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NBA Playoff & NCAA March Madness Elite 8_ NFL Offseason _ MLB Torpedo Bats ft. I.O.W's Wild Card Mar
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NBA Playoff & NCAA March Madness Elite 8_ NFL Offseason _ MLB Torpedo Bats
The Bottom Line Sports Show @TheBottomLineSports featuring I.O.W's Wild Card Mar
The Bottom Line Sports Show #162 ft. Master Plan FLO, Stat Man CAN, Hot Take JAKE & SPORTS PROFESSOR from BALL & BUDS Sports + Entertainment!
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Show Opening with Rap Introduction
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Bottom line, sports show, master plan, flow, cheat, and hot Jake, oh, show, no professor when, alley-oop, and ten never fold out to win, them boys and my hands, now I'm play one, and I'm gonna I'm the bench, oh, get I get it, and I get and it, I and I get it, I get it, I it, and I get it, and I it, and I get it, and I get it, get it, and get and and and and it, I get it, and get it, it, it, get it, and get it, I get and I get it, I get it, and it, and get it, and get it, and get it, and it, get it, and get it, and get it, and I get and I get it, and get it, I get it, and get and and I get it, and I it, and get it, and it, and I get it, and get it, and get and it, and get it, it, and and I get it, I get it, get and I get it, and I it, and I get it, I get it, and I get and get it, and get it, and get it, and get it, and get it, and I get it, and get it, and get it, I it, and I get it, eh?
Street Professor's Return and Banter
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Street professor back again, it's game time. A la playa, no play time, it's play-yah. Cause we ain't talking about practice like A-Yah. Sports professors spit the best takes out like A-Yah. Awfully intelligent, eh?
00:00:42
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I can't write mine. Rhyme-siding with girls DMs like Messi after the goal time. That was a triple entendre, did you get me rambling? Ruben Simone Biles, we the bottom line champion.
Host Introductions and Special Editions
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I need my hands.
00:00:53
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This is real, touch, and they pretend.
00:01:00
Speaker
Street pro bottom line, low, canteen, hot take, Jake and O Sports professor on the street, you know, you know, street!
00:01:12
Speaker
Yo, street professor, I'm back baby, like I never left, ha ha!
Recent Sports News and Hot Takes
00:01:20
Speaker
Bottom line, low, canteen, hot take, Jake and O
00:01:38
Speaker
Yo, yo, yo, what up friends? You know what it is, the Bottom Line Sports. Back at it again for y'all on a special Wednesday edition. Holla at ya boys.
00:01:55
Speaker
You know what it is. First of all, gotta move the OG up top. My brother Kentine, how are you doing today, my friend? How is it going today up in your land? Been a long day, bro, but I got something my cup to kind of go and easily on ease me on. Let's get it going. Let's get it going. Let's get cracking, man. i glad to be here, fellas.
00:02:14
Speaker
Good to see y'all. Wow, Kaur, Jake, you. Let's get this thing cracking, baby. My brother, I knew you just came from from school trying to educate yourself, and I really appreciate you always bettering yourself. You are an inspiration for sure. Let's keep it moving to the next gentleman. You've known him for a long time here at the Bottom Line Sports as well. In a second, he will give you his hottest take of the week.
00:02:36
Speaker
He is hot cake, Jake. What's good, brother? What's up, man? Man, it's been a lot of sports, lot of stuff happening all the way. am I glad MLB is back. Boy, did we see Texas Tech choke it up. I can't wait to get into it. It's going to be a fun time.
00:02:54
Speaker
Can't wait to laugh at Flo's team.
Introduction of Guest from IOW Sports
00:02:57
Speaker
You said it better than I could. I was going to say something to that effect that in the past week, the sports world has been going crazy.
00:03:06
Speaker
News from every single sport, even sports in the offseason. We're like, what's happening? Mind blown here, mind blown there. And we had to bring in. One of our super special guests, longtime friend of the family from IOW Sports, which if you didn't know, means I often wonder. What a great little acronym.
00:03:29
Speaker
love He is friend of the show and a sports expert, all around sports expert, like your brother, the sports professor here. Wow. Car. Mar. What's good, brother?
00:03:43
Speaker
IOW bottom line it's sensational baby sensational
00:03:51
Speaker
so so a pleasure to be here a man we ain't friends man we want fucking family in this giant man we podcast something it's always a pleasure to be here ah amen ah our w bottom line it's sensational baby sensational No, we definitely are a streaming family here. Me and Mar and Mar, well, Mar and us, and me and Mar on the out outside as well, collab a lot as well as I collab with Detroit Mel from
Guest Promotes Late-night Show and Social Media
00:04:21
Speaker
IOW. Shout out to our brother Detroit Mel. Shout out to the rest of the IOW crew, Nick and MJ. Hope you're well. Prayers up, brother. So, I mean, like all these things, it is a family-type atmosphere in the streaming world and as well.
00:04:34
Speaker
I mean, you know what it is. Mar is just a really good all-around dude. He loves talking sports, and he's making his triumphant return. So go ahead and let them know where you are back, where they can find you, my friend.
00:04:46
Speaker
Yeah, and what Omar is really talking about is my late night show. All right. That's the only tryout for return. If you know, if you go to my ah Twitter page, KC Wildcard, Omar, you know this, man.
00:04:57
Speaker
I be posting all kind of stuff, whether I'm doing collabs with Bottom Line, collabs with O, collabs with Jake, collabs with Eddie and everybody, Audible Podcast. Shout out my guy, Bobby G. I mean, you know, 613 Fade Productions. Shout out my fam over there. Hey,
00:05:15
Speaker
Just go to my Twitter page. I got a lot of stuff going on. But if you need some good late night sports talk on Monday nights, Tuesday nights, and Wednesday nights, take your ass on over to Hollywood Sports Network.
Debate on LeBron James and Fandom
00:05:28
Speaker
You'll catch me talking my shit on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesdays. You know, about 9, 10-ish CP time, depending on that time frame. Sometimes.
00:05:40
Speaker
ah You know, i ain't got no standard time. Whenever I cut the camera on, it it's it's a general time. So between 9 and 10. All right. nine and right yeah Now, I will say you all, if you are up at that time at the late hour like I am, at a you know, in my time, that would be the 10 o'clock hour, maybe 11 sometimes.
00:06:00
Speaker
I want you to know. that if you wait for it he comes on, you should listen because it is going to be a hilarious, entertaining, and very informing show because he does his research. Now, I will admit and say, yes, he is like me.
00:06:15
Speaker
We are all on CP time most of the time. and ah Mar and me especially just like to sometimes come on whenever the hell we feel like it even if it's 30 minutes late.
00:06:25
Speaker
So don't be alarmed if he's not on right when it says he's scheduled be. But that being said, y'all make sure you tap in with him. The IOW fan, the man down sports fan, Tony the Savant, Alan Perez, Let's Talk Sports.
00:06:40
Speaker
That being said, make sure you're... Yeah, you already know. And as well, make sure you hit ah Jake's final save pod. And as well, make sure that you subscribe to Ball and Buds, B-A-L-L-A-N-D-B-U-D-S. There's a handy QR code up at the top.
00:06:55
Speaker
It'll take you to all the links, including the Bottom Line Sports Facebook group. Go ahead and join that. And now, let's kick this bad boy off with hot... hey Oh, wait a second. We got some comments rolling in heavy.
00:07:07
Speaker
Hold up, Jake. Let's see what we got here. They're already coming in heavy already? Hey, Champ Ross... We love Champ Ross up in here. He runs an excellent boxing predictions group. If you like that sort of thing, get with me. I can get in touch.
00:07:20
Speaker
Alan, AP, family here.
Carmelo Anthony's Hall of Fame Debate
00:07:22
Speaker
Says King James, Rick James, Jesse James. so He is drunk already. That boy went home and got drunk off of some bull crap.
00:07:34
Speaker
What the hell? AP said Thunder in five, and Jake is mad because, as you know, he's a Fakers fan, and sure his hot take will have something to do with LeBron. This one's actually a little different, Omar. You get ready for this one. you're not going to pick me.
00:07:49
Speaker
Oh, wait a second. a Hold on. You're telling me you're not going to swing from LeBron's genitals tonight? Is that what you're not doing? Is that not doing? Hold on. Omar, I've been speaking facts on LeBron for the past, what, four years now?
00:08:03
Speaker
Come on now. youve been speaking You have not been speaking facts. You've been speaking infatuation. That's what you've been speaking. Get out of here. Get out here, bars. Wait, hold on.
00:08:14
Speaker
way home way hold on ho a Jake, are you
00:08:19
Speaker
Oh, yes. Yo, yo. You need to get Tony the savant to stop hating on him, bro. I can't even get on his page at times because he has so much hate on LeBron. Yo, this is great. I'll be like, yo, what did the heck? This guy just be hating on my boy the whole time.
00:08:36
Speaker
Hey, I will I'm not a big fan of LeBron. But my man, Tony, my man wake up and said, man, How the hell am I going to hate on LeBron today? Today, y'all? Y'all know I'm a LeBron hater. I think it's the LeBron hater of all time. And Tony knows that too.
00:08:58
Speaker
There is no dispute on that account. i know I am a big LeBron hater, but there is no bigger Tony got you beat good. Tony got you beat good. Tony got him. I don't know. Is it because he knows that Michael Jordan's reign as the GOAT is over?
00:09:12
Speaker
i don't know what it is, but... Look at that. Look at that. like yeah know We not having this conversation. Hey, Omar, do the host duties, man, because we not we not we're not standing for this foolishness right now. We not. ah No, we are not still standing for this foolishness. And as I, I mean, look, again, I'm a Braun hater, so I would normally tell the Braun fans to get the hell out of here. But Tony is on another level of Braun hateration. Tony like...
00:09:47
Speaker
He surpassed you, bro. so pay you would you would You would think he's from Cleveland the way he did LeBron. Hey, a a Tony Savant, the Silky Johnson, the LeBron haters. Hate, hate, hate, hate, hate. I'm telling y'all, the hate is real.
Hall of Fame Criteria Discussion
00:10:08
Speaker
I got two statements, Omar. right, I'm speaking of the week. let go Let's One's going to be live and one's going to be that was just announced. One's going to be of what I feel is about to happen. I think we're about to have a storylines of storylines, Omar, in the NBA.
00:10:22
Speaker
But let me get to the first topic real quick. NBA, need y'all to really... He took his glasses off, so it's about to be free. Guys, you know what I'm tired of now more than ever? I'm tired of the Hall of Fame just at inviting anybody.
00:10:38
Speaker
I'm really tired of it. This is a small take. It's not my biggest one yet, but I need to say this and I need to say this clearly. Carmelo Anthony couldn't wipe the top 20 twenty Best of all times Ass In fact Why in the hell are we just letting anybody In the hall of fame You don't deserve it Mark is fuck cur mu curse Fuck this
00:11:11
Speaker
deserveing Stop this, dawg. Look, look, look, okay, we need we need a little time now. Hold on, dawg, we dawg. We ain't doing this, dawg. No, no, no, be real.
00:11:23
Speaker
What has he ever done other than practically been on the coattails of people and made it to win some a couple of Olympics?
00:11:33
Speaker
in it Wait a minute. Wait a minute. I'll let y'all go first on that before I get to my second one. I'll let y'all responses. Wait, hold on. You talking about one of the best scoring po ah power forwards in all of basketball?
00:11:47
Speaker
You talking one of the best scoring? If we're inviting everybody, then let's invite everybody, Mar. Let's invite this game. Oh, come man. invite Luau Deng. Let's invite these kind of guys, bro.
00:11:58
Speaker
my God. You just put Walden on the same page. In the same tier as Carmelo Anthony. Jay, you're going out of a deep end tonight, bro. Those are two different calories. I muted him.
00:12:13
Speaker
I muted him. I'm not going to flow to you. I'll bring him back in a second. Now, you're talking about a guy in Carmelo Anthony, a Syracuse guy who could ball, who could literally ball. You said Luau Dane.
00:12:24
Speaker
They are two different calibers of ballplayers, man. What are you talking about, Jake? Come on, Jake. Jake. I'm talking about stat stuffers, bro. That's all the man ever did, and he only did it one time offensively.
00:12:36
Speaker
Man couldn't do anything, bro. I'm just calling a spade a spade. What has Carmelo done to deserve the Hall of Fame? Please. I'll tell you what he did. He had a better rookie season than your King James. Oh, stop. Rookie of the year.
00:12:50
Speaker
So did mark Michael Carter Williams. So did Michael Carter Williams one time. He never did any. He never managed to shit. ah I'm sorry. You got to give Carmelo in at the 10-time All-Star guy? 10-time All-Star?
00:13:01
Speaker
and i'm all star Oh, tell me, tell me, Ken. Hey, ah not only 10, not only 10 time all star, we talk about six time all NBA. And not only are we talking about him, we talk about three time gold medalist Carmelo Anthony. We also talking about one national championship, one and done Carmelo Anthony. This man won on damn near every level.
00:13:28
Speaker
This man is at least 25 points per game. Six rebounds, three assists. Oh, man. Jake, let's talk about it. Did you name Rudy Gay's stats? Was that Rudy Gay's stats? Because that's that's what we're practically saying.
00:13:43
Speaker
Yeah. no i our be a real I am so tired of your Rudy Gay comparisons. Ken, you're going out the deep end. Ken, go ahead. Ken, go ahead. You go next. I'll go after you. Go ahead, Ken. Here's the thing, Jake. I just made it relevant. The guy scored at least 25 points, six rebounds, three assists. The guy played over 565 games.
00:14:01
Speaker
gay Come on, man. Where's Steve Novak? Might as well give Steve Novak a damn Hall of Fame introduction, too, man. not only that he was Mario Chalmers. Sour gun, bro.
00:14:12
Speaker
Oh, Jay. on, Jay. I'm tired of it, bro. Mario Chalmers. Mario Chalmers. Hey, you're going to make me pull a flow
Comparison of Hall of Fame Across Sports
00:14:22
Speaker
and kick you out. You're going to make me. I'm just being real.
00:14:25
Speaker
What's he ever done? He never made a team better. He's never made team better, Mar. You ever made a team, Omar? ah Hey, hold on, hold on, hold on, You talking about the guy that's won on every level.
00:14:38
Speaker
Jake, every level. He superseded all the expectations. He won on every level. I just did all the damn Larry O'Brien trophy ever, Omar. oh oh Okay, so not everybody wins the NBA championship.
00:14:50
Speaker
But what I'm saying is you can't say he didn't make a team better when he's won on every level. he's why he's My thing is, it's like, come on, we talking about Carmelo Anthony. What teams were he supposed to win in the ah NBA championship with? He did that to himself, Mar. Don't do that.
00:15:06
Speaker
If we're going to go by the story, he should have been with the Miami Heat. But he got too very impatient, and he told Denver to trade him to the Knicks. Don't do that, Mar. We know the story.
00:15:18
Speaker
he he's he that like The goal was to have him and and um squad He wanted to play for his home squad. Well, first of all, you don't ever plan anything with LeBron. All right. That's first of all.
00:15:28
Speaker
and they That's where you miss him. All right. First of all, LeBron is too ah sporadic. I don't know where his emotions and where he's going to go. He might feel let's do the big three here in Miami today. or no let's do the big three in L.A. tomorrow. No, I ain't got time for all that.
00:15:45
Speaker
First of all, look, Carmelo Anthony, i you talk about a guy that was damn near unguardable because not only was he ah physical at the power forward, but just his size made it hard for him to guard. He had guard-like offensive skills and a body that was that big.
00:16:03
Speaker
He was... He was different. Carmelo Anthony was different, belongs in the Hall of Fame, got robbed of a rookie of the year in 2003. I'll stay here and I'll die on it. We're talking about the same guy that got was was doing just as much as LeBron at the same time as LeBron, but LeBron gets the name in notoriety.
00:16:24
Speaker
Come on, man. Are we talking about keeping a spade a spade, Jay? Jay, you got to be real. Jay, you got to keep real, man. I'm being real, man. He never made a team better, in my opinion. Never did. Hey, Jeremy Lin and the Knicks looked better without him during that run.
00:16:37
Speaker
Wow. If you're going to call spade spade, Mark, the best time of the Knicks season, it was when Jeremy Lin was playing Linsanity. Oh, shit. Come on, man.
00:16:49
Speaker
I need another drink, man. I need another drink. one time but i was looking there and say carello is a threat I was scared of insanity. Listen to this. they honest no martin oh my When you invited me, I didn't know that I need to go get my tequila. I did not know. I had no idea.
00:17:04
Speaker
I'm going to go get my tequila in a second. Let me just compare this to the NFL real quick. Deion Sanders just said it recently. He said, man, I'm really getting tired of everybody just falling in line into the Hall of Fame.
NBA vs NFL Hall of Fame Comparisons
00:17:17
Speaker
None of these guys can't strap the same shoelace I can, man. That's what I feel. can't do that. Come on. Now, I will agree with you that. Come on. Now, will agree with you on that. Deion Sanders. Keep real.
00:17:28
Speaker
Now, Deion Sanders made it made a good a good analogy and made a good comparison. with you There should be a hall very good in the Hall of Fame. no Come on, Mar. No, um'm here um I'm hearing what you're saying, Jake, because I know that that on nightcap the other night, Asante Samuel got in his feelings about him comparing himself to Deion Sanders.
00:17:44
Speaker
Asante, thanks, bro. He keep tripping. Assenting you to chill. No, no, no. Y'all introduce him, Mark, by kissing their asses. Y'all kiss everybody's asses. Everybody deserves a damn trophy with y'all.
00:17:55
Speaker
I'm tired of that. No, no, no. Hold on, hold on. Now, you know me well enough. You know me well enough. Disrespect me looking like Mary Kay and Ashley Olsen on crap, you heard? Thank you. hey Hey, I'm a participation trophy. don't need that.
00:18:11
Speaker
I'm all about either you win or you lose. You're a loser. You're a loser. You either win or you lose. But what I'm saying is Carmelo won on every level except the NBA level.
00:18:23
Speaker
Right. All right. So if you're talking about hall the basketball Hall of Fame, it's not talking about just nitpicking his NBA career. It's talking about his career as a whole. You can't knock his whole career as a whole when he's one in high school, one in college, one on the national level. was a was He can go down easily as one of the top 25 scorers of all time in basketball history.
00:18:47
Speaker
You know who he reminds me of? This is my last point. If I'm going compare it to NFL, You know who he reminds me of? He's Dan Marino. No, he's Frank Gore. Frank Gore? He just had stats. Never did shit for the team.
00:19:00
Speaker
Never made the team any better. ah First of all, fory sch trial Frank Gore will be a Hall of Famer. ah yeah Another slap in the face like Deion said.
Defending Carmelo Anthony's Career
00:19:11
Speaker
don't know u k Okay, so here's my thing on the Hall of Fame. If they make up the rules and regulations on how or what the criteria to make it, you fit I think you have to have something in in in the biggest games to show me that you deserve that spot.
