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Speaker 2: I forgot to say somebody had texted much earlier they

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Speaker 2: were worried they had they were still blocked, or they

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Speaker 2: had been blocked, and they hadn't been blocked, and I

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Speaker 2: forgot to tell them they hadn't been blocked. So I unfortunately,

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Speaker 2: we got too many text for me to go back

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Speaker 2: and find. So just assume if you asked today that

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Speaker 2: whether you were blocked, you know who you are. You're

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Speaker 2: not blocked because if you had been blocked, I wouldn't

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Speaker 2: have seen been able to see the text that you

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Speaker 2: offered up. We get these like two or three times

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Speaker 2: a week. Yeah, at least where people are still agonizing

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Speaker 2: over they either feel like they should never have been blocked,

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Speaker 2: or they feel like, well maybe I shouldn't have said

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Speaker 2: try to do that. And you know, a lot of

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Speaker 2: you are blocked without knowing your block, which is probably

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Speaker 2: healthier for everybody where you still get the satisfaction of

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Speaker 2: ripping the crap out of us.

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Speaker 3: Yep, and we have.

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Speaker 2: The satisfaction of not necessarily having to digest it because

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Speaker 2: I get enough of those as it is.

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Speaker 3: We go ahead.

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Speaker 4: That's why I love Mute Monday on X It's Mute

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Speaker 4: Monday is one of my favorite days. Now this week,

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Speaker 4: Mute Monday is spilled into Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.

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Speaker 3: That's true, So it's just mute month. Yeah, mute month.

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Speaker 4: January might be the mute month. That'srt quick follow up

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Speaker 4: on this though, Is it better? Is it almost worse though,

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Speaker 4: because the person is assuming that they might be blocked

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Speaker 4: because they haven't been engaged with off of their texts? Yeah,

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Speaker 4: so is it better? Is it worse than a way

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Speaker 4: to go? Man, I'm not blocked. Maybe I'm just not clever.

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Speaker 4: Maybe they just don't like my text messages. So we

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Speaker 4: still feel like the messages they are offering are actually worthy, yes,

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Speaker 4: or just not saying anything yeah yeah, And then then

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Speaker 4: assuming it's all very confusing because the other secret though,

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Speaker 4: two of the inboxes and we're self deprecating to a fault,

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Speaker 4: as we know, but we do get a lot of

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Speaker 3: We do.

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Speaker 4: There's something that you just don't see because of the

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Speaker 4: day loser. It doesn't mean you're not funny. It doesn't

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Speaker 4: mean that you're blocked. It just means we get a

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Speaker 4: lot of them. It might mean you're not funny. It could,

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Speaker 2: Might mean that your observation makes no sense, but it

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Speaker 3: All right. Anyway, you were saying, let's talk a Minnesota

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Speaker 3: whild tough on last night. Six to one I think

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Speaker 4: It was two to one, and then it was three

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Speaker 3: It was bad.

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Speaker 4: Wilder boot off the ice repeatedly, a great wall of

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Speaker 4: Saint Paul crumbling. Mister Garbaschov, it's it's too bad they

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Speaker 4: get crushed last night at home by the Peg, and

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Speaker 4: now they're going to have to go on a three

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Speaker 3: We knew about Rhodes.

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Speaker 4: Brodean is out for a while, might even miss the Olympics,

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Speaker 4: But Matt Boldy, who is tied for third in the

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Speaker 4: IR that's short for injured reserve a lower body injury.

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Speaker 4: He will have to miss at least the team's upcoming

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Speaker 4: three game road trip to Buffalo Who's red hot, reading

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Speaker 4: from Russo's story, Toronto and Montreal. Boldie will also miss

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Speaker 4: So whenever he's healthy he can come back. But he's

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Speaker 2: And now we're did you mention we're starting I think

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Speaker 2: Deep or you don't I mean, this is not a

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Speaker 2: This is not an encouraging stretch after what felt like

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Speaker 2: outside of the lance. So it's all about reversing things

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Speaker 2: as quickly as possible, not letting it fester, uh and

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Speaker 2: not letting it, you know, become Because wasn't it about

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Speaker 2: this time last year we started fading?

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Speaker 3: Sounds about right. I think it was, wasn't it, Or

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Speaker 3: maybe it was a little earlier. I don't know, but.

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Speaker 2: I know we got a lot of equity right now

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Speaker 3: But I don't think we want to mess around.

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Speaker 2: I think we want to continue to feel really good

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Speaker 2: about ourselves, and it'd be nice to do that with

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Speaker 2: how any is it ten days before.

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Speaker 3: We had games? Ten games is our last game, then

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Speaker 3: that's a good stretch.

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Speaker 2: Make it a good ten games to feel better about

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Speaker 2: yourselves going into the big Olympic break.

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Speaker 4: You're Minnesota Timberwolves are back in action tonight, a game

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Speaker 4: you will hear right here.

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Speaker 3: On the fan.

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Speaker 2: Well, somebody is saying, you know they is it possible

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Speaker 2: this is a conspiracy theory that's being offered.

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Speaker 3: We actually are tanking for.

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Speaker 4: A lower position that actually maybe gives us a better

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Speaker 4: chance to advance in the playoffs because of the stupid

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Speaker 2: I don't know, that's a question. I'm sure Billy Garrett

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Speaker 2: would love for me to ask. Next time we have him.

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Speaker 3: On, did he ever text you back if you texted

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Speaker 3: him in I haven't. I should text I still haven't.

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Speaker 4: I'm trying to think. I'm looking here. We should probably

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Speaker 4: try to have him on next week regardless. Yeah, so

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Speaker 4: if we so, we would want to be the wild card, right,

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Speaker 2: Because we've talked about with Louis that somebody had written,

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Speaker 2: This is another season where the playoff format does not

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Speaker 2: just why do we overthink it in hockey? Why not

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Speaker 2: just go Conference one versus you know, one eight, Just

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Speaker 2: And I tend to think that's true too, because does

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Speaker 2: but it's not a requirement. It's not like I'm not

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Speaker 2: That's what stokes the rivalry talk. That has to do

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Speaker 2: then with how you finish in the standings. That to

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Speaker 4: The notion that we can't just go pure one eight

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Speaker 4: Eastern Conference, Western Conference makes no sense to me. And

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Speaker 4: the place where rivalries are really formed and built and

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Speaker 4: born the postseason, the postseason. There's in these but we

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Speaker 4: postseason is where you learn to hate other teams. We

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Speaker 4: still hate, you know, Colorado from the postseasons.

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Speaker 3: We played them and beat them in seven.

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Speaker 4: They beat us a couple of times, correct, Vancouver, going

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Speaker 4: all the way back to two thousand and three, right, like,

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Speaker 4: that's where that's where the real that's where. It was

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Speaker 4: a weird decision because rivalries are about the postseason. Do

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Speaker 4: we care about the Wolves Denver rivalry because they're in

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Speaker 4: the same division. No, we care about it because of

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Speaker 4: the postseason. Same with Oklahoma City, right and you can't

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Speaker 4: call that a rivalry. They've beaten us, but yeah, and

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Speaker 4: they can get my point. Yes, So anyway, I'm trying

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Speaker 3: In fact, ten for San Jose a tank.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, like that meltdown for the Mammoth, and then I

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Speaker 3: So anyway, something to think about. Wolves are back at

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Speaker 3: action tonight. In the game.

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Speaker 4: You can hear right here on the fan Rudy Gobert's

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Speaker 4: back after his recent suspension, but Anthony Edwards will sit

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Speaker 4: It's a later game tonight because it is on national television.

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Speaker 4: The Wolves are very solidly in the four spot right now.

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Speaker 4: There are two games ahead of the Los Angeles Lakers

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Speaker 4: It's an eight thirty tip tonight pregame show at eight fifteen.

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Speaker 4: Don't believe there's local television at all. So you will

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Speaker 3: It's just Allen. That's okay, So there we go throw

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Speaker 4: And obviously, Kevin, You're not blocked because I'm reading the

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Speaker 3: Doesn't that prove it? It does? It does?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Kyle Tucker, it's pretty good, awfully good. Player agrees

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Speaker 2: Calling, you could argue in making this move, they they

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Speaker 2: The Dodgers' only responsibilities to their fans, and they have

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Speaker 3: I have a hard time doing that, I really do.

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Speaker 3: Well, what does uh?

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Speaker 2: What does our guy say? What was Gleman say about?

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Speaker 3: It's crazy.

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Speaker 2: Now, you can't say when you put it in those

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Speaker 3: So, Gleaman?

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Speaker 2: Well, and here's the other key that we I think

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Speaker 4: That was two years ago. Remember, yeah, is this the

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Speaker 4: sixty eight million, which, as they point out in this

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Speaker 4: Twenty five years, eight point three five billion.

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Speaker 2: What's eight point three five billion divided by twenty five

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Speaker 2: Well, why don't you just just make it easy? Just

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Speaker 2: that's not nine. No, that's more than nine. A million's

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Speaker 2: nine zeros. Million's more than that. No, a million, six zeros.

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Speaker 3: Oh, it's not.

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Speaker 4: Don't do this. Don't do this, because now I don't

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Speaker 4: all right, divide it by twenty five?

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Speaker 3: Can you do it? You got something?

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Speaker 4: Is that three hundred and sixty million? Yeah, three and

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Speaker 2: That's a bit more I think than the Twins get.

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Speaker 2: We will have to acknowledge even those of us who've

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a little bit.

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Speaker 2: Actually, we don't even know what the twins are getting now,

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Speaker 2: We still don't know. No, you've asked Cleman this. I

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Speaker 3: This is how he hit it.

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Speaker 4: At the beginning of the off season, I wrote about

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Speaker 3: We finally got a poll aud who understands it run

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Speaker 4: Is it to the second or third generation poll third,

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Speaker 2: Number one rated farm system though in all Major League

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Speaker 2: Baseball belongs to Because you're bringing it up, I'm gonna

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Speaker 3: Oh come on really, yes, Oh my gosh. Yeah, I mean.

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Speaker 4: It's it's over and they have like the coolest ballpark

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Speaker 4: They've met they again. I can't get mad.

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Speaker 2: At a franchise that maximizes on all its advantages to

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Speaker 4: One million is six zeros. Yeah, you're right, So which

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Speaker 3: I'm not sure.

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Speaker 4: It's always worth double and triple checking what we come

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Speaker 2: Yes, oh, live on the air and we're doing it

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Speaker 2: Uh, we'll get to leavell if you have questions for

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Speaker 3: Are the Warriors are one of our rivals? Is that

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Speaker 2: They're they're, they're, they're they're just sort of hoping and

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Speaker 3: You're right, Game one I was there.

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Speaker 3: I need help from the audience here.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes our audience does some of our best and most

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Speaker 2: There are a million status that have attempted to put

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Speaker 2: I've seen most of them. They were established about I

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 4: It was two minutes to go or more compared to

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Speaker 3: I thought I'd saved it.

