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Matt Myers
So good, so good, so good.
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Myron
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Matt Myers
This is Matt and Myron the podcast. It is Matt Myers, ESPN Radio 888. Say ESPN. We got a lot of folks who want to weigh in on our various takes about the hockey and the national anthem. Hang on the phone because I got to get to them. Some people say they don't know about Myron saying It's not been 250, although one person writes Myron saying whenever Parliament's album first came out is maybe the hardest I've ever laughed. There you go. I left pretty hard to Quentin Richardson always makes me laugh and also does a great job. He's ESPN's NBA analyst. And Quentin, so I'm going to ask you the question I asked Myron a minute ago. You can look at at the game last night and say, it's a turning of a new era. We've entered the WIMBY era. Everybody get on board. Or you can say, hey, it was a game 7 and either team could have won. Thunder should come back and do it the same way and next year might come down to game seven and they win. Where are you, Quentin? Which one's more accurate?
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Quentin Richardson
I think we are entering the era of WIMBY being the face of the league and being the best player in the league. I do believe we're entering that era. As far as them being winning the chip and continuing to run it off, I think the history has shown us that the parody is kind of holding back dynasty scenario right now and kind of debunking it. So we'll have to see about that. Like first San Antonio got a, got a, got a final series to handle before we could talk about, you know, entering their dominant era.
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Unidentified Male Co-host
Quentin, what's better for the league in terms of the growth of the NBA? The popularity NBA, a Knicks championship or a Spurs championship.
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Quentin Richardson
I mean, to me, I mean, the popularity of the league is going to be great regardless. I think this, this, it just signals, you know, both teams and everything that's on in and around the league just signals that it's gonna be, we got a great future to look ahead to. We got great young buddy superstars coming up to take the mantles of the Steph Currys, the LeBrons and the KD's as they, you know, get into the later phase and start to phase out. We got big time superstar that's gonna pick up the baton where they leave off and you know, it's gonna be great moving forward. I mean, obviously people feel that basketball is much better in the NBA when the Knicks are winning. I would tend to agree with that. As a former Knick, I see what that dynamic does for the league and does for new. But I think if the spurs win is just as exciting and I think, you know, whoever loses, I think both teams will be, you know, gearing up to make a run at it again next year and moving forward. So I think both, both franchises are in a great spot and are promising and the league is in an unbelievable spot with all of the talent, with all of the great teams where, you know, last eight years it being a different winner every year, you know, everybody feels like they have a chance.
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Matt Myers
Quentin Richardson ESPN NBA ANALYST so, Quentin, I want you to be honest with me. Me and you, we're buddies here, just friends. We're. I' going to tell anybody what you say. Does Chad have to move? He just said this. Is he allowed to get out of his house? Like, I mean, honestly, that was, that was one of the more embarrassing series I've ever seen. Right. For a guy.
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Quentin Richardson
Yeah, I think he's gonna, you know, the way this goes is he's gonna, he's gonna hear it this time, he's gonna have a tough summer, you know, stay off social media and all of that stuff. But I mean, at the end of the day, he's got, he's got to get, you know, he's got to improve. He didn't, he didn't play well this series. He didn't play well in the game seven. And, and he's a, he's an all NBA type player. That's one thing that he is. He did not shine and look like it in this particular game, Game seven in this series total against Wemby and the Spurs. But all year you can't just throw his body of work away. He was an all defensive player. He was an all star. He was all NBA. So he's still a great, great player. But I mean, as far as it goes against the spurs and Wemby, he's got some work to do. He's got to look himself in the mirror and say, I was not my best, I did not help my team and we, if I could have done better, we possibly could have won this thing. And he has to look himself in the mirror and go get better this summer. That's a fact.
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Unidentified Male Co-host
Quinn, I want to make you a gm. I don't know if you're interested in being in the front office in the future, but I want to make you the GM of the OKC Thunder. And Sam Preston, there's a lot on the table. People are saying they should go after Giannis. People are saying, you know, do you not sign Lou Dort? What do you do with this case and Wallace extension? What would you do if you were the OKC GM and you were trying to figure out how to beat Wimby and the spurs going into the future?
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Quentin Richardson
I mean, you gotta, I think, you know, he. First of all, I'm nowhere near Sam Presti. He's. He's probably gonna be goaded as the general manager of all time, but I mean, I would never compare myself to that. But if I'm him, you know, obviously you gotta evaluate everything that went on. You gotta still take into accountability that those guys and over there in Oklahom, they played without their second best player basically the whole series and you know, basically, I mean, basically the whole play, a whole season and basically most of the playoffs, he was there, spotted, was never really right. And they look absolutely different with him being healthy and available and playing at his best. So I think you take that into consideration when you look at your team and you take the fact that A.J. mitchell was, was injured and out when it really mattered for them, which was a big component to their team. And I mean, they, when you're a general manager and you have the tone and you have the heartbeat of the team, you know intimately what's on. More than all of us looking on, he'll, he'll, he, he has a better idea and a better hold on what should be done and what should be tweaked. But I don't think they're in a situation where you tear something down and you, you, you rebuild it like that. Because I think they still are a championship caliber team and they could have easily, just as easily won this series if they were healthy and they had Jalen Williams, they did all this, you know, men down with, with guys stepping up and playing over what they would normally have to play. So we had to consider that as well.
