Speaker 1: Good evening, everybody, and welcome to another episode of fun Up.
Speaker 1: I hope you're all fired up. If not for our show,
Speaker 1: maybe you're watching Four Nations, but I hope you're checking
Speaker 1: us out. I have a wonderful crew with me tonight.
Speaker 1: I will start to next to me, mister Pensman, how
Speaker 1: are you tonight? I'm doing good, doing good, doing good.
Speaker 1: And then below Pensman is mister Ralph Williams. How are you, Ralph?
Speaker 2: I'm good, Candy, thank you. And I can't watch the
Speaker 2: game tonight because my remote control for my TV is broken.
Speaker 3: Oh no, I can change.
Speaker 2: The channel, but I have it on NBC and I
Speaker 2: can watch my Law and Order night here a little bit, So.
Speaker 1: There you go, There you go.
Speaker 4: And then none other than the man that has been
Speaker 4: in the business the longest of our panel here, mister
Speaker 4: George I Corn, how.
Speaker 3: Are you you? For that grand introduction? Good to be
Speaker 3: on with my friends, Candy, Ralph and Pensman. Yeah, and I.
Speaker 1: Have not heard Andrew an updated at all.
Speaker 2: I don't know, so neither do I.
Speaker 5: Oh can I time in? Yeah as much as I.
Speaker 5: If you go back two weeks, he said that he's
Speaker 5: going to start a new channel. I don't know what
Speaker 5: it's cold, but he said at the end he's going
Speaker 5: to cover Detroit Tigers channel. I don't know where it is,
Speaker 5: but he's gonna do all Detroit Tigers and Detroit Lions.
Speaker 5: So I don't know when it's going to start, but
Speaker 5: that's what I figured out. But I don't know his
Speaker 5: channel name. I don't know what's going on, so I
Speaker 5: don't know what's going on with the channel he has now.
Speaker 5: So that's all I know. If you go back to
Speaker 5: his old channel, at the end, he talks about the Tigers,
Speaker 5: broadcasting the Tigers and covering the Tigers since baseball season.
Speaker 5: So that's all I know about about Jeremy.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, Well, the title Four Nations. If you're not
Speaker 1: watching it right now, it's on an intermission. One to
Speaker 1: one shots on goal Canada eleven, USA ten, both of them,
Speaker 1: like I said, scores one to one. Very evenly matched game,
Speaker 1: and I think we all expected that that it was
Speaker 1: going to be a very close game. A lot of stars,
Speaker 1: a lot of star power. In fact, if you listen
Speaker 1: to the sports exchange that preceded this show, we all
Speaker 1: talked about it, how and some of us came down,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be on the goalie. Whichever goalie has the
Speaker 1: better game is the one that's gonna win. Because there's
Speaker 1: so much there's so much pride that both teams are
Speaker 1: playing for, there's so much extra motivation. The one thing
Speaker 1: I will say is kudos to the NHL because they
Speaker 1: got this right, and I think I don't think there's
Speaker 1: anybody that disagrees with that.
Speaker 5: Oh they did not at all. They exceeded beyond.
Speaker 3: It'll be really interesting.
Speaker 1: It'll be interesting, Hello, Jay, It'll be interesting to see
Speaker 1: what viewership is tonight because, let's face it, on Saturday night,
Speaker 1: when technically it was instead of the NHL All Star Game,
Speaker 1: they played Canada and US played in the round robin
Speaker 1: ten point one million, compared to the NBA All Star Game,
Speaker 1: which played on Sunday, which was at four point eight
Speaker 1: or four point seven million. So hockey blue NBA way.
Speaker 1: And if you think about it, you always thought three
Speaker 1: major sports, football, baseball, and basketball. Hockey was always number four,
Speaker 1: but yet look at the all what they did with
Speaker 1: their All Star Game. Kudos to them because the NBA
Speaker 1: has not yet figured it out and they're not even close.
Speaker 1: Like no one plays defense, especially in the in the
Speaker 1: All Star Game. They need to change that up. They
Speaker 1: get to figure figure it out or they're gonna be
Speaker 1: left in the dust, which, to be honest with you,
Speaker 1: I don't really care because I'm not a huge NBA
Speaker 1: fan anyways. But so four nations really cool. I will
Speaker 1: say that next year they won't have four nations unfortunately,
Speaker 1: but that's because we're gonna have the Olympics during this time,
Speaker 1: So we will have the Olympics next year instead. But
Speaker 1: your guys' thoughts about the round robin four nations obviously
Speaker 1: viewership up. I did not hear because I was on
Speaker 1: the other show. I don't know if any of you
Speaker 1: want to commanders say, was how was the opening? How
Speaker 1: was the Canadian anthem and the USA anthem? I know
Speaker 1: what I have to say. The one thing, the one
Speaker 1: thing of all of it that has disappointed me. And
Speaker 1: I get there's a lot of pride, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of things going on between USA and Canada right now politically,
Speaker 1: but I was disappointed that they do and I get
Speaker 1: it that was their one point, one place that they
Speaker 1: could make a stance, that they could have a voice.
Speaker 1: But to boo our national anthem when they were told
Speaker 1: not to. That kind of saddened me. But otherwise this
Speaker 1: tournament has been great. I really liked everything, Pensman, your thoughts.
Speaker 5: I've been covering since game one of my YouTube channel,
Speaker 5: have been covering videos, shorts, all kinds of stuff on
Speaker 5: my YouTube channel, and I watched every game and I
Speaker 5: can tell you, Candy that the national anthem was a
Speaker 5: lot better tonight than it was there. There was no
Speaker 5: billing at all, just there because the announcer says, please
Speaker 5: be respectful. So they've been saying that ever since Saturday.
Speaker 5: So the opening was awesome. It's just how it always was.
Speaker 5: The national anthem was quiet, everybody was quiet. They were
Speaker 5: singing the national anthem, but that's normal. But I'd liked
Speaker 5: I like this, and I'm hoping they do this more,
Speaker 5: and I'm hoping they have eight teams in STEAF four.
Speaker 1: So the only thing I will say about that Pensman
Speaker 1: and Jay says that too, is you got to be
Speaker 1: careful because how much of a break then are you
Speaker 1: going to have in between, because to play around Robin
Speaker 1: with eight teams is a lot of hockey for what
Speaker 1: is considered their downtime, you know, that's the only thing
Speaker 1: I would say about that. I think it would be
Speaker 1: cool to expand it. But I also know that if
Speaker 1: one player gets injured, the team that they go back
Speaker 1: to is going to be disappointed. And that happens in
Speaker 1: all of them.
Speaker 5: But are you read by mind? Because there's a USA
Speaker 5: player that has a broken shoulder and he's in a sling.
Speaker 5: I forget what his name is, and he was in
Speaker 5: a locker room, and you just talked about in your players,
Speaker 5: and that's perfect timing.
Speaker 1: So okay, mister rolf here thoughts about four nations.
