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Welcome to part of my take presented by DraftKings. The crown is yours today is Friday, April 17th, and it's set boys Max verse Hank, the Philadelphia 76ers have won the play in game against the Orlando magic. It was a decisive victory. I got to say, so I'm in a little bit of a spot because I've said this before many times that I do I think the play in I hate the play in in terms of its like existence that we've now made it 10 teams get a shot and owners can cling to the fact that they were the 10 team and they got to play the only play in the playoffs all that the games themselves do rock.
Yeah, and they it is funny fun watching an elimination game which we watched with Clippers and Warriors which you can get to. But now the sixers are officially in. I actually I I agree. I think in theory the playing game is it's a crock of shit.
It's a gimmick that was it was dreamed up to give the owners one more home game and make you think that if you finish in 10th place you have a shot winning the NBA title which you don't but I think that once you get in I don't like the people policing the teams and fans celebrating winning the playing game right like I think that I think that's a good thing like when we have the team will when it a couple of years ago. It depends on I think it's organization by organization. Yes celebrate the fuck out of that you guys have had in there not even yet. We'll know on Friday night if they're officially in right but yes the Hornets that's a that's an organization that should celebrate that the Blazers they should celebrate that the Clippers know I mean they lost but like no the Warriors know they've been there to have been there before.
The Sixers should celebrate it. Absolutely. Now you get a shot at the ground. Yeah and Max it was a decisive victory.
Max he looked awesome. Play in P look pretty good too. Andre Drummond. Yeah.
Might be better than in Bead. Andre Drummond. I mean Max. Massive three at the end.
Andre Drummond. Dagger three Andre Drummond. Love it. Andre Drummond.
Max you're pumped. The bank was rocking. The bank was rocking. What's the name of the city?
L House. It's the Xfinity Center. They just. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Everything. Yeah.
It's all happening at the X. Yeah. Do you know what's crazy about Andre Drummond is that he and Joel and Bead do the same age. What?
Yeah. That's that is crazy. Isn't that fucking wild? What a lot of money off me.
They're they're they're both 32 years old. Andre Drummond turns 33 in August. Joel and Bead turn 32 like they're like six months apart. Drummond seems so much older.
It's like he's been around forever. He's been on a bunch of teams and you just see him. You're like yeah that guy. He's he's on his last like no he's 32 years old.
He's much. Yeah. He's younger. I saw someone like I know escalators who's a very good he's a Yukon fan account and he he likes put out this tweet that also put me in this room.
Andre Drummond's younger than Aaron Judge. That's crazy too. Yeah. Yeah.
I mean that's what I like about it. It's more about baseball for the longest time like nobody played in baseball. Andre Drummond if you if we asked everyone before this we would say he's 36. Yeah.
Like yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
He's he's so Andre Drummond might be better than Joel and Bead. The Sixersers. Max. Two against the cell this year.
I'm not going to draw his better than Joel and Bead. Right now. Max question. He still has his appendix.
That's the ability is availability. Max. I was yeah Hank took my question but I was gonna let Max answer it open-ended what your best ability is. Well this bit is now Ted because Hank just did the bit before you.
So I was you can still answer the question. Are you afraid of answering the question? I was your teams in the playoffs. This side of the desk has no teams in the playoffs.
Yeah. Yeah. I root for a loser. You can always just say that about me.
I'm rooting for the polls to lose in the play in the last five years. I'm very happy to both finally tanked and have a 20% chance in the top four pick. I'm happy that they're in the playoffs. I just I'm not happy that I just have to deal with fuckface when obviously they're the better team.
They're going to win if it goes five games. It's a disappointment to the Celtics. That's according to Boston media. And now I just have to deal with it.
And like he's just gonna be rubbing in my face as if like he isn't in the position of like obviously you have like a rebuild year for us. Our star player played like 20 games. Don't try to do that. I'm a gap year.
It's not a rebuild year. No, it's a hundred percent must win. Yeah. You guys are.
You guys are the favorites to win the east. Max. I have a question. Yeah.
Well now you guys are minus seven hundred win this series. Max. Yes. I have a question.
PFT. I said yes. Okay. Yeah.
Max after the game I saw a lot of the fans in Philadelphia saying we want Boston. We want Boston. Good question. We want Boston.
