The Drive with Josh Graham - App State's New Year's 6 Path

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Go I'm willing to make big statements about after that 17 to 7 when a piano last number one this is one of the 25 best teams in America right now that's something they shouldn't be and I expect they will be in next week's AP top 25.

Now that you I drink with this group live no to just based on what I've seen for Appalachian State is officially in the new year. Six. Discussion now for those who don't know the best group of five team in the country gets to play as an automatic bid in one of the big New Year's six bowl games on October 31 or on January 1 going to need to run the table.

I know there are some optimistic Bantu think maybe you'll get a shot with there being South Carolina and North Carolina on the schedule having one lost just as long as you win some belt conference championship game. I don't really see that. I think it's a really strong year for the group of five. There very well could be five G5 teams in the AP poll next week you got three teams out of the American Memphis is undefeated SMU undefeated Cincinnati after knocking off UCF only has one loss that Stu Ohio State in Columbus, so they cracked the top 25. None of those teams are the highest rate G5 team. Can you name it, it's Boise State that's ranked near the top 15 out of the Mountain West conference another conference at the Cusseta guerrilla Goodyear with the Air Force being strong. Boise already getting past them. Utah state which we've talked about before, and so far down the list. There are very good teams in the G5 selective of the pole just as long as those teams win will be in the top 25. Next week, so looking at what State needs to do in order to be the best group of five.

They're going to have to went out there biggest test is South Carolina. That game is November 9 it's in Columbia.

They've had some issues at quarterback. It's hard to really speculate who's good to be the guy at that time. A lot of people they were very excited about what they had at quarterback going into this year and it's all just kind of fallen apart in that spot been Ryan Wolinsky last month or so, who's been okay I'm not to say it's good to be easy for Rhapsody. I don't even know if they're going to be favored. You're on the road against an SEC team might be ranked at that point if you win.

Up until that point, you certainly will be, but I'm not at the point yet with State under a first-year coach were all just go ahead and set yeah you should be winning SEC games on the road you beat North Carolina that your first power. Five. When you've had since the Michigan game when you were in FCS at 2007 pump the brakes a little bit on you should win at South Carolina.

You might be favored. I doubt it. It might be a pickup so it's winnable at worst. For Appalachian State then you look at the rest of the fund, though Troy down both their head coach to West Virginia Georgia Southern down this year Louisiana you're probably going to get a rematch with them in the conference championship game. But if that happens, in all likelihood that games could be played in Boone so advantage Appalachian State. I like apps path more than any other team I just mentioned. Out of the group thought that's why believe they are legitimately in the new year. Six. Discussion Boise State very tough schedule.this weekend but next weekend they played BYU. They still have Utah state on the schedule at the player championship game in the Mountain West don't sleep on the Wyoming Cowboys were having a nice year. There are three very good American threats to this new yours do your six discussion SMU.

They've been great. The one coach you can look at being a pure descendent of the Dabo Sweeney coaching tree is Chad Morris and this Chad Morris is a coach. I really liked who right now is at the University of Arkansas but the players that he recruited to go to SMU. He was known as being a top recruiter when he was a Clemson those players are now being coached by Sonny Dykes and Sonny Dykes is taken that next step further, that as a first-time head coach Morris wasn't able to do what it's worth mentioning Morris from the recorded perspective. That's why SMU is as good as they are and they are ranked for the second week in a row. It's the first time they been ranked since pony express in the early 1980s, however, SMU is going to have to face facing each other in the regular-season SMU in the regular-season finale has Cincinnati so these teams are to play each other and I think Apple is going to be looked at favorably if their unbeaten over one loss.

SMU even if they when the AIC oral one loss. Memphis if their unbeaten. I don't think it happens, the only team I think might be favorable might get the nod with one loss over State Cincinnati and that's only because the one loss they had was at Ohio State and the buckeyes are just rolling over people right now it would be a fascinating discussion, one law Cincinnati out of a better conference in the American one loss coming to Ohio State getting shut out getting shellacked in Columbus or at state undefeated conference champ and road wins at North Carolina and South Carolina. In this hypothetical. I do think this without getting too far down the road with Schedule and just focusing on the present. Yesterday was apps most impressive win of the year. It's not the most important North Carolina is that it's a benchmark. When that people were to be talking about for decades. Considering the two schools haven't played since 1940 bought from a football perspective.

From what I saw on the field transpire. I was more impressed watching app last night on a Wednesday night in the fun belt nationally televised game versus the game I saw in person North Carolina app state a few weeks ago, mainly because I know what they have offensively.

Zach Thomas here two touchdowns last night to clinch the game late winning 17 seven but the defense was? They may place. Demetrius Taylor had one of the best games I've ever seen a defensive lineman have against the Tar Heels.

