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Speaker 1: Better late than ever. It's time for the buck o'ronda.

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Speaker 1: Pirates win eight to three today. That is two straight

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Speaker 1: Some odd lineup decisions by Donnie Kelly. While who is

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Speaker 3: Mangam did oh for five?

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Speaker 1: Reynolds had a big game home run, Cruz had a

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Speaker 1: York got in the lineup one for two. That probably

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Speaker 1: three coming home to face Baltimore in the PNC park

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Speaker 1: opener for the year on Friday. He will be down

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Speaker 1: doing something near the stadium. But me, and that's fine

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Speaker 1: by me. The Pirates won a Skeen start today, which

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Speaker 1: Skeens pitched only five innings seventy seven pitches. I get

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Speaker 1: It was four to three at one time after Sken's

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Speaker 1: somebody can answer this for me. The pirates have some

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Speaker 1: sort of traffic cone they hoist like the Stanley cup,

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Speaker 1: which I'm not sure if the occasion of the purpose.

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Speaker 1: Somebody tell me. At eight three to three four one

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Speaker 3: Perhaps some kind of orange erection.

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure exactly what's going on there, O'Neil Cruz

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Speaker 3: Gotta gotta happened that way.

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Speaker 1: Can't just rely on the new guys and those guys

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Speaker 1: continue to disappoint. Skis pitched pretty good today. How about

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Speaker 1: Chandler yesterday pitched a no hitter. That was last night

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Speaker 1: Chandler hit one hundred miles per hour and the first

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Speaker 1: hitter he faced this year. That max effort stuff that

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Speaker 1: Kurt Shilling talks about, where the pitcher needs to not

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Speaker 3: That's max effort.

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Speaker 1: Shilling talks about the need of ramping up to try

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Speaker 1: to avoid elbow problems. Bubba Chandler shows no interest in

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Speaker 1: wrapping up. I think his elbow's gonna fall off right

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Speaker 1: there on the mound someday, and that better late than never.

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Speaker 3: Is the Buco round up for Wednesday.

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Speaker 1: I'm glad to see the Pirates win, glad to see

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Speaker 1: him three and three coming home. That'll make for good

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Speaker 1: good are they? I don't know. You know what's funny?

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Speaker 1: Every time they win? You know, the people go nuts

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Speaker 1: every time they lose. Well, it's early. Every time Cruise

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Speaker 3: Got that.

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Speaker 1: And if you can't stick that traffic cone where the

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Speaker 4: Hey, what's up, super genius? I think that traffic killing.

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Speaker 5: I think, you know, baseball players, they should have fun.

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Speaker 1: No, I have no problem with the players, you know,

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Speaker 5: I don't know what it means.

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Speaker 2: I think if they're gonna go sixty two and a

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Speaker 3: They're three and three, let's go to Micah Mica. Oh

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Speaker 1: Good nay, sir, I said, good day.

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Speaker 6: So the traffic cone, I think it came from Fanatics

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Speaker 3: It was like a big error.

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Speaker 6: And it launched on the pier A shop for about

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Speaker 3: Yeah that's a little thin, don't you think.

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Speaker 6: I mean, yeah, but I guess that's directly what I

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Speaker 3: Every team has.

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Speaker 1: To have that ritual. And and one thing I've always said,

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Speaker 3: Case in point.

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Speaker 1: You know how when you score a goal in hockey,

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Speaker 3: They're trying to show, right. Well, well, if I.

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Speaker 3: Let's be the teams that's different. I would also if

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Speaker 1: And by the way, there's no hope of Sid doing that,

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Speaker 3: I think that's goofy.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I get rid of the cone.

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Speaker 3: Let's go to Scott. Scott, you're own with double.

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Speaker 6: M what what up?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I think the traffic count and the welderside.

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Speaker 6: It's almost like comical because the Pirates.

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Speaker 3: Franchise is so bad.

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Speaker 5: Kind of reminds me of the Cleveland Dog Pound.

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Speaker 3: No one's gonna take it serious.

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Speaker 1: It's just gonna laugh at you. That's a real good

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Speaker 1: point about the dog pun. Now, you can make the

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Speaker 3: But yeah, the dog pun. I mean, who cares about

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Speaker 1: They bark, they throw dog biscuits, but the Browns lose

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Speaker 3: I mean, why does it matter if they're rabbit fans?

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Speaker 1: I mean they follow a crap team.

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Speaker 3: Yep, it's just silly, honestly, thank you for the call.

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Speaker 3: But I would be the team that doesn't do that.

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Speaker 1: I'd be the team that doesn't need that ritual to

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Speaker 3: By the way, we've been talking about how if.

