Barn Burner: Boomer & Pinder with Rhett Warrener - Calgary Flames Vegas Golden Knights Game Day Show | FN Barn Burner

Episode Date: March 16, 2023

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We are a rolling here on the Thursday edition of the show. Welcome to Barnburner. Look at there's, there's Ryan Pinder. And it's myself. It's myself. And there's Franks. There's Franks. No, you know what?

In fairness, neither of those pricks are here. Neither one of them are here today. We don't have Frank. And we don't have the Rettster. The Rettster can only imagine. that he's tanked right up even still. I don't know what time it is in Nashville. But I'm hoping he asked.

Hour earlier, excuse me. Yeah, I'm hoping. Now, we've had some limited communication with the Rettster. Potential appearance on the show today. Is that what I'm led to believe? Sounds like it was classic Boomer and Rett communication. One question, muddled answer, where Red answers in his own time zone,

doesn't want to make anything easy. And then nothing from boom. So I had to step in and actually clarify, is there a window here? And what about these times here? And he said, yeah, it'll work. So there we go. Yeah, I... Sounds like two ice times.

He's going to be extremely hungover, if not back onto the booze, the sauce, until, you know, another bender in Nashville. And it's also, we have our first of 16 NCAA matches today. So I could see him country music, NCAA hoops, booze, hockey, like it's a long day ahead for the Redster. Yeah, I sent the message out this morning and he responded a little over four hours later. Yes. So the message went out at about 528 Mountain.

He got back at about 933. Basically to say, oh, that was basically I can paraphrase. So 1115 and 1230 Nashville time. So I went and checked what time national time is. We'll give it a shot. We're going to give it a go. It'll be somewhere between 1115 and 1130

flames time, mountain time. Right here. Calgary time. We're the show. Okay. Based. Now what's going on here?

Should I set an alarm? Alexa. Or whoever? Set an alarm? What's your name? Welcome to the program. We're here in the Tower Chrysler Studios. Tower Chrysler,

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Tower. Give us Tower. Give us surge. Give us Nicky. Give us the guys in the back. Give us the ladies in the in the offices upstairs. Let us. That's who we want.

That's who we want to deal with. Nobody else. People on. Wall's floor. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. You don't usually wear the sunglasses in studio.

They're boom. You know what it is? Well, for after burner, it's dead. I have it a little more dim in here. But for the, the daytime, I got to crank. up the old lights I got to shoot the old doaks I got to crank it up and now it's it's actually kind of it's kind of bright so uh you know that big ball that you light up there

I see the reflection in here the big lantern I do like when you go the I'm old man glasses over top of the I have bad eyes and I need to be wearing sunglasses glasses well it's one of those things you do you do one of the grandmother and my grandfather at the same time it's really special you know do you do one of those or do you just give it one of these Well, let me see here. Yeah, that looks good. There you go. That's how you worked at.

Hey, Ryan, do you know what today is? Because I think you might not. There will be a lot of people who do. There will be a lot of people who do know what today is, but you may not know what today is. Today's a very special day. It's Thursday. It's game day. It's all that sort of thing.

But as Alex is about to show you, we have video representation. We have video to back this up. Today is March the 16th. which makes it 316. And that's a special day for people who, of course, grew up in the church of the WWE. And that's right. Austin 316 makes this 316 day. Listen to the pop.

Let's hear it. Stone Cold. One of my favorite entrances of all time. It's the Rock versus Mankind. Oh, wow. And Stone Cold comes out. Watch this chair shot. Wow.

Oh, that's. The Rock is the champion. Stone Cold comes in. Referee, didn't see the chair shot. One, two, three, new champ. And look at all Vinnie Mac. Oh, you son of a bitch. You son.

Watch the hat toss. Yeah, gives them the figures. You take that. You son of a. Oh, it's so good. Mankind. Because the Rock was the corporate champ. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah. look at poor Vince. There's none better. I mean, I shouldn't say there's none better. On your Mount Rushmore, Ryan, because I know you're a huge wrestling haunt. Who would be on your Mount Rushmore of, uh, well, I just think the different eras of my life. No one really worked the mic when the rock was cool as well as the rock, rock, rock the mic when he was cool. So he would be on there.

I love the bushwhackers when I was, uh, early tag team action, WWF, sort of like mid, early 90s. Um, let, listen. Look at the crowd. They're going friggin bananas. Lawler's freaking out. This is what my face is. It's such a good chair shot. He doesn't put his hands up.

He just takes it right in the top of the cranium. Beautiful. Yeah, it's, uh, so happy three six day. I mean, oh, you pieces of trash out there. Happy Austin 316 day. And he, oh, yeah, he's a beauty. Now, ordinarily, we wouldn't have been able to run this in our past lives. We wouldn't be able to run this.

Or we'd have to do some heavy duty editing for it. But being that it is Austin 316 and it's 316 today, I didn't know that he was in the business of, you know, because he's got his, the broken skull ranch is where he lives and he's got his own IPA beer and he's got all, you know, some camo gear and all that. I didn't know that he was selling, uh, cleaning products or, you know, soaps and conditioners, but let's, here's, here's Stone Cold. You get in that goddamn shower, hit the bar of soap, put a little water on it and rub it all underneath your armpits around your balls and your fucking ass on, would you, you

smelly prick? Here's a tube of toothpaste. What you do is you pour some of this out on a little toothbrush and you scrub them fucking gimmicks in your, in your mouth are called teeth. Get all that yellow shit off of them. Your bread don't smell like a motherfucker. You understand what I'm saying? Deodorant. It's a miracle worker. You put it under your fucking armpits.

You get me? You fucking Viking. Last but not least. Oh, trust your hair brush. This thing does a goddamn wonders. If you got the fucking hair, I ain't got no fucking hair. Come that fucking shit you call a wig. You understand me?

See, I figure that's for you. I figure with the beard and the hair. It's like he's talking to you. He's telling you to clean up your act. I'm pretty decent on the deodorant and the soap. The brush is going to be an issue. That thing's going to get stuck in there. It's just not happening.

You know, get that yellow shit off your teeth, them gimmicks. And you wouldn't have been able to, you wouldn't, obviously, if you're listening to the podcast, he did throw up the,

the middle finger on his way out. He did. Now, do we know who he was, um, rapping to there? I don't. I,

you know what? I'd never seen that. I, well, again, I've not been able to play that ever before. But it is one of my favorites. It feels like a mankind type thing.

I know he, put his hand on it. You don't really hear. Yeah, you know what that's called? That's called working blue in the business. He's working blue right there. Yeah. He's closed.

You can't do that on the mic. How we doing, Pinder? It's a game day. It's Vegas. Flames ever won in Vegas? No, but geez, they're on a heater. They picked up a point last time. A blew a 3-1 lead in the third.

It doesn't get better than that, does it? Yeah. See, I didn't know. Yeah, it all kind of blends together whether they got a point. So were we, were we celebrating the fact that they got a point that night or was it kind of another one? No, because they blew a two goal lead. And it was the night I went to

at see you next Tuesday, Vance Joy, Ozzy Brad. So I remember checking my phone at us, boy, 3-1, that'll be interesting. Kind of feels like next goal wins. And then sure enough, it was Vegas, tie game, overtime. Yeah, I've seen this before. Yeah, that's not that night.

That's Max. No, but it's, you know what? In fairness, on the screen right now, and if you can't see it, you're listening along, the all-time record for the Calgary Flames in Vegas at T-Mobile, 07 and 1. Goals four per game. Yeah, 1.38. Goals again. How many?

