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Big D Energy | Monday June 24th, 2024
It's time for the type of energy, only Darren McCarty and Neil Rule can give. It's time for Big D Energy, live on Woodward Sports. Join four-time Stanley Cup champion and legendary badass Darren McCarty on the golden voice of Neil Rule. Monday through Friday 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. as they give their takes on all things Detroit Sports. The number one midday show in Detroit is on. Welcome to Big D Energy. Yo, yo, yo. What's going on, buddy? Welcome back to another episode and another week of Big D Energy right here on the Woodward Sports Network. My name is Neil Rule. That guy filling in for Darren McCarty. Of course, he is Sam Flannel. Samuel? Sam. I can already tell what type of show this would be. No, no, no. I think it's going to be a very, very fine show, a very civil show defending on how it goes. We obviously heard from a couple of teams over the, like, over this past Friday and we saw the Tigers over the weekend. So a lot has happened and these Monday shows, man, there's just a lot, a lot to pack into a show. So I'm ready to get started and I'm excited. No, there is a ton of stuff to get to. KG, what's really good? You tell me, man, you and Sam kind of getting hot before the show, man. Oh, that was, we're just stretching. Yo, we're just getting loose. Yeah, y'all are going to be civil today, I bet. There's no doubt. No wait. This goes off the roof. No, no doubt. Okay. Spamo rack. Hello. One half of the Woodward heavyweights, five to seven, shout out. Shout out. What's going on with you, man? How was the weekend for you? It's fun. It's fun. Shout out to Jackie and Scott, getting married on Friday, up to solitude links. It was fun and it had a good time there and then yesterday, Saturday, my friend at a pool party at his house, so went over there and then Sunday I didn't do anything, so I was recovering. Wedding season for Spencer Raxter. Yeah, man. He in a thick. Three bachelor parties, six weddings. Jesus. Yeah. I remember that age. It's fine. Yeah. I'm glad it's over. Oh, yeah. Thanks. I can't do six weddings. Yeah. It is a lot. All of you in the Woodward Sports dot com chat, thread, subscribe to the Woodward Sports YouTube channel. Jump in there, get your thoughts. Anna Kim with the big what up though. What else but Dante 151 who also says, let's see how long it takes for Neil to bring up the Tigers. Oh, they're back. That's back. Here we go. Tigers are back. Here we go. What do you mean here? You already know what you're fitting to do. What's he talking about? I count on you every week for this. For what? That's a big series win. No, it's yeah. They're back against the wall. See what I'm talking about saying. Go ahead, man. This quarter ton of runs. And when rats couldn't even sweep the White Sox. Cole Keith, rookie of the year. I was told. I've been waiting on Sam to torch the Tigers anyway. So what's that? What is Sam? I'll tell you what. Cole Keith does have like a weird sort of stand base at this point and I get it. He's been relatively good over the past month and a half or so, but. I got into it with a with a with a with a with a with a certain member of the chat on course today. It wasn't shot next. Yes, right? It was not shot shot. It was not shot. I will just say and we're going to touch on this maybe a little bit later that he said he would prefer Cole Keith to Riley Green. Oh, that's tough. That's yeah. Yeah, that's a little much. I like Cole Keith a lot. I think he's going to be really good. I do too. But I'm not going to go that far. He don't know. All I know is they're back. They're back. Don't add did that one for you to big series win against a division rival. What would you indicate to why do you think they're back? What could the offense look at the runs they scored yesterday in one game? Yeah. So you don't want to talk about the other two games on no to big series win over division rival. And by the way, too, you know, hey, you got to give credit to the white Sox for winning that game because they were a game behind the pace of the New York Mets the year they were the worst team in the history of baseball. So they rose up and got the job. Yeah. On pace for what? 45. Yeah. No, they're horrendous and not that it would have mattered too much in the grand scheme of things. But if you want to even entertain the thought if you're the Tigers or you're a Tigers fan that there's somewhat. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, stop. I did it as a joke. No, but if you wanted to even entertain the thought of not selling off all of your best assets, at least go sweep the white Sox. I think the white Sox for the season, and then maybe we can have a conversation. It could have started with this past weekend, but the final death nail in the season was what happened on Saturday at Camarica Park almost getting shut out by the damn white Sox. No, nobody wants to know. Why didn't they name Eastern Michigan's field? I think you meant to say power neck field. That's an electric idea. It is. Power neck field. Hey, shout out power neck for stepping up on Friday. Oh, yeah. Yeah. He held it down, man. He held it down. You battled. My guy. The only way you can do it is by going through it. Yeah. Yeah. He was going through it. Yeah. That's what I told him. Like, it's he's got all the basics down. There's really nothing else I can teach him. It's just about getting reps. You're out. Just about getting one new one. You're in the fire. You're forged by the fire. It makes you better. Yeah. I felt so bad because you can see him struggling, and usually this show is very, it's easier than others. I will just say that. For sure. What does that mean? Easy work. I've heard people say that. What does that mean? Well, that means that there's less on one's plate on this show than on the two to four show. I will say one thing. I was originally supposed to be the TD for the two to four show. Oh, then Sawyer dropped the bomb that he was leaving. So pivot. And then I was here. This is a better 50. You anyway. Yeah. This team. What does that mean? You're so great at what you do. Okay. Go on that. You know, you're so great at what you do that it's less taxing on everyone else involved. That's true. Makes sense. I mean, if you can make it work with Sam Flannell, you can make it work with anybody. Real shit. That is true. Uh, FJ 1967 Good Morning, Neil and chat. Uh, good morning. Good to have you. Yeah. No good morning for us. You ain't got no love for what we're sports in the TD. Yeah. What the fuck? The audio. Uh, yeah. I guess not. Uh, by the, okay, I just got put it out there because this song has been, Neil, you weren't here for me to, uh, for our jam session this morning, but the song called Cupid by 50/50 is in the name of the artist. Okay. I banged it. I banged it all the way here. Like six times and repeat on the way here. It's a white girl summer song. Love it. It's a bop. It's really good. He's loving here. Yeah. It's really good. Okay. Uh, rap. Neil, the bats are alive and just wait, Harvey, he'll get back and be healthy. Broder brought the question up on wake up Woodward. Are you starting to miss Harvey by his? Because of how bad Kritler's been. Are you starting to miss? I mean, no, the reality is, is that there are going to be books written, like horror novels written about the shortstop position for the 2024 Detroit. Yes. You've got McKinstry with an OPS that starts with a five hobby who still, even though he wouldn't be qualified because he's missed so many games, has the worst OPS ever and Ryan Kritler's starts with a two. His OPS starts with a two. That's not a misprint. That is real. He hasn't had that many at that. I don't care. It doesn't matter. Terrible. Absolutely awful. The worst. I don't care. They won a big series over Division rival. You, you, that's all I know. 71 madcat, amazing day Saturday at Keyworth, great victory for the women's child, international friendly for the men. It was a great day. I was there. I went there just, I took my daughter's soccer team to the women's match. It was cool. They were into it. That was a lot of fun and kind of hung out. No, because the women's matches, if you call them in, uh, they have the communications director. Uh, Jermaki, my guy. I do a shout out Jermaki, but, uh, but yeah, so it was fun. And they played Pumas from League, uh, Max, Pumas had about 2,000 people. Damn. Wow. They were deep. They were deep in the streets, but, uh, I sat there in the stands, you know, had some telemore do iris whiskey, shout out and, uh, just took it all in and it was, it was a lot of fun. I, because I'm working, right? So I got the headset on, we're going, I'm doing commercial, like, I did, I never have gotten a chance to see it from across the pitch over on the other side, like as a fan. And it, guys, I, you've heard me say it before, but even more so. If you have not been in your Detroit sports fan, you're missing out, like, I don't know what else to tell you. You're missing out and you need to go, uh, debt city fc.com. Yeah. Keywords to spot, man. It is. I'm trying to get to warn you. It's organic. I really want to get to it. And you know, if you, if you got the poll, you could send the owners booth. Yeah. No, man. Like the heavyweight. Uh, but no, uh, the Shaquille oatmeal, cold, Keith, greater than Riley Green. Well, that's just lunacy. I would ask based on what, based on what, uh, I don't think it's lunacy. It's 100%. I don't agree with it. It's not lunacy. Hope. Hope is a great drug, man. Nice. Do you guys not realize that Riley Green is seventh amongst position players in the American League and wins above replacement? Do you not realize that he has an on base, an OPS of over 850? His OPS is only five points behind Jose Ramirez and Riley Green has a higher OPS than Adley Rushman. Adley Rushman, who everybody agrees is a generational superstar and he is Riley Green has a higher on base percentage than him, Riley Green or a higher OPS and on base percentage for the record. Riley Green has a higher OPS than Ellie Dayla Cruz. He who everybody also agrees is a generational superstar. I don't agree with that quite yet, but Ellie Dayla Cruz has been very good this year. Riley Green by OPS metrics and by OPP metrics has been better than both of them. Did you say OPP metrics? I said okay. Yeah, you know me. Yeah. All right. Go ahead. Sorry, man. I'm just say it with you. Yes. I'm tired. I'm tired. I understand that this offense as a whole has been putrid this year, but that's why you should appreciate Riley Green even more. He has no protection. His only protection consistently has been Mark Canada, who's been also been very good, but this cult Keith thing and I understand he's been better. He still has an on base percentage that starts with a two and a six 28 OPS. Those aren't good numbers. They're not. Riley Green is putting up all star numbers and he should be there. Appreciate that man and put some respect on his name and stop slurping cult Keith. Well, I would say this that Riley Green's rookie year, which is where cult Keith is, right? Okay. Fine. Not as good. Not as good as what cult Keith do. No, that's not true. Looking at it right now. Riley Green with his five home runs he had that whole year and an on base percentage that started with the three. I'm just saying. I'm just saying. Yeah. Cool. Keith has four home runs by the way. Just saying. Just saying. And I'm not, I'm not throwing cult Keith in the trash by the way. It's just this idea that we're not appreciating Riley Green to me is absolute lunacy. He should have, it should be Tarek school and Riley Green, the people that we really appreciate. Hell, we even had. Well, what about that 321 on base percentage Riley Green had his rookie year? That's like, you forget this stuff right now. That's a good right there. He's right there with a really good one is a good on base percentage for a rookie. It is 290, whatever it is. I think cult Keith is 292 is not a good on base percentage for anybody and I'm not throwing cult Keith in the trash. It's just this idea that he's even anywhere near Riley Green is lunacy appreciate that man Riley Green. Plus what position does cult Keith play? Who gives a shit? You know, I don't care about that. No, what position does he play? Second base. Okay. So second base is basement. They're not supposed to even produce anything. That's the, that's the area of baseball that I absolutely do not understand. I don't give a shit about your position. Produce. Produce. Well, I mean, just by math, you know, it's easier. It's easier to find out. I don't feel there's that produced in the second base. You know what? Let's trade Riley Green. Let's trade him. Let's sell him. You might get a good return. What do you give him? You might get a good return. Yeah. Good luck with cult Keith as your centerpiece. You cult Keith truthers slippers. Stop it. Is Riley Green in the all-star game to you? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Appreciate that man. Okay. Let's just check back with cult Keith when he's in his third year. You fuck. He's in the ballpark of what Riley Green was at the same stop of the highway, man. So like for you to say, that's lunacy is stupid. But you know what's funny about you, you're the same person that's like, I've seen it with Spencer Torkle, Sam, the 30-hole run season. Now you've seen it with Riley Green. Now you've seen it with Riley Green. And what did I say about what did I say about Riley Green? You said you should give him the Akuna deal. Yeah. Okay, fair. We can shake hands on that. Okay. Okay. So there you go. Okay. Sam, you're never going to make it today. This is two-hour show. You're going to make it. We're 13 minutes in. We're 13 minutes in. Not swear, bro. I'm just saying, Riley Green, he should be getting more love around the city. Not people saying that he's worse than cult Keith. I got people, even our own Terry Foster, yes, I heard you Terry Foster, just basically say that Riley Green's only good. Well, he looks good because the rest of the team is bad. Oh, damn. Lunacy. Lunacy. Good to see real cream of wheat back in here. I win. You lose. Come on. Give me one. That comes to Riley Green, who I was more high on than Spencer Torkelson always. I do win. It's always good. Riley Green is a star. Riley Green has a higher OPS than Adley Rushman and Ellie Daylock Cruz and Jose Altuve. And has a higher on base percentage than Jose Ramirez. I bet you didn't know that. Now you do. That's why I'm here. That's why I'm here. Educate you people. He hits you with the U people. I know. U people. Riley Green, like detractors, are U people because they're dumb, dumb, but with a B. B. Hard B. You discriminating against dumb people? Yes, I am. Yeah. I got a couple of videos from David from right coming in about DMACC weekend. Oh, yeah? Yeah. I got to see repelled from a hundred foot building or something. I don't know. We got a film of that. Of course. That's a great thing to be said. Of course. He said, so we wrestled Friday and then repelled a hundred and seventy foot building for a charity Saturday morning. I was like, yeah. Of course. He did. You do. You do. You do what you want. You do what you want. DMACC living his best life. I swear. I got a couple of videos of him wrestling. When we come back, when we come back, because there is a game seven tonight, we're going to get into the pistons head of press conference on Friday. I was in the building. I was in the building. But, yeah. Well, you know what? I'm going to call some people's bluff on that stuff, by the way, to media people, not by names. But you, you know. So you ain't buying the traffic issues, huh? No, no, no. Like, I mean, yeah, I believe that. Yeah. Okay. There's only one way off. Two guys off gross dealing with one's clothes layer. And everyone's going to act like they've never been late before. I know. That's true. But no, wait. When it's somebody else, we're righteous. But when it's us like, oh man, it was real. Yeah. That's what I'm just saying. Don't ask the case. Tell me about Dispo planning. Absolutely. If you dislike Riley Green, you should smoke some Dispo. Visit Dispo to spend your day for deals too good to miss. Be the team that carries an unbelievable atmosphere and shopping experience. Try the freshest inventory for Michigan's largest variety of products. Come through our stores or order on Dispo Dash today. Dispo Dispensary, DispoShops.com, your local cannabis fund. Feel alive during Feldman Chevrolet's biggest New Year sales event ever. Get the best prices on our huge selection of award winning Chevrolet's. Like this 2024 Equinox for $1.88 per month or this 2024 Silverado for $2.68 per month. It's the New Year's sales event going on now at Feldman Chevrolet, Michigan's number one Chevy dealer. Enough Detroit Sports. Make sure you listen to Airmani and Edwards with mass. Next. 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. on the Woodward Sports Network. Car. Touchdown. Thank you to the Detroit Lions and Sheila Hamm for the best season in Lions history. Now it's time to let Brad Holmes cook. It was sports. You'll rule here for shop doubt, Woodward sports dot com. Hey, boo them kid shirt. It's in. Go get it. Shop doubt, Woodward sports dot com. We need that Sunday night football Rams light. Somebody told me in the chat that Stephen A Smith spoke on Kelly Stafford. He did it. Really? Yeah. Okay. I learned about it this morning. Yeah, I have not. I have not heard that yet. Do you call her a heifer? Better words. I don't know. All I know is you're Detroit. We boot children. We do. That's all I know. And you can get a t-shirt that suggests as such. So be what you are. Where what you are. Boot him kids. Shopped out. Hey, by the way, too. If you send a picture with the boot him kid shirt, just tweet it to any of us. We stop what we're doing and we put it on the show of media. Breaking news. He scored against the fires in one of the playoffs series. He dangled around the defense and made him go so bad. And scored one of the most beautiful battles in the dread by being history on the way to the cup. D-Mack with the best, but also with the stick. D-Mack. And you have that man. That man, dude. I'll tell you. Hey, coming out to the on the zamp. I love this man so much. That man's weekends, dude. Yeah. Are just absurd. He lives life. How life should be lived. He does what he wants to do when he was. Yeah. For who he wants to do. Here, pick the energy. Littleard Sports Network. Sam Flannel in for that guy. Dara McCarty. My name is Neil Rowley. Got KG Spencer Raxter here in the building. And what were sports chat thread? Jump into there. Get your thoughts on there. And Anakin, is he skyscraper climbing? He was repelling down. He was repelling down for charity. Going down a skyscraper. Flannel, would you do it? No, no. It's funny because I'm self-aware. When it comes to the people who sit in this seat, the coolness difference between myself and Dara McCarty is D-Mack is at that ceiling I am about at my head look. It's just facts. He's the man. Yeah, absolutely. But yeah. Going down a building, dude. That is absolutely wild. But again, that's a weekend. That's a weekend in the life of D-Mack. Woodward Sports Chat Thread at these 411, Neil waiting for Blahad to retire so he can get hired by the Pistons. And he's already worked for the Pistons. Oh, damn. No. I'm waiting for Blahad to retire so Neil can get that full-time job and he can bring me in as an assistant. There we go. There we go. That is true. Also in the Woodward Sports Chat Thread. Chuck Brewer. Maybe he's in line for the Spartan gig too. That's why he has all the Michigan hate. Hey, Chuck. Yeah. You'll never know how close I was. You'll never know, Chuck. People here know. Oh, that would have been the best. You'll never know how close it was to happen. That would have been the best. People would have lost their minds. Well, I mean. And Blake Corum with the touchdown. Of course. And Michigan wins the National Championship. Of course. Well, no, I wouldn't have said, of course. I would have liked to have seen you. Yeah. I would say finally Michigan gets their own. For the first time since War Vons. Hey. You would have used a little cheese line on your car. No, because. Yeah. I know. I know you wouldn't. He's the bag. No. He can't miss the bag. I told you. I was robbed. Like Dan Deardorf when he was doing the game. I told you. There we go. You'll be burned and crushed. That's facts. No, I'm not getting into all that. I can say that. It's facts. Woodward Sports Chat Thread. Detroit Supremacy. Sam, stop with the numbers. If you compare Ora's, you would see that. Colt Keith clears Riley. I saw that Detroit Supremacy. I'm not going to go crazy because that's the dumbest thing ever said on the show. Ora for Ora. Ora for Ora. It's pretty fair. Colt Keith doesn't eat like who cares. Riley Green runs like he's a toddler who stole something. You know what? I'll take that 852 OPS. This is running. That 628 OPS. I'll just say that. And I'm not even trying to throw Colt Keith in the trash. You guys. The Shaquille Oatmeal. You guys brought it up. Shaquille Oatmeal? Yes. That's that's that's someone in the chat. That's a good name. Yes. I'm just I'm just saying you guys did that. Tell you what, most Ora and the Tigers history, organizational history is in single here right now. Okay. Oh, Max Clark. Yeah. He's got a drip. Yeah. Gotta be good. He's gotta be good. He's gotta be good. He leads the league and then runs scored in RBS. That's good. I do like yours from now. KG, we got a question here. Yeah. Um. Shoot it flew by. But basically somebody was talking about DMACC going down a building and said, quote, that's white people shit. Is that white people shit? Absolutely. I think it is today. Too many black people were felling down buildings. Yeah. If you're fast on, let me know. No. Absolutely. But yeah, we are going to get into the game seven coming up in just a couple of minutes. But I did out of the box. I want to talk about the press conference. Trajan Landon came out. Yes, sir. They were going to address the media time gores, address to the media as well. And yeah, I get it. They were late. Um, I get it. I can't just say I get it. You got to show up on. It's not a good look. That's all I was. It ain't the worst thing in the world. It wasn't done on purpose. Yeah. Yeah. It's just not a good look. Wait, they were late for the press conference? Yeah. Yeah. Sorry about an hour late. A little over hour actually. But yeah. But anyway, the moral of the story is this. So let me set the scene. So I was in the building. All I know is Kool-Aid was in the front row. They're right. And I was in the third. