as well. Prime Video Saturday, ESPN as well on Saturday, and then Sunday, ESPN and NBC.
00:48:13
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Did you get that all? No? Well, take a screenshot because I don't know what to tell you. That's a lot for me to remember as well. Anyways, I already gave you...
00:48:24
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ah The power rankings from NBA.com. Here's the athletics point of view. You see they got Thunder, Knicks, Cavs, Kimberwolves, Nuggets. They've got the same five as NBA.com.
00:48:36
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They've just got them a little rearranged there. um I would actually go probably with this one. The athletic has as a little closer to my rankings. But I really do like the Rockets.
00:48:47
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I think the signing of Kevin Durant, and by the way, breaking news today, Kevin Durant signs a two-year $90 million dollars extension to stay with the Houston Rockets. So that's definitely going to help him out.
00:48:57
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I think you add him there with that really young team. I think it's going to be a tremendous. How about the NHL? Yes, after signing... a for a new four year eighty four ah four-year excuse me CBA agreement.
00:49:15
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They, next year, will expand the regular season to 84 games.
NHL Updates and Championships
00:49:20
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and NBA, do I hear you calling. um A tendency to record $23 million last year for National Hockey League.
00:49:27
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League revenue reached $7 billion. dollars The salary cap jumps from $95 million to $113.5 million, a 25% increase.
00:49:39
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Wowzers, that media rights money is good. Deal reinforces player-owner cooperation. NHL, by the way, has just spectacular relationship between players players and NHL, which is surprising because no other sport has a good relationship between, and you wouldn't think they would with Gary Bettman being NHL's commissioner, but they they don't have lockouts and they make sure that they get things done.
00:50:10
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That being said, let me show you the NHL power rankings here for the first week. This is after the first few weeks of play. ah This is on on the point.
00:50:21
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Shout out. Thank you for these power rankings. Avalanche at number one. The Seattle Kraken at number two. It's crazy how these expansion teams get so good so fast in the NHL.
00:50:32
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but it's because they're able to pick some of the best players from the other teams because the other teams have to leave players available for expansion teams to get. Number three, the Nashville Predators.
00:50:44
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What? um I don't expect that to last. By the way, I'll be going see my Kings this Saturday when they come into town in Nashville. Florida Panthers defending champions at number four.
00:50:55
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Boston Bruins rounding out your top five So we'll see what continues there. Obviously, still very early on in the season, but that gives me a chance to give you my top five NHL hockey players of all time.
00:51:19
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Yes, this is a sports professor x exclusive. So who is in who whoo oo whoo is in my top five?
00:51:32
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You see it right here. Top five hockey goats. Number five, starting all the way there on the right end, the great.
00:51:44
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Bobby Orr, defensive man for the Brewers. And he played, man these old people in hockey, yo, they played for a long, long time. We're going to talk about ah a few people here, a couple people here, that really played for a a lengthy, lengthy amount of times. But he played for 33 years. Again, great defenseman, Bobby Orr.
00:52:10
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ah for the Boston Bruins. I have met number five. Number four in my top five hockey goats of all time, the great Mario, Super Mario, as he was called. Mario Lemieux played for my brother Clutch B's Pittsburgh Penguins, he played from 1984 to 2006, and although playing through many injuries, still had ah multiple and MVPs and multiple Stanley Cup winners, so shout out to Super Mario.
00:52:42
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At number three, just eclipsing the goals record of the great one Wayne Gretzky last year. The Washington Capitals, my hometown team, Washington Capitals.
00:52:54
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Alex Ovechkin at number three of greatest hockey players ever. At number two, Who's that old guy? Oh, just some dude who played for five decades.
00:53:12
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What? Excuse me Yes. The only player in history in the NHL, and as far as I can tell, I couldn't find anybody else. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong.
00:53:25
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I'm sure... There's a baseball player out there, especially when they used to play back into like, well, actually, I don't even get at me because I know there's baseball players out there. But for hockey, I couldn't find anybody else.
00:53:37
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Five decades. He played in the the 1950s, the 1960s, the 1970s and the How do you play five decades sport? the nineteen seventy s in the nineteen eighty s how do you play five decades of a sport Gordie Howe did it.
00:53:53
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My number two greatest hockey player of all time. And the number one GOAT. Greatest hockey player of all time. My favorite player. And that's not why he's number one.
