The Pat McAfee Show Live | Friday June 20th 2025

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Hello, beautiful people and welcome to. our humble abode, the Thunderdome on. this feel great Friday, June 20th, 2025. This program begins now. Scores are happening. And the reason why. this is a feel-gree Friday, not just a. feel-good Friday, is because the Indiana. Pacers in a dominant fashion last. evening have forced a game seven in the. NBA finals against the number one. overall seed, Oklahoma City Thunder. Last night, game six in Indianapolis,

Indiana was electrifying. We are lucky. enough to be in the building. A lot of. records have taken place with this. Indiana Pacer team. A lot of times they. were counted out, pushed aside, said it. was over. This team ain't trash. They. actually have the most overrated player. in the NBA. Voted on by his peers. leading this bunch who gritted his ass. through a calf and an ankle injury last. night. Didn't even have to play the. final quarter of the game because of. that big of an ass beating was taking. place. Foxy, show the play. Show the.

play. Show the play. Lucky to be in the. building when Tyrese gets a steal. Ah, give me that. In the pinki ones, the. Puma beauty gets shoved. Been happening. all series. They let him play last. night. I'm not judging it. How about the. no look deal to the Allstar Pascal. Seakam? Hey, poster in Indiana. That place went. apeshit. That place was electrifying.

This place last night was celebrating an. incredible Indiana Pacer season knowing. it was going to be the last home game. regardless of the outcome. And what the. Pacers did was show up for us in a. massive way. Game seven obviously taking. place for the first time long time in. the NBA finals and our city is getting a. chance to experience it all. We know in. Oklahoma City on Sunday it is going to. be a wild atmosphere. We know them. smackers and Tigers are going to be out. in a big way. We know the Oklahoma City. fan base is going to fuel the Thunder as.

much as hopefully the Indianapolis folks. fueled the Indiana Pacers last night. And we know that a game seven is always. going to be mustwatch. We are so. incredibly proud of the boys. We are so. incredibly pumped for the boys and we. know that game seven in Oklahoma City at. 8:00 on Sunday on ABC is going to be. something that's talked about forever. Mhm. Good luck to all the boys. Good. luck, boys. Shepard hits the buzzer. beating at the end of the third quarter.

three. Gets it off perfectly. Swishes. that thing. Turns around in the center. of the court with one of these roof. blown off. It was like last night. watching that particular game was uh. pure euphoria. It was great to see the. boys come out in dominating fashion and. it was great to see them respond when. everybody thought it was over. The. Indiana Pacers in the Gamebridge. Fieldhouse more specifically. Um their. employees, security, arena, sure, PR, marketing, basically all the different.

departments. They had to rehearse the. Larry O'Brien ceremony on the court. yesterday, the night before, four hours, five hours, how the ceremony's going to. go, you know, where the lighting is, where the camera goes, where Larry. O'Brien goes, where the Oklahoma City. Thunder will go. Let's practice. Uh, let's get the Oklahoma City Thunder. colored uh confetti and like they had to. go through the the entire Pacers. building basically, visitors locker. room. Had to go through Yeah. had to go.

through it all. You have to go to the. other the whole thing like numerous. times. And you could sense that it was. like uh this is not how this is gonna. this cannot be how this season ends. And. Tyrese Hallebertton knee Smith great. shooter great shooter start out of the. rough great shooter. Nemhard big time. shots. Pascal obviously doing his thing. And then whenever you think about OB to. going for 20 plus off the bench and when. you think about this bench you can't. help but say TJ McConnell absolute. dog from Pittsburgh. We got a chance to.

meet his dad last night on the postgame. interviews. He said he's incredibly. proud. You know, he's got a daughter in. WNBA, got a son in the NBA, and on. Sunday I'm going to Oklahoma City to. watch my son play for a world. championship. I can't believe it. I. can't believe it. It's just been all so. like uh authentic out of this Pacers. team. Every answer Tyrese gives, it's. not like a canned answer. Hey, do you. try to stay off social media? I try, you. know, I try my best. Every once in a. while, I got to catch up with what's. going on WWE. So, I'll hop on X real.

quick. See some stuff. Got to get out of. there, you know, trying to isolate. myself. I see obviously what's said. about me on ESPN. He's told us that in. between series, maybe he'll get back on. social media whenever it's serious times. he gets off of there because he doesn't. need to get flooded with any type of. doubt or thoughts from anybody else. And. it's like this team is very easy to root. for. This team is a team that you can. like and Oklahoma City is the same way. I'm not saying that they are not, but. this finals showcasing two cities that. have really shown up in two states and. fan bases that are yearning for a title, showing up in a big way going to seven.

games. It's a beautiful thing. Congratulations. Oh yeah. Congratulations to the NBA. Toxic tables. here at Boston Conor at Tai Schmidcon. Man, we were in there last night and it. was awesome. Yeah, unbelievable. One of. the best environments I've ever been in. I said that about games three and four. last night. Would definitely surpass all. of that. at the Seakkum play. Uh you. mentioned when we rewatched it back. after the fact, it it looked even more. electric on the broadcast, which was. very exciting to see. It's incredible. how well the team just answers. You.

know, uh TJ McConnell's dad also said at. game seven, anything can happen. And. that's kind of where we're at right now. Hallebertton goes down. Seakkum, I mean, he had the slam which was filthy. I. forget what song was put over that, but. it looked and sounded immaculate. But. him going off for 33, the bench doing. what they did. Tyresese Hallebertton, his overunder last night was 13 and a. half points. He scored 14. So way to hit. that over Tyrese. But if you were to. tell me, hey, uh, Tyrese Halurn was.

going to have 14 points, five assists, and a rebound in game six. I would be a. little bit worried. And then you look at. what everyone else did, everybody, uh, stepped up. Mostly everybody stepped up. Tony Bradley came in. TB13. TB13. He had. some big minutes for the boys. Kind of. got everybody going. Played a little, you know, tough defense. We've been Tony. Bradley guys since day one. And the the. finisher, if you will. You know, we. might Yeah, he is the finisher. Yeah. James Johnson coming in. And it wasn't.

the loudest pop of the night because of. that Seakum dunk. But when he comes in. with 230 left on the clock, people go. ballistic. And they don't go ballistic. cuz like, oh, James Johnson's some. dumbness. They come in cuz he's setting. the tone for for game seven. He's not. coming in just to get in and say that he. played in the NBA finals. He's coming in. to send a message to the OKC bench. He's. barking right there to them letting them. know, hey, we're not screwing around. He's crashing the boards even though he. knows that's going in. Nice little. elbow. Maybe even a maybe even a Udonis.

Hasslam locker room right now. Shout out. to the officials ejecting him. So he. gets two ovations. Played for two. minutes. One ejection, two ovations. And. uh the JJ legacy will continue to only. build here in Indianapolis, Indiana. He. was brought to the team to protect the. young boys. Like that is literally what. he was brought to the team to uh to do. And the way he leads, everybody sees it. Everybody loves him. And he'll come in. and put some in. Hey, look at some of. those. There was one time he had I think. he still had some he had a couple. bracelets on. Yeah. Couple bracelets on.

came. knock down a shot and does his thing. It's like uh you really experience and. feel the team's culture in this entire. thing. had a lot of people traveling in. for the game. Justin Jefferson was in. town last night. He was uh we saw him as. we were entering the building. Say just. wanted to experience finals atmosphere. It was like, "Yo, thanks for coming.". Justin Jefferson to the city. I assume. last night was electric for him. Uh the. city was alive after a big time win. Also, Jet Passin was there last night. Got a chance to see Jeff Passen. Uh he. brought his boy and one of his bowlers.

friends over here from uh St. Louis, right? Where does he live? Uh Kansas. City, I think. Kansas City. Okay. Missouri. Yeah. Uh he's he's uh left on. the map from us. I don't think that far. Uh I think it was a doable drive. He. looked good. He did look good. A good. fit. He had uh. he had like thong toe sandals on. He had. a deep V-neck. I do know that. Yeah. Deep V-neck in cargo shorts. Her hair. looked immaculate. Always does. And just. kind of just living just doing it. You. look like a billionaire tech guy. Like.

if if you were to imagine what like. Zuckerberg looked like when Facebook had. a million Yeah. Who has a who has a. surfboard? Exactly. Shot Steve. Shot. Steve down there in uh Outer Banks. Uhhuh. Uh from Oh, the OVX. Yeah. Yeah. Steve Steve T down there. Uh you know, Outer Banks sends me this surfboard. right here. I was on it trying to find. some barrels, you know, a little bit. earlier. That's some fine wood right. there. That is some fine wood. Great. craftsmanship. It is. Have you got a. chance to feel this thing? No, I. haven't. Real deal, brother. Steve lives.

at OBX. Uh I believe he lives OBX. He. supplies everybody in OBX with. surfboards. I believe he is the OBX. lifestyle. He's a pog. He's a Pogue. Yeah. Yeah. Certainly. From from the. Outer Banks show, they call themselves. Poges. So Steve might be a pog then. Yeah. You want to be that. Yes. Well, if. that's what you want to be, I think. Steve is that and uh shot Steve doing. that. But nonetheless, last night. electric TJ McConnell takes over. James. Johnson comes in, gets a big time pop. It felt like everybody in there um.

believed Indiana Pacers. I think some. people after. You know, game five, we're a little bit. worried. Sure. Especially with Tyrese. potentially being game time decision. Like if Tyrese is not going to play, then we're kind of, you know, we are. down one of I mean this the entire thing. the moment the moment the guy and then. as the day rolls on it's like Sham's. like he's playing and then Udonis has. them yesterday as we were talking to him. just at about I don't know 205 or.

whatever he goes it just hit me Tyrese. is going to be just fine. Yeah. Yeah. And I was like, "Who told you that?" He. goes, "Nah, I just I just think he's. going to be okay." And I'm like, "What. do you mean you think he's going to be. okay?" He's like, "We would already know. if he wasn't going to be okay." Is. basically what UD was saying. Sean, somebody would already know if he wasn't. going to be okay because they'd be. trying to set expectation levels maybe. for fans. And the other team's already. preparing for him and for him not to be. there. So, it's like, and UD is like, "He's going to be fine." And then as it. rolls on, it's like, "Wait a minute. If. Tyrese is playing, that's a big pickme. up for everybody in the city, not just.

on the team, but in the building. And. then if they're able to get a lead like. they against game six against the Denver. Nuggets where they kind of which you. called expertly yesterday you said hey. Oklahoma City these game sixes just kind. of relaxed game sixes for the Indiana. Pacers have been very very good for the. Indiana Pacers. So it's like it was a. dominating win. Tyresese got to rest. Tyresese got to play. Everybody else. showed up in a big way. It's like when. they needed it most crunch time. somebody else is about to have the. confetti fall in their faces on your. floor and your entire uh organization.

has had to walk through the other team's. championship ceremony a couple times. It's like I love the fact that they all. bought in and said I don't think so. One. half of the hammer down Cowboys AP tone. The underdog uh mentality for this. Pacers team throughout the entire. postseason has been great for them. I. mean, entire postseason, they've been. more than five point dogs on basically. every single series, especially on the. road. Uh, at home this series, obviously. against OKC, they've been legendary. underdogs and taking it to seven. So,

yeah, the mentality of the underdogs has. been great for them. Uh, but as far as. last night, like on the broadcast, and. they couldn't have stressed this enough, the Pacers only had 11 turnovers last. night. They had 23 the game before that. Like, if OKC isn't getting turnovers, like that's basically their whole game. And then this whole series it's been. like who besides the stars is going to. show up. Last night it was the Pacers. role players who showed up. None of the. OKC role players showed up at all. Uh. their third highest score behind uh SGA. and Jaylen Williams only had 11. So it's.

like who else is going to score in this. series? And then the Pacers the Pacers. were the ones who were playing defense. last night. They were getting it after. it. They were out running. Um and they. looked like OKC on defense last night. Honestly. Yeah. I uh I really enjoyed. watching this Pacers team play like it. was just good basketball. Yes. Like the. way it was just like methodical ass. beating by the Indiana Pacers last night. and anytime we needed a shot to put a. fire out, we did. And it's like there. was a 20 I think it was 28 points or. something like that with like 10 minutes. left. And it was like can't give up a.

28-point lead, right? And everybody in. the building is like no. and they sub. out their starters and then the thought. is like well the backup guys are going. to try hard and then we got our backup. guys and you start seeing that like lead. disappear and I'm like still in there. I'm like no no no no this cannot be how. this cannot be how this goes and then. the Pacers bench just answered. Fury was. in there. Yeah. Like we're talking about. just answering out there. It was a great. battle man and the fact that the NBA has. a sevengame series in the finals. What a. win for basketball for sports as a.

whole. Well, and that's what's so ironic. is everyone wants to talk about the. ratings and how it's two small market. teams and oh, does the NBA have a. problem? Because still no one's like I. guess casual fans like super casual fans. maybe aren't watching it. But for a guy. like me who loved the NBA but in like. years past not having an actual team, my. interests in the finals have kind of. waned a little bit just cuz it's such a. long process. Like this is arguably the. best finals series since what, like. 2016? Like this the the basketball. So. for everyone to say, "Hey, no one's.

watching it." This has been one of the. most entertaining finals of all time. Like it just every single night you're. it's almost a guarantee. Maybe with, you. know, a couple of those games late it. kind of got out of hand, but for the. most part for 48 minutes, like you are. going to be entertained by both sides. Like and it just, you're right. I mean, the NBA, you know, I it'd be nice if. more people were watching it because. this has been a hell of a series, but. it's unbelievable that we're getting a. game seven. Joining us now, ladies and. gentlemen, is the man who uh picked the. Oklahoma City Thunder to win last night.

