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Speaker 1: Historically, we've had a segment on either this program or

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Speaker 1: have tended to mock and ridicule the ongoing itch to

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Speaker 1: So there's something that a team needs to apologize for,

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Speaker 1: cases the apology in question was not even necessary, that

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Speaker 1: I don't even think what I said was into the world,

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Speaker 1: we've had something via apology regarding apologies called the pelf Scale,

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Speaker 1: in which we have attempted to evaluate how full the

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Speaker 1: And it became a bit kind of a bit because

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Speaker 1: Pelfrey was getting lauded for his willingness to hold himself

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Speaker 1: at which point it starts to lose its impact. Right

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Speaker 1: is incapable of doing anything about it. Today, I want

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Speaker 1: to get back to the Apolodazzle discussion, but in a

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Speaker 1: ask whether the apologies we're going to discuss were necessary

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Speaker 1: the pelf scale. Full Pelf being what appears to be

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Speaker 1: bringing up other stuff. So the subtext of today's program

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Speaker 1: today will be apolodazzle, will be apologies and determining whether

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Speaker 1: first place. Then if we have time, we might evaluate

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Speaker 1: the quality of the apology as well. Ratchel, Brian Kfe

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Speaker 1: and text line is open already at six four, six

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Speaker 1: eighty six Sunday Sermons. It's live, it's local. This is

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Speaker 1: not a best of, it's not a worst of. It's

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Speaker 1: Barrero and blakemore with you until eleven o'clock today is

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Speaker 1: worst case scenario working Easter Sunday.

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Speaker 2: Yes, they are two hours, no, three hours, no a

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Speaker 2: little bit. It's pregame eleven forty five for the Wild,

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Speaker 2: so it's a forty five minute edition.

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Speaker 1: Okay, fair enough, there will be some wild conversations. Certainly

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Speaker 1: the Wild have nothing to apologize for after their win

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Speaker 2: Correct, Yeah, there's they played well. Yes, the bounces went

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Speaker 2: their way, but sometimes you earn your bounce. The thank you,

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Speaker 2: Billy Garrett. Yeah, the Wolves kind of in retreat right now.

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Speaker 2: To be honest with you, they're back in action. I

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Speaker 2: have lost so much, they really don't have much way

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Speaker 2: They they might be better off just trying to get

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Speaker 2: everybody healthy and just accept we're in the sixth playoff position.

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Speaker 2: And then the question, of course is who are you

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Speaker 2: gonna play? And everybody's jockey. Originally everybody was jocking.

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Speaker 1: For a position to want to play Houston, although Houston's

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Speaker 1: playing better now Now the Lakers keep you losing. They've

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Speaker 1: believe it or not, before we get to evaluating the

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Speaker 1: apologies or whether. In this case, I've identified three, but

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Speaker 1: because this is the opening home weekend series for the Twins,

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Speaker 1: I think we're one in one, right, so this is

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Speaker 1: who we play on Monday.

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Speaker 2: In any case, this yes, Noah Tigers in town to ts.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Tigers, That's exactly it. So here's this is not

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Speaker 1: good food as much as anybody. I think you like

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Speaker 1: good food as much as anybody. And now how you

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Speaker 1: define good food that probably depends on the person. But

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Speaker 1: here's what I'm trying to figure out. This is now

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Speaker 1: It just is. It no longer matters whether it should

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Speaker 1: But I want to ask, nevertheless, because I don't want

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Speaker 1: Let's also leave aside the current condition of the Minnesota Twins. Okay,

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Speaker 1: let's not make this about the baseball you might be

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Speaker 1: And what does it say about us? Because once upon

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Speaker 1: I'm kind of hungry. I want a dog. I get

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Speaker 1: I didn't come here for the food. So I'll have

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Speaker 1: I'll get some frog, go back and get another dog.

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Speaker 4: So it took.

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Speaker 1: The basics were fine, and I actually think I still

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Speaker 1: I was one of them. We love free stuff, man,

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Speaker 1: we love free food. And you say, come on over,

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Speaker 1: that has again nothing to do with the baseball itself. Now,

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Speaker 1: Why is that necessary to go to a ball game?

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Speaker 1: A baseball game? Again, I might actually get it. Excuse

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Speaker 1: me if it's a little bit more, if it's basketball

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Speaker 1: it's give me something to Although the problem is in

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say I love the dome dog. Back

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Speaker 1: never thought the dog. I think it's okay to evaluate

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Speaker 1: upon a time a good hot dog was enough, maybe

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Speaker 1: dog in a Twins game. They said seven dollars. I said, no,

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Speaker 1: I just want the regular hot dog. It was seven dollars.

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Speaker 1: This was at the playoff a few years ago, and

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Speaker 1: talk about prices, that's another issue. I'm just more interested

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Speaker 1: in the fair itself food. This is from Tim out

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Speaker 1: of San Diego Entertainment. And people have evolved. People want

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Speaker 1: more now with so many options. Sports is a social

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Speaker 1: Diehards are always there, but it's a happening for others.

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Speaker 1: Why but why does it need to be a happening?

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Speaker 1: Is it again an example? We have no attention, spend,

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Speaker 1: to be there for the game. It's true, but to

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Speaker 1: me it's quite a concession of what we are capable

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Speaker 1: of and what we're incapable of. At some point, you

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Speaker 1: need compelling food because the team isn't good enough. I

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Speaker 1: mentioned that. I get it, but this goes on in

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Speaker 1: nice touch. That's from Ryan because the food was cheap. Dan,

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Speaker 1: to actually look at a given story and understand what

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Speaker 1: might be real and what might be satire. Here's my though.

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Speaker 1: If you live and this will be considered ironic coming

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Speaker 1: from me, If you live to be offended, if that's

432
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Speaker 1: what you make your life's work every day, then you

433
00:29:16,760 --> 00:29:18,520
Speaker 1: kind of want to believe it was a real fan

434
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Speaker 1: who got abused here because that then allows you to

435
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Speaker 1: get offended and to lose your mind. I think that

436
00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:31,800
Speaker 1: basically says an awful lot about it. For sure, Dan,

437
00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:34,040
Speaker 1: isn't the bigger April Fools joke giving up one hundred

438
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Speaker 1: and fifty points talk about performance? Yes, if they should

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Speaker 1: be apologizing for anything, that should be it. In fact,

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Speaker 1: you know what, let's just go to forty two. Here's

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Speaker 1: the stat I I I'm going to trust the reporter.

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00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:56,280
Speaker 1: In fact, the reporter who offered this is is trustworthy.

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Speaker 1: Tim Reynolds is an NBA writer for the Associated Press.

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Speaker 1: I want you to listen to this now again for you,

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Speaker 1: it'll be material forever.

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Speaker 5: Naturally.

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Speaker 1: Tim Reynolds covers the NBA for Associated Press. Listen to this.

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Speaker 1: There have been two days in NBA history, spanning eighty years,

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Speaker 1: where at least nine games were played with an average

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Speaker 1: margin of victory being at least twenty four points. At

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Speaker 1: least nine games with an average margin of victory being

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Speaker 1: at least twenty four points. Two days in NBA history

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Speaker 1: this has happened, spanning eighty years. Only two. One was yesterday,

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Speaker 1: the other was Sunday. Obviously, talking about last Sunday, think

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Speaker 1: about that. What can be a bigger indictment of a

456
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Speaker 1: league I grew up covering well, I mean, I was

457
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Speaker 1: an adult, but that was the league I covered more

458
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Speaker 1: than any of the others before I came here, a

459
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Speaker 1: league I respect, still respect and like. But does that

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Speaker 1: not tell us that we are so far past the

461
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Speaker 1: era of responsible tanking that this league has a crisis

462
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Speaker 1: situation that must be they must at least attempt to

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Speaker 1: resolve it regarding irresponsible tanking. And they're trying. I know

464
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Speaker 1: they're working on ideas about the lottery and how to

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Speaker 1: at least ease some of that pain, discourage it a

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Speaker 1: little bit more. I don't know if there's a perfect solution,

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Speaker 1: but you know, we never talk about too regarding because

468
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Speaker 1: there's the teams will say, hey, look, you can be

469
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Speaker 1: bothered by it. But it's exactly what the sandan Antonio

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Speaker 1: Spurs Davey did to get David Robinson and Tim Duncan.

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Speaker 1: It's exactly what the Oklahoma City Thunder did now considered

472
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Speaker 1: obviously the most well run franchise in basketball.

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Speaker 5: And Wemby for the Spurs as well.

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Speaker 1: One player in basketball can make that much difference can

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Speaker 1: be worth Some people estimate it could be like five

476
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Speaker 1: hundred million dollars worth of worth if it goes right

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Speaker 1: with the one true transcendent player that you get. That's

478
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Speaker 1: the comeback to it is, especially if you are in

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Speaker 1: Flyover country, if you are in Salt Lake City, or

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00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:45,360
Speaker 1: you are in Oklahoma City. Right that you gotta do

481
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Speaker 1: what you gotta do. But what is often left out

482
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Speaker 1: of that discussion is the price you pay. Like take

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Speaker 1: the bulls now as an example. The bulls are a disgrace,

484
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Speaker 1: They're a mess, and they could also say, well, we

485
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Speaker 1: are what we are, so now we're too looking for

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Speaker 1: lottery help and so what's the difference at this point?

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Speaker 1: But what about the sorts of bad habits that you

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Speaker 1: are nurturing, encouraging, almost cementing as part of your future too.

