Speaker 1: Good evening everybody, and welcome to another episode of Fire Up.
Speaker 1: I hope we're all fired up, because I know I am.
Speaker 1: How is my different panel tonight doing?
Speaker 2: God?
Speaker 3: Very good?
Speaker 4: Okay, Well, Katy, I gotta be honest with you, man. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I don't know these dudes.
Speaker 2: I just met him. I'll be honest with you though.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think I think we into something. These friars are hot.
Speaker 4: Let's get fried up on Fire Up at the country club, baby.
Speaker 1: Sounds like planning to me. Let's quick introduce yourself just
Speaker 1: so you guys can tell everybody who you are, like,
Speaker 1: who you where you are from, and the college teams
Speaker 1: like that you follower that you really you know are into. Uh,
Speaker 1: let's start with you, mister Taylor.
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Speaker 1: Okay, Michael, tell everybody about you.
Speaker 3: Mike Whitaker work for uh.
Speaker 6: You can see myself under The Detroit Monitor and the
Speaker 6: South Florida Tribune mostly cover the Red Wings and a
Speaker 6: little bit of Tigers and Pissons as well. But yeah,
Speaker 6: most of my background is hockey and I'm glad to
Speaker 6: be here.
Speaker 1: Sounds good, mister Southern Fried gentlemen, tell these guys, since
Speaker 1: some of the audience knows you, tell these guys about
Speaker 1: you a little bit. You're muted though.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was talking to myself, getting myself prepared as
Speaker 4: I normally do. I hate, I hate hitting the mute button,
Speaker 4: but sometimes I know if I move around it makes
Speaker 4: like a scratchy thing. So that's being a nutshell, y'all.
Speaker 4: I am a perfectionist. I am a game Cock fan,
Speaker 4: which is far from perfection. I'm also a Panthers fan,
Speaker 4: far from perfection. A Braves fan.
Speaker 2: Yikes, you say Panthers.
Speaker 1: You probably should expand because there's a couple of different Panthers. Man.
Speaker 4: No, I shouldn't because hockey, y'all know. I don't pay
Speaker 4: attention no hockey.
Speaker 5: Football fan.
Speaker 1: But there's the Michigan Panthers that are playing in the
Speaker 1: championship game this this week.
Speaker 2: Hey, and I did pick them.
Speaker 4: I did pick them. I'm pretty sure I picked them.
Speaker 4: Candy and I picked them the other night.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm pretty sure you did. I think I.
Speaker 4: Disagreed with everybody at that point. I was mesmerized. But anyways, Yes,
Speaker 4: Carolina Panther fan, I don't even know what we're going
Speaker 4: to talk about this evening, but I'm excited to talk
Speaker 4: with Taylor and Michael and who knows where this conversation
Speaker 4: might go.
Speaker 1: I'll be honest, I didn't send any of you the topic.
Speaker 1: Nobody knows besides me.
Speaker 2: So well, I know one.
Speaker 1: You do know one? You do no one, that's true.
Speaker 1: So what you want to start up with that one? Sure,
Speaker 1: let's start.
Speaker 4: Go for it, all right? So actually I can do
Speaker 4: two stories with this one. Michael and Taylor, gentlemen, it's
Speaker 4: we So when I say Southern Fried sports, it's literally
Speaker 4: the way I see sports from my Southern Fried opinion,
Speaker 4: and there's some stories that are better than others.
Speaker 2: So the Pacers and what.
Speaker 4: They might do could be a great story. But during
Speaker 4: that game last night, they don't catch the brother and
Speaker 4: sister story. T J McConnell, Michael, Yeah you got it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not. I guess I'm not familiar with what
Speaker 3: specific with that angle.
Speaker 4: Right, Okay, So their brother and sister, and she wore
Speaker 4: his jersey to one of her w NBA games the
Speaker 4: other night, and TJ returned the favor and wore her
Speaker 4: w NBA jersey to the finals. But they showed the
Speaker 4: dad last night, and so during one of my YouTube
Speaker 4: short he Goton making plays doing crazy things his dad.
Speaker 4: They're cheering, and then the whole story of the brother
Speaker 4: and sister. And I've said the Pacers are destined to
Speaker 4: win the NBA Championship. What do you guys say, Wel
Speaker 4: or Mike either one. I think Indiana is a team
Speaker 4: of destiny.
Speaker 3: They may as well be. I think that. I mean
Speaker 3: I was.
Speaker 6: I did a little bit of content for the Detroit
Speaker 6: Pistons when they played the Knicks earlier in the playoffs
Speaker 6: this year, and then obviously the nixt one ended up
Speaker 6: being knocked out by the Pacers, and so, I mean,
Speaker 6: I have no problem with with Indiana winning. I mean
Speaker 6: I probably would have had a problem with it twenty
Speaker 6: years ago when the when the Pistons and Pacers were
Speaker 6: pretty big time rivals. But obviously that was then. This
Speaker 6: is now, and I mean, if they get it done,
Speaker 6: be good for them.
Speaker 2: Right on? And what about the brothers sister story? Though?
Speaker 4: Do you get into any of your phil's watching sports?
Speaker 4: You got any relatives or anything?
Speaker 3: I do? But I mean I usually try to.
Speaker 6: I mean, like I said, most of my most of
Speaker 6: most of my background is hockey related. But you know,
Speaker 6: there's nothing wrong with a good, feel good, you know,
Speaker 6: family story. And obviously the family roots run pretty deep
Speaker 6: for most of these athletes who you know, have strong
Speaker 6: family backgrounds of people who help.
Speaker 3: Them to be where they are now.
Speaker 6: And so yeah, it's always always great to see when
Speaker 6: whenever athletes are being uh you know, kind of supported
Speaker 6: by their family members, especially when they're alive in the audience.
Speaker 4: There right on, no argument here, Taylor, what do you
Speaker 4: think about the Pacers and TJ McConnell, H.
Speaker 5: Well, you know, the only thing I care about is
Speaker 5: the Pacers and done. Are duking it out. Game three
Speaker 5: was a tight, epic battle. You know, the Pacers of
Speaker 5: course came out on top. They pulled away by nine
Speaker 5: one sixteen to one oh seven. It's it's anybody's any
Speaker 5: NBA Finals series. You know, you just never know who's
Speaker 5: going to come out on top the last team standing. Yeah,
Speaker 5: good for TJ.
Speaker 4: McConnell though, right right on and yeah, and then the
Speaker 4: other thing is Caitlyn Clark. She is eight and oh
Speaker 4: when she goes to the Indiana Pacers games in the playoffs.
Speaker 4: I wish I had that kind of effect on a
Speaker 4: team as a fan. If that were the case, I
Speaker 4: would go to every game, Caught game, every Panther game,
Speaker 4: Carolina Panther game. I would go to every game I
Speaker 4: could possibly go if I were undefeated as a fan,
Speaker 4: What do you guys think, can you be Do you
Speaker 4: have any impact whether you're at the stadium or not
Speaker 4: as a fan.
Speaker 6: Well, I think I think we all know that hockey
Speaker 6: players are extremely superstitious, and I would do you know
Speaker 6: going to Red Wings games back in the day, would
Speaker 6: take the exact same route and hit the same you
Speaker 6: know vendors and all that. When whenever the Red Wings
Speaker 6: were on a winning streak, and obviously I didn't want to,
Speaker 6: you know, disrupt the mojo or anything like that because
Speaker 6: obviously I was single handedly responsible for their success and
Speaker 6: so at least that's I would fault at the time.
