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Speaker 1: You're going to sort it?

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Speaker 4: Yes, correct et Yeah, helly show, Thank you, I appreciate it. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: we'll be on the Eric's right.

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Speaker 4: Backs, it's been what a month? Well we do an

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Speaker 4: hour and a half. Oh you do ninety I thought

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Speaker 4: ninety minutes for home games and this is the first

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Speaker 4: time obviously the Vikings have been home in a month, right,

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Speaker 4: I mean they haven't played since that Bengals game at

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Speaker 4: So yeah, run from nine thirty to eleven on Sunday morning.

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Speaker 1: Head coach of the.

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Speaker 3: Soon to be a Big Game World champion in Minnesota Vikings,

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Speaker 3: Kevin O'Connell just had his midweek news conference live from

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Speaker 3: the New Winter Park aka T.

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Speaker 3: Second question was asked about who's going to start, you know,

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Speaker 3: the quarterback situation. He said, same answer I gave you live.

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Speaker 3: He was he was not happy. You could tell he

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Speaker 3: was annoyed by it. Well, he's expecting it, but then

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Speaker 3: why is he annoyed by it?

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Speaker 4: Well, I don't know if he's annoyed by it, but

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Speaker 4: he just he cut it off and then he went

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Speaker 4: into more details. I'll discuss with you right now about

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Speaker 4: JJ and working with him the last week. I until

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Speaker 4: he announces his decision. And I think many of us thought.

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Speaker 1: Do you think it's a game time decision? No, I

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Speaker 1: think he'll announce it before that.

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Speaker 3: Well you think they'll make an announce you, Well, I

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Speaker 3: don't think they'll just wait till all of a sudden

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Speaker 1: To this ball. But I don't. I don't. I don't

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and uh Tenna laying it out in the contexts

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Speaker 4: for people who think that we got to start JJ,

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Speaker 4: I mean no, they don't. And there's nothing. It's not

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Speaker 4: a reflection on his future, his presence. It might be

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Speaker 4: just who's going to give you the best chance to

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Speaker 4: win on Sunday. End of story.

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Speaker 3: But most of the fans, and they're all over me.

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Speaker 3: They're like, we don't care about this season. We're not

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Speaker 1: We need this spot. We need to see what we

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Speaker 1: have in J. J. McCarthy.

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Speaker 3: They want to see McCarthy no matter what he does.

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Speaker 3: He could throw four picks in the first half and

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Speaker 3: they're going to go, well, maybe we'll only throw three.

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Speaker 1: Well there, there's always gonna be.

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Speaker 4: Fans are fans and that's that's what makes them fans,

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Speaker 4: and that's great. I mean, I love passion of fans.

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Speaker 4: We've been arguing and disagreeing. That's the beauty of sports

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Speaker 3: You seen the look don chich by the way.

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Speaker 1: We've been hard. We's hard all day. Have you seen

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Speaker 4: Season basketball is like watching paint dry. I don't watch sports.

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Speaker 4: I am a sports fan. And the head coach of

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Speaker 3: When the season starts next really really sure?

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Speaker 1: You don't even watch him in the regular season.

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Speaker 3: It looks better than he's ever looked. What I saw, well,

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Speaker 1: But he's a young fun now it.

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Speaker 4: Next April this time, all right. I mean he's a

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Speaker 4: hell of a player. There's no denying that. As far

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna do meat sauce math. They play seventeen games,

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Speaker 4: so they have twelve left. Is that right? That's a

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Speaker 1: Plenty of football.

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Speaker 4: And it's not to suggest that JJ McCarthy number one,

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Speaker 3: I think you're hearing something. I think you know that

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Speaker 3: they're hearing. No, because you've been you've been a big

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Speaker 4: So I want to say here, I we don't know

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Speaker 4: You know what I'm saying, I don't know that. I

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they I think they're be fuddled by his inability.

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Speaker 4: Well, but he continues to work with them and doing

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Speaker 4: what he normally does. And we've watched him walking all

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Speaker 1: So that's the way of thinking that you can't.

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Speaker 4: And if JJ McCarthy gets to start, great, I always

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Speaker 4: but I'm just saying that he's he O'Connell is talking

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Speaker 4: Starting to come around in my way of thinking, well, no,

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Speaker 4: but again I'm not And I'm a big proponent of

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Speaker 4: I mean, Brozman is the other quarterback. We all know that,

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Speaker 4: If he's the quarterback of the future. Of the future

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Speaker 3: Well you got you got Cashman's coming back this week.

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Speaker 3: I mean, the team is starting to get some of

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Speaker 3: You do that because you think you can win. Now,

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Speaker 3: We're not a playoff team. What are the people watching.

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Speaker 3: Yes, you basically after week one said their window was closed.

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Speaker 3: and losing to them, they were just absolutely dominated in

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Speaker 4: I didn't feel they were dominated by him. Kansas City

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Speaker 3: They do what's necessary as much as they possibly can,

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Speaker 3: But this is what I have been waiting for, and

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Speaker 4: Right, Yeah, there are good points to be made about

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Speaker 4: I think his relationship with Chris Finch is very important.

