Aug. 2, 2025

Aug 3rd- Tom Brady, Ryan Lochte, Nate McMillan, Marcel Dionne, Rod Beck, Lance Alworth, Co-Host Tyler Polk

Aug 3rd- Tom Brady, Ryan Lochte, Nate McMillan, Marcel Dionne, Rod Beck, Lance Alworth, Co-Host Tyler Polk
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My Co-Host today is Tyler Polk. Sports announcer and play by play stud out of Pittsburgh. Check Tyler out at https://www.tylerjhpolk.com/ Definatly listen to him call some MMA fights at 247 Fighting Championships https://www.247fighting.com/
We talked about an umpire starting a riot by spitting in the face of a future Hall Of Fame second baseman, the Olympics, Diana Taurasi the WNBA all time leading scorer and a lot more. Todays sports birthdays - Harry Heilmann, Lance Alworth, Todd Christensen, Nate McMillan, Marcel Dionne, Rod Beck, Trevor Price, Tom Brady, Ryan Lochte,

Come listen for a fun time

Intro - 1975 - Suzy Kory https://suzikory.com/
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Well, hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to Sports

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History Today. We're going to talk about everything that happened

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in the world of sports today on August third. Now

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I have a really cool co host today is an

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up and coming star broadcaster Tyler. Why don't you produce yourself?

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Hello everyone, I'm Type Polk.

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I'm from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and uh yeah, I'm a local

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broadcaster around the region as well broadcasting WPIL high school

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sports Division three and two and just recently breaking into

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Division one college sports and also a broadcaster of a

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regional MMA promotion two for seven fighting Championships. And I'll

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shout it out with this August ninth on pay per view.

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They had their first ever show in their new personally

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owned venue on August ninth, and it's been a long

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time coming for that.

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That sounds absolutely awesome. So do you remember have you

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always been in sports? What got into it? Just as

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being a kid.

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Yeah, I was always a sports kid around town for reasons.

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That's more on my end.

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I didn't really play any sports out past age six,

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with soccer here here in America, but for the most part,

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my first memory was picking up the post Gazette and

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seeing Allen iverson the Philadelphia seventy six ers on the

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sports page. You just had another great game in the

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NBA Finals in two thousand and one, and that's really

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one of the first memories of sports that I have

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in my life.

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Well, let's good. We probably broke your heart then when

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they traded him here to Denver. Huh nah.

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I mean, I'm still a little bit of a generalist

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when it comes to it. Being with Pittsburgh, I guess

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I've kind of transitioned into a Lebron fan or Brudos

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who are.

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More terminally online, a Heat fan.

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But it's always it's always fun to catch up with basketball.

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It's been a sport that I've covered the most as

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a broadcaster.

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Yeah, the Pittsburgh area, man, that's an awesome sports area

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for just about every sport you can think of.

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Yes, so so many great championship moments.

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Of course, you have the two time back to back.

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Stanley Cup champions in ninety one ninety two, and then

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of course sixteen seventeen with nine right in the middle

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of the Penguins. The Steelers always a perennial team that's

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successful in its own right. And then of course you

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got the Pirates, which they're currently down, but they have

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one of the best pictures in the game in Paul Skins.

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And what you don't really know about Pittsburgh that at

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one point it was the first ABA champions, the Pittsburgh Pipers.

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They were the first ever ABA champions. So there's a

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little bit of basketball professional basketball history with Pittsburgh, but

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it's been long dormant.

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Yeah, between the Steelers and the Penguins. Though, you guys

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have been pretty dominant.

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Out there, very very dominated.

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Well, I guess you had. The Pirates are pretty dominant

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in the seventies and eighties too.

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Though, yes.

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And also congratulations and rest in peace to Dave Parker

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to Cobra. He just got named to the Baseball Hall

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of Fame today.

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He was inducted.

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Oh well, that was long overdue.

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Yeah, very long, very long overdue.

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There's a lot of controversy with that, and it's a

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shame that he couldn't get to do his own speech.

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Right, he got his family. It was beautiful. I just

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seen it about an hour ago or so.

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Oh cool, God bless Dave. All right, let's see what

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happened in history on August third, eighteen fifty two, the

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first intercollegiate sporting event went down. It was on Lake

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Winnipesauke up there in New Hampshire, Yale. They competed in

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a two mile rowing race. Harvard won by two boat links.

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Nineteen oh six, Washington Nationals pitcher Tom Hughes. He had

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a home run in the tenth inning that broke the

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tie between the Saint Louis Browns. They won one nothing.

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Tom he's the only Major league pitcher in baseball history

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to hit an extra inning over home run. Yeah and

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win win nothing. So that's how you get and gave

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the game ball to if he did in hitting and pitching.

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Nineteen o nine umpire Tom Hurst. He started a riot.

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See he's spat in the face Philadelphia's second basement. Eddie Collins.

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Now Eddie, he was arguing one of his calls.

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Hurst.

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He ended up getting banned for baseball from life. Eddie. Yeah,

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he's in the Hall of Fame. Nineteen fourteen New York

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Yankees catcher Less Nanamaker. He threw out three Detroit Tigers

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for trying to steal base second base in the first inning. Now,

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this is pretty interesting air tie. Now we looked it

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up that's the only time any catcher has ever thrown

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out free batters trying to steal in the same inning.

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Twice pitchers have picked off three base runners in an inning.

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Though, Yeah, that has that has to be a really

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fantastic stat And I think there's I think there's always

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a common trend that if paketcher gets too caught stealings,

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I think you should stop running on that guy. So

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whoever whoever was running the third base side over there

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really liked the test is luck that day.

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Exactly. In nineteen thirty Philadelphia Philes his Chuck kline. Now

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he had Hitten safely in his twenty sixth straight game.

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What came the end and the next end of the

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doubleheader twice that season, though Chucky had two twenty games

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six game hitting streaks, The longest before that has been

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two twenty games.

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You Olympic fan, Yeah, yeah, of course.

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The Olympics really excited about the upcoming Los Angeles Olympics.

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In the nineteen thirty two Los Angeles Olympics, it was

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the first time ever that they used automatic timing and

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photo finished cameras in track and field. That technology was

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actually developed in horse racing. Now in the nineteen thirty

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six Olympics in Germany. Now in front of Adon Hitler

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American spinner Jesse Ewens. He won the gold medal one

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hundred meter dash. Of course, Jesse went on to win

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four in that Olympics. They don't talked about it, but

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Hitler when he would look that morning if Owens was racing,

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he would not go to the stadium this. Oh wow,

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have you ever heard anything like this?

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Now?

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This is the only time it happened in baseball was

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in nineteen sixty Troy Tigers they traded their manager Jimmy

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Diyke's to the Cleveland Idiots for their manager Joe Gordon. Yeah,

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there's been a couple.

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Yeah, one one thing.

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One thing about that, though, I think it would be

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interesting to look up in history how many times a

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coach or manager ever got traded. I know it's a

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little bit more common in the NBA. I remember Doc

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Rivers that's being traded away. But yeah, there's a rumor

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always around town that you know, the Steelers or the

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NFL is looking into someone to trade Mike Tomlin and

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it's always talked about, but it never really happens. Wonder

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if that would be one of the first times in

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NFL history.

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The only one that comes to mind, and I'm not

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even positive it was, but when Gruden traded from Tampa

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Bay to h Yes, yes, I.

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Forgot about that.

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Ironically, he's ironically that super Bowl championship team Mike Tomlin

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was a defensive backs coach.

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May that's kind of interesting, isn't it, oh Man, No,

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because I think of that one. I know, Doc, I

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mean that that was pretty kind of surprising when they

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got he goes traded, But I think Gruden has probably

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been a bigger surprise. The probably the biggest one.

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I think it was that it was after I think

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the Tuck Roll game for for for Gruden, but it.

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Was a lot of there was a lot that went

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on to it.

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I even remember as young as I was that there

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was a lot of I guess feelings in Oakland that,

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you know, the time it passed for the team. So

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so that's why they elected a trade event. And the

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ironic thing is he goes to face the Raiders in

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the in the direct next Super Bowl and beats him soundly.

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Yeah, that's got to be a little salt in your

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wounds there. But being in Denver, anything that they the

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Raiders suck. That's good in the for us out of here.

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Hey, my dream's one day to work in in Las

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Vegas with one of the teams out there, probably UNLV

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like one of my mentors actually is the all time

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leading steals all time leader for steals in UNLD women's basketball,

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doctor Karen Hall.

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Okay, that'd be cool. Yeah, Vegas would be a good

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home base anyway.

