What's up, everybody? It's me. It's me. I'm kicking the show off. Put the camera on me. It's always about Brandon. Today, it's about me.

What's up, everybody? Ashley Nicole Moss here, Brandon Marshall Quarryhomes, as you can see where we're trying that we're rocking and wrong. That's what happens when you have me start the show. You see that?

No, it wasn't you. It wasn't you. I was going to take the blame for the squad, though. I was going to take the blame for this.

It is Tuesday, happy Tuesday, unless you are a Golden State Warrior fan or a New York Mix fan, then it's not a happy Tuesday.

This is paper out and if you're listening on Series XM, faction talk 103. Hello, happy Tuesday to you as well. We have a lot to get into. I'm going to try to power through the show today. I know these two can't wait to give me a heart.

Specifically, Corey, but I'm okay. I'm from New York City. I was built for this. I've been through tough for times. Let me ask you a real question. Does it really matter?

What really matter? Because you're saying you're going to power through the show. Tough times. You're referring to the Nick's losing, going down through the walkers.

The Nicker blockers. Okay, so I mean, you guys have been through this year after year after year. I mean, this is actually a win for you guys to be in a postseason.

So does it really matter? 100% it matters what a kind of ridiculous question is that?

Because I just feel like there's some fan basis that their expectations are so low, the standard is so low. And I just feel like the Nick's, she's hot.

I'm listening. No, I'm just saying like, for example, if you're a Lakers, if you're a Lakers fan, if you are a Celtics fan, if you are even a heat fan, right?

You know, they had some phenomenal years. There's certain team warriors. There's teams out there where their fan base is like, no, the expectation is for us to win.

You can do the same thing in football. You have the Patriots, right? You have, who else is out there? That's really good. I mean, you get those Philly, the Kansas City Chiefs are out there.

So those fan bases like, yo, we're supposed to be in a playoffs. We're supposed to win championships. And then there's teams out there like the Nick's. And then there's teams out there like the Browns.

And it's like, yo, if we make it to the playoffs, great job. That's what I'm asking. You know, that's the only thing you guys don't expect to be here.

So why are you guys taking this so hard? I think the expectations for this team is our lower from outsiders than it is from New York, Nick's fans.

Nick's fans are and we'll dive into it a little bit more. But I mean, we're a basketball city. We don't have football in New York like that. We don't have baseball.

We don't have a lot of other sports basketballs, everything. So the Nick's being, you know, subpar below subpar, whether they're really good.

That doesn't change what we expect from them. We want from them. We want a winning team. Now, are we always the most rational? No.

Sometimes we think that a team may be more equipped to go further than what they are. But if you're asking if does it matter, 100%.

The reason why is because in your lifetime, you've never, have you seen them win a championship? No, but I've seen them in playoffs series.

I mean, I was the Carmelo Anthony era. I mean, I've seen them be better teams than, than I've also, I've seen them be both really good teams and really bad teams.

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