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Dan Bernstein
Dan Bernstein Unfiltered Unfiltered on 312Sports it's DBU on 3. 1, 2. We are brought to you in partnership with my bookie and brought to you today by Chicago Window guys and Russ Armstrong. He's the owner and it makes things easy when you can call him and he's in charge of everything. 847-302-9171. Check out his five star reviews at ChicagoNowguys.com I'm really bummed about the death of Stacy king at age 59, reportedly at this point from a fall in his home. And it, it really sunk in, you know, talking to when I had to send, you know, Jason a message overseas and realizing that he doesn't know another bull's voice. Mm, he doesn't. That's his whole life as a Bulls fan. He's 21 years old. His entire life as a Bulls fan. The voice providing the, the fun and the color and the energy and the instruction which we're going to get to has been that of Stacy King going all the way back as long as we can remember it, as long as I could find pictures of us watching bulls together. When he's, I remember when he was pretending to be Kirk Heinrich and he, and he, and he went back in the basement, he hit his head on the granite countertop Accidentally because he was doing the Heinrich backpedal. And he was so short that he could hit his head and the counter at the wet bar.
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Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Well, it's good thing he had that helmet on, right? He.
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Dan Bernstein
And when, when Luol Deng had the broken wrist or the strained ligaments in his wrist and he had that black tape on that when we were watching the games, Jason would tape his own wrist up like Lu all dang. And he's like, send that to Lou all day. I want to show him. So I said it on Twitter and even getting a little smiley face emoji back, just, just maybe it was, it was the voice of Stacy King the entire time. And I, this is one of my biggest hopes here. First of all, it's just, I'm just terribly sad. I'm, I'm, I'm just sad. I'm sad for my friends. I'm sad for everybody who knows him better than I do. It's. I'm sad for Adam Amin. I'm sad for Mark Schinowski. I'm sad for everybody in the Bulls family because Stacy was, in a lot of ways, a larger than life presence, physically and spiritually. The guys, he was just, you knew you were around him. He was so gregarious and just liked people. He liked being around people. He never took basketball too seriously. But I will say this. And what's important to me as we remember him or begin to remember him, what's important to me is that we don't lose sight of the fact that amid the catchphrases and amid the emotion and the joking and the singing, the nationwide jingle and all that was a really solid basketball mind and very respectable basketball sensibilities. And if you're paying attention, you could learn a lot. He made you a smarter basketball fan, as big a homer as you could be. He never flinched when it came to criticizing the Bulls. And trust me, I watch way more televised Bulls basketball and have my entire life than a lot of people do. And I, and I know among, even among my circle of friends, the subset of people who watch a lot of Bulls basketball. I know who I can text. I know who's going to be watching. And Stacy was never shy about criticizing bad Bulls basketball. I mean, I'll remember the Denzel Valentine call on that three pointer as much as I'm going to remember the, the Derrick Rose Duncan on Dragic.
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Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
I'm going to remember I heard that a lot.
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Dan Bernstein
Oh, yeah. I mean, there's so many great calls. And I'm going to remember when he would, during The Boyland era, the stuff about, about Robert Ori and Luke Cornett being Robert Ori. Luke Cornett turned a nice player being Robert or what some of those reactions, how much fun when he and Adam would, would get off on a tangent in the middle of another some, you know, some lost basketball game. I thought especially, and I, and I called this out when we were talking to Adam, that he and Stacy did really, really good work at the end of this year.
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Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Yeah, you said that a lot. You said that it was like a Bulls podcast happening during the game when
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Dan Bernstein
it, when, when they were starting to talk about the direction of the franchise, where they wanted to go, what it, what it meant to see other teams developing. Young, athletic, above the rim, multi talented players, the ability to switch a lot of different screens. Stacy really knew the game. And I. The quick anecdote I've told before, but, but I'm gonna tell it again today about really what made sort of Stacey unforgettable and larger than life to me was that when we were in college over the summer, we used to play pickup games at multiplex in Deerfield, right at the corner of Lake Cook and Waukegan Road. I think it's now the Sacks Center. I believe that's where the SCI were practicing before. But pre Berto center, before that giant fortress of the Berno center was built, the Bulk Machine Center Bulls practiced at the multiplex. And we'd, we'd play out there and they were all in like a little private area in the back. And one time after practice, Stacy walked out. These are the champion Bulls, the first three Pete Bulls, they were already a huge thing. And Stacy comes out, he was doing some work on the, in the back court there. We're running cross court, four on fours, and like, hey, it's Stacy King. Hey, Stacy. Hey. And he comes over, it's like, all right, here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna run some stuff. We're gonna run some Bull. Like what? He's like, yep, we want to learn triple post offense. Like, hell yeah. So he's, okay, you're over there. You're, you're.
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Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
We're, we're.
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Dan Bernstein
This is my team. You're gonna play defense. I'll switch it up later. And he took, I don't know, 15, 20 minutes out of his day. He just finished up his own work. And he comes over and he shows us pinch post. And it's like, okay, that's. Those are the pinch post actions. Here's the split post action. And like, okay, this is open action. This is. If you had a flex cut. Oh, okay. And it demystified a lot of this stuff. It was so funny because as we're doing, we're doing split post. And he's like, okay, you see this? And here's show it over here. Now, if you like, if you clear, I can make this pass and I'm going to turn you to say, no, don't turn over that shoulder. You want to turn over this shoulder because it's a shorter path. Like, okay. And he says, now, if I. If I can get it here. If you're the weak side baseline cutter, you've got an alley oop. They said, trust me, Stacy Ginsburg does not have an alley oop. He might have something, but you can lob it up there. But he's just going to say, oh, there's a basketball up there. So it was. It was just really fun to how. Seeing it through their eyes of what the geometry was of thinking, I'm here, I'm here. Not even looking. Like, looking at the corner of the. Of the backboard for where you want to put the ball was not something that we knew in our basic basketball vocabulary, but it was. I really remember that. Just something on. He didn't have to do. Nobody asked him to do it. He wasn't paid to do it. He just did. And the anecdotes about him when he says on Twitter something, yeah, come down before the game and I'll give you a picture. He follows through on all that stuff. It's my daughter's birthday. She's a huge fan. She made us sign, bring her down before the game. There's a line of people there. He related to children wonderfully. And that says something about you When. When kids naturally like you. That's. I don't. It's. It means something, and it means he. Because he's. He smiles. He is this sort of larger than life. He can be silly. He could be. He could be serious. And he was. He's going to be nearly impossible to replace. It's. It's a. It's a. He leaves a large space right now. He leaves a huge void that is going to be very difficult to fill. And that's. That is a discussion for another time. That's. It's not important right now. What's important is grieving the loss of somebody who had a huge presence in. In the Bulls family.
