What is up everybody and sportsman like conda gab brie another week of sports We're getting close to no week with basketball very soon very soon very soon because potentially sooner for some than others But you know, hey, it could be better It definitely it definitely couldn't be worse. I'll tell you that one. No, it could not be worse. No No, it couldn't be but you know So that happens when everybody just brain farts all over each other and Let's it's not been a it's not been a great conference finals. I'll say that no pretty pretty underwhelming Yeah, the West wrap up in literally six days Which is I'm sorry. I'm sorry that I just made that face. It wasn't towards you No, it's um Josh Bell. We'll just get this one out of the way real quick went to slide home Didn't even make it. He didn't even make it. He didn't even make it to the plate That's all I gotta say. That's how everybody's week is going. I feel yeah. Yeah, we're having a we're having a week over here we have I came for Celtics heat in about an hour and a half and Let's just let's I don't even know where to start with This series with this team any of it I'm just like The vibes are bad. The vibes are so bad. I said before like I don't even want Part of me doesn't even want to watch this game tonight Yeah, but like we are like sick in the head that we have to watch it complete psychos like yeah Bring you good. No, I'm not I'm not good Thanks for asking Not doing well, um, but let's just I mean let's just dive right into it because I have a lot of opinions on What's going wrong with the Celtics and I want to start out with I Like I guess the most popular Take that I've seen especially, you know through Celtics Twitter and stuff and that is Joe Missoula not being a good coach. Okay, but isn't that every take of every series so far this playoff? Like every single every single round we got to get rid of the coach the coach sucks the coach can't do this It's the coach. It's the coach. How many coaches have been fired so far. We're on our way for another So here's my thing is I am not Defending Joe Missoula when I say any of this stuff because I do think he is in over his head But we also need to remember he's a first-year head coach that kind of just got thrown into this at the very last minute because in a messy situation You know who couldn't Couldn't keep it together and follow the rules basically is the most I guess politically correct way to put that um So like Missoula has he's got his own faults and I'm not gonna sit here and Completely absolve him of any responsibility whatsoever Just want to get the out of the way first but The I've never seen a fan base harp on the lack of calling timeouts more than the Celtics in this I will not even necessarily this series this series has been like kind of the biggest but throughout these playoffs as a whole because it was a thing In the six or series it started to be a thing in the hawk series like I don't understand what You guys want him to do when the guys that are on the court the professional athletes the basketball superstars that are on the court Have completely completely forgotten What has got them to this point right like what about the lack of shot making Joe Missoula is not out here missing. He's not out here shooting 25 percent from the field He's not out here having 17 turnovers a game.   That's I mean like There's really nothing you can do about that But you're also going against one of the best coaches of recent memory in eric's bolstera I mean You saw what happened to the number one seed milwaukee bucks Rip to shreds and I mean, I don't think budan holzer was completely at fault for that It's just like it's At some point we have to look at the guys that are actually playing the game and give them Some shit for what they're Like not doing Jason tato had 51 points a week ago Then what and then it's been downhill and I said last week.  That's awesome. That's incredible for probably my favorite player in the league Love it for him But if it's not consistent, it doesn't even need to be 51 points every night But if you are not consistently coming out and proving that you were the best player on the court and you deserve that title I don't know. I can't I can't defend that But I also can't let the coach take the fall for the inconsistency all around I love al-harford and I defended him when That reporter during the philly series kind of like laughed at him when he called himself an elite shooter And then he went out that night And proved he can be an elite shooter. What's he done since then? literally Maybe 20 from three Okay, if we're talking about the whole team is marcus smarts out here If we're talking about I'm so frustrated. I want to know your opinion on the quotes That are coming out from the players because like okay, hear me out. You are down. How many games? Oh three. You haven't won a single one. Don't let us get one. What do you mean? You have three chances already You had three chances and I really like marcus. I don't know if they're you know, I like marcus smart But like that was Just say that you're that you need to win this game. Don't say don't let us get one Don't act cocky when your team has been ripped. I don't know. I jimmy butler. I don't know if they're trying to like I don't know if they're trying to channel like the o4 socks or something like that Like if that's it like okay, take a little inspiration from one of the best comebacks in sports history Like whatever. I don't know. Maybe I'm kind of in the same boat. I'm kind of in the same boat as you like That's not what I want to hear right now. I don't want to hear this like False cockiness. I guess we're like, oh don't let us win one because you never know what's gonna happen Like yeah, like I've seen that happen with that red sox team But this is like This is not good. This is not good And I Like I said part of me just really doesn't want to watch this game because If it's gonna be how it was Sunday night where they just completely get blown out of the water barely score 100 points with you know, the starters on the court and everything like I don't know man.  Probably not Well, they've probably given them a bigger chance than they gave the heat to even win the series is a 3% Still they're probably at like 5% to come back to this ESPN analytics can just go straight to how whoever whoever has been coming up with these statistics for chances to win The series and then even after going down a game two games like come on Come on. Well, if you want something positive for your day Something good for your day. Sure. Do you know who hit a home run? Who hit a home run? One of your guys. Who? Mr. Paul Goldschmidt out the park. That's a home run park by the great american. That thing is a launch pad Love that. Okay. So that's one. Deverges has the late game. Alonzo was playing the cards Wow Peter Alonzo has been on it. Absolutely. He has been I'm kind of mad at him. So Hope he doesn't hit a home run, but maybe that will change your night round. Yeah, that'd be cool. Yeah, that'd be pretty cool And then let me just answer this question and then we can kind of move on from Well, I have another Celtics thing. So you can just keep going. Okay. So let me answer this one first Should Jalen Brown be traded? I have a great question Would you like to revisit my trade? No, okay I'm struggling with this question though because normally hard no hard no But the way This series has been going if you want to keep Jalen and Jason together It's gonna be about 613 million dollars combined Jalen Brown has not played in this series worth the money that he's supposed to get in a super max deal. He just simply hasn't So he's still gonna get it I don't know if it's gonna be from the Celtics. I don't think it's gonna be from the Celtics now right thing he's gonna get money and Truthfully, I don't even think he wants it to be from the Celtics And I don't necessarily blame him but Like you he's always been the guy that's been tagged With the trade rumors. He's always been the guy where You talk about Jalen and Jason and he's like the odd man out He's always the one that they'd be well or fans would be willing to part with overtake him And I don't necessarily agree with that but I think As a as a as a duo, they're more valuable than the sum of their parts And I'm not going to be happy if they get broken up Whether that's a team decision or Jalen's decision But what I will say And thank you For this comment right here because this has been driving me crazy all day long to the point where I told our producer rob before the show I'm going to Italy this summer and throwing my phone in the ocean If this is going to be the talk for the entire off season Jalen brown for damien lillard. Don't worry. LeBron already set the tone for the off season. So that might be number two I don't Want to talk about Jalen brown for damien lillard because that makes absolutely no sense He's seven years older Costs more money Or maybe not if jalen gets the deal But right now you don't need that's not That's not the solution Yeah, I don't think it is either but I mean I I like dame. I love dame. Don't get me wrong I love him. He's one of my favorite players in the league behind probably fricking jimmy butler, but like That's not the answer. That's not the solution to the problem and neither is neither is Firing joe mazula and having a fourth coach in four years Well, because how many coaches can we fire? How many places are going to be swapped if it doesn't what difference is they're going to make anywhere? If it doesn't work for one year, you just want to immediately fire them Like that's not how that's not how it works And all things considered like I said joe mazula has his faults But all things considered for a first year head coach taking a team to an easter conference finals Granted is a talented team. It's pretty much The same team from last year plus the addition of malcolm brogdon. So like should have happened Still not easy still not easy to do so like I said What are four coaches in four years? Is not something that you are going to succeed with it's not something that your Superstar player is going to be happy about it's it's a mess And again, if we continue on a mess, did you see this quote one more thing and then we can go The email the email you doka thing.  