Speaker 6: But yeah, sometimes, you know, fans kind of feel like,
Speaker 6: you know, their own rituals can help their teams win.
Speaker 6: And I mean, of course that you know that doesn't happen,
Speaker 6: but it's still kind of a cool thing to And
Speaker 6: the Oilers have tied the game, Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2: Oh wow, that's crazy.
Speaker 6: But yeah, they kind of goes back to, Yeah, like
Speaker 6: hockey players are extremely superstitious.
Speaker 3: And they'll they'll ride with something until it stopped working,
Speaker 3: I guess.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I.
Speaker 1: Would say the one thing that I've noticed between the
Speaker 1: NBA and the NHL is that, uh, the series have
Speaker 1: been a lot closer lately. And let's face it, Game
Speaker 1: one of the the Pacers series with Oka see okay
Speaker 1: see led the whole game until the last shot. So
Speaker 1: last shot in the n win takes it, makes it
Speaker 1: and wins the game. Like so it it bodes well
Speaker 1: for the people that always say you only have to
Speaker 1: watch the last quarter of some of these games, you know,
Speaker 1: last watch last five minutes and you'll see you know.
Speaker 1: But I think that brother sister supporting each other is cool.
Speaker 1: You know, we've seen it before. I really like it.
Speaker 1: You've seen it, You've seen husband and wife do it.
Speaker 1: I think brother and sister is cool too, though, and
Speaker 1: did I would if you watched Sports Rap, which which
Speaker 1: is the show before this. Scott and Mike Santos were
Speaker 1: talking hockey and they were talking about how they really
Speaker 1: feel for the Oilers this is a must win, Like
Speaker 1: if they go down three to one after this game,
Speaker 1: they they're not sure that they could make make up
Speaker 1: the difference. The Panthers are playing really tight, really with intensity,
Speaker 1: so I think it'll be interesting.
Speaker 2: I would say that they've been fundamental.
Speaker 4: And yeah, that would be a question that I want
Speaker 4: to ask these two hockey guys.
Speaker 2: Is it crazy though.
Speaker 4: That Canadian teams we see Edmonton with a chance. It's
Speaker 4: been a very long time since the Canadian team won
Speaker 4: the hockey championship. To me, that blows my mind. Like
Speaker 4: the South is good at football and baseball because we
Speaker 4: can practice it year round. You can't necessarily do that
Speaker 4: up north any Canada. It's a strange to go to hockey.
Speaker 6: Yeah, sure, it's It definitely is a strange phenomenon, and
Speaker 6: I know it's you know, obviously it's a point of
Speaker 6: interest for Canadian hockey fans everywhere, and that's kind of
Speaker 6: what they're wondering why I haven't, you know, why hasn't
Speaker 6: a Canadian based team won the Stanley Cups since nineteen
Speaker 6: ninety three. But I mean, you know, there are those
Speaker 6: who would point to the you know, the massive NHL
Speaker 6: expansion and just the incredible talent that's kind of all
Speaker 6: throughout the NHL, and you know, back seventies and eighties,
Speaker 6: I mean, it kind of seemed like a lot of
Speaker 6: Canadian teams kind of had the monopoly on talent in
Speaker 6: the NHL. But yeah, it's a lot more spread out
Speaker 6: now and it's not completely over for the Oilers right now,
Speaker 6: and so I mean, we'll we'll see what, you know,
Speaker 6: what they can make out.
Speaker 3: Of this series here.
Speaker 6: It looks like they're getting all kinds of new life
Speaker 6: right now, unfortunately for the Panthers.
Speaker 4: So who would be your pick, Michel right now for
Speaker 4: the to win it all, not just this game, but
Speaker 4: to win win it all.
Speaker 6: I mean, I still think that the Panther Panthers will
Speaker 6: ultimately get it done. But obviously they've got the championship
Speaker 6: swagger from having done it last year, and this is
Speaker 6: their third straight trip to the Stanley Cup finals, so
Speaker 6: I mean, they know what it takes to not only
Speaker 6: get there, but to get the job done. And obviously
Speaker 6: the Oilers are a lot more experienced from their loss
Speaker 6: last year.
Speaker 3: And I think it do very well.
Speaker 6: I mean, I wouldn't be surprised to see this series
Speaker 6: go seven, but ultimately I think it will be the
Speaker 6: Panthers that pull it out again.
Speaker 4: So right on, Taylor, Hey, what do you think can
Speaker 4: a Canadian team get it done?
Speaker 2: And what do you think about that long streak?
Speaker 4: And my logic as to why it's crazy they've never won, well, well.
Speaker 5: You still have to earn it. It's been a long
Speaker 5: time coming for any Canadian team team to win the
Speaker 5: Stanley Cup since the last time I remember the Flames
Speaker 5: won the Stanley Cup in the nineteen eighties, late nineteen eighties,
Speaker 5: but that's pretty much all I can remember.
Speaker 1: The one thing JD I will say is that in
Speaker 1: the nineties, I believe I heard the stat on the
Speaker 1: radio the other day ninety percent of the NHL players
Speaker 1: were Canadian born back in the nineties, whereas now it's
Speaker 1: at forty one point one percent of the players are
Speaker 1: Canadian born and only twenty nine point one percent are
Speaker 1: American are US born.
Speaker 2: I'll give you an even crazier stat.
Speaker 3: Hit me.
Speaker 4: I went to high school with about one thousand people.
Speaker 4: There was one kid who transferred from a private school.
Speaker 4: He was the son of a doctor, and he used
Speaker 4: to travel to Greenville once or twice a week to
Speaker 4: practice for his hockey team.
Speaker 2: So I knew one out of a thousand.
Speaker 4: Kids that played hockey in the state of in my school.
Speaker 2: Multiply that over the state and it's crazy.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. Yeah, Taylor, who do you think is gonna
Speaker 1: take the series?
Speaker 5: It's gonna go seven games, But like Michael Whitaker said,
Speaker 5: but I'm gonna go with the Panthers as well.
Speaker 1: Okay, now you both know if it goes seven, the
Speaker 1: home game goes to the is that we'll be played
Speaker 1: in Edmonton, So that'll be foe mice for the Oilers. Now,
Speaker 1: I will say from the games that I've watched, and
Speaker 1: I've watched all of these, is that these stadiums are
Speaker 1: getting louder and louder for the home team. But I
Speaker 1: the one thing I will give respect to Edmonton this
Speaker 1: year is last year when the Panthers played them, I
Speaker 1: was really upset because they were booing the national anthem,
Speaker 1: And this year I have not seen that in the
Speaker 1: in the games that they started this series with up there.
Speaker 5: I can understand why, but I'm not gonna mention that
Speaker 5: because this is sports and not politics.
Speaker 1: Right right, But still, I just you know, you if
Speaker 1: you don't have anything to say, you don't say anything
Speaker 1: at all. Is kind of how I feel, especially when
Speaker 1: you're when you're talking about a national anthem. You're not
Speaker 1: talking about getting into the politics or anything like that.
Speaker 1: And I get it you want a voice.
Speaker 4: That That would be My one thing about it too,
Speaker 4: is yeah, we won't go too deep into it. But
Speaker 4: booing the national anthem, you're not just booing whatever it
Speaker 4: is you want to boo. You're booing something that a
Speaker 4: majority of the people who have nothing to do with it.
Speaker 2: Respect and honor correct that.
Speaker 4: I mean, yep, we talked about disagreeing and stuff on
Speaker 4: the football field the other day, fights all that stuff.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's it's good for team building, but you
Speaker 4: gotta be respectful. Everybody can be respectful about it, have
Speaker 4: a conversation, and everybody's even sports talk, which.
