00:02all right we got open lines want to hear from you guys where does that fall all-time choke
00:06jobs in all of sports i know the one that's going to come up immediately is 28 to 3 in
00:11the super
00:11bowl and that decided the series right and it's that decided the championship right the in the
00:18nfl it's a it's a one-off it's a it's a one-game deal so technically the spurs didn't lose
00:24the
00:24finals last night some people feel like they did but they aren't out of it yet they are going home
00:29they will get a chance which they have not won in this series at home yeah so yeah it's it's
00:35i think
00:36that the atlanta 28 to 3 choke is the biggest one and that comes from play calling defense it comes
00:47from a lot of things and it obviously the players on the field but if i extend the choke to
00:52be
00:54series wide where they've led in double digits in every game they've had a lead
00:59at the two-minute mark in every game and they're down 3-1 and the other thing is atlanta doesn't
01:06have an excuse but they can say that's the greatest quarterback of all time over there
01:10it's not like the spurs can say well we're facing jordan lebron kareem they're not
01:19so how do you stack this up historically 248 539 97 97 so it this is the nba finals so
01:32anything that
01:33is eastern conference finals for it could be hockey it it doesn't really match up because you start
01:41looking at like the 0-9-10 boston bruins up 3-0 in the eastern conference finals and then up
01:473-0 in
01:48game seven right to lose that and lose it i mean so it but and it has happened before right
01:55but your
01:55point is the stakes it's not in the championship like the yankees blew it to the red sox and for
02:00them in that rivalry it probably hurts yeah but that wasn't for the world series right and i'd even go
02:05i mean we could go back as as close as this past um ncaa tournament duke uconn right duke up
02:1219
02:13um with a chance to you know what face michigan which they had already beaten before and they lose
02:20to uconn yeah on a last second shot very similar to what happened last night but it's not the final
02:28we could hit close to home lions had a 17 point lead to halftime in the nfc title game but
02:32it wasn't
02:32the super bowl like this is the nba finals and a lot of people's eyes the series ended last night
02:39it didn't but boy have they blown it every chance they get and last night being the most glaring
02:45and obvious it's the largest halftime lead in finals history and they blew it
02:49they blew it every way you could it wasn't one player one player coach not taking timeouts to help
02:55his young team when be missing not one but two free throws up late the aaron fox i still don't
03:00understand there's just so many things that went wrong the general falling in love with threes
03:05i get it they were hot in the first half but they stopped running real offense
03:10there's a lot it was bad it was terrible and before we get some feedback on the phones and texts
03:16why don't we let charles barkley weigh in because this is what chuck had to say after the game
03:25so
03:40you
03:55Never one to sugarcoat it.
03:57No, he's not going to mince words.
03:58In all of civilization.
04:02Dumbest basketball.
04:04Where is it ranking sports?
04:05Let's go to Will on a cell.
04:06Will, good morning.
04:08Good morning.
04:10What do you think?
04:10The biggest chunk of sports history for me is the Bills losing not one, not two, not even three, but
04:15four consecutive Super Bowls.
04:17Well, not consecutive, but four Super Bowls.
04:21In agonizing fashion, too.
04:23Yeah.
04:24Exactly.
04:26Yeah.
04:27That still hurts.
04:29Yeah.
04:29And those are definitive.
04:31That's not, hey, we go back home for game five.
04:33Right.
04:33That's our kicker missed it and our season's over.
04:35And you had four consecutive opportunities.
04:39That's a pretty good one.
04:39It's calling outside the lines because it's not one team, but yeah.
04:44Well, it is one team.
04:45Well, it's not one season.
04:47But it's against four opponents.
04:48Yeah.
04:49Man.
04:50Yeah.
04:51Well, that's a good one to start us off strong.
04:53And they really did lose four different ways.
04:56Yeah.
04:56They lost a nail biter.
04:59They got completely blown out in one game.
05:01They had a halftime lead in a tight game and then just got run over in the second half
05:05of another game.