00:19:28
Speaker
That's all I'm trying to say, man. I get what you're saying, Jake. You're not wrong. But what I'm saying is if you look at the criteria, when they make up these criteria to get in the Hall of Fame, and if you fit it, you fit it.
00:19:40
Speaker
You feel it? They make up the rules. But Jake, let me say something. Jake, what what what what is a significant accomplishment for you that makes some somebody stand out then? I don't remember Carmelo ever dominating and being a top two, top three put best at his position during his era.
00:19:59
Speaker
I come back. Hey, man, you crazy. is a ah Hey, hold on, hold on. Wait, Jake. Am I being real or wrong? You do remember? he's one of the man but He's one of the best power force to come after Kevin Garfield.
00:20:15
Speaker
Dirk Davinsky. Is a small forward? Yeah. I think he's small forward, honestly. Who cares? It don't matter what his position is. It don't matter. and He's 3 or 4. He's hard to guard.
00:20:26
Speaker
and he And he's a bucket. Hard to guard in a bucket, you get that career. And you get Hall of Fame.
00:20:34
Speaker
How's that my criteria? Yo, I've been on this program for a few years now. And this is probably have ever have heard every single ridiculous, ludicrous, just downright ignorant takes that hot take Jake has. And believe me, he has lots of them if you don't watch this program. Man, Jake got the deep end, man.
00:21:00
Speaker
I may never have heard one as bad as is this this. Hey, make you make sure you snip this one. You better cut and snip this one. Yeah. And snip this one. Thank you for that, Canteen. I appreciate that. I didn't do that.
00:21:12
Speaker
Hey, Omar, the 21st minute, remember, 21st minute is when you start clipping the rest of that part. And you go go back to the actual, the 15th minute when Jay started talking his nonsense and then you clip it.
00:21:27
Speaker
i get We will do that. ah Before I go on, though, because I do think that is one of the most ridiculous takes, if not the most ridiculous take I've ever had. Let's get into some comments here. And I apologize for the comment section.
00:21:39
Speaker
For some reason, like the settings, I have it. So it should move us up when I put the comments up, but it doesn't. And it kept blocking Marr's face, and I didn't want to do that while he was talking. so And he was giving good points. So let's run back to some comments real quick. Don't think that I'm not going show him. I will.
00:21:53
Speaker
AP coming hard at Jake as always. Pause. Guess those Longhorns just aren't for show. Champ says these LeBron cronies got to take a hike. Just one word to piss off LeBron fans. Hashtag Jordan. Jordan. Jordan.
00:22:10
Speaker
jordandi He said, Jordan Goat, these young kids don't know nothing. I think we all agree except Jake here. He's the only one that would say Braun. The rest of us are MJ Goat supporters.
00:22:22
Speaker
Mello, not a Hall of Famer. Talk about hate. That's not hate. No, I, I, Hey, if you really want to have that conversation, we'll have to have it for another day. Or where you put LeBron in the go conversation. We will have a doc. We got to have a private conversation on that one.
00:22:38
Speaker
No, it ain't going to be private. It ain't going to be on this show. Oh no. Oh no. Oh no. We got to put it on camera. Cause I got to hear the
Anticipation for Hottest Take of the Week
00:22:48
Speaker
blast from me. That's going to come out of your mouth. When you say, Oh yeah, we got schedule this.
00:22:51
Speaker
We need a world premiere of this on YouTube. You know what I mean? Come check out horrible hot take Jake's worst predictions ever. Damn, Jake.
00:23:01
Speaker
yeah Oh, man. said...
00:23:06
Speaker
Champ says these problems are cruel. and He says Mello didn't do nothing, but he was the man on the Olympic team. Okay, Jake, that's sarcastic, obviously. With bunch of great players around him.
00:23:17
Speaker
Never did anything unless he had great players. Jake definitely has some PTSD from Rudy Gay. I'm not sure what happened. Maybe Rudy Gay came and slapped him in the face one time. Memphis did upset the Spurs a couple times in the offs.
00:23:33
Speaker
i think I think Rudy K teabagged Jake or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He definitely like, he just, instead he he Jake wasn't swinging. He was sucking from me for that. Oh, shit. ah pause oh you said I got to get him later. No, no, no. I'll get you later. Don't worry.
00:23:52
Speaker
Mello was that guy. He said Syracuse didn't win since the 80s like that, but he brought Syracuse back. Facts. Big facts. ah He says Mello never teamed with the up with anybody either like LeBron did. Again, facts. Sam, just bring in all the super facts right now. Not like LeBron's super teams. don't know about that. Amari Stoudemire was in his prime when he joined up with the Knicks. I'm just saying.
00:24:17
Speaker
That was not primal. It was a pick-em between Chris Bosh and Amari. I don't know who was better. Wait, wait, hold on, hold on. You do remember Amari literally pretty much career ended once he got there. Well, ended up hurting himself, but at the same time, he had no idea who was going to be better, Chris Bosh or Amari Stoudemire. That was a good fight at the time.
00:24:36
Speaker
No, we knew. We knew. Yeah, we do but knew. And as Champ points out, if he had Wade and Bosh, Mello would have won a championships too. yes We don't know that. We have no idea on that. Don't do that.
00:24:50
Speaker
That's blasphemous. a ah Excuse me, Champ, one more time. Carmelo going to invite Jake to the induction ceremony first row seat. Ah, Jake going to be there.
00:25:02
Speaker
That's crazy. And then finally, AP, let's talk sports. Shout out. LeBron isn't even top five, never was and never will be. That's a long take. Jake, y'all run with that.
00:25:14
Speaker
Yeah, run with that dumbass take right there. That little dumb take. Ah. I can't agree with that. Yeah, I can't. I'm a LeBron hater, but I cannot agree with that AP. I think you're a little off base there, and I think you might be a little more of a hater than I am as well.
00:25:27
Speaker
I'm not sure. But anyways, wow, what a spirited conversation
Mavericks vs Lakers Bold Prediction
00:25:33
Speaker
that was. And that wasn't even your hottest take of week, and we just spent 20 minutes on that. What the hell is your hottest take of the week? You want to save it for next week? No, no, because I haven't even got to go yet. Hold on. Yeah, save it for next week.
00:25:45
Speaker
Save it for next week. I haven't even got to go yet on this one. i can All I got say, Jake, that you need a... Get the fuck out of here. Why don't you get the fuck out here? Get the fuck out of here.
00:25:59
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and All right. Listen here. I completely agree with you. I am one of the proponents, and I think you took this argument from me watching the mind of the professor, and I appreciate you tuning in to Ball and Buds, but I also have always said it should never be the hall of ah good or even the hall of great.
00:26:19
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It is a hall fame and should be reserved for only the best of the best. That's it. As Lamar, excuse me, as Wildcard Mar, so astutely pointed out, there are
00:26:34
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guardrails, there are baselines, there are metrics that are either achieved or not achieved to be able to be let in into the Hall of Fame.
00:26:45
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Now, whether those metrics, which they do, change over time as voters and voter preferences change, which happens as some voters age out of the voting group and younger voters come in, so opinions will change, that does not ever change the fact that Carmelo Anthony is a Hall of Famer.
00:27:05
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There was no doubt about it that Carmelo Anthony is not just a great. Carmelo Anthony is a Hall of Famer without a championship ring. He is a Dan Marino type of Hall of Famer.
00:27:17
Speaker
Okay? He's not just some run-of-the-mill, whoever you said, Mario Chalmers or your other guy you'd be swinging from, Matt Stafford. ah You'd be swinging from Matt Stafford's genitals as well. well He's another โ yeah And he still ain't as good as um Carmelo Anthony.
00:27:34
Speaker
So i'm mean I'm not going to keep going because think you ah Mar and and Ken demolished you enough. But while I do agree with you, the Hall of Fame should be reserved for the best of the best. Carmelo is one of those.
00:27:46
Speaker
And your disrespect and blasphemy and besmirchment of the good name of Carmelo Anthony will not be accepted on this program. Bissmurchment is crazy. Hey, i one thing about Professor, he loves using big words in his vernacular, bissmurchment. I like that. Hey, look at Canteen. ka I love it, man. There we go.
00:28:08
Speaker
Hey, when you grow up reading the dictionary, that's how you get smarter. I i love it, brother. I love it, man. i love it. All right, Jake, what's your hottest hot take in a week? God bless. I don't even want to know what this is.
00:28:20
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um I'm looking at the playoff picture, guys. I really believe as long as they don't see the Lakers. Guys, the Mavs are 4-1 in the last five games. I think this team can really make a Western Conference Finals.
00:28:35
Speaker
I think Anthony Davis is on a whole other level right now. He's pissed off. i try Me and Omar have had bad timing with our new show, but we're going to get back on it. Don't worry.
00:28:46
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And the very first episode, I warned the man. I said, bro, They know what they're doing out there in Dallas, and they just pissed off Anthony Big Baby Davis. Get ready for him.
00:28:58
Speaker
He's coming, and he's coming hard. I think this guy. Wow. and Reckless as hell. Wowzers. Pause yourself, sir. Yeah, that right. Jeez Louise. Like I said, hey, they're gonna come hard.
00:29:16
Speaker
They're gonna come hard. And it's three times. No, no, no, no, no. Now you're just fucking with me. Now you're just fucking with me. Now you're just fucking with me. Hey, this is wild, bro.
Athlete Home Invasions and Security Risks
00:29:31
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I got Dallas. My man, we don't have to say it three more times afterwards. going to come hard. Unacceptable. Unacceptable. yeah I got Dallas versus the Lakers in the Western Conference Finals as long as they don't see them earlier in the rounds.
00:29:48
Speaker
I mean, that's the same matchup you've had since the trade. It's not changed. it neither has the trade outcome, which is Kyrie tore his ACL. Anthony Davis is injury prone. They don't have Luka. They can't score. And I don't care what they're for in one of the last five games because they ain't going beat the Thunder. They ain't going to beat the Nuggets.
00:30:06
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They ain't going beat the Warriors. And they might not even beat your sorry-ass Fakers. They ain't going to make it to a playing game, though. They're going to look good. Mar, you better watch them, bro. They're looking good.
00:30:19
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4-1 the last five games. Yeah, yeah. you should have done was stuck with the Carmelo Anthony take. That's what you should have done. Yeah, I like that take more than that one, dog. Okay, y'all get ready. We're going to look back at this and say, damn, they got a point.
00:30:33
Speaker
The Mavs look pretty good. oh God bless. All right. You got you know what? you Flo is going to be mad at me because you just had me curse three times in a row, and I'm trying to stop the cursing because and you you and your stupid hot takes, Jake. You're damn used to it. All right. We're moving into the a less more less profane because jake is so... never with m a Makes me want to curse, bro. Right.
00:30:59
Speaker
Jeez, Lord, help us. um Can't he? What are we going to next? We are going to...
00:31:14
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Yes, sir. The mixed bag is on. Where are my glasses? I can't find them, so I can't wear and That's okay. We'll go without. Anyways, mixed bag, the sports professor, is here to give you some quick headlines of everything going on that you may and probably did not hear about.
00:31:28
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First of all, let us start with the... um probably, I guess, the most negative piece of news and prayers up to former NFL cornerback Richard Sherman, who had shared photos and videos on social media of his ah house being broken into by armed suspects. So obviously prayers up to him. What I want what i want to ask on this, y'all, is there has been a string...
00:31:54
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of athlete home burglaries and other things happening. What do you think is the cause of this and what do you think can be done more to stop this or do you think it's just every celebrity is at the whim of this canteen? What do you think?
00:32:09
Speaker
Man, I don't want to be funny. i don't ah don't want to say anything out of term or character, but why is it just celebrities? Why is it just these guys are getting targeted? i don't know if it's just somebody just said. Because you ain't got what he has, Mug. You know that. You know your house ain't as rich as his. And here's that here's the thing, Professor. You have the haves and the have-nots. So, I mean, it's it's that is's that type of dynamic, but...
00:32:32
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And and here's the thing, if these guys living if they live in gated communities and upscale neighborhoods and different things of this nature, how are these people that are like that live subpar lives able to get into these type of communities and these type of areas to even be around these type folks?
00:32:47
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That's the bigger question. Yeah, I mean, their security should be at least beefed up and in those most richest area, you would think. And this shouldn't happen. I agree completely. But obviously, these people put in a lot of work and a lot of research and a lot of, ah you know, planning into these attacks. Jake, what do you think?
00:33:06
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um Man, what sucks is Richard Sherman is, you know, he's got to work, you know, post-NFL. I just think it's friends of friends.
00:33:17
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I really do. I think it's more inside job-ish. I think more guys that could beโฆ Around them It might not be their closest friends But it could be their closest friends I think people study You know guys that just study the NFL really well The guys whenever they're gone Usually around this time Guys are done They don't have report any of the games They're going on vacation So they kind of know their schedule little more Right now around this time If I am NFL players I'd beef up my security Especially around this time
00:33:51
Speaker
basic Because I think you're more out and about right now before OTAs start, before you're back at home. You know, every every other week you're going back home during the NFL season. I think right now is the toughest time when you've got really beef yourself up for it. So prayers to him. glad nobody was hurt for it.
00:34:10
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I'd rather him lose a million pieces than himself. Yeah, that's... Yeah, exactly. Things can be replaced, lives cannot. And thankfully, that's what's been happening within this string of things because apparently they've been, like you said, targeting them, obviously, when they're not home, when they're playing, when they're on the road, things like
Pistons Brawl Analysis
00:34:28
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this.
00:34:28
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I personally, if I had enough money, and ah not all the athletes make enough to have this, but if you are some of the millionaires, you could have, like Richard Sherman was, you can afford to have 24-hour security on your present on your premise if you really needed to, or at least a call-in security mar what do you think about this yeah man it's ah it's an unfortunate situation um and i don't i i in in in like uh you know our brothers already said already thankfully nobody got hurt um because we got to remember this is kind of how we lost sean taylor uh home invasion um yes exactly
00:35:04
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i You know, situations like this is unfortunate. I'm kind of under and under the same thought process that Jake is. i In order for for situations like this, somebody really got to know you to know you to know where you live because I'm pretty sure.
00:35:20
Speaker
Once you get to that type of money, you're pretty private and you you know you don't put your you know your a address, your location out there like that. You just don't. but Usually not in social media anymore, but don't you remember like back in the day, they would have like the celebrities and the tour guides would take you around to the celebrities' homes. That's LA. LA is a show. They're supposed to do that.
00:35:42
Speaker
yeah You know what I'm saying? you But with these sports athletes in around spread across the city, man, leave these people alone. And I encourage these sports athletes, you know, hey, um I don't know if you believe in it or not.
00:35:55
Speaker
Hey, I am a very avid Second Amendment. Hmm. Yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely. I use it to the fullest. And then, you know, honestly, if I got that type of money, I got security with me regardless. because you Right.
00:36:11
Speaker
All the time. All the time. that At least when I'm out in public. and So that's just me. um I don't know, man. i Obviously, they're still human beings. Unfortunately, when their salary is publicized, unfortunately, it makes them a target.
00:36:27
Speaker
Anytime they go on SportsCenter and say, oh, well, you know, this guy signed for, it you know, five years, $300 million. dollars I mean, it kind of paints a ah target on you. No.
00:36:40
Speaker
um At the end of the day um you know protect protect yourself and protect what what you need to do. At the end of the day, you got to protect it. so yeah Yeah, you got to protect it. And again, there is no hate on anything here. If you want to be a Second Amendment rights user and own a gun, perfectly fine, as long as you please be safe with it. So, you know, kids ain't getting killed, things like that. I personally do not own one, but that's more because I don't trust myself not to pop off on someone rather than i need the protection. So... I just think I'd probably go to jail before I needed to protect myself. Oh my, trigger happy ass. That's funny, though. That's why I don't own one. But then let me come back to this thing, guys. I mean, and then and then when you look at all the thefts and all the break-ins and all these things that that tend to occur in our world and ah in our neighborhood and stuff, this is the driving force with insurance and stuff.
00:37:40
Speaker
That's why the insurance sp prices go up. That's why all these things happen in our world. Great point. Yeah. Yeah. and I mean, you like, I'm thinking, well, um I'm moving to New Mexico, what have you. So if you punch in a zip code in a location, they're going to say, hey, punch in our zip code, and they're going look at crime and all these different demographics and things in a certain area, and they're going to base it based off of certain things, what your rates are going to be for insurance. and and And you may have a good, clean record, but based off of that area, your rates may be crazy. Yeah.
00:38:13
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based off of that and all these different things like that, guys. and i Yeah, that's definitely. Yeah, no, and like Mara said, that's a great point. Thank you, Canteen, for offering that. i didn't even think about that. But you're right. When that happens, the prices of insurance and the prices of homes, because then you probably have to get more security in that area as well. So, yeah, great point. um All I'll say to to round this out is that, yeah, if I mean, I would definitely have, like Mar said, I would have security in public all the time.
00:38:43
Speaker
But if I was a millionaire, I'd have me Whitney Houston bodyguard security. I'm talking Kevin Costner walking on my c premises all day, all night long.
00:38:54
Speaker
ah make you weird not For real, a for real, it's crazy out here, especially with, hey, dog, it's some crazy motherfuckers there. So, yeah, so prayers up ah to him, and we'll keep this moving for just a second. I want to say one note, and I want you to talk about this because I got to get my charger before my computer dies. Fallout from the wild brawl between the Timberwolves and Pistons.
00:39:14
Speaker
One-game suspension for Detroit hol Ron Holland, Marcus Sasser, Minnesota Nasri, Dante DiVincenzo, and Pistons forward Isaiah Stewart received two games. This was a brawl that started with them arguing and DiVincenzo getting in the middle and then spilling over to the crowd Mar, I know you saw this, so carry on for a second while I go get my charger.
00:39:34
Speaker
Hey, man. Hey. I like it. You know why i like it? but Because it gives these Pistons, these young Pistons, your attitude. Your attitude.
00:39:46
Speaker
I don't care. Hey, it's okay. You got to knuckle up and scuffle up a little bit every now and then. So what? You got to remember, this team has been down so bad. Yeah. Terrible for the last 10 years.
00:39:59
Speaker
yo Yo, not only are they above 500, they are not even in the playing situation. They are one of the top six teams in the East. like I love it.
00:40:10
Speaker
ah you know I get it. Sometimes you got to take a little suspension, a game or two, just to keep your ah yo you know your mojo flowing. It is what it is. They got it got look got a little juice, little swag.
00:40:22
Speaker
kind of Kind of remind me of a little bad boy pitching this back in the 80s where they ain't taking no match for nobody. And I'm with it, dog. It's a culture change. well When you've been losing for so long, ain't nothing wrong with a little culture change and being a little feisty. I'm with it, man.
00:40:36
Speaker
I agree with it's a culture change, and I agree they can use feistiness, and I'm just going to play advocate here, though, because when people see the media headlines, even though it did not involve crowd participation, when people see the media headlines, Pistons, Crowd, Fight, there is they're only reminiscent of what we all know as the brawl. What was it? What was it called? Palace at Palace. Thank you.