He was great again last night, but Ted roof he's been criticized, you give up 40+ the Charlotte home, people were sick at your not Brian Brown or not Scott Satterfield, Eli drink, which is not as sharp as it was last year with six daughters back on this defense part. When you look at the numbers Louisiana there were home very excited and they have the night Frank offense in the country and apps they held in the 254 yards. It wasn't for a couple suspect pass interference calls at the end of the first half, Louisiana doesn't score that touchdown right before it was impressive. We know what the office can do the defense.

We didn't really know so I was very impressed by what upstate did last night. Your thoughts are welcome on twitter at sports on triad is the Giants and the patriots tonight Thursday night football. Eli Manning's out of the picture.

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It's it's just incredible stuff from Daniel Jones and we pay a ridiculous amount for him to do that for us probably broadcasting to it already is. Clearly this is something that you guys are not sucking me into the story at all and I'm I'm just telling you, for your own benefit. Your drive with Josh Gray on sports hub triad will state as part of this colorful fall team. I like a lot me now filling every Thursday night by Pat McAfee and Molly McGrath and Adam. You spent a lot of time in the state of North Carolina in the last month or so. Can't remember if I told you about potatoes and sailing but I know you ended up going there with the crew you visited Greenville America last week at East Carolina and now you're in Raleigh for NC state Syracuse so give me a sense is the food connoisseur you are.

How would you rank the North Carolina restaurants you visited man all I would say sweet potato. It is hard to beat Descartes's recommendation. We ended up last night in Raleigh at capital club sick. He which I was a huge fan of a lot of German flavor to it will more German food but that of an American I menu to I just I had a five dollar Wednesday special burger as I try to find a good burger. It was a really really good about me burger as well. The made burgers I think is very simple, very strong ingredients very well seasoned I was a big fan and more spry chicken so I can remember think that's what it was I was more likely with more spry chicken were yet more spry chicken with wood excellent, so I'm a I'm a big fan Greenville traded North Carolina state in general is treated us very well. Last month, and the guy run suck dogs apparently knows you're on right now. He sent me a text saying that to thank you for the three or four shout out to Gabe to suck dogs restaurant best college barn America at Greenville America last one absolutely.

Absolutely I do I get wikiwiki Dracula drinking and Brett was was kind enough to let our cameras in a just got to show off a little bit of stuff dogs and I know they wanted Greenville last week at the temple which frankly again for a good chunk of time to got a little interesting.

Other reasons late in the game last week, but I shut out the bread… Everybody in Greenville are great worked with a lot of different broadcast teams but I like it seems like you found this ditch. Would you guys all gelled together you Matt and Pat McAfee and Molly as well in the sideline and it just seems like whether it's producers and camera work as well like executive producers that you guys have tailored the broadcast to make a get a lot more fun. Of course it's informative and it's it's something that we enjoy watching his football fans but just going through it yourself, how much more fun are you having being in the booth with this group are not One part not have a good time. This group and I think I'm all all pull the curtain back a little bit all give you a little insight into what I feel were work Thursday night were going to get our butts kicked by the NFL. The NFL is still king in this country and understandably so. Tonight we we got patriots giant. I'm not stupid I know what is on with our counterparts over. I'm well aware. So at the very least let's try to enjoy on Thursday nights when were not necessarily a marquee game for the weekend in terms of the school and are not SOM that is not an insult and teach literature within the scope of the college football playoff electric Florida LSU Iowa Penn State and it's not Texas Oklahoma which although all those games have some serious playoff level implications. I understand were not that game necessarily on Thursday nights this year so as we try to appease the cute fan bases that are watching the conference fans that are watching by being informative about the teams were covering the conference. The recovering and being a little bit global unpalatable.

I think part of our job more. So it's our job to almost be counter programming into at least cover the game in a way that allows you guys that are new to the game on a full-time basis in broadcasting to shine and to let let them get exposed to college football on a significant basis week to week and we can bring their unique flavor and perspective broadcast each week. I think so far. I hope that's what we've done. I'm sure some people don't love it, but nobody loved every college football crew universally so I think were just to go out and have a good time be informative be entertaining. Have a good time with each other because we all become really good friends this month working together and hopefully people enjoy that if they don't that's okay they do background with us will have good time with a lot of good game what Adam tonight and see state Syracuse into contact with his crew. Pat McAfee and Matt Hassell back Molly McGrath is the Wolfpack look to go for into with the wind tonight against is pretty good Syracuse team that had a lot of expectations going into the year but last week I don't think I've ever watched a game where in football where the lights went out nationally game you covered anything like that scenario in terms of like the fickle nature of the game like light going out with four minutes left to get a 17 point game East Carolina scores in all the 10 point game which I covered the spread so that becomes the main story for the last couple of minute 15 minute light light like out delay, I guess, for lack of better term. Very night… He frequent stadium last week, but I'm glad we were able I feel like if there's any crew talking about on the we have. If there's any crew capable of handling a 15 to 20 minute power outage without studio help and what we have to Add a little bit.

