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NBA & NHL Conference Finals + MLB Standings + NFL Rule Changes (The Bottom Line Sports Show #165)
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Sports Professor @BALLandBUDS RETIRES from @TheBottomLineSports Show!
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The Bottom Line Sports #165 ft. Stat Man CAN, Hot Take JAKE & SPORTS PROFESSOR
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Introduction and Show Comeback
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Bottom line, sports show, master plan, flow, can't cheat, and no, I take, Jake, O's show, more professor knows when, alley-oop, jammin', ten toes, never fold out to win, them boys want better, and.
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Let's go, let's go, three, pro, three, pro, three, pro, bottom line, flow, can't cheat, hot, take, Jake, and O's, sports professor, you know, you know which.
00:00:31
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Street professor back again, it's game time. A la playa, no playtime, it's play-out. Cause we ain't talking about practice like A-I. Sports professors spit the best takes out like A-I. Awfully intelligent air, I can't write mine.
00:00:43
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Rhyme sighting your girls DMs like Messi after the goal time. That was a triple entendre, did you catch me rambling? Lubin's a mobile, we the bottom line champion. I need my hands. This time is real.
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Touch, touch, touch.
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Bottom line, flow, canteen, hot take, Jake and O. Sports professor, you know, you know. Yo, street professor, I'm back, baby, like I never left.
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Bottom line, flow, canteen, hot take, Jake and O.
00:01:30
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Yeah, yo, yo, yo. What up, friends? You know who it is. Bottom line sports back in the house after six long weeks off. Probably the longest it's been since y'all have seen us in a minute. That's why we had to hit you with the long...
00:01:50
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intro the classic intro that we used to use before we remixed it up uh we did have to hit that uh give you some nostalgia how'd you feel about that nostalgia of my brother canteen bro it's been a while man it's been a while man um hey but we back bro got a lot a lot of sports talk about a lot to catch up on a lot of things to kind of lay out on the table today omar a lot of things to kind of just divulge But hey, it is what it is, as we discussed earlier, man.
00:02:21
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Yeah, my friend, you aren't telling any lies
Social Media and Community Engagement
00:02:24
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right now. We will discuss all of the current sporting events going on. Obviously, we will talk NBA, NHL, conference finals, give you update there. We'll give you a little bit of baseball as well. We'll give you the sports professor's mixed bag, and as well, we'll have hot take Jake hopefully joining us. Fingers crossed.
00:02:43
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He's at work. He said going to to take lunch and jump on to give us his hottest take of the weekend as well. uh yeah i mean as as uh as canteen so astutely i know he likes that when i when i use that word as canteen so astutely put it uh i'm gonna talk about some things today we're gonna talk about why is it that uh the bottom line sports has uh been gone for so long and uh and and we're going to
00:03:16
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delve into everything because obviously there's a time and a place for that. But we will give you a little bit of background and if you want to know more, I'm going to do my own special on it later on down the road and I'll ah give everybody a time and place when I decide I'm going to do that. But the truth will eventually be told. I just don't believe right now is the time and place.
00:03:36
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This is a joyous event to get back together with my brother Canteen. Hopefully Jake can join us soon. Yep. ah And alsoly also, hopefully I show up on my Facebook here in a second. Yes, there we are. We are on my Facebook canteen. Go ahead and jump on my page, please.
00:03:53
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Grab that video and share it to the Bottom Line Sports. And as well, you can share it to Flo's page if you want to since it's not going to his page. Yeah, I got you, man. All right, cool.
00:04:04
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Well, now that we got all of that out the way, make sure that you are ah subscribed. Tap in with the Final Say Pod. yeah pod Make sure you tap in with Ball and Buds. You can see that QR code up there at the top. It'll take you all the Ball and Buds social media, including the Bottom Line Sports Facebook page that you can join as well for sports news and trash Talk.
00:04:29
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All right. Cool. Well, let's get into it and start. Kick this bad boy off here with a little bit of NBA talk. So we got the conference finals going on right now, Canteen. a little bit of conference finals action. You keep doing that. I'm going to get everybody caught up to where we are. So...
00:04:47
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in the they'll start In the Western Conference, and then we'll
NBA Playoffs Analysis
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actually get into some analysis. In the Western Conference, we have the Oklahoma City Thunder, young, talented, SGA, the MVP, leading them. Chet Holmgren, they got a good young squad. Lugens Dortz, their defensive, should be in my if I was voting defensive player of the year.
00:05:09
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ah Jalen Williams, so great young squad going up against you know a tough rules team. Now, obviously, they haven't been as tough in this series as they usually are, but led by Ant-Man Anthony. Anthony Edwards. He's a beast.
00:05:23
Speaker
You got Rudy Gobert there. You got Julius Randle. You got Dante DiVincenzo. You got all these other players, and we'll talk about The dichotomy that happened there with that trade with them in the Knicks. But this it is debated whether they are even as good as the conference finals team that they had last year.
00:05:44
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So what has happened so far was the Oklahoma City Thunder actually went up to nothing. early, ah just dismantling the Wolves. Then the Wolves came back and blew, blowed out the Thunder by 42 points in game three. But now the Thunder have won to go up three games to one in the East. Canty, were you able to share our video? Yes, sir.
00:06:10
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yeah got i Yeah, I it. All right. And all right, then since you've done that before we go to the East, we'll just start there then.
00:06:20
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What have been your thoughts thus far on the Oklahoma City Thunder taking a 3-1 lead over the Minnesota Timberwolves? So my my whole take on the the whole of the whole Oklahoma thunder oklama City Thunder, man, they've been so, so consistent, man. Shea Yildress, he's been really, really consistent, the entire team. And they have they have they've had a great defensive scheme. They brought their entire ah total package.
00:06:43
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I think that Minnesota has depended heavily on Anthony Edwards' Ant-Man. I think that Rudy Gobert showed up, and I think it was game two. Rudy Gobert played one of his best games. and james way Yeah, 20 points. Julius Randle has played pretty consistent.
00:06:59
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But here's the thing. I think, and I'm just going to project this tonight. I think that if Minnesota can put their best foot forward tonight, Swartz Professor, I think it'll be interesting. But like I said, they lose tonight, then it's all over, man. But you have to have a complete team when it comes to the playoffs. And then I think that OKC, they end up beating the Nuggets, correct?
00:07:24
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yeah you To me, that was the West that was the west that was the west Coast Championship. right Okay, so that was your Western Conference Finals. That was the Western Conference Finals. When they got past Jokers, they got past Gordon, all those guys.
00:07:38
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They really shed some light on that they could that that that they could win. Minnesota, they beat but the Lakers. yeah That's my point. And the Warriors. And the Warriors. Yeah.
00:07:49
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So, like I said, man, I mean, Gildress, Shea Gildress. That's G.A., the MVP. The MVP, man. I mean, the guy's had a phenomenal, phenomenal season. He's done well. I think that if they end up winning tonight, I think that whoever comes out of the East will not stand a chance against them playing in the finals at all.
00:08:07
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At all. I agree with you. We'll get to the East finals in just a second. I do agree. The Thunder are the most talented team in this and left in the conference finals after my Austin Celtics were knocked out.
00:08:22
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Prayers up to JT for a quick recovery. But, uh, I agree with you. Oklahoma City Thunder is just the better team all around. all around And although the stars could be comparable, I think, you know, Ant-Man is, you know, yeah even though SGA had the MVP season, I think they're both superstars.
00:08:44
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in the league, but Oklahoma City Thunder is the better team overall. I do believe backs against the wall. Wolves win tonight, but I but i believe Thunder eventually win in game six. Back in Minnesota?
00:08:58
Speaker
Yep. They're going back to Minnesota on Saturday. Yeah. Is it Saturday? Okay. Yeah. What's today? Wednesday? So Thursday? Is it Friday? They'll play Minnesota Friday?
00:09:10
Speaker
I thought it was β oh, no, that's in the finals. It's 1-1. Well, is it? I thought it was in the conference finals. Hold on. Let me double check, man. It's okay. Either way, i think they're going to win in game six. It don't matter where it's at for me. So that play they'll play Friday back in Minnesota.
00:09:23
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Okay, cool. They'll travel tomorrow and they'll be back in Minnesota Friday night. All right, cool. I still got OKC winning in six. Do you as well, or do you have it going to a game seven?
00:09:36
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if but If I see a superstar performance out of Minnesota and they can put it all together tonight, I think they can take another one at home. OK. All right.
