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Speaker 2: Twins play their season opener at Baltimore about an hour

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Speaker 2: from now. Here's the Twins starting lineup today. Austin Martin

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Speaker 1: Let's game. It's now time to take an in depth

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Speaker 2: Nate Davis of USA today gave out free agency grades

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Speaker 2: With four sweets sixteen matchups in the men's NCAA basketball Tournament, Tonight,

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Speaker 2: number eleven seed Texas will take on number two Purdue.

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Speaker 1: That's at six ten pm.

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Speaker 2: Number nine Iowa will face number four Nebraska at six

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Speaker 2: oh five pm. Common which matchup intrigues you the most tonight?

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Speaker 1: In the trenches.

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Speaker 2: Line's running back Jamior Gibbs is the betting favorite to

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Speaker 1: Have I mentioned, you know, I generally don't want to

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Speaker 1: Nick sent me this email. It's one of those. I

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Speaker 1: before we could move forward. In twenty twenty six is winter.

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Speaker 1: We came together as an organization and to find a

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Speaker 1: Building a championship caliber organization takes excellence in every aspect

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Speaker 1: know how bad that is. I don't have the raw

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Speaker 1: they'll go to games just because, especially in baseball, I

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Speaker 1: think this scobe exists something to do and so you

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Speaker 1: you do get that in Colorado apparently they're they're famous

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Speaker 1: for that. But that will land eventually, I think. I mean,

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Speaker 1: if you if you keep trotting out a team that's

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Speaker 1: winning forty three games a season, I think people will

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Speaker 1: Earlier in the program during.

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Speaker 3: Five three before tenantb revealed the Twins line up the

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Speaker 3: opening day today, and it raised some eyebrows Tennebe's and

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Speaker 3: mine and others that Royce Lewis, who at one time

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Speaker 3: was the number one rank prospect, not just with the

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Speaker 3: Twins but in all of baseball, is slated to bat eighth.

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Speaker 1: And we started to try to figure what that's all about.

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Speaker 1: Is it such a lack of confidence in Lewis that

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Speaker 1: we have at the bottom of the order, or is

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Speaker 1: it because wow, we want to you know, because he

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Speaker 1: maybe has lost some confidence. Who want to ease him

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Speaker 1: back into it, not put as much pressure on him

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Speaker 1: by having Hi bat in that third or four slot.

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Speaker 1: Is it possible, Tennebe, they haven't Battynate so that it'll

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Speaker 1: look better when he limps off with an injury in

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Speaker 1: the third inning rather than the first inning, because that

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Speaker 1: means he will have played a little bit longer. Of course,

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Speaker 1: the injury be running the basins, that's it. And so

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Speaker 1: maybe that's why they have him batting further down in

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Speaker 1: the lineup so that he'll leave later in the game

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Speaker 1: so it doesn't look quite as bad as going off

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Speaker 1: in the first of the first inning. So now someone

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Speaker 1: just sent this to me, then maybe you're aware of

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Speaker 1: this to me. I got to get back to because

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Speaker 1: I almost can't. Here's what it said. Text ministers came

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Speaker 1: into the Brown ryn Kban text Sciences. Ben Lieber said

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Speaker 1: he would start training cap with Wentz number one, Murphy

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Speaker 1: number two, McCarthy third. He got obliterated on social media

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Speaker 1: for that and had to make a video when he

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Speaker 1: was on vacation and posted defended his take. Is that true?

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Speaker 1: Did he feel like he had to come out of

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Speaker 1: hiding from his vacation wherever he was to defend why

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Speaker 1: he thought Wentz would be the number one guy? And

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Speaker 1: did he really say that? I mean, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I thought I heard he did, but I haven't really followed.

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Speaker 1: I wonder what his logic was. I'd like to see

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Speaker 1: the video to see him defending his take. I I mean,

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Speaker 1: I'm not you know, I I don't think Murphy is

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Speaker 1: a cure all. I don't think it's like whoa This

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Speaker 1: is like getting a combination of Pat Mahomes, Matt Stafford,

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen all in one and he's on our team now.

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Speaker 1: But and I, you know, I was all for doing

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Speaker 1: you know, like the WNZ thing was like, well yeah,

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Speaker 1: I mean particularly when they got it was a Sam

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Speaker 1: Howell was a kid's name, right, he gets to town.

