Good evening, everybody, and welcome to another edition of Fire Up. Yes,
Fire Up. And the title of the show says it all, are
you excited? And I'm gonna guess that most of you aren't as excited with
as much as at least two of us on this panel tonight, because just
for all of your information, next week, there will not be a Fire
Up show on this station on Thursday night. And you're gonna ask why,
and the reason is is the reason that me and I think Jeremy are really
excited. George might be a little excited, but I think me and Jeremy
are probably way more excited because we get the honor of covering our very first
NFL draft. I have never been, so this will be my first time.
I don't think. I don't even know if Scott has actually covered a
draft. He's been in a team facility for a team for the draft,
but not at the actual draft. I don't believe, George, have you?
No? No, I covered one NBA draft to Detroit and one NHL
draft to Detroit, and of course this is the first draft to Detroit history
for the NFL. So no, it's the first time for me too.
Yeah, like I said earlier, and I'm going to tell you right now
Rocket Scientists before you you leave. Hey, guys, I know you said
good night. I'm as excited as a schoolgirl getting ready to buy your first
dress for her first prom date. We are just excited because we have followed
the NFL, Jeremy more so than I for years and years and years,
and to have this new experience and to be honored that the NFL recognizes us
and is allowing us to come be a part of this experience is awesome.
It's awesome. So you bet I can't wait. I don't know what next
week looks like. I'll be honest, because I've never been there, so
it'll be interesting to see. But we will share as much as we can
with you all. We will be recording, whether we go live or we
record things and put them up on our YouTube after the fact. I'm not
exactly sure. I know Jeremy's going to be doing some with his shows too,
so so it kind of depends because it just it depends on the setup
and where we're at, whether if it's too loud for us to be where
we're at, or if there are certain areas we can do shows from we
will, but I do know Tuesday night we're going to do a special edition,
I believe, of Inside the Pigskin, and we're going to be talking
about the NFL Draft. I do know that Scott was on a conference call
about the NFL Draft yesterday and it was two hour long talking about the draft
picks and where people think they're going to go and stuff like that. So
we're all excited. I mean, I'll be honest. I know I'm coming
to the Motor City, you know, and it is Lions country, but
we're coming for the NFL. So that's what it's what's fun and important.
And like I said, I've never been. And then from there, Scott
and I are going to head to Toronto for a day and then Niagara Falls
and I've never seen either of those. So I am uber excited. I
got to get through another day of work tomorrow, but we're gonna get there.
We're gonna be there, and I'm gonna be in person with you guys.
So Jeremy, talk a little bit about your level of excitement. Oh
yeah, I'm just way too excited. I got something to send you because
you said you want to know what the draft stage is going to look like
I have a mock up, and that is a I just got to get
to it again. I have a mock up of the draft stage. Okay,
it was an artist rendering of what they're doing. Might as well make
a full northern trip and see Milwaukee for the future home of the pack.
Now, I'm not going to Wisconsin this time, so, and I will
tell you Orlando, Milwaukee is not north of Green Bay, so actually it
wouldn't. But I've been to both, you know. But we won't be
a trip. We won't be making the trip to Wisconsin this trip. We
will be making one sometime this summer, but this trip we will not be.
We will be concentrated in Detroit and then up to Toronto and Niagara Falls
and then back home. So, but I know we want to talk about
things tonight. I wanted to talk a little bit about NBA and the playoffs.
I'm not quite as familiar with them as some people are, but I
do know that I feel bad for Jimmy Butler because Jimmy Butler Orlando. Yes,
I We're gonna go to the can Canada side to see Niagar because I've
heard that's the better side to see it. From so we will see it
from that side. But back to Jimmy Butler suffers an MCL sprain and is
out for several weeks. That is a huge blow to the Miami heat and
I'm feel bad for him. Yeah, you know he he works hard.
He is a hard worker. And here it is. I send it to
you if you want to put it up. That is a mock up of
what the draft stage will be at in Detroit. Send it to get through
messenger. Oh you got your messenger. Okay, let's see what you can
do. But yeah, so I'm sad for the heat because I know that,
Uh, without Jimmy Butler, I don't know how far they'll go.
Oh not that I'm a huge heat fan, but it's still it's it's sad.
Uh that does look pretty cool. Yeah, I like it, And
I do not know where are setup exactly will be either, So yeah,
I don't know. I know that with the way they said that the stage
is going to face north in the park, I believe it is. Is
that the park right next to the Renaissance Center George where they're setting up.
