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Speaker 2: We break some ground tonight, beginning with the AFC West odds,

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Speaker 2: It's it's gonna be lit. But we are in the

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Speaker 2: is gonna get real. Teams are back in action. There's

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Speaker 2: been some great series the last two days. Marlin's, Orioles, Diamondbacks,

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Speaker 2: thirteen to twelve tonight someone missed an extra point. Finally,

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Speaker 2: we've got the remainder of July, August and September, so

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Speaker 2: maybe a little less forst and foremost Shoheo Tani, most

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Speaker 2: Surely you jes no, don't call me. Surely, and yes

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Speaker 2: it's possible. Steve Cohen said he'd had about enough. He

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Speaker 2: This is a beauty of baseball. Sparky Anderson said it best.

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Speaker 2: It's a marathon, great evening out process. One hundred and

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Speaker 2: doings this week in college football. You heard what happened

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Speaker 2: Come you Live from me Tyra dot com studios. In

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Speaker 2: the last ten days, two major stories in the world

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Speaker 2: of college sports, The case of Northwestern very messy. The

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Speaker 4: So Bernie, It's funny that you frame it that way.

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Speaker 4: I was telling my wife about three or four days

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Speaker 2: In this case, let's come in the back door and

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Speaker 2: Under the contract Huggins signed in twenty twenty one, there's

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Speaker 4: Now again, I think he's arguing I never really resigned.

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Speaker 2: I've ever heard, believe it or not. I think he's

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Speaker 4: to be brief here, Bernie, I know you know it,

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Speaker 4: Nothing changed, no facts change. And that's why I think

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Speaker 4: I think Pat Fitzgerald is going to fight this thing

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Speaker 4: So I think it's an interesting conversation about what a

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Speaker 2: Have been fired. It's interesting. So the president of Northwestern,

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Speaker 2: If he didn't know, he should have known. Here's where

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Speaker 4: I think they eventually settled on something. I mean, the

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Speaker 2: Oh, there's no question, and I think you nail it

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Speaker 2: So this story is far from over. I know that

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Speaker 2: There's a definite nexus between those two. Final thing on

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Speaker 4: I think it's just hard to just go into retirement

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Speaker 4: You know, he went through a divorce. You know the cliches,

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Speaker 4: I just I don't think most of these guys, when

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Speaker 4: you've been doing something, when you've been putting in twenty

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Speaker 4: hour days since you were twenty one twenty two years old,

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Speaker 4: I think it's hard to just step away and be

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Speaker 4: totally content. I mean, I don't go along here. But

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Speaker 4: as an example, even Bob Stoops he stepped away and

435
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Speaker 4: said the grind was too much for him. Well, what

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Speaker 4: a Bob Stoops do this summer? Who's coaching the XFL.

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Speaker 4: So I think that Itch is always going to be there.

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Speaker 4: And whether he really wants this job or not, I

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Speaker 4: know he said when LSU fired him that he was

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Speaker 4: done in coaching. I don't think I believe it.

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Speaker 2: Good stuff, Aaron, get some rest.

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Speaker 4: Buddy, all right, thank you, Barny, I have a grady.

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Speaker 4: They have a great rest of the show.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Aaron. Taurus are college guru. And look, I believe

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Speaker 2: that Ordron has interest. Do I know for sure? No?

446
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Speaker 2: But I think he just ran up the flagpole. See

447
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Speaker 2: if I onny of it had saluted. Do I think

448
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Speaker 2: it'll happen? Probably not? But man, I love the seat.

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Speaker 2: I love Coacho. Everybody loves Coacho, trust me, especially the

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Speaker 2: players who played for him. Another guy everybody loves. Do

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Speaker 2: I think he's going to be traded. No, but if

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Speaker 2: he is, there are only five teams I think they

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Speaker 2: could possibly make sense. We'll dive into that in just

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Speaker 2: a second, but first it's going our guy Steve the

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Speaker 2: Seger with the latest.

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Speaker 7: You're talking about me here? What trade rumers?

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Speaker 2: Why No, you're untradeable, my friend, we don't want to

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Speaker 2: trade you.

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Speaker 7: I'm not sure about that either.

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Speaker 8: Well, let's get to the baseball and it was an

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Speaker 8: incredible final game tonight on the schedule in the Major

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Speaker 8: leagues in Anaheim, Angels with a comeback ten inning victory

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Speaker 8: over Houston thirteen to twelve. Got three runs bottom of

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Speaker 8: the ninth to tie that included a Shoheo Tani home

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Speaker 8: run is thirty third to lead the Majors. The game

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Speaker 8: winning run in the ten scored on a throwing air.

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Speaker 8: Yankees were up six to one in the second inning

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Speaker 8: at Colorado and beat the Rocky six to three. Gen

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Speaker 8: Carlos Stanton a three run homer. He's betting two thirteen

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Speaker 8: Detroit one at Seattle six nothing, holding the MS offense

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Speaker 8: to three for twenty eight with twelve strikeouts. Milwaukee's first

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Speaker 8: in the NL Central game over the red shutout Cincinnati

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Speaker 8: again three nothing held the Reds to one hit for Milwaukee.

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Speaker 8: That's three straight shutout wins this past week. Minnesota lone

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Speaker 8: and first in the AL Central game and a half

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Speaker 8: over Cleveland. Minnesota won at Oakland ten to seven. A's

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Speaker 8: have lost six in a row. Attendance there today was

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Speaker 8: ten thousand. Baltimore won at seventh straight six ' five

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Speaker 8: over Miami despite the four hits from Luis Aarriaz to

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Speaker 8: the Marlins, who's batting three eighty six. White Sox held

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Speaker 8: on for a win at Atlanta six to five, beating

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Speaker 8: All Star pitcher Spencer Strider, who was eleven and two.

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Speaker 8: Ronald Acunya hit two home runs in the loss. Dodgers

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Speaker 8: won their sixth in a row. Giants won their fourth straight.

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Speaker 8: Toronto beat Arizona five two, so the Diamondbacks now two

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Speaker 8: games back of the first place Dodgers in the NL West.

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Speaker 8: Wins today for the Cubs and Texas, Washington and Saint

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Speaker 8: Louis split a doubleheader. Tampa Bay won two at Kansas

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Speaker 8: City and Philadelphia, swept a twin bill against the Padres.

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Speaker 8: Rory McElroy leads the Scottish Open by one stroke going

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Speaker 8: into the final round. He'll tee off in about an

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Speaker 8: hour and a half. Overseas, Steph Curry leads the Celebrity

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Speaker 8: Golf Tournament in Lake Tahoe. The Wimbledon Men's Final is.

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Speaker 7: At nine a m.

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Speaker 8: Eastern time. It'll be number two Novak Djokovic against number

496
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Speaker 8: one seed Carlos Alcarez. The ladies champions Marquette van Drusiva

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Speaker 8: the first unseated woman to take the title there. On

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Speaker 8: the women's side, she won six four to sixty four

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Speaker 8: over On Shibor, who's now lost three Grand Slam finals

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Speaker 8: in roughly the last one year. She defeated three top

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Speaker 8: ten opponents to get to this final. And Yes, Vegas

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Speaker 8: did have the WNBA All Star Game tonight. Brianna Stewart's

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Speaker 8: team one game MVP Jewel Lloyd thirty one points. Nearly

504
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Speaker 8: every shot she took was a three point attempt. She

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Speaker 8: was ten of twenty one from long distance.

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Speaker 2: Back to you, Steve, quickly your thoughts on Shohei Otani.

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Speaker 2: Put on your general manager Cap would you trade Otani or.

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Speaker 8: Not tonight if they had lost a game like tonight's.

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Speaker 8: In other words, continuing the wretched couple of weeks that

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Speaker 8: the Angels have had, then we're still on the path

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Speaker 8: to trading him by the time we get to the deadline,

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Speaker 8: which is only two and a half weeks away. This

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Speaker 8: ended a six game losing streak, this Halo's victory tonight.

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Speaker 8: I don't see if you have instead of a bad

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Speaker 8: two weeks, a bad four weeks to the deadline. I

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Speaker 8: don't see how you can live with yourself as a

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Speaker 8: front office person by having this bad a tanking.

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Speaker 7: And I don't mean on purpose.

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Speaker 8: I just mean their season is done after a stretch

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Speaker 8: like this, and not get something for Otani because clearly

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Speaker 8: he would not be returning to a franchise like this.

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Speaker 2: So let me run this by you because I had

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Speaker 2: kind of a brain cramp the other night. Remember what

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Speaker 2: the Cubs did in twenty sixteen. They traded for Eraaldus Chapman,

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Speaker 2: The Yankees let them go, The Cubs win the World Series.

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Speaker 2: Then in free agency, the Yankees sign eraalas Chapman back

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Speaker 2: and as part of the Hall they got they even

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Speaker 2: got glabor Taurus, which was probably the Cub's best prospect

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Speaker 2: at the time. Could the Angels dare they consider a

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Speaker 2: maneuver like that where they trade Otani get the best

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Speaker 2: haul they can, but then go back in free agency

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Speaker 2: and try to resign him.

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Speaker 8: They would try to resign him, certainly, as they would

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Speaker 8: even if they hold on to him, try to resign it.

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Speaker 8: The bad news is is Mike Trout's track record, for example,

536
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Speaker 8: as the star of the Angels for the last well

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Speaker 8: over a decade, how many players as he won?

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Speaker 7: The answer is zero.

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Speaker 8: It's not that O'tani can't make the playoffs there You

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Speaker 8: just know, as JD. Martinez said when he joined the Dodgers,

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Speaker 8: I'm here because you guys are always in it. You

542
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Speaker 8: guys are always having the chance for the thing that

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Speaker 8: I want. And that's why he and now he's an

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Speaker 8: All Star DH this year as a Dodger. That's why

545
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Speaker 8: he went to that place, chose that place. And I

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Speaker 8: remember that the Dodgers when Otani was first coming over

547
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Speaker 8: here at a younger age to the major leagues, the

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Speaker 8: Dodgers made a big stink of having Kershaw there present

549
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Speaker 8: and trying to convince him, and they had their meetings

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Speaker 8: with him, but there was no DH in the National

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Speaker 8: League back then. I don't think the Dodgers had a

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Speaker 8: realistic chance at all to get him back then. They

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Speaker 8: do now.

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Speaker 2: No, it's very true. All right, good stuff, Steve. I

555
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Speaker 2: you know, every time I think about this, the Bunyan's

556
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Speaker 2: act up. I just I just can't see them trading him.

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Speaker 2: I will see, we will see, Steve said two and

558
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Speaker 2: a half weeks. It's one of those situations, since this

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Speaker 2: is show business, and I would try to build around him,

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Speaker 2: even if this season goes off a cliff, even if

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Speaker 2: you do your best to sign on free agency. We

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Speaker 2: hear the group think echo Chambier and narrative, Oh, you

563
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Speaker 2: can't let him go against the sevent eighth pick. Look,

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Speaker 2: the Angels are all of a sudden can get a haul.

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Speaker 2: This is a front office it's been able that hasn't

566
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Speaker 2: been able to really scout and develop in fifteen years.

567
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Speaker 2: But all of a sudden, they're gonna magically bring in

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Speaker 2: a bunch of prospects and start over and they're gonna

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Speaker 2: be contenders in three years. I'm just not buying it.

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Speaker 2: I need to wait and see what happens. I hope

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Speaker 2: they don't trade Otani. Interestingly enough, I think there are

572
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Speaker 2: only five teams that make sense if he ends up

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Speaker 2: elsewhere in twenty twenty four. And as Steve said, the Dodgers,

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Speaker 2: it's a real possibility if Atani wants stream in on

575
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Speaker 2: the West Coast, he could stay in Los Angeles join

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Speaker 2: the Dodgers that they immediately become a super team. They

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Speaker 2: are World Series favorites, you know, just throw their mits

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Speaker 2: on the field and they're World Series favorites. Right, Can

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Speaker 2: you Mookie Bets Freddie Freeman Choi Atani on the same

580
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Speaker 2: team not only must see television, I mean, Mookie Bets.

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Speaker 2: The ball must look like a beach ball to him.

582
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Speaker 2: Now he's got like fourteen home runs in his last

583
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Speaker 2: twenty seven games. Is going crazy. It's just a tantalizing idea.

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Speaker 2: Now do I think the Angels would trade to the Dodgers.

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Speaker 2: I don't think so. If you know the history of

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Speaker 2: those two franchises, they don't particularly like each other. The

587
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Speaker 2: Dodgers are able to draw fans in Orange County, but

588
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Speaker 2: the Angels in their history have never really been successful

589
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Speaker 2: in drawing fans from Los Angeles. They're not that far apart.

