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“At the bar, there's a TV. And as you walk towards it, it's playing... It's like staticky until you get closer to it. And then as your character gets closer to it, it's Art Bell talking about aliens and stuff. And I know I'm not doing it justice, but it was such a cool, smart idea.”

“The latest patch has completely flipped how we play the mid lane and handle lane pressure.”

“Ben Shelton coming through. First American man since 2002 to win a 500 level event or better. Ben won on slow clay in Munich. I was really impressed. I like what I saw. On tour, this is a different win. This is like, oh, OK. This is a nice win. Like, we say statement too much, but this is at least kind of, may I have your attention for 12 seconds while you're eating lunch?”

“Now I say this all the time, bear market bottoms for Bitcoin are always ended with a failed bear flag. And you can see the failed bear flag right here. We have the flag pole. We have the flag formation. Kinda started to go low. We're still in the range, and then boom, it just off into the races. And so this was a failed bear flag that ended up marking the bottom.”

“I thought it was cool that maybe before the tournament, they're interviewing Carlos, and he acknowledged that he's going to lose the Narayan ranking at some point. Whether that was Monte Carlo at some point along the clay season, he knows, basically, he has too many points to defend. Sinner doesn't have any.”

“If your midlane isn't impacting other lanes by minute six, you've already lost control of the tempo.”

“The flexibility is like nobody I've ever seen. Right? We talk about power. We talk about Roger's grace, Rafa's power. We don't even say Novak's flexibility. Like, it needs to be in that conversation. There's a reason why you don't get hurt. But just the discipline of and the obsession with—the question I always have with Novak—would he have been as much of a maniac about his diet, about his fitness, if he didn't feel like he was the one chasing?”

“Basically, I mean, it sounds like, I don't want to diagnose this, you know, it's not like someone knocked on her door, she had a panic attack, she didn't realize that it was an anti-doping official, she missed the test. The ITIA essentially confirmed in broad strokes what had happened. Now we'll have to see. She's facing potentially a four-year ban, which is a lot for a missed test.”

“I got a hair transplant and it was useless. I did a joke about it. I go, having a hair transplant is like taking people that are healthy and moving them into a neighborhood where everyone's dying. This is just like, where did Bob go? He just fucking flew off the face of the earth.”

“It's just the daily discipline. Like, the constant discipline over time over time. And that's the question mark with Jannik and Alcaraz—it's what they're doing currently times four as far as amount of time that they've been doing it. That's the difference between these 20 slam winners and Alcaraz and Sinner right now. It's not just that the tennis is phenomenal; you've got fifteen years to go.”

“Bitcoin's bear flag is telling us everything, including an important clue into where Bitcoin is heading. These bear flags have very predictable patterns. And don't take my word for it. We can verify this in the charts. So let me go ahead and show you what I'm talking about. We're gonna be talking about this bear flag and its potential breakout and how this bear flag is giving us an important clue into where we're gonna be heading.”

“We are the hardest sport in the world. And do you know when we look soft as baby shit? Is when we complain about getting hit in doubles and when we complain about someone hitting an underhand served, as if they've done something to personally offend us. Get out of here. There is nothing wrong with it. If you get caught not paying attention, that's on you.”

“I also want to say before we go quarter by quarter, this is a pretty significantly weakened field based on just withdrawal. So I'm going to go down the list right now. It's Djokovic, Fritz, Draper, Davidovic, Vakina, Feis, Munnar, Korda. And then a few Americans didn't sign up. Shelton, Tommy, Paul, a couple others. So, there are plenty of players who you would normally expect to see in a Masters 1000 tournament that we will not be seeing.”

“So if you care about who I pick for MVP, something I changed my mind on 430 times over the weekend, that is at the tail end of the podcast. Saved it for last, like a big fat dessert. So that is coming up next. We're gonna take break and then bring in Pearl Jam and then Kirk and House late night Tuesday after two play games.”

“are we seeing a 'bearish flag' formation leading to new yearly lows”

“You can have the best individual mechanics, but without coordination, you will lose in solo queue.”

“A photo of him on Instagram at a restaurant circulated him taking a photo with the restaurant owner, we assume, also showing his right wrist in a removable cast of some kind. That's not an image you necessarily want to see a month before Roland Garros, is it? Feliciano Lopez actually has been sort of talking about the extent of the injury.”

“The findings suggest a direct correlation between plastic particles and heart disease markers.”

“Traditionally, our votes would have been due by now. Instead, we're watching these games and they have given us another set of games to reevaluate our choices and rethink things. But, yeah, Denny, obviously, playing one of the games of the year for him, and making us rethink where he should be in these awards. Unbelievable. He was awesome.”