Do you want Boston? Nope. Next question is Mr. Cat.
Yeah. Would you say this series is a can lose or a. It is a it is a loss. No, but it's a can lose or could win.
We don't have our best player. Like I think it's a might win or could lose. Memes. I'm saying you don't have your best player.
I'm your German spot. Have the Celtics ever lost in the playoffs. That's massive favorites. Great point.
Great question. Five out of the last six years. Good question. Was that a question Hank?
Yeah. Mr. Cat. Yeah.
Hank, was that a question for memes or Connor? That's Connor. Yeah. Hank is doing government names on memes.
I got I got to just protect Zach. I'm worried about like the virus. A booth of honor and Christopher. Oh, okay.
What did I what have I done to you other than just call me fuck face. Yeah. Well, you are fuck. You're all right.
That was everyone agrees. This is the virus that I. Oh, no, no, no. I said is a thousand percent fair.
Hey, I got a question for you. We watch them. We watched a game in February where you were doing two twos in your forehead after every day of me. No, no, you being a fuck face is not a virus.
It's law. Like it's in it's written in ink. Everyone agrees. Fuck face.
I got a question. And yeah, there's Zach has a question. He's been great. Well, I'm asking for Hank.
You have to call on somebody. PT. Okay. I don't get the government name.
That's only for the booth guys. Hey, Connor, Christopher Henry, the two C's. Have you thought about how this is going to look if you happen to lose against the Sixers? Because you are in full-on cocky ink mode where I can tell that you actually are not worried about the Sixers.
Never have been. Definitely. I'm not this year. The jerseys were cool last night.
Oh, credit to Philadelphia and the Sixers. They looked cool. It's very, that's very nice of you. That was a great jersey.
All some jerseys. The court was kind of glowing. If they lose the summers over. You're not going to.
That just got me. Yeah, I just made a move a little bit. Yeah, let's unpack that a little bit. What does the summers over mean?
I will just it will. Like I guess the spring, the spring is over. Yeah, no. I mean, this would be an absolute devastation for two full months of just like having to watch basketball games in pain.
Max, this is the approach you have to your 16 seed right now. Like no one's expecting it. But if you if you somehow beat the Celtics, this is the you just own hand. I've already.
Yeah, I've also already said if we beat the Celtics, that's that's an NBA finals. I don't care what happens the rest of the rest. I also, again, like not not worried weapon mode coach coach the other day had me fired up completely fired up. But I did, you know, again, you have to think about the worst case scenario.
It would be like I it would be it would happen at Max's bachelor party. And so we're probably the game seven. Yeah. That would be a real shame.
That would be incredible. I have a question. We're going to get a game seven and the Celtics are going to win. I have a question.
Like that's just how this goes. I have a question. I have a question. We're not getting a game seven.
Max. Okay. I would rather for I agree with you. You're your big time underdogs.
Sixers have not been good this year. Again, two and two against Celtics. So that doesn't have an appendix, but Andre Trauma is 32. Andre Trauma is not even starting.
Andre Trauma is 32 years old and he's good. Max, how many games in this series do you have to win to be roped in? Two. I've already I've already said one will not will not move any will not move.
What do you want? No, you're busted. No, that's the one that I think is that's what they want. That they want to try and make you want to get you all with game.
That's a lie. If they were game one, you're you're roped in. Yeah, I think I'm telling myself right now. It's too.
It's probably one game two and it's tied. I think at any point if the series is tied after zero zero, you're going to start to get roped in. It also depends what what Embiid status is. If it's like, you got under drum Boston and stop saying Andre German.
If they split if they split in Boston and it's like, oh, yeah, Embiid's coming back coming back for game three, then maybe. What do you what do you start behind Andre German? Zach, you got a question? Six man of the year.
My question was going to be how many games, but if you do win game one, are you going? What are you going? What are you going to go 100%? What if he's by end?
Just let's do it. We've already done this with the Celtic. We've won game one against the south and different years. Yeah, that team was better.
Okay, this is all just an exercise in line to ourselves because we know we know once the ball is tipped, Max is going to get into Max mode. I don't know. I don't know. Yes.