00:09:47
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And they'll end playing on Sunday for game seven back in Oklahoma City. All right. Well, there you go. All right, cool. Well, let's move it over to the Eastern Conference Finals. The aforementioned Knicks knocking out my Celtics, who I know everybody wants to know what my thoughts are on that.
00:10:04
Speaker
It was horrible. Going down two games to nothing, you cannot put yourself in that kind of a hole in any sort of playoffs in any sport that has a seven-game playoff or anything like that. So,
00:10:15
Speaker
It was horrible how we went down. We blew those games. We completely blew the series. The Knicks did not win it, but props for them to taking advantage of our sucky play and also bad coaching.
00:10:27
Speaker
Not that that's all in Missoula. I'm just saying in general, there were some bad calls, things like that. I still love Missoula. Still think they have a great team. As for JT being hurt all next year, Jalen Brown is going to have to step up and be the number one that I know he is.
00:10:40
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i I still think they're a title contender even without JT, but I but also believe they're going to have to trade Porzingis this offseason and possibly even Holiday maybe that may be traded as well because of the second apron luxury tax that they are facing.
00:11:00
Speaker
Enough about those bums that are out of it. I still love y'all. I am happy that i I got to at least see the championship team, and I was right there. Game one. yeah you Last year, you were right there in the mix.
00:11:10
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Yeah, yeah. I was right next to the Celtics bench, me and my pops. Shout out my pops. Game one. That was beautiful. So I'm glad I at least got to see the championship. ah That being said, we do have the Knicks and the Pacers in what has been such an amazing series. If I was going to have my Celtics be knocked out, it would be this series that I want to see because these teams are just going at it head-to-head, hard-nosed blowouts turning into very close down to the Wired Games.
00:11:37
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Star performances from Tyrese Halliburton last year. Just last game to go up three to one over the Knicks. Let me hit you with a professor's stat.
00:11:48
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um Halliburton, his line of 30 points, and plus on fifty percent shooting with zero turnovers um He is, i believe, the first player in history to ever do that. And if you lower it down from 15 to 10, then you get, I believe it was Nikolai Jokic was one of the persons, and I forget the other person. I read it in an article earlier today.
00:12:17
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But either way, just know that the stat line that Tyrese Halliburton had last game has never, ever, ever been done before. 30 years. 10, no turnovers on 50% shooting.
00:12:29
Speaker
Amazing, no matter if you want to call him overrated as they have, he was voted by, you know, for that in that that ah in that poll they had where he was voted the most overrated player in the league.
00:12:39
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i don't I don't believe it, but I did laugh very hard. When I saw a meme or a post the other day online where they said that Tyrese Halliburton plays like Urkel did in that one game on Facebook, he went off, and they had a video juxtaposed against Urkel, and they had all the same shot. it was hilarious. I was dying.
00:13:03
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um So anyways, so the Pacers have gone up 3-1 in an amazing series. KT, what do you think about this series so far? Man, this this series has been so back and forth. I mean, the Knicks, they won Sunday by six.
00:13:18
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And then they end up playing Tuesday night, the Pacers won. And then they end up playing, they played ah
NBA Trades and Player Movement
00:13:25
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tuesday Tuesday night, the Pacers won Tuesday night. And then ah they're going to play again Thursday night.
00:13:32
Speaker
They're playing back in Madison Square Garden. I think the Knicks play their best ball in front of a home crowd. When it's packed out, I think the guys perform well. ah Brunson, man he man, the kid is phenomenal. He's on his A game. I think he does well.
00:13:47
Speaker
I like the atmosphere the guys play in, man. I think that the Knicks will make it a 3-2 series. They'll go back on the road Saturday. They must win Saturday night.
00:14:01
Speaker
a must win Saturday night in Indiana. Yeah, yeah. No, and I mean, down three to one, they must win every game. So, yeah. They they got to win out. and and and And here's the thing, man. The nick the ni the the Knicks have been in this hiatus for a long time.
00:14:18
Speaker
Um, Professor, man, because got to think about guys, man. We can go back to look at like Larry Johnson, John Starks, Charles Oakley. Ooh. Man, you, I mean, we we're we're dating ourselves. You and these guys played back.
00:14:31
Speaker
Allen who you guys wait date thank you guys lee Houston, don't think Houston. These guys played years and years back. I mean, you you had these guys. Then you had, you had ah guys like ah Reggie Miller, Dale Davis.
00:14:42
Speaker
um All these guys played ball in the early 90s, and none of these guys could ever they could ever surpass Michael Jordan. And then you got these teams now, and then you had your guys, the Celtics, had the capability to step up and win.
00:15:02
Speaker
Man, I'm hoping i'm hoping the Knicks win, man. For the sakes of a Julius Ervin. For the sakes of... ah No, no, what is I think it's Walt Frazier. Walt Frazier.
00:15:12
Speaker
Julius Ervin. Yeah, it's not Julius Ervin. I think it's Walt Frazier. Walt Frazier did play for the Knicks. Walt Frazier, my bad. And for the sakes of... I don't want Spike Lee to have a connection or go crazy, man.
00:15:26
Speaker
a So i hope the Knicks win, but it doesn't matter who comes out of the East. I think OKC gonna take them the bridge, The Thunder, they are that deal, bro.
00:15:38
Speaker
Yeah, i completely disagree about the Knicks. I, as a Celtics fan, love to drink the Knicks tears.
00:15:51
Speaker
I love to drink in their tears. of yeah misery when they're crying because they're getting their asses whooped by Indiana Pacers.
00:16:02
Speaker
So all you Knicks fans out there, all y'all tough bravado out there, nah, get out of here with that. We don't want to hear that. Take that L to them Pacers. Take your ass back to NY.
00:16:14
Speaker
See ya. Pacers win this. I'm not even going to, you know what? I'm not going to do, I'm not, you know, I'm not that disrespectful. I ain't going to do that. So you think it's over tomorrow night?
00:16:24
Speaker
No, no, no. I'm not going to be that disrespectful. I should be. I should because I hate the Knicks so much. I should be very disrespectful. Saturday night is over. But I'll say at least by game six. Yeah, I'll say it'll be similar to the Eastern Conference Finals.
00:16:35
Speaker
Okay. oh just because Cat and Brunson are amazing. Cat has been playing awesome. By the way, that takes us to what I mentioned earlier. Let's talk about that trade. A lot of people say the Wolves messed up trading Cat for Randall and DiVincenzo. Now Cat's showing out for the Knicks, paired up Brunson, while the Wolves are not having as good of a team as they had last year when they made the conference finals. What are your thoughts on that trade?
00:16:58
Speaker
i be I think Carl Anthony Townsend is a good fit with Brunson, man. think I think they missed Will. And you here's what I think going to happen in the offseason, man. I think that... um ah And a guy in my job thought I was crazy. I think that Durant durant may be a good fit for New York.
00:17:14
Speaker
durant may be a good fit Durant may be a good fit for New York, man. Okay. I mean, i don't know how I don't know how you would fit that in, A, salary-wise with him, Brunson, and Cat, but also um with Cat being the big man three-point shooter that's stationed on the perimeter a lot of the times, and you're going to have two of those players with with Durant. So I don't know. i I would still like to see it because I like those kind of experiments, but I don't know how well it would work monetarily or at least. or strategically. Now, I'm going to jump up the deep end while I got you on the hook, Professor.
00:17:49
Speaker
where do you think Where do you think is a good fit for a guy like Durant? Now, I thought about Philadelphia. You think Philadelphia is a good fit for him? Yeah, if you...
00:18:01
Speaker
Again, the mechanics there. How do you, yeah I mean, yeah he'd be your number one because you let Joel Embiid slide to number two, but you'd have to trade Paul George. I mean, yeah, ah which, you know, is going to be tough to do with the injury history.
00:18:16
Speaker
I mean, it would be a good fit, I guess, for Duran if Embiid could stay healthy and pair there with Tyrese Maxey, yeah, but yeah I mean, that's a lot to give up. And then again, you have all these salaries that may or may not work. But yeah, i could see Durant fitting in there. I could, yes. yeah could I could also see him fitting.
00:18:35
Speaker
ah Those two are good. i could also see him fitting in somewhere. um i don't know. Maybe. Maybe like a Houston, a young Houston team that needs a good shooter.
00:18:49
Speaker
um Maybe even like an Orlando Magic on the come up. I know they got Boncaro there who likes to drive to the hole. Maybe you throw in a little Durant with his step back game in there a little Fonz Wagner.