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Speaker 3: I certainly think he's got the DNA for it and

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Speaker 4: Last well we'll have that, and he's I'm not going

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Speaker 4: for talent alone. Would you trade you know, that's Anthony

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Speaker 4: Erards for Luka Doncic. That's a that's a tough one.

438
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Speaker 4: Donsige is how old right now? Not that old? Twenty

439
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Speaker 4: eight something like that. Probably the best overall player in

440
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Speaker 4: the league. I take one, Nyamata, I know you would, well,

441
00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:10,879
Speaker 4: I know you're of the general managers. He is a talent.

442
00:20:11,320 --> 00:20:14,760
Speaker 4: He's definitely a talent, that is for sure. Well, it'll

443
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Speaker 4: be a fun season.

444
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Speaker 3: We'll start October twenty October twenty seven, the first game

445
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Speaker 3: in Portland.

446
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Speaker 1: Yeah, then off and run for eighty two. My god,

447
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Speaker 1: it's just so long seasons. You like this club a lot? Well?

448
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Speaker 4: I like yeah, I mean, I like the fact that

449
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Speaker 4: that Chris Finch is talking about extending his bench a

450
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Speaker 4: little bit more that I hope that.

451
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Speaker 1: We've been begging him to do that for ver.

452
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Speaker 3: Well we have what it was what he did was

453
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Speaker 3: it's it's always.

454
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Speaker 1: What's that phrase do you always use?

455
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Speaker 3: You know, like in the NFL, it's always what's what's

456
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Speaker 3: what's hot right now?

457
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Speaker 1: Or what's that I'm looking for? Uh?

458
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Speaker 3: The the the the flavor of the week is right

459
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Speaker 3: looking for a flavor of the week is They've always

460
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Speaker 3: played ten deep in Oklahoma City.

461
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Speaker 1: That's what they do.

462
00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:03,360
Speaker 3: They play ten deep. Well, they play them all. They

463
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Speaker 3: play ten guys. They play him every game because you

464
00:21:05,480 --> 00:21:07,600
Speaker 3: got to have everybody ready to play, and you have

465
00:21:07,680 --> 00:21:11,480
Speaker 3: guys that this way also, guys can play harder for

466
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Speaker 3: longer stretches, get a blow, bring somebody in.

467
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Speaker 1: Oh, you brought in somebody who's used to playing.

468
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Speaker 3: It seems to me it's so elementary and I get

469
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Speaker 3: there are coaches like TIBs and I think Finch and

470
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Speaker 3: others that they don't trust those guys. They realize that

471
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Speaker 3: if they don't have winning teams, they won't have their

472
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Speaker 3: job for very long either.

473
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Speaker 1: So you're in to win.

474
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Speaker 3: But I think, I think if if you have until

475
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Speaker 3: you play some of these guys longer stretches, you don't

476
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Speaker 3: know if they if.

477
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Speaker 4: I think Shannon and Dillingham are going to be the

478
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Speaker 4: two guys in particular, and my guy Clark are going

479
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Speaker 4: to those two in particular. Shannon and Dillingham are going

480
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Speaker 4: to get extended playing time. And I'm excited to see

481
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Speaker 4: Terren Shannon kind of do his think because he's an

482
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Speaker 4: explosive player. We saw more than glimpses of it last

483
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Speaker 4: year in Dillingham, He's got to use his skills to

484
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Speaker 4: do the things that he does best, and it opens

485
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Speaker 4: up everything else for everybody on this basketball team.

486
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Speaker 3: It's possible you might be in better shape than Luga

487
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Speaker 3: Doncich was last year.

488
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Speaker 1: It's possible because it's impossible. I don't know.

489
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Speaker 4: You look pretty good, thank you, But with the fitness,

490
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Speaker 4: with the fitness game, that's what.

491
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Speaker 1: It was funny.

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Speaker 3: Our final Break and then one more segment to go

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Speaker 3: for me for the week.

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Speaker 1: I'm taking a couple of days off well deserved too.

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Speaker 1: Thank you very much.

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Speaker 3: Ten, it's cherlod so yourself. Yes, I don't mind saying

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Speaker 3: so myself. And I don't mind saying so myself. The

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Speaker 3: Ten of Fitzgerald set sail Friday, Thursday and Friday at Dude,

506
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Speaker 3: I will make an appearance tomorrow. Unlike when you're gone,

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Speaker 3: you just get you just tell teneb what your what

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Speaker 3: your I'm gonna call.

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Speaker 4: I was on a plane when that was happening, so

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Speaker 4: I couldn't really call. There was no phone on the plane,

511
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Speaker 4: so I was, uh, we hadn't landed yet.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I guess I have to take your word because

513
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Speaker 3: I don't know what your flight schedule you're not going

514
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Speaker 3: to see it, Yeah, because you weren't on plane resting

515
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Speaker 3: pool side.

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Speaker 4: The pool side of rain all weekn't got a beautiful

517
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Speaker 4: Charleston so there before it was nice.

518
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Speaker 3: Uh. You know, we even discussing debating best players in

519
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Speaker 3: the NBA.

520
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Speaker 1: Who are they? You know, top ten?

521
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Speaker 3: Who's the very best? Would you trade this guy for

522
00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:54,520
Speaker 3: that guy? I was reading a piece on my extensive

523
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Speaker 3: preparation for my show from specbasports dot com just talking about.