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Matt Myers
Quentin, I'll finish you off with this. I gotta go to the Knicks. Everybody talks about Jalen Brunson. He's a superstar, he's been amazing. But I want to talk about my guy, my Kentucky guy here, Carl Towns, feels like the narrative on him. People for years kind of dogged on him being soft. All this stuff now it's, it's a different story with Carl. What do you think's been the change to help take Carl to another level? To help take the Knicks to another level?
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Quentin Richardson
Man, I think at the end of the day, Cat has been resilient. I mean, playing in New York, being under that microscope, knowing how it is and knowing on the pressure to perform and what happens when you don't. I think he's done his thing. He stood in that fire and he's raised above it. He's played the way he's supposed to play through ups and downs. He's not came out and said anything crazy. I think he's handled everything in the media the right way, everything publicly the right way. And at the end of the day, he's fought his way through and he's performed and he's contributed and produced. They switched his role, kind of made him more of a facilitator, opened his game up more. He showed that he could do a lot more, be more a big piece, a bigger piece to the team than he was being previously. And I salute him, man, because I know the pressure that he faces from being over there with the Knicks and being a big name guy and being the expectations that he had to deliver. So I think he should be saluted for the way he's performed, the way he's contributed, the way he's fought through and figured out a way to be out there and to be resilient and come through that because I mean, New York is not an easy place to play. Anybody that's played there for any of those organizations or any sports, they all know and understand what those guys on the Knicks are dealing with and have to go through on a daily. So I mean, for them to be here with the expectations they have and with the fan base being maniacal, this is, this is a great situation and a great achievement for them.
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Unidentified Male Co-host
Maniacal. I love it.
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Matt Myers
Quinton, there you go. Always brings it. Espn NBA analysts, good to hear from you. And you played in Canada over the years. You think the Canadian. I said some of the Canadian fans can, can be nasty. Have you ever dealt with that?
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Quentin Richardson
To me, to me, I got a lot of love for the Canadian fans, man, playing, playing like you say, playing there. Over the years, they've had one of the best fan bases to get loud and support their team. And then when I was working and living in Detroit, I never knew that they were that. That prominent in the Pistons arena. They like that, that little close gap, that bridge. Those people show up in those Pistons games and they got the. We. The North. They. It was. It was an eye opener for me. So, I mean, I've never dealt with anything on the nasty side of their fans, but I do know they have a crazy, crazy fan base that is. That is rabid. And they, they. They support the heck out of their team. And I, I don't have a problem with. I've never dealt with anything on the bad side of it, but I do know that they are. They, them and OKC are along the college line of things. They. They get a little bit louder and things like that. And I, I'm one that appreciates it.
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Matt Myers
Yeah, but you can go to Montreal with. That's where the main ones are up there in the hockey world. Quentin, thank you very much, my man. We appreciate it.
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Quentin Richardson
Yes, sir. Fellas, anytime.
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Matt Myers
All right, let's go to Jason in Houston. Go, Jason.
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Quentin Richardson
Hey, thanks for taking my call, but. Yeah, so I wanted to say, Matt, you're absolutely right. The Canadian national anthem is actually way better historical precedent. Here, little history lesson for you for 250. And it is 250, but.
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Matt Myers
Oh, take that, Byron. It is 250. Jason says it is two. Hey, Jason.
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Unidentified Male Co-host
Jason. It depends what barbershop you go to at cost cutters.
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Matt Myers
You're right, it is, but go ahead, sir.
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Quentin Richardson
But our national anthem was written during the only war we ever officially lost, the war of 1812. So our national anthem is already subpart of the Canadian national anthem because theirs was written during the war. They won.
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Unidentified Male Co-host
You did.
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Quentin Richardson
So I'll just leave it there.
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Matt Myers
All right. Well, I appreciate the call. Wow, that was a struggle. I didn't know that. Is that right? Did we lose the war we wrote the national anthem in?
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Unidentified Male Co-host
I don't know. But I mean, he seemed pretty passionate about.
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Matt Myers
Well, I mean, the good thing is you just say something with enough confidence, you're just going. Unless somebody tells me otherwise, I'm just going to believe he was right. He seemed like he knew what he was talking about. Cole in Tennessee. Go, Cole.
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Quentin Richardson
Yes. The national anthem does not end in a question. It's the Star Spangled Banner, yet wave O apostrophe are, which is an abbreviation in Old English for over the land of the free and the home of the brave. It's a statement of fact. And also.
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Matt Myers
Rachel, hang on, hang on a second. Hang on, hang on, hang on. Is rebuttal. Rachel.
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Myron
The lyrics are oh, say does the star spangle banner yet wave? Or the land of three in the home of the brave?
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Matt Myers
Oh, so you're. So you're saying that the question is does not. Oh, all right. So Cole response sounds like it says does. That's a question.
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Quentin Richardson
O say does. I forgot about the does.
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Matt Myers
Rachel with the victory.
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Unidentified Male Co-host
Rachel.
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Matt Myers
Okay, Rachel very much.