So we've been very down and rightfully so on the Sixers this year. When the ball, when the balls in play, Max is going to be Max. The only difference, Max, I would, because we were having this discussion off air, like how, you know, when the bulls would get into play and I would be like, I don't want to go get just fucking killed by whoever is, you know, actually in the playoffs. The only difference I'd say is the Sixers do have good players.
Like Tyree Smaxi is really good. Paul George, playoff P, Andre Drummond, they have his VJ edge home. That's the guy that like a VJ has has a game that where he looks fucking awesome. That would get me excited.
That would get me. You know what I like about VJ edge home and Maxi too, but Maxi does it every game and it just never enough. So it's like, I feel bad for him because he plays so hard. He plays so well every game, but the team just isn't good enough.
Besides the dunking, my favorite part about VJ edge home is when he shoots a terrible three and then immediately points at himself. He's like, Hey, that's that one's on me guys. Like when he shoots an air ball, he will let everybody know like, Hey, that's bad. That's that one's my fault.
A lot of accountability for that. Yeah, he's accountable guy. He's not scared of anyone. I got a question to defend the best player.
I got a question. I got a question to defend Jalen Brown. Probably. Yeah.
I have a question. This is for Connor or Zachariah. Would you guys rather play the Sixers or the Celtics? Celtics.
Wow. I can fucking think about this for like two months. He's just thinking about it in the shower. You've been thinking about the shower?
You've been thinking about the shower? You've been thinking about the shower? You've been thinking about every single time. That's hot.
Wow. You just want it bad. I want it. Maxi, are you gonna fucking face?
Are you thinking about the Celtics in the bath? No, I'm not. Yeah, it means it's fired up. The Knicks are coming.
It means it's ready. That was such a difficult game for me to watch last night because I watched and it's like I roofed for my team to win, but it's like in the back of my head, like I would be like, well, if you lose this game, it's not the worst thing. That's where I hate to play it. That's because anyone's in the play and is not a good team.
I wanted to make the playoffs. I just wanted to play the pistons instead of the Celtics. Yeah. I'll see you're scared of Celtics.
Yes. The Celtics have dominated me, dominated me. Why would I think that anything different would happen to and to this year? By the way, you never know.
We talk about the game real quick. The magic are the biggest bummer in the world. Watch that team stinks. They are.
They just play just basketball that's not fun to watch. How like how? Oh, it's so bad. He was like seven for 22.
He just it's like my turn, your turn, offense. Oh, bummer. Bummer team to watch. I don't know what happened to him.
Last year, they were like, they played a fun brand of basketball. They're like, I can't wait to watch this team grow up and continue to get better. And then last night, it was like just ended at halftime. Yeah, I don't know.
It feels like they need like a true distributor. They were close. I'm not saying that the guy like doesn't mean was whapping some some rainbow threes. They kept up.
I'm not saying that the Sixers blew him out when I'm saying is just like it felt like they felt like a bummer, even when they were winning the game and it didn't feel like there's any positive vibes at all coming from Orlando. Yeah, Max, maybe ride the momentum you want to know in the playoffs so far? Yeah, true. It would be awesome playoff game this year.
If it were six or seven game seven, me and my brothers would be my brothers would have to break. We'd have to break the no documentation rule on your bachelor party. We'd have to. We'd have to get some clips out for the people.
The people would demand. Yes, demand clips. Is that the gift from the battle of the bastards? When it's one guy gets like the entire army.
That's that is hanging on the entire Daunty family. Yeah, if there is, if there is, okay, on top, also Johnson, the other day, a quick omission. I said he was south. He was the north.
Oh, okay, nice. Yeah, very much. You just want to support the south. Yeah, if they're if God is an AWL, he will give us this.
He will deliver us this. I'm convinced he is. Yeah, he hated fantasy fuckboys. He hated it.
Okay, other other playing games. But I also wouldn't want to. It's like, I mean, yes, you would. Yes, you would.
Yes, you would. Like it's a national party. I do like Max. Like, I don't have fun.
You want to catch the game seven? It's not going to get the game. Yeah, you're right. All right.
All right. All right. Official predictions for the series. I did put out a poll last night on X.com.