No, No, the Renaissance Center is further at the UH on the River
or this is the park where the ice skating, where the Christmas Tree is
lit and there's ice skating during the winter. It's called Campus Marsha's Okay,
that's where they That's where they got that giant stage. So that's the that's
the one footprints. But then all the streets going all the way down Woodward
to the to Jefferson in the water, those are all be blocked off for
fans and still so it's going to be incredibly crowded. That's a good thing
that the NFL access that we have. That's a little bit different than like
getting it from just the Lions or the Packers and stuff like that, right
correct, It's a you know, it's an interesting point because I told some
of my media friends and says, you know, really, if you're a
media member in Detroit, you had three options. You could ask the team
if you want to cover Allen Park where they're headquarters. They're still going to
be there. The brain trust is still going to be at at the Allen
Park. There are the beat writers that stay there, you know, that's
their that's their home for Draft night the Lions. The Lions are hosting a
season ticket party at Ford Field by invitation only, so media. Yeah,
and then this one, of course, as you see, is the biggie
of all of course, the NFL and the and the draft experience and the
stage and everything else. I don't know where exactly the media room is going
to be. I've not got that clarified. I'm sure what part of the
experience world we're going to actually be physically located, but basically stuff. Also,
there's all kinds of things are going on. Yeah, downtown And somebody
said, are you gonna take enough money to eat? And I was like,
have you ever been to a press thing? Is that the media gets
boot? Yeah? Yeah, but for some of the big things like this
though, it's a box lunch. But it's still good, you know,
because they got they can't when you got the attendance of this type. They
did it at the Super Bowl, They've done it at the All Star Games.
Uh, that's the easiest way for them to do it, a box
lunch which includes a piece of fruit, cookies, sandwich, chips or whatever
you know. So, yeah, it's not a big buffet because they would
never get everybody through the buffet. Okay, yeah, Well, and the
fact that it's going to be how many hours. Most sporting events that we
go to are a window of what two three four hours? Granted there's pre
and post, but I think with the draft it's a longer time frame too,
So I think it'll probably just be easier. Just to put it in
perspective, you're only allowed fifty hours before you got to buy more storage for
stream yard or restream or anything like that. Every year, twenty one hours
is the full draft coverage? Wow. Yeah, And that's when a lot
of people don't realize how much the full draft coverage really is. If you're
doing the one hour pre, the one hour post, plus the draft itself,
it averages out at seven hours per day. Yeah, because Thursday night,
of course, is just round one. Yeah, but they have the
longer time class right right minute between each pick. I think they get right
off the ball. Yeah, it'll probably go every bit of what do you
think midnight? It might end on Thursday or eleven thirty. I'm not sure.
It usually ends right about eleven o'clock. But after your post show and
everything else and you go over your reviews, it's midnight. Yeah, the
coverage ends at midnight. Yeah. Yeah, But at the same time,
you don't want to leave right when it's over, and you don't want to
be trying to get to your car and pull out of where you're at right.
Usually, Yes, yeah, James Burgess is exactly right, because that's
when I would sign off, is between eleven thirty ish and oh okay,
and Orlando, you hit a really good one there. My friend Orlando said
the Golden Fleece should cater The Golden flee says a long time detried Greek restaurant,
and it's a good one. So I'm glad you brought that up,
Orlando. And listen, I don't pretend to be in the know. As
far as the food, they may have made arrangements with local restaurants in Detroit,
they just not told us. But yeah, sometimes like a taste of
Detroit. They might have Coney Islands. They might have Sanders Hot Fudge Sundays.
They might have Big Boy sandwiches. Right, we don't know. Anytime
you're getting something for free, guess what it tastes. Right, they might
have Caesar's Pizza. You never know. Well, yeah, there you go,
and we know Detroit loves It's pizza. Yes, yes. Tom Monihan
owned the Tigers and then he you know, made a big name for himself
with Domino's, and then you got Mike Yelich with Little Caesar's. The choice
been known for being a pizza towd and Orlando a lot, a lot of
the hotel rooms are already taken, so we could not get in at the
Hilton. We do know that some of our some of our friends from Sideline
are staying at Caesar's over at windsor they're even staying in a different country then
some of us. So some of us are out in the suburbs as you
will, we will call it because they're expecting over three hundred thousand people to
come to your city. And before anyone asked, yes, I will be
properly groomed and looking good as best I can, Jeremy context called Diddy.
