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Speaker 1: Let's welcome aboard dot tom op From Tom, what's your

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Speaker 1: take on the LAO acquisition? To me, it's a good

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Speaker 1: first step, but I bet it's pretty much the only step.

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Speaker 2: I'm shocked that they did anything.

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Speaker 3: I was kind of reserving myself to them, just going

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Speaker 3: through this offseason and almost getting this player and almost

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Speaker 3: we did something.

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Speaker 2: We tried.

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Speaker 3: It's a little different from last year. So I'm impressed

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Speaker 3: that they actually were able to go out and swing this.

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Speaker 3: But you're a spot on with that analysis, Mark, This

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Speaker 3: has to be a first step. They're still probably about

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Speaker 3: two bats away in my estimation, from being legitimately a

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Speaker 3: playoff contender, and specifically speaking, they still have just a

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Speaker 3: massive hole at third base right now. Triolo cannot be

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Speaker 3: your starting third baseman. Well, could you move Gonzales there?

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Speaker 2: I don't think he's the arm strength to play third base.

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Speaker 3: I think he is really in a tough spot right now,

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Speaker 3: to be honest with you, But that's fine, because Gonzalez

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Speaker 3: isn't that great of a player.

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Speaker 2: People overrate him.

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Speaker 1: No, I agree, but I still think he's better than

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Speaker 1: some of the guys. At a great point, he's a

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Speaker 1: better bet than Triola.

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Speaker 2: That's a great point.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Like, do you make glow the DA leave Gonzalez

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Speaker 2: So no mascot, no mascot cuts this year?

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Speaker 1: Then, well, I think, And this is a conversation I

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Speaker 1: was gonna have, you know, maybe Monday once this sunk in,

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Speaker 1: because damn the Powers for making a deal right before

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Speaker 2: I had to redo preparation and that's not fun, Tom.

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Speaker 1: I'd like to just kind of come in secure with

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Speaker 1: what I had planned to say since roughly a thirty

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Speaker 1: pm last night. Well, no, after the Penguin game, which

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Speaker 1: we'll get to in a moment. But yeah, I think

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Speaker 1: I think it would say a lot about their desire

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so too. I think. I mean this

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Speaker 1: I'm always gonna say Magnum, but it's Mangum.

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Speaker 2: The inn comes before the GA.

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Speaker 1: Right right, and the stolen bases come before the power.

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Speaker 1: But but I mean, he's gonna get some at bats.

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Speaker 1: I just think they need to move on from Cutch

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, so you're gonna have Cruis and Reynolds

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Speaker 3: right like, that's what they would go with. And then hey,

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Speaker 3: what if I don't know, I know, you guys out

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Speaker 3: password just becomes the DH. Yeah, cuts it Cuts should

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Speaker 3: be the odd man out. They should move on from

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Speaker 3: him back on like a four or five million dollars

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Speaker 1: Will they promote Griffin no matter what? Will he be

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Speaker 3: If they make one more move for a bat, I

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Speaker 1: Well, that's not what I said. I mean logically, in

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Speaker 3: League even as it stands right now, even before they

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Speaker 2: I don't think.

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Speaker 1: But I think they're gonna look the hype as much

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Speaker 3: It is so unlike them, though, I mean, they love

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Speaker 3: So it would be bucking their usual trend big time.

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Speaker 1: Where do you see them how many win team now

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Speaker 3: You're probably right, seventy five, seventy six something like that.

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Speaker 3: Though, depends on how you think the division looks like.

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Speaker 1: Then I bet what they do is they start off

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Speaker 1: And we'll talk about them at length a bit later,

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Speaker 1: but just right now, to me, they mean four mila

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Speaker 1: bit and quits on the dad's trip. But the dads

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Speaker 1: Remember when they kind of went on strike when they

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Speaker 3: Oh, because Jarry deserves that. Jarry deserves the Jake treatment.

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Speaker 3: It is crazy how much they overestimated him in that

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Speaker 1: It is also crazy how much they just want the

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's like a guy like said, is he

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Speaker 3: years going on four. To be perfectly blunt, he wants

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Speaker 3: to have his cake and eat it too. Well, it's

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Speaker 1: Boy. I mean, I bet that was a surly group

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Speaker 1: They screwed up Harrison Brunnick because they got that whiff

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Speaker 1: to go to Muse and make the plan get put

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Speaker 1: You're fired.