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Speaker 1: They think he's so bad that they did they they

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Speaker 1: trade Howell or just released trade in Philly for a

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Speaker 1: garbage pack, okay, and then they call Wentz, who was

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Speaker 1: He wasn't on a team, he was basically retired, and

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Speaker 1: they brought him in. And I don't remember exactly what

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Speaker 1: I what I said at the time, but I'm sure

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Speaker 1: I was better to have a veteran that's had You've

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Speaker 1: got a guy that's had experience. And he had some

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Speaker 1: success until he had that injury where he was lost

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Speaker 1: for the season. He had the team the Eagles, like

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Speaker 1: thirteen and two or whatever the record was, and he

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Speaker 1: gets hurt, Fulls takes ober Folds, wins a big game,

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Speaker 1: beats Tom Brady here at the bank. Remember that season

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Speaker 1: for us, it was bringing home and then they ended

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Speaker 1: up being watched from home. But ah, you know what

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Speaker 1: we are you know, but I don't know. And look,

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Speaker 1: liber played the game at a high level. I did too,

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Speaker 1: but not as he played NFL. I got to Coon

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Speaker 1: rabas Athletic Association. I don't know what world Carson Wentz

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Speaker 1: you would want to have him starting in front of

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Speaker 1: Kyle Murphy or could you make an argument for that

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Speaker 1: or so. I did not hear lebersimy.

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Speaker 2: I think I heard a different show talking about liber

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Speaker 2: and I guess the defense was that Lever was talking

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Speaker 2: about like right now, like if training camp started right

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Speaker 2: now now, because Carson Wentz has experience in the offense

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Speaker 2: and knows the system. But we're not starting the season

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Speaker 2: as much. We're starting in September.

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Speaker 1: Ryan says Leeber was just trying to see a rose

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Speaker 1: and would actually repeat that day. That could be maybe

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Speaker 1: you trying to reel him in. So if you could

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Speaker 1: sucker him into a into a pick like that, your

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Speaker 1: wild Club place tonight right, Panthers on the Roads.

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Speaker 2: Florida and Marcus Felino back in the line of tonight,

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Speaker 2: so they are fully healthy and the Fellino brothers are

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Speaker 2: going to be on a line tonight together. So uh, Danilla,

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Speaker 2: you're off. They're they're saying it's a they just have

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Speaker 2: to sit someone. They're just gonna give me a little break. Okay,

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Speaker 2: But I also think this is partly how would our

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Speaker 2: lineup look in the playoffs if we did pull a

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Speaker 2: year off. Okay, because they have they they are going

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Speaker 2: to have a tough decision and assuming everyone's healthy, right

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Speaker 2: to which route they want to go, they have to

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Speaker 2: sit a good player.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we talked about that, was it yesterday?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but Europe is going to be a reportedly on

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Speaker 2: in the press box tonight and the two Felinos will

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Speaker 2: be playing that fourth line together.

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Speaker 1: I'm guessing the Felino brothers were playing together before professionally.

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Speaker 2: First, not even professionally. I didn't think they did it

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Speaker 2: as youth because there's an age difference.

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Speaker 1: Between the two of them, pretty significant age difference. I thought,

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Speaker 1: what did I hear?

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Speaker 2: I heard Marcus talk Marcus or Nick talking about this

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Speaker 2: once that the only time they actually played together was

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Speaker 2: because they have a sister as well, who was a

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Speaker 2: really good hockey player, and when she was in high school,

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Speaker 2: like the coach had asked both Nick and Marcus, they

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Speaker 2: needed like competition for like a practice or a scrimmage

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Speaker 2: or something, so they that was the only time they've

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Speaker 2: ever been on the same team together because they were

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Speaker 2: playing against their sister. But other than that, no, that

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Speaker 2: the age differences, and then they've never been with each

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Speaker 2: other professionally.

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Speaker 1: So the Filinos will be on the same fall Lino. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: somebody sent that. I thought, I like that. Let's call

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Speaker 1: it that. Yeah, the Falino comedy. You keep saying, Kyle Murphy,

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Speaker 1: how do you have a job at a sports station?

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Speaker 1: I always love that. You have to listen to every

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Speaker 1: episode start to finish to know why we're calling them

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Speaker 1: Kyle Murphy. Do I need to explain it? I just

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Speaker 1: let it go. I should just let it go. Some

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Speaker 1: people always just think we don't. Well, maybe explain that.