00:54:04
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He's just number one because he's the greatest. The great one is what they call him, Wayne Gretzky. Only the best player ever from 1978 to 1999. He played for the Edmonton Oilers and then my Los Angeles Kings.
00:54:21
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He played for the Rangers too, but whatever. Anyways, Wayne Gretzky is the most prolific scorer and assisting man in hockey history.
00:54:33
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How much so? I have one of the greatest stats in the history of sports statistics, and I'm sure you might have heard it before if you're a hockey fan. Let the sports professor give it to you.
00:54:44
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Wayne Gretzky. has more assists. And if you do if you're not a sports fan watching this program, an assist is when you pass it to someone else and they score.
00:54:55
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Wayne Gretzky has more assists than any player, including Alice Ovechkin, has goals.
00:55:03
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So even though Alice Ovechkin passed Wayne Gretzky for the goals record last year, He's still Wayne Gretzky has more assists than Alex Ovechkin has goals.
00:55:14
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So when you put his assists and goals together, he eclipses not only Ovechkin by more than two, but every other player on the list. The great one, Wayne Gretzky.
00:55:26
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Number one in the professor's top five hockey goats of all time. That being said, shout out to Jarmir Jager, who, by the way, is playing in his 38th professional season as he takes the ice for the Kondo in the Czech League, the Czech Republic.
00:55:45
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um Extending a career that, by the way, started before the fall of the Berlin Wall. How crazy is that? Jeremy Jager started playing before the fall of the Berlin Wall, and he's still playing now.
00:55:58
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Debut professionally in 1988, last played in the NHL in 2018. Still second time all-leading scorer in the NHL after Gretzky with 1921 wins. points.
00:56:10
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ah By the way, yes, he is the owner and president of that club, but don't you dare say anything about him being Putin-like and letting himself play on his own team. He can do whatever the hell he wants to do.
00:56:22
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He owns the team. Anyway, oh that being said, moving on. MLS, what?
00:56:33
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The MLS Cup, yes, Major League Soccer playoffs are upon us and the final is set.
00:56:44
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Here is your bracket. um By the way, Miami coming into town this Saturday. I might want to go to the game, but I got to do the go to the Kings game. I don't know. I might try to pull some double stint.
00:56:57
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We'll see what happens, but let's blow this up a little bit for you there so you can see it a little more. Actually, let me blow it up all the way for you. So you can see ah the cup here.
00:57:09
Speaker
Look, man, the MLS Cup, you see there's 16 teams. Nashville there playing Miami on your right corner, the third and sixth seeds. um Number one seed, San Diego, here in the West, Philadelphia, there in the East.
00:57:28
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The Union had 66 teams. Points not followed far behind by Cincinnati and Miami. So those three teams are pretty tight there in the top of the Eastern Conference. So any one of those are your favorites to win the Eastern Conference. You move it over the Western Conference.
00:57:47
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63 points for San Diego, but Vancouver Whitecaps also has 63 and LA had 60. So those three teams in the Western Conference are going to be your top three going into the MLS Cup.
00:58:01
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Look, Messi is going to win his second ah MLS Cup MVP. Well-deserved. He scored. Had a hat trick last night ah to finish that off.
00:58:12
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And so I'm going to pick Miami to win the MLS Cup over ah the Vancouver Whitecaps. So we'll see what happens there. Although I would love to see Nashville, obviously, with the upset there.
00:58:26
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But we'll see what happens. That will obviously start. This weekend, I know Nashville goes to Miami Friday night. All right.
00:58:37
Speaker
And then finally, congratulations in sports to the Aces, the Las Vegas Aces, three championships, their third in four years away.
00:58:49
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Led by perennial MVP Asia Wilson. The, again, Las Vegas Aces. Three titles, four years. It's just tremendous. They swept the Phoenix Mercuries. It wasn't really much of a series at all.
00:59:08
Speaker
And, yeah, you know, even before the series, I said, I wondered if ah Phoenix was even going to win a game, and the answer was no. So there you go on that one. But shout out to the Aces.
00:59:21
Speaker
Hopefully Mark Davis can extend those victories to the Raiders. Hopefully, some point, sir, any point in time you want to help the Raiders out to be as good as them, i would we would truly appreciate it.
00:59:37
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Thank you.
00:59:40
Speaker
Anyways, not for real, though. Shout out to the Las Vegas Aces. All right. That is your sports for the day.
