Episode 23 - We Are the Champions

In this week's episode of Full Strength Podcast, we talk about the World Cup, the NBA Championship, and the NHL Championship. And in our top 5, we give our list of the most dominate World Cup teams. Take a listen and enjoy.

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:00

Hey everybody, welcome to Full Strength Podcast. Another week. Some more sports. Big news. We have got two leagues that have come to an end. We've crowned two champions. Very exciting stuff. Um let's get it going, Steve. How was your week?

SPEAKER_04 0:15

I had a great week. Carolina Hurricanes won the Stanley Cup. Yes, sir. I mean, that made my week right there. So no, regardless of what else happened, that doesn't uh that doesn't matter. Good enough, man. Good enough. Hey Nick Brown, how was your week, buddy?

SPEAKER_03 0:31

Week was good. Had some people over to the house to watch the UFC Freedom event and the last game of hockey for 2026.

SPEAKER_01 0:39

Yeah, man, that freedom event. Wow, that looks so cool. Like what an amazing event. It just looked awesome. It was really it was it was great. Excited to talk about it today. Awesome, awesome, awesome. Brandon the stuff trainer, my man. How was your week?

SPEAKER_02 0:53

My week was great. I got to attend Game Six and see Carolina win the cup.

unknown 0:59

Yep.

SPEAKER_02 0:59

That was against my team.

SPEAKER_01 1:01

Yep. What a great experience, man. I was texting you. I think I've I've been to three clinching like championship games, the Super Bowl, World Series, and the NBA finals years ago. And I just I still haven't made it to a hockey one. I've been to two Stanley Cup final games, just not a clincher. So um yeah, I'm it's God man, I'm just yeah, I'm jealous that you got to be there. So awesome. But uh anyway, so let's kick it off this week. Uh let's get into the UFC Freedom Fest. What a great pay-per-view event. I heard that the fan fest was absolutely amazing. Um, just some uh great food. Uh, there was a concert. It just looked, it looked awesome. It looked like a lot of fun. Um wish I could have been there and you know, just I I even thought about it like, man, it would have been like if I had more time to prepare, I probably just would have gone to the fan fest, dude, and like hung outside and hung around DC. There's some great bars uh down there. Um when I went to see the sharks, uh play the caps years ago with my sister. It was uh just a really cool area. So um, Nick, let's start with you, man, on the uh the Freedom 250. I know you had a big party for it and everything else. So, what'd you think, man? Uh I thought it was an epic.

SPEAKER_03 2:20

It was they had a 12-plane flyover to start it during Zach Brown or Zach Brown band. Dude, it had it had uh six blue angels and six Thunderbirds in tight formation flying right over the White House, no fly zone. And uh it just was it awesome. I mean, people complain about everything, but it was a it looked like an amazing event. The event itself was rad. The very first UFC pay-per-view. If I'm I'm still calling them pay-per-views, even though they're all on Paramount Plus, so deal with it. Um in the history of UFC with 100% of all the fights on the card finished by TKO.

SPEAKER_04 3:05

Um they were actually decent fights, too. I mean, there was a couple slow ones, but uh yeah, I watched it and it was um it was an amazing event. I mean, just the performances, the the spectacle of it, like everything they put together for it and the colors, the walkouts.

SPEAKER_03 3:20

Yeah, I agree. The the different people that rang fighters had uh patriotic costumes. Um, you got to see in the inside of the White House, all the fighters were walking out of the White House um to enter the ring. Like it was just it was really cool. So awesome. Brandon, what'd you think?

SPEAKER_02 3:38

I didn't get to really see it. I was at the game at the time, so oh that's right.

SPEAKER_01 3:43

They were they were simultaneous.

SPEAKER_03 3:44

That's literally the exact well.

SPEAKER_01 3:47

That's right.

SPEAKER_03 3:47

The Freedom 250 festival was on was on hold because of the storm that was uh set up right outside, and they were afraid they were gonna have to push it back like a couple hours. Really? And then the storm just dissolved.

SPEAKER_01 4:02

Like man. That's pretty cool. Pretty neat, man. That's that's pretty awesome.

SPEAKER_03 4:08

Yeah, but it was a great fight. Um Sean Strickland drama. Uh, he was seen drunk at Fanfest because he couldn't get in, he didn't get a ticket to go to the actual event. It was, but whatever. That's Sean Strickland.

SPEAKER_01 4:20

Oh my god, what'd he do? Throw a temper tantrum?

SPEAKER_03 4:22

Yeah, he got butthurt because he didn't get a ticket because they always have such a nasty comment tickets and then blamed the fact that he runs his mouth and that's why he didn't get a ticket, and then he's like, I'll just show up to fan fest, and then he did, and then he got bombarded by fans, and then he got kicked out. Ta-da! The Sean Strickland show. Maybe you didn't get tickets because you're an idiot.

SPEAKER_01 4:40

Yeah, fair enough. And they didn't want to deal with your problems. Honestly, if you're acting like that, it's like, dude, take a walk. Like, get get bent. Like, just why? You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_03 4:51

Like, why can't you just uh wow? But as far as the fights themselves, uh, we had we had the lightweight uh Michael Chandler getting TKO'd by strikes in the first round, um by Ruff. We had heavyweights, Josh Hockett defeated Michael Chandler by TKO uh in the second round. Um and then Josh Hockett at the he's Josh Hockett's the guy that really, really, really wants to be in the WWE. And his every time he's interviewed, he's like, Listen, brother, this is what went down, and everything rhymed. It's so funny. He won, and then he went to do his interview, and he did like one. It's like listen, uh I can't do this anymore. And then he just started talking normal. Um, but it was fun. Uh, he won and then he ran his mouth at the end of his interview, and a lot of people are upset. Said that uh I'm not even gonna repeat it, but he ran his mouth, and now he's facing the background backlash. It is what it is. Really? Yeah, he well, I'll just say it. At the very end of his speech, for the second time, he threw somebody under the bus who's like, and Michelle Obama is a man. He's the one that said I heard about it.

SPEAKER_01 6:10

Oh my god. Are you okay? Well, anyway, moving.

SPEAKER_04 6:14

I wasn't sure which one said it, but I remember hearing something about Michelle Obama. Yeah, okay.

SPEAKER_03 6:19

Um, and then after that, you had the Sean O'Malley, uh, Sean O'Malley fight, who's an Arizona boy, and I love watching him fight, and he has got a TKO in the second round of uh Zahababi. I can't say his name. Um, but then the big fight. Oh no, there was two. Yeah, then Pereira, who is like my Aztec warrior, came out and lost. The guy that always does like the arrow when he's coming in, and he's just like always lumbering forward and just beats the crap out of everybody. He lost. Um to Gagni, a Frenchman. Um, it was a great fight, but not the nobody anticipated, to my knowledge, that he was Pereira's gonna lose. And that was for the interim heavyweight belt. So Gagne left with two belts. He got the the international or the interim heavyweight, and then a Freedom 250 belt.

SPEAKER_01 7:12

Awesome.

SPEAKER_03 7:13

Um, very cool. Yeah, and then the the big fight, the last fight of the evening was uh Gaethy. Gay, yeah, Justin Gacy. Beating the pants off of. Um, I just I heard literally today, he broke both orbital bones. Um God knows when he's gonna fight again. He Gay Gacy was a six to one underdog going into that fight.

SPEAKER_01 7:38

So wait a second, he broke Gacy broke both of his orbital bones?

SPEAKER_03 7:42

No, he broke Tapourier's orbital bones. Oh, okay. Jeez, and Tapo, like the whole fight was stopped by corner stoppage. Um, he like at the I think it was the end of the third round, the doctor was over there and like, can you see my finger? And he's like just moving his head, you know, like left and right, trying to follow the finger, and the doctor's like, he can't see anything. And you the his corner kind of came in there, like, no, he's good to go. He can fight his brother, Tuporier's brother's in his corner. Yeah, and then the next round, um, he his face looked like hamburger meat, and his brother was heard saying, like, no, he can go, he can go, he can go. And then when the doctor's like, okay, I guess he can go, and then somebody else in the corner was like, Nope, and threw in the white towel, and they're like, Oh, he's got a big thing. Did you find out now that he broke both those bones?

SPEAKER_01 8:34

Yeah, your eyes are the most maybe complex, really complex organ we have in our bodies. We we have 12 cranial nerves, right? Four are somehow, in some way, shape, or form, connected to your eyes or have something to do with your eyes, right? Like there's one cranial nerve that just controls your diaphragm. It's absolutely insane, like what they do. And so it's like what you break those bones, man. If it goes back, you're talking about irreputable damage. Like it's it's so dangerous, man. Like, that's I'm so I'm glad they stopped the fight. That is insane, dude.

SPEAKER_03 9:14

He was gonna go back out. His corner had him going back, and he was ready to go back out, as you know. I mean, he's a fighter, he's a warrior, I get it. But luckily, somebody from this corner, and you know, you know that that guy from that corner that threw the towel in got yeah, yelled at, if not kicked off the corner, like forever, then to come out today to find out that he had bilateral uh orbital bone fractures. Like, you better be saying you're sorry, you better apologize.

SPEAKER_01 9:41

Like, I think it'll be it's he's obviously gonna need surgery, right? I that's gonna be a long recovery, dude. Brutal, brutal. These guys are warriors, man. That's why it's so impressive what they do. It's just so impressive. So, anyway.

SPEAKER_03 9:59

Uh yeah, so Justin Gacy Gacy won. He's like, I think he's 37 years old, contemplating retirement. He might go out after this fight, so we'll have to see. Oh, he's a he's a hall of famer. Gacy, yeah, Gacy's a hall of famer. So we'll see um if he continues to fight or not. But yeah, he looked good, man. Like he he did exactly what he wanted to do, and he just kept peppering that guy's face, and he kept hitting the same spot over and over and over and over.

