Speaker 1: He's an open Mic is it in the Zone. Maybe
Speaker 1: fit's a little bit of both.
Speaker 2: I don't know about you, but I'm just so excited
Speaker 2: they're back together.
Speaker 1: Oh thank god, here's bank Pin Kravits with the crossover.
Speaker 1: The crossover is off and running.
Speaker 2: And anytime I get it, fans to chop it up
Speaker 2: with this tie ride.
Speaker 3: Here.
Speaker 1: My day and my week is better for it.
Speaker 2: And no it's not Mike Yankey this week my former
Speaker 2: co host Stefan, the People's Champ.
Speaker 3: What's happening baby? How you doing man?
Speaker 1: I'm doing great.
Speaker 3: I'm feeling good.
Speaker 1: I'm excited to get into the fourth of July weekend.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be an extended one for us on in
Speaker 1: the Zone.
Speaker 2: The thing I have to ask you first and foremost
Speaker 2: is are you gonna yell at me about candy again?
Speaker 4: Oh my god, Brandon Grabbits, I am. And so it's
Speaker 4: And the most fun part about that whole thing was
Speaker 4: that we literally end up doing half the show about candy,
Speaker 4: so much show that I renamed open Mic to the
Speaker 4: Candy Bar Podcast because we just talked about candy, and
Speaker 4: every time I wanted to talk about something else serious,
Speaker 4: somebody would say something outrages that I'd be like, what
Speaker 4: are you kidding me? That's disgusting, Why would you even
Speaker 4: eat that? So it was great, It was great. My
Speaker 4: Milky Way is what I heard, right, I heard Midnight.
Speaker 2: Milky Way midnight. It's not that the Milky Way is
Speaker 2: a mid candy bar.
Speaker 3: I want you to know this morning listener.
Speaker 1: Definition to h D when you bring in the dark chocolate.
Speaker 4: No, it's like going from mud on your shoe to
Speaker 4: sand in the car. That's what it's like. I want
Speaker 4: you to know. Morning listeners were dragging you for even
Speaker 4: considering Micky Way as a top anything.
Speaker 3: But I haven't tried it.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go check it out, even though Milky Way
Speaker 4: is disgusting, so I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't have any expectations. I do like dark chocolate.
Speaker 1: You're gonna love this.
Speaker 2: Please give me a full review at any time, and
Speaker 2: then if it's positive, I'm gonna post stood on the
Speaker 2: Zone DS group page.
Speaker 1: If it's negative, I'm gonna delete the text message.
Speaker 2: I was wondering if there is a candy bar podcast
Speaker 2: out there, because there could be a market for this,
Speaker 2: you know, Yeah, there's a podcast for just about everything
Speaker 2: these days. But candy bars are pretty popular. It looks
Speaker 2: like there is a candy bar podcast, but it hasn't
Speaker 2: been updated since twenty twenty two. Their last episode was
Speaker 2: Nutrageous Versus Chocolatey pay Day.
Speaker 3: Okay, I love.
Speaker 4: That that was their last episode because I as a
Speaker 4: fan of the Payday. When they release the Chocolate pay Day,
Speaker 4: I was super excited and then I tasted it and
Speaker 4: it was terrible.
Speaker 3: It was terrible, and I was so upset and disappointed.
Speaker 3: It was awful. So we might have our broadcast.
Speaker 4: So you know, we've we've been talking about everything that's
Speaker 4: happening with the Magic and all of these other teams.
Speaker 4: And one of the things I said on the air
Speaker 4: the other day is that watching what's going on with
Speaker 4: these other teams, especially after Dan Lillard got released, right
Speaker 4: and now you've got DeAndre Ayden moving over into the
Speaker 4: to the Lakers and all this kind of stuff, And
Speaker 4: I'm like, this makes me feel so comfortable as a
Speaker 4: Magic fan, right like, because I know that my team
Speaker 4: is not going to participate in any of that level
Speaker 4: of drama. I know we're solid, we have a foundation,
Speaker 4: we know where we're going, our all of our fans
Speaker 4: know what to expect right, some of those expecs expectations
Speaker 4: a little high, some of those expectations a little low.
Speaker 3: We all know what to expect.
Speaker 4: Out of this next season, and even out of the
Speaker 4: rest of the off season, nobody's like, oh my god,
Speaker 4: are they going to deal Palo? Right, And so it
Speaker 4: made me feel very comfortable as a Magic fan, But
Speaker 4: it also made me wonder, is there anybody that's untouchable
Speaker 4: when you've got Luca being traded and Dane being released?