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Speaker 1: That set in when no game matters, when there's no

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Speaker 1: game that makes any difference, and you come to believe

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Speaker 1: it doesn't really matter if we lose this game by

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Speaker 1: ten or we lose it by forty. Bad habits get

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Speaker 1: they seep in that you build when you go into

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Speaker 1: that mentality of well, it's just all about trying to

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Speaker 1: tank and get the best player out there. Now again,

496
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Speaker 1: if you're lucky enough to get Tim Duncan. You could say, well,

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Speaker 1: that change one player can change everything, but how often

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Speaker 1: do you get that player? So the teams that don't

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Speaker 1: end up with that player, they still have players who've

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Speaker 1: had their bad habits reinforced over and over and over

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Speaker 1: again in an environment in which now we lost by

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Speaker 1: twenty five. Who cares the hell's different difference does it make?

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Speaker 1: None of that is particularly helpful. I would say I

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Speaker 1: was blown away by that stat. I mean, the number

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Speaker 1: of games that were that one sided. We have never

506
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Speaker 1: had a situation in this league when we factor in

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Speaker 1: the number of teams and games that we're talking about

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Speaker 1: in which this has become almost the norm. And it

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Speaker 1: is a dangerous trend for a game. I love cover It,

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Speaker 1: loved Covering and absolutely still a believe in when it's

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Speaker 1: played at its proper levels, which it still is in

512
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Speaker 1: many many precincts. But not nearly enough. Let's get a

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Speaker 1: pause in. We got a lot of good texts to

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Speaker 1: get to. We've got another apology to discuss, maybe two

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Speaker 1: before this program is done. We'll get to some Minnesota

516
00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:08,880
Speaker 1: wild stuff as well. It's an Easter Sunday edition of

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Speaker 1: Sermons back in a minute, Gina Vimigie, it's brilliant talking

518
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Speaker 1: about the Wizard's April fools joke on the one person

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Speaker 1: who was in on it. It's an April Fool's joke

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00:35:28,560 --> 00:35:30,920
Speaker 1: on the dozens of people who were at the Wizard's

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Speaker 1: basketball game. That's very, very well played. Speaking of attendance,

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Speaker 1: what did the Twins announced a crowd of was it

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Speaker 1: for the opener? Thirty six thousand? Was that the number?

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Speaker 1: Thirty six thousand and change? Will you double checked the

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Speaker 1: number for the opening game Friday? And again announced? We

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Speaker 1: all know what announced means, announced means allegedly tickets sold.

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Speaker 1: There is not a chance in hell that there was

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Speaker 1: anywhere near that many people in the building.

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Speaker 5: I've got it at thirty six.

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Speaker 1: Thirty six and plus. Yeah, for the building itself, that's

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Speaker 1: not even that's pretty much a given.

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Speaker 2: Yesterday in the seven to one stopping yeah, fifteen.

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Speaker 1: Fifteen, and I wonder, yeah, and again I'd say, there

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Speaker 1: looked to me like there were fewer than that in

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Speaker 1: the building. Horrible conditions, right, I mean, the weather was

536
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Speaker 1: very windy and chilly. I think it was colder Saturday

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Speaker 1: than it was Friday. If I'm not mistaken and the

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Speaker 1: game started later as well, so not particularly surprising there.

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Speaker 1: The theme of the program today is apologies issued and

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00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:48,399
Speaker 1: when they need to be and when they shouldn't have been.

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Speaker 1: The belief of the host here is that the Wizards

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Speaker 1: were under no obligation to apologize for the stunt. They

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00:36:55,960 --> 00:37:01,480
Speaker 1: are under obligation to more generally apologize for existing. The

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Speaker 1: other apology that I want to get to here before

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Speaker 1: the second hour of the show is that finally issued

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Speaker 1: by the legendary Yukon women's basketball coach Gino Arima. You

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Speaker 1: may know that the undefeated Yukon team lost convincingly to

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Speaker 1: South Carolina in the Friday night one of the Friday

549
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Speaker 1: night semifinal games on the women's side of the bracket,

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Speaker 1: sixty two to forty eight was the Carolina victory. And

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00:37:44,960 --> 00:37:50,960
Speaker 1: what would I think? It's hard to evaluate is is

552
00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:55,160
Speaker 1: it a full pelf? The words from Arima indicate a

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00:37:55,160 --> 00:38:01,080
Speaker 1: full pelf. But you'll never how much of this apology

554
00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:04,520
Speaker 1: is in the apologazal mode. In other words, you're apologizing

555
00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:07,360
Speaker 1: because you're really People have come to you and said, Gino,

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Speaker 1: you have to You have no choice, which doesn't necessarily

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Speaker 1: mean it's genuine. I don't know. I don't know Geno

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Speaker 1: very well. We've had thanks to Lindsay Whalen. We had

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Speaker 1: Gino on this show once, and I will tell you

560
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Speaker 1: that as one of the best interviews we've ever had

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00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:33,680
Speaker 1: on this show. He was expansive, he was entertaining, he

562
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:39,640
Speaker 1: was provocative, he was fascinating, which has nothing to do

563
00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:44,000
Speaker 1: with whether he needed to apologize, and he clearly did.

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Speaker 1: It looked to me as if Gino, and I think

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Speaker 1: most of you know that towards the very end, well,

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Speaker 1: I should say the TV interview after the third quarter,

567
00:38:57,360 --> 00:39:02,360
Speaker 1: he lost his mind. He swore unhappy with the disparity

568
00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:07,759
Speaker 1: and foul calls, accusing Don Staley of abusing refs in

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Speaker 1: a way that he is not allowed to, and then

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Speaker 1: he eventually just kind of walked back to the huddle.

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Speaker 1: Then the fourth quarter ensues, his team really is not

572
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:22,280
Speaker 1: ever in it. The rest of the way. They don't

573
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Speaker 1: make the spirited run that one might think they would

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Speaker 1: based on their pedigree and their record, and then before

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Speaker 1: the horns sounds, he walks over during a break and

576
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Speaker 1: confronts Staley over something. At that point we don't know

577
00:39:37,280 --> 00:39:39,480
Speaker 1: what it is. We then know she has to be restrained.

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00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:44,320
Speaker 1: He's kind of pulled back and it gets very ugly,

579
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Speaker 1: one could say, And this is how it looked to me. Again,

580
00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:56,640
Speaker 1: far away from that and not being anywhere near that situation,

581
00:39:58,680 --> 00:40:04,480
Speaker 1: it came off as Geno not being able to handle

582
00:40:04,560 --> 00:40:07,560
Speaker 1: what by now, he should be able to handle that.

583
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Speaker 1: Two things. One, his legendary status is safe whether he

584
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Speaker 1: wins or loses that game, even as an undefeated top seed.

585
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Speaker 1: And two, South Carolina is a legitimate national power, and

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Speaker 1: Don Staley is a legitimate, powerful, successful, big time fellow

587
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Speaker 1: college basketball legend and coach. Now, nobody's going to be

588
00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:41,439
Speaker 1: on Geno's level. We get that, But it almost came

589
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Speaker 1: off as I don't want to share. I can't handle it,

590
00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:50,280
Speaker 1: and I'm so frustrated by my team's inability or perhaps

591
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Speaker 1: my ability to do something about it in the game itself,

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Speaker 1: that I'm going to change the subject and pretend that

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Speaker 1: there are a series of conspiracies working against me. Came

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00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:05,720
Speaker 1: off as childish to me, petulant, and as I said,

595
00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:10,280
Speaker 1: just insecure. The guy who should be the most secure

596
00:41:10,480 --> 00:41:16,680
Speaker 1: of any coach in college basketball men or women, came

597
00:41:16,719 --> 00:41:21,920
Speaker 1: off as extremely insecure over my fiefdom is being threatened again,

598
00:41:23,800 --> 00:41:27,960
Speaker 1: and that to me meant he had to apologize. How

599
00:41:28,040 --> 00:41:31,200
Speaker 1: much he means it, I don't know his statement. It

600
00:41:31,239 --> 00:41:33,120
Speaker 1: starts with, there's no excuse for how I handled the

601
00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:35,319
Speaker 1: end of the game versus South Carolina. It's unlike what

602
00:41:35,360 --> 00:41:38,680
Speaker 1: I do and what our standard here is here at Connecticut.

603
00:41:39,040 --> 00:41:40,759
Speaker 1: I want to apologize to the staff and the team

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00:41:40,760 --> 00:41:43,200
Speaker 1: of South Carolina. It was uncalled for and how I reacted.

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00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:46,319
Speaker 1: The story should be how well South Carolina played, and

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00:41:46,360 --> 00:41:50,040
Speaker 1: I don't want my actions to detract from that. I've

607
00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:51,920
Speaker 1: had a great relationship with their staff and I secerely

608
00:41:51,920 --> 00:41:54,360
Speaker 1: want to apologize to them. I wish he would have

609
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Speaker 1: apologize directly to Don Staley. Now, maybe there's a part

610
00:41:58,000 --> 00:41:59,480
Speaker 1: of the statement in which he names her. The part

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00:41:59,520 --> 00:42:01,359
Speaker 1: I'm looking at this VC and N story. I don't

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Speaker 1: see that because I think that's that's why I can't

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00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:08,000
Speaker 1: give it a full pelf if he didn't name her,

614
00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:11,359
Speaker 1: because that's what she deserves. Now, on the question of

615
00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:16,399
Speaker 1: he's claiming even doing this forever, and there's a pregame

616
00:42:16,680 --> 00:42:21,360
Speaker 1: handshake after introductions that's supposed to take place between the

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Speaker 1: two coaches, he's claiming that on that occasion, Staley was

618
00:42:26,520 --> 00:42:30,800
Speaker 1: not there to have her hand shaken. I don't Others

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Speaker 1: have said they'd already shaken hands earlier. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I will say there should be better reporting than there's

621
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Speaker 1: been on what is given protocol. In other words, you

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00:42:42,160 --> 00:42:48,080
Speaker 1: can criticize Arima's behavior, but that shouldn't mean you can't

623
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Speaker 1: report the story and say, well, what take these two out?

