Speaker 1: Good, good evening everybody, and welcome to another This shouldn't
Speaker 1: have fire up. I hope we're all fired up tonight,
Speaker 1: especially since we're coming to you at such a late hour.
Speaker 1: I do apologize, but hey, some of us are night owls, right, guys.
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, I call this get silly hour, all right.
Speaker 1: That sounds kind of good, sounds kind of fun. Okay, Well,
Speaker 1: this title of the show is home court advantage. If
Speaker 1: any of you know anything about the NBA Playoffs that
Speaker 1: have been going on, except for one game last night,
Speaker 1: all of the second round so far has gone to
Speaker 1: the visiting team. What happened to home court advantage?
Speaker 2: Guys, Penny, I'll lead off. I don't care. So what's
Speaker 2: crazy is Minnesota had that five day layoff that no
Speaker 2: one wanted to mention before they played the Warriors, and
Speaker 2: then the Warriors somehow beat them without Steph Curry. And
Speaker 2: that game their Game two is actually going on right now.
Speaker 2: The Timberwolves got off to a thirteen to zero start.
Speaker 2: So I still think that the Timberwolves are the better
Speaker 2: teams than this Warriors thing. But we've never even seen
Speaker 2: those two twenty point comebacks. I mean, and you're away
Speaker 2: the Knicks were zero to four against the Celtics.
Speaker 3: Yeah good.
Speaker 2: Next in the regular season though, they were zero to four,
Speaker 2: and then here they are winning two games at Boston. Man,
Speaker 2: it matters when you play the best basketball, and for
Speaker 2: whatever reason, the Pacers are playing great basketball. The Knicks,
Speaker 2: even though they had to come back down from twenty.
Speaker 2: That'll probably cost them, I think in the long run.
Speaker 2: But these NBA playoffs. For a guy that's not really
Speaker 2: into the NBA playoffs now that Lebron has gone, I
Speaker 2: have been sly, supremely interested in what's happened so far
Speaker 2: in the NBA playoffs.
Speaker 1: Well, do you give everybody an idea? The Timberwolves are
Speaker 1: up on the Warriors fifty six to thirty nine at half.
Speaker 4: Ye.
Speaker 1: But I will tell you Anthony Edwards went to the
Speaker 1: locker room after an apparent ankle injury eighteen minutes ago,
Speaker 1: so I don't know if he'll be back or not.
Speaker 1: But it's been it seems like these playoffs have been
Speaker 1: ebbs and flows, and like one team will go up
Speaker 1: by twenty and then well team will come back and
Speaker 1: they'll pull it off. Like they haven't been big. Most
Speaker 1: of them have been big win points differentials. Like the
Speaker 1: last couple of games, they're winning by one point, but
Speaker 1: it's the visiting team that comes back. They've been down.
Speaker 1: I know, I saw a little bit of the the
Speaker 1: Pacers calves, you know, Indiana Pacers beat the Cleveland Cavaliers
Speaker 1: one twenty to one nineteen. That was a close game.
Speaker 1: Knicks beat the Celtics ninety one ninety. I mean, these
Speaker 1: some of the games have been a little bit one
Speaker 1: more one sided, but at least those two both, I mean,
Speaker 1: the Knicks to the last the game before that was
Speaker 1: one o eight to one oh five. So they're playing
Speaker 1: really close. But it's the team that's I don't and
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's the team that's got more heart,
Speaker 1: the team that's got more.
Speaker 3: More.
Speaker 1: I don't even know what to say. What why it's
Speaker 1: happening Because the Knicks are the lower seed. The Knicks
Speaker 1: are the ones that aren't expected to do as well,
Speaker 1: but yet they're the ones that are up. They're up
Speaker 1: to nothing.
Speaker 3: Now going back to New York too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well, I mean I think with regarding the Knicks Celtics,
Speaker 4: I think, you know the fact that, in my opinion,
Speaker 4: the fact that the Celtics are shooting twenty five percent
Speaker 4: from downtown and have lost these first two games by
Speaker 4: combined four points. I think that says a lot more
Speaker 4: about the Celtics than it does about the Knicks, and
Speaker 4: I don't want to take anything away from what the
Speaker 4: Knicks have done. Jalen Brunson has got Jaylen Brunson has
Speaker 4: gotten baskets late in the game when when he needs them.
Speaker 4: In The Knicks are getting stops, especially mccal bridges, at
Speaker 4: the end when they need them. They're finding ways to
Speaker 4: win games, and I think that's ultimately what the NBA
Speaker 4: playoffs about. But with that being said, I just can't
Speaker 4: ignore the fact that the Celtics are shooting as poorly
Speaker 4: as they are and they're barely losing these games. That's
Speaker 4: why I still think when it's all said and done,
Speaker 4: the Celtics will win this series, because I mean, they're
Speaker 4: a better team, and for the most part they have
Speaker 4: played like the better team. They just haven't shot the
Speaker 4: ball up well.
Speaker 2: Okay, and samir My question from what you just said
Speaker 2: then would be, can the Boston Celtics shoot the ball
Speaker 2: a little bit better? Because, like you said, they're shooting
Speaker 2: what so even if they shot twenty six percent these
Speaker 2: last few games, they would have won these games, and
Speaker 2: so they can they do that? Can they go on
Speaker 2: that hot of a streak against the Knicks team who
Speaker 2: clearly has a chip on their shoulder? Do you think
Speaker 2: the Celtics could go on a four because they're gonna
Speaker 2: have to go on a four to one run here,
Speaker 2: you're gonna have the.
Speaker 4: Talent to do it again, I already I agree a
Speaker 4: better team than Knixt they have the talent to go
Speaker 4: on a fourd to one run. I think the issue
Speaker 4: is I mean, obviously Jill Mazzola is a great coach,
Speaker 4: very good coach, championship coach, But I think when you shoot,
Speaker 4: like for them to put up those shooting numbers, I
Speaker 4: think at some point you've got to adjust.
Speaker 2: Right well here and let me interject this real real
Speaker 2: quick to you too. Do you think some of that
Speaker 2: has something to do with them missing? Christophe porzingis down low?
Speaker 4: And I think a factor in old?
Speaker 2: How old is al Horford? Anybody does it? Can anybody?
Speaker 2: Is he older than Lebron or younger? Because I feel
Speaker 2: like he's thirty eight? No? Is he really younger.
Speaker 3: Than Yeah, he's thirty eight years old?
Speaker 2: He looked, it's like fifty six compared to Lebron.
Speaker 3: It's like fifty six.
Speaker 4: Yeah, just like, but is.
Speaker 2: That part of it? Do you think? Uh?
Speaker 4: Smear, I think that's But still, I mean you have
Speaker 4: two I mean you've got to your stars Tatum and Brown,
Speaker 4: who are They're still capable of driving to the rim,
Speaker 4: They're still capable of, you know, mid range jumpers, going inside,
Speaker 4: maybe drawing more fouls, get into the free throw line.
Speaker 4: The bottom line is, I think again, has to adjust
Speaker 4: because clearly what they're doing right now isn't working. The
Speaker 4: shots are falling, so you've got to try something else.
Speaker 2: If, like you just said, if they can get down
Speaker 2: and make layups and make mid range jumpers or draw fouls,
Speaker 2: why are you shooting sixty three pointers in a game?
Speaker 4: Exactly?
Speaker 2: Why? That is one of the most ridiculous stats I've
Speaker 2: ever seen, Pennson, That's crazy. What if if hockey? What
Speaker 2: if hockey put in a two point line and all
Speaker 2: of a sudden, all of a sudden, the hockey teams, though,
Speaker 2: they just are like, hey, forget about it, we can
Speaker 2: make two points instead of one, so we'll just start
Speaker 2: jacking up, like make it make sense. Could you imagine
Speaker 2: that if it happened to hockey pensman?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, oh yeah, easily. Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean again, it's it's not a winning recipe, necessarily,
Speaker 4: it's not.
Speaker 3: But you guys are you guys are missing one piece
Speaker 3: of formula that everybody's doing. They're playing defense for a
Speaker 3: change that they are. You guys are missing. You guys
Speaker 3: are talking about shooting and shooting percentages, but you keep
Speaker 3: forgetting about the Boston Sounds going up twenty. If any
Speaker 3: team's up by twenty, that's a comfortable lead. But you
Speaker 3: gotta think a full court press, half court press, playing
Speaker 3: man the man like like I'm talking about peanut butter
Speaker 3: and jelly defense. You guys gotta remember that defense wins championships.