Speaker 2: Well, I like the format. Uh. And I know you
Speaker 2: guys talked about the Gary bettman.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: You know for all the years he's been a commissioner
Speaker 2: of the NHL.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: Because I was tuning into the show prior, and I
Speaker 2: know you guys were talking about that, and I got
Speaker 2: to say, you know, he's he's come up with a
Speaker 2: couple of things now that have put the NHL above
Speaker 2: the NBA, because the NBA, to me, is nothing but
Speaker 2: a bunch of show boats. Okay, it's not about playing
Speaker 2: the game. It's about showing off. And I and and
Speaker 2: and I'm sorry that I'm insulting you know, uh u
Speaker 2: NBA fans out there, But that's just the way it is.
Speaker 2: I stopped following the NBA since Michael Jordan left. I
Speaker 2: haven't And the only time I keep track of the
Speaker 2: NBA is when I'm looking at pitt Pants their players
Speaker 2: to see where where they're at. Other than that, I
Speaker 2: don't get involved in the NBA. I could care less
Speaker 2: because it's not the fact that it's not in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2: But I will tell you this much, the w NBA
Speaker 2: will start really getting it's getting hot, and it's gonna
Speaker 2: get hotter this year coming up, and it's going to
Speaker 2: be the thing it's going to take the NBA out.
Speaker 2: Believe me, it is. Women's sports are very heavy duty
Speaker 2: right now. I think Candy will agree with me on that,
Speaker 2: and everyone else on this panel and everyone else out there,
Speaker 2: you know, World Cup soccer and you know and everything else.
Speaker 2: So I mean, it's really getting better and better for
Speaker 2: women's sports all across the country. They're they're they even
Speaker 2: are in professional hockey. The women have their own professional
Speaker 2: hockey teams. Pittsburgh's getting one next year, So I mean,
Speaker 2: you know, here we are. You know, women's sports are
Speaker 2: really taking over in the NBA better be careful. They
Speaker 2: better figure something out because if they don't, soon they're
Speaker 2: gonna be a redheaded step child in the sport industry.
Speaker 3: Okay, George, alright, you choke me up, Ralph red headed stepchild?
Speaker 3: And that one I haven't heard in a while, Well.
Speaker 2: That's what Mike Langs thing, because Mike Lang used to
Speaker 2: say Sidney Crosby robbed him like a red headed stepchild.
Speaker 3: Okay, and we'll talk about him and the great loss
Speaker 3: you guys are suffering through. But no, I think it's
Speaker 3: a good thing. And I do agree with you. I mean,
Speaker 3: you know, I sit back and I say, where the
Speaker 3: hell's Russia? I mean, I know we have problems with Russia.
Speaker 3: Everybody does. But the fact of the matter is is
Speaker 3: you can't just pick out four teams and keep it
Speaker 3: that way. I know what you said, Candy, and I
Speaker 3: do agree. How much time are you going to give
Speaker 3: these guys because we we open up to eight, then
Speaker 3: we got another two weeks we got to add on.
Speaker 3: Well that's not gonna work. So the Olympics is something
Speaker 3: that's a little bit different because there's a break, but
Speaker 3: it's at a different time. And U they're they're spread
Speaker 3: out more. I don't necessarily like the Olympic format better
Speaker 3: than for nations, but I do think that you've got
Speaker 3: to have some countries in there that we're not represented,
Speaker 3: especially Russia and what we call the Czech Bloc countries. Yes,
Speaker 3: you know what I mean. And but the thing is is, hey,
Speaker 3: I'm not going to be overly critical. Why should I be.
Speaker 3: I'm a hockey fan, and it's great hockey, and they're
Speaker 3: playing well, and you know it's it's it's great entertainment.
Speaker 3: So the nah, kudos to the NBA, Like I mean,
Speaker 3: oh what, oh that was a swept? The kudos to
Speaker 3: the NHL, NBA, Yeah, you can have them for a
Speaker 3: little bit. I'm not I'm not thrilled about their product
Speaker 3: at all.
Speaker 1: Well, and what really upset me about the NBA, And
Speaker 1: I'm not a huge NBA fan by any stretch of
Speaker 1: the imagination. And I'm not gonna say I am not
Speaker 1: a huge fan of Lebron. Lebron has had a long career,
Speaker 1: but what he did to the Ulcer game really upset me. Here,
Speaker 1: you knew you had an injury going in how long
Speaker 1: ahead of time, and all of a sudden you pull
Speaker 1: out too late that they can't even substitute you someone
Speaker 1: for you that as as a spokesperson for the league,
Speaker 1: as a role model, as somebody that you know, kids
Speaker 1: look up to. Everybody's like, oh, I want to have
Speaker 1: a game like Lebron or play you.
Speaker 2: Know, Yeah, I'm.
Speaker 1: Sorry, you need to do You should have done better.
Speaker 1: You did not do well there.
Speaker 5: And plus plus Lebron missed twice the game winning tying
Speaker 5: game Lastnek twice. If you're gonna be a goat, you
Speaker 5: have to finish the game out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what you know, petsman, I agree with
Speaker 2: you on that in a perspective. And we've seen this
Speaker 2: in every sport. You know, you get guys like Lebron,
Speaker 2: and you get these players, uh you know, we see
Speaker 2: it with the steel some of the star players and
Speaker 2: stuff like that that lay an egg in an All
Speaker 2: Star Game, or laying egg in the in the in
Speaker 2: the in the playoffs, you know, in the Super Bowl.
Speaker 2: They have a great regular season. Lebron is one of
Speaker 2: those kind of guys who just simply, you know, might
Speaker 2: be good in the regular season and then goes into
Speaker 2: the All Star Game and miss the shots and he's
Speaker 2: sick and he can't play or whatever. You know, he's
Speaker 2: one of the last people that really that represented the NBA,
Speaker 2: and I'm very disappointed, like Candy said, and what he did.
Speaker 1: Mm hmmm.
Speaker 5: And he was at the All Star Game laughing. If
Speaker 5: you're hurt, you're hurt. If you hurt, your whole body's momentum.
Speaker 5: I have a broken shoulder and I'm not the same.
Speaker 5: But if he has a sore ankle and he's over there,
Speaker 5: I look at this.
Speaker 3: Come on, yeah, yeah, I agree. You know the thing
Speaker 3: that Candy mentioned. You know, come on, you knew about
Speaker 3: your injury. You knew you weren't cobblely gonna be out there,
Speaker 3: but you waited till the very last second or or
Speaker 3: maybe this is what happened too. Yeah, the commissioner Silver
Speaker 3: said something to him or one of the other coaches
Speaker 3: that said, co mine, these people pay big bucks here
Speaker 3: and go in San Francisco to see you. You can't
Speaker 3: just stay. Oh, appreciate it, right, And so probably I
Speaker 3: can see that scenario playing out too. Hey wait a minute, Lebron,
Speaker 3: you cannot just not show get there for some of it. Well,
Speaker 3: he didn't even dress up, I mean, get even suit up.
Speaker 3: So it was a big joke. But I mean, granted,
Speaker 3: he's put in his time, he's forty years old now,
Speaker 3: but let's stop voting him to the All Star team.
Speaker 2: Then.
Speaker 3: Okay, if you just want to participate.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm really, seriously, really, Jay, you got it. I
Speaker 1: am gonna switch because the toys of summer are back baseball.
Speaker 1: But I'm not going to talk about that. What I'm
Speaker 1: talking about is MLB is going to test the automated
Speaker 1: ball Strike Challenge system during spring training games.