Let's not forget where the Celtics were january of last season under email doka They weren't even in the playoffs. They went on an incredible tear and They made it to the finals lost three in a row in the finals So email wasn't perfect And then as we soon find out he certainly was not perfect because Could have ran it back this year if he used his head followed the rules, but he did it.  You lose your job plan and simple So We need to stop the email doka talk Everybody because that's it's it's a moot point It is I mean there's nothing that can be said that hasn't already been said and there's nothing that can be said that's going to change Anything so get over it. Okay. That's it. Sorry But I mean there's no need for apologies. I completely understand how you're feeling right now I mean, I mean my team was just doing this about a month ago and I wanted to have a mental breakdown too, but There's a quote that was posted on Twitter today via fandal tv actually and Here's what we said The Celtics team feels like a group that's tired of fake liking each other And now I kind of agree with that But at the same time you don't have to like the people that you're around you just need to make it work You don't need to be friends. They don't have to be friends. No They're co-workers but also Uh, and this has I haven't said anything on twitter today about it because I wanted to save it specifically for this It's interesting how all of this stuff is coming out When they're down three games in the eastern alliance finals Where was this last series about how they're still not over the email doka firing? Or they don't like each other When they're when they're winning when they're winning series when they're up a game or two How come right now? We're talking about this. It just seems like Like just strategically I don't know like I just I don't like who wants out Is the question from that if anybody a truth truthfully if anybody walks out is jaylon brown, but that's not anything new I don't think he thinks he can go off and be a star. He thinks he can go up and do it alone I've seen this episode before you go do that and guess what happened. You need somebody else there with you. Yeah, right This okay. This is perfect. They have no heart and Like you can see that when they play they're crying for calls and stuff Just put your head down and play ball. You're down by 12 points.  I when I saw The start of the second quarter in that lakers game yesterday tristan thompson in the game I said what the hell year is good? And he played pretty well fine better than anthony davis basically so I just like It's I don't know what it's gonna take Tonight to extend the series. I really don't I don't know if that if it means that mazula has got to extend the bench And maybe give pritchard some meaningful minutes get sam hauser in the game. I don't know what it is but On top of everything else the crying for the calls the mark is smart You know drawing with the refs and getting technicals that don't need to be taken Grant williams poking the bear like We need to have we need to have a conval about grant we need to have a conval about grant we do Out of all the people on the team that should be talking shit and doing what he's doing You're damn near the bottom grant. Oh, yeah.  Are you kidding? You saw what happened when he chirped donovan mitral at the free for a line with uh Zero seconds left in the game. I I was at the game. I was walking out I was almost out of the arena and they said everybody go back in he missed both of them And now he's gonna do it again in the playoffs When you're going into a year where you need to play well and get paid After you were gonna get you were gonna get a lot of money Yeah, you ruined that for yourself after a season where you really really kind of fell off The expectations that were there from you based on last playoffs carried over a little bit into the season and then This like I okay, so I agree with that's great is the only one showing her But maybe a little too much a little too much I don't even know if it's a little too much or if it's just completely missed nonsense Like it's fine.   It wasn't but like Maybe that was something that he should have you know considered All he was on the bench like all right. I'm gonna start. I'm gonna start drawing with somebody Let's see if I can get you know the juices flowing with my guys and stuff He's like he's really had a rough year max drus.    Oh when you beat like he's giving Dylan Brooks a run right now Did we did we not learn just from the free throw thing?  Please leave. No, no, no, no, no, no, let's not get out The Dean the Dean Whitley thing I can at least Entertain for a second that I can't I can't if you guys if you guys weren't here last time I proposed a trade and no one seems to want to go with it except for myself I offered Donovan Mitchell and Jared Allen for Jaylen Brown Marcus smart and Malcolm Brogdon I think it's a fair trade But I guess no one else wants to No one else wants to back me up with that one. Okay, Bree. I have I have a question for you I've been waiting to ask you this question. I think I already know what your answer is going to be But I just want to get your opinion on this. So Would you give up one of Tom Brady's Super Bowls any of them? You can be even the one against Patrick Holmes, but still it's Patrick Holmes. Okay For a Bruins Red Sox Celtics ring All one year all in the same year all in the same year I don't I can't tell you patriots make the playoffs when they win the division, but I can't say they win the Super Bowl or not Would you give up one of Tom Brady's Super Bowls? I'd give up the Bucks one. You would let Patrick Holmes have that? Yeah Yeah, because Brady I mean Brady would still have six And it would all be with the Pats. So and I mean it doesn't really bother me So you Bucks on the Bucks one was fun. I celebrated the Bucks one Okay, what if it was what if it was only Patriots options? Oh Probably the Rams the the second Rams would give one up one I might Yeah, probably because you give that one up. You still have five You know fair enough I then for three championships in the same year like that's That's awesome so If I had to like life or death question if I had to do it I'd even though I was at this one and it's like a core memory for me Like I would give up that last Rams one. It was a boring game You could ask browns fans Like I guaranteed there's some browns fans that are so psychotic about football that they would give away LeBron James championship for one brown Super Bowl I'm serious Yeah, I don't know football is just a different level for something Yeah, it's a little different though It's a little different for Like I mean the pats got to sound I mean I might have sound like a I mean you guys have a hole right now, but you have so many You guys won games. So I mean Um, if the Panthers won it all are we gonna celebrate with them? I'm assuming you were talking hockey Here, let me just let you clarify before I answer that question. I'm a trophy over here. Yeah I'm I'm hope I'm hoping you're talking hockey um If that's the case if you are talking hockey, I I don't necessarily think I'd celebrate But I I wouldn't be mad I wouldn't be mad at least I I know I can take a little bit of solace in knowing that my team got beat by the Stanley Cup champs And they also knocked off two of my least favorite teams in the process so Yeah, I'd be cool with it. I don't care Now if it was carolina, uh, no Sorry Um I I am like growing on mac jones right now. Oh, sorry guys. My voice is like on growing on Mac jones the swift thing the swift yeah, he's a taylor swift stan. Um, yeah the videos were cool I like taylor swift. He was at the concert I commented on it from vandals tiktok and he replied so i'm fan very till he starts Um stinking it up. So he's totally just starts playing football. Yeah till he actually has to do his job Yeah, yeah Well, we'll see we'll see how that one goes. I am and not I'm not in the mental headspace to talk about the patriots right now I simply can't We who knows how that one's gonna go. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah I saw oh my god. I saw one of these, uh like no-name football accounts that like a bajillion people follow and they put out their, uh predictions for like divisions and stuff and how How it all finished and stuff and they had the paths in a second It was dolphin's paths bill's jets. I said what the fuck? What are you smoking? Hey, I want some of it I just I don't know I love the optimism But that kind of leaves not gonna be here though that leads into maybe this next thing. Um A little bit of drama happening in the afc east right now. There is there's drama everywhere. There's drama buffalo There's drama in new york. There's always drama in new york There's always drama in new york, especially when you add drama himself Yeah, so, um, everybody's getting hurt. I think Yeah, well lasard got hurt today too, right? Yeah, but don't worry. He went on the internet and said he actually was and he got Kicked in the you know Yeah So he had to take a little bit of a break, but erin rogerson has an apparent ankle issue happening interesting And everyone is everyone's rooting for him. I seen the comments rooting for him to not play Oh, I want him to play. I want to see it. Oh, yeah. No, I And I'm glad to get their pick. I'm going to certainly Need him to play I need to see That what's going on that More than anything. I need him to prove me right That he fell off Whether it's a little or a lot I just I need it. I need you have Zach Wilson tweets coming out early saying that he's looking good Let's practice so I mean that's how much are we really saying here? That's like you can there's been tweets that mac jones has looked good in ota's how I mean how much stock are we really putting in that? it's it's it's may like Like we said teams look good on paper this time of year teams look good playing against air this time of year You don't know until games are actually being played so Take everything with a little bit of a grain of salt at this time. Uh, yeah, the videos that are coming out of trading camp for people It's getting overblown already. Let's talk about one that happens every single year Camp of A buccaneers posted a video of Baker Mayfield throwing the ball to some man down the field I don't even know who it was Doesn't even matter because it's never going to happen like that in a game Yep, but this video is popping