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Speaker 1: S g A and just this first paragraph just kind.

525
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Speaker 3: Of it's it's hard to argue when you read that

526
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Speaker 3: SGA put together one of the all time great individual

527
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Speaker 3: seasons for an NBA star in the twenty twenty four

528
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Speaker 3: to twenty twenty five season, when he became the first

529
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Speaker 3: player to win the league's scoring title, MVP Finals, MVP

530
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Speaker 3: and a championship in the same season since Mike Jordan

531
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Speaker 3: pulled off the same astonishing feet in ninety seven ninety eight.

532
00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:32,240
Speaker 3: Now think about that, I mean, that hadn't happened since

533
00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:34,400
Speaker 3: Mike Jordan did in nineteen ninety seven, ninety How many

534
00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:38,720
Speaker 3: years is that? That's a long time in SGA was

535
00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:41,359
Speaker 3: able to do that.

536
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Speaker 1: And the story is best for last year. He absolutely did.

537
00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:46,840
Speaker 3: And the story goes on to say, and yet despite

538
00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:50,199
Speaker 3: producing the season we haven't seen it almost thirty years,

539
00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:55,879
Speaker 3: sga Is is not in the top spot of the

540
00:24:55,920 --> 00:24:58,879
Speaker 3: best one hundred players in the NBA going into this season.

541
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Speaker 3: That continues to be least the CBS Sports guys they did,

542
00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:03,119
Speaker 3: they do. They have their eight or nine writers that

543
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Speaker 3: do NBA and so they make their little list and

544
00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:12,560
Speaker 3: it's because most people have the Joker there. And as

545
00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:17,560
Speaker 3: the story goes on to say, that's because jokers busy

546
00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:20,919
Speaker 3: rewriting history books himself, and he is a more than

547
00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:22,679
Speaker 3: worthy candidate for that number one position.

548
00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:24,920
Speaker 1: The three time MVP produced.

549
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Speaker 3: The bestest statistical season of his career last season, averaging

550
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Speaker 3: a monstrous triple double twenty nine point six points, twelve

551
00:25:34,520 --> 00:25:38,240
Speaker 3: point seven rebounds in ten point two assists, in doing

552
00:25:38,280 --> 00:25:41,840
Speaker 3: so on outrageous efficiency sixty.

553
00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:49,360
Speaker 1: Six point three percent true shooting. To get to, be.

554
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Speaker 3: Regardless as the best player in the league, you got

555
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Speaker 3: a lot of competition. And those are two astonishing seasons

556
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Speaker 3: in the same season by two of the best players

557
00:26:02,040 --> 00:26:04,720
Speaker 3: in the league. And that's why a lot of these

558
00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:07,320
Speaker 3: players are You know again that I'm not saying that

559
00:26:07,359 --> 00:26:08,639
Speaker 3: ant is one of the best players. But when you

560
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Speaker 3: have when you have your aunts and your wemen yamas,

561
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Speaker 3: and your and and and your Greek freaks and all

562
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Speaker 3: these players and and you know, even some of the

563
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Speaker 3: older guys that probably wouldn't I don't think you put

564
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Speaker 3: Stephan that conversation anymore or durantel Lebron because they're while

565
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Speaker 3: they're still very good, I wouldn't say they're the best

566
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Speaker 3: players in.

567
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Speaker 1: The league anymore. They're among them, but they're not goes

568
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Speaker 1: to the numbers these guys are putting.

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Speaker 4: It speaks to the the expansion of international basketball, how

570
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Speaker 4: the scouting has expanded the talent level internationally, where the

571
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Speaker 4: US used to just dominate no matter who they played,

572
00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:51,040
Speaker 4: and now whether you're talking about France, Slovenia, Italy, what

573
00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:54,240
Speaker 4: I mean, it's it's such a you know, an international

574
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Speaker 4: game and we're seeing the best of the best players

575
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Speaker 4: come to the NBA. I mean, I thought that we

576
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Speaker 4: were in the kind of the Golden Age not that

577
00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:03,879
Speaker 4: many years ago, with the kind of talent level we

578
00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:06,239
Speaker 4: saw you talk with the Jordan era, and we know

579
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Speaker 4: that you know, whether you're watching them go, you know,

580
00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:10,840
Speaker 4: head to head against Utah and Stockton them alone, and

581
00:27:10,880 --> 00:27:14,200
Speaker 4: obviously the Lakers had, you know, their bevy of stars,

582
00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:17,399
Speaker 4: and the Celtics always you know with Michale Parish and

583
00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:19,520
Speaker 4: Bird and you know, I thought, man, we ever going

584
00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:22,560
Speaker 4: to see a time like this in in basketball? Again, well,

585
00:27:22,600 --> 00:27:24,080
Speaker 4: we're seeing it. And then you know, go through the

586
00:27:24,119 --> 00:27:26,320
Speaker 4: whole thing with what the Golden State Warriors did with

587
00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:29,080
Speaker 4: with the you know, they're still hanging on and maybe

588
00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:31,879
Speaker 4: and then some I'm with Steph Curry and and of

589
00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:36,040
Speaker 4: course Klay Thompson's in Dallas now, and but it's it

590
00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:38,480
Speaker 4: keeps getting better, and I think that's you know, a

591
00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:43,240
Speaker 4: reflection on how international the game has become and how

592
00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:45,000
Speaker 4: much talent there is in the world.