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. I'm just saying. Uh-oh. Hey. And this, before we get into it. You are as connected as you thought. I do. Because I do want to talk about the press conference. Because, um, I think some people missed on some stuff. I think some people, uh, also caught on to some stuff and all that. And I will talk about my, my interpretation of it. But I do want to start right there. Kool-Aid man. Of wake up Woodward Vane. Hey, man. Eight to 10 a.m. Awards network. Blue crew. I see him working. I, I haven't, like, when I'm down there at LCA, like, if I'm doing a game, obviously I sit at my little table and I got my headphones on and I'm doing the game. I'm not aware of the inner workings of Kool-Aid. And what he's doing. That man is loved by the peers. That man is connected all the way to the top of Detroit sports media. He's deep in the media streets, Flair. You know you work with him in the morning. Like, honestly, Kool-Aid, he's got a gift that I don't have, for sure. Just the ability to warm up to people and, you know, get involved with, like, the, the players, the coaching staff, the, uh, the front office, the fans. I mean, Kool-Aid, he's just relentless, man. He's, he's, he's, and that's why, um, like, incidents like that where he's, uh, front row of the press conference. That's where it's like, man, I'm, I'm proud to work with this guy. I'm proud to call him a friend. And he's, uh, I would take him over any other Pistons reporter in the state. Kool-Aid is one of the nicest, most genuine dudes you'll ever meet in your entire life. People like him for a reason. If you don't like Kool-Aid, you're a piece of shit. Yes. Yes. I would agree. But what I'm driving at, though, Spenny, is that man is much more deeper in the streets than we thought he was. Yeah. I'm just saying be aware. I don't, I'm already, no, I totally, you know, on the side. So I'm aware. I'm definitely aware. Shout out Kool-Aid, man. That's my guy. Shout out. Yeah. Absolutely. Um, but yeah. He's, uh, he's in there. No, but flannel, I guess I don't know how much of it you caught. You were back Friday. I would imagine you probably consumed some of the bites and stuff like that. Uh, just kind of give me your general impression of, of what you thought, what you heard, and look, like it's a press conference in the grand scheme of things. They don't matter. Yeah. They don't matter. But whatever. Everyone seems hung up on everything. So let's talk about it. Well, and that's where I was going to start with. Actions speak louder than words. And Tregen Langdon, he came off as a prose pro. I thought he answered everything as well as he possibly could have. Tom Gores, he gave a lot of a, a lot of, as the heavyweights put on Friday, word salad but whatever, I'm not going to, I'm not going to really make any determinations from this until I kind of see what has been done. And for the record and, and Spenny, I know that, that you will agree with this as well. The fact that this press conference was done after firing Troy Weaver and after firing Monty Williams is a good start and maybe a precursor for some, uh, for some things to come. So that was, that definitely, I think like buttered me up a little bit, buttered up the fan base, probably some of the media as well. But yeah, actions speak louder than words. I am very bullish that the Pistons need to, need to build around Cade and get more shooting on this team because this is something with their, with their, their, their draft picks under Troy Weaver that they didn't seem to prioritize as much as they should have. And Tregen Langdon mentioned as much and he mentioned the possibility of taking on some contracts and getting kind of blending them with the youth. So we'll see a lot was brought up that I like, but as you said, it's just a press conference. Forward sports, chat thread, why a bear, Cooley was down courtside at LCA for March badness. Yes, he was. DNC ENT, Kool-Aid is elite, but I'm not fit to put down Omari or James Edwards the third. James Edwards the third friend of this show has been on here before DNC ENT. I'm not. But those are his contemporaries. He's equal to them. He is breaking bread with them. Yeah, man. He is sitting front row. They're saving a seat for him. And Kool-Aid, by the way, was off on the side doing a radio hitter doing some kind of interview before it started. They saved that man's seat. Yeah. Well, and you said, Oh, Kool-Aid, you're down here and you have to understand too. I'm not in any way, shape or form putting down like the James Edwards is of the world. It's just, I think Kool-Aid, I put him in that same ilk as we all do. And the fact is I work with him and he's my friend. So I'm just a tiny bit biased and I would take Kool-Aid over anybody that man got me into a media room, man, for a press conference. I'm just saying, I'm just a regular Joe Schmoe off the street, man. He got me literally access access. Burns says beat reporter suit Kool-Aid is different energy. That's true. It is. It is. And he has some of the best questions out of the whole press conference. Some of the most courtables came from the questions that he has. So no doubt out there, but yeah, somebody asked Neil, were you wearing a suit like Kool-Aid? I was not. I had on the shorts and the golf polo. Yeah. You know, like that. Didn't matter to you. Tanned. I was there like, I wasn't there on like a beat working capacity. You know what I'm saying? Like I'm just getting the vibe so I can come here and talk about it on the show. I got you. But yeah, it's, it is, Kool-Aid's deep. That's all I'm going to say. No, but I do want to get the people's reactions and see what people thought. And you know, just, just kind of break it down a little bit because there was, there was some, some tough questions asked of Tom Gores. And personally, I thought, go ahead. I was going to say, shout out to Rieger, Rieger asked, Rieger asked him a bagger. Put him right on the spot. Absolutely. Yep. Stony do it too. Yeah. And I want to discuss it. Mm hmm. I want to discuss it when we come back. Hey, speaking of the morning show, the media legend that is Kool-Aid. He takes up residence. Damn right. No way. He doesn't wear the suit every morning. That's more like a press conference thing. But hey, maybe ask him, maybe ask him more of the suit on Friday. I don't know. But I do know this. I'm wake up Woodward eight to 10 a.m. Kool-Aid flannel Sam Broder, KG's in the building, JB Smoove, the glue guy of Woodward Sports, JB Smoove is there as well and you can be also Detroit's number one sports network. Factual statement, Detroit's number one sports network, Woodward Sports. Welcome to any Lady James haircuts for men and claim you're thrown for a king's treatment from one of our talented stylists. Open seven days a week, walk in any time. 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The point for me is this, DNC and T, who when we're talking pistons, he can kind of move up to the front of the line. He would talk pistons every day, if he could. Trajan seems like a smart intellectual man, responded personally to most questions, seems to have a plan, an idea of what he wants here, Tom, on the other hand, seems happy to have a friend. See, like, look, Tom Gores, and we talked about the Jeff Rieger question. Yeah. All right. He came at him pretty hard, and I thought that Tom A, to make himself available, to do the one-on-ones, to answer that type of question, I thought for as great of a question as it was, Tom, bottom line, this is all I ask for. Yeah. And this is where I'm going to go with this. You've got a weird look on your face right now. You just have a little twinkle in your eye when you talk about Tom Gores all the time. Okay. All right. Okay, flannel. Well, here's why. Here's why. Because we get to ask a question like that. What does he say? We haven't won enough. We have to win more. Yes. I know that. I'm aware of that. We have to do better. He doesn't say, here, go talk to Trajan. Right. He stands there and takes the shots. And as I've always said, and look, no one's been harder on Tom Gores in this room than Spencer Rachston. Yeah. You can delineate the two and say, at least that Tom Gores, if there's a check to be written, he writes it. If there's a move to be made, he makes it. Has it worked? No, it hasn't. Not even close. They've been a dogwater franchise since 2009. I'm just saying. Well, I mean, like they did take a swing and did make the playoffs. Like you can't. It's not like they've been sitting here being the Charlotte Hornets. I've had more success in the past 15 years in the Pistons. But I'm saying, though, they took a swing. Did it work out? No. Even though, I mean, I guess structurally it kind of did, you got analytically the best year of Blake Griffin's career. You did. I know that's not the narrative because that's not what people don't want to put out there. But whatever. It doesn't matter. The man said it himself into the microphone. We have not won enough. We have not done enough. We have to do better. Plano, all I can ask for from an owner, other than winning, right? All I can ask for is that you're going to do what it takes to try, to try to win, to not say, well, we'll see what happens. All right. Well, you know, there's, there's a guy, I know there's a guy here. All right. If there's a player that is directly impeding the progress of the franchise, would they still be a Detroit piston? Would they still be a Detroit tiger? Well, I think at this point, there are players still on the Pistons roster that are impeding the progress of the team. Right. But at the same time, when you say that though, I'm talking about, could you just write a check and get the problem to go away? What do you do it? Well, I mean Tom Gores did it with money. I give him credit for that. He did that with money. Williams. And now I'm asking is for the little consistency and they, and they, they, they put a bullet in Killian Hayes, they did it with Blake Griffin. Yeah. Yes. They did it. They did it. They did it with, with, with Killian Hayes and hopefully, and we'll see, we'll see what happens. I hope that Trajan Langdon is given the reins to make the decisions that he wants because as GM of the Pelicans, they had, they had success at least with drafting and accumulating talent. It's just so much of it too often was injured. That was what, that was what impeded the, the, the Pelicans. And we'll just, we'll just have to see there's certain players on the Pistons that I wouldn't mind being shipped out of town that maybe some people are more attached to and others that I like that maybe some don't. I'm not going to mention them quite yet. But at the same time, that, that will be a big, that will be a big question to me. Like for example, Jade and Ivy, I'm not married to keeping him in the slightest bit. However, I am married and I think it's a good idea to re-sign Simone Fontecchio. I think that that's imperative. Jade and Ivy can be part of a trade package for all I care. At this point, even Asar Thompson can be part of a trade package for all I care because he is unplayable as a three point shooter, even though he does other things well. Just get shooting. That's all I ask. That's all I ask at this point because by the way, the top 18 three point shooting teams in the NBA this year were all either play in or playoff teams. You have to shoot the three ball, you just do. And the only other two teams that weren't in the top 18 were the bulls who lost in the play in and the magic who lost in the first round. Just get shooting, get shooting and I will be as happy as a clam until the season starts and we'll see how it actually plays out. And Trajan brought that up. He absolutely did. But just to the time of Gora's point, I felt like he did a solid job up there. I gained a little more respect from him with this press conference. He went up KG. That was exactly my takeaway. He went up there. My takeaway. He went up there humble. He went up there and has some accountability. He told you this is the most involved I probably ever have been with the Pistons. I'm used to just relying on one person to, you know, take the duties away and handle the team, but he admitted he's made some mistakes along the way. And I does that. It was off him of everything. No, but he didn't get up there talking about, oh, I do all this for the community and things of that nature. He owned up to his mistakes and you can at least see that he's trying. So I can. I can rock with it. I can rock with it. Spending your take, man. I mean, yeah, they said the right things. They sounded good. It sounded genuine. They went out there and I liked what Trajan said about wanting to build the team around Kate and having to put him in a better situation where he it's not as hard for him to do different things. By that, he means put shooters around him, but guys who can shoot the ball, you know, to bring out the best of his abilities. So yeah, I like what they said, but I need to see some action. 