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Speaker 1: There's no question we got the best in the booth.

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Speaker 2: That's why Murf and Marcus catch up with Krouk right now,

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Speaker 2: right now on KNBR one oh four or five and

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Speaker 3: Hey, it's a big old Giants party today because not

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Speaker 3: only the Giants get the win last night three to

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Speaker 3: Dwayne Kuiper on his normal hit, but we get bonus

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Speaker 3: Mike Kruco after yesterday we had little rescheduling, so we

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Speaker 3: get Mike this week on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, and

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Speaker 3: today being Tuesday, we got him right now after he

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Speaker 3: called the Giants win last night with Dwayne Kuiper Giants

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Speaker 3: three Padres to Tony Vtello's first win as Giants manager.

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Speaker 3: Mike he joins John McGraw and Leo Durocher and Dusty

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Speaker 3: Baker and Bruce Bochi. That's pretty darn cool man. Good

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Speaker 3: on to Mike, how are you hey?

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Speaker 4: More thing?

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Speaker 1: Mike?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And don't forget Danny Ozark.

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Speaker 3: Come on, we actually mentioned Danny Ozark, believe it or not.

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Speaker 1: So what was your reaction? I mean, there's a lot

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Speaker 3: Is your bigger takeaway that the Giants a scored three

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Speaker 3: and the bullpen did the job, or see Tony V

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Speaker 1: What was the biggest story?

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Speaker 4: And that's exactly what Landa Roope did last night. You

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Speaker 4: And this is something that he has to prove upon

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Speaker 4: That was the key. And uh and he stood tall.

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Speaker 4: And that's how you you elevate, and you know, you

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Speaker 1: Mike, we know how much this win meant for Tony Vitello.

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Speaker 5: But it also seems like it meant a lot for

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Speaker 5: think this is a relief for the entire team, not

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Speaker 4: Everybody who's involved with baseball ops from the team, from

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Speaker 4: That's how big that win was. And now it's no

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Speaker 3: So much fun to see the Giants actually ex hal

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Speaker 3: starting at the end Ryan Wall, the Giants fans. You know,

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Speaker 1: He got it done.

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Speaker 3: You know, Brian Wilson, you guys invented torture, right, But

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Speaker 5: Mike, to your point, there were not only questions about

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Speaker 4: Well, do you see that's a out pitched our expectations.

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Speaker 4: But I don't think they out pitched the staff's expectations.

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Speaker 4: Well, we shouldn't be surprised. He's got good power. I

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Mike, I've got to circle back and ask you

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Speaker 1: Oh boy, that would be unbelievably great. He looked really

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Speaker 1: He was diving, guys were chasing it. It was awesome.

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Speaker 3: So well done, Land and Roupe plant the flag type

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Speaker 1: Mike is tonight's starter, Logan web and it's interesting.

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Speaker 4: It's by the smell of his breath and you can

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Speaker 3: Yeah, great analysis, great breakdown. Every is in a good mood,

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Speaker 4: I'll be here seven thirty.

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Speaker 3: All right, seven thirty and your signature tag out of course, Mike.

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Speaker 1: Hell, yes, that's how you do it. This is how it.

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Speaker 3: Organically happens, everybody, This is how it organically happens.

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Speaker 2: All right, everyone kill this is the cooler.

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Speaker 5: Brian Murphy is on the run, getting some coffin right now,

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Speaker 1: Murph is back in studio and.

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Speaker 7: I was getting some of the cooler stuff. I was

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Speaker 1: bring us back. Now, Curly's like, what what did I do?

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Speaker 4: Well?

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Speaker 3: I mean, I can't exist without coffee. I cannot exist.

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Speaker 3: I literally can't do the show.

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Speaker 1: So I went to go get some of you guys

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Speaker 1: came back without me. Yeah we did too.

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Speaker 5: I tried to have Tony throw a minute in the rejoin,

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Speaker 5: but it was too late.

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Speaker 1: We were too far gone.

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Speaker 3: All right, Prima Donna, Prima Donna, pre Madonna. First World Problems,

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Speaker 1: Ain't gonna lie. There was also a little traffic jam

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Speaker 1: at the coffee machine. That's always an issue.

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Speaker 4: One.

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Speaker 3: It's Barry, who has one of the best manners about him.

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Speaker 3: Anytime you run into Barry, have a good.

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Speaker 1: Conversation, good vibes on Barry. So I was talking to.

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Speaker 3: Barry and I was like, I'll probably get back. All right,

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Speaker 3: there we go, guys, there we go. All right, well

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Speaker 3: we're back for the cooler of content. All's well that ends?

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Speaker 1: Well, absolutely, what do we got here?

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Speaker 4: We got? What do we want?

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Speaker 5: That was our Ryan Walker rejoined. It was a little bumpy,

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Speaker 5: you know, Murph wasn't ready to go. But we got

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Speaker 5: the save, we got the final three outs, we got

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Speaker 5: the cooler of content, we.

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Speaker 3: Got a lot of ways to go, young Tony. Why

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Speaker 3: don't you guide me here in terms of what you

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Speaker 3: think was the best buddy? Could you cut it all up?

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 7: So Marcus was talking about this earlier in the show.

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Speaker 7: I didn't get a chance to see this until you

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Speaker 7: talked about him, Marcus.

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Speaker 1: This was Tony V. It's kind of cool.

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Speaker 7: In the video, you can see Ryan Walker throwing the

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Speaker 7: last pitch and then rolling over I think the third basement,

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Speaker 7: Chapman getting the final out, Tony V shaking a bunch

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Speaker 7: of hands, and then even after in the clubhouse, Uh,

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Speaker 7: just celebrating, and then Matt Chapman kind of just so

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Speaker 7: is who is.

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Speaker 1: This the John Shay video or just from the Giant?

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Speaker 5: So this is like actually inside the clubhouse. I haven't

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Speaker 5: seen this dugout, So.

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Speaker 1: YouTube, Twitch and Twitter, everybody, let's got the video.

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Speaker 4: Let's go.

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Speaker 1: For the non.

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Speaker 5: He's shaking hands with everybody in the player's line after Logan.

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Speaker 1: Gave me a little slat of boy.

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Speaker 6: The Welcome to thee.

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Speaker 5: So it was Matt Chapman dropping a couple of f bombs, saying,

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Speaker 5: make some noise for Tony V's first win a game

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Speaker 5: from Chapman. Willia dom is dropping off the bottle of champagne.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and now we got the bourbon coming his way too.

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Speaker 4: Here it is.

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Speaker 1: Good stuff, man, good noise.

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Speaker 3: One of the Yeah, one of the coaches comes up

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Speaker 3: on his right, trying to get the first handshake from him,

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Speaker 3: but Tony doesn't see him and looks left to shake.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's our boy board right there on the steps. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but watch this guy here? Where that guy? But then

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Speaker 1: Tony Man, that might be Tingler right there. I think

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Speaker 1: it might have been Jason funny Man. All right, well,

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Speaker 1: good stuff, good stuff, Tony, way to be, way to be.

