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Chapter 1: What are the highlights of the golf season in 2023?
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Second half of the program begins right now as we are broadcasting live at the CNC Group Alpha Point Golf Terminal presented by Bank Midwest right here at the National.
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In the top corner, they have been helping folks that have been visually impaired for decades, and the folks are right here in Kansas City. So I would encourage you to go take a look at their website, alphapoint.org. That's alphapoint with an E on the end, .org. Let's get things going here on the 2-Minute Drill. It's brought to you by our friends at Joslyn's Jewelry, Gary Joslyn and his staff.
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Chapter 2: How does Alpha Point support the visually impaired community?
Go to Joslyn's Jewelry at 95th and Antioch on the southeast corner, just about a mile north of 435. You can find them online at Joslyn's Jewelry dot com. All right. Let's get things started. We begin today in New York City. Dan Schwartzman, D Sports Media is in New York. Dan, how are you, sir?
Fantastic. How are you, my friend?
Good. The big question that we had last night was did New York burn after the championship was won by the Knicks? How much damage was done?
Minimal, minimal damage, my friend. We are civilized here. We're not the French living in Paris after PSG wins the Champions League or the Montreal Canadiens win and Montreal goes ballistic and overturns police cars. We had a school bus burn. One cab, I think, was destroyed. There was some problems out of five guys, I believe.
But overall, for a city of 8.5 million, it was an incredibly civilized response to just incredible effort by the Knicks.
What, do we have a fry fight or something? A food fight with the guys?
You know, I think when there's an alcohol, when there's alcohol involved, things happen that shouldn't. And I think that's probably more than, you know, the fries may have been bad, too. You never know.
Yeah. Yeah. OK. Well, first of all, what do we think of this next team? They're the eighth different team to win the NBA championship. I mean, I don't mean to run right by the celebration, but is this a team that that has a chance to to stick around and maybe win another one when that doesn't seem like what the league is creating these days?
No, the league isn't. And look, there's other really good teams. And the Knicks caught some breaks this year. Jason Tatum out for a good portion. But he did come back for the stretch run in the playoffs. You know, Tyrese Halliburton was out with an ACL injury as well. But look, there's a lot of parity right now in the league.
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Chapter 3: What was the reaction in New York after the Knicks' championship win?
Any chance that they say, OK, yeah, this was good and we had all that. We got to get better. You know, they were one of the popular names for where Giannis could land. You don't see anything major like that. Do you think they'll just run it back or do you think that they could be more aggressive with somebody bigger?
I think if the price is right, they have to listen when it comes to Giannis. The question is, who do you give up? Right. Carl Anthony Towns has to be in that deal. And then who's that young type of player that Milwaukee covets, right? A young player that you can kind of build around. I don't know if the Knicks have that guy. I mean, OG is not young, and he costs a lot of money, by the way.
Look, Deuce McBride, Carl Anthony Towns, a couple of firsts. Well, they don't really have that many first-round picks, considering they gave up five to get Bridges. So I don't know if it's a fit, but if Milwaukee has their hand forced, by Giannis, and they very well could, because Seren, he said, you know, before the trade deadline, the team he wanted to go to was the Knicks.
But Carl Anthony Towns really showed a lot this year. He became a team player. He played defense, something that people didn't think he could do, right? No one out-hustled him, by the way, getting back to the defensive zone for the Knicks during this postseason, except for maybe OG. I don't know. Why not run it back? They were successful this year for a reason. Why not run it back?
Why make a drastic change?
Yeah. OK, we'll see what they do. It'll be interesting. They'll be in the mix for sure, no matter what. Just bringing the rest of the squad back. How about the Yankees? Not only are they in the in the mix, I mean, by run differential, they're by far the best team in the American League. And they've been doing it without Aaron Judge.
I mean, you know, is that going to continue or eventually are they going to realize, oh, yeah, our best players out and are they going to sag back a little bit?
I think the rotation is too good for them to ever really kind of have struggles because you're not going to have lengthy losing streaks because they have such good pitching with Schlittler and Garrett Coles come back and hasn't missed a beat. Roke John's been really solid. Will Warren, except for a couple of starts here and there like yesterday, he's been really solid.
