“Bombo Genesis”

We will talk to Barry's Reluga over in Italy as the Olympics wind down.

“We'll chat with Tim Leglar about what to expect around the NBA”

as they begin the sprint to the end of the regular season. But first, have a little commerce. Previously, on the Tony Cornhizer show, both have fan bases that'll travel and their mission has got the largest living alumni base in the country.

And then Duke has a lot of people on the East Coast and DC's not a lot of people in DC. So, both will have fan bases there. And it'll get a lot of attention and be a really good thing. My son says the tickets are going for hundreds of dollars,

maybe more, maybe thousands. Oh, maybe also mine if not. The Tony Cornhizer show is on now. That was Jay Billis, who would be here tomorrow night. He was Washington, DC.

The current of his games. The rain is going to stop. Look, you don't want to know what's after the rain. You don't want to know that I'm reading the capital weather gang last night.

And I see a word I've never seen before.

Bumble Genesis. Bumble Genesis. Bumble Genesis. It's a new dance. Bumble Genesis is some thing that happens in weather that's bad.

Anything that says Bumble at the top is bad. Bumble Genesis, there are some people, not just Kevin Shean, predicting three pieces of snow. Oh, yes, every time I turn on WTOP, they say, please don't listen to your weather apps.

Apparently, it's a 30% chance of three feet of snow and a 30% chance of an inch or two of snow. Three feet of snow. That's a big gap. Yes, because if the Bumble Genesis forms in exactly the right

latitude and longitude, that explodes over Washington, DC, and then goes up the coast and destroys every. Destroyed Philadelphia and New York and probably the rain took at all the snow creeps. So we have space for it.

Yes. Yes, and it's real snow. Snow will melt. Yeah. You know, it's the concrete that won't melt.

Do you have this, you're going to play this thing? Yes. Can I explain this? Yes.

“Do you want me to read the emails first or play the thing?”

I was playing the thing. Play the thing. Everyone needs to listen to this. But everyone who's listening should continue to listen. He's doing a triple court 1980.

So not always he's spinning a ton.

But he's also adding that slight car and the butter. He's almost beat together. And it's just adding an extra bit of flavor to the spin itself and the judges love additional moments of interesting things added.

So to translate that from my good friend Tony Cornheiser, that is a five and a half rotation spin of access with the court. Yep, simple as that. Did that actually happen on the end? Like that happened.

Found an alternate feed. Did that happen on the USA net one? I'm on the net one. I'm on the app. You happen.

I'm on the, I think, one of the, one of the emails about this. We have two emails. Yeah, it's good that your Comcast was stuck on USA for days. That's unbelievable.

“I believe that was legitimately over the end.”

Okay, because as you know, I've been saying, what are these people talking about? He's made up names. It is a vocabulary with which I am completely unfamiliar. And so I just sort of listen and watch and wonder what's going on.

This is from J. Sir J.C. Murmack in Hanford, California, but originally from York, Belinda, California. Second time long time, I previously emailed you when sand entered the hall and now I'm here with snow. I was watching the free ski big air final tonight

and one of the skiers performed a nose butter launch into a triple corkscrew, not even a short. I'm not sure if it was Todd Wolch or Tom Wallace, but one of the commentators mentioned he was translating it for his good friend Tony Cornheiser

is a five and a half rotation spin off axis. Are they actually friends or perhaps listeners to the pod? You've pointed out the absurdity of the trick names and the even greater insanity disguised display by coining down a steep hill

and then flinging themselves high into the air.

It is truly both scary and amazing to watch.

Thank you for your Olympic commentary on both the pod and P.T.I. and it's reinvigorated my interest which in turn has helped my children interested in wanting to go to the 2,028 summer games in person. And from Danny McCullough, he rides long time listener here

from Los Angeles, California, while watching the men's free ski big air final the other night, which the USA skier Mac Forehand took silver in and wondering just like you did the other day with Wilbon, how you can tell any of these twisting

some insulting tricks apart from each other. I was delighted when one of the commentators who referred to you as my good friend told me corn, I sure. Layed it all out in Laman's terms in the attached audience. He sent the audience to help you.

Yes, as I'm still a bit in the dark about what I saw. This is amazing to me. I don't really had a lot of cheesery at the summer Olympics.

I don't know, I don't know these fellas.

I'm not yet, I do right. And I didn't know that I had said it on P.T.I. I knew I had said it here. But it is, as I said before, a vocabulary which I'm unfamiliar.

If you're just commenting on it and you know this sport, it's nothing to you to say a double corkscrew 1460. That's what it is to you. But to the rest of the world is unfamiliar with a very, very niche sport.

It would be nice. And when the guy says in an extra pad of butter on it,

“I think that's pretty good, and that's pretty good.”

But if they said that on the Olympic air, I'm stunned. And these skating events give me the space to throw in the technical vocabulary. I was thinking about this when you were watching a Best and Show, the other night, just such a great movie.

Such a great movie.

That, yeah, this is what you would hear on Best and Show.

So I'm grateful to whoever said it. Hopefully it means they watch either, listen to the podcast or they watch P.T.I.B. Hopefully, right after he said that, he asked his broadcast mate. How much you think I could bench press?

Yeah, his full-puck fend to think. All right, I have been given new-- here's my problem with this. I have been given by my doctor. I've been given new things to take to get hearing back

in my right ear. And I think I'm getting some of it back, but I think Michael, you would say, you're not really getting some of it. You're just adjusting to the level.

You're deluding yourself into believing that you're getting anything. Again, I love whenever you go to the hearing test, and you have to look left and right.

And you just skip the straight ahead.