Speaker 2: Is what we're doing.
Speaker 1: Correct.
Speaker 2: It all fits in together.
Speaker 1: So so did we make predictions on the NBA playoffs?
Speaker 1: Okay see, you're Indiana the final? Indiana or okay see
Speaker 1: is gonna take the series? And then how many games?
Speaker 3: Well, I kind of gotta go back to what was
Speaker 3: being said earlier.
Speaker 6: It kind of does feel like I guess Indiana maybe
Speaker 6: a team of destiny.
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna go ahead and I'll go ahead and
Speaker 3: say that to Indiana. Maybe takes it in six.
Speaker 1: Okay six.
Speaker 5: Taylor Pacers in seven?
Speaker 1: Okay, Southern Fried.
Speaker 4: I want to pick the Pacers so bad. I'm the
Speaker 4: one that made the argument about destiny. Okay See just
Speaker 4: has more depth. It'll go seven, and.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go, okay see, when's it all?
Speaker 1: You know? I've said on other shows that I thought,
Speaker 1: okay see, but I don't know. Indiana just has this
Speaker 1: way of like because I honestly thought, okay See would
Speaker 1: blow them out more and would be you know, wouldn't
Speaker 1: let them back in, would be more dominant and they're not,
Speaker 1: so I'm I'm like wavering now, I'm like and Indiana's
Speaker 1: taking out taking out some good teams too, So I
Speaker 1: don't know, I might be switching. I might be switching
Speaker 1: to Indiana these days. With that being said, now, I
Speaker 1: don't know how, because I haven't talked to you guys.
Speaker 1: I don't know how strong you guys are in college basketball.
Speaker 1: But there were some definite rule changes for both women's
Speaker 1: college basketball and men's college basketball. Did you guys hear
Speaker 1: about some of them? And what are your thoughts?
Speaker 6: I gotta admit I'm not familiar with any additional rule
Speaker 6: or recent rule changes, so that's something you'd have to
Speaker 6: kind of fill me in on on that one.
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, anybody else here, I'll fill you in.
Speaker 4: So my take was going to be about specifically the
Speaker 4: twenty minute half. It hasn't been solidified yet, right, but
Speaker 4: it does not make sense to me that women play
Speaker 4: four quarters. NBA Men's and women's play four quarters, and
Speaker 4: then you've got NCAA men's college basketball. They've played two
Speaker 4: twenty minute halves. So what do you guys think about
Speaker 4: that being switched?
Speaker 1: I think it's long overdue. I think it's got to be.
Speaker 1: It should be the same as the women and as NBA.
Speaker 1: I don't like the two halves, I like the quarters.
Speaker 4: I mean, it makes no sense. And then what's crazy?
Speaker 4: I covered firm and basketball this year in ten home
Speaker 4: games that I went to, I guarantee you there were
Speaker 4: twenty minutes worth the timeouts left. He had twenty timeouts.
Speaker 4: They he never used in that first half. Break like
Speaker 4: that means you're getting too many media timeouts or something like,
Speaker 4: what's the point in getting timeouts if you don't use them?
Speaker 4: So some Yeah, just put all the times the same.
Speaker 4: In my opinion, I mean, it's even weird to me.
Speaker 4: Hockey plays three periods?
Speaker 2: Yeah why three? Why not four?
Speaker 6: Well, they're twenty minutes teaching, so to keep the game
Speaker 6: time exactly an hour and during the.
Speaker 2: Well, there you go. That's something I didn't know about.
Speaker 4: I was legitimately asking, thank you, Oh, I don't watch
Speaker 4: enough hockey. Yeah, please enlighten me about hockey.
Speaker 2: I'm good with it.
Speaker 6: Well, it is three twenty minute periods and then in
Speaker 6: the regular season, if it's tied after regulation, there's a
Speaker 6: five minute overtime and then followed by a shootout.
Speaker 3: If nobody scores.
Speaker 6: But in then Stanley Cup playoffs, it just continues playing
Speaker 6: twenty minute periods until somebody wins.
Speaker 5: Let me add to that, the five minutes overtime period
Speaker 5: of the regular season is three on three.
Speaker 6: Also, ye takes a lot more wide open, a lot
Speaker 6: more exciting. But exactly, I wonder, I wonder how many
Speaker 6: people would like to see maybe four on four come
Speaker 6: to the playoff overtime.
Speaker 3: Maybe we'd get earlier endings. But I really don't think
Speaker 3: that's gonna happen anytime soon.
Speaker 2: Candy.
Speaker 4: This is why I love having new people in this
Speaker 4: show sometimes because listen to what I just thought of.
Speaker 4: You guys, Hey, listen, y'all get with me here. Yoh,
Speaker 4: we're just talking about the rules the overtime. So y'all
Speaker 4: mentioned the hockey three on three. I hate the extra
Speaker 4: time for soccer. I hate not ever knowing how long
Speaker 4: the game might actually go into extra time.
Speaker 2: And so what if we blended.
Speaker 4: Soccer and hockey and we turned soccer once they hit
Speaker 4: extra time? Let's go to that three on three or
Speaker 4: that four on four and finish the games like that?
Speaker 4: How about that for a sports idea?
Speaker 2: Tonight?
Speaker 1: There we go, I could see it because I agree
Speaker 1: with you. Like if you're at a soccer match and
Speaker 1: you're like, well, how much more time is there going
Speaker 1: to be? Like I have no clue if it's a
Speaker 1: minute or if it's three minutes and ten seconds, and
Speaker 1: it's like, m hm.
Speaker 4: Right, Mike, what Taylor? Please y'all tell me, am I right?
Speaker 4: Could we blend soccer? Eventually it comes down to penalty kicks?
Speaker 4: But yeah, the extra time there needs to be a
Speaker 4: set time at least.
Speaker 5: Right, Yeah, yeah, I don't mind that, but if it's
Speaker 5: still but if it's still tied after that, then then
Speaker 5: we go straight to penalty kicks just for backup purposes.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna because I have to acknowledge the people
Speaker 1: in the chat Gamecock, Chuck did the pack, did the
Speaker 1: pass the rule for the coaches challenge. So this is
Speaker 1: where it differs, and this is why I don't understand
Speaker 1: why there's some differences between men and women's. But on
Speaker 1: the men's side, men's coaches will be able to challenge
Speaker 1: out of bonds, calls, basket interference or goaltending, and whether
Speaker 1: a secondary defender was in the restricted area. Coaches will
Speaker 1: get at least one challenge per game and must have
Speaker 1: a timeout to use one. A successful challenge means means
Speaker 1: a coach gets another one. If the challenge is unsuccessful,
Speaker 1: the coach may not challenge another call. On the women's side,
Speaker 1: coaches will be able to challenge out of bound calls,
Speaker 1: backcourt violations, whether the correct player was called for a fouwel,
Speaker 1: and whether a change in possession occurred before the ruling
Speaker 1: of a foul that leads to free throws. Women's coaches
Speaker 1: won't need a timeout to challenge a call, but an
Speaker 1: unsuccessful challenge would lead to a technical foul for the
Speaker 1: excessive time out.
Speaker 2: That's the first. Yeah, that's harsh.
Speaker 1: That's what I thought. And I'm like, wow, that's very
Speaker 1: different like between the men and women's And I'm like why.
Speaker 2: Like, well into that go ahead, Taylor.
Speaker 4: Do you have any thoughts on the NCAA and all
Speaker 4: this stuff we're talking about here?