No horse in a race, he says. Played 13. years in the NBA. He's co-host of the. knuckleheads podcast, front of the. program. Ladies and gentlemen, Q Rich, how you doing, man? I'm good. I'm good. Probably not as good as you fellas, but. I'm doing good, man. I enjoyed the game. last night. It was a It was a I mean, obviously, it was a blowout, but we. Oh, no. Cat got his tongue. Coach Dags. Uh, that could be Coach Dag saying, "Hey, you cut out right there. Uh, we. lost you completely." Oh, my bad. My.

bad. I said, "No, I had I enjoyed the. game. I mean, it was a It ended up being. a blowout, so it was a little less. enjoyable on that end, but the fact that. we get a game seven, I'm super hyped. about it, man. We got We got more. basketball." Yeah, absolutely. More. basketball is great for the NBA. I think. it's great for sports media as a whole, especially with the way these games have. gone. Ty just kind of mentioned it. there. the style of play that is being. played. I mean, there is great. basketball happening by, you know, one. of the teams, I guess, both of the teams. in most of the games. last night being a.

blowout and everything like that, but. it's like the atmospheres have been. electric. The basketball has been. fantastic for game seven. All anybody. has said is uh it could be anybody's. game. TJ McConnell's day say ain't. happy. It's game seven. I mean, that is. very true. What are your thoughts on. going into a game seven h if you're the. home team? And what are your thoughts on. going into a game seven if you're an. away team? Uh Pacers went into New York. Madison Square Garden game seven last. year one did some gardening. They have.

some experience going into another. building and winning. But in this case, what is your thoughts on both teams. perspectives of a game seven in Oklahoma. City? I mean I agree I agree with with. with TJ's that anything can happen in. this game seven. This is why you you. know if you in if you was in OKC's. situation you wanted to try and end it. last night but clearly that didn't. happen. But I mean, if you OKC, you do. feel I mean, they got to feel some. comfort going back to they to they uh to. they to their home to their home court. where they play really well. They bounce.

back from games they lose really well. They got all of those things. But to me, game sevens, man, you throw all of the. narratives out. And that was just it. it's one game, man. It's who feels good. that day, who's in a rhythm, all of. these different things, all these. different reasons can go into it, and. you never know what's going to happen. It's all about one single solitary game. And so now it's come down to that and as. a fan like like we say in basketball as. a fan those the best two words in. basketball game seven. So this this is. what you want. This is the you getting.

you getting it to take it the distance. the furthest it can in this series and. we get to watch as as as much basketball. as possible cuz after this this is it. for a minute before the draft next week. we got to wait the summer league and you. know that's that's a bummer for me. Yeah. Bummer for you. It's also a bummer. for for a lot of us. Yeah. The NHL six. games. Okay. Yeah. Could have been cool. Have another one. But congrats to the. Panthers. Congrats to the Panthers down. there in Florida. Hockey State in this. now game seven obviously and anything. can happen. It's one game. Who shows up.

that night? What do you think Coach. Carlile and Dags are thinking? Is this. simplify offense for game seven or is it. are they throwing their best [ __ ] here? Is this a chance that there is a a. master class that could be had by one of. these coaches that can maybe, you know, win them the game or do we just expect. them to kind of treat this as if it's. any other game? Man, I'm I'm I'm like. you did. You never know what Tricky. Ricky thinking over there, what he going. to do. He's a he's a mad scientist over. there. So, I mean, he's got a lot of.

experience. He's been in a lot of. different situations. Uh I feel like. Coach Dagnard is a great coach and he's. doing a great job, too. But, um I don't. know, man. I don't know if these guys. stick to the stick to the script. I. mean, I think for for OKC, it's kind of. easier to stick to the script because. you got your lead man and he's the MVP. and he's always kind of had that that. that position with that team. So, for. me, it'll be interesting to see like. like you said, you guys talked about the. others playing well and and TJ McConnell. getting instantly in the game and going.

crazy the way he did. Will he be able to. have that type of impact or will it be a. OKC player doing that? Oh man, it's it's. gonna be crazy to see all this play out. Now I wonder how what I wonder who Rick. Carlau is gonna you know. Yeah, there is. gonna be because Nemhard last night hit. some massive shots. We've seen knee. Smith whenever he's been called upon. massive shots. Shepard was knocking down. massive shots yesterday. It's like. everybody Pascal obviously for the first. quarter it's like hey we got a Pascal. show where he's going to deliver. It's.

like every guy on that team can get it. Miles Turner still Yeah. He has yet to. play anywhere near his best offensive. basketball and it's going to a game. seven. So like think about that. If. Miles can get hot, which he certainly. can, just a couple. All he all he needs. is to see one go in. That's it. He had a. foul shot last night early. I think No, Tyrese did. I think Miles did too. They. had a foul shot go in early and I'm. like, "Here we go. Take the bucket off. Yeah, take the top off this entire. thing." Miles just needs to see a couple.

fall, I think. And then we'll see how it. goes. Now, there are a couple stats that. are telling a story. Go ahead, Tone. Yeah, Q. Last night, Pacers only turned. the ball over 11 times. I think it was. 20. Choked up about it. 107. Look at the. hatch right there. Shout out. Shout out. Moose. Uh, choked on a jelly bean. That's on me. Uh, 11 turnovers for the. Pacers last night. 23 for OKC. The team. that has turned over the ball less uh. has won five of the six games. Only game. one was different. Uh, and that was the. Pacers comeback. So, like when it comes. to turnovers, you like in the NFL.

there's there's quarterbacks that just. throw interceptions. That's what they. do. Um, in the NBA, is it like teams. teams are going to like there's teams. that are just going to commit turnovers. or is it like a mindset going into game. seven like, "Hey, we need to protect the. ball or what what's the mindset going. into game?" Talk to us football on this. No, I think I mean obviously after you. have a game where you have a high. turnover game, that's something that you. focus in on when you talking game plan, when you in walkthroughs and different. things like that. So, I think they'll be. more focused on, you know, taking care. of the ball cuz I I did feel like they.

were very loose with the ball yesterday. and that that turned into, you know, an. avalanche of problems for them. But, yeah, I mean, back and forth each team, I mean, I felt like that that Indiana's. defensive pressure and the way they were. all over the place, they they they. created those turnovers. It's not like I. mean I did feel like OKC was lacadasical. on some of the passes, but without those. guys being ultra aggressive and being in. passing lanes and shooting gaps and. doing things like that, they still don't. get those steals and create those. opportunities they create. They were. first to the floor and a lot of times to.

get on the on the ground and get to the. ball, all the little 50/50 balls Indie. was getting. So, they got to change. That's what OKC has to change. And when. they get in their building, they got to. make sure that they try and get and. create those same type of situations for. themselves. I love whenever we were Hey, defensively the Pacers were locking it. down. Yeah, they were trapping a lot. I. mean, we had we were I mean, it was good. defense. They they ran a whole highlight. during a TV copy, I guess, of the Pacers. D and the Pacers pace, I do believe. And. it's like every once in a while, the. Pacers either fall into a good good.

situation with how the other team's. playing or they just decide that they're. going to lock down and they will. I I. mean, like the Pacers, everybody's. talking about Oklahoma City coming into. the series. They're the best defense in. all the NBA and everything like that. It's like I feel like the Pacers and. coach Carlau have felt challenged in. that aspect in this particular series. and there's been a couple times where. they've ratcheted it up on the defensive. side. I assume game seven going to be. tight, right? Do we think that's going. to be a little bit tighter than usual? I. wonder what game seven stats say. Is. that more of a KY affair or is that wide. open, you think? I mean, I think it's.

wide open. I mean, I I expect this game. to be, you know, a down tothe-wire game. hopefully. But, uh, like I say, man, this is anything could happen. You never. know. It could go either way. It could. be big. It could be a big blowout or it. could be a close game. I'm I'm hoping. it's a down tothe-wire game and we get a. real, you know what I'm saying, a real. game seven epic moment at the end from. one of the teams. The Pacers enjoyed a. blowout last night. There are some uh. things that come alongside that. Go. ahead, Con. Man, yeah, Rich. Fourth. quarter, no starters playing for OKC. I. I know Halurn didn't play in the fourth.

I think Seaken played, you know, two, three minutes as well. Does that time at. the end of the game matter? You know, today people are saying, uh, you know, Tyrese didn't have to play the four, so. he'll be a little more rested up. Is. that real? Same with OKC. Do players. kind of get that, uh, almost transition. over to, you know, getting ready for. game seven or things like that while the. game's still going on because it feels. as though that might not be something, but if they're already on the sideline. kind of talking about what went wrong, can that actually help a team going into.

game seven? I think it can, but I think. I uh I think I think more so like like. you said the the rest of the and the. impact of the rest and the impact of you. not being out there for those 12 minutes. and and nothing being allowed to happen. You can't tweak anything. You can't do. anything as far as injuring yourself. So. when they sitting when they off their. feet and they just sitting on the on the. bench, whether they talking about things. for the next game or not, I think that's. a positive on both sides where like you. say, Tyrese didn't play in the fourth. and a bunch of the OKC players. So I. feel like they will have a little more.

juice from that. because they didn't. have to be out there for those 12. minutes exerting energy and fighting. either way, whether it was a blowout or. a close game. So, I do agree with that. But, um, as far as like talking game. plan, I mean, I don't know. I mean, I. saw Shay, he you can heard you heard him. miked up him saying like, you know, this. it's going to be one for every, you. know, one game, seven for everything. and, you know, trying to trying to. mentally move past that game. So, maybe. that could help and be positive for. them. But, like I say, it just. everything come down to Sunday, man. Yeah. Who shows up? You know, that's it.

who shows up, who decides that it's. going to be their night. I think I was. going through the scores of the previous. game sevens here. 2016 9389. 2013 958, Lakers 83, Celtics 79, you. know, 8174. They all seem to be. relatively close games, also lowscoring. games. Then we get into the hundreds. there back in the 80s uh in this entire. thing. So it does feel as it may be a kg. affair. Uh maybe cuz game seven. everybody's a little bit tight in. football games get like that where it's.

like we're not going to make a mistake. So everybody's kind of just a little bit. tighter and the defense is easier I. think effort-wise than maybe offense if. everybody's a little bit nervous. Let. them settle in. We'll see. But last. night beginning of the game it felt like. that was uh that was being officiated in. a way like hey physicality is allowed. here. Go ahead Ty. Yeah speaking of that. cure Rich do you think game seven will. be officiated like last night? Because. to Pat's point, like they were letting. them play and you know, a lot of bodies. on the floor, a lot of very physical. defense. Um, do you think it'll be.

officiated like last night? And if it. is, who do you think it favors? Uh, I think the I think the players set. that set that tempo. I mean, if you come. out and you playing so physical to the. point to where they can't call. everything, then that means that the. players have set the tone that it's. going to be a a very physical game. Because if the refs are never going to. call every single call every single. time. So it's like if they come out and. they getting to the money and they. playing and bumping and and and getting. to the physicality of it, that means. that they they them as the players have.

set that tone. And I think whichever. team is being the most the more physical. and and and putting imposing that will. on that part, I think that'll favor that. team. I mean, whichever team it is, you. know, that could that could go either. way. I felt like last night that that. the uh Indie was the more physical team. the throughout the game. I mean, early. to 10 to two start, I felt like Aaron. Nimhard was huge for y'all cuz I mean, it was it was a silence. It was it was. 10 to two and it was no answers from. nobody and he hit a couple threes here.

and there and got a couple buckets that. kept it from going to like 14 16 to like. four or something and maybe going the. other way and then y'all got y'all got a. handle of it. So, I think he was huge. That three right there, the step back. was big. He made a couple early buckets. that was like they were big buckets to. keep y'all right there and then y'all. took over after that. Yeah, it it was. not pretty early, you know. It was uh it. was reminiscent of game five uh where. early we were just completely flustered. and nothing was falling, you know. It. was like nothing was even having a.

chance of falling. We we shot a we hit. the back of the backboard on one of the. shot. I I mean where we were sitting is. like right on the baseline like kind of. up a little bit. So we can basically. tell if everybody's shots going in. It's. actually a great location where it's at. Soon as it leaves the hand, you can tell. like, "Oh, that looks like it's going to. be short because you can literally it's. it's a perfect view. It's like video. game type view of this entire thing.". And we see this shot and it's just. that's that's veering towards the crowd. behind. I'm like, "Did that thing get. blocked?" It's like, "No, we're just. completely out of sorts right now." And.

then for our ability to be able to. settle back in, it's like the mental. toughness of these two teams has been on. display throughout. Cannot wait for. Sunday. You go into that game, Q Rich? No. No, sir. I will not be attending the. game. I'm not I'm not I'm not, you know, I'm. not in the arena and it being on the. sidelines and all that. I'm I'm I'mma. watch from here. Yeah, we'll see if I'm. doing the same, you know. Not from. there, but maybe maybe from here. A lot. of people tell me I need to go. Need to. go. Need to go. Hey, show up. Pull up,

Pete. Pull up. Pull up with the bring. the energy. Bring you and the boys. Bring the energy. Yeah. the the ticket. prices of these things. I I don't know, you know, if the grand stand of me being. an [ __ ] in the other arena is is also. worth the price of everything else that. goes alongside. I'm assuming they're. damn near sold out on couldn't find them. on the secondary market. Could not find. any on the court side. So on the. secondary market looked definitely. looked at. Now big perk has said you you. got to you know telling me I got to come. and he said he's going to connect me.

with the people over there or whatever. and it's like it would be cool to. experience a game over there. See, also. could also not true, you know, see the. game there. Could do it from house. You. got a good setup of your house, I bet. Yeah, good. There's a good TV setup. right there. Probably a nice couch. And. then whenever the boys get home, you. know, at the FBO, you're there. We're. there. We're there. We're there. Whole. every person in here is there. Absolutely. I will I will do that for. sure. Uh the Pacers, we had a.

conversation about this. The Pacers do. need to send one man to sit courtside. His name's Larry Bird. Oh, that's Larry. Should be there for Indiana. That's just. my thoughts on it. I think Larry brings. good vibes. I don't know if uh I thought. you were going to say Hans. Bingo. I I. say Hans cuz Hans was there last night. Same kind of juice. Yeah. Um appreciate. Hans representing yet again. Last night. he was on a couple different videos. I. think he maybe was even on local news. Yeah. I mean, Hans absolutely crushing.

it. Welcome to Indie. We're happy you're. here. It was a hell of a night. We. appreciate you, Q. Rich. You're the man. Yes, sir. Anytime, fellas. Ladies and. gentlemen, Quinton Richardson. [Applause]. I don't know. You know what do you mean? Just cut a check for $1.5 million. You. know, I know all the seats are gone, but. they'll they'll pop a folding chair down. for you and say, "See, he's pretty. drinks are free. Thunder will cover it. They'll cover the plane." And yeah, I. don't know. The uh I don't think they. will do that. the I I will be trying to,

but I'm going to be a reasonable human. being. I'm going to be a reasonable. human being. They should stick chestnuts. right next to OKC's bench and have him. just eat stuff down. Yeah. Just just. just crushing dogs and farting on the. bench just the whole time. The whole. entire night. I need 45 more hawkers. That actually helps. He should do that. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe right underneath a. hoop. Yeah. Or right behind Coach Dags. Like coach Jags is trying to [ __ ] make. adjustments and all he sees is chestnuts.

eating $80 right across from their. bench. Yeah. And then he makes himself. throw up all over. Whoa. I don't think. he does any of that all over his back. when the clock's winding down to zero as. the Pacers are about to win. Dags just. gets puked on. It was electric last. night. It we we had one too, by the way. We were thinking about having one and we. uh we said, "You know what? We should.". And then we actually did. When presented. with the chance, you kind of have to. have one. And you actually had one. Yeah, I had one. I said I was going to. have I have one. I'm not going to be.

having one. I'm going to be I'm going to. have one and that's what I did. And then. I went home and I obviously when I got. home I I had one uh during the game. But. you know, hey, you got to be responsible. sometimes. Speaking of having one, baseball's having one right now. Uh we. got fights. Damn it. We We got real. drama with big names in baseball now. College World Series this weekend. Coast. Carolina, LSU, best of three series. Good luck. Good luck. Good luck, boys. You got a lot of pros, future pros, playing in this uh college. World Series. And the Coastal Carolina.

story is obviously the story of the. tournament thus far. LSU obviously. powerhouse. Always will be, always has. been. Coast Carolina has won a World. Series in the past. It'll be a best of. three this weekend in Omaha. Good luck. to all the boys over there. Thank you. for what you've done with your metal. bats. Your pings have sent us into true. moments of joy as sports fans. Engagewood. Thank you for doing what. you're doing. uh that kept like. competitive spirit alive for all of us. Uh but in the majors, there's some big. names doing getting into some big [ __ ]. Ty, can you talk about baseball.

etiquette a little bit, please? Yeah, sure. Uh so this is basically right now. the Dodgers and the Padres's who they. play in the same division. So they play. each other, you know, 30 plus times a. year. They see each other a lot. They've. seen each other in the playoffs before. It's kind of been like a growing. rivalry. One of those things where the. Padres's for the longest time were not. good. The Dodgers were. So, it's kind of. a little brother, big brother kind of. thing. But then the Padres's started. spending a bunch of money and kind of. not exactly doing what the Dodgers are. doing, but they're trying to get on the.

same level. They have a bunch of. superstars. They uh so to kind of take. everybody into what's happening here. over the last 10 days. Fernando uh Fernando Tatis Jr. who is. arguably the star of the Padres's has. been hit three times by the Dodgers. First 10 days. Yeah, in 10 days. First. one right there. a little innocuous. It's in the first inning. You're. probably not intentionally throwing at a. guy in the first inning. So, that that. is probably one that just got away. Let's go to June 17th here. Okay. And. this is in the third inning. Tatis, now.

it's a little higher. That's a little. higher. That's a little up near the. head, which, you know, again, uh maybe. he's trying to get him off the plate. perhaps, but that you could argue is, you know, L Trevino is is throwing at. Tatise to try to get him off the plate, but still, you know, it it happens. Well, the uh the Padres's basically say, "Okay, you're going to take one at our. guy, we're going to take one at your. guy." Show comes in and boom, he's. trying to hit him right in the kneecap. So, that you know, I mean, there's. that's a a meaty part of the leg. So, you know, I mean, it hurts, but you. know, he Show is going to recover from.

that one. He's going to limp a little. bit. He's not playing in the field. He. wasn't pitching that night. So, you. know, you go ice that thing up in the. dugout. No big deal. Well, then let's. fast forward to last night. And this is. in the top of the ninth. That one gets. to tease right on the hand. And after. the game, uh, he had to, you can see. Mike Schil is pissed. He's had it. This. is three times in 10 days. We're paying. this guy $300 million. And you guys are. trying to kill him. Okay, enough of. that. This is [ __ ] Right after he. gets hit, the benches uh bench is clear.