00:41:05
Speaker
Man, that was so long ago, man. It's been a whole generation that ain't even seen that. They only YouTube that shit, dawg. First of all, you and i remember it, don't we? Do Canteen remember? Cocktail Jake, you remember?
00:41:16
Speaker
The Malice in the Palace? Okay, well, I think Jake his 30s. That's on Metal World Peace. Hey, if you have not seen The Malice in the Palace, it is a brawl between the distance and the pasters from like night like early 2000s, late ninety something like that. Yeah.
00:41:32
Speaker
Go watch it. It's crazy. It's one of the craziest videos you'll ever see. Some fans get punched in the face. It is the most wild scene in sports history, I believe. That's almost out like 20 years ago by this time. so was Yeah, about 20 years ago.
00:41:46
Speaker
so Yeah. So you don't you don't see that connection at all? you Well, trust me, I... The connection is easily there just because Detroit, Detroit, and you can put that together. and But but that's that's people our age because we remember that.
00:41:59
Speaker
What I'm saying is is is is these younger generations, you know, 20 below, they're not going to understand what Malice the Palace is and not not even understand that
Light-hearted Banter and Sports Jokes
00:42:08
Speaker
connection at all. So they they're just like, oh, well, you know, these cats is over here squabbling. So, you know.
00:42:15
Speaker
and look me I mean, and then the crazy part about the man, I mean, they were squabbling on the court. they when do when i think I think this other white dude had swung or something like that and they went up into them bleachers, man, and they... Yeah, DiVincenzo came in and tried to break up the fight, and then he got into it with the other guy, and then they just fell in the crowd.
00:42:32
Speaker
Yeah, man, was crazy. Jake, what do you think? Anything on this? I'm not saying this... How do I put this? I don't see it as an outlier. But I do believe Mar has a point in this.
00:42:47
Speaker
I believe certain teams, for some damn reason, have to follow their roots to become great again. We think of the bad, poor Christians when they got pissed off.
00:43:00
Speaker
We think of when when they came back into Malice in the Palace and then not not years later, they end up beating the Lakers, a stacked Lakers team at that, being physical with them and out, you know, what's it called? So I believe this could be a change.
00:43:15
Speaker
Similarly, I think of the Bears of the 85, and I know the 2006 Bears didn't win the Super Bowl, but think of how their defense was made. I just think of your your history and of where you come from.
00:43:30
Speaker
It's more with you because Detroit's known for being rugged. You don't want to walk down a Detroit street because you know you might get beat up. You don't know what can happen next. That's why I'm saying I think it's a momentum change. I hope it's for the right reasons, and let's use it into our basketball play.
00:43:47
Speaker
But I do agree. It's time to change this damn trash can that we've seen over 15 damn years. Let's call a spade a spade. The last time these guys were at least decent, Andre Drummond was the damn center, and he sucks.
00:44:02
Speaker
I'm just calling spade. Never heard the French print mount but pronunciation of Drummond. Well, the last time I heard about the guy, he was more talks about being that girl from my car than he was the damn game itself.
00:44:14
Speaker
Wow. Hey, hold on, hold on. Andre Drummond. well Andre Drummond. I call him Andre Drummond because he was as weak as a pebble.
00:44:34
Speaker
Drummond.
00:44:37
Speaker
I'm just saying, man. There's no problem. These guys are not that good. It's time to step up. It's time to step up. That's what I'm saying. I hope it's a momentum change.
00:44:51
Speaker
Can I caveat that, Professor, real quick? Yeah, of course, Drew Mond. I mean, Jake made a ballot. Drew Mond. Drew Mond. Hold on, man. Y'all be hating on what happened. Well, baby, man.
00:45:06
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jeman mind
00:45:11
Speaker
long yeah yeah shall we hate no one hand me bit it bad That ain't a nickname. That's a bad pronunciation. Don't try to fake like that's your nickname, boy. I've been calling him that for a while now.
00:45:27
Speaker
Would you like some of this finest champagne from Andre Drummond? He ain't not all my nicknames. I just named Ben Johnson, the head coach. I said Big Big Johnson. Oh, my God, I'm pissed off.
00:45:39
Speaker
I mean, Paul. I've been calling him Big Big Johnson. on, DJ. DJ, DJ, you've been going too far sometimes. You can't hang out, man. Whoa, time out, bro. you You don't call another man that, bro. Don't do that, bro.
00:45:53
Speaker
What? Hey, clip this, bro. so Make sure they that the man rules get followed because Jake is over here just bringing all the man rules like a fucking stop because the man's What the hell?
00:46:09
Speaker
two Minutes 21 and will be Oh not my. me. I'm going to kill him. Yes, I'm going to kill him. Yes, Cuban D.
00:46:29
Speaker
and hello umm going to take your little mexican friend with me yeah im um yes cu d I'm Cuban B. Ah, yes, Cuban B. We saw how closed it out on the Andre Drummond. That was the last time they were That is wild. All right, cool. 21 and 48. Got that. Jake, I'm going to need you to, you know what, Clubber D sent me this video the other day.
00:46:56
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of ah pause to actual possible
00:47:03
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not pause relationship of a graph that was being explained and how if you have to say it too many times or if you're too reckless with your speech like you have been in this episode, Jake, we start to actually question whether you're actually pausing not.
00:47:18
Speaker
And calling another man... Big D Johnson is just out of the street. said Big Ben. No, you said Big B. No, I said Big Ben Johnson.
00:47:32
Speaker
ah they well I heard buy or something else. Yo, I'm so glad. You better clip this now. Now I get to turn it around on y'all. i always risk I'm going to go back like damn stenographer snipp it and find out.
00:47:49
Speaker
I'm going to go back like a damn court stenographer and I'm to find out what the hell you said. Big Ben Johnson. All right. All right. Yeah. I don't think it was Ben. You stand right now. That ain't what I heard. Ma, Ma, you get ready. You're going to watch you're going to be like oh, shit, man.
00:48:05
Speaker
I'm thinking the wrong. I'm thinking with the wrong head now. No, no. That's what you're going to say. you might be right. What I'm saying is that that's not what I heard. You might be right. But what I heard... We're going listen 48 minutes.
00:48:19
Speaker
Hey, I'm going to start questioning both of y'all now. Hey, man, that's crazy, bro. I'm a whole day, baby.
00:48:31
Speaker
umby kill me and We have been brought off the rails too many times today. We have crashed the car because of Jake.
00:48:43
Speaker
Now we are ending Jake.
00:48:48
Speaker
crazy it Just impending doom coming upon us, man you are You are a trip, Jake. um ah You know what? i'm glad ah I'm glad I met you. I'm glad you're on this show, but ah you be walling sometimes, son, for real. You're walling right I can't wait to get it.
00:49:04
Speaker
Turn it around. Ayo! By the way, I got to get a pause and Ayo soundbite on here for next time. Now that I know you're going to be so reckless with the talk.
00:49:15
Speaker
I'm going to get y'all. I can't wait for that 48-minute mark. And y'all going to look dumb. Y'all going to be like, damn. We're over there thinking of other things. bo Well, I mean, let me nud you that new jordan that oh yeah yeah i not I'm not going to blame it all on Mar, but I will say I took some cues from what Mar heard.
00:49:34
Speaker
So I'm hoping that Mar was correct in what he actually said. yeah, there you go. Hey, Jake, you see how Omar is putting this shit on me? He's trying to protect himself. I can't wait there. Hey, Omar ain't shit for that. literally just...
00:49:52
Speaker
had to slide that shit real quick under there and was like, yeah, let's move on to the next topic. but paul time If Lamar was going off what he said,
Jerickson Profar's Suspension and Braves' Season
00:50:03
Speaker
you slimy sack of shit, this guy right here, dog. I can't breathe.
00:50:07
Speaker
I can't breathe.
00:50:13
Speaker
Omar, you saw your play from the second you got on the field, bro. We saw the play. they fail Hey, I played safety, dog. I saw you coming. yo
00:50:25
Speaker
i was come I was waiting for you to come across the middle. Super pause, but goddamn it. yeah not super falls but that yeah Like I said, and that what I was trying to finish off by saying is Omar got mad because there's only one big Ben to him and he got mad about it previous episodes.
00:50:44
Speaker
But it's just the nicknames I make up. Hey, we saw all the rails. Omar don't even know where we're supposed to even go right now. I truly and seriously don't even know where my where I am in my mixed bag right now.
00:50:56
Speaker
um what yeah We had just finished Detroit-Pincetns fight. Oh, yeah, we're only story two of seven of the sports mix bag. We got a long time ago.
00:51:07
Speaker
But, no, I agree with you. I'll be right back. I'm going to use bathroom real quick. Okay. I was so just about to be like, was so just not going to say it. And I was like, man, maybe I just got to throw that in there at the end to cover myself. I love you, Mark. know love you. You know love you. Oh, man, that's funny.
00:51:26
Speaker
All right, let's keep it moving. Jake can hit this when he gets back. Another suspension in the Major League Baseball. ah ah Braves outfielder. You're at Braves there, Canteen. Jerickson Profar has been suspended 80 games. 80 games. 80. For taking human, chrononic, gonadopio.
00:51:46
Speaker
Ganatotropin, ganatotropin, a fertility medication often taken after a round of steroids. It's the same drug Manny Ramirez tested positive for in 2019 in a statement.
00:51:58
Speaker
Jerickson Profar, who last year had his first breakout year, and now having this happen, Huh, is there causation or correlation? We need to talk about it. Profar said he never knew knowingly took the drug, as that's what they all say, but he also accepted the punishment.
00:52:15
Speaker
Huge blow for the title hopeful Braves that now are 0-6 winless on the year, Can team. How do you feel about this?
00:52:27
Speaker
I mean, that that is that is a... Low blow, man. The Braves haven't won a game yet. i mean, the Phillies are kicking tail in that division right now. I mean, we we look like shit.
00:52:40
Speaker
I mean, we do. I mean, that the Nationals have won one game. We ain't won nothing. So, I mean... I mean, these guys know what they're doing, man. they they they they They jump out there and start doing things that they're not supposed to do. And then when you're suspended 80 games, I mean, i know that's a large portion of the season.
00:53:01
Speaker
He may not come back until, what, October maybe? Well, he's yeah, he's going to be spending into the postseason as well. So because they have โ well, no, wait, let's see. and starts to No, no, he'll be back. He'll be back. He'll be back. gay He'll be back about halfway through the season. It's 162 games, man. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I was thinking we were further into the season for some reason. yeah we just started So, mean he I mean, he'll be, what, later after the All-Star break and stuff like that. so i Right after the All-Star break, sure.
00:53:28
Speaker
Yeah. So, i mean, that's that's that's ah that's a low blow for him, and that's a low blow to the organization because I know the Braves had big intentions and had big plans on doing things, but, hell, we can't even โ the bats are slow. We're slow on both sides of the ball. We can't even win a game.
00:53:42
Speaker
so And that's the thing. Will y'all even be in the playoff hunt? Because even if he is going to be there for the playoffs, is he even going to be back in time to help y'all for a playoff run if y'all are going to 0-45? Hell, hell, we won't want to be viable if we're 0-45 at that point. Shit, didn't. I hope you all do go over to 45, and I hope have to change your name because it's racist.
00:54:02
Speaker
Damn Atlanta. ah You know what? Let me not we stop. Change that damn name. Anyways, Mar, what do you think about this?
00:54:12
Speaker
Man. Hey, man, you do dumb stuff. you You know, dumb... rewards when you get caught. I mean, but I, it just sucks. Uh, obviously, you know, uh, canteen already kind of touched on it, man. It just sucks for the Braves. Uh, already got a 0 and 6 star there. He got some players missing, obviously, you know, still waiting for Acuna to come back.
00:54:35
Speaker
Um, so I mean, it's, it doesn't help. Um, ah We'll see what happens when he ah ah when he can add to the roster when he comes back.
00:54:46
Speaker
but but I mean, it it happens every year. and There's going to be somebody that's going to try to you know ah cheat the system. ino and and and not to cut not not a Not to jump in too much, Professor, but you know as Wild Card Marks said, somebody always going to try to beat the system.
00:55:01
Speaker
Guys tried and some guys slip through cracks and do it and they and they're profitable to the organization. But then somebody is going to get tested it and going to screw the organization over, man. So I think in all actuality, guys, just just leave it alone. Just do what's right and then just be beneficial to your organization.
00:55:17
Speaker
a I will say it it did obviously put a huge ah hit to the the the Braves and their, and their playoff hopes, especially that they
Sports Memorabilia Market and Trading Cards
00:55:28
Speaker
don't even have a CUNY now for the next month. And they also, you know, lost players in the off season and it is having a really, really bad start, which again, as a Mets fan makes me very, very happy.
00:55:38
Speaker
ah But, um, What I will say on this is there's two points here. a athletes do this in every sport, and they try to claim that they didn't knowingly do it.
00:55:49
Speaker
um There's some times where that may even be the case. So not believable by this point because it's more of the boy called wolf. ah called wolf sure because everyone uses it.
00:56:02
Speaker
At this point, it's like, okay, well, I can't even give you the benefit of the doubt because all you're doing is just giving the same lame excuse as everyone else. How the hell does a fertility medication get in your body, sir, then?
00:56:13
Speaker
You're not a woman. i don't see you fertilizing anything anytime soon. right What are we talking about right now? Man, it's crazy as hell, man. Right. and so And also the other thing is ah They know these things. Like when they had Manny Ramirez suspended, they know that you take this medication to try to clear out the other medication. So it's like, just just take it, just move on. say But you've got to look at the causation correlation because last year, as I said, was his breakout year. He had not had a good season before that in his major league career. He had just been average. And then all of a sudden last year for the Padres, he blew up.
00:56:52
Speaker
The Braves signed him to a huge free agent deal, and now he's basically screwed them out of that playing time and that money. You know, half a season of money. So, anyways.
00:57:03
Speaker
All right, moving on, more baseball news. Jake isn't here to give his opinion on that. I don't see him. Oh, no, okay. More baseball news. Shohei Otani's autographed one-of-one relic card ah commemorating his 50-50 season sold for $1.067 million dollars at the Heritage Auctions.
00:57:21
Speaker
This sale comes after Paul Skeen's MLB debut autograph card went for $1.1 million. dollars So in the past two months and the past month,
00:57:32
Speaker
Two baseball cards, over a million dollars. I know the trading card industry is blowing up. I'm actually dipping my toes into it a little bit by buying some cards here and there. Gentlemen, y'all have any thoughts on this?
00:57:44
Speaker
i mean I mean, that's major anyway. um I mean, that's major for him. And, I mean, I think he's just, I mean, get his feet out of ground. mean, he's going to some more phenomenal things anyway, man. That's great for One million. What do you think, Mark? One million.
00:57:58
Speaker
No, man, um you know, it's just one of those hobbies that i wish i would have got into when I was younger. ah It's like, hey, man, some of these cars, man, they go for it. They could probably pay off one of your mortgage, dog, if you really you really find a good one. Yeah, man. Damn, man.
00:58:17
Speaker
Damn, mad I didn't have that hobby as a kid growing up, man. I i probably would have been in a different situation it right now, dog. I ain't gonna lie. Because I would sold all of them off. would have sold all of them off.
00:58:32
Speaker
Yeah, yeah, no, and then I'm with you on that because I actually collected ah bunch of cards when I was a kid and just never knew like, oh, they're going to be that worth this much money possibly in the future.
Young Tennis Player's Win and Coastal Carolina's Initiative
00:58:44
Speaker
i you know, I wish I still had the cards. I don't think I do. My mom probably sold them, but I wish I still had them because I would love to go through and see if there's any, you know, good ones in there.
00:58:55
Speaker
You know what I mean? All right, moving on. Two more stories here. Jacob Mensik, the 19-year-old, upset the great Novak Djokovic at the Miami Open to win his first ah tennis pro title and $1.12 million, dollars which is a good prize for ah He also denied Djokovic the record for men's Grand Slams.
00:59:25
Speaker
And well, hold on. So the win also denied Djokovic the record 24 Grand Slams and his 100th tour win. too ah So he's still looking to accomplish that. So this was a huge victory by Jacob Mensik. What you all think about that?
00:59:42
Speaker
Huge. That's huge. 19-year-old tennis. think he's from Czech Republic, right? I think he is. I think you're right about that. Good job. 19, whatever? 19. A millionaire, just beat one of the greatest to ever do it in tennis. That's a perk, man. That's a perk.
01:00:02
Speaker
yaha That is a humble brag like none other, like my game one championship brag last year, which I have another story for you on a little bit right after this. So ah wait for it.
01:00:15
Speaker
This is a positive story, two positive stories to end off here. First of all, Coastal Carolina University next year will be offering at every single home football game to their fans free concessions, free hot dogs, a free pizza, free popcorn, free soda.
01:00:36
Speaker
Wow, fans actually being valued. They can order four free items per concession visit. That means you can get nachos, hot dog, popcorn, drink.
01:00:47
Speaker
Come back the next time and do it all again, Canteen. What you got to say about this?
01:00:53
Speaker
For a school that's in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Conway, South Carolina. Matter of fact, I rode through there Sunday, actually, when I was coming back from Georgia. That's huge. That is huge. I think that's going to draw a bigger fan base.
01:01:06
Speaker
Your tickets are probably going sell out. So when you have your home and โ I don't know if it's for home and away games. No, it's just home. Just home games? You think their honage are going to give them free? Let me backtrack, Professor. I screwed it up.
01:01:19
Speaker
i mean i screwed up Are the away teams going to be able to partake in that too? Or just the home, there just the Coastal Carolina? Oh, I got what you're saying. I got what you're okay i saying is Okay. You know what I'm saying is, it's for everybody.
01:01:34
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Oh, wow. Really? Not just Coastal Carolina. So what I'm saying is, i i I'm South Carolina State, and I'm coming and i'm coming there, and then I'm playing Coastal Carolina, that means, hell, I'm bringing everybody.
01:01:47
Speaker
We can eat, drink, and be merry. We all have it. We all have it. What? ah Yo, that is great. Mar, what'd you think about that?
01:01:59
Speaker
Hey, man, that's a huge tab to take on, man. that's But then... They hey make a lot, dawg. They make a lot they make a lot of money. But here's the thing, Mar.
01:02:12
Speaker
You know that's a text right off. You can write it off, but when you... You got to think about when we go to the movie theaters and stuff. They make the money in the concession sales, not the ticket prices.
01:02:23
Speaker
That's true. yeah Very true. And off parking and stuff. Yeah, you're right. That might hurt them a little bit. What I'm saying is, in this situation as a university, you can call that a donation and write it off as a tax write-off and get the money. you probably So absolute revolution they they found a loophole to still find a way to not get hurt financially, but make, I guess,
01:02:50
Speaker
like you said, is gonna bring more people there. Cause they, oh, free, free what? Oh, well, I won't, but you still gotta for parking, still gotta pay for the ticket. So ah you're gonna make the money there. So you drive the, drive the ticket sales and the parking sales up.
