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on earth Sports make us all feel better whenever we’re going through stuff Sports unify the entire world and sports Crown champions in new places every single year seemingly last night two new teams are able to celebrate being the greatest in the world at their particular sport we’ll start a College World Series Tennessee Volunteers congrats we’ll break that down in a matter of moment we also have Carl ravit obviously baseball Legend from ESPN who was on the call last night for the third game in the best of three Series in which the Tennessee Volunteers became Champs he’ll be joining us in the second hour and then down in South Florida ladies and gentlemen we knew history was going to be made if the Edmonton Oilers were able to get the big game seven win down in Florida they’d be the first team since 194 two to go down three zip in a series and then come storming back and win four straight in a Stanley Cup Championship instead it’s the first time since 1945 that a team has been up three then given up three and then win in game seven and that’s the Florida Panthers who are Stanley Cup champions for the first time in the franchises history it was a kg Affair it was a great game two to one they end up getting the big time dub Bob rovski to Chuck barov and the boys have been celebrating all night and all morning with the Stanley Cup down there in South Florida we will visit some of the scenes down there and where lordo is taking some trips to shout out to the Elbow Room seemingly being the Hub of the Stanley Cup and also the Atlantic Ocean I’m not alone here today no no I’m with a great group but dudes the toic table is here at Boston Connor at Tai Schmidt and we’re calling this new champs Tuesday and obviously it’s because the Florida Panthers are brand new Champions and the Tennessee Volunteers a brand new college baseball champions but also joining us today in the second hour Brad Stevens of the Boston Celtics first time he has won aario Championship con man you got to be pretty excited yeah I feel fantastic at a press conference earlier today too said a lot about the future of the Celtics so I have a feeling that uh might have to make some room on this stage for a couple more of these real very legitimate Larry O’Brien trophies well that might not be the only trophies that need to be made some room on this particular stage and not because of one half of the hammer Cowboys tone Diggs and the teams that he cheers for no no it’s because there’s a 9-year NFL vet a man who’s been a DieHard the hockey fan for a long long time darus J Butler congrats on a Stanley Cup de you got Lord O pal down in South Florida and it’s because of fans like you Gary bman said it while he was handing out Gary bman commissioner of the NHL gave a couple great speeches last night afterwards looked a little bit nervous early when he was talking about the K SMI because he was about to award it to opposing team uh player in Conor McDavid who ended up winning the K Smite first time since 19 something forever forever four gold teners and now two players have been able to win the km which is the MVP of the NHL playoffs throughout its entirety without winning the Stanley Cup Conor McDavid wins it Gary bman had give that speech in Florida’s uh uh Barn about somebody else winning it when they all won it B brovsky the goalie of the Panthers to win turns out voting wise he was like fourth on the list he wouldn’t have won it anyways but then Gary bman cut an En ire promo about the Florida Panthers franchise and the team and the fans and the ownership and then he handed that lordo off to barov and uh he said multiple times aside from the players the most important part of this entire Championship run has been the fans of Florida Panthers which you certainly been one of them so congrats DB it was a loud Barn a lot of people thought it was going to be an Edmonton Oilers home game because how many tickets were sold and the videos on the internet before the game with a lot of Oilers fans walking in there a lot of Florida panther R in there and place was loud congrats to you guys I was never worried about them I’m glad some people made some money uh selling their tickets to other Florida fans obviously Chucky talked about it last time he was on the show how special the environment’s been how the Energy’s been down there it was people texting me calling me uh my brother my friends down there kind of in the areas uh celebrating like people who never watch hockey who’s never into hockey until a couple years ago or three or four years ago you boys shout out to you boys really get me you know into the into the game obviously they’ve been down there uh 30 years now so to win it uh just bring that energy obviously you know dolphins are on the clock now but hey shout out to the Panthers uh Chucky Barky who who survived 30 years survived a nasty fall yesterday all all OD were against us the coin uh you know uh robberto Leong go we were talking trash about him he reversed the coast he hey he came out congrats him big winning game seven foro out of that obviously still on his head uh obviously um rhino game one to go you know Swag got starter always shows up when we need a most man but shout out to the guys man Bill zto obviously you saw how obviously emotional he’s been throughout uh the the whole playoff run but then to see it just him kind of let it all out and celebrate uh Paul Maurice as well gave a gave a legendary kind of uh postgame speech man but the sport sport is awesome obviously a lot of lot of lot of lot of new people talking about it I don’t know about your timelines your out a lot of new guys and Gs are getting into the game so it’s great for the sport obviously this show I think has a huge part of as well obviously what ESPN is doing but uh Hey shout out to the game shout out to the Panthers hey this is for you guys man that’s right congratulations congratulations to the Florida Panthers getting a chance to experience lordo for the first time in it’s 30y year history I had no idea you guys were down there for 30 years I I I think if it’s been 30 years wow go ahead and have yourself a nice Modell out of the top of the lordo just like the boys are doing down in South Florida as we speak right now none of the Panthers have slept they’ve seemingly have been living large congrats Deb got chug that thing if you’re gonna be doing White Boy [ __ ] you gotta do yeah baby Deb that’s that is uh I hope it tasted damn good I hope you savored every single drop because delicious there’s a chance it never happens again and that’s the greatness of the Stanley Cup and Gary bman talked about the 120 year history of uh the Stanley Cup and how it’s the first finished captain that has ever LED their team to a Stanley Cup championships in barov he actually said that in the speed and then he talked about obviously South Florida getting it for the first time and you said there’s a lot of new people talking about the sport it’s incredible because hockey is awesome but I think it’s also because South Florida wins it Miami obviously has a lot of humans in it uh Miami has a lot of notable people that probably aren’t normally hockey fans but right now they’re all getting a chance to celebrate something and people enjoy celebrating [ __ ] and if you can enjoy and celebrate a Stanley Cup but especially the environments that have been created down there good for hockey good for South Florida good for the Panthers Florida is now home to like three of the last five Champs yeah in hockey with Tamp obviously winning a couple now Florida Panthers winning one it’s like is Florida the new state of hockey Minnesota’s not going to be happy pissed Michigan’s not going to be happy about that Pennsylvania’s not going to be thrilled about anything but Florida is seemingly the place for Champions Arizona has a lot of X NHL guys who kind of all live there and uh their kids play hockey there and Arizona State I think hockey is kind of on the rise uh they got nothing on Florida Florida just wins Stanley Cups that’s literally seemingly what Florida does and uh hopefully that’ll change hopefully a real hockey town will win you’re right right no and when we talk about real hockey towns I mean did you see that live shot from from from Lo Solis Boulevard Fort lale Beach palm trees ocean I mean that’s hockey town if I ever seen listen debut is obviously feeding the narrative here but with the celebration that’s been taking place down there I got nothing but respect for how South Florida is celebrating this and the boys have been taking it obviously the Elbow Room has made some appearan k got a WWE title around his waist he is also drowning people in beer from the Stanley Cup from the second floor of the Elbow Room obviously we’ve chatted about the Elbow Room uh it’s a Fort Lauderdale staple pretty much so if you go down to Fort Lauderdale you’re going to end up in the Elbow Room my wife thought it was a strip club we were talking about the entire time it’s like nobody’s getting nak of the Elbow Room and if they are they’re not remembering it kicked out yeah yeah they are Elbow Room is a fantastic time not only has it been at the Elbow Room obviously it’s made it way in the Atlantic Ocean okay yeah kachuck took that into the Atlantic Ocean earlier today and took his title off obviously let’s make sure that doesn’t touch the sand somebody needs a hold this I don’t want to throw this thing down shout out to the WWE but I think lordo needs to take a trip into the ocean don’t you yep Dives in back bump steinley is in there now right in front of us pause that please right in front of us here with the purse she’s got socks and shoes on she is a social media person for somewhere always going to get the shot thank you for your attention to detail lady as well uh and then obviously it was uh Stanley Cup was at one of the boys houses this morning as people were boating by and they were celebrating with the fine people of South Florida and I think there’s some people that maybe didn’t even know that they won the Stanley Cup until this morning and then they saw it and they’re like yeah we’re Champions it’s going to help grow the game this is incredible for the game and we got brand new champions in the Florida Panthers I actually love the fact that they won yeah you know the Edmonton Oilers would have been a fantastic story Conor McDavid with everything he was able to accomplish his playoff series with how many points he scored breaking wing Gretzky’s records he was on the rise the world got introduced to Conor McDavid the greatest player on ice right now and he was certainly quite a spectacle he was dazzling with how fast he was he was magical with his mits and what he did was certainly bring a team all the way back to a game seven that we didn’t think was going to be possible at one point and inevitably he loses now the entire world was introduced to this particular character next year we’re going to be watching okay can he put his team back on his back and lead them back to the Stanley Cup like kachuck and the boys were able to do down in Florida this past season but I appreciate the fact that they gave it up they were up three they give it up and if you listen to Paul in his speech afterwards coach Paul he was giving a Q&A with Emily Kaplan not even hurt just like hey kchu just got a the cup for the first time we need to be paying attention to that not on her but she’s talking to Paul head coach of the Florida Panthers and she asked him one question and all of a sudden the last player just got done with the cup and goes right over to him and he just turns around so calm cool and Collective does what he does and then gets right back into the interview and you’re now A standle Cup champion describe your emotions right now I can’t I don’t I don’t know hang on for a sec we got a visitor hold on one second two visitors kiss him on the cheek let’s get a close look at this thing is this real look at that pose oh yeah that’s awesome drink it down soak it in then obviously he goes to kiss the Stanley Cup they cut away to go to the crowd I mean there was a lot of things that happened last night during the coverage of the Stanley Cup celebration but Paul Maurice getting his opportunity to do that and then he goes right back to the interview and he says uh that’s Florida Panther Way right there we had to make it hard on ourselves nothing’s easy he talked about the entire year and then they interviewed I think another player I forget who it was and they said we don’t like anything easy we like it hard it’s almost like the messaging going into game seven was like hey this is exactly how we would want this this is exactly the story of the Florida Panthers this exactly the story of this particular team we could have done it the easy way yeah but that’s not us we do things the hard way because the hard way is what leads to Great challenges and Great accomplishments in the Florida Panthers winning game seven at home magical moment Paul Maurice seems to be the perfect coach for that he has uh I think he’s lost the most games as a head coach in the NHL’s history I think that is a record that he has he has the most losses in NHL history as a head coach I think there was uh only one person that really wanted to hire him at that particular stage it was Bill zto said this is going to be my guy he’s been loyal to him Paul Maurice has obviously been loyal to the Florida Panthers he’s been loyal to that dressing room that change room and now their Champions it all paid off and what a magical night and uh yeah I’ve had the opportunity in Pittsburgh to be a couple of these be a part of a couple of these celebrations where beers are getting tossed out of it it brings the city together and uh I’m happy people are getting introduced to hockey in this particular fashion joining us now is a man who’s been covering this sport all throughout playoffs and obviously throughout the entire season he’s been on every single Sports Talk Show for good reason what a great Ambassador for the sport of hockey ladies and gentlemen friend of the program PK sub how you doing brother I’m great I’m great just licking my wounds had a had a long night last night early morning tonight but um all good all good in the world of hockey I I know yesterday you were campaigning hard to be a part of uh Stanley Cup Celebrations last night whether it was the Oilers or the team that you picked the Florida Panthers in seven games did any of the boys remember and appreciate that you picked them in game seven and did you have a chance to celebrate last night with any of the Florida Panthers didn’t get the call for the uh Stanley Cup celebration last night did not get the call actually had a couple of Florida Panthers fans actually let me know that I suck which is pretty awesome they were screaming that at me in the building so that was the highlight of my night actually um but you know what last night got to catch up with all the ESPN folks uh we had a couple barley sandwiches tied one on great night last night with mess mess had his son in the mix last night watched the game with us the whole night had a couple barley sandwiches with him and uh yeah we’re off did it turn into a Gong Show or with the ESPN crew because this is a wrap-up of a hell of a season right you guys have been on the road for the last three weeks too or four weeks maybe so this was kind of a wrap-up for you guys you did a great job I hope you guys celebrated how great you guys did for the sport PK yeah no so you know what uh the whole team um it was a celebratory night I think for us that was our Stanley Cup you know um it’s a it’s a long road and it’s a huge responsibility at ESPN specifically with hockey you know we’re trying to grow the game um we’re trying to highlight the superstars highlight all the bright spots in our game and you know as much as it’s got to be entertaining it’s got to be educational too we had a lot of new fans I think learn things about our game and about the player is in it and uh you know we’re pretty happy at where we sit right now we’re uh pretty excited about next season and the future for hockey but what a day this is for hockey I mean the first Stanley Cup in Florida Panthers history welld deserved um you know couldn’t have gone to a better team they earned it they deserved it they went to the final last year they lost they learned they got back there and they got it done and uh as you heard Paul Maurice said they didn’t want it any other way they knew it was going to be tough and that is the way it should be it’s the hardest trophy to win and uh it took everything they had to get it done and that’s what stays with you forever that’s why it’s a Brotherhood that’s why it’s not uh Mark Messier said this on the broadcast yesterday he’s sick and tired of hearing people say group you know he doesn’t even think of it as a team he thinks of it as a family and you could see that last night with all the families and the kids uh on the ice and wives and girlfriends all the people you could just see sort of that Charlotte it web of everybody that was touched and connected to the Florida Panthers organization and those players that help get it done because it’s a it’s a long journey man like that’s a long road to get there it’s 82 Game season four really hard rounds lots of travel lots of ups and downs you know people have lives too lots of things going on your personal life with family and all that stuff so to get there it’s their moment now and they should be enjoying it I’ll tell you this right now you know listen I could easily party my way out of the league after winning the