Yeah, 'cause I don't know what's going on. 'Cause I hear nothing, 'cause I have the ears of someone my age. In other words, I'm deaf. Well, and you've also spent many decades with me.

That's something to my ear. Yeah, okay. So I was given a spray, and I was given a pill. The pill I take every night, you know, a decogen.

I don't know what it is. It has a long name. I don't know what it is. And the nasal spray, I take twice a day. And this is my question.

It's my ear. Why am I spraying stuff into my nose? Well, it's a lie. What's that? If I went, okay, but if I went to an ear nose

“and throat doctor, wouldn't that guy go into my ear?”

And not my nose, if I could get an appointment, you cannot get an appointment in the United States of America for an ear nose and throat doctor ever. You can't. You will be dead, murdered by whatever it is

that is eating at your ears or nose or throat, before you can actually get an appointment. These guys must make the most money in the world where they don't have to see anybody, or they take appointments six months in a day.

And every couple of years, every couple of years, the advice changes as to what, you know, nasal spray they're being pushed by their own partners. You know, as someone who listened to balloon surgery promos on the local radio and went and got it,

I feel like an expert here. No, this is they're trying to clear out your passages. I asked initially when you described yours, if you were suffering from any clenching, just because I also know that if you clench it night,

that can affect your ears as well. - I don't think so. - I just figured with the stress around travel. - Well, maybe, but I would like to, again, I would like to see an ear nose and throat guy,

but you can't. We could squeeze you in in 2032. - Yeah, you can't, and this would take 10 minutes. It's not gonna take any more than 10 minutes, even when we chat, it's not gonna take any more than 10 minutes.

So, I mean, let's do it, and I can't do it. Okay, so now yesterday, I got back for those of you who are old enough to do your own checking, to balance your checking account yourself, as I do, as I have done for 60 years,

balanced my own checking account. You know that at some period of time in the month, your bank, the bank that has the nominal, you know, what is the word I'm looking for? They own your checking account, right?

“They are, you have to, they just hold your account,”

they hold your account, they will send you a list of all the checks that have been cashed in a better month-long period. I said this the other day, it's the decline of America that the United States Postal Service,

which is the most reliable government agency in the world, and which provided millions of people untray into the middle class of the United States of America, it's not working anymore, certainly not working for me, and I don't understand this.

People go into mailboxes on the street and steal the letters, open them up, take the checks out or the cash out, and then rewrite the checks or something like that. So, I would know if that had happened to me,

if my checks were stolen, I would know, 'cause they'd have been cashed by someone else. I'd have, it would come out of my account, whoever cashed them, and whatever name they wrote on there, it would come out of my account.

So, these are not, these have not.

I'm missing last month, I'm missing out of about 30 checks that I wrote. They're not accounted for. 11, 11, three on the same day,

“mailed, or the checks were written on January to finish.”

Three on the same day, mailed, and there's only three post offices that I use, and I don't drop 'em in letterboxes anymore. I go inside the post office. Three on the same day, one to Comcast,

one to DC water, and the third one to the Washington Post.

All three. Do you remember where you were that day? I do know. I do know. Which post office?

Because that seems like a sorting issue. Yeah, that's exactly what I think. That these three on January 10th, they are lost forever in the, which actually is probably the best case scenario,

'cause you track you, find it early, you talk to the companies, and hopefully they give you that forgiveness, but that's much better than fraud. Yeah, so I haven't been the victim of fraud,

but I've been the victim of what seems to me mistakes or neglect at this point, and I feel bad about that, and I'm not the only one. Carol went to the post office the other day to ask about, inquire about,

when the pickups were and the deliveries were, and the woman at the post office said to her,

“"Do it online, you have to be crazy not to do it online."”

So I'm facing this, it's not an existential problem, it's an actual problem. I'm facing this problem, I will go into my bank, and I'll say, "Tell me how I do this."

I don't even have a computer, I have a phone, but I don't, this is what people find hard to believe. You do not have a personal computer. I've got a buy one. You had a laptop from the post 35 years ago.

I don't know where. But you've not had a personal computer, no. No, so I'm gonna have to buy one, and I'm gonna have to do all this stuff on there, because if I understand this correctly,

I will be able to pay my bills out of my checking account as if this was a check. No, it's the mathematics would still be the same. Yes. It would be quicker, I don't understand how it would be safer,

but maybe it would be safer. But it's just three on the same day, three on the same day, they're lost. They were put, not just my checks, a big bag of checks was put somewhere,

and it has disappeared. 11 for 33, that's a lot, so I'm batting, I'm the whole of fame members. Have you heard about this trend called Admin Nights, where people get together to do all the basic life stuff,

they have to do, for you, it'd be managing your checkbook, but we can just schedule a time where, particularly when baseball season is around, you sit there going on this third Thursday of every month, we sit down, we come over and help you,

when we do your online checks, and make sure that you're not doing autopay, just to make sure nothing falls through the cracks, but once you have all these past codes saved, it'll be much faster for you.

I always forget my past codes.

Every time I sign into something, they say, "Did you forget your password?" No, no, never do it, that's a Michael question. I do, I have forgotten it. Of course, I have forgotten it,

'cause I haven't done this in a year. Should the past would be ask Michael? No, I don't know, I don't know.

“Careful with that, I think it's basically close.”

I don't know. By the way, Ruby era, people were bundled up yesterday. It must be cold and Southern California. Have you seen Akshay with his hand warmer the last day? It's the same one I've got.

It's the same one I've got. It's the same one I've got. It's the same one I've got. It's the same one, yeah. So, but they look pretty bundled.

Yeah, they do. I think the weather changed this is interesting, 'cause you're looking at a very famous golf course within the architecture world, but you're also looking at a preview as to

what will come around for the summer Olympics, 'cause they made some changes to the fourth T-box in the LZ team. Yeah. Ruby got a few good stuff, didn't he?