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Too hot though, but it's hot here.

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Yeah, I guess if we did that's so bad in

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the f No, it's hot in the round there, right,

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it's gonna be odd.

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Yeah.

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Nineteen sixty nine, in the fifth inning that Cincinnatti Reds,

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they got twenty five hits and ten runs. They still

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only beat the Phillies nineteen to seventeen.

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Like golf, yeah, I play it not very well.

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In nineteen seventy nine, Sam Snead he was sixty seven years,

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two months and seven days old. He is still the

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oldest man ever to make a cut in a major tournament. Yeah,

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he made it in the PGA, So I guess there's

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help for us yet. Still, huh.

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I don't think I have a chance in there. I

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mean I have to. I have to number one, get

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the drive out of the tea box first.

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Yeah, and that's kind of embarrassing when you hit one

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and didn't get past the ladies teas.

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No, it's a hit. It's a hit or miss. Sorry

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about that.

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Of course, we have a very loud entrance schime. But yeah,

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for the most part with it, it's either I drive

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it a ton and it goes totally right, I hit

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a ground to a short or it actually goes in a

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fairly good distance straight. So it's always a it's always

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a hit or miss.

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That's true. You pretty much summed up the mic off

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game too. Let's go back to the nineteen eighty four

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Olympics in Los Angeles. It was when Mary lou Retten

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became the Darling of America. She hit a ten on

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her final vault of the competition. She won that gold

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all amount redtle. Now she was the first American woman

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to ever actually win any kind of medal in the

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Olympics period. Wow, in nineteen eighty oh, I know.

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And and she had a and she had a sprained ankle.

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Now that this is before your time, that was this

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was an eighty four you're thinking of Kerry Strugs, But

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pretty much almost identical situation. Wow, yeah, because that little girl,

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man they're carrying around walking it you, I don't know

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how you could do a vault with the sprain ankle,

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though that seems impossible.

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I've done.

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I've done a few people who've done gymnastics, you know,

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going to high school, a few girls and stuff like that.

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They're tough.

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They're they're tougher than you think because, I mean, you

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have to deal with number one, the judges, and and

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that pre judging is just so crazy.

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But exactly, yeah, when.

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How they're able to pull it off with it? I

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mean they go through all types of screens. They might

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get the flips, they might have some mysteries there, but

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more often not, you don't really you don't really ever

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see them really in too much trouble out there, right.

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And those girls are really tough. Don't get me wrong.

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I've never had a little girl, but I think gymnastics

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would be the hardest to watch my little girl. And

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I don't know, I just think I think that would

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be the most uncomfortable I could possibly be watching them

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up there on that balance me.

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Yeah, I think a lot of that, A lot of

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that stuff.

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I mean, if you're if you're sitting there watching, especially

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with a vested interest in being a parent or a

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close friend, You're just sitting there and every time that

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they let go of the balance beam or you know, they.

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Do a flip, you're like, are they gonna land that? Okay,

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we're good.

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And not only that, not only performs, but you just

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know they have to be as nervous as hell every

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single time before they do whatever they do.

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I mean, this is I mean, there's world championships, and

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more often than not the NCAA, especially with college gymnastics,

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you see them. You see them more than you ever

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do in the four year stretch in between. But man,

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whenever the pressure is on like that, the whole world's watching.

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I mean, it takes a lot to not shrink like

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a valulate.

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That's what makes sports great though, too, I mean because

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people basically overcoming everything in order to be their best.

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I can't imagine. I can't imagine being a part of

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a sport in which, in between four years, you're you're

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near anonymous, and then out of nowhere, here comes the

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biggest event in your life, the biggest event in the world,

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and suddenly every single eye in the world is watching it.

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you do it. Gee, that's the way. He even makes

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it even more.

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I think these days the only thing that makes me

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more nervous is whatever I'm the one providing the captions

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to some of those moments.

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Oh sure, yeah, because that's a lot of people are going,

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what is he talking about. That's a lot of pressure

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because people are going to remember that, you know, like

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not only the captions, but like some of those calls

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and stuff. You know, when they they've played him from

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fifty years ago and everybody still remembers the call that

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was made when that play.

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Oh yeah. I think the most important war was do

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you believe in miracles? Oh?

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Yeah, that's I mean, that's usually Yeah, that's got to

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be the biggest one is sports period history, I think

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easily in the nineteen eighty seven, let's go back and

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do some baseball. I'm an empire. He was doing the

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Minnesota Twins versus the who was it the Los Angeles

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Angels game? Well, the dumbire He kept noticing that, you know,

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the pitcher Phil nekro He was acting really funny up there.

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He was like, what's this guy doing?

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He kind of noticed his pitches seemed a little weird.

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So finally the umpire walked out there and he just

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went up and he said, hey, Joe, you know what's

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the deal. Joe said, I don't know nothing. What's going

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on with you? He said, what do you got there?

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And Joe's nothing. He had a file and he was

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filing the balls down for throwing basically kind of a

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spitball out there. So he got busted and he got

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suspended from that game, and then he had suspended for

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ten more games. Joe, he uh, actually not Joe, but

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the Twins. They actually beat the Angels eleven to three

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that game. They let all those runs count. I guess, well,

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you were around in some history by two thousand and four,

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weren't you.

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Yeah?

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Of course, Cardinals legend Albert Poolhols became only the only

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player in MLB history it's hit at least thirty home

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runs in his first four seasons, at least thirty home runs.

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And you know, being being a.

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Pirates fan, and actually during that season, I got a

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chance to seapool holes in person. I don't I don't

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often go to Pirates games, believe it or not, but

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man to see how he did his business, especially in

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his prime, was one of the more fantastic experiences you'll

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ever see.

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Oh, I believe that. And because I was like, that

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can't be true, so I looked it up. I thought,

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what about Aaron Judden. You know, he's got to be

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up there now. He hit like fifty something his rookie year.

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Then he didn't get He didn't even get thirty for

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like four more years.

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Which which now that you think you look up, you

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look up and see all those highlights, you would have

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thought that thirty home runs is a given right.

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Not even Alonzo is close.

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Huh wow, no boo.

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I guess.

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I guess consistency really really does matter in the in

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the sport.

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That's why he's so great.

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M got all the tools. You like WNBA basketball.

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Of course, I think everybody in the world's watching WNBA

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basketball these days. Phoenix Mercury Diana to became the first

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WNBA player to score ten thousand points, and to this

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day she is still the only one scoring ten thousand,

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six and forty six points. Right behind her as Tina

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Charles at eight thousand and sixty four. And it's say

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to assume with the rapid expansion the WNBA, and of

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course one Caitlin Clark. But also there's a lot of

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other great scorers in that league. If you take a

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look at it, I don't think she's going to be

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the only player to score ten thousand points for long.

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I agree with you.

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I'm also to give you a to give you the

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idea of where in Pittsburgh I'm from. I'm about ten

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twelve minutes from the home of Swing Cash. Yes, Swing

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Cash went to McKeesport High School. Of course at the court,

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the very court that she played, they renamed its Swing

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Cash Court.

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That's pretty good.

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The chance to.

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Broadcast a few games up in McKeesport. It's a great

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venue and it's a great it's a great high school.

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Well, that'd be fun. I mean, getting it getting named already,

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that's pretty impressive.

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Yeah, I mean there's there's really no there's really no

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one comparing her. I mean there's a lot of great

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players that played high school basketball in the Pittsburgh area.

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It gets again, it gets lost as a basketball town.

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But when you take when you really take a look

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at it, I mean she's one of the top scorers

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in wp IO history, boys or girls.

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Ever. Yeah, that's how great she was, that's for sure.

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That's a lot of talent.

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In Paris Olympic twenty twenty one, American swimmer Katie Ladecci,

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competing in her third Olympics, when her nine gold medal,

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which tied her with a Russian gymnast for the most

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Olympic gold medals won by a female athlete. She's won

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fourteen Olympic medals total. Yeah, we talk swimming is one

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one big thing here. Of course in the United States

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you got Phelps, and I think Ladecki gonna get up

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there even more. I mean this is twenty twenty one.

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Now we're going into twenty twenty eight. She's still going strong.

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Yeah. Amazing. The swimmers though, they I mean they'd go

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like three or four Olympics and you look at their

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first Olympics and their little kids almost you know, sixty

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and eighteen, they don't have any muscles. Then about the

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third Olympics, man, they look like you can tell now

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they're actual women and.

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Men, Yeah, you can, you can.

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Actually, I think back to the Athens Olympic with Michael Phelps.

