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Speaker 2: Rock the Bank, Rock the KASBA. The Magic were rocking
Speaker 2: the Kia Center last night, last game before the All
Speaker 2: Star Break. They put the clamps on the tanking injury
Speaker 2: plague Charlotte Hornets. Magic win one oh two to eighty six.
Speaker 2: Plo Bancaro led the Magic. He had twenty four points,
Speaker 2: eight rebound, six assists. Anthony Black comes off the bench,
Speaker 2: scores eighteen on eight of thirteen shooting from the floor
Speaker 2: at the fronze eight, Franz Wagner at sixteen point seven rebounds,
Speaker 2: and the Magic. You know, obviously they should beat the
Speaker 2: Charlotte Horners, who I just mentioned are injured and tanking.
Speaker 2: But when you look at what's going on, the Magic
Speaker 2: have jumped ahead of the Heat and the Hawks. They're
Speaker 2: now on the seventh spot. They go into the All
Speaker 2: Star Break with wins in three of their last five games.
Speaker 2: Not spectacular, but still playing better. Jalen Suggs is expected
Speaker 2: to be back after the All Star break, and the
Speaker 2: Magic have one of the more favorable schedules following the break.
Speaker 2: I believe everything is set up for the Magic to
Speaker 2: be a five or a six seed. I don't think
Speaker 2: they're gonna get to a four, which would give them
Speaker 2: home court advantage in the first round of the playoffs.
Speaker 2: But I still think the Magic can make a run
Speaker 2: after the break and be in decent playoff position.
Speaker 1: There you go, See that's the glass how full I
Speaker 1: want to hear because I was telling Pat the same thing.
Speaker 1: We're going in the break coming off a winy bad
Speaker 1: win good and he wins a win and then you
Speaker 1: get sugs when you come back.
Speaker 3: Bull dog. How was media day out at Daytona International
Speaker 3: Speedway yesterday?
Speaker 2: Obviously all the drivers were there discussing the issues of NASCAR.
Speaker 2: Talked to your boy Kyle Busch for a little bit.
Speaker 2: Jimmy Johnson was there. He's he's a little po that
Speaker 2: he has to qualify for the race. Whereas we talked
Speaker 2: about this the other day, Helio Castrodevez he gets sort
Speaker 2: of an exemption into the race on this new international
Speaker 2: exemption rule that NASCAR has, But Jimmy Johnson said, he
Speaker 2: says he expects to qualify for the race. Uh, the one.
Speaker 2: The one guy talked to Denny Hamlin, who of course
Speaker 2: has won the race three times. He owns you know,
Speaker 2: he owns half that race team with Michael Jordan. He
Speaker 2: sort of called out his driver, Bubba Wallace yesterday and said, hey, Bubba,
Speaker 2: you know runs well for you know, seven eight, ten
Speaker 2: races and then he just sort of loses it. He
Speaker 2: needs to be working insistent this year. I think Bubba's
Speaker 2: sort of on a hot seat this year for that race.
Speaker 1: Team camp finished well.
Speaker 3: The front row is set after last night. Chase Briscoe
Speaker 3: will be on the poll and then Austin Sindrick will
Speaker 3: join them on the front row.
Speaker 2: Cool. Cool.
Speaker 3: Then the duels the duels this evening to set the
Speaker 3: rest of the field.
Speaker 2: The duels are tonight. I'm curious that there was a
Speaker 2: lot of talk yesterday a lot of the reporters, not me,
Speaker 2: but some of the reporters were asking about you know,
Speaker 2: asking the drivers about the you know, the state of NASCAR.
Speaker 2: You know, TV ratings are still a concern. Fan interest
Speaker 2: are still a concern, and I don't know, I don't
Speaker 2: know what nascars to do. I mean their races or
Speaker 2: their races. Maybe there's too many of them, maybe some
Speaker 2: of them are too long. Is there anything NASCAR can
Speaker 2: do to increase the TV ratings or the fan interest?
Speaker 2: I mean, you guys follow the sport. I was trying
Speaker 2: to think, like, what could they do?
Speaker 1: Pad?
Speaker 3: I think the season is too long, I really do,
Speaker 3: you know. I know the hardcore fans love it, but
Speaker 3: you know, those who are more casual, Yeah, you might
Speaker 3: be hooked for the first few weeks and then you
Speaker 3: kind of go away and then you may not even
Speaker 3: come back until it gets, you know, into the tail
Speaker 3: end of the season.