off everyone's posting it everyone's like oh Baker Mayfield's back How many times can we say that Baker Mayfield is back until we can't say it anymore? Like he needs to be out of the league until like the narrative's done. I think yeah, um But also they've already said it's going to be a quarterback competition in Tampa this year. So like He may look fine right now like I said until He starts going up against the defense and training camp and stuff like I just I just don't know. I don't know like I want to just for the sake of just for his sake Let's let's just put like a nice cap on for a second like I'm gonna be nice Just for him. I want this to work out No Well, I know you don't I don't I think everybody knows you don't Right Well, like I just I just I don't think I don't think it's gonna I don't I wouldn't be surprised if he maybe started the season Week six out of there Whether that's on the bench or somewhere else. I don't know he made it what three weeks with the Was it three weeks basically with the Panthers? I don't know something like that I don't know. I don't know. I just It's it's coming sooner than you think though football season coming up. It's really it's really coming up. We're scary scary stuff is yours flying by but if I mean if the heat If the heat went tonight, we're looking at a week and a half without yeah, what are we gonna do? I'm gonna have to watch the guardian play every day. I mean I already do that But that's not something I look forward to doing. There's I mean the hockey's on we could do that but I mean like I I don't really care about either of these series In the hockey playoffs like I don't like I I don't want to watch the western conference finals because The Bruins former coach is now the head coach of vegas. Vegas is in the western conference finals.  I think But it's there say that but then I act dramatic after every game. So it doesn't really happen. Yeah, and then I mean, yeah, like yeah WNBA is back but like It's I mean their season just started so it's like they're still kind of feeling Feeling it out first couple of games in any league that that is just starting their season are like kind of feelers so and what Remember we're gonna do a college baseball. I don't know. I'm not into college baseball.  So it's what we got champions league not watching it. I'm sorry not doing it I'm dealing with Juventus Losing their points getting their points back losing the points getting the points back. I'm not watching any soccer right now Nope not doing it. Sorry um Yeah, and that's about it. That's all I got I just yeah, it's just this is just a rough time Yeah, it is.  I saw every single time I saw a couple of those The guards are up right now.   Yeah, he gave up a grand slam to pete Alonzo and that's why I have beef with Pete at the moment and I have beef with terry francona and I have beef with james karen check And trevor stephen and kind of claus say until further notice And josh bell on the list too. Don't forget about him. Yep Our catchers were oh for 40 in the month of may and they finally um got a hit after 20 days Yes, I was the nino saw that Finally like easy. I made so much money, but like live betting his strikeouts He struck out 21 times in 25 at bats. That's a lot of money to make Even if you're betting like two dollars, you're getting like 10 every time So so the Celtics just posted their Like pregame fits and stuff Malcolm Brogdon, there's a T-shirt company in boston that like makes all of those like art pieces of all the teams and stuff So he's wearing one of those with Like there's tom brady on here. There's larry bird It's called the last dance With all the championships and stuff if that I mean that that gives me a little A little spark maybe he'll score more points than last game Like not hard to do channelling the good vibes from championships pass But if that's what we're doing we're screwed If that's where if that's where we're at right now Not good. Um, okay last baseball thing that I want to provide everyone with And then I'll be done for the day. Okay a med risario Pack your bags Yeah, you've been on this train for a bit.  He's bobbling a ball at shortstop Imagine having the worst shortstop on your team playing shortstop and the other good shortstop Not playing shortstop doesn't make any sense to me. We have Technically an outfielder playing shortstop. So I sort of feel your pain I sort of shortstop in the outfield shortstop at second base Sometimes another shortstop in outfield. Sometimes they play first sometimes they catch sometimes they pitch I don't know where they're going to be. They're going to be everywhere, but shortstop Kind of all over the place. I feel you I I do understand. Yeah, I'm sorry that's happening Not ideal Oh What are we? What? I just I'm kind of excited for basketball to be over. Just so like I I probably I probably i'm not going to pay attention to the red sox every single game this summer Uh gold smith second home run of the night We love that. We love that. We love that. Has anybody has the the Mets cubs game started yet? Or are we looking at like an eight o'clock first pitch? I genuinely didn't even didn't even know they don't have they haven't started yet. No, we're still waiting on that one Oh, all right. Well, listen good start Who did you have in yours today? I saw a slayer and who uh Julio Rodriguez and I can't remember who else I had on there Hmm Maybe someone from I think Garcia from Um The rangers Okay. Yeah, I think that's what he went with. I was gonna go a soda for a return I don't know how that's gonna go though. He hit one the other night when I was there pretty cool Pretty cool. That's a cool ballpark Petco Well, the food looked good. Oh my god I'm not I'm not gonna lie to you Next day didn't feel all that great ate too much in the moment though It was So so good those nachos are like some of the best things I've ever had in my life I definitely wish I got two orders of those and just like punted on everything else um Hot dogs look great. Not good. Not good. Not good. How can you mess up a hot dog?  Yeah Hmm, so I'm not not great But a lot a lot to choose from and what everybody Seemed to tell me was the majority of like the food vendors and like the beer vendors and stuff Are like local restaurants and local breweries and stuff what I I think is pretty cool So cool place and like the The main concourse Has like ivy like hanging down and stuff. It was just really pretty The food at a petco and not petco park. No, I was not even dog food Oh, man, that would be I mean That would be something though if like petco had like food trucks And you while you're just like bringing your dog to go get groomed or something That's hilarious. Maybe not a bad marketing idea. No, that's funny dollar dog No, I didn't even know we had dollar dog night this friday and cleveland last year They always ran out of buns. We think after the first time you would be prepared And they were just giving out glizzies and tinfoil and people were eating them because they were hammered Straight meat. Yeah, no bone. No, nothing. Nothing. Just wait. Yeah, you know No, I mean you got to do you got to do sometimes How I just don't understand how that happens though. You're a baseball stadium hot dogs are your thing That's what you are known for.  You would assume so but Interesting Feel like that should be fixed This time around but we can only hope um, do you want to talk the other way of basketball?  So like I just Just let the man go just don't even entertain the quote. He's so he wasn't he wasn't being for real His son is going to college. He's excited about that Of course, he's going to talk about different parts of his life that he's ready to See and look forward to just leave him alone just let him go When I saw the report after the game last night that lebron james is going to take the time to look over To mull over his future and he's considering retirement First thing that pops in my head Was erin roger's this isn't erin roger's already does the same shit Yeah, but brady actually retired. So like twice true, but he did twice Okay, at least when he was considering retirement. He did it and then he was like, oh, yeah, maybe not I'm coming back Like that's fine. If he pulled a brady mj type thing like all right. That's cool. But like that. He's He's full but but like compared to rogers.  Um if the lakers kind of say No Then he's probably also going to say no Yeah, then I can see him forcing himself out go somewhere else, but he's not going to stop playing so Yeah, I just don't see him entertaining that Maybe he goes to maybe he goes to phoenix. Maybe he goes to Cleveland Maybe he goes home Maybe he goes home. Maybe we swap him and donva mitchell Who's to say? Not me. I don't mean a gm that drops westbrook.  I mean, I'm not saying he's good at it I'm just saying that's what he does. Well, I mean, was it was it really working out with him? No No, I kind of did him a favor. It wasn't so like and it wasn't working out with d angelo russell. That's for sure He had what four points last night.  He was awful. He was absolutely terrible Him and anthony davis both stunk it up I don't want to hear Anything about anthony davis ever again being like one of the best players in the league because Like when he's good, he's good. He's great But when he's not holy shit, he's just like every other guy Right, that's what I was saying before like why are we surprised when anthony davis plays good? He's supposed to Yeah, he's supposed to like why do we hype it up so much like we don't need to Hype that the conversation should be more that when he plays bad and when he consistently plays bad like What are we doing? Why are we why are we continuing to try to push the narrative of how great this player is when the inconsistency is Should be the biggest talking point for him I don't know but Um, wherever lebron goes this kairi follow Yes Personally, I think so He's been injured. He's always been injured. You can't that's not an excuse for anthony davis anymore He's always been injured either. He finds a new doctor trainer. Whatever it is And figures it out or we have the conversation that he is very talented But he's inconsistent and he has a major injury problem and that's why we can't call him great The injury thing can only go the excuse can only go so far when it's every single year You're missing 10 20 30 games because you're hurt. I don't want to hear it anymore. I don't want to hear how You're you're great, but this that and the other like you're good and that's fine.  