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Unidentified Male Co-host
That's a win for Rachel.
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Matt Myers
Point for Rachel. All Rachel does is win, win, win. I respect it. No matter what does the star Spangled Banner. So now I don't even know whether or not to believe we won the War of 1812. If you have thoughts, 8 say esp. We take calls in the War of 1812. The latest on the War of 1812. What we should be doing
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Unidentified Male Co-host
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Matt Myers
It's Matt Myron here on the ESPN Radio. All right, so we've had and not surprisingly. See, here's the thing about here's one of the things I want people to learn about sports radio podcasts. You can sit here and talk all you want about SGA and WIMBY and the phone lines. Like, people don't call. And that's okay because, like, what are you gonna say? Really? That's gonna be more interesting than what Myron says. But when you talk about the War of 1812 and national anthems, phone lines ring. But we have the official answer. The War of 1812 ended in, technically, Myron, a military stalemate. Basically a draw. It is sometimes considered a loss for the US Due to reputation. But in the Treaty of Ghent in 1814, all borders were restored to the way they were before the war it is generally considered both sides ended the war because of exhaustion, which led to a draw.
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Unidentified Male Co-host
I lost to war to exhaustion.
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Matt Myers
You just get tired sometimes.
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Unidentified Male Co-host
Like, they rang the bell and everybody just woke up and they're like, nah.
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Myron
And don't forget, there was the battle after the war was over because they didn't know the war was over.
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Matt Myers
Yeah, I remember reading that when I was in kid. A kid, like, they got a draw and then they just kept fighting because nobody told them. Yeah, that's. We've been doing that in Kentucky for a long time. We're still fighting. We don't even know what we're fighting about anymore.
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Unidentified Male Co-host
So that's why we didn't learn a lot about that one in school. Exhaust.
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Matt Myers
Yeah, they don't. They don't spend as much time with the ones that were close. So 888, say ESPN. We got a lot of folks on here. And you know what? I wasn't on last week, so I want to hear what people have to say. Willie in Memphis. Go ahead, Willie.
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Quentin Richardson
Yes, Matt, I had to call you. What the hell you know about Cool Water Cologne?
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Matt Myers
That was Myron. That was me that said that was Myron.
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Unidentified Male Co-host
I said it. Are you giving Matt credit for my lines?
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Quentin Richardson
What do you know about Cool Water Cologne?
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Unidentified Male Co-host
What do I know about Cool Water? I know I used to wear it every day, probably too much. From about 96 to 2004. That's all I owned.
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Matt Myers
Willie, do you wear Cool Water Cologne?
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Unidentified Male Co-host
Yes, of course. The one that you got from, you know, like, you got it like a discount store. Of course. Yeah, I kept some in my car. I sprayed my car with Cool Water cologne. My car smelled like Cool water.
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Matt Myers
Will, I gotta tell you something. William Memphis. Go ahead and leave him up for a second. William Memphis. And I don't know anything about you, but your name's Willie in Memphis. I would have thought you knew Cool Water cologne.
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Unidentified Male Co-host
Willie knows Cool Water. He thought. He thought you had said it. That's why he was surprised.
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Matt Myers
I was about to say, if a guy named Willie in Memphis doesn't know Cool Water cologne, then who does?
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Unidentified Male Co-host
No. Cool Water Cologne. It was like the 90s. Black starter kit, cool water cologne, a Jodeci CD, a wave cap, and a pair of Jordans, if you could afford them. Right. Like, that was like the starter kit.
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Quentin Richardson
Exactly. Or if you was really thought you were doing something, you had the Lagerfield.
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Unidentified Male Co-host
Yeah, well, Starter kit, man.
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Matt Myers
Thank you very much. I was. I was nervous there. If he didn't know. Let's go to Are people giving you
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Unidentified Male Co-host
credit for my lines? That's something that concerns me a little bit.
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Matt Myers
You. We've talked about. There are people who will come up to us and they think that I'm black, and I don't understand how that happens.
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Unidentified Male Co-host
They come to me and say. And they said, like, I deceived.
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Matt Myers
I feel like. I feel like I sound really white. Why?
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Unidentified Male Co-host
There are people who say it to me. Like, I've just. I've lied to them. Like, almost like they think I'm supposed to come out here every Sunday and say, just so you know, this a white guy. Like, that's. That's what they say to me.
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Matt Myers
Just so you know, this is a white guy. Let's go to Michael in Arizona. Go ahead, Michael.
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Quentin Richardson
Good morning, gentlemen. This is the Canadian dollar, Michael. Remember that? They didn't give you your money's worth, did they? Over there? Mat.
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Matt Myers
They did not. You did tell me they were going to be aggressive and a problem, these Montreal people.
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Quentin Richardson
That is right. Not my understanding. You're a big guy. Six. Four. Six something, right?
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Matt Myers
Six, four. Yeah.
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Quentin Richardson
Yeah. Well, you're intimidating and they've made you feel small. Those Canadians are no joke about their hockey. They take it very serious. Very. I hear that you didn't get any kind of greetings of a warmth anywhere.
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Matt Myers
None. There was no greetings of warmth. The guy sitting behind me, like, at one point goes, here was his greeting of warmth as I was being booed walking in. I sat down. The guy behind me goes, don't worry, I won't yell at you during the game. He didn't say welcome.