05:08Guys, we all know the most iconic has to be Atlanta, New England, 28 to three, Jake and
05:13Grand Blank.
05:14When the game itself, it's not labeled by the participants.
05:18It's not labeled by the Roman numerals of the Super Bowl.
05:22It's just simply 28 to three.
05:24Yeah.
05:25That takes the cake.
05:27Here's a fun question.
05:28Is the league making Wemby unlikable by letting him get away with assault on a regular basis
05:33and not calling flagrants on him?
05:34It's happened twice in the playoffs.
05:36He finally got called for one last night.
05:37It was probably shocked because the league lets him do whatever he wants.
05:42I was surprised that they didn't give a flagrant and it was a game three when he basically
05:48took Brunson and just threw him to the floor.
05:50How is that not a flagrant?
05:52Right.
05:52And they didn't call it at the time.
05:54Yeah.
05:54But they reviewed it and said, nah, it's not a flagrant.
05:58And I think it was Richard Jefferson brought up a good point.
06:00That matters because they accumulate and you can actually get suspended.
06:04Right.
06:04Yeah.
06:04It's an automatic suspension.
06:05So he's one away now.
06:06Yeah.
06:06And if he had, if they had issued that one, plus the one he had last night, then he would
06:10be unavailable for the next game.
06:11He wouldn't have finished the game.
06:12Maybe someone else would have made those free throws at the end.
06:16Biggest choke was the Houston Oilers losing to Frank Reich and the Buffalo Bills.
06:20Brian and St. Clair Shores.
06:23Not in the Super Bowl, but yes, memorable comeback choke job.
06:27And I'm surprised nobody's brought this one up, but the Yankees and the Red Sox.
06:32There it is.
06:323-0.
06:33Yeah.
06:33Up 3-0.
06:34And okay.
06:35It was ALCS.
06:36So it wasn't the World Series.
06:38Was it ALCS?
06:39ALCS?
06:39Yes.
06:40Yeah.
06:41The ALCS in 0-4.
06:43But it's against your number one rival.
06:46Right.
06:46And those first two games that they won in the series, Boston to come back, were nail biters
06:51in Fenway.
06:51I mean, that was crazy.
06:54So wasn't it David Ortiz in the 12th inning of game four?
06:59Yeah, I think so.
07:00He hit that home run, which obviously then shifted momentum.
07:04But then it's 3-1.
07:07And you have three more opportunities to put them away.
07:09And I think the value in that one is the 86-year curse of the Red Sox.
07:14That is when they finally decided to win a World Series.
07:17The only team to ever come back in baseball down 3-0.
07:20Yes.
07:21There's some golf ones.
07:23You guys aware of the Greg Norman Masters collapse in 96?
07:27We've talked about that, yeah.
07:28He led by six strokes entering the final round and lost by five.
07:34John Vandervelde in the 99 British Open, three-shot lead going to the final hole.
07:39Actually, he tried hitting the ball out of the creek and trying to salvage to win the
07:44tournament.
07:45And then Mickelson at the 0-6 Open, two-shot lead, still has never won a U.S. Open.
07:52But, well, wasn't it Spieth at the Masters?
07:57He had a collapse one of those years, yeah.
08:00Rory did early.
08:01Rory shot, I think, an 80 on a Sunday.
08:04Golf really lends itself because it's just you in your head.
08:07And when it spirals, there's no way out.
08:10These guys just go in the tank.
08:14Yeah, I just Googled it.
08:16Spieth in 2016 Masters.
08:18Okay.
08:20Biggest choke job is about to happen.
08:22Spurs will lock in and win in seven.
08:27I mean, you could have the greatest choke job at a single game, and then the tables get
08:35turned.
08:35Uno reverse card.
08:36Well, because, as you've mentioned it, it's been a Spurs team that has jumped.
08:42Like, you want to talk about starting fast?
08:43The Spurs are a team that starts fast.
08:45In the first half, they've started fast.
08:48But they haven't been able to finish.
