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Yeah, I went to rest the guys for game 7 too. Yeah, next year. Yeah, he so if you if you forgot what Reggie Miller basically said after game 5, rest Kevin Durant, James Harden for game 7 don't even play them. They played, they lost, they put up a good fight.
There were some times where it felt like the nets were getting back into it. They cut it for like 5, 6, but the other headline is it was Chris Middleton's legacy game. Well, it was a surprise legacy game. 38 points.
It was almost like a foundation game for him. Oh, I think a legacy game you have to have like there has to be talk about your legacy before that. Yeah. This one was establishing legacy.
So right now anything less than 38 points in a playoff game is disappointing from Chris Middleton. Yes. I mean Milwaukee look really good tonight. The nets really, it was never in jeopardy.
I kind of felt like first quarter. We felt like this was gonna happen. I'm it's weird because obviously we're rooting for Blake, but I kind of in my mind I was like Reggie Miller is a stupid point you have to try because you never know what's gonna happen. But I always thought this was gonna go seven and Saturday nights gonna be electric and it's gonna be fun to watch.
I always respect a crazy take. It's like it's nice to see the people out there still willing to push the envelope just like throw some shit out on Twitter. Give us a little red meat, Reggie gave us fodder. So we plot him for that.
Blake Griffin had the the highest plus minus of any of the net starters tonight. That's true with the minus seven. That's a great game. Maybe a legacy game by Blake.
Yeah, started something special. Yeah. And the dojo was rocking tonight outside Milwaukee. Yeah, I was throwing down dunks.
Yeah, this was really awesome too, which I I didn't want to call it a legacy game for you. I'm addicted to legacy games, but I do think that Janice had to they had to win this game. Otherwise, because like if you lose in game seven and Kevin Durant does what he did in game five, there is some I know it's always terrible to lose that way, but there's some piece in like that guy's way better than anyone we have. That guy might be the best player in the NBA.
Yeah, 30 and 17. Right. Like if it happens that way, you can live with it. If you lost game six on your home court after James hard to get started game one, Kyrie Oven gets hurt game three or four, whatever it was.
That's like a dig deep soul searching. What are we doing here? Yeah. So in game seven Sunday, right?
Saturday, Saturday, yeah, we're gonna go. Yeah, maybe. Game seven. You got Margarita.
Oh no. No shit, dude. What the fuck? That's a preview of the fire fest.
How bad? I was feeling so good. I thought about it. I thought about it.
You can't go from the two sweetest words in English language, game seven to the two worst words. Margarita those closed. Yeah, fuck my bad. Either way, game seven and hopefully we'll have.
Yeah. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry.
Bryce and sucks. Yeah. Bryce and sucks. Brooks is awesome.
Bryce and sucks. He was tied for the lead. He had a couple bad bogeys on bat. That's when the course started to show his teeth.
The course woke up late because the greens greens get harder today. And then because Bryce and didn't want to play with Brooks because he's too big of a pussy to do it. He had to play with the harder course in the afternoon, which basically skull fucked them. Also, Bryce and illegal.
I'm calling illegal. They're interviewing Brooks after his round and Bryce and like jumped up into the back of the screen. You can't do that. And then be like, I don't want any part of this.
You can't do it. You can't have it both ways. If you want no part of it, you literally just pretend Brooks doesn't exist and never mention it again. And everyone will leave you alone.
Game on, dude. Look at this. Watch this video. Watch this video.
Watch this video. He jumped up in the screen. Look at that. Look, alternate angle.
He can't jump up in the back of Brooks. You want this, dude. He wants to talk about these baggy realms. And I also, I learned a cool new golf term today that I'm going to be over using this entire weekend.
That's a US open par. So if you're, if you run into trouble and you get up and down, or maybe you're driving to the rough, hit a nice iron into the green, and you just kind of grit your way to a par, that's a US open par. Yes, I love it. I love it.
That's a US open par. Okay, let's talk about the Sixers. And you want to do a victory lap? Who boy?
No, I don't know. It's nothing to do with me. I have some numbers that I wrote down. Let's do the numbers and then we'll go, we'll jump off of there.
So the staff that I that jumped out to me was in the, in these playoffs, teams are 46 and one when they are up 15 points going into Sunday. So starting this week, the Sixers have now lost two games this week where they were up 15 points. They were up. I think they only have it one time before this.
Yeah, it happened twice last week. Yes. Yes. He's playing dumb.
