04-22-25 Romi Bean with KOA Sports

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
We have Rockies Baseball coming up here at five o'clock
because they are in Kansas City. Take it on the Royals,
but we are thrilled Toad ask the Kawai Common Spirit
Health high Line and bring on one of the best
to do it in Denver, the one and only Roamy
Bean with CBS for Roami. You are tremendous. We are
thrilled to have you on the show.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
How are you?

Speaker 3 (00:20):
Ah, guys? Uh, what an honor and the feeling is
very mutual. I'm honored to be on with you guys,
so thank you for having me.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Absolutely well.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
So we talked about at the very beginning of the
show a little bit of the saltiness we feel after
staying up super late last night to watch our beloved
Nuggets and Avalanche lose in the postseason. I am not
so worried about the Avalanche, but I do think some
of the Cracks are showing a bit with the Nuggets.
Where do you sit with both those teams in their
respective series?

Speaker 3 (00:48):
Yeah, I got to agree with you. The Abs, I
mean they look like a wagon to me, and the
biggest thing with them is the depth. You see guys
like Logan O'Connor with four points in two games, Charlie Coyle,
all these guys stepping up. That's how they won the Cup,
you know, first time around. Besides of course the superstars
and Mackenzie Blackwood has just been sensational. It's still crazy

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to me that this is his first ever playoff series.
If the ABS signed this guy and basically said we
want you to, you know, take us to a cup,
never him having played in the playoffs and clearly showing
the foresight that they saw something. He's been amazing and
you know, a good goalie can win you a cup.
So I still feel great about the ADS. I think

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that's just going to be, you know, a bloodbath kind
of a series. I never expected it to be super easy,
so I'm really I'm not overly concerned with the Avs,
especially then of course you got the impending Landy coming
back as well. Now that I think it's different, this
is this is a tough series, really interesting. I had
Dan Sole on my show yesterday and I asked him
his perspective of Game two and he said, in his opinion,

(01:53):
he felt like Game two was the most important one
to win. You know, obviously you can take that for
what it is, but in terms of heading out to La,
he felt like having a two nothing lead was really crucial.
And I think when you look at Kawhi, I don't
know if it's sustainable. I don't know if we're gonna
see that kind of a performance from Kawhi every night.
But to do what he did with basically three hands

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in his face every single shot, you got him. You know,
James Harden a little bit more inconsistent, But the Clippers
are a really good team, and they're a solid shooting team.
There's a lot of other guys that have been really
stepping up. A guy like Bat I'm just trusting that
that's a guy that I think could, you know, be
a thorn in the side. And you mentioned I think
the biggest concern with the Nuggets is gonna be consistency.

(02:38):
You know, obviously, turnovers are the death of you in
any sport. If Clippers had twenty in the first game
they lost, don't gets had twenty in the second game
they lost. So I'm not out on the Nuggets, but
I do agree I think this is gonna be a really,
really tough series, and I think you're gonna have to
consistently get more. We did see more from Michael Porter Junior.
We need even more from Michael Porter Junior. Going forward.
Everyone's gonna have to be on because they are going

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to keep doubling and tripling Yokic, and I think they
feel confident that the Nuggets are not always going to,
you know, be able to make those buckets. So it's
going to come down to the defense taking care of
the ball, but also can you make your shots? Can
you make the most of the opportunities playing Yokic the
entire second half, I don't love it. It's not ideal, right,

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So I think you're you're you're spot on there. We're
seeing some cracks, But that all being said, still think
I'm not out on them. I still think they could
win the series.

Speaker 4 (03:33):
Romieh When I look at the game of hockey, it's
always been traditionally a sport where you see a lot
of movement, where guys are getting traded, they're walking down
to the next locker room and you know, welcome to
the new team and get to run in the face
off against their old team. Look at the Abs, particularly
doing what kind of the Lakers have been trying to
do the last couple of years, where you see this

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kind of complete overhaul of their team in the middle
of the season, and it's working in the favor of
the ABS right now, playing really, really well. You talked
about Blackwood and just standing on his head even though
last night to as take a loss. I think that
he's going to be great for this team for years
to come and go out and get him to get
his backup. But the movement that we saw the Abs

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do this year, do you think we're going to see
that become a little bit more common in the NHL
where there's a lot of guys just playing for a
team during the season, and I'm kind of you tighten
it down as you go on and you solidify some spots,
but just a lot of Hey, we're going to trade
for this guy, We're going to move this guy, We're
going to go in this direction to kind of shore
up all of our lines. Is that the new ANNHL?

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In your opinion?

