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Speaker 2: get to all of it. And you know, the famed

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Speaker 2: actress Lily Tomlin once said, I always wanted to be somebody.

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Speaker 2: I just wish I'd been more specific. Perhaps she should

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Speaker 2: have named herself Duke. How good is Duke? We'll get

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Speaker 2: to that in just a minute. And yes, I have

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Speaker 2: them winning it all in my bracket.

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Speaker 2: And I know the big narrative group think Echo Chamber

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Speaker 2: narrat around the March Madness tournament this year, I get it.

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Speaker 2: There's no Cinderella's buzzer beat buzzer beaters and nail better

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Speaker 2: games have been kind of at a premium. I'm going

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Speaker 2: to get to that in just a second. But believe

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Speaker 2: it or not, the March Madness TV ratings are at

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Speaker 2: a thirty two year high, despite any of those things

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Speaker 2: being somewhat lacking. Through the first two rounds, they're averaging

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Speaker 2: the Sweet Sixteen since nineteen ninety three. That's according to Nielsen.

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Speaker 2: They had a record breaking opening day, by the way,

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Speaker 2: averaging about nine million viewers per game, which is up

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Speaker 2: four percent from last year, the highest ever for a

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Speaker 2: tournament under its traditional opening format. But that in fifty

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Speaker 2: chev If you're convinced this tournament needs a villain or

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Speaker 2: something silly like that, I think he said the same

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Speaker 2: thing last year about because Duke wasn't good. Look, I

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Speaker 2: get it. The beauty of March Madness lies in the

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Speaker 2: unknown players who become tournament legends, and then the mid

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Speaker 2: major programs who shocked the world with a deep run.

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Speaker 2: But given the state of this year's tournament, particularly the

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Speaker 2: Sweet Sixteen, it's fair to ask is nil and the

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Speaker 2: transfer portal to Death of Cinderella for the first time

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Speaker 2: since the men's tournament expanded to sixty four teams in

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Speaker 2: nineteen eighty five, the Sweet sixteen comprised only Power Conference teams.

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Speaker 2: By the way, the women's side is the same fifteen

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Speaker 2: Power Conference teams plus Yukon, which, well, they're the most

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Speaker 2: decorated program in women's basketball sports history. So it's the

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Speaker 2: sign of the times. It's no secret why this is happening.

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Speaker 2: Adapt or die Nil and the transfer portal, they've created

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Speaker 2: a landscape basically better than professional free agency, where major programs,

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Speaker 2: whether they just steve it or they gobble up the

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Speaker 2: gutted just the way it is. What are you gonna do?

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Speaker 2: Greg Campy, who's coached at Oakland University for about forty

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Speaker 2: And this young man had been going to games as

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Speaker 2: kid's name is Trey Thomsen. He was virtually unrecruited out

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Speaker 2: the Horizon League Player of the Year sixty six kid,

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Speaker 2: somehow they Oakland Grizzlies beat Kentucky last year, as you

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Speaker 2: before the start of the tournament, Townsend was interviewed about

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Speaker 2: I say to him? Nothing? You wish him well? How

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Speaker 2: good is Duke well Man? You really got to give

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Speaker 2: for the first time under John Shire. To take over

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Speaker 2: The Blue Devils are not only number one, they're number

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Speaker 2: one with a bullet I mean, just two days after

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Speaker 2: watching Alabama hit a record an NCAA Tournament record twenty

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Speaker 2: over BYU Bama hit just eight to thirty two from

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Speaker 2: the Blue Devils, they may have the youngest rotation in

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Speaker 2: college basketball, not anymore. Their size and athleticism they Natos

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Speaker 2: He only had two blocks, but he always altered Alabama's

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Speaker 2: this year they won by twenty points or more. That's

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Speaker 2: back when Duke had guy like Jim's monarchle Mike Jimiski.

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Speaker 2: Okay google it now. Duke also is averaging the most

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Speaker 2: North Carolina now Bama lost two games by twenty plus

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Speaker 2: John Shire. He's the eighth person to ever play and

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Speaker 2: even mention Tyrese Proctor. He continues to fly the radar

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Speaker 2: for much of the season because most of the hype

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Speaker 2: and the rest of their talented freshman class. But Proctor

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Speaker 2: John Shire a huge breakthrough, right, Duke has progressed further

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Speaker 2: in the NCAA Tournament every single season under John Shire.

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Speaker 2: Dude's only thirty seven years old. He was tasked with

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Speaker 2: th replanning replacing excuse me, coach k. Kachizhevsky. They see,

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Speaker 2: I never want to replace the legend. Well, look, this

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Speaker 2: run schemes, recruit, deal with people, and Duke is far

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Speaker 2: from done. Like I said, you know, I talked about

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Speaker 2: this probably ten times, starting about six weeks ago. I

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Speaker 2: believe there were only seven teams that could win this tournament,

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Speaker 2: And every one of these seven teams, I said, had

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Speaker 2: a potential bugaboo, a potential damocles that could prevent them

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Speaker 2: two reliant on threes. Guess what they were? They missed

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Speaker 2: they missed twenty six. What was my knock on Duke

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Speaker 2: Well the youngest rotation in the country. But I don't

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Speaker 2: think that's going to matter anymore. We'll see what Houston

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Speaker 2: as a way of going away. LJ. Cryer did it

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Speaker 2: when it mattered most yesterday, unlike you know and Kelvin

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Speaker 2: Samson on that brilliant you know inbound play that said

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Speaker 2: Rick Barnes, We'll see. We'll see what they do Sunday

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Speaker 2: in big games. Whatever, we'll see. I still have not

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Speaker 2: sold on Florida to win it all. I know you

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Speaker 2: what we shall see. Duke is headed to the Final

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Speaker 2: I do believe Michigan State will beat Auburn. Maybe I'm

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Speaker 2: But if they don't, they'll kill my bracket. That's his

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Speaker 7: I am doing well. Yeah, the headlines a lot of

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Speaker 2: We're going to get to all that. But I want

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Speaker 7: It's puzzling because very rarely do fire a head coach

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Speaker 7: Don't make sense to move. The other ironic part is

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Speaker 7: Perhaps, but I think that there's also sometimes a feeling

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I agree. You talking with Mark Medina Medina

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Speaker 2: every Saturday Night and the Bernie Frattle show chopping up

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Speaker 2: in seventies basketball. What the hell did he know about

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Speaker 2: seventies basketball? He was born in nineteen eighty four. And

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Speaker 2: Brian Windhorst, who did take the high road, tell me

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Speaker 2: exactly what you think. I don't want to lead the

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Speaker 2: witness on this one because I know what I think.

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Speaker 2: What do you think is going on here with Lebron?

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Speaker 7: I think it's got to the point where it's bad

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Speaker 7: mud slinging for both sides. Now, I think a lot

438
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Speaker 7: of times in discourse, when someone blames both sides, that

439
00:24:03,880 --> 00:24:07,480
Speaker 7: means that both are equally to blame. No, let me

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Speaker 7: be clear on that. But here's where everything earned. I

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Speaker 7: think that Stephen Ah Smith, like a lot of us

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Speaker 7: in the media, including ourselves when we've talked weekly, had

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Speaker 7: fair legitimate criticism about a Brownie James and his struggles

444
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Speaker 7: and whether he belongs in the NBA. And two, you

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Speaker 7: know Lebron James's influence on the organization and what extent

446
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Speaker 7: he's exerting it and to what extent he's not. But

447
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Speaker 7: where I think Stephen A crossed the line is when

448
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Speaker 7: he used that phrase I'm pleading to as a father,

449
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Speaker 7: that's no one's business. I think the Lebron's credit all

450
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Speaker 7: accounts suggest he's been a great dad. But regardless, it's

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Speaker 7: not our place to tell Lebron how to parent his son.

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Speaker 7: But after that, it's just gotten into WW soap opera

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Speaker 7: Kardashian style. You know, I understand Lebron wanting to stick

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Speaker 7: up for his son, but to do it in that

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Speaker 7: theatrical fashion where it's within everyone's view, it's a courtside

456
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Speaker 7: seed seemed too theatrical. But for Steve and AA then

457
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Speaker 7: turn that into a week's worth of content and take

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Speaker 7: personal shots is ridiculous. For Lebron to then vally back

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Speaker 7: and take more personal shots on the pack McAfee show

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Speaker 7: is ridiculous. And then for Steven A to respond and

461
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Speaker 7: say a lot of falsehoods about Lebron not being at

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Speaker 7: Kobe Bryant's funeral or memorial service and question why he

463
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Speaker 7: wasn't at Dwayne Wade's Hall of Fame induction. One, he

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Speaker 7: was at Kobe's memorial service, just not in public viewing

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Speaker 7: because he didn't want to the camera on him. And

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Speaker 7: two he missed Dwayne Wade's Hall of Fame induction because

467
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Speaker 7: that Cohen's is when Brown and James had that cardiac

468
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Speaker 7: arrest and he was in the hospital. So it's not

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Speaker 7: a good look for anyone. And look, I think anyone

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Speaker 7: that's been listening to our MBA segments, we call it

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Speaker 7: like we see it. We have good discussions on sports.

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Speaker 7: When we keep it to that, we don't get the personal.

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Speaker 7: And I just wish that it would get back to

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Speaker 7: that reset. I know that's idealistic and naive given it

475
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Speaker 7: today's world, but it's just completely unnecessary for Lebron and

476
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Speaker 7: Steven ad to go down this road. And I don't

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Speaker 7: think they're gaining any fans through this whole discourse.

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Speaker 2: Well, I do a little thing in about twenty six

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Speaker 2: minutes called the Midnight Hour, and I'm gonna ask some

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Speaker 2: callers to weigh in. Who's saw he on Lebron or

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Speaker 2: Stevin A But Lebron was on a roll. I can't

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Speaker 2: see the life of you figure out why he tried

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Speaker 2: to be smirch. Brian Windhorse too, Yeah, I don't get

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Speaker 2: that either, And you saw windhorse response. He goes Lebron

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Speaker 2: owes me nothing. I owe him everything. He took the

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Speaker 2: high road. So where's Lebron going with that? I mean,

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Speaker 2: I heard that the whole world doesn't kiss his feet.

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Speaker 5: I don't know.

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Speaker 7: I mean, I haven't seen any any public statements from

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Speaker 7: Brian Windhorse suggesting that he was really close with Lebron.

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Speaker 5: Maybe he's taken.

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Speaker 7: Exception to you know, Brian Windhorse auditioning on different things

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Speaker 7: he's heard about and suggesting that it came from Lebron himself.

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Speaker 7: I'm not sure, but anyone who follows Brian Windhorse knows

495
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Speaker 7: that he's always been a fair, an honest journalist and

496
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Speaker 7: he talks to people like he doesn't just say things

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Speaker 7: out of thin air. He talks to people because you know,

498
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Speaker 7: that's how you get the information. So, yeah, it was

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Speaker 7: very unnecessary and had nothing to do with the subject matter.

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Speaker 2: Well and there. That's why I brought it up, because

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Speaker 2: this was a motif. Lebron was on a roll. And

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Speaker 2: I don't think he's done. We know he's sensitive, you know,

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Speaker 2: I believe he's very insecure and he's petulant. He scored

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Speaker 2: a lot of points in the NBA. I'll give him that,

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Speaker 2: but this, this is he's going to start to deflate

506
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Speaker 2: his legacy a little bit, and well that's probably a

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Speaker 2: conversation for a different day.

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Speaker 9: A couple other.

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Speaker 2: Quickies, uh, I understand the the NBA is looking into

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Speaker 2: overseeing or perhaps launching some sort of NBA European League.

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Speaker 7: Year about that, yeah, well, Adam Silver to the NBA Commission.

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Speaker 7: He had a Board of governors meeting on Friday talking

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Speaker 7: about that. Now, to be clear, it's not like the

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Speaker 7: NBA is creating this new European league. What he was

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Speaker 7: talking about is, you know, having NBA owners have some

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Speaker 7: investment stakes in these clubs. Now, I think what's interesting

517
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Speaker 7: is there already is a professional basket league in Europe.

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Speaker 7: It's affiliate with euro League, So you do wonder could

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Speaker 7: there be some pushback, some competition. But I think what

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Speaker 7: it's really about establishing is having another revenue stream for

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Speaker 7: NBA owners to have some sort of ownership stake or

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Speaker 7: at least investment stake in and that can create a

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Speaker 7: pipeline for more players than be developed and some more synergy.

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Speaker 7: But it's very much in the early stages. But there's

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Speaker 7: a reason why the NBA announced that they're a global

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Speaker 7: enterprise and then they're thinking big term because we've seen

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Speaker 7: just how much more and more global. The NBA has

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Speaker 7: become both in terms of popularity in the league itself

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Speaker 7: and just the sport itself that you know, Adam Silver

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Speaker 7: feels like it's good to tap into more revenue streams overseas.

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Speaker 2: Speaking of revenue streams, I'm hearing whispers and hush tones

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Speaker 2: that this next free agent what season as it were,

533
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Speaker 2: however you want to characterize it, this next free agent cycle,

534
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Speaker 2: there could be a bit of a free agent recession

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Speaker 2: as NBA salaries and deals have gone just bananas through

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Speaker 2: the roof. Is there any merit to that it could be?

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Speaker 7: I know that ESPN had a story about that. I

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Speaker 7: think that what we have to keep in mind or

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Speaker 7: two things. One, you know, it's not so much about

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Speaker 7: the NBA running title money or players not seen being

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Speaker 7: seen as valuable as it once was. It all ties

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Speaker 7: together with the second Apron penalty. And you know, the

543
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Speaker 7: NBA institute this with the idea of having competitive balance

544
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Speaker 7: where if you reach past the threshold, all of a sudden,

545
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Speaker 7: you don't have full access to use a mid level exception,

546
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Speaker 7: can't do signing trade. So even for teams that are

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Speaker 7: willing to spend all of a sudden they can. I

548
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Speaker 7: think the other thing is, you know, basically, ever since

549
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Speaker 7: Kevin Durant went to the Warriors in twenty sixteen, as

550
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Speaker 7: a way to help teams retain their own players, they

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Speaker 7: gave teams the opportunity to sign star players to Supermax extensions.

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Speaker 7: And so what's happened is any star player doesn't really

553
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Speaker 7: go through free agency anymore. You know, their commitment or

554
00:30:43,760 --> 00:30:48,920
Speaker 7: decommitment for both sides is established before their contract is

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Speaker 7: even up. And so I think that that's what NBA

556
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Speaker 7: fans need to keep in mind. We're talking about all

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Speaker 7: these trades that happen with these star players, whether it's

558
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Speaker 7: a player being upset with their respective franchise or their

559
00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:04,840
Speaker 7: franchise thinking, you know what, we got to go in

560
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Speaker 7: a different direction. That all stems from the Supermax conversation

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Speaker 7: because these players are now eligible two years before their

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Speaker 7: contract ends, and in a way that forces both teams

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Speaker 7: to really reveal their cards as far as how much

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Speaker 7: more commitment they want to show each other. And if

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00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:24,000
Speaker 7: any one side blinks all of a sudden, the other

566
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Speaker 7: one has to consider, Okay, do I stick this out

567
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Speaker 7: or do I cut my losses and look for a

568
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Speaker 7: better alternative before its contract is up, so it's all

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Speaker 7: tied together. And I do wonder if the NBA owners

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Speaker 7: and the players union to revisit this because it's created

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Speaker 7: a lot of I think, problems and challenges for teams

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Speaker 7: to construct the rosters.

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Speaker 2: Great stuff, Mark, And yes, we're only seventeen days away

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Speaker 2: from the beginning of the NBA playoffs, and I contend

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Speaker 2: there'll be more storylines this year, whether it's Okaysee or

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Speaker 2: Golden State or certainly the Lakers, or could Boston repeatedt C.

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Speaker 2: I think once it gets started, no matter what happens,

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Speaker 2: we're gonna have some pretty sensational storylines.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, and I'll forget Cooper Flag, I mean inevitably number

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Speaker 7: one tech. We'll just see which team lands with the

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Speaker 7: best lottery on to get them.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and of course that'll be after the NBA Finals,

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Speaker 2: and we'll talk to that in one of our June

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Speaker 2: shows as the NBA Draft gets closer and closer. All right, Mark,

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Speaker 2: all stuff, man, we'll see that.

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Speaker 5: There you go.

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Speaker 2: We'll see you next Saturday.

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Speaker 7: I appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: Thanks, Mark Medina, Medina Magic, our Fox Sports Radio NBA Guru. Okay,

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Speaker 2: And oh, by the way, the one of the inadvertent

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Speaker 2: byproducts of this situation and this you know scenario, is

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Speaker 2: that it gives teams free timeouts. And one of the

648
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Speaker 2: problems is perfection is now the standard in college basketball.

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Speaker 2: Anything less is bad, But all the while it ruins

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Speaker 2: the flow of the game. And I didn't just wake

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Speaker 2: up this morning and feel this way Now, the truth

652
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Speaker 2: of the matter is, if you want to have a

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Speaker 2: miserable time watching sports tuned into a college basketball game

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Speaker 2: where there's about a ten point margin and four minutes

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Speaker 2: to go, there's a good chance it's going to be

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Speaker 2: like watching paint dry. There was one game late February

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Speaker 2: when Vanderbilt beat Texas A and M eighty six to

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Speaker 2: eighty four. This is just a metaphor. It was a

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Speaker 2: complete disgrace to the sport. It was a total I sore,

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Speaker 2: and I think it's become the poster child for how

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Speaker 2: stupid this situation is. Vanderbilt led seventy to sixty at

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Speaker 2: about three and a half minutes to go, and from

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Speaker 2: the time the ball was inbounded it took forty minutes

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Speaker 2: in real time to complete the game. Why the officials

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Speaker 2: kept blowing whistles for files? Fourteen files were called the

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Speaker 2: final three minutes, leading to twenty eight free throws, tossing

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Speaker 2: a couple of instant play reviews, injury stop. It just timeouts,

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Speaker 2: endless substitutions by both coach coaches, excuse me, and you've

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Speaker 2: got the most une want you we'll finish possible to

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Speaker 2: a game, and that includes a tournament that has a

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Speaker 2: chance to be dramatic. I want to get your thoughts

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Speaker 2: on College Basketball Official Review. I have a solution, but

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Speaker 2: rather than spoil it, let's hear from the peeps on that,

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Speaker 2: or just give me your thought. You might say, Burner,

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Speaker 2: you're crazy. He's part of the game. Enjoy What are

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Speaker 2: we talking about? You always say sports as a toy department.

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Speaker 2: Remember the best conversations are when folks disagree. So I

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Speaker 2: want to hear from you number one on the College

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Speaker 2: Basketball Official Review. Secondly, you know Danny Hurley. He has

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Speaker 2: become really sort of an interesting figure, from winning back

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Speaker 2: to back championships, to being an offer of the job

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Speaker 2: by the Lakers, to having my buddy Jeremy shapp to

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Speaker 2: a full East sixty review, a one hour special on

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Speaker 2: his life. And you know him by now. He lived

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Speaker 2: in the shadow of his brother Bobby and his dad.

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Speaker 2: Bob a legendary basketball coach in New Jersey, and Bobby

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Speaker 2: to do hero. But Danny really carved out a knife,

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Speaker 2: you know, a niche of his own. More than that,

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Speaker 2: he has a seat at the table when it comes

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Speaker 2: to you know, damn near basketball royalty. The only other

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Speaker 2: guy in the last you know, fifty years to sixty

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Speaker 2: years to do back to back with John Wooden. But

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Speaker 2: did you see how it ended Danny Hurley dropping F

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Speaker 2: bombs leaving the floor postgame and Raleigh, And it wasn't good.

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Speaker 2: And as a matter of fact, somebody caught it on

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Speaker 2: video and it's a lasting image of coach Hurley. Instead

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Speaker 2: of leaving the court with his head held high in dignity,

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Speaker 2: the video shows with photographers and other staffers, he was

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Speaker 2: not exactly trying to keep his voice low dropping f

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Speaker 2: bombs and you know about the Baylor situation, et cetera,

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Speaker 2: et cetera. But then allegedly, it turns out that one

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Speaker 2: of his staffers allegedly threatened the reporter who captured the

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Speaker 2: viral video of coach Dan Hurley leaving the court following

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Speaker 2: the Huskies after he lost to a tough, hard fought,

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Speaker 2: competitive loss to Florida by two points last week. So

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Speaker 2: I want your thoughts on Danny Hurley. Is it just

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Speaker 2: a Bernie leave the guy alone. He's human, right, or

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Speaker 2: it's like, well, you know what, every time he does

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Speaker 2: something like that, he you know, he diminishes himself. And finally,

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Speaker 2: we are not not doing this show without getting your

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Speaker 2: thoughts on the Lebron situation. You heard me tell Mark Medina,

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Speaker 2: I believe Lebron is blessed with a great ability to

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Speaker 2: never take the high road. And you heard me say

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Speaker 2: how much respect after Bill Russell, who once said, don't

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Speaker 2: compare ghosts, don't compare eras Lebron has no clue what

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Speaker 2: he's talking about. In seventies basketball, Johannis would drive the

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Speaker 2: land and get slammed to the floor, and he might

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Speaker 2: get up and score two fifty. I don't know, but

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Speaker 2: he doesn't know what he's talking about. Then he compared

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Speaker 2: to stephen A. Smith to Taylor Swift that it went

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Speaker 2: after Brian leinors you tell me what you think, and

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Speaker 2: I want you know whose side are you on? Lebron

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Speaker 2: or stephen A. So he got college basketball if it's review,

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Speaker 2: we got the Bobby who is the real Danny Hurley?

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Speaker 2: And oh, by the way, Lebron versus steven A who sidey?

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Speaker 2: On eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox, dill him

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Speaker 2: up the midnight hour on the Bernie Fraddle Show, Fox

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Speaker 2: Sports Radio.

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Speaker 1: Don't listening, no Fox Sports Radio Radio.

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Speaker 2: Well that's right, you heard the man, the Bernie Fraddle

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Speaker 2: Show keeps rolling right along. My name is Bernie Fraddle.

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Speaker 2: Phone lines are packing up. We're gonna get to all

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Speaker 2: of you. Please be patient. I want to hear what

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Speaker 2: you've all got to say. No one is getting turned away.

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Speaker 2: I want to hear from all of you. Yup three words.

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Speaker 2: It's the minnight hour, So this is your chance. Callers

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Speaker 2: have been tremendous eight seven, seven, nine ninety six six

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Speaker 2: three sixt nine. We got the college basketball official review.

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Speaker 2: You've got a situation on Bobby or to check that

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Speaker 2: Danny Hurley and you heard me set that up. And

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Speaker 2: then Lebron versus steven A. Who sad?

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Speaker 4: Are you on?

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Speaker 2: What's going on here? John in Seattle opens up tonight? John?

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Speaker 2: Is this your first time calling the Bernie Frattle Show.

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Speaker 8: No, so I believe I've called before.

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Speaker 2: Good, Well, welcome back in John. What have you got

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Speaker 2: for us? Tonight.

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Speaker 10: So I like to talk about the sas.

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Speaker 5: Lebron thing.

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Speaker 10: Sure, And basically where I'm at is it's.

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Speaker 8: Very frustrating because on one hand, you have one guy

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Speaker 8: who's a professional reporter and talks out I don't know,

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Speaker 8: ten sides of his head.

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00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:51,680
Speaker 10: He talks out his ears, he talks out his mouth,

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Speaker 10: his nose, his but hole. He's always hard to find.

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Speaker 10: He always said, I'm never hard to find, right, And

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Speaker 10: then when he gets found, then he wants to run

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Speaker 10: and cry to a show, and then he becomes like

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Speaker 10: we call these people Internet gangsters. He becomes an ESPN gangster.

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Speaker 10: Now I want to understand nothing with him, but he

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Speaker 10: becomes the ESPN gangster, you know, and because he got found,

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Speaker 10: and then he just runs and talks crap and talks crap,

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Speaker 10: and I think it's just crazy, right. And on the

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Speaker 10: other hand, you have Lebron.

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Speaker 5: And.

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Speaker 10: You can say you can protect him Samlei or whatever.

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Speaker 4: But.

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Speaker 10: I think Lebron had a right to check him because

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Speaker 10: you can't tell me I'm always on the fifty yard line,

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Speaker 10: you know, I'm always half court, you know.

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Speaker 2: So fair enough Lebron checked him at the Laker game,

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Speaker 2: and but then he has to go back on the

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Speaker 2: Pat McAfee show this past week to go on on

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Speaker 2: a ninety minute die Tribe. And I'm cool if you're

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Speaker 2: on Lebron's side. Who side you on Lebron or Stephen

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Speaker 2: as among Lebron?

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Speaker 10: But how much how long?

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Speaker 8: Okay you said Lebron went a a ninety minute or whatever,

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Speaker 8: but how much was it about s as.

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Speaker 5: Well?

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Speaker 2: See that's the part that bothered me. A fair enough

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Speaker 2: about was and the transcript is there for everybody to read.

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Speaker 2: But then he started to spray the board about Brian

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Speaker 2: Winnhorst and seventies basketball. I'm just like, what's going on Lebron? So,

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Speaker 2: fair enough you're on lebron side? Anything about the official

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Speaker 2: review and or dance?

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Speaker 5: Okay?

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Speaker 8: Okay, but but do you think that Lebron how to

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Speaker 8: write a check him?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the way he checked him that I thought

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Speaker 2: was inappropriate.

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Speaker 10: But yeah, but you can't you can't be Stephen A.

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Speaker 10: Smith and say, okay, I'm on the fifty yard line

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Speaker 10: or the sideline. I'm always here, Like I don't know

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Speaker 10: how much you watch sas He always says. Now he's

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Speaker 10: saying that, oh no, uh, you guys just call me

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Speaker 10: now now I'm here, but now you gotta call me

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Speaker 10: and we can talk after the game.

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Speaker 2: I got you, John, you got Thanks for the call,

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Speaker 2: big fella. Your points taken and I accept the factor

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Speaker 2: on Lebron's side. Full disclosure. So the night Thanksgiving night,

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Speaker 2: the night two thousand and five, right after Detroit Lions

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Speaker 2: postgame show, Steve Marucci got unceremoniously fired. Steven A. Smith

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Speaker 2: was in town. Rob Parker, steven A. Smith and I

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Speaker 2: had dinner along with Mark Wilson. Are the radio partner,

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Speaker 2: and I've seen running him a few times, and the

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Speaker 2: Steve and A you're running in person is not the

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Speaker 2: guy you see on TV. I but listen, we don't

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Speaker 2: always have to agree. I appreciate the call. John. Don't

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Speaker 2: be a stranger. Uh, Marino in San Francisco Joint. Just

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Speaker 2: welcome in here the Bernie Fratter Show, O man.

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Speaker 11: I enjoy your show. I'll go, I'll go quickly. I'm

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Speaker 11: neutral on steven A versus Lebron.

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Speaker 2: Okay.

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Speaker 11: I was blessed enough to meet Will Chamberlain in the nineties.

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Speaker 12: Love it and he was.

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Speaker 11: Kind and courteous. He wasn't a I don't know if

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Speaker 11: I should use that expression on the air player, he

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Speaker 11: was respectful. Seventy met Mike Tyson, and.

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Speaker 4: I heard heard the story that Mike Tyson just like you.

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Speaker 11: Met Stephen A in person, but on the air he's

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Speaker 11: like to know it all, for lack of a better word,

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Speaker 11: he's a know it all. He's like, I don't blame

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Speaker 11: him for chastising the Cowboys, but I mean, so I'm

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Speaker 11: new Tol. I've never met Lebron. I know Shack used

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Speaker 11: to irritate Laker fans. People think I got on the

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Speaker 11: Laker bandwagon because of Kobe. He's like, oh no, I

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Speaker 11: was a Laker fan in eighty four.

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Speaker 5: So you know.

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Speaker 11: And as far as these reviews taking forever, literally forever,

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Speaker 11: even the NFL just make a decision and we don't forget.

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Speaker 11: They wanted to get they wanted to get rid of

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Speaker 11: instant replace and then somebody like our great coach Joe.

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Speaker 11: One thing that anger with me, Bernie, is that they

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Speaker 11: want to change the name of the Redskins. Okay, change

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Speaker 11: it to Red Potato Skins. Change it you you like me.

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Speaker 11: I can't call them commanders.

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Speaker 5: That makes me sick.

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Speaker 11: It doesn't make sense. The name doesn't make any sense,

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Speaker 11: so I have to be neutral.