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Speaker 2: I cannot find it. So if you find it, I'll

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Speaker 2: give you full credit for it. Via the Bradshaw and

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Speaker 2: Bryant inbox, K Fan, I should say six four six

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Speaker 2: eighty six the Bradshaw on Brian cafean text line, So

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Speaker 2: hopefully we can get some help from someone there. We

445
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Speaker 2: already have questions coming in for our next guest, Lavelle

446
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Speaker 2: e Neil the third, including this one from Rochester Clayton Dan.

447
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Speaker 2: Does Scooter think the Twins offered Tucker a three year

448
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Speaker 2: deal but they took the silver because the Dodgers offered four?

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Speaker 5: Funny? Funny funny?

450
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Speaker 3: No, I don't think tweet line.

451
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Speaker 5: I don't even think the Twins talked to Tucker's next

452
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Speaker 5: door neighbors agent. I don't think. I don't. I don't

453
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Speaker 5: even know if they have Tuckers, they just number I

454
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Speaker 5: don't know if I doubt seriously that even asked about him.

455
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Speaker 5: They probably haven't asked about a lot of free agents

456
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Speaker 5: this offseason, which is reflected in their activity. When Josh

457
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Speaker 5: Bell was your major signing, we're all excited about a million.

458
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Speaker 2: You've made it basically made it sound like he's changed everything.

459
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Speaker 2: The team's changed everything with that acquisition.

460
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Speaker 5: Well, ah, I played out was that the Twins almost

461
00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:07,119
Speaker 5: wore that the Twins first date situation. So horsebleep that

462
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Speaker 5: even side of someone like Josh Bell, who's I believe

463
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Speaker 5: ops isn't even over seven eighty, is an upgrade over

464
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Speaker 5: with the endured last year with ty France and then

465
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Speaker 5: and then Cody Clements and a little bit at Duard Julan.

466
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Speaker 5: So that's all I was pointing now that they have

467
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Speaker 5: not had the production at first base since you know,

468
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Speaker 5: the days of Miguelson and so Snow now currently is

469
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Speaker 5: with the Twin Chi Dragons of the Japanese League.

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Speaker 1: So.

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Speaker 5: It's kind of embarrassing. But I was kind of surprised

472
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Speaker 5: how many teams don't have a lot of production at

473
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Speaker 5: first base. I discovered in my little exercise while writing

474
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Speaker 5: that that three two pitch piece. So yeah, Kyle Tucker

475
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Speaker 5: would look great in the Twins uniform, but you know,

476
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Speaker 5: he went to an organization that has enough money to

477
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Speaker 5: buy its one island in the Caribbean.

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Speaker 3: Right now, well, what is the end forget Let's leave

479
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Speaker 3: the Twins out of this because I don't want to.

480
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Speaker 3: I don't want to. I don't want to.

481
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Speaker 2: Enable the Twins regarding the approach they've tended to take.

482
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Speaker 2: Let's just talk specifically about the Dodgers and what they represent.

483
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Speaker 3: We did the math.

484
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Speaker 2: It looks like on their regional TV deal they gets

485
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Speaker 2: upwards of three hundred and thirty to three hundred and

486
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Speaker 2: forty million dollars a year. They've got a currently a

487
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Speaker 2: twenty five year deal. Okay, so I would give them

488
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Speaker 2: credit for maximizing on every advantage they have built in.

489
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Speaker 3: They have not sat on that advantage.

490
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Speaker 2: I can never get mad at a team for maximizing

491
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Speaker 2: on the advantages it has. The question is leave the

492
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Speaker 2: Twins out of it. The question is whether there's anything

493
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Speaker 2: baseball can reasonably do about in this case, one team

494
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Speaker 2: coming off two World Series, presumably adding a superstar to

495
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Speaker 2: the only ill if you want to call it a

496
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Speaker 2: whole they might have had in their lineup that can

497
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Speaker 2: can somehow send a different message to the rest of baseball.

498
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Speaker 2: Or is it just you got to just accept it

499
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Speaker 2: and deal with it and there's not much you can

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Speaker 2: do about it.

501
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Speaker 3: Is there a way out of the box?

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Speaker 5: Now? You know, it's like we want chaos, Like if

503
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Speaker 5: we want chaos and the NC doublea about how they're

504
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Speaker 5: allowing you know, rampant you know, transfer portal andil stuff

505
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Speaker 5: to go out of control. We want chaos in Major

506
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Speaker 5: League Baseball to force it to you know, get us

507
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Speaker 5: finances in order. And it's not all on you know,

508
00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:35,119
Speaker 5: the players Association agreeing to the salary cap. The owners

509
00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:38,399
Speaker 5: have to get amongst themselves and include up their mess,

510
00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:42,520
Speaker 5: their side of it, of this mess as well. You know,

511
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Speaker 5: they think everybody is expected at work stoppage after twenty

512
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Speaker 5: twenty six, and and the owner is going to press

513
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Speaker 5: for a salary cap. But they have to have a

514
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Speaker 5: talk amongst themselves and the smaller market teams, the teams

515
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Speaker 5: you know that are only getting you know, between fifty

516
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Speaker 5: and seventy five million a year from their television deals.

517
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Speaker 5: Looking at you know, the Dodgers and the Yankees and

518
00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:07,119
Speaker 5: dry the Red Sox and the Phillies have probably got

519
00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:12,040
Speaker 5: nice television contracts. They helped fund their payroll. And the

520
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Speaker 5: one thing that they can do right off the bat

521
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Speaker 5: is have all the television revenue dumped in one pot

522
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Speaker 5: and spread and divided equally. That's not done. I believe

523
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Speaker 5: it's roughly forty percent is shared right now among owners,

524
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Speaker 5: and I know there were discussions about a year ago

525
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Speaker 5: about increasing that percentage. I think they should push it

526
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Speaker 5: as close to one hundred percent as possible. That could

527
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Speaker 5: actually act as a little bit of a drag on salaries.

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Speaker 5: They may want a toughenes luxury tax because now teams

529
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Speaker 5: aren't giving the damn about going over and getting into

530
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Speaker 5: the bad part of the luxury tax. And the Dodgers

531
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Speaker 5: are going to have a taxicle payroll of four hundred

532
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Speaker 5: and ten million dollars this year, which is mind botting

533
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Speaker 5: just for a payroll. And they can handle it, you know,

534
00:26:58,040 --> 00:27:01,359
Speaker 5: with the TV revenue, and you know the use of

535
00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:04,520
Speaker 5: the deferred money and if they're they're getting some of

536
00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:07,000
Speaker 5: these deferred these some of these guys are agreeing to

537
00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:11,440
Speaker 5: deferred contracts. We're all interest, which you know that has

538
00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:14,240
Speaker 5: gotten based on into trouble in the past when there's been

539
00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:18,280
Speaker 5: interest tacked on to deferred money. But in this case,

540
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Speaker 5: you got some guys not getting a percentage on top

541
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Speaker 5: of that, which I guess it's okay, but the league

542
00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:29,280
Speaker 5: may want to look at that how that mechanism is

543
00:27:29,320 --> 00:27:32,200
Speaker 5: being exploited by the Dodgers and see if that needs

544
00:27:32,240 --> 00:27:34,400
Speaker 5: to be a loophole that needs to be closed up,

545
00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:37,520
Speaker 5: you know. And then once you do everything on your end,

546
00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:40,920
Speaker 5: then you could turn to the players Association and say, look,

547
00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:45,560
Speaker 5: I know you guys don't trust us, and I'd like this.

548
00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:47,840
Speaker 5: We like to think this can be a partnership. But

549
00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:50,840
Speaker 5: we're all we're on this together. We just took care

550
00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:53,679
Speaker 5: of our end. Now we need we need more cost certainty.

551
00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:57,480
Speaker 5: You see franchise values in other sports, they're hired in ours.

552
00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:01,119
Speaker 5: You know why Moss other lead have salary caps. You know,

553
00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:04,640
Speaker 5: NBA has the first and second apron. You know football

554
00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:09,800
Speaker 5: has has a cap, Hockey as a cap. So and

555
00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:13,760
Speaker 5: their franchise values have been appreciating quick more quickly, quickly,

556
00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:19,520
Speaker 5: more quickly than baseball's has. Look how fast the Wolves

557
00:28:20,359 --> 00:28:23,080
Speaker 5: value went up from the time Glenn Taylor agreed to

558
00:28:23,119 --> 00:28:26,720
Speaker 5: the Layweight plan with Aroon and Lourie and the value

559
00:28:26,720 --> 00:28:28,560
Speaker 5: of what it was when it was time to finish

560
00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:31,520
Speaker 5: up the deal and it is double. You know, that's

561
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Speaker 5: not happening in baseball and and owners there's stories one

562
00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:38,160
Speaker 5: about this. Owners are looking at that going this is

563
00:28:38,160 --> 00:28:40,880
Speaker 5: why we need a salary cap. And then once values

564
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Speaker 5: can go up, then they can do some other things

565
00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:44,960
Speaker 5: and maybe salaries can make a jump as well. So

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Speaker 5: both sides, you know, need to be honest with the

567
00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:51,920
Speaker 5: other side. But the owners could do some stuff on

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00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:54,120
Speaker 5: their side, man, instead of just saying the players have

569
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Speaker 5: to give in.

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Speaker 2: I sent out the breaking news sounder because as you

571
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Speaker 2: were speaking pontificating about the Dodgers, I think I found

572
00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:08,600
Speaker 2: one or two versions of the stat I was looking for.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna run these by you because you may know them.

574
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Speaker 2: I have two versions of what each appears to be

575
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Speaker 2: an astounding stat that reflects the historic nature of what

576
00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:25,160
Speaker 2: your favorite football team, the Bears, have done late in games.

577
00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:28,440
Speaker 2: So you tell me which of these sounds more accurate.

578
00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:34,040
Speaker 2: One of them reads like this, The Bears, when they

579
00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:38,600
Speaker 2: are down nineteen or more points with five minutes to

580
00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:41,880
Speaker 2: go in the game are three and three this year.

581
00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:47,360
Speaker 2: Other teams the rest of the league is three and

582
00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:51,880
Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty eight. Now that's that is crazy. Now,

583
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Speaker 2: I think that's the one I remember. Now there's but

584
00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:56,400
Speaker 2: there's a different version of it, So I don't know

585
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Speaker 2: which is accurate. Because this version, this is via a

586
00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:03,560
Speaker 2: Texter doing real that the Bears have been down. We

587
00:30:03,600 --> 00:30:06,240
Speaker 2: know seven they won seven games being down in the

588
00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:08,640
Speaker 2: final two minutes. But the stat you on is that

589
00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:10,960
Speaker 2: the Bears are three and three in games down by

590
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Speaker 2: ten or more with less than five minutes left in

591
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Speaker 2: the game. So they're saying ten or more, not nineteen

592
00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:21,360
Speaker 2: or more. And the rest of the league in that

593
00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:25,440
Speaker 2: same situation is three and one hundred and fifty one.

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00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:28,480
Speaker 2: I don't know which is accurate, but they're both stunning

595
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Speaker 2: and pretty historic regarding what this team is doing in

596
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Speaker 2: a game that is just not supposed to allow these

597
00:30:37,600 --> 00:30:39,160
Speaker 2: sorts of comebacks to keep happening.

