Give me everybody and let's get fired up. This is fire up. My
name is Scott Morgan, enough Motor City mad Mouth, pleaded to be joined
by Candy Emling, Leo Haggerty and Ralph Williams. Glad to have everybody here
with me tonight. So that so that said, giving over you, We're
going to talk about We're going to talk about the NBA playoffs, talk about
the Stanley Cup Finals, We're going to talk about Pittsburgh getting the NFL draft,
and Candy will have her normal nine town segment which she has created and
it's actually working out really well. So if that said, let's get right
to it. So NBA playoff history, teams that trail three to nothing in
the best of seven series are zero and one fifty six. Doesn't look good
for the Dallas Nevericks, does it, Candy eu Bling, it does not.
And with all the injuries they've had and Luca, I mean, he
can't carry the team by himself. Celtics are playing hot, they're playing good
defense, and they're hitting shots. They're just they're on fire. So it's
just tough. And I don't see Dallas. I don't even know if they'll
even get one win. Honestly, no, Jason Kidd has done a good
job all year coaching the team up, done a really good job in the
playoffs. But this Boston team, to me, is a buzzsaw and they're
looking for win Championship number eighteen. They'll turn over to Leo Haggerty. I'll
tell you what, guys, I was just amazed with how bad a defender
Luca is and the Celtics at him unmercifully. They just kept running high picking
rolls till Luca had to come cover somebody, and they just exposed him terribly
as a low class defender that either stan't or won't play defense. And believe
me, the way he was shooting last night from five to six feet away,
he couldn't even throw it in the ocean. He was a liability for
the Dallas Mavericks. When he fouled out, I said to myself, Hey,
now they got a shot to win because they don't have to worry about
him defending nobody. And the worst thing is the announcers are saying, oh,
there's nobody to help there. The guy's six foot nine. He didn't
need any help. He just needs to move his feet. Oh yeah,
go ahead, ro Well, Chase the kid needs to get his team up
up the speed here. I mean, if they're down three to nothing and
you know so and they're playing bad defense, like Leo said in The Wonder,
Boston's up three to nothing, and you know, but Boston has just
been on fire like you here on the Fire Up Show here, and you
know, they're doing what they need to do to win. And that's a
great thing. They got a good young coach and you know, they're just
they're pois to win it. I think they're gonna take it well. You
know, Joan Missoula has done a really good job. He really is.
I was thinking I was hoping though that Kyrie Irving would be a little bit
more of a factor in the series than he is. But I just think
what you have in this series is the fact that the Dallas Mavericks are simply
overmatched. They really really are overmatch I mean, it's Boston teams hungary.
You know, going into the year, in the last five years, they
had won forty one playoff games but didn't have anything to show for it.
So you know, they're overmatched, and Joan Missoula is a good young coach,
and you know, on the heels of the fact that this guy he
keeps coaching the way he is. The sky's the limit for the Celtics.
All right, well, let's go to the frozen tod Teams that fall behind
zero to two in the Stanley Cup Finals are five and forty nine all time.
So all right, Candy, you know, this one I think for
the Oilers is even going to be tougher because I really don't see them winning
the series. They're not shooting as much. They've only made one goal in
two games, and I honestly think the travel is going to play a big
It can play a part in this series because traveling twenty five hundred and forty
one miles. You know, once they do the two games, they did
the two games in Florida, and now they're doing the two games up in
Toronto, and then they go one one one, and I think that's just
going to be too much. And like I said, forbos, as long
as Sergey Barbowski keeps playing at the level that he is, the Panthers I
think are going to be unbeatable. Well you, no, Candy, I
realize that you have Toronto on your mind, but it is Edmonton just so
you know in Canada. Yeah, yeah, that's okay, Candy. Hey,
she just had her first trip to Toronto and she can't get over what
a great town Toronto is. And she got to realize that there's more to
Canada than Toronto. You got Montreal, you got Edmonton, you got Calgary,
you got Vancouver, you have Winnipeg for poodles along. But but anyways,
yeah, no, I'm just giving a hard time, Leo. How
do you tie up the Stanley Cup Finals? That's the only thing that the
Edmonton Oilers are I think honestly is igor ssttin. That's what they're messn Leam.