00:19:00
Speaker
And maybe you got a little conference final team there. Maybe not a championship team. I don't know though because Kevin Durant will elevate every team that he's on. But he's only got a few years left. So if you don't pair him...
00:19:12
Speaker
with another superstar, the chances of that team, oh I mean, actually, i think if you throw them on Houston, though, I think that's a championship team. You're asking me. Yeah, yeah, that's true. That's true.
00:19:23
Speaker
But anyways, okay, cool.
NFL Draft Insights
00:19:25
Speaker
But there you go. That's your NBA finals, up conference finals, excuse me, update. Do you have anything else on the NBA there, K-Team?
00:19:34
Speaker
Nah, man. I mean, the biggest thing, man, we'll see how this thing fizzles out, man. And then the finals, they tip off around like June the 5th, I believe, or something like that, bro. yeah Yeah, you're exactly right. The NBA Finals do start June the 5th.
00:19:48
Speaker
So no matter when these series end, that will be the start date of the and NBA Finals. So you can look forward to that. All right. Before we get into actually, you know what?
00:20:01
Speaker
This is just going to be an extended mixed bag until ah Jake gets in because i was going to talk about the and NHL Conference Finals, do my MLB Power Rankings, and as well talk about no NFL rule changes. so we're just going to do all of that right now within the Sports Professors Bag.
00:20:21
Speaker
Bag, bag, bag.
00:20:26
Speaker
Um, so I haven't done that in a minute. that Man, it's may it's been six weeks. It's been six weeks since you heard the sports professors mixed bag. Yeah, you know what? Man, we missed the, we had the draft.
00:20:38
Speaker
Shadour went late. Hey, yeah, you're right. Go ahead and talk about it. Talk about it. How do you feel about that? Check this out. Shadour went late. Cam Ward went early. Travis Hunter went early. Travis Hunter just got married.
00:20:50
Speaker
He got married. Married with a girl. With no prenup. No prenup. What are you doing? A fool. Sir, do not be a fool. Do not be a fool, please. What else happened with the draft, man? The thing about Kirk Cousins going to Pittsburgh, Aaron Rodgers is still in the game. Forget all that, forget all that. I want to hear what you thought about Shador Sanders siding all the way the fifth round. All right, so here's the thing, man. Here's the thing.
00:21:15
Speaker
Sometimes we we allow our mouth to overload our ass. o Here's the thing. Archie Manning,
00:21:26
Speaker
i don't I don't want to bring the race thing into this because if Flo was on here, Flo would say I'm being, and I'm not being a racist type person. Certain people can do certain things in the National Football League because there are certain ways you have certain powers.
00:21:41
Speaker
Archie Manning was able to manipulate and do certain things because he had that type of power. Eli Manning did not go to the Chargers because of certain ways to manipulate the system. He became a New York Giant.
00:21:55
Speaker
Deion sanders d Sanders was blatant up front. He said, my son is not going to go to certain places and play. Here's what saying. Listen, listen, listen, listen.
00:22:06
Speaker
One of the places he said his son wasn't going to go play was what? Cleveland. He did say that. oh He did say that. Where are you going playing? He did say that. So, Deion Sanders said, we're not we're not going to Green Bay. We're not we're not going to the draft.
00:22:22
Speaker
So, they had they had a shindig party, blah, blah, blah, blah. blah First round went by. Second round went by. The rounds kept going and going and going and going. Here's the thing, professor.
00:22:35
Speaker
Cleveland got Shadour, Joe Flacco, Kenny Pickett, they even got Dylan Gabriel from Oregon. The only thing they did was try to make an example out of Deion Sanders and Shadour.
00:22:50
Speaker
Here's what I think.
00:22:52
Speaker
think they're going to start Flacco. I think they're going to start the season vet. Flacco screw up, then they're going to have to pick from the rest of them. Yeah, I mean, I agree completely with you. I think they start with Flacco, see how far his old ass can take them.
00:23:09
Speaker
And then when he starts to falter, then they're going to bring in, in order, Dylan Gabriel, who they drafted first. And when then once Dylan Gabriel realizes, holy shit, I'm in the pros.
00:23:20
Speaker
i am as good as I ain't as good as I thought I was. Then they're going to bring in Shadour because as we know, the backup or even the third string that is very popular is always going to be the most popular man in town. And so if these if old ass Joe Flacco or rookie Dylan Gabriel falter at all, everyone in Cleveland will want Shadour Sanders on the field. We all know that.
00:23:44
Speaker
So that's my point. I mean, like I said, the biggest thing about the draft, man, they made an example. had a Dion, and sometimes you have to be humble, and sometimes you have to hold your mouth. He might have won in the first round, man.
00:23:56
Speaker
Because I didn't understand why Pittsburgh didn't drive the quarterback. Why? Well, we know why, because they're going to get Aaron Rodgers. Now, i'm not saying that's the right decision, but that's what's going to happen. But then they got Mason Rudolph.
00:24:09
Speaker
What? I mean, ah if they if they go into the season starting Mason Rudolph, um Mike Tomlin should his job taken just for that, because Mike Tomlin knows from previous experience that Mason Rudolph is not a starter in the NFL. He is not a starter in the NFL football league, man.
00:24:25
Speaker
But I mean, overall, I mean, Aston Gentry, I mean, all those guys, they they went where they needed to go. Travis Hunter went to Jacksonville. Cam Ward went to Tennessee. So i think everybody, most of the big names were strategically placed where they needed to be. So that was good.
00:24:42
Speaker
Yep, you're exactly right about that. All right, cool. What about, um what was, oh, dude, there was one other thing in the draft that I wanted to ask you about.
Athletes and Prenuptial Agreements
00:24:51
Speaker
the Oh, yeah, yeah.
00:24:52
Speaker
All right, so you mentioned Travis Hunter marrying his fiancΓ©e, but not getting a damn prenup. What the hell is wrong with you, sir? Please turn around now.
00:25:04
Speaker
Drive to your most dangerous. The closest, nearest. what you Look, I'm so flummoxed and flabbergasted. I can't even talk right now. Go to your nearest lawyer and get a damn prenup drafted right now. Probably LegalZoom.com probably got a prenup you can print for free.
00:25:20
Speaker
Go get one now and get her ass to sign that prenup. Don't be a big dummy with $50 million dollars and she marrying this woman when you know eventually she's just going to divorce you so she can take all your money. Can't see. So here's the thing with him, man.
00:25:37
Speaker
I'm gonna be honest, professor. he hes he's He's a black man. He's a young black man. Give a little Rick Flair. he He ain't marrying a black woman. He married a Puerto Rican, a a Puerto Rican, Hispanic, whatever she is.
00:25:50
Speaker
I mean, you have to say Puerto Rican. I don't know that she is, but you have to talk about my people like that. I'm not saying that, professor. i just like what what Whatever the sense is, all I'm saying is, man, get something in writing to protect yourself.
00:26:05
Speaker
she She don't have anything to lose. So if you were the person that ain't got nothing to lose, they would try to clean you out and take everything you got. do so he fool.
00:26:18
Speaker
And then you want to buy her a G-Wagon? Don't be a fool, baby. I'm going to be honest. Professor, it ain't that much love in the world. Now, if if if she met me, well if if we had the same thing brought it together, we don't need no prenup. You got a few million, I got a few million. Hey, we don't need it.
00:26:38
Speaker
Hey, but bro, she been riding his coat ever since she's been in college. And then I'm going to tell you what really ripped me wrong about that girl. I don't give a damn. Listen, listen, listen, listen, listen.
00:26:51
Speaker
um I'm at the Heisman Trophy Award presentation. Everybody up.
00:26:58
Speaker
My coach got to make you stand up and clap for me. Come on, man. Look, I don't give a damn if she's been with him since high school.
00:27:11
Speaker
i don't give a damn if she's been with him since middle school. don't give a damn if her ass been there since first grade, six years old, in mofo elementary school. I do not give a damn.
00:27:28
Speaker
I am telling you, sir, go get him. a prenup immediately. Anybody in your circle and Travers Hunter's family, friends, please convince him.
00:27:41
Speaker
put it put Put it in. Tell him in his head he can't do this because if you do and then later on down the line, you get got for all your work and all I'm going to say get fuck out here.
00:27:52
Speaker
Why don't you get the fuck out of here? Get the fuck out of here. That's what I'm to say if you go out there and lose all your money because you didn't get a prenup. Don't be stupid. Go get the prenup. All right. Just to little it was a little PSA for everyone that wants to get married with ah with ah with a millions in their bank account.