Speaker 5: This was this strangel.
Speaker 1: And am i lb LB last year in minor league,
Speaker 1: where calls challenged by players were overturned fifty one percent
Speaker 1: of the time. I want your thoughts on it now here,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you a little more. Automated ball strike
Speaker 1: system will be tested in spring training. Each team will
Speaker 1: start with two challenges and they will only lose their
Speaker 1: challenge if the umpire's call is confirmed. Only the batter, pitcher,
Speaker 1: or catcher can challenge a call. The player will tip
Speaker 1: their cap helmet to the umpire to signal that they
Speaker 1: want to challenge. There will be no additional challenges in
Speaker 1: extra innings, and hawk eye view will be shown during
Speaker 1: the review. So I want your thoughts what you think
Speaker 1: about the system and them trying it out in spring training,
Speaker 1: and I'm I'm gonna start with.
Speaker 2: Ralph Strike what I could just hear this this this
Speaker 2: automated system or whatever. Oh you can't challenge you know,
Speaker 2: or whatever. Oh my gosh. You know, what's the fun
Speaker 2: part of the game, everybody is the fact that the
Speaker 2: managers come out and argue. That is the greatest thing
Speaker 2: in the world. And it's so hilarious the way they
Speaker 2: come out and argue with the umpire. We're gonna miss
Speaker 2: that with this, you know what I mean. I mean,
Speaker 2: I think it's it's to stop that. It's it's another
Speaker 2: thing that makes the game entertaining that you're taking away.
Speaker 2: I love it when the managers get out there and
Speaker 2: get hot and start arguing. You know, I remember the
Speaker 2: days of Jim Leland, Oh my gosh, I mean, you know,
Speaker 2: and some of the other managers that used to Billy
Speaker 2: Martin and all of them that used to get out
Speaker 2: there and just really argue Lesorta. Oh my gosh, it
Speaker 2: was crazy. But now you know, now you want to
Speaker 2: Now you've been injected, you know, So there we are
Speaker 2: robot City or whatever automated system.
Speaker 1: And yes, Ji, there was already the Cubs win the
Speaker 1: first ABS challenge getting a ball turned to strike on
Speaker 1: Dodgers Muncy and unfortunately we were talking a little bit
Speaker 1: about this earlier. Dodgers were not about this particular, but
Speaker 1: we were talking about concussions. Dodgers Miller is in concussion
Speaker 1: protocol after taking one hundred and six mile per an
Speaker 1: hour liner off his head. So, George, your thoughts about
Speaker 1: the new system.
Speaker 3: I've had great respect for the umpires, and I know
Speaker 3: they're not right one hundred percent of the time. They're
Speaker 3: very colorful then maybe not as colorful as they used
Speaker 3: to be, obviously, but you know they have a role
Speaker 3: in the game, and I'm just I'm not ready for this, Okay,
Speaker 3: I'm not ready for a computer or a laser or
Speaker 3: a screen, a robot, whatever you want to call this
Speaker 3: guy or gay, well that's going to be calling balls
Speaker 3: and strikes. I do know this though, Manfred has got
Speaker 3: his damn mind set on this. Does at Hey, folks,
Speaker 3: he's not going back. He's not going back.
Speaker 2: We know that.
Speaker 3: So the question would be does he have the support
Speaker 3: of all the other owners. I don't know how that
Speaker 3: how they handle that as far as the uh, the
Speaker 3: the experimentation, but I do know that Manfred's got his head,
Speaker 3: you know sometimes in the sand. So okay, start trying it,
Speaker 3: let's see and if it's no good, then just forget
Speaker 3: it in the spring, right.
Speaker 5: Pensman, I agree with George, it's spring training. Spring training
Speaker 5: is to see what the guys do. The starters don't
Speaker 5: really play that much. It's really like Mark Stroman is
Speaker 5: starting for tomorrow for the Yankees instead Garrett Cole, So
Speaker 5: why not just give it a try. Tried the kickoff
Speaker 5: returns in the preseason. I guess. I guess the viewership
Speaker 5: of them. They like the preseason, the new kickoff during preseason,
Speaker 5: so it might be good because if anybody that's a
Speaker 5: Phillies fan, I'm not. But it was all over ESPN.
Speaker 5: Kyle Schwarmer. He was like this, this, this, that, and
Speaker 5: he was over there arguing on angel Hornandez that was
Speaker 5: a strike, that was a ball, that was a strike?
Speaker 5: He called that. He was over there going like this
Speaker 5: time after time. So maybe the batters will be less
Speaker 5: hot headed and maybe maybe that will work good. I
Speaker 5: don't know, we'll see.
Speaker 1: I think the other thing that it might do and
Speaker 1: it might speed up the game some too, because if
Speaker 1: there won't be the arm the arguments, the manager's argument
Speaker 1: the player, then if he decides he wants to challenge,
Speaker 1: he can't argue after the fact he's challenge. There's gonna
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a definitive call and boom, You're stuck
Speaker 1: with it. You can't go back and forth. You can't
Speaker 1: you know, you can't have an umpire making up a
Speaker 1: new call on either, like, uh, is it robot ball? No,
Speaker 1: Let's face it. Technology is changing everything in our world,
Speaker 1: and it has already. I mean, look at we have
Speaker 1: electric cars. Now we have and I hate to say this,
Speaker 1: but you all go back to even the microwave. I
Speaker 1: remember growing up without a microwave, so and I know
Speaker 1: that's aging me, but I'm just saying technology has progressed.
Speaker 1: There are things that are good with technology, and then
Speaker 1: there are things that are maybe not so good. I
Speaker 1: think it'll be interesting to see how it goes in
Speaker 1: spring training. I'm glad they're at least testing the waters,
Speaker 1: but let's face it, it was in minor league ball
Speaker 1: last year and they used it all year and I
Speaker 1: don't think they. I don't think they would test it
Speaker 1: out in the majors if they didn't think it worked
Speaker 1: well in the minors, because I think they would scrap
Speaker 1: it and say wait, wait, yes, jay, I before the microwave,
Speaker 1: I remember taking microwave cooking lessons when they first came out,
Speaker 1: because it's like, oh, you can cook in this thing.
Speaker 1: Wait what?
Speaker 2: I remember when they were as big as a TV.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 2: I had my wife and I we had a microwave
Speaker 2: that was one of those sanyos. They don't even make
Speaker 2: those anymore. And then and then it finally went kaboom,
Speaker 2: and ours now is about this big. Now you know,
Speaker 2: it's not even anywhere near as big as it was
Speaker 2: once was. That's the same stuff, you know.
Speaker 1: One thing I will say Ralph about that too, is
Speaker 1: we had an old one and we had one of those.
Speaker 1: It was big. It was one thousand and one though.
Speaker 1: It was a really nice one. They don't make things
Speaker 1: like they originally did. When they make things, because I
Speaker 1: would think a lot more things. We're a lot more
Speaker 1: wasteful these days. And they don't make products. They don't
Speaker 1: like make refrigerators, TVs anything like they used to. And
Speaker 1: maybe some of that's good because, let's face it, who
Speaker 1: wants to watch a sporting event on a twelve inch
Speaker 1: fifteen inch? You know, we're going out, We're buying the
Speaker 1: sixty fives, the seventy two's inch screens. You know these days.