Speaker 3: And all these teams that are in there besides the
Speaker 3: Warriors of Wolves right now, according to what Candy said,
Speaker 3: is playing defense right now.
Speaker 2: My question go ahead, go ahead, No, go ahead, Candy,
Speaker 2: I was about ask the question go ahead. Good.
Speaker 1: My thought process was if so the Celtics led by
Speaker 1: sixteen points, they were outscored twenty three to six in
Speaker 1: the final eight minutes and thirty seconds. Boston has struggled
Speaker 1: from three in the first two games, shooting four of
Speaker 1: twenty six in the fourth quarter both games. So my
Speaker 1: question to you guys is, when you're struggling like that,
Speaker 1: do you change your game plan and say, Okay, I
Speaker 1: need to get hot. I need to be able to
Speaker 1: shoot better. So in order to do that, maybe I
Speaker 1: need to not keep shooting the threes and getting driving
Speaker 1: more in to the basket, maybe getting more free throw
Speaker 1: opportunities and getting hot that way. So then maybe if
Speaker 1: I'm because let's face it, if you're in the groove
Speaker 1: and if you're hot, it's your night. The buckets are
Speaker 1: coming easy. But if you're struggling, do you keep struggling
Speaker 1: and keep taking the shots from three? Because if you're
Speaker 1: not rebounding those, you're you're shooting and one and done
Speaker 1: and the other team goes and if they get on
Speaker 1: a run like obviously they have, that's why the Celtics
Speaker 1: have lost both of the games.
Speaker 2: Well, that was gonna be my question there exactly, though
Speaker 2: I'll tie my answering my question and together for Pensman here.
Speaker 2: My question was gonna say, yeah, they played such really
Speaker 2: good defense that they got down by twenty points in
Speaker 2: both games and had to come back right, So was
Speaker 2: it really them putting on that full court pressure, that
Speaker 2: half court pressure, changing their game plan? As Candy just
Speaker 2: said here and then I feel like this too. I
Speaker 2: don't watch much regular season basketball, but then once they
Speaker 2: get to the playoffs, it seems like the team that
Speaker 2: can rebound, get an offensive or a defensive rebound, get
Speaker 2: the ball out and transition and score quickly. That seems
Speaker 2: to be the bread and butter in the NBA. And
Speaker 2: that's what New York Knicks created, though, when they change
Speaker 2: their defensive game plan, Like, we don't hear about teams
Speaker 2: coming back from twenty points down much often, like if ever,
Speaker 2: like we don't.
Speaker 3: Unless we don't turn in two in two games in
Speaker 3: a row. Is on t heard off? They're the first
Speaker 3: team since Night's ninety eight to do this too, especially.
Speaker 4: On the road.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and in the playoffs, and so yeah, I just
Speaker 2: don't know at this point, Boston, they need to get downhill,
Speaker 2: attack the basket, play more efficient basketball. But that was
Speaker 2: gonna be kind of my question all humped up in
Speaker 2: the in one right there with Candy's question.
Speaker 3: I didn't take a stat away from you, did I, Candy?
Speaker 3: I usually usually the stat person, so I take any
Speaker 3: stats away from you.
Speaker 1: O, I'm good. My thought process too is, you know
Speaker 1: NFL games, they play, they go, they play the first
Speaker 1: two quarters, they go in at halftime, and then they
Speaker 1: regroup and then they come back out. And now I
Speaker 1: know the NBA they have timeouts, especially in between the
Speaker 1: third and fourth quarters. Are the coaches not prepping them
Speaker 1: enough for that fourth quarter because for them to have
Speaker 1: the collapses that they are in the fourth quarter, is
Speaker 1: that a coaches? Do we think that's coaching or do
Speaker 1: we think that's on the players. Do we think they're
Speaker 1: getting tired they've played too much, or is it a
Speaker 1: matter of coaches not calling, not having the right people
Speaker 1: out on the court.
Speaker 3: I think New York's just hungry. They're just hungry. They
Speaker 3: haven't won, they haven't done anything since Patrick Gilling, So
Speaker 3: they want to prove to New York. They're tired, don't
Speaker 3: I'm gonna's say, I'm gonna use my team as illustration.
Speaker 3: But they're tired of the Yankees winning, They're tired of
Speaker 3: the Mets winning. They want to be part of the
Speaker 3: New York winning formula teams. And I love New York
Speaker 3: Yankees winning in the Mets and not so much. But
Speaker 3: the New York Knicks want to be part of the
Speaker 3: winning New York teams.
Speaker 1: So does a dynasty.
Speaker 3: They do, but the New York is hungry. They so
Speaker 3: they haven't experienced that since Patrick Ewing. So I think
Speaker 3: they're just playing. They're stepping up with the The coaches
Speaker 3: are are preparing them better than that. They Boston coach
Speaker 3: said that they they're out rebuilt about us. They they're
Speaker 3: guarding Tatum. We're doing all we could do. They're just
Speaker 3: out they're just out playing Boston. That came from the
Speaker 3: Boston coach.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I mean, yeah, I mean, I think
Speaker 4: you do have a point there, But it's just hard
Speaker 4: for me to say. And look, again, I don't want
Speaker 4: to take anything away from what the Knicks have done. Again,
Speaker 4: They've scored when they they've made baskets when they've needed them,
Speaker 4: they've made stops when they've needed them. They've done and
Speaker 4: they've done enough to win. But it's just hard for
Speaker 4: me to say definitively that they are out playing Boston
Speaker 4: when Boston is shooting the way they have and they've
Speaker 4: lost games one and two by a combined four points,
Speaker 4: Like if they make two more shots Game one, one
Speaker 4: more shot Game two, they're up to Oh right, now,
Speaker 4: this is not even a conversation. Instead of, you know,
Speaker 4: having this discussion, we're having Okay, whats need to do
Speaker 4: to close this series out as as soon as possible.
Speaker 2: M Oh yeah. If I'm the Knicks, I'm trying to
Speaker 2: close it in the next two no doubt about it.
Speaker 2: I do not want to go back to Boston.
Speaker 4: Well, what's been interesting is that so far they're undefeated
Speaker 4: on the road, but they were They're one and two
Speaker 4: at home so far. So let's see if that trend continues,
Speaker 4: or if they can close this thing out.
Speaker 3: And that one and that one win is game that
Speaker 3: closer against the Pistons and Bronson's three pointer.
Speaker 2: And isn't that some mirror with the best segue ever?
Speaker 2: We all started talking about home court advantage and here
Speaker 2: comes the ties. It all in a nice little bow
Speaker 2: for you, miss Candy. Oh my goodness, I know.
Speaker 1: Isn't that nice?
Speaker 3: That's awesome?
Speaker 1: So Pensman, let's let's there's another another sport that's in
Speaker 1: playoffs right now, and it's more of I think you're
Speaker 1: up your Yeah, if you're Alliott, cup of tea however
Speaker 1: we want to put it. Let's talk about the n
Speaker 1: NHL playoffs.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm watching the Veiggest Knights and the Oilers right now,
Speaker 3: so JD's no surprise there.
Speaker 2: No, but he just always sounds so depressed when you
Speaker 2: go to literally it was like an ICL playoffs and
Speaker 2: you were like.
Speaker 3: Well, no, the Capitals they came back and they won.
Speaker 3: They they won their games, so they even up the series.
Speaker 3: We'll see what happens on this game at zero zero
Speaker 3: with eleven and a half to go in their first period.
Speaker 3: But both I'm happy with the NHL playoffs. Charles Barkley
Speaker 3: came on n b A, on NBA tonight whatever, on
Speaker 3: TNT halftime. He even made a bracket. So far he
Speaker 3: has a perfect bracket. Charles Barkley of all people.
Speaker 1: Oh, before we go back into the hockey, did you
Speaker 1: guys all hear what Paul Pierce did and what he
Speaker 1: said about the Celtics and how he said that there
Speaker 1: is no way the Celtics would lose. And then he
Speaker 1: said I will walk to work barefoot and with a
Speaker 1: bathroom robe. And mind you him walking to work is
Speaker 1: it is twenty miles. He actually was walking today to work.
Speaker 2: Kudos his word.
Speaker 3: He's old said if you said he'll do it.
Speaker 1: I just had to. I just thought that was interesting,
Speaker 1: and kudos to him for being a man of his word,
Speaker 1: you know, following up with what he said right.
