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Speaker 1: First off, Corazon de Leone, heart of a Lion, Mega gutsy.

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Speaker 1: Big, not bruising, but big. Brasomanta, Solder, Blue Malkin all

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Speaker 6: About your trifeca. I thought Anthony Manton was going to

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Speaker 6: And then the other thing, Uh, I think Skinner's number one.

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Speaker 1: Don't think it's a good bet, but I think it's

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Speaker 1: know what, I'm tired of talking about that. Skinner's was like,

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Speaker 3: Hey? Mark? Are you okay? So a lot of Penguins,

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Speaker 3: I I'm repeating myself but I told you it's a

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Speaker 1: Let me up for a second. I agree with you,

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Speaker 1: But I agree with you. Sometimes just being big is enough.

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Speaker 3: You know, if you're as smaller, you can't do that.

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Speaker 3: coming on out, and the depth in penguins have changed.

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Speaker 3: We used to just wait for Malkano, Crossby or Rusty

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Speaker 1: good stuff. Paris doll Heads six to three get your

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Speaker 1: And we got Mike the course, he says he's retiring

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Speaker 1: eight three. Reynolds went deep, Mike, he did yesterday. Cruz

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Speaker 1: I think makes stuff up all the time, said that

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Speaker 1: Are you buying it?

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Speaker 2: I I think that one of the things that is

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Speaker 2: in zillions of different circumstances. They use the opportunities that

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Speaker 7: To spread It's not about.

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Speaker 1: I think in this case, Fourio just made it up.

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Speaker 1: there's never any leaks from Rogers's camp, Mike, because he

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know what the you know, what the

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Speaker 7: It doesn't make any sense to me? Like what to be?

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Speaker 2: We are we that convinced that the recovery is going.

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Speaker 7: Really, come on, that's that's not even realistic.

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Speaker 7: Honestly, there's only two.

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Speaker 2: The only two reasons that I don't think that the

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Speaker 2: This should have been done what once once McCarthy was

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Speaker 1: No question. Do you think the hold up could maybe

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Speaker 2: been the first two years. They're easing him in. They

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Speaker 2: only threw him five innings today. I think that was

433
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Speaker 2: very smart. You want to build him up, and especially

434
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Speaker 2: since they had a lead when he went out, I

435
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Speaker 2: thought it was pretty well handled. But if you presume

436
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Speaker 2: that he is still Paul Skins and healthy, Paul Skins

437
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Speaker 2: has been great every day in the major leagues.

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Speaker 7: I mean, like not every single start, but like his

439
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Speaker 7: the the entirety.

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Speaker 2: Of his time in the in the major leagues has

441
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Speaker 2: been as a great pitcher. So he's gonna have his

442
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Speaker 2: days where he's doesn't have great control and or he's

443
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Speaker 2: hit a bull or whatever, but not many if if

444
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Speaker 2: if he's that schemes and yet at that point, you've

445
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Speaker 2: got to do a better job supporting him. He's got

446
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Speaker 2: to make sure that he gets them to the innings

447
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Speaker 2: where where it's not dicey. Do you get to the

448
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Speaker 2: seventh and by then you should be able to close

449
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Speaker 2: it out. Those sorts of things and they have to

450
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Speaker 2: do a better job of making sure that on those

451
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Speaker 2: days that they get run supported. And that's one of

452
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Speaker 2: the reasons why it was it worked out they scored

453
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Speaker 2: eight runs. But one of the reasons why it was

454
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Speaker 2: odd that they went light on the on the the

455
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Speaker 2: batting order today benching a couple guys, sitting a couple guys.

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Speaker 7: I mean, it's it's week one. Man.

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Speaker 2: If you're tired now, you know, you realize there's like

458
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Speaker 2: another forty weeks to go.

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Speaker 1: What do you do with oil who had a home

460
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Speaker 1: run today off a left two home runs yesterday, including

461
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Speaker 1: one off a left. But I'm not impressed, Mike. He's

462
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Speaker 1: always been a small sample guy, and until he starts

463
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Speaker 1: compiling big samples, I'm just not gonna believe in the guy.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I don't blame you for that, partly because he's

465
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Speaker 2: he's been a defensive liability no matter where they've put him,

466
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Speaker 2: and I think one of the things that's odd about

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Speaker 2: how they've handled him is that he was a defensive

468
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Speaker 2: liability at shortstop. So then okay, let's give him the

469
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Speaker 2: second hardest or the third hardest position to play catch

470
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Speaker 2: your shortstop center field? Well, why would you do that,

471
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Speaker 2: Why don't you put him somewhere where you can just

472
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Speaker 2: concentrate on getting to be a better hitter, whether that's

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Speaker 2: first base or left field.