cup so I hope those guys enjoy it and get back in the gym because I I think they’re going to have a good enough team to potentially do it again I don’t know if you saw there at the bottom a Canadian team has not won since 1993 okay and 198 it’s our sport that’s right it’s our Sport and we are yep sorry it’s it’s Hony oen pal when you go against the United States of America es if you’re from kadia you got no shot that’s what I’m learning that’s what stats are telling us first time since 1945 a team goes up three zip in a series lets the other team come back and then ends up winning in game seven the Toronto Maple Leafs did that to the Detroit W uh Red Wings in 1945 I think a big reason why they won game seven is obviously they came out a little different and yada y y but bosski hey old Bob was getting Bobby chance throughout the third period and there was numerous saves where if you’re watching along live you couldn’t help but think to yourself well if Bob’s going to stop that or if they’re not going to score on that I guess the hockey gods are with the Florida Panthers tonight was bobovski all the way back in full form whenever you’re watching them live and when Conor McDavid has this one here in a matter of moments right in front wide open and Bob gets the big here I think it’s going to be right here bang Conor McDavid stop stop diving bodies in front of the net and it doesn’t go in and they were under a barrage all third period did you think that babski was going to be the Difference Maker early in this and how did you feel watching Bobby do his thing well I was confident in that people thought I was nuts uh for picking Florida to win that game last night but uh a couple things one Sergey babski has been the best defensive player on the best defensive team the past two seasons the Florida Panthers have been the best defensive team and the hardest team to play against the past two years and he’s a big part of that um this guy as great as Florida is he covered up a lot of mistakes he plugged a lot of holes for that team and I think what we saw in the latter part of the the Stanley Cup Final was him just mentally and physically exhausted and I’m going to tell you this whole clip here is like the season in a nutshell for them it’s desperation these guys blocked a ton of shots they sacrificed their body they played the right way I mean that’s Vladimir tereno at the top of your screen there who is a superstar has won a Stanley Cup for St Louis had scored goals guys would kill to have the skill that that guy has but everything that you’re seeing in this clip has nothing to do with skill it has to do with heart will and you know those guys laid it all on the line they emptied the tank last night and that’s who they are in a nutshell they had to get back to their identity and that’s defense first but it starts with Bob and Bob was phenomenal he was phenomenal in this game I knew once he got a little bit of rest and some recovery time for one game he could do it and he made all the saves when he needed to do it but Gustaf forsling I said he was the best shutdown defenseman in the game well he made the biggest play of his life on Conor McDavid when he had that empty net if you watch carefully he’s it’s stick on Stick it’s man on man and he saves their season really I mean Edmonton ties that up I it’s going to be very very difficult to beat Conor McDavid an extra time Edmonton was putting on the pressure but they bent they didn’t break look at that stick by forcing unbelievable un get a little sauce afterwards dumps him into the net let let you go ahead and eat that you talk about tereno up in the front these dudes are putting their faces in front of a puck that could be going like a 100 miles an hour guys right there this isn’t just like oh they’re they’re trying to block a shot like people say that and I think people new to hockey like yeah they blocked a shot they got a bunch of pad on it’s like they don’t have a bunch of pads on there’s a lot of exposed areas where there isn’t pads because they have to for the way they skate and also their faces are wide open and if you see most hockey players smile they got busted grills just face just been hit with pucks all over the place so that type of dedication that type of grit that type of will to win is beautiful it’s great for the sport and it’s great for Florida panther fans derus J baller absolutely absolutely I got to ask you PK uh sorry Barky uh last told you I told you hey you on the right side you on the right side of History I appreciate you but started off looked like it might have been a high-scoring one obviously quick backto back goals but like you said earlier got back to kind of Florida uh Panther hockey what was different you know able been able to stifle Conor McDavid and those guys for this game and and kind of some of the last game as well with uh as far as regards to Conor what was different as far as getting back to our defensive uh game plan and mentality well defense wins championships uh it don’t matter what sport you’re in uh you need offense and I think that performance last night showed what winning in the NHL is all about you you have to have skill you have to have a mix of all of it but if your players don’t have the testicular fortitude manto man to outwork your opponent and beat the guy across from you and that means putting it all on the line if you got to block shots if you got to get physical you got to win Puck battles uh I I think that the Florida Panthers out of any team in the league had the most buyin those guys all bought in and what you have to give credit for there’s a lot of guys on that team that did not play in the Stanley Cup Final last year I think it’s like eight or nine guys Luc Daran was there he had a broken leg he didn’t play so they had guys who had to come in and get that experience quickly and I think the culture that they built in that locker room starting with Matthew kachuck that was the difference that is the difference that’s what you lean on when you face adversity is do I trust the guys in this locker room and that’s why I picked them I felt that they were the best team and the closest team because of what they because of what they went through last season to go to a Stanley Cup Final and get back in this situation be up three nothing and have that team come back the only thing you can lean on are your past experiences and looking around that locker room do I know the guys that are in here do I believe in those guys and I I truly believe that they had a tight group in they believed in each other they just needed to reset and get back to their identity and that’s meat and potatoes you know not trying to make it look pretty you know just get your hands dirty and get it done and they did protein and starch let’s get out there let’s do some gritting jam and some s paper and do this entire thing Paul Maurice whenever he was asked in a follow-up question after he took the cup and lifted it and looked at it and did the whole thing goes back to his interview and he talks about everything being hard and that’s how we wanted it’s Florida panther way and then she followed up and said why do you think this group of guys or whatever and and he talks about how close they are they’re like this team is incredibly close like signed guys at the trade deadline they fit in perfectly like we have a crew which leads to Tai Schmidt’s question for you PK yeah PK obviously hate doing this the night after they win but you know it’s it’s got to do it yeah you have to do it and you just mentioned you know like them they they look good to potentially repeat next year but a lot of their key guys they have signed for multiple years here and just mentioned it with you know like the like what they have in the locker room and how close they are and the chemistry and and all that kind of stuff are we looking at like a potential Dynasty with the Panthers here or or how how do I mean how do we approach this well I I’ll say this they’re going to have to retweet their their defense a little bit I I think they’re going to have to share that up uh obviously I think mtor’s contracts up um you know they’re going to have to retool that I think that they’re going to have to continue to get some speed and skill in that lineup their power play was non-existent uh that’s an issue they’re going to have to address the power play uh quarterback at the top all ofan ekan Larson was put into that situation I don’t know if that’s someone that they’re going to look at to run the power play next year maybe to start the season but they’re going to need somebody back there that can log log those minutes and and and Play That Power Play Because for them to win another Stanley Stanley cup they’re going to need special teams to get it done and uh the the way that they played though the brand of hockey that they played was a very very tough brand of hockey we haven’t seen a team play that way in a long time in the National Hockey League manto man so is it potential that they can be a dynasty maybe but there’s a lot of hockey left to be played I wouldn’t be saying that’s necessarily sure Conor McDavid might have a might have uh something to say about that yeah sure yeah speaking of Conor McDavid you know that’s brand right there that’s brand it’s Jim Harbaugh football that’s Florida panther hockey I mean there’s numerous other teams Pittsburgh Penguins obviously we got one guy that does this he’s actually a lefty he’s named cdy Crosby he’s our best player so our best player is also our toughest guy which is certainly a problem in Pittsburgh we don’t need to talk about Pittsburgh today we don’t need to talk about Pittsburgh they’re never winning the cup so don’t worry well they have we already have sorry again sorry sorry never again anyway yeah that lordo that debut is drinking on it today come this side that came from right here I came from right here oh yeah but they have actually actually came from from right there from right here I did taste that sweet nectar last year yeah but that thing was lifted quickly right back to hockey town right over here I mean that’s where IND Boston next year no no Pittsburgh I mean Detroit listen 1945 1942 I don’t have to Revis but history was made last night and uh the losers no matter how it went were both Detroit Red Wings so if you wanted to just dive into that whole thing no we don’t have okay all right sweet yeah we we’ll talk about teams that made Stanley Cup H cuz they play great hockey all year let’s go to con man yeah PK obviously a lot of the conversation on the broadcast was talking about how the Oilers towards the end kind of ran out of gas was that something that you saw from them and how long did McDavid actually spend on the ice because it did feel as though at least watching 18 of those 20 minutes in the third period he was on there and then did you see Leon dry sidles comments as well I might have I might be getting Gau about this but is there a chance that he doesn’t resign with Edington after you know everything that happened well Conor McDavid definitely looked tired in the third but he played half of the third period so I mean any human that plays that much in the third period after that long of a run I don’t care how fast you skate um you know or or how good you are you’re going to be exhausted and you could see he was visibly exhausted and they still had opportunities to tie that game they had their looks they had their looks they could have tied it but you know Florida bent they didn’t break and the best defensive team got it done you know as far as Leon Dr cidal goes you know obviously he’s going to reflect you know on the Stanley Cup Final and his performance um It’s a Grind man It’s a Grind like you know you got to see what his injury report is was he banged up or not but I’ll tell you this who isn’t banged up you know it come the St Cup Final everybody’s got bumps and bruises this guy is a top 10 player in the National Hockey League he’s that good but when you win the Stanley Cup you realize when you get to the Stanley Cup Final you realize how difficult it is because it’s a physical grind and for me you could see he had one game maybe in the series where I felt that his skating he was he was skating like you normally see Leon do through the middle of the eyes penetrating C he’s a facilitator he’s got to be a facilitator and I I didn’t think he could find that confidence in his game enough so you know personally for him I’m sure he’s going to look back and want to be better in his next Stanley Cup vinyl he’ll have an opportunity to do it again will it be in Edmonton I’ll tell you this you know it’s difficult man when you go somewhere and you’re the number one guy it’s a lot different than playing behind Conor McDavid and if I was leand ridol I WR I’d want to be riding shotgun with Conor McDavid all day long because the game ain’t going to get any easier than that um he’s the best player in the world and you know if he’s in Edmonton they’re going to continue to put great players around him and build a winning team around him and the goal is to win a Stanley Cup he’s already started his career in Edmonton he’s got a great legacy there you know if I was him I’d want to stay with Conor McDavid but that’s the choice he’s earned his independence he’s that great of a hockey player player he can go wherever the hell he wants to go and play um more power to him he’s Elite but he’s going to have to look at his game reflect and get better the next time he gets an opportunity he goes from Conor McDavid to Sydney Crosby congratulations welcome to Pittsburgh tryal welcome to Pittsburgh be once win cup once come win a cup you go ahead and do that um we started rattling off hockey players in here whenever you said he’s a top 10 player and it’s like there’s a lot of really good players that haven’t been playing in the playoffs so like maybe you forget about him because it’s much like the NBA if you’re not playing in the playoffs you are very much forgotten about like very McKinnon obviously I mean he he has not played for like a month seemingly or two months so he is out of out of sight out of mind and then Nick in the back on Nikki skates was like uh dry was like top 10 in points literally every single year and then you talk about him playing alongside McDavid it’s like we saw gensel doing that with Sydney Crosby and I thought to myself if I’m gensel I’m taking less money so I can continue to play next to Sydney Crosby then he gets traded to Carolina and he becomes their star and he almost leads him to the St so like I I assume dry CLE is also potentially seeing that whole thing take place and uh I’ll tell you I can’t wait to see what the moves are this off season I can’t wait to see what the injuries have been for both these Oilers and Florida Panthers whenever they’re inevitably announced because I think a lot of people new to hockey don’t understand there could be like a broken sternum that on one of these teams that was just playing last night that was literally just playing last night like uh oh gu was playing like a rolled ankle or something no actually he had a broken femur yeah well what do you mean like yeah he he’s going to be out for eight months shattered he’s actually missing the beginning of next season because of the game he played it last night knowing that it was going to happen you hockey players are the best it was a phenomenal year congrats on the great coverage and we appreciate the hell out of you man thanks Pat love coming on the show and uh thank you for everything that you’ve done for the League this year it’s uh been a huge difference the amount of people over the course of the Stanley Cup Final that talk about uh me coming on your show and just your show in general was pretty awesome so continue to do the great work man love watching you guys yeah we’re lucky to do it you make our show much better we appreciate the hell lot of you ladies and gentlemen NHL Legend J Tatum dude hey Pat hold on yesterday so I went down the Elbow Room for one drink so we went there that’s all anybody go it was already a g show in there it was already a Gong Show in there and there must have been like 10 guys in the bar that they just said hey PK they yelled and I thought they were gonna say like you and they started go like this and then I just didn’t even say anything I just went like this oh that’s awesome it’s been an incredible gimmick we’ll be talking to Brad Stevens next hour I’ll I wonder if he has seen you’re J Tatum impersonation throughout this entire year you’re the man ladies and gentlemen PK suban [Applause] PK has done a fantastic job for the sport weapon yeah he really has him moose leevy they really get along oh yeah you can see that kind of radiating through they you know they know the opportunity here with ESPN having the rights having the Stanley Cup rights and with what hockey is doing right now I think the ratings are up like 54% or something like that that’s huge that’s just obviously linear rating then you go to the streaming and then the social media now has kicked up a notch the NHL was once in the stone ages when it came to social media sharing of and everything like that now it’s up it’s like the acknowledgement of the NHL being top three sport you know if you go like NFL college football and then NBA NHL battling right the NBA is obviously has an advantage many more millions of viewers whenever you’re talking about the playoffs but if you start if you’re Gary bman in the NHL and Gary phenomenal job his promo last night was sweet I’m tell he was trying to get the crowd to go crazy as opposed to just customary commissioner [ __ ] speech like