It wasn't Diddy. I told you that this morning. You know you brought
me that what you got. If I can interject here, Candy brought up
a good point about the hotel rooms, because so often we hear all Detroit,
sorry, you can't bid on such and such because you don't have enough
hotel rooms that are nearby. How many years we've heard that refrain? So
in other words. I give the league a lot of credit because they could
have said missus Ford, missus Sheila, No, I think you better wait
a few more years. You got to put up a few more hotel towers.
But they didn't do it. So we see get and then you get
the other side of the story. Adam Silver or Gary Bentman, Oh,
well you can't get the All Star Game yet because you don't have enough rooms
there Little Caesars Arena. Well that's hogwash, because you see what the NFL
did. They warned Detroit with all these thousands of visitors, and as you
said, I mean some people are staying in Windsor or staying in Farmington Hills
or Deerborn or whatever. So it's kind of a weird Uh well, shall
we say position that some of the leagues take about Detroit, whether using the
scapegoat, I call it asteau rooms host the Super Bowl, of course two
years ago. There's also no hotel rooms from the south side of Flint through
Graham Blank All of those are hooked up for this weekend and they have been
booked up since January. Wow. So if you think about it, that's
actually not that far of a commute. If you're not dealing with a crapload
of traffic. To drive to Detroit is always easier than it is to get
out. I've been saying this for years because I used to deliver water down
there and into the Detroit area, down by Big Beaver and fourteen mile and
twelve mile, And as long as I got my route done by three point
thirty in the afternoon, I could make it home before six. But if
I didn't, especially during Christmas time, I would not make it home till
nine or ten o'clock at night. Oh five hours in traffic. Wow,
yeah, oh yeah, just admits to that. He says, Yeah.
Hotels along Alley seventy five all the way to Holly and Graham Blank are booked,
and many of them are running special shuttles too, for a small fee
down to the draft. That's a good thing to do, yep, I
mean why not? Why not bank on it? We're talking about one hundreds
of dollars per room because you know they jacked up the price for a special
event. Oh yeah, you know the hotels you could usually get for seventy
five bucks, you're going to be paying one hundred and twenty five to one
hundred and fifty four. Yep, another comment there, Orlando, you made
about Detroit, and yes, that's interesting that you bring that up about the
Olympics, that the MotorCity had several attempts. They made several attempts to host
the Summer Olympic Games, and the last time they wanted it was nineteen sixty
eight. They were beaten out by Mexico City. And I'll never forget this.
One of the sportscasters in town named Dave Diles, who used to work
for ABC Channel seven. Dave Dials came out of a meeting and when they
when they had that vote, you could hear the Mexican delegation cheering wildly,
and out the door of this hotel room comes Fred Mafi. Fred Mathi was
the head of the Detroit organizing committee. And I'll never forget this clip that
Dave Dials, a sportscaster, went up to him and he said, Fred,
this doesn't this doesn't look like it's good for Detroit. And I swear
this guy was gonna cry this Detroit or as the last time we attempted was
to get the sixty eight Olympics, which they voted on. I think back
in sixty three or sixty four. But Detroit, it's it's just an unbelievable
expensive proposition to host the Olympics. That's why they go to cities like Atlanta
and la you know, that have a lot more money. Even New York
was turned down. But anyways, I'm digressing here about Detroit and the Olympics.
Yeah, but didn't we all try to get in for the twenty twenty
four to one and we got as high as third in the voting this time?