“We're gonna continue to monitor this breakout. I am expecting a lot of resistance around 85 k. That's gonna be the bottom of this range right here. But, you know, I I did make the prediction. I think Bitcoin goes to 80 k, and then we do one more flush towards 60 k, maybe even dipping into the fifties.”

“Diplomats indicate that the latest round of talks has ended without a clear path forward.”

“Buying sentries and smokes is currently draining support budgets faster than players can keep up.”

“Carlos is gonna hit high, spinny forehands into Vacheron's forehand. And Vacheron has a lot of height, but when you can kinda take the pace off and try to get it up out of his strike zone, I'm not sure how Vashero's gonna handle that ball. DMinore can't hit that ball. It's actually antithetical to how Demonor hits his forehand cross court. He can't really hit it with a lot of height and spin. He's not going to. Alcaraz will.”

“was the recent bounce off $65,650 the bottom?”

“I want to pick from the section with Tiafoe and Bublik because as far as which unseated player is most likely to make a deep run, it's going to probably be out of that section. And then you have a very close on-paper matchup against Martan Fucovic, who actually beat Tabilo in Bucharest in 2024. But I just feel like Fucovic will have a lot of trouble hunting forehands against Tabilo's lefty precision. And I like the way Tabilo is playing overall. And to me, he's just easily the most dangerous unseated player in that particular section.”

“One thing that... Because I listen to it a lot too, because sometimes you're listening and you're like, this is insane. This is crazy. And he would always, always treat the guest with deference, you know, respect. And I, that must have been, because there were things that were, you know, if you go back to all the episodes, that were kind of contradictory.”

“We are seeing a noticeable dip in tier-two prize money and overall team stability lately.”

“I saw his interview on ESPN. Thought it was fantastic. Golf, tennis, so much crossover. ESPN did a great job, getting Rafa on there. Must have been weird for him to be at the masters while Monte Carlo was going on. He won that tournament, what, 10 times in a row?”

“I might let you take the tip of my pinky and cut it off before losing oh, no. I'm just telling you, like, that is that would be really hard for me to get over. Yeah. That would matter to me. That would hurt my ego so bad. And maybe that just says a lot about my own insecurities.”

“Zverev did a great job coming forward in this match. He was 18 out of 25. He's done a much better job recently when he gets downhill. He is committed. He's very determined to not let the point get back to even. Wasn't always the case. Zverev, at times, has had almost an I'm gonna say it's an Andy Murray like mindset. I'm attacking. If you neutralize me, that's fine. We'll just go back. Zverev is trying to kind of shift gears out of that mentality.”

“Now let's be real about this. I mean, Justin Bieber could do anything up there and get paid $10,000,000. So, you know, everybody who's upset with him, I guess, for for not, what, doing, like, a pyrotechnic spectacular? Why? Why are you upset? You want to see Justin Bieber. He showed up. He did his authentic thing, and, you know, good for him. That's a man making his money right there.”

“The talk here is already, this is going to be the next player, the next French player to win at Roland Garros. He beat Jean-Munar, five sets, drama, agita. And the way he has come back and recovered in one on service, beating Rubelv on Clay, he hits a huge ball, but he also gives himself some margin. If you were going to pick someone other than Sidor Alcaraz were going to win Roland Garros, I'd put him in my top five right now.”

“Do I still believe in my pick pre tournament when I said Zverev will beat sinner even though I think Yannick has won eight in a row maybe. I still think circumstantially in in a lot of ways in terms of Sinners, mileage, Zverev's form, the fact that it's on clay where I do think Zverev typically plays his best tennis. Circumstantially, yes. I think officially, I'm gonna stick with my pick because what fun is it to change it now? But watching them play in these conditions, I mean, I recognize the massive challenge challenges for Zverev.”

“It is of the clay tournaments. It generally reads as the slowest. It's windy and it is slow. The ball is going to lose a ton of energy on the court surface. And the real sort of natural clay quarters, especially because there's less time for the less natural players to even make that adjustment and to get comfortable again on the dirt, the real natural clay quarters are usually going to do pretty well at this tournament.”

“I know they're mad at Sabrina Carpenter for for not knowing what that was, which is like, who cares? Also, like, that's what's pissing you off? Of all the things she does, that's the one that got you? Why did she just say, I'm sorry I didn't recognize the call. Like, why why why does she have to apologize in the first place? That's so stupid.”