4.25. A lot more. So they're getting less than a goal and a half and giving up nearly four and a half. So it's tough to win, Ryan. Those are some tough stats. to really digest but let's pretend it's like this let's say the vegas goalies that it goals against of 1.38 would that be good okay yeah and then let's say the flames goalies that a goal is against a 4.25 would that be good not ideal no no no so that's why they're 07 and 1 i got you yeah yeah it's like

now it's only in eight games right so it's kind of a small sample size to say it's growing 4.25 it's only been forever. It's not the stupid pond in Anaheim. We're not the stupid bleeping ducks. We're not in that territory yet because that was flirting with what 20 games, 25. It all depended whether you included playoffs or not. Like that was, they got another three, four years of this shit if they're going to get close to that thing. But I was going to say, however, they're on their way.

If you want to get to that kind of, if you want to get to that level, this is how you start with an 07 and one run over the first eight. so yeah and they had one in anaheim for the uh you know that miserable seemingly decade of utility in the building they haven't won there yet they've beaten them this year however not there obviously but they have they put them all at home nights all time they've done very well at home in a very you know it was a nice little tilted series yeah went for a walk down memory lane just to see so the one win because when was it you know what it was ryan it was the third game of the season. October 18th, the Flames won by a score of three to two. That was game three of the season. At that point, three and all, right? Remember, they had a very nice start. And then

Colorado beat Edmonton. Yeah, they started five and one. They had a five and one start and all of the, is this team better than last year's team? This is a playoff team. Look at these new additions. It's all coming together. Oh, baby, where, when are you buying your playoff? off seats. Five and one start and then they played the Oilers. Yes. Lost three to two. And again they out played them.

And that was, uh, in the dashboard. Yeah. That was, uh, the first of seven straight without a win. And that was after the five and one start right into the blender after the

second loss through seven games of the season. And I kind of felt at the time. Oversteer that five and, that five and one start, not as ideal when you then go win. in your next seven it's like you gave all of that back and they sure had to this correct yeah they they have yeah they did and they have and they they did um now you're coby uh yeah no ahead sorry you got a monologue here i'm trying to jump in on that no i've no i'm just i was going to

say we're going to be at the gregal tonight to an afterburner oh that's right um we'll be there But what's good, though, hey, I'm looking forward to going to the Greek. Don't get me wrong. But I said it the other night at Afterburner. If you are subscribing to the theory that our postgame show has anything to do with the flames losing hockey games, you haven't been paying attention because they've done just fine when we haven't done the show as well. So I think they're full marks on their own. It's too bad.

I'm not happy about it. We're being smarmy and kind of dickish about it. I'd love for this game to mean a ton. You'd love this to be a measuring stick for a potential first round matchup that you could you can realistically see coming. I'm having a hard time with it. I talked to, I talked to my buddy beef yesterday.

He says, I think they get in. I don't think Nashville can continue. I think the jets are still sliding. And as long as Markstrom can play the way he's play, I, he thinks he thinks they get in. So if you're with beef,

then tonight is a big game. For some others, though, it's what could have been. So they got what, 15 games left? They're probably going to have to win like 11 of them. Beef thinks this team can do that, even though they haven't strung three wins together since early December. They've had back-to-back wins just three times in the new year.

That team's going to go 11 and 4. It's kind of what I told them. I said, that's fine. The Jets may continue to struggle and maybe Nashville doesn't continue to rattle off wins, but this team is going to have to find a way to be very consistent. They have not put any games together. If we were sitting here today after a win against Anaheim and even that point the other night against Arizona. But if it's a five game win streak, then yeah, you're you're licking your chops for this one.

Where are we watching the game? It doesn't matter that it's an eight-a-late start. Who cares? Because this is a monster. This is your opportunity to go in there, get your first win in Vegas, show them that if you meet them in round one, then it's going to be a battle. But it doesn't have that feel for me going into tonight. So let's say the Jets play 500. That's not crazy, right?

They have 14 games left. That's 14 points. That puts them at 93. Calgary Flames need 19 points to get to 93. They have 14 games left. This group's going to go 9, 4, and 1? Or like, okay.

We've set it over and over again. They're going to have to go on a heater. That's a given. But you know what? They're also going to have to do. is be nearly the polar opposite team that we've seen for the last exactly three months they're they're going to just have to completely flip the script and be just show something that they haven't shown almost all season that

five and one stretch to start the year that's the best we've seen of them that was October it's now March it can happen and I'll I set it before and if if I'm not even looking to get people angry and they flames off office because you know how Darrell rolls well you got no one here thinks we can do it and everybody wrote us off i'll be that guy if that's who you need if you want to see oh you guys see you didn't think we could do it you guys hate us and all this i'll be that guy i don't care i got no pride i want you to win i'd love for the city to have playoff hockey i don't give a shit but i'm as i sit here and we're fairly honest i just don't see any way that it happens because you've played five

months of hockey and haven't shown that you can do it. So yeah. No, hey, look, like, is this a skilled roster? Yes. Have teams closed this type of gap before? Yes. But what we're on the same page on is that is there anything you've seen in the last three months that indicates this group can do that, but they need to get no.

Now, so, you know, I'm not say their chances are zero. They're clearly not. But, you know, this morning I looked at 17%. on one model it's lower on some other ones you're talking about a one in six one in seven one and eight type thing yeah sure so it's like okay here's your chance uh flip a coin and get heads four times in a row it's possible it's just going to take a lot of fucking tries and if you only get one it ain't going to happen probably right and it's also one of those things too where usually when you have you know there'll be those that use the mathematical models and then there'll be those that

why I actually watch the games, that sort of thing. I don't care. If you're using eye test or strict math, neither one is in the favor, right? It's neither if you, no matter what you subscribe to, you got a really hard time seeing this happening. And it's too. You're going to tell me. Because a team that lost to Anahom and Arizona in this crucial stretch of the season, not in game 47.

We just, you know, it's the dog days of January, whatever. a team that lost in regulation to Anaheim and in overtime to Arizona in the last week with their season online. That team is going to reel off 10 wins in their last 14. And then we'll still need a ton of help to get in. Love to see it. It'd be fun. So do join us for Afterburner tonight as we will be going live from the Grey Eagle Resort and Casino.

Do we know where? There's a B-ball on it. Yeah. Figure it out. We'll set the, yeah, it'll be, it'll be good. We'll be there. If you want to join us, come on down. You can't have any of three wings again tonight or what?

Yeah, that's how it rolls, because over at, over at the Griegel, when it's a game day, they've got the specials. We've talked about it. We thought maybe, is this what, just for the Super Bowl? The big game, it's not. If there is a, if there's a game on the big screens at the stage bar, you can enjoy the $12 pitcher and wings special. $12 pitcher and wings, not either or. You get both for $12. As soon as the puck is dropped until the final buzzer, that is on.

That's your special. That's the way to go at the stage bar or at the blaze bar, depending if the stage bar is full, you can slide over to the, to the blaze bar and get it there as well. Gray Eagle Resort and Casino, our home away from home, we will be there for After Burner tonight.

So what else is happening? What else is going on? That's, are you excited for the madness? Are you getting all pumped for the madness? I wish you. You're getting all hammered up tomorrow for, for,

St. Patti's Day? What's going on in your world? I have bad news to report on both fronts. So first off, if you don't have a fucking bracket, who cares, right? And we're not organized and we're idiots, so we don't even have a bracket. I feel like it's my responsibility at the office. I'm going to take this on now to, you know, entice the casual sports fan, which you are outside of hockey. Outside of hockey, I feel like it's like, I've tried to talk tennis with you.

