Okay, three, two, one, oh my goodness, good morning, good morning, good afternoon, whatever it is for you, I hope you're having a fantastic game. My name is Zach Schmler. This is strong opinion sports.

Thank you so very much for tuning in today. I might not put the music in the

intro today. It doesn't feel right. I don't know. I'll tell you why in a minute.

If there's no music, don't be shocked. It's okay. I got a I think I want to start with today

But here's where I want to go today to begin the show

Kyrie Irving had a rant the other day and the gist of what Kyry Irving said.

I'm not going to read it. It was literally like, I don't know, like five paragraphs.

It's way too long for me to read on the podcast. But the gist of what Kyrie Irving said was he had a long rant where he basically said sports don't matter.

And I think honestly he had a solid point in one sense where you can argue okay guys hitting

home runs and you know scoring touchdowns and hitting three pointers in the scheme of

things it doesn't matter. Fair enough.

You know, Eric Spols for the head coach of the Miami Heat the other day

missed the game because one of his children was being born.

Like yeah, that's a real life situation that is far more important than sports.

But here's where I totally disagree with Kyrie Irving. Yes, they are they are kind

of mundane and now they're not mundane sports are kind of irrelevant in

the scheme of things they're not as important as other real world topics sure but

to me they're everything to me sports are such a big important part of my life.

They matter so much to me. You know I'm having a really hard time in my personal life.

I haven't talked about it. I've been very quiet. It's I'm just I'm just

struggling personally just behind the scenes. Then I encourage you if you're

struggling please go get help. I talk about it all the time. But I want to share

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