593
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Speaker 3: Here are some other numbers from SGA last year. He's

594
00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:51,760
Speaker 3: scoring fewer than twenty points in a game one times

595
00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:56,600
Speaker 3: during the regular season. That was an eighteen point outing

596
00:27:56,640 --> 00:27:59,959
Speaker 3: in the fourth game of the season, while scoring thirty

597
00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:05,639
Speaker 3: or more on forty nine occasions. In the playoffs, he

598
00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:08,840
Speaker 3: had three outings below twenty points while scoring thirty or

599
00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:11,840
Speaker 3: more and fifteen of the thunders twenty three playoff games

600
00:28:12,480 --> 00:28:14,800
Speaker 3: en route to the title. Even while struggling with his

601
00:28:14,840 --> 00:28:18,840
Speaker 3: three point shot against defenses trying to force anyone else

602
00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:23,080
Speaker 3: to beat them. That's how good he is. And I

603
00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:25,840
Speaker 3: know he's a flopper of azation and this and that

604
00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:27,920
Speaker 3: and the other thing, but he's brilliant.

605
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Speaker 4: He does he does sell it and many times you know,

606
00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:36,920
Speaker 4: ends up with you know, burns floor burns from being

607
00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:39,240
Speaker 4: on the floor as much as he is. But and

608
00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:40,600
Speaker 4: that many times he earns it too.

609
00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:43,680
Speaker 3: And then listen to this, It says for as much

610
00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:46,440
Speaker 3: as we discuss joke or orchestrating everything for the Nuggets,

611
00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:50,720
Speaker 3: Sga serves as an serves as an equally important engine

612
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Speaker 3: for OKC. His thirty four point eight percent usage rate

613
00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:56,960
Speaker 3: last season was third.

614
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Speaker 1: In the league behind LaMelo Ball in Ante.

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Speaker 3: Takoumpo, with the key difference being Sga was doing so

616
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Speaker 3: on the league's.

617
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Speaker 1: Third best offense.

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Speaker 3: Well and Koompo's bucks were tenth and Ball's hornets were

619
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Speaker 3: twenty ninth. It's exceedingly rare for a team as successful

620
00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:14,840
Speaker 3: inefficient as the Thunder to rely so heavily on one

621
00:29:14,880 --> 00:29:19,320
Speaker 3: player for creation. But that's a testament to SGA's abilities

622
00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:22,760
Speaker 3: as both a score and facilitator. He pulls all the

623
00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:24,680
Speaker 3: strings of the thunder and has learned how to tow

624
00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:27,960
Speaker 3: the line between being an elite scorer and individual creator

625
00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:33,000
Speaker 3: also keeping his teammates involved and engage, and that's what

626
00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:35,000
Speaker 3: he does and as a point guard, that's why it's

627
00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:35,560
Speaker 3: so important.

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Speaker 1: That's why he is. He is so so talented. He's

629
00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:41,880
Speaker 1: definitely worth the price of mission, as they say.

630
00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:46,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think that's that. And because he has

631
00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:48,800
Speaker 3: a very nice supporting cast, he has a hell of

632
00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:51,360
Speaker 3: a coach, and they're coming off a championship. It's hard

633
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:53,640
Speaker 3: to repeat. We know that it's really difficult, but I

634
00:29:53,640 --> 00:29:56,040
Speaker 3: think that's why they're the odds on favors because of

635
00:29:56,720 --> 00:29:57,960
Speaker 3: what he's able to do.

636
00:29:58,080 --> 00:29:59,760
Speaker 4: Have no longer to be one of the best. They

637
00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:02,200
Speaker 4: have an opportunity to try to. It's hard to it's

638
00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:05,080
Speaker 4: in this league. It's for you know, injuries and everything

639
00:30:05,120 --> 00:30:08,600
Speaker 4: else and staying motivated with the money they're making and

640
00:30:08,840 --> 00:30:11,480
Speaker 4: to grind your way through an eighty two game season

641
00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:14,240
Speaker 4: then it starts over again for another three months. Basically

642
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:17,239
Speaker 4: that you have to be at your best, and we

643
00:30:17,280 --> 00:30:20,760
Speaker 4: saw the best of OKC last year and well deserved championship.

644
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656
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Speaker 3: gave up opening pitch. You gave up a home run.

657
00:30:59,360 --> 00:31:01,280
Speaker 3: From that point, give up two more hits. The rest

658
00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:03,320
Speaker 3: of the game is a complete game. And I can't

659
00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:06,080
Speaker 3: remember what I read, but it's like the first complete

660
00:31:06,360 --> 00:31:11,120
Speaker 3: game and postseason in eight years. Wasn't think about years,

661
00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:13,160
Speaker 3: And well that's just the way they pitched. Now they

662
00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:15,400
Speaker 3: take pictures because they have so much money invested in

663
00:31:15,400 --> 00:31:18,600
Speaker 3: those arms. They don't dare they don't want to take

664
00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:20,760
Speaker 3: that chance. But he pitched a complete game loss. And

665
00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:25,640
Speaker 3: so that's two performances back to back where Snell goes

666
00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:30,400
Speaker 3: eight innings, gives up one hit and strikes out ten.