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Speaker 1: Congrats time.

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Speaker 3: Christian McCaffrey's in the news because uh, famous last words

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Speaker 3: Kyle Shannon and says he wants to manage his workload

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Speaker 3: next year.

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Speaker 1: Famous last words, famous last words. Right, Yeah, Well, I

505
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Speaker 1: mean he can't he can't quit him. He's he's broke

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Speaker 1: back running back. I can't quit.

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Speaker 3: He can't quit him, he said, he said. Uh, at times,

508
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Speaker 3: Bobby would take him off the field. And I'm calling

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Speaker 3: a play that's only for Christian. He's off the field

510
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Speaker 3: and I don't know this, and I've already said the play,

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Speaker 3: and now my choices to call time out or have

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Speaker 3: someone do something they're.

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Speaker 1: Not very good at.

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Speaker 3: He says, when we play against certain coverages and there's

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Speaker 3: a linebacker on Christian, that's going to be a problem

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Speaker 3: for the defense, and if he pulls coverage, that's going

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Speaker 3: to help everyone else. And he says, we've definitely got

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Speaker 3: to get better at managing the workload all this stuff.

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Speaker 3: So he's he's trying trying hard to quit Christian, but

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Speaker 3: he can't. They suggested that they would draft somebody of

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Speaker 3: his skill set. I told you I watched a lot

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Speaker 3: of Navy football this year and they had a kid

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Speaker 3: named Eli Heidenreich who had he was like a little

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Speaker 3: baby CMC. Now he's not, you know, there's only one

525
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Speaker 3: CMC bro, but he's he does mimic his skill set

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Speaker 3: a little bit.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: But the thing is, you never want to take that

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Speaker 5: skill set off the field. I know, because regardless of

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Speaker 5: whoever the hell you bring in, it's a downgrade from

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Speaker 5: Christian McCaffrey.

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Speaker 3: So anyway, here's Christian McCaffrey not carrying a football instead

533
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Speaker 3: doing what every American dad does, taking his kid to Disneyland.

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Speaker 7: Now this is better video for audio. So basically he

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Speaker 7: starts this. I'll let him start and then you guys

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Speaker 7: can kind of narrate.

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Speaker 4: A lot of people say Disney is not for all.

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Speaker 1: That's hold on, I'm not all. That's okay. Now he's

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Speaker 1: got a stroller. He's putting the brake on the stroller.

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Speaker 1: He's going around a hole and regaining the stroller. Look

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Speaker 1: at that agility.

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Speaker 2: He's throwing trash away.

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Speaker 1: He's carrying the baby over his shoulder. They're the Magic Castle.

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Speaker 1: Now he's flipping the stroller hood up and down. Why

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Speaker 1: is this over lake with meat mill dude on Main Street?

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Speaker 1: He just went around two people in those LARPs, those.

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Speaker 3: Moveable vehicles, those are all over Disneyland.

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Speaker 1: This meat milly. Oh my god, here he has with

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Speaker 1: the stroller. Now near a he went handless on the scroller.

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Speaker 1: Now that here he is, uh down Main Street again

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Speaker 1: holding her in line. He made like a gangster.

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Speaker 6: Video.

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Speaker 1: Looks like he's drinking a glass of water holding the

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Speaker 1: baby nose. Dah drad. Now he's in line, rubbing sweat

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Speaker 1: off his forehead. Where he's drinking his coffee. Now he's

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Speaker 1: got the baby in what appears to be it's a

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Speaker 1: small world.

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Speaker 3: Now he looks in the Troller's no baby, Oh no,

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Speaker 3: he's a little panic where it's a baby.

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Speaker 1: He's joking around. That's how it ends there.

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Speaker 4: It is.

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Speaker 1: What a tease, dude, what a what a uh?

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Speaker 3: Well, I I've done again, speak as the only dad

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Speaker 3: on the show here. Uh let me tell you that's

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Speaker 3: a to write a passage. Bro, you gotta go down there.

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Speaker 1: You got to put in your work, man, you gotta

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Speaker 1: put in your world.

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Speaker 5: Eight away camb Are is the juice worth the squeeze

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Speaker 5: to take a baby down to Disneyland?

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Speaker 1: I mean no, but for you it is because.

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Speaker 3: You're like, hey, I'm taking my baby Disneyland, the Disney

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Speaker 3: And of course the baby has none clue, doesn't.

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Speaker 1: Never a memory of this.

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Speaker 5: Well, at least I believe that babies, or should I

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Speaker 5: even say toddlers, are free until they're three to get

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Speaker 5: into Disney. Yeah, so there's really you can take the

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Speaker 5: baby down there.

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Speaker 1: But other than that.

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Speaker 3: Video that the baby will see years later. And so,

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Speaker 3: oh man, my dad was a bit of a nut

581
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Speaker 3: taking me down there. Yeah, there'll be some cute folks.

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Speaker 3: There's a sweet spot like.

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Speaker 1: You know, eight nine ten, that's kind of the sweet spot,

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Speaker 1: you know. And and then it becomes, as we would say,

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Speaker 1: the Magic Kingdom. Yes, yeah, very magical, the happiest place

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Speaker 1: on earth. But he's down there doing his thing.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: But as great as this is to see Christian McCaffrey

589
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Speaker 5: had daisy Land, I'd rather see the entire forty nine

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Speaker 5: er team down at daisy Land after winning.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to Disney. Daddy Walt just checked in and

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Speaker 1: said they're going in July. That he's going to do

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Speaker 1: the same thing as Christian. He's bringing christ all that money.

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Speaker 5: The baby will Christian, I know everything. And that's the

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Speaker 5: same baby that they named after Christian. McCaffery is right,

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Speaker 5: that's right, call Christian.

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Speaker 1: Named after Brewers All star Christian yelling, oh yeah, Christian

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Speaker 1: costs costs his boss.

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Speaker 3: Uh, he's gonna say, Christian is going to be what

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Speaker 3: he's just sent another text, Hey, Walt, I'm trying.

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Speaker 1: To do a show by come on right ed, stop

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Speaker 1: distracted pastop pinging me.

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Speaker 5: Waltz save it for ten to two walts, save it

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Speaker 5: for the midday.

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Speaker 1: Walter all right, hey, we have to do we owe

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Speaker 1: John Shire an apology? Everybody?

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Speaker 3: Do we owe John Shire an apology? Do we Maybe

608
00:27:18,640 --> 00:27:21,200
Speaker 3: because we all said, dude, that's coaching. How do you

609
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Speaker 3: not tell your kids you don't have to advance the

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Speaker 3: ball past half court? It's ten seconds. All you have

611
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Speaker 3: to do is kill the ten seconds. You don't have

612
00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:33,480
Speaker 3: to throw a risky pass. Cayden Boozer threw a risky pass.

