Hey there, it's Gary Parrish, Thursday June, the second is the I on College Bad

Come on, podcast, I got Matt Norlander with me, got Sam Pasini with me, first thing, first

Congrats, Sam on the pink one's victory last time.

I actually watched this 2-1 in OT, they're now up 2-0, now 5-25 on the money line to when

they're 4-Stanley Cup and first since 2009, I think that's the most I've ever said about

hockey in my life.

Are the pink ones your favorite professional sports franchise?

Have we ever talked about that?

No, we haven't talked about it, I would say they definitely are my favorite professional

sports franchise.

I kind of always have been, I would say, growing up in Pittsburgh, I never really got

into the Steelers because I never really, like I'm fine with football, I'm just kind of

agnostic toward it and then basketball, there's obviously not an NBA team in Pittsburgh,

so I kind of picked up the calves during my youth and then just kind of was trying to

float around and find a team during college and then the pirates were terrible throughout

my entire childhood.

I mean they went through a stretch of 20 straight losing seasons from the time I was 2 until

the time I was 22.

So it was definitely the penguins that were the team I paid most attention to and yeah,

I love hockey, I always have, if writing about basketball doesn't work out, I would love

to go and try and follow an NHL team for a year, that could be pretty fun.

It is, it is interesting because I went through this last fall with my favorite professional

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