You know, you're not going to have four or five game losing streaks with those guys. Now, Ben Rice has been great, right? I mean, Ben Rice is probably the starting first baseman for the American League right now in the All-Star game, and deservingly so. But they're also getting efforts from guys like Caballero, which has made the Anthony Volpe mess a little bit easier to stomach.
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Chapter 4: How does the Knicks' current roster compare to past championship teams?
I mean, Freddy Peralta, expensive. Who's buying him right now? Other guys on that team, you know, every move. I just saw this incredible statistic of how bad an offseason the Mets had, right? They made eight or nine key moves and literally, Seren, every single one of them has bombed. in terms of guys they've let go and guys they've brought in.
Not a single move they have made has actually worked out. You've got to look this up. I'll find it. I'll text it to you. It is atrocious how poor of an offseason they had and what it's meant for this team. And if you're in the front office of the New York Mets right now, I hope you're renting and you didn't buy your apartment because you're not going to be there much longer.
Yeah, yeah. All right. Are you excited now that the OTAs and minicamps will be wrapping up? I know they're already wrapped up here, but I think everybody's still got a week. Are you excited for that Geno Smith 2.0 there with the Jets? Yes. Oh, my God.
3.0 is a heck of a lot better than Geno Smith. 1.0 was when he was at Jet. He's a different player than he was there. Throw out what happened last year in Oakland. Terrible offensive line in Oakland. Poor guy was running for his life pretty much every time he said Ike. I think the Jets have made some good moves this offseason. They just gave Tippman a long-term deal.
They've locked up another key young player. Cautiously, you can laugh at me for this one. He probably will when we hang up. But I think this Jet team is finally going in the right direction. They drafted playmakers. They have three first-round picks next year. They have the pieces to get that young quarterback next year in the draft in what's supposed to be a quarterback-rich draft.
Soren, cautiously optimistic that this team can make a little noise and be a tough out this year. They're not making the playoffs, but they're not going to be a pushover.
Okay, I'll laugh right now. I know you are. To be out, but yes, I'm giggling. You're the best, Dan Schwartzman in New York. Great stuff as always, buddy. We appreciate it. Have a great week.
You as well, my friend.
This is our man Roxy Bernstein, ESPN, ESPN Radio, Westwood One in San Francisco, California. Roxy, how are you, buddy? I am good, Saran. What's going on? You know, we're here. We've got a beautiful day in Kansas City. We're at a great golf tournament that benefits Alpha Points. We're very happy, but we're very sad as well as one of our own, Alden Smith, passing away at the age of 36.
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Chapter 5: What are the implications of the Yankees' current performance?
Elliott Wolfe comes from the Packers organization. Their philosophy has always been draft and develop. And he had talked about bringing that philosophy to New England. You could not be a draft and develop team and not pay a guy like Christian Gonzalez, who identified in the draft,
you developed, you worked with, and has now become, to be on the lighter side, a top three player in the league at his position.
Yeah, no, he's impressive. All right, how tough was it to watch the Knicks win, especially when a lot of people thought the Celtics were the better team?
I still think the Celtics were the better, or let me put it this way. I think the Celtics have a better roster. I think the Celtics had a more talented roster last year when they lost to the Knicks and blew two 20-point leads in that series, and I think they had a better roster this year when they choked against the Sixers. The common denominator is coaching.
What the Knicks did from a strategic standpoint was excellent. Mike Brown deserves a ton of credit, and also just for getting that team ready and having his finger on the pulse. I saw Mitch Johnson make a lot of the same missteps in that series for the Spurs that Joe Mazzulla has made over the last few years.
And I think it's always kind of been a common consensus that coaching is, of the four major sports, coaching has the least impact in the NBA. I think we're learning that we may need to revisit that because the Knicks playing very sound, solid, well-rounded basketball.
beat teams full of superstars, which the MO and the NBA for at least the last five to ten years has been, if you have the best player on the floor, you're going to win the game.