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Unidentified Male Co-host
He didn't.
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Matt Myers
He's just like, don't worry, I won't yell at you. And he didn't. To be credit. But no, no, no. No warmth at all.
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Unidentified Male Co-host
Michael mentioned that last week. I remember it was saying, like, it was going to be hostile, and I didn't believe it.
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Matt Myers
Let's go to Bill in Colorado. Bill, go ahead.
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Quentin Richardson
Good morning,
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Unidentified Male Co-host
Bill. Are you in a tornado?
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Matt Myers
Get out of the wind, Bill.
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Quentin Richardson
How's that? Yeah.
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Unidentified Male Co-host
You in the dust storm.
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Quentin Richardson
Yeah. So the US national anthem melody was actually a British drinking song from a club in London called the Inaction Club, so it's pretty easy to Google.
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Matt Myers
Was a British drinking song.
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Myron
The. The melody was. And you would. It was testing how sober you were by how far you could get into the song. And if you couldn't get. If you did, if you got too far, you were too sober.
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Quentin Richardson
Really?
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Matt Myers
Is that right, Bill?
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Unidentified Male Co-host
Is she. Any of this.
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Matt Myers
Is she correct about that? Bill.
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Quentin Richardson
Yeah. The words were written by Francis Scott Key. The melody is a song that was written by the member of the Anacrean Club in Great Britain. And they knew that because of so many British descendants that were living in the United States, that people would know this song and it would be a rallying cry for battle.
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Myron
Now, the national anthem with the lyrics, just so you're not confused, is not the drinking song, just the melody.
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Matt Myers
I understand.
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Myron
Okay. Okay.
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Matt Myers
I would have been surprised if that was the lyrics.
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Myron
It's just the melody.
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Matt Myers
That's amazing, though, because, like, we. We think of this as this, you know, sanctimonious song, and yet it was just a song people got drunk to in. In England.
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Commercial Announcer
Let's.
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Matt Myers
That's.
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Quentin Richardson
I didn't know.
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Unidentified Male Co-host
I didn't know it. How do you all know so much about the. Is there like a. Do y' all get, like, a program in the mail?
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Myron
A U. S. History and civics teacher?
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Unidentified Male Co-host
Do they send y' all a pamphlet in the mail for 250 that, like, you gotta read up on? Because I don't think I got it.
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Myron
You'll get it in about 200 years.
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Unidentified Male Co-host
Yeah, I don't think. I don't think I got it.
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Unidentified Male Contributor
About 175.
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Unidentified Male Co-host
I don't know, man. Because we, like.
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Matt Myers
Whoa.
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Unidentified Male Co-host
You all know a lot.
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Matt Myers
I consider myself a history buffet. I didn't know all this. This is what's good about this show. You can learn things going forward that can help you in life.
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Unidentified Male Co-host
Can I tell you my one anthem rule? I feel like there are only 10 people who should be allowed to sing it however they want, and everybody else should stick to the script.
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Matt Myers
Who are the 10? Who are the 10?
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Unidentified Male Co-host
You know, maybe we need to.
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Unidentified Male Contributor
We need a little more time for this.
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Unidentified Male Co-host
Like, Aretha. Like, there's a. There's a list. Dolly can do it. Like, there's a. There's a list.
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Matt Myers
But Dolly. What's good?
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Unidentified Male Co-host
Dolly made the list outside of the 10. No.
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Matt Myers
Yeah. Well, I mean, we. This is a different topic. We're going to go to headlines here, but I'd be interested. The best national anthem singers.
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Unidentified Male Co-host
Yeah.
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Matt Myers
Have sometimes approached it very different ways. Though I must say, I'll tell you the worst. 2012 Final Four, the fray. Worst national anthem outside of, like, Carl Lewis that's ever occurred.
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Quentin Richardson
Matt and Myron, the podcast.
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Unidentified Male Contributor
Yeah. So today at 2:00pm Eastern on ESPN is Clash in Italy. Lots of it's a stack card. Brock vs. Oba 2 got tribal warfare between Roman and Jacob Fatu, Cody Rhodes and Gunther, Rhea Ripley and Jade Cargill for the women's championship. But really what we really want to talk about is Matt and his wrestling T shirt collection.
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Matt Myers
Yeah. Can I go back? Where in Italy is this? I really like Italy. Where are they? Are they in Rome? Are they in like Milan or where are they?
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Unidentified Male Contributor
Let me come on, check on that. I can't Remember?
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Matt Myers
Okay, so they're somewhere in Italy. I. I got, you know, our God Danhausen that we like. Very nice. Very evil. They just started doing. Oh, it's in Turin, like Torino. Wow. Okay, so that's like up where they do skiing and stuff. Anyway, the. I got the Danhausen. They. They did a shirt with the University of Kentucky and it was called cat housing. And I got it. It has a Kentucky Wildcat and a Danhausen. And now the Knicks are doing it as well. Nick's housen. I am a huge Danhausen fan. He's clearly integrating with sports. He's been feuding with Stephen A. Are you. Are you in on Dan Housen?