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Speaker 13: I've never met.

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Speaker 11: Lebron in person. He could be the sweetest guy.

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Speaker 2: I've never met him.

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Speaker 11: And Will Chamberlain was a very nice guy. Yes, yes,

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Speaker 11: the irony is I saw Wilt a round Hollywood. He

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Speaker 11: went home alone a lot of nights.

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Speaker 2: All right, buddy, listen Marino, I appreciate you, man. I

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Speaker 2: want to hear from you again. Don't be a stranger

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Speaker 2: for what. Look Fordsworth and Jim Kevin, Steve Domingo, Hankkit.

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Speaker 2: I just want to get this off my chest. Look. Uh,

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Speaker 2: Bill Russell was an elegant aerodype man in addition to

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Speaker 2: winning eleven championships. I've met him, I I you know,

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Speaker 2: I was an intern at the form. Magic's rook heere.

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Speaker 2: I've met Magic, talked to him many times. Kobe, Uh,

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00:47:18,080 --> 00:47:22,840
Speaker 2: you know, uh, Jordan, all these guys are our elder

861
00:47:22,960 --> 00:47:29,360
Speaker 2: statesmen that were transcendent to the sport. In their demeanor.

862
00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:33,200
Speaker 2: Lebron wants to be that he's not that he tries

863
00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:36,560
Speaker 2: his as Lebron would say, ass off to be that

864
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:39,520
Speaker 2: he's not that, he's never going to be that. He's

865
00:47:39,520 --> 00:47:42,920
Speaker 2: an then untfel communicator. He's too petulant, he's too sensitive.

866
00:47:44,360 --> 00:47:47,279
Speaker 2: He's he bugs people. He rubs a lot of people

867
00:47:47,360 --> 00:47:51,080
Speaker 2: the wrong way. Set that aside from his accomplishments on

868
00:47:51,200 --> 00:47:54,000
Speaker 2: the floor, Portman want to be rich Richmond want to

869
00:47:54,040 --> 00:47:57,920
Speaker 2: be king. He calls himself king and he can't carry

870
00:47:58,040 --> 00:48:01,280
Speaker 2: that crown, not off the floor, and he gets himself

871
00:48:01,320 --> 00:48:03,960
Speaker 2: into trouble with these things. That's that's my two sets.

872
00:48:04,320 --> 00:48:07,000
Speaker 2: Jim in Massachusetts always good to hear from a Jim.

873
00:48:07,080 --> 00:48:08,560
Speaker 2: I'm sure you got him mouthful tonight.

874
00:48:09,440 --> 00:48:12,320
Speaker 12: Oh my goodness. As far as Dan Hurley goes, you know,

875
00:48:12,480 --> 00:48:15,120
Speaker 12: I'm just gonna let that go. You know, the rest

876
00:48:15,239 --> 00:48:17,000
Speaker 12: might have had a bad game or something like that,

877
00:48:17,239 --> 00:48:20,440
Speaker 12: but when it's over, it's over in the pedigree that

878
00:48:20,600 --> 00:48:23,719
Speaker 12: he comes from, and he has I'm sure he's looking

879
00:48:23,760 --> 00:48:26,640
Speaker 12: at the mirror and saying, why did you go act

880
00:48:26,760 --> 00:48:30,000
Speaker 12: like that? But you know, I think it's forgotten about

881
00:48:30,080 --> 00:48:33,799
Speaker 12: and this and that. So you know, I'm a fan

882
00:48:33,880 --> 00:48:37,200
Speaker 12: of his and Yukon a little bit so out I'm

883
00:48:37,239 --> 00:48:39,560
Speaker 12: willing to let that go. As far as stephen A

884
00:48:40,080 --> 00:48:43,719
Speaker 12: and Lebron go, let me tell you something. Back in

885
00:48:43,800 --> 00:48:46,840
Speaker 12: the day, when AA you really started, we used to

886
00:48:46,920 --> 00:48:49,680
Speaker 12: travel all over Reford because you were there for the weekend,

887
00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:51,359
Speaker 12: so you know, I've been to New Jersey, New York

888
00:48:51,440 --> 00:48:53,520
Speaker 12: so well, Bron basically.

889
00:48:53,239 --> 00:48:55,640
Speaker 14: Came out of the womb that big, you know he was.

890
00:48:56,080 --> 00:48:59,960
Speaker 12: He just dominated from the get go and he's out.

891
00:49:00,080 --> 00:49:02,680
Speaker 12: He's had his way, you know, and this and that.

892
00:49:02,840 --> 00:49:05,319
Speaker 12: You go on YouTube and see the videos of him

893
00:49:05,320 --> 00:49:07,920
Speaker 12: when his kid was playing for RT the officials. It's

894
00:49:08,000 --> 00:49:10,600
Speaker 12: just it's just it's just nature.

895
00:49:10,840 --> 00:49:11,000
Speaker 2: You know.

896
00:49:11,200 --> 00:49:13,640
Speaker 12: He's always had his way and everything and he just

897
00:49:13,760 --> 00:49:14,480
Speaker 12: can't shake it.

898
00:49:15,040 --> 00:49:18,400
Speaker 14: And steven A. Stephen A is a more run you know.

899
00:49:18,600 --> 00:49:20,200
Speaker 12: Now he thinks he's going to run for president, and

900
00:49:20,280 --> 00:49:23,600
Speaker 12: he's on the view and he's on all these political shows.

901
00:49:23,680 --> 00:49:26,600
Speaker 12: Now Hannity, you know, forget about sports. When your head

902
00:49:26,640 --> 00:49:30,360
Speaker 12: gets so big, you know, you think you're you're bigger

903
00:49:30,400 --> 00:49:32,600
Speaker 12: than what you are. And I think that's what the

904
00:49:33,160 --> 00:49:34,680
Speaker 12: what both of them are going through.

905
00:49:35,280 --> 00:49:37,440
Speaker 2: You know. In stephen A's case, I think there's a

906
00:49:37,520 --> 00:49:39,239
Speaker 2: myth to do his madness. He just got one hundred

907
00:49:39,239 --> 00:49:41,960
Speaker 2: million dollars. Do you remember, Jim The opposite of love

908
00:49:42,120 --> 00:49:46,279
Speaker 2: is not hate, it's indifference. Stephen A. Smith triggers people

909
00:49:46,400 --> 00:49:48,239
Speaker 2: with some of the things he does. He's not going

910
00:49:48,320 --> 00:49:50,560
Speaker 2: to run for president. There's zero chance of that. But

911
00:49:50,880 --> 00:49:53,279
Speaker 2: to your point, he annoys you, and that's fair. So

912
00:49:53,520 --> 00:49:56,640
Speaker 2: whose side are you on? Lebron's or Steven A's.

913
00:49:58,480 --> 00:50:00,880
Speaker 12: I'm not on either side if I had to choose one,

914
00:50:00,960 --> 00:50:03,200
Speaker 12: to say, Steve and A. But can I bring up

915
00:50:03,200 --> 00:50:05,319
Speaker 12: one thing off the cuff? You said you get that one?

916
00:50:05,600 --> 00:50:07,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, go Bernie.

917
00:50:07,840 --> 00:50:12,360
Speaker 12: The Boston Celtics sold for six point one billion dollars.

918
00:50:12,680 --> 00:50:16,640
Speaker 12: Saw that six point one billion to one guy. It

919
00:50:16,800 --> 00:50:20,080
Speaker 12: usually goes to a corporation, you know, like Magic owns

920
00:50:20,080 --> 00:50:22,719
Speaker 12: a Dodger, but he's in there with a bunch of people, corporation,

921
00:50:23,040 --> 00:50:24,000
Speaker 12: and it was a young guy.

922
00:50:24,239 --> 00:50:25,160
Speaker 4: And let me tell you something.

923
00:50:25,680 --> 00:50:29,040
Speaker 12: The Bruins own the garden, they own the concessions. So

924
00:50:29,960 --> 00:50:32,920
Speaker 12: what are you buying twelve guys for like two thirds

925
00:50:32,960 --> 00:50:36,960
Speaker 12: of the year and you play games. I don't understand

926
00:50:37,040 --> 00:50:38,960
Speaker 12: where the value and then where the revenue is coming

927
00:50:39,040 --> 00:50:42,240
Speaker 12: with a six point one billion to buy twelve guys.

928
00:50:43,120 --> 00:50:46,359
Speaker 2: Well as you know the the okay, so Jim, hang

929
00:50:46,480 --> 00:50:49,360
Speaker 2: on there. He was sold to a guy named Bill Chisholm.

930
00:50:49,440 --> 00:50:51,640
Speaker 2: I don't know who Bill Chisselm is. And it's still

931
00:50:51,680 --> 00:50:55,160
Speaker 2: got to be approved by the NBA Board of Governors.

932
00:50:55,600 --> 00:50:59,360
Speaker 2: But these guys, first of all, no major league franchise

933
00:50:59,440 --> 00:51:02,120
Speaker 2: in any of the four sports has ever sold for

934
00:51:02,239 --> 00:51:04,320
Speaker 2: lesson it was purchased for and we realized this is

935
00:51:04,400 --> 00:51:08,960
Speaker 2: a record breaking price. But this is the toys to

936
00:51:09,040 --> 00:51:12,280
Speaker 2: these guys. They don't it's they have their own different,

937
00:51:12,840 --> 00:51:16,040
Speaker 2: you know, standard by which they live. Anyway, you got

938
00:51:16,040 --> 00:51:16,600
Speaker 2: the last word.

939
00:51:17,520 --> 00:51:19,719
Speaker 12: I want to go on the sandbox and play too.

940
00:51:20,560 --> 00:51:24,680
Speaker 15: Give me some of that money six point one bill, Yeah,

941
00:51:24,920 --> 00:51:26,600
Speaker 15: come on, give me at cheddar.

942
00:51:26,880 --> 00:51:28,920
Speaker 2: It's a lot of cheddar. Thanks so much time as

943
00:51:28,960 --> 00:51:32,200
Speaker 2: always appreciated, Buddy, Kevin and Florida Joint. Just welcome into

944
00:51:32,200 --> 00:51:33,120
Speaker 2: the Bernie Frattle Show.

945
00:51:34,000 --> 00:51:35,160
Speaker 12: Hey Bernie, how are you doing?

946
00:51:35,200 --> 00:51:35,399
Speaker 8: Brother?

947
00:51:35,520 --> 00:51:36,480
Speaker 2: Good sir? How are you sir?

948
00:51:37,080 --> 00:51:39,640
Speaker 15: Great boy? I wish you were on more days of

949
00:51:39,640 --> 00:51:41,440
Speaker 15: the week. But I appreciate what you said the last

950
00:51:41,480 --> 00:51:44,520
Speaker 15: couple of weeks that you've got a family and you've

951
00:51:44,560 --> 00:51:46,440
Speaker 15: got things to do in your own life other than

952
00:51:47,080 --> 00:51:48,040
Speaker 15: talking on the radio.

953
00:51:48,120 --> 00:51:48,799
Speaker 12: But I just.

954
00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:52,520
Speaker 15: Appreciate the brilliance and the music and there's some wide,

955
00:51:52,640 --> 00:51:55,360
Speaker 15: wide open show that you have, so thank you.

956
00:51:56,200 --> 00:51:57,600
Speaker 5: I'm going to make a sort of a.

957
00:51:59,080 --> 00:52:02,319
Speaker 15: Comical comment on the first two, and then the double on.

958
00:52:02,400 --> 00:52:03,280
Speaker 4: This from the last.

959
00:52:03,880 --> 00:52:04,000
Speaker 2: Uh.

960
00:52:04,320 --> 00:52:07,440
Speaker 15: The first is, how about just an official review, no

961
00:52:07,560 --> 00:52:13,640
Speaker 15: fun intended? You know what I meanious? Uh review those guys,

962
00:52:13,760 --> 00:52:17,840
Speaker 15: you know, rework them because the season's over almost anyway.

963
00:52:18,480 --> 00:52:22,279
Speaker 15: And then the second thing is, oh Danny, Uh yeah,

964
00:52:22,480 --> 00:52:27,040
Speaker 15: I've lost my temperature, temple temperature, my temper for sure myself.

965
00:52:27,120 --> 00:52:30,759
Speaker 15: But how about hyahuasca darkness retreat. You know that's a

966
00:52:30,920 --> 00:52:36,799
Speaker 15: that'sn't my idea for for Danny Hurley. I respect his excellence.

967
00:52:37,239 --> 00:52:39,799
Speaker 10: And then on oh boy, geez, I got.

968
00:52:39,840 --> 00:52:40,879
Speaker 12: To get this off my chest.

969
00:52:42,480 --> 00:52:46,920
Speaker 15: By the way, I know who who, who talks the

970
00:52:47,040 --> 00:52:49,400
Speaker 15: loudest and makes the most noise, gets all the attention.

971
00:52:49,560 --> 00:52:52,160
Speaker 15: But when Mark Medina comes on, and I love Mark,

972
00:52:52,239 --> 00:52:55,400
Speaker 15: I love you, but I don't hear anything about I

973
00:52:55,480 --> 00:53:00,320
Speaker 15: guess unless it's really buffy and glittery and and and

974
00:53:00,840 --> 00:53:04,200
Speaker 15: you don't get I never hardly ever hear about the

975
00:53:04,440 --> 00:53:08,080
Speaker 15: Joker or other people. There's certain people that just don't

976
00:53:08,080 --> 00:53:08,840
Speaker 15: get much attention.

977
00:53:09,120 --> 00:53:10,600
Speaker 4: That's just that's fair.

978
00:53:11,080 --> 00:53:13,920
Speaker 2: We did when when Denver was more on the spotlight.

979
00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:17,920
Speaker 2: It's a fair point. When Denver was more on the spotlight. Uh,

980
00:53:18,360 --> 00:53:20,320
Speaker 2: we did talk about that, but it's kind of played.

981
00:53:20,360 --> 00:53:23,239
Speaker 2: And he's he's a lunch pill guy. He goes to

982
00:53:23,320 --> 00:53:26,080
Speaker 2: work every day. You know, the plane lands safely. You

983
00:53:26,120 --> 00:53:28,400
Speaker 2: know when you turn on the news at night, Kevin,

984
00:53:28,840 --> 00:53:31,840
Speaker 2: you don't see well today's headlines. All the planes landed safely.

985
00:53:31,880 --> 00:53:34,160
Speaker 2: Well they're supposed to do. It's when the one doesn't.

986
00:53:34,239 --> 00:53:36,839
Speaker 2: Lebron is a walking plane crash to me. I mean,

987
00:53:36,920 --> 00:53:40,839
Speaker 2: he's a pure dichotomy to me. Yes, but you got

988
00:53:40,880 --> 00:53:41,520
Speaker 2: the last word.

989
00:53:42,080 --> 00:53:45,560
Speaker 15: Yeah, looking for attention, Yeah, exactly, He's like the he's

990
00:53:45,680 --> 00:53:48,640
Speaker 15: like the baby, you know, in his high chair with

991
00:53:48,800 --> 00:53:52,719
Speaker 15: his uh swop all over his face and looking for attention. Yeah,

992
00:53:52,840 --> 00:53:55,400
Speaker 15: I'm the king and I and I had come to

993
00:53:55,560 --> 00:53:59,400
Speaker 15: learn and believe that I respect him. I used to

994
00:54:00,200 --> 00:54:02,719
Speaker 15: names at him on the radio and whatnot, but I

995
00:54:02,920 --> 00:54:05,960
Speaker 15: respect him as a player and as a person that way.

996
00:54:06,080 --> 00:54:08,440
Speaker 12: But I'm just thinking that.

997
00:54:10,120 --> 00:54:13,759
Speaker 15: Since he causes more attention to himself, I think that

998
00:54:13,960 --> 00:54:17,880
Speaker 15: does bring down his legacy. And I would love to

999
00:54:17,960 --> 00:54:25,400
Speaker 15: see kids be drawn to somebody in his position. Who's uh,

1000
00:54:26,040 --> 00:54:28,319
Speaker 15: that's a more humility. I love what you said about

1001
00:54:28,360 --> 00:54:32,399
Speaker 15: these guys who have elegance or in grace and at

1002
00:54:32,440 --> 00:54:36,680
Speaker 15: the same time not have swagger or look for attention.

1003
00:54:36,920 --> 00:54:41,040
Speaker 15: You know those guys from the past, some of the

1004
00:54:41,160 --> 00:54:44,040
Speaker 15: greatest Will Chamberlain and and.

1005
00:54:45,960 --> 00:54:49,640
Speaker 2: You imagine magic Kareem, Jordan Kobe, these guys are very

1006
00:54:49,680 --> 00:54:52,360
Speaker 2: area that guys actually and Lebron's clunky.

1007
00:54:53,440 --> 00:54:56,680
Speaker 15: Yes, and so I thank you for letting me share.

1008
00:54:57,480 --> 00:54:59,920
Speaker 15: As we approach Easter here in a few weeks, and

1009
00:55:00,000 --> 00:55:02,800
Speaker 15: and then about a week later, I'll be celebrating, or

1010
00:55:02,880 --> 00:55:05,799
Speaker 15: I should say, well, let's celebrate the life again. As

1011
00:55:05,880 --> 00:55:08,040
Speaker 15: I told you when I first talked to you, it

1012
00:55:08,200 --> 00:55:11,360
Speaker 15: was shortly after my dear son died, my son Casey

1013
00:55:11,520 --> 00:55:14,680
Speaker 15: Kevin Christopher died of a fentanyl overdose.

1014
00:55:15,080 --> 00:55:15,960
Speaker 5: You might remember that.

1015
00:55:16,160 --> 00:55:19,319
Speaker 2: I do remember. Prayers up my friend, and listen, don't

1016
00:55:19,320 --> 00:55:22,880
Speaker 2: be a stranger. You're always welcome to call in, Kevin.

1017
00:55:22,960 --> 00:55:25,799
Speaker 2: I appreciate it, and I apologize there. I just got

1018
00:55:25,880 --> 00:55:28,000
Speaker 2: to manage the clock better than I have in the past,

1019
00:55:28,080 --> 00:55:32,040
Speaker 2: so I didn't mean to cut you short there. Steve Domingo,

1020
00:55:32,160 --> 00:55:34,480
Speaker 2: Tony and Jerome can't wait to hear what all of

1021
00:55:34,560 --> 00:55:36,520
Speaker 2: you have to say. We're just getting started on the

1022
00:55:36,560 --> 00:55:39,560
Speaker 2: midnight hour eight seven, seven nine nine sixty six three

1023
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Speaker 2: six nine. I don't go anywhere. I'm Bernie Fridder. We're

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00:55:42,080 --> 00:55:44,600
Speaker 2: coming to you line from Las Vegas Fox Sports Radio

1025
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Speaker 2: tyrack dot com studios. Keep it locked and listen to

1026
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Speaker 2: the Bernie Fratter Show on Fox Sports Radio.

1027
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1028
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1031
00:56:03,400 --> 00:56:05,160
Speaker 2: All right back at the Bernie Frattle Show. That min

1032
00:56:05,239 --> 00:56:07,720
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1033
00:56:07,760 --> 00:56:10,400
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1043
00:56:39,520 --> 00:56:43,160
Speaker 2: to the phones, joined by Steve in Kansas City. Steve,

1044
00:56:43,239 --> 00:56:45,439
Speaker 2: welcome back in how you been Hey?

1045
00:56:45,640 --> 00:56:48,920
Speaker 4: Bernie has to go on Betty listen.

1046
00:56:49,080 --> 00:56:52,920
Speaker 3: I'm I'm all all in on team screaming a here.

1047
00:56:55,120 --> 00:56:59,520
Speaker 3: I'm sort of reveling in the destruction of Lebron's image.

1048
00:57:00,480 --> 00:57:04,360
Speaker 3: You encapsulated it perfectly earlier. This should be a golden

1049
00:57:04,440 --> 00:57:07,440
Speaker 3: age for him. He should be enjoying the fruits of

1050
00:57:07,520 --> 00:57:11,120
Speaker 3: his labor. And Lebron comes off like this is a

1051
00:57:11,239 --> 00:57:12,920
Speaker 3: revealing of his true character.

1052
00:57:13,120 --> 00:57:14,120
Speaker 4: He's a big baby.

1053
00:57:14,880 --> 00:57:18,360
Speaker 3: If Michael Jordan won't talk to him anymore, he's the

1054
00:57:18,440 --> 00:57:22,800
Speaker 3: Oklahoma City thunder. OKAC has twenty draft picks. He's never

1055
00:57:22,920 --> 00:57:25,960
Speaker 3: going to win another championship again, so he has to

1056
00:57:26,040 --> 00:57:29,560
Speaker 3: strike out at Brian Windhorst. In an interview, he says

1057
00:57:29,680 --> 00:57:34,880
Speaker 3: that the Cleveland Championship is the greatest championship because he

1058
00:57:34,960 --> 00:57:37,760
Speaker 3: did it was less, which is a direct slap in

1059
00:57:37,840 --> 00:57:41,800
Speaker 3: the face to everybody he played with, including Kevin Love.

1060
00:57:42,320 --> 00:57:45,200
Speaker 3: I mean, this guy is just not just not a

1061
00:57:45,280 --> 00:57:50,560
Speaker 3: great dude. And then that speaks volumes to me. If

1062
00:57:50,640 --> 00:57:54,680
Speaker 3: a guy won't if the greatest of all time, Michael

1063
00:57:54,720 --> 00:57:57,720
Speaker 3: Jordan won't even talk to him, I mean, that must

1064
00:57:57,800 --> 00:58:01,040
Speaker 3: be really gall That must be really galling, you know,

1065
00:58:01,240 --> 00:58:05,040
Speaker 3: for a for a guy who considers himself one of,

1066
00:58:05,280 --> 00:58:07,360
Speaker 3: if not the greatest, that he's said.

1067
00:58:07,280 --> 00:58:09,240
Speaker 2: He said it out loud, he said, no, I know

1068
00:58:09,400 --> 00:58:11,480
Speaker 2: for a fact, I'm I'm the goat. He said that

1069
00:58:11,640 --> 00:58:14,400
Speaker 2: years ago. Miss I forget Steve. He made up for

1070
00:58:14,560 --> 00:58:18,160
Speaker 2: by storming off the floor last year after being eliminated

1071
00:58:18,240 --> 00:58:21,360
Speaker 2: by Denver after not shaking everybody's hands. So you bring

1072
00:58:21,480 --> 00:58:23,160
Speaker 2: up a good point as well, the truth. There's an

1073
00:58:23,160 --> 00:58:26,520
Speaker 2: old saying your actions speaks so loudly, I can't hear

1074
00:58:26,560 --> 00:58:29,960
Speaker 2: what you're saying. So good stuff on Lebron anything else

1075
00:58:30,040 --> 00:58:31,280
Speaker 2: on the other two topics.

1076
00:58:31,480 --> 00:58:34,880
Speaker 3: Well, and kind of another thread with little Danny Hurley.

1077
00:58:34,960 --> 00:58:37,640
Speaker 3: If you're the greatest, you don't have to tell people

1078
00:58:37,720 --> 00:58:41,200
Speaker 3: you're the greatest. And you know in the I've just

1079
00:58:41,360 --> 00:58:44,920
Speaker 3: watched the program about Danny Danny Hurley documentary, and it

1080
00:58:45,040 --> 00:58:49,000
Speaker 3: was it was pretty accurate. The thing is, the tournament

1081
00:58:49,200 --> 00:58:52,360
Speaker 3: was so much bigger when Danny was playing, and when

1082
00:58:52,480 --> 00:58:56,360
Speaker 3: Duke was playing Kansas uh and and won two titles.

1083
00:58:56,520 --> 00:58:59,640
Speaker 3: He could win five or ten titles as a coach

1084
00:58:59,720 --> 00:59:02,880
Speaker 3: and a probably wouldn't he's still going to be second

1085
00:59:03,440 --> 00:59:08,800
Speaker 3: to Danny because I mean, yeah, yeah, I'm sorry, Bobby

1086
00:59:09,360 --> 00:59:13,800
Speaker 3: the Great. The biggest ratings are still Michigan State versus

1087
00:59:14,200 --> 00:59:15,360
Speaker 3: Indiana State.

1088
00:59:16,040 --> 00:59:20,560
Speaker 2: Six years ago, years ago, Friday, Yep, that's still that's

1089
00:59:20,600 --> 00:59:23,520
Speaker 2: still the biggest basketball game of all time.

1090
00:59:25,800 --> 00:59:26,000
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1091
00:59:26,160 --> 00:59:28,960
Speaker 3: And and you you know, you're you're you're a Michigan guy.

1092
00:59:29,120 --> 00:59:31,560
Speaker 3: You you know all you know all about that. But

1093
00:59:32,000 --> 00:59:34,440
Speaker 3: I just feel sorry, kind of like I do for

1094
00:59:34,600 --> 00:59:39,800
Speaker 3: Lebron because I feel so sorry for Danny because he's

1095
00:59:39,880 --> 00:59:42,960
Speaker 3: so wrapped up and it's little guy syndrome. He's so

1096
00:59:43,200 --> 00:59:48,040
Speaker 3: wrapped up and in surpassing his family legacy, he just

1097
00:59:48,200 --> 00:59:51,440
Speaker 3: needs to be the best Bobby Hurley he can he can,

1098
00:59:51,720 --> 00:59:53,760
Speaker 3: and he's gonna end up the same way as Lebron.

1099
00:59:53,840 --> 00:59:56,400
Speaker 3: People are not going to respect him either, because he

1100
00:59:56,520 --> 00:59:59,240
Speaker 3: acts like such a dirt bag sometimes. I mean, these

1101
00:59:59,280 --> 01:00:01,600
Speaker 3: guys never they have all the money in the world.

1102
01:00:01,640 --> 01:00:04,520
Speaker 3: They should be happy with their existence. But boy, I

1103
01:00:04,760 --> 01:00:08,080
Speaker 3: just it's something psychologically, you know, it's something. It's a

1104
01:00:08,160 --> 01:00:12,360
Speaker 3: psychological take or something, man. But Michael Jordan will always

1105
01:00:12,400 --> 01:00:15,520
Speaker 3: be the best, and Bobby Hurley will always be the best.

1106
01:00:16,360 --> 01:00:16,600
Speaker 4: Brother.

1107
01:00:17,280 --> 01:00:20,200
Speaker 2: Great stuff, man, is that one guy used to say,

1108
01:00:20,360 --> 01:00:24,640
Speaker 2: rack them good jobs? Do you love it? And yeah, look,

1109
01:00:24,640 --> 01:00:26,520
Speaker 2: you're not wrong. There's an old saying in life. You

1110
01:00:26,560 --> 01:00:30,480
Speaker 2: can buy dance lessons, but you can't buy a rhythm. Lebron,

1111
01:00:30,640 --> 01:00:32,520
Speaker 2: you can buy the dance lessons you want, You've got

1112
01:00:32,600 --> 01:00:35,440
Speaker 2: no rhythm. I'm sticking to that. That's my story. I'm

1113
01:00:35,480 --> 01:00:39,800
Speaker 2: sticking to it. Domingo in San Diego, Welcome in good evening.

1114
01:00:39,800 --> 01:00:40,160
Speaker 2: How are you.

1115
01:00:40,880 --> 01:00:42,600
Speaker 5: I'm doing good. How are you doing tonight?

1116
01:00:43,120 --> 01:00:43,880
Speaker 2: Doing well? Thank you.

1117
01:00:44,840 --> 01:00:46,120
Speaker 9: I'm going to talk about Stephen A.

1118
01:00:46,240 --> 01:00:48,440
Speaker 16: Smith and Lebron for tonight.

1119
01:00:49,640 --> 01:00:51,400
Speaker 13: I think both of them are being a little petty.