And we actually have a video. This is. pretty sweet. So, this is right when he. hits. This is the bullpen. You see these. guys just right away. Okay. Uh-uh. Nope. And they storm out. Yeah. Yeah. The. entire bullpen going. So, that's sweet. And that's how you know like I mean this. is this is real deal Holyfield like this. is actually a thing now. Uh again Tatis. has to get an MRI. They're hoping that. he doesn't have like a broken hand or. something like that cuz you see that a. lot. Guys take an inside fast ball when. they're gripping the bat and they might. break a couple fingers and be out a. little bit. Very important in baseball.

having the use of your fingers obviously. uh inside a glove and on a bat. So the. following inning Shi comes up. Same. deal. Okay you take one of ours. We're. going to throw it to show's head. And. you can see Showi acts like he got hit. by a shotgun there. Kind the guy's. throwing 100 miles an hour and he's. throwing it and and you could see like. at this point the umpires are trying to. like, hey, we don't we don't need. another benches clearing brawl. We don't. need a bunch of Show's pissed though. He's pissed. He show was telling the. boys not fight. Wake him up. I think he.

was saying like because you know they're. gonna try to send like the medical staff. out there to like see if he's okay. I. think he was saying like no piss off. I'm good. I'm gonna go take first base. and I'll be okay. because after the. bench is cleared, like a lot of times. they're just not going to let, you know, another benches clearing brawl happen in. the next half inning. But this has been. going on. I mean, the the Dodgers and. the Padres's will play each other. probably another I don't know how many. times they've played so far this year. They'll probably play each other another. 15 to 20 times this season. This is. going to be something to keep an eye on. This is a legit legit rivalry. Bad blood.

between these two. And anytime you got. pitchers throwing 100 mph fast balls at. show. head at Fernando Tatis Jr's head who is. also a you know $350 million guy like. this is kind of this stuff happens in. baseball. You kind of likened it off the. show. You're like you know I kind of. like this. It's kind of like fighting in. hockey. It's very similar. It's an. unwritten rule. Like you you come at our. guy we're going to come at your guy. They have six games left against each. other. Okay. So not that many but still. that's you know what he'll get three at.

bats. I mean, they could still hit Tatis. 15 times in the next six games if they. wanted to. I love a little rivalry. I. also like when baseball does a little. hockey. Sure. Okay. Hockeyy's a big Oh, is that right sport and then we're going. to get you back. Baseball is showing. that it is as well to its biggest star. Show Otani get a 100 mph fast ball at. its head at his head. I mean, that's an. insane situation. And him just eating. that. You said, "Well, he did do an. ouchie. Ouchie. 100 mile hour.

Which I get it. That's That's 100. milesPH. That's Jeez. That hurts. That. hurts. Why did he do that? I I just Go. back. Go back. Watch it. Watch. Hold on. What What should I be looking for? Could. you do that again? Right after he hits, he kind of does like a and then starts. walking. Yeah. Just watch it. I will. I. will. I will watch it. See, you see how he kind of does the. neck thing and then I know. Spot on. Spot on. I see. I saw him go ah.

and then do one of these and then jog. like this. It really is just the neck. positioning. You can see he [ __ ]. really He just ate 100. No, I know. I. know. I get it. I'm saying rightfully. so. I mean, that would have killed me. He just ate 100 mph fast. He did. He's a. big son of a [ __ ] You're a dog. Hey, I. like what baseball's doing, though. For. sure. I like that. If I were the. Dodgers, too, I'd stop throwing it to. Tease cuz guess what? One of these times. they're going to hit show in the head. they're gonna, you know, and if it's not. him, it might be Mookie Betts or it. might be Freddy Freeman, you know, like. that. This stuff can get off the tracks.

pretty quickly and I think we've kind of. reached a fever pitch. All right. Shout. out to baseball college World Series. this weekend. We'll obviously be. following along. Is Paul SK going to. pitch this weekend? Uh, he pitched. yesterday so probably not. How'd it go? Uh, he pitched great obviously the uh. Pirates. Is there any pause? Pirates. blew it. Who's there? Yeah, this is a. problem. Where's this at? This is in. Detroit. We're the best team in. baseball. No one's there. It was a double header though. Scooball. was the first game. So I assume they. said, "Hey, we're going to go to school. ball. Best pitcher in the league. We'll.

go to that game. We're not going to Sk.". Listen, Scooball obviously moves the. needle. I get scooball. Paul deserves. more. There was a lot of weather days. yesterday or weather delays yesterday. between those two games. I get Detroit. What are they? The best team in. baseball. They show up. Well, if they. want to fill it up, take notes. Beat. someone in the head and get people in. those things. I think Paul would do that. for his teammate Paul. Feels like that. is a natural thing happening in. baseball. Okay, let's move along. Uh, shout out to baseball and uh I like I.

like what San Diego and LA are doing. Good for baseball. Joining us now, ladies and gentlemen, is a man who's. great for football. Is he about to. become great for goth? I think so. Ladies and gentlemen, uh, Fairway Side. reporter for the Travelers yesterday and. senior NFL insider at ESPN, Adam Sheper. She. How you doing, man? Hello, gentlemen. Uh, did you see our report on baseball. there about show Otani eating a 100 mph. fast ball to the shoulder? Don't you. like that about I like that about. baseball that you're allowed to do that.

Baseball is becoming a little bit like. hockey, right? Bingo. Okay, big sports. guy. Let's talk about all the sports. that you cover now. Golf yesterday, Rory. has his best day he's had in a long time. with you following him along. How was. yesterday? And uh what was your. experience as a golf reporter for the. first time? Honestly, one of the thrills. of a lifetime. It was incredible to be. alongside Mark Damron right there. He. was kind of telling me where I could and. couldn't walk. My great fear was that I. would walk into somebody's back swing,

be in the fairway, and get drilled in. the side of a head with some four iron. Like, you don't know what's going to. happen. So, I'm like, "Mark, where are. we going?" He's just follow me. Okay, great. So, I'm following Mark Damron. along all day long. We're out there with. Keegan Bradley. We're with Rory Maroy. and Pat. I don't think it's a. coincidence that both men both shot six. under and finished in the top three. golfers that day. Like I don't know. Is. it me following them or is it them just. being on their aim? I don't really know.

But it was a great day with them. No. Yeah. It sounds like you're certainly. leading to one one reasoning. It sounds. like Yep. Yep. I'm sure the fact that I. was out there had everything to do with. the fact that Rory and Keegan Bradley. both shot six under. But I will say that. honestly both guys were tremendous. After the round, got a chance to spend. time with both. They were gracious. They. were great to watch. They were great to. follow. I thank them for allowing me to. trail in the footsteps of their. greatness. And it was a memorable day. Anytime you step out of your comfort.

zone, like right there, that ball went. into the sewer. Great. We're trying to. describe what's going to happen. There. were so many things about the day that. I'll remember, but I remember doing the. NBA sideline reporting five, six, seven. years ago, pre- pandemic, and it was. tremendous being around those people, and this was the same kind of. experience, and I love doing it. You you. mentioned how much you watch golf, how. much you bet on golf. Uh you're in like. a couple different golf pools. It's like.

you're an actual golf. Are you a good. golf player? like were you trying to. watch them and compare them to your golf. game or were you just talking about what. you were observing in front of you? We. didn't get a chance to watch your entire. coverage yet. We have it uh bookmarked. for this weekend. We book We'll go back. to Thursday's round on Sunday. Then. we'll get into Sunday's round. See how. Scotty and Rory and Keegan are doing on. that day. Yeah. No, Pat, I am not a good. golfer. Not only am I not a good golfer, I suck at golf. And there was no part of. my game that would resemble their game. at all. Okay. But I do watch a lot of.

golfing. Yes, I'm in a fantasy league. and yes, I'm in this pool with my. college buddies where we pick one c one. golfer each week. So like from that. perspective, I watch so much of it and I. just find it to be captivating, mesmerizing to watch these guys how good. they are at what they do. They hit shots. like that that are just incredible where. I would be buried. It would take me five. shots to get out of there. They're right. up on the green like and and I teased. Mark Dabney yesterday and I heard a.

couple times I watch a ton of PGA Tour. live all the time and these guys are. saying I don't know how they're going to. get it on. This is a terrible line. They're 180 out like this is not the. position you want to be. And all of a. sudden, you know, the guy's six feet. from birdie and and Mark said it. yesterday. I go, Mark, that's Rory. Mackoy. I don't care that he's got a. sidehill lie in the He's going to be on. the green and He was on the green. You're saying seeing some of the shots. that uh don't make any sense up close. and personal is really the game changer.

for you. Got it. These golfers are. great. I suck at golf as well. And uh. I'm always mesmerized by those who are. great at golf. I also think golf. coverage, they figured it out. That's. why our big question with live golf is. like, hey, I don't think you need to. reinvent the wheel here. Like golf. coverage is good and like the person. walking with the groups. Great. Yes. Great addition. Easy dropins too. Everything feels smooth. Obviously, they. have the good shots docked. You can hear. them. It's like golf coverage is.

wonderful. I think that's why it's great. background TV for everybody throughout. the weekends, especially if Sheffller's. T1 doubt going into the weekend. It's. like, hey, there's going to be some. magical moments and Rory's in dancing. again after something now. Is it because. of what were they calling you out there. yesterday, Adam Sheffer? What were they. calling you? Yeah, by the end of that people call me. Adam Sheffler. You know, we we got. Shiffler, Sher, Shley, we got a lot of a. lot of stuff going on, right? So, jeez, a lot of shifts going on. Yeah. Um,

okay. Let's talk uh a little bit. football, shall we? Over the next few. weeks, let's drum it up, Pat. Let's. strum it up, right? Thank you. Yeah, it. up. Yes, let's do that. We We had a good. conversation earlier today, Chef and uh. about what day-to-day looks like, you. know, for uh sports shows on a regular. basis. And you know, I think we pointed. out to you something that you already. know and I think something that ESPN. knows because I believe we know the deal. uh that you signed and what it was and.

what other insiders signed for as well. You guys are the news generators, the. news creators. One tweet from your. particular account rattles not only a. sports fan base or fan bases, but an. entire sports ecosphere basically. everything that could happen inside of. it. So, is there anything over the next. few weeks that are brewing like that you. know of that you could foresee? Is there. any outstanding storylines other than. Shamar Stewart and Trey Hendrickson in. Cincinnati other than, you know, is TJ. Walk going to get signed? Is that. basically the big ones that we're.

waiting on? And uh I guess Micah Parsons. as well. Is there anything else that's. kind of lingering through that maybe we. haven't seen or or heard of? You know, first of all, let's go back to Wednesday. a second because we bring up Jer. Alexander and as I'm on the phone, I. misread the text. I got a text. Jaier is. here in the building right now in. Baltimore. So, as I'm on the phone with. you at 12:36, I get a text that Jaier is. in the building right now. So, I misread. it because there was a text with an. emoji prior to that. So, there's always. something going on in the NFL. That's.

the point, right? There's always. something going on. So, I would say this. that the Dolphins continue to have. conversations about trading Jaylen. Ramsay and I think that a trade there. will get done. The question is when does. it get done? Does it get done next week, the week after, prior to the start of. training camp? I don't know exactly when. it's going to be, but Jaylen Ramsay will. get traded. It'll be, I would expect, before the start of training camp. We'll. see how it shakes out where he goes. I.

think he would like to go to the West. Coast to Los Angeles, Rams, Chargers, somewhere like that. And we'll see how. that happens. Now, we're waiting on. these contractual situations. We have a. number of unresolved matters that I. would expect that there would be some. resolution with a lot of them. Trey. Hendrickson, yes, he and the Bengals are. talking. They're talking, but they. haven't made a whole lot of progress so. far. Now, that could change with one. phone call, and things could get heated.

up very quickly, but there hasn't been a. lot of progress so far. They're stuck on. the length of the deal. Bengals want. fewer years. Hendrickson would like more. years. And I think before you can figure. out a value, you've got to figure out. the length of the deal. They haven't. even been able to to do that right now. The Steelers and TJ Wah would expect. them to figure out something. He's the. heart and soul of that team, just like. Trey Hendrickson is for Cincinnati. Got. to get a deal done for him. Micah. Parsons is going to become the highest. paid defensive player in NFL history at. some point this summer. But here's the.

whole thing, Pat. Honestly, like these. front offices, these coaching staffs, they go so hard all during the year. Most of them have finished wrapping up. mandatory mini camps. Many of these. people are going away. They're taking a. break. They know how intense the next 10. months are going to be. So, this is. their one chance to get away, which. doesn't mean that something can happen. in the next month. It always can, but. nobody's in a rush to make anything. happen till we get to say the week.

before training camp. Again, I would. imagine some things will trickle in here. and there. Couldn't predict what they. will be, but there'll be some things. that happen here between now and the. start of training camp, but I think. people in the NFL, they're trying to. make the most of their quiet time at. this time of year. I will say this, Keegan Bradley yesterday before the. start of the round said, "Hey, if. there's any Patriot news, please let me. know during the round." I said, "We'll. see if we can make something happen.". So, I would have interrupted.

enough. If there was significant enough. Patriot news yesterday, I would have. interrupted Keegan. And I don't know. that he would have minded dropping a. shot if the Patriots would have acquired. the right guy. Imagine Keegan lining up. We're about uh 210 yards out here on uh. the third. He's line up as Chefer Keegan. you off microphone yellow polo doing the. entire thing. Okay, so you could have. broken the Jier Alexander story on our. program. That would have been cool.

Especially because of how big of fans we. are of Jaier Alexander, those emojis and. like the previews and I don't like the. AI email preview. You need to get out of. my face. I I don't need that. Just let. me see the first line. Yeah, let me just. see the first line there. Train, I like. to see something factual, right? Like. I'm on the phone with you. I can't have. a conversation. So I get an emoji and I. get he's in the building now and I'm. like okay well he's in the building like. I so the deal is getting I'm on the. phone so I can't really follow up and. the emoji I wasn't smart enough to.

figure out what the emoji meant. Yeah. Hey sometimes you're going to miss some. every once in a while especially with. this modern technology with the way. words are being uh transferred from one. side to the other which is kind of how. you basically stated the Bengals and. Trey Hendrickson's going. They're. talking, but it's like a lot of what we. said. What we said. All right. See you. tomorrow. That's it. All right. We're. thinking Yeah. 15 a year. What do you. say? We're still one year, right? I. think that's what you reported. They're. thinking like one year, maybe a boost of.

the contract, right? Something like that. right now. That's on the table. That's. been discussed. Who knows where it'll. come in. Yeah, but they were thinking. about like, hey, we'll just boost this. year for you, then you will have a. chance to do a thing. That would be a. Duke Tobin play. That would be a. Cincinnati Bengal play. They wouldn't be. the only team in the history that has. done that where somebody feels. undervalued. Well, let's do a. negotiation just for this year. We'll. get you an extra 70 or 21 million. We'll. give you an extra 7 million for 28. million. We'll give you an extra 9. million for 30 million for this year. And then bang, you're a free agent. And. he's like, "No, I think I've earned.

long-term security. We've done this now. a couple different years." You could see. how there would be at odds because I. think Trey's entire thing is like you've. told me for a year and a half now that. this is going to get kicked down and now. you're trying to literally do it again. in this entire thing. Fascinating. standoff between those two. TJ Watt. everybody assumes is going to get done. Jaylen Ramsay uh being back actively. talked about. I think that's a nice. reminder. I don't know if that's more. breaking news. Jaylen Ramsey highly. sought after though. Is there a lot of. teams that are looking at him because.

there there's definitely interest, but. again the price tag is something that I. think if it weren't there and let's just. say he were a free agent, I think there. would be more interest in him than there. is now. There aren't a lot of teams that. are ready, willing, and able to foot the. bill for what it would take to take on. Jaylen Ramsey. And so that's why there's. got to be some discussion with the. Dolphins and what they're willing to. take on and what the team's willing to. pay and how the trade would work out. But I would expect that he gets traded. at some point here. All right, we. appreciate the hell out of you. I know. you got a busy afternoon. Heard he's. going to No, really? What?