100%. Yeah. And that's it. I think something that he brought up that I didn't hear any of the media talk about was he said, we have to be a Trajan Lane and said, quote, we have to be objective about our roster. Yeah. And the players we have here because I know what that tells me that not nothing. Nothing is untouchable. Yeah. That there will be some kinds of moves made. Mm hmm. He said he's not afraid to get in the trade market that they're that's a strategy that they are going to implement. So now there's a couple of different ways to do it. He talked about the fact flannel. And this is where with Troy, this is where I kind of didn't vibe with Troy, like stylistically, where when you make moves, when you make trades, because they did it to some degree, but they didn't go all the way in on it because a Pistons always had a lot of cap space, right? Yeah. And he he weaponized that cap space. That's how they got Jalen Duren was was using cap space. Yeah. But with all that being said, I just I don't think that they fully weaponize a cap space in terms of draft capital. This is the way going forward, right in the NBA. How have we seen these franchises change their fortunes, i.e. Oklahoma City, i.e. Orlando. How have they done it? Well, they've done it by drafting guys like Chet Holmgren and Jalen, Jalen Williams and obviously getting Shay in a trade was massive as well. And of course, with Orlando, they drafted Paolo and they drafted Franz vodka. What's the constant over and over and over again, draft draft draft draft draft, like that's and you got to have capital to do it. You do. You got to. And I personally think when it's all said and done, maybe a lot of you will disagree with me that all those weaver, tell them whatever drafts you want to call them. It might have only yielded one or two good players. Yeah. I'm not sure. Like one of them you had to draft because it was the number one. Especially for this team, like Jaden Ivy, I don't think he's a fit with Kate. Sadiq Bay, you traded him. You traded a guy who wasn't perfect, wasn't as good of a defender as you might have liked, but could get hot from three. He could also get really cold. You traded him and your biggest piece you got back was a big in James Wiseman. I mean, Isaiah Stewart, I am higher on him than some based off of how he improved his three point shot last year, but you just never know. A Sart Thompson is a teens three point shooter, regardless of everything else he does. And Jalen Duren, I think was a little bit disappointing as a defender last year. And he shooting threes is not a part of his game, even though I'm not ready to throw him out yet because he's a double double machine. It's just a lot of these draft picks that we've or draft classes that a lot of us thought were good and obviously killing Hayes was awful. We all know that I think I'm hoping that Trejan Langdon uses the is better at that, even though I don't want them making the pick this year. Woodward sports, chat, threat, DNC and T for billions of dollars a year as you can take shots at me all you want. Yes, he takes it on the chin and addresses it, but at some point you got to show us. Hey, he said it though. Yeah. He said it. He's wasted his money. Funny to hear people at Woodward defend Gore's like he's a passionate owner. Would he write the check to win? Yeah. Would other owners in this town write the check to win and we got to call it like we see it. We're not defending the guy. Of course, he's sucked the whole tanger. He's been here. He said that. Yes. Tom Gore said that. We haven't what what more can you ask of somebody? What more can you ask? He said that right. But some other owners in this town, would they write the check to win KG they would not. We know that the problem though is that so many mistakes have been made and this front office has been such a shit show for so many years that it's like, what do you want Tom Gore's a cookie? What do you want Tom Gore's to clean up what you part of the mess that you made? I'm not going to bow down and kiss his feet just yet. And we're not doing that either. Eel is. I've given him respect for looking looking a man in the eye and saying we haven't been good enough. Congratulations. I know of many owners in this town that do not do that. I've got an idea. Get good enough. Wow. Actions speak louder than words words that may be hollow anyway because it's Tom freaking gorgeous. No doubt. The greatest owner in in in NBA history according to Neil rule, right? What the fuck are you talking about? You love this man. No, I like that he does what other owners in this town don't. He's better than Trisele. Much congratulations. Yes. Do you want a cookie? Yes, he is. Do you want a cookie for that? Yes, he's better than Chris Ellis. Do you want a cookie? Do you want it in peanut butter, macaroos, chocolate chip, fudge? I like Snickerdoodle. Snickerdoodle. If Tom Gore's what's a Snickerdoodle? What about oatmeal raisin? I will probably deliver that cookie to Tom Gore's. I will. So that's my point. That was the point of the segment. All right. Be like, hey, he said we didn't win enough and be I would take him over some other owners in this town. Do you think that when they're on the precipice of winning, do you think he'll be like, well, let's just see how the young guys play out. Do you think you would say that? No. Okay. Then we'll move on to the game. Get on the precipice of winning. Tom Morris can't even see that. He can't even see the precipice of winning. It's so far along. Right. Has he been to the playoffs within the last decade? Congratulations. Has he? A playoff appearance that they got swept in and had no chance. Just like we haven't had a chance on the baseball side for over a decade. Fair enough. Morris is better than Illich. Do you want me to admit that? Do you want me to stand on this table and admit that? Because I will. I just stand on the table and do it. No, please. No, you just said it. Please. Please. Please. Do you believe your hollow words? Do you want me to get down and kiss your feet? Could you say you'll stand on the table? Do it. But then you don't do it. Are your words just hollow, flannel? No, my words. No, they are hollow. Because you just said you were going to get on the table and say that it's a viral moment waiting to happen. Please share on that table. Let me know. I can zoom out. Please. Stand up in this sale. I find I do I do want you to stand up again 100% All right, come on Don't fall flat on we don't have health insurance what the fuck is going on? Hey, stay open to say all tear all tear Oh He stood on this give it up to Sam flannel everybody goes now hurry up and do the lady Jane's read hurry up get back Come on don't be knocking the cords out and everything like that. Let's go rubbing Sparty do it nerd burn careful No injuries Chuck Brewer face plan the JB smooth do it's About a being bought a boom wanted you to also say I have a life This is actually pretty good Broder the athleticism Delaus lion sit your ass down Mike gee I win you lose so there's that one out there as well tiger town lots of talk about your legs Chicken legs flannel. 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That's 1-800 stay guard your alarm your local security experts All right, keeping a push in everybody big D energy Woodward sports network neo rule flannel Sam standing on table standing on business Kg Spencer Raxter in the building all of you in the world sports chat thread. Are your actions? Created some reactions. Oh, I'm sure they did in the chat my G flannels legs are thick like a stork's legs Hey, I don't skip Maybe I maybe I skip it more than I should but I try to get it in a couple times a week. Do you really I do Do you keep tossing your pocket? I do not I saw that one Oh my god, that was pretty funny 71 mag cat gores will pay out 98 million dollars for a man and dump them for lack of performance where Chris Illich We'll keep them for the entire contract fair. It's kind of the point. I was driving at fair Kind of the point I was driving at fair DNC ENT can we can we please not ish on Trajan within the first couple years Troy left him with a complete Disaster there is cap space to work with though. Yeah, at least it's not like in the worst free agency class That's quite some memory. No, but but you can you can go about that differently Yeah, which that's what I like that Trajan Langdon said Yeah, we'll flip some of that space for for guys or for pics or whatever whatever it is and I will say that it's not like the ex-wife left with all the credit card bills maxed out and Kg's sitting here Saying I told you to call kdk. Yeah, man. Don't let her do you wrong like that. You just let her take half your shit Absolutely Yes The ski mask boy Neil has the highlighter pep to a Bismol t-shirt on today. This is out Fuchsia. Yeah, I think that's what we landed on fuchsia Nike shirt the fuchsia Nike. It's a it's a divisive topic in this Show there when I wear the fuchsia Shout out to tomorrow is nothing wrong with fuchsia. No, no doubt about it, man. I like it. So uh, yeah But anyway, we just kind of wrap that up game seven in the Stanley Cup finals tonight And I don't know if we this is supposed to be hockey town. I know that number one Are you guys juice for this? Yes? Yeah, I'm doing it all hundred percent. You do sports Benny. Oh, yeah You're gonna be locked in yeah, I'm going to work out between shows so I can go right to the bar after after heavy Okay, how much of that is the bar? No, I'm kidding. It's a pizza. Shout out to you ladies. All right. There it is Yeah, so what can we ask the people that like are you juiced for the for game seven in the Stanley Cup finals tonight? So would you say if if Florida lost is this the biggest collapse in NHL season his guess? I was I was actually gonna ask that yeah to the people Would it would it be more that Florida lost it or would it be more that Edmonton want it because I I would say this I would stop sure and I know that's the day and age we live in yeah Where like people will say it's the biggest collapse in history But how much of that is the greatest player on the planet? Just exploding yeah, and there's nothing that can be done like are the are the Panthers One of the four best teams the NHL. Yeah, one of the two best teams the NHL. Yes arguably Yeah, so top top four there are top four best team in the NHL if they can't do anything about Connor McDavid When he plays at this level who could well? Let me just say this we all know that games four and five Connor McDavid went literally God mode and scored eight points in two games That is absolutely unbelievable and Connor McDavid right now is having a postseason in which He should be awarded with a cons might no matter what happens tonight. There's no player on Florida who even has a claim They're leading point score. This play playoffs is 22. I think bark off and could chuck both have it and and Connor McDavid is literally one of three players in NHL history who has a 40 point postseason and this postseason set the record for most Assists in a postseason with 34 he should get it no matter what however Game six, and I know it's not as simple as this and you know Connor McDavid's presence is Obviously huge along with rice idle and Hyman had a goal But that was kind of a game one by role players in defense you had Warren Fogle score McCloud Henrique Darnell nurse they all scored Connor McDavid I don't even think had a point and I'm not knocking on him for that. It's just If you if you're up 3-0 and you lose There's always gonna be some things that you're gonna look back on and be like man We really choked that away. You