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Speaker 1: He is a once in future Pittsburgh Penguin. We welcome

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Speaker 1: back to the program, winger Avery Hayes. Avery, let's go

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Speaker 1: back to that game at Buffalo. First NHL game, first shot,

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Speaker 1: first goal. It was like a movie script, wasn't it.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, hey, Mike, how's it going?

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Speaker 1: It was?

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Speaker 3: It was pretty crazy. I mean I still don't work

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Speaker 3: amazing day. And I'll never forget it.

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Speaker 1: What are you thinking when you get that great chance

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Speaker 4: Is it?

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Speaker 5: Pressure? Just fun? It just kind of jumped up, didn't it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I would.

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Speaker 3: Say it's pressure, I feel. I mean, you get those chances.

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Speaker 3: I had plenty of those chances my whole leaf.

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Speaker 2: So at the end of the day, it's just just

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Speaker 1: And yeah, your mom and dad and brother got there

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Speaker 5: That must have been great.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was. It was amazing.

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Speaker 3: Well, I didn't know it was for sure playing, but

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Speaker 1: Did you look in the stands when you scored? Did

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Speaker 2: I knew there. I saw them in warm up, so

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Speaker 3: Now after I scored, I kind of blacked out, But

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Speaker 1: Now from what I saw, Avery, your brother cried and

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Speaker 2: Did? I?

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Speaker 3: He was chirping me on the way in because he

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Speaker 1: Now, what was the biggest adjustment in that first NHL game?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, just every player. There's no there's no

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Speaker 1: What about the physicality because you're you're not the biggest guy,

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Speaker 3: I feel like more the defenseman up there, more focused

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Speaker 1: But yeah, now you're known, and I mean this in

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Speaker 2: So we have a great team here and it's been awesome.

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Speaker 3: I mean, we've we have a great team and we've

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I obviously know I have a long way to go,

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Speaker 1: We're talking to Avery Hayes and the Penguins here on

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Speaker 1: because you guys are killing it, like you said, thirty

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been pretty crazy this year with that, but

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Speaker 2: No complaints.

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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 1: When the Penguins made their Cup runs the last two

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Speaker 1: a bunch of young guys come through together, you know

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Speaker 1: You know, Harrison Brunnick, Billy Cooyvenen, a close group of

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that group definitely is an inspiration for us, and

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Speaker 2: We want to do eventually there.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we just all we're all really close and everyone's

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Speaker 5: Boy McGroarty was excited when you scored, wasn't he.

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Speaker 3: But he's one of my best friends and brother to me,

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Speaker 5: Now you mentioned the Olympics.

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Speaker 1: You guys got to watch every game, right, I mean,

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Speaker 5: It's just like it's NonStop. It's so great.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's unbelievable.

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Speaker 3: I mean, this is hockey that's going to be being

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Speaker 2: So it's amazing a lot.

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Speaker 1: Now, I know there's a lot of chirping in every

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Speaker 3: Was the same when we did the Four Nations last year.

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Speaker 3: To all the Americans and the Canadians usually go at it.

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Speaker 5: Who's gonna win.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure you're rooting for the US, being

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Speaker 3: I mean, honestly, there's probably the Finland, Sweden, USA, Canada.

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Speaker 1: What's the rest of this season hold for you. I'm

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Speaker 1: sure you'd love to be back at Pittsburgh. That's not

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's exactly. I just got to keep controlling what

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Speaker 3: I can. That's all I can do. And I can't

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Speaker 2: Control it. I can take it one day at a time.

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Speaker 1: What kind of feedback did you get from the coaches

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Speaker 5: What if they said to you about your game.

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Speaker 2: They've been amazing.

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Speaker 3: They just keep telling me to be the player that

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Speaker 2: They've been. They've been super good with all the young

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Speaker 1: Now, you're twenty three, Avery, you weren't drafted. Was there

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Speaker 1: Nobody wants to get blown out while playing for their country.

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Speaker 7: I mean, he's built for it. He just needs to,

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Speaker 7: I think it's funny that everything I see of him

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Speaker 7: House two clarify that he's nineteen years old, because because

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Speaker 7: Super mature, super professional. And how it goes about his business,

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Speaker 8: This here.