I'm not having that. I'm not going to the upper g word here. I'm not doing it That's just me tired of it. I don't really think he wants to play with them right now I also wouldn't necessarily Blame him because you're 38 years old and you have to do everything on the team Like kind of annoying again. We've had this conversation. This isn't breaking news. I don't like lebron james I respect him, but I don't like him I've truly felt for him last night because Like you said 38 years old literally putting the team on his back for the umpteenth time And no one can do anything not an ounce Of help how much were they up 15 at one point? They're up 15 and a half. You can't keep that lead and then what? like it's I just there's nothing there's nothing that He nothing more he could have done like I just I don't know. I don't understand I don't know whatever He's gonna I'm not I'm not worried about him. He's gonna figure it out for himself. He always does right and I even if he retired today He's nothing else to prove it's done at all. I still I mean I truly still think like it goes MJ him Kobe but like even Even with with that like I don't think he needs to do anything else He's got the scoring title. He's got championships He's got more points than anybody else in the playoffs by a lot He's a force. He's he truly is a force like There's nothing at that's what everybody Tweeting about oh well, how does being swept affect his legacy? How does this affect it like it doesn't you're just you're at this point You're just mining for interactions and Michael Jordan has got swept in the playoffs plenty of times like yeah, I saw oh my god There's one Yankee fan shocker. It's a Yankee fan right got it Tweeted out. Oh has when did you ever see Michael Jordan get swept? Never all right then we have like, uh Sir, did you miss that chapter? I don't mean to Be rude, but you're wrong and I would advise you to take up with google on that one just a quick little search and your answer will be right there like It's one thing to like defend Your stance of Michael Jordan over the bra and that's totally fine. But when you're just presenting false information That's where we that's where we draw the line here Man, I don't know Brown james man. I'm sorry guys. I just I just can't get over that. He's 38 years old And has to do the things he's doing.  Yeah, I'll make sure everybody knows it's a rough one. Yeah, I'm not hopefully you don't have to do it twice You maybe you have to do it again. Who knows I think he's done. I truly think he's done. Okay, can I give you your opinion on the tom brady kim k rumors? What are your thoughts? No, okay No, I if that's true, I'm gonna be I'm gonna lose it. I have seen though. There's a I saw a tick tock of it and it was like there's Odds for who his next girlfriend is gonna be what are our options? It was Kim k which again, you know, yeah But then it was adriana lima who I like that But why why don't I like that used to date julian edelman who is his best friend? Who cares modeled with jazelle who cares? She's her close friends You know what it's all about pr and then alessandra imbrosia same thing Modeled with jazelle Both of those girls are brazilian like jazelle all modeled with victoria secret During the same time jazelle was there like I feel like out of all The eligible bachelorettes in the world supermodels actresses musicians, whatever Like we can broaden our horizons here. It doesn't have to be the but maybe that's just a type Yeah, I mean maybe can't blame Martha Stewart. Yeah, I saw that too and taylor swift Come on taylor swift has her own drama going on with her boyfriend. So that's not gonna happen. Yeah I mean truthfully though, like I hope That they date for a little while and then they break up because the music from both sides of that Breakup between taylor swift and the 1975 would just be so good. Yeah, that's great. I'm here for it. I'm here for it, but I don't think he's dating any of them Martha Stewart though, that would be something It would be something. I don't know. I don't know what it would be Oh, man. Oh, man. I don't know. I don't know. Maybe he's I mean, he's apparently gonna be spending time in vegas now So more time than original because he was he bought part Ownership of the aces WNBA team and now he's a part owner of the Raiders Which is a little interesting considering All the patriots ties that are there starting quarterback had coach stuff like that so I don't know. Maybe he'll find a Hotty in vegas or something, but if there's ever a place to find a hotty vegas isn't bad I mean florida is pretty good, too Floor is good Floor is a good one, especially that uh, miami area Listen, I'm I am not opposed to calling women hot if they're hot. They're hot. I'm gonna tell you There's a lot of hot women in miami. So a lot of hot women in miami. Maybe just try there But also, um Still stay retired from football if you're gonna spend some time in miami just Yeah, see that's where it gets interesting too. They really believe that he's gonna play there eventually Everybody does I don't get it If if it was gonna happen, I feel like it would have happened already in miami. Did you see that photo of tua? No, oh my god. Okay. Um, how do I how do I show this to you guys? I'm just gonna show it to you guys on my phone and tua looks like a fullback And this is not like to bot. I'm not body shaming tua. He's just He's he's just really thick And the nicest way to say it he looks super thick like can you guys see this? Look at those legs right like they're massive He probably can push that sled with ease with ease Good for him. Honestly, he is the yeah He is one of the perfect examples of leg day is a real thing Men seem to kind of forget about leg day Definitely has been Thought that was kyler.  That's usually how it goes. Yeah Yeah, you've been working out though. Maybe I mean Definitely gonna be a lot harder to take down. Well, that's kind of what I'm thinking Maybe that was like the plan like put on a little bit of extra Extra weight extra muscle whatever we don't need you to run around out there. We just need you to throw the ball and not get Tackled like if it takes it a little bit discussions Longer to bring it down.  Yeah Be too much to the point where like he finally realizes that it's too much, you know, yeah Uh I mean, I thought last year was kind of the breaking point for that but apparently not Do you want to have a baseball convo? I don't know.  I'm actually really pissed about this Okay, I'm like actually kind of upset about it because I I was Sitting to myself all day in my mind. I'm like Cedric Mullins I want to take Cedric Mullins from my home run, but like Garrett Cole. I don't really know I don't I think it's gonna be like a little closer. This motherfucker just went Out the park out Yankee stadium. So let's have a talk about the Baltimore Orioles. Are they good? Is it sustainable? Are they gonna be good for long? What are your thoughts? Hmm Are they good? I think they are I think they're a good team, but I think that everything is going right for them. Nothing is going wrong Oh my god. Okay. Wait before we get into this. I Did some like daily fantasy baseball Did you press Cedric Mullins on your team? No, I didn't but because I'm doing this and I can't really like kind of keep up with what's going on right now my starting pitcher Apparently is not starting Why isn't the met starting pitcher start? Oh, yeah, I did one today too And I had Senga and then he wasn't on there and I went back and I switched it I literally just saw I see the NS. I'm looking at it right now. Can anybody tell me why he got scratched Somebody somebody let me know. I don't know. They're good for a pitcher injury once a week. So Oh, well, that's annoying. Luckily. I think it was only one lineup that I had him in so it's not really all that bad, but Oh Anyway, um Is it sustainable for the or like maybe But that's a vision. It's tough. Yeah, that's like they're doing really well right now But I don't know how long it's going to last everything going that way. They're not in the top of anything But they're not at the bottom of anything now the third in the division right now, right? Are they I thought they had the second best record of baseball. Oh, I well that might be That might be second in the division then I mean the thing with the Move back till tomorrow.  So second in the division behind Tampa Speaking of not sustainable. I don't think I mean, I don't really think any of them are They're up three nothing on the Yankees right now. Gary Cole on the mound The only reason why I think that though is because The AL East is the AL East If they were in any other division, I would say, yeah, absolutely stealing it easily But the AL East is I mean If you just look at The division itself the standings 35 and 14 Tampa Bay Baltimore 31 and 16 Yankees 29 And 20 Boston 26 22 Toronto 25 23 like they're all within spitting distance of each other And when you play I mean the next time there's I mean the Baltimore Orioles in the New York Yankees however that series go can completely Fluctuate the entire division. You don't even know it until you look again. It's It's kind of frustrating because like the Red Sox being in fourth place in the division would be first place in any other AL central yet I'm so annoying Man see like we are so bad the guardians are so bad and we're only like three games out of first place That's pathetic. That's actually really sad.  That's so good like Yankees Getting better. They're getting better. They are but that's they've finally got people back from Injury and stuff But the people they got back from injury can easily go back because they it's like they pull a muscle every other week It feels like I have a Yankees question for the group When they get a city connect Are we gonna have last names on the back?  People wouldn't buy them. Probably they'd be pissed Yeah, they think it's so they think it's so cool that they don't have a last name on the back I mean who cares. Okay Congrats not really helping anybody out when we're watching the game. How many supposed to know who they are jerks messed up. I just the whole I mean The whole Yankee culture thing is boring with the facial hair get over it The not doing fun jerseys and stuff when everybody else is doing it like give me a break come on It's it's not 1950 anymore.  