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, about the rules, right, yeah, yeah, don't quarters
Speaker 5: or four quarters? Yeah, well I don't. I don't mind
Speaker 5: that for men's basketball because because they cause they because
Speaker 5: it's still like the same like type of time out
Speaker 5: as college basketball currently in twenty minute halves. You know,
Speaker 5: you still get breaks in between, uh, breaks in timeouts
Speaker 5: and end of quarters and this and that. It's just
Speaker 5: the same thing, right, even if they tried it out,
Speaker 5: it's still the same thing.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and then we've got the challenge and stuff.
Speaker 4: And then yeah, hey, Ken, yet we got I know
Speaker 4: you showed gang cut chuck mm hmm.
Speaker 2: But of course I got a shout out. He did
Speaker 2: its Brian Cain Queen City Spurs. He said there's only
Speaker 2: one Panther's a long time ago. Yeah.
Speaker 4: Oh my good loyal listeners, South Florida's loyal listeners.
Speaker 2: Yes, we got two new faces. Man, Hey Taylor, what
Speaker 2: do you want to talk about? Bro? What you got?
Speaker 5: I actually don't have anything to be honest.
Speaker 1: Oh, come on and talk about your Tigers. Come on,
Speaker 1: you were just.
Speaker 5: Talking about Oh yeah, yeah, Tigers are forty five and
Speaker 5: twenty five Trek scoogl and being him. Uh they sent
Speaker 5: down bow Risky. Oh my god, he got rocked last
Speaker 5: night in a ten to one loss in relief, but
Speaker 5: the Tigers. Tigers bounce back with a wind four to
Speaker 5: one that they are mega buyers at the trade deadline.
Speaker 5: The best record and highest wedding percent in all Major
Speaker 5: League baseball. They have to stock up on more relievers,
Speaker 5: they have to get a third basement, they have to
Speaker 5: get a clean up guy, and of course they had
Speaker 5: have to get a quality start to replace Jackson Job
Speaker 5: who is now out for the rest of the season
Speaker 5: after undergoing Tommy John surgery. So Michael will start with you.
Speaker 6: I mean, I'm really really not sure what direction they
Speaker 6: are going to go in. I mean, I know that
Speaker 6: Scott Harris recently spoke on the local courts pation here
Speaker 6: didn't really show his hand, but I mean most general
Speaker 6: managers wouldn't. I'm kind of more and more getting the
Speaker 6: feeling like they are going to acquire talent in the deadline,
Speaker 6: but it won't be anything monumental. I'd love to be
Speaker 6: proven wrong, and I'd also like, I would also love
Speaker 6: to see an extension for Trek Scoogle here before long.
Speaker 3: That that also remains to be seen.
Speaker 6: And you know, we've seen numbers throwing out something like
Speaker 6: four hundred million dollars something like that, which would obviously
Speaker 6: I think that would be the biggest contract in team history.
Speaker 6: For now, I'm just kind of enjoying the ride. I mean,
Speaker 6: I thought the Tigers would be decent this year. I
Speaker 6: didn't expect them to be this good, and I guess
Speaker 6: we'll see where it takes us. But I think that
Speaker 6: there will be an addition at the deadline. I'm just
Speaker 6: not holding my breath for anything major.
Speaker 5: All right, JD your shot.
Speaker 4: On Detroit Tigers. Yes, love everything about them. We talked
Speaker 4: about it before we came on. I because of Mark
Speaker 4: Ryan leaving us here in the Upstate, I get all
Speaker 4: of the Detroit content from me following him on X,
Speaker 4: which if any of you listening are not following any.
Speaker 2: Of us on X, please do so.
Speaker 4: Michael Whittackle, Whittakle Whittaker, he will share his X in
Speaker 4: a bit. Taylor, I'm pretty sure you can find his
Speaker 4: fine mine you got Candy's.
Speaker 2: But because of that, I love the Detroit Tigers. I do.
Speaker 4: I love small market teams having a very low payroll
Speaker 4: and being successful.
Speaker 2: I got plenty of listeners.
Speaker 4: They say that baseball is a funny game, not haha,
Speaker 4: funny like weird, funny, like finicky funny. You never know
Speaker 4: what you're gonna get from baseball. You got a team
Speaker 4: in Murray State who just went to the College World Series.
Speaker 4: Their stadium holds eight hundred people. Their coach cuts the grass,
Speaker 4: their players put.
Speaker 2: The tart on the field.
Speaker 4: I feel like that's exactly what the Detroit Tigers do.
Speaker 4: It's what the Atlanta Braves have gotten away from. And
Speaker 4: so I'm all in on Detroit Sports Lions. Been a
Speaker 4: fan ever since Dan Campbell said he was going up
Speaker 4: there to southern fry people's kneecaps. He literally said, I'm
Speaker 4: coming up here. I don't care, I'll hit you all
Speaker 4: in the mouth. We're gonna win football games. And that's
Speaker 4: all he's done. And I love it me down here
Speaker 4: in South Carolina love it.
Speaker 2: Detroit Tigers. They'll be in the ALCS, I do believe.
Speaker 5: Don't forget the Pistons their turnaround from fourteen fourteen wins
Speaker 5: to get reaching the sixth seed.
Speaker 4: Sheeees o, peach, I'm telling you, I get all of these,
Speaker 4: all of these tweets I get from Mark Ryan and here,
Speaker 4: Hey Mark or Michael. I'm sorry, Michael, while look this up.
Speaker 4: Give everybody your ex handle so they can go follow
Speaker 4: you on X.
Speaker 2: Do you have one?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 6: X handle is at m Whittaker, which is w H
Speaker 6: I T A K E R. And then underscore eighty
Speaker 6: nine can always find my content down there because I'll
Speaker 6: usually post it there. And I am still relatively new
Speaker 6: on X had an account for a long time, just
Speaker 6: never really used it, but I've kind of slowly but
Speaker 6: surely been building up my following and now up to
Speaker 6: over one hundred followers, which I realized still is really
Speaker 6: not all that much, but it's better than the twenty
Speaker 6: or thirty or whatever I had a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 4: So hey, right on, listen, hell I am, I'll definitely
Speaker 4: go follow you.
Speaker 2: Right So, I had this post pulled up.
Speaker 4: And completely forgot to take note of that as I
Speaker 4: was doing that.
Speaker 2: But yes, everybody will go follow you. Pe digits.
Speaker 4: He says, I'll fry up any or he says I'm
Speaker 4: frying up preaching right now. I said, I'll fry anything.
Speaker 4: But to the point of these Detroit teams, Taylor, I've
Speaker 4: got the tweet pulled up Mark Ryan seven hours ago.
Speaker 4: The best sports season in the modern era of Detroit
Speaker 4: came in two thousand and eight. The Wings won the
Speaker 4: Cup and the Pistons made the conference finals. Neither the
Speaker 4: Lions nor the Tigers made the playoffs. Overall, I think
Speaker 4: twenty twenty five has a shot to match or surpass
Speaker 4: two thousand and eight, and he says, what say you,
Speaker 4: Mark Ryan On x so Taylor in response, I love
Speaker 4: Detroit sports. What say you about this being the best
Speaker 4: year since two thousand and eight?
Speaker 5: Well, you got three teams making making a playoff making
Speaker 5: the playoffs, the Lions, Pistons, and Tigers. Unlike today's Red Wings,
Speaker 5: which does surpass two thousand and eight. We're only two
Speaker 5: Detroit teams made to the playoffs, the Red Wings and Pistons.
Speaker 5: The way, of course, the Red Wings won the Cup,
Speaker 5: but still you got three inch two. You do the math,
Speaker 5: I would say, I would say twenty twenty five has
Speaker 5: already surpassed.
