The Show Episode 551

NBA Playoffs, Stanley Cup Playoffs, MLB Stats

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We got an NBA finals matchup now. We got a Stanley Cup Finals matchup now. I guess you could say that we're finally into June, right? Because that means now that being in June, that there's only two teams left in each sport. Because annually the NBA finals are in June and the Stanley Cup Finals are in June. And I got my thoughts on both those series coming up. I also have a few baseball items to discuss today, and I also have a great baseball comparison that might baffle some people. Some people may agree with the comparison. Some people may not agree with the comparison. But of course, we got this. First, last year we had the story with your neighbor in the tree. Previously to that, we had the story of you so-called borrowing golf clubs on a driving rail. Now we have a story of you and the guests out playing a leisurely round of golf, and you're stealing flags off tea boxes? Host, I think you need to get another job in order for you to be able to go out and afford these items. Why do you need to keep stealing these things? I find myself losing respect for the show and respect for you, host. Sooner or later, you're gonna lose me altogether and not listening to your show. Well, hold on. Again, I didn't say we stole it. I said we borrowed. Big difference. Who says that we're not gonna return the flag at a later date? I get what this guy's saying. But who says we're not gonna return to return return what we took at a later date? We're just borrowing. It's like I borrowed the club from the driving race. And what do you care when I talk about with my neighbor about his treat? He's the dumb idiot that uh listened to me about it. So, I mean, what what do you expect me to say? You you people uh expect uh uh you know the host to be this uh all-around good citizen. Like you guys aren't up to uh mischievous stuff outside of uh work at uh in your neighborhood or telling people things. Like you all are are all proper good citizens out there. Uh uh you guys kill me. You like you guys don't bend the rules in life, okay? And I don't even bend the rules in life. I I I've never been arrested for anything, I've never broken the law. Maybe an occasional uh speedy ticket here or there, but other than that, the host is as clean as a whistle. And y'all act like the host has been in prison for 25 years with these accusations in your guys' email. I mean, you guys are you guys are killing me. Dear host, I gotta say, I do find it funny that you and the guests have collected various objects, as you say, from golf courses over the years. Now, I don't know if you consider that borrowing, like you said on your show. You said you guys are borrowing, and he and in this guy's email, he put quotes borrowing. Well, that's what we're doing. I I wouldn't call it that post. Uh, you and the guests are uh are are blatantly taking things from golf courses. So I I wouldn't say borrowing, but I do find it funny that you guys have done that on courses and have collected items in the past on different courses. I I I'm all for that post, and I like the stories. Uh you know, when you go in and tell personal stories about the show and you go in and talk about uh what is happening outside of the show life. I like that. I think it adds character to the show, and I enjoy it. And who cares what you do? It's entertaining, and I like listening. Well, there you go. See, there's a there's a guy right there that likes the stories. See? He likes the uh stories of the of what the host and and the guest are up to outside the show. You know, we just don't come on here. Well, you know, we joke around, we come on here, and we you know, we discuss things that are going on in sports, we give plays and that. But, you know, outside the show, there's some, you know, funny things going on. And I like to share those with you guys. You know, I don't tell every personal story that goes on, but I like to share. I'm glad to see that there's listeners that do agree with that part. Well, anyway, back to uh what transpired last night at the NBA. As much as I can't stand the Spurs. Now, the Spurs might be up there getting on the host list of most hated teams. Because I've seen enough of them already. Um they went into OKC last night, and they just basically put a whipping on Oklahoma and the defending NBA champions. They got out to an early lead, and they didn't let Oklahoma back in the game. Oklahoma tried to get back in the game. They had some momentum at certain parts. They had the home crowd behind them, they had some uh whistles go in their favor when they were making the comeback, but it just wasn't enough. San Antonio manned up, and they put away game seven, and they will now face the New York Knicks for the NBA Championship. The same NBA championship matchup as the last time the Knicks were in the finals in 1999. Now, how about Tariko in this series of him calling the Spurs in Oklahoma? I know the host has been uh critical of Mike Tariko before on this show uh with his love