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Speaker 7: Why can't you do that? Why do you have to put.

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Speaker 2: Him into another position where the defensive responsibilities are enormous.

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Speaker 7: I think that was really bad handling.

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Speaker 2: Whoever makes those decisions, whether there may by Charrington or

478
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Speaker 2: made by Don Kelly, I don't think it was wise

479
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Speaker 2: to go in the direction of putting him in such

480
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Speaker 2: a demanding position, and he's not handled that any better

481
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Speaker 2: than he did shortstop. As far as his hitting is concerned,

482
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Speaker 2: it's not about whether or not he it's helpful that

483
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Speaker 2: when he hits the ball it goes out, but he's.

484
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Speaker 7: Got to hit it more often.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you can't strike out at the level he

486
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Speaker 2: does and be the kind of valuable player that the

487
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Speaker 2: Pirates need.

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Speaker 1: You see, I look at the key to this year's team.

489
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Speaker 1: I thought law would be good. O'Hearn looks like a

490
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Speaker 1: professional hitter. I hadn't seen him much with Baltimore, but

491
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Speaker 1: he looks terrific. I'm not sure about Ozuna, but I

492
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Speaker 1: think the key is Reynolds and Cruise because they were

493
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Speaker 1: rotten last year. They had good days today and yesterday

494
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Speaker 1: the Pirates won both games. I don't think that's coincidence,

495
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Speaker 1: do you no?

496
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Speaker 2: And remember the Reynolds was last year was an aberration,

497
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Speaker 2: that was he had an off year. I mean, hey,

498
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Speaker 2: I remember when I was a kid, Roberto had two

499
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Speaker 2: ninety one one year.

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Speaker 7: I think it was sixty eight. So it does happen.

501
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Speaker 2: And I'm not I'm not saying he's Barbero, but even

502
00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:09,399
Speaker 2: very good hitters or great hitters have a rough time

503
00:27:09,560 --> 00:27:13,040
Speaker 2: sometimes and could be something some small injury that we

504
00:27:13,119 --> 00:27:13,720
Speaker 2: don't know about.

505
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Speaker 7: It could have been a confidence, they could have been anything.

506
00:27:16,080 --> 00:27:18,120
Speaker 7: But he had a rough year. But that doesn't mean

507
00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:19,359
Speaker 7: he's not going to bounce back.

508
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Speaker 2: The cruise thing, I agree with you, but I do

509
00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:26,400
Speaker 2: think Osuna is is really important. They put a lot

510
00:27:26,440 --> 00:27:29,560
Speaker 2: into that uh and and and that's an important position

511
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Speaker 2: for them, and it does it does sit there if

512
00:27:33,880 --> 00:27:38,359
Speaker 2: so that Ossuna doesn't hit, then you could always put crews.

513
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Speaker 7: In that spot.

514
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Speaker 2: But then you have spent a bunch of money on

515
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Speaker 2: a guy that you're giving up on. So they need

516
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Speaker 2: him to hit, and he hadn't hit much. I haven't

517
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Speaker 2: checked I didn't check the box today, but he hadn't

518
00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:53,400
Speaker 2: Mitch hit much up until today, so he's gotta He's

519
00:27:53,440 --> 00:27:55,679
Speaker 2: got to be someone that produces for them that I

520
00:27:55,680 --> 00:27:57,320
Speaker 2: don't think that's negotiable either.

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Speaker 1: I do like the pitching, Like all the pitching. I mean,

522
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Speaker 1: Skeins is obvious dub but the bullpen too, Chanda or

523
00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:08,679
Speaker 1: an Asscraft in the series at Cincinnati. Uh, there's not

524
00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:11,160
Speaker 1: a lot of experience there, so that's the question mark.

525
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Speaker 1: But it looks good.

526
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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I don't think experience is huge in a bullpen.

527
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Speaker 7: Now, you know, I'm talking about.

