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Speaker 1: greatest coaching performance in sports history. Now this isn't about

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Speaker 1: By the way, Cheryl Reeve is on this list, but

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Speaker 1: from the world of hockey, he throws out Mike Keenan.

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Speaker 1: Let me read you what he writes. With the Rangers.

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Speaker 1: You'd think Keenan would be hockey hero for showing up

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Speaker 1: after an ugly public feud with Rangers management, Tarnish has

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Speaker 1: Keenan spends one year as the Rangers coach, takes over

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Speaker 1: Would that be an example of a mythic coaching run

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Speaker 3: I covered Mike for a while in Florida, and so

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Speaker 3: I think that there's a big theory with that Rangers

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Speaker 3: But I don't know. I mean, you know, it's so

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Speaker 3: Olympia for the second time.

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Speaker 2: By the way, So we how many games we got

435
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Speaker 2: left before the break? Is it eight? Seven?

436
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Speaker 3: Yeah? You know what, I'm not even positive because I

437
00:20:34,040 --> 00:20:36,679
Speaker 3: lived so early. I'm missing like three or four games

438
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Speaker 3: before the of the Wild. But they got a three

439
00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:42,760
Speaker 3: game homestand coming up. So yeah, it's about it's about

440
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Speaker 3: seven or eight.

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Speaker 1: So it's obviously Montreal tonight. That's why we're out at

442
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Speaker 1: six o'clock. So we've had this little dip right now.

443
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Speaker 1: We had you know, we were just coming off of victory,

444
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Speaker 1: but we had the little dip after the hot streak.

445
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Speaker 2: Do we need do you view this next stretch?

446
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Speaker 1: Whatever the number of games is that's left before the

447
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Speaker 1: break as crucial sort of re establishing that that was

448
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Speaker 1: a minor blip in a long season because that's just

449
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Speaker 1: the nature of it. Or am I overplaying the significance

450
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Speaker 1: of how we finish up before.

451
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Speaker 3: The break now? I mean, I don't know if crucial

452
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Speaker 3: because they've banked so many points. I hear what you're saying,

453
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Speaker 3: and you know, the only thing I will tell you

454
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Speaker 3: is and it's amazing to me with the number of

455
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Speaker 3: guys that they have out of the line of the I mean,

456
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Speaker 3: they're missing their line to the third game in a row,

457
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Speaker 3: and Brodean and Bogosian and yet the game in Buffalo

458
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Speaker 3: and the game in Toronto last time. In Toronto last

459
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Speaker 3: night was a clinic. The Wild were exceptional in the

460
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Speaker 3: first two periods. And in Buffalo I thought they outplayed

461
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Speaker 3: the Savers for the most part, and that was a

462
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Speaker 3: hot And these are two red hot teams by the way,

463
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Speaker 3: Toronto and Buffalo that they beat. So I think that's uplisting.

464
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Speaker 3: They've gotten back to the structure. What I liked about

465
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Speaker 3: the gaming in Toronto is that they're you know, they

466
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Speaker 3: they're putting, they defended playing offense, they were barely hemmed

467
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Speaker 3: into their own and puffs in the net with traffic.

468
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Speaker 3: So they're looking much more like themselves. So yeah, while

469
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Speaker 3: I was getting a little bit concerned, you know, during

470
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Speaker 3: that little stretch where they weren't winning, especially after a

471
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Speaker 3: winless three game homestand I do think that that you know,

472
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Speaker 3: they're in just in the dog days in the season

473
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Speaker 3: right now, these guys are I know fans don't want

474
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Speaker 3: to hear it, but they've played a lot of hockey.

475
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Speaker 3: These guys are tired. Just because you're in the lineup

476
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Speaker 3: doesn't mean you're one hundred percent. You know, there's a

477
00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:27,360
Speaker 3: lot there's a reason why this team barely practices right now,

478
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Speaker 3: and no teams are because the grind of the season.

479
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Speaker 3: And I just think they sort of went through that

480
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Speaker 3: that dog day season. So I think the biggest test

481
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Speaker 3: the rest of the way, because it looks like an

482
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Speaker 3: absolute chewing that they're going to make the playoffs, is

483
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Speaker 3: that is just keeping that motivation up to keep on

484
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Speaker 3: gathering points in the standings and and and and you know,

485
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Speaker 3: just kind of refining their game going in the playoffs.