00:28:15
Speaker
All you're going to get hit with is one of the canteens laughs. Hello, brother. Hello, brother. i I'm serious, man. Ain't no way. Ain't no way. Ain't no way, Professor. Ain't no way. Ain't no way. All right, cool. Go ahead. No, go ahead.
00:28:34
Speaker
No, go ahead. All I'm going to say is she's not an ugly girl. But, I mean, what does she bring to the table? does she bring to the table? what what How does she fulfill you? But, hey, man, to each his own.
00:28:45
Speaker
To each his own, bro. Hey, i'm not so i'm not I'm not saying don't be in love, and I'm not saying don't don't have a woman. I'm just saying when you have millions in the bank, you have no choice to protect yourself. It's not about the girl or how good of a person she is. she could be She could be a a a nun, and that don't mean I'm going to trust you. you guys you need It's just a a business.
00:29:05
Speaker
It's a business thing you have to do. Business propositions, man. it's ah it's it is a Not even business. It's a financial. guarantee that you have to make for yourself when you have a lot of money.
00:29:17
Speaker
You just can never be sure. Right. Now, if you just broke average Joe, then yeah, don't know why care. You know what I mean? So anyways, all right, let's keep it moving.
00:29:29
Speaker
ah Now we're going to talk about some NFL rule changes.
NFL Gameplay Controversies
00:29:33
Speaker
So, Canteen, first of all, let's get into the big one. The Tush push was brought up by the Green Bay Packers to be banned. This has obviously been famous and popularized by the Philadelphia Eagles, Jalen Hurts.
00:29:47
Speaker
This is where the running backs get behind the quarterback while the offensive line dives down into the opponent's legs. While the quarterback is pushed offensively, over the line physically by other people, which, by the way, for everyone who doesn't know, that was a rule for about 80 years until like the 90s that you could not help anyone by pushing them with your hands, which I think should still be a rule. But hey, who am I? Anyways, they needed 24 votes. They only got 22. So the tush push is still legal for this season.
00:30:20
Speaker
Canteen, what say you? Hey, man, you ain't have all 32 supporters, so it's going to be what it's going to The team owners, the teams that support it, the ones that didn't support it, they are for what it's about, man. So, I mean, they support it. So it's going to be in effect, man. I mean.
00:30:40
Speaker
And what do you want? Do you think it should be legal or do you not?
00:30:46
Speaker
ain't really got a dog in fight. on you It don't even really bother me. I mean, i they only use it when they're trying to get first down. Yeah, yeah, or touchdown sometimes, but yeah, i got you. Or touchdown, so it's it's not like a big deal, like, you know, so it's, I can't really argue with it.
00:31:00
Speaker
Okay. All right, well, let's move on ah to another NFL rule change. Flag football will be allowed in the Olympics. Yes, 2028, the NFL will send their players to compete in flag football for the Olympic gold for the United States.
Olympic Flag Football Draft
00:31:20
Speaker
You can only pick one player from each team. And do remember, it is three years from now, so you must consider... players ages at that point in time. But Canteen, let's go ahead and draft a quick team for all the fans out there. First of all, let's go ahead and look at our quarterback. The obvious choices here being Patrick Mahomes, Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen, ah Joe Burrow, and also Jaden Daniels.
00:31:49
Speaker
So Because obviously in fantasy, in fantasy, in flag football, as a quarterback, you have to be able to pass and run the ball. Canteen, who would be your choice at quarterback for this flag football team?
00:32:04
Speaker
going to go Jane Dames this time. Ah, yo, we agree completely. um i think because of the age thing, in three years, Patrick Mahomes is going to be like 32.
00:32:15
Speaker
to Lamar Jackson going to be in his 30s. Jane Daniels will still only we be like 26 or 27. So I will go with Jane Daniels as well, although I did want to go with Lamar Jackson there. But, again, age is what I'm looking at in that pick. So good pick there, Canteen. Let's move it on to running back. Obviously, your choices here are going to be Saquon Barkley, Jameer Gibbs, Bijan Robinson, Jonathan Taylor, and Ashton Gienti.
00:32:43
Speaker
ah Who do you have as a runner? Or you can pick anybody else. Who do you have it as your runner? I'm about to say Quan. Say Quan. Okay, now you've got to remember his age. By then, he's going to be in his 30s.
00:32:55
Speaker
So you've got to think about that. Not saying that he's still not going to be good. He still will be, most likely. I'm going off track record. I've got to go off track record. Experience. And what he's done on paper. I'm going to actually β Or you like Jameer Gibbs?
00:33:09
Speaker
I like that pick, but, yeah, I'm going to go Jameer Gibbs, actually. ah kind A good not very nice combination of running and catching the ball out of the backfield, which you need from running backs in flag football. They need to be able to catch the ball because they run routes out of the backfield. I think Jameer Gibbs is also a little faster than Saquon Barkley. No shade on Saquon, who I picked as my MVP last year.
00:33:29
Speaker
But also, Jameer Gibbs is younger. So I'm going with Jameer Gibbs, but I like his Jameer Barkley pick. All right, two receivers we're going to go with here. The obvious choices being Jamar Chase, Justin Jefferson, and Amon Ross, St. Brown. You can throw anyone else in there. Who would be your two picks?
00:33:49
Speaker
Man, Chase and Jefferson. Yeah, I mean, I don't think you're β I mean, Ahmad Shamrock-Brown would be a close β Rossanne Brown, excuse me. chasing Jefferson out of town. Yeah, yeah, you're getting to β you're taking chasing Jefferson. Yeah, like i I agree with that exactly as well. So there you go. There's your ah flag football Olympic teams. The only thing we disagreed on was Jameer Giddon versus Saquon Barkley.
00:34:09
Speaker
But you can't go wrong either way. Cool. That was a fun exercise. Let's keep it moving. in the sports professor's mix bag excuse me let's talk a little mlb major league baseball any all season long so i'm going to run through the power rankings canteen and we're going to talk about these top teams in the mlb power rankings from mlb.com currently as three days ago they have
00:34:41
Speaker
um Excuse me, hold on one second. Let me make sure I get the standings out here too. Actually, you know what? For all time sakes, Canteen, why don't you go ahead and hit the standings for us in MLB for all
MLB and NHL Season Reviews
00:34:51
Speaker
time sakes. All right, so I hit the top three for the from the American League. The Yankees are Tampa Bay's The Blue are Top three a American League. And then when we look at National League,
00:35:06
Speaker
omar's mit His Mets are 34-22, and the lowly Braves are at at this point in the season, ladies and gentlemen. Yeah, so usually, right, we look at the AL East and the NL East here because Canteen is an Atlanta baseball team fan. I am obviously a New York Mets fan, and Hot Take Jake is a Yankees fan. So we like to cover those two divisions. And, yeah, the Yankees are heads and tails um up there in the American League. Aaron Judge
00:35:37
Speaker
As of last night, was hitting 395. I repeat, two months into the season, Aaron Judge is almost hitting 400.
00:35:49
Speaker
That is crazy. That is unfathomable. And I do not usually praise the Yankees, but shout out to Aaron Judge for that. Crazy, crazy number as well. Shohei Ochani for the Dodgers.
00:36:01
Speaker
They are up there in the top of the NL as well. He is the leader in home runs, just getting to his 20th the other night. So those are your outstanding superlatives for hitters there. As was mentioned, my Mets playing really well this season.
00:36:16
Speaker
ah They were very hot in the early season. They faltered the past week while the Phillies have gone ahead of them in the NL East. Can't teams, Atlanta baseball team, started out to get very slow injuries, but now Ronald Acuna, their prodigy, is back.
00:36:32
Speaker
Hit two home runs back in his first two games. Looking like the old Acuna. If he can stay healthy, he will help them out a lot, and the Braves are not out of it yet.
00:36:43
Speaker
Can you give us some other hot teams in the AL and the NL that that are not in the East? All right, so you got some other hot teams in the American League. The Red Sox are not too far behind. The Orioles are not too far behind in the AL as well.
00:36:58
Speaker
And then um the Nationals and Marlins, they're right there neck and neck as well. I said not the AL East canteen, not the AL East. You said AL East? You said not the AL East. We already went through the East. Let's go through the rest of the AL.
00:37:11
Speaker
You said you want to go through the rest of the AL? Yeah, so can you bring up the conference standings? Hold on. So you said which... You want to do AL East? No, no, no. We already did the AL East and the NL East.