590
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Speaker 2: They're in the Greater La Orange County area. But the

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Speaker 2: Dodgers own that market. They just simply do. So it

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Speaker 2: would be inn an ethma. I think Frati Moreno to

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Speaker 2: see Otani end up in a Dodger uniform, so I

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Speaker 2: don't think he trade him there. Could he end up

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Speaker 2: there in free agency? Possible another team, the New York Yankees.

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Speaker 2: You could conceivably see a ton in New York. You

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Speaker 2: pair him up with Aaron Judge. That would make the

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Speaker 2: Yankees exciting, at least on paper, since the heyday of

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Speaker 2: Jeter and Aron. Okay, New York the perfect market for

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Speaker 2: someone of Otani's talents. He'd be very appreciated in New York.

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Speaker 2: You know, the Yankees would go all in. I'm maximizing

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Speaker 2: having Otani on their roster. They could pay him just

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Speaker 2: about anything they'd want. And I think it would be

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Speaker 2: annoying for Yankee haters, but come on, the opposite of

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Speaker 2: love is not hate, it's indifference. People would hate watch

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Speaker 2: the Yankees to see if they could pull this off. Remember,

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Speaker 2: the Yankees haven't exactly won anything in a while either,

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Speaker 2: and Otani could probably help them. So the Seattle Mariners.

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Speaker 2: The All Star Game was in Seattle this past week.

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Speaker 2: It won. The reporter asked Otani about wondering if he'd

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Speaker 2: like to join the Mariners, and Otani kind of had

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Speaker 2: the cheapest look on his face and kind of shrugged,

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Speaker 2: and that became a minor story over all Star weekend.

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Speaker 2: But again, Seattle, a good looking team designs on making

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Speaker 2: the playoffs this year. They've got an excellent chance to

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Speaker 2: do it. He'd immediately they make Seattle a more likely

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Speaker 2: contender in the American League. And if, again, if Otani

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Speaker 2: wants to go to a team where he'd become the

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Speaker 2: face of the franchise instantly, Seattle might be the best

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Speaker 2: fit of any of them. How about the Atlanta Braves. Now,

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Speaker 2: the Braves aren't really talked about much in all this

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Speaker 2: hypothetical Otani sweepstakes. It is theoretical because they've already got

623
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Speaker 2: a stacked roster. But what the hell? This is Major

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Speaker 2: League sports circa twenty twenty three. You hear about super

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00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:31,280
Speaker 2: teams all the time. You pare Otani with some of

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Speaker 2: the game's most talented players that Atlanta has right now,

627
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Speaker 2: and they're already what sixty two and twenty nine. I'm

628
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Speaker 2: not gonna talk dynasty because you know they got to

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Speaker 2: win two or three to do that. But you've been

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Speaker 2: at a world class talent like shohe Atani joining the Braves.

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Speaker 2: That'd be one of the best baseball moves of the decade,

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Speaker 2: and it would make Atlanta an easy pick to most

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Speaker 2: likely win the World Series his fall. It's fanciful, it's

634
00:32:54,280 --> 00:32:57,920
Speaker 2: fun to talk about, and it's Steve mentioned a second ago.

635
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Speaker 2: You've got the DH in the National League, so it's

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Speaker 2: not all the Rema possibility. Finally, the fifteen and again,

637
00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:10,280
Speaker 2: this is a little on the borderline crazy, but can

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Speaker 2: you imagine if Otani ended up with the Cincinnati Reds

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Speaker 2: on the same rosters Ellie da la Cruz, the future

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Speaker 2: in Cincinnati would be the brightest it's ever look since

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Speaker 2: the Big Red Machine. They'd sell out every night, which

642
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Speaker 2: you're kind of doing. Now. You've got Otani Da Cruz.

643
00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:31,240
Speaker 2: By the way, you got Joe Burrow and Jamar Chase

644
00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:33,560
Speaker 2: in the same city. You've got some big names in

645
00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:36,240
Speaker 2: the Queen City that all of a sudden becomes an

646
00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:40,200
Speaker 2: electric sports city. Look, the Reds, they're one game back

647
00:33:40,640 --> 00:33:44,680
Speaker 2: behind the Brewers, They're an outside contender, They're quirky, They're

648
00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:49,480
Speaker 2: becoming a team to reckon with. If somehow, you know,

649
00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:51,840
Speaker 2: the Angels could pull out or the Reds could pull

650
00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:54,800
Speaker 2: off a trade in gett Otani this year, the future

651
00:33:54,840 --> 00:33:57,440
Speaker 2: is now. The Reds caught lightning at the bottle this year,

652
00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:01,560
Speaker 2: that would be something to see. Be that as it may.

653
00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:04,920
Speaker 2: I'm sticking to my guns. I just don't think the

654
00:34:05,000 --> 00:34:08,680
Speaker 2: Amess are gonna trade Otani and we're gonna see, We're

655
00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:12,680
Speaker 2: gonna see August first. I believe it's two weeks from Tuesday,

656
00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:15,960
Speaker 2: something along those lines. Yeah, two weeks from Tuesday. So

657
00:34:16,000 --> 00:34:19,120
Speaker 2: it'll come fast and furious, and uh, you know, it's

658
00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:23,560
Speaker 2: all speculation right now. But I do you really want

659
00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:27,040
Speaker 2: to be the geam who traded Otani and people? You

660
00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:31,600
Speaker 2: know I talked about Harry Frazy who sold Babe Ruth

661
00:34:31,640 --> 00:34:34,319
Speaker 2: to the Yankees for one hundred thousand dollars back in

662
00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:37,239
Speaker 2: nineteen eighteen so we can finance the play. No no, no,

663
00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:40,440
Speaker 2: Neete never lived it down. Never And the Curse of

664
00:34:40,480 --> 00:34:42,520
Speaker 2: the Bambino was born, by the way, for scoring a

665
00:34:42,560 --> 00:34:46,160
Speaker 2: home hope you are that was Babe Ruth sixth year

666
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:49,200
Speaker 2: in the major leagues. This is Otani's sixth year in

667
00:34:49,239 --> 00:34:52,040
Speaker 2: the Major leagues. That was the first year Ruth got

668
00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:54,759
Speaker 2: the hit and play every day hit twenty nine home runs,

669
00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:56,399
Speaker 2: drove in one hundred and twenty bad at about three

670
00:34:56,440 --> 00:34:59,280
Speaker 2: fifty you may say, well, those aren't great numbers. Oh yeah,

671
00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:01,680
Speaker 2: that's when we're hitting like twelve home runs a year.

672
00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:04,040
Speaker 2: And at that point Ruth had already won ninety four

673
00:35:04,040 --> 00:35:05,960
Speaker 2: games on the mound. And they made of an everyday

674
00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:11,160
Speaker 2: player similarities. Huh, well, coincidence, I think not. We shall

675
00:35:11,200 --> 00:35:14,879
Speaker 2: see what we shall see. Stranger things have happened coming up.

676
00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:18,719
Speaker 2: The NFL's around the corner. Some folks they're looking at

677
00:35:18,719 --> 00:35:21,480
Speaker 2: their team schedules, one particular city they might want to

678
00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:24,200
Speaker 2: travel to to see their hometown team. Have a little

679
00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:28,000
Speaker 2: road trip, little nach, little party, you get my drift. Well,

680
00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:32,360
Speaker 2: guess which stadium, by far, is the most expensive ticket

681
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Speaker 2: in the National Football League. I'll share that with you.

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Speaker 2: Coming up, I'm Bernie Fraddlewhor coming to your life from

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Speaker 2: Com studios here in Las Vegas, ten minutes away from

693
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Speaker 2: Medina Magic at midnight. Lots to chop up. I'm just

694
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Speaker 2: gonna tell you right now, a very reputable organization, the

695
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Speaker 2: Oakview Group, who has a lot of success. They're very

696
00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:28,760
Speaker 2: successful arena builder and developer. They've acquired property on Blue

697
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:32,040
Speaker 2: Diamond and Las Vegas Boulevard, which is a a few

698
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Speaker 2: miles south of say, the Tropicanada, not far. They plan

699
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Speaker 2: to build a ten billion dollar casino resort on that area,

700
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Speaker 2: two thousand room hotel, twenty thousand seat NBA ready arena,

701
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Speaker 2: and if all goes according to plan, they'll wrap up

702
00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:50,759
Speaker 2: their entitlement and then permitting paperwork with Clark County and

703
00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:54,040
Speaker 2: they'll break ground in twenty twenty four. These guys have

704
00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:58,719
Speaker 2: done this now, it's my understanding the CBA has ratified

705
00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:02,319
Speaker 2: the NBA once the new television contract is negotiated in

706
00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:06,680
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. It's my belief people I trust. We

707
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:10,600
Speaker 2: believe that the NBA will expand in Seattle and Las

708
00:37:10,719 --> 00:37:14,440
Speaker 2: Vegas will beginning teams. Now, this Oakview group built the

709
00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:17,760
Speaker 2: Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle, and they plan to build

710
00:37:18,239 --> 00:37:21,040
Speaker 2: in here in Las Vegas without the commitment of a

711
00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:24,320
Speaker 2: professional sports tenant. But I think they've got a pretty

712
00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:27,319
Speaker 2: impressive track record, and I don't think they would do

713
00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:30,760
Speaker 2: it unless they knew that there was a high probability

714
00:37:31,280 --> 00:37:35,560
Speaker 2: that this was going to happen. Much more seamless, much

715
00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:38,839
Speaker 2: more fluid, much more linear than the process you heard

716
00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:42,719
Speaker 2: about with the Oakland A. So I would take this

717
00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:45,400
Speaker 2: very serious. We'll chop this up with Mark Mendina in

718
00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:47,960
Speaker 2: a few minutes here, but I trust the people I've

719
00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:49,879
Speaker 2: talked to, and I don't think you get this far.

720
00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:54,920
Speaker 2: I think where there's smoke, there's definitely definitely fire. So

721
00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:58,520
Speaker 2: keep an eye on those names, the Oakview Group here,

722
00:37:58,640 --> 00:38:02,439
Speaker 2: Blue Diamond, Las Vegas ten billion dollar project. All right,

723
00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:06,160
Speaker 2: if you're a fan of the Las Vegas Raiders, you

724
00:38:06,239 --> 00:38:09,799
Speaker 2: may have one distinction that you may may not be

725
00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:13,239
Speaker 2: proud of. They are the most expensive NFL team to

726
00:38:13,239 --> 00:38:17,200
Speaker 2: support in person. The Raiders have always been expensive here

727
00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:20,719
Speaker 2: in Vegas, but the cost of attending a game in

728
00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:24,120
Speaker 2: the past ten years for the Raiders, who as i

729
00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:26,200
Speaker 2: arguably the greatest fan base in all sports on the

730
00:38:26,239 --> 00:38:30,240
Speaker 2: Raider Nation, it's jumped ninety three percent, or an average

731
00:38:30,239 --> 00:38:33,000
Speaker 2: of an additional three hundred and fifty seven dollars per

732
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:36,880
Speaker 2: seat per ticket to now an average of seven hundred

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Speaker 2: and thirty eight dollars and thirty six cents per game

734
00:38:40,640 --> 00:38:45,720
Speaker 2: according to US Batting Report. Now that's about thirty seven

735
00:38:45,760 --> 00:38:49,759
Speaker 2: percent above any other team in the National Football League. Now,

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Speaker 2: a Legia Stadium was built here the Raiders relocated in

737
00:38:53,160 --> 00:38:56,560
Speaker 2: twenty twenty two billion dollars stadium. It's been a massively

738
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Speaker 2: huge success. Raiders games at Allegiance Stadium have been ranked

739
00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:05,160
Speaker 2: among the best in customer satisfaction number one in twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty two. So clearly the experience, the fan experience is everything.

741
00:39:11,560 --> 00:39:15,000
Speaker 2: Now seven hundred and thirty nine bucks. What does that mean?

742
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:18,239
Speaker 2: And if you take a family of four to the game,

743
00:39:18,239 --> 00:39:22,760
Speaker 2: that's times four. But you've got you know, that includes

744
00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:27,520
Speaker 2: the tickets, you know, two small draft beers, apiece, four

745
00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:31,920
Speaker 2: small soft drinks, hot dogs, parking, programs and maybe a

746
00:39:31,920 --> 00:39:35,520
Speaker 2: souvenir so family of four. It's going to cost you about,

747
00:39:35,719 --> 00:39:38,759
Speaker 2: you know, three grand, but people do it. There's only

748
00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:41,080
Speaker 2: eight home games a year, and by the way, costs

749
00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:44,000
Speaker 2: a lot to attend a Golden State Warriors game as well.