00:59:51
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Please make sure you subscribe to Ball and Buds, B-A-L-L-A-N-D-B-U-D-S. Make sure you hit that like button, whether watching now or on the replay. That QR code will help you get to all of our social media. Let's give you an update on the games before we get into the entertainment world.
01:00:09
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The game going on right now, we have the Lions up 7-0 over the Buccaneers. ah Jared Goff with a touchdown pass there.
01:00:20
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And then also the baseball game will be starting in just about... With some quick math here, 52 minutes.
01:00:32
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So 52 minutes there until the MLB game starts. Don't worry. I will be off before because I want to be able to watch ah both football games and the baseball game and some wrestling. I'll have two TVs, ah two laptops, and a phone going on in just a few minutes.
01:00:47
Speaker
ah But let's move it into the entertainment world. Wowzers. Tay Tay. Yes, my girl Tay Tay doing big things.
01:00:59
Speaker
The life of a showgirl broke pretty much every record in music industry. Now, now. You don't have to tell me.
01:01:10
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I'm not go to be one of those marks. Oh, she broke all the... rest Yes, I get it. Streaming now, it's a lot different than when you actually had to go to the bodega and go buy the physical CD.
01:01:21
Speaker
When we had to go he used to go to Potomac Mills or Springfield Mall and go to Tower Records. Shout out all my DMV folks. um I know. I know it's a lot different. I get it. don't Don't even chime in because I'm not going to have to flame you after I just said don't chime in.
01:01:37
Speaker
I get it. It's a lot different. But for the streaming era, he still broke all of the records. So I'm not talking about beforehand. I get it.
Music Industry and Taylor Swift's Achievements
01:01:47
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Okay. We're not going to talk about that at all.
01:01:49
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We're just going to talk about the streaming era in itself. She sold more than 4 million albums in the U.S., 5.5 million global album units, all 12 songs, 1 through 12 on the Billboard 100.
01:02:07
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ah Never done before where all of her songs on the album were the top one through 12 songs. Say what you will, and whether again, streaming or not.
01:02:18
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Other people have had that chance to do that in the streaming ah yeah generation and they haven't. So, um, Again, largest sales week in any album in US music history. Again, I'm just talking about streaming here.
01:02:32
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Biggest for Amazon and Spotify as well. Spotify broke 250 million streams. ah Her 15 number one albums are the most in the 21st century and the most as a solo artist and extends her record as the most number one albums in the Billboard 200 history.
01:02:50
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Now, This, for all you heads that are going to hate because it's only streaming, I went out and and found non-streaming stat for you. Here's your professor's fun fact.
01:03:01
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She had the most vital sales, yes, actual physical records, vinyls, sales week in Nielsen, excuse me. history surpassing 1 million units sold first ever album to achieve this milestone again on physical vinyl.
01:03:22
Speaker
So even if you want to hate on her streaming numbers, you can't hate on that. Like ah Enzo used to say about big cast and NXT. You can hate on your streaming, but you can't hate on vinyl because you can't teach that.
01:03:39
Speaker
He's seven foot tall and you can't teach that. Bada boom. Realest guys in the room. How you doing? Shout out real one in big cash.
01:03:50
Speaker
Um, anyway, so, Hey, look, you can hate on her if you want to. And I know a lot of people like to, and, uh, I get it. Right. Um, I,
01:04:03
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don't personally care for like Drake's music or stuff like that. So you could possibly say that it's similar in my, in my dislike or distaste there, but there is not one thing that you cannot deny and that she is one of, and if not the biggest pop star of all time.
01:04:23
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And that's getting close to Michael Jackson. And I know that's blasphemous to say, and I'm not putting her over Michael because Michael is, is hands down my number one and that will never change no matter who comes along.
01:04:35
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Cause I think he, he actually, aside from whatever improprieties and allegations may have come afterwards before any of that came along, I believe he had already changed ah the world.
01:04:45
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um You know, just the way that he, he, he healed people without whatever happened afterwards. Again, I'm talking, Talking before allegations and all that. Anyways, she's up there.
01:04:57
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ah So there you go. Wowzers. Craziness. ah um About, I don't, oh, about Gretzky?
01:05:08
Speaker
No, don't think so. I would think he's number one. I don't think that's biased at all. I would not say so. um All right, cool. Movie, oh, more entertainment news before we get into ah world news and U.S. news.