SPEAKER_01 10:24

Man, incredible. So well, all right. Um anybody have anything else on the UFC? All right, other than it was exciting. Yeah, very, very exciting. So just great event, well done. Um, UFC hits a home run again. So um awesome. Uh moving on to the MLB. Did anybody see the how uh the Dodgers had a perfecto Yamamoto? Did anybody see that? Oh man, so has a perfect game in the eighth, in the eighth inning, and it was Mookie Betts kicked a ball and made an error, and it ruined the perfect game. And then, like on the next, I think it was one batter after that, gets a base hit, and it it got rid of the no-hitter, too. Great performance, either way. You go that deep with the perfecto, it's like, man, and nobody felt worse than Mookie Bet. I'm a Giants fan, dude, and it's like we hate the Dodgers, but just an incredible day, and it's still an incredible day pitching. When you do that at any level of elite baseball, it's incredible. But man, Mookie Bet, you can see it on his face. The poor guy. Poor guy was just like, oh like I guarantee he probably lost a little bit of sleep that night, you know. So just a brutal one. That's uh that was and um um here, real quick, the aftermath. Uh Yamamoto retired the next batter to get out of the inning. So he actually went into the ninth inning with a no-hitter. Um, however, his no-hitter was officially broken up in the ninth inning when Tristan oh Peters, yeah, he has solo home run. So it wasn't a base hit, it was a home run. So um that's nine years old. Mookie Betts was quoted as saying, um, just a routine ground ball that I missed. I'm not making any excuses. Added that winning the game was the most important thing. But again, dude, he you know he felt bad. Oh my god, how could you not? But that's that's why like a perfect game isn't just the pitcher, that's a team thing, right? Like they all have to be great. I remember um Giants, um Matt Kane pitched a perfecto, and I remember watching that game, and there was a play I want to say it was in like the sixth inning, okay? The Giants home ballpark, as everybody knows, has triples alley. The way the park is built, it's super cool. But you get one out there, it's in no man's land, dude. It's crazy. So um I'm trying to think of the player that did it, man. And I'm drawing a blank right now. Um, great ball player, uh, Dominican kid. Um, anyway, ball is just tattooed and it's going for triple zaley. Blanco. Okay, it was Blanco that did it. He gets on his horse and he is just sprinting out towards right center. This dude does a superman completely laid out and catches the ball. I remember watching and thinking, oh, this is a special night if guys are making plays like that for Cater. And his wife was in the building that night, and it it just there was a couple other plays Brandon Crawford made like a ridiculous play and throw to first that like maybe 10 shortstops all time could have made. And that's why he wasn't paid for his bat, he was paid for that kind of stuff. Uh Brandon Crawford was so anyway. It's just when you watch one, it's just like, man, it's everybody, it's just everybody, and they're fun to watch. Seattle, uh Hernandez had one the one year. It was the same thing, man. There's always great plays, so um, anyway. So anybody else have anything on baseball this week? Uh yes. Did anybody watch baseball on June 15th?

SPEAKER_03 14:36

I was setting you up. I know. I was waiting. Go ahead, Nickeroo. Oh, in case you didn't hear, Pete Crow Armstrong, lovingly referred to as PCA for the Cubs, hit for the cycle. 13th Cub to hit for the cycle, and the first player in MLB to do it this season, uh, in a dominant win over the uh over the Rockies, excuse me. Those are always fun, too.

SPEAKER_01 15:01

Wasn't it? It was in Colorado, right? No, baby, it was in Wrigley. Oh, it was okay. Sorry, sorry. Okay, I got my nonsense crossed up. Yeah, it and so here's that's right, because I I wrote this down. I'm looking at it right now. So it's that's hard. And Wrigley is a hard part to get a to get a three-bagger.

SPEAKER_03 15:20

The only reason he got a triple is because uh he had already hit a home run, his first at bat, first inning, home run, and his second at bat, third inning, it's the exact same section of what is that right center field. Yeah, so everyone was like playing it back, and then it bounced off the wall and over the outfielder back towards the infield, and that's how he was able to get around the bag to third.

SPEAKER_01 15:44

Okay, that makes sense. I mean, it it wrigley. If you get one out into the Ivy and it takes a weird bounce off the brick, I think that's how you're gonna get a good triple, or down the lines at Wrigley. That ball can take a weird carum and give you just that extra little bit of time to go diving head first into third, right? Like get that three bagger. So, yeah, pretty cool.

SPEAKER_03 16:06

Pretty great. Hats off to PCA. Congratulations on being awesome. Yankees always better when it's your team that does it, right? Absolutely. Yeah, I'm just glad I'm just glad Brandon didn't say anything so I could. So thank you.

SPEAKER_01 16:21

It's the Cubs. I know. You got mad at me the other week, so I I don't want to take anything away from Chicago. Um, how about um God dang it? How about the White Sox? Is anybody paying attention to the White Sox? Are on fire? Other than that. Well, no, but they're in first. They're six and four in their last ten, but it it's the fact they've had a great turnaround. They're they've been rebuilding. Um, I know a lot of shot Sox fans are always upset and unhinged because it the franchise has had a rough couple of decades since winning the World Series in 04. Um Steve, you know a guy we went to high school with played was the right fielder for the Astros in that World Series. 05, sorry, Jason Lane. Oh, really? Um I didn't know that, but I know Jason Lane. He was a starting right fielder that year for the Astros, for the Strows. They got swept by the Sox, but the Sox were an absolute wagon back then. So um anyway, uh, so yeah, the the Sox, I think it's great. They've had a good turnaround, they're starting to play good ball. Um, some might say the AL Central is a little weak, but who cares? They're 38 and 33.

SPEAKER_04 17:37

No, they had a good month, like the last 30 days, like the last yeah, it's been really good for them.

SPEAKER_01 17:41

Like you said, they were hot. They're yeah. Um, you look at it, because like what Steve's saying is um they're a little falling off right now in June, kind of like playing 500 ball. But yeah, so May, they just they had a pretty good run. They really did. They were kind of streaky, like they'd win like six or seven, then lose a couple, win six or seven, they were like win one, lose one for a little bit. But yeah, so they had, let's see, they had one, two, three, four, five in a row, lost one, then won two, lost one, one one, lost one, one one, lost two, one one, lost one, and then again went on another like six-game win streak. So it's like they're yeah, man, they're getting they're getting they're they're playing good ball. They have a really good home record. 24 and 12.

SPEAKER_04 18:30

What's their record at home right now? 24 and 12. The problem is the opposite is they're not very good away. They're only 40. They're not good on the road and 21 when they're on the road.

SPEAKER_01 18:39

So well, think about it. They can figure that out, they're gonna be in pretty good shape, you know what I mean? So um, yeah. And then the AL West, you got Seattle and Oakland at the top, but it's like Oakland's one game below 500. I think that's one of the weaker divisions, is what it looks like. But um, yeah, God, in the AL East, you've got the Yanks and Tampa, and then Toronto's third, and they're 10 games back. I mean, it's like holy shit.

SPEAKER_03 19:12

Yeah, with a losing record.

SPEAKER_01 19:14

Yeah, I it's just brutal. And then you go over to the NL, and it's you still got Atlanta. Although they've fallen off a little bit lately, they're still 20 games over 500 and seven up on the Phil's who are in second.

SPEAKER_04 19:28

I think I've said this before, but I'm looking at the you know, the the lowest person in the in overall, and there's not that one team that's you know still sitting at 10 wins. They're all pushing. There's only one team below 30.

SPEAKER_01 19:41

Oh, you mean as far as like a really bad team? Yeah, yeah, I agree. Everybody like it's not like there last couple years, there's been like that one team that's like one or two teams that wins like 15 games all year. What the Rockies lose like 130 games last year or something, it's like, holy smokes, dude.

SPEAKER_03 19:58

Like, that's freaking brutal.

SPEAKER_01 20:01

They're uh there's there that would be the one team that sub 30 wins, and then honestly, you look at the NL Central, and it's like the last place team, like this is like this just pads Steve's point, is it's 35 and 38, and that's the Reds, and they're only 10 and a half back as a dead last team. That's a pretty strong division. Honestly, you got the pirates playing 500 ball, they're nine back, but they've they've really struggled lately.

SPEAKER_04 20:29

And then the Rockies are the worst, but I mean they're still at 28 and 46.

SPEAKER_01 20:35

I know, I know there's a lot of the Giants have been in massive disappointment this year, and you know, I you know they'll turn it around, I believe. But um, the Dodgers look like another a wagon again, but I don't think they're gonna unfortunately. Well, it is what it is, man. They're playing good ball. I mean, um they are. But yeah, the three teams, there's three teams in that division that are above 500 Arizona, San Diego, and LA, and then you got San Francisco and Colorado that just aren't playing.

SPEAKER_03 21:04

Dude, I like Arizona this year. They they've been playing great ball. It's just their division is a shitty division to be in and be it's it really is.

SPEAKER_01 21:13

And here's the thing the Giants, they have the talent to go on a run. So it's like I keep thinking that's gonna happen, but it just it just doesn't. You know, right now they're they're just they're five and five. It's like a lot of teams, you got San Francisco, Arizona, and San Diego that are all five and five in their last ten. Colorado's four and six, and the Dodgers six and four. Like the whole division isn't playing like lights out right now. You know what I mean? It's just and if you look, there's really nobody that's like on fire right now. And we're getting close, you know, one more month at the end of July and August. You hit that dog days of summer, and this is where teams are gonna survive, right? So Brandon, you're quiet. What's what what do you think?

SPEAKER_02 21:59

I mean Only team that's had any sort of streak has been the Yankees at eight and two in the last ten. Right. Everyone else is like four and six or five and five.

SPEAKER_01 22:10

Yeah, there's a lot of that right now, right? It's just you know, kind of coming into June, and the uh and you got the all-star break, and then the dreaded dog days of summer, right? When sore muscles or soreness might turn into something more, and I think it's gonna be an interesting July and August. That's kind of what I'm getting towards here.

SPEAKER_04 22:31

Is I that's I think that's what it's gonna be, but you know, it's you know, I hope so because everything's looking really close right now, so it could be a good uh good last 30 days of you know before the um the season ends and where everybody's fighting for those top three positions.

SPEAKER_01 22:47

Right, it could be a really interesting pennant race, is what that could ultimately lead up to, right? Like, yeah, I think that could be yeah, a whole lot of fun, even for the people at the bottoms, like it's like I was just talking about.

SPEAKER_04 22:58

I mean, right.

SPEAKER_03 22:59

Don't forget, stick around here, full strength podcast, where we dive in deep as the season gets a little bit closer.