If I remember right, I read something that last two years ago when
they were deciding. I don't think so, but I could check on that
to say I know that. Yeah, go ahead. I don't know if
it was the twenty twenty four or it was back in twenty eighteen with the
Okay Olympics. I know we got into one of them in the highest we've
ever been ranked in the top five was three recently. Yeah, And you
do bring up a good point, Jeremy, because you first have to go
through your own country and see what who's bidding against you. For example,
it could be Detroit, Atlanta, New York, and Philly, you know,
And like you said, you know they have to expect all the areas
and then the nation. The National Committee looks at all the sites first,
and you're right, I think we did have a bid, like you said
several years back. But that being said, the problem with the Olympics now
is the fact that they're so expensive. They're probably gonna end up going back
to most of the cities that were in before. Why it's taking Paris,
France one hundred years to get the Olympics back is beyond me. I couldn't
believe when they said they Paris hasn't had the Summer Games, but they anyway,
so it's just for another day. I think Grand Rapids could take an
invent or two here and there. They probably could. I think the only
place other than Detroit that is second highest in hotels is the Grand Rapids or
Kalamazoo area something like that. I believe it it like halfway in between,
like in Holland and be able to cover both cities for that. Yeah,
that's a thought. Okay, Candy, Yes, yes, okay, So
off with the Olympics. We're done with the Olympics. So we did a
little bit about the NBA. Jeremy, you had a topic that you kind
of wanted to bring forward, and I brought it forward as a pundit point
because I thought it needed to be because we don't just talk about sports on
Pundit's pundits. We do cover the political side of things, but as far
as the sports side of it, Like I said, the Vermont Valley Christian
Catholic School, the girls were playing for the semi final to go to the
national championships in high school. They found out there was a biological male on
the other team and they forfeited. They refused to play when they were forced
to forfeit, and I personally feel it should have been the other way around
because that's a distinct advantage. You can say what you want, but a
biological mail is stronger, faster, able to jump higher, and able to
do more than any woman. And this is not being sexist, This is
not being There's a reason why there's a d lineation between the WNBA and the
NBA, why there's the Lingerie Football League in the NFL. There's a line
there and it shouldn't be crossed. Unless you can do the job as good
as a man, you shouldn't be playing with the men. I agree,
I agree. Yeah, I think this whole issue has gotten way way further
along than I ever expected it to. But I'm just saying that obviously that
does require a great deal of investigation, because I'm with you. I don't
think it's fair at all. You know, the women's swim team at a
high school or a college and then all of a sudden, like we've seen
happen where somebody has done a such change operation and you got this guy who's
because he's now a female, you know, winning running away with it,
like you said, stronger, faster, better swimmer in this case, and
it isn't fair to the It isn't fair to the other teammates and the other
you know, females on the squad, so to speak. And I don't
know, it's just it's a it's a thorny issue, but it's something that's
really hitting hard lately. I'm glad you brought that up, Jeremy, about
the situation Vermont. What do you think, Candy. I agree with you.
If you are born a man, I understand, and I don't know
that I do understand this. But if you want to be if you do
no longer want to be a man, and you feel that you should be
a woman, that's fine. That's your choice. That's your prerogative. But
if you want to compete, you need to compete with people that are biologically
like you period, whether you're you know, because like you said, biologically
you are built differently a men. A male body is built differently than a
female body, and rightfully so. And yes, you can do have some
operations to change the esthetics or you know, the appearance of your body,
but physically you are still the same. And so I have a big problem.
I'm glad that walked away and said we're not going to compete against them.
They shouldn't. It shouldn't even have come to that. If you want
to have a coed league, then have a coed league. And then I
have a problem. It's just like when they do mixed doubles bowling. Ye,
you have to have at least one woman on your roster mm hm,
or you cannot have a team. Mm hmm. I've played co ed softball
and you had both. And in fact, when I played co ed softball,
you had to there were special rules because they said if you ever intentionally
walked the male, you'd automatically walk the female behind because it was not fair
that you were trying to just pitch too one sex or the other. So
they have special rules for when you're playing co ed. And I'll never forget
the time I went one of the first games I played in the league that
year, and the guys would always move way up that were playing in the
outfield because they're like, oh, you girls can't hit. Yeah, I
meaning to tell you I can't hit. I put it over your head.
Thank you very much, you keep moving in. Uh, you know,
I love that. That made me. He's like, dang, and I
shouldn't have loomed up, so you know, far in. But yeah,
it's an assumption, an assumption based off of genetics. It's been proven.
But at the same time, there are women who have proven they are better
than some men at some sport. He mo to the professional wrestling world.
China was once the heavyweight champion of the WWE. Everybody forgets that that she
won the titles. She only held it for a week, but she won
the title. Mm hmm. Yeah. And another another thing is that the
female golfers, especially a lot of the young ladies from Asia, uh you
know, China, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan. I mean they've dominated
the women's LPGA Tour the last many many years. Nothing against the American girls,
but I'm talking about if there was a competition with the females and the
males, I'm not quite so sure that the men would win every time,
because there are a lot of excellent female golfers out there and they you know,
obviously have their own pro tours what I'm talking about. And the other
thing, of course, you got to go way back in history, and
I know people thought of it was a gimmick when Bobby Riggs played Billy Jean
King in the tennis exhibition match, remember at the Astrodome, yep, And
and Bobby got his you know what handed to him Billy Jean King, one
of the greatest, if not the greatest tennis player of all time. Billy
Jean King handed it right back to him. Now, I know he was
a little bit older at the time, but that was that was a battle
of the sectors that they called that match. What did Serena Williams say about
playing Raffie All no doubt? Oh yeah, it's one six, one six,
one, yeah, I'll win one one segment of each leg of the
match. I'll loose three. Yeah, Oh god, you're asking me something.