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Speaker 3: They got burned with one of the great shots in

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Speaker 3: the history of college basketball.

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Speaker 1: But here's video. It's almost like Duke like had this

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Speaker 1: line three weeks ago.

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Speaker 3: Weeks ago they were doing situations and he showed an

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Speaker 3: NBA game with four seconds to go where the Bulls

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Speaker 3: were up to got a rebound and instead of doing

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Speaker 3: anything dumb.

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Speaker 1: Whichever bullet is I forget who it is? Trey Jones

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Speaker 1: former duke, Yeah, Tigas Jones, right answer, Trey?

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Speaker 4: Is it?

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Speaker 1: Tra Okay Trey? Anyway?

625
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Speaker 4: I thought it was.

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Speaker 3: Anyway, it's a duke grad. They had a Tias Jones,

627
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Speaker 3: didn't they there were brothers.

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Speaker 1: Anyway, you know what he did with the ball. He

629
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Speaker 1: threw it up in the air liftime expire.

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Speaker 3: And John Shires showing this to the team, So in

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Speaker 3: other words, he did coach him. Check it out, everybody

632
00:28:19,520 --> 00:28:21,280
Speaker 3: on your YouTube, Twitch and Twitter. You can also hear

633
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Speaker 3: the audio. They're doing a little film session here.

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Speaker 1: Check it out.

635
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Speaker 4: You may see this.

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Speaker 1: You may see this last night.

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Speaker 6: Okay, I understand game situation. Bulls are up to four

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Speaker 6: seconds to.

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Speaker 1: Go, miss Tray Jones. You're right on the bounds daily

640
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Speaker 1: what can you do if you're Trade Jones down in?

641
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Speaker 4: What can you do with your Trade Jones?

642
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Speaker 1: No time out? Throwing them, throw them on down the court.

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Speaker 6: H Or goes it all now the.

644
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Speaker 1: Butt by Trade Jones and he rolls onto the plot.

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Speaker 4: That wasn't incredibly hot? Play Duke education.

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Speaker 6: That's that Duke education.

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Speaker 5: That's that Duke education. Famous last words, Duke education. Seems

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Speaker 5: like the boys this year were skipping class.

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Speaker 6: You know what.

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Speaker 3: The only part about now that i'veatched that a little closer,

651
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Speaker 3: Shire goes, you can throw it down the court, but that.

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Speaker 1: Could get intercepted and shot. So the players were smarter

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Speaker 1: than him saying throw it up in the air, and.

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Speaker 5: Technically Cad and Booza did try to throw a high

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Speaker 5: in on the court.

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Speaker 1: If he's just thrown if he had thrown it in

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Speaker 1: the air.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I've thought about that because if you throw

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Speaker 3: it in the air, you know, cause thousand and one,

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Speaker 3: thousand and two, and by the time it lands, person

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Speaker 3: would't have to catch it and shoot it times on

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Speaker 3: your side.

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Speaker 5: Actually, I just saw Caitlyn Clark talking about this, because

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Speaker 5: it's happened a few times in the w NBA as well,

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Speaker 5: and she was talking about why she doesn't see more

666
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Speaker 5: people do I thought the same thing. It's like, it's

667
00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:58,840
Speaker 5: a great stalling technique, but Murph, this feels like another

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Speaker 5: classic situation of a coach, you know, leading a horse

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Speaker 5: to water, but you can't make it drink.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Duke had three different options.

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Speaker 5: They can throw the ball up, they can just hold

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Speaker 5: onto the ball, they could take the foul like.

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Speaker 1: They had so many different options.

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Speaker 5: But when it gets down to five seconds left in

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Speaker 5: the game, well, that's when things start getting tighty.

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Speaker 3: It's like, do we blame Dean Smith for Chris Weber

677
00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:21,480
Speaker 3: calling time out? Had he told him we don't have

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Speaker 3: any timeouts and Weber called timeouts?

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Speaker 1: So there you go? All right, Well that was pretty

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Speaker 1: darn good. Good cooler of content.

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Speaker 3: Tony V's first win, Christ McCaffrey and Disney and john

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Speaker 3: Shire either off the hook or not off the hook.

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Speaker 1: I'm not totally sure. I don't know.

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Speaker 3: All right, We'll keep the basketball going with Sam amock By.

685
00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:40,360
Speaker 3: The MVP race is really heating up. That's like the

686
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Speaker 3: hot topic nationally as Wemby had a double double in

687
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Speaker 3: eight minutes last night, and when Steph Curry ever coming back,

688
00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:49,920
Speaker 3: and and by the way, there's also talking about Warriors

689
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Speaker 3: lottery odds about getting a top five pick, like they

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Speaker 3: go to the nine ten game and lose, they got

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Speaker 3: a chance at the top five pick.

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Speaker 1: So all that stuff to talk about. And then Matt

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Speaker 1: Alrighty, tomorrow is April one.

699
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Speaker 3: We finally reached the month of the playoffs for the NBA. Gosh,

700
00:31:27,000 --> 00:31:30,440
Speaker 3: we start like twenty five years ago the season started

701
00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:32,400
Speaker 3: and here we are now is the Golden State Warriors

702
00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:36,040
Speaker 3: limping to the finish line but have clinched of course,

703
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Speaker 3: a playoff spot. We'll talk to Sam Amock about that.

704
00:31:39,360 --> 00:31:44,600
Speaker 3: We haven't seen our guy Steph Curry in since January thirtieth, dude.

705
00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:46,560
Speaker 3: We'll see what's going on with that. And of course

706
00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 3: he wrote a whole piece about the MVP race, which

707
00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:52,960
Speaker 3: is heating up as Wemby. He's closing in on SGA,

708
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Speaker 3: who did his thing again last night, got to the

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Speaker 3: foul line twenty five times I think in his game.

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Speaker 3: So lots to get to with Sam Amock on the

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Speaker 3: UMA guest line, Sam from the Athletic How you doing,

712
00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:04,040
Speaker 3: sim Hey, Hey, what's up?

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Speaker 4: Sam?

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Speaker 6: Good morning? Guys doing great, Good to be with you.

715
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Speaker 6: How you guys doing.

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Speaker 1: We're doing good, man, We're doing good.

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Speaker 3: We're sort of like looking at the Warriors thirty six

718
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Speaker 3: and thirty nine.

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Speaker 1: The ten spot is theirs.