Speaker 2: Well, the whole viral moment came from the Florida State
Speaker 2: fan last year that said if they lost to somebody
Speaker 2: or Georgie attack or whoever it was, they were like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: I'll eat a cup of you know, and they didn't
Speaker 2: do it. They just deleted their stuff and it don't
Speaker 2: put stuff like obviously we knew you weren't going to
Speaker 2: eat that, but at least eat like a cup of
Speaker 2: chocolate pudding, you know, at least do something and follow
Speaker 2: up on your bed. I don't care what you eat,
Speaker 2: just eat something, right Crow.
Speaker 3: And the Vegas Knights just took the leap, by the way,
Speaker 3: just as we got done talking about it.
Speaker 1: Yes, I mean, I can tell you that the Florida
Speaker 1: Panthers are down to nothing to the Toronto Maple Leafs
Speaker 1: they played yesterday. They do bring the series now to Florida,
Speaker 1: so they've played the first two games in Toronto. I
Speaker 1: don't know Florida, Florida has played. If you didn't, if
Speaker 1: you're a big hockey fan, I would advise you to
Speaker 1: go check out our YouTube channel because previously to this show,
Speaker 1: we had Sports Exchange, which was more exclusively about NHL,
Speaker 1: but and a former GM we have on there. Mike
Speaker 1: Santo said, Florida Panthers have played a lot of hockey
Speaker 1: the last two years because they made it to the
Speaker 1: Stanley Cuff Playoffs both years. So if you think about that,
Speaker 1: they start.
Speaker 3: Playing what June, September.
Speaker 1: September and they play all the way to June. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, and they did that back to back years.
Speaker 1: So he doesn't know if they have enough gas in
Speaker 1: their tanks to keep this as competitive and keep going well.
Speaker 3: Preseason is it September? The real season starts in October.
Speaker 3: That's why I'm saying September.
Speaker 1: Right, But that's a long season, it is, you know,
Speaker 1: and hockey is not a forgiving sport on your body.
Speaker 3: I had a friend that an actual friend that I
Speaker 3: played hockey with when I was younger. He played with
Speaker 3: the local team down here. He called me up one
Speaker 3: day he said, I have a chance to play for
Speaker 3: the Phoenix Coyotes. I said, coold, you take it. He's like, no,
Speaker 3: I said, what do you take it? He said, because
Speaker 3: it's too much hockey, he said, with traveling and practicing.
Speaker 3: And he said, NHL, you go town to town and
Speaker 3: practice practice, and then you're at hotel practice practice. He said,
Speaker 3: it takes a more toll. He said, we're not at
Speaker 3: the park anymore. Buddy's up. Just let you know. So
Speaker 3: he listen to what he said, It takes a toll
Speaker 3: on your body.
Speaker 2: Mhm, Samir, what what do you think about that?
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't really follow hockey that much. I
Speaker 4: don't really know much about it. I mean I know
Speaker 4: a little bit about it, and we don't have a
Speaker 4: seen in Atlanta obviously, but if there's a team, I
Speaker 4: probably follows the Flyers. So I don't really know much
Speaker 4: about hockey.
Speaker 2: But bright right, Hey, listen, Hey, me and Samir are
Speaker 2: in the same boat. And what we're not gonna do
Speaker 2: is we're not gonna make fun of him. Pisman, you're
Speaker 2: gonna stay out of.
Speaker 3: This, okay, okay, and.
Speaker 2: The southern gentleman. Hey, So Samir, to their point, though
Speaker 2: we can talk generically about hockey, would you agree that?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: But one thing about hockey, Samir A can you see
Speaker 2: the puck? And b can you agree with me though
Speaker 2: that it is hot like football on ice?
Speaker 4: I would say it's kind of like a mix of
Speaker 4: football and in a way baseball on ice. I don't
Speaker 4: know why, but.
Speaker 2: Yeah I can see that. Yeah I can see that.
Speaker 2: But as far as the contact level goes right, yeah,
Speaker 2: they smash into the glass a lot. And then can
Speaker 2: you see the puck though? When you watch a hockey game?
Speaker 4: So yeah, yeah I can't.
Speaker 2: So you're a step ahead of me. You might have
Speaker 2: more of a future in hockey than I do.
Speaker 4: Brother.
Speaker 1: So if we're gonna talk hockey though, and we're talking playoffs,
Speaker 1: I also have to talk about my AHL Milwaukee Admirals
Speaker 1: because they are going for the Calder Cup. Yes, JD.
Speaker 1: So I've got to do that because you know, I
Speaker 1: didn't grow I didn't grow up with NHL. I grew
Speaker 1: up with AHL. There they are the feeders for the
Speaker 1: national product. So but they are actually still in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: so let's hope that they can continue their run. But Pensman,
Speaker 1: any other thoughts about the NHL playoffs Just exciting.
Speaker 3: It's back and forth. The teams are surprising, Brian, since
Speaker 3: you're on hereby as we'll talk about since you can
Speaker 3: blare my ear off about it. The Dallas Stars are
Speaker 3: making a impressive run. So we'll see what happens with
Speaker 3: the Dallas Stars. We'll see if they can make a
Speaker 3: Cup run. Since Brian picked them, I don't know what
Speaker 3: he picked from. But it's not like March's Madness, where
Speaker 3: you make a bracket but wherever. But Brian picked him
Speaker 3: to win the Stanley Cup. But I still say the
Speaker 3: Capitols are the best team in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, pen'sman, there's been some We're gonna switch to baseball.
Speaker 1: There's some big news coming out of your town there.
Speaker 1: You want to talk about it.
Speaker 3: Let me know what that is. Because in case I
Speaker 3: didn't hear about.
Speaker 4: It, the Pirates fired the manager that one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but by the way, everybody go look at the
Speaker 3: short I made it short about that, Yeah, forgot.
Speaker 2: He had no idea what you were talking about.
Speaker 3: I follow two teams, That's why. So Derek Shelton got
Speaker 3: fired today. He tried, he tried, he failed. Do I
Speaker 3: blame him?
Speaker 4: Not?
Speaker 3: Really? It's Derek Shelton is a low uh not. He's
Speaker 3: really laid back. He's not in your face. He's like,
Speaker 3: all right, you gotta pop up, and he's like, all right,
Speaker 3: whatever you need somebody. All these guys you make it air.
Speaker 3: You gotta get in your face and be like, all right,
Speaker 3: this is what you did wrong. That's what you need
Speaker 3: to do. Pirates need to do something. They finished the
Speaker 3: same record two years in a row. They haven't made
Speaker 3: the play all since two thousand and two, two thousand
Speaker 3: and three, I think it was they lost to the
Speaker 3: San Francisco Giants in the wild card. But that's what
Speaker 3: Pittsburgh Steelers. Pittsburgh Steelers are good. They're going to go
Speaker 3: through this. The Penguins went through it, they so the
Speaker 3: Pirates they went through it today. Well, so Pittsburgh's trying
Speaker 3: to rebuild. They're trying to go back to the winning formula.
Speaker 3: So that's what I got.
Speaker 1: Anybody else want to comment about Derek Shelton getting let
Speaker 1: go after he's posted a three zh six to four
Speaker 1: forty records since joining Pittsburgh prior to the twenty twenty campaign.
Speaker 1: The club has never won more than seventy six games
Speaker 1: with him under it, but the thirty eight game mark
Speaker 1: is the earliest the Pirates fired a manager since Bill
Speaker 1: Watkins was canned after twenty two games, you have to
Speaker 1: go all the way back to eighteen ninety nine. Eighteen
Speaker 1: ninety nine, but the bench coach now is Don Kelly
Speaker 1: was named the interim skipper. So any other thoughts, gentlemen.
Speaker 2: Samir, do you have anything?
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, I mean, I don't know if it's
Speaker 4: necessarily his fault. I mean, given that the team really,
Speaker 4: outside of maybe Paul Skiins, O'Neil Cruz and a couple
Speaker 4: of other guys, I mean, isn't very good. And large
Speaker 4: part of that is due to the ownership, which is
Speaker 4: for the longest time refused to build or invest in
Speaker 4: the team or retain any of their homegrown salent. Like
Speaker 4: I know, they've had a lot of some homegrown players
Speaker 4: that they ended up getting getting rid of they didn't
Speaker 4: want to pay him. So that's what I feel like.
Speaker 4: The problem is over with the Pirates.
Speaker 3: And it all comes down to buddyball. That's what it is.