The everything happens till happening on X. And I said, who got Celtic Sixers? I used Hank, your workout picture as a logo for the Celtics and then Max stole patch for the Sixers. Right now, it's at 5050.
It is a perfect split amongst the AWL. So it's so mostly AWLs that voted on this. And yeah, Max 5050. Nobody.
We don't know. Max, you just think about it this way. Just break it down this way. You get one Tyrese Maxi game, you get two Andre Drummond games, and then maybe Impede's back to help chip in a little bit for the VJ Edge come playoff P game.
Yeah, I mean, if you think about it like that, 200 Drummond games, 200 Drummond games can happen. Yeah. I think you get four Maxi games. You might be able to.
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I love Anthony Edwards, four plus threes game one game one on Saturday four plus threes. All right, should we just do Saturday? Should we just plus one four five? Yeah, you want to make it a Saturday parlay?
I've got a very similar bet to that, Hank. I've got James Harden over three and a half threes plus one 65 game one hard game one hard. Yes game one hard. Yeah, I like that a lot.
Okay. And then I'll have my pick. I'm gonna go with you ready for this one. You ready for this one?
It's gonna be Luke Knard 19 points rebounds analysis. Whoa. Okay, he's been he's got it. They don't have guys.
He's got to get some usage. Okay, Max, what's yours? I am going to take. I'm gonna ride my guy.
Drummond? Yeah, you will. Drummond? No, no, we're in Saturday games.
Yeah, it's Saturday game. We'll make it. We'll make a drum and exception. No, we won't make it.
We don't need to do a drum and exception. McAlbridge is 13 plus points. Okay. All right.
That on the draft Kings sports book. Did you see that Luca and Kate Cunningham got a special exemption? So they will be eligible for post season or yeah, post season, not the post season awards. I did see that.
So Luca got his because he had sex. Yeah. And he missed a couple games because he had a kid. Yep.
And then Kate got his because like in the spirit of the rule, he tried his lung collapse. Yeah. He tried to play as much as he could. Correct.
And then did you see that PFT was right, Wimby's game that he had for the NBA Cup championship that counted towards that 65 mark, the stats inside the game do not count for season totals. Really dumb rule. Very dumb rule. I mean, speaking all count or none of the count.
I think Anthony Edwards, he's appealing whether or not his season should count. And then he's I think he got rejected in the first round. So they're going to an appeal of how the hell did he go? I don't know.
It's just like they tried to say that the stars should not sit out games ever. Yeah. And then it just kind of backfired on. So the other playing games, the Warriors Clippers, it was essentially like going to seeing the Rolling Stones in 2026, where you're like, yeah, you know, look, they're old, they're not the same.
But the song still rock. Yeah. Draymond locking down Kawhi is awesome. Steph hitting just getting nuclear in the third quarter and then hitting an improbable, but not for Steph three to win the game.
It was awesome. And Steve Kerr even said it after he's like, we felt like ourselves for one night. And I just, like the Warriors aren't going to do anything in the playoffs. But it was a reminder how awesome Steph and Draymond are and how much fun it is to watch them play basketball, especially Steph.
And it's just like, man, I'm going to miss this when it's gone. And Chairs the good old days, but we still got a little bit left. It's pretty amazing at the end. Yeah.
The way that Draymond single handedly won the game on defense at the end, just by locking up Kawhi for the last like two minutes of the game, he did absolutely nothing. And then after the game, I saw Steve Kerr said that Draymond is the best defender that he's ever seen. I mean, he was incredible, but which is like, it's crazy. Yeah.
But it's not. But when you think about the guys that Steve Kerr has been around, I mean, he probably has four of the top, I don't know, analytics, all that stuff. But just off the top of my head, it's probably four of the top 10 or 15 defenders of all time. They played I think so because you got maybe five because you got David Robinson, you got Tim Duncan, you know, you got Dennis Robman, Scottie Scottie, Michael Jordan, I would say Bruce Bowen too, right?
Yeah, but that's it's crazy. So that might have been Bruce Bowen might have been too late for him. But the point stands, which is like, Draymond, is that good at defense? He's incredible.
He put Kawhi in a torture chamber and Kawhi even said it after. He was just like, I couldn't even get a shot up. He admitted it. So the Clippers, listen, I think he just got to have one more year with Kawhi and just see how it goes.