01:05:22
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Black Phone 2. ah It's a horror movie. If you haven't seen the first one, I'm a huge horror fanatic. So I loved the first one and I plan on seeing the second one. I'm not going to go to the theaters. I haven't been to movie in the theaters since before COVID.
01:05:37
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I hope to go again one day, but I just haven't had a ah reason to go back. ah But anyways, opened well globally, 20 or domestically, geez, globally, 42 million worldwide, 26 and a half million domestically, really good for a horror movie. This stars Ethan Hawke.
01:05:56
Speaker
And so basically the premise of the movie is there's a phone I haven't seen number two yet, so I don't actually know the full premise of how the second one ties in. But in the first one, ah this kid gets kidnapped. There's a phone in the basement in a room that he's locked in.
01:06:11
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His capture, his perpetrator, the person who takes him, the kidnapper, comes in and like you know messes with him throughout the movie by like psychologically talking to him and things like this.
01:06:24
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Anyways. I'm not going to spoil the ending, but you go through the the movie like this and it's a very thriller, psychological thriller, horror movie. Well, this is the continuation of that movie. ah Supposed to be a lot more of the horror instead of the actual psychological parts of it, but still going to be, I would assume, very good. I love Again, horror movies, and I thought the first one was was really good, and I enjoyed the premise of the movie as well. So Black Phone 2, if you're a horror movie person, definitely go check that out.
01:06:58
Speaker
All right, moving into U.S. and world news. So some quick hitters here before we get you out ah for the evening.
01:07:11
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For the evening.
Government Shutdown and Economic Impact
01:07:14
Speaker
You know what? I don't even want that there. We're going to stick with what had. um Government shutdown, yes.
01:07:22
Speaker
Unless you live under a rock, you know that the government has been shut down. ah for about three weeks now, over that now probably, ah probably almost a month now.
01:07:35
Speaker
ah Wait, no, it has been. It started here October 1st. That's right. So three going on about three weeks tomorrow. Look, y'all, this government shutdown hurts a lot of people.
01:07:46
Speaker
I am from the DMV, as you know, ah so a lot of people close to me are dealing with this. Some are working and getting paid. Some are not working.
01:07:57
Speaker
I mean, some are working and not getting paid. Some are not working. Well, yeah. Some my friends are not working and they're bums. Get off your ass. Anyways, I cracked myself up.
01:08:12
Speaker
ah Some are working and not getting paid. So, The issue here is that our lot of people are affected. A lot of families are affected. They can't afford to feed their kids.
01:08:23
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ah We need to get these things figured out. So you asked the professor, ah first of all, what happens because of these shutdowns? ah Why is the shutdown being done?
01:08:37
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And how can we work to solve the shutdowns? As you know, we are neutral on this program. I do not like either party, ah conservative or liberal, Democrat or Republican. I think both of them, ah both of the parties are crap. I think all politicians are liars, cheaters and scums.
01:08:56
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ah So that being said, you know, we keep it neutral here on this program. I only inform you for that, for you to have information and be informed so you do not look uninformed when you're having in those conversations with your friends and family.
01:09:12
Speaker
So a growing number of critical agencies and programs will face furloughs and operational disruptions. This will cause economic security and social service impacts.
01:09:23
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Roughly 900,000 federal employees have been furloughed and additional 700,000 working without pay. The shutdown is now the third longest in U.S. history and an analyst I was about to say a real bad different word on that one.
01:09:42
Speaker
Analyst, excuse me. Wowzers. Analysts estimate the economic cost could be $7 billion per week lost in GDP, which is gross domestic product growth, which is basically the overall ah domestic growth that the the United States makes on a yearly basis.
01:10:02
Speaker
One model projecting up to $15 million if a stalemate continues. This affects everything, y'all, including Overseers of nuclear capabilities. The National Nuclear Security Administration has furloughed 80% of its workforce.
01:10:21
Speaker
Only about 375 essential workers remain. So you're talking about nuclear things that we really need people to be working on and not sitting on sitting at home 1,250 employees across the administrative office of the U.S. courts, key modernization projects, warhead maintenance, nonproliferation efforts.
01:10:45
Speaker
These all raise national security concerns. And then everyday services, f FAA staffers, 5,800 flights were delayed due to staffing issues.
01:10:57
Speaker
20% of flights from major airlines delayed. um of agents working without pay. I'm sorry, but if you're asking me, some of the people I don't want being pissed off while they're working include the f FAA.
