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Chapter 1: What holiday events are happening at Advent Health Sports Park?
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Second half of the program begins right now. We go around the country two minutes at a time talking to the people, covering the stories where they are happening. It's brought to you by Joslyn's Jewelry. Right there at 95th and Antioch. You can find them online at joslynsjewelry.com. Proud to be your mom and pop jewelry store. Proud to be voted the number one jewelry store.
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Chapter 2: How does the Two-Minute Drill format work?
Hundreds of those birthstones. If you're looking for a birthday gift, Joslyn's Jewelry's got you covered. Right there at 95th and Antioch on the southeast corner. You can find them online at JoslinsJewelry.com. Let's get things started in Houston, Texas. Matt Thomas, Sports Talk 790 is there. Matt, how are you, sir? Sorry, next time I do this two-minute drill, I better hear Houston, Texas.
Come on, let's get the production department going here a little bit.
Yeah, well, when you lead off, like we don't have the big sounder guy. But if you're second, third, fourth, we've got something for every town. So I don't know what song we use for Houston or what bit we've got, but... Yeah, there it is. That's the one we use. How's that? Will that work? Let's get on the topic. Come on now.
We don't have a song. Even the freaking Dallas folks haven't had a drama successful in 30 years, and people still play the Dallas theme all the time, including my show, so I'm guilty as charged.
Yeah, we do it too. We do it too. Are the Astros going to sell?
It's a soft month. No disrespect to your beloved Royals, but we're counting them as soft. So they're coming in with three games this weekend in Kansas City. They've got the Angels off day in Kansas City. They're hanging around somewhat. Seattle has not pulled away, although they've played better, as you know. Wild cards still in play. You've still got to carry a bunch of teams.
I will give you a better guesstimation on this when you and I visit, maybe on the next two-minute drill in early July.
okay okay uh yordano uh excuse me jordan alvarez yeah i think he's second in the mvp odds with aaron judge going down for a long period of time that pretty much takes him out bobby witt jr a slight favorite at least when we looked at it but uh i mean with what alvarez is putting up there should he be the favorite for the mvp well i mean he's on the verge of triple crown numbers i don't see how he doesn't get serious consideration the only negative is is
Will this team be in contention? Your crack research staff can probably give us a better estimate. How many teams that if they were to fall, say, eight, nine games out of first place and out of the playoff chase in a sell mode? how many of those types of players on teams like that get the MVP conversation going. But he's been fantastic. I can't tell you, Soren, where this team would be.
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Chapter 3: What insights are shared about the Houston sports scene?
We'll see what happens when the Astros come to town later this week. How about the Rockets? What's their offseason plan? Retooling around Kevin Durant or do they just think they needed another year? You know, get the seasoning together and they'll be better with the experience of everybody playing together next year.
Gut tells me they won't do much, but I'll say this as I watch the Spurs and Knicks play for the championship. As a broadcaster, as a fan, as a guy that talks about the team on a semi-regular basis, I think, you know, do we have enough? We, because I'm in the Rockets for it, so I can say that we. Do we have enough to get over the hump? There's a lot of folks that say run it back.
Fred VanVleet didn't play a single play last year. Kevin Durant, you're into the system. Alperin Chingun, a year past. Amin Thompson, a year further. Or do you go, man, if Jason Tatum, not Jason Tatum, if Jalen Brown is unhealthy and unhappy in Boston and he played for Adoka with the Celtics, do you kick the tires on that? Do you kick the tires on Tyler Hero that's being talked about?
Do you kick the tires on Giannis Antetokounmpo? I think there's a lot of kicking of tires. I think they will also try to get up in the draft. They've got some commodities to do that if they want to find somebody they really love. My gut tells me it's going to be a very, very minor movement for the Rockets this offseason.
Okay. I mean, they're kind of all in. When you go get Kevin Durant, you're pretty much all in, right? Like, it's not about the long haul. It's about today.
Part of it is, though, they were all in knowing that Fred VanVleet was going to disavow to him early and often. Well, that kind of got ruined by him getting hurt before a training game started.
Yeah, no, if they can get all their pieces on the floor, they're obviously a very good team. We'll see if they can do that next year. The Texans adjusting the contract on Nico Collins, guaranteeing the remaining couple of years. I mean, is he worth it? You know, is he the guy that the offense needs to run through?
You know, it's funny, when he was under contract the last couple of years, it was, my God, you've got a WR1 who is being well underpaid, and you're like, man, that's tremendous value. Let's go get some other guys. I think Nico Public saw the signs of that and said, you know what, I need to be paid fair market value, and that's exactly what he did.
So he's no longer the great steal of top wide receivers. He's worth it. He's one of the better 50-50 guys in the league. He did play 16 games last year. There have been some injury issues the previous couple of years, so he played 16 out of a possible 18. One was week 18, so that doesn't really count. The receiving room is not great after him. There are some good pass-catching tight ends.
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Chapter 4: What are the fans' reactions to the Cavaliers' recent performance?
It was actually Pete Roselle oversaw both leagues, and the AFL did have a president named Milt Woodard. He succeeded Al Davis as the chief executive of the league.
Okay. But I knew Al Davis. Did you know Al Davis was commissioner of the AFL at one point? I knew that, yeah. Oh, you did? Yeah. I think I heard from you. Oh, is that why? Okay.
Yeah.
Well, Al Davis is a Syracuse grad, too, so I know a little more about Al Davis than most people do. Probably, as you should.
Yeah. By the way.
Al Davis, the only Syracuse NFL Hall of Famer that I don't have an autograph of.
Going to be hard to get that now. Unless you buy something he already autographed.
Well, that's what you can get. If I could find, there are a bunch of signed checks. Oh, that'd be sweet. And it's ridiculous, the price. The price, I'm sure. It's not fun. I'm going to break down again, but I keep looking for one where he's like, where the check is for something cool.
Oh, yeah. Right. A conversation starter.
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