can talk about how Connor McDavid is amazing giving up eight goals in a Stanley Cup game is biblical Giving up five goals in a Stanley Cup game in which none of them were scored by McDavid or dry side All is biblical and don't get me wrong They could write every single wrong tonight with a home win in game seven But I think you can't say three losing a 3-0 series without without invoking the word choke or collapse It's always gonna be that way no no I get that but to say like this would be the biggest collapse in sports history That's grandstanding man. This is the greatest player that walks planet earth. I understand that is on a here Mm-hmm like what who who can do anything with this man right now? There's well Obviously, I mean Connor McDavid is arguably having the greatest postseason ever ever ever like you know Wayne Gretzky Mario Lemieux All right better than him ever ever ever ever Yes ever those are the names that he's in the room with and I believe that no matter what happens tonight that Connor McDavid you could certainly argue as a top five player of all time certainly if they win Jesus Christ this will this will be the stuff of legends and I understand that we're just talking about the NHL And I know it's a different sport. There is another sport the NBA in which a 3-0 comeback has never happened It's rare. It's beyond rare It's like minuscule Percentiles even in the NHL where it's happened more often and and MLB you saw it once with the red Sox Yankees I believe it's still the only time in the 04 a LCS. It's just There's when you're a team as good as Florida and are as talented as they are and had a goaltender who was playing as well And the number one defense in the NHL You were kind of designed to slow down Connor McDavid a Lee Andrei title and in these last in these last three games They haven't done it even in a game where the role players scored more most of the goals in game six They just didn't do it So it's certainly a collapse and it's one of the biggest collapses of all time because by nature a 3-0 is so rare But a 3-0 has happened in hockey before. Yes. Yes. It has more times than you think. Yeah. Yeah more more times than you think I actually have a parallel that I want to draw it to that when we come back from the next break That I think is pretty entertaining to talk to because I I want to talk about the the what is but the poll right now Are you juiced for game seven of the Stanley Cup final 75% of you say yes Which I actually is a little more than I thought it would be really yeah, because remember before people were like we're watching it Yeah, remember like it's weird. I mean, but it's game seven though. It's game seven with the greatest player walking earth Yeah playing right now Hey, but even even with the greatest player walking earth I can understand why people weren't juiced for let's say game four or even after that game four explosion that people weren't Jews it was just they got their cute little home win, but it's not cute at all there the Edmonton can win this and it would be so much better for hockey and so much better in terms of like story lines and legacies for Edmonton to win this because if Florida wins and one of their players gets the cons might it'll be a disgrace Unless if Bob Rofsky Saves like 35 shots and and shuts them out, but even then these last three games. He's been awful His save percentage for these for the entire playoffs is pretty mid When you look at that I Just I wonder if media if today's media has the chops to do that Wasn't it didn't 0 3 the goalie for Anaheim with the cons Mike and then she gave in the a devil's one That won the Stanley Cup it. This is the time to do it Connor McDavid is literally outscoring could chuck and bark off in these playoffs by 20 That's pretty well. It's absurd man Detroit supremacy in the world sports chat thread McDavid becomes the goat tonight. That's aggressive supremacy See but that's but that's my point about the discussion We're all the biggest all-time choke job ever same people in here McDavid becomes the greatest of all time tonight Easy I'm a mik. I'm a mik David Slap stand whatever you want to call it. I am that for mik David some mixture about I am But to say if he wins tonight. He's better than Wayne Gretzky is comic. Yeah Even I would admit that but I'll tell you what he's already better than Sakek and Eiserman already a lot of people might not like that but I'm just saying Especially if they win. Oh Can we chat pull that one in honor of flannel if McDavid wins the cup tonight, is he better than Steve Eiserman? I don't think that's it. He already is The RDS is McDavid better than Steve Eiserman right now That's tough already the whole physiology in this room is changed. I can only imagine Yes, what it's gonna be like. That's why you gotta respect flannel bro. He's staying on business all the time He believes that I I will give you guys this he believes everything he says I'm I'm proud of flannel that he operates like this and it's true and I've told you guys this I'm 100% honest with you I never into this microphone tell you something I don't believe for the sake of clicks or the sake of views or the sake of the show to my detriment problem Yeah a lot of business a lot of to my detriment But I don't do that shit because I wouldn't do that to my buddy sitting on the bar stool. Mm-hmm Sam flannel through all the shit that he is Is genuine as well. Yep big facts. I mean, it's why we love you I'm just saying when we really look at resumes You you can look at obviously Wayne Gretzky. You can look at Mario Lemieux. Oh, I'll give you Bobby or Maybe you want to include a goaltender? I don't even know if I would do that But then one of the next names you bring up has to be Conor McDavid He's that great I mean multiple time MVP, but that's but that's why tonight's electric. Yes because this is why again This is why I love the playoffs in every your legacy is on the line the Panthers will be viewed as One of the all-time. Yeah all-time choke artists. Yes. Yeah, and McDavid will be people in here saying he's the goat That's how things change and if the Panthers win What a great run they've had. Yeah, they got to the finals last year finally got one if they cash one more in You got to start throwing maybe throwing that D word around a little bit No, not that word the dynasty word But uh, you know cuz you you win back like back-to-back cups and you went to a third like yeah You're held in pretty high regard throughout history. This is that's all on the line tonight man I love this yeah, honestly if the let's just say that Edmonton does win tonight and McDavid gets another few points And ends up with a 45 point postseason my declaration that I just made is gonna look a lot better I will say that so uh, I'm pulling for you. I'm pulling No, just like I wouldn't be mad at you if you got a quote from Swiss insurance Oh, I would you know that's the only place you could potentially even get a quote and it would matter You got a call mark at Swiss today. 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You are playing Shout out my dog. That's my dog. Absolutely Woodward sports chat poll San flannel moments ago uttered the words He said Connor McDavid right now is better than Steve Eiserman. What's I just do do people and I'm not Accusing you guys or anything like that or making you guys seem like you're being obtuse do people not understand what a 40-point Post season is in the NHL. It's been done by Gretzky. I think three times Lemieu once and now Connor McDavid Yeah, and for the record. This isn't a shot at Steve Eiserman. You know what this kind of reminds me of and it's not a perfect Parallel, but just stay with me This was like in 2016 where LeBron led the Cavs to a championship and did it while Leading his team in every single stack category in the finals having the 41 points in game five the 41 points in game six The 27-point triple double in game seven and at that point it was consensus I believe and to me that at that moment he had passed Larry Bird. He had passed Magic Johnson He had passed Shaq Hakim Duncan all of those guys. He had passed Kobe without a shadow of a doubt That's what I'm so to me in this equation a Steve Eiserman would be like a bird or a magic or a Kobe or a Dunkin And the reason I bring that up is because I'm not discrediting Steve Eiserman in the slightest bit We are what we are witnessing right now with Connor McDavid is maybe the best whoever whoever lived I'm not saying greatest He's never gonna get the accomplishments of Gretzky But when you watch him when you see what he's already done when you see that he already has five five Ross trophies Three MVPs and is gonna get a con smith Wow, potentially leading this team to a Stanley Cup Edmonton while having a 40-point post season that's That's it's a fascinating debate. Yes, and the more I think about it The more fascinating it is the more I read your comments in here the more fascinating it is We have it on the pole is Connor McDavid David better than Stevie why right now 65% of the people say no Terrell Lamar how many championships has McDavid won, but I would say this Because Eiserman's game changed when they got to the championship level Yeah, Eiserman didn't win a championship in this iteration of what Connor McDavid has to do and ironically enough It was the Oilers that were in Eiserman's way Yeah And Eiserman was a third best player walking planet Earth and when in something that popped in my head when you were talking about the Basketball angle to it all in that time frame It was to me it was You had Gretzky Lemieux Eiserman it was like the Jordan Bird magic it was of that ilk it was because Eiserman was putting up 170 point sees a hundred and sixty point hundred fifty point sees like he was doing that he was a space alien Now he didn't have the supporting cast that those other teams had right certainly it didn't take like Lemieux won his when he had Yogor for Christ sake rookie and second year yogurt, you know what I'm saying like who was an all-time great goal scorer and great player in the history of The game it changed for Eiserman from a championship perspective flannel closure ears, but like when he got support players like a grind line like The grind line was their fourth best line right you know and the Russian vibe and Fedoroff who I think gets sloped on in this town I think Fedoroff is at that level of player He's never going to be viewed like that because of the company He kept that team because of that team he was on Can you imagine if you put Fedoroff on Eiserman's 80s Red Wings teams? Where it was literally just him at times at times. Yeah. Yeah, could you imagine yeah? You bet the Fedoroff five gold game against a capitol where he just took the puck and went through everybody in score Yeah, I mean, it's it's a fashion. It's a fascinating discussion because it is They're like slightly different eras But they came together at the same time if you put prime Fedoroff with like 160 point Steve Eiserman on on the same team you might be talking about and I get it You never know but as you said Edmonton with Wayne Gretzky they had Mark Messier amongst others of course and Mario the greatest rosters Mario Lemieux had a yogurt Steve Eiserman at the time when he was his his peak in terms of his Individual numbers in and sort of his his athleticism didn't have that he had that later on and he was able to I mean He won a consummate of his own He was he's one of the greatest players to ever do it and the fact that he was able to change his game and be more of like A team guy and do what was best for the team while still being a star Phenomenal not taking a single thing away from him, but he didn't do it like this. What do you got KG? No, I wanted to ask two questions while y'all was talking about this one. Does the International