Yeah, it's in second place, okay.

Jacob Bridgman is in first place, and this is an important thing to note. Riviera is not a budded by the Pacific Ocean. Close. So yeah, but it's not a budded by the Pacific Ocean,

and so he can't fall off the side of the course and end up in the water and the sand, 'cause there is no water and sand at Riviera. So whatever causes him on Sunday to make us all wait until they're longing

to have to see from the 16th to three hours, it's not gonna be that. It's gonna be something else. We will take a break. - Who is Barry first? - That's right.

Barry's for Luke of all the way from Italy. That's right. When we return, I'm Tony Cornhizer. (upbeat music) You were listening to the Tony Cornhizer show.

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By someone named Gus Christophe.

It's not Chris Christophe. Gus Christophe. The rights I hope you're all well. I want to send you a quick and genuine thank you for playing two of my songs on the show last year.

I'm a very new, very indie musician. And you play my songs. Give me a real bump in listeners. And morale at mental law. He's got a new single that came out.

Earlier this month, the earlier this week, called Ancient Aliens, a bluesy tune with some harmonic. And I've also attached another song called "My Puck", which is about growing up on the Canadian queries. Where hockey isn't just something you watch.

“It's something that quietly shapes who you are.”

So he's rooting for Canada against, if they get to do that. We're rooting for the win-gold medal. But I'm sure we'll be sweeter if they get to the gold medal game against the United States. So we'll know that by the end of the day.

And he plays in Barry's Reluga, who's out there? Out in Cortina, in the alpine area of the Winter Olympics, as we heard from Pat Forty, you just can't go back and forth every night. It's a real long trip.

Before we get to the Olympics, I need to ask you this. You're a proud graduate, Duke University. Duke's playing Michigan right here in Washington, tomorrow night. Do you have any desire to go, which is just bad the Olympics, and come back and watch that game?

I mean, I have an extremely long and detailed text exchange with college friends, several of whom have paid hundreds of dollars to attend that game. So there's a little bit of a poll. And it's a two national title contenders playing a couple

of Metro stops from my house. Like that's appealing, right? It's not as appealing as finishing the Olympics in Milan and having some lovely bowling aids at the end of the day. But yeah, there's a poll there for sure.

That's what I would think. Can you watch it? Is it going to be available to you to watch? Not a lot of the things I have investigated here. So I got to Milan yesterday down from the mountains, actually,

so that I could go to the women's hockled metal games. Yeah. And then do the men's semifinals. And you know, what I hope everybody's helping for a US candidate final on Sunday.

So among my tasks has not been checking the cable diet that my hotel in Milan is here.

“Where is the CDF broadcast of Duke Michigan is going to be?”

Yeah, I mean, you could call Jay Billis and just try and get him to speak into two different microphones, one directly into your ear and one to the rest of the world. You can do it. Yeah, I wouldn't do that.

He's a Duke guy, too. Are you ready for the Olympics to end? Yeah, Tony, you know, how these go. I mean, they are exhilarating and exhausting all at once. I really was happy to be in Cortina through the alpine,

certainly with how it worked out for McKellish. Sure. Sure. You know, you feel some ownership of some stories. And if I'm being honest, the reason I came to these Olympics

are, you know, some percentage of Wendy Vaughan and some percentage of McKellish shipping just having some history with them going back decades and obviously the arc of Shifran's story was pretty fascinating the way that she finished it off. So I was happy for that.

And then you know, also happy to come to Milan, which as you mentioned, I was with 40 in the mountains. He was, we were dinner partners on more than one occasion because you know, not everybody was up in our little village. But it's kind of nice once you get here to change a pace.

I walked around the city this morning. I have no feel from Milan.

I've never been here and you quickly get a sense

of how cosmic politics it is and big it is. So big that, you know, there are, you know, lots of streets where you would have no idea that the Olympics were going on here at all because it's just, you know, a city going about its daily life.

But the hockey stuff was great last night, obviously, and should be great over the next over Friday night and Sunday afternoon too. Sadly, for me, the hockey is going to cause us to put the PTI show on live today

because the United States Games starts at 3.15.

we had to do the show live and the game was not decided.

I don't know, I was surprised to see, I guess, that Slovakia was seated in the top four that the seatings worked out. Are they, that good? Are they a real threat to the United States?

So we're going to put that in the category of things that I will determine as the game goes on.

“But, you know, I think the whole thing has been set up”

for it to be the US and Canada for the tournament. But I would also say that after a group stage play that was, you know, largely blowouts and not riveting stuff, you got to the quarter finals and three of the four games went, two at a time.

And we all know that anybody who even is a casual sports fan and turns on playoff hockey when it's over time, when it's over time and elimination is in play. There's no tension like that in sports. I would argue, take that same philosophy,

apply it to the Olympics, put nations and loyal peace to country over regional biases. And I think it's that to the end to degree. It was certainly the case last night in the women's game where it's almost pre-ordained

that the US and Canada will play. There will be real tension. I'm going to go to the Canada game in the afternoon

“just because Tony, I think that, you know, weird way”

and maybe not even in a weird way. Maybe in a very normal way. There's more pressure on Canada because it means more to Canadians. They live it, they breathe it.

It's their sport, all the stories of oil could skate before I could walk. Like, you know, I had a pond in my backyard. It was frozen from, you know, September until May. And we skated, and that was a way of life.

I feel like the burden is on the Canadians, not just to get to the final, but to win gold. And I think I mentioned this before on this show, maybe earlier in the Olympics, like I was there in 2010 in Vancouver when it was the US and Canada for gold and it went over time

and Sidney Crosby scored the same winner for gold on home soil. And there's top five things I've ever seen.

