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It was a little too. A little too much pressure. Our email, if you want to reach us casuals@katiengmail.com. our voicemail 6468010043 on IG and Tik Tok, we are at Casuals, the podcast. Lots to talk about today. Lots happened in sports over the weekend. We're going to get to all of it. We've got an all time buzzer beater in the men's March Madness tournament. We've got great news in the nwsl, but then also some sad news for the wnba. Tiger woods is Tiger Woodzing and a little bit of baseball in there today. But we do have Sarah Wilson, AKA Swilly from John Boy. She's our guest for the episode later in the week. So we're gonna put off a little bit of baseball. I know things are very exciting and there's a lot to talk about with abs and stuff. I think we'll get to most of that in the episode that's coming later in the week. For today, let's stick to this stuff and we'll start off with a yap. Today's yap. This audio is being released on March 31, so it still holds true that it is not yet April Fool's Day. There were a couple of headlines I bumped into over the weekend that had me checking the calendar because, you know, we reached that time of the year where you see a story and you go, what? And then your brain goes, hey buddy, check the calendar. It's probably April 1st. That happened to me like three different times this weekend. So I figured we would compile a bunch of headlines, more than three to go through to remind you that no, these are not April Fool's jokes. So if you're listening to this, these are real headlines, despite what you may have thought when you originally scrolled past them. First, the Vegas Golden Knights have fired Bruce Cassidy, their head coach, and instead they're going to hire John Tortorella. With with eight games left in the season now, little parts of this headline could make sense, right? We're not shocked that Bruce Cassidy's being fired by Vegas. I would say the timing of it is kind of shocking. Eight games left to go. They entered Sunday third in the Pacific Division, six points behind the first place Anaheim Ducks, but four points ahead of the LA Kings for the final divisional playoff spot. So they are very much still in the conversation. They been having a hard time as of late. I think they've lost six of their last seven, including the last three in a row. So it's not like things were going well. But to fire your head coach, who you'll remember in 2023 won the Stanley cup there in Vegas. To fire your head coach and hire John Tortorella feels nuts with eight games to go in a season. Obviously they hope, I guess, that he's going to sort of light a fire under their butts, their GM Kelly McCrimmon said in a statement. With the stretch turn of the 2025, 26 regular season upon us, we believe that a change is necessary to return to the level of play that is expected of our clubs. And listen, John Tortorell is a storied coach. I believe he was the first American born coach in the NHL to win 500 games. I remember that was like a heated race. He's coached for the Lightning. He got, he brought them a Stanley cup in 04. Then he went to the Rangers, then, then the Canucks, then the Blue Jackets. And then last he we heard from him, he was with the Phillies, I mean, sorry, the Flyers, the Philadelphia Flyers, they fired him in 2025. So this is the first time he's coaching since then. Isabella, I wanted to give you just a little bit of context for John Torella of why this feels like a kind of a wild choice, some of the trouble that he's gotten in throughout his career. So in 2009, it was the playoffs, he was coaching for the Rangers. It was game five against the Washington Capitals, okay. And behind the bench was, it was like a rowdy group of Capitals fans. John Tortorella threw a water bottle at them and then tried to take a stick and spear them through the glass and got suspended for. He got suspended for one.