SPEAKER_01 23:06

Yeah, to wrap it up, right? Yeah, and again, like Nick said, don't forget to like, follow, subscribe, and share. You can catch us on YouTube, our YouTube channel, and also our podcast is on all platforms. Check out our TikTok. Um, I haven't posted uh yesterday and today, but I've had a lot going on and just kind of wrapping my head around everything. We got some other, you know, news uh not much going on like in the WNBA. We kind of just were looking, I was looking at it, nothing big there. Um, but um, with that said, we can kind of move into kind of some of the meat and potatoes of this episode. Um, NBA finals are done. The Knicks win in five. Um okay, let me just throw this out there. It I think it's awesome. Number one, the Knicks won. So this isn't any kind of hate on the Knicks. I I I'm pumped. I love to see that team win. They're they have some, I know some really great Knicks fans who have struggled and gotten so close so many times. So for them to get it is awesome. And Jalen Brunson, what do you have, 48 points in game five? Like, literally put that team on his back in game five. Okay, so with that said, guys, I'm I'm going through, right? And I'm I re-watched. Okay, I rewatched all five games, and I because I looked at these numbers and I'm looking at this and I'm like, the Knicks didn't do anything extraordinary to come back. The Spurs shot so bad, dude. Did anybody else look at these numbers? Like, yeah, I think we talked about that. It was there was one night they went nine for 40 in the second half, and the Knicks didn't like get super hot, they just had to play basketball and not f up. It was brutal, dude. Yeah, the Spurs killed themselves and a lot of the oh my gosh, Steve, that's what I'm saying. And it's like I I said something, and oh my god, some over-emotional fans lost their mind. But it's like I the Knicks didn't even have to play like some exceptional defense, guys. It was so bad. Like the Spurs just they didn't play Jamar basketball. I Brandon 100%, but it's like it's all like I don't even know how to say it anymore.

SPEAKER_02 25:47

It's so brutal. They got the lane and then they shoot it away.

SPEAKER_01 25:52

It's just by they couldn't shoot the ball, they couldn't shoot. It's crazy how good they looked every game, guys.

SPEAKER_03 26:01

They just they killed themselves. I mean, you had people you had uh women missing free throws to close out the gate, close out games, close games. You had turnovers and poor plays, poor design plays. I didn't even look at some turnovers, Nick. How bad they literally gave every loss away. They were weak.

SPEAKER_01 26:23

Yeah, it's like Spurs fans just I I mean, I think you you've you they've gotta be sick.

SPEAKER_03 26:30

Yeah, yeah, you gotta do it. I don't think this is the last time we're gonna see the Spurs in uh doing a long trip with Women Yama. I think they're gonna build around him, I think they're gonna be good for a while, at least competitive for a long time. Oh, 100% if he can stay healthy.

SPEAKER_01 26:44

100%. Now, with that said, let's also give the Knicks went what 16 and 3? Yeah, that's that's pretty good. You've got to give the Knicks their flowers, absolutely. But oh, it's it was just so bad. The Spurs completely collapsed in every game.

SPEAKER_02 27:09

And during game four, when they had the 29-point lead, they attempted eight three points in a row that they all missed.

SPEAKER_01 27:19

Brandon, we've talked about this and uh on this podcast, and Hugh and I have talked about it on the phone. It's like somebody tackled these guys and be like, hey, stupid, you can you guys can play in the paint. It's okay, and you've got seven football. He's got an eight-foot-tall man sitting there in the center, just lob the ball to him, dear lord.

SPEAKER_03 27:42

Honestly, honestly, like if he's even throwing it up blindly behind his head, it's his percentages will be better than their three-point shooting in the fourth quarter.

SPEAKER_01 27:53

I it just like oh guys, it's it was painful at times to watch, and I'm just like, oh my god. Oh my god. Yeah, yep. I mean, there was some nights, Brandon, that they didn't turn the ball over more, but it's you know, it's just it's it's a whole thing, the whole thing is compacted. I mean, it it's like, oh, it's so hard to watch, man. It's like they had quarters were like one quarter in game three, 18 points. It's like, and again, it's because they just they had like Brandon said, eight in a row, and they keep missing. It's like, let's just keep hitting you know, just bang your head against the glass.

SPEAKER_04 28:44

Yeah, I'm looking at the overall stats for out you know throughout the series, and they're actually not far from each other. 102 to 104 for points. No, there's a Nick's, even field goal percentage for three points was only 33.9 versus 36.7, but it was those really the overall doesn't tell the story.

SPEAKER_01 29:04

Yeah, if you go to like sofa score or flash score, you can break down the stats by quarter by two points.

SPEAKER_04 29:12

That's where you really see the difference.

SPEAKER_01 29:14

That's where it's yeah, that's what you need to see. That's what you need to look at.

SPEAKER_04 29:17

People get all bent out of shape and they're like, I'm looking at it right now, and god dang it, they don't, you're lying to me, and it's that's why I wanted to bring it up because overall, if you looked at the whole series, they weren't they were quite equally matched.

SPEAKER_01 29:30

Yes, but you're right on.

SPEAKER_04 29:33

Spurs had some really, really bad time.

SPEAKER_01 29:36

It's what it is, is there's a couple of great apps, folks. If you're on here and listening, check out there's two that I use. One is called one's my favorite. Um, it's one of the ones that I do when I the reason I credit these guys for why I make so much money betting in the in the fall, the winter, and just half of the spring. I usually stop betting by the end of uh regular season in the NHL and NBA, and then I don't bet again until September. So, or well, October actually. But um Flash Score is that app is so incredible. You can break down and go and start playing and going through that app. And I'm gonna tell you what, man, it'll show you by quarter how they do against this opponent, how this player does and fares against this opponent or this opponent. It's it's incredible, it's an amazing breakdown, and that's where I got these numbers for the Spurs and how they collapsed. You can go by quarter. There was one quarter in game four where they shot 18 overall. I mean, that's just holy shit, guys.

SPEAKER_04 30:43

So yeah, as with so like as we said, the Spurs kind of fell apart on their own.

SPEAKER_01 30:48

Yeah, and it's they lost, they definitely lost this series. They did, and it's again, I love that the Knicks won. That's kind of who I was kind of rooting for, but uh, you know, and then I hate to even bring this up, but oh man, this behavior is so disgusting and embarrassing for the city, the poor city of New York. And I don't want the Nick fan base to be wrapped up as a shitty fan base because they're not. I know again, so many good people that live in that city. I know so many great Knicks fans, Yankee fans, islanders, Mets, Rangers. So it's like I hate to see this happen, but guys, there's a 17-year-old that ended up in a coma. Two people were in a cab, the windows broke and they drug these people out and beat them up.

SPEAKER_04 31:52

Yeah, five school buses were destroyed. School buses that were used to bring in people for the cup were completely destroyed.

SPEAKER_01 32:03

Why? I here's what I know. I again, we've talked about fan behavior in all sports, we've talked about how bad this can get. I just I and I still it still stays true. It's why? Why? And I'm gonna tell you what, I think these mobs of people that were like surrounding these Spurs fans, ripping jerseys off, beating them up, and these guys are just trying to walk away. It's like I'm gonna tell you right now, these are just pieces, these are just scumbags.

SPEAKER_04 32:36

Yeah, I mean, you know, there's a lot of those people who are looking to do that. It wasn't like you said, it's not all the the fans, it's just those ones that were not looking for it. Because I mean the hurricanes won the Stanley Cup. There was no problems here in Raleigh with instruction. Nope. There was a few people that climbed the light poles and you know just did pullbox and signs and stupid shit like that.

SPEAKER_01 32:57

But shot somebody got shot the other night after during the during the uh the activities after they won the the the the championship. Shit, I didn't care about that. Here in Raleigh? Yeah, somebody got sh no, this is New York, but oh okay. So it yeah, somebody got shot, cars were burned, flipped over. I saw one video where a Nick fan, the guy's rolling down his window asking if he can go through. Guy takes his drink, throws it into him in the Lamborghini, and it just what are we doing, man? You guys don't why why can't people just not be scumbags?

SPEAKER_03 33:38

It's hard these days.

SPEAKER_01 33:39

Ah, good grief, man. So just this is why we always say on this podcast, police your own fans, please. Okay, if you're at a at your team's venue and you see some fans being picked on, being stuck. I mean, I'm yelling. Knock it off. You're making us all look bad. Don't be a scumbag. So it's just it it's just it's sad, honestly. It is really, to me, it's very, very sad.

SPEAKER_03 34:17

It's you hope that that's not what's remembered moving forward for the Nick fans, you know, like the damage that was done and the chaos that ensued. I don't think it will be. I don't think it will be either, but you just hate to see it. It's so unnecessary and it proves nothing. It doesn't make you a better fan, it makes you an idiot.

SPEAKER_01 34:34

It's yeah, it's perfectly said, Nick. I just, yeah, it's just why I just always ask why. What are you gaining from this? What do you get out of this?

SPEAKER_04 34:50

That's the problem. I don't think they're asking the question why they just do no, don't come to our city, dog.

SPEAKER_01 34:58

Okay, you don't want people to come and spend money in your city, like that's dumb. It's not a very educated thing to say. I anyway. It's just disappointing. You should be able to go wear your jersey and go to a game like this, and you know, you're spending you're spending an absurd amount of money, so anyway. Anyway, so that's the end of the NBA season.

SPEAKER_02 35:25

There's another talk, there's another thing of bad behavior I gotta talk about. With uh NBA? Yep. What do you got, buddy? Gotta go a little bit of a rant here.

SPEAKER_05 35:36

Okay, do it.

SPEAKER_02 35:37

Fair enough. Let's hear it. Because this drives me nuts. Oh boy. So this was what, Nick's and Spurs?

SPEAKER_01 35:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 35:45

Okay. All right, let's hear it. So at the end of the game, yeah, Knicks have won. Okay. Every single member of the Spurs team, except for one person, and I don't remember which player it was. But I saw that one person, the entire team, refused to shake hands with any of the Knicks players and just went straight to the locker room. And I think that's like the biggest. Sorry, but the biggest bitch move you can make as a professional athlete is not. Absolutely. Sorry, you're actually refused to shake hands with the person who bested you. They were the better team. You lost fair and square.

