MYTH BUSTED: Why The Bruins ACTUALLY Missed the 2025 NHL Playoffs (and How They Get BACK in 2026!)

MYTH BUSTED: Why The Bruins ACTUALLY Missed the 2025 NHL Playoffs (and How They Get BACK in 2026!)

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We’re also going to have Pete Soua joining to talk some sports movies because we’re having some fun on a Friday. and we will go over some Jiren Durant trade packages as those rumors start to heat up once again for the Red Sox. And uh those of you who watched the show know I’ve talked about that uh a couple of times, man. Like I think they need to make that move. And it’s not even because I hate Durant like some people do. Um I just I think there’s there’s no way you don’t make that move for what’s coming in return. But first, we are going to start with the Bruins. We’re going to start where we start here. Why did the Bruins suck this past year? Why did the Bruins miss the playoffs for the first time in nine years? Why did they regress so heavily? How have they fallen from two years ago being the best regular season team in NHL history to being where they are now, a team that’s picking inside the top 10 this year and probably should be thinking about doing the same thing for next year. How did we get here? I get this question all the time. I hear it. And mainly when looking at 2024 25 the answer I hear the most is well come on they got hurt Lindholm was out for most of the year Elias Lindholm was battling something. Charlie Makavoy wasn’t on your team for the last two months of this season. They weren’t in a playoff picture at the for nations break which is when Charlie Makavoy got hurt and they were farther out of the picture by the time the season ended. Obviously, I hate that. I hate Bruins fans just saying, “Oh, well, that’s the problem. They were just hurt.” There’s some analysts saying that, too. Next year, when they get these guys back, they’ll be just fine. Although, they failed to mention that Hampus Lindholm didn’t really have a good 23 24 season. Kind of took a step back. And Charlie Makavoy has not been the same player the last year and a half that that he was the years before that or that we projected him to be at this point in his career. That’s not saying Charlie Makavoy is bad. I still really like him. But let’s be honest with ourselves. Has he made the jump that you thought he was going to make by age 27 here? 28? Hasn’t for me. I thought by this point he was going to be a Norris trophy kind of guy. He was top five in the Norris voting back-to-back years in 2021 and 22. And his buddy, the guy he was compared to all the time, Adam Fox, goes out and wins one. And where’s Charlie Makavoy? Good enough. Good enough. Number one defenseman. Not a number one defenseman on a Stanley Cup contender. And then lo and behold, there we are. So when people say it’s just the injuries that got the Bruins to where they were in 2024 25, they didn’t watch this team. It goes much deeper than that. You know why they weren’t very good in 2024 25? You want the real reason? Part of it was because Jeremy Swayman brings a whole lot of drama to this locker room right before the season. Days before the season, he finally signs a contract. Remember the captain Brad Marshand? Remember when he played for the Bruins? Yeah. He was saying, “I don’t talk about contract stuff in the media. We don’t really do that around here.” Clear veiled shot at Jeremy Swayman. Guy doesn’t have a preseason, goes in, has a career worst year when he’s finally making some money, sets the market, and then sucks as a huge drop off. Is one of the genuinely one of the worst starting goalies in the entire NHL. So, was it because they were injured or because a position that they value more than most teams in the league had a huge drop off in 24-25? Or maybe, just maybe, it was because they couldn’t put the puck in the net. Remember that? 29th in the league in goal scoring, 29th in power play percentage. Oh, but they were second in fights. So, you want to tell me they didn’t make the postseason because they were injured when they’re sitting there in 29th place in goal scoring, in power play? Oh, yeah. I bet I bet that’s cuz they were injured because they had all these elite offensive players that were just injured this past year. It had nothing to do with the fact that this front office does not know how to replace any kind of talent that they had. Let’s go back to the real reason looking back at a 23- 24 team which absolutely overachieved by finishing second in the division by winning a playoff round even though it was the least that was an overachievement in 2023 24 and you look at the guys that had career years that year Charlie Coyle 60 points Where did that come from? 60 points on 25 goals completely out of nowhere. You thought, huh, probably never going to get that again. And you didn’t. Pavl Zaka 59 points. He’s down to 47 this year. Played for your team the whole season. Morgan Geeki is the only one that took a step up. But I look at the guys who weren’t even who aren’t even here anymore. Oh, I’ll mention Trent Frederick as well. He’ll never ever ever have a 22 goal season again or excuse me an 18 goal season 40 point season. He’s not going to do that. Not going to do that again after what we saw last year. But let’s look at the guys who didn’t make the trip from 23 24 to 24-25. Jake De Brusk, Danton Heinen, James Van Remdsteike, Kevin Shatenkirk. All guys that I think an average GM to above average GM in this league can replace the production for maybe everyone but De Brusk. De Brusk was 40 points. Danton Heinen career journeyman career year 36 points. James Van Remsteike 38 points. Kevin Shatenkirk 24 points. Those were crucial depth guys on your team that were sometimes even healthy scratches. The Bruins didn’t replace any of that. Any any of it. Like think of that. De Brusk, Heinen, Van Remdsteikeke, they combined for what? 38 + 36 is 74 plus 40. That’s 114 points that they just didn’t replace. They replaced it with Elias Lindholm who had 47 and fill in the blank. They replaced it with Mattie Potra with Johnny Beecher with Justin Brazo for half the season for with Morat Husnadino. They didn’t replace that production at all. Here’s where I get