Speaker 4: Is there anybody that's untouchable in the NBA?
Speaker 2: Uh, Victor wenbin Yama is probably pretty untouchable. I think
Speaker 2: Yephirs would hang up on you rather quickly that it
Speaker 2: seems like Denver they've reloaded around Nikola Jokic, Yeah, a
Speaker 2: good reason, some multi time MVP. I'm thinking they wouldn't
Speaker 2: even entertain a phone call on that anybody else.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think Palo is untouchable.
Speaker 3: Ish Ish exactly ish.
Speaker 2: In in today's NBA world, everybody for the most part,
Speaker 2: you're taking the calls at shake Gill, just Alexander, There's
Speaker 2: no way in Oklahoma City would entertain that conversation. But
Speaker 2: the list is really short, it is, and I am
Speaker 2: proud of the way the Magic have built this team.
Speaker 2: It's taken time. I would use the analogy of it's
Speaker 2: like the difference you look at teams like the Lakers,
Speaker 2: the way that they're operating the Knicks versus the Magic,
Speaker 2: who are a couple of stages behind where OKAC is.
Speaker 2: But it's the same sort of path. Yeah, build from within,
Speaker 2: you add pieces here and there. It's defense, it's culture,
Speaker 2: it's you know, or organic, if you want to use
Speaker 2: that word.
Speaker 1: It's the difference between renting and owning a.
Speaker 3: Home, right, that's what exacts like, Yeah, you're.
Speaker 1: Just constantly that lease is constantly coming up, and.
Speaker 2: You're in scramble mode and you're probably overpaying, and rent
Speaker 2: prices are high versus it's patient and it's boring. But
Speaker 2: when it's time to catch in the chips, all of
Speaker 2: a sudden, you're sitting on some real equity and it
Speaker 2: feels like that's what the that's the world that the
Speaker 2: Magic are living in. Yeah, you patient fans have hated
Speaker 2: the process, but I think right now you're seeing the payoff.
Speaker 3: Exactly.
Speaker 2: If this doesn't even if for whatever reason, next year
Speaker 2: is a disaster, the Magic could pivot they.
Speaker 4: Can pivot these.
Speaker 2: Other teams, Like if forty year old Lebron doesn't work
Speaker 2: for the Lakers, they're kind of screwed for a couple.
Speaker 3: Of years, exactly.
Speaker 4: And that's the thing I love about what I'm looking
Speaker 4: at at with the Magic organization. And it's funny because
Speaker 4: when we first brought these guys in into the front office,
Speaker 4: that's what we were work wanting, right, that's what we
Speaker 4: were expecting that they were going to take their time
Speaker 4: and they were going to build a franchise, not just
Speaker 4: a team, right. And then a lot of people got
Speaker 4: like you said, they got anc they got frustrated, They
Speaker 4: tried to get what's where's the team? Where's the team?
Speaker 4: And now you can see, here's where the team is,
Speaker 4: and there's a franchise behind the team, there's a culture
Speaker 4: behind the team. The only thing left to do is
Speaker 4: to win. That's all that's.
Speaker 3: Left is to do the winning. That's something that's the
Speaker 3: hardest part.
Speaker 2: But well, yes, very much self so, I don't want
Speaker 2: to pencil them in just yet. It makes me uncomfortable
Speaker 2: how confident everybody is that this team is just going
Speaker 2: to march to the Eastern Conference finals.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's going to be quite that easy.
Speaker 4: And for me it was what it was a thing
Speaker 4: where it's like, okay, so as the guy who routinely
Speaker 4: over sells what the Magic are going to do. Now
Speaker 4: now I'm listening, I gotta peel it back. I'm listening
Speaker 4: to everybody else, and I'm like, slow it down. Wait
Speaker 4: a minute. It's not Eastern Conference Finals or bust for
Speaker 4: this team. You gotta chill on that a little bit.
Speaker 4: It's we expect the second rounte, we expect second round
Speaker 4: in the playoffs. I expect to be fighting for Eastern
Speaker 4: Conference Finals.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 4: I won a five game, seven game series if it's
Speaker 4: five games for US or seven games against them, right,
Speaker 4: But you got to chill on that. We're automatically in
Speaker 4: the ECF just because everybody's hurt. Like it's a long
Speaker 4: season still in the.
