Speaker 1: In the Sports page with The Orlando Sentinel at FM
Speaker 1: ninety six to nine the Games, Mike the Bulldog beyond
Speaker 1: you on JR R. Dog. We are hoping you're gonna
Speaker 1: start off with an emphatic come on.
Speaker 2: How did that taste? You nailed, bron How did that taste? Luca?
Speaker 2: How did that taste? You? Hated Lakers? Yes, Magic statement game.
Speaker 3: Last night, Welcome to the Night the Magic Kingdom Boys.
Speaker 1: Yeah Yeah.
Speaker 2: On a night Dwight Howard was inducted into the Magic
Speaker 2: Hall of Fame. The Franz A and Pallo ban Caro
Speaker 2: looked like future Hall of famers last night. The Franz
Speaker 2: had thirty two, Pallo had thirty. Magic Club the Lakers
Speaker 2: one eighteen to one oh six. By the way, I
Speaker 2: was there last night. What a crowd. It was a
Speaker 2: lot of Lakers fans are there, by the way, but
Speaker 2: a record crowd nineteen thousand and five hundred and thirty eight.
Speaker 2: That place was electric last night. I love seeing the
Speaker 2: Magic win, you know that. But it's also beautiful to
Speaker 2: see the hated Lakers struggle the way they are. They
Speaker 2: were destroyed by the Bulls the other night. They were
Speaker 2: manhandled by the Magic last night. They're three and seven
Speaker 2: in their last ten games, so the Magic. By the way,
Speaker 2: they've won two in a row now for the first
Speaker 2: time since Christmas. They've won three of four, including statement
Speaker 2: wins over the league leading Cavaliers and the hated Lakers.
Speaker 2: They are just a game and a half behind the
Speaker 2: Hawks for the top play in spot. The Magic are Back,
Speaker 2: Ladies and genmal with this team, this is a team
Speaker 2: nobody wants to play in the playoffs. I'm declaring it.
Speaker 2: That's my bulldog bite, Magic Are Back. I got a
Speaker 2: bulldog bite. We did we got to how that taste?
Speaker 2: It's what more could you ask for on a Tuesday.
Speaker 1: Although I slightly suspect Bulldog may still be operating off
Speaker 1: of the adrenaline filled atmosphere last night at the Kia
Speaker 1: sim Yeah, hey, Bulldog. Other big story, how about Florida
Speaker 1: Citrus Sports full speed ahead on trying to lock in
Speaker 1: the Jags here in Orlando for the home schedule.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, they got the They got the ten million dollar
Speaker 2: funding from the tourist development or the yeah, the tourist
Speaker 2: development tax. So yeah, it looks like it looks like
Speaker 2: now the Jaguars still have to approve it. The NFL
Speaker 2: has to approve it, but it looks like this is
Speaker 2: one of the final formalities before the Jags play here
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty seven, so we'll see what happens. That
Speaker 2: was good news yesterday. So it looks like we're gonna
Speaker 2: have an NFL team, at least temporarily in Orlando in
Speaker 2: twenty twenty seven. When the Jaguars in Jacksonville are refurbishing
Speaker 2: their stadium up there, they're essentially tearing it down and
Speaker 2: starting over again, so they're gonna have a brand new stadium.
Speaker 1: Are the Jags still considering Florida Fielder? Now?
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, it's that it's down to uh this Camping
Speaker 2: World Stadium and Florida Field the swamp. But everybody seems
Speaker 2: to think it's going to be Camping World Stadium, especially
Speaker 2: with what happened yesterday. So uh uh yeah, I think
Speaker 2: it's gonna be Camping World Stadium. Everything I'm hearing is
Speaker 2: it's going to be Camping World Stadium. I've talked to
Speaker 2: the Jaguars team president Mark Lamping. He hasn't said, uh
Speaker 2: officially that it's gonna be, but you can just tell
Speaker 2: they they want to. They want a stadium for that
Speaker 2: season that they can call their own. Camping World Stadium
Speaker 2: has no tenants obviously Florida Field and the Swamp has
Speaker 2: the Gators, and you know you'd have to get it
Speaker 2: could be a quick turnaround that the Gators are playing
Speaker 2: a night game and.