Speaker 2: I'll give you a quick example I used to use
Speaker 2: when I DJ. I used to use huge speakers. Now
Speaker 2: my speakers are about eight inches and they're small. And
Speaker 2: get this, they pump out double with the big ones
Speaker 2: pumped out and they're less bulky. And when I show
Speaker 2: up at gigs with these things, they go, oh, come on,
Speaker 2: small speakers aren't going to work in here. I said, oh, way,
Speaker 2: do you see what kind of power they pump out?
Speaker 2: It's you, It's what they pump out in power. Okay,
Speaker 2: So there's a classic example of what you were saying, Candy,
Speaker 2: is they make things smaller but they're still powerful. You know,
Speaker 2: my microwave might be smaller, but it's it's just as
Speaker 2: powerful as the older one was.
Speaker 3: You.
Speaker 1: I would challenge all of you that, I bet you
Speaker 1: the camera on your cell phones is better than the
Speaker 1: camera years ago. Yes, yes, no, it's amazing what they're
Speaker 1: coming out with now. So yeah, but I'm excited to
Speaker 1: see some of these changes. Obviously some people don't like it,
Speaker 1: some people do.
Speaker 5: But I'm gonna I'm gonna say one more thing. I'm
Speaker 5: gonna miss one Soto going like this and looking at
Speaker 5: the umpires. There's no umpire so noo.
Speaker 2: No. You know what's interesting though, it's gonna it's gonna
Speaker 2: challenge the umpires. It really is. It's gonna make them
Speaker 2: better because when there's a challenge like that.
Speaker 6: It'll make them better, it should, hope. So yeah, yeah,
Speaker 6: And I don't think it's a coincidence. A lot of
Speaker 6: the veteran umpires are retiring.
Speaker 3: Just just yesterday I found out Paul Emil, Larry Vanover,
Speaker 3: and Jerry Lane have thrown in the towel. So there
Speaker 3: you got guys with thirty thirty five years experience and
Speaker 3: they don't want any part of this crap. So baseball's
Speaker 3: not the the part of the expression, but baseball's to
Speaker 3: the plain vanilla type of umpires. We don't see colorful
Speaker 3: umpires anymore, like Ron lu Seattle, emmittt Ashford and and.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna miss yeah.
Speaker 3: So I think what's happening too is that you know
Speaker 3: you're using you're trying this out, but I think he's
Speaker 3: probably got pascid support from the Umpire's Union tascid.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm, yes, yes, I love all the comments. Jay,
Speaker 1: I you know there was a time there I missed you.
Speaker 1: I hope, I hope your little one is doing really
Speaker 1: well and the family is doing well.
Speaker 2: I want to put a shot out to Christopher Cole.
Speaker 2: He watches my stuff and yeah, and he he watches
Speaker 2: my stuff when I'm on, and he watches when I'm
Speaker 2: on with Peter down in Tampa.
Speaker 1: With the Andrew and j D. Wyatt was on our
Speaker 1: show last night. So sixteen pounds, whoa little one's not
Speaker 1: so little anymore? Yep, Robert Ordell too. Okay. In fact, Jay,
Speaker 1: you might know more than the rest of us because
Speaker 1: you came really from Jeremy's system, someone who was asking
Speaker 1: if anyone had heard about Jeremy. So I don't know
Speaker 1: if you have, Jay, but Ji, but if you do,
Speaker 1: you can always put that comment in. I want to
Speaker 1: switch a little bit. We haven't talked about this yet,
Speaker 1: but in what eight day, well in eight days, well,
Speaker 1: that's right. In eight days, it's going to be George's birthday. No,
Speaker 1: that's not that's not the topic we're going to talk about.
Speaker 1: But in eight days, nine days now, it'll be March
Speaker 1: and March Maness. Yes, So let's talk a little college basketball. Absolutely, So,
Speaker 1: some of the standings have come out in for the
Speaker 1: AP and the coaches, and let's let's see in both respects.
Speaker 1: Auburn is one, Florida is two, Duke is three, Alabama's four,
Speaker 1: Houston's five, Texas Tennessee, then Texas A and m Iowa State,
Speaker 1: Saint John's, Texas Tech, Wisconsin, Michigan, Michigan State, Perdue. So
Speaker 1: think about that. That's four Big Ten schools all within eleven, twelve, thirteen,
Speaker 1: and fourteen. Now are they up in the top elite? No.
Speaker 1: And what I will say is it's interesting because the
Speaker 1: Big Ten, some of the schools are not doing as
Speaker 1: well against each other in the Big Ten, but they
Speaker 1: have done well outside of the conference. After that, it's Purdue,
Speaker 1: It's Marquette, Missouri, Clemson, Arizona, Memphis, and Maryland rounding out
Speaker 1: the top twenty. I'll just kind of quick go over
Speaker 1: so your guys' thoughts on March Madness. Any of the
Speaker 1: college teams are you surprised where some of them are up.
Speaker 1: And yes, j I thank you for the update.
Speaker 7: Two one USA, Well, I don't think that the uh
Speaker 7: you know, to me, I don't get a real big
Speaker 7: impact until March comes on the calendar.
Speaker 3: Now we've got two teams that you just mentioned over
Speaker 3: kay in Michigan and Michigan State. What a rival ry
Speaker 3: and they are going in at Friday night live on
Speaker 3: Fox Sports. The whole nation's going to see that game.
Speaker 3: It's in ann Arbor. And then get this to end
Speaker 3: the Big Ten season, Michigan returns the favorite, has to
Speaker 3: play at Breslin and he's Lansing on the final Big
Speaker 3: Ten Sunday of the season. I'm sorry that that's regular play,
Speaker 3: not the conference tournament. But it's so exciting here. I mean,
Speaker 3: it's been a long time since both these teams were together,
Speaker 3: so with with such winning records that they have right now,
Speaker 3: the Spartans and the wolver Eights, So it's been very
Speaker 3: refreshing here. I think that it's gonna be a fun time.
Speaker 3: I'm so glad Dick Fytala is back. I'm so glad
Speaker 3: that I'm not glad but Hubie Brown is leaving now
Speaker 3: after a great career at the broadcast. But I tell
Speaker 3: you one thing, this is a sport that still is
Speaker 3: a joy to watch. And I know there's too much
Speaker 3: three point shooting in college just like there is in
Speaker 3: the NBA, But I just love watching college basketball. It's
Speaker 3: just a great time, isn't it.
Speaker 2: Yes, it is. Watch a college game any day of
Speaker 2: the week, any college basketball.
Speaker 1: Now that football season is done, yes.
Speaker 2: Ye yeah. You know, hey, UFL is getting started back up. Yeah,
Speaker 2: very good.