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Speaker 3: Part of that plant. Bruni comes back from juniors from Canada.

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Speaker 3: You play him every night, right like just or maybe

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Speaker 3: you know you do like more, you send them back

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Speaker 2: But you make a freaking decision.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's got to play more than he is. And

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Speaker 3: that and who's is that?

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Speaker 2: Tom?

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Speaker 1: When it happened that that hot start would screw them up,

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Speaker 1: it would skew the plan.

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Speaker 2: Me Mark Madden, the super genius. That's too.

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Speaker 3: I'll throw another one in there that they have to do.

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Speaker 3: I think they got to get rid of she Lov's

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Speaker 3: got to go with Skinner and Mirraschov moving forward and

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Speaker 1: Joel blum Quist has been playing him up really well

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Speaker 3: Sure, why not just get she Loves the hell out

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Speaker 3: of here. He stinks. He's on a six game losing

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Speaker 2: It's awful.

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Speaker 1: having interviewed Chilofs probably have more personality one oh five

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Speaker 1: this Brandon Loud deal? I mean, was he great? I

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Speaker 1: like thirty five seventeen. The Steelers can't slow down that

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Speaker 1: So there's more for them to lose than there is

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Speaker 1: And while the line secondary is beat up, their pass

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Speaker 1: just don't think Mike Tomlin has it within him to

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Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe Cincinnati forced that more than the

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Speaker 1: just don't have a good feeling about this game. I

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Speaker 1: will say though, if the Steelers do win, the hero

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Speaker 1: will be the modern day warrior Jack Sawyer, who I

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Speaker 1: don't think is quite ready to be a starting edge

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Speaker 1: Tom what is the Steelers' best bet to win this

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Speaker 3: They definitely have to slow down Jamier Gibbs, Like that's

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Speaker 1: I think Harbaugh doesn't have quite the job security of

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Speaker 3: They always split, right isn't that the cliche that Steelers

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Speaker 2: One O five to nine The X.

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Speaker 3: Tomorrow nights, the Pens go head to head against the Canadians.

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Speaker 2: Game time is seven.

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Speaker 3: but we got a long time between now and the

443
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Speaker 3: baseball season starts.

444
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Speaker 2: And do you agree it ends with him being traded

445
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Speaker 2: in July?

446
00:18:31,119 --> 00:18:32,560
Speaker 3: Yeah, if they're out of it, or even do you

447
00:18:32,560 --> 00:18:34,040
Speaker 3: think there's any chance he reopts.

448
00:18:34,359 --> 00:18:36,160
Speaker 2: No, there's no chance he reopts.

449
00:18:36,240 --> 00:18:38,520
Speaker 3: And unless by some miracle they do go to the

450
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Speaker 3: playoffs and make a round.

451
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Speaker 1: Now, from that standpoint, I give them credit for trading,

452
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Speaker 1: even for rental, because schemes might just have the one

453
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Speaker 1: year here. Maybe they're doing this year what they should

454
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Speaker 1: have done, you know, last year and the year before,

455
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Speaker 1: every year they had Paul Skins. And by getting this

456
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Speaker 1: guy in a trade where he couldn't say no, he

457
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Speaker 1: didn't have that that, you know, right, every fus I'm

458
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Speaker 1: assuming because I would refuse. But but now you've layed

459
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Speaker 1: groundwork where free agents might think, Okay, these guys maybe

460
00:19:08,840 --> 00:19:12,199
Speaker 1: are serious. In the short term anyway, maybe you get like,

461
00:19:12,560 --> 00:19:14,200
Speaker 1: what did you see Bellinger wants something?

462
00:19:16,040 --> 00:19:17,840
Speaker 2: But by the same forty million or something. Yeah, but

463
00:19:17,840 --> 00:19:18,360
Speaker 2: here's the thing.

464
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Speaker 1: If the powers were serious, Well, the thing is if

465
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Speaker 1: he wants that, you'd give that the skemes and he'd

466
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Speaker 1: say no to just like Bellinger wud.

467
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Speaker 2: I know there's still in a tough spot.

468
00:19:26,760 --> 00:19:28,879
Speaker 3: They are, but there are some guys out there, some

469
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Speaker 3: fringe players that now I think you can fill out

470
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Speaker 3: this lineup with, like a Michael Confordo who was with

471
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Speaker 3: the Dodgers last year, costs like eight million dollars pay him.