486
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Speaker 3: And we'll see what Bill Garon does to add to

487
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Speaker 3: uh to this roster. I'm convinced he's going to at

488
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Speaker 3: some point. But I do think that this team has

489
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Speaker 3: has really earned the right to have Bill Gary and

490
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Speaker 3: go out there and try to make a move. And

491
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Speaker 3: especially just watching Quinn Hughes on an every night basis now,

492
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Speaker 3: it is really apparent to me how special this guy

493
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Speaker 3: is and how much he truly can with the star

494
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Speaker 3: power of guys like Favor and Boldi and capricef and

495
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Speaker 3: Arisonak really lift this team in the playoffs. And so

496
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Speaker 3: I think that's the big the biggest difference maker now.

497
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Speaker 3: If they can add a forward or two, especially one

498
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Speaker 3: up the middle, I think that this team could really

499
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Speaker 3: be primed to do something special. Even knowing that you

500
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Speaker 3: got to play Dallas in Colorado most likely?

501
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Speaker 1: What do you know about what it looks to me

502
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Speaker 1: to be some sort of ongoing grievance between Falness and

503
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Speaker 1: Brett blakemore who's in today again for Guarzie having to do?

504
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Speaker 2: Did I miss something? Is there a piece of this

505
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Speaker 2: I'm missing?

506
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Speaker 1: Regarding the Felino hat trick, Was there some attempt to

507
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Speaker 1: mock you?

508
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Speaker 3: I thought maybe Brett could chime in. I thought Brett

509
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Speaker 3: said that it was Gorgon that was going after my fondness.

510
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Speaker 2: I see, okay, but it's really yeah, okay.

511
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Speaker 4: Yeah, Gorgy really doesn't like that I that you take

512
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Speaker 4: dare I criticize game?

513
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Speaker 3: Yeah, to Brett's to Brett's defense, you know, Marcus hasn't

514
00:24:14,600 --> 00:24:18,280
Speaker 3: had a good year and and but you know, he's

515
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Speaker 3: not at a point at all that they should ever

516
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Speaker 3: take him out of lineup. They also have him in

517
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Speaker 3: the lineup and Hartman and these guys in the lineup

518
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Speaker 3: to make their money when it counts in the playoffs,

519
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Speaker 3: and both them, by the way, had great playoffs last year.

520
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Speaker 3: So but Marcus hasn't had a good year. He hasn't

521
00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:36,960
Speaker 3: looked himself. He looked much more like himself lately. That's

522
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Speaker 3: been great on the penalty kill. And the other thing

523
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Speaker 3: is like I I even though he wasn't gathering points

524
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Speaker 3: in the month of November before he heard himself in

525
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Speaker 3: in uh in Chicago. You know when the Wild really

526
00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:49,760
Speaker 3: turned their season around, it was starting it was him

527
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Speaker 3: really bringing the physical identity that he that we've grown

528
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Speaker 3: accustomed to seeing from him, and he really I think

529
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Speaker 3: helped pull this team together in that month. And so

530
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Speaker 3: they're always going to give him the best up bit

531
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Speaker 3: of the doubt, you know, but I I you know,

532
00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:04,879
Speaker 3: I drove from Buffalo to Toronto the other day and

533
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Speaker 3: I talked to Bill Garin for about a half hour,

534
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Speaker 3: and that was probably Marcus's best game of the season

535
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Speaker 3: until last night. And even Mark, even Billy, said that's

536
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Speaker 3: the Marcus would be all grown to know and love.

537
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Speaker 3: So when he says that that, that tells me that

538
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Speaker 3: even Billy is seeing that Marcus hasn't been himself, especially

539
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Speaker 3: since he's been back in the lineup from the injury.

540
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Speaker 3: And now, you know, hopefully the last couple of games

541
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Speaker 3: can be something that he could build on and and

542
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Speaker 3: start to play much better hockey.

543
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Speaker 2: When do you head, uh to the old country or

544
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Speaker 2: across the pond?

545
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Speaker 3: Two weeks from I believe yesterday coming up? Okay, yeah,

546
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Speaker 3: looking forward to it. I'll be there for I think

547
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Speaker 3: three full weeks.

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Speaker 1: Nice outstanding, Well, we'll talk obviously before then. Thanks for

549
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Speaker 1: the time.

550
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Speaker 2: Is always be good yea, And yeah.

551
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Speaker 3: We could definitely do some shows over there too.