01:03:04
Speaker
All you do is pretty much making that go up. You still gotta pay for the beer. Like they're saying giji you still get nachos, popcorn, hot dog, but you shoot they're still gonna make money off of beer sales, still make money off of liquor sales.
01:03:18
Speaker
And you really just, you know, once you get the tax write-off and at the end of the year, the state reimburses you for all that money that you quote-unquote lost, you pretty much just got it right back and got up. They're not hurting it.
01:03:29
Speaker
You're still going to make a shit ton of money when it comes to football. So i it's a smart move. Honestly, it's a smart business move, really. and then and And then not only, and in the caveat before the professor, before you jump back in, man, they host the Myrtle Beach Bowl there every year.
01:03:44
Speaker
So they end up bringing two teams in right before Christmas. Hotels, airfare, food. That bowl committee, they're dishing out hundreds, hundreds, You got to think about that bowl. i'm I'm thinking to myself, that bowl probably is about a million dollar bowl. having ah At least half a million dollars split between both schools.
01:04:04
Speaker
There's money on both sides of the ball, guys. You might even want to go up a little bit more in that. These bowl games still, even though they're not the, ah you know, playoff games, those bowl games still go up. You know, these schools could probably walk away with probably about four five million from that game.
01:04:19
Speaker
Easy. okay Yeah. Yeah. yeah Yeah, yeah. No, I agree with everything you said. Let's just hope that this is a trend that a lot of these schools could start to take on.
Deion Sanders' Salary and College Sports Financials
01:04:30
Speaker
Now, I don't actually see it becoming a thing because schools want to try to obviously keep as much money to reinvest into resources and pay teachers and things like that. But no no no one school can do it.
01:04:42
Speaker
oh Hold on, Omar. Did you say pay teachers? i know i i didn't know I didn't mean that. I meant it's administrators.
01:04:54
Speaker
oh That's NIL money. That's built for a facility because we need to help with our recruiting. We need to make sure our trip is right. We need to make sure we hit up Nike you on the arm or whoever and our our uniforms is tight. All right.
01:05:07
Speaker
Oh, that ain't what know damn teachers. And then here here's another thing, guys. to Here's my last point on this college football thing, man. Man, I think, and this and and this kind of pissed me off the other day, man. I think Colorado, colorado they capitalized on Deion Sanders, giving him like 54 million, but that guy, they should have gave him at least 100 million, man.
01:05:26
Speaker
All the money that Deion Sanders generated for Boulder, telling them games out, man, that that the the tuition, the the admissions and all that money he generated for restaurants, hotels, bringing in those celebs.
01:05:38
Speaker
54 million, that's a slap in the face. Yeah, they got a discount. yeah Yeah. But I mean, I mean i think i think they're going to be all right, though, fellas.
01:05:50
Speaker
But at the same time, Ken, it puts them literally in two years, is put them up there at the top 10 of college football ah paid list. So I get what you're saying.
01:06:02
Speaker
Trust me, you because I agree with you. Colorado, e they got off easy with D.F. Sanders. i ah because honestly because To be honest, I think any school would would literally open up their pocketbook right now. d give Give me the prime effect right here. I bet you i bet you if Tuscaloosa fired their coach right now and they... they They called Prime.
01:06:29
Speaker
He said, man, come on. Come on down to Tuscaloosa. Let's see what you can do better than Saban. this's take Let's take it on. Here's the challenge. and they go I'd have them in the championship if it wasn't for Bill Belichick coming to the NCAA. Nah.
01:06:42
Speaker
I don't know. out and real Bill Belichick can't relate to these young kids, dawg. Come on, man. That's what I've been telling him. star That's the same thing I've been telling him. Bill Belichick, why have you been? Stop that, Ma.
01:06:53
Speaker
You can't relate to kids. They're making the national championship this year. No, not another stupid cake and shit. Remember, had that take a month ago. know. I had that take a month ago. I got y'all. I got y'all.
01:07:06
Speaker
I got y'all. Because i'm um i'm about to take you I'm about to take your take, Jake, and I'm about to throw it in the trash can. I'm about to shit all on it. Bill Belichick cannot go to any hood in any city and sit on a couch and recruit any black kid.
01:07:22
Speaker
He can't relate to him. He can't. He cannot. no At all. At all. That's why he got Michael Lombardi. That's why he got Michael Lombardi. We're moving to.
Promotion of True Crime Podcast
01:07:34
Speaker
Hey, salute to Bianca and Rock Talk Chalk. Y'all check them out. Tap in with them. They're huge boxing fans, but they run a true crime podcast on YouTube. So like if you like true crime, check out Rock Chalk on YouTube. Thank you for thank you for tuning in, Bianca. We appreciate it. I had a great time yesterday.
01:07:55
Speaker
yeah It's crazy. I thought she was a ah Kansas Jayhawk fan because they talk about Rock Chalk out here. I thought that's what that was mean. That's what I thought at first too, but we were on a boxing stream and they're actually from Australia.
01:08:05
Speaker
So I'm not sure. Yeah. That's pretty dope. Yeah. Yeah. We were doing the country box stream on Tuesday night. Uh, when I got back from Memphis, which I'll talk about in just a second, but we had a country box stream and, uh,
01:08:18
Speaker
Skywalker Boxing Media, y'all making you're tapping with them. Papi Chunyeo, make sure you're tapping with him. Boxing Kangaroo, he was awesome. Make sure you're tapping with them as well. But anyways, we had a stream covering the event doing live reactions, and Bianca was one of their ah Loyal's fans and subscribers, Mad Funny, and then she subscribed to our channel. So there you go. You keep it moving.
01:08:37
Speaker
As a family, we keep branching out, right, introducing each other to each other's streamers so we can all grow together. That's what that's about. I love it. Love it, bro. Awesome, awesome. Well, let me move into my last piece of bag. You see, I changed the hat.
01:08:50
Speaker
There is a reason for that.
Memphis Trip and Celtics Game Experience
01:08:52
Speaker
I will tell you, I just got back from Memphis. One of the most amazing trips ever. Me and my pops went down to see the Celtics put a whooping on the Memphis Grizzlies, 117 to 107 on Monday night. It was amazing.
01:09:07
Speaker
so one ah seven on monday night it was Wow. Let me tell you this, y'all. Y'all may not believe some of the things I'm going to tell you, but as you're as your family here on the streaming, as someone that you know that would not lie to you because I am an honest person, I want you to believe the words that are about to come out of my mouth.
01:09:28
Speaker
Okay? Everybody cool with that? right. Let me tell you a little story. First of all, My dad and I go down about halfway through the trip. I find out that I had left my prized Jason Tatum rookie card that I've been trying to get autographed for the past few years.
01:09:44
Speaker
Okay, whatever. I may not even get the chance to meet Jason Tatum, whatever. Anyways, we end up getting down there. We are staying at the Westin, like ballers as we are, on Beale Street, right across the street from the FedEx Forum because we don't want it to walk far and because we can afford it.
01:10:01
Speaker
All you dusties out there may not be able to, and I'm sorry for you. Dusties.
01:10:07
Speaker
So it just happens. We pull up and I see a large bus out front of the hotel and some fans waiting behind a gate. And I said, you gotta be. freaking kidding me dad pulled up to the valet baby we with the celtics i didn't know at the time for sure but i got out the car i see sam hauser walking to the bus he right so i'm like oh damn my dad had pulled off to go park the car i was like no no no no no i called him i was like come back i started running up the street i'm like i need my celtics jersey because only have my hat on was like no no come back i was the hit shot caught up to him i was like yo pops
01:10:44
Speaker
We are staying at the same hotel as the Celtics. So I grabbed my jacket. I put it on. I had my hat on. Grabbed my tickets that I wanted to get autographed because i got commemorative tickets that I bought from when we went to game one last year, and I want to get it autographed by the team.
01:10:56
Speaker
So anyways, we're going into the โ I'm coming back into the hotel. Y'all. I kid you freaking not. I am walking up to the ah to the hotel check-in. I'm about 15 feet away.
Encounter with Jason Tatum
01:11:13
Speaker
To the side of me is the restaurant. There are Celtics fans that are in the restaurant. To the right side of me is the valet, and then there's a hallway that goes to the elevator bank. he I come walking up.
01:11:24
Speaker
I want you to take one guess of who walked right by me. Tatum. Jason freaking Tatum. Wow. I come up.
01:11:35
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and And when I mean walk by him, literally, i could have, and I i regret that not fist bumping him because I was in such shock shock ah him actually being him.
01:11:46
Speaker
All I could do was he walked by me. I look up and i'm just like, JT. And he looks at me and he nods. He's like, what's up? It just keeps it moving. I was like, Oh, but I forgot to wrap him up, which I could regret. But anyway, she he acknowledged my presence. I was like, oh, shit, that's dope.
01:12:02
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So
01:12:06
Speaker
why wait why don't you why don't you say see him and say, hey, man, when are you going to become an A star? sits on man but you always got say the say I story my shit. Let me continue story. Anyway, so brushed shoulders type of walk past.
01:12:23
Speaker
That's how close he was to me. anyway so i got your you know i got to shoot ja him and i you know we we acknowledged each other i was like oh shit that is dope like he literallyate like rush shoulders type of walkback that's how close he was to me So that was dope. And then I keep walking.
01:12:38
Speaker
Missoula comes up after him. So I hit him with the, you know, head knock because he was further away. He had nodded me. Then i get up to the counter. ah I give him my ID to check in and I wasn't even paying attention. I just turned around, started looking for more players. I was like, check me in, whatever.
01:12:52
Speaker
Big Al! Big Al Horford comes around the corner. And I was like, Big Al! Big Al! and And unfortunately, he put his hand up like this and just like and just smiled and nodded, kind of saying hello or whatever. Because right when he did that, the security guard started like running up to me.
01:13:08
Speaker
Because I had tickets of the tickets in my hand that I wanted to sign, that which I didn't have out when Tatum walked by. But anyways, the security guard ran up and was like, no, no, no, no autographs, blah, blah, blah. They were like, you can only get autographs outside, which apparently they didn't do any either, except Al Horford and Derek White. But...
01:13:23
Speaker
Anyways, so I got blocked from the autograph. I did not have the rookie card or tickets ready when I walked past Jason Tatum. right Now, the only thing with the Jason Tatum thing is that right after I saw that I got blocked from the autograph, I think if I would have asked for anything from Tatum, anybody else wouldn't have got anything. And since I kind of let him walk by, there was a little kid that was able to get a picture with him because his dad asked. So I think I might have messed that up. So I'm okay with ah Finally, we get to the game.
01:13:52
Speaker
Drew holidays do a shoot around. I'm right at the, cause we were stick, we were two rows from court side. Cause again, we're ballers and cause we can afford it. We're not dusty to Rose from court side. And I'm yelling, I'm yelling, Drew, Drew. We took his picture with a family. I'm like, damn, I'm like, Drew. And he sees me and he just said, like, acknowledges me and walks away. And same thing with like the other players that shoot around. So I'm like, damn,
01:14:13
Speaker
All of these missed opportunities, and I'm just thinking to myself, I'm to start calling myself the master of ceremonies of missed opportunities because I'm just missing opportunities left and damn right over here to get these tickets autographed, to do anything, say something.
01:14:28
Speaker
I could have, I could have, anyways, whatever. I'm pissed at myself for for for not accomplishing the autographs at the very least. But anyways. It was an amazing trip, and I just wanted to say I got to say what's up to Jason Tatum. I got to say what's up to Drew Holiday. Shout out to UCLA.
01:14:43
Speaker
I got to say hello to Al Horford, Joe Mazzulla. Shout out to all the Celtics. Big win. Me and my dad, not you Dustys, two rows from the court. Amazing
Front Row Seats at Celtics and Titans Games
01:14:52
Speaker
time. Saw Taylor Rooks' is fine behind in a red dress, very nice fitting, and also some other cool peeps. So anyways, I just had to tell that story.
01:15:03
Speaker
What do you all think? Congrats. I mean, you saw them. I wish you would have told them what I told you to tell them. Or, hey, man, are we going to get something better than that that ring pop ring we got last year? Are we going to really prove it this year?
01:15:18
Speaker
right, Disney Championship, going to stop talking and ruining my damn story when I have a positive story about meeting my favorite players on the Celtics. india I just walked two feet beside Jason Tatum, and you are here ruining my story.
01:15:33
Speaker
oh oh no I don't know. The hateration is epic. There is too much hateration in this dancery. Shout out to Mary J. Okay? I ain't got time for this.
01:15:45
Speaker
right. Anyways, but I am very โ What do you think, KT? I'm going to say this, man. Hey, shout out to you for that, man, because, hey, when you do it up, you do it big. like Like, this time last year, my wife took me to Atlanta to a Hawks game, man. I had same thing, courtside seats. I got to see D.C. Young fly, 2 Chainz, same ordeal, man. So, when you live, man, do things on a caliber like that, man. So, hey, I got to give you props, man. That's how i like to live my life too, man.
01:16:10
Speaker
i mean i mean gravity thank good Thank God I'm blessed enough to have the situation I'm in, have the finances I'm in, and also be yeah single. Single and ready, but ready to mingle, ladies. Any ladies out there?
01:16:23
Speaker
No, I'm sure. You just practice it. You ain't ready Just Yeah, I'm just practicing. Just talking to couple. But anyways, ah no, you know, I agree with you, Canteen. Now that I can't afford to do the finer things in life, I will never coach another game and sit in nosebleeds again. right I will always be as close to the court as possible.
01:16:45
Speaker
And the past few times, me and my dad sought front row, second row, and fifth row at three different Celtics games. And we sat front row twice at the Titans versus the Raiders.
01:16:57
Speaker
so that I mean, I do things big because I can. And Dusty's like hot take Jake. why the yeah Why the hell would you waste money on that kind of scene for a Raiders game?
01:17:09
Speaker
See, you know what? I knew you was to have something to say. I knew you can't come here ruining my story too, Mar. I get it. I threw you under the bus earlier. I apologize, but you ain't got to talk about either. If you just like throwing away money, just get just hand it over to me.
01:17:25
Speaker
But don't throw it away in the trash by watching those some old trash. What did think whenever he was grabbing his jersey? was going to say, dude, do you use that to wipe your ass? Or what did you do? the tickets All that crap, man.
01:17:37
Speaker
Wow. Well, that's why you can't support your team because they don't want you to support them, you bum. Why don't you move the camera down to your face? Anyways, all right. That's the end 30 minutes, an hour later, of the sports professors, Mitch. Mitch.
01:17:54
Speaker
Mitch. Mitch Damn, that was a long-ass mixed bag. That was an hour. we spent But we had some really good conversation today, gentlemen. I want to thank everybody on the panel so far because this has been one of the best, if not the one of the best episodes we've ever had on this show. The conversation has been spirited.
01:18:11
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01:18:22
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01:18:51
Speaker
ah One news I want to get to before we get to the superstar performances from last night that Mar so astutely touched on yesterday in his late night owl. ah John Morant was caught pointing finger guns at another player for another time.
Ja Morant's Actions and Potential Trade
01:19:10
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in front of cameras at a game. This is not the first time this has been done, but we know the history that John Moran has had with flashing guns on IG Live.
01:19:23
Speaker
and getting into other situations that probably should not be put on social media or for public consumption. ah We also know that the Memphis Grizzlies just fired their coach, Taylor Jenkins, who had won them 45 games, and it turns out this is also due to jim John Morant's influence.
01:19:45
Speaker
Um, John Morant, while he was really good the other day against our, against my Celtics can be questioned if he's even, the best player on the team with Jaron Jackson Jr. There, uh, being one of your best players as well.
01:19:58
Speaker
So the Grizzlies have some decisions to make. And as of now, the rumors that are in league circles are that John Morant is basically on audition right now for the Memphis Grizzlies to possibly be traded.
01:20:12
Speaker
uh, Mar, you look spirited on this. Go ahead and start us off. Why not? Well, you get out you you get a haul back full John Morant right now, boy.
01:20:22
Speaker
Damn. My thing is, ok so so here's here's two things, all right? So Memphis is not a big market. At some point, yes, they already gave him the extension.
01:20:34
Speaker
He can say his loyalty, whatever. That's cool. But hey, man, don't All this little gun figuring and all that stuff.
01:20:45
Speaker
Memphis ain't the city to keep doing that, so you need to get out of there anyway. ah Hell no, that ain't the city to be doing that. Maybe somebody will clap back real quick on you, Ash. Go ask my man Dolph. My man got killed in his own city. Got killed him me in his own city, man. That's crazy. So i all that little, you know, i and and you money and you got paid. So you're going to like. Even more of a target, as you talked about earlier.
01:21:10
Speaker
that's what i'm saying i don't think he realized like like like i think really playing with fire because like like memphis is a city and there's some trail ones out there that they're gonna they're gonna find out with with trimetria stay and they're gonna find out where you at and see if ja really about that and they're gonna see where the rules at and they're gonna really see if them guns is really like that and they're really see if you're gonna really pull that trigger and and people can sit here and act like i'm exaggerating okay right
01:21:42
Speaker
There is no exaggeration. And that's not the shit on Memphis, because I had a great time in Memphis. oh And Memphis gets a bad rap, but every as was said in the Eminem song, as Eminem had in one of his songs, every ghetto got every city got a ghetto, every ghetto got a hood.
01:21:57
Speaker
right With the Jadakiss song. So like we know there are bad areas. or Bad areas. In every place, right? so Yeah, yeah, yeah. so i And that's not that's why I'm glad you said that because I'm not shitting on Memphis. I'm just being real.
01:22:12
Speaker
I'm being honest. and pete Like I said, people can sit here and act like I'm exaggerating, but I would hate i would hate to see another Sean Taylor situation happen to John Taylor. because he's because he's portraying to say like he's like that. So I would hate to see it turn out to to be that situation, man. I don't know, man. I hope it don't turn out that way.
01:22:35
Speaker
he personally, if I'm the Grizzlies, I don't think he's learned anything because he he continues to. ah So my thing is, is it let him be somebody else's problem. I mean, don't don't get me wrong. We know the talent that that is going.
01:22:50
Speaker
that's why you know worse That's why you would get a haul for it is because we understand the talent that you would get. It would be similar to almost a Luka Trey. Oh, yeah. No, you would get, you would have to get back multiple firsts, multiple players.
01:23:03
Speaker
And yeah, like they could get on. in What? Can I go? Can I go? He is 25 years old. Yes, please. All right. So here's my thing, man. he is twenty five years old yes cante please all right so here here here's my thing man You cannot keep doing the same thing and expect different results.
01:23:20
Speaker
The guy continues to make the same errors over and over and over again, and they he expects different. Great talent, great talent, produces great talent. but he wants to live a hood at life.
01:23:33
Speaker
ah But but he's he he's not that guy. You ain't like that, bro. You ain't like that. He makes great money. He's he's come out from that.
01:23:44
Speaker
But he wants to he he wants to downsize himself to be something that he's not. He went to private school. Hold on, man. but clarence here here's thing Here's the thing. Wildcard made a good point, man.