accomplishments for Stevie why I mean anything as well and The eras because I imagine back in the 90s It was a more physical game and less gold scoring as compared to today's game is less physical with more gold scoring Does that matter as well? It's weird because like I think an Eiserman's career because I remember as a little little kid watching this The old smife division where Edmonton like every game in the smite division was 75 Yeah, you know back back then in the 80s because the goalies didn't have the equipment that I have now You know like the big-sized equipment and all of that You said he had another question. No, does the international I was told no because when I talk about Crosby and I got that man had like the greatest four-month run in the history of hockey Yeah, where he won the cup Angel Luis Arena in a game 7. Yeah, and then won the gold medal like literally won the gold medal Won the game for Canada. Yeah, and I was told that doesn't matter Well, if if you say that that doesn't matter then you can't you can't say that and then add International anything into the game. No, that's what I was told I think it I think it does play into it to some degree. Yeah, especially in the professional era. Yeah, I just want to talk That's me personally. Okay. But anyway, what were sports chapter Anthony Patterson? I'm sweating just thinking about that question It's a great question, man. It is speaking of guys that McDavid's already passed I think he's passed Crosby and Ovi. Yeah If you pass Man because where where does Eiseman rank in terms of Crosby and that's another discussion for another day, but just Damn, this is fascinating that we never thought of this before Because this is a good discussion. Well, it's also when it comes to hockey no matter how good you are The like at the top end you play like half the game. So that's why I put having a third Yeah, a little more than a third. Yeah, that's why I put having a 40 point post season with such high regard And I don't put that quite as good at him and are you using usage here? Yes, oh wow, I'm using usage Like what do you think yokech would do if he was in the NHL? Well, he wouldn't get the uh, he wouldn't get on the court I mean, it's it's hard to it's hard to compare because yokech like other great finals performers like a LeBron or Jordan or Colby Duncan. They played in some in some games Maybe not so much yokech because his conditioning wasn't quite up to the others. They played 46 minutes They played the heart. All right. What about this Alan W McDavid, I think got a feeling spending might come off the top rope with this one McDavid does a lot of stat padding and garbage time like tatum doesn't move me one bit Talk your shit spin watch watch games You want to be moved you want to be moved by Conor McDavid watch a fucking hockey watch watch the entire Physiology of the ice change when he steps on the ice. Yeah, that's that's the biggest compliment that I can give to him Is when you watch it just like you when you watch a game The the whole thing changes you can tell he's different the presence is unbelievable Yeah, and he's got that he's got the aura He's obviously got the eye test and the watchability, but he also has the seven 100 point seasons at age 27 He's got the five rostrophies. He's got the three mvp's. He's probably going to get a con smite. I mean, that's This is the type of career at such a young age that It's it's just it's it's great doesn't even begin to describe it I know i'm kind of struggling to find the right word, but there are no words and art Ken holland is his gm in a cap era That about in and of itself if he wins this cup should tell you how great he is Yeah, I mean his first move was coming in and getting dunking Keith at nine million dollars a year when he was 36 Spartan dog get your money. Yeah, fair both things can be true Yeah, and overpaid for darnell nurse, but and of course He's got help. He's got Dricidal who's also one of the greats in the game right now Bouchard has been playing out of his mind as really emerge and obviously nudge and uh, hymen kind of brown Hey, but when it comes kind of brown So probably hates kind of brown. I don't hate kind of brown He's uh, he's been valuable in this post season, but when it comes to those depth pieces This is and this is where i'm going to complement the uh DMACC red wing the forgotten like they they don't have like a grindline type And i'm not saying that they don't have like, you know, cori parries or connor browns or yawn marks or i keep forgetting cori parries on that Yeah, or like cody ccs and shout out to steward skinner who's been really good the past three games I'm not saying that i'm just saying that when it comes to edminton. They are Extremely top heavy. All right, uh, let's do this Let's take the break and I and I just have a what if just indulge me for like five minutes All right, and it's hockey related and we're talking a lot of hockey on monday, man. Look at all the w did say he was joking Okay, okay Because because then you put mc david in tatum even if he wasn't trying to do that you put them in the same sentence, which is Which is uh, that's beyond blasphemous. Yeah, j's tames above Yeah, um That's uh one top 10 number two in NBA history though Yeah I know less stanford they're top 10. 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We have a power next sighting in the building as well All of you in the woodward sports chat thread the ski mask boy ovechkin greater than iserman It's it's it's a conversation It 100 percent is a conversation. I would put them very similar In terms of their all-time ringing maybe like one one spot ahead of the other Wow, I'm not gonna make a declaration just quite yet Give me give me some time and I will Uh the ski mask boy jack nicholas would have flourished with this new technology too jack nicholas Oh, yeah, I mean jack nicholas. You could argue was the goat Just like by his majors. I think he was second in like 19 or 20 as well but a lot of people say tiger and I don't blame I don't blame I don't blame those people either Uh, willward sports chat thread Um, I think it was mike g Asta are we still paying just an abdulcator? Yes till 2026 just over a million per damn right chief Right spenny both things can be true. Yeah. Get your bag spartan dog. He got his bag And he'll continue to get his bag until 2026 Um, but no, we we just we got Kind of put into this side discussion because we're talking game seven of the Stanley cup Why don't know if you guys are fired up for it roughly 70 percent of you said yes It's a game seven in the Stanley cup. Yeah, I'm tapping in here Even casuals will And I'm happy to see that because I should because there is no shamblesian always said this shot out shamblesian goat Spartan dog shot. There is no greater thing in sports than a game seven of a Stanley cup final Unless your team's playing in it. It's an absolute disaster 2009 Yeah, that was oh it was it was it was horrible. It was the most When it comes to games where I just like was miserable washing it That's that's near the top of the list like the whole time and to sum up the discussion I said it's not like The biggest choke in the history of mankind if the panthers Lose a three oh lead to the greatest player walking planet earth. They got that got on an absolute heater A lot of people think it is So, you know kg was asking like has it happened? 1942 our own detroit red wings lost a three nut three mil lead in the Stanley cup finals to chorano. Oh What if What if that happened next year this year? What if that happened? Oh, oh, could you imagine? What spending could you imagine no if 1942 happened couldn't imagine and the red wings lost a three oh Stanley cup final lead To chorano. Well, this is man. That's it's nightmare fuel Can I be honest because I'm one of those people and I know I get killed for it That doesn't hate toronto because I find them so irrelevant because they haven't won Stanley cubs when there were more than six teams in the league but if they were to do something like that which is The odds of that happening are less than you or I winning the lottery. I understand that but if that happened Toronto maple leaves fans would actually feel like they had something over the red wings because we all know in the modern era the red wings They were the most successful franchise in the nhl from 95 to 2009 and toronto has been completely irrelevant for 50 plus years They would actually feel like They had something over the red wings and that just that that can't happen. Their fans would be completely obnoxious about it And we would have to just we wouldn't have to take that on the chin because obviously they wouldn't have anything other than that series But it would be a disasterous series, especially in the Stanley cup finals. Good lord detroit arrow. Don't put that evil on us Don't you put that evil on us. Don't you do that ricky bobby Uh, well, we're sports chapter this ski mask boy. I got a bird in my living room What happened to that bird Well, I happen to have a little bit of bull shot out bird man. How do you think these boys go healthy? How crazy is it that like Did he ended up doing that and bird man hasn't gotten caught with anything? Yeah, who if you would have told me that 10 years ago Yeah Hey real quick. Spenny wasn't here for the bird pan discussion. No, he wasn't. Did you hear what bird man said? No, what do you say? Tell him cagey. Oh my yeah in the spin the block. Oh, what do you say? There's one bird man was speaking at one of the local jails, right? Oh, yeah These books go And then he said I don't know if he did that or not. I'm just saying Um, but no, I was saying yes It would be the biggest collapse in all those sports, but in the NHL would that be the biggest collapse in NHL posy's answer? Yes I don't know Compared to the other three holes that it has happened I I don't I don't think so when you lose to the best player in the world. Yeah, I think it would be the biggest collapse since Uh falcons 28 was 28 three. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah It's pretty bad That's fair kind of the same deal or like red socks blowing the three not the lead. Yeah Yankees Yankees blew it to the red socks. Yeah Uh, what were sports chat thread Uh, it's a good thing that that can't happen now because they're in the same conference. Well It would still it wouldn't be any less crushing. Yeah. All right eastern conference finals next year Red wings. Could you imagine the buzz in the town? Oh my god against Toronto. Yeah, they're up three nothing And they lose oh my god Detroit fans would be able to recover That would be if you're if you're Toronto and if they were to do that And again, this is very far fetch if they were to do that and then go on to win the cup that's Curse breaking type of shit. I'd rather get gonorrhea than that Hey, think about that now He'd do the class. I would I promise I would what if what if they didn't have penicillin? I mean Who would if they didn't have penicillin? Like that's easy to say that would be like oh, I'd take you know I'd take a migraine over that happening. Well, you know, you Yeah, shut off, you know, shut up penicillin Out Think what it was shot out sparrow health cuter. Yes, you're right. Would you take it permanently permanent garrion? Okay, so it's easy to talk tough when the needle's right there I mean, that's a fictional thing Super mega-garrion Like if you get the one the one case of gonorrhea that just doesn't go away I had you get like the biblical gonorrhea No, this will push that's resistant to your all your so-called treatment I've been I've been through those times before and it sucked So I would not want that at all times not a chance. Okay, so yeah funny how your tune changed Yeah, it's burning Oh, I would go I would go through 24 hours of discomfort