he was talking about and nobody’s more important than you fans here and they obviously all go and then the handoff of the lordo is fantastic but if you’re Gary bman in the NHL you have to be looking at the trends for hockey and you got to be looking at the trends for the NBA and you got to be like wait a minute hold the phone good spot we are in a good spot we were climbing we were hot that’s good news for all of us cuz if the NBA who just got A7 billion investment from uh NBC Amazon and ESPN their right and the NHL has got a massive investment and these sports are catching fire we got new Young stars that are about to take the re of the entire thing we got potential dynasties being built in certain places it’s like we are in a great spot congrats to sports congrats to hockey hell yeah and that’s why it’s so awesome that Edington made it like people that didn’t watch hockey that have never seen Conor McDavid play hockey must have been watching that like this is a completely different sport when that guy’s on the ice like the highlights of him you know in game five when he’s dancing through everybody and dishing the puck like him being on the biggest stage is awesome and also like a team like Florida that isn’t known as a hockey state or town at least now kind of cementing themselves as a premier team in the NHL sweet do you remember when we were down Tampa Doran there Stanley you walk in and out of gas stations you hear go boats go boats go boats literally and obviously that’s whenever Tampa Bay Buccaneers had Tom Brady and they’re doing their thing as well so it’s like Tampa became The Sports Hub and you would hear a lot of people say go boats go boats and I’m not saying that Tampa hasn’t been a hockey town for a long time I’m just saying whenever you have success more people buy in more people and everybody says well you’re bandwagon you’re bandwagon it’s like I like to think that those people just like happiness sure so whenever they see something that could potentially bring them happy uh happiness they’re going to get on board especially if it represents them in their town it’s like Florida Panthers are going to have many more fans next year just strictly by a most as a celebration and the people talking that’s good for hockey everywhere and it was also kind of I mean for us you know we we didn’t really talk about it that way cuz it sucks because there’s not as much Sports on but like it was huge that the NBA ended when it did because then like hockey kind of came to Center Stage for the last two games all eyes on hocke exactly and like obviously you know there was the College World Series last night but like that’s I don’t think that’s bringing in a casual fan the same way cuz like people even if you don’t watch hockey like you know what the Stanley Cup is you’ve heard of it and it’s and it’s easier to find and I think more people be like okay this is this is the only game in town I guess they’ll I’ll check this out like I saw way more people saying like you know last night on on social media and everything like oh this is actually awesome like I haven’t been paying attention to this at all but like this is incredible and if we have the NBA still going on at the same time like who knows if we’re getting that how about the Florida Panthers trailblazing the way into the future of a bigger better hockey as a whole I love it man you you mentioned being down in in uh Tampa like it’s harder for teams in areas where it’s so much [ __ ] to do or it’s just nice weather all the time like like Vegas like you got to you got be good if you’re going to be in you got to be good if you’re going to be South La like you got to be good in these places for people to care unless you’re like you know like the Lakers but like the Clippers like they won’t have a real fan base until like even the the uh Chargers like teams like that like you struggle in these nice you know nice cities it’s it’s easier when you’re in these Blue Collar cities when it’s it’s cold you know half the year and it’s like hey my team is this is what I got this is what I look for something to do yeah it’s so much tougher but uh it’s great like you said it’s great for the sport to have a superstar like Conor McDavid obviously uh as a centerpiece and then a team like Florida back-to-back Stanley Cup champions now I’m not I’m not obviously a hockey uh fish andado but how often does the KH Smith award or SMI award go SM K SMI award go to the losing almost never almost this the sixth time in history only second time it’s a the you guys feel like you’re getting no no no no no I I look I hasn’t happened since the 40s there’s an issue there’s an issue he was up there with with the great one and I understand that is a um an award given to the player for you know over you know all the playoff series but I mean I mean shees like that’s tough that that’s tough tough spot for Gary to be maybe I I ow Gary and apology I I did call for more Boos I heard the broadcast muted so I’m sure you know the the crowd was giving some plist strees there yeah I wonder what they were saying cuz I saw mou saying Bobby and then I saw it getting muted I’m like so they’re not saying Bobby something so that is it Connor they were going after or was it bman they were going I heard Bobby that’s I was watching voices say Bobby as well but it was muted for like a good 20 seconds there was like a 20 second mute that took place in our show understands yeah that the mute is brought out for one particular word starts with f yeah and but it was on ABC so maybe it’s a little maybe it’s a couple others but you’re right I I but Gary bman walking out there first thing he’s got all right first order of business get this over with quick I need Conor McDavid come back from the locker room you’re the best player in this whole series [ __ ] all these guys that’s a tough it wasn’t his vote he’s got he’s got a speak you we’ve seen in other sports like LeBron when he led both teams points rebounds assists and everything against the Warriors he like all right if it’s ever a Time Jerry West we talked about a great Jerry West um when he when he won as a so it I guess it happens or it should happens at time but I was just confused there there’s an issue with the voting process oh no you see so McDavid obviously incredible incredible incredible playoffs okay after game five I was like sure give him the cons SMI no matter what happens doesn’t have a shot in game six doesn’t have any points in game seven or whatever uh what you’re listening to right now by the way is a guy that unloaded about 10 minutes left last night I’m like I’m that’s all the story is okay so I I know I made a deposit in a new account you pulled money into account there’s no way they’re going to give it a guy that hasn’t had Shot Bob stand on his head so I put a bunch of money on Bob to win the cons Smite he wouldn’t have won it anyways Barky would have won it but any so it’s a m point but Nick told me this morning voting cuts off with 10 minutes left in the game so at that point it’s 21 Panthers how’s that even happen two1 Panthers ever heard you got ask you got ask the journalist so if Edmonton scores the journalist they got it all figured out hey hey puppets just do what you’re told so yeah I don’t blame the voters cuz it’s 21 at that point say you vote for a panther okay and edming comes back and wins and MCD and mcdavid’s not the cons my what if he scores two goals in the final three minutes win like that’s why he had to win though like he was clearly and I get like the player on the winning team should win I understand that thought process completely like this was a generational hasn’t been done in forever since Gretzky type of performance in the playoffs like I I do understand like as a Celtics fan if Luca were to won after you know a 4-1 victory for the Celtics I would have been pissed but if Luca had a triple double every damn game in his entire you know finals run had hadn’t been seen since a Michael Jordan then it’s like okay well that it’s kind of undeniable how great that guy is like and it’s the same thing with McDavid like as a Panthers fan I’d be pissed it was such an awkward moment it just looked awkward so Gary having to do that entire thing when Conor’s not on there is the situation we’re talking about once again Conor McDavid when he was minus 5,000 I was like yep that is we’re watching history right now like we were watching history in front of us but the whole 10 minutes left voting thing that can’t Happ he was minus 200 when I placed my bet so his odds did drop a little bit but the whole like the NBA I think does texting just immediately after the game they told us they just group text into a group that’s how it should be because with 10 minutes left Anything Could Happen come on you puppets come on you guys can’t send a text after a thing well we have to type it up first and then we got to send it to our editors to approve whether or not our vote is okay then we got to put in just send a text make that happen could you imagine if they did get what if what if bosski scores the game winner mhm yeah what what what if what if bosski scores the stands on his head somehow flicks goes all the way down the ice and SK Falls beats Ste scanner goes in goal goal to shoot he has the game winning goal and also stands on his head and then let’s get Conor McDavid out here just moments later that would have been Gary Bon’s going to get that sorted cuz he was on he was listen we were figuring yeah I’m not doing that again okay it’s tough on Conor too it’s tough like I I was like cuz I once again I haven’t watched many of these I’m like is he going to skate back out here and just like that no they were waiting on him though they were they were starting to show like the crowd okay we’ll wait for him we’ll wait for Gary think David and Rory come back out Rory you know cuz everyone was pissed at Rory for just peeling tire and getting out of there Rory M okay it’s like Rory y yeah I appreciate that shows up in Rory’s car the last guy this happened to JS Jager John Sebastian Jager was the Ducks goalie in what 2003 on the losing team he got the con Smite and he went out and took the trophy and there are pictures of it he’s with Gary he looks miserable it’s just not it’s not a good presentation it looks awful it’s a shame to your point like if Bob were were to have done that goal like what about the opposite what what if they voted Bob and he lets in two muffins and David St at the Blue Line yeah exactly the Oilers are about to get the Stanley Cup and yeah come on out Bob yeah let’s see it that with 10 minutes left anything could have happen like that’s a lot of times so dumb before we get to our next guest uh Nick Benz and wait till hear this story okay it’s going to be about two minutes we have to talk about the College World Series last night game three in a best of three series series between Tennessee and Texas A&M and beautiful Omaha Nebraska we had a thriller now listen early it was like this Tennessee Volunteers team the number one team in the country metant business they win game two in dominant fashion and in game three the national champion deciding game first batter dong shot yeah Christian Moore is a stud we are up 1 pton Manning celebrating Morgan Wallen also uh Rick Barnes and H in there Tennessee royalty is in Omaha drinking boozing celebrating and opening not Pitch I guess there was a couple pitches dong shot to go one ZIP now we fast forward a little bit later into the boom seventh inning out of there two run Dinger from Dylan drying who was the most outstanding player of the tournament congratulations Dylan with a two-run shot in the seventh it goes from 3-1 to 51 now let’s stay in the seventh inning for the play of the game obviously it is 5 to one still we were just chatting about that ball gets hit off the wall that’s a double what’s going on is somebody rounding third he’s going to get home throws on time dodg is the catcher T plate spikes helmet 61 Tennessee that would go to review but it would find that Hunter Ensley Hunter Ensley is safe look at this play cat Clos his eyes he I think he old school they would have thought they were getting run over but new school you can’t get run over so I don’t know why you would Close Your Eyes the mustache man oh Jes the [ __ ] out of the catcher tags home plate wow six to one hey why is that important well not only CU it’s sweet and it’s sick and it’s something we don’t normally see and there was an incredible helmet Spike but this because going into the a it was 6-1 then what two runs for Texas A&M it’s 63 then in the ninth two runs for Texas A&M it’s 65 this game would inevitably end 6 to5 Tennessee Volunteers beat Texas A&M in a late Thriller in Omaha and we have a brand new National Champion the volunteers win the College World Series for the first time in program history and it got tight late and a lot of people were thinking is Tennessee going to blow this instead nasty pitch to end this and back in Rocky toop they’re celebrating All Summer Long Tai what a game yeah it was incredible I mean I think that’s why the College World Series is so sweet because typically you know like when it’s 61 late in these games it’s like all right this thing’s over you really don’t but like you could tell cuz a lot of these kids and we were talking about this a little bit before the show like I think people are assume they look last year and you got Paul SK pitching who is now one of the best pitchers in the major so you just assume that a lot of these guys who are in the championship it’s like these guys are going to be playing in the majors like without you know within a couple months here like that’s not the case a lot of these guys probably will never play baseball again or won’t go and play in the pros so like there’s some nervy situations here I mean you never see something like that like that is a routine I mean that’s game-winning yeah exactly exactly being heady to be able to get around there and and miss the tag and and probably knowing too that like hey you know 61 whatever like we’re going to need every Insurance run we can get because that that’s just kind of the way these things go like once the Avalanche kind of starts there late and they start putting Runners on guys for Tennessee start getting tight they have to go to the bullpen and and pitchers can’t really get into a Groove because their their coach said you know before the game I think we talked to McGee was like Hey we’re leaving nothing to chance here you know so if you see a guy walk someone and someone gets on Bas we’re yanking him we’re bringing someone else in and it really did I mean it got to a point there where it’s like oh [ __ ] Texas A&M’s going to like they’re going to come back back and win this thing and then ultimately you know after that is kind of tough because I mean just a wed little slider yeah but but they did they went through you know four pitchers late like in late Innings and and it felt like okay this one might get away from Tennessee but I mean it was it was an incredible game basically all you could ask for from a college baseball game how many pitchers for Tennessee Tennessee used Five Guys how many Texas A&M pitchers three okay so we saw eight different pitchers last night obviously 11 runs uh a lot of them coming late and that’s been the mo of this call of World Series it’s games get tight late so no matter what’s happening you got to stay on the edge of your seat before you can go celebrate I couldn’t even fathom the amount of shots that were B to rockos Morgan Wallen and pton crowd thousands the crowd was awesome every song that Morgan Wallen sings is about boozing yeah so whenever something happens you know where a chair happens everybody’s like all right yeah born with a beer in his head obviously mistake can’t be doing that [ __ ] we got to you know come on Morgan obviously a weapon and Manning known celebrator that is he’s a known celebrator H gets down too probably and then let’s not hyp will definitely what about Ryan McGee yeah oh my God Ryan McGee is in I mean the amount of drink I assume Omaha has been drank dry before and I assume last night is no different congrats everybody down there in rocket top and associated with rocket top also congratulations to this man that’s going to be joining us right now uh salesman at Golf Galaxy here in Indianapolis Indiana that’s right has found his way into qual qualifying for the rocket mortgage Classic this weekend a PGA sanctioned event how’d he do it well on the Monday qualifier he uh won seven under whoa then pretty good there was five people tied for four spots open in the PGA sanction event this weekend so through eight holes of overtime play he secured a spot by getting a birdie on like the eighth hleer whatever so not only is he an Indianapolis Legend not only did he fight and battle his way to get into a PGA Tour event he did those entire extra holes eight of them boozed up had three beers before he went out there ladies and gentlemen our new favorite golfer Nick Ben how you doing Nick how you doing brother doing good how are you great not as good as you were feeling on a first bonus hole after your house three beers hey what type of beer we drink in there what type of beer was that and this is normal oper operating procedure for you here Nick yeah this was uh this was just another day it was a summer shandy that I decided to I had three of them uh the first one was anticipated to be a little bit of a celebratory beer thinking I was already safely in and when I realized that oh nope not safe I decided you know what the only thing good for the nervous system is two more what maybe