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00:39:44,080 --> 00:39:46,480
Speaker 2: Even the Cleveland Browns, even the Philadelphia Eagles, even the

751
00:39:46,520 --> 00:39:49,239
Speaker 2: Kansas City Chiefs. They're all up there in the stratosphere.

752
00:39:49,560 --> 00:39:53,000
Speaker 2: But Las Vegas might not be winning, but they're winning

753
00:39:53,000 --> 00:39:56,280
Speaker 2: at the bank. Most expensive ticket in the entire NFL.

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Speaker 2: Coming up, Mark Medina, Medina Magic. Keep it locked to

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Speaker 2: Bernie Frattle Show on Fox Sports Radio. Well you heard

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Speaker 2: middle of summer, but I promise you the news cycle

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Speaker 2: and the NBA never ends and it's as hot as

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Speaker 2: it's ever been. And that's exactly why every Saturday night

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Speaker 2: it's that time Badina Magic, It's midnight Saturday Night, and

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00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:47,840
Speaker 2: it never fails to disappoint Mark. There are more topics

769
00:40:47,840 --> 00:40:51,160
Speaker 2: than ever, even though the season is months away and

770
00:40:51,239 --> 00:40:55,080
Speaker 2: we start with the potential for expansion. So let me

771
00:40:55,160 --> 00:40:59,239
Speaker 2: just make this statement. I am very aware of the

772
00:40:59,239 --> 00:41:04,040
Speaker 2: Oakview group, their past successes in building arenas, the plot

773
00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:06,480
Speaker 2: of land they have purchased over on Blue Diamond in

774
00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:10,880
Speaker 2: Las Vegas Boulevard, and even though that they'll have an

775
00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:14,719
Speaker 2: NBA ready arena, there's no NBA team yet, but I think,

776
00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:17,799
Speaker 2: honestly in my heart, it's a formality until after the

777
00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:21,920
Speaker 2: TV deal is finalized in twenty twenty five. What say you?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, Well, you outlined it really well. I did a

779
00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:28,520
Speaker 5: piece for the Sporting Tribute on how Las Vegas has

780
00:41:28,560 --> 00:41:32,080
Speaker 5: just been this hub for NBA events, you know, Summer League,

781
00:41:32,160 --> 00:41:36,799
Speaker 5: NBA con g League Showcase, they got the WNBA All

782
00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:40,680
Speaker 5: Star Game today and the sense that I got with expansion,

783
00:41:40,760 --> 00:41:42,880
Speaker 5: you hit it on the money. Adam Silver made it

784
00:41:42,920 --> 00:41:46,799
Speaker 5: clear they're looking at the media right still. That expires

785
00:41:46,880 --> 00:41:50,799
Speaker 5: after twenty four to twenty five. But the more I

786
00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:53,640
Speaker 5: looked into it, I think that there's a feeling that

787
00:41:53,719 --> 00:41:56,040
Speaker 5: it's not going to be, you know, within the next

788
00:41:56,040 --> 00:42:00,000
Speaker 5: five years. It'll be after that there will be an

789
00:42:00,080 --> 00:42:02,560
Speaker 5: NBA team in Vegas. Don't get me wrong, but I

790
00:42:02,560 --> 00:42:05,279
Speaker 5: think I have to iron out some things where if

791
00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:09,239
Speaker 5: they are going to expand, Seattle's going to be the

792
00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:12,960
Speaker 5: other likely team, And then what is it about when

793
00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:16,120
Speaker 5: is the timing right? Because as much as the NBA

794
00:42:16,239 --> 00:42:21,200
Speaker 5: could benefit from having two more teams, owners are worried

795
00:42:21,200 --> 00:42:24,480
Speaker 5: about revenue sharing, and if you're dividing all that in

796
00:42:24,560 --> 00:42:27,160
Speaker 5: a pie, all of a sudden you have to include

797
00:42:27,160 --> 00:42:29,839
Speaker 5: two parties, and you know owners care about their money

798
00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:32,120
Speaker 5: in the bottom line, so don't have to sort those

799
00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:36,120
Speaker 5: things out. Playcate concerns with that as well as the

800
00:42:36,160 --> 00:42:38,879
Speaker 5: fact that you know, the Lakers have a pretty good

801
00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:41,160
Speaker 5: fan base in Las Vegas. Does that eat into that?

802
00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:44,440
Speaker 5: And then the other thing is what you're mentioning what

803
00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:48,319
Speaker 5: the arena will be. There's kind of an unknown. It

804
00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:52,239
Speaker 5: will be an existing stadium or an existing arena, a

805
00:42:52,280 --> 00:42:55,880
Speaker 5: new arena, more likely a new arena. But then it

806
00:42:55,920 --> 00:42:58,360
Speaker 5: comes down to the fact that, Okay, how would this

807
00:42:58,440 --> 00:43:03,200
Speaker 5: be paid for? Public finance saying or you or you know,

808
00:43:03,239 --> 00:43:06,880
Speaker 5: privately funded. So there's clearly a lot of steps that

809
00:43:06,960 --> 00:43:10,960
Speaker 5: have to happen. But once it's all clears, it's gonna happen.

810
00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:12,799
Speaker 5: But it's not gonna happen soon.

811
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Speaker 2: No, I certainly agree with that. Even if there's an announcement,

812
00:43:16,520 --> 00:43:19,200
Speaker 2: we're probably probably looking at thirty two to thirty six

813
00:43:19,239 --> 00:43:22,440
Speaker 2: months before they actually tip off here. So I'm certainly

814
00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:26,080
Speaker 2: an agreement. Another major announcement. I kind of loved these

815
00:43:26,080 --> 00:43:28,719
Speaker 2: two together because it took place at NBA Con. I

816
00:43:28,760 --> 00:43:31,320
Speaker 2: credentially NBA Con was there two of the three days,

817
00:43:31,960 --> 00:43:34,680
Speaker 2: and there might be some folks covetching about the n

818
00:43:34,760 --> 00:43:37,640
Speaker 2: Season Tournament, but I will tell you when they unveiled

819
00:43:37,640 --> 00:43:40,880
Speaker 2: the details and made the announcement of the NCAA tournament

820
00:43:40,920 --> 00:43:44,839
Speaker 2: here at NBA Con, it was packed. So what are

821
00:43:44,880 --> 00:43:47,880
Speaker 2: your thoughts now that the dust is settled? What's been

822
00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:52,000
Speaker 2: the scuttle but about the n Season tournament? How well

823
00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:54,440
Speaker 2: received you believe it will be? Are people keeping an

824
00:43:54,440 --> 00:43:54,959
Speaker 2: open mind?

825
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Speaker 5: Well, first of all, I could I can vouch for

826
00:43:57,440 --> 00:43:59,200
Speaker 5: what you just said. I was at NBA Con one.

827
00:43:59,280 --> 00:44:03,360
Speaker 5: They unveiled the details about it with the live showing

828
00:44:03,480 --> 00:44:06,839
Speaker 5: MBA today and there were about four thousand fans there

829
00:44:06,840 --> 00:44:10,040
Speaker 5: and each time they're talking about the teams, they're either

830
00:44:10,160 --> 00:44:13,880
Speaker 5: doing loudly or cheering loudly, depending on their allegiances. But

831
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Speaker 5: I think beyond that there is a mixed feeling. I

832
00:44:16,520 --> 00:44:19,400
Speaker 5: think there is a wait and see approach to see

833
00:44:19,440 --> 00:44:21,920
Speaker 5: how the players and the teams react to it. And

834
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Speaker 5: you know, are there are enough incentives? You know, clearly

835
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Speaker 5: it seems like with the financial incentives and the fact

836
00:44:28,840 --> 00:44:31,200
Speaker 5: that you can win a championship trophy. I want to

837
00:44:31,239 --> 00:44:35,879
Speaker 5: be surprised that the younger up and coming teams care

838
00:44:35,960 --> 00:44:39,080
Speaker 5: more about this than maybe the teams like the Lakers

839
00:44:39,080 --> 00:44:42,000
Speaker 5: and the Golden State Warriors, Denver Nuggets were. You know,

840
00:44:42,040 --> 00:44:45,759
Speaker 5: they've already tasted championship success and that's the main thing.

841
00:44:47,080 --> 00:44:51,440
Speaker 5: But I think that to the NBA's credit, this was

842
00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:54,120
Speaker 5: in the making well before load managements in the past

843
00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:57,680
Speaker 5: fifteen years. They consulted a lot of teams and players

844
00:44:58,040 --> 00:45:02,200
Speaker 5: for feedback just so they would address some concerns. And

845
00:45:02,239 --> 00:45:05,560
Speaker 5: I think the other thing is my initial thought was

846
00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:08,480
Speaker 5: why have it so early in the season, and their

847
00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:10,920
Speaker 5: reason was they didn't want to have it later in

848
00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:14,040
Speaker 5: the season because it would eat into all the attention

849
00:45:14,160 --> 00:45:17,520
Speaker 5: with All Star weekend and kind of the promotional tie

850
00:45:17,600 --> 00:45:20,040
Speaker 5: and lead into that with guys trying to make the team,

851
00:45:20,320 --> 00:45:23,160
Speaker 5: And so even though they might run up against NFL

852
00:45:23,200 --> 00:45:26,200
Speaker 5: and college football early in the season, they felt like, hey,

853
00:45:26,239 --> 00:45:30,080
Speaker 5: this the least gets us in the conversation. So no

854
00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:32,920
Speaker 5: doubt the players and the teams are going to ultimately

855
00:45:33,560 --> 00:45:35,640
Speaker 5: show whether this is a good or idea or not,

856
00:45:35,760 --> 00:45:39,200
Speaker 5: depending on how much they try. But I do think

857
00:45:39,280 --> 00:45:42,640
Speaker 5: that while I'm skeptical that it's not going to address

858
00:45:43,440 --> 00:45:47,759
Speaker 5: you know, the fundamental core of casual fans don't pay

859
00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:50,799
Speaker 5: as much attention to the NBA regular season, and there

860
00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:54,239
Speaker 5: is that load management, it'll at least mitigate it, and

861
00:45:54,239 --> 00:45:56,480
Speaker 5: that's all you can really ask for. So I think

862
00:45:56,520 --> 00:45:59,439
Speaker 5: with that it will work. But you know, I think

863
00:45:59,560 --> 00:46:01,520
Speaker 5: ultimately the proof's going to be in the put in

864
00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:03,240
Speaker 5: with how the team's pull.

865
00:46:03,960 --> 00:46:07,560
Speaker 2: What do you suppose the ideological purpose behind creating this

866
00:46:08,239 --> 00:46:10,520
Speaker 2: tournament in the first place is? And I know Adam

867
00:46:10,600 --> 00:46:13,680
Speaker 2: Silver has certainly studied the soccer model, and he has

868
00:46:13,680 --> 00:46:17,759
Speaker 2: for over a decade, And actually I understand why it

869
00:46:17,800 --> 00:46:21,720
Speaker 2: would be in December because sort of the de facto NBA,

870
00:46:22,800 --> 00:46:26,120
Speaker 2: you know, Opening Night is really sort of Christmas. Right

871
00:46:26,160 --> 00:46:28,680
Speaker 2: after that, that's when you start to pay more attention

872
00:46:28,760 --> 00:46:31,360
Speaker 2: to the NBA. I think it's buried in December. Is

873
00:46:31,360 --> 00:46:33,560
Speaker 2: it possible they just want to bring more eyeballs or

874
00:46:33,640 --> 00:46:34,600
Speaker 2: is there another agenda?