Let's have some fun This is supposed to be fun. Um, Baltimore city connects though I don't know. I feel about them Pretty boring I don't hate them I feel like they could have been a lot better A lot better. Yeah, I agree. I don't hate them, but I don't love them either I think just for like the color combination Color combination itself like how come there was no orange in there And just should have just went with old day jerseys But also but not even that like Maryland is always so big about incorporating their state flag into everything. Yeah, I thought that was gonna be how do you not run with that?  I just even if it was just like a little bit You just threw a little bit of the state flag in there That's fine. That's probably all you really need but like Something it needs something Because I'm I'm bored Yeah, but it just it's it's just another Like testament to the whole minimalism design of Recent jerseys and stuff.  Let's do this. Let's do this right Whatever, um, we've got about 30 minutes till tip off and uh, I'll tell you what Feel a little bit worse than I did at the start of the show Oh man, okay Like how bad how bad can you feel though like Because you've had a day to prepare for this you've had yep you see it's How much hope do you have like I'm They were talking like percent wise here. Yeah, let's go ESPN and say how many three three Not that low. I'm gonna give them probably 30 I'm a 30 30 percent optimist right now to win this game to win this game. Okay At least win one. Come on. I think I would have felt one I would have felt better just in terms of like the script and stuff If the Lakers had won last night, right and now it's just not really looking too hot. Yeah but like And part of me part of me is still On that train because I don't necessarily think adam silver Wants and this is we're going full conspiracy theories right now, but I don't think silver Wants there to be nine days Without basketball. I don't think anybody does it's less money that they're gonna make right exactly between now and the final So like I'm hoping scott foster does what he does best and extends the series tonight, but like We he's coming off an injury. So we'll have to see. Yeah. Okay. So what the heck happened? I saw was bleeding. That's all I know. I don't know what happened His mouth.  We just had such a hard time and stuff. So we were late to the game But I like looked in the TV in the bar that we were walking past and I saw his mouth was all full of blood I was like what the hell I'm gonna show the replay but I was too far away to see the replay because I'm blind So I was hoping you would know No, I think I think it was Lebron and then Lebron did it because I think he said you've been waiting 20 years to do that I think that was the quote. Oh, and they were like laughing about it. Obviously accidental. Obviously. Yeah, but maybe I mean, I'm sure there's a lot of players that texted Lebron after and said hey, thanks. Thank you They're waiting to do that. So thanks. I don't know. Okay, so we're going for a Celtics win tonight A Celtics win again Are we gonna go for one more? I mean, if you're gonna win the next two, you might as well just buck up and win the next three Forza game seven to show a little bit of pride, you know, we'll see what we can do It's just something because by this time next week, I don't want to have to do the question that we always ask Would you rather Or have a close series because it we're really right on the verge of it. Yeah, we really are. Yeah um It's one more. I'll do weekend this weekend I would like to just have like a nice time and not have to worry about anything Just relax by the pool maybe and not have to worry about stupid basketball, but at the same time like I just I I really do think if they can come out guns of blazing tonight Maybe they can win the next two and then we'll see what happens But then I feel like I'm talking crazy. So I don't really know. I don't know. I don't know what I believe right now We'll have to wait and see we'll find out soon tonight I have nothing else for you. Me neither. Me neither. Get ready for the Celtics ready for the heat We'll see what jimmy butler has to say to grant williams tonight. Hopefully it's a good outcome for you And that's what I got That's it. That's it for me. We'll see you guys. Oh, what was more stressful? We'll talk about that next Yeah, we will see you guys on Tuesday. Have a great holiday weekend. Uh, be safe and uh see you then


Hi, I'm Monica Graven. I'm on the board of York County Audubon and I am presenting this concert in honor of Pat Moynihan, who was on our board for a very long time. Now there are lots of people who knew her better than I and longer than I did, but there's a very particular reason why I'm doing this for her. Let me just mention, by the way, that I'm on the deck of my house. You might hear some road noise coming from over there. You might hear birds in the background. Always a good thing. There might be wind blowing. Things will be a little... they're not perfect, but they're good. The reason I'm doing this concert is because Pat started a ball rolling that was pretty cool in my mind anyway. Many years ago, actually, she asked me would I be willing to help her with a project in conjunction with Maine Audubon to teach kids about piping plovers and about the importance of protecting them on our beaches. And in specifically, we were working with a group of kids in the summer program of the YMCA in Bitterford, Maine. So this is quite a while ago. Eric Hines was the educational director, Laura Zitzke, who is still working with piping plovers, was part of the program. And first, we got together with the kids and we made little piping plover pictures and we played games as though we were little piping plovers on the sand. And by the way, I say plover, you say plover. It doesn't matter. Anyway, it was a very cool program. And then we took the kids in a number of vehicles and we went over to Goose Rock Beach and we actually went to where we knew there were plovers already nesting. And Pat brought her scope and she set it up. And when you set up a scope for kids, it's got to be about three feet tall. It's not that easy to look through for an adult. Anyway, she set up the scope and we're looking at the thing and this little boy stepped up to the scope. And as he was looking in the scope, an egg hatched.  He got so excited. But I think that Pat Moynihan was more excited than he was. It was a moment. Well, after we did that program, we did it a few times. But the first time, she said, you know, Monica, you should write a song about piping plovers. And I said, Pat, I don't write songs. I sing songs, but I don't write them. But I don't know. She planted a seed. And a few days later, this song that my family and I went to Hawaii a number of years ago, we got kind of obsessed with Don Ho. And all of a sudden, the song Tiny Bubbles came into my mind. Only instead of tiny bubbles, what came out was piping plovers. So this is really a kid's song.  And in my in a perfect world, we would be doing this outdoors with a live audience and we'd hear you all singing and it would be so cool. But life is still a little complicated. So we're doing this the way we're doing it. So anyway, I sing, you sing, I sing, you sing. And then the chorus is people have to help them or we won't have piping plovers at all. So here we go. The piping plover song dedicated to Pat Moynihan. Lovers at all. Lovers nesting. Every cat should be in that idea in my head. And that piping plover song. Little did I know that that was going to actually start a whole a whole ball rolling. And sometimes I'm not exactly sure when I started writing more parodies of songs. And this next one, what I'd love to have time to do is sing you the original song and then sing you the pair the parody because I try to stick pretty closely to what the original lyrics are when I'm rewriting it. I don't have time to do that. So I'm just going to sing you the song. And this was the first parody I wrote after the piping plover song. And it's called the cuckoo. Now there is a traditional song called the cuckoo. And I don't know. Well, I'll sing the first verse from the original song. And don't necessarily believe anything that the original song says in that first verse. I have no idea if the cuckoo never hollers cuckoo till the fourth day of July. I don't know, maybe. Anyway, this song was written in about 2013, 2014. So some of the stuff that I'm singing about was a little more cutting edge back then. But, you know, that's the song. And there's one other thing I have to mention. There is a fellow in Maine who often, an excellent bird, who often posts to our Maine listserv. His name is Noah Gibb. And his sign off is always bird had with two A's. So at one point in this song I will say bird had. And that's a little shout out to Noah Gibb. This next song is about a specific through summer. And I can hear them calling when I put out the feeders in the morning or in the evening. And it's the Blackthroated Green Warbler. It's not what's calling right now. And it has two songs. The first is trees, trees, murmuring trees. And of course it doesn't really say those words, but that's how we remember it. And zee, zee, zoo, zee. And I want to dedicate this one to Cindy Angerhofer, who is my good friend. And we often go birding together many times in North Carolina, which is really cool. And I do not think I've ever heard the call of Blackthroated Green without Cindy saying the thing, saying the song afterwards. So this is kind of dedicated to her. And it's called zee, zee, zee, zee. This next one is also about a particular warbler. And it's also dedicated to a particular friend. The person is Seth Davis, who by the way wrote, if you got the Harlequin, and if you haven't read it, you really should, that has a two page spread about Pat Moynihan. Seth wrote, I think my favorite piece in that. It's not long, but it's incredible, perfect. Anyway, Seth has, he doesn't just have a favorite warbler. He's got like a mania for this warbler. He totally loves the Magnolia warbler, which is this gorgeous bird, another neotropical migrant. So you only really see them passing through in spring and fall. And so this one came to me. I wrote the song to the tune of what I thought was a song, there's a traditional song called Little Maggie. And so I wrote this song as a parody of Little Maggie. And then I realized, wait a minute, that wasn't Little Maggie, that was Darling Corey, which is a whole different song. And so, but that's actually the parody is of Darling Corey. For instance, it says, first time I seen Darling Corey, she was standing on the banks of the sea.  