Yeah. He's really, he's really, he's really, I was just clarifying right now. Make sure I'm absorbing information correctly. This season, this postseason, 46 and one, Lukeo game three, the maps.
No 46 and one this postseason. I should have put a trigger running at the start of this. If you're a Sixers fan, Hank was going to look like Randy Mars, the spooky. Yes.
Hank is going to really stick it into you. So 46 and one when a team has been up by 15 during the game, and then this week, the Sixers have lost two games where they're up by 15 points. They're up by 26 on Wednesday night. They were up by 24 with less than two minutes to go in the third quarter.
They got outscored in the fourth quarter, 49 team. They got outscored in the second half, 69, 44. They give up 69 points in the second half. Like this is one of the best defensive teams in the NBA and they got absolutely torch will get to the offense, but it should be noted that their defense was really, really bad against the Hawks on Wednesday.
The defense was atrocious, but also because they pulled two of their best defensive players out of the game in the third quarter. The game was over as far as Doc Rivers was concerned and somebody was concerned in the third quarter. So they take out and beat. They take out Simmons and they I'll put it this way.
Shake Milton. Shake Milton was getting Ben Simmons's minutes with four minutes left in this game. I say again, shake Milton was in the game with Ben Simons. Okay.
So all right. So so so more stats. So so even off of that in the second half, the only two players to score field goal for the Sixers was Joel and Bead and Seth Curry. That's that's very, very bad.
Only two guys score field goal. Ben Simmons. So I actually asked Hank before, I was like, what do you think Ben Simmons is shooting from the free throw line? This these playoffs, he gets 60%.
It's 32.8%. He's shooting 30% from the from from the free throw line in this series. I've got an idea for how he could fix that big guy. Oh, no, free throws.
What free throws. He this is how bad Ben Simmons has been. I think he might be right handed. Yes.
He thought about that. Well, I saw I saw very early as the goal goes the other way. I saw very mean tweet out there and I'm not I'm not going to retweet it. I'm sure Hank will go find it after this, but it was a very funny tweet.
It said if you ever feel useless, remember that Ben Simmons wears a shooting sleeve and that is a very funny tweet, but I'm not going to retweet it because I'm still rooting for the Sixers to win this series. No, we're not going to give that tweet a platform whatsoever. Nope, not at all. Um, he Ben Simmons.
Here's a good stat about Ben Simmons. You ready for this? Ben Simmons is three for three from the field in the fourth quarter. Oh, wow.
In the series. Oh, no. So he's only shot three attempts in the fourth quarter in the series. Two of them was in game one.
So in the last four games, he has shot one time from the field in the fourth quarter. That's your point guard. I can't. That's pretty good.
Three for three. Three for three. Maybe not as great. He's actually on fire.
Ben says I can be a jam storms. I don't understand how you can have a superstar that doesn't shoot that can't score. And don't get around. He's a great defender.
He really is. He's fun to watch with the ball and stands. He's a playmaker. Triple doubles.
This is a double doubles. Yeah. He also been said that this is how bad Ben Simmons has been. He made me go look up what a stat was usage rate because he has a lower usage rate than Dwight Howard who basically is in there for Lobs.
Oh, Dwight Howard also had maybe the funniest mistunk of the postseason. It was it was for him. It was to be like in how badly he missed that. It was such a bad fourth quarter.
And if you're if you're a Philadelphia seven six man, my first question is why are you listening to this podcast? I would be off the internet. I would not consume any media. I wouldn't watch television.
Oh, just in the off chance that like I wouldn't watch HGTV in the off chance that there might be a commercial for game six that pops up. I it's it's tough if you're a sixer span to the point where like it makes you question the last 10 years of your life. Well, that's the problem. It's not just the loss.
It is the entire process because the process has been built around in the end. You know, you could point to Mark L. Fulton never becoming anything, you know, not drafting drafting him over Jason Tatum all these points. But like the process was built around Ben Simmons and Joel Embiid at the end here.
They didn't trade Ben Simmons for James Harden, which I think most Sixers fans would probably go back and do if you could do that all over again. They also I thought about it today. I was like, you know, who they really could have used in that fourth quarter? J.
But and they could have used J. But and they use J. Butts money for played pretty well. Yeah.
Now he's been sitting at home, you know, running out of his contract for the Thunder. I it's so bad. And I really do I I I feel like the six are still have a shot in this. I know that's crazy to say.
I don't know why I think the one tonight. I don't know why. I think the problem is I every game I watch show on Bead and I'm like, he's got this. And then I forget that in the fourth quarter.