552
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Speaker 1: That's the planks man, that's Rusco Radio.

553
00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:55,360
Speaker 2: Kind enough to join us. You can put them on hold.

554
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Speaker 1: I don't know if my the phone bank here isn't

555
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Speaker 1: working or what exactly is happening?

556
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Speaker 2: It seems all very confused us to me.

557
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Speaker 1: We went long with Russo, but I am determined to

558
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Speaker 1: have the five twenty sports fix at about five thirty five.

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Speaker 2: Can you handle that? And you got you doc and

560
00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:13,240
Speaker 2: do that? What's your uh? What do you want to

561
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Speaker 2: tease with? Today?

562
00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:16,760
Speaker 4: We will try to make fauns happy despite the hockey talk.

563
00:26:16,800 --> 00:26:20,080
Speaker 4: We'll talk Wolves Naddy and some Brown's coaching rumors.

564
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Speaker 3: Fan.

565
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Speaker 5: Just in case you missed it, it's the top five

566
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Speaker 5: sports tagers of the day. Now it's time for Dan

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Speaker 2: All right, it's all up to you.

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Speaker 1: The five to twenty sports fix has never been later

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Speaker 1: five thirty five.

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Speaker 3: Time now for.

574
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Speaker 5: The obligatory Kevin Fallness Minnesota Wild mention.

575
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Speaker 4: Not even having Russo radio on for a hour will

576
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Speaker 4: stop me from leading with your Minnesota Wild. You'll hear

577
00:27:04,320 --> 00:27:06,960
Speaker 4: it right after we're done six o'clock. The Wild and

578
00:27:07,040 --> 00:27:10,600
Speaker 4: the Habs in Montreal very similar records. The habs of

579
00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:12,960
Speaker 4: really good talented players, so it will be a good test.

580
00:27:13,320 --> 00:27:17,119
Speaker 4: Walstatt Valstett is in the net tonight for your wild

581
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Speaker 4: who needs a bounce back game after his last showing.

582
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Speaker 2: I'm excited.

583
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Speaker 4: I it was a great performance from Felino, who I

584
00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:29,440
Speaker 4: think is just an all around fantastic human being, and

585
00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:32,640
Speaker 4: getting his first career hat trick. We love seeing that.

586
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Speaker 4: And I agree with Russo pretty much on everything, but

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00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:39,920
Speaker 4: that Caprice off. While he's getting more points and he's

588
00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:42,040
Speaker 4: taking more and more steps in the right direction, I'm

589
00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:44,960
Speaker 4: not ripping even coming close to ripping Caprice off.

590
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Speaker 1: But you know, even if you're not sayingline no, not

591
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Speaker 1: at all, and I still defend his contract, but I

592
00:27:51,359 --> 00:27:54,360
Speaker 1: do think that he could be playing better, and he's

593
00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:57,200
Speaker 1: not to the potential that we know he's capable of reaching.

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Speaker 1: I don't think anybody can or should disagree with that.

595
00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:03,760
Speaker 1: And this, Andered that's part of superstar status. You're going

596
00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:06,600
Speaker 1: to be graded on a much tougher curve, an unforgiving curve.

597
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Speaker 1: That's just sort of the way it works. We'll see,

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Speaker 1: you know, I am curious to see. The assumption is

599
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Speaker 1: because he gets the time off during the break, that

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00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:18,920
Speaker 1: maybe that refreshes him more than all the players who

601
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Speaker 1: are participating in the Olympics. We'll see whether indeed that

602
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Speaker 1: takes place, but I think we'll all agree that if

603
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Speaker 1: the Wild are going to give themselves the best chance

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Speaker 1: to make this a memorable season beyond the regular season,

605
00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:35,080
Speaker 1: you're going to this version of capriceov is not good enough.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, unless unless you make a giant splash for a

607
00:28:38,720 --> 00:28:39,680
Speaker 4: well top center.

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00:28:40,200 --> 00:28:42,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, we talked about it. Yeah, correct.

609
00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:44,640
Speaker 4: So big game for the Wild against a good team

610
00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:46,640
Speaker 4: in Montreal, on the back end of a back to back,

611
00:28:46,760 --> 00:28:50,880
Speaker 4: so plenty of room for excuses with injuries, but lately

612
00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:54,120
Speaker 4: they have not taken those excuses and played hard on

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Speaker 4: the other side of the winter sports things which you

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00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:57,920
Speaker 4: will hear the Wild, you hear right here on the fan.

