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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Hey, it's Tony. On today's show, we will talk to Ron Flatter to preview the Belmont Stakes. We'll talk to former Bullets beat reporter David Remnick about the excitement building up in New York for the start of the NBA Finals.
Chapter 2: What happened in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Finals?
We will also chat with Dan Graziano about a couple of huge trades in the NFL this week. But first, commerce.
Previously on the Tony Kornhauser Show.
I played with Jimmy Crilly and with Jed Tenold and Alex Tenold. And Alex is his son. And Alex is a contemporary of yours. Yeah, he's a counselor guy. Yeah, and he's very nice. He's a very good player. I had four triples. And when I say give me a triple, it means I got higher than that. That's a handicap triple. Give me a triple. Taking it. I had four different triples.
Starting out on one, it's a bad day when you start out on one and you go triple. I just want to go back to the box. One, six, seven, and twelve.
This is General George Washington, and you're listening to The Tony Kornheiser Show.
And we have a haiku for this from Shad. That's bipsic, gmat, ball in pocket, sit in cart, give me a triple. Yeah, and they were all tens. At least tens. At least tens.
At least tens. We have Father's Day around the corner to celebrate your dad. TK triple.
Go check out JohnnyO.com. I can't get out of sand. I can't get out of sand. All right, square up the stance. I'm going to call Shannon today. We're going to be making a more V-shaped swing. I'm going to call Shannon today and say, just give me a lesson. Just let me get out there.
All right. You're going to have to draw straws for this one. We are guest loaded.
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Chapter 3: How did the Nats perform against the Marlins?
I mean, so, you know, it's a lovely event. Sure. You know, it's the Maryland State Amateur Champion, the best players, best amateur players in Maryland. I'm sure a lot of good college golfers are going to play in it. Do you have to live in Maryland or just go to school in Maryland? No, no. You just have to be a part of the Maryland State Golf Association. So there you go.
So I just wanted to mention that. And now we've got to get to Ron Flatter. And the introduction sort of goes like this. I forgot it was the Belmont because the Washington Post has no sports section. Nobody has a sports section anymore. And even people who have sports sections do not cover horse racing anymore.
So there's not four days of buildup like there used to be when horse racing was important. And you have to find someone like Ron Flatter, who works for Horse Racing Nation, who covers horse racing. And I should have remembered, well, I did actually remember that the Belmont was this week, but I haven't read anything on it.
So our friend Ron Flatter is here to answer the most important question, which is this. Will Golden Temple, the winner of the Kentucky Derby, who sat out the Preakness, and Napoleon Solo, who won the Preakness, will they both be in the Belmont?
Yes and no. Golden Temple will be there, but Napoleon Solo will not. and this is the first time in 1917 that no horse from the Preakness has showed up for the Belmont. So we're going back to Woodrow Wilson days, or Nigel King George V, if I may, for you. Thank you. Yeah, so, and it's just, again, it's the spacing of the races. But this is three weeks. This is not two weeks. It's three weeks.
All right, yeah, but, you know, they normally go every month to five weeks, and so that does expose the question about, Moving the Preakness back by at least a week, is that going to be enough? I still think they need to throw more money at it. There's a $2 million purse for the Preakness, a $2 million purse for the Belmont, but there's a $5 million purse for the Derby.
Now, if they want to get horses to show up, throw some money at it, but we'll see how that goes. But the reality is there will be no horse this year who will have run in all three Triple Crown races. Second time... In four years, that's happened. It happened in 2023 as well.
So it's the way of the world now, and we can wring our hands about it, but there's going to need to be a greater solution to this problem. I think money's part of it. I think the spacing of the races is part of it, and we'll see what happens.
Is there a betting favorite established so far?
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Chapter 4: What insights does Ron Flatter provide about the Belmont Stakes?
You wouldn't want that. I will say this. The game is so radically different. I'm not saying that Michael Jordan wouldn't come in and dominate all the obvious people from the past. But the game is so different. I watch films... you know, the people we're talking about, the game is immensely slower. It's played much closer to the basket. Big men moved as if they were on stilts.
There's nobody like Wemby. Nobody. And you watch them. It used to be the cardinal sin if you were a high school basketball player when I was high school basketball. If you threw a cross-court pass, you were removed from the game. That was a giant sin. Now the ball is whipping around cross-court routinely and into the corners for three-pointers. It's insanely different.
