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Speaker 1: Hey, Yo, Penguin fans, I'm afraid I've got some bad news.

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Speaker 1: Afghany malcl is out tonight against Colorado undisclosed. Injuries said

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Speaker 1: to be day to day, And for the Penguins, it

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Speaker 1: just feels like it's going back Wow and Gino out

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Speaker 1: now when they need them.

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Speaker 2: It's another argument to not bring back an old guy.

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Speaker 1: You got fifteen NHL games tonight, Chicago at the New

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Speaker 1: York Islanders, Carolina at Montreal, Columbus at Philadelphia, Toronto at Boston.

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Speaker 1: Those four games, they all affect the Penguins.

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Speaker 2: There's gonna be a lot.

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Speaker 1: Of scoreboard watching from now through season's end in Ottawa.

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Speaker 2: One l last night. The Penguins could very easily be out.

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Speaker 1: Of a playoff spot after tonight's games. Colorado, excuse me, Columbus,

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Speaker 1: Boston and the Islanders could all leap frog the Penguins.

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Speaker 2: That's if the Penguins lose. So no Gino Shay is

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Speaker 2: back in on defense. That helps.

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Speaker 1: Billy Coyvenan got called up. I assume he jumps in

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Speaker 1: there in the Gino spot. You got Colorado at PPG

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Speaker 1: might be the best team in hockey and the Penguins

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Speaker 1: beat him. Seven to a Denver last week, so they're

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Speaker 1: gonna be pissed. It's a hockey night in Pittsburgh. Let's

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Speaker 1: hope for the best, but it feels like something besides

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Speaker 1: that is happening. The Pirates opener is at the Mets

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Speaker 1: on Thursday.

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Speaker 2: Mock the FETs.

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Speaker 1: Somebody in Pittsburgh say Somethingbody.

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Speaker 2: Getting fired up.

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Speaker 1: And tomorrow at three point fifteen pm, it's very exciting.

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Speaker 1: It's the return of the Buco Round Up, the number

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Speaker 1: one baseball segment in Pittsburgh Radio. As far as you know,

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Speaker 1: I was talking yesterday about Pirate weaknesses, like the bottom

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Speaker 1: You know what else is definitely a problem.

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Speaker 2: Their defense in the outfield.

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Speaker 1: This is a team that bleats about Triola with shortstop

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Speaker 2: Reynolds, Cruise and o'hearne.

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Speaker 1: That's not a good defensive outfield. O'Hearn is really a

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Speaker 1: first baseman. Them guys are gonna be chasing that ball

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Speaker 1: around the PNC Park outfield like a little kid chasing

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Speaker 1: a marble around the bathtub. Coutch made Texas is opening

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Speaker 1: day roster, so he really showed us. He had four

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Speaker 1: one point three sixty one. But the password hit four

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Speaker 1: hundred at the spring and the Pirates cut him.

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Speaker 2: Barco made the team but won't be.

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Speaker 1: In the rotation to start the season, so no left

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna talk a bunch of hockey today.

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Speaker 1: We got Pierre, we got tk, we got Meshe all

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Speaker 1: talking hockey, Gonna talk a lot of baseball coming up

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Speaker 1: to Like I said, the Buco roundup makes its triumphant

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Speaker 1: return tomorrow at three point fifteen.

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Speaker 2: Huzzah. Okay.

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Speaker 1: I checked out parking for the NFL Draft in Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 1: There were some reports that it's sky high to park

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Speaker 1: on draft weekend last week int of April, right here

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Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh. The draft right here in Pittsburgh. Have you

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Speaker 1: heard that? The draft is right here in Pittsburgh. River's

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Speaker 1: Casino is offering a four day parking pass for five

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Speaker 2: That's actually not that bad. Some premium spots.

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Speaker 1: Near Akroshore are two hundred and fifty dollars per day.

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Speaker 1: Here's the best deal I could find a round trip

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Speaker 1: to Liverpool is about thirty five hundred for me. That's

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Speaker 1: I think I'm just not looking forward to the draft.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be a four day excremate show and we'll

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Speaker 2: The aftermath.

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Speaker 1: What happened to the city with all those extra people here? Yo,

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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh can't handle two inches of snow. Pittsburgh can't handle

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Speaker 1: extra three quarters of a million people. But let's get

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Speaker 1: back to talking hockey. The Penguins, as I've said, are

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Speaker 1: one point safe in the playoff spot. If they lose

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Speaker 1: time to make it up. But if they ever drop out,

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Speaker 1: right now. You need send jin Or to take over

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Speaker 1: games one or both, and now Gino's out tonight, you

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Speaker 1: need better goaltending, and the best goal is at Wilkes Morishoff.