a little vodka what if that thing doesn’t start at a time you’re going to continue to drink or did you have a preparation of just three no matter when the starting extra holes were uh well it all happened so fast because I thought I was in until maybe two or three groups left so I was mid third beer I probably had like a quarter of it left and I quickly refreshed the scoreboard and there was five guys all of a sudden tied for four spots and I looked at the guys that I was sitting next to at the table took a quick drink finished it real quick and I was like we got to go warm up we got more golf to play all right boys one more no three three good three’s good let’s go do this thing and obviously you play phenomenal golf eight extra holes to secure a spot in this weekend’s toury so are you going to be boozing before is this like and how’s the PGA feel about this because I think what was it Joel Joel Joel dman did something where he drank like a uh White claw and then he won like 5 under for the back nine and he ended up qualifying into this entire thing so I feel like these stories happen John Daly right here in Indiana at Crooked Stick whenever he was kind of called in on a Tuesday drove in from Arkansas was nervous as [ __ ] was drinking beers in styrofoam cups while walking down Fairways ends up wining the entire tournament or whatever in his first ever tournament is this something you normally do like when you’re a Golf Galaxy giving lessons or selling clubs you’re like here’s first thing you need to do get a little boo get a little swing juice get a little lubrication in you is that your go-to is that your Mo or no no I mean everybody needs a little bit of Swing oil he’s got to find the right balance for me it just happened to be three um this week he’s gone PJ say he can’t be talking about getting boo up come we got enough B right now did you hear what saud’s doing you’re a qualifier we don’t need you guys we don’t need you out here talking about how boozed up you are in this entire thing I think we got a point across yeah yeah that guy qualified for the Monday thing plays seven under goes five birdies and an eagle to go 700 plays I assume one of the best rounds he’s ever played I’m in a PGA event for the first time in my entire life and then all of a sudden not so fast my friend we’ve been boozing and golfing our whole lives who cares let’s do we’re happy for him congratulations dick bench yeah can’t wait to come buy some clubs off you at Golf Galaxy or even better win this thing then you don’t have to sell clubs ever again you can just get into every tournament like your Michael block exactly I mean I mean who I don’t know what place he would have to get but and I don’t know what he makes it Golf Galaxy but I would assume hey you get you finish top 30 in this like that’s two years worth of working at Golf Galaxy what a what a feel-good story coming out any we got beer we got golf we got a long shot we got a Golf Galaxy employe guy loves the game loves the game loves the game and then to get to that Monday qualifier he had to hit a pre-qualifier to get to the qualifier so we’re talking about a qualifier I think last Thursday then a qualifier on Monday then some beers then some eight extra holes that’s 25 holes or 26 holes in one day three beers in one qualification for a PGA event nice little Monday for Nick Benz yeah that’s all and and then that I can imagine too you’re playing eight extra holes you know you’re just waiting like okay but like the amount of tension when you get that close it’s like okay like listen if I if I play seven holes here here and I’m the one guy who doesn’t qualify for this like you’re never coming back for that from that so thank God he he got it done and he’s going to go play in the rocket mortgage yeah because people would say well he’s an alcoholico this guy’s a booze bag exactly this guy ruined his entire opportunity he’s been he’s almost been like uh old buddy from um Kevin C Tin Cup Tin Cup yeah this guy’s been grinding away his whole life for this exactly working at Golf Galaxy giving out terrible Lessons in golf simulators by a bunch of bum golfers finally gets his opportunity shoots a seven under this guy shoots a seven under no bogey five birdies and an eagle to qualify good day and then he gets reminded about an hour and a half later that this is not a guarantee sir you shouldn’t have drank those four beers he’s already prey well me and the boys already what summer shandies it’s the summer I’m in a PJ event I love finish I love that he finish the third one though halfway done oh I got to go back all right all right let’s go ahead and do let’s do this voice listen if Rock mortgage starts off rough throwing Nicki Benz here exactly he needs to stop at a house on the side of the course like he’s in top of lordo M just go ahead and do that there yeah how it we need just a hammer drunk offer to win this thing so bad that’d be huge for the he might win it yeah he might who’s playing in it uh Tom Kim’s your favorite oh fresh off last week Tom Kim’s playing good golf Tom k Tom Kim’s got a lot to prove right now too is your second favorite he shot a 59 on Saturday I believe to get back in running he a let down weeks for these guys I feel good about Nikki Ben yeah potentially Nicki Ben’s going on a run uh this weekend and we will obviously be pulling for him now uh I couldn’t lead the show at this because there was still information being told by my wife and her family to friends and close people to her family but now that I’ve been given the go-ahead uh yesterday was a day that is obviously a day that’ll be remembered forever in our family um because my father-in-law passed away unexpectedly after the show ended yesterday in a hospital here in Indianapolis Indiana he had been in the hospital fighting an infection and on Friday we were told that he was probably going to be discharged by Sunday they had figured it out and he was going to be okay so we are all in high hopes with Incredible optimism and then yesterday literally as the show is ending my wife calls me and says that I have to get to the hospital because there had been an emergency so I head over there and what my wife and her mom and her aunt and everybody in her family saw go on was her dad being a badass and trying to kickass and inevitably losing his fight in this particular day and uh whenever something blindsides an entire family like that obviously it can be wildly Dev devastating my wife is a daddy’s girl she actually has a bear tattooed on her because she calls her dad papa bear she has her dad’s quotes all over her so last night was obviously a very difficult night for our family and uh it was a nice reminder to and thankfully my wife and her mom with her dad the last things they said to Bob who was a great man was I love you and I think this is a nice piece of perspective and a moment to tell everybody like hey tell your people you love them you literally have no idea what’s going to come it can literally be the last time you see somebody anytime you see them and a lot of people tell us that our show helps them escape from things and get away from things well that’s what it is for me today and I can’t thank you all enough and my wife and her mom I love you our to on the other side is now he’s a man who will be compared to Forever whenever they’re talking about goat conversations in the sport of football that’s because he won seven Super Bowl was consistently dominant for more than two decades at football ridiculously handsome so absurdly handsome an Underdog Story too picked at 199 at the NFL draft not a top five pick not handed anything and then what did he do he went to work did his job became the greatest of all time and now a phenomenal businessman in a great representation of the greatest league on Earth ladies and gentlemen Tom br hell yeah dude man Tom I thought this was all potential gimmick rip I didn’t know if you were actually on the I’m so pumped you were here hey we love you dude we love you Tom I appreciate it when you’re 40 years old and you’ve won six Super Bowls and you’re already being called the goat was there anything to you getting to the point of just being I’m tired of bill bich talking to me like I’m a 23-year-old cuz that was kind of the lingering at the end of your time at New England there was so much people just trying to create some division that most of it was untrue but it’s just the way the world works and naturally I think division from within is a big problem in these team environments and I don’t like seeing any dysfunction in team environments obviously my respect for Coach belich is pretty well documented he was an incredible leader and coach for our team and I tried to do my best every single day that I took the field I knew that he did the same thing and I think that’s why I respected his coaching so much whenever they talk about the Patriot Way that is normally the reason that is given is like the Patriot Way the Patriot Way the Patriot Way I’ve never used that term in my entire life I think when people say it I’m always like what’s the Patriot way it sounds like the title of a book I think what we tried to do was we tried to do things the right way I think we tried to practice the right way and prepare the right way what happened on Game day was ultimately a reflection of what we practiced and I thought we had great leadership from our coaches and it filtered down to the guys who really drove the culture we had so many guys that I played with over the course of a lot of years that really understood that okay I’m going to care about my teammates and I’m going to care about helping the team win there’s a guy on our show who is Die Hard Patriot fan Boston Connor has a question for you yeah Tommy I have to what’s up Boston I have to start and just say thank you you know uh my whole life has been incredible because of the fact that you have won six Super Bowls and you know I’m a loser every day but I’m a winner as a football fan because of you and what the Patriots were able to do so thank you what do you think the new era of New England with mayo is going to be and him coming back into coaching I think is great for the NFL and certainly great for the Patriots he’s got a great understanding of how things need to be done I think gerro does an incredible job relating to everybody in the locker room all the coaches and I think he’ll do a great job going into the booth are you utilizing the same thing hearing what people are saying about you going in there and how do you balance that while still being a human the broadcast are going to be 5 years from now is going to be hopefully more improved than the one that starts on day one so I’m going to go in there with the opportunity to start and learn and I’m sure by the end of the year I’ll feel more comfortable I really want to be a great Ambassador for the NFL in the game I love the sport I love the athletes I love the organizations and and I really the following program is a collection of students talking about happening in the sports world it is meant to be comedic informative the opinions expressed on this show do not necessarily reflect the beliefs of their peers their boss or ESPN there may be some cuss words because that’s how cubis is the real world talk if you are a young please seek permission before watching any further hey let’s go this show stins in the fact that you listen we are very very thankful for the all-time leading tackler for the Green Bay Packers you P up damn it be a friend tell a friend something nice could change their life sport sport sport sport sport hello beautiful people and welcome back to our humble abod the thund on this new champs Tuesday June 25th 2024 hour to the program starts now sports sports are the greatest thing on earth Sports help uh distract you from anything happening in your life Sports help unify the world and sports bring championships and celebrations to cities all around the world more specifically last night South Florida whether it’s sunrise for l or Miami I assume we’ll see the cup at some point and then Downer Knoxville Tennessee in Omaha Nebraska with the Tennessee Volunteers winning their first ever College World Series the talk to table is here at Boston Connor and at Tai Schmidt con man I know you got that Larry O sitting right next to you Brad Stevens will be joining us in about 10 minutes are you excited to deliver a question to him perfectly just like you have done in the past with all the other Boston Heroes oh good lord I’m blow at questions so no I’m not kind of excited for that blow questions when it does seem like you do get a little star struck every once in a while it really which was the one where your friends texted you and said you should have just O’Neal that was Star Struck that was just like ah Jesus Christ I suck at this what am I doing up here but I mean Brady you could say for sure I I bill you can make an argument I don’t know if I’d go that far but no Brad you know I’m more so just looking forward to thanking him for for the domination you know a lot of a lot of teams like we mentioned throughout the playoffs you know every single round the Celtics won it was never about the Celtics it was more so about why the Celtics won’t win not about how great and dominant they truly were and to go from coach to president of basketball operations I assume that was a move so I’m more of excited to hear what you know he has to say about the squad about the future of the team and more so about stacking a few more banners because it’s packed up there in the garden more oh you just want to let them know hey this ain’t no say this is cool but but one’s nice okay hey I saw you with the backwards hat having the fun talking about the team and celebrating everything like that we’re past that we’re going to need a couple more or you’re going to get the hell out is that what you’re going to tell Brad I’m not going to tell him to get out no lifetime contract NBA exec of the Year possibly the greatest NBA exec in the history of the NBA but I will say like you know what separates dominant teams is dominant dynasties and that’s what we need to go for you know the last six years there’s been a different NBA champion every year it’s time we have another run of one team being that team in the NBA well it’s funny you say that so the Las Vegas Aces uh the Yukon huskies and the Kansas City Chiefs have all won back to back I actually saw in first take earlier says which team is most likely to win three in a row I mean the Chiefs obviously have had their eye on it since the beginning Las Vegas Aces there’s a chance with AIA Wilson still being the best player in basketball the the WNBA is certainly in a different place now than it was the last two years and that’s because there’s one player not did you see sorry real quick did you see the graphic that was put together the one we made no no cuz that one didn’t get seen cuz I was a dumbass there’s there’s a different one put together about a comparison of two players they they combined one stat that was just an asinine stat to combine but we’re not going to get we don’t know enough about even though we’ve invested $40,000 in season tickets in the Indiana Fever has any other journalist do that you tell us puppets you know in your entire chitchatting this entire thing yeah boots on a wood everything you guys are talking about in WNBA right now if you go back to like the first month of WNBA season you probably hear everything you guys are addressing right now from one group of dumb asses in this entire thing nonetheless kayen Clark’s gonna figure it out I think next year good luck oh yeah to everybody they made you know they’re starting to cook right now to be fair they’re making I was say through Boston not Melissa they’re changing kin’s rolling Christy Sid is actually been need ktie Lou to get some more shots up well and samuelon as well yeah yeah yeah Sam said is uh the Beast uh she drains threes legitimately anyways or the Yukon Huskies of the men’s college basketball I think we all agreed that men’s college basketball is probably the most getable in this entire after those backto back dominant runs that we’ve seen in Marsh Madness that’s who I will have the most Fai well is maybe a little biased is there any chance yeah you’re a Yukon husky is there any chance that nine time NFL vet Darius J Butler Florida Panthers go back to back oh yeah we’ve been there back to back we figured it out obviously been there like PK said we got some things to figure out but uh yeah with that core with that coach Paul Maurice with Bill Zito see all all those guys that whole family down there sunr we got to win two first before we get into this conf oh of course of course yeah got to go back to back easy that that’s the lower third tomorrow by the way who goes back to back who’s more likely to go back to back the Florida Panthers or the Indiana Fever to Chuck or or or the Boston sou okay B uh one half of the hammer Cowboys T digs is here he unloaded his account on bosski to win the kmice last night in the third period uh instead Conor McDavid becomes the sixth player in Stanley Cup history to be on the losing side of the Stanley Cup while winning the playoff MVP award which is the con Smite sports are wonderful joining us now as a man who is a college football national champion and a Super Bowl champion ladies and gentlemen AJ Hawk AJ we got two new teams becoming champs for the first time in their history I’m pumped up about it congrats to Tennessee congrats to the Florida Panthers AJ yeah I think both games actually delivered too and I know you said earlier it was a bit of a kg Affair in the hockey