you thought Alexiak, Shen, and Gallagher were going to be good, I don't know what to tell you, brother.

Yeah, that's exactly right.

To me, it's like...

I think of kind of the big example of this in recent memory is Chicago drafts Bedard, and they go, oh shit, we can't have a bunch of bums around a guy that...

You know, people act like this didn't happen, but there was legitimate, like, could he be on McDavid's level talk when he got drafted? And people are like, that actually, nobody said that.

Okay, man, sure.

But they got scared into it.

And to what you said earlier, Ryan, about how McKinnon elevated his game once McCarr came around, isn't Kaprizov on pace for like 130 points this year?

Yeah, Ryan, when you look at this deal, the moves for both teams, you know, kind of how do you expect things to play out from the nice side of it? But also kind of looking at the Blue Jackets as a whole, what where where is this club? What are the expectations are going out and getting a player like nice? What are we expecting from the Blue Jackets this season?

Yeah, I mean, he's a very good player.

I don't know if he's quite the quality of player Marchenko is, but he'll get more opportunity to be a producing player in Columbus than he was going to in Toronto.

So, like, if you're comparing goals and assists versus goals and assists, probably Nyes is going to come out ahead at least this year, in all likelihood, just because they can give him more reps.

He can be way more of a central part of that offense than he would have been, again, in Toronto.

Like, is Columbus good this year? No, I don't think so.

I mean, right? Like, realistically, they got a great season out of Jack Reeves last year and a Norris season out of Zach Wierenski, and they didn't make the playoffs.

So with Babcock coming in, is there still just this kind of waiting period for whatever he is trying to instill amongst this group to take hold? What do you think of the start to his tenure?

And I think maybe that's quite possibly one of the greatest jobs of all time.

Sometimes I would come in because there was this girl that worked there.

and her name was trigger i cannot tell you amazing crush i had on this girl you would have i mean she was just straight up madonna just like but like with green hair because this was like full 80s and she was just like super punk rock and she smoked and i was like that that's like my wife or whatever and i'm like a little boy there's a little dork like all right This is such a movie though.

She wouldn't really do anything.

She wouldn't work.

You know, she would just kind of sit around and like do nothing, went and talked to her friend.

And so when I used to come in, it was, the movies were just stacked in the back just step not put back on the shelf yet so i would sit in the back and i would categorize them and then i would carry them you know out into the okay so that was kind of my job and then if when it was done there really wasn't much for me to do because as they came in i would just put them back so right but I never got to run the cash register, but I did, after everything, when everything was said and done, Monster Squad and everything, and I decided to maybe take a break from that, I lived with my friend, Adam Carl, who was also in Monster Squad, and he and I kind of worked at a video store.

Times Square.

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Um, yeah.

And, and so it's like there's just nothing that could convince me that that...

And, and that just takes a lot of the, you know, Kenny, the, the end of Kenny matches is usually there's a, there's a few close falls and that kind of thing.

And when you're watching that in a match like this, it's just like, all right, let's just get to the firework factor here, guys.

Let's do the death riders thing that we're gonna do, that we all know is gonna happen, and let's just get outta here, you know? And, uh, and so I, I think that was just working against the, the, the whole concept of the match, quite frankly.

Yeah.

And, and so, like, that's...

Is there a pairing in here or something for us to get pumped for on Sunday beyond thinking, well, this will probably be exciting?

Yeah, I mean, they're kind of doing the Fletcher, Takeshita, Okada dynamic in there.

So that involves three of the 12 guys.

You got the Andrade, MJF, whatever that's going to be that feels like it's a future world title shot that's been promised.

And then, you know, the other guys are on that team as well.

And then, whatever.

I mean...

care.

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So both these guys can put on another 80, 90 pounds, start throwing each other around like Gary Albright, we're gonna be in good shape.

But like, yeah, to, to me, you know, like, I, I...

That, like Dan said, th- this is exactly why you watch AEW.

It's, there's no sameness match to match on, on any, on any given card.

And, you know, these are two guys you trust to do kind of more technical stuff.

But to your point earlier, and I think you can tie this into like when, when, uh, Bryan Danielson and Zack Sabre Jr. had their little series where, uh, Danielson, I think, won it with a kick at the end.

A ton of anti-aerial offense.