Speaker 1: That's true. That's true. Yes, Hube Brown was a great announcer,
Speaker 1: and at least, this is what I'm going to say,
Speaker 1: at least he went out on his own terms. So
Speaker 1: good for him, us to him. You know, it was
Speaker 1: time for him. But I will say, like you said, George,
Speaker 1: you know Michigan and Michigan State both up there. I
Speaker 1: would say two rivals that aren't in the same conference
Speaker 1: in the state of Wisconsin, Marquette and Wisconsin, and to
Speaker 1: see both of them in the top twenty is great
Speaker 1: for the state of Wisconsin. And they're actually both Marquette sixteen,
Speaker 1: so they're not in both in the time, well it
Speaker 1: depends on coaches poll. They're at fifteenth, the top in
Speaker 1: the AP there is sixteen, so both they have both schools.
Speaker 1: They played each other. Marquette beat them earlier this year.
Speaker 1: But it'll be interesting to see where everybody gets seated.
Speaker 1: And that's always a fun time to watch March madness.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, I have a question for the panel too.
Speaker 5: Are you surprised that Clemson's not ranked because they just
Speaker 5: defeated Duke And that was a heartbreaker for me because
Speaker 5: I'm a because I'm a Duke fan, and Clemson's still
Speaker 5: still not there. If you're going to beat the number
Speaker 5: fift at the time, there are number two. There are
Speaker 5: number two at the time. If you go and defeat
Speaker 5: number two team, shouldn't you move up to twenty fifth
Speaker 5: because of the because of the schedule.
Speaker 1: Clemson is actually seventeenth in the coaches and they are
Speaker 1: eighteenth in the AP.
Speaker 5: Okay, they said they.
Speaker 3: Did move a little bit. Yeah, you're right. They got
Speaker 3: a night scrappy team and to knock off Duke, oh man,
Speaker 3: that's a big win. Oh.
Speaker 5: I watched that game and I'm just sleep Yeah no,
Speaker 5: because I'm a huge Duke fan. And that was back
Speaker 5: and forth and they were coming back and Cooper flag
Speaker 5: he slipped and fell and get a traveling call and
Speaker 5: that cost the game. And I'm like, oh, there it is.
Speaker 5: That's game.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I forgot to mention too. In Detroit were
Speaker 3: excited because we won the bid for the twenty twenty
Speaker 3: seven Final four. So for the second time, second time
Speaker 3: in history, the Final Four is going to be in Detroit.
Speaker 3: It happened several years back in ford Field, the early
Speaker 3: decade of the two thousands.
Speaker 2: But can I ask your quick question, Charles less Old
Speaker 2: doing these days? I don't know.
Speaker 3: I haven't got an update yet, but yeah, I really
Speaker 3: can't say I haven't heard anything lately.
Speaker 2: I'm just curious, that's all.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, But the thing is about the ends of
Speaker 3: the Double A. And another thing that they do right
Speaker 3: is they move it around, okay, which is part of
Speaker 3: the whole biating process. I mean, one year it'll be
Speaker 3: in Milwaukee, next year it'll be in Detroit. But usually
Speaker 3: it's in Houston or Dallas or they want a golam
Speaker 3: stadium for the finals. We know that, so maybe Candy
Speaker 3: with Milwaukee making the changes to their stadium, they probably are. Yeah,
Speaker 3: like we talked a couple weeks ago, They're going to
Speaker 3: make a big effort to get land these big events.
Speaker 1: I think so, I think you could see well. And
Speaker 1: even with the stadium, I mean they have the Ffiser Forum,
Speaker 1: so they could do Final four. I think it's probably
Speaker 1: it'll be interesting. I have seen a frozen four in
Speaker 1: Milwaukee and that was cool.
Speaker 3: Yes, Detroit had one once too, yep mm hmmm at
Speaker 3: the Ford Field, Yeah, they had one. But the thing is,
Speaker 3: it's like I said, the NC Double A is very competitive,
Speaker 3: as you guys know. Just think it is for the
Speaker 3: Super Bowl, any big event.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, always big city Andy.
Speaker 3: If you could have March Madness end up in South
Speaker 3: Florida or Milwaukee, which would you prefer?
Speaker 1: Oh, hands down South Florida because that's where I live
Speaker 1: now and I'd have more of a chance of catching
Speaker 1: a game down here as opposed to it being in Milwaukee.
Speaker 1: But I would love to see an outdoor NHL game live. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, Ji if you if you can fly up
Speaker 1: for it. March first, the Red Wings are actually playing
Speaker 1: Columbus in in the Big Well in at Ohio State.
Speaker 3: Right, Yes, yeah, at the Horseshoe.
Speaker 1: At the Horseshoe, which is an awesome stadium. Not I
Speaker 1: have seen a football game there. I don't know how
Speaker 1: good it would be. The only thing about that is,
Speaker 1: I don't know how good it would be for hockey,
Speaker 1: because let's face it, the puck for hockey is so
Speaker 1: small and move so fast that in some of these
Speaker 1: big stadiums, I wonder really how good it would or
Speaker 1: how well you could view it. But so j I
Speaker 1: just get a ticket. I don't know if there's any
Speaker 1: tickets left, yep.
Speaker 3: But yeah, and that's the other thing. You know, we
Speaker 3: talked about Gary Bettman on the last show, but you know,
Speaker 3: I give him. He's got this stadium series too, So
Speaker 3: they're not just satisfied with January first, the Frozen Classic.
Speaker 3: They're also doing every year another one or two other stadiums,
Speaker 3: And in Canada it's called the Heritage Classic, and you
Speaker 3: got teams hosting Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, Ottawa, whatever, and they
Speaker 3: play it on the Frozen turf. But that's been a
Speaker 3: very nice thing too. It's called the Heritage Classic for
Speaker 3: the Canadian teams.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, we were talking earlier on Sports Exchange about
Speaker 1: how violent hockey is because we were talking about CTE
Speaker 1: and Bobby Halt and others. So yes, that actually no
Speaker 1: sport is immune to CTE and concussions. Obviously, there are
Speaker 1: sports that are more susceptible. Two because it's they're just
Speaker 1: more violent, They're more hits and stuff like that. Hopefully
Speaker 1: they can use more technology to lessen that. Because no
Speaker 1: one wants. Ralph is pro Canada.
Speaker 2: He pro Canada. I just I just know who's gonna win.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be the US, Mike Sullivan's to head coach. Okay,
Speaker 2: I mean I like, I like Canadian players. I like
Speaker 2: Canada must if I've been to Canada like that.
Speaker 5: And Canada just missed a wide open net too.
Speaker 1: Jay, I would tell you one thing if you didn't hear.
Speaker 1: Last week was the first they Ralph renamed his Saturday show.
Speaker 1: It is no longer the bum External Bum. It is
Speaker 1: now the Sports Rap. So you have to check it
Speaker 1: out Saturday mornings nine am.
Speaker 5: On RULGI two. No No to to Canada just tied
Speaker 5: it up.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, oh so yes, you'll have to check out
Speaker 1: the Sports Rap, his new branded show. Okay, so I
Speaker 1: know everyone's into hockey, so let's do Let's go into
Speaker 1: my town and talk about what unless anybody else has
Speaker 1: a topic they want to bring up.
Speaker 3: Tonight.
Speaker 5: Let's talk about your player, my player.
Speaker 1: Player.
Speaker 5: Did you hear what happened today? Milwaukee Bucks player? Somebody
Speaker 5: needs to help me out of that's it? Yeah? Can
Speaker 5: we talk about him?