598
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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, And you look at Kitty Williams's the fourth

599
00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:46,800
Speaker 5: quarter passer anyone. I believe it was like twenty something,

600
00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:51,360
Speaker 5: and that kind of guy that kind of ties into

601
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Speaker 5: that as well. You think about you think about the

602
00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:58,600
Speaker 5: late turnovers they've gotten, and you know, like the Milik

603
00:30:58,640 --> 00:31:02,280
Speaker 5: Willis fumbled and he gets the Packers and the onside

604
00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:06,280
Speaker 5: kick Kirk converting onside kicks, and the craziness in the

605
00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:09,560
Speaker 5: Cincinnati Bengals game, and it's been mind boggling that it

606
00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:12,160
Speaker 5: happens again and again and again. There is now a

607
00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:15,760
Speaker 5: table Williams iceman statue somewhere in downtown Chicago. I don't

608
00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:19,160
Speaker 5: know if it's outside Soldier Field over by Buckingham Fountain.

609
00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:23,160
Speaker 5: There are at Grant Park somewhere. It's uh, but there's

610
00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:27,360
Speaker 5: an Iceman statue for which is kind of paying homage

611
00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:31,080
Speaker 5: to a man who has really stuffed off his game here,

612
00:31:31,520 --> 00:31:34,280
Speaker 5: especially in the second half of the season. But just

613
00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:38,040
Speaker 5: the multiple comebacks while being down and have everything going

614
00:31:38,120 --> 00:31:41,640
Speaker 5: right for them, from an execution standpoint, to protecting the ball,

615
00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:46,000
Speaker 5: to getting Tommy turnovers, getting kicks where you needed it,

616
00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:49,880
Speaker 5: other teams falling apart late, it's just all you can't

617
00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:53,040
Speaker 5: They've had multiple story big endings to these games, and

618
00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:56,320
Speaker 5: you keep thinking that they've okay, they've they've run out

619
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Speaker 5: of all the luck that they could possiblely get, and

620
00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:01,480
Speaker 5: then here comes something else again. It's been remarkable.

621
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Speaker 3: Well that's the question.

622
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Speaker 2: The question is have we reached a point given the

623
00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:08,440
Speaker 2: opponent this week that if they play with fire this week,

624
00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:11,560
Speaker 2: it ends You know, it's.

625
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:12,480
Speaker 3: What you want to say. Can you say, well, you

626
00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:13,479
Speaker 3: can't keep doing this.

627
00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:16,200
Speaker 2: No one believes in your right mind that you could

628
00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:18,640
Speaker 2: be a really good team and only play one quarter.

629
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Speaker 2: Is this the week where to win they have to

630
00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:25,000
Speaker 2: play the whole way, or do you say at this

631
00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:28,520
Speaker 2: point all bets are off about what this team is

632
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Speaker 2: capable of doing.

633
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Speaker 5: I think there's a path there. I'm not saying that

634
00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:34,640
Speaker 5: the Bears gonna win Sunday, but I think there's a

635
00:32:34,680 --> 00:32:37,600
Speaker 5: path for them to win. But it's it requires them

636
00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:39,560
Speaker 5: to get off to a better start offensively than they've

637
00:32:39,560 --> 00:32:42,200
Speaker 5: had over the last month or so. They've been terrible

638
00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:46,520
Speaker 5: in the first quarter. I think the last week against

639
00:32:46,520 --> 00:32:49,080
Speaker 5: the Packers, they kicked the field goal in the first quarter.

640
00:32:49,080 --> 00:32:50,320
Speaker 5: I think that's the first time you scored in the

641
00:32:50,880 --> 00:32:53,160
Speaker 5: opening quarter in like four games or something like that.

642
00:32:54,560 --> 00:32:57,080
Speaker 5: They're gonna pay a heavy price if they get off

643
00:32:57,120 --> 00:32:59,240
Speaker 5: to a sluggish start against the Rams, because they're gonna

644
00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:02,160
Speaker 5: have to score points to win because Matt Stafford were

645
00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:07,360
Speaker 5: pooking the coup. Uh and and uh what's his name?

646
00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:10,040
Speaker 5: Got uh? Adams? What was his name?

647
00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:12,480
Speaker 3: Adams?

648
00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:15,960
Speaker 5: Yeah, Davonte Adams, thank you. I don't know why I

649
00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:18,840
Speaker 5: slip my mind with those two guys each go over

650
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:23,080
Speaker 5: one hundred and fifty yard, you know against the Bears.

651
00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:25,280
Speaker 5: But I will say that the offensive line is gonna

652
00:33:25,280 --> 00:33:27,640
Speaker 5: have to have his best game of the year in

653
00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:32,600
Speaker 5: terms of there are there's running opportunities against the Rams.

654
00:33:32,600 --> 00:33:34,920
Speaker 5: They've given up I think again twenty yards rushing a

655
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Speaker 5: couple of weeks ago. They give one hundred and seventy

656
00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:40,040
Speaker 5: to the afters. I think you can move the ball

657
00:33:40,080 --> 00:33:41,680
Speaker 5: on the ground, and the Bears have had a good

658
00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:44,160
Speaker 5: running game for most of the year. It's kind of

659
00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:47,400
Speaker 5: sputtered the last two games Week eighteen against the Lions

660
00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:50,360
Speaker 5: and and it wasn't that spectacular against the Packers. So

661
00:33:50,360 --> 00:33:52,240
Speaker 5: they ain't gonna have to scheme up some runs here

662
00:33:53,440 --> 00:33:55,600
Speaker 5: just for the sake of one ball control and two

663
00:33:56,520 --> 00:33:59,720
Speaker 5: you know, getting to uh get to the second level

664
00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:03,160
Speaker 5: of the Rams defense too. They've got to pass protect

665
00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:06,240
Speaker 5: their asses off from that defensive line because all the

666
00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:09,359
Speaker 5: money is in the Rams the defensive line. You look

667
00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:12,120
Speaker 5: at that secondary, there's a couple of undrafted free agents

668
00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:15,399
Speaker 5: and some low round picks and not some not really

669
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:19,080
Speaker 5: impressive players, and so if you get time to throw,

670
00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:23,480
Speaker 5: you can pick these guys apart a little bit and

671
00:34:23,520 --> 00:34:27,160
Speaker 5: have success that way. So the Bears offensive offensive line,

672
00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:30,160
Speaker 5: from run blocking and pass protecting, they need a complete

673
00:34:30,200 --> 00:34:33,880
Speaker 5: game on Sunday to give themselves a chance. So the

674
00:34:33,960 --> 00:34:37,680
Speaker 5: Rams special teams unit has been terrible. Sean McVeigh fired

675
00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:40,120
Speaker 5: his special teams coach. I believe in the middle of December.

676
00:34:41,239 --> 00:34:43,840
Speaker 5: The punter is not that great. So there's a bleak

677
00:34:43,880 --> 00:34:47,440
Speaker 5: there that if if special teams in these you know,

678
00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:50,480
Speaker 5: big games can kind of turn the ties, the Bears

679
00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:53,319
Speaker 5: can have an advantage there. But we have to see

680
00:34:53,360 --> 00:34:55,840
Speaker 5: the punter. You know. I don't know what number of the

681
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:58,640
Speaker 5: Rams punter wears. I'd like to find out on Sunday.

682
00:34:59,200 --> 00:35:01,359
Speaker 5: I can see him on the field, you know. I think.

683
00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:04,560
Speaker 5: I think with the way the Bears defense operates, you

684
00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:06,359
Speaker 5: would think that the over under on the times that

685
00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:09,120
Speaker 5: the Rams of punt would be in Vegas probably one

686
00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:12,439
Speaker 5: and a half times. And that's scary. So the guys

687
00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:14,480
Speaker 5: who seen some offense, they got for out of way

688
00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:17,719
Speaker 5: to just get a couple stops and get a chance

689
00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:20,720
Speaker 5: to return a punt where the Rams could be vulnerable.

690
00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:23,719
Speaker 5: There's a path for the Bears to win. It's not

691
00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:26,160
Speaker 5: a clear path, but there's a path. Now as far

692
00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:29,319
Speaker 5: as the cold Matt Stafford is going to take a

693
00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:32,919
Speaker 5: page out of the Tom Brady Manual of Survival. Let's

694
00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:36,879
Speaker 5: start again. Tom Brady survival manual. That's better, and he's

695
00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:39,800
Speaker 5: gonna wear a scuba diving suit under his uniform. Apparently

696
00:35:39,800 --> 00:35:42,600
Speaker 5: that keeps that keeps people warm, and Brady found out

697
00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:45,479
Speaker 5: about that when he was with the Patriots winning Super Bowl.

698
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:49,560
Speaker 3: So well, let me stop you right there, have you?

699
00:35:49,680 --> 00:35:54,120
Speaker 4: As has has Scooter E Neil the third ever worn

700
00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:56,760
Speaker 4: a scuba suit on any occasion?

701
00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:02,120
Speaker 5: Ask school, you kneel the Thursday ever like swam more

702
00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:05,280
Speaker 5: than ten feet before in his life. The answer is no.

703
00:36:06,320 --> 00:36:08,719
Speaker 5: I am not a water person, which is pretty remarkable

704
00:36:08,719 --> 00:36:11,640
Speaker 5: that I enjoyed the crew so much because I don't

705
00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:14,239
Speaker 5: like jumping pools. I don't don't either, I don't try them.

706
00:36:14,680 --> 00:36:18,240
Speaker 5: I don't try to swim in pools or in lakes

707
00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:21,560
Speaker 5: or rivers or oceans for that matter. I like being

708
00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:24,400
Speaker 5: around them and near them, but I'm not I'm not

709
00:36:24,440 --> 00:36:26,719
Speaker 5: a swimming person. I took a swimming lesson once in

710
00:36:26,760 --> 00:36:30,680
Speaker 5: my late twenties and it had to leave for Royal

711
00:36:30,719 --> 00:36:33,640
Speaker 5: Spring training. So I never took like the final test

712
00:36:33,640 --> 00:36:35,000
Speaker 5: when you jump into the pool and swim to the

713
00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:37,440
Speaker 5: other side. And we were having trouble up until that

714
00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:39,880
Speaker 5: point because the instructor was looking at me going you

715
00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:43,200
Speaker 5: have perfect form, but you're actually absolutely not moving anywhere.

716
00:36:43,360 --> 00:36:46,080
Speaker 5: I was like treading water with this perfect form, and

717
00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:48,760
Speaker 5: we were trying for it. Why I could not move forward?

718
00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:51,680
Speaker 5: So that was one issue we were trying to deal with.

719
00:36:51,719 --> 00:36:53,759
Speaker 5: I can blow bubbles, I can flow out my back,

720
00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:55,400
Speaker 5: I could do it. I can do a dead man sprawl,

721
00:36:55,640 --> 00:36:59,040
Speaker 5: you know. But in terms of like just a general

722
00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:02,759
Speaker 5: swimming and making progress that way, we were still trying

723
00:37:02,800 --> 00:37:04,560
Speaker 5: to figure out one help before I had to go

724
00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:07,000
Speaker 5: to spree Train that year and I never revisited it.