Like, you're not going to do a bracket unless I put one on your day. right you haven't done a bracket have you no so that's the only way we're going to get into this thing is if we use the bracket there bracket in wolverine's office bracket for princy bracket on my desk rent's a lost cause because he'll forget his login uh that's that's what we need to do we've missed the boat's my fault sorry and i was going to say so so the fact that i'm not into tennis means i'm not a real sports fan if where are they playing golf the street like no i mean you're you're great at hockey and you know you love your yankees and you're good on NFL football but this is a niche thing right america's upside down for this tournament and i like do can we name a one seed doubtful right

but if we get the bracket it's my fault we need the bracket then you're like oh i got this fucking one seed let's go hmm that's my point we've missed our opportunity well okay yeah i was gonna say i well i said to your point then a real sports fan you would have thought would have had fucking brackets all over the office. That's right. And that's why I'm losing here. Pinder sports fan, please, could you get all of this sports stuff out of here? Please. I'm drowning in all of this sports paraphernalia that you've got sitting around the office. So we'll have a bracket next year.

We'll encourage our listeners to join us. We'll have some fun. We'll give away some prizes. Let's go. Well, it's weird that March sneaks up on us. Who sees it coming? Friggin March. After February.

January? Wow. Since when? Since when? Masters is the sixth. We got to get something up and around for that. But here's the thing about March Madness and the brackets. You get the brackets. You sit down, you do the thing. No one really knows anyway. So I'm sure a lot of people do.

But for guys like us, you sit down, you just fill it on anyway. And then after two days, maybe even day one, the brackets fucked anyway. You throw it in the garbage and then you just watch. Are we still not? Can we not just do that? Can we not just enjoy the drama of watching? these kids. In the office, we'll have the best bracket.

That's the beauty of them, right? Not our office, because you failed. That's right. But next year, we'll have it up. And then we can say, geez, I didn't know you were such a hoops aficionado, Jimmy, the cable guy, whoever's working for us at that point. Yeah. First game's underway.

16 today. So, hey, if you're swinging by the gregal, there should be some ball on. Ballers. Pinder report coming up. I want to do a little something right now. McLeod Law, it's on your screen. There you see it. Look at old Peter Klein there.

I do my best to give some help to the hopeless, and hope to the hopeless. He is a great, great man. They are great, great people. You know, and I think I shared it, got a very nice email from Austin. Really? Cloud Law.

He's a big Austin. He says he really kind of, well, you know, great guy. And I think he listens and watch the show and he appreciates the effort that goes in. He was just kind of saying, you know what? We're enjoying the show and you guys are real. And that's why the show becomes popular because you're not,

I mean, you guys are a bunch of donkeys. Paraphrasing, paraphrasing, you know, you guys are a bunch of donkeys, but people come to appreciate that when they watch or listen to you, they know what they're getting. They're not getting hot takery or you're trying to do something. something it's just who you are that's why people have come to like it so that meant a lot to austin reaching out from a from a cloud law so we appreciate that now uh and you know what peter klein he's cut from the same cloth just a fine fine gentleman good fellows indeed go get your

shine box personal injury lawyers that's the peter klein expertise that's that's where he's he's corner in the market helping to take stress off of your shoulders if you've had an injury you're not alone let them handle your legal insurance and medical claim so that you can focus on your recovery and nothing else personal injury lawyers over at mcclod law bring extensive experience and an understanding of all of your needs so as they say you worry about you you let them worry about everything else and they're proud of their calgary roots which is why every once in a while we'd like to kind of dig in and go a little down a memory lane little calgary flames memory lane what you dig up today what you got 1992 where were you in 1992

11, almost 11, 10 is Grade 4, grade 3? Yeah, Earl Grey Elementary School. Let's go. Delicious. March 16th, 1992, defenseman Al McKinness scored his first career hat trick

in a 4-3 loss to the Hartford Whalers. Where was everybody else? Jesus, guys, Al was working. Al sitting there, hey, anybody else want to chip in? four three how how many goals do you get for a hat trick three oh yeah what did we get else anyone i got three here or three once you're four anyone four anyone so mckenis gets his first career hat trick on this date in 92 then in 94 on this date became the first player in calgary

history calgary flames or franchise history to record 600 career assists became the ninth defenseman in NHL history to hit the 600 helper plateau in a two one loss to the Florida Panthers one goal hey how do you get an assist does anyone know oh on a goal well I got one assist so did anybody else poor Al's back just killing them from carrying those teams so a big day for al McKinnis doing all of the responsible for all of the offensive production for the flames on not just once but twice on March 16th 92 and then again in 94 on this date. So it's wild his numbers when you look at his career,

like over a point per game as a defenseman that played 800 games with the franchise. Yeah. And great guy. Big part in the St. Louis alumni now. But that I feel like if there was guys that don't get talked about on the, or Mount Rushmore or Flames, McKinness and Kent and Nelson are probably like the two

that gets snubbed the most. And it's probably a lot of recency bias, but like, You know what's all I was going to say. You talk about recency bias. You go back and watch, you go back and watch those highlights even now. And you watch his shot. Yeah.

That thing, it's a banger today. That puck is moving. They didn't have the wood stick and no radar on it. He's scoring goals today with that shot. That is a wicked, wicked slap shot even in today's game. Imagine him with the stick technology that they have nowadays. So he. at the skills competition in 1998.

So this is six years after the trivia that you dropped on us because you had the 92 in there, didn't you? Hit 100.4, just over 160 kilometers. So this is later in his career. He's still clapping it over 100. And now it's like, that's pretty impressive. That's like, wow, you could go to, that's with the composite.

It's not with the wood? You kidding me? Dude. Hell of a guy. hell of a guy and same with McLeod Law Peter Klein and Al McKinness two great guys wonder if they know each other do you think they probably run in the same

circles hey I wonder if Peter Klein can wire a wire a slapper he's got a one feet clapper hurt you're flying out to help him you know what get back to that you go Peter Klein 403-2543864

online McLeoddashlaw dot com they're across your social media platforms at McLeodlaw, LLP. And it's not just the personal injury. Of course, that's the calling card for Peter Klein. That's his area of expertise. But it's a general firm, whatever.

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Oh, so. Well, what do we want to do? Do you want to juggle for a bit, kill some time? Can you do an art? I think we should. I don't want to start up in the report because that's going to be too dense. I mean, yeah, yeah. And I feel like, so read this email on his phone typically, right?

Oh, that's, yeah. Let me tell you about Jasman travel. Let me tell you about Jasper. We were up there in January, enjoying ourselves up at the Jasper Park Lodge. And you may not know this if you've not been back there since. Temperatures are warming. It's still not bitterly cold up there. It's actually warming up.

And it's a great time to go and experience Jasper. Warmer temperatures, drinks on the patio, clearer days. There you see, a ski marmot basin. They have had the escape card, half-priced lift tickets. They've been on all season. They continue all season long. Conditions are great. They've opened new terrain, in fact, a great reason, no excuses needed to go up to Jasper and enjoy yourself.

Then they've got summer. A lot of things are coming. So it's almost like when the time hits, you want to book your campground spots and all that sort of thing. Same thing here. Golf course opens May 31st. They've got the Sky Tram opening later this month on the 24th, so we're almost there. And then the summer camping season. Front country reservations open today.

Today, front country reservations as far as camping spots, backcountry March 20th. So go and see them at go online, tourism, Jasper, and start booking your spring and summer. Because it's, don't be like me. Don't, don't plan, don't book, just kind of roll with it and hope for the best. Tourism, Jasper, skiing, spring, summer, get after it up in Jasper. I hear I hear rustling do you hear some rustling? I got a rustling. Yeah, I do.