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Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Yeah. For me, Dan, Stacy will always be. I'll think of Stacy Moore as a player because. And I'll be honest during his broadcast time, I've been more of a fair weather Bulls fan and better seasons and playoff time, so respected all the work that he's done and what he brought to the broadcasts as, as a really smart former player. But I, I think of Stacy as a player during the, the 90s when I was all locked in on watching Michael and, and his, his Bulls win championships. Stacy though it would. There's two things that impacted me and you mentioned it with Jason, that he was the voice of Jason's Bulls fandom. Our guy Cody put out a, a post about Stacy's passing and, and he said those words that he was the voice of the Bulls for him and Cody's a 35 year old guy, Jason's 21. That, that impacted me, that meant a lot and I, I can relate to that with other people and other sports in my life that were the voices of my teams. I learned baseball by listening to Steve Stone, you know, I mean, so that was impactful. To read what Cody said about that, that was impactful to hear you say that about your son, that's impactful.
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Dan Bernstein
But it's so funny, coincidentally he's texting me as we speak. It's what, it's 10, it's seven hours later where he is.
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Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Yeah.
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Dan Bernstein
And out of nowhere he just said, still can't believe Stacy died. I'm devastated.
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Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Yeah.
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Dan Bernstein
And on Wednesday we'll talk about that and you know, it's going to be a different perspective, but we'll talk about that on OWC Wednesday.
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Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Yeah, but to hear, to hear that, it's, it's really meaningful to hear that about his, his work as a broadcaster. For me, I go back to being a college student at Moody and getting press credential credentials and going to the Berto center. And I mean we, they, these guys, they gave us so much time and attention. Bj, Corey Blunt, John Paxton, Stacy King took pictures with us, you know, which
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Dan Bernstein
you're not supposed to do with a press credential, not supposed to do.
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Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
But we didn't care. We were college students and we weren't trying to be serious about it. We were, we were over the moon that we were there and we got to go to Hallis hall. But Stacy gave us so much time and took photos with us and it was just, he couldn't have been nicer. And the way he treated us, me and my buddy Craig, he treated us like we were 20 year veterans in Chicago media covering the NBA, you know, and he just, he really deferred to us. It was, it Was incredible. I'll never forget the way he acted towards us, you know, and a lot of those guys, the guys names I just mentioned were too kind with their time, but Stacy went above and beyond and he had absolutely no reason to do it. And I'll never, ever. I gotta find the picture of it. It's somewhere in my pictures. But I'll never forget that experience, that moment with him. But I. I don't. I. It's not for me, a broadcaster thing. It's a player and a guy that I had a personal connection with, even though it was a very small, you know, fleeting moment. That's something I'll never forget, never have.
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Dan Bernstein
The very last Rockford Lightning game I ever attended was the championship game against Dave Yeager's Dakota Wizards that Stacy King coached. And Stacy coached the Lightning to the championship. It was a single game championship game. And that's when Dickie Simpkins was actually the starting center on Lightning. And Dakota was good. They had. You remember Miles Simon from Arizona when they won the national championship?
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Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Dan Bernstein
Undersized guard.
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Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Yes.
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Dan Bernstein
One of those little tweener types who probably was. Might. Might have found some footing in the league now in a. In a different way than the. The way it was played then. But I. I went to that game.
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Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
He's 50 years old, Dan.
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Dan Bernstein
Who? Miles Simon.
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Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Miles Simon. Jesus. Yes.
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Dan Bernstein
We're old, dude.
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Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
I don't like it.
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Dan Bernstein
I'm gonna be 57 in two weeks.
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Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Oh, he was born in Stockholm. I didn't know that.
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Dan Bernstein
Miles Simon was.
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Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Yeah.
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Dan Bernstein
Wow.
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Dan Bernstein
That came full circle. But the. I remember going to that game and feeling happy for Rockford basketball because I invested three years and trying to build it up and being their PR guy and being the biggest Rockford Lightning fan and supporter and trying to make everyone out there trying to sell group tickets and trying to sell sponsorships and ads in the printed program. And I sold. I sold the blimp. I sold the indoor blimp to Butita Brothers Auto. I remember that one. But it was. I. It was. It was a proud moment that the Lightning were in the championship and Stacy King was coaching him. And I went and I saw him before the game a sat courtside with a couple of old NBA scout buddies, you know, watching some of the guys there. And Stacy could coach this. This was not just a guy like he. He probably. I think if he wanted to, he could have been a really coachy analyst. But I do think the one thing that Mark Brady helped develop in Stacey was knowing. Finding the balance between the silly and the fun and the catchphrases phrases. And the way is. My poster machine is hot sauce. Yeah. You create a literal hot sauce and a whole podcast around it. I'll say this too, that, that for a while, OWC and Give Me the Hot Sauce were sort of sister podcast together under the the Odyssey banner with Odyssey 2400 Sports. And they. They since went on and moved the podcast to a different network. Obviously we now have that our podcast going to. But there was a time when it was, you know, Stacy and Mark, and we were talking about doing some crossover stuff between the pods, but he created a real big footprint for himself with a lot of that and had a very solid understanding of what that meant from a personal marketing and branding position to have the bully pulpit to say, give me the hot sauce. Does anybody know how to post videos to Facebook? I mean, you still do some of that stuff. And, And I can't believe it's gone. I can't believe for somebody that vital at 59, it's unfair. It's unfair. And my sympathy and my condolences go out to everyone for whom he's important, whether personally or from an audience relationship perspective. It just really sucks. And I can't even begin. And I haven't really begun to start thinking about how they fill those enormous shoes because it's a. It's a. It's a big void. It's a. It creates a large empty space in the world of, Of Bulls fans right now at a transitional time for the organization in general. So rest in peace, Stacy King. It's. It's. It's too bad. And I'm. I'm very, very sad about it. I'm very sad about it. It's. I don't know. I. I hope that his. His friends and family can emerge from this, find some kind of. Of peace. It's hard. And, you know, I was talking to someone last night and, you know, I hate having to say this all the time, but these, these. Life is very, very special and very, very short, and we shouldn't need reminders and the whole. Keeping it in perspective, because the whole point of this is to not have to have things to always keep in perspective. And that means tell your loved ones you love them, give people hugs, be nice to people, and, you know, most of the time, at least it's me we're talking about here. So. And, and know that every. Everybody's going through something. Everybody's got something. Just take. Take a. Take a deep breath. Give people a little bit of grace. It's hard out there, man. And this is. These are. Even when things are hard, these moments are really, really precious
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Dan Bernstein
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Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
I.