725
00:37:07,040 --> 00:37:09,439
Speaker 5: So no, I'm not a big swimmer, so I don't

726
00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:10,600
Speaker 5: need a scuba diving suit.

727
00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:11,879
Speaker 3: Glad, I asked imember too late.

728
00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:16,120
Speaker 2: The question on the table is Bears fans want to

729
00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:21,239
Speaker 2: believe that Bears weather is going to be key. The

730
00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:25,600
Speaker 2: question is whether it really is, because historically, the truth

731
00:37:25,719 --> 00:37:28,560
Speaker 2: is the Bears have lost a lot of playoff games

732
00:37:28,600 --> 00:37:29,759
Speaker 2: at home in cold weather.

733
00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:30,279
Speaker 3: They really have.

734
00:37:30,400 --> 00:37:32,359
Speaker 2: I mean, obviously eighty five they were very good, they

735
00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:35,520
Speaker 2: were dominant. They've lost a bunch, and I think it's

736
00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:39,080
Speaker 2: a little bit dangerous to assume that the Rams are

737
00:37:39,080 --> 00:37:42,080
Speaker 2: going to curl up in the field position in what's

738
00:37:42,160 --> 00:37:44,279
Speaker 2: supposed to be pretty bitter cold. I think the wind

739
00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:46,160
Speaker 2: show is going to be well below zero, is what

740
00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:51,440
Speaker 2: they're saying. So I'm trying to figure out whether that's

741
00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:54,879
Speaker 2: the trap that Bears fans are falling into because they

742
00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:58,200
Speaker 2: like saying Bears weather so much. I love cold weather

743
00:37:58,239 --> 00:38:01,719
Speaker 2: games just because I like the aesthetic. But I and

744
00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:05,680
Speaker 2: I think it can affect passing games, right if it's windy,

745
00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:09,200
Speaker 2: and the Rams have a very good one. But obviously

746
00:38:09,239 --> 00:38:11,920
Speaker 2: the Bears have counted on eventually winning games with their

747
00:38:11,960 --> 00:38:14,160
Speaker 2: passing game too, as good as their running game has been.

748
00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:16,640
Speaker 5: And they're talking about the winds could have gussed up

749
00:38:16,640 --> 00:38:19,640
Speaker 5: to about twenty miles an hour on Sunday, so so

750
00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:21,360
Speaker 5: that could be an issue. But it didn't hurt, it

751
00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:25,719
Speaker 5: didn't stop it didn't stop Caleb in the in the

752
00:38:25,960 --> 00:38:28,120
Speaker 5: week seventeen victory over the Package when he threw that

753
00:38:29,120 --> 00:38:31,560
Speaker 5: walk off shot to DJ More in a thirty min

754
00:38:31,719 --> 00:38:36,399
Speaker 5: our win. So it just depends how you handle it. Man. Yeah,

755
00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:40,080
Speaker 5: I'm worried about this. My Bear fan friends are all

756
00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:43,200
Speaker 5: geeking out over the weather thing. You know. They're talking

757
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:49,280
Speaker 5: about how the Rams are practicing in seventy degree weather. Meanwhile, that. Meanwhile,

758
00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:53,920
Speaker 5: Johnson has been Ben Johnson's been having the team outdoors

759
00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:56,480
Speaker 5: all week without heaters. You know. It's been getting down

760
00:38:56,480 --> 00:38:59,759
Speaker 5: into like the mint upper twenties, and so apparently they're

761
00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:02,160
Speaker 5: going to be ready, you know. But even Grady Jared's like,

762
00:39:02,160 --> 00:39:04,640
Speaker 5: screw that, man. It gets time to a certain level

763
00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:08,040
Speaker 5: of temperature. I'm putting on a face mask, I'm wearing glove.

764
00:39:08,840 --> 00:39:13,400
Speaker 5: Screwed up being tough stuff. CJ. Gardner Johnson, he was like, oh,

765
00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:15,359
Speaker 5: it could be cold on Sonny, He was like, whoopie, damn.

766
00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:19,760
Speaker 5: Do you know? Yeah? It could play factor on playing conditions.

767
00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:22,800
Speaker 5: Both teams have to deal with it. Stafford's played in

768
00:39:22,960 --> 00:39:25,239
Speaker 5: NFC nor if he's played in cold weather before. I'm

769
00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:27,800
Speaker 5: trying to call Brad Biggs's column here, but my computers

770
00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:31,560
Speaker 5: acting up. But he I think he said Stafford's played

771
00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:34,720
Speaker 5: in eighteen games when the temper has been forty and

772
00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:37,400
Speaker 5: lower than that, and he's like eight and ten, and

773
00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:39,920
Speaker 5: he's actually in Green Bay a few years ago. He

774
00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:43,239
Speaker 5: actually threw it for five hundred and twenty yards in

775
00:39:43,280 --> 00:39:46,880
Speaker 5: like a game that started at thirty one degrees a kickoff.

776
00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:50,600
Speaker 5: So I don't think this is gonna be like a

777
00:39:50,640 --> 00:39:53,720
Speaker 5: deciding factor now that some people believe.

778
00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:55,640
Speaker 2: Let me throw this into the mix, because I mean,

779
00:39:55,680 --> 00:39:58,719
Speaker 2: people say, well, you could play for the Rams, but

780
00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:01,319
Speaker 2: you could have grown up in you know, Chicago, you

781
00:40:01,320 --> 00:40:04,880
Speaker 2: could have grown up in Wisconsin or whatever. But what

782
00:40:04,960 --> 00:40:07,799
Speaker 2: I will say is, I think the human body is

783
00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:12,280
Speaker 2: such that you do kind of get accustomed to certain things.

784
00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:16,360
Speaker 2: Right so if you if you're practicing regularly in sixty

785
00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:18,919
Speaker 2: five degrees, I don't care what you say. I think

786
00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:21,880
Speaker 2: there is a jolt a little bit to suddenly playing

787
00:40:21,880 --> 00:40:25,239
Speaker 2: in brutal cold. And I think that's that may be

788
00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:27,000
Speaker 2: in a bit of advantage for the Bears that they

789
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:30,800
Speaker 2: have been practicing purposely outdoors without heaters for a while.

790
00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:34,600
Speaker 2: Just so just on the repetition of it, even if

791
00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:38,000
Speaker 2: you grew up in northern climates and played football growing

792
00:40:38,080 --> 00:40:40,600
Speaker 2: up in the cold, you could lose a little something

793
00:40:40,640 --> 00:40:42,680
Speaker 2: if you're if you're you know, practicing in much more

794
00:40:42,719 --> 00:40:45,399
Speaker 2: favorable conditions. I think that's possible. I'm not saying it's

795
00:40:45,440 --> 00:40:48,160
Speaker 2: the difference, but I think anytime they just come up

796
00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:51,440
Speaker 2: historically with the Vikings back in the day, other teams,

797
00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:55,160
Speaker 2: I do think you do kind of get it. Takes

798
00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:58,479
Speaker 2: a while to get acclimated. If for months, no matter

799
00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:01,000
Speaker 2: where you came from, you're practicing seventy degree weather.

800
00:41:02,320 --> 00:41:04,600
Speaker 5: Yeah. In ESPN had a story earlier this week and

801
00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:08,120
Speaker 5: he talked to the Giants field goal kicker. I can't

802
00:41:08,160 --> 00:41:10,160
Speaker 5: remember his name, but they had to play a cold

803
00:41:10,200 --> 00:41:12,960
Speaker 5: weather game right in Green Bay, and he was talking

804
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:14,680
Speaker 5: about how they went on in the field before the game,

805
00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:17,279
Speaker 5: let's go for a walk, you know, let's get acclimated

806
00:41:17,320 --> 00:41:19,480
Speaker 5: to the cold weather. So they're out walking around and

807
00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:22,920
Speaker 5: walk around. They looked realized that the Packers weren outside

808
00:41:23,520 --> 00:41:26,120
Speaker 5: walking around like they were. The Packers were outside where

809
00:41:26,160 --> 00:41:29,960
Speaker 5: it was war Yeah, you know. So he was like,

810
00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:32,080
Speaker 5: you know, it's a it can be a psychological thing.

811
00:41:32,120 --> 00:41:33,480
Speaker 5: I think it could play in your mind a little

812
00:41:33,480 --> 00:41:35,480
Speaker 5: bit to I gotta be tough because it's gonna be cold.

813
00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:37,359
Speaker 5: I gotta be tough becase it's going to be cold,

814
00:41:38,000 --> 00:41:41,239
Speaker 5: And you think you're doing all these things and you

815
00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:44,759
Speaker 5: know it ends up being workless. You know, taking a

816
00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:47,280
Speaker 5: walk in cold weather, that's just kind of eye candy

817
00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:49,120
Speaker 5: for yourself before you go. I have to play the

818
00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:53,239
Speaker 5: real game. So yeah, it can it can be. It

819
00:41:53,239 --> 00:41:54,919
Speaker 5: could be a pain in the butt foot both teams

820
00:41:54,920 --> 00:41:57,319
Speaker 5: to deal with. But can it be to decide now

821
00:41:57,400 --> 00:41:59,600
Speaker 5: if it's if the wind's blowing thirty miles an hour

822
00:41:59,640 --> 00:42:05,040
Speaker 5: and thinking game is just destroyed because of it? You know, absolutely, yeah, yeah,

823
00:42:07,600 --> 00:42:11,280
Speaker 5: I mean it makes for a great backdrop and bearss

824
00:42:11,280 --> 00:42:12,920
Speaker 5: fans could be out of their minds. They're gonna be,

825
00:42:13,040 --> 00:42:15,400
Speaker 5: you know, full of Southern comfort by the time the

826
00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:18,200
Speaker 5: kickoff comes, and they're gonna be nice and toasty warm,

827
00:42:18,280 --> 00:42:20,680
Speaker 5: and but it's gonna come down to executing on the

828
00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:21,960
Speaker 5: field no matter what the conditions are.

829
00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:25,759
Speaker 2: What is let's finish up with some Vikings. We've had

830
00:42:25,760 --> 00:42:27,879
Speaker 2: plenty of Vikings quarterback talk this week with a number

831
00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:30,600
Speaker 2: of people, but not with you. So what what is

832
00:42:30,640 --> 00:42:34,439
Speaker 2: your recommend It sounds like they're they understand they're gonna

833
00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:36,520
Speaker 2: have to go out and get another QB. But the

834
00:42:36,600 --> 00:42:41,319
Speaker 2: question is who's gettable that's realistic? That would be a

835
00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:46,319
Speaker 2: reasonable switch if for whatever reason McCarthy doesn't do the

836
00:42:46,400 --> 00:42:50,200
Speaker 2: job well enough or uh parish the thought continues to

837
00:42:50,239 --> 00:42:52,640
Speaker 2: be hurt. Give me a couple of names that you

838
00:42:52,680 --> 00:42:56,160
Speaker 2: think are realistic, that you believe the Vikings should be considering.

