Chapter 1: What iconic moment in the podcast is highlighted in this episode?
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Chapter 2: How does the conversation shift to the topic of Eminent Domain?
Dreisaitl and McDavid played in a beer league and lost like 6-1. Oh, man. But he probably had a bunch of nice moves.
I don't know what the, I still don't, I think playing in a pro-am, inherently, like an open pro-am, there's no benefit to being an NBA player doing that.
What about former NBA players? Because Michael Beasley, I mean, this sort of stretch he's going through, he is more popular now amongst the kids than he's ever been in his life. Like, I have a 17-year-old nephew that talks to me about Michael Beasley all the time. I was like, Miami Heat fans didn't talk about Michael Beasley this much when he was the number two pick.
It's funny because I think the current generation, the current atmosphere is most... not only forgiving and accepting, but enthusiastic about these kind of renegade outlaws that operate outside the mainstream systems. Like you watch the NBA, I watch these guys play one-on-one on Instagram.
And what cracks me up is like Beasley, all these guys, Beasley mostly, making all these moves, hitting crazy like fadeaway mid-range shots that only like 1% of NBA players are allowed to take. So like the rest of the NBA not doing this, Michael Beasley out here doing this and in his bag and everybody's like, this is amazing. I love this basketball. Bring that back to the NBA.
Michael Beasley is the most wrong I've ever been about anything in sports. You thought he was a sure thing. You and I had a conflict on this one. I thought he was ā like I thought the Miami Heat were going to be his team. And this is a team that already had Dwayne Wade on it. I thought it was going to be his team. I was all in. Oh, man. Like I said, I watched him in college in the Heat.
They had the worst record that year, but the Heat did not win the lottery, so he dropped to number two, and I was like ā
good now they're gonna get Michael Beasley because the Bulls here to take this Derrick Rose who got hot in the tournament you know good I'm glad we had the number two pick that Derrick Rose got hot I remember watching before I ever saw him playing college I watched some same nephew by the way I'm about to mention I watched Derrick Rose high school footage footage and I said you know this guy's gonna be the number one pick in the draft and then every time I watched a Michael Beasley game I got super unlucky because that dude was in foul trouble in two minutes and I was like oh not gonna see Michael Beasley he was so
good in school he was so i it's the most wrong i have ever been about anything in sports high school mixtape era of youtube was such a beautiful time in my like sophomore junior senior year so like 08 09 10 where we were watching john wall and his high school mixtape and i was like this guy is incredible and then he would hit the doggie after and i was like yeah dude this is it this guy is great
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Chapter 3: What athletes are discussed as surprising disappointments?
We were all super excited when he dropped to 10. Amen. Because Danny Ainge wanted to trade every pick to move up for Justice Winslow.
You know who else dropped to number 10? Devin Booker.
I thought you were going to say Karan Butler. Was Devin Booker that same draft? Yeah.
Well, he ended up going after 10, though.
But he dropped to 10, right? Were you about to take a victory lap there on Justice? I feel like you were about to be like, I saw. I was like, he's all right. And I remember there was a Dwayne Wade comparison. So I'm like, he's not Dwayne Wade. There was? In college? Oh, please. I was like, this guy. I said, he'll be a decent NBA role player.
You know the main drawback with him or the main physical trait that didn't work out? That he wasn't good? Little hands. No. Not big hands. Couldn't really. I'm with Zazz. It's a big drawback when you're not good.
If you're trying to put together a great NBA career, prereq, can we call it a prereq? It can't be not good.
Right.
You've got to be good. You've got to be good.
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Chapter 4: How does the discussion of food transition to personal anecdotes?
You were not good. Nice. So, wait. I want to think about football players because I think this happens a lot in football. Oh, yeah. I thought Ron Dane was going to be just like a monster.
I have a memory of Dan thinking Mike Glennon was going to be really good.
With that neck? Almost career. Very good athlete. Oh, I got it. I know mine. Football of all time. You could not tell me when I was in college that Peter Wark was not going to be the next Jerry Rice. It was him. I've seen it with my own eyes, man. He had a decent career. That dude was Jesus. No. He had a decent career.
He didn't have a decent career. No. He was in college.
He was one of the best college football players we've ever seen. Comparative, of course, but he had a decent career.
It was a bust. What was it? The wide out from Ohio State? Tech Ginn. Tech Ginn Jr. That was another one.
And his family. There's one brewing right now. There's another Ginn? No, there's another Ohio State Buckeye wide receiver that I thought was going to be incredible, and he looks like he's headed to bus town.
What's his name? Maserati Marv. Yeah. What's his full name? I'm not familiar.
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Chapter 5: What are the details of the guest's bachelor week experiences?
Maserati Marv. He may be Mazda Marv when it's all said and done.
What's it say on the back of his jersey?
You think he's going to be a bust? Junior. Disappointing first season. He's put on a lot of weight. He's put on a lot of muscle. There's videos of him getting absolutely clamped by his seventh rounder right now. Wow. The guy's nickname is Maserati Marv, and he's slow. How did that happen?