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Dan Bernstein
It's.
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Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
No, it is. You're right about that, Dan. But I've got to disagree that if you think that the regular, average, everyday Knicks fan isn't going to claws, scratch, do whatever they need to do to get a way to watch this team.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, but they're. They've been outside.
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Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
I know, I know, I know, I know.
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Dan Bernstein
I mean, they're five grand for a ticket to get in the building. It's like 43 grand to sit courtside.
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Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
I know, man. I mean, I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna take that much away from Knicks fans from doing whatever they need to do to make it happen.
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Dan Bernstein
Selling kidneys. Oh, man.
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Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Selling kids.
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Dan Bernstein
Selling children. Selling other people's kidneys, Harvesting other people's kidneys to sell them. Yeah. Knicks fans might be on this, but that's only part of it. When we're trying to anticipate and it's all stupid, it's all ridiculous. And I'm doing this tongue in cheek.
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Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
I know, I know.
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Dan Bernstein
For the most part, obviously, because it's hard. Not otherwise you go crazy. Oh, you can't.
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Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
You can't take it too serious because, yeah, it's happening.
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Dan Bernstein
Here, here is. And maybe this is stuff that I can say that other people can't, but this is another truth to when we're talking about who's going to be represented in that building. If you're talking about people who can find the money for a ticket in New York, first of all Knicks fans, then of those Knicks fans, people who have the money or can find the money. And then it obviously depends. You're not talking about the, the upper level. If you're talking about who the lower level is, what you're going to see and maybe hear, because that's where the mics are. So you're talking about what the prices are in that level. 10 grand for what? For the area that would. You'd actually probably hear better.
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Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Yeah. What? One seat down there is probably equivalent to one month's rent in New York.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, yeah.
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Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
12 grand.
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Dan Bernstein
The rent is too damn high.
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Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Yes, it is.
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Dan Bernstein
But here's the thing, though, of that subset, you're going to have a disproportionate number politically of single issue Israel voters. This is New York. No matter what they think about everything else, you're going to have a disproportionate number of people at this game who are, who could easily be single issue Israel voters. I'm not one of them. I want to be very clear about that. That. No, thank you. That crowd is not for me.
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Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Okay. Yeah, I get where you're going here.
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Dan Bernstein
You know what I mean? So that's, I would just think that's a mitigating factor in what we might. And I'm not going to get hung up on time.
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Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Let's leave it at that.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, leave it at that. But the, but the, the, the basketball for me is fascinating right now. The basketball itself is, is, is really interesting. I did not expect Karl Anthony Towns to play like this. I didn't expect the. And you know what? I think this was brought up. Richard Jefferson might have said this in the last game and I, I was watching and thinking back on it, I may agree with him. Do we have the referees for tonight, by the way? It's just the Scott Foster crew again, if it's the Scott Foster, Jim Capers crew or the Tony Brothers crew. Because I thought, I thought Tony let it slip a little like he's great ref. I just, I thought that it wasn't quite as tight with the consistency of officiating.
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Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
It was not. You're correct.
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Dan Bernstein
It just, it just, it didn't feel like they had the same kind of handle on the game that The. The Foster and Capers crew had. But at one point, I think Richard Jefferson noted it's great that we celebrate playoff physicality and that there are. This was. There was some 90s shit going on in the last couple games. It was maybe too physical.
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Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
All right, here's the. The assignments for tonight. The crew chief is Mark Davis.
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Dan Bernstein
Okay.
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Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
John Goble.
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Dan Bernstein
Oh.
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Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Curtis Blair and Nick Butcher.
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Dan Bernstein
All right. Different crew. I will be interested to see how the consistency of the officiating what constitutes a fellow and what doesn't because they are bumping, holding, punching, tackling. I don't it. As long as we know that it's murder ball out there. Seriously, like, if that's when you want to sit courtside, when you're seeing the impacts and hearing the impacts, where every screen is an ordeal, where every shot that goes up, Wemby's got elbows in his neck and they are punishing him and they're being allowed to. It's happening both ways. Kelton Johnson is just, you know, trying to run over everybody, run through everybody, too. But at some point, a foul's a foul, and I'd love to see some freedom of movement rather than this grabby, like late 80s, early 90s stuff. I don't want to. Anybody's been saying they don't play defense anymore. You know, these people haven't stopped. Haven't been, you know, watched a game for 35 years and it's like top three pointers, they don't play defense. They don't. It's not the way it used to be. If anything, it has been too physical because it started out all right, but it's. It's. It's getting more than grabby. It's there. There's no room to operate. And sure, it's because they're bigger and longer and more interchangeable and more switchable. But one thing I wouldn't mind seeing tonight from the spurs would be increasing the distances of their sets because I think their young players have enough speed in Castle, Harper. Harper under used in this series. He's fearless, man.
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Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
That dude is so good, man.