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Speaker 1: And if all that stuff is painfully obvious, that's only

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Speaker 1: because it's true.

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Speaker 2: Hey, just win tonight. Just beat the best team in hockey.

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Speaker 1: I'll feel good about things that they do that for

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Speaker 1: I know that's a tall order, so let's start small tonight.

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Speaker 1: Kill a penalty, don't start the fourth line, make a save.

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Speaker 1: Let's get the basics. Don first, Tommy Radio is off.

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Speaker 1: He had his second child, a daughter, Sydney. She's doing well,

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Speaker 1: mother's doing well, missus Radio. But he is gonna get

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Speaker 1: fired for missing work. I don't think you can technically

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Speaker 1: what do they call it? Paternity leave? But I have

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Speaker 1: and I don't like it. Tonight's a unique match up

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Speaker 1: the Penguins and Aves. Both these goalie rotations, Chiloff's and

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Speaker 1: the Aves. I wonder the Aves will pick to be

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Speaker 1: Yelli wrote that the Penguins organization think Sid will play

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Speaker 1: and I think so too, and I'm ninety percent sure,

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Speaker 1: a Penguin through and through. I just don't see it happening.

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Speaker 1: Dubas does with number seventy one, and what Sid's agent,

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Speaker 1: Sid boy, I can't believe I made that comparison. Sid

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Speaker 1: it so bad. Finishing just out of the playoffs is

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Speaker 1: the worst case scenario. You got five pounds of sugar

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Speaker 1: but that can change tonight. Like I just said, all

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Speaker 1: And aj Hawk keep texting Aaron Rodgers telling him he

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Speaker 1: take credit for it. If it happens, we'll have that

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Speaker 1: SoundBite a little bit later. Did anybody see that flag

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Speaker 1: football game games with the NFL players? I didn't know

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Speaker 1: Which I coincidentally accidentally did not do. Jalen Ramsey played. Wow,

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Speaker 1: that's a risk. I'm sure the Steelers could not have

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Speaker 1: a lit up logan, Paul. Did anybody see the game?

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Speaker 1: I need a report? Seriously. I was never gonna watch

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Speaker 1: it or go to see the highlights. So what happened?

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Speaker 1: Eight three three four one two wxdx. How about the

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Speaker 1: MLB opener tomorrow is exclusively on Netflix?

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Speaker 2: The Yankees and Giants on Netflix? Yuck? When is the

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Speaker 2: Savannah Bananas opener?

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Speaker 1: If Kutch hadn't made the Texas Rangers did probably be

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Speaker 1: a banana. He was pretty much a parogi here last year,

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Speaker 1: all right? Eight three three four one two WXDX. Like

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Speaker 1: I said, Oh, hockey talk today, although just around the corner,

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Speaker 1: I got a very interesting draft observation from our football guru,

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Speaker 1: Matt Williamson, which has nothing to do with parking. One

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Speaker 1: oh five nine Kay Tyler Kennedy talking hockey. Next segment

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Speaker 1: right now, I want to talk a little bit of

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Speaker 1: NFL draft because, as I said yesterday, given the fact

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Speaker 1: two year old quarterback, or if he don't come in,

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Speaker 1: Adam Schefter says a thirty seven year old quarterback.

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Speaker 2: I'll have more on that later.

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Speaker 1: If you're gonna do that, you're trying to win now, obviously,

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Speaker 1: you're going to be all go, actually be all in.

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Speaker 1: We heard all in last year. It didn't really work out,

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Speaker 1: So do better this year. But keep your eye on

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Speaker 2: That's said. Matt Williamson made a real good point about

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Speaker 1: He said, to take a tackle because you can't go

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Speaker 1: when they drafted Broderick Jones, well not so much drafting him,

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Speaker 1: To quote Van Halen, Adam Schefter said, if it ain't

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rod Rodgers, it should be Kirk Cousins at quarterback.

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Speaker 2: I live only a forty five minute walk from Acroshore.

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Speaker 2: Quicker than that.

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Speaker 1: If you're not old and fat, I should rent my

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Speaker 1: the Strait of Hormuz anywhere.

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Speaker 2: But to damn draft.