Every day. Some every damn. I think we're close. Oh, I hear. Yeah, I wonder if, uh, I wonder if we're going to go to, uh, if we're going to go to Nashville. Oh, look at this. I don't know if he's frozen or else.

Oh, he's frozen. Yeah. He's, uh, yeah. I do like the bucket. I do like if you can't. If you're, yeah. If you're not joining us on the YouTube or on Facebook, there is. Oh.

There is. There's the Redster. Old school CCM bucket. It's got the classic Blue Sabres Union. Look at this. It's the Redster from Nashville. Look at the big boy. How are you doing?

I'm dying. I'm dying. I'm not. I feel like Pinder. You look like shit. Yeah. Yes. All right.

Yesterday, we're resembled hockey. Today it doesn't resemble anything. It's awful. Oh, boy. Okay. Who is going to be asked. This will be asked, Rhett. This will be the segment.

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For those that are unaware, tell us why you are in Tennessee. Kelly Chase is a charity hockey, fantasy hockey camp, I guess, is the reason. They raise a bunch of money for firefighters and policemen and Army, whatever, not Army, military. So, yeah, that and to drink with people is basically why I'm here. That part, you know better, hey? Yeah. Navy, Marines, military, uh, big beer. Yeah.

You look older today. I don't know if it's the helmet or if it's the way that your, your face is hanging off of your skull, but you, you look old today. I'm going to die. Did you see his picture on Twitter last night, Dean? I did. I got to find somewhere quieter to go. Hang on. All right.

So he's a pod. Yeah, the pot. Photo last night. It's a classic wooden two-top table in a bar. You got the neon lights behind the bar. You've got some blurry people walking around. There's a guy you might know. Big Ernst, say hi to the boys on the show.

Big Ernst. Hey, guys. Hey! Hey! Hey. He tried to stand up on me in the line last yesterday. Toad dragged him, one in and one top cheese. He might have toe dragged me.

I don't know about the top cheese part. Chase. Well, the thing is, Bigger, and he's in the right spot there. Because, of course, he's in recovery. He's got his life on track. The rest of you, dummies, he would be making you look. Oh, there's Jason. Good, sir, too.

Kelly Chase. That's. Very nice. Pink shades. Look at these beauties. It's not the Terry Crispines. Guys are hurting. Yeah.

All right. Okay. So who's on your team? Who is on your team? Clark will and, uh, oh my goodness. Darcy Horticuch. Oh, the animal. No way.

Yeah, we're not a highly skilled group. Jeez. Yeah, you got a real skilled group? There's no one skilled in the whole camp. It's a bunch of muckers like Garth Butcher and Kelly Case, Jim McKenzie. It's all just muck, tough. Yeah. Well, it's what you're familiar with.

Janssen is out there. But that's who Kelly Chase would be running with. Those are his guys. Those are the guys you come to count on over the course of your life. So not surprising. No. So what about the guys, what about the, what about the fans that are paying to get in there? Are they a bunch of losers or you got some decent guys?

Because it's usually a bunch of losers that do this. Are you talking about the fans, the guys that are playing or actually fans? Yeah. There's no fans watching. No, no. The guys that pay to go and play with you guys. I got a good group. They're all Saskars from back home, so I know three quarters of them before the tournament even started. So I got a good group to hang out with. There's one team out there that's trying way too hard. They're just kicking the piss out of everyone. So nobody likes them. How was Tootsie's loss? Tutsi's won again. Tutsi's won again.

Undefeated. It's got us defeated. It was so nice out yesterday sitting on the patio, then things get very hazy. Yeah, that rooftop patio is trouble. That rooftop one's a killer. Yeah, Tutsis is undefeated. Don't feel bad, retro. Don't feel bad. So how many games have you played then, including the one that you apparently just played?

Not a lot of sweat going. Did you crack a beat at all? or? Yesterday I tried because I didn't have a drink till after the games. Today I was dying out there. I didn't try very hard. My give a shit meter was off.

So we've played three games and we've got one more to go. Is there any prize money up for grabs or just pride? IVs? What are we playing for? There was IVs this morning. There was IVs this morning. This break. So this is you post-IV?

Yes, that's what I said. You're awful. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Go get another one. You know what, though? If you said, no, you know what, actually, we didn't do a whole lot last night. I actually feel pretty good.

The hockey's been good. I'd be very disappointed. That's true. Very much on brand. I need the hockey to be second, like way secondary. And Tutsis to be winning. So well done. Good for you.

It's beating everyone, Tutsi. Yeah. So is this an annual thing? Are you going back next year? Is this kind of how this is going to work? I don't know. It's exactly what you think. You know you're going to end up feeling crappy, but if they invited me back today, I'm not coming.

Six months? You're in. Tomorrow. Yeah. Let's get tomorrow on the way out of town. You come back. So who put on the best show last night? There's a lot of guys that had a lot of fun.

I don't know who the winner was, but nobody was disappointed until they woke up this morning. And are they all excited because you had said earlier that there's this event and then there's one in Winnipeg. Are guys really, I would guess, really looking forward to the Winnipeg event now? Yeah, I don't know how guys are doing that. That's next week. So I can't imagine going from here to there. That would be a tough shift. have you paid close attention to the Calgary Flames and how they've been performing?

They saw they lost to Phoenix, so that was interesting. I haven't played close attention, but I did see that there was a loss. Yeah, it's all you need to know, really. That's all you need. Yep. Lost to Anaheim and lost to the coyotes. So that's the show we're having today. That's fun.

Yeah, now they're in Vegas where they've never won. Yeah. They played Nilem yesterday? No, that was last week. Friday, Friday. Oh, yeah, gotcha, got, got, got you. So what's the plan? You have one more game, and then what's up for the Redster,

the rest of today and tomorrow? I probably have to go to Tutsis and find the patio again, see what it's like if it's better on Thursday. Maybe it'll be better on Thursday than on Wednesday. I'm not sure. I've got to find out. But there's a Nashville play Chicago tonight, so we're supposed to go to that game. Well, while we have you, I'll ask you a question or two here for Ask Rette, presentation of Hope Street.

This is from, um, Hof. Christian, this is Chris from Switzerland, is what, uh, what you need to know. Hey, Retzner, I'm on paid leave. I got an artificial left hip joint on Friday. Have you any recommendations for Netflix or pay TV? I'm losing it here at home. Hope you three are well. Hello, Chris, from Switzerland. Anything on the Netflix? Are you binge in anything besides dark liquor?

Hello. Pender, didn't you say that one? What's that one on HBO that you like? Last of us. Just watched the finale of season one last night. It's awesome. And I don't know for Swiss one, Calgary Roots, but he's watching the show.

It's all shot here in Canmore. It's pretty cool. This is from Steve. I don't know that there's much of a story, but he's heard over the years. You call the lady that you live with. You refer to her as the shoveler. I've known for, Rhett, I've known for years who the shoveler is.

I love the story, but I think I missed the original story about how she came to be known as the shoveler. Any details? That's from Steve. I'm trying to remember. I think we were on a trip, but didn't we come home

and the, and studying, instead of shoveling that she'd driven all over the driveway and then it freezes and then you got the ruts on the driveway and you can't get them off and I was upset so that's when she started taking over the shoveling I got the bad shoulders I can't shovel right and didn't you buy your new shovel as a gift wasn't that kind of a I can't remember everything yeah it's a lot of I use my brain today So this is from Boomer and Ryan with the show.

Do you miss your kids and family? You've been gone for a number of days now because you went to Toronto from Buffalo and then you went right to Nashville. Do you miss the family? No, not yet. I think I'm okay for another day or two. And probably when I get home, I'll be so hungover and tired. I won't want to be around the family either. Plus it'll be St. Patty's Day.