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01:00:52,000 --> 01:00:54,480
Speaker 13: I think from the get go from Stephen A. Smith,

1121
01:00:54,600 --> 01:00:57,360
Speaker 13: you know the whole reason why I feel like Lebron

1122
01:00:58,280 --> 01:01:02,480
Speaker 13: went to speak to Smith with over the comments he

1123
01:01:02,640 --> 01:01:05,280
Speaker 13: was making about Brownie. But you know, watching the show

1124
01:01:05,800 --> 01:01:09,120
Speaker 13: occasionally with Steve may Smith on the other on ESPN,

1125
01:01:09,760 --> 01:01:12,160
Speaker 13: I don't think he was just criticizing his game for

1126
01:01:12,280 --> 01:01:15,840
Speaker 13: the most part. You know, he didn't criticize him as

1127
01:01:15,880 --> 01:01:18,880
Speaker 13: a as an individual, Browny as an individual, And I

1128
01:01:18,960 --> 01:01:21,640
Speaker 13: think he even said a couple of times that you know,

1129
01:01:21,960 --> 01:01:24,400
Speaker 13: he's he's kind of happy that you know, Lebron was

1130
01:01:24,440 --> 01:01:27,600
Speaker 13: able to kind of dictate Brownie's way to get into

1131
01:01:27,680 --> 01:01:31,440
Speaker 13: the league, So at that part, you know, he kind

1132
01:01:31,480 --> 01:01:35,160
Speaker 13: of just being a sports analyst. But again now with

1133
01:01:35,240 --> 01:01:38,880
Speaker 13: Steven's doubling down saying like, oh, he's really thinking that

1134
01:01:38,960 --> 01:01:41,880
Speaker 13: Macha would Jordan's baron Lebron. You know he has an opinion,

1135
01:01:42,360 --> 01:01:44,680
Speaker 13: but you know, Lebron is just being like a father.

1136
01:01:44,880 --> 01:01:47,760
Speaker 13: You know, talked to him during the halftime, but he's

1137
01:01:47,800 --> 01:01:48,640
Speaker 13: being petty off.

1138
01:01:48,520 --> 01:01:50,440
Speaker 10: Those saying, well, I agree with you.

1139
01:01:50,560 --> 01:01:53,240
Speaker 2: It takes two to Tango Domingo and Stephen Smith short

1140
01:01:53,320 --> 01:01:57,040
Speaker 2: sound clean either, but Lebron's pretty petty man dropping the FBO.

1141
01:01:57,480 --> 01:01:59,360
Speaker 2: Whose side are you on? And I'm cool with whoever

1142
01:01:59,440 --> 01:02:00,080
Speaker 2: side you, but.

1143
01:02:00,680 --> 01:02:01,920
Speaker 10: You know what I'm on.

1144
01:02:02,160 --> 01:02:04,320
Speaker 13: Even though one time because the Bron put a post

1145
01:02:04,360 --> 01:02:07,120
Speaker 13: about Stephen A. Smith doing a boxing like doing a

1146
01:02:07,200 --> 01:02:09,840
Speaker 13: boxing drove, that's pretty petty right there. You already know

1147
01:02:09,960 --> 01:02:12,880
Speaker 13: that if they got in an altercation, the Prime probably

1148
01:02:12,920 --> 01:02:15,400
Speaker 13: do Steve A. Smith and he's like, hal, you know,

1149
01:02:15,480 --> 01:02:17,400
Speaker 13: see Steven A. Smith is like, I don't know how

1150
01:02:17,440 --> 01:02:19,720
Speaker 13: old he is, but you know that's kind of like

1151
01:02:19,800 --> 01:02:21,760
Speaker 13: a little blow. I say, like, if you got an

1152
01:02:21,760 --> 01:02:24,680
Speaker 13: altercation the bron will you know, probably beat them up.

1153
01:02:24,680 --> 01:02:26,800
Speaker 13: It's just like you don't need to do that. You

1154
01:02:26,880 --> 01:02:29,080
Speaker 13: don't need to put all that and prop them just

1155
01:02:29,160 --> 01:02:32,280
Speaker 13: being petty pulling them are doubling down. And that's all

1156
01:02:32,280 --> 01:02:33,200
Speaker 13: I have to say for tonight.

1157
01:02:33,840 --> 01:02:36,200
Speaker 2: All right, Well, thanks for checking in to Bengal. Appreciate it.

1158
01:02:36,280 --> 01:02:39,200
Speaker 2: Don't be a stranger. Eight seven seven nine nine six

1159
01:02:39,280 --> 01:02:42,400
Speaker 2: six three sixty nine Tony in Miami, Welcome back, an Tony.

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01:02:42,400 --> 01:02:43,919
Speaker 7: How you been Kay?

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01:02:44,000 --> 01:02:46,640
Speaker 5: What's up? Bernie? I don't have anything on the other two,

1162
01:02:47,320 --> 01:02:49,640
Speaker 5: but I will whatever time I'm allowed.

1163
01:02:49,920 --> 01:02:54,120
Speaker 10: I just wanted to dig in here with the stephen A.

1164
01:02:54,280 --> 01:03:00,560
Speaker 5: Smith one one. I'm sitting there looking at these two

1165
01:03:01,040 --> 01:03:06,280
Speaker 5: very very insecure men. One looks like a David with

1166
01:03:06,520 --> 01:03:11,479
Speaker 5: a receiving hairline, the other one Goliath after fifteen years

1167
01:03:11,520 --> 01:03:18,160
Speaker 5: of THHD and yeah THHD. Okay, it was sad and embarrassing,

1168
01:03:18,920 --> 01:03:20,040
Speaker 5: if I think, for both of them.

1169
01:03:20,960 --> 01:03:21,400
Speaker 10: Stephen A.

1170
01:03:21,520 --> 01:03:23,560
Speaker 5: Smith, I don't want to get into him too much,

1171
01:03:23,600 --> 01:03:30,000
Speaker 5: but it kind of he could have done something right there.

1172
01:03:30,160 --> 01:03:32,800
Speaker 5: He's smart enough, but he's too absolved with his money

1173
01:03:34,160 --> 01:03:37,520
Speaker 5: to Lebron please any younger callers Like the last guy,

1174
01:03:38,120 --> 01:03:41,800
Speaker 5: anyone younger, please go because I'm in Miami. Go back

1175
01:03:41,960 --> 01:03:46,280
Speaker 5: to YouTube. It's there. Look up the Dan Levittard Show,

1176
01:03:46,920 --> 01:03:54,120
Speaker 5: July first, twenty ten. Bill Simmons, Bill Simmons, the other

1177
01:03:54,600 --> 01:03:59,680
Speaker 5: Mamani Jones, and wo Janowski all called the show for

1178
01:03:59,760 --> 01:04:03,920
Speaker 5: those three hours and the following show, all saying in

1179
01:04:04,080 --> 01:04:07,320
Speaker 5: that moment, let's not do revisionist history here. Please. He

1180
01:04:07,520 --> 01:04:11,560
Speaker 5: is not in any conversation. Please, he is not, and

1181
01:04:11,680 --> 01:04:14,960
Speaker 5: he is not, And there's a reason Michael Jordan will

1182
01:04:15,080 --> 01:04:17,760
Speaker 5: not talk to this guy. If you look at any

1183
01:04:17,880 --> 01:04:20,480
Speaker 5: and he is. Lebron is in this top ten, but

1184
01:04:21,480 --> 01:04:24,680
Speaker 5: in that top ten if you really take a look,

1185
01:04:24,720 --> 01:04:28,720
Speaker 5: because the talent is so insurmountably amazing and on a

1186
01:04:28,760 --> 01:04:31,400
Speaker 5: whole other level, and the NBA is full of high

1187
01:04:31,480 --> 01:04:33,720
Speaker 5: level talent, but you have to look at these people.

1188
01:04:33,800 --> 01:04:39,240
Speaker 5: They played the game with an absolute honor and passion.

1189
01:04:40,080 --> 01:04:45,000
Speaker 5: And Lebron is a great mercenary. He lacks one major

1190
01:04:45,080 --> 01:04:48,720
Speaker 5: thing that Michael Jordan will will not surround himself with

1191
01:04:48,840 --> 01:04:52,120
Speaker 5: people that do not have it. It's called wisdom, Bernie.

1192
01:04:52,120 --> 01:04:53,200
Speaker 4: And he does not have.

1193
01:04:53,640 --> 01:04:58,200
Speaker 5: He does not have wisdom at all. He's Michael Jordan saw.

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01:05:00,240 --> 01:05:04,000
Speaker 2: He does. He's like to get karaoke singer that sounds

1195
01:05:04,040 --> 01:05:06,480
Speaker 2: like a train wreck and belting it out and the

1196
01:05:06,520 --> 01:05:09,240
Speaker 2: whole crowd's going get me out here before I kill

1197
01:05:09,280 --> 01:05:12,040
Speaker 2: myself with a chainsaw. That's what Lebron sounds like every

1198
01:05:12,080 --> 01:05:12,720
Speaker 2: time he talks.

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01:05:13,920 --> 01:05:16,720
Speaker 5: You're right, he's and he's listening to me right now,

1200
01:05:16,800 --> 01:05:19,920
Speaker 5: and I'm coming after his fatherhood. Please tell me, Bernie,

1201
01:05:20,200 --> 01:05:23,200
Speaker 5: I'm raising a fifteen year old kid. How is he

1202
01:05:23,360 --> 01:05:26,680
Speaker 5: this great father? Mathematically? Can you please tell me? Because

1203
01:05:26,840 --> 01:05:29,240
Speaker 5: apparently he spends a million dollars on his body. He's

1204
01:05:29,280 --> 01:05:32,960
Speaker 5: in an iselbaric chamber. He's in China this week, then

1205
01:05:33,000 --> 01:05:35,680
Speaker 5: he's in la and somehow he's spending time with his son.

1206
01:05:36,120 --> 01:05:39,040
Speaker 5: That's not good. Father. I'm sorry he's not. You can

1207
01:05:39,120 --> 01:05:42,280
Speaker 5: come after me, Lebron. I have no money to lose,

1208
01:05:42,760 --> 01:05:46,400
Speaker 5: and I won't sue you, but I will say Michael Jordan,

1209
01:05:46,720 --> 01:05:52,200
Speaker 5: Michael Jordan, everyone up to that point, up to twenty ten,

1210
01:05:52,800 --> 01:05:57,040
Speaker 5: they took the walk up the Mountain, which was the

1211
01:05:57,200 --> 01:05:59,800
Speaker 5: NBA Championship, which was what all the greats had to do,

1212
01:06:00,520 --> 01:06:03,000
Speaker 5: and some guys had better teams and all that. But

1213
01:06:03,400 --> 01:06:05,840
Speaker 5: Michael Jordans saw how this guy thought he was gonna

1214
01:06:05,840 --> 01:06:08,760
Speaker 5: hop in a helicopter along with Kevin Durant and the

1215
01:06:08,800 --> 01:06:12,120
Speaker 5: rest of the aau chums and just thought they were

1216
01:06:12,160 --> 01:06:14,120
Speaker 5: gonna fly their way up to greatness and have a

1217
01:06:14,160 --> 01:06:18,080
Speaker 5: great life. It didn't work out. I'll let I'll get

1218
01:06:18,120 --> 01:06:22,120
Speaker 5: off the phone here. But lebron you got a life's

1219
01:06:22,120 --> 01:06:24,160
Speaker 5: gonna get a lot more difficult, brother. You had about

1220
01:06:24,200 --> 01:06:28,160
Speaker 5: three years where no one told you know, and it's

1221
01:06:28,200 --> 01:06:31,000
Speaker 5: gonna be a hell of a lot more maybe of

1222
01:06:31,120 --> 01:06:32,720
Speaker 5: a I'll let you go.

1223
01:06:33,160 --> 01:06:36,440
Speaker 2: Thanks, Tony, appreciate you, man. Just I want to maintain

1224
01:06:36,520 --> 01:06:41,640
Speaker 2: my objectivity. Every observation on bed of Bronnie is he's

1225
01:06:41,920 --> 01:06:46,520
Speaker 2: very likable, he's very respectful, he's very mature young man.

1226
01:06:48,360 --> 01:06:50,280
Speaker 2: He had to learned that from somebody. So I'll throw

1227
01:06:50,360 --> 01:06:52,160
Speaker 2: Lebron a bone, certainly throw them a bone there. But

1228
01:06:52,480 --> 01:06:54,360
Speaker 2: Tony's a thoughtful guy. He went done.

1229
01:06:55,160 --> 01:06:55,360
Speaker 9: You know.

1230
01:06:55,680 --> 01:06:59,920
Speaker 2: It's it's a highly subjective thing, as is the joy

1231
01:07:00,160 --> 01:07:02,680
Speaker 2: versus lebron I would refuse to get in that argument.

1232
01:07:03,000 --> 01:07:05,760
Speaker 2: I would just say this, if you didn't see both

1233
01:07:05,800 --> 01:07:07,760
Speaker 2: of them play courtside, you got to recuse yourself from

1234
01:07:07,800 --> 01:07:11,160
Speaker 2: the argument. Okay, I did, and all I will say is,

1235
01:07:11,200 --> 01:07:14,160
Speaker 2: if I needed one game to save my life, it

1236
01:07:14,200 --> 01:07:17,640
Speaker 2: would not be Lebron. It would be Jordan, Ladies and gentlemen,

1237
01:07:17,720 --> 01:07:21,600
Speaker 2: boys and girls. The gospel, according to Jerome in Charleston, Joe,

1238
01:07:21,680 --> 01:07:23,080
Speaker 2: welcome back in buddy, what's up man?

1239
01:07:23,800 --> 01:07:26,880
Speaker 4: I would never go that far as say as the gospel.

1240
01:07:27,080 --> 01:07:30,720
Speaker 4: It's just an opinion. It's like, okay, everybody else. You

1241
01:07:30,760 --> 01:07:32,520
Speaker 4: know what they say about opinions.

1242
01:07:32,120 --> 01:07:35,480
Speaker 2: Right, ok, everybody's got one right, just like we won't

1243
01:07:35,520 --> 01:07:37,000
Speaker 2: say it, so I don't get tired.

1244
01:07:37,440 --> 01:07:39,680
Speaker 4: That's right. But let me just say this. I love

1245
01:07:39,800 --> 01:07:42,520
Speaker 4: Lebron James. Okay, I love expect that he comes from

1246
01:07:42,800 --> 01:07:44,760
Speaker 4: nowhere and now he's somewhere.

1247
01:07:44,960 --> 01:07:47,360
Speaker 9: He's not fair, fair, and.

1248
01:07:47,480 --> 01:07:51,480
Speaker 4: He's kind of do an incredible hard work. That guy

1249
01:07:51,560 --> 01:07:53,800
Speaker 4: that said he spends a million dollars on his body,

1250
01:07:54,000 --> 01:07:57,400
Speaker 4: that's a lie, and Lebron James said, he said it's

1251
01:07:57,400 --> 01:08:01,040
Speaker 4: a lie. He said, it's ridiculous. Not a million dollars.

1252
01:08:01,080 --> 01:08:04,240
Speaker 4: He worn't time, but never a million dollars. Okay. And

1253
01:08:04,400 --> 01:08:06,800
Speaker 4: as far as uh, you know him liking him to

1254
01:08:06,920 --> 01:08:09,640
Speaker 4: care about himself and all that, he's never in a

1255
01:08:09,760 --> 01:08:13,160
Speaker 4: million years. I followed his career. I followed drug career.

1256
01:08:13,520 --> 01:08:16,760
Speaker 4: He's never in a million years said when you're a

1257
01:08:16,920 --> 01:08:19,720
Speaker 4: celebrity to let you get away with it. You can

1258
01:08:19,800 --> 01:08:22,840
Speaker 4: do whatever you want, and look where that guy is. Okay.

1259
01:08:23,120 --> 01:08:26,400
Speaker 4: So when people talk about why we dislike Lebron jams

1260
01:08:26,640 --> 01:08:30,000
Speaker 4: and people like laur Ingham's shut up and dribble, yeah,

1261
01:08:30,160 --> 01:08:32,559
Speaker 4: you just shoot where she chucked up to that guy.

1262
01:08:33,240 --> 01:08:36,120
Speaker 2: Okay, who don't go down that road, Jerome, because you're

1263
01:08:36,160 --> 01:08:38,400
Speaker 2: saying it out of context. So that was a book

1264
01:08:38,479 --> 01:08:44,240
Speaker 2: she wrote about Hollywood stars who uh she was shut

1265
01:08:44,320 --> 01:08:47,240
Speaker 2: up and sing And then I got morphed into that. Look,

1266
01:08:47,360 --> 01:08:49,680
Speaker 2: Lebron can say whatever the hell he wants, but if

1267
01:08:49,720 --> 01:08:53,320
Speaker 2: he's misinformed and plunky, you're ten times more articulate than

1268
01:08:53,400 --> 01:08:56,160
Speaker 2: Lebron's ever gonna dream of being. So let's just chalk

1269
01:08:56,200 --> 01:08:59,080
Speaker 2: it up here. You're on le bronze side. And I'm

1270
01:08:59,160 --> 01:09:02,960
Speaker 2: cool with that. I can, I can maintain, I can't,

1271
01:09:03,360 --> 01:09:05,840
Speaker 2: I'm all I'm all good with that. I'm all good

1272
01:09:05,880 --> 01:09:06,080
Speaker 2: with that.

1273
01:09:06,240 --> 01:09:09,080
Speaker 4: I remember good by cal say you know what he

1274
01:09:09,240 --> 01:09:11,840
Speaker 4: was doing one of those games he keeps his nose

1275
01:09:11,920 --> 01:09:15,480
Speaker 4: cleaning stage way for the bad flowing discott.

1276
01:09:16,960 --> 01:09:19,760
Speaker 2: And it ended up being that. Anything else on the

1277
01:09:19,800 --> 01:09:23,000
Speaker 2: other topics tonight, because I got so many callers, I

1278
01:09:23,040 --> 01:09:24,960
Speaker 2: don't want to cut you short, but I got it.

1279
01:09:25,040 --> 01:09:26,840
Speaker 2: You're on Lebron's side. Anything else on.

1280
01:09:27,000 --> 01:09:30,360
Speaker 4: Earlier Steven A. Smith. I think he's overrated, and they're

1281
01:09:30,400 --> 01:09:33,360
Speaker 4: helping people in the media who think he's overrated. Okay,

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01:09:33,800 --> 01:09:35,760
Speaker 4: I'll street in the media drink.

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01:09:35,760 --> 01:09:36,520
Speaker 5: He's overrated.

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01:09:36,840 --> 01:09:38,320
Speaker 4: And when you talk, stop the people.

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Speaker 12: Just remember that.

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01:09:39,439 --> 01:09:41,960
Speaker 4: Stop his creaky come back at you say any time

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01:09:42,240 --> 01:09:45,320
Speaker 4: to just be careful, all right, just be careful.

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Speaker 2: All right, buddy, Thanks. I appreciate it, as I've said

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01:09:48,160 --> 01:09:52,160
Speaker 2: a thousand times. Uh, the best conversations we have and

1290
01:09:52,240 --> 01:09:54,720
Speaker 2: when people disagree. Jerome's all in on Lebron, and he

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01:09:55,560 --> 01:09:59,320
Speaker 2: justified his points with relevant specifics. I don't disagree with

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01:09:59,439 --> 01:10:05,439
Speaker 2: his premise. Poppy and San Diego, what's up, Poppy, good Bernie?

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01:10:05,479 --> 01:10:07,799
Speaker 9: Today the beautiful day, you know right here in San Diego.

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01:10:07,880 --> 01:10:10,559
Speaker 9: I went to you know, a little comparison about the reps.

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01:10:10,600 --> 01:10:13,320
Speaker 9: How you were talking about the replace and I wanted

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01:10:13,360 --> 01:10:15,400
Speaker 9: to say a little compresion. How they take forever you're

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01:10:15,760 --> 01:10:18,160
Speaker 9: You're right, they going to really not like today. I

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01:10:18,200 --> 01:10:21,799
Speaker 9: went to the San Diego MC game, and I was lucky, Bernie.

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01:10:22,080 --> 01:10:24,479
Speaker 9: You know, I acted like I owned that place, you know,

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01:10:24,560 --> 01:10:27,559
Speaker 9: And I went there and I got mad. And next thing,

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Speaker 9: you know, Bernie, I saw these reps women rets are

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01:10:30,200 --> 01:10:32,880
Speaker 9: wearing a pet shirt. I went to them, Bernie, and

1303
01:10:33,000 --> 01:10:35,880
Speaker 9: I told them, hey, give us a home win right here,

1304
01:10:35,960 --> 01:10:38,160
Speaker 9: that San Diego has to get the first win. And

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01:10:38,240 --> 01:10:39,479
Speaker 9: they were all Latin.

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01:10:39,600 --> 01:10:42,400
Speaker 2: The main rep you have, Poppy, you know, I love

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01:10:42,479 --> 01:10:44,160
Speaker 2: you like a fat kid, love cake. Do you have

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01:10:44,280 --> 01:10:47,519
Speaker 2: anything tonight on Lebron versus steven A. I gotta get

1309
01:10:47,520 --> 01:10:49,320
Speaker 2: to I gotta get to Seth, christ and Brock. But

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01:10:49,560 --> 01:10:50,679
Speaker 2: but you got the floor.

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01:10:51,360 --> 01:10:53,120
Speaker 4: No, I do, thank Bernie. I just want to say

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01:10:53,200 --> 01:10:53,840
Speaker 4: that because you know.

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Speaker 9: A lot of people love soccer and Christ Poherfred the

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01:10:55,880 --> 01:10:58,719
Speaker 9: Wi soccer you talk about a little bit more about soccer.

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01:10:58,800 --> 01:11:02,120
Speaker 9: Emlts San Diego second place in the division to and

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01:11:02,240 --> 01:11:05,280
Speaker 9: oh they be you know the book LA teams and

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01:11:05,560 --> 01:11:08,160
Speaker 9: they're forced to be wreckon with like Chuck you O'sona

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01:11:08,160 --> 01:11:12,040
Speaker 9: a great Mexican soccer star. Emily deserves an attention. And

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01:11:12,200 --> 01:11:13,880
Speaker 9: I'm just so happy the city is doing good.

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Speaker 2: You know, you just gave it to him, big fella,

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01:11:16,800 --> 01:11:19,679
Speaker 2: you just gave it to him. I appreciate the call, Poppy.

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01:11:19,880 --> 01:11:23,639
Speaker 2: I do, I always do I and and that's fine.

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01:11:23,680 --> 01:11:26,360
Speaker 2: This is what the minnight hours for. If you want

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01:11:26,479 --> 01:11:29,200
Speaker 2: to bring your own agenda, I'm cool with that. I

1325
01:11:29,400 --> 01:11:32,160
Speaker 2: just have to manage the clock, big fella. Thank you

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01:11:32,320 --> 01:11:34,880
Speaker 2: for calling Seth here in Las Vegas. Welcome in. How

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01:11:34,920 --> 01:11:39,679
Speaker 2: are you? You're in the air, buddy, Go ahead, Seth.

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Speaker 16: All right, First and foremost, I would like to talk

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01:11:43,800 --> 01:11:47,680
Speaker 16: about the seven a topic, but go please Before I

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01:11:47,800 --> 01:11:50,040
Speaker 16: talked about that, like, I would like to say that,

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01:11:50,200 --> 01:11:52,320
Speaker 16: like the previous call has been talking a lot about

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01:11:52,360 --> 01:11:56,120
Speaker 16: how like Bron's not a good role model or father,

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01:11:56,280 --> 01:11:58,639
Speaker 16: but I'm see like he's known for being a family

1334
01:11:58,720 --> 01:12:02,840
Speaker 16: man and like you know, a philanthropist, so like how

1335
01:12:02,960 --> 01:12:03,599
Speaker 16: is that not true?

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01:12:04,160 --> 01:12:04,559
Speaker 17: Anyway?

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01:12:05,320 --> 01:12:08,840
Speaker 16: But on the topic of stephen I would like like

1338
01:12:09,160 --> 01:12:12,280
Speaker 16: to be honest, Steven I love my fan of stephen An,

1339
01:12:12,439 --> 01:12:15,400
Speaker 16: but he is not in the right here. Like most

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01:12:15,439 --> 01:12:17,760
Speaker 16: players say stuff to stephen A. Kobe said stuff to

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01:12:17,800 --> 01:12:20,120
Speaker 16: steven A about why he's talking about me like that,

1342
01:12:20,840 --> 01:12:22,600
Speaker 16: But he didn't have a problem with it, and he

1343
01:12:22,760 --> 01:12:24,880
Speaker 16: just moved on like and doing his regular job, but

1344
01:12:25,040 --> 01:12:26,679
Speaker 16: Lebron does it and he's got a problem.

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01:12:28,320 --> 01:12:28,640
Speaker 7: I don't know.

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01:12:28,720 --> 01:12:32,280
Speaker 2: Okay, so well, I think that, Okay, that speaks to

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01:12:33,600 --> 01:12:38,200
Speaker 2: I think how uh steven A would have viewed Kobe

1348
01:12:38,960 --> 01:12:41,760
Speaker 2: and his deportment versus Lebron and his deportment. That's the

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01:12:41,800 --> 01:12:43,920
Speaker 2: best I can answer anything else, Seth.

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Speaker 16: Yeah, I mean I understand that too, but like they're

1351
01:12:47,520 --> 01:12:50,880
Speaker 16: both up at like all those high athletes like Lebron,

1352
01:12:51,040 --> 01:12:55,559
Speaker 16: Kobe Jordan, Like I understand it all, but like Lebron,

1353
01:12:56,080 --> 01:12:58,400
Speaker 16: Lebron works just as hard, he works even harder.

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01:12:58,400 --> 01:13:00,400
Speaker 2: No one's denying that, no one. No one's in that

1355
01:13:00,560 --> 01:13:05,479
Speaker 2: Lebron's problem. I respect that you're defending Lebron, Seth, and

1356
01:13:05,520 --> 01:13:07,439
Speaker 2: I wish I had more time. I want to get

1357
01:13:07,479 --> 01:13:10,120
Speaker 2: to Chris Brock and Rick so everybody gets their due.

1358
01:13:10,160 --> 01:13:14,880
Speaker 2: But your point is well is duly noted, Seth. I

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01:13:15,080 --> 01:13:18,559
Speaker 2: think though that the way Kobe expressed himself, the way

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01:13:18,680 --> 01:13:21,160
Speaker 2: Jordan expresses himself, and I went all the way back

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01:13:21,200 --> 01:13:26,439
Speaker 2: to Russell Chamberlain, Jabbar, Magic Bird, Shaq. There's a certain

1362
01:13:26,479 --> 01:13:28,960
Speaker 2: pin off. These guys have the Lebron wishes he had,

1363
01:13:29,040 --> 01:13:31,840
Speaker 2: and I think that's where he falls short. No one's

1364
01:13:32,280 --> 01:13:34,800
Speaker 2: You've never heard once heard me question Lebron's work ethic,

1365
01:13:35,200 --> 01:13:39,720
Speaker 2: so I appreciate you you entering that. Coming up, we're

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01:13:39,720 --> 01:13:42,400
Speaker 2: gonna wrap up the mid that hour, Chris Brock and Rick,

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Speaker 2: Chris Brock and Rick, You're up next. Don't go anywhere.

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01:14:33,040 --> 01:14:34,760
Speaker 2: back in the Bernie Frattle Show, we are wrap it

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01:14:34,840 --> 01:14:38,200
Speaker 2: up on the midnight hour Fox Sports Radio. We go

1386
01:14:38,320 --> 01:14:42,000
Speaker 2: out to Cincinnati. Chris joins us. Chris, thanks to your patients,

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01:14:42,600 --> 01:14:44,040
Speaker 2: Welcome into the Bernie Frattle Show.

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01:14:45,520 --> 01:14:47,240
Speaker 17: I'm all there.

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01:14:47,760 --> 01:14:50,800
Speaker 2: You are in there, sir, Yes, sir, Hey, I'm just

1390
01:14:50,920 --> 01:14:51,439
Speaker 2: wanting to say you.

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01:14:52,360 --> 01:14:56,720
Speaker 17: I appreciate you everything, but it I just wonder why

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01:14:57,439 --> 01:15:01,200
Speaker 17: with sports and sub and why don't think just turned

1393
01:15:01,240 --> 01:15:05,400
Speaker 17: back to the days, you know, stephen A and uh

1394
01:15:06,200 --> 01:15:10,280
Speaker 17: Lebron right arena, you know that'd be more entertaining.

1395
01:15:11,360 --> 01:15:16,240
Speaker 2: Well, I realize you're just being a little silly, but

1396
01:15:16,360 --> 01:15:18,200
Speaker 2: what the hell that we're here to have fun in

1397
01:15:18,280 --> 01:15:20,960
Speaker 2: sports doc rating. We're not solving the world's problems. Who said,

1398
01:15:21,000 --> 01:15:22,839
Speaker 2: do you Lebron or stephen A's.

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01:15:24,040 --> 01:15:28,839
Speaker 17: Uh well steven A. But yeah, it's.