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Unidentified Male Co-host
I think we're already at like 12 minutes of his 15.
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Unidentified Male Contributor
A little bit.
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Unidentified Male Co-host
Like, it just. I think they've oversaturated the market with.
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Matt Myers
But you didn't like him from moment one, though, to be faster.
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Unidentified Male Co-host
Yeah, I don't. I think you. I think you people like him because they feel like they have to a little bit. But I just think it's too.
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Matt Myers
I like him. I don't feel like I have to. I think he's funny. I think having a little dude with face paint running around putting curses on people. I mean, I wish he would come on here and curse you if you're gonna be so rude.
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Unidentified Male Co-host
I just. You're not gonna force me to get into the. The. The trend. But. But I mean, he needs to be polarizing. Like, he needs people like me more than he needs people like you to. To be.
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Matt Myers
I mean, I bought his shirt, I bought his hair. But he needs.
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Unidentified Male Co-host
He needs haters, though. He needs haters.
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Matt Myers
You know, I mean, he's number two in merchandise sales in all of wwe. Roman Reigns is the only one ahead of him.
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Unidentified Male Co-host
Again, I just want. How do you. How do you extend the storyline? That's the question I have about Danhausen. Seriously, is there's been so much Danhausen.
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Matt Myers
Well, how have we extended the storyline of Matt Myron for. For eight years? We continue to provide. We continue to provide entertainment. That's what he's going to do.
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Unidentified Male Co-host
Okay. I don't know why you brought us. I think. I think he's.
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Unidentified Male Contributor
Science experiments on television right now.
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Matt Myers
Yeah, he does science experiments now. Equals MC squared.
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Unidentified Male Contributor
Cloned himself into many, many.
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Unidentified Male Co-host
Feels like a viral show that may not get a season two. I mean, that's just how I kind of. That's kind of.
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Matt Myers
All right, what's next? That's, by the way, two o' clock today. Cats in Italy or. No, it's not right. Clash.
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Unidentified Male Co-host
Clash. Cats in Italy.
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Matt Myers
Cats in Italy is a different show. Clash in Italy is it 2pm on the ESPN app.
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Unidentified Male Contributor
What's next before we move on with this? Like, he's. He's. He's like a. A genius when it comes to marketing. He was the first one to trademark his face paint, so he has, like, all of this.
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Unidentified Male Co-host
Do you know. Do you know how nerdy you wrestling fans sound right now when you're talking about somebody trademarking face paint? Nobody knows anything. You all are trying to force Dead House, and this is why the casual fans can't get into. Y' all are trying to force him on to, like, we. We don't care about any of that. It's. It's a lot. It's how I think a lot of casual fans like me feel.
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Matt Myers
All right, that's enough of your Dan House.
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Myron
There you go.
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Unidentified Male Co-host
I think he's too much. That's right.
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Matt Myers
Next. What's our next one?
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Unidentified Male Contributor
All right, another thing that you experienced this weekend or this week outside of Montreal being mean to you is you said the skyline chili egg roll at the Mets stadium. The Mets created skyline chili egg roll from their series against the Reds. How was it, Matt?
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Matt Myers
So this is. So this is cool. I actually think this is legitimately cool. The Mets do a thing, Myron, that when a road team is visiting in their concession stands, they serve food from that city. Don't you think that's a cool idea, A cool thing to do? So Cincinnati was visiting, so they made a skyline egg roll. Now, let me say I appreciate the idea of having Skyline because if you're not in Cincinnati, you don't eat it. I decided to eat one.
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Unidentified Male Co-host
Yeah.
- [28:28]
Matt Myers
And let me just say, I like egg rolls. I like Skyline. Don't put them together. It was one of the grossest things I've ever eaten. There is something about egg roll, like the egg roll juice and the cabbage that going into the skyline, which is already kind of a wet chili, and you combine all of that together, it was hideous. Cost me like $9, too. And it was bad. And so I report, while I like other cities, I'm a no on the skyline egg roll.
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Unidentified Male Co-host
That sounds like one of those things where somebody was afraid to say no in the meeting. You know, like somebody was afraid to stop it before it got.
- [29:09]
Matt Myers
But do you like that they serve food from the other city? Isn't that kind of a cool thing to do when a team comes to town?
- [29:15]
Unidentified Male Co-host
Yeah, it's a cool idea if you do it right. But, I mean, I Don't think anyone. My thing is who. Who said this was a good idea. Like, I'm always curious about that, and I don't know that anyone said that this is something.
- [29:25]
Matt Myers
So they sold one at least. I don't know if they sold any others, but. Not a huge fan. What's next?
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Unidentified Male Contributor
The Double A affiliate of the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Tulsa Drillers, suspended their bat dog program following a freak injury to their top outfield prospect, Kendall George. George, while attempting to avoid the dog running on the field to get a bat, jumped up and suffered a left knee injury. They thought it was bad, but I. It seems like it wasn't as bad as they initially expected.
- [29:55]
Matt Myers
So they had their dogs program. So they had dogs getting the bats. Right. That was their thing. Yeah. See, I'm not for AI Cause I don't want to take people's jobs. So I'm also not for a dogs on the field. That's. That's a. That is a human job that we should be paying people for. Plus, dogs hurt people. As I've said for years, Myron, I'm good. I can't believe they almost lost one of their best players due to the bat dogs.