Speaker 1: I heard an interesting stat that said if Dan Campbell,
Speaker 1: I believe it is, if he wins twenty eight more games,
Speaker 1: he becomes the winningest co in Lyon's history. And I
Speaker 1: thought that was interesting. I'm like, twenty eight only.
Speaker 2: That went in Detroit.
Speaker 4: That's fast mm hmm, faster than you can fry chicken
Speaker 4: tender sports exactly.
Speaker 1: The one thing I will say when we were talking
Speaker 1: about small market teams, I'm gonna, you know, do a
Speaker 1: little boasting here, of course, because I have to my Wisconsin,
Speaker 1: My Milwaukee Brewers. Not that they're having a really good season.
Speaker 1: They're doing okay, They're playing in you know, a conference,
Speaker 1: they have the Cubs ahead of them and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: But how cool is it? Milwaukee Brewers right hander Jacob Mazarowski. Yes,
Speaker 1: he was removed tonight from his major league debut after
Speaker 1: throwing five no hit innings against the Saint Louis Cardinals
Speaker 1: at American Family Field. He is the Brewers number one prospect.
Speaker 1: He began the sixth inning by throwing three balls to
Speaker 1: Victor Scott the second. He then appeared to roll his
Speaker 1: ankle a little while stepping off the mountain and departed
Speaker 1: mid bat. So, but how how would you feel making
Speaker 1: your major league debut as a pitcher and throwing five
Speaker 1: innings of no hit ball? That's pretty cool?
Speaker 2: How would you guys feel?
Speaker 6: I mean, I'd I'd probably be a little disappointed that
Speaker 6: the night ended early, but you know, also kind of
Speaker 6: recognized that that was.
Speaker 3: Just my first game. And you know, if I was,
Speaker 3: you know, peak.
Speaker 6: Justin Verlander or something like that, going for a no
Speaker 6: hitter and then get pulled, then I might have something
Speaker 6: to say about it, but probably just recognize that he'll
Speaker 6: have he'll have plenty more opportunities to try to to
Speaker 6: complete a his first no hit game, but obviously a
Speaker 6: very strong and in very encouraging start to his.
Speaker 2: Career there, absolutely well said.
Speaker 1: I will also say he finished his night allowed no
Speaker 1: runs or hits, with five strikeouts, four walks over five
Speaker 1: plus innings on eighty one pitches. Forty nine of them
Speaker 1: were strikes. Fourteen of his pitchers were Fourteen of his
Speaker 1: pitches were clocked at one hundred miles or more one
Speaker 1: hundred miles per.
Speaker 4: Hour or more.
Speaker 5: Not keep them in longer because he has been he
Speaker 5: was on fire. I thought I thought he should have
Speaker 5: thought I thought he should have gone the distance.
Speaker 1: Well, but they're saying he rolled his ankle a little,
Speaker 1: and you know, you don't want to mess with something
Speaker 1: like that, especially if you're just.
Speaker 4: Making your major league debut right right, Well, Candy and Taylor, Candy,
Speaker 4: I swear you'd be setting this up sometimes, Brah, swear
Speaker 4: you do, because literally, that was something I want to
Speaker 4: talk about, was complete games.
Speaker 2: And here we are. M H, I get it.
Speaker 4: He had four walks, rolled his ankle. Yeah, in that situation,
Speaker 4: I'm pulling him However, the whole pitch count and taking
Speaker 4: the pitchers out too early in the MLB has gotten
Speaker 4: out of control. Spencer's Swellingboch pitched a no hit game
Speaker 4: against your Brewers yesterday or today, whatever day it was. Yesterday, yep, yeah,
Speaker 4: pitched a complete game, first one since two thousand and
Speaker 4: four or twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 4: We got schemes giving up eighteen runs like literally all
Speaker 4: year and losing for the Steelers.
Speaker 2: But he's not pitching complete games like y'all. I get it.
Speaker 4: I pitched, Okay, my elbow used to hurt, but if
Speaker 4: I'm in the game, there's you're not coming to get
Speaker 4: me out of it, unless it's unless they're just tattooing me,
Speaker 4: which that did happen before as well. But the whole
Speaker 4: complete game stuff has gotten way out of control.
Speaker 3: I mean it.
Speaker 6: I guess it really depends on how the manager feels
Speaker 6: that his picture is doing. But I mean I would
Speaker 6: like to see more.
Speaker 3: I mean me personally.
Speaker 6: I guess I have a bias, but I think if
Speaker 6: a picture's an improve I think that in most situations,
Speaker 6: he deserves a chance to finish this out, especially if
Speaker 6: he's you know, held in the opposition of no hits
Speaker 6: or maybe even one hit. But you know, ultimately, at
Speaker 6: the end of the day, that's what they have a
Speaker 6: manager for to make those decisions.
Speaker 4: So but hey, listen, I'm a Braves fan and we've
Speaker 4: got Brian Snicker missing that his picture was even injured.
Speaker 4: Uh whatever, Oh it's not swelling back but starts with
Speaker 4: an S. I'll have to look it up.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 4: They didn't even recognize though, that he tore his time
Speaker 4: like his elbow ligaments.
Speaker 1: I read that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I don't, man, I hear you about trusting
Speaker 4: the coaches to make that decision, but the picture knows
Speaker 4: usually if they're good to go or not right, they'll
Speaker 4: tell you, like, if I'm in a complete game, shut out,
Speaker 4: you better take your butt back to the dugout if
Speaker 4: my arm's hurt, and I'll let you know.
Speaker 5: Yeah, only if if you roll it ankle, then you
Speaker 5: then you have to get pulled.
Speaker 2: Right. Oh yeah, exactly, exactly.
Speaker 1: No, I agree, there's not enough complete games. We don't
Speaker 1: let the pitchers do their job. I mean, let's face it,
Speaker 1: we've got too many middlemen now these days. And oh
Speaker 1: he can only pitch one inning and he can only
Speaker 1: pitch two innings. And and I know that one of
Speaker 1: the Brewers pitchers recently was demoted from starting rotation to
Speaker 1: the bullpen, and now he's requested he's requesting a trade.
Speaker 1: He doesn't want to be with the Brewers anymore because
Speaker 1: he feels he was demoted. And it's like, well, you
Speaker 1: need each position, like and I don't understand why we
Speaker 1: have to pull somebody if they're hot and they're on
Speaker 1: a streak and they're they're rolling and they're eighth inning
Speaker 1: or it's the ninth just because you have a closer.
Speaker 1: If your starting pitcher is still in there and he's
Speaker 1: still doing good, leave him in there. If he starts
Speaker 1: to show signs or if he signifies that you know
Speaker 1: it's time switch it up. But yeah, leave the leave
Speaker 1: the hot picture in as long as they're hot. A J.
Speaker 2: Smith Shover what was his name? The Braves pitcher that
Speaker 2: tore is.
Speaker 4: Elbow ligament in the had to be alerted by Spencer Strider.
Speaker 2: M Yeah, in that while you had to be told
Speaker 2: by one of.
Speaker 4: Your other players that your pitcher is hurt. I swear
Speaker 4: Brian Snicker is not watching the game. I don't know
Speaker 4: what he's doing.
Speaker 2: But I swear.
Speaker 4: I really don't think he's watching the game. I coached
Speaker 4: five year old baseball this year, my son played. I
Speaker 4: promise you I'll watch more baseball than Brian Snicker this year.
Speaker 2: He's oblivious.
Speaker 3: Not a good look for him if you can't recognize
Speaker 3: his pitcher's hurt.