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Speaker 1: My nerves are janglin. Let's have a beer. Everybody have

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Speaker 1: a beer. We're having a beer. Getting back to hockey,

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Speaker 1: which I far prefer Penguins hosting Colorado tonight maybe the

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Speaker 1: best team in hockey. Of Getty Malkin out in day

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Speaker 1: to day with an injury, Billy coyven And has been

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Speaker 1: We'll talk with TK about hockey in just a moment.

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Speaker 1: But last night, the only NHL game, New York Rangers

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Speaker 1: I mean, what are we doing here? Well, what I'm

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Speaker 1: with the Stanley Cup champion from two thousand and nine,

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Speaker 1: the news. Gino's out tonight day to day with what

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Speaker 3: Well, it's not going to be easy because he played

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Speaker 1: I respect that the Penguins survived without sid and when

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Speaker 2: Now they're going to get hot again.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Like I thought when they went on this road

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Speaker 3: the way the division's going. It's so tight, so they

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Speaker 1: Totally agree, and Carlson's obviously playing great. I thought Tanger

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Speaker 1: We're talking to Tyler Kennedy here on the x TK.

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Speaker 1: You mentioned goaltending. Both these teams use goalie rotations, these

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Speaker 3: I like, I think even right now, you're almost choosing

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Speaker 2: The right time TK I I totally agree.

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Speaker 1: In fact, I think the decision should be made now

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Speaker 3: Well. I definitely don't think they will. But Mark, I'm

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Speaker 1: I mean, not too bad, don't lose a leg, but

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Speaker 1: What makes Carolina so good? They were just stifling on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: And they play a real elementary system. But I guess

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Speaker 1: it serves them well.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think they're fast. I think they're very good

436
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Speaker 3: at like drawing penalties, their power play, their power play,

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Speaker 3: like you know, when you think of like, I feel

438
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Speaker 3: like Hall he dives around and he embellishes a lot.

439
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Speaker 3: But I think he does that because he knows how

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Speaker 3: good the power play is. Right, Like, they move their feet,

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Speaker 3: They got a little bit of everything. They have defensemen

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Speaker 3: that move the puck. They have some young forwards that

443
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Speaker 3: are not just passengers. They're up on the score, they're

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Speaker 3: they're making plays. They're a very good team. But the

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Speaker 3: big thing with the Penguins when they played them one,

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Speaker 3: they just you got to play different teams differently, you know,

447
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Speaker 3: and when you play the Carolina Hurricanes. One you can't

448
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Speaker 3: take penalties, and two like you got to grind them down,

449
00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:53,160
Speaker 3: you got to play a rougher game. Yeah, they picked

450
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Speaker 3: up the Laureer, but the rest of the team is not.

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Speaker 3: There's not too much stand paper in the lineup. So

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Speaker 3: I think when you play a team that's mostly skilled,

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Speaker 3: you need to beat them other ways. And that's that's

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Speaker 3: a sand paper part of it. Like when we played

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Speaker 3: Detroit Red Wings, like they had more skill than us,

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Speaker 3: and we knew if we're going to play in that

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Speaker 3: tracking back and forth, they were gonna beat us. But

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Speaker 3: if we played that grinding game where we're hammering, you

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Speaker 3: know the ze you know the Zetterbergs, you know the Lindstroms,

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Speaker 3: when they went back, that's how we beat them. We

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Speaker 3: didn't beat them playing a skill game. And that's what

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Speaker 3: I think the Penguins have got a lot better this year.

463
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Speaker 3: They've had a lot more sand paper to their lineup. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: but I think we can even add more when they

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Speaker 3: play certain teams. And Carolina has always been this kind

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Speaker 3: of team. They've always been won'll beat you with skill,

467
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Speaker 3: hard working, but sometimes that doesn't work when a team

468
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Speaker 3: like Florida Panthers come in and be like, yeah, we're

469
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Speaker 3: not playing that game. You're gonna play our game and

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Speaker 3: we're gonna rough it up. I'm gonna grab aho or

471
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna grab one and see what they're willing to

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Speaker 3: do to win. And that's what Matthew Kachuck did last year.

473
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Speaker 3: And I think the Penguins can take a page out

474
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Speaker 3: of their book, and I think it would help them

475
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Speaker 3: when they do play more of us. You know, when

476
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Speaker 3: they play the more high end skilled teams that don't

477
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Speaker 3: have the sandpaper in their lineup.