01:24:02
Speaker
um i'm not I will no longer carry a burden that I don't have to carry. That's great. I'm not going to carry weight that I don't have to carry. i will remove it from the situation.
01:24:13
Speaker
Speak on it. Bring somebody else in Get what I need to get. Let it move on, man. And I think that works in both cases here because you can say that for the team and you can say that for John Morant. Like John Morant, he's a millionaire.
01:24:26
Speaker
He should be letting some of this stuff go, right? Professor, man.
01:24:32
Speaker
you're you're in different circles. When i look at LeBron James, those guys that don't a whole different platform. I cannot understand how a guy that's making this type of money, that's living a different type of lifestyle, wants to demean his character and wants to be with people that mean him no good. It makes no sense in a perfect world.
01:24:49
Speaker
Right. All right, Jake, I'll see you biting at the chump. ah Professor, it's the halves and the half-nots. He's with the halves. Why do I want to be with the half-nots when I'm the halves? Make it make sense to me, bro.
01:25:02
Speaker
Let me keep the basketball and just say this, guys. I think one of the worst positions ever created in basketball is an athletic point guard that thinks he can dunk every damn time.
01:25:13
Speaker
that Derrick Rose
Russell Westbrook's Legacy Debate
01:25:14
Speaker
has ended up being trash. Russell Westbrook never amounted to anything. And now got this generation's trying to run. Hey, you better put a pin on it. like No, no, no, no, no. no no you Just this one time.
01:25:27
Speaker
Just this one time, Jake. I promise to bring you right back. I'm not slow. I'm going to bring you back. no No, no, I told you a butt that you would not use that blasphemy and besmirch the great name of UCLA legend Russell Westbrook Jr., a man who authored three triple-double-average seasons.
01:25:52
Speaker
And he's been one of the best players in the league for 15 years. Now, if you come back on. no, no, Omar, don't bring him on. Just let him marinate for a second. Let him. I need to marinate for a second.
01:26:07
Speaker
Yes, yes. No, let's let's let this cool off for a second. I can't believe Jake just said that. That is crazy. Damn hot tape. damn hot take like like man he's shooting a lot of hot takes today um i uh they not necessarily good they hot hey professor what did tell you earlier they're not necessarily good they flaming hot they did that damn it jake god professor what did i tell you i seem like lately it's been getting better and better and you and you know you know why i keep telling you it's getting like better and better right
01:26:44
Speaker
it' And we'll talk offline, but it's like... I can't believe Cuzz said that, bro. this so so So what you're saying is Jake is bringing down all the progress we've made on this show so far. Is that what you're saying? No, man. I would say you're right.
01:27:01
Speaker
I would say he's brought down this credibility of the show a lot.
01:27:06
Speaker
Guys, guys, guys, guys, guys. When have those guys ever amounted to a championship with you? You don't always have to be a champion to be a great player.
01:27:18
Speaker
But if I'm Memphis, I know my ceiling already. It's maybe the second round and we get bounced out by a better team. I'm not doing it no more. Russ didn't amount to shit. Russ didn't amount to anything.
01:27:30
Speaker
Derrick Rose didn't amount to anything. And we're seeing John Moran live. This is this generation's Derrick Rose and Russell Westbrook, in my opinion. Trade the guys.
01:27:41
Speaker
Trade the guy. Especially now. The fact that you're screaming around saying that that boy is as as good as a trade bait as Luka is is he it so such a slap in the face to Luka. And I'm not that much of a fan of Luka, but damn.
01:27:55
Speaker
He got thats space spin is not that far below Luka. He is maybe the next year below, if if that. How about two tears? um No, he's not two tears. that james Okay, now Jake, besides the blasphemy of you just dissing Hall of Famers, this is crazy. right um' and I'm ignoring that and I'm just going to chalk that up for just ah hot take Jake being hot take Jake and I'm just going ignore trying to ignore it. Now,
01:28:25
Speaker
blue i do now past that mumbo jumbo. i I 100% agree with you. You do trade him and you you and you're not you're not going to win a championship with him.
01:28:40
Speaker
i think a couple of years ago when they went to the Western Conference Finals, that was your ceiling. That was as close as it gets. you you You go ahead and break it up, get whatever, you know, compensation you get back for them and let them be somebody else's problem.
01:28:57
Speaker
I absolutely, and I hate to say that i agree with Jake on this one, the dude think he can dunk on everybody. Get a jumper, bro. what i'm saying just jump You guys end up doing this. no no I've been asking, and in in Jake's right on this one, I've been asking for John Morant to get a jumper three years ago.
01:29:17
Speaker
We were asking that from Russ. were asking that from Rove. I'm like, bro, get a jumper because at the end of the day, if you get a mid-range, I know the analytics frown upon the mid-range, but the mid-range is so deadly right now in today's basketball game, I think it'll...
01:29:35
Speaker
Not only is it longevity-wise, you know, career-wise, you can stay around. But what I'm saying is nobody's really occupying it no more. So go ahead and and use it as your shot.
01:29:49
Speaker
Trade it while the iron's hot, I guess. That's what i will say, too. Trade it while the iron's hot. With that, that point, he's hot now, and and you better do it now before he has a couple more injuries over the next two years because he thinks he can dunk it over everybody and then his value goes down.
01:30:04
Speaker
Get rid of him now. you know you You're not winning a championship with him, so why would you waste money? i know you can sell tickets. I know you're small market, and you can sell tickets. Fine. cool But how long is that going to, how long is that jig going to be up? Cause you're not going to be able to build the team there. nobody' you don't what I don't know why these small market teams more don't call the OKC plan.
01:30:27
Speaker
Have you seen OKC build? They've built in the past two different types of teams in the past decade. but but then but they but they as the right one i Give yourself more opportunity. Trade these guys for some draft picks. Can I say this i think the market I think the market is larger in OKC than it is in Memphis.
01:30:46
Speaker
I do. Yeah, that's OKC. I get that, but but they don't have a draft. well And I'm saying you get more opportunities getting more picks, though. Well, well to to your point, Kent, OKC market is bigger as because it's to Jake's point.
01:31:01
Speaker
They've had the Russell Westbrooks, the the the I mean, you can go about at least 10 names that are significant names that they draft. That's I'm saying. You can draft that.
01:31:20
Speaker
And I'll be honest here. Think about this. Whenever they draft well, what I've noticed is NBA teams just see five down years five years down the road or four years, they say, oh, yeah, you can take these first-round picks.
01:31:33
Speaker
They have no idea they're giving away star superstar talent here are the coming years. They have no idea. And that's what they've built. Sometimes they can. Sometimes they can. And yes, Oklahoma City he got lucky and hit on a bunch of but or got a bunch of good. Don't get lucky twice, Omar.
01:31:50
Speaker
Come on. Don't get lucky twice. No, no doubt. They made good decisions. But come on. Kevin Durant drewill was in their lap at number two. So now they were going not choose him. Right. Russell Westbrook, James They want to kiss Russ's ass and instead. Of course. They should have kept all of them. We can all agree on that.
01:32:05
Speaker
No, they should have let go Russ and just kept KD. First of all, first of all. I would have kept him until they won one champion. I could have at least got one champion. Yeah, I would have moved on after that. would have moved on from trash Russ.
01:32:19
Speaker
You know how hard it had been to keep all three? You were going to stop, Jake. You were going to stop right now. um But do you know how hard it would be to keep all three of them guys? It would have been hard. Sure, right. But back then, the salary the salary cap wasn't like it is now with luxury tax and all that. So you could have just, you know what I mean?
01:32:37
Speaker
But what I'm saying, Omar, you're talking about three stars in their prime on their second contract. That's hard. It is. It is. It is. But just like the Bengals, I said, pay everybody. Burrow, Chase, and Higgins. And they did. And they did. And guess what? And guess what? They ain't going to have a damn defense to stop nobody. They better know how to draft because they ain't got no money for a little while there.
01:33:01
Speaker
They ain't going to damn defense to stop nobody. We asked this question, Mar, a couple weeks ago, so want to get your opinion on this. Right when they signed him, we all said that if they can field at least a top 20, top 15 defense, that Burrow can win them a championship with Higgins and Chase. What is your opinion? It has to 15 above. It has to be around 15. 16, 17, I might let it slide around there because Burrow sixteen seventeen i might let it survive around there cause People, believe it or not, Mahomes did the same thing for his two Super Bowls the last couple of years.
01:33:37
Speaker
Besides last year. ah Last year was the only year he had a top five defense. um The other two was average defense. And when you got weapons like that, yeah, it's the only problem.
01:33:49
Speaker
Listen, Addy still ain't never done nothing for Officer Lion. It's cute. I agree, Mar. agree, Mar. What are you saying? It's cute. You got to help. You got to build around him still. he You can't just grab those few players and say, hey, do do this.
01:34:04
Speaker
Not only that, the league's getting better. You're getting better QBs. Jaden Daniels, Bo Nix are on the rise. Get ready, man. This is about you scared the last time. so So you only chose those two.
01:34:15
Speaker
Omar, Omar, Omar, I hate it for Bo Nix and Sean Payton. I hate it but Denver, ugh.
01:34:28
Speaker
It's fine, but he's still not Bo Nix to fix, and he's not going to win them a Super Bowl. I don't care. what it take no nothing would Especially with y'all in the division. Let's be honest. ah No, no, no, no. This is so disgusting. I've never seen a guy root have the ra be a Raiders fan and root for the Chiefs.
01:34:43
Speaker
Look at Omar. I don't root for the Chiefs. I hate the Chiefs. Every day when I go to bed and every day when I wake up, I hate the color red because of the Kansas City Chiefs. I hate the Chiefs.
01:34:54
Speaker
I think I'm going to win because you are there. That burns in my chest. But one thing I can admit, if we're seeing one of the greatest of all time, which Patrick Mahomes is, he can carry a whole team without a defense. And you're being a hater and not realistic like you should be in a division with Patrick Mahomes and Justin Herbert and possibly Gino Smith ahead of your bum-ass Broncos.
01:35:18
Speaker
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. First of all, first of all, it's going to be โ it's only going to it's only that matter between the Broncos and the Chiefs, all right? ah Raiders, you still got work to do.
01:35:29
Speaker
You know this. No, they're screaming around thinking that they just got the next Dan Marino with Geno Smith's old ass โ I never never said that. Shut up. And Chargers are just going to continue to be all hype and no substance. You don't think Jim Harbaugh can do it?
01:35:47
Speaker
No, no, no, no, no. I didn't say Jim Harbaugh. I said Justin Herbert can't get it. Yep. i didn't i didn't say i didn't say jim harbaugh i said just in hurrirricane yeah yeah Justin Herbert can't get it done, dawg. didn't see him. Wal-Karmar, you should have saw the second they signed Gino, bro.
01:36:07
Speaker
This boy was frolicking, running around. No, I was not. got yeah That is the biggest lie I've ever heard. You know. You All I said was he plays better indoors than outdoors. I don't even think we're going to make the playoffs. So shut your ass up because I'm not you. Bringing your ass in here.
01:36:29
Speaker
Bronco Super Bowl. Super Bowl goals. And then what? You win four and six. This is what Jake do. every time and Every time they lose, he don't show up.
01:36:40
Speaker
He'll be like, I'll be here all the time. Now you was in it. I got to give it to you. It's crazy because was looking at the Broncos playoff highlights the other day and the video was only like 10 seconds so it didn't last.
01:36:55
Speaker
Wow.
01:36:58
Speaker
Crazy, though. That's our Super Bowl highlights. It was like one touchdown, and then it said, thank you for watching. I'm like, yo, that's crazy, bro. What yeah i yeah you're seeing what you saying, Mar, is that their their highlights weren't even shorts or reels duration. Mar, Mar, Mar, be very scary, bro.
01:37:23
Speaker
Evan Ingram. He's a Bronco. Thank you. But at the same time, I did see, um I saw a forest fire the other day, and I was like, I don't know how the hell that got started. Then somebody had put a Raiders jersey in there, and I was like, oh, man, that makes sense how they started.
01:37:41
Speaker
At the end of the day, at the end of the day, even though they did have a short playoff appearance, they made it there. Like, I was waiting for the Raiders to at least get to 500, and y'all jokers, y'all just can't get right, bro. Y'all just can't get right.
01:37:59
Speaker
yeah Mark told me that they got the next best thing is the Legion of Boom right now. I told them, bro. Because they got Pete Carroll. That's a lie. That is a lie. I never said that. What are you about? I'm going to let that slide because I said it bad about earlier.
01:38:16
Speaker
you you get You get one more.
01:38:25
Speaker
I'm a mutiny like Jake. Anyways, that yeah you you got bro? Nah, man, I ain't got nothing else on that. Hey, canteen, what team you rooting for next year? Are you going to stay? No, no, no. Let me make all clear.
01:38:45
Speaker
Wow. Hold on. Are you going to stay with the Dirty Birds or are you going rock with the Stars? just need to know. no no so let me like let so i want professor to clarify this, man.
01:38:59
Speaker
I've always been with the Falcons. I know that. I know that. we we we we we had we had We had one of our teammates that coerced me that that had a few... ah Look at him. Look at him.
01:39:11
Speaker
He co-wrists me. Wait, wait, hold on. Yo, where's the pause in that? Where's your pauses now? No, no, no. Chorus is not a pause word. Chorus just needs to change somebody's opinion. Hey, Jake. Hey, Jake. Convinced. That's all.
01:39:26
Speaker
You see what convinced him right there. He's doing it right now. That's what convinced him. He was sipping and tripping. And Flo was like, hey, man, you should be a cowboy swimmer. He's like...
01:39:37
Speaker
Yeah, man, that sounds like a great idea. He was sipping. That's exactly what happened. That's exactly how that happened. I'm talking about ATL, man. Here's what I think. i think oh man I think the Falcons going to get rid of Kirk Cousins, you know, to to try to get rid of that burden as far as that, you know, remove more of that salary cap. I was i was upset when they got rid of Grady Jarrett, but Grady Jarrett, we had to get rid of him to get more salary cap, more money.
01:40:01
Speaker
He was one of the great ones on our front four for our defense. I think Omar, say his name because I know I'm going to say bad because I've been drinking and my tongue is a little slippery and ain't going to say it right. So I'll let say the quarterback's name.
01:40:14
Speaker
Who's quarterback? Michael Penix. i don't want I don't want to say the other word. You don't want to say Michael Penix like you usually do. Here's say. Here's what I'm say, guys. cause yeah i don't want to say contrary on air. Show's off the rails. I don't know what to tell you. I think for the NFC South,
01:40:40
Speaker
I think the Falcons may be probably one the strongest things out of that division, man, to be honest. And I don't know. y'all Y'all had me fooled. I thought y'all was going to walk away with that division because it's up there for grabs and y'all fumble the bag. over phone the bag man yeah bag um but yeah But I told the professor, man, I'm going to try to make a trip out hu to to to Nashville. We're going to kick it, man.
01:41:02
Speaker
Hey, Ken, hey, Ken, hey, let's make a deal, man. Hey, man, go ahead and let me have Kyle Pitts with third, bro. ah That's just generous. I think that's very generous. I mean, Cal Pist don't even want to be in Atlanta no more. Let me have him for a third.
01:41:18
Speaker
I think that's generous, bro, because the man under the Chiefs, so if get y'all a third, I think y'all came up. Yeah. I mean, you get him. Hell, he didn't even perform on ah on my damn fantasy team no damn way, so you get him. No, no, no, because I just need them to learn the offense this year, learn it from Kelsey, and then go ahead and take it over from Kelsey for the next six, seven, eight years. That's all.
01:41:43
Speaker
That's why. I think that's a yeah i think that's a great idea. think that's a great idea. Amar, I know you got to get to your show tonight. so Oh, no, it's Thursday. No, no, no. It's Wednesday. I'm going to do one more tonight. I'm going to one oh it's Wednesday. Damn. Okay, so yeah, we need to get you out of here soon. So let's keep it moving.
01:42:01
Speaker
You sure? You good? ah Yeah, man. didn't know what the hell is, man. Okay. I just didn't want to keep you past the time you need to be. Okay. um Well, what I will say is... um ah Damn, we got so far off topic. don't even remember. I mean, to be honest, Professor, this is probably one of the best ones we've done, man. I ain't going to lie. This is definitely one of the best ones. This is one for the books tonight. Thank you, Mar.
01:42:27
Speaker
Thank you, Mar, for coming on. really appreciate it. I'm glad you came in a while, but this is one for the books. Hey, y'all probably didn't even need me. Y'all just needed Jake. Jake tripping, Jake Where did you go?
01:42:42
Speaker
he Did he quit? Where did he go? don't know. We need you tonight, but then, Professor, got to back and then kind of pull out those measles out of here, man. Pull those good. Hey, your man. went three This was good.
01:42:55
Speaker
this is this is got your movement man I got you. Well, let's keep it moving. Y'all make sure you tap in with Wildcard Mar, our special guest tonight at IOW Sports as well as at Wildcard Mar on all the socials.
01:43:05
Speaker
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01:43:21
Speaker
Please go ahead and join that group for all the best sports news and trash talk. And finally, don't forget about the bum, Hot Take Jake, when he comes back. He's on the Final Say pod, although at this point, you might not want his final say because it's been so horrible today, Bars.
01:43:36
Speaker
All right. Moving on, NBA GOAT level guys last night. Mar talked about this on his Late Night Owl episode, so make sure you all check that out again. Nikolai Jokic went off for 61 points, 11 rebounds, 10 assists, but unfortunately came in a loss while running. Mara was calling the GOAT last night, and we'll talk a little bit about this.
01:43:59
Speaker
Steph Curry put up 52 points, including, as Mara Stoodley pointed out last night, 11 for 15 from three-point land. He was not unable to pass Klee Thompson, his old buddy, for the record.
01:44:14
Speaker
But in the end, the Warriors beat the Memphis Grizzlies. to increase their winning streak. He also added 10 rebounds, eight assists, five steals for an amazing, amazing game. His 10th 50-point game since turning 30, more than Wilt Chamberlain, who only had seven after turning 30.
01:44:38
Speaker
So there's your professor's knowledge. Let's start with you, Mar, since I know you talked about this last night on your show. Get the people what you think about these great games. Man, when you see performances like that, that's crazy, bro.
01:44:52
Speaker
Crazy. Absolutely crazy. i it's it's ah ah For one, Nikola Jokic, he keeps putting up performances like that.
01:45:03
Speaker
ah Unfortunately, his team... I can't help him, you know, get bring the W home. So that kind of sucks when you see performances like that go to waste. But it was phenomenal ah just to watch that.
01:45:16
Speaker
And definitely when I caught the highlights of that. ah But Steph, man, that man has shot 60% behind the ah Cats wish they can shoot 60% from the floor as a whole. As a whole. You're right. so This man shot 60% from behind three-point line.
01:45:37
Speaker
Bro, that's nasty, bro. i'm i'm i Look, man. That's crazy. That's crazy. say hey hey Hey, for all you LeBron jock lovers right now, I'm shooting at y'all right now.
