Speaker 1: In the Sports page with The Orlando Sentinel at FM
Speaker 1: ninety six nine. In the Games, Mike the Bulldog Beyonti Jr. R.
Speaker 2: Bulldog Sports Phase brought you by Kaufmin and Lynn Injury Attorneys.
Speaker 2: What's up, Mike Beyanchi? What's up?
Speaker 3: The Orlando Magic opened the NBA season tonight on the
Speaker 3: road against the hated Miami Heat. You guys have been
Speaker 3: around Orlando a lot longer than I have, all right,
Speaker 3: But if you ask me, since I've been in Orlando,
Speaker 3: this is the most anticipated Magic season since since the
Speaker 3: Dwight years, since you know, since the NBA Finals years
Speaker 3: of two thousand and nine. I don't remember a Magic
Speaker 3: season where there was this much anticipation. Obviously, the Magic
Speaker 3: are coming off a playoff run last year. They should
Speaker 3: have won the first round of the playoffs against the
Speaker 3: Cleveland Cavaliers. They lost in Game seven despite having an
Speaker 3: eighteen point lead in the first half. I think this
Speaker 3: Magic season has the makings of being special.
Speaker 1: Are you guys fired up?
Speaker 2: Very positive going into the season with high hopes? Yes,
Speaker 2: very positive.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it's the Dwight Howard feel yet,
Speaker 1: but we have a good team and a damn good coach, a.
Speaker 3: Really good team, A really good coach, a young team.
Speaker 3: I mean, we know what happened last year. The three
Speaker 3: leading scorers were twenty two years old or younger. That's
Speaker 3: only the second time in NBA history that's happened. Palo
Speaker 3: ban Caro coming off an All Star year, the Magic
Speaker 3: have added Kentavious called Will Pope, a two time NBA champion,
Speaker 3: to the roster. This is the I'm not saying the
Speaker 3: Magic are gonna win any championships this year, but to me,
Speaker 3: the minimum expectation is win a round in the playoffs.
Speaker 3: Last year, they made the playoffs. This year, if they
Speaker 3: could win around, that would be okay accomplishment.
Speaker 2: But we all agree. Let's cut to the chase here. Boys.
Speaker 2: Put a number on it, total number of wins regular season.
Speaker 2: What's it going to be?
Speaker 3: Well, last year they won forty seven. They were forty
Speaker 3: seven and five last year. I do think they're gonna
Speaker 3: be better by adding kcp co Contavious Championship Pope as
Speaker 3: I like to call him. I think the Magic are
Speaker 3: gonna win fifty five games this season. Fifty five and
Speaker 3: twenty seven. That'll be good enough for a three seed
Speaker 3: in the East.
Speaker 2: Bulldog, I was gonna land on fifty five as well.
Speaker 2: I'll one up here and go fifty six.
Speaker 1: And I will fifty two it fifty two.
Speaker 3: Okay, you can.
Speaker 4: Got a note of those. We'll refer back to next year, Taco.
Speaker 4: That's how I was doing writing them down. Remind me
Speaker 4: it was right around this date, got it. I'll take
Speaker 4: a picture of it now. NBA season did start last night.
Speaker 4: Lebron James and Bronni James made history. They became the
Speaker 4: first father son dulo to appear in a game together
Speaker 4: when they checked in with four minutes left in the
Speaker 4: second quarter.
Speaker 2: Also the first time in NBA history that the commissioner
Speaker 2: has played with his son.
Speaker 3: The commission Yes, that's right, the commissioner and the player coach.
Speaker 2: You know, and the GA Yes, yes, exactly. It was
Speaker 2: phenomenal history last night.
Speaker 3: I was thinking Adam Silver played with his son light.
Speaker 3: I get it now, I get it. It took me
Speaker 3: a lot alright. By the way, the Griffies were there
Speaker 3: last night, the King Griffy Junior and King Griffy Senior
Speaker 3: where there. They were the first you know, father son
Speaker 3: duo to play Major League Baseball history. Sad news and baseball.
Speaker 3: By the way, Lakers ended up winning that game. Fernando Vlenzuela,
Speaker 3: the Mexican phenom, the rookie who took the Major League
Speaker 3: Major League Baseball by storm back in the early eighties.
Speaker 3: He passed away yesterday at the age of sixty three.
Speaker 3: Sad news for the Dodgers. Do you get are you
Speaker 3: guys old enough to remember?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, man, the big guy on the mound. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 3: Chubby Fernando on the mound. That wind up he had
Speaker 3: when he he would look every time he'd wind up,
Speaker 3: he'd looked skywards.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was. It was.
Speaker 3: You know, we used to try to imitate him when
Speaker 3: we were kids, you know, doing the wind up there.
Speaker 1: So did you push your belly out before you pitched?
Speaker 2: Now, That's how I imitated him, just not pitching, just eating.
Speaker 3: Wow, just as we had suspected and just as we feared. Uh,
Speaker 3: Chris God, when the Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver looks
Speaker 3: like he's out for the year with that dislocated ankle
Speaker 3: that he suffered in the loss to the Baltimore Ravens
Speaker 3: on Monday night. Also, Mike Evans, the Buccaneers other star receiver.
Speaker 3: He's gonna be out until at least the bye we
Speaker 3: week eleven with a strained hamstring that looked pretty serious
Speaker 3: as well. So the Bucks will be without their top
Speaker 3: two wide receivers this week against against Atlanta, the following
Speaker 3: week against the Chiefs, and then the following week against
Speaker 3: the forty nine Ers. I hate to say it, but
Speaker 3: by the time Mike Evans gets back, the Bucks could
Speaker 3: be four and six in facing an uphill climb.
Speaker 1: To make the playoffs.
Speaker 2: So we'll see what happens.
Speaker 3: And by the way, Taco Bob, Yeah, Fantasy League advice,
Speaker 3: go pick up Bucks receiver Sterling Shepherd from your waiver wire.
Speaker 3: What I was gonna ask you, perfect, what else we
Speaker 3: have in sports?
Speaker 2: Lightning last night? Right lightning one to eight five last
Speaker 2: night over in New Jersey.
Speaker 3: There you go, there you go. Oh, here's here's here's
Speaker 3: an item. I wanted to get to the home run
Speaker 3: ball show. Hey O, tany fiftieth home run ball? Of course,
Speaker 3: he had fifty home runs fifty stolen bases, first major
Speaker 3: League baseball player to ever do that. His fiftieth home
Speaker 3: run ball fetched four point four million dollars at auction.
Speaker 3: That's the highest ever paid for any ball in any sport.
Speaker 2: Could you guys imagine having that kind of just spare
Speaker 2: change laying around to buy something like that. But yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: come on.
Speaker 3: By the way, we had a discussion after, you know,
Speaker 3: the ball was caught by the guy and you know,
Speaker 3: and we had some Texas calling, oh, he should have
Speaker 3: just given the ball to show Eotani for some season
Speaker 3: tickets and a sign jersey.
Speaker 2: I'm like, yeah, right, okay, that's exactly what you do, buddy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the Willy You're holding on to the Willy
Speaker 1: Wonka ticket, right, yeah, yes, the Golden ticket.
Speaker 2: Good analogy, taco.
Speaker 3: I knew this was going to be a wrecord because
Speaker 3: first of all, it happened in LA with the Dodgers,
Speaker 3: where there's a lot of money, and secondly, show hey,
Speaker 3: Otani's like the biggest sports star in Japan. I'm just guessing,
Speaker 3: but I'm guessing some billionaire Japanese business executive probably bought
Speaker 3: that ball.
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