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Introduction and Event Highlights
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Whenever it wants to go. There we go. This was a million. That world heavyweight float. Championship belt wrapped around my waist. Yo, I got that Ric Slam figure float.
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Slam you on the face. That's why they call me street float. You can't prepare. Now get ready for the show. Oh, yeah.
Sports Review Show Overview
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Yo, yo, yo, what up, what up, what up, friends? You know what it is, ball and bugs back at it again. And yes, I brought some friends.
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Let's go. You know what it we are going to have a grand sports reunion. Review today we are going to talk all of the sports we are going to give you all of our predictions So you know where we come from because it is only once in a blue moon that we get these gentlemen all in one place Why because the bottom line sports met its untimely demise, but it was timely in its own right and we have all gone on to bigger and better things But that being said we always got to go back to our roots in our family and so, you know, I got
00:01:17
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my brother from last night, you saw him, I was on his show, Wild Car Mar with IOW Sports, he is with us tonight, and as well, my brother from the Bottom Line Sports, it's been a minute since him and I got to chat, my brother Ken, the stat man, Ken what's good, my brother?
00:01:36
Speaker
What's good? What's good, fellas? Hey, appreciate you bringing me on, Professor, man. It's been ah few months, man, but I'm eager. I'm excited, man. Let's get down to business. Let's talk some sports. I got some crazy takes, but we're just going to just do what we do, baby.
00:01:51
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Hey, what's up? Yeah, yeah, yeah. What's happening with y'all, fellas? My man, Ken, back in the building. ah Let's see if he's ATL Georgia today or is he a Dallas Cowboy? Or is he a Dallas Cowboy fan?
00:02:06
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Ah, let's go. Let's go, baby. um I think Jake hopefully will be joining us. He was supposed to join us, but I think he got a little busy trying to sling them Pringles and them chichat on us.
00:02:19
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So we'll see what happens if he joins us possibly. and so anyway ah Tell the truth. He was looking for his wife's hat. He was looking for that hat.
00:02:29
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yeah ah Let's go. Hey, everybody, make sure you're subscribed to Ball and Buds, B-A-L-L-A-N-D-B-U-D-S on YouTube. There's a handy QR code up there at the top. That will take you to our link tree where you can follow all of our social media as well tomorrow on Ball and Buds at 8. p.m. Eastern.
00:02:47
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And make sure you tap in with us tomorrow as well. And as well, please make sure you tap in. with my brother, Wildcard Marr in IOW Sports. Wildcard, let them know where they can find you and the brothers at.
00:03:12
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Hey, man, appreciate that. Hey, man, go on over to all social medias, IOWSportsNetwork. You know, that's where we at. We can get it.com eventually.
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But, ah yeah, all social media platforms, IOWSportsNetwork. And if you can't find that, you can find me, KC Wildcard Marr, on the Twitter, And, yeah, man, I'm everywhere and anywhere in between.
00:03:38
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i'm every everywhere on these damn anywhere when it comes to podcasts. So, you you can always just. and So, yeah, man, always a pleasure to talk sports with the bros, Omar. And I think Jake called out because he was like, man, them dudes going to talk me about Bo Nix. Yeah, he is.
00:03:56
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Oh, scary cat ass. Bring your ass on. But anyways, yeah. So, yeah again, thank you for Wild Card Mark tapping in with us again today, y'all. Make sure you tap in with them in IOW Sports.
00:04:07
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And as well, um make sure you tap in with Jake at Final Safe Podcast with him and the boys over there still doing their thing. Very funny show. Make sure you tap in and subscribe on YouTube as well there.
00:04:19
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All right, cool. Well, until he gets here, we are going to keep it moving.
American League Baseball Discussion
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It's been a lot of sports going on. I know that it is mainly baseball season in the heat of the pennant race, but we also have NFL coming up as we just started the preseason this past week, a and NBA is right around the corner, so we cannot forget about that.
00:04:46
Speaker
We are going to give you all the news, all the takes here today So, let's kick this bad boy off, shall we? Gentlemen, first let's start in baseball.
00:04:58
Speaker
We want to save the football for last because we know that's what everybody came for. So, let's talk a little baseball first, Ken. I know you have been waiting for this for a long time to run down those MLB standings for us.
00:05:14
Speaker
So, run through those fours. What do we got going on in Major League Baseball? Okay. All right, guys, man, American League, man, this is a shocker for me, Professor. This is a shocker. This team made a complete 180. But when we look at the American League East, we have the ah Blue Jays at 70 and 50.
00:05:29
Speaker
The American League East, Blue Jays 70 and 50. The Red Sox 66 and 55. Yankees 64 and 56. Tampa Bay at 58 63. And the Lowly Baltimore orle Orioles at 53 and 66 for the American League East. When we look at the American League Central, Tigers 70 52.
00:05:48
Speaker
glorious is The Guardians are 62-56, the Royals are sixty and sixty one Twins are 56-63, and Clubber D, his local Chicago White. That's horrid. That is horrid. Sorry, Clubber D. They're but the American the mariners sixty seven fifty three the astros sixty seven fifty three are both ti up First place, the Rangers 61-61, Angels 58-62, and the Athletics are Let me hit the National League really quick. No, no, no. Let me stop you there.
00:06:23
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Let's just to stop there since they've got that in their mind already. Let's just stick with the AL, and we can go to the NL next. For now, let's start there in dl i mean in the AL. As we're looking at the American League,
00:06:36
Speaker
We'll go and we'll start with just the teams that are still in contention. As you mentioned, the Blue Jays, right, 20 games above.500 almost, ah or they have a four-and-a-half game lead above the Red Sox. They're in the East.
00:06:49
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The Central. The Tigers, a good 18 games above.500, six games above the Guardians, and then you got the Astros and the Mariners in a complete dogfight there in the West with tied identical records of sixty seven and fifty three but the the kicker there is...
00:07:11
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that the Mariners have won eight in a row and are nine and one in their last 10, while the Astros are only five and five, 500 in their last 10.
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So we are going to start with you, Wildcar Mar. What are your thoughts on the American League and what any of those teams we just went through? Yeah. ah Crazy events in American league, obviously the last couple of years we've been seeing Baltimore and kind of being one of those better teams in the air.
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ah They sitting down there looking like straight butt cheeks this year. Yeah. Booty juice. Yeah. Booty juice. Big sellers at the, ah at the trade deadline. Um, For me personally, I'm kind of shocked that we got three teams in the century that are still in a playoff contention. Obviously, our Royals, Guardians are still vying for a wild card spot. And, you know, Guardians won back.
00:08:08
Speaker
It was about four and a half back in that wildcard race. Uh, but I, I gotta be honest, man. i did not see the tigers being as good as they are. yesgers like i gotta be honest. Um, big surprise. Tigers are really killing it.
00:08:24
Speaker
Um, And then when you look at the West, ah I thought that I didn't know that, the you know, we were going to get at least three teams in the West that were going to be competitive. So we're actually seeing a lot of teams that are just kind of really being very competitive that I thought weren't.
00:08:42
Speaker
And I know we were laughing about it last night, but a the Angels, they're only six games back a this year. Hey, little Mike Trout injection. At least wild card. they at least six back from the wild card. They're not going to win that division, but there's a lot that can happen.
00:08:59
Speaker
Well, I'm glad you mentioned that. Let me let me let me build off that. so Obviously, we've got Blue Jays, Tigers, Astros, and Mariners tied there, so you've got a four division leaders for all intents and purposes.
00:09:12
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But when you're looking at the actual wild card, You've got the Mariners, Red Sox, and Yankees. Remember, three teams in the wild card there getting in.
00:09:23
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So you have those three teams with the Guardians one game back, the Rangers four, Royals four and a half, your Kansas City Royals, excuse me, Mark, are four and a half back.
00:09:35
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So talk to us about that wild card, and then we'll come to you, Canteen, after that. Yeah, I think that wild card is going to be crazy um because especially when look at the West where um you see Houston and Seattle sitting at the top of their division, so pretty much the loser is going to have to just settle for a wild card spot. So there's there's already a spot settled up right there.
00:09:55
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So you look at pretty much those last two spots, Obviously, Boston, New York, the rivalry, we know what it goes on with them, too. Boston's been playing better baseball than the the Yankees this season, if you ask me.
00:10:06
Speaker
Absolutely. And the Yankees are just inconsistent, but we see this from them every year. We see them hop on the back of Aaron Judge, He breaks down. His body he'll miss about a week or couple of weeks because, you know, or hit a 10-day IL stint because he's, you know, he's fatigued.
00:10:26
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He's carrying all his squat on his back, and then, obviously, you know, they're going to probably pick it up a again. they're going to go another run towards the end of the season. It's just... going to be exactly where will they be when they decide to go on this run?
00:10:40
Speaker
Because we see this for the Yankees every year. They're going to wait to damn near last minute to go on this last minute run, last minute push to make a run for the division. This will be a playoff team. It's just that we've seen this time and time again.
00:10:53
Speaker
Very expensive payroll, ah inconsistent output. Sometimes, you know, the old saying, you can't buy a championship. And and obviously in baseball, that's probably the only sport that you probably could buy a championship. Because, yeah, could you you can actually spend as much as you want, right? Yeah, but it doesn't always pan out for the Yankees. They're also in a tough division. We can't frown that, all right? Mm-hmm.
00:11:18
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i Let's break it down if that whole division was playing like we're accustomed to. We're talking about that whole division making a run for playoffs. Literally. ah me but Baltimore, and Boston, in New York, ah Toronto, and Baltimore. So...
00:11:37
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it's it's It's a crazy division, but with this wild card, especially in the AL, it's going to get crazy down to the nitty gritty. So if these teams keep oh stacking up on each other and only have a certain you know margin of error when it comes to late August, mid-September,
00:11:55
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or Boy, hey you might have to yeah take a pause on a little bit of NFL football and just pay attention to a little bit because it's going to get sticky down the end. I'm telling you, it's going to – it's getting sticky. it oh I'm getting super excited about the pennant race. Can't you talk to us about this American League? What are your thoughts? Anything stick out to you?
00:12:17
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Man, the biggest thing to me, Professor, is this right here. you have You have a team that's at the top of the division for the American League East. They're at 70 and 50.
00:12:27
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um mother They're almost at 600. There are no games behind. They were at the bottom. The Blue Jays were at the bottom of the barrel last season. They were 20 games behind.
00:12:39
Speaker
Ooh, very astute. Good point. They were at the bottom. So my shouts out to the Blue Jays, the Red Sox, they look really, really good. As Wild Card just said, man, the Yankees are always there lingering.
00:12:53
Speaker
They're always there lingering. That's why um I wish Hot Take was on there so could, you know, get give him to kind of biden bite into some things a little bit. But at the end of the day, man, I mean, the Tigers, Guardians, they look pretty good. I think the Royals are going to make a run.
00:13:06
Speaker
Kansas City Royals are going to make a run. Kansas City Rose will make a run, guys. And then as you as we looked at the um American League West, you got two teams in the first place.
00:13:16
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But then at the end of the day, the Rangers are closer behind them. So my biggest my biggest take from this, guys, is that a team that was 20 games behind last year at the bottom of the barrel, they're the cream of the crop this year.
00:13:28
Speaker
Shout out to the Toronto Blue Jays, fellas.
National League Baseball Analysis
00:13:30
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ah so That's a very astute point there. Very well done, Canteen. So help us out. Give us the National League standings, Canteen. right, National League standing, guys. When we look at National League right now, the Phillies are 69-50. The Mets are 64-55 in second place.
00:13:42
Speaker
The Marners are 57-62. My lowly braids are at And then the Nationals are at 48-72. All right, when we look the Central, guys, we the Brewers 76-44. Cubs 67-51. Reds are The Cardinals are 61-61. And the Pirates are at 51-71. when we look at the central guys we got the brewers seventy six and forty four cup sixty seven and fifty one the ras are six three and fifty eight the cardtons are sixty one and sixty one and the pirates are at fifty one and seventy one Last not least, the West, man. The Padres, 69-52.
00:14:11
Speaker
The Dodgers are half a game behind them at 68-52. Diamondbacks are at fifty nine sixty two The Giants are at 59-62. They're both tied up. And then the Rockies.