Oy, yeah. Oh, you, yo. That's one of your favorites. What are you doing? You can't not celebrate. Exactly. So when I get home, I'm going to have to go for a Guinness somewhere. Are we going to see you tomorrow?

I'm going to be alive tomorrow. You know what? I'd be happy with even like 90 seconds, two, three minutes, just so we can look at your face. Because I've appreciated this. I don't know that we've learned a whole lot. But just looking at your face has brought me great joy. That's right.

This is a grind for him. This is some heavy computing today. And you can tell. So we're sorry and thank you. Yeah. So before we let you go, you've played three games. What's your record? And go get a win today in this last one.

No one wants to leave a loser. What's your record? We're one and two. We got pumped by the team that nobody likes the first game. We won yesterday afternoon. But this morning's performance was subpar. You guys missed curfew. So we weren't very sharp out there.

I don't know. I think we only have like one period. I don't know how they do the last game, so we can't, we can only win a period, I guess. I'll do my best. I've got no points so far. No points. Zero points.

You know why? It's because a lot of those things, they'll zero in on the guys that they know that can hurt them the most. So they've done a good job taking you out. Yeah. Say hi to Tutsis for us. All right. I'll send you a picture.

Adios. Later, retro. Oh, adios. There he is. Ladies and gentlemen, our boy. Holy fuck is he hung over. He is hung right to the tits. I've known him for a long time.

You could just tell by the look on his face. It's just there's a thing. And I know he's got the helmet on, so it's probably, oh, boy. You said the skin hanging off his skull, and it was perfectly worth. That was a man trying to survive the morning and just be alive on earth.

Not anyone that could form a sentence or complete a pass at this point, I'm guessing. Thank you to Shaman and everybody at Hope Street for that. That is Ask Brett every Thursday on the program. It's brought to you by Hope Street rental property management. Book a virtual meeting online. Let Hope Street get to work for you. They are Canada's property manager of the year. Locations in Vancouver, Edmonton and Calgary,

Hopestreet.com. dot CA yeah I don't expect you to be able to see this but there's neon lights it's a bar it's Tootsies it's Rhett at a table and it's blurry and it's a perfect depiction of why he looks like a bag of dix this morning there you have it I remember and I've told you this I remember the first and only why yeah only time I've gone to Nashville the first stop we made because rat Tootseys is one of his favorite spots on the planet. We land in Nashville.

We get to the hotel. We drop off. It's the old, I think it's Hal Gill, who started the bag chucker. He and Chris Mason with the Nashville Predators broadcasts. Get to your room, fire the bags in and out. We chucked the bags. We realize we've left four people at the airport that were on our trip. Gibby, Brian Gibson was left behind.

I know we had some sponsors that had to. to take a cab and meet us at the hotel because we forgot them. And then it was straight to Tutsis. And when you walk in, if you've never been, it's, you got to love Nashville. It's honky tonks everywhere. And they're all kind of the same. Just some are a little bigger or whatever. But you walk in and there's a band immediately.

Like you can reach out. You can touch the band. They're right there. And then I think you go up a set of stairs, like two stairs. And then there's another bar. There's another band in the back. And it was at that bar. right beside the staircase to go upstairs.

We were kind of, okay, so are we going up? Where do we go? There's a patio up top. There's this and that. Where's Pinder? And you were at the bar, that second bar in the back. And what is it, Yingling? Is that the beer?

This was in Boston. Was it? Okay. Then it was Nashville. I don't know what beer you had then. But anyway, I see this. The yellow beer that I love. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah. It's whatever the beer was in Nashville. all I see is the been the back of pinder at the bar paying the bar keep and then turning around and this is what it looks like and he's got about a hundred beer in his arms that's what yes there's about there about nine cents a beer down there just turns around yeah and here you go and here you go and here you go and here you go and yep and within a few hours I was taking clients back to the hotel because they were they had been over served and there was it was quite a night it was quite a night where's pender oh he's at the bar you couldn't have held another beer if they paid a million dollars to do it you were just you were over capacity and for you and one for you grab one here thank you good so there's a good yiggling story too though

because we went to boston i believe the year after nashoreal does that sound about right yeah and i'd never been to boston before and you know you hear the accent and movies and things like that for some reason i'd never figured out like i'd seen it probably on a wall at fenway or something but i'd never heard yenling be pronounced before and we're at the bar just a couple uh sports bar a couple of blocks away from the hotel and we're all ordering beers it's busy there's a game on maybe it's a seltics playing or something it's loud and i'm trying to order a beer And I'm like, yeah, whatever's local. And he's like, Yang Lang, but with the accent, I'm just like, sorry.

And again, sorry, I don't understand what you're saying. And Boomer was like, Jesus, just take the beer. It's yingling. I'm like, I'm sorry. I've never heard about this thing before. Like, why does it sound like it's an Asian beer with a Boston accent? Like, this is like another language. Like, I land on the moon.

And it is, it does have kind of a weird spelling. You wouldn't think that's, yeah, when you see it. But yeah, it was, uh, it is. weird that yeah if wherever we've gone it just becomes uh armfuls of beer and then just total chicanery soon to follow yeah we'll get out again we'll get on the road again we'll get a big got to get on the road again i got a list i got a list of places we got to go ah good times good times i don't know how long the rest i'll say this we've heard enough about it we just have to do it next fall i don't know that we learned a lot from ret there but

I would be, I'd be disappointed if that hit went any other way. You know what I mean? If, if he came out, hey, guys, no, you know, we've, uh, two and one. We got a big, uh, we got a big game coming up this afternoon. Who am I talking to? Yeah, we ran to this team. They're really hungover. We cleaned their clocks.

Boy, those guys should have been in bed earlier. Yeah. I'm sure, maybe by next week, he'll be able to tell us a little bit more of what they, what they've done, some food that they've eaten. there's probably been some experiences beyond that, but details were a little, a little thin today, in fairness to the old Redster. The old microprocessor was running a little slow. Speed test. Right.

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We had a game day Tuesday against Arizona, and it looked like it's skated on Monday. We might see an Adam Rizhka. It looks like Ruch might have been coming back in. It didn't happen. So we will wait to see if it happens again tonight. One thing we do know for sure is those top nine haven't really changed much of late. And our boy, Wockerdar, coming off a goal. Don't be taking a moment.

Thank you. No, I don't. And at this point, I know that it's got Rizitschka on there, and not to say that that's inaccurate, but it. Hard to imagine Daryl at this point taking Lewis out of the lineup. This is you need, if you're, if you, if there's one thing we know in, in, in that environment and in that world, they can't admit they're done or think they're done or any

of that. They have to approach every game as though they're, they're winning this because they are that close to being in. I just can't imagine that Lewis comes out for a youngster who hasn't played. When's the last time where Zichka played a month and a half ago? And that's sort of the biggest, bigger conversation. It's like, how are we doing on development here when you look at how many games he's played the last two years? Not ideal.

But again, that's not Daryl's job right now. Daryl's job is to convince these guys they can reel off 10 wins in their last 14 to make the playoffs. So I get it. I'm with you. I'd expect Lewis, not Rizhka there. As for Vegas, a little healthier than the last time the flames saw them. Jack Eichel, William Carlson up the middle, their top two centers. Barboshev, they added the deadline, is slotted in on the left side of that top line.

And interestingly, we'll get to our Betway bets later, but pretty much since Rhett called Jack Eichel, what, overrated or a bum or something on those lines, he's been really darn good for the Golden Knights, all that after, excuse me, Stone's absence, not Michael, the lesser of the stone, the hurt, the hurt, they're both hurt, okay, the forward of the Stone brothers. There's the look of those lines there.