472
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Speaker 3: You really want to talk throw twenty million at a

473
00:19:38,240 --> 00:19:40,880
Speaker 3: you Hennio Suarez. That's going to be an overpay for him,

474
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Speaker 3: but that fills your third base spot, and he hit

475
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Speaker 3: over forty home runs last year.

476
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Speaker 2: I don't disagree that.

477
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Speaker 1: In fact, if I had to say one move they

478
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Speaker 1: should make that, I'm not sure it's makable because again

479
00:19:50,840 --> 00:19:52,240
Speaker 1: I'm not sure anybody wants to come here.

480
00:19:52,320 --> 00:19:54,600
Speaker 2: Yes, but the move is to overpay swats.

481
00:19:54,680 --> 00:19:56,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, I think the spot track told me like

482
00:19:56,960 --> 00:19:59,320
Speaker 3: fourteen fifteen is what they're expecting him to get on

483
00:19:59,359 --> 00:20:02,560
Speaker 3: a per year. BA twenty twenty one million would absolutely

484
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Speaker 3: make him come here, even if he didn't want to come.

485
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Speaker 2: If you added Suadez and at him and Lao in

486
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Speaker 2: the middle of the lineup.

487
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Speaker 1: And let's say you win the gamble by promoting Connor

488
00:20:10,920 --> 00:20:13,040
Speaker 1: Griffin at that age, you could make the playoffs.

489
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Speaker 3: Are we pulling the plug on Reynolds and Cruz too

490
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Speaker 3: that there's no like turnaround for Reynolds this year or

491
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Speaker 3: Cruz actually turns into something decent?

492
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Speaker 2: What I mean, you're talking about trading him?

493
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Speaker 1: No? No, No.

494
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Speaker 2: As far as in the lineup, how they fit with

495
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Speaker 2: that what you're saying.

496
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Speaker 1: I think if they're protected by better bats, they would

497
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Speaker 1: be better.

498
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Speaker 2: And here I am being optimistic. Well, I think that

499
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Speaker 2: applies to Reynolds. I don't know about Cruz.

500
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Speaker 3: I just Cruz just went so hard in the tank

501
00:20:35,280 --> 00:20:37,040
Speaker 3: at the end of last season, didn't finish under the

502
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Speaker 3: Mendoza line or really close to it.

503
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Speaker 2: He was flirting with it. I just don't know if

504
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Speaker 2: he'll ever come around.

505
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Speaker 1: Now. Well, here's the thing about him. I think he's

506
00:20:43,359 --> 00:20:45,920
Speaker 1: really stupid, true, and I don't think he cares very much.

507
00:20:46,119 --> 00:20:48,240
Speaker 1: I think he got his money. You know, he could

508
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Speaker 1: afford to buy the entire Dominican Republic. I just think

509
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Speaker 1: he has achieved what he wants in baseball.

510
00:20:53,680 --> 00:20:54,120
Speaker 2: Already.

511
00:20:54,200 --> 00:20:57,000
Speaker 3: He probably wants just like very Polanco esque, probably wants

512
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Speaker 3: to play short stops too. Still, right like, if he

513
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Speaker 3: had his way, he would probably still want to be

514
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Speaker 3: a shortstop and playing.

515
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Speaker 1: I'm surprised he didn't rebel in that regard. I mean,

516
00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:08,400
Speaker 1: after after he proved to not be any more comfortable

517
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Speaker 1: in center field.

518
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Speaker 3: It is still a pretty glamorous position, right Like, It's

519
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Speaker 3: not like they moved him into right field.

520
00:21:12,960 --> 00:21:14,880
Speaker 2: I don't care. It's not short But I'm just saying.

521
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Speaker 3: You asked me a question.

522
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Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no, I mean I don't I mean,

523
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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna I don't know what's a glamorous position

524
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Speaker 1: in baseball. I mean, Willie May's paid center field that.

525
00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:25,320
Speaker 2: Joe Mickey Mantle. I know.

526
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Speaker 1: I don't think it's put it this way. I don't

527
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Speaker 1: think it's any less glamorous position than shortstop.

528
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Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying though, So maybe that's why he

529
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Speaker 3: didn't rebel, because it was like, Okay, I'm still kind

530
00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:36,920
Speaker 3: of in a big time spot, just in the outfield,

531
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Speaker 3: not in the infield.

