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The Play By Play@Phil | Thunder in 6Click here to reply to @Phil "The NBA Finals are upon us and I'm of course excited. But when I look at the odds here, Oklahoma City is minus 750. That's a very heavy favorite. And when I listen to all the people talk about this series, it's almost like it is a mismatch here. A lot of people not giving Indiana any shot whatsoever. Everybody believes that Oklahoma City Thunder will be way too strong for the Indiana Pacers and everyone is picking them to win in either four or five games."
2025-06-0304 minThe Play By Play@Phil | Seemed like a US OpenClick here to reply to @Phil "He's played in the quarterfinals against Carlos Alcaraz at Wimbledon and then again at the Paris Olympics, and Alcaraz took both of those. And so you got to think that he has the advantage, too. But Tommy Paul, not without a chance here. It would be amazing to get both of them into the semifinals. But realistically, I think, you know, Tiafo is probably the best chance to get into the semifinals here."
2025-06-0304 minThe Play By Play@Phil | Timberwolves will tradeClick here to reply to @Phil "And in the Wolves offense he just really, except for a couple of games in the playoffs, really just seemed like a liability out there, especially against Oklahoma City and is just really out of place in that offense and I don't know that it's worth the money just to play that that rim protector now they would definitely need to get somebody else play that role. When Nas Reed enters the game. He is not a rim protector so they would be susceptible to the rim protection."
2025-05-2904 minThe Play By Play@Phil | My French Open picksClick here to reply to @Phil "If she can get beyond those struggles with her forehand, I think she'll be very formidable here. Now the number one seed in the world, Sabalenka. This is not her surface she's reached the semifinals once. She got beat last year by the person that I'm picking to win this tournament, Mira Andreeva. And I just don't think this surface is conducive to her game very much. Now another Jasmine Paolini just won the Italian Open. She is one that absolutely watch here."
2025-05-2704 minThe Play By Play@Phil | Is Bill Belichick in a midlife crisis?Click here to reply to @Phil "But I don't know that he's got a clear head thinking about coaching football here the way he usually does, the way that has led to all the success of just thinking, sleeping and eating nothing but football, staying in his office watching tape until 3, 4am I don't get the sense that he's doing that anymore. And I think that's going to translate to losses on the field. And I do not think that UNC will have a very good season here."
2025-05-2204 minThe Play By Play@Phil | Pacers make historyClick here to reply to @Phil "And I was witness to from the opening tip, you know, the game, the Pacers didn't miss the first, I think, seven or eight shots and you just knew this was going to be a track meet. And it was just a up pace game. Knicks kind of taking control before the half and then, you know, in the fourth quarter, seemingly had the game in control, up 15 with about two and a half minutes to go, three minutes to go."
2025-05-2205 minThe Play By Play@Phil | Bad contracts will be an anchorClick here to reply to @Phil "Last year was our first glimpse at the new collective bargaining agreement, and we noticed teams like the Phoenix Suns were really kind of in trouble as we move forward, and now in this upcoming offseason, we can add some more teams to that list and we really start to see what the impact of this new collective bargaining agreement is. And we're particularly reminded of that this weekend when both the Boston Celtics and Denver Nuggets were eliminated from the playoffs."
2025-05-2005 minThe Play By Play@Phil | Knicks-Pacers and Wolves-ThunderClick here to reply to @Phil "So with that going seven and the injuries that were had to those three who are now healthy and a reminder that Julius Randall was out of that series as well, now you get Kat, a lot of people pointing to, you know, the changes that were made with the Knicks will put them as the favorite in this series. However, you know, the Pacers were without Benedict Mathurin and, you know, this is a team that is very dangerous. They're deep."
2025-05-1904 minThe Play By Play@Phil | It's not just CaitlinClick here to reply to @Phil "And I'm especially interested in watching this because when you are a rookie in the wnba, you have about two weeks from the end of the NCAA tournament to training camps and you really don't have the time that NBA rookies have when they have, you know, roughly four to six months to get ready that NBA season. You don't have that luxury in the wnba. So I think a lot of first year players really kind of struggle."
2025-05-1604 minThe Play By Play@Phil | Pete Rose should probably* be inClick here to reply to @Phil "And I think that'd be an important lesson for people today. I see too many young people getting addicted to betting on their phones and playing a game that they can't win and, and trying to get to that break even point. If I can just get this, then I'll stop here. And it's a sickness, it's an addiction that they just can't get rid of."
2025-05-1504 minThe Play By Play@Phil | Aberg or Schauffle for the Win!Click here to reply to @Phil "And to be honest, it's not. It's probably the least of the four majors that people really know, and I think most casual fans probably will struggle to actually name the PGA as the fourth major. So when they were on an island alone and you just said, hey, there's something to watch, we'll watch the pga. It was just a little bit different. And now that they've shoehorned it in into May just makes no sense to me whatsoever."
2025-05-1504 minThe Play By Play@Phil | The Laker TrendClick here to reply to @Phil "There's been a lot of different times where you kind of look at it and you're like, really? Did that really happen? And last night is really starting to have a lot of people talk about the fact that it was fixed. And even Bill Simmons, who is a one of the most foremost broadcasters or podcasters on the NBA is even suggesting that that is definitely the case."
2025-05-1304 minThe Play By Play@Phil | Cooper Flagg a sure # 1 pickClick here to reply to @Phil "If they added Cooper Flag, man, this is all of a sudden would be a really, really dangerous team. That is going to be something to watch for. Spurs have had a lot of luck in the draft. That would be an amazing story. Another team that I the Portland Trailblazers. I don't know if you'd really want Cooper Flag going out there. So."