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01:15:30,400 --> 01:15:35,840
Speaker 2: Dear all right, Chris. I appreciate where you going? Go ahead?

1401
01:15:35,920 --> 01:15:41,240
Speaker 2: Anything else real quickly? Okay, thanks, Chris. I appreciate you

1402
01:15:41,360 --> 01:15:45,720
Speaker 2: checking in from the Emerald City of Cincinnati. Brock and Edmonton, Alberta.

1403
01:15:46,040 --> 01:15:46,760
Speaker 2: How are you, Brock?

1404
01:15:48,720 --> 01:15:50,640
Speaker 5: Hey, Bernie hold is go on brother, this talking with you.

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01:15:50,680 --> 01:15:52,960
Speaker 2: Man, Thanks, thank you, sir. What do you got for

1406
01:15:53,080 --> 01:15:53,479
Speaker 2: us tonight?

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01:15:54,400 --> 01:15:56,479
Speaker 18: Well, I want to start talking about the Stephen A.

1408
01:15:56,640 --> 01:15:57,200
Speaker 4: Lebron thing.

1409
01:15:57,360 --> 01:15:59,440
Speaker 5: First of all, Lebron James has gotten.

1410
01:15:59,240 --> 01:16:02,200
Speaker 18: Really annoying obviously the last while. And I think you

1411
01:16:02,280 --> 01:16:04,280
Speaker 18: know he's an all time great player. For to your point,

1412
01:16:04,439 --> 01:16:07,400
Speaker 18: I mean to me, he'll never be better than Michael Jordan,

1413
01:16:07,439 --> 01:16:09,720
Speaker 18: and to your point as well. You know, I don't

1414
01:16:09,720 --> 01:16:11,519
Speaker 18: know if you I've told you about my top ten before,

1415
01:16:11,920 --> 01:16:15,559
Speaker 18: but my top ten or Michael Jordan won, Magic Johnson two,

1416
01:16:15,760 --> 01:16:19,559
Speaker 18: Shock three, Kaream four, Kreme abdu Jubbar for Tim Duncan five,

1417
01:16:20,040 --> 01:16:23,960
Speaker 18: Bill Russell six, Kobe Bryant seven, Larry Bird eight. I

1418
01:16:24,040 --> 01:16:26,960
Speaker 18: got Lebron at nine and I got Will Chamberlin ten.

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01:16:27,000 --> 01:16:29,280
Speaker 18: And people might disagree with me, people might hate behave

1420
01:16:29,320 --> 01:16:33,640
Speaker 18: the most boring conversations when everybody agrees. So you know what,

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01:16:33,680 --> 01:16:35,760
Speaker 18: at the end of the day, all those the guys

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01:16:35,800 --> 01:16:37,960
Speaker 18: I listed, the eight guys ahead of Lebron, I believe

1423
01:16:38,280 --> 01:16:41,479
Speaker 18: are more interesting and the way they carry themselves were

1424
01:16:41,520 --> 01:16:44,040
Speaker 18: way better than Lebron ever prayed himself. That's just my view,

1425
01:16:44,040 --> 01:16:45,080
Speaker 18: and I'm sure you would agree.

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01:16:46,360 --> 01:16:49,759
Speaker 2: I don't take umbrage with that list whatsoever. It's fairly

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01:16:50,000 --> 01:16:53,160
Speaker 2: objective and it's subjective. And yeah, I got no problem

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01:16:53,160 --> 01:16:54,880
Speaker 2: with guys like Bill Russell being ahead le Brown. He

1429
01:16:54,920 --> 01:16:59,599
Speaker 2: won eleven championships. Yeah, and I highly recommend to anybody

1430
01:16:59,720 --> 01:17:05,479
Speaker 2: to launch the Bill Simmons HBO series on four part

1431
01:17:05,600 --> 01:17:08,240
Speaker 2: series on Celtics, the history of the Celtics and what

1432
01:17:08,400 --> 01:17:11,639
Speaker 2: Bill Russell had to endure. This is a very interesting

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01:17:11,760 --> 01:17:16,960
Speaker 2: human being, I mean, a very complex right, very area

1434
01:17:17,120 --> 01:17:21,280
Speaker 2: dight I formally educated anyway? Anything else? Do you like

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01:17:21,360 --> 01:17:25,040
Speaker 2: my list though? Yeah? I do, Actually I do. I genuinely,

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01:17:25,200 --> 01:17:27,639
Speaker 2: I genuinely do. I got no problem with it. Save

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01:17:27,720 --> 01:17:29,599
Speaker 2: that for another show too. It might we might delve

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01:17:29,640 --> 01:17:31,439
Speaker 2: into it a little bit more. I'm just I don't

1439
01:17:31,439 --> 01:17:33,000
Speaker 2: want to mismanage the clock anything else.

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01:17:33,720 --> 01:17:36,200
Speaker 18: Yes, And the last point you said about Lebron, I

1441
01:17:36,240 --> 01:17:38,920
Speaker 18: remember last year. I remember watching listen to one of

1442
01:17:38,960 --> 01:17:41,400
Speaker 18: your shows back in early May. Remember when Lebron stormed

1443
01:17:41,439 --> 01:17:42,720
Speaker 18: off the court in Game five against it.

1444
01:17:42,840 --> 01:17:43,000
Speaker 12: Yeah.

1445
01:17:43,000 --> 01:17:44,760
Speaker 2: I mentioned that earlier when they lost to Dender.

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01:17:44,840 --> 01:17:49,040
Speaker 18: Yeah, that's Lebron to me, that's another reason why people

1447
01:17:49,080 --> 01:17:51,560
Speaker 18: hate them, you know, or just don't. I guess not

1448
01:17:51,680 --> 01:17:53,720
Speaker 18: hate them, but they have a lot of hard to

1449
01:17:54,000 --> 01:17:56,080
Speaker 18: give him to go. You know, status is just because

1450
01:17:56,080 --> 01:17:59,519
Speaker 18: he just you know, he walks off and then it's

1451
01:17:59,680 --> 01:18:02,640
Speaker 18: to me. He other No, I guess not moment the

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01:18:02,960 --> 01:18:04,519
Speaker 18: public perspector that he wants to have.

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01:18:04,680 --> 01:18:06,600
Speaker 2: And I got you, I got you. I got to

1454
01:18:06,600 --> 01:18:08,320
Speaker 2: get to one more call. Thank you, And you're not wrong.

1455
01:18:09,080 --> 01:18:11,639
Speaker 2: It's that people take converge with the way he carries

1456
01:18:11,720 --> 01:18:15,040
Speaker 2: himself much of the time. Ricky got the last word tonight,

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01:18:15,120 --> 01:18:16,599
Speaker 2: Rick and Louisiana, thanks for hanging.

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Speaker 14: Out right, Yes, thank you for taking the call. The

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01:18:20,920 --> 01:18:23,599
Speaker 14: first thing I wanted to say is with coach Hurley,

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01:18:24,720 --> 01:18:27,759
Speaker 14: the thing that we're living in today is the social

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01:18:27,880 --> 01:18:30,840
Speaker 14: media area and it's I mean, that's the era rather

1462
01:18:31,400 --> 01:18:34,640
Speaker 14: and you need to know what he knows that the

1463
01:18:34,760 --> 01:18:39,200
Speaker 14: cameras always roll. So if you throwing f bombs out there,

1464
01:18:39,320 --> 01:18:41,240
Speaker 14: just noted it's going to be captured.

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01:18:41,439 --> 01:18:44,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, no, well, well said anything on the Lebron

1466
01:18:44,280 --> 01:18:45,000
Speaker 2: versus Steven Ah.

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Speaker 14: Yes, yes, I'm I'm with Stephen Akay. When this situation

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01:18:50,000 --> 01:18:54,519
Speaker 14: first happened, I said, well, I wonder if Shannon Sharp

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01:18:54,960 --> 01:18:57,880
Speaker 14: and I'm just bringing Shannon sharp In had said the

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Speaker 14: things that stephen A said, it would he confronts Shannon

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Speaker 14: show up face to face.

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Speaker 2: Probably not their friend, their friends too. He probably you

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01:19:10,360 --> 01:19:13,120
Speaker 2: know a good point, Rick, as usual, I didn't manage

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01:19:13,160 --> 01:19:15,719
Speaker 2: the clockwell, I got about thirty seconds. Anything else, big fella,

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01:19:15,760 --> 01:19:18,439
Speaker 2: because I like for your first two points well stated.

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Speaker 14: Yes, I'm a Lebron fan. Okay, Michael Michael Jordan is

1477
01:19:27,439 --> 01:19:28,240
Speaker 14: the goat.

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01:19:30,160 --> 01:19:32,840
Speaker 2: Rick, Listen, do me a favor calling next week. I

1479
01:19:32,920 --> 01:19:35,599
Speaker 2: want to make sure you get more time. I didn't

1480
01:19:35,600 --> 01:19:37,200
Speaker 2: give you as much time as you deserve, but you

1481
01:19:37,320 --> 01:19:40,720
Speaker 2: got to your points quickly and succinctly. And all the

1482
01:19:40,800 --> 01:19:44,400
Speaker 2: callers just fantastic tonight. We didn't always agree, but what

1483
01:19:44,560 --> 01:19:47,120
Speaker 2: I like about this group is they'll tell you the

1484
01:19:47,240 --> 01:19:49,920
Speaker 2: reasons why they feel the way they feel. You bring receipts,

1485
01:19:49,960 --> 01:19:53,200
Speaker 2: you justify it with relevant specifics and all the good stuff.

1486
01:19:53,280 --> 01:19:55,240
Speaker 2: Tip of the caps to the minute, our callers. Thanks

1487
01:19:55,280 --> 01:19:57,800
Speaker 2: for making the success. Hey, baseball's here. One of the

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Speaker 2: big storylines we talked next Bernie Frey Show, Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: right after we get off the air. So, having lived

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01:20:56,200 --> 01:20:59,719
Speaker 2: in a cool weather city, Detroit from between nineteen ninety

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01:20:59,720 --> 01:21:03,040
Speaker 2: three twenty ten and cover the Tigers, still have my

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Speaker 2: creditial with the Tigers. I know how big opening day

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Speaker 2: is in Major League Baseball. It's almost like life begins again.

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Speaker 2: And of course all my years in song of California,

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Speaker 2: opening Day is just a big deal. And before I

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Speaker 2: get to what I think are some of the biggest

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Speaker 2: storylines of Major League Baseball that we can look forward

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Speaker 2: to this season. There was a lot of fanfare from

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Speaker 2: Thursday's opening Day from around the country, and just a

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Speaker 2: couple things caught my eye that I want to share. Okay,

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Speaker 2: So two of the biggest names in baseball, Juan Soto

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Speaker 2: and choey Otani Thursday. You juxtapose these two seven hundred

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Speaker 2: million dollar men, you know, next to each other. It's

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Speaker 2: the department of redundancy department, and their opening day performances

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01:21:50,360 --> 01:21:53,760
Speaker 2: were kind of opposite. Soda could not have scripted a

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01:21:53,800 --> 01:21:57,200
Speaker 2: better opportunity for his Mets debut. He comes up to

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01:21:57,320 --> 01:22:00,120
Speaker 2: the plate two on two out, the Mets down on

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01:22:00,240 --> 01:22:05,360
Speaker 2: two runs in the ninth and Josh Hayter said him

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Speaker 2: packing with a nasty slider, and the seven hundred and

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01:22:08,400 --> 01:22:11,519
Speaker 2: sixty five million dollar man took a seat on the bench.

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Speaker 2: That was his opening salvo with the New York Met

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Speaker 2: Since then, I know he's gone deep. I'm talking about

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Speaker 2: opening Day. Meanwhile, the other superhuman seven hundred million dollar man,

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01:22:20,439 --> 01:22:23,280
Speaker 2: Shoheiyo Tani, Well you saw what he did in is

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01:22:23,960 --> 01:22:27,479
Speaker 2: his debut in Los Angeles on opening Day. Yeah, he

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01:22:27,560 --> 01:22:30,160
Speaker 2: does what he does and he went deep. There's always

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01:22:30,280 --> 01:22:32,439
Speaker 2: weird odd You know, there's an old saying in baseball,

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01:22:32,560 --> 01:22:36,040
Speaker 2: just when you think you've seen it all, you see

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01:22:36,080 --> 01:22:40,240
Speaker 2: something new. So math is everywhere in baseball. I've said

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Speaker 2: forever that the historical numerical perspective for baseball records is

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01:22:48,760 --> 01:22:52,479
Speaker 2: more notably recognized than any other sport. If I say

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01:22:52,520 --> 01:22:55,080
Speaker 2: sixty one, you know I'm talking about Roger Merris. Right,

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Speaker 2: seven hundred and fourteen, you know I'm talking about baby.

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Speaker 2: If you get it one hundred and sixty two, you

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01:23:00,640 --> 01:23:04,160
Speaker 2: know we're talking about how many games thirty teams have

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01:23:04,240 --> 01:23:07,000
Speaker 2: to play this year. There will be thousands of pitches

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01:23:07,120 --> 01:23:12,280
Speaker 2: at bats recorded, and it drives this data dump and

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01:23:12,560 --> 01:23:18,080
Speaker 2: what it does. It eventually every year, you know, unequivocally

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01:23:19,320 --> 01:23:25,719
Speaker 2: leads to oddball occurrences. For instance, Yankees catcher Austin Wells

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01:23:25,760 --> 01:23:29,639
Speaker 2: became the first catcher to ever hit a leadoff home

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01:23:29,720 --> 01:23:33,400
Speaker 2: run on opening Day in Major League Baseball history. By

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01:23:33,439 --> 01:23:37,000
Speaker 2: the way, Austin Wells is the first catcher in franchise

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Speaker 2: history to hit a leadoff home run. And maybe he'll

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01:23:41,439 --> 01:23:43,680
Speaker 2: be the first catcher of his kind anywhere to ever

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Speaker 2: do that. I don't know what he just said. There

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Speaker 2: By the way, an outfielder for the Oiols by the

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Speaker 2: name of Tyler O'Neill he also homered on opening Day.

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Speaker 2: What's the significance. It's the sixth straight year that Tyler

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01:23:59,080 --> 01:24:04,760
Speaker 2: O'Neill homered on opening Day. How many players are on

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01:24:04,840 --> 01:24:09,280
Speaker 2: an opening day roster and starting for six straight years?

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01:24:09,439 --> 01:24:12,880
Speaker 2: That alone is is did the numbers start to pare down?

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Speaker 2: But he broke the record last year and this is

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Speaker 2: just breaking the record again. By the way, he's Canadian born. Yeah,

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01:24:20,000 --> 01:24:23,320
Speaker 2: they liked baseball up in Canada. To Oriols outfield or

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01:24:23,360 --> 01:24:27,160
Speaker 2: Tyler Andy homers on opening Day for the sixth straight year.

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Speaker 2: Technology in baseball. Sometimes the marriage of technology in baseball

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01:24:33,120 --> 01:24:36,680
Speaker 2: works and sometimes not so much. I didn't experience this,

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01:24:36,760 --> 01:24:40,439
Speaker 2: but apparently Major League Baseball TV had a widespread outage

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Speaker 2: and fans were outraged from coast to coast. Whoops. It

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01:24:44,400 --> 01:24:46,560
Speaker 2: might might not have been though as embarrassing as the

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Speaker 2: Twins in their new TV channel, which for the first

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Speaker 2: three minutes of their inaugural broadcast I think it was

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Speaker 2: an inaugural broadcast, played footage of the Cleveland Guardians. Okay,

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01:24:57,840 --> 01:24:59,920
Speaker 2: why would you do that? Well, maybe they didn't mean to,

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01:25:00,720 --> 01:25:04,280
Speaker 2: and can we stop calling the Dodgers the evil Empire.

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01:25:04,840 --> 01:25:06,560
Speaker 2: I'm not saying you are. I don't know, Lee, what

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Speaker 2: do you mean? Wee you got a mouse in my pocket?

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01:25:08,600 --> 01:25:12,160
Speaker 2: Speaking French? No, just you get the general colloquial sense.

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Speaker 9: I get it.

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Speaker 2: I'm about to defend the Dodgers here. Yes, they've dished

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01:25:17,120 --> 01:25:20,000
Speaker 2: out four hundred and seventy nine million this offseason, which

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Speaker 2: is two hundred million more than any other team besides

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01:25:22,320 --> 01:25:25,280
Speaker 2: the Mets, who, yeah, seven hundred and sixty five of

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01:25:25,320 --> 01:25:28,760
Speaker 2: that went to Juan Soto. But LA's twenty twenty five

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01:25:28,880 --> 01:25:32,960
Speaker 2: luxury tax payroll if you're scoring at home three hundred

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01:25:32,960 --> 01:25:34,840
Speaker 2: and seventy two million is by far the highest of

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01:25:34,880 --> 01:25:38,760
Speaker 2: any team. But even that number belies how much their

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01:25:38,840 --> 01:25:43,160
Speaker 2: roster costs when you consider that the Dodgers and Doug

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01:25:43,200 --> 01:25:46,080
Speaker 2: Gottlie talked about this the other day. They've they've engaged

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Speaker 2: in an unprecedented use of deferrals, which allows them to

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01:25:50,360 --> 01:25:54,360
Speaker 2: spend freely while incurring more minor league penalties or minor penalties,

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01:25:54,400 --> 01:25:58,320
Speaker 2: excuse me. The Dodgers have a staggering one point four

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01:25:58,520 --> 01:26:01,479
Speaker 2: billion dollars in deferred money on their active roster and

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01:26:01,560 --> 01:26:04,320
Speaker 2: their active contracts. The Mets and the Red Sox are

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01:26:04,360 --> 01:26:07,320
Speaker 2: the only teams to be over fifty million. The Dodgers

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01:26:07,360 --> 01:26:09,960
Speaker 2: are one point four billion. So with all that money

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01:26:10,120 --> 01:26:13,000
Speaker 2: that the Dodger Big Blue is laying out, put this

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01:26:13,080 --> 01:26:14,960
Speaker 2: in your pipe and smoke it. Yeah, they're off to

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01:26:15,000 --> 01:26:18,800
Speaker 2: a five and zero start. That doesn't guarantee anything with

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01:26:18,920 --> 01:26:21,160
Speaker 2: all the money they spent. No team has won back

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01:26:21,200 --> 01:26:24,720
Speaker 2: to back World Series titles in twenty five years, and

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01:26:24,920 --> 01:26:27,040
Speaker 2: just two Rainy Champs in that time have even made

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01:26:27,080 --> 01:26:29,640
Speaker 2: it back to the Fall Classic the following years. So

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01:26:29,720 --> 01:26:31,360
Speaker 2: be careful when you get on the Dodgers, and I'll

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01:26:31,360 --> 01:26:34,960
Speaker 2: tell you why. The Dodgers aren't doing anything that other

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01:26:35,120 --> 01:26:39,880
Speaker 2: teams can't. And they're also not just outbidding teams. Shoyotani

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01:26:40,040 --> 01:26:43,320
Speaker 2: offered his sixty seven hundred million dollar contract with deferrals

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01:26:43,360 --> 01:26:46,720
Speaker 2: to every team who was interested in signing him, which

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01:26:46,720 --> 01:26:49,040
Speaker 2: I believe the Angels and Blue Jays were. He just

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01:26:49,160 --> 01:26:54,560
Speaker 2: happened to choose the Dodgers. He likes the Dodgers. Yamamoto

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01:26:54,640 --> 01:26:57,880
Speaker 2: had the same twelve year, three hundred and twenty five

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01:26:57,920 --> 01:27:00,160
Speaker 2: million dollar contract offer on the table from the new

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01:27:00,240 --> 01:27:03,680
Speaker 2: York mets Yamamoto just shows the Dodgers. In the end,

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01:27:04,200 --> 01:27:08,840
Speaker 2: he likes the Dodgers. Rosis Husaki, who's a different case

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01:27:08,880 --> 01:27:12,760
Speaker 2: since he's an amateur international free agent. You know how

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01:27:12,800 --> 01:27:15,679
Speaker 2: bad he wanted to be on the Dodgers. Four million

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01:27:15,720 --> 01:27:18,519
Speaker 2: reasons bad. He left four million dollars on the table

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01:27:18,760 --> 01:27:21,519
Speaker 2: to sign with the Dodgers over the Padres, who had

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01:27:21,600 --> 01:27:25,959
Speaker 2: offered him four million dollars more. According to records or reports,

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01:27:27,080 --> 01:27:29,400
Speaker 2: ti Oscar hernanders So they had miked up the other day,

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01:27:29,439 --> 01:27:32,840
Speaker 2: one of the fan favorites now also left about six

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01:27:33,040 --> 01:27:37,080
Speaker 2: million dollars on the table to stay with the Dodgers

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01:27:37,120 --> 01:27:41,360
Speaker 2: this offseason. Why, here's this quote. The Dodgers, they're different.

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01:27:42,520 --> 01:27:46,160
Speaker 2: They think about everybody, not only the players, not only

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01:27:46,280 --> 01:27:48,080
Speaker 2: the things I can do on the field. For me,

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01:27:48,800 --> 01:27:51,200
Speaker 2: they just give me the confidence I never got that

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01:27:51,360 --> 01:27:54,720
Speaker 2: really mattered and the other places I worked. Does that

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01:27:54,840 --> 01:27:56,080
Speaker 2: sound like an evil empire to you?

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01:27:56,479 --> 01:27:56,679
Speaker 4: Yeah?

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01:27:56,760 --> 01:28:01,280
Speaker 2: They got money. Lots of teams have money. Well, they're

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01:28:01,320 --> 01:28:03,160
Speaker 2: just seem to be putting it to good use. And

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01:28:03,240 --> 01:28:06,200
Speaker 2: they've created a culture, and they've created the conditions where

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01:28:06,240 --> 01:28:09,000
Speaker 2: people want to be there. We'll see if they repeat.

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01:28:09,560 --> 01:28:12,640
Speaker 2: I think they can, I frankly expect them to. But

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Speaker 2: wait a minute. Now, it's a marathon, one hundred and

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01:28:15,160 --> 01:28:17,840
Speaker 2: sixty two games. So what are some of the big

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01:28:18,080 --> 01:28:21,680
Speaker 2: storylines this year? Very much under the radar? All of

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01:28:21,720 --> 01:28:26,280
Speaker 2: a sudden, you've got two major League baseball teams playing

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01:28:26,439 --> 01:28:32,000
Speaker 2: in two minor league ballparks. The Tampa Bay Raves. They'll

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01:28:32,040 --> 01:28:35,760
Speaker 2: be playing their games in Steinbrunner Field, which happens to

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01:28:35,840 --> 01:28:38,400
Speaker 2: be the home of the single A Tampa Tarponds of

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01:28:38,439 --> 01:28:41,200
Speaker 2: the Florida State League, and it's where the New York

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01:28:41,360 --> 01:28:48,360
Speaker 2: Yankees have their spring training. Remember Hurricane Milton destroyed Tropicana

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01:28:48,439 --> 01:28:51,760
Speaker 2: Fields roof, and they aren't gonna be fixing it anytime soon,

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01:28:51,880 --> 01:28:54,920
Speaker 2: or at least not in time to be effective this season. Meanwhile,

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01:28:55,040 --> 01:28:59,920
Speaker 2: the Homeless Athletics willingly ditched Oakland to play it West

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01:29:00,080 --> 01:29:04,519
Speaker 2: Sacramento's Cutter Health Park, which is a single I think

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01:29:04,560 --> 01:29:06,880
Speaker 2: it's a single A stadium. Maybe it's a triple A

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01:29:07,479 --> 01:29:11,160
Speaker 2: Pacific Coast League. I should have had that. These moves

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01:29:11,200 --> 01:29:14,240
Speaker 2: aren't unprecedented. Remember the Blue Jays played in Buffalo during

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01:29:15,520 --> 01:29:20,120
Speaker 2: the pandemic COVID. It's going to be fascinating to watch

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01:29:20,200 --> 01:29:23,560
Speaker 2: these teams as they adjust to lower level accommodations. And

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01:29:23,600 --> 01:29:27,679
Speaker 2: it's all happening because both teams have long term stadium

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01:29:27,720 --> 01:29:29,439
Speaker 2: situations that are basically limbo.

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01:29:29,960 --> 01:29:30,560
Speaker 5: I do know this.

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01:29:31,560 --> 01:29:34,720
Speaker 2: The Oakland Age will be in Sacramento in twenty five,

1652
01:29:35,160 --> 01:29:39,080
Speaker 2: twenty six, and twenty seven. We are three days from April.

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01:29:39,160 --> 01:29:40,920
Speaker 2: We haven't broken ground on the new stadium here in

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01:29:41,000 --> 01:29:45,000
Speaker 2: Las Vegas yet, so stay tuned. Tampa Bay Rays not

1655
01:29:45,160 --> 01:29:48,000
Speaker 2: sure how long they're going to be in Steinbrenner Field,

1656
01:29:48,360 --> 01:29:50,559
Speaker 2: But you got two teams in the major leagues playing

1657
01:29:50,560 --> 01:29:51,560
Speaker 2: in minor league facilities.

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01:29:52,640 --> 01:29:52,800
Speaker 13: Now.

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01:29:53,080 --> 01:29:56,720
Speaker 2: The National League is loaded with talent, but now all

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01:29:56,760 --> 01:29:58,960
Speaker 2: of a sudden, the American League looks like the NBA's

1661
01:29:59,000 --> 01:30:03,240
Speaker 2: Eastern Conference. Even the most obvious American League playoff teams

1662
01:30:03,280 --> 01:30:07,639
Speaker 2: either have noticeable flaws or they're already dealing with significant injuries,

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01:30:08,240 --> 01:30:11,240
Speaker 2: which could kill a pennant race. Will anybody even win

1664
01:30:11,360 --> 01:30:14,120
Speaker 2: ninety games in the American League? And yeah, I'm looking

1665
01:30:14,120 --> 01:30:18,040
Speaker 2: at you Yankees as possible. If you're gonna score twenty

1666
01:30:18,120 --> 01:30:19,720
Speaker 2: runs a game, I might change my mind, but you

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01:30:19,800 --> 01:30:23,320
Speaker 2: gave up nine. Also, could a sub five hundred team

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01:30:23,400 --> 01:30:26,559
Speaker 2: like the A's actually sneaking to a wildcard spot after

1669
01:30:26,560 --> 01:30:29,640
Speaker 2: the expense of the Yankees are Orioles. These are potential

1670
01:30:29,920 --> 01:30:35,120
Speaker 2: wild scenarios that you may say are unbelievable, but that's

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01:30:35,200 --> 01:30:37,880
Speaker 2: kind of the reality right now. The American League is

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01:30:38,360 --> 01:30:42,759
Speaker 2: wide open, all right. You've got some big name stars

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01:30:42,840 --> 01:30:45,360
Speaker 2: that are returning to the Diamond finally at full strength

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01:30:45,400 --> 01:30:48,559
Speaker 2: this year. The biggest name is Mike Trout, who when

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01:30:48,600 --> 01:30:51,559
Speaker 2: he's healthy, does remain among the very best in the business.

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01:30:51,640 --> 01:30:54,920
Speaker 2: He's now a right fielder, moving over from centerfield, and

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01:30:55,120 --> 01:30:57,960
Speaker 2: they're saying this position will take a little wear on

1678
01:30:58,040 --> 01:31:00,760
Speaker 2: tear off him and perhaps an able him to play

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01:31:00,840 --> 01:31:02,599
Speaker 2: more than one hundred and thirty games for the first

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01:31:02,640 --> 01:31:07,960
Speaker 2: time in six years. Meanwhile, in Atlanta, the Braves Spencer

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01:31:08,040 --> 01:31:12,080
Speaker 2: Strader Ronald Cunya Junior. They're both due to return early

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01:31:12,240 --> 01:31:15,080
Speaker 2: in the season. Stratder looked pretty good in his first

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01:31:15,080 --> 01:31:20,880
Speaker 2: spring training start, and they're talking about uh Okunya, he's

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01:31:20,920 --> 01:31:25,719
Speaker 2: returning from his second torn acl The Braves season hinges

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01:31:25,760 --> 01:31:28,200
Speaker 2: on those two guys. Alright. I talked about the Dodgers

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01:31:28,240 --> 01:31:31,280
Speaker 2: a second ago. The truth is, how good can this

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01:31:31,360 --> 01:31:33,800
Speaker 2: team really be? I mean, can they I don't think

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01:31:33,800 --> 01:31:35,360
Speaker 2: they're gonna go one hundred and sixty two to zero.