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00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:00,960
Speaker 4: After the Wild will join the tim Wolves in progress.

616
00:29:00,960 --> 00:29:03,760
Speaker 4: They are in Utah to take on the Bad Jazz,

617
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Speaker 4: who are fourteen and twenty nine.

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00:29:07,000 --> 00:29:07,800
Speaker 2: This could be a.

619
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Speaker 4: Game where the Wolves dive into old habits and go, well,

620
00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:14,240
Speaker 4: this team's not very good, the record's not very good.

621
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Speaker 4: We should be able to roll into Utah and just

622
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Speaker 4: assert our will so well, thank you interested.

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Speaker 1: And Utah is weird and if you play that way,

624
00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:24,240
Speaker 1: they can beat you. They have enough people that they

625
00:29:24,280 --> 00:29:27,320
Speaker 1: can get the thing done. I don't know where we

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Speaker 1: are health wise. Is rudy Okay Yet we had not

627
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Speaker 1: to read played only five minutes I think the last game,

628
00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:39,479
Speaker 1: so you know. The injuries obviously have really piled up

629
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Speaker 1: for the Wild again, which has to be part of

630
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Speaker 1: the stories we talked about with Rusto.

631
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Speaker 2: They ever going to get healthy again.

632
00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:47,719
Speaker 1: Wolves are not at that level, but they have their

633
00:29:47,760 --> 00:29:51,880
Speaker 1: own injury list right now, and again I think we're

634
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Speaker 1: getting closer the NBA trade and deadlines closer than the

635
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Speaker 1: NHL one. So we'll continue to watch and check out

636
00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:03,200
Speaker 1: rumors about what might be possible, what the Wolves might

637
00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:06,600
Speaker 1: be sniffing around, approaches they might want to take. We'll

638
00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:11,040
Speaker 1: also be doing the Thursday show from the Cage Target

639
00:30:11,040 --> 00:30:12,120
Speaker 1: Center first time this year.

640
00:30:12,160 --> 00:30:13,720
Speaker 2: I think the Wolves are taking on the Bulls.

641
00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:16,560
Speaker 1: That part of it, you know, not as important, but

642
00:30:16,600 --> 00:30:19,600
Speaker 1: we got some good guests lined up on Thursday, we'll

643
00:30:19,640 --> 00:30:23,320
Speaker 1: be able to delve deep into the local pro basketball team.

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Speaker 4: The updated injury reports as of four hours ago, Nasried

645
00:30:27,680 --> 00:30:34,600
Speaker 4: available left shoulder soreness, Shannon and Skarski out Okay two

646
00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:37,360
Speaker 4: way and then Shannon with a left foot abductor hallucis strain.

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Speaker 4: I hope I said that correctly. No sign on. I mean,

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Speaker 4: I can look at Johnny, but I haven't heard anything

649
00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:47,120
Speaker 4: on Rudy. I'm sure it's out there somewhere. Your club

650
00:30:47,160 --> 00:30:51,960
Speaker 4: finally did it after a miracle run. Well we thought

651
00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:54,520
Speaker 4: was a miracle run, but really it seems like everyone

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Speaker 4: besides fine Bomb and Nick they doubted, but everyone else

653
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Speaker 4: thought it was a pretty foregone conclusion that your Hoosiers

654
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Speaker 4: would win the national championship. Do you think I mean,

655
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Speaker 4: we talked all first hour about is it the greatest

656
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Speaker 4: sporting coaching run? But Signetti in postgame said, and he

657
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Speaker 4: did give credit to the players and the staffs, and

658
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Speaker 4: just tooting his own horn, he said, this is the

659
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Speaker 4: greatest sports story of all time?

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Speaker 2: Was it?

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Speaker 1: It's I don't know about that. It's one of them.

662
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Speaker 1: It's I think it's the It's hard to argue with

663
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Speaker 1: the belief that this is the greatest coaching job in

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Speaker 1: my lifetime in college football. Uh and maybe even going

665
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Speaker 1: further back than that, people don't want to accept that

666
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Speaker 1: because again now they're starting to grade Signetti and Indiana

667
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Speaker 1: on the end result, which is a big mistake because

668
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Speaker 1: it does not allow for how we got here and

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Speaker 1: how we've reached this point where oh, yeah, Indiana, you

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Speaker 1: know it stopped thinking that this is some kind of

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Speaker 1: a miracle.