839
00:42:57,320 --> 00:42:59,920
Speaker 5: Well, I had a big discussion with this on Michael

840
00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:02,319
Speaker 5: and Daily Delivery a couple of days ago, and we

841
00:43:02,320 --> 00:43:05,280
Speaker 5: were looking at three options for how the Vikings could proceed.

842
00:43:05,840 --> 00:43:10,560
Speaker 5: One is the most harsh, which is put JJ. Two

843
00:43:10,680 --> 00:43:12,800
Speaker 5: would be well, actually one and three are kind of

844
00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:16,279
Speaker 5: similar because two would be find a stop gap for

845
00:43:16,320 --> 00:43:18,759
Speaker 5: a year and that that would bring Carson Wentz back

846
00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:22,040
Speaker 5: into the mix. That would uh mean it may be

847
00:43:22,160 --> 00:43:25,960
Speaker 5: a conversation with with Aaron Rodgers, that maybe a conversation

848
00:43:26,040 --> 00:43:28,920
Speaker 5: with Joe Placko. The other option would be because I

849
00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:30,720
Speaker 5: think if you if the Vicus call up a Milik

850
00:43:30,800 --> 00:43:37,680
Speaker 5: Willis or Marcus Mariola, and I personally like Mariola. I'd

851
00:43:37,680 --> 00:43:39,000
Speaker 5: like to like you to come and be our core

852
00:43:39,080 --> 00:43:41,279
Speaker 5: back next year. Well, this is their shot to be

853
00:43:41,320 --> 00:43:45,680
Speaker 5: a starter, especially for Willis, and they're gonna want a

854
00:43:45,719 --> 00:43:47,839
Speaker 5: situation where they have a clear pathway to the gig

855
00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:50,759
Speaker 5: and plus they want to be compensated for a couple

856
00:43:50,760 --> 00:43:53,279
Speaker 5: of years. And I don't know, I don't know if

857
00:43:53,280 --> 00:43:56,160
Speaker 5: they're gonna uh it will take a great sales job

858
00:43:56,200 --> 00:43:58,480
Speaker 5: by Cosy and Koc for the for them to buy

859
00:43:58,520 --> 00:44:01,840
Speaker 5: into that. You know, Mary, it's gonna be taken. I

860
00:44:01,840 --> 00:44:03,920
Speaker 5: got one more chance to possibly cash in here. I

861
00:44:03,960 --> 00:44:06,600
Speaker 5: want to pull uh, I want to pull Darnold and

862
00:44:06,640 --> 00:44:09,000
Speaker 5: get it like a hundred mill year old contractor. Willis

863
00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:12,719
Speaker 5: you know, has been sitting by this time with the packers.

864
00:44:12,760 --> 00:44:13,920
Speaker 5: You know this is a shot. I don't know if

865
00:44:13,960 --> 00:44:15,239
Speaker 5: they want to come in and have to fight for

866
00:44:15,280 --> 00:44:15,640
Speaker 5: a job.

867
00:44:15,680 --> 00:44:16,240
Speaker 3: That's the problem.

868
00:44:17,160 --> 00:44:19,120
Speaker 5: Pathway, There's gonna be other teams that may be willing

869
00:44:19,160 --> 00:44:24,640
Speaker 5: to give those guys that uh instant that the automatic

870
00:44:24,680 --> 00:44:28,360
Speaker 5: spot on the roster. So I keep thinking, and the

871
00:44:28,400 --> 00:44:30,360
Speaker 5: more I ponder this, they have to they have to

872
00:44:30,360 --> 00:44:33,520
Speaker 5: go back to the one year stopgap quarterback. And you know, hello,

873
00:44:33,600 --> 00:44:36,480
Speaker 5: Carson Wentz, what are you thinking, a Rod? Do you

874
00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:39,040
Speaker 5: want to play one more year? Who is the other

875
00:44:39,080 --> 00:44:41,160
Speaker 5: third one year guy? I was we were thinking about

876
00:44:41,280 --> 00:44:43,480
Speaker 5: there's three of them.

877
00:44:43,120 --> 00:44:45,400
Speaker 2: Not but I think not the former Raid, not the

878
00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:48,840
Speaker 2: not the who you just mentioned them, Not Methusela, the

879
00:44:48,880 --> 00:44:51,040
Speaker 2: guy who was with was he with Cleveland most recently?

880
00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:52,120
Speaker 3: Who are you thinking of? Cargie?

881
00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:55,880
Speaker 5: No, I wasn't. I wasn't really thinking. I wasn't really thinking.

882
00:44:57,239 --> 00:45:00,719
Speaker 5: I don't think, but I think a one year stop

883
00:45:00,800 --> 00:45:06,080
Speaker 5: gap because now the thing is dan, this is taking

884
00:45:06,200 --> 00:45:07,800
Speaker 5: third year. You don't know what the hell you haven't

885
00:45:07,880 --> 00:45:08,439
Speaker 5: a kid yet.

886
00:45:08,440 --> 00:45:11,440
Speaker 2: How about you know, stop, stop, take a breath. How

887
00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:14,960
Speaker 2: about Philip Rivers he's only forty four.

888
00:45:16,280 --> 00:45:17,600
Speaker 5: Well, he'd have time to get in shape.

889
00:45:17,719 --> 00:45:21,320
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. There you go. He's still got an arm.

890
00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:23,680
Speaker 5: Yeah, apparently he's a great guy. I just I would

891
00:45:23,719 --> 00:45:25,600
Speaker 5: just like to be near him when he's talking trash. Yeah,

892
00:45:25,640 --> 00:45:28,480
Speaker 5: he does in order to talk trash for I'll scoring.

893
00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:31,960
Speaker 3: Did you see, by the way, the uh I just

894
00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:32,920
Speaker 3: had guards he check it.

895
00:45:33,520 --> 00:45:39,840
Speaker 2: The over under on uh poka nakula receptions and yards

896
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:40,600
Speaker 2: for Sunday.

897
00:45:40,600 --> 00:45:41,239
Speaker 3: Have you read it?

898
00:45:42,719 --> 00:45:45,360
Speaker 5: I'm gonna guess eight and a half and one hundred

899
00:45:45,360 --> 00:45:45,839
Speaker 5: and ten.

900
00:45:45,960 --> 00:45:49,640
Speaker 2: That's low twelve receptions, one hundred and seventy five yards.

901
00:45:49,640 --> 00:45:52,280
Speaker 2: That's the over under in those two classic categories. That's

902
00:45:52,640 --> 00:45:56,240
Speaker 2: that's a that's disrespect on the bear secondary right there.

903
00:45:58,840 --> 00:46:01,040
Speaker 5: I take the understillspecsh if there's gonna.

904
00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:02,799
Speaker 3: Be some win a little bit.

905
00:46:02,840 --> 00:46:04,960
Speaker 5: Yeah, so you might have exaggerated.

906
00:46:05,080 --> 00:46:06,440
Speaker 3: Not surprised, Not surprised.

907
00:46:06,480 --> 00:46:10,520
Speaker 2: Is it somebody's throwing out Dan Minnesota starting out the

908
00:46:10,560 --> 00:46:11,680
Speaker 2: name with Deshaun Watson.

909
00:46:12,880 --> 00:46:17,759
Speaker 5: My god, if I answered that question it's gonna be

910
00:46:17,760 --> 00:46:19,759
Speaker 5: the FCC of violation. So I'm just gonna kind of

911
00:46:19,840 --> 00:46:22,399
Speaker 5: let that one dissipate into the ether.

912
00:46:22,600 --> 00:46:23,720
Speaker 3: What's the Sunday column?

913
00:46:24,880 --> 00:46:26,120
Speaker 5: There is none Sunday column.

914
00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:28,439
Speaker 3: What the hell is that all about? Another Sunday off?

915
00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:32,920
Speaker 5: I am on. I'm on an Olympic preview duty right now.

916
00:46:33,000 --> 00:46:35,759
Speaker 5: I've been and didn't realize how many curling clubs there

917
00:46:35,760 --> 00:46:37,480
Speaker 5: are in the Twin Cities. I've been going to curling

918
00:46:37,480 --> 00:46:40,840
Speaker 5: clubs talking to USA curls. I interviewed the Peters and

919
00:46:40,920 --> 00:46:45,640
Speaker 5: sisters yesterday at the UH Saint Paul Curling Club, and

920
00:46:45,680 --> 00:46:48,680
Speaker 5: this morning at seven am, I was at Frogtown, the

921
00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:52,320
Speaker 5: curring Club, which I didn't know existed, talking to Danny

922
00:46:52,320 --> 00:46:55,400
Speaker 5: Casper and his team for Olympics. And then Sunday I've

923
00:46:55,400 --> 00:46:59,800
Speaker 5: got an deployment with Corey Dropkin from Dulouf as I'm

924
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:01,920
Speaker 5: selling these previews man, so because I got to do

925
00:47:01,920 --> 00:47:05,520
Speaker 5: all the curlers, and so we have men's curling, women's curling,

926
00:47:05,600 --> 00:47:09,680
Speaker 5: have mixed doubles, that's Corey Dropking and Corey Teeth both

927
00:47:09,719 --> 00:47:12,719
Speaker 5: from Duluth, and then I'm doing women's hockey. So I'm

928
00:47:12,719 --> 00:47:14,279
Speaker 5: gonna spend a lot of time with the Frost. Next week,

929
00:47:14,320 --> 00:47:15,719
Speaker 5: you'll probably see me in my name in a couple

930
00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:18,640
Speaker 5: of Frost columns. Nice because I'll probably be in with

931
00:47:18,719 --> 00:47:22,279
Speaker 5: them as we as I do interviews with them leading

932
00:47:22,320 --> 00:47:24,600
Speaker 5: up into the Olympics. But we're and I'm probably gonna

933
00:47:24,600 --> 00:47:26,400
Speaker 5: write some sort of There probably be some sort of

934
00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:28,640
Speaker 5: Jesse Diggin's story out there there. Maybe it's just Lindsay

935
00:47:28,719 --> 00:47:32,160
Speaker 5: vonn story out there too. So these people are all leaving,

936
00:47:32,320 --> 00:47:36,160
Speaker 5: like the the mixed doubles curlers leaving January twenty fourth,

937
00:47:36,400 --> 00:47:39,439
Speaker 5: and the regular curlers leave on January thirtieth. So time

938
00:47:39,560 --> 00:47:41,280
Speaker 5: is of the essence as far as getting these interviews

939
00:47:41,320 --> 00:47:42,960
Speaker 5: done and starting to crank out some of this stuff.

940
00:47:43,040 --> 00:47:45,279
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh that's there's no question about that. But you're not.

941
00:47:45,320 --> 00:47:47,080
Speaker 3: No one's going right from the strip to the Olympics

942
00:47:47,120 --> 00:47:47,439
Speaker 3: this year.

943
00:47:48,160 --> 00:47:50,120
Speaker 5: No, we're not coming. It was it was not. It

944
00:47:50,200 --> 00:47:52,560
Speaker 5: was very cost prohibitive. It was the cost of setting

945
00:47:52,560 --> 00:47:55,160
Speaker 5: one person was much more than it was in Beijing.