01:45:52
Speaker
Y'all love that man so much. Yeah. There's a dick, and y'all call him the goat, but I'm going to put it to y'all life. Hey, Jake trying to get back on, bro. Hey, that's fine. He need to hear this.
01:46:03
Speaker
Because y'all want to act like goats ain't never... be enough You know how to get back on? You got the link. You got the link. Jump back on. You don't need me. I'm hoping your son feels better.
01:46:15
Speaker
yeah so so not like oh some real so like like on some real On the real term, goats usually are in packs. They're never solo. so i home Look at some animal knowledge on the program today.
01:46:27
Speaker
I have no issue nominating. What is a herd of goats called? Do you know? No, I don't give a damn, but it's, it's, it's, I call it Jordan and his friends.
01:46:38
Speaker
who no No, I, dont no, that's, that's good. I was going to call it dinner. Cause, but I mean, that works too. It's a good curry goat slapping. But anyway, uh,
01:46:51
Speaker
At the end of the day, y'all man and LeBron been having to do at the same time that he's quote unquote being a goat, being a goat at the same time. That's crazy. How you letting another man be in a goat at the same time? You supposed to be goat.
01:47:07
Speaker
How letting another man build a dynasty in the middle of the king's court? um mean no Don't try to sit here and act like Steph Curry built no dynasty in the middle of the king's court.
01:47:20
Speaker
Don't try to act like he did that stuff. Bring your butt back, Jake. We need you to hear this. Don't act like Steph Curry did that. So at the end of the day,
01:47:32
Speaker
If we saying goats are a multiple, are a pack, of course you're going to throw Bill Russell up there. You're going to throw Kobe. You're going to throw MJ. You're going to throw Brian. You're going to throw Magic, Hakeem, whoever is in your gold conversation.
01:47:48
Speaker
At the end of the day, y'all better start throwing Steph Curry's name in that conversation, that gold conversation, because, God damn it, he doing shit. it Are we acting like he didn't innovate the game?
01:48:02
Speaker
Hello, world. i look look i Look, I get it. Analytics have always kind of said the three-point shot have always been a three-point shot. When it really went until Steph really started really flaming it and using it as his go-to weapon, that's when Analytics was like, oh, well, perfect it.
01:48:22
Speaker
i You don't get a Trae Young if you don't get a Steph Curry. i don't think you get a Trae Young. You're absolutely right. So my thing is, he's changing games. And you we can't act like perfecting a three-point shot isn't something that can extend your career.
01:48:39
Speaker
We don't see LeBron. So we try to act like the uptick of LeBron's three-point attempt didn't coincidentally happen around the same time Steph Curry was flaming with the three-point shot. That's not coincidental.
01:48:51
Speaker
Okay. right All right. All right. Then I'm just a fool. oh
01:48:58
Speaker
At the end of the day, you know, it is what it is. go ahead. No, go ahead Finish off. Sorry, I thought you had... No, no, no. I'm just saying at the end of the day, you know, you know yeah y'all can say whatever you want about Steph Curry.
01:49:09
Speaker
if If you don't think that he belongs in the go conversation, I don't know what basketball we're watching. I don't know. And at the same time, there's that point in time, I think Jokic's going at some point in time, if he Jokic
Steph Curry's Impact on Basketball
01:49:23
Speaker
should be in the conversation as well.
01:49:24
Speaker
in the conversation as well. I don't think he's there yet, but if he keeps doing what he's doing and for the next six, seven, eight years of his career, oh yeah, he's going to be in that conversation because what he's doing is crazy. What he's doing is crazy.
01:49:39
Speaker
um i just I just think we just got to keep it real about what what like who are actual basketball ballers. and y'all y'all Y'all love LeBron? That's cool.
01:49:51
Speaker
But we ain't going act like he Overshadowed Anything that Steph Curry did Along the same trajectory And the time frame that he did Steph Curry is something different bro And we gotta remember That man, there were people thought his career was gonna be done His first couple of years he had so many ankle injuries We thought the dude wasn't gonna make it Correct You know, he was sitting behind Monte Ellis and just couldn't get right. Had them ankle injuries. I thought it was time. brother It just ain't going to get right.
01:50:24
Speaker
All right, Jackson was pacing with him. Next thing you know, he's the best shooter in all of basketball. I mean, it was potentially there because we saw what he did in Davidson. The man had the whole nation going crazy when that Davidson went on that run in 08. Really?
01:50:39
Speaker
Yeah. Come on, we know what's up. and So, it it was potentially there. It finally got tapped into it. it he He made sure that he fought through the injuries.
01:50:51
Speaker
He's a shoo-in Hall of Famer. i mean... look almost definitely When we talk about Hall of Fame resumes And we talk about GOAT resumes Please talk about please please talk about this Please What do we always talk about? okay Do you got the individual accolades? what's Wasn't Steph Curry the first unanimous I think the only unanimous MVP?
01:51:15
Speaker
I believe so. I believe you're correct on that. Check. he got the He got the individual accolades. All right? do Does he have the team success? Well, we just talked about how he built a dynasty in the middle of the Kings Court. Check. Knock it off.
01:51:28
Speaker
That's right. You're right, Waco. Did he impact the game? Well,
01:51:35
Speaker
everybody want to shoot threes now. Lighting the boards up, bro. They lighting boards up. Hey, hey everyone You want to be a wannabe like Mike. Is that not the same effect?
01:51:47
Speaker
Brother. Is that not the same effect? Brother.
Steph Curry's GOAT Status Debate
01:51:50
Speaker
Hey, so when we start talking about goat resumes and you talk about the criteria, Steph Curry's name fits in all that criteria. I'm not trying to have that conversation with people that night trying to see the conversation right in front of you.
01:52:03
Speaker
That's Steph Curry. It's a goat. Say no more. I mean, hey, Lamar is over here spitting super facts. cooking And y'all better start. He is cooking and eating at the same time. I mean, i mean now I will say this. I will say this. Look, yes.
01:52:23
Speaker
clearly has changed the game. ah Clearly, this innovation spreads further than most probably any other innovation until unless you look back at like Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain when they were so much bigger um and the baskets had to be moved up and things like that. All of these different things that happened.
01:52:43
Speaker
But Steph Curry in the three-point shot is something that has made has made any person be able to play the game of basketball because you do not have to have the height and you do not have to have athletic skills to be able to shoot a ball.
01:52:57
Speaker
Just a skill to make that shot. Just a skill to make the shot. and Now, i'm not don't don anybody come in here at me or trying to cancel me. Yes, it takes mechanics, athletes to shoot the ball. i get it. But what I'm saying is that anybody has a chance to be a good shooter.
01:53:12
Speaker
Hey, look, look. ah There's a coach in L.A. J.J. Reddick made a career out of being a three-pointer.
01:53:20
Speaker
Kyle Carver. um I mean, i you know, i to the to the end ah towards the back end, Ray Allen's career. There's been guys that have been able to to take four or five years and extend it on their career just by sitting sitting at a spot behind the three-point line and say, hey, man, if if you somehow find me open and I'm open, man, give me that rock.
01:53:45
Speaker
I'll put it in that hoop. Come on, man. yop No, you're not wrong, but my thing is say when you're looking at... Oh, go ahead. All you need is 40%. Ooh.
01:53:55
Speaker
Bingo. And you got a career. At least a 10-year career. if you If you shoot a clip at 40% behind the arc, you got a 10-year career in the NBA. yeah not ah you you You have not let out of the park at that point.
01:54:10
Speaker
You got a job. so yeah my question So then my question is, how many goats can we consider in the conversation? When are there too many goats? Oh, come on. oh we know we know We know if you belong in that conversation.
01:54:25
Speaker
Okay. All right. Got it. We know. The context of the actual word. Let me cook. Let me cook. Kobe. Kobe. Kobe. LeBron. Kobe. LeBron. Jordan. Steph Curry. Durant. Back it up. Back it up. Back it up. colby hook baby good colbe lebron colby lebron joy smith cur the ring oh who who oh ah bag up bag and Who? Durant.
01:54:49
Speaker
I mean, look, he's a future Hall of Famer, but it up not a GOAT. You don't let KD in that conversation? and i Not a GOAT, but he's a Hall Famer. Not a GOAT. The GOAT, you know, that's food that's what I'm saying.
01:55:00
Speaker
How many people can be in the GOAT conversation? Is there a limit of five? Is there a limit of ten? I mean, what are we talking about? Come on, you ready? I'm going to lay it to you because I told you about this last night.
01:55:12
Speaker
Kevin Durant is an all-time scorer. Scorer. That doesn't make him a goal. Okay, that's where you got me right there. Here's why here's why he's not a goal, all right?
01:55:24
Speaker
He's going to have the individual accolades. He got the MVPs. Cool. All right? The team she success. He has it. I got to put an asterisk on it.
01:55:37
Speaker
You're right, bro. He, the moment, the moment, the moment Kevin Durant said, I can't beat them. I'm going to. Now you cooking that, brother.
01:55:49
Speaker
The moment he said, I can't beat them and I'm going to join them to get my championships. I'm sorry. cooking that. I can't put you in my goal conversation because you are now, you are not a leading factor. Now, you're a follower. You're a follower.
01:56:04
Speaker
and not now Now, let's dig a little deep in it because let's not get it let's like let's not get it twisted. If you look at the numbers, yes, there was a lot of default that was given two Kevin Durant by Steph Curry because he was like, hey, man, you you had you that scored. I'm going to let you cook.
01:56:21
Speaker
Let's be honest. All right? if we go meet and and and and and and and that's And that's what Steph let him do. this they' let them Steph backed up and let him cook. And they got two championships. Yes, he got finals MVP.
01:56:34
Speaker
That's cool and all. But if my guy didn't back up and say, no, no, no. no And I'm Steph Curry and I'm chef. And you're just Kevin Durant. You're not KD. I'm going to cook.
01:56:45
Speaker
and oh We're having a different conversation. yeah i love Durant. Kevin Durant's a great basketball player, a scorer. But the moment that you say, I can't beat them and I got to join them to get my championships, you are a sidecar. You exonerated.
01:57:03
Speaker
You are something that is something that is on. and And I get it. His performance in those games were phenomenal. Help get championships. But that was all on but of Steph Curry, the GOAT, the Hall of Famer, backing up and deferring and says, I'm going to let you have your moment.
01:57:20
Speaker
And they can say it's different. That's what I saw. And then they can say it's different. That's what I saw. Because at the end of the day, Steph Curry is still Steph Curry. He won championships with and without Kevin Durant.
01:57:36
Speaker
At the end of the day, Steph Curry built a dynasty in the middle of the Kings court. And that's something that that mean that matters something. And my thing is, is he's built a dynasty and Kevin Durant joined it.
01:57:51
Speaker
And he helped build a wing, a small little wing. He helped build a little wing. But that was, you know. Of course, they may not have won both if it wasn't for all of them. I put it to you this way. They said, hey, man, you're the Picasso, man. I just want you to make the crib look good.
01:58:07
Speaker
Make it look good. Yeah. but The crib is built. The crib is built. Just make it look good. Just make... Right. Boy, you said, boy, boy, boy, flow with... Hey. yeah cooking cooking um but so yeah and yes i i completely agree right like uh although and just play advocate real quick a lot of people could say the whole join them if you can't beat them is smart to do in terms of building a resume my so i i agree i agree i'm on your side i completely agree but But some people would say the latter. Anyways, we'll keep it moving.
01:58:44
Speaker
um That was a great conversation. Kanteen, what are your final thoughts here on ah these two great players? And if you want just to talk about Curry and the GOAT, you can just do that.
01:58:56
Speaker
That's fine. Man, I wanted to elaborate on one of my favorite players, man. But like I said, Draymond Green, Open up a can of worms, man. He opened up a can of worms during the All-Star break.
01:59:12
Speaker
and And here's what he said. He said that he thought that the Golden State Warriors were one of the greatest teams. He thought that the Golden State Warriors had the most talent. He thought that they were the best team that were around.
01:59:24
Speaker
They got live up to those expectations when it comes to the playoffs, man. Can they do that? Can they survive? Can they make things happen when it comes to the playoffs? I think that they can, but they got to show me, man, at this point.
01:59:38
Speaker
It's going to be tough, man. The West got a lot of guns out there, man. Yes, they do. The West got a lot of artillery. They got a lot artillery out there in West, man. So it's going to be rough out there, bro.
01:59:51
Speaker
Yeah, as you mentioned, the West is loaded. The West is going to be a gauntlet in the playoffs. um so ah but we But as you all see, we all agree, Curry is a goat of the game.
02:00:04
Speaker
What I will finish off is in this in in this comment of things, because these two gentlemen astutely pointed out every all the greatness of Steph Curry. I want to build off Walker Marsh's point.
02:00:15
Speaker
um that the innovation that came into, or the rather the popularization of the three-point shot to Steph Curry has changed the game in, again, as I mentioned earlier, probably more than any other thing has ever changed the NBA before. um So...
02:00:37
Speaker
ah This is in terms of maybe not salary cap, but playing. um So I completely agree with both the gentlemen here. He is a goat ah in in the game of basketball and is a surefire forced ballot Hall of Fame.
02:00:51
Speaker
No doubt. All right, let's keep it moving. where i thought I was hoping Jake was going to come back, but ah unfortunately his kid, his son got sick, so we're ah hoping for his son get better. and We'll see if he gets back to us here shortly.
02:01:04
Speaker
um But anyways, if not, we'll keep it moving into the NCAA tournament. The women and men's final fours are set, and boys, we have chalk.
02:01:14
Speaker
Across the board, the most chalkiest of the Chalks have ever seen in Chalktown. yeah In the men's side, we have all number ones, your Florida Gators, the Houston Cougars.
02:01:30
Speaker
The Auburn Tigers and the Duke Blue Devils on the women's side. You have ah the Dawn Staley-led South Carolina Lady Gamecocks. The Texas Lady Longhorns li but led by Madison Booker.
02:01:45
Speaker
UConn is in there. Gino Auriemma still doing his thing. They're doing it. ah You know, they got the freshman there, Sarah Strong. Aziz Fudd came back strong from injury. And finally, my UCLA Bruins, led by the best player in the country, Lohen Bet, going for a championship.
02:02:03
Speaker
Let's effing go. it um You know what? We're going to talk were go talk about that. I'm going to get to that. I have that note in here. It is a very sad note. We'll get to that at the end.
02:02:15
Speaker
But first, what I want to talk about is what you gentlemen think about these Final Four teams and also who you have as your championship game and winner. We need to update those as well. Can't you start us off, brother?
02:02:29
Speaker
So, ah Professor, i'm kind of hurt, man. I'm kind of distraught. um what My girlfriend, she didn't make it to the ah final four. Juju. ye no Not Juju, man. I love Kim Moki. Kim Moki?
02:02:45
Speaker
I love that old wrinkle white lady. and I love her. You old gulladine loving mofo. If you don't get the hell out of here with that joke. No, no, you've been muted.
02:03:01
Speaker
You've been muted by the professor. This is unacceptable. This nonsense cannot continue. First it was Jake. Now it's you. You ain't going to come on here and pop up Kim Mulkey when Juju Watkins just had a horrible injury.
02:03:16
Speaker
And you're talking about some white lady wearing most outrageous costumes that probably don't even like your color. I think you need to back that up, homie. he said, man, I love that old Riku. Like, let down. Old Riku white lady. Like, what? Damn.
02:03:34
Speaker
Damn. You old Martha Stewart, Paula Deen loving mofo. Jeez Louise. You old Blanche, Golden Girls loving mofo. you oh You old Hillary Clinton.
02:03:47
Speaker
wrote is a Melania Trump loving foe. You old...
02:03:54
Speaker
You nasty. ah ke off let let Let me finish. Let me finish. Let me finish. So I've always loved Kim Mokie, man. I like her demeanor. like her spirit.
02:04:06
Speaker
She always wear lot of makeup. She wear the crazy outfits, but I like her coaching style. Now what she said to that other guy on the interview was outrageous about the elite eight or whatever.
02:04:16
Speaker
But when we look at the teams that in the final four right now. That was horrible. We got talk about that. But go ahead. Keep going. The final four, man, right now.
02:04:26
Speaker
UConn in South Carolina. And Dawn Staley a bulldog. She's a bulldog. She's a bulldog amongst bulldogs. The girl, she knows how to coach.
02:04:36
Speaker
But UConn, UConn going to bring that fight. They going to bring that fight. Okay, well, let's let's keep swinging it around. with Let's keep swinging it around with women's first since he gave us his women's pick. Mar, who's your women's pick? And please don't say Kim Mulkey.
02:04:52
Speaker
Oh, no. Damn Shane, that wrinkle. riwa wow yeah um No, no, no. Hey, I've always loved Dawn Staley. I love watching her game, even when she used to play back in the day. remember when she used to play for the Charlotte. She was great player. Hell yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, we she we she used to play for the Charlotte Sting back in the WNBA, but regardless, loved Dawn Staley, loved her game.
02:05:20
Speaker
ah see She's quite kept. She's built a juggernaut down in Columbia and a dynasty right there before people. I think she's at three national championships, so...
02:05:32
Speaker
um I would be shocked if she's going to get number four this year. And um to be honest, I think the only team that could probably default that or deter it is Paige and And I can't. no I was, I was, so and in all honesty, I was hoping, unfortunately, Juju got hurt. I was hoping to see Juju in USC versus USC. I was hoping to get the all USC matchup.
02:06:01
Speaker
But I'll take a a ah USC and UConn. And I love that. So, hey, that's not a bad fallback plan for me. So, I'll take that.
02:06:13
Speaker
Unfortunately, Texas, I don't think they got enough juice. ah And then, ah you know, um hey, I ah love your story of your Bruins. But, man, ah to go up against a juggernaut or UConn and yeah Y'all gotta play y'all perfect game, baby. And that's a lot to ask for. Y'all gotta play y'all perfect game, baby. Y'all gotta play that perfect game. You bring your ass on, Professor.
02:06:39
Speaker
yeah ah ah So, gentlemen, as you can see, I am a loyal UCLA Bruin fan. If my camera will focus here, Yeah, as soon as you put it on. Yeah, you don't want to see that mess, dog. All right, there we go.
02:06:57
Speaker
ah Anyways, um yeah, I was going to bring up the fact that obviously we we all missed out on Juju Watkins, right? to Her ACL injury is horrible. I never thought I would feel bad for an FUSC Trojan condom, but here I am feeling bad for her because...
02:07:16
Speaker
I'm a UCLA fan. I hate them. But anyways, I love Juju Watkins. I love her game. She's a killer. I feel really bad for her as a member of the torn ACL club myself. I know how hard it hurts and how bad it is to come back or how bad it hurts and how hard is to come back rather. um So prayers up for her. We definitely missed out on them versus ah her versus UConn.
02:07:37
Speaker
That would have been amazing. Her and Paige Beckers going head to head. We missed out on her versus UCLA possibly going head to head for a fourth time in the season, which would have been freaking awesome since USC actually had a two ah two to one lead um over us.