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Speaker 1: Everyone can come in with us, and then we can

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Speaker 1: keep doing the bit. Rosen called him Kyle Murphy last week,

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Speaker 1: Viking's quarterback Kyle Murphy. So we just it's Kyler Murray.

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Speaker 1: We just thought of that, But maybe it is Murphy.

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Speaker 5: It is is Kyle.

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Speaker 1: The pronunciation, yeah, I don't either. Ark could be silent

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Speaker 1: and Kyler is uh, it could be irish. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: So that's why we do it. And then Larry Mondella

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Speaker 1: guy got in on that. You know again, I guess

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Speaker 1: when it comes to we were talking earlier about the

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Speaker 1: Brady thing. About Brady, Schefter reported that Brady was actually

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Speaker 1: considering coming out of retirement in that the league said,

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Speaker 1: we're not really that excited about that idea. And I

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Speaker 1: guess the reason would be that the league wouldn't like

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Speaker 1: it is because with a five percent ownership steak with

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Speaker 1: the Raiders, the way Tennant b believes it to be,

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Speaker 1: and I think he's probably right, is that you could

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Speaker 1: circumvent the salary cap that way. For instance, you could

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Speaker 1: tell a guy like Kyle Murray, so you could say

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Speaker 1: to him, hey, take the NFL minimum and I'll give

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Speaker 1: you a two percent stake in the team. Now, I

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Speaker 1: don't know how many times you could do that before

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Speaker 1: you had no stakes left in the team, but I

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Speaker 1: suppose that's possible. Well, here's what Larry Mneller guy said.

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Speaker 1: According to Forbes, the Raiders are worth six point two

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Speaker 1: billion today, They're worth seven point eight billion they were

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Speaker 1: worth when when Brady first into the team. Today that

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Speaker 1: worth seven point eight billion. So Brady's five percent equities

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Speaker 1: increased by ninety million in two years, and if it

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Speaker 1: would have invested five percent in twenty twenty, he would

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Speaker 1: have had a two hundred and thirty five million dollar increase.

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Speaker 1: That is better per year money than his Fox contract.

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Speaker 1: And I understand all that, but I think there's a

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Speaker 1: to me, and maybe I'm crazy. For the average guys

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Speaker 1: like us. If you're living check to check or you're

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Speaker 1: trying to save a nestdey put your kids to school,

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Speaker 1: money overrides everything. But if you're Tom Brady again, three

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Speaker 1: hundred million dollar contract he's made, he's I don't think

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Speaker 1: he's a billionaire's's got plenty of money. If it's more

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Speaker 1: important for him to get one more year of playing football,

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Speaker 1: if that became more important to me, he said, I

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Speaker 1: want to play one more because I know eventually I

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Speaker 1: can't go back. If I'm going to play, I have

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Speaker 1: to do it now before I get too old. You

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Speaker 1: sell the steak in your two What could he sell

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Speaker 1: the five percent steak for now? Well, apparently he could

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Speaker 1: sell it for ninety million dollars. More so, he could

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Speaker 1: make money selling his five percent equity in the team,

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Speaker 1: play a year or two in the NFL, retire and

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Speaker 1: buy a five percent interest in a team. Again, it's

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Speaker 1: not that I don't you know what. Again, apparently Brady

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Speaker 1: didn't want to do that. But I just think people

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Speaker 1: think money for all of these guys is the be

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Speaker 1: all end all and and and maybe in Brady's case

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Speaker 1: it is. I don't know, but He's got plenty of money.

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Speaker 1: And if I was trying to think of another analogy,

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Speaker 1: tend to be if like, if you had to give

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Speaker 1: up a certain amount of money to get to play

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Speaker 1: a year in the National Hockey League, what would you

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Speaker 1: would you give up? Big? I don't have a lot

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Speaker 1: of money to give up, but well, whatever you have

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Speaker 1: in your you know, I mean your checking account you

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Speaker 1: have you have your separate checking account from your would

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Speaker 1: you be willing to give up all the money you

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Speaker 1: have in your checking account, all the money and the

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Speaker 1: half of the money that's in your joint account with

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Speaker 1: the wife to play one season in the National Hockey League. No.

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Speaker 2: See, if if I thought I was good enough where

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Speaker 2: that year in the National Hockey League would lead to

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Speaker 2: another contract in the National Hockey League, I would maybe

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Speaker 2: take yet up. But I don't imagine it would go

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Speaker 2: well for.