00:37:25
Speaker
We just did that. So we're going AL Central? Well, actually, just do the β all right, how about this? I'm going to go to the conference standings just to make it easier. Okay. So, yeah, actually, you know what? Yeah, just go through each like you used to do. So go to the AL Central and then go to the AL West.
00:37:40
Speaker
So AL Central, your top team AL Central is the Tigers 37-20. Yes, yes. Followed by your Guardians Twins β Guardians and Twins are tied up at 30-25. Mm-hmm. Then the Royals at 20 β
00:37:52
Speaker
then the rose And the Royals are 29-27, which gives them four teams over 500 in the ALS. Right. And then the White Sox, forget them. Yeah, the White Sox are trash just like last season. What about the AL West? now Now, the West, Mariners thirty twenty three Astros 30-25. Okay. And what about Flo's Rangers? Where are they at? I know they're there somewhere.
00:38:14
Speaker
27-29. twenty seven twenty nine Okay, so they're in third place. They they suck. Flo doesn't want to be here to claim them. National League Central. There you go. Yes, sir. The Cubs 34-21. The Cubs are resurgence, baby. Let's go.
00:38:27
Speaker
And then you got the Cardinals 30-31-24. Brewers 29-28. The Reds So you three teams the Central over 500. Yeah, and if you count the Reds right there at 500, you got four teams.
00:38:39
Speaker
over five lines and you yeah and if you count the reds right there at five hundred you got forty teams of 500 or above. Yeah. Yeah. All right. How about the NL West? West Dodgers 34-22, Padres Giants and um've only won nine thinking oh Say that again louder for the people in the back that have not been paying attention and haven't seen that the Colorado work Rockies are two times worse than Clubber D's White Sox were last season. They have played 55 games and have only won nine of them.
00:39:23
Speaker
They are going to break the record that the White Sox just set last year for losing futility Wow. on They've only won nine games. Nine games. Nine games out of 46.
00:39:35
Speaker
Nine games. That's just crazy. Just crazy. All right. Well, whatever. i that's That's wild that they that a team can be that bad. But we'll see. They're definitely going to break the White Sox records. That being said, let's move it on to a little bit of NHL hockey. I want to update y on the playoffs.
00:39:54
Speaker
So I'm going to share my screen here real quick. So as we can see here, we've got the two in the middle. And as you can see, just like the NBA, these two series are 3-1 each. Edmonton is up 3-1 over the Dallas Stars in the West.
00:40:07
Speaker
The Florida Panthers are up 3-1 over the... Carolina Panthers in the East. This is going to give us the same finals from last year. You remember the Florida Panthers defeated the Edmonton Oilers last year in the finals.
00:40:20
Speaker
Most likely we are going to see that same finals again. And if we do, I have, I have the Edmonton Oilers winning the whole thing anyways. But canteen, um, Obviously, that we're probably going to see and a repeat of the finals from last year.
00:40:35
Speaker
If we were to see a repeat of the Florida Panthers versus Edmonton, would you have Florida going back-to-back or would you have Edmonton winning for the first time? Back-to-back. Oh, back-to-back.
00:40:47
Speaker
back to but Back to back. Ooh, okay. All right. So going back to back is a little bit of guillotine action there. He's choosing the Florida Panthers over the Edmonton Oilers in the NHL hockey finals, if that is to happen, which we do think that'll happen. I have it the other way. I've got Edmonton.
00:41:04
Speaker
over the Florida Panthers in the finals. And Edmonton has just been playing too well this season. They got the best player in the league, Conor David, paired with Leon Dreisaitl and the rest of the squad there in Edmonton. They've just been playing really well. Not the florida that Florida doesn't, and Florida still has Bob Browski and obviously the rest of the squad there that's really, really good. So cant can't you cannot cannot count Kachuk and the rest of the defending champions out there. So...
00:41:33
Speaker
Cool. All right, that's your NHL update. A couple more notes here in the professor's mixed bag. Hopefully, hot take Jake will be here in a moment to give us a hot take of the week.
00:41:46
Speaker
ah But if not, um there are a couple more things. First of all, in college football, they had ah They approved straight seeding. So this year we would not see BYU or an Arizona State sneak in as the third and fourth seeds, even though they were ranked ninth and twelfth, because this year they are going straight one through 12 seeding in the college football playoffs. How do you feel about that, Kanteen?
00:42:11
Speaker
I'm glad. I'm glad. Get the heavyweights in there that win, that deserve to be in there. that's it not not Not the Ducks. get the get the work get the Get the real ones in there.
00:42:23
Speaker
the real time And now that you now that you say that now, the SEC and Big Ten are trying to go get into cahoots. there There was a secret meeting that they had recently where the SEC and the Big 12 proposing a 16-team playoff instead of 12 and where the SEC and Big Ten excuse me would get automatic four bids. Four.
00:42:48
Speaker
Yeah, four. While the ACC and Big 12 would only get two automatic bids and the group of five but only get one, obviously all the other conferences are up in arms about this proposal that just leaked a couple days ago. How do you feel about this proposal, Canteen?
00:43:05
Speaker
Man, listen. I hope it all works out, Professor. I hope everything that they're lining out works out for this whole proposal. That's all I'm hoping. and That's because you're an SEC fan.
00:43:17
Speaker
that's that That's bias coming out. That it is. Why are you trying to say that? That's bias coming out. Because why should they get more why should they get four bids and their Big 12 and ACC only get two?
00:43:30
Speaker
Because we the powerhouse guys. See? See? That's what I'm talking about. That's what I'm talking about. You SEC and Big Ten, even though both of my schools are in Big Ten, elitist out there, always trying to make yourselves better than everybody else. No, that's why everybody's pissed off. This should not happen.
00:43:49
Speaker
Yes, the SEC is the best, but that doesn't mean they should have more privileges than everyone else. And we shouldn't have 16 teams anyways. That's way too damn many. Okay, so how many teams? 12 or 10? I say leave it at 12. It's fine there.
00:44:02
Speaker
All right. We don't need to keep making changes every year. Leave well enough alone. They kept doing this with the BCS. And remember how that worked out? It did.
00:44:13
Speaker
yeah Anyways, all right. We're going to have a little chess note on here. little chess note. I want you to hear the story and give me your thoughts,
Magnus Carlsen's Chess Challenge
00:44:24
Speaker
Canteen. Chess champion Magnus Carlsen recently played to a tie against, wait for 143,000 players.
00:44:32
Speaker
All right.
00:44:36
Speaker
e The game was played online, took 46 days to play, and saw 32 moves. The reason it took so long is because all, ah not all, but the but they did like weekly voting from like, or not weekly, they did like the other every other day voting from the 143,000 people so everybody could vote on it.
00:44:57
Speaker
Even though they had that many minds dialed in on one play, ah per or one move per whatever it was. He still tied them anyways. One man, Magnus Carlsen. How do you feel about that?
00:45:11
Speaker
He's doing his thing, man. Strategic, strategy. Strategic. Chess is about strategy. Making the right move at the right time. You're strategizing that thing, man. um That's how you win, strategizing the game.
00:45:22
Speaker
You got to be very smart, though, right? To to 143,000 people. strategy. thousand people yeah strategy
00:45:31
Speaker
Okay, cool. Yeah, that's crazy. Even, yeah i mean, I don't care. i mean, you got to be really smart to be able to outthink. But again, like you said, his strategy, and he's been playing chess a long time, and he is a chess champion because he does know better and more moves than the rest of them. So that does make sense, I guess, because he should still have more knowledge.
00:45:50
Speaker
All he would have to do, actually, if you logically think about this, All he would have to do is have more knowledge than the best player of their 143,000, which he probably does because a lot of these Matt, Joe, and Jameses were online. So they're probably just in their mom's basement. Don't even know anything. But anyways, oh, shout out to Wayne Keene. Hey, what's up, man?
00:46:16
Speaker
Says, let's go Detroit baseball. Hey, look at this, brother. Your Detroit team is... 37 and 20 right now tops in the al playing some amazing baseball didn't know we would see it but you love to see it from motor city getting them back to some nostalgia go tigers baseball all right uh one last note in the mixed bag hopefully hot take jake will be here in just a couple minutes he did say he was going to try to jump on around eight o'clock um
00:46:47
Speaker
yeah ESPN's weekly afternoon show Around the Horn retired as of last
Tributes and Announcements
00:46:53
Speaker
Friday. Oh, and and i forgot to tell you, my baby ain't on there no more. My favorite girl ain't on there no more. ah um ah Which one was it? Cronin?