624
00:42:52,760 --> 00:42:58,560
Speaker 1: Is it an automatic, forever unwritten rule that the two

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00:42:58,600 --> 00:43:03,120
Speaker 1: coaches shake hands at, you know, at the scores table,

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00:43:03,200 --> 00:43:06,000
Speaker 1: the middle of the scorers table. I'm not getting much

627
00:43:06,040 --> 00:43:11,279
Speaker 1: answer to that particular question whether some again unforeseen line

628
00:43:11,360 --> 00:43:15,399
Speaker 1: was crossed. The problem you have is the obvious. If

629
00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:18,799
Speaker 1: you make a product whatever happened or didn't happen, if

630
00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:21,879
Speaker 1: you make a production of it after your team gets

631
00:43:21,880 --> 00:43:25,040
Speaker 1: outclassed to the degree that it did, you're not going

632
00:43:25,120 --> 00:43:28,000
Speaker 1: to win the debate. Even if you have any sort

633
00:43:28,040 --> 00:43:31,200
Speaker 1: of point on your side. It's going to come off

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00:43:31,239 --> 00:43:35,400
Speaker 1: as I'm changing the subject. I'm frustrated, I don't know

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00:43:35,400 --> 00:43:37,880
Speaker 1: what to do about it. So therefore I'm going to

636
00:43:37,920 --> 00:43:40,200
Speaker 1: make this about something that has nothing to do with

637
00:43:40,239 --> 00:43:42,640
Speaker 1: what really the focus should be on, which is the

638
00:43:42,680 --> 00:43:45,480
Speaker 1: fact that they kicked our ass. We just we could

639
00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:48,960
Speaker 1: not handle their pressure. Some of it was just missing shots,

640
00:43:49,680 --> 00:43:54,480
Speaker 1: but it was a very un Yukon like performance in

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00:43:54,520 --> 00:43:58,360
Speaker 1: the case of Orim's team, so that apology one hundred

642
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Speaker 1: percent needed, I would say, And again on the Pelf scale,

643
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Speaker 1: I'm not sure i'd give it a full pelf because

644
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Speaker 1: I'm not even convinced that he's doing it because he

645
00:44:11,400 --> 00:44:13,400
Speaker 1: wanted to do it so much as he feels like

646
00:44:13,640 --> 00:44:15,319
Speaker 1: people around him said, you know you got to do this.

647
00:44:15,400 --> 00:44:17,680
Speaker 1: Come on, come on, you, come on, bet, you got

648
00:44:17,719 --> 00:44:20,279
Speaker 1: to be better than this. Whatever the case may be,

649
00:44:20,840 --> 00:44:23,680
Speaker 1: I'll be curious to find out if he spoke directly

650
00:44:23,760 --> 00:44:28,680
Speaker 1: about the head coach and the other team because she

651
00:44:28,960 --> 00:44:33,200
Speaker 1: deserved better given the circumstances of that game, the fact

652
00:44:33,239 --> 00:44:35,680
Speaker 1: that at the moment where she's supposed to be able

653
00:44:35,719 --> 00:44:43,080
Speaker 1: to celebrate her team beating an undefeated team was soured

654
00:44:43,200 --> 00:44:45,840
Speaker 1: to a point at least for a period of time

655
00:44:46,440 --> 00:44:52,040
Speaker 1: by that confrontation. That's not right and that is at

656
00:44:52,080 --> 00:44:54,560
Speaker 1: all I think that part of it is all on Geno.

657
00:44:54,640 --> 00:44:56,920
Speaker 1: And if you want to get into the handshake rules, whatever,

658
00:44:57,640 --> 00:44:59,040
Speaker 1: you may have to find another way to do it

659
00:44:59,040 --> 00:45:03,080
Speaker 1: because it's just going to come up off as bringing

660
00:45:03,160 --> 00:45:06,719
Speaker 1: up something else because you don't didn't know what to

661
00:45:06,800 --> 00:45:11,840
Speaker 1: do about how well they were playing. And again, the

662
00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:14,240
Speaker 1: geno legend isn't going to go away on this basis.

663
00:45:14,239 --> 00:45:19,400
Speaker 1: He's secure, but it was a very small moment for

664
00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:21,880
Speaker 1: a guy who's obviously has a had a giant stature

665
00:45:22,640 --> 00:45:26,960
Speaker 1: in college basketball. Period. Let's get to a top of

666
00:45:26,960 --> 00:45:29,080
Speaker 1: the hour break. We've got some hockey to get to.

667
00:45:29,120 --> 00:45:32,480
Speaker 1: An hour two, we've got some basketball to get to.

668
00:45:32,800 --> 00:45:35,319
Speaker 1: Guess who's checked in via the text line. Your guy

669
00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:38,680
Speaker 1: Falness also known as his Burner account on the text

670
00:45:38,760 --> 00:45:42,120
Speaker 1: line is guards he's conscience. So we're going to get

671
00:45:42,160 --> 00:45:44,080
Speaker 1: to a couple things he had to say in that

672
00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:46,759
Speaker 1: regard and we'll mix and match the rest of the

673
00:45:46,760 --> 00:45:49,160
Speaker 1: way any of their apologies you think we need to evaluate.

674
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Speaker 1: Bratchewan Brian Cafe and text line is open at six

675
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Speaker 1: four six eighty six April sixth, twenty twenty five, so

676
00:45:58,200 --> 00:46:04,799
Speaker 1: basically a year ago today, correct off by a day.

677
00:46:05,719 --> 00:46:15,680
Speaker 1: The NCAA Women's Big Dance Championship game matched Yukon and

678
00:46:15,760 --> 00:46:21,439
Speaker 1: the South Carolina game Cocks. Final score Yukon eighty two,

679
00:46:22,880 --> 00:46:27,279
Speaker 1: South Carolina fifty nine a year ago, and as I

680
00:46:27,360 --> 00:46:32,720
Speaker 1: recall it, I think South Carolina was a higher seed.

681
00:46:33,600 --> 00:46:35,719
Speaker 1: They were both high seeds, but I think South Carolina

682
00:46:37,719 --> 00:46:43,399
Speaker 1: actually yeah, Yukon was a two. South Carolina was a one.

683
00:46:43,440 --> 00:46:49,480
Speaker 1: Here's my question, what film or video I guess would

684
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Speaker 1: be the better term do we have of the way

685
00:46:55,320 --> 00:47:01,319
Speaker 1: South Carolina and its head coach handled the most game festivities,

686
00:47:02,239 --> 00:47:06,960
Speaker 1: the walk down, you know, the congratulators, congratulatory walk, when

687
00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:10,279
Speaker 1: the losers and the winners shake hands, the coaches of

688
00:47:10,320 --> 00:47:14,560
Speaker 1: the teams meet. How did Dawn Staley handle that occasion.

689
00:47:14,760 --> 00:47:17,200
Speaker 1: That's the other thing that that slays me about Gino's

690
00:47:17,200 --> 00:47:21,319
Speaker 1: reaction is recently, as a year ago he bested her

691
00:47:24,760 --> 00:47:28,239
Speaker 1: dominated that game. I'd be curious to see what the

692
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Speaker 1: Zappruter film reveals to us, if anything. A couple of

693
00:47:34,200 --> 00:47:37,600
Speaker 1: people are saying. Don Staley was not mentioned in the

694
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Speaker 1: apology release that Yukon sent out on behalf of their

695
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Speaker 1: head coach, which again is why I can't give his

696
00:47:49,440 --> 00:47:53,319
Speaker 1: apology a full pelf. A full pelf would absolutely have

697
00:47:53,360 --> 00:47:56,839
Speaker 1: to include her, and by the way, you know, there

698
00:47:56,880 --> 00:47:58,759
Speaker 1: doesn't have to be loved between it wouldn't be the

699
00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:02,120
Speaker 1: first time. If there's not love of between rival coaches.

700
00:48:03,160 --> 00:48:05,520
Speaker 1: We kind of like when there's some antagonism and a

701
00:48:05,520 --> 00:48:08,960
Speaker 1: little bit of you know, juice and a little bit

702
00:48:09,000 --> 00:48:14,440
Speaker 1: of vitriol. But it would be I'd be curious to see.

703
00:48:14,520 --> 00:48:17,480
Speaker 1: I'm sure maybe somebody has already written about exactly that

704
00:48:17,680 --> 00:48:23,319
Speaker 1: second hour Sunday sermons Barrero and blakemore until eleven. Then

705
00:48:23,520 --> 00:48:27,040
Speaker 1: Brett tells me a forty five minute edition of worst

706
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Speaker 1: case scenario leading into a Minnesota wild pregame.

707
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Speaker 2: That is correct, Who we play the Red Wings in Detroit?

708
00:48:32,480 --> 00:48:34,200
Speaker 2: What are the what do we need to.

709
00:48:34,160 --> 00:48:38,520
Speaker 1: Know about our most recent victory? Now that's two in

710
00:48:38,560 --> 00:48:41,440
Speaker 1: a row, isn't it two in a row for Boudreaux? Exactly?

711
00:48:41,520 --> 00:48:43,480
Speaker 1: What do we got? What do we see yesterday?

712
00:48:43,760 --> 00:48:47,480
Speaker 2: I mean full disclosure, I didn't watch that's for Stride.

