E.P.I.C. Podcast "Every Play Is Crucial"
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E.P.I.C. Podcast "Every Play Is Crucial"
From Jalen Ramsey's Trade Value to WNBA's Salary Revolution: A Deep Dive into Today's Sports Headlines
Epic Podcast hosts discuss the upcoming busy sports weekend across multiple leagues, focusing on the NBA playoffs, WNBA draft, and NFL offseason news.
• Miami Dolphins shopping Jalen Ramsey despite his continued high-level performance as a cornerback
• College football star Travis Hunter claims he'll retire if not allowed to play both offense and defense in the NFL
• WNBA rookies choosing to stay in college for NIL money instead of accepting $78,000 rookie contracts
• WNBA expansion plans include new teams in Toronto and Portland over next few years
• NBA playoff matchups analysis with Lakers-Timberwolves highlighted as potential upset series
• Discussion of Phoenix Suns firing their coach after disappointing season despite star-studded roster
• Speculation about Denver's Michael Malone or Memphis' Taylor Jenkins filling coaching vacancies
• MLB season check-in with early batting average struggles for both hosts' teams
Let us know if you'd like to hear more about any of these topics on our next episode. We'll be taking next Tuesday off but will be back Thursday for full coverage of the NFL Draft's first round.
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Speaker 2:Yo yo, welcome to another episode of Epic Podcast. It's me and Jared in the house tonight. Man, how was your sports weekend?
Speaker 3:It was cool man. I got to go to the Reds game this weekend. We went on Saturday and they played the Pirates. La hit a grand slam, so that was cool, we won. Other than that, pretty chill. How about yours?
Speaker 2:Cool man Didn't really do much sports-wise, wasn't really going on. Um, pacers had already solidified their spot in the four seed, so there really wasn't really nothing going on my way for our sports. Uh, boston is still struggling, so, uh, then I think one of our pitchers just got hurt too. So, yeah, it's going to be another. Like I said, another one in those years, but it is what it is. We're going to jump into it. Man, we got quite a bit to talk about. We're going to start in the NFL First off. Dolphins is trying to move. Uh, jaylen ramsay, man I've seen that prime of his career.
Speaker 3:Like, I mean, he's not definitely on the back side of it still top five though. I mean, I guess I know he wasn't all pro this past year.
Speaker 2:Who was the four that got all pro?
Speaker 3:I don't know the four who got all pro. I know Patrick McTain in the second was. He was a defensive player of the year so I know he was all pro.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh, so okay, he played. Okay, he played all 17 this year. Um, I mean 60 tackles, sack, two picks, uh, 11 passes defended. I mean didn't give up, didn't give up a bunch of yards, he only gave up.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, derek Stingley yeah, stingley Was first team. Trent McDuffie, christian Gonzalez was second. What is? What is LeJarius Sneed doing? Did he fall off after leaving?
Speaker 2:He didn't do much in Tennessee. That's a great question.
Speaker 3:They also got Marlon Humphrey and Derwin James at slot corners, all pro first team and second team.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, I just think, with the Dolphins' defense really not being, because they was hurt, a lot of their front seven was hurt. So I think maybe and the offense you guys think the offense won I mean because Tua the offense really won much either, so their defense was playing a lot. So that's probably the reason why he really couldn't be as productive. But I mean I look at Jalen Ramsey. I mean he's still one of them guys that could be out on the island. He wasn't getting killed last year. Like not enough for this. This is all. Money moves for Miami.
Speaker 3:This is definitely money for sure, Because he's owed $25 million this year. That's crazy. I got to holler at Justin man. He was talking about how bad well, I guess me of all people understand, but he was talking about how bad Marlon Humphrey was playing. He's all pro first team.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but I think that may be off of how many interceptions he had.
Speaker 3:I don't know, but I get the feeling though, because first team, first team as well. So like I get it if you really watch the games.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like, like. So yeah, you gotta think he's looking at it from a different eyes. Like okay, yeah, he may have got some some late game interceptions when they were already winning, or you know some stuff like that, that definitely makes a difference for sure, um, but he's probably just looking at him as being Compared to the old Marlon Humphrey he used to really really be that guy.
Speaker 2:I can see that. I can see him saying that he had a bad year. You've got to respect the interceptions, because what else can you really grade a corner on outside of?
Speaker 3:that. Pass is defended versus that's crazy Six picks is defended versus. You know that's crazy. Six picks is nuts.
Speaker 2:Okay, that's a lot Exactly.
Speaker 3:That's like Trey Hendrickson. He had those 17 and a half. I think he had like five sacks against the Raiders or some shit like that.
Speaker 2:And that's what I'm saying People probably not throwing to his side that much. Just knowing he over there and you got to look at Trey he probably getting doubled. Sometimes too they chipping him just love the little things, like you said, especially in those moments where you feel like you need him. You know sometimes, but I don't think Jalen Ramsey on the is I don't think he's bottom, I mean that 10, I don't think he.
Speaker 3:No, he's not bottom 10, I think he's definitely maxed out, though.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but I mean he's still got one year first off.
Speaker 3:I'd love to have him, but I know 25 is a wrap for us.
Speaker 2:That's a lot to eat at corner, unless you just got some young dudes around him, which I don't see a lot of teams taking on that price tag, unless he's going to go to a team that's not really competing, which hell the Dolphins ain't right now either, because they done pretty much cleaned house, mm-hmm. So outside of Tua, tyreek and Waddle, like who else you know, most of the guys on the defense they done got rid of, you know. So I just thought that was interesting. They GM coming out saying that they looking to move him, which when you say that that just lowers the price that you're going to get for him, when you just open and say, hey look, we're trying to move him Instead of just making calls on the back end and just trying to see who may be interested.
Speaker 3:I think it's better than him saying that he wants to leave, though. Because, once he says that, then all the leverage is gone.
Speaker 2:I mean we'll definitely take him Colts, pay the 25.
Speaker 3:Pay the 25. Y'all got it, y'all ain't paying nobody else.
Speaker 2:I mean, well, we did just play Ward, so I mean Ward and Moore.
Speaker 3:What's he getting? Huh, what's he getting? Like 10? Ward.
Speaker 2:Yeah, 12? More than that. I think, we got 60 for four years. Shit, what's that? 16? 17. Somewhere around there, yeah, but I mean, if you got Jalen, ward and Moore that's crazy, that's crazy.