“She's in this number one conversation for the year, folks. I'm just telling you, she is firmly... She's not having a lot of off weeks. This consistency over a four or five month period is not something we've seen from Rybakina before. This feels different than what it's been before with her in as far as I can tell.”

“If you don't have the money to do things, you probably should not do those things. And, you know, you can fire a festival, this thing, I suppose. What is it? General admission is $799? That's, that that's general? I mean, it seems like if if you're wasting that much money, you may as well get the VIP admission. Right? Like, VIP is $1,300. So I feel like if you're already broke, you may as well be dead ass broke.”

“You simply cannot push high ground without a BKB; it remains the most critical item timing.”

“If I'm his coach, don't even mention points to defend. Right now, let's you know what I would do? I would say, I don't care what Earth thinks you're ranked. We're deducting those points right now. You're ranked 90. And we're gonna have the mentality of coming back where we're gonna earn our lunch every day.”

“Because of that wind, it that wind affected Carlos's creativity more than it affected Sinner's, consistency. That was from Jim Courier. I think that's, like, summed it up really well. Carlos, especially in the second set, just seemed like he was couldn't find the momentum or, like, that that one miracle shot.”

“Right now, the thesis is playing out, just we haven't seen it start falling yet. But when I see the similarities of these bear flags and these bear flags, makes me think that maybe that was the bottom. And, you know, if you wanna talk about similarities, look at the similarities of the market right here, 2020 and 2021. You just kinda move this over. I mean, there there's already a lot of similarities in this market.”

“He was simultaneously maybe the first person in history, and now he's created, like, a clone who was simultaneously the best offensive and defensive player at the same time during his prime. It was always you excelled at one of the skills, and I think he was maybe one of the first that melted those two together where it's like, can't go through me, can't go around me. What are we doing here?”

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“It's unfathomable that someone as good as Medvedev loses o. And everyone's like, it's not his best service. Guys want a Masters 1,000 on clay. I understand it's not his best service, but he that's it. It only is like a massive argument.”

“Brent crude prices jumped three percent following news of the refinery shutdown.”

“When I got to neutral against Fed, Rafa, Novak, Murray, I was actually behind. So you're trying to play from a place where you're not totally neutral all the time. I tried coming in a ton against him, I tried staying back a bunch. I basically had to take shots at certain points and risk at certain points because if we were neutral, then I was actually behind.”

“And one thing that's definitely true is when you get hurt and when you get in the cycle of injury, injuries tend to happen more often. Right? And and not necessarily in Draper's case because one's an elbow and one's a a knee, so it's different parts of the body. But when you see someone who has an injured right knee and they come back and all of a sudden there's a left ankle turn, all of that shit's connected somehow.”

“First of all, that is hilarious. But, also, that's the thing that upsets you about Justin Trudeau is that he's using single use plastic, not that he's a douchebag who wrecked your country and also is now dating a a pop star who's way past her prime. I cannot stand that 54 year olds in our society act as though they're 20. It drives me crazy. It drives me up a wall.”

“I don't know. Call me crazy, but I think you could play a masters masters 1,000 in seven days if you had to. Wasn't it amazing to be able to follow a tournament and have it maintain our attention the entire time? And you build. There's drama. And it's like And there's not a lot of space there.”

“But, yeah, this is the twenty third ranked offense since the all star break, but it's the third ranked defense. They're gonna be tough to score on. And if the one of the things I'm worried about as a Spurs guy is the ability for these young guards to shoot, their threes. We've both been really positive about them as the season's gone on about getting better. But the playoffs have a way of making teams cool off.”

“I really believe in match count and I really believe in getting confidence and getting better. I feel like I get so much better when I'm playing matches. If it's at a 35K or if it's at a Grand Slam, you're improving so much when you play matches. I'd rather take a semis or final at a lower level event than a second round at a higher event.”

“I don't know what's going on with Katy Perry. I mean, Katy Perry, all these middle aged women cosplaying as 21 year old girls is is really kind of silly. It's really silly. How old is Katy Perry at this point? She's 40. I mean, Justin—Oh, yeah. 41. She's 41. And how old is is this ridiculous idiot over here? This doofus dressed like he's in seventh grade. He is 54 years old, and he's dressing like he is 17 years old.”

“Bitcoin cycle lows are projected for late 2026.”

“Individual skill has a ceiling, but team coordination is what actually breaks the throne.”

“I have five questions to try and narrow down this MVP race.”

“The team that wins the vision war around the pit usually wins the entire match.”

“We never keep our entire portfolio on an exchange.”