SPEAKER_01 36:33

How is that not talking about shaking their hands? That's my question. I didn't even hear it. Yeah, Brandon, you're absolutely on point here. That that's that's beyond Bush League. That's just why? That is that you know what that is? Do you remember what was it? 19 yeah, it was 1991 NBA playoffs. 10 point, I think, three seconds left. And again, forgive me, the time might be incorrect, but the Detroit Pistons walked off the floor against the Chicago Bulls and refused to even finish the game.

SPEAKER_02 37:11

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 37:12

In front of their home fans. Yeah. This to me is worse because this is the end of the series. You have the handshake line, right? It's one of the things that the NHL is really famous for because no other league really does this. But basketball does, they walk by at the end of every game, don't they, and shake hands. Don't they do that every game? Well, that I mean, but Brandon, I'm saying, like, when the game's over, they walk. Paul does it, it's like they shake hands, right? Like right in front of like the uh scoring table table.

SPEAKER_05 37:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 37:55

Yeah, so I was trying, it looks like Vic you uh Victor Wimbanyama Webanyama started it by as soon as the buzzer went off, he turned around and went to um the locker room, and most of the players, except for Luke Cornette, yeah, he has the one, followed along. And I I can't believe I'm reading this. There's a lot of people defending this, saying, Oh, they just lost in a devastating you know, championship. It's like I don't care.

SPEAKER_02 38:22

You're playing a game now, you man up and congratulate the winners.

SPEAKER_01 38:27

That is absolutely there, yes, Brendan.

SPEAKER_02 38:29

Yes, we're also teaching good sportsmanship to all the kids that are watching.

SPEAKER_01 38:34

There, I was just gonna say that's just my excuse to defend it, Steve, is just incredible to me. Like, really? That's uh correct me if I'm wrong, that's Bush League, dude.

SPEAKER_05 38:48

That's what's poor.

SPEAKER_01 38:50

That is a great word, Brent, or Nick. Piss poor. That is absolutely piss poor.

SPEAKER_04 38:55

So I'm just I still can't surprise that I had to actually search that to find anything on that. I'm surprised more like ESPN and more places in Sports Center didn't cover something like that.

SPEAKER_01 39:08

Of course, ESPN's not gonna cover it. They're yeah, it's yeah, no, don't get me started on that junk wagon of the body. Thanks for bringing that to us, Brandon, because that's pretty yeah. I'm glad thanks, Brandon. Great job digging that one up and and bringing that up. That's beyond Bush League. That's not right. Yeah, and to defend it, like Steve was just saying, to defend that? That's that's no. Nope, nope, nope, nope. Not okay to defend that. Don't all they just lost. It's like, yeah, go watch a hockey game. Watch when the Edmonton Oilers were down three games and none, came all the way back to force a game seven, they won three in a row, and then lose a brutally close game, two to one, and they sat there on the other side of the ice while the Florida Panthers celebrated, waited, and then went through the shake, the handshake line. No, you know what? Like gentlemen, yeah, like gentlemen, not like sixth graders throwing a temper tantrum. That's wow. Good grief, man. The NBA just continues to just disappoint us. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 40:34

Anyway, it uh I will say this the San Antonio, the atmosphere looks super hype, and uh yeah, it just I mean, even even the uh World Cup the has come out with the rule where you can't uh flop or dive as they call it.

SPEAKER_01 40:50

You know, we're gonna get into this here in a minute as soon as we get to the World Cup, but yeah, it they get penalized for it now, right? So, anyway, with that said, we will uh Yeah, we'll move on. Let's get into uh you know, we've got uh the World Cup going on, folks. Um posted a couple videos on TikTok, those videos went bananas. I think I got one video, got a couple hundred comments and a couple thousand likes.

SPEAKER_04 41:19

And people are passionate about their world, their feet command.

SPEAKER_01 41:23

I even just asked a question. I'm like, if if if Messi was to win this uh this World Cup, right? Lead Argentina to back-to-back, would that absolutely cement his legacy as the greatest of all time? And people are like, he already is, and I'm like, no, no, no, I'm just asking if you know this, you know, will make it very difficult to surpass him in the future, is you know, kind of was the main point of my whole thing, and so anyway, yeah, just people are very passionate, Steve. That is a perfect word for it, but yes, if you flop, it's now a yellow card because I've seen highlights where this guy is like rolling around on the ground and grabbing his shin and like it's called diving, and it's like he just gets up.

SPEAKER_03 42:17

It's like well, I mean, it happened in it happened in the US men's game against Paraguay. U.S. man, uh US man, I forget who with who the defender was that slid, it slid in an attempt to get the ball, and then you saw the Paraguay player sprawl out and roll and fly, and they gave the American a yellow card, and then they watched the replay, and they saw that he didn't make any contact with the Paraguay player. And they stripped the yellow card from the American player and gave it to that Paraguayan player, and they're like, no.

SPEAKER_01 42:49

Hold on, you said he didn't make any contact whatsoever. No contact.

SPEAKER_03 42:53

There was no contact.

SPEAKER_04 42:57

There was like a there was like about probably between 12 and 24 inches between him and the the two feet. But that was still obvious, and they they have didn't they have a penalty? I think they had a penalty shot too for it. Did they really? Yeah, and then it was after that they reviewed it, which I apparently go according to football rules, that was the correct way to do it, and then they uh yellow card the paraguay guy player.

SPEAKER_01 43:26

Wow, wow. I it's it's such an epidemic in that sport. I think that's what turns some people off of it, right? And and we're talking about normal. This is the World Cup, it's huge, it's awesome. Um, it's a great event, and only comes around every four years. But yeah, dude, it it's just it's absolutely ridiculous. It's like stop being Le Brenda James.

SPEAKER_03 43:52

I mean, that's why it's a great change for it's a great change for soccer.

SPEAKER_04 43:55

Yeah, and that's why the NBA's lost so many views, is because of the The way that they they're playing with those flops. The way they're playing the game, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 44:04

Yeah, I it's I I it it's just ridiculous. Uh huh. Nick just that's a great thing that they they are able to replay that and see that he didn't even make contact with the guy. It's such a bush league thing. I I don't think I could ever do it if I was in that sport. I can't and it's like what do they get? Here's the thing like let's say you do that at midfield. What do you get? A change of possession, a free kick from that area, right? You don't get to go take a penalty shot or anything.

SPEAKER_03 44:37

No, I mean, depending on where it happens, I guess, but no, not really.

SPEAKER_01 44:41

No, I know that if you take a penalty in the box, that is a penalty shot, I believe. Is that correct, guys? That is right, okay. All right, so that's a big deal, but again, it's like because you know, a penalty shot in soccer, it's like you have one guy in a school bus to aim at. It's makes to me goaltenders in soccer are the best, like they're incredible, especially the good ones. See some of the saves that they make, it's like insane.

SPEAKER_04 45:12

Oh, yeah. There's been a lot of really good saves to see this uh this cup. I've been watching it. There was I've actually been watching this cup a lot because of the podcast, but uh yeah, oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 45:24

I've me too.

SPEAKER_04 45:25

I've watched I've watched a few games now, and it's like I watched the Korocko in Germany game, and this is apparently the first time Koraco has actually made the because of the extension of the from 36 to 48 teams, I think.

SPEAKER_01 45:38

Okay, yeah, I couldn't believe how many pools there actually are steaming.

SPEAKER_04 45:41

Even though they lost by seven goals. Yeah. I mean, they were just so excited just to be there and to be able to play in the World Cup.

SPEAKER_01 45:49

That's which I that's so cool. That's so cool. Yeah, I it's it's it's been fun. In USA, I was asking like people like, you know, what um you know what's gonna who's gonna win, and it's like it's just fun to see all the pride coming through in the comments. I'll probably do another one, and you know, it's oh my gosh, sorry. But I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 46:19

Shout out the USA team and their one game they played so far, they uh scored more goals than they did the entire last World Cup. Is that legit? Really? Yeah, is that a real set?

SPEAKER_01 46:30

Yeah, it it comes down like this. Is one of the things that's always turned me off about soccer, okay? Um there's times where these the teams will strive for a 0-0 tie. Uh you said that last week, yeah. Oh, that's that's garbage, dude. Sorry, you right there, you lose me. That is not sport to me. That is absolutely freaking absurd. Let's just kick because I I watched a game. My buddy was really a guy played hockey with, really into soccer, and so I'm like, all right, yeah, so I'll watch this. And I'm watching this game, and he's like, Yeah, they're just gonna go for a nil-nil. And I'm like, uh what? It's like nil-nil, zero, zero.

SPEAKER_04 47:13

I'm like, oh no, yeah, I guess I guess a lot of cup fans get mad when you say zero.

SPEAKER_01 47:18

Yeah, yes. That you have you have to say nil.

SPEAKER_04 47:23

Apparently, zero zero is an American version to say that, not uh not the correct world you would like to know.

SPEAKER_01 47:31

You know what else I keep doing, Steve, is I keep calling it soccer.

SPEAKER_04 47:35

Oh, that's gonna piss everybody off. That's just what we're used to calling it. We already have a football.

SPEAKER_01 47:40

I know people hate it.

SPEAKER_04 47:43

Even though the English are the one that came up with it.

SPEAKER_01 47:46

Yeah, I keep telling people, I'm like, no, football, our football is an actual, like, you know, tough game.

SPEAKER_03 47:56

They had over 18 million views, viewers for that uh USA Paraguay game. Largest ever for a United States men's national team.

SPEAKER_01 48:05

That's that's cool. Good for them, man.

SPEAKER_04 48:09

And they have more I don't know how Mexico and Canada has been doing when it comes to attendance at the stadiums, but apparently the United States has been doing much better than they predicted.

SPEAKER_01 48:22

Yep, and like insanely good, Steve. Like we're talking 80,000, 90,000 fans are at these games. Like it's yeah, attendance is off off the charts. Yep, they are overselling tickets. It's it's absolutely fantastic, not overselling, but selling out. It's it's really been great. Um, people are have I've seen so much positivity from people from all of these countries. I just think it's so cool, it's absolutely amazing.

SPEAKER_02 48:48

So I did read uh one fun story. Yeah, apparently a lot of Scott Scotland fans are staying in the city of Boston, and the city of Boston is having a hard time keeping beer in stock.