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I mean who would have gone on, who would have

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gone on to think that he would garner the most

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medals by an Olympian period, and I think he only

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won a silver in that Olympics if I were called correctly.

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Probably about right.

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Yeah, of course.

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Also in that same Olympics, we were mentioning gymnastics, and

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here's the greatest Gypnists ever in Simone Biles won the vault,

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giving her three golds in Paris seven total goals over

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three Olympics. She's also won two silver or bronze, silver

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and bronze medals, making her one of the winning its

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gymnast in American history, male or female. Simon Biles, when

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you I mentioned the flips earlier, if you remember, I

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want to say the Olympics.

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It was the Olympics in Japan.

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She had the bile out right afterwards and get her

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mind right for the next Olympics. And again it proved

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that it's it's a mental game more than anything else.

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You have all the physical ability in the world, but

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if you're not mentally in it, it can it can

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sting even the greatest athletes ever.

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Oh, I agree with you on p that's didn't So

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if you're going to watch something you know you know,

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I know you said you've done a lot of basketball

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covering it. But if you just want to watch something,

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what do you do? What are you going to flip on?

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I've covered every sport. Basketball is the one main one.

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But I grew up a hockey fan here here in Pittsburgh.

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That's that's kind of like the biggest, the biggest sport

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around here in terms of success in the last twenty years.

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Right with however, with Sidney Crosby of.

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Guinea, Malkin and Lettang joining up earlier flurries of the

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World and stuff like that, there was especially in that

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nine season, there was just a there was just a

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joy right any time the Penguin scored. I remember for

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that year, you couldn't take the smile off my face.

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I was smiling like a Butcher's dog every time. It

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was amazing just seeing that team go go to business.

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And it wasn't as good as the eight team which

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made it to the Cup final a year before, but

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you just had that feeling, that belief, that belief in

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hockey that anything happened, and it was Pittsburgh's time and

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I'm glad to see that I got. I got the

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chance to see more great moments, including two more after that.

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It wasn't even really my favorite Penguins team of all time.

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Now this is gonna sound there's nothing wrong with it,

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but it just doesn't sound right to me, you know,

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for the NHL of Stanley, it just doesn't sound right

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to have the champions in Florida all the time. It's

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gonna be up north.

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To be honest, when you when you really think about it,

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it's going back to Florida starting in in the Cup.

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In the Cup finals back in nineteen ninety six, you

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kind of had a feeling. You kind of had a

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feeling that if Florida got everything going they were they

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were gonna go well. And the crazy thing about this is, Jeff,

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if it wasn't for the Pittsburgh Penguins missing the playoffs

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in twenty twenty three, there's an all likelihood no Florida dynasty.

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The Penguins just missed the playoffs in twenty twenty three.

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They missed it by one game for two straight years,

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and they they kind of spread it out a little

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bit more this year. But if that doesn't happen Florida,

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if they win that final game of the season against Chicago,

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Florida's eliminated Pittsburgh's in in the Stanley Cup playoffs and

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who knows what happens from there. Maybe it's another golden

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age for the Penguins. Maybe someone else comes up through.

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Maybe Corey Perry finally wins the Stanley Cup again.

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Who knows.

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So we can blame Florida all on Pittsburgh.

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In away, Yes, I don't know about Tampa Bay. But but.

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I mean the Penguins denied them a few times, but

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they died them a few times the next year after

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they they made a Cup final in fifteen, So it's

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it evens out.

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It evens out a little bit.

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Right, Well, at least the Avalanche kept up from three

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peaton That was nice that year.

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They Yeah, the Avalanche.

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That's That's always a rumor with Crosby, is he gonna

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go join his fellow Nova Scotia and Nathan McKinnon. I

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know there's some Penguins fans that want the opportunity for

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him to win a under Stanley Cup. I personally wouldn't

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mind it for him to win it in Colorado with McKinnon,

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but hey, just state of course Washington rebuilt, why not Pittsburgh?

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And who knows that they get that?

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Uh?

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Gavin McKenna, guy from Penn State. Could be that could

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be possible.

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Yeah, Yeah, we'll take it. When we took ray Borg

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from Boston to win and Standley Cup, so we'll think.

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We'll think Cosby.

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I don't know about that one.

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Chief, all right, let's see. He was born on August

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the third, Harry Hellman. They just called him slug. He

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was a Sanford He was born in San Francisco in

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eighteen ninety four. He's in the Hall of Fame now.

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He played right field in first base. Played in the

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majors for nineteen years nineteen fourteen to thirty two. Seventeen

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years were with the Detroit Tigers. Two years with the

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reds Now He had a career three forty two batting

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average that ties him eighth of all time for highest

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career batting averages. Surprises me, he's died with Babe Ruth.

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I didn't know Ruf was a regular hitter. Now, Harry.

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He is the only one of six players in all

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of baseball history to hit over four hundred for a season.

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Yeah in four oh three hit in nineteen twenty three.

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After retired, he did play by play on the radio

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for the Tigers from nineteen thirty four and nineteen fifty.

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Now he died from un cancer nineteen fifty one, on

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fifty six years old. All of fade wide receiver Lance Alworth.

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He's eighty five. He was born in Houston, Texas in

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nineteen forty. At the University of Arkansas, he was a

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three time academic All American. He led the nation of

481
00:23:11.319 --> 00:23:14.160
punt returns twice. He was consensus All American as receiver

482
00:23:14.200 --> 00:23:16.680
a senior year, got drafted in the first round by

483
00:23:16.680 --> 00:23:19.200
the San Francisco forty nine ers in the NFL, decided

484
00:23:19.200 --> 00:23:20.680
to go to the AFL. Yeah, when played for the

485
00:23:20.680 --> 00:23:23.079
San Diego Chargers. He was a Charger from nineteen sixty

486
00:23:23.160 --> 00:23:26.440
to nineteen seventy six. Time All Star led the AFL

487
00:23:26.480 --> 00:23:29.400
in yards after catch, catches and touchdowns three times. He

488
00:23:29.440 --> 00:23:31.039
played his last two years in Dallas. But that was

489
00:23:31.039 --> 00:23:33.119
pretty much kind of just to win himself. Get a

490
00:23:33.160 --> 00:23:35.759
Super bowling. Now he's a member of the NFL All

491
00:23:35.759 --> 00:23:37.559
one hundred and that team that they had with with

492
00:23:37.599 --> 00:23:40.160
the one hundred US. Now get this Lance. After baseball,

493
00:23:40.279 --> 00:23:42.240
he formed you know those mini storage companies where you

494
00:23:42.279 --> 00:23:44.240
can go rent the little sheds and all that kind

495
00:23:44.240 --> 00:23:46.839
of stuff. He formed one of those in California. Sold

496
00:23:46.839 --> 00:23:49.559
it in twenty thirteen. Oh no way, yeah, sold it

497
00:23:49.559 --> 00:23:51.839
in twenty thirteen for one hundred and ninety six million bucks.

498
00:23:52.319 --> 00:23:54.039
That's a smart move, very smart.

499
00:23:54.119 --> 00:23:54.279
Root.

500
00:23:54.519 --> 00:23:57.000
Do you know how many of those little mini sheds

501
00:23:57.039 --> 00:24:02.519
you could see all around, all around Neighborhoodssburg. They're surprisingly popular,

502
00:24:02.599 --> 00:24:06.079
especially in a town that gets about as hilly as

503
00:24:06.079 --> 00:24:08.079
it gets in some places.

504
00:24:08.200 --> 00:24:10.279
Really yeah, it's yeah, it's weird.

505
00:24:10.319 --> 00:24:14.400
And you'll find them on like on like Steve Streets

506
00:24:14.400 --> 00:24:16.519
and I'm like, how is this thing not moving and

507
00:24:16.559 --> 00:24:17.720
crushing the cars?

508
00:24:18.400 --> 00:24:21.400
Those people say? And this guy he came up at

509
00:24:21.400 --> 00:24:23.759
like thirty years before those guys, that was really seeing.

510
00:24:23.880 --> 00:24:24.279
Yeah.

511
00:24:24.480 --> 00:24:27.640
Back to hockey. Canadian Hall of Famer Marcel Dion is

512
00:24:27.640 --> 00:24:30.359
before your time. He's seventy four. He is born in Drummondville,

513
00:24:30.440 --> 00:24:33.279
Quebec in nineteen fifty one. Now. He was drafted number

514
00:24:33.319 --> 00:24:36.039
two overall in nineteen seventy one and then ahl draft.