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Speaker 1: Well, I don't know, because you did say that you can.

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Speaker 1: You're on the same skating level as a lot of

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Speaker 1: guys in the league. You did say that you were

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Speaker 1: nominated for a PST. You're right, because I wouldn't give

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Speaker 1: up everything I've got now to play one year on

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Speaker 1: the PGA Tour because I wouldn't seem litle more fun. Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: all these great courses, but I wouldn't make a cut.

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Speaker 1: I'd only be playing two days, right. But like you say,

647
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Speaker 1: if it were to lead to or getting a car,

648
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Speaker 1: then I think you might take that gamble.

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Speaker 2: But I just think, Brady, would god, you pay one

650
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Speaker 2: hundred thousand dollars to play the Masters this year?

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Speaker 1: It's so embarrassing, you know, because like, hey, I can't

652
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Speaker 1: hit them ball more than two hundred and thirty five

653
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Speaker 1: two hundred and forty. Well, with my new ping G

654
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Speaker 1: four forty K, I could probably hit two fifty.

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Speaker 2: I'd be like, I just I mean, would you pay

656
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Speaker 2: fifty thousand dollars playing the Masters this year?

657
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Speaker 1: I don't know if I could. It could stand the

658
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Speaker 1: shame in the embarrassment.

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Speaker 2: Well, how do you tell your wife, by the way,

660
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Speaker 2: about to lose fifty thousand dollars? Well, if it's out

661
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Speaker 2: of your separate account. Well, they're still not going to

662
00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:24,640
Speaker 2: like that, though probably not. Just because it's separate accounts

663
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Speaker 2: doesn't mean I can just really recklessly spend whatever I want.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's not how it works. I just think I

665
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Speaker 1: guess for me, when I when I think about the

666
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Speaker 1: Brady thing, I just don't really think. Man, it must

667
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Speaker 1: make I guess it must have came down to money,

668
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Speaker 1: or he just likes also being an owner morning, he

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Speaker 1: likes playing again. But I just sometimes I think with

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Speaker 1: the money, it's like when when you know, I mean.

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Speaker 5: Think about it.

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Speaker 2: You know, it just seems to be very confused whether

673
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Speaker 2: he wants to keep playing. There's been multiple retirements, stuff

674
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Speaker 2: going on with him.

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Speaker 1: Spend in best save flawed, A lot of things you

676
00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:02,040
Speaker 1: can do with your a lot of things you can

677
00:36:02,080 --> 00:36:04,920
Speaker 1: do with your money. So Florida, now, I just took

678
00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:09,480
Speaker 1: a quick glance at the standys. It's weird they only

679
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Speaker 1: have did I see this right? I go, yeah, here

680
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Speaker 1: it is. Hold on, let me let me dry it.

681
00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:24,120
Speaker 1: We hold on, stop it, stop it. So look at

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Speaker 1: the game pull up there. We're forty twenty and twelve.

683
00:36:31,200 --> 00:36:35,640
Speaker 1: They're thirty five, thirty two and three so they've only

684
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Speaker 1: had We've had twelve over time slash whatever those are, right,

685
00:36:41,480 --> 00:36:44,279
Speaker 1: and they've only had three. Are they any good? Have it?

686
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Speaker 1: Didn't they win a couple of Cups? They did that.

687
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Speaker 2: They have had some injuries to keep players this year.

688
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Speaker 2: I'm Barkov. You know Matthew could Chuck Golden medal winner

689
00:36:56,040 --> 00:36:57,799
Speaker 2: and tam Usa he didn't play for a good chunk

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Speaker 2: of the season leading up to the Olympics. Been in

691
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Speaker 2: the lineup ever since, but he's he's only played like

692
00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:06,440
Speaker 2: a third of the games. Bark osman on. Those are

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Speaker 2: two main guys, at least up front, So I would

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Speaker 2: say injuries are a big reason why they're in the

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Speaker 2: spot they are.

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Speaker 1: Are you a big Sam Ryan? Maybe they're just board

697
00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:20,040
Speaker 1: of it now after they won their two Cups.

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Speaker 2: That's taking a toll on them over the last couple

699
00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:25,520
Speaker 2: years because they've played more games than everybody else.

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Speaker 1: Are you a big Sam Ryan Hard guy? He's fine?