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Dan Bernstein
Fearless. He's 22. I know he's 22. Fearless. And I think that there's an. That if they just open. Open their angles a little bit, pull everything back a couple steps instead of being so tightly packed, make some of the Knicks defenders cover more distances, make it harder to help and get back and give your fast players more Runway. Give your fast guys pull it back a little bit. Because if you're in that tight, your Speed doesn't matter as much. I would like to. I would like a little wider angles on everything. Sort of like when, you know, when a pass rush will move their edge defenders out to take advantage of their speed and in the, you know, eight technique or nine technique and allow them to get a little more of. They're further away, but they get much more of an angle to use. To use their speed. I think some of the young legs and the relentless athleticism of especially a guy like Castle and his rebounding and what he can do and the space that he can cover because Wemby. Wemby's long enough that he can. He isn't going to be hindered. It's like, oh, I'm. I'm another half astride. I can cover 10ft to go get to the basket from here. So it's. There are some fascinating tactical possibilities tonight that interest me greatly.
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Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Now, we, we talked about it before the series started, about what the Knicks offensively would do with Jalen Brunson, if they would use Wemby's guy to do some kind of, you know, screen. And, you know, we talked about and debated the, the, the pros and cons of going both ways, kind of separating Jalen from Wemby on the floor.
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Dan Bernstein
Right. But.
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Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
But what have you seen in the first couple games and how they've approached that?
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Dan Bernstein
Well, it's. If they, what they're. What I found interesting is if they're able to get Wemby away, how hard they work to keep him from getting back to the basket.
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Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Yes.
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Dan Bernstein
Like, that's what's. It's so much of the Gore Tot screening and so much of the, the plowing away after the, after an initial screen is set, you'll see Cat and you'll see Mitchell Robinson. Then, like the Gortat screen is a way where you almost pretend like you're posting up, but you're actually pushing your guy away from the basket to give Brunson more space. And that's what you're seeing. It's referred to as the Marcin Gortat screen because the Polish hammer, when he was in Washington, popularized some of this. It's a European move where a big man will in. In where it looks like, oh, give me the ball, give me the ball, give me the ball. I've got my man on my back. You're actually moving backward, pushing, pushing, pushing ceiling, and you seal Wemby out of there. So keep an eye on what happens after the ball Screen does the big. Then position himself in A way to create more room for Brunson to go to work.
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Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Yeah. What I've been really impressed with watching Brunson to these first couple games, and I know he's. This has been what he does, but haven't watched a whole ton of Knicks basketball. But when he. He looks like he shouldn't get a good shot off by the position of his body. Yeah. And he does. And that's.
- [33:21]
Dan Bernstein
That's what he does.
- [33:22]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
The positioning of his body doesn't impact his mechanics or his release of the basketball. And it's like, that shouldn't be that good of a shot. Why is that shot that good of a shot? His body's not in the right position.
- [33:33]
Dan Bernstein
His shoulders are. Even if his waist is pointing the wrong way.
- [33:37]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Everything. It's really. It's really fascinating.
- [33:40]
Dan Bernstein
He. He breaks. What you're taught in basketball is always look at the belt buckle. Never look at the eyes. Don't look at the feet, Always look
- [33:48]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
at the belt buckle.
- [33:49]
Dan Bernstein
Because you. A body cannot move without the belt buckle being pointed where you're going. But when he stops and shoots very often, his upper body, his shoulders are going to rotate in a way where he's getting stuff off and moving laterally and then being able to stop and pop immediately.
- [34:10]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Yeah.
- [34:11]
Dan Bernstein
Some of the hallways, the hierarchy fall away.
- [34:13]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
That's. That's really what. That's where you see it a lot is. Is a nose. And it's weird because, like, his shoulders and as in his hips, they. They look like, you know, the one actor who's got, like, he's got two eyes going different directions all the time. The one older guy.
- [34:26]
Dan Bernstein
I can't.
- [34:26]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
I'll find it. What movie was in. But it's like his.
- [34:29]
Dan Bernstein
Vincent Schiavelli.
- [34:30]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Yeah.
- [34:30]
Dan Bernstein
Yes.
- [34:30]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Thank you.
- [34:31]
Dan Bernstein
His.
- [34:31]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
His shoulders.
- [34:32]
Dan Bernstein
Hold on a sec. You're making a Jalen Brunson. Vincent Schiavelli.
- [34:37]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Because his hips and his. His hips and his shoulders are, like, looking two different directions.
- [34:42]
Dan Bernstein
That's the guy from Ghost. Is that the guy you're talking about?
- [34:44]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Yes. It's like, hey, okay, are you running left or running right? Because your shoulders are going one way, your hips are going another. What's happening?
- [34:51]
Dan Bernstein
Yeah, it's. That's what you stand in front of,
- [34:53]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
trying to talk to the guy, and you're like, hey, are you over here?
- [34:55]
Dan Bernstein
I'm over here.
- [34:56]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Here.
- [34:56]
Dan Bernstein
I'm over here. I'm over here. You're doing the Rodman
- [35:03]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Dennis.
- [35:04]
Dan Bernstein
I. I can't understand you. I don't know what you're talking About. I'm. But now, see, to me, I'm. I'm gonna fetishize this game tonight, too. I gotta come up with, like, a perfect little dinner. Well, you ruined it.
- [35:15]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
McDonald's was the dinner to go with.
- [35:17]
Dan Bernstein
No, that was. Last night was just right because.
- [35:19]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Because you don't want to take time to cook and. And clean and have to worry about that. You want to. You want something sent, right? Oh, here. Here's what you need. I know what you need. I'm gonna tell you right now.
- [35:29]
Dan Bernstein
Tonight. For tonight.
- [35:30]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
For tonight's dinner. I'm gonna. I'm gonna tell you right now, and you're gonna start thinking about it, and by the time we finish.
- [35:37]
Dan Bernstein
I hope you're right. Fire away.
- [35:40]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
I. If I get the name incorrect, I apologize. But number one, chop suey or where do you go?
- [35:46]
Dan Bernstein
Well, they're different things sometimes. Number one, chop suey because they have crispy ducks and they have shrimp toast. But Wassun is my main house of Wasan.
- [35:57]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
House of what? That's what you need tonight. You need delivery. That's what you need. You need Chinese takeout.
- [36:04]
Dan Bernstein
So that means. That means barbecue pork chow fun. Yep. And Szechuan eggplant. Ooh, maybe I get Beth into it and. Because she'll have half the Szechuan eggplant.