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Speaker 3: They can theoretically get to the ninth spot Portland with

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Speaker 3: thirty eight losses. I don't know about the Clippers in

722
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Speaker 3: the eighth spot with thirty six losses. What's your assessment

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Speaker 3: of the Warriors sort of seven game finishing kick and

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Speaker 3: what's the best case scenario.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean it's brutal as you guys know that

726
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Speaker 6: there's such a divide between seven eight and nine ten

727
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Speaker 6: just when it comes to that playing experience, you know,

728
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Speaker 6: just having to win twice, having a to start on

729
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Speaker 6: the road if you're the ten team, and the schedule

730
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Speaker 6: makers are never kind to that slot. So I mean,

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Speaker 6: it would certainly be who the Warriors to find a

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Speaker 6: way to bump up the standings a bit. They've got

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Speaker 6: a tough schedule this week with the Spurs and coming

734
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Speaker 6: into town and then the Rocks. That part is not

735
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Speaker 6: in their favor either, so you know, tough times. They're

736
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Speaker 6: still fighting, but obviously continue to be doing this thing

737
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Speaker 6: under man.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and it's been a tough two months now without

739
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Speaker 5: Steph Curry. Haven't seen him on the court since January thirtieth,

740
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Speaker 5: and Sam, over the last two months, every time we

741
00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:20,040
Speaker 5: talk to you, we ask you about an update on

742
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Speaker 5: Steph Curry, and it seems like the goalpost keeps getting

743
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Speaker 5: moved further and further back. So what is the latest

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Speaker 5: year hearing on a potential Steph Curry returned, Yeah, I.

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Speaker 1: Mean we'll see.

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Speaker 6: I think, you know, if I was handicapping it at

747
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Speaker 6: this point. It's tunny. A few days ago, I was

748
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Speaker 6: finally starting to think, man, like, maybe we don't see him,

749
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Speaker 6: you know, like maybe you know, it just gets shut down.

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Speaker 6: I'm probably swinging back the other way at this point,

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Speaker 6: you know, I think that it sounds like he has

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Speaker 6: made some decent progress, and it's always a major asterisk

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Speaker 6: in terms of he's got to keep going in the

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Speaker 6: right direction. But I do think this is kind of

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Speaker 6: the now or and ever week. You know, he's talked

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Speaker 6: four recently about the fact that he wanted a few

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Speaker 6: games to get his legs under him before the play in. So,

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Speaker 6: you know, hypothetically, let's say he couldn't make it back

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Speaker 6: by this weekend. Let's say now you're looking at you know,

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Speaker 6: the last four games, which includes one uh no back

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Speaker 6: to backs, but like, you know, a tight schedule April seventh, ninth, tenth,

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Speaker 6: and twelfth. Then you're into dicey territory where I think

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Speaker 6: he probably doesn't play. But I actually think today and

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Speaker 6: tomorrow and the next day are big. I don't expect

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Speaker 6: to see him against the Calves or the Spurs, But

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Speaker 6: from there it's it's kind of a stay tuned man.

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Speaker 3: So that would be just the final five games if

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Speaker 3: you're waiting until Sunday when the Rockets coming to town.

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Speaker 3: By the way Warriors fans getting out to chase it,

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Speaker 3: I mean, the next five are at home. You mentioned

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Speaker 3: the Spurs Wednesday. We'll talk about Wemby in a second.

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Speaker 3: The Calves, right, come back Thursday, so back to back there.

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Speaker 3: Then they play Sunday against the Rockets Sunday night. That's

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Speaker 3: an NBC Peacock game seven o'clock. Maybe Steph comes back

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Speaker 3: on I don't know. Then the Kings come to town

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Speaker 3: next Tuesday. Then the dreaded frickin Lakers, I know we

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Speaker 3: talked about that last time Sam a week from Thursday,

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Speaker 3: and then they finish up at sack at the Clippers

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Speaker 3: on Sunday, April twelve. So that's the schedule ahead, and

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Speaker 3: I don't know, maybe Steph Sunday against the Rockets.

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Speaker 1: Who knows.

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Speaker 3: But it's just been profoundly depressing. We're getting sort of

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Speaker 3: near the end of the Steve Kerr season. Do you

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Speaker 3: have any more clue, one way or another whether Steve

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Speaker 3: Kerr would return as Warriors head coach in the fall?

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Speaker 6: I don't. I mean, I still think you know, I

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Speaker 6: just personally, I'd be surprised if if he wasn't back.

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Speaker 6: You know that the partnership has with Steph and certainly

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Speaker 6: you know in Dreymont, situation is a little more fluid,

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Speaker 6: but all the history with Draymond and the organization, But

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Speaker 6: I don't know for sure, you know, I mean, Steve

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Speaker 6: is lucky enough to be not only at that stage

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Speaker 6: of life, but that stage career wise where he's accomplished

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Speaker 6: more than enough where you know he's gonna have the

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Speaker 6: ability in the right when this season is over to

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Speaker 6: just take a little kind of self check and pulse

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Speaker 6: and figure out if this is what he wants to

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Speaker 6: keep doing. You know, whether the thing is that if

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Speaker 6: Warrior fans, for those that do want them to remain

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Speaker 6: because they're so tough at them at times, they I

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Speaker 6: think the idea that you haven't really heard about potential

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Speaker 6: next steps for Steve is probably a good sign that

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Speaker 6: the chances of him remaining are pretty good. Meaning you know,

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Speaker 6: there was a minute where you wondered if he would

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Speaker 6: continue to coach the national team and now that's Eric

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Speaker 6: Falter's duty, or even some other rumblings of things that

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Speaker 6: Steve might do and right now, like, I'm not hearing

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00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:40,640
Speaker 6: anything hard in terms of what that next chapter would

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Speaker 6: be because Steve's I don't think he's gonna, you know,

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Speaker 6: kind of just head off to the ranch.

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Speaker 4: So to speak.

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Speaker 6: So we'll see, I mean, but I think even Steve

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Speaker 6: might not know at this point.

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Speaker 1: Wow, man, so many things going on with the Warriors.

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Speaker 3: Say you listen cambrem and Camber FM, San Francisco, d

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Speaker 5: Sam We are now ten games into the stops Porzingis

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Speaker 5: Warriors era, and yes, it did take a while for

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Speaker 5: him to get up to ten games, but lately he

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Speaker 5: has been consistently on the court and consistently putting up

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Speaker 5: some good performances as well. What have you seen from

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Speaker 5: him fitting into the Steve Kurs system. He's also talked

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Speaker 5: a lot about working with a guy like Rick Celabrini.

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Speaker 5: Does it feel like he's starting to finally settle in

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Speaker 5: and get back to maybe the closest we've seen to

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Speaker 5: him being full strength in quite a while.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, for sure. I mean, you're you're now you're seeing

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Speaker 6: who he is even at this stage, and he's still

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Speaker 6: fairly young. He's just had this health stuff that's been

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Speaker 6: such a challenge for him, but you're seeing the upside

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Speaker 6: that came with the Porzingis deal. You know, I saw

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Speaker 6: some discussion the other day on social media, just some

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Speaker 6: different basketball analysts about how, you know, all of a

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Speaker 6: sudden that you know this could continue to evolve, but

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Speaker 6: that it looks and feels like the Warriors actually got

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00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:52,759
Speaker 6: the better end of that trade. You know, coming has

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Speaker 6: been a little up and down with the Hawks and

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Speaker 6: that Denver game the other night. You know, I think

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Speaker 6: it was sorry it was the Washington game where I

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Speaker 6: know it's the Wizards, everybody goes off in the Wizards,

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Speaker 6: but you know, Porzingis during a Warriors run, you know,

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00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:11,160
Speaker 6: hit this deep transition tree that was a total momentum

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Speaker 6: shot and it just had a vibe to it and

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Speaker 6: an energy that for one, to be honest, it was

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Speaker 6: cool to see because you do wish the best for

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Speaker 6: all these guys from a health standpoint, and he was

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00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:22,520
Speaker 6: out there with a smile on his face doing his thing.