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Speaker 3: The home games.

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Speaker 1: I was told last night by somebody with the Penguins

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Speaker 1: But the NHL, NHL don't get it, never has your thoughts.

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Speaker 1: the right direction. But go home opener on Friday. Penguins

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Speaker 1: It's quite a story, quite amazing. Can they win a

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Speaker 1: Iron City Pittsburgh Brewing just over twenty eight Creighton Big Big, Big, Big,

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Speaker 1: game with the super genius. But yeah, boy, I really

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Speaker 3: That would be just.

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Speaker 1: So many bad things can happen, and they probably all would.

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Speaker 3: I'm serious.

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Speaker 1: If they're dumb enough to play a game Thursday night,

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Speaker 3: Doesn't have home ice.

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Speaker 1: Columbus would play games one and two at Columbus, game

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Speaker 3: But I think Flurry.

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Speaker 1: He might have gone back to back shutout in those

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Speaker 1: Okay, up NeXT's going to talk to Paul's ice to

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Speaker 1: and not my credibility. Cruise has always been a small

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Speaker 3: And what do you make of O'Neal cruise?

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Speaker 4: I think he just said it all right there. Okay,

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Speaker 1: Talk about him.

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Speaker 4: But he's always been a guy who gets hot for

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Speaker 4: So all I'm telling you is, I think, honestly, if

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Speaker 4: clearly what you saw today. You know, their a's going

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Speaker 4: That that should be their formula. But Mark, we're five

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Speaker 4: I just think some of these Pirates.

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Speaker 1: They pulled your shut up, you own an apology, and

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Speaker 4: Well that's what I said. I mean, I want to

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they make the whole entire season somewhat Uh. You know,

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Speaker 4: Well, that's happened, That's happened several times this year, where

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Speaker 1: of history in Edmonton, winning the junior a thing which

435
00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:01,600
Speaker 1: means nothing.

436
00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:03,359
Speaker 3: But you can talk yourself into stuff.

437
00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:06,520
Speaker 1: And it shouldn't be forgotten that the reason Dubius made

438
00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:08,760
Speaker 1: that deal. I mean, it was good to get Skinner

439
00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:11,440
Speaker 1: was primarily to get rid of Jarry's contract.

440
00:23:12,560 --> 00:23:15,040
Speaker 4: Well that's what I've mean, though, I'm talking about for

441
00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:19,120
Speaker 4: for Edmonton. From Edmonton's side, it made no sense. I mean,

442
00:23:19,119 --> 00:23:21,879
Speaker 4: I understand what what Edmonton was trying to do, but

443
00:23:21,920 --> 00:23:26,160
Speaker 4: to me, I don't. I mean, honestly, what about Tristan

444
00:23:26,280 --> 00:23:29,120
Speaker 4: Jarry's resume suggested he was the guy that was gonna

445
00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:31,160
Speaker 4: get you to the next level as a playoff team.

446
00:23:31,960 --> 00:23:33,959
Speaker 4: I just I just didn't understand that. I thought there

447
00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:37,240
Speaker 4: were other goalies you probably should have went after, but lessend,

448
00:23:37,280 --> 00:23:40,479
Speaker 4: Skinner is a guy, and for better or for worse,

449
00:23:40,640 --> 00:23:43,840
Speaker 4: I don't know that you can do much of anything

450
00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:48,840
Speaker 4: else at this late. You know, in the game, I'm

451
00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:51,080
Speaker 4: a minute you won those likes, the minute you won

452
00:23:51,160 --> 00:23:54,440
Speaker 4: those last two games, and Skinner played good last night,

453
00:23:54,520 --> 00:23:57,240
Speaker 4: it became too late to call up morrishoff, which I

454
00:23:57,240 --> 00:23:59,240
Speaker 4: don't think was ever in their plan anyway.

455
00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:02,840
Speaker 1: Barn injury Paul. We're talking to Paul's ice to post Casette,

456
00:24:03,119 --> 00:24:05,679
Speaker 1: I want to talk. Oh wait, I want to backtrack

457
00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:08,720
Speaker 1: to the Pirates for one second. I'm told the long

458
00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:13,200
Speaker 1: term deal for Griffin is a legit possibility. Why would

459
00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:15,119
Speaker 1: you do that if you're Connor Griffin. I've kind of

460
00:24:15,119 --> 00:24:17,720
Speaker 1: been asking everybody that today. I don't see. I mean,

461
00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:19,800
Speaker 1: I know it's a lot of guaranteed money. I also

462
00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:22,800
Speaker 1: know schemes would never do that because it'd be stuck

463
00:24:22,840 --> 00:24:26,880
Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh.