Yeah, yeah, now would you would you live? No, die by it? No, I would not Yeah, all right. Just want to know hey, I just want to know where everybody is for real for real Shout-out them as you clinic. I'm saying Uh last one I wanted to write off on big daddy. Yes, uh, distrano fan root for the oilers tonight I think they do. I don't think they have any sort of vendetta against florida I don't know. They put them all last year. They would be jealous that the cops not coming back to their partner candidate, right? That's tough. I have no way to gauge this one. Can we chat pull one more thing spending chair real quick? For the for our american fan base You not want to see canada win the Stanley Cup. Yeah, I don't I don't deal with that I'd really see canada win it then florida 100 exactly. Oh, yeah, that's a better way to florida sucks Do you want canada win the cup or florida that says pool? No, like this is purely a no-lose for me Right because panthers are kind of like my team b even though like I stand, you know, me jesus You're my emmy guy. We know that 100 percent But I there is a part of me that wants to see that Stanley cup parade That starts at sunrise florida where the arena is in the parking lot of a of a shopping mall more or less And that and that parade goes from that mall to three miles down the road The florida term pike or whatever and stops at a strip mall where there's a botox Injection said that's next to the 711 because they have right there I'll take a picture and i'll show it to you this weekend when I go down I mean as great of a picture as you just painted there I would say that at least in terms of I think hockey it would be better if if if if a mc david got a cup And me personally my mc david take would age better even though I don't think it would no We're not asking you for your take we're asking you in the parameters of this take Well, what's the deal with the canada hate? I don't know like like american supremacy. I don't know damn right just just because they're not america Yeah, that's the deal with it It's the fact that the streak has gone on so long That maybe us americans feel like we're actually the uh epicenter of the hockey universe god damn right We are flan hey by the epicenter of everything by the cup numbers We are the true power in the world. Hey america absolutely superpower I don't want to hear anything And how how do we become drinkers those goddamn syrup drinkers And how do you? Is it a terrorist here if canada wins the car Oh, the ski mask boy penicillin comes from from a tree Uh detroit dabber 313 hot takes bemo gonorrhea sucks Until penicillin yeah, I guess that all right still All right, uh ski mask boy the red sea of gonorrhea Uh ski mask boy the biblical gonorrhea. I'm just eight. I really wanted to know Detroit arrow don't thank me. Thank penicillin van wilder and probably spend more Yes It's not fun Huh That's how she said like I said, I wouldn't wish it on my enemy. Is it more itchy or burning? It's burning. Oh, yeah, oh, that's tough It's like you're burning from the inside, right? Yes. I want to know how you got I do But I don't like how did this everything like made it into my man Sacramento But who did this to my man? Was it tiny tina? I know it was not tiny tina. I was clear. I was clear He doesn't listen damn damn damn We gotta we gotta get justice was bitty broke Who did this to my man? Hey, i'm telling you night before I got some justice That's it. They want the right kind of justice. We got some justice than it was just Justice It's it's the uh, it's the punishment for sex. Okay, be a pro. All right be a pro Dealing with divorce child custody visitation or other family other family issues kevin and catheternet kdk law and bermingam We'll have your back over 10 years of experience 24/7 availability and look guys you can scan the qr code on the screen. 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Yeah, what's your take on the Spencer raxter penicillin discussion Uh, I mean it's a way to go. I mean if you got that sort of thing I can't say I've experienced it. We're sending me I've had a couple buddies go through it. Uh, yeah, man It's a rough time rough time. They uh, they end up usually going back to the same person though But uh spenmo was not desperate. So I give him respect Shout out powernecks desperate buddies. Right. Jesus. How can you? The thought of it gives me like the willies. I can only imagine going back to somebody after they gave you gonorrhea I mean Yeah, honey. Would you have went back? I did not go back. No, but would you have if I was yeah Yeah Well, but in order to Follow through you would have to be able to perform and given that thought in my head. I don't know if I'd be able to Hey, man. Don't look on them all you bary. Oh Do some I perform under must worse circumstances than the thought of uh gonorrhea. Hey, well, maybe i'm not a machine like you spent mo rax I think you can do a flannel No, you can't One woman the rest of my life. Yeah He's got a what if he gets laid all the time. He does her factual source About a being about a boom penicillin was discovered in 1928 in london. Yeah, but was it perfected by the canadians? We don't know Uh lots of mention of quote hawk to a girl Yeah, she's a legend man She never told a lie You got to respect us. So you I always say you got to respect us It's not it's not my angle, but a get your money. Yeah, she never told a lie. Yeah Everybody goddamn national icon everybody little hack to you. They give me a hawk to over Edmonton girl any day. Oh, yeah, bad mile Thank you dn C E N T What do you say? Thank you shot off braille and edwards uh throughout the first pitch at comerica park I have the but handling won the series for the yes. You did here uh shot out to dn C E N T because I just sit here and wait sometimes for hero to come along With the strength to carry on And here I am talking about penicillin and gonorrhea And hawk to a girl and then dn C Saves me and says I can't lie power neck Has inspired me four eggs for breakfast the last four days Packed a no car burger for lunch today instead of stopping at mcdonald's. Thank you power neck that neck is goaded No, be careful with that We could circle back and bring the two segments together Is the day go to Chapel is the day go to Our cool girls next probably go to know you know she is if she came I like that Spin on that day She put that it for I love her This is on me. Yeah, like I'm looking around right now when you hear me exhaling these are your people No, no, and I did this like I did it I I fell for the low hanging fruit flannel. Yeah, you did because this became a discussion And I knew where it was going to go And usually my plan of attack is Is i'll i'll give it some oxygen then i'll cut it off and we'll go in a different direction But this one it went too far in yeah, I mean you bring up everything that has been brought up punctuated by hawk toa What are we supposed to do right? She's the goat can't cut off hot too It took me a couple days to figure out who it was and then when I saw i'm like oh, I mean It I don't know who actually makes that noise when they spit but you know what that was what she thought of at the time So did you all right? We're here. We're into it. So sir here. We're into it. There's only three minutes left in the second Yeah So we're here You want to break the dogs Matthew crueger was this a case of quote spartan girls doing you dirty yes Yep, it it makes it yeah. Oh for sure. Yeah, that damn image you told you that place is a Yeah, it was the best of times and it was the worst of times It's it's a different world up there man. It's like I've been back in a couple years I'm going to go up to a game this year But man, yeah, he's Lansing is uh, fucking amazing place full of amazing people. Yeah, some traps And penicillin and penicillin, and yeah, it's The shit I'd like I don't know man. It's hard to explain. It's really like you had You got to be in that situation to understand because it's like it doesn't make sense if you explain it to Someone who hasn't been on a college campus for a prolonged period of time they won't believe you because it's It's wild. Yeah, shout out joell showing up for duty for the afternoon show And I have made the executive decision since we're you know since we're just kind of riffing right now I made the executive decision joell intern joell is no longer intern joell He is joell and joell and beat is now known as joell because You can have an exotic name like joell if you're if you're accomplished Like the the intern formerly known as joell. He's accomplished. Yeah joell and beat. However Has not done anything. No, so therefore he ceases being joell and becomes joell now And intern joell joell becomes intern joell Yeah, fair I mean given that joe joell and beat i i can get down with that is in terms of Great players. Maybe the worst post season under performer ever especially when you factor in his health But he hasn't been to a conference finals barn dog joell intern joell There you go barn dog I wonder if he got the same because you know where they're gonna be a shot I mean, he knows where the clinic is for sure. I don't know what he's experienced. Uh, yeah It's I mean You'd be surprised. Kevin Donaldson. Where's jusus? I think he's back tomorrow, right? Yeah. Yeah, he's uh tomorrow run say he's gallivanting in the forest. Yeah, hopefully he's come back. Yeah, he'll he'll be hopefully he's not prima trip Yeah Just saying you'll hear about this stuff on the Ann Arbor campus as well Yeah, cuz Ann Arbor's for nerds. Yeah Yeah Um Okay, let's just tap out and reset or come back That's on me and i'll take the blame for it. Yeah, we learned a little bit about everybody though. That's the good part We did That's on me and i'll learn and i'll grow and i'll be better fair Sparty are being spendy just you're telling those stories about Sparty. Yep Oh, it's just to be expert word of the wise doesn't surprise me. No for sure. Yeah Life is a learning listen to people stories and act according to shit All right. If you don't have one go get one. Okay. Okay. Stop it. Uh, please tell them about randy wise, please Randy wise to break up this uh excellent discussion. We were we were having the randy wise automotive team celebrity golf tour We were at open hills a couple of weeks ago. We didn't show us from there. They had the uh celebrity golf tour It was a lot of fun. I believe our very own uh, brady wood star of the uh premier pet commercial Sleeping in bed with his dog. 