00:14:23
Speaker
theres Horrible, horrible Rockies. Damn near 37 games behind, guys. They're at 32 88, fellas. yeah That's what our test the National League looks like at this point, guys.
00:14:39
Speaker
As sadly as Cover D's White Sox set the record last year for more money, the Rockies are going to break it this year. They're going to break it the next year. They are complete rubbish.
00:14:53
Speaker
They are booty juice to the extent. You know what kind of booty juice they are, Mar? They're that type of, since they're in the Rockies, you know, I got give you a little Rockies scenario. Imagine you're hiking. the Rocky Mountains.
00:15:05
Speaker
And imagine you've been hiking with your crew, you're going a couple miles up, and you've just been sweating from head to toe. Just sweat. And it's just the swamp-ass booty juice. That's what I'm talking about right now, my friend. That's what kind of booty juice the Rocky Mountains is. Hey, Professor, what do you call it? Basuda.
00:15:23
Speaker
Basuda. Say words. You want to do the same. Basuda. The booty juice, baby. The Basuda. Yes, sir. But no, let's look at this. Isn't there a theme, though, that we see, gentlemen?
00:15:34
Speaker
The theme I'm seeing is that in the NL East and the NL Central, we've got at least around four and a half, five-game leads in both of those divisions, if not more, when you look at the Brewers now, eight games above the Cubs.
00:15:46
Speaker
Right. But the really close races are your AL West and your NL West. NL West. um Right, where you have the Mariners and Astros tied in the AL and here in the NL, as Cantine just mentioned.
00:15:58
Speaker
You have the Padres a half game above the Dodgers. So obviously we still have um we still have about 50 games left in the season, depending on who your team is and how many games they've played.
00:16:11
Speaker
Around 50 games left. So, Cantine, we'll start with you here. what are the big Anything big stick out to you here in the National League? Man, the biggest thing about the National League, man, think things kind of, you know, turn for the East. I mean, the Mets were on top of the East last year, but the Phillies are top of the East at this point the season.
00:16:32
Speaker
The Braves have had a horrible demise, man. 18 games behind, that's really, really bad for organization like the Braves that, you know, had a lot of good top cover, but, hey, it is what it is. But the Brewers are doing what they do best. The Cubs are closely behind them.
00:16:44
Speaker
We haven't heard much from the Pirates, you know, and then the Reds and the Cardinals are doing their thing, but the thing that's... The things that stick out to me to most the most, fellas, is this right here. You got the Padres and the Dodgers. They're both Nick and Nick.
00:16:58
Speaker
They're both Nick and Nick. So, I mean, I think there's a lot that can happen. Not really much for the Diamondbacks and the Giants. And as we just said, the Rockies are on the demise and they're going fall even worse than how the Chicago White Sox fell last season, man. So, at this point, I think the Phillies, the Brewers, and the Padres will probably be your top two teams coming out of the National League at this point, fellas.
00:17:20
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00:17:46
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Skywalker Boxing Media on YouTube. Skywalker Boxeo on YouTube. facebook Thank you for tuning in, brother. Take some flight, settle in with us, and enjoy the ride. Mar, what are your thoughts right now on that National League as we looked at it? Before you go, I do want to touch on the wild card because obviously you are wild card, Mar.
00:18:06
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ah So the Cubs, Dodgers, and Mets are currently your wild card leaders. Remember, Dodgers only a half game behind the Padres, Mets,
00:18:18
Speaker
I'm sorry, Dodgers only have half game behind the Padres. The Reds are two games behind the Mets, which is where I was going, and the Cardinals are four and a half games behind the Mets for that last wild card position. So, Mar, what are your thoughts on the NL?
00:18:33
Speaker
Yeah, um if I'm being frank. a You can be frank, just don't call me Shirley.
00:18:41
Speaker
What movie was that? so Anybody? anybody yeah air airplane be Airplane. That's for answer but no um I mean, I'm assuming... said Liam Neeson, by the way. nick is Leslie Nielsen.
00:19:00
Speaker
And also, Lew Alcindor, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was in that movie as well. But anyways, apologies. I'm taking it back, bro. No, um when it comes to the wild card in there, um I'm actually kind of surprised that, that you know, ah the Reds and the yeah Cardinals are kind of sticking around. Well, more so the Cardinals kind of sticking around a little bit. Mm-hmm. I kind of think they'll they'll fade towards the end.
00:19:25
Speaker
The Reds, I kind of step back in and really, now that I'm looking at it, they're they're really not far behind and because they can score. they They just need to make sure that they can ah match some pitching that that matches their their output on on getting runs and things like that. So um if they can get that going, you know, hey, don't sleep on Ellie Bela Cruz is still a bad man out there. But, yeah,
00:19:51
Speaker
Other than that, i you know, i was kind of, you know, that dip that the Cubs kind of took post-All-Star break was kind of surprising. oh I'll kind of, i you know, i didn't see the Brewers all of a sudden just coming out of nowhere and just ah now being one of the better teams in all of them. Ooh, been hot.
00:20:12
Speaker
a so I didn't see that one coming. I'm not even going lie. ah I mean, they they're pretty much hitting their stride right now. The pitch is hitting your stride and their bats are just producing like crazy. I mean, you're getting the best of both worlds right now. That's why they're the most winning team and in in all of baseball right now. So I didn't see that one coming. I'm not even going to lie. um So I man I mean, the Brewers have always been like, you know, that fringe contender year in, year out. They're always, you know, they're a little bit above 500, a little better than that. But Christian Jelic has finally had that breakout season since he got hit with the PEDs, you know, whatever that was seven years ago.
00:20:58
Speaker
And let's be honest, they're the hottest team in baseball, even hotter than the aforementioned Mariners. They have won 12 in a row. Yeah. um So ah I need to grab the charger before my computer runs out of battery. So Mar and Canteen, I would like to know, what are your World Series
World Series Predictions and Awards
00:21:20
Speaker
predictions? Who's your teams from the AL and the NL? And who is your winner of the World Series? Hold on. Let me get the banner up so we can have this for the shorts real quick.
00:21:31
Speaker
There we go. All right, go. Go ahead, Cam, man. I'll i let you steal it away because I know you ain't going pick your Braves because they got to be in. Nah, nah. Hell nah. Nah, nah. Hell nah, bro. If I had to pick two teams out of the American League right now, man, that I think that could go the distance right now,
00:21:48
Speaker
I got to go Toronto, man. toron Toronto has really like transformed their whole organization. As I said earlier, bro, they were 20 games behind last year at the bottom of the barrel on the American League East. I think they've turned it around. I think they're doing really, really phenomenal. I got to go probably Toronto. I'm going to go Astros, Toronto and Astros, man.
00:22:08
Speaker
Toronto, Astros. I'm go Toronto, Astros out of the American League. And then if I go National League at this point, man,
00:22:19
Speaker
I mean, the Phillies have always had a strong, strong core, strong organization, strong, you know, both sides of the ball. When I look at it, got to go Phillies out of the East.
00:22:33
Speaker
Phillies and probably the Brewers, man. All right, so you got Phillies and Brewers. And what was your AL pick? I'm going Toronto Astros.
00:22:44
Speaker
Toronto and Astros. Now, who was your World Series between those? I'm going to Toronto, Philly. Toronto, Philly. Toronto and Philly. And who you got as your world champion for 2025, sir?
00:22:57
Speaker
Straight Blue Jays, man. Canada. Canadian. Oh, they're partying in six, buddy.
00:23:09
Speaker
Okay. Drake going to be dancing in the streets. Yeah. Jake, where you Hot Take? Where you at, boy? Oh, man. He said the Blue Jays, which would be, hey, you know, they loaded up a couple years ago for that reason, to be able to have a playoff team that could win that championship. And, you know, with the pitching staff that they have that's healthy now.
00:23:33
Speaker
And again, I mentioned this and I was laughed at on the trade deadline show a few weeks ago. Shane Bieber, if healthy. and could return to even half of his Cy Young form would really help them out. And if he does, the Blue Jays are going to be very, very hard to contend with. So that's canteen Blue Jays over the Phillies in the World Series.
00:23:55
Speaker
Yes. Raul Carmar, who are you guys? Man, I'm just going to make it plain and simple. I got Detroit Tigers taking on. Mm-hmm. Milwaukee Brewers. We're going to have a mid the breers what this we're goingnna have a Midwest World Series.
00:24:13
Speaker
and interesting Detroit takes it home. Detroit takes it home. Wow! What a championship for this city besides the Pistons and, the course, Detroit shocking the WNBA before they were eviscerated.
00:24:29
Speaker
So, not too many championships going on in that city, but the Tigers bring one home this year. They bring the World Series home. Yes, sir. And my MVP.
00:24:41
Speaker
Yes! I was going to ask if you had one, but yes. Yeah, I... I think he wins Cy Young and MVP. I'm going to go with Scoogle. Ooh, Scoogle on the dub. On the MVP and Cy Young.
00:24:55
Speaker
What about in the NL? Who you got? You got anybody in the NL? You don't have to because No, NL, I...
00:25:03
Speaker
He has an MVP or a Cy Young, whichever. Cy Young is going to be a man in Pittsburgh, Skaggs. Skins. Skins. I'll be messing up his name. ah You good? Yeah. Skaggs. I like Skaggs better. Oh, the rest in peace. they That was Tyler Skaggs who played for the Angels.
00:25:19
Speaker
Yeah. He OD'd on that medicine they were giving him. Yeah, and whole bunch of people will be getting arrested for that, too. oh So, ski Paul Skeens is my man right there in Pittsburgh.
00:25:30
Speaker
I know they're going to look at the ah you know the run support and say, oh, the win-loss. Look at homie Pitt. He's filthy. He's filthy. He can only affect you yeah he yeah affect the scoreboard so much. And he can only affect the win-loss record it so much. So,
00:25:49
Speaker
um I think he still gets Cy Young just because it's kind of hard seeing other pitchers in the NL that are pitching filthier than him.
00:26:00
Speaker
MVP.
00:26:09
Speaker
I think they still give it guitar to Altoni. o I still think they give it to him. I mean, i look, i I know what he is. i know what he does. You know, obviously, you know, to my homeboy, Jersey boy, MJ, if you ask him, dont he'll go on a whole tangent. But, hey, he is good, all right, um for whatever they ask him to do. I know he doesn't have the pitching appearances that I would per se to like for him to be, quote, unquote, a dual threat player.
00:26:39
Speaker
um But when he is in there, he's filthy. All right. And then when he's hitting, we know what his bat does. So, you know, obviously you don't do, well, you know, he doesn't play the field and, you know, I, I understand why people would would use that as a knock against him. And, you know, I, I kind of do too, if you're talking about all around baseball player, but i whatever they ask him to do, he does it at an elite level.
00:27:04
Speaker
yeah, Yeah, i think he still gets it. i see yeah He still gets the MVP. Yeah, I mean, i mean look. yeah Jersey boy MJ, shut up. Appreciate you always coming through. Appreciate you having me on. and Good times, good times.
00:27:23
Speaker
I cannot agree at all with his take on Otani. Yes, he may not play in the field, but the only way you could be ah ah more versatile player and greater player is if you played the field, hit, and pitched, and no one does that.
00:27:43
Speaker
So until we see someone do all three of those, then right now he is the only one doing something of this nature through the elevated ability that no one else can do it at, being one of the top, if not best hitters in the league, and one of the better pitchers in the league. So that's a like i like I like him going on off on it because it's funny.
00:28:07
Speaker
It makes me laugh. But I just got to set the record straight. Otani is one of the best in the world. It's not anything. They're not trying to him up. It's not anything. It just is what it is. Now, to be fair,
00:28:21
Speaker
Business-wise, it isn't a bad idea to market him. It's not a bad idea. course not. Just the nation of Japan has a population so huge on themselves, and you know they can't follow him. Oh, you definitely market it. So, I mean, you'd be stupid not to.
00:28:38
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Of course. Right. Yeah. You market the hell out of them, just like they do with the Spanish players to all the those Spanish countries. But that does not change the fact that he is still one of the best players on the planet, no matter what. And it's not overhyped. It's not, you know, inflated. It's not um MLB giving up to him because they instituted stolen bases for him, which is wild that he even thinks that.