Speaker 2:So it really don't matter too much who you got on the back end, but if you got those three and you bite them and I can't think of his name right now, young dude, but yeah I think that would be nice. But I just cause, don't spend money like that. We don't go out to free agents like that. And well, definitely not a trade, because I mean you're probably gonna have to give up a fourth, maybe fourth and a fifth, maybe. Maybe a fourth this year, fifth next year, maybe, or maybe, you know me, two fifths. They'd be doing weird trades. So I'm not even going to try to speculate what somebody would give up on, because it's going to be something ridiculously low because of the money situation. But nonetheless, travis Hunter says that it's game over if he can't play both ways. So basically, whatever team drafts him Huh.
Speaker 3:He's capping like a motherfucker.
Speaker 2:Shh. So basically, whatever team drafts him, huh, he's capping like a motherfucker.
Speaker 3:Hey, I read somewhere that he would retire, bro there is zero chance of that shit happening Like he bro.
Speaker 2:But my thing is this First off he's super young. Like I mean, you can guarantee your first year, say, all right, your first year we'll we'll primarily play you on defense and we'll give you some plays on offense and we'll go from there and see how it goes, see how you hold up against the nfl, see how you hold up, uh, stanham and rogers, if you're productive, because we're not going to keep playing you both ways. If you're not productive on both ways, you know what I mean. Right, I would say, give him one year. I mean, like I said, this is rookie year. He's young, depending on where he goes, which could be Cleveland at number two. Like they clearly are not drafting a quarterback because of just the situations going on as far as they signings don't look like it anyway to have Deshaun Watson to bring back Joe Flacco and who else is in AQB? There's one more person in the AQB room I can't remember right now.
Speaker 1:But then you know to have those three and then draft one.
Speaker 3:I think that's crazy, because you probably would have won Did they trade a dude from UCLA?
Speaker 2:Oh, no, yeah, no, no, no, dude from Pitt, that's the other one From Pittsburgh Draft team.
Speaker 3:Where did Thompson Robinson go?
Speaker 2:I don't know. They sent him in to trade. I forgot who they traded him for, but they traded him. But I know a dude from Pitt, I can't remember his name.
Speaker 2:He played for the Eagles it's Pickett. That's who they. I think that was the trade when they got Kenny. They traded him to get Kenny Pickett and it was like a draft pick or something like that. So yeah, so it don't look like if they're doing those type of moves. It don't look like they're drafting a quarterback, so I would suspect that it's probably going to be Travis Hunter there and hell. I mean, like I said, but they got pick number two.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they got number two. So I say, draft him and give him his rookie year. But like, hey look, if you show us you can handle both ways, we'll continue to let you play both ways until you know what. I mean you're no longer productive. So, but nonetheless, ravens GM say that they're not sure about what to do with Andrew's future. So I don't know, man, I still think he's a top tight end, I mean, contrary to what happened last year in the playoffs. I mean, if you're just judging him off of that, he smoked that shit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I still think he's, you know, I mean when he's healthy he's still top five, I mean even in his older years. I mean what he 32, I think.
Speaker 3:Mm-hmm, something like that.
Speaker 2:So I mean where else do you go? I mean they do have the other guy there, but I mean running. I mean where else do you go? I mean they do have the other guy there, but I mean running the two tight ends. I say you bring Andrews back, if not he's going to go somewhere and kill.
Speaker 2:There's a lot of teams looking for a good tight end. Hell, I would take Andrews, I would take him too. I would definitely take Andrews. So they're probably just not going to extend him. Probably see how this year goes, because I think he's still got one year, but see how this year will go from there. I mean they didn't play bad last year, it was just again. It just seems like the Ravens. It just seems to be a play here, play there, especially in the playoffs, and it just messes them up. Last but not least, cam wore one of 17 to attend the NFL draft. So I was looking into this. Shadurah Sanders will not be there. That's one of the ones they said he won't be there, but you're going to have Jason Dart going to be there. Cam Ward, jalen Milrow. Travis Hunter.
Speaker 2:And I'm looking at it Jackson Dart, matthew Golden, mcmillan will be there, carter Gentry Campbell, mason Graham. So a lot of the top guys, a lot of first-round guys, of course, will be there. Booker linebacker Jahai Campbell from Georgia Not Georgia, I mean from Alabama Lee Starks, stephen Savin, michigan tight end Graham Will Johnson. So they're going to have most of your top guys are going to be there. So the draft is April 24th at eight. We will not be doing a show on Tuesday, so we will be covering the draft on that Thursday, the whole first round. So we'll be here chilling, kicking it with y'all for the first round. Second third rounds is the rest of that week, the 25th and 26th. You'll get the second and third rounds. 26, you'll get four through seven. Yeah, man, I don't know. Man, I don't know. I've been hearing a lot of things. Man Colts might trade back. I don't know.
Speaker 3:I do know one thing we're going to draft somebody that nobody wants. Guaranteed, that's one thing to say. We're going to draft somebody that's on nobody's board, nobody's even thinking about. We're going to take him 17th overall, he's going to suck. Those are guarantees, guarantees.
Speaker 2:I see our dude. They think either the tight end from Penn State, if he doesn't go sooner, or tight end from Michigan. So one of those two guys, so I don't know, but the coach could totally go in a different direction. Like I wouldn't be surprised if they go in a different direction. So we'll see, man, we'll see. Going to jump into a little WNBA news man.
Speaker 3:Shout out to Paige going number one last night. That was big, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, I was going to say more expected than anything. That's what it is. So WN about to say more expected than anything. So the WNBAs, we'll talk about it. Let's talk about the draft first. So of course Paige goes first. They say that probably the Washington Mystics got the. Probably won the best draft grades, got the.
Speaker 3:Oh shit, they had goddamn, three picks in the top six.
Speaker 2:They did, they did. What's her name? I don't want to mess up my line here.
Speaker 3:I watched the first at least six picks and I couldn't, I couldn't say her name. They get the young lady from Southern California. Was that the Mystics I? Know they got a guard. They got a guard out of Kentucky.
Speaker 2:So the Mystics got no, Myonia went to the storm. My bad Mystics got Sonya Craig from Notre Dame. They got Kiki from USC. That's who I was talking about. And then they got Georgia Amore from Kentucky, yep. And then last pick, they got Adiza James from NC State. Yeah, they did their thing. Of course, the Fever didn't have a first-round pick this year, they didn't do bad.
Speaker 3:Who did they pick? I don't know why they didn't have a pick this year.
Speaker 2:They didn't do bad. Who did they? I don't know why they didn't have a pick this year. I think they may have traded it. I think they may have traded it away. They had grabbed some pieces this offseason. I'm not really sure of the transaction history, but I think they may have traded it away.