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All right Okay That's where we did we uh, we run along the heavyweights a long time ago It's a professional sport now and I don't know if it's sweet as well as european countries scandinavia. Yeah Neil your show has been hijacked. It has Only 20 more minutes. Yeah, and I get to go So, you know, that's it a chuck brewer. Neil needs to share some of his college days Stories, um, you had a hack to a girl back there. Did you? No, I did not My wife and I's first date was homecoming freshman year. Oh, and that's oh You've been locked up ever since here. We are today. Oh gosh. Absolutely. Um No, but My stories don't revolve around that so much as like other stuff Got you. What would you define as others? Uh, my first year of school. I went to saginaw valley state shut out Take nasty and it didn't go very well A lot of friends. I went to central So I ended up at central more than I was at saginaw valley. Problem was my classes were at saginaw valley. Yeah. Yeah, there was the 30 37 hour blackjack appearance at soaring you know 37 straight hours the dealer like that dealt to me friday night Had saturday off and came back I was still there that's what's all about. It's a great story. Yeah It's a great story fire up ships, man. They throw some great parties up there So, you know, that's uh, that's what it was. That was more my struggle. My first go around in college was with that life style So that's fair, you know, that's uh, that's what that was. Uh, yeah, if I could go back and tell my pre-michigan state Self anything it would be go to class Hunter just get it down. Just go to class. Yeah. Yeah, because it's not going anywhere. No, it's a requirement of getting out of here. Yep That's I'm in that battle with my son right now. Like he's gonna be a senior. I'm like dude Go to just go to class finish the job 100 percent like that's it. Um Did want to shout out Scottie sheffler though. I locked into the golf tournament quite a deal yesterday that man Has six wins before july first. Yeah, he's insane. Oh, yeah And like I think the and I kind of want to wrap this into the connor mc david thing a little bit Like he is the connor mc david of the pg a tour and other than like getting arrested by the police at the doors Amen never says anything because I I thought it was fascinating yesterday He was playing against tom kim pretty much in like a quote unquote match play situation That's what it was down to they went to a playoff. It was a match play situation They were walking down the fairway with each other Like laughing and joking and shit like that And you don't see that and I guess that the tv commentary yesterday said About scottie sheffler and I think said it perfectly. He's not it. He's not an intimidating presence But his game is intimidating And I think that is like a perfect comp to connor mc david Like it's not intimidating But you know damn sure that aura changes and you don't damn sure that tom kim when he's a playoff against scottie sheffler You know the physiology change yep greatness changes everything whether they're brash about it or not Absolutely, absolutely that that's why All of the great ones across all sports including like scottie sheffler including tiger woods and his prime and of course Connor mc david hasn't won one yet, but you look at the lebrons the jordan's the mohomes is Those are the that's usually what you need in order to win a title in almost any sport Maybe not baseball all the time because there's you know one out of nine Is that that's all you get one at that out of every nine? But in most sports Most of the time not all the time you need that all time all time great presence Just look at look at the history of championships in the mba nfl nhl see a lot of gretzkies you see sindy crosby you see iserman You see like patrick kane and the and the black hawks you see mario le mew So bit basically what what i'm equi what you're saying that greatness There's just nothing quite like it nothing quite like it speaking of greatness. Oh boy. Did you see bill bollacex girlfriend? Oh, yeah, yeah, man. Yeah, spenny. I did. That's awesome Shut up bill balance check. Yeah, man. Could you imagine her bringing him home and be like, hey dad? This is my boyfriend bill bellow check. He's older than you are She definitely brought him home has evidence by the ring video So just say shout out to bill bellow check he out here, man greatness greatness. It's not again. Yeah You know a donchula bill balance check bill parcels and they say he had no personality. Come on now. They absolutely did Um They get personality when they get money in their hands. Yep. It's weird how that works. I know right They all look good then they do i would be unstoppable if i was rich You would be a bitty. I already do pretty well I already do pretty well for myself. Like I mean Hey flannel you gotta give him like the man the man got gonorrhea broke. Yeah, sure. What would he what would he get? Even more broke than i am not luxury. Yes. What would he be rich luxury s tv man? We talking magic johnson look Hopefully not that we can't do for that here If you did he's doing it wouldn't transition into the Other the disease that the virus you know what i'm saying. That's true. Yeah Magic johnson is still here. That's what i'm saying magic johnson has a wife who he fucks What whoa We gotta clip that magic johnson fucks confirmed spartan dog Yeah, no you guys want just give it up man. It's over man. It's good day It's over like the show It's over deal. You did your best, man. You came in you gave a good effort for fun. You gave a good man run Just not having a good go of it today Let's go red wing sparti says spenny wouldn't be here anymore if he was rich respectfully I Remember the little people yeah as long as you're not doing the ditty stuff. We good. No get it how you live never did I'm not talking about aids. I'm not doing it. Don't put it in the chat No, no laughter gauging you're you're part of the problem. Hey, i'll tell you what i've definitely yesterday. Tell me tell me please do Spend tell me a missing dad who beat aides. Huh? Yeah. Oh, yeah Spartan dog baby. You gotta give it to a smart dog, baby. Give it to me. Yeah Beat the case he did Lifelong Casey boy fine for his life like our killer facts Every day bad Love magic man. He's going to y'all kill me with this. I'm gonna be here. Uh, no detroit dabber I'm not talking about quote full-blown. No, we're not doing that either. I'm riddled with it. Oh, jesus christ This is amazing skit. 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Just kind of hanging out taking in the show Um, I got a media question for you guys here because I keep seeing this okay You guys know steven a smith's contract with espian is coming. He's asking for the max extension Reports are that espian is in the five-year 18 million dollar camp right now And steven a smith wants five at 25 oh shit and it's public all right steve It talked about And he don't when he got his own show he kind of flexing out a little bit Yeah, you know what i'll tell you this and this isn't like a bash espian saying because I know all of you are going to say I don't watch espian but you do so yeah, but you do watch it like You do because guess what when you watch game seven on the stanley cup finals you know what you're watching tonight Yes, baby There's in joell is going to fall for it. Oh a bc. Yeah, I know right Yeah, I know it's a bc Yeah Anyway, disney and watch disney Yeah, you're watching disney, but you're watching Yeah, you know, so anyways miss me with that flannel They have to pay this man because if they don't Then what well it's funny you mentioned that because when you really think about it when you really think of espian and the shows Just all the personalities real cream of wheat. I don't watch espian. Okay, all right. All right. Go ahead Everybody pretty much pales in comparison to steven a smith I understand that they've had, you know guys like shannon sharp come over from fs one But when you look at the history of espian, I mean collin coward used to be there and it's not you look at max Well max kelman is still there, but on a different show, but uh Shout out max Yeah, shout out max like but but he's not the name that steven a smith is you look at Collin cowher does it said skit bayless Skit up. Yeah, yeah A guy like The all the layoffs that they had where they fired like jaylin rose and jeff and gundee to name a few I mean jason whitlock like like look look Hey, i'm just Turn he was there though, but like he was at this point Unless you want to include shannon sharp as as the newbie or like a max kelman on a different show with like jay williams Who's even who even is in the same ballpark as steven a smith in terms of notariety and name at a espian It might as well be called steven a smith pian or Yeah, good attempt there Swing in a miss swing in a man Uh, willward sports chat thread Uh by the being by the boom says let steven a walk. They can't they can't that's my point He's gonna get this money because what's the alternative just have pat mackephie. That's it Yeah, that's no way. He's already running as thin as you can run exactly like no way. They got a recenter Arvandelier. I work for disney. I'm in deep. Well, at least you know, at least you're honest about it But then there's chuk brewer espian live sports only for me Woodward sports fits my sports talk. Hey, hey Woodward. Do you hear that? Hey, I want 25 million per for the next five Yeah, good luck with that. Anyway, yeah, good luck in that. I'll walk girl. You okay? Or I'll walk. I hope you choose that I'm just saying but no, he's absolutely uh grown that show from the ground up I mean you kind of you don't have a choice. You don't pizza man back in the day, right? Oh, yeah, cold pizza. I remember That was skip bayless his show. He literally took the show over and grew it to maximum numbers like Max j crawford. I was back on the show's talk sports, man. Yeah, great. Wow. All right. Remember when they used to talk sports for real I just talk about the WNBA We know that's not a sport. All right. You want to talk about that 25 to 16? Oh boy. All right. We'll talk about that. Yeah Uh, Woodward sports. Okay. What's talking about that? You see me, Jo? Uh, Woodward sports chat thread jump into there get your uh thoughts out there the wave fan kneel after the lawyers lose tonight Do dry side on mik what's his face resign in edminton or sign somewhere else? Um, well mik what's his face has two years left on his contract. So it's not up to uh It's not up to him at that point and you're this far in like you're not gonna trade him because like for real what it Hey, you're gonna like can holland trade him and be and be like what are you gonna You know, what are you gonna do at that point dry side has got next to your left on his deal on that tip Yep, like so you're gonna write you're gonna ride that out because what's what you may as well Just rocket to the wheels fall off because you said well, what are you gonna get in return? You're not going to get anything that's going to put you in the position you're in when you have mik david and dry side Yeah, just not mik david and dry side oh more so mik david, but also dry settle at this point They're untratable. You just I mean they've gotten to a game seven of the Stanley cup finals with both of them playing out of their mind I mean dry side oh has 32 points this post season. So yeah, just I think personally that no matter what happens tonight that those guys are capable of another post season run like this year In the next right they those guys are but I mean it obviously depends on everybody else And that's why if you're admittance no matter how this ends you're rocking it literally till the wheels fall off You have to like you're you'll risk losing dry settle for nothing now dry side of leaves And you're kind of there with mik david Then maybe you take a look at it, but i'm telling you man I'm you're gonna keep going at it and going at it and going at it with them. I'm not trading them I'm not trading them no matter what they're in the which is rare. That's a rare take by me but What are you gonna get that's gonna put you in that same spot? They're in game seven of the Stanley cup finals for crying out loud dnt Uh, I don't mess with the spn unless it's a game youtube for all my ish big d energy has start the day McAfee on youtube since day one when big d energy is over Uh 971 after McAfee heavyweights after that in the game. That's my daily routine That's uh, we gotta get dnt to wake up earlier though. Wake up woodwork. Yeah, man. Join the join the fun Absolutely with Detroit sports media icon and heavyweight kulele. Yes front row at the press cap They save his seat. Mm-hmm. Yep. They shined his head up too while you're sitting there Now come on That's i'm saying it was extra shiny that day. That's okay. I tried my best today. I'm leaving That's it for sam flannel for kg for spencer rakster for power nap wrap your shit Yeah, return you all don't catch the jiggy man, please don't catch the jig Well, see you later You You [BLANK_AUDIO]
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