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Speaker 5: I talked about this a bit earlier.

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Speaker 1: The more I think about it, maybe Griffin should stark

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Speaker 5: Duh.

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Speaker 1: You want to make the playoffs, right, well, shoot your

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Speaker 1: even sure they're good enough to just miss. I'm not

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Speaker 1: Hang in there through I don't know, early September. So

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Speaker 1: to be ruined. Just send him back to Triple A.

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Speaker 1: You don't kind of shoot him. But I think Griffin

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Speaker 1: that's very worthwhile.

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Speaker 5: Here's Bill Barnwell of ESPN.

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Speaker 1: He says the Steelers out to trade Nick Herbig the

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Speaker 9: If you say need a Tanner McKee and you knew

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Speaker 9: call the Eagles and say, hey, look Nick Herbig, Tanner McKee,

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Speaker 9: two guys and rookie deals. You get a cost controlled

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Speaker 1: No, it seems stupid Bill. We over reestimate herbig. He's

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Speaker 1: very good, but he's not wanting his prime, and he's

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Speaker 5: You'd be okay without him. The question is can.

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Speaker 1: Tanner McKee a number one quarterback And some seem to

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Speaker 1: think so, But he got drafted in the sixth round

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Speaker 1: out of stand for in twenty twenty three, So why

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Speaker 1: you could trade herbig? And it'll look dumb to trade

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Speaker 1: on your roster in Will Howard. That's bad optics and

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Speaker 1: God forbid. Then it wouldn't work. And people would say

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Speaker 1: me Howard a chance. Then again, Tanner McKee is called

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Seth and Harmer sets what's up.

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Speaker 9: There?

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Speaker 4: They're what up?

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Speaker 10: Yeah? The Porter Ben things really annoying, especially like with

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Speaker 1: All the photo ops and was cheating it up with

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Speaker 5: What a hypocrite, what a coward?

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Speaker 8: Yeah?

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Speaker 10: Like and without Ben, like tom Win, Tomlin would be

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Speaker 1: Oh, I said in my uh in my call for

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Speaker 5: Ben.

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Speaker 1: That matters more than any Rooney not named Dan or

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Speaker 1: people again. It's your fourth straight season with a losing record.

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Speaker 1: In a word, you suck. I believe you owe this

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Speaker 1: committee an apology, an apology.

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Speaker 8: Senator, Well, let's not. You'll discount the fact the rules uh,

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Speaker 8: the rules committee was sacked against me. You constantly change

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Speaker 8: the rules.

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Speaker 5: We don't even have everybody.

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Speaker 8: Well you know, every single time I picked the Steelers,

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Speaker 8: you made that the Super Collider.

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Speaker 5: That's because you hate the Steelers.

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Speaker 8: No, I don't. I don't hate the Steelers.

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Speaker 5: You do don't hate Steels?

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Speaker 8: Well if I do, but yeah, but if I do,

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Speaker 8: I do hate the Steelers, you know I did. I

458
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Speaker 8: got I got Tomlin fire. So that's a good thing, right,

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Speaker 8: So you hate Tomlin. No, I'm just saying, if if

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Speaker 8: I did hate the Steelers, that they had an unsuccessful season.

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Speaker 1: And Steelers in the city of Pittsburgh, we get it. Well,

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Speaker 1: so do you though, that's that's that's a total fabrication

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Speaker 1: on your part.

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Speaker 8: Now, I tell you I talked. I told that HRS

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Speaker 8: and I talked to them about about, you know, your

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Speaker 8: year claims if I hate the Steelers, and they actually

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Speaker 8: said that you hate the Steelers.

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Speaker 5: No, I talked.

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Speaker 1: They said, it's okay, Now, how much money did you.

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Speaker 5: Personally lose on the Super Bowl?

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Speaker 1: See, because I was told by an interested third party,

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Speaker 1: you actually bet the other way, You bet the opposite

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Speaker 1: of what you predicted on this program.