00:29:00
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And I know he's he's half joking, but still, we just to set that straight now. uh canteen if you want to have shy youngs and mbps i can come back to you a second uh but since i have mine right here in in front of me i'm gonna go uh i did my trade deadline show with jersey boy mj a couple weeks ago you'll go ahead and check that out at ball and buzz that was a good show with the lion reese penn and my brother mike webe but anyways i gave my picks then i revised my halfway picks and so i'm not going to change them now at the beginning of the season I picked your boy, Bobby Witt Jr. as my MVP now.
00:29:37
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I do realize that with Judge getting hurt, he actually has a little bit more of a chance. Does that mean that he's actually going to win the award?
00:29:49
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Probably not. If I'm only keeping it because I like to keep with what I go with at the beginning of the season, if possible. ah I think Kyle Raleigh will actually end up winning it, especially if he hits the 60 home runs, which I think that he will. The big dump-up!
00:30:05
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We talked about him last night on your show, Mar. ah yeah Mar likes to point out that he carries a big stick. Ha ha!
00:30:18
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I love that. That's great. So staying with Bobby Wood Jr. because you never know. There's still a chance for Aaron Judge, um you know, heart-teeing and still not fully healthy even though he's coming back to lineup.
00:30:29
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For the Cy Young, I agree with you. Scoble all day. He was a Cy Young last year. He's going to be the Cy Young again this year. In the NL, I picked Juan Soto at the beginning of the season. Yes, it was a homer-biased pick. I don't care.
00:30:42
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He has almost 30 home runs now. Almost 30 home runs on the season. I'm going stick with it because you never know Otani, God forbid, was to get hurt or start faltering down the stretch.
00:30:54
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Juan Soto is on a heater right now and could overtake him. And again, if it's a modicum a moicum of a chance, I will stick with it. So I'm sticking with Juan. And then a shy young. I agree with you. I had it as a schemes wheeler toss up, which it still really is. Technically, if you look at it, it's not like they're I'm not going to be far apart at all.
00:31:17
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out zach wheeler out in philly and you could throw christopher sanchez in there out of philly too but it just seems like schemes consistently goes out and perform but a la Jacob de Grom in like 2015 or whatever, um, 16, whatever. yeah, I've seen it plenty of times before.
00:31:39
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It happened Zachary Wheeler when he was with us. So anyways, I think Paul Skeens does, uh, sneak ahead of Wheeler to get the NL Cy Young there. And then finally for my world series picks at the beginning of the season, i had, uh, the, I had the Dodgers versus the, uh, I believe it was the Dodgers and Red Sox is what I had. Um,
00:32:01
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I am not, I'm going to stick with it because I have no choice, but i also believe that or did believe earlier, because I had it written in my notes here from the Midway show we did a few weeks ago, that I also had, and this was before Aaron Jones got hurt, I had the Yankees and the Rangers as right there below the Red Sox, and this was before the Mets went into their slump, I had the Mets right on the heels of the Dodgers. But now since the Mets have been in a huge slump, I'm sticking with the Dodgers and the Red Sox.
00:32:38
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And then my World Series winner at that point, um I don't want to see the Dodgers win it again. That would be boring. So I'll go with the Red Sox pulling out a victory. I didn't actually have that pick, but I did.
00:32:50
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Red Sox over the Dodgers in the World Series. That would be interesting. Good. yeah Two huge markets in baseball that would definitely to bring some viewership. Oh, my goodness. i and That would be a very, very highly crazyly rated World Series. World Series. ah yeah Awesome. All right. Well, there you go. That is your Major League Baseball rest of the season preview. We appreciate y all tuning in.
00:33:16
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00:33:28
Speaker
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00:33:40
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How about we keep it moving? What are we getting into next? Well, actually, let's take a little pre-break before we get into the NFL. I was going to go straight into the NFL, but I remember someone brought up a little bit of a topic before the show that we said we were going to talk about.
00:33:59
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ESPN
Shannon Sharp Controversy and ESPN
00:34:01
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has parted ways with Shannon Unk Sharp following settlement in the ah allegations of rape from an ex-girlfriend of his. Shannon Sharp has not...
00:34:16
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been on ESPN since late April but when the suit was filed. Uh, the, the woman known as Jane Doe was seeking $50 million,
00:34:29
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um, paid and suffering, psychology, psychological, emotional distress, mental anguish, uh, among other things. Um, um, Sharp said it was a shakedown attempt, as maintained, that he and the Nevada women were in a consensual sexual relationship. Now, we don't know what Sharp is going to do next. Obviously, he has his nightcap show with Ochocinco, but he will not be back on ESPN or on First Take again. Now, I do want to go back briefly for a second, because I really should not have made that gesture in hindsight.
00:35:08
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My gesture was not to bring down the credibility of the charges of said young lady. If young lady feels like she was in any way, you know,
00:35:24
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a part of something that made her feel any of these types of ways, then fine, she did and she is legally able to go ahead and propose that to a court of law and we should provide her and him innocence until proven guilty or otherwise in a court of law.
00:35:44
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That being said, if you're asking for $50 million dollars
00:35:51
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I don't know, just seems a little off to me. Again, I'm not taking anything away. And before I get myself canceled off the airways of YouTube, I'm going to move this on to Mar, who has daughters and can probably speak to this better before i get us all canceled. Mar, help me out. Yeah, this is... No, I just think, you know...
00:36:15
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aren' sure yeah ah we when you When you start getting money, like in and obviously it's kind of hard for us to relate to what Shannon is doing because we're not in that tax bracket, but um just me personally, is like I know if I was there to ever reach that type of money, already know it's not necessarily you that changes, it's everything around you that changes what you do.
00:36:41
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And it's kind of like you got to navigate that. and you know deep down, Shannon Sharp is still a good old boy from rural Georgia.
00:36:51
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yeah so i mean Let's call a spade a spade. and so like When you're out in LA, I get it. He's been in the NFL for a minute and been on camera, but still, it's ah it's different when when that when that bread is on a different level like that.
00:37:06
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To you know um ah do i you know a not not to kick him while he's down. It's kind of like, you know, i just thought that, you know, he's been in in in this kind of light for a minute.
00:37:21
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hu ah and and And, you know, life not being so private, you know, he's on camera pretty much a ah good chunk of his life. I just thought he would he would have moved and a little bit more discreetly and in and better ah with the situation. But, hey,
00:37:41
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um
00:37:43
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a na Hey, I hope it was worth it, man. that day
00:37:50
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ah That must be some killing. I'm just saying. You can't fight. It'd be It goes good it cost yeah and cost you, man. You got to assume at least half.
00:38:05
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um um mean Yeah, absolutely. We ain't even talking about the potential money that probably could have been made had this situation not even occurred. Oh, my goodness. no wait He'd still be on first take. He'd drive me thee he probably be the new host with TV on first take. Disney money is different money.
00:38:28
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hey um donpa that' wrong That's That's That's that retired F-U money, bro. I'm trying to tell you. so It's kind of like yeah like people really step back and really understand the grips that Disney has when it comes to media.
00:38:47
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yeah Just literally. Go but look at all your most grossing movies. ah all time. It's going to be a Disney sitting right next to the company. Oh, yeah. oh yeah rights today be You better bet it.
00:39:03
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K.T., what are your thoughts on this situation? All right, fellas, so let me, I digress. i'm I'm from a small town in Georgia, small town called Madison, Georgia. Kind of similar to the same upbringing as Shannon Sharp. He's from a place called Tattano County, Reesville, Georgia, Glenville area, small area.
00:39:20
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One high school, real small town, one red light, real rural area. Man, Shannon Sharp, think it was like a seven-round pick guy, went to Savannah State. humble beginnings, you know, God bless him, God put him in situation that, you know, do really, really good. His brother, I mean, when we look at the Hall of Fame speech, he said daughter just earlyling said his brother Sterling was better than him. that You know, two brothers getting better to the Hall of Fame.
00:39:44
Speaker
The only two brothers that this ever happened, man. here Here's my thing on Shannon Sharp at this point, man. Man, you got to be humble. You got to be mean. Man, there was so much money that was laid on the table. When they went when they offered him that $100 million dollar deal, fellas, that's when everything started to kind of plateau.
00:40:01
Speaker
That's when a girl came out, said he was doing this. He was choking her. He was beating her. And I get it. i get it. He a black man. And I'm not trying to throw the race car. He's a prominent black man, different kind of stature, different things like that.
00:40:16
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But let's backtrack. Let's go back to January 24. But you right there with the objects of it. Yeah, January 2024, Cat Williams told him. Cat Williams kind of gave him the warning before destruction.
00:40:29
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Cat Williams put it out there. Monique put it out there. Sandy, you're walking on hot coals, man. And so when everything kind of happened and transpired, it hurt me. I'm disappointed in him.
00:40:44
Speaker
But I get it. He wanted to be dominant, try to overrule over it. But she wasn't even fine. I could see if he had a dime piece. Somebody know that was top tier. She all right.
00:40:55
Speaker
She all right in cans. i But I'm kind of like, come on, bro. Here's the thing, guys. He split. He lost what he lost. At the end of the day, Shannon Sharp still got his LePortier cognac, still got his nightcap, so he's still doing it, making money in other places.
00:41:11
Speaker
But I think God has set him apart to get that money from this and do his thing and be great and go places and go far. But it's a it's a learning. it's you make We all make mistakes. We learn from this. I know his pocket's hurt, because I know he was on he was on the show the other week on Nightcap begging for $5,900 that ah Ultra owed him. So, you know, hey, I'm just keeping it real, fellas. $5,900, you begging for that. But, hey, I get it.
00:41:35
Speaker
Your pockets might be little tight right now, you know? Hey, stop. guys go back you guys live a little better and watch he was So of night fifty nine hundred you un that's where we got ch were pay with fifty nine hundred from o hotel middle but so i hey I get it man end the day I think still grow and thrive but as far as i being a prominent spotlight with stephen a um guys no man um they all that your research ever is man then big like that Well, in the long run, he'll be fine. In the long run, like you said, he already has his show that is already a very highly rated show, so it didn't even matter anyways. Now, is does it hurt his pockets from not having the Disney long money ESPN first-rate visibility? Of course.
00:42:19
Speaker
But everybody knows who he is anyways because he was a Hall of Fame football player before that. So as as long as he does his own show, that's all he needs to do because there will always be sponsors to be there no matter how bad of a shit you do. There's going to be sponsors that will sponsor you. Right?
00:42:37
Speaker
He'll get through it He just needs to stay out of no more bull. The limelight. yeah Because if you really look at it, you had the situation he was on the basketball court with John Morant, daddy. um ah yeah ah the The little, oh, Monique, yeah, yeah, you know, little situation, the little Instagram live thing.
00:42:58
Speaker
And now you got this situation. Oh, yeah, I forgot about that one. Yeah, I forgot about that one. It's like shit, like, you got to start, like, chilling out a little bit, bro. Just chill out, bro. yeah As the great Christopher Wallace once said, mo' money, mo' problems. and you gotta to sit You got to sit there. got to be more careful, especially because you know these girls are going to do that he's only She's OnlyFans model.
00:43:23
Speaker
That's what you think she's going to Of course she's going to try to hang out with the rich people and try to get as much out of it as possible. Now, again, I'm not saying her allegations are false.
00:43:34
Speaker
I'm just saying man when when you ask for that much money, it you would not be mistaken if you thought, well, maybe we need to see if this is also extortion.
00:43:47
Speaker
Right, right, right. But I'm not the court of law. though These are all allegations. And you should not listen to me for any of your legal advice. All right. Let's keep it moving the into some other NFL
ESPN's Major Media Moves
00:44:01
Speaker
news. How about we talk about this huge deal between yeah ESPN and NFL, formerly announcing a deal where NFL will get, or is sorry, ESPN will buy NFL media, including NFL Network.
00:44:18
Speaker
10% equity in the league, and also the red zone name, including being able, which is the best part about this gentleman, to use the red zone name in other sports so we can get things like a college football red zone, and so on and so forth. Canteen, holla at me. How do you feel about this merger or this acquisition, brother?