515
00:24:36.200 --> 00:24:38.240
He played from seventy one to eighty nine, but for

516
00:24:38.319 --> 00:24:40.400
the Red Wings, the Kings and the Rangers. Most of

517
00:24:40.400 --> 00:24:42.519
his career was with the La Kings, though he was

518
00:24:42.519 --> 00:24:44.720
a ten time All Star, ended up with one thousand

519
00:24:44.759 --> 00:24:46.920
and seven and seventy one points. That's sixth all time.

520
00:24:47.240 --> 00:24:48.640
In two thousand and four, they even put him on

521
00:24:48.640 --> 00:24:50.960
a postage stands up there in Canada. Now, I don't

522
00:24:51.000 --> 00:24:53.279
know who does the rankings. When they put the rankings out,

523
00:24:53.279 --> 00:24:56.240
he's raised in the thirty eighth greatest hockey player in

524
00:24:56.279 --> 00:24:58.559
all time. Now he's the highest ranked player to never

525
00:24:58.599 --> 00:25:01.279
win a Stanley Cup. He is married since nineteen seventy

526
00:25:01.319 --> 00:25:03.680
four and they have two sons and one daughter. Good,

527
00:25:03.759 --> 00:25:06.200
we've got a Pennsylvania got close to you coming up.

528
00:25:06.400 --> 00:25:08.920
Well, well about two and a half hours out there.

529
00:25:08.960 --> 00:25:13.759
But Todd Christensen born in Belfont, Pennsylvania. We mentioned before

530
00:25:13.799 --> 00:25:17.000
the show that that's almost in the middle midpoint of it, just.

531
00:25:17.000 --> 00:25:19.000
Past State College in and around that area.

532
00:25:19.519 --> 00:25:21.960
Grew up in Oregon, though, was a member of the

533
00:25:22.079 --> 00:25:24.480
Church of the Latter Day Saints and went and played

534
00:25:24.480 --> 00:25:28.880
his ball at BYU. He played fullback and was drafted

535
00:25:28.920 --> 00:25:32.160
by the Dallas Cowboys in the second round in nineteen

536
00:25:32.200 --> 00:25:32.799
seventy eight.

537
00:25:33.240 --> 00:25:34.319
Todd Brooke is put in the.

538
00:25:34.279 --> 00:25:37.720
Preseason and spent the entire season on injured reserve. The

539
00:25:37.759 --> 00:25:40.160
Cowboys decided to cut him and he went to the

540
00:25:40.200 --> 00:25:43.519
Oakland Raiders off of waivers. He was there long stapper

541
00:25:43.599 --> 00:25:45.200
for a couple of years, then they moved on the

542
00:25:45.200 --> 00:25:48.440
tight end. Went on to win two Super Bowls, three

543
00:25:48.519 --> 00:25:51.759
time first team All Pro, two times a second team

544
00:25:51.799 --> 00:25:55.240
All Pro, and he twice led the NFL in receptions.

545
00:25:55.480 --> 00:25:58.319
He would go on to retire and go into football

546
00:25:58.400 --> 00:26:01.519
commentary in nineteen eighty eight. He did both pro and

547
00:26:01.640 --> 00:26:06.200
college games. Christiansen, however, passed away at fifty seven years

548
00:26:06.200 --> 00:26:10.240
old in twenty thirteen during a liver transplant surgery.

549
00:26:10.359 --> 00:26:12.000
You probably never saw him in call games.

550
00:26:12.960 --> 00:26:15.880
No, I'm trying to remember that I did. I end

551
00:26:15.960 --> 00:26:20.319
up seeing the game that he broadcast. It's weird, you know.

552
00:26:20.440 --> 00:26:23.200
You You always think about the play bit by play guys,

553
00:26:23.240 --> 00:26:30.359
but seldom the color guys outside some very special special circumstances.

554
00:26:30.799 --> 00:26:34.079
Usually it's the top TV guys or maybe your local

555
00:26:34.160 --> 00:26:37.359
radio guys you tend to remember, or or an All

556
00:26:37.400 --> 00:26:40.160
Star player or a Hall of Fame or even trying

557
00:26:40.640 --> 00:26:42.359
can'mberly go through my mind.

558
00:26:42.359 --> 00:26:44.960
I'm gonna have to look that one up see see

559
00:26:44.960 --> 00:26:45.839
where he commentated.

560
00:26:45.920 --> 00:26:49.880
But moving on to basketball, Nate McMillan the current assistant

561
00:26:49.880 --> 00:26:53.519
coach for the Los Angeles Lakers turned sixty one today.

562
00:26:53.559 --> 00:26:56.559
Born in Raley, North Carolina, in nineteen sixty four, he

563
00:26:56.559 --> 00:27:00.880
played his college ball at nearby North Carolina State under

564
00:27:00.920 --> 00:27:03.759
Jim balbomno It was drafted in the second round thirty

565
00:27:04.000 --> 00:27:07.799
overall by the Seattle SuperSonics, played all twelve seasons with them,

566
00:27:08.240 --> 00:27:12.039
including that nineteen ninety six NBA Finals. He led the

567
00:27:12.079 --> 00:27:14.279
league in steals at nineteen ninety four and was a

568
00:27:14.279 --> 00:27:19.319
two time All NBA Defensive second Team Retired and winning

569
00:27:19.359 --> 00:27:23.759
the coaching. He's won two Olympic gold medals in two

570
00:27:23.839 --> 00:27:27.240
thousand and eight and twenty twelve under Mike Krzyzewski coach

571
00:27:27.319 --> 00:27:31.480
K McMillan went on the coaches coached those very Seattle

572
00:27:31.559 --> 00:27:35.400
SuperSonics for five years, then went down to Portland for

573
00:27:35.480 --> 00:27:40.119
seven years, Indiana for four years, in Atlanta in three years.

574
00:27:40.319 --> 00:27:42.880
He was fired in twenty twenty three, and he is

575
00:27:42.960 --> 00:27:48.079
now currently Los Angeles Lakers assistant coach. McMillan was part

576
00:27:48.119 --> 00:27:51.279
of McMillan's one of those guys that when I think

577
00:27:51.319 --> 00:27:54.839
of his last tenure whip Atlanta, how they turned around

578
00:27:54.839 --> 00:27:57.599
the Atlanta Hawks. And I'm pretty sure you remember with

579
00:27:57.680 --> 00:28:01.559
this Trey young who's still for some reason almost hated

580
00:28:02.160 --> 00:28:05.400
in in Madison Square Garden in New York City. They

581
00:28:05.480 --> 00:28:08.839
still put an explanet of right next to his name

582
00:28:09.359 --> 00:28:12.119
under there, So you know how much basketball means to

583
00:28:12.160 --> 00:28:13.680
those Knicks fans up there.

584
00:28:13.960 --> 00:28:17.599
Oh yeah, kind of crazy, Yeah it is. It's kind

585
00:28:17.599 --> 00:28:18.039
of crazy.

586
00:28:18.119 --> 00:28:21.279
And even even even now, when you know if you're

587
00:28:21.599 --> 00:28:24.720
if you're Boston Celtics, they they have an actual reason

588
00:28:24.880 --> 00:28:28.119
to say something like that, but they still haven't felt

589
00:28:28.119 --> 00:28:28.599
like it.

590
00:28:28.720 --> 00:28:31.799
Right, you know. And if you're the coach of the Lakers,

591
00:28:32.039 --> 00:28:34.039
you've got it. I mean, probably help you out a lot.

592
00:28:34.079 --> 00:28:36.680
Don't get me wrong, but those coaches have such an insecurity.

593
00:28:36.720 --> 00:28:38.799
You have Nate McMillan sitting on your bench behind you, you

594
00:28:38.799 --> 00:28:40.640
got to be a little nervous of your team stumbles.

595
00:28:40.960 --> 00:28:41.359
I think.

596
00:28:41.640 --> 00:28:44.599
I think Los Angeles with JJ Reddick has been pretty

597
00:28:44.880 --> 00:28:47.799
pretty secure with and he's got the uh, he's got

598
00:28:47.799 --> 00:28:52.079
the green light from Lebron James, and that's half the battle, really.

599
00:28:52.119 --> 00:28:55.400
Pretty much all the battle. Lebron says, I like you, then.

600
00:28:55.319 --> 00:28:58.519
You're in for the most part. Yeah, I mean, hey, hey,

601
00:28:58.599 --> 00:28:59.680
JJ Reddick.