Oh. Oh, yeah. Conor will be interested. in this. I have uh a conversation on the. main stage at Fanatics Fest here in a. couple hours with with somebody that. Keegan Bradley would like. Larry Kai. That would be my Robert Craft. Oh, you and you and Bob Craft just having a. conversation on the main stage at. Fanatics Fest. Do you have uh prepared.

questions or we just rolling? Do you. have one question to start the. conversation or do we got we got them. all? I have a I have a couple of topics. in my mind. Nothing really prepared. And. we'll have a conversation and I'll play. that conversation and another. conversation I'm going to scheduled to. have there with Chris Weber, uh, another. Michigan man on my podcast next week. Wow. Chefy's cooking. Hey, Chefy, you're. there for Hey, you know what? Hey, Pat, it's it's mid to late June. You got to. have some fun, right? So, you do golf. one day, you do Fanatics Fest the next.

day. Sweep the next day. We do a little. podcasting, do a little news break, do a. little gaff, but we never play golf. because we suck. And I appreciate Ladies. and gentlemen, Adam Shfter. Have a good. day. He's on a main stage with Bob. Craft. Let's go. Um, I just want to. throw this out there. I know Chefer said. that Jaylen wants to go to the West. Coast, but if you read tea leaves like. we do, uh, if you pay attention to. Instagram like we do, uh, Jaylen has.

recently followed Deshawn Elliot, DK. Metaf, Joey Porter Jr., uh, Darius Slay, those are all Pittsburgh Steelers and he. just liked a post on Instagram from the. NFL that showed the new additions to the. Pittsburgh Steelers this year. So, just. something to Oh. Uh, so you're saying. Chefty thinking that he wants to go back. to the West Coast? Just saying might not. be 100% accurate information at this. exact time. I'm just saying something to. watch. You know what they say, West. Coast on the East Coast. Bingo. Pick up. that 20 million and he's yours. Gladly.

No, I think that's probably a massive. part of the negotiate. You said gladly. I'll take the 20 million because you're. paying a quarterback 10 million. 10. [ __ ] it. Jaylen Ramsey, DK Metaf, Aaron Rogers, Darius Slay. One year for the rest of. our lives. Cam Hayward still there. TJ. Walk gets traded four quarters for the. next 40 years of our lives. So, you're. gonna pick up 20 million for Jaylen. Ramsey? This is a good question, actually. They just paid Deshawn Well, uh Elliot. Well, put the W in Elliot. Well, yeah, they did pay him. He's. bringing it. He's well off. Yeah. Yeah.

Good for him. As he should. He He's. certainly earned it. And TJ's deal is. just sitting there and that's going to. be around 40 million a year. If he. doesn't want to take it, he doesn't have. to. at at a certain point. I think what. Tonyy's saying is these players need to. be happy with what they're making. Is. that what you're saying? Are you are you. repeating the ownership from the. Cincinnati Bengals at the owners. meeting? I'm not an owner, so yeah, I. can say that. Well, all right. I don't. think you need to be talking like that. No, I don't. Hey, TJ, I hope you get a. chance to see that. Yeah. I mean, Tony.

Tony might just know what we know, and. that's that Nate Herbig is due for a 15. sack season. Herbig's a dog. Nick. It's. Nick. [ __ ] Nate's his brother. who. plays guard who also might switch over. to dtackle and get 15 sacks this year. Cameron could teach him. Yeah, no. problem. All right, let's talk uh a. little bit about uh the NHL. Florida. Panthers go back to back in Stanley Cups. and uh they certainly are experienced. and celebrating and down there in South. Florida there's a lot of opportunities.

Obviously, we saw the elbow room. yesterday morning. Then they were on. golf carts traveling around. Then. they're going to different people's. houses. Uh Brad Marshane's actually a. Dairy Queen. They're calling him the. Dairy King this morning. Uh he's they're. serving the Brad Blizzards, which is his. blizzard of choice down there in South. Florida. I mean, they're getting and. last night, uh they were down at 11:00. Uh which I've never been inside of. I do. believe we have some people in the. building right now that have maybe. frequented uh 11 whenever they head to.

uh the 305 area. Dumpy, what is Eleven. known for? And uh what was last night. like if you were to be there? Do you. think it's a phenomenal establishment? Uh you get a table there, have a great. time, and it is cranked and it never. shuts down. It's a uh adult ballet. though as well in there. It's a. nightclub with an adult ballet. Okay. So, it's a slash type operation. They. were having a good time. Multi-purpose. arena and they were in there last night. having a blast. And uh at one point. throughout the evening, Sam Bennett, who. is uh an absolute dog. There's no other.

way to put it. stats-wise, leadership-wise, he uh there's one play. from the series where he hits a guy, takes a guy out, then he creates a. round, comes down to the other side. Just everything that is Florida Panther. hockey beast and he's a free agent and. we were talking to Bill Zo the other day. and Bill Zoto was talking about how we. are going to spend to the cap. Ownership. wants us to definitely do that. Is fully. committed. We love what we have here. Our team is the tightest it's ever been. We hope we're able to keep everybody. Sam Bennett last night at uh 11 was. like, I'm [ __ ] staying. So, don't you.

worry about it. Now, he's a little. boozed up. It is at uh Club 11. I don't. know how legally binding any of it is, but it sure feels like this entire team. is planning on sticking around, staying. together. And that's a beautiful thing. if you're from South Florida because. this team's a wagon and they're clearly. the best team in the league and. everybody else just kind of looking up. at them right now. Yeah. Especially when. you look around the other teams in the. Eastern Conference that are kind of not. in shambles, but definitely aren't going. to be coming back next year with as much. firepower as you know the Panthers are.

The Maple Leafs, obviously, they're. they're kind of up in arms. The. Capitals, who had a great regular. season, didn't play too well in the. playoffs. Who knows with them? And then. even the Carolina Hurricanes, it feels. like the Carolina Hurricanes can do. anything they want and they'll still get. swept in the Eastern Conference Finals. If you're a Panthers fan, you're you're. thinking back to backto back three. people. They're thinking, "Let's have a. good time down here." Changing what Lord. Stanley Cup's trips are normally like. If they put the itinerary out, I guess. it's live on Sunday, King of Diamonds.

Monday, Swagger just dumb. They're. calling it Kelly Bundy. Exactly. That's. what they're saying right now. Yeah, probably about Lord Stanley Cup. That's. exactly what they're saying. You think. they take tomorrow off? tomorrow. Saturday because the parade's Sunday. like off off of what? Drinking. No, certainly not. These are hockey boys. I. know. Hockey boys. This is just a part. of the culture. I think it's potentially. because there's so many Russians. involved. Sure. And the Russians, from. what I've been told, just vodka is just.

like a thing. Booze, I think, is just a. normal thing, especially for European. cultures. And then the Canadians, obviously, they have they have one a lot. on a regular basis. So, I think like. alcohol culture is a little bit. different in hockey. I think you are. expected to have one uh with the lads if. you ever do it. So, I think they'll. probably be having one tomorrow. Yeah, Barky's a Finnish lad. I know he he. fancies the gin a bit. I'm assuming his. father's Russian. I did feel bad for. Rhino uh cuz he was hammered. Still. boozed up and he had to go to Raisin. Canes. He had the hat on, the shirt on,

and they asked him. He was like, "Thank. God there was no sobriety test this. morning." No. Yeah, but he was talking. about just to get to the event, not. because he was driving. No. No. No. They. said he needed to be sober here to come. to this. And he said, "Well, are you. going to be testing me or you supposed. to be drunk all day celebrating St. You. all started last night?" Yeah. You want. to check your fingers or not? Raise some chains, baby. Yeah, good cops. down there. They're taking care of those. boys. Absolutely. Congrats to the. Panthers. We'll be back on the other. side. Game seven on Sunday. Sports are. great. We'll see you then.

It's impossible to be at the top at both. of those essentially like it's. Dan, another farting Dan Orloski. situation just took place. Danny dumps. What do you mean? It's unbelievable. Your button is talking. I did not fart. This is two times now, Dan. This is the. Orski thing. You guys being serious. right now or you messing with me? Listen. to this clip. This is you just moments. ago. It's impossible to be at the top at.

both of those essentially. Like it's. it's. undeniable. You guys definitely. freaking idiot. I swear. we swear. that we swear. We swear. So, no one did. that. What did you eat? I haven't even ate.

Hey, if I were you right now, I'd go. grab some food. My wife texted me. She. said, "Oh my gosh, McAfee show, I'm. dead." I go, "Babe, I promise you on. everything I did not fart." Who runs. your Twitter account? Hey, I do. What's. this all about? I would like to know in. that situation where your butthole. started talking, what did I do? I can't. even be serious with you, man. What are. you chugging a glass of milk? Eat some. fruit over there. Get you some coffee. Get that butthole a little bit more. active. I haven't ate. I'm eating. yogurt. I have a thousand text messages.

right now of people going, "Oh my gosh.". And I'm like, I just wanted to have like. a quiet Tuesday. I don't even know why. we're going to have another hour. Maybe. we run that clip just Yeah. Yeah. On. We. have the video. Seams. Let's let you. judge here. It's impossible to be at the. top at both of those essentially like. it's. I need to hear the context. I want to. give my Sean, shut up. What did AJ vote? It's a fart all day long, Kirk. You know. that. Has anybody voted no? Dan, I'll be.

the captain of the team know today. We. need you to do a tiebreaking vote. Is. that okay? Sounds good to me. It's. impossible to be at the top at both of. those essentially like it's there's no. doubt. I mean, I like how he just kept. on going right there. When he was. talking, he didn't even break stride as. that thing came out. He went and got the. buggy. Went to the store, grabbed some. dude wipes to wipe those ass cheeks. Just like I assume you do is welcome. You have to go dry, wet, dry. Toilet. paper, wipe, toilet paper. If not, you're really risking the rest of the.

day having the swamp ass. You know, Dan. Orloski, man, he got to accept that, man. He got to wear that with a pride. One thing that really bothers me when. people do not take credit for it. You. know, if somebody says, "Oh, that was. you that farted." I get upset when it. wasn't me. And I'm like, "No, when have. I ever not claimed it when it was mine?". He used to claim it. But all those. airports people are traveling today. Look up at ESPN. Dan Rosski farts. What's wrong with this guy? The closed. captioning person, whoever it is, they. got it. I believe it said in audible, muffled, muffled, and it said Dan farts.

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this feel great Friday June 20th 2025. hour two of the program starts now. sports are happening and uh. the Indiana Pacers last night just put. on for the entire sports world they. obviously put on for Indianapolis and. the state of Indiana and uh they forced. to game seven down there in Oklahoma. City on Sunday night in convincing. fashion where everybody on the roster. showed up and now their record-breaking.

unfathomable run continues. This baser. team has been a lot of fun. They've been. doubted. They've been counting out uh. counted out. They've been overlooked. They've been uh wished upon uh to. disappear numerous times. The NBA. actually didn't even put them on prime. time television uh basically until like. Eastern Conference final in this entire. thing. had to find the Iowa network. whenever they were taking on the. Cleveland Cavaliers at the beginning of. this. Throughout the regular season, never never saw this team. The world. didn't, but Indiana did. And since the.

All-Star break, all we thought to. ourselves is this team's got it. This. team's very good. Tyrese came into full. form. He went back to himself after. having maybe a little bit of a off. season that was filled with uh a lot of. chaos and maybe even a little injury. that hindered him a little bit early. Then after the All-Star break, which. Pascal Seakkum went to the All-Star game. and dominated, this team learned how to. play again like they were last year, but. even better. They were experienced after. what happened to them last year when. they made it to the Eastern Conference.

Finals and the Boston Celtics swept. them. They had been there. They had done. that. They understood the big stage. They knew what was waiting for them. every step of the way. And now for the. first time since 2016, they will be. playing in an NBA Finals game seven in. the most rumpest barn in all of sports. is what they say. Sunday night is going. to be historic, legendary. I know both. teams are ready for it and I'm excited. to watch the Pacers and how they show up. for this city yet again. Last night was. awesome. We were lucky to be there. This.

has been an absolute thrill to watch. this team do what they do. The toxic. tables here at Boston Connor and at Ty. Schmidt. Sweet shirt. Hey, thank you. very much. You know, I had to do it. And. this is the best part, you know. I mean, you throw all the talking head [ __ ]. out the window. I mean, it's all coming. down to one game, you know, so everyone. can pick against the Pacers time and. time again. Hey, they're not good. enough. OKC is the best team. We heard. TJ McConnell's dad. It's game seven. Anything can happen. And that and that's. What else did he say? Uh, you know, he. talked a little bit about how he's not.

okay. He missed two foul shots. Didn't. love that. Yeah, he missed two foul. shots. I get her that cuz we won a game. But my son's going to play for an NBA. championship. My son, he's going to be. part of it. It was awesome. He's very. proud. He did. Awesome. Isaiah Thomas. Yeah, I loved this guy growing up. Yeah. I'm happy there's a Yinszer in the NBA. finals. Yes. Like TJ, we don't we don't. have a lot of Pittsburgh guys that go. and make it to the NBA. Basketball, obviously, we do not have a professional. team. Although, I think Pittsburgh good.

sports ton if the team was to be good. Yeah. If if there was an expansion of. the NBA and it was placed in Pittsburgh, if the team was good immediately, got. it. Team wasn't good for a bit would be. very difficult. That'd be very difficult. to get in there. We're city of. champions. Okay. All right. Look around. Pirates are a laughingtock. Penguins. certainly in the middle of a transition. here. Pittsburgh Steelers going all in. But you're not just getting dropped into. our deal. But Pittsburgh people, uh, being in the NBA finals is a great thing.

for sports. Yes. TJ McConnell. exemplifies Bopping Wood. I mean, he is. like the perfect player to represent. Pittsburgh basketball. Technically. sound, fundamentally sound, not scared. of anything. Will obviously lock it. down. Do the things that nobody else is. willing to do, which is work for the. entire. game in the entire floor. What's that, Tony? There's just been some great TJ. McConnell tweets. There was one that. said he's the first special teamer to. play in the NBA. Bingo. Uh there was a.

lot of them saying like, "Oh, tell you. what, this kind of kills the narrative. that the old school players couldn't. play in today's NBA." Uh and then tell. you what, you know, kind of valid. You. know who he kind of come. I think he's a. modernday Bob Koozie. If I had to, you. know what? If I had to really put a put. a SGA is no TJ McConnell. Uh I mean, hey, look, I love TJ like I love my. brother. Okay. But if if we're talking. modernday koozie, we're talking Webby. and Kyrie Irving combined. Okay.