667
00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:32,800
Speaker 1: The bullpen, the Dodgers' bullpen is.

668
00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:36,280
Speaker 3: A weakness apparently this year, and I think maybe that

669
00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:38,120
Speaker 3: was another reason why they went to distance of the

670
00:31:38,200 --> 00:31:40,800
Speaker 3: Yama motive, because the Brewers had a chance to win

671
00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:42,720
Speaker 3: that they could. They almost stole that game in the

672
00:31:42,720 --> 00:31:44,320
Speaker 3: bottom of the ninth the other day, but they did

673
00:31:44,360 --> 00:31:48,160
Speaker 3: not game one. They almost stole it. What I'm saying

674
00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:50,280
Speaker 3: is that's I think why they probably Yama motive go.

675
00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:51,560
Speaker 3: That is is they didn't want to give it back

676
00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:53,600
Speaker 3: to that bullpen again because it was still a close game.

677
00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:57,040
Speaker 3: But you know, that's where you know, I remember TK

678
00:31:57,280 --> 00:31:59,680
Speaker 3: used to do the old if you pitch some play

679
00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:02,040
Speaker 3: d friends and give yourself a chance to win the

680
00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:04,320
Speaker 3: ball game. And I think everybody that knows, I mean,

681
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:06,840
Speaker 3: you know, there are times when the best pitchers in

682
00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:09,320
Speaker 3: baseball are having an off day and a good hitting

683
00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:11,920
Speaker 3: team can get to them. But more times than not.

684
00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:13,480
Speaker 3: I don't know if you agree with me here, but

685
00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:15,560
Speaker 3: if you if you told me, I want one of

686
00:32:15,560 --> 00:32:18,640
Speaker 3: the best pictures on the mound in a postseason game

687
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:21,400
Speaker 3: rather than one of the best offenses in baseball. And

688
00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:24,160
Speaker 3: they ali will take the best picture, because when when

689
00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:27,280
Speaker 3: when they're on and have it going, it's the things

690
00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:30,000
Speaker 3: they can do with I mean, I think Royce wrote

691
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:31,600
Speaker 3: a piece about a week ago.

692
00:32:31,640 --> 00:32:32,360
Speaker 1: It was really nice.

693
00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:34,880
Speaker 3: Was it was about the way pitching is as has

694
00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:39,280
Speaker 3: progressed over the years and morphed and changed and evolved,

695
00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:43,080
Speaker 3: and how you know there used to be fastballker ball,

696
00:32:43,440 --> 00:32:47,200
Speaker 3: sinker and that was about it right right now you've

697
00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:50,480
Speaker 3: got slurves and swerves and all these different pitches and

698
00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:52,880
Speaker 3: throwing as hard as you can and in all the

699
00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:56,600
Speaker 3: different ways to to and then you you know, when

700
00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:59,600
Speaker 3: when you use your sabermetrics and analytics, which can be helpful.

701
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:00,400
Speaker 1: We've talked about that.

702
00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:03,880
Speaker 3: I'm not I still think I'll just go with the

703
00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:06,440
Speaker 3: guy with his cunning and gone more than said.

704
00:33:06,440 --> 00:33:07,440
Speaker 1: But but when you know what.

705
00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:10,800
Speaker 3: Pitchers, catchers or a hitter's tendencies ares and such like that,

706
00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:11,840
Speaker 3: if you've got a good.

707
00:33:11,640 --> 00:33:13,920
Speaker 1: Guy on the hill man, it just makes all the difference.

708
00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:15,320
Speaker 3: In one we've seen, they have a two zero lead

709
00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:18,200
Speaker 3: against the Brewers, had the best record in Major League Baseball,

710
00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:20,800
Speaker 3: going a very talented club with a pretty good pitching

711
00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:22,880
Speaker 3: staff on their own. But what they add was a

712
00:33:22,880 --> 00:33:25,160
Speaker 3: team that they could hit the long ball to win games.

713
00:33:25,160 --> 00:33:27,200
Speaker 3: They did it in postseason. They can go long and

714
00:33:27,240 --> 00:33:29,280
Speaker 3: win games. They can play small ball to win games.

715
00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:31,880
Speaker 3: But when you're facing the best pitching in baseball, nothing that.

716
00:33:32,720 --> 00:33:35,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, Momoto took the air out of that building last night.

717
00:33:35,160 --> 00:33:37,240
Speaker 4: There was after Milwaukee scored in the bottom of the

718
00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:39,120
Speaker 4: first with the home run, think, oh, this is they're

719
00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:41,400
Speaker 4: going to give it a run here Dodgers scored two

720
00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:43,200
Speaker 4: right away in the top of the second, and you know,

721
00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:45,040
Speaker 4: still it's two to one game, no big deal that

722
00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:46,719
Speaker 4: they didn't score again until the sixth inning. And then

723
00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:49,560
Speaker 4: it just kind of you could just feel it, and

724
00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:51,440
Speaker 4: and you know, the fans were kind of you know,

725
00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:53,840
Speaker 4: they were they were anticipating something big happening, but they

726
00:33:53,880 --> 00:33:55,880
Speaker 4: never really got a chance to cheer, and they they

727
00:33:55,920 --> 00:33:57,920
Speaker 4: really got a chance to get the you know, the

728
00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:00,840
Speaker 4: Brewers never gave their chance out, a chance to kind

729
00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:01,640
Speaker 4: of get into the game.