Speaker 1: Sure, you can talk about him.
Speaker 5: He suspended because of anti drug enhancement. Why did he
Speaker 5: do that?
Speaker 1: For tramadol, Bobby unintentionally took a pain medication called tramadol,
Speaker 1: thinking he was taking a pet pain medication called torradal.
Speaker 1: His agent said torre Doll is an approved pain medication
Speaker 1: that has been used previously and that the teams and
Speaker 1: players use for pain and inflammation at times. Tramadol, however,
Speaker 1: is not an approved pain medication and was just recently
Speaker 1: added to the banned substance list this past string spring.
Speaker 1: The tramadoll pill he took came from an assistant of
Speaker 1: his with a valid prescription for the painkiller, which he
Speaker 1: mistakenly told Bobby was torridoal and that comes from Bobby's agent,
Speaker 1: Portos's agent, Mark Bartelstein. And tramp Meddol is a synthetic opioid,
Speaker 1: while torredol is a non steroid sterre steroidal anti inflammatory drug.
Speaker 1: The Bucks have twenty nine games left in their regular season.
Speaker 1: After the first five games of Portos's band, Milwaukee will
Speaker 1: be able to move him to the suspended list and
Speaker 1: can sign a replacement player while he is out. I
Speaker 1: was dealing with an elbow injury and using an NBA
Speaker 1: proved medication for pain and inflammation during the time, I
Speaker 1: made an honest mistake and took a pain reducing anti
Speaker 1: inflammatory pill that has not approved. I feel horrible and
Speaker 1: recognize that I am responsible for what I put in
Speaker 1: my body. From the bottom of my heart, I want
Speaker 1: to apologize to the Bucks organization, my teammates, coaches, family
Speaker 1: and fans. I give everything I have on the court,
Speaker 1: and we will terribly miss playing games for the Bucks
Speaker 1: during this time. I will continue to work hard and
Speaker 1: be ready for our long playoff run.
Speaker 3: He is.
Speaker 1: His agent said he's not a drug He's absolutely not
Speaker 1: a drug abuser in this instance. I am so deeply
Speaker 1: disappointed that the NBA chose to interpret its policies so
Speaker 1: strictly and that the policy does not allow for a
Speaker 1: different result for an honest mistake with pure intentions. Bucks
Speaker 1: general manager John Horst said we one hundred percent support Bobby.
Speaker 1: He's an integral part of who we are a huge
Speaker 1: memory of the Milwaukee community and we look forward to
Speaker 1: his return. The thirty year old Portis is averaging thirteen
Speaker 1: point seven points, eight point three rebounds, and two point
Speaker 1: two assist in forty six games for the Bucks this season.
Speaker 1: Portis will begin serving his suspension Thursday, when the Bucks
Speaker 1: take on the last Los Angeles Clippers. He was suspended
Speaker 1: twenty five games. Wow, So I feel bad for him.
Speaker 1: He's you know, he admitted he did it and he
Speaker 1: is ultimately responsible, but he also did get it from
Speaker 1: somebody else too.
Speaker 2: When it comes to policies like that candy, there's always
Speaker 2: a fine line there. You know, the NBA is going
Speaker 2: to do it's going to spew it like it's the
Speaker 2: player's fault. But at the same time, the NBA sometimes don't.
Speaker 2: You have to watch how you classify these policies because
Speaker 2: if you don't have them classified properly, people are you know,
Speaker 2: then you have a fight with the union because you know,
Speaker 2: I've been involved in that, being in five unions in
Speaker 2: my lifetime. You know what drug policy's from the company,
Speaker 2: you know, and if it's not in fine writing, or
Speaker 2: it's not in fine print, or if it's not something
Speaker 2: that can that's really enforced or or are they just
Speaker 2: doing it because they want to or whatever they're you know,
Speaker 2: what's what's some of that stuff. We've seen that in
Speaker 2: the NFL. We've seen that all across the board baseball as well.
Speaker 1: Bensman, you want to comment since you wanted to bring
Speaker 1: up the top.
Speaker 5: I'm just surprised that he actually did it. And I'm
Speaker 5: surprised because if he's a well classed personally, he's he's
Speaker 5: a tough competitor no matter who team. I know NBA
Speaker 5: is going downhill, but there's always that team, and no
Speaker 5: matter how bad the NBA is and how bad your
Speaker 5: team is, you always want to root for your team
Speaker 5: through thick and thin. At least you should. That's what
Speaker 5: a true finn supposed to do. But he's out there
Speaker 5: and he's playing about thirty twenty five thirty minutes a game,
Speaker 5: and he's out there and he's going both ends of
Speaker 5: the floor, and he's actually given a hundred like some
Speaker 5: people that we talked about earlier tonight. But I'm just
Speaker 5: surprised he did that. I know it's not intentional, but
Speaker 5: you got he said Candies who said you gotta take
Speaker 5: care of what you put in your body, so and
Speaker 5: you know what the policy is when you start.
Speaker 2: What I have apologized real quick for getting off the
Speaker 2: air here. There was something going on in the hallway
Speaker 2: here on my floor, and I was trying to find
Speaker 2: out what it was with some shouting and screaming, and
Speaker 2: I just wanted to make sure everything was okay.
Speaker 3: You know. I think it was those I think it
Speaker 3: was those Canadian fans going up against the US fans.
Speaker 2: Yet all the way here, I forgot to say Mike
Speaker 2: comment about college basketball on the March Madness. What I
Speaker 2: like is when the underdog teams come in and beat
Speaker 2: some some big, top rated team. I love when that happens.
Speaker 2: That was in Vegas once in nineteen ninety nine, and
Speaker 2: I'll never forget this. I was staying at the Frontier
Speaker 2: and I went downstairs to go to the snack bar,
Speaker 2: and this guy was selling these big, thick hot dogs
Speaker 2: and a bun with potato chips for five bucks. So
Speaker 2: I grabbed two of the one for me and one
Speaker 2: for my first wife because we used to go to
Speaker 2: Vegas all the time. And uh, I saw some guy
Speaker 2: come out. He was standing behind me, reeking and booze. Uh.
Speaker 2: He said, I have one dollar left and I and
Speaker 2: he showed it to me and I said, well, what
Speaker 2: are you going to get with a dollar? He says,
Speaker 2: a ninety nine cent shrimp cocktail. And I said, well,
Speaker 2: I said, uh, he said, this is my last dollar.
Speaker 2: I said, well, what happened? He said, he put all
Speaker 2: kinds of money that you're on Syracuse and they blew
Speaker 2: it against Weber State. And you know, so I always
Speaker 2: love it when the underdogs come in like that and
Speaker 2: just beat these guys, and and and right after after
Speaker 2: the games were over, you should have seen the looks
Speaker 2: on these on these on these face is coming out
Speaker 2: of sports book. I heard money was lost something big
Speaker 2: time because you know, you don't expect the Weaver States
Speaker 2: of the world, or the Youngstown States or whatever to
Speaker 2: win any of these games coming and upsets your Dayton
Speaker 2: Atlantic ten. I mean, you know some of these teams
Speaker 2: could you never know it's a whole new season when
Speaker 2: that happened, when this tournament happened.