00:47:03
Speaker
She bad, too. Omar, she bad. That's the finest one. She is bad to the bottom. Hello, world. She's pretty. She's very pretty, Omar. She's a pretty professor. She's pretty.
00:47:14
Speaker
Very pretty. They have a lot of beautiful people on ESPN. But Tony Reale hosted the show 23 years, an astonishing 4,953 episodes, the most episodes ever, 60 panelists over the year.
00:47:30
Speaker
ah Look, all I want to do is give a tribute and a shout out because this and part in the interruption were the only shows in my lifetime that were appointment viewing.
00:47:40
Speaker
I would make sure I was in front of the TV every day to watch these two shows. And if I wasn't able to be there for work or school or whatever other circumstances, I would make sure I caught up on it later on replay. I never missed an episode.
00:47:55
Speaker
Canteen, I don't know if you feel the same about these shows. So I'm going to tell you about this. I'm going to tell you how crazy it is, man. So it's something about Courtney Cronin and i she just got a...
00:48:06
Speaker
This man still talking about Courtney Cronin. Let's go. Courtney Cronin. Holla at him. Hey, I know her makeup artist. that's it That's how crazy it is. I know her makeup artist, is man.
00:48:19
Speaker
So Courtney Cronin, what? Whatever, here we go. So if I'm at work, Omar got my iPad with me and I go on Hulu and I'm watching it at work. So NFL Live, is that from 4 to 5?
00:48:33
Speaker
Then from 5 to 6 is ah around the horn? 5 to 5.30 and then 5.30 to 6 is PTI. There it is, man. So i I never missed it, man. And I would catch it on the rebound, man. And so it's just like...
00:48:46
Speaker
Those were the shows, but then you you know you know they heard that that that they're gonna replace Around the Home with Shannon Sharp. They're trying to put Shannon Sharp and put him in the show on there now, right? You heard that, right? I did not hear that, and I don't even know that that, I don't know. Where did you hear that from?
00:49:03
Speaker
from From a reputable source. What reputable, was it online canteen? Yes, it's not no fluff or no BS. You know you can't believe everything you see online, right?
00:49:14
Speaker
Shannon Sharp is taking a knee. Listen, Omar, trust me. You think that they're going to bring Shannon Sharp back after that controversy he had? Yes. Oh, I don't think they bring him back now.
00:49:27
Speaker
yeah They would have to wait a little bit. There's no way could bring him back right now. Shannon Sharp, he was back in the fall. I was okay. the fall Yeah, I could see the fall. He was back fall time. Yeah, there's no way you can bring him back in the summer. There's way too much heat right now still. He'll back fall.
00:49:41
Speaker
I mean, maybe, okay, I can see something like that. So what would you have? Shannon and and who? Shannon and Ocho? Or would you have Shannon and and Stephen A them do an afternoon show? Shannon and Ocho. Not Stephen A. Shannon and Ocho would bring numbers.
00:49:54
Speaker
Yeah, but the thing is, I don't know that you can have that type of show that early in the day, considering some of the content that they cover. They would probably have to change ah some of their content to be more PC, you know what I mean?
00:50:10
Speaker
Anyways. All right. Cool. Well, there you go. That was the professors. All right.
00:50:23
Speaker
all alright Cool. um Hot take Jake. Okay. Dwayne says, I am a Detroit fan. Number one all day. Motor City. Lions. Pistons. Red Wings.
00:50:35
Speaker
Tigers. The Pistons are young. Looking good on the come up this year. ah The Red Wings, obviously, one of the best. the original franchises of the NHL. so no one can ever hate on the red wings.
00:50:48
Speaker
And yeah, the lions, man, if y'all can pick it up this year and not let that playoff defeat to Washington, get y'all down. I think you all have a still promising future ahead of you. Yes. I know that was very disappointing loss.
00:51:01
Speaker
to the commanders with the team that y'all had and what y'all should have done. But no worries. I think y'all are going to have ah couple more years at least to try to win that championship, and you still got a really good team.
00:51:14
Speaker
How do you feel about the Detroit Lions going into the season, Canteen? Detroit.
00:51:21
Speaker
Man, that that's going to be a tight division, man. NFC North, Detroit, Green Bay. Packers going better. The Bears are going to be better. the vikings where The Vikings might be worse. Don't worry. but The Bears are going to trash because you've got a quarterback that's writing a book. to and Yeah, but they're still going to be better. They're still going to better than they were last year. They only won four games last year.
00:51:42
Speaker
It's either going to be Green Bay, Green Bay, Minnesota, Detroit. Okay. So you've got Green Bay number one over Detroit or what?
00:51:54
Speaker
I'm going to go Minnesota. Okay. Minnesota with a rookie quarterback in J.J. McCarthy. No, no. Wait, wait, wait. Oh, I was about to say. Whoa, who whoa, whoa, whoa, sir. I don't sound like that's gonna happen. I don't think. Green Bay. Green Bay.
00:52:09
Speaker
Okay, so you are going with Green Bay above Detroit Lions. Yep. All right, cool. All right, well, hey, he is here on his lunch break. ah We're gonna bring him in you know who he is you love him our brother Jake Jake what's good brother?
00:52:27
Speaker
What up? ah plus yeah What's going on? Yes my brother what you and you all for Thank you for coming in on your on your work break, man. We appreciate you you coming in and blessing us.
00:52:41
Speaker
ah Pull your phone down a little bit so we can see that ah that crusty face of yours. And yeah, we just got done with the... Yeah, we can see you down. We just got done with the professor's mixed bag and now... Breakfast for champions right here, man.
00:52:55
Speaker
What are you eating? Strawberry shortcake. Okay. That's not going to power you through the day. Best little Debbie snack of all time. Best little Debbie snack of all time, Omar. You know that too. That can't be true at all.
00:53:07
Speaker
That cannot be true at all. Now, I don't know all the Little Debbie snacks, but I do know I'm taking twit rick regular original Twinkie over a strawberry shortcake all day. Yuck.
00:53:20
Speaker
That tastes like crap. I mean, it's a classic. I actually need to i need to figure out what my like Little Debbie snacks are because, wait, don't Little Debbie have the Galaxy brownies?
00:53:33
Speaker
and be east come on in They don't have the galaxy brownies? They got all of that. Okay, then no, it's the galaxy brownies, obviously then. What are you talking about?
00:53:45
Speaker
but oh get out of here, man. Get out of here. Anyways, you came perfect. I'm lucky. Hold on, how lucky are you to not be around for the show not to be on while your Celtics muddied up and sucked ass like I said they would?
00:54:02
Speaker
How did that feel, Omar? Yeah. How does it feel? Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. How does it feel knowing that your team's not going to only miss the play the the championship this year, but also next year too, Omar?
00:54:14
Speaker
How do you feel? Okay. Just came. Just came. on, Jake. Where your damn signal at, man? Just came. Just came.
00:54:27
Speaker
Just came guns a-blazing at me like that. Look, i already talked about how much we sucked earlier. It was horrible. You can't go down 2-0 in the playoffs and expect to win. We blew those games. The Knicks did not win it. shot props to them for taking advantage, but we blew that series. Should not have lost it.
00:54:42
Speaker
Prayers up to JT to get better. JB is our number one now. Will still be a title contender. Does suck that we didn't make the the championship this year? Yeah, because I believe... that the only team that could have beat us with the Thunder, and I think with a healthy JT, we would have beat the Thunder anyways. Now, without a healthy JT, it would have been a lot harder to win the finals anyways, even though I still still think JB is a number one.
00:55:03
Speaker
So it probably, we might might have lost anyways to the Thunder. So let JT rest up a year. Let Jay be number one next year, try to go for the title again. As I mentioned, I don't care because I was there courtside with my pops to watch them win the first championship. So I don't give a fuck. It sucked to to watch us lose, but I'm just happy that I was there for the real.
00:55:24
Speaker
Windows closed, buddy. Window is closed. There's no windows closed. They're trading Porzingis. They're definitely trading Porzingis. They might trade Holiday, and they're going to get people back to get to put a team around.
00:55:36
Speaker
Brown and Tatum. I believe Brown is a number one and can be a championship contender team leader. I believe so. Bring back Horford, and be good. And Horford, the old school guy.
00:55:50
Speaker
Yeah, and now he wants to retire, but we'll bring him back if we trade Porzingis, so we'll see. Dwayne says Spike Lee saying that the NBA is rigged is what I heard. Spike Lee says a lot of things.