713
00:48:47,480 --> 00:48:48,840
Speaker 1: For Stride, I know what happened.

714
00:48:48,920 --> 00:48:51,120
Speaker 2: Really, you know, if there's a text era, what do

715
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Speaker 2: you think about that hit in the middle of the

716
00:48:52,840 --> 00:48:55,080
Speaker 2: second period with eight minutes left? I might not be

717
00:48:55,120 --> 00:48:58,080
Speaker 2: able to help you at it looked like it was

718
00:48:58,080 --> 00:49:01,319
Speaker 2: a very professional effort. I thought Hartman had a really

719
00:49:01,320 --> 00:49:05,560
Speaker 2: good game. There were some weird bounces, as far as

720
00:49:06,640 --> 00:49:09,080
Speaker 2: you know, like the first goal with Brodein where it

721
00:49:09,120 --> 00:49:11,440
Speaker 2: bounces off at defenders skate right in front of net.

722
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Speaker 2: But sometimes you work hard enough to make that happen.

723
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Speaker 2: So I thought it was overall a professional win that

724
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Speaker 2: they needed to have against a team that's desperate. By

725
00:49:20,320 --> 00:49:24,279
Speaker 2: the way, Ottawa Detroit today is another desperate team where

726
00:49:24,280 --> 00:49:26,760
Speaker 2: they're all fighting to the bottom of the Eastern Conference

727
00:49:26,880 --> 00:49:30,400
Speaker 2: is a log jam. So the fact that you do

728
00:49:30,440 --> 00:49:32,440
Speaker 2: that against that team, I was very impressed.

729
00:49:32,480 --> 00:49:35,359
Speaker 1: Four to one. Is that the final it was. And

730
00:49:35,440 --> 00:49:40,560
Speaker 1: your guy Ryan Hartman extends his point street the five games,

731
00:49:40,600 --> 00:49:44,760
Speaker 1: six goals to assists and eight points. Ye with a

732
00:49:44,800 --> 00:49:51,960
Speaker 1: two goal effort in Ottawa. So we are we're we're

733
00:49:52,160 --> 00:49:54,439
Speaker 1: resigned to our position, right, that's not going to change.

734
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Speaker 1: We're not going to catch We know that.

735
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Speaker 5: I don't.

736
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Speaker 2: I mean I know that regulation yeah the other day,

737
00:49:59,680 --> 00:50:01,320
Speaker 2: but I don't, well check the point totally.

738
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Speaker 1: Will in games in hand and all that kind.

739
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Speaker 2: Of I can tell you the Stars have one and

740
00:50:08,560 --> 00:50:11,480
Speaker 2: two points the Wild ninety eight. But the Wild have

741
00:50:11,520 --> 00:50:15,920
Speaker 2: a game in hand, so you still need It's not impossible,

742
00:50:16,680 --> 00:50:19,000
Speaker 2: but either while you're playing the Stars and just a

743
00:50:19,040 --> 00:50:21,120
Speaker 2: matter of it. But if the Stars keep losing, then

744
00:50:21,280 --> 00:50:23,919
Speaker 2: then we'll talk. So it is a two big points

745
00:50:23,960 --> 00:50:24,640
Speaker 2: for the Wild today.

746
00:50:25,000 --> 00:50:29,600
Speaker 1: The question is whether the Wolves. Timberwolves have anything to

747
00:50:29,680 --> 00:50:31,920
Speaker 1: play for the rest of the way. They are hosting

748
00:50:32,120 --> 00:50:36,320
Speaker 1: Charlotte this afternoon. I believe that's a five o'clock start Central.

749
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Speaker 1: You don't believe I have it as a six. Well,

750
00:50:38,120 --> 00:50:40,600
Speaker 1: it's a six, I apologize. Okay, yeah, it says six

751
00:50:41,360 --> 00:50:43,719
Speaker 1: on my sheet here, but I thought this might be

752
00:50:43,760 --> 00:50:45,200
Speaker 1: an Eastern Times on sheet.

753
00:50:45,239 --> 00:51:28,360
Speaker 4: But get to a couple of texts.

754
00:51:28,800 --> 00:51:31,000
Speaker 1: Matt checking in from Saint Paul Louis said two games

755
00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:33,440
Speaker 1: to prep for the playoffs, which I think I just

756
00:51:33,480 --> 00:51:35,799
Speaker 1: said that. But okay, but I guess what does he

757
00:51:35,880 --> 00:51:38,960
Speaker 1: know about hockey compared to you? This home road stuff

758
00:51:38,960 --> 00:51:42,640
Speaker 1: doesn't matter much that much these days. I'm going to

759
00:51:42,840 --> 00:51:46,000
Speaker 1: make it my business over the weekend of going into

760
00:51:46,000 --> 00:51:51,080
Speaker 1: the week to research what is taken as truth when

761
00:51:51,080 --> 00:51:55,120
Speaker 1: it comes to the lack of importance of home ice

762
00:51:55,160 --> 00:51:57,960
Speaker 1: advantage in the Stanley Cup playoffs. It's become a cliche.

763
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Speaker 1: I'm not even sure though it's quite as fifty to fifty.

764
00:52:02,719 --> 00:52:04,880
Speaker 1: I mean, over a period of a long time, not

765
00:52:04,960 --> 00:52:08,760
Speaker 1: any given year, as Maddie's suggesting. And I'll also add,

766
00:52:09,600 --> 00:52:13,920
Speaker 1: if you think Louis isn't interested in the Wild having

767
00:52:14,000 --> 00:52:17,520
Speaker 1: home ice if they can get it, you're delusional. When

768
00:52:17,560 --> 00:52:21,000
Speaker 1: he said it, as we said earlier, it's because, like

769
00:52:21,040 --> 00:52:22,800
Speaker 1: a lot of us, he felt that it looked like

770
00:52:22,880 --> 00:52:26,920
Speaker 1: the ship had sailed on the likelihood that the that

771
00:52:27,000 --> 00:52:32,680
Speaker 1: the Wild could catch the Stars. So I would, I would,

772
00:52:32,800 --> 00:52:36,840
Speaker 1: you know, be cautious before you you dismiss the notion

773
00:52:37,800 --> 00:52:43,000
Speaker 1: that he has that he finds it absolutely meaningless to

774
00:52:43,080 --> 00:52:45,920
Speaker 1: have it. I think what he is he believes in general,

775
00:52:45,960 --> 00:52:48,560
Speaker 1: is he thinks the Wild can beat the Stars, period.

776
00:52:48,960 --> 00:52:51,800
Speaker 1: And I don't think that's an outlandish thought at all either.

777
00:52:52,600 --> 00:52:55,560
Speaker 1: But so it's not as if if you don't have

778
00:52:55,600 --> 00:52:57,400
Speaker 1: home ice, he said, well, it's not even bothered playing,

779
00:52:58,239 --> 00:53:01,160
Speaker 1: And we do have examples of road teams winning. I

780
00:53:01,160 --> 00:53:02,960
Speaker 1: don't think it's as fifty to fifty though, as some

781
00:53:03,000 --> 00:53:06,760
Speaker 1: people in the hockey community pretend. Guardsi's conscience checked in earlier.

782
00:53:07,080 --> 00:53:10,440
Speaker 1: He enjoyed the historic note I had about the number

783
00:53:10,440 --> 00:53:16,080
Speaker 1: of one sided NBA regular season games twice in the

784
00:53:16,160 --> 00:53:20,000
Speaker 1: last twice in eighty years, like basically a week apart

785
00:53:20,200 --> 00:53:24,480
Speaker 1: this season, have that many games been I think it

786
00:53:24,520 --> 00:53:26,919
Speaker 1: was eight or more games been decided by twenty four

787
00:53:26,920 --> 00:53:30,920
Speaker 1: points or more. He's reveling in it. That's the danger

788
00:53:31,920 --> 00:53:36,040
Speaker 1: of going public with that stat, handing the ammunition to

789
00:53:36,080 --> 00:53:38,320
Speaker 1: the hockey community. But here's what I would add to.

790
00:53:38,640 --> 00:53:40,640
Speaker 1: I would follow up with this to guards these conscience.

791
00:53:43,280 --> 00:53:47,480
Speaker 1: At least in the basketball community, they're willing to report it,

792
00:53:49,000 --> 00:53:51,600
Speaker 1: they're not afraid of it. Do you think there's any

793
00:53:51,719 --> 00:53:54,239
Speaker 1: chance if there was any kind of indicting sort of

794
00:53:54,360 --> 00:53:59,400
Speaker 1: stat in that regard that guards the's conscience would go publicly. No,

795
00:53:59,520 --> 00:54:04,520
Speaker 1: we got sh don't anybody say the hockey community is

796
00:54:04,560 --> 00:54:09,800
Speaker 1: way too defensive to even, you know, basically call out

797
00:54:10,160 --> 00:54:13,440
Speaker 1: its own community. At least in basketball, there is a

798
00:54:13,480 --> 00:54:16,759
Speaker 1: willingness to call out the basketball community and say this

799
00:54:16,840 --> 00:54:21,839
Speaker 1: is a problem, we need to do something with it. Now,

800
00:54:22,040 --> 00:54:22,880
Speaker 1: go ahead with a bottle.

801
00:54:23,160 --> 00:54:26,360
Speaker 2: Are you willing to do your own apollo dazzle and

802
00:54:26,480 --> 00:54:29,320
Speaker 2: say that you and Johnny Athletic are partially to blame

803
00:54:29,560 --> 00:54:34,680
Speaker 2: for saying and they well just saying proudly that basketball

804
00:54:34,760 --> 00:54:36,120
Speaker 2: is more physically taxing.