Speaker 2:Yeah, man, Not only that. Future expansion teams. I was looking into this. So we know they got the Valkyries, and right now it's kind of I don't want to say offset, but the. So there's one more team in the West than it is in the East. So next year they're adding a team in Toronto, and then the year after that, Portland, I think, is supposed to be bringing in a team. So they're still kind of working it all out. So I think that'll be dope. Get the team some more, because the teams are getting packed with stars. So you need to start bringing in some expansion teams to keep the league balanced. I think that'll be good. So you got the Toronto Temp, though, and Portland hasn't named their team yet, but they're talking about debuting the year after that and adding a 16th team by no later than 2028.
Speaker 2:Another thing going on in the WNBA is the CBA negotiation. Now this is huge. A lot of girls that was eligible girls. A lot of women that was eligible to come out this year, did not? They stayed in college for NIL money. What do you think about that? Waiting on the new CBA for the WNBA with all the new popularity?
Speaker 3:Smart, like somebody was in their ear like telling them what they needed to hear. I mean not even, I ain't even going to credit it to anybody else. I mean it could have very well been their thing, but super smart. I mean, if you're legitimately making more, I mean come on, man, these rookie salaries is like $78,000. Like you're for sure making. If you're anybody, you're making a lot more than that in college, for sure. At least that or more. Yeah, at minimum.
Speaker 2:So I mean it's a no-brainer.
Speaker 3:It's a no-brainer.
Speaker 2:I think again, like you said, it's super smart. You got to maximize your money and I think with the new CBA negotiations set to take place at the end of this season, then they can come in. You can come into the league and definitely make a lot more money If you're not one of them. Top tier stars is getting endorsements. You know the Caitlin's, the Angel Reese's, all them they're going to get endorsements and stuff like that. Brianna Stewart all of them they're going to get endorsements and stuff like that. So they're going to make their money. But a lot of these people may be good. They may not have the same notoriety coming out of college. They, like you said, need to stay an extra year, get some more money and then come in the league next year and possibly be making more than a lot of top players over the past two years. So I wonder how that's going to go over with them.
Speaker 3:Yeah, when them rookie scales is up to. Yeah, that's.
Speaker 2:When they go up and you're like man, I missed it by a year.
Speaker 3:I missed it by two years hey if girls are smart, they better just start signing one of your joints, like this year. Well, I mean, I guess it's over now what, what is?
Speaker 2:what is the rookie contract for?
Speaker 3:I wonder could you do it? Could you sign up one year? I don't know if that's what I would have done. I'd have been like hey, yeah, don't lock me into nothing let me see.
Speaker 2:I'm about to see wmba. Rookie contracts are typically three years long, with the team option for the fourth year. The scale the salary scale is determined by draft long, with the team option for the fourth year the salary scale is determined by draft petition, with the top four picks earning the most in their first year. Rookie salaries slightly increase over the first three years and the fourth year as a team option Must be a 5% increase over the third year. So for examples like pick oh, not examples, this is legit Picks one through four gets $78,000. $80,000 their second year, $88,000 their third and $100,000 their fourth. That is disgusting, it's crazy. 5-8 is $75,000, $77,000, $85,000, and $96,000. Nobody's really making over $100,000 a year period until after their rookie contract. And picks 13 through 36 only get one-year deals. So the only picks that's guaranteed four-year deals is one through 12.
Speaker 3:Wow, the rest of the picks are one-year deals. Yeah, I hope they change all of that. The one thing that's throwing me off about the WNBA is they keep saying that it's not making no money. How is it not making money?
Speaker 2:I think because of they had been probably been in the red for so many years before now, before it got the popularity picked back up again, you probably had maybe a five to six year span where nobody was really paying attention to it.
Speaker 3:If they're referring to past years combined, then the narrative should be it is making money, but it's still in the red. It's not profitable.
Speaker 2:I guess, when you say it's not profitable, I think maybe that's it. I think now I think you have to Because you got. I think maybe that's that's it. But I think now I think you have to, but you cause you got to think, like baseball, all these other sports, they get these, they get these TV deals and that's where a lot of the money come from. Like the NFL, like them doing Netflix and and Amazon prime and all that stuff, like putting games on there. You know what I mean. Like like putting games on there. You know what I mean. Like I think the WNBA just hasn't secured that yet.
Speaker 2:Like I be seeing the games like on ION and like you know these random networks that I mean everybody has but nobody really knows where to find the games. So I think this next year, if they can secure maybe you know I mean a lot of the games is after the NBA, it is after the NBA season for the most part. So the summer you should be able to get a lot more ESPN games, nbc, abc, cb, like you should be able to fit some games in. You know what I mean with some of these major networks. So hopefully you know they secure it. Maybe talk to the NBA about, you know, giving up the money a little different, even though the men you can say they earned the money. But to balance the league out and maybe try to get them out the red until it becomes more profitable, I guess I should say.
Speaker 3:I don't know why or how, I don't know, they gotta work on that because I mean, it's kind of hard to have any stance when it comes to a collective bargaining, collective bargaining agreement, when you're not making money.
Speaker 2:Right, yeah, yeah, kind of I mean there's really not much.
Speaker 3:you can really say really yeah. One of the main things in that is you wanting more money is like man, if you ain't making no money, how are you going? How are we going to pay you more money? You ain't bringing in nothing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, that's true. And as far as the salaries, to see the difference, the top pick in the NFL can earn up to $12.5 million, so like that's a huge difference. So, yeah, hopefully let's see. Right now they're saying they're ongoing, they're in early phases, they're optimistic about transforming the CBA. At some point the players opt out of the current CBA goes into effect the following 2020-25 season. So, yeah, end of the season they'll be sitting down at the table and I guess we'll be hearing more about it. Last but not least, as far as WNBA things, unrivaled league salaries are said to be more than what WNBA salaries has been.
Speaker 2:Yep. So I mean, granted, when I looked into it and it says when the higher salaries provided by three on three league, unrival, they said they're happy about it. But the only thing is that WNBA is taking care of 190 players while unrival is only taking care of about 30. I see that. But yeah, Collier and Stewart, you know, maybe they can, maybe that's a blueprint to you know the new CBA and kind of working out how do you make this work? How can you integrate this into WNBA? What can WNBA learn from this, this three on three league, If?
Speaker 3:that's profitable, then WNBA should be profitable.
Speaker 2:Yeah, definitely. And I mean I mean, of course, this is they just had their first season and they had games on TV and stuff too, so like to do to secure all that kind of independently, like there's no big machine behind this unrivaled league? So it's kind of like, yeah, like I see, just like, what's your excuse, wnba? Like we got to be able to figure this out? I think I would like to. Maybe I can find it. Let's see what's the unrivaled contract. Let's see 303. Oh, they don't have exactly what it is.