528
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Speaker 1: The starters too, Mike, Like Chandor and Asscraft haven't pitched

529
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Speaker 1: one hundred innings between him and the majors.

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Speaker 2: Right right, Yeah, absolutely, But remember I mean if you're

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Speaker 2: young and you're pitching, that means you haven't hurt your

532
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Speaker 2: arm yet.

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Speaker 7: So that's a good thing.

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Speaker 2: No.

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Speaker 7: I think the pitching is good. They build it.

536
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Speaker 2: That's one thing that you could not criticize Charrington for

537
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Speaker 2: is that he has built good pitching staffs. On the balance,

538
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Speaker 2: It's always been the plate that's been a problem. And

539
00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:48,280
Speaker 2: so I think that that's why a lot of people

540
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Speaker 2: thought maybe this team could break through in the way

541
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Speaker 2: that you know, look at look, the Reds made the

542
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Speaker 2: playoffs on the last.

543
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Speaker 7: Day of the regular season last year.

544
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Speaker 2: It's not like they stormed in, and they certainly didn't

545
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Speaker 2: make much of an account of themselves while there. But

546
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Speaker 2: in Pittsburgh, a chance to be in the playoffs after gosh,

547
00:29:05,520 --> 00:29:08,959
Speaker 2: almost a decade now would be celebrated wildly, just as

548
00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:13,120
Speaker 2: it was there. So I absolutely think that if you

549
00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:15,800
Speaker 2: look at it, they that the belief was that this

550
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Speaker 2: pitching could hold up and get them there, and that

551
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Speaker 2: the question would be whether or not they hit it

552
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Speaker 2: a level to support that pitching, And I don't think

553
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Speaker 2: anything about this first week indicates otherwise. I think the

554
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Speaker 2: indication based on it's again it's a very small sample size,

555
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Speaker 2: but that they can find a way to generate enough fronts.

556
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Speaker 7: The Reds are a.

557
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Speaker 2: Team that were kind of thought to be in a

558
00:29:41,840 --> 00:29:46,160
Speaker 2: similar place to where the Pirates were coming into this year,

559
00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:50,800
Speaker 2: except the difference being that their stud pitcher, who's always hurt,

560
00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:55,440
Speaker 2: Hunter Green is hurt again and the Pirates stud pitcher

561
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Speaker 2: hasn't been hurt yet and he's going and he had

562
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Speaker 2: a good solid day today.

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Speaker 1: I'm told that the long term deal with Connor Griffin,

564
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Speaker 1: the nineteen year old phenom who's yet to have an

565
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Speaker 1: at bat in the BIGS. I'm told into legit possibility

566
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Speaker 1: of buster Oni reporting. What are the pros and cons

567
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Speaker 1: for the player? I can see why the Pirates would

568
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Speaker 1: do it, I can't see why the player would Griffin.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think that I think if you'll see the

570
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Speaker 2: Brewers are doing this as well.

571
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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, Seattle just did it with their guy too,

572
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Speaker 1: and of course Boston, and I.

573
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Speaker 2: Think the pro with the player now is get this

574
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Speaker 2: done before the cap happens. And again we don't know

575
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Speaker 2: one hundred percent it's going to happen, but get this

576
00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:42,720
Speaker 2: done before the cap happens and you get grandfathered in,

577
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Speaker 2: whereas if you wait for the cap, it could impact

578
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Speaker 2: your ability to get that kind of security. Is what

579
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Speaker 2: people who are anti cap don't understand is that this

580
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Speaker 2: system the biggest the biggest problem for the players right

581
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Speaker 2: now is the early career control that teams have and

582
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Speaker 2: that the Players Association has given over in part of

583
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Speaker 2: the negotiations so that their best players can all get

584
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Speaker 2: five hundred million dollars. It's basically the Venae change.

585
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Speaker 3: Here.

586
00:31:15,560 --> 00:31:18,000
Speaker 2: You can have these guys for six or seven years

587
00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:20,880
Speaker 2: and pay them almost nothing. But then when they get

588
00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:23,440
Speaker 2: out of this, then we can they can all make

589
00:31:23,480 --> 00:31:27,040
Speaker 2: five hundred million dollars. And that's that's been the way

590
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Speaker 2: it is. Well, if you do this, if you go

591
00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:34,320
Speaker 2: to the salary cap, that system's going to change, and

592
00:31:35,000 --> 00:31:37,200
Speaker 2: two things are gonna happen. You're gonna have less control

593
00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:40,160
Speaker 2: by the teams, but also that option to turn that

594
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Speaker 2: leverage into big, big.

