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boys basketball team and the girls hockey team in the tournament boys basketball with i think a sixth seed they're hosting a lot of academy at home if you're watching us live on february twenty fourth their first tournament game is tomorrow night february the twenty fifth and the a winner fieldhouse at belmont high school and that will be their first round game if they win that they may actually into posting another game but an excellent season for boys basketball also or girls hockey one thing i was not aware of this rink the john ryan rink in watertown and so both of those games will be televised by the b m see not live but you'll be able to see those games the b m c want to thank jeremy missouri who is a coordinating all the sports coverage a lot of sports airing throughout the winter months and they'll be more in the spring but before we get to the spring season certainly some big tournament games coming up for ball basketball girls hockey wish them both the best and while we're talking about belmont and we will tie the sin actually a couple of things want you hold up the photo want to give a little shout out to our dear friend of time out for sports talk bob dally and bob recently retired from the police department although we thought we thought maybe we'd hear from him up and that was like you know not surprisingly bob is friends with everybody in belmont you see unofficial mayor of belmont he really is you know if there was a mayor in belmont bob would be at no question and actually that's a good tie in as well because  conley's pub dot com you can also host your own function there like a it whether it's a retirement party or some bash they can seat a whole lot of people there if i tell you this is a fact because it was standing room only at mr dallies retirement party deservedly four years old she's a freestyle skier we brought her name up four years ago in vancouver although at the time unfortunately during those a lympics injuries kept her from competing in the freestyle skiing competition but she did compete this year in sochi and finished in eighth place which was a personal best for emily so congratulations to her former belmont resident i know she still has family here in belmont so a little shout out there to emily and congratulations to her and that kind of brings us right back to where we kind of want to start the discussion tonight which is the olympics that just passed them let me get your thoughts thoughts from both of you guys i think you know i used to be you know i remember growing up i was a like an olympics junkie i was like watching the games nonstop all summer and winter i don't know what it was this year you know how we  talked a little bit about this before we came on the air tonight something wasn't quite it just wasn't there for me in fact it wasn't until that u s russia men's hockey game that i really even started watching any of the action at all and that was exciting but there was a lot i don't know i just didn't it didn't hook me this year like it did in other years i'm not really sure why but i think i think part of it's the big time difference i mean it was a nine hour difference in anything you would that was live was on at nine ten eleven in the morning who are all work i mean in less you're off you know and saw some on the weekends or you stayed up late at night because the coverage started eight thirty at night and then it was all tape delay and you had a you know you had all the spoiler alerts and a stand that but it's this i find it tough to watch a sporting event i can watch a television show on a tape a day or two later but for me to watch a sporting event that i know is already olva the you know that night when it happened in the morning i just i just don't get into it like i would if it was live and i think that's what for me at least why i didn't really get into it as much as i normally do in you can't avoid it now with you know sports listen to sports radio it's every twenty minutes to get an update e s p n and all this  twitter like everything's out there so if something happens at seven in the morning boston time you've heard about it you know you've you've heard about it so you can't tape it and go back to it at night and kind of watch it like you know for the first seem to differ from most of the olympic viewing audience or at least the the casual viewer of the olympic games because it seemed like you know n b c got a good rate you know decent ratings once again for these games even though everyone watching pretty much knew the results in advance i think you know what he said this instance ain't this world of instant information everybody knew what happened yet they still wanted to tune in to see i guess how it happened i mean it's not how aspect and even like the you know executives in d c will tell you well that's really what's important you may know the result but you don't know exactly how it happened you want to kind of see the story unfold i mean we're different that you know obviously we don't necessarily agree with that but a lot of the people did i mean the you know the ratings were were pretty decent again until they were tuning in to see how red bob costas i was watched you know monday when i was you know if i'm off on mondays you know it could be a watch during the day during the morning but you know it's just by the time i get home from work at eight thirty nine and i know what's happened it's like a moment a seal and i'm going to bed but if i might have already watched some of it in the morning because i was watching it on my i pad and you know well n b c won't get good ratings because women are always going to watch figure skating just always no matter where it is when it is live to the way so they're always going to