for uh the Mahomes, with his love for Limar Jackson. He just is so fanatical about certain people. Well, you can add Weminyama to that list. Mike Tariko was so excited for his new boyfriend to be in the NBA Finals. I mean, this guy was just lapping up Wemby the whole series. That's all this guy talked about. You would think Wemby was the next Michael Jordan, the way Tarico was talking about him. Tariqal was so more excited about Wemby than he gets more excited about Tiger Woods and Libron when he announces those two guys. Remember the playoff game years ago when it was on ESPN, and Libron had the 28 straight points in a playoff game, and Mike Tarico was the play-by-play guy for ESPN. He was Tarico was standing up announcing the game because he was so excited announcing the game for Libron. He's more excited for Wemby making the NBA final. He probably wishes he was announcing the finals. But of course, ABC has the finals, and Tarico works for NBC now, so Mike Tarico won't be able to, but man, he couldn't get enough. He was so, he even uh Wemby has Trico so flustered in the game last night. Mike Trico said that the Spurs were making a line change. Trico thought he was watching the Stan. I mean, this is how excited that Tarico is with Wemby. He can't, he's he's losing his mind out there with this guy. And by the way, besides game one, did Wemby really have that great of a series? If for those who have watched, did he really have that great of a series? I mean, he had 20-some points, you know, 10 some rebounds, but I mean, defensively, the guy's phenomenal. I mean, he's all over the court, and he has Oklahoma City players adjusting shots and recalculating what they're doing when they drive to the basket. Don't get me wrong, he's a big factor in that aspect of the game. I mean, SGA, two-time MVP, SGA was afraid of him. He played scared the whole series, I thought, because of Wemby. But Wemby offensively, let's let's slow down, Tarico. I mean, you you're gonna be, he might end up being a great player. But let's slow down on the greatness yet. Let's just let this guy win something. Yes, he's in the final. Maybe they can finish off the Knicks and he'll be a champion. But let's wait to that. Yeah, the the turning part of the game last night. You know the Cornet guy, the goofy white guy that comes in for the Spurs, that comes in for Wemby, tall, lanky, white, goofy guy. Kind of looks like he belongs on the Muppet Show. Uh, he made the play of the game when uh uh Harenstein there came in to dunk the ball, and this guy, the Cornette guy, came flying out of nowhere to make the block. The guy contributed nothing, nothing, nothing the whole game, and makes the block that stops all of OKC's momentum in that game, and just, you know, that was it. That that was kind of the uh nail in the coffin for uh OKC. And that was with six minutes left in the game that uh that happened. And you could tell that that just took all of the uh energy out of OKC. They kind of knew at that point that they weren't gonna come back and take that game from the Spurs. And once again, we're gonna have another NBA champion. No back-to-backs. That's just that's just something else. We we haven't had a back-to-back NBA championship since Golden State did it. So uh I think that was 14 and 15. We haven't had a uh back-to-back champion since Golden State had uh did that with um Durant, I believe, uh when he got on a team. Maybe it was 15 and 16. I'm I'm I can't I don't have the dates down, but it's 10 years since we had uh back-to-back champions at the NBA, and now we're gonna have another different champion this year. Now, here's where the series was decided, and I can't stand these three guys. These three guys on the Spurs are up there on the host's most hated list. Vessel, Castle, and Champagne. And Vessel and Castle, they look exactly alike with what they do with their hairdos uh for putting it up during the game. And you can't tell them apart. And what drives me nuts about these guys, they complain and want to replay every foul call. They they look at their bench and they give the twirl around with their finger to do the replay. They think they don't foul on every play, and it just drives me crazy. And a lot, and don't get me wrong, a lot of NBA players are like that these days because of the replay now where you can replay fouls and all that. A lot of this goes on in the NBA. But these two guys, every foul call, it just seems like that these guys are asking for a replay and they don't foul. But those three guys, as much as I'm starting to hate them, they were the difference in this series. They, those three guys outplayed Oklahoma's reserve player. You had Wemby on one side, SGA on Oklahoma's side, they canceled each other out. The rest of the OKC players, they could, they didn't show up from game to game the way these three guys did. Yes, Caruso had a good game here and there. Holmegroom had a good game here and there. We'll get to him in a second. Harenstein had a good game here and there. Jamal Williams was absent for a lot of games due to a hamstring injury, so he