Yeah. Do you see them making some big moves during the offseason, or do they just feel like if we can get everybody healthy, we're going to be fine?
Well, there's all this buzz about Giannis, which I'm not sure. He's a tremendous player. If Joe Mazul is going to continue to rely on the three ball, I don't know how well he fits. Are they going to trade for Giannis and try to shoot six or eight three-pointers a game? That's not going to work. You also have Jalen Brown, who ruffled some feathers with some comments this offseason.
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Chapter 6: What challenges are the Mets facing this season?
They voted against equal voting rights for women. The ERA. I'm not sure exactly, but there was more than voting rights. It was just equal rights amendment. And they voted for it, and people went, we don't like that. So they voted against it.
Yeah, no, you can't have that. Nah, nah.
Equal rights. What's that all about? Yeah.
At least we've figured everything out now, and everything's completely civil now.
Yeah, yeah.
We got that going for us.
Former counsel to President Richard Nixon, John Dean, says the White House is unwilling to accept the truth about Watergate and says there is an effort to shut him up and discredit him. That was fun. So John Dean at that point was just a minor player and he became the star of the Watergate trials or testimony. The Dow Jones fell almost 10 points to close at 939.34.
That's why I would say, like, through inflation, it does nothing but go up. Yes. Watergate and Middle East oil jitters, the main reasons. Okay. Heading to the store, you can get fresh ground beef, 89 cents a pound at Food Fest at 3500 Blue Ridge Cutoff. Wow. A little more expensive now.
RC Cola, 8-pack of 16-ounce bottles, just 85 cents, plus deposit at Wild Woody's Bargain Barn at 42nd and Nolan Road, a staple of my childhood Saturday afternoons and Sunday afternoons. Looking to party? How about a carton of cigarettes for $3 and a 6-pack of Falstaff cans for $1.09 at Red X in Riverside? Wait, cigarettes for $3 then? For a carton. Oh, for a carton. Or a carton. Yeah. A carton.
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Chapter 7: What are the recent developments in NFL OTAs and minicamps?
That's half a month's salary. Gross salary for a TV.
That's what a TV cost back then?
For that one, 25-inch, $578. By the way, you can get a 65-inch Samsung for about $100 less right now with 4K, HD, all the works. Again, median family income was $13,600. It was $105,000 last year. Let's check out the classified ads. You can get a new 73 Olds Cutlass for just $34.95 at Griffith Olds at 63rd and Troost. By that, you mean $3,495. Yes, yes.
$3,500 for a brand-new Olds Cutlass at Griffith Olds. Don't have that kind of money? How about a 73 Vega Hatchback 2720 at Bill's Site Chevrolet 46th and Troost? No word of whether it had rust on the showroom floor. The Vega, they used to say, was the only car that would actually rust on the showroom floor. Can confirm. Want some quality sound for your ride?
AM FM Stereo with 8-track tape player, speaker, and in-dash installation. Just $165 at KC Auto Sound at 40 Highway in Sterling. Looking to put some tires on? How about Firestone 500 four-ply polyester cord tires as little as $26.60 a piece? Oh, my God. Retreads, four for $44 any size from Firestone. $11 for a tire. Looking to move?
How about a two-bedroom apartment for $166 a month at Oxford Commons at Antioch and 435?
I might have lived there.
Possibly. I'm going to lay down a little bit more. How about a three-bedroom ranch in Prairie Village? Full walkout basement screened in porch, $26,950. I think they're offering like $300,000 to knock down and rebuild. Yes, $27,000. I also thought this was fun day in the Lost and Founder Fund. Lost Sunday, bird, green, plaza area, reward. Okay. Okay. Good luck. Hey, I lost a green bird Sunday.
Anybody seen it? Yeah. Yeah, I saw 50 of them. In sports, Royals beat the Tigers 8-2 behind a complete game from Dick Drago. Right there. He's happy. Yep. Freddie Patek, two for four with three runs scored, an RBI, and two stolen bases in the 15th game ever played at Royals Stadium. Oh, wow. So the Knicks won. The Kauffman is just barely open. 15 games.
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