really pissed off with Don Sweeney and all those people who are still defending Don Sweeney after all these years. It’s okay if you’re a good team taking a stance and saying, “You know what, Jake De Braskk, you can walk. We’re not giving you a seven-year deal if you can’t produce 50 points or more for us in any given season.” I’m okay with that. But then you’ve got to replace him. And they didn’t do it. And they didn’t do it this off season either. Which also leads us to the guys that they did bring in. Finally, for the first time in about nine years, the last time they missed the playoffs before this year, Don Sweeny’s got some money to work with in free agency. There’s been two times in his tenure with the Bruins that he’s really had enough money that he could cook out on the free agent market. You’ll remember 2015. It was going into the 1516 season and it was Jimmy Hayes, David Bakis, and Matt Bleski, Zack Ronaldo. That piece of [ __ ] Those are the guys that Don Sweeney went out and got that year. This time around, he’s got money again. He’s going to be bold. He’s going to put his ball sack right out on the table and he’s going to let Jake de Brusk walk. How does he respond? Elias Lindholm 7-year deal for almost $8 million a year and Nikita Zador off on a five-year deal. Nikita Zadorov who’s on who’s on team number what six or seven of his career as he just turns 30. Yeah. Fiveyear deal. Here’s where it’ll stick. Here’s where he will really stick. This is like the mentality that that that Don Sweeney has that just doesn’t add up. You know, here’s where he’ll be a real force for us. And I kind of like Sedor off. I hope he is a force for the Bruins in in the future. But to say he had a good first year would be lying. Elias Lindholm, same thing. Everyone else saw the writing on the wall. Calgary saw it. In Calgary, Elias Lindholm played alongside Johnny Gdro and Matthew Kachchuck. And that’s when he became a point a game player. And when those guys were gone, his numbers dipped. And Calgary was willing to trade him at the trade deadline. And then Vancouver, who got him, who just spent capital on him, was willing to let him walk. And Don Sweeney says, “No, you know what? He’s going to do well with us. We can’t put two superstars next to him. We could put one and he didn’t even play well with him and that’s David Posturdock. But we’re going to be the ones that that figure this out. Again, not the case. David Bakus all the way back 10 years ago, an icon with the Blues. He was the team captain and nobody in the room thought, “Huh, why are they letting him walk? He’s kind of the face of their franchise. Why are they letting him walk? And why when he’s on the wrong side of 30 are we going to sign him to a five-year deal and expect that to work out? That’s that’s where I get pissed off with Don Sweeney. He makes good trades sometimes the trade deadline. I’ll give him that. But he doesn’t really draft well. He doesn’t spend money well. You know, he doesn’t get good free agents on good deals. He doesn’t fleece anybody ever. And I think he can’t read the writing on the wall and he doesn’t replace production, man. Doesn’t replace it. Again, if you want to let Tory Crew go, fine. They didn’t really replace him, but they had a good enough team at the time that it was okay. But then when you’re not as good, when you’re a team that just wins one playoff round and you let a 40 point scorer go and you can’t replace him, like that’s that’s a big time that’s that’s really bad. That’s a really bad look on a general manager. And it’s I I know I’ve been killing Don Sweeney for most of this summer, but I think most of you guys would agree with me on it. And I just hate I I keep seeing it pop up that oh, now that the Bruins are healthy, they they’ll be much better. I just don’t see that vision. I wish I did. It would it would make me happier, but I don’t see that vision. The reason why the Bruins didn’t make the playoffs this year is because they have a front office with terrible asset management and they didn’t replace any of the fluke production that they got the year before. Looking back on it, should the 23-24 Bruins have even won a playoff series and finished second in the in the really good Atlantic division? No, they shouldn’t have. They overachieved. And they let a couple of Jags walk and a couple of nice players walk and they couldn’t replace it, which is amazing. Like, we’re not talking about like Hall of Fame players here, okay? We’re talking about Jake the Brusk, Danton Heinen, Kevin Shatenkirk, James Van Reesteikeke, Matt Grizzlick, guys who in a vacuum like that’s okay to let them go, but most teams let those guys go because they can bring somebody in. Like how do you not replace those points? It should be pretty easy. You let all those guys go who you were paying nothing, right? I mean, we talk about the 114 points, right? Is that what I just laid out? Heen de Brusk, JVR, Kevin Shatenkirk. You weren’t paying those guys anything. They didn’t even they they didn’t come close to making a combined $7.75 million in the 23-24 season when they gave you 114 points. And then you went out and spent that same money, 7.75 million on this year for a guy who gave you a third of those points. It’s like the opposite of Moneyball. It makes no sense. That’s where I get lost with Don Sweeney. You know, people will say, “Ah, you know, this has to come every once in a while. You know, we had it so good for so long.” But the reason why it came to this was because they couldn’t replace Jake De Brusk. That’s where you lose me. That’s where you lose me. You know, it it’s they knew the writing on the wall was coming for years and no one was thinking they should have been a Stanley Cup contender last year. Nobody in their right mind was thinking that. But there’s no reason like with the outlook going into last offseason that they should have been a worse team than Ottawa. In fact, they probably shouldn’t have been a worse team than Montreal who’s going to blow them out of the water the next couple of seasons. So that’s where you lose me. That’s why that is why the Bruins didn’t make the playoffs this past year. It wasn’t because Hampus Lindholm was hurt. It wasn’t because Charlie Makavoy was hurt. It