2025-05-1304 minThe Play By Play@Phil | Manny's MistakeClick here to reply to @Phil "The guy likes to get into wars and you know, maybe a lot of people are going to kind of point to the fact that he lost to Keith Thurman, a guy that Manny packed defeated. And you know, there's not the transitive law in boxing. Just because one person beats somebody doesn't mean you're automatically going to beat them."
2025-05-0904 minThe Play By Play@Phil | The Mammoth??Click here to reply to @Phil "The Boston Red Sox. They got their name because the other team in Boston, the Braves at the time, decided to go with Blue Sox one year. So the owner of the Red Sox said, you know what? We're wearing red stockings. We're going to call ourselves the Red Sox. And that stuck. It was that simple. Hey, they're wearing red socks. Let's just call them the Red Sox."
2025-05-0804 minThe Play By Play@Phil | Preakness in CrossroadsClick here to reply to @Phil "They have a race like the Kentucky Oaks called the Black Eyed Susan, and that has become pretty much a allowance race. It's not something that the Kentucky Oaks winner even considers anymore. And same thing with the Pimlico Special, which used to be run by top shelf older horses. That pretty much is not a who's who of horses anymore. It's really kind of a glorified allowance field now. And I think the Preakness will go down that same route. They have to upgrade that to grandstand."
2025-05-0705 minThe Play By Play@Phil | Favorites on a Losing Streak!Click here to reply to @Phil "And when you shoot three, four, three pointers and they don't go in, all of a sudden that gives the opportunity door to open for the other team. And that's exactly what the Knicks took advantage last night. Tyrone Jalen Brunson just played absolutely out of his mind. He's got to be the best conditioned player in the NBA, I think. And I worry about the Knicks though too. These players, some of these guys played over 50 minutes last night."
2025-05-0604 minThe Play By Play@Phil | Pacers could be primed for a runClick here to reply to @Phil "They move on and we're into round two and we've already had one game and you know, frankly that's the one that I is the most primed for, an upset. And the Pacers take steal game one and I could see them really giving a lot of teams in the east problems. Indiana is a very good team, Halliburton playing fantastic. And I really think that they can give not only the Cavaliers problems, but I think they can give the Celtics problems."
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The Play By Play@Phil | Derby 151 Preview Breakdown and PicksClick here to reply to @Phil "But before I get into each individual horse, I have to mention that these are all three year olds running ten furlongs for the first time. That's a mile and one quarter. That is a long way. So for some of these they're carrying £126. It's a bit of a guessing game. Now some of these horses may like a shorter distance and it is kind of akin to putting us in bolt into a hundred and you know, 1600 meter race instead of his 100 meter race."
2025-05-0214 minThe Play By Play@Phil | Luka and AntClick here to reply to @Phil "He goes for almost every head fake. And when you have two guys out there that are not defending well, it's very tough to win NBA games in 2025. We saw that last year in the playoffs. Everybody needs to be a two way player. And the Celtics kind of exposed Luka's defensive lapses last year. And I thought that that was the major difference that won the Celtics the championship."
2025-05-0105 minThe Play By Play@Phil | Bucks may need to let Giannis goClick here to reply to @Phil "It seems like the Indiana Pacers have passed them as they beat them twice in the past two years in the playoffs. Now, this is a team that won the NBA championship in 2021. That was four years ago. Team has traded away some of the assets. They brought in Damian Lillard, and that is one of the main issues here. Damian Lillard goes down, tears his Achilles tendon."
2025-04-3004 minThe Play By Play@Phil | Is this a generation thing?Click here to reply to @Phil "But I'm wondering if this is a generational thing, because in my mind, like, you wouldn't even think of asking that. That is just absolutely not even on the table. I would have. I would have advised them, don't even bring that up. Don't know. It's just off limits. It's not going to happen. And when I think back to my generation, I can think of an example in the other direction."
2025-04-2903 minThe Play By Play@Phil | Luka needs to step upClick here to reply to @Phil "I don't think he's making the right adjustments and I think that is ending up costing them thus far here. They still can shoot and I think they have to shoot the three pointers and just kind of have reserved themselves to playing that way. And it just doesn't look good for this playoff run for this Lakers team. They need that rim protector for sure and that's probably something they'll address in the off season."
2025-04-2804 minThe Play By Play@Phil | Opponent time zones should be taken into accountClick here to reply to @Phil "It happens every year, playoff games going well into the night. And with the time zones in the United States, it's impossible to really kind of have a fair balance. However, it is something that I've always thought that pro sports should really pay attention to because I feel, my personal opinion, that one of the downfalls of Major League Baseball and the popularity of baseball is because they stopped doing afternoon games, especially in the World Series. Everything has been moved to primetime."
2025-04-2203 minThe Play By Play@Phil | NBA: Almost like two leaguesClick here to reply to @Phil "Especially when they just start hammering down on that defense, making it a little bit more intense. Teams like the Rockets that have gone through the season kind of scoring by committee, it doesn't work as well in the playoffs. All of a sud, you're passing it around, the defense is intensified, you're wondering who's going to be shooting it, who's the guy? And all of a sudden the shot clock expires."