Speaker 2:Unrivaled salary reported $220,000. Wow, per person, yeah. And then there's player equity. So, in addition to salaries, players receive equity in the league, making them part owners. Relief player pool on rival Relief player pool to cover injuries and suspensions, ensuring players are covered financially. That's crazy. League is just players centric phones, amenities Like gyms, practice facilities, all that good stuff. Licensing See, they got licensing and sponsoring deals. The league is just players-centric phones, amenities like gyms, practice facilities, all that good stuff. License and sponsorship See, they got license and sponsoring deals. Merch, all that stuff yeah, man. So it just seemed like they kind of just jumped out the box the right way. So that's crazy, man. That's huge. That's a huge difference. You would have to be a top pick to make that money in the WNBA. You have to play all four years of your contract to get that when you can shoot. I think Paige just signed with him too. That's crazy. That's crazy.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I saw that People saying that she's More In her first year there Than both years, and that's that's. That ain't right. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I mean, maybe the WNBA start Giving players Equity, and you know what I mean Equity. You know Something. It gotta be something Like you gotta figure some way To To hire, to pay.
Speaker 2:Us as fans we got to go support more too, which I think that's going to happen. There's more parity. There's a lot of good women basketball players spread out across the league. There should be no reason why, if you have a WNBA team, there's somebody on your team is a reason to go see them. Now I can't think of a team that doesn't have somebody to be like. Okay, like everybody's been being in the shuffle of top draft picks, especially over the past couple years, bringing out some of the top talent and, uh, women's basketball, so it's definitely gonna. I think this year is probably going to be one of the best years of WNBA.
Speaker 3:So I'm definitely going to Page and Enrique.
Speaker 2:That's Page and Enrique. How are you going to guard that, bro? Both of them creators. They both can get their own shot. They both can. They both are good passers. Good vision, bro. They going to cook. They going to cook. Yeah, but then I look at the Fever team. The Fever team is they stack food like.
Speaker 3:I hope so too. I hope they win it all. And then you got to, then we got to coach that's. You know what's crazy when I was watching the draft last night. They say that Connecticut Sun ain't returning any starters at all, like zero. All five starters are gone.
Speaker 2:But you know what? That's probably because you got rid of the coach. They probably really like the coach and you got rid of the coach for no reason. Granted, I'm happy you got rid of the coach because now it's our coach. But yeah, nah, I'm happy you got rid of Coach because now it's our coach.
Speaker 3:But yeah, nah To not have any returning starters.
Speaker 2:I don't think that's ever happened, that I've witnessed. Yeah, because I mean man Boner, boston, clark Boner, I know Mitchell, mitchell, howard, man bro, yeah, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to be that deal this year. So I just hopefully they just live up to it. Like, I don't want to get you, I don't want to get my coat, and matter of fact, we play, yes, who? We play first game? Dallas, uh, no, oh, nevermind, I thought that was Connecticut. That's not Connecticut, that's LA. I thought it was Connecticut. I'd be like damn, we get to play against her old team the first game.
Speaker 3:But don't quote me on that. I don't know who y'all played the first game. I know.
Speaker 2:Dallas, and I ain't even looking at the end of the schedule. Nope, washington.
Speaker 3:I should blow the doors.
Speaker 2:May 3rd, washington got better. They had a lot of draft picks too, a lot of first round draft picks too. So, depending on how they come together, but yeah, nah, man, I'm definitely excited. Man, I'm definitely going to look into getting me some tickets. Take the family To a few games.
Speaker 3:I wish I had season tickets.
Speaker 2:Man, I'm tripping man, you should have got them like Two years ago To a few games. I wish I had season tickets. Man, I'm tripping man, you should have got them like two years ago, because now, man Kaelin, I'm interested. Okay, they got tickets as low as $15 right now. Okay, that's not bad. And you're not sending nosebleed either, because they don't, they only really well, they do got the balcony open. Yeah, for four people to go. Let's see if I want to sit. Yeah, sit close. Lower level Okay, $50. $60, $70. Yeah, a couple hundred dollar seats Okay, $50, $60, $70. Yeah, couple hundred dollar seats If you want to sit on the floor. It's like $400. So, each Better than what it is.
Speaker 3:I mean not the Lakers, but the Pacers. Ah yeah, some motherfucking tickets.
Speaker 2:But they've been balling, man. They have definitely been balling, moving on man. Talking about the Pacers, man, let's talk a little NBA news, a little NBA. So no Damian Lillard For at least the start of the playoffs.
Speaker 3:So they haven't.
Speaker 2:I'm coming back. I know they haven't ruled him out, if you know, if they happen to beat the Pacers in this series About coming back the next series, but they did say to start the playoffs, so maybe.
Speaker 3:What you mean. Lucky, lucky, get the bus, they squad. What the hell, bro. What you?
Speaker 2:mean lucky. Like oh, I guess the Bucs Get the Bucs. You know what I think.
Speaker 3:Like they squad. We can't do nothing like that. I'm not saying that y'all can help it, I'm just saying y'all getting lucky Like this is the second year in a row y'all playing the Bucs without their full. You know what I'm saying compliment, that's lucky. I ain't saying that there's nothing y'all could have done differently.
Speaker 2:Y'all still got to go out and handle business.
Speaker 3:Y'all has been going crazy, it definitely makes it a lot easier not playing a team without their full roster in the playoffs. That's significant. Y'all better hold up because y'all have no reason not to win for sure.
Speaker 2:Yeah, because they're missing. Lillard Gary Trent Jr. Kevin Porter Jr.
Speaker 2:And uh, I don't know, I can tell you he risks Been ruled out for Sunday game against the Pistons. But that may not be for the Pacer game too. That may just be for that last game. It just says that game. It don't say well, gary Trent Jr and Jericho Sims, so I don't know who that is. But shoot Giannis averaging 30 and 12. So he had a couple of 30s, 40-point games. He been definitely balling. So point differential 115 to 117 a game. Field goal percentage is about the same. Rebounds, all that stuff is about the same. We pretty evenly matched, being a four and a five seed. I just think we got mind control over Milwaukee anyway, because we've been beefing with them a lot but we've been beating them. I don't see us not being able to take care of Milwaukee from Milwaukee anyway, because we've been beefing with them a lot but we've been beating them.
Speaker 3:So I don't see us not being able to take care of Milwaukee.
Speaker 2:I know we own the series record against them, not this year I thought y'all lost three out of four to them. I do not believe we lost. I don't think so. I don't think so, I can't pull it up. I don't know, it's not sure, but regardless, I think we can handle them. What do you think about Nick's Pistons man?