730
00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:02,920
Speaker 1: And now they got to go back to l A.

731
00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:05,680
Speaker 4: And you know it, it certainly looks like they're just

732
00:34:05,800 --> 00:34:08,360
Speaker 4: punching their way right, you know, right to the World Series.

733
00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:10,799
Speaker 4: And I you know, I think most baseball fans if

734
00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:12,719
Speaker 4: you're watching it all. I mean, I I love the

735
00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:14,600
Speaker 4: city and I have I've talked about a million times.

736
00:34:14,640 --> 00:34:16,359
Speaker 4: I love the city in Toronto, love the people, love

737
00:34:16,840 --> 00:34:18,239
Speaker 4: you know, I like what they you know, what they

738
00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:18,680
Speaker 4: stand for.

739
00:34:18,760 --> 00:34:19,919
Speaker 1: But I think you know, you're.

740
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:23,959
Speaker 3: Not recognized there, which is another which is refreshing.

741
00:34:24,440 --> 00:34:28,600
Speaker 4: But I'd like to see Seattle. Uh oh yeah, I'm

742
00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:30,759
Speaker 4: on to you know, Seattle's got a fun team to watch.

743
00:34:30,800 --> 00:34:32,160
Speaker 4: You know, they talk about hitting the ball out of

744
00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:34,439
Speaker 4: the park, not just cal Raley and and what they've

745
00:34:34,440 --> 00:34:37,440
Speaker 4: done in our guy Polanco. That would be hopefully a

746
00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:41,200
Speaker 4: fun World Series and Seattle's never had a chance eliminated.

747
00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:46,320
Speaker 3: I don't care really try to Seattle. Dodgers to Seattle.

748
00:34:45,960 --> 00:34:46,719
Speaker 1: Is fun to me.

749
00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:49,120
Speaker 4: Like I said, Seattle's turned into a great story this year.

750
00:34:50,880 --> 00:34:52,960
Speaker 4: But I don't know if anybody can be the Dodgers.

751
00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:58,080
Speaker 4: I mean, it's just they're they're playing every day lineup. Yeah,

752
00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:02,840
Speaker 4: they're just there's no weakness and uh it's it's a they're.

753
00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:04,560
Speaker 3: Not afraid to spend money, and I know there's a

754
00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:07,959
Speaker 3: well no, they're more available to them. But every owner

755
00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:09,520
Speaker 3: major League Baseball if they really want I mean that

756
00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:11,319
Speaker 3: what the San Diego guys done and the Mets guy

757
00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:14,560
Speaker 3: they spend their own personal fortunes. They hasn't want it

758
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:16,359
Speaker 3: for him yet. But as a fan, do you really care?

759
00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:18,880
Speaker 3: I mean, there was there was a quote from I

760
00:35:18,920 --> 00:35:19,560
Speaker 3: don't remember.

761
00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:22,239
Speaker 1: I have it somewhere I saved it where.

762
00:35:23,840 --> 00:35:26,200
Speaker 3: One of the baseball owners said something infect he goes,

763
00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:30,000
Speaker 3: fans don't care. They just want a winning team, so

764
00:35:30,040 --> 00:35:32,400
Speaker 3: they don't care if I'm spending my own money or whatever.

765
00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:32,719
Speaker 1: It comes from.

766
00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:35,399
Speaker 3: So like he's basically saying, there are no excuses either

767
00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:37,040
Speaker 3: field a winning team or you don't you know, and

768
00:35:37,040 --> 00:35:39,680
Speaker 3: if if, if, if, if you're in a smaller market

769
00:35:40,280 --> 00:35:43,880
Speaker 3: and you bought the club, you know the rules. You know,

770
00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:45,640
Speaker 3: there is no sin now that may change or may

771
00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:48,200
Speaker 3: eventually be a salary cap and a floor, but right now,

772
00:35:48,239 --> 00:35:49,880
Speaker 3: if you want to compete, you have to spend some

773
00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:51,080
Speaker 3: of your own personal fortune.

774
00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:51,920
Speaker 1: That's just how it works.

775
00:35:52,040 --> 00:35:54,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, And whether they end up with a lockout another

776
00:35:54,600 --> 00:35:56,960
Speaker 4: year from now remains to be seen. But you know,

777
00:35:57,160 --> 00:35:59,720
Speaker 4: in the meantime, the Dodgers keep, you know, humming along,

778
00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:01,840
Speaker 4: and they're probably going to be on the verge of

779
00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:04,759
Speaker 4: winning their second straight World Series title and that's they've

780
00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:05,080
Speaker 4: had a.

781
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:05,520
Speaker 1: Few of them.

782
00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:09,160
Speaker 4: And in LA that's you know, they care about the Dodgers.