- [36:14]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Yeah, that's. That's what you need to order. You don't want to cook. Don't go to the store. Don't worry about cleaning up and making any. Like, you need something delivered to you. That it's going to satisfy you and make your belly happy while your head and your eyes and your brain are very happy watching basketball. Yeah.
- [36:29]
Dan Bernstein
Get on that umami in the.
- [36:31]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
You are. You are welcome.
- [36:32]
Dan Bernstein
You know what I'd like to do, though? What usually makes me feel better? Somebody if they. Because if somebody buys a cameo video from me, I kind of look at that. I'm like, you know, I could do a cameo video, and that. That would cover ordering in tonight. So usually that's sort of my little excuse to work because it's so expensive.
- [36:53]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
No, it is. It is expensive.
- [36:54]
Dan Bernstein
And then you have it.
- [36:56]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Yeah, it's.
- [36:57]
Dan Bernstein
Everything is crazy.
- [36:58]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
It's game three, the NBA finals.
- [37:01]
Dan Bernstein
I know.
- [37:01]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Just do it. Splurge a little bit.
- [37:02]
Dan Bernstein
I know.
- [37:03]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Don't go to the store. Just go order. Order.
- [37:06]
Dan Bernstein
That you should do.
- [37:07]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Yes.
- [37:08]
Dan Bernstein
I think that would make barbecue pork chow fun. Szechuan eggplant, hot and sour soup.
- [37:13]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
I want you to think about that meal in your brain for the rest of this recording, the rest of forward progress. So by the time we're done recording,
- [37:19]
Dan Bernstein
you know how I do this?
- [37:20]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Yes. You're good to go.
- [37:21]
Dan Bernstein
All right. And it's. I've got a lot of. I need the calories because yesterday, six hours. Six hours of house cleaning yesterday.
- [37:31]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Oh, yeah. You cleaned out the basement, right?
- [37:34]
Dan Bernstein
I don't know. She finally wore me down.
- [37:36]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Is that a great feeling, though, when you empty out the house?
- [37:39]
Dan Bernstein
But I agree. She's like. She said, are you going fishing? And I said, I'm gonna go on Saturday. I fished the river Saturday. And she's like, it's supposed to rain tomorrow. She said, please, please, please, can we take a day and just clean all the crap out of the basement closets? I mean, we've been in this house 21 years, and there was stuff there from, like, when Jason was born. And, like, stuff we're moving out of there, stuff we're throwing out in toys and plastic. And I made five dumpster runs. Five. Never want to have the dumpster runs, by the way. Those are bad for you. Go to a doctor if you get the dumpster runs. It's not quite exploding Taint syndrome, but it's.
- [38:17]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
No, but that's what it leads to.
- [38:18]
Dan Bernstein
Yeah, you can. Unchecked, untreated. So I just said, look, we're just going to keep taking it.
- [38:24]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
You.
- [38:24]
Dan Bernstein
I said, you point to something and you say, if this is all garbage, I'm. I'm going to take it upstairs. I'm going to put it in your car. I'm going to drive your dry. Five full SUV seats down.
- [38:37]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Of.
- [38:38]
Dan Bernstein
Of. Of just stuff to be thrown out. Okay. I think we did a really good job confronting the. All of the sentimental stuff. She only cried twice. And we set rules ahead of time. We. We. Before we even started cleaning. We set a ground rules. No yelling at each other. We're going to suspend all, like, basic courtesies of like, please and thank you and all that. That we just for time's sake, that we're just, you know, we're shouting orders at each other. That's fine. But no, no yelling. No getting angry. And then when in doubt, with the sentiment. When in doubt, throw it out.
- [39:20]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Yeah, you should just apply the 90 day rule. If something hasn't moved in 90 days, it's not going to be used. Toss it.
- [39:26]
Dan Bernstein
No, no, no. This is. This is Janice Bernstein's son. I mean, 90 years is close.
- [39:33]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Like, you know. You know, like, very specific holiday decorations that might sit for a time for hot. Yeah. But if Something. So I kind of look at the phone.
- [39:45]
Dan Bernstein
Zoe's first Seder plate that she made.
- [39:47]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Okay.
- [39:47]
Dan Bernstein
You don't need it.
- [39:48]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
You don't need it.
- [39:49]
Dan Bernstein
We threw it in. We hit because we faucet.
- [39:52]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
That kind of stuff.
- [39:53]
Dan Bernstein
You.
- [39:53]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
You ask your adult daughter, do you want this? And if she says no, then you throw it away.
- [39:58]
Dan Bernstein
Well, that's what my parents finally did, is they boxed everything up from, like, my old bedroom and their basement and said, put it in your house. Yeah.
- [40:07]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Either you take it or you throw it away. One of the two things. So I kind of have the garage as my space, and if I look at something like a certain ball or whatever type of sporting equipment that has.
- [40:17]
Dan Bernstein
Oh, we haven't done the sporting equipment yet. We haven't done that.
- [40:20]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
It's gone.
- [40:21]
Dan Bernstein
That's a different project. Yeah.
- [40:23]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Toss, man. Don't be a hoarder.
- [40:24]
Dan Bernstein
Do you know how many baseballs we have?
- [40:28]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
I just. I'm down to buckets of balls. I have two. Two buckets.
- [40:30]
Dan Bernstein
That's it. Okay.
- [40:31]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
One that I actively use. The other one I haven't touched.
- [40:34]
Dan Bernstein
It just. It's like finding another baseball or baseball. And then when you find the blue little. You find the little, like the blue puck.
- [40:47]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
The.
- [40:48]
Dan Bernstein
The mites. Put the lighter puck with the mites use. And I found one of those, and it said, like, yeah, but, Dan, keeping.
- [40:56]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Keeping the physical item doesn't erase your. Your memories.
- [41:01]
Dan Bernstein
I. And I. I felt great afterwards.
- [41:06]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Like, a big house dump is like a nice big.
- [41:09]
Dan Bernstein
You know, it's a dump. It's a. It's a big house dump. And then. And then she and I look at each other like, we got to get out of this house. We. This is way, way, way too much house. But nobody can afford to because everybody's got, like, a 2.9 mortgage rate after all the refis. And look where the rates now. It's like you can't even. Even. All our neighbors whose kids are all grown. It's like, we'd love to move on with our lives.