So, so anyway, I used that song as my base. However, they're the last verse of Little Maggie I did use as well, where it says, pretty flowers were made for blooming, pretty stars were made to shine, pretty girls were made for a boy to love, pretty Maggie was made for mine. So Seth, this is for you. And I mashed the two titles together. It's called Darling Little Maggie Corey. It's called when you hear them of traditional folk songs, and they all seem to be about cuckoos. I really don't understand that. They're probably talking about European cuckoos. Not ours, but I don't know. And this one has, it says, when you hear the cuckoos hollering, it's a sign of rain. Okay, maybe it is. I don't know. Nothing I ever heard. Anyway, but like most traditional songs, it starts out about a cuckoo. This one actually has two verses about birds, and then it just goes totally in other directions. It starts singing about unrequited love or whatever it might be. So I added a bunch of verses that aren't about more different kinds of birds. So here you go. When you hear them, cuckoos hollering. Keep the intro.  So here you go. When you hear them, cuckoos hollering. First yellow war. As you watch this, some of my songs are really sillier than others. This I would say is one of the more out there ones. But I happen to think that Pat would have loved this. So I live in Maine and are visited by so many goldfinches. It's, they're uncountable. And I understand that actually it's not the same birds all the time. They move around. They move through. So you might have a group of twenty one day, a group of ten another day, and they're not the same birds. Anyway, they eat a lot of seed. One thing you need to know about goldfinches is that when they have a certain call, they have a very complex vocalization range repertoire. But when they fly, they often say and the mnemonic for that that we use is potato chip. So I mentioned that in the song and if you wonder why is she talking about potato chips, that's why. So I decided to do a take off on goldfinger and it's called goldfinches. Now I just want to say that Shirley Bassey is one of, she's an amazing singer and this is not meant to to equate myself or my performance in any way with the the brilliance of hers. Okay, just want to get that out there. I'm no Shirley Bassey. However, instead of a brass section, we have my broken down old kazoo. So here we go. Let's give it a try. It has to start with this. Hold your ears if you have to. Goldfinches. That's the finch. The finch you'll most likely see. It's not in York County. It's in Lincoln County but it's called Monhegan Island. It's beautiful all year. Don't get me wrong. But for the people who are in love with birds for spring and fall, it is a migration trap. You know, the birds are coming up or down and they're out at sea and all of a sudden they say, oh my god, it's morning. I've got to get out. I got to get out of the sky and they see that green below them and down they come. It's like it's like Central Park in New York. And it is very small. You know, you just keep going to the same places over and over and over again. And you see the same people over and over again every year. And many, many times I have been on Monhegan Island with Pat Moynihan. In fact, she has shown me places I did not know about, which is way cool, but like the little area behind the Trailing Youth. That's a pretty good spot. So I've seen Pat there many times. Another person who I really need to mention is a man named Bruce Barker. The only way I knew Bruce Barker was through running into him on Monhegan every year. My husband and I would run into him on Monhegan every year. And we got to be friends just through birding. I, after he died, I found out the man was just an amazing guy. But he was quite ill the last time I saw him on Monhegan. And it just so happened that like within a week of going that year, I had written this little song about Monhegan Island. And it's based on Good Night Irene. And again, if you, if you know I, Good Night Irene, you will hear that I am using a lot of the same phraseology, the same structure as the song itself. But not always. And I had the most amazing experience. I usually stay at the Shining Sales shout-out. And I, we were arriving at the Shining Sales. And Bruce and his wife were leaving. That was the last time Bruce was ever on Monhegan. And I sang him the song I had just written about Monhegan Island. And it is a very precious memory to me. So this goes to not just Bruce and Pat, but you know Peter Vickery and all the people that we have known and loved and have loved the same areas and the same places that we have. Uh, the chorus goes like this. Know that I am a total Bob Dylan freak. Especially early Dylan. I mean, I'm just, I know them all. I were doing a series of concerts. Never repeated a song. Three all Dylan concerts. And the very first one I discovered that Pat Moynihan is also a Bob Dylan fan. Because there she was at my concert. And she said, of course I'm at your concert. I, you know, it's Bob Dylan for Heavens 6. So that was something new I did not know about Pat. There are so many things I don't know about Pat. She was so multifaceted. It's, it's, um, it's a bottomless pit to tell you the truth. Anyway, so this is a take on a Bob Dylan song. Uh, it's also one of the weirdest songs I'm going to sing in this concert. Uh, because, well for a number of reasons. Number one, it's based on a Bob Dylan song that I've never understood. It's called I pity the port immigrant. I really never understood what he was talking about in that song. And I'm pretty good with Bob Dylan songs. That one's always been sort of over my head. So it's based on that. And it's also based on an experience we had three years running. I don't know if it was the same bird, but I was pretty sure it was. There was a pine warbler that would show up and he would see his reflection in our protected windows and attack himself. Okay. He didn't attack one window. He would go to every window in the house, the entire house. You'd hear him smashing against the window. And he's not the only bird that does this. I've heard lots of cardinals do this. It's, it's a thing, you know, in the spring they're just so psyched up and, you know, I'm ready for action. So one day, somehow, I put, I pity the poor immigrant and that pine warbler together. Don't ask me. It's a mystery. And I came up with this song, which I'm calling Smashing Windows. And again, if you know the song, you will see that there's quite a lot in here that's very close to the original song, but not everything. And I'm going to take a moment to drink some water. Okie dokie. So here's this song about birds who are just a little too worked up. Smashing Windows. Wish I could have control. Much better do to forget. Knew that one of her real passions, among many, was shorebirds.  It's run by National Audubon. It's a wonderful program and we've been doing this for many years. And it was Pat who got that whole thing started. Now it is the Pat Moynihan donation to the Stratton Island project. At any rate, I have this sort of silly song, one of my silly songs, called Little Brown Jobs, which was a term I was not familiar with until only, I don't know, like eight years ago, I don't know. The Little Brown Job just being an unidentifiable bird, you know. Oh yeah, it was a Little Brown Job. And I wrote this song, and only after I wrote it did I realize that I had written it to the tune of Little Brown Jug, which is an old silly song, and never even occurred to me that I had done that. And it was all about normal, you know, just birding in the woods. But because this is for Pat, I realized there's got to be a shorebird verse in here. And so I added a little verse at the end. But I will say that honestly, I can't remember a time that I have been on the beach trying to ID shorebirds. When I have not thought to myself, God, I wish Pat were here. Where else only I'd thought to call her and see if maybe she was available. And yeah, I miss her. We all miss her. Little Brown Jobs. Miss Diddy. Everybody's gonna have a Miss Diddy. Miss Diddy. Miss Diddy. Them Little Brown Jobs are mystery. But is that iron stronger week? Does he have a wingbar? I can't tell. Oh, don't go back there. Trees are rough. Shorebird ID's really tough. Okay, starting again. Trees are tough. Shore are rough. Shorebird ID's pretty tough. You'll look at hundreds on the sand and wish you were with Pat Moyne. It's just the song. I'd need them little brown jobs or a missy lift. I started just singing. Trees are rough. Shorebird ID's really tough. You'll stare at hundreds on the sand. It's one that isn't meant to be funny. It's based on a traditional song called Little Birdie. And like, as I said, like most traditional songs, it starts out being about birds and then it kind of goes off in other directions. But this one is about, my rewrite is about that joy and peaceful feeling you get. So you hear a bird calling and you've got your binoculars with you and you're looking and you're looking and finally you find it. And I don't know about you, but for me when that happens, there's like this feeling of just peace that flows through me, which is extremely precious to me. And I think lots of people feel that way. And so that's what the song is basically about. However, in Pat's honor and in honor of all the wonderful, wonderful people who have gone before us and who we miss and we love. But we think of them every time we go to the places that we were with with them. Like for instance, every time I see a song sparrow, I think of Pat Moynihan. Because it was Pat Moynihan and it's great because it's like the most common bird. But Pat is the one who said, now always look for that red tail that long red tail and you'll know even if you didn't get a good look, you'll know that that's a red-ish tail and you'll know that that's a song sparrow. So this is for all those people and for all of us. And it's called Little Birdie 2014, which is when I wrote it.