00:44:43
Speaker
I think it's great just to caveat on what you just said about the red zone. So it could be red zone for baseball, basketball, football, college, all other the sports. So I think that'll be ah way for us to see things and bring it in and crunch time and all that different stuff like that. But I think that the NFL has lost its validity.
00:44:59
Speaker
They ain't got no value added no more. And what I mean by that is like Roderick Goodell and everybody else, like, The NFL network is its own entity, Professor. It's own entity. So you ask do you have those sportscasters that do their thing on it on the NFL network.
00:45:14
Speaker
But I think in hindsight, it's a good thing. Here's what I'll say. If they merge in with ESPN, you'll have all those other people that will be, you know, productive and do different things on the yeah ESPN network and thrive and grow in that way.
00:45:29
Speaker
I look at it from that perspective. Okay. right. Mark, what do you think? I mean, it just it just proves to me that Disney, who was already a multi-billion dollar ah entity of his own, ah just bought 10% stake and another billion dollar entity.
Impact of NIL and College Sports Changes
00:45:54
Speaker
I mean, let that shit sink in. After buying a stake in WWE, another billion dollar entity. That's true. That's true, That mouse eating.
00:46:07
Speaker
That's a lot of cheese. That mouse ain't never gone hungry in his life. He ain't been looking for no cheese. no like Like, literally, like they could literally pay for all the the debt for everybody and clear everybody's debt.
00:46:25
Speaker
They can ah ah house all the homeless right now. i mean, literally, they can clean up the whole world right now. You're welcome.
00:46:37
Speaker
I'll run for president. And so what do you think about WWE getting bought and also them moving over to yeah ESPN? yeah it's ESPN's direct-to-consumer app they have coming out.
00:46:51
Speaker
you're They're getting pointed at Mickey Mouse money.
00:46:55
Speaker
I mean, it is it it's obviously, you know. TKO was already in bed with them anyways. with Yeah, TKO has been getting their bread, and and and so has UFC, and you see how their their industry has taken off.
00:47:11
Speaker
oh No, WWE is literally keep breaking barriers on on what it means to be a sports entertainment company. I mean, yeah. It's just the value of it, and the reach internationally is crazy right now for it.
00:47:27
Speaker
Yeah, the value of WWE has just shot up a thousand-fold since Vince McMahon left the company, especially. All right, Ken.
00:47:40
Speaker
So we are going to move it into the NFL. Well, actually, let's go to college football first, Canteen. Yeah. Let's go ahead and go The college football preseason polls were released this past week. So let's go ahead and take a little look at who was in the preseason polls. So I'm looking specifically at the coaches poll.
00:48:06
Speaker
So this actually came out, what date was this, two days ago. So August 11th. um So when we're looking at this poll, we have at number one, and their number one in both polls is Texas.
00:48:22
Speaker
So you have the Texas Longhorns. They're at number one. And number two, actually, you know what? No, I apologize. This is not the coaches poem I'm looking at. This is the AP poll. But I'm looking at it. Yes, okay. It is it is the AP poll. My apologies.
00:48:36
Speaker
So Texas is number one in your AP poll. And number two is the Penn State Nittany Lions. Number three, the Ohio State Buckeyes.
00:48:46
Speaker
Number four, Clemson Tigers. And number five, Canteen, your Georgia Bulldogs. At number six, just to let everybody know, I do want run of the top ten, actually.
00:48:58
Speaker
Number six, Notre Dame. Number seven, Oregon. Number eight, Alabama Crimson Tide. Number nine, LSU Tigers. And number ten, the Miami Hurricanes. Big game coming up first is that August 30th battle between Texas and Ohio State.
00:49:18
Speaker
And that will give us a good barometer as to where those top teams stand. Canteen College Football, your account, what do you got? All right, guys. So out the gate, man, I'm like Texas at one. Hey, so so let let's let's let's look let's look at this.
00:49:36
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I have no objection with Texas number one, Penn State two, Ohio State. They won the national championship, correct? Am I right or wrong? They won the national championship last year. And they ended up beating what? Notre Dame.
00:49:48
Speaker
but Am I right or wrong? They beat Notre Dame, correct? but On the way? Yeah, in the playoff. yeah I don't think they beat in the championship. Was it the championship? oh It was the championship.
00:49:59
Speaker
It was the championship. They beat Notre Dame in the championship. So I'm trying to see how did Notre Dame drop down to six. And then, you know, the logic and stuff is not adding up to me, but I get it. Hey, Texas is who they are in the SEC.
00:50:15
Speaker
Penn State, Ohio State. clinton Clemson ended up winning the ACC last year. Am I right or wrong? um I believe they won the ACC. I believe that's correct. I think it was actually... Clemson.
00:50:30
Speaker
Oh, yeah, because SMU was... That's right, SMU was... Yeah, they they they ended up and they end up beating SMU or whatever. and then Georgia was in the... ah SEC championship, but Georgia ended up losing to Notre Dame and like because of I think ah Carson Beck ended up getting hurt, and then they ended up bringing in Gunnar Stockton, which I'm kind of – I don't know about this kid, man. So here's what I think right now.
00:50:50
Speaker
I think for for the preliminary rankings at this point in the season, they're good guys. But here's what I'm going say about the whole college football layout, man. When we look at some of those top-tier games that are going to happen at the beginning of the season, guys, we got to look at Virginia Tech is to play South Carolina. That's going to a big one.
00:51:07
Speaker
Notre Dame. and Notre Dame is going to – I'm trying to figure out Notre Dame for the life of me, guys, because Notre Dame falls apart at the ACC for basketball of my purposes. Then they're independent when it comes to football.
00:51:20
Speaker
Haven't been able to figure that out, but they're going to open up against a Miami. TCU has UNC. And another another big, big game that's going to be the icing on the cake, guys. This is the biggest game of week one. I think everybody's going tuning to this one.
00:51:35
Speaker
The number nine LSU Tigers. are going to be at Clemson, the number four Clemson Tigers. Death Valley against Death Valley. I think that's the biggest game of the college football season that's going to pop out. So here's the thing, guys.
00:51:50
Speaker
Let's get past week one. Let's see where everything happens after week one. Let's see where everybody lands. Because here's the thing, here's the thing, Professor, here's the thing, Wild Card. Most teams open it up against non-conference opponents.
00:52:01
Speaker
So like a Georgia Bulldog team, we're going to open up against Marshall. I mean, what do you expect of Georgia to do with Marshall? But then you have to keep building and building and building. Hopefully not but I mean, if you lose to Marshall, I mean, that's crazy.
00:52:13
Speaker
But as I just said, guys, the biggest game ah the week one of college football season is going to be the LSU Tigers against Tigers, Death Valley against Death Valley at Clemson. That's my take. have no objection against West. I've already been forecasted in AP poll. No, no objections for me.
00:52:29
Speaker
All right, we'll get your champion ready, and we'll come back to get your champion in just second. Mar, what are your thoughts on college football rankings? Yeah, I mean, you know, i just think the rankings are just there just to place people based off of – um pretty much recruiting classes.
00:52:48
Speaker
Pretty much. um You know, how how how good did you recruit? and just For me, I just think it's a reflection on that and what you got returning, what you did losing transfer board.
00:53:01
Speaker
How did you manage all that? And I think it's just... hi They're just giving, sorry, it's better for being the CEO. So congratulations. a but um So i don't really put too much stock into it. Obviously, you know who the heavy hitters are when you see requirements that they go to the these size schools. So you know who the heavy hitters are.
00:53:25
Speaker
And, ah you know, not afraid to spring that NIL brand. So that's just what that is, in in my opinion. and and you know in Even if with some of these big matchups in week one, um it's it doesn't, now with the playoff, it doesn't kill your season.
00:53:43
Speaker
Right. you You can, yeah, like you know, i I agree with your point, Omar, when said, ah you know, barometer, see where you're at against other big-time programs, but, yeah,
00:53:56
Speaker
You know, losing one in in in now, in this era of college football, is nothing. It's like, you know, it is what it is. But we know how we can match up against other big universities.
00:54:10
Speaker
We'll see them down the road. So, it not a decision so long now. it is is how when it when it really matters now. So.
00:54:21
Speaker
Volcar, who is your college team? Do I know your college team? I'm Missouri Tiger fan. We down in Okay, did not know that. No, no, no. You just go keep that to yourself. um Anyways,
00:54:34
Speaker
have your champion ready in just one moment. I agree with you. Looking at these college football rankings, right, they serve no other purpose other than to make the the blue bloods, the people with reputations, have even more of a reputation serves to only spread the gap between the have and the have nots.
00:54:52
Speaker
said this on my program the other day. It only serves to keep boosting up these legacy programs, some of them which aren't even good anymore. I talked on my program, the Professor Semar Almenti, a shameless plug, about how a lot of these rankings would go on to prove that a lot of these teams were overranked and just not even a lot of the teams ended up not even in the rankings at all at the end of the season.
00:55:15
Speaker
I had gone through and found there was a study done from 1983 to 2005. USC, Oklahoma, and Nebraska, I believe it was, were the three most overranked teams that never ended up as high as they were when they were ranked in you know the top five every year, even though they probably didn't deserve it.
00:55:34
Speaker
So I agree with you completely on those sorts of rankings and things like that. Everything is going to change. Yes, are some of those teams in the top going to stay in top? Sure, because it's not hard to say, okay, well, these are the teams that should at least at the end of the year be good because they were good last year. Yes, college football does change a lot, but at the same time, a lot of the good teams are good from year to year.
00:55:58
Speaker
That being said, I am not one to toot my own horn, but I will right now toot to the motherfucking toot. But your boy has called the college football champion two years in a row now since it started with Michigan and Ohio State. So now I am going for number three in a row. So I will go last. Canteen, who is your college football champion this year?
00:56:24
Speaker
Guys, I mean, it's so early on in the season, it's hard to forecast. um I will say this. I truly believe that whoever wins the SEC, you know, I don't know it's going between Texas and Georgia, or Bama, whoever has a dog in that fight.
00:56:40
Speaker
But right now, if I had to pick a team that I feel that's capable and has a propensity to win a national championship right now at this point before we can start anything,
00:56:52
Speaker
I got i gotta i gotta to come back to back to Ohio State. Oh, okay. and And I'm a Georgia fan at heart. Not a bad at all. I got to put aside my biases about Georgia because I think we have a decent team, but ah the quarterback position, I'm not really sure. Offensive defense defenses on both sides.
00:57:11
Speaker
I got to go Ryan Day and what he has developed and what he's implemented at Ohio State. So I really feel right now Ohio State is the strongest team coming out the gate to go back and and do it all over again, fellas.
00:57:25
Speaker
Hey, there you go. Repeat. They are favorite of one of the favorites. Mark, who you got as your college football champion? No, I ah hate to sound like a ah songbird. I'm just, I'm like Cam, man. Okay. Oh, all right. Hey, look.
00:57:42
Speaker
Just look at the wide receiver room. just Absolutely. All right? And no disrespect to Will Howard. they they he won a He won a national championship.
00:57:54
Speaker
All right? I love him. All right? ah you you You can start and end with Jeremiah Smith, but I think that'd be foolish of you. He's a beast though.
00:58:06
Speaker
He is a beast though. You can end the conversation, but like still, like a who's going to have enough dogs on defense to cover four or five deep on Ohio State?
00:58:23
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No, seriously. yeah There's no way you have four five corners on your team to get enough cover four or five wide receivers on Ohio State.
00:58:33
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You don't.
00:58:37
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Dogs, man. And so in all in order to be able to, you would have to have something –
00:58:47
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sort of maybe a team that had a really high-powered offense that possibly could outshoot the other team or a team with a really good defense a la your Ohio State pick, the Ohio State pick that you gentlemen have.
00:59:06
Speaker
I am going to – ah I am going to take your wager of the Ohio State. I am going to go against my pick from last year.
00:59:18
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And I am going to hitch my wagon. Like the Oregon Trail, baby. I'm hitching it to Arch Manning and Hot Tank Jake's Longhorns, baby.
00:59:32
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I wish he was here. am calling it now. The offense, and yes, I know, they have lost so many players. This is blasphemous. They've lost like 10 players on both sides of the ball.