783
00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:14,520
Speaker 4: They they care about USC football. They don't much care

784
00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:15,960
Speaker 4: for the you know, the Ram. When the Rams play

785
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:19,400
Speaker 4: the forty nine Ers, that so far was it was

786
00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:24,640
Speaker 4: it the Rams were the Chargers. There were three fourths

787
00:36:24,640 --> 00:36:26,799
Speaker 4: the stadium was filled with forty nine Er fans and

788
00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:30,239
Speaker 4: it's like, oh I can pay attend. Pro football is

789
00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:34,799
Speaker 4: almost an It's an afterthought in Los Angeles, has been

790
00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:35,520
Speaker 4: for a long time.

791
00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:37,360
Speaker 1: That's why you know, they you know, they stole it.

792
00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:40,120
Speaker 4: You know, Saint Louis moved there, of course, but in

793
00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:42,000
Speaker 4: the Chargers moved from San Diego. So they got two

794
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:44,520
Speaker 4: teams there that weren't even from there. And now they're

795
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:46,640
Speaker 4: kind of just going through the motions and they got

796
00:36:46,640 --> 00:36:48,080
Speaker 4: a damn good football team there too.

797
00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:54,959
Speaker 3: Is today the fifteenth, Yes, two days ago, the Associated

798
00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:58,960
Speaker 3: Press released their top twenty five men's college basketball polls

799
00:36:59,000 --> 00:37:02,879
Speaker 3: we get Ready for the college basketball season. Purdue number one,

800
00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:07,440
Speaker 3: followed by Houston, Florada, Yukon and Saint John's rounding out

801
00:37:07,440 --> 00:37:13,480
Speaker 3: the top ten. Duke Michigan BYU Kentucky, Texas Tech, and Louisville.

802
00:37:13,640 --> 00:37:19,719
Speaker 3: Other Big Ten schools would be Illinois at seventeen, Michigan

803
00:37:19,800 --> 00:37:28,760
Speaker 3: State at twenty two, in Wisconsin at twenty four. Others

804
00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:31,080
Speaker 3: receiving votes the Gophers aren't included.

805
00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:32,200
Speaker 1: I would be.

806
00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:36,960
Speaker 3: I'm very curious. I think everybody is when you have

807
00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:39,360
Speaker 3: a new coach and a new program in a new direction,

808
00:37:39,520 --> 00:37:44,360
Speaker 3: and there are I think there are only two players

809
00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:46,120
Speaker 3: that were on last year's goal forers.

810
00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:48,080
Speaker 1: Have I read that right? That are on this year's

811
00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:48,680
Speaker 1: Gophers team.

812
00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:51,920
Speaker 3: He has went out, he's done the transfer portal, He's

813
00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:53,719
Speaker 3: brought player you know, I think he's got at least

814
00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:56,120
Speaker 3: one or two kids from where was he at Colorado State?

815
00:37:56,160 --> 00:37:56,279
Speaker 3: Was it?

816
00:37:56,680 --> 00:38:02,000
Speaker 1: He brought them along with him, and a lot of.

817
00:38:03,239 --> 00:38:04,680
Speaker 3: If I saw it right too, I think there's a

818
00:38:04,680 --> 00:38:07,040
Speaker 3: lot of seniors on the team, guys with the experience

819
00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:09,239
Speaker 3: now how quickly they can meld together basketball as a

820
00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:13,799
Speaker 3: team game. But I think everybody's curious, you know. Look,

821
00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:18,800
Speaker 3: I think I had is much fun in nineteen ninety

822
00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:20,640
Speaker 3: seven as I ever had watching college basketball, and the

823
00:38:20,640 --> 00:38:22,319
Speaker 3: Golfers made the run of the Final four. We know

824
00:38:22,360 --> 00:38:24,799
Speaker 3: all about the cheating scandal and all that, but the

825
00:38:24,840 --> 00:38:30,120
Speaker 3: athletic the academic cheating scandal. But it's well, it's like

826
00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:32,160
Speaker 3: what I talk about in football as well. Why college

827
00:38:32,160 --> 00:38:37,600
Speaker 3: football generally isn't on my radar other than now Deuces, Alm,

828
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:40,160
Speaker 3: the Waters in Nebraska, Pizza Ohouse State. So I've watched

829
00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:41,840
Speaker 3: more college basketball this year that I've watched in the

830
00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:45,600
Speaker 3: past ten years, combine in college football. But if your

831
00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:48,800
Speaker 3: local team is and you know, if your local team

832
00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:52,000
Speaker 3: is involved, and they're considered one of the better teams

833
00:38:52,040 --> 00:38:54,279
Speaker 3: the country, at least a top twenty five team, it

834
00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:57,880
Speaker 3: makes it to me more attractive to pay attention. And

835
00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:01,160
Speaker 3: I'd love to see is it Medved? Is that his

836
00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:03,040
Speaker 3: name in Eco Medical? I'd love to see him do

837
00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:06,520
Speaker 3: a right job. He's he's sure, he's he's light fleck

838
00:39:06,760 --> 00:39:11,080
Speaker 3: in this way, everywhere he is everywhere test was prior

839
00:39:11,120 --> 00:39:14,600
Speaker 3: to Minnesota, he had winning records and Medved's done the

840
00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:16,440
Speaker 3: same thing as well. Whether he can transfer that to

841
00:39:16,440 --> 00:39:18,040
Speaker 3: the Big eighteen, I don't know, but.