I would put my money on this crew just about everything. McAfee talking to file the fact that a possum got stuck in his radiator. That's not a common occurrence that happened to start start looking around and try to figure out what what might be in that in that compartment. All of a sudden you are through the radiator in the truck of the workshop. I'm glad to see the Pat and Pat McAfee show. I was able to make it here safely to Raleigh, North Carolina will make it all the way out west next week routing stamper next week to make all the way out. So I watch you guys last week and look forward to watching you tonight but I was driving from Charlotte the Panthers beating the Jaguars for the third consecutive went and I turned on the radio and you're also doing the Atlanta Braves series for a night or so and it was a come-from-behind win for them but they lose last night and I wonder who feels worse today. Braves fans who had their hopes sucked out in the first 20 minutes of that game or dodger fans. You had all the hope build up and then click personal just couldn't get it done. Who feels worse today. I think there is a two element baseball element of it and the kind of personal element like what it what hurts you more when your team would you rather see your team losing blood fashion. And it kind of not be emotionally invested or be emotionally about the editing the note see that Joe Kelly give up a grand plan to how we Kendrick performer dodger ballplayers and have your hearts ripped down for me. I personally feel like that would be worse. I think both element counterpoint to the Dodgers having the worst lot 106 when team clear-cut.

I thought, and seeing them in the regular season, the best team top to bottom in major league baseball by one thing I said about the Dodgers going into this. This play out that I was concerned with pride was the bullpen of one of the best bullpen to meet you in the National League throughout the year, but especially late in the season.

They're having back in the bullpen issues. He didn't know how to use Joe Kelly Kelly Janssen. It feels like Dave Roberts had lost a lot of faith in the course of the final month after the season because of all of his struggles, which we saw start last year to I think when you're that invested when you have Clayton Kershaw coming in and relieve and you and we know that every time he takes the ball in a postseason outing. He's trying to get over the top of this 4+ ERA this year for five ERA that you had in his playoff career compared to something like that to ERA a little 25 ERA in the regular-season reprints of dominant one of the best pitchers in the game or have a loss in that fashion to team that I think you were superb against your superior to I should say an end to see it happen the way it did at home.

In that scenario three home runs get you, including the grand slam and pen and to have it go on and by the way, not bad pictures from Kershaw, you are actually not terrible pictures. Anthony Randolph went down and got one right. If you got and hammered out to get started on that final surge. I think that you know I braved a real shock to take the Dodgers down the LCS if they got there, but I I saw the Cardinals at play in the second half of the year I did a couple of their game late in the season. I know what their battle is and I know there very into something that they really leaned on some not as I am a brave man.

I'm not as disappointed got a call when you can all be got a great quarter going forward. I know Donald is a free-agent candidate gone you can retire but you got a great core with three-minute going and I'll be got young pitchers that are going to be started going forward. There's a lot more promise. There were the lower payroll compared with the Dodgers about what with lots with that type of payroll with those type of expectation pop and studio will get more of this game last night with the Dodgers and figuring out a fair way to assess what Clayton Kershaw has been but try to figure out see the Panthers there in London and Ron Rivera compare where he's at the Hogwarts. That's were essentially they been Harrow field days you texted your wife what she say you would be sorted and in Harry Potter what house would you be sorted into – so she set I'd be either either in the Raven Croft are slithering at the Euboea ravens clock out in the mean, what would you be sorted right now regarding out what you yeah never read literature terrible terrible big like I should I be buried is not the one that you're most ashamed to admit or is there another one that you've admitted to somebody say oh no, I haven't seen this movie before you know what I probably among our ilk among the early late 20s early 30s generation. I feel like the Harry Potter thing is probably not embarrassed by I'm just a lie. I feel so out of the loop on so I feel bad you feel bad about this, but not enough of the point Raulerson on the ship. My my schedule and start reading Harry Potter. But I will feel like it passed me by feel like it passed me by you to do in the next year, I'll text you about this.

You get you to watch Harry Potter and then we'll get a review like 15 to do in my elementary school like the bucket program like you just read a book you bring in the certificate to give your personal pan pizza guy can be easily swayed.