2025-04-2104 minThe Play By Play@Phil | Lakers-Wolves the series to watchClick here to reply to @Phil "We are into the NBA playoffs and I'm excited about this and it wasn't without some drama on the final day of the season with the Clippers and Warriors playing in a meaningful game and that meant with a Clippers win that the warriors go into the play in."
2025-04-1505 minThe Play By Play@Phil | Great win for Rory but not the GOATClick here to reply to @Phil "Well, how did he do compared to the contemporaries and you know, same situation, you know, Tiger woods never went to a playoff hole. Tiger woods would have dominated through the rest of that and Jack Nicklaus the same. So when we start talking about the greatest of all time, you do have to recognize the career Grand Slam, but we need to tap the brakes on putting him on the Mount Rushmore of all time golfers."
2025-04-1504 minThe Play By Play@Phil | Absolute Madness in the WestClick here to reply to @Phil "And the Milwaukee Bucks are a team that everybody in the Eastern Conference seemingly wants to face because they feel that that's a flawed team come playoff time. And then if you go back yet another day, another team fighting for one of these three slots, Denver fires their head coach. What is going on? Do any of these teams really want to be in that playoff slot? You would think so, but that's not the way things have unfolded the past three days."
2025-04-1004 minThe Play By Play@Phil | Please give us a Sunday to watchClick here to reply to @Phil "I can think of Larry Mize chipping in in a playoff hole to win over somebody like Greg Norman, thinking about Jack Nicklaus in 86, winning it, being the oldest person to win this. And then Tiger Woods a few years ago in 2019, coming back and winning this in just an improbable fashion. If you only watch one tournament a year, it is the Masters. It has to be the Masters. This is the one that everybody wants to win and the one that is absolutely the most intense."
2025-04-0904 minThe Play By Play@Phil | Florida wins a thrillerClick here to reply to @Phil "I'll talk more about that in a bit, but let's talk about how the game folded out. And to me it was clear that we had the top two teams in the nation. I thought that from the beginning and I really do believe that we did see the top two teams playing each other for the national championship, which is always great. Now in the first half, we started off really slow, neither team hitting the three point shot right away."
2025-04-0805 minThe Play By Play@Phil | Prediction: HoustonClick here to reply to @Phil "And I just don't think if you have just that one person carrying your offense at this point against a team like Auburn and Florida or Houston, I think it's just too much. And I think that Houston with their rebounding, with their defense will be cutting down the nets tonight. And that was who I thought was going to cut this down at the beginning. I thought it would be Houston versus Florida and that's where we're at. And I'm going to stick with my original prediction."
2025-04-0704 minThe Play By Play@Phil | St. Louis may be a canary in a coalmineClick here to reply to @Phil "It really just kind of brought the popularity back into the sport that carried it into the 80s. However, in the 90s, when the players went on strike, they lost a lot of fans. And some fans never really returned. Some took years, if not decades to actually return to the game. And now we're at where we're at. In my opinion, baseball has become a very regionalized game within the United States."
2025-04-0204 minThe Play By Play@Phil | South Carolina againClick here to reply to @Phil "Well, we are now down to the Final Four in the women's NCAA Tournament and it is much the same as the men's. We are looking at a lot of number one seeds. The only exception in both the men's and women's tournaments is UConn, who was a number two seed. And with Juju Watkins getting injured as the number one seed, USC, it really kind of made UConn the favorite."
2025-04-0104 minThe Play By Play@Phil | Looks like a Duke yearClick here to reply to @Phil "And the, the. The there was a pretty big drop off to the next type, types of teams that were ranked second and third in their seatings here. And that's really the way it kind of played out. Only Florida had a little bit of trouble in their Elite Eight game. Everybody else won very comfortably and that was something that again was pretty expected. Florida did, you know, get some breaks here."
2025-03-3104 minThe Play By Play@Phil | Rest up NBA teams!Click here to reply to @Phil "Well, it's that time of year where we need to be talking about the NBA playoffs and whether teams should be resting their star players or making a concentrated push to get a higher seed within the playoffs. As we saw last year, you know, especially in the Eastern Conference, injuries really kind of dictated how the playoffs went. It's not that Boston really, you know, backed their way into the NBA Finals. It was that they really didn't have to work all that hard."
2025-03-2603 minThe Play By Play@Phil | Devastating for JuJu, USC and NCAAWClick here to reply to @Phil "So really, really a just unfortunate timing here on this injury. And as basketball fans, we have all been looking at the potential UConn USC game to go to the Final Four a matchup against Juju Watkins and Paige Bukers. It was going to be an absolutely huge game. The hype on this was going to be absolutely through the roof. And really had the opportunity to give the women's college game another step into the popularity. TV ratings would have been through the roof. That's all gone now."
2025-03-2503 minThe Play By Play@Phil | The rich get richerClick here to reply to @Phil "I really think that we have seen the last of mid majors in the Sweet 16 and beyond and this is especially just accentuated when I take a look at these conferences that remain and the SEC, Big Ten and Big 12 really just kind of taking control of this tournament now to me it'll be interesting if the NCAA tournament still has its mystique of the Cinderella teams. I think the Cinderella teams will be more like an Arkansas this year it'll be from the major conferences a lower seed."
2025-03-2403 minThe Play By Play@Phil | UK lock of the day. Ole miss and UNC is the can't miss gameClick here to reply to @Phil "I expect Marquette to win this game, but that's going to be a lot of fun to watch. Likewise, UConn, the defending national championship, going against Oklahoma in an 89 matchup. You know, those can go either way, but we're going to see what Danny Hurley does here. They're the defending national champions until they're knocked off. You got to assume that they're going to be tough."