And I know he had 37 points. He was basically your entire offense with Seth Curry. But he's now one for 10 in the fourth quarter in the last two games. He like basically just falls down every single play when he gets tired.
And that those two misfreetrows and yes, he's not a bad free throw shooter. Those two misfreetrows were very bad. And I just don't know what you do if you're a Sixers fan. This is like, I think honestly, if I were a Sixers fan this morning or Thursday morning, I got something they should do.
I would be firing up the trade machine and seeing how many picks you can get for Joel and Bead and Ben Simmons should just restart the process. Because guess what? The process. It's bad basketball.
It's terrible to lose that much. But at least you got hope. And right now, if the Sixers lose this series in six, hope is gone. Hope is out the window.
You throw hope out the window. And that might be the worst fate for any sports fan. Right. To Philadelphia Sports fans credit, they have been extremely patient by and large with the process.
And this is the season that it was all put together. But like, most other fan bases would not have tolerated. They kind of embraced it. They're like Sam, Sam Hinky died for this.
He died for us since to make us happy long term. And now it's like, can Doc Rivers, can he bench himself for the next game? I don't know. I think he deserves a lot of credit to he is also like, sneakily, the all time greatest basketball coach at choking away fourth quarter victories in the playoffs.
And also series leads into the playoffs. Seriously, like Doc, this is like a habit for 2015. Remember that Rockets Clippers series? Yeah, it's poetic that it came against Atlanta team when you look at the wind probability that popped up.
It was 99.7, which as we all know, wind probability is an ironclad stat. It's backed up by numbers. It's never wrong. But this is straight out of the Atlanta Falcons playbook of last year against the Cowboys.
And it's like you either you either die and Eagle or you live long enough to become a Falcon. And the the Hawks, right? So people are like, Hey, why don't you talk about the Hawks? And we will talk about the Hawks.
But you have to admit this story is about the Sixers because they've choked these two unfathomable leads and like they have they have lost in horrific fashion. I that fourth quarter, it was bizarre to watch, not really because Ben Simmons is your point card. You can't shoot. But it was bizarre in the fact that like you just couldn't believe as it was happening.
You're like, this is really happening. There's nothing they can do. They have no one who can go get their own basket. And I know like you dumbing down like how the NBA works, but you need that guy, you need that one guy who's like, fuck everything, I'm gonna go get it.
Or I'm gonna create it like Trey young and credit to the Hawks because Trey young has been phenomenal. Their team's been phenomenal resilience. And so much so, you know what we're starting to see, this is coupling with Luca debacle where everything seems to be falling apart temporarily in Dallas. We're seeing now where the Hawks right for taking Trey young and not Luca Donchic.
Maybe so there you go. That means that's really when you know that you got a good one when we're doing the revisionist history, when really it's gonna just flip flop depending on who lasts longer in the playoffs every year for the rest of their career. Yeah, can I have permission to say something in a bonk-free zone? Because to me, this is like the only analogy I could come up with is that Ben Simmons, like you have a star player, a superstar player who can't shoot is like it's having a porn star that can't come.
I mean, that is a bonk because if that's the only analogy you can think of. It's the most perfect analogy ever like yeah, he'll go down, he'll put his head down and he'll give you some hard minutes out there and he does all the stuff. But you can fake that. You can fake that.
He can't fake. You can't fake a money shot. I mean, okay, all right. Sure.
All right. Yeah. That's I think it plays. I mean, you can do a stunt cock.
You could do a stunt cock. Real fake at all time. I'm not talking about a girl porn star in this game. Oh, yeah.
How about the analogy of just like you have like shooting is probably the most important star which can be boy or girl. Yeah, shooting is the most important thing in it's maker, Miss League shooting a basketball into a hoop, not to really dumb it down. But I would say that's the most important thing. Like if you really wanted a player, you'd be like, hey, I hope this guy at the end of the day, if he could dribble, if he could do everything else, play defense, I really would like him to be able to put the ball in the hoop when needed.
He can't do that. Well, a sister great and to quote Rick Riley, it's not basketball. It's basketball. Yeah, something I've always wondered about basketball.
Why do they even call them free throws? Because they should be free. They're not free. Geez.
I don't want to do a free throw debate again. But if you get down to it and just to clean up the free throw thing, I did find the rule. It's further down listening that says there is a plane rule. So just want to clear that up.
We did say that one of us said like five times. No, we didn't read the plane rule. Yeah. All right.