get that audience us here in the greater boston area we have the bruins we have the celtics we get the patriots just coming off you know their super bowl run and you have the red sox start up like we have a lot of things going on so they're always going to to kind of fall in that little level in the sports calendar i mean this time a year typically there's a you know everything's kind of in between seasons you know obviously like you're saying dave you know hockey and basketball you know we're just kind of in the middle of the year baseball's just starting but they dakota other states where you know they might have one team they might have to it's like oh well it was coming on i really don't have them where they're in winter sport yeah exactly exactly colorado and stuff like that so that's why i was going to get ratings for that i mean women  what half the population of the us i actually enjoy watching the figure skating so i can just say it's a woman thing you know well we're actually speaking of that then i'll ask you what you think of the team aspect that they added this year kind of akin to what they do in gymnastics they start with like the team of vents where you have each country putting forth a team and the get out there on all the apparatus or apparatus i guess what would be the plural of that and then after that they do the you know after that they do the individual you know each individual piece of equipment i mean now they've done that to figure skating where you had sort of a team of that you got to see all the skaters up front then they each individually competed on their own you know i mean it was it was ok it wasn't anything that you know made me think that it was a  ground braid being you know a thing for the sport you know is just an added to it you know it was just another night of it but it didn't go one way or the idea i didn't mind watching it but it they didn't have it it wouldn't  bothered me one way or the other you know i mean because i'm going to see them all anyway you know when they're competing individually for their medals yeah you know so it's not like the other than the russian guy i think they bailed out at the end because of his back  you know it's you going to see him all anyway doing they probably pretty much the exact same thing in their own individual sort of sack actually that guy sort of sacrificed himself for the russian team competing in the team a vent and then he really had nothing left when he was able you know for him so he actually burned them in the individual because he had to bail out and right you know so they end up losing the skater after he said he was going to compete so it was kind of tough you know you talk about a few of the different vents  ones that i have to say i kind of got into a little bit it was mostly in the second week or these like what the snowboard cross of the ski cross where you have like the multiple racer going nowhere in time on these these crazy jumps and stop i mean that's kind of fun because it's almost got a little bit of roller derby slash you know maybe nascar to a degree where you sort of waited for somewhat the crash but i mean it's it's also interesting because it's a race and so you know there's sort of like a goal to win yeah kind of makes it a little exciting i was getting to the in the to be a bobsled bike i think it was back like the fifty's and like sixty years or something since they had battled in that competition and then he also got a bronze in the four man so i mean yeah it's kind of weird you know because all growing up i don't remember the us ever medal  bobsled and all i was just were even competitive and now all of a sudden looks like we've got you know we're pretty decent in that in that event which is nice i mean it's you know it took long enough i think for us to get to that exactly i guess we traded off the biathlon that's another one of those you know you know we talked earlier about events you just kind of start watching normally would incur like i know is one by one is like another one you know you're skiing skiing and also you've got to you've got to get down on your knees and shoot at this tiny little target like you know fifty yards away and the  all the targets about the size of like a golf ball something that they were the whole thing with that too is they have that they have to learn actually out slow down their height beat in a very short period of time to be steady enough to to make that shot so that you know that you don't think  know some some as watch it real quick they don't understand that but i mean here they are pump and pump up a novice sudden they're going to bring the heartbeat down probably from like one hundred sixty beats a minute to sixty beats a minute to try to shoot five targets like you said the size of maybe a silver dollar you know and then get back up and get up to one hundred sixty beats a minute so i mean that is that is that is really a tough thing to do and you know so yeah i mean i guess that maybe that's partially why we're not as good olympic talk talking about the one sport i think we can all agree on had some popularity to it for us anyway the hockey you know it and as a major disappointment that sue but we'll start i mean the first thing that really hooked me into watching these games was that usa russia match up a week ago saturday morning you know it's a perfect time to you know watch it and you know a great game with you know team usa team russia going back and forth there's the controversy all non goal call again that goes against russian for the americans they need to go into the shootout which i mean under oshie i'd never heard of this guy before before the olympics and now he's outsold me and i did see he gained something like what a seventeen thousand twitter followers really wish