464
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Speaker 4: I'm gonna probably give a very unpopular opinion, but why

465
00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:35,679
Speaker 4: would you do that if you're the Pirates, Because at

466
00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:37,440
Speaker 4: the end of the day, you haven't seen this kid

467
00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:40,320
Speaker 4: play a single game of baseball. And if you give

468
00:24:40,359 --> 00:24:42,879
Speaker 4: him all that money, Okay, maybe he turns into a

469
00:24:42,880 --> 00:24:45,920
Speaker 4: superstar and now you've signed your superstar for relatively chief

470
00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:48,880
Speaker 4: and all that other good stuff. But to me, if

471
00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:51,159
Speaker 4: he isn't, that's the biggest pork chop you've ever going

472
00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:53,399
Speaker 4: to eat. And to me, when you're a team that

473
00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:56,520
Speaker 4: has limited resources, I mean, you've got control of this

474
00:24:56,560 --> 00:24:57,480
Speaker 4: guy for seven.

475
00:24:57,320 --> 00:24:59,479
Speaker 1: Years no matter what. So I don't know.

476
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Speaker 4: If you're the I'm not sure why you do that

477
00:25:01,800 --> 00:25:04,520
Speaker 4: other than public relations. To be honest, mark it doesn't

478
00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:06,720
Speaker 4: make a lot of sense. If you're a team that's

479
00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:08,919
Speaker 4: got money. Okay, I can see that, But to me,

480
00:25:09,080 --> 00:25:11,879
Speaker 4: the kid has never played a single game of baseball

481
00:25:11,920 --> 00:25:15,240
Speaker 4: in the major leagues. I don't know. If you're the Pirates,

482
00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:17,120
Speaker 4: you have the luxury of signing him to a deal

483
00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:19,400
Speaker 4: like that, maybe a year or two down the road.

484
00:25:19,440 --> 00:25:21,040
Speaker 4: If you see a little bit of something from him,

485
00:25:21,400 --> 00:25:25,400
Speaker 4: and you know he shows that he might be that guy, Okay,

486
00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:27,240
Speaker 4: then you make the deal. Maybe it costs you a

487
00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:29,959
Speaker 4: little bit more money, but if you're serious about, you know,

488
00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:33,920
Speaker 4: really what you're trying to do, a couple extra million

489
00:25:33,960 --> 00:25:36,320
Speaker 4: bucks every year isn't going to kill you if you

490
00:25:36,400 --> 00:25:39,639
Speaker 4: have a contract like that on your books and it

491
00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:42,719
Speaker 4: turns out he's no good. And and let's face it,

492
00:25:42,760 --> 00:25:47,639
Speaker 4: they haven't exactly been great at signing these kind of deals.

493
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Speaker 4: I mean, you had neck lips didn't really work out

494
00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:53,280
Speaker 4: that well. I guess Marte worked out okay, because it

495
00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:55,440
Speaker 4: worked out okay. But but at the end of the day,

496
00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:57,560
Speaker 4: you know they've tried to do it. I think Polonko,

497
00:25:57,800 --> 00:25:59,399
Speaker 4: I think they gave him one of these deals and

498
00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:01,520
Speaker 4: the course and work out that we all just say

499
00:26:01,560 --> 00:26:04,560
Speaker 4: it to me, I know everybody you know wants the

500
00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:07,440
Speaker 4: Pirates to make this kind of big splash move like that.

501
00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:10,800
Speaker 4: I just don't think it's in their best interest to

502
00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:13,360
Speaker 4: do it yet. I mean, I would wait a year,

503
00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:15,919
Speaker 4: or at least a year so I see what he's

504
00:26:15,960 --> 00:26:18,480
Speaker 4: actually gonna be in the major leagues before I decide

505
00:26:18,520 --> 00:26:20,640
Speaker 4: I'm going to do that. I know that's not popular,

506
00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:23,159
Speaker 4: because again, you know, everybody wants to talk, you know,

507
00:26:23,240 --> 00:26:26,160
Speaker 4: wants these big, big, big splash deals. I just don't see.

508
00:26:26,560 --> 00:26:28,199
Speaker 4: I don't think it's in the best interest of the

509
00:26:28,200 --> 00:26:29,360
Speaker 4: Pirates to do it right now.

510
00:26:29,440 --> 00:26:31,119
Speaker 3: To be honest, did you write that in to call him?

511
00:26:31,119 --> 00:26:32,240
Speaker 3: Because if you don't, I will.