- [41:36]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Yeah. Because is it over 7 now? What is it? It's.
- [41:39]
Dan Bernstein
Whatever it is, it ain't 2.9 or wherever we are with it. It's a ridiculously low number. So you're every stuck. And then the people who are, you know, Zoe's age or older who are looking to get out on there, it's. Everybody's getting screwed. So that's. That's a different issue.
- [41:54]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Hey, the economy's fine. Everything's fine. We're all winning. It's Great.
- [41:58]
Dan Bernstein
So one thing that I know is awesome about our house, one thing I know that's great, that that is has been changed for the better because we didn't do it because Russ Armstrong did it, are the windows. We got new windows everywhere from Russ Armstrong and Chicago Window guys. And when I say that it was painless, I mean it. And it will be for you, too, because you've got this whole idea of this ordeal. Like, all right, now we got to price all this out and get all these different competing bids. And you can do that, or you can just make it easy and call Russia and he can come out to the house and he can look around, he can tell you, here's what windows usually cost, here's what we can do. You got a special thing here. We'll do this here. What do you actually need? I'm not going to sell you more than you need. And the other thing, Russ isn't going to take hours and hours of your time because he doesn't have to report to anybody else. He runs everything. It's his decisions, his companies, it's factory. So you don't have to go there and have him be like, well, I'll submit this to somebody and I'll talk to my manager. So that's the way it works with him. And then you find a date that's right for installation. He'll tell you, hey, I made all the windows custom for your house. When can our people be out there? And then it's done and it's clean and you look at your heating and cooling bills, you're like, oh, windows. That's why the house is holding its temperature better. Okay? There's never a bad time to do it. So call Russ. He'll match any price. You don't have to fall for one of these gimmicks that you hear about. Buy one, get one free. And all this stuff from other places. Call 8473029171 and check out his five star reviews@chicagowindowguys.com the we talked a lot on off the Ivy about the Cubs and where they are and all that. And yeah, last night's Cubs outcome sucked and a lot of their performance sucked. But NBC has figured out a way to make a baseball broadcast, a national baseball broadcast that respects the intelligence of the audience and not only passes the bare minimum threshold of not making you dumber, that broadcast makes you smarter. You have Jason Benetti overseeing everything as the primary voice. And then you have Jim Deshay is there doing The Cubs game.
- [44:24]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Mm.
- [44:25]
Dan Bernstein
And Hunter Pence, who's really good. And I actually thought Anthony Rizzo did a very good job with what they were asking of him. Talk about what you would be thinking about. Go through the pitching, sequencing. What are you seeing? Why are you seeing it? How are you anticipating? What are you like? I thought the way they used him was great.
- [44:45]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Well, that's all jb, man. He, like, he just. He sets him up with great questions to get the best. The most out of him.
- [44:52]
Dan Bernstein
And.
- [44:52]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
And I want to applaud Rizzo for keeping his shirt on. So good job there, pal. Way to go.
- [44:57]
Dan Bernstein
All right, that's the victory. Is that Anthony Rizzo is. But. But the fact is that. And then Benetti can go to some silly stuff and go to some historic stuff and show Jim to Shay striking out eight Dodgers in a row.
- [45:10]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
And yeah, that was great. He was like. The shades was like, I was a real slow starter. And then like. All right, well, here's the video. You striking out the first eight Dodgers. Uh, what do you have to say to that, J.D. he's like, well, the Dodgers weren't interested that day.
- [45:22]
Dan Bernstein
Yeah, every dog has its day. Dodgers weren't interested. I only struck out two other people in the complete game. So I don't know what that was, but it's. It was such a joy. It's such a great hang. A baseball game should be a good hang. And that's what it was. It was like your really smart friends were sitting in your house. Yeah, you're really smart, interesting, funny. And then they go to Bob Costas. He's got thoughts on some things happens to be there. Everything was kind of woven in nicely. Everything looked great. And their sound mix. There was an emailer actually that pointed that out. The Fox sound mix with the over pumped crowd. NBC doesn't do that. NBC has a perfect. And maybe it's also because Wrigley Field was very quiet and you could feel, Boy, God, you could feel the soul get sucked out of there. When Alcantara gets. Gets picked off and are doubled off, and when Ballesteros gets doubled off, everything's like.
- [46:26]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Yeah, I know. They're. I think they're. What did we say? They're going away for six days. They got a six game.
- [46:30]
Dan Bernstein
Yeah.
- [46:31]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Colorado and then the Giant. I don't even remember, but I wouldn't mind if it was like a 12 game road trip just to. Just to get out.
- [46:42]
Dan Bernstein
We need some time away.
- [46:43]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
It's sick. Yeah. It's funny, Dan, because I was like, I was saying the other day. I'm not, I'm not done with this team. I'm not, like, I'm not breaking up with them for this 2026 season, but I need some space right now. I get it. I need some space. Like, we. Let's. Let's take a. Let's take some time away, and you. You do your thing. I'm gonna do my thing for a little bit. And let's. Let's reconnect after a little before we stand.
- [47:07]
Dan Bernstein
Even if it's the something you enjoy most in life, you don't appreciate it until you take a little bit of just. Just a little bit of distance. Like, I took yesterday off from fishing.
- [47:17]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Oh, you did?
- [47:19]
Dan Bernstein
And because I physically, I was. I was hurting because a lot of the stuff I do around the river is climbing and there's a lot of rocks, and I was. I've been bruised and beaten and.
- [47:28]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Yeah, I get that. Because 15 years with you, I needed, like, eight years away. I was bruised and.
- [47:33]
Dan Bernstein
Did it not work?
- [47:33]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Yeah, and it's great. It's great. You finally changed, and now I can be with you again.
- [47:38]
Dan Bernstein
See, it's just patience is all it is. Same thing we're doing with Alex Bregman and Swanson. It just maybe eight years later, we'll come back and these old grizzled guys will be ready, ready to play solid baseball again. But then I took the day off, and she's like, yeah, can you spend six hours carrying all of this stuff up from the basement and driving it to a dumpster and dumping it in a dumpster?