Speaker 3: It all comes down to moneyball. They don't they don't
Speaker 3: have the money to put the players all the field.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean in some cases, like you know, the
Speaker 4: owner has the money, they just don't want to spend it.
Speaker 4: There's like, we have a similar situation going on here
Speaker 4: with the Braves where we have let some franchise cornerstones
Speaker 4: like Max Freed, Freddie Freeman, for example, We've let them
Speaker 4: leave in free agency and we haven't won a playoff
Speaker 4: series since we won our last World Series in twenty
Speaker 4: twenty one. So it's like, you know, the argument is,
Speaker 4: maybe if you had then all you could to make
Speaker 4: sure Freddie Freeman didn't walk out the door, or maybe
Speaker 4: if you had pay Max Freed, who is having a
Speaker 4: great year with the Yankees, you know, where would the
Speaker 4: team be right now?
Speaker 2: Well, the Braves are right up my alley, Samir, and
Speaker 2: you literally you tied all that in again in a
Speaker 2: nice little bow for me, the Pittsburgh Pirates. That was
Speaker 2: going to be my take. You can't say the owner
Speaker 2: doesn't have money if they're not spending money. All of
Speaker 2: these MLB franchises are worth the money. If they want
Speaker 2: to go in debt to sign these players, they can
Speaker 2: do it. They have the collateral, they can sign these players.
Speaker 2: They don't have to spend peanuts when they can go buy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, especially the Braves considering how much money they make
Speaker 4: alone off of the battery if you if you know
Speaker 4: what that is, it's the area around the state. They
Speaker 4: make a ton of money off the battery year round.
Speaker 2: So not only that about the Braves though, they've got
Speaker 2: all of these dudes already, all of their young core, they're.
Speaker 4: All you've got guys locked up. Why not build off
Speaker 4: of that. Strider is dealing with an injury, He's been
Speaker 4: dealing with injuries the past couple of years. Why not
Speaker 4: spend that money to help your starting pitch. AJ Minner
Speaker 4: is gone, Joe Jimenez, he's out for the year. Like
Speaker 4: that would have been a great opportunity to bolster their bullpen.
Speaker 4: They were so report was the front office was in
Speaker 4: on Tanner Scott and they thought they had him. But
Speaker 4: the thing is they didn't want to give him that
Speaker 4: extra year and he ended up signing with the Dodgers.
Speaker 4: He like he could have. He could have definitely helped
Speaker 4: our bullpen right now.
Speaker 2: You could have kept naming Braves that we've lost though, too.
Speaker 2: Mark to Sharah Andrew Jones, I mean, Tom, I.
Speaker 4: Feel like Andrew Jones was towards the end of his
Speaker 4: career when he left, he won't the same player.
Speaker 2: Right, but still even then though we've lost all those
Speaker 2: other Rian McCann Yeah, Brian mccannon, I mean you. The
Speaker 2: list goes on and on and people are like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 2: the Braves might sign show Hey. Oh Tani. I was like,
Speaker 2: y'all are they don't even pay their own players like that?
Speaker 2: There ain't no way they're paying show Hey to come
Speaker 2: to Atlanta. Uh, but they do have.
Speaker 4: What's gonna happen when when it's time for Racuna to
Speaker 4: get a new contract.
Speaker 2: Oh, he'll be gone. Yeah, all the injuries and everything,
Speaker 2: he'll be gone.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, as unfortunate as it is. I mean,
Speaker 4: I really hope they can find a way to pay him.
Speaker 4: Hopefully we have new ownership by then, but.
Speaker 2: Hope in one hand wishing the other. We'll see which
Speaker 2: one fills up faster. Samir, are you a Braves fan? Oh?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm a fan of all the Atlanta.
Speaker 2: Teas A gotcha? Okay? Well hey yeah, we hadn't even
Speaker 2: really gotten a known Samir. I don't think he's introduced
Speaker 2: himself to the fans. And who you're a fan?
Speaker 1: Tell us about about yourself?
Speaker 4: Yeah, so I am so what that means, I'm Samir
Speaker 4: a little late introduction. I am a freelance contributor for
Speaker 4: Sideline Sports, so I work with James, uh Joe and
Speaker 4: the rest of the people there. I cover the NFL, NBA, MLB,
Speaker 4: but my preferred league or league of the most expertise,
Speaker 4: I would say, is the NFL. So I write articles
Speaker 4: mainly for Atlanta Sports. So that's the Hawks, the Braves,
Speaker 4: and the Falcons. I wrote a pretty good article I
Speaker 4: think about the Draft night trade up for James Pierce
Speaker 4: Junior and how that indirectly in a way impacts the
Speaker 4: Kirk Cousins saga. So plan on having that up soon.
Speaker 3: Good.
Speaker 2: Well, I'll be looking forward to hearing it. As a
Speaker 2: matter of fact, Hey Pensman, you remember those rankings the
Speaker 2: other day. Yeah, Atlanta Falcons. Yeah, I ranked them number
Speaker 2: one in the NFC South. As far as draft winners
Speaker 2: and losers, I like it.
Speaker 4: I liked in a while, best draft we've had in
Speaker 4: a while. And I was like, remember, going into the draft,
Speaker 4: was like, at this point, just get it to five players,
Speaker 4: specifically a pass rusher because look one but two yeah
Speaker 4: we got two. Like I was like just getting.
Speaker 2: I wanted both. Oh yeah, I'm a Panther fan and
Speaker 2: I wanted both. And y'all got them.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I did not think Jalen Walker would. I thought
Speaker 4: you guys are gonna take Walker at eight. I was like,
Speaker 4: I thought, you guys are gonna I mean, the mc
Speaker 4: millan is going to be a really good receiver, though,
Speaker 4: I think he's going to be a problem. I think
Speaker 4: good for Bryce Young. He finally has a true wide
Speaker 4: receiver one.
Speaker 2: The math doesn't Matt though. The Panthers there last year
Speaker 2: from from the second round into the first round to
Speaker 2: take xavili Get.
Speaker 4: I don't think he's a wide receiver one.
Speaker 2: I know, but that's what I'm saying. You just did
Speaker 2: that last year, and then now when everybody wants you
Speaker 2: to go defense, you just released the Davian clowney today,
Speaker 2: by the way.
Speaker 4: I saw it. Yeah, I mean, if we pick him up,
Speaker 4: I think that wouldn't be a bad pick up for us.
Speaker 2: You better stop. Hey, Hey, we've been on good term, Samir,
Speaker 2: don't start. No, no, I don't know. He was just
Speaker 2: talking crap y'all last year. No, no, no, no, I
Speaker 2: would not have my game. Y'all cannot have him, y'all
Speaker 2: can't have him. No, not happening.
Speaker 3: JD JD.
Speaker 4: I mean that's kind of how like two we rafted
Speaker 4: a come here in the fifth round and he had
Speaker 4: rushed for a thousand yards and then Jalen Carter is
Speaker 4: right there on the board, and like, man, if we
Speaker 4: got Jalen Carter, like, imagine like and he's right like
Speaker 4: he just keeps dropping and dropping and dropping and then
Speaker 4: oh he's there at eight. And I mean as much
Speaker 4: as I like Bjon Robinson, obviously he's a top five
Speaker 4: back in the league. So that kind of helps, you know,
Speaker 4: kind of helps you know, he still having a guy
Speaker 4: like Jalen Carter, especially now that with Grady gone.
Speaker 2: Man right, Well, my one fear though about the Falcons, sorry,
Speaker 2: depends with my one fear that will be about the
Speaker 2: Falcon the Falcons. It wouldn't be Bejon. I'd be worried
Speaker 2: about that quarterback going in this year with Michael Pennix Jr.
Speaker 2: There is I mean, we still got a lot to
Speaker 2: learn about that cap in my opinion.
Speaker 4: I mean, I feel good about him. My only concern
Speaker 4: about him is his accuracy, which I think could have
Speaker 4: been better with timing and more repid and more reps
Speaker 4: because in practice from the end of training camp to
Speaker 4: when he was named started in Week sixteen, he got
Speaker 4: I think no reps with the Ones because remember Kirk
Speaker 4: was a starter up until that point, so he got
Speaker 4: in little to no reps with the Ones. So I
Speaker 4: think if they can get that down this offseason and
Speaker 4: build back chemistry, I think that'd be beneficial. And again,
Speaker 4: him only only other concern is his health because he
Speaker 4: did have four season ending injuries in college. Mm hmm.