I mean, just an amazing, amazing thing.

It could be replicated on Sunday. I would just say this, and I'm not the world's greatest hockey fan. But when they go to three on three, that's fabulous. That is just fabulous. I love watching it.

I love it, you know. Yeah, and it kind of lessens the chance that you're going to be playing until one in the morning. That's why that's why I'd open. And, you know, last night, they go to three on three.

Each team had a really good chance before Meghan Keller got the break away with an amazing move and put it away. But that, you know, it was four minutes and change into overtime. People could say, purest could say that that's the contrived way to finish it. I'm with you.

It's exciting. And it, you know, it assures that we're not playing hockey for three and a half hours. Yeah. Yeah. I let me go back to Michaela Schiffran.

And I know that you have known her for a long time. And I've written about her many, many times. The fact that she won, and she won by a huge margin, and I'm assuming you're a skier. I am not.

I'm assuming that huge margin ends all doubt about who's the goat in this deal and who's not. Did the psycho analytics now go away? Or is that just who she is? And for as long as she skis, she's going to, you know, put herself on the couch after

words. And that's just who she is in the same way that John Mackenrow. When John Mackenrow lost tennis matches, you sat there for an hour and he went over his whole life. Yeah.

You know, and I just wonder, is that all gone, I would assume, Barry, that even with the other gold she has won, this has to be the most precious. Yes, because of what preceded it for sure.

“And I think the answer to whether the psycho analysis is gone is no, because she's”

who she is. Yeah. She's going to answer a question in a thoughtful and interesting way, and she's

never going to blow off a question as stupid or a sense that if she's, she's going

to consider it. And that leads to some pretty in depth analysis by her own choosing. Like it is her choice to explain that stuff to, you know, me if I'm the reporter or another reporter, because she's not this box that only I can unlock. She's very open with a lot of people.

But I would say the tenor of a change is Tony that the next four years are no longer

Now, she's very, very cognizant and conscious about pointing out what we do has a lot of variables involved, variables that can change over the course of an hour when one skier skis and another skier skis, the conditions change, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

The problem is that she has been so dominant in winning seven of the eight slums that

were on the roll top this year coming into the Olympics, the only one she didn't win. She came in second, like, she has taken the variables out of place so frequently that it makes it seem like they don't exist, and therefore the only acceptable outcome is a victory, it's probably a little more complicated than that. But what she did when they in that form, and this is what I wrote, was not something out

of the ordinary for her. She did not have to summon some greater than superpower to win gold. She had to allow herself to ski, like, Michaela Schiffern, and when Michaela Schiffern skis

like herself, she win slalom races by margins that, you know, would be secretariat.

Yeah.

“That's what it is, it is a trouncing, I didn't have this stat when I went to write, and”

I've woken up in the middle of the night twice since then being, like, I can't believe I didn't have this stat, she won the two runs by 1.5 seconds. If you go back to the previous seven slalom Olympic races, which I think dates back to 1998 in Nagano, the combined margin of victory of those seven is 1.51 seconds. So this is a sport that is measured by length of an eye, and she turns it into a sport

that should be measured by a fun dial, because she just kills people, and she killed it on the Olympic stage in the last race of these games, and that writes a lot of wrongs. And now whatever happens for years from now, when she will be 34 and a lot closer to the end of her career than the beginning, she has three Olympic gold and one Olympic silver, it's an unassailable legacy.

Yeah. And she was fortunate, of course, because there are events, multiple events that she participates

in as opposed to Lindsey Von, who crashes on the first turn, and she's out.

And the quad god of false twice, and doesn't have another shot and even Chloe Kim, who gets silver, and that's her last event. So I wanted to just ask briefly on Jordan Stoltz, and I'm probably being a fool on this, because it's the way speed skating is, and I'm not knocking speed skating, but I said yesterday on the show, in the summer Olympics, eight guys are stretched out across the track, and

you same boat knows who he has to be, and he sees these guys, and Stoltz is out there yesterday trying to be the time, and the guy who's out there with him, he's not trying to beat that guy, that, you know, it seemed a little less satisfying, a little less fair to me, or am I just being old? Well, I don't think you're being old, I think if you're Jordan Stoltz, you know what

“you signed up for, and you know you have to measure yourself, not against the man, but”

against the clock, but I agree with you having watched, I think what's satisfying about the Olympics, sports in general, but the Olympics, specifically, is we're talking about human performance, and human performance, maxing out like we can debate, should the quad god have tried to go for all those big jumps, and was that part of his undoing that he went for too much, he was trying to maximize human performance, I think you're talking

about you same boat racing against seven other people, I have seen Michael Phelps or other swimmers see someone in the lane next to them, and know exactly what they have to beat, not what they're had in the water, wondering about it, a clock, and can that impact human performance, can you draw something out of yourself because you know the person next

“to you or three lanes over is pushing you, I think the answer as we've all studied athletes”

would have to be, yes, to some degree, is it quantifiable, is it something that we're kind of fixalizing maybe, but I also think it's probably real, so put that on Stoltz, like he knows what his sport is, he knows the format, there's nothing unfair about it, but when you're talking about, takes the time away, take whatever the world records

tell me that there's not like a competitive element there that is drawn out because you're

competing against somebody else, totally agree on that, thank you for all of this, I'm not going to bother you with skimo or whatever they call this dopey thing where you walk up the mountain and ski down the mountain, ski mountain in the area. There's a lift, did they know there's a lift?