- [47:58]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Well, you probably got hurt less yesterday. You got attacked less by birds.
- [48:05]
Dan Bernstein
Yes, I. Oh. And I faced them down. Thank you for reminding me.
- [48:09]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Did you go looking for them?
- [48:10]
Dan Bernstein
I went to the same spot.
- [48:11]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Why would you do that?
- [48:12]
Dan Bernstein
Because I wanted to see if they had it in them again. Like, you got me once, and. And they did. I found the same pair, and I heard the noises. They saw me coming, but I stared them down this time like, all right, I'm here. I'm here. Come get me.
- [48:27]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
I like to hear that conversation between the two birds. They're probably like, can you believe this motherfucker's here again? What is wrong with this guy?
- [48:34]
Dan Bernstein
They didn't follow me as far either. So maybe they're like, yeah, we humbled him. We made him hit the deck. He fell on a rock. He hurt himself. Or maybe what's even worse is, did
- [48:47]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
you dress in that giant bird costume you bought online?
- [48:49]
Dan Bernstein
No, I, I, I, I think that they have me categorized as less than a threat. I think what happened was they saw like, we, like we flew with this guy's face and he fell down and hurt himself. Don't worry about him. Because they're like, oh, it's you. Oh, you're not worth our time.
- [49:07]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
That's exactly. Good call. Yeah. They realize that you are not a threat. We don't worry about this guy. Oh, it's just that Bernstein guy.
- [49:13]
Dan Bernstein
Yeah, I think that's what it was. Oh, we know him. That's the guy that got scared and we buzzed the tower and hit him in the head a bunch of times and he fell down.
- [49:21]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Yeah, he's the guy in the. Yeah, they're like, he's the guy thinking the Bears aren't going to Indiana. He's an idiot. Let's leave him alone. How do you feel now, Bernstein, about the Bears leaving for Indiana? Yeah, exactly.
- [49:35]
Dan Bernstein
They are.
- [49:35]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
They're getting after you.
- [49:37]
Dan Bernstein
Yeah.
- [49:37]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Did you see the news? Oh, we'll talk about it in forward progress.
- [49:39]
Dan Bernstein
Oh, there's a lot to talk about on forward progress.
- [49:42]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Yeah, it's a done deal. You didn't hear it. Done deal. They are going to Indiana, man. They are the Indiana Bears.
- [49:47]
Dan Bernstein
Thankfully, thankfully, the Tribune still exists to the point where they can write a front page story that frames the news truthfully. They can read past what they're being told. Say, wait a second here.
- [50:04]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Forward progress. Let's save it, let's save it.
- [50:06]
Dan Bernstein
There's no commitment whatsoever. Hold on a second. But anyway, more of that from NBC and more smart baseball coverage to make us understand the game better. That was a really, really nice experience other than another crappy Cubs.
- [50:24]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
You know, help me out real quick though, too, because you can be more objective than I can on things. I, I love the way Jason Benetti sounds. And I also, I mean, we have that personal connection with Jason, so it's always going to be good to me, regardless of, you know, I don't, I analyze it differently because it's like, oh, it's Benetti. Yeah, it's going to be great.
- [50:44]
Dan Bernstein
You know what I mean?
- [50:45]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Right. It's like, that's our guy, that's our intern, that's our buddy. And he's like, he's a thousand times better at anything that I could ever do, so I'm gonna love it regardless.
- [50:54]
Dan Bernstein
But.
- [50:54]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
But he's just, he's just really.
- [50:56]
Dan Bernstein
He's not a thousand times better at anything you could ever do.
- [50:59]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Oh, yeah, he is.
- [51:00]
Dan Bernstein
He's a, he's a hell of like walking
- [51:03]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
well, and I am sober, so, Yeah, I don't, I haven't over two years alcohol free, so. Yeah, I guess I'm better at walking, so.
- [51:10]
Dan Bernstein
So yeah, you could beat him in a race if that makes you feel better.
- [51:14]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Well, I don't know, man. I could, I have a, I get hurt walking up the stairs, so. We'll see.
- [51:19]
Dan Bernstein
Okay. I didn't say you could do it uninjured. I'm just saying that I want to, I just want to make sure we, we define our limitations.
- [51:25]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Yeah, you're right on some of these with you on that. But I just, it makes me so happy though, just to see him on tv, to hear him and I just, you know, I, I, I wish he was still. Even though I'm not a fan of the team, I wish he was still on the other side of town. Unfortunate.
- [51:38]
Dan Bernstein
I know. I know. But, but I can get over that and just enjoy the fact that he is on my tv.
- [51:44]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Yes.
- [51:44]
Dan Bernstein
And I don't, I didn't want to ruin it by lamenting the fact that he should be there instead of Doofus doing the White Sox games. And, and you know what? Just while we're on that, just make Connor McKnight the full time guy.
- [51:58]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
We've got, we got a lot of people that responded to us about that. It's right there for you.
- [52:03]
Dan Bernstein
It's right, right there. Just say bye bye, doofus. Connor McKnight. Here you go. Here's the big chair. What more does he have to do? I don't know, other than lucid, cogent, smart, funny, aware and, and you know, able to, to use statistics without hitting you over the head with stuff like everything he needs right there.
- [52:25]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Just make, not not only that too, but like the, the, the to talking about the team on the other side of town in the middle of your broadcast while your team is having a spectacular season for what they're at right now. It's really pathetic is what it is. And your fans deserve better.
- [52:40]
Dan Bernstein
Yep.
- [52:41]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
They just do.
- [52:41]
Dan Bernstein
Yep.
- [52:42]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
They really do that.
- [52:44]
Dan Bernstein
To me, that's, that's the easiest move in town is just install. I don't know whether it's the end of this year, whatever it is, just be like, all right, here's your guy and he's absolutely ready for it. And then he, and, and however long Stone wants to do this, and then it'll be Beckham and you could have a really smart, fun broadcast for an up and coming team that's got a lot of really interesting, exciting players on it.