Speaker 4: But I feel good about him. He He's shown that
Speaker 4: he can make big time throws when he when he
Speaker 4: needs to. He's not afraid of the big moment. We
Speaker 4: saw that against the Commander's game on the line fourth
Speaker 4: and goal made that that throw to Kyle Pitts is
Speaker 4: still ridiculous, Like I still don't know how he fit
Speaker 4: it in that tight hole like that. Like I'm like,
Speaker 4: when he made that throw, I thought we were going
Speaker 4: to win that game for sure. And then that ridiculous
Speaker 4: throw to Caderill Hodge down the sideline he made the
Speaker 4: next week against the Panthers. So he's got the elite
Speaker 4: arm talent. He's not afraid to make the big throw.
Speaker 4: His only question I have about him is his accuracy,
Speaker 4: which again is more of a which I think again,
Speaker 4: is more of a timing repetitions thing in just his
Speaker 4: long term health.
Speaker 3: You you got to remember Samir that you said it
Speaker 3: from training camp to week sixteen. Now that he has
Speaker 3: a full season, we'll see how he acts. Now. You
Speaker 3: can't go you can't go by those those couple of games.
Speaker 3: And I'm sure his accuracy, the way he played against
Speaker 3: the Commanders, I'm sure he would be all right.
Speaker 1: So I have to I have to say something to Eddie. Eddie,
Speaker 1: Chicago produced a pope before they produced a quarterback in
Speaker 1: Chicago that could throw for four thousand yards. That's all
Speaker 1: I got. I'm sorry I had to say that because.
Speaker 2: Somebody just got cooked. Don't fire up this evening.
Speaker 1: I mean Caleb really anyways. But yes, So what I
Speaker 1: have to ask you guys, how do you guys feel
Speaker 1: about the Rams taking mini camp to Hawaii? Did you
Speaker 1: guys see that they're gonna take it. They're teaming up
Speaker 1: with Hawaii Tourism and they're gonna be doing their training
Speaker 1: camp for Monday, June sixteenth to Thursday June nineteenth. They're
Speaker 1: going to Maui.
Speaker 3: Not a bad thing, is It's not a bad thing?
Speaker 4: I mean well, I mean what do you really lose
Speaker 4: from me?
Speaker 2: I mean, I think they just wanted to get everybody
Speaker 2: to show up.
Speaker 3: From all wildfires, that's from all that's going on out there.
Speaker 3: I don't blame it one bit. Just get change scenery.
Speaker 3: See what happens. The introduced football to Hawaii people, So
Speaker 3: see what happens. I'm for it.
Speaker 2: We gave you three positives already, Candy, Do you have
Speaker 2: a negative about it?
Speaker 1: No, No, I'm just asking your opinion that the negative
Speaker 1: I would say would be for the people, the casual
Speaker 1: fans that live around LA that don't get to go
Speaker 1: to games that if you take a mini camp like
Speaker 1: this away, are the fans losing out because they can't
Speaker 1: be there to see the practices because typically they're you know,
Speaker 1: you don't charge for practices and stuff like that. So
Speaker 1: most of your fans during the summer when school isn't
Speaker 1: in session, they'd be able to see those. And now
Speaker 1: if you're taking into more, there's no way they're traveling.
Speaker 1: But it gives a different audience a chance to see
Speaker 1: NFL camp as well.
Speaker 3: All depends on what kind of fail you are too.
Speaker 3: If you're a season ticket fan that you I don't
Speaker 3: know Yeah.
Speaker 4: I mean I feel like if you're a season secret holder,
Speaker 4: it's or you go to games frequently, it's kind of
Speaker 4: like a whatever for you. But if you are again
Speaker 4: a fan that you know may maybe doesn't get to
Speaker 4: go to games often or doesn't get to see the
Speaker 4: team often, I feel like that can kind of be
Speaker 4: a tough blow because that's kind of one of your
Speaker 4: best opportunities to see the team up front.
Speaker 2: And close like that, right exactly, and have memories of
Speaker 2: a lifetime. Yeah, I agree, Samir, I've I kind of
Speaker 2: I've gotten robbed here as a Carolina Panther fan. I
Speaker 2: know it's well documented they moved their training camp. They
Speaker 2: were supposed to go to rock Hill in that new facility.
Speaker 2: They were at Wofford for a very long time, which is,
Speaker 2: you know, twenty minutes down the road. And so I
Speaker 2: did say that it was a positive. I think that
Speaker 2: they can try to get everybody to go to Maui
Speaker 2: and not have anybody like, oh yeah, who doesn't want
Speaker 2: to go to Maui, right, Like, okay, all the football
Speaker 2: players will show up, thank goodness. But it was kind
Speaker 2: of a negative too that they have to go to
Speaker 2: Maui in order to get all the football players to
Speaker 2: show up. So I feel I mean, some fans are
Speaker 2: gonna feel robbed, some fans will buy a ticket to Mali,
Speaker 2: and at the end of the day, the NFL will
Speaker 2: make money.
Speaker 1: Okay, yep, of course I'm gonna do a quick station break.
Speaker 1: But when we come back on the flip side, I
Speaker 1: want your guys' opinions on the NFL taking the draft
Speaker 1: to Washington.
Speaker 3: D C.
Speaker 1: After it goes to Pittsburgh. So with that being said,
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Speaker 1: do we feel about the NFL Draft going to Washington,
Speaker 1: d C? And I hit that from what I've heard,
Speaker 1: they're going to have it by the Washington Monument. They're
Speaker 1: gonna have it out, big, out in the open like that.
Speaker 1: What's our thoughts? Whoever wants to.
Speaker 3: Go, go, Smar, you want to start it?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I go, I will. I feel like it
Speaker 4: makes sense. And it was announced that the year was
Speaker 4: twenty twenty seven, right when it would be held in Washington. See, yeah,
Speaker 4: I feel like it does make sense. And the following
Speaker 4: reasons are that you have a team that represents Washington,
Speaker 4: DC that's on the rise. They've got a young, superstar
Speaker 4: franchise quarterback, and they hopefully or not hopefully, but they
Speaker 4: looks like they're going to be a threat in the
Speaker 4: NFC East maybe for years to come. And then having
Speaker 4: it in the nation's capital in a way makes sense
Speaker 4: considering the fact that the reason they originally decided to
Speaker 4: move it out of New York City and change it
Speaker 4: on a year by year basis, was due to the
Speaker 4: reason that, as the NFL mentioned, it basically outgrew Radio
Speaker 4: City Music Hall, and by what we've seen over the
Speaker 4: past few years, by how given how many people attend
Speaker 4: the draft, the NFL is right in that estimation. By
Speaker 4: for example, just look at Green Bay. Look at the
Speaker 4: number of people they had, you know, watching it at
Speaker 4: lambeau Field and then watching it, you know, right where
Speaker 4: the draft was. It outgrew Radio City Music Hall, And
Speaker 4: it does make sense to kind of move to different
Speaker 4: places in in this case Washington, it makes sense. Detroit
Speaker 4: kind of fit that same bill. Last year you had
Speaker 4: a young team who had struggled for the last twenty
Speaker 4: twenty five years that was now on the come up,
Speaker 4: and Michigan had just won the National Championship. Obviously it
Speaker 4: was named a location before that, but it just made sense.
Speaker 4: And I feel like in this case it makes sense.
Speaker 3: Okay, anybody else, I agree with what Samira said. Everybody
Speaker 3: had a chance, and everybody's gonna get a chance. The
Speaker 3: way that they're going to city, the city, I'm going
Speaker 3: like it's going to Pittsburgh next year, so this would
Speaker 3: be the first time they go to Pittsburgh. So we're
Speaker 3: all say for that. So Detroit had Green Bay had
Speaker 3: it Lambo that was right next to Lambo, and it
Speaker 3: was really put on. If you guys didn't mess the draft,
Speaker 3: it was one of the best drafts in NFL history.
Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 3: So yeah, that was.
Speaker 4: Probably one of the more entertaining ones in a while.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, And I feel like because by moving it
Speaker 4: on a year by year basis, you're gonna have it
Speaker 4: in locations that otherwise wouldn't get to host a super Bowl,
Speaker 4: like you have Green Bay and Pittsburgh and back to
Speaker 4: back years. Those are two NFL blue bloods. Those are
Speaker 4: Those are the legacy teams, the ones with the Hall
Speaker 4: of Famers, the Super Bowls, the national following, the fan bases,
Speaker 4: large fan bases. You know, they don't play any road
Speaker 4: games basically, and you know, as a Steelers fan you
Speaker 4: probably know that. But those cities otherwise would not host
Speaker 4: a Super Bowl. So I guess it does help that,
Speaker 4: you know, you give them an alternative by letting them
Speaker 4: host the NFL Draft.