Who's the tick who struck Babe Ruth and Gerrig in an exhibition game?
Does she mean struck out? I'm sorry, Does James mean strike out?
I think so? Oh, okay, Murray if he remembers right, is
the last name? Ah. But you know there's exceptions all the time.
Yep, struck out, struck out Ruth and Garrick as in kid Absolutely,
you know, because there's subtle differences in how they throw and everything else.
But at the time, if you remember, right when Louke, Garrig and
Babe Ruth were still playing, they were exempt from going to fight in the
war. So they were here because they were too old to be drafted at
the time, because it used to be if you were over what the age
of twenty eight, you couldn't be drafted. That was the old rule.
It's something like twenty six. So they were already older than that when World
War two hit and they were here. And those girls that played in the
Girls League that they made the movie A League of their own about they actually
were really decent ballplayers. And I couldn't believe when they showed the pictures of
the real people next to them from back when they played. How closely accurate.
They got the girls to play the parts of the Rockford Beaches. Yeah,
it was actually pretty amazing how close they actually looked like them. South
Park from many Ramacho man Randy Savage just yelled transphobe. It may be transphob
but and then hermaphrodite. There's always exceptions to the rule. That is a
genetic mutation. You can't help, but it happens. Yeah, the women's
team was really good. They still got a display for them over there.
Yes, as a matter of fact, the Women's Baseball League from back then
has a whole section at the Hall of Fame as well. They should,
yeah, because they were playing because the Major League couldn't. So one of
the other topics I really wanted to quick get to is NHL approved today the
Coyotes move to Salt Lake City. So goodbye Arizona, Hello Salt Lake City.
So what do we think about that move, gentlemen. I think it's
a good move. I Salt Lake City is one of those cities that I
think a winner. Okay, So got Denver, Salt Lake City, and
Lake Placid. And there was a city in California called Squah Valley that once
hosted the Winter Olympics. But Salt Lake City, of course did a terrific
job when they had the Olympics. A gentleman named Mitt Romney, who I
know we've heard of, was the was the UH Host Committee chairman chairperson.
So Salt Lake City does like winter sports. Number one. Number two,
they have a basketball team. Okay, so let's not just say, oh,
well, they don't play pro sports there with no you're rock. They
Salt Lake City Jazz moved from New Orleans and became the Salt Lake City for
the Utah Jazz excuse me, with Carl Malone and John Stockton and you know,
some great teams they had there. Jerry Sloan was their coach. Hockey
is going to succeed because they loved their winter sports. So I think it's
a brilliant move by the NHL. NHL bought the team from Arizona from the
current owner down there in Phoenix, and then obviously, uh uh, the
league is going in to sponsor this uh this team. And then I guess
Candy and and Jeremy what I heard was five or six years from now or
whatever. They're giving a time limit that this current owner of the Coyotes will
be an ex owner. Uh will be given, will be given a certain
time frame. If he can get the funding together and and get that stadium
built, then they would grant. I understand an expansion team back to Arizona
kind of a weird way to do it, but I think they're being fair
that way. That's the way. That's my take. I don't know,
what do you guys think? I agree? I agree. I mean Phoenix,
they have been in need of a new stadium for so long. The
arena that they're playing in the arena has a hockey capacity of twelve thousand.
The franchise collected eleven thousand season ticket deposits within hours of the sale. I
you know, I've actually been to Arizona. I've actually seen Coyotes play.
They and I've seen them play in both. They played in two different arenas,
and I've seen them play in both. Believe it or not, because
that's highly unusual because I haven't gone. I've only seen four hockey stadiums.
I've seen the Coyotes. I've seen the Red Wings. I mean i've seen
the tour for the Red Wings. I've seen in Milwaukee they play, they
play the AHL and of course I've seen the Panthers, so it's unusual that
I've seen both in Arizona. But they needed to do something, and you
know, they weren't going to build a stadium for them, and they couldn't
figure out where they wanted to put it, and they thought about this,
and they thought about that, and you know, if you don't want the
team, this is what's gonna happen. And Salt Lake City wanted the team,
so good for them, you know, give them to a team,
give them to a place that wants them. I don't know about this whole
five year then he can get another expansion team. If he couldn't find the
right, you know, right place to have a team, Now, why
would you think in five years it's going to change? So Robert Whatdell's exactly
right. They did default on the hotel bills because it isn't the visiting team
that pays for that. The home team pays for a bidding visiting team's floor
while they're there. And they defaulted on paying the local hotel over the last
two seasons because they didn't have the money. So if you don't have the
money to pay the hotel bill, you definitely don't have the money to renovate
or build an arena. What you don't deserve a team. I'm a little
upset that's going to Utah. I wish it have went to Kansas City because
they have the facility there already. Interesting, interesting, very interesting. Yeah.