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Speaker 6: But for two, it just showed you his versatility and

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Speaker 6: how dynamic he can be and why potentially they would

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Speaker 6: love to see him out there with Steph on a

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Speaker 6: regular basis. So now the thing becomes a can he

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Speaker 6: continue to produce and be impactful from now until the

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Speaker 6: end of the season, And then you know, if that's

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Speaker 6: the case, and if you kind of change the discussion

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Speaker 6: around you in relation to the Warriors and your own

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Speaker 6: free agency, then what does that discussion look like in

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Speaker 6: the summer? Is there a scenario where they don't wind up,

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Speaker 6: you know, just kind of losing this player and this

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Speaker 6: quote unquote asset that they that they obviously gave up

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Speaker 6: a fair amount to get at the trade deadline. You know,

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Speaker 6: that's a that's down the road. We'll see where that goes.

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00:39:06,239 --> 00:39:09,279
Speaker 6: But but you can definitely see if the Warriors can

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00:39:09,320 --> 00:39:11,000
Speaker 6: catch a couple of breaks here how he can help.

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Speaker 3: So you you you see, like if they did bring

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Speaker 3: him back, you see that as a like, oh, are

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Speaker 3: your eyebrows raised a little bit of like, oh, Steph

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Speaker 3: is no?

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Speaker 6: I I like it. It's just a matter I mean,

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Speaker 6: I like it depending on the number, you know what

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Speaker 6: I mean, depending on on the contract. It's just that's

871
00:39:27,760 --> 00:39:31,399
Speaker 6: that's the biggest thing is then in today's league, there's

872
00:39:31,560 --> 00:39:35,319
Speaker 6: just so so little wiggle room to make mistakes contractually

873
00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:37,680
Speaker 6: when it comes to you know, giving up too much

874
00:39:37,719 --> 00:39:40,640
Speaker 6: of your cap to one guy, and so it would

875
00:39:41,040 --> 00:39:44,960
Speaker 6: require you know, what probably would constitute a sacrifice on

876
00:39:45,200 --> 00:39:48,799
Speaker 6: Portzonius's side, and you know, and then all these other

877
00:39:48,920 --> 00:39:51,200
Speaker 6: moving parts that they're gonna have. They got Draymond situation

878
00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:53,920
Speaker 6: with a player option, how does that look? But but

879
00:39:54,120 --> 00:39:57,879
Speaker 6: just in a vacuum them bringing him back. So long

880
00:39:57,960 --> 00:40:00,600
Speaker 6: as it was a responsible number that did account for

881
00:40:01,320 --> 00:40:06,160
Speaker 6: the lack of reliability and the uncertainty health wise, then yeah,

882
00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:07,720
Speaker 6: I could see that being a good idea.

883
00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:08,520
Speaker 4: Sam.

884
00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:11,320
Speaker 5: There was a report from Mark Stein that the Warriors

885
00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:14,040
Speaker 5: tried to trade for Kawhi Leonard at this year's trade deadline.

886
00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:16,000
Speaker 5: Do you know how close of a deal that was

887
00:40:16,120 --> 00:40:18,000
Speaker 5: for the Warriors And do you think maybe that's a

888
00:40:18,120 --> 00:40:21,040
Speaker 5: name that the Warriors will circle back to this summer.

889
00:40:21,080 --> 00:40:21,800
Speaker 1: I should say.

890
00:40:23,280 --> 00:40:25,040
Speaker 6: I don't know how close it was. I was not

891
00:40:25,239 --> 00:40:27,880
Speaker 6: surprised at all to hear that because of sell in

892
00:40:27,960 --> 00:40:31,240
Speaker 6: line with you know, some of their other superstar pursuits

893
00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:35,120
Speaker 6: and in general, the ambitious way that they go about,

894
00:40:35,520 --> 00:40:39,839
Speaker 6: you know, trying to find help for Steph. I am

895
00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:44,080
Speaker 6: curious to see if that gets revisited this summer because

896
00:40:44,239 --> 00:40:48,359
Speaker 6: the Clippers are in a situation where as great as

897
00:40:48,480 --> 00:40:52,200
Speaker 6: Why has been, and honestly, he's right on the sixty

898
00:40:52,239 --> 00:40:54,480
Speaker 6: five game threshold, but you can make an argument that

899
00:40:54,719 --> 00:40:56,759
Speaker 6: he's a first team All UNDA guy this year. He's

900
00:40:56,800 --> 00:41:02,000
Speaker 6: been phenomenal. But the Clippers have their contracts set up

901
00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:05,480
Speaker 6: through next season in a way where they're not committing

902
00:41:06,080 --> 00:41:10,120
Speaker 6: to anybody, including Kawhi. And that's why James Harden wanted

903
00:41:10,239 --> 00:41:12,560
Speaker 6: out because last summer when they cut a new deal

904
00:41:12,600 --> 00:41:15,560
Speaker 6: with him, it had no guaranteed money beyond this season.

905
00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:19,360
Speaker 6: You know, that was a clear sign that that you know,

906
00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:21,560
Speaker 6: he was not in their plans. They have been, they

907
00:41:21,640 --> 00:41:24,000
Speaker 6: want they've been wanting to reset the books in the

908
00:41:24,040 --> 00:41:27,719
Speaker 6: summer of twenty twenty seven. So if you're Kawhi and

909
00:41:27,840 --> 00:41:30,759
Speaker 6: you're like James Harden, if you're getting similar, you know,

910
00:41:30,960 --> 00:41:33,279
Speaker 6: kind of a lack of assurances that you are part

911
00:41:33,320 --> 00:41:35,520
Speaker 6: of the plan, then I could see Kawai saying, I

912
00:41:35,719 --> 00:41:37,480
Speaker 6: what what do I want to do and where do

913
00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:40,880
Speaker 6: I want to go? So I could see that percolating

914
00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:41,759
Speaker 6: in the summer for sure.

915
00:41:42,000 --> 00:41:46,640
Speaker 3: Always always rumors swirling around the Warriors, Man Yannis, you

916
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:49,439
Speaker 3: name it, et cetera, Hey I'm I'm sort of interested

917
00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:50,399
Speaker 3: in this MVP race.