532
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Speaker 2: Is he due for arbitration? O'Neal Cruz, they signed him,

533
00:21:40,920 --> 00:21:44,080
Speaker 2: they locked him up. Yeah, that's right, But no, what

534
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Speaker 2: are you sure about that.

535
00:21:45,240 --> 00:21:47,359
Speaker 3: I'm looking up his spot track right now to see

536
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Speaker 3: when that deal. I don't know they ate into some

537
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Speaker 3: of them.

538
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Speaker 1: And if I sound confused, it's because I don't talk

539
00:21:51,600 --> 00:21:55,280
Speaker 1: about baseball hardly ever, and really don't care. Tom. While

540
00:21:55,320 --> 00:21:57,760
Speaker 1: you're looking that up, let's let's talk Penguins. Last night

541
00:21:57,920 --> 00:21:59,720
Speaker 1: was bad. Did it looked to you like the Penguins quit?

542
00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:01,960
Speaker 1: It looked to me like they didn't even start like.

543
00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:04,000
Speaker 1: It looked at me like from the beginning of the game,

544
00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:06,480
Speaker 1: they just didn't have any jumper. You'd expect them to

545
00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:08,199
Speaker 1: get shot out of a cannon trying to end a

546
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Speaker 1: six game losing streak against the team that is not

547
00:22:10,600 --> 00:22:12,040
Speaker 1: that good in Ottawa.

548
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Speaker 3: And it just was flat from the start of the game.

549
00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:16,840
Speaker 3: It was very surprising to see that.

550
00:22:16,840 --> 00:22:19,520
Speaker 2: Is Dan muse in over his head. He looks befuddled.

551
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Speaker 1: He reminded me seriously of Mike Johnston, who had a

552
00:22:22,960 --> 00:22:26,600
Speaker 1: brief stint as Penguins coach, a first NHL head coaching job,

553
00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:28,160
Speaker 1: almost certainly his last.

554
00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:31,040
Speaker 2: He's back. I think in junior a.

555
00:22:31,840 --> 00:22:35,160
Speaker 1: Mus looked confused and I think he's gotten away from

556
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Speaker 1: the plan for this season, whether on his own behest,

557
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Speaker 1: whether it's with Dubas's approval, which I got, I think

558
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Speaker 1: Dubis needs to straighten him out.

559
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Speaker 3: I mean, the honeymoon portion was great right the first

560
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Speaker 3: month and a half with me.

561
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Speaker 1: But I think the honeymoon I think the honeymoon portion

562
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Speaker 1: when they started out so hot and had like the

563
00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:53,879
Speaker 1: best ruger in Eastern Conference, I think that was fool's

564
00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:56,760
Speaker 1: gold obviously, and I think it got them off course

565
00:22:56,800 --> 00:22:58,280
Speaker 1: for what they should be doing.

566
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Speaker 3: Which is so weird because they were leaning into what

567
00:23:00,760 --> 00:23:03,720
Speaker 3: they should be doing that provided the fools gold start.

568
00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:05,800
Speaker 3: So why would you change course? Why wouldn't you just

569
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Speaker 3: keep leaning into that and say, hey, maybe we keep

570
00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:08,719
Speaker 3: getting lucky and it keeps working out.

571
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Speaker 1: Well, what they gotta do is you gotta go with

572
00:23:10,560 --> 00:23:14,760
Speaker 1: kids and music isn't not enough Like friggin' Mantha on

573
00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:17,440
Speaker 1: the top power play, not Kendall, who's their best power play?

574
00:23:17,480 --> 00:23:22,960
Speaker 1: Guy Heinen in Pittsburgh Bros. At Wilkes Brunick's year getting mangled.

575
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Speaker 1: You know, I just I just think right now, in

576
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Speaker 1: terms of that sort of decision, forget about what's actually

577
00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:31,720
Speaker 1: happening on the ice, But in terms of decision making

578
00:23:31,760 --> 00:23:33,159
Speaker 1: with the roster and deployment.

579
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Speaker 2: How many mistakes are they making? Let me comp the ways?

580
00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:38,119
Speaker 2: Too many? Yeah?

581
00:23:38,160 --> 00:23:41,360
Speaker 3: Absolutely, The buttons just start being pushed. We said that yesterday.