SPEAKER_01 49:01

I did hear this. Is that not great? Too many taps of dry, mate. I did hear that, Brandon. Just as soon as you were finished, I'm like, oh my gosh, I heard that somewhere, probably on TikTok or something. That's awesome, dude. How great is that? They're just they're here to have a good time and they're really getting hammered.

SPEAKER_02 49:26

Yeah, I mean, don't really. I mean, I've been over there, they're huge beer drinkers over there. Like, you can't keep as American, no American can keep up with a Scott when it comes to beer drinking. I completely believe that. Did you at least try when you were over there? Oh, yeah, of course. I got destroyed, it wasn't even close.

SPEAKER_01 49:52

Did you wake up with your face in a gutter?

SPEAKER_02 49:54

That's the we won't talk about that on the podcast.

SPEAKER_01 50:03

Which part, your face or your pants? The whole adventure that I went on. No, I remember we had some uh we had some talks about your Euro trip. It uh I was jealous. So anyway, um, yeah, World Cup's going great. Um, it's still early, so it's like you know, next week we'll have more of a where we're gonna go at and pool play, and we can get into some predictions next week if everybody wants. Um yeah, I think it's it's a lot of it's it's right now it's going fun. U.S. plays again on Friday. Um, is their next game a week apart?

SPEAKER_04 50:41

Like that's against Australia, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 50:43

Yeah, that's that's crazy. So are we favored against Australia? No, no, we're not favored against anybody, I don't think. Somebody predicted that we were gonna get nine points in pool play, and I'm like, uh, but somebody also said if we can just not lose, we're guaranteed to go into the next round.

SPEAKER_03 51:05

Oh, some more 0-0 games.

SPEAKER_01 51:08

Oh god, please no, like that's just bush. It's it's not even funny, it's embarrassing, in my opinion.

SPEAKER_04 51:18

Yeah, there's been a lot of draws.

SPEAKER_01 51:21

It's yeah, and it's like listen, if it's 1-1, 2-2, fine. At least you're trying to score. It shows an attempt to score. 0-0. I just find that unacceptable. Am I wrong? It's just weird. I mean, I mean, I if I'm wrong, if I'm wrong, let me know. But it's like I it's it's embarrassing. You can't even get one.

SPEAKER_02 51:56

I mean, that's why you have the group stage to filter out those teams.

SPEAKER_01 52:00

Yeah. At least uh yeah, anyway, yeah, I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 52:05

Uh we broke a record, even though people talking about how there wasn't gonna be a lot of attendance in the American World Cup. They 281,000 fans attended four matches.

SPEAKER_01 52:17

Say that again.

SPEAKER_04 52:18

281,000 fans attended four matches in a single day.

unknown 52:23

Wow.

SPEAKER_04 52:25

Wow apparently broke a record for a single day for the World Cup.

SPEAKER_01 52:29

Which which uh city was that in, Steve?

SPEAKER_03 52:32

I have no idea. Oh I can find nothing. Well, US played at so at SoCal or at the Sofield. Sofield in Dallas, I believe.

SPEAKER_01 52:45

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 52:46

Uh I can find out though.

SPEAKER_01 52:49

No, I'm just curious. You know what I mean? Like it's just it's it's interesting. Um, real quick in group play so far, group A, you got Mexico and South Korea tied at one. You've got in group B, Switzerland is um right now, it's all everybody in that division is tied with one point. Uh, group C, um Scotland right now. Well, Scotland, that's all right.

SPEAKER_04 53:15

I got it. It's uh looks like MetLife, Arrowhead, Levi, and Gillette. So Massachusetts, California, Kansas City, and New Jersey. Okay, the largest one was 80,000, and that was the uh MetLife Stadium.

SPEAKER_01 53:30

Yep, that's awesome. So, yeah, uh Australia and the US are tied both at one one and oh. Um, and then Turkey and Paraguay, obviously, they both lost. So that makes sense, but and Steve, was that record via all four of those stadiums is essentially what it was.

SPEAKER_04 53:50

Yeah, an accumulated total of those four stadiums. I guess average 65,000, but it was a total single day, the most for a single day.

SPEAKER_01 53:58

Very cool. I mean, that's still either way, man. That's pretty badass. So right on. Yeah, sorry, I didn't petty off. I was just doing the standings, but anyway, everything's just a lot of game, just everybody's played one game so far, so it's like that's where we're at. We'll cover more next week and uh really get into like maybe some predictions. We want to do predictions, true. For the world.

SPEAKER_04 54:22

I watched enough.

SPEAKER_03 54:23

I think I could do a little bit of that.

SPEAKER_01 54:24

Can you?

SPEAKER_03 54:26

I can blindly throw some answers at the wall and see what sticks.

SPEAKER_02 54:30

I'd say once we get out of the group stage.

SPEAKER_03 54:33

And anyway, so it goes from group to pool play, is that right? I believe it goes is it or is this pool play and then we go to group? No, this is group.

SPEAKER_02 54:43

Then it goes to tournament. Then it what, Brandon? Then it goes to tournament.

SPEAKER_01 54:49

That's the quarter finals, correct? Once you get out of group play. Yeah, okay. All right. Well, very exciting stuff. It is again, it's just so much fun. It really is, and uh, it's just fun to see all the countries rooting for their squad. So keep rooting, be safe to all the Americans out there. Please remember like if you like be nice to these people, help them out. They're in your city, they're spending money, it's a good thing. Oh, they're in our country. Be friendly to them and like show these people let's do it. So anyway, with that said, let's move on. Uh, let's get into the meat and potatoes here. The best part of the show we're all waiting for. The Stanley Cup final is Benito.

SPEAKER_04 55:38

Hockey's over.

SPEAKER_01 55:39

Cains one and six. Um, I had some some Vegas Golden Knight fans that were uh quite upset with me when I told them that uh now that Busy was in, the Canes are gonna win three straight and win the cup. There was some people that weren't happy with that statement. Um sorry, man.

SPEAKER_04 55:59

It actually happened, though.

SPEAKER_01 56:01

When you know, you know. So uh I said Busy was going to be that was it not only was that a game changer, but the way they lost that game was so absurd. It was a crazy game, great game. Um Anderson clearly wasn't right after that shot to the head. He just clear clearly was not right. Um, and on top of that, we found out that he was really, really struggling mentally with the loss of Claude Lemieux. If you don't know, incredibly close to that family. Their family's vacation together, they they went, they did Christmases and things like that. So um I don't even I didn't even know how close they were. I mean, wow. So, you know, Busy was going to be their, he is their number one goaltender. This is the whole crazy part about this, is that Busy is the number one goaltender in Carolina on their depth chart, everything. And it he was fantastic this season, had 31 wins. So when he got back in the net, and what's great about Busy is Brandon, he was so supportive of Freddie because Freddie got hot, man. He was so hot, right? And so it was uh just when he got in there, it was like you saw the Carolina hurricanes, their whole thing just changed. They saw that he was on point. Now they can play with confidence, they got back to Hurricanes hockey, and that was it, man. That was all she wrote.

SPEAKER_03 57:40

It was it was a great, great series all around.

SPEAKER_01 57:42

I mean, I know that it's not what you wanted, Brandon, but he took the canes in five.

SPEAKER_04 57:51

No, six, right?

SPEAKER_01 57:52

Brandon? He called it exactly what it was. He said six, too. Yeah, I feel like three of us said canes in six, right? Like I know Brandon and I were six. I said five. I said canes in five. Okay. And honestly, Steve, I'm gonna say this. It should have been. It really, it really should have been. I but it wasn't. Things happened. Vegas played phenomenally in that well, for you know, about 10 minutes, they played phenomenally in that in that game three.

SPEAKER_04 58:23

Yeah, that was Marner Mitch Marner.

SPEAKER_01 58:29

Hat trick. Round of applause, Marner. Thank you for proving all the Yahoos in Toronto very much wrong, unhinged, and but I'll I'll say it stupid. Um, Mitch Marner is an absolute stud. He's a unit. He is, dude. He's fantastic. Game one. Why did they win? Marner. He threw his body in front of a shot that was 100% going in the net. That was, dude, that was that was that was it. It was absolutely going in. Um, Carter Hart had a great series for Vegas, uh, great playoffs for Vegas.

SPEAKER_04 59:10

One of the worst, according to Statistics, you let four goals all except for the last one, which is apparently the worst in Stanley Cup history.

SPEAKER_02 59:18

Yeah, but I'll defend that. Yeah, a lot of that was actually on the defense. I mean, yeah, there were several goals, like they left Appo alone in the world.

SPEAKER_04 59:27

I agree, but if you going back like five years from now, if you go back and look at that game, it's you're not gonna think oh, Hart had a good good series.

SPEAKER_01 59:35

If you look at oh my god, dude, but I statistic numbers, sure. But if you go back and actually watch some of the saves that that kid made, even the other night, like three nine.

SPEAKER_04 59:47

Oh yeah, I mean like the diving block. I mean, don't get me wrong.

SPEAKER_01 59:49

Oh dude, he made a couple that were yeah, there was some fantastic saves.

SPEAKER_04 59:54

Fantastic saves that he made. Yeah, but I'm just numbers-wise, it was apparently I don't get me wrong, I agree he played a good series, but if you look at the numbers, apparently it wasn't very good.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:06

Listen, Vegas, Vegas does not have a strong, the strongest defensive core, number one. I mean, they they've got they've got good players, yes, but the majority of what they are is offense, right? I mean, that's great, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:22

Okay, outscoring.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:24

It's just that's what their game plan is. So it's just that's what it is. But I still think Carter Hart had a great postseason, should be the number one goaltender going forward, in my opinion. I like 100%. You know what I mean? Like it, you know, Aiden Hill. Listen, Aiden was a you know, one of those kids that got hot in the playoffs, but no, man, he's not a solid future number one gonna start 60 games a season guy. You know, it's like that is that's Carter Hart.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:59

He was the right guy at the right time.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:01

Oh, absolutely, Brand. Yeah, that's it was you know, like Jonathan Quick or you know, um Antie Niemi was Chicago the one year. It's like Chicago during their dynasty. How many goalies did they have? And in and that's it was a different one each time they won the cup. So, you know, it's just that's that's how this stuff goes sometimes. But anyway, Vegas had a great year. Um, Carolina, I what a unit. They're gonna go down as one of the best Stanley Cup winners. Sorry, one of the best runs of all time. They were they're 12-0 or 12-1 going into the SCF. It's like, whoo! And honestly, if they didn't have that layoff, Steve, they might have been 12-0.

