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No Luck for Leprechauns, Dirty Hands, and Disappointment.
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Fresh and Pancakes talk the end of the Celtics comeback, Yankees dirty hands, and the atrocity that is the Stanley Cup Finals jersey patch placement.
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Introduction and Episode Overview
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All right.
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Welcome back to the Fresh Cakes podcast.
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I'm fresh.
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This is pancakes.
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Hello.
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Hello.
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Super exciting one today.
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I you know, I've been waiting to do this episode and I'm just thrilled to do it.
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You know, this is what I would call a back to back bummer.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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This is two in a row.
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But that's it.
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Right.
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What do I mean?
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What are we talking about?
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Why don't we tell them what we're talking about?
Celtics' Game 7 Loss and Impact
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The Celtics had a devastating loss in game seven to the Heat and in the garden, in the cursed garden, which we coined that first.
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And then you saw it all over other sports media outlets.
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But you heard it here on the like first on the Fresh Kicks podcast.
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Yeah, you can go check the dates.
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We nailed that.
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We're the best of all time at that.
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And it is cursed.
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And we knew that a long time ago.
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So sorry, other media outlets, you know, try harder next time, I guess.
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Stop stealing our stories with your one listener.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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That happened to be the one guy that saw it that stole it from us.
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He got a promotion from it too, probably.
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Yeah.
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What a great idea.
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Come up with more like that.
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He's like, oh, shit.
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I got to watch Fresh Cakes podcast again.
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Yeah, Celtics, my team, devastating loss, Game 7.
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Had a chance to make history.
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First team to host a Game 7 at home after being down 0-3.
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And what happens on the first play of the game, Pancakes?
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Do you want to tell them about that?
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Fairy ankles, Tatum.
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Yeah.
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He had a little sprain.
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It was a good sprain, though.
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Yeah.
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Jason Tatum, our superstar player, sprains his ankle first play of the game.
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I saw a picture of it today, like frozen when it was like turned.
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It was it was a good turn, but he played through it.
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And then I found out today that Robert Williams, our center, who like really is a game changer, was had a stomach bug and was like throwing up throughout the game.
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So he didn't really have the impact that he should have.
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So curse garden, dude, you know, curse garden.
Officiating Critique and AI Discussion
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I guess, yeah, neither one of them had the impact they should have in that game, but I also didn't think that they really had the impact that they should have the first three games of that series either.
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Yeah, no, they didn't.
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But after clawing all the way back, you'd think, like, man, like...
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I don't know.
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We can keep it within 19 points of them, you know, in a game seven, like we lost by 19, you know, so it was just bad.
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But that whole game, we watched it.
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It just felt like, man, Miami, they just couldn't miss.
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It's like they had just lasers on the hoop and the Celtics just couldn't buy a bucket for like the first half.
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And finally they've kind of got it going, but not, it was way too late by then.
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So, um,
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Yeah, man, CC's, RC and Celtics, done.
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Done and dusted.
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Done until the fall.
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But you know what I will say about watching, you and I watched that Celtics game together.
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Yeah.
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And aside from, like, you know, the players, like, that they needed to show up not really showing up, um,
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The officiating was pretty awful in some parts.
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I remember of like Miami getting calls and Boston, like they, you know, like not being able to play defense.
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And I don't know how many times I can say it on this podcast.
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I think I'm going to say it a million more times.
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It makes basketball soft.
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It makes it look like the next soccer is everybody's falling down.
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Anytime there's a gust of wind and officials being able to manipulate players,
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the outcome of a game by fouls where they just can literally give you a shot at free points.
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Yeah.
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I mean, it felt weird.
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Like I remember one play Marcus Smart Greenman just got blasted into it as like an actual charge.
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It wasn't like one of those like ticky tax trying to get a charge call.
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Yeah.
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And we were just like befuddled.
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Like, how did they not blow the whistle here?
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And it was kind of like play after play of that.
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Yeah.
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They showed the replay of that and he literally got like ran over.
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And meanwhile, bam out of bio, which I'm saying this as a Kentucky fan was doing like moving screens and not getting called for them at all.
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Yeah.
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And then we'd get hit with it like the next series down, you know?
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So it felt a little weird.
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I don't, I'm not, I guess I'm not saying that I'm saying, or we're saying it's rigged, but it felt a little, you know, felt a little fishy there for a while.
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I don't know if Tatum was yelling at one of the refs early.
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I don't know if he just pissed him off and,
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or what it was but uh it is what it is right either way it's over um well you know what i think um that we need to do fresh instead of concentrating on ai writing like poems and making art you know kind of like things like chad gpt is right now can we just get the robots to call basketball games like forget about medical innovation here can and like helping society can we just get um
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robots to call basketball games.
NBA Finals Matchup Disappointment
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I think that's the real problem here.
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Fresh is that not enough robots or referees.
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Yeah.