Speaker 1: JD, You're on mute.
Speaker 2: I wasn't talking what are you talking about? I had
Speaker 2: a phone call real quick. Yeah, I was on the phone. No, No,
Speaker 2: I'm kidding. No, I definitely talked on mute. Score that
Speaker 2: one in mind one to zero. JD is losing as usual,
Speaker 2: ladies and gentlemen. But no, My thing about it would
Speaker 2: be is that will all of the teams, Will all
Speaker 2: of the cities get to host that NFL Draft? I
Speaker 2: feel like there's gonna be a few that are left
Speaker 2: out somewhere, or they're put way down the road. And
Speaker 2: then say it's the Carolina Panthers like we're talking about
Speaker 2: in the chat that. I mean, we've got someone who
Speaker 2: wants to name them the Mexico City Panthers, the Tijuana Panthers.
Speaker 2: They got some money that agrees with Samir great to
Speaker 2: be in DC for the NFL Draft. But I just
Speaker 2: feel like there's gonna be teams that are left out.
Speaker 4: I mean, if Cleveland, out of all places, got to
Speaker 4: host one, I don't think Charlotte will have any issues
Speaker 4: getting to host one.
Speaker 2: Well, I mean David Tepper's the owner. That would be
Speaker 2: the one downfall of that. Well, No, like nobody likes
Speaker 2: that guy.
Speaker 4: I don't think people like Jimmy haslim either.
Speaker 2: So yeah, maybe the Saints won't give them. But yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean as long as all the if all of
Speaker 2: the cities get them, I'm good with it. I like
Speaker 2: good competition. I'm good with it being moved around. But
Speaker 2: like you said, maybe that's why some of those teams
Speaker 2: are getting these drafts is because we all know the
Speaker 2: super Bowl will never be played without a roof over
Speaker 2: its head ever again. If it were to snow in
Speaker 2: that city where the super Bowl is to be played
Speaker 2: and they got to will out all of this halftime
Speaker 2: show stuff and ruin the field, it's not going to happen.
Speaker 2: So the super Bowl will never be played at an
Speaker 2: outdoor venue ever again.
Speaker 1: In my opinion, interesting interesting takes. It's all good. It's
Speaker 1: all good. I mean, let's face that a lot of
Speaker 1: people really questioned after Detroit had the NFL draft, how
Speaker 1: Green Bay could even possibly compare. And it's not a
Speaker 1: matter of how many, but was it a good draft?
Speaker 1: Did you know? And could they handle it? And they
Speaker 1: showed they showed that they could. I mean they figured
Speaker 1: over six hundred thousand people going to a city that
Speaker 1: only has a population of one hundred and seven thousand.
Speaker 3: And there was people sitting at lambeau Field too. M hm.
Speaker 3: So yes, I like that. I liked the lambo they
Speaker 3: were They said that, say, the Pittsburgh Steelers were on
Speaker 3: the Steelers are on the clock. They had that around
Speaker 3: the stadium. That was cool.
Speaker 1: So my question is is, now that we've seen the
Speaker 1: draft move from place to place, and we know the
Speaker 1: NFL has been expanding, do you ever think the Draft
Speaker 1: will be held at an international location?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, just give it a couple more years.
Speaker 4: That's why I think it's only a matter of time.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, London, Brazil, just give it time. We talked
Speaker 3: about this last We talked about this last show, that
Speaker 3: hockey's going air national. We're talking about that, and I
Speaker 3: think the Draft's gonna go in aternational as well. That
Speaker 3: I can see that.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Also, given how much of a push Roger Goodell's made,
Speaker 4: oh yeah, try and globalize the game.
Speaker 3: I think it's gonna be held in London. That's where
Speaker 3: I'm predicted that the first draft's gonna be played, because
Speaker 3: that's where the most NFL games will be played at
Speaker 3: as right now.
Speaker 4: I would say London or Germany.
Speaker 2: Right well, I would say that we're thinking smaller. We
Speaker 2: need to think bigger as far as the time of
Speaker 2: this goes, because as of now, we still don't even
Speaker 2: have an international franchise. We still have not played an
Speaker 2: international super Bowl. So I think that both of those
Speaker 2: things have to come into fruition first in order for
Speaker 2: them to have a draft overseas where all of the
Speaker 2: college football players are from America. Now, if there's ever
Speaker 2: a time where there's more college football players in Europe
Speaker 2: than there are here, maybe they do it before they
Speaker 2: have the Super Bowl and teams overseas. But I think
Speaker 2: we're twenty years away, twenty twenty five years.
Speaker 3: I was going to say fifteen to twenty, yeah, so maybe. Okay,
Speaker 3: My question is going back to Washington, d C. Well,
Speaker 3: the Commanders move out of FedEx Field and go to
Speaker 3: Washington DC Stadium. That's why that's why this week.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we don't build a plan that by around twenty
Speaker 4: thirty they're going to move back to downtown d C.
Speaker 4: And they're basically going to build a new RFK stadium
Speaker 4: over the current one where they used to play.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but is the people actually going to go for that,
Speaker 3: because there's a lot of people in Virginia that's protesting
Speaker 3: it that they want to keep the Commanders there.
Speaker 4: Well, the Commanders do currently play in Maryland Landover.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, that's what I'm saying, that there's people that
Speaker 3: are complaining and protesting that they don't want them to
Speaker 3: move because of where their location is and there's nothing
Speaker 3: there other besides that stadium.
Speaker 4: I mean, I know them. They played in downtown d
Speaker 4: C for years before they moved to Landover, and I
Speaker 4: know there's been a push for a while, even years
Speaker 4: ago when Dan Snyder was still the owner from fans
Speaker 4: to try and move the Commander's back to downtown d C.
Speaker 4: So it seems like from what I've heard, and I
Speaker 4: have family that are Commanders fans, it seems like it's
Speaker 4: the popular thing to do. And let's be real, even
Speaker 4: this year FedEx Field, you know, until late in the season,
Speaker 4: wasn't that much of a home field advantage for the
Speaker 4: Commanders regarding the ratio between Commanders fans and opposing teams fans.
Speaker 4: Like this is late in the season when they're playing
Speaker 4: the Eagles, and I was watching the game and it
Speaker 4: had to be at least forty to forty five percent
Speaker 4: Eagles fans in at the game. So I feel like
Speaker 4: maybe moving downtown will help. I don't know the breakdown
Speaker 4: of the Commander's fan base completely, so maybe moving downtown
Speaker 4: will help with that. Maybe a majority of their fan
Speaker 4: base is stationed in downtown d C. But again, only
Speaker 4: time will tell.
Speaker 1: That's true. That's true. Uh, Peter, just I'm gonna my
Speaker 1: my tone is gonna have something to do with this,
Speaker 1: So just hold your thought there a little bit there.
Speaker 2: So, Hey, Chuck, mister joke too because he mentioned the
Speaker 2: Vatican City about the Pope and American would be a
Speaker 2: good one. And I was like, Candy had a good
Speaker 2: joke about that, brother.
Speaker 1: Yep, I liked that one. That one's good. Any other
Speaker 1: topics any of you guys want to bring up before
Speaker 1: we go into my tone.
Speaker 3: No, but I just have breaking news that the Wolves
Speaker 3: are beating the Warriors ninety four to seventy seven right now.
Speaker 3: So JD's wondering about that for the Warriors come back.
Speaker 2: My first thought was how much time is left because
Speaker 2: we've seen twenty point comebacks a.
Speaker 3: Lot, Harry, We're still the third quarter.
Speaker 2: Yeah, hey, with then seventeen Yeah, I know Buddy Hill's
Speaker 2: played well, He's been my X factor kind of Draymond Green.
Speaker 2: He's going to get a technical and get thrown out
Speaker 2: at some point, and Anthony Edwards will talk a lot
Speaker 2: of smacks if he's not back yet. Yeah, that's my
Speaker 2: prediction for that series. That's the last comment. I think
Speaker 2: we had candy before we go to my town.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's go. Let's go to my town. Smear my town,
Speaker 1: and for all you audience, I advise this topic so
Speaker 1: that you can talk about either the town you currently
Speaker 1: live in or the town you you grew up in
Speaker 1: if you happen to let's face, I grew up. I
Speaker 1: grew up in Wisconsin, so I'm a Packers, Brewers, Bucks fan.