946
00:47:56,280 --> 00:47:59,759
Speaker 2: Plus you'd have to leave your underwear. I don't even think, yeah,

947
00:48:01,120 --> 00:48:03,080
Speaker 2: your underwear in Italy, I don't think. I think that's

948
00:48:03,080 --> 00:48:03,799
Speaker 2: against the law.

949
00:48:04,960 --> 00:48:07,560
Speaker 5: But the thing is, though the temptation would be to

950
00:48:07,560 --> 00:48:09,360
Speaker 5: reach back with find Italian underwear.

951
00:48:09,680 --> 00:48:12,880
Speaker 3: Wow, that's a good point. That's the finest where you

952
00:48:12,920 --> 00:48:13,319
Speaker 3: can get.

953
00:48:13,360 --> 00:48:16,000
Speaker 5: I probably would since there's no COVID. I probably would

954
00:48:16,080 --> 00:48:18,040
Speaker 5: not bring a lot of underwear and buy or know

955
00:48:18,080 --> 00:48:20,160
Speaker 5: where why I'm there, and I would actually bring it back.

956
00:48:21,600 --> 00:48:27,799
Speaker 3: How about Jameis Winston huh interesting name.

957
00:48:29,560 --> 00:48:34,000
Speaker 5: Press conferences will be hilarious.

958
00:48:34,040 --> 00:48:37,239
Speaker 3: Maybe same game. He would be the guy.

959
00:48:37,320 --> 00:48:40,800
Speaker 5: Actually, if JJ had a Baffle training camp, he wouldn't

960
00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:43,600
Speaker 5: mind being the understudy. They're a backup to him.

961
00:48:43,719 --> 00:48:45,759
Speaker 3: That's probably he might be right.

962
00:48:46,200 --> 00:48:46,399
Speaker 5: Uh.

963
00:48:46,440 --> 00:48:48,440
Speaker 2: On that note, We'll let you go and we'll uh,

964
00:48:48,560 --> 00:48:49,759
Speaker 2: we'll chat to next week.

965
00:48:51,239 --> 00:48:52,680
Speaker 5: That was like a plan. Thanks for having me.

966
00:48:52,719 --> 00:48:56,040
Speaker 2: Thanks as always, Lavelle e Neil the third. We've got

967
00:48:56,080 --> 00:48:57,279
Speaker 2: a full thirty minutes yet to come.

968
00:48:57,320 --> 00:49:01,120
Speaker 4: I've got I got one other nugget that I found

969
00:49:01,239 --> 00:49:04,320
Speaker 4: very interesting and you could even say to a large

970
00:49:04,320 --> 00:49:08,680
Speaker 4: extent promising regarding one of our favorite local franchises. We'll

971
00:49:08,680 --> 00:49:21,640
Speaker 4: get into that and who knows what else next. Guardie,

972
00:49:21,680 --> 00:49:30,040
Speaker 4: do you have any interest in reacquiring one of the best.

973
00:49:32,000 --> 00:49:36,080
Speaker 2: Scoring big men, especially from the outside in the national

974
00:49:36,120 --> 00:49:43,239
Speaker 2: basketball Association. I would love to have Luca back here. Well, oh,

975
00:49:43,320 --> 00:49:47,680
Speaker 2: that might be a bit of a reach. He's I

976
00:49:47,719 --> 00:49:49,560
Speaker 2: don't know how much he's playing for these days. For

977
00:49:49,640 --> 00:49:52,880
Speaker 2: by the way, he's playing the Celtics in the Eastern

978
00:49:52,920 --> 00:49:56,440
Speaker 2: Conference standings. A couple of days ago, they were the

979
00:49:56,480 --> 00:49:58,680
Speaker 2: two seed, if I remember that, were briefly the two.

980
00:49:58,760 --> 00:50:00,319
Speaker 2: I think they've they've slid from that.

981
00:50:00,440 --> 00:50:02,480
Speaker 3: They have not. They're still the two. They are a

982
00:50:02,480 --> 00:50:03,440
Speaker 3: half game in.

983
00:50:03,560 --> 00:50:05,239
Speaker 4: New York's lost a couple in a row, so the

984
00:50:05,280 --> 00:50:08,360
Speaker 4: Knicks have slid back behind them without their best player,

985
00:50:08,560 --> 00:50:11,120
Speaker 4: not for a game right in the case of the

986
00:50:11,120 --> 00:50:13,600
Speaker 4: Wolves taking care of the Bucks, but for the whole season.

987
00:50:13,640 --> 00:50:15,840
Speaker 3: Thus far Celtics culture. And they have a lot of

988
00:50:15,840 --> 00:50:16,280
Speaker 3: good players.

989
00:50:16,280 --> 00:50:18,400
Speaker 4: They got they got good players, but they got I

990
00:50:18,400 --> 00:50:22,919
Speaker 4: think a really good coach too. No, Karl Anthony Towns. Yeah,

991
00:50:23,239 --> 00:50:24,320
Speaker 4: just might be Gettaboy.

992
00:50:24,480 --> 00:50:24,560
Speaker 5: No.

993
00:50:25,800 --> 00:50:31,280
Speaker 2: It's absolute craziness in New York. And it's ironic because

994
00:50:32,560 --> 00:50:35,680
Speaker 2: Tibbs was the guy who historically viewed as out as

995
00:50:35,719 --> 00:50:37,800
Speaker 2: he loved Cad or not love Cad, and Cad doesn't

996
00:50:37,840 --> 00:50:42,680
Speaker 2: love him. Well, the current coach of the New York

997
00:50:42,719 --> 00:50:45,360
Speaker 2: Knicks used to be with he was an assistant in

998
00:50:45,480 --> 00:50:46,040
Speaker 2: Golden State.

999
00:50:46,080 --> 00:50:49,280
Speaker 3: Correct. Uh, yeah, we're thinking about Mike Brown.

1000
00:50:49,360 --> 00:50:51,600
Speaker 4: Mike Brown, Yeah, just a coach of the Calves with

1001
00:50:51,680 --> 00:50:53,480
Speaker 4: Lebron years ago.

1002
00:50:53,760 --> 00:51:00,440
Speaker 3: Exactly. Yep, So Mike Brown. You know the bit. There

1003
00:51:00,440 --> 00:51:01,760
Speaker 3: will be coaches who will.

1004
00:51:01,600 --> 00:51:04,439
Speaker 2: Generalize after games and say, we got guys who didn't

1005
00:51:04,440 --> 00:51:07,320
Speaker 2: get back, we had guys who didn't rebound, we didn't

1006
00:51:07,320 --> 00:51:10,080
Speaker 2: we didn't have good effort, but they rarely get specific

1007
00:51:10,680 --> 00:51:16,120
Speaker 2: on who. Well, two games ago, Brown goes out of

1008
00:51:16,160 --> 00:51:21,799
Speaker 2: his way to savage by name Karl Anthony Towns for

1009
00:51:22,040 --> 00:51:26,520
Speaker 2: falling on a drive to the basket and not getting

1010
00:51:26,640 --> 00:51:30,719
Speaker 2: up and not getting back on defense even across the

1011
00:51:30,760 --> 00:51:32,960
Speaker 2: mid court line enough to where he could have gotten

1012
00:51:32,960 --> 00:51:33,760
Speaker 2: a long rebound.

1013
00:51:33,760 --> 00:51:34,760
Speaker 3: According to Mike Brown.

1014
00:51:34,960 --> 00:51:38,200
Speaker 4: Now, Brown actually exaggerated a little bit because he did

1015
00:51:38,280 --> 00:51:40,760
Speaker 4: get back up. The problem is he didn't just didn't

1016
00:51:40,840 --> 00:51:44,120
Speaker 4: run after he did, and it was not a good

1017
00:51:44,160 --> 00:51:48,040
Speaker 4: looking play at all. Right, But what made it interesting

1018
00:51:48,200 --> 00:51:52,799
Speaker 4: is it's rare for a coach to call out a

1019
00:51:52,840 --> 00:51:57,640
Speaker 4: star to that extent. Most people, though, might have let

1020
00:51:57,719 --> 00:52:00,000
Speaker 4: it go, said all right, maybe Brown was cranking.

1021
00:52:00,280 --> 00:52:00,879
Speaker 3: The fact is.

1022
00:52:00,880 --> 00:52:03,640
Speaker 2: Towns didn't get back, and it is annoying sometimes and

1023
00:52:03,680 --> 00:52:08,520
Speaker 2: he just felt like letting him have it. Then your

1024
00:52:08,560 --> 00:52:13,040
Speaker 2: guy day day, Draymond Green cheap shots him him by

1025
00:52:13,080 --> 00:52:17,080
Speaker 2: the leg right basically yep. And did you see what

1026
00:52:17,280 --> 00:52:19,760
Speaker 2: Brown's reaction was after the game?

1027
00:52:19,920 --> 00:52:21,440
Speaker 3: No, I didn't see that part.

1028
00:52:21,920 --> 00:52:23,680
Speaker 2: I probably should have asked you to get the audio.

1029
00:52:23,760 --> 00:52:28,400
Speaker 2: I'll paraphrase it. Ah, you know that's Draymond. You know

1030
00:52:28,840 --> 00:52:31,759
Speaker 2: that's that's kind of Draymond being Draymond. That really didn't

1031
00:52:31,800 --> 00:52:36,800
Speaker 2: bother me as much as Kat getting his fifth foul

1032
00:52:37,040 --> 00:52:42,439
Speaker 2: not long after that. So back to back, you got

1033
00:52:42,440 --> 00:52:47,120
Speaker 2: to coach hammering his one of his two star players,

1034
00:52:47,239 --> 00:52:51,839
Speaker 2: really right, the big player in the trade that that

1035
00:52:51,920 --> 00:52:54,480
Speaker 2: yielded us uh Julius.

1036
00:52:54,120 --> 00:52:56,000
Speaker 3: Randall and Dante DiVincenzo.

1037
00:52:56,760 --> 00:53:00,640
Speaker 4: So there's a there's wild speculation in New York about

1038
00:53:00,760 --> 00:53:04,320
Speaker 4: is this Brown's effort to play tough guy with Kat?

1039
00:53:05,120 --> 00:53:08,239
Speaker 2: Is there something? Is this a sign that he's all

1040
00:53:08,280 --> 00:53:10,960
Speaker 2: but gone? Because there by the way, there's a lot

1041
00:53:10,960 --> 00:53:16,359
Speaker 2: of a Yannis steam to him ending up in New York.