They are since Kawhi, the last five seasons, Kawhi on the Clippers, 2022 missed the playoffs. I know there's injuries and all this weird shit that happens. 22 missed the playoffs, 23 lost in first round, 24 lost in first round, 25 lost in first round, 26 missed the playoffs. Got to give it one more year.
Maybe it will work. It's going to be really interesting to see what happens with the NBA's investigation too. Yeah, because we have no idea what the outcome of that's going to be. It could be bad.
Thank Kawhi is a perfect example of make sure if you're if you're a really, really good basketball player, you know, one of the best of this generation, just make sure you win your rings early enough that people can you're unassailable because the last five years have not been great. But then you just like, yeah, he was what he did with the Raptors, what he did with the Smursey, one final MVP is like, you can't, he is a playoff killer. He just hasn't been the Raptors. That really made it that defined his career.
It's like you can you can never say that shot. You remember that shot? That was crazy. That was crazy.
That was an absolutely crazy shot. The craziest part though about last night, and it was it was so much fun again to watch Stefan dream on to do their thing. The Clippers losing that game, they now forfeit their pick to the thunder and the thunder have a 7% chance to move into the top four. Great.
Good. There's a world where the Oklahoma City Thunder could have the number one pick in the NBA draft. Great. That's all from the Paul George trade, which is maybe one of the worst trades of all time.
And Silver wants to fix the NBA just just just take over some of the thunder picks for the good of the league. And this is the last pick swap, like part of the Paul George trade. But if you thought it was over, I'm pretty sure the Thunder have another one with the Clippers next year because it's James Hart. Can we do the one lottery send real quick?
It's crazy. They also have the six first round pick this year. Oh, man. It's in the balls.
The walk the bucks walk in the pelicans. Okay. Where's jazz jazz? Dallas.
That would be not right. Yeah. I take that. It was bulls number four.
Whiz number one. I'd sign up for that right now. Oh, bulls number two. The bulls also got the big play in game night for the bulls on Tuesday night because Kobe White was like, as much as the bulls, I was so happy they weren't in the play in.
It's like, hey, let's make sure that we have our fingers all over this because Kobe White making a huge three for the Hornets and then the blazers winning and then they give the pick to the bulls. The bulls now have two first riders. Yeah. So that's a big win.
But the Hornets game was awesome. I do think I think LaMell ball should be suspended. Okay. I think that it's good that we're talking about it.
Yeah, but it was so dirty. It was very dirty play. I don't think you should be suspended. I think slap on the wrist for now.
Here's why I think you should be suspended. I think it should always be like, bam, went out for the game. Right. But you can't base a suspension on like what happens after you do the thing, can you?
No, my rules. Yes. In my rules, it's hockey. If there's blood, yes, it's it.
In my rules, if you injure, if you injure a player with a dirty play, you are out for as long as that player's out. But what if you injure a player who's like constantly injured, like Joel and Beat, like, are you going to be like, oh, that's really bad. You got to get your appendix out. You got to have you got to get an emergency surgery.
But what if you do them a favor by injuring their player and then they got an impact, so like I'm going to jump in. Then you do get like one, get out of suspension for your car to get in your body. You guys are great. Like that was incredibly dirty.
It's very dirty. Yeah. It's incredibly incredibly, incredibly dirty. But I also think about this big cat.
If you're if you're looking out for the safety of the greater Charlotte area, you would rather have LaMilla Ball at the game, not out there on the street. True. That's a good point. Also, so entertaining.
Yeah, look, I'm happy the Hornets won. I'm just calling out that exact play. I just there are plays that happen where someone gets injured and you're like, there's nothing they could have done. Yeah, he swept the leg.
You want you want a series of the Hornets much. Oh, yeah. Yeah. No, I'm going to look the other way for the sake of your own entertainment watch.
100% rooting for the Hornets. And they also survived. There's a horrible continental night where you've got benched and the heat or a bummer. They're going to pat Riley.
I think said they're going to go and try to find a find a guy this year who'll be the their their number one player. I mean the one option to heat have been just like playing way. I'd say like way above where they should be even by making the playing games all these years. Like they have not had a good roster.