Nonetheless, TJ McConnell is breaking. some records throughout the entirety of. this 10 five and five. He was the perh. first player to do that in a game off. the bench. He's become the first bench. player in the history of the finals to. have 60 points, 25 assists, 15 rebounds. He is getting TJ Chance every time he. walks onto the court. They show him up. on the jumbotron. The whole place. obviously erupts. It would be like that. in every city, I assume, with TJ. McConnell. But it is perfect for the. Indiana Pacers to have T.J. McConnell. Yeah. And even in Philly. I I don't know.

if it was like that when when he was in. Philadelphia with the Sixers, but he he. has kind of become TJ McConnell, the guy. uh for the Pacers and just for, you. know, bench players, people who. appreciate dudes coming off the bench. and just going bananas. Celtics, Payton. Pritchard, kind of similar. This is also. now going to be the second year in a row. where Netflix will have uh the NBA. champion on their starting five. Last. year they had Tatum. This year they're. going behind the scenes with Tyrese and. SGA throughout the entire season. So.

like you're talking about that that is. probably what what every single. documentary in the history of sports has. been looking for. We saw it with. quarterback and uh Payton Manning doing. it following Mahomes. They wanted to do. Jayen Herz, but Jaylen Hirs kind of said. no. And you know, it was the first round. of the Eagles Chiefs Super Bowl. Now. having two of the five players that they. are following for the entire 2024, 2025. season being Tyrese and SGA. One guy. wins the MVP. Maybe hopefully the other.

guy wins the NBA finals. I mean that. that is perfect. I think people are. going to fall in love with Ty. I assume. with SGA as well because of everything. that we've heard about him as a teammate. and how he operates. People are going to. fall in love with Tyrese. Yeah. If you. get to know Tar's a good dude. Yeah. It. feels like they did even with the. Olympics like when when it wasn't. because he was playing and going off. It. was because like he was the ultimate. team guy on the bench and then the. tweets of course after when you do. nothing but still get an A on the group. project. Like that's that was kind of. the beginning and now here we are where.

it's like yeah this guy is the dude. Yeah. Life is wrestling for Tyrese. You. know he understands his role. Got to do. what he got to do. All right. I'm not. playing on the 15. I mean I'm certainly. lucky to be here though. Let's not get. crazy. I'm going to have a good time. Yeah, we are at the Olympics. I've got. the emoji next to my name on on X. Yeah, I'm part of it. I'm going to bring these. vibes. I get whatever my my role is, but. like around obviously he's a dog and a. killer on the court. Like that has been. proven time and time again. Clutch shot, clutch shot, clutch shot, clutch shot. Gritting through whatever he's got going. on. Excited to hear what it is whenever.

the series is done. Like that they're. doing like an NHL approach to this whole. thing. By the way, you'll find out what. everybody's got after this thing. We're. all battling through it. I love that. because that's not really the NBA's kind. of narrative, you know? They're all. playing through [ __ ] but they are the. entire team, the entire uh series has. been. I love that. And uh Tyrus is. funny, too. Like actually f like [ __ ]. talker. Yeah. Normal human from. Wisconsin, you know, obviously went to. Iowa State, which he deems the best. school in Iowa. And and that's one of. the few things that Tyrese is wrong.

about, but I love the guy, so I can I'm. willing to look past that. Joining us. now, ladies and gentlemen, from an attic. in Ohio. He's a college football. national champion, a Super Bowl. champion, the all-time leading tackler. for the Green Bay Packers, ladies and. gentlemen. AJ Hawer, how you doing, Hawker? Yeah, I'd say. that was the definition of like a a team. hard-fought victory, wouldn't you say, last night? Yeah, I'd say good. basketball. Team uh buckled down. Started terribly. Eight people score. over 200 points in a single postseason. That becomes a record. Uh there's uh.

they were underdogs 10 wins or something. like that. If they were to win obviously. the finals, they would have the most. underdog wins uh in a postseason run. since the Miami Heat I believe I think. was the team that Yeah. when they were. the eight seed and they went all the way. to the finals. Yeah. So it's like. they've been c this team is literally. and and we don't have to do Bucks. Yes, they're going to win. Cavs number one. overall seed in the East. Yep. They're. going to win. Everybody literally. everybody had a microphone. And then you. roll into that Knicks series. Everybody.

wants the Knicks to win. So literally. everybody picks the Knicks and then in. this one everybody has picked Oklahoma. City. It has literally been every single. series this Pacers team supposed to lose. by everybody that knows ball. You know, everybody that talks about ball is like. this Pacers team can't do it. This. Pacers team can't do it. And then all of. a sudden they show up and they win. They're up by 30ome in game six of the. NBA finals. And it's like will there. ever be a conversation about how great. this Pacers team is? Not that the. Oklahoma City team isn't, but I'm saying. this Pacers team as a team, you're.

talking they are a great basketball team. and I think they're proving a lot of. things in 2025 for the NBA and. basketball as a whole. AJ, all right. I. mean, they continue to I guess defy the. odds of what people think of them, especially they're a seven and a half. point dog on the road in game seven. I'm. sure like Rick Carile has to love this. Like he has to love the narrative that. no matter what we do, no matter how many. games we win, people are always going to. doubt us. And that's as a coach like a. team can absolutely rally around that. I. feel like these guys like they own that. That's that's their identity. Like, hey, okay, cool. We're going to prove.

everybody wrong. Tyrese Hallebertton. loves it, you know? Hates that everybody. talks [ __ ] Loves that everybody talks. [ __ ] You know, it's kind of one of. those. We were pulling up the scores of. all uh the game sevens 2016, 2013, 2010, I think there is one. Uh I was trying to. figure out from memory cuz I just saw it. on my screen. It was up there. Seven and. a half feels like more than any of those. scores were. Game seven, they were all. pretty tight. They're all within like. four or six. Yeah. I think seven and a. half feels like a big game seven spread.

Like that legitimately feels like it. For a couple games there though, the. sports books were right on. I mean, they. knew exactly what was happening. Last. night, they're obviously wrong. I do. wonder how people will tend to bet in. this particular game seven cuz in my. eyes, game seven tight, little bit of a. KG affair, AJ. That's how I kind of view. it. Don't you think the same thing? Oh, for sure. I mean, this game last night. was an elimination game for the Pacers, but not for Oklahoma City. Like Oklahoma. City know they have a little bit of a. buffer and we can possibly go home and. win this thing at home. Pacers, yeah, they knew backs against the wall. Like,

hey, every shot I miss is one step. closer to us going home for the year. Yeah, but even for the that mentality. now, too, like for OKC, all the. pressurees on them. And I'm It has been. the whole series. They're the favorites, you know, one of the best seasons ever, all that stuff. But now for for them, it's, hey, we had a 3-2 lead. So, if we. if we're going into game seven, hey, we. can't be the team that blew a 3-2 lead. We we've dominated this postseason run. This is also now going to play into the. the whole hey, we haven't lost a. backto-back since last year. Like,

everything is kind of in our favor, so. to say you could. But this the seven and. a half, I mean, it feels as though if. they made it any smaller, even if the. oddsmakers would want it to be smaller, they know all the money would come in on. OKC. And I bet it's still going to the. stats say if you're trailing 3 to2 and. then you win game six, you'll go on and. win game seven. You'll go on and win game seven. You. know, Cavs, Heat, Lakers. Obviously, you. see the graphic there. Um, good luck to.

the Indiana Pacers trying to do that. First backto-back losses for the. Oklahoma City Thunder since 2024 is what. it would take in a building that is. going to be vibrant and alive. I think. the Pacers might be the team to be able. to do it. They thrive in that type of. setting, but this Oklahoma City team is. a real deal. Let's go through some of. the scores here of the NBA game sevens. there. 9389, what's that? Four. 9588, that's seven. 8379, that's four. 8174,

that's seven. 90 84 is six. 108 to 105, three. 111 102, there's nine pointer in. 1984. 1059, that's six in 1978. So seven. and a half would be the biggest, you. know. Yeah. Yeah. Since 1984. I mean, and the Pacers. That would be. the biggest spread. Larry Bird in 1984. I can't believe they scored 111 points. in 1984. That's Larry legend, baby. That. That's what Larry Bird does. That's why. he doesn't get enough respect. And. that's exactly why I think he needs to.

be there for the Indiana Pat. He should. Okay. I I I think he's I think he's been. around from what I've been told for some. of these workouts for the draft. You. know, because one half of the building. right now, I guess 80% of the building. right now is trying to win a a title. Yeah. And then there's 10 to 15 20% of. the building that's like, "Oh, we got a. draft next week. We got uh free agency. happening." Like they're really on top. of each other. I mean, their seasons are. very much on top of each other. Like the. NFL obviously if you go to the Super.

Bowl February, everything kind of starts. in March, but you still have like a. month to do things. right now. This. draft is next week. Free agency is about. to kick off and really get rolling. Tra. uh trading is supposed to happen before. draft like everything's happening and. the Pacer and Oklahoma City are all eyes. on the finals. That's a weird thing for. the NBA. I appreciate them like kind of. um double stamping when they have all. the attention though, like hey, we got. the finals and then guess what? Draft is. coming in three days. Like you can kind. of steal some maybe rollover. But for.

the teams that are in this finals, this. is this is a this is a nightmare. This. is this is a nightmare situation as you. look ahead to the future. Didn't we hear. wasn't it last year Bill Zitto even told. us like there the NHL is in somewhat of. a similar situation. I don't know when. their draft is but I know they're. absolutely working on next year when you. normally would have already been out of. the playoffs for three, four, five, six. weeks by now. The good problem to have. The Pacers. traded one I think either traded for a. first round pick or traded a certain. pick while they've been in the finals.

for next week's draft. So to your point, yeah, the GM has still been making moves. and getting different picks for next. week. Let's talk about some stories that. happened around the sports world outside. of the Pacers forcing a game seven on. Sunday. In about 25 minutes or so, we'll. be talking to Mark Creel. Do you know. who Mark Creel is? Yeah, I definitely. recognize his face when I see it. Yeah, he's like one of the most noted uh. boxing writers of all time. Has. biographies written on like so many. I. read his Pistol Pete book when I I. looked him up. I read his Pistol Pete.

book a while ago. Yeah, a lot of books. New York Times bestseller. Like I think. he's like a very very focused writer. Has a new book coming out uh or has. already out his newest book, Baddest. Man: The Making of Mike Tyson. Uh that. was released on June 3rd. Oh, great. cover. Great cover. Great cover. And Tai. uh tried to skim through as much as. possible because we got sent a a version. of it. Anytime Mike Tyson's a part of. it, people are going to want to read and. learn about this one. I think good I. think like a lot of research has been. done into this. Yeah, for sure. The kind.

of the the sheet they sent us said that. uh Creal early on followed him in his. career, like when Tyson first came up. And he said, "I probably wrote like more. scathing articles about this guy than. anyone else." And he said in time, just. like due to his upbringing and what he. had to go through, like he felt like he. kind of needed to set the the story. straight and like what actually makes. Mike Tyson uh tick. and it goes into his. upbringing, his relationship with. Kazamato, who was, you know, like his uh.

his trainer and ended up actually like. adopting him. And then there's just a. bunch of other like very interesting. tidbits that I saw in there. Like they a. lot of people say that the rise of HBO. is basically solely attributed to Mike. Tyson because they didn't really have. like serialized series or anything like. that, but they got the boxing rights and. it said that HBO during his prime, during his run was like making, you. know, I think it they were like the. subscriber base was going up like by. millions and millions of people every.

single month because they had all his. fights. But yeah, it's basically just a. complete look at his life and and kind. of how he went from like, you know, being hated by most people, you know, for a long time due to different uh, you. know, like situations. Yeah. Situations, I guess, a bunch of different situations. and how now he's kind of come back on. the other side and he's like America's. sweetheart and everyone loves him again. Yeah. Him. Uh, I wish I would have been. more uh of age whenever it was the Oh, come on. when it was like they said he.

used to be swinging refrigerators. That. is uh like it was before Mythbusters or. before they had the technology to test. everything. They were just saying, "Yeah, hardest puncher in the history of. punching." Uh it's like two. refrigerators thrown around and he was. trying to knock people out on a regular. basis. Obviously, we all know uh the. stories, but uh we can't wait to talk to. Mark Creel about this particular book. I. actually got to work with him at NFL AM. on NFL Network back in the day. We used. to have called times about 3:00 a.m. 4. a.m. That was a good time. He was always. very good to me. obviously an incredible. author, but also big deal in the boxing.

world. Uh Terence Crawford, Canelo. Alvarez will have their first press. conference for their mega super duper. fight that's coming in September. Uh I. cannot wait to see what this new TKO. and Riod season in the ring magazine and. Turkey and the Crown Prince, God bless. him, relationship is going to look like. But I know that if they're going to be. putting on Canelo vers Crawford in. stadiums as their first one and that's. the game plan, I think boxing is about. to be in a really good spot. Can't wait.

to ask Mark if he feels the exact same. way. Yeah. And like these are the fights. that we talk about as me personally at. least that's more of a casual boxing. fan. Like these are the ones that you do. really really want to see. It's not you. know Canelo verse some random guy. It's. two guys that you are very well aware of. whether you follow boxing or not. You. know who Terrence Crawford is. you know. who Canelo Alvarez is and like if if. these guys kind of perform after what. happened last time in Time Square like. this will be a massive fight. This is. like a Tyson Fury Wilder kind of type of.

billing. The Turkey came out and said uh. we want guys to fight in here. Yeah. No. more of this Tom and Jerry BS. Yes, we. are. Because they did they invested so. much money in boxing. They like you hear. all the boxing purist people that we. were part of the weekend May 2nd uh in. uh Madison Square not Madison Square. Garden I'm sorry in New York uh Time. Square sorry about that in Time Square. they had a boxing event we were there. the amount of money that's being uh. invested into boxing right now to take. care of the fighters to take care of.

like everybody and then the fights were. or the punches were like the least in. the history of boxing or something. they're like no this can't be we cannot. ruin this right now this is a great. thing for boxing let's make sure we're. fighting. And uh we're setting the stage for a big. one in Allegiance Stadium. Cannot wait. to ask Mark his thoughts on it all. Windom Clark golfer has apologized for. uh beating [ __ ] out of the locker room. at Oakmont. [ __ ] Oh tough. I mean. that's like one little kick. That's. barely anything though. What? There's a. couple different lockers here. Uh yeah,

there's a couple. But I mean he could he. could flick those and that little mesh. would go in. Yeah. I don't think the. Oakmont has anything that's a little. soft and meshy. Okay. This is. Pittsburgh. Let's not forget that. But. he he could have certainly been so mad. He could have certainly been so mad that. he uh he he walked up there and he. actually did a boom. Yeah. Double kick. Yeah. Boom. Double double knees. No double. knees or double kick. No kick. Boom. Oh, I see. Kick. You got You got to really.

He walked in there. Son of a [ __ ] So. bad. I hate your. I hope I hope there's footage. Yeah, cuz. it could have been just one motion. I. think it was a lot of people were saying. that's two different. No, not. necessarily. Boom. Kind of like Hawker maybe taking a. maybe taking a Yeah, that is kind of. like the AJ Hawk mixed martial arts that. we know of we know of him. But people. are saying he was taking a lot of. different hacks until I'm told. otherwise. He still could have very he.

might have even did one like boom. Oh. yeah. Just one moment of bang, you know. So seems like it might have been a. multiple attacks on the Oakmont. uh. locker room from Windham Clark, but that. course would make you pissed off. But it. could have been just one big act of. frustration. So until we hear anything. otherwise, I think we shouldn't just I. think it was probably the one big act. He had a one big act of frustration a. few weeks before that when he uh he. hooked one off the tea and then just. whipped his driver back into the into.

the gallery. So Windham's had a bit of a. hot streak recently into the crowd. Yeah, that's good. Yeah, he strikes me. as one of those guys though, you know, like even after he won his major, just. listening to him talk in an interview. like, "Oh yeah, this guy's got a dark. side. This guy, this guy taps in." How. about Hatton? Big. Yeah. Now, obviously. Hatton has that unbelievable. moment. Oh, he held it. Unbelievable. He is awesome. Yeah, but. the way he gets frustrated.

pissed every single shot all every day. Like he's he's so fun to watch. But it's. so fun. I agree for us to watch. But I. worry about him when he lays down. It's. just him, you know, when it's just we're. d I used to be pretty hard on myself. whenever it came to, you know, my [ __ ]. I would get upset. I mean, there was. loud [ __ ] if there was a shank on the. field whenever practice in a game. Certainly, Matt. Training camp. Yeah, training camp. Chuck Pagan had to move a. drill because there was a bunch of like. uh not Makea-Wish but like uh there was.

like a Makea-Wish operation happening. behind us and I was punting backed up. out of the uh end zone and this is one. of Chuck's first I think it's Chuck's. first year or whatever and this is first. period obviously we're doing punt backed. up punt. This sucks. I hate this. Uh got. to one step it get it quick off. It it. won't be this fast but we're making it. ridiculously fast because it's training. camp. Okay, I got it. All right. There. should be a sense of feel though, right? They're coming. No, we need this. Okay, so I hit a shitty one. Bad. First punt. of the day. Bad. Not good. You know, we.

want to see that ball go through the. thing, especially with the crowd there. Teammates watching, too. Always want to. hit a bomb when teammates are watching. You know, want everybody to know, hey, the guy that's doing the punting here is. a bomber. That's all you just need to. know everything. Start a practice. Yeah. We get some Yeah. Like this is a big. deal. Like in my eyes, like, let's have. a good time. Hit a shank immediately. Drop a mother [ __ ] loud. Right. And then. we walk forward. Now we got the next rep. or whatever. Chuck comes walking over. Make a wish, kid. [Laughter].