2025-03-2104 minThe Play By Play@Phil | Houston Auburn Florida WisconsinClick here to reply to @Phil "In 1983, all these teams were not making their free throws against NC State. It is just paramount that when you get a lead, you need to shut the door and you need to do that by hitting your free throws. And Wisconsin does it just about as good as anybody else in the country. Now I think Houston and Florida are absolute locks to make it to the Final Four. I look at their, the teams that they have in their conference."
2025-03-1804 minThe Play By Play@Phil | My biggest takeawaysClick here to reply to @Phil "The brackets are set and I cannot be more excited. You know, the first week of the NCAA tournament on the men's side is my most favorite time of year in any kind of sport because it is so unique. It is one and done. You have an off 10 minutes during a game and it can absolutely throw you out of the tournament. On the flip side, you have a hot run over 10 minutes during a game and that can propel you into the next round."
2025-03-1704 minThe Play By Play@Phil | RIP Junior BridgemanClick here to reply to @Phil "But he took that a step further and he really helped a lot of other athletes and helping them in their post career days and always saying that no matter how much money it is, it can be gone, it can be lost and it can evaporate rather quickly. And there's no shortage of stories that say he's absolutely right. So he really got athletes to think about, hey, what's your post career going to be like? What are you going to do to make money?"
2025-03-1304 minThe Play By Play@Phil | My picksClick here to reply to @Phil "And if I look down, generally I like to cut off teams that are.500 and Big Ten play or conference play to think that they have a realistic shot of actually winning this. And when I look across, I see Wisconsin, I see Michigan, who had great seasons but not really playing great ball. Oregon on the other hand, on a nice win streak. They are, they are hot. If they can get by Indiana in the first round, look out."
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phil spade@Phil | The Break from PoliticsClick here to reply to @Phil "And really kind of coming to the realization that, you know what, how do I even know that the person posting this is even a real person? How do I know it's not even a bot? And really just kind of dismissing that entire stream. But I have to also mention that if I'm not following politics and I'm not, there isn't that much else to really talk about. Of course there should be, but news is dominated by politics."
2025-03-1106 minThe Play By Play@Phil | IU is still a top jobClick here to reply to @Phil "And it really begs the question of, well, first of all, is Indiana still a good program? Is it still a coveted job? Now, even though they haven't had success, basketball is still wildly popular in the state of Indiana and people expect Indiana to be good. Maybe some of this comes from the movie Hoosiers, but make no mistake, Indiana is a very popular program."
2025-03-0505 minThe Play By Play@Phil | OKC biggest threatsClick here to reply to @Phil "I put my chips on the Denver Nuggets to actually come through and challenge Oklahoma City to reach the NBA Finals. They have. They know how to get there. They know how it's done. They had that disappointing year last year, and I think they can do it."
2025-03-0405 minThe Play By Play@Phil | The game was better back in the dayClick here to reply to @Phil "And I am going to tell you, these big three that are playing today in no way, shape or form are worse to watch than McEnroe and Borg. I watched both of them. You just flat wrong. Nostalgia is creeping in and completely warping your frame of reference. But the other two where it's not. I would say college basketball and boxing, two sports that I think were better back in the day, but it wasn't. And I don't know that."
2025-03-0405 minThe Play By Play@Phil | Great TurnaroundClick here to reply to @Phil "And we thought, hey, this guy's done, this guy's over, he's just not going to make it. But he's playing well and really helping out the younger guys in here. So it's a good mix of younger to older players. Now when you take a look at the great turnarounds in NBA history, I went back and took a look."
2025-02-2704 minThe Play By Play@Phil | Louisville tops the listClick here to reply to @Phil "And this is a what I consider a blue blood college basketball program hungry for a team like this. A team that's going to go to the tournament and look out, they are going to blow the lid off of that arena or wherever they play in the tournament, but staying in that state. You know, UK has their own resurgent coach and Mark Pope team that they're really, really excited about and that'll provide a little bit of a rivalry to see who does better within that state."
2025-02-2605 minThe Play By Play@Phil | Let Them Push!Click here to reply to @Phil "As soon as the confetti was picked up off the ground in the Philadelphia Eagles super bowl victory this year, people started wondering aloud whether the Tushbush will actually be allowed next year or whether the rules committee will pick this up this year and ban the Tushbush from the competition in the NFL. And then today the Green Bay packers, or mentions the Green Bay packers, but I'm not sure that we know the exact team, but some team filed a grievance with the NFL trying to do just that."
2025-02-2504 minThe Play By Play@Phil | The 76ers should tankClick here to reply to @Phil "And every time that I've checked the standings, I, I have thought, you know, Philadelphia is really digging themselves a hole. But it's still early. They can get out of it. I expected them to go on a run and they went on a mini run, I think right around December or January, but that was not sustained. Now, I know they battle injuries. Maxey is still listed as day to day. Joel Embiid is listed as day to day."
2025-02-2404 minThe Play By Play@Phil | It's clear Aaron Rodgers will not be returning to the Jets. Would you welcome him on your team? Where do you think he will land?Click here to reply to @Phil "And I would say no. I just, you know, his mindset doesn't seem to be on football anymore. I think in his last days with the Green Bay Packers, I think a bridge was burned. I think he was. Was not committed to football. Seems to be more interested in going on podcasts, going on the Pat McAfee show, talking about the conspiracy theories of the."