game two to one but you could kind of feel it like like every single thing mattered and I I like I enjoyed hearing PK and mess and everybody and Levy in the intermissions talk about how like I think mess said hey if you’re if you’re behind your guy by two feet it might as well be two miles like everything is everything is magnified and everyone is playing like such Elite hockey it was honestly it was really fun to watch what a goal right there too by the way filthy deflection obviously that is a tactic used in hockey for those that don’t know is get in front of the goalie and deflect deflect deflect to completely change the direction of the puck from missing the net to being ho goal massive skill set and Big Goal obviously Stanley Cup game seven and rho puts one in for the 21 lead as Bovi would stand on his head the rest of the way and secure the Stanley Cup for the Florida Panthers and then for that College World Series AJ hey at the four runs by Texas A&M in the last two innings 65 all of a sudden we got an overthrow somebody basically just walks in 65 holy [ __ ] the tension in all the orange that was around Omaha was very palpable and very real pton Manning and Morgan Wallen W from saluting and cheers and to arms crossed what what do we have here what do we have here instead they hold on get a big time dub what a game what a win yeah I was thinking of the of all of these kids parents sitting in the stands honestly I was like man if any of these per people were my kids like how nervous would you be and then the absolute relief and excitement for the team that wins yeah like I’m happy for them man college baseball has it’s a cool atmosphere they need to figure a way to bring that into the major league somehow well there’s that’s never going to happen I mean you know that’s like uh that’s like college football you know in the NFL it’s just not I mean the NFL makes so much more money obviously because they’re phenomenal business and the ratings are crazy but if you just talk about environment you’re talking night and day there yes and I I think obviously you went to Ohio State so you got to experience this and you grew up in the state of Ohio you’re basically a buckeye from birth and I think they actually give you Buckeye like yeah things as soon as you’re born in the state of Ohio like you’re going to be a buckeye but like college football atmospheres are just different especially at those big schools West Virginia our fans are obviously absurd but you go to some of these like cult-like religion likee college football places and it is a different ball game it’s like a religion for these people college baseball in the South I think not everywhere college baseball in the South though very similar and whenever you hear that Ding off the bat everybody it’s an instant Pavlov’s dogs lose your [ __ ] some of these videos that come from the regular season game are bananas and then the Omaha uh entire Omaha thing is beautifully done packed house pack feels like the city is ready for it Hospitality through like here in Indianapolis I got nothing but respect for what Omaha did because all the workers there have to buy in like yeah we’re going to deal with drunk idiots from that aren’t from here so like a lot of cities like in Pittsburgh drunk idiots not from Pittsburgh not handled Well normally ass beat kicked out of bar don’t come back here in Indianapolis it’s like a part of the gig hey there’s a lot of conventions here there’s a lot of events here there’s going to be a lot of drunk doofuses from other walks of life in other cities wandering our streets and the people of Indianapolis are cool with it that’s like good to see you should head over there okay let’s stay away from that particular group there let’s go somewhere else Omaha is the same damn thing they’re dealing with the drunkest of drunk alumni and richest of Rich alumni from all of these uh schools and everybody sings their praises so shout out to Omaha shout out to college baseball for having a remarkable year yet again yeah I mean like we’ve been talking about the shot counter like that’s one of the big things like they’re encouraging people to come in and like buy a thousand shots for people and they’re keeping track of it and I think one of the big things too is you get down there and like you said in the south I mean there are four teams from the SEC and four teams from the ACC that made it but like for the most part obviously there’s always going to be you know drunk [ __ ] and stuff like that but with how much people are boozing down there and doing all like you don’t hear a lot of like fights there’s not a lot like you don’t see videos of like physical altercations it’s like a lot of people who genuinely just do love college baseball and like they go to Omaha to kind of celebrate it together and who wins is kind of secondary which you don’t get that a lot in sports anymore and what a play by yeah uh Hunter anley do you see that AJ he gave a a what like I mean the catcher did the catcher assumed that he was going to run him over even though you know you’re not allowed to run him over there’s all the the rules are weird now I think dbot question is athleticism I I mean I just think he closed his eyes he might be a great athlete but it’s kind of a bang bang I mean it’s happened to me before I miss tackle I missed tackle on Tyreek Hill same way screen pass thought I had him kind of closed my eyes right before and boom he was gone yeah Antonio Brown got me and yeah same exact thing you I was on the ground he but you know how far outside the line is he allowed to go I mean you’re you’re really not supposed to like stray from the the Baseline cuz that was good usage I think of the he was coming wide that’s why like the catcher was set up that’s where he was coming this is a great play it’s a great running I think set him up it’s like kick returner like he set up his block almost and then gets around it was a phenomenal play and this is the game-winning run right here so it’s going to be I assume there’s going to be a photo of him going like this oh yeah for sure yeah all across all the Tennessee volunteer baseball [ __ ] whatever it is wait room dogout facility I don’t know what all they have you can tell you can tell the catcher is preparing for contact and then he realizes at the last second oh he’s not going to contact me and then tries to reach never turns his headit yeah oh that sucks if he contacts him it’s an automatic out right so the catcher if he takes that so body part counts like if you or I thought you had touch him ball like you do but I’m saying if you run him over now ball has to touch him so like if ball’s in glove but like if he just like Clips him with like a like part like no it he has to make contact okay so I think I saw in game two second base guy got tagged in the face did you see this with the bruise and his thing then ball fell out MH safe no he gets this guy is in between first and second it like came to what’s that second basement or short stop on the right side second yeah second baseman then so somebody hits it to Second basem there’s somebody on first he gets ball guys’s running from first to second he goes to tag him okay pretty good contact he’s on the inside of the guy guy’s on the outside and ball ends up skirting free but this guy gets punched in face with glove so he’s laying on dirt ball skirts out underneath in my head I was like I think in baseball he could get up and go yeah guy picks up ball tags him he gets up busted busted open just walks off I’m like baseball’s pretty sick I I didn’t know we’re punching people in the face while we’re running the bases out here so if let’s say old buddy there isn’t able to get around himh but he hits him hard enough which I don’t know you guys are acting like is not possible anymore and that ball comes out he’s safe that’s how that’s how it used to be like there’re like back in the day show some clips from the majors yeah the dude’s protecting the plate they ch everything after what Ma or whoever got hurt you used to just be able to run over the catcher like like full speed collision and and guys guys would block the plate and get absolutely destroyed and drop the ball and then the guy’s safe and then yeah it was uh I think it was Buster posy who was like one of the best catchers in the majors he got blown up got hurt for the season they’re like all right we’re not doing this anymore so he’s not allowed to in his intent can’t be to run over that he has to act like he’s getting around him but he could have easily yeah if they make contact I think a lot of times it’s like it’s the umpire’s discretion as to whether or not like there was intent to to knock him over but but most of the time yeah like no contact is allowed that was filthy yeah big time that was absolutely filthy and the fact that that’s the game winner and you got that mustache on your face you got to feel good you got to feel really good great you got to feel good about your time in om afterwards he was probably up there with Morgan last night him and pton brother that was me yeah should I was this one here remember then McGee came in I I’ve seen that 19 uh I think 79 79 you remember Bo you remember Bo Jangles Bojangles for you right yeah he actually had the same exact move all right let’s PIV it away from College World Series congrats to the volunteers great school great University I’ve been down there a lot with college game day it is fantastic so I’m happy they won in Texas A&M what a run they’ve never won a title either hopefully next year it was fun getting to learn about your team speaking about learning about teams all year we didn’t hear [ __ ] about one team okay because they were considered too good this team’s already got into the playoffs this team’s so far ahead of everybody in the East let’s not even talk about them now granted we are a football program we don’t cover the NBA as much as we should although it seems like in the future with the relationships we are building we will certainly do it but the folks that cover the NBA refuse to cover this team cuz they were too good let’s not even talk about we’ll talk about them in the playoffs and it got to the playoffs it was like ah uh they’re not that good they’re actually just playing and then what do they do will they have the most dominant run in recent history to a championship joining us now ladies and gentlemen Indiana man who’s leading the Boston Celtics formerly as their coach now President of Operations ladies and gentlemen Brad Stevens hey guys how we doing coach people still call you coach or no they do and then they usually say afterwards they usually say I don’t know why I still call you coach well that’s because once a coach always a coach and I think I think that’s a compliment more so than anything and we saw you know zville high school photo of you the other day on the internet you’ve always had so much Swagger that the world could not handle it uh let’s talk about your life right now you obviously go from coach to front office and that’s been something I assume you’ve had to talk about at length or at nauseum for me as a guy that was in Indiana whenever you were in your run at Butler and how much all these people love you in Indiana and how much respect everybody has for your basketball brain watching you leave the sidelines to go up to the front office I didn’t fully understand it now obviously it’s like the greatest decision any person’s made in sports at this point but when you make the transition from coach to Executive was there nerves were you ready for I think there’s been numerous people that have said like you were ready for it but did you know that all this was coming and that’s like such a crazy question but was there nerve did you expect this and how was it gone since the transition has taken place versus what you thought it was going to be no I mean yeah there were nerv um because it’s totally different right you spend 21 years um coaching and that’s kind of what you build up you know your knowledge Bas in and and you know that’s the old rule of 10,000 hours coaches get to that pretty quick um with how many hours you put in but um I really love to build team um I I I really like to fit pieces together um we had an amazing staff in the front office that knew could help me get better at understanding the intricacies and the nuances of you know the cap and the CBA and understanding all the different decisions that you have to make along the way um but I felt like I had a good base of knowledge about our basketball team and specifically our best players and what would compliment them and hopefully hopefully we can put the right pieces around and and just continue to be sustainably good I don’t think you ever you know you always want to win uh championships you want to be in the mix for that and that’s you know that’s what we’ve tried to do and we also recognize how much Good Fortune you have to have to actually do it right and so um it’s been fun plus my my calendar’s a little bit more open up Pat during the year like I didn’t miss very many of my son’s high school games my golf games gotten better I’ve been to a lot of my daughter’s soccer games and you know coaches as much as we try to be present we miss a lot and so it’s been the Best of Both Worlds for me well I’m happy to hear the golf game’s gotten better Happy a chance to hang out with your kids and uh not have to be fully immersed in basketball and how do we get better all the time and what play sets should we run what is this team going to do what did you see in Joe Missoula okay because I went to school at West Virginia uh at the same time as Joe Joe was known as an incredibly cerebral smart guy everybody loved him on the basketball team and obviously his jump and the youngest coach to make the finals since 1969 or or something like that what did you see in Joe and does Joe ask you questions I saw pep was there I think he he tried to pick Pep’s brain who’s the Manchester City no yeah Manchester City coach does he talk to you do you chat with Joe and how is your relationship coach to coach seemingly well I love Joe I hired him as an assistant long ago um and he’s been an assistant here prior to being the head coach under unique circumstances last year and I thought he did an amazing job last year and he backed it up with an even better job this year and and that’s to be expected we’re supposed to we’re supposed to improve as time goes on especially when you have kind of the growth mindset that Joe has Joe is an incredible leader he knows the game um he makes good decisions in the game on both ends of the floor but I think his his impact goes way beyond that he’s amazing in the locker room he’s amazing with the guys he’s not afraid to challenge people um and he has the stamina to work and you know that that coaching thing when you’re talking about 200 some odd days or 250 some odd days in a season we started September 28th the coaching brain never kicks off right and so to end in June 17th um and to be on that whole time and to have that kind of stamina and that kind of work ethic is real and and he’s got it his his motor is is always going um he’s got great uh he’s done a great job of creating a network of people like pep in sports that he likes outside of basketball um that I think he really um you know really tries to learn from this you never worry one minute about Joe Missoula feeling like he’s got it all figured out he’s always trying to learn grow get better and he brings a great energy to the building and we’re lucky he’s here yeah there was a story that came out about him winning coach of the month or whatever and he’s nobody cares and just kept walking by it’s like like that yeah that that like humility is something that all coaches have to have and you talk about 200 some odd days that’s not just like at work that’s like on road oh yeah travel that’s like the go ahead and always thinking about it like it never leaves your mind right like even when you’re trying to disassociate and get you know hang out and and go to dinner or whatever the case may be with your family or be at a kids game you know you’re always thinking about the team because that is you’re just trying to figure out how to get the pieces all to work together as well as humanly possible it’s a big difference between my job now and his job is you you don’t you don’t get into the weeds of the every day in this job like you do as a coach you’re more of the 10,000 foot View and how it’s all going to fit together and thinking about what’s next and um but I just got a great respect for his motor he brings it every day yeah said it and forget it you know and not forget it as in like uh don’t think about it for you but it is like Ro tiery chicken let’s just put that thing in there and then Missoula is the one y he’s the one that’s spinning the the chicken you guys are a great tag team it’s been fun to watch so incredibly dominant go ahead AJ coach uh why do you think in professional sports it’s so tough to have sustained success Pat and I talk about it all the time like what the Patriots did what it seems like the Chiefs are in the middle of right now in the NFL what you guys are hopefully going on like what’s the plan and how do you continue to kind of like push the envelope and continue to get better well I I’ve been really fortunate studied a lot of football uh AJ and and my time at Butler when I was in Indianapolis the sustained success of the Colts hell yeah um through the paid Manning years and then transitioning to Andrew and and all the great players on offense and defense that you play special teams yeah Special Teams I count I counted