SPEAKER_04 1:01:49

I agree. I I think that layoff is what really would have made that difference in that game that they lost that first game.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:56

And really, in my opinion, it should have been a it should have been a gentleman's sweep. So I easily Carolina, I think, could have won this in five. So, but again, Vegas, they they just have so much talent. It's like you can't. I just I knew they I would have been shocked if they got swept. You know what I mean? It's just but um, but really, Brandon, talk about it, man. What was the atmosphere like? What was your experience like? Like it's Did you eat a hot dog?

SPEAKER_02 1:02:29

Yeah, no, I didn't eat a hot dog.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:33

He's not even here. He heard me.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:36

He heard me. Well, I'd say, you know, I always like to go to games early, get in the atmosphere. They do a lot of stuff outside the arena, it's fun. Same. I'd say like about I'd estimate about like.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:50

Sorry, Steve, he did eat a hot dog.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:54

I'd estimate about a fifth or sixth of the fans in the arena were Carolina fans. What that many? Oh, yeah, they had a big presence.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:03

Wow.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:04

I didn't realize until after the game when you know they all came you know to the lower bowl to watch. Oh, sure. Wow. Okay, but yeah, they I mean they were all great. I was sitting next to several of them. We were all just having great time together, even though my team was losing. You know, they're still you know great fans, no complaints about their behavior.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:29

That's good.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:30

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 1:03:31

I like how they opened the bottom bowl so everyone could come down that for the people that didn't want to stick around. That's cool.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:36

No, yeah, they uh that's a thing for the away. If it's away fans, they usually do that for they uh you could do that in Detroit in 2012 with the Giants Woman series. Everybody went down to the dugout, it's pretty neat. It it looked, I didn't realize it was that many though, Brandon.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:51

Oh, yeah, it was a good amount, and you know, it was just you know, I was down at uh uh Vegas Golien watching. It was just okay. Oh I don't know. Oh, so that was just a lot of fun, uh just great atmosphere, and you know great seats you had.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:10

Oh, yeah, great. Let's let's real quick Brandon. What'd you pay for those lower level game six of the Stanley Cup final? What'd you pay?

SPEAKER_02 1:04:19

Six hundred dollars.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:22

Six hundred bucks, real quick. We know what we're getting at here. So your ticket was a hundred and forty-three dollars cheaper for game six of the Stanley Cup final than game one for the Buffalo Sabres last row of the arena in game one of round one. I just want to let's and Brandon also, folks, did it the right way. He waited till he was walking up to the stadium, right? Or were you on the bus when you bought it? No, I bought it while I was on the bus. My man.

SPEAKER_03 1:04:57

My man.

SPEAKER_01 1:04:58

It folks, that's what you do, that's how you do it. You wait, you wait, you wait, you wait because it's always gonna be available. There's gonna be tickets. Just watch, they dropped pretty significantly, right? The closer you got.

SPEAKER_02 1:05:12

Well, I got sort of lucky because there was an error issue with vivid seats. So apparently I bought my ticket in the 100 section. Okay. And apparently, like I bought it normally, the tickets just instantly in your account. Yeah, but that didn't happen. And so, like 15 minutes later, it still said it was processing. And then all of a sudden I get a call from Vivid Seeds, and they say, uh, there was an error with my purchase because somebody else bought the seed at the exact same time as me. Okay. And so they're like, So uh, would you like a ticket in a different section? I'm like, Yeah, of course. You know, I'm already on my way. And it's like, all right, so then. Let's see, we have a ticket in section two row. And I'm like, that's fine. I'll take that.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:11

You don't have to finish something, but that's great. Yep. Thank you very much. Have a great day. Bye-bye.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:19

That's awesome, dude. You ended up what 10 rows back for 600 bucks?

SPEAKER_02 1:06:24

Yeah, it was like 10 or 11 rows back from the glass.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:27

I mean, he had front row view of the Stanley Cup presentation.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:32

Yep.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:33

I mean, it was right on his side of the ice and everything.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:37

He was you were basically behind where they were doing that, right, Brandon?

SPEAKER_02 1:06:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:40

Right behind there. Oh my god. So you got to watch him wheel it out right in front of you. I mean, what a just golly, what a moment. Oh, Brennan, I'm so jealous, buddy. Yeah, I think we're all. I heard once in a bar in State College, Pennsylvania. I'm hella jelly, bro.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:03

Also just seeing how big that you know pound Smythe trophy is in person. It's all those trophies are wild, aren't they? Yeah, but just made me wonder. I'd like I wonder if anybody's done this, but I like to see somebody like just visit like the past 10 winners. And just I just want to see where they put that in their house. So I saw one so big.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:28

Who was this? Uh oh my gosh, it was one of the ads. Anyway, they have like their office, and yeah, it's behind. They have like a trophy case, and that's where they put it. It's it's really it's big, but if you look at the inside of it, it's it's very it's hollow. Yeah, I know it's hollow, but it just takes up so much space. It's big, I know. I get it. Yeah, just why not just use it, uh, put it on your coffee table?

SPEAKER_02 1:07:53

Yeah, it's definitely a centerpiece wherever you put it.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:56

Yeah, in the middle. Uh, I wonder if his wife will let him put it uh right in the middle of their dining room table. Ashley, could I put a trophy in the middle of our dining room table? Did you guys hear her?

SPEAKER_05 1:08:09

No.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:10

She said, sure. Did you get a bonus with it?

SPEAKER_04 1:08:15

That's probably what the other wives are thinking, too.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:19

If it's me for the first room, I'm just carrying it into every room I go into.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:24

Yeah, right. So, anyway, so with that, uh, you know, we're at the end of the season, but we've got the draft. We've got the draft just 11 days away. So, NHL draft will be coming up. We will obviously talk about that. Um, believe it or not, there's uh there's been a move. So the San Jose Sharks have made a trade. Um, where's it at here? Uh, the San Jose Sharks made a trade. If I can find it here, um with the Buffalo Sabres. So the San Jose Sharks um got, if I can find it, good grief, man. Michael Kesslering. Yep, it's a defenseman.

SPEAKER_04 1:09:11

Um they gave up a 20.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:14

Oh, and they got a 27th overall selection. They're getting a 27th. So the sharks move down seven spots. Okay, they get this defenseman who played 34 games last year, only played four minutes in the playoffs, has 12 goals and 43 assists in his entire career in 190 games. Yes, he's six foot five and he's a big body defenseman. This move makes absolutely no sense. Because at 20, the sharks still could have got a good, another good defenseman, like I think Velen Away might have been available, but instead they trade for a guy that's I I this move just I don't know. Well, but they you gotta realize they look at the biggest thing. He really doesn't miss too. Well, um, he doesn't miss too often, but yes, from 20th to 27th, Steve, in this draft is a very big difference.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:04

Yeah, that is true. Okay, that is true.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:06

Very big difference. So I I understand the sharks, the sharks are stacked in so many different spots, in so many different places in their prospect pool, and I understand that. And it's like he's I think he's hedging his bet on trying to get another defenseman. So essentially he gets a I don't know what you would even call this defenseman. It's like a guy that can't even stay on the ice, he's a former sixth-round draft pick. Um I it's I don't know. Mike Greer's not gonna, you know, bat 100%, right? But it's it's a big time question mark. So, and then in even bigger news, the Las Vegas Golden Knights decided not to hire John Tortorello long term and instead promoted the 44-year-old. What do you think of that move? Do you think Tortorello just didn't want to be coach? That's a good question, Steve. I don't I don't know.

SPEAKER_04 1:11:20

Brandon. To me, it sounds like he they would have hot because he made they made it all the way to the Stanley Cup. Yeah, they lost, but they made it all the way to the Stanley Cup. I mean, that's not no a small achievement.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:30

Set what, Brandon, 7-0 and 1, correct, to finish out this the regular season under Tornarella?

SPEAKER_02 1:11:35

Yeah, but I mean the way that he talked the whole time during the playoffs, it always sounded to me like he wasn't planning on sticking around past that. I think he only came just for the short term. So it was just after retiring and not dealing with the press.

SPEAKER_01 1:11:54

I that's I'm sad to see Tortorella go because he tells the press exactly where to put it and how and when. But I mean, what was the one question? Did you think at all about uh switching hard out? And he just looked at him and he's like, what a stupid question. What's wrong with you? Thank you, John Tortorella, for saying what we're all thinking and what needs to be said. He's right. These these these questions are like, it's what kind of clown college did you go to? What is wrong with you? I just know he's not gonna switch hard out. So I Brandon, now what what do you think about Ryan Craig?

SPEAKER_02 1:12:55

I mean, he's definitely a great head coach. I mean, he's been coaching for the Henderson Silver Knights, and yeah, every year he's coached for them, they their records improved.

SPEAKER_01 1:13:06

It I I love the the hiring of these guys that are coming up that are young. 44 is is is a little young for a head coach, but uh hockey's going that way a lot. Um, it's what the sharks did with Ryan Rafoski. Um, the uh Dallas Stars did it with Glenn Gullitson years ago. Um, I and I think they're back like Glenn Gullitson's back in the lead in the NHL now. I I I really I think these are good moves, man. I like going with these younger guys that are proven when they win at every level because looking at Ryan Craig, it looks like he's won at every level. So it's like, yeah, I I I would be happy with this move. So I was just curious how you're feeling out of what the people in Vegas, the fans of of Vegas are are thinking about this. I know it's early, you know.

SPEAKER_02 1:13:57

Yeah, but everybody in Vegas that I know likes it, because you know he's already been here for the past three years.