Speaker 3 (04:36):
You know, I think he has to. No, I know,
And the reason I say no is because the NHL
salary cap is BEDLM as salary cap in sports it's
so tight. You guys have such little movement that it
just doesn't necessarily allow them. I think what the Abs
did in this salary cap, with the salary cap is incredible,
the moves that they were able to make. And of

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course the Miko Ranton in trade, which one had happened.
I was among the men that were like, what on
earth is happening. You don't often have the opportunity where
you can offload a superstar like that and then bring
in such a hal So I do think it's a
little bit of a rare situation. Normally you can bring
in a couple pieces. But at the same token, this

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does seem to be the recipe because if you go
back to the year when they won the Cup, it
did a very similar thing, and they brought in really
really key guys around the deadline, you know, even a
guy like ar torri Lekin, and they brought in really
key pieces. They added a lot of key depths. But
then you looked at kind of the next year and
they were strapped with the salary cap, and then of
course there was all sorts of situational things with Val

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and with Gabe, but they were they couldn't make those
same moves really until kind of this year. So I
think it's salary cap dependent. I think it's situational, and
I think this Mico rand In trade was so unusual
to see a guy like that get moved at that point.
But look what the ads have done with it. All
you can do is give the front office an A plus.
They completely nailed it.

Speaker 1 (06:00):
Romy Bean joining us here, last couple questions for you, Romie,
I want to ask you about CEU. Obviously you've been
covering this team for quite some time. Boy, what a
weekend for see with the Spring game retiring the numbers.
I'm sure that was quite the scene. I thought it
was interesting after though, with coach Prime, I guess rating
maybe you fit strong but frustrated by the turnout for
CU fans there at the Spring Game.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
What do you sort of attribute to that?

Speaker 1 (06:24):
Do you think that's maybe telling of some of the
expectations this upcoming year.

Speaker 3 (06:28):
Yeah, I mean I think that that speaks to the
star power of Shador Sanders and Travis Hunter, and even
if these guys that I think fans got to know
over the past couple of years, you know, the Jimmy
Horns and Lejohntay Westerns, the Cam Sulman, Craig. It was
really this group that kind of defined this era, So
the Starpower, obviously the two big guys, but so many

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other guys that weren't on the field. This feels like
a really different or really new team, and I think
people are there's just a little less star power around
it right now. People are a little curious, a little
hesitant to maybe buy in with the quarterback situation, and
so I think it's going to be What it does
give is these kids an opportunity to really step up,

(07:11):
because of course they're still going to have that big
platform around Coach Prime, and some new superstars might be
born very early into next season. But I think the
hype right now has to almost be rebuilt back up
without these guys and without a generational Heisman winner in
Travis Hunter, and obviously having the Jersey retirement, which we
created a lot of conversation one way or another. But

(07:34):
you brought a little of that star power back and
I think that probably did help boost ticket sales a
little more. I think they were a little bit low.
So it's going to be interesting to see how does
that unfold during the season and who's going to kind
of emerge as some new superstars potentially, you know, early
in the season.

Speaker 2 (07:51):
So, Romie, where.

Speaker 4 (07:52):
Do you stand with the retiring of the jerseys? I mean,
is it validated now because of that star power and
the turnout that we've seen the last couple year and
just kind of all the things that you're saying about
Shadora and Travis on Earn and what they brought to
see you the last couple of years they've been here.

Speaker 3 (08:08):
You know, I think that there's a lot of different
ways that you can look at it. Obviously the timing
that not waiting. But for me as a CU alum,
and I know some people might disagree with this, but
I put this on CEU. People are upset that the
on figures number two wasn't retired. Whose fault of that?
Why was the on figure's number not retired? Why was
it available you know for Shador at that point? Why

(08:30):
is Alfred Williams not on there? I think that to me,
this is a fault of the university and with the alumni.
I'm happy to say that I feel like this was
one of those there's a lot of pieces you can argue,
and I think the timing, of course, and the not
of a wait, not waiting period is something to be said.
But even you look at how long they waited for
Rashon Zalam and you and you know, unfortunately so many

(08:51):
years after his heisman and after his death. And I
think that to me, that's on the university. It's that
these guys that aren't in that are rightfully frustrated they
should have been in, And that's on the school that
they never put them in in the first place. And
what I hope this does is to set the precedent
that let's not continue this. Let's make sure that these

(09:12):
guys from the past are getting honored and we're not
waiting decades. So, you know, everybody has a different opinion,
but honestly, that's kind of where I fall on.

Speaker 2 (09:19):
Romy. You're the best. Appreciate the time as always, Thank.

Speaker 3 (09:22):
You, Thanks Romy, I appreciate you. Guys. We'll see at
the draft.

Speaker 2 (09:25):
It sounds good. Roll me underscore being on Twitter