Welcome to Extra Points.

Now here's your host, Cousin Sal, and his pal, Dave Damasek.

All right, welcome to the Extra Points podcast.

Cousin Sal coming to you with my good, good pal, Dave Damashik,

and Hill producer Jim C conningham jim

you're here too right i am here there he is what happened dave what a start to the week listen

what is jim down in the dumps about no he's excited the happiest i ever. What are you talking about? I think he's very happy to be here. That's a way. That's on record. That's the happiest Jim's voice can sound. It's the best we're going to get. What are you going to do? Best we're going to get, though, this weekend without football being played, I think. Lots of great

action, hockey, basketball, playoffs revving up right now. Oh, my kids' little league team. The,

the Pinto Padres out here. They're in the semifinals. Craziness, it's very serious, Dave. Even the

seven-year-olds with the fathers and everything. Oh, my God. Very, very serious stuff.

I will say this. I decided to, and this is not a political thing, I'm done with the mask outside.

It was a progression from Friday to Sunday, and I did it. Like Friday, I had it on outside. I'm

yelling at the kids. Saturday, I had it below my chin, but still over my ears. And then Sunday, I'm like, you know what? This is my finish line. I'm sorry. I don't want to get political. I'm not going to be Ricky Schroeder. I'm not going to be screaming at Costco employees. I was just going to say you can ride his mini train through the mansion that he used to enjoy. Yeah, I you're, that's, you're supposed to do that now, right?

Outside.

Even I think so.

Everyone's afraid of how, I think people wearing them are just afraid of how it's going to look.

Like they're, oh, I'm, uh, you might get, you might get shouted down by a 80s child actor. If you're outside with it. Yeah, something like that. Confront that reality. So yeah. All right, good for you. Could be him. Could be punky Brewster. But let's talk. Hockey, Dave. Game one. Headlines. Let's do it. Let's get right into it. Your penguins.-ish islanders. Obviously, I was a big fan in the early

mid-80s and 90s and I moved away and that was kind of the team I left behind, but still like

watching him. Big overtime game. I'm mad at myself, by the way. Let me just first say,

I'm mad at myself for my betting or lack of betting this week. I know that the underdogs and the road teams win in the NHL in round one. I know it. And what was it? Three out of four in the playoffs? Yep. Well, that just you understand. It's a best of seven, though, South. So don't get crazy just yet. I'm not going to get crazy, but I feel like people got crazy with the foregone conclusion that the Bruins and Penguins were going to advance. And it's like, no, no, no. There's a lot of hockey to be played.

A. I'm not going to get crazy, but I feel like people got crazy with the foregone conclusion that the Bruins and Penguins were going to advance. And it's like, no, no, no. There's a lot of hockey to be played, A, and B, it never turns out like it's supposed to in the NHS. I know. Well, you're pointing, you're pointing at me when you're like, people got what you're saying is Dave got. I listen. I assume nothing. I made I made hypothesis, Sal, and I have to say

a few things.

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