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Speaker 1: You're your old buddy in line made. Jordan stall is

479
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Speaker 1: still a factor at thirty seven. We saw that on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: Why does he totally shut down Gino when they're head

481
00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:26,920
Speaker 1: to head and for that matter, Sid too when they're

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Speaker 1: out there.

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Speaker 3: One. I still think he can keep up with those

484
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Speaker 3: guys right, Like he's a big body, but he's when

485
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Speaker 3: he gets his legs going, he can Like he's very

486
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Speaker 3: good at angling. He's very good at keeping the guys

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Speaker 3: on the outside. He's strong and stalls. He's always taking

488
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Speaker 3: care of defense first, Like he's defensive minded. So when

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Speaker 3: you play against Sid and Gino, they're looking like, what

490
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Speaker 3: makes Gino and sid like have an easy night where

491
00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:00,240
Speaker 3: they get a lot of points is when they play

492
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Speaker 3: against other players that are willing to take chances to

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Speaker 3: create offense. And Jordan Stall he will not cheat to

494
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Speaker 3: create offense. He will chip the puck in and make

495
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Speaker 3: Geno come back to his own head, make Sydney Crosby

496
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Speaker 3: play in his own end, then try to make a

497
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Speaker 3: move at the blue line. And that's why I think

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Speaker 3: he gives them so much trouble. You know, again, the

499
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Speaker 3: big wins span the defense first mindset and just keep

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Speaker 3: it as simple like Staalge's never been a guy that's gonna,

501
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Speaker 3: you know, dangle you or you know, make these crazy moves.

502
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Speaker 3: But he is going to be a guy that's gonna

503
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Speaker 3: chip pucks in, play the right way, hang on the

504
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Speaker 3: pucks down low.

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Speaker 2: And that drives like.

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Speaker 3: High end skill guys nuts because they want to grab

507
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Speaker 3: the puck and go the other way. Or Staalgy he

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Speaker 3: won't let that happen.

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Speaker 1: Finally, t K, I think the best bet for the

510
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Speaker 1: Penguins to finish top three in the Metro. Not not

511
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Speaker 1: that the wild cards impossible, all those teams are bunched up,

512
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Speaker 1: but there's just so many variables in a wild card,

513
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Speaker 1: So looking at the metro, which team concerns you more, Columbus.

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Speaker 2: Or the Islanders.

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Speaker 3: Columbus, I feel like Columbus has something special going on.

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Speaker 3: I think the way they win games when we think

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Speaker 3: of depth, Like their fourth line is pretty good, right,

518
00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:24,640
Speaker 3: Like their fourth line with Olivier, Guys like that that

519
00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:28,760
Speaker 3: actually help score goals for your team on the fourth

520
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Speaker 3: line help. I think they have Lorinsky as defense that's

521
00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:37,400
Speaker 3: very good, another top end guy they've picked up Garland, Like.

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Speaker 3: They have a very good team that wins by committee, right,

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Speaker 3: Like their team is not that it's built like the Penguins,

524
00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:51,080
Speaker 3: but they win like the Penguins, which means everyone has

525
00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:55,320
Speaker 3: to create offense, everyone has to help pull the rope.

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Speaker 3: So I think Columbus has a better chance to give then,

527
00:30:00,440 --> 00:30:02,840
Speaker 3: you know the Penguins that god in the Islanders. The Islanders,

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Speaker 3: I think they're riding a little bit of a hot streak.

529
00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:07,560
Speaker 3: I think there's a little bit of a budge because

530
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Speaker 3: of that young Shaefer kid who's having an unbelievable year.

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Speaker 3: But I do think it might cool off.

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Speaker 1: TK is always great insight. I appreciate it. We'll talk

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Speaker 1: again real soon. I'll see it the LEMU Fantasy Camp.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Mark, I'm on fire out there right now. I mean

536
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Speaker 3: mean dupweet me and duper on the back end.

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Speaker 2: I never looks great. I never had any doubt. That's

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Speaker 2: Tyler Kennedy.

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Speaker 1: I'm Mark Madden. Don't forget Pierre McGuire. Next hour here

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Speaker 1: on one O five to ninety X. First hour of

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Speaker 1: It's the top three warn Off topics number three, the

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Speaker 1: NFL Draft, number two, Connor Griffin, the Triple A number one,

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Speaker 2: On Route eighty eight in Bethel Park.