Speaker 1: But I'm now I live in South Florida, but typically
Speaker 1: my town, I still relate all to Wisconsin sports more
Speaker 1: than I do down here. So that's why I said,
Speaker 1: you can pick whichever. So we're gonna start with JD.
Speaker 1: What's happening in your town?
Speaker 2: Oh my goodness? All right, so my town is more
Speaker 2: of a little bit of a rant kind of that's fine,
Speaker 2: but it does relate to my town. So did we
Speaker 2: all see that the Colorado fan is suing the NFL
Speaker 2: for emotional distress for how far Shador Sanders fell in
Speaker 2: the draft. Yep, okay. And when I stay suing him,
Speaker 2: I mean suing them for like one hundred million dollars,
Speaker 2: Like just give me a million and I'll be good, okay,
Speaker 2: And so that brings me to my town. I would
Speaker 2: like to sue most of the teens that I am
Speaker 2: a fan of Carolina Panthers for never winning a Super Bowl,
Speaker 2: South Carolina game Cocks football team, never winning a national championship.
Speaker 2: The baseball team. I literally I get home from my
Speaker 2: son's baseball game, I turn it on to check on
Speaker 2: a little game Cox baseball and they're playing Auburn and
Speaker 2: the score is seventeen to one.
Speaker 4: That's crazy, what bro, What.
Speaker 2: Is happening with South Carolina baseball? And so I would
Speaker 2: like to sue them.
Speaker 3: For here comes a short, everybody.
Speaker 2: I would like to sue them for emotional distress. Carolina Panthers,
Speaker 2: I could sue you for emotional distress. Atlanta Braves, two
Speaker 2: World Series and nineteen million Division championships. I could sue
Speaker 2: you for emotional distress.
Speaker 3: There go JD.
Speaker 4: There you go, Oh my god, twenty four to two.
Speaker 3: There you go.
Speaker 2: That sounds like the worst football score I've ever seen
Speaker 2: in my life, the.
Speaker 4: Falcons Giants wild card game years ago. Yeah, at that
Speaker 4: exact score, if that's what you're referring to.
Speaker 2: Man, No, I mean, I don't even know if you're
Speaker 2: good enough to get a safety on defense, By golly,
Speaker 2: you better be able to score a touchdown on offense
Speaker 2: twenty four to two.
Speaker 3: Wise, chady or wise are your sports choices? Hey?
Speaker 4: It ain't.
Speaker 2: It ain't like I woke up and just was like,
Speaker 2: you know what, I want to be a Braves fan. Oh,
Speaker 2: I want to be a game Cock fan. Hey, my
Speaker 2: sister was smart. She swapped over to Clemtson right before
Speaker 2: they won a couple of national championships. So she's all
Speaker 2: happy and go lucky God. And so hey Clempson though
Speaker 2: their baseball team. Guess what. I tried to be a
Speaker 2: nice game Cock fan. I predicted them to make it
Speaker 2: to the College Worlds. And I truly believe that. If
Speaker 2: I didn't believe it, I wouldn't tell you that. And
Speaker 2: sure enough, they've lost six of their last seven games.
Speaker 2: Y'all that somebody tied a concrete block to the baseball
Speaker 2: team in Clemson and it's sinking to the bottom of
Speaker 2: the river right now, and so I'm just suing everybody
Speaker 2: for emotional distress. And that is my hometown. Take this evening, y'all.
Speaker 1: Okay, Pensman, what's happening in your tone?
Speaker 3: Southern flight? Fright, y'all? Mos up? So fifty eight, it's
Speaker 3: gonna fry all of his teams.
Speaker 2: Just watch, but nobody is above getting cooked.
Speaker 3: Okay, what's happened in my town is we're cleaning houses.
Speaker 3: We've already talked about it. The Pirates are fired their coach,
Speaker 3: Penguins fired their coach. We're trying to get the Pittsburgh
Speaker 3: back to winning, back to winning formula. Try to figure
Speaker 3: out the right pieces. We'll see what happens. We'll see
Speaker 3: if Don Kelly can take over, but we'll see. That's
Speaker 3: what's happened in my town. What got get new coaches,
Speaker 3: gotta get new everything. So but guys start winning. Guy
Speaker 3: get back in the playoffs. Pirates, they got to actually
Speaker 3: show up in games. So that's what's happened in my town.
Speaker 1: Samir, what's happening in your town?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 4: So, recently, the Hawks are still conducting their search for
Speaker 4: their president of basketball operations. They fired general manager Landry
Speaker 4: Fields a couple of weeks ago. They promoted uh On
Speaker 4: Csala to that same position, and I know Tony Wrestler
Speaker 4: has hired a search firm to lead that search for
Speaker 4: President of basketball Operations. Elton Brand He's currently with the Sixers,
Speaker 4: recently pulled out of the search. He was believed to
Speaker 4: be a front runner. Other people that apparently are being
Speaker 4: considered for the position include Moni McNair. He was the
Speaker 4: former GM of the Sacramento Kings. Calvin Booth former GM
Speaker 4: of the Denver Nuggets. He was recently fired along with
Speaker 4: Mike Malone and Danny Ferry. He was the general manager
Speaker 4: with the Hawks years ago. He played a big role
Speaker 4: in building our famous sixty win team. He hired Mike Budenholzer,
Speaker 4: drafted Dennis Schroeder, signed Paul Millsat, acquired guys like Kent
Speaker 4: Bazemore Damari Carroll. So he had a role in building
Speaker 4: that team. However, he was let go due to some
Speaker 4: insensitive remarks he made about racially insensitive remarks he made
Speaker 4: about low All Dain during his scouting report. He was
Speaker 4: a free agent at the time. So those are some candidates.
Speaker 4: They are looking at it seems like they're still conducting
Speaker 4: a search. I think we may have a update in
Speaker 4: the next few days or so. And when surprised me
Speaker 4: to see if we have a new president next week.
Speaker 4: The Braves I just saw came back walked off the
Speaker 4: Cincinnati Reds five to four. Came on here. Iglesias had
Speaker 4: just given up a two run home run, so we
Speaker 4: were down four to two. But I guess we tied
Speaker 4: it in Drake Baldwin, rookie catcher. I think he's going
Speaker 4: to be very good for us. He hit the walk
Speaker 4: off single now at the Falcons. Obviously you all saw it.
Speaker 4: We made that big trade up on Draft night for
Speaker 4: defensive end James Pearce Junior out of Tennessee. In that
Speaker 4: process we did trade our twenty twenty six first round pick. Now.
Speaker 4: I did write an article, as I mentioned earlier, about
Speaker 4: this and how it affects the decision on whether or
Speaker 4: not they keep Kirk Cousins. We are going to find
Speaker 4: out more whenever Aaron Rodgers decides to make his own
Speaker 4: decision on when he's gonna siun with the Steelers, when
Speaker 4: he's gonna retire, who knows what he's gonna do at
Speaker 4: this point was going through his head. But I mentioned
Speaker 4: how by trading.
Speaker 2: Huh, he's my next co host on Southern Fried Sports.
Speaker 4: Okay, I mentioned how by trading that first, we may
Speaker 4: not have much of a choice but to keep Kirk
Speaker 4: Cousins on our roster as the most expensive backup in
Speaker 4: NFL history. And the reasoning is because everyone knows there's
Speaker 4: a lot of pressure to win in Atlanta this year,
Speaker 4: and chances are if they don't win this year, the
Speaker 4: coach and the general manager are probably gonna get fired.
Speaker 4: So worst case scenario, like the absolute worst case scenario,
Speaker 4: if something happens to Michael Pennix during the season and
Speaker 4: you have Kirk on your roster, you have a quarterback
Speaker 4: who's shown that he is capable of running Zach Robinson's
Speaker 4: offense and being able to successfully run you through for
Speaker 4: five hundred yards against the Bucks, led the Falcons to
Speaker 4: a six and three start before he heard his shoulder
Speaker 4: in that Week ten game in New Orleans and that's
Speaker 4: when everything just went downhill. We're on the contrary, if
Speaker 4: you get rid of Kirk and the same scenario happens.
Speaker 4: Worst case scenario, absolute worst case scenario, your season, chances
Speaker 4: are goes down the draint because the only other quarterback
Speaker 4: we have on the roster right now is Easton Stick
Speaker 4: And if Arthur Blank still decides to clean house, then
Speaker 4: the new regime won't even be able to use their
Speaker 4: first round pick. So I don't want him back on
Speaker 4: the roster next year. I feel like he'd be a distract.