00:59:44
Speaker
Their defense, how can they stop Ohio State? Agree, agree, agree. But I just think this offense is going to be something so impressive that And so they're going to put up 35, 42, 50 points a game.
01:00:02
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Archman and the Texas Longhorns. Let me caveat, Professor. So like in about three weeks from now, so you think that the Longhorns on week one are going to march into Ohio State and win their first game?
01:00:15
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No, but i also don't think it matters, just like Mark said. You can lose at least one or two now with a playoffs. And if you lose the first week, that's even less like who gives a crap because they're going to be like, oh, each team is much different at the end of the year than they were at the beginning of the season. You didn't make a valid point right there. I'm not worried about that at all.
01:00:32
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I do think they will lose that game. and I think they'll get revenge in the championship. So there you go. That's your college football champions. What do you think? Let us know in the comments as well.
01:00:44
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What you think about MLB earlier, who's your champions there as well. Let's talk a little bit of a different subject. I like to break it up in here in between our sports. But we know that revenue sharing is coming into play here with the NIL and the NCAA settlement.
01:01:03
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We now know. that each school will be able to allocate this year $20.5 million dollars to their sporting to their sports programs. And that's all of them combined. That's football, basketball, everything.
01:01:20
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right Now, we also know that NIL deals are still allowed to be had as well. So there's this salary cap sort of payment process that's going to happen. And then as well, the athletes will still be able to do NIL with collectors and things like that and be able to get outside sponsorships, which is great for them so they can keep getting more money in that bag.
01:01:43
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I am only looking at the basketball teams right now because this is the article that I have in front of me, part of The Athletic. Shout out to The Athletic. um The average estimated roster cost this season for basketball in the ACC and all of the mid-majors, or all of the majors, excuse me, except the SEC,
01:02:03
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are all around $8.5 million. dollars So that means all these leagues are going to be paying about $8.5 million dollars to their basketball team. You split that between what?
01:02:14
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You're not paying walk-ons, so you split that between maybe 10 players, the top 10 players. So you're looking at, you know, Anywhere between $500,000 to $1.5 million, depending on the type of player you are, what's your position, things like that. UCLA, I've been following them all offseason.
01:02:31
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They already came out, and they said on the football team, they're dividing it up between everybody on the team, and then they're splitting it up in tiers. Depending on how much you're going to play, where you're where you're projected to be, that's what your payment is going to be.
01:02:46
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How do we feel about this, Mar? We're going to start off with you. How do you feel with all of these changes in the revenue-sharing era? I mean, it's a different era. oh It's definitely different. But, I mean,
01:03:03
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understand why you want to put parameters around it to try to make it equal for other players. You don't want to – um build, I guess, animosity amongst players or you also don't want to just make it to Wild Wild West kind of how it has been since they implemented the NIL or the players getting paid.
01:03:26
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um
01:03:29
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Yeah, for me, it takes away the amateurism part of it. Oh, that's completely gone. Yeah, it's been gone, if you ask me. but um Yeah.
01:03:44
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I mean, because I kind of said this on my show before, it's like if you're mimicking a a situation that you're about to go into to a professional field, then you should mimic it the whole way.
01:03:57
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ah youre you're If you're about to go to the NFL, about to go to the NBA, or about to go to one of these other professional leagues, and they're already having to deal with money, image, name, likeness, branding.
01:04:10
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So mimic it. Like, practice it. Use it as practice before you go into it and and, you know, put up the rules and parameters just like an NFL or NBA and keep it moving.
01:04:23
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It's so simplified. And, you know, adapt the same rules. Just make the same thing. Okay. Kante, what do you think? Man, name, image, and likeness, guys. I think you separate the men from the boys, women from the girls. I mean, when you look at the financial aspect of everything, man, when I look at, like, I'll give you guys a prime example.
01:04:45
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You look at Duke basketball. Nobody was really concerned with Duke basketball after, you know, Krzyzewski left, but then they had Cooper Flagg. He was like the prominent picture of Duke basketball. So you look at organizations and teams, even Colorado, nobody was concerned about Colorado football without Shador Sanders and and and and Travis Hunter. And and so you you put this money on the table. You put these big pockets on the table.
01:05:10
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You have the collectives. You have all these things, these different things that divvy up money to make and build your program. I like the NIL. I like the NIL. You got guys that were making more money, guys and girls that were making more money with the NIL in college than they're making on their rookie deals. And now they're playing you know in college football, basketball, whatever, whatever you what what have you. So, I mean, I think the whole NIL, the revenue,
01:05:36
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Sharing and all that stuff, man, it just builds the brand and it makes teams more stronger. But it it generates revenue now before the not only for the organization, but the players, they get to collect some money off and skim some money off the top as well. So I have no qualms with it, guys.
01:05:53
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Yeah, I've always been against the NCAA. I think they're one the most corrupt and vile organizations of all time. And tourism is bullshit and always has been bullshit for the past hundred of years.
01:06:05
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Why you expect um kids to go ahead and have to play sports for you for your enjoyment and to make your school money. But you also have to work a full-time job and go to school.
01:06:17
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And all you're going to give them is a education and say that a scholarship is worth all that. and It never has been. And now more than ever, it isn't at all now. And that's a person that has two degrees.
01:06:28
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I'm not saying they're not valuable, but I am saying more than ever, they're not as valuable as they used to be. And so now more than ever, these players need to be paid. They deserve to be paid in every single way that they can be paid. um And is it is it great that necessarily we're doing salary caps and GMs and things like that?
01:06:49
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Maybe you may not think so if you're a purist, but at the same time, we are moving into this new landscape whether you like it or not. So as Mark said, you might as well prepare the the the students, prepare these athletes, prepare these colleges in the same way that they are going to have to play and perform and live when they're in the professional leagues that they go to afterwards.
01:07:14
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So there's that. All right, cool. Just wanted to get your thoughts on that. Obviously with them paying the basketball and football teams, we're definitely going to see that in the future where you're dealing with, okay, the basketball and football teams probably each getting $8.5 million, $9 million, and then you're splitting up the other $2 million to $3 million. Among all your other sports, your soccer, your field hockey, your swimming, your gymnastics, your softball, your, you know, women's basketball and everything. We'll see they can actually get this to work. But obviously, going forward into the future with media rights and things increasing, they're going to have more money to give and the schools will have more money going forward. I'm sure it's going to bump up every year like it does in professional sports.
01:08:02
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Cool.
01:08:11
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01:08:25
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01:09:08
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Subscribe to IOW Sports. Subscribe to Wild Car Mar all on your YouTube airwaves. Cool. And final say pod for Jake, even though he's not here. All right, let's keep Let's keep it moving. Now we move on into the NBA. It's not NFL time yet. I know I keep teasing you. I'm making you wait until the end.
01:09:42
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Let's move into the and NBA first.
NBA Offseason and Season Predictions
01:09:45
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I did an NBA show, pleasure of doing that with Mandown Sports, Mel Unfair J, and Audible Podcast, Bobby G, who Wild Card knows very well.
01:09:54
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It was an awesome and NBA program. Y'all go back and watch that. Four most experts speaking about the past NBA year and previewing the next NBA season. So, gentlemen, let's talk about it.
01:10:06
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The big news that happened this past offseason, a few different things. First of all, the biggest news probably is If Jake were here, LeBron ah is one more year left in L.A. Luka signs luca shines are brand new three-year max to stay, obviously, as the face of the franchise there in l L.A. You also had other moves around.
01:10:29
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Yeah.
01:10:33
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securing a max deal the clippers have loaded up like it is two thousand fifteen with every veteran on the planet but hey i'm not madca i think it might actually work out for you there's a little tea for you there um yeah You still obviously have the defending champion, Oklahoma City Thunder.
01:10:51
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Moving over into the east, my Celtics. Ah, what a sad state of affairs. The Indiana Pacers. Ah, what a sad state of affairs. Two Achilles injuries.
01:11:03
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um And actually, let's not forget,
01:11:07
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not Donovan Mitchell, but... um ah Oh, shoot. Help me out here, y'all. Dame Lillard? Dame, yes. Dame Lillard. He went back to Portland, but he also has the Achilles.
01:11:20
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So we have three very harmful Achilles injuries. That means Indiana and Boston. Day gone. See ya. No chance this year whatsoever. So you're looking at teams such as the Knicks, the Magic making an impressive move for Desmond Bain in the offseason as well. You got, you know, ah the the perennial you know contenders there that are there every year. So, looking at this NBA landscape, what we've seen go on over the offseason, give me your thoughts on the NBA this upcoming season.
01:11:57
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Canteen, let's start with you. Man, guys, so if we look at last year's NBA season, man, it was kind of interesting, kind of sort of what have you. But, man, as we saw, OKC did their thing, and ended up winning the championship, what have you. Shea Gilders, Alexander, prominent NBA player. But here's what we got, guys. when we look at the East,
01:12:18
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I mean, the Cavaliers end up finishing the season at sixty four and eighteen Celtics went Knicks 51-31. The Pacers were shortly there behind them at fifty and thirty two Look at the West. Look at the West numbers, man. Thunder 68-14. We're having 52-30. Lakers Nuggets at 50-32 as well. Here's what I think is going to happen, man. I think the door is kind of wide open across the board. I think here's my point on this, guys.
01:12:47
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Damian Lillard should have never left Portland, man. I think Portland should have stacked the deck, built around him. They could have had a great season. My other words are here are the things with the East. um You got Giannis on a – I can't pronounce the last name whatever, but, mean, he's in a frenzy.
01:13:01
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So, I mean, here's here's what we got, man. laborers Lakers got LeBron James. And then another another big thing, guys. Old boy went and lost all that weight. He got healthy, got in shape. Looking diesel. Yeah, Luka looking kind of thin and chiseled out. So here's the thing, guys.
01:13:18
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i think it's going to great basketball season, man. i'm I'm just kind of waiting to see how everything pans out in the preseason, see what October has to bring. But we're just going to go from there, guys, at this point. Yeah, no doubt. ah So, again, more where we've seen a lot of moves, but we also know that there are teams that are all in on winning um championships.
01:13:40
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And those teams we've seen right in the past few years, Perennial, the Nuggets, the Cavaliers started coming up. The Rockets look really good and young. They traded... Oh, oh, oh. Which we haven't even talked about. Yeah, I didn't even mention that because it slipped out of my mind. I don't know how.
01:13:56
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But Kevin Durant going to the Rockets was the biggest trade of the offseason. He still got the Knicks, right? Mar, give us your thoughts on the NBA upcoming season. i Canteen says something that really really kind of hooked me into what he was saying and it in wide open.
01:14:14
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And if you really look at it, especially in the West, ah you got a lot of talent everywhere and at least about 16 deep that they You know, you could make some moves and and get to at least the finals.
01:14:29
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um i And probably about maybe about it half of those, you could probably say ah for sure, probably win it. But then you look at the East. Because you got Indiana going to take a step back, know, Halliburton.
01:14:45
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They lose Miles Turner a and to Milwaukee. You look at, um you know,
01:14:56
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Austin with with no Tatum and and it's going to be pretty much on Jalen Brown. and you know a There's going to be some movement in there. I think Cleveland is still going to be ah one of the better teams in the East still.
01:15:10
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I think New York is still going to be in the conversation. you know but Like you said, watch Detroit, Orlando, Miami, you know, maybe even if if Atlanta and Chicago can get their shit together, you start climbing up just because, you know, by by natural selection, there's going to be two teams that's to drop because, it you know, their Achilles has been the the reason why they're going to drop. So I wholeheartedly agree with with Canada, man. It's going to be wide open on both sides of of the conferences, if you ask me.
01:15:50
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Here you
01:15:55
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Thank you. As I mentioned, we we see that there are the perennial contenders, right? You've got the the Nuggets. You've got the, obviously, the Zender won last year. But, yes, we do also have a wide open field because of injuries, because of teams getting older, because of attrition, teams losing players, teams going where other teams, as happens every offseason. And, yeah, it does seem like it is a lot more open this season than,
01:16:22
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than usual, but I still think that that's going to make for an even, i think i it in my eyes it always has been, that parity in sports makes it obviously that much more competitive because you have teams where there's not so much of a gap between the good teams and the bad teams and you can actually have more decent competitive seasons and playoffs and things like that versus, and I'm not going to say that it It should be an asterisk, like Hot Take Jake says, and I'll get to their but i'll get to their bubble championship in just a second.