you as defense for some of those tackles okay okay actually I actually wor yeah I actually wore defensive Jersey a practice hey Brad you know yeah this guy did study yeah sorry about that my bad my bad and then and then you know I move out here and you’re right in the middle of the Patriots dynasty and you know the quarterback room when I went and sat down with those guys where you know it’s it’s Brady and garoo and and brassette and Josh and you have all these future head coaches walking all over that building and and Bill is obviously you know the most amazing resource you could ever have here and um so you learn a lot from those people and I think what we’ve been fortunate with in our long run of playoffs is that we had a chance to be good and at the same time had a couple of other picks that we were able to that we knew were there right and Danny just had to get them right and boy did he ever and so when you get in backto back years Jaylen and Jason then you have a head start on BE being sustainably good and then it’s about you know we’ve had different iterations of our team as they were growing and going from 19 year old and 20 year olds with a little bit less responsibility to kind of carry in the torch for us but it’s about finding the people that fit best around them how we can accentuate them you know I think of like how the you know the receivers that the Colts could put out there for for Payton or the the receivers or the running backs that the Pats could put out there for Brady like that’s what you’re just trying to do that’s the way you’re thinking about it let’s talk about Tatum and brown obviously was a big piece of conversation in the sports media World um is Tatum doing enough or is this Brown’s team I’ll tell you what if I’m Brown I’m thinking to myself why is Tatum still on the Marquee with me like there is a lot of that from the outside right that that was they didn’t talk about your team I don’t know how much you pay attention you can’t pay attention you got do your thing nobody really talked about your team now granted Connor was screaming for a long time anytime we brought up basketball because he is obviously a massive fan of yours he was an absolute [ __ ] walking in here the other day after you guys won so thank you for creating another championship for this guy to celebrate but they’ve been trying to drive a wedge between those two seemingly since you guys became Uber successful why do you think those two get along so well why do you think those two are going to continue to be pillars for you and how do you how do you maintain this like I don’t want to say oh something just happened was NE yeah it was sweet something just happened right behind you was pretty cool but how do you why do you think they are that way and how does this is this possible forever I guess with the way these two operate we’re we’re we’re so far into the tax we’re saving money on my lights in my office you got to pay one of those guys yeah you gotta pay one of those guys yep yep yep I don’t if I don’t if I don’t move for five minutes the lights automatically go out uh you know what this all yeah this all starts Pat with the character of the two people and at the end of the day these guys are workers great teammates you know awesome players but competitors and you know you know it’s funny because now that you win it you know all the narrative is is man they’re way ahead of schedule when you look at their age versus what they’ve accomplished um versus the rest of the league and they were ahead of schedule the whole time and that’s again why we’ve been fortunate enough to kind of build around them they’re the kind of teammates um you want to have on your team they’re the kind of teammates you want to build around and we asked them to do a lot they’re not you know when you think about it a lot of times scoring and the ability to put the ball in the basket gets all the attention and um you know Jaylen Brown is picking up Luca full court you know Jason Tatum in our last three series guards the center so we can switch all the center pick and rolles on Luca and Kyrie and he’s got the size strength and and and ability to communicate and direct the defense from behind to do it you know and those are the types of things that Winners do you know and so they don’t we don’t have time for you know all of the talk about you know um breaking apart we’re too busy trying to work together to win and and those two guys have to lead the way in that they’ll continue to lead the way in that and that’s just who they are they were they were they their families are amazing they’re amazing and we’re lucky they’re Celtics yeah hell yeah I loved your answer that’s the way winners operate a lot of losers saying a lot of things it seems like winners are operating in this particular fashion I I think everybody in Boston loves the way you and your team operate as a whole speaking of masshole Connor has a question for you Brad yeah Mr President I just want to say thank you for everything you’ve done for Boston of course as both a coach and now you know the president of basketball operations but you know going forward here you know one’s nice you I’m I’m going to hold on to this one for a while but like uh like Joe said there was room up in these Rafters there’s room on this desk for a couple more maybe three or four so something to think about but as you do kind of prepare and transition into the next season and I think you said the night of the championship like hey we got we got draft workouts tomorrow so I’m pretty jacked up about that but how often during the season and obviously now are you trying to kind of pick and place other guys in spots that we may need and are you worried about the potential that when you start calling teams they’re going to pick up and say go to hell and hang up because they know if they trade with you that the Celtics are going to continue to dominate oh you’re talking about Drew holiday yeah Drew holiday I mean you could argue Derek white kristos porzingis it kind of happened to Danny a actually right before you took over where people were like hey if Danny a calls you tell that son of a [ __ ] to go to help just making a bad deal for you are you worried about that Mr President I’m I’m not because every trade we’ve done I think has been good for the other team they were all in different ages and phases and and trying to maximize assets and and those type of things and so listen we haven’t we haven’t had a first round pick yet in the three years I’ve been here tomorrow we have number 30 for now and so you know we’ll see what happens but I think the you know at the end of the day uh there’s a lot of smart people around the league and there’s a lot of teams that are looking at wherever whatever window they’re in with regard to building or trying to maximize it right now and we certainly again you know when we got Jason and Jaylen we’ve got to find the right people to to build around them and um so from my standpoint our job um and and I think I you know I don’t have all the expertise that a lot of these front office people do around the league or even in our building um my only background is in coaching and how teams function together so we try to make it as as easy for a team to to complement one another to bring out the best to one another and for you know the coaches to you know have a group that you can easily create roles and role definition around and I think that that’s that’s kind of what we try to do and yes you’re always thinking about it and um tomorrow whoever we draft wherever we draft oh uh in the next couple of days you know I think that we’re just going to try to keep adding people that are that are really good people that are interested in competing and uh that are ready for the responsibility of wearing this uniform which is not normal it’s just it is a it is a real responsibility um when you play for the Boston Celtics and it it hits you pretty quick most championships in the history of the NBA that happened this year 18 Lakers 17 congratulations when you talk about the pressure of being a Celtic and you said he got 30 for now and then you said wherever we pick tomorrow or the next couple of days and with all the money you got a lot of money out there more money on the way from what I’ve been told yeah that’s right more you got a lot of money and I don’t know how your NBA salary cap Works feels like you guys just pay [ __ ] everybody yeah don’t know I don’t know how it works it feels like yeah we pay luxury tax whatever we need we can do it and you guys obviously you’re in a standpoint where you got incredible players but I would assume being able to draft somebody who’s potentially young and cheap would be great addition to a team that has a lot of money is that how you’re viewing it and whenever you I I should know this I should have done more research before this conversation you’re trying to move up in the draft from 30 I don’t want to give away your entire leverage but you’re obviously trying to move is that a know I would say there are certain scenarios where maybe we we look at moving up and there are certain scenarios where maybe we look at moving back nice you know the the way that the draft Works in basketball is is all of the salaries are slotted in the first round so it’s slotted one through 30 exactly what those you know contracts will look like really over the course of four years and then in the second round you know you can you can be a little bit more creative with contracts um but you know and even to the point where you know later in the second round there’s a lot of people that will be drafted that in the past will either continue to play overseas for a while or you know we’ll be on two-way contracts in the g-league so there’s there’s all kinds of things that we could do um on draft night but you know if the right person’s there and and we’re and we feel like they’ll come in and help and somebody we can invest in then you know we’re looking forward to to making that pick and if not then we’ll you know we’ll think can obviously talk to everybody in the league about moving around that it’s it’s going to be it’s it’s fun I mean if we get everybody back and we hope you know that we look pretty similar to last year barring any health issues then you know it’s going to be hard for whoever we draft to crack the rotation but we’s got to start we’ve got to continue to build and grow some of these young guys so that when we you know when we do have to transition um we can do so while again trying to be sustainable I didn’t even know there was more than 30 guys getting drafted right a it just it’s that one french guy yeah SAR and there’s another guyon the only two eligible guys yeah I thought that was literally the only two right so congrats on one of I guess congrats holy [ __ ] one of those guys going in Celtics he’s going to do it he said he’s drafted somebody I didn’t know there was anybody else to get drafted I somebody from Purdue perhaps oh big TGA yeah big S bit whoa who look out Indiana hey he can move dude you saw how much sh he got in great shape for the uh for his last year he’s he’s moving around he’s got good Moxy too met you guys did you jump Pat did you jump on the Purdue bandwagon when they went to the final this year yeah that was sweet huh yeah I mean coach I will hop on a bandwagon if we’re gonna have a good time you know I’m here for it you know we can boiler up if we have to and Butler I was let’s go Bulldogs whenever you good need to get over there to some games no I was it was so much fun to see paint and that Purdue team go to the final they ran into a juggernaut but damn right it I was I was really happy for Coach payner he’s one of the best okay Coach payner obviously awesome guy and there was a lot of doubts about the Purdue team ever getting over the hump so them making it to the finals is obviously a huge combo taking on Dan Hurley in the Huskies okay do you pay attention to all the [ __ ] that’s happening around the NBA I I guess you would have to in president basketball Ops Dan Hurley right in your backyard seemingly there at uh Yukon in the area did is there a thought of like these Co cuz Joe moula Young he coached in college I think and he’s assistant with you guys and then bang he becomes head coach Dan Hurley was potentially going to be the coach of the Lakers JJ reck now the coach of the Lakers like whenever you have Joe moula is there like certain traits you’re looking for in these young guys and are you scouting all these people that are potentially coaches or players because you never know what’s going to happen in the future while it’s taking place yeah I don’t think that I actually go into Jim’s thinking about it in terms of scouting um but I leave practices you know you know incredibly impressed a lot and one of the things I really enjoy about my new job is going to college practices and watching different people work and that could be the head coaches the assistant coaches running the offense or defense whatever whatever the case may be with Joe in particular we had Joe in Maine um on our g-league staff in in I believe 2014 or 2015 but after he left I used to do a um a round table where we’d bring in coaches from across the country in the summer so I could learn it was it was pretty selfish right it was I wanted to bring people in to talk and learn and I would steal things or plays or defensive drills or whatever the case may be but it also became something where we tried to have a couple of speakers a year that were these kind of young coaches that you needed to keep an eye on and Joe actually was one of our speakers I think in 18 or 19 and um and then we hired him I think it must have been in 18 because we hired him in 1920 and um he’s been with us ever since but yeah you’re you you got to keep your eyes open and um you know Danny obviously is a great coach and and great great coaching is not monopolized at any level there are great coaches in the in the youth basketball area there’s great coaches in high school and middle school and college and and um you got to keep your eyes open um and uh and certainly if Danny ever wants to make that transition I think he’ll do that well hey there’s a fourth grade basketball team that had JJ reedit coaching it though yeah before he got up here to the NBA and they were good spash shoot the rock yeah these fourth graders were traveling a bit I think it was a little bit of travel but that’s going to happen but they are shooting a rock don’t don’t want to give things away but I think the Lakers uh they’re going to be running like that fourth grade team you talk about the Celtics and obviously the weight of the logo being on your jersey it also happens I assume to everybody go ahead Ty yeah coach how jarring was that when you first leave Butler and you go from just being like The Lovable Cinderella and obviously everyone knows fans in Indiana are basketball craze but kind of just affable people in general and everyone wanted to see you guys win and then you go to the Celtics where let’s just say I know people on the East Coast maybe have a little bit more hard Edge and uh like the expectation is hey you’re going to win you’re coaching now for not just one of the the most historic teams in the NBA but in all of sports how jarring was that jump from just like hey we’re just kind of happy to be here in the final four to like okay that’s great coach like let go a title now and uh how long did it kind of take for you to to kind of get used to that and and just like that entire culture change of going from Butler to the Celtics well one of the things that really drew me to the Celtics was that Danny and the ownership group had always really stuck by coaches and really like they they were patient with the process and they understood that they weren’t going to ride the roller coaster of an 82 games even in this market where you know obviously people always will have an opinion and you know are enormous fans um but I think that one of the things that and I’ve said this before I don’t know why this is the case and maybe it was because when I was coaching at Butler I was you know between 30 and 36 um and maybe it was just my age but coaching in your hometown where you went to high school you know basically where you went to college and then where you’ve worked your whole professional life that that’s a that’s a pressure too and um and moving out here the responsibility of putting on the Celtics Jersey and having um was a was was an intriguing part of doing it and at the same time you know I think that the pressure of coaching in your hometown really prepared me well that this there have been so many you know pinch yourself moments as a member of the Celtics organization in 2013 when I became the head coach we had just traded Pearson Garnett we weren’t expected to be very good at least in that first year and we you know we got better soon thereafter but that first year was tough but you knew the weight of the of the Jersey when you know Tommy Hinson would stop by practice when Sach Sanders would come by John havich you know would would come off the cap before he headed down to Florida and would swing by and you know Bill Russell at the first game I coached um you know these are like like as a kid from Indiana who grew up only about basketball those are like incredible moments but also you just you talk about impostor syndrome you’re like yeah and I really don’t belong here you know I I I didn’t think I was good enough to be the coach at Butler there’s no way in hell I’m good enough to be the coach here but those are moments that I’ll never forget and and I think our