595
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Speaker 7: Dollar contracts or long, long term contracts.

596
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Speaker 2: With great security for the athlete, that's going to dissipate

597
00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:51,680
Speaker 2: as well. I mean, you don't see those kinds of

598
00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:55,280
Speaker 2: long term contracts in any other sport except maybe the NHL,

599
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Speaker 2: where they tried to. They tried to stretch out big

600
00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:03,800
Speaker 2: payments so they could up superstars. But you don't see

601
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Speaker 2: very many of those kind of contracts. I think the

602
00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:09,000
Speaker 2: NBA doesn't even permit them, and you don't certainly don't

603
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Speaker 2: see him in the NFL.

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Speaker 7: And so I just don't see.

605
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Speaker 1: Why hit One woul attach himself to a losing organization

606
00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:17,800
Speaker 1: that may or may not be doing things in an

607
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Speaker 1: effort to win that I wouldn't believe that if.

608
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Speaker 2: I'm him but that's the only First of all, if

609
00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:25,880
Speaker 2: it turns out to be a cap deal, then they're

610
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Speaker 2: gonna be in the same boat with everybody else.

611
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Speaker 7: And it's just a question of whether you're smart and

612
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Speaker 7: it can execute. It's not. You can't cheat a cap.

613
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Speaker 2: I mean, you can't say, well, we're gonna pay our

614
00:32:35,320 --> 00:32:38,440
Speaker 2: guys seventy million dollars while everybody else goes to No man,

615
00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:39,680
Speaker 2: you got to pay to the floor.

616
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Speaker 7: And the floor is not like way below, it's like

617
00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:45,200
Speaker 7: right there. So maybe in a.

618
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Speaker 2: Given year you're gonna be below, but like in the NFL,

619
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Speaker 2: you can be below the cap in a given year,

620
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Speaker 2: but over the course of five years, you have to

621
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Speaker 2: be basically be ad it. So so you can't you

622
00:32:56,120 --> 00:32:59,600
Speaker 2: can't cheat that. And so what you what you have

623
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Speaker 2: to remember is like if Connor Griffin could get eight

624
00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:05,120
Speaker 2: years or ten years or whatever the number is, he

625
00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:07,280
Speaker 2: can get a kind of security that may not be

626
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Speaker 2: available to him down the road. And Okay, so maybe

627
00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:14,320
Speaker 2: this doesn't go great, but it's not like any nobody

628
00:33:14,360 --> 00:33:17,720
Speaker 2: has ever talked their way out of town, squeezed their

629
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Speaker 2: way out of a town.

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Speaker 1: Certainly, certainly at twenty seven he'd be able to get

631
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Speaker 1: you know, a multi multime, multi deal, you know, at

632
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Speaker 1: that point. So I I just I can't believe somebody

633
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Speaker 1: of that talent went better on himself and want to

634
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Speaker 1: get out of Pittsburgh, which Paul Skeens is clearly doing. Mike,

635
00:33:34,040 --> 00:33:36,400
Speaker 1: we're told you're retiring. Is that just from the Sporting

636
00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:38,520
Speaker 1: News or from media in general? What's going on?

637
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Speaker 7: No?

638
00:33:39,400 --> 00:33:41,920
Speaker 2: No, As a matter of fact, I've already talked to

639
00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:46,520
Speaker 2: your bosses and we and got the go ahead that

640
00:33:46,560 --> 00:33:51,080
Speaker 2: we're going to continue in in July of this year.

641
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Speaker 2: My plan is to finish covering the World Cup and

642
00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:57,480
Speaker 2: then step away from full time work at the Sporting News.

643
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Speaker 2: I won't even step all the way away from the

644
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Speaker 2: Sporting News.

645
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:01,680
Speaker 7: I'll still be around there some.

646
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Speaker 2: It's just the you know, the the sixty forty to

647
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Speaker 2: sixty hours a week, getting up every day and going

648
00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:10,080
Speaker 2: to the desk and that sort of thing.

649
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Speaker 7: It's time for me to get a little bit of

650
00:34:12,920 --> 00:34:13,920
Speaker 7: a reprieve.