Speaker 4: We don't need that for Penix. But unfortunately, with that trade,
Speaker 4: we may not have much of a choice and it
Speaker 4: might be what's best for the organization at this point,
Speaker 4: as unfortunate as it sounds, because quite frankly, I don't
Speaker 4: want him back. Most Falcons fans feel this way. We
Speaker 4: feel like he's done enough damage, costing cost us a
Speaker 4: draft pick, wasn't really upfront about his injury status, and
Speaker 4: really cost us a chance to playoffs. So but unfortunately,
Speaker 4: it might be what we have to do.
Speaker 2: Wouldn't blame you, Nope, So.
Speaker 1: Kind of my talent. The Green Bay Packers have looked
Speaker 1: in a unique place for quarterback depth. Since you were
Speaker 1: talking about quarterbacks, they picked up the top quarterback out
Speaker 1: of the Canadian college football circuit. Taylor Gilsma came to
Speaker 1: the Packers rookie mini camp last weekend and earned a contract.
Speaker 1: He was invited to the Bills Bills, but Packers got
Speaker 1: him already. He played his college football at the University
Speaker 1: of Wilfrid Lawyer. In his final season, he won Canada's
Speaker 1: equivalent of the Heisman Trophy with four two hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty two passing yards thirty five touchdowns to go with
Speaker 1: seven rushing scores. He was then invited to the Senior Bowl,
Speaker 1: which doesn't happen very often that a Canadian player gets.
Speaker 1: He is an admired Canadian prospect. He was actually taken
Speaker 1: eighteenth overall in last week's CFL Draft by the Winnipeg
Speaker 1: Blue Bombers. He likely would have gone higher if not
Speaker 1: for the known NFL interest. The Packers quarterback room behind
Speaker 1: Love also includes Malik Willis and Sean Clifford, So it
Speaker 1: will be interesting to see what the Packers end up
Speaker 1: doing and who is going to be because if this
Speaker 1: guy is as good as I could see Sean going,
Speaker 1: but I could also see if they have enough faith
Speaker 1: in this guy that Malik Willis might be a little
Speaker 1: bit of trade bait Steelers. I'm just saying, I mean
Speaker 1: what I mean.
Speaker 4: Look if you guys don't get Aaron Rodgers. We have
Speaker 4: a quarterback right here.
Speaker 3: We don't know, we don't. I don't want Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 4: Keep Kirk Cousins.
Speaker 2: I've offered Pensman numerous trades. He didn't want them.
Speaker 3: Horrible Geo Bro offered you the eight pick. Tell Shamir
Speaker 3: the tree. Tell Shamir the trade.
Speaker 2: We had a deal worked out for the eight pick
Speaker 2: and Minka Fitzpatrick Pensman, I, I think we're great gms
Speaker 2: because well, no, I mean there was draft picks attached.
Speaker 3: Tell sir the real tree.
Speaker 2: Well, well, at first I wanted to trade back from
Speaker 2: eight to twenty one, and Pensmon wouldn't take it. Really,
Speaker 2: all I wanted was the second and maybe a fifth
Speaker 2: or something later on, and he could move up thirteen
Speaker 2: spots and he wouldn't take And then he tried to
Speaker 2: throw in Minka Fitzpatrick later on, and I was like yeah.
Speaker 2: I was like, yeah, give me that in a draft pick.
Speaker 2: And I was like, I'll take it because I wanted
Speaker 2: the Panthers to get better on defense, but I did
Speaker 2: not want them to draft a wide receiver with the
Speaker 2: number overall eight overall pick, like this.
Speaker 4: That.
Speaker 2: Golly, don't even we're winding down the show, Samir, we
Speaker 2: don't take me down another rabbit hole.
Speaker 1: With that.
Speaker 2: I blamed Pinsman, my bad smear. I blame Pinsman.
Speaker 1: There you go, there you go. With that being said,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna first thank everybody that's been in the chat room,
Speaker 1: but then I want everybody around the horn to tell
Speaker 1: everybody how they can support you and how they can
Speaker 1: find you, because that's what this is all about, all
Speaker 1: of us growing together. So JD, how can people find
Speaker 1: you and how can they support you?
Speaker 2: Well, thankfully, let me say this first. They could find
Speaker 2: me tonight on the South Florida Tribune. We made it
Speaker 2: through a whole episode, Samir. I don't. I don't know
Speaker 2: if you know this or not, but I've tried to
Speaker 2: join like the last three weeks, and every time I joined,
Speaker 2: we keep getting kicked out. And here we are. I
Speaker 2: finally made it through a show. So y'all can find
Speaker 2: me on South Florida Tribune on Thursday evenings with Candy
Speaker 2: and Pinsman. You can find me on x at j
Speaker 2: D Wyatt zero six, and please subscribe to my YouTube
Speaker 2: channel at Southern fried Sports. JD. Basically I just comment
Speaker 2: and post a bunch of stuff that I'm a fan of, braves, gamecocks, golf, NASCAR.
Speaker 2: So if you're into any one of those things, feel
Speaker 2: free to give me a like, a follow, subscribe, and
Speaker 2: I can't wait to go follow Samir on x SO.
Speaker 2: Is Samir next Candy? Can I throw it to him?
Speaker 3: You can?
Speaker 2: Please? I need to know where I can find you
Speaker 2: on x and YouTube and everything else so we can
Speaker 2: support you. Brother.
Speaker 4: Uh yeah sure. So at the moment, I do not
Speaker 4: have a YouTube channel. I feel like that's something I
Speaker 4: should do. You can follow me on x ATL Underscore
Speaker 4: Samir twenty four oh one. That is my ex You
Speaker 4: can find me on Thursday night on Fired Up and
Speaker 4: hopefully I'm trying to work on something to get on
Speaker 4: the Football show on Tuesday nights.
Speaker 2: We already follow each other, bro, look at there, there
Speaker 2: we go. We're good. Everybody else do the same.
Speaker 4: So I'm working on that right now and you can
Speaker 4: find me right now on the South Florida Tribune. Those
Speaker 4: are where my work my articles are going to be
Speaker 4: published at the moment, because the Sideline Sports website is
Speaker 4: down at the moment. I know Joe mentioned that they're
Speaker 4: working on it and hopefully it'll be back up.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Once again, thank you for having me.
Speaker 1: Glad, Glad you're here. Glad you're here, Hensman. How can
Speaker 1: people find you?
Speaker 3: I'm going to answer this question. If he's healthy and
Speaker 3: if he's ready to go, sign him up. J JD
Speaker 3: says no, but if he's ready to go. But but
Speaker 3: I would say no because of what he did.
Speaker 4: But you don't want no.
Speaker 2: But he'll take Colin Kaepernick.
Speaker 3: Yeah, anyway, anyway, you can find me on ex at
Speaker 3: Pensman Sports.
Speaker 4: He did he threw for five hundred yards, two time
Speaker 4: Offensive Player of the Week.
Speaker 2: I know, I know for a football team, maybe.
Speaker 3: Pittsburgh's gotta figure out what they want to do. So
Speaker 3: we gotta figure out what formula what they're actually doing.
Speaker 3: And you just gave up.
Speaker 4: You guys have one good one good wide receiver, a
Speaker 4: bunch of running backs almost.
Speaker 3: What we traded to George Pick, which we traded George
Speaker 3: Picks the doubt.
Speaker 4: Arthur Smith special sat here for three years, so I know.
Speaker 3: Okay, But you can find me on twitch at Pensman
Speaker 3: Sports seven and you can find me on Pensman Sports
Speaker 3: on YouTube. So go ahead and subscribe, so that's where
Speaker 3: you can find me.
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Speaker 1: ever I've gone a many many baseball games in my lifetime,
Speaker 1: but I don't know that I've ever seen a team
Speaker 1: come from behind to hit a walk off grand Slam
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Speaker 1: I want to say before we close out the show,
Speaker 1: to anybody that is a mother out there, we wish
Speaker 1: you a very happy Mother's Day. Whether you're a single mom,
Speaker 1: whether you're dad doing mom duties, whatever it is, please
Speaker 1: take some time to enjoy your day because without mothers,
Speaker 1: none of us will be here.
Speaker 2: Big facts, Happy Mother's Day, everybody, and Candy. My last
Speaker 2: thing I'll say is bang bang y'all, good
Speaker 1: Night, Thanks everybody, have a great one.