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Unidentified Male Co-host
Again, I go back to the meeting. Like, who was in the meeting?
- [30:25]
Matt Myers
Well, I mean, they probably think, you know, like, people think dogs are cute and they're like, oh, look at the dog going.
- [30:30]
Unidentified Male Co-host
And get. They are. But we have to bring them everywhere. That's like the people bring their dogs to restaurants. It's just.
- [30:36]
Matt Myers
Okay. It's a lot playing. You're singing my song here. The trend of allowing people to bring dogs in restaurants. I get it. If you have. If you're. You're blind or you have something where you. Okay, I'm fine with that. But the idea that you can just bring a dog into a restaurant because you like to have dogs.
- [30:54]
Unidentified Male Co-host
Yeah.
- [30:54]
Matt Myers
Like, when. That is repulsive. When did we decide that was okay in America? Because I'm seeing it more and more, including in nice places. I don't understand that The.
- [31:06]
Unidentified Male Co-host
The dog restaurant people are a bit entitled. I will say almost as entitled as bikers. Like the bike lane.
- [31:14]
Matt Myers
People always hated bikers.
- [31:16]
Unidentified Male Co-host
Well, you're not a car. Like, I'm gonna win this fight.
- [31:20]
Matt Myers
No, you're not. Not if he hits you. It'll hurt. Somebody's riding fast on a bike and hit my car.
- [31:27]
Unidentified Male Co-host
I'm talking about guys who think that they're like a Corvette ended up on the road. And the guy standing in front of me on a. On a bike, like I'm supposed to respect him as if he's an suv. Get off the dog on road, man. Go to the sidewalk or bike lane.
- [31:40]
Matt Myers
And if you're a woman, you know, well, it doesn't matter what age, but it's usually older women that take your little poodle dog into the restaurant. I think you. I think you should be thrown out. You. Just because you're rich and you wear fur doesn't mean your dog gets to come into the Italian restaurant.
- [31:57]
Unidentified Male Co-host
Yes. Public restaurant people. I do think we need to, as a country, unite and have a conversation about this.
- [32:03]
Matt Myers
Yes. And if you're on a plane, I don't like that either. But do not set your dog next to me. I don't like, because people always say about their dogs, gonna get me worked up here. Oh, don't worry. Mine doesn't bite. He won't hurt you. Like, I don't like any of them. I don't like yours. I don't like anybody else. It's not like your dog's nicer.
- [32:20]
Unidentified Male Co-host
Dogs are great, but I just think, to me, dogs are great. I just think we can't. We don't have to take them everywhere.
- [32:27]
Matt Myers
And I think nobody would say, hey, here's my turtle. Do you mind sitting it next to you? It doesn't. It doesn't lick. It doesn't bite. All right, what's next?
- [32:35]
Unidentified Male Co-host
A lot great dog. People are not gonna be happy, but they got to get them out of restaurants.
- [32:41]
Matt Myers
I agree.
- [32:41]
Unidentified Male Contributor
Fox's number two NFL analyst Greg Olson won an award for outstanding personality event analyst at the sports Emmys last week. The other nominees included Tom Brady, Fox's number one NFL analyst. So the number two guy, Greg Olsen, wins a sports Emmy over number one Tom Brady. What do you guys think about this?
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Matt Myers
I feel like he deserves it. I think Greg Olson. If you were just to say to me, okay, who is the best announcer right now in college or in pro football? I think I would say Greg Olson. I think he does a lot. He does hard work. I think he's smart. I think he's funny, but then also does a good analysis. Now, I've been a Brady hater. I actually think Brady has gotten better. I thought he was awful at first. I think he's gotten better, but still, I think Greg Olson. Myron is the best.
- [33:27]
Unidentified Male Co-host
Clearly, he's the best. I think Brady's improving, but I don't think there's any competition about who's the better analyst. And I believe he deserved it. Well, let's keep being Brady.
- [33:39]
Matt Myers
Let's keep the ESPN people out just to be unbiased. So let me rank. You rank for me, these four. Olson, Brady, Collinsworth, Romo.
- [33:50]
Unidentified Male Co-host
Collinsworth's at the top for me. Then the Olsen, then the Romo, then the Brady. I think, I think most people I'm
- [33:58]
Matt Myers
going to, I'm actually going Olson, Collinsworth, Brady, and Romo is last for me. I think he's gotten worse. I think he has. I think, like, he's too cute by double. Like, he just, it's too much.
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Unidentified Male Co-host
You know who he is. He's the Danhausen of Endless. At the beginning, everybody loved what he did and they wanted so much of it. They were obsessed with him calling the plays in advance and telling you what was going to happen. And then all of a sudden they were like, wait a minute, we don't like this as much. It's too much Romo. That's what happens, going to happen.
- [34:31]
Matt Myers
So you're saying he's the Romo Housen.
- [34:34]
Unidentified Male Co-host
He's Romo Housen. I think that's a good name.
- [34:37]
Matt Myers
I'm taking Dan House and I had a Tony Romo. But that is a very harsh critique of Tony Romo to bring him to, to Danhausen.