guys Embrace that like Tatum knows that and brown know they know the responsibility that they have and being the Celtics that everybody looks towards and they’ve always I think they’ve always done a great job with that how old you were 37 I was I think I was 36 when I moved here um but it was hard to leave there man it was hard to leave there no but I’m saying you looking in the mirror as a 36y old Bill Russ you look up in there 17 banners okay so this is my team and we’re getting rid of and all our players are gone yeah see they’re gonna be out one thing one thing I will tell you very certainly I have never once thought or said this is my team as as Connor knows this is Boston’s team oh yeah it’ll be great long it was great before we got here it’ll be great long after we’re here but man it’s uh it’s it’s pretty cool to be a part of you’re a holder of a seat I appreciate the fact that you acknowledge that especially with where you guys are now because the past is littered with Hall of Famers go ahead DB absolutely and the pains me to say this as a Heat fan but congratulations on congratulations congratulations on 18 uh and a lot of things that come with greatness obviously as a Heat fan I’m going to look for some potential problems down the road possibly you’ve been a former coach former player you know how important jersey numbers are with you guys having so many damn jersey numbers retired and [ __ ] bra uh Brown and Tatum may be the next two has those conversations ever come up in free agents or trade talks with players like one to certain number cuz you know how important those are to players I mean it’s hilarious when we get like you know guys sign a minimum contract or get traded here in the middle of the season it’s like hey you got like six numbers to choose you know and none of none of them are traditional numbers you know like um and it’s yeah that’s we’re gonna you know hey let’s my goal Barry said let’s be good enough for long enough that we don’t have enough left let’s just get them all up there make it all so special um but I see the Florida Panthers jersey hell yeah congratulations to you that was a night huh hell yeah great night first one first one 17 Tatum and kachuck shamad high school in St Louis pretty good class A few years ago how’d you feel about the boys heading down to Miami immediately after winning flight flight is at noon to Miami how’d you feel about that I got the old hey you want to go I said nope I’m good Pat Pat I am an Indiana guy that has grown to love the Northeast I’m good hey our our type of uh Caucasian skin burns quick down there in Miami yeah yeah smart decision smart decision because you had that parade right hey man that parade was epic I assume you guys knew that while you’re in the middle of it you’re looking around going holy [ __ ] this has got to be one of the greatest parades of all time it was it was awesome uh man I’ll tell you we turned the corner onto Causeway Street we were underneath the garden and we come up the ramp and turn the corner on the causeway Street and to see the mass of people to see people um every Walk of Life every age all all wearing Celtics gear all smiling all happy all together you know and and think about all the world’s been through in the last five years just to see that yeah was super special to see them all wear in Celtic skar and celebrating this team um yeah that of all the things like I think winning you know winning it had you know you move on to the next day you try to get better you try to do it again whatever but uh man that that parade will be maybe the most memorable part of the experience for me it was it was unbelievable sports are amazing you know there’s there there’s nothing else on earth except for I guess Taylor Swift if Taylor Swift comes to town you can have one of these moments where my daughter would agree with that yeah yeah yeah yeah my wife I mean literally everybody that we know but whenever those parades happen it is like a celebration of a city like look what we did it’s so it’s a beautiful thing can’t wait to see how uh South Florida does you got to follow Boston when we have the beach in the background it it’ll be beautiful yeah of course have we found the ring though has Jaylen Brown found his pinky ring or yeah Co coach how we figuring out I can’t keep TR I can’t keep track everything draft AJ’s got the last question for you here Brad coach when you look at your roster you guys have a great mix I think obviously some vets giving you huge minutes and and huge plays for you Horford and holiday and and everyone else like when you’re putting a roster together how important is it to have not only vets that are playing but also some vets you know that maybe don’t get as much time just to kind of help the young guys along and kind of teach people what it means to be a pro yeah I think I think I think the right vets um AJ are really important and I think you know I’m 47 now so the the older we get the more self-awareness we gain and I think you know kind of how you fit what’s important um what really matters being a part of a team um being able to communicate that you know I’m willing to give a little bit for the benefit of the team you know I I think if you look at 30 plus year olds in the league you’d be hardess hard pressed to find any people better to lead a group than Al Horford and Drew holiday um incredible players but just totally selfless um willing to do whatever it takes play both ends of the floor and I think are great role models um for our not only our players but um you know our our g-league Affiliates and really every other kid that wants to Aspire to be a part of a team and be part of something bigger than themselves and so yeah that to me is what a vet can bring to the table you know it’s it’s not always easy as people transition to later on in their career to not have the same individual responsibility that they once had and so some some guys struggle to to let go of that um and we’re just lucky that our guys still do it at a high level and they’re also willing to to give um you know that sets a tone don’t you think Drew holiday is way too old to be be playing the defense that he was playing more specifically against like the Pacers that he he was playing right here in India hey what the Pacers were really good oh shut up yeah no listen this I said today we could have come back to Boston down 3-1 yeah we know yeah we were there could have should yeah we were there rad they had they had a heck of a team um I thought Drew Drew was unbelievable the whole playoffs and but those that that game three where he had the an one on seak and then took the ball um in transition I think it was from them hard at the end was happy you have a great memory dude all right happy you have a that’s really good news you know that should serve you well I was a kid it was nothing I was the like most excited person on our whole travel party that we were going to play Saturday night race weekend and then play game four Monday that was when I was a kid it was Pacers Knicks race weekend Eastern Conference Finals and those were like the best weekends of you know ever so it was cool to be on the other side and yeah ruin it yeah try to ruin it yeah yeah you did great thanks yeah we appreciate hey congratulations on all the success obviously everybody here in Indiana loves you he’s incredibly proud of you and uh hopefully next year you guys lose to the Pacers all right we appreciate you so much man good luck the rest of the way all right guys be well thanks and also thank you for the heads up that the draft is tomorrow yeah we knew that we knew that we’re a sports show we knew that ladies and gentlemen president of basketball Ops Brad Steven huge huge draft tomorrow huge I thought we were doing a show for it like like the NFL draft AJ I think you’re hosting right AJ’s hosting it live from the from the attic Greg papovich is sitting with him in the attic I think yeah I think we’ll actually yeah look at these names we could we could pronounce the names yeah yeah there there’s the kid that he’s also French who St we know clean Co Z Zak yeah we do know quen Kong yeah we know connect yeah but dude Booz lless yeah Booz lless is good whenever your booze full good times you’re Booz lless you’re getting buckets that’s right that’s what Matas is all about that’s Matas football baby that’s also not real okay they just took Nicole Aoki and changed the J to a t yeah this guy’s he’s available call topic topic goty situ I’m about to connect that’s a dude in Tennessee that’s Tennessee’s guy yeah oh he’s a dog he’s going top 10 he know Steph castle castle Yeah Clingan are both Yukon guys yeah but when you talk about Alexandre so I mean you’re talking about a guy who gets to the paint gets his shot and then smacks the wood on the way back right next one joining us right now uh is a man whose voice played over a historic evening last night in Omaha Nebraska the Tennessee Volunteers won their first ever World Series and a man calling it is a b baseball icon ladies and gentlemen Carl ravage all right Pat boys how are you guys doing I want to let you know immediately after Co you’re one of the first voices we heard because you were covering the baseball in uh Korea Korea yeah you were one of the first voices of sports postco so it’s great to get a chance to chat with you here great great to get a chance remember they had all the sex dolls lined up behind home plate and you guys had to act like you didn’t see them and then we’re watching baseball with the dinosaurs and the is that what those is that what those were sex dolls I didn’t know what that I didn’t know what the heck they were yeah you guys did a fantastic job talking around it because all weird I tell you one thing Pat too since then we’ve been back there like we didn’t see any sex dolls but we we open we opened the season over there you know with the with the uh Dodgers and the Padres and the whole Otani gambling thing so we were in Korea for that too well you guys do a fantastic job we appreciate the hell out of you and Omaha seems to be the place to be during this World Series last night Texas A&M and Tennessee in their third game in the best of three series to decide the World Series champion lived up to Hype is that the right way to describe the game last night and could you feel it all uh throughout the day that that was going to be the the situation yeah yeah look I mean college baseball is is becoming more and more popular um we had a game three last year the final score was 18 to4 LSU had Paul SK hanging around like they didn’t even need him in that game uh so sometimes you you know you you get a break that each team has pitchers available this thing is such a long slog for these guys Tennessee played over 70 baseball games they they won 60 of them I mean that’s how dominant they were um you know and they have Superstar players like the guy you’re watching there Christian Moore is going to be a major league player within the next couple of years leads off the bottom of the first for the vs with a homer um it’s a sport that’s on fire and part of that’s scene right there with Barnes and piple and Manning uh it’s contagious and the SEC which you know really well has uh has taken to it it’s not only Arkansas Alabama uh in you know it’s Kentucky basketball it’s all these schools in baseball Kentucky was at the College World Series this year you know they they were nothing years ago and here they are at the College World Series it is getting bigger nil helps a lot and the SEC is a dang Powerhouse they’ve won seven of the last eight of these things you you believe their first one was in 1990 that’s that’s their first one feels like they win every year now but the first one was Georgia in 1990 and for me I didn’t really pay attention and off to college baseball I don’t think I I didn’t play baseball I’m from Pittsburgh the Pirates were terrible until LSU Legend Paul get and lights up the enti sport over there for Pittsburgh reignites Pirates fans but I think it was postco once again postco I think Old Miss hit a Dinger and I saw their entire Outfield lose their [ __ ] and I was like wait a minute I did not know this was possible in baseball it feels like the South it’s different down there and now they’re starting to rally and win every single title Tai massive baseball fan and fan of yours has a question for you yeah Carl why do you think that the College World Series and I know you also do the Little League World series like why do you think that that is so much more special than like a Sunday night baseball game between the Yankees and the Red Soxs in like the middle of July it just feels different I think even for the average fan like if you had to kind of encapsulate that why would you say that those are more special than just like a massive big league matchup well I’d answer it by you know just listening to your question kind of suggested a a Sunday night regular season game in July when you try to have the two best teams on whether it’s the Phillies or the Braves or the Dodgers like in that in that case we’re we’re chasing the teams in the case of Little League World Series College World Series that’s a that becomes binge viewing for about a week and a half and literally like everybody consumes um content now you can watch a series in 10 days meaning a series of a show you watch Ozarks and you’re done in a week in this case you’re watching these two uh two events and you get to know the people get to know the players and it ends in a championship that’s the goal of all of us that do this stuff you want to end with a dang championship and if you can call a championship people are invested in that a lot more than they would be you know a regular season game whether it be a Sunday night game with Marquee teams or any else it ends with a trophy that’s the most important thing and with regards to college the passion that those fan bases have we have two we have two major league groups right now in sports we have the major leagues and I don’t mean b I mean professional sports and we have professional college team those teams have the massive fan bases Pat you see them every weekend you know what that’s like they re they just keep reintroducing themselves another group of freshmen come in we’re with Tennessee another group comes five years from now so this stuff just feeds on itself and that’s why the college game is different and the south is very different than a New York on a Sunday night those they love their Sports College thing is different I grew up in Massachusetts you grew up in Pittsburgh College sports weren’t huge I’ve I’ve come to appreciate how big they are amen and it’s the entire thing it’s the experience it’s the% it’s the entertainment value the like the it’s a religion for these people cuz you know it really is their father their father’s father their’s father’s father’s father has been sitting in this exact seat doing this for so long and so it’s it’s all they know at some of these places and it is fantastic to watch now you talk about professional college teams that leads to what coach paon said from Tennessee the other day go ahead Tom yeah I I know coach took an exception to an nil question a couple weeks back and he talked about how stars are staying in college baseball based because of nil does that do you think the popularity of the College World Series is because more people are staying uh in college baseball because of nil and then I know a big thing like when we were coming out of high school was if you were getting drafted out of high school a lot of guys were going to play in the minor strictly because you were getting a paycheck now are a lot more guys now going to college because you get a paycheck going to college instead of just going to the miners you know it’s interesting I I think college baseball uh for years and Major League Baseball recognized it college baseball the premier programs prepared kids for Major League Baseball probably better than the minor leagues did um and certainly in the last couple of years what you can get from a college baseball program when it comes to coaching when it comes to all the machines the track man Etc that they use when it comes to nutrition when it comes to travel when it comes to competition you have now seen skem as just one example Wyatt Langford last year was in the College World Series for Florida he’s he’s on the opening day roster in the opening day lineup for the Rangers because they are so prepared they face dudes there was a guy this weekend throwing 101 miles hour on on average I mean is on average so you’re getting everything that you want and likely at a higher level than you were at the minor leagues Major League Baseball is trying to address it but I think that has to do with it the NL has to do with it the exposure has to do with it and look there’s a lot of people if I could stay in college for three more years I do that too go ahead Ty Yeah Carl um not to switch gears but I’m a dieh hard Yankees fan you’ve obviously had them on Sunday Night Baseball a couple times this year um with how popular the College World Series is like around this time of year and we see like the NHL their their ratings are going through the roof do you think with the changes that have been made to baseball and when you got a team like the Yankees who are exciting they got you know Five Guys in the lineup who could hit a 500 foot home run and any bat right do you think we’re kind of getting to a Tipping Point where more people are starting to watch the MLB as opposed to just like you know an afterthought it’s too boring the games take too long do you think the