582
00:23:41,520 --> 00:23:44,399
Speaker 3: He's not finding a good touch right now and the

583
00:23:44,480 --> 00:23:47,320
Speaker 3: league's pushing back on him after his hot start. He

584
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Speaker 3: has no answers, and we said yesterday too, are you

585
00:23:52,119 --> 00:23:54,480
Speaker 3: too far away from getting into you know, bottom five,

586
00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:57,840
Speaker 3: bottom six positioning? Keep losing five or six more in

587
00:23:57,840 --> 00:23:59,760
Speaker 3: a row and we can start talking right What if

588
00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:00,439
Speaker 3: they get.

589
00:24:00,320 --> 00:24:03,679
Speaker 1: Swept in the home and home with Montreal on Saturday Sunday.

590
00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:07,399
Speaker 2: If you get swept, I wonder what happens. I don't know.

591
00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:09,320
Speaker 3: Do you fire him? Is it too early to pull

592
00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:11,639
Speaker 3: that trigger? And what's the means there? I guess you

593
00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:13,920
Speaker 3: would fire him just because he's not leaning into development

594
00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:15,359
Speaker 3: like you wanted him to, Like that would be your

595
00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:16,080
Speaker 3: main reasoning.

596
00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:18,080
Speaker 1: I think at that point you'd fire him because he

597
00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:21,760
Speaker 1: lost nine straight. Losing nine straight is unacceptable. Like I said,

598
00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:25,080
Speaker 1: he looks confused, the team looks like they quit And

599
00:24:25,119 --> 00:24:27,040
Speaker 1: as you heard me say a little bit ago, Tom,

600
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Speaker 1: I'm told the room is upset because Jari got traded.

601
00:24:30,320 --> 00:24:31,600
Speaker 2: Like when Jake got traded.

602
00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:35,359
Speaker 1: That room and this includes everybody in it needs to

603
00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:38,400
Speaker 1: get the f over itself. Yate won a playoff series

604
00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:40,840
Speaker 1: since twenty eighteen. Yate made the playoffs in three years.

605
00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:43,560
Speaker 1: You're a bad hockey team. Figure it out and don't

606
00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:45,480
Speaker 1: pop because you don't have the right too. You're not

607
00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:46,200
Speaker 1: entitled to it.

608
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Speaker 3: Hearing that if I'm doing this and I say other

609
00:24:48,119 --> 00:24:50,359
Speaker 3: room's not taking it, well, that actually might encourage me

610
00:24:50,440 --> 00:24:52,679
Speaker 3: more if they continue this slide, to move a rust,

611
00:24:52,800 --> 00:24:54,920
Speaker 3: to move a raquel, to blow the room up even more,

612
00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:56,440
Speaker 3: to be like, if you're gonna be this soft when

613
00:24:56,440 --> 00:24:58,160
Speaker 3: I make trades like this, forget that room.

614
00:24:58,160 --> 00:24:58,880
Speaker 2: I don't want that rum.

615
00:24:58,960 --> 00:25:01,399
Speaker 1: I think the intent was to at least investigate that

616
00:25:01,440 --> 00:25:04,240
Speaker 1: in the off season of Paper Soon scared Kyle, we'll

617
00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:06,440
Speaker 1: talk about how Sid needs to be in the playoffs.

618
00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:08,040
Speaker 2: So he kept both of his line mates instead of

619
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Speaker 2: shipping one of them off. Yeah, it just just I mean.

620
00:25:11,119 --> 00:25:12,919
Speaker 3: Carlson's got to be traded now too, kind of for

621
00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:14,560
Speaker 3: the same reason why Jarry needed to be trade.

622
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Speaker 1: He's starting to fade, he's started to get backs.

623
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Speaker 2: You gotta get him out of here. While there's probably

624
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Speaker 2: some still value.

625
00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:22,600
Speaker 1: What about getting slaughter on the dad's trip, Tom, that

626
00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:25,560
Speaker 1: that almost never happens. The kids usually up the annie

627
00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:28,800
Speaker 1: when the dads are there. They clearly did not last night.

628
00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:31,080
Speaker 1: I mean, sorry dad. Do you think they got a

629
00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:33,000
Speaker 1: tongue lashing when they went back to the hotel? Like

630
00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:34,280
Speaker 1: kind of like a throwback to the.