So Hank, you have carte blanche right now. Say whatever you want to say. Go at it. Do it.
Because we know you have a lot of things you want to say. No, I mean, I said it all. It's just one of those things where it's stunning how bad they are in the fourth quarter. Joel and B just gas.
He's one of those guys. He goes for stats. He tries to get the whole point. He kind of in the beginning doesn't realize he has a low, you know, a low tank and then the fourth quarter he's got a gas.
Like he would think after game four, he would be like, hey, maybe I should conserve some energy for the fourth quarter because I know my point guard is going to be on the bench because you can't shoot and every time. They were doing hackers and until like seven minutes left. So you would think he would save some energy. He didn't.
It's just crazy when they're coming down the last two minutes and you get that feeling like it's like a high school team when the star players in the bench and there's no one that can get offense and you just know that the game is going to go bad. Yeah. The ball just keeps like falling out of their heads. I really team when it's like two to the series is tied to close game to have your home fans booing.
That's got that. I love that. Exactly. And I feel I actually genuinely feel bad for fans.
No, you don't. I feel bad for them because it's more than just a loss. It's a horrific loss on surface level, right? But it's also the process and it's also Ben Simmons is one of those guys we talk about all the time where fan bases have players where they will defend and the rest of like national media in the world will say, hey, maybe there's some holes in this guy's game like shooting a basketball, right?
Like just basic level things and you end up if you're a Philly fan defending him through thick and thin and when he doesn't show up in those crucial moments, you just basically have to sit there and eat shit. So I hope it goes seven. You can't spin zone it. You know if you're a Philly fan, like it sucks having a point guard that can't score.
That's that's one element that we would like very much this game. I also understand why they defend him because he's an awesome player. Right. He's really good.
But you can't be giving up what how big was lead? It was 26 and they were up 24 with less than two minutes ago in the third quarter. You can't do any of that. It's also I actually think if I were Ben Simmons, like strategy going into game six, I would just shoot all the time in the fourth quarter because I really do believe if Ben Simmons went one for seven in the fourth quarter, it would be better than shooting one time in the last four games in the fourth quarter.
Like that's so that's basically giving up. I mean, you're not even you're just resigned to the fact that you can't play at this level of the playoffs when things get tighter teams know each other better and everything's like, hey, you got it. Someone's got to make a play here. I don't know.
I just he and it really is like the meanest thing to have a guy who can't shoot from the field and also like can't like the one thing Ben Simmons can do is he's good around the rim. So but he doesn't want to go get contact because then he has to go to the free throw line. He'll miss those. If you were Ben Simmons, put yourself in his head right now and you know that you can't shoot.
You know that you're going to make I don't know 20% of your open like relatively contested, not like wide open shots. I'm talking like a normal a shot that you would create for yourself and you know that you'll make about 20% of those. Would you do anything differently in the fourth quarter? I would shoot.
Would you because on one hand, I think maybe I would but then on the other, I think that it's it's maybe a smart idea for him to not shoot when he knows that he's not actually like really unselfish for him to not shoot. And then in that case, who does the blame fall suit that's Doc Rivers for keeping a guy in the game that you know cannot and will not score the best. I'd actually fake an injury. I should say that.
I'm a coward. I would absolutely fake an injury. The start of every fourth quarter and be like, Oh, next game. I'm good to go.
We're just making injury every time you're on offense. Yeah. So this is Doc Rivers. The other thing if you're a Philly fan, you're a good coach, you know, playoff experience.
2009 Celtics up three to one Orlando lose the series 2010. Celtics up three to two and Lakers and end a finals lose the series 2012. Celtics up three to one the Heat Easter Carms finals lose the series. Clippers 2013, three to one Grizzly lose the series game seven at home 2014.
Clippers below 15 point lead in game five versus Oklahoma end of losing series in six. 2015. Clippers blew through one lead 2016. That was a bad one.
The Clippers up to nothing on the Blazers lose series four to four straight losses. They lost game seven at home for the jazz and last year they blew three one lead to the Nuggets. So there's some that can't feel good if you're a Sixers fan. Some of those weren't like something like 2012 like LeBron was like, you know, at the height of his power and the rough.
Yeah. And isn't the wasn't the when the NBA needed the NBA needed the heat to win that championship. One of the Lakers and Kendra Perkins got hurt. So some injuries in there, but like there's a few that 2015 one was a really bad one.