was because you had nobody who could put the puck in the goddamn net. Didn’t go out and get anybody to do that. And you had to fire because you did that to yourself. Now here’s where Cam can become positive here. How can they make the playoffs in 2025 26? It’s tall order as evidenced by the fact that I did a segment on the show yesterday about why they should tank for Gavin McKenna. Okay, it’s a tall order. You have you need a lot to go right for the Bruins to make the postseason this year. First things first, you’re in one of the toughest divisions in hockey. Okay, in order for the Bruins to make the playoffs this year, you have got to be better than either Ottawa, Montreal, or even Detroit. And I don’t think the Bruins are on that plane right now. I really don’t. I think the Bruins are much closer to the team that they ended the season with than the one that they had that were in a playoff spot in January last year. Like, they were horrible. god awful after Detroit deadline after they cleaned house that that’s the team that you’re rolling in with plus Shan Carali and Tanner Jano like you’re really not getting huge reinforcements here’s how they can get into the postseason though they would need a lot of things to go right they would need Charlie Makavoy and His Lindome to come back and find their form that they were in two years ago almost three seasons ago go in the 2022 23 season when Hampus Lindholm probably should have been a Norris finalist and Charlie Makavoy was not that far off coming off two top five uh Norris trophy finishes in 21 and 22. They need those guys to come back and hit the ground running right away. They need Charlie Makavoy to be something he hasn’t been been in a couple of years. They need him to look like the Charlie Makavoy that we saw in the four nations when he was the best player on the ice in that US Canada game round one. That’s what they need from him. They need Has Lynholm to be a legit two-way top 15 20 defenseman again, which he’s only had for a glimpse of his career. They need Elias Lindholm to be at least a 60point guy, which he hasn’t really been outside of the couple of years where he was on the 75 80 point range with two terrific wingers on either side of him. Allstars, future Hall of Famer, one of the great players of his generation, unfortunately cut down too soon, in Johnny Gdau. You need him to be closer to that than he was to this. That’s a big ask for Elias Lindholm when he wasn’t playing with those guys. You know what he’s like? He’s kind of like this Elias Lindholm. So, you need that. You need Jeremy Swayman to get back to allstar form. And you need him to save some games for you. You need some Swayman points throughout this season. And you need somebody in the middle six to become a 25 goal scorer. I don’t who is that Matthew Patra Jano is never going to be that Fraser Mitten Casey Middlestad Pavle Zaka I don’t know that you have that guy but if those things go right and Ottawa kind of regresses to what they were the year before last and Montreal has some growing pains then maybe you got a shot maybe. But don’t give me the excuse that the Bruins were injured. They were heading down this [ __ ] path whether they were injured or not. And I’m gonna I’ll be straight up with it. If Hampus Lindholm and Charlie Makavoy were on this team, I don’t know that they would have made the playoffs anyway. I think they still had a humongous problem in goal scoring. So, they’re going to try to win a lot of games two to one this year, but I don’t know how many times they’re going to get to two goals. The other thing about it is if they did have those guys, they wouldn’t have fire sailed at the trade deadline, which I think would have been worse for the Bruins in the long haul than what they actually did. So, let me know what you think in the comments section below. What’s the real reason why the Bruins did not make the playoffs in 2025? And can they make it in 2026? Let me know in the comments section below. Be sure to like the video, subscribe to the channel. We’re bringing you Bruins content every single weekday live on YouTube and then available wherever you get your podcasts as well. Check out the other videos on YouTube talking Bruins, talking everything else going on in the world of Boston sports. I’m your host Cam Stewart. Zack Burke keeps us on the air five days a week. Coming up, very special guest from the Pete Souza Show. You guessed it, Pete Souza. We’re going to be talking about sports movies. We’ve talked about the best ones of the past. 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You might uh you might have muted yourself there, Bill. Uh from the Pete Souza show, which is also part of this Rogue Media Inside the 12 ESPN. Pete Souza, I wanted to talk movies with you today, Pete. But before I do, I wanted to just throw kind of a a random kind of sports question at you. As someone who’s been to hundreds, if not thousands of games, as a ticketed member of the crowd, most recently at FC Dallas, um what are your thoughts on the social construct of buying a ticket and knowing it’s going to be a sparsely populated game and moving down into better seats? Well, I mean it gets it gets tricky as you get older because I you know I think you’re still in the demographic that can do that. I I I can’t I mean it’s a pretty big time loser move unless unless they big time loser move. So unless I I’m qualifying now. If you’re over 35, you probably just shouldn’t be engaging in behavior like that. Um, and certainly if you’re over 35 and you work in sports like we do and like I do, like I just don’t want to get caught like moving de like it’s just not a good look. Like that doesn’t that can’t go well for me, you know? Um, now the only way I could really get roped into it and I’m trying to see things like see the whole field here is I don’t have kids, but let’s just say I was with like a nephew or a little kid or you know somebody below the age of like 10 who was like, “Can we go down? Can we go down?” Like, “Okay, maybe.” I see how that could happen. But like as far as me and you being at a game and just like sneaking down, like I there’s this we I have to be invited by the ushers and like the uh the fan relations team because