918
00:41:50,480 --> 00:41:54,080
Speaker 1: You wrote about it in the Athletic. Last night was

919
00:41:54,080 --> 00:41:54,520
Speaker 1: a big night.

920
00:41:55,320 --> 00:41:57,600
Speaker 3: Wemby had a double double and eight minutes SGA went

921
00:41:57,680 --> 00:42:00,160
Speaker 3: off in a big win over the Pistons. You know,

922
00:42:00,320 --> 00:42:03,160
Speaker 3: look at it the traditional stats. Don't forget Nikola Jokic

923
00:42:03,320 --> 00:42:06,480
Speaker 3: is leading the NBA in assists and rebounds per games,

924
00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:10,240
Speaker 3: So there's him too. But everybody seems to say in Vegas,

925
00:42:10,239 --> 00:42:13,640
Speaker 3: seems to say SGA is the favorite. I admit I

926
00:42:13,719 --> 00:42:17,880
Speaker 3: am a casual observer of their their arcs. To me,

927
00:42:18,040 --> 00:42:22,760
Speaker 3: Wemby is the MVP league. Like he's completely revamped san Antonio.

928
00:42:23,120 --> 00:42:25,359
Speaker 3: They are out of nowhere. They're the story of the year,

929
00:42:25,560 --> 00:42:27,800
Speaker 3: all that stuff. They kind of fit the narrative. But

930
00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:30,759
Speaker 3: everybody's saying, no, no, no, it's SGA's to lose. Others

931
00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:33,480
Speaker 3: are saying, I don't know where do you come down.

932
00:42:35,360 --> 00:42:37,400
Speaker 8: I mean, first of all, I love the race because

933
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:40,120
Speaker 8: it didn't seem like a race a couple of weeks ago,

934
00:42:41,040 --> 00:42:42,640
Speaker 8: and and then he kind of looked it up and

935
00:42:43,480 --> 00:42:45,600
Speaker 8: and you're again, san Antonio is only a couple of games.

936
00:42:45,719 --> 00:42:47,800
Speaker 6: We can be hind okay, see like and to your point.

937
00:42:48,400 --> 00:42:50,759
Speaker 6: But if like that's it's just incredible. They didn't make

938
00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:53,959
Speaker 6: the playoffs last year, you know, Wemby had the blood

939
00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:57,640
Speaker 6: clot situation, you know, And and then he looked up

940
00:42:57,640 --> 00:42:59,640
Speaker 6: and you see that they're pushing for best record in

941
00:42:59,640 --> 00:43:01,800
Speaker 6: the league. And that was already on my mind a

942
00:43:01,840 --> 00:43:05,279
Speaker 6: bit even before Victor did the thing that not a

943
00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:08,000
Speaker 6: lot of star players do, which he became his own

944
00:43:08,400 --> 00:43:11,840
Speaker 6: pr you know, agent, and he started talking about his

945
00:43:11,960 --> 00:43:15,040
Speaker 6: own candidacy. In fact, he came through Sacramento a couple

946
00:43:15,040 --> 00:43:16,799
Speaker 6: of weeks ago and I wrote about this at the time,

947
00:43:17,360 --> 00:43:19,160
Speaker 6: and I had asked him, like, are you mindful of

948
00:43:19,239 --> 00:43:22,440
Speaker 6: the MVP race and do you plan on really pushing

949
00:43:22,560 --> 00:43:25,120
Speaker 6: for it in the in the down the stretch and

950
00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:27,640
Speaker 6: he kind of smiled and was like, yes, of course.

951
00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:29,399
Speaker 6: And then on the way out the room, I said,

952
00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:31,800
Speaker 6: would you vote for yourself? And that was kind of

953
00:43:31,840 --> 00:43:34,160
Speaker 6: the beginning where he just said, of course. And then

954
00:43:34,360 --> 00:43:36,239
Speaker 6: fast forward a couple of days and he had went

955
00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:39,680
Speaker 6: on this you know, three four minute kind of campaign

956
00:43:39,680 --> 00:43:42,200
Speaker 6: speech about why he's the MVP. Some people didn't like

957
00:43:42,280 --> 00:43:45,840
Speaker 6: his style. I think it's good for conversation, you know.

958
00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:50,200
Speaker 6: Fast forward to last night when SGA has an incredible

959
00:43:50,239 --> 00:43:53,520
Speaker 6: performance and he gets asked by a buddy, Tim McMahon

960
00:43:53,560 --> 00:43:57,400
Speaker 6: at ESPN if he wants a campaign for himself, and

961
00:43:57,800 --> 00:44:01,279
Speaker 6: you know, SGA got his sunglasses on and knows that

962
00:44:01,360 --> 00:44:04,040
Speaker 6: he just played like an MVP and made a statement,

963
00:44:04,320 --> 00:44:06,400
Speaker 6: you know, just with his game, and that's exactly what

964
00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:08,360
Speaker 6: he said. He goes, no, I appreciate the offer, but

965
00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:10,200
Speaker 6: but I'm gonna let my game speak for itself. So

966
00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:14,480
Speaker 6: like you have a fun class of personalities and styles there.

967
00:44:15,239 --> 00:44:18,399
Speaker 6: You know, Webby has been trolling the Thunder all year

968
00:44:18,480 --> 00:44:21,040
Speaker 6: long competitively, and I think that's great for the game.

969
00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:23,239
Speaker 6: And then you also mentioned like you have to like

970
00:44:23,360 --> 00:44:26,759
Speaker 6: Joker Luca. Those two guys have been incredible. It's a

971
00:44:26,760 --> 00:44:32,840
Speaker 6: great race. I have been leaning towards SGA, but watching

972
00:44:32,920 --> 00:44:36,040
Speaker 6: Webby very closely as a very possible, you know, kind

973
00:44:36,040 --> 00:44:38,839
Speaker 6: of top guy for me right now. If I had

974
00:44:38,920 --> 00:44:42,080
Speaker 6: to pick, probably still barely on the SGA front. I mean,

975
00:44:42,160 --> 00:44:45,680
Speaker 6: last night was incredible, even like yes, he had you know,

976
00:44:45,760 --> 00:44:47,399
Speaker 6: had a bunch of pre throws, but if you watch

977
00:44:47,480 --> 00:44:50,680
Speaker 6: that game, like that dude, he had some Michael Jordan moments,

978
00:44:50,800 --> 00:44:54,279
Speaker 6: like he is an incredible player. But it's a fun race.

979
00:44:54,320 --> 00:44:56,720
Speaker 6: I mean, those four guys I think have separated themselves,

980
00:44:56,760 --> 00:44:59,200
Speaker 6: and then from there you've got the Jalen Browns of

981
00:44:59,239 --> 00:45:01,920
Speaker 6: the bunch and some other good players. But it's it's

982
00:45:01,960 --> 00:45:02,719
Speaker 6: a fun race here.