805
00:54:37,040 --> 00:54:40,359
Speaker 1: I didn't say that, he did. I did, Yeah, he

806
00:54:40,440 --> 00:54:45,239
Speaker 1: definitely did. I didn't. I I'm who did as well.

807
00:54:45,239 --> 00:54:48,160
Speaker 1: He Andy Luter did as well. I think they're both

808
00:54:48,320 --> 00:54:53,360
Speaker 1: extremely taxing in different ways. I don't think that battle.

809
00:54:53,600 --> 00:54:56,200
Speaker 1: There's a lot of battles I'm interested in fighting. When

810
00:54:56,239 --> 00:54:59,200
Speaker 1: it comes to basketball versus hockey, that's I don't. I

811
00:54:59,239 --> 00:55:04,000
Speaker 1: just don't think that one is worth the difficulty because

812
00:55:04,040 --> 00:55:07,160
Speaker 1: you hear stuff like that, like me and guards, he's conscious.

813
00:55:07,160 --> 00:55:10,439
Speaker 1: You hear Johnny taking shots yes, sudden we go, oh yeah, yeah,

814
00:55:10,520 --> 00:55:12,319
Speaker 1: you don't even try it down in the stretch. So

815
00:55:12,560 --> 00:55:15,080
Speaker 1: it all feeds in our most likely Denver will pass

816
00:55:15,120 --> 00:55:17,160
Speaker 1: the Lakers for third, so we should do everything we

817
00:55:17,239 --> 00:55:19,319
Speaker 1: can within reason to catch the Rockets and get LA

818
00:55:19,360 --> 00:55:21,560
Speaker 1: in round one. We'll need to beat Houston our remaining

819
00:55:21,560 --> 00:55:23,960
Speaker 1: game with them to have the tiebreaker over Houston. So

820
00:55:24,080 --> 00:55:25,840
Speaker 1: five for the Wolves be the perfect spot. Yeah, I

821
00:55:25,880 --> 00:55:28,400
Speaker 1: mean that you could argue of the remaining games, although

822
00:55:28,400 --> 00:55:32,279
Speaker 1: again I think the Rockets right now, what do I

823
00:55:32,360 --> 00:55:36,799
Speaker 1: say are two ahead of us. Let's double check. They

824
00:55:36,840 --> 00:55:39,120
Speaker 1: are forty eight and twenty nine. We are forty six

825
00:55:39,800 --> 00:55:46,040
Speaker 1: and thirty one games. So again, if if you you

826
00:55:46,080 --> 00:55:49,960
Speaker 1: can't tie with them, if you haven't won the season series.

827
00:55:49,960 --> 00:55:52,120
Speaker 1: You have a chance to win the Stevens season series

828
00:55:52,160 --> 00:55:54,600
Speaker 1: at Houston. I think that's going to be a tough

829
00:55:54,600 --> 00:55:56,480
Speaker 1: game to win. Houston's playing better. In fact, I think

830
00:55:56,520 --> 00:55:59,600
Speaker 1: Houston's won five in a row. After kind of they

831
00:55:59,680 --> 00:56:02,359
Speaker 1: became the team. Everybody said, well, that's what you want

832
00:56:02,400 --> 00:56:04,800
Speaker 1: to play because they're they're kind of messing around and

833
00:56:04,800 --> 00:56:08,560
Speaker 1: they're kind of struggling. They're hot nuggets of one eighth straight.

834
00:56:09,200 --> 00:56:12,480
Speaker 1: By the way, did anybody see the shot Joker took

835
00:56:13,200 --> 00:56:20,120
Speaker 1: over wemban Yama yesterday? It was mind boggling. The shot

836
00:56:20,160 --> 00:56:24,640
Speaker 1: clock's running down. He has picked up his dribble, he's

837
00:56:24,680 --> 00:56:27,600
Speaker 1: on sort of like the right side of the free

838
00:56:27,600 --> 00:56:31,920
Speaker 1: throw line extended, and he's got wemban Yama in his

839
00:56:32,000 --> 00:56:36,360
Speaker 1: face and he does the old you know, pivot turn

840
00:56:36,640 --> 00:56:39,200
Speaker 1: one way, turn the other, turn back the other way,

841
00:56:39,760 --> 00:56:43,040
Speaker 1: and then just flings it. The high art you have

842
00:56:43,120 --> 00:56:48,839
Speaker 1: to over Wemby for a basket. It's worth seeing if

843
00:56:48,880 --> 00:56:51,680
Speaker 1: you have not found it, it's an outstanding play. Speaking

844
00:56:51,719 --> 00:56:55,440
Speaker 1: of outstanding highlights, let's go ahead and play it now.

845
00:56:56,600 --> 00:56:58,279
Speaker 1: Let me give you the let me set this up

846
00:56:58,320 --> 00:57:02,880
Speaker 1: properly before we do. There are people there are ball

847
00:57:02,920 --> 00:57:08,960
Speaker 1: guys suggesting that Joe Adeli Los Angeles Lakers. I was

848
00:57:08,960 --> 00:57:12,839
Speaker 1: about to say Angels outfielder may have just had the

849
00:57:12,880 --> 00:57:19,200
Speaker 1: greatest regular season defensive game in the history of Major

850
00:57:19,280 --> 00:57:25,520
Speaker 1: League Baseball in a one to nothing Angels victory over

851
00:57:25,520 --> 00:57:28,360
Speaker 1: the Seattle Mariners. And that's key again, because any in

852
00:57:28,400 --> 00:57:33,280
Speaker 1: a one nothing game, every run, not to mention, every

853
00:57:33,360 --> 00:57:38,600
Speaker 1: potential home run matters. Let's play the the TV highlights

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Speaker 1: that I think offer up. It's kind of a medley

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Speaker 1: of three different absurd adele circus catches in the outfield.

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00:57:50,640 --> 00:57:55,080
Speaker 1: In right field, there's Craft through la.

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Speaker 3: Fly away toward the corner. It's joe Tell game near

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Speaker 3: the fouleport.

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00:58:00,120 --> 00:58:01,760
Speaker 4: Didn't count it again he.

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Speaker 1: Fell into the crowd. So it's a home run. They

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Speaker 1: called them out.

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00:58:06,600 --> 00:58:07,560
Speaker 4: He did it again.

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00:58:14,200 --> 00:58:18,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, a third one there? Oh, here's the Is this

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00:58:18,440 --> 00:58:20,720
Speaker 2: the second one? Doesn't matter that I think they have

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Speaker 2: at least one more, Go ahead and play it.

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00:58:24,240 --> 00:58:26,680
Speaker 3: There's Claw through the fly boat a light toward the corner.

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Speaker 3: It's Joey Tell again near the fire pot.

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Speaker 1: Oh, that's the same one. That's okay. So the bottom

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00:58:32,880 --> 00:58:37,400
Speaker 1: line is he had three home run saving catches in

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00:58:37,440 --> 00:58:40,360
Speaker 1: the same game and the last one in the ninth inning,

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00:58:40,640 --> 00:58:42,960
Speaker 1: he does end up in the stands. I need a

872
00:58:43,200 --> 00:58:46,840
Speaker 1: ruling clarification on that, because I originally play by play

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00:58:46,840 --> 00:58:48,280
Speaker 1: guy says, well, it's gonna be a home run because

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00:58:48,320 --> 00:58:50,320
Speaker 1: he ended up in the in in out of the

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00:58:50,320 --> 00:58:53,520
Speaker 1: field of play. They must have decided that he made

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00:58:53,560 --> 00:58:57,920
Speaker 1: the catch at least enough inbounds, so to speak, or

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00:58:57,960 --> 00:59:01,240
Speaker 1: in the field of play that ruled it a catch

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00:59:01,600 --> 00:59:05,120
Speaker 1: and not a home run. Correct. That is, here's the

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00:59:05,120 --> 00:59:08,040
Speaker 1: whole three les one stripe. There's a drive out to

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00:59:08,160 --> 00:59:11,680
Speaker 1: right from Raleigh. Adele's back near the wady leaps hen.

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00:59:11,800 --> 00:59:13,600
Speaker 4: He cut it down.

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00:59:15,880 --> 00:59:19,400
Speaker 1: There's a drag to right. Adele is back, he's at

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00:59:19,400 --> 00:59:19,880
Speaker 1: the wall.

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00:59:19,960 --> 00:59:22,720
Speaker 4: He leaps up. He got another run.

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00:59:22,960 --> 00:59:25,640
Speaker 1: Ta Dell Flood to night Gleeve.

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00:59:27,200 --> 00:59:29,720
Speaker 3: There's craw through the fly all the light toward the corner.

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00:59:29,800 --> 00:59:33,320
Speaker 3: It's Joe Adell again near the foul pay click three,

888
00:59:33,480 --> 00:59:34,200
Speaker 3: catch it again.

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00:59:34,640 --> 00:59:38,840
Speaker 1: He fell into the crowd. There's Rod Big call them.

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00:59:39,000 --> 00:59:41,880
Speaker 1: That's a nice that's a nice regular season defensive performance.

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00:59:41,920 --> 00:59:44,680
Speaker 1: Would you not three home runs taken away by a

892
00:59:44,960 --> 00:59:49,320
Speaker 1: single player, Adele the player? If you have not seen

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Speaker 1: the highlights they're absolutely worthy of attention. Bradshawn Bryan Kiffin,

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Speaker 1: text line, keep the text coming, six four six, eight six.