the team sucks so bad, right? They bring you down from the other bowl. Yeah. So So the I did it recently because I’m kind of 50/50 on it. I’m a little wishy-washy. I mostly just don’t like I just don’t like the feeling of doing it. Um Yes. There’s a there’s a reason. and like potentially getting caught, which is obviously not a huge deal. Like they’re not going to throw you out, but um I went to a Cubs game in April and it was cold and it was raining. It started in a rain delay and then the sun came out, but it was still pretty cold and I was kind of in like the back like under the under the facade and like uh the wind’s coming at me and there’s a part at like the third baseline that’s got just sun on it and it’s like 60° when when the sun’s on you. So, it feels great and I’m freezing. It’s like 44 with a windchill where I’m sitting and it’s a day game during the week. There’s not a lot of people there. So, I just snuck my way down and I tried to get in like the lower field box and super nice old lady as the usher. Uh, I go and sit in my seat and she she goes, “Oh, sir, honey, I’m going to need to check your ticket.” I’m like, “Shit, shit.” And I I said, “Uh, she she bailed me out.” So, she goes, “I’m going to need to check your ticket. do you have 132? And I’m like, oh no, I have 232. Sorry. Like knowing that they’re not going to check in the 200 that’s also in the sun. But I’m thinking about it because today um I was going to go to the White Sox game tonight. I don’t really want to go. I just I got to knock off the ballpark while I’m living here. I’m only living here for another couple weeks. I’m running out of opportunities. And they have a rescheduled game for today because they got their game reed out last night 2 o’clock. So, I can get myself done and I can get out there. Um, but it’s weird. They’re like not selling all the tickets. Like, I know there’s nobody gonna that that’s going to be at this game. It’s a it’s a madeup game at 2:00 and they’re 30 games under 500. Um, so I’m like, do I just buy an upper deck ticket for the lowest price? I’m like checking Reddit. Like, do they check the tickets? Everyone says they don’t. So, I I feel like there’s enough we get to a point where there’s enough empty seats that I don’t feel bad at all. Well, you can take a shot at it, right? Especially because the White Socks are so bad. Um I don’t know. And you don’t you’re not going to know anybody there. Oh, it’s going to be me and it’s just going to be me. I’m going to be there alone. Why wouldn’t you, Kim? Can I ask why wouldn’t you just get one like kind of expensive ticket to go? Because I’m [ __ ] poor. Like that’s that’s why, man. I don’t have a lot of money. There’s There’s not like a second. I’m moving across the country in a couple weeks. The cheapest. So, that’s that’s what’s weird. Game time is what I typically use. No free plugs, but that is what I use all the time because they do last minute tickets and they do all-in pricing. They don’t do fees. Um, but for some reason, because it’s like a rain out madeup game, they don’t have like any tickets available. It’s I I don’t understand why. I’d almost I used to do driving to the [ __ ] ballpark and and buying a ticket there. This is kind of like the stone ages, but I used to wait to till um like tip off or or or first pitch and then I you can buy uh you can scalp outside pretty good like um you know it’s a buyer market at that point. Yeah. Um once the game starts. So that that that’s always like because you can get good seats for a decent price. But I’m just not. And like obviously the White Socks tickets are not terrible, but like to sit where I kind of want to sit. I ain’t spending 70 bucks to go see the Chicago White Sox play. How long will you stay? I’ll stay the whole game. Then you should get decent tickets. I don’t know. That’s just my I’m I’m also getting at that age, which is tough because as I said, I don’t have any money. I’m getting to that age where I really want to go to games, but I also I want to have good seats. Yeah. Like I used to obviously not care. or I just feel like I’d be in the building. But and look, this isn’t going to break you, right? Like you’re going to eat. I know this is true, so I’m just going to keep talking now. Um, so I I it’s so rare that I hear someone talk about a live event experience and the fact that they went a little further in to that experience, like maybe paid an extra 30 bucks, like it’s like, which I do do a lot actually at this point. 30 bucks for a lifetime like like of of memories like people don’t complain about that. It’s really rare. Yeah. um you know, unless like Morgan Wallen comes out drunk or cancels the show, like people really usually have a good time when they will go all in. So that’s my advice, Cam. There you go. I did I did that I did that on Memorial Day when the Red Sox played in Milwaukee. Yeah. Um because I was just like I I don’t want bad tickets, but I’ll go and get, you know, reasonably priced tickets. And then Garrett Crochet was scheduled to pitch and I’m like, you know what? Screw this. I’m getting behind home plate. and I got this unbelievable ticket and it was probably like 80 bucks which is more than I should have spent for a Red Sox Brewers game, but it’s also like I could have been paying 250 bucks for that ticket at Fenway. So, I mean, dude, I wish I was going to a [ __ ] baseball game. I’m up here. I They just I just I just get run around. I go to different places, you know, different parties and events. We got go to Austin for a dinner tonight. That’s That’s somebody’s turning 40 and then we’re coming back to Dallas to go to a school party tomorrow. Somebody It’s like, you know, these brutal, man. These are these are blocks of time that used to be all mine. Don’t you love it, Pete? Anyway, Pete Souza joining the show because we’ve talked about some of our favorite sports movies before, but I want to get in the worst of the worst. I watched a movie this week that is right up there, if not my absolute number one choice of like worst sports movie ever. So, I start with you, Pete. Let’s keep it real simple. What’s the worst sports movie you’ve ever seen? Necessary Roughness. I saw it in the theater. Um, and and you you need to