I think there's an issue, though, Mike. He wears all black cleats. Makes him look a little slower. With the highlighter cleats, you look a little faster.
I think the cornerback sticking on his back makes him look slow, probably.
No, what makes him look slow is that he's slow.
Common theme here.
I don't understand how he was nicknamed Maserati Marv. That's a terrible nickname, by the way. No, it was a great nickname, especially when it's said by Gus Johnson in exciting voices.
Peter Warwick never had a 1,000-yard season, so I think I've got to probably pull back on the Edison career.
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Chapter 6: What types of Thai food are mentioned in the conversation?
Remember, they wouldn't trade Jeremy Hermita for Manny Ramirez. That's when I realized, and this is no offense to this guy because I didn't read him that much, but Keith Law, Jeremy Hermita.
I was like, really? Was it Hermita or Stanton? I believe it was Stanton that was banied about. Hermita was a big prospect, but not as big as Stanton.
Maybe I'm thinking of a different trade. You might be right that the Marlins did not want to include Stanton in the Ramirez trade, which obviously was the right move. But there was a year with Hermita, too, where they were unwilling to part with him.
No doubt. There were several offers on the table for Hermita, but I think Stanton was one of the sticking points. But I think we asked Samson. We'll ask him later yesterday. There was a moment where Samson kind of refuted that they could still have done the deal without Stanton, I think.
There was one where I knew the guy was going to be not good. Yeah, I was going to play the opposite. The opposite game. I knew Hashim Thabit was going to be garbage. Oh, my God. Really?
I thought he was good. I've never told you the story. Okay, so the 2009 draft. I loved him as a prospect. He was trash.
the 2009 draft right there's I'm working for Phoenix we have a deal in principle with the Golden State Warriors to have their pick which is seven Steph Curry is a guy that we have on our board that's like number one on our board and every permutation we do is like there's no way he falls to seven there's no way he falls to seven Minnesota has two picks they need a point guard there's no way he falls to seven
Even, you know, even... Minnesota were 5-6, I think, right?
Yeah, 5-6. Even, like, there's no way he falls to 7 unless something crazy happens. And Blake Griffin goes 1 and everyone thought that was going to happen. And then number 2 was Memphis and we thought Tyreek Evans, who played in that building as a collegiate player... That was when the Grizzlies couldn't sell a ticket, but then the Memphis Tigers were sold out every night.
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Chapter 7: How do the hosts compare different steak cuts?
A lottery. Nobody else.
But I don't remember it being a shock when they took him.
It was a massive shock. Tyreek Evans sold out every night in their building.
Okay, no, you're saying it's a shock that that team took him at two. But I'm saying that if they didn't take him at two, wouldn't he have still went top five? No.
No chance. The other guys were James Harden and Ricky Rubio. Johnny Flynn. Well, Johnny Flynn. Well, Rubio and Flynn were 5'6". Johnny Flynn was a name. Like, the thing about Johnny Flynn, this is the revisionist history I've got to correct. If they had taken Johnny Flynn and someone else good, I don't think anyone would have batted it. It was that they took Flynn and Rubio.
Wasn't that when they had, like, the former sports writer was running their team? Yeah, David Kahn. Wrath of Kahn.
Hey, Jeremy, happy holidays. Happy Chinooka. I want to toast you. Actually, I don't. I will toast with you. Okay. We're co-workers. Friends, you could say. No, we cannot say that, but we both enjoy an ice-cold Miller Lite. That's true. Especially around the holidays. You know, it's the 50th anniversary of Miller Lite. It's really amazing. Every time we say that, I can't believe it.
Well, it's crazy because they've basically been partners with the Dan Lebitard Show for half of their existence. What? When I put it to you that way, we got an old ass show. Yeah, we do. That's crazy. Hey, let's look around at our friends, not each other, and our family, even though they're not here. I do miss your brother, though.
Yeah, I know.
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Chapter 8: What are the implications of Eminent Domain discussed at the end?
Good job.
Number two overall pick, 20 starts in his career.
He was a statue. But we knew it in the moment. This wasn't like, wow, who could have thought? But Tony, the game I want to play isn't that. It was like, I knew he was going to be bad, and he turned out to be bad. I knew he was going to be bad, and then he turned out to be really good. Because I have a lot of those. I got a lot. Michael Redd? I was like, get out of here.
I was like, this dude, he's not going to be an NBA player. What a lefty shot.
He killed it. Speaking of lefties, I did not think James Harden would be very good. I saw him twice in person at Arizona State, and I was like, what is this guy's game? I don't understand it.
I saw him a lot at Arizona State. I was there all the time, and I was the most down in the office on him.
He played here at the AAA back when it was the AAA. I watched him win a game, and I was like, I don't know if he was the third best player on his team. I saw him lose to Cleveland State.
Well, here's the crazy thing. A guy died in front of me. When I saw him lose.
Oh, that was that game?
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