“Rafa could bully you with a heavy ball and still clear the net by four feet. So the net didn't even come into play. It would bounce just past the service line, and it's effective as if most people hit it four feet in front of the baseline. Right? So he didn't have to be perfect for it to be insanely heavy and effective. And so you feel that, and maybe you start playing that out over four or five hours, it's death.”

“Sinner takes him out seven six six three. He has been completely dominant since Doha, inning wells, Miami, Monte Carlo, three straight 1,000 titles. Backhand to backhand, no one can go can stay can hang with him. Not even Carlos right now. And Carlos kind of admitted that.”

“And if we measure this in daily candles, this candle, all the way until we finally put a lower low in, was seventy one days. Seventy one days we were in this bear flag formation, not including the pole. Well, let me go back to the old bear market. This was seventy one days... So essentially, the same amount of time.”

“We have two flags right here. There's the flag pennant, the bear flag pennant. Here's the bear flag. And we can go ahead and measure these. What do you know? A thirteen day formation and a thirteen day formation. And so I don't know if this is chartists that are watching these bear flags and, you know, maybe measuring, like, alright. I I expect a breakout around seventy days because we saw seventy days here.”

“And then basically midway through Indian Wells, the app stopped working and I have not heard from them. So this is where my information on what's going on is very limited. I don't know what happened, but I think it's safe to assume Bulkie is not going to be a thing. I hope everyone's okay over there. More likely than not, they probably just axed the project and they haven't been communicative with me.”

“Tatum in NYC was a rough watch for Celtics fans tonight.”

“Scoot Henderson is finally starting to show those flashes for Portland.”

“A new bipartisan bill seeks to create a regulatory framework for large-scale AI models.”

“I'm looking for the best possible first-round matchups right now.”

“Buying Midas in this current patch is essentially opting out of the most important early fights.”

“DMinore hit 10 winners, Vachero only two. But DMinore made 20 unforced errors in the rallies over nine shots, and Vashero only made six. So that gives you an idea of exactly who was trying to take initiative offensively as these rallies dragged on. And there are so many occasions in which Alex was the first one to take on extra risk because he had enough. And that was stunning to see because, generally, it is Demonor who's going to hang in rallies longer than his opponents.”

“Jack is gonna be stepping away. Of course, he's our guy. We're gonna try to bring him on from time to time, but his schedule, has just proven to be too difficult, to, to show up each and every time. And we discussed it, and that's that. But, you know, we love Jack.”

“I should have done it a long time ago. It's so much better and I don't have to talk to a barber. I don't have to listen to boring stories while they hold you hostage with a pair of scissors.”

“The way that the Saudi Investment Fund has gone about putting money into tennis is the opposite of what they did with live. I feel like this is a correction on strategy based on what they did with live. They are not going against the tours. Everyone's swimming the same direction and they're trying to provide resources to that direction. They are not overpaying for assets like a Masters 1000, it's not by a multiple of 47 like they were for live golfers.”

“The funny thing is this week, coincidentally, the ATP has launched its own fantasy tennis game. I was not a genius for the last three years thinking that this is something that should get done. And I've even reached out to other podcasts and I've been like, hey, can we do this together? Well, the ATP, they have made a move here. So for now, let's just do that. I have signed up. I have made a league. It's called Monday Match Analysis.”

“Fonseca didn't recognize the quality of his ball enough to anticipate his opponent dropping the next ball short. Right? So he he wasn't looking for the short ball. And then once he got the short ball, his feet weren't quick enough to get up to it. It's a two pronged issue, but I see this sometimes with Fonseca, and it really should never happen. You should never have to slice four hands after your opponent just played defense.”

“Checking the mini-map every five seconds is a mandatory habit for high-level map awareness.”

“Mine is just... You know, I don't like shaving. I only gain weight in two places. Stomach, and right here. And also I have a kind of a thin frame. So it's really not attractive. It's more laziness. I don't have to worry about it.”

“What really kinda revealed itself is the this overachieving Suns team. They just they have a talent deficit, and that's not a knock. Like, this was supposed to be kind of a transition rebuilding year to wash out the horrendous taste that was left in their mouths from what they tried last year. And it turned out that, like, chemistry matters. The secret that I learned from the book of basketball is that chemistry matters.”

“The Joel Embiid surgery news is just incredibly bizarre timing.”

“Residents across three states are being told to seek shelter as the storm front moves east.”

“I'm fine with Jalen Green taking 29 shots in a world where Devin Booker is hurt. But in a world where Devin Booker is fine, I wanted him to take... whoever wins that that nine, ten game in the West should feel pretty good about their opponent in Phoenix. It's a team that I thought the wrong guy took 29 shots.”