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Speaker 2: In the games, Mike the Bulldog beyond you on jr R.
Speaker 1: Well, Bulldog, it's just me and you are f one insider.
Speaker 1: Taco Bob is off since the series is off this week.
Speaker 1: I guess he's, you know, enjoying some downtime.
Speaker 2: He's been well, he's been working hard, you know, keeping
Speaker 2: up with that over all these months and years. Sure, yeah,
Speaker 2: doing his research. Yeah. What about the Indiana Pacers. My god,
Speaker 2: they fuck the odds yet again. Last night blew out
Speaker 2: heavily favored Oklahoma City won a wait to ninety one
Speaker 2: in Game six of the NBA Finals. We got ourselves
Speaker 2: a Game seven coming up on Sunday night. So, man,
Speaker 2: the Pacers are. What an incredible story they are. They
Speaker 2: started out the regular season. I think they were like
Speaker 2: ten and fifteen during their first twenty five games. Then
Speaker 2: they make a run into the playoffs. We've talked a
Speaker 2: lot about the five comebacks from fifteen points or more
Speaker 2: down in the playoffs. They come back five times from
Speaker 2: fifteen or more.
Speaker 1: They got off to another slow start last night before
Speaker 1: then just blowing it open.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they were down. I think they were down ten
Speaker 2: to two early in the game, missed their first eight shots.
Speaker 2: Then over the next twenty four minutes they outscored the
Speaker 2: Thunder sixty eight the thirty two. It was such a
Speaker 2: blowout that the thunder starters didn't even play the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: Did you see the stat that this is gonna be
Speaker 1: the first NBA Finals Game seven since twenty sixteen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's pretty wild. Yeah, good news for the Thunder.
Speaker 2: By the way, home teams are fifteen and four in
Speaker 2: the Finals in game seven, so that Sunday game is
Speaker 2: an okay. See. But I'll tell you what, if Indiana
Speaker 2: wins this game. I don't know what the narrative will
Speaker 2: be of Indiana wins games, Devin. Will it be that
Speaker 2: OKC choked because they were the heavy favorites coming into
Speaker 2: the series, or will it be that Indiana is just
Speaker 2: a bunch of gritty underdogs had a great playoffs. I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 1: I've been I've been saying it since they've been doing
Speaker 1: all of what you just described throughout these playoffs. It's
Speaker 1: almost like Team of Destiny type stuff, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And we were calling the Magic the Gritty Committee
Speaker 2: during the regular season. I think Indiana is the real
Speaker 2: gritty committee what they played during the playoffs. So yeah,
Speaker 2: we'll see what happens. But Game seven is on Sunday.
Speaker 2: In baseball, did you see the team.
Speaker 1: Oh Hunter Biggie, who was just sitting in the dugout
Speaker 1: night in his own business.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he's u he's on injured reserve. He was,
Speaker 2: you know, standing on the top row of the dugout
Speaker 2: last night, and a foul ball just lined right into
Speaker 2: the dugout and it was with Baltimore Orioles catcher Adleie Rutchman,
Speaker 2: who's left hand. It just sharply pulls the pitch into
Speaker 2: the Tampa Bay dugout and right in the face of
Speaker 2: Hunter Biggie, and he went down like a sack of potatoes.
Speaker 2: I'm luckily it looks like he's gonna be okay, although
Speaker 2: he was, you know, taken to the hospital. The ball,
Speaker 2: by the way, came off for Rutchman's bat at one
Speaker 2: hundred and five miles prow God. You know, imagine normally.
Speaker 1: The picture that always has that in the back of
Speaker 1: their head when they're on the mound, that you're gonna
Speaker 1: get one drilled right up at you. You know, you
Speaker 1: gotta be on your toes there, but as you're in
Speaker 1: the standing there in the dug.
Speaker 2: House, good lord, yeah, Lynch, I want your opinion on
Speaker 2: something that happened that was sort of you know, under
Speaker 2: the radar in college football yesterday. And so there's a
Speaker 2: new amendment approved by the Florida Board of Governors, which
Speaker 2: oversees education higher education, State of Florida. New amendment yesterday
Speaker 2: where the state schools talking about UCF uf FSU, they
Speaker 2: can now allocate more than twenty two million dollars annually
Speaker 2: to paying athletes. All right, This isn't the NCAA saying, hey,
Speaker 2: you pay your athletes. This is the Florida Board of
Speaker 2: Governors saying that public universities can utilize up to twenty
Speaker 2: two and a half million dollars in non athletic funding
Speaker 2: to cover paying athletes. In other words, our state government
Speaker 2: is allowing college athletic programs to take money from the
Speaker 2: general fund of the university to pay athletes. Do you
Speaker 2: understand what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I do understand what you're saying. And the general funds
Speaker 1: consists of money coming from.
Speaker 2: Where coming from the you know, taxpayer funded are general university.
Speaker 1: Can donors donate to a university's general fund.
Speaker 2: I don't know where donors can just continue. But the
Speaker 2: fact of the matter is this money is supposed to
Speaker 2: be used on educational purposes out of the general athletic
Speaker 2: fund or out of the general university fund. I don't
Speaker 2: like this. These football programs make plenty of money. If
Speaker 2: they can't pay their athletes out of their own budget,
Speaker 2: the state government should not be bailing them out with
Speaker 2: money that should be going elsewhere. That's my point on this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, where I'm going with it is it just
Speaker 1: sound on from where you just described. Yeah, I know
Speaker 1: that's wrong. I would would give you that. But if
Speaker 1: if private donors are able to contribute to the general
Speaker 1: fund in ear market for athletics, I have no problem
Speaker 1: with that.
Speaker 2: I don't think I don't think that would be permitted
Speaker 2: under it NCAAs. But who the hell is The fact
Speaker 2: of the matter is our state universities are now getting
Speaker 2: government auts to pay their players. That's the bottom line,
Speaker 2: and I'm not for it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So anyway, Yeah, you got to keep up with
Speaker 1: you got to keep up with the Ohio States and
Speaker 1: the Texas you know of the world.
Speaker 2: You know, I guess by the way, Shadua Sanders two
Speaker 2: speeding tickets now, Jesus, one of them one hundred and
Speaker 2: one miles per hour, the other ninety one miles per hour.
Speaker 2: All have all both happened after midnight up in Cleveland.
Speaker 2: So I think that's a little bit of a red flag,
Speaker 2: don't you sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they're gonna be going faster than that at Pocono
Speaker 1: though this weekend.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Pocono Nascar up in the Poconos. Have you ever
Speaker 2: been up in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1: I may have driven through. I don't know. I haven't
Speaker 1: spent any quality time there.
Speaker 2: It's beautiful, is it?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Full up there? Yeah, and that and the race is
Speaker 2: always packed. They get fired up up in Pocono for
Speaker 2: the NASCAR race. I'm picking, by the way, Kyle Larson.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're going out on a limbit there. How about
Speaker 1: College World Series getting started this weekend. We get a
Speaker 1: LS and Coastal Carolina.
Speaker 2: Yeah, as we said yesterday, Coastal Carolina. What a great story.
Speaker 2: You know, one fifty five games during the regular season
Speaker 2: this year. Now they're in the College World Series playing
Speaker 2: the the LSU, one of the premier powerhouses in college
Speaker 2: baseball over the last thirty years, so it's gonna be
Speaker 2: in an underdog. It's sort of like the NBA Finals.
Speaker 2: You got the underdog story and you got the heavy favorite.
Speaker 2: So hopefully Coastal Carolina gets it done.
Speaker 1: Mike the Bulldog Theyonkey. He is the host of open
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