Speaker 3: Uh, lamping rhymes with camping. They're coming to Camping World Stadium,
Speaker 3: And hey, all, so bulldog, you have to admit you've
Speaker 3: been to enough Gators game as if. I not like
Speaker 3: I'm a fan or anything, but just good my kid
Speaker 3: goes there. But that that town would be a cluster
Speaker 3: with the NFL coming into it.
Speaker 1: You know, it's funny you bring that up, Bob. I
Speaker 1: ran in and I was curious. When the wife and
Speaker 1: I visited Savannah a while back, we were in a
Speaker 1: bar in the playot and there was a group of
Speaker 1: folks there from Jacksonville who were Jags fans because they
Speaker 1: had Jag I asked him just out of cure, and
Speaker 1: I said, hey, you guys were season ticket holders. I said,
Speaker 1: if you have your choice of going to watch those
Speaker 1: games during the refurbishment and going to jackson going to
Speaker 1: Gainesville or Orlando, all of them said, we'd rather go
Speaker 1: to Gainesville. Really all of them.
Speaker 3: I just know that. Man, you can't even get bulldog,
Speaker 3: you know, for like a parent's weekend or a big
Speaker 3: home game. It's hard to get rooms there, and they're
Speaker 3: and they're like six hundred dollars.
Speaker 2: Although NFL fans don't travel like college football fans, a
Speaker 2: lot of those are opposing fans coming into Gamesville. But yeah,
Speaker 2: you're right, I mean they don't have the amenities that
Speaker 2: Orlando has. They don't have the hotels. Uh, even the stadium.
Speaker 2: When when Camping World stadiums refurbished, and it will be
Speaker 2: about twenty twenty seven, then you know it's gonna be.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be. It's not gonna be an NFL you know,
Speaker 2: bells and whistles stadium, but it'll be nicer than the swamp.
Speaker 2: The swamp needs some serious renovations now. You know.
Speaker 1: The only thing I can imagine if you're a Jags
Speaker 1: season ticket holder from Duval area that if you're if
Speaker 1: you're going to a game as a day trip, you're
Speaker 1: not staying overnight. Obviously you'd rather drive the games at home.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's probably probably an hour closer. Why they answered
Speaker 3: that way to you when you met him at the bar,
Speaker 3: I have to what about you boys, But uh, I'll
Speaker 3: go to a Jags game.
Speaker 2: Sure, yeah, I'll go to every every home game to
Speaker 2: the Jag. Yeah, at least tail geame for at least
Speaker 2: the season.
Speaker 1: Once there's press box. Hot dogs absolutely away.
Speaker 2: Speaking of the Bulldogs, so when Dwight Howard, they had
Speaker 2: his induction ceremony yesterday afternoon before the game, so you know,
Speaker 2: he's it was it was great. He was emotional, he
Speaker 2: was contried. He you know, essentially said I've had a
Speaker 2: zillion second thoughts about why I left Orlando. He apologized
Speaker 2: to everybody, He thanked the fans. He even apologized to
Speaker 2: the Bulldog. He apologized to the bulldog. What because we
Speaker 2: were talking at a media gathering his little press conference
Speaker 2: after the actual induction ceremony, and he said, and I'm quoting,
Speaker 2: there were a lot of times in the past, Bianchi,
Speaker 2: I wanted to knock your head off, but now I
Speaker 2: realize you were just doing your job.
Speaker 1: Wow, nice bulldog?
Speaker 3: Did he ask you out to dinner afterwards for some
Speaker 3: butt play?
Speaker 1: Stop? Stop? Sorry? All right? Bike? The Bulldog? BYANCHI smooth
Speaker 1: things with Dwight. Apparently that's a that's a good thing.
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