01:11:11
Speaker
i don't need my airline agents being pissed off while I'm trying to get through security. It's already hard enough. Okay? So can we get these people paid so they're not pissed off? Head Start program risks losing funding for 58,000 preschoolers.
01:11:27
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Federal workers face the prospect of 10,000 plus layoffs. layoff with one White House estimate siding north of 10,000 layoffs. This is horrible.
01:11:40
Speaker
So you ask, Omar, why is this happening? The conservatives, the Republicans, own The majority or own the majority in the House, Senate, Congress. Right.
01:11:54
Speaker
Yes, that is correct. They do own the ah own the consensus in the three judicial branches, three judicial branches in those branches of government.
01:12:09
Speaker
That being said, they do not own 60% of the votes in the Senate, which is needed in order to pass or in order to end the shutdown.
01:12:19
Speaker
That would require six Democrat um senators to move over to the Republican side and in an agreeance to end the shutdown.
01:12:32
Speaker
So you ask, well, why haven't they done this yet, Omar? Well, There is good reason why the Democrats have not done this. Now, let me give you both sides because I watch both sides and I want to let you know what both sides are saying.
01:12:49
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The conservatives, the Republican side of the aisle are saying this is a clean CR, a clean continuing resolution, which means that this is a bill that had been passed by the Democrats before, which is true.
01:13:04
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and had been continued to be um passed without discrepancies in the past. So you may ask, okay, well, where is the holdup here?
01:13:16
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Now, the holdup and the reason why the Democrats don't want to end the shutdown is for ACA, also known as Obamacare, subsidies or enhanced premium tax credits.
01:13:33
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And so you ask Omar, professor, teach us. What does that mean? Well, If you look at this overall, there are Obamacare subsidies, which, yes, the Democrats did in a sneaky way agree do.
01:13:49
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continue back in 2021 until now when they knew they'd be able to use it against the conservatives in the midterm. So sneaky, sneaky, but it's not that we're not like the Republicans have ever done that before.
01:14:01
Speaker
at At this point, both parties are going tit for tat and it's bullshit because it's, it's messing all us all of us up because they don't like to get along with each other. We really do need that third party to come up at some point, but neither here nor there as an independent. I give it to you straight.
01:14:16
Speaker
Almost 5.8 million people would lose um medical care and health insurance if these subsidies were to go away. And a lot of those people in red conservative states, including Texas, Louisiana, and Florida.
01:14:34
Speaker
So you say, well, Omar, we heard that illegal immigrants were being given this health care. Cool. Right. Right wing talking point.
01:14:45
Speaker
Conservative talking point. Sure. Sure. you Does health healthcare care slip through the cracks? Because there are rules, whereas if someone comes into a hospital, even if they don't have necessary insurance, they still get the care. So illegal immigrants could get care that way. Yes, that could happen.
01:15:03
Speaker
But that's not what this is about. The majority of the people are here are legal immigrants who are going to lose their health care if these subsidies expire. Again, a lot of people like Obamacare.
01:15:16
Speaker
When it was first brought up, it was a Republican-Democrat thing. But then after a while, once Republicans got it and they were like, hey, we have really good health care, right? It's like a lot of them came on board. Now, could health care be better? Sure.
01:15:27
Speaker
i I think we should have universal health care. I think we should have free health care for everybody. I think the government should pay for it. Would the quality of health care go down? Sure. ah But I'm sorry. i don't really care what kind of care Elon Musk gets. I care what kind of care people that don't have money yeah um So, I mean, that's that's just me. Anyways, from KFF.org, which is an independent policy health policy research polling and news center, says that if these expire, um ah the health insurance would double
01:16:03
Speaker
for about 11 to 20, over 24 million people. So the premiums would double. That means that a lot of people would be losing these subsidies that allow them to pay less.
01:16:14
Speaker
So, For instance, they say, for example, with the enhanced tax credits in place, an individual making $28,000 will pay no more than around $325 of their annual income towards their plan.
01:16:29
Speaker
If fees expire, that same person would pay nearly 6% of their income. And could pay $1,562. That means that a person making $28,000, which ain't shit these days, you can't barely live on $28,000.
01:16:47
Speaker
Believe me, because I'm making ah a little more net at my consulting job. And if I wanted to live off just that income, I'd barely be living.
