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What are the initial thoughts on Team USA's Olympic hockey performance?
Well, not really the way that we thought we would be starting the show. Because you are hearing my voice instead of Joe Starkey's voice. You will hear Austin Bechtold's voice momentarily. He is here behind the glass. Donnie Football with you from 10 until 2. We don't know if Joe will... be coming in today. If you are following along on our YouTube or Twitter pages, you can see that Joe's head cut out is in his seat. Hopefully at some point his functioning body is over there too. And we also hope, jokes aside, that everything is okay with Joe. I don't know if he's Okay with us telling the people he had to make a little stop to Met Express this morning. And we got that text around 940 that that would be happening.
So we're going to roll right along. You guys know how Fridays normally go. We have Ray Fittipaldi coming up in an hour. And then at 1 o'clock we will have Kevin Gorman. Covers the Pittsburgh Pirates for the Trib. He will join us. He is live in Bradenton as the first full team workout will take place on Monday. Pitchers and catchers reported a couple of days ago. The Pirates who have made some offseason moves that have people thinking the postseason is a possibility. What are they going to do with Connor Griffin? Will they sign Connor Griffin before the season begins? Will he start the season on the big league roster? I think that's all things that we can discuss as the show goes on. Some good football topics to get into as there always are.
some international NFL news that was reported a little bit earlier this morning or late last night with the game that's going to be in Australia next season. But I do want to start with some Olympic hockey. We saw Team USA play for the first time yesterday. We also saw Team Canada for the first time yesterday. Canada will play later on today. They play Switzerland at 3-10. The United States not back to action until tomorrow. At 3-10, they take on Denmark. But both teams yesterday, five goals. Canada shutting out Czechia 5-0. The United States beating Latvia 5-1. And it's become a discussion point. And the guys and I started yesterday's show with this discussion point. And you can weigh in at 412-928-9370.
You can also hit us at that same number on the fan text line, which is brought to you. by Edgar Snyder and Associates, a personal injury law firm where they always say there's never a fee unless we get money for you. We had the discussion yesterday, Austin, about people's rooting interest when it comes to the Olympics and I would say more specifically Olympic hockey because I think we would agree that is like the 1A sport at the Winter Games, because we know a lot of the athletes that are taking part. Not that we don't know anybody else that is taking part in the Olympics, but when it comes to hockey, you know a lot of the guys because they play in the National Hockey League.
Right, you know them, and you can take a stick and go out there on the ice if you know how to ice skate and skate, or you could just play some deck hockey, some ball hockey, whatever. It's a lot harder to go out there and try the luge Or the skeleton, or know how to properly curl, Donny. So I think that maybe is a factor in it, too.
Yeah, curling is something I do want to learn how to do. I think that is the only winter Olympic sport I think I would be able to pull off. But the question in the debate that we had yesterday was, who are people rooting for in the Olympics when it comes to hockey? Because a recent poll put out there showed that Penguins fans, Around 40% of them said they were rooting for Team Canada, all because of Sidney Crosby. It's not quite how it was, what, 12 years ago, 16 years ago, where there were more than just Sidney Crosby on the hockey team. Yeah, I know. Sidney Crosby is a beloved figure in this town, as he should be. He's like the all-time good guy. You have never heard a bad thing said about him. He also had two points yesterday in the 5-0 win for Canada.
But I don't get rooting against the team that represents the United States because if they get into a gold medal matchup, I want to root for the country that I'm a citizen of.
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