doesn't count. They've tried to put the Mitchell guy in there. He had a game, good game here and there. He was non-existent last night. But these three guys for the Spurs, consistent the whole series, and that's why they won. That's why they took care of Oklahoma. And to me, as I said just a few minutes ago, SGA, two-time MVP, he looked scared in the series. Yeah, he had 35 points last night. That's because no one else was doing anything. And he was he was hot in the second quarter. But he he he played scared. MVPs don't play scared. MVPs aren't afraid to take it to the basket. Kobe Bryant was never afraid to take it to the basket. Michael Jordan was never afraid to take it. Magic, Bird, Barkley. Those guys never were afraid to take it. SGA, afraid. Libron not afraid of taking it. Even Steph Curry, little Steph Curry, who hangs out at the three-point line. He's not afraid to drive through the basket and try to make a layup. SGA, scared. Played scared for the whole series. That's MVP? Playing scared like that? Scared of what? Wemby? That guy's a toothpick. What are you scared of him for? It's not like it's Rick Mahorn coming down on you. It's not, you know, some other tough guy. It's not Dylan Brooks chasing you around on the court. Wemby. Big tough guy, Wemby. Toothpick tough guy, Wemby. You're afraid of him? Just because he's 7'7, 7'6, or whatever he is? And the other part, uh, not having a full healthy uh Jalen Williams didn't help either with Oklahoma. I mean, that's that's not an excuse because Harper was beat up for the Spurs, Aaron Fox was beat up for the Spurs. They weren't all at full capacity during that series either. But man, OKC 68 wins championship. 64 wins out in the Western Conference line. Shame. I thought they were gonna be uh, you know, a good team. I thought they were gonna be uh a team that could uh run off a few uh championships, you know, have a we have a little dynasty here. Well, nope. Just like we thought Denver a few years ago. Oh man, this Denver team. Jokic, Jamal Murray, man, we thought we thought they were gonna have a great dynasty. Nope. The problem is, as you saw with Nuggets, when you lose your role players and you keep your stars, you gotta fill in the role players that leave with the same kind of quality role players. And Denver was unable to do that. That's why they only have one championship. Now, Oklahoma, they got all their players, but they had some injuries. That may or may not have been a factor in losing the Spurs. Now, the same with the Spurs, whether they go on to beat the Knicks or not, they got great role players right now. The thing is, you got to hang out on those role players, and not all role players are gonna stick around while the stars make all the money. They don't they want their taste. So we'll see what the Spurs end up doing in this, you know, in the finals against the Knicks. But before we get to my finals prediction, Chet Holgroom. He was non-existent in game seven. He's supposed to be one of the three big stars for Oklahoma City. SGA, Jalen Williams, Chet Holgram. You know, during that stupid commercial, you know, where Chet Holgram's up at the balconies looking down, hey, what about me? You know, during that stupid commercial that we had to see a thousand times during the season and on TV. He was non-existent. Now, of course, everybody's losing their mind about it. Everybody on the Twitter and the X are losing their mind. They need to get rid of him. They need to get rid of Chad Hogram. He was not on no show in game seven. Well, last year, in case people forgot, Oklahoma City played in two game sevens on their way to the NBA Championship. They played Denver in seven games in the Western Conference semifinals. In game seven, Chad Holgrom had 13 points and eight rebounds. Then last year in the NBA Finals, they played Indiana in a game seven. Chad Holgram had 18 points and seven rebounds. So there's two examples of a game seven. Now, it's not an outstanding performance of 30 points and 15 rebounds, but remember they got SGA, they got Jalen Williams. Okay. So he's not gonna, he's not gonna stand out, but he did contribute. He did show up, he did play defense. So let's let's let's slow down on getting rid of Chet Holgrove. It's one bad game. Of course, you immediately go to the Twitter and the action, you see they need to get rid of Chet Holgrave, they need to bring in the Greek freak that Connels and Tapo goal, whatever his name is, from Milwaukee. Why? Just because you immediately lost, you need to trade your assets to get this bum? This guy hasn't played well since they won the championship with Milwaukee. And you want to trade your assets for this guy? He makes a lot of money. I think he stinks. I don't think he's that good at all. I think that would be the worst trade they can make. Worst trade. You don't want to bring him in OKC. This is a guy who wants to be in a big market. He's coming from Milwaukee. You think he wants to go to even a smaller market in OKC? This guy thinks he's a big name in the NBA. And you want to trade assets for that? I thought, I thought that