It actually makes it worse. You're knowing that the championship is kind of wide open for the Sixers to take. This is the year that they don't even have an injury that they can blame. They can say like Joe OMB might be banged up.
Who knows how torn his meniscuses. But yeah, this is the year like every other team has significant injury issues. And this was the year that you could do it. And I I do hope that they come back and they win at least one more game just so that this is not like because if they lose another game, then going into next year, you almost have to blow something up.
Oh, you have to find something in your backyard and blow it up and be like, that's the issue. We're going to try some different if you end up winning one game after it. Then I think you can make the case that we're going to give this another shot next year. Maybe with like some minor tweaks.
Maybe you get a player that can shoot the basketball in the fourth quarter. And I'm not going to like truly rag on Joe OMB because he's fantastic. He finished second in MVP voting. People, I mean, the argument is there that if he played all the games this year, which the best availability is availability, but if you played all the games here, you probably would have been MVP.
I don't blame Joe OMB. I blame the roster construction of and the fact that in today's NBA, your best player can't be a center in the fourth quarter. When you need guys who can make their own shot, like at all times, around him. So like it's hard to play center when your point guard can't shoot.
What if you have a guy that you had a couple years ago, pretty good shooting named JJ Redick, you have a team. Yeah. I mean, Jimmy Butler would have won that game. I'm convinced he's just that type of dog that you need like the fuck you.
I'm going to win this game. I don't care that type of guy you need as a sports guy sports podcast where legally obligated to mention LeBron James during any basketball discussion. Did you notice during Katie's explosive game where he went off for 49 last time? Kevin Durant or LeBron tweeted in the middle of it about the kid from Akron 17 out of 18 years getting all NBA like in the middle of Kevin Durant in the quarter.
Nice. Nice. Had to toss that in. Any switches number back.
All right, let's talk some other NBA. So I am rooting for the Sixers. I know six or spans. I have somehow, I think I've gotten a combo of I did have a really bad tweet where I was like, the Sixers are really good during game four.
What's wrong with that? And also with that tweet. Also my because I'm Dean to Jinx and then also which I'll admit I have terrible in the moment opinions and also I think just the halo effect of Hank being our producer means that we get some higher on mine. I am rooting for them.
I know I know I'm rooting for the Sixers to win game six. I probably will root for them to win game seven because I think that's a fascinating story and I think the Hawks probably have a long like Trey Young's gonna be great for a really long time. I think with the Sixers big cat you're like, you're a spun sticks for their for their hatred. Yeah, I'll own it.
I'll carry it. Your sponge Hank is like a tied up dog and one of those links gets broken. He's gonna take all the abuse out right on the news. He's like, I can't believe this is happening.
I can't wait to tweet. I was stunned. I was literally stunned. Yeah.
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So playoff p gets credit. He deserves credit. He gets so much shit. That was a really, really great game and he deserves a lot of credit being like, hey, he does show up in the playoffs.
Here's this game. Did you guys ever know a kid when you were a little that dealt really poorly with anger that like when they get really mad they would almost look like they were about to cry. Like not say where they didn't internalize it and just get like their face would start twitching and they get almost sad with how angry they were. That's what playoff p has looked like the last couple games when people when it's like on him to do everything he knows that everybody's at home being like, Oh, they're calling me pandemic p either call me playoff l playoff poo poo.
You name it. And so he's I think he's internalized a lot of that, but he's actually like he's he looks more explosive than he has in the last couple playoffs. And he's got a moment because Kawai I don't know. Kawai's got to be the one guy who like when he gets I kind of respect it like when he gets injured, I feel like he's just like, yeah, I'm injured.
I'm done. And I'm not saying that soft. I'm not saying it's soft. I just honestly think that he he's just like, yeah, I'm not going to be good if I'm playing with this knee or I'll get more hurt instead of like trying to get out there and got it out.
It fits in with this personality being a robot. It's like, okay, there's an air code in the software. The rest of it's just not gonna listen. There's nothing I can do about you got to fix this thing and then the rest will work.
And it's weird because it went Kawai news or no, sorry, what Chris Paul knew is why news back to back, essentially making like the most wide open ridiculous playoffs LeBron again made it about himself by saying that he warned everyone. Yeah, he did. But do you think that maybe there's a little Michael Jordan bad pizza situation with Chris Paul? Like what if my theory is what if Rudy Goveira dropped off a pizza at his hotel room and you know Rudy likes to spread it around a little bit.
Yeah, just microphones. Yeah, true. Yeah, good point. Also, just to push back a little bit on LeBron, like I know that it was a bad turnaround, but or a quick turnaround for the league.