701
00:37:27,960 --> 00:37:34,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, Brad Marshan's a little bit of an annoying little

702
00:37:34,160 --> 00:37:34,920
Speaker 2: rat weasel.

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Speaker 1: We know that Otani would not have been a good

704
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Speaker 1: fit with the Twins. Would Ryan Hard be a fit

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Speaker 1: with a wild Sure? Okay? Yeah, oh, yeah, Okay, just

706
00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:48,080
Speaker 1: wasn't sure about that. I guess we could use another center.

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Speaker 1: He's a team leader on almost every offensive category, points, goals, assists,

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Speaker 1: the whole thing.

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Speaker 2: Well, guess who plays for the while for the Florida Panthers.

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Speaker 2: That would Bennie hennes Stroza because we traded him to

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Speaker 2: bring in Petrie. Okay, who has been He's only played

712
00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:03,120
Speaker 2: one game for US. I don't wonder if he's playing tonight,

713
00:38:03,239 --> 00:38:06,799
Speaker 2: Petrie because we traded him from Florida. Yeah, but he's

714
00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:09,680
Speaker 2: basically just been a seventh defenseman since the trade.

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Speaker 1: So at the risk of telling listeners uh and wild

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Speaker 1: fans not to listen to the game tonight or watch

717
00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:18,480
Speaker 1: because we don't want we want you to listen to

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Speaker 1: the game on the iHeartRadio app. We've been talking about

719
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Speaker 1: there's really no place for them to go in the standings, right,

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Speaker 1: Can we still catch Dallas or is that pretty much

721
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Speaker 1: we ain't catching Dallas?

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00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:36,160
Speaker 2: Okay, No, So then technically it's it's mathmat I mean,

723
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Speaker 2: we're five points behind. Okay, you can gain five points,

724
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Speaker 2: but they've got a game in hand. Yeah, yeah, typically

725
00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:44,640
Speaker 2: you know the Wilder as far, there's.

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Speaker 1: Ten games left in the season.

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Speaker 2: When you get to that point and there's a six

728
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Speaker 2: points or more difference in a league in which you

729
00:38:52,360 --> 00:38:56,200
Speaker 2: get a point for getting to overtime, it's hard to

730
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Speaker 2: catch someone like that.

731
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Speaker 1: So I guess my question was, are we kind of

732
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Speaker 1: going through the motions now just playing out the string

733
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Speaker 1: to get to the playoffs? Right, because there's really no

734
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Speaker 1: movement up or down. We're going to We're playing Dallas

735
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Speaker 1: in the first round, and we're going to be in

736
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Speaker 1: the lone Star state for game number one. Right, I

737
00:39:16,239 --> 00:39:17,520
Speaker 1: mean that's pretty well given.

738
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Speaker 2: I feel like they have been going in the motions first, Yeah,

739
00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:27,080
Speaker 2: a couple of weeks now, which again I get it.

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Speaker 1: I you know, this is where this is where I

741
00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:36,759
Speaker 1: get it. I get it from the basketball community when

742
00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:39,520
Speaker 1: I criticized the Wolves for so many games where they

743
00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:41,120
Speaker 1: just come right on after the game and say, wow,

744
00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:44,520
Speaker 1: you know what, we just they tried harder, they wanted

745
00:39:44,520 --> 00:39:45,839
Speaker 1: it more than we did. We don't want to play

746
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:47,400
Speaker 1: these games. And you know, I say, well, come on,

747
00:39:47,600 --> 00:39:49,760
Speaker 1: that's what you get paid for. But then the while,

748
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Speaker 1: it sounds kind of like I know they're trying, but

749
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Speaker 1: it sounds like because they've lost some games, we attribute

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Speaker 1: that to not as much as human nature us which

751
00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:00,400
Speaker 1: play for you want to stay healthy all that. So

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Speaker 1: I don't know, Am I not supposed to be critical

753
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Speaker 1: of the Wild and critical of the Wolves? Or so

754
00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:06,799
Speaker 1: I just shut my mouth when it comes to both

755
00:40:06,800 --> 00:40:08,560
Speaker 1: clubs and just let it play out. The strength I

756
00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:11,000
Speaker 1: think asks what I got to do because I don't

757
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:13,640
Speaker 1: seem to be making I just make enemies no matter

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Speaker 1: what I say. I'm told I'm crazy. You don't watch

759
00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:17,360
Speaker 1: enough of the NBA, you don't watch it enough of

760
00:40:17,360 --> 00:40:19,200
Speaker 1: the NFL, you don't NHL. You don't know what you're

761
00:40:19,239 --> 00:40:22,600
Speaker 1: talking about. But I just know that one team puts

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Speaker 1: out very little effort and it annoys me. And now

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Speaker 1: I'm told the Wild are kind of like going through

764
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Speaker 1: the motions as well.