842
00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:22,480
Speaker 4: We hit the optimum word transfer. I mean, you have

843
00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:24,840
Speaker 4: to get the right transfer kids in here, and and

844
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:29,160
Speaker 4: you know you're going into college basketball season and compared

845
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:30,319
Speaker 4: to what it used to be, it wasn't even that

846
00:39:30,360 --> 00:39:34,640
Speaker 4: long ago. I certainly could name one star basketball player

847
00:39:34,640 --> 00:39:35,920
Speaker 4: in college basketball right now.

848
00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:39,000
Speaker 1: I have no idea, And yeah, I'll take time.

849
00:39:39,040 --> 00:39:41,080
Speaker 4: And you're we're paying attention if you're a college fan

850
00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:43,560
Speaker 4: right now, you're watching more college football and you know

851
00:39:43,640 --> 00:39:45,120
Speaker 4: some of the some of the players that are going

852
00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:47,520
Speaker 4: to be drafted next year. The Indiana quarterback, he's already

853
00:39:47,520 --> 00:39:50,920
Speaker 4: being mentioned as potentially number one draft pick overall in

854
00:39:50,960 --> 00:39:54,040
Speaker 4: the NFL. And what a great story that continues to be.

855
00:39:54,040 --> 00:39:55,920
Speaker 4: And though that head coach probably be gone, they're going

856
00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:59,040
Speaker 4: to maybe penn State will offer him, you know, eighty

857
00:39:59,080 --> 00:40:03,400
Speaker 4: million dollars to come and coach them, which Indiana.

858
00:40:02,960 --> 00:40:06,040
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, coach, that's possibility. Yeah, he's an interesting character.

859
00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:06,960
Speaker 1: But the part.

860
00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:09,959
Speaker 3: There's there, there there's a there's a tie between Matt

861
00:40:10,040 --> 00:40:11,280
Speaker 3: Ruhle and the athletic.

862
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:14,239
Speaker 4: Right Oh yeah, oh absolutely rules. Uh, he'll be here

863
00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:17,080
Speaker 4: of course Friday night. Got a lot of ties to

864
00:40:17,200 --> 00:40:20,439
Speaker 4: pen you know, to Pennsylvania in that area. But yeah,

865
00:40:20,920 --> 00:40:23,560
Speaker 4: just as far as the players go, because you know,

866
00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:25,520
Speaker 4: it's the one and Don's and you don't have those

867
00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:27,400
Speaker 4: kind of teams anymore, even the last couple of years.

868
00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:29,160
Speaker 4: It's been harder for me, as it was a big

869
00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:31,160
Speaker 4: college basketball fan to kind of get into it till

870
00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:34,880
Speaker 4: March because it just in. The golfers haven't been good obviously,

871
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:37,000
Speaker 4: so it's pretty hard to get all riled up about,

872
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Speaker 4: you know, watching them play. Even on those winter nights.

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Speaker 4: It used to be so much fun at Williams Arena.

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Speaker 4: You hope that that changes and it's gonna.

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Speaker 1: They miss you at the barn.

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Speaker 3: There is a time where you used to you never

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Speaker 3: miss you would be at the barn a lot.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'd be right in those front rows. They miss

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Speaker 1: the way you go back there again.

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Speaker 4: I hope, so you know, I mean, uh they go

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Speaker 4: for women's basketball team is going to be I think

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Speaker 4: pretty good this year.

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Speaker 1: Mar Brough maybe going.

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Speaker 4: There, Yeah, I got I got Uh, we've gone to

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Speaker 4: a couple of games. I've gotten more women's games and

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Speaker 4: men's games lately.

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Speaker 1: Be honest with you. So we'll see you there probably. Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Karen likes to go, so we'll go. Yeah, I like

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Speaker 4: to you. Yeah, I'll be there.

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Speaker 1: Wouldn't miss it. Well, you have yourself a wonderful couple

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Speaker 1: of days.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna have a good time. Yeah, we'll miss the property,

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Speaker 3: several golf courses. Going to be a lot of fun.

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Speaker 3: You'll call it for spread spring tomorrow. Oh yeah, I

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Speaker 3: missed my tea time, so I'll tune in about one thirty,

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Speaker 3: get one for the it off, and then yeah, I

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Speaker 3: suppose as I'm tapping in for birdie on one and

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Speaker 3: walk into uh this second tea box, I'll do it again.

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Speaker 4: Talking and hitting golf shots has never been a problem

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Speaker 4: for you.

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Speaker 3: You are correct. I will see you next Tuesday.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll be interesting.

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Speaker 3: We have a lot to talk about, tennebe.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for having me. Hey, great time you as well.

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Speaker 3: Enjoy your next two days Thursday and Friday with the

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Speaker 3: ten of Chris Gerald. I'll talk to you on Monday

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Speaker 3: at twelve noon. Stick around big ticket and j G

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Speaker 3: there next cheer on the Fame and good.

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Speaker 4: Night open and good night missus Calabash.

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