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Chapter 1: What are the five sports topics on the hosts' minds today?
It's time for five on it. Rahimi Harrison-Roney. Bring you five topics on their minds today. On 104.3 The Score. I got five on it. Number one.
Yesterday was Bulls executive VP of basketball operations, Arturis Karnaschovas. Best day since when?
The day that they traded for Vooch on the midday show. Okay, so like he wasn't on the midday show, but Dan and I were interviewing Casey Johnson. You know, because everybody's like, ooh, Layla won't be good for the show. What does she know? Well, what you forget is that I worked here every day for over a year previous to that. And in that time, Kevin, Casey Johnson was on our show.
And it was, I believe it was the day of the trade deadline. And it was in 2021. And we had found out that Arturas Karnaschovas had traded for Nikola Vucevic. And Dan and I went crazy. And I believe we were both wearing black turtlenecks at the time, which was a strange thing because we always tended to match. And we were like, whoa! And everybody talked about it and they laughed.
But that's how I felt. So I think, me, that this was his best day and his most effective day since then. And that's an easy one for me to say, but for the Midday Show listeners, if you know, you know.
Very specific of you. I'm going to be a little bit more specific.
To the hour? To the minute?
Yeah.
For the career?
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Chapter 2: What impact did Joe Thuney have on the Bears in 2025?
They were the cardiac Bulls. And the concept was fully realized. They had had the center they wanted. Center was more offensively minded than defense. We know that. They had Lonzo Ball healthy. He was making everything go. He made it all make sense. DeMar was shooting well. Zach Levine was shooting well. Everything was great. And yes, they were a legit contender at that time in the East.
It was at December 2021, January 2022-ish time. So that was my favorite time of the Vooch era. That's when I feel like he got there and immediately you understood the picture that the Bulls wanted to paint.
I like that answer. I just like mine a little bit more.
Was it 2022-23? Is that what I'm thinking of?
21-22 is the stretch.
It was 21-22? Okay.
Yeah. They finished 10 games over 500 that year.
Yeah, they made the actual playoffs that year.
They tied the series 1-1 and stole home court advantage from the Milwaukee Bucks. And then they lost the next three games in a row. So just giving an update.
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Chapter 3: What are the details of the Anthony Davis trade to the Wizards?
Friend of the show and pro football talk creator and editor-in-chief Mike Florio. He's going to join us on Friday, by the way, at 11 from the Super Bowl. Florio recently answered this question in an interview with Front Office Sports. Are Pro Bowl games dead? Well, they should be. Nobody cares. Next level take is this.
They moved it from Sunday to Tuesday night so the ratings will crater so they can get rid of it. When you're having Joe Flacco make the Pro Bowl, when you're having Justin Fields say no thank you to the Pro Bowl, like, it's not an honor anymore. It doesn't feel like an honor.
Chapter 4: How does Anthony Davis's injury affect his trade value?
No disrespect to those players. They deserve credit to be NFL players. But the Pro Bowl is supposed to be something special, so just name the teams. We don't need to have a flag football game. We don't need to do any of the other stuff. I predict the ratings are going to be bad, and that's going to be enough to get the NFL to say, let's just be done with it.
It's Pro Football Talk's Mike Florio with Front Office Sports. Are you buying Florio's theory on what the NFL is doing with the Pro Bowl games?
He's basically saying that the NFL is going to tank the Pro Bowl. Like he's saying the NFL is sinking or tanking or however you want to put it.
Chapter 5: What does the trade mean for the Mavericks' future?
that they are setting the Pro Bowl up to fail by putting it on Tuesday night. And since I watched it last year on a Sunday and I did not watch it last night, I tend to agree. So I think it could be... They could just... It matters for people's money, and I think that that is valid. So if that's the case, maybe you just announce the teams at the NFL Honors like you do...
Other aspects, you know, like it used to mean a free trip to Hawaii. Guys weren't paid as much. Like it was more of like a vacation and something fun if you didn't make the Super Bowl.
Well-earned vacation, by the way.
Yeah, and before everybody's contracts got to the point where you're afraid to play at all if you get injured, that that would be a concern. Like the money became different and so therefore everything else did.
Chapter 6: Why is the NFL considering an 18-game season?
So I think he's right in that the event itself, like moving it to a Tuesday was a bold choice. And then moving it to the same destination as Super Bowl was also a choice.
They look like they were playing in a warehouse, Layla. They look like they were playing in a giant warehouse.
So I think he might be onto something. Although it is crazy to say the NFL would be taking its own event. But I think you should still name Pro Bowlers. Just put them in the NFL Honors Awards show that they're doing. Because people love award shows, right? That's become a big deal.
Chapter 7: What are the implications of the NFL's international game plan?
I'll say this. This used to mean something because of the spectacle of it all. You're going to the freaking Pro Bowl and you're in Hawaii. And these guys look like they're having the time of their lives. They're relaxing. Almost felt like a good old boys club, like convention setting, if you will. And this is company retreat. It looks great.
Obviously, expenses were not spared in the way they are now. We're just going to fold you into the city we happen to be in to celebrate the Pro Bowl.
Chapter 8: How do the hosts view the future of the Pro Bowl?
It feels like in a time where the NFL is making more money than it's ever made before as a league. It feels very secondhand-ish. And while they may not be tanking it, I will say this. The little bit I did watch at the Pro Bowl last night, they did look like they were having fun, the guys who were participating in it. But he makes a good point with the Justin Fields saying, I'm good.
And Shador Sanders is out here starting the Pro Bowl. It's become more rec league than honoree type deal.
I quickly have a suggestion for the NFL. Give it to me. Make it a late-night talk show event. Make it like, okay, you have so many players that have their own podcasts, current players. Amon Ross St. Brown is great on his podcast. Make him the host. Have these guys come on. Have them tell compelling stories and joke around with each other on the stage.
And they can honor everybody and do something that way instead of... these games that are not very interesting. And someone could get hurt. Absolutely. That's my suggestion. That's a good one. Japanese slugger Munataka Murakami recently told White Sox management that he wants a modification made to the club's locker room. Here's what general manager Chris Getz told MLB.com.
Scott Merkin, quote, one thing he did notice is we didn't have a bidet in the locker room. That's new to him. It was like, okay, that's new. We can do that, unquote. So that's Chris Getz to MLB.com's Scott Merkin. So here's the question. Hey, White Sox, can you give us more details about this, please?
We were obsessed with knowing how many bidets were being installed in the clubhouse or if it was just one or then what it was going to look like and then how to use it and then why that was a request. And I have had a bidet when I stayed in, I think, yeah, both Korea and China. Definitely in Korea. I had a bidet at my hotel there for three weeks when I did the 2018 Olympics.
And I didn't know how to use that thing. It had all these buttons on it. And I did the same thing that I think Tyler did, where you press it and then the water sprays out at you and you're like, ah.
Yeah, I had to turn it off manually, hit the wall.
Yeah, exactly. Exactly. It just resulted in chaos.
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