If this is good to be like a movie. It type of thing where you watch the movie did the report and repeat it with that of that speech us into a grand slam bending the snow but looks a good base and will get to the watch Harry Potter review with Jacob regular room booklet. Adam have a great great call tonight.

Thanks for doing this but it that's Adam and me on twitter at Adam mean not a noted Harry Potter fan at all that I just put them in a bad spot. Maybe it's speak in a bad spot up next.

Sharing a bed with Darren Vaught, half this is the sports of your on the drive really appreciates you listening time.

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This is definitely not a alley. Sharon with Darren Woodman.

Can you name the band there tonic tonic next time we do karaoke which I hope sometime soon.

This is going to be the son you've never done this never is on the song before the same song.

That's right, the same song twice. I admitted we were in Charlotte that I am a regular karaoke once a week but then I said no I go once a month. Yeah, that's very regular that's regular. Most people do not go to karaoke once per month. So now I conceded on that and that's the part that sounds pretty regular like karaoke once every couple of months type is a very very very occasional thing that I think for most people it's a fun thing to do to be any good. I still have shame for like 12 times a year you karaoke in public. Yes, times a year and that's that I might I maybe have never done karaoke 12 times in my life. I know I haven't yet. So next time you're altogether working to make that happen. Yeah. No one I'm all for art. Let's get the something was sharing with Darren will get to cutting Kershaw's performance of just that.

So there was there was a booking era error here at sports on triad were going to Charlotte. We had five people for two rooms that we thought it would all be straight because we had two beds and then pullout couch which feasibly doing the math could help six people do MDG were together with an intern and we had Aaron and myself go.

Dez was holding down the fort here in Kernersville, so we thought we were 100% straight here but maybe straight wasn't the right word to use because it turns out it was one king bed and one pullout couch so to doing the math that's for beds five people and since DGN will the intern had their own room. It was then us us being Aaron, myself and Darren try to figure out all right to get caught in someone's getaway on the floor or whose get a share bed together and we just that you know what Aaron this is your first experience here in operation basketball me and Darren with this is in our first rodeo. Let's just split the king bed and that's what happened while grow. Sharon here is a big deal.

It's not a big deal. Dez is very amused by this lot might be a bigger deal them with authority, because I saw them both yesterday like them either one of them mentioned this at all like not widening yet. I guess it's true that if survey shared the bed. Maybe it be a bigger deal. It wasn't a big deal to me. I have no issue with this.

In fact, I remember one time I shared that Sharon here we go with a complete stranger in South Carolina. It was a situation where I thought it was his girl had been talking to online you can stay at my place. That's great. She lived in a dorm didn't tell me this. And then she learned that night there was a policy were guys couldn't stay over so it's the day before South Carolina's home opener and I'm getting kicked out of his dorm room like around 1 o'clock in the morning which case I don't have a room and it's a noon kickoff times when looking for like six hours a place to lay my head down for six hours and I going hotel to hotel and their old book. It's the home opener for South Carolina. Their opening the season so I'm just roaming around and eventually I found this place. I got its $370 for the night, like it is like a villa type.

I'm about to pay just to lay in a bed for about six hours.

I'm in college so I don't know how to pay for this year, but then I heard the glorious words I was wearing a hat for the radio station. I was working for the time which is conveniently called pirate radio and I'm walking into this hotel and I hear hi no and guy who played back when Garrard was at East Carolina and started talking to me tell me stories. And then as I knew there about Golden you would happen have a spare partier floor I could sleep and I go up and is damaged get the bed and then the guy sleeps on the other side of the bed and I go to sleep.

I wake up nobodies in the room.

It's completely missing. I never even exist that you dream it, did you kill him take his room fright is situated is disposing of the body to where not even you remember blocking out your werewolf like stint there Sharon that night on powder at sports on triad 336-777-1600. I'm contemplating like how how much I want to divulge in the. The you you made the statement that you shared a bed with complete stranger about how prepared I am to share further on their shares, but stranger.

That being said, I was totally covered with it are you okay now I'm a twin. I got so I grew up like sharing a bedroom with a guy my age that looks a lot like me, since when that so I shared a bed. Yeah well it was a fool I shared a bed with another person growing up on like up to an embarrassingly advanced age. Even before we got separate bedrooms and all that was 12, 13, something like that. There is a good segue to getting to Clayton Kershaw but we will try to do this, try to figure out the most fair way to assess Clayton Kershaw in October because last night I didn't feel like it was completely fair what he was receiving. I didn't in my opinion there. I didn't feel like putting Kershaw in that spot was the right move, especially bringing him back out for the eighth after he did what was necessary to get you through a spot at the end of the Sabbath, you got great arms and that pin one of the best in the nationally league. I understand writing on writing matchups and how that works but I think to a degree that can get overblown a little bit. You've got to protect Kershaw in that spot Dave Roberts did not and then he didn't protect Kelly either in extra innings and you saw the grand slam. I thought last night was more on Roberts than it was. I don't know that I agree with that because Kershaw at this point in his in his career.