- [34:45]
Unidentified Male Co-host
People don't appreciate him, I think because they, they loved him in the beginning. Then they thought it was like too much. Wow.
- [34:52]
Matt Myers
All right, there you go. So that you never know what you're going to hear, Romo Housen takes a shot here on Matt Myron college baseball. Are you watching this weekend of college baseball? It's on ESPN all the time. It has been wild and I have to tell you a couple things. You are not following it, but you should be. Plus, we'll look in at major league baseball as well and what's happening and more from the NBA playoffs that's next here. I'm Matt Myron.
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Unidentified Male Co-host
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Matt Myers
Matt Myron here on the ESPN Radio. Did you just ask who is this?
- [36:46]
Unidentified Male Co-host
No, I know who this is. This is the band.
- [36:48]
Matt Myers
All right, I'll wait. Let's see if you can guess which band this is. Relatively famous band.
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Unidentified Male Co-host
It is very. He had the saxophone player.
- [36:56]
Matt Myers
Okay, hang on. James, don't say a word. I want to hear Myron's thoughts.
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Unidentified Male Co-host
He had the saxophone player. I know this. I can see him. And it's something for me.
- [37:05]
Matt Myers
It's. You're thinking of Dave Matthews. Dave.
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Unidentified Male Co-host
Matthew. Yes.
- [37:09]
Matt Myers
This is not the Dave Matthews Band. Please try again. James. Stop.
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Unidentified Male Co-host
Stop.
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Matt Myers
James.
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Unidentified Male Co-host
This is not Dave Matthews.
- [37:16]
Matt Myers
Please try again.
- [37:18]
Unidentified Male Co-host
Is this somebody trying to be Dave Matthews?
- [37:20]
Matt Myers
No, it's actually a singer that I would argue is maybe more famous than Dave Matthews.
- [37:25]
Unidentified Male Co-host
Bigger than Dave Matthews.
- [37:26]
Matt Myers
How many Dave Matthews?
- [37:29]
Unidentified Male Co-host
I don't know. Who? I don't know. It sounds like Dave Matthews to me.
- [37:33]
Matt Myers
It is a young man named Eddie Vedder from Pearl. Jamie.
- [37:37]
Unidentified Male Co-host
Oh, okay. He's not bigger than Dave Matthews, is he?
- [37:42]
Matt Myers
No.
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Unidentified Male Co-host
Eddie Vedder bigger than Dave Matthews. I don't think that's.
- [37:46]
Matt Myers
I think Eddie. Matt Vedder is bigger. I think Pearl Jam is a band is bigger than Dave Matthews. Yes.
- [37:52]
Unidentified Male Co-host
I don't know if the numbers back that. I mean, Dave Matthews, when they tour, like when I was coming up, they would tour like.
- [37:58]
Matt Myers
Yes, but Pearl Jam Stadium. So was Pearl Jam. I mean, Pearl Jam. Dave Matthews is more like Jimmy Buffett. It. Pearl Jam is more like Bruce Springsteen. If you're going to compare, like, Dave Matthews is still like, go get high, sit on the grass and sing. Pearl Jam is like, this is one of the biggest rock groups of all time.
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Unidentified Male Contributor
Part of a huge movement. And he was like one of the big.
- [38:22]
Matt Myers
Yeah. I mean, it's like Nirvana and Pearl Jam. That's grunge. I mean, like, that was a whole movement of music. Were basically those two.
- [38:28]
Unidentified Male Co-host
Yeah, it sounds like Dave. Matt. That's what I thought it was. I thought it was Dave Matthews.
- [38:34]
Matt Myers
So you're gonna take back. You're saying Dave Matthews is bigger than Pearl Jam.
- [38:38]
Unidentified Male Co-host
I don't know the answer to that. I mean, I. I mean, depending on who. What's the point of reference? I don't know. I think. Coming up, I heard more about Dave Matthews than I heard about Pearl James.
- [38:49]
Matt Myers
I mean, you're wrong, but that's okay. All right, so let's talk for a second. This is a big weekend of a sport that I don't. Do you follow college baseball at all? Is that something. Is that something you ever.
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Unidentified Male Co-host
Here's why. The playoffs, though.
- [39:03]
Matt Myers
The playoffs have started. This is the.
- [39:05]
Unidentified Male Co-host
Right.
- [39:06]
Matt Myers
Omaha's the World Series, but this is the playoffs. It's the first round. And here's the way they do this. They have 16 seeds, Myron, and they make little four team pods for each 16 seed. So if you're one of the top 16 seeds, you get to host it at home, and then you play in a double elimination tournament with these other three teams in your podcast. What I love about college baseball is how random and ridiculous it is. Case in point, the number four seed is Auburn. Okay, Auburn, one of the best teams in the country in their little pod, includes a team called Milwaukee. All right, Milwaukee is the. Is the University of Milwaukee. They started their season five and 23 in Milwaukee, probably because when college baseball season starts, it's cold outside. That's going to be. My guess is it's pretty cold. They started 5 and 23. They went on a run. They make the NCAA tournament. They have now beaten Auburn and won their second game, and they're one game away from going to the Super Regionals. You are from Milwaukee. What do you think of the Milwaukee baseball team that I believe you told me plays their games in a city park?