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01:31:35,960 --> 01:31:38,960
Speaker 2: But what the hell the Dodgers. They were already a

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01:31:39,040 --> 01:31:41,439
Speaker 2: juggernaut last year. They won the twenty twenty four World

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01:31:41,479 --> 01:31:43,920
Speaker 2: Series and did it in fine fashion. Then they had

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01:31:44,000 --> 01:31:48,760
Speaker 2: Blake Snell, Rookie Sasaki and others to a roster that

1693
01:31:48,800 --> 01:31:52,519
Speaker 2: already includes a bunch of multiple superstars and for real

1694
01:31:52,720 --> 01:31:56,040
Speaker 2: future Hall of famers. I think Mookie Betts and Freddie

1695
01:31:56,080 --> 01:31:58,840
Speaker 2: Freeman our future Hall of famers, and perhaps some of

1696
01:31:58,920 --> 01:32:01,280
Speaker 2: that pitching staff. Yes, they got to play the games,

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01:32:02,000 --> 01:32:04,559
Speaker 2: but these Dodgers look as close to an unstoppable force

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01:32:04,560 --> 01:32:07,439
Speaker 2: as you're gonna find in Major League Baseball. And they

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01:32:07,479 --> 01:32:11,160
Speaker 2: could potentially set records across the board. And you can

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01:32:11,280 --> 01:32:15,240
Speaker 2: call them villains, but you're gonna watch them. You're either

1701
01:32:15,280 --> 01:32:17,240
Speaker 2: gonna root for him or you're gonna root against him. Remember,

1702
01:32:17,240 --> 01:32:20,000
Speaker 2: the opposite of love is not hated, it's indifference. It's

1703
01:32:20,080 --> 01:32:24,240
Speaker 2: hard not to at least acknowledge greatness, and the Dodgers,

1704
01:32:25,600 --> 01:32:28,840
Speaker 2: I think embody greatness the entire organization. By the way,

1705
01:32:28,920 --> 01:32:32,639
Speaker 2: one year after making we're not done with the Dodgers.

1706
01:32:33,000 --> 01:32:35,760
Speaker 2: One year after making history with an unprecedented fifty to

1707
01:32:35,800 --> 01:32:39,080
Speaker 2: fifty season at Otani had fifty four home runs stole

1708
01:32:39,120 --> 01:32:42,400
Speaker 2: fifty nine bases. He'll take them out again. I don't

1709
01:32:42,439 --> 01:32:47,800
Speaker 2: think it'll be till sometime in May, And obviously Otani's

1710
01:32:47,800 --> 01:32:50,840
Speaker 2: first start will be a can't miss game. Once the

1711
01:32:50,920 --> 01:32:55,000
Speaker 2: hype dies down, there's gonna be questions how will O'tani

1712
01:32:55,080 --> 01:32:58,040
Speaker 2: the pitcher look after missing a full season following elbow surgery,

1713
01:32:59,000 --> 01:33:01,360
Speaker 2: and did he really have enough time to properly rehab

1714
01:33:01,439 --> 01:33:03,639
Speaker 2: on the mound given his DH duties. Will he even

1715
01:33:03,680 --> 01:33:05,600
Speaker 2: be able to make it through the season as a

1716
01:33:05,600 --> 01:33:09,040
Speaker 2: two way player under these circumstances, given the Dodgers starting

1717
01:33:09,080 --> 01:33:14,080
Speaker 2: staff and Otani's prolific offensive prowise. If it were me,

1718
01:33:14,920 --> 01:33:17,120
Speaker 2: and who knows, maybe they'll put it up to me someday,

1719
01:33:17,680 --> 01:33:19,840
Speaker 2: I'd bring Otani out of the pen a couple times

1720
01:33:19,880 --> 01:33:21,840
Speaker 2: a week. That's what I do. I wouldn't wear the

1721
01:33:21,840 --> 01:33:25,280
Speaker 2: guy out. We know he can pitch, you can always

1722
01:33:25,320 --> 01:33:27,040
Speaker 2: start if you need him, But to ask him to

1723
01:33:27,040 --> 01:33:28,880
Speaker 2: take the ball every fifth, sixth day and keep up

1724
01:33:29,000 --> 01:33:32,960
Speaker 2: this offensive prowess, it's a bit much, and he's already

1725
01:33:33,000 --> 01:33:36,719
Speaker 2: coming off one injury. Just a thought Remember Otanian didn't

1726
01:33:36,720 --> 01:33:38,960
Speaker 2: pitch last year, didn't stop the Dodgers from winning a

1727
01:33:39,000 --> 01:33:42,040
Speaker 2: World Series. How about a full season of Paul Skeins

1728
01:33:42,400 --> 01:33:44,920
Speaker 2: Remember the stud out of LSU. They didn't call him

1729
01:33:44,960 --> 01:33:48,200
Speaker 2: up till mid mid season last year. He's already starting

1730
01:33:48,280 --> 01:33:52,280
Speaker 2: his full big league season, this time a fully fledged superstar,

1731
01:33:52,439 --> 01:33:56,400
Speaker 2: not an untested rookie. Now the Pirates. Unfortunately he's playing

1732
01:33:56,400 --> 01:33:57,960
Speaker 2: in the team in the city. He's probably not ready

1733
01:33:58,000 --> 01:34:02,439
Speaker 2: to contend, But twenty two years old, Paul Skiings has

1734
01:34:02,640 --> 01:34:05,880
Speaker 2: already turned their games at least well his starts, and

1735
01:34:06,000 --> 01:34:08,680
Speaker 2: do much watched events. It's like Vita Blue back in

1736
01:34:08,720 --> 01:34:12,800
Speaker 2: the day, much wash must watch events. That's time I

1737
01:34:12,880 --> 01:34:15,600
Speaker 2: run a ton from that damn place. No reason to

1738
01:34:15,680 --> 01:34:21,040
Speaker 2: think Paul Skins will not only continue his success, but

1739
01:34:21,280 --> 01:34:24,200
Speaker 2: maybe he'll send to even higher heights, and that could

1740
01:34:24,240 --> 01:34:26,880
Speaker 2: make this an unforgettable summer in Pittsburgh, regardless of the

1741
01:34:27,640 --> 01:34:31,040
Speaker 2: Bucks overall record. Look, the nineteen seventy six Tigers had

1742
01:34:31,040 --> 01:34:33,080
Speaker 2: Mark the bird Faers. They didn't win anything, but man,

1743
01:34:33,760 --> 01:34:36,600
Speaker 2: he was, I mean he was must see coming up.

1744
01:34:36,680 --> 01:34:40,920
Speaker 2: I have many more when I would consider to be storylines,

1745
01:34:41,160 --> 01:34:45,879
Speaker 2: big ones with big name teams. To talk about regarding

1746
01:34:46,320 --> 01:34:49,759
Speaker 2: Major League Baseball. For the best pregame show every weekend,

1747
01:34:49,880 --> 01:34:52,879
Speaker 2: be sure to tune into Fox Sports Radio's Countdown, presented

1748
01:34:52,880 --> 01:34:55,160
Speaker 2: by bet MGM every Saturday and Sunday morning from nine

1749
01:34:55,160 --> 01:34:58,320
Speaker 2: am to noon Eastern six to nine am Pacific, will

1750
01:34:58,360 --> 01:35:00,320
Speaker 2: count you down to all the biggest games. No better

1751
01:35:00,400 --> 01:35:03,000
Speaker 2: place to prime you for the tournament games than right here.

1752
01:35:03,120 --> 01:35:06,960
Speaker 2: Tune into Countdown, presented by BETMGM every Saturday and Sunday

1753
01:35:06,960 --> 01:35:10,360
Speaker 2: morning right here on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.

1754
01:35:10,600 --> 01:35:12,599
Speaker 2: I'm Bernie Frattle. Come to your line from Once Vegas,

1755
01:35:12,600 --> 01:35:15,439
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio, Tirat dot com studios. Keep it locked.

1756
01:35:15,760 --> 01:35:18,200
Speaker 2: You're listening to the Bernie Frautle Show on Fox Sports Radio.

1757
01:35:19,840 --> 01:35:22,720
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1758
01:35:22,800 --> 01:35:26,160
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1759
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1760
01:35:30,479 --> 01:35:31,360
Speaker 6: listen live.

1761
01:35:32,680 --> 01:35:35,439
Speaker 2: All right back at the Bernie Frautle Show Fox Sports Radio.

1762
01:35:35,520 --> 01:35:37,639
Speaker 2: Come to liar from the Tarrack dot com studios here

1763
01:35:38,200 --> 01:35:43,840
Speaker 2: and Las Vegas. Continuing on, I have three remaining what

1764
01:35:43,960 --> 01:35:48,040
Speaker 2: I consider to be big storylines as we head into

1765
01:35:48,160 --> 01:35:51,000
Speaker 2: a brand new Major League Baseball twenty twenty five season,

1766
01:35:51,560 --> 01:35:54,080
Speaker 2: and then I switch gears and revisit a topic we

1767
01:35:54,160 --> 01:35:56,120
Speaker 2: didn't go that deep on that I thought we might

1768
01:35:57,000 --> 01:35:59,680
Speaker 2: in the midnight hour, and I'll get to that and

1769
01:35:59,840 --> 01:36:02,720
Speaker 2: just the second, but one of the story lions is

1770
01:36:03,040 --> 01:36:07,479
Speaker 2: could this be the Philadelphia Phillies last to rah? Remember

1771
01:36:07,600 --> 01:36:09,760
Speaker 2: just three years ago they won the Pennant. They sort

1772
01:36:09,800 --> 01:36:13,920
Speaker 2: of surprised everybody. It's not been seven years since Bryce Harper,

1773
01:36:14,640 --> 01:36:17,280
Speaker 2: Las Vegas has own. Bryce Harper joined the Phillies with

1774
01:36:17,360 --> 01:36:20,519
Speaker 2: that big contract, and it looked like twenty twenty two

1775
01:36:20,680 --> 01:36:23,040
Speaker 2: might usher in a new golden era for the franchise.

1776
01:36:24,040 --> 01:36:27,240
Speaker 2: But Philly has just simply not been able to replicate

1777
01:36:27,320 --> 01:36:31,439
Speaker 2: that success. They had a shocking loss the following season

1778
01:36:31,520 --> 01:36:35,559
Speaker 2: in the National League Championship Series to Arizona, and then

1779
01:36:35,600 --> 01:36:38,559
Speaker 2: that was followed up by last year's early exit at

1780
01:36:38,600 --> 01:36:41,000
Speaker 2: the hands of the New York Mets. Now the clock

1781
01:36:41,120 --> 01:36:44,880
Speaker 2: is ticking because they have an excellent corps, but they're

1782
01:36:44,920 --> 01:36:50,280
Speaker 2: not getting any younger. Kyle Schwarber, Rancher Suarez, jtvol Muto,

1783
01:36:50,960 --> 01:36:53,200
Speaker 2: they're entering they're playing the back nine and then some,

1784
01:36:54,080 --> 01:36:56,160
Speaker 2: and they may be looking at their last chance to

1785
01:36:56,200 --> 01:36:59,200
Speaker 2: make good on their promise to win a title before

1786
01:36:59,439 --> 01:37:02,080
Speaker 2: at some point the Phillies start to make changes. These

1787
01:37:02,120 --> 01:37:04,280
Speaker 2: Philly teams were built to win. They were built to

1788
01:37:04,280 --> 01:37:07,800
Speaker 2: win now, and unfortunately for them, the pressure has never

1789
01:37:07,840 --> 01:37:10,760
Speaker 2: been higher. So can Philly rise to the occasion. They've

1790
01:37:10,800 --> 01:37:13,599
Speaker 2: got the roster to do it. Can they do it? Meanwhile,

1791
01:37:13,680 --> 01:37:17,080
Speaker 2: I want to go back to Juan Soto's Mets debut.

1792
01:37:18,080 --> 01:37:20,559
Speaker 2: The Mets are trying to turn. Last year they okay,

1793
01:37:20,880 --> 01:37:25,160
Speaker 2: there's your Cinderella. The New York Mets were Cinderella team

1794
01:37:25,200 --> 01:37:27,559
Speaker 2: last year. They went on that National League Championship Series

1795
01:37:27,680 --> 01:37:32,240
Speaker 2: run and they had their own National League geest Thrill.

1796
01:37:32,400 --> 01:37:36,320
Speaker 2: Steve Cohen made a splash acquisition in the offseason. He's

1797
01:37:36,320 --> 01:37:39,320
Speaker 2: the owner of the Mets, by luring Juan Soto on

1798
01:37:39,400 --> 01:37:43,720
Speaker 2: a record seven and sixty five million dollar contract, and

1799
01:37:43,840 --> 01:37:45,599
Speaker 2: based on what he did last season with the Yankee

1800
01:37:45,680 --> 01:37:48,720
Speaker 2: Soto feels like a player who's made for New York.

1801
01:37:48,760 --> 01:37:51,559
Speaker 2: But now he's he enters his prime. He's the face

1802
01:37:51,640 --> 01:37:55,519
Speaker 2: of the Mets. So we'll see if Soto can take

1803
01:37:55,600 --> 01:37:57,800
Speaker 2: the franchise to New Heights, kind of like Reggie Jackson

1804
01:37:57,840 --> 01:38:00,800
Speaker 2: did with the Yankees back in the day, a perfect team.

1805
01:38:00,960 --> 01:38:04,720
Speaker 2: They have cerns, many concerns surrounding their pitching staff and

1806
01:38:04,720 --> 01:38:06,760
Speaker 2: still can't do it little by himself. But if he

1807
01:38:06,800 --> 01:38:09,160
Speaker 2: gets off to a slow start, he's going to be

1808
01:38:09,200 --> 01:38:11,599
Speaker 2: hearing about it. Okay, he's in Flushing, New York now,

1809
01:38:11,720 --> 01:38:15,320
Speaker 2: not the Bronx, but they can boo there as well. Finally,

1810
01:38:16,520 --> 01:38:18,800
Speaker 2: the Saint Louis Cardinals entered the off season with a

1811
01:38:18,800 --> 01:38:21,160
Speaker 2: clear objective. They were going to trade Nolan Aernauto, but

1812
01:38:21,240 --> 01:38:25,439
Speaker 2: they didn't. Now, Aeronauto enters opening Day in a Cardinals uniform,

1813
01:38:26,120 --> 01:38:30,880
Speaker 2: and his future is Murky Aeronauto. Of course, he holds

1814
01:38:31,000 --> 01:38:34,200
Speaker 2: all the cards for the cards. There's a play on words.

1815
01:38:34,520 --> 01:38:36,760
Speaker 2: He's got no trade clause, and he rejected a deal

1816
01:38:36,760 --> 01:38:38,920
Speaker 2: that would have sent him to the Houston Astros. So

1817
01:38:39,000 --> 01:38:41,200
Speaker 2: as long as he stays in towns, every move and

1818
01:38:41,800 --> 01:38:44,160
Speaker 2: every you know, everything he says and does and every

1819
01:38:44,360 --> 01:38:47,320
Speaker 2: bat is going to be dissected and analyzed. You know,

1820
01:38:47,439 --> 01:38:49,639
Speaker 2: Saint Louis is not a major market in the media,

1821
01:38:49,720 --> 01:38:52,719
Speaker 2: but there's a small market bubble. And if he's unhappy,

1822
01:38:52,800 --> 01:38:55,400
Speaker 2: or he's loafing or anything between, he's going to become

1823
01:38:55,439 --> 01:38:59,080
Speaker 2: a franchise, and and and Saint Louis is a proud franchise.

1824
01:38:59,680 --> 01:39:03,240
Speaker 2: He's become a distraction. Excuse me, Sam Lewis is a

1825
01:39:03,280 --> 01:39:07,639
Speaker 2: proud franchise. But they're teetering. They're teetering, and they probably

1826
01:39:07,880 --> 01:39:11,840
Speaker 2: deserve better. So those are storylines to watch, all right.

1827
01:39:11,880 --> 01:39:14,320
Speaker 2: I want to revisit a topic. We didn't get too

1828
01:39:14,400 --> 01:39:16,639
Speaker 2: deep into it in the midnight hour. That was fine

1829
01:39:16,640 --> 01:39:18,599
Speaker 2: because I love people did a great job on Lebron

1830
01:39:18,720 --> 01:39:22,759
Speaker 2: versus stephen A and the and the Danny Hurley saka

1831
01:39:22,880 --> 01:39:29,600
Speaker 2: as it were. Becomes even more mercurial now, and it

1832
01:39:29,760 --> 01:39:36,720
Speaker 2: has to do with this crazy scenario that college basketball

1833
01:39:36,800 --> 01:39:41,240
Speaker 2: must fix. It must fix this official review and the

1834
01:39:41,360 --> 01:39:46,360
Speaker 2: way that it's currently facilitated is a complete tire fire.

1835
01:39:47,880 --> 01:39:53,679
Speaker 2: I you know, chronicled of just one random SEC game

1836
01:39:54,640 --> 01:39:58,080
Speaker 2: last late February, where one team, Vanderbilt, had the lead

1837
01:39:58,160 --> 01:39:59,840
Speaker 2: seventy to sixty. They're only three and a half minutes,

1838
01:40:01,320 --> 01:40:03,559
Speaker 2: but it took forty minutes of real time to play

1839
01:40:03,600 --> 01:40:06,559
Speaker 2: the rest of the game. Why because the officials kept

1840
01:40:06,560 --> 01:40:10,080
Speaker 2: blowing whistles for fouls, and then there were free throws,

1841
01:40:10,240 --> 01:40:13,080
Speaker 2: and then there were some more official reviews and injury

1842
01:40:13,120 --> 01:40:18,360
Speaker 2: stoppages and timeouts and endless offensive defensive substitutions, and all

1843
01:40:18,360 --> 01:40:21,000
Speaker 2: of a sudden the game becomes unwatchable with all the

1844
01:40:21,040 --> 01:40:24,000
Speaker 2: fits and starts and stops. And I don't like the

1845
01:40:24,080 --> 01:40:27,960
Speaker 2: way that they play such as high incredible premium on

1846
01:40:28,439 --> 01:40:33,200
Speaker 2: official review. They review everything. They go frame by frame,

1847
01:40:33,280 --> 01:40:35,920
Speaker 2: and it takes forever, and some of the things they'll

1848
01:40:35,960 --> 01:40:38,479
Speaker 2: do that make your teeth hitch. One team might be

1849
01:40:38,560 --> 01:40:41,040
Speaker 2: leading by twelve points with six point eight seconds to go,

1850
01:40:41,120 --> 01:40:43,559
Speaker 2: and they they'll stare at the clock for a minute

1851
01:40:44,120 --> 01:40:45,960
Speaker 2: and stop the game. And by the way, that gives

1852
01:40:46,000 --> 01:40:49,280
Speaker 2: teams free timeouts. And you got an eighteen point lead

1853
01:40:49,320 --> 01:40:51,599
Speaker 2: and they reset the clock. Oh, supposed to be six

1854
01:40:51,680 --> 01:40:55,919
Speaker 2: point six seconds, not six point eight. Really, okay, perfection

1855
01:40:56,240 --> 01:41:00,920
Speaker 2: should not It is not the standard for anything in sports, Okay.

1856
01:41:01,280 --> 01:41:04,040
Speaker 2: Anything less perfection now, when it comes to referees is bad,

1857
01:41:04,640 --> 01:41:06,600
Speaker 2: and it ruins the game. It ruins the flow of

1858
01:41:06,680 --> 01:41:09,479
Speaker 2: the game. And there's nothing about it to me that

1859
01:41:09,720 --> 01:41:13,240
Speaker 2: I find endearing. All right, And I mentioned that game,

1860
01:41:13,320 --> 01:41:15,519
Speaker 2: that's just the one off of a bunch of you know,

1861
01:41:15,560 --> 01:41:20,599
Speaker 2: whether it's constant filing, subbing, the compulsion of college referees

1862
01:41:20,640 --> 01:41:23,120
Speaker 2: to go to the monitor every single time they're insure

1863
01:41:23,200 --> 01:41:25,519
Speaker 2: late in the game, whether or not a fingertip nicked

1864
01:41:25,560 --> 01:41:27,760
Speaker 2: the ball before it went out of bounds, and it

1865
01:41:27,920 --> 01:41:32,200
Speaker 2: takes it's incessant, and it takes forever. Who wants this?

1866
01:41:32,439 --> 01:41:37,600
Speaker 2: Do you want this? It's my understanding. There have been

1867
01:41:37,680 --> 01:41:42,719
Speaker 2: lots of calls and texts to administrators throughout the season

1868
01:41:43,600 --> 01:41:45,599
Speaker 2: that there's a broad agreement that the games are taking

1869
01:41:45,680 --> 01:41:50,000
Speaker 2: too long. Okay, officiers are too reliant on the replay

1870
01:41:50,080 --> 01:41:53,200
Speaker 2: monitor and these endless parades back to the final line

1871
01:41:53,280 --> 01:41:55,320
Speaker 2: just suck the absolute life out of the game. For

1872
01:41:55,479 --> 01:41:59,360
Speaker 2: every great basketball college basketball finish that comes down to

1873
01:41:59,400 --> 01:42:02,479
Speaker 2: a final possession, you're gonna get five games. It gets

1874
01:42:02,520 --> 01:42:04,960
Speaker 2: pulled into a slog and there's no reason for these

1875
01:42:05,080 --> 01:42:08,560
Speaker 2: games to so regularly. Again, I just didn't feel this

1876
01:42:08,600 --> 01:42:10,960
Speaker 2: way just now in the tournament. It's been all year.

1877
01:42:11,760 --> 01:42:16,559
Speaker 2: Teams routinely overshoot their two hour television window. For instance,

1878
01:42:16,600 --> 01:42:18,120
Speaker 2: I might want to watch a year. You know, I've

1879
01:42:18,120 --> 01:42:19,880
Speaker 2: got a UNV basketball credentier, but I don't go to

1880
01:42:19,880 --> 01:42:22,519
Speaker 2: every game. I might want to watch the UNLB game,

1881
01:42:22,520 --> 01:42:25,240
Speaker 2: which starts at day o'clock Pacific time and then be

1882
01:42:25,320 --> 01:42:29,080
Speaker 2: a game before that. Okay, maybe it's a Xavier in Miami,

1883
01:42:29,280 --> 01:42:32,479
Speaker 2: Ohio and instead of the UNLB game starting at day o'clock,

1884
01:42:33,520 --> 01:42:35,200
Speaker 2: they don't go to that game delay twenty and they

1885
01:42:35,200 --> 01:42:37,000
Speaker 2: can only delay it ten minutes or so. And now

1886
01:42:37,040 --> 01:42:39,760
Speaker 2: you catch it four minutes into the game because the

1887
01:42:39,840 --> 01:42:43,559
Speaker 2: game prior overshot the two hour television window. That doesn't

1888
01:42:43,600 --> 01:42:49,320
Speaker 2: need to happen. You can't. I cannot see any plausible

1889
01:42:49,400 --> 01:42:54,000
Speaker 2: defense for the way that official review is handling right now.

1890
01:42:54,320 --> 01:42:57,840
Speaker 2: All right. The good news is this actually could be

1891
01:42:58,000 --> 01:43:00,800
Speaker 2: fixed if they wanted to do it. Bat and if

1892
01:43:00,840 --> 01:43:04,760
Speaker 2: someone's got the stomach to raise their hand and you know,

1893
01:43:05,640 --> 01:43:08,280
Speaker 2: light a fire under the butt of the oversight committee

1894
01:43:08,360 --> 01:43:14,800
Speaker 2: and say fix this. Okay. Unfortunately, history shows us that

1895
01:43:15,040 --> 01:43:19,000
Speaker 2: men's college basketball is very slow to change any rules,

1896
01:43:20,040 --> 01:43:22,920
Speaker 2: and there's an establishment in place that gets offended by

1897
01:43:22,920 --> 01:43:26,000
Speaker 2: any suggestion that they should modify their game to look

1898
01:43:26,080 --> 01:43:30,120
Speaker 2: more like the NBA. Okay, but your border lining on

1899
01:43:30,280 --> 01:43:32,400
Speaker 2: a crisis here. I don't know anybody that likes this.

1900
01:43:33,360 --> 01:43:36,479
Speaker 2: Feel free to tweet if I'd like to hear if

1901
01:43:36,520 --> 01:43:39,240
Speaker 2: you do. Okay. I had a tweet from Bill Shirley earlier.

1902
01:43:39,600 --> 01:43:41,880
Speaker 2: This says absolutely Bernie. I watched one of the tourney

1903
01:43:41,960 --> 01:43:45,360
Speaker 2: games where seven consecutive trips that were stopped from some

1904
01:43:45,560 --> 01:43:47,960
Speaker 2: kind of bs. And then, of course, let's not forget.

1905
01:43:48,360 --> 01:43:51,320
Speaker 2: Is that a flagrant one? Is that a flagrant file,

1906
01:43:51,760 --> 01:43:54,000
Speaker 2: a flagrant two? Or is just a common file?

1907
01:43:54,560 --> 01:43:54,960
Speaker 5: What is it?

1908
01:43:55,160 --> 01:43:57,280
Speaker 2: Is it fish or file? I mean, we don't know

1909
01:43:57,320 --> 01:44:00,400
Speaker 2: what we're even looking at here anymore. So the question

1910
01:44:00,520 --> 01:44:04,960
Speaker 2: is how do you fix it? Okay, one suggestion. I

1911
01:44:05,040 --> 01:44:08,360
Speaker 2: don't see this happening. I just don't. But it's just

1912
01:44:08,479 --> 01:44:13,000
Speaker 2: a suggestion. One of the obvious and easiest changes to

1913
01:44:13,120 --> 01:44:16,240
Speaker 2: do make is instead of you ever know if you notice,

1914
01:44:16,280 --> 01:44:19,120
Speaker 2: college basketball is the only basketball played on any level

1915
01:44:19,680 --> 01:44:22,880
Speaker 2: where there are two halves instead of four quarters, they

1916
01:44:22,960 --> 01:44:25,600
Speaker 2: played two twenty minute a halfs what if they were

1917
01:44:25,640 --> 01:44:29,599
Speaker 2: to play four quarters or ten minutes? Teach that deserves

1918
01:44:29,760 --> 01:44:32,800
Speaker 2: a discussion. Every other form of the sport plays four

1919
01:44:32,880 --> 01:44:38,479
Speaker 2: quarters except for men's college basketball. It's starting to look

1920
01:44:38,520 --> 01:44:40,080
Speaker 2: a little ass and I and the question is is

1921
01:44:40,120 --> 01:44:44,000
Speaker 2: it harming the game? Because everybody knows the sport that

1922
01:44:44,200 --> 01:44:47,760
Speaker 2: playing halves slows the game down because the moment a

1923
01:44:47,800 --> 01:44:52,080
Speaker 2: team commits a seventh foul, every subsequent file results in

1924
01:44:52,120 --> 01:44:54,240
Speaker 2: a trip to a free throw line for the rest

1925
01:44:54,280 --> 01:44:56,880
Speaker 2: of the half. So if the officials are called in

1926
01:44:56,920 --> 01:45:00,479
Speaker 2: the game tightly, I've seen that threshold crossed in the

1927
01:45:00,520 --> 01:45:03,960
Speaker 2: first seven minutes of the a half. In every other league,

1928
01:45:04,560 --> 01:45:08,640
Speaker 2: including women's college basketball, the files reset every quarter, and

1929
01:45:08,720 --> 01:45:11,640
Speaker 2: there's less time being spent in the bonus after a

1930
01:45:11,680 --> 01:45:16,560
Speaker 2: team commits its fifth final. Again, there's absolutely no logical

1931
01:45:16,680 --> 01:45:21,679
Speaker 2: reason why men's college basketball continues to go twenty minutes

1932
01:45:22,400 --> 01:45:26,439
Speaker 2: to twenty minute halfs instead of perhaps four ten minute quarters. Okay,

1933
01:45:27,000 --> 01:45:31,320
Speaker 2: the second potential fix just get rid of the current

1934
01:45:31,520 --> 01:45:36,360
Speaker 2: instant replace system, where officials literally look at pretty much

1935
01:45:36,520 --> 01:45:38,880
Speaker 2: every close out of bounds call in the final two

1936
01:45:38,880 --> 01:45:41,639
Speaker 2: minutes of the game and they go to this coach's

1937
01:45:41,760 --> 01:45:46,559
Speaker 2: challenge system like the NBA employees think about it. Get

1938
01:45:46,680 --> 01:45:49,600
Speaker 2: rid of the officials in their discretion. You don't need

1939
01:45:49,680 --> 01:45:54,080
Speaker 2: to go to the monitor unless the coach challenges it. Now,

1940
01:45:54,200 --> 01:45:57,439
Speaker 2: even though the NBA approach to instant replay also has

1941
01:45:57,520 --> 01:46:01,160
Speaker 2: detractors and it's not perfect either, and its officials get

1942
01:46:01,160 --> 01:46:07,080
Speaker 2: a little too monitor happy when the situations arise. College

1943
01:46:07,400 --> 01:46:10,120
Speaker 2: I don't think college basketball can continue on this current course.