We've reached a point where the playoff numbers are inexcusable. Right we have a large enough body of work. At first it was like okay stuff happens, but now I mean he's pitched in 12 or 13 postseason games and his ERA is over double what it is. Throughout his career in regular-season play.

He's a generational talent.

This is this is something that's super inside baseball and nerdy but but stay with me us all and I saw a number and his slider for Clayton Kershaw is arguably his best pitch I saw a number that indicated that in postseason play his slider the swing and miss rate for it is 10% less in his postseason outings than it is in regular-season outings, which is a gargantuan number for something like that percentage points in that man, what were talking about stats from Clayton Kershaw last night, the one that Jeff Pattison gave him a lie Alliance sports is insane to that Kershaw's never allow back to back home runs for home runs on back to back pitches in the regular season his entire career.

It's 31 years old time he's done in postseason. The first one being in 2017 against tell Marseille and Jeff Mathis diamondback. So to my point. He's a generational talent. I mean, I don't think it it it can even be argued that he is maybe the best picture of this generation.

This era of major league baseball but he's obviously and clearly a different dude in the postseason and there's no talking around it now. There's just absolutely no talking around it now.

So when he goes out and he pitches well for an inning and get you out of a tough spot. I think it's good on Dave Roberts to send him back out there because that wasn't going to be enough right it until the Dodgers break through and win a World Series with Clayton Kershaw. That's always good to be the narrative with the least you can do is given the chance, and he looked good to that point can we agree that game five. The World Series probably the biggest stories had was tremendous and that game body out of the World Series, the Astros and here's the link like you know it almost mirrors for me this is a spot that's different than what he's used to and I understand what Alex Cora did a lot of people in sports. They try to follow with the leaders done Shawmut Vegas see a lot of the staggered sets with wide receivers close to the line and everyone's trying to find that next Sean McVeigh seeing that to a degree with Dabo Sweeney in college football and now I think to a degree.

The way that managers look at their rotation and how they use their starters in October. The way Cora was aggressive I think is influencing some people and doing things differently for and a lot of that influence quickly in major league baseball runs up to the executive level II with owners and general managers having more in flights on on lineups. I think you've got a protect Kershaw. That's not a role he's very familiar with. As you know it's a lot different starting then pitching in relief got the out you needed and then the postseason struggles you don't remind me a lot last night.

Just throwing a Marinette spot. We didn't have to remind me of 2004 ALC asking seven when, inexplicably, Terry from Frank and I just threw Pedro Martinez into the game and it just didn't work out and you got all that Hoosier daddy chance I have a question about the because both you watch baseball from afar.

Is it fair to compare Kershaw to James Harden in the MBA great regular-season generational talent. The postseason always fall short on seeing a lot of these. I've seen Dan Marino seen.

I mean cow heard us talking about Kirk cousins sent me. I don't like doing the cross for comparison what you're saying is, so what Kershaw has done.

I just think the position it's different and requires more context and nuance. The role that Kershaw plays would not near the role that Dan Marino would play or James Harden or even Kirk cousins would play when you consider the positions in those sports and how many people are involved in the entire operation of what those sports are so I'm not a big fan of the comparison, but that's just me. Darren only got couple of seconds and we got out. I think it's I think of Kershaw in the context of he is a different dude in the playoffs and I don't know that I characterize the other two that way. So I don't know him yet. I understand it, but I wouldn't put my stamp on it. Don't forget to attend the Dixie classic fair until the 13th is going to be there. I think the final day of the fair.

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You don't think he's determined to beat the Giants with tickets to Super Bowl trophies away from him, think again. Darren got in here were Sharon with Darren Allen the line digest.com is Wake Forest beat writer Les Johns getting set to play the movie game. Let's go ahead and hit this imaging. I think it's his way over the top. What the segment really need man forgets that the play the game. Horrifying story time for some kind of a real ride out with Josh Graham and show me you bring up last. We should be talking Wake Forest one of the time. Maybe next time you do that less what what are you thinking about this movie game here because I know your big movie.remember, I knew my wife removing the week so yeah I'm excited to get your thoughts on Joker when you ultimately see it before you had Dez give me the theme for this week, got three movies and if it's close. 1/4 golden what's the thing. Thanks, Josh. Welcome to the movie game today saying, since it's doing it with his boys. The major league baseball postseason. We are doing best baseball movements of the best sports movies because all the best sports movies are based on. Also, your kind of telling your hand if you say best right. Can't the he's just a category error is all about that less gets it less gets it.