pitch clock and everything they’re doing and guys like judge and Otani do you think and SK now obviously do you do you think that’s starting to kind of change the way people uh younger people especially are viewing baseball I don’t think there’s any doubt about it when we went to the seven inning double headers postco uh you’d be shocked once we started to say we’re going to get away from Seven inning double headers how many players and I mean big name players would say to me I love the seven inning double header the game had gotten stale it had gotten slow it boring there weren’t balls in play there was no action um the Yankees when Aaron Boon had a bunch of guys go down the team changed they actually did put as it was a more exciting brand of baseball Juan sto puts the ball in play they’re a little more athletic and there’s more athletes coming we’re doing the Orioles on Sunday night uh against the Rangers and you know we do these little cartoons leading into these games the cartoon’s going to be about uh isn’t it about time that we got rid of the uh the the adult table and the kids table these these birds you know the baby birds have shown they can swim in the deep end they can hand handle a splash party um it’s a young man’s game now and uh it’s more athletic the answer to your question emphatically is a yes all the changes are making a big difference and it helps a lot these guys are throwing gas Carl everybody what a guy at 105 what was it the Athletics guy no uh who was the Guyer throws about 104 and they’re saying SK is only going to give faster he’ll get stronger and faster and better I mean that’s the beautiful part about all these athletes they get better especially the young ones that’s why it’s a young man’s game the best part about schemes is I saw that uh thing on X yesterday he sitting there in a boat with Livy and living his best life in the aligan river who Liv better than Paul G is well you don’t want to get in that water Paul I’m sure everybody told him that exact yeah in that in that photo it was Livy Paul sken and four dead people floating in the river behind him that’s classic gagan River football right there but I appreciate that Paul skes is like the perfect guy for Pittsburgh to bring him back as well he’s electric he’s lived up to the hype and he he is humble as [ __ ] and his mustache in Pittsburgh loved so like everything he’s doing huge things for baseball in Pittsburgh a city that was once very proudful of being a baseball town he’s like one guy is single-handedly bringing back a lot of injur it’s a beautiful thing for the sport I think Carl they love the injures Pat we were there when uh was it quo who dropped the ball dur the wild cart qu we know how I know how great Pittsburgh baseball can be what SK is also doing is letting everyone know again he was pitching at the College World Series last year he may be the best pitcher in the major leagues right now he’s in the top five you go from college to the pros and that guy is as dominant and overpowering as anybody we have so there’s just not that much distinction between the premier programs in college and a major League team like the Pirates he’s that damn good and it shows why college baseball is so popular that’s good news for Omaha I think how Kidd hey how about we’ve never been obviously we have to make our way there I think McGee has tried to force us I saw McGee tell you that yeah you should go okay all right so you saw it everybody got the same I thought he was forcing us to go publicly like say hey you guys go right here you know and then people would do it and the college baseball Community kind of told us we need to go but it wasn’t really an overwhelming amount of like yeah you have to go but after watching it and seeing it and then the behind the scenes footage in this Rocko place I have no idea how much booze they sell but it seems like it’s an immense amount that’s a hosting City Omaha is a like cuz we live here in Indianapolis Indianapolis is a hosting cities a hosting City everybody at the bar knows that there’s going to be out of town drunks here you just got to handle it like in some cities that’s not great Omaha I’ve never heard a bad word about it being the host of the World Series and it seems like everybody gets shitfaced and has a great time is that an accurate description it seems like Omaha might be one of the best towns in America well well for a lot of reasons um they open their arms to this event it’s been there since 1950 used to be at Rosen blad Stadium the guy that owns Paulie’s bar Paulie’s bar was the most famous bar um in sports for a while when it was at the College World Series at rosenblat and Paulie and his wife Karen are very much involved I think you talk about nil deals I think they’re trying to get him they’re trying to pay him to open up another bar downtown and just name it Paulie’s I said sh that’s an nil deal they they want to use your name image and likeness you don’t have to do anything it’s unbelievable um the people are great the food scene is great and when you go there you don’t generally go for a day I mean they know they’re going there and if you’re Tennessee if you’re LSU they buy tickets and go whether their team is there or not hoping and thinking that they’re going to be good enough to get there it’s always it’s always a scene and when you have SEC teams there it’s even better and we’ve had we’ve had like 11 different winners the last 12 years years and the SEC has not had a repeat winner the last six years it’s a different SEC team it’s a home run so I saw the commissioner this morning he was getting on a plane it’s a no lose situation for Greg sanki in the SEC and it’s only getting better and bigger it’s it’s cool you you would like it you guys would really like it all right we’ll have to go we won’t do the show we’ll go experience it though you know I would rather not work I’d rather go and live a little I’d rather have a Morgan wall and pton Manning even than a Carl ravage even no you are absolutely no offense taken yeah you got to work and be with it we I think we need to be yeah yeah with the people yeah boozed up out there it sounds like a blast and uh sanki he’s never going to be in a losing situation ever Greg sanki that guy do weapon you want to go back to co years I mean that’s where we learned of Greg zanki and uh he said that’s cute big 10 pack 12 you guys aren’t playing football huh we are we’re going to fill up these stadiums too well you’re not allowed to of of course I’ll be 6 feet apart he we were at the SEC basketball tournament that was that was the morning of the end of the SEC basketball tournament and we had a 20-minute interview with sanki about the decision to pull the plug they were already had played games the teams were on the court warming up and we interviewed him about the decision to shut it down and as you all know and everybody does no one knew what what this meant we coming back tomorrow and what are we doing no he was the first guy we talked to March Madness was delayed remember it was delayed it was only be a couple week weeks and then uh I think our first vivid sports memory was it Utah uh in OKC yeah was it Utah in OKC where Utah was the the MC people are in there for the game people are in there for the game and uh we need everybody to exit the arena immediately what please stay calm get the hell out of here ASAP and you hear people yelling and it’s like what are we witnessing here and then March Madness is delayed and then all of a sudden all we had was uh yeah uh Rudy no Rudy go obviously had a different uh I assume he we were in a restaurant that night we watched the Rudy we watched Rudy Gober at his press conference and we knew we said we’re we’re in trouble in trouble and the next next morning we go there and they’re warming up and all of a sudden the whole thing ends and caliper gets on a bus and he everybody just didn’t know we didn’t know what to do but that was the morning we were about to set I think it was a noon tip off and this is probably 11:20 in the morning and they said we’re we’re done so I don’t want to you know do this brainstorm right now but obviously Co terrible we that can’t we can’t lost so many people and everything that take place and the Ripple effects of what’s taking place to people and how about the Juniors and seniors in high school who they you know their actual life is the internet because that was what they’re they didn’t have real life they didn’t have it but I think people grew up like an appreciation for going to Live Events like I think that’s why our Sports and our attendance for things is through like I think people are more likely to go live right now than ever before so obviously you have to try to find a silver lining and everything I think because we had the without outness of sports and events were so long now it’s made everything even bigger and better watch why we have Florida Panthers games being sold out in the way that they are why Omaha is the way it is why all ratings for sports and attendance and everything is through the roof I think the world needed something that unified us and brought us together and your voice does that a lot for us so we appreciate the hell out of you for joining us Carl and we hope you have a phenomenal uh rest of the baseball season who do who’s going to win it what do we need to pay attention act like you’re somebody who only watches when paulk’s throws okay that would be me what do I need to pay attention to along are the Pirates actually going to maybe go here what teams I was gonna I was going to lead with not Paul sk’s team yet no you don’t need to I me it’s a Paul SK day watch him pitch what you got to need to watch over for are the Orioles and the Phillies and the Yankees and the Dodgers and maybe the Braves those are the five teams that would would likely win I take those five teams over the field okay well we appreciate that I’m gonna try to catch I’ll I’ll talk baseball with you guys the questions that we got we’re great I’ll talk baseball with you anytime you want Carl you’ve been with ESPN since 1993 we just assumed we just assumed you hated us everybody else that had that amount of time certainly has that under their belt we appreciate you so much for making time great call last night ladies and gentlemen how about hey how about old buddy dodging catcher what a move I heard you guys talking about that he he and you said why the hell don’t you run the guy over he he was a quarterback and he learned how to avoid getting tackled as opposed to you know he’s not the big quarterback he he needed to avoid it and hter nley made an unbelievable play to go on the inside of that bag and it was his football skills that helped him that’s one of the things we hear a lot about guys is these coaches tell you don’t just play one sport sport play a lot and his football background is what helped him make that play right there no Carl there’s a bunch of these specialized camps that yeah they charge thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars and say you’ll get a scholarship and also don’t be a better athlete and play any other sport car remember that’s happening right now oh I know it’s happening you should have heard I was with Chris Burke who of course played for the Astros and he does the games with us in Omaha he was so pissed off about his 8 team trying to play as many games they could in the summer when he’s like dude take the summer off just play minimal games go back in the fall don’t burn these kids out you talk to Major Leaguers you talk to college coaches Major League coaches they are so into the multiport athlete learn how to skate learn how to kick a soccer ball learn how to juggle punt to football all of those things help you in baseball all of them love all those things yeah yeah yeah py yeah cuz you got to catch a snap you know you got to see the laces yeah holding to a golf go play pickle ball watch the knees though they’re saying people are blowing their knees out ladies and gentlemen Legend Carl ravish thank bu he’s like voice of baseball oh yeah I spent a lot of late nights on baseball tonight with Carl ravit growing up oh wait he has one nice thing car Carl sorry I thought we were wasting your time I know I just wanted to say I am sorry to hear about your father-in-law I heard about that on the ride this this afternoon so sorry to hear about that hey well I appreciate you uh mentioning that and obviously these types of things put life into perspective quickly and I would like to let you know on return we appreciate the hell out of everything you’ve done for baseball Sport and for our program here today Carl you’re the man ladies and genten car good to you guys thank you that is a wild thing uh whenever something like that takes place there’s obviously a lot of chaos and Devastation and uh like my wife is an absolute badass she had to make a lot of decisions yesterday quickly and the way she handled it all was I’m nothing short of proud and then her mom obviously so Sam’s an only child so the family obviously just the three of them so there was a lot of things and aun Kathy was there it was uh it was a wild scene and uh obviously today this particular program has helped me out immensely I’m about to go ahead back to my wife there’s a lot of decisions that have to be made now like as we’re walking out of there it’s like things that I’ve never even known have to happen have to take place it’s like obviously that has to happen this decision has to be made you got to figure out whether want to do this or this and it’s like holy hell a lot of things are coming here quickly and my wife has kicked ass and uh let’s remind you know ourselves through these types of situations to tell people you appreciate them and yeah you never know what’s going to happen tomorrow I think a lot of us kind of get into the mundane of the routine and just expect things to continue to go the way they are I’ll wake up tomorrow I’ll be able to do this tonight I’ll do this then tomorrow will be this and then the next day will be this and this this this this this this this I’ll catch up with with this person at this time maybe next year I’ll get back to this you never know you literally have no idea on Friday we thought my father-in-law was going to be discharged on Monday we find out he’s unresponsive out of nowhere and it’s just like that is a true reality adjustment about what is real and what is not and uh in this world it can all change immediately so I appreciate the hell out out of everybody that allows us to do this every day I appreciate all you obviously for being able to work alongside of you and uh yeah uh we’ll be back tomorrow with another program chitchatting about what’s going on in the sport obviously we’re off next week uh celebrating holiday but you are the greatest people on Earth for allowing us to do this every day I heard Wyatt 6 had a box for me last night they did didn’t look like so that wasn’t foxy then that was doing that stuff on our show I don’t know unless Foxy’s part of it could be a little bit with Fox foxy might be on their might be on their side I’m on your guys’s side you know that we’ll see he walked in this morning and his eyes were just like what else would he say yeah I don’t know what else that’s something that somebody that was a part of it would say you were acting all weird last night Fox what am I supposed to say then I’m on your team you’re wearing antlers last night why were you wearing antlers last night get a get a li detector machine he had to leave actually conveniently right before the Y six came out yeah cuz all the boys went to the show yeah yeah it was good show great show great show okay sweet I’ll get it yeah I’m gonna watch it all I’m gonna see where foxy goes whenever I told Cole not to open it yeah don’t even touch it we said there might be Anthrax or something on yeah to’s brain almost exploded to was going through it Victor what is he okay he’s a special her I think that’s his might be his last WWE event what do you mean like maybe May that could last one to when I saw his name on the list of people that were going I was certainly surprised wow all right all right we got T going again he had a WrestleMania experience while they were talking about somebody battling through cancer and and mid in the back oh no I was like boys read the room just for one second you’re like read I I don’t know how what it’s not a room we in a stadium Wrestlemania Wrestlemania baby that’s man baby all right tell your people you love them please do it honestly it is uh 100% worth it and if you have any grudges you might as well get rid of them because in the end are you going to are you going to hold on no at some point you’re going to say that was stupid let’s move along make that point now we appreciate you be a friend tell a friend something nice it might change their life we’re back here tomorrow and I’m I’m going make sure uh got clean cheeks through this whole you do you know what I me absolutely friends of dude wipes available at costco.com I do believe nice yeah some Costco remember they’re in like Alaska oh yeah yeah right select Costco I got an email like we’ve gotten into a couple Costco we’re also at costco.com I’m like sick which Costco did you get into I’ll go buy one of these boxes you know support the Bas where in Alaska Hawaii holy [ __ ] there’s a far cost North Dakota okay you’re in four shout out to dude wipes uh they’ve been an incredible partner since they’ve joined us same with C be a friend tell a friend something nice it might change their life legitimately we’re in this thing together team on me team on three 1 two three [Applause] goodbye e