Speaker 4: And then well, they had the whole thing with how
Speaker 4: he benched at Kunya a few years ago. But then
Speaker 4: another player did the exact same thing, and he said
Speaker 4: he didn't see the play until the next morning. You
Speaker 4: didn't see your player hit a double?
Speaker 2: What like?
Speaker 4: Come on, Brian Snicker, you can tell me a lot
Speaker 4: of crap. You can't tell me that though I'm goible,
Speaker 4: but I ain't that goible.
Speaker 1: Nope, I understand. Okay, I know I have two guys
Speaker 1: that are Lions fans. So we're gonna we're gonna change
Speaker 1: it back. The title of the show tonight was overpaid
Speaker 1: players in the NFC. So there was a recent article
Speaker 1: that came out and I kind of wanted to discuss
Speaker 1: a couple of the different teams. Uh, it's on the
Speaker 1: score if any of you go to the score or
Speaker 1: read up on the score or anything like that. So
Speaker 1: my question to you, guys, do you know who do
Speaker 1: they say is the overpaid Detroit Lions and who is
Speaker 1: the most underpaid on the team for the Lions? My
Speaker 1: Lions guys.
Speaker 6: I mean, yeah, I get you know, there's there's always
Speaker 6: going to be people who say that Jared Goff is
Speaker 6: being paid too much, but I mean he's I mean,
Speaker 6: he's delivered the most success of any lines quarterback in
Speaker 6: quite quite a long time. So I mean it's it's
Speaker 6: really not for what you will do, it's what you
Speaker 6: have done. And so I mean he's earned that contract,
Speaker 6: and I know that there's gonna be a lot of
Speaker 6: speculation as to what kind of contract that Aiden Hodginson
Speaker 6: could land.
Speaker 3: And then.
Speaker 6: I mean, right now, I'd say that Brad Holmes is
Speaker 6: probably the most trusted GM in the city right now
Speaker 6: out of the.
Speaker 3: Four professional teams.
Speaker 6: And I think that, I mean, so far, I think
Speaker 6: so far, I really don't have any major issue with
Speaker 6: what he's done. And so far, I'm gonna, I guess
Speaker 6: I'm gonna kind of defer to everybody else with their
Speaker 6: view of how the lines are being run right now.
Speaker 6: But I mean, if I had to say, if anybody
Speaker 6: thinks that somebody on the lines is overpaid. I mean,
Speaker 6: if Jared Goff can't repeat what he's done in the
Speaker 6: last two seasons, then he'll he'll certainly be right at
Speaker 6: the top of that list on a lot of fans,
Speaker 6: I think.
Speaker 5: Taylor oh Man, Yeah, I would say there's nobody on
Speaker 5: the lines that's overpaid. They're they're doing their they're all
Speaker 5: doing their job underpaid. That's a tough one, oh Man,
Speaker 5: I would h that's a tough one. Just I think
Speaker 5: they're all getting their fair share, to be honest. Sure
Speaker 5: they sure they're all human, they make mistakes, but they've
Speaker 5: they've done They've done a lot for this franchise, and
Speaker 5: they just have to work on ball security as a team.
Speaker 5: As an offensive unit. They're getting defensive players back, of course,
Speaker 5: Marcus Davenport, Aiden Hutchinson, al Kadine Muhammad. They're not going
Speaker 5: to get Alea McNeil or Malcolm Rodriguez back until like
Speaker 5: the beginning of November or something like that. But I
Speaker 5: think I think the lines are gonna be fine.
Speaker 1: Kah Jad, do you have any thoughts of who you
Speaker 1: think most overpaid Lion?
Speaker 4: Well, it necessarily it wouldn't be what I think what
Speaker 4: I was going to say, and it kind of ties
Speaker 4: into what Michael and Taylor both just said.
Speaker 2: A lot of.
Speaker 4: Fans would probably classify Jery Goff as being the most overpaid.
Speaker 4: I mean, regardless of a lot of people would consider
Speaker 4: all of their quarterbacks overpaid unless they're on a rookie contract.
Speaker 2: Honestly, that's where we are with quarterback contracts.
Speaker 4: So I mean, both of them, it's not what I
Speaker 4: would say, but I would say Jared Golf actually just
Speaker 4: pulled up the salary though.
Speaker 2: For the whole team. I didn't know I could do this.
Speaker 4: M hmmm, salaryesport dot com. So we've got Jerry Goff
Speaker 4: as the highest twenty million, nine hundred and seventy five
Speaker 4: thousand dollars, no signing bonus. Let's go to the bottom though,
Speaker 4: which was the question. Taylor said he didn't know, So
Speaker 4: who was going to be the most underpaid? And I'm
Speaker 4: going literal like lease paid John Parker Romo seven hundred
Speaker 4: and fifty thousand dollars. That's probably all of your rookies.
Speaker 4: You got Jamiir Gibs down here though, with the zero
Speaker 4: next to his name, so there's some kind of issue.
Speaker 4: But let's see underpaid. Let's under good contract. Who's underpaid?
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go to the first name I know that
Speaker 4: I can find. David Montgomery one point two five million dollars.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he might be underpaid.
Speaker 4: Uh. Jamison Williams, he's still a rookie, but he's listed
Speaker 4: way up here, seven hundred and sixty five thousand dollars.
Speaker 5: He's he's looking for a contract extension.
Speaker 4: By the way, So with some of these names in mind,
Speaker 4: does anything pop into y'all's head about underpaid? Aiden Hutchinson
Speaker 4: also up there? How about pennay sewol.
Speaker 2: Sewell nine and forty thousand?
Speaker 4: Is he underpaid? Y'all tell me yes? Come on, Detroit guys,
Speaker 4: y'all tell me yes.
Speaker 5: That's easy. Nine hundred and forty thousand. You just mentioned it.
Speaker 1: So let me go to the article. The article talks
Speaker 1: about most overpaid. They thank his Jared Goff. He signed
Speaker 1: a four year, two hundred and twelve million dollar deal
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four, so he's averaging fifty three million.
Speaker 1: It's okay to overpay an established starting quarterback, but Gough
Speaker 1: didn't live up to his massive contract in the playoffs
Speaker 1: last season. There's a lot of pressure on the veteran
Speaker 1: passer to deliver when it matters most, and he failed
Speaker 1: to do so in the first season after signing his extension.
Speaker 1: What they said was the most underpaid was Brian Branch.
Speaker 1: Many expected Branch to go in the first round two
Speaker 1: years ago, but he fell to the Lions at number
Speaker 1: forty five. Detroit has since gotten great production from a
Speaker 1: pro bowler under a rookie contract. He forms one of
Speaker 1: football's best safety duos with Kirby Dosas. He has a
Speaker 1: four year rookie deal worth eight million dollars. So that's
Speaker 1: who they said for the Lions.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think we were on some of them.
Speaker 1: We were so Michael Taylor, Yeah.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I have to agree because all those underpaid players
Speaker 5: on the Alliance team that that you guys mentioned should
Speaker 5: should get at least over over one million, like well
Speaker 5: over the well over that hup so well over that Mark.
Speaker 4: I hate the whole rookie contracting. They can make more
Speaker 4: in college than they can in the NFL. I mean,
Speaker 4: are they trying to get him to say in college
Speaker 4: though for no reason because they're not student athletes anymore.
Speaker 2: Don't yeah, don't even get me down that whole rabbit hole.
Speaker 1: So, mister Southern Fried, let's go to your team. Yeah,
Speaker 1: somebody said that overpaid and who is the most underpaid?