602
00:28:59.599 --> 00:29:01.720
Has got a chance, and he's looked pretty good I mean,

603
00:29:01.759 --> 00:29:05.519
you think about right down the road in Los Angeles

604
00:29:05.519 --> 00:29:08.559
with Inglewood Tyron lou He was the head coach of

605
00:29:08.599 --> 00:29:12.039
that legendary comeback from three to one down in twenty sixteen,

606
00:29:12.119 --> 00:29:15.279
and he's evolved into a pretty good coach once he

607
00:29:15.319 --> 00:29:17.160
got out of his way of trying to get Eric

608
00:29:17.200 --> 00:29:20.640
Spolsterra fired and wanting to put pat Riley in there.

609
00:29:20.720 --> 00:29:23.359
You don't want pat Riley as your head coach unless

610
00:29:23.359 --> 00:29:25.440
you want to be ran up and down the floor.

611
00:29:26.000 --> 00:29:27.680
Spolstra has become a pretty good coach.

612
00:29:27.720 --> 00:29:30.640
So he hasn't exactly killed.

613
00:29:30.400 --> 00:29:33.519
Careers outside of David Blatt, but I mean, Mike Brown

614
00:29:33.599 --> 00:29:34.599
keeps on getting jobs.

615
00:29:34.880 --> 00:29:35.720
Yeah, that's true.

616
00:29:35.960 --> 00:29:37.160
Keeping up with the birthdays.

617
00:29:37.240 --> 00:29:40.720
Baseball relief pitcher Rod Beck was born in Burbank, California,

618
00:29:40.759 --> 00:29:43.880
in nineteen sixty eight. He made his Major League debut

619
00:29:43.960 --> 00:29:47.279
with the San Francisco Giants in nineteen ninety one. Over

620
00:29:47.400 --> 00:29:50.160
thirteen years, he pitched for the Giants, the Cubs, the

621
00:29:50.200 --> 00:29:53.160
Red Sox, and the Padres. He was a three time

622
00:29:53.240 --> 00:29:55.920
All Star and was the relief Pitcher of the Year

623
00:29:55.920 --> 00:29:58.839
in nineteen ninety four with the Giants. He sadly passed

624
00:29:58.880 --> 00:30:01.440
away at thirty eight years old in two thousand and

625
00:30:01.480 --> 00:30:04.160
seven due to cocaine and heroin addiction.

626
00:30:04.519 --> 00:30:06.160
And those people who know him that, I mean, it

627
00:30:06.200 --> 00:30:08.079
was sad and they were surprised he died at thirty eight,

628
00:30:08.160 --> 00:30:10.440
But it sounds like the reason that didn't surprise anybody

629
00:30:10.480 --> 00:30:11.039
who knew him.

630
00:30:11.200 --> 00:30:13.880
Good. Yeah, you think about you think about it, well,

631
00:30:13.920 --> 00:30:16.200
a little bit before that time, I was watching the

632
00:30:17.200 --> 00:30:22.920
New York Mets thirty for thirty with Darryl Strawberry and

633
00:30:23.720 --> 00:30:26.960
Doc and all that stuff. You think back about that.

634
00:30:27.079 --> 00:30:30.119
I mean, it was a weird time for baseball, no doubt.

635
00:30:30.519 --> 00:30:34.000
Yeah. Went from that to steroids. They just couldn't win.

636
00:30:34.079 --> 00:30:37.559
Good day, Okay, Well one you could argue worked out

637
00:30:37.559 --> 00:30:39.799
for him a little bit, bud, Yeah, a little bit.

638
00:30:40.160 --> 00:30:41.720
Good Now, that's when most of you guys aren't going

639
00:30:41.799 --> 00:30:43.599
to know. It was a defensive line. His name is

640
00:30:43.599 --> 00:30:45.839
Trevor Price. He was born in nineteen seventy five in

641
00:30:45.880 --> 00:30:48.799
Brooklyn fifty today. He was drafted in the first round

642
00:30:48.880 --> 00:30:51.799
by the Denver Broncos in nineteen ninety seven. Came out

643
00:30:51.799 --> 00:30:54.720
of Clemson, got here to Denver, didn't play his first

644
00:30:54.759 --> 00:30:56.599
year at all. Said, I mean he played a couple downs,

645
00:30:56.640 --> 00:30:59.160
but didn't play hardly all. The second year, well he

646
00:30:59.200 --> 00:31:01.160
won two Super bowl That was when Elway took him

647
00:31:01.160 --> 00:31:04.480
back to back. Well after after Elway retired, then he

648
00:31:04.519 --> 00:31:06.799
got a play. So he made four Pro balls, his

649
00:31:06.920 --> 00:31:10.000
one time first time All Pro and to one time

650
00:31:10.160 --> 00:31:12.240
second team All Pro. So then he decided he was

651
00:31:12.240 --> 00:31:14.480
going to cash in and went to Baltimore. That didn't

652
00:31:14.519 --> 00:31:16.640
work out. He entered retiring in twenty ten. But he

653
00:31:16.680 --> 00:31:18.480
does those first two years when he didn't play. He's

654
00:31:18.480 --> 00:31:20.440
got super Bowl rings. That's all that matters, right, and

655
00:31:20.480 --> 00:31:21.720
Trevor that big back he.

656
00:31:21.680 --> 00:31:22.000
Had to go.

657
00:31:22.480 --> 00:31:25.680
So those Pittsburgh Steelers up in Baltimore, he was a

658
00:31:25.680 --> 00:31:26.799
pretty good defensive lineman.

659
00:31:27.039 --> 00:31:27.680
He still had it.

660
00:31:27.759 --> 00:31:29.079
Huh, Yeah, he still had it.

661
00:31:29.119 --> 00:31:31.960
I mean they were they were switching off with helloity

662
00:31:32.079 --> 00:31:34.160
not to then of course he had Ray Lewis right

663
00:31:34.240 --> 00:31:38.319
behind him. So he was always a really good defensive lineman.

664
00:31:38.680 --> 00:31:41.720
Yeah, that was he was good. I mean obviously it was.

665
00:31:42.240 --> 00:31:43.960
He made the All Pro team, so yeah, he was

666
00:31:44.000 --> 00:31:46.480
pretty good. Any idea what he's doing now.

667
00:31:46.880 --> 00:31:49.599
I think he's also in broadcasting, if I recall.

668
00:31:49.400 --> 00:31:51.200
For a little bit with his main thing. Yeah, he's

669
00:31:51.200 --> 00:31:53.200
a children's author still learn book.

670
00:31:53.839 --> 00:31:55.759
Oh yeah, I did see. I think I did see

671
00:31:55.759 --> 00:31:57.319
a book once he made.

672
00:31:58.359 --> 00:31:59.839
Whether we liked him or not, I think you're gonna

673
00:31:59.839 --> 00:32:01.640
talk about the goat, aren't you hey?

674
00:32:01.640 --> 00:32:02.119
I'm hey.

675
00:32:02.160 --> 00:32:06.000
Unlike most Steelers fans can, I can admit Tom Brady.

676
00:32:06.400 --> 00:32:09.920
He's forty eight, born in San Mateo, California, in nineteen

677
00:32:10.000 --> 00:32:13.759
seventy seven. A star baseball player in high school, he

678
00:32:13.839 --> 00:32:16.519
was a catcher, and he was drafted by the Montreal

679
00:32:16.599 --> 00:32:21.160
Expos after his senior season in the second round, but

680
00:32:21.240 --> 00:32:25.240
he forgoed that the go play for Michigan, and he

681
00:32:25.319 --> 00:32:28.279
managed to win a national championship in his final year

682
00:32:28.640 --> 00:32:31.880
over Alabama. Went on to be drafted by in the

683
00:32:31.920 --> 00:32:34.759
sixth round by the New England Patriots in two thousand

684
00:32:35.359 --> 00:32:38.839
and Obviously, he holds just about every quarterback record. There

685
00:32:38.960 --> 00:32:42.279
is seven Super Bowl rings, most all time, and no

686
00:32:42.319 --> 00:32:45.599
one else has even six, and I think it's Charles

687
00:32:45.640 --> 00:32:49.440
Haley that's the closest with five, and he played defense.

688
00:32:49.559 --> 00:32:53.000
So I've needless to say with Tom Brady. I have

689
00:32:53.160 --> 00:32:54.039
been on the.

690
00:32:54.000 --> 00:32:56.000
Business end of a lot of his comebacks.

691
00:32:57.640 --> 00:33:00.880
I mean, I mean a lot of You can talk

692
00:33:00.920 --> 00:33:04.319
about all of it to flategate, spy game, whatever it is.