631
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Speaker 2: I don't know what kind of women these guys meet

632
00:25:36,080 --> 00:25:36,280
Speaker 2: on the.

633
00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:40,200
Speaker 3: Road, Tom, Uh, you have seen mister deeds when the

634
00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:42,240
Speaker 3: dad takes off the belt when he uses foul language.

635
00:25:42,240 --> 00:25:43,639
Speaker 2: Do you think that was happening to the player?

636
00:25:43,720 --> 00:25:45,520
Speaker 1: You know, I thought about this the other day because

637
00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:48,600
Speaker 1: I watch Uncut Gems over and over, Yeah, which I

638
00:25:48,640 --> 00:25:51,800
Speaker 1: think is one OF's best movies. I thought, funny people

639
00:25:52,119 --> 00:25:54,679
Speaker 1: like the ones that are semi drama with comedy stirred in.

640
00:25:55,359 --> 00:25:58,560
Speaker 1: I think he found kind of a niche. However, accidentally,

641
00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:01,239
Speaker 1: he's got chops there, no doubt. Yeah, yeah, but but

642
00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:04,080
Speaker 1: I you know, I've seen relatively few Sandler movies there.

643
00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:06,320
Speaker 1: He got in a jag where a lot of them

644
00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:09,680
Speaker 1: just weren't pretty good. Although he hasn't disappeared and done

645
00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:12,320
Speaker 1: bad product like Will Ferrell has in the past.

646
00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:14,560
Speaker 2: When's the last good Will Ferrell movie. That's the thing.

647
00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:16,520
Speaker 2: Like Adam Sandler at least hasn't faded, you know what

648
00:26:16,560 --> 00:26:20,080
Speaker 2: I mean. Like Adam Adam a huge talent. No even

649
00:26:20,119 --> 00:26:23,200
Speaker 2: like I've watched grown Ups years after the fact. It's funny.

650
00:26:23,119 --> 00:26:26,960
Speaker 1: They're formulaic with all the like you know, his cronies,

651
00:26:27,280 --> 00:26:30,199
Speaker 1: but they're okay, yeah, there is. You're right, that's a

652
00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:32,360
Speaker 1: good way to put it because of who's in it,

653
00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:35,280
Speaker 1: and because the storyline is real simple and it's it's

654
00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:39,040
Speaker 1: nostalgia based. The charm is definitely there. I'll say this,

655
00:26:39,320 --> 00:26:42,200
Speaker 1: here's how bad Will Ferrell's been for long enough. Yeah,

656
00:26:42,480 --> 00:26:44,400
Speaker 1: I'm beginning to wonder if he was ever any good

657
00:26:44,400 --> 00:26:47,040
Speaker 1: in the first place, and if we overrated his body

658
00:26:47,040 --> 00:26:47,400
Speaker 1: of work.

659
00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:49,640
Speaker 3: I think he was pretty good on Saturday Night Live.

660
00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:52,800
Speaker 3: I think his movie career took off to a different

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Speaker 3: level with the McKay team up, and now that he

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Speaker 3: has divorced himself from Adam McKay.

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Speaker 2: You just starting to wonder who made who I think.

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Speaker 3: Movie wise, like Superstar wise, I think Adam McKay had

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Speaker 3: a lot to do with that.

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Speaker 2: There's no question, Okay.

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Speaker 1: I think we've concluded that the big story today is

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Speaker 1: not the acquisition of Brandon Law, or the Penguins losing

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Speaker 1: seven in a row or the Steelers in line Sunday.

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Speaker 1: It is indeed the trajectory of Will Ferrell's career.

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Speaker 3: Do you want to know about o'nel Cruiz's arbitration. He

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Speaker 3: is due arbitration this year. Three point twenty five mil

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Speaker 3: is the estimate. I thought, so, yeah, you were right.

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Speaker 1: Well, three point two five mil for his talent is

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Speaker 1: actually reasonable.

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Speaker 2: It's not bad for his performance. It's actually overpaying.

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Speaker 1: It is I just like I'd get I'd trade him

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Speaker 1: before people figure out that.

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Speaker 2: It just just is what he is.

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Speaker 3: Especially coming off of that derby, right, because the national

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Speaker 3: perspective is like, wow, look at what he did in

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Speaker 3: the home run derby. O'Neal Cruiz is awesome. That's what

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Speaker 3: people on the West Coast think of him, who pitched

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Speaker 3: him in a home run derby.