Speaker 3:bro, I can't keep up. I don't know. I mean that series could go anyway. I think the pressure is on New York, though, you know, for making that big trade for Cat. They damn near got to win it. They don't really have much of a choice. Yeah, I mean I could see that series going either way. We'll see. But, like I said, the Knicks got to win. It's like the Pistons are playing with house money. Nobody even expected them to be there, that's true. So the Knicks damn near have to win. That for sure they have to.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't think, and I hate to say this, but I feel like this would be the series that the Knicks would mess up if there was one. But again, like you said, business playing with house money. Nobody really expected them to be there at six. Again, you got to go out there and take care of business. But I mean the business has been playing really, really, really, really, really, really good. So I mean, with Kay Cunningham finally coming along he averaging 26, like and nine assists, like if Towns play like and nine assists like they balling If Towns, if Towns play like you know what I mean like we know he can play, then it'll be a tough out for the Pistons. But I mean for the, yeah, for the Pistons.
Speaker 2:But I mean sometimes you get too comfortable thinking that you, you know you're going to coach and the Knicks just wear out their players Like they run them too many minutes. They run small rotations like you got to get deeper into your bench. So if they running that seven man rotation that they have been running, I don't know that can come to catch it. It caught up with them last year they had all those injuries. So hopefully they don't, hopefully they go a little deeper into the bench and give some guys some rest. Not your top guys, but you know some of your guys.
Speaker 3:Yeah, y'all lost three out of four to Milwaukee this year, bro. We did, oh shit.
Speaker 2:It's cool, though, but we've been handling them before then we got them. We can handle the Bucs, I hope. What about Nuggets Clippers, man Clippers, kind of? Last month of the season.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm ready for that. I'm definitely tapped into that series, for sure.
Speaker 2:Especially with Kawhi being back my series.
Speaker 2:Injuries for the Clippers Nick Bidon, patty Mills, seth Lundy nobody really significant of any significant time. Nuggets Deron Holmes II like I said, nobody significant. So both rosters seem like they'll be at full strength. Yeah, I'm definitely looking forward to it, especially with the way Clippers have been playing lately. Kawhi coming back at the end of the year, totally like taking that team to another level. Zubac balling I think he's averaging like 16 and 13. Like, yeah, no, definitely going to be a really really good series man, definitely, so looking forward to this. Who do you have in this series man? I guess that's a good question If you had to pick.
Speaker 3:If I had to pick, I'm going to go Denver. Just because you know how I am about talent.
Speaker 2:I think they got Even with the GM Fern, the coach Fern like yeah.
Speaker 3:I don't think that really has certain teams have different like feelings. Like, for example, I don't think that Jokic and Murray's success is like play-driven Based on the coach. Right, Right, you think about Murray he's just a one like play-driven Based on the coach, right, Right, you think about Murray. He's just a one-on-one killer and he's either up or he's down right, like he's, not Like he's. You know he's either going to kill or he's going to have, you know, just a regular game. Like.
Speaker 3:Joker. I mean he's going to do what he do regardless. So those two players don't rely on us. I don't think either one is a system player and when you're dealing with a situation where there's no system involved, I think the coach means a little bit less in those situations. I mean, they got great players, they got wings, they got young guys, they got Joker, which can do everything. I think they'll be fine. I don't think they're going to see a drop off from you know, not having a coach. But you never know. I mean the new coach could have a completely different rotation. That's something that a coach you know not having a coach there and having somebody else run the show could affect. I mean he could play with people's minutes. Anything could happen to kind of shake up the you know the vibe. But I think they'll be all right. Their two best players aren't system players. They'll be fine.
Speaker 2:I think I mean it's still with Russ Gordon Porter. Like they got, they got guys who got a lot of playoff experience.
Speaker 3:And Christian Brown can go out there and get you some buckets. Play some defense, They'll be fine.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I agree with that, Not really. That ain't what I wanted. Yeah, yeah, I'm not really worried about the Nuggets, it's just that I mean, this is a different Clipper team and it's going to be there's going to be a gritty game. It's going to be a gritty series. I'm definitely looking forward to it. Definitely going to be a gritty game. There's going to be a gritty series. I'm definitely looking forward to it Definitely going to be a gritty game. What about Lakers-Timberwolves?
Speaker 3:It could go either way. Man, I just hate the fact that the. West was so good For the Lakers to be a three seed and have to play the Grizzlies first round. It's crazy. You mean Timberwolves? Yeah, you mean Timberwolves, yeah, the Timberwolves first round. Even the Grizzlies too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they play later on tonight they might be a 7-3.
Speaker 3:That's not a first round matchup type of series. Man, that's like a conference finals type of series.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think my only thing is, I think out of the team. Go ahead Go ahead, Go, go go.
Speaker 3:I was going to say, whenever you have a first-round matchup, that the loser underachieved. That's crazy you know what. I'm saying Because if either one of those teams which is going to happen, it's inevitable One of those teams are going to lose, one of those teams is going to have a shitty season based on losing in the first round, no matter how you slice it, and I think that's what makes that series tough Lakers lose terrible season. Timberwolves lose terrible season. One of those teams got to lose.
Speaker 2:And you know what I just think and I was talking to my friend earlier about this the Timberwolves, as far as the West, probably to me the weakest team Like, regardless of who comes in through the play-in, I mean outside of.
Speaker 3:Dallas.
Speaker 2:Just because if you look at the rest of the teams, you're going to need three solid. So just think about just your three solid go-tos. Thunder got three plus. You know what I mean. You look at the Rockets. They're young dudes. Only thing holding them back is I mean biggest advantage for them is they're coaching, but they got a lot of dudes that can go get it. Then you look at the Lakers.
Speaker 3:Who is the?
Speaker 2:Thunder, third person Shoot, you can really. No, you said all the cool guys. I said at the cool guys I said at least like three guys. So I mean the Thunder, you can really, with their roster being so rumbuzzed, you can really put a lot of people in that third spot. You know what I'm saying. As far as you can get it from, shoot dork shows off from time to time, like I mean, because if you look at Shea and I was about to say what's your college Chet, those are your one and two, of course, but their third option, they got a lot of good guys that could be a third option. Any one of them can step up on anything.