693
00:33:04.359 --> 00:33:06.680
But he still got to play the game, and I

694
00:33:06.759 --> 00:33:11.440
was always in of how seemingly, even whenever the pocket

695
00:33:11.640 --> 00:33:14.759
was at its most chaotic, more often than not, he

696
00:33:14.799 --> 00:33:17.480
would be able to step up, make a play. And

697
00:33:18.240 --> 00:33:21.920
just the way that he conducted business, especially in his

698
00:33:21.960 --> 00:33:25.000
first season with Tampa Bay, Yeah, a deck was probably

699
00:33:25.039 --> 00:33:27.160
a little bit stacked. I mean that team, all they

700
00:33:27.200 --> 00:33:30.640
really needed was a quarterback that.

701
00:33:29.599 --> 00:33:31.319
That wouldn't kill them.

702
00:33:31.799 --> 00:33:35.039
And you know, even Tom Brady at any age, he

703
00:33:35.079 --> 00:33:38.160
wasn't going to be the issue. So naturally I got

704
00:33:38.160 --> 00:33:41.799
to give him a salute. He's he's the goat, can't

705
00:33:41.960 --> 00:33:43.200
I can't really deny.

706
00:33:42.960 --> 00:33:45.759
It, I'll agree. And when you look at him now, though, honestly,

707
00:33:46.880 --> 00:33:48.599
don't you think he looks like he's more in shape

708
00:33:48.599 --> 00:33:50.000
now than an entire time he played.

709
00:33:51.000 --> 00:33:54.160
I think whatever he already was clean living for the

710
00:33:54.160 --> 00:33:54.640
most part.

711
00:33:54.640 --> 00:33:56.599
But I think if you don't have to.

712
00:33:56.519 --> 00:33:59.920
Worry about someone about two point fifty or more coming

713
00:34:00.119 --> 00:34:03.559
after you in hot pursuit, you feel a lot younger

714
00:34:03.599 --> 00:34:04.839
and you feel a lot stronger.

715
00:34:05.039 --> 00:34:05.680
That's true.

716
00:34:05.880 --> 00:34:10.480
You talking about swimming, Yeah, swimmer Ryan Lochte is now

717
00:34:10.559 --> 00:34:13.440
forty one. He was born in Rochester, New York. He

718
00:34:13.559 --> 00:34:16.960
is the third most decorated US swimmer of all time.

719
00:34:17.000 --> 00:34:22.599
Only Mark Phelps or Yeah, Phelps and Spitz are behind him,

720
00:34:22.880 --> 00:34:27.199
and also Ladeci. Oh wait, Katie Michael Phelps and Katie Ladecci.

721
00:34:27.480 --> 00:34:31.320
I was thinking of Spits as well, has twelve. Yeah,

722
00:34:31.719 --> 00:34:34.599
I think he's ahead of him. He has twelve Olympic medals,

723
00:34:34.639 --> 00:34:38.800
seven Goldenee, still holds two world records. He also plays

724
00:34:38.800 --> 00:34:42.480
seventh place in Dancing with the Stars and also had

725
00:34:42.480 --> 00:34:46.559
a reality show. Really yeah, it was it was sort

726
00:34:46.599 --> 00:34:50.599
of like, you know, just showing showing how goofy he was.

727
00:34:51.079 --> 00:34:53.039
I think it also. I think it also was a

728
00:34:53.280 --> 00:34:53.760
kind of like.

729
00:34:53.719 --> 00:34:56.239
A flavor of love situation and a lot of a

730
00:34:56.280 --> 00:34:59.159
lot of times. So so yeah, he was a character,

731
00:34:59.239 --> 00:35:00.840
no doubt. Ryan Lockey.

732
00:35:01.320 --> 00:35:04.239
Yeah, so you're saying, he's colorful, very.

733
00:35:04.119 --> 00:35:08.719
Color very colorful. Got himself some trouble in Brazil, if

734
00:35:08.760 --> 00:35:10.079
I recall correctly.

735
00:35:09.920 --> 00:35:11.280
I think you did. I don't remember what it was for,

736
00:35:11.440 --> 00:35:12.719
but yeah, he got in a lot of trouble.

737
00:35:12.719 --> 00:35:15.920
I think he was just you know, that's what happens

738
00:35:15.920 --> 00:35:19.679
whenever there's always a line whenever year, whenever you have

739
00:35:19.719 --> 00:35:22.719
a funny personality and sometimes just step.

740
00:35:22.440 --> 00:35:24.960
Over it, and that's what happened with Locktey.

741
00:35:25.360 --> 00:35:28.079
I definitely agree. You know what, this has been really fun.

742
00:35:28.079 --> 00:35:29.199
Thank you for joining us today.

743
00:35:29.519 --> 00:35:32.920
Oh no, I've had fun reminiscent about some old players,

744
00:35:33.480 --> 00:35:36.800
some who have who have been a big part of sports,

745
00:35:36.880 --> 00:35:39.800
and others who might have crushed a few of the

746
00:35:39.800 --> 00:35:43.199
Pittsburgh teams overhall, like Tom Brady, Tever Price. I'm pretty

747
00:35:43.199 --> 00:35:44.840
sure he had a couple. He had a couple of

748
00:35:44.880 --> 00:35:46.559
sacks to get the Steelers. They got to look it up.

749
00:35:46.559 --> 00:35:49.519
But no, this was a nice trip down memory lane

750
00:35:49.559 --> 00:35:51.599
for a lot of these guys. And I'm going to

751
00:35:51.679 --> 00:35:54.079
look up a few of these guys, and especially Todd

752
00:35:54.159 --> 00:35:57.639
Christiansen see what games Whenever I was younger, he happened

753
00:35:57.639 --> 00:35:59.639
to be broadcasting see.

754
00:35:59.559 --> 00:36:02.800
Him, Well, he was a raider out here den where

755
00:36:02.800 --> 00:36:05.559
we didn't like him. But when he was a national sportscaster,

756
00:36:05.719 --> 00:36:10.039
his his parents were like college professors up in Oregon,

757
00:36:10.400 --> 00:36:13.639
and so Todd always felt himself, you know, really educated,

758
00:36:13.960 --> 00:36:16.400
and so when he would do his broadcast, everybody would

759
00:36:16.440 --> 00:36:18.639
drive him crazy because he would not only use multi

760
00:36:18.639 --> 00:36:21.800
syllabic words, but he was like, try and use super silly,

761
00:36:21.880 --> 00:36:23.800
isn't you know off of big words you can mostly

762
00:36:23.840 --> 00:36:26.960
think of for describing the football games that drive everybody nuts.

763
00:36:27.159 --> 00:36:29.559
Oh, he liked, he liked, he liked the flex the

764
00:36:29.599 --> 00:36:30.760
big vocabulary.

765
00:36:30.880 --> 00:36:33.800
Yes, very much. So he loved the vocabulary.

766
00:36:34.400 --> 00:36:36.440
I think I think I try that a little too

767
00:36:36.519 --> 00:36:40.280
much by sulfit at times, but I think after a while,

768
00:36:40.320 --> 00:36:42.400
what's the speed of the game catches up? You just

769
00:36:42.840 --> 00:36:45.719
he just kind of used simple words, right. It's more

770
00:36:45.760 --> 00:36:47.480
of the color commentator type deal.

771
00:36:48.840 --> 00:36:51.880
But we're prejudiced too out here. You know. It's kind

772
00:36:51.880 --> 00:36:54.800
of like see now with the Raiders being in Las Vegas,

773
00:36:54.840 --> 00:36:57.039
it doesn't seem to be the same as when they

774
00:36:57.039 --> 00:36:59.480
were in Oakland and La. You know, it's like it

775
00:36:59.559 --> 00:37:01.920
kind of took the staying out of the whole rivalry

776
00:37:01.920 --> 00:37:02.760
almost in length.

777
00:37:03.000 --> 00:37:05.280
There was there was a lot of talk during the

778
00:37:05.320 --> 00:37:09.760
time in which all three all basically all the California

779
00:37:09.800 --> 00:37:13.880
franchises we're trying to and Saint Louis of course they

780
00:37:13.880 --> 00:37:16.280
were trying to figure out all right, So we got

781
00:37:16.280 --> 00:37:19.920
two teams going to Los Angeles and the other goes

782
00:37:19.920 --> 00:37:22.880
to Las Vegas. I mean, you'd have to imagine how

783
00:37:22.920 --> 00:37:27.440
different would have been if the Raiders go to Los

784
00:37:27.440 --> 00:37:29.880
Angeles and said the Chargers, and the Chargers go to

785
00:37:29.960 --> 00:37:33.039
Las Vegas, or they stay in San Diego or something

786
00:37:33.159 --> 00:37:36.480
like that. I mean, when you think about it, I

787
00:37:36.519 --> 00:37:38.679
always think of Los Angeles as more of a Raider

788
00:37:38.719 --> 00:37:42.559
town than a Rams town. But the Rams were really

789
00:37:42.559 --> 00:37:44.440
got lucky in that situation.