Flames fans lamenting the season and where they're at, right now. Someone threw this out on the Twitter story yesterday and I don't necessarily endorse exactly what it's saying but it is interesting. Those are Dom's probabilities plotted by date throughout the year and the roller coaster dropping not far after the Pelche press conference miscue. Now that's also when they, you know, been losing a lot of games with that's off schedule and then they stopped winning against bad teams. There's a lot of things there. And to be fair, it felt like they've been the same team all year. It's just that the model expected them to finally start playing better. Yeah. I mean, there's a couple of points there.

You could go back to what about mid to late December. It looks like there was a bit of a crest there before a drop. And if you want to go right back to right near the start, we mentioned that five and one start. That was probably just a smidge there after that. October 7th start and it's been steadily it looks like you know what that looks like it looks like my my portfolio for my investment guy yeah yeah awesome that's what my life looks like right there hope like hope you're getting your percent there thanks for the help mm-hmm right there it is so you know here's where some people's attention are you know it's it's the butard sweepstakes let's take a peek

at the standings and maybe differently than we do every day in the Pindorart port. Maybe it is time we all go boomer and start looking glass half empty. That yellow line on the standings dean, that's the bottom half of the league, would indicate you're eligible to win Badard. You are in the bottom 11. You can move up 10 spots if you win the lottery. They got to get there. And look at that. Only five points separating them and Detroit, who are currently 10th from the bottom. Ah, Dean, it's time to get on Team Tank with the Flames playing playoff teams for, let's see here. one, two, three, four of their next five games, including this is their first of two matchups

against the Golden Knights in eight days. They got a Dallas game at home this weekend, the Kings as well. And they just lost to the ducks. That's the only non-playoff team they face in their next five. So team tank? See, no, in fairness, I'll wear the glass half empty moniker for sure.

But have you not been the one in years past where you've been playing Tina Turner music and celebrating the inverse standings right to the very end? And it's kind of where they're usually in that Arizona, Montreal range, and then they get on a heater and don't play kids down the stretch, and they fall further back. But I think this is where a lot of the fan base is now.

I think the understanding of the math is that it's horrible. You need not only to get on a massive heater, you're going to need two teams to be 500 or worse. And I'm sorry, Nashville and Winnipeg have been better than 500 all year. Why are they going to start now? Yeah, 68 games in. I don't know that there's not enough runway left to go up or down to the degree you'd like. They could go down.

Look at that two points. That's a world of difference. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go. Problem is this damn soft schedule. I kid. Speaking of Bedard, why is everyone so hot and bothered about getting into the top 11, the bottom 11, if you will?

Well, let's go to WHL action last night. Oh, my goodness. Still doing it. Doing it again. And again. And again, Zintet, excuse me. Here's Bidar down the right, Dito. Zink!

Mm-hmm. How many goals this year? 62, if you need them. 6-2. And the paths aren't any good either, right? They got this guy scoring 100 goals. We'll go on the road to round one, it looks like, but it should be better you'd think with a guy that's got 128 points.

Something like that, right? Jace. Yeah, I think he'll go first overall, Ryan. Thank you. This is why you are paid the big bucks for sure. That's it right there. We almost had what every hockey fan's been clamoring for for maybe about four or five years last night.

Have a listen and a watch. Oh, he's great. Wow. I don't know if we have sound for this. I thought we had to say. For people that are only listening, describe what you're... Well, we started here. Ryan Hartman scores, and as he's flying by the net,

it looks like incidentally he clips the leg of Jordan Bennington, noted red ass and poor goalie. He then goes on to celebrate thinking nothing of the incidental contact, and while he's in the hallway of hugs or whatever you want to call it, over the top comes a blocked Erick. Got it through they score! And the Blues, Bennington coming. Hartman skated through.

Bittington's area and clipped him on the way by in celebration. And Flurrie's over there and they're going to go. Flurry trying to get out of the linesman Wong. Buing. Booying. He almost had the- Right Darren Pang. Niceest Hall of Fame goaltender against the biggest red-ass goaltender

who's a pile of trash last few years. That would have been so amazing, D. I'll say this. Now I'll say this, you're Ryan Hartman. There's no halo underneath that helmet. I think he knew what he was doing. But that's the thing. I mean, Bennington has put himself into a spot where the league knows.

This guy could go volcanic at any given moment. So yeah, he just, oh, did I clip you? Oh, sorry about that. I didn't mean to, oh, did I catch you with the elbow? And then here he is. But yeah, he's leaving the ring. Zipping the hands up in the air, firing everyone up. Like, it is unbelievable.

He is so easily set off. I love it. And we almost had it. It's a shame. Mark Andre Fleury nearly had a chance to hammer that beak of Jordan Bennington. We didn't get it. Get out of way. Zebras.

Let's go. Ah. Lots of reaction from the Twitter sphere. Now, why did Mark Andre Fleury come down the ice? Some excellent reporting being done live on the scene. Right. There are some tweets from the action last. night. Mark Andre Fleury, quote, that one was pretty quick. One of the guys said he hit them in the

nuts, in the nut sack. Can I say nutsack? Then I saw him through another one at our guy. That was the time. Mark Andre, there's there's kids watching. There are young, there are young boys and girls who are hockey fans. Could you please clean it up? Now do you prefer nuts or nuts? I hit him right in a nut. Yeah. Can I say, say nut sack that's got to be a t-shirt if i'm if i'm in minnesota you need to be making a can i say nut sack t-shirt and start selling it immediately right can i say that sack you know like yeah get a flower in there somewhere yeah it'll sell itself and then just some dude in the background with his face beat red just brooding uh more reaction from the site i mean

NutSack is so great. For real, balls, right? You get hitting the balls. The fact that you'd go to nuts and then nutsack and then ask if you can say it. It's so Mark Andre Fleury, right? Yeah. Sweet boy.

Sweet boy. Yes, beautiful. Hall of famer. Hall of Fame human too. This is Jeff Vallette on Twitter. For real, though, maybe the worst officiating decision in recent NHL history preventing Mark Andre Fleury, maybe the nicest guy.

in hockey from being the guy who finally gets to say screw it and throttles Bennington, inexcusable. We were robbed of greatness on this night. That's all of us. That's how we feel. Man, that would have been good. Even if he doesn't win the fight, you just want to see someone try to get some swings in on that jerk.

And unsurprisingly, today, St. Louis is Jordan Bennington. We'll have a hearing today for roughing slash unsportsmanlike conduct on Minnesota's Ryan Hartman. No word on any nut sack spearing. as part of that hearing later today bennington should have one of those punch cards with the league every time he gets disciplined for being a dummy there's oh okay yes there's no card left it's just air click it's all been punched click guys are tired of him right he on his team guys are look at this already Craig barrube kind of came out already and said this guy just needs to focus on on playing net it's enough already yeah the 892 save percentage would suggest that he should

focus on box. Lots of people putting them by them. Blynesman, you got to know better than that, right? Like, it's a bit of feel. You know what, though. You know they're told not to allow it. And I mean, not to be literal area or to do.

Knowing that guy in that scenario, what if Flurry falls and cracks his head or something? I mean, we wanted to see it, but you'd feel even worse about it. You'd be even more sour about Binnington. If Flurries goes down there and then, you know. That's just classic.

Classic glass half empty boom. What if he beat the tar out of Bittington? That's the full. Come on. We needed to see it. Sorry about my bad attitude for that one. Jeez. I apologize.