512
00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:37,720
Speaker 4: Yeah, I have not. I have not, so you should. Yeah.

513
00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:40,199
Speaker 1: No, you're you're one hundred percent right. I mean, what

514
00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:42,000
Speaker 1: if he's no good and you do have time? And

515
00:26:42,680 --> 00:26:45,399
Speaker 1: it reminds it reminds me of like like you alluded to,

516
00:26:45,760 --> 00:26:48,480
Speaker 1: you're doing something for the sake of a big splash,

517
00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:52,480
Speaker 1: and and and like you know, if you can't keep Skeens.

518
00:26:52,960 --> 00:26:54,639
Speaker 1: This might sound dumb, and I'm not even sure what

519
00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:56,399
Speaker 1: I mean, but if you can't keep Skiens, what's the

520
00:26:56,440 --> 00:26:59,080
Speaker 1: point in keeping Griffin, You're probably better off just doing

521
00:26:59,240 --> 00:26:59,960
Speaker 1: like you've been in.

522
00:27:00,320 --> 00:27:03,000
Speaker 3: But trying to bunch up guys like like they're doing right.

523
00:27:02,920 --> 00:27:07,919
Speaker 4: Now, right exactly, I mean again, it doesn't make a

524
00:27:07,920 --> 00:27:11,040
Speaker 4: lot of sense. And you know they're keeps skates, So

525
00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:14,119
Speaker 4: to me, you know, watch skates for another year and

526
00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:16,200
Speaker 4: then trade them for you know, a bunch of prospects.

527
00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:21,080
Speaker 4: But you have Connor Griffin under control for seven years,

528
00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:23,800
Speaker 4: Like what what? Why do you why do you want

529
00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:26,000
Speaker 4: to give yourself? You know, we'll get yourself all tied

530
00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:27,800
Speaker 4: up in a huge contract. It doesn't make a lot

531
00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:31,800
Speaker 4: of sense. So especially when even if you did give

532
00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:33,640
Speaker 4: him that deal, there's a good chance four or five

533
00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:35,760
Speaker 4: years into it you're probably looking to trade him too

534
00:27:35,800 --> 00:27:36,840
Speaker 4: to get the money off the books.

535
00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:40,600
Speaker 1: Anyway, now I want to talk about Rogers before we

536
00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:44,240
Speaker 1: wrap up, because now the latest story is Mike Florio

537
00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:47,359
Speaker 1: thinks that the Broncos are interested in Rogers because bo

538
00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:50,280
Speaker 1: Nix won't be ready for week one. I'll be blunt.

539
00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:53,560
Speaker 1: I think Florio was flat out making that up because

540
00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:56,920
Speaker 1: it makes sense to him. But but it would be

541
00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:58,119
Speaker 1: hilarious if it happened.

542
00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:04,800
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean again, I gotta kick my yesterday Mike

543
00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:07,879
Speaker 4: McCarthy talking about Will Howard, and you know how he

544
00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:10,520
Speaker 4: wouldn't have been on the board. If Mike McCarthy was

545
00:28:10,600 --> 00:28:12,359
Speaker 4: around when he was, he would have been. You know,

546
00:28:13,200 --> 00:28:17,080
Speaker 4: my question is, why are all these guys always like

547
00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:19,520
Speaker 4: trying to convince us that they're the only guy that

548
00:28:19,760 --> 00:28:24,520
Speaker 4: saw something in somebody when you know all those teams

549
00:28:24,560 --> 00:28:26,760
Speaker 4: passed on him six times. You know, at the end

550
00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:29,160
Speaker 4: of the day, that's who Will Howard is. But hey,

551
00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:32,480
Speaker 4: if you really believe that, then, as I wrote my

552
00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:36,399
Speaker 4: column today, make Will Howard's your guy. But the Aaron

553
00:28:36,480 --> 00:28:39,960
Speaker 4: Rodgers thing, again, it's just sort of more of the

554
00:28:41,000 --> 00:28:44,360
Speaker 4: of the idea mark that you know, we'd rather be

555
00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:46,560
Speaker 4: a nine or ten win team and just piece it

556
00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:49,360
Speaker 4: together and flop it together just enough and then hope

557
00:28:49,400 --> 00:28:52,080
Speaker 4: we get lucky in the playoffs rather than rebuild this

558
00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:54,280
Speaker 4: thing the right way. That's just more of the same.

559
00:28:54,440 --> 00:28:57,360
Speaker 4: So you know, if they wait for three or four

560
00:28:57,360 --> 00:29:00,080
Speaker 4: weeks for Aaron Rodgers and he signed somewhere else, that

561
00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:01,560
Speaker 4: would be hilarious.