only we could only wish our time out account would pull up that many fans at once but no they fell apart in the medal round i mean they were blowing teams out for five goals a game and they didn't score in two games in the medal round and that was yeah i mean by me one of those the first one you know you lose to canada one nothing i mean there's not that was a great game yeah no i think they felt that they were probably playing for the gold medal the day before and then all the sudden you're in the next game and so you cannot up or obviously they want to and so it wouldn't be but it's hard it's hard isn't the olympics it's you know you came here and i think they put all their eggs in one basket emotionally obviously for the canadian game and if these guys are pros and not a bunch of kids but given that there are people like there it's human nature you know what it is i mean i work in for a little while but to grasp you know slam the door on them and then you know once it got to be to nothing it's almost like they just sort of at that point didn't really care and they were already looking ahead to get on that plane flying back home and yeah and then at that point the game gets out of hand yeah would you know i mean this finland finland does have a pretty good team i guess they've medaled that one for the last five olympic since the since the n h l players were invited to participate yes actually let me ask you guys what your thought you know the fact that you know they're playing in h l players i mean there's a lot of talk four years from now when the games are in south korea which by the way is a fourteen hour time difference you thought nine hours was bad howie fourteen is is not going to be any better far is you know knowing the results ahead of time and not the oh you know seeing things on tape delay but you know what's your thought about you know whether the emir you know the i player they should play i think they should they want to yeah i mean i think they should why not i mean every four years the n h l can take a two week think they should go you know what not represent their country i totally agree and i think it's a great we don't want to set up their great way to kind of market the league and the sport yeah i mean it's only every four years too it's like the league kind of throws their arms up and they complain about this you know cart snow the general manager for the islanders is obviously very upset because you know johnson ferris blew out his a c l and he's done for the year i mean injuries you know he could happen at any type exactly but i guess he's upset because it didn't happen while he was wearing an islanders uniform you know  happened somewhere else in the middle of the season but you know they had no control over it but again i mean that's just going to you know that might have happened had the islanders been playing the last two and a half weeks anyway said the baby was just destined to blow is knee out but you don't have a season injury no i agree with you how i think they really ought i mean it's only every four years and you're you know you're getting you know hockey still french sport to a lot of people and i think this is a great way to market it out there you get a lot of casual viewers who are watching the olympics watching these games and they don't know any of these guys are and you know if you say i'm proud of t j oshie name before i mean he plays out in st louis i don't know who we is i know willie is now and he's a very good player and again you know it's guys like that who get kind of you know put into the spotlight because of the olympics and i i think that's a good thing i think ultimately it's good for the league it's good for the sport the all star game like you say they were joking we nobody watches them people are watching this international turn of it and the players want to play and they want to they want to compete i think ultimately the players are going to pressure the league into almost forcing them play you know respectively now the thing is with south korea we know there's no south korean players in the n h l so this is kind of why we're here in the argument that the n h l might use this opportunity to say you know let's take a break from from doing this but i just don't at this point i don't see the point i mean there was you're not going to be able to hundred eighty you're not going to have another miracle on ice i say you know you let the pros play here and you know just you know it's like you say it's a great way to brand the league in get people to pay attention you know and i bit the players later that i mean players like crosby i mean i just think it'd be really bad if they decide not to play i think the key is that the players really want to play it's not like you know it's fun to play i want to do it it's like you know we want to play like we're definitely going want to play and that's huge  that's that's inspirational to kids and you know it's first the owners they're just making money off this thing like it's only going to help the team you know and yeah john tavares got hurt and that stinks and if bergeron got hurt that would really oh these these players are going to come back and are going to be tired and whatnot yeah but it's other than the penguins is only like three or four players on each team so the rest of the players are all going to be rested they're going to have all their nagging injuries you know healed and whatnot so they'll go full steam brask isn't going to play the first game out they'll bring him back slowly and i'm sure the other players will to like they will they won't shift him as much as they have been part of that and trying to ease him back into that but the other players are going to be fine so i just to be in that oh really i think so it's interesting