983
00:45:02,960 --> 00:45:03,480
Speaker 1: It really is.

984
00:45:03,640 --> 00:45:03,920
Speaker 6: I don't know.

985
00:45:03,960 --> 00:45:06,520
Speaker 3: There's something about Wemby's to me narrative is like such

986
00:45:06,560 --> 00:45:09,320
Speaker 3: a big thing, and the spurs is surging out of

987
00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:11,000
Speaker 3: nowhere is so huge by the ways.

988
00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:11,560
Speaker 1: You know, it's funny.

989
00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:14,040
Speaker 3: You know, Sga gets criticized so much for being quote

990
00:45:14,080 --> 00:45:17,400
Speaker 3: unquote free throw merchant or foul merchant. He actually doesn't

991
00:45:17,480 --> 00:45:19,760
Speaker 3: lead the NBA and free throws attempted.

992
00:45:19,840 --> 00:45:23,040
Speaker 1: It's per game. It's Luca. It's Luca who does it.

993
00:45:23,200 --> 00:45:25,880
Speaker 1: So yeah, he's as bad as Sga.

994
00:45:26,960 --> 00:45:29,040
Speaker 6: We don't give Luca a hard time because he doesn't

995
00:45:29,080 --> 00:45:29,880
Speaker 6: ever complain to the.

996
00:45:29,880 --> 00:45:30,439
Speaker 4: Rest, Right.

997
00:45:32,680 --> 00:45:34,160
Speaker 3: Sam, I brought this up with you last time we

998
00:45:34,239 --> 00:45:36,600
Speaker 3: had you on, and I've done and nothing has happened

999
00:45:36,640 --> 00:45:39,560
Speaker 3: to dissuade me from this. I am, in many ways

1000
00:45:39,560 --> 00:45:42,920
Speaker 3: of juvenile and adolescent. I'm not a mature man. I

1001
00:45:43,040 --> 00:45:45,440
Speaker 3: hate the Lakers. I don't want the Lakers to win.

1002
00:45:45,560 --> 00:45:46,200
Speaker 2: I don't like them.

1003
00:45:46,239 --> 00:45:48,440
Speaker 3: I don't like their culture. I have battle scars from

1004
00:45:48,440 --> 00:45:52,080
Speaker 3: the eighties and here they are. They are surgeon Man,

1005
00:45:52,280 --> 00:45:54,520
Speaker 3: and they don't seem to be so slowing down. So

1006
00:45:54,680 --> 00:45:57,120
Speaker 3: my last question you would just be do you rate

1007
00:45:57,200 --> 00:46:00,640
Speaker 3: them a chance to knock off either san Antonio or Okay, like,

1008
00:46:01,000 --> 00:46:02,960
Speaker 3: are you not ruling that out?

1009
00:46:05,640 --> 00:46:08,440
Speaker 6: I mean I would be surprised. And you know they

1010
00:46:08,480 --> 00:46:10,719
Speaker 6: are on a heater here. You know, if you go

1011
00:46:10,840 --> 00:46:14,960
Speaker 6: back to February twenty eighth, they're thirty four and twenty four,

1012
00:46:15,200 --> 00:46:18,520
Speaker 6: so they're fifteen of their last seventeen. That's the hell

1013
00:46:18,560 --> 00:46:22,319
Speaker 6: of a stretch. The thing that if you're a Laker fan,

1014
00:46:22,760 --> 00:46:27,960
Speaker 6: you know, like you Murph, is the fact that like

1015
00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:32,000
Speaker 6: their makeup is a little problem like roster wise, is

1016
00:46:32,040 --> 00:46:35,799
Speaker 6: a little problematic for the playoffs, meaning like you mentioned

1017
00:46:35,840 --> 00:46:39,799
Speaker 6: san Antonio. Okay, see, those two teams have very good

1018
00:46:40,040 --> 00:46:44,520
Speaker 6: elite offenses, but also defensively are tremendous and have multiple

1019
00:46:44,600 --> 00:46:47,919
Speaker 6: options to throw at your best scores and your best

1020
00:46:47,960 --> 00:46:51,360
Speaker 6: offensive players. The Lakers can't really make that claim in reverse,

1021
00:46:51,560 --> 00:46:54,279
Speaker 6: and so you know that has been their issue and

1022
00:46:54,320 --> 00:46:57,080
Speaker 6: they have disguised it well during this stretch. But when

1023
00:46:57,120 --> 00:47:00,000
Speaker 6: you're having to stop. You know Shay Gibs a Salexy

1024
00:47:00,080 --> 00:47:03,800
Speaker 6: and you know Aj Mitchell and Casa Wallace and Janlen

1025
00:47:03,800 --> 00:47:06,759
Speaker 6: Williams if he's back for the Thunder, or you know

1026
00:47:06,920 --> 00:47:10,360
Speaker 6: Webby and Sefan Castle and Daron Fox and Dylan Harper,

1027
00:47:11,640 --> 00:47:15,880
Speaker 6: you know, Devin Vittel for the Spurs. You're using Luca

1028
00:47:16,480 --> 00:47:20,640
Speaker 6: Austin Reeves, forty one year old Lebron James. You know,

1029
00:47:20,719 --> 00:47:22,800
Speaker 6: you do have a Jered Vanderbilt players like that. But

1030
00:47:23,280 --> 00:47:27,359
Speaker 6: the Lakers perimeter defense I think is going to make

1031
00:47:27,760 --> 00:47:30,480
Speaker 6: life tough on them in the playoffs. But you know,

1032
00:47:30,960 --> 00:47:32,759
Speaker 6: this is a pretty good body of work that makes

1033
00:47:32,800 --> 00:47:34,879
Speaker 6: you think that that they'd at least compete with those teams.

1034
00:47:34,920 --> 00:47:36,439
Speaker 3: All right, I'm gonna hang my head on that. NBA

1035
00:47:36,560 --> 00:47:40,040
Speaker 3: defenses do matter and Lakers can't hang good. Go Spurs,

1036
00:47:40,120 --> 00:47:43,240
Speaker 3: go Thunder there we go, right, Warriors?

1037
00:47:43,280 --> 00:47:43,719
Speaker 4: You know what it was?

1038
00:47:44,000 --> 00:47:46,239
Speaker 1: Yeah, go Warriors make a run from the ten seed. Yeah,

1039
00:47:47,040 --> 00:47:47,520
Speaker 1: you know what it was.

1040
00:47:48,080 --> 00:47:50,040
Speaker 3: In addition to just the battlescurse in the eighties, I

1041
00:47:50,080 --> 00:47:52,400
Speaker 3: had going to college down there and trying to represent

1042
00:47:52,480 --> 00:47:55,239
Speaker 3: the sad Warriors. Although Sleepy Floyd gave me one night,

1043
00:47:55,560 --> 00:47:59,800
Speaker 3: Thank you, Greg, Papa and it was the the Kobe

1044
00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:03,359
Speaker 3: when the Warriors are so bad, and Oracle Arena over

1045
00:48:03,400 --> 00:48:07,040
Speaker 3: in Oakland became just freaking it was the Forum, bro,

1046
00:48:07,160 --> 00:48:08,120
Speaker 3: it was the fabulous Forum.