Speaker 1: NBA, last one for me.
Speaker 2: You guys spoke a lot about soccer this week on
Speaker 2: Open Mic, So golf clap to you. Given the people
Speaker 2: what they want. I think maybe I never know what
Speaker 2: to make of this sport. Do you feel like the
Speaker 2: love for the sport of soccer amongst Americans in this
Speaker 2: city of Orlando has risen decreased or leveled out over
Speaker 2: the last ten years has.
Speaker 1: Been kind of the.
Speaker 2: The soccer era, if you will, in Orlando, and I
Speaker 2: still cannot get a read on how how a general
Speaker 2: public feels about this sport at.
Speaker 3: A professional level.
Speaker 4: I would have to say leveled out, like there was
Speaker 4: a moment where there was a spike, right And even
Speaker 4: this is before MLS. Before MLS, I sometimes feel like
Speaker 4: before MLS it was way more popular than it is now.
Speaker 4: But I see the popularity has increased, but I also
Speaker 4: see that it decreased a little bit, and it's leveled
Speaker 4: out to where the regular everyday person in Orlando who's
Speaker 4: not paying attention to sports, not paying any attention to
Speaker 4: Orlando City soccer, not paying any intention to the Pride.
Speaker 4: Maybe their company had a Hey, whoever makes the most
Speaker 4: sales today gets two tickets or four tickets for their
Speaker 4: family or something like that, and they go to a
Speaker 4: match here and there, and they feel the atmosphere, they
Speaker 4: think it's cool, they think it's off them, but it's
Speaker 4: one of those Hey, I did this thing in my
Speaker 4: city one time and it was really fun, and they're
Speaker 4: not becoming season ticket holders, right. Well, then you have
Speaker 4: the people that love the sport, that are routinely filling
Speaker 4: the stadium, and there's stragglers here and there, but I
Speaker 4: really believe that it's a level out space. If I
Speaker 4: had to put on a scale of one to ten
Speaker 4: and ten being this is the sport we care about
Speaker 4: in the city and one being like we don't pay
Speaker 4: it any attention at all, I'd put Orlando City Soccer
Speaker 4: probably around a four. I wouldn't even give it a
Speaker 4: six yet, because it just has moments. It has spurts
Speaker 4: and moments where it's like, oh, look what happened. And
Speaker 4: somebody on the show the other day said it greatly.
Speaker 4: They said, you know, the Pride are national champions, and
Speaker 4: we give them, we don't pay them any attention.
Speaker 3: What's it's And it is crazy.
Speaker 2: It's a disservice to them that we don't pay more
Speaker 2: attention to that. It feels to me like this Apple
Speaker 2: TV deal is one of the worst things that MLS
Speaker 2: could have ever done. It was a cash crab for them,
Speaker 2: in my opinion, and I have no numbers to back
Speaker 2: this up. This is just the feeling that I get
Speaker 2: Orlando City fans. You can count all of them. They
Speaker 2: all go to the games. If you don't go to
Speaker 2: the games, you probably don't watch them at home.
Speaker 4: Oh I'm positive, If I'm positive, you do not watch
Speaker 4: them at home. Like I think it would have been
Speaker 4: better if they had a spot on the CW then
Speaker 4: being on Apple TV, because at least somebody could stumble
Speaker 4: across them at some point in time, you know. And
Speaker 4: Apple TV is already not the most popular streaming platform
Speaker 4: out there. So now you got what could be considered
Speaker 4: a fringe streaming platform with a fringe sport that have
Speaker 4: all mixed together to try to see if we're going
Speaker 4: to become the next big thing. And it's like, that's
Speaker 4: not how it happens.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this isn't raw moving to Netflix, you know, not
Speaker 2: at all. You were already still in a in a
Speaker 2: phase where you wanted people to find your sport and
Speaker 2: then you hit it like it's like we're playing hide
Speaker 2: and seek with soccer right in this country.
Speaker 3: All right.
Speaker 4: So we did a thing the other day where we said, hey,
Speaker 4: what is your expectation for your team? Right your NFL team?
Speaker 4: You we all yet not get back up, come on back.