you know dave one thing you did bring up he said that the players really want to do this and that's the reason they should keep going and i kind of agree i mean here's the thing when you think about this the these players know it order to play in the olympics there's going to be a three week interruption in the middle of the season as a result before and after the olympic break they're playing more of a compact and schedule a lot more back to back games interrupting the middle of the season is going to take much more wear and tear on them than a regular hockey season would even when you factor the playoffs in so and the fact they want to do that is is a sign right there that you know that they want they're willing to make that sacrifice every four years i think the league should  you know should there's no reason why they shouldn't i don't know what and when they come up the next collective bargaining agreement if the players are going to want that in there that they get they can go to the olympics well it's already in there now the other question is will it come out so isn't there yeah that they can go yeah because i mean every team it will be two or three players on a team i mean it's not like you know the it's not like all the bruins went and all the canadiens when you know it's it was a couple of plays and from each team because again you can team can only twenty players you know each country going twenty players play so yeah you know pittsburgh had six or seven players on you know in the olympics but most of it that he put so many penguins on his team you know players you know putting a purpose or pick who maybe you know a decent defenseman but when he could have you know if it's really supposed to be the best american team maybe that you know there were some other americans that were better that he could in a locked room and i think that it won't change yeah exactly i hope it doesn't i mean at this point i think you know you're not going to recreate that great image or feeling that you had so i mean at this point i think it's all about you know marketing and hockey and getting back into it mean those those teams were expected to do well also yeah like i like the canadian teams the best team that feeling and but the other fourteen nobody was better than the other one kind of you know forward to any type of a lympics i can look forward to summer olympics and a couple of years in rio where there's only a one hour time difference yeah that's another good that's good you know what though i almost have the feeling that n b c though prefers it when it's like several hours because i think they do like to do the whole prepackaged and then airing in primetime on tape i almost think they don't like it when it's live i just get that feeling i mean you know even with the hoover where it was only a three hour difference it seemed like there was still a lot of like the prime time every night it still felt like it was a lot of prerecorded stuff going on even though theoretically there could have been a lot of why the events going on but there was a lot of stuff that happens there will day i mean they anything each show in a prime time is a rule that i mean there's so many events they have to have ski places are usually about an hour or two from the actual living village anyway so i what's the big you know happen up in new hampshire or sun like say something river up in maine some big mountains up there i mean they can certainly handle that kind of stuff and then you could watch it is kind of like roller derby on skates really yeah it's just it's just one sport it really does that's one of the ones i really don't get into i can watch curling and the biathlon more than i can watch speed skating well and i saw one about five minutes of speed skating and one of them was those four guys two of them hit each other and booted off you know they just got out of it one guy stayed down the u guy got up in there that you guys finished and then the third guy just finished you know he just did it because he got up and finishes a competitor he just did it finished like a thirty seconds when the other guys well when they went to the table they blamed it on the guy that came in second what i never do yeah so that's good glad to hear that i said you know me you get a two point deduction because something fell off your clothes yeah no i mean come on the other funny thing to watch was like the end of the ski cross or the snowboard cross where these these towards the finish line of whoever slides there you know qualified for the next round or whatever still to figure out there's one or one of those races where the guy come up over the jump and they say and he because he got too much he been on since the super bowl so well i guess we'll do a quick wrap up of this i mean obviously this is long in the rearview mirror for sports but how we can graduations of sorts i mean nobody really came remotely close to picking the final score of the game but how winning super bowls that's not certain events of secondary was do when they were just laying out guys i mean isaac bruce down i mean it be instant imitation from the get go those receivers did not want to run their patterns or the you know alligator with their alligator hands yeah i mean and that's when the patriots were consistently winning super bowls they're not playing that way anymore in the last few years you can see it in the team like seattle i mean you know hey pete carroll they guy he got a pumpkin jacked and it was yeah you know i don't know if it was all  pull yeah well you know it's certainly they certainly want to play for him on that february night that's for sure yeah i mean but i was glad for him yeah you know yeah i mean i you know unlike some people i don't really you know if it was a system and then