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Speaker 8: Well maybe I did, you know, but uh, because it

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Speaker 8: was obviously it was you know by my original handicap

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Speaker 8: was that this was a big revenge game. So you know,

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Speaker 8: I anticipated at this New England. We get revenge because

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Speaker 8: it was a big revenge game.

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Speaker 12: Okay, it's actually okay, Daily, we'll sound of your business.

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Speaker 5: Okay, Well, now let's look forward.

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Speaker 1: You were under contract to work for free next year

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Speaker 1: as per the terms of all or nothing.

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Speaker 4: I need.

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Speaker 5: You know, we'll probably fix this for next year. Do

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Speaker 5: you have any ideas?

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Speaker 8: Yeah, First of all, we should get rid of the

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Speaker 8: Daily Double.

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Speaker 5: Okay, we're not gonna do that.

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Speaker 8: Okay, Well, let we should get rid of the super Colhider.

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Speaker 5: We're not gonna do that.

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Speaker 8: Okay, Well, then that we shouldn't bother to spin the wheel.

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Speaker 5: We are going to spin the wheel.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna be.

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Speaker 8: Like, I'm gonna stick. I'm gonna stick the strategy that

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Speaker 8: next year, I'm sure strictly only only gonna give picks

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Speaker 8: where there's a revenge game.

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Speaker 1: There won't be enough revenge games, ven, I mean every

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Speaker 1: week there's a revenge game.

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Speaker 5: Might be one, but there's never more than one or

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Speaker 5: two revenge games.

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Speaker 11: Ven.

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Speaker 8: Well, well if there's two, then with that combined with

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Speaker 8: the Steelers game, then maybe I will consider just you know,

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Speaker 8: keep it anywhere where we sit in the wheel. Uh,

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Speaker 8: you know, we the Daily dolls will stop.

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Speaker 5: Okay, I got some ideas on how to fix it.

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Speaker 5: Would you like to hear them?

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Speaker 8: Sure?

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Speaker 9: Why not?

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Speaker 5: Okay, we actually talk to us?

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Speaker 8: Can we talk to my fans?

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Speaker 5: They're not calling, they're tired of you.

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Speaker 1: My ideas are here's number one, Ready, change your name

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Speaker 1: to Rebenga.

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Speaker 5: People seed to respond to that.

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Speaker 2: They like them.

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Speaker 8: That's I mean, I'm I'm game for anything that works,

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Speaker 8: you know.

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Speaker 5: Okay, here's some other ideas. We revisit calling you machine.

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Speaker 8: I'm not sure. I'm not sure about that.

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Speaker 12: People love, but that's the machine, right, yes?

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Speaker 8: All right? Well okay, well one one man, I know

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Speaker 8: what you're gonna say next to and I'm gonna gonna

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Speaker 8: shut it down before you even get there. And no way,

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Speaker 8: no way will I consider being the kids guy.

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Speaker 5: I was gonna suggest that.

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Speaker 8: Why not, because it's just as ridiculous, because we don't

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Speaker 8: need kids, don't need to be gambling.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I disagree. Let me go in an opposite direction.

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Speaker 1: Let me tell you why I think we should have

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Speaker 1: the kids guy. Okay, because we want to promote entry

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Speaker 1: level gamblers. The minute you can gamble, we want you

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Speaker 1: to gamble. And the kids guy would facilitate that because

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Speaker 1: you know, kids like the kids.

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Speaker 5: Guys like do it one time, say hey kids, it's

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Speaker 5: the kids guy. People love that.

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Speaker 8: Go ahead, try it, hey kids, this excuse guy.

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Speaker 1: That is gold right there. I love it. Uh okay,

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Speaker 1: that's the end of the segment.

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Speaker 8: Uh.

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Speaker 1: Time to ask Mark anything? Uh eight three three four

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Speaker 1: one two w xd x eight three three four one

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Speaker 1: two w xdx. Or you can now four one two

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Speaker 1: three three three w xdx. It's the Mark Man Show.

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Speaker 1: Asks Mark anything, or leave a talkback via the iHeartMedia app.

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Speaker 5: Use the microphone I call one O five nine and

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Speaker 5: now the super genius Mark Madden. My solution is give

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Speaker 5: me my cake and eat me too the X.