Speaker 2:You don't really worry about the Thunder and like where they're going to get scoring from, because they've been doing that. I mean Shea's been doing his thing. But you know, the third option could be any one of them. They just have the talent to. You know somebody's going to step up at that third spot. But when you look at I mean you look at the Rockers, they're just a balanced roster, but to me they play too much isolation but a balanced roster. But when you look at the Lakers, you know they got two but they're three. We just talked about their roster, the Clippers. You know they're three. Harden Kawhi Zubak you already know they're three. You look at the Timberwolves you're like, okay, you know, you got, you know, you got what you call it.
Speaker 3:But outside of that, Jalen, I feel like their third option would be better than but who's this, who's this?
Speaker 2:who's their second option? Uh, julius randall, bro. Right, but I think you have to put julius randall and rudy gay to get. You need both of them to play good to equal a lot of the other teams too. Does that make sense?
Speaker 3:yeah, yeah, I kind of disagree. I feel like his output is the same as J Doves. You think so. I also think that Julius Randle I mean obviously he's been in the league a little bit longer I expect the same output In the playoffs. I expect the same output from both those guys. Well, let's just say like this I don't expect there to be a substantial difference. No, so Julius Randle's going to have to perform at the same, or if not better than J-Dub is, but I think he's capable. I don't think there's a landslide.
Speaker 2:I'm not saying he's not capable, I'm just saying when you just think about solid three, randle has just he hasn't been to me like in the games for them to be. I don't think the Timberwolves should have been a six seed Like I think they could have easily been, even if you want to move them up to four for fifth, like I think they had that type of talent or expectations at the beginning of the season.
Speaker 3:I just think that the West was just so good this year Like I mean that's kind of how I started this statement Like the West is just hooping. Like for a 50-and-30 team to be a six seed is crazy yeah.
Speaker 2:But I mean you let the Rockets creep up and jump in the second, I think something like that you let the Nuggets I mean the Nuggets hung around at 4 even though they were playing bad the Clippers crept up. They was an 8 for a long time. I mean I'm just looking at the Timberwolves, who was constantly in the top 5 or top 10 for most of the year, like hovering around that 3, 4, 5 spot I think if they had played better, if they had more consistency as far as their options because you think about DeCachinzo you ain't heard nothing from him.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean, he was injured a little bit too.
Speaker 2:But yeah, when you come to the playoffs, especially against a Lakers team that now had a week off, you get LeBron rest, you get this team like that's going to be a tough out, Like Anthony Edwards, they just going to have to bring it man. That's I agree.
Speaker 3:They be playing around too much for me, man. I can see the Lakers getting beat, for sure I can see it.
Speaker 2:They just play around too much. I think in a way you can say that with anybody. I mean, yeah, but I mean we know how Luka and LeBron get in the playoffs. So if nothing else, if they follow those two leads, I don't. I mean you see what Luka almost did by himself, Bro.
Speaker 3:I could see the Lakers going out in the first round.
Speaker 2:Oh shoot, we lost him. I thought I heard him stuttering His Wi-Fi probably got to jump back in, but nonetheless, man, what I was trying to say, I just don't see the Timberwolves compared to the other rosters in the West. Ah, there he is. I've seen your Wi-Fi kind of stuttering, but I thought it would come back. No, I'm just saying any team in the West can lose in the first round. Yeah, I can hear you. You're good, might have cut out again, can you hear me? Nah, he frozen again. I don't know what's going on, so he'll be back in once he gets it fixed, but nonetheless, I, just when I'm looking at the rest of the rosters, and even if we're just comparing them to the Lakers, like the Lakers, you know who they three are. You know it is Luca LeBron and Austin Reeves, and their supporting cast is really strong defensively, offensively, they knock down the shots they supposed to knock down. And then, if you just look at what LeBron's been able to do in his playoff career, and then look at Luka Well, luka, just look at what he did last year. He literally wheeled the Mavericks to the, to the finals last year. Granted, they didn't do too well, but I think with Luka and LeBron, and then you know tough Austin Reeves and that supporting cast, I think they'll give any team a run for their money. Now, can they get beat by the Timberwolves? Absolutely, I think.
Speaker 2:In the West anybody can lose. Any of the top seeds can lose the Thunder, whoever come in at the A spot. Whether if that's end up being the Warriors, that's a tough out. If it's the Grizzlies, that's a tough out. Whoever it's going to be a tough out. If it's the Grizzlies, that's a tough out. Whoever it's going to be a tough out. Looking at the play-in you got, if I could bring it up. So in the play-in you got Memphis, golden State and you got Sacramento and Dallas. The only two teams I'm really not worried about is Sacramento and Dallas. Definitely both teams under .500. I wouldn't say underachieved. Dallas had a ton of injuries. Sacramento, with all the shakeups in their roster, not expecting too much for them. But go to State or the Grizzlies, whichever one of them is 7th or 8th, which I'm just predicting. One of them will be 7-8. I can hear you, you good. Can you hear me? Yo, yo, I don't know if you can hear me, you good, bro. Can you hear me, bro, testing, testing. I can hear you.
Speaker 2:Yo, yo, yo, Yo you back okay okay, yeah, um, so now I was just saying that, uh, any of the top top seeds in the west could lose. Uh, I think, um, the golden state, memphis, whoever comes out of that, as the seven seed is going, I I mean that's going to be a tough out, memphis, I just foresee it's either being Memphis or Golden State. Seven and eight. I don't see Sacramento or Dallas really doing too much. Dallas, just too many injuries.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I feel like the loser of tonight's game can certainly beat the winner of. Yeah, that's it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so just kind of forward predicting.
Speaker 3:If the Warriors and the Thunder match up in that first round bro it's not a walk in the park for the Thunder man I'm telling you, that's what I was literally just saying.
Speaker 2:I don't see that being easy. And then I mean memphis, and, uh, houston, that's tough too. And even memphis, even a memphis okc or a houston golden state, like that's just, it's just, it's just it's gonna be tough it's gonna be tough man Looking into the East, I don't know, man, I don't know. I look at the top four, I mean you got Cleveland, boston, new York and the Pacers. Of course I'm a Pacer fan, but not too I mean not too fond of Cleveland.
Speaker 3:I feel like Cleveland. How you feel about Cleveland is how I feel about OKC.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm not too high on Cleveland. I hope they do. Well, I'm a huge Donovan Mitchell fan. I like his game, but I don't see. I don't see the Magic or the Hawks being a threat. Bulls or the Heat I don't see any one of those teams as a threat, even as a play-in it looks like. Let me see right now, orlando is up almost 20 at halftime on Atlanta, so it looks like they may end up being the seventh seed going against Boston. Of course, boston is still probably the most complete team in the East.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's going to be a sweep. Yeah, I don't see a huge challenge there at all. So I mean hopefully the Pacers can get back to the Eastern Conference championship and redeem themselves against Celtics. But outside of that I don't see too many of these other teams being a threat. I mean glad we're playing good basketball at the right time. I mean if we can get past Milwaukee healthy Knicks team, that would be a nice rematch versus just it really being Bronson last year. So that would be a nice rematch if we can get to that. But I don't see the East being crazy. Maybe, like I said, boston. It would probably be Boston Knicks, boston Pacers. If I had to pick right now Eastern Conference, but I mean the West, it could be anybody. I'm not surprised if it's anybody. Only team that would probably surprise me right now is the Rockets if they made it to the Western Conference Finals. Outside of that, Are y'all the four seed.