understand like I go to these movies like it ain’t hard to impress me, right? Like I know. Yeah. Like any bit of realism connected to a movie that involves sports is like that’s and god forbid you find a way to get the logos in there like and make a deal with Major League Baseball or something like I’m in. Necessary Roughness had none of those things and was extremely just just a bad incoherent movie. And I love the premise too. It was basically like SMU. It was basically like this major program is super successful. They cheated. They get the death penalty and then you get a bunch of characters, but it’s just like too out of control. It’s It’s just like what do we Scott Bula? Kathy Ireland was the place kicker. Scott Bula was a quarterback. Sinbad played up front. Um Robert uh Legalia or some I think he was the head coach. Um you know I’m talking about the guy Robert Loia. There you go. Sorry. Yeah. Um, so whatever it was, um, that that movie sucked and I saw it with a bunch of I was a freshman in high school and I was so excited to see it and I was so disappointed with what I saw there. There’s a great link to your pick and the movie that I watched this week. But before I get into that, um, how do you, because I think you might feel differently about this one. How do you feel then based off what you just said about Necessary Roughness? How then do you feel about um Any Given Sunday? I love it. Much better movie, dude. Any Given Sunday is good. I mean, that’s I could watch that. That that is a I will watch it and then listen to the the rewatchables that The Ringer does. I mean, I I love that whole Any Given Sunday experience. There’s so many amazing stories that come from behind the movie and uh you know, just there’s so much there. I mean, just to imagine Cameron Diaz as like out of control owner of like a a Miami football, it’s just it was it’s really awesome. Yeah, I’ll take I’ll take the replacements over that any day. Oh, replacements sucked. I know it does, but it knows it sucks in a way. Yeah, I had two Richmond teammates who were in there. Joe Douglas, the guy who was the GM of the Jets, and Jas Jasper Pendergrass. They were extras, huh? Um, but you can see him in a bunch of uh a bunch of the scenes cuz they just got done Richmond. So, it was right up the road in DC. They filmed it. Nice, man. I like that movie. It’s wild that Gene Hackman’s the coach in it. But like one of the greatest actors of all time and low key that that cheerleader that falls in love with Keano Reeves, she’s she was really a 10. I was Yeah, that’s that’s you know what she is, which I think is accurately depicted in the movie. She’s a real life 10. She’s not like She’s not like a movie babe. Like that’s someone you could see in real life and like if your buddy married that that woman, you’d be like, “Fuck, man.” Like that dude out his coverage. Like what? Like what a life that guy. You know what I mean? Like that’s that’s Clark looking at RG3’s girl wife. [ __ ] man. He got he nailed it. I think that’s exactly what Ryan Clark thought, right? I think that was the Totally. But like if it was Cameron Diaz, you’d be like that’s not real life. Like that’s that’s fake. Um that’s but uh I don’t I don’t even know the woman’s name who who played her. She was okay in that movie. Super cute. Um but you you you mentioned Scott Bula in in your movie because the one I watched this week that brought this movie Scott Bula that would be Major League 3 Back to the Minors. No, that movie is awful. It’s un that movie is that movie is that movie is unwatchable. It’s so like, okay, because this this is a good point that you’re indirectly bringing up here because there are some movies that know what they are. Okay, I think of Little Big League as one of my favorite baseball movies. It knows what it is. It’s dumb. It’s stupid. It can’t be. They actually bring in some major leaguers in there and do some things really well. Um, but like Major League 3 is trying to be like the first movie, which is very good, the second movie, which is not as nearly as good. I’m looking up a movie as you talk. It’s like the last three years of Bruins hockey. Like Major League, okay, was the President’s Trophy winning Bruins of two years ago. Then Major League 2 is like, ah, it’s still okay. Uh, just like 23, 24. And this, yeah, last year it bottomed out. That’s what Major League 3 was with a young Walton Gogggins in one of the starring roles. But yeah, Walton Gogggins is in there. I I did know that. I heard you and Zach talking about that the other day. Yes. Yes. So, this is what brings it up. I finished the movie. So, it just doesn’t make any sense. There’s a movie. There’s two movies about the Cleveland Indians and then all of a sudden it’s like, yeah, it’s the Twins now. Hope you didn’t notice. Roger Dorne’s now the GM of the Twins for some reason. And he hates the manager who’s the villain in the movie, the the the Twins manager who never wears a hat. Yeah, that’s that’s real life. Um, and he’s like, “Oh, I hate this guy. He’s a prick.” And I’m like, “You’re the GM. Like, you can fire him. There’s nothing stopping you from You don’t have to put on this fake [ __ ] game.” The manager, the guy who blind hair that was like a Happy Days. Uh, the guy who was on Happy Days and Married with Children. Um, he didn’t have blonde hair. Okay. Brown hair. I don’t I don’t know. Here’s one of the worst sports movies that nobody talked about. Go for it. You want to talk incoherent? In 1975, there was a made for TV movie. Uh, it was called The Kid from Left Field. Gary Coleman. Oh, yeah. So, Robert Gon is like a peanut vendor for the uh the San Diego Padres’s and his son is Gary Coleman. And somehow Gary Coleman ends up managing the San Diego Padres’s. Like they have all the logos. It’s at Jack Murphy Stadium. Um and and it’s like no, none of that [ __ ] makes sense at all. I mean, at all. The movie is like that that is like Well, that’s that’s what’s kind of funny about Little Big League is it kind of it like obviously would never happen, but they do set it up in a way that it kind of makes sense, right? The grandfather owns the Twins. He I like that gives the team to you know like it does it could actually happen. Of course it couldn’t