875
00:46:35,160 --> 00:46:39,080
Speaker 5: Well, look, usually when you're talking about professional sports, the

876
00:46:39,120 --> 00:46:43,400
Speaker 5: main driving force isn't any kind of ideal ology. It's

877
00:46:43,480 --> 00:46:47,319
Speaker 5: the green. It's the dollar signs, right, and so you know,

878
00:46:47,400 --> 00:46:50,920
Speaker 5: it enhances the value of the TV contracts, especially the

879
00:46:50,920 --> 00:46:53,399
Speaker 5: fact that it's going to expire in two years. That's

880
00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:56,600
Speaker 5: another thing I could drive up the price. You know,

881
00:46:56,640 --> 00:46:59,239
Speaker 5: it's another source of gate revenue. They're going to have

882
00:46:59,280 --> 00:47:03,120
Speaker 5: the semi final one championship game in your backyard in

883
00:47:03,200 --> 00:47:06,840
Speaker 5: Las Vegas, so they know that that is a pretty

884
00:47:06,840 --> 00:47:11,160
Speaker 5: significant market. But I do think that this was the

885
00:47:11,280 --> 00:47:15,680
Speaker 5: NBA's way of trying to address some of the things

886
00:47:15,680 --> 00:47:19,680
Speaker 5: that have gone on with not just load management, but

887
00:47:19,840 --> 00:47:26,560
Speaker 5: just some team and fan detachment from regular season games

888
00:47:26,640 --> 00:47:29,759
Speaker 5: or at least non playoff games. And so I think

889
00:47:29,800 --> 00:47:33,040
Speaker 5: when I'm looking at this, it's going to address it

890
00:47:33,239 --> 00:47:36,040
Speaker 5: because you're going to have teams that are going to

891
00:47:36,080 --> 00:47:40,040
Speaker 5: be competing. But honestly, Bernie, it might also create new

892
00:47:40,120 --> 00:47:43,920
Speaker 5: problems where the teams that don't care that much about

893
00:47:43,920 --> 00:47:47,319
Speaker 5: the plans tournament or the in season tournament, they kind

894
00:47:47,320 --> 00:47:51,200
Speaker 5: of conserve their energy, so to speak, and the ones

895
00:47:51,280 --> 00:47:54,320
Speaker 5: that do go all out in the n season tournament

896
00:47:54,440 --> 00:47:57,320
Speaker 5: maybe lean up to it or after they start resting

897
00:47:57,360 --> 00:48:01,400
Speaker 5: their guys. But I think that the bottom line is

898
00:48:01,520 --> 00:48:06,239
Speaker 5: there's competition, there's cash incentives. I think for teams that

899
00:48:06,800 --> 00:48:09,560
Speaker 5: you are on the up and up, it's a way

900
00:48:09,600 --> 00:48:12,759
Speaker 5: for front offices to have some more job security. Same

901
00:48:12,800 --> 00:48:17,880
Speaker 5: thing with coaches for young players that take success. So look,

902
00:48:18,080 --> 00:48:20,760
Speaker 5: there was a lot of skepticism about the playing tournament

903
00:48:21,280 --> 00:48:23,440
Speaker 5: after the bubble. They liked it in the bubble, but

904
00:48:23,480 --> 00:48:26,719
Speaker 5: then afterwards they said, hey, go back to traditional one

905
00:48:26,760 --> 00:48:29,640
Speaker 5: through eight seed. But since then a lot of teams

906
00:48:29,680 --> 00:48:33,080
Speaker 5: have liked it because it's reduced tanking, it's competitive, and

907
00:48:33,160 --> 00:48:36,800
Speaker 5: it gives us outside teams looking in still a shot

908
00:48:36,880 --> 00:48:40,160
Speaker 5: to make the playoffs. So I think ultimately that's what's

909
00:48:40,160 --> 00:48:40,760
Speaker 5: going to happen.

910
00:48:41,239 --> 00:48:43,560
Speaker 2: So let's talk a little bit more about NBA CON.

911
00:48:43,640 --> 00:48:47,640
Speaker 2: I was there it's almost indescribable. I would characterize it

912
00:48:47,640 --> 00:48:52,600
Speaker 2: as Madam Tusades for the NBA because there are players past,

913
00:48:52,719 --> 00:48:58,160
Speaker 2: present and future. Of course, unreal, the exhibits, the fans,

914
00:48:58,239 --> 00:49:01,239
Speaker 2: the energy very similar to Baseball fan fast and the

915
00:49:01,320 --> 00:49:05,520
Speaker 2: latest in technology. Are they bringing NBA Con back to

916
00:49:05,560 --> 00:49:08,880
Speaker 2: Las Vegas in twenty twenty four and give the folks

917
00:49:08,960 --> 00:49:12,640
Speaker 2: your your general takeaway from the event NBA Con itself.

918
00:49:13,040 --> 00:49:15,399
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, it was a three day event at the

919
00:49:15,480 --> 00:49:19,120
Speaker 5: Mandali Bay Convention Center. I mean think Comic Con, you know,

920
00:49:19,200 --> 00:49:21,040
Speaker 5: That's that's what it was kind of named after with

921
00:49:21,120 --> 00:49:24,759
Speaker 5: NBA consoles right right, a perfect combination of like you know,

922
00:49:24,880 --> 00:49:28,840
Speaker 5: panel players with past Paul famers and current players. You know,

923
00:49:28,840 --> 00:49:31,600
Speaker 5: I think the most notable kream Abdul Jabbar with Victor

924
00:49:31,600 --> 00:49:34,160
Speaker 5: one Banama. It was a lot of fan fest kind

925
00:49:34,200 --> 00:49:36,520
Speaker 5: of activities where you know, you can play popa shot,

926
00:49:36,600 --> 00:49:39,960
Speaker 5: play NBA JAM, play nbah K. You know, they had

927
00:49:39,960 --> 00:49:43,960
Speaker 5: a radio row, you know with different radio shows I

928
00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:47,440
Speaker 5: think under our umbrella at Fox Sports, so that we're

929
00:49:47,480 --> 00:49:49,640
Speaker 5: able to do some stuff and so yeah, it was

930
00:49:49,640 --> 00:49:53,239
Speaker 5: a really cool atmosphere. And to your question about are

931
00:49:53,280 --> 00:49:56,719
Speaker 5: they bringing it back next season? Look, I asked the

932
00:49:56,840 --> 00:50:00,200
Speaker 5: NBA directly, and they you know, they didn't confirm from

933
00:50:00,239 --> 00:50:03,839
Speaker 5: one hundred percent, but they said, certainly the plan that

934
00:50:03,840 --> 00:50:05,680
Speaker 5: that this is going to be part of a staple

935
00:50:05,760 --> 00:50:09,680
Speaker 5: for NBA Summer League in Vegas. But I would also

936
00:50:09,800 --> 00:50:13,120
Speaker 5: add that they also see in the cards that this

937
00:50:13,160 --> 00:50:19,200
Speaker 5: could be an event for other domestic and international things

938
00:50:19,239 --> 00:50:21,719
Speaker 5: that the NBA is going on, whether it's like preseason

939
00:50:21,760 --> 00:50:26,200
Speaker 5: games overseas, maybe things you know, leading into the NBA Draft,

940
00:50:26,200 --> 00:50:31,040
Speaker 5: the draft combine the draft lottery. So I think that's

941
00:50:31,160 --> 00:50:34,720
Speaker 5: NBA con it's not going to be exclusive to Las Vegas,

942
00:50:34,760 --> 00:50:37,400
Speaker 5: but if I had to guess, it's safe to pencil

943
00:50:37,400 --> 00:50:40,759
Speaker 5: when that every Vegas Summer League they're they're going to

944
00:50:40,840 --> 00:50:41,800
Speaker 5: have that event there.

945
00:50:42,719 --> 00:50:46,920
Speaker 2: Good to know. Finally, mark the name Damian Lillard and

946
00:50:47,000 --> 00:50:50,320
Speaker 2: to a degree, James Harden has gone somewhat radio silent

947
00:50:50,960 --> 00:50:54,360
Speaker 2: any any movement on those two in terms of we

948
00:50:54,480 --> 00:50:56,279
Speaker 2: know one wants to go to Miami, the other wants

949
00:50:56,320 --> 00:50:58,200
Speaker 2: to go to the Clippers. But as you aptly pointed

950
00:50:58,200 --> 00:51:00,759
Speaker 2: out last year, at this time, you'll be surprised if

951
00:51:00,840 --> 00:51:03,719
Speaker 2: Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving start the team, start the

952
00:51:03,760 --> 00:51:06,200
Speaker 2: season with their original teams. I'm not predicting that here,

953
00:51:06,560 --> 00:51:09,160
Speaker 2: but what are your thoughts on any movement involving those two.

954
00:51:09,520 --> 00:51:12,000
Speaker 5: Well, look, when you say it's radiosile, part of me

955
00:51:12,040 --> 00:51:15,319
Speaker 5: always thinks when that happens, these teams got to be

956
00:51:15,440 --> 00:51:18,719
Speaker 5: up to something, because the best deals happen in secrecy.

957
00:51:19,400 --> 00:51:22,640
Speaker 5: But I don't think that's the case here. I think

958
00:51:22,719 --> 00:51:26,640
Speaker 5: it's a case of Summer League's almost over. Teams are

959
00:51:26,680 --> 00:51:30,600
Speaker 5: ready to go on vacation forget about things now. GMS

960
00:51:31,080 --> 00:51:33,239
Speaker 5: they work around the clock, so it's not like they're

961
00:51:33,239 --> 00:51:36,080
Speaker 5: going to take it easy. But I think that both

962
00:51:36,120 --> 00:51:40,040
Speaker 5: the Philadelphia seventy six ers and the Portland Trailblazers are

963
00:51:40,120 --> 00:51:44,759
Speaker 5: preparing themselves to at least have their star players be

964
00:51:44,920 --> 00:51:49,359
Speaker 5: with them opening training camp, just to try to maximize

965
00:51:49,440 --> 00:51:52,000
Speaker 5: leverage see if there's more deals that can be made.

966
00:51:52,440 --> 00:51:54,920
Speaker 5: And also I think there is a comfort level to

967
00:51:54,960 --> 00:51:58,040
Speaker 5: wait until the trade deadline. Now I don't think it's

968
00:51:58,080 --> 00:52:01,560
Speaker 5: going to wait until that point. I think that ultimately

969
00:52:01,600 --> 00:52:05,880
Speaker 5: they will get dealt like shortly before the season starts.

970
00:52:06,440 --> 00:52:10,560
Speaker 5: But you never know here because they clearly have made

971
00:52:10,560 --> 00:52:15,400
Speaker 5: it made it very clear publicly and privately, they're not.

972
00:52:15,480 --> 00:52:17,400
Speaker 5: They're not just going to accept any deal. And the

973
00:52:17,440 --> 00:52:22,080
Speaker 5: Sixers their championship contention mode because of Joel Embiid. Whether

974
00:52:22,120 --> 00:52:24,600
Speaker 5: he grew with it or not, that's up for debate.

975
00:52:24,680 --> 00:52:27,120
Speaker 5: But the Sixers internally think they have a shot because

976
00:52:27,160 --> 00:52:30,840
Speaker 5: they have Joe Embiid and you know, the Portland Trailblazers,

977
00:52:31,080 --> 00:52:34,839
Speaker 5: they don't. They're not under illusional championship aspirations. So they

978
00:52:34,840 --> 00:52:37,680
Speaker 5: think that they can be that dangerous playoff team as

979
00:52:37,680 --> 00:52:39,319
Speaker 5: they always have been because they have they have a

980
00:52:39,320 --> 00:52:42,640
Speaker 5: good young core with Scooter Henderson, Shade and Sharp and

981
00:52:42,719 --> 00:52:46,000
Speaker 5: Forny Simon's so they're not going to accept just any

982
00:52:46,040 --> 00:52:50,520
Speaker 5: deal just for the sake of it. So yeah, but Bernie,

983
00:52:50,560 --> 00:52:54,520
Speaker 5: I say all that with the full acknowledgement that honestly

984
00:52:54,560 --> 00:52:58,400
Speaker 5: a deal could happen tomorrow. I mean, it's just that unpredictable.

985
00:52:58,239 --> 00:53:01,400
Speaker 2: Mark, great stuff is always It's how as the days

986
00:53:01,440 --> 00:53:04,879
Speaker 2: go by and we find ourselves on Saturday night, there's

987
00:53:04,920 --> 00:53:07,960
Speaker 2: always plenty of topics to get to, even though we

988
00:53:08,000 --> 00:53:10,560
Speaker 2: are in the dead of summer and the NBA season

989
00:53:10,600 --> 00:53:11,319
Speaker 2: is three months away.

990
00:53:11,360 --> 00:53:13,520
Speaker 5: Great stuff, Mark, I appreciate you, and you know what,

991
00:53:13,600 --> 00:53:15,600
Speaker 5: that's why we have it every Saturday roight. We know

992
00:53:15,760 --> 00:53:17,560
Speaker 5: there's a lot of NBA things to dive.

993
00:53:17,400 --> 00:53:22,040
Speaker 2: Into, absolutely good stuff. Buddy Mark Meda Mark Madeena, our

994
00:53:22,239 --> 00:53:26,320
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio guru all things the NBA Medina Magic

995
00:53:26,440 --> 00:53:30,080
Speaker 2: every Saturday night midnight on the Bernie Frattle Show. As

996
00:53:30,080 --> 00:53:32,880
Speaker 2: you can see, he's very well connected and his finger

997
00:53:32,960 --> 00:53:34,480
Speaker 2: on the pulse. One of the things we didn't get to.

998
00:53:34,880 --> 00:53:39,960
Speaker 2: The NBA Board of Governors approved two new rule changes,

999
00:53:40,440 --> 00:53:42,640
Speaker 2: which I will share with you coming up. One I

1000
00:53:42,640 --> 00:53:45,440
Speaker 2: think you'd be very pleased with, because no one likes

1001
00:53:45,440 --> 00:53:48,240
Speaker 2: a flopper. I'm Bernie Fraddle. We're comedy live from Las Vegas,

1002
00:53:48,239 --> 00:53:51,080
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio, tirect dot Com studios. Keep it locked.