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Call it the proper game.
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And then let's have the announcers understand like some of these announcers were like involved in basketball earlier when it was like real sport.
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And yeah,
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Dude, they're like calling.
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They're like, oh, yep, that was a foul.
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It's like, dude, he grazed him.
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You were around.
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Oh, yeah.
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Yeah.
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Right?
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That one announcer that was even saying, who was it?
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I think that it was Bam should have sold a foul more.
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He's not in theater, all right?
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This isn't a theater show.
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This isn't a play.
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It's a sport.
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Right.
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And that's a skill in basketball now.
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So it's like, all right, man, get your cardio in, get up a thousand shots every day and work on confusing the refs.
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Yeah, exactly.
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We're going to go to acting class.
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So, you know, whatever, man.
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So we lost.
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It was the biggest, most watched Eastern Conference final game on TNT in history.
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I think it peaked at 14.3 million.
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So that's pretty cool.
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It was like, that's like the level of game that it was.
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And for the Celtics, yes, they had injuries right out of the gate.
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That was not, it was not cool.
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It totally changed the swing of the game, but it's like, dude, you find a way to keep it close enough to try to win at the end.
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You know what I mean?
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You got to have Jalen Brown step up or somebody else.
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It's going to go from the most watched Eastern Conference final to the least watched NBA championship of all time.
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It's like the worst NBA finals I can remember.
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Like, I don't care at all.
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Yeah.
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The Nuggets versus the Heat.
Yankees' Controversies and Criticism
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Yeah.
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So speaking of teams I don't care about, but I have to talk about, did you see this thing with the Yankees?
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They just can't wash their hands fresh.
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They're dirty, dirty players.
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And they have a problem with keeping their hands clean.
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Yeah, a bunch of dirty dogs coming in, just crap all over their hands.
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And they've been three out of the four incidences in the MLB this year was the Yankees with stuff on their hands to try to get better grip on the ball.
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Pitchers for clarity for everybody that doesn't know baseball as well.
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You're not allowed to put what's called foreign substance on your hands.
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It's just like you can put rosin on your hands from the mound or I guess sweat's allowed to, which is –
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The sweat in the water makes a slightly kind of sticky thing, but it's just natural at least.
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But if you watch videos like the Yankees player that put their hand on their pants or their shirt and there's just brown stuff all over their uniform after it, it's like heaps of it.
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And it helps them grip the ball to get more spin on the ball to make it move more, throw it faster, but yet more accurately.
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But this is the thing we've always seen from the Yankees.
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I mean, this is not the new.
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They're the steroid champions of the steroid era.
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They really are.
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And I saw that video too, like where one of their pitchers like wiped his hand on his like pants and it's like, it almost looked like it was like pine tar or something coming off his hands.
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Sometimes they'll use that.
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Yeah.
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And like, which is illegal, by the way, you can't use pine tar.
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Pine tar is like a substance that you can put on a bat, for example, but you cannot use it.
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Right.
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It helps you grip the bat better.
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But, yeah, you're not supposed to use it to pitch.
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It's an unfair advantage.
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So I guess the least surprising thing of all time is what we just covered there.
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I mean, it's the Yankees.
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Of course they're doing it.
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But, I mean, dude, like he didn't even care.
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I mean, if it's like wiping off on your jersey, like you can see that, man.
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You can see that.
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So obviously they're going to come out and be like, dude, wash your fucking hands.
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Like what are we doing here?
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It's crazy.
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Out of all the silly things that baseball players get ejected for, I can't with umpires and how they seem to have a short fuse sometimes and very, you know, like big egos.
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Yeah.
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And I can't believe that's not one of the things that we've seen more ejections for this year.
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It just seems like they're like, wash your hands.
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And they come back and the Yankees like, don't do it.
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And like, they still get away with it.
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Yeah, it's nuts.
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Yeah, you're right about that.
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You can't even argue balls and strikes as a hitter anymore.
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But you can have a foreign substance that you've... Think about the third guy it happened to.
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It's like, okay, man, this has happened twice now.
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Are you fucking kidding me?
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I got to tell you to wash your hands too?
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Eject that guy.
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Eject that third guy.
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And the second guy.
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You know, if it should be like it happens once, like, okay, man, we didn't get away with it.
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Let's cut it out.
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You're done.
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You're done.
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You're cut off.
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Speaking of disgusting things, fresh, like the Yankees, the Miami Heat.
Advertising in Sports: NHL and European Soccer Comparison
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Let's move on to another thing, team that I hate, which happens to be the Florida Panthers, just another Florida team in the Stanley Cup.
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And I wanted to throw this at you, see how you felt about it, because this is the first time I've ever seen this in a Stanley Cup playoff, like an actual Stanley Cup series game, is that the jerseys,
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For the playoffs, you know how they get the Stanley Cup patch on the front?
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Yeah.