1944
01:46:11,160 --> 01:46:13,680
Speaker 2: It's relatively common to see an official make a call

1945
01:46:14,160 --> 01:46:15,840
Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden single for a review.

1946
01:46:16,520 --> 01:46:20,160
Speaker 2: This second gets their own work. Okay, but here's the

1947
01:46:20,280 --> 01:46:23,400
Speaker 2: real rub. It just takes too damn long. It brings

1948
01:46:23,439 --> 01:46:26,479
Speaker 2: the game to a halt. It happens way too much,

1949
01:46:27,120 --> 01:46:30,160
Speaker 2: far too much frequency, and it's no longer acceptible in

1950
01:46:30,240 --> 01:46:36,840
Speaker 2: my opinion. And again they go frame by frame, they

1951
01:46:36,920 --> 01:46:42,760
Speaker 2: look at these things incessantly. And by the way, one

1952
01:46:42,800 --> 01:46:44,960
Speaker 2: of the byproducts of this, teams could be out of timeouts.

1953
01:46:45,080 --> 01:46:47,680
Speaker 2: You get a free timeout. You're giving me teams for

1954
01:46:48,000 --> 01:46:50,720
Speaker 2: free timeouts. Now, I get it. You want the call

1955
01:46:50,800 --> 01:46:53,720
Speaker 2: to be right. You're trying to stract that balance and

1956
01:46:53,800 --> 01:46:57,160
Speaker 2: thread the needle between what might be acceptable human error

1957
01:46:57,600 --> 01:46:59,800
Speaker 2: and the integrity of the game. That's where it becomes.

1958
01:47:01,040 --> 01:47:03,920
Speaker 2: You want to get the close calls right, especially when

1959
01:47:03,920 --> 01:47:06,840
Speaker 2: there's so much on the line, but nitpicking every single

1960
01:47:06,920 --> 01:47:10,480
Speaker 2: loose ball scramble or did it go off his fingertip?

1961
01:47:11,720 --> 01:47:14,360
Speaker 2: You know, did you step out of bounds? Who touched

1962
01:47:14,400 --> 01:47:16,960
Speaker 2: it last? Did you take forever? Now, all of a sudden,

1963
01:47:17,520 --> 01:47:21,559
Speaker 2: you're providing a crutch for beneficiating and what I consider

1964
01:47:21,640 --> 01:47:28,519
Speaker 2: to be a huge, a huge vacuum of time while

1965
01:47:28,560 --> 01:47:30,800
Speaker 2: people scratch their heads saying, will you please hurry up?

1966
01:47:31,120 --> 01:47:35,200
Speaker 2: Okay again, I'm gonna lean on this. Just give coaches

1967
01:47:35,280 --> 01:47:38,160
Speaker 2: a challenge they can use at any point in the

1968
01:47:38,240 --> 01:47:42,040
Speaker 2: game or keep it in their back pocket, and they

1969
01:47:42,080 --> 01:47:44,680
Speaker 2: can deploy it when it really counts. Whether it's not

1970
01:47:44,800 --> 01:47:48,200
Speaker 2: a bounce call, whether it's a controversy you'll found remember

1971
01:47:48,280 --> 01:47:51,559
Speaker 2: you got Arizona call for it with Look, okay, I'm

1972
01:47:51,560 --> 01:47:54,880
Speaker 2: not gonna go back into specific games because i'll bore you,

1973
01:47:55,720 --> 01:47:57,720
Speaker 2: but that's what replay should be used for. When you

1974
01:47:57,840 --> 01:48:01,320
Speaker 2: have situations where it's out bounds and it's a controversial

1975
01:48:01,360 --> 01:48:03,720
Speaker 2: file with one you know it's a one point game

1976
01:48:03,760 --> 01:48:08,640
Speaker 2: and there's three seconds, Okay, that matters. Otherwise, sometimes you

1977
01:48:08,800 --> 01:48:11,519
Speaker 2: just have to live with human error. It's a better way,

1978
01:48:12,320 --> 01:48:14,800
Speaker 2: I think than what college basketball currently has, and I

1979
01:48:14,960 --> 01:48:18,360
Speaker 2: think they're still in show business. Networks pay a fortune

1980
01:48:18,400 --> 01:48:21,960
Speaker 2: for these games. People have a lot invested. Now there's

1981
01:48:22,080 --> 01:48:25,280
Speaker 2: a couple other radical suggestions. They're not mine, but they've

1982
01:48:25,320 --> 01:48:29,000
Speaker 2: come up in the ether. The suggestion is to adopt

1983
01:48:29,080 --> 01:48:33,160
Speaker 2: a twenty four second shot clock. A lot of college coaches.

1984
01:48:33,320 --> 01:48:35,360
Speaker 2: They might not like it because they enjoyed the ability

1985
01:48:35,400 --> 01:48:37,320
Speaker 2: to set up an offense in a half court and

1986
01:48:37,400 --> 01:48:39,760
Speaker 2: then they can call their place from the sideline. There's

1987
01:48:39,800 --> 01:48:42,360
Speaker 2: also this long standing argument that the majority of college

1988
01:48:42,400 --> 01:48:45,479
Speaker 2: players aren't skilled enough to operate the twenty four shot

1989
01:48:45,520 --> 01:48:48,439
Speaker 2: clock environment, and that might make the game a little

1990
01:48:48,479 --> 01:48:50,920
Speaker 2: more frantic and not as crisp. I don't know that

1991
01:48:51,000 --> 01:48:53,439
Speaker 2: to be true. But the other side of the argument

1992
01:48:53,479 --> 01:48:56,400
Speaker 2: is ultimately players would adapt and it would help their

1993
01:48:56,439 --> 01:48:59,639
Speaker 2: long term development for pro basketball. So there's that certainly

1994
01:48:59,680 --> 01:49:01,639
Speaker 2: cut them out on some of the foule Arama tactic

1995
01:49:01,640 --> 01:49:04,240
Speaker 2: could be in the games. It's a math equation. When

1996
01:49:04,240 --> 01:49:06,880
Speaker 2: a team is trailing in a final few minutes, it's

1997
01:49:06,920 --> 01:49:09,800
Speaker 2: often better if you could just play defense and get

1998
01:49:09,840 --> 01:49:12,920
Speaker 2: a stop. I'll out chuck daily when the shot clock

1999
01:49:13,000 --> 01:49:16,599
Speaker 2: is twenty four seconds as supposed to thirty. Now there's

2000
01:49:16,640 --> 01:49:18,559
Speaker 2: one last suggestion, and it appears to be the most

2001
01:49:18,600 --> 01:49:22,080
Speaker 2: controversial now. The NBA G League has for several years

2002
01:49:22,160 --> 01:49:24,800
Speaker 2: now used a one free throw rule, which means a

2003
01:49:24,920 --> 01:49:28,240
Speaker 2: player who gets filed goes to the line for one

2004
01:49:28,360 --> 01:49:31,920
Speaker 2: shot and that's only worth the corresponding number of points

2005
01:49:32,000 --> 01:49:34,160
Speaker 2: until the final two minutes of the game. In other words,

2006
01:49:34,439 --> 01:49:37,519
Speaker 2: if you're filed shooting a three, you get one shot

2007
01:49:37,600 --> 01:49:40,920
Speaker 2: worth three points. How about that if you're filed shooting

2008
01:49:40,920 --> 01:49:43,280
Speaker 2: a layup, you get one shot worth two points. Not

2009
01:49:43,439 --> 01:49:46,680
Speaker 2: my idea, but think about it. It would waste, you know,

2010
01:49:46,800 --> 01:49:48,880
Speaker 2: eliminate a lot of wasted time at the file line.

2011
01:49:49,760 --> 01:49:53,080
Speaker 2: And it's worth looking at all these suggestions. None of

2012
01:49:53,120 --> 01:49:55,120
Speaker 2: them are the bl end all, but to at least

2013
01:49:55,160 --> 01:49:59,720
Speaker 2: have a conversation about this, you know, and if you

2014
01:50:00,000 --> 01:50:02,360
Speaker 2: if you can just at least admit that when there

2015
01:50:02,400 --> 01:50:04,760
Speaker 2: are three minutes to go in the game and it

2016
01:50:04,880 --> 01:50:09,120
Speaker 2: takes forty minutes to play the final three minutes talking

2017
01:50:09,160 --> 01:50:12,639
Speaker 2: about you know, two hundred and ten seconds, forty minutes

2018
01:50:12,640 --> 01:50:16,080
Speaker 2: to play two hundred and ten seconds, well then you're

2019
01:50:16,600 --> 01:50:18,160
Speaker 2: I don't know what this is. This is a sport

2020
01:50:18,280 --> 01:50:23,160
Speaker 2: of fiasco. What are we really talking about here? Okay?

2021
01:50:24,439 --> 01:50:28,439
Speaker 2: Coming up? I also want to revisit Danny Hurley and

2022
01:50:29,040 --> 01:50:33,680
Speaker 2: what happened because it's slipped under the radar. And I

2023
01:50:33,800 --> 01:50:36,880
Speaker 2: might suggesting that Danny Hurley be in trouble or anything. No,

2024
01:50:37,320 --> 01:50:41,120
Speaker 2: but you know, there's got to be a certain decorum here.

2025
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Speaker 2: If We're gonna pick on le Brown Wing, pick on

2026
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2044
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2045
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2046
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2050
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2053
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Speaker 2: I want to credit this to a gentleman named Gray

2054
01:52:17,400 --> 01:52:21,880
Speaker 2: Papkey from Larry Brown Sports. You may or may not

2055
01:52:22,000 --> 01:52:25,840
Speaker 2: have seen it. You may have missed it. A video

2056
01:52:26,000 --> 01:52:32,760
Speaker 2: emerged of Danny Hurley following last Sunday's loss. Yukon's lost

2057
01:52:32,800 --> 01:52:34,639
Speaker 2: to Flora seventy seven to seventy five in the second

2058
01:52:34,680 --> 01:52:37,680
Speaker 2: round of the tournament, and the video was captured by

2059
01:52:37,680 --> 01:52:41,400
Speaker 2: a gentlemen of Queen City News and Hurley had a

2060
01:52:41,560 --> 01:52:48,400
Speaker 2: pretty salty what's the word I'm looking for, Let's put

2061
01:52:48,439 --> 01:52:52,400
Speaker 2: it this way. It was a rant that quickly went

2062
01:52:52,680 --> 01:52:58,040
Speaker 2: viral and it was against very spicy with f bombs okay,

2063
01:52:59,520 --> 01:53:02,840
Speaker 2: And it turned out that the folks at Yukon were

2064
01:53:02,880 --> 01:53:08,320
Speaker 2: not happy about this incident being filmed. According to Queen

2065
01:53:08,439 --> 01:53:11,200
Speaker 2: City News, a Yukon I'm not going to give the

2066
01:53:11,280 --> 01:53:16,160
Speaker 2: gentleman's name, it's alleged he told this gentleman joey Ellis

2067
01:53:16,200 --> 01:53:18,680
Speaker 2: of the Queen City News apparently captured the video. This

2068
01:53:18,680 --> 01:53:23,000
Speaker 2: is according to Larry Brown Sports, that he would quote

2069
01:53:23,040 --> 01:53:28,880
Speaker 2: ruin his life or something of that nature if the

2070
01:53:28,960 --> 01:53:32,720
Speaker 2: video was not deleted. Now, that remark was allegedly heard

2071
01:53:32,760 --> 01:53:37,560
Speaker 2: by other reporters and staff on the scene. And you know,

2072
01:53:39,479 --> 01:53:41,280
Speaker 2: it's not a good look. And this is a team

2073
01:53:41,360 --> 01:53:44,040
Speaker 2: that would you know, back to back championships and Dan

2074
01:53:44,160 --> 01:53:48,360
Speaker 2: Hurley really had become quite a remarkable national figure, was

2075
01:53:48,400 --> 01:53:51,800
Speaker 2: even offered a huge job by the Lakers, right And

2076
01:53:52,080 --> 01:53:55,120
Speaker 2: in the statement apparently that you know, this recorded video,

2077
01:53:55,240 --> 01:53:59,760
Speaker 2: this private comment was not authorized, you know, by any

2078
01:53:59,800 --> 01:54:05,840
Speaker 2: by and it essentially I think their concern and they

2079
01:54:05,880 --> 01:54:08,880
Speaker 2: should be that what this does is this fosters a

2080
01:54:09,000 --> 01:54:12,759
Speaker 2: more lasting image of Danny Hurley leaving the court, okay,

2081
01:54:12,960 --> 01:54:17,320
Speaker 2: and what it should have been. According to the gentleman

2082
01:54:17,320 --> 01:54:19,960
Speaker 2: who wrote this piece, he said, quote the lasting image

2083
01:54:20,240 --> 01:54:22,400
Speaker 2: should have been walking off the court arm in arm

2084
01:54:22,479 --> 01:54:26,000
Speaker 2: with his seniors, overwhelmed with emotion. Instead a reporter who

2085
01:54:26,080 --> 01:54:29,200
Speaker 2: was in the area. He should not have been recorded

2086
01:54:29,280 --> 01:54:31,559
Speaker 2: on a cell phone a private comment made to members

2087
01:54:31,600 --> 01:54:36,360
Speaker 2: of another coaching staff. Is that fair? Okay? Maybe maybe,

2088
01:54:37,040 --> 01:54:41,560
Speaker 2: but look, when you're a national figure like Danny Hurley

2089
01:54:41,640 --> 01:54:44,160
Speaker 2: in the games on national TV, maybe a little bit

2090
01:54:44,880 --> 01:54:48,240
Speaker 2: more awareness. Danny Hurley, as the video shows, and a

2091
01:54:48,280 --> 01:54:50,840
Speaker 2: ton of leaving the court with photographers and other staffers,

2092
01:54:51,600 --> 01:54:54,520
Speaker 2: was not exactly trying to keep his voice low, and

2093
01:54:54,600 --> 01:54:57,200
Speaker 2: he was not exactly trying to confide quietly with anyone

2094
01:54:57,240 --> 01:55:00,800
Speaker 2: from Baylor. Ultimately, I think it was just another reminder

2095
01:55:00,880 --> 01:55:03,440
Speaker 2: that maybe, you know, with all the respect to Danny

2096
01:55:03,480 --> 01:55:05,400
Speaker 2: Hurley and for all of his accomplishments and he's an

2097
01:55:05,440 --> 01:55:11,000
Speaker 2: emotional guy, that his impulse control is no better than

2098
01:55:11,040 --> 01:55:14,280
Speaker 2: it was back when he was playing at Seaton Hall.

2099
01:55:14,880 --> 01:55:18,600
Speaker 2: Just throwing that out there, all right. So I think

2100
01:55:18,680 --> 01:55:20,600
Speaker 2: the response to the video and the attempts to get

2101
01:55:20,640 --> 01:55:26,440
Speaker 2: it taken down frankly, only made the situation worse. Okay. Now,

2102
01:55:26,480 --> 01:55:30,160
Speaker 2: in his postgame press conference, Hurley was a lot more reflective,

2103
01:55:30,880 --> 01:55:33,000
Speaker 2: and I think he admitted the loss was tough on

2104
01:55:33,120 --> 01:55:36,920
Speaker 2: him and reacted accordingly, but a lot of commenters who

2105
01:55:37,080 --> 01:55:42,680
Speaker 2: observed this weren't as friendly. And as forgiving, I'll just

2106
01:55:42,760 --> 01:55:46,800
Speaker 2: read some comments from random watchers of this event. Quote,

2107
01:55:47,040 --> 01:55:50,040
Speaker 2: He's an unlikable baby. There was nothing private about his comments,

2108
01:55:50,080 --> 01:55:53,000
Speaker 2: and there's no one to blame but Dan so private

2109
01:55:53,160 --> 01:55:56,000
Speaker 2: he yelled it out for all to hear. What a clown? Really?

2110
01:55:56,080 --> 01:55:59,560
Speaker 2: Yukon really let the big boy face up what he said. Lol,

2111
01:55:59,680 --> 01:56:02,440
Speaker 2: glad you took a digger in the tourney, or maybe

2112
01:56:02,520 --> 01:56:06,800
Speaker 2: maybe they sent men dagger. Hurley deserved to get booted. Okay,

2113
01:56:07,760 --> 01:56:10,720
Speaker 2: another comment. If Yukon doesn't recognize that Hurley has a

2114
01:56:10,840 --> 01:56:13,440
Speaker 2: problem and this is on them and they I've been

2115
01:56:13,480 --> 01:56:16,880
Speaker 2: paying attention. His passion is as much an obsession and

2116
01:56:16,960 --> 01:56:19,839
Speaker 2: he needs help to put things in perspective. Why wouldn't

2117
01:56:19,920 --> 01:56:23,040
Speaker 2: Yukon wanting this out because they know he has zero filter.

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Speaker 2: They either address it or watch him burn publicly. Again,

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Speaker 2: these are comments from random fans who observe this interesting

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01:56:30,800 --> 01:56:36,600
Speaker 2: that Mullen lectures the reporter about the last view of

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01:56:36,840 --> 01:56:39,520
Speaker 2: Hurley should have been Yeah, if that's what Hurley did,

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01:56:39,600 --> 01:56:41,000
Speaker 2: it would be you jerk, but he did and the

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Speaker 2: reporter filmed he actually did live with it. So there's

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Speaker 2: somebody defending Danny Hurley again. These some of these are

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Speaker 2: our clunky another defender lovely be proud, Yukon, tough luck Yukon.

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Speaker 2: Danny needs to get some counseling, Okay, crazy. I just

2127
01:56:57,760 --> 01:57:06,200
Speaker 2: think it's it became an event that wasn't particularly endearing,

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01:57:07,160 --> 01:57:09,400
Speaker 2: you know, and the same with Lebron, all right, I

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01:57:09,480 --> 01:57:12,280
Speaker 2: mean Lebron went off on Steven A. Smith. He said,

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01:57:12,320 --> 01:57:14,800
Speaker 2: quote it started off with I didn't want to address it.

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01:57:14,920 --> 01:57:17,560
Speaker 2: James said he's ripping on stephen A. So I wasn't

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Speaker 2: going to address it, but since the video came out,

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Speaker 2: I felt I need to address it. MF are you

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01:57:22,160 --> 01:57:24,640
Speaker 2: kidding me? Okay, Lebron, do you really need to do that?

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Speaker 2: I don't think. I don't if I ever heard Magic Jordan,

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01:57:29,840 --> 01:57:34,600
Speaker 2: Bill Russell, kareem drop an F bomb? Did you really

2137
01:57:34,680 --> 01:57:36,960
Speaker 2: need to do that? If there was? And then Lebron

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01:57:37,000 --> 01:57:38,920
Speaker 2: went out to say, if there's one person that couldn't

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01:57:39,360 --> 01:57:41,560
Speaker 2: wait until the video had dropped so you could address it,

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01:57:41,600 --> 01:57:46,400
Speaker 2: it was your ass. Like seriously, okay, Lebron, I don't

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01:57:46,440 --> 01:57:50,000
Speaker 2: know man. Then Lebron went on and is clunky English quote.

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Speaker 2: Never would I not allow people to talk about the

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01:57:52,560 --> 01:57:56,360
Speaker 2: sport criticized that's fabulous. You're You're not You would not

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01:57:56,520 --> 01:57:59,560
Speaker 2: not allow people to talk about the sport or criticize

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01:58:00,080 --> 01:58:03,080
Speaker 2: players about what they do on the court. That is

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01:58:03,200 --> 01:58:06,160
Speaker 2: your job to criticize or be in a position where Okay,

2147
01:58:06,280 --> 01:58:08,720
Speaker 2: if a guy is not performing, that is all part

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01:58:08,760 --> 01:58:10,840
Speaker 2: of the game. That's all part of the game. But

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01:58:10,920 --> 01:58:12,520
Speaker 2: when you take it and get personal with it, it's

2150
01:58:12,600 --> 01:58:15,280
Speaker 2: my job to not only protect my damn household, but

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01:58:15,360 --> 01:58:19,120
Speaker 2: protect the players from what Lebron, what are you protecting

2152
01:58:19,200 --> 01:58:22,720
Speaker 2: them from? He's an NBA player, He's Stephen a Smith.

2153
01:58:23,160 --> 01:58:28,960
Speaker 2: It comes with the territory, and you know. James also

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01:58:29,040 --> 01:58:32,680
Speaker 2: acknowledged he was guaranteeing more attention for the story. He

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01:58:32,760 --> 01:58:35,160
Speaker 2: went on to rip Stephen Aspen, saying cool, he's gonna

2156
01:58:35,160 --> 01:58:37,160
Speaker 2: be smiling from ear to ear when he hears me

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01:58:37,280 --> 01:58:40,000
Speaker 2: talking about him again. He's gonna get home, grab some

2158
01:58:40,120 --> 01:58:44,360
Speaker 2: ice cream out of the effing freezer. Another f bomb,

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01:58:44,600 --> 01:58:47,560
Speaker 2: sit in his chairt is tidy. Whitey's on the couch

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01:58:47,800 --> 01:58:51,160
Speaker 2: like dude, relax, bro like relax like seriously, how about

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01:58:51,160 --> 01:58:54,400
Speaker 2: a few relaxed Lebron, Maybe you get yourself a cold

2162
01:58:54,440 --> 01:58:58,040
Speaker 2: clown compress, lay down, get some warm milk and soft

2163
01:58:58,200 --> 01:59:01,280
Speaker 2: music and realize that at the end of the day,

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01:59:01,880 --> 01:59:05,760
Speaker 2: you're first ballot Hall of Famer, you won championships, You've

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01:59:05,800 --> 01:59:08,840
Speaker 2: accomplished a lot between the ninety four foot, but seems

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01:59:09,080 --> 01:59:12,000
Speaker 2: you want more. You want more. Poor men want to

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01:59:12,000 --> 01:59:14,880
Speaker 2: be rich. Richmond want to be king. That's why Lebron

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01:59:15,200 --> 01:59:22,680
Speaker 2: calls himself the King. Unnecessary brought unnecessary attention to himself,

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01:59:23,160 --> 01:59:26,000
Speaker 2: and that's sometimes what Lebron does. He's done it before

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Speaker 2: and you'll do it again. Coming up brand new fool

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Speaker 2: and what my name? Keep it locked? The Bernie Fradle

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Speaker 2: Show on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 1: Don't listening to Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: we've come to that juncture of the show. You know

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Speaker 2: you love you. You can't leave without it because we,

2183
02:00:08,800 --> 02:00:12,440
Speaker 2: like Yogi Beara once said, can observe a lot by watching.

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02:00:12,520 --> 02:00:14,880
Speaker 2: That's exactly what we do. Because across this great land

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02:00:14,920 --> 02:00:16,960
Speaker 2: off ars from sea to oil, the sea and even

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Speaker 2: around the globe, well, people are observed in odd behaviors. Now,

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02:00:23,720 --> 02:00:28,800
Speaker 2: sometimes these behaviors are somewhat innocuous and silly. They can

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02:00:28,920 --> 02:00:31,440
Speaker 2: land you in little trouble. Other times they're far more serious.

2189
02:00:32,280 --> 02:00:37,280
Speaker 2: They can violate the law, misdemeanors, felonies, it can even

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Speaker 2: land you in jail. But any way you slice it,

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02:00:40,480 --> 02:00:42,960
Speaker 2: any way you describe it, any way you characterize it,

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02:00:43,600 --> 02:00:46,920
Speaker 2: all of these behaviors that we observe always leave us

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02:00:47,120 --> 02:00:51,200
Speaker 2: scratching our head and asking ourselves what kind of brand

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02:00:51,240 --> 02:00:51,920
Speaker 2: new fool of you?

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Speaker 19: So, what kind of brand new?

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Speaker 8: Oh?

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Speaker 2: Well there are you? Well? My story tonight takes is

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Speaker 2: to Santa Rosa, California. It involves a very i think

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Speaker 2: serious endemic in this country and drunk driving, believe it

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Speaker 2: or not, Even after everything we know and all the

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Speaker 2: warnings and the education and the options to take uber

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Speaker 2: or cabs or whatever. Every day four one hundred and

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02:01:28,840 --> 02:01:31,600
Speaker 2: nine people across our land are arrested for a dui.

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02:01:32,360 --> 02:01:35,840
Speaker 2: But this one in Santa Rosa really takes the cake.

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Speaker 2: Say hello to mister Corono Ortiza, Santa Rosa, thirty four

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Speaker 2: years old. He was cruising down the road allegedly driving

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Speaker 2: under the influence, wasn't particularly paying attention. And not paying attention,

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Speaker 2: he crashed his Toyota truck into a building. But it

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Speaker 2: wasn't just any building. It happened to be a liquor store. Well,

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Speaker 2: it turns out after the crash, mister Ortiz, who was hospitalized,

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02:02:13,720 --> 02:02:17,760
Speaker 2: actually entreated for significant injuries for the crash, perhaps because

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Speaker 2: he was when he blew a well, I'll say what

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02:02:22,800 --> 02:02:26,320
Speaker 2: save that for a minute now from now. He got

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Speaker 2: out of his vehicle, went into the liquor store and

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02:02:28,760 --> 02:02:33,920
Speaker 2: attempted to buy more alcohol. Yes, can't make this stuff up.

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02:02:34,280 --> 02:02:36,040
Speaker 2: Got out of his truck, walked into this door and

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02:02:36,080 --> 02:02:41,520
Speaker 2: attempted to purchase alcohol, even though when the police showed

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Speaker 2: up and they tested him, he was operating the vehicle

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02:02:46,280 --> 02:02:49,360
Speaker 2: under the influence and his blood alcohol content was point

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Speaker 2: three two, which is four times the legal limit in

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Speaker 2: California of point oh eight. By the way, not for nothing,

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Speaker 2: mister Ortiz was also driving while his license was suspended

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Speaker 2: and in contempt a court. He disobeyed a court order.

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Speaker 2: So here's a gentleman that blows a three to two,

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Speaker 2: crashes his truck into a liquor store, gets out, and

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02:03:12,680 --> 02:03:15,560
Speaker 2: tries to buy more liquor. Well, needless to say, mister

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Speaker 2: Ortives was arrested and charged with driving under the influence

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Speaker 2: and obviously had to be treated for what appeared to

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Speaker 2: be some very significant injuries. You don't have to be

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Speaker 2: a genius to realize that when you're a dumb criminal

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02:03:31,000 --> 02:03:33,600
Speaker 2: and you drive drunk, that's bad enough. You crash your

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Speaker 2: car and demandage property, that's bad enough. And then after

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Speaker 2: you crash your car into the building, you go in

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Speaker 2: and try to buy more liquor even though you're injured. Well,

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Speaker 2: you make the brand new fool segment, mister Ortiz from

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Speaker 2: Center Rosa, California. What kind of brand new fool are you? Okay, Brianna,

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Speaker 2: you are up next?

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Speaker 20: Alrighty Staill, mind's like a little on the cheesier side.

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Speaker 20: This takes place in Evans, Indiana, and there was two

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Speaker 20: suspicious packages that were sent via the mail, and they

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Speaker 20: contained forty pounds of meth inside bags of Cheetos. So

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Speaker 20: of all the chips, right, I don't know, I just

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02:04:18,080 --> 02:04:21,360
Speaker 20: have all the chips to decide to, you know, stuff drugs,

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Speaker 20: and you know, Cheetos are definitely the cheesiest.

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Speaker 13: Way to go.