Speaker 1: Short.
Speaker 2: I was, I was thinking about this. I was talking
Speaker 2: to Joey Logano yesterday. Joey Logano, who's won three championships,
Speaker 2: he's a defending champion.
Speaker 3: You didn't stare at his hair, did you?
Speaker 2: No? He had he had his head on. I was
Speaker 2: gonna ask him about his hair, but I didn't.
Speaker 3: That was the dog bite.
Speaker 1: I was looking for. I said to Pat yesterday, I go,
Speaker 1: I hope he asked the hard hitting questions out there
Speaker 1: of media day and we get a dog bite that
Speaker 1: would have been the one.
Speaker 2: What did you ask him? No, I was I was
Speaker 2: gonna make an observation that, you know, he's a three
Speaker 2: time champion, the ending champion. I think most most fans
Speaker 2: don't know that much about Joey legana. I think NASCAR
Speaker 2: is one of their issues is they don't really have
Speaker 2: a transcendent star, you know what I mean, the guy
Speaker 2: who sort of transcends the sport, like Kyle Busch is
Speaker 2: sort of falling off. He's not really a factor that
Speaker 2: much anymore.
Speaker 1: He's one of the old guys now, I see what
Speaker 1: he's saying. Though, you know, like there's a face for basketball,
Speaker 1: there's a face.
Speaker 2: Do you guys know Joey Legan Like I probably could
Speaker 2: have asked Taco Bob who won the title last year
Speaker 2: and he wouldn't have known it was Joey Lagana, right,
Speaker 2: tak You're correct.
Speaker 3: Joe Joey lived at the Atlanta uh Speedway for a while.
Speaker 2: He did.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, what was their reasoning when when he was
Speaker 1: just getting into the race.
Speaker 3: His family like moved down there and that's where he
Speaker 3: you know, he built built things up from there and
Speaker 3: away he went. I think it was Atlanta anyway. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I thought lived in the speedy He lived at the speedway.
Speaker 3: Like yeah, Baker Mayfield, Hey, real quick?
Speaker 1: Is Baker moving back into Tampa to the to the
Speaker 1: stadium again his old commercials? Those are the best, dude.
Speaker 2: Speaking of press conferences, Scott Frost held a press conference.
Speaker 2: Emerged from a ten week just workfest where he had
Speaker 2: the name of coaching staff, had to brought in like
Speaker 2: forty new players via the transfer portal and high school
Speaker 2: recruiting again, hired a coaching staff. It's gonna be interesting
Speaker 2: to see how this team pans out in the first year.
Speaker 2: I hope fans are gonna give Scott Frost a little
Speaker 2: bit of patience and a little.
Speaker 3: Bit you have to you have to.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gonna be a process. I mean, he took
Speaker 2: over a program. The reason Gus Malzon bailed is because
Speaker 2: he knew it wasn't gonna be fixed in one year.
Speaker 2: So we'll see what happens.
Speaker 3: Hold talk, have you been following the four Nations face off?
Speaker 3: The opening game was last night it's Canada took care
Speaker 3: of Sweden in a four to three.
Speaker 2: Fold Which sport are we talking about?
Speaker 1: I don't play.
Speaker 3: Tonight, the United States opens up their four Nations face
Speaker 3: off against Finland bull dog?
Speaker 2: Is this is this the NHL?
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're on break while they do this four Nations
Speaker 3: face off tournament.
Speaker 2: And I thought while they're on break, like, is that
Speaker 2: they're All Star game?
Speaker 3: Now? No, this is this is an inaugural thing here,
Speaker 3: and uh, it's interesting. I get the players representing these
Speaker 3: four nations and it's for bragging rights.
Speaker 2: But this is in replacing their All Star game that
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: I know this is.
Speaker 2: They don't they don't have an All Star game, right, Well.
Speaker 3: They had the the three on three stuff for years, right.
Speaker 2: Lens, I'm asking you, I don't know.
Speaker 3: That's a good question.
Speaker 2: I don't follow this.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know the answer to that.
Speaker 2: But this is it's actually not a bad idea in
Speaker 2: place of the All Star Game. In fact, I think
Speaker 2: the NBA should do the same thing. I think the
Speaker 2: NBA should have the sort of like the Rider, the
Speaker 2: American NBA All Stars against the International NBA All Stars.
Speaker 2: Interesting that would create some interest, all.
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