SPEAKER_01 1:14:02

So I mean he lives there, at least he doesn't have to move, right? Yeah. Um, let's see. This is uh just a quote here. Um, here it is, real quick. I'll give you a quick rundown here. Uh, Craig was coach for Henderson of the AHL each of the past three seasons. He joined Vegas' coaching staff for its inaugural season in 1718 and was an assistant for six seasons. Didn't know that. That's awesome. Um, including during the Stanley Cup Championship in 23. He was then named the Henderson coach. Uh, we really wanted to give this uh opportunity to Ryan Craig, who's been in our organization for nine years from the beginning. Um, Golden Knights general manager Kelly Um McCrimin said, I I have sorry, I have pretty strong feelings about where I think our organization needs to go next. Ryan has been in our organization for nine years, six years with our team. Um, three is a head coach in Henderson. He's ready to be an NHL head coach. We'll talk more about that uh Thursday. Awesome. I I I think it sounds like everybody's pretty excited about it. Um, especially now, you know, we kind of talked about Vegas a little bit and the fact that listen, Vegas is is getting into some interesting areas. You look at Carolina, Carolina is in beautiful position going forward as far as salary cap. That team is a wagon and they're gonna stay a wagon. Carolina's not going anywhere, Steve. I don't know if you know, but they're in a just great position salary cap-wise. Their money with the players is perfectly lined out, and other than stall, all the players are fairly young. It but it and it's not just that. I mean, I'm talking like the money and the contracts, the years, everything is in really good shape in Carolina, Steve. Like it looks amazing. I'm curious if Stahl's gonna retire. What's that? Carrie, I'm curious if he's if Stahl's gonna retire. I think you'll find out in a couple of months, but it on the other end, you've got Vegas. Begus is oof, they're they're gonna they're in some tight spots. It it's salary cap-wise. They are, I think they've got about a million dollars in cap space, so really none. And they've got some really young, good talent that is that needs to be signed. And it's like they're they're gonna have to let them go or try to find trades. And it's like when you're in that kind of position, it's not good. It's not good. They have, I think I saw 88% of their money tied up in like six players, or seven players it's oh, dude, it's or it brandon, is it six or seven?

SPEAKER_02 1:16:51

Or I think it's seven.

SPEAKER_01 1:16:53

Okay, so it's like you're looking at this and you're like, oh shit. And they don't have any draft capital because they, you know, they they do something that's not bad at all, and they they've clearly made it work, but it's like they'll give up all their first-round draft picks to get players and you know that are proven instead of drafting and developing. So um, well, Henderson does well win-loss-wise, in the reality, they really have a pretty thin prospect pool. So I think I saw it's like 29th in the NHL. So it's it's gonna be interesting to see how they manage this and get through it, you know what I mean? With their GM, assistant GM, payroll people. It's like, you know, so it just it's gonna be interesting to see how they manage it. I'm really I kind of excited to see how they do it and what they do, the moves that they can make. Um, yeah, so it's gonna be interesting. Brandon, what do you think?

SPEAKER_02 1:17:53

I think, yeah, I mean, it's gonna be there's gonna have to be some changes there.

SPEAKER_01 1:17:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:17:59

Tough ones, right? Yeah. But you know, I think they'll come through it. It's always been a successful franchise, except for one year or so.

SPEAKER_01 1:18:08

Right. So far, I mean it's like they, you know, it was god, they benefited so much from the new rules with expansion. They, you know, kind of got handed this, like, here you go, success. You know what I mean? Like, here you go. Seattle did too. I mean, you look at Seattle, they they were in the playoffs, what, year two or year one? I think they made it first and second year, but year two. Year two and made a run. I mean, Christ, they beat the Aves in the first round, they swept them, right? So it's it's interesting, and then but the way that they managed it since, like, I've kind of watched some of their moves, and I'm like, I see why they're doing that, but Jesus, man, they're not they're not developing anybody. So it's like you've got all this success, but it's like what what's it gonna be like when you're really struggling to rebuild all this, and it's like it's gonna take you years. So it'll be interesting. I'm really looking forward to this offseason. There's a whole bunch of teams with question marks, and I don't know, I think it'll be fun. So, Nick, you got anything else on this?

SPEAKER_03 1:19:19

I'm not excited to say the sentence that's about to come out of my mouth, but I'm excited to see where the Red Wings trade Dylan Larkin. Oh, I'm so sad to see him go, but uh maybe we'll get some a good draft spot out of him or two.

SPEAKER_01 1:19:37

Are they talking?

SPEAKER_03 1:19:38

Is that where the talk's at with the Red Wings? Larkin's gone, he wants out, he's requested a trade, so I can't imagine that they would not trade him like two, three days ago. Oh, it did. Oh I cannot believe that they keep him after or and don't trade him before the draft to get more capital out of him. No, it'll yeah, somebody's heartbreaking to see him leave. He has been a fixture on that team and uh a leader on that team, um, and just an overall badass. And I'll I'm sad to see him go.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:09

Dylan Larkin's amazing, dude. He's such a great player. He's yeah, somebody that somebody's gonna give you guys, though. I'm gonna tell you what. You might with some of the play, some of the teams that have bad seasons, right, that are still built to win now.

SPEAKER_03 1:20:28

Um, Florida.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:29

Florida's sitting at nine.

SPEAKER_03 1:20:31

That's literally, literally the top of their list and his list. He wants to go to Florida.

SPEAKER_01 1:20:35

Here's okay, so here's the thing. I I I would almost say that I would be shocked if that doesn't happen. So you've got Florida's you put another defenseman like Dylan Larkin on Florida. Right. That's scary. And it gives Detroit the ninth overall pick. Nick, the top. I again think why wouldn't they? That's essentially what Vegas does. Vegas trades their their first round draft picks for a proven player. San Jose got one when they traded Hurdle, and San Jose flipped that into one of the best goalie prospects in the last 30 years in Yaroslav Askarov, who's their starting goaltender now. So it's okay to do that, you know what I mean, with teams that are building. Detroit could really use that that draft and you guys are gonna get somebody that's NHL ready and probably be a 19-year-old rookie next year, right? So it I know it's it's always emotional.

SPEAKER_03 1:21:44

I know that it's a great position to be in as a Red Ring fan. Yeah, tons of stuff, tons of stuff coming into the league from the draft that we could capitalize on and make an instant for our team. I get it. Like I said, I just I love that man. Dylan Lockett has been the face of this franchise for pretty much since better off left for me. Like he's been there forever. Um, not literally, but close. Oh, yeah. And that just it sucks to see him leave. I get it. Yeah, it'd be like Ozzy Smith leaving the Cardinals, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_01 1:22:12

It's just like, oh yeah, and I think I I guarantee a lot of fans are gonna be like that, and that makes total sense. I he is, but uh, if you look at you know, the glass being half full is the fact that you're going to get a high draft pick this year and maybe next year. Right, that's true. Um we might we could double dip, so or or also a prospect. So I yeah, that's gonna be interesting. The next, I'll tell you what, the next 10 days boys are gonna be really interesting when it comes to the draft. We might even uh we might go up. It's in Buffalo, so we might uh we might go to the first round, just check it out, see what it's like. Not for 300 bucks, though. I'll tell you that right now. So yeah, welcome to Buffalo again. Tickets literally for the draft, people are selling them for like three, four hundred dollars. I'm like, to see guys' names get called, I'm like, you're gonna be blind with an explore Excel spreadsheet in the background. What what what are these people doing here? Getting more and more headaches from them, anyway. Uh, yeah, so we will talk about that more coming up uh next week uh with the draft. And uh, you know, with that, um, all right, ladies, here we go. I have got some great slang for the ladies this week. And listen, if you don't know about hockey, it's not just for the ladies, but this is uh, you know, maybe some beginners as well. Um, we're gonna go with the mitts and the stick. Okay, so some hockey slang. Start throwing these words around. You might impress somebody, they might actually think you know what you're talking about when it comes to hockey. So a biscuit slash or an apple. Okay, so a biscuit is the puck, it's slang for the puck, okay? And an apple is a sweet assist. Okay, so how would you use that? He sauced that, he sauced that biscuit perfectly for the apple. Two in one sentence. I wrote these down. You guys ready? All right, so the next one I got is mitts. Standing for a player's hands, okay? You say hands are very important because it has to do with stick handling and handling the puck, all right? Soft mitts mean incredible stick handling skills. Okay, so that's handling the puck with the stick, okay? So if you got soft mitts, you've got incredible stick handling skills. Or you might say, Man, he's got some good mitts. Okay, so it's a good one to use. All right. Next one is a clapper. Steve's a clapper is a hard, a legit slap shot. Like if somebody's got a clapper, they've got a 90 plus mile an hour slap shot. Or if it's youth hockey, maybe you're sitting at Pee Wee's or Banham's, that's 12 or 11U or 13, 14U. Maybe they're sitting there shooting a clapper is hitting 70 plus miles per hour.

SPEAKER_04 1:25:26

Man, you pick all these for the double entendre that they go with.

SPEAKER_01 1:25:32

Um, real quick, we're just gonna do some scoring and celebrations. Uh, bar down the ultimate goal when the puck when the puck hits the underside of the crossbar and ricochets straight down into the net. Bar down, baby. Okay, you want to go bar down. Man, that kid is gonna go bar down tonight. Um, a celly is pretty self-explanatory, I think. It's a celebration when somebody scores a goal. Like you could say, like, man, that kid just went bar down. Now it's time for a sweet celly. Um a Gino. So we had an apple, right? An apple is a sweet assist. A Gino is a goal. Man, what a Gino. But that sweet apple was pretty sweet.

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Gino.

SPEAKER_03 1:26:28

A Gino. I've actually never heard of a Gino. Where did it come from?

SPEAKER_01 1:26:32

It's a goal, it's just I don't know, it's just slang for a goal. All right. And that is our ladies' corner or beginners to hockey for this week.

SPEAKER_03 1:26:45

Are we gonna change our beginner corner to a different sport now that hockey's over? We still have more to do with hockey.

SPEAKER_01 1:26:52

So and hockey's not over until the draft is over.

SPEAKER_03 1:26:55

There you go. I love your attitude.

SPEAKER_01 1:26:57

With that, with that said, we are gonna move back into soccer. And to close this podcast out this week, we are gonna go with our top five is the five most dominant World Cup champions of all time. So it's time for this week's top five. Starting us off is the one, the only, Steve Wood. What's your number five, buddy?

SPEAKER_04 1:27:27

Uh, number five is the 2010 World Cup for New Zealand. Now, when I was doing these, I actually learned a lot about soccer doing my research for this. Um, so the apparent but the reason I wouldn't really call this a dominant. The reason I picked this one is they actually went unbeaten through the World Cup but failed to progress. Okay. So apparently, in in soccer, if football, you could win a win or Draw every game, but if you don't score enough, another team that scores more than you will take the tip and actually go to the next round, and you will not. Goals I know in the World Cup are a big deal.