02:07:51
Speaker
ah But unfortunately she was injured again. Prayers up. Hopefully she comes back. ah safe That being said, it was not going to matter. The FUSC Trojans were not going to beat. My UCLA Bruins, neither is USC.
02:08:05
Speaker
they They got a good team. I mean, USC, UConn. UConn has a good team, very strong. They would be the one that I would... Most likely, you know, worry about in the situation we already beat South Carolina this year and we blew them out. Now, I know that was earlier in the year, but I think that would still hold weight with the players on each team.
02:08:26
Speaker
And Texas, while Madison Booker is an amazing young lady and player, um just can't see them stacking up with these other powerhouses. Yeah.
02:08:37
Speaker
So I am going to go with a UCLA versus South Carolina final, and I got my UCLA Bruins obviously winning and beating the South Carolina Lady Gamecocks for a second time this season and putting the first national championship for UCLA women's basketball in a very, very long, long time.
02:08:57
Speaker
um So that's our predictions there on the women's side of things. Let's go ahead and get our men's predictions. Kante, what is your men's predictions? Man, so the men's side is little funky, guys. little funky on the men's side.
02:09:11
Speaker
So you got one side is too scc matcher were two Well, it's two SEC teams playing against each other. Then you got Houston playing Duke.
02:09:23
Speaker
I'm going to go Auburn's going to upset Florida. I mean, is that an upset, though? They were number one for all season. Is that really an upset? Yeah, so not really upset. So going to go Auburn going to beat Florida.
02:09:37
Speaker
I like Kevin Sampson, man. I like Sampson. I like the brother out of Houston. I like Florida versus Houston in the championship. I think Duke going to finally fall on the blade.
02:09:49
Speaker
hi they They're going to finally fall, bro. All right. Mar, what you got? Damn. Hey man, here's a crazy thing about ah Duke, man. They always look good oh when it matters. i and i'm I'm like Cam, I like Kevin Sepsut.
02:10:09
Speaker
I love the athleticism that they got ah Houston. Here's a problem that I got at Duke. Can't do nothing when it comes to them athletic dogs, man.
02:10:21
Speaker
They can't do it. like has it And, you know, as good as the recruit that they do in Duke, they don't recruit athletes like these other schools. They just don't.
02:10:32
Speaker
I'm sorry. You're right, man. hey men didn they date date they dr they they They recruit the high IQ basketball players, and that's fine.
02:10:43
Speaker
ah High IQ doesn't always translate to high athleticism. Sometimes, oh you know, hey some of these guys just might leap out the gym on these boys. So um I think Houston might walk away with with one of the games.
02:10:57
Speaker
And unfortunately, between Auburn and Florida, man, you know, I know Auburn's beaten them before, but don't know. I'm going to kind of ride with Florida, man, on this one, man. I just...
02:11:10
Speaker
a you know I had them on my bracket to begin with. you know i mean My bracket's been busted to begin with, but i you know yeah and mean let me ride with at least one winner that I got on them jerks. Let me and we ride with four.
02:11:25
Speaker
Yeah, and i I mean, i'm I'm going to do the same thing that you're doing. I have to keep keep the picks that I originally started with. And lucky enough, i in my in one of my bracket pools, I'm actually in ah the possibility of winning first place because I did have a Houston versus Auburn final.
02:11:42
Speaker
So I'm keeping that final, and I'm also keeping my original champion. i but I agree with Canteen. Kelvin Sampson has long not been able to get over the hump, but this year he has a team full of seniors and really experienced players.
02:11:57
Speaker
And while I think Auburn does, well, not what why think, while they do have the National Player of the Year in Joni Broome, and they have other good players surrounding him, I just don't think the talent level is what Houston has, even though Bruce Pearl is as well an amazing coach. So I am going to go with the Houston Cougars as well winning.
02:12:16
Speaker
and beating Auburn in the final. So there you go. So we have, I had, just to make sure, let's repeat these back for everybody since that was a little bit of a longer convo.
02:12:28
Speaker
So on the women's side and the men's side, hit us again, Canteen, who you got for the women? UConn versus a South Carolina. And you've got South Carolina winning.
02:12:43
Speaker
Yeah. Yeah. Right? Same. Okay. and then who And then you got the same thing, right, Mark? South Carolina over you, son? Okay. And I have UCLA over South Carolina. Now for the men, can't team repeat who you got? Because I'm going to clip this. so Yeah, Houston and Auburn.
02:12:58
Speaker
And who's your winner? Houston by a landslide. Woo! Mark, what you got on the men again? And put this on up, too.
02:13:09
Speaker
Yeah, I got Houston and Florida, but I'm going to rock with Florida, though. Rocking with Florida. All right. And I got Houston and Auburn and I'm rocking with Houston. So me and canteen Houston, Mar got Florida there. Thank you for that. going to go ahead and clip that and put that up.
02:13:24
Speaker
Manana at the 215. Mark, thank you gentlemen for that. Awesome conversation there. Let's keep it moving. We've a couple more topics to talk about. I know it's been a long show, y'all. We thank you for sticking with us because all of y'all have stuck with us this whole entire time. So that's awesome. Whether you're watching in the Bottom Line Sports, Let's Talk Sports, IOW Sports, wherever you're watching that, we really appreciate you taking time out to watch us.
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02:14:00
Speaker
Here we go. NFL rule changes. Lots of rule changes, gentlemen, have been talked about. Wow. So let's run through these. First of all, the tush push stays.
02:14:13
Speaker
They're not banning it. Second of all, new overtime. Both teams get a chance to get the ball and score. And you've got to remember they also changed.
02:14:25
Speaker
ah They also changed the regular season overtime to 10 minutes, and the playoffs are 15, so keep that in mind. And then finally, kickoffs were also changed. 35-yard. Thank you. 35-yard touchbacks will be what we're getting there. Finally, Hawkeye technology will measure first downs.
02:14:47
Speaker
Thank the good Lord we won't have these old-ass referees trying to eye the damn ball. um Gentlemen, someone pick a rule out here and start with us. Canteen, what you got? Any of these rules hitting you? So, man, it this whole thing about this whole this whole overtime thing, bro.
02:15:02
Speaker
So you telling me I got almost damn near 10 minutes to march down the field and kick a field goal. That's what you telling me. That's what you telling me.
02:15:15
Speaker
Yeah, so a team could effectively but run out the whole clock and kick a field goal. But at the same time, as Mad Dog actually pointed out on ESPN this morning, and it and it made sense, the other team could just come back and score 99-yard touchdown, but it's not very they likely. so So he was advocating to move regular season back to 15 minutes, which I agree with as well. It makes sense. What you just said makes sense, bro. Mm-hmm.
02:15:43
Speaker
Okay. Anything else on it, Canteen?
Controversial 'Tush Push' Play
02:15:46
Speaker
Any other rules? i mean who Here's the thing, man.
02:15:50
Speaker
Go back to the 15-minute rule. Regular season, man. Yep. All right. All right. Mar, what you got on any of these rules? Anything in your eye?
02:16:03
Speaker
And hits eye like a big pizza pie that's amore. Amore. Amore. Are you there, Mark? oh i think we got get it At some point in time, can we move Hey, you were frozen. Start again, please. I'm right here.
02:16:18
Speaker
No, no. ah What I'm saying is at some point in time, man, like I move past the tush push, man. So here's my thing. If its
02:16:29
Speaker
if if if if the if the research is saying there's a lot of injuries, ban it. If m we not having the the injury problems, they're not being reported.
02:16:41
Speaker
It's just a play. It's one play. Why are we like this one play is that detrimental to ah to to your game plan? Just because you can't stop
Eagles' Use of 'Tush Push' for Yardage
02:16:49
Speaker
that one play. Right. There's so many other plays in in ah a game.
02:16:54
Speaker
Like, come on, man. it And it's not like you're 100% successful. i mean They've been stopped. you You know, if you want to stop it, why don't you watch film on on the other times the other teams have stopped it and don't you emulate that?
02:17:06
Speaker
How about that? you think about that? I thought about it, and I just thought about it right then and there. I'm pretty sure you thought about it. Wait, wait, you GMs don't get paid for that? You coaches don't get paid for that?
02:17:17
Speaker
Oh, well, hell, give me that money then. I'm not sure. thought about it shit that right there and there fact of the matter is is the tush push is one play if it's having injury issues ban it if it's not it's still football what are we talking about why we why why we gotta have a meeting and well talk about it or rule change on it for what is it football let take Let me tell you something, Walker. All they're doing right in Florida is getting drunk, talking drunk, having fun. just is out there get it They call it professionalism, but they're just mixing and mixing. That's all they're doing. They definitely doing some other things. They having some other.
02:17:56
Speaker
a park intertwine Yeah, this is what I'll say. While, yes, it should not be illegal because anybody can do it. So if you wanted to do it, you could practice the play conceivably and and be able to figure it out and do it as well as the Eagles do it.
02:18:14
Speaker
um But I do agree with Packers president Mark Murphy, who was the one that filed the ban, that there really is no skill involved in the play. And it is almost an automatic first down because it is so difficult to stop because of the fact that offensive linemen are diving towards the ground, taking out the linemen and then having ah people push, which ah you're also not supposed to. Well, there used to be a rule. You can do it now.
02:18:41
Speaker
But back in the day, they had a rule. where you could not put hands on a ball carrier to put all them forward. Yeah. but Omar, you know what word you said? You said difficult to stop.
02:18:53
Speaker
Not impossible to stop. Difficult to stop is one thing. Impossible to stop is another. It's not impossible to stop the tush push. That's why um that's not why this is football. It's one play.
02:19:06
Speaker
If you can't stop it, then hell, we got a coaching issue. Right. You need to regroup. That's right. and That's true. No, not wrong. You're not wrong at all. I wonder what, and I'm going to look this up while we keep talking, but I wonder what the percentage is of Eagles.
02:19:22
Speaker
that's ah off the to it Off the top of my head, i think the Eagles were 83% successful on the tush push.
02:19:34
Speaker
That's high. I get it. i get it. That's high. It's not 100%.
02:19:40
Speaker
right And so my thing is Just because one plate one play Has an 83% success rate And other plays have a 64% success rate We're tripping about that 19%
02:19:53
Speaker
We're making sure about that. Just because it just has a little bit higher higher percentage than other plays. this I know there's plays that probably have a higher percentage of senses rate than the touch push.
02:20:04
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Correct. And it's more instrumental to the team. It's more instrumental to the team that's helping. they they're only They're only making it a big deal because it comes at a play where it's third and short, and the Eagles find themselves at third and short a lot of times. A lot of times. And it catapults them to the next level. And it gets them to the next level. And it's more out there.
02:20:27
Speaker
Exactly. It's more prevalent. It's more prevalent when โ and it's definitely more prevalent because they just won another Super Bowl. ah yes I mean come on i we if If we're talking about a team That's not winning the Super Bowl with the and And not a team that's been In the conversation It's not even right it's not even really a band conversation Because they've been in the Super Bowl conversation For the last four years They've been the two, they've just won one one didn't make is is Has it helped them win? Yes Is it the reason why they won? No, it's part of it part of it right i mean And I think that's why a lot of people are like Oh, yeah
02:21:06
Speaker
We can't stop it. yeah
Jerry Jones' Business Approach Critique
02:21:09
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Well, to your point on the 83% rate, and to back you up on something else you said, the Eagles have run their quarterback 122 times in one yard to go situations since 2022.
02:21:20
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The only other teams any anywhere close but are the Bills. yeah With Josh Allen, the Steelers, surprisingly, and Hot Take Jake's Broncos, and they're all at 55 or less.
02:21:32
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So that's 67 times less the Bills and Steelers ran one-yard quarterback sneaks than the Eagles. um So, yes, the Eagles have a higher percentage, but they also do run it at almost 50.
02:21:45
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um Almost two two times Any other team And again, it's to your point That they get in those situations a lot Correct, correct Not only do they get in those situations Can we also add this to the caveat on why One, you see the Bills at number two And you see the Eagles at number one First of all, if I got Josh Allen at number two Why would I not do quarterback sneaks Or a tush push with that big mobile That's football He's more mobile than agile but but who Use the advantages that you have on your team.
02:22:17
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He's sick he's six six five probably 280. Why would I not use that big motor scooter on a tush push? that That's football. To me, that I would be an idiot not to use it.
02:22:29
Speaker
Right. all thirty I mean, that's a good point. and i agree with both of you. And to that point, the competition committee must, but for a rule to be changed, which this could be brought up again in the future, for a rule to be changed, it has to be supported by 75% the owners. That's out of the And that's awesome.
02:22:49
Speaker
Hey, and we also got it. We also got it. That's not going to happen, right? That's probably not going to happen. You also got to remember Jalen Hurst squats 600 pounds. Why would I not use the this push push?
02:23:01
Speaker
Jalen Hurst, bro. Come on, Mike. Come on. I mean, you're right, right? you You get these players for a reason. And if you scouted them out for these abilities that they have, then you should probably leverage those abilities. Wait minute.
02:23:13
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Okay. Let's get it for a few quick hitters in here in the NFL, and then we'll get on our last topic of the and MLB. Thank you all again for staying tuned in. Probably just a few more, probably about 15 more minutes here. But anyways, get that like button if you can, and make sure you tap it with all these channels.
02:23:28
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burstings First things first, Cowboys, Jerry Jones, again with his nonsense of not wanting to pay players on time, and now he wants to have meetings with the players and not talk to their agents or some kind of,
02:23:43
Speaker
BS nonsense. He's trying to say he don't name Pete. don't know people's names. Chantino. So the way he tried to dime out Michael Parsons and try to downplay him, man, let me tell you something. The
Jerry Jones: Profit vs Championships
02:24:00
Speaker
Dallas Cowboys are probably the most coveted National Football League organization in the world.
02:24:08
Speaker
why is it it Why is it that Jerry Jones makes irrational decisions and does stupid stuff and don't pay these guys the money that you you you generate the revenue?
02:24:20
Speaker
Pay the guys. Give them the money. The hell are you waiting for? Shit, let them win a Super Bowl. You got what it takes. But you do stupid. Excuse me, guys. I don't want to curse. You do stupid shit year after year.
02:24:32
Speaker
i mean i don't want curse. Flores coerced me to join, y'all. But I had to go back to my roots. I went back home. I took my ass back to Atlanta. i went back home to the ATL. I went home. But why did you do this year after year when you got valuable talent?
02:24:49
Speaker
Come on, man. Make it make sense to Professor. Why? Mar, make it make sense. What do you think? Oh, that's easy, man. Come on, man. Y'all ain't been watching the late night show. I can tell.
02:25:00
Speaker
Oh, I have. and Because at the end of the day, oh Jerry Jones is a businessman. He loves football. you like Hold on, hold on, Marlon.
02:25:12
Speaker
Marlon, let me stop you right there in your tracks. Hell, I know he a businessman with me, Professor, Professor Day, and we went to the stadium. Y'all, you got to go four flights of steps.
02:25:26
Speaker
Come back to the bottom floor your seats. Which is some bullshit, Jerry. You gotta fix that. I was pissed I had to do that. yeah And then, and dog, we was in the stadium, we was sitting like this. Flores and Flores on me.
02:25:38
Speaker
When you had to pay at least $20 for a double deuce, a 22-ounce bill, a 22-ounce Michelob. corner to out milk alone Hey, okay.
02:25:50
Speaker
yeah Professor will tell you we paid for a tailgate before the game. Yeah. but ah When you got to do that, you got to go up all these stairs, come back down, come to see. That's crazy.
02:26:02
Speaker
Hey, you know why he he set it up that way, right? Why? Cause when you go up, you want the chance for your wallet to fall out your pocket. So I will never ever, ever, and God is my witness. I i'm not saying i don't say never, but we had a we me, Professor, in his dad and Flo, we had a good trip, but bro, AT&T Stadium.
02:26:31
Speaker
and and um'm And I'm not saying that bad on the show, but it was horrible. It was bad. Well, what I'll say is that Jerry Jones is is wasting money. That's the point. And if you're a businessman, as a businessman, you don't want to waste money. The whole point of being a businessman is to make a profit and have- Generate more revenue, more income.
02:26:49
Speaker
If you're not paying Micah Parsons, it's not like he's not- the next LT. It's not like he's not a generational player. He has all these things, and you know you're going to have to pay him.
02:27:00
Speaker
But every day, as I said on your your show last year when we went out when I was on Late Night Owl, yesterday's price ain't today's punch je's price, Today's price.
02:27:10
Speaker
True. Pay the damn man. Stop wasting your money. You don't need to talk to him and have a conversation to see where he's at in life. He's the next damn Lawrence Taylor. That's where he's at life. I'm telling you, bro, it's it's embarrassing, man. we hold hey Hey, look, look, look.
02:27:27
Speaker
I hear what y'all saying. but by I'm not in the uproarings because this is what Cherry does. This is a business. make you right It's not about right. Come on, Omar. You've been around in life long enough to understand that there's no ethics in business. It um ain't about right or wrong.
02:27:48
Speaker
It's about business. And at the end of the day, um oh Jerry Jones is going to be about his business. All right. And here's one. Here's the only pushback I get to I don't think hes he's ever lost a profit. don't he's ever lost money. Probably the only time he didn't make it was the first year was when he bought the Cowboys. It's probably the only time he ain't made money since.
02:28:08
Speaker
Because other than that, the man's been making so much money. He's been making money handing over a fist. He's been making so much money. He's the only North American owner right now.
02:28:19
Speaker
Profiting a billion dollars a year only. Here's the thing, Mark. you know but but Why do people like Flores believe year after year the same shit year after the year after the year?
02:28:31
Speaker
It's because. It's because. That's what a businessman does. He's going to sell you a dream. He's going to sell you something that looks good.
02:28:43
Speaker
He's going to sell you a fancy stadium, big old projection screen, and I'm going to sell you a quarterback that looks good because I got nice pieces around him.
02:28:53
Speaker
But if I start slowly taking those pieces away from him, you actually start seeing what he looks like. You're going to cross him out. But I'm going to go ahead and give him a very expensive wide receiver. I'm going to go give him a very expensive pass rusher on the other side.
02:29:09
Speaker
I'm going to make it look like I actually give one fuck about actually giving you a Super Bowl. But lo and behold, if you really look at Jerry Jones transactions, he's worried about how can you get more money out of your pocket.
02:29:21
Speaker
He's going to sell you a dream that this team is going to get past the second round. What has this team done year in? In the last 24, 25 years, nothing. Exactly. They can't get past the second round. So he's going to sell you a dream that they're get past the second round. And Cowboy fans are going to be out.
02:29:38
Speaker
What they do. Hey, man, this is going to be our year. Look who we got. Look who we had it. Look who we drafted. Man, we go Super Bowl.
02:29:48
Speaker
Oh, man. And so when when he sells him that dream and they buy in all the hype, then they buy all the tickets and they buy the jersey and and they buy all the memorabilia. Lo and behold, they keep
Cowboys' Branding as America's Team
02:30:00
Speaker
selling into the machine that Jerry has created with the moment he bought the team. He don't give a damn about championships, because if he did, he would have made sure that he kept.