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Speaker 2: They spent their money.

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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, they spent their money, but they also succeeded

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Speaker 1: at a number of places with players who no one

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Speaker 1: else was interested in, and to dominate to the degree

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Speaker 1: they did, I think puts this on another level that,

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Speaker 1: oddly enough by some people I think is not being

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Speaker 1: properly appreciated. There's at it's a tendency in the culture

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Speaker 1: I guess to sort of fire back and I don't

680
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Speaker 1: want to hear about how great it was whatever. I

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Speaker 1: will say this. I mentioned this yesterday previewing. I'm actually

682
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Speaker 1: relieved that it was a ballgame, that it became a

683
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Speaker 1: ballgame because the tension, largely in the postseason was taken

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Speaker 1: out of it because Indiana was so dominant. It was

685
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Speaker 1: actually I think more riveting and exciting and even satisfying

686
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Speaker 1: as a guy who went Indiana University to see them

687
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Speaker 1: in a game and to have to handle things and

688
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Speaker 1: have to sort of fire back and counter and make

689
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Speaker 1: a couple of big plays down the stretch because.

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Speaker 2: I think I felt they were in danger. I really did.

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Speaker 1: I thought Miami had figure some stuff out, and they had,

692
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Speaker 1: They'd unleashed a big play capability that made them dangerous

693
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Speaker 1: if the thing might have gone on a little bit further.

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Speaker 1: So I actually liked that we had once for the

695
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Speaker 1: first time in the postseason, there was tension in an

696
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Speaker 1: Indiana postseason football game. And here we are now trying

697
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Speaker 1: to figure out where they go from here, which is

698
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Speaker 1: probably still I think towards the top of the Big Ten.

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Speaker 2: I really believe it.

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Speaker 1: Big Ten has won three in a row, right, three

701
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Speaker 1: straight national championships, and as I was reminded by our

702
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Speaker 1: good friend the Chief, these are all three are members

703
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Speaker 1: of the original Big Ten, the real Big Ten before

704
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Speaker 1: it played the Big twenty six, whichever it is at

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Speaker 1: this point.

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Speaker 2: So there's that as well.

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Speaker 4: Speaking of the Big Ten, if you're looking for your

708
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Speaker 4: hoops action, your Golden Gophers are in action. Columbus against

709
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Speaker 4: the Buckeyes. They are down, I believe, of course, they

710
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Speaker 4: change the scoreboard as soon as I was looking up.

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Speaker 4: I believe it's ten to two buck Eyes right now,

712
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Speaker 4: early on, So a hole to dig out for your Gophers.

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Speaker 4: If you want to listen that you can on our

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Speaker 4: family of stations, Twin Cities News.

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Speaker 2: Talk A three point five.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's not all on the fan, some of

717
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Speaker 1: it is, but if it's not in the fan, it's

718
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Speaker 1: very easy via the iHeart app to find everything at

719
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Speaker 1: your disposal.

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Speaker 4: Oh you think with all those games it would cost

721
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Speaker 4: you an arm and a layer pay per listen? Well,

722
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Speaker 4: absolutely free, absolutely free. I don't even think there's any

723
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Speaker 4: tax on it. I don't think not yet. Anyway, I

724
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Speaker 4: got two more for you. Mike McDaniel, the Formerson's coach,

725
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Speaker 4: has basically done what I would do if I was

726
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Speaker 4: in his shoes. Is told the Cleveland Browns, I'm good,

727
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Speaker 4: I don't want your job. That's one of those them,

728
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Speaker 4: the Raiders, the Jets, even the Giants. Maybe you're just

729
00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:48,839
Speaker 4: dead on arrival for it. I don't care who goes there.

730
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Speaker 4: You're dead on arrival. So he says no, Now they've

731
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Speaker 4: got to go somewhere else.

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Speaker 2: So they actually offered it to him based on the

733
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Speaker 2: report he was going to have another.

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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, So he at this point, I'm good,

735
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Speaker 1: I don't want he's with That's rather telling it really

736
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Speaker 1: is as you said, And it may be he feels

737
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Speaker 1: like I don't have to coach again that badly or

738
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Speaker 1: prove myself that badly. If it's a job, I think

739
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Speaker 1: that is another dead end job, and too many coaches

740
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Speaker 1: end up taking the job.