1003
00:53:51,239 --> 00:53:53,640
Speaker 2: You're listening to the Bernie Frattle Show on Fox Sports Radio.

1004
00:53:55,200 --> 00:53:57,520
Speaker 2: All right back on the Bernie Frattle Show, Fox Sports

1005
00:53:57,600 --> 00:54:02,040
Speaker 2: Radio Comedy Live from the Tyre Studios here in Las Vegas,

1006
00:54:02,040 --> 00:54:05,400
Speaker 2: take up to three am Pacific, six am Eastern. A

1007
00:54:05,520 --> 00:54:08,440
Speaker 2: ton of stuff to get to. Sticking with the NBA,

1008
00:54:08,719 --> 00:54:12,880
Speaker 2: the NBA Board of Governors on Thursday approved an in

1009
00:54:13,120 --> 00:54:16,960
Speaker 2: game flopping penalty. And here's how it goes. Under the

1010
00:54:16,960 --> 00:54:20,680
Speaker 2: new rule, when an official and a game official cause

1011
00:54:20,719 --> 00:54:25,880
Speaker 2: a flop or any physical act that reasonably appears, you know,

1012
00:54:25,960 --> 00:54:29,920
Speaker 2: to be intended to cause the officials. This is all

1013
00:54:29,960 --> 00:54:32,440
Speaker 2: a contrivance. This is all part of the Academy Awards

1014
00:54:32,440 --> 00:54:35,000
Speaker 2: stuff that Lebron claims he doesn't do, but he did

1015
00:54:35,040 --> 00:54:38,239
Speaker 2: a ton of it. I saw a montage of twenty

1016
00:54:38,280 --> 00:54:42,480
Speaker 2: eleven the NBA Finals. He was it was hilarious, the

1017
00:54:42,560 --> 00:54:48,160
Speaker 2: Lebron flopper. But any act that would intentionally attempt to

1018
00:54:48,200 --> 00:54:50,600
Speaker 2: cause the officials to call a fall another player, well,

1019
00:54:50,880 --> 00:54:53,560
Speaker 2: if you are that offending player, you are now going

1020
00:54:53,640 --> 00:54:57,520
Speaker 2: to be charged with a non unsportsman like technical file

1021
00:54:58,320 --> 00:55:01,440
Speaker 2: and the opposing team will be awarded a free throw attempt.

1022
00:55:01,800 --> 00:55:05,080
Speaker 2: And by the way, the attempt can be you know,

1023
00:55:05,120 --> 00:55:08,279
Speaker 2: made by any player who's in the game when the

1024
00:55:08,360 --> 00:55:11,480
Speaker 2: technical file is assessed. Now, they're not going to eject

1025
00:55:11,480 --> 00:55:14,600
Speaker 2: players from the game based on technical file you know,

1026
00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:19,960
Speaker 2: flopping violations. But here's what's interesting about this rule. So

1027
00:55:20,239 --> 00:55:23,680
Speaker 2: let's say, uh, you know, you're you're posting up on

1028
00:55:23,800 --> 00:55:27,360
Speaker 2: Lebron and you back up and you you make zero contact,

1029
00:55:27,440 --> 00:55:30,040
Speaker 2: but he flops, uh, and the player is going to

1030
00:55:30,080 --> 00:55:34,480
Speaker 2: continue and the play will continue until there's a whistle

1031
00:55:34,760 --> 00:55:37,680
Speaker 2: or there's a scoring opportunity, or there's the ball goes

1032
00:55:37,680 --> 00:55:40,480
Speaker 2: out of bounds, or there's there's some sort of neutral

1033
00:55:40,520 --> 00:55:43,680
Speaker 2: opportunity to stop play, stop the live play, and then

1034
00:55:43,719 --> 00:55:48,000
Speaker 2: the referee will assess the flopping call fiul. It's not

1035
00:55:48,040 --> 00:55:51,200
Speaker 2: going to be like you know, immediately when it happens,

1036
00:55:51,239 --> 00:55:53,840
Speaker 2: like if there's a foul a regular file, So the

1037
00:55:53,920 --> 00:55:56,640
Speaker 2: referee has that at their discretion, and then after the

1038
00:55:56,680 --> 00:56:01,840
Speaker 2: penalty free throw, well, they will resume play and the

1039
00:56:01,960 --> 00:56:05,759
Speaker 2: team that you know had possession when the foul of

1040
00:56:05,760 --> 00:56:12,600
Speaker 2: the flop was called, they'll keep possession. So I like this, Okay.

1041
00:56:13,080 --> 00:56:16,560
Speaker 2: Flopping violations, by the way, they're not going to be

1042
00:56:16,640 --> 00:56:21,960
Speaker 2: reviewable by coaches challenge. However, the you know, the referees

1043
00:56:22,000 --> 00:56:25,160
Speaker 2: can review a flopping call if it's if there's a

1044
00:56:25,320 --> 00:56:28,359
Speaker 2: foul as part of the flopping call and there's a

1045
00:56:28,400 --> 00:56:32,720
Speaker 2: foul and there's a coach's challenge, and then the referee

1046
00:56:32,719 --> 00:56:36,040
Speaker 2: can initiate a replay review, depending on if there's some

1047
00:56:36,320 --> 00:56:39,040
Speaker 2: discretion there. Now, the longest short of it is the

1048
00:56:39,160 --> 00:56:41,280
Speaker 2: league is sick of flopping. We're all sick of flopping,

1049
00:56:41,880 --> 00:56:44,920
Speaker 2: and so you call a flop, the other team is

1050
00:56:44,960 --> 00:56:47,640
Speaker 2: awarded a free throw. That's basically the long and short

1051
00:56:47,640 --> 00:56:49,600
Speaker 2: of it. And they're not going to stop play when

1052
00:56:49,600 --> 00:56:51,920
Speaker 2: the flop is called. It's going to be a situation

1053
00:56:52,080 --> 00:56:55,080
Speaker 2: where there's a penalty system in play now for flops,

1054
00:56:55,360 --> 00:56:58,759
Speaker 2: and they'll modify that. And it's being tried to in

1055
00:56:58,800 --> 00:57:00,560
Speaker 2: the NBA Summer League right now. I'm not really sure

1056
00:57:00,600 --> 00:57:03,839
Speaker 2: how it's going, right, but when a flop's called by

1057
00:57:03,880 --> 00:57:06,720
Speaker 2: the referees, it's going to be, you know, sort of

1058
00:57:06,760 --> 00:57:10,240
Speaker 2: the opposing team ordered one free throw. End of story.

1059
00:57:10,600 --> 00:57:16,320
Speaker 2: This is a one year trial basis, okay, and I

1060
00:57:16,320 --> 00:57:19,800
Speaker 2: if it works and if the if the mechanics of

1061
00:57:19,880 --> 00:57:24,400
Speaker 2: this work and it doesn't disrupt play and the referees

1062
00:57:24,440 --> 00:57:27,200
Speaker 2: are accurate, and a lot of times in high speed

1063
00:57:27,280 --> 00:57:29,480
Speaker 2: something looks like there's real physical contact and there's a

1064
00:57:29,480 --> 00:57:33,200
Speaker 2: flop and then you you you replay it in slow

1065
00:57:33,240 --> 00:57:35,960
Speaker 2: motion and there's no contact at all or virtually no contact.

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00:57:36,200 --> 00:57:38,360
Speaker 2: Especially when you have a situation I think referees are

1067
00:57:38,400 --> 00:57:41,600
Speaker 2: going to be taught to discern this where you know

1068
00:57:41,720 --> 00:57:46,600
Speaker 2: someone has made contact with another player, but the you know,

1069
00:57:46,720 --> 00:57:50,800
Speaker 2: the the angle that the flopping player takes is not

1070
00:57:50,880 --> 00:57:53,920
Speaker 2: really congruent from where he was hit, and and so

1071
00:57:54,600 --> 00:57:56,920
Speaker 2: it becomes, you know, an obvious attempt to trick the

1072
00:57:56,960 --> 00:58:00,560
Speaker 2: referee into calling a foul on the opposing play. Hopefully

1073
00:58:00,680 --> 00:58:03,320
Speaker 2: followed all that, it's not brain surgery, but you know

1074
00:58:03,360 --> 00:58:05,760
Speaker 2: what a flop looks like most of the time, and

1075
00:58:06,200 --> 00:58:08,240
Speaker 2: it's got no place in the game anymore. Well, we're

1076
00:58:08,240 --> 00:58:12,960
Speaker 2: tired of it. Another rule that the Board of Governors

1077
00:58:13,440 --> 00:58:18,000
Speaker 2: approved this past week was they decided to expand the

1078
00:58:18,160 --> 00:58:21,640
Speaker 2: use of a coach's challenge in the NBA. So the

1079
00:58:21,680 --> 00:58:26,880
Speaker 2: coach's challenge basically, the idea now is a team can

1080
00:58:26,920 --> 00:58:31,040
Speaker 2: be awarded a second challenge if their first challenge is

1081
00:58:31,080 --> 00:58:34,720
Speaker 2: actually successful. So, you know, a team they use a

1082
00:58:34,840 --> 00:58:37,720
Speaker 2: timeout to trigger a challenge, which means the team is

1083
00:58:37,720 --> 00:58:40,240
Speaker 2: not able to use their first or second challenge unless

1084
00:58:40,240 --> 00:58:43,440
Speaker 2: it has a timeout available. But in addition, the team

1085
00:58:43,480 --> 00:58:46,640
Speaker 2: will retain the timeout if it had one that used

1086
00:58:46,640 --> 00:58:50,640
Speaker 2: to initiate the first challenge if the challenge is successful,

1087
00:58:51,400 --> 00:58:53,600
Speaker 2: and it won't trigger a mandatory timeout. By the way,

1088
00:58:54,000 --> 00:58:55,880
Speaker 2: and the idea is they're trying to keep the game

1089
00:58:55,920 --> 00:58:59,160
Speaker 2: and the flow going. There's already enough stoppages in basketball,

1090
00:58:59,480 --> 00:59:02,440
Speaker 2: especially last couple innings, but if you are wrong on

1091
00:59:02,480 --> 00:59:04,440
Speaker 2: the challenge, you don't retain the timeout, you don't get

1092
00:59:04,440 --> 00:59:07,880
Speaker 2: the second challenge. You have to have a successful challenge.

1093
00:59:07,880 --> 00:59:10,960
Speaker 2: But what this is designed to do is if there

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00:59:11,000 --> 00:59:15,600
Speaker 2: are legitimate usages of challenges and coaches are adept at

1095
00:59:15,880 --> 00:59:17,960
Speaker 2: making sure the call is right and they see something

1096
00:59:17,960 --> 00:59:19,880
Speaker 2: different and they turn out to be right, they're going

1097
00:59:19,920 --> 00:59:23,400
Speaker 2: to be rewarded for that. So the NBA has put

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00:59:23,400 --> 00:59:27,240
Speaker 2: a lot of thought into this. Their Competition Committee spans,

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00:59:27,560 --> 00:59:31,640
Speaker 2: you know, quite an amalgam of people, players, reps from

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00:59:31,680 --> 00:59:38,640
Speaker 2: the Players Association, various coaches, governors, basketball executives, even referees.

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00:59:39,320 --> 00:59:42,240
Speaker 2: And what's interesting on both the flop the new flop

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00:59:42,560 --> 00:59:44,880
Speaker 2: rule call in which the team will be a word

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00:59:44,880 --> 00:59:46,840
Speaker 2: of a free throw, and expanding the use of the

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00:59:46,880 --> 00:59:50,320
Speaker 2: coach's challenge. When this board of governors voted on this,

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00:59:50,920 --> 00:59:54,800
Speaker 2: they were both unanimous. No one voted no, everybody voted yes.

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00:59:55,400 --> 00:59:59,200
Speaker 2: So the endgame flopping penalty one year trial you flop,

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00:59:59,520 --> 01:00:01,760
Speaker 2: you give the a team of free throw. And by

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01:00:01,800 --> 01:00:04,600
Speaker 2: the way, again, if you see a flop in high

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01:00:04,640 --> 01:00:07,240
Speaker 2: speed action and you're asking yourself, wait a minute, why

1110
01:00:07,240 --> 01:00:09,120
Speaker 2: didn't the ref blow with so? Why didn't he stop play,

1111
01:00:09,320 --> 01:00:11,640
Speaker 2: They're not doing it that way. They'll wait till there's

1112
01:00:11,640 --> 01:00:14,439
Speaker 2: the next natural stop at your play, you know, ball

1113
01:00:14,480 --> 01:00:19,440
Speaker 2: goes out of bounds, neutral opportunity, an organic stop at

1114
01:00:19,480 --> 01:00:22,800
Speaker 2: your play, and then at that point the flopping call

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01:00:22,840 --> 01:00:26,120
Speaker 2: will be assessed. And in terms of the challenge rule,

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01:00:26,400 --> 01:00:29,120
Speaker 2: a team will get a second challenge if their first

1117
01:00:29,440 --> 01:00:33,280
Speaker 2: challenge is successful. The NBA continues to evolve. I like

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Speaker 2: both of these and I think it's designed to, you know,

1119
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Speaker 2: basically make the fan experience better. Coming up, we flipped

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Speaker 2: the football starting tonight and over the next eight weeks.