02:30:09
Speaker
Jimmy Johnson. If he cared about Super Bowls, he would have left Jimmy Johnson alone and said, you do you. I'm just signing the checks and you go get the Super Bowls and let me know what you need. If he really cared about winning Super Bowls, he would have built that dynasty that probably could have walked away with six, seven, eight, nine, ten, damn, eleven Super Bowls.
02:30:30
Speaker
If he really wanted to really care about Super Bowls. Jerry Jones has been about money. The moment that he hit a billion dollars per year and he doesn't have to hit a Super Bowl and doesn't have to win it, all he has to do is sell you and twenty oh ty use it and a pipe dream. He's selling you a pipe dream.
02:30:49
Speaker
Come on, wild card, man. Stop playing with me, man. And the fact that he's been selling pipe dreams day in and day out. but For the last 30 years. 30 years.
02:31:01
Speaker
They buy it up. 95 and they buy it up and that's how they help that man make a billion dollars per year is because they buy into the pipe dream that team's not going win those who will no time soon he knows the formula to make money and you cowboys fans year in and year out do it and you know how they do it is because he's not just a north america team no the cowboys are international team He's gotten international money. You don't make a billion dollars a year being just not locally to the United States. No, you've got to be international. That is an international name team that is recognized.
02:31:44
Speaker
He built that. And he don't care about Super Bowls. You know why? Because you're still going to spend the money and it's going to go to a lot. He's going to make another billion dollars a year again and is going to get bigger in the year after that until he passes away year in year and year out is going to get bigger. So this year was a billion next year is going to be 1.5 the year after that is going to be two.
02:32:11
Speaker
The year after that is going to be three. You're going to continue to keep putting more money in Jerry Jones pocket and you're going to get nothing. in return. And then Flores keeps saying the same thing.
02:32:23
Speaker
Well, players got quarterback. That's fine. Of course, he's a Cowboys fan. It's because he's been, he's already been, when you're that trapped into the machine, there's no getting out.
02:32:35
Speaker
He already knows what it is. He's in there. But Professor, you told him I wasn't Cowboy fan, right?
02:32:45
Speaker
You told me that was coming in. I did because I could tell after joining the show that you were just being coerced. And because Flores was your friend, you wanted to make him feel better. So you took his team in because your team sucked at the time.
02:33:01
Speaker
But now that your team is actually a little better and the Cowboys suck, now you've gone back. So not only were you coerced, but it seems like you actually had a little play in part in this your own self. And maybe I should be blaming Canteen a little bit more for this whole season. How about that?
02:33:16
Speaker
It's all you can. You know messing with you, kid. All right. That's awesome. Thank you for that. i agree with everything Wildcard Marr said. I'm not even going to say any more about that. The only thing I will say to finish ah the topic off is...
02:33:34
Speaker
I believe, and I agree with you, there's no ethics in business, things like that, but I also run into a business myself. I've been an entrepreneur for a long time, and the main goal, even more over not having ethics, is to make as much money as possible. And while, yes, you're correct, they make the majority of their money off parking, concessions, things of that nature, it still doesn't, a behoove you to be, to or even...
02:34:04
Speaker
promote you well enough as a businessman if you're willing to risk another $25, $50 million dollars possibly because you didn't sign him early enough because if Trey Hendrickson signs before him, that money is only going up another $20, $25 million. Also, also you you you you risk you risk...
02:34:26
Speaker
you risk invalidating not only the agent but you risk ah you know putting your player out there as well, right?
02:34:37
Speaker
Possibly upsetting your player because you have put him and his agent in a place where maybe they don't need to be. And thirdly, um just in terms of a person that wants to, again, and I get the point where you say he's just in it to make money, but as a man who's, let's be completely honest, is no spring chicken, ah he has less years in front of him than behind him.
02:35:06
Speaker
And at this point, you would think that personal pride would come into play and he would want to win a championship before he, you know, moves on to to heaven or or what heaven, I would assume, I hope.
02:35:21
Speaker
um But let me i'm ah count mean we the pastive agree thank you but let me ask you this and me ask you this Would you Would you prefer To win a Super Bowl before you die Even though you already got three Or knowing the fact that you can make it easy Billion dollars just by being alive Sure but you could also Make that billion dollars and even Maybe more by winning a Super Bowl and extending that brand and helping your family out into the future.
02:35:55
Speaker
He may not even like his son for a while. That mother family is fine. They fine. They fine, bro. They do have a super yacht, so yes, they are fine. They are one of them. All right. Forget them. I don't care. i'm i only root for i only root for the Cowboys when ah for if they're in the playoffs or something because my dad is a Cowboys fan. That's it.
02:36:15
Speaker
And I'll never root
New Torpedo Bats in Baseball
02:36:16
Speaker
for them against the Raiders. I only like it when โ for him to do to do good. But me personally, I could care less about the Cowboys. And I think that they, as you have said, and I also said this on your program last year, that is the greatest marketing machine sports has ever been built, is to make yourself America's team off the back of those championships back in the 90s and be able to extend that to now, as you've so astutely said, billion-dollar organization 30 years later.
02:36:45
Speaker
Yeah. Shout out to that, I guess. right. Last topic before we get you out here for the night. So thankful for Mars staying with us for such a long time. ah Jake, hope your son is feeling better. If you can't come back for baseball, we're going to touch on this last topic with your Yankees.
02:37:00
Speaker
I take Jake's Yankees controversy. Scored 32 runs against the Brewers, including nine, I repeat, nine home runs over a two-day stretch in which they used new torpedo bats. So you say, what, Omar, is torpedo bats?
02:37:19
Speaker
Let the sports professor teach you and learn you some knowledge. First of all, these bats came about... performer, Yankees infielder Kevin Smith.
02:37:30
Speaker
They were designed by former MIT and Michigan physicist Aaron Lenhart. The bats feature a reconfigured barrel that shifts the sweet spot of the bat from the top of the bat where it used to be. to the middle of the shaft of pause of the bat where the sweet spot and that what the sweet spot is is where the ball is most likely going to connect for most hitters on the back it doesn't connect on the end of the back because if you play baseball or even golf when you hit something off the end of the batter off into the club it's going to shank and go to the right right or go to right field You want to hit it on the sweet spot where you get the most connection, the most velocity, the most launch angle, so you can hit the balls out of the park.
02:38:17
Speaker
These custom-made bats, they began working on them on 2022. I do want to point out they were also done in partnership with MLB, so they are not currently illegal. And as of now, no one is trying to ban it a la the Tush Push, although I'm sure we could possibly see that.
02:38:38
Speaker
All we know is this is revolutionary for the game of baseball where offense had been down the past few years because of the rise in great pitching.
02:38:49
Speaker
But as baseball has always wanted to do, they make these corrections and usually what will happen is... is they overcorrect too much. So now what I'm fearing is that offense is going to be so great that pitching is now going to decline and we are going to swing back the other way as we all want to do with MLB, a pendulum going back and forth. The offense is good for a while. Then pitching is good for while. need an even damn game. Mar, you talked about this last night.
02:39:17
Speaker
Hit the people with your opinion on these torpedo bats. hey Man, at end of the day, man, i don't give it damn if you got a torpedo bat, a regular bat, a aluminum bat, a wood bat, a wooden or if you can't got no high hand coordination, it matter, bro.
02:39:35
Speaker
If you can't hit the ball, it don't matter. okay For those who were fussing at the Yankees about it Saturday, y'all were pretty quiet last night when they striking out a lot last night. 14 strikeouts to be exact last night.
02:39:51
Speaker
Thank you. um So at the end of the day, is like you know it's just a bat. All they did was take just a little bit of the wood and go down. That's it.
02:40:02
Speaker
like And and like as like Omar said, it's been in the MLB for a couple of years now. It's been, hasn't been banned because it fits into actual measurements and regulations of Major League Baseball's restrictions. How they got measurements on bats. There's a a certain measurements you got to be within. It fits it. So,
02:40:24
Speaker
i Know a lot of people are up in arms and and especially of Saturday. They were pissed off about it Let it go. It's not getting banned. It's not illegal It's not going nowhere matter of fact You're probably gonna see more players starting to go buy it because they can go buy it for $200. I saw it.
02:40:41
Speaker
Um, so they're gonna start buying them and but look in the day ah You know, it's almost like putting a makeup on an ugly chick.
02:40:53
Speaker
You know, you're just ugly chick with makeup. So that doesn't change nothing. So if you can't hit, just because you got a torpedo bat, it doesn't turn you into a hitter. You can't hit.
02:41:05
Speaker
great um It doesn't make a hitter. A hitter uses a bat as an extension of his skills. That's all it is. If you can't hit, you can't hit. That bat is not going to change nothing. all right so Relax, folks.
02:41:20
Speaker
It's not going nowhere. If you want to regulate it in other other levels like high school and college, well I don't even think so because they use aluminum, but regardless, um if you want to regulate it somewhere else, then by all means.
02:41:35
Speaker
It's not going nowhere in the MLB. It's staying. And I don't have no problem with it because, hell, if they hitting home runs and bringing viewers, it reminds me of 98 when y'all had the whole steroid race.
02:41:46
Speaker
So it didn't matter then when y'all was getting in views. So give me them views. don't give a damn shit. Mm-hmm.
Baseball's Logistics and Audience
02:41:54
Speaker
Yeah, no, I mean, it's like I said, it's been going โ it's been penduling back and forth, swinging between them. And as you mentioned, right, it's not legal. MLB was working in partnership with them since 2022. And, yes, they haven't been widespread used until this year that when they really got popular.
02:42:10
Speaker
um But MLB has known about it since 2022 when they started working on it. So, um again, it's not legal, as Wildcard Marsh said. Canty, what's your thoughts on this? Hey, man, this whole baseball thing is this right here, man.
02:42:23
Speaker
let let it Let it roll, man. Let it roll, let it rock, and let them do what do, man. um baseball Baseball is this whole dynamic, man, Omar, because baseball is a whole melting pot. You got a hold you had all genres in baseball.
02:42:40
Speaker
You can pick, pull, choose, and do what you want to do in baseball. Let them rock out, bro. Let them rock out. Let them make happen. Yeah, it's not illegal. and No, keep going. Sorry. I thought youre different when you were When you have over 100 and 60-some games in one sport, that's major.
02:42:59
Speaker
That's a big deal. And when you're able to cut contracts โ exponentially professor you know that but what does the word exponentially mean professor exp exponentially that means to cut very very largely at a at a large and percentage cut each time you are getting more bigger and bigger in your cuts come on man you got from here man i'm done No, you're good, bro. Keep going. hey
02:43:30
Speaker
So muslim when you met up when you can when you can do what you can do in that era, when you can make things like that happen, baseball is its own league, bro. If Canteen can egan go play for the Braves and you give $60 million just to stand my ass up there, come on, man. I'm in a league of my own. Really?
02:43:51
Speaker
Really? Yeah, I mean, you're not wrong. and and And like you said, I mean, it's not going to be banned, right? we all we all We all know for now, at least it's not going to be banned. and it it shouldn't be as long as MLB was actually in the in in the process of its creation, then it should possibly be, you know, or it should be accepted. um And the thing is, anybody can use these bats. So it's not like it's a...
02:44:19
Speaker
what is that, an uneven playing field, because anybody is able to have the same advantage. So it's like the tush-bush. While I agree, it's probably not... in the in the In the name of fairness, per se, when you do something that gives you an advantage, if it can be done by everybody and it can be used by everybody, then it's not an unfair advantage.
02:44:44
Speaker
So even less than the tush push, I would see this something that would not be banned because anybody and everybody can have the ability to go out and use this back. big Great point. Great point.
02:44:58
Speaker
Yeah. um Cool. And I will just end it off with one thing. going to let Will Ferrell agree with um with Mar here from Anchorman. And he'll tell us about a woman and woman. You're just a woman with a small brain, with a brain a third the size of us.
02:45:15
Speaker
It's science. nine It is science. or I don't know that that's correct. I want to cast any aspersions on our female audience members here and female fans.
02:45:27
Speaker
That was Will Ferrell. That was Ron Burgundy. Don't get mad at me. It's science. Um, on that note, I love that movie so much. Uh, We're going to get out of here. Walcar Mar, man, it has you have been a blessing to us today.
02:45:41
Speaker
Not only did you decide to take three hours of your day to spend with us and you're not even getting paid. I am so fortunate. We are so blessed that you were able to come bless him with your presence, especially since Jake had some issues. It was perfect timing. And we are so happy that you could join us, my brother.
02:45:57
Speaker
Man, come on, man. Chill out, man. Y'all know y'all fam, bro, man. this' is's It's all love, man. It's whenever, dog. Word. Well, owe you a couple late night owl appearances for this and want to get on anyways. Hey, and let me know let me let me know too, Wild Card, man.
02:46:12
Speaker
You got to let me know in advance. No, let me know in advance so I can come home and take me a nap and can get back up and I can kind of just maneuver. You old ass motherfucker. Hey, look, I'm 38 and I get up early. I maneuver throughout the day.
02:46:27
Speaker
is and let My bones are low. umm I'm a young old man. But hey, a shout a shout out to shout out to the professor who holding the bottom line down. Hey, professor, hey, look, we're going to talk, bro. a Hey, boy, I'm on. Hey, not only we're going to talk, I'm trying to convince O to come out to Kansas City for Raiders cheese game. So if you. Oh, you already know. You already know.
02:46:58
Speaker
Yeah, so Ken. You talk it up, let's do it. I'm
Future Meet-ups and Events
02:47:02
Speaker
down. he'll tell you I'm down. I'm going to talk my shit. I'm going to have a real good time, boy. Hey, get to Nashville because I know because right now you're in Carolina. Look, man, look, man.
02:47:15
Speaker
Look, man, y'all speaking to existence, we're going to put it in motion now. Omar will tell you how I get down. Because all I'm saying is Nashville is ain't ain't nothing but eight hours from me, and I can do that that. That ain't nothing.
02:47:29
Speaker
When you doing no driving, we flying. Omar, tell me what we do. I'm cheap. I'm cheap. I drive, though. I'm cheap. Omar, what we do? We have a good time. No, we're were oh no we're flying to Kansas City. i ain't driving shit. oh First of all, i don't bush like I don't drive anyways, but I don't like being in a car that long. Listen, man. Listen, man.
02:47:46
Speaker
When I first met Omar, bro, we like we just like this. We mesh well. And Omar, we might bump heads and know this and that. Hey, I'm trying to tell you I'm trying to tell you. If y'all come out here to Kansas City, man, I'm going to y'all great time, bro.
02:48:00
Speaker
I'm going to show y'all great time. you ain't got to say less, brother. I'm coming out for a game. We're going to figure that out. And as well, Canteen is supposed to come to Nashville later this year. Let go of this in motion, bro. So that way, wild card market, come to Nashville.
02:48:13
Speaker
Will you stop into my Pimby K&T for a second, damn it? Omar, I know me. Omar, I know me. I'm just like, you're right here. I'll come to Nashville. Don't, don't. You ain't got to pull. K&T, when you get a date, you let me know.
02:48:27
Speaker
We're going tell Wacomar so he can come out. We're going to tell Hot Take Jake so he can come out. Clever D. All of them. Everybody can come to Nashville. Man, say the list, bro. It's up. It's up. Say the list. All right. You ain't got to pull my arm to come to Nashville.
02:48:39
Speaker
I
02:48:42
Speaker
like man fact i know we got to go. It's this place called Monel's and I, I, I've been trying to get back to it so bad. and I love Monel's.
02:48:53
Speaker
We're going back.
02:48:55
Speaker
um like Oh, yes. Okay, cool. And, yes, obviously I'll come out to KC. I've already been out there once for a Raiders game ah like 10 years ago, and the Kansas City fans are so nice I couldn't even be mad at them.
02:49:06
Speaker
ah So I definitely would love to go back for a game. So let's plan that out, my brother. Yeah, the tailgate is crazy. Yeah, the tailgate is crazy. Omar, call me tomorrow, man. Yeah, we'll talk tomorrow. Wildcard, let him know where you're at.
02:49:18
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right, bro. Later. All right. Peace at the bottom line, y'all. Peace. Wildcard, let him know where you're at, brother. Oh, did he leave? he took me out. Oh, my bad.
02:49:28
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Oh, my bad. I was trying to move you so we could get centered here. ah there to man eight yeah oh I got you. I removed you. There you go. okay That's what I'm trying to do. Man, I have an old technology problem.
02:49:43
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and Right. So anyways, tell the people where you're at, my brother, where can they find you, especially right now coming up? Hey, man, nah, for real, man. that' Just tap in with me. Twitter, KC Wildcard Mar.
02:49:54
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I'll probably jump on my own podcast within, like, the next 20 minutes. going to get myself together and probably a get some stuff together real quick. And then, i yeah,
02:50:05
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um yeah Like I said, just go to Twitter page, ILW Sports Network, 613 Fade Productions, my man Bobby G, Audible Podcast. We got that going on on Thursdays and Fridays.
02:50:17
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um Yeah, man. Man, there's so much that I got going on. That's why I just go on to the Twitter, man. and Yeah. want to tell you, man, um hey du the fact that i I brought the late night show back was crazy because that was adding more stuff to it.
02:50:34
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but my place Yeah, it'll be like that when you're streaming. You got a lot of shows. It'll be like that, but yeah, man. And always, always, hey, man, y'all make sure y'all hit the like, share, subscribe button right here. It's the bottom line.
02:50:47
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Ball and buds. i Great people. They're my fams. I'm my podcast fams. Man, we're going to make something happen. Y'all make sure y'all go and support them for sure. Yeah. No, yeah, for real. Podcast family. And like I said, I think that ah obviously you and I get along really well. i see us being friends for sure. So real friends, real life friends. We got get in touch and do all that. Oh, oh, life.
02:51:10
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too so Give me a, give me a, wait, what's up? Give me two suite. Are we had Boom. two ah Too sweet. ah By the way, that reminds me, check us out before WrestleMania.
02:51:22
Speaker
Oh, that's a great point. That's a great point. This is going to be next week, y'all. Next Thursday night, check us out. Banter, Brawls, and Bravado WrestleMania edition. You will have myself, Wildcard, Mara, Hot Take Jake, and another guest on battling it out over some WrestleMania topics. So check that out next week, as well as the Professor Simon Almenti. I'll be on tomorrow night, ah probably 7.30.
02:51:48
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Eastern with my news, weekly news headlines show. So check me out there tomorrow night. Check us, Wildcar Marr and myself next Thursday here, Banter, Brawls, and Bravado, and as well, Bottom Line Sports every Tuesday night, sometimes Wednesday like tonight, 8 p.m. Eastern.
02:52:04
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We thank you very much. Again, Wildcar, really appreciate you coming on, my brother. Y'all go check him out now um in about 20 minutes on the Late Night Owl. I know I'm going to go get my accoutrements and join him as well.
02:52:15
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Holla! 5,000. five done