No, but then and then the blazers big win for the blazers taking down Colton's sons blazers are fun too. They got some fun young players. Then he I didn't like that our friend Tommy Alter had that had that interview with Denny. Did you see that clip where Denny's like, yeah, I was shocked.
The Bulls didn't take me. They took Patrick Williams instead and no one knew who that was. No, I didn't see that and then then he went away and dropped a 40 piece in the playing game. Yeah, he's awesome.
Denny's a good player, former wizard. I'm okay with trading Denny way though. Yeah, we both fucked that. We both fucked up Denny.
We had him and then we were like, okay, we'll try to build around Denny for a little bit. Yeah. And I think I actually think that Denny might be like the perfect guy to get you to that seven seat if he's your main guy. Do you guys want to do what Memes were you laughing at?
You know, give a fuck about the wizard. I would like the wizard to be good. You can't build around that guy. Can you?
No, that's what I'm saying. I don't mind that trade. Dude next year at this time. Memes were saying the same thing.
We had we had him and then now people are retroactively looking at the wizards getting rid of him and being like, oh, they fucked that up. I'm fine with getting rid of him. I'm okay with the same guy that we couldn't remember his name. I'm fine with retroactively saying the Patrick Williams was a bad pick.
We all knew kind of at the time and then giving him an extension was even worse. I have a question for PFT Henry. This time fast forward one year from today. What seed are the wizards going into the playoffs?
I think we're going to be the fun play in team. Nice. We're going to be the whole of the Davis and Trey young. Yeah, the fun young play in team.
Yeah, young, very young. Anthony David. I did. It was very funny.
Listen to Anthony Davis and like his exit interview this year. They asked him like if he wanted to play in DC next year, he's like, you know, I'm encouraged by some things, but I want to see like more about what the plan is going to be. Anthony Davis is the he's like the main part of the plan. Yeah.
Like we that's a guy that you plan around. Correct. Now I'm planning around him being healthy. I think he I think he's going to turn it all around.
I think next year is the year that he puts it all together and stays he's able to get out there and play that 65 games and make him eligible for an award. But yeah, with a high draft pick, I think with the young core, I will be a wizards fan, but they have to earn my trust in my fandom. And at this point, I don't think that it's a plan game would warn that. Yeah, you can call me a fair weather fan.
I would probably agree with you that I'm maybe even worse than a fair weather fan, but I think it's deserved with that franchise. Like I'd be I'd be fucking insane if I watched every single wizards game. How many people out there have watched every wizards game this season and then out of that group, how many of them have what you would call a well adjusted constructive life? Probably zero, right?
No same person watches every wizards game nor should they. Yeah, I'm not going to put myself or subject myself to even watching half their games or quarter their games until they show that they have a winning product or at least a product that can get exciting. And I think that with Anthony Davis, Trey young, Trey Johnson, Bob Carrington, sorry, that's a good young core at in a hydraulic next year will be like the eight sounds like you're a little scared. I want Boston next year.
Do you guys want to do a little embrace debate that's probably the dumbest thing that I've ever come across? Well, at least for, let's say in the last month, because I come across a lot of dumb shit. It reminded me of member of the old, you loved it, PFD, the body forum debate when the week how many days in the week? How many bodybuilding.com?
How many week days in the week? Yeah, the this is this is mind-numbing, but maybe I'm maybe I'm stupid. You ready for this? So this is from Jacob Gremena.
He he he screenshotted a comment that was talking about an NBA team and he said that this person, Dirt Slayer 123 said, hates a nitpick because I like the content plenty, but 46 and 36 is only five games above 500, not 10. And then there was an entire discussion. The Raptors were 46 and 36 this year. That's is that 10 games above 500 or five games above 500.
And people were actually arguing that it's five games above 500. Are you my crazy? If they had lost five, if they'd lost, how many wins do you say 46? They're 46.
So they thought experiment. If they had lost five of those games of the 46 games that they won, would their record be 41 and 41? Or would it be 41 and 36? Right.
But 10 games above like that's 10 games above 500. I think it might be a basketball baseball debate. Baseball, you never say you would say you're 10 games above 500. If there's 82 games in a season, what would 50 50 be?