1047
00:48:08,680 --> 00:48:11,160
Speaker 1: I was so it was just disgusting. It's like the

1048
00:48:11,200 --> 00:48:13,600
Speaker 1: way the Dodgers are treating the Giants parks these days,

1049
00:48:13,640 --> 00:48:13,800
Speaker 1: you know.

1050
00:48:14,520 --> 00:48:16,680
Speaker 6: So, I mean to be honest, it's the way that

1051
00:48:16,920 --> 00:48:19,239
Speaker 6: that you know, in my neck of the woods, that's

1052
00:48:19,280 --> 00:48:21,239
Speaker 6: the way Golden one fetter would become.

1053
00:48:22,800 --> 00:48:24,920
Speaker 1: Good point, good point. I was like, when it's my

1054
00:48:25,040 --> 00:48:26,600
Speaker 1: team taking out, I don't like it when the other

1055
00:48:26,680 --> 00:48:29,480
Speaker 1: team takes up. That's funny thing about sports, you know

1056
00:48:29,520 --> 00:48:31,480
Speaker 1: what I mean. We love it when the Niners do it,

1057
00:48:31,560 --> 00:48:33,160
Speaker 1: not so much when a dog, It's true. Or the

1058
00:48:33,239 --> 00:48:34,920
Speaker 1: Niners do take over a lot of stadiums.

1059
00:48:35,040 --> 00:48:37,239
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then when you you know, they get a

1060
00:48:37,320 --> 00:48:40,239
Speaker 3: traditional team, we'll come in here like the Bears or somebody, and.

1061
00:48:40,239 --> 00:48:41,520
Speaker 1: They'll have a lot of fans. You'll be like, what

1062
00:48:41,760 --> 00:48:43,960
Speaker 1: is this? What's going on here? All right?

1063
00:48:44,120 --> 00:48:46,320
Speaker 3: Always fun, Sam, Always fun catching up, look forward to

1064
00:48:46,360 --> 00:48:48,000
Speaker 3: the next one. We'll keep reading in the Athletic.

1065
00:48:48,120 --> 00:48:51,560
Speaker 1: Thank you, Yeah, thanks Sam, appreciate you guys. Yeah, Sam,

1066
00:48:51,600 --> 00:48:52,480
Speaker 1: AYMK does a great job.

1067
00:48:52,560 --> 00:48:55,120
Speaker 3: Man, Do you have a do you We haven't really

1068
00:48:55,200 --> 00:48:56,719
Speaker 3: you know, on our show, we sort of tapped out

1069
00:48:56,760 --> 00:48:58,800
Speaker 3: on the Warriors the ten seed, sort of waiting and

1070
00:48:58,800 --> 00:49:02,560
Speaker 3: see what happens this summer with the Pick and Chris stops.

1071
00:49:02,280 --> 00:49:03,239
Speaker 1: And Kerr and all that.

1072
00:49:04,120 --> 00:49:07,759
Speaker 3: Do you care about the top of the Western Conference? No,

1073
00:49:08,160 --> 00:49:10,480
Speaker 3: not really, to be honest with I mean, honestly, I

1074
00:49:10,600 --> 00:49:11,399
Speaker 3: just don't cant take.

1075
00:49:11,480 --> 00:49:13,400
Speaker 5: I don't care about the NBA regular season right now,

1076
00:49:13,480 --> 00:49:15,560
Speaker 5: and I feel like most people don't know. But that's

1077
00:49:15,800 --> 00:49:17,440
Speaker 5: what I mean is like, yeah, yeah, I mean, I'll

1078
00:49:17,480 --> 00:49:20,400
Speaker 5: care about it once you handicapping actual playoffs, you.

1079
00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:22,839
Speaker 3: Know, but you're I guess I should have rephrased the question. Then,

1080
00:49:23,239 --> 00:49:25,080
Speaker 3: do you do you have a feeling on how it's

1081
00:49:25,120 --> 00:49:25,759
Speaker 3: going to play out?

1082
00:49:26,040 --> 00:49:26,200
Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I've been big on the Spurs and Wenby all

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Speaker 5: season long, Like I think they're going to disrupt a

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Speaker 5: lot of people.

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Speaker 1: Obviously, the favor is.

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Speaker 5: Still okay Ce and you can never count out the

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Speaker 5: Joker and the dever Nuggets. But honestly, where I'm at

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Speaker 5: the last couple of months in the NBA without Steph

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Speaker 5: Curry with the Warriors just kind of floating and playing purgatory.

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Speaker 5: I think all NBA fans right now are just waiting

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Speaker 5: until some actual meaningful basketball in the NBA. You're just

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Speaker 5: not playing a lot of it right now with all

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Speaker 5: these damn tanking teams.

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Speaker 3: You're describing my NBA fandom from ninety four to ninety

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Speaker 3: five to twenty twelve, with the one exception of that

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Speaker 3: we believe here, which by the way, they were the

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Speaker 3: eight seed that year. It's not like they made a

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Speaker 3: stormy run. But I mean it was just when the

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Speaker 3: Warriors were so dull and bad, it was hard to follow.

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Speaker 1: It really was.

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Speaker 3: And that's where people say MLB might be surging a

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Speaker 3: little bit past there.

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Speaker 5: And obviously I'm still watching Warriors games every single night.

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Speaker 5: I'm checking in on porzingis and pods, but it's just

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Speaker 5: not the same without stuff for Jimmy out there.

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Speaker 3: No, no, no, By the way, Warriors here he comes

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Speaker 3: wemby Wednesday night. I mean that's a chance to go

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Speaker 3: see history.

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, go see, I mean yes, that's like take

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Speaker 5: your kids, yeah, go see that French freak. I can

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Speaker 5: say that as a Frenchman.

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Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, right, The French do a lot of freaky things. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: with the number three, freaky deaky French.

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Speaker 3: All right, all right, guys, good stuff with Sam. I

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Speaker 3: always like talking to him. Warriors host the Spurs on Wednesday.

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Speaker 3: Go see your wemby. Okay, So listen, We've talked about

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Speaker 3: the Giants all day long. We've dissed the forty nine

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Speaker 3: ers who are in the news. John Lynch in the

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Speaker 3: news about substations and Joey bass Bosa, Christian McCaffrey in

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Speaker 3: the news as Kyle Shanahan expresses, you know, thoughts that

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Speaker 3: he might rest him.

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Speaker 1: I don't know about that. Jed York in the news

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Speaker 1: with how he's owning the team these days. A lot

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Speaker 1: to get to. Matt Barrows at nine pint thirty on

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Speaker 1: The Sports Leader