Less is already good at this game he wants to limit out that he said AMC gold member or whatever not. I just done I'm all right.

Dez all right, gentlemen, your first movie for today's money, movie, game is 2011 Moneyball Josh I love this movie. So yeah I'm trying to think who was better in the movie wasn't for Jonah Hill. Okay, no doubt about it all okay about it last time Dez will decide but to be the case for Jonah Moneyball. Unlike normal character is just interesting to play something other than what only God that I'm doing for that value along Darren Brad Pitt's case, I don't feel like I need to make a case for Brad Pitt, Billy be the central director in the whole thing will that was the weirdest coin toss to go first ever in the history of the movie game that the less for his perfect regulation persons, lest you go first. Your movie is 2011 Moneyball go one person. I also, since very very positive reviews, mainly across the board here.

I wrote down 91. Just making sure you had it written down before you set it there. Darren did have it written down 89%. I'm doing about 89 all right, the Rotten Tomatoes score for 2011 Moneyball was 94 wow baseball movies while I've seen people play this game and somebody's really in the Pauly shore and thinks that this movies in the 80s and then one of those movies was a five or something so you can rally from 13 down. I got a good feeling and 89%. I thought being in the 90s was a bit much.

Any of these baseball movies could be higher than 90 can be don't know maybe one in particular that I would guess a higher score numbers during the second movie for today's movie game is 1989 major league I was interested to know what 1989 baseball movie were going to have risers three options there was the natural 88 bull Durham 89 major league 89 and the natural came out right around that time it might've been 88. But what I mean. I associate the three. What is your favorite baseball movie last me not call it really is noble, Darren. I had, as with the big band of Moneyball really good movie. I don't think that's make sure I have my score written down here trying to figure out major league theme later lately, and much more minute to go first again is actually no Darren is currently leaving and he will go first for Rh as our lead. I have an 82 Josh 59% and less to receive.

I don't know the score for May 29 major league was 83 that gentlemen okay sleep major league good.

I mean really is as complete a a baseball movie as the rent was not what it literally, it can't be your which is why I think your Moneyball is something that's it's higher-rated, but no major from the score to Bob Bucher being the lead ushered from scene to scene, it's beautiful, well done high-rise vinyl except that what's get a scoreboard update will be going to the final movie early in the lead is Mr. Karen bought him, and second is less and in third bring up the rear. Our very own Jasper. How far back as less blessed is 20.5 are behind we are getting cross which means we have to go all out for this last one, try to figure out where Darren might be going on Victor Darren writing them down for he says it will just make it on looking at Darren. I know you're playing by the rules. I your third movie gentlemen for the movie game is 1993.

The sand lot trying to think where you rub the wrong way that the year that was portrayed in the future. The kids broadcasting as if these Vin Scully when Vin Scully was actually still brought that it is God's greatest flaw of this film is that they made unintentionally killed off in scope like they killed it was doing dodger games for what decades after that years ago I literally decades after after this film was made. So around three to let the person in place currently go first. That would be none other than our very own Josh.

I'm going all out to predict that this could be some swerve here I'm going 48% are more or less P8 and 78 I picked up some ground. This is bad bad. I can make up some ground Dez what's the score for the score for 1993's. The sandlot is 61. Dr. Grau league parent still in the lead but less is close the gap and is only pinpoint which kicks off our bonus round by one point get this thing going for you not for me but there's hope for last week and referred true underdog story movie before the movie in our Goldman moving around 2013, 42, that the Roy Williams what was it really makes dancing that's that's my reaction that's Roy Williams reaction to critical reaction. That movie was now made. It was like a fire. I guess time is past, it's gotten worse. So it's an interesting it's an interesting guess I so yet again, to grow a little pity towards whoever's in third place in the left third-place contestant go now would be another nine Mr. Johnson yeah I'm not in the way this will help me. I'm with you what's put it this way, the title of the movie. It's way too high of a number four Rotten Tomatoes to give it a 77 this is the worst I've ever seen this movie so much. I left the theater enraged like I wanted to fight somebody which is counterintuitive.

Do I think the message 42 and really I hated this movie so much and dig Black Panther about his uniform. Therefore, I didn't line at the time was only 30 Davis movie 77.less go Beverly Ward dromedary. This is going to be interesting. I split down the middle and went with 50 all will score 2013, 42, is €80 last you got 30 seconds to tell us what you got going on will pick up number 17 in the country. Come check out what's going on with her at length_John this is a lot of fun last things were playing right you come back.