2025-02-1304 minThe Play By Play@Phil | The Big Ten and SEC are the most loaded they have ever beenClick here to reply to @Phil "However, where you want to be watching, I think for the next couple of weeks is in the Big Ten and the sec. When I take a look at these two conferences, I've never seen these conferences top to bottom, as strong as they are. In fact, get this, only one team, one in the Big Ten or SEC is under.500. Let that sink in."
2025-02-1205 minThe Play By Play@Phil | NFL is over but plenty of sports leftClick here to reply to @Phil "So what is going to fill that void now? There's plenty of things out there now. For me, it's mainly going to be a huge appetite of basketball, and that's both college and NBA. In the NBA, we just went through the trade deadline, so we have a lot of question marks to be filled. How are some of these new players going to be playing on their new teams?"
2025-02-1204 minThe Play By Play@Phil | I knew the game was over when...Click here to reply to @Phil "A shoestring tackle on Patrick Mahomes in the first half that had his head hit the ground pretty hard and they thought he might have been concussed. And. And explains the poor first half. I'm not really sure about that, but at least I saw that theory out there. But the questions remain for me of. Of, you know, what does this do for the Kansas City legacy? What does this do for Patrick Mahomes?"
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phil spade@Phil | Politics Summed up in Seven LettersClick here to reply to @Phil "This is a cost cutting, cost cutting initiative. I don't see how this can kind of come in, step in and solve the problems that need to be happening within the aviation system. But this is where we're at. And expect more of this DEI to blame DOGE to solve the problem. It's just that easy."
2025-02-0605 minThe Play By Play@Phil | Biggest Surprises: Leister City and Nottingham ForestClick here to reply to @Phil "It's a name that I think a lot of casual fans can actually get behind. It just sounds mystical. It sounds fantastic. But it. They are playing some seriously good soccer. I mean, you have to. They started off hot and a lot of people said, you know, they're going to come down, but they haven't done that yet. And they've won three of their last five matches. So it's continuing and really fun to watch."
2025-02-0404 minThe Play By Play@Phil | The new role of technology in sports officiatingClick here to reply to @Phil "And when calls don't get go their way and affect a game, perhaps where they have money on it, they tend to get angry. And you're seeing this with the Kansas City Chiefs this year in the Super Bowl. They're getting a lot of favorable calls. And people are suggesting that the refs, that the fix is in, that the NFL wants this."
2025-02-0404 minThe Play By Play@Phil | Suoer Bowl: One Week is EnoughClick here to reply to @Phil "If you followed the NFL and the super bowl for a while, you may actually recall that it might not have been always two weeks between the AFC NFC Championship games and the Super Bowl. You're not imagining things. There were times where there was just a one week break. Sometimes there was a two week break. But since 2004, it has become standard that there is the two week break between those championship games and the Super Bowl."
2025-02-0102 minphil spade@Phil | Trump orders two dams in California to open:Are knee jerk reactions and photo ops going to mark this administration?Click here to reply to @Phil "And instead of uniting the people around a tragedy, he chose a path of division, basically baselessly claiming that it might have been a reason that proved to be not at all existent. That, to me is concerning. Especially if we have another crisis on the scale of COVID or worse or even not as bad. It just has shown to me over this past 10 days that crisis Management is still not a forte of Donald Trump or the administration."
2025-02-0104 minThe Play By Play@Phil | Chiefs vs Knicks or Maple LeafsClick here to reply to @Phil "And that was 1967, the year after the NHL doubled in size. They went to 12 teams and they have not even been to the finals since then. And this is a city that loves their hockey. I think the Scotiabank arena where they play actually has a capacity of about 18,800. And every single year they average more than 19,000 into a game. A lot of standing room only seats, not seats, but a lot of standing room only tickets being sold."
2025-01-3004 minThe Play By Play@Phil | Fox on the RunClick here to reply to @Phil "We are one week away from the NBA trade deadline and the rumors and puns are flying all over the place. De'Aaron Fox, Jimmy Butler, these are two names that are probably the most prominent in these rumors. Sacramento said that they are entertaining offers for De'Aaron Fox. San Antonio definitely interested, as another of teams probably are now. We're all familiar with Jimmy Butler and the issues that he's having with the Miami Heat right now."
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The Play By Play@Phil | Madison Keys delivers: Such a great storyClick here to reply to @Phil "She has made tremendous strides in both the physical game not tossing her serve as high and the mental game as especially. And not only Sciontek, but against Sabalenka. What a a match. It was just wonderfully played. A lot of winners, not very many unforced errors and you couldn't ask for a better final. And sometimes your opponent kind of gives away the match. That was not the case with Sabalenka. Sabalenka played fabulously."
2025-01-2904 minThe Play By Play@Phil | Does anyone REALLY care outside of Philly and KC?Click here to reply to @Phil "But there's also this growing tension of the refs in the review booth actually favoring Kansas City Chiefs and Pat Mahomes. We saw that again yesterday with a fourth down that Josh Allen seemed to get. The announcers all thought that, including Gene Sarrator, who does the officials for the network, they all thought that he gained a first down, but on review they said he didn't. There was a phantom flag on the last play of the Buffalo Bills game, which I still not really sure what happened."