562
00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:05,200
Speaker 1: Do you think the hold up with Rogers could possibly

563
00:29:05,240 --> 00:29:07,680
Speaker 1: be money, as Charlie bats conjectured.

564
00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:12,840
Speaker 4: No, I just think he likes the attention. I mean,

565
00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:17,560
Speaker 4: there doesn't seem to be any any indication that he's

566
00:29:17,560 --> 00:29:19,520
Speaker 4: not going to sign with the Pirates, right. I don't

567
00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:22,480
Speaker 4: know that anybody the Pirates, the Steelers. Yeah, I don't

568
00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:25,040
Speaker 4: think anybody out there believes that, you know, he's gonna

569
00:29:25,080 --> 00:29:26,920
Speaker 4: wait two or three weeks and then retire or wait

570
00:29:26,920 --> 00:29:29,520
Speaker 4: two or three weeks sign somewhere else. But I think

571
00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:33,040
Speaker 4: he just enjoys the attention a little bit. I do.

572
00:29:33,160 --> 00:29:34,040
Speaker 4: He's that kind of guy.

573
00:29:34,080 --> 00:29:35,040
Speaker 1: He's a he's a.

574
00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:37,360
Speaker 4: Little bit of a diva who likes to be somebody

575
00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:40,120
Speaker 4: who is, uh, you know, at the forefront of what

576
00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:42,880
Speaker 4: people are talking about, because ultimately, the Steelers have already

577
00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:44,440
Speaker 4: told him what he's gonna make. He knows what he's

578
00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:46,520
Speaker 4: gonna make, you know what I mean. They basically said,

579
00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:47,920
Speaker 4: we have X for you. This is what we have.

580
00:29:48,280 --> 00:29:51,320
Speaker 4: I'm sure. I'm sure there's not any negotiation that needs

581
00:29:51,320 --> 00:29:51,800
Speaker 4: to be done.

582
00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:57,160
Speaker 1: Getting back to that Denver thing, like like why would

583
00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:59,040
Speaker 1: he go there if he's gonna get benched for bow

584
00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:01,920
Speaker 1: Nicks when Nicks is and if he doesn't get bench

585
00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:04,000
Speaker 1: for bow Knicks, why would bow Knicks put up with that?

586
00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:06,080
Speaker 1: After what he did for the Broncos last year.

587
00:30:07,360 --> 00:30:10,920
Speaker 4: Right, it doesn't make sense. It seems like that would

588
00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:12,920
Speaker 4: be the least likely of places for him to go,

589
00:30:13,960 --> 00:30:15,680
Speaker 4: just because they have a guy who will be ready,

590
00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:18,320
Speaker 4: who's their quote quote unquote quarterback in the future. It

591
00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:21,080
Speaker 4: just took him to the ANFC championship game. You're not

592
00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:23,760
Speaker 4: going to bring in somebody. First of all, he's, like

593
00:30:23,800 --> 00:30:25,960
Speaker 4: you said, he's not going to sign somewhere where he's

594
00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:28,240
Speaker 4: not going to be the question starter for the whole year.

595
00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:31,800
Speaker 4: And they're not going to bring in somebody that doesn't

596
00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:34,320
Speaker 4: understand that bow Knicks is Listen, you might keep the

597
00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:36,360
Speaker 4: seat warm for three or four weeks, but Boone Knicks

598
00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:39,760
Speaker 4: is our guy. So it really, Denver, it just doesn't

599
00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:42,440
Speaker 4: even make sense unless there's some thing out there that

600
00:30:42,480 --> 00:30:46,680
Speaker 4: we don't know that bow Knicks is out for the year. Uh.

601
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Speaker 1: Before we wrap up, Paul, I want to talk about

602
00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:52,600
Speaker 1: the possibility that the Penguins could have home playoff games

603
00:30:53,080 --> 00:30:56,360
Speaker 1: the same days that the NHL drafted. The NFL draft

604
00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:59,959
Speaker 1: is here. What could be done to I mean, the NHL,

605
00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:02,920
Speaker 1: I've been told won't move the games that'll make an

606
00:31:02,960 --> 00:31:05,920
Speaker 1: excrement show into an even bigger Excreman show.