I think that Kansas City Scouts they were called, and uh, they
tried it there. It just did not proceed. In fact, the general
manager was a former Detroit Well he's a Hall of fame there, said Abell
sid Abel was brought in with a good background, good uh uh hockey minds,
and uh they still couldn't succeed. So that being said, I I
no, one doesn't cross my mind too much. Jeremy. I mean I
I I know it's it's a it's a big enough city, but I don't
think that they'd be able to support it. Just it's just my good feeling.
The only reason why I say that is because they built that pro style
NHL size hockey rink that has the arena to set up to fifteen thousand,
which is actually yeah, yeah, yeah, I hear you. I'm saying
they had the facility ready, But at the same time, Utah still has
the facility ready because Salt Lake posted the Olympics and they have that building sitting
there just being used for youth sports. Yeah yeah, hey, can I
can I interject? I just want to mention one. You know Ken Call,
who's the voice of the Red Wings on radio. This is what he
said today. He says, I'm sad that the Coyotes are leaving Arizona.
It was a great place to be, especially if you had an off day
in March. You could go to a Cactus League baseball game. The weather
was great, lots of places to eat too. I'm gonna miss it,
right. I thought that was interesting. Yeah, the voice of the Red
Wings. You know who I feel sad for. I feel sad for the
fans of Arizona, the fans that supported them. I mean, they're not
going to reach into their pocket and build a stadium or anything like that,
but I feel bad for those fans. I feel bad for any fans that
actually support the team that they lose, because, let's face it, there
have been NFL teams that have jumped shift and moved. There have been NBA
teams that have moved. There have been NHLA that have lost teams, and
I feel bad for those fans. That's who I really feel bad for because
this is a business and I get that, and there's owners out there that
are making millions, not billions of dollars. But it's the the family of
four that now they don't have a team to go to, they'll have to
travel if they wanted to go to it. You know, those are the
people I feel. That's true, that's true. You know the economics of
the city. You know, you had an NHL, people might go to
that to see you know. You hear of One of my biggest regrets I
would say is my dad and I had started to at one point we went
to all the big ten football stadiums to a bunch of them. We never
got to all of them, you know. And so you hear of these
families or the father son or father daughter that go to all of the NBA
NBA facilities, or all of the NHL facilities, or all the m MLB
facilities or the NHL. They want to visit all the different teams and stuff
like that. So there's an economic impact that Arizona will feel because people will
not be going there and spend money at the restaurants around where the stadium is
now in that so it'll be interesting. It'll be interesting, but I do
feel bad for those those those fans. Yeah, Mike, Robert Lardell says,
you know, NBA stole my Sonics, and there's another team, you
know, the Seattle SuperSonics all those years succeeded. I mean maybe not to
an extreme degree, but they succeeded. And like you said, Gandhy and
Jeremy, they've got strong fan base and all that. And that's another city
that was vacated, just like we mentioned Kansas City and hockey and uh.
And then don't forget Oakland what they've gone through with losing the Raiders more than
once in the NFL. And uh, you know several other teams of course
to Saint Louis. You know, the the the Rams abandoned Saint Louis.
You know, even after they won a Super Bowl, And think about it,
Saint Louis has been abandoned twice. That's right, the Cardinals. Saint
Louis was the second team that the card the second city that the Cardinals went
to, was there for decades, then all of a sudden, we're going
to Arizona. Then the La Rams wasn't getting the attendance at the coliseum needed
to be able to help upkeep, but USC and UCLA was so they moved
out to Saint Louis and then they they sell out because the kids didn't want
to have anything to do with running a football team, which is idiotic,
and they said, oh, sell it to a guy that's in LA.
He builds a big place outside the city. It's actually hard to get to.
The Sofi Stadium is not even close. It's in actually Orange County.