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Speaker 2: Anyway.

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Speaker 1: It's interesting because I don't view the giant you mentioned giants.

743
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Speaker 1: A lot of people think that's a really good job,

744
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:26,360
Speaker 1: it's in a really good market. I don't know, And

745
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Speaker 1: because some people like Dart, but I don't know if

746
00:35:30,760 --> 00:35:33,240
Speaker 1: I've seen enough to say he's the quarterback of the future.

747
00:35:33,320 --> 00:35:36,319
Speaker 1: So that Harbaugh decision was very interesting to me. He

748
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Speaker 1: must see something that I'm not sure of, because he

749
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Speaker 1: was going to have any option that he wanted any

750
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Speaker 1: probably any job that he was interested in.

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Speaker 4: There's an article on the Big four Letter website that

752
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Speaker 4: I found that I thought was interesting, NFL Executive Predictions.

753
00:35:51,520 --> 00:35:54,480
Speaker 4: They had a handful of hot takes, like Kirk Cousin

754
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Speaker 4: is going to be the starting quarterback for Atlanta, Malik

755
00:35:57,000 --> 00:36:00,480
Speaker 4: Willis will go to the Dolphins, or the Browns Headliner

756
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:04,200
Speaker 4: Ravens trade Lamar Jackson to the Raiders.

757
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Speaker 2: Whoa, WHOA, I don't I.

758
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Speaker 4: Don't know if I believe that, well, I don't know's

759
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Speaker 4: they can do that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I just thought, well, if.

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Speaker 1: You're the Raiders, I mean obviously they were, how long

762
00:36:15,520 --> 00:36:17,120
Speaker 1: have they been looking for a quarterback? And if you're

763
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Speaker 1: Tom Brady's involved in influencing decision making there, I'm sure

764
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Speaker 1: he would be all for making a big move like that.

765
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Speaker 1: But does it make any sense at the other end

766
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Speaker 1: of the equation. I don't know that it I don't

767
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Speaker 1: know that it does, that's for sure. Yeah, I agree.

768
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Speaker 1: And that's another spot where it's just the uniform. You

769
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Speaker 1: can go to Las Vegas or Oakland or wherever they

770
00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:39,879
Speaker 1: are exactly, doesn't matter. You're you're not going to play well.

771
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Speaker 1: All right, Well, we got a short segment coming up.

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Speaker 1: As I said, we are out at six o'clock tonight

773
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Speaker 1: for wild hockey against Montreal. I'll give you a Baseball

774
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Speaker 1: Hall of Fame update little nugget there on the two

775
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Speaker 1: newest members as announced not that long ago, and we'll

776
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Speaker 1: get to a couple of other items before we wrap

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Speaker 1: things up at six.

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Speaker 2: It's the Bumper to Bumper Show Wrecks, brought to you

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Speaker 2: by American Pressure.

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Speaker 1: Twenty twenty six. Baseball Hall of Fame. We've got two

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Speaker 1: new entrants who made the cut. You need seventy five

782
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Speaker 1: percent of the votes, and only two who made it.

783
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Speaker 1: Both I think very worthy names, Carlos Beltrand and Andrew Jones.

784
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Speaker 1: Beltran eighty four percent, and Andrew Jones at seventy eight point four.

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00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:37,799
Speaker 1: Chase Utley was next with two hundred and fifty one

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Speaker 1: votes fifty nine point one percent, followed by Andy Pettitt,

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Speaker 1: Felix Hernandez.

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Speaker 2: Alex Rodriguez.

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Speaker 1: You say interesting, many A Ramirez, and the list goes

790
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Speaker 1: on from there. By the way, for the record, Tory

791
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Speaker 1: Hunter received thirty seven votes, that's eight point seven percent.

792
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Speaker 1: This is his sixth year on the ballot, so it

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Speaker 1: is Hostove League time, so I thought i'd passed.

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Speaker 2: That along to you.

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Speaker 1: I don't think the Baseball Hall of Fame resonates with

796
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Speaker 1: people the way it once did when it was I

797
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Speaker 1: think it was the Hall of Fame, but obviously baseball

798
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Speaker 1: is not as popular a sport as.

799
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Speaker 2: It once was.

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Speaker 1: I want to thank guard standing array of guests today.