Well, let's be honest here a couple of things. One series doesn't
begin till a visiting game wins the game. And that's why last night was
still important with the Dallas Boston series, right came into Dallas and one now
Florida come into Edmonton and win. You know, people won't talk about this,
but there's a little bit of an elevation issue right as well. So
we're gonna see how these Florida kids that are having playing at sea level all
the time. Plus, Scott, I want you to talk about this before
I go on is Miami still underwater because these guys are up a worried about
it. Well, what's put it this way, Leo. I'm glad to
be in Deerfield bed So Miami's underwater, they're underwater, and I'm above water.
So I know about the warming. You know, all that business that
Miami will sink before we will. But I'll take Broward County all day long.
Really well, Leo, I really want to give you, to give
you an idea. We live about thirty minutes away from Hollywood, Florida,
and Hollywood, Florida, in the last seventy two hours got nineteen point ninety
five inches of water, so, yes, a lot of but Florida can
absorb it. You know that that's the one thing that Yes, it'll rain
a lot and for a short time there's a lot of water under you know,
and you could be underwater. You got to be careful driving on the
roads. But then the water does go down and you're okay. So you
know, it's not like some of these the towns that it's all clay and
the water just sits. That water, you know, gets absorbed into the
sandy soil. Yeah, we got hillsides here and when it rains and it
goes down the hillsides, we have to close roads up, concrete starts falling.
I mean we've had minds or subsiding roads. I mean it's been bad
when we've had heavy rain like that. Yeah, you know that we don't
even get that kind of rain during a hurricane. What they got, I
mean that was that was just bizarre. But you know the second thing is,
and Kendy you brought this upg Brabrowsky is just standing on his head.
I mean, think about this. Now, there's probably the best offensive team
with McDavid and Drysdale. You know, he had one hundred assists and all
they got his one goal and the one goal they got was on the first
shot in the second game, So they haven't scored pretty much for one hundred
and nineteen minutes. Babrowski has shut him down, and he did the same
thing to the Rangers. Was the reason why they were seriously and again Skinner's
not playing bad, but he's not playing as well as Bobrowski. Well,
I mean saying that. Tony McDavid, to me, he was a generational
player, without a doubt, and the Edmonton Oilers in Game one played a
great game. They had the Panthers on their heels. And again I'll go
back to you, said Leo. Lebroski is a reason that the Panthers were
able to win that game anyway. But Toner McDavid is who he is.
But you know, in a series like this, you always end up having,
you know, guys that stepped up. I believe that guy Rodrigez.
I'm trying to remember what his first name is, Evan Z. Well what
Evan Rodrigez is certainly making a name for himself here in the playoffs, much
less than the Stanley Cup Finals, that's for sure. All right. Well,
since you know about him, Ralph and your thoughts about the Stanley Cup
Finals. Well, you know Florida, let me say this about Florida.
They have always been a scrappy team. Remember last season they came back,
they were like lasting in the league of getting in the playoff spot, and
they ended up getting into the finals. Again, Florida has always been a
scrappy team. And the problem with Everton is they only have McDavid really for
real, I mean, and if you shut him down, the whole team's
just collapses. And you can't do that. You gotta have other players.
You gotta have people to come up, Like you said, Scott, you
gotta have other players that need to come up and fill in whenever McDavid's having
a bad game, you know. So you know, that's like trying to
have a quarterback throw the same wide receiver in the NFL and then and you
know that wide receiver kids dropping and you gotta throw it to another wide receiver.
So what I'm saying is you've got to have players to step up and
and and that's what's going on with Edmonton right now. And you know,
and Florida is just you know, just doing it. I mean, you
know, and and they're taking it to him too. Well, here's the
thing. I predicted the Panthers would meet Edmonton in seven games. If this
thing goes four or five, I will volunteer on the external Bumk Show to
call myself a bum I won't do that. I won't do that. I
have Scott. I'm just happy you didn't say you were going to come on
naked, So I'm no a candy. You're welcome on Saturday. We don't
have a fourth person if you want to come on nine am. Unfortunately,
I have to work this Saturday, But are you working at the bank?