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Speaker 2: Tonight being weak one, we're going to preview one of

1122
01:00:50,120 --> 01:00:55,880
Speaker 2: the divisions of all eight National Football League NFC AFC,

1123
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Speaker 2: AFC West or check that West, North, South, and East.

1124
01:01:00,080 --> 01:01:03,160
Speaker 2: And tonight we're gonna start with the AFC West odds,

1125
01:01:03,600 --> 01:01:07,520
Speaker 2: the team totals and previews for the upcoming season, which

1126
01:01:07,600 --> 01:01:09,960
Speaker 2: is not that far away. By the way, your New

1127
01:01:10,040 --> 01:01:14,080
Speaker 2: York Jets are in camp this week, and yes, the

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01:01:14,200 --> 01:01:17,320
Speaker 2: cameras will be ruling for hard knocks. So we preview

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01:01:17,480 --> 01:01:19,880
Speaker 2: the AFC West coming up next, But first let's go

1130
01:01:19,920 --> 01:01:21,440
Speaker 2: back to our guy, Steve De Sager with.

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01:01:21,400 --> 01:01:23,760
Speaker 8: The Lakes As soon as she said the phrase your

1132
01:01:23,840 --> 01:01:26,360
Speaker 8: New York Jets, I know there were listeners that said,

1133
01:01:26,400 --> 01:01:30,000
Speaker 8: do not offend me, they are not mine. Even Jets

1134
01:01:30,000 --> 01:01:31,800
Speaker 8: fans are not claiming the Jets for most.

1135
01:01:31,960 --> 01:01:35,320
Speaker 2: That's what I get to Dave for using trite phraseyology.

1136
01:01:35,440 --> 01:01:38,680
Speaker 2: Although I won't mention any names Jason Smith exactly, we

1137
01:01:38,840 --> 01:01:40,880
Speaker 2: all know, yes, yes, take it away, my friend.

1138
01:01:41,160 --> 01:01:44,120
Speaker 8: Well, most NFL veterans do report to training camp about

1139
01:01:44,120 --> 01:01:46,520
Speaker 8: a week and a half away. July twenty fifth, that's Vets.

1140
01:01:46,680 --> 01:01:50,000
Speaker 8: WNBA All Star Game was in Vegas tonight. Brianna Stewart's

1141
01:01:50,000 --> 01:01:53,080
Speaker 8: team one game, MVP Jewel Lloyd had thirty one points.

1142
01:01:53,360 --> 01:01:56,480
Speaker 8: Vegas is NBA Summer League ends with the final Monday.

1143
01:01:56,560 --> 01:01:59,080
Speaker 8: Most team's last game is tomorrow Lebron James and the

1144
01:01:59,200 --> 01:02:02,960
Speaker 8: Lakers is switch back to Jersey. Number twenty three Mexico

1145
01:02:03,000 --> 01:02:05,720
Speaker 8: plays in Sunday nights Gold Cup soccer final in La

1146
01:02:05,800 --> 01:02:09,040
Speaker 8: against Panama on Fox TV. US women's soccer starts the

1147
01:02:09,040 --> 01:02:12,520
Speaker 8: World Cup this Friday night on Fox. The Wimbledon Men's

1148
01:02:12,520 --> 01:02:15,360
Speaker 8: final comes up at nine am Eastern time. Number two

1149
01:02:15,440 --> 01:02:18,880
Speaker 8: seed Novak Djokovic going for another crown there against the

1150
01:02:18,920 --> 01:02:22,600
Speaker 8: young one seed, Carlos Alcarez, the women's champion, MARQUETTEV and

1151
01:02:22,680 --> 01:02:25,720
Speaker 8: Drusiva the first unseeded woman to take the title there.

1152
01:02:26,000 --> 01:02:28,760
Speaker 8: She won sixty four to sixty four over on Jubour.

1153
01:02:28,880 --> 01:02:32,400
Speaker 8: Saturday morning, Rory McElroy will be teeing off short lead

1154
01:02:32,440 --> 01:02:35,200
Speaker 8: open his final round of the Scottish Open. McElroy up

1155
01:02:35,240 --> 01:02:38,600
Speaker 8: by one stroke. Steph Curry leads the celebrity golf events

1156
01:02:38,680 --> 01:02:41,440
Speaker 8: in Lake Tahoe. He had a hole in one on Saturday.

1157
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Speaker 7: The late game in.

1158
01:02:42,400 --> 01:02:45,200
Speaker 8: Major League Baseball saw the Angels come back to win

1159
01:02:45,240 --> 01:02:48,560
Speaker 8: in ten innings over Houston thirteen to twelve. That ended

1160
01:02:48,560 --> 01:02:51,600
Speaker 8: a Halo six game losing streak and as part of

1161
01:02:51,680 --> 01:02:53,960
Speaker 8: a three run bottom of the ninth, Shoheyo Tani hit

1162
01:02:53,960 --> 01:02:56,920
Speaker 8: his thirty third home run. Road wins for Detroit and

1163
01:02:56,960 --> 01:03:01,040
Speaker 8: the Yankees road wins for first plays teams Minisoa and Milwaukee.

1164
01:03:01,160 --> 01:03:03,560
Speaker 8: The Twins led at Oakland six nothing in the third.

1165
01:03:04,040 --> 01:03:06,640
Speaker 8: It was tied seven to seven going to the seventh,

1166
01:03:07,040 --> 01:03:09,680
Speaker 8: ten to seven twins. The final Minnesota first in the

1167
01:03:09,680 --> 01:03:13,320
Speaker 8: AL Central game and a half over Cleveland. Milwaukee shut

1168
01:03:13,320 --> 01:03:16,160
Speaker 8: out the Reds again three nothing, holding the Reds offense

1169
01:03:16,200 --> 01:03:19,479
Speaker 8: to one hit Milwaukee alone in first. In the NL

1170
01:03:19,560 --> 01:03:23,240
Speaker 8: Central game over Cincinnati, Brewers hit three solo homers in

1171
01:03:23,280 --> 01:03:25,800
Speaker 8: the three nothing victory. The White Sox held on for

1172
01:03:25,840 --> 01:03:28,160
Speaker 8: a six to five win at Atlanta, beating All Star

1173
01:03:28,200 --> 01:03:31,720
Speaker 8: pitcher Spencer Streyder. Ronald Lecunya did hit two home runs

1174
01:03:31,760 --> 01:03:34,440
Speaker 8: in defeat. Baltimore won at seventh in a row, six

1175
01:03:34,480 --> 01:03:37,520
Speaker 8: to five over Miami, although the Marlins Luisa Rias had

1176
01:03:37,560 --> 01:03:41,040
Speaker 8: four more hits. He's batting three eighty six. The Giants

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01:03:41,080 --> 01:03:43,640
Speaker 8: won three to one at Pittsburgh, and San Francisco's won

1178
01:03:43,680 --> 01:03:47,000
Speaker 8: four straight games, but in this one, the Giants offense

1179
01:03:47,280 --> 01:03:52,000
Speaker 8: Saturday three to thirty fifteen strikeouts, and they won. San

1180
01:03:52,040 --> 01:03:54,439
Speaker 8: Francisco scored two runs in the eighth, one on an air.

1181
01:03:54,800 --> 01:03:57,040
Speaker 8: The Dodgers held the Mets to just three hits, held

1182
01:03:57,080 --> 01:03:59,479
Speaker 8: him just won it the night before, beat him again

1183
01:03:59,560 --> 01:04:02,560
Speaker 8: five one six straight wins for La. Mookie Betts went

1184
01:04:02,640 --> 01:04:05,600
Speaker 8: four for four, including his twenty seventh homer, and the

1185
01:04:05,640 --> 01:04:08,760
Speaker 8: Dodgers two games up on the Diamondbacks in the NL West.

1186
01:04:08,760 --> 01:04:12,400
Speaker 8: Now Toronto beat Arizona and pitcher Zach Gallon, an All

1187
01:04:12,400 --> 01:04:16,240
Speaker 8: Star five two Blue Jays Texas to nothing over Cleveland

1188
01:04:16,240 --> 01:04:18,880
Speaker 8: Eraaldus Chapman got to save for the Rangers, who led

1189
01:04:18,880 --> 01:04:21,880
Speaker 8: to nothing in the second inning. The Cubs defeated Boston

1190
01:04:21,880 --> 01:04:24,720
Speaker 8: and James Paxton ten to four. Paxton had been five

1191
01:04:24,800 --> 01:04:28,360
Speaker 8: and one. Washington and Saint Louis split a doubleheader. Tampa

1192
01:04:28,400 --> 01:04:32,040
Speaker 8: Bay swept a doubleheader at Kansas City. Philadelphia and San

1193
01:04:32,120 --> 01:04:35,080
Speaker 8: Diego were in a twin bill. Philly took both games

1194
01:04:35,120 --> 01:04:39,200
Speaker 8: six four and nine four. Kyle Schwarmer homered in each game.

1195
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Speaker 8: He has twenty four. And you mentioned the name Kurt

1196
01:04:41,800 --> 01:04:43,880
Speaker 8: Flood early in the show. I looked it up. He

1197
01:04:43,920 --> 01:04:45,880
Speaker 8: did not take care of himself and passed away at

1198
01:04:45,920 --> 01:04:48,520
Speaker 8: the age of fifty nine. It was and he'd had

1199
01:04:48,560 --> 01:04:51,800
Speaker 8: throat cancer his final year. He died at UCLA Medical

1200
01:04:51,880 --> 01:04:54,840
Speaker 8: Center where apparently he had been a patient four months.

1201
01:04:55,240 --> 01:04:58,480
Speaker 8: So he's buried in Los Angeles. Apparently, Kurt Flood, the

1202
01:04:58,520 --> 01:05:01,600
Speaker 8: former star center fielder the Cardinals, won a Gold Glove

1203
01:05:01,680 --> 01:05:04,200
Speaker 8: his last seven years in a row as a Cardinal.

1204
01:05:05,120 --> 01:05:08,880
Speaker 8: He's buried at Inglewood Park Cemetery. Where is that well,

1205
01:05:08,920 --> 01:05:12,040
Speaker 8: You actually see it in pretty much any Chargers or

1206
01:05:12,160 --> 01:05:15,800
Speaker 8: Rams home game. They televised because you've got sofi stadium,

1207
01:05:15,800 --> 01:05:18,760
Speaker 8: there will fock where Fox will have Mexico's game tomorrow night,

1208
01:05:18,800 --> 01:05:22,480
Speaker 8: for example, the Gold Cup soccer final. Just about the

1209
01:05:22,520 --> 01:05:25,440
Speaker 8: North parking lot is the Forum where Magic Johnson and

1210
01:05:25,480 --> 01:05:27,880
Speaker 8: the Lakers played for so many years, and right across

1211
01:05:27,920 --> 01:05:30,920
Speaker 8: the street a very large patch of grass. It's actually

1212
01:05:30,960 --> 01:05:34,760
Speaker 8: the block of Inglewood Park Cemetery. Kurt Flood is buried

1213
01:05:34,800 --> 01:05:38,040
Speaker 8: across the street from the Forum, and so fine, back

1214
01:05:38,080 --> 01:05:38,320
Speaker 8: to you.

1215
01:05:38,640 --> 01:05:43,040
Speaker 2: Thanks so much, Steve, outstanding segue at the top of

1216
01:05:43,080 --> 01:05:46,440
Speaker 2: the hour. I'm going to give a tribute to Kurt Flood. Obviously,

1217
01:05:46,560 --> 01:05:51,360
Speaker 2: the popularity the Error movie in April, telling the story

1218
01:05:51,360 --> 01:05:55,800
Speaker 2: of Sonny Vaccero was met with a great you know,

1219
01:05:56,760 --> 01:06:00,320
Speaker 2: enjoyment of fans who really didn't know the story, know

1220
01:06:00,360 --> 01:06:02,600
Speaker 2: Kurd Flood story. Without Kurd Flood, we may never have

1221
01:06:02,640 --> 01:06:08,200
Speaker 2: had free agency. He challenged baseball's reserve clause in nineteen

1222
01:06:08,240 --> 01:06:10,960
Speaker 2: seventy two. He took it to the Supreme Court. He

1223
01:06:11,000 --> 01:06:14,280
Speaker 2: refused to report to the Philadelphia Phillies. And he had

1224
01:06:14,320 --> 01:06:17,360
Speaker 2: been a very good defensive center fielder, including on two

1225
01:06:17,440 --> 01:06:22,040
Speaker 2: World champion Saint Louis Cardinal teams. I remember Kurt Flood well.