01:16:58
Speaker
$28,000 and you would go from to So you'd be paying more dollars a year in medical premiums if these that's why it's important to ah at least 5.8 million people that could lose their healthcare care completely.
01:17:17
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And then 11 to 24 million people who would have their premiums doubled. So a lot, of a lot of people would be affected by this. So what can be done?
01:17:29
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Well, obviously the shutdown has to end at some point so people can start to get paid. Yes, people do get pay in the long run, but still it doesn't help people now.
01:17:39
Speaker
Um, we have to have six senators come over from the the Democrats. It's not going to happen now. It's not probably going to happen. They say this could extend to one of the longest shutdowns ever. They're talking possibly through the holidays.
01:17:52
Speaker
I think that's bullshit. i think they need to get done immediately. We don't pay y'all motherfuckers to sit on your ass with all this bullshit. I don't know what's going on. Y'all get paid way too much to sit the fuck at home, get your ass in there, get this figured out because don't nobody got time for this.
01:18:06
Speaker
Okay. Ain't nobody got time for that. All right. Meet me outside. Catch me outside. How about that? Catch me outside. How about right, look.
01:18:16
Speaker
Somehow, some way, this got to get... Don't listen to the right-wing talking points or the left-wing talking points. It's also not because of the Jeffrey Epstein files. It's also not because of Schumer and AOC.
01:18:26
Speaker
Yes, those are all little things that may play a part here and there, but don't really matter to the overall scheme of things. What really matters is that people will really lose their health care. If the shutdown is not ended with these subsidies being extended.
01:18:39
Speaker
I know the Republicans don't like to hear that, but that is the case. And if they do open the government and don't agree in good faith to negotiate, which I can't see how they would when they don't want to now and haven't in the past, then people are going to lose their health care and there's going to be a lot more sad people come holiday time.
01:19:00
Speaker
That being said, those same people protested in the no kings rallies across the nation. Again, do not I'm here to give you the independent point of view. The right conservatives wanted to call this the ah the Hate America rally.
01:19:13
Speaker
It was nothing ah of the sorts. um Actually, i went to the last one. I wasn't able to go this time because unfortunately they moved it from downtown where where it's supposed to be. Usually or I would have gone and they moved it to Murfreesboro.
01:19:28
Speaker
um But Very peaceful, no ah ah no um a major arrests, a couple minor arrests here and there, but it turns out we're mostly from people trying to obstruct, so conservative side people, right-wing people.
01:19:41
Speaker
ah So after all that talk from the right wings about how there was going to be all this destruction and and everything, all peaceful rallies across all 50 states, including thousands here in Nashville and in Knoxville and many other places around the states. That is democracy at its finest.
01:20:00
Speaker
When you can peacefully protest without violence and be able to get your point across, which is that America was raised with no kings.
01:20:11
Speaker
There should never be a king of America. That is why we disbanded from the British in the damn first place. And no person should ever be allowed to have any sort of power close to what a king would have. That is why we have the three branches of co-equal government.
01:20:32
Speaker
And that is why we have the Constitution written as such. I am so proud of all the people that went out there and peacefully protested this weekend um to remind the United States that one man does not rule all.
01:20:45
Speaker
And again, I am an independent. I do not care about the right or the left, but I do see the encroachments that Donald Trump has taken as president. um And you can't deny the encroachments that he's taken in terms of not only just ah reigning in the government to be his own in all types of ways ah from every single department, but also enriching himself.
01:21:13
Speaker
um The countless stories of him enriching himself through his presidential ah stature. So, You know, i it it is it is what it is. He was voted in.
01:21:26
Speaker
He's going to do things the way he wants to do things. um But there is a a time and a point in time where... The people have to stand up in order to say that those lines will not be crossed.
01:21:42
Speaker
The lines of authoritarianism and dictatorship shall not be crossed. And the United States shall never have a king. So all the BS about three terms that he's tried to bring up and all that, s snap scratch all that. We ain't having none of that up in here.
01:21:58
Speaker
Okay. All right. There's a reason that the constitution was written as such. There is no absolute.
01:22:10
Speaker
Okay? There is no king. And as far as I'm concerned, there is only one king. Jesus Christ.
01:22:19
Speaker
So, there is no kings the United States. Proud of everybody that went out there peacefully protested with no violence. That's the way that you do things. And look, every revolutionary, right, is another man's rebel.