Speaker 3:We are the four seed, so I mean y'all be playing? Yeah, that's definitely. If I were y'all, I'd definitely rather play the Cavs over the Boston. So yeah, that's, that's legit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I would definitely take that matchup. But do you want to get Boston early or do you want to go through the gauntlet of the playoffs and get them last? You know what?
Speaker 3:I'm saying yeah. I would say, the longer you can hold them off, the better, for sure.
Speaker 2:Run the risk of somebody else possibly getting them or tiring them out.
Speaker 3:Yeah, nah, yeah I don't know.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, nah, yeah, I don't know. Yeah, yeah, you want to go as long as possible.
Speaker 3:Damn Steph Curry walking in with a chain on. I don't think I've ever seen him with no ice on like that. That's crazy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that game about to start. Man Shoot. Last but not least, man. The last thing I had to talk about was the Suns firing their coach man. What do you think about that man?
Speaker 3:Hey, when you perform like that with that roster, yeah, you got to go. I mean, regardless of it being your father or not, I mean that's out of question. Yeah, you got to lose your job off performances like that, because I mean they weren't even five minutes. That's crazy.
Speaker 2:Huh, no, I'm just saying, this is his first season too.
Speaker 3:Yeah, bro, no, with that roster, I feel like I could have coached him a little better. Nah, it's a better record than that. Yeah, it's over. So yeah, yep. Well, yeah, you got to do better.
Speaker 2:13 to NBA history to start eight-1 and miss the playoffs.
Speaker 3:Damn, and you know what's crazy though is man the Suns is going through coaches like it ain't nothing.
Speaker 2:Bro, they fired.
Speaker 3:Monty.
Speaker 2:Right After winning 49 games, earning a sixth seed, like being the number 13. Yeah, with Frank Vogel, number 13 defense team under Frank Vogel. Get rid of him. Third worst defensive team efficiency, defense efficiency this season, including the second worst since the All-Star break. But you don't have defenders, you just have. You got offensive players.
Speaker 3:I mean you supposed to outscore everybody?
Speaker 2:You should be outscoring everybody, like I don't know. I think they just need to get an offensive-minded coach and run. You see what the Pacers do. It's like all right, we're not the best defensive team, so we just run and try to outscore everybody. There's no reason why, with Kevin Durant, bradley Bill and Devin Booker, you shouldn't be. Yeah, for sure Like at least minimum play-in 5-6 seed and it sunk down.
Speaker 2:Just think you let the Mavericks and the Kings beat you out of the play. Yeah, that's nice, that part right there no say to KD bro.
Speaker 3:But man, if you put Booker and Bill on a team with Brian bro, over the Suns had a 10-18 record since the All-Star break.
Speaker 2:They went 12-32 against teams with 500 records this season, compared to 28-25 against such teams the year before.
Speaker 3:Nuts.
Speaker 2:Bradley Beal has two years and $111 million left on his contract.
Speaker 3:He said I ain't no trade clause. He said shit, what y'all trying to do, what y'all trying to do, I ain't going nowhere.
Speaker 2:The Suns went 33-29 when Durant played and 3-17 when he didn't finish, when he didn't this season. So yeah, what was the record when he played? 33-29. That's still not.
Speaker 2:I mean that's not great, but it's 3-17 when he don't play. Yeah, that's crazy bro. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that's crazy bro. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Man, you got to figure that out. Like, this is clearly not a talent roster issue, you just got to somebody. A coach has to come in and figure out how to get those three to play together, Because you can't do anything. Like you said, you can't Kevin Durant. I mean you can move Kevin Durant if he wants to leave. You got, I mean, Booker, you know he's probably, you know, hometown guy. He ain't really going nowhere unless I mean you're just trying to blow it up. But then you got Bradley Beal without his gang of money old, you know what I mean. Like you said, no trade clause.
Speaker 3:So like, but I don't see how you not make that work. I don't know, I have no idea. I mean, granted, they all are scorers, but I mean I thought, with them bringing in Tyrus Jones, that they was going to be straight. I thought that was exactly what they needed. And I was wrong, because I wanted the.
Speaker 3:Lakers to get Tyrus Jones, I felt like they needed a point guard. So when the Suns got him, I was like, okay, they're going to be nice, they're going to have an actual point guard to play Booker at the two, bill at the three, katie at the four you know what I'm saying. And then, like I mean, they had Nerkich, I mean, and then they traded him, I think, and they got.
Speaker 2:No, they still got Nerkich. They do. I'm looking at their roster right now.
Speaker 3:I don't know. Well, that's right he wasn't playing, though they did trade a big. They traded one of these.
Speaker 2:No, they did trade Nurkic. No, you're right. You're right, he's on the Charlotte. They just showing the stats.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they traded him for a dude with the braids Nick Smith Well, it's not Nick. Nick Richards, I think. Yeah, nick Richards yep, so yeah, I thought I mean, what else do you need, bro?
Speaker 2:But you know, oh no, you got KD averaging 26.
Speaker 3:Shout out to KD. But if that was Bron, bro, come on man. If Bron was on the Suns in place of KD, bro, the world would be on fire right now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you got KD averaging 26. Devin averaging 25. Bradley Bill averaging 17. Grayson Allen averaging 10. Tyrus Jones averaging 10. You got two people averaging nine. Nurkic was averaging eight before he left, I don't know. Y'all had. No, I don't know man, like I don't know, I don't know. This is just I don't know man. That's just a tough pill to swallow to have all that talent and not be able to pull it together. Like maybe I think who do you get as a coach now? Like I don't even know who's out there, shit.
Speaker 3:Taylor Jenkins or old boy from the Michael Malone.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, that's the way to play.
Speaker 3:I think you get Jenkins Was that you, was that us having a conversation last week about one of them dudes going to the Spurs?
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was us.
Speaker 3:I'm like, yeah, bro, that's the play.