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Speaker 2: As some pitching coach for the Pirates. I think because

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Speaker 2: I'd have beaned him. One oh five nine the X

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Speaker 2: from the Dollar Energy Fund Weather Center. This report is

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Speaker 2: for genuine We're gonna.

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Speaker 1: See this hour of the show brought to us by Shnderovi,

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Speaker 1: Shenderovich and Fishmen. They only charge twenty five percent. Everybody

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Speaker 1: else charges forty. I think forty is just screwing you

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Speaker 1: to the wall. And Shndrovia Shendrorovis and Fishermen are the

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Speaker 1: only lawyers out there who care. But that's just me

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Speaker 1: well them and Saul Goodman, who is not available locally.

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Speaker 1: And I think if we follow the storyline, God will

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Speaker 1: still be in prison.

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Speaker 2: There's a new Tom. Have you heard? Were you Better

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Speaker 2: Calls off?

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Speaker 1: In?

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Speaker 3: Nah?

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Speaker 2: Didn't watch Breaking Bad, So I didn't watch Better Call Saw?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 2: Because there's there's one what's it called?

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Speaker 1: Uh? Vince Gilligan who did those two series, has one

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Speaker 1: featuring Ray Seahorn, who is a big part of Better

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Speaker 1: Call Saw?

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Speaker 2: But I forget what's called porbus?

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Speaker 3: Maybe it has nothing to do with No, No, no, it's

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Speaker 3: not in our same character.

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Speaker 2: No.

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Speaker 1: I like today's show, you know why because the lile

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Speaker 1: trade and the penguins soiling the bed on the Dad's

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Speaker 1: trip gave us a lot to pick from the converse about,

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Speaker 1: aside for the usual your hint cause Steelers are gonna win.

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Speaker 1: With that in mind, let's go to the trifecta. Tom,

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Speaker 1: What do you got?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Perfect?

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Speaker 3: With that in mind, so I've got stats on each

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Speaker 3: one of the Lions Big three that really puts into

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Speaker 3: perspective how historically great they've been so far.

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Speaker 1: To quote David sat Hubbins, maybe too much effing perspective.

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Speaker 3: Number three, I'll go with Aiden Hutchinson, their best player

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Speaker 3: on defense. He's the first player since sacks have been

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Speaker 3: tracked in nineteen eighty two to have thirty five plus

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Speaker 3: sacks and five plus interceptions in his first four career seasons.

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Speaker 3: So he gets it done, not just sacking the quarterback.

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Speaker 3: He'll drop back and coverage and pick you off. Hutchinson

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Speaker 3: has that many picks.

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Speaker 2: Five plus picks.

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Speaker 3: So he's better than what right now, without question, he's

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Speaker 3: better than all they stabbed what In the long of course,

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Speaker 3: this is going to be better now. He actually kind

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Speaker 3: of reminds me a bit of what like back when

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Speaker 3: Watt was in his prime, where he could do that

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Speaker 3: kind of things like drop but not getting stabbed in

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Speaker 3: the lung right back before a lot.

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Speaker 1: Isn't that amazing that that hasn't been made a bigger

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Speaker 1: deal out of them they stabbed him in the lung, He's.

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Speaker 2: Just kind of brush right over, oh whatever where without.

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Speaker 1: I still love that he was at like the Christmas

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Speaker 1: function for the Steelers. Look he's getting better. It wasn't

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Speaker 1: an effing lung x rayu Marks. Okay, what else?

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Speaker 3: Number two Jamiir Gibbs, the Lions star running back. He

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Speaker 3: and Barry Sanders are the only players in league history

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Speaker 3: with twelve hundred plus scrimmage yards and ten plus touchdowns

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Speaker 3: in their first three seasons, and they all each accomplished

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Speaker 3: that before turning twenty four. Gibbs, here's a bonus. One

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Speaker 3: fifty two career touchdowns, has the most touchdowns of any

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Speaker 3: player in NFL history before turning twenty four. Or do

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Speaker 3: you rank him currently among the NFL running backs? He's

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Speaker 3: no lower than three. He might be one. You could

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Speaker 3: probably make the case for him at number one. Him,

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Speaker 3: Bijon definitely right there.

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Speaker 1: One.