What are you doing? They're right here. Gez, they know. They got to know. She. had an 8-year-old. There's an. eight-year-old here. Right behind you. Gee, move the drill up. Moves blows the. whistle. Move the drill up. That's my. That's like me and Chuck's first one of. our first interactions. I love awesome. I laughed so hard afterward just. thinking of it like also Chuck not my. fault like hey listen no I apologize I'm. working I'm trying to become this is how.

I become Tyrell Hatton though like when. he lays down that that's still I hope. it's not you think he takes it home with. him I don't know he might leave it at. the course yeah I feel like the guys. that let it out in the moment are the. ones that do kind of like okay whatever. I can be pissed and continue to golf. it's the it's the dudes who go into the. clubhouse Windham Clark and I'm sure. there's a couple others. One big act of. frustration. Yeah. Yeah. That then they. go home because now they're not just. thinking about how bad they played. You. can tell Windham Clark has been thinking. about, "Holy [ __ ] I destroyed Oakmont's.

clubhouse for for for a week at the US. Open like a fool." Well, that's what I'm. like. I think Hatton's funny. He's. hilarious. I think he's very very very. funny. The amount of times people have. probably told him, "You can't do that.". Yeah. He's like, "What? Unbelievable.". What do you mean? It's unbelievable. It's good TV. He is great TV is I hope. he starts winning, you know. Well, we'll. never see him. Yeah. What? He's He's on. live. So, Oh, he is live. But we could.

get him in majors. Majors. Yeah, true. I. would like him to win majors cuz I would. like to Sunday I would like a Sunday. with him. The open's his best chance in. contention. I would like him in. contention. It I'm sorry, Mr. Hatton. I. know this is not what you would want to. do, but boy, it would be great if he. just accidentally, you know, we blade. one on 18. Oh my god, that would be. That's how Rombo used to be, but he kind. of chilled out a bit. Unbelievable. Well, maybe it's I haven't seen him.

Maybe you just don't see him now. Now, that being said, a new PGA CEO. True. Let's see. Figure it out. Shake their hands. Let's. see how many we Yeah, we'll give you. guys a couple scramles. We'll live. Got. it. And for those that don't know, he's. the one on the left. Uh yes, roll is on. the left there. Tiger Woods is the one. uh on the right. Okay. And uh the future. of golf in my eyes very very bright. I I. think we are very excited about what's. to come. And I think what we just said. there about people not being able to. compete against each other, I'm thinking.

I I'm not have I don't have any inside. information. If a deal is to be made, there will be a deal. This guy good deal. maker. So uh I got faith. All right, let's do some something we don't. normally do. AJ, what would that be? Well, let's take. some questions from from the people. Okay, this morning about 30 minutes. before uh the show went live, I was. going to the bathroom. Had a good night. last night. It was a great time. Thank. you for that again. That that was that. was it's been a fun run with this Pacers.

team. Yeah, that's what we were talking. like all the games we got to go to. This. has been a it's been long and expensive, but it it has been it has been a a very. very fun enjoyable experience. I was. like, you know what? We need to take. some questions from from the people. Haven't done it in a long time, but I. don't want questions just for me, you. know. I I don't want that type of. situation. So, it was just uh good. question. Uh good program question for. the boys. Okay. Good program question. We found a couple. Nick found a couple. Let's roll through those right now. AJ, you will be asked to answer uh these. questions as well. So, please pay.

attention. This one's from Nolan Garmin. Nolan Garmin loves his dog up here. If. the NFL ever expands or NHL ever expands. more, would Indie be a viable expansion. spot? Seems like the Pacers crowd was. given hockey playoff vibes through TV. #good program question. I like how loud. you you thought we were. I like how. excited you thought we were. Like the. NHL uh playoffs atmospheres are. I think. Indianapolis would be a great hockey.

hub. Uh I've actually said that to. people that uh need to hear it. I've. said that to people that are in that. world, in that sphere. There used to be. a hockey team that played here. Uh I. believe it was called um the Racers, maybe. The Indianapolis Racers. The. Indianapolis Ice were also here. The. Indianapolis Ice was the team. So I. guess the Indianapolis Ice used to play. here downtown and they were like a. semi-pro team. They had a goon and. everything. And my wife talks about as a. child coming downtown Indianapolis to. watch Indianapolis Ice. And when the.

Goon would come on, they made like a big. thing. He was fighting. I mean, it was a. whole thing. Well, by the time I got to. Indianapolis, they were no longer like a. semi-pro team. They were like a high. school junior B team. I watched three. periods of this hockey. I I'm from. Pittsburgh. There was not a single fight. or a single goal scored. Sure. So, I had. never seen worse hockey in my entire. life. Like I even high school hockey has. at least one of those real good there. Or at least a kids that are so bad. they're just there to fight. Like it was. just it was bad hockey. People were. still there. It was like 10 15,000.

people in the arena watching this. The. Indie uh Fuel are currently a hockey. team up here in Fisers. They sell out, they fill up. Uh they're uh I believe. the Chicago Blackhawks or the LA Chicago. Blackhawks, I believe, uh affiliate. team. They sell out here in the Fisers. area. So, yes, I think Indianapolis. would be a great NHL city if they would. ever expand. And uh we would certainly. love to help out with that happening. That would be uh great. Sandy Crosby.

over here. Sure. Mhm. McDavid, McDavid, Conor McDavid saying. he's doing best for his family. Families. love Indianapolis. Marian, bring in. Marian. Bring him Definitely. Marianne. for sure cuz you know, how are you going. to be able to pay everybody? I don't. know how you're going to be able to pay. everybody. Well, actually, yeah, we'll. take Otter off Dallas. They don't want. him. He's locked in. He fired our coach. Yeah, that's actually a good point. Otter Otter's lost in in the past. Why. don't we go after someone like Bob to. what AJ's saying? Babski. Yeah, we we. should. All right, we'll take Babski, too. What what we're saying is we'll.

certain in the expansion draft, we will. certainly be aggressive if there were to. be a team here and we would like to win. immediately. Yeah, no doubt. Without a. doubt. But yes, this would be a good. city for the NHL. Uh let's go to the. next question, shall we? Uh good program. question from CJ Stout and Joyer Shawn. Bomb. Real life. If when TJ McConnell. wins the Finals MVP trophy, could we. maybe start thinking about having one? Um yeah, I think we should think about. having one. What were the odds on TJ. McConnell winning the MVP trophy? And.

also, what were the odds on Tyrese? There there's a couple good odds on. these MVPs. So, uh, you're going to have. to shop around for TJ. Not every book. has TJ odds. I did shop around. I did. put in a TJ ticket this morning for plus. 11,000. Um, which would mean what? I put. in 25 to win $2,775. Uh, if you put in Oh, that's tasty. If. you put in 100, you'd win 11,000. Uh, so, you know, that's that's not bad. Um, Tyrese is plus 15 or 1100, sorry, right.

right now, which is I think that's worth. a tasty little treat, don't you think? Like I mean, if they win game seven, I. mean, plus Sakam's been great, but he. had 16 last night. Let's say he has 16. again. And Tyrese has, I don't know, 30. in a game seven win. Plus, 1100 is a 100. to win $1,100 is a tasty little more so, I believe. Yeah. Especially with the. moments Tyrese has. Like he had one game. where he damn near had a triple double. who's he like 219 and 13 or something. and then he has the buzzer beater from.

game one like let's say Tyrese does go. out there and have a 30-point game or. you know hopefully another buzzer beater. to to win it like then all of a sudden. we're talking about yeah Tyrese for sure. and with that being said Pascal Seakum. could once again take it watching him. play I mean that steal to the p to the. push to the no look pass to him going on. that guy's head it's like this pace ers. team is awesome. They have so many great. players, so much depth. Pritchard, the. president of basketball operations, and.

I don't know who all is a part of his. staff. I guess I should learn more names. in that department. It's like the team. they've put together, the way they play, the way they've bought in, the way. they've managed egos and salaries and. talent. It's like unbelievable. Unbelievable. It's unbelievable. Pascal. traded from the Toronto Raptors. Thank. God for that. Thank God for that. And. obviously uh Tyrese traded. Thank God. for that. TJ McConnell kicked out of. town. Thank God for it's like our guys. Nemhardt kneesmith all like literally.

you start rattling off. Miles Turner was. just kind of in transition era in the. Pacers this entire time for 11 11 years. now. He has yet defensive side he's. locked down. Locking him down. On the. offensive side though he is not he he's. not getting a bounce. He's not get he's. getting very unlucky. It's like if he. was to spring a couple all of a sudden. we're rolling. Yeah, I think so. I I. like the Pacers on Sunday. Oh, yeah, for. sure. For sure. And every What about. Obby Toppen MVP? Is there a line on. that? No. He had 20 last night,

obviously. Yeah. Obie Top and Chance are. awesome. He was just knocking down. threes last night. No problem. Right. away. No questions asked. Soon as he. gets on the court, he's like 4 seconds. on the court right there. Yeah. He was. just sitting on the sideline high-fiving. the uh security lady, like thanking her, giving, and then he's taking a ball. Then he's high-fiving people in the. stands. Then he gets on the court. 4. seconds later, game six, elimination. game. Pop it, no problem. It's like Obie. Toppin's a problem. The tough contested. rebounds that he gets to like he'll go. up and just one arm. I he paws must be.

so I mean they have to be but like that. that is one thing you notice too. It's. like a lot of the early on it felt like. Oklahoma City was getting a bunch of. offensive rebounds and he has he comes. in and it's just like he he's just he's. just been rock solid. cannot believe. that the Knicks got rid of him and he. just winded up being a pacer. Diggs has. looked up Obie Toppins MVP. Yeah, I. found him. Uh he's plus 22,000. So TJ. was plus 11,000. Obie plus 22,000.

That's the team though. Eight players. over 200 points. It's like there's a lot. of different stories that you could kind. of go with here. Nam Hard's had some big. minutes. I don't think anybody's talking. about him being Give it to the whole. squad. First time ever. Give it to the. whole squad. We couldn't single one guy. out. Here we go. And is it the same. people voting that voted for like the. Eastern Conference Finals? I'm pretty. sure it's say maybe a couple more. It. might be 11 people instead of nine. because once we saw that list, we were. like the this is. in real time. I think Reggie was calling. the game. Reggie Miller's calling the. game and then he has to cast the vote.

It's like Reggie's probably vastly. different than I am as a human, but when. I'm on it's like I'm just rolling. rolling. I'm not like thinking like, hey, who's Yeah. I'm not breaking down. all this stuff. And then those votes. have to happen in a twominute period or. Yeah, exactly. instantaneously. That's. crazy. That's a crazy situation. That. was a five-4 vote too. So I'm trying. like Yeah, it was split down the middle. Uh that is why the Pacers are so fun to. watch though. Like last night it's 10. to2 OKC. Like I assume if you're a. Thunder fan, you're just looking at SGA.

Like hey, let's see early on if SGA is. going to be good. when the when the. Pacers are down 10-2 and there's not. like a standout player like because you. know what you're going to get from. Tyrese when you know he's a little. banged up. There's never any doubt like. that they can come back just cuz. everybody can score 20 points at any. point in the game. Yeah, I uh I've. enjoyed this basketball run with the. Pacers. Six guys in double figures last. night. Yeah. And Carile, you you might. as well draw him down for a 3010 last.

night. Yeah, exactly. You look great. Maybe 310 and 10. Yeah, maybe 30 20 and. 10. Yeah, maybe something like that for. coach Carlo. And TJ McConnell's dad. I. love every T.J. McConnell's dad had a. big night. We had no idea. TJ. McConnell's dad and Hallebertton's dad. Oh man, those guys need to just go do. life. Need just ship them places and. just say, "Hey, amazing race." Bingo. Them taking on Talk and Mitt. Yep. Sure. You know, traveling and Yeah. I mean, tough competition. They could do. anything. We got a little bit deeper. into the uh reality conversation for uh.

Mitt. We're not 100% sure which one's. perfect for him at this exact stage. Amazing race would be great for talking. Mitt, but does anybody watch Amazing. Race anymore? I don't Does it exist? I. don't even know if it's still a thing. Yeah, I used to love that show. Great. show. I couldn't imagine the logistics. of setting. I think any of them. Yeah, but does Amazing Race exist? That's what I'm saying. Oh, no. For. sure. Any of them that exist. Like even. like Survivor would be Big Brother. Any. of Jeopardy for me. Yeah. For Jeopardy. That's somewhere I'm not cool though. I.

don't know if. Jimmy could you imagine every time a. question oh minus 63,000 after the first. round of. cuz he has confidence that he'd be right. getting a question wrong. [ __ ] dude. and then when they give the right I was. going to say that. Oh, you last question here. Uh. we're not getting into that. What? Connor just wrote on his dry race board.

uh an idea and we will certainly visit. that off air. Um last question here from. the internet is from Skippy. Uh with. cricket at the Olympics in 2028, will it. overtake NFL in North America and when. will there be a cricket corresponding. show? All right. That's why we don't do. the question. Yeah, that's a good joke. Yep. Thank you. Appreciate you answering. that properly. Trying trying to get into. USA soccer, brother. Cricket's got no. chance. Okay. Yeah, right. Lacrosse. We're trying to get into massive win. last night. Who? USA soccer. One-. nothing over Saudi. That's a big win for.

us. Onto the quarterfinals, boys. I. heard uh uh who's that? Bur Halter son. Handsome lad. Also, proper delivery here. as we just knock it home. Yeah, that's a. big time. Who's that guy that scored. there? Gumps. Richards. He's filthy. Okay, so I think Ponch is trying to find. his team right now, boys. Ponch went. after the other coach last night. There's a little bit of a dust. I like. that. That's what I'm saying. Okay, this. this is what I've been trying to say the. entire time about this new Team USA. We. fire our coaching staff this close to. the World Cup. Co new coaching staff is.

going to have to try to find their team. Here it come I. Is that the Is Punch a ball one? No. Here comes Ponch. Blue Blazer. You. You'll feel it. Bang. There. Let's get. Take a seat, bud. Get your hands off, my. guy. I'll fight you right now. Okay. Yeah. I mean, what a dog. I thought he. was going to go in there and throw. punches, not just put his hands up. soccer field. So what? You knew what was. coming. Yeah, you're right. You knew. exactly what was coming. You're right.

Anyways, Ponch is trying to find his. guys. He wants dogs. That's why he. doesn't have I like I like the moxy of. Chris Richards. I mean, the hair on that. guy is it's it's cool. I I look, I'm not. I'm not just writing off Team USA soccer. just yet. But I'm going to need a little. a little bit more of that. Little more. pizzazz. A little bit more pizzazz. A. little bit more winning and a little bit. more of punch being cool. Winning. Yeah, I need a little bit more of that two. game win streak. Speaking of winning, Amen. And we're in a Gold Cup right now. We could win the entire concrete.