01:17:01
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but but this But the Celtics, right, having a little bit of an easier road, they say, because of injuries, or last year, the Thunder, having a little bit easier road because of injuries, what have you.
01:17:13
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um you still have to play the game. you still have to go through the actual other teams that are in front of you. You're all playing within the same conditions, which lends credence to the bubble championship argument being a positive.
01:17:30
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um So I'm hoping that, especially being a Celtics fan, I have nothing to root for in terms of my team because I know we're just going to be tanking. I'm just hoping to see a really good overall season because I know i'm going to have league pass and watching the games every night and I just want to see really competitive good games. That being said, let's go ahead and get our and NBA champions. Also, if you have an MVP, that's fine, but you don't have to.
01:17:55
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and NBA champions for this upcoming season. Canteen, you look like you're smiling. Let's start with you.
01:18:05
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Boy, that's just, I'm going against the grain, man. oh instagram Out of the East, I'm um'm um'm going with the Knicks, man. The Knicks are long overdue. The Knicks are long overdue. I got to go with the Knicks from the East.
01:18:22
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Man, from the West.
01:18:26
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01:18:41
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01:19:01
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but um Cleveland is going to get healthier. They have some injury and issues in the playoff. I think they're still a good team.
01:19:13
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um And then Oklahoma City pretty much just won a championship and said, hey, let's retain everybody. And they pretty much retained majority of that championship thing. And that's how you ah you start building ah something. and So, yeah, I got Oklahoma City winning it as they defeat the Cleveland Cavaliers.
01:19:37
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Over Cleveland Cavaliers. Oh, by the way, Canteen, who is your champion? I didn't even ask. Knicks versus Nuggets. Who's winning the title, Canteen? going Nuggets, man. Nuggets. Nuggets. Nuggets.
01:19:48
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Winning the championship. All right. Cool. Well, I'm actually going to mash yours up together and come up with my amalgamation, which which is a tremendous word for a Puerto Rican on a live TV show. It is crazy.
01:20:06
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Yeah, amalgamation. A-M-A-L-G-A-T-I-O-N. It's a combination of two different entities. Anyways, damn, I'm good. Anyways, let's move it on. My champion, I, look.
01:20:20
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I agree with you, Mark. With defending champions, if it's not – the old adage is if it ain't broke, don't fix it, right? Unless there's some sort of injury that causes you to change your team drastically or some sort of makeover like the Celtics had to do with Tatum, you don't change it then. You just keep running that if you win a championship until you don't win any more championships.
01:20:40
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Don't do anything. Keep your team as is. If you can stay healthy, Holton Grin already had his injury, hopefully – SGA does not get any injuries. You got to go with OKC in the West. And in the East, I can't believe I'm doing it.
01:20:54
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I hate every fiber of my being, every every cell in my body I'm hating right now, that I am about to let the words New York Knickerbockers come out of my mouth.
01:21:12
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And saying that they're going to the championship, I believe, second year. You got Bridges. You got Towns. You got Brunson. They were this close.
01:21:25
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There's no Indiana. There's no Boston. Cleveland's there, but I don't believe in Cleveland. They don't ever get over the hump every year. They do the same crap. i'm I'm being high-take Jake right now and joining Chantene, the New York Knicks.
01:21:41
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will make the championship. And I say that because it also, as Marv puts his head down in disbelief, also brings me full, great, and utter joy to then announce that the Oklahoma City Thunder will sweep the New York Knicks and I will be laughing all the way to an OKC.
01:22:02
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Oh, so you just set them up to let them down. Come on, man. Yeah, that is so crazy. You're going to let them get sweet brain of booms out, huh? in the sweep, not even a gentleman's sweep, just a sweep.
01:22:14
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A straight sweep would be so disrespectful to all that. know. I'll give him a gentleman's sweep. That's fine. No, no, no. Keep it. That's funny. I love it. That's all
NCAA Tournament Expansion Debate
01:22:25
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right.
01:22:25
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All right. Well, that's your NBA picks on the year. Thank you, gentlemen, for indulging me that in that really early, early, early predictions. um Oler Knights, shout out for tuning in, says, as a barber, I love this show. It's every stage of beard growing.
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01:22:55
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01:23:12
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All right, cool. Let's move it in. ah let Hold on. Let me make sure I didn't have any other... I think I had one more non-sporting. Oh, that's what it was.
01:23:26
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College basketball tournament expansion. So they talked about expanding the NCAA March Madness, going from the current 68 teams and possibly going to 77.
01:23:38
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teams. This was shot down, but they are saying that it could be brought up as early as next year. Kanteen, we're going to start with you on this one.
01:23:49
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How do you feel about expanding the NCAA March Madness Tournament? now leave it Leave it like it is, man. I know objection. I like what they currently have. You know, you're from the 64, 32, and they keep the one down until you get to the Elite Eight. 316, Elite Eight, Final Four.
01:24:07
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Don't make any changes. If you make it, you make it. If you don't, you don't. no need ticks no need no need to fit no need to basic no no No need to fix anything that's not broken, in my and my words guys so aint broke don't fix it don yeah i mean
01:24:24
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It's one of those crazy things where it's like, oh, man, we moved it from 64 to 68 because then I felt like it wasn't enough. So now you're like, oh, man, let's move it from 68 72 76. 76, yeah.
01:24:36
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ah seventy six You know what i'm saying? And so it's like, man, is it's is even with the college football playoff. They just started the college football playoff. Ah, 4-8-5. Move it to 12.
01:24:48
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ah You know, so it's like, man, you don't know where we where the line is on on what is enough to say who deserves to get in or not to battle for championship and all the down.
01:25:00
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It's making it longer for them to obviously, you know, ah they're still making good money on all these ah TV rights and having a long-ass season. So they still get, ah you know, all the sponsorships and the and the money that's flowing through all this shit. So, look,
01:25:23
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whatever they feel it is necessary to keep money grabbing, whatever. Yeah. see that you I mean, you're exactly right. now It's all of this. The college football playoffs. It's all about getting more media rights. it's all about getting more money. Hey, look, sports is the biggest thing in the world when it comes to making money on TV because everybody likes sports.
01:25:44
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Even if you don't like sports, you probably like some sport. You like gymnastics. You like dance. You like something. There's some sort of sport that everyone at least likes, even if you are not a sporting fan per se.
01:25:55
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So making money off of sports is only going to continue to go fist over hand and hand over fist for trillions and trillions of dollars into the future. So we can't expect that this is not going to happen. And if you're going to do it, then fine.
01:26:07
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If you're going to do it off the fact of, oh, everybody deserves a chance to be in, then fine, whatever. a little Just go to all 128 damn college teams or 118, whatever it is.
01:26:17
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Let everybody in. Let them play it out. Whatever. Who cares? But... All you're doing is making it longer and diluting it for the sake of more money. Am I going to watch the games? Of course, because that's all what I do during March Madness is I watch the basketball games. So will i watch, ah you know, Willard Academy versus Montenegro U?
01:26:41
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Yeah, I probably would, even though they're both high school teams. I don't know why I named them in college. But the fact remains that, look, y'all, it is a money grab, as Mar said.
01:26:52
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It's just to see how much more we can extort out of these kids that we didn't want to pay forever, and now we're still having problems paying, even though we're making billions, trillions off of this.
01:27:04
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I agree. Keep it the way it is. If it's not broke, don't fix it, but they're going to do it anyways. Anyway.
01:27:11
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Just like with the super conferences. It's going to end being two 32-inch conferences. Just get it over with. Just do it now. Correct. We're going do it. Right. All right. A couple other basketball stories I did forget about before I want to move into And we're going to football right now, so y'all don't worry. Don't worry.
01:27:27
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the The good part's coming. NFL's coming. But a couple controversial stories in the NBA I really wanted to get your takes on. First of all, the one I talked about earlier, Daryl Morey came out earlier this week talking about the Lakers bubble championship, and this is his quote.
01:27:46
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He says, Everyone I speak to around the league privately agrees it doesn't truly hold up as a genuine championship. Perhaps the lasting legacy of the and NBA bubble is that the NBA should be proud of its leadership through the pandemic and that even though the champion will forever be marked by an asterisk.
01:28:10
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Wow. Hugely, hugely strong words from one of the most prominent GMs. In the NBA, this was met with a lot of vitriol, a lot of hate in terms of why would you even think that that would be necessary to to state. A lot of people saying, as I mentioned earlier, kind of they had to play all in the same conditions sort of things. But You know me.
01:28:36
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I am massive Laker hater. I do believe the bubble championship does deserve an asterisk. I don't believe Mar has ever heard me say that because I used just say to Jake, but I do believe so.
01:28:47
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I don't care that they all had to play in the same conditions. It was a totally bogus setup, playoffs in front of no fans, no atmosphere. it just To me, it just did not – bring the same standard of NBA championship. And I'm and i'm trying to keep talking because I see Mar ready to erupt like a Dragon Ball Z character on my ass right now. So Mar, No, no, Um...
01:29:16
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no no no um and contrary to a popular belief, I've always been kind of one of the Laker fans that get ah shunned because I was like, man, and that championship was so ah phony.
01:29:31
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Oh, yes!
01:29:35
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Well, no, because, I mean, it look, ah we're talking about a ah ah fragile AD got to rest for three months. We're talking about 34 at that point. I think LeBron was 34, 35.
01:29:48
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ah You know, Mallet's crazy on his legs and he gets to rest for three months. Like, that's an offseason. They got to have an offseason in the middle of the season. And, like, I get it. It's...
01:30:02
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Everybody had the same time off, but for me, like time off affects different people and for different reasons. And with LeBron being that having that much mileage on his body, ah that time off does him wonders compared to somebody else. You're just a woman with a small brain, brain a third the size of us.
01:30:27
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I mean, you know... AD who's fragile, having time off, not putting him in, in you know, physical contact so he's not getting hurt.
01:30:40
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Like that affects his body totally different from others. So that's how I always felt about it. And wow, I didn't know there were realistic Laker fans in this world. I thought you were all out of your mind.
01:30:54
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No, and and people always say, oh, well, it's because you don't like LeBron. and No, I'm not a big LeBron fan, but I'm just looking at this from a basketball and just a real point of view. like just like um' i I think I'm looking at it from real common sense lens. That's what I think I am.
01:31:12
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And some people, oh, you're hating me. I'm like, i don't know. It's like...
01:31:20
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I just look at it so different. like it just Wow. That makes sense to me. that ah you know For Darryl Moore to say it, i i i I'm a fan.
01:31:31
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I'm just talking like barbershop talk. I couldn't say that. I got the podcast and the platform to do that, and that's what I do. But for him to say that and kind of talk from the point of view from a fan that, that to me, I thought that was kind of awkward because I mean, if we keep it in a buck as a GM, what, what championships have, have you,
01:31:55
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and And you have a direct line to affect how to get to a championship as a GM. The direct line. I'm just saying, are we really having that conversation? So you feel it was em but in poor taste that it came from him versus, you know.
01:32:11
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Certain messages shouldn't come from certain messengers. Ooh, I like that. Yes. Great point. Okay. Speaking of. Hold on I guess he even though we were free, we were still slaves. Tell them, come on in. We've been waiting on them all night.
01:32:31
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Missy! Missy!
01:32:36
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la Will always and forever be one of my favorite movies of all time. Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood. Just a tremendous, tremendous movie. That was a good movie, bro.
01:32:48
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That was wild. i love it. All right, cool. So just wanted to get your thoughts on that. Canteen, I've never heard a Lakers fan admit that the bubble championship is asterisk worthy. What do you think, my friend?
01:33:03
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By soon a booty juice in your body. the booty juice championship of the world. No, no, no, no. But listen, man. Oh, you're saying he's booty juice for saying that. No, no, no, no, no. no I'm just saying i'm just saying the whole the whole thing with the whole championship, man. We had to adjust to a different norm.