01:22:36
Speaker
And the people on the right are not going to like that they went out and did that protest. And that's okay. That's fine. Because you are able to protest in the way you want to. And maybe that's not the way you would do it. Maybe you wouldn't go out Okay? And yes, some of the violence and some of the destruction that has happened within protests in the past is not right.
01:23:00
Speaker
But when you can peacefully protest like this, It's a beautiful, beautiful sight. Beautiful, beautiful sight to behold. So um again, shout out to everybody going out and making your voice heard.
01:23:17
Speaker
All right. So moving off of that into some world news to end us off before we get out of here.
International Politics and Conflicts
01:23:22
Speaker
ah We're going to go do all the things i need to do. But anyway, we're sending some world news.
01:23:29
Speaker
President Donald Trump and ah Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky did meet about the Ukrainian-Russia war. As we know, this war has been going on a long time. Donald Trump said he would stop it in day one. We're still here a long time down the line. But with the Russian-Ukraine war, there still has not been a ceasefire.
01:23:51
Speaker
President Donald Trump tried to convince Vladimir Zelensky to give up the Donksk region of Ukraine. That is obviously not going to happen. That is a key point of defense along the Ukrainian-Russian border for Ukraine.
01:24:06
Speaker
If they were to give up the Donksk region, which is close to Kiev, but they would be giving up a supreme part of their battlefield, which will allow Russia to come into Kiev and take over completely.
01:24:17
Speaker
So they can't do that. Trump got really pissed off, apparently, at Zelensky, and they got into a shouting match. He was echoing Putin trumping points, trumping points, talking points, that's right, talking points, which is no surprise.
01:24:30
Speaker
ah But Trump also is ah ah supposedly thinking about giving Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine, which would definitely escalate the war. to a point where Putin said would be considered confrontational, which obviously would not be good because we do not need any escalation in the war as both of these sides are nuclear powers, as we've talked about on this show before.
01:24:54
Speaker
ah In other ceasefire or non-ceasefire news, Israel Hamas, there was announced a ceasefire last week. I was going to come on to talk about it, and I said, no, I'm not even going to waste my time because the ceasefire will last less than a week, and I'll talk about it next week.
01:25:10
Speaker
Boy, was I right, as this is always what happens. Apparently, there's a ceasefire and then Israel bombed and killed 26 in Gaza because apparently the Hamas was not living up to their agreement.
01:25:21
Speaker
Look, this is always going happen, y'all. These ceasefires are never going to last. um a
01:25:31
Speaker
You can let President Donald Trump say he has, you know, solved 18 million ah wars when he's credibly maybe ah maybe solved this one and didn't even because now they're back to fighting. So, yeah, whatever. Anyways, about that.
01:25:46
Speaker
We'll see what happens now. We'll keep you updated. But they continuing um ah firing each other now. Airstrikes, tanks shelling, intense game fire and overnight. Disputes continue between Israel and Hamas on the return of hostages' bodies, the ones that have done.
01:26:02
Speaker
Again, i mean, you can't trust a terrorist group. So why are you going to trust that a ceasefire is going to continue? I just don't understand. Anyways, another ceasefire news.
01:26:13
Speaker
Afghanistan and Pakistan have agreed to a ceasefire amid rising border violence. After weeks of escalating border clashes that led du left dozens dead, Afghanistan and Pakistan agreed to a ceasefire meditat meditated by Qatar and Turkey, Turkey A,
01:26:30
Speaker
Both sides accuse the other of harboring cross-border militants. The fighting has killed at least 40 people and injured over 200 over the past month. ah The ceasefire aims to halt hostilities that have disrupted border trade and displaced civilians.
01:26:47
Speaker
Pakistan's resurgence of mil of militancy traces back to 2021 following the Taliban's return to power in Kabul.
01:26:59
Speaker
What a great job we did there.
01:27:06
Speaker
Sarcasm detected. Anyways, another news for another day. Anyways, Trump halts aid to Colombia, accuses President Petro of drug collusion. You're saying, Professor, talk to us.
01:27:22
Speaker
What is this nonsense about? Well, I'm sure you've heard lately in the news, we have struck and shot down, or shot down, struck and shot struck and capsized, i don't know what's wrong with my words, seven different ships traveling in South American waters to have been said to have been drug-carrying boats and vessels.
