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 jrr's.
Speaker 2: Trying to find two words that I think will probably
Speaker 2: describe the bulldog out of the gate this morning, and
Speaker 2: I settled on cocky confidence. Yes, you know what we do?
Speaker 2: You know what? You know what my Panthers do.
Speaker 3: They go if they are the worst house guests in
Speaker 3: the world, all right, they go into the other team's house.
Speaker 3: They wipe their muddy boots on the white carpet, They
Speaker 3: smoke cigarettes on the couch, They eat all your stuff.
Speaker 3: They leave wet towels and dirty dishes all over the place.
Speaker 3: That's what they did last night. That's what they did
Speaker 3: last night. They go into Carolina and whoop the Hurricanes.
Speaker 2: Five to two. It wasn't even that close.
Speaker 3: Game one, Eastern Conference Finals, Game seven of these semifinals.
Speaker 3: They go up to Toronto in Game seven and blow
Speaker 3: them out, and then they blew out the Hurricanes last night. Lynch,
Speaker 3: this is this is gonna be. This is gonna be
Speaker 3: at least a gentleman's sweep.
Speaker 2: Well, color me and press because Raleigh is that building
Speaker 2: there is probably the toughest place to play in the
Speaker 2: entire league this year.
Speaker 3: There were five and oh at home in the playoffs
Speaker 3: prior to last night.
Speaker 1: I like the fact that his bad house guest smokes
Speaker 1: cigarettes on the couch.
Speaker 3: I mean he probably gets some hockey clashes and put
Speaker 3: the butt out on the cushions.
Speaker 2: He's what they did. Probably still got a few hockey
Speaker 2: players smoking the butts. Oh yeah, you know what.
Speaker 3: They're old school, just like the quarterbacks used to do
Speaker 3: in the NFL. They used to smoke cigarettes on the
Speaker 3: sideline baseball too, Right, the Panthers win last night. They're
Speaker 3: up one oh in the NBA. Oklahoma City blew out
Speaker 3: Minnesota last night. Shay Gildess Alexander who will soon be
Speaker 3: the MVP of the league when that gets named in
Speaker 3: a couple of days. He scored thirty one points. Twenty
Speaker 3: of those came in the second half, one fourteen to
Speaker 3: eighty eight. I'll tell you what Oklahoma City is scary.
Speaker 3: They're the youngest team in the league. They're also the
Speaker 3: best defensive team in the league and it's not even close.
Speaker 3: And it's very rare to have a team that young,
Speaker 3: committed and playing hard on defense. Night in in night
Speaker 3: out in Oklahoma City? Does that this is a this
Speaker 3: is a possible dynasty in the making. So NBA Eastern
Speaker 3: Conference Finals begin tonight, Knicks against the Yankees. By the
Speaker 3: way back to the NHL Edmonton in Dallas. Yes, what
Speaker 3: did that say? The Pacers and the Knicks matchup. Yeah,
Speaker 3: the Pacers and the Knicks, not the Yankees. The Pacers
Speaker 3: and the Knicks will play tonight in in Hockey Edmonton
Speaker 3: in Dallas. Open up the Western Conference Finals tonight as well.
Speaker 3: Did you guys see the ratings for the Caitlyn Clark
Speaker 3: Angel Reese game on Saturday night WNBA rating that drew
Speaker 3: an average two point seven million viewers on ABC. It
Speaker 3: was the most watched WNBA regular season game in twenty
Speaker 3: five years. It out drew ESPN by the way. On
Speaker 3: Sunday had the best Sunday Night baseball audience it's ever
Speaker 3: had with the Mets playing the Yankees. All right, two
Speaker 3: point five to three million. The WNBA outdrew that.
Speaker 2: How would how would that number compare to say, the
Speaker 2: PGA Championship that was going on that day? What did
Speaker 2: the PGA Championship get that day?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I'm asking you I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 3: I'll have to look that up, but it out drew
Speaker 3: the biggest Sunday night baseball game ESPNS ever had. I'll
Speaker 3: make a Bowl prediction here, if Caitlyn Clark in the
Speaker 3: Indiana Fever or in the WNBA Finals, it might get
Speaker 3: a higher number than the NBA Finals.