01:33:19
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Even though football season, basketball, all all that stuff, you cannot enjoy a game without all the crowd antics and all the people pushing the game up and down the floor, the duration of the basketball game.
01:33:30
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right I wish you could get... out I thought you was bringing Jake on a few minutes ago. That's why I was getting all excited when you kept seeing all this other stuff. But here's the thing. wish. Man, I thought Jake was come on. But Jake jake jake is hype about that championship.
01:33:45
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He's little bit of a lover. He's all into all the madness and stuff. But hey... I don't even they should have have a championship that year. I think they should have just said, whoever won, they would conference and then just kind of put a null and void for a championship and moved on. But there was nothing that we could just just say, hey, man, the Lakers did. ah There wasn't.
01:34:08
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Right. Yeah. I agree. Okay. right, cool. Well, no, I mean, that makes sense. I understand that opinion completely. i I already told you i feel the way that I feel, I feel that it was just a different environment, and I didn't even take into account what Mark said, which even makes my argument sound more balluted or more valid, is the fact that they had so much rest in between time and how that can help old people especially, and injury-prone people especially, you know i mean?
01:34:37
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Speaking of old people, someone who just had to wake up to use the bathroom in the morning, Flores chilly checking in from overseas. What's up, bro? That's crazy. What does that mean? Because I said the old man got to get up and use the bathroom. Hey, shout out, Flores. We'll see you.
01:34:53
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Thank you for defending this country. Moving on. All right, cool. Let's keep it moving into another basketball story really quick.
Gilbert Arenas and NFL CTE Discussion
01:35:01
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Gilbert Arenas was arrested and charged with running an illegal gambling business out of his rented mansion.
01:35:09
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He denies that he was released on bond after he pleaded not guilty. He says he only owned or rented the home out for these poker games, these illegal poker games that were held from September 21st. 21 through July 2022 at an Encino, California mansion. He says that he collected rent through an intermediary while others played games, but he said that he did not actually participate. Obviously, we do not know that to be true, but the allegations also had pictures of
01:35:43
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Actually, know what? I just got to show you this because it's hilarious. message He's like, hey, look, I didn't have any part of this. I'm not involved in any of this.
01:35:55
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Yet, here's the pictures that the cops took of the poker table at Arena's Poker Club. Sir. Sir. money sir Your name, your jersey, your number. You ain't know nothing about this.
01:36:13
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You ain't know nothing about this. Okay. All right. Hey, Gil, Agent Zero, you know i love you, brother. We're from D.C. You know i love you. That's crazy, bro.
01:36:25
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Mar. No, that's crazy, bro. What are your thoughts on this situation, Mar? What you think about this? Illegal That's it. nothing to do with none of this. Put my name on everything, bro. but Hey Gil funny bro, he, you know you know, his content reflects his wild and crazy antics.
01:36:47
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Another one of them. ah You know, it it doesn't move me but he just, you know, I just laugh at it because I'm like, hey, here's Gil with Arenas making me laugh again because he's being goofy.
01:37:01
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so A complete fool, goofy. I can't see him, your thoughts? Hey, man, same thing with Gilbert Arenas, but if you look at Marcus Morris, guy that played formerly for the Cleveland Cavs, he had about $265,000 in the hole two at two Las Vegas resorts.
01:37:17
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Same thing, man. He was on ESPN, talking up there, you know doing his thing on ESPN and all that stuff. we be done what you He paid it back. Here's the thing with Gilbert Arenas, man.
01:37:29
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Man, bro, like you said, more money, more problems. These guys find themselves in situations and circumstances where they become frivolous, like Shannon Sharp.
01:37:40
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i mean, what do you do, man I mean, I'll say this, guys, and I'm talking all three of us. We're all men here. We all got advice, whether we drink, smoke, we gamble. Everybody has advice. You just have to know how to be able to have limits and boundaries and parameters around whatever you do.
01:37:58
Speaker
And I think Gilbert Arenas, Marcus, these guys, they lose sight, even Sharp. Sharp, you can get any woman in the world. Why would you get whole... don't even want to say it. don't even want to say it.
01:38:11
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Because I'm trying to hold my tongue. You feel what I'm saying? I'll see you. see All right. Yeah, I mean, look, if you're running a if you're, if you have a gambling ring allegedly being run out of a house that you own and the pictures come out that they're playing on a table with your, i don't know what else to think, brother. And I always defend you.
01:38:32
Speaker
i wish I always cape for you. So I hope you can somehow prove that you didn't know anything about it, but that's pretty hard to to fathom that you'll be able to do that with with with the evidence that came out. of Your name on the table. Because I don't want you to get trouble, but it seems like trouble fighting you.
01:38:49
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But it seems like you'll find me. who Moving to the AFL. This is what you came for. The AFL is about to start. It is a glorious day.
01:39:00
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Football will be back starting in three weeks. Before we get to that, I do want to bring up a sort of serious subject, though.
01:39:12
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um i was going to wait till last but i kind of want to end on a high note and i feel like this is something that might be a little more important to be talked to talked about the beginning CTE is something we're dealing with in NFL, something we're dealing with in a lot of sports where you deal with hits to the head, but it most especially NFL.
01:39:30
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We've seen people succumb to this. People, Junior Seau, most famously committing suicide due to the mental health issues and things and things that this causes with your brain and things like that. Recently, last week, a gunman approached the NFL headquarters and shot a bunch of people and said, ah four people, and said that it was due to CTE, which he believed is obviously caused through football. Now, he he was an ex-NFL player. He didn't really replay. He was kind of like practice squad, kind of those sorts of things, kind of fringe player.
01:40:08
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But he obviously attributed a lot of the mental health things that he was dealing with, whatever, to CTE. which is the the brain degenerative disease that happens with multiple hits to the head. And again, this ended up not only just causing someone their life, like we mentioned with Junior Seau, or it was even worse.
01:40:30
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It was like an Aaron Hernandez type. Aaron Hernandez dealt with that and went on to commit multiple homicides. So Anteen, I'm going to start with you on this one.
01:40:42
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How do you feel about the CTE and how that... how we're making progress, if at all. We have the new helmets that are bigger, right, to try to protect from sorts of things, but yet we still have a lot of people out there that are dealing with these symptoms.
01:40:56
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Man, I think with the helmets, with all the preventive measures, different things in place, I think the NFL is moving into a good direction. But I think that NFL, need they need to you know put in place different other preventive measures.
01:41:10
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Man, other resources. Have somebody that you can go talk to, somebody that you can seek out. Different things to mitigate some of the big problems that happen day-to-day on and on with organizations, man.
01:41:23
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I mean, I mean, I don't i don't know if Wild Card Benson military, but i know you're Air Force vet. I'm an Army vet. There are preventive measures. There are things in place that you can go seek out and get these resources and get this help that you need.
01:41:35
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Same thing with NFL. These guys go through all these different injuries, these different things with the head and different things of that nature. But have other measures in place for them beyond that stuff. But just have...
01:41:48
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Maybe you want to talk to someone. Maybe you need to seek out something and have that in place on all the different teams. All the teams, man. yeah um what you thought Yeah, I hey can't hit it on the head, man. it You know, i being proactive and coming up with measures, um obviously we don't know the full extent of CTE, but the fact that now that the lid's been kind of kicked over on it, and, you know, that's something that we ah are for.
01:42:22
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are now speaking of as as just fans. it It shows you how um it's it's, to me, it shows the importance of it and why the NFL needs to be more, and and more importantly, the NFL PA needs to be more aggressive when it comes to these CBAs about making sure that we talk about these things when it comes to CTA and having to make sure that you have the resources, um you know,
01:42:51
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Because, unfortunately, you know, the measures right now, guardian caps, helmets, and it can only do so much. It's still a violent sport. so um But take care taking care of these players health-wise, insurance, health care, post-career, that's where I think it it needs to be more focused. Yeah.
01:43:17
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post career of these players um because it's more like even if um even if they only had a ah you know a practice squad and extent, ah you know, who cares?
01:43:30
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a You know, if you know sound like this guy in New York, like you said, a French player. So you probably never seen it down on a Sunday. or Thursday, or Monday, but you don't we don't know if well what happened, how his brain got rattled, right you know, practicing.
01:43:49
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You know, it's still a violent sport. You know, there's not a such thing of, you know, practicing half-ass in football. That's how you get hurt. Right, right.
01:44:00
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So, um especially if you never played football, it's kind of hard for a lot of people to really understand that you've got to play this game, like practice how you play. So, yeah, man, it's tough.
01:44:13
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But they got to take care of these players post-career. Yeah, they they they they have to and they've needed to for a long time. And counterpoint, they give a fuck. Because if you did, they would have fixed it a long time ago.
01:44:25
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um Guardian helmets, like you said, that it can only do so much. You're still getting hit in the head. You're still having these off-season practices. Yeah, a lot of them now are at least um you know non-padded, but still, you're still having them.
01:44:37
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And you want to add an 18th game. Well, then shit, give me two preseason games off because all you're doing is causing even more and more violent hits to the head when you're adding a regular season game.
01:44:48
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You can't come up to me with this bullshit of player safety when you're sitting here not actually instituting things that might actually protect player safety. And that includes not just helmets, but also, as was mentioned before, supportive resources so that when people are having concussions, they don't feel...
01:45:08
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pressure to play or they may lose their spot or also that they can go talk to somebody if they are feeling some type of way because of hits, too many hits to the head and things like that that everybody else has said. So you just got to better NFL.
01:45:20
Speaker
Obviously, this has been going on for too long. If we're talking about it from Junior Seau back in 2000 to 25 years ago. twenty five years ago We should have been a lot more further along within progress of of of solving or at least mitigating, as Ken said, these these sorts of things from happening or at least preventing it as much as possible.
01:45:40
Speaker
All right, cool. Let's actually move it into the NFL then and get you out of here. Look, y'all, i'm not gonna we're not going to go over a whole NFL preview preview because Mar and I did two hours of this last night.
01:45:52
Speaker
So if you want, I'm not stepping on his show. Y'all go to IOW Sports Network. You go to Wild Card Mark, or you can even go to Ball and Buds as I hosted it on my channel
NFL Power Rankings and Championship Predictions
01:46:01
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there. You can watch the show last night where we covered all NFL. So we are just going to keep it to about 10 minutes here just to end off your night, round you off, and get out of here for the night.
01:46:13
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NFL football coming up. Obviously, we have our favorite teams, but let me give you the rankings. This is per the athletic as well, and this was, just to let you know, pre-training camp power rankings. So this was two weeks ago.
01:46:27
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This doesn't take into account all the injuries that happened in the past couple weeks, but... Philadelphia Eagles, number one. Baltimore Ravens, number two. Buffalo Bills, number three. Mars Kansas City Chiefs, number four. Green Bay Packers, number five.
01:46:41
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D.C. Commanders, number six. Detroit Lions, number seven. Houston Texans, number eight. Los Angeles Rams, number nine. And the Minnesota Vikings at number ten. Again, from two weeks ago, you're pre- training camp rankings.
01:46:56
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What are our thoughts on this canteen? We're going to start with you. What are your thoughts on the football season? Guys, I'm excited. I'm ready for things you go to go kick off.
01:47:08
Speaker
I mean, at this point, i mean, we see we've seen a few preseason games, how they, you know, played out, what have you, blase blase, but now it's time to get down to the brick and mortar, and I'm ready for week one of football, guys. Here's the thing.
01:47:23
Speaker
I have no objections with the projections per the athletic at this point in the season. here Here are my only qualms with whole football season. I think this is a year – that And i'm going I'm going to come off cusp, the Dallas Cowboys and Dak Prescott got prove themselves.
01:47:40
Speaker
ne ne net Nothing against anybody or anything, but you paid this guy all the time. Oh, breaking news there. Thanks a lot, man. Listen, say listen. I didn't know that. That's every year. Dak Prescott got a lot to prove, man. You pay this guy like he paid this guy X amount of dollars, and you got the Michael Parsons garbage going on. What do you think about that? What do you think about Jerry Jones not paying Michael Parsons, Canteen? We talked about this yesterday.
01:48:02
Speaker
He's an idiot, man. We go through the same stuff season after season after season. Me and Flores had a whole controversy. Flores kept saying, oh, your your your team live your team lives rent-free in my head. I'm like, Flo, y'all do the same thing year after year after year after year. What have you proved?