It's not even in the Los Angeles area. So you got to commute,
if the traffic's good, an hour just to get there. Yeah, the
traffic's bad, it might take you three hours. Oh my. I feel
sorry for the Saint Louis and I have the feeling if there's ever an expansion
team, Saint Louis and Albuquerque New Mexico will get it because Albuquerque New Mexico
ever since that's been Jeff Bezos headquarters is actually a booming city and gaining in
population, and that would be two cities prime to add expansion teams in the
NFL. Yeah. Interesting, Okay, Well, any other topics you guys
want to bring up, because I know iased have to do my town segments.
So George, what has happened? Well, as Jeremy knows, we
got two things that are prominent in the sports world, and one would be
the Red Wings. And how sad to see the Red Wings miss the playoffs.
But I'm sorry they have only themselves to blame. I mean, you
can not go through a season with long losing streaks like they did on a
couple of occasions, six to seven game losing strikes and then expect to just
try to, you know, edge your way in at the very end.
Now, I'm taking nothing away from those dramatic come from behind wins this past
week. It was so exciting, you know, both on the road and
at home. And it's what it was bittersweet because your fan base has been
waiting seven eight years for the Red Wings to get back to the playoffs and
they came so close. And you talk about the fans, those are the
ones I feel for because, like you said before, Candy, and you
know, they're paying these stalaries, they're paying the high prices. They're paying
to take their families to a game and have a good restaurant a beer two
or pizza or whatever they're gonna have. But the Red Wings came also close,
and that really really was hard to take. Washington Capitals, of course,
they did it fair and square and they got in ahead of Detroit.
But it was a very very sad last couple of days here in Detroit because
of that situation. I for one, think that it was a good sign.
It was positive. They haven't been competing in the spring for god knows
how many years, you know, not even had a chance to go down
to the wire. So it'll be interesting to see what they do in the
offseason. Because Steve Eiserman picked up a lot of veteran players last year during
free agency. I'm not quite so sure how much he's going to do this
year or if all those guys they all won't come back. But if he
wants to even keep all those guys that were just one point shy, that's
and so it's the end of hockey in Detroit again for another spring. So
I want to add to that because attention to that, especially at the end.
And yes, their march was horrible. The Pistons more games than the
Red Wings in the month of March, granted it was only one, and
they play a lot more games than what the Red Wings do, but still
they want as bad as the Pistons are. They won more games than the
Red Wings. That was a good team in the month of March. But
at the same time, when the Philadelphia Flyers found out going into the shootout
or into overtime that the Red Wings had knocked them out of the playoffs,
they pulled their goalie and let the Washington Capitals score a goal in overtime.
Yeah, that is what kept us out because if there was a loss,
the Red Wings was in. That was what was announced. If there was
a loss that night, because the Capitals had to lose, then the Red
Wings were in. And we won our game. We did the part.
We weren't back going in. We won the game, granted in a shootout,
but they came back in Red Wing fashion. That's what they'd done.
That second period is awful, and it's mostly if you look at it,
look at our defenseman. We have a good one and an OK one on
the front line. In the middle two lines we got mediocre to awfl and
then we got a good one and an OK one on the grind line.
We don't have anybody for the second and third lines on defense, which is
why our goalies looked like chippoopoo. Yeah, good point. Mm hmm.
Sheila Ford Hamp comes out and says, twenty twenty three was phase one of
completing the rebuild. It was winning the division and going far into the playoffs,
and they managed to do that. They played their third game in the
playoffs since they were world championships, I mean since nineteen fifty seven, people,
and now phase two, twenty twenty four. She didn't say, she
promised, so don't put those words in her mouth. She said. The
goal is the super is the Lombardi Trophy. And their mantra this last year
is it takes more and I pray to God that means more running the football
in the third quarter. Yeah, so in the and as far as anyone's
concerned, as you all know last year when we drafted Hendon Hooker because I
projected it on Thanksgiving before the season even ended, as soon as he was
hurt, and who we hired as an assistant coach, the Hendon Hooker would
be a lion if he was there in the third round. The Hendon Hooker
jersey I bought was a throwback. It was a black I had it custom
made on purpose because I knew for coming back. There you go. So
my town. Well, we were talking about the transfer portal on Pundit's Pundit.