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Speaker 20: So, according to forty four News, two people were arrested

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Speaker 20: for packing their meth into these bags and they were

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Speaker 20: shipping it through the mail. So forty six year old

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Speaker 20: Natasha Gardner and thirty six year old Goldie Junior Flenner

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Speaker 20: actually both from La Shout out La. I don't know

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Speaker 20: if that's where. I don't know why you wouldn't choose

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Speaker 20: like Fredo's or something. But they were busted when they

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Speaker 20: actually went to go pick up the packages. And so

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Speaker 20: the detectives with the Drug Task Force were notified by

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Speaker 20: the delivery facility that something was a little funky and

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Speaker 20: so the when they responded, they determined that the bug

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Speaker 20: the bags contained meth. So the two women, as soon

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02:05:06,480 --> 02:05:10,200
Speaker 20: as they were approached, you know from the police officers,

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02:05:10,680 --> 02:05:14,600
Speaker 20: they obviously fled and then when they were in the

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Speaker 20: middle of them fleeing, the van actually crashed into another

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Speaker 20: sheriff's suv so and so when all all was said

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Speaker 20: and done, the determination of the pounds and how much

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Speaker 20: of meth it was, it was valued to be over

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Speaker 20: two hundred and thousand dollars worth of meth. So just

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Speaker 20: kind of just to wrap this up, other drugs that

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Speaker 20: have been hidden and other things, Freedo's I was actually

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Speaker 20: right lays and uh Dorito's, other chips and examples of

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Speaker 20: where drugs a cocaine, meth and little little pieces of heroine,

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Speaker 20: so a little dark, just a little dark of but

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Speaker 20: two point six worth. Also back to the cocaine that

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02:06:05,160 --> 02:06:08,720
Speaker 20: was actually found on a cruise ship was another example

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Speaker 20: of some other chips in another story. But anyways, So yeah,

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02:06:13,960 --> 02:06:16,000
Speaker 20: those two women, Man, what kind of brand new fool

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Speaker 20: are you?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's a lot. And if you're sentenced drugs

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Speaker 2: through the mail, whether regardless of package, I'm pretty sure

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Speaker 2: that's mail fraud too. And so that's that's big time

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Speaker 2: federal jail time, I think.

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Speaker 20: Yeah, federal charges of conspiracy to distribute methaphetamine.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so brand new fool. That certainly is a brand

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02:06:39,760 --> 02:06:42,840
Speaker 2: new fool. And that wraps up another rousing edition of

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02:06:42,880 --> 02:06:47,120
Speaker 2: what kind of brand new fool, are you? And again,

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02:06:47,240 --> 02:06:49,760
Speaker 2: hopefully one of these days mister Ramsey will grace us

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02:06:50,200 --> 02:06:53,760
Speaker 2: with his creativity and mister Mark Ramsey will join this,

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02:06:53,920 --> 02:06:56,560
Speaker 2: maybe maybe just one time at least for posterity. But

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Speaker 2: now that we have completed Brand New Fool, that enables

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02:06:59,480 --> 02:07:01,520
Speaker 2: us to say, way into our second favorite bit that

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02:07:01,640 --> 02:07:06,960
Speaker 2: we referred to as what my Name? All right, this

2289
02:07:07,080 --> 02:07:13,040
Speaker 2: we'll have a March Madness theme, except for maybe well

2290
02:07:13,120 --> 02:07:16,240
Speaker 2: maybe one of the questions. Maybe one of the questions,

2291
02:07:18,680 --> 02:07:24,360
Speaker 2: So let's get into the March Madness theme. I'm a

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Speaker 2: head coach of a team that would have gone to

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02:07:29,760 --> 02:07:39,240
Speaker 2: ten straight sweet sixtees had I not lost last week, Brianna,

2294
02:07:39,280 --> 02:07:43,080
Speaker 2: what my name? And one particular clue is he's gotten

2295
02:07:43,120 --> 02:07:51,160
Speaker 2: to the finals twice but never won. And Chat Holmgren

2296
02:07:51,240 --> 02:07:52,000
Speaker 2: went to that school.

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Speaker 21: Oh golly, Calipari, No, I don't think so well.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna, I'm gonna. I'm gonna my wife's rule and

2299
02:08:01,520 --> 02:08:04,000
Speaker 2: try this. Okay, is it? I'll give you three names?

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02:08:04,240 --> 02:08:09,760
Speaker 2: Is it? Is it John Calipari? Is it Mark Few

2301
02:08:10,800 --> 02:08:11,839
Speaker 2: or is it Mic Cronin?

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Speaker 21: Mick Cronin?

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Speaker 20: Mark, I'm sorry.

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02:08:17,160 --> 02:08:21,240
Speaker 2: Exactly, Mark Fugh yes, it's Mark Gonzaga. And had he

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02:08:21,320 --> 02:08:24,480
Speaker 2: not lost last last week to a tough Houston team,

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02:08:25,080 --> 02:08:28,560
Speaker 2: tough tough Houston team would have been ten Sweet sixteen's

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02:08:28,800 --> 02:08:32,680
Speaker 2: in roll. All right, Well, there are one non non

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Speaker 2: March Madness question for mister Ramsey here. I'm the head

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Speaker 2: coach of an NFC team that had the fewest touchdown

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Speaker 2: passes in twenty twenty four, only fifteen touchdown passes in

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty four. I'm the head coach of that team,

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Speaker 2: mister Ramsey. And here's a clue. It's a team in

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02:08:51,920 --> 02:08:55,200
Speaker 2: the NFC East, Mark Ramsey, what my name?

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02:08:55,800 --> 02:08:58,600
Speaker 21: Please say the question again? This a coach of something?

2315
02:08:58,680 --> 02:09:01,120
Speaker 2: Now, yes, he's a I'm the head coach of an

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02:09:01,280 --> 02:09:06,360
Speaker 2: NFC team that had the fused touchdown passes in twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty four, with fifteen.

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02:09:10,480 --> 02:09:13,320
Speaker 21: A coach a team that can't pass.

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02:09:14,880 --> 02:09:16,080
Speaker 2: Think about it, Think about it.

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Speaker 22: We certainly know it's not the Eagles, right, I'm just

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02:09:21,360 --> 02:09:26,960
Speaker 22: by deliberating. I'm just thinking the Giants didn't do much passing.

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02:09:27,120 --> 02:09:31,400
Speaker 2: Excellent job. Can you get the coach's name? I'll give

2323
02:09:31,400 --> 02:09:35,040
Speaker 2: you the three names. Is it Bill Parcells, Rex Ryan

2324
02:09:35,400 --> 02:09:36,280
Speaker 2: or Brian Dable?

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Speaker 21: How about Brian Dabele.

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Speaker 2: Brian Dabele is a winner. Good job. All right, we

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Speaker 2: go back to March Madness. I to this day am

2328
02:09:47,440 --> 02:09:53,440
Speaker 2: still the all time scoring leader in March Madness. And

2329
02:09:53,680 --> 02:09:58,480
Speaker 2: I'll give you a clue. I was so hated, so

2330
02:09:58,680 --> 02:10:02,920
Speaker 2: hated at ESPN did a thirty for thirty about me.

2331
02:10:03,440 --> 02:10:04,720
Speaker 2: I hate and it was my name.

2332
02:10:04,920 --> 02:10:05,600
Speaker 21: Christian Lehner.

2333
02:10:06,440 --> 02:10:11,240
Speaker 2: Christian Lader is a winner to this stake. Christian Ladner

2334
02:10:11,440 --> 02:10:14,080
Speaker 2: is still hated. All time leading scorer, by the way,

2335
02:10:14,720 --> 02:10:21,360
Speaker 2: uh in March Madness. Okay. As a coach, I've won

2336
02:10:21,760 --> 02:10:25,480
Speaker 2: more games in March Madness history one hundred and one

2337
02:10:26,080 --> 02:10:30,600
Speaker 2: than any other coach in March Madness history. Mark Ramsey.

2338
02:10:30,800 --> 02:10:33,440
Speaker 2: What my name? And here's a clue. He's from the

2339
02:10:33,520 --> 02:10:42,200
Speaker 2: ACC in the state of North Carolina. Is it Roy Williams,

2340
02:10:42,600 --> 02:10:47,800
Speaker 2: Jimmy Valvano or Mike Skrzyzewsky. Mike Krzyzewski is a winner,

2341
02:10:55,280 --> 02:10:59,360
Speaker 2: all right, I was. I'll tell you what. Let's do

2342
02:10:59,440 --> 02:11:03,760
Speaker 2: this one. I didn't even know this till yesterday. I

2343
02:11:04,000 --> 02:11:09,320
Speaker 2: blocked eleven shots in one game in March Madness. It's

2344
02:11:09,480 --> 02:11:14,120
Speaker 2: still an all time record. Here's a clue. Went on

2345
02:11:14,200 --> 02:11:18,160
Speaker 2: to do a great successful NBA career, winning multiple championships

2346
02:11:18,480 --> 02:11:19,840
Speaker 2: with the Lakers, Brianna, what my.

2347
02:11:19,920 --> 02:11:23,720
Speaker 21: Name uh A Lakers of Low Shack.

2348
02:11:24,200 --> 02:11:26,960
Speaker 2: It is, in fact, Shaquille O'Neal. He did it for LSU.

2349
02:11:27,720 --> 02:11:29,640
Speaker 2: He was a beast for LSU back in the day.

2350
02:11:29,960 --> 02:11:34,560
Speaker 2: Doll all right, Mark, I was the basketball coach of

2351
02:11:34,640 --> 02:11:39,200
Speaker 2: the legendary UNLV Running Rebels, their national championship team in

2352
02:11:39,480 --> 02:11:45,040
Speaker 2: nineteen ninety. Mark, what my name is A Jimmy Valvano,

2353
02:11:45,600 --> 02:11:47,560
Speaker 2: Bobby Knight or Jerry Tarkanian?

2354
02:11:48,200 --> 02:11:51,760
Speaker 21: Uh, the person with the towel in his mouth Tarcanian?

2355
02:11:51,960 --> 02:11:53,880
Speaker 2: Nicely done? You remember the towel of the mouth.

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02:11:54,040 --> 02:11:57,240
Speaker 21: Yes, thanks the academy.

2357
02:12:00,280 --> 02:12:04,240
Speaker 2: What a guy. Jerry Tarkanian was amazing. Okay, last one

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02:12:04,320 --> 02:12:08,240
Speaker 2: still with a a march Man Esteam, but we're gonna

2359
02:12:08,240 --> 02:12:13,760
Speaker 2: switch gears just a little bit, okay. I recently became

2360
02:12:13,960 --> 02:12:18,920
Speaker 2: the first Yukon women's basketball player to score forty points

2361
02:12:19,880 --> 02:12:25,160
Speaker 2: in a tournament game. Am I, Diana Tarrossi, Sue Bird

2362
02:12:25,400 --> 02:12:29,120
Speaker 2: or Paige Beckers? Brianna with my name Paige Beckers? It

2363
02:12:29,240 --> 02:12:32,880
Speaker 2: is Paige Beckers. And actually it was just done today.

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Speaker 2: All right, Mark and Brianna, good job good job, and

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Speaker 2: brand new food are you?

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Speaker 5: And what my name?

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Speaker 2: I think it's well deserved. He has fifty four million

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Speaker 2: studios here in a Las Vegas well, Dion Sanders take

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02:14:05,080 --> 02:14:10,480
Speaker 2: a bow. Colorado decided to reach into their pocketbook and

2392
02:14:11,120 --> 02:14:14,880
Speaker 2: give Dion Sanders fifty four million reasons to be happy,

2393
02:14:15,480 --> 02:14:19,280
Speaker 2: very well deserved, I might add, very well deserved, pushing

2394
02:14:19,360 --> 02:14:23,680
Speaker 2: his annual salary past ten million. And he's, you know,

2395
02:14:23,920 --> 02:14:27,400
Speaker 2: now in the elite air of college basket or college

2396
02:14:27,440 --> 02:14:29,840
Speaker 2: football coach is highest wrung in terms of being paid.

2397
02:14:30,960 --> 02:14:33,000
Speaker 2: He'll get ten million for the next two years, eleven

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02:14:33,040 --> 02:14:35,480
Speaker 2: million in twenty seven and twenty eight, and in twelve

2399
02:14:35,520 --> 02:14:38,400
Speaker 2: million and twenty twenty nine, according to the Bowler City Camera.

2400
02:14:40,000 --> 02:14:44,160
Speaker 2: And uh look and Dion, you know, had you know,

2401
02:14:44,240 --> 02:14:47,840
Speaker 2: all the gratuitous comments about developing young man. I'm excited

2402
02:14:47,880 --> 02:14:50,480
Speaker 2: for the opportunity. We got work to do, he knowl

2403
02:14:50,600 --> 02:14:54,120
Speaker 2: Rashador Sanders. He did get a quarterback though, Caden Salder

2404
02:14:54,320 --> 02:14:59,320
Speaker 2: from Liberty. But it's interesting because Sanders enters his third

2405
02:14:59,400 --> 02:15:01,920
Speaker 2: year at Colorad I don't know, after spending three seasons

2406
02:15:01,960 --> 02:15:05,120
Speaker 2: at Jackson State, and the Buffs did improve to nine

2407
02:15:05,160 --> 02:15:09,800
Speaker 2: and four last year, their first winning record since twenty sixteen,

2408
02:15:11,160 --> 02:15:13,760
Speaker 2: and they actually, for a little bit of time there

2409
02:15:13,840 --> 02:15:15,920
Speaker 2: looked like they might make a run at the Big

2410
02:15:16,040 --> 02:15:19,440
Speaker 2: twelve championship game, and they were seven and two in

2411
02:15:19,520 --> 02:15:23,360
Speaker 2: conference play, and give it up, Colorado finished the year

2412
02:15:23,480 --> 02:15:26,280
Speaker 2: ranked in both major polls for the first time in

2413
02:15:27,040 --> 02:15:30,720
Speaker 2: eight years. So, you know, quite a nice ascension from

2414
02:15:31,240 --> 02:15:34,080
Speaker 2: a team that was one and eleven two years ago

2415
02:15:34,120 --> 02:15:36,160
Speaker 2: when Dion took over. He's thirteen and twelve at his

2416
02:15:36,240 --> 02:15:39,440
Speaker 2: time with the buff But Colorado faces a very interesting

2417
02:15:39,560 --> 02:15:45,839
Speaker 2: season again. Shudor Sanders is gone and the Heisman Trophy

2418
02:15:45,880 --> 02:15:51,600
Speaker 2: winner Travis Hunter is gone. And you have to give

2419
02:15:51,680 --> 02:15:54,560
Speaker 2: those two as much or more credit than Dion for

2420
02:15:54,680 --> 02:15:59,880
Speaker 2: Colorado's turnaround, although again, they wouldn't have been there, neither

2421
02:16:00,040 --> 02:16:04,440
Speaker 2: Shador or Travis Hunter without Dion. And it'd be curious

2422
02:16:04,480 --> 02:16:06,840
Speaker 2: to see where I think Travis Hunter would be drafted

2423
02:16:06,880 --> 02:16:09,000
Speaker 2: in the top five. Not sure about Shudor. But we

2424
02:16:09,040 --> 02:16:12,320
Speaker 2: don't need to go down that road again tonight. All right,

2425
02:16:13,240 --> 02:16:16,480
Speaker 2: The Buffs have a lot of holes to fill, they

2426
02:16:16,680 --> 02:16:20,080
Speaker 2: just do. They had a standout wide receiver by the

2427
02:16:20,160 --> 02:16:23,520
Speaker 2: name of Will Sheppard. They had an excellent pass rusher

2428
02:16:23,560 --> 02:16:27,520
Speaker 2: in bj Green, one of their starting safety Shiloh Sanders,

2429
02:16:27,560 --> 02:16:33,080
Speaker 2: another Dion Sons. Those all have to be replaced. Now,

2430
02:16:33,160 --> 02:16:36,119
Speaker 2: there's no question that Dion Sanders is a top recruiter.

2431
02:16:36,920 --> 02:16:41,360
Speaker 2: He's got a magnetic personality. He probably is one of

2432
02:16:41,400 --> 02:16:44,960
Speaker 2: the most effective recruiters in college football, and he very

2433
02:16:45,040 --> 02:16:47,960
Speaker 2: much capitalized on the portal two years ago. When he

2434
02:16:48,000 --> 02:16:52,000
Speaker 2: first arrived in Boulder, he completely overhauled the roster. He

2435
02:16:52,120 --> 02:16:55,600
Speaker 2: brought in a whopping fifty two transfers that included again

2436
02:16:56,440 --> 02:16:59,160
Speaker 2: Shador and Travis Hunter. And even though they had some

2437
02:16:59,280 --> 02:17:03,120
Speaker 2: growing pains or four and eight those core players, a

2438
02:17:03,200 --> 02:17:06,640
Speaker 2: lot of those core players remained not all and that

2439
02:17:06,800 --> 02:17:09,960
Speaker 2: helped Colorado's turn around last year. Sanders went on to

2440
02:17:10,120 --> 02:17:14,320
Speaker 2: sign another forty three transfers ahead of last year's season,

2441
02:17:15,160 --> 02:17:18,160
Speaker 2: and then now when the twenty twenty five winter windows started,

2442
02:17:18,440 --> 02:17:23,720
Speaker 2: Sanders has brought in seventeen more, most notably Liberty's quarterback

2443
02:17:23,840 --> 02:17:27,520
Speaker 2: Cadence Salter. He will apparently be the heir apparent to

2444
02:17:27,680 --> 02:17:31,320
Speaker 2: Shudor Sanders all right, but Dion Is miner Stand has

2445
02:17:31,360 --> 02:17:35,920
Speaker 2: also spent a lot of time recruiting high schools. Remember

2446
02:17:36,000 --> 02:17:38,800
Speaker 2: he made his first big splash at Jackson State back

2447
02:17:38,840 --> 02:17:42,320
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty two, he landed Travis Hunter. There's the

2448
02:17:42,360 --> 02:17:45,920
Speaker 2: first five star prospect to ever sign with an FCS program,

2449
02:17:46,800 --> 02:17:49,800
Speaker 2: and now obviously it worked out very well for him.

2450
02:17:49,879 --> 02:17:51,480
Speaker 2: I think it'd be one of the top five players,

2451
02:17:51,520 --> 02:17:55,440
Speaker 2: probably in the top four. And in twenty twenty four,

2452
02:17:55,720 --> 02:18:00,840
Speaker 2: Dion also signed three top one hundred prospects, including offensive

2453
02:18:00,879 --> 02:18:03,920
Speaker 2: lineman Jordan Seaton, who immediately started a left tackle and

2454
02:18:04,000 --> 02:18:08,400
Speaker 2: improved that offensive line. Now Colorado's twenty twenty five class

2455
02:18:09,840 --> 02:18:14,279
Speaker 2: ranks thirty seventh nationally. It's basically comprised of fourteen recruits.

2456
02:18:14,720 --> 02:18:18,760
Speaker 2: Six of them has have graded out as four star prospects,

2457
02:18:19,840 --> 02:18:22,680
Speaker 2: and the biggest was a gentleman named Lewis. He was

2458
02:18:22,720 --> 02:18:25,120
Speaker 2: a former USC commit, the number ten quarterback of the

2459
02:18:25,160 --> 02:18:27,800
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five class. He'll compete with Salter for the

2460
02:18:27,879 --> 02:18:30,080
Speaker 2: vacant starting job. I believe Salter will win it, But

2461
02:18:30,200 --> 02:18:34,440
Speaker 2: now Dion has some bench strength. Okay, so the truth

2462
02:18:34,480 --> 02:18:36,000
Speaker 2: of the matter is he's got a lot of holes

2463
02:18:36,040 --> 02:18:41,320
Speaker 2: to fill in twenty twenty five. But Dion has already

2464
02:18:41,400 --> 02:18:44,520
Speaker 2: proven he can attract blue chip talent to Boulder Colorado

2465
02:18:44,920 --> 02:18:47,400
Speaker 2: then the program more than the program is honestly seen

2466
02:18:48,120 --> 02:18:50,160
Speaker 2: in I don't know how long since Mike Pritchett was

2467
02:18:50,200 --> 02:18:53,160
Speaker 2: there when they won the national championship thirty years ago.

2468
02:18:54,920 --> 02:18:56,360
Speaker 2: One other thing to note, and I want to give

2469
02:18:56,400 --> 02:18:59,240
Speaker 2: Mike Harmon credit. He was on with Arnie or Arnie

2470
02:18:59,320 --> 02:19:02,760
Speaker 2: was on with him Friday night for breaking this because

2471
02:19:02,800 --> 02:19:07,120
Speaker 2: it was my understanding that the NCAA was not going

2472
02:19:07,200 --> 02:19:12,160
Speaker 2: to even meet on this until April tenth. But Dion

2473
02:19:12,440 --> 02:19:14,880
Speaker 2: is not only having a spring football game when many

2474
02:19:14,920 --> 02:19:18,120
Speaker 2: schools are canceling their string football games because of their

2475
02:19:18,200 --> 02:19:22,000
Speaker 2: fear of injury. It's going to be televised and it'll

2476
02:19:22,000 --> 02:19:25,360
Speaker 2: be a money maker. And if Dion would have gotten

2477
02:19:25,440 --> 02:19:30,200
Speaker 2: his way, he wanted to scrimmage Syracuse, and Syracuse said

2478
02:19:30,200 --> 02:19:34,080
Speaker 2: we'll do it. A Syracuse coach in his second year,

2479
02:19:34,160 --> 02:19:37,640
Speaker 2: Fran Brown, said yeah, we'll come to Boulder, Colorado. But

2480
02:19:37,720 --> 02:19:43,959
Speaker 2: the NCAA has to okay it, excuse me, or we're

2481
02:19:44,000 --> 02:19:45,680
Speaker 2: not gonna be able to do it. Well, it was

2482
02:19:45,760 --> 02:19:47,200
Speaker 2: my understanding and they weren't going to meet on this

2483
02:19:47,320 --> 02:19:51,960
Speaker 2: and make a decision till April tenth. But apparently the

2484
02:19:52,879 --> 02:19:56,400
Speaker 2: FBS Oversight Committee Friday met on this and announced that

2485
02:19:57,400 --> 02:20:00,680
Speaker 2: both Colorado and Syracuse were I had a waiver for

2486
02:20:00,720 --> 02:20:03,440
Speaker 2: a joint spring game, and I think it's a mistake.

2487
02:20:03,959 --> 02:20:07,720
Speaker 2: I think it's a blow to spring football because spring

2488
02:20:07,840 --> 02:20:10,840
Speaker 2: football has going the way of the Dodo Bird, because

2489
02:20:10,920 --> 02:20:13,480
Speaker 2: major schools are canceling their games and coaches want to

2490
02:20:13,480 --> 02:20:16,760
Speaker 2: make it through spring without major injuries and transfer defections.

2491
02:20:16,800 --> 02:20:20,400
Speaker 2: And I don't like it. I mean, I think it's

2492
02:20:20,440 --> 02:20:24,200
Speaker 2: been a part of college football forever. But the NCAA

2493
02:20:24,400 --> 02:20:29,520
Speaker 2: in the reasoning also brought up academic concerns, which they

2494
02:20:29,600 --> 02:20:33,760
Speaker 2: always fall behind. But it's kind of falls on deaf

2495
02:20:33,800 --> 02:20:37,760
Speaker 2: ears because come on, we're in the era of nil

2496
02:20:38,760 --> 02:20:42,600
Speaker 2: landscape and transfer portal and they're really worried about academic

2497
02:20:42,640 --> 02:20:46,120
Speaker 2: concerns all right now. The committee said they would discuss

2498
02:20:46,160 --> 02:20:50,520
Speaker 2: a future meeting and a concept that might permit joint practices,

2499
02:20:51,840 --> 02:20:55,080
Speaker 2: but I hope they do that sooner rather than later. Okay,

2500
02:20:55,800 --> 02:21:02,160
Speaker 2: And Willie Houston's coach, Willie Fritz apparently has now chimed

2501
02:21:02,200 --> 02:21:04,440
Speaker 2: in and said he's been trying to get this idea

2502
02:21:04,480 --> 02:21:07,240
Speaker 2: implemented for years. He wants to compete against other teams

2503
02:21:07,280 --> 02:21:09,920
Speaker 2: in spring ball. He goes, you got a fifty percent

2504
02:21:10,080 --> 02:21:12,840
Speaker 2: less chance of guys getting injured. Quote. I think it'd

2505
02:21:12,879 --> 02:21:14,920
Speaker 2: be something that's neat for the crowd to see. You

2506
02:21:15,000 --> 02:21:19,520
Speaker 2: could probably use to help your collective as well, he says,

2507
02:21:19,520 --> 02:21:21,320
Speaker 2: I think it'd be awesome for both teams. One year

2508
02:21:21,400 --> 02:21:22,800
Speaker 2: they go to your place, next year you go to

2509
02:21:22,840 --> 02:21:25,920
Speaker 2: their place, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. You can't

2510
02:21:25,920 --> 02:21:28,040
Speaker 2: tell me this is a bad idea. Tell me you

2511
02:21:28,080 --> 02:21:31,880
Speaker 2: wouldn't like to see Oklahoma State scrimmage Texas Tech or

2512
02:21:31,959 --> 02:21:35,800
Speaker 2: play Texas Tech and just a controlled spring game, or

2513
02:21:35,879 --> 02:21:38,240
Speaker 2: Texas play Oklahoma or whatever. It doesn't have to be

2514
02:21:38,320 --> 02:21:41,440
Speaker 2: those key matchups. But I give it up to Fran Brown,

2515
02:21:42,440 --> 02:21:44,920
Speaker 2: the head coach at Syracuse, and I certainly give it

2516
02:21:45,000 --> 02:21:47,840
Speaker 2: up to Dion for being innovative. All right. I think

2517
02:21:47,879 --> 02:21:50,680
Speaker 2: it's a good idea. It's an idea whose time might

2518
02:21:50,760 --> 02:21:53,280
Speaker 2: have come. Maybe the NCAA will come around to it

2519
02:21:53,400 --> 02:21:57,640
Speaker 2: at some point. You could even have again, you could

2520
02:21:57,680 --> 02:22:00,960
Speaker 2: televise these. It would be a money making things. And

2521
02:22:01,200 --> 02:22:04,280
Speaker 2: I don't know. Maybe again, they're they're they're worried about lawsuits,

2522
02:22:04,280 --> 02:22:08,240
Speaker 2: they're worried about injuries, and they're doing it for all

2523
02:22:08,280 --> 02:22:11,119
Speaker 2: the wrong reasons. So enough of that. Well, we also

2524
02:22:11,240 --> 02:22:15,680
Speaker 2: cover the other football spelled f ut b o L

2525
02:22:16,520 --> 02:22:18,600
Speaker 2: and there's always news from around the world, especially with

2526
02:22:18,640 --> 02:22:20,400
Speaker 2: the Gold Cup coming up. It's why it's time now

2527
02:22:20,959 --> 02:22:22,200
Speaker 2: Chris Purfett's World of Soccer.

2528
02:22:24,040 --> 02:22:34,600
Speaker 23: The Greatest goals, the thrilling finishes, the international drama.

2529
02:22:39,879 --> 02:22:43,320
Speaker 1: It's all here in this report from the World of Soccer.

2530
02:22:43,879 --> 02:22:46,440
Speaker 24: Before we begin with a battle of two teams in

2531
02:22:46,560 --> 02:22:49,960
Speaker 24: Italy that has been very very interesting to watch, both

2532
02:22:50,080 --> 02:22:53,920
Speaker 24: going a lesson in hubris when it comes to scheduling,

2533
02:22:54,160 --> 02:22:57,359
Speaker 24: especially around one loan superstar.

2534
02:22:58,560 --> 02:23:00,800
Speaker 19: The Columbus Crew decided that they.

