00:00Hey, speaking of parenting, does it feel like Todd McClellan's a disappointed father?
00:05Yes.
00:05It's a lot that he's had to light into his hockey team.
00:08A lot of chastising.
00:09We mentioned what after the Saturday game, he said they weren't working hard, they weren't playing smart.
00:14This is a different exchange from the last 24 hours.
00:18Todd McClellan talking about his hockey team as the month of April is set to start.
01:03Now tonight against Pittsburgh, have to extract competitiveness.
01:09Boy, is that a damning statement from a head coach.
01:13At this time of the year, everything's on the line.
01:17And okay, there are some young players on this team, but there are more players on this team with five,
01:24six, 10, 12 years of experience than there are rookies.
01:30That's a huge red flag.
01:33We have to extract competitiveness.
01:35It's just another way of him saying, we got a lot of jerseys skating around out there.
01:40He's been doing this for weeks.
01:42I'd say that's like three or four instances in less than a month's time.
01:45Yeah.
01:46I mean, I think he's fed up.
01:48A candid conversation with him after the season.
01:50How many of these guys are you going to put a red X through?
01:52Yeah.
01:52I wonder if we had heard him talk about the month of March and why is it such a big
01:57story?
01:57Well, now he just says, hey, we're going into April.
02:00We still got to get these things.
02:01Like, I wonder his take on those questions now.
02:05Yikes.
02:05Uh-oh.
02:05So, 835, baseball got it right.
02:07We'll get to the best and worst innovations in sports.
02:10902, the Lions, quote, never in the game on big defensive free agents.
02:16We'll get to that as well.
02:17Let's go to Heather with the news.
02:20This news is brought to you by Fusion Energy.
02:23So, speaking of screen time, I just saw this article.
02:26Chick-fil-A is offering free ice cream to families who give up their cell phones before
02:30they sit down to eat.
02:32So, this is not happening at every single Chick-fil-A.
02:34It's at select locations.
02:36But basically, what they're doing is like this reward system.
02:39They're encouraging human connection during meals.
02:41So, they have this little, like, it almost looks like a takeout box that you put your phone
02:47in.
02:47And it's called the Cell Phone Coop.
02:49Oh, okay.
02:50If you keep your phone on silent in the coop your entire meal, you can get free ice cream.
02:55Do they have someone monitoring these boxes?
02:58It doesn't go into a lot of detail.
02:59I don't think so.
03:00I mean, I don't think that anyone is, like, standing over the coop watching closely.
03:04But he said, the owner of Chick-fil-A said that this was all inspired after he saw a mom
03:09with two children come in and sit on her phone the entire meal.
03:13And just wants to see people connecting again.
03:15And then, of course, there's some studies in here about cell phones and eating.
03:19Remember that one man was like, well, now I'm eating slower.
03:21You might be eating slower, but you're probably eating more.
03:24There's a study from 2019 that says people who scroll when they eat consume 535 more calories.
03:30Yeah, so just use your phone on Sundays.
03:34Sure.
03:35Hey, good on them.
03:36I mean, this is a real thing.
03:37And we talk about incentives.
03:38Good for them.
03:38Yeah.
03:39So with talk stalled between the league and the referees union, NFL owners reportedly have
03:45authorized the hiring of replacement officials.
03:48You guys could probably talk this better than I can, but at the center of it all is this labor
03:53dispute over a new contract with the current agreement set to expire at the end of May.
03:58And right now, the two sides, I believe, are still pretty far apart.
04:01So because of that, the NFL is already making some contingency plans, including recruiting
04:06and training college-level refs just in case there's a lockout.
04:12I'm sure fans will be totally mild-mannered if calls are blundered and missed this season.
04:18I'm sure they'll be fine with it.
04:20Sure.
04:20And I think, hey, in your regular down and distance, a lot of those things, hey, the calls
04:24are going to be all right.
04:26But when it matters most and you actually need that trained eye, somebody that's seen
04:32it before, they don't even get it right a lot of times for the best of what they do.
04:36And they're losing the, the officials are losing the PR battle in this because their argument
04:41is, hey, you know, we don't want some of these, you know, some of these mechanisms put
04:48in place that take away seniority or the, the performance-based type of pay and bumps
04:58to be able to do playoff games.
04:59They want it to be on seniority, not on performance.
05:02It needs to be performance.
05:03They also shouldn't reject any help from technology.
05:05At the same time, though, we shouldn't skimp out on the, getting the best humans to ref these
05:10games.
05:11There's too much on the line.
05:12Yeah.
05:13A former Detroit Pistons player is suddenly out of a job.
05:17The Chicago Bulls have waved guard Jaden Ivey after a series of controversial comments he
05:21made on social media, including criticism of the NBA support of Pride Month.
05:27So these were video posts that he made on Instagram.
05:29He called those particular celebrations unrighteous.
05:33Also question why he couldn't speak what he described as his own beliefs.
05:37Well, the Bulls responded pretty quickly, releasing him for what they called conduct detrimental
05:41to the team.
05:42Now, he had only been with Chicago briefly after being traded from Detroit, and he played
05:48just a handful of games before he was sidelined with an injury.
05:51Yeah, he's hardly played.
05:52He hadn't played in basically two months.
05:54His career has gone in a spiral.
05:57Yeah.
05:57And now he's doing all these live videos.
05:59And I got nothing against religion.
06:01I'm not personally religious.
06:03But if it can be a source to help you when times are tough, all for it.
06:07You just can't lash out at other people and make it this source of hate.
06:10A body discovered partially mummified in Livonia may be connected to a 2024 missing persons
06:18case.
06:18So the body was found partially submerged in a creek near Heinz Drive on Saturday evening.
06:24Police say the deceased person appears to be an adult man who was wearing a black hoodie,
06:29dark colored jeans and black shoes.
06:31They say identifying the body could take some time.
06:35So they're trying to figure out who this could be.
06:37And there is a woman who's worried that it could be her missing husband, James Stanford.
06:4375 at the time he disappeared on April 8th of 2024.
06:47Suffers from dementia.
06:49Left on foot without some crucial medication.
06:52Disappeared about two miles from where the remains were located.
06:56So his wife is getting together as much information she can, dental records, things like that, because
07:03she believes maybe they can help identify who this is.
07:07And it could be her husband.
07:09A Detroit pastor is being praised for staying calm under pressure and de-escalating a pretty
07:14frightening moment.
07:16Police say a man pulled out a gun during a funeral service at the new McFall Brothers
07:20funeral home on Saturday after being upset when the pastor asked people to move to make
07:26more space.
07:27And things escalated pretty quickly.
07:29According to the pastor, the man started yelling, pulled out this gun, pointed it directly
07:33at him, threatening him.
07:36Everyone else there kind of started panicking and chaos ensued.
07:40People were running and screaming.
07:41But instead of letting that chaos take over, the pastor stayed calm, de-escalated the situation,
07:47prevented anyone from getting hurt.
07:49And now police are basically calling him a hero for keeping control of the moment.
07:53Five people in total were arrested.
07:57All right.
07:58That's Heather with the news coming up next.
08:01I love this ABS stuff.
08:04I want more of it.
08:05See CB Buckner overturned six times in one game.
08:09I love it.
08:10We're going to talk best and worst innovations in all of sports.
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