- [53:08]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Is it, Is it Beckham that fills in. Or is that Brian Anderson? Brian Anderson does too, doesn't he? I thought Brian Anderson did. My mistake.
- [53:16]
Dan Bernstein
I've seen Gordo has, has been the guy doing it. He's. And he's come a long way too. He's getting real close to being, to being ready.
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Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Ready.
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Dan Bernstein
So there's, there's been all kinds of growth there. I think the NBA Finals are easy money at my bookie if you stop overthinking it. Yeah, you don't need a crazy parlay. You don't necessarily need your spreadsheets and all the numbers, just the team you trust. You got that feeling. Playoff basketball is for you. It hits perfectly at my bookie. Clean board. Keep it simple. You can back the Thunder. You can. Excuse me, the Thunder. I even wrote it in. You can back the Thunder. It's not going to go well for you.
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Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Yeah, tonight I'm pretty sure I'm gonna lose that money, though.
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Dan Bernstein
I, I wrote it in and I still, I keep, I keep updating the copy. You can back the Knicks, which is kind of the fun thing to do, or you can say the spurs aren't out of it. They will be one of those teams that comes back from down to nothing because they're too damn good. Tom. And then the game's just going to do the rest. If you're new to my bookie, if you've never made a deposit, don't sit this one out. Maybe this is the day that you're going to go to MyBookie AG and you're going to register and you're going to deposit and then any bet you choose up to $500 is fully covered. Make your play. If it doesn't hit, you get it right back. When you opt in using your bet back bonus token, you pick your squad, you take the shot. Don't just watch the playoffs, cash in on them. Only at my bookie. Quick note. That hockey game Saturday night, bad ending.
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Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Yeah. Was that the four nothing, three nothing start? Was that. Is that the game?
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Dan Bernstein
Okay, it was four nothing in the third and they were. And, and the Aves. The, the apps. The Carolina Hurricanes. The Canes were the first team, if I have this correct, they were the first team to come back to tie when down four starting the third, I think was even down three. Started third in the Stanley cup final. It was pretty incredible. And they had 1.3 goals in 39 seconds. And I'm screaming, marching around. I don't have a rooting interest other than against Carter Hart. And I would love to have seen Carter Hart just wear that. Las Vegas Golden Knights. Your goal horn is too loud and too long. The goal horn is. Is. Is bad. It. We get it, but it's like, turn it off. The Blackhawks have the. The original, first ever goal horn. This thing that they had at the. And I there, There is a story behind it. Some open ended hockey question as to how Bill Wirz brought it there wherever. Then they moved it to the United center. The same original goal horn. And now it's just a thing everywhere. It's like, oh, hockey score, goal horn goes. Sing songs, light goes on and all that. But that's overkill. That's too much. That's. That's enough.
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Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
That's enough.
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Dan Bernstein
That's. That's a no good.
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Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
That's a too much.
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Dan Bernstein
That's a no good.
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Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Okay, it's me.
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Dan Bernstein
I'm Mario. But the. I don't know if I'm gonna watch any more hockey. I just know I was there, it was on. I got into it and it was fun.
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Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Yeah. And the Golden Knights are up two games to one. So I. I have them winning the Stanley cup along with the spurs were my bet. My heart and emotions were with the Knicks, but I took the spurs in my bet. And I. I think that's going to be wrong. I think the Knicks are going to finish this out. And I do have apologies to Gordon Beckham because. Or Gordon Beckham. Yeah, yeah.
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Dan Bernstein
You're talking about Brian Anderson and Gordon.
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Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Brian. Brian Anderson has not done any games. I didn't know this. That he was with the brewers somehow doing broadcasting, but he does national stuff, so maybe I saw him in a national game.
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Dan Bernstein
I don't know. But wait, no, no. There's two. Are you talking about Brian Anderson, the play by play guy, or Brian Anderson, the former White Sox outfielder?
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Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
I thought the former outfielder had done some stuff, but he hasn't.
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Dan Bernstein
No, because B.A. is B.A. that's national finances.
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Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Yeah, but. Yeah, but the White Sox guy, he. He hasn't done anything, has he?
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Dan Bernstein
Well, he tried to reinvent himself as a pitcher and that didn't go well. But God, he was hilarious.
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Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
I'm just gonna stay out of White Sox stuff.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah. Stay out of White Sox business.
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Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Except for the fact that they need to get rid of their guy.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah.
- [57:43]
Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Outside of that, I got nothing to do with you guys.
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Dan Bernstein
Brian Anderson, I'll never forget. He's like, what are you enjoying about being in the major leagues? It's all about the honeysuck. Did you really say that? I know. I mean, Obviously it is. I just didn't know you were supposed to say that part.
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Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
But yeah, I mean, well, you shouldn't say it openly because, I mean, your BP had a different seating section than the girlfriends and so it was.
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Dan Bernstein
Yeah, like don't have this one, this
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Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
one training in our booth. And we would say, oh, there's, there's the BP section and there's the wives. Yes. And girlfriends and stuff, right?
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Dan Bernstein
Yes. For our DBU picks, they are brought to you by my bookie. Here's mine for tonight. I'm going back to an old favorite because I think he's do it's Devin Vassell. So I've got Vassell, three or more threes and Mikhail Bridges 14 or more points. 14. So I'm gonna do the cell three or more threes coupled with bridges, 14 or more points because I got my last one. I got the one. I got the Landry Shammit two threes and the Luke Cornett block. So I'm going to try to do one for either team again tonight, see if I can put them together again for a parlay.
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Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
Yeah, I lost my my wager on game two. So now game three align. My heart and my betting are going to align now my play because I'm going to take the Knicks -2 for tonight's game. I think the Knicks win. They lay the two points, they take the three nothing lead on the Spurs. So my heart and my brain can align here finally in the NBA finals.
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Dan Bernstein
There it is. Those are DBU picks. Lock in your picks now with my bookie, bet on anything, anywhere, anytime. That is DBU on three. One two Sports. We've been brought to you today by Russ Armstrong of Chicago window guys. ChicagoDowdownDowGuys.com 847-302-9171 and in partnership with my
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Co-host (possibly Gordon Beckham)
bookie, Dan Bernstein, Unfiltered, Unfiltered on three.
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Dan Bernstein
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