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Speaker 1: Time to ass mark anything, dial four one two three

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Speaker 1: three three wxdx. That's the double Secret probation. Get on

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Speaker 1: the air quicker number. Or you can dial eight three

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Speaker 1: to three, four to one to two wxdx. You can

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Speaker 1: also leave a talkback via the microphone icon at the

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Speaker 1: iHeartMedia app.

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Speaker 7: Uh.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna talk more about that Trinidad Chambliss thing next hour.

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Speaker 1: The quarterback from Ole Miss who wants a six year

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Speaker 1: of eligibility. I think the sidebar to that is that

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Speaker 1: the NFL, if it doesn't already, is going to start

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Speaker 1: seeing the NCAA as a competing pro league well with

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Speaker 1: NIL and players opting to stay in college football because

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Speaker 1: they can make more money there than in the pros

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Speaker 1: via NIL.

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Speaker 5: Look at Art Spanning.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure the NFL would have rather he come to

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Speaker 1: the league this coming year, but he's getting seven million

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Speaker 1: bucks in NIL with Texas. He did not develop this

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Speaker 1: past season quite as I'm sure he wanted to, or

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Speaker 1: his dad and uncle's expected him to. So he's going

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Speaker 1: to collect that, I think at six point seven million

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Speaker 1: to be exact, and continue to prepare for the NFL

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Speaker 1: while getting paid NFL level money and then some for

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Speaker 1: a rookie. Although that's signing bonus. That's signing bonus. And

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Speaker 1: look at Skiens. People always talk about how Skeens is

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Speaker 1: underpaid at the MLB level, which he is as per

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Speaker 1: the CBA, which limits how much players get paid till

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Speaker 1: x amount of service time until they reach arbitration whatnot.

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Speaker 1: But the signing bonus might go. What was his signing

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Speaker 1: bonus like fifty million more than that, so he got

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Speaker 1: not to worry about.

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Speaker 5: But I digress.

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Speaker 1: The point is college football has become a competing professional

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Speaker 1: football league to the NFL. We're also talking about my

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Speaker 1: idea there's something to the Steeler mock draft that have

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Speaker 1: Ty Simpson, the quarterback from Alabama, going to Pittsburgh in

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Speaker 1: the first round. But not for the reason you would think,

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Speaker 1: and not for the reason you would want either. It's

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Speaker 1: because Art would see drafting a quarterback this year is

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Speaker 1: shoring up the line of succession from Rogers to whoever

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Speaker 1: they draft this year to play next year. And then

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Speaker 1: you don't have to scramble to get a veteran, don't

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Speaker 1: have to put a rookie in their fresh which stay

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Speaker 1: loath doing. Would not have even done that with Ben

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Speaker 1: his rookie year if Maddicks hadn't gotten hurt and thank god,

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Speaker 1: no offense to Tommy, thank god he did get hurt,

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Speaker 1: because that wound up with the Steelers what going fifteen

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Speaker 1: and won that year I think before losing in the playoffs,

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Speaker 1: of course.

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Speaker 5: But yeah, I.

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Speaker 1: Just can see Art doing that to get the line

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Speaker 1: of succession in place, or so you'd hope, and to

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Speaker 1: get the big pop when you draft a quarterback at

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Speaker 1: the podium when the draft is here in Pittsburgh, So

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Speaker 1: your thoughts on that.

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Speaker 5: We're also talking the Pirates.

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Speaker 1: It appears like their fifth starter dilemma may be solved, however,

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Speaker 1: temporarily by Carmen Lezinski, who had been pitching out a

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Speaker 1: relief previously. But the talk is they're going to make

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Speaker 1: him a starter, turn him back into a starter, which

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Speaker 1: he had been before that.

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Speaker 5: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it'll work, but again I wish that Oviedo. They

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Speaker 1: rob Peter to pay Paul. They traded from depth to

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Speaker 1: fix a weakness, and I totally get that with Oviedo

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Speaker 1: and Burrows. But but you know, what happened happened, and

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Speaker 1: now their rotation is at least one pitcher short, maybe too,

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Speaker 1: because let's face it, you need six starters, even seven

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Speaker 1: if injury dictates during an MLB season. So any of

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Speaker 1: that fire away dial eight three, three, four one two

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Speaker 1: WXDX or ask Mark anything as you can right now.