- [40:21]
Unidentified Male Co-host
They did. Surprising. Like I said, I didn't know anything about Milwaukee baseball. Obviously, I'm a fan now. Like, I'll jump on any local bandwagon you give me. Like, now that you just told me about it, go Milwaukee. Let's win it. All right, but. But I didn't know enough about him. And I think I joked with you that they probably played at Lincoln Park. I was just throwing that out there, and I looked it up, and that's actually where they used to play, in a park. They've since moved to a place called Franklin Field, which is also the home of something called the Milwaukee Milkman. I don't know if people are making this up or not.
- [40:52]
Matt Myers
What is the. Wait a minute. Hang on. What are the Milwaukee Milkmen?
- [40:55]
Unidentified Male Co-host
I don't know, but there's a group called the Milwaukee Milkmen that also plays on the same field. My point is, when it comes to this Milwaukee surge, I hope everything's above board. I hope everything's good. I hope we didn't go out there and get a couple cats from the Caribbean throwing 106 miles an hour or something and we don't like. I hope there's not. I hope it's all clean. But I'm happy for Milwaukee.
- [41:19]
Matt Myers
You think Milwaukee might have cheated to get to this point?
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Unidentified Male Co-host
That's a bad list. Let's check everybody's backgrounds just to be sure that if we win it all, that they don't try to take it from us. But I'm happy for the city.
- [41:31]
Matt Myers
So here's why. I like watching these college baseball playoffs and I encourage. They're on ESPN2, ESPNU and ESPN plus all day, so there's a ton of games. There'll be like 32 games, too. So there's plenty of games.
- [41:43]
Unidentified Male Co-host
A lot of games.
- [41:45]
Matt Myers
College baseball. Baseball's a lot. With college baseball games last for days.
- [41:51]
Unidentified Male Co-host
They do.
- [41:51]
Matt Myers
But also what I like about them is college baseball is the one sport where there is still a vast, vast discrepancy in skill between the best players and the worst players. You have guys in this tournament who are going to be drafted first or second in the major league draft, but then you have guys they're playing against who, like next year are going to be like painters. You know, they're not going to be playing and they look like it and they make errors and there's a lot of human emotion. Some of them are fat. Some of them are like five foot one. And I just find admiring so entertaining because of the vast difference. And you can get crazy upsets. St. Mary's played UCLA. UCLA is the best team in the country, and they lost to St. Mary's and are close to being eliminated.
- [42:41]
Unidentified Male Co-host
No, I love. I love the fact that it feels like college baseball. Anybody can lose. Anyone can lose, can win, obviously. So I love that element. I do think, especially with nil, there are clearly some really good teams that are getting all these future Major League Baseball.
- [42:57]
Matt Myers
But they can still lose. They can still lose. That's harder now in college football and basketball. But in baseball, you can still have a team like Milwaukee that started 5 and 23. I think you might remember last year, Myron Murray State made the College World Series, which would never happen in these other sports.
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Unidentified Male Co-host
I just want to make sure that the 5 and 23 Milwaukee team, that we didn't bring somebody onto the team Mid season that kind of changed our, like, you know what I mean? Like, I hope we didn't show up with a brand new team in like April and all of a sudden we got better. But, but I mean, it's amazing because I think that's one of the few sports where you can just suddenly turn everything around that way.
- [43:37]
Matt Myers
Also, what if I told you that right now, today, Oregon could end up playing Oregon State in a big. In a battle that's held at a Big Ten campus. It is a Big Ten versus a Mountain west school and they're playing two historic Pac 12 rivals. Could end up playing a Big Ten conference game.
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Unidentified Male Co-host
That's wild. That's incredible to have those two teams with all the alignment stuff. You know, you can't even call that the old rivalry name. Like, they don't let you do that anymore.
- [44:10]
Matt Myers
What are you talking about?
- [44:11]
Unidentified Male Co-host
The Civil War? Like, you can't.
- [44:13]
Matt Myers
What do you mean? You can stop the Civil War.
- [44:16]
Unidentified Male Co-host
They got rid of it. The Oregon, Oregon State people, they got rid of it.
- [44:20]
Matt Myers
So when you say that, you can't call it that, meaning, like you can't call it. I mean, they don't or they don't call it that.
- [44:25]
Unidentified Male Co-host
They don't want, they don't want that connected to the rivalry anymore.
- [44:30]
Matt Myers
They wanted to agree with that decision.
- [44:32]
Unidentified Male Co-host
I don't like it at all. I mean, I think it doesn't have to be that serious or that deep. You know, that's the weird thing to me is sometimes people getting into a room and overthinking things.
- [44:42]
Matt Myers
And I do call the Ole Miss Mississippi State game the Egg Bowl. So I don't know how serious. I don't know how serious we have to take it. All right, we're going to go to the NFL for a little bit. Lots been going on in Myron's Minnesota. What's going to happen with JJ McCarthy. Plus Jamis was awesome yesterday. More Jamis for your money next here on Matt
- [45:11]
Unidentified Male Co-host
Matt and Myron the podcast.
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