but it kind of could you know I would even take what we’re talking Angels in the outfield’s ridiculous like I guess I guess uh Major League 3 is is a good example but they use again unwatchable for me. They use real uniforms though and stuff right like the Twins logo is in there in Major League and they play Yeah. And they play in the metronome. Yeah. Like uh but what I hate on the flip side Well talking about little big league or Major League Major League Major League. Major League 3. Okay. And Little Big League, they also play for the Twins. Okay. What what I what on the flip side of the Major League Three thing is like, can I get some love for the minor league towns here? Like they just they’re a team called the Buzz. Their hat says Buzz, their uniform says Buzz, they play in Buzz Stadium. Never in this in the in the entirety of that movie do we find out what city they play in. Can I get some Can I get some love for the minor league cities? Can I get some love for I don’t know. That’s not That’s not necessarily a nitpick. Or Grand Forks or something? We We need to get something on that like that. That’s just not a nitpick. Like, come on. Tell us what’s the deal. Come on, man. It’s I don’t know. And yeah. Oh, yeah. Bob Uker now calls the team calls the games for this AAA team for some reason. It Oh, and we’re going to bring in Pedro Serrano and the really racist Japanese character. Um because they know Scott Bula. Of course they they didn’t play together in any of these movies that you’ve seen so far, but of course they know each other. Yeah, it doesn’t make any sense. Uh so that’s your pick. Necessary Roughness. Necessary Roughness is is my pick far and away. I wrote down a couple because we talked about it. Um Trouble with the Curve is a recent one that was so bad. I went to And these are two movies. What sucks about that one, by the way, real quick, is my dad, who I have more respect for than any other baseball fan on the planet, likes that movie. Oh, really? because he sees movies probably Clint Eastwood guy kind like anything like but here’s the thing he hasn’t seen like the good the bad and the ugly but he saw like Cry Macho in theaters a couple years ago because now he has time all the kids are out of the house he’s like that was really good Eastwood didn’t like Oenheimer because it was too dark like literally physically I think I’m with your dad he liked Johnny be good was really bad but really good you don’t know what it is right I’ve seen it You got to watch this. It is um Anthony Michael Hall. It was It was a turn for him where he plays this superstar quarterback in high school that’s getting recruited by everyone. Supporting cast. His girlfriend is Uma Thurman who works at a supermarket. His best friend is Robert Downey Jr. Robert Downey Jr. becomes this kind of starcross friend who is uh sells out and takes money from this school called UCCC and is trying to convince Johnny to go there, you know, like um and it he takes a trip to like a school called Old Tech with all these other amazing recruit recruits and they do all this illegal stuff. It’s a great movie. I I but but it’s bad because Well, you know what else fits into that? Huh? Huh? You know what fits into like technically bad sports movie, but I guarantee you love it? What? Blue Chips. Oh, dude. Blue Chips is a good movie. Blue Chip is not But it’s kind of bad. Yeah. I mean, there’s just We can admit that. I like Blue Chips, too. I love Fever Pitch. That’s kind of bad. Fever Pitch is terrible. Exactly. Don’t Don’t do that. Don’t put that in the same category. I mean, seriously, that’s that that’s [ __ ] Fever Pitch is so bad. that might be. Well, it’s not in the same category because Fever Pitch is a romcom, but like it is bad movie. That is kind Fever Pitch is horrible. And by the way, as somebody who’s not even a Red Sox fan, you should be offended that you said that. Like Jimmy Fallon isn’t even a Red Sox fan on the field after you guys won the World Series. I think we’ve talked about this like that that will always kind of bug me that like not only are they not like they’re not from there, they’re not Red Sox fans, they don’t give half a [ __ ] about uh sports in general. Like I do that is from Mars I think like she like So Drew Barrymore is a great example. I was listening to her. They replayed an interview of her when she was on Stern a couple years ago on Howard 101 on Sirius. And uh I I I have been on this for a while, but I’m pretty uh tolerant of stars and whatever. I’m not looking for reason not to like people, but she is one of those people who has been famous for so long since since she doesn’t know any other way of life. Yes. She’s not she’s not normal. Like not even close to normal. Like super weird. Like I’m not saying she doesn’t have a good heart, but like very very different than me. I’ll just say we’re gonna we’re gonna keep rolling by the way because I already ran a commercial break in the in the beginning. So we ran our commercials. So I’m gonna I’m gonna take you up to the end even though you hate that. Um let’s do it. So I I heard this about Wow. Blue Chips was only a 40 on Rotten Tomatoes. Not that that’s like the uh be all end all. So I heard this about child stars once and it rings true very much in this case of like these people their emotional development kind of social development stops emotional maturity kind of thing stops when they become a star so like Taylor Swift is 16 like in a lot of ways right Drew Barry Moore was a star when she was four [ __ ] years old so yeah and she no chance no that’s like I it’s almost a pass to me on almost anything for child stars they’re just they’re so much different from the rest of the world. Like, you know, it’s just like, of course they’re crazy. She’s crazy. And I can’t even blame her for it. Um I would agree. I would agree. And you have reason to um to to come down on that. Yeah. Like I But I I knew you’d love Blue Chips. I knew you’d love any given Sunday. I knew Blue Chips is awesome. I mean, you’ve got everything in that movie. You’ve got Bobby Knight, you have Bobby Hurley. Um it’s just like there’s so many. Anyway, Shaq does a great job. Yeah. No, but yeah, Shaq does a great job. Why Why was Danny’s name not