01:48:21
Speaker
What have proved? They can make some money. That's it. And Jerry's thinking about his pocket and thinking about what's best for him, but you got a guy reporting to training camp. You didn't sign him.
01:48:33
Speaker
You didn't sign him. he He showed him. He proved himself. You got another receiver. But what about your quarterback? What about your whole situation and then the whole 30-year thing? Here's the thing. Here's what going to say about the whole NFL thing. I'm going to be done with it.
01:48:45
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This is what I think. Nothing against Wild Card more than his Kansas City Chiefs. I think this year you guys just and just nip it in the bud, Wild Card.
01:48:57
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If the Buffalo Bills do not go past the AFC Championship, have no problem with them. like okay let Are you saying the Chiefs are what? They're not going to make the playoffs? Is that what you're saying? Oh, they'll make the playoffs. They'll make the playoffs. They'll win the division. They'll make the playoffs.
01:49:13
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i think i I think out of that division, I think Denver will be a wild card. Hear me out. Hear me out. Hot take you should have been here. Should have been here. This is the year that the Buffalo Bills must prove themselves, man.
01:49:26
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There's no way Josh Allen keeps doing this thing year in, year out, year in, year out. And I'm going to give you a crazy take from the NFC.
01:49:35
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I think the commanders jump over the threshold, fellas. yeah The commanders in the championship? Yes, sir. Is that to win the championship or to go to the championship?
01:49:46
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It's going to commanders and the Buffalo Bills. a And the commanders are going win? No, Bill's going to win Bill's. All right. So what you're saying is you're taking the Buffalo Bills in a revenge game from the 1990, what was that?
01:50:05
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1993 Super Bowl?
01:50:09
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Where the skins beat the beat the Bills? Yeah. It was one of the four they lost. One of the four of those years that they lost four in a row. Mar, what you got? I know we talked a lot about this last night. What you got? And by the way, if you have any storylines or anything you want to talk about as well, because Canteen, I know you forgot. Oh, I forgot.
01:50:32
Speaker
You forgot Shadur Sanders. Yes, you did. We'll come right back to it. yeah Yeah, for sure, bro. No, I'm going to keep it simple, man. They're about to run that Super Bowl back, in and Patrick Mahomes is about to get revenge.
01:50:48
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Wow! Woo! Philly philli is too damn good. They draft too damn good. i a They know when to move off of players. Thank you, CJ Garnett Johnson. Yeah, get the hell out of here.
01:51:01
Speaker
Thank you. So they know when to move off of players, too. So, so ah They want to get back. Obviously, Philly wanted to get the revenge on the Chiefs for the last award because they felt that it was unfair even though they played on the same field.
01:51:17
Speaker
So now that the Chiefs got that embarrassment, ah they trust me, ah they want to get Philly again and they want to win it. and and and go back up on the scoreboard So they're going to run it back.
01:51:32
Speaker
el But, hey, the good guy is taking it home. Patrick Mahomes, he's bringing it back. He's bringing it home. Y'all done pissed him off. He got Air Force One, Black Air Force One energy right now.
01:51:48
Speaker
He's hearing all the noise. And he's soaking it in. I'm trying to tell you. He's like, okay, y'all keep ranking me. Pass, not number one. I'm going to get you. Is that black Air Force One energy akin to maybe an RG3 black Air Force One? No, no, no, no, no. richard First of all, RG3 don't even look like he'd never wear black fair Air Force He don't look like that. He don't look the part.
01:52:17
Speaker
but now ah You knew where i was going with it. All right. I'm just messing with you, RG3. You know you're from D.C., so I like it. Let's go. i Probably not even actually from D.C., but he represented D.C. with the – you know what I mean. Anyways.
01:52:28
Speaker
All right. I'm actually – look, Amara, I said this to you on your program last night as we went through our picks yesterday. I agree with you. Philadelphia is just the the the best team in the NFC.
01:52:39
Speaker
They keep, as you said, you know switching players out. We talked last night about all the players they lost, but then how they just drafted and replaced them with all these good talents, Jalen Carter, Cooper DeGene, all these other ones.
01:52:52
Speaker
So Philadelphia, I can't see any team that would – the only other team that I can think of, and this was the other team that I had there that I thought about, okay, I kind of want to put them – and now that I'm thinking about,
01:53:04
Speaker
I might actually just put them up there. o You know what? changing my mind. I'm changing my mind. The Detroit Lions, the Detroit Lions having to replace coordinators and everything will get revenge on the DC commanders and go to the championship for the NFC to play.
01:53:30
Speaker
I know Canteen's looking at me all crazy. I didn't want to go with the Eagles again. I just feel like that's just been picked too many times. So I'm going to go with the Lions. And they're going to play against the team that I picked last year that didn't go because, again, had two teams in mind, and these are the teams I picked the last two years. I picked Buffalo two years ago on the bottom line sports. I picked Baltimore last year.
01:53:50
Speaker
I am going with Baltimore again this year because at some point he's running over the hump and Lamar Jackson has to win that championship. I am going with the Baltimore Ravens over the Detroit Lions for the NFL championship. Imagine he gets a ring before Josh Allen. People are going to go, Abe shit, bro. I mean, he should. He got two MVPs before Josh Allen got his team.
01:54:15
Speaker
Lamar Jackson's a better quarterback. I don't understand what we're – there's not even – look, Josh Allen a great quarterback. Awesome. Amazing. He's not Lamar Jackson. He's just not. He's not as fast as him.
01:54:26
Speaker
he's not I mean, there there there are accuracy. of I mean, I guess depending on what you're talking about, long passes, Josh Allen, short passes, intermediate passes, Lamar Jackson. You know, but it's like, just give me Lamar Jackson all day.
01:54:42
Speaker
Anyways, all right, well, let speaking of Lamar Jackson, let's talk about another quarterback in that veil before we get you out of here. I know this is something canteen really wanted to talk about, so this will be our last subject of the night. Shador Sanders, and Mar and I talked about this on his program yesterday yesterday of the late night, amo and how Mel Kuyper went off justifiably so.
01:55:01
Speaker
Shador Sanders was ignorantly... um irreprehensibly, abhorrently drafted in the fifth round and passed over by so many teams that needed quarterbacks, including my bum-ass readers that should have drafted him in the second round.
01:55:20
Speaker
It's a complete abomination that he even lasted that long, and we all know really what it's about. We don't really have to say the R word, but we know that that's also involved in when you talk about how flashy he is or how he felt about his way coming into meetings and things like that. A lot these things are code words.
01:55:38
Speaker
A lot of these things are buzzwords. And a lot of these things they said was to pay him or punish him for his flashiness or for his personality or for his outgoing demeanor.
01:55:51
Speaker
um And it's one thing to punish someone because they don't come prepared to meetings. If that's the case, if he wasn't coming prepared to your meeting and you felt like that's why you wanted to downgrade him, fine.
01:56:02
Speaker
I can completely agree with you. That's fine. But if you're doing it on any any other pretenses or any other basis, then you are the one that is wrong. And unfortunately, it does happen too much in sports and in life in general.
01:56:15
Speaker
So anyways, enough about that. We're not going to get in the um about any kind of injustices and in in America because I could go on all day. Kanteen, this is the one you wanted to talk about. How do you feel about Shadoula? do you feel about his first preseason game? What do you see him doing this season?
01:56:33
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right, man. So for me, man, Shaduah Sanders, I think he threw for 138 yards, 60 yards, 60% passing. think 14 for something of that nature, man. But here's the thing about the whole situation, man.
01:56:44
Speaker
There were a lot of – the thing that really hurt me or got to me the most was – Look at New Orleans, who they drafted. New Orleans drafted this kid, Tyler Shlope, whatever his name.
01:56:56
Speaker
Then New York, they drafted Jackson Dart. And then Ward went on the board first. On his own damn team, he got picked after Dylan Gabriel.
01:57:08
Speaker
Dylan Gabriel Oregon. Oregon ain't even really getting that spectacular. But we are, like as as you mentioned before, and we already know what's going on with the whole thing with his father and all this stuff.
01:57:19
Speaker
You can really can't change who a person is. A person is going to be who they are, their characteristics, their traits, their qualities, all these different things like that. The kid is decent. He should have went off the board. Hell, Pittsburgh should have got him.
01:57:31
Speaker
Pittsburgh should have got him. New Orleans should have got him. Your team should have got him. But your team ended up getting Geno Smith and paid him all this money and yada, yada, ya and got Pete Carroll. But here's here's the thing. That's even more reason why you drafted your door and let him sit behind Geno Smith for a couple years and then let him start.
01:57:48
Speaker
fama That would be too logical. I'm sorry. says my brother Here's the thing, man. but really What really got me on edge was this right here. Everybody's talking about his preseason, preseason, but nobody's playing their starters like three and four series in a game.
01:58:02
Speaker
This guy went out, came to Carolina, showed up, showed up, put up numbers, did he was supposed to do. But then on the depth chart, Flack was still one. Kenny Peek is still two.
01:58:14
Speaker
Dylan Gabriel still three. Shadour is at four. Both of these guys are questionable. Then today Shadour had an injury or whatever, so we don't know. Here's all I'm going to say at the end of the day. The signs of the time will show guys at least about week four, week five, were some of the teams that had an opportunity to pull this kid off the board. Off the board.
01:58:35
Speaker
You passed him. Bro, you can't tell me what's different between him and Jackson Dart. And then the Giants want to go get him. They got Jackson Dart. They got Jameis Winston. They got Russell.
01:58:51
Speaker
Russell, make it make sense to me. we I mean, we know. All three of us. The professor no wild i know, know, we all know. Give me the five and we'll see we thing who's really doing all the talking.
01:59:05
Speaker
They're going to start Flacco. Yeah, we we know for sure, and because I know how well Mar knows and how astutely he put it last night on his program, I'm going to let Mar take us out with the last thoughts on this on this one because he's i I agree with him.
01:59:21
Speaker
I'm good on the fellas. So, Mar, what you got for the people? I mean, it's –
01:59:29
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they they They hate things that i are different. And point, at the end of the day, Shador is confident in himself. He knows who he is.
01:59:41
Speaker
He's coming from a father that has raised him to be confident in your abilities. And in the the but confidence is backed up with the play. He's always backed it up with the play.
01:59:54
Speaker
um We know he should have been a first-rounder. hey They want to, quote-unquote, humble him because you didn't do things that we're comfortable doing from a quarterback perspective.
02:00:07
Speaker
Yeah. You coming in. Shador, Travis Hunter, some of these guys are kind of some of the new leaders of the NIL team. oh kind of guinea pigs now coming to the NFL.
02:00:22
Speaker
Right. If we really put it into perspective, they're kind of like the guinea pigs at NIL where was kind of like brand, brand yourself, brand yourself. They made all this money um and they don't, if we're being frank, they' they're probably making, they've already made a good chump of change that this little rookie dude that I'm getting ain't even shit for being a little fifth rounder, man. Right, right. little check.
02:00:48
Speaker
um so And all the money they're going to make off of him once he does become the starter and they get endorsements and sponsors, they're going to be making the money off him. I'm pretty sure he's getting a ah good little ah jersey sale check right now because his jersey sale.
02:01:02
Speaker
He has the most jersey sales right now. Right now. Why off the shelf? Because the fans know exactly what Marcey is right now. Because the guy can play, all right? They know it.
02:01:15
Speaker
And, i look, I don't know why Cleveland is trying to make this a circus. They're not even on that same tier to even entertain anybody worth a damn to try to think that they're cowboys. They don't even have this kind of circus to even go on. But regardless, here we are.
02:01:35
Speaker
Yeah. Look, they better capitalize on it and they start building around him. um But we've seen him kind of, you know, play with not so great offensive line and in and still make shit happen. So, Chedot is going to be going to fine.
02:01:51
Speaker
It's for everybody else to get comfortable with his style of... quote unquote, what a quarterback should and shouldn't do. Right, right. So he's going to do it his way and he should because it's worked for him getting here and ain't no chance of changing nothing now. so Yeah, I mean, yeah stick with what got you to to to the promised land.
02:02:17
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