00:56:01
Speaker
The NBA is rigged sometimes, especially when it comes to the draft, as we saw with Hot Take Jake's Dallas Mavericks out there getting the first pick. Did I not warn you?
00:56:13
Speaker
That's a β Did I not warn you, Omar, that that game was β
00:56:19
Speaker
Jake, you got to fix your signal, man. Get on Wi-Fi or something. Jake, you need to hold your phone out the window, man. You're breaking up mad, mad bad, son. Anyways, come back to us in a second when you're better. We cannot understand you.
00:56:33
Speaker
ah Yeah, the NBA is rigged from time to time. Obviously, the draft would be the time where you could point to the most. You can go back to ah the Celtics. being screwed out of Tim Duncan. You can go back to the Knicks getting Patrick Ewing.
00:56:47
Speaker
You can go back to the the Spurs getting Tim Duncan after getting David Robinson 20 years before. So there's a lot of different theories out there for rigged up the NBA. And you all can also can go back to playoff series, like when the Sacramento Kings got screwed against the Lakers.
00:57:08
Speaker
You can go to when, if you want to talk, ah even like trades and free agency. What about when Chris Paul got blocked from going to the Lakers? So, yes, the NBA has been rigged for a long time, but you know what? at least it's it's very entertaining.
00:57:25
Speaker
Dantene, what do you think about that? As far as what? The NBA being rigged.
00:57:34
Speaker
I don't think and i don't think and NBA is rigged. I have seen issues with as far as the referees and different things like that, man. I don't think it's rigged. The NBA is going to be the NBA, man. It's just the the caliber of play, man. Guys going to either play up to their potential or not going to play up to their potential. That's what it is, man.
00:57:51
Speaker
that's that's That's what it is, professor. Rigged is what I say. Anyways, all right. Well, we wish Hot Take comes back so he can give us his hot take of the week. But honestly, we're going to end this program on another different note now that everybody β um has heard all the sports news obviously we didn't want to overshadow with this program at its foundation has always been about this program since its inception since before I even came along when Flo who is the creator of this program rightfully so he and Les started this program as Canteen was describing the history
00:58:29
Speaker
K and Team came along. West faded out. Then I came along and then Hot Take Jake directly after me, a couple weeks after me. As I say his name, he coughs back up. Say his name.
00:58:41
Speaker
appears. We both believe in Hot Take, Jake. and Am I good? Can y'all hear me? So, jake Jake, listen, he about to close it out now. let Not yet. Not yet. Now we got to go. Actually, yeah, you know what? you you take Jake, how much time do ja how much time do you have?
00:58:58
Speaker
I got 12 minutes, which I need. No, no, hold on a second. Save the hot take for last. That way we have something fun to go out on. Let me do this first. go give me Give me five minutes, Jake, and i' ah you're going to do your take. You're good, bro. You're good. Go ahead. So at the foundation, y'all, this was a sports show.
00:59:16
Speaker
It was meant to have people come on. talk trash about sports, give intelligent and sometimes ignorant takes in case of hot take Jake most of the weeks.
00:59:27
Speaker
um But we came in and we had a lot of fun and we enjoyed ah the laughter. we enjoyed the camaraderie. We enjoyed the conversation.
00:59:39
Speaker
I've been here. It was two years yesterday. was the Yeah, yeah yeah i mean because because i because I remember I was in New York. It was in 23 when you came on board, bro. remember. yeah Two years ago, May 27th of 2023. It was right right before the finals in 2023. Then I came on, and Jake came on a couple weeks after that, two or three weeks after that.
01:00:02
Speaker
And it's been it's been a good two years. um But, you know, everything at the end of the day, you know, comes to comes to an end You know, as one of the great and wise poets, you know, Andre 3000, Andre Benjamin said, you know, the sun must rise.
01:00:23
Speaker
Heroes eventually die. Even horoscopes often lie. And sometimes why? Nothing is for sure. Nothing lasts forever until we close the curtain.
01:00:34
Speaker
It's because these guys and I, the bottom line. And we've had so much fun, but I am going to officially announce today I am retiring from the bottom line sports.
01:00:46
Speaker
um While it has been an amazing run, we have been gone for six weeks for a reason. um reasons that I, again, am not going to talk about right now on this show. We've already talked about it once on this show a few months ago.
01:00:58
Speaker
I don't want to bring it up again because this is on Flo's channel and he has family and friends. I want to be respectful of that. I will have a show later on. in the next couple of weeks on Ball and Buds Network. So make sure you're subscribed to Ball and Buds.
01:01:13
Speaker
B-A-L-L-A-N-D-B-U-D-S, shameless plug. I don't care. But if you want to see the real truth of what happened behind the scenes, the rise and fall of the bottom line sports, ah to be honest, I will give an honest and truthful assessment and lay it all on the line of everything that happened.
01:01:30
Speaker
Look for that to come out maybe next week or the week after that. But what I will say is there has been a lot of drama in the background that has caused me to lose trust in the program and where we're headed as a future.
01:01:46
Speaker
ah Not only that, and I can't speak for Hot Take Jake or Canteen, but I know that I am very busy. I've got a new client now, so now I've got multiple clients as well. I'm doing new shows on Ball & Buds.
01:01:59
Speaker
Y'all, we've been teasing it for a while. One of those new shows is Hot Take Jake and I, Total of Inspiration. um where we have a two-man show going back and forth at each other, like a little pardon the interruption that will be coming out here in the next couple months.
01:02:11
Speaker
K&T will also be joining the Ball and Bud Network to you know come on every once in a while on my show and other shows. We'll be looking to do maybe a roundtable NFL show for the season. but Yeah, you know, um it's just there are things that have to be done morally and value-wise.
01:02:28
Speaker
And as of what has occurred with the participants of this show, I can no longer associate myself with something that feel has lost its way, with I feel has lost the moral value that this show started with to begin with.
01:02:46
Speaker
So, um, that's really all have say. I am going to be retiring. I don't know if today will be my last show. I was going to say it was going to be, uh, but obviously I feel bad leaving canteen hanging out in the blue, um, while flow is gone, but obviously I'm not going to stay until get flow gets back because he's deployed and that's too long of a time.
01:03:03
Speaker
I got stuff to do on my own network. So, uh, I got country box next week. Shout out y'all make sure you tap in for that. If you see us in two weeks, you do. Uh, if you don't, you know, I'm sorry, but this is the way that it had to be.
01:03:15
Speaker
Um, Jake, you got anything? Um, I can't wait for the episode of the rise and fall. I also want to say guys, we're losing a fucking legend and I hate to excuse my language, but damn, I think through and through it all.
01:03:33
Speaker
And I'm not, and I'm not going to discredit a canteen either. Cause canteen has just been just class personified for what he's done, you know, through at all but understanding everything. Uh,
01:03:46
Speaker
You know, you can only give and give for so long or take and take my fault. Take and take until you can't take no more. And I completely understand. um Hey, the way my schedule is looking, it looks unsure as well. Even with my other pod, you know, I'm the way I'm having to maneuver. I know Omar, her I've told Omar, I'm i'm having to, my ah my boys, Matt and Juan have to go against my schedules as well. Shit, we're doing this sometimes at 6 a.m., you know?
01:04:13
Speaker
It just depends on the time. Y'all go in the morning? There are some times, Canteen, where i my my schedule is so busy right now where I i have to get it to where it's that early in the morning.
01:04:23
Speaker
And ah and they they they've, you know, shout out to those guys. They've done everything they could to to match that time, too. I know we're missing this week because we could not get in a scheduled time this week at all. But in general, not talk about my podcast, but not please in general, we we're losing a freaking legend, bro.
01:04:42
Speaker
Omar, I think, is the glue that I just... You don't learn so much without a man... The dude can tell you something, and he is so smart and witty with his words.
01:04:57
Speaker
He understands the network prospect. He understands what he's been doing. I'm so proud of this guy. um Of course, this is not the end of ah ever doing a show with Omar. I cannot wait to do one with you. I know, Ken. Ken, you are more than welcome coming on, of course, in your mind. Jake, I don't mean to cut you out, man, but, man, man, Omar, we had a few words earlier, man. Like, I told Omar...
01:05:21
Speaker
I can't commit to doing the background music and doing all the setup of the shows, man, but I don't want to be able to to be be the one that get the numbers and talk the numbers and talk the stats and talk this and talk that, man, but... Man, it's hard, man. it It's... Because I love... I like being a part of something.
01:05:38
Speaker
Yeah, absolutely, bro. I told Omar, I was like, man, it's just...