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Speaker 3: Two's having a little bit of a down year this year.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I'd rank Gibbs ahead of for sure this year.

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Speaker 1: I think Bjean's the only one you can put in that.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Jonathan Taylor and James Cook are good too.

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Speaker 1: You can't forget them. The Colts running back of the

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Speaker 1: Bills running back, I don't think they're doing quite as

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Speaker 1: good as expected. I mean, you're doing real good. I'm

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Speaker 1: not sure like you know what I mean? Is that

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Speaker 1: fair to start that into the equation faded?

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Speaker 2: For sure?

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Speaker 3: I think down the stretch this season, like Cooks starting

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Speaker 3: to catch up with him rushing yards wise, Gibbs and

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Speaker 3: Bjeon Robinson bring so much to the table in the

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Speaker 3: passing game, and Gibbs especially. He might be the number

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Speaker 3: one back, but my number one player in this Big

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Speaker 3: three for the lines in his amazing stat a'man Ross

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Speaker 3: Saint Brown, the unbelievable wide receiver. He is the only player,

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Speaker 3: the only wide receiver in NFL history, to have ninety

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Speaker 3: catches in every single one of his first five seasons.

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Speaker 3: Think of all the great receivers, every single one of

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Speaker 3: them that didn't do that, abesque, but Amy didn't even

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Speaker 3: accomplish that without the stupid and his rookie season.

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Speaker 2: Ab didn't get ninety catch and all the kids, as

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Speaker 2: far as I know, t o Randy Moss, the list

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Speaker 2: goes on and on. I'm on Ross Saint Brown only one.

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Speaker 2: You know what the best thing about Amon Ross Saint

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Speaker 2: bron is that is a cool name. His name.

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Speaker 3: Do you know his brother's name Equinamius. Oh my god,

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Speaker 3: it's perfect. Does he played ball? He did, Yeah, he

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Speaker 3: played for the Packers. I don't know if he's still

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Speaker 3: in the league or not.

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Speaker 1: Oh, because I would put him on the team just

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Speaker 1: to have Equinimious and Amra. Yeah my god. What what

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Speaker 1: nationalities that I wonder? I don't there a Saint Bron.

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Speaker 1: I know there was a Saint Hubbins. That's a spinal tap.

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Speaker 3: I'mon Ross sounds a little Egyptian, right Like? Doesn't that

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Speaker 3: sound like kind of like what a pharaoh would be called.

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Speaker 2: I hate the stereotype. Tom.

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Speaker 1: Sorry, No, a pharaoh would be called Mohammed Salah, the

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Speaker 1: Egyptian king.

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Speaker 3: They are German, apparently, the Saint Browns, they are German

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Speaker 3: American professional football players.

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Speaker 2: There can't be a Saint Brom. I'm just telling you

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Speaker 2: right now, this is what it's says.

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Speaker 1: Literally, a Saint Bron, like we know there was like

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Speaker 1: a Saint Peter, you know, is there a Saint named Bron?

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Speaker 2: I don't think. I don't think there is.

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Speaker 3: I don't think they are his last Equanamius's last stop

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Speaker 3: was on the San Francisco forty nine ers practice squad, so.

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Speaker 2: The Lions could snatch him up and pair him together.

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Speaker 2: I would love to be the PA announcer for the lines.

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Speaker 1: I would say, Detroit touchdown, Ammon Ross, Saint Brown.

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Speaker 3: Do you know he wears number fourteen too? Because fourteen

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Speaker 3: receivers were picked in front of him in the draft

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Speaker 3: year he went.

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Speaker 2: He's so he's petty, Yes, Tom petty.

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Speaker 1: By the way, do you see the Flyers announcer got

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Speaker 1: suspended because he made like a crack to a not

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Speaker 1: a female colleague, but a male colleague, because I guess

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Speaker 1: the guy ducked under the console to fix something. He said, hey,

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Speaker 1: while you're down there. He shouldn't be suspended for that.

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Speaker 3: I don't mind the suspension a live thing, but he

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Speaker 3: just better not be fired.

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Speaker 2: I don't think that that is a fireable offense at all.

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Speaker 1: I think once you tell your employees they can't kit

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Speaker 1: around at all, it makes for a really bad workplace.

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Speaker 1: And then again, he does work for the Flyer, so

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Speaker 1: there's really no salvaging one oh five ninety x