We have now seen both Chucky Hepburn of the Badgers and Oh, I'm
sorry and now I'm gonna forget his name. He was the kid that came
to us from New Jersey. They both have entered the transfer portal. Oh
what's his name? I'm sorry, guys, Storks Stokes. As we have
talked about with the transfer portal, you are not only recruiting players outside your
program, you are recruiting your program as well. Wisconsin, you need to
do something because if you want to stay relevant and you want to stay and
I'm not going to say what that is because i don't know if Greg Guard
is the answer or not anymore, because we seem to have fallen down a
little bit the days of Bo Ryan. You know, we need a good
coach, strong coach like that back. But what I will say is that
to all of the athletes that are doing all these transfers, just make sure
that the decision is good for you. And that's what I'm going to say,
that it's the right decision for you and that you're making the decision for
the right reasons. I'm not saying saying Wisconsin is the best collegiate school,
and I will say that I do know that there are some in the Big
Ten have higher standards than other schools, So I do know sometimes it's harder
to recruit some some of the talents. But kids, just make sure that
you're doing that right decision for you. Let's yeah, Michigan surprisingly dodging big
losses three years of probation. Wisconsin should have a good selling platform. They've
been a cream of the division for years. Yeah, we've had We've had
some good coaches and stuff like that. But the other thing I will say
is good luck to the Bucks. The Bucks that are in the playoffs,
although they're having some injuries right now. Giannis of course, and the Brewers
knock On Wood are the top of the division right now, and yes they
are ahead of the Cubs, even though it's only about a half game.
But losing our coach to the Cubbies, mister Craig Council right now, is
not as big of a factor as maybe some of us might have thought.
But I do say kudos to Jackson Curio. He is a rookie that got
a big contract, so he is not considered a rookie, so he cannot
win Rookie of the Year because they signed him to a contract before the season,
and yet he has hit I want to say, like thirteen home runs
and so many games. So why couldn't the Brewers and the NL back when
Robinot kept kicking our because they they were they they were moved. When who
was the team that? Who got the team that then they moved? It
was back you talked about Seattle Pilots. Well, no, the Brewers moved
from the American League to the National League because there was another team that they
formed, drawing the American legue. I was going to say the Astros exactly,
which is great because they have a big rivalry now with Texas Rangers.
Yeah, and Milwaukee they had that National League heritage, remember with Henry Aaron
yep, and then they went to Atlanta they went wasn't it the Milwaukee Braves
and then it came the Renville Jeremy Yeah, and then the Brewers got the
team because yeah, they moved from Seattle. Yeah right, yep, and
Seattle Pilots came from Washington that was the Senate. No, Now, the
Senators moved to Texas to become the Rangers, and then there was always a
Senators team, but it was there originally, not uh Montreal exposed. Now
they moved mm hmmm, became the what the Washington Nationals? I think so
yeah. I think they became the San Diego Padres because all they did was
changed the look of the Senator logo to become the Padres. And then the
Nationals went in because they didn't have a team forever. I don't I think
it was no. I thought it was the Well, we'll get it,
we'll get it straight. But I'm pretty sure Washington moved to Texas because I
remember it. Ted Williams was the manager of the Washington Senators and then I
remember seeing him in the Texas Rangers unit. I'm pretty sure, but we'll
check on that. There's been a lot of hopscotching around. It's hard to
keep track of all that. You're right, there's so much of it going
on. There's been so many move major leagues had more movement than the NFL,
and the NFL's had a lot. Yeah. I remember at one time
Cleveland became the Baltimore Ravens. The Baltimore Colts became the Indianapolis Colts are still
there team and then became the Bears. Toiler's moved to Tennessee. Right.
Yeah, the Houston has a team again in the Texans, and I actually
like the current version better than the Oilers. Yeah, I'm saying they look
good. And they did the Madden AI projection prior to the draft. And
guess who's in the Super Bowl? Houston Texans. Oh, come on Detroit
yep, oh man, that would be something. The Detroit Lions was originally
uh founded in nineteen thirty as the Portsmouth Funtains. Yeah from Ohio. Correct,
But the Arizona Cardinals was the very first established pro league dean prior to
the NFL even being made. It was established in eighteen ninety six. Wow,
that's a long time ago. Mm hmm. Okay, that's all I
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know, our comrade mel Farr Junior is going to honor his daddy along with
his sister and his brother Mike in Detroit on Wednesday night, April twenty fourth,
and tickets are still available. It's going to be great. It's going
to be a fashion show, a comedy show, and football talk, delicious
food at a restaurant I'm sorry, more of a nightclub in downtown Detroit called
Open Mike m I k E. But Melfar Junior is going to be here
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funny? April twenty event Melfar four number twenty four, remember, Jeremy,
and the event's going to be on the same day, the twenty fourth.
For the first time ever, Detroit's hosting the draft. So great opportunity for
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