Speaker 4: We all tend to at the beginning of the season
Speaker 4: think a little highly of our our teams. Unless our
Speaker 4: team is expected to do very well, then we try
Speaker 4: to try to bring the expectation down a little bit
Speaker 4: so that we're not so disappointed. Right, And so the
Speaker 4: question was then, so, thinking about your team for next season,
Speaker 4: what is your expectations for your team? So, Kravitz, as
Speaker 4: a Dolphins fan, I've tried to get you to convert
Speaker 4: numerous times. You apparently appreciate the pain. So as a
Speaker 4: Dolphins fan, what is your expectation for the Dolphins next season?
Speaker 1: I'm a loyal guy, Steffan. I don't know what I
Speaker 1: know you.
Speaker 3: I don't know the best qualities of you that well.
Speaker 1: Thank you, I appreciate that. I think.
Speaker 2: If Josh Allen tears his ACL, I think the Dolphins
Speaker 2: can win the AFC East. If that doesn't happen, I
Speaker 2: think most likely they hover around. You can't go exactly
Speaker 2: five hundred and a seventeen game schedule right anymore. So
Speaker 2: I think they win eight or nine games and they
Speaker 2: probably just miss out on the playoffs. I think this
Speaker 2: team's gonna be decent. Their schedule is pretty light. It's
Speaker 2: relatively speaking, as light as an NFL schedule can be.
Speaker 2: Because everybody's kind of tough in their own way. And
Speaker 2: you also don't know what the back end of the
Speaker 2: schedule looks like and what these teams are gonna be.
Speaker 2: But you know when you have you start the year
Speaker 2: with the Indianapolis and the Patriots, and the Jets and
Speaker 2: the Panthers, you get the Falcons and the Browns in
Speaker 2: there on the schedule. There are a lot of winnable
Speaker 2: games on this schedule, but there's just not a lot
Speaker 2: to be confident about right now. I don't feel like
Speaker 2: the team made any improvements in the offseason. They just
Speaker 2: looked at an average roster, moved off of an old
Speaker 2: piece in Jalen Ramsey, exchanged him for another relic in
Speaker 2: Minka Fitzpatrick, and they're just like, we're just gonna see
Speaker 2: if we can win with the group that we didn't
Speaker 2: win with last year.
Speaker 1: It doesn't inspire a lot of confidence.
Speaker 2: But based on the schedule, if if tuas you can't
Speaker 2: break down the Dolphins without saying the words if two
Speaker 2: is healthy.
Speaker 3: You cannot. I'm glad you put it in there.
Speaker 2: I think when he's on the field, he has gotten
Speaker 2: a lot better as a quarterback in the NFL, which
Speaker 2: is he's so valuable to this team. I think Tua
Speaker 2: can win games, especially in September. He can win football games.
Speaker 2: But to say that my expectations are high would would
Speaker 2: be a lie. So a typical eight and nine season
Speaker 2: for the Miami Dolphins. Let's let's strap in and get ready.
Speaker 2: We got an exciting ahead of us this year.
Speaker 4: Listen, I'll give you nine to eight, ten and seven, right.
Speaker 4: I think there's gonna be some surprise wins there. But
Speaker 4: I also, like you said, is Tua gonna stay healthy?
Speaker 4: What's gonna happen with your defense?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 4: Is your O line going to be able to stay
Speaker 4: staying consistent throughout the course of the season. And then
Speaker 4: on top of that, I look at Mike McDaniel when
Speaker 4: I say, we went from looking at you as the genius,
Speaker 4: the new genius of the NFL to kind of back
Speaker 4: to not buffoon status. But it's kind of like, oh now,
Speaker 4: now what? So it'll be very interesting to watch, especially
Speaker 4: as a Dolphins fan. For you, I don't have to
Speaker 4: worry about all that as a Raisin fan. But you know,
Speaker 4: we'll see how things go for you, guys.
Speaker 1: My expectation for you guys is pretty high.
Speaker 3: Well that's the problem.
Speaker 2: Conference championship appearance and then a flame out against a
Speaker 2: better proven quarterback in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: We'll see how that all shakes out.
Speaker 4: Well, I look at it and say that Lamar has
Speaker 4: he has stare stepped his way through in the playoffs.
Speaker 4: So out in the first round, out in the second round,
Speaker 4: out in the conference championship.
Speaker 3: His next step is to go to the super Bowl. Period,
Speaker 3: Like that's it.
Speaker 2: Hey, they all said that Matt Stafford couldn't do it
Speaker 2: until he did it right. Well, I'm I'm a believer.
Speaker 2: Eventually he'll break through the crossover