607
00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:10,760
Speaker 4: I heard you talking about it earlier. I think your

608
00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:12,960
Speaker 4: solution about playing out on Route eight might be the

609
00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:17,920
Speaker 4: best one. I don't know how you mark. They're gonna

610
00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:20,880
Speaker 4: have streets closed, They're gonna have you know who whole

611
00:31:21,040 --> 00:31:24,920
Speaker 4: you know, basically whole areas of the city closed, not

612
00:31:25,040 --> 00:31:27,200
Speaker 4: to mention the fact that all of the hotel rooms

613
00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:29,320
Speaker 4: are pretty much sold out now and the ones that

614
00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:31,080
Speaker 4: aren't are like fifteen hundred a night.

615
00:31:31,120 --> 00:31:31,400
Speaker 5: Now.

616
00:31:32,360 --> 00:31:35,280
Speaker 4: I don't know how you make that work at all.

617
00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:39,160
Speaker 4: I just think, you know, the NHL really really needs

618
00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:42,240
Speaker 4: to start thinking about that, because the bottom line is

619
00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:45,720
Speaker 4: anything going on that week is gonna be totally just,

620
00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:49,120
Speaker 4: I mean impossible to pull off with all of those

621
00:31:49,160 --> 00:31:52,080
Speaker 4: people in town and all the logistical nightmares that we're

622
00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:53,200
Speaker 4: already looking at.

623
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Speaker 1: I think when the draft is done, I think Art

624
00:31:58,040 --> 00:31:59,400
Speaker 1: Rooney'll be glad it was here.

625
00:31:59,840 --> 00:32:02,640
Speaker 3: I think certain business owners will be glad it was here.

626
00:32:03,080 --> 00:32:06,080
Speaker 1: I think the general populace of Pittsburgh will have great regrets.

627
00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:08,840
Speaker 4: What say you, Yeah, I agree, I agree with you.

628
00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:10,720
Speaker 4: I think it's one of those things where most people

629
00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:13,280
Speaker 4: will be like, yeah, it's a great idea, but let's

630
00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:15,720
Speaker 4: never do that again. I think that's pretty much where

631
00:32:15,720 --> 00:32:18,360
Speaker 4: people are gonna be at because it's it's I just

632
00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:22,040
Speaker 4: can't imagine, you know, I just little think like I

633
00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:24,960
Speaker 4: was like reading one of these stories about all Uber

634
00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:27,400
Speaker 4: drivers were excited about, you know, the draft, and I'm

635
00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:31,040
Speaker 4: thinking of myself, where are you driving people like You're

636
00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:33,320
Speaker 4: not gonna be able to get anywhere. You're gonna be

637
00:32:33,360 --> 00:32:36,640
Speaker 4: sitting in traffic and stuck in traffic everywhere where. Exactly

638
00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:38,040
Speaker 4: do you think you're gonna make all this money?

639
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:39,840
Speaker 1: I agree with you.

640
00:32:39,920 --> 00:32:41,400
Speaker 4: I just think it's gonna be one of those things

641
00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:43,760
Speaker 4: when we all say that was nice, but let's not

642
00:32:43,840 --> 00:32:44,400
Speaker 4: do that again.

643
00:32:44,520 --> 00:32:47,640
Speaker 1: It's amazing, though, the power the NFL has, Paul, I

644
00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:51,520
Speaker 1: know if you heard this. They are closing all the

645
00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:54,680
Speaker 1: buildings on the North Shore. I don't know what Sports

646
00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:56,880
Speaker 1: said Pittsburgh is gonna do because the people won't be

647
00:32:56,920 --> 00:32:59,120
Speaker 1: able to get in the building. They're trying to work

648
00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:02,520
Speaker 1: that out. They're closing the rivers. Like I had the

649
00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:05,520
Speaker 1: bright idea I'm doing my show from Sherton Station Square

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Speaker 1: We'll talk again next week.

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Speaker 4: All right, thanks man, We'll see you.

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Speaker 1: lot of things right now, this show not least, and

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Speaker 1: for the draft, shutting down the Rivers, shutting down a

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Speaker 3: It'll be impossible to get around.

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Speaker 1: That might be compounded by the NHL having playoff games

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Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh the same days. If the Penguins make the

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Speaker 1: ie advantage, it's no problem. Games one, two, and five

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Speaker 1: will sandwich the NFL Draft here in Pittsburgh. But if

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Speaker 1: they don't get home ice and they have to play

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Speaker 1: games three and four, they'll be dead up against the draft,

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Speaker 1: which will be logistically impossible between hotel rooms and traffic

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Speaker 1: and the crowds will be done because people in Pittsburgh

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Speaker 1: gonna pay attention to the draft over the NHL playoffs.