trade immediately people were going online and putting the freak in an OKC uniform saying he needs to come there. I don't know why you would trade for a guy who doesn't play. That would be stupid. And uh Sam Presty, a great general manager for OKC, it's not going to make that dump. Then the other trade I saw, of course, was sending Chet Holgram and somebody else, I forget who the other player was, to Cleveland for Donovan Mitchell. Again, Donovan Mitchell and SGA are the same player. Why would you make that trade? Why would you trade a big man for another small guy when you need another big body to help and stop Wemby? You're playing in the Western conference. You didn't make it to the finals and lost. You got beat in the Western Conference Finals. You have, in order to get to an NBA finals, you got to beat the teams in your own conference. And right now, as we stand, regardless of what happens in the finals, the Spurs are the best team in the Western Conference because they made the final. So you have to put a team together to beat the Spurs and then worry about whoever you play in the finals from the Eastern Conference. So right now, if OKC was a trade for Donovan Mitchell, that's not going to help against Wenby. You'd you need to Reese, you not you need to keep Chet Holgram and you need to sign. Some bigger players to help defend against Wemby or box him out. Box him out from getting to the ball. Did you see the one play last night when uh one of the OKC players had a wide open three and Wemby came flying out of nowhere just to put his hand up, just to put his hand up, just to he didn't touch, he didn't block it or anything, but it was this distraction, and the guys missed a shot. You just need to get another guy that can keep up with him and keep a body out of him. Because he gets frustrated. When you push him around, and I could push Wemby around, he's so skinny. The host would have no problem pushing Wemby around. I blow out him and knock him down. That's how tough Wemby is to the host. I mean, come on. But the reaction to get rid of Chet Holgram right away is just unbelievable. Does OKC need to make some adjustments now in the offseason to compete with the Spurs? Yeah, that's what I just said. Of course they do. Do they need to get rid of Chet Holgram? They had 68 wins and 64 wins the last two seasons. I don't know. It doesn't make any sense to me. They were the number one team the last two years. So good luck, good luck with trying to deal with that in the offseason. I'm sure Sam Prestey, as I just said, being the being a great GM, he'll figure that out. As far as the finals, the host Knicks. Here's the big question. You just saw the Spurs role players, my three favorite new players, the best old castle and champion. You just saw them have a great series against Oklahoma. A great series. Now the thing is, can those three guys keep the momentum going and have a great series against the Knicks? You see sometimes in sports what happens. You'll see guys in a series be unstoppable, do everything right, can't do anything wrong, and then in the next series, they can't do anything right. Can't make the shots, get fouled out, can't make the defensive plays they were, can't get the rebounds they were to get, can't make the shots they were getting. That might happen against the Knicks. So that's one key thing. The other key, can the Spurs survive Madison Square Garden? Now there's only gonna be three games in Madison Square Garden. Luckily, the Spurs had a better record than the Knicks. They're gonna have four games in San Antonio. Now, can the Spurs go into MSG and survive that rowdy, raucous crowd? That place is gonna be fired up. And will the Spurs be able to overcome that? Here's something for the Knicks. Robinson, a big man. Had to have surgery on his on his hand, on his finger. Says he's gonna play, says he's gonna be playing in the series. Is he gonna be effective enough to bang around Wemby and put a body on and slow him down? Now he's not a scorer, but what happens is he's a terrible foul shooter. And when teams get behind, they kind of play, you know, the Pack a Shack rule where they foul Robinson and put him on the line, and he can't make a free throw. So is he going to be a factor for the Knicks? And my other big thing is Mitch Johnson versus Mike Brown. Mike Brown's been in this situation before, coach Lee Brown in the finals. He's coached a lot of teams. Lakers, you know, Sacramento. He's coached a lot of teams with playoff experience. Now he's got the Knicks in the final. Mitch Johnson, of course, we had to hear it a thousand times in the series against OKC, played, coached under Greg Pupovic. And of course, we got to see Pupovich up at the booth with uh, you know, Tim Duncan and David Robinson around him all the time. You know, guy, I don't know if you know, allegedly the guy's giving tips uh, you know, to help the team out uh from being up there, not coaching, not on the sideline, but he's still coaching in a way. I think Mitch Johnson here is going to be outcoached, if I can hard, if I could say it, but about