Now, we can extend the idea of that optimal mechanism design to multiple agents in the previous module we did it for only one agent. So if it is BIC and IIR and also maximizes the revenue then we are going to call that an optimal mechanism in this context. So the previous results that we have seen so far this BIC and IIR actually reduces the fact that all these FIs the probability of getting allocated this object are non-decreasing in expectation that we have seen this is the characterization result. And then also PITI has a very specific formula and IIR enforces that this constant of that integral formula must be equal to Z. So therefore the expected payment made by this agent I is nothing but this payment multiplied by the GITI. So what's the probability that this TI is taking a value of lowercase TI. So this expression and this expected payment of player I we are going to sum it over all players and then try to maximize it subject to the conditions like FIs are all non-decreasing in expectation. So we are going to do a very similar exercise like the one agent case and to simplify the expression. So we are going to do this substitution of this PITI to the integral formula and the steps of this transformation of the order interchange of the integrals and all the steps are exactly the same. Finally we get to this point where we replace that first term which is TI minus 1 over GITI by lowercase GITI. This is the same term which we are going to call the virtual valuation of player I. So we will be using this term quite often. So this is not the exact valuation because the exact valuation is TI, we are subtracting out something which is dependent on the prior of that type and that is why we are calling this a virtual valuation. So some different sort of valuation and we are trying to maximize that with respect to these two terms which are having a we are taking the product and integrating over it. So the first term is the probability, so its own prior over this TI and the second term is the expected allocation of this agent. And we know just by expanding this alpha ITI this is exactly what it means. Now we can take this term and this term together and call that the whole vector. So it is a joint probability even though it is a it can be decomposed into the products because all these TI's are independent but we can use a shorthand notation of G of t which means the joint probability distribution over this whole type profile. And this FITI is exactly the type of player I and similarly because this was only with respect to the type. So this 0 to BI is nothing but T of I and here the integral was over all t minus I. So the integral is over the whole type profile t. So this is just a shorthand notation for multiple integrals. So there are in integrals here they are compressed into one. So we have this part which is the virtual valuation of player I multiplied by the probability of that agent getting allocated and then G of t. So now what we see that this is a common term for all the players this and that and this part is essentially dependent for that player. So we can actually write the total revenue generated by all the players by taking the summation over all these agents and all that we have is we can interchange because this part as we said is independent of any player. So we can shift this summation inside and write this to be the expression that we were trying to maximize. So sum over the FIs multiplied by WIs and that summed over all the players. So therefore our optimal mechanism design problem reduces to maximizing this subject to the condition that this FIs has to satisfy the condition of NDE. It has to be non-decreasing in expectation. That is what is ensuring that this is BIC. Now if we just forget about this condition of NDE for FI and we just try to maximize this. We have a summation which we are trying to maximize and we know that this FI TIs will be so if we take the sum over all Is that is exactly equal to 1. So we are actually trying to maximize the convex combination of this WIs. So it's a very natural thing and we have seen this very early in this course that it is best to give probability of 1 to the highest value in this convex sum. So once we are trying to maximize the convex combination of multiple numbers, the one that will maximize is when we are putting the entire mass on the maximum value. So and that is the kind of very elementary solution to this problem. So we can give this FI T to be equal to 1 for that agent whose WITI value is the maximum and 0 otherwise and if WITI is less than 0 for all agents then we do not allocate that object at all. We keep it unsold. But there is a problem with this part alone because now we can actually construct situations under which based on whatever conditions that this WITI satisfies, this FI T might not be non-decreasing in expectation. And therefore we cannot really solve it in an unconstrained manner. And if you want to take a look at what is the example, you can take a look at the original paper by Meyerson, the optimal auction design paper. Essentially the idea is the example is such that the following condition is violated. So remember that even in the single agent case we assume some regularity conditions on this WIs. So in that case the W was monotone non-decreasing and this GIs were actually satisfying the condition of monotone hazard rate which actually gave rise to the fact that WI was monotone increasing and that was helping us in making this constraint optimization problem into an unconstrained optimization problem. So we are going to assume a very similar thing in this context. We are going to call this virtual valuation WI to be regular if that condition holds precisely. That is you have this WI satisfying this monotone increasingness condition. So if SI is less than TI then WI of SI should also be less than WI of TI. So if that monotonicity condition is satisfied then we can actually solve this problem and there is no issue with this example one. So this point one that we have made you can allocate the object to the agent whose virtual valuation is the maximum and keep it unsolved if everyone's virtual valuation is negative. And you can notice that the condition that we have imposed earlier the monotone hazard rate condition if we impose the monotone hazard rate condition for each player then definitely this WI TI is going to be monotone increasing. But monotone hazard rate for ensuring monotone hazard rate for every agent is much more demanding than the condition of regularity. So essentially there are examples which you can find in this Meyerson's original paper which says that if you have monotone hazard rate condition of course you are going to satisfy regularity but regularity is weaker. So you can have regular virtual valuations which might not satisfy monotone hazard rate condition. So we are actually imposing a weaker condition in terms of regularity and that is exactly what we need. Suppose we assume that every agent's valuations are regular, virtual valuations are regular then the allocation rule of the optimal mechanism is the same as the solution of the unconstrained problem. And the proof sketch is very similar, I mean the solution is as given in this equation one what we have discussed before you give the object to the highest virtual valuation agent and charging the payment which is given by that payment integral formula. And this optimal allocation rule also happens to satisfy this non-decreasingness property. So even though we are just interested in finding a mechanism, we are just trying to ensure the FIs which were satisfying non-decreasing in expectation, the solution that we got from this optimization problem when we are maximizing the revenue and it happens to be non-decreasing. So not only BIC, this mechanism is going to be DSIC and that exactly is the observation that we are going to make, this is non-decreasing and NDE. We will see in the next module that what implication does it give. We have actually solved the optimal mechanism design problem for selling one single object, single indivisible object and we have found the allocation and the corresponding payment integral according to my essence formula.