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Speaker 1: And that's a pathetically sad absolute fact. So anyway, but

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Speaker 1: Andrews Stocking from Channel four tweeting pirates fans, pirates fans,

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Speaker 1: We'll be facing two challenges for opening day at PNC Park,

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Speaker 1: the closure of gold Blot number one for the NFL

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Speaker 1: Draft stage and the closure of West General Robinson Street

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Speaker 3: The draft is still how many weeks away?

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Speaker 1: Over three weeks away, and stuff is already being closed

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Speaker 1: on the North Shore, and it's gonna affect pirate traffic,

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Speaker 1: going to effect people going to the home opener the NFL.

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Speaker 1: God damn the pusher Man. It's just too powerful, and

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Speaker 1: I think it sucks and it's boring and clichde in anything.

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Speaker 1: Twenty four seven, three sixty five becomes boring in cliched

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Speaker 1: if I didn't have to watch it. I've never watched

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Speaker 1: another game f the NFL. And they're gonna f to

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Speaker 1: flag football players too, which will be just some kind

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Speaker 1: of pathetic effing. Let's go to John, John, What do

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Speaker 1: you want? John?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, what's up souder genius. Hey, first of all, the

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Speaker 4: Tiger Woods, What's what's what's his move here?

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Speaker 1: I think he's a pathetic pill head. He should go

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Speaker 1: away and never be heard from again. I'm tired of him.

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Speaker 1: I'm tired of this. I'm tired of him getting off

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Speaker 1: Scott free with all his crap.

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Speaker 3: Let's go to.

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Speaker 1: Jeff Hey, Mark, Jeff there, I am, I am Mark.

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Speaker 4: I just called to ask you a question. Please give

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Speaker 4: me a chance.

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Speaker 7: I called last week and talked about Chronic Griffin's uh

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Speaker 7: contract proposal, about and and you know.

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Speaker 3: And I said, and I said, you were nuts.

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Speaker 1: And now I'm wrong, and you want to bask in

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Speaker 1: the glory of me being wrong? Is that right? No? Gee,

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Speaker 1: I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry.

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Speaker 5: That is not why I'm calling you.

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Speaker 2: When they get to the point, okay, I would, I

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Speaker 2: was getting there, but you interrupted me.

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Speaker 3: I thought we just hang up on you.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to James James Rung with double M.

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Speaker 5: Hey, Hey, Mark, are you doing great? I was wondering,

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Speaker 5: I was one what you thought about Italy losing out

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Speaker 5: yesterday in World Cup qualify.

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Speaker 1: I talked about that earlier in the show. There are

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Speaker 1: eight nations in only eight that have ever won a

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Speaker 1: World Cup. They should get automatic qualification in perpetuity, kind

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Speaker 1: of like golfers who win the Masters. I don't think

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Speaker 1: it's a World Cup without Italy. That said, they've made

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Speaker 1: their own bed and now they have to lie down

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Speaker 1: because they've failed to qualify for not just this World Cup,

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Speaker 1: but the two before that, three in a row.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it kind of sucks, doesn't it though, that all

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Speaker 5: of the good teams are really in Europe and they're

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Speaker 5: taking a bunch of bozo teams out of Africa and

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Speaker 5: hold it.

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Speaker 3: There's a lot of really good teams in Africa.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to see Morocco in Scotland and I think

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Speaker 1: Scotland is a clear cut underdog in that one that'll

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Speaker 1: be at Foxboro. But do I think I think there

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Speaker 1: are too many teams in it in the first place,

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Speaker 1: there's forty eight teams. But don't forget one of the

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Speaker 1: purposes of the World Cup is to take football everywhere,

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Speaker 1: not just you know, to the traditional nations and those

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Speaker 1: who have won. And although I wouldn't make an exception

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Speaker 1: for all eight winners, but it's like the NCAA tournament.

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Speaker 1: Are you getting the best sixty eight teams? Probably not?

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Speaker 1: But are you taking basketball everywhere? Yes? And is any

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Speaker 1: team that could win it that could win the tournament

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Speaker 1: in the tournament. The answer is yes. Same with the

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Speaker 1: World Cup. If Italy couldn't qualify, they're not going to

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Speaker 1: win the freaking World Cup. So every team that could

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Speaker 1: win it is in it. Thanks, thank you, good call.

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Speaker 3: Let's go to Roddington Rodding to What's up?

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Speaker 1: What up?

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Speaker 4: Man? What up?

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Speaker 1: Hey?

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Speaker 4: Mark?

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Speaker 1: Hey Mark?

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Speaker 2: You're awake in one eighty weight loss.

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Speaker 8: Journey inspired me to lose some weight. I was a

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Speaker 8: a month.