1226
01:06:22,080 --> 01:06:24,600
Speaker 2: He had a sad life, even moved to Spain for

1227
01:06:24,960 --> 01:06:27,320
Speaker 2: many years. But I'm going to give his story top

1228
01:06:27,360 --> 01:06:30,240
Speaker 2: of the hour because we hear about these contracts that

1229
01:06:30,320 --> 01:06:34,520
Speaker 2: Hoheyo Tani might get, and what Aaron Judge got, and

1230
01:06:34,640 --> 01:06:39,120
Speaker 2: what Juan Soto turned down. None of this likely would

1231
01:06:39,160 --> 01:06:42,200
Speaker 2: have ever happened had not Kurt Flood been the true

1232
01:06:42,240 --> 01:06:45,920
Speaker 2: sacrificial lamb. And I've always believed there should be a

1233
01:06:46,000 --> 01:06:48,160
Speaker 2: wing at the Hall of Fame to honor Kurt Flood.

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01:06:48,200 --> 01:06:50,520
Speaker 2: I will tell that story at the top of the hour.

1235
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Speaker 2: All Right, seven weeks from Thursday, the Kansas City Chiefs

1236
01:06:54,080 --> 01:06:57,520
Speaker 2: begin their defense against I guess my Detroit Lions. I

1237
01:06:57,760 --> 01:07:02,080
Speaker 2: work with me. And look, that's why we're going to

1238
01:07:02,080 --> 01:07:04,600
Speaker 2: begin in the AFC West, because the Chiefs have won

1239
01:07:04,760 --> 01:07:06,520
Speaker 2: seven years in a row. They won the division seven

1240
01:07:06,560 --> 01:07:09,440
Speaker 2: years in a row, all five of Patrick Mahomes campaigns

1241
01:07:09,440 --> 01:07:12,760
Speaker 2: as a full time starter. The Chargers, they're supposed to

1242
01:07:12,760 --> 01:07:15,720
Speaker 2: be that team, always a bride's maid, never a bride.

1243
01:07:15,960 --> 01:07:18,560
Speaker 2: We'll see if they can ruffle some feathers this year,

1244
01:07:18,600 --> 01:07:20,680
Speaker 2: but according to the odds here in Vegas, don't count

1245
01:07:20,720 --> 01:07:24,000
Speaker 2: on it. The Chiefs are prohibitive favorites minus one fifty

1246
01:07:24,400 --> 01:07:27,120
Speaker 2: to win the West. Again, here's how it goes, by

1247
01:07:27,160 --> 01:07:30,280
Speaker 2: the way, meaning that to win one hundred dollars, you

1248
01:07:30,280 --> 01:07:32,080
Speaker 2: have to put up one hundred and fifty to do that.

1249
01:07:32,200 --> 01:07:35,920
Speaker 2: She's fourteen and three last year, second Lombardi Trophy in

1250
01:07:36,040 --> 01:07:39,360
Speaker 2: four seasons. Yeah, they lose Tyreek Hill, and they dealt

1251
01:07:39,400 --> 01:07:41,920
Speaker 2: with injuries throughout the season. But as long as you

1252
01:07:42,040 --> 01:07:47,520
Speaker 2: got Andy Reid, Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelcey, well they're in

1253
01:07:47,600 --> 01:07:51,160
Speaker 2: good hands, all right. Kelsey, we expect him to be

1254
01:07:51,200 --> 01:07:54,720
Speaker 2: a dominant force in the offense. Look, they had the

1255
01:07:54,720 --> 01:07:59,080
Speaker 2: offseason departure of Juju Smith Schuster, and so that opens

1256
01:07:59,080 --> 01:08:03,360
Speaker 2: the door for Mark Kiss, Valdez Scantling, Donovan Smith, Juwan Taylor.

1257
01:08:03,440 --> 01:08:07,919
Speaker 2: They've bolstered the offensive line, and I think Kansas City

1258
01:08:08,040 --> 01:08:11,240
Speaker 2: is poised. This team is unique and the fact that

1259
01:08:11,280 --> 01:08:14,240
Speaker 2: they have star power, but there's a certain humility and

1260
01:08:14,640 --> 01:08:17,160
Speaker 2: lunch pale attitude that combined the best of both worlds.

1261
01:08:17,160 --> 01:08:19,759
Speaker 2: And again, as long as you have Reied, Mahomes and Kelsey,

1262
01:08:20,360 --> 01:08:23,200
Speaker 2: believe me, they're going to be on the short list.

1263
01:08:23,800 --> 01:08:26,320
Speaker 2: Chargers plus three twenty five. That's a big drop off,

1264
01:08:26,360 --> 01:08:27,479
Speaker 2: meaning you have to put up on Hunter to win

1265
01:08:27,520 --> 01:08:30,280
Speaker 2: three twenty five. They've been the hip Hepsters pick to

1266
01:08:30,280 --> 01:08:32,920
Speaker 2: win the FC West for the last few seasons. But

1267
01:08:33,160 --> 01:08:38,360
Speaker 2: look they're coming to Danieu mall in that Brandon Staley

1268
01:08:38,920 --> 01:08:41,120
Speaker 2: is a guy that I don't trust, I don't particularly

1269
01:08:41,120 --> 01:08:44,840
Speaker 2: care for, and I will tell you he blew a

1270
01:08:44,880 --> 01:08:47,479
Speaker 2: twenty seven to nothing lead to the Jaguars in the

1271
01:08:47,560 --> 01:08:51,120
Speaker 2: divisional round. There's just something about the guy that doesn't

1272
01:08:51,160 --> 01:08:54,000
Speaker 2: click with me. But justin Herbert, he's a guy held

1273
01:08:54,000 --> 01:08:56,000
Speaker 2: in high regard. He's one of the best young quarterbacks

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01:08:56,040 --> 01:09:00,160
Speaker 2: in the league. He's an early MVP candidate. But the

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01:09:00,240 --> 01:09:03,080
Speaker 2: Chargers have this task to get over the hump. I'm

1276
01:09:03,080 --> 01:09:05,479
Speaker 2: not so sure they can. A lot of injuries. Last

1277
01:09:05,520 --> 01:09:07,839
Speaker 2: year they were ten and seven, and if their defense

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01:09:07,920 --> 01:09:10,360
Speaker 2: is healthy, they got a shot at making a run

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01:09:10,360 --> 01:09:14,479
Speaker 2: at the AFC West. Otherwise they're gonna be relegated. It's

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01:09:14,520 --> 01:09:18,759
Speaker 2: gonna take on my herculean effort to overcome the Chiefs. Meanwhile,

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01:09:18,800 --> 01:09:22,120
Speaker 2: the Broncos plus four to seventy five. People thought Denver

1282
01:09:22,120 --> 01:09:24,360
Speaker 2: would take the huge lead forward. Last year, they finished

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01:09:24,360 --> 01:09:27,479
Speaker 2: five and twelve. Nathaniel Hackett is a four letter word

1284
01:09:27,479 --> 01:09:30,519
Speaker 2: in Denver. He lost his job. Russell Wilson has now

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01:09:30,880 --> 01:09:33,240
Speaker 2: got a new label. He's one of the most overpaid

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01:09:33,280 --> 01:09:36,639
Speaker 2: players in the league. However, I think currently the culture

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01:09:36,680 --> 01:09:38,920
Speaker 2: of the Broncos and for one, wife heard we've had

1288
01:09:40,000 --> 01:09:42,720
Speaker 2: Chad Andres of one oh four point three three the

1289
01:09:42,840 --> 01:09:45,160
Speaker 2: fan in Denver on my show a couple of times,

1290
01:09:45,160 --> 01:09:50,120
Speaker 2: been very candid. Sean Payton has truly reconfigured the culture

1291
01:09:50,680 --> 01:09:53,160
Speaker 2: in a Denver and I think they're gonna show results

1292
01:09:53,640 --> 01:09:58,719
Speaker 2: right away. I really do not. For nothing, Denver's defense

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01:09:59,040 --> 01:10:01,240
Speaker 2: gave up the eighth fet uist yards last year and

1294
01:10:01,280 --> 01:10:04,880
Speaker 2: the twelfth fewest points despite being on the field the

1295
01:10:05,000 --> 01:10:08,960
Speaker 2: tenth most minutes in the league. So if Sean Payton

1296
01:10:09,040 --> 01:10:11,559
Speaker 2: can figure out the offense, if he can get Russell

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01:10:11,680 --> 01:10:15,080
Speaker 2: back to a fac simile of what he was before,

1298
01:10:15,720 --> 01:10:20,160
Speaker 2: Denver can compete. Denver can't compete other Raiders. They're twelve

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01:10:20,240 --> 01:10:23,240
Speaker 2: to one to win the division. Currently, I think this

1300
01:10:23,360 --> 01:10:25,439
Speaker 2: is an organization that very much looks like a drunk

1301
01:10:25,439 --> 01:10:29,479
Speaker 2: crossing an icy street. They got problems, real problems. You

1302
01:10:29,520 --> 01:10:31,960
Speaker 2: can call them long shots, but they're worse than that. Now.

1303
01:10:32,000 --> 01:10:34,120
Speaker 2: They finished one game ahead of the Broncos last year

1304
01:10:34,479 --> 01:10:36,840
Speaker 2: at six to eleven, but they had a bunch of

1305
01:10:36,840 --> 01:10:40,439
Speaker 2: offseason shacups. The top storyline, of course here in Las Vegas,

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01:10:40,720 --> 01:10:43,479
Speaker 2: the start of Jimmy g Era, which coincides with the

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01:10:43,560 --> 01:10:47,559
Speaker 2: end of Derek Carr's tenure. Now DeVante Adams is back.

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01:10:48,600 --> 01:10:52,280
Speaker 2: We'll see if what the Raiders do with Josh Jacobs.

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01:10:52,680 --> 01:10:55,800
Speaker 2: So far, he's franchised and they've got to money to

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01:10:55,800 --> 01:10:57,960
Speaker 2: get a deal. If they don't, Jacobs is saying he

1311
01:10:58,040 --> 01:11:02,160
Speaker 2: might sit out. We'll see what happened. But the Josh McDaniels,

1312
01:11:02,160 --> 01:11:05,080
Speaker 2: and I'll stick with the line I used two years

1313
01:11:05,120 --> 01:11:07,759
Speaker 2: ago when it was announced that Josh McDaniels was coming

1314
01:11:07,800 --> 01:11:10,800
Speaker 2: to Las Vegas. Someone asked what did I think of that?

1315
01:11:10,840 --> 01:11:13,320
Speaker 2: I said, well, is he bringing Belichick and Brady with him?

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01:11:13,439 --> 01:11:16,639
Speaker 2: Because if he is, that might be okay, Not so much,

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01:11:16,800 --> 01:11:19,080
Speaker 2: you know how I feel about that. Not change in

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01:11:19,160 --> 01:11:22,280
Speaker 2: my mind. Raiders defense keep up the seventh most points

1319
01:11:22,280 --> 01:11:24,800
Speaker 2: in the league last season. They're still very poorous in

1320
01:11:24,800 --> 01:11:27,479
Speaker 2: the secondary. Hopefully they can get a good year out

1321
01:11:27,479 --> 01:11:30,599
Speaker 2: of Max Crosby and a better year out of Chandler Jones.

1322
01:11:30,760 --> 01:11:33,479
Speaker 2: They did draft a good guy SEVD overall Tyree Wilson.

1323
01:11:33,800 --> 01:11:36,080
Speaker 2: But I think the Raiders have holes all over the

1324
01:11:36,080 --> 01:11:39,960
Speaker 2: place and they're in arguably the toughest division in football.