Speaker 2: What about that? No, No, I don't know. I'm just
Speaker 2: saying it's a possibility. But we'll see.
Speaker 1: It's a possibility if those if lame Ducks team lame
Speaker 1: Ducks teams are.
Speaker 2: In the in the NBA finals.
Speaker 3: You mean like like we may have this year with
Speaker 3: Indiana and Minnesota.
Speaker 2: I want to call Ducks that you made it to
Speaker 2: the finals, not big markets.
Speaker 3: You said, yeah, he's talking about like NBA New York
Speaker 3: and mid mid majors, mid majors.
Speaker 2: Hey, we brought it up yesterday and I think we
Speaker 2: got some answers. Uh. Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings on
Speaker 2: his attitude towards this baseball stadium. Did you read that coverage?
Speaker 3: I've tried to interview Jerry Demmings about this and he
Speaker 3: doesn't really want to be interviewed, at least by me.
Speaker 2: What did he say a couple comments yesterday. First is
Speaker 2: he's he needs to be convinced that this will be
Speaker 2: something that benefits the Orange County taxpayers slash citizens. He
Speaker 2: also said he's not inclined to be donating any kind
Speaker 2: of county land to billionaires to build a stadium.
Speaker 1: So there you have it, so maybe a bone to pick.
Speaker 1: Let's do us some investors.
Speaker 2: So he I mean, he hasn't poop pooed the idea.
Speaker 2: I think he's just saying, look, let's let's have our
Speaker 2: ducks in a row here. Make sure there is a
Speaker 2: team coming before there's any stadium, you know, put up
Speaker 2: on any land, period. And once the stadium does go up,
Speaker 2: perhaps the billionaire investors should be the ones paying the
Speaker 2: county for the land rather than just receiving a donation.
Speaker 3: They have to do their due diligence. It is a negotiation.
Speaker 3: So it's probably not smart for him to just come
Speaker 3: out and say, hey, yeah, let's whatever they need, we'll.
Speaker 2: Give it to him.
Speaker 3: It's probably smart on his part. We don't know if
Speaker 3: the Rays are actually leaving Tampa, so we'll see what happens.
Speaker 3: But you know, I don't blame Jerry Demis for wanting
Speaker 3: to drive a hard bargain.
Speaker 2: He should it is.
Speaker 3: It is. It's not our tax money, but it's tourist
Speaker 3: tax money. And here's the other thing. There's a lot
Speaker 3: of stuff going on in Tallahassee right now about how
Speaker 3: that tourist tax is going to be legislated. There's taught
Speaker 3: that the Orange County tourist tax could just go in
Speaker 3: a general state fund, which Orange County is freaking out
Speaker 3: about that. They don't want it to go into a
Speaker 3: general state fund, which is what some of the politicians
Speaker 3: up in Tallahassee wants. So there's a big to do
Speaker 3: right now about how the tourist tax is going to
Speaker 3: be dispersed in the future. So I'm sure they're waiting
Speaker 3: for that as well.
Speaker 2: Hey, waiting on the Tush push vote today. That happened today.
Speaker 2: It could.
Speaker 3: In fact, there's going to be a vote today on
Speaker 3: the Tush push.
Speaker 2: The Tush push.
Speaker 3: There will be more fans, more sports fans today talking
Speaker 3: about the Tush push. Then the NBA playoffs, the Stanley
Speaker 3: Cup playoffs, the w NBA TV ratings, any other story
Speaker 3: in sports. The Tush push will uh, it will pale
Speaker 3: in comparison.
Speaker 2: It's now turned into a uh the tush push slash
Speaker 2: pull play. That that's you know, the revamped votes just.
Speaker 3: Push and pull play. Yeah, yeah, I don't know what
Speaker 3: I'm more tired of. Whether the tush push should be banned?
Speaker 3: Should Pete Rose be in the Hall of Fame? Is
Speaker 3: Nil ruining college football? Some of these stories. Some of
Speaker 3: these storylines just get old to me.
Speaker 2: I agree. He is Mike the Bulldog byankey host of
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