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Speaker 2: How are you doing, I just wanted to I'm on

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Speaker 2: I'm doing on keto and working out every day, so

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Speaker 2: about thirteen hundred calories a day, no carbs, and working

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Speaker 2: at the gym at least for over an hour a day.

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Speaker 1: Well, like I said, I'm grateful to awake in one eighty.

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Speaker 1: It's it's worth the price, So I recommend that you

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Alex.

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Speaker 4: What I mean? What up?

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Speaker 9: What I mean?

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Speaker 4: Uh?

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Speaker 9: I was watching TV last night and I saw a

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Speaker 9: commercial come on TV for Trevago. Have you seen those?

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Speaker 3: Is that a weight loss in like one of the shots.

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Speaker 9: No, it's like a travel agency website like Expedia. Oh,

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Speaker 9: stuff like that.

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Speaker 3: Well that's very different.

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Speaker 9: On there.

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Speaker 3: Oh okay, I do know what you're talking about.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, okay, yeah, no, I wondered if you saw it.

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Speaker 9: I was like, Wow, he's he's really getting out there

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Speaker 9: now her coop.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well he's done. He's got that memorable face with

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Speaker 1: ying yang. So I don't think those commercials are going

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Speaker 1: to win, you know, an Oscar. But I'm a bigger

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Speaker 1: fan of very few people in sports history really in

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Speaker 1: my entire lifetime, any line of work, sports, music, whatever,

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Speaker 1: than Jurgen Klop because when he took over Liverpool, he

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Speaker 1: allowed me to see things I would never thought i'd

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Speaker 3: So so yeah, I'm a big cop supporter.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Michael Michael Astmark anything, Hey, Mark, I was.

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Speaker 7: I was the one that called you last week about

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Speaker 7: the conflict between the draft and the playoffs, right, something

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Speaker 7: else I was thinking about too, a logistical issue for

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Speaker 7: the playoff games.

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Speaker 5: If they don't move the games and they actually have

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Speaker 5: them during the draft, you know what, where are the

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Speaker 5: visiting team, whether it's Islanders, Blue.

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Speaker 1: Jackets, whoever?

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Speaker 5: Where are what hotel are they going.

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Speaker 9: To stay at?

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Speaker 5: Also?

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Speaker 7: How are both teams going to get to the arena?

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Speaker 7: How's the media going to get to the arena? How's

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Speaker 7: the broadcast team going to get there? Where are they

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Speaker 7: going to?

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Speaker 1: Staysburgh, Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 3: You're right, and Pittsburgh shouldn't have the draft.

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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh is a team, is a town divided by three

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Speaker 1: rivers and barricaded by mountains. It makes no sense to

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Speaker 1: have that many extra people here, none whatsoever, just because

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Speaker 1: it's Dan Rooney's dream. He's not around anymore. He doesn't

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Speaker 1: know what's happening. Let's go to yinjurlyon.

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Speaker 9: What's up?

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Speaker 4: Man?

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Speaker 9: What up? I?

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Speaker 10: Yeah, you're talking about the NFL being twenty four seven,

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Speaker 10: three sixty five. And another part of that is why

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Speaker 10: are we now having games on Wednesday Thursday? Friday, Saturday, Monday.

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Speaker 10: I mean, when is it gonna be enough games on

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Speaker 10: days of the week.

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Speaker 1: I have no problem with Monday, but I thought the

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Speaker 1: ideal model was games at one o'clock and four o'clock

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Speaker 1: Sunday and then Monday night football and that's it. But

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Speaker 1: you watch, they're gonna have more and more games on

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Speaker 1: Saturday because now that the now that NIL has infiltrated

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Speaker 1: college football, it's kind of a competing pro league. You

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Speaker 1: have guys passing up the NFL to stay there because

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Speaker 1: the ni OL money will be higher. Like that, all

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Speaker 1: miss quarterback, So so the NFL is not going to

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Speaker 1: take kindly to that, although they'll do so quietly, and

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Speaker 1: eventually they'll be having games every Saturday.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, and like having these international games on what Thursday

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Speaker 10: to open.

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Speaker 1: The you know, you know why, because the networks want it,

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Speaker 1: the advertisers want it. I don't want it. I don't

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Speaker 1: know if many fans really want it, but they'll watch

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Speaker 1: it because they do it by road.

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Speaker 3: They feel obligated.

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Speaker 10: I don't think many fans want to.

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Speaker 5: Do But hey, rake that cash in.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's more to this than cash. I've learned that

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Speaker 1: over my years.

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Speaker 4: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: For the call. We got Tony and rich on hold.

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Speaker 1: We'll get to them in a second.

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Speaker 3: One over,