2025-01-2704 minThe Play By Play@Phil | How much does NFL ownership play a role in the success of a franchise? Rank in order of importance a team's owner, GM, coach and QB.Click here to reply to @Phil "There was new ownership taken over within the past two years, and all of a sudden they end the longest playoff drought of any team in the NFL this year by making the playoffs. Again, a prime example of an owner making a difference. But that's not really all. You know, I take a look at people that rank the top owners top to bottom, and it's just no surprise that most of the top owners are in the playoffs still and made the playoffs here."
2025-01-2204 minThe Play By Play@Phil | Will boxing as we know it continue to survive or morph into celebrity boxing or something else? What is the future of boxing?Click here to reply to @Phil "And you could tell by their shorts they just weren't real boxers and they weren't serious. They were just getting experience. They were trying to get training for their MMA fights. So no longer are we building fighters locally to promote into the national basket. We're not having those pool of fighters really kind of enabling that to even happen. So what does it morph into?"
2025-01-1705 minThe Play By Play@Phil | Are you watching this new indoor golf league with pros or is this just way too much golf in a foreign format?Click here to reply to @Phil "I don't know the reason why this was put together, but it appears that it is getting coverage on espn, getting sponsors, and there were people in the crowd actually watching this. And I just really need to know whether people are actually getting into this or not. Now, I. I will say that I'm a pretty casual golf fan. I will watch the majors. I'll tune in for the majors, watch it a little bit more intently than maybe other golf tournaments."
2025-01-1503 min
phil spade@Phil | The NFL Playoffs: Few surprises but now it gets realClick here to reply to @Phil "But if you look over in the afc, the AFC is very top heavy. But pretty much everything that was in place at the halfway point of the season pretty much just floated on by and we have Denver grabbing that last playoff spot, which we thought was going to happen. So nothing really much changed in the last half of the season for the afc. And it does appear like it really is just a three team conference."
2025-01-0605 min
phil spade@Phil | The Final Four: College Football PlayoffClick here to reply to @Phil "But there was a lot of uproar about Indiana being in, about SMU being in and not Alabama, and of course some of the other SEC teams with three losses, including Mississippi and South Carolina. Well then a funny thing happens during their bowl games. Alabama losing to a depleted Michigan team. Michigan without their best players with a limited quarterback playing still went on to beat Alabama. South Carolina loses to a middle of the road Big Ten team of Illinois. And I think those concerns have been alleviated."
2025-01-0304 min
phil spade@Phil | What day is it? What happens when holidays fall on a WedClick here to reply to @Phil "Because after the election, as I mentioned on this swellcast here, I took a break from politics and I had planned to do that no matter who won the election. But I really wanted to take a break and really just kind of, you guys, everybody has voted in who they wanted as the President, as the Senate of the House, and I was going to leave it alone. And let's see what happens. And for the most part, I have really not engaged."
2025-01-0304 min
phil spade@Phil | Indiana football took me on a ride this year.Click here to reply to @Phil "But at the same time, what a magical ride. This was. Everything that I love about college football, about college sports in general this year, just really bringing everybody together and putting us all on a magic carpet ride that I'll just never forget. This was so much fun and I really just had to share that."
2024-12-2404 min
phil spade@Phil | CFP Preview: The first 12 team playoff starts this week.Click here to reply to @Phil "And don't forget Arizona State and, and Boise State just having incredible years to get buys in this College Football Playoff. Really amazing things. But as we look to what we are going to get this weekend, I look at the spreads and there's really not a lot of close games that Vegas thinks are going to be close. Every game spread is at least seven and a half points. And Texas is favored by eleven and a half. Penn State favored by eight and a half."
2024-12-1604 minphil spade@Phil | The Beavis and Butthead Economy: Fartcoin eclipses $700mil market capClick here to reply to @Phil "Are we making decisions on our hard earned money to be investing into farts and something named Fart Coin? It really is a testament to how creative or how creativity and community can really challenge the traditional notions of value in this financial world. And for me, I'm lost. I'm going down, throwing out all those books of value, looking at cash flows, financial statements, what is coming on with revenue, and I'm just going to throw it all in the trash."
2024-12-1304 minphil spade@Phil | The US Economy: The Known and Unknown of where we are headedClick here to reply to @Phil "They really don't depend on it. But about 60% of the private smaller firms actually depend on these loans tied to short term interest rates. And when they're high, they're not going to be as likely to hire on people and create those jobs. And with them being high, we know that on December 18th, Jerome Powell, it will most likely bring rates down again. He sees the same report that we're looking at right now here."
2024-12-1204 minphil spade@Phil | UHC CEO gunned down: The ReactionClick here to reply to @Phil "And I'm saying this not to diminish the death of Brian Thompson, but I'm saying this because there is true frustration from people that have had to go through the process of doing claims through United Healthcare and other health care companies that have gotten denied, that have had to fight, that have had to stay online for hours on end to really fight, to get paid, to get covered. I've been one of those."
2024-12-0405 min
phil spade@Phil | College Football: What if we did playoffs the old way?Click here to reply to @Phil "And you could have seen like you saw in 1990 and 1991, a split champion, which really kind of set everything in motion towards a playoff system. Now the next iteration was when we went to the BCS and putted the number one versus number two teams. Now if this was prior to the Big Ten Champions Championship, which is only in 2009, we would definitely be looking at Oregon and Texas."
2024-12-0404 minphil spade@Phil | College Football: Is Flag Planting going too far?Click here to reply to @Phil "These are two things that I think college athletics have always taught us in the past. But I think we've lost our way a little bit now. Moving on to the cfp, we have our field pretty much set. There will be and I think the big controversy will be that last team in. Will it be Alabama? Will it be South Carolina? Will it be smu? Should SMU lose to Clemson? Is Miami still in the mix?"