They needed to make money because they have salaries that need to be paid and everyone like it needs to keep going. Also, the guys who got hurt like Kyrie Irving, he gets hurt. Yeah, Joel Embiid. He gets hurt.
Also, Kyrie Irving happened to land on somebody's foot. Right. Anthony Davis, he gets hurt. Donovan Mitchell already was hurt.
Like there, Kawai, he gets hurt. James Harden might be the only one which I said incorrectly a couple of shows ago. James Harden does not get hurt. He got hurt.
But like that's Chris Paul got COVID and he's got the vaccine. So like there, there are also just a bunch of players that didn't really play deep into the playoffs last year in the bubble. Right. So yeah, I don't know, like LeBron James very clearly wanted to just remind everybody that he told everyone this was going to happen ahead of time.
But guess what, LeBron? I like, again, I understand like player safety is very important and all these things. But LeBron, you've made a lot of money. There's probably some guys who are like, Hey, I'd like to get back and play.
And there's, you know, I mean, there's like organizations that need to make money. I'm not trying to cape for the for the owners because that's opposite of what I'm doing. Bootlicker bootlicker. But I do understand like you can't expect everything to keep running if you don't get back and play a season.
Yeah, maybe a month would have fixed it. Who knows? Yeah, I don't think I just looking at the names and then looking at the schedule in the playoff bubble, it doesn't scream out to me that there's any correlation there whatsoever. Right.
Between playing those games and not having a big layoff. But I get that probably if you're a veteran that's been in the league for a while, that short rest sucked. Yeah, like that's all you should just say that be like, listen, it sucks that we had to play this full season after taking what like three weeks off or whatever. Yeah, that sucks.
I agree. LeBron, I agree to you that sucks. Chris Paul though getting COVID I still I actually I'll throw it out there. Doesn't the timeline match up?
Well, maybe not. But let's just pretend the timelines don't matter. LeBron went to that skill party. Then they played the Suns.
Then Chris Paul got COVID. I mean, yeah, I think timeline doesn't match up whatsoever. I do like to indulge in a bit of conspiracy thinking like Ernie Adams retirement. I don't think that he is retired.
I think he's going to be I think he's going to be Bill Belichick's like COVID guy. Yeah, that like, you know, he'll drop in and pass off a few injections, cough on the right people, make sure that certain unvaccinated players aren't ready to play when they're going to get some Patriots. Agreed. That was great though.
They got to do a press conference. Yeah. Anything of note? I think just him being there was of note.
And why did he why was it ending now? Like before I guess it is before but why would it end at the end of last season? Yeah, I'm not sure about that. Because he probably helped out with draft, right?
Yeah, draft one free agency. Yeah, he's not going anywhere. No, it's like moved is he just working from home. Have you ever seen Homeland Sol retires like every year?
But he's still very much working from the CIA. So it's so long? No, I think Kerry died at the end. Oh, spoiler.
Nice. Oh, okay. And spoiler in Russia. Spoil another spoiler.
All right, the islanders lost our hockey minute. The islanders lost. Mm hmm. That feels bad.
That's serious over in the Canadians tied it up. Back to Canada. And that'll do it for the hockey. What was the guys?
Highs bleeding. Do you see that? Yeah, yeah, that was weird. It looked like he was either high as shit.
I think Billy said they looked like he bought Bitcoin and he had glowing eyes on Twitter. Yeah, but it was it was really strange. It did look like he was going through like an exorcism. Yeah, but that's a hockey guy.
I have a body injury. My eyes are out. Yeah. All right.
So the before we get to Daniel Ricardo, anything else that we got to get to before we have we have Firefest on the other end and also the reintroduction of Billy football, the Bears did release a statement that they're putting in a bid to buy Arlington International Racetrack, which is an Arlington Heights, about 30 45 minutes. 30 miles like 45 minutes outside of, you know, where Soldier Field is downtown Chicago. And everyone's actually, I don't think a lot of people are freaking out. I actually think they should it's smart of them.
It's probably they're probably just posturing to get a renovation of Soldier Field. It's for people who don't know because I mean, I would assume people don't just know attendance off hand. The Bears have the lowest attendance, like the lowest capacity of any NFL team. It's a very old stadium.
And it's the only it's the biggest city that doesn't have two teams. So I just think that there's there's something nice about an NFL team that has a stadium downtown. It's all from somebody that doesn't actually live in that city or have to like deal with facilities on a day to day basis. So I'm sure there are lots of good reasons to move it out.