What we got for Sharon to do all the stars aligned this week. Dave Clawson, Eli drink with Scott Satterfield providing you with a kind of sports programming that makes some people. Most people just waits to drive with Josh Graham undefeated teams all around Carolina Wake Forest by last week and last week and 1/2 line into the home for the first time, 2008 five and no getting set for Louisville on Saturday. Appalachian State played on a Wednesday night last night and drink with his team. Five. No in the season as well and states probably good to be in the top 25 at the start of next week when the pole comes out Carolina hurricanes open their season a week ago tonight and they are foreign though with three overtime wins in a convincing win in Florida a few nights ago. They will next be in action at home tomorrow night against the New York Islanders were now being joined by the longtime play-by-play voice of the Carolina hurricanes John Foresman back on with us. John, it's been a while how you been great Josh for having a are you. Things are going great. Looking at the scores of these first four games and I'm looking at the roster this year. The moves that were made in the off-season, and when the dust finally settled with the final transaction. I think being Justin Faulk being traded to the defending champion blues in exchange for Edmonson and some other parts is it fair to say this is an improved hockey team on paper on paper is a question and I think your team is approved. I think there a lot of different weapon different. Luckily been able to somehow maintain the strength of their defense, even when you lose a guy like Justin Faulk and that's not easy to do so. I think they have. I think the only question would be harder to goalie combined going to be as good as the combination last year. My logic and Curtis McElhinney met Malaga get back at the incumbent and like James Reimer was brought in from Florida and then total value in the two games we played. So it looks like even that is at least through the four games as advertised. So yes, I agree with you II think the team improved on paper and then the whole thing was, you know, how would Rod Brind'Amour bring the group together quickly because the training Led just okay. It wasn't greater for training camp was last year.

Last year they forged a culture they played really hardly could see that how well they were skating and speed. I have the ground running that when you know without a regulation lot first five games this year yielded training Kind of a mixed bag with directing guys they had a longer season.

All that stuff, came into play. And now, therefore, no salt, all is good here in this good in a long while. The coolest thing for the start of the opening game against Montréal to introduce the team they introduce the coaching staff and Rod Brind'Amour just gets this very long ovation that it didn't look like he fully expected when he received it at PNC arena now that we've seen a full year of him behind the bench as the head coach and a successful season we've had some time to reflect on it. What do you think is Rod Brind'Amour's best trait as a head coach while he had a lot of great trait.

You know, and I think anybody that has the potential to be an excellent head coach in any professional score.

As you know have a hybrid of trait bring you to the same nation, and I think that what he has had to pick one. I would say relatability. I think you have the ability to relate to his players. His players can relate to him.

They understand what kind of player he was pretty obvious you know what I think you should be in the Hall of Fame someday. I think most guys understand what kind of commitment. He had away from the game in terms of conditioning kind of dedication he had to have longer career, greater career and obviously it was a championship caliber athletes all that's understood but on right side of things. He's relatable he was relatable to every player when he was a captain and the captain even hold himself in high regard EE could you could easily understand what fourth line players were going to support guys minutely call up guys who are rookies of the backup goalie. You know he understood all of those jobs and that's easier said than done. I'm not disrespecting or discounting what great athletes do in all sports. A lot of them are so good that they don't understand the journey of some players.

They don't understand the fact that some guys have to work maybe four times it's hard to get even close to being on the same playing field is that elite athlete. Sometimes when you're an elite athlete. It comes so easy. It's just a given. And it so much as God given that they don't even understand how they got there the first place.

Lot at God-given talent but he also noted diligence in a work ethic that was second to none and apply that to his to his craft and I think you carry that over the coaching office so that's what I see. I think he is relatable to and out the other thing I want to add to this too is relatable to today's athletes and I think today that athletes are far different than they were many years ago. I mean that in a very positive sense in all. They are the younger generation their flexion of society where younger generation that ask questions that want information that don't you go through law because you tell him you have to go through the law. He has kicked of the same age, so he knows how to get through to them.

Some coaches and in today's world don't get that they know they don't understand that there are lots in the old school philosophy and my way or the highway, and that kind of thing.

It's not gonna work with the athletes moving forward. It's the voice of the Carolina hurricanes John Foresman with this year it's the Islanders change tomorrow night. PNC arena 730 puck drop. I think there's there's an opening John for this team to get even better on paper. If Justin Williams should decide to play at any point how open is that your house of the hurricanes community that I communicated that to just live think it's open but I think they need to forget about it and I think they have and I think the market need to forget about it. People that are fans of the team media. Certainly the players and coaches are by talking to her sides.

At some point you like to take a crack at it.