Speaker 4: I mean again, it's easy. I was literally I saw
Speaker 4: P Digits comment.
Speaker 2: I see you, P Digits, I see you easily.
Speaker 1: J C.
Speaker 4: Horn is the most overpaid. I mean he's been injured
Speaker 4: for his whole rookie contract. They signed him to an extension. Anyway,
Speaker 4: we can look down though.
Speaker 2: We got Robert Hunt a guard one hundred million dollars
Speaker 2: five years.
Speaker 4: That seems like we overpaid Derek Brown four years, ninety
Speaker 4: six million.
Speaker 2: Big thumbs up there. He is rightfully paid. Let's see
Speaker 2: if I can find some of the least. Oh my goodness,
Speaker 2: we pay our kicker two million a year. Get out
Speaker 2: of here. Stop it, Pat McPhee, I hope you're listening. Goy.
Speaker 1: So you said you your most overpaid was J C. Horn. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that is correct, he was. He's the he's your most
Speaker 1: talented defensive back, but that doesn't justify making him the
Speaker 1: NFL's second highest paid corner. He was a twenty twenty
Speaker 1: one first round pick that has never played a full
Speaker 1: season and only registered and he registered only one interception
Speaker 1: in the past two years while allowing seven touchdowns. So yes,
Speaker 1: he is considered the most overpaid.
Speaker 4: Best ability is availability.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm, right, Mike. Could you agree with that, Michael.
Speaker 3: I would have to say so nothing.
Speaker 6: I mean, that's one of the most important things and
Speaker 6: it's I mean extremely underrated that once. If you're actually available,
Speaker 6: then I mean, that's how you make the contributions to
Speaker 6: your team here.
Speaker 2: So.
Speaker 4: Half the battle is showing up. Yeah, exactly, m hm wow,
Speaker 4: I will Okay. So my most crazily underpaid mm hmm.
Speaker 4: And this one might stick out, Hunter Renfro. They have
Speaker 4: him on a one year, one point two million dollar deal,
Speaker 4: and I think I talked to his brother recently, Cole Renfrow.
Speaker 2: You can look it up. I've got Cole's number.
Speaker 4: In my phone, and he said his brother was never
Speaker 4: out of NFL shape.
Speaker 2: He was ready to come back the entire time.
Speaker 4: Hunter Renfro will make the Panthers roster and he will
Speaker 4: be at least a seven hundred yard receiver for the
Speaker 4: Panthers this year. Book it stamp it Sethern Fried Sports
Speaker 4: serve it up.
Speaker 1: So the article says the most underpaid for the Panthers
Speaker 1: is Michael Jackson. After playing on a one year, one
Speaker 1: point track, Jackson earned a two years What wasn't.
Speaker 2: Michael Jackson got to do with anything? Canty?
Speaker 4: Sorry to interrupt, but what what Michael Jackson?
Speaker 2: He's saying? Thriller? Well, I don't know nothing about Michael Jackson.
Speaker 1: Still, he's making almost three million less than over the
Speaker 1: cap valuation. The twenty eight year old led all Panthers
Speaker 1: cornerbacks in past breakups and interceptions last season.
Speaker 4: All right, they've got my guy, vam Martin Scott, a
Speaker 4: rookie that might not even make the roster. He's listed
Speaker 4: at three years, two hundred two point nine eight million dollars.
Speaker 4: And they were just somebody was just telling me he
Speaker 4: might not even make the roster. What it like, Jimmy
Speaker 4: Horn Jr. He might not make the roster.
Speaker 2: Four years, four point three nine to five million dollars.
Speaker 2: What is happening?
Speaker 1: And any thoughts on who you guys think they're saying
Speaker 1: is the most overpaid for the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 2: Dak Prescott.
Speaker 1: Bingo.
Speaker 3: Yes, that's who would have been my first choice.
Speaker 5: Yep, mine to might get that mine. Three.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Taylor, you missed a few minutes there have you
Speaker 4: heard anything about the Panthers. Me, I'm a Panthers fan.
Speaker 4: We talked about the Panthers a little bit. Carolina Panthers.
Speaker 4: How you feeling about Price Young?
Speaker 5: Well, he's still he's still young. He's got a long
Speaker 5: ways to go, period. That's it.
Speaker 2: Fair enough talking about Michael Jackson.
Speaker 4: That's why the pat the Panthers research the wrong Michael
Speaker 4: Jackson peted obviously.
Speaker 1: Oh you're so funny.
Speaker 4: Oh he wears white gloves soul.
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
Speaker 1: Okay, gentlemen, there is a spot in the show and
Speaker 1: this is where for you, for the two that are
Speaker 1: from Detroit. That's gonna get a little tricky because we
Speaker 1: have a segment on here that's called my Town, and
Speaker 1: that's where you talk about what's happening or what you
Speaker 1: want to talk about something that's happening, either the town
Speaker 1: you grew up in or the town you live in
Speaker 1: now or both. I don't care, it doesn't matter to me.
Speaker 1: But so if you you might want to steer one
Speaker 1: towards one thing and one so you're not talking about
Speaker 1: the same exact thing. But jad why don't you start
Speaker 1: so you can kind of show tell them, like so
Speaker 1: they can get an idea of what we talk about
Speaker 1: on this segment.
Speaker 4: Oh, good gravy, Southern fried gravy.
Speaker 2: That's what we talk about. Random things. I'll say random things.
Speaker 2: I love lamp. No, we'll talk about stuff. Candy. I
Speaker 2: didn't really have one.
Speaker 4: But as you guys know, I'm a really big college
Speaker 4: baseball fan. Love college baseball, been super tuned into it.
Speaker 4: The College World Series starts tomorrow. Coastal Carolina has won
Speaker 4: twenty three games in a row. Can they carry this
Speaker 4: win streak all the way through to a national championship.
Speaker 4: It's possible, but we won't know until tomorrow. And so
Speaker 4: going on in my town is the whole state of
Speaker 4: South Carolina is united behind the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers, which,
Speaker 4: if you didn't know what that is, it's also a
Speaker 4: fighting chicken. Because Coastal Carolina split off from USC they
Speaker 4: were also the game Cocks, so they came up with
Speaker 4: another fighting chicken.
Speaker 2: So go Coastal Carolina, Go Chanticleers. And I'm looking forward
Speaker 2: to this US Open.
Speaker 1: And can I tie a bowl in your College World Series?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Absolutely, first time since nineteen fifty seven that all the
Speaker 1: teams that are in this year's Finals were not in
Speaker 1: last year's finals.
Speaker 4: Hey, and we stand on business here in South Carolina.
Speaker 4: The last team that won back to back is my
Speaker 4: University of South Carolina game cops. All right, So, like
Speaker 4: you just said, the teams that were there last.
Speaker 2: Year aren't here this year. So obviously no back to
Speaker 2: back champion again. Right. Absolutely, the College World Series, y'all.
Speaker 2: If you want to watch good baseball here, I mean it,
Speaker 2: I mean it.
Speaker 4: There will be some of the most ridiculous plays you've
Speaker 4: ever seen happen during these College World Series.
Speaker 2: Little League World Series.
Speaker 4: Is almost just as good in my opinion. And then
Speaker 4: the other thing going on in my town is the
Speaker 4: US Open. I was watching the US Open today. If
Speaker 4: you're not watching the way they have to these balls,
Speaker 4: pay attention because they're not even lined up anywhere near
Speaker 4: the hole.
Speaker 2: They're literally all over the place.
Speaker 4: So good luck to all the golfers at the US
Speaker 4: Open this week. That's it, Taylor and Michael can't wait hear.