Trinidad, Tobago. I I can't count. That's two. They had 11 guys on the. field. Saudi Arabia. So that is 12 guys. on the team. That's a whole another. conversation. That's they should get. more guys on the team like we did. Bunch. of guys we never heard. Um, so this. before we move to the boxing world, there's been an update, uh, a lot of. updates from Ross about the new NIL. commission clearing house thing. And. interesting the way it's kind of being.

handled. 130 third party NIL uh, deal. uh, have been submitted for athletes to. the new commission and uh, several. remain under review while many others. have been approved. We've talked about. this before. We don't know how any of. them are ever going to be able to get. turned down because if a company wants. to pay somebody a certain amount of. money, who's to say what the window is. of what the cash can be unless that. commission is given power to put tiers. onto certain things from I think they. would have to get that from actual.

government. I think they would have to. empower this commission to be able to. put like this is what a top end deal can. look like at this position which that. would be very difficult to do I think in. a capitalistic society. So I don't I. don't know how it all works out but it's. already off and running AJ it's already. up and running. You upload your deal. terms. This can include a contract or. any correspondence with your payer that. clearly describes the terms of this. deal. You can skip this step for now but. your deal terms will be required. Okay.

You're going to have to do that. Uh then. you can confirm your deal. 3,700 in. total. Here's the contract. Obligations, social media, four Instagram posts, three pieces of content, unboxing, videos for payer, social media, and. website. Appearance, 2 hours, one meet. and greet. So maybe this is just. legitimizing these deals. So we know. that they're going to get paid. We know. that they're going to happen. Maybe this. commission isn't here to turn down the. money that people want to offer up for. players, but they're certainly there to. make sure that the money is paid to the.

players and that they're signing a good. deal. I love that if that's how this is. being viewed, AJ. Yeah, I like this. whole like how they're they're showing. how they can set it up to try to make it. as easy and streamline the whole process. so it doesn't take forever to try to get. something approved. But you're right. I. guess I would assume if you asked these. people, they would say, "Hey, we're. doing this to try to protect the. athlete." Is that what this is for? Feels like that's exactly what this is. for because now it's being written and. checked with a commission of people this. is exactly how this is supposed to go. cuz remember there was a lot of chatter. about guys never getting paid. There's.

like three different lawsuits happening. for a lot of millions of dollars cuz. they were told they were going to get. paid something then they never got paid. And then you hear stories of everybody. else getting paid big money. It's like. these players getting overpaid. It's. like there's players getting screwed. over right now too from these deals that. are taking place. So if this is to. legitimize the deals I love that. I love. everything about that. and not letting. these companies I feel like we heard a. bunch of times where like the guys would. do what was initially agreed upon and. then it was like oh no you didn't. fulfill the terms of what you know and. you just then you're just left in the. lurch it's like okay I guess I'm not get.

so like having that hey you got four. Instagram posts you got one meet and. greet you do all that stuff like those. are the terms of this deal I I think. that's very helpful as well yeah I. appreciate what they're doing good luck. over there Sheriff Cely good luck from. the MLB has been tasked with taking this. on former attorney general I believe and. former lawyer. So, he'll get to the. bottom of it and hopefully college. sports will remain great forever. Speaking of sports that will remain. great forever, feels like boxing is. about to hit a big time resurgence. And. obviously, boxing was at its peak.

whenever there was a man throwing. refrigerators around off of his wrist. That was Mike Tyson. There's a new book. called Baddest Man: The Making of Mike. Tyson. Done by the greatest biography. writer in the history of sports. Yep. Ladies and gentlemen, joining us now, a. guy that was a co-host alongside of me. for about a week or two at NFL AM. That's because how long I last I don't. remember how long he was on NFL AM, but. he was always very nice to me and he's. incredibly talented. Ladies and. gentlemen, Mark Creel. Yeah, Mark. Thank you. No problem. How are you.

doing, man? I remember those days. 3:00. a.m. NFL. And I remember being. introduced to you as obviously knower of. ball, knower of sports, but also this. guy's like one of the greatest writers. to ever exist. At that time I was. mentioned that now I think Tai said you. still got the fast ball. He read through. this absolutely love it. So writing. writing has always been your thing then. punditry and commentary off the side or. has it all kind of come together Mark? I. I don't know if it came together. First. of all I don't remember any of those. NFL. Yeah. I mean like I remember you I.

remember you coming in and I and I and I. flub something and uh but I don't know. Writing doesn't come natural. Like I I'm. I'm a bleeder, you know? Someone once. asked the great redsmith, "How do you do. it?" "Oh, it's easy. I open up a vein.". No problem. It ain't It ain't fun, man. I didn't want to do this. I owe the. publisher money. Okay. Yeah, I heard. that whenever you talked to Scott. Vampel. So, you're you had a book deal. with a publisher. You owed them a book, I assume. And then you were trying to.

figure out what book to do. They. mentioned Mike Tyson, and then you said, "Okay, I'll do this." No, I said, "Hell, there's no way. I'd rather impale. certain body parts than no than than. revisit Tyson in the 80s and 90s and and. who I was as as a as a newspaper. columnist. There used to be this thing. newspapers. I I wrote a column. That's. why I started writing about about. sports. I didn't want to revisit all the. crap that I had written about him. Some. of it was justified. Some of it was. overboard, but I wasn't really crazy. about going back there. But I had just.

torn a hamstring and I was severely. overmedicated. The guy calls and says, "Hey, listen, man. Would you consider. Tyson?" I'm no way. And a friend of mine. says, "You can't give money back, man. It's like against the writer's code.". Which probably correct. And being. overmedicated, I conned myself into. thinking I could write a little slim, elegant, nice book about Mike Tyson, like a kind of essay. And the thing. about Tyson is once you get into him, he. generates more story than anyone I I've.

ever come across. And and the other. thing is that finding new stuff about. him um that's a daunting task and it's. not like he hasn't been you know. discovered. It's not like there's. anything that in the the large parts of. his life we we don't know but I was I. was pretty surprised by a couple things. starting with I actually like the guy. Yeah. Because I think you were pretty. critical of him back in the day when you. were a sports columnist. I believe that. was a big thing. Now you've learned. about him and I think one of the parts. of this book is telling the story and I.

think you told Scott Vampel this when. you were talking to him. It's like how. he has gone on this roller coaster of. how the public feels about him and how. you actually had a chance to chitchat. with him and how it changed your opinion. on who he was and you viewed him I. believe you said as a human for the. first time long time because he kind of. let you in. I think the resurgence of. Mike Tyson has been a cool uh kind of. visit through transparency. Do you agree. with that? Do you think Mike Tyson has. just been more transparent about him? Why do you think there has been this. revolutionary shift of respect and.

appreciation of what he's able to do in. a boxing world, but also an. understanding that he wasn't a perfect. individual in his life? Why do you think. that is happening at the moment? There's a whole bunch of reasons. The. I'm hoping the book, this book has the. like the the cheat code of why we're. still addicted to Tyson. But part of it. has to do with, you know, he was groomed. and you know this, he was groomed as as. as a face. He was groomed as a good guy. and then he had a heel turn in in in. real life, but he played that role.

better than anyone in the history of. combat sports, certainly boxing, and at. certain times he did it with a wink. and. the way that he's evolved and the way. that he manipulated fear and the idea of. him as this the earthw wild the former. scary guy and now you see him and and my. book begins in a place I swear to God I. could never have imagined with him. watching his daughter play tennis in in. Orange County like of all of all places. and this guy was was doomed but he plays. that heel role now that he doesn't have.

to fight and he doesn't have to be a. bully and he doesn't have to always. shift his fear on you. He plays that. with with great style. I mean, there's. always a kind of wink to it. And, you. know, when you have bad guys and they. have that wink, they get over, you know, exponentially. PE people become. absolutely fascinated. uh by him. And I think that's in large. measure what happened with Tyson. The. other thing is that for someone like me, as you get older, you get your ass. kicked a little bit. You admire a guy.

for what he can stand up against. Like. the the one thing that haters like me. and and Tyson's acolytes and Tyson. himself never envisioned what was that. he would be here. I once asked him when. he was 45 like did you ever could you. have imagined being here? He goes no I I. couldn't have imagined being alive. So I. I think you judge a guy by by what he's. passed through. In the case of Tyson. it's a neighborhood that was absolutely. nuts. Like calling it a ghetto or. calling it violent is completely. insufficient. And it was like growing up.

like in in Mad Max. Addiction to booze, coke, the death of a child, um. incarceration, molestation, and and and. boxing itself. Like the the typical. script in boxing is, you know, the third. act is the tragedy. Mike had tragedy. during his his fighting career and then. afterward and now he's sitting there. watching his kid play tennis. It's hard. to not love that. Yeah. And I got a. chance to meet him uh at Times Square. with the Ring Magazine's City of Wolves.

And it's like as soon as Mike Tyson. walks up, I'm like, "Oh [ __ ] this is. Mike Tyson." I think you, to your point, Rald is going to be addicted to the Mike. Tyson name and the Mike Tyson brand. And. I'm happy as hell that the baddest man, the making of Mike Tyson is available. now. We appreciate you doing this for a. legend in sport. Now, on that note, you've not only done it for Tyson, you've done it for many others. Go. ahead, Connor. Yeah, Mark. uh some of. your other books about Pistol Pete, uh. Joe Nameoth, Tyson. Now, do you notice. like similarities between the greats,

all three of those guys are all at, you. know, the top tier of their respective. sport. Do you notice like a similarity. between some of them, whether is, you. know, psychology or their training or. how they are, you know, post uh their. football or basketball or boxing life. I mean, Tyson was a breakthrough for me. because it was the first book I did. about a guy who wasn't from like western. PA like Mancini was from Youngstown, which I think still at includes, you. know, is part of Western PA. Alip. Yeah.

Yeah. Burb Falls is named something. together. I mean, when you get that good. that you need to have a certain. perfectionism about you, I think that's. it. The other thing is is ego. Um, you. need you need a huge ego to to succeed. But I think whatever whatever holds true. for other sports is true in spades for. boxing. Like you need an incredible set. of balls to get in that ring. You're.

essentially naked. And there are three. elements. It's you, it's the other guy, and there's the and there's the. audience. And you know, the audience is. what the audience is what changes it. And if you ever get up into a ring to. spar, you look down and you go, "Oh. [ __ ] people are looking at me." And I I. think that what what fighters what. fighters fear is not is not the physical. violence. It's not getting your ass. kicked. It's humiliation. Yeah. And um. that that changes the whole thing. I'm. sorry. My camera's No, you nailed it. You got it. You found it. You found it.

again. That was good. You actually. slipped your way back right into there. Yeah. Yeah. Sweet. Slipping a punch. Yeah. A little bit. But but I think. that's it. But but but it's the ego and. and the whole Tyson story, the whole. story of boxing today. Writing about. Tyson reinforced this thing for me in a. way I I didn't anticipate. The whole. damn thing with with any combat sport. and again I I think boxing most is it it. is a symphony of ego. The promoters, the. managers, the fighters. Um and in this.

case, in the case of Tyson, it's the. trainer. And and I think, you know, custom motto, the guy who got him out of. lockup as as as a juvenile as is a. 13-year-old is often sainted and he may. well deserve it, but it was a little bit. more complicated than like this. beautiful fable of like the old white. guy and the kitty gets out of jail. It. it it was really he would custom had. such a huge ego and he instilled in. Tyson or inflamed in Tyson this huge. ego. What he was really asking him for. my money is make me live forever. Now,

Tyson pushes back on this with me and he. says, "Well, didn't I?" In other words, yes, I made him immortal. As as long as. they know my name, they're going to know. his. My question in the book is like, "Hey, what price was that, man?" Yeah. Well, Tyson gave it all. I mean, he was. fully committed to the game. Go ahead, AJ. Yeah. Mark, have you like what are. what are Tyson's views on some of his. old press conferences? You know, he's. talking about eating people's children. All of those colorful pressers that he. gave us that I thought was just a golden.

age in boxing. And I appreciate him for. that. But how does he view that now? I. don't look I mean I don't want to give. you the idea like we're pen pals or we. like we video chat every day. I I asked. him one great favor. I said listen I. probably wrote more bad stuff about you. than anybody. I'm just asking you do me. a solid and and let me do my work. And. typically people would call up and they. would say is it okay to speak to Creel. They call his wife and she'd say yeah. it's okay. And that's all I could ask. People know his story. So, we had a. couple of like Zoom conversations. Um,

it's very interesting. Those pressers. are are part of why he stays with us and. and especially the Eat Your Children. stuff. What happened there and and we. keep replaying it because again, he's. the greatest heel ever. And to me, that. means as scary as he is, there's also. something that makes you laugh. What. what in fact was going on with that was. he had just knocked out a guy in a.

couple of seconds in Scotland and he was. hyping up a fight with Lennox Lewis, but. he was in like the deepest state of. grief cuz a kid, a famous stickup kid he. was locked up with in in in Brooklyn had. had died. So he spent the last part of. his camp just grieving. He was he was. inconsolable. And that's what no one. gets from like the eat your children. thing. He was half out of his mind with. that. He was he was really beside. himself with with grief. You're saying. there's context basically to everything. that kind of happens. And in this book,

hopefully we're going to explain a. little bit more of that. Let's move off. of Baddisdest Man, uh the making of Mike. Tyson, and let's talk about the current. state of boxing at 2:30 Eastern. Canelo. Crawford will have their first press. conference. And obviously this is going. to be the first big fight with Dana in. Turkey and the crown prince and. obviously Nick a part of it all and TKO. kind of coming together. This is huge. for boxing. This is good for boxing. What are your thoughts on like kind of. the state of boxing at its moment and.

what the future could be with the new. group kind of trying to run things? Um it's it's huge for boxing. I think. that boxing at least in this country. does in fact need some salvation. It's. it's a great great fight because on. paper I mean Crawford Crawford's older, he's smaller and he's technically in in. in economic terms he's the bside. So. everything in boxing history says. Crawford should lose. I don't think.

that's going to happen. I think that he. he's he's the savviest predator there. is. I mean he's giving up a huge amount. of weight. But what is really cursed. boxing, certainly in this country, are. fights that you know the outcome to. If. if I know who's going to win, if the. disparity between the aside and the. Bside is so damn big that I know who's. going to win or or it's it's a huge. upset, why am I going to tune in? And. and that's what's plagued this sport. Because you haven't seen Crawford lose, it's difficult to envision in your head.

him in losing. And and he's he's. incredibly resourceful. He's very. violent. And I think that he feels like. he's been cheated out of his prime. He. didn't get the recognition he needs. That all that to me makes him dangerous. For Canelo, it's this pride. Has he been. has he been living in silk pajamas all. these years? Is is has he gotten, you. know, metaphorically fat? I don't know, but we're going to see. All right. Well, Mark, we appreciate you stopping by. We'll continue to chat hopefully as the. leadup for Canelo vers Crawford happens.

and everything taking place in boxing. Congrats on another great one, man. Congrats on a great Thank you so much. Appreciate it, fellas. No problem. Ladies and gentlemen, Mark Regal. I was a columnist. I had newspapers. Okay. I did a lot of writing. I I talk. more [ __ ] on Tyson than anybody. Yeah, I. had to do I have It's part of the job. Part of the profession. Just do me a. solid, man. Let me do my job, please. Let me do this entire thing, please. Please. I know what I did. Mark was. always uh very nice to me. He was very. serious, though, you know, like a very.

serious lad. And none of us remember. what that NFL AM show was like. I know. Was there a [ __ ] I did a couple days. on there. I did a few in LA. Yeah. Went. out there. I think I did like three days. one week. Yeah. 3:00 a.m. Yeah. Yeah. Very weird. I said, "Why isn't this. filmed on the New York studio?" Well, because it's out here. We get We get a. lot of good guests. They said, "We get. guests and stuff being LA." I was like, "You got guys coming at 4:00 a.m. coming. here?" Yeah, we did. Look at us. We did. go. I won a couple days. Sounds like you. won a few days. Mark was there a few.

days. I remember that. Molly was part of. that team. Molly Kum. Oh, she was uh a. part of that there at the time. Lavar. Arrington, I believe, was there. Rhett, it was early. That's real early. That's a different LA life you're. living. Yeah. Going to bed at 6:00 p.m. every night. You see, I I didn't do. that. Right. You see what I did was I. for every time. That's kind of just stay. up until 3:00 a.m. Yeah. Kind of. We're. in Los Angeles. Good to catch up with.

everybody. Also, we're doing TV. following stuff all night here. Here we. go. Uh, all right. Uh, have a great. weekend. Game seven of the NBA Finals on. Sunday night. The Travelers is taking. place. Scotty Sheffller tied for the. lead. Should be an amazing weekend of. sports. We can't wait to talk about it. all on Monday. Be a friend, tell a. friend. Something nice might change your. life. That's AJ Hawk from the boys in. the back. Everybody out here, you're the. greatest people on earth. Thank you for. allowing us to do this for a living. We'll see you on Monday. Goodbye. [Music].