Okay? I will definitely volunteer to call myself a bum if this thing doesn't
go seven. So I have a feeling that I'm going to be calling myself
a bum. And that's all there is to it. So when we look
up the NDYA playoffs and the Stanley Cup, I'm missed a mazo that these
unrelulable statistics. And I'm going to reiterate one more time. Then we're going
to go to a station break so that you're talking, Oh, in fifty
six when a team trails three, all I mean never been done before.
And then if that isn't good enough, oh and two means five and forty
nine. We all those numbers are really good for honestly, folks, and
for those that are paying attention watching us here on the network. All these
numbers between five and forty nine, zero and one fifty six, zero and
two three, you know, go and got yourself a state lottery ticket,
please, people, these are good numbers. These are numbers that you don't
even think of. I've got here. Go out there and take a show,
even for a dollar. We can't hurt it. And they gas way
more than that anyway, or whenever they're charging somehow. I mean, but
that's don't why. I mean, let's face say, the Dallas Mavericks and
the Edmonton others are in trouble. I like my deep better than we love
that too. So that's that we're going to station Plak Candy ably go ahead.
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Yeah, that was a great cast, and I have a feeling that
her and I are going to work on a lot of projects together. And
in fact, she was so happy the way it went. She texted me
and wanted the show so she can use it for a reason. But you
know, and I think the one thing that doesn't get addressed a lot is
women in sports. And I have a young student that's working under me.
Your name is Kate Hison, who you'll start to hear more of as time
goes on. She's developing right now and she's doing a good job. But
I'm keeping her, you know, grinding to build her social media account and
do little things. So that's the thing you'll get to hear. I can
tell you right now where I go. On Thursday night, Leo Haggerty goes.
So Leo and I are linked on Thursday night when I'm not on this
chair, Candy, Ralph and Jeremy Bulwrick will be doing the fire Up Show
on that night. We have a professor and the pupil that could be on
that night and no filter. We're not sure where it's going to land.
So there's a lot of things to go, but I know Leo and I
will be on a lot and I'm glad that he's a part of the network
as well. Last thing I'm going to talk about then we're going to turn
over to Candy Pittsford is going to host the NFL Draft and twenty twenty take
presented by Bud Light. So and that's a story that appeared in the California
Tribune I May twenty second. Well, you know what we'll go to our
resident Pittsburgh expert. All right, Ralph, are they pretty excited about hosting
the NFL Draft? Very excited, Scott. You know, our mayor here
and and you know, our elected officials went out and really pushed for Pittsburgh
to get this. I'm happy that they have or it's going to be here
in Pittsburgh because we need this kind of an event here in order. And
then our mayor went up to Detroit to see what they did to h to
make it what it was there and so and then he he just got back
not too long ago from talking to Detroit officials up there. They gave him
some pointers and tips as to how to handle security and things like that for
the event. It's going to be great for this area. It's going to
be great for Western Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh is building some new hotels anyway. We
got about five new ones going up anyhow, so we're going to have enough
hotel space, I think to handle this. I've been around big events,
and I used to work event security, and I know what it is to
be around big events. And let me tell you, this is one of
the biggest events in the history of this town. I think other than you
know some We've had the Winter Classic here and some other stuff here, but
I mean, this is the biggest one I think of them all, and
it's one of it's the most watched TV program or you know, the NFL
Drafts is very high ratings. Everybody watches it. I watch it from Thursday
all the way to Saturday, and I don't miss a beat. Very good.
Okay, Hey, well looking, Jeremy is here in the term okay,
and we're gonna mention his comments, and so you know, Jeremy,
Okay, as I said before, if you were listening when I'm not in
this here, chare title the you candy Ins and Ralph as well, so
you don't have to worry about it. So let's put it. Let's go
ahead and put his comments off, Katie, go and read him. Please.
It's hard for any playoffs behind the over and two or zero three eight
ball. The one team who did was the Red Sox who beat the Yankees.
But not in those other sports. Basketball and hockey are a different animal.
Well, I mean, and that's exactly what that tool stat was all
about. Anyways. So but I'm glad you brought up the Yankees and the
Red Sox. There's a lot of people thought the Red Sox were gone.