1042
00:53:17,280 --> 00:53:22,279
Speaker 2: Other people say, Miami, who's to say? But I'm fascinated

1043
00:53:23,040 --> 00:53:25,680
Speaker 2: by the fact that Karl Anthony Towns, a you know,

1044
00:53:25,680 --> 00:53:29,799
Speaker 2: a very good player seems to be under siege from

1045
00:53:29,800 --> 00:53:32,799
Speaker 2: his head coach on consecutive days. So if we got

1046
00:53:32,840 --> 00:53:34,439
Speaker 2: if we want him back, then we'd have to match

1047
00:53:34,520 --> 00:53:38,759
Speaker 2: up the salaries. Yeah, but here's the question. Would you

1048
00:53:38,800 --> 00:53:41,360
Speaker 2: be willing to give up Julius Randall and Don David

1049
00:53:41,440 --> 00:53:43,920
Speaker 2: de Vincenzo. I don't think I would for Karl Anthony

1050
00:53:43,960 --> 00:53:46,239
Speaker 2: towns Now And I mentioned this some of it. I

1051
00:53:46,280 --> 00:53:48,560
Speaker 2: didn't get into much depth on the Enough Said show,

1052
00:53:48,560 --> 00:53:50,399
Speaker 2: but we did allude to we had a shorter Wolf

1053
00:53:50,480 --> 00:53:53,719
Speaker 2: segment tonight. I think regular time on Fox nine is

1054
00:53:53,760 --> 00:53:55,480
Speaker 2: at nine thirty is at ten? I think it might

1055
00:53:55,480 --> 00:53:59,160
Speaker 2: be ten. Okay, whatever, check your local listings and you

1056
00:53:59,160 --> 00:54:02,600
Speaker 2: could always VR and get it via Fox nine Local

1057
00:54:02,640 --> 00:54:03,960
Speaker 2: as well.

1058
00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:06,480
Speaker 3: But here's what stands out to me right now.

1059
00:54:06,480 --> 00:54:08,400
Speaker 2: And maybe it's more of a compliment to Randall than

1060
00:54:08,400 --> 00:54:12,239
Speaker 2: it is any kind of a shot at at kat

1061
00:54:12,320 --> 00:54:13,520
Speaker 2: and I have to think.

1062
00:54:15,080 --> 00:54:17,799
Speaker 3: NBA serious guy, Justin is it just? I think it's

1063
00:54:17,880 --> 00:54:19,680
Speaker 3: Justin Termanymy yeah, yeah, who.

1064
00:54:19,840 --> 00:54:22,920
Speaker 2: He kind of laid this this out a little bit

1065
00:54:24,080 --> 00:54:29,480
Speaker 2: that right now, here are some key stats from Julius

1066
00:54:29,560 --> 00:54:33,160
Speaker 2: Randall at this point in the season shooting, you know,

1067
00:54:33,239 --> 00:54:39,320
Speaker 2: just from the floor forty nine point four percent, Karl

1068
00:54:39,320 --> 00:54:44,160
Speaker 2: Anthony Towns forty six point seven percent free throw attempts

1069
00:54:44,200 --> 00:54:49,919
Speaker 2: per game, Julius Randall six and a half, Cat six

1070
00:54:49,960 --> 00:54:54,759
Speaker 2: point six. So basically a wash rebounds. That's the one

1071
00:54:54,760 --> 00:55:02,840
Speaker 2: advantage for Cat. He's averaging eleven Randall, seven assists, Randall

1072
00:55:03,520 --> 00:55:06,240
Speaker 2: five a game, Kat two point nine.

1073
00:55:06,440 --> 00:55:06,760
Speaker 3: Wow.

1074
00:55:07,280 --> 00:55:12,400
Speaker 4: Scoring average Julius Randall twenty two point two Carl Anthony

1075
00:55:12,400 --> 00:55:16,440
Speaker 4: Town's twenty point nine. Right now, it's not at all

1076
00:55:16,440 --> 00:55:21,080
Speaker 4: crazy to say Julius Randall is the better player.

1077
00:55:21,400 --> 00:55:25,719
Speaker 2: And remember we got two players for Karl Anthony Towns. Now,

1078
00:55:25,880 --> 00:55:28,920
Speaker 2: how much of this is obviously Brunson. The balls in

1079
00:55:28,960 --> 00:55:31,760
Speaker 2: Brunson's hands a lot, the way they run their offense,

1080
00:55:31,840 --> 00:55:33,759
Speaker 2: that's part of it. And you can say, well, some

1081
00:55:33,800 --> 00:55:36,520
Speaker 2: of this isn't on Cat. Some it's the way really

1082
00:55:37,120 --> 00:55:40,080
Speaker 2: the last two coaches have used him. Who's to say,

1083
00:55:40,320 --> 00:55:43,799
Speaker 2: I don't watch the Knicks enough anymore to be able

1084
00:55:43,800 --> 00:55:49,239
Speaker 2: to answer that question, But those comparative numbers fascinated me,

1085
00:55:49,320 --> 00:55:51,080
Speaker 2: and I think he had I don't have them in

1086
00:55:51,080 --> 00:55:53,560
Speaker 2: front of me. I think Termany even had, like effective

1087
00:55:53,600 --> 00:55:58,120
Speaker 2: field goal percentage, Randall is ahead of Cat and the

1088
00:55:58,320 --> 00:56:02,960
Speaker 2: three point shooting percentage it was I believe pretty close

1089
00:56:03,000 --> 00:56:03,759
Speaker 2: to a wash.

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00:56:03,880 --> 00:56:05,399
Speaker 3: I think Randall is thirty four.

1091
00:56:06,120 --> 00:56:08,560
Speaker 2: I don't think Kat's shooting as high a three point

1092
00:56:08,600 --> 00:56:11,880
Speaker 2: percentage as he has historically, at least so far this season.

1093
00:56:12,600 --> 00:56:15,040
Speaker 2: So when you look at what exactly has been going

1094
00:56:15,080 --> 00:56:17,920
Speaker 2: on with the Wolves, I do think we've seen an

1095
00:56:17,920 --> 00:56:24,680
Speaker 2: ascension of the Randall role and the production. That's good production.

1096
00:56:25,280 --> 00:56:28,280
Speaker 2: It really is basically shooting fifty percent from the floor,

1097
00:56:29,200 --> 00:56:31,080
Speaker 2: six and a half free throw attempts a game, and

1098
00:56:31,160 --> 00:56:32,000
Speaker 2: five assists.

1099
00:56:32,680 --> 00:56:33,680
Speaker 3: That's the best plat Those.

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00:56:33,600 --> 00:56:37,080
Speaker 2: Are great numbers, and twenty two point two points a game,

1101
00:56:37,120 --> 00:56:39,000
Speaker 2: which I believe has to be higher than last year.

1102
00:56:39,080 --> 00:56:42,480
Speaker 2: You can double check on that. And it almost feels

1103
00:56:42,480 --> 00:56:44,560
Speaker 2: like Kat's fading a little bit. How much of that

1104
00:56:44,719 --> 00:56:46,279
Speaker 2: is the way he's used, how much of it is

1105
00:56:46,480 --> 00:56:47,640
Speaker 2: he's just not playing as well.

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00:56:47,680 --> 00:56:50,120
Speaker 3: I don't know. But now he's got his head coach

1107
00:56:50,160 --> 00:56:52,040
Speaker 3: all over him. I mean, name me.

1108
00:56:52,000 --> 00:56:57,640
Speaker 4: Another coach in the league who, after Draymond Green cheap

1109
00:56:57,680 --> 00:57:01,879
Speaker 4: shots one of his best players writes it off, as

1110
00:57:02,280 --> 00:57:05,560
Speaker 4: you know, I guess that wasn't great, and and and

1111
00:57:05,560 --> 00:57:07,160
Speaker 4: and I'm but I'm more bothered by the fact that

1112
00:57:07,200 --> 00:57:11,040
Speaker 4: we he got pick up his fifth fall.

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00:57:11,480 --> 00:57:14,040
Speaker 3: It's just it's very strange to me because wouldn't most

1114
00:57:14,080 --> 00:57:15,799
Speaker 3: coaches do the automatical.

1115
00:57:15,840 --> 00:57:20,560
Speaker 4: That's that's inexcusable. We can't have that happen. That's Draymond

1116
00:57:20,640 --> 00:57:22,640
Speaker 4: can't be allowed to continue to do it. Now, he

1117
00:57:22,760 --> 00:57:26,440
Speaker 4: coached Raymond and may like him, But I'm just saying

1118
00:57:26,480 --> 00:57:30,280
Speaker 4: that the Cat story has been kind of interesting most

1119
00:57:30,320 --> 00:57:35,600
Speaker 4: recently to follow from Afar here. And originally everybody agreed

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00:57:36,520 --> 00:57:39,680
Speaker 4: that Cat was the best player in that trade. He

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00:57:39,760 --> 00:57:43,040
Speaker 4: may still be long term the best player in the trade,

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00:57:43,280 --> 00:57:45,280
Speaker 4: but right now Julius Randall looks like the best player

1123
00:57:45,280 --> 00:57:48,080
Speaker 4: in that trade. And Randall's averaging it's basically three and

1124
00:57:48,080 --> 00:57:51,800
Speaker 4: a half more points a game than he did last year.

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00:57:51,880 --> 00:57:54,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that that's significant. Yeah, it's a significant increase

1126
00:57:54,800 --> 00:57:58,640
Speaker 2: over season to season. Showing percentages are about the same. Yeah,

1127
00:57:58,720 --> 00:58:03,000
Speaker 2: he's averaging an extra or rebound a game from assists

1128
00:58:03,200 --> 00:58:05,720
Speaker 2: or go I'm sorry, an extra assist. The rebounding numbers

1129
00:58:05,720 --> 00:58:08,600
Speaker 2: are pretty much flat, but it's an extra assist. Yeah,

1130
00:58:08,640 --> 00:58:11,240
Speaker 2: So the offense, so the ball's getting to him. Yes,

1131
00:58:11,320 --> 00:58:14,520
Speaker 2: he's taking a couple of martials indicate the assist total

1132
00:58:14,560 --> 00:58:19,200
Speaker 2: would indicate the notion that once he gets the ball

1133
00:58:19,200 --> 00:58:22,400
Speaker 2: it gets sticky, that it still might from time to time,

1134
00:58:22,480 --> 00:58:25,120
Speaker 2: but that's that can no longer be said as being

1135
00:58:25,120 --> 00:58:27,800
Speaker 2: the constant with Randall. If you're averaging five assists a game,

1136
00:58:28,240 --> 00:58:31,120
Speaker 2: that must mean by definition, you are distributing much better,

1137
00:58:31,520 --> 00:58:35,080
Speaker 2: and you're not just sort of, you know, plotting, holding onto.

1138
00:58:34,840 --> 00:58:39,240
Speaker 4: The ball, backing down trying to score. He's giving up

1139
00:58:39,240 --> 00:58:42,440
Speaker 4: the ball and effectively getting it to other people. The

1140
00:58:42,480 --> 00:58:46,000
Speaker 4: only other year he has with a higher assist average

1141
00:58:46,120 --> 00:58:49,960
Speaker 4: right now would have been twenty twenty one with the Knicks.

1142
00:58:49,960 --> 00:58:53,360
Speaker 4: He averaged six assists for the season, and this is

1143
00:58:53,400 --> 00:58:55,520
Speaker 4: the second highest, I mean the ball. His assist totals

1144
00:58:55,560 --> 00:58:57,880
Speaker 4: have kind of fluctuated between four and six the last

1145
00:58:57,960 --> 00:59:03,840
Speaker 4: few years. But he's playing great, and he doesn't Dante's playing.