Speaker 2:I think Malone goes to Spurs and you get Jenkins to the Suns. Oh, that's a good one. I think you get Malone in San Antonio with Wimby. You know what I mean. He don't work with Yogi. And during Fox you get Fox, you win a lottery again too. Yeah, I think that's a good deal. And then you bring in a defensive you know what I mean a coach that's used to coaching. Good defense from Memphis.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that's a done deal, and they're in the Western Conference too, so they're familiar, they familiar with the West. I'm surprised those deals aren't already done. Man, that's exactly who those two teams are going to get. I don't know which one is which, but probably I wouldn't know which one is which, but probably, yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if Taylor Jenkins goes to the Suns, because I think they'll be able to pay him less than they had to pay Michael Malone, and with the Suns still having to pay homeboy, yeah, I think they're going to definitely go with the cheaper of the two, and I think Michael Malone walks right in the. But also, like I said, though, um, taylor jenkins does have. Taylor jenkins does have ties to budenhoser, which has ties to san antonio. So, but yeah, those two coaches fill those spots, guaranteed, guaranteed and then we haven't heard of anybody getting fired yet.
Speaker 3:So nick nurse, I guess he's safe because they haven't announced anything yet. Um yeah, those two coaches fill those two.
Speaker 2:I'd bet any amount of money on it no, I'm with you on that, I'm with you on that, man, um, I guess man, final thoughts, man oh man, my reds is streaking.
Speaker 3:Man, I think we like up to like five out of the last six, should have been six out of the last six, should have been six out of six. But we blew a 6-1 lead in San Francisco before we came back to the crib. So, yeah, that's that. But hey, things is turning up. We were winning last year.
Speaker 2:I was about to say it's early in the season. I try not to get too pressed this early in the season.
Speaker 3:You know me. I'm pressed out the gate every single time.
Speaker 2:Right now we're 8-10, and right now we're up 7-2 on Tampa Bay.
Speaker 3:Okay, we're up 6-4 on Seattle. If we get this dub, we'll be over 500, and then we're looking good yeah, we'd be one game under 500. Damn.
Speaker 2:Kevin Lux is 4-4.
Speaker 3:This nigga's hooping. Yeah, we, we got to get those batting averages up though, man TJ Freed is 28. Ellie is 227. Man, y'all got to get.
Speaker 2:Man Percentages up what Denver's our designated hitter 225. That's crazy Huge DH man. Get out of here, bro yeah.
Speaker 3:Candelario's batting 127 Incarnacion, incarnacion, incarnacion. Damn, how do you pronounce that I've been saying? That name forever. Incarnacion Strand. He's batting 154. Jake Fraley can only hit. He can only hit right handers. He's batting 184. We gotta get that up I know it's still early though.
Speaker 2:Our first baseman, tristan Casas 175. Bro, as a first baseman, that's supposed to be your second best hitter.
Speaker 3:These batting averages. It's crazy. Like I said, it is early, but sheesh.
Speaker 2:Nah bro.
Speaker 3:These niggas stink.
Speaker 2:Nah, man, Horrible. I'm looking at ours. I mean, granted, we got three people in the line that have been batting over 300, but they ain't the people that should be batting. That's the middle of our order. The top of our order is everybody's under shit. Our order. The top of our order is everybody's under 250.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so yeah and the bottom of our order is the same. We have our sweet spot is in the middle of our order right now A Bray, hugh Bregman, story Campbell. But everybody else can't nobody hitting that. So, like I said, we win this game. That put us at nine and ten. We got to keep climbing Because the Yankees ain't going to slow down for nobody, nobody. And they up right now on the Royals four to two. So, yeah, yeah, man. So baseball season's in full swing. Let me know if you want to hit a Reds game. So, yeah, yeah man.
Speaker 3:So yeah, baseball season's in full swing.
Speaker 1:Let me know if you want to hit a Reds game.
Speaker 3:Hey, do y'all come this year. I know we play every team, but obviously it's a back and forth.
Speaker 2:We can definitely check that. We can definitely do that.
Speaker 3:I mean we can go anytime, but if the Red Sox come, I mean that would be tight to go.
Speaker 2:That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. If we can get that game, figure out where it is and just plan around, we can play in Boston this year.
Speaker 3:It's not at the career, wait a minute.
Speaker 2:Y'all don't play twice.
Speaker 3:Nah, nah, nah, nah nah. You remember? They switched it to where you play every team once, so like some of them pay every team once. You only get you know what I'm saying, right right, right, right Every other year. So like we play the Yankees here this year because we were there in 4th of July weekend last year, or 4th of July week last year, so it switches off, so you'll have a chance to see everybody, like every other year type.
Speaker 2:Okay, I already missed the White Sox series and that one at Chicago. I'm trying to think where else is close. Oh, cleveland, I'm watching Play the Guardians.
Speaker 3:That drive is crazy, bro, I know.
Speaker 2:It seems like it's so close.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I don't know if I. It seemed like it's so close. Yeah, I don't know if I'll ever do that, because, shit, motherfucking, damn, what am I going to say? My fucking Columbus seemed like it's taking forever. Now, bro, I'm like man, I'm good, click on the beat man. It's crazy.
Speaker 2:That's a long-ass drive and then it's like for such a shitty city like it's a long-ass drive and then it's like for such a shitty city. It's a shitty city bro. Yeah, ain't nobody. Yeah, I ain't got nothing close.
Speaker 3:I thought about them. They're flying next time. I had to go to Cleveland Because that drive is just not. It ain't hitting on nothing.
Speaker 2:Wait, do we don't get the Cubs?
Speaker 3:Well you know y'all AL. Well you know y'all play them, but it's probably going to be either in Boston or in Chicago, but everybody plays everybody, which I think is tight.
Speaker 2:They only showing it up to the first half. Let me see the second half. Okay, yeah, okay, so shoot, I can probably go to the Cubs. Then second half Okay, yeah, okay, so shoot, I could probably go to the Cubs. Then we get them in July, in the middle of July, july 18th, 19th and 20th. Yeah, so I might have to look into that. I mean, I do want to go to Boston at some point, but yeah, that's on my bucket list, kind of sort of because.
Speaker 2:This whole house thing I got, gotta get all that.
Speaker 3:Such a historic place.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, as I was saying, ain't nothing else. Nothing else is close. So but yeah, nah, man, res game. I mean shoot, I'm down. You know what I mean. As long as I know ahead of time, we can definitely bust a move.
Speaker 3:For sure, alright, man. Well, as long as I know ahead of time, then sure we can definitely bust a move For sure.
Speaker 2:That's easy money. All right, man, well shoot. This has been the Epic Podcast man. We will see y'all next week. Yes, sir.