That was the year they snapped at it. Lorde Jane says, well,
okay, so Leo, wish your take on Pittsford getting the draft, because
let's take the reality. Okay, Detroit now has set the bar high they
have and green Bay gets it next year. I'll be curious to see how
that is. I know you're talking about. Yes, yeah, well let's
thanks it. Green Bay is now following detroit footsteps in this game. Detroit
is over shadowed by green Bay everywhere, but the NFL Draft and Detroit put
on a good show with that. Said alternaiy, Leo, you know what,
Scott, you just stole my thunder because that's exactly what I was going
to say. That bar is set so high after what they did, and
it is just crazy how many people they had there. Yeah, I don't
think they have that many people in Green Bay. I had to bring in
the entire state of Wisconsin into Green Bay just just to get that kind of
numbers. But again, it's truly a television event that people look forward to
seeing the draft, and it's just crazy. Let me tell you, if
I go back to my old Dames. Okay, covering the Lions, I
was staying different hotels all the time, one when when one had to walk
and when I'm in Appleton, and me when I was going to different places
within an a way, so I never knew where the Lions hotel was.
But I stayed with Detroit Lions because I their PR people took in my travel
arrangement, so there was always a ministery where we're going to go, and
I got the team rate and all that. But still, but I'll tell
you what. Remember I went to a Super Bowl when Jacksonville hosted it,
and they talked about it in Cruisiers and that was a disaster. Luckily for
me though I had a decent sized vehicle and stayed in the rest areas at
that time. And I said, and I went to a truck stop and
asked one guy if you could go ahead and let me use the shell hour
and I said, I'm meant to deal with you. I'll get you some
memorabilia from the game. He's going to use a shower free for the money.
There no problem, man, this is what I'll be. And that
way I kind of worked out. You had to make the most of it.
Yeah, tell me you're right. Red Sox snapped for eighty six World
Series drought that year after. We're going with it. But back to my
story year. Okay, so you know these smaller towns getting big events,
but green Bay deserved this one. They really did. When we think of
a youngster, okay going out there and getting his name called and nat town.
But you know what, Candy evil sho, I hope I'm not still
too much of a go ahead, Candy. Well, you guys can all
talk about it. I'm the one that lived the closest to there, And
yes, are they gonna have a hard time with hotels? Absolutely, But
how can the NFL draft not go to such an iconic venue? Where else?
What other venue is more iconic in the NFL other than lambeau Field?
I mean they play for the Lombardi Trophy. Oh yeah, I mean,
and I get it, Like, are we gonna have the same crowds that
Detroit had? No, green Bay is not that big of a city like
Detroit is. Detroit has windsor just across you know, the lake. So
there's a lot more hotels there. There's a lot more places, but no
place can be more so whether we break attendance records or not. There's no
better place, I don't think than the Green Bay to have it at least
once. I'm not saying they've got to have it every year. I like
the fact that it rotates every city it because I think every fan base deserves
to be able to view that on that on a national stage. Oh,
I'm gonna face it. I mean, if you haven't been to landbow Field,
it should be a bucket list for everybody. I was fortunate myself to
cover the lines. I went there multiple times. I loved it. It
was hard for me to cover games in Milwaukee County Stadium, though to watch
football hell an easy. So let's go back to Newcap plighting. I certainly
have some comments about what he just put up there. So he's gonna have
him great fish lined up for interviews over the next few weeks and a big
event de Troy on August only six. Let me give you some good words
of advice, new Cat playing for a guy that's been in the business forever.
I mean, you can write nice, clean cut stories and get them
on the tribune. I will be impressed, But you have to write stories
to impress me and you have to meet them as clean as possible, and
we will edit them so you look even better. So write stories, turn
those into ideas and put them on paper. Okay. You know, if
you want to become don king, you want to promote your activity, make
sure that it's worth promoting, okay, and then you'll have to give updates
on when you're on this platform A couple of times a loth with Candy and
Ralso impress me, Jeremy and write because the best journalist slash podcasters, whatever
you want to call it, are writers, right Leo. Once't you agree?