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Speaker 1: If you're just tuning in Penguin fans, bad news of

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Speaker 1: getting Maulkin out tonight with what is said to be

553
00:31:14,720 --> 00:31:18,240
Speaker 1: a hand injury. He's day to day. Shay back in

554
00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:23,120
Speaker 1: the lineup. Coyvenon called up. We've been talking about the

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Speaker 1: Pirates in their hopes, and tomorrow was the long awaited

556
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Speaker 1: return of the Buco round up at three point fifteen,

557
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Speaker 1: when I will give my official Pirate prediction for twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty six. And I mentioned earlier that a couple of

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Speaker 1: X Major leaguers, Matt Clement, the guy from Butler, and

560
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Speaker 1: Neil Walker, who played for the Pirates, they both said

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Speaker 1: the Parts could have win eighty seven games. I don't

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Speaker 1: think they believe that. I think they're saying that to

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Speaker 1: be positive. And if they do, think that, they're fools.

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Speaker 1: You really think this team did enough to approve by

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Speaker 1: sixteen games over last year. I will bet anyone ten

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Speaker 1: k on under eighty seven ten k on under eighty seven,

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Speaker 1: it'll be the easiest ten k I ever made. The

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Speaker 1: thing is I dot that anyone listening to this program

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Speaker 1: has ten k And I think the Pirates added a

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00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:15,800
Speaker 1: couple decent bats, but only decent. The best of those

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Speaker 1: bats Brandon Lau, the second baseman they got from Tampa.

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Speaker 1: Don't forget he's not an expiring contract. He's kind of

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Speaker 1: a rental. Let's see what happens to the deadline. Let's

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Speaker 1: see if they're in it, if they add.

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Speaker 2: And if they're kind of not in it, if they

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Speaker 2: just ditch Brandon Lao.

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Speaker 1: Let's see if they sign him between now in the

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Speaker 1: deadline to an extension, if you'd want to do that,

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Speaker 1: which I dot. But everybody thinks that Griffin does and

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Speaker 1: Schemes does, so why not Brandon Lao? Pirates just ain't

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Speaker 1: that much better. They are better, but they're just not

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Speaker 1: that much better. And to repeat my offer, I will

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Speaker 1: bet anybody ten k on under eighty seven. I'll bet Clement,

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Speaker 1: I'll bet Walker, I'll bet anybody or everybody. Uh eight

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Speaker 1: three three four one two wxdx the number to call,

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Speaker 1: oh TSN. Somebody talked to Kyle Dubas, and Kyle Dubas

587
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Speaker 1: said he will not trade Eric Carlson the offseason.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I was that an issued? Were we anticipating that

589
00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:26,720
Speaker 2: would definitely be the case.

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Speaker 1: At one time, you'd have liked to live. But now

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Speaker 1: he's playing great. Does he have to announce every time

592
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Speaker 1: they're not going to trade somebody? And what if, on

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Speaker 1: the other hand, he got an offer he couldn't refuse

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Speaker 1: for Carlson. I just think that as I mentioned earlier,

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Speaker 1: with all the space and time to fill, whether it's online,

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Speaker 1: on air, the rare print publication, even which barely exists,

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Speaker 1: you got so much space and time to fill that

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Speaker 1: you just make stuff up or invent stories in this

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Speaker 1: case aren't really stories.

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Speaker 2: Here's something I find kind of an amusing story. Pitt

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00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:09,000
Speaker 2: Basketball sucks. We know that Jeff Caple, the coach there,

602
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Speaker 2: he's a fraud.

603
00:34:09,719 --> 00:34:10,120
Speaker 3: We know that.

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00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:12,560
Speaker 2: But they're not going to fire him.

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Speaker 1: Because he allegedly has a good recruiting class coming in,

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Speaker 1: and because it would cost fifteen mil to buy him out,

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Speaker 1: which they would rather spend on a nil to get players.

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Speaker 2: But today they fired two of his assistants coaches, including

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Speaker 2: his brother.

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Speaker 1: They fired Capel's brother. You think they did that to

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Speaker 1: try to get Caple to quit so they won't have

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Speaker 1: to buy him out.

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Speaker 2: Bar to me, wonders, you know you fire the brother. No,

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Speaker 2: not my brother. My brother is part of the package. Okay,

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Speaker 2: then quit, But he didn't quit, So hail to Pitt.

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Speaker 2: Nice tribe.

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Speaker 1: A three three four one two WXDX number to call.

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Speaker 1: We got a caller on hold who did see the

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Speaker 1: flag football game that involved NFL players. So I'll get

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Speaker 1: a report on that, And we got Pierre McGuire three

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Speaker 1: thirty one oh five nine