1146
00:59:03,880 --> 00:59:08,440
Speaker 4: Dante's playing, Dante's playing great. He doesn't play defense enough, no, consistently,

1147
00:59:09,440 --> 00:59:12,080
Speaker 4: but neither is cat cat doesn't we know that? However,

1148
00:59:13,080 --> 00:59:16,480
Speaker 4: Anthony's kind of doing his cat leadership the same thing

1149
00:59:16,520 --> 00:59:18,760
Speaker 4: he did with Kat. He's doing it on Randall. We're

1150
00:59:18,800 --> 00:59:20,360
Speaker 4: basically saying, we tell him all the time he can

1151
00:59:20,400 --> 00:59:21,920
Speaker 4: be one of the best defenders in the league when

1152
00:59:21,920 --> 00:59:24,320
Speaker 4: he wants to be, and he did it against Wemby obviously.

1153
00:59:24,400 --> 00:59:26,800
Speaker 4: Last year in the postseason, he guarded Lebron a fair amount.

1154
00:59:27,040 --> 00:59:31,360
Speaker 4: He guarded Luca a little bit. By the way, who

1155
00:59:31,400 --> 00:59:35,080
Speaker 4: else did we get in that deal or what did

1156
00:59:35,120 --> 00:59:37,640
Speaker 4: the draft pick turn into as part of that deal?

1157
00:59:38,480 --> 00:59:41,240
Speaker 3: It's got to be right, correct? Yeah?

1158
00:59:41,320 --> 00:59:46,080
Speaker 2: Who we just unleashed on the Milwaukee Bucks and they're

1159
00:59:46,120 --> 00:59:50,320
Speaker 2: still reeling. They still haven't recovered from our They're still defensive,

1160
00:59:50,320 --> 00:59:51,840
Speaker 2: big man, they're still boring.

1161
00:59:52,320 --> 00:59:53,840
Speaker 3: Now Rudy's back, right.

1162
00:59:53,880 --> 00:59:57,440
Speaker 2: Yes, so will we're will barnjer or Baron Jay. I've

1163
00:59:57,440 --> 01:00:00,880
Speaker 2: heard nineteen pronunciations, including that from Mike. And will he

1164
01:00:00,920 --> 01:00:03,320
Speaker 2: get still get an opportunity to play or is that gone.

1165
01:00:03,120 --> 01:00:06,240
Speaker 4: Now that Rudy's back, Probably pretty much gone, but they

1166
01:00:06,320 --> 01:00:07,160
Speaker 4: might get get him.

1167
01:00:07,160 --> 01:00:08,800
Speaker 3: A few minutes tonight he.

1168
01:00:08,880 --> 01:00:12,000
Speaker 2: Saw Kat just sold his house in Medina. Was it

1169
01:00:12,040 --> 01:00:13,920
Speaker 2: five point two million or four point two million? I

1170
01:00:13,960 --> 01:00:15,880
Speaker 2: thought it was four point something four point might be

1171
01:00:15,880 --> 01:00:18,120
Speaker 2: four point two. Yeah, it's a nice place. Looks like

1172
01:00:18,120 --> 01:00:20,200
Speaker 2: a very nice place. Yeah, I'm assuming not that far

1173
01:00:20,240 --> 01:00:23,160
Speaker 2: from Flip so old place. It's Medina. Flip was a

1174
01:00:23,160 --> 01:00:24,640
Speaker 2: big media guys. I recall was he name?

1175
01:00:24,640 --> 01:00:26,320
Speaker 3: I think he was one of the first. Let's come

1176
01:00:26,320 --> 01:00:27,600
Speaker 3: back and wrap things up.

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Speaker 4: Show RAP is presented by American Pressure commercial grade Pressure

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01:00:32,600 --> 01:00:34,480
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01:00:34,720 --> 01:00:37,120
Speaker 3: It's the Bumper to Bumper Show RAP.

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01:00:47,920 --> 01:00:50,320
Speaker 2: I don't to thank an outstanding array of guests today.

1181
01:00:50,400 --> 01:00:53,920
Speaker 2: An awkward segment with Carl Gertschmidt today. If you missed it,

1182
01:00:54,400 --> 01:00:57,320
Speaker 2: you can podcast it later. Let's just say there was

1183
01:01:00,560 --> 01:01:05,120
Speaker 2: there were several repeats of a recorded announcement that might

1184
01:01:05,200 --> 01:01:10,360
Speaker 2: have broken the flow of the prediction segment. But I'll

1185
01:01:10,440 --> 01:01:13,880
Speaker 2: let you judge for yourself if you did indeed miss it.

1186
01:01:14,600 --> 01:01:18,080
Speaker 2: Also Ben Gesling joined at four thirty as usual, and

1187
01:01:18,200 --> 01:01:21,560
Speaker 2: Lavelle e Neil, the third nicknamed Scooter we found out

1188
01:01:21,600 --> 01:01:27,280
Speaker 2: last week, joined at five thirty. Tonight, Fan and de

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Speaker 2: Man is going to follow us as is customary, don't

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01:01:30,280 --> 01:01:34,120
Speaker 2: forget tonight on the flagship FM one hundred point three

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01:01:34,160 --> 01:01:39,240
Speaker 2: the Fan and the iHeart Radio app Timberwolves Channel your

1192
01:01:39,320 --> 01:01:44,240
Speaker 2: Minnesota Timberwolves in Houston, gun Belt Tight to take on

1193
01:01:44,320 --> 01:01:49,680
Speaker 2: the Rockets. That is scheduled for eight fifteen broadcast right

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01:01:49,720 --> 01:01:51,760
Speaker 2: here on the fan. It's the second game of the

1195
01:01:51,760 --> 01:01:54,080
Speaker 2: double header. I think it's Philly in Cleveland right now.

1196
01:01:54,080 --> 01:01:57,200
Speaker 2: It's the national doubleheader. The bad news as Anthony Edwards

1197
01:01:57,280 --> 01:02:00,000
Speaker 2: is not available. Maybe we're so fearless and so excited

1198
01:02:00,040 --> 01:02:01,720
Speaker 2: about the way we played last time, it won't matter.

1199
01:02:01,760 --> 01:02:07,080
Speaker 2: Rudy Gobert is indeed back enough said tonight.

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01:02:07,760 --> 01:02:10,120
Speaker 4: It'll be after on Fox nine and will be after

1201
01:02:10,280 --> 01:02:11,520
Speaker 4: Go for men's hockey.

1202
01:02:11,560 --> 01:02:13,200
Speaker 3: Is that correct? That is correct? That's the plan.

1203
01:02:13,280 --> 01:02:15,640
Speaker 2: So it's a little loose depending on when that game ends.

1204
01:02:16,160 --> 01:02:20,800
Speaker 2: I'm hoping tennis right in there, sort of like last week.

1205
01:02:21,440 --> 01:02:25,080
Speaker 2: There's an a section section and then there's a toy

1206
01:02:25,120 --> 01:02:27,960
Speaker 2: department section of the program as well.

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01:02:28,480 --> 01:02:29,880
Speaker 3: On the plus. I have no idea if it's on

1208
01:02:29,960 --> 01:02:32,919
Speaker 3: at seven thirty this week, believe it is usual time.

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01:02:35,720 --> 01:02:38,320
Speaker 2: Sermons is scheduled for a two hour tour on Sunday.

1210
01:02:38,320 --> 01:02:42,520
Speaker 2: I'm sure we will review the two games Saturday. So

1211
01:02:42,560 --> 01:02:49,360
Speaker 2: the Saturday games are the nightcap is Seattle and San Francisco, correct, yes,

1212
01:02:49,440 --> 01:02:52,680
Speaker 2: and the first game is Buffalo at Denver and then

1213
01:02:52,960 --> 01:02:57,200
Speaker 2: so we'll review those, maybe preview the Sunday games, get

1214
01:02:57,200 --> 01:02:59,600
Speaker 2: into what else has been going on over the course

1215
01:02:59,640 --> 01:03:05,680
Speaker 2: of the weekend. From a toy department standpoint, we are working.

1216
01:03:05,360 --> 01:03:08,560
Speaker 4: On MLK Day, at least on this show. You are,

1217
01:03:09,560 --> 01:03:12,960
Speaker 4: you'll be on your way already in are on location

1218
01:03:13,080 --> 01:03:14,880
Speaker 4: right following going to go for women's basketball.

1219
01:03:14,920 --> 01:03:18,320
Speaker 3: I will be between Seattle and Eugene. Oh, okay, So

1220
01:03:18,360 --> 01:03:19,080
Speaker 3: it's a two step.

1221
01:03:19,200 --> 01:03:22,640
Speaker 4: Yes, Seattle, Washington on Sunday, Okay, Oregon on Wednesday.

1222
01:03:22,680 --> 01:03:24,400
Speaker 2: So I think Blake Boorr will be with me Sunday

1223
01:03:24,440 --> 01:03:26,320
Speaker 2: and then again on Monday. I'm assuming we'll have Johnny

1224
01:03:26,360 --> 01:03:30,840
Speaker 2: Athletic on Monday and who knows what else, but we

1225
01:03:30,920 --> 01:03:32,600
Speaker 2: will be working on the holiday. I'm not sure our

1226
01:03:32,600 --> 01:03:34,520
Speaker 2: other show is working. I guess it all depends on

1227
01:03:34,560 --> 01:03:37,200
Speaker 2: the show. As far as I know, everybody is. Everybody's working.

1228
01:03:37,280 --> 01:03:39,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's how we roll around here.

1229
01:03:40,360 --> 01:03:42,040
Speaker 4: Well, then we get you know, the Beauty of is

1230
01:03:42,080 --> 01:03:44,240
Speaker 4: working on it, and then you get another day. That's

1231
01:03:44,280 --> 01:03:45,800
Speaker 4: what they tell us, what they say, at least that's

1232
01:03:45,800 --> 01:03:46,720
Speaker 4: the way it's supposed to go.

1233
01:03:47,640 --> 01:03:49,840
Speaker 2: So that's the lineup tonight and over the course of

1234
01:03:49,880 --> 01:03:52,680
Speaker 2: the what's supposed to be an incredibly frigid weekend. Right,

1235
01:03:52,720 --> 01:03:56,920
Speaker 2: a lot of below zero readings it's basically bear weather

1236
01:03:57,000 --> 01:04:00,960
Speaker 2: in Minnesota, or maybe it's Minnesota weather in Chicago as well,

1237
01:04:01,000 --> 01:04:01,960
Speaker 2: depending on your point of view.

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01:04:02,080 --> 01:04:04,680
Speaker 3: Thanks for watching today, Thank you indeed for.

1239
01:04:04,680 --> 01:04:08,400
Speaker 2: Listening, and we will talk to you Sunday morning at nine.

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01:04:08,520 --> 01:04:11,200
Speaker 4: If you ever go to Houston, gotta walk right, Gotta

1241
01:04:11,240 --> 01:04:13,200
Speaker 4: keep your hands deep in your pocket and your gun

1242
01:04:13,240 --> 01:04:13,800
Speaker 4: belt tight