2024-12-0304 min
phil spade@Phil | College Football Playoff: What everyone has wrongClick here to reply to @Phil "I get that they are in rebuilding mode and I get that they're not what they were last year, but this is still two programs that were at the very top, the top of college football. And they played them both this year. A little bit of luck for Indiana, but that is really out of their Control how good a team is when they actually play them in the year that they play them. And then let's take a look at the SEC."
2024-11-2004 min
phil spade@Phil | Tyson vs Paul is finally here: My predictionClick here to reply to @Phil "So you have two people of two different generations that have generated probably the most amount of eyeballs in the sport. But let's put all that aside and let's talk about the boxing aspect of this. Who's going to win? Who's got the matchups? What is the tale of the tape now when we take a look at Jake Paul, he's the younger guy, of course, the younger guy. So he's going to have more energy."
2024-11-1504 min
phil spade@Phil | Politics: I'm sorry but I'm outClick here to reply to @Phil "And the last one that I can really think of that had a major impact was probably the Patriot Act. We've gone almost 20 years without major bipartisan legislation. That's not good. And I think that's why we're in a space where people have completely rejected the Democratic Party. At least that's what I think in this past election. But I've always thought that even if I disagree with somebody, I think their voice can be important and their voice can be heard."
2024-11-1404 min
phil spade@Phil | Where does all the chapstick go?Click here to reply to @Phil "What do you carry on a daily basis? I carry wallet, keys, a phone, maybe cash money. And Chapstick. In fact, I just checked my pockets right now, and that's exactly what I have in my pockets. That's it. But if I'm going into nighttime and I'm getting into something that's a little bit more comfortable, maybe some sweatpants. I won't carry the keys, I won't carry the money. I won't carry wallets."
2024-11-0803 min
phil spade@Phil | NBA early season check in: The SurprisesClick here to reply to @Phil "There are plenty of them, so I will get to that. But let's start in the Eastern Conference and let's look at the topic. Cleveland Cavaliers 9 and oh, they're looking to become the first team in NBA history to go undefeated. Like the 1972 Miami Dolphins. I'm kidding there. But they do look good. They're relatively injury free right now, which was a big concern of everybody in the Eastern Conference last year in the playoffs."
2024-11-0805 min
phil spade@Phil | Election Takeaway: Voting has become transactionalClick here to reply to @Phil "As I look across the gamut, I see a lot of voters with that same kind of mindset. And my question to them is, well, if you don't care about what things that I think you should care about, why should I care? Maybe it's time for me to get selfish. Maybe it's time for me to vote in my self interest and go home. I have voted against my self interest for years, and I think others that I talked to have done the same."
2024-11-0705 minphil spade@Phil | Trump wins: Surprised but not shockedClick here to reply to @Phil "Now, I thought that a lot of leanings, a lot of anecdotal evidence were pointing towards Kamala Harris. I thought women getting out and voting in greater numbers than men suggested that they were voting for Kamala Harris. Now, I did mention that that may not be true, and that was not true. It was not only women, but Latinos, black men, a lot of voting blocs that had voted for Joe Biden just were not voting for Harris."
2024-11-0604 minphil spade@Phil | Rumors of "devastating" video of Trump abound: Is there anything that can make a difference with Trump supporters?Click here to reply to @Phil "This feels like people trying to get ahead of something that they know something is bad and could be damaging. But again, I come back to not really realizing what could be said or done on something that's on video that would be that bad, that would detract from his supporters. It just hasn't happened yet on things that I thought he would start to lose some of his support. It just hasn't happened."
2024-10-2504 min
phil spade@Phil | RIP Fernando Valenzuela: One of the most unique players in MLB historyClick here to reply to @Phil "And it just showed how much his pitching and his games were not only just must watch, but they were complete events. And they showed people in Mexico listening to the games on the radio, and it just became a larger than life event every time Fernando pitched. The way baseball and professional sports are set up these days, there's nothing like this that can happen. Very rarely will you have somebody that just comes on out of nowhere and just takes the world by storm. It just doesn't happen."
2024-10-2404 min
phil spade@Phil | Three Weeks to go until the electionClick here to reply to @Phil "And he stood up on stage for about a half an hour as they just played songs, and he just kind of swayed back and forth. And he said, hey, that's what the people wanted. But when they panned across the audience, there was people that were enjoying it and there were other people that were thinking exactly what I was thinking. It's like, what TFDe is going on here? I mean, what the heck is this?"
2024-10-1505 minphil spade@Phil | Walgreens closing 1200 US Stores: What is the future of Walgreens and pharmacies?Click here to reply to @Phil "Their makeup was probably about 70% not makeup, but their revenue was about 70% pharmacy, 30% front of store. So they didn't do as good a job as Walgreens did in that front of store. But then came along the Internet, and the Internet really wiped out Walgreens advantage of those makeup products when people started to migrate towards buying that stuff online. And then Medicare Part D was enacted in the early two thousands, and that really had the creation of pharmacy benefit managers."
2024-10-1504 min
phil spade@Phil | The Next Storm: Homeowners InsuranceClick here to reply to @Phil "The citizens property insurance company can go back to their policyholders and get another 15% of premium if they run out of money. Additionally, the state of Florida can add a 10% surcharge to anybody in the state who has taken out any sort of insurance and policy at all. Could be boats, could be pets, could be vehicles. Doesn't matter."