But yeah, I just like the image when they do the plump shot. Yeah, it's not like a plump shot that shows the skyline. But the stadium is they did a renovation. They did a band aid in 20 years ago and it's already out of date.
They don't own their stadium. The Chicago Park District does. So that's also crazy. The McCaskys are thinking about selling it.
So they are like, Hey, let's bid for this land. And then we can sell it to someone who will build the new stadium. I honestly a big new stadium that like attracts a big 10 championship game, final fours, all that stuff. I'm kind of in for it.
It's like more renovation that makes it better downtown, which also looks like when Lucas Oil got built in Indianapolis, he called it the house that Peyton built. Yeah. So what would you it would be fields field? No, it's a house that Mitch built.
How's that Mitch built? I like it. Hey, you didn't chime in on the LeBron stuff for you. You feeling all right?
Yeah. I was just curious because I would think that like on one hand, you're like you guys said I'm just an unbashed hater that just certain things that I hate on the quick. I don't have any type of rational takes. I just on one hand, you'd be like, well, I hate LeBron.
On the other hand, I love that he's advocating for more vacations. No, I mean, listen, I it's that's LeBron 101 is when he loses. He makes up excuses and whatever fits his narrative that he takes to the LeBron 101 class. Yeah, it's lose.
And then he's gonna put up a million Instagram stories, millions of Instagrams like all of a sudden, he's gonna be I'm not gonna. Yeah, the Mavericks thing is weird too. That should be noted. Like it feels they're falling apart.
It feels when there's that much. So I just reporting going on in Mark Cuban has to come out and be like, this is all fake. And then the coach resigns. It's it feels they're just gonna have to be it.
You know what it is. It's photoshopped season because everyone's photoshopping. Luca Luca. I retreated someone who did it with the Bulls.
And then I saw some guy who I don't know how he let me get his Twitter handle because I want to give the proper credit. This guy coach on Twitter said the Mavericks lost the Clippers and seven and are down three nothing to the Atlantic. The athletic. That's okay.
Oh, at Oakley underscore MP3, he should be the new GM of the Bulls because he said I would offer Zach Levine and Vuchovich to make the Luca trade, which yeah, yeah, I would offer that. I love when when people on Twitter like or online, you know, wherever they're discussing a team, they're like, Hey, I would offer these two guys for this incredible player. You know, it's no shit, dude. You know what season is NBA trade machine screenshot season because you can make the most outlay.
You can put like 12 guys. It's like, yep, this trade works. It's like, well, it could happen. I hope that there is one GM in every league that is the annoying guy in fantasy football, who just every week will offer you four bench players for like Patrick Mahomes.
Yeah, and be like, but look at all the value you get. It's like, dude, where am I gonna put all these people? Where am I gonna put these? Honestly, that's what they should do to the sixers right now.
The sixers might be like, yeah, that works. Yeah, I mean, look, we're getting six guys and only giving up one statistically go through the sixers to do the opposite. They should offer in Bead to buy his hair, subin Simmons for LeBron. Yeah, let's do it.
Why not? Why not? Why not? I would trust him a lot more if it's just LeBron and Seth Curry running around.
Hell yeah. Yeah. All right. Let's get to awesome interview.
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McLaren is Daniel Ricardo. He's also the epitome of human high performance. When you said that quote, were you like this is ridiculous? When I see when I see like things play back, obviously like watching watching the season like months after it's been shot.
I'm like, oh, I really said that. I don't even know some of the dumb stuff I say. So it's funny. But we're excited to have you on.
We figured you were the number one guy that we could basically shout out and be like, he's too scared to come on and you would come on because that's the type of personality you have. You are by far the most entertaining guy on drive to survive. But did you see it right away? And you're like, all right, I got to come on.
This guy showed because they called me out. Yeah, yeah, I love a good call out. I respect it. So yeah, no, it's good.
It's good. I'm happy. I'm happy to talk to some good American folk. So I'm very delighted to be here.
And I'm glad you guys liked like the series as well. And turning into some proper F1 fans. It's a great show. Yeah.
I mean, like as people that I don't think we even ever paid attention to F1 until a few months ago, started watching it. It's addictive. And you get drawn in by the storylines, you get drawn in by the entire sport. Have you noticed a difference just from what you see as a driver when you got to the track, is there a difference in the fan base that's coming out now?