Absolutely? I mean everybody asked me, you know, how did you
get into this business? I said, I'm a coach. You can put
together a five sentence paragraph, right exactly. That's the bottom line. You
know. You talk all you want, but the written word is something that
people will always have and have to paint a picture. I keep telling people
want to get into this business, you better be a wordsmith because if you're
not a wordsmith, you got problems because you've got to be able to sit
there. And I like John for Senda with when he did NFL films,
you know, the frozen tundra of Lambeau feel, you know, the you
know, the winds of winter. You got to be able to paint a
picture for these people. And so Jeremy said, where do you think I'll
be sending the interviews. I'll tell you what. You won't be sending in
to the Hollywood Son Tatler because they're out of business. You won't be sending
them to the Mini News. And and Jeremy, you know, maybe you
might want to let these places know who the publisher is in this story,
because you obviously laid an egg on the laugh one. Okay, because in
life when you mentioned a name of a title, and I'm just like hitting
around with Jeremy, I really do, because he handles it real well.
But in life, right Leo that when we mentioned a title, don't you
think that a name goes with that? You would think? So, yeah,
well, you know, they call it a byline for a reason.
Okay, that's who's writing the story. But they call it a title for
a reason too, because it's got to grab you exactly. Yeah. So
journalism one on one, okay, for everybody out there that's learning the business.
If I write vice President of the United States and I leave a blank,
who the heck is going to know who it is. So it's always
a wise idea to insert that name next to the title and that that particular
point that is journalism one on one. I will leave it at that.
But I'm sure you'll be promoting your work, and I'm sure you're doing it
for everyone, Jeremy. But I'm just trying to give you some advice,
Okay, I really am, And I got news for you, you know.
And he's doing with the company for a while. You know, he
trives hard. Got to give him his due. Did a super job over
at the draft when he was broadcasting all over the place to his cronies with
he can't biting. You know, he was doing all right. But no,
just a little journalism etiquette, okay, Jeremy, And we'll leave it
at that. So any other thoughts about the draft and all. I always
talked about green Bay Detroit being a tough one to follow, and I think
Pittsburgh. But the thing about Pittsborg and green Bay, Okay, that I
always like to mention is you have those areas where where you have a lot
of championship football that has been played. You have I mean, the Steelers
won what five six Super Bowls. Green Bay won a few, and that
doesn't count the billions of NFL championships they won before you got to the Super
Bowl area and anything. You have Chuck Noll, you have Bill Tower,
Mike Tomlin, you got Vince Lombardi, you know, to say the least
I would say, Mike home run. And you got some pretty good Coachmarty
Mick McCarthy. That I mean, you have a lot of football history there
for sure. So any closing thoughts about the draft from anybody tell you what
people better learn. If it's going to be in Green Bay, you better
learn how to spell ass Labanon. You better learn how to spell you better
then how to spell dor County. Because if you go up to Green Bay
and you don't go up to Dort County, you are cheating yourself because it's
just it's it's a wonderland of just environmental change. You can go from Madison
to Green Bay and all of a sudden you think you're in a different world,
and then you go up to Doork County and you know you're in a
different world, right, Candy, You bet you bet. Different conson are
beautiful in different ways, and there's a lot of different you know, Lacrosse
almost the up like and definitely Door County is beautiful. Lake Geneva is beautiful,
and they're all very different. Yeah, I'll tell you one thing you
want to come to, uh Wisconsin. I'm don't time to figure out how
to pronounce all them Indian names. I'm really not I'm really green at that,
you know so, but my wife definitely finds a way to make sure
that she lets you know what they are, because I don't really know much
about them things, but it is what it is. I grew up in
the Hiawatha Estates on Pocahontas Drive. There was Tepee Court, Red Cloud Court,
Hiawatha, Fanny how All of those names were street names in the subdivision.
Which way to Chipwraw cours right exactly, all right? So I do
want to pass along a birthday green that just came across the wire services.
My brother in law, Tracy Olsen, has a birthday. Don't know how
old he is. I'm really not worry so, so happy birthday, Tracy.
It'll be up to Candy to convey this any group message, because unfortunately
Tracy hasn't subscribed to the Southward to Tribute YouTube channel, so he won't be
able to hear it there, but you'll hear it in the group chat.