Again, I'm not saying the great players of the past wouldn't do just fine now. Julius Erving would do just fine. But the kind of mid-level players that you see on the better teams... are really quite something. So I don't know. Jalen Brunson, let him win a title first before we even have this discussion. I've got to say, it's my native Jewish pessimism inbuilt.
I think the Knicks are going to have a hard time against San Antonio.
That's interesting. I think the Knicks are better off playing San Antonio than playing Oklahoma City.
Far better off. They are, but I think both of those teams would be favored going.
Yeah, and I agree with that. And it is clear that Wembanyama is a force of nature. And if you listen to him, he not only wants to win this one, he wants to win the next 50. He wants to be the face of the league. Wilbon says he is already. He wants to be the MVP. He was personally aggrieved that Gilgis Alexander was the MVP. And in the first game against him, just blew his doors off.
I mean, Wemba Nyama is clearly special. But David? the Knicks have done something in the playoffs so far that is unprecedented in the history of the NBA. Their plus minus is the greatest point differential ever.
The teams they've played, the teams they've played, again, far be it for me to downplay the Knicks achievement, but the teams they've played to get into the finals are not the greatest teams ever to grace the NBA. Philly was okay. You know, Cleveland is, you know, they had, God knows they have some really good players, but
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Chapter 5: What are the latest updates on the Belmont Stakes betting favorites?
When I was there, the basketball was Division I, the football was Division III, but while I was there, they changed the rule. You couldn't do that anymore. So I guess a bunch of the teams from Georgetown's league kind of all went Division I together and stayed in the same, like, I don't know. My youngest son was...
um is a college football kicker he was he was trying to get the georgetown's attention a couple years ago coach the guy i went to uh college with my same year um graduated 94 but didn't work out so we spent a little time on campus back then a couple years ago always enjoy going back but no football was never a real big presence uh when we were at school there why did they make you go d1 is the rule that if you have any d1 programs they all have to be d1
I think that was my—this is outside my area of expertise, but that was our understanding at the time as folks that were not playing college athletics, but only sort of watching them.
So Binghamton had to go D1. We were D3 when I was there, and we used to scrimmage against the college that was closest to us, which was Baptist Bible Institute in Endicott, New York. So we scrimmaged against them. Yeah. We had to go D1, I don't know, 10, 12 years ago because we had over 15,000 students and they said you can't be D3. And our position was we stink. What do you mean?
Why can't we be D3?
We can't play up there. You guys want us? Great. They're going to look good. Yeah. I got you.
But now we're in the America East, and I'm glad we're in the America East. All right, let me get to these trades. The big trades were Miles Garrett going to the Rams and A.J. Brown going to the Eagles. The biggest trade to me, and you can correct me, is Garrett going to the Rams. I was surprised at Cleveland trading him, and I had never heard, not like A.J.
Brown, I had never heard Garrett be discontent in Cleveland.
Oh, wait, though. Last spring, spring of 25, he had a very public trade request. He was going around during media row at the Super Bowl telling everybody who would listen he wanted out. It's not about money. It's about winning. And then out of nowhere in early March, he agrees to a $160 million four-year extension.
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Chapter 6: What does David Remnick say about the Knicks' fan base?
I don't remember. Randy DePaul in fashionable North Bethesda. I do not wash the berries either, Kornheiser Strong. Patrick Thompson, New Orleans. Are we sure the Budapest fan wasn't just a big fan of Walgreens? Could be. Brendan Borzelli, Lebanon, New Jersey. Did you ever wonder if the people calling you for the loans and the endless spam emails are really the same group behind them both?
Not bots or professional scammers, but critters over in the staging ground for the animal revolution, a place we like to call the little house. Once you start receiving texts from Saliz about Orioles games, you'll know that the animals have infiltrated your inner circle. If your phone starts telling you traffic is fine on the Bay Bridge on Saturdays in July, you'll know you're a dead man.
Refuse any offers for the best veal in the city for the foreseeable future. And for God's sakes, don't give any driving lessons to folks who can't recite the days of the week in succession. So I keep getting these. Bill Isaacson gets them, too.
Yeah, we all get them.
Your loan has been approved. Call us here. You know, stop.
Great news. Stop.
Stop.
Yeah.
Lane Wilkerson, who's the mayor of the city of Frankfurt. That's Frankfurt, Kentucky. That's the capital of Kentucky. And he writes, what's capital of Kentucky? Frankfurt. That's it. That's the list. Sincerely, the prospective official mayor of the Tony Gornacher Show. Yes, Frankfurt, Kentucky. I've been to Frankfurt, Kentucky. And one more. Hit my head on the golf cart the other day.
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