Has it grown noticeably even over in Europe because of the series? Yeah, it's changed a lot. And like, I know like there's some of us in the F1 world, we're like, ah, some love it. Some maybe don't love it as much, but you can't deny that it's completely elevated our sport and elevated our profiles all around the world.
And I think it's just cool to, you know, like it's such a strange sport in terms of, you know, it's not something you grow up doing. Like not everyone grows up driving race cars and then getting to Formula One. And it's it's such a kind of close sport. So to open it up and to bring like new people into it.
And just to I think just to show the sport off, you know, because it is so unique, but also so amazing. It's like, I like that, you know, like the show has given us that platform and Netflix has done that for us. So it's cool. What, what, uh, you mentioned that there's some people who may not love the show or they're like traditional old school F1 people who are like, oh, this is showing too much or it's not about the rivalries.
It's all about the race cars. Is that what is that kind of what the push and pull is? I guess there's some of that like for sure, you know, like some of the rivalries might be a little, you know, there might be a little bit of sugar on the top of it. But it's like, yeah, so it's probably just that like the real purest like, you know, I know these guys and they don't actually hate each other or whatever.
But I mean, like, I'll be honest, it's pretty, like some of it again might be a little heightened, but it is it does kind of demonstrate pretty well what the sports about and also like the politics of it and all of that, even the rivalries here, amongst not only drivers, but the teams and the bosses. It's pretty cool. All right. So you actually mentioned that they tried to make kind of create a rivalry between you and Carlos sons.
And you said, you you said quote, I probably got other guys that I dislike, you know, as opposed to Carlos. So why don't you tell us who you dislike more than Carlos? Yeah, everyone. It is gonna be weird though, because it is a reality television factor of it where the edits are going to make maybe some rivalries look bigger than they actually are.
I would imagine there's a couple rivalries. Are there any rivalries that you have that you're like, I hope they don't figure out who I actually hate because now they're going to try to make this story. Yeah, there's probably some like, I feel, I mean, it's it's like we all obviously what we do is, you know, I guess pretty dangerous. So we all definitely have like a respect for each other.
So like I respect each and every driver, but for sure, like we also come from very different walks of life, different parts of the world and like, so naturally, like we all don't maybe get along like best friends, but we're also trying to all take, you know, something from each other, you know, and we're trying to beat each other and get a title. So we're all fighting for the same thing. So it's like, there's always going to be that intense rivalry and there will be people that you just don't get on with. But ultimately, like the one thing that we've chosen to do in life, like we all have that common passion.
So it's weird. There's respect, but there's also a lot of Yeah, I mean, I get on with a few of the guys like, I'm a pretty easy going guy. But yeah, I mean, some, some just I don't really have much in common with do you ever plan out a line that you're going to deliver like something that you think of maybe you're about to fall asleep at night and you're like, that would be fucking awesome if I drop this line on somebody before the race tomorrow. And then you state you make sure the camera picks it up.
And then you watch the show a couple months later, you're like, why did they use my cool line that I thought of? So I'll always, it's normally during training, like during training, I'll let like some of my emotion or aggression out and I'll be like, yeah, that's what I'm gonna do. Well, that would be sick. But it's more just internal stuff in my head.
I think like honestly, most of I would say like most of the shit I say on camera is very spontaneous. And it's like, I don't know, I'm very like, I don't want to sound like quick with it. But I do just normally just speak what's on the tip of my tongue. Yeah, if it's authentic, I think that's better.
It's going to come across anyways. If you like try to rehearse it, then it's gonna be like, fuck, this is another line that you wrote down and people will start to like turn on you. But I think people like the fact that you you seem to enjoy living in that moment, getting to talk shit about somebody. It's great.
I think that's where it's like, I feel obviously like I do realize I have a like a, I'm say decent fan base, like a good fan base and I don't mean to blow smoke, but it's I think because I am, I definitely feel I'm very true in myself. And I think people can relate like if you're authentic and you're real, then everyone can relate to, yeah, just the little person who just goes about it. And like, I love what I do. And for sure, if I'm emotional, I'll show it.
And if I'm passionate, I'll show it. And if I don't like someone, I would always probably say it. I sort of probably want to say it. But I think people get a good shot.
Right. So we're authentic here on this show. And I don't think we'd be authentic. We wouldn't be doing our jobs as journalists if we didn't call you out on some stuff.
So I first and foremost, I want to address this your nickname is the Honey Badger. Number one, they don't have honey badgers in Australia. It's not endemic species to Australia. Kind of a fraud.