08:50And how much of that is a young Spurs team?
08:53How much of that is...
08:54How much of that do you put on the coach?
08:56Yeah.
08:57Mitch Johnson, he's going to take some flack for this.
09:00The Spurs are down 3-1.
09:03They were in a position to win every single one of these games.
09:07I know that's why you have to play 48 minutes, but they got to be sitting there going, we
09:10could have swept these dudes if we had our head out of our ass.
09:13And now we got to go home and avoid elimination in game five, which they might do.
09:17Again, they've played well enough for most of the series, just not in the biggest moments.
09:22Yeah, and I don't want to do San Antonio radio, but can you imagine what's going on this morning
09:28in San Antonio?
09:32It's just, I mean, it's hard to imagine the amount of points that they have given away
09:40in the second half.
09:42Yeah, game one was a 17-point differential in the second half, and last night was 28.
09:47Wow.
09:48Yeah.
09:49I mean, I honestly don't think I've ever experienced what they have as a fan of our local teams.
09:56I don't think there's anything close, you're beside yourself.
09:59I mean, the 95 wings.
10:02Well, they got a couple texts coming in on them.
10:04Yeah.
10:04And how about, we got one that says, trouble with the snap.
10:08But that's like a sudden snap.
10:10This was like a process.
10:11This happened over an hour where they blew this halftime lead.
10:15Trouble with the snap was, you blink, and all of the emotions flipped.
10:20Right.
10:20I mean, the wings were outplayed in 95.
10:22You're saying 95.
10:23I don't think the Spurs have been outplayed, necessarily.
10:25No.
10:26It's got to be right behind the Music City Miracle.
10:29Analytically, they should be up 3-1.
10:31Yes, John.
10:32Golden State was up 3-1, and blue in NBA Finals.
10:35They're getting some attention on the text.
10:38Biggest choke job is the officiating in the Red Wings-Penguins-09 Stanley Cup Final.
10:46Bird steals the inbound pass, is high on my list, still stings.
10:51Jim Joyce choked on the final play of the Galarraga imperfect game.
10:56San Antonio deserves this choke.
10:58They stole our pick.
10:59Let's go Knicks, Patrick, and Novi.
11:02Are people rooting for the Knicks?
11:05I was not rooting for the Knicks last night.
11:07No.
11:08There are some people that are rooting for the Knicks because it's been so long.
11:11And, you know, for those that aren't Cubs fans, we're rooting for the Cubs to end the streak.
11:17Boston, like, there are a lot of people that just, hey, they can identify with the pain of another fan
11:25base.
11:26And then watching the celebrations, like, they can be happy for them.
11:29I just, I'm not that guy.
11:31I can't.
11:32I played in front of those fans before, and I mentioned it.
11:38I went to bed extremely happy watching the misery of the front row of the garden.
11:44Yeah.
11:44The halftime montage where they're going through all of it, and it's Chalamet, Seinfeld, Spike Lee kicks off the montage.
11:51Maybe that's part of it.
11:52But the face of Knicks fans are rich celebrities.
11:57Do you ever feel bad for rich celebrities?
12:00No, you feel bad for the average fan that's suffered a long time.
12:05And there are plenty of regular dudes that are Knicks fans.
12:07But when you are spoon-fed Timothy Chalamet, Taylor Swift, Jerry Seinfeld.
12:14Yeah, they've had a real hard life.
12:16Must suck.
12:17You know what I'm saying?
12:18Is that part of it with the New York dynamic where you're not like, boy, I really hope those guys
12:23catch a break.
12:28Most fans don't have the celebrities.
12:30I mean, it's the Lakers and the Knicks are probably the biggest example of you parade the celebrities at the
12:35courtside seats.
12:37Right.
12:37And nobody's shedding a tear if those fans have to suffer.
12:42248-539-9797.
12:44All right, we got to get Heather's news.
12:45Two Grand Slam, Dear John, AJ Hinch at 802.
12:48Busy show, it's 97.1.
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