651
00:34:13,520 --> 00:34:14,520
Speaker 1: From that, don't I know.

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Speaker 7: Hopefully, Yeah, there you go.

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Speaker 2: Hopefully I will continue to be working at Fox doing

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Speaker 2: the tournament brackets and at DTN doing weekend dates up

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Speaker 2: there in the studio analysis and so that's that's a plan,

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Speaker 2: and very much excited to continue talking to you every

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Speaker 2: week as I enjoy these conversations greatly.

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Speaker 1: Fantastic stuff, Mike. We never got to the Penguins, but

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Speaker 1: we'll get to them next week.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, do that, Yeah, because their things are awesome. Man,

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Speaker 2: it's it's been it's just been so thrilling to watch, no.

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Speaker 1: Question, a fun team. But congratulates on the retirement. We'll

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Speaker 1: look forward to continuing and we'll talk next week.

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Speaker 7: Thanks Mark.

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Speaker 1: That's Mike. The course of the Sporting News Pittsburgh's own up. Next,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna hear what Art Rooney had to say about

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Speaker 1: the pursuit whatever you want to call it, of Aaron

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Speaker 1: Rodgers one O five to nine. We got the bucko

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Speaker 1: am I on the air. Okay, my headset's cutting in

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Speaker 1: and out all the time. Make sure I'm I forgot

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Speaker 1: to do the Buco round up. I'll do it at

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Speaker 1: the top of the hour. I wish I could just

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Speaker 1: go the f home. Here's Steeler's ownly Art Rooney on

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Speaker 1: the Aaron Rodgers decision and timeline. I have not talked.

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Speaker 1: I can't have my head with them pretty regularly, and

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Speaker 1: I think the decision is probably coming soon. Do you

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Speaker 1: anticipate hearing one lay or the other by the NFL Draft?

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Speaker 1: I would say by the draft, I expect an answer

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Speaker 1: you up. Yeah. It's like when I was a kid

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Speaker 1: trying to get out of bed to go to school.

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Speaker 1: Come on, mom, five more minutes and then I get

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Speaker 1: their lates. And now there's talk about Rogers in Denver,

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Speaker 1: which I think Mike Floria flat out made up because

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Speaker 1: bo Nix might not be ready for Week one, and

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Speaker 1: it makes sense to Florio. As we've said, there are

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Speaker 1: never legit leaks from the Rogers camp because he doesn't

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Speaker 1: have a camp. The very funniest thing that could happen

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Speaker 1: would be if Rogers double cross the Steelers after the

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Speaker 1: long waits and went somewhere else. That's what I'm rooting for.

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Speaker 1: But again, I think Florio just made it up because

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Speaker 1: it makes sense to him. Why would Rogers go to

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Speaker 1: Denver to get bench when Nicks comes back, or if

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Speaker 1: he wouldn't. Why would bow Knicks tolerate after the season

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Speaker 1: he had last year, got Denver to where he got

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Speaker 1: him last year? Why would he tolerate you know, Rogers

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Speaker 1: playing ahead of him just ain't gonna happened. Here's Christopher

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Speaker 1: mad Doug Russo talking about Tiger Woods and the Gulf,

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Speaker 1: golf media and his peers in golf to blame that.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna blame the golf people here too.

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Speaker 8: He's got a lot of Justin Thomas is his best friend,

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Speaker 8: a lot of these golfers in OHI adore Tiger.

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Speaker 1: Do this the golf media.

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Speaker 8: How about somebody his agent, how about somebody in Lance

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Speaker 8: fifteen years say Tiger enough of this nonsense? Okay, Instead

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Speaker 8: of genuineflecting in front of Tiger because he's an all

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Speaker 8: time great golfer and you don't want to get on

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Speaker 8: Tiger's pad side, how about somebody in the sport in.

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Speaker 1: The last ten years put a stop to this.

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Speaker 8: Take the keys away, Tiger, not because the next funeral

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Speaker 8: is going to be his or somebody else's that we're

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Speaker 8: gonna have to go to.

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Speaker 1: Mad Dog is one hundred percent right. People that work

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Speaker 1: in golf, people who work in sports media. Heck, everybody

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Speaker 1: scared the death of Tiger Woods. And if somebody dies,

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Speaker 1: none of that will change, and maybe it won't even change.