So to give you a quick backdrop, 48 states, including DC and two U.S. territories, have already agreed to use common standards in ELA and mathematics, first time ever, that this so much of the country has decided to do the same thing at the same time. And as a result of that, we now have hundreds of millions of dollars from the federal government to develop common assessments so that we can then have a better assessment system to hopefully better measure student performance in the United States. One of the two consortia, the Smarter Balanced Consortia, has built or is building a computer-based, adaptive online testing system. And I was on the phone today with the co-chair of the Technology Committee for Smarter Balanced, who happens to work for me. And he assured me that they already have in their built specs the development to allow third-party applications to ride on top of the system to all the past questions back and forth so that you can use released items in the system, but at the same time build your own things on top of the form of assessment or other purposes like that. And so we decided we would take advantage of that. And on top of that, we were thinking about the success of Freerice.com, which many of you are familiar with, the World Food Program. And the quick example was that we had 1,000 kids two years ago playing Freerice.com after a video conference with folks at World Food Program in Rome at a conference that we were running. And in 45 minutes, we raised 2.3 billion grains of rice, and kids continued to play for months on end raising up to half a million grains a day for that program. And really, I think for their purposes, the kids were excited about the idea of being connected to a larger cause. So with the Free Pencils Program, what we're looking at is the capacity to have the system run locally connected to your own local charity. So kids could actually go out and choose a charity in their local community, find the money, and then by playing the game, it would allow them to donate money toward that or a larger cause. And the URL is right here. It's actually running up and live. And you can play and earn free pencils at freepencils.herokuapp.com.  And regardless of the outcome today, I think Becca gets a mid-run viable release badge for having developed this app over the course of this spring. It's really good. Thank you.


Next question is from D. Bear 27. What's the biggest lesson you guys learned from your father's? Oh, that's a good one. Another father question. You know, I was with my my dad and my parents actually ate over last night and I I always I'd consciously try to do this in front of my kids, but I asked my father About what it was like when he grew up Because I think context is really important and I've taught I've said I said this to Jessica I said I think the children of immigrants Have an advantage sometimes because they have the advantage of context I you know, which I had I had the advantage of context because my father He was very in in in comparison to me very poor Far less opportunities left school at the age of nine because his family literally needed a nine-year-old to work in order to provide money, you know for the family and so I have him tell these stories to provide that context For my you know for my kids so that they my kids can realize What they have in front of them and what they can do with what they have in front rather than taking things for granted? So my dad taught me a lot of lessons. He was always there for his family So we had dinner together every single night. He he worked his butt off never complained. My dad must have worked seven days a week for Years or decades, you know, seven days a week, but he came home Four or five o'clock and we would all have dinner together. We also planned Trips even when you know, you know, he was supporting a family of six In you know in the Bay Area, he was able to provide us with the middle-class, you know Lifestyle, but it didn't meant we couldn't afford expensive vacations. So so we do Inexpensive things we'd go camping or we'd go, you know, somewhere nearby that we could drive to but I never noticed that it was You know, I was I always saw that it was a good time and he was super involved But the biggest lesson I learned from my dad was that lesson of context that he He under, you know, I understood what I had Because I knew what it was like for him growing up and I saw his attitude about things I saw that he always took personal responsibility. He never You know what complained about working hard. He always did it. He always You know was Family was very important to him. He talked about what it was like growing up when he grew up in Sicily And so that context I think his weight has kept me grounded because it's really easy to take things for granted when you have a Lot of stuff around you. It's really easy for you to start to expect things To happen. So I think that's one of the better lessons that I got. Yeah I think I mean the main thing that I can think of immediately is just the the integrity of my father and how It's just impenetrable. He he strongly has beliefs and moral values that are super consistent and Is is willing to still be friends and have conversations with people that completely don't abide by these standards he has for himself and his family but stays very consistent to his Belief system and I mean that was a big thing for me to just because I tested it all the time as a kid and I was trying to poke holes in it and And he never varied from it.  Why do you think that way and it was just always very thoughtful in his response and very consistent with his belief system and so to this day like that's I tried my best to be like that and To treat people the way he's treated people to where he stays calm even in the midst of these arguments and You know, a lot of to I was shielded a lot from a lot of really like like we were poor in certain Instances that like I didn't realize we were poor, you know Like we have only stories of like being down and out and like you said like going camping like dude There's always things we were doing but they're on a very low budget, but I didn't know our financial situation I didn't know You know the turmoil Amidst the family that was like really negative at the time Like it was just it wasn't something I needed to Dwell on as a kid and he didn't bring that that wasn't even a discussion. So I find these things out way later as an adult Why like all these things were happening? And so anyway, that's just some things that I reflect on that I was very thankful that You know, he handled it the way he did. But did you have a horse? I Didn't have a horse Yeah, I wish I had a horse Dinners are way cooler Well, I guess I guess what I learned from mine is is to be there, right? So my dad took his life when I was seven years old So it wasn't obviously around and that's also why I waited so long to have Maximus is because I also because of how we grew up I was extremely motivated to to have things to have success financial success and to have security there and Be able to provide for my family and not have to worry about that And I was really nervous in my 20s if I were to ever consider Having a kid that young that I hadn't reached that point And I had already learned at a pretty young age What it was going to take to make really good money like anybody that I had talked to that had mentored me or that was very successful Literally Dedicated a lot of of most of their life to Trying to become financially successful. I mean just the amount of work that it took and so I had this really, you know crazy challenge or You know thing that I wrestled with in my brain is okay Yeah, I do believe I want to have a son one day And I do want to make sure that I'm every bit there for him because I didn't have a father figure really in my life And so I want to experience all that and I definitely don't want to have a kid during the time But then I had this other Thing where I was like man I really really want to be successful and I know that it takes, you know long hours and Sacrifice and constantly being buried into whatever this this career is and so I wrestled with that for a very long time And feel very blessed that you know have found what we have found now and built what we've built because it has Created this ability for me to not miss out on anything that Max is going through and I'm very cognizant of every milestone and every moment that I can be a part of because I know I didn't get that so You know, it's a it's a sad lesson because I didn't have it But it's I'm also grateful for that because it's it's that it's on the top of mine for me all the time It's not like, you know, I know that some I'm sure there's a lot of fathers out there that you know Look at providing for their kids is like, hey, I'm being a great dad I'm providing and I think that you are a great dad if you're providing for your family But I also think there's another part that is really really important on how you mold and raise raise your kid and being a Part of their family and I feel blessed that I'm now in a position where I can do both But I'm constantly thinking about all the things that I didn't get to do all the things that I Didn't have or missed out on by not having a father figure and that I don't ever I feel like I have an opportunity to Live relive all that what I missed through my son And so I feel like I'm not gonna miss out on that because I'm very aware that I didn't get it So I'm very determined to make sure that I'm a part of all of it. Well, very cool


I feel like in my training, I found two kind of groups of people, some who just wanted to coast and get through the process and not necessarily feel like they had to be memorable to their patients, their colleagues, et cetera, to the program. And then the other side, I found people who just feel like they necessarily needed to do the next biggest thing, um, during their training and during the process of residency. But one of the biggest things that I've learned over the past three years is like, no, you don't actually have to focus on making a mark where people remember your name. That shouldn't be your goal, but you should be focused on making a difference, a difference for your patients, a different for the colleagues around you. I feel like it's a personal failure. If there's things that I know I do well, for example, I know I'm efficient. I know I have a calm demeanor and overall I think I have a good patient rapport. Those are skills that I built throughout medical school and residency, but I think it's a personal failure if I don't focus on teaching my interns.