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5/13 Episode of Poor Man’s PTI: Hockey rules

RJ Warner guests hosts in Ryan’s stead. It’s a short show as we talk NHL playoffs, NBA playoffs, and why hockey is so hard to understand for noobs.

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This week’s topics include:

  • NHL Playoffs
  • Penguins go down without a fight
  • Flyers might make history
  • Vin predicts Boston will close out Cleveland (finally got one right!)

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June 4 2009 episode of Poor Man’s PTI

We’re making predictions on the NBA Finals and talking a lot of basketball. You can download this week’s podcast directly (running time 90 mins) or subscribe to the feed.

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This week’s topics include:

  • Rooting for Kobe?
  • Was LeBron a sore loser? (Show me a good loser and I’ll show you a loser – Vince Lombardi)
  • Will there be another 300 game winner after Randy Johnson?
  • The Mike Tyson Movie clip / the prison guy from In Living Colour
  • Cleveland completely hosed by SI Cover Jinx
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May 21 2009 episode of Poor Man’s PTI

NBA and NHL conference finals are underway but we manage to spend 40 minutes figuring out which team Michael Vick might end up on. You can download this week’s podcast directly (running time 90 mins) or subscribe to the feed.

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This week’s topics include:

  • Recapping the Boston/Orlando series
  • NBA conference championships
  • Rooting interests and fan violations
  • Preakness
  • Michael Vick’s future team:  we examine the possibilities of all 32 NFL teams

This week’s trivia question is:  Who is the only Major Leaguer to have three 100+RBI seasons three years in a row with three different teams.   The answer after the jump.

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Cleveland Cavaliers

Make it a series- Mike!

For Mike Brown and the Cleveland Cavaliers, there are two ways to look at the reality of being down 2-0 in the NBA Finals to the San Antonio Spurs: they pack their tails between their legs and run away, or they make adjustments and take the fight to the Spurs.

For the fans of the NBA, and fans of quality basketball for that matter, we pray it’s the latter.

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NBA General

Lebron Jordan

Now that the world is back to spinning on it’s axis and Lebron James is slowly coming down off his high from getting to the Finals, we can clarify some things. First and foremost, Lebron James is STILL not Michael Jordan. He’s not even Kobe Bryant. Granted, what he did against Detroit and throughout the playoffs was unbelievable, and downright special, but it wasn’t Michael. It was, well, what we expected. You cannot bring this much hype to the table as the so-called “face of the NBA” and not win some playoffs series or get to the final series. And yes, Kevin Garnett, that means up until now your career and all of it’s accomplishments mean nothing. But really, to take that next step, Lebron needs to win the whole thing. Not next year. Not in three years. This year. The difference between Jordan or Kobe and James? Not that James has never won a title, more, the other two guys never lost one.

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Extensive NBA Playoff Preview

By David J. Cohen

It’s time for the NBA playoffs. This year is especially good, with storylines all over the place. I can’t remember a playoff year in the NBA with so much intrigue in the opening round.

Here’s how the Eastern Conference should play out.

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