Old baseball's happening as well this. weekend. Oh, that's all right. Yeah, we. we covered it by the way. I love the. rivalries. I love everybody hitting. everybody. Old school baseball. This is. good, bro. Otani is getting beaned. 100. mph fast ball is at his head. I don't. The fact that it's a 100 mile like. you're firing gas at him like throw like. a 88 mph one off his ribs. That's not. the point. Why the [ __ ] would they do. that AJ? What? Why are you not saying. it? I think it's only the doctor is. getting 300 million too, brother. Yeah,

I think it's only cool because it's 100. and and that's not to say I think the. kneecap one hurt more, but I think it's. only sweet because it's 100 in the back. I don't know. I [ __ ] 100 off the. shoulder blade. I'm sure. Did you see. Tai's reenactment, AJ? He was nothing. like Can I see it one more time? I did. see it once. I saw I almost need to see. the video if I remember correctly. So he. takes it off the shoulder blade and then. wears it. Yep, there it is. The head. Oh, it's the head. I couldn't even. imagine the head to the sky. I get it.

Cuz we've worn 80 and that hurts. Yeah, very bad. What? In high school or. something? Yeah, it all hurts. Ty told. me that he's aiming at somebody's jaw if. they're on the plate. I mean, if you are standing on the. plate, you can't get too upset if you. get clipped. That's business. You played. baseball, AJ, high school? Yeah, not in. high school. I just played all growing. up. Did all the travel stuff. got burned. out by the end of eighth grade. Sounds. like a Dannki story. Were you up there. on the on the plate whenever you're in. the batters box? Is that your plate? No. No. Normal normal, you know, stance. I.

wasn't crowned the plate. We didn't have. big pads on our elbows and all that bag. Well, it would have been cool just go. out there [ __ ] knee pad, hip pad, [ __ ]. right over top of the right over top of. the plate. People do that. I mean, they. do now. Not. Yeah, I guess I I really. haven't seen what kids in high school. are wearing, but I I'm sure they're. pretty swagged up. But like, yeah, when. we were in high school, no one was. wearing elbow pads or any of that [ __ ]. And they were lining up where in the. batter spot. I cried to the plate like a. son of a [ __ ] You bet. You're trying.

to get hit. No, just let's shrink this. strike zone down big time. I would hit. dudes all the time when I was if I got. down I p like if I'm pitching and I've. told you this before. If I get down. three 0 in the count, I'm hitting a dude. on the fourth pitch because I know I'm. not throwing three straight strikes to. this guy. I didn't have I didn't have. that control so I had to. This is just. the law of averages here. I need to do. as much damage as I can here. I'm not. going to be able to throw three straight. strikes. This was 3 0 by the way. Oh, okay. This is the fourth pitch. Good. call, AJ. That's what this guy said. I'm.

not going to be able to get three. strikes past this guy. Might as well. just go ahead and send him on his way. with a nice little how you doing 100. miles an hour to the shoulder. Clayton. Kershaw, 38 years old, 39 years old. He. was halfway over to F. Hold on now, Texas boy. Hold on now. He said this is. not going to surprise you cuz you know. how he was back then. CFO Phil would. stand basically on the plate and then. just wouldn't even flinch. He got hit a. hundred times maybe. Yeah, that makes. sense. That makes sense. He would. probably get that shoulder and just.

right over top of the plate. They called. that kid out in Gage Woods no hitter for. leaning into it though. Wow. Should have. hit that guy. Yeah, that's that's what I. think. Mhm. You just threw the third. ever no in the history of the College. World Series. What are your thoughts on. that? Shouldn't have hit that guy. That's it. That's all I got. Okay. Okay. Go have fun with your team. Good luck. He was awesome. What a week. it has been. Let's go around the horn. here. Favorite thing that happened this. week. We'll start with you. AB tone. I.

mean, it's it's very simple. It's very. easy. It's the Pacers making it to game. seven. Ty Schmidt, you uh Yankees I. mean, it's also the Pacers, but the. Yankees uh snapped their sixgame losing. streak. Oh, yeah. They were the Pirates. there for a bit. They were for a week. They were the Pirates and now, you know, they're the Oh, they were playing salty. ball. Sure. Sure. They were playing salty. ball, but they've snapped that and they. are now going back to, you know, being. the kings of the AL East. Boston Conor. favorite thing this week? Uh mom was uh. SpaceX blowing up because I've never. seen anything like that before in my.

entire life, but I thought it was cool. Those things have to happen obviously. for us to get to the point where they. don't blow up. Uh any tiny little. mistake with that much gas. Mhm. Never. seen that. I I've only seen it in the. movie. Things are going to go. Here's. the video that uh Connor is referring to. because we have not showed it on this. particular program. And it is over. Oh, there's another one. Boom. That double boom. How many astronauts? That's five big boom. Yeah. No one's testimony. Nope. Nope. Nope. It wouldn't be my. favorite thing if someone died, man.

Obviously. Um, good thing this week that. happened at the Uker table yesterday, I. think. Oh, yeah. I mean, that Yeah, that. might be my favorite part, too. Uh, Debbuts, uh, and Bone were Uker. partners. Bill and Foxy and me and Pat. And me and Pat went 5-0. Beat the. [ __ ] piss out of those four just over. and over again. Actually started game. one. Pat and I were down 96, which is. kind of like what the Pacers were down. 3-2. And then uh two rounds or sorry,

not two rounds, two two hands back to. back down 96. We go Uker. Hold on. Oh, 98 all of a sudden. That's a. two-pointer. And then we go clean sweep. 5-0. Oh, wait. 109 all of a sudden. That's a 10-9 victory. And then that was. just game one. And like I said, we. played five total games. So we had four. more wins after that. We beat Foxy and. Bill. Three and a half hours. Yeah. I. mean I mean we long time we were. downtown you know with where we live. whenever the Pacers have a game and we. do our show live from the arena it's. like with tra like what is the last.

night I think we had enough time I could. have made it home made it back uh maybe. should have done that instead we just. stayed downtown uh at this place called. uh Commission Row this restaurant down. here in Indianapolis I think it opened. in June or uh January I mean man. phenomenal it's awesome that whole area. was cool I haven't been I haven't been. down there in a while going to. Gainbridge and seeing the whole area, how it's developed around this. The. arena is sweet. Yeah, that restaurant. that's right next to the arena there, Commission Row, that might be the nicest. restaurant I've ever been at. It's the. nicest restaurant in Indie, hands down.

It might be the nicest restaurant I've. ever gone in. And the food is good. It's. not like uh you go to a nice place and. it's terrible food. Delicious. It's like. very, very good food. They That place is. brand new. They know they got to fight. for, you know, like uh I say clientele, every age, customers. It's brand new cuz. there's a lot of restaurants downtown. obviously like historic restaurants in. downtown Indianapolis. Commission Row, that place is very nice. I mean, and. they've been very good to us obviously, but the location, the food, the service,

the way there's a speak easy down in the. basement, I think there's a speak easy. down there. Yeah, it's uh they got a. different menu for the speak easy, too. It's pretty cool. Yeah. So, you know, Indianapolis really done it here. Really. done it. And the Pacers obviously uh the. straw that's stirring the drink in the. city right now. That's right. And you. know what that drink is? Joel Vio. It. is. You know what that drink is? Good. time. Mhm. You know what that drink is? What's that? It's down to its final. ship. It's game seven on Sunday. Yeah.

AJ, how do you feel game seven goes for. the Indiana Pacers, Oklahoma City. Thunder to determine in four quarters, maybe overtime? Maybe. Who are the NBA champions of the 2024. 2025 season? At this moment on Friday, 2:04 Eastern, the Thunder are 7 and 12 point. favorites. That would be the if the. spread was eight, that'd be the largest.

spread in the history of NBA game sevens. since 1988. Cool. Good year, AJ. Well, sitting here. Friday a couple days before the game, I. Tyrese, how he looked, how he played, I. feel much better about his calf and his. leg, everything that's going on, his. lower body situation he has. But the. more I think about it, I just keep. seeing Pacers 109, Thunder 101, and the. Thunder Arena being heartbroken that the. Pacers come in there and find a way. I. like that Tyrese will uh and those.

Pacers boys will. operate accurately in another arena if. they were to win uh a title. There it. has gone down to 6 and 1/2 now on ESPN. It's been moving. Been moving back and. forth. A little bit of dancing. Little. bit of dance at 6 and 1/2. 7 and 1/2. Nonetheless, Tyrese Hallebertton did. look healthy last night. Yes, he did. Got to rest all fourth quarter. Got an. opportunity here for a couple days now. Friday. What? Saturday. All of Sunday. 8:00 p.m. Late start on a Sunday. Yep.

Can we move that to 6:30. on Sunday? Just a thought. So when the. Super Bowls play 7 o'. 8:00, that's a late one on Sunday. West Coast. though, we want you to come enjoy. Yeah, sure. Come enjoy 5:00. That actually. pretty good time. Yeah, not bad. 5:00. Not a bad start. Anyways, 8:00 ABC. Sunday. I agree with you, AJ. Indiana patients, take it home.

Let's go, boys. Here we go. Let's have. one. I don't think I'm I'm going to be I. don't know if they're releasing any. tickets. No. No, I don't think so. Definitely not. Keep that demand high. I. reached out and they said no. You did? Yeah. Thank you for doing that. That's. my favorite thing of the week is that. you reach out to Oklahoma City Thunder. Nice. AJ, what's your favorite thing of. the week? Aaron Rogers walking around on. a beach all jacked up. I mean, that's. nice. I I have a hard time not going. with the Seakum dunk. The Tyrese Steel. Seakum Dunk. I'm sitting here watching. live like, "Okay, this game here we go.

What's good to game seven already? Yeah, that was a good moment. The the the. place. It's awesome. So awesome. Steel. Give me that in my pink Harley ones. I. had my Harley Golds on. Reggie Miller. right there. Reggie Miller right in. front row. He almost passes it to Tyrese. Barkley jacket. Do it. No look. Do a no. look. He said you got it. No look. Oh, put him in a blender. Dort Williams. Ah. Obie topping in the back. All of Indiana.

goes insane. What a moment. What a moment. What a moment. What a. moment. Oh, also this week for complete. close second, JJ Spawn's putt. Oh, yeah. man. 64 ft for immortality. How's he. doing at Travelers? He was three over. day one. Understandable. Yeah, he was. doing a tour. He was doing a tour. Yeah, he did it today show. He did Yeah. Got. 4.6 last week. He's good. Yeah. This. This one's worth three and a half. Yeah.

35 38 three and a half million to the. winner. He's Is JJ gonna be on the Ryder. Cup team? Uh, as of right now, he is. Yes. Okay. Those putters we've been told. are on the way. Okay. Maybe I'm on a. Ryder Cup team, too. Look out. Never. know. Look out. Keegan Bradley might be. watching. He knows. He saw you coming. out of the pocket. He's the coach. captain. We We know that my issue isn't. necessarily. uh coming out of the pocket. Sure. I'll. come out of the pocket. Now, do I know. where the driver's going? Not really,

but the deuce, I kind of got that one. figured out. It's not going to be as. far, but the two-wood will put me in. play. My iron's not terrible. If I'm in. a bad lay, I'm I'm in trouble cuz I. don't have good ball contact. I'm I'm. mostly I'm meeting through that thing. every single time. But when I get to the. green, that's where the trouble really. begins. For some reason, just can't. knock it down. Haven't been able to find. my putter. That's why JJ Spawn told me. with the putter that he won with, when I. start putting, all of a sudden, I'm Mr. One putt. Yeah, that's what he said was.

gonna happen. I seen him do it from 64. ft. Mhm. There's the current US team. Uh. Scotty Sheffller, Xander Schoffley, JJ. Spawn, Dsham Bro, Justin Thomas, Colin. Morala. I like to hear that. So, the live guys are in? Yeah. Yeah. Well, he's automatically in. Yeah, because he is. Yeah, he's qualified. because he what Bryson won the major, right? But everyone else would have to. be a captain's pick if they're a live. dude. You need to look out for Maverick. McNeely.

Good locker room guy. Good player. Yeah. And Andrew Novak once he gets uh yuck. yucking. That's when uh the boys he. could pick himself too. Good. Yeah, he. probably will. I mean, Russell Henley. certainly put up a good fight to make. the team. And Ben Griffin, we know. obviously the Griffin family. Novak. Yeah. Novak. Yeah. Well, no. Yuck. Yuck. Yuck yuck yucking it up. And uh and then. the they don't call him hard man for no. reason. He is a horror man. Yeah. Oh,

Brian. Need a lefty. Need a lefty on the. top. Respectfully to this list, we need. none of those guys at the bottom to be. on the top. Couldn't agree more. Fox, what are you talking about? No, I like. the guys at the top. They're all big. names and they're all great golfers. Let's keep it that way. Brooks will get. at it. What about window? I like the way Brooks. is operating. He looks like he's having. more fun than ever. He does. Cuz I. learned on Super Swing he was not having. a blast. True. What's this for?

There's only one thing it could be for. What What's this What's this all about, AJ? What do you mean? I think there's only. one thing it can like Ty said. This has. got to be Pacers. Um, yeah. NBA. championship ball. Wow. Imagine that. That's Here we are, game seven on the. horizon. It all comes down to this. It. does. You got it. It's going in. All right. So, the Thunder are going to. dominate the first quarter. Okay. Yep.

Here we go. Second quarter. That's been. happening. Yeah. Which is expected. Let. them have it. Second. So, down by. Down by 10 at half. Just like it's like. game one. Yeah. Uphill battle. And then. Tricky Ricky saying this second half. it's ours, boys. this ball. And now the fourth quarter. How flat. that ball is. That ball's flat. That. doesn't count. Tie game. Ball is so. flat. This is the best ball. It counts.

It all comes down to this. You got it. Yep. Oh, no. Bonus. I said right before I shot. This is a. world championship. Yes, it is. You need. an international ball. Oh, no. [Music]. See, a lot of people a lot of people say. since you're shooting for the thunder. that you're missing on purpose. Yep. Yep. Paddle. Barrel. Barrel. Barrel. Pull. him. Tell Mitt to come pull you.

Pull him, Mitt. Come on, Mitt. I think Pull the surfboard. Don't touch. the lava. Mitt. From the board. From the. board. Oh, yeah. From the board. Ride in. the storm or the thunder. Do a holly. Thank god Steve sent that. No kidding. For the patient. Yeah. Oh, [ __ ]. All right. I mean, if if you It is on YouTube TV.

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too. Here. Here. Come on, you son of a. Uh-oh. ball heavy or something. You got rocks. inside that thing. Ball was covered with. paint. Yeah, of course. Ain't going to. fly. I thought it was going in. Lacquer. all over that thing. So much goddamn. lacquer on that thing. Yeah. Just start throwing something nice. Change your life. We're in this thing. together. Team I don't love that going.

into a week. Let's have a great weekend. It's okay. Have a good weekend. That. doesn't mean anything [ __ ] That means. [ __ ] nothing. Missed him yesterday. Tell you what, I'll eat one here of. those balls. We'll see if I was going to. have a good weekend or not. Thank you, Tone. Thank you, Tone. Tone's. gonna have a terrible weekend for the. good of all of us. That's fine. For he. loved us so much he gave us his terrible. weekend so we could have a good one. Joseph 3:14. Thank you, Tone. Tone 317.

What? Hell yeah. Be a friend. Tell a. friend something nice. If I change your. life, we're in this thing together. Team. on me. We'll see you on Monday. Team on. three. 1 2 3. Goodbye.