2535
02:23:00,800 --> 02:23:04,160
Speaker 24: Would take their game with Enter Miami on April nineteenth,

2536
02:23:04,280 --> 02:23:07,600
Speaker 24: less than a month away, out to Cleveland, taking a

2537
02:23:07,680 --> 02:23:11,880
Speaker 24: game away from the fans in Columbus and moved it

2538
02:23:12,000 --> 02:23:15,360
Speaker 24: out to Huntington Bank Field in Cleveland, the home of

2539
02:23:15,360 --> 02:23:18,880
Speaker 24: the Cleveland Browns, one hundred and fifty miles away, and

2540
02:23:19,040 --> 02:23:21,520
Speaker 24: it is a very attractive game, especially if you are

2541
02:23:21,640 --> 02:23:25,320
Speaker 24: banking on Leonel Messi and a massive Messy turnout sixty

2542
02:23:25,400 --> 02:23:29,640
Speaker 24: seven thousand plus at the venue to draw people in. However,

2543
02:23:30,400 --> 02:23:33,280
Speaker 24: Messi has since the beginning of March been battling more

2544
02:23:33,400 --> 02:23:38,320
Speaker 24: injuries yet again, and so ticket prices are really set

2545
02:23:38,480 --> 02:23:42,480
Speaker 24: to plummet into the ground and then keep going into

2546
02:23:42,520 --> 02:23:45,360
Speaker 24: the mantle of the earth. If Messi does not play

2547
02:23:45,520 --> 02:23:48,800
Speaker 24: in this game and suddenly the Columbus crew are going

2548
02:23:48,840 --> 02:23:50,400
Speaker 24: to have to reckon with the fact that they might

2549
02:23:50,480 --> 02:23:53,120
Speaker 24: be playing not in front of their home crowd, but

2550
02:23:53,320 --> 02:23:57,240
Speaker 24: in a mostly empty NFL stadium. Don't tempt fate by

2551
02:23:57,320 --> 02:24:00,400
Speaker 24: doing these kind of stunts with your regular season. Your

2552
02:24:00,480 --> 02:24:03,640
Speaker 24: fans are loyal in soccer, do not take it away

2553
02:24:03,680 --> 02:24:04,000
Speaker 24: from them.

2554
02:24:04,200 --> 02:24:04,840
Speaker 2: And now to.

2555
02:24:04,920 --> 02:24:08,440
Speaker 24: Europe, with about nine eight matches to go in most

2556
02:24:08,560 --> 02:24:12,280
Speaker 24: domestic leagues out there, the English Premier League is pretty

2557
02:24:12,360 --> 02:24:16,080
Speaker 24: much being sewn up by Liverpool and mostly formalities of

2558
02:24:16,160 --> 02:24:16,480
Speaker 24: the point.

2559
02:24:16,680 --> 02:24:17,280
Speaker 19: But Italy.

2560
02:24:17,600 --> 02:24:21,640
Speaker 24: I love watching Italian soccer and I love catching up

2561
02:24:21,680 --> 02:24:24,400
Speaker 24: on the drama of Siria. We last took to you

2562
02:24:24,480 --> 02:24:29,320
Speaker 24: about a story about Lozzio and their erstwhile falconer.

2563
02:24:29,440 --> 02:24:31,240
Speaker 19: They have since dropped his seventh on the table.

2564
02:24:31,560 --> 02:24:35,280
Speaker 24: But as surprising as Lozzio's falloff has been, even more

2565
02:24:35,320 --> 02:24:38,960
Speaker 24: surprising is probably the story of Aci Milan, one of

2566
02:24:39,000 --> 02:24:42,600
Speaker 24: the old powerhouses of Italian soccer that just a few

2567
02:24:42,680 --> 02:24:45,320
Speaker 24: years ago had won the Scudado and looked like they'd

2568
02:24:45,360 --> 02:24:48,320
Speaker 24: be after the fall of Juventus, trading blows with their

2569
02:24:48,959 --> 02:24:54,240
Speaker 24: in a city rival Internazional for the title. Moving forward, however,

2570
02:24:54,440 --> 02:24:58,640
Speaker 24: down at ninth on the table forty seven points and

2571
02:24:59,640 --> 02:25:02,879
Speaker 24: that would put them about nineteen points out of qualifying

2572
02:25:02,920 --> 02:25:06,960
Speaker 24: for the Champions League and no shot whatsoever to catch Internazia.

2573
02:25:07,000 --> 02:25:10,400
Speaker 24: Now with their sixty four points, they are pretty much

2574
02:25:10,480 --> 02:25:13,879
Speaker 24: out of the competition and it has been a disappointing

2575
02:25:13,920 --> 02:25:16,640
Speaker 24: of disappointing season, and trouble comes from a lot of

2576
02:25:16,680 --> 02:25:20,320
Speaker 24: places where it is Milan it Poulasich has been doing

2577
02:25:20,440 --> 02:25:24,440
Speaker 24: fairly well, but long time has he been battling fairly injuries.

2578
02:25:24,720 --> 02:25:29,600
Speaker 24: Another American, Unis Munsa, has been basically invisible for Milan.

2579
02:25:30,160 --> 02:25:34,119
Speaker 24: Tammy Abraham, on loan from Roma, should be really entering

2580
02:25:34,240 --> 02:25:37,480
Speaker 24: his prime, but we haven't really seen the production that

2581
02:25:37,520 --> 02:25:41,120
Speaker 24: he was famous for at Roma turning into goals. They've

2582
02:25:41,120 --> 02:25:44,640
Speaker 24: already sacked in one manager, Pallo Fonseega, back in December,

2583
02:25:45,000 --> 02:25:49,160
Speaker 24: and his replacement, Sergio Kunzikau, has really not done much

2584
02:25:49,200 --> 02:25:52,000
Speaker 24: in ending up and claiming fewer points per game than

2585
02:25:52,040 --> 02:25:55,320
Speaker 24: his predecessor has and of course we've had multiple times

2586
02:25:55,440 --> 02:25:58,000
Speaker 24: where the pitch has been invaded by supporters and ultras

2587
02:25:58,280 --> 02:26:02,040
Speaker 24: taking their anger out on the players for lack of performance,

2588
02:26:02,280 --> 02:26:04,160
Speaker 24: and a lot of this just ultimately comes down to

2589
02:26:04,320 --> 02:26:07,360
Speaker 24: more than anything, it seems lackadaisical ownership. But the question

2590
02:26:07,560 --> 02:26:10,039
Speaker 24: is can they get any of their pride and can

2591
02:26:10,120 --> 02:26:16,200
Speaker 24: they stop another club from challenging Inter Enternopoli Napoli, champions

2592
02:26:16,200 --> 02:26:20,280
Speaker 24: two years ago, will be hosting Milan on Sunday two

2593
02:26:20,440 --> 02:26:24,400
Speaker 24: forty five Eastern Time on Paramount Plus and it should

2594
02:26:24,440 --> 02:26:27,320
Speaker 24: be one hell of a showdown. Napoli sits just three

2595
02:26:27,480 --> 02:26:30,800
Speaker 24: points behind Inter and is still trying to keep pace

2596
02:26:31,160 --> 02:26:34,640
Speaker 24: with the other Milanese club and has plenty on their

2597
02:26:34,760 --> 02:26:37,640
Speaker 24: side that they want to do, but ultimately, at the

2598
02:26:37,720 --> 02:26:41,279
Speaker 24: end of the day, they have been plagued by setbacks

2599
02:26:41,560 --> 02:26:44,600
Speaker 24: in a growing injury list. This all of course on

2600
02:26:44,760 --> 02:26:47,160
Speaker 24: top of the fact that one of their great stars

2601
02:26:47,240 --> 02:26:50,960
Speaker 24: of their scudetto push two years ago, Kavark Shelia, is

2602
02:26:51,040 --> 02:26:55,240
Speaker 24: no longer with the club being transferred to Paris SA Germain.

2603
02:26:55,520 --> 02:26:58,360
Speaker 24: Their other great star from that run, Victor Osiman, is

2604
02:26:58,480 --> 02:27:01,680
Speaker 24: on loan with the Turkish side Galatasara. All in all,

2605
02:27:01,760 --> 02:27:05,400
Speaker 24: it's resulted in some terrible, terrible luck down the stretch

2606
02:27:05,879 --> 02:27:10,280
Speaker 24: and terrible circumstances, as Napoli has won just one of

2607
02:27:10,400 --> 02:27:15,120
Speaker 24: their last seven Siria matches, really dropping the ball in

2608
02:27:15,360 --> 02:27:18,840
Speaker 24: any kind of steeple chase with Inter. The good news

2609
02:27:18,920 --> 02:27:22,320
Speaker 24: for Nopoly is their manager remains defiant. Even though the

2610
02:27:22,600 --> 02:27:25,080
Speaker 24: computers out there give them only about a seventeen percent

2611
02:27:25,240 --> 02:27:26,720
Speaker 24: chance to win the title.

2612
02:27:26,760 --> 02:27:28,720
Speaker 19: Antonio Conte is trying to.

2613
02:27:28,840 --> 02:27:31,240
Speaker 24: Urge his team onward and ultimately, at the end of

2614
02:27:31,240 --> 02:27:35,400
Speaker 24: the day, Napoli is receiving a fantastic, aged and well

2615
02:27:35,520 --> 02:27:40,640
Speaker 24: seasoned and possibly final season from star Romulu Lukaku, who

2616
02:27:40,760 --> 02:27:44,360
Speaker 24: told Press earlier, who told Press this week that he

2617
02:27:44,560 --> 02:27:47,120
Speaker 24: is already eyeing retirement and he thinks he wants to

2618
02:27:47,200 --> 02:27:50,040
Speaker 24: be a coach. He still has a few doubts, but

2619
02:27:50,680 --> 02:27:52,960
Speaker 24: it's clear that the thirty one year old Belgian is

2620
02:27:53,080 --> 02:27:55,200
Speaker 24: starting to think about the next phase of his life.

2621
02:27:55,760 --> 02:27:57,640
Speaker 24: Either way, there should be one hell of a match.

2622
02:27:57,680 --> 02:28:00,400
Speaker 24: It's the match I'm watching on Sunday, Bernie. We'll see

2623
02:28:00,400 --> 02:28:02,320
Speaker 24: you next time on the World of Soccer.

2624
02:28:04,040 --> 02:28:07,000
Speaker 2: All right, So look, there's always soccer in the news

2625
02:28:07,080 --> 02:28:09,920
Speaker 2: and things will really heat up next year with a

2626
02:28:10,000 --> 02:28:13,840
Speaker 2: World Cup returning and Google Cup upon us. And there

2627
02:28:13,920 --> 02:28:18,120
Speaker 2: you have it. Chris Purfett's World of Soccer coming up.

2628
02:28:18,160 --> 02:28:21,440
Speaker 2: We wrap up the show. We look ahead later today

2629
02:28:21,560 --> 02:28:24,280
Speaker 2: to two epic matchups. The first one will tip off

2630
02:28:24,280 --> 02:28:25,760
Speaker 2: in about eight and a half hours. Should be a

2631
02:28:25,800 --> 02:28:29,240
Speaker 2: defensive slugfest between Tennessee and Houston. Give you my thoughts

2632
02:28:29,280 --> 02:28:31,560
Speaker 2: in at Michigan State and Auburn. And oh, by the way,

2633
02:28:31,640 --> 02:28:35,440
Speaker 2: the irrepressible Aaron Rodgers. He has one other option that

2634
02:28:35,560 --> 02:28:38,680
Speaker 2: hasn't been talked about much yet and he is not

2635
02:28:39,040 --> 02:28:41,200
Speaker 2: ruling it out, which I don't believe in a million years.

2636
02:28:41,240 --> 02:28:44,280
Speaker 2: By the way, Tractor Supply knows that a winning season

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Speaker 2: takes practice. Team working a can do attitude. Thankfully, when

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Speaker 2: you have a neighbor like Tractor Supply, teamwork comes easy.

2639
02:28:50,680 --> 02:28:53,640
Speaker 2: Whether you're caring for pets, chickens or a few acres.

2640
02:28:54,160 --> 02:28:56,480
Speaker 2: Our team members will help he succeeds. He's an after

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Speaker 2: we wrap up the show and we got a couple

2649
02:29:22,200 --> 02:29:24,760
Speaker 2: of bits of business left. I'm Bernie fraddlework coming to

2650
02:29:24,760 --> 02:29:28,000
Speaker 2: you live from the Las Vegas Fox Sports Radio Tarrat

2651
02:29:28,040 --> 02:29:29,680
Speaker 2: dot com studios. Keep it locked. You're listening to the

2652
02:29:29,720 --> 02:29:34,720
Speaker 2: Bernie Fraddle Show at Fox Sports Radio. All right, we're

2653
02:29:34,720 --> 02:29:37,120
Speaker 2: wrapping it up on the Bernie Fraddle Show, Fox Sports Radio.

2654
02:29:37,200 --> 02:29:39,080
Speaker 2: Come to your line from the Tarat dot com studios

2655
02:29:39,080 --> 02:29:41,480
Speaker 2: here in Las Vegas. For go any further. I want

2656
02:29:41,480 --> 02:29:44,640
Speaker 2: to thank my producers, Mark and Brianna turning all the dials,

2657
02:29:44,720 --> 02:29:47,240
Speaker 2: keeping us glued together, brand new fool what my name,

2658
02:29:48,160 --> 02:29:51,440
Speaker 2: managing the calls, a tome clock everything. Thanks for all

2659
02:29:51,680 --> 02:29:54,720
Speaker 2: of your efforts. And before I get to my look

2660
02:29:54,760 --> 02:29:58,640
Speaker 2: ahead to the games later today, one will tip off

2661
02:29:58,680 --> 02:30:01,680
Speaker 2: in about eight hours and twenty minutes. Just okay, Aaron

2662
02:30:01,760 --> 02:30:06,320
Speaker 2: Rodgers ever so quickly. They had Russell Wilson last year Pittsburgh,

2663
02:30:06,440 --> 02:30:08,960
Speaker 2: they might have Aaron Rodgers this year. You might be

2664
02:30:09,040 --> 02:30:12,960
Speaker 2: interested to know that their numbers are eerily similar. In

2665
02:30:13,040 --> 02:30:17,240
Speaker 2: the last three years, Rogers had a one lost record

2666
02:30:17,280 --> 02:30:21,200
Speaker 2: of fourteen and twenty one, Russell Wilson's seventeen and twenty four.

2667
02:30:21,640 --> 02:30:25,480
Speaker 2: Both completed about sixty three percent of their passes. Rogers

2668
02:30:25,560 --> 02:30:27,720
Speaker 2: threw for about two hundred and sixteen yards a game,

2669
02:30:28,200 --> 02:30:32,240
Speaker 2: Russell to twenty one. Rogers threw fifty four touchdown passes

2670
02:30:32,800 --> 02:30:37,000
Speaker 2: against twenty three interceptions, Russell Wilson fifty eight touchdown passes

2671
02:30:37,760 --> 02:30:43,279
Speaker 2: against twenty four interceptions. Both passer ratings were similar, Russell

2672
02:30:43,280 --> 02:30:47,880
Speaker 2: Wilson's ninety two and Rogers ninety point seven, so that

2673
02:30:48,200 --> 02:30:50,040
Speaker 2: in the fifty cents will get you a cup of

2674
02:30:50,080 --> 02:30:54,439
Speaker 2: coffee at Burger Chef. By the way, according to Ian Rappaport,

2675
02:30:54,520 --> 02:30:58,600
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers still considering one surprising option, even though the

2676
02:30:58,640 --> 02:31:02,360
Speaker 2: Steelers are establish themselves as an overwhelming favorite to sign

2677
02:31:02,520 --> 02:31:08,400
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers with Russell Wilson no longer available. At one point,

2678
02:31:08,560 --> 02:31:10,880
Speaker 2: Rogers had offered some the Steelers and Giants. The Giants

2679
02:31:10,920 --> 02:31:13,680
Speaker 2: didn't sign Wilson, they signed Jameis Winston, and they gave

2680
02:31:13,720 --> 02:31:16,400
Speaker 2: Wilson twenty one million dollars. Okay, So I don't think

2681
02:31:16,440 --> 02:31:19,840
Speaker 2: I see Rogers in New York anytime soon. According to

2682
02:31:19,840 --> 02:31:23,400
Speaker 2: Ian Rappaport, he said, Coody will not rule out Rogers retiring,

2683
02:31:24,480 --> 02:31:27,360
Speaker 2: not buying it. You might not rule it out. You

2684
02:31:27,480 --> 02:31:30,320
Speaker 2: might not rule out, you know, being lead singer for

2685
02:31:30,400 --> 02:31:33,160
Speaker 2: led Zeppelin too. That doesn't mean it's gonna happen. So

2686
02:31:33,520 --> 02:31:35,640
Speaker 2: we will see. I guess anything can happen until Rogers

2687
02:31:35,720 --> 02:31:40,240
Speaker 2: actually signs a contract, which doesn't appear to be anytime soon.

2688
02:31:40,400 --> 02:31:42,720
Speaker 2: Rogers does things at his pace. If you don't know

2689
02:31:42,800 --> 02:31:44,480
Speaker 2: this by now, you haven't been paying attention for the

2690
02:31:44,560 --> 02:31:47,600
Speaker 2: last four years. But be that as it may, I digress.

2691
02:31:47,680 --> 02:31:50,200
Speaker 2: We shall see what we shall see. All right, it's

2692
02:31:50,240 --> 02:31:52,200
Speaker 2: been a chock tournament. The question is will it be

2693
02:31:52,280 --> 02:31:56,000
Speaker 2: four number one seeds as there have been only one

2694
02:31:56,040 --> 02:31:59,200
Speaker 2: other time to have punched their ticket. Duke is in.

2695
02:31:59,400 --> 02:32:04,840
Speaker 2: I talked about their dominance in my opening monologue and

2696
02:32:05,120 --> 02:32:09,600
Speaker 2: uh uh, And you know you've got a situation now

2697
02:32:09,600 --> 02:32:15,040
Speaker 2: where by by the way, Florida's in as well. You

2698
02:32:15,080 --> 02:32:17,480
Speaker 2: know you got a situation. You got a situation where

2699
02:32:19,200 --> 02:32:21,440
Speaker 2: you've got a one versus two Sunday and another one

2700
02:32:21,560 --> 02:32:25,040
Speaker 2: versus two Sunday, and I'm gonna start with Houston Tennessee.

2701
02:32:26,360 --> 02:32:32,080
Speaker 2: Purdue really gave Tennessee check that. Purdue really gave Houston's

2702
02:32:32,160 --> 02:32:35,600
Speaker 2: defense their toughest test the season, I believe, and they

2703
02:32:35,680 --> 02:32:38,760
Speaker 2: kept it very close. He was tied with one second

2704
02:32:38,840 --> 02:32:41,959
Speaker 2: left or two sec whatever it was, and Kelvin Samson

2705
02:32:42,040 --> 02:32:45,560
Speaker 2: ran that brilliant inbounds play and Houston got it done

2706
02:32:45,800 --> 02:32:49,720
Speaker 2: and they fall just short of a massive upset Perdue did.

2707
02:32:50,720 --> 02:32:55,640
Speaker 2: The question is do the Houston Cougars take confidence from

2708
02:32:55,680 --> 02:32:58,240
Speaker 2: their ability to close out a nail better game like that,

2709
02:32:58,720 --> 02:33:01,920
Speaker 2: or because it show enough crack on the armor and

2710
02:33:02,120 --> 02:33:06,760
Speaker 2: vulnerability for a very talented Tennessee team to see an opportunity.

2711
02:33:07,879 --> 02:33:10,440
Speaker 2: The Valls plays some pretty damn good defense of their own.

2712
02:33:11,280 --> 02:33:15,520
Speaker 2: They beat a solid Kentucky team by thirteen. Kentucky had

2713
02:33:15,520 --> 02:33:19,600
Speaker 2: beaten Tennessee twice during the course of the year, and

2714
02:33:20,440 --> 02:33:25,160
Speaker 2: Tennessee has three senior guards that combined for fifty one points.

2715
02:33:25,400 --> 02:33:29,080
Speaker 2: It's the Guy Ziggler, Chanslanir and Jordan Guiney. And oh,

2716
02:33:29,200 --> 02:33:33,400
Speaker 2: by the way, the defense held the Kentucky Wildcats to

2717
02:33:33,440 --> 02:33:38,880
Speaker 2: their lowest point total since early December, so Tennessee is

2718
02:33:38,920 --> 02:33:42,320
Speaker 2: a rolling There are three and a half point underdog

2719
02:33:42,600 --> 02:33:47,760
Speaker 2: to Houston, and I pooh, I'm not touching this game

2720
02:33:47,800 --> 02:33:50,440
Speaker 2: with a ten foot pole, and I'm not predicting this,

2721
02:33:50,720 --> 02:33:55,360
Speaker 2: but it would not surprise me if Houston went down Sunday.

2722
02:33:55,760 --> 02:33:58,520
Speaker 2: I'm not predicting it, but what I am predicting, And

2723
02:33:58,600 --> 02:34:05,119
Speaker 2: you may think I'm crazy. I think Michigan State's beaten Auburn. Look,

2724
02:34:06,400 --> 02:34:12,879
Speaker 2: Auburn's got Auburn's really good. Okay, they got four volume

2725
02:34:13,000 --> 02:34:16,800
Speaker 2: three point shooters Denver Jones, Miles Kelly, Chad Baker, massar

2726
02:34:16,879 --> 02:34:21,480
Speaker 2: Into Hot Pettiford. They're all shooting thirty seven percent or

2727
02:34:21,600 --> 02:34:25,520
Speaker 2: better from the arc. Right. There's a reason Auburn was

2728
02:34:25,600 --> 02:34:29,160
Speaker 2: considered the number one team in the country much of

2729
02:34:29,240 --> 02:34:33,280
Speaker 2: the season, and you could see it. The Tigers completely

2730
02:34:33,360 --> 02:34:36,560
Speaker 2: flipped the game on Michigan's head late in the second

2731
02:34:36,600 --> 02:34:39,760
Speaker 2: half Friday night. It was a close, tough, hard fought game,

2732
02:34:40,080 --> 02:34:43,240
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden, Auburn found that other gear

2733
02:34:43,760 --> 02:34:49,680
Speaker 2: that clearly Michigan didn't have. And why Because Auburn's got

2734
02:34:50,640 --> 02:34:53,600
Speaker 2: guards who are shot makers. They can create for themselves,

2735
02:34:54,120 --> 02:34:57,519
Speaker 2: and Bruce Pearl does give them the freedom and autonomy

2736
02:34:58,560 --> 02:35:02,680
Speaker 2: to create for themselves. They've also got size on the paint.

2737
02:35:03,320 --> 02:35:05,640
Speaker 2: They got tall guys and they got big, thick guys,

2738
02:35:06,200 --> 02:35:09,640
Speaker 2: including a power forward in Jenni Broom, who I think

2739
02:35:09,760 --> 02:35:13,720
Speaker 2: will give MSUs big men as much of a test

2740
02:35:13,800 --> 02:35:20,680
Speaker 2: as is anything they have seen all season. Now, you

2741
02:35:20,840 --> 02:35:24,200
Speaker 2: did beat Old miss and I have nothing but respect

2742
02:35:24,280 --> 02:35:28,440
Speaker 2: for Old MISSUS coach Chris Beard. He's an absolute defensive wizard.

2743
02:35:28,920 --> 02:35:33,000
Speaker 2: They're tenacious, they're disciplined, they communicate, they switch, they make

2744
02:35:33,120 --> 02:35:35,960
Speaker 2: nothing easy. They get into the shooter, they bother you.

2745
02:35:36,400 --> 02:35:39,200
Speaker 2: There are no free catches in space. They can test everything.

2746
02:35:39,480 --> 02:35:43,600
Speaker 2: They have relentless energy. But Michigan State had better pieces

2747
02:35:44,200 --> 02:35:50,760
Speaker 2: and more depth than Old miss. The question is does

2748
02:35:50,879 --> 02:35:53,920
Speaker 2: Auburn have better pieces than Michigan State. I am not

2749
02:35:54,120 --> 02:35:58,119
Speaker 2: saying they have more depth. I am saying they might

2750
02:35:58,200 --> 02:36:04,040
Speaker 2: have better pieces. Michigan State's outside shooting in the NCAA

2751
02:36:04,120 --> 02:36:08,120
Speaker 2: Tournament is basically in line with their season numbers. They're

2752
02:36:08,200 --> 02:36:12,440
Speaker 2: not great, not horrible, but not great. They're shooting twenty

2753
02:36:12,480 --> 02:36:15,480
Speaker 2: to sixty one from threes from three point the arc.

2754
02:36:16,040 --> 02:36:19,360
Speaker 2: That's just under thirty three percent. Their free throw shoot

2755
02:36:19,480 --> 02:36:22,640
Speaker 2: numbers are solid, they're seventy five percent and they get

2756
02:36:22,720 --> 02:36:26,320
Speaker 2: to the line. Okay, they made nineteen of twenty two

2757
02:36:26,400 --> 02:36:32,280
Speaker 2: free throws against Mississippi on Friday, and Michigan State does

2758
02:36:32,720 --> 02:36:40,120
Speaker 2: I believe legitimately go ten deep. All right, But you've

2759
02:36:40,160 --> 02:36:46,440
Speaker 2: got two superb, superb coaches, okay, in Bruce Perrow and

2760
02:36:47,080 --> 02:36:50,640
Speaker 2: Tom Izel. But I'm always going to side with tom Izzo.

2761
02:36:52,920 --> 02:36:56,440
Speaker 2: I get that the Spartans at times very much struggle

2762
02:36:56,480 --> 02:37:00,280
Speaker 2: with Old miss and they had you know, the they're

2763
02:37:00,280 --> 02:37:04,199
Speaker 2: relying on their freshman Jason Richardson, who is the son

2764
02:37:05,360 --> 02:37:10,480
Speaker 2: of Jason Richardson, who was you know, a key cog

2765
02:37:10,720 --> 02:37:15,640
Speaker 2: in tom Izzo's only championship in two thousand when they

2766
02:37:15,720 --> 02:37:18,520
Speaker 2: beat a very good Florida team with Teddy Dupey and

2767
02:37:19,480 --> 02:37:25,200
Speaker 2: Mike Miller and you Donnas Haslam. And you know, the

2768
02:37:25,320 --> 02:37:29,120
Speaker 2: thing you have to watch here is Michigan State has

2769
02:37:29,440 --> 02:37:33,520
Speaker 2: shown a great propensity to be able to rally from

2770
02:37:33,600 --> 02:37:37,200
Speaker 2: second half deficits. Okay, they did it all year during

2771
02:37:37,200 --> 02:37:39,840
Speaker 2: their run of the Big Ten regular season title, and

2772
02:37:39,959 --> 02:37:42,920
Speaker 2: they did it in the tournament too. You saw they

2773
02:37:42,959 --> 02:37:48,599
Speaker 2: had that they had a reasonable deficit to overcome against Mississippi,

2774
02:37:48,680 --> 02:37:52,320
Speaker 2: this happens. Sometimes they start slow, but that's not about luck,

2775
02:37:53,440 --> 02:37:57,439
Speaker 2: and that's about the Spartan's depth. They have a tremendous

2776
02:37:57,440 --> 02:38:00,600
Speaker 2: physical style that wears down opponents, and they have a

2777
02:38:00,680 --> 02:38:02,960
Speaker 2: Hall of fame coaching. Tom Is though that always seems

2778
02:38:03,000 --> 02:38:09,119
Speaker 2: to me to manage in making the right in game adjustments. Now,

2779
02:38:10,080 --> 02:38:13,000
Speaker 2: I certainly like the points which you can stay catching

2780
02:38:13,320 --> 02:38:19,200
Speaker 2: five and a half, but I think Michigan State wins outright.

2781
02:38:19,320 --> 02:38:22,200
Speaker 2: So I think the Houston Tennessee game was a toss up.

2782
02:38:23,040 --> 02:38:26,320
Speaker 2: I think Michigan State wins outright. And of course, let's

2783
02:38:26,400 --> 02:38:29,240
Speaker 2: not forget two teams have already secured a spot in

2784
02:38:29,320 --> 02:38:33,640
Speaker 2: San Antonio for the Final four, and later on today

2785
02:38:33,680 --> 02:38:36,440
Speaker 2: they'll find out who their semi final opponents are. And

2786
02:38:36,760 --> 02:38:39,800
Speaker 2: it's you know, it's maybe not been a sensational tournament

2787
02:38:39,800 --> 02:38:43,720
Speaker 2: because there's no, you know, not as many buzzer beaters,

2788
02:38:43,760 --> 02:38:46,000
Speaker 2: maybe one I can count and certainly know Cindereo's, but

2789
02:38:46,040 --> 02:38:50,200
Speaker 2: it's been some pretty damn good, high level, intense, competitive basketball.

2790
02:38:50,520 --> 02:38:53,240
Speaker 2: And you're gonna see it in about eight hours here

2791
02:38:53,320 --> 02:38:55,560
Speaker 2: between Houston and Tennessee, and in three hours after that

2792
02:38:56,080 --> 02:38:58,120
Speaker 2: between Auburn and Michigan state. It's gonna do it for

2793
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Speaker 2: the Bernie Fratterle Show. See it next Saturday at eleven pm. Meantime,

2794
02:39:01,680 --> 02:39:04,160
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