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The NHL, to sell an ad spot on the jersey, has moved the Stanley Cup trophy patch to the side of the jersey that the C's and the A's are on.
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So the Stanley Cup is literally next to the A or next to the C that you'd wear if you were a captain.
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so that they can have an ad on the other side and it looks absolutely heinous and i didn't know if you've seen that yet but i wanted to throw it at you to just to see like what you thought of that no i haven't i haven't seen it i would like to see it but like if i can picture it obviously um and that is that's kind of shitty that's my initial opinion on it like if you're a captain or assistant captain
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You earned that, dude.
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And it's almost like a sense of respect.
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I mean, people know where to look for that to see, you know, does Bergeron have that on or Marchand or whatever with the A. Like, you know, you know, like those are the leaders of the team.
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It's an honor spot.
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You know, it's an honor to have the Stanley Cup patch on there, too.
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But, yeah, that it does seem a little bit shitty.
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It's just like clutters it up.
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I could see how it would look crazy.
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Well, it does.
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And I want.
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to give our viewers a pause really quick so you can look it up.
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And right now we're here, Papelbon say the Yankees suck again, just as a little break.
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Here it is.
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You know it, Yankees suck.
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Yeah, so I just took a look at that.
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It's actually worse than I thought because it's like right next to it there.
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I thought they might like move the C down a little bit, put the patch like over it somehow or vice versa.
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But right next to it just looks even worse.
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It's actually worse than I originally thought.
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So I'm going to double down on my first sentiment and say I'm not thrilled with it.
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And they did it in the All-Star game.
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I guess it was like a little sunrise circle logo that was next to the C in the A. But that's just an All-Star game.
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It's like whatever.
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But.
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That's not the cut, man.
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And on top of that, let's not forget that they also sell ads on the helmets.
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So instead of getting the team name on your helmets or anything like you maybe used to be able to have, there's also ad space on their helmets.
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So now we have ad space on their helmets.
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We have ad space on the jerseys.
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And we have continuous ads that refresh while you're trying to watch the game because you know how the boards now will constantly update with live ads.
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And they'll put the ads on the ice too, like digitally on the ice.
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while you're watching.
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So it's like, what, what is this the NHL or are we watching like a Czechoslovakian league or something?
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Yeah.
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Or it looks like soccer.
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It reminds me a lot of soccer, like in Europe, how they do that.
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Like they have this thing all the way around the outside of the, um, the pitch or whatever that'll have like Mercedes Benz logos and stuff on it.
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Um, their jerseys are starting to fill up more and more, especially I think at the lower leagues, but, um,
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Yeah, it's a little lame.
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Like, yeah, you hope they cut it here and it's not like ads on skates and stuff eventually.
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Oh, don't even say that.
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That's all for pants.
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Yeah.
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The puck is like a Volkswagen Volkswagen logo on it or something.
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So hopefully not.
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But no, thank you for showing me that.
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I wasn't furious enough about the Celtics, and now I can be more furious with the NHL, even though NHL is the best player.
Pet Sports Picks Promotion and Conclusion
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But we're running out of time here.
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We actually may be over our time that we gave ourselves.
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But I did want to mention that our pets did pick the NBA finals in the Stanley Cup finals.
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We didn't talk about this.
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I don't want to give up who we picked.
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I don't know if you do.
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I think you got to go on YouTube or TikTok.
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Check that out.
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Yep.
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I'm not going to even say it.
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I'm not even going to say it.
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But I will say this.
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The black cat.
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Strike dude, he knows his sports.
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Okay.
00:14:00
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If you want to make some money, go to our TikTok Fresh Cakes podcast and go to our YouTube Fresh Cakes podcast.
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Go figure.
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And see what our pets picked.
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And just, I would say, bet in favor with the black cat.
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He seems to always know.
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Yeah, he's had some serious winners this season.
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Yeah.
00:14:22
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Check out the black cat, bet the house on what he bet.
00:14:25
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And congratulations on your new piles of money.
00:14:28
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They'll have to back the truck up to your house to dump all the money on your lawn, you know, have fun counting that.
00:14:36
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And yeah, I think that's it for us, right?
00:14:38
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It is.
00:14:40
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I guess we'll ready break.
00:14:41
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Nothing, nothing hopeful to ready break out here out on, you know?
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Yeah.
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Hopefully the Yankees learn how to wash their hands.
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I guess that's... We can do that.
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That's all we got.
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Yeah.
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I'll send it on that because you know me and my...
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dislike of the Yankees ready ready break that seems light years apart light years I'll send it um you know what I'll send it on I actually I don't have anything I'm just dogs over cats maybe yeah I'm gonna send this one for the dogs 10-4 ready ready break
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Light years.
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Light years.
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Light years.
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Light years.
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We'll get up next time.
00:15:28
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Maybe the dog's a winner, you know?
00:15:29
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Let's go see the first thing.