So happy birthday, Tracy. More power to you. I hope you have
many anymore. And Jeremy, we have a trick question here for you.
Who is a publisher of the South Florida Tribune. Okay, we'll give you
to the end of the show to go ahead and figure it out. Okay,
all right, so that's okay. I'm sure he'll figure it out.
Okay. So so all right, with that said, we're gonna turn over
the candy. She has this original segment called my Town, and I'm going
to get my mic over to her. Go ahead, Candy, take it
away. So my segment is my town, and what that means is you
talk about what's happening in either the town you live in or the town that
you grew up in, whichever you would prefer. So I did all of
my fire up shows. I created it. I don't know how long ago.
It seems to sick and everybody loves to talk about something proud. It
doesn't even have to be sports related if you don't want it to, but
it can be. Ralph, I know you've done this numerous times start with
you, Oh yeah, thank you, Candy. You know, let's talk
about the Steelers a little bit with mini camp. You know, the Russell
Wilson Justin Fields saga's going on right now. Naujie Harris not showing up on
media Day. Took the day off because he was stuck in the media,
according to what I've told from my friends, because he doesn't want anyone to
talk about his contract dispute with the Steelers right now. They didn't pick up
his fifth year option. And you know, the number one draft picks doing
well. But it's just mini camp right now. We have to wait and
see what happens in training camp, preseason, in the regular season before we
can do this. And a big thing here has been the Mike Tomlin extension.
You know, does he deserve it? I don't know, you know,
but there are a lot of people here. Some people think he don't,
other people think he does. I think this will be his last contract.
That's just my opinion. My co host, smoking Jim Frazier's worked with
him side by side when he worked for the Steelers, and Mike Tomlin told
him he will never go on TV. So we have national people wide here
saying, well, he'll go to TV after this contract. No, he
said he'll never go to TV, but then again others have said that and
they went to TV anyway. So we'll see what Mike Tomlin does. But
I think this is going to be his last contract because it'll be twenty years
and I think he wants to His kids are grown, you know, grandkids
are going to be coming, and I think he's going to want to spend
time with them and things like that. So I see him going twenty years
and that's it. But this I believe will be his last contract. But
you know, I'm happy he got it. I've called him mediocre Mike for
a long time. But we'll see what he does. He has three more
years to do so. But also, you know, like you said,
Scott, we're getting ready for the NFL Draft twenty twenty six. Stuff that's
getting started with that, and you know we have you know, the Pirates.
They blew it today, but they've been hanging in there doing pretty well
in a week division and I think they're gonna do okay and get some things
done. Candy Rowdy Kaled has actually started picking up things in the last month
or so, so you know, I think they were getting ready to trade
him. The trade deadline's coming up. We're gonna see what happens, what
the Pirates do in the trade deadline. They've done some strange things in the
All Star Game. We're gonna see what happens after the All Star Game.
The Pirates seem to have seemed to fall except last year they did pretty pretty
good after the All Star Game. So we'll see how that goes. And
you know, the pit Panthers, on the other hand, just got a
couple of three star recruits for football and they're getting ready for their season coming
up in August for training camp. So we're gonna find out where they go
this year. I'm predicting eight and four. Again, that's about as far
as pick can go, I think with Pat and Ordoosey. And we'll see
where that all goes as well. And that's about it for me in Pittsburgh.