01:27:45
Speaker
President Donald Trump and the United States government, or the... but the Southcom essentially, have not come up with evidence proving that they have drugs on these boats, but apparently we're supposed to go along with those claims.
01:28:01
Speaker
ah President Trump has announced he is now ending all aid to Colombia, ah which is an ally of ours because he calls President Gustavo Petro a drug leader. um We've had decades of anti-narcotics cooperation between the two.
01:28:15
Speaker
This reminds me of an episode on narcos, which is a great show, by the way. You should check Cliberty and I talk about it quite often. USAID has dropped from $700 million to $230 million in the last fiscal year.
01:28:27
Speaker
Now cut to zero. Again, we will see what happens here. um the trump and Petro has accused the Trump administration of killing an innocent Colombian fisherman in one of those missile strikes and plans legal action. The U.S. State Department warns that the cut could weaken counter-narcotic efforts and embolden traffickers.
01:28:47
Speaker
So, man, a lot of... Shit happened up in the world today. Y'all got to stay safe out there. Stay blessed from head to toe.
01:29:00
Speaker
Keep yourselves clean like a referee with a whistle. You know what um But no, that is ah that is our show for today.
Cultural Celebrations and Show Promotions
01:29:10
Speaker
By the way, I want to wish a happy Diwali.
01:29:14
Speaker
to my brother Amul Madan and all my other friends ah that celebrate Diwali, which is a Hindu festival of lights um celebrated in India and other Hindu festivals.
01:29:30
Speaker
um lands. It is the Festival of Lights, light over darkness, the battle, good over evil is what it is to signify. And it is a great ah celebration and festival ah for Amul and my other Hindu brothers and sisters. So salute, blessings to you all in your five-day celebration.
01:29:54
Speaker
um May you all ah be blessed. And that is it for your
01:30:07
Speaker
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01:30:19
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01:30:34
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World Series preview. The aforementioned my brother Amul will bless us during his holiday of Diwali. He will bless us in our MLB World Series preview as well from the rec room.
01:30:46
Speaker
Lion Reese Penn will be on. And as well, I believe I'm going to have our brother AP Alan Perales from Let's Talk Sports. I got to talk to him. If not, maybe I'm going try to get one of our other brothers on. Got to need one more person for that.
01:31:00
Speaker
And then possibly ah boxing combat sports show maybe later this week with Clubber D. And then if not, definitely NBA season preview. We're going wait for the first week to go on.
01:31:12
Speaker
Next week, it'll be hopefully Jay from Unfair Sports will be able to join us, as well as my brother Bobby G from Audible Sports Podcast will be on. And then I'll have somebody else join us as well, if I can get that guy Dave or possibly someone else. Mel, unfortunately, from Man Down Sports won't be able to join us this time.
01:31:29
Speaker
But y'all make sure you tap in with everybody because those are still all of my peoples and we be all working together on this. It is a collaborative effort. So tap in with everybody. The Lions are leading 7-0 with 12-32 left in the second quarter. The baseball game is going to start in 5-0.
01:31:49
Speaker
20 minutes.
Closing Remarks and Encouragement
01:31:50
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That being said to everybody who tuned in on YouTube at Ball and Buds, everybody who tuned in on Facebook at Ball and Buds, to everybody who tuned in on Instagram, a day in the life, my brother, Coach Malave, my brother, Highside AG, Ryan Sipovicius.
01:32:10
Speaker
Y'all check it out. I did an amazing interview with Ryan Sipovicius. up-and-coming MMA fighter out of Queens, New York. I did that on millions.co. Check it out. I'm doing interviews on millions.co now.
01:32:24
Speaker
Ball and Buds, check it out. It was a great interview we did today. Shout out to him as well. And Rhythm Cairo, appreciate you checking out as well. Peace, blessings, y'all. Until tomorrow with our baseball show, I am Omar, the Professor Fonseca.
01:32:41
Speaker
Be blessed. ah Go out there, succeed. Be kind to each other and spread love the Omar way. Holla. Five.
01:33:00
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01:33:28
Speaker
I leave your body feel weak. Switch your face and grit your teeth. Cause anything else will have your outlook look bleak. Death is the time for sleep. Meet your maker rhyme.
01:33:40
Speaker
Never slow down. Never stop. I'm always on my grind. In any mountain, I will climb. Reach my physical climb and I ascend to the peak.
01:33:53
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Introducing Omar, the Professor Fonseca, and the Professor Seminal Mendes.