790
00:37:44.559 --> 00:37:48.679
Right and then in modern football. Now see last year Denver,

791
00:37:48.880 --> 00:37:51.440
we knew you guys are we knew you guys are

792
00:37:51.440 --> 00:37:54.440
going to regret who you signed from Denver at your quarterback.

793
00:37:54.599 --> 00:37:56.679
We knew Russell Wilson and Vegley was going to come

794
00:37:56.719 --> 00:37:58.760
down to earth for you guys. So what's the thing

795
00:37:58.800 --> 00:38:00.079
about your What do you guys think about you go

796
00:38:00.239 --> 00:38:00.760
back this year?

797
00:38:01.119 --> 00:38:04.840
So Aaron Rodgers, I'll also open up with this a

798
00:38:04.840 --> 00:38:08.239
little bit. I also work for the local sports radio

799
00:38:08.360 --> 00:38:12.320
station in town. I at first was against was against it.

800
00:38:12.679 --> 00:38:15.800
I thought that you could go younger with justin Field,

801
00:38:16.000 --> 00:38:18.920
you could you could run it back with russ and

802
00:38:18.920 --> 00:38:22.079
and we're all Rudolphs here, so why not? But when

803
00:38:22.119 --> 00:38:25.559
you really think about it, for the money that eventually

804
00:38:25.599 --> 00:38:29.559
got settled in so far, it's been decent with Aaron Rodgers,

805
00:38:30.199 --> 00:38:33.719
and it seems like he's really committed into not going

806
00:38:33.760 --> 00:38:36.800
out the way he did in the last two seasons

807
00:38:37.119 --> 00:38:39.159
with the Jets, and you can argue his last season

808
00:38:39.239 --> 00:38:43.119
with with the Packers. He's committed to the process. So

809
00:38:43.760 --> 00:38:46.199
I'm all right with it now. I got to really

810
00:38:46.239 --> 00:38:48.519
sit down and take a look at the guy, and

811
00:38:48.559 --> 00:38:51.519
of course look at the film, and there's still meat

812
00:38:51.559 --> 00:38:53.519
to the bone. I mean, maybe it could be a

813
00:38:53.639 --> 00:38:57.719
Minnesota type situation with Brett Barb in which you know,

814
00:38:57.760 --> 00:39:00.840
he goes back to the future a little bit and

815
00:39:00.840 --> 00:39:03.840
he goes back to some sort of some Hall of

816
00:39:03.880 --> 00:39:04.960
Fame level with it.

817
00:39:05.360 --> 00:39:07.880
There's a lot to it there, but there's a lot

818
00:39:07.960 --> 00:39:09.559
depending on that as well.

819
00:39:09.639 --> 00:39:11.840
They got to figure out the left tackle situation in

820
00:39:11.960 --> 00:39:16.280
Pittsburgh with Broderick Jones. So far, at the time of

821
00:39:16.360 --> 00:39:20.079
this recording, we're about three four days into the training

822
00:39:20.119 --> 00:39:22.960
camp and I've been talking to a lot of reporters

823
00:39:23.559 --> 00:39:26.239
around the station, of course who call in and hearing

824
00:39:26.280 --> 00:39:29.480
what they're saying right now there right now, it's not

825
00:39:29.519 --> 00:39:32.719
looking good, but pads aren't on. Yeah, Jones was a

826
00:39:32.719 --> 00:39:35.840
big part of the Georgia. The Georgia Mini run in

827
00:39:35.880 --> 00:39:38.800
the in the CFP as a left tackle. They're just

828
00:39:38.840 --> 00:39:41.360
finally moving him to left tackle. His first few years

829
00:39:41.400 --> 00:39:43.519
was the right was at the right side and he

830
00:39:43.599 --> 00:39:46.079
was out of position and it was hit or missed.

831
00:39:46.119 --> 00:39:50.000
So that's the that's the depending thing. That line is

832
00:39:50.039 --> 00:39:53.440
stronger than what than what they than what they've looked

833
00:39:53.480 --> 00:39:56.199
over the last few years, then that's all that matters

834
00:39:56.199 --> 00:39:57.239
for Aaron Rodgers.

835
00:39:57.559 --> 00:39:59.760
Well, that'skind of spread that Rogers went there just because

836
00:39:59.800 --> 00:40:03.719
of the coach, Tomlin. I didn't think that he would

837
00:40:03.719 --> 00:40:06.840
want to to go to a team where basically he

838
00:40:06.960 --> 00:40:08.760
was going to be just a quarterback. That coach wasn't

839
00:40:08.760 --> 00:40:09.760
going to tolerate anything.

840
00:40:10.119 --> 00:40:12.679
I think that's I think that's where we kind of

841
00:40:13.360 --> 00:40:15.719
got got kind of flummixed in the situation.

842
00:40:15.880 --> 00:40:18.599
I mean, Tomlin's got a lot of cash shay there.

843
00:40:19.039 --> 00:40:23.679
I will say this Minnesota elected to take to get

844
00:40:23.719 --> 00:40:27.679
started with JJ McCarthy, and it seems like the Jets

845
00:40:27.760 --> 00:40:30.639
kind of ambushed them a little bit. So there was

846
00:40:30.679 --> 00:40:33.880
a little bit of stability wanted in that situation for

847
00:40:34.000 --> 00:40:37.440
Rogers if he wanted something in which he knows that

848
00:40:37.480 --> 00:40:40.360
he get the opportunity to end on his own terms.

849
00:40:41.239 --> 00:40:43.960
There was a quote yesterday that that I overheard today

850
00:40:44.920 --> 00:40:50.000
covering as a producer. He wanted, effectively, he wants to

851
00:40:50.079 --> 00:40:51.880
end these things on his own terms, and he wants

852
00:40:51.920 --> 00:40:55.280
to go out. I guess he wants to go out

853
00:40:55.599 --> 00:40:58.840
looking good. And when you think about it, with the Steelers,

854
00:40:59.400 --> 00:41:01.559
everything that done in the last few years, I know

855
00:41:01.639 --> 00:41:03.760
that this was even before I was born, in a

856
00:41:03.760 --> 00:41:04.480
little bit when I.

857
00:41:04.480 --> 00:41:05.000
Was too young.

858
00:41:05.440 --> 00:41:08.000
They passed up on the opportunity to get Dan Marina.

859
00:41:08.519 --> 00:41:11.440
They passed up on the opportunity to get Joe Montana.

860
00:41:11.559 --> 00:41:13.320
So what do they do to next two times? It's

861
00:41:13.360 --> 00:41:16.559
just a coincident. They get the quarterback from the University

862
00:41:16.599 --> 00:41:19.639
of Pittsburgh that at the time was shocking the world

863
00:41:19.639 --> 00:41:22.800
in Kenny Pickett, and they elect to get after That

864
00:41:22.840 --> 00:41:26.840
doesn't work, and they go through a few other tries elsewhere,

865
00:41:27.280 --> 00:41:30.400
they elect to go after the Hall of Fame quarterback

866
00:41:30.440 --> 00:41:34.639
that could they could potentially lead them. You know, we're

867
00:41:34.679 --> 00:41:37.119
just they're just looking for a playoff win right now.

868
00:41:37.199 --> 00:41:41.199
But the high end, it's at least a conference championship,

869
00:41:41.239 --> 00:41:43.760
maybe a Super Bowl appearance somewhere.

870
00:41:44.000 --> 00:41:46.159
With this team, did pick A get a fair shot,

871
00:41:46.239 --> 00:41:48.960
or did they get rid of them a little too

872
00:41:48.960 --> 00:41:52.039
early before they actually had a shot to actually prove themselves.

873
00:41:52.119 --> 00:41:52.760
It's a mix.