from Mike Brown. But here's the thing. The Knicks don't have a bench like San Antonio does. The Knicks don't have role players coming off the bench and key guys coming in like San Antonio does. So the thing is here in this series, can the Knicks give the Spurs enough different looks on defense and offensively to confuse them? That's what Mike Brown's gonna have to do. And I don't know if they can. I don't know if the Knicks can create enough different looks defensively to confuse the San Antonio offense. And I don't know if the Knicks have enough bodies to put on Wemby to mix things up to get him frustrated where he has bad games. So as much as I like the Knicks, and as much as I can't stand the Spurs. Now, if I if if you were listening to a person who truly was back in the Knicks, like the host is, I'm back in the Knicks. And because I can't stand these three guys on the Spurs, the host pick would be go with the Knicks. But we're always honest on this show. And we're not trying to be favorable on this show. I'm giving you my opinion. I think the Spurs win this series. I think the Spurs role players are going to be too much for the Knicks. I don't think the Knicks have enough bodies to throw at the Spurs. I think the Spurs win this series in six games. That's my that's my that's my uh that's my NBA finals prediction. Now for my uh Stanley uh Cup final preview. Now, I'm not gonna go on 20 some odd minutes about this uh hockey, but I I do have a few comments to get in. We got the Carolina Hurricanes versus the Vegas Golden Grams. Uh during the regular season, and this is just this is how I look at things, because it's the Golden Grams. Carolina had 113 points in the regular season. Now, the Golden Grams had 95, but in my book, they really had 81 because I'm taking off the 14 points before John Torotella came in and took over as coach of the Golden Grams for the fired Butch Cassidy. Now remember, Golden Grams won a Stanley Cup under Butch Cassie, and they didn't like the way they were playing at the end of the season, and they fired him to bring in John Tortella, and of course he turned things around. We talked about this on the ledge. I look at it this as really it's almost a 40-point difference in teams. Yes, the Golden Grams are playing really well right now. Yes, they're playing a different kind of hockey under John Tortell. But Carolina has been the best team in the Eastern Conference all season. And, you know, they got to go up against these damn Golden Grams with their low non-hockey IQ fans attending games. Basically, the end of series is John Tortell versus Rob Brandamore. Just like in the Knicks Spurs series, we got a coaching matchup here. It's right the same. Both these guys have been around a long time. Rob Brandamore is an ex-player, been a coach of teams. He's got a system in place in Carolina. He's got a hot goaltender in Anderson, who's 12-1 in the playoffs. Only loss was game one against Montreal. And that, of course, was after an 11-day layoff. Other than that, he'd be he'd be 12-0, probably. So the matchups, of course, are gonna be what can Rob Brandonore do to accommodate the Golden Knights big three players? They got, of course, is Mariner, Padomauer, whatever his name is, and Jack Eichel. How can Rob Brandonore put his team and counter those three star players for the Golden Graham? Well, here, Carolina plays as a team. Uh, Ocho, Jarvis, Eccles, those guys, they're all just normal players. Normal guys who score points and they all play as a team. Carolina plays more as a team than the Golden Grams do. I'm not saying Golden Grams don't play as a team. Of course they play as a team. That's how you win hockey games. But I'm just saying Hurricanes overall, their whole team put together is more of a team where Golden Grams have a few individual players that stick out above the team. That's what I mean by that. And I think Rob Brandamore can put together a good game plan to stop these Golden Grams from winning a second Stanley Cup and you know trying to have like a mini dynasty out here. Oh, I can't believe I even said that about these Golden Grams. Oh my God. But uh hopefully Carolina can come through. Now, as I said previously that I was for the Knicks, and I'm gonna be totally honest to give an honest pick on this show as we do. I'm going the opposite with this pick. I can't have the Golden Grams winning. I do not want to see the Golden Grams. I'm gonna go with Carolina in six games. I think Carolina can handle uh the Golden Grams easily in this game, easily in this series. I think they got the better goaltender and Anderson over Hart. I think they got a more round team. And as hot as John Tortell is as an interim coach right now for the Golden Grand, I like Rob Brandon more overall. He's been with the team all year. He's got a good feeling of this team. They had 113 points. They've only lost one playoff game so far. And I just like I just like them overall in this series. And yes, this pick is a little biased. So gimme the Hurricanes four games to two, six games. They will be your Stanley Cup champion this