“That's what I said, yes, he's he, I say, this is not appealing to me, I don't want to climb”

up the mountain, that's why I buy a chair lift ticket, and I would go up there, I'd enjoy the rest of it, we will talk when you get home, thanks Barry, appreciate it Tony, thank you. Barry's really a wonderful, wonderful writer, we will take a break, Tim Legler will join us when we return, I'm Tony Cohen, I see.

Ok Nicola, Chris Fraggle, Homer was a star or a ghost, what brings us more? At the moment, I check the goods, oh, huh, Homer was a ghost, it brings us around 150 euros a year. Yeah, right, but how do you know what you're doing? Why, how do you show the performance of life?

That's just the story of everything. Yeah, I'm asked, I'll tell you about it. Tony, for seven and without any doubt, that's simply the one who understands us. Stay on the lead, it's safe, with viso steuere, yet custom those auspropian. You're listening to the Tony Cornheiser Show.

Once again, this is Gus Gustafersen, this is called Ancient Aliens, and he writes the end of his note that last year's four nations in H.L. Tournament was any indication this

“Olympic gold medal race is going to be absolutely electric, yeah?”

Yeah, he wants Canada win, you know, I would like to, I'd like to count on the United States. Oh, sure. Canada's usually better. Michael, if people like Gus Gustafersen want to send in their original music and get

a play on this show, how do they do it? Send this in music by email, get to jinglesat. Tony CornheiserShow.com, and it plays in Tim Legler, who's back on the beat with basketball after a few days off, the NBA has resumed. What have we got about 25 or 30 games left now, are we in the sprint area at this point?

Yeah, totally in the sprint area, you know, and unfortunately we still have a number of guys that are dealing with injuries, you know, you would hope that as you get ready for this stretch of the season Tony, when every game just is more magnified, intensity picks up. There's more at stake every night when you're talking about seeding and standings and

play in tournament and all that, and there's still a number of guys that are out that are going to dramatically affect how this, you know, late stage of the season goes. But yeah, this is it now, you come out of the break and it's just, you can feel it immediately, with difference in the air and in the building and with the teams and the intensity as they get ready for the stretch run to the playoffs.

So will bond yesterday, you know, got on his high horse and said that the next had better beat the pistons in Madison Square Garden, they had better do it and with great joy, I noticed that they did not, and now, and I want to, I'm going to say to Willbante, well, what happens now? Well, nothing happens now, because there are 25 more games.

And what did, is there any, was there any special meaning in your mind in that game last night? Yeah, there was. I thought, I felt the same way, look, I wasn't going to say, hey, they have to win the game.

That's the ceremony, but they had to at least get to the point where they went toe to toe with this team who is physically, absolutely manhandled them, you know, this year. So now that's three games, three losses by a total of 84 points.

And, and this one, this one felt like, okay, you know, they basically got knocked out

in the first two, they lost by 31 and by 38. So now you're saying, okay, they're at home, you've got everybody out there, now you've got to go ahead and stand up. And maybe you lose the game, but you've got to be in the game with a few minutes to go, where there's meaningful possessions, and the Detroit pistons get it to him again.

Yeah. And, you know, they do what they want offensively, but more importantly, they're significantly better defensively than the next.

“And I think that's what shows off in cake, turning ham.”

Look, if you're not, if you're not really watching the NBA every night, if one of these people that kind of casually watches other teams other than your own team, you might want to start watching cake, turning ham, because this guy is a legit of a superstar, he's going to be in the MVP consideration this year. Wilbon's kind of, Wilbon's kind of is MVP right now.

Yeah. Yeah. He's got to get votes. Well, he wouldn't. I don't know.

He goes to salads in or out there. That could be difficult. And he's going to get maybe more votes than we thought. I think he'll be first team all league. I don't know if he'll be MVP, but this guy is a specimen.

He is big, physical, but he's also got a burst of quickness to him. And he's most importantly telling you for me, the thing I love about cake, turning ham. He's all business.

His demeanor never changes.

He's so stoic with his expression. Other than every now and then, you're a casual, see more intensity out of him.

He's out there to dominate you and he'd get it again last night to the next. That team is built. The Detroit team is built along the same formula as the Oklahoma City team was built. They lost for a long time. They had draft picks.

They made intelligent signings or whatever they've done.

Oklahoma City won a title last year and then started out this year as if they were never

going to lose a game. And they have receded. Why do you think they have receded so noticeably? Not that they're not a championship team, but they were killing it. And now they're not.

Yeah, I think what happened was to the thunder. It lost and they came off over a year where she won a championship, but as a young team, no one expected them to get out of the gate. Quickly. In fact, you would have been understanding, I think all of us, if they start the season

of nine and seven, because the off season was so different for them and they're so young and they gave their best replayers about a billion dollars in guaranteed money. So you know everything feels different coming into the year, but that's not what happened. Instead, they come out of the gate 24 and one and there was this inavitability about them and about the season and how this was going to end up and they were going to be back

to back champion. And then they ran into the San Antonio spurs and the spurs be the three times in 10 days.

“And I think it's been a notice almost to everybody that, hey, you know what?”

Maybe they can be had. Maybe there is a vulnerability there. I personally think they at some point, the exhaustion of winning the championship, having an extended summer that was different for everybody. And then getting out of the gate like that, we start talking about it. They're going to win 75 games and they're going to break the record of the gold state

warriors. And I think the whole thing took a mental toll on them. And then when they hit that wall, it was just the spurs, some other teams got them. And you started to see, like, hey, maybe there is something there. All in all, I think you're going to see Oklahoma City's best basketball happen now.

They've dealt with injuries like every other team that's part of the Tony. They've had guys out all year that are really important for them defensively.

But I just think there was a certain point in this season where there was always a mental fatigue

finely kicked in with this group. It didn't happen at the start of the year, which you would expect it instead of kind of hitting them in the middle of the year.