That's about it. You know what you just did there. I'm gonna
tell you exactly what you just did. You want rough information to fill up
a two to three minute newscasters, which is all is what they're all allowy
on local TV. But you know what it was. Good. It's a
firm one. For the first time I've heard that, So I give you
a problem, Sir William's Okay, two or three minute newscast presented by Rough
Williams. All Right, I know by time I've been on the radio,
so you know, we got to go to a commercial break and all that
stuff, so I know by the time, Yeah, to get it in,
you know, Yeah, you're preaching to the choir pals. Okay,
you ahead, Leo, what's happening in your first of all, tell us
everybody, what you're telling is that you this is going to be like you
can't make this story up. I was born in mock Chunk, Pennsylvania,
And you're going, where the heck is that, Well, I'll give you
the name. It became Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania. So yeah, that's where
the great Indian athlete, Jim Hort was buried. He was finally his remains
were removed and taken back to Oklahoma. But I actually grew up in a
town named after Jim Thorpe, who was probably the greatest athlete in terms of
what he could do football, baseball. In fact, because he played semi
pro baseball, it cost him his Decathlon gold medal because they said he was
a pro. Well think about how crazy that is. But now the town,
which basically is in the anthracite coal region and was just going south in
a hurry, now because of the whitewater rafting down the Lehigh River and because
of the old train state where they run the steam engine trains on the weekend,
this town is starting to thrive. So yeah, I was born and
raised in jim Thorpe, went to New Jersey. But I'll tell you what,
if you get a chance to go to jim Thorpe, you'll enjoy it.
They call it the Switzerland of America because it sits right between the mountains
and mock Chunk is Indian for bear Mountain. Look at that nice Scott.
Yeah that's my name. Of course, Motherer City matt Mouth is as well
as south Work Tribute. All right, you know what I'm gonna You know
what I do? You know? Lesson from the microphone Part two. I
have to give credit to my friends over at inter Miami because they've done something
this year that I've seen that I never thought I would ever imagine in my
lifetime. Or sitting in a press conference afterwards and the coach doesn't speak English,
and I'm thinking, O MG, Siri is Lee. So what I'm
gonna have to do is either I start speaking Spanish and I'll probably never happen,
or you know what, I'm just gonna write a chapter in there and
say, you know, a new way to go out there and attend a
press conference. And yet we're recording this stuff on YouTube and I'm still getting
four at least three to four interviews anyway. So in my opinion in Miami,
I want to thank you very much for giving me the opportunity to add
another dimension of my book about being bilingual, because that I am anything but
okay, But you know what I mean, I'm just looking at this thing.
So I told one of the PR guys they listen to that here's what
we got to do with Coach Martino. I need to go ahead and take
a picture with this guy the next time I'm here, Okay, and then
I have a picture and lessons from the microphone with Muhamma. Well, we
all know that you know picture is worth a thousand learns right, Well,
I mean, now they worth a whole lot more than a thousand. But
with Coach Martine, I'll take it. Let me take a picture with the
coach. He'll never know what I'm gonna say. I won't know what he's
gonna say, but the general public say, and MotorCity man mothers standing next
to the coach and let you draw your own conclusions. But you know what,
We've been treated very nicely with Inner Miami. I really enjoy working with
those people there. I just have to find now master the art of covering
this team, because what I have seen this year, I never have any
detroit. You'll never see it in a lot of places, but only in
South Florida. When you see a guy while somebody go into a press conference
and not know what they're saying, and they probably go ahead and let you
go ahead and ask a question and translate it. I won't know where it
is anyway, So I'll find a way to create a story. But I'll
tell you what, winning lovely. He's the only way that I can define
the early part of my inter Miami experience. I don't even know how you're
saying Spanish, but I do know he's an awfully good player, So we'll
at that. Well, let's see I can comment on a lot like your
messy comment well, MESSI has said that this is gonna be He's this is
the last place he's gonna play for, So who knows he's through. He's
got a contract through twenty twenty five. Who knows if he'll extend. But
as for my town, I'm gonna I'm gonna go up back up to Wisconsin,
and I'm gonna say the Milwaukee Bucks obviously did not do well. Doc
Rivers came in. Everybody thought, oh, well, mate, there's no
way they're gonna do good with the playoffs because he's coming in and he's got
a horrible record. Now they've brought Darvin Ham in. But now the interesting
thing that came out is that Doc Rivers said that Dan me and Lillard was
in the worst condition shape wise at the beginning of the season that he has
ever been in before because he did not work out because he knew he was
going to get traded, he didn't know who he was going to get traded
to, and he did not want to get injured. So now all the
people, and I'm thinking here, as a pro athlete, how can you
not stay in shape yourself before your season is coming to whether you're going to
be traded or not or new contract or not. It just surprises me.