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Speaker 1: I had a couple of other nuggets I wanted to

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Speaker 1: get to, and we'll get the text going as well,

897
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Speaker 1: and maybe talk about some more apologies, whether they were

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Speaker 1: whether they were warranted or not, and we'll attempt to

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Speaker 1: rank the apology for its pelfness. Stay tuned. Wait morning,

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Speaker 1: you got a pen, I got a pen. Can you

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Speaker 1: write this down?

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Speaker 5: Okay?

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Speaker 1: Twenty one, twenty three, thirteen, thirty three and eighteen?

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Speaker 5: All right?

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01:00:44,920 --> 01:00:47,040
Speaker 1: Can you add all those numbers up? Does that win

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01:00:47,160 --> 01:00:52,160
Speaker 1: me a million dollars? Calculator, get your phone calculator, add

907
01:00:52,280 --> 01:00:56,160
Speaker 1: all those numbers up, and then divide that number that

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01:00:56,760 --> 01:01:01,880
Speaker 1: sum by five. A method to this Brat Shawn Bryan

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Speaker 1: Kafin text line is open at six four six, at six.

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Speaker 5: That would be twenty one point six.

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01:01:09,320 --> 01:01:13,560
Speaker 1: That's the average margin of victory for the Michigan Wolverines

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01:01:13,760 --> 01:01:19,080
Speaker 1: men's basketball team as they advance to the National Championship

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Speaker 1: game tomorrow night against Yukon. They have been a revelation

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01:01:28,840 --> 01:01:34,720
Speaker 1: the Wolverines have Yukon. I don't want to say they

915
01:01:34,800 --> 01:01:37,880
Speaker 1: tried to give the game away the game, Illinois made

916
01:01:37,920 --> 01:01:40,640
Speaker 1: a decent comeback, they just could not finish at the

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Speaker 1: rim a number of times.

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Speaker 4: So they.

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Speaker 1: Hold off Illinois. So we don't get an all Big

920
01:01:48,640 --> 01:01:53,640
Speaker 1: Ten title game, but we do get a dominant Michigan performance.

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01:01:53,680 --> 01:01:56,640
Speaker 1: I'm assuming they are heavily favored. I don't necessarily think

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01:01:56,680 --> 01:02:00,880
Speaker 1: that means anything, but they have been. They've been a

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01:02:00,920 --> 01:02:05,760
Speaker 1: machine in this postseason, pretty much as I said, from

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01:02:05,800 --> 01:02:11,400
Speaker 1: start to finish. The women's championship game is this late afternoon,

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01:02:11,480 --> 01:02:18,680
Speaker 1: I believe against it's South Carolina, obviously against Ucla. There's

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Speaker 1: a lot of speculation. You know, the Minnesota Links, you

927
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Speaker 1: may recall, have the number two overall pick in this draft,

928
01:02:31,680 --> 01:02:35,560
Speaker 1: and there have been already a million mock drafts put

929
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Speaker 1: out suggesting that the Links, I should say, will take

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01:02:41,640 --> 01:02:44,560
Speaker 1: a center with a number two pick, but that it

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Speaker 1: will not be the UCLA center Lauren Betts, who made

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01:02:50,560 --> 01:02:54,080
Speaker 1: the block of the probably the women's college basketball season

933
01:02:54,840 --> 01:03:00,600
Speaker 1: to assure or save victory for Ucla over or Texas

934
01:03:01,320 --> 01:03:05,200
Speaker 1: in the other national semifinal game not involving Gino and

935
01:03:06,720 --> 01:03:13,640
Speaker 1: Yukon versus South Carolina. The center that this ESPN mock

936
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Speaker 1: draft has us taking is a center out of Spain.

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Speaker 1: The name is the first name is Awa Awa Fom

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Speaker 1: or fam Fam. Here's the bio on her. She's averaging

939
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Speaker 1: only nine and a half points and four five point

940
01:03:30,920 --> 01:03:35,600
Speaker 1: seven rebounds for Valencia in Spain, but she's only nineteen

941
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Speaker 1: with a ton of potential. The feeling is that this

942
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Speaker 1: would be the sort of player who might not come

943
01:03:41,560 --> 01:03:45,040
Speaker 1: in as a star, but could well be a star.

944
01:03:45,640 --> 01:03:51,320
Speaker 1: Bets looks like a terrific defensive presence to me. She

945
01:03:51,440 --> 01:03:54,680
Speaker 1: apparently started the season slowly, but in the games I've

946
01:03:54,760 --> 01:03:59,520
Speaker 1: seen she's looked awfully good, especially as I said, defensively,

947
01:04:00,200 --> 01:04:03,240
Speaker 1: averaging sixteen and a half points, eight point two boards,

948
01:04:03,800 --> 01:04:06,320
Speaker 1: and two point one blocks for UCLA. The Bruins, of

949
01:04:06,360 --> 01:04:11,160
Speaker 1: course playing again for the national championship later today, so

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01:04:11,640 --> 01:04:13,880
Speaker 1: as we get closer to that, we'll see what kind

951
01:04:13,880 --> 01:04:18,480
Speaker 1: of reports we can get. Because, you know, Bets, for

952
01:04:18,640 --> 01:04:21,520
Speaker 1: all the obvious reasons, all the national exposure on this

953
01:04:21,720 --> 01:04:24,600
Speaker 1: run is getting a lot of you know, a lot

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Speaker 1: of conversation and a lot of attention. As we've learned

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01:04:27,720 --> 01:04:30,120
Speaker 1: over the years, whether you're talking about men's side or

956
01:04:30,160 --> 01:04:33,280
Speaker 1: women's side. Part of the job is to project though

957
01:04:33,360 --> 01:04:36,680
Speaker 1: it's not necessarily how great you are at the college level,

958
01:04:37,400 --> 01:04:39,920
Speaker 1: it's how about the next level? Will some of your

959
01:04:39,960 --> 01:04:45,320
Speaker 1: weaknesses be exposed? Can you take it another step up

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01:04:45,440 --> 01:04:47,560
Speaker 1: as well. I'll be fascinated to see where that goes.

961
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Speaker 1: But you'd like to think if you have the number

962
01:04:49,520 --> 01:04:52,680
Speaker 1: two overall pick, then you put yourself in a very

963
01:04:52,760 --> 01:04:56,840
Speaker 1: good position correct to get a player who can be

964
01:04:57,200 --> 01:05:01,080
Speaker 1: very helpful and perhaps almost from the uh the beginning

965
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Speaker 1: six four six eighty six brand Shawn Brian Caffee in

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Speaker 1: text line, I got to reboot it again because that's

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Speaker 1: the way this goes. We got to have we have

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Speaker 1: here very tight security here at iHeart apparently, and for

969
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Speaker 1: that reason we have to sort of, you know, reboot, reboot,

970
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Speaker 1: keep rebooting as well. And of course it's not giving me.

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Speaker 1: Here we go. Here's the Hip crick It's called the

972
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Speaker 1: Hip Cricket Support. They put my code in right now.

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Speaker 1: I can't tell you my code because I don't want

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Speaker 1: you to get in there. But this hopefully will put

975
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Speaker 1: us back in because there are a couple of good

976
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Speaker 1: texts that I were saving that I do want to

977
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Speaker 1: discuss here in our final segment of the program. Wow,

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Speaker 1: this is from two and eight. I thought the numbers

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Speaker 1: you you gave Blake Moore where the games Buxton played

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01:05:47,880 --> 01:05:51,360
Speaker 1: in the four years preceding last year. That's just not

981
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Speaker 1: very nice. And by the way, he is out again,

982
01:05:53,880 --> 01:05:55,080
Speaker 1: right are you? And I don't know if he's in

983
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Speaker 1: the lineup today, but he was out yesterday after getting

984
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Speaker 1: hit by a pitch. I don't think it's considered anything

985
01:06:01,880 --> 01:06:07,959
Speaker 1: serious regarding the baseball rule of a player, a player

986
01:06:08,040 --> 01:06:09,880
Speaker 1: catching the ball four touches the ground before it touches

987
01:06:09,880 --> 01:06:12,400
Speaker 1: anything else makes an out, doesn't matter whether he's over

988
01:06:12,520 --> 01:06:15,480
Speaker 1: offense or not. That's Stephen river Falls, the play by

989
01:06:15,560 --> 01:06:21,920
Speaker 1: play guy responding to or describing the third Joe Adele

990
01:06:22,760 --> 01:06:26,840
Speaker 1: home runs saving catch and right field declared it a

991
01:06:26,920 --> 01:06:29,280
Speaker 1: home run because he ended up in the stands. But

992
01:06:30,200 --> 01:06:33,360
Speaker 1: this rule apparently was properly applied in this case, which

993
01:06:33,440 --> 01:06:37,560
Speaker 1: meant it was another game saving in this case home

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Speaker 1: run as well. Home ice matters a lot more if

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01:06:43,640 --> 01:06:46,280
Speaker 1: you can find mismatched line since the home picks second

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01:06:47,520 --> 01:06:50,800
Speaker 1: picks last, I guess right, last change, last change you

997
01:06:50,880 --> 01:06:52,600
Speaker 1: a big believer in last change being huge?

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01:06:52,680 --> 01:06:52,920
Speaker 3: I am.

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01:06:53,040 --> 01:06:55,720
Speaker 2: I think it's something that coaches can really control, and

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01:06:55,800 --> 01:06:57,640
Speaker 2: that's kind of a chess match of who you want

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01:06:57,640 --> 01:07:00,160
Speaker 2: to line up with who. So I do agree, just

1002
01:07:00,200 --> 01:07:02,800
Speaker 2: think that it's not a death sense if you know,

1003
01:07:02,880 --> 01:07:04,600
Speaker 2: don't get home ice. But I think it's something worth

1004
01:07:04,640 --> 01:07:07,320
Speaker 2: fighting for well. And what often negates it great goaltending.