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Speaker 1: Then Tiger is above the law. Nothing will happen to

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Speaker 1: him bad, not legally, not financially. Nothing bad will happen

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Speaker 1: to tigraph to this latest dui. And if you ever

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Speaker 1: kill somebody, well nothing bad will probably happen to him

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Speaker 1: then either see Simpson OJ and I'm only half kidding.

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Speaker 1: Take the keys away, forget about that, Take the oxy away.

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Speaker 1: But it's always going to be none of the above,

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Speaker 1: All Hill Tiger. This segment brought to us by the

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Speaker 1: Steelers Pro Shop. Get it direct from the team at

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Speaker 1: shop dot Steelers dot com. I want to talk Penguins.

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Speaker 1: Very impressive two games with a lot on the line.

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Speaker 1: These were kind of like playing games to get to

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Speaker 1: the playoffs proper. Penguins now have a six point cushion

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Speaker 1: for a playoff spot, and I think they're in or

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Speaker 1: all butt in, or would have to really collapse to

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Speaker 1: not be in. But I'm assuming, which is only when

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Speaker 1: things start to go really badly. But Skinner played a

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Speaker 1: good game last night. You got all this scoring depth,

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Speaker 1: you got the whole being greater than some of the parts.

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Speaker 1: You got the star power which wasn't needed a lot

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Speaker 1: last night or Monday, but it's still there and will

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Speaker 1: be very impactful again. So things really looking up for

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Speaker 1: the Penguins. What I want to know is can they

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Speaker 1: win a playoff series or series? Poral you tell me

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Speaker 1: eight three three four one two w XDX. Here here's

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Speaker 1: something that you know. I talk about a lot of

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Speaker 1: stuff on this show that I know you don't care about,

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Speaker 1: but I think it should be talked about anyway. Roger

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Speaker 1: Goodell met with the media with the league's flag football initiative,

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Speaker 1: and he said he expects NFL players to play flag

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Speaker 1: football in the upcoming Los Angeles Olympics, which are two

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Speaker 1: years from now twenty twenty eight. He said it'll take

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Speaker 1: the players some time, a couple months whatever to acclimate

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Speaker 1: the flag football, but he says that's what the league wants,

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Speaker 1: and that what the fans want.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: The problem with that is there's already a USA flag

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Speaker 1: football team made up a flag football lifers than in

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Speaker 1: that exhibition a couple of weekends ago, beat two teams

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Speaker 1: composed mostly of NFL players and beat them handily because

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Speaker 1: they understand the game, they know the game, they live

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Speaker 1: the game. But the NFL is gonna bigfoot those guys

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Speaker 1: push them out of their chance to play in the Olympics,

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Speaker 1: all for the sake of the fing NFL because it

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Speaker 1: has to be everywhere all the time, twenty four seven,

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Speaker 1: three sixty five, and you'll have all the moth pieces

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Speaker 1: in the media saying, oh, it'll be great to see

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Speaker 1: so and so, this star, that star, the other star,

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Speaker 1: whoever represent America and the Olympics, the NFL. God bless America,

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Speaker 1: But mostly it's God blessed the NFL. Am I right, yes,

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Speaker 1: I'm right, and it's gonna suck for those guys, but

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Speaker 1: no one will think about them except maybe me. And

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Speaker 1: I'm not kidding, but they should play in the Olympics.

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Speaker 1: The flag football lifers. Just this gets me madder than

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Speaker 1: it should because it really really sucks. One other thing

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Speaker 1: about about Tiger what the mad dog Russo said? Stephen A.

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Speaker 1: Smith added that Tiger, like the statement Tiger put out

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Speaker 1: about going into treatment, said he requests privacy for him

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Speaker 1: and his family at this time, repeat offenders that their

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Speaker 1: celebrities don't get privacy. Okay, because giving privacy in the

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Speaker 1: past has not caused anything of benefits. If anything, Tiger

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Speaker 1: needs to be scrutinized and disparaged and yeah, ridiculed. Ridicule

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Speaker 1: is a powerful weapon because two DUIs and four car Rex,

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Speaker 1: you lose the right to privacy, not Hayton, just saying

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Speaker 1: up next better late than ever. The Buco round up

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Speaker 1: a Mark Madden one oh five nine

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