Speaker 2: What you got to say.
Speaker 5: Well, I'll start off. I'm gonna go out a limb
Speaker 5: and go with the Red Wings. Dylan Larkin in his
Speaker 5: post git postseason press conference, said that the team didn't
Speaker 5: gain any momentum at the trade deadline. They got Peter
Speaker 5: Mrazag and Craig Smith. They can't. I can't remember who
Speaker 5: they traded away. I think I'm guessing I'm trying to
Speaker 5: remember Joe Villento. But yep, yep, that's what I thought.
Speaker 5: But Dylan Larkin is such a whiny little boy that
Speaker 5: he complains too much. He argues it with the officials
Speaker 5: too many times. He throws fits on the ice. He's
Speaker 5: a good player. But Todd McClellan is a is a
Speaker 5: good and critical head coach. It's about time the Red
Speaker 5: Wings finally have a critical head coach. Todd McClellan is
Speaker 5: way better than Derek Lelloane, hands down. Derek Lloane goes
Speaker 5: to Toronto and with the Maple Leaves as an assistant coach,
Speaker 5: took to try to reload the ropes of what it
Speaker 5: means to be a hit to be an aggressive head coach.
Speaker 5: But like Craig Beruby, for example, But Todd McClellan is
Speaker 5: something the Red Wings needed, and he criticized the team
Speaker 5: for the lack of toughness during their March April slunt
Speaker 5: that really just just tornado. The Red Wings way out
Speaker 5: of the playoff. The Stanley Cup playoff picture, and Tom
Speaker 5: McClellan is right, of course, the Red Wings have to
Speaker 5: have to play a lot tougher. They have to be
Speaker 5: more more aggressive on offense rather than on defense. They
Speaker 5: can't just keep you know, they can't just keep settling
Speaker 5: for just just minimal amounts of shots on goal per
Speaker 5: game and rather just get out shot like most of
Speaker 5: the like most of their games, that is not even
Speaker 5: nearly good enough. Todd McClelland knows that this team needs
Speaker 5: to be better than it was with Derek Lamon as
Speaker 5: head coach. The minor league head coaching crap is done.
Speaker 5: It's time to beef up in the NHL. Be a
Speaker 5: freaking man, for god's sake, play effing hockey.
Speaker 6: Well, speaking of Red Wings, we just got the go
Speaker 6: ahead Oiler's goal from Jake Wallman or unanswered goals from
Speaker 6: the Oilers. That's Florida. That's not a good look for
Speaker 6: you at all.
Speaker 5: Wow, but gritty, I did.
Speaker 3: I was kind of expecting.
Speaker 2: That somebody just said, be a man. You're that's pretty
Speaker 2: be a man. No, I know, I know who's That's fantastic.
Speaker 2: I love it. Somebody just got fried.
Speaker 5: Of course, yes, I fry the red wings. I deep
Speaker 5: fray the red wings for you, JD.
Speaker 2: I appreciate it.
Speaker 4: Man, Hey, give me some buffalo and some blue cheese,
Speaker 4: my friend.
Speaker 5: How about chipotle? Huh?
Speaker 2: Hey? The only thing I don't like eating is crow.
Speaker 4: I'll fry up anything else, but I will occasionally fry
Speaker 4: up my crow.
Speaker 2: Oh my, well, well, just when I'm wrong is what
Speaker 2: I meant.
Speaker 5: Taylor Gottley, Right, but anyway, it's anybody. Stanley Cup final
Speaker 5: this year.
Speaker 2: Edmonton leading four to three.
Speaker 5: Yep, I saw that. Yeah, thank you for the update, Michael, Michaelangelo.
Speaker 5: What kind of oil? Taip? How about olive oil? Gordon
Speaker 5: Ramsey uses that for cooking with his hexclad pans nowadays,
Speaker 5: but he always uses olive oil for cooking.
Speaker 4: I say, Candy, you better speak up or I'm about
Speaker 4: to take us down a rabbit hole.
Speaker 2: So you there, go ahead.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, well, we've kind of talked about
Speaker 1: my Brewers, we talked about we talked about Packers. They
Speaker 1: released cornerback Jay y or Alexander, And obviously I live
Speaker 1: where that's where I grew up. Where I live now.
Speaker 1: The Panthers are playing and they're playing. We were talking
Speaker 1: about this before the before the show that they I
Speaker 1: literally live within fourteen miles of the stadium where they're playing.
Speaker 1: So but hey, there's a reason why we play the game.
Speaker 1: Whether you think, whether you think you know who's gonna win,
Speaker 1: or whether you're rooting for one, you never know. That's
Speaker 1: why they play the game. Indeed, with that being said,
Speaker 1: we're going to go around the room and you're gonna
Speaker 1: let everybody know how people can get a hold of you.
Speaker 1: We'll start out with.
Speaker 6: Mike email, m w H I t A K two
Speaker 6: at emish dot e du and then once again, my
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Speaker 3: Appreciate the follows and we'll talk to you guys the
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Speaker 1: Mister Southern.
Speaker 2: And first of all, shout out to Michael. I just
Speaker 2: looked you up.
Speaker 4: Apparently we already follow each other, so we're good to
Speaker 4: go there. I'm sorry I said I.
Speaker 3: Didn't know you.
Speaker 2: That's my bat, No problem.
Speaker 4: Do I do know you now, Taylor and Michael. It
Speaker 4: has been an absolute pleasure. Y'all can find me at
Speaker 4: Southern Fried Sports JD on YouTube at j D Wyatt
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Speaker 2: The network.
Speaker 4: I don't know if it's the same Sideline Sports as
Speaker 4: samear sorry, but yeah, I cover some etsu stuff. Listen,
Speaker 4: I cover all the sports. I want all of the opinions,
Speaker 4: and I love all of the interaction, especially with Taylor,
Speaker 4: Michael Candy. Don't forget South Florida Tribune and your Southern
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Speaker 2: Hey, listen, you know I've already cooked up people. Sorry
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Speaker 1: Listen, I saw that we.
Speaker 2: Want it, we want it, but nobody in here was
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Speaker 4: Good, But just a general warning, correct, you will mess
Speaker 4: around and get burnt.
Speaker 1: Okay, we love you guys bringing up topics that we're
Speaker 1: talking about or your opinions about the topics we're talking
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Speaker 1: when we have to take matters into our own hands.
Speaker 1: So with that being said, I want to thank everybody
Speaker 1: for tuning in tonight. I will I will say this.
Speaker 1: I'm not exactly sure if we're going to have a
Speaker 1: fire up next week. I leave for a European cruise
Speaker 1: the day after that, but we were probably and we
Speaker 1: are gonna still have programming on I think JD. I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's Steven contacted you or not, but
Speaker 1: he's talking about running it with you or so that
Speaker 1: the two weeks that were gone.
Speaker 4: So yeah, yeah, we'll talk about it. And as you know,
Speaker 4: they are in capable hands. I hope you trust me,
Speaker 4: of course.
Speaker 2: But yeah, well, if nothing else, we will be live
Speaker 2: one way or another with with Steve and I.
Speaker 4: I think we'll be live from South Florida, but I'll
Speaker 4: try to push out content regardless.
Speaker 2: But yeah, Candy, you and I we'll talk about that
Speaker 2: after the show.
Speaker 1: I was ye and Kane, Yes, you can still be
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Speaker 4: They had a hilarious They all went back and forth
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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, they've been good. They've been good. So with
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Speaker 2: Thanks everybody, Bang bang it'll line yeah,