1325
01:11:40,320 --> 01:11:43,040
Speaker 2: Chiefs over under wins eleven and a half. Chiefs had

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01:11:43,080 --> 01:11:45,760
Speaker 2: fourteen wins last year. Can they get to twelve? I

1327
01:11:45,760 --> 01:11:48,559
Speaker 2: don't see why not. It's no secret they're the team

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01:11:48,640 --> 01:11:51,800
Speaker 2: to beat. They flourish since Mahomes stick over. There's a

1329
01:11:51,840 --> 01:11:54,680
Speaker 2: point where the season gets long for other teams when

1330
01:11:54,680 --> 01:11:56,880
Speaker 2: they have to play the Chiefs, And I would just

1331
01:11:56,920 --> 01:12:00,640
Speaker 2: say this, the Chiefs have won twelve plus game in

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01:12:00,680 --> 01:12:03,200
Speaker 2: all five years with Mahomes as a starter. Do I

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01:12:03,240 --> 01:12:05,479
Speaker 2: think they're going over eleven and a half wins? Yes,

1334
01:12:05,840 --> 01:12:09,320
Speaker 2: Chargers over under nine and a half wins on paper,

1335
01:12:09,360 --> 01:12:11,960
Speaker 2: one of the most talented rosters in the NFL, So

1336
01:12:12,000 --> 01:12:14,599
Speaker 2: the key is staying healthy. Herbert has the best chance

1337
01:12:14,640 --> 01:12:17,320
Speaker 2: in his career to win an MVP. He's got a good,

1338
01:12:17,479 --> 01:12:21,360
Speaker 2: maybe almost elite receiving corps. They do lose Austin Eckler,

1339
01:12:21,400 --> 01:12:24,360
Speaker 2: that'll put more pressure on his shoulders. But I would

1340
01:12:24,360 --> 01:12:27,000
Speaker 2: say the Chargers have increased their win total in each

1341
01:12:27,000 --> 01:12:30,080
Speaker 2: of the last four seasons from five four years ago

1342
01:12:30,439 --> 01:12:33,040
Speaker 2: to ten in twenty twenty two. Can the Chargers go

1343
01:12:33,080 --> 01:12:36,519
Speaker 2: ten and seven? Absolutely? Even Brandon Saley shouldn't screw that up.

1344
01:12:36,520 --> 01:12:39,320
Speaker 2: I think the Chargers go over nine and a half wins.

1345
01:12:39,600 --> 01:12:42,120
Speaker 2: Denver eight and a half wins. Now, they're a team

1346
01:12:42,200 --> 01:12:44,960
Speaker 2: begging to be competitive again. I think Sean Payton is

1347
01:12:44,960 --> 01:12:46,760
Speaker 2: one of the best coaches in the league. Will be

1348
01:12:46,800 --> 01:12:48,960
Speaker 2: a major upgrade over Hacket. Gets to work with an

1349
01:12:48,960 --> 01:12:51,920
Speaker 2: elite defense and a veteran quarterback. He's been a winner,

1350
01:12:52,000 --> 01:12:55,680
Speaker 2: he's been proven. The Broncos only scored more than sixteen

1351
01:12:55,720 --> 01:12:58,640
Speaker 2: points five times last year, and they went three and

1352
01:12:58,720 --> 01:13:01,439
Speaker 2: two in those games. Nine of their eleven losses were

1353
01:13:01,439 --> 01:13:04,320
Speaker 2: by one score. Can Denver go nine and eight? I

1354
01:13:04,320 --> 01:13:06,360
Speaker 2: believe they can. The one team that's going under their

1355
01:13:06,360 --> 01:13:08,880
Speaker 2: win total. I believe the Raiders will go under their

1356
01:13:08,920 --> 01:13:11,479
Speaker 2: win totals seven and a half. They're sort of playing

1357
01:13:11,520 --> 01:13:13,160
Speaker 2: with house money. And by the way, that total is

1358
01:13:13,160 --> 01:13:15,519
Speaker 2: down to seven six and a half in some books,

1359
01:13:15,520 --> 01:13:18,160
Speaker 2: depending on where you shop. Yes, they were four and

1360
01:13:18,200 --> 01:13:20,639
Speaker 2: four of their final leg games of the season, and

1361
01:13:20,960 --> 01:13:23,240
Speaker 2: they were three and three in their division. But you

1362
01:13:23,400 --> 01:13:27,200
Speaker 2: have to know how sketchy this team looks, right now

1363
01:13:27,400 --> 01:13:32,320
Speaker 2: they better hope Jimmy Garoppolo is healthy. If not, you

1364
01:13:32,680 --> 01:13:36,599
Speaker 2: fall on the shoulders of Brian Hoyer. I don't think

1365
01:13:36,640 --> 01:13:39,000
Speaker 2: they want that, So there you have it. I do

1366
01:13:39,040 --> 01:13:43,599
Speaker 2: expect Kansas City to win the division. Chargers second, Denver

1367
01:13:43,840 --> 01:13:46,679
Speaker 2: is gonna compete. I think Denver can win nine games,

1368
01:13:46,680 --> 01:13:48,760
Speaker 2: the Chargers can win ten, Kansas City she win twelve

1369
01:13:48,840 --> 01:13:51,200
Speaker 2: or thirteen. Raiders, I think they're looking at a six

1370
01:13:51,240 --> 01:13:53,680
Speaker 2: and eleven maybe if they get hot, a seven and

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01:13:53,760 --> 01:13:57,240
Speaker 2: ten season. Yes, you heard it. I'm not being funny here,

1372
01:13:57,720 --> 01:14:01,439
Speaker 2: It's really the way I feel coming up. Take Heart.

1373
01:14:01,520 --> 01:14:03,519
Speaker 2: If you are an Angel fan or a team that

1374
01:14:03,600 --> 01:14:05,280
Speaker 2: was off to a slow start the first half of

1375
01:14:05,280 --> 01:14:09,240
Speaker 2: the season, history tells us you're not dead yet. Hope

1376
01:14:09,280 --> 01:14:13,160
Speaker 2: does spring eternal even in July. I'm Bernie Fradderer coming

1377
01:14:13,160 --> 01:14:15,320
Speaker 2: to your live from Las Vegas, Fox Sports Radio, Tireck

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01:14:15,360 --> 01:14:17,840
Speaker 2: dot com studios. Don't go away. You're listening to the

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01:14:17,880 --> 01:14:22,800
Speaker 2: Bernie Frattle Show on Fox Sports Radio. All right back

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01:14:22,840 --> 01:14:25,320
Speaker 2: on the Bernie Frattle Show. Come to your live from

1381
01:14:25,400 --> 01:14:29,800
Speaker 2: Las Vegas, Fox Sports Radio, Tirack dot Com studios. Take

1382
01:14:29,920 --> 01:14:33,280
Speaker 2: up to three and Pacific, six am Eastern. Take Heart.

1383
01:14:33,520 --> 01:14:37,479
Speaker 2: Angels fans take Hart, Reds fans take heart. Any major

1384
01:14:37,560 --> 01:14:41,240
Speaker 2: League team fan who believes that the season is lost.

1385
01:14:41,280 --> 01:14:44,719
Speaker 2: It is only July sixteenth. And what if I told

1386
01:14:44,760 --> 01:14:49,479
Speaker 2: you that since nineteen ninety five alone, there were eleven

1387
01:14:49,520 --> 01:14:54,080
Speaker 2: teams in that span who were under five hundred at

1388
01:14:54,120 --> 01:14:56,000
Speaker 2: the All Star break that came back to win their division.

1389
01:14:56,000 --> 01:14:58,760
Speaker 2: There were nine teams that came back to make the

1390
01:14:58,800 --> 01:15:02,479
Speaker 2: wild Card. But even long before the Wildcard, there have

1391
01:15:02,600 --> 01:15:05,800
Speaker 2: been teams that were down but not out. And I'm

1392
01:15:05,800 --> 01:15:07,760
Speaker 2: going to refresh your memory on what I believe are

1393
01:15:07,800 --> 01:15:10,360
Speaker 2: the greatest pen and Chase comebacks of all time. Do

1394
01:15:10,360 --> 01:15:13,280
Speaker 2: you remember the nineteen seventy eight New York Yankees. They

1395
01:15:13,360 --> 01:15:15,920
Speaker 2: were coming off the seventy seven World Series against the Dodgers,

1396
01:15:15,920 --> 01:15:19,160
Speaker 2: but on July the twentieth, and there was no wild

1397
01:15:19,240 --> 01:15:22,439
Speaker 2: Card back then. The Yankees trailed the Red Sox by

1398
01:15:22,479 --> 01:15:26,640
Speaker 2: fourteen games in the Al East on July twentieth. But

1399
01:15:26,720 --> 01:15:28,720
Speaker 2: what did the Bronx Bombers do? They got hot, They

1400
01:15:28,760 --> 01:15:31,000
Speaker 2: went fifty two and twenty went down the stretch that

1401
01:15:31,120 --> 01:15:33,920
Speaker 2: led to the famous game. October second, nineteen seventy eight,

1402
01:15:34,479 --> 01:15:37,360
Speaker 2: Bucky Dent hit a game winning home run in the

1403
01:15:37,360 --> 01:15:41,280
Speaker 2: one game tiebreaker to give New York the division and

1404
01:15:41,320 --> 01:15:44,639
Speaker 2: broke the Red Sox. Hearts of my good buddy Jeremy Shapp.

1405
01:15:44,680 --> 01:15:46,280
Speaker 2: He was eight years old at the time. Is dad,

1406
01:15:46,280 --> 01:15:49,519
Speaker 2: Dick Schap brought him to the game, and he missed

1407
01:15:49,560 --> 01:15:51,840
Speaker 2: the home run because he was buying his son popcorn

1408
01:15:52,479 --> 01:15:56,160
Speaker 2: and a coke. And he said his dad never forgave

1409
01:15:56,200 --> 01:15:59,880
Speaker 2: him for that. The nineteen ninety five Seattle Mariners Ken

1410
01:16:00,040 --> 01:16:03,200
Speaker 2: Gray Junior. That was a team that played the game

1411
01:16:03,240 --> 01:16:06,720
Speaker 2: with unmitigated open end to joy. August third, the Mariners

1412
01:16:06,720 --> 01:16:10,080
Speaker 2: trailed the California Angels by thirteen games, and they were

1413
01:16:10,080 --> 01:16:13,160
Speaker 2: two games under five hundred at August third, but the

1414
01:16:13,160 --> 01:16:17,040
Speaker 2: Mariners got hot, went thirty five and ten. The Angels

1415
01:16:17,080 --> 01:16:19,240
Speaker 2: went twenty two and thirty three in their final fifty

1416
01:16:19,240 --> 01:16:22,400
Speaker 2: five games. Seattle wins the West. They went all the

1417
01:16:22,439 --> 01:16:26,960
Speaker 2: way to the Alcs before they fell to the Cleveland Indians.

1418
01:16:27,280 --> 01:16:30,479
Speaker 2: How about the lovable Chicago Cubs. Back on July fifth,

1419
01:16:31,439 --> 01:16:35,040
Speaker 2: nineteen thirty five, they were eleven games behind the New

1420
01:16:35,080 --> 01:16:37,639
Speaker 2: York Giants, but they went sixty two and twenty two

1421
01:16:37,680 --> 01:16:40,160
Speaker 2: down the stretch. They even won twenty one games in

1422
01:16:40,200 --> 01:16:43,360
Speaker 2: a row starting on Labor Day, they won the pennant.

1423
01:16:43,400 --> 01:16:46,120
Speaker 2: Not only won the pennant, they won a pennant by

1424
01:16:46,120 --> 01:16:50,320
Speaker 2: four games. Now you probably remember this in nineteen ninety

1425
01:16:50,360 --> 01:16:53,519
Speaker 2: three Atlanta Braves. The Giants are running away with it.

1426
01:16:53,760 --> 01:16:57,880
Speaker 2: That was Barry Bond's first year. But the Braves were

1427
01:16:58,120 --> 01:17:00,960
Speaker 2: off the division lead by ten games. On Lie twenty third,

1428
01:17:01,000 --> 01:17:04,719
Speaker 2: Remember this is only July sixteenth, they bring in crime

1429
01:17:04,800 --> 01:17:07,519
Speaker 2: dog McGriff. They go forty nine and sixteen in their

1430
01:17:07,520 --> 01:17:10,320
Speaker 2: final sixty five games. They win the NL West over

1431
01:17:10,360 --> 01:17:13,840
Speaker 2: the Giants by one game. Sixty four Cardinals, led by

1432
01:17:13,880 --> 01:17:17,759
Speaker 2: Bob Gibson, eleven games out on August twenty fourth, twenty

1433
01:17:17,760 --> 01:17:20,559
Speaker 2: eight to eleven down the stretch, they win the pennant.

1434
01:17:20,760 --> 01:17:25,480
Speaker 2: The nineteen sixty nine amazing Mets. Yes. On August fourteenth,

1435
01:17:25,960 --> 01:17:28,280
Speaker 2: the New York Mets trail the Chicago Cubs by ten

1436
01:17:28,360 --> 01:17:30,760
Speaker 2: games in the NL East, they go thirty eight to

1437
01:17:30