“And I think you're best basketball is coming.”

Yeah. And the most surprising team to me and probably to you was Boston. You look at the team that loses their best player and they're buoyant. They stay up near the top, but excuse me for a frog in my throat. And there is a notion that Jason Tatum might indeed return this year in the playoffs.

What do you make of Boston? Yes, there ever been a bigger X factor that could be injected into a playoff race. Jason Tatum, Jason Tatum, you talk about a guy himself who's, you know, perennially a first team all league and be a player. So both and for me, it's interesting story because no one expected this level of success.

And I think it's ironic that it took these circumstances for Joe Missouri to finally get the credit he deserves as one of the smartest, brightest toughest coaches in the league.

Because the scouring is one of championship and I still feel like he was never given

enough credit. That took this for people to understand how good this guy is, how smart he is. And Boston has been the biggest over-achiever in the league. Maybe I'd put Team like Phoenix in that category too, but a great story, but the Boston Celtics legitimately look like a team that you are not going to want to play.

Even without Tatum, I don't know that anybody is going to want to play the Celtics in the seven game series because of how smart they are and how they still can absolutely shoot you out of the building a lot of nice from the free point line of jail and Brown has taken his game to a level offensively that I think has been really impressive because most guys don't find another gear this deep into their career.

“Even if circumstances dictate you have to do it because Tatum's out, that doesn't mean you”

can do it. Right. Jail and Brown doing it the way that he has and average it basically around 30 points of game and being that star, go-to guy that drives the engine with a starting line up that you look at most nights and your how is this team winning?

They are able to do it because they are very connected, Brown has been incredible and a job as well as the best coaches in the league. I watched a clip today of Cleveland winning and James Harden, who bothers me because he runs out on teams, Jimmy Butler bothers me, he runs out on teams, Kevin Durant bothers me the most.

I'm glad Phoenix is doing well because he runs out on teams, but James Harden is still a great player and they look good, don't they? That's an important acquisition. Yeah, and here's why, and some people had a problem with the acquisition. I said the day the trade was made, it was absolutely worth the risk, you know, they had

good chemistry in Darious Garland, it's a very good player, but you're talking about now bringing in somebody and they look, he's got to answer the bell in the playoffs because

I guess you, he's not, and it's been, and it's a long history of it, you know, where

he has team moments in series, they're like pivotal games in series and he has struggled. And when you have a player that dominates the ball to the extent he does and on those nights he doesn't have it, when you have to have this win, I don't know how you overcome it because there's no other way for teams to play that he's on. They only have one way to play if James Harden's on the team.

You give him the ball, you run high ball screen, you run ISO, he's so physically dominant some nights, you just know answer for him because his passive ability is so good too. But on the night, he doesn't have it, he's not aggressive, he's not making shots.

“Well, what do you do now, if that's how you run your offense?”

So there's no doubt he's still a physically dominant player, here's why I said it was worth the risk Tony, he will make their bigs and their shooters better to a greater extent

the Darious Garland could because of his ability to find people after he's collapsed

your defense. He's so good at rewarding bigs with pocket passes and lobs and then the kick out free pass that he can make, it's a different level than a guy like Darious Garland. So the supporting cast around him is going to improve because James Harden's ability to find them now will he be there when it's 22 and it's gave five and you have to have

a big performance. He hasn't been moment, he hasn't struggled in that situation in the past and that's why I'm still skeptical that he will do that but there's no doubt the physical talents and what he could do to a defense, it's just a different floor than Darious Garland can get to.

And I'll get you out of here on this, the Phoenix owner yesterday said everything that

I have been saying about tanking, how bad tanking is, will bond and assist at load management

is worse than tanking. I don't think so.

“I think you are defrauding your ticket holders when you tank and it appears that maybe”

the league is taking this seriously, what are you as a former player who knows how much a team can be improved by tanking and getting a higher draft pick, what are your thoughts on tanking? I actually, there are three issues with the league, tanking is one of them. I think load management is one and I think player availability from injuries.

Those are the three things that are really bothersome for the league just because from a stand point from a network stand point, from just an interest standpoint, competition stand point. I think load management of the three is probably the least of my concerns because you're not really talking about that many nights that that's going to affect the product.

Now it's something different than guys. My generation ever did or understand, but it is what it is. It's part of the modern NBA, start players, get off some nights and that's the least of my concerns. For me, actually, I think the biggest concern of all is how long players take to come

back from injuries. I think that's probably the biggest concern because I think teams now exercise so much on the side of caution because of the financial commitment to these players and now they have performance staffs and they have all of these metrics that go into it and they're so concerned about preservation, preservation of players and keeping them fresh, trying to make

them available at the end of the season when they need them. As a result, like similar injuries to what guys may have had 15 years ago, they just take longer to come back from and that means more nights where you don't have your best players. And our product, the NBA, is affected more than any sport when those guys aren't available. It's just a different product.

When you tune in and you don't see those guys, it's just different. It feels different from a viewership standpoint fan and a general interest. The tanking situation, although yes, it's bad when you have teams that are not trying to win, you know it in a professional competitive environment is a problem, but it's still limited to a certain number of teams.

A certain number of nights and at least fans can look at a schedule and say, "I don't really want to see that team play anyway, so I'm not going to buy a ticket to that team because you know what kind of where they're at." Teams got 12 wins in January, you're not going to buy a ticket to that game in March when they're coming into town.

At least you have a buyer beware situation there, the injuries and a load man is harder to predict as a fan.