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01:07:07,400 --> 01:07:08,800
Speaker 2: I mean, that's a lot of times we say, well,

1006
01:07:09,240 --> 01:07:10,320
Speaker 2: they have no business.

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01:07:12,040 --> 01:07:14,919
Speaker 1: Winning this series, but the goaltender literally tilted the game

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01:07:15,680 --> 01:07:21,800
Speaker 1: in another direction. And that's what it was about. I

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01:07:21,920 --> 01:07:24,360
Speaker 1: had another one. I thought I'd say, oh yeah, I mean,

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01:07:24,440 --> 01:07:30,560
Speaker 1: Siecil makes a good point. Think about Look, having game seven,

1011
01:07:31,160 --> 01:07:33,560
Speaker 1: even even the first round, doesn't guarantee that you're going

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01:07:33,600 --> 01:07:37,160
Speaker 1: to win. But you take it, wouldn't you. You take

1013
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Speaker 1: your chances with it. You say, yeah, let's let's see

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Speaker 1: if we can have that. And you know, if you

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Speaker 1: if you play your cards, or maybe you have home

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01:07:43,720 --> 01:07:45,880
Speaker 1: ice in more than one series. I mean, if the

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Speaker 1: idea this year is to make a run, that wouldn't

1018
01:07:48,000 --> 01:07:51,480
Speaker 1: be the the worst thing either. I don't think I

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01:07:51,560 --> 01:07:56,680
Speaker 1: think they'd be you know, kind of helpful. Let's see

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Speaker 1: what else we had. You know, we know about Reeves

1021
01:07:59,200 --> 01:08:02,720
Speaker 1: being out for the lake as well, oh, Gino's big complaint.

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01:08:02,800 --> 01:08:06,880
Speaker 1: We talked about the Gino Arima apology earlier after he

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01:08:08,800 --> 01:08:13,080
Speaker 1: I think really became quite childish and and immature in

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01:08:13,240 --> 01:08:16,240
Speaker 1: not not accepting the fact that his team got it

1025
01:08:16,360 --> 01:08:20,040
Speaker 1: got it its ass kicked by South Carolina in the

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Speaker 1: National semifinal game Friday. Gino's big complaint was the imbalance

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Speaker 1: of files in the third quarter. Six zero zero files

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Speaker 1: on sc pretty unexplainable. There is a Minnesota connection to

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Speaker 1: one of the refs. Is one of us as well,

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Speaker 1: You're you're coming to the wrong place on FIUL disparity,

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01:08:42,000 --> 01:08:45,920
Speaker 1: I don't I don't play there. I I the thing

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01:08:46,000 --> 01:08:49,360
Speaker 1: that has always bugged me. We have too many people

1033
01:08:49,439 --> 01:08:54,160
Speaker 1: in our audience who believe that every game, each team

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01:08:54,160 --> 01:08:56,080
Speaker 1: should have the exact same number of free throws within

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Speaker 1: one or two and within a quarter, they better had

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Speaker 1: the same number of files. Called That's not the way

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01:09:04,760 --> 01:09:09,360
Speaker 1: life or basketball works. There are a number of factors

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01:09:09,400 --> 01:09:11,800
Speaker 1: that might contribute to one thing having a disparity, one

1039
01:09:11,880 --> 01:09:18,160
Speaker 1: team having a disparity over the other, aggressiveness, smarts, tenacity,

1040
01:09:19,479 --> 01:09:23,559
Speaker 1: the way they run their offense, any number of reasons.

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01:09:24,760 --> 01:09:27,720
Speaker 1: And it's why I've never accepted that premise. Now within

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01:09:27,800 --> 01:09:30,839
Speaker 1: a quarter, does that look a little weird? Zero files

1043
01:09:30,880 --> 01:09:34,519
Speaker 1: called on South Carolina? Yeah, I guess. But can anybody

1044
01:09:34,800 --> 01:09:38,040
Speaker 1: in the right minds who watched that game or significant

1045
01:09:38,040 --> 01:09:40,320
Speaker 1: portions of that game come away from it thinking that

1046
01:09:40,400 --> 01:09:43,719
Speaker 1: the referees with a difference. I watched it, and I didn't.

1047
01:09:44,800 --> 01:09:46,960
Speaker 1: I didn't feel it was had much to do with

1048
01:09:47,040 --> 01:09:51,799
Speaker 1: that at all. Now do team do referee sometimes reward

1049
01:09:52,000 --> 01:09:56,879
Speaker 1: aggressiveness in a way that they give that those defensive

1050
01:09:56,880 --> 01:09:58,400
Speaker 1: players a little bit more of the benefit of doubt?

1051
01:09:58,439 --> 01:10:00,560
Speaker 1: I guess that's possible. It's human nat. Can there be

1052
01:10:00,680 --> 01:10:04,800
Speaker 1: some misscalls, Yes, but that game was still available in

1053
01:10:04,840 --> 01:10:07,360
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, and you kon couldn't do anything about it.

1054
01:10:07,880 --> 01:10:10,200
Speaker 1: They just weren't ready for whatever and and and they

1055
01:10:10,240 --> 01:10:13,479
Speaker 1: had too many people miss too many shots. So you know,

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Speaker 1: that's why I can't get all that worked up. I

1057
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Speaker 1: understand why a coach is going to say what he's

1058
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Speaker 1: going to say, because that's what coaches do. They're always

1059
01:10:19,760 --> 01:10:23,920
Speaker 1: going to play that game. But I it's why I

1060
01:10:24,080 --> 01:10:27,400
Speaker 1: find so much of the discussion about foul disparities stupid,

1061
01:10:28,160 --> 01:10:33,040
Speaker 1: because they almost never take into consideration the actions of

1062
01:10:33,120 --> 01:10:35,680
Speaker 1: the individual players involved. It's almost like, you know the bit.

1063
01:10:35,800 --> 01:10:40,200
Speaker 1: The cliche is, let the players decide. Let the players

1064
01:10:40,240 --> 01:10:42,639
Speaker 1: decide it down the stretch, nobody wants to Nobody came

1065
01:10:42,760 --> 01:10:46,679
Speaker 1: to see referees blow the whistle. That sounds really cool

1066
01:10:47,400 --> 01:10:50,080
Speaker 1: around the water cooler, but you know what it leaves out.

1067
01:10:51,240 --> 01:10:55,800
Speaker 1: Often the players are determining the way a game goes

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Speaker 1: by it. It goes down to the end of it

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01:10:59,080 --> 01:11:02,320
Speaker 1: on the basis of whether they commit stupid fouls or don't.

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Speaker 1: So the idea that referees is to swallow their whistles

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Speaker 1: and ignore a foul because I don't want to get

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01:11:10,960 --> 01:11:16,040
Speaker 1: in the way. This isn't about me. No, players, by

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Speaker 1: how disciplined they are when it comes to committing files

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01:11:20,280 --> 01:11:24,200
Speaker 1: or not committing files, they also are affecting the game.

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01:11:24,320 --> 01:11:29,200
Speaker 1: They are if it's being officiated correctly, forcing a referee

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01:11:29,280 --> 01:11:32,719
Speaker 1: to stop action by making a call. It's a cliche

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01:11:33,040 --> 01:11:37,840
Speaker 1: that we all love saying, but it's rarely made all

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01:11:37,920 --> 01:11:41,639
Speaker 1: that much sense to me for that particular reason as well.

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01:11:44,120 --> 01:11:46,800
Speaker 1: Oh love the grumgals. And he's right, She's right about this.

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01:11:47,840 --> 01:11:51,559
Speaker 1: That almost immediately when the fourth quarter started, I think

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01:11:51,600 --> 01:11:56,519
Speaker 1: the first two or three fouls were called on South Carolina.

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01:11:56,960 --> 01:12:01,280
Speaker 1: On the other hand, maybe they fouled, So we always

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01:12:01,320 --> 01:12:04,799
Speaker 1: want to believe that there's a direct correlation. These are humans,

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01:12:04,880 --> 01:12:09,200
Speaker 1: These are not robotic referees. So in some cases one

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01:12:09,280 --> 01:12:11,920
Speaker 1: thing might have something to do with the other. But

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01:12:12,120 --> 01:12:15,920
Speaker 1: believe me, most a lot of the time, it's what

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01:12:16,080 --> 01:12:19,839
Speaker 1: we want to believe. We remember the times where immediately

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01:12:19,960 --> 01:12:23,160
Speaker 1: after they seem to get calls after the batching, you

1089
01:12:23,240 --> 01:12:25,840
Speaker 1: know what, we don't remember the times where they still

1090
01:12:25,880 --> 01:12:28,400
Speaker 1: didn't get calls for the next five minutes. Why do

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01:12:28,520 --> 01:12:31,120
Speaker 1: we not remember those occasions because it doesn't fit what

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01:12:31,240 --> 01:12:37,120
Speaker 1: we're trying to achieve, what we're going for there love

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01:12:37,160 --> 01:12:39,680
Speaker 1: the grum Gal also adds it's because South Carolina was

1094
01:12:39,760 --> 01:12:42,080
Speaker 1: driving the basket, you kind of shooting from the outside.