really thrown in the Knicks mix? By the way, we’re get we’re we’re really hodge podgeing here. Like Well, I think I I think he made it clear uh last year that he was not going to go to the NBA. And I and I think that there was had to be somebody close enough to like the Leon Rose and the James Dolan to be like, “No, I I I I would imagine.” Um, I guess, but I I just for being a a Jersey guy in Connecticut, like that has to be a much better cell to say the Knicks. I mean, honestly, than the Lakers, I think just that one thing. But I think it would be such a [ __ ] storm, dude. If he went and we saw, honestly, we I’m not even saying you should take it. We just finished Celtic City where like, you know, Rick Patino, we saw how quickly that act wore thin um in the NBA with the Celtics. Danny Hurley. Yeah. Much different person, a different coach, but same type of vibe as far as like, you know, you talk to these kids like they’re in college, you know, like that. I I don’t I really don’t believe that would work. You know, you’re starting to see I think we talked about this once a long time ago, but like it’s just not you don’t see as many slam dunk hires anymore. Like coaches are a little bit more wary of like how how [ __ ] this job is, you know what I mean? Um, and players to some extent too, but I think we are starting to see some more of that. Um, speaking of a player who could handle it, I teased this question on your show, but I think we I think we need to address it. So, Tom Brady has been chatting up Sophia Vgara, but also rumors within the last couple weeks, two weeks or so. He was chatting up Sydney Sweeney, two of my favorite people on the planet, just hitting it off, like having a great time. Tom Brady’s about to turn 48 on August 3rd and Sydney Sweeney is about to turn 28. We’re almost exactly the same age, like within a week or two of each other. Um, which is, by the way, this is going to sound creepy, but it’s one of the greatest things of my uh of my celebrity appreciating life. The fact that she will always be my age, Sydney Sweeney, which rocks. Um, is that weird? Is that weird if they got together? Yeah, I think so. Um, here’s Let me put this [ __ ] down. Um, it looks cool when you hold it. It does. It looks cool. Yeah, it feels like we’re on Simmons or something. Does it sound better when I do that? Sounds the same. Sounds the same. Um, so I’m putting it down. It looks like I’m holding a hotel haird dryer. Um, so, uh, I think it will be weird. Um, I’m starting to air on this like as I, you know, Tom Brady and I, he’s a little older than me. um like like a year. I I I’m starting to I’m starting to get like you know here here I’ll tell you where this comes from. I saw a date line the other night. Now years ago this is like in the 90s there was a woman who’s a an anchor in Iowa. Yes. Jodie Husen uh Trit or Husen. Yeah. Really tough last name. She went missing. Yeah. Tough last name. Morning anchor. Everybody loved her. She disappeared the night before our show. Um and nobody has ever found her body or anything since. And it was a really compelling story. And there was a man who was connected to her. And the guy, now the woman at the time was 23 or 24. Let’s say she’s 24. The guy was this guy who was connected to her was 48. Okay. And they were spending a shitload of time together. And you know, he was a guy who it seemed like had like, you know, you know, if you’re in TV news and somebody has a little bit of money, like to you that’s a lot, right? If it’s like your first job. Yeah. So this guy, you know, this guy’s got moving moving somewhere new, like Yeah. All those things. So this guy had like a boat, but it was like a, you know, whatever. Um and and and he had like, you know, some resources. He’s almost 50. Um but they spent a ton of time together. And apparently the guy had a crush on her, whatever. So he was not only a suspect for a while, but he was also like dragged into the court of public opinion. Like this is weird. Like why is this guy’s 48 hanging out with a 24 year old? And for me, that was like a sobering moment. I was like, gosh. Because working in TV news now. I’ve made friends with like younger girls or or young women. I I bet you texted you texted Ally after that. Be like, “Hope you’re okay.” Like, “Glad you’re okay.” Ally Cathabar is probably 24. Okay. Uh I’m 23 years older than her. Like I She’s like one of my best buddies, but like from the outside people are like that’s [ __ ] strange. like Christy Sodto now she’s probably 28 or 29 so it’s a little closer in age but like still like I that when people were weighing in on this guy and like why was he friends with her I was like a little shaken up I was like you stay true to your core values I know these women are my friends I mean I I would also say you work with these women yes yes you’re you’re also co-workers like Yeah and I was more social with Sodto than I ever was with Ally but I hung out with a little hung out with him sometimes. Um, but it was definitely like I just thought like if Ally Kavar disappeared, people might be like, you know, who’s this who’s a guy who’s now got some money and he’s twice her age. Oh no. But yeah, I was thinking about that. I was like, so I do think it’s weird. I think like that. And also, it’s like I I’m a little down on Tom because I like can’t he just find a woman who’s divorced and lives on the Back Bay or or or maybe she’s divorced and lives in Scottsdale, Arizona like and has two kids? Like why does it always have to be somebody super famous, not just famous, super famous? Like that’s a little weird. Well, see, yeah. Here’s here’s the thing that we throw in there of like like obviously 20 years is 20 years, but is it 20 years when they’re celebrities and they can’t live normal lives and like I I understand your point and I I agree like you can also be in a relationship with a regular a regular person, a non-famous person. Yeah. But like does that make a difference that they are famous? They can’t go out anywhere. Like I guess yeah I guess they have that that that’s probably a pretty strong bond that’s gota but like that is that is something I think about like with to bring her back into the conversation again Taylor Swift is like why don’t