Speaker 3: And great great Campy coach Campy with the Oakland University
Speaker 3: last year, any old tiny Oakland University with the big.
Speaker 5: Last year. Last year Harvard beat a couple of big
Speaker 5: schools teams and then they they ended up getting defeated too.
Speaker 3: How about that one.
Speaker 2: Year when Robert Morse was in the Robert Morse was
Speaker 2: in the NCAA and they beat Kentucky. Yeah, that one
Speaker 2: year when they beat Kentucky.
Speaker 5: So, I mean, you know, cal Perry didn't want to.
Speaker 5: He didn't want to. He's like.
Speaker 3: You do.
Speaker 5: He was upset.
Speaker 2: Oh man, big time, it's burger.
Speaker 5: I'm there. I'm gonna add to what you're You didn't
Speaker 5: say it with some surprise, But any player that makes
Speaker 5: a bracket that small schools break the bracket with the
Speaker 5: snap of the snap of finger. They have a twelve
Speaker 5: thirty game, and that small school beats a big school,
Speaker 5: your bracket's done. First game at twelve thirty, yours bracket's done.
Speaker 2: That's why I never get involved in bracketthology. I do it.
Speaker 5: I do it. I do it here and there for fun.
Speaker 1: But thanks j I I'll have to see it when
Speaker 1: I'm off the Aarson Scott is resting after the last one.
Speaker 1: I will look forward to that.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I can't.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, you're fine, you're fine, You're fine. The one
Speaker 1: thing I will say Pensman about Portois, and yes, I
Speaker 1: mean he took it. He owned up to it. He
Speaker 1: shouldn't have. He brings so much energy to that team
Speaker 1: before he was, before he even joined the team, and
Speaker 1: I remember they he left and then I think they
Speaker 1: brought him back. And the level of energy and the
Speaker 1: way he interacts with the crowds to get them involved
Speaker 1: and get them enthused is just something refreshing that you
Speaker 1: don't see too often. And I so he will be missed.
Speaker 1: He's got to do his time, just like you know,
Speaker 1: anybody else.
Speaker 5: But it reminds me of alt iris Is back in the day,
Speaker 5: pumping up the crowd when momentum started to shift. I
Speaker 5: used to used to do the pump the crowd up
Speaker 5: when momentum started to shift their way.
Speaker 3: Well, I'll start with Detroy, my town. Okay, oh good,
Speaker 3: it's good news. George Blaha, who's been a friend of
Speaker 3: mine for all these forty five years that I've been
Speaker 3: in sports broadcasting and writing, is finally and I emphasized
Speaker 3: the word finally, receiving the Kirk Goudia Rode Award for
Speaker 3: Excellence in Basketball Broadcasting. This award is given out once
Speaker 3: a year at the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame ceremonies.
Speaker 3: This year's a little different though. In fact, what they've
Speaker 3: done is instead of just having one for a writer
Speaker 3: and one for broadcaster, they've added a couple other categories.
Speaker 3: So George is going to get it for the broadcast
Speaker 3: part of it, and then Clark Kellogg is going to
Speaker 3: get it for the also broadcast, but more of a
Speaker 3: like a color analyst type of position. George. I've been
Speaker 3: pushing for this man for five years now. I've wrote letters,
Speaker 3: I've asked other people to write letters, and when I
Speaker 3: got that news over a week ago that he made it,
Speaker 3: I was tickled pink, as they say. I was so
Speaker 3: happy for George. This man has been doing forty nine
Speaker 3: years of Pistons basketball, he'll hit number fifty next season,
Speaker 3: and he's been doing Michigan State Spartans football for just
Speaker 3: as many years too. So hats off, hats off to
Speaker 3: our man, George. Now, the thing that I heard, the
Speaker 3: thing that I heard is he's not part of the
Speaker 3: national scene. Well you know what, so what I don't
Speaker 3: think nobody told me that officially, but some people, you know,
Speaker 3: scuttle bought you here around Oh well they don't know
Speaker 3: him because he doesn't do any national broadcasts. Well, I'm sorry.
Speaker 3: You know, Piston's won three championships and George Baja was
Speaker 3: there okay for all three of them on national radio.
Speaker 3: But anyways, make a long story short. Like I said,
Speaker 3: we're very happy in Detroit for Baha finally going into
Speaker 3: the Hall of Fame next fall. Congratulations and hats off
Speaker 3: George and your wife Mary as well.
Speaker 2: Okay, Ralph, Yeah, Sat Day in Pittsburgh. You know the
Speaker 2: death of Mike Lang, as I mentioned earlier, been around
Speaker 2: for over forty five years and doing broadcasting with the
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh Penguins. The Pirates put a spunk into the announcing
Speaker 2: of the hockey game. There's no one, I don't think
Speaker 2: other than Douc Emerck probably that's any better than Mike Lang.
Speaker 2: He's in the Hall of Fame. Passed away. Was seventy
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I said seventy four early. He was seventy
Speaker 2: six years old. And I want to tell you my
Speaker 2: story with Mike Lang. About twelve thirteen years ago, I
Speaker 2: was DJing an event at at a park in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania,
Speaker 2: which is a suburb outside of Pittsburgh. A little bit,
Speaker 2: and I was djaying an event there. The park was
Speaker 2: being reconstructed by Kaboom and Kaboom at the time was
Speaker 2: teaming up with NHL teams across the country to fix parks,
Speaker 2: so in the community. So Kaboom was there. I got
Speaker 2: to meet Mike Lang, I got to meet Craig Patrick,
Speaker 2: and I got to meet Dan Bosma, who was the
Speaker 2: head coach. Craig Patrick was a GM at the time,
Speaker 2: and I got to meet all three of those guys,
Speaker 2: and uh, Mike Lang was very nice, uh, you know,
Speaker 2: and and gave me some pointers about broadcasting because he
Speaker 2: knew at the time that I had been in radio
Speaker 2: in the past and some things like that. He was
Speaker 2: a very nice guy, very nice man, very uh sociable.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 2: The Pittsburgh Penguin family and the UH in the in
Speaker 2: the Pittsburgh area. You're gonna miss Mike Lang. I mean,
Speaker 2: it was just it's it's it's a sad day here.
Speaker 2: And we also lost another guy in John Burnett, who
Speaker 2: was on our UH one of our channel too for
Speaker 2: a long time. He was a weather guy, hosted some shows,
Speaker 2: did some broadcasting and he passed away, uh this afternoon.
Speaker 2: So you know some some really good broadcasters that that
Speaker 2: uh you know, passed away here in Pittsburgh, and uh
Speaker 2: you know so. But that's that's my tone.
Speaker 5: Okay, pennsman, Well it's too too after two third period,
Speaker 5: there's twenty minutes left. I still have a lot to
Speaker 5: do with this Face of the Nation. Still have a
Speaker 5: lot to do, So go ahead and subscribe to my channel.
Speaker 5: Look at the shorts. After this is all over, the
Speaker 5: teams are going back to the teams that they play
Speaker 5: for Saturday, the Penguins play the Capitals. Can we please
Speaker 5: please go on a winning streak? Like I said last
Speaker 5: night on Sports Exchange, you cannot win one. You cannot
Speaker 5: go exactly Ralph, you cannot go one two to one,
Speaker 5: two two. You have to win three. You have to
Speaker 5: win more games than that. We are so close, We're
Speaker 5: right there. We just have to get a little winning streak.