And they're saying now that he's going to stay in shape, that that was
the worst it had ever been. My question is now that all these contracts
are floating around in the NFL, and let's face it, Trevor Lawrence just
got paid, he just got a big contract. What do we think Jordan
Love is gonna end up with? Because we've had very We've had a lot
of success with our previous two quarterbacks, let's praise it, Brett barv and
then Aaron Rodgers. So do we think Jordan Love is going to be that
generational of talent? And if he is, we've got to pay him.
But he hasn't proven I mean, he hasn't proven that much. But if
we don't, will somebody else? Yeah, careful, Brian guten Kirk Mars.
That's all I gotta say. To be continued once we get that figure.
So we'll tell you what this fire up shows good getting on here often.
But I'm sure looking forward to coming on here. When I go on
here, Haggarty'll be here with me. But I got other things I'm working
out with Haggarty Man on Saturday, h right and I'm glad you brought that
up. So Rob, want you give everybody a preview of what to expect
on Saturday's edition of The External Bump. Yeah, we have The External Bump
Show so live on YouTube, Facebook, Twitch and Twitter X platforms. I
host the show Leo Haggerty and Scott Morgan Roth for my co host, and
we talk about bumps and sports. We start off with that. I have
a bump for Saturday and it has to do with a hot dog, and
I'll tell you what it is on Saturday. Also, our topics are gonna
be about college athletes violent for bankruptcy, Deion Sanders snout for bankruptcy. We're
gonna talk about that because if this is gonna be an ongoing thing and who's
the blame? All right, I want to So we're gonna talk about that
Saturday extensively. Who's the blame for that? That's one of our topics.
And we're gonna talk about, of course, the NHL Playoffs and more.
Saturday morning, nine am The External Bump Show. Join us on YouTube,
Facebook, Twitch, and Twitter X platforms. I'm working on a fourth guest
we'll find out, or a fourth person. We'll find that out. Soon.
Yeah, well, I can say one thing about Saturday. I'm not
worried about eating my words that day because the theories won't be over. But
if it means I have to know a week, deal with it. But
yeah, it's a good show. I enjoy working with Ralph and Leo on
there, with a lot of fun. Yeah, so you know again,
you know, Ralph does a good job promoting my book. I know he
does, and Leo obviously is certainly getting acquainted with the book and all that.
But this is something I've worked hard on. But there's more work to
do on it. But this show, external bum show has a boatload of
potential. And I think the only thing I love about Ralph and Leo and
myself as a as a group is you have a lot of experienced heads there.
So oh absolutely so. I guess we lost Jeremy, but I think
by now he does know who the publisher is, not by title but by
name. We'll see there, but at any rate possible, And we're sitting
in this chair next Thursday night. But in the meantime, any closing thoughts,
Yeah, I wouldn't say about Green Bay and Pittsburgh. You know,
Candy was talking about green Bay and a great tradition here twenty ten played each
other in Super Bowl and that was the first time two storied organizations like Green
Bay and Pittsburgh back in the day super Bowl wins and things and just some
big time organizations. It was great that we played Green Bay in the Super
Bowl in twenty ten. We came up short unfortunately, so you know,
but yeah, that's that's my closing thoughts. And on the iron, these
are both and we have the draft back to back here, so yes,
yes, anything you want to Candy, I'm going to say, go Panthers.
Right now it's tied zero zero and I just saw a lot of fighting
on the screen, so yeah, there you go, happy full force.
Yeah, okay, well we'll back then we'll everybody know how they get ahold
of each other. Start off, Ralph. Oh, yes, you can
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So that's huge. And Candall was telling everybody what just happened in the hockey
game. Yeah, the Panthers just scored. They are up one nothing.
Now, wow, that's great. Yeah, okay, well you know,
go ahead, Candy, I'll give our information one more time. I believe
that when I'm I'm not even taking size in this because I believe I have
to be objective by the rule of journalism. There you go for what.
I'm being an objective. I love the result I don't have. I don't
have. I don't take either team. But you're not covering either. You're
not covering the game, so you don't have to be objective. You can
have an opinion. It's okay. I got a little shorter to them.
I don't have an opinion on this series except the fact that the Panthers don't
win it in seven. I'll be eating crow and calling myself a bum on
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