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Speaker 1: We've also been talking on and off today a lot.

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Speaker 1: In the first hour of the program, Tom and I

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Speaker 1: talked about Pittsburgh basketball and what's happened to it.

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Speaker 5: Most of it not good.

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Speaker 1: It has a lower profile than the sport has ever

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Speaker 1: before had in Pittsburgh and in addition to Ducane and

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Speaker 1: pitt being very good back win with a connection to

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Speaker 1: Whippio and City League through some of their great players.

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Speaker 1: And I went as far back as the seventies, the

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Speaker 1: early seventies with the Pittsburgh Pipers turned Condors previously the

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Speaker 1: Rens all that stuff, But a big part of Pittsburgh

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Speaker 1: basketball that disappeared was that Pittsburgh had the best high

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Speaker 1: school all star game anywhere.

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Speaker 5: For quite some time, it used to be in Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 1: The Dapper Dan ron Ball Classic, sponsored by Postcazet Charities

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Speaker 1: and for a long time by Nike, was played at

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Speaker 1: the Civic Arena.

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Speaker 5: From nineteen sixty five through nineteen ninety two.

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Speaker 1: It was the brainchild of Nike, mostly of Sunny Vaccaro,

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Speaker 1: the Nike sneaker impresario. You saw that movie about Air

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Speaker 1: Jordan's that that Sonny played by Matt Damon was a

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Speaker 1: big part of Trafford's own Sonny, not Matt Damon, and

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Speaker 1: also Pat Deciezar, the concert promoter. The round Ball was

644
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Speaker 1: the brain shot of Sonny and Paton, sponsored by Nike,

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Speaker 1: and it was the real thing. And if you need proof,

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Speaker 1: check out some of the MVPs, Moses Malone, Dominique Wilkins,

647
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Speaker 1: Patrick Ewing, Shaq, Chris Weber, Lebron. It was amazing and

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Speaker 1: now Pittsburgh has nothing at all special when it comes

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Speaker 1: to basketball, and I find that sad A three three

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Speaker 1: four one two w XDX. Let's go to Brad and

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Speaker 1: Craft and Braddren with double.

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Speaker 4: M yo double M. I was wondering if I ask

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Speaker 4: Mark anything, if you want to.

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Speaker 1: Have lunch sometime, no anything else, Okay, thank you for your.

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Speaker 4: Cal You were talking to Red Beach about getting into

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Speaker 4: comedy after rock and roll, and you've been pretty funny

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Speaker 4: as of late. I was wondering if you ever considered

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Speaker 4: the same.

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Speaker 5: No anything else, Nope, thank you for the call.

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Speaker 1: I was at the back Lines and Punchline show last night,

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Speaker 1: very funny, Ryan McBride opening, Courtney Cronin reb Beach, the

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Speaker 1: guitar player turn comedian, and our buddy Don Jamis from

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Speaker 1: that metal show that was out of Pittsburgh brewing in

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Speaker 1: Creighton and was just really funny and I had a

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Speaker 1: great time. So great seeing you know everybody on the show.

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Speaker 1: I'm friends with all of them. So again, I think

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Speaker 1: Rev's going to have his local band, The Red Beach

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Speaker 1: Project playing at that venue at Pittsburgh Brewing Company. Maybe

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Speaker 1: you're on Saint Patrick's Day, so I'll certainly keep you

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Speaker 1: posted on that. We talked earlier about my revised opinion

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Speaker 1: that you might want to keep Connor Griffin with the

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Speaker 1: Pirates to start the season and to start at shortstop.

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Speaker 1: I back tracked on my notion from yesterday kind of

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Speaker 1: hastily put together that with Philadelphia releasing Castellanos, maybe you

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Speaker 1: bring him on the cheap to play third. I would

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Speaker 1: rather give Griffin a world at shortstop and put I

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Speaker 1: guess Troollo a third with Gonzales then as a utility guy.