you just date someone normal at this point like you keep dating celebrities and they rip your heart out you make an album and you’re this tortured poet [ __ ] date a CPA like you know what I mean? Well, and that’s and and and that’s the issue. Who doesn’t make real friends like Well, that’s the issue with all of us in our relationships or most of us. Like a lot of people, myself included, for a long time, you just keep making the same mistakes over and over again. Hopefully, it works out now for Taylor Swift and and and Travis Kelce, but yeah, like um I I I would like Tom date somebody normal, you know? Good. Or or let’s Can we find the next Bridget Moahan? Like, what if Tom Brady started to date Diamond in the Rough? That’s also his age. It’s tough. Pete, what about Michelle Monigan? Like that would be perfect, right? The girl who’s just right. That would be if she got with Tom, I would be so behind that and be like like that. That’s cool because some of these even like the Sophia Vgara like again like not only is she like a gorgeous like elite like actress, she’s also like a supermodel like like so she’s like there’s a shitload of money there and just a ton of fame. Um Tom goes for the top of the He’s top of the line, man. For sure. For sure. He’s definitely top shelf and looking at shelf quite a bit. Um when we you know what’s funny is you know who kind of had that nailed out perfectly for a long time like what you just described of like a person that’s your age, normal, not famous. uh who had that right for a long time is Bill Belichek, right? Like with Linda, he had a hot girlfriend. They never got married that was a little bit younger. I want to say she’s probably 10 years younger than him. Um not crazy. Like I my my parents are seven years difference, you know. It’s not nuts. Um and she was just a normal regular person. And then and then he goes to the complete other side of the spectrum. It’s not a famous person, but a Can we Can we talk about Can we talk about Bichc, though? Like, I know you like to. Yeah, I got to give him credit. And I haven’t talked about him in a while. Like, I don’t know who got to him or or if he made a decision, but clearly there was a decision that was made and and I would have to believe it was by him because we have seen a dramatic change over the last month or so of Jordan I even forget her name now. Jordan Hutchkins. Jordan Hudson. Jordan Hudson um and her involvement in his life or North Carolina football the social media posts like it’s almost football season. It’s true. It’s true. You know, like you got you got to give him credit like because I believe and I’ll say this to all the Boston people and you know, Bellich fans like and we all get like everybody gets a couple crazy relationships like everybody gets to date a psycho. like you get to date one or two and and the key is that they don’t like become the the lifetime decision, right? It’s just a story you tell someday. Like that that is that is hopefully what Bill is kind of moving out of. Um so that that that’s that’s my hope for him. Um but there was a moment in time where it looked like that that that might have been a lifetime decision. I feel like we’re moving out of that a little. Is he just like he’s just going to be it ACC media days next week? Definitely. Yeah. Like that. That’s [ __ ] weird, man. He’s going to do the scramble. He’s going to take pictures with the mascots. Yeah. It’s funny because talking to Isaac Shade of Locked on Tarheelss. Yeah. And I’ll tell you the what’s cool about those just being most recently being at many of media days like I have been before, but it was reiterated once again being at Big 12 media days like you know you’re in there you’re credentialed. So it’s like, you know, so you’re supposed to be in there for a job like and you’re supposed to be a card carrying member of the media who has a purpose like and I think that with that comes um the the the grace and the you know the accessibility to all these people. So yeah like your boy from locked on Tar Hills heels like he may get a chance to like roll up on him and ask him a question. I mean, a lot Joey Magcguire is not Bill Bich, but I mean, Joey Magcguire at a couple points was just like I mean, he’s a purposeful guy. He’s not wandering around, but he was like just hanging out, you know, like down on the field like anybody could have gone up and talked to him, you know? I I wasn’t there for Coach Prime. I I thought about that. I was like, I wonder what that’s like. I I think it’s different for him. Um I also think he’s got like some health stuff going on, so they like want to kind of shepherd him out of there, you know? Yeah. Yes. I think both those things can be true. Yeah. I think he’s got some health issues and he wants to be shepherd out of there quite quickly. Anyway, Pete Souza, thanks so much for joining the show, Pete. I appreciate it. It’s been I got one more thing for you. Yeah. Okay, real quick. Yeah. While we’re talking about Coach Prime, um he did his media availability and he asked for the first question. He said, “I want a woman to ask a question.” And so a woman gets the mic and uh all you hear is he goes, she she announces who she is and he says, “I love your hair. I love your hair.” now like coach prime has drifted into this zone where he’s almost like uncancellable like like if I were to say that or let’s say Joey Maguire were to say that right or Sunny Donny Dyke said that to a 24 year old woman who was asking a question that would be like whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa flag on the play like big deal like right like or or just like the other way around of like what if Dion said, “I’d like a man to ask the question first.” Oh, like it’s a it’s a different can of worms, but it also is like, “What are we doing here?” But yes, no, you’re right. If if if Chris Kimman is like, “Love that hair. What’s that? What’s that scent you got on, girl?” Like, if so weird, right? But Coach Prime is like Coach Prime is like, he just operates above all the [ __ ] I guess. I guess. But it makes you wonder what they get away with. Uh anyway, Pete, thanks so much for coming on, man. It’s been too long. 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