Okay great, but the only way to improve the only way to get to where they want to go to press on. If you were never part of the team and that harsh, but I think that's what they have to do because Justin Williams you know in a singular year. I've never seen a captain perform like that in terms of what he brought to the table. 23 gold company impactful. Goldie scored 13 but in terms of how he carried himself at this time last year was able to raise the bar and say you know Ed is an organization we have to get back here and this is how we going to do it and then when they start scuffling around, especially in December in the month later won only four games you call this place he called his teammates out and he just told him that the way they were claiming was unacceptable. They were fooling themselves. Sometimes those harsh words you know when you have a leader like like years.

Ring true and then going to respond and they did tremendous second half and a bunch of jerks and the rest is history, but I really believe you know the situation is so different.

The only way to move forward and be positive about this is to act like you know he's not around it's it's almost like I early in my career I was around a great coach and when I worked in the American ocular name is Jimmy Roberts. He played for legendary Scotty Baum of the old Montréal Canadiens in the 70s and all legendary teams and they had a philosophy about injured players and one injured player near the team and that's really traffic stop on that guy that wants to be part of the group again but the thought was that players seen by the players were actually trying to play there always going to think the guys coming back at some point be. I wish we had. So I think this is what they have to do William. It's almost like you not part of it was a part of it that's in the past because decide to come back that the different animals are going to have to look at contractually and then Larry fits the group at what point that is as of right now I have no reasonably be coming back muchly. Justin Williams had to be critical of his team's performance when he was the captain of the team. I've got to be critical of the team's performance right now to because he started the storm surge last year and they were great and I'm seeing to storm surges. So far, and it's just not the same level yet.

John they need to build up they have improved Windsor fine but the surge John they need to get better here who ultimately decided to bring the surge back. I think they all did. I think Jordan Martin Okun Jordan stalling. You know the guys that are you know our leadership group. Jacob Slaven maybe but knowing Jacob, I'm coming.

I don't I don't know. His personality played a lot into this. I think Mark might be the driving force to bring it back. There's actually no way you could not do it don't do it if you don't do it not only to select and that an entertainment but you also bring out the fact that Williams is not around again. If the team starts to go South and people are going to say well they're not doing a search have to bring it back because it's so identifiable with this this franchise now a lot of fun. So why not, why not do it but I agree with subpart so far and have to work on this and become a little bit more of Matthew to move forward to cracks at it tomorrow night.

Gets the Islanders Saturday against the blue jackets will have another opportunity is what we have proceed to surges the next couple of days. It's John Foresman with this year.

Every time we have you on John we talk a little baseball to what's your opinion on the Braves getting shellacked in the first inning and Clayton Kershaw his October struggles continuing so the only thing I saw last night for seven talking outside watching Montréal Buffalo little bit of New Jersey and Philadelphia and I wanted to see the LA King became Tuesday see their game so that that's all I did and I saw the score obviously of the Braves game the day before where that we are yesterday. I'm sorry yesterday where that was going. You know I can't really speak to it other than to be astonished by and then I did happen a football courtesy to back to back home runs that against Kershaw and again it's it's something special to baseball baseball as a unique sport is really nothing like it.

Hockey the degree of the playoffs are more of a law arbitration there more of an ongoing saga for two months always get involved.

Injuries get involved.

Baseball has a randomness to it that you just can't explain that that can go quiet for a week and you're done you can have you not off night and you're gone. You can have sudden death in that situation last night and the doctors they finished in.

I don't always start Kershaw's concern needs got you got a lot of goals a lot of demons in the postseason. That's too bad looking caliber picture part of his legacy is going to be what Who's feeling worse today. Atlanta Braves fans who had their hopes up. The way one inning or dodger fans who had all the hope of being the favored team and having your star pitcher about the two home runs than the grand slam in the tent, a reliever coming in and giving that up who feels worse today. I think the Dodgers I think the Dodgers based on losing the World Series last year and and then having the kind of regular season that they had and then you know Kershaw's reincarnation to a degree of Sandy Colfax right so I mean is that been back good and again. Unfortunately the postseason now.

It's a real dicey situation and so I think I think it's the Dodgers. II think it's the Dodgers to accounting on this. Looking beyond this series were looking out would be the Cardinals and you know it's supposed to be at. This was supposed to be know the real opportunity and not a race that is amazing. That's an amazing story. When you look at other managed their payroll is the fact that they're pushing the game tonight. That's amazing. Jan job, glassed on the mountain. I don't get scared Ella will see what happens 77 first hit and used to Johnny it's good to hear your voice and talking some pucks again. I'm sure will be doing it sometime soon.

Great call tomorrow and Saturday will chat soon. Okay Josh, thanks for having good luck.

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