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Speaker 5: I think that would have a better chance of success.

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Speaker 1: And again, and I've said this about the Penguins, that

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Speaker 1: applies to the Pirates too. I don't want to rob

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Speaker 1: the Pirates of youthful energy by bringing in another old

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Speaker 1: guy on top of Ozuna. That's another reason I don't

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Speaker 1: want to bring Cuts back. Aside from the fact that

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Speaker 1: he and Ozuna what they can do with their ages

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Speaker 1: it overlaps, and that they're both the HS and nothing else.

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Speaker 1: I just want to get old guys out of that

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Speaker 1: room where I can. I want to get more young

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Speaker 1: guys in there. I want to let them grow together.

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Speaker 1: I want to feel like a band of brothers like

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Speaker 1: I was talking about with the Penguins right before the

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Speaker 1: two Cup runs, with guys like Rust Goenseil Sherry Murray, Kunhakl,

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Speaker 1: all those guys coming in together and feeling like Penguins,

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Speaker 1: being bred to be Penguins, feeling like a team. I

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Speaker 1: think the potential there is there for that now with

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Speaker 1: Avery Hayes, our guest a bit earlier, of course, Ben Kendall,

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Speaker 1: Harrison Brunnick, Rutger McGroarty, Tristan bros. I mean, I think

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Speaker 1: that could happen with the hockey team, and it could

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Speaker 1: happen with the baseball team with with Connor Griffin, Paul Skens,

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Speaker 1: Bubba Chandler. I mean, the odds of keeping that core

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Speaker 1: together in baseballer are not good. But take advantage of

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Speaker 1: what you have while you've got it. And I don't

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Speaker 1: think another old guy on top of Ozuna who you

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Speaker 1: just brought in would serve that at all.

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Speaker 5: Okay, let's go to a talkback.

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Speaker 6: Super Genius, going back to fast times at Ridge One High,

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Speaker 6: who was you more like in high schools? Spacoli, Brad Hamilton,

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Speaker 6: Mark Ratner or Mike Damon. Thank you.

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Speaker 1: I was none of the above. At Shaler High School

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Speaker 1: class of seventy eight. I was fat and quiet. I

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Speaker 1: got a little louder in my senior year when I

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Speaker 1: started to drink and hung out with a bad crowd.

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Speaker 1: Chuck and Cortano, Phil Cafeo, Bill Malwinnie. You guys know

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Speaker 1: who I'm talking about. Didn't hang out that much even.

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Speaker 5: With them, though, so him. At school.

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Speaker 1: Though I was the smart kid, they were the troublemakers.

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Speaker 1: I thought of trouble for them to make. It was

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Speaker 1: a great combination. But no, I wasn't like any of

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Speaker 1: the above. And let it be noted that there was

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Speaker 1: no fat kid, not even a token fat kid at

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Speaker 1: fast times at Ridge One High. Those were the beautiful

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Speaker 1: people of Los Angeles. I suppose a three to three

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Speaker 1: four one two WXDX. That stuff I said before about

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Speaker 1: a corps of young guys coming through teams together. I'm

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Speaker 1: not a big believer in chemistry, but I think that

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Speaker 1: is the kind of chemistry that can bring about overachievement.

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Speaker 1: And I avery Hayes, our guest at four o'clock, who

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Speaker 1: scored two goals in his first NHL game, then went

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Speaker 1: right back to Wilson scored a hat trick. I knew

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Speaker 1: he buried his brother for c and by the way,

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Speaker 1: his brother was in the stands crying, and Avery Hayes said,

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Speaker 1: he chirped him afterwards.

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Speaker 5: I knew he did. You got to. You just got to.

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Speaker 1: That's an opportunity you got to take advantage of. But

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Speaker 1: Hayes feels the same way as me that that group

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Speaker 1: of guys, Man, there's something there, there's something there. Let's

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Speaker 1: go to Ernie Nolwich City. Earnie, you're home with double m.

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Speaker 5: Ernie.