Speaker 5: Let's go out there, Mike soliv and hopefully you get
Speaker 5: some confidence because you made the championship game in the
Speaker 5: face of the Nations. Let's see what happens. So that's
Speaker 5: my party shot. Penguin's better better step up their game.
Speaker 1: One of my part in one of my parting chets,
Speaker 1: because I have two. Mark Antonausio, you were owner of
Speaker 1: the Milwaukee Brewers, and I get you are owner of
Speaker 1: a small market team. You are in a small market.
Speaker 1: I get that, But if you want to compete with
Speaker 1: the big boys, you need to put up more money
Speaker 1: or you need to be very smart, because let's face it,
Speaker 1: the Milwaukee Brewers have done pretty good. It depends on
Speaker 1: what you're going for. Are you going for I just
Speaker 1: need playoff appearances or are you or do you want
Speaker 1: to be in the World Series and win the World Series?
Speaker 1: And I would think everybody on that team, every manager,
Speaker 1: that every coach, wants to win that World Series. If
Speaker 1: that's the case, and you can't because you haven't yet
Speaker 1: put more money into it, you keep tightening and shrinking.
Speaker 1: He clamps out on spending, the team's margin for air
Speaker 1: keeps shrinking. And if this is the season his frugality
Speaker 1: finally cost the Brewers, he will deserve some, if not most,
Speaker 1: of the blame, because if you can't afford to pay
Speaker 1: him more and get more positive, put more money into it,
Speaker 1: because let's face it, the Mets are and I'm not
Speaker 1: saying you got to put that much money in, but
Speaker 1: a little bit more. Either you bring somebody else in
Speaker 1: to help you, or you do it.
Speaker 2: The Mets are stacked this year, Candy. They went on
Speaker 2: and got some players. I mean, you know, both New
Speaker 2: York teams. Actually the Yankees did to you know, so
Speaker 2: and the other.
Speaker 5: The other thing that's just got two players from the
Speaker 5: Yankees and Clay Holmes. So that's yeah, yep.
Speaker 1: The other thing I would talk about that it's not
Speaker 1: happening right this minute, but it is going to be happening,
Speaker 1: and it's kind of very exciting and different. Is the
Speaker 1: NFL Draft is going to Green Bay. And I don't
Speaker 1: know if any of you have been out on Facebook today,
Speaker 1: but they have released some of the renderings of what
Speaker 1: the stage and where it's all gonna be. And I
Speaker 1: think it looks really cool. But of course I'm a
Speaker 1: Packer fan, so that makes a difference. Is it going
Speaker 1: to be the same as Detroit. No, they just don't
Speaker 1: have the hotel capacity they But what I will say
Speaker 1: is Detroit did an awesome job, don't get me wrong,
Speaker 1: but it's in between buildings downtown whereas in Green Bay.
Speaker 1: And I hope and I pray that the weather is
Speaker 1: good because that's because they're holding all of these outdoors.
Speaker 1: And what I will say is because of Tidle Town
Speaker 1: and because of Lamble there is a lot of space.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of parking lot area, so there do
Speaker 1: they have room for people to go view it is
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, which will be really cool. Does it
Speaker 1: look like a piece of cheese? No, it does not.
Speaker 1: And yes, jay I it is outdoors. They put they
Speaker 1: put a stage up, they put it, they normally put
Speaker 1: some it's normally protected. But it is the rest of
Speaker 1: the fans were outdoors last year, even for Detroit. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's really kind of cool. I really like some of
Speaker 1: the pictures that I've seen. If you haven't seen it
Speaker 1: and you want to, if you go to Three Chicks
Speaker 1: in a Pod on Facebook, I posted the pictures there
Speaker 1: so you can always look there. It does look cool.
Speaker 1: Kudos to them. And I hope that it. Like I said,
Speaker 1: I hope the weather is good and it turns out
Speaker 1: really well because I know they've been doing some hard
Speaker 1: planning for it.
Speaker 2: So yeah, so I'd like to see that there. Milwaukee
Speaker 2: is a good city.
Speaker 1: And the Steelers get at the following year because at
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl they had us. They had a booth
Speaker 1: for the Packers because they're hosting it this year, and
Speaker 1: they had a booth for the Steelers because they're hosting
Speaker 1: it the year after.
Speaker 5: So will Howard, Will Howard come to Pittsburgh. I can dream.
Speaker 5: I can dream, Ralph, I can dream.
Speaker 2: I have one of these things that I want to
Speaker 2: say right now. The Steelers are not going to do
Speaker 2: anything different this year. So please, no more stories about
Speaker 2: Matthew Stafford coming here, and no more stories about so
Speaker 2: and so coming here. Nothing's going to happen. Justin Field's
Speaker 2: will probably be our starting quarterback, Hole Allen will be
Speaker 2: our backup, and we'll go into the draft look for
Speaker 2: somebody in the late rounds for a quarterback. That's the
Speaker 2: what the Steelers are going to do. The standard is
Speaker 2: the standard. They're going to do absolutely hardly anything this year.
Speaker 2: And Candy, I sympathize with you about Milwaukee's owner. The
Speaker 2: only difference is is that the Brewers have won the Pirates.
Speaker 2: Haven't we have a you know, a thrifty or a
Speaker 2: cheap skate tightwatte owner here that that just that doesn't
Speaker 2: want to win a championship. He says he does, but
Speaker 2: don't want to give players that don't want to get players,
Speaker 2: you know, so you know, and uh, that's that's why
Speaker 2: the Pirates will always continue to be the Pirates.
Speaker 5: Candy, I got breaking news, said too, I got breaking news.
Speaker 5: If you follow my channel, you know I talk about
Speaker 5: this team regularly just because I can make fun of them,
Speaker 5: The Dallas Cowboys. Zach Martin has officially retired as of today.
Speaker 5: So I just want to I.
Speaker 3: Didn't hear that.
Speaker 5: I got breaking news, Prescott.
Speaker 3: Yep, wow.
Speaker 5: Zach Morton has officially retired.
Speaker 2: Wake Morton.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right.
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Speaker 1: Awesome, Pen's Ben, how can people find you?
Speaker 5: I have one more breaking news to share before that.
Speaker 5: Sanderson just scored a US goal to tie that up.
Speaker 5: They just said that there is the first defenseman to
Speaker 5: score goal this tournament. So what yeah, yeah, that is
Speaker 5: just that's that's hard to believe. There's been it's been
Speaker 5: high scoring game, it's been back and forth, it's over
Speaker 5: and over. But Finland and Swindon they had some good games,
Speaker 5: but no defenseman ever scored until Sanderson scored. And this
Speaker 5: the first and the two goals from USA were both
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Speaker 1: Awesome, awesome, awesome, you do. He does do some good
Speaker 1: play by plays. I agree. So with that being said,
Speaker 1: it's the end of the second intermission. Let's go watch
Speaker 1: the third for the USA VERSUS Canada, and who knows
Speaker 1: there could be overtime. You never know yet, God, Joey, No.
Speaker 5: Don't know.
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