874
00:41:53.360 --> 00:41:58.000
I think that this team wasn't built at the moment

875
00:41:58.559 --> 00:42:03.199
the way it was to except a rookie quarterback, no

876
00:42:03.320 --> 00:42:07.480
true receiver room, the tight end situation. Friarmof was there,

877
00:42:07.559 --> 00:42:12.760
but he had injury problems, no reliable receivers outside. Ironically,

878
00:42:12.840 --> 00:42:16.840
Pickens Deontay Johnson was a mess the end and is

879
00:42:16.880 --> 00:42:21.119
a complete mess now. The offensive line just really wasn't

880
00:42:21.119 --> 00:42:24.679
any good. They were cheap offensively, and they really didn't

881
00:42:25.119 --> 00:42:27.960
try to shore up their offensive line. So I think

882
00:42:27.960 --> 00:42:31.000
in a way that hurt him. But I don't know

883
00:42:31.000 --> 00:42:33.440
if I don't know if he really had it like that,

884
00:42:33.519 --> 00:42:37.360
because naturally being fit in the University of Pittsburgh in

885
00:42:37.400 --> 00:42:39.880
the same stadium, I got to see him that It

886
00:42:39.920 --> 00:42:43.639
took Pickett really until his fifth year to start coming on.

887
00:42:44.360 --> 00:42:47.280
He had some he had some spurts in the first

888
00:42:47.320 --> 00:42:50.199
four years, but he was an upper classman, so he

889
00:42:50.280 --> 00:42:52.480
really got a chance to show out, and I think

890
00:42:52.800 --> 00:42:55.719
the Steelers reached in that situation.

891
00:42:56.199 --> 00:42:58.760
Yeah, I was always wondering because well, because we even't

892
00:42:58.800 --> 00:43:01.679
talked about him. The guy you guys sent to the Jets,

893
00:43:02.239 --> 00:43:04.960
I can't think of his name from Chicago Field. Feel

894
00:43:05.440 --> 00:43:09.880
I was thought because now, well you're younger, but before

895
00:43:10.000 --> 00:43:12.440
you picked a quarterback in the first round, you didn't

896
00:43:12.440 --> 00:43:14.880
even plan on see him until least their second year. Now,

897
00:43:14.960 --> 00:43:17.800
these guys come in, expect him to play, and one

898
00:43:17.880 --> 00:43:19.679
or two years then they're already a bust, and it's

899
00:43:19.679 --> 00:43:22.440
like going, wait, you know, I think they like feels

900
00:43:22.440 --> 00:43:24.079
and maybe pick I didn't know about that. Some of

901
00:43:24.079 --> 00:43:27.800
these quarterbacks I don't, Well, look at a Minnesota last year.

902
00:43:28.039 --> 00:43:30.480
I mean, I mean some of these quarterbacks. I mean,

903
00:43:30.480 --> 00:43:32.199
it takes him a while, and I think they just

904
00:43:32.239 --> 00:43:34.280
pulled pull it too fast on him anymore.

905
00:43:34.599 --> 00:43:35.519
Well, I'm not that young.

906
00:43:35.559 --> 00:43:38.320
I mean I do remember the times in which in

907
00:43:38.400 --> 00:43:42.159
which they would give a quarterback a few years ironically,

908
00:43:42.679 --> 00:43:45.519
the very quarterback that Steelers have, but Aaron Rodgers was

909
00:43:45.559 --> 00:43:47.079
a guy who had a few years.

910
00:43:46.840 --> 00:43:49.440
Behind Brett Faarr before he came on.

911
00:43:49.599 --> 00:43:52.960
So yeah, three, I think these days, these days, with

912
00:43:53.039 --> 00:43:56.920
the rookie, with the rookie quarterback and the wage scale

913
00:43:56.920 --> 00:44:00.960
in general for rookies, that the honest is really in that.

914
00:44:01.000 --> 00:44:03.639
Four or five year stretch, you got to put a

915
00:44:03.679 --> 00:44:04.800
team together immediately.

916
00:44:04.880 --> 00:44:08.760
And and also the NFL has changed, I mean, gone

917
00:44:08.840 --> 00:44:12.079
are I can't I still can't believe in my heart

918
00:44:12.079 --> 00:44:15.639
of hearts that people didn't think that an option style

919
00:44:15.800 --> 00:44:19.639
offense in which you make the defense react was ever

920
00:44:19.800 --> 00:44:21.760
not gonna work in the NFL.

921
00:44:22.199 --> 00:44:23.239
You're you're you're.

922
00:44:23.079 --> 00:44:27.360
Effectively putting the chess match on them. You're you're dictating

923
00:44:27.400 --> 00:44:32.400
the terms. And once the NFL started switching that way,

924
00:44:32.440 --> 00:44:35.800
in which what was the college style offense has now

925
00:44:35.880 --> 00:44:40.159
become the pro style, it's it's accelerated things.

926
00:44:40.400 --> 00:44:42.440
Yeah, Andy Reid doing that either.

927
00:44:44.360 --> 00:44:47.519
I mean, hey, Patrick Mahomes had a year, had a

928
00:44:47.599 --> 00:44:51.880
year to sit behind Alex Smith. But still, let me

929
00:44:51.880 --> 00:44:55.119
tell you this, Patrick Mahomes is not Patrick Mahomes without

930
00:44:55.559 --> 00:44:59.000
without having, you know, at least an early scheme, especially

931
00:44:59.039 --> 00:45:02.079
in those first couple of game to get themselves some confidence.

932
00:45:02.119 --> 00:45:05.920
I mean, confidence is everything. You can have no confidence

933
00:45:06.440 --> 00:45:08.360
and be the best quarterback in the world. But if

934
00:45:08.360 --> 00:45:11.239
you have it all, it can it can make Duck

935
00:45:11.320 --> 00:45:15.039
Hodges look like the man in Pittsburgh for a few weeks, right,

936
00:45:15.239 --> 00:45:17.320
I mean, you can anyone can be the man at

937
00:45:17.320 --> 00:45:19.039
they're at their confident Yeah.

938
00:45:19.119 --> 00:45:22.800
Okay, well thanks once again, and on our show notes

939
00:45:22.840 --> 00:45:24.360
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dot com.

965
00:46:45.119 --> 00:46:46.800
All right, man, we're gonna put a link over there.

966
00:46:46.920 --> 00:46:48.800
You can go check that out. That sounds really cool.

967
00:46:49.199 --> 00:46:51.960
And then yeah, make sure you watch out Todd Doo Man.

968
00:46:52.079 --> 00:46:54.320
I think he's gonna be one of the big wigs

969
00:46:54.360 --> 00:46:57.519
in the sports casting business win these days and we

970
00:46:57.519 --> 00:46:58.440
can say we know him win.

971
00:46:59.159 --> 00:47:05.119
Yeah, I look forward. I look forward to checking out

972
00:47:05.119 --> 00:47:05.880
this episode.

973
00:47:05.880 --> 00:47:08.159
Of course, it's not just MMMA for me, and also

974
00:47:08.320 --> 00:47:17.760
broadcast football, basketball, hockey, lacrosse, looking at field hockey, baseball, softball, volleyball.

975
00:47:17.800 --> 00:47:20.519
I mean, whenever I get an opportunity to do it,

976
00:47:20.920 --> 00:47:25.480
be it with Chatham University, Carnegie, Mellon, the President's Athletic

977
00:47:25.559 --> 00:47:30.639
Conference in d three, Wheeling, University, Saint Francis, and maybe

978
00:47:31.039 --> 00:47:34.320
maybe universities all across the world sometimes in the future.

979
00:47:34.800 --> 00:47:34.960
Cool.

980
00:47:35.000 --> 00:47:36.719
And I think your website shows some of your clips,

981
00:47:36.719 --> 00:47:37.000
didn't it.

982
00:47:37.360 --> 00:47:41.559
Yes, it has all Yes, my resume website Tyler Jhpolk

983
00:47:41.960 --> 00:47:44.840
dot com sports casting. It as all of my clips.

984
00:47:44.880 --> 00:47:49.000
It also has my written pieces as well. Definitely check

985
00:47:49.039 --> 00:47:51.320
it out and you know, hire.

986
00:47:51.079 --> 00:47:55.119
Me, so we'll put a link to that too. So

987
00:47:55.280 --> 00:47:58.639
when we were talking about vocabulary and all that, do

988
00:47:58.679 --> 00:48:02.079
you remember in a center played for the Sixers named

989
00:48:02.119 --> 00:48:02.960
Charles Shackleford.

990
00:48:03.360 --> 00:48:05.599
That's much too that's much too old for me.

991
00:48:05.920 --> 00:48:07.880
All right, We're gonna end with our quote of the day.

992
00:48:07.880 --> 00:48:11.559
It's from Charles Shackleford. Charles said, I can dribble with

993
00:48:11.559 --> 00:48:13.719
my right hand and I can dribble with my left hand.

994
00:48:13.880 --> 00:48:17.360
I'm amphibious. You guys have an awesome dad. We'll talk tomorrow.

995
00:48:17.480 --> 00:48:21.079
I think I remember that one, phibious