“And that's what I think about the defense that are spending money to go to the games”

or investing their time to watch the games. That's the part to me that's harder. The tanking look, Adam Silver's coming down is once a throw a hammer down on these teams and he's done it already with some of these finds. He's already talked about they're going to look at this hard in the offseason, try to figure

out what they can do about the situation where teams are actively not trying to win games. The other stuff is going to be harder especially the injuries to start players and not having

That's a tough because this year it feels like there are so many guys that have dealt

with injuries across the league.

“That are the faces of the league, the faces of franchises.”

I've learned something good. Thank you. Thank you Tim. That's great. Thank you so much.

We'll talk soon. Thank you. You got to tell him. Tim Levere boys and girls. Wow, that was really good.

We will take a break. We will come back with email in Jingle and Tony Cornheiser. You're listening to the Tony Cornheiser show. Hear from Tony's mail back, got to email, backstage and your notes. Hear from Tony's mail back, got to read some for all of you for all of you.

Came day high school in South Carolina.

We always like listening to that.

I'll be thinking about that when I hear the Hammer. The Hammer's performance of Hot Cross Bonds on the recorder. Is that what he did with it? Okay, that's great. He learned green sleeves.

Yeah. That's great. There you want to do the Professor Bagel. Yes, Professor Bagel's. We love them.

You will as well just go to BethesdaBegels.com for the location in the DC area near the students and pop on in. And you'll be thrilled. I'm going to give a shout out to Sickofant Steve in the effects wind symphony has a concert. This Sunday at 3 p.m.

at George Marshall High School at missionist free and he says there's going to be a fantastic euphonium solo. Oh boy. Yeah, I don't know. You told you phony.

You'll be fine. Yeah. Okay, before we get to the mail bag, let me just say you're everlasting summer. You can see it fading fast. So grab a piece of something that you think is going to last.

Well, you wouldn't even know a diamond of hell in your hand. These things you think of precious, I can't understand. Are you real in the years? Still in a way the time. You gather enough of tears.

Have you had enough of mine? That's one of the great underrated groups of all time. Two guys steal the damn. They're just their songs are so smart. Pretty good.

So smart. Thanks to our guests today. Tim Legler, thanks as well to today's sponsors.

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Get your show through Apple. Please leave us a review. I do want to extend the sympathy of everybody on the show to the friends and family of Ron Jones. Who is a little who has passed away and there will be a celebration of life for him.

And now we get to the email, Alex Silva, Newport, Rhode Island, formerly of Fall River Massachusetts, appreciating the half pipe and the figure skating. And the other subjective sports in the winter Olympics is like jazz. The sport is really about the tricks the athletes don't do. Carlton, Carlton Conley in Belgrad, in Serbia.

I wanted to get your analysis of Norway's winning big air jump. The right nose butter double bios, 16, 20, safety. I'll hang up and listen. Enough, got the great car from the butter. Come on.

I'm not that Roblo, North Railton, Ohio. How could the McDonald story not start like this? It's nine o'clock on a Sunday. The regular crowd shuffles in, there's an old man yelling at me while I'm getting too muffins to win.

I mean, come on, come on. Patrick Sitter, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, special trip to McDonald's for $5 a breakfast. Bardering to get late fees reduced to remove. Are you having money issues? Is Michael's heroin inheritance in danger?

Do we need to hold a bake sale? I'm Pete in Albany, I fly a few times a year, I suffer from the same ailment as you.

My flight home always ends with both of my ears clogged and intense pain that lasts for

weeks. A few years ago, I went to an EMT while I was still in the midst of pain and asked if there was anything he could do to provide relief. He sat down and paused, looked me in the eyes and said, did you know that in World War One, German fighter pilots would pierce their ear drums so they could endure the pressure

changes during dog fights? Silence, I stared at him. He stared at me, finally I said, "So can we pierce my ear drums today?" Or he replied, "No, I just thought you'd enjoy that story." Then he told me to use ear plugs the next time I flew.

From Andy Schaener, in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, I know that you're not that kind of doctor or a science major, but hang with me, the active ingredient in affron is oxy-metazeline hydrochloride.

“The pronunciation isn't important, but I looked at the strength on the labels.”

The adult version is 0.05% and the kids' version is 0.02%, affron for kids is the same exact stuff, just take off the dosage, just shoot two shots up your nose instead of one. Also, why is there a McDonald's in the Louvre, where else are the thieves supposed to eat? Yes.

From Jim Kuttahee and Locus Grove Virginia, while not a cure for your ear issues, while working on a summer job on the road crew with Virginia Transport, Virginia Department of Transportation during college, I was offered a number of unconventional remedies from V.D.'s, not quite ready for med school crew for a bad case of poison ivy I contracted. My favorite by far came from a guy we just called pork chop.

He said the sure cure for my poison ivy was to rub steel wool on the effect of the area and then pour a weight for it, gasoline on it. There were a lot of nodding heads when pork chop moved the suggestion. What? I don't know.

Oh, okay, this is a salute to Doug Moe.

It's a good story. Yeah.

“Thank you for Tuesday's Melancholy Trail salute to Doug Moe, one of the most beloved”

flamboyant and colorful figures in Denver Sports History, colorful described not only his personality but his language, much of the frequent chigrin of parents who took young children to nugget schemes and sat in the vicinity of teams bench. Doug was unique in many ways, not the least of which was his disdain for traditional coaching techniques such as film study analytics and designing set plays, giving rise to a plethora

of anecdotes. Once in trying to design a last minute play, got so frustrated, he smashed the whiteboard on floor and shouted, "Just give the effing ball to English." One time Doug started carrying a briefcase on road trips, leading players and staff to wonder if he had lost his mind and started using notes and analytics only to find that the briefcase

was full of information for his fantasy purpose. Doug's legacy is cement to not just by his winning record, but more so by the continuing affection of his former players from Hall of Famer Dan Issel to his personal whipping boy Bill Hans, like all of whom could relate to being barated for 48 minutes on the court and being taken to dinner by Doug after the game.