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Speaker 1: Glenn Mason in studio for the four o'clock hour. Russo

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Speaker 1: Radio joined between five and five thirty. All of this

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Speaker 1: will be a podcastable to you. I believe tomorrow is

804
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Speaker 1: a Kevin Seaffert day. We had to move him, so

805
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Speaker 1: I think he's tomorrow. I also think Luigi is scheduled

806
00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:45,279
Speaker 1: for tomorrow as well. In fact, let me find it.

807
00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:49,080
Speaker 1: Guardsy is back on the show Thursday, but he passed

808
00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:53,560
Speaker 1: along the list. Yeah, Tomorrow will be Seaffert, Louis, and

809
00:38:53,880 --> 00:38:56,120
Speaker 1: we think the return of Kessler, who was sick last week.

810
00:38:56,160 --> 00:38:58,359
Speaker 1: I think he's on the Men Thursday will be at

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Speaker 1: the Target Center cage as well. I have kind of

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00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:08,520
Speaker 1: not avoided, but I have gone away from a section

813
00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:11,560
Speaker 1: stuff the last couple of days that will decidedly change.

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Speaker 1: There's a couple of things stuck in my craw that

815
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Speaker 1: might make it a little bit urgent tomorrow, at least

816
00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:19,200
Speaker 1: for me, for the host of the show, and a

817
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Speaker 1: little bit shall we say, controversial. We'll get into that

818
00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:25,840
Speaker 1: on tomorrow's broadcast when we have more time to develop

819
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Speaker 1: those kinds of things. Lawyer Tom heard your question regarding

820
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Speaker 1: the Signetti coaching job and mentioned can't touch miracle on ice.

821
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Speaker 1: All I can say to lawyer Lawyer Tom is, first

822
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Speaker 1: of all, it's two different things. The question you asked me,

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Speaker 1: was that the greatest college coaching job of all time?

824
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Speaker 2: I think is what you said. Maybe you didn't, did you?

825
00:39:49,040 --> 00:39:50,440
Speaker 2: I thought you may have distinguished it to that. I

826
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Speaker 2: think I said sports story.

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Speaker 1: But how many times during the Curse this course of

828
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Speaker 1: the show have I brought up Herby Brooks and the

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Speaker 1: Miracle on Ice twelve, fifteen twenty So, Tom, I love you,

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Speaker 1: But if you think you're discovering electricity there and it's

831
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Speaker 1: something we've ignored or something we haven't discussed, it was

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Speaker 1: literally the first coaching run that I brought up above

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Speaker 1: and beyond Signetti. I'm not going to sit here and

834
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Speaker 1: say I think they're too different for me to have

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Speaker 1: to feel.

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Speaker 2: This one's better than that one.

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Speaker 1: I know we're supposed to the point of it is,

838
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Speaker 1: they're all on that top echelon.

839
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Speaker 2: They are different kinds of achievement.

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Speaker 1: But if you think we've forgotten about or given short

841
00:40:33,840 --> 00:40:37,600
Speaker 1: shrift to the Miracle on Ice, you don't pay as

842
00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:41,319
Speaker 1: a close attention to the program as you might have thought.

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Speaker 1: Because it was literally the first other example that I

844
00:40:45,040 --> 00:40:48,200
Speaker 1: brought up. I cited the Ringer article that kind of

845
00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:50,399
Speaker 1: got us down this road where it wasn't mentioned at all,

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Speaker 1: and it was the very first one that I brought up.

847
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Speaker 1: But God, but I know, we get this is one

848
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Speaker 1: of those things, sadly where we.

849
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Speaker 2: Get really defensive. What about the miracle on ice, like.

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Speaker 1: You know we're going to forget it or that people

851
00:41:03,400 --> 00:41:05,760
Speaker 1: are gonna forget it, or that we're fly over country

852
00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:07,920
Speaker 1: or whatever the case may be. I get it. It's

853
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:11,359
Speaker 1: our story. Herbie Brooks is our guy. But that's never

854
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:14,879
Speaker 1: been much of an issue on this show historically at all,

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Speaker 1: but including today as well.

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Speaker 2: So why are we out early?

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Speaker 1: Well, we're out early because it's Minnesota Wild Hockey, second

858
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Speaker 1: straight night in Montreal to take on the Canadians.

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Speaker 2: That is coming up next.

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Speaker 1: Wolves will follow Utah and then Golden golphers Ons talk.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for listening, Thanks for watching, We'll talk to you tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: Three The Stories the Stadium Could Tell