SPEAKER_01 1:28:14

Yes.

SPEAKER_04 1:28:14

So New Zealand went undefeated all the way through the groups, but failed because they had they had one goal less than the next team.

SPEAKER_01 1:28:24

So they didn't that's crazy. Very interesting. Well, thank you, Steve, for that explanation. And a good number five, man. Very interesting. Nick, what is your number five, sir?

SPEAKER_03 1:28:37

Uh, number five, I would like to, for clarification purposes, um, when I was doing my research, I was looking for top five dominant World Cup teams or World Cup runs, not necessarily champions. And so for my number five, I have the I have the 2022 Morocco team um for pure underdog awesomeness. They didn't win, um, but one of the greatest deep runs ever, it was the first African slash Arab semi-finalist. They beat teams like Belgium, Spain, Portugal. Um, tight defense organization and belief that they were a massive underdog, and they owned it and they were awesome, and they made it all the way to the semis. Um just because of that, I put them on my list.

SPEAKER_01 1:29:19

Again, just to be clear, we this the same thing, buddy. It's the best runs. That's what we do every every time. You said champions when you were given the yes, it's best best runs. Usually that's the champions, but all right. You are pretty. Um, I do what I can. Brandon the stop trainer. What's your number five?

SPEAKER_02 1:29:42

My number five is from 1990, the champions, West Germany. They scored a total of 15 goals throughout the thing while only allowing five.

SPEAKER_01 1:29:57

Wow. Impressive. Impressive. All right, good number five. Uh, my number five is gonna be 1998 France. Um, it was their first ever World Cup, and they were uh quite dominant in that run. That is my number five. Nice, Steve. What number four?

SPEAKER_04 1:30:18

Oh uh well, Italy is my number four is Italy. It's the 2006 World Cup. Um that I I actually remember watching that one. Um one of the few World Cups that I've actually watched, but uh that was a very dominant uh team. I know that they only I think they allowed the fewest goals of a World Cup. Um, I don't remember exactly how many it was, but I remember hearing that it was round three or four.

SPEAKER_05 1:30:49

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 1:30:50

For the for the entire cup.

SPEAKER_01 1:30:52

Wow. Well, very impressive. Even a lot of teams go for that zero-zero tie. It's great number four. All right, Nick, what's your number four?

SPEAKER_03 1:31:03

Uh number four, I'm gonna steal your number five. And I went with 1998 France. Uh, they won and they were the host, they were the host uh nation. So, you know, that's always cool to see when you can celebrate with your country at home.

SPEAKER_01 1:31:15

Absolutely, doesn't happen often. Brandon, number four.

SPEAKER_02 1:31:20

My number four is Argentina in 1986. Oh their 14 goal score led by Diego Maradona, who scored five of those himself.

SPEAKER_01 1:31:33

Yes. Wow, yes, yes, yes. Great minds think alike, but I was just a little bit higher. Number four for me in the 2022 Argentina team led by Leonol Leon Messi. Um, we'll see if he gets back to backs here. So it's gonna be interesting. I got hammered on our TikTok by asking if uh if Leonel Messi wins back-to-back World Cups. Will he will that cement his legacy? And people were uh he's already number one, anyways. Yeah, right on. All right, so Steve, what is your number three, sir?

SPEAKER_04 1:32:07

All right, I got number three, Croatia for the 2018. They actually did not win, they were second, okay, but they had to um go through, they had to win two of the previous champions, beat the two previous champions even to make it to where they did. Um, they were considered one of the uh best underdogs winners for the best underdog.

SPEAKER_01 1:32:31

Awesome, love it. Good deal. Good number three, Steve Nick. Number three.

SPEAKER_03 1:32:38

Number three, I believe we already talked about this, was Spain from 2010. Uh won their first title. Six wins, one draw in seven games, and they only conceded two goals that entire time.

SPEAKER_01 1:32:49

Pretty impressive, pretty impressive. So right on, Brandon, number three.

SPEAKER_02 1:32:55

My number three is Brazil from 1970, who scored 19 goals, which is the most from any World Cup winner.

SPEAKER_01 1:33:05

Okay, very nice. Uh, my number three is 1986 Argentina. Brandon already said it, so yep. Steve, what is your number two?

SPEAKER_04 1:33:16

2002 Brazil. 11 wins. Well, seven wins in the for that particular cup, and then four more the next cup. Um for the and they've actually next to Italy, they've won the most cups in history.

SPEAKER_01 1:33:34

I it's yeah, wagon, right? Just a wagon. So good, good number two, right? Nick, what is your number two?

SPEAKER_03 1:33:45

Um, on the opposite side of the world, we're gonna go with the 2002 Brazil team, jerk. Um, I'm gonna do the same answer as Steve. Uh, seven wins, 18 goals scored. Ronaldo scored eight of those goals. Um, and then they just thrashed Germany in the final. Just awesome overall complete dominance.

SPEAKER_01 1:34:07

Very good. Brandon the stuff trainer. What is your number two, sir?

SPEAKER_02 1:34:12

My number two is uh Germany in 2014.

SPEAKER_01 1:34:17

Oh I I've got West Germany from 1974 as my number two. Um they had a great, great final. Uh defeated, you know, they had they were at the time one of the best players in the world, so that was my number two because I've got like kind of a weird number one.

SPEAKER_02 1:34:36

So yeah, Germany because they dominated Portugal and Brazil seven to one into their game.

SPEAKER_01 1:34:42

Yeah, it's like, yeah, they stomped them out, huh? Good, great, good job. And then, all right, Steve, what is your number one, sir?

SPEAKER_04 1:34:51

Uh, my number one had to be an Argentina from last cup. Uh I mean, that just the sheer star power they had on that team.

SPEAKER_01 1:35:00

Yeah, fair enough. Yeah, love it, man. Great number one. All right, Nikki Poo Poo Brown. What is your number one, beautiful? Poo-poo brown?

SPEAKER_03 1:35:12

Wow. Um, number one is going back to the 1970 Brazil team. They had the best. Uh, here's some soccer slang, they had the best kit. Uh, I love those yellow jerseys, they're so iconic. But um, what you didn't say, Brandon, the stuff was that who was on this team? Um, Pele? Pele. Yep. Pele. Uh, but yeah, total nomination, like he said, all 19 goals scored, and they only conceded seven in six games. Right. Yep.

SPEAKER_01 1:35:41

Very good. All right, Brandon. The stuff. Terrainer.

SPEAKER_02 1:35:47

What is your number one? My number one was uh Brazil in 2002. The only thing I'll add to that is that they won all those games without needing any extra time or shootouts.

SPEAKER_01 1:35:59

Oh, oh, all right, interesting. So they weren't uh falling around and uh you know grabbing their island.

SPEAKER_04 1:36:11

It still confuses me that penalty time at the end of the games.

SPEAKER_01 1:36:15

When a player goes down and it's deemed an injury, this the timekeepers start a clock, okay? But they don't have to always use it. What okay? We'll get into this after. Okay, so my number one to close us out is gonna be kind of combined with the 58 and the 70 Brazil team. The reason I did that is because both teams had Pele in 1958. They had a 17-year-old budding superstar in Pele. They won that one, and then again with Pele, as we've talked, if you guys have talked about from 1970. So it's a combined with 17. In 1958, he was only 17 and a budding superstar, so it was his first big thing, and we all know Pele ended up being like this, you know, he's still an icon, especially in Brazil. Um, literal statues of him. So, yeah, in 1958, he was like this budding superstar, and then they won again in 1970 with what you guys have talked about as an absolute dominant win for soccer. So, so that's what I've got. That is our top five. Let us know in the comments what you like, what you don't like. Um let us know. We appreciate it. So, with that said, final words, Steve. What do you got?

SPEAKER_04 1:37:35

Nothing. I just don't know what I'm gonna do for this next week other than watch soccer.

SPEAKER_01 1:37:38

Everything's basketball's done, hockey's done. There's just nothing to watch. I'll tell you what, man, start getting in. Start making your mock draft for the NHL draft, buddy.

SPEAKER_04 1:37:50

Oh, there we go.

SPEAKER_01 1:37:50

That's also got a baseball draft coming up, so you can look at prospects. Also, we do have the College World Series. Yep, we'll be talking about that this next week.

SPEAKER_04 1:38:01

So okay, no, I guess there is a lot to go still.

SPEAKER_01 1:38:06

Nick Brown, final thoughts, buddy.

SPEAKER_03 1:38:09

I got two. Uh, I want to give a little hat tip. We talked, we said his name this podcast, but we didn't say how awesome he was already. Uh, that's Lionel Messi. First player to ever play in six World Cups. Do the math. He's not he's a grown-ass man still playing this game and whooping people's ass.

SPEAKER_01 1:38:26

Uh he started he just had a hat trick.

SPEAKER_03 1:38:30

Damn it! So it's absurd. And I would like to say that he started his dominance in his sixth world cup with a hat trick over Algeria, you jerk. Um, that and I just want to give a uh so I'd like to give my little hat tip to Messi, and then uh Jordan Stahl forgetting the con Smythe as the oldest player to ever win the award. Um, well deserved.

SPEAKER_01 1:38:56

Almost had a goal in every single game, too. Yep, just missed that last one. Brandon, the stuff trainer, final thoughts, sir.

SPEAKER_02 1:39:03

Yeah, just say, man, great finals. Reminded me one thing that I miss from most games is getting these nice programs. Oh, you got your blur on your background game process. Every game. Yeah, you're good for you. Gotta keep that one function.

SPEAKER_01 1:39:23

Yeah, but anyway, right on, man. Great final thought. Um, anyway, with that said, we're gonna close it out right now and uh say thank you, everybody. We appreciate your support. Don't forget to like, follow, and subscribe. Our podcast is on all platforms Apple, Android, iHeartRadio, and more. Um, check us out on YouTube. Uh, give us a subscribe. It's free, it doesn't take long. Just jump on over to our YouTube channel, Full Strength Podcast, and give us a subscribe. Also, we are on TikTok and uh I post literally just about every single day with sports updates and major news when it breaks. So get over there and give us a follow. And with that said, I hope everybody has a great week. Hope your families are happy and healthy. Cheers, everybody. See you next week. See you. Bye, everybody.