1095
01:12:42,160 --> 01:12:44,519
Speaker 1: And that's the more general complaint I have about the

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01:12:44,560 --> 01:12:48,080
Speaker 1: assumption that both teams should always have an equal number

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01:12:48,640 --> 01:12:53,160
Speaker 1: of free throws. It has nothing to do with at

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01:12:53,200 --> 01:12:58,040
Speaker 1: some point the action within a given game, the way

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01:12:58,160 --> 01:13:03,439
Speaker 1: each team is performing, the approach they're taking offensively, might

1100
01:13:03,520 --> 01:13:05,880
Speaker 1: well have something to do or should have something to

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01:13:05,960 --> 01:13:08,040
Speaker 1: do with the discussion about why there might be in

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01:13:08,120 --> 01:13:12,400
Speaker 1: some cases a bit of disparity as well. What else

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01:13:12,439 --> 01:13:14,320
Speaker 1: did I want to? Let me check my list here?

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01:13:14,360 --> 01:13:16,479
Speaker 1: We only got about what about four minutes left, give

1105
01:13:16,560 --> 01:13:21,320
Speaker 1: or take oh twins back in ed do we know

1106
01:13:21,400 --> 01:13:24,080
Speaker 1: if Buck is in the lineup today? Is he's the

1107
01:13:24,160 --> 01:13:25,519
Speaker 1: DH and batting seconds?

1108
01:13:25,880 --> 01:13:26,000
Speaker 3: Oh?

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01:13:26,000 --> 01:13:28,479
Speaker 1: Okay, so he is in, but he's dhing, all right?

1110
01:13:28,520 --> 01:13:31,320
Speaker 1: Fair enough. I had a there was a gleaming tweet

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01:13:31,360 --> 01:13:35,160
Speaker 1: I wanted to find real quick here too that I

1112
01:13:35,240 --> 01:13:39,000
Speaker 1: wanted to get to. Oh yeah, well he does confirm

1113
01:13:39,080 --> 01:13:47,040
Speaker 1: on Buston, you mentioned the announced attendants for the Saturday

1114
01:13:47,080 --> 01:13:50,920
Speaker 1: game was fifteen fifty six. That's down twenty thousand seven

1115
01:13:50,960 --> 01:13:53,240
Speaker 1: or eighty six from yesterday's home opener, and down eight

1116
01:13:53,320 --> 01:13:57,240
Speaker 1: twenty six from last season's second game. And again, the

1117
01:13:57,280 --> 01:14:02,320
Speaker 1: announced attendance is allegedly gets sold. It's clearly not people

1118
01:14:03,479 --> 01:14:05,960
Speaker 1: in the building. And to be foolish to think either

1119
01:14:06,040 --> 01:14:08,120
Speaker 1: day to me that there were that many people despite

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01:14:08,200 --> 01:14:10,680
Speaker 1: the announced deal. And again, that's what all teams do.

1121
01:14:10,840 --> 01:14:13,800
Speaker 1: That's not just a pole ad a conspiracy thing. That's

1122
01:14:13,840 --> 01:14:18,360
Speaker 1: pretty much what all teams do. But I don't think

1123
01:14:18,400 --> 01:14:21,600
Speaker 1: there were any there was anywhere near that number for

1124
01:14:21,800 --> 01:14:23,840
Speaker 1: the opener. And you could say, well, part of that's

1125
01:14:23,880 --> 01:14:27,200
Speaker 1: the team, part of that's the feeling about ownership, and

1126
01:14:27,240 --> 01:14:31,880
Speaker 1: part of that was obviously the conditions were not very

1127
01:14:31,960 --> 01:14:36,320
Speaker 1: good as well. Are there any Twins apologies we need

1128
01:14:36,320 --> 01:14:38,560
Speaker 1: to talk about. There's kind of an ongoing apology in

1129
01:14:38,680 --> 01:14:42,280
Speaker 1: a sense from Tom pole Ad. I guess he was

1130
01:14:42,320 --> 01:14:47,640
Speaker 1: asked about the Twins ranking last the Athletic doesn't a

1131
01:14:47,720 --> 01:14:51,320
Speaker 1: hope a meter fan survey and the Twins finished dead

1132
01:14:51,439 --> 01:14:54,760
Speaker 1: last in the in the survey. The quote from Tom

1133
01:14:54,800 --> 01:14:57,160
Speaker 1: pole Ad, nobody likes to read that kind of stuff,

1134
01:14:57,200 --> 01:14:59,400
Speaker 1: and I'm not surprised by it. I've be very clear

1135
01:14:59,439 --> 01:15:01,519
Speaker 1: about what we've been through as an organization. I think,

1136
01:15:01,560 --> 01:15:04,080
Speaker 1: particularly inside these walls, there's a palpable bulls and it

1137
01:15:04,280 --> 01:15:07,519
Speaker 1: buzz and energy about what we're building here. I know

1138
01:15:07,600 --> 01:15:09,960
Speaker 1: their skepticism outside these walls.

1139
01:15:11,400 --> 01:15:13,200
Speaker 5: Didn't they cut another thirty million this year?

1140
01:15:13,400 --> 01:15:15,519
Speaker 1: Well they've cut yeah, I think it's like sixty five

1141
01:15:15,560 --> 01:15:17,840
Speaker 1: million over the course the last two plus seasons or

1142
01:15:17,880 --> 01:15:21,600
Speaker 1: post seasonment. Well, again, the thing the problem I have

1143
01:15:21,720 --> 01:15:23,559
Speaker 1: with the quote, you could say, to a certain extent,

1144
01:15:24,360 --> 01:15:27,360
Speaker 1: he's owning the apology, like, well, yeah, I'm not surprised.

1145
01:15:27,400 --> 01:15:29,000
Speaker 1: That's where it is, we don't like hearing about it.

1146
01:15:29,640 --> 01:15:34,800
Speaker 1: On the other hand, what he says, I've been very

1147
01:15:34,880 --> 01:15:38,280
Speaker 1: clear about what we've been through as an organization, and

1148
01:15:38,760 --> 01:15:43,000
Speaker 1: to me, again that almost sounds like, well, outside forces

1149
01:15:43,080 --> 01:15:47,559
Speaker 1: have conspired to make us endure stuff that we didn't

1150
01:15:47,560 --> 01:15:50,920
Speaker 1: really want to endure. And of course most of these wounds,

1151
01:15:51,479 --> 01:15:54,599
Speaker 1: ninety percent of these wounds are self inflicted. You can't

1152
01:15:54,680 --> 01:15:56,240
Speaker 1: leave that out of the equation when it comes to

1153
01:15:56,400 --> 01:16:00,439
Speaker 1: whatever challenges that you might indeed be dealing with. So

1154
01:16:00,520 --> 01:16:02,719
Speaker 1: we'll see what we have. At least the suns out today.

1155
01:16:03,000 --> 01:16:05,160
Speaker 1: I mean, that's a no pelf for me. That's a zero.

1156
01:16:05,280 --> 01:16:08,200
Speaker 1: That's a no pelf. He's he's offered half pelfs in

1157
01:16:08,360 --> 01:16:11,760
Speaker 1: other quotes previously, although on the other hand he kind

1158
01:16:11,760 --> 01:16:13,880
Speaker 1: of negates them when he gets bitter about so much

1159
01:16:13,960 --> 01:16:17,000
Speaker 1: payroll talk in that conversation as well. What is the

1160
01:16:17,120 --> 01:16:19,000
Speaker 1: current temperature? What are we expecting at the ballpark?

1161
01:16:19,080 --> 01:16:19,200
Speaker 3: Two?

1162
01:16:19,360 --> 01:16:21,360
Speaker 1: Quite well, I would look at the my app, but

1163
01:16:21,439 --> 01:16:23,640
Speaker 1: apparently it's never right. You have a bad you're if

1164
01:16:23,680 --> 01:16:25,680
Speaker 1: you're looking at the Apple weather app. That's like the

1165
01:16:25,760 --> 01:16:28,000
Speaker 1: worst in the business. That part's true. It's telling me

1166
01:16:28,080 --> 01:16:30,800
Speaker 1: it's forty one the highest fifty one to fifty one.

1167
01:16:30,840 --> 01:16:33,960
Speaker 1: Well that's a little better, right, Yeah, it's been Uh

1168
01:16:34,120 --> 01:16:36,280
Speaker 1: So the plan today is worst case scenario for forty

1169
01:16:36,320 --> 01:16:40,960
Speaker 1: five minutes and then Minnesota Wild pregame activity only again

1170
01:16:41,120 --> 01:16:44,200
Speaker 1: like a six minute pregame show, because that's all Fallness

1171
01:16:44,280 --> 01:16:49,200
Speaker 1: is interested in doing, mister hockey. And then what about

1172
01:16:49,200 --> 01:16:50,800
Speaker 1: the Wolves game? Will that be on the fan later

1173
01:16:50,880 --> 01:16:52,920
Speaker 1: tonight because it's all fi. Yeah, it's a late start.

1174
01:16:53,040 --> 01:16:57,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, so Wild into Women's National champions tonight into Wolves

1175
01:16:57,439 --> 01:16:59,680
Speaker 2: even better. So it's a nice combo platter for you.

1176
01:16:59,800 --> 01:17:02,400
Speaker 2: I believe guards he's with me tomorrow. Bumper to Bumper

1177
01:17:02,439 --> 01:17:03,240
Speaker 2: should start at three.

1178
01:17:03,760 --> 01:17:07,280
Speaker 1: Johnny Athletic will be among our guests, and who knows

1179
01:17:07,439 --> 01:17:11,280
Speaker 1: where else we might go. Enjoy your Easter Sunday. Hope

1180
01:17:11,280 --> 01:17:14,760
Speaker 1: you're wearing a bonnet today, and we will talk to

1181
01:17:14,760 --> 01:17:16,400
Speaker 1: you tomorrow, beginning at three o'clock right here in the

1182
01:17:16,439 --> 01:17:16,599
Speaker 1: Pain