41 and 41. So if you add five games to 41. So this actually is not how you say it. So this is really a thing, I guess.
I'm on. I'm on yours. You say 10 games. You say 10 games, 500.
You're if you lose the next 10 games, you didn't give me 500. You're very good. 10 games above 500. Not answer my thought experiment.
No, I get what you're saying because the season's over, but you're 10 games above 500. If you're 20 and 10, are you 10 games above 500 or you five games above 500? If the outcome of five of those games have been different, you would be five. So this is what some of the dumb people in the courts are arguing.
It's mine. I'm 100% just just being a dickhead about it. No one in history has ever said that you're five games above. A lot of people are here is my favorite exchange.
This guy replied, if they had lost five more games, you're arguing. If they lost five more games, it'd be 41 and 41. So five games above 500. And they replied, if they lost five games, it'd be 46 and 41.
They go back and forth. And someone said, by this logic, a 41 and 40 team is a half game under 500. And he and the person replied, that's right. That part just fucked me up.
Like if you're nine and eight in an NFL season, you're one game, you're one game above 500. Yes. So that's the same thing. The same line.
So I agree with that. If you're 41 and 40, yeah, and you lost and you flipped a loss for a win for a loss, you'd be a half game. Okay. No, the person said that's right.
Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Now he replied, so a team with one more win than a loss would be under 500, even though they quite literally won more games than they lost. So now we're getting into some metaphysical shit, because you could say in the Raptors case, if they didn't have 46 wins, let's say they were missing five of those wins.
That could also be because those games never happened. It could be because the games weren't played, then they would be 41 and 36, meaning at that point, they're five games above 500. I guess the absence of a win does not necessarily indicate the presence of a loss. It's the dumbest argument.
Like I said, I happened upon it and I was I bookmarked because I was like, holy shit, this is this is incredible. I do think and I think I know you're trolling. I think it's serious. I think you actually think it's five games above 500.
Thanks. Never been that position because this team's always win. The it really is comes down to Max. Don't you agree?
It comes down to like baseball fans versus basketball, like baseball fans, you would never say anyone. Yeah, no, I don't think I don't think there are so many people who are saying this in here. Those people are it's crazy. They just have never talked about records before.
It's crazy. They're all saying it. And they said there's one guy said I'm calling it five games above 500. I thought that was pretty standard.
A 10 to no team is not 10 games above 500. That's silly. Yes, they are. Yeah, they are.
I I like to think that there's a lot of trolling going on that thread, but there's a lot of serious this. I'm going to have to inject my argument that you threw out there is what people are actually going with. They're like, Oh, well, wins become losses. So then you're only five games above it.
That's how exactly how you would argue it. If you were more on, yeah. Okay. Other stories before we get to our interviews, talk some NHL playoffs and we have Francisco Lindor Hank, would you like to comment on Live Golf?
Yeah, the Mexico City Open is is this week. It's a big event. Price and shame. I was looking to become the first player in Live Golf history to win three events in a row.
So history in the making. Yeah. Okay. Comments for real.
Wars, man. Wars bad. Okay. Wars bad.
Go on. War is destroying Live Golf League. That's the real problem with we're not the lives lost. Yeah, I mean, live lives are being lost.
Yeah, the lives are being lost. Yeah. How many lives is it going to take until we say until we say no more? Like Hank, what do you think about Hank is that guy in Tiananmen Square standing in front of the tank?
There was an element of like fake news yesterday, by the way. Oh, yeah. So, so go for it. He's a great follow very like dedicated.
This guy is I think his Twitter name is like Monday Q info, ACE is one of one golf or something, but he he just basically he like follows like you can Monday qualified again to PJ Torvents. He follows the Monday qualifiers, like reports on it talks to like corn fairy guys and is like very, very into the weeds of golf and qualifying for these events. Yeah. He was the one that broke it.
He was like, I have insight sources that are saying live is is ending and you know, if like take the under basically on like whatever you heard, like it's ending soon and he said that in Twitter spaces, then it felt like throughout the rest of the day the golf and like all media aggregate accounts just started posting that as fact. So then everyone was just like, live golf is over. Like that was the sentiment. Now you I mean, I was like, this seems bad because it's like I saw it from him, not confirmed confirmed.