As intense as he was during games, Doug never lost perspective at a press conference

after being fired by the nuggets. Doug popped champagne for the reporters to celebrate being paid for not working.

“Tony might recognize a story Doug told about his high school experience.”

Doug attended and played for a Rasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn, the Alma Mater of Barbara Streisand, Neil Diamond, and Bobby Fisher. He could never get enough basketball so during the summers, when most of the leagues were affiliated with religious institution, Doug changed his name to play in Protestant Catholic and Jewish leagues, the latter of which he played as Doug Moscow.

I got to know Doug as a participant in the Denver Media Fantasy basketball league after each stray after he abused every pick I made, categorized me and everyone else on the league is just another stiffest favorite insult. Even worse, Doug was so intent on winning that he regularly scooped up players before any of us could get them stiff indeed.

It's a very nice thing by Neil Airbus. Andrew and L.A. in Brooklyn, and then Manhattan, where I grew up, coffee ice cream was almost ubiquitous. It was the third flavor almost everywhere that there's a choice of three after vanilla and chocolate.

The other parts of the country number three was strawberry, but here we rarely saw it, except that a gas leaking collection called Neapolitan, three flavors striped Mishmash of vanilla chocolate strawberry. Almost every one I knew was a coffee ice cream fan. A singular treat was going to lundies in Brooklyn, the largest restaurant in the world

per Guinness 3000 plus seats when it opened, and ordering homemade pie with coffee ice cream on top. Then I went to LA for college and discovered the basket robins of basket robins, efficacation of ice cream, including such flavors as Rocky Road and coconut pineapple, swirled veto.

Finding playing coffee ice cream in a restaurant was like waiting for good dough, so I started asking my college mates about coffee ice cream. My unscientific survey disclosed that more than 90% of the people who liked it either came from New York or had a parent who came from New York. Wow, the coffee ice cream diaspora is a real thing.

Now let me go and try and find some real pizza. From chat, once is a mistake, twice is a coincidence, thrice of vendetta. Yeah, yeah, that about the checks, yeah, yeah, maybe they're after me. At Wayne Buck, Bramult in Virginia, we recently returned from a trip to Paris which included a champagne and wine tasting.

I was enjoying all the champagne I could drink since my girlfriend's a wine drinker. I wasn't really paying attention until the Somalia I mentioned the wine from the Malamad Valley or on par with French wines. I took all of it. I took all of my being, not T.L.

Malamad. Damn it.

Our hotel was in the Saint-Chermaine neighborhood and featured something I've never seen

before. He did towel rack. Take that sanzi. Oh sanzi is used to that. Oh yes, sure.

Oh sanzi is used to that. From Brandon Borzellian, Lebanon, New Jersey, have you considered walking into the post office

“and just yelling representative to see if that helps with the missing checks?”

From Tyler Echin, camp, and Lincoln Nebraska, I sent my sympathies for your struggle with that slow, thaw, and snow-create currently impacting the DMV. Here's a weather update from Nebraska. Tuesday, February 17th, a high of 76 Fahrenheit, record high temperatures across the state for the state.

Wednesday, February 18th, a little cooler, 63 Fahrenheit, Thursday, February 19th, Blizzard conditions, 28 Fahrenheit, three inches, snow 40 mile an hour, wind gusts. That's with less. Michael Benadetti and Scott's still Arizona not North Scott North America. North America.

Not Willbons. Clubs. Manatees might not be fish, but they can swim from DC to Pittsburgh. You let's the black. That's funny.

And Jeff and Madison was constant. Bear down, Hammond Bears doesn't really hit the same desert. No, it doesn't. Hammond Indiana, take him bears.

If you're out on your bike, time to everyone is always to wear white.

Here's the thing. We're not the wonders right now. We're Captain Geech and the Shrewshack Shooter. Yeah, when I was eight, is all, my dad took me to my first hockey game.

The puck went on meal ran for its glove and my dad caught it and gave it to me.

“When I was ten years old, my mom would take me to get sore every week.”

If I could've saw a wild dive at home, we'd listen and try to catch all the rainy y'all. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. When dad was eight years old, his school would burn to the ground. He was there, he learned to speak English.

“While at home his mom spoke you crazy and dad went to the ring to skate on the ice.”

When mom was ten years old, her mom taught hard to guard in in the sun. They know how to grow anything. I've lived downtown about my veggies at the store, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Now here I sit and I don't know much about what it needs to be from the old countries. The oil is my favorite team.

“They're owned by a billionaire zoo in the homeless shelter in our community.”

I will play my guitar and call that the bullshit that it is. I'll cheer for our team, that bastard won't take my puck from me, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That bastard won't take my puck from me, yeah. Who's in charge of what I have to blame? It's got a heavenly touch, could be angel demons got so rich as they leave us.

I've got a powerful home, best straight hero with that never known.

We've been this guy so high, the God same must be smiling at us good day. We've been this guy so high, the God same must be laughing at us good day. Well, I don't know who's in charge of what I have to blame. It's got a heavenly touch, could be angel demons got so rich as they leave us.

I've got a powerful home, best straight hero with that never known.

We've been this guy so high, the God same must be laughing at us good day.

“, we've been this guy so high, the God same must be smiling at us good day.”

We've been this guy so high, the God same must be laughing at us good day.

We've been this guy so high, the God same must be smiling at us good day.

“We've been this guy so high, the God same must be smiling at us good day.”

We've been this guy so high, the God same must be smiling at us good day.