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Speaker 1: You're on the air. Okay, screw him, Ernie. No, that's

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Speaker 1: too late. You got to pay attention. When the whistle blows,

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Speaker 1: the train goes. Never call back here again. It's laughable

741
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Speaker 1: that on Twitter people were debating what Sid should care

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Speaker 1: more about Olympic gold of the Stanley Cup, and you know,

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Speaker 1: we're surprised to see quotes from sitting the past that

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Speaker 1: the Stanley Cup means more if you thought otherwise. You

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Speaker 1: don't know how Canadians are wired, and you don't understand

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Speaker 1: how Sid's wired. Canadians don't grow up dreaming of gold medals.

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Speaker 1: That's ancillary. It's big and it's important, but it's ancillary.

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Speaker 1: In Europe they dream of winning the gold medal, the

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Speaker 1: Stanley Cup second, or even Canada. The Stanley Cupp is everything,

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Speaker 1: and Sid being a typical Canadian even more so, the

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Speaker 1: Stanley Cupp means everything. If you didn't know that and

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Speaker 1: you can't believe it once you do know it, and

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Speaker 1: you don't understand Canadians don't understand Sid probably don't understand hockey.

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Speaker 5: Let's go to Ted and Gibsonia.

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Speaker 1: Ted, you're own with double m unos tardes, double m

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Speaker 1: How are you buenos tardes?

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Speaker 13: Hey, I'm a transplant from Albuquerque and a very close

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Speaker 13: friend of mine. There is a Pittsburgh legend in high

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Speaker 13: school basketball. Pet Gibson, who actually is the grandson of

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Speaker 13: one famous Josh Gibson, played at Shenley High, was an

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Speaker 13: All American and ended up finding his way to New

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Speaker 13: Mexico as a Lobo by way. If you tech wom

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Speaker 13: and they didn't have enough spot on the roster, I

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Speaker 13: think you should get this guy on your show if

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Speaker 13: you want to hear a lot of great history about

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Speaker 13: Pittsburgh basketball. And I'd be more than happy to share

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Speaker 13: that information with you.

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Speaker 5: Well, how long ago did he did he play?

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Speaker 13: He was at Chittley. I think he graduated in sixty eight.

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Speaker 13: So he has all the old city and all the guys,

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Speaker 13: and he goes all the way through the mid eighties

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Speaker 13: because he had a lot to do with the high

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Speaker 13: school basketball scene, even though he was in New Mexico

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Speaker 13: and a forty yeared elementary educator out there as a

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Speaker 13: as a pe coach in Albuquerque. A great man, a

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Speaker 13: great legend, and he was my all time favorite. And

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Speaker 13: I will tell you this, I coached against some three times.

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Speaker 1: It says here, it says here, it says here, it

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Speaker 1: says here. Lobo legends. So I get it. Uh, But

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Speaker 1: I know I see today basketball is kind of a

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Speaker 1: one time thing. But I appreciate the input and way

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Speaker 1: to go Pete Gibson. Did he play here in Pittsburgh

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Speaker 1: High School?

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Speaker 5: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Can't find it all right, get more calls in eight

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Speaker 1: three three four one two WXDX. We will touch again

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Speaker 1: on Porter V Roethlisberger. It really does feel like a divorce,

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Speaker 1: doesn't it.

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Speaker 6: Uh?

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Speaker 5: You know like what I stole this.

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Speaker 1: From my column from from Twitter from the X from

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Speaker 1: x worthy X Twitter is x uh somebody somebody posted

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Speaker 1: that the Steelers are like they're in they're re enacting

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Speaker 1: mean girls.

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Speaker 5: It really is like that.

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Speaker 1: It really is like that, and Porter dragged out the

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Speaker 1: burn Book, except uh, Porter himself is mentioned in the

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Speaker 1: burn Book, not just Ben.

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Speaker 5: I think Ben's gonna take the high road.

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Speaker 1: Ben, if you're listening, I encourage that let the news

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Speaker 1: cycle burnout, which won't quickly, to be quite frank, but

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Speaker 1: maybe quicker than I think, and maybe as quick.

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Speaker 5: As as we all should hope.

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Speaker 4: Uh.

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Speaker 5: One oh five nine the X. Now here's your chance

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Speaker 5: to win one