season. There. There's my pick. That's what I think is gonna happen in the Stanley Cup. I gotta hope those damn Gold Rams don't win. Man, we'll never hear the end of it with the people I work with. Hey, the only good thing about the Gold Grams make it far in the playoffs is they uh they they uh at work, they tend to let you go early when the games are on. But but uh that's that's what happens there. Now, a few uh baseball items to uh go over as we uh close out the show for uh today. Now, baseball's been going on, as you know, since the start of uh at the end of March, to tell you the truth. And you know, you would think, right, with baseball, that you would have a lot of teams with the way baseball's been structured over the last few years, you would think that some teams would have really long series of playoff series winning droughts. And you would think, oh my god, there's got to be teams that haven't won a uh a playoff series since the 70s or since the 80s, since the 90s. You would think that that that there'd be uh baseball teams that, you know, haven't been involved at all in the postseason the way baseball is structured because it's so top-heavy where teams like the Dodgers, uh the Yankees, the Mets, the Blue Jays all have these high payrolls, and you would think it would be the same teams, of course, uh been winning uh championships, but you would you would think that there would be a lot of teams that haven't won a playoff series. So I came up with, I saw this list that appeared uh, of course, on the uh interwebs, and it's uh longest active postseason series wins droughts, not appearances in the postseason, wins in the postseason. Of all the teams in Major League Baseball, of all 30 teams, only one team hasn't won a playoff series since the 1990s. One. Now you think, like I said, you would think that list would go back into the 80s, into the 70s with some of these teams. Nope. I find it amazing that there's only been one team. That of course is the Cincinnati Reds. They haven't won a playoff series since 1995. And you're like, really? Guys, are I really host? You you think there's there's you're you're being serious? There's teams like the White Sox have won a postseason series since the night? Yeah. Uh they won the 2005 World Series. Angels won a their last playoff series win was 2009. The Pittsburgh Pirates last playoff series win, 2013. Orioles, 2014, Giants, 2016. The Rockies, one of the worst teams in the league. They won a playoff series in 2018.

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Louis, 2019. Washington, they're in the 2019 World Series they won. Aids, they're in the 2020 Wildcard. They've been a crappy team the last few seasons. Marlins, 2020. Tampa Bay, 2020, Braves, 2021, Red Sox, 2021, Twins, 2023, Houston, Phillies, Arizona, all won playoff series in 2023. Texas won a 2023 World Series. Kansas City, they won a 2024 wild card. So did San Diego. So did Cleveland. So did the Mets. Tigers, they won in 2025. Cubs in 2025. Yankees, 2025 wildcard win. Brewers, Seattle, they won division series last year. Toronto, they lost. Their last uh playoff series win was the ALCS. And then they lost in the World Series. And of course, the Dodgers. Wrap this up. They were the 2025 World Series champions. So all these teams that you think baseball's hurting for certain teams to make the playoffs, all these teams have won playoff series within the last 15, 20 years. Now, granted, 15 or 20 years is a long time. But you have teams in the NFL that haven't won playoff games or anything for 30 some years. You have teams in the NBA that haven't won playoff series in 20, 25, 30 years. Yet baseball, what seems to be top heavy and the rumors of the big lockout coming after this season. Well, the only team that hasn't won a playoff series since 2000 are the Cincinnati Reds. It's hard to believe, isn't it? What uh, you know, everything that's going on in baseball currently. And what's going on right now in baseball because of all this, and it's not even, it's now it's officially summer, right? It's gonna be June, officially summer. Now kids are gonna be out of school, and now there's gonna be more people going to baseball games. Look at the home attendance so far for baseball. A lot of people are saying baseball is dead. No one watches baseball. No one may be watching baseball, but a lot of people are going to baseball games. Dodgers lead the major league so far in attendance this year at 50,944 per game. San Diego, the Yankees, Toronto all average over 40,000 fans per game. Philadelphia, the Giants, Angels, Angels, the Mets, Braves, Red Sox, Cubs, Seattle, Houston, Milwaukee. So far this season, and again, this is before school is out with the kids. They all average over 30,000 fans per game. Texas, St. Louis, Arizona, Colorado, Detroit, Cincinnati, Washington, Baltimore, Chicago, White Sox. They all average 20,000 fans per game. And then these teams are, of course, are hurting for fans. But Oakland, they play in a 12,000-seat stadium in Sacramento. They average 10,000 fans per game. Florida averages 11, Tampa Bay, 