have the next guy disappear if you're just repeating why do you really want to stay around based on what you just said why don't you think your next had lied for the job if you stick around but what you just said is a very valid theory you fall in a hall of famer that's he was being the rookie coach he couldn't do it he went to u s c and he learned to pay the right players to get a good team so when he went to the pros he could play pay the correct players to so he could form a have a good team you know  he's going to undergo a physical and that's going to be the ultimate decision but the fact they lost would give him more assuming he passes the physical gives him more decided to come back yeah well i mean i'm sure if the if the doctor says that his neck is can't take too much more will he will come back i mean because you've done just about everything you can i mean you would have liked to have done more but you've done everything you've won a super bowl you want m v p s i mean you've got passing records i mean why risk life why risk walk in and you know it may be you know being in a wheelchair the rest of your life you know to play another season just because you lost that game if the doctor gives him a clearance i'm sure he's resolved you know bent on coming right back in trying to do it again but if he doesn't get good news and that over his some games is not a shower after you know you play tennessee on a you know at home you know you just you don't he doesn't he gets rid of the ball is really what he does anyways but it's great she makes twenty million bucks here throw for fifty touchdowns pad the stats w patriots i mean i think it's pretty close i think it's close to but i think i think it's the broncos because until the patriots get a better defense like a just a better defense we get no pressure on the quarterback i mean yeah but we were never winning that game no matter what we did an awful lot remember during the season we played yet his lowest passing yardage and completions to the season at that time it was a huge but i remember the patriots have like the third third or fourth youngest team in the n f l yeah you know that's why we have a lot of upside and i think with our drought there too i mean i you know either get a strong hard hitting safety if there's one out there or pass rusher or preferably least i think it serves that friday saturday because the patriots picked late of course in the first round last year is that what i was yeah so i remember i was doing something that night and i'm like i had to get home for the draft then like now are to get home to like get more you know energy excitement behind it or something but i sometimes i think that you know the n f l does these things despite themselves you know they already got a good thing going in and out of a push in the draft back of a month i don't think is going to right probable amount or but i think they try to sign him to a contract ok what if he decides he wants to test the market and someone else will probably i mean he's also ease kind of an injury risk to what you know would last a couple years he has a you know he gets to the  if you look at the rest of that secondary it's there's nothing really you know get you that excited i mean you know dead or it's ok logan ryan may eventually be decent but i mean you know to lead totally changes the way teams you know and it's that's why there's pressure to sign him i think it you know whatever the cost and right about more i mean you would think based on the welker situation and adelman playing a slot receiver that there would be as much of a market you know what are the be a similar type market with a low number out there but you just don't know why i mean you know plus you know you factor in the pun for texas just taken over and frankly i'm just i'm tired of the cold i'm tired of the snow yes the red sox have reported to fort myers spring cannot be far away right it so we think about it dumps dempster that was a that was a sox with some money that you know i hope they don't use it for stephen drew i don't think they need to target it that way i don't think they're going to i mean i but i think that i think that ship has sailed at this point well until until drew docks with another team i don't think that in the middle of a contract if they have a good season that they should get more you know but again if they have a bad season will they take less no so why should they get more if they have a good season you know play out a contract and then eighteen home runs and has eighty two rb eyes i'm still going to sign him for the next year i'm not going to be like him because you're right about lineup but if he has a really good year you can throw the tender off for adam or whatever they call it stephen drew thing that we have  third fourteen and a half and he says i don't want it in the go somewhere else where you get someone's number one that's not a bad thing so that's the that's what the the red sox are it's you're bidding against yourself do we want to g an extra fifteen million dollars and i hope he stays healthy and throw away that number one pick or the potential number one pair him by keep him on this contract that keeps him hungry so he's going to have to have a good year again this year to warrant another year or another two years yeah you know whereas if they give it to him it's almost like he can have a slide the of this year and he still got another year to go because you know you know after this he's going to be going to he's going to be not the front office but whatever jim rice does you know he does  again he'll be with the team getting two hundred fifty grand a year showing up to ten events and posing for that stand yeah beatle be out in front of the way exactly yeah exactly so it is what it is who cares