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Speaker 2: I mean, they're still trying hard, and they're still trying

766
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Speaker 2: to win games. It's just there's just a different level.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 2: How many times have we gone to the playoffs in

769
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Speaker 2: the National Hockey League and people like me say the

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Speaker 2: NHL playoffs is a different level of intensity than the

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Speaker 2: regular season, right, right, And so I would just say

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Speaker 2: that the Wild right now are not playing with like

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Speaker 2: playoff level intensity. They're still going hard. They're still working,

774
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Speaker 2: they're still trying to win. But have you seen a

775
00:40:56,920 --> 00:40:59,600
Speaker 2: lot of wild forwards laying out the block shots lately?

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00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:01,000
Speaker 1: Yeah? I haven't.

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Speaker 2: Then that's okay, right, Well, I mean I pretty warned

778
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Speaker 2: you of the entire audience of this two months ago

779
00:41:10,880 --> 00:41:13,520
Speaker 2: that they were going to be in a spot where

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Speaker 2: they can't catch a team above them, and they can't

781
00:41:17,320 --> 00:41:19,239
Speaker 2: get caught by the team below them, And it's a

782
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:21,920
Speaker 2: weird spot for us to be in. We're always it

783
00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:24,479
Speaker 2: seems like we're always these are always must win games

784
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Speaker 2: for us at this time of the year. Every single

785
00:41:25,960 --> 00:41:28,520
Speaker 2: year we're playing to get into the playoffs. You're draging

786
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Speaker 2: for a position. I don't know if we've ever been

787
00:41:29,840 --> 00:41:32,759
Speaker 2: in this spot where, hey, here's where we're at, and

788
00:41:34,520 --> 00:41:37,640
Speaker 2: you know, are certain players not going to give you

789
00:41:37,640 --> 00:41:40,160
Speaker 2: a playoff level intensity in the middle of March to

790
00:41:40,680 --> 00:41:43,319
Speaker 2: assure that they are as healthy as possibly they can

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Speaker 2: be for the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: That's just the way hockey is. Yeah, maybe it's just

793
00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:54,480
Speaker 1: all passed me by.

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00:41:57,760 --> 00:42:01,080
Speaker 2: You know, it just takes He's a game where everyone's

795
00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:02,440
Speaker 2: got to be in sync and everyone's got to be

796
00:42:02,520 --> 00:42:05,319
Speaker 2: bought in, and just takes one guy in a line

797
00:42:05,400 --> 00:42:08,680
Speaker 2: to not be given and you know, playoff intensity to

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00:42:08,960 --> 00:42:10,560
Speaker 2: kind of throw off the line a little bit.

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Speaker 1: Playoffs start in a couple of weeks. Who were that

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Speaker 1: close or is it longer? Well, yeah, we got ten

801
00:42:15,280 --> 00:42:18,800
Speaker 1: games left in the season, so middle of April and

802
00:42:18,920 --> 00:42:21,000
Speaker 1: basically the same with the wild Right or the Wolves,

803
00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:23,080
Speaker 1: basically the same boat. So we'll see. We'll just have

804
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Speaker 1: to wait for that. I'm anxiously waiting the rival of

805
00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:28,360
Speaker 1: Mark Rose, and I got a number of things I

806
00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:31,319
Speaker 1: want to talk to him about, including that Wolves game.

807
00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:34,200
Speaker 1: He said he was not going to go. He decided

808
00:42:34,239 --> 00:42:35,640
Speaker 1: to pass on that game. I'm sure he must be.

809
00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:39,239
Speaker 1: Maybe he's not ruining that decision. He had something else too,

810
00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:42,120
Speaker 1: was going out with friends or something. But we'll see

811
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Speaker 1: if he caught part of that game and see what

812
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Speaker 1: he has to say about that and all the other

813
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Speaker 1: topics of the day. Next Common Man Program with Common

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Speaker 1: tennby and soon to be joined by the legendary one

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Speaker 1: Mark Rose, and You're on the fan