16, Kansas City, Pittsburgh, 17 each, Cleveland and Minnesota, 19,000 each. So you can say what you want about nobody watching baseball on TV. That may be true. But it's not stopping the people from going to the games. Look at all the people. Look at these attendants. Average attendants. And again, before school, let out with these kids. This, you know, something to think about. The popularity of watching baseball on TV is far different than the popularity of people going and enjoying themselves at games. And uh as I saw another thing over the weekend that baseball is turning games with their music and their background noise into like this nightclub atmosphere where they're playing, pumping in the music really loud and getting people to dance and hyping people up. It's like it's like they're pumping in the music really loud to get people fired up. And of course, the fans are enjoying it. You know, all these stadiums now, they got the premium food, they got the drinks. Uh, they just make it uh an all-around fun experience for people going to baseball games. And, you know, the games are much shorter. You don't have to worry about sitting there for four and a half, five hours with the pitch clock. So uh it just makes attending a baseball game, you know, even more better for the fans. So I came across my last thing for the show, I came across this baseball comparison. Now, these are kind of two players that have played in the past. Nobody knew, but not so in the past. I'm gonna say I'm gonna say player A probably played with player B when he was later in his career, and player B was just starting off in his career. Um, I'll say player A played, let's give you some clues. Player A played in the 80s and 90s, and player B played late 90s in the 2000s. Now, people think player A is one of the greatest players to ever play. And player A is in the Hall of Fame. Player B, by looking at the stats, I think is a better overall player. But he's not in the hall of. Player A has won two World Series. Player B, who's not in the Hall of Fame, has won four World Series. Player A played in 1,783 games in his career. Player B played in 2,076. Player A had 2,304 hits. Player B had 2,336 hits in his career. Player A had 207 home runs. Player B had 287 home runs. 1,085 RBIs for player A. 1,257 RBIs for player B. 134 stolen bases for player A. 147 stolen bases for player B. 318 career batting average for player A. Player B had a 297 career batting average. An on-base percentage of 360 for player A and on base percentage of 381 for player B. Sluggy percentage, even 477. So who's player A and who's player B? Player B has better stats than player A. He also has four world championships. Yet player A gets all the recognition. Player A is told is he's a great champion. He's a great hall of fan. He's one of the all-time great players. I can never stand player A. I like player B. Even though I'm not a fan of either team that these guys play for. So who is player A that everybody loves? That only has two World Series? That's already in the Hall of Fame? Who is player B that has four World Series? That's not even in the Hall of Fame, that has better stats than player A and doesn't even get talked in the same category. Player A? Kirby Puckett. Player B. Bernie Williams in New York. But hoes, come on, you can't. Bernie Williams played idle school those great Yankee team. Yeah? So? Kirby Puckett had great players on his team. Dan Glad. Heard her back. A bunch of other great roles. Yeah. Bernie Williams. Loaded team. Derek. Pauline. Tino Martin. Yes, I know. Minnesota had great pitchers. Herp Lila. Jack Morris. Yankees had great players. They had one of the greatest closers, Mariano Rivera. But stats are stats. You can't you can't have Kirby Puckett in the Hall of Fame and not have Bernard Williams in the Hall of Fame. I mean, the Bernard Williams has four World Series and better stats. But player A gets all the recognition because he hit a home run to win one game in the World Series. Remember the great call, Jack Buck. We'll see you tomorrow night. That was his call in that game that Kirby Puckett hit the home run in game six. We'll see you tomorrow night. That was his call. And that call lives on and has created this aura that Kirby Puckett is this great player. Great Hall of Fame player. Which he may well be. He doesn't have 3,000 hits. He doesn't have a lot of home. Yeah, he has a 318 career anyway. But Bernard Williams has got four world champions. Almost a 300. More hits than why isn't he recognized as a Hall? Why hasn't he been voting? I don't get it. I don't get the Hall of Fame voting. I don't get what players think of certain players. It's just I don't get it. But that's my comparison on this show. I kind of stalled it a little bit, let you guys think about it. Maybe uh, you know, let you guys guess, but that's it. Again. That's all I have for you on this show. You know where to get my show by now? New listeners every week, new listeners every episode. I can't thank you more. You know what I get the show. 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