2024-10-1204 minphil spade@Phil | Judge deems whistleblowers are unconstitutional: A lesson to consider when you go to the polls this Nov!Click here to reply to @Phil "You're just lying to the us government saying that these patients are classified as one to get that higher payment back. I've seen other cases like this. This is a pretty easy way to fraud Medicare. That is really kind of goes unchecked in a lot of cases. So it is important for the whistleblower to come forward to say, hey, this is what's going on so that the government can recognize that, recoup that money and give it back to the taxpayers."
2024-10-0404 minphil spade@Phil | Jack Smiths 2020 Election filing: The jury will be the peopleClick here to reply to @Phil "The actual case is so complex. I think it's going to outlive Donald Trump, to be honest. Really, it comes down to the people. And the people need to take a look at this, decide, did he know what he was doing? Was this intentional? And is this something that I find him guilty for and do so, yes or no with their vote?"
2024-10-0304 minphil spade@Phil | VP Debate: My thoughts on takeaways and reactionsClick here to reply to @Phil "And I thought it was awkward that this came up for the first time in this debate. Just weird. I expect people to be digging into this and see what is actually true."
2024-10-0205 min
phil spade@Phil | Election: A look back at Doug Jones" win in Alabama and it's relevancy to 2024Click here to reply to @Phil "In 2017, there was a special election for an open Senate seat in the state of Alabama. This race was significant. It was significant because a Democrat actually won this, putting a Democrat in a staunchly republican state that had not voted for a Democrat into the US Senate in over two decades. Now, you may remember this, it was between Doug Jones and the Democrat, and Roy Moore, the Republican."
2024-09-1205 minphil spade@Phil | The Debate: My High level takeawaysClick here to reply to @Phil "Now, there was talk about the fact checks. And listen, from what Trump talked about and what Kamala Harris talked about, as far as when you, when you start talking about what are facts and what aren't, it's night and day, it's apples, bowling balls here. I mean, Donald Trump was going on some Ralph Wiggum type tirades, including the newest conspiracy around Haitians eating pets in Springfield, Ohio. I really can't believe he went there."
2024-09-1104 min
The Play By Play@Phil | #ThePlayByPlay | The Premier League season is upon us! What are your predictions for the 24-25 season?Click here to reply to @Phil "I think we'll have a clear cut race for one and two and I think it'll be heads and shoulders above everybody else with Liverpool and third. And then the real fun for me will be all the teams trying to get that fourth slot and that is going to be a lot of fun to watch."
2024-08-2002 minphil spade@Phil | Can AI govern us better than humans?Click here to reply to @Phil "I think we would actually save money, become much more efficient, and get a lot more things done, especially at that agency level. But I think the real power of AI in the governance of us all is just the analyst, the analysis of big data. We are a government for the people, by the people. We elect elected officials to represent us. Now, there's not going to be a person that can represent everything that you stand for."
2024-08-2004 minphil spade@Phil | Was JD Vance a bad pick? How much vetting was done?Click here to reply to @Phil "I'm sure that that was an attempt at a joke, but I watched this speech and it was very cringey. And this was in his hometown, and his hometown wasn't really, there was awkward silences and it was strange, to say the least."
2024-07-2504 minphil spade@Phil | SCOTUS Watch: Is July 1, 2024 the date America has become a Corporatocracy?Click here to reply to @Phil "Now, as I look at this, I see I absolutely cannot be convinced otherwise that the corporations, through the US Chamber of Commerce definitely have input into the judicial system. This past week really confirmed that for me. And I'd even make the suggestion that as of today, we pretty much could be thought of as a corporateocracy. If you believe that corporations can control the economy by pricing and controlling pricing, then I think you would really have a very, very strong case."
2024-07-0104 minphil spade@Phil | SCOTUS releases The Immuntiy Decision: What it means and implicationsClick here to reply to @Phil "That's because the vice president frequently serves as one of the president's closest advisors. So these private conversations would not be able to be used as evidence. Now, some people are remarking back to the Nixon tapes, and if the Nixon, if that whole Watergate system thing happened again tomorrow, those tapes would not be able to be admissible into the court as evidence. And then there was one more caveat to this, and Justice Roberts wrote that quote."
2024-07-0104 min
Celebrating Ronjon Nag@Phil | #MyRonjonStory Submit your story of working with Dr. Ronjon NagClick here to reply to @Phil"So we are inviting everyone who has ever had the privilege of working with Ranjohn to please join us on the swell app here in celebrating Ranjohn's impact in our lives. By telling your own story of working with him the way you do it is very easy. Simply click on the link in the description here and it will take you to a prompt. From there, you can tap on that prompt to start your own swell and post about your story with Ronjohn. Just record and post and that's it."
2024-01-3101 min
Rock Your Shine: After you’ve been cracked wide open051: Coping With Losing My Eyesight and My Dad with Phil SpadeIn this episode, I sit down with Phil Spade, who talks about the grief he experienced after partially losing his eyesight, and subsequently losing his father a few years later. Phil currently heads up Growth and Strategy for Swell, a new voice-based social platform that launched at SXSW in 2021. Prior to Swell, Phil led Client Services at Skava who ran and powered ten of the top thirty retailers' mobile websites. **TRIGGER WARNING** This episode covers sensitive subject matter and is not suitable for all listeners. If this topic could be a tr...
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