01:05:45
Speaker
I don't want to get into the Weezer because every time I think about getting into the Weezer, don't just want to divulge it. I think Omar has said it best. It's best to do it, you know, out of respect to do it on his pod, his show. And I would not mind joining for an episode and give you my opinion of where I felt Steph went wrong as well, Omar. So let me know whenever you do that episode. I'm like, yeah but um um I'm not going to disrespect nobody. I ain't going to try to slight nobody.
01:06:07
Speaker
That ain't how I am, man, because Man, I remember Omar came on, man. And like I said, man, I got a good heart, man. I will give you my last. If I got it, you can get it, man. That's how I am, man.
01:06:20
Speaker
I know, I know, Pantene. Bro, we, bro, we, Omar, bro, we did, we were doing this. But if you're going to do it, it's got to be done right, man. yeah And i don't want I don't want to throw something. know And Omar, when I say this, I don't want to put something out there to try to profess to be something that I'm not and people throw it back at me.
01:06:41
Speaker
And Omar, you understand what I'm saying? i don't want to be something that I'm not and people try to throw it back. You got to be authentic about who you are or people going to blackball you.
01:06:56
Speaker
I get that. And unfortunately, there's been a lot of hurt feelings and a lot of people that have just are not messing with the program anymore. And most of those people have to happen to be on in my family and friends.
01:07:07
Speaker
so Yeah, I understand that. Just the way it goes. Again, I'm going to do it probably not... Next week, I think, yeah, because I got country boxing. We got UFC. Maybe I will do it next. I don't know. We'll do it the next few weeks once Jake gets time, and we'll bring Jake and Kansin on to give their perspectives as well, and I'll do a show on exactly everything that happened here.
01:07:29
Speaker
ah Yeah, you know, I love y'all. It's been an amazing time. I've had so much fun and it's not over. We'll do shows again together in the future. Again, maybe I'll do a little maybe we'll even just rebrand a new new sports show if it isn't, you know, doing maybe a football one.
01:07:44
Speaker
And maybe y'all can continue this with flow. I hope y'all can. and I didn't want to. I'm not retiring, so y'all stop the show. If y'all can continue the show in the future, that's all great. It's just it's just what what I have to do for my personal future.
01:07:56
Speaker
But anyways, this is not the end of us. You'll see us again on Ballin' Buds. Make sure you subscribe, Ballin' Buds, B-A-L-L-A-N-D-B-U-D-S. Make sure you hit that like button up there as well. Make sure you subscribe to Jake's Final Say Pod.
01:08:08
Speaker
Him, Matt, wanted to do an awesome job. Really funny shit. I love watching your episodes. Catch him on YouTube. And as well... I'm still going to be in the bottom line sports group on Facebook. So I'll still be there talking trash right and
AFC West Predictions and Debates
01:08:22
Speaker
posting news. So you can still talk to me there. I just will no longer be on the actual show. show I get it. We get it.
01:08:30
Speaker
Let's go ahead and finish this off. Hot take, Jake. You're going give us your hot take of the week. We're going to debate that for about five minutes that you got left. And then, since you're the OG, you have the final words on this show.
01:08:41
Speaker
All right, man. Hot take, Jake. Well, I looked at the schedules, guys, and I'm going to call it like I see it, bro. Okay. Bring your ass. Bring your ass. Bring your ass, boy there i I'm telling you all right. More than ever.
01:08:56
Speaker
I think Patrick Mahomes and them will take third place this year in the division. Whoa! And will miss the playoffs. Will miss the playoffs this season. Oh, slip this, slip this, proposal.
01:09:09
Speaker
Off in the Paul Mills chat. Whoa! Omar, Omar. Side note real quick. Omar, shut your dumb ass. How dare you come at me about Wild Card Marr? I saw you on Wild Card Marr's out show. You don't think I'm watching? I'm watching, buddy. I'm watching, buddy. You better snip this. He said they're going to take third place in the AFC West.
01:09:30
Speaker
In the AFC West, and they're missing the playoffs. that that that match Their games are too hard this season. Omar, you better snip this. You got to get all this. We're sweeping them this year.
01:09:44
Speaker
We're sweeping them this year, too. We're sweeping them this year, Omar. Side note, Carl. Side note. you make move that So you're saying that you are going to win the division over the Chargers, too? i don't know about that.
01:09:56
Speaker
I have to look at our final. But i will say this. The Chiefs are missing the playoffs, and they will be third place in division. Because Marr has them with 13 wins. Who in first? Marr's dumbass on that shit. He's too in love. Damn, Marr.
01:10:11
Speaker
Marr, come to finish. That's crazy. Oh, Marr, want you to snip all this snip cut. Oh, yeah. I saw y'all talking to your crap. Hey, shout out, Marr. Love Marr. Love his show. Shout out shout out to the Owl. I love the Owl, bro. At night when I'm working, I put that thing on, and I'm just...
01:10:27
Speaker
Vibing away. Who's going to win first place in AFC West? What I'm asking you, man. It's between the Chargers and the Broncos. We know the Raiders absolutely suck. You're correct. You know what? I knew he was going to take one last shot on my last episode. That's okay. I'll take that. We do suck.
01:10:44
Speaker
professor Professor, you heard that. I want you to go back and cut, snip, cut this, put a nice clip together. I got you. I love the Carmelo one you put up. I didn't even know put one I saw it the other day. I said, oh, okay.
01:10:59
Speaker
I thought tagged you in it. I thought tagged you in it. I saw it. don't like the curse. Ain't no way you said no shit like that, Jay. You said no shit like that. You said y'all going to be number one.
01:11:11
Speaker
Well, and yeah the last three games worry me, but it is between us and the Chargers. The Chiefs are done. They're done for. They're goners. Wow. I don't agree, but hey, yeah i think I think they still have a really good team, and I don't know about 13 wins like Marr said, but I do still see 11 12. I also see the Denver Broncos. I do see them being better this year. i don't I obviously hate all these teams, but I see them and the Chargers being better this year. Now, I'm not as high on the Raiders. Marr has them having 10 wins. I don't know where he got that. Marr is drunk, as he was saying in that episode.
01:11:47
Speaker
When he was doing his show. Hey, they be on that Henderson. They be on that Henderson. I got us with seven wins leading up the back of the game. Are you paying him to say something good about the Raiders?
01:11:58
Speaker
No, I promise. I was like, you saw me arguing with him. I was like, dude, they're my team. You know, you know what before Cantina has his final words, you know what got me? When when Mar said you were at the bye week and you were about five and two, six. that I looked around and I said, are we talking about the same Raiders? I was like, hey, I was like, you have a lot of faith in Geno Smith.
01:12:20
Speaker
Jake, how many games y'all going to win? I got 12 to 13. 12 to 13. No, i't I don't see more than 10 or 11, but yeah, I see 11 probably.
Show Reflections and Future Aspirations
01:12:32
Speaker
Y'all going to hang out after we finish or y'all going to dip out? Well, Jake has to get back. I got to go. away i gave this five minutes. Go ahead. I'll hang out with you, Omar. So these my last words. Hey, man. Hey, great run, guys. I thank y'all for rocking, hanging with me, man. Hey,
01:12:50
Speaker
Hey, this a this was a good a good run, man. ah appreciate y'all's support. Hey, bigger and better things in the future. hey just Hey, just keep grinding, keep pushing. Just shake the dust off y'all feet.
01:13:02
Speaker
More to come. That's all I got. That's all I got. it And as the OG, I'm going to leave those as the last words for the show. All I'm going to say is that because my channel cannot have another copyright hit, I cannot do any outro music.
01:13:19
Speaker
So once we're once we're done here, there's not going to be any outro because I ain't getting no copyright. It's attached to my Facebook. So thank you to everybody watching from Let's Talk Sports Network, IOW Network. Shout to Wildcow. Make sure you tap in with them. Tap in Country Box, Skywalker Boxing Media, 86 Boxing, Bobby Chunyeo. Make sure you tap in with Sideline Sports.
01:13:40
Speaker
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01:13:56
Speaker
um All the people that have worked with us, all the people that have ah come on this show as well. I mean, all the guests we've had. over the years. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. Salute to everyone. We are so appreciative of everyone. So thank you again.
01:14:15
Speaker
Canteen, I know I was going to say last words for you, and then I said all that, so I'm giving you last words again, and then I'm hitting the end stream, and there's no music. We're just out. And then you'll be the back, right? Yeah, I'll be in the back. Hey, hey, we out, baby.
01:14:27
Speaker
We love y'all. All right, y'all.