Trevor Zegris did Trevor Zegers things last night. This time of pass. Let's check out the duck snitch. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. I'm not losing to him.

Let's go. They were hosting the Islanders last night, a late one. and it's not just goals that you can make look special. Watch this dish from Zegris as they head to the other end of the ice. Heads to the bench. Clutterbuck moves it along and Sizekka's from behind the net. To the lines, pull it on timer and that whistles wide. Up the boards, Ryan Strom, trying to jam it through center.

Zegris trails the play, picks it up between his legs. Great pass. He's a left shot. He pulls it back and he's going to shoot it. Feathers it between. his legs and then zips it right back 45 degrees onto the tape of chat deuses who puts it home this is just it's a it's a great play and look how close is to hit in the skate like 12 it's insane we've got years of highlights for this guy yeah it's pretty to watch I don't want to get too

heavy hockey on you but Pat Verbeaks the GM there this guy will fill seats and be at All-Star Games and win deep competitions and like he's a superstar. Is he the guy that Pat Verbeek wants to build around, though, if you can see the case I'm trying to build here. You know what the thing is, when you say build around, you'd probably love for him to be a big part of what you're doing, right? Is it Chicago where you have Taves as the captain and Patrick Kane as the high flight, highly, skilled star player. You'd probably not want him to do all of that, right? I don't know who else is in that locker room. Who else is in their system that can be the leader, the guy and also contribute. Because yeah, you want this guy. Don't worry about anything else. Just go out and create. Have fun.

Don't lose that zest for the game that you've got. So they're not exactly. I can't imagine a GM sitting there not wanting that guy. I guess would be my head. And I just, you did an absolute hall. And it might speed things up in Anaheim, but he's just, he ain't a verbique guy. It's, I wonder how this goes. Can they surround him with enough talent or is Pat Verbeek can be pulling his hair out watching this guy, you know, lollygaggag on a back check in a one goal game next year. Well, think what they get with Baderd. Right? They'll get

Baderd and trade him. You get Zegras and trade him. You could totally reset your franchise. Oh, one's trading. Uh, all right. We'll move along. It's, it's been rumored and we've got some, some leaked footage here, Dino. Rogers to the Jets. Check it out.

Magic. Ah, ha. I saw. Tip of the cats. I saw he was on McAfee. His intention is to play for the Jets. They are pumped in River City. And so if you are not watching on YouTube, that is the Winnipeg Jets with Rogers mocked up on the bench for the anthem as a hockey player, not a quarterback.

Oh, you mean that's not a real shot? That's not. I just don't know how bad your eyes are. You have the shades and then the glass. You know what, the great thing about that photo is he looks like he's got some liver failure based on the skin tones of everyone around him and then his skin tone. I was like, Jesus Christ, Aaron, are you all right? We'll get him a 7 out of 10 on that Photoshop. It could be a little better.

Get some blood work done. Alan Walsh could some tips maybe how we make those skin tones. Yeah. Okay. That's very clever. Finally, some bad news at the WBC. Well, a couple pieces of bad news. First off, Canada.

tournament over. Needed a Columbia victory over the Americans, which was there in the late stages until the Americans cracked it open. Mike Trout emptied the bases, I believe with a double at one point. But worse than that, sorry, Canadians,

and they're sorry for disappointing us. I know everyone's sorry, sorry. Ernie Witt, sorry. But Puerto Rico, closer. Edwin Diaz, the closer for the Mets, celebrating a victory down, had to be stretched off, could be serious here. Oh dear, team celebration hurt celebrating?

This is the worst. That's probably time we check in with our old Mets fan pal. Remember the New Jersey transport system that was incompetent? Okay. I do in fact, yes, yes. Let's check in with our Mets fans and see how they're dealing with this. You get it! He's new and fucking jumping up and down the fucking world piece of classic.

It's over! Well, I'm glad you had that because I think I sent the same video to Alex as well. That is the guy who freaked out because he missed opening day because of the transit system. That's Frank the tank. Yeah. That's Frank the tank. He was hired at Barstool after that rant. And he's special.

He is a special character. Yeah, so that was and I saw there's there is a video this morning of him walking into the office and All you need to know he's not cooled down a lot since last really. Okay, he's still rather rather Yeah, yeah, yeah no truth to the rumor that that's our pal Craig Shostack who's a huge Mets fan I believe It's both met a lot of Mets fans out there. This is not him. Okay, that's a little bit more important to Brought to you by Village Honda, your dealership for life. Get ready for the all new 2023 Honda Accord. It will be on the ground in the showroom and ready for you to enjoy every last little nook and cranny.

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I'll see if he can get up there. There's a tweet from Keith Olderman. Because this injury, and again, for the Mets, right, you have to be wondering the world baseball class, is it worth it? Right? It's, there are some varying opinions on the magnitude, the impact, the necessity of this event.

It's not the Olympics. I know I, I know how I feel about it, but I'm probably not the right guy to talk to about it. I would guess in New York, they're pretty sour. I couldn't give a shit. I mean, it's great. It's baseball, but it's almost baseball season. This is from Keith Olberman, who granted is quite an opinionated guy.

You know, he's been back and forth between news media and sports media. First, Freddie Freeman, now Edwin Diaz. The WBC is a meaningless exhibition series designed to get you to buy another uniform to hell with the real season and split up teammates based on where their grandmothers got laid. Call it off now. I would guess if you're a Mets fan, you're probably thinking that's not the worst thing in the world. Yeah, and Freddie Freeman, I mean, it's like a tweak to Hammy, like settle down. That can happen in Grapefruit League, Cactus League play. I mean, look, all the games that aren't regular season are meaningless for Major League Baseball.

I get it, but they're trying to grow the game here. This isn't like, okay, this is this tournament at its peak. They're trying to build this thing. And if you want people to pay attention, you need good players there. That's the risk that everyone understands before they go in. It's the risk that the Mets and all the other owners understood before they agreed to do this. It sucks. It's like Stamcoast breaking a leg at, you know, in Olympics or something like that.

Or was it Tavares? I mean, it happened in the preseason. It's not ideal. Is the Olympics, is the Olympics not more? I mean, it's the Olympics. It's not the world baseball. So baseball and Olympics, that's what they want this to be. They want this to be the best on best tournament for the world.

I don't love the timing of it being spring training because a lot of guys are so focused on ramping up for the real season that they're not there. But that's the challenge. I mean, ask the NHL and the PA about a World Cup. Like you're going to have the exact same risks and people are going to say it's not as important as this and it's not as important that it can't be as important unless you build these things up and it takes time. But again, if it meant nothing to the players, they wouldn't have been jumping it up and down celebrating getting hurt. So I don't know that it's meaningless to others as much as it is to keep. Alan said chiming in. You're right.

Injuries can happen letting us know. Luxar producer. Remember, Hashek had that abductor injury at the Olympics when he was a senator. Of course we remember that. Don't you remember that, Ryan? The 88 Olympics, really won. I'm not sure. Was it 98? He was an Ottawa Center. Anyway, and you know what? So I was going to play the Frank the Tank there. So we're on the same page. Now, to kind of bring it back around, would you like to see something nice and heartwarming? Because there's one thing about base. More heartwarming than Frank the Tank? That is actually, it warms my heart. I freaking love that. That makes me very happy. I love it. But baseball, it's a romantic thing. There's a lot of things that happen with baseball. It just feels like that's, that's just a nice baseball story. This is a video and we'll get to Alex. We'll get the video, sorry, the audio op right from the start. I know that there's subtitles on this, but this is Pittsburgh Pirates manager Derek Shelton in his office. And Mitch Keller is one of his starters, one of us starting pitchers. And they're coming in for a meeting yesterday. This was the,

the meeting between Keller and his skipper. Justin coach. Are there, yeah. How did your side go? Good, really good. Yeah. Really good. Through the Pellecki code first time, so that was good.

Good. Get him in there. There's one over four batters. How many do you throw? Uh, probably 20 or something. I didn't know. Okay. 20, 20, 20.

Okay. How many do you think you'll throw him 30? Uh, how yeah, no. Yeah, what's 30s? Oh, okay. Yeah. Come on. Oh my God, dude.

Oh, that's you. That's fucking awesome. Very well deserved. Very well deserved. Seriously. I mean, all the work you put in, yeah. I'm so proud.

Thanks. So proud. Yeah. I appreciate you. Yeah. I appreciate you. No, I appreciate you. All the hard work, you deserve.

That's fucking awesome. Awesome. Many? Yeah, hopefully. You would glance? Wow, thank you. Celebrate. Yeah, we will.

I'm very proud of you. I mean, there's a lot of hard work. Yeah, it's not done. It's not done. It's not done, but a lot of hard work and transformation and, you know, there's different steps that you've gone through in terms of prospect, getting into the big leagues, transforming yourself. Seriously. I'm very proud of you. Thanks.

I really appreciate it. This is cool. Isn't that cool? I can't wait to tell my parents. Yeah, I know. Awesome. So again, probably the video is, if you probably could hear maybe some of that, but that's a beautiful thing. That's Mitch Keller, kind of getting the word from his manager.

He says, how did you, how would you throw? 20, 25. How many are you going to throw in the 30th? And Keller says, I don't know. What's the 30th? He says, well, that's opening day. In essence, telling him he's going to be the opening day starter. And the hug, the embrace, you can see how much that means.

I don't know, maybe maybe goalies are hugging their coaches when they get game one start. I don't know. I know the answer. It's not. And that would be special for that young, that young man. But to see him, you know, hug, hug his manager and how emotional that is. That's, that's cool. And I do think that there's some stuff like that.

You only get in baseball. It's a special kind of a special sport that way. I think that their playoffs are unmatched in some ways. Leeds aren't always safe. The drama that you have in the postseason, and I know everyone bitches about how long baseball games are during the regular season, man, during the playoffs, you can't that roller coaster ride from pitch,

and then you wait. And then here's the pitch, and then you wait, and here's the pitch. It's got to be one of the more, I don't know, is it the most grueling sport for a fan that's a hard, fan of a baseball team just with how it goes. And maybe it's like you want to get it in the late innings, but it's awesome. Yeah.

Turns 27 in like the next month here. So that's a big deal. When you can be making major league money and not AAA, that's a huge, huge difference for the guy that I think has a wife that the manager referenced. You know, that's a big, big deal of your family makes the team good for him. From Iowa, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Oh, there you go. Cedar Rapids.

Great town. Oh, the rough rush. Yeah. It's not, I know. A couple things to do here, and we will get on with our day. The playoff draft, the Barnburner inaugural playoff draft. It is coming. We're less than a month away now.

We are going to be putting the teams on sale. We might do it tomorrow. Now, we're not, we're just kind of plotting our strategy. We want to make sure that everything is set to go. We are confident that this is going to sell out. We are selling teams. We are going to hold the live event at the Grey Eagle Casino. We have got, we saw the room.

We went and we got the tour, the big ballroom that we're going to use. It is going to be awesome. Big podium stage to make picks off. Big podium, video screens, the draft boards. We're going to have prizes and different things, different wrinkles worked into the evening. But we've done it before. We're bringing it back. And it is going to be our best yet in support of kids sport.

talking to Kevin Webster over a kids sport. They are excited. We are pumped. This is going to be a big event and we can't wait for it. So again, we keep trotting this out, just kind of keeping it at the front of your mind. Be ready. We will give you a little notice. But when the teams go on sale, you best be ready because we do expect.

Limited number of teams, obviously. It's a playoff draft. You can't have infinite number of teams. So we've found a number. We're going to cap it and then have a hell of a time. Our boy retro, we're expecting us to be back in town for this one. Sounds like he'll be back. We got sponsors on board.

We'll have a night. And then if the pass has been any indicator, the final player will be selected in the draft. And then in some ways, the night will begin. Because it's Friday. And we're at the Grey Eagle. And, well, you know, that's how that goes. But truly, the formalities are done. All right.

And again, it's for the kids. It's for the kids. It's not about us. The inaugural barn burner playoff draft. Looking forward to it. Let's do our, you want to do some betway bets of the day? It's a flames game day. They went in Vegas to play the Golden Knights.

They have not won in Vegas ever. Unfortunately, here is where I am going. I am going to take a regulation win for Vegas. History being. my teacher. I'm being a good student. Plus 140 for a regulation win for Vegas. I'm going to go there. I'll then spin it a little bit. It's kind of a little parlay. It's one of the ones, the pre-built bets on the Betway app. A money line win for Vegas. So anytime win. And one point for Jonathan Marsha. So plus 200. Marsha. Marsha has six points in his last four games. He is enjoying life right now. So a Vegas win of any kind and a point for Marshie. That's a plus 200. Those are my bets of the day. You surprised as much as I was that Calgary are the favorites tonight in a building they've never won in,

coming off a loss to Arizona, two games removed from a loss to Anaheim against a Vegas team that's won four in a row and seven of their last eight. The answer is absolutely yes. It's almost one of those things you kind of whisper to your brother. Hey, just heads up here. I'm not sure. Honestly, it might be a soft spot. I think it might be one of those things where maybe there's value. I know there's value.

It's got to be. Like we're where are Betway's offices and is it St. Patty's Day right now? Because this line is hammered. Yeah. I mean, we love Betway. Don't get us wrong.

Yes. We love Betway. But we also love. They've earned a couple of Guinnesses. Have some. If it's St. Patrick's Day and a few lines are off today, that's fine. Have your fun. And my.

That way wants you to win. Right. Betway wants you to win. They want you to win. Sure. Puck line. Minus one and a half. I'm also riding Vegas.

$220. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. For a team they've never lost two at home. Okay. And then also I like, ever since Rhett's put the curse on him, Jack Eichel's been real strong. A couple points against Calgary last time. Plus 260 for two points. Yichael. That way, bet's the day. There you go. That way. Hey, that way knows what they're doing. But they love, they want you have fun. They want you to enjoy yourself. They want you to win. Those are your Betway bets in the air. Get the app and your phone.

Win them all along. Win a few. There you go. Thank you, Betway. Thank you for that. That is the Thursday edition of the show. Tomorrow we will have our deep comprehensive review of tonight's Golden Knights

Flames matchup at the T-Mobile arena. It does not sound like based on our earlier visit with Rhett that we will have any Rettster appearances. nor the zombie looked like Rhett that we had on today for eight minutes that could hardly form sentences and was forgetting the names of people that he was with. Oof, that was rough. Man, you know what, though, we've all been there. If you've done any of those travel tournaments where it doesn't take long before the hockey is really just getting in the way.

You go out and you have that game. It's not even an early one for them. You can imagine it. What if that was an early puck drop? but we've all been there those yeah yeah odd that he doesn't have any points yeah somehow keeping him off the score sheet very out of character so you know ladies and gentlemen happy 316 enjoy it tomorrow is st patty's day get your green on be ready we'll be ready enjoy the game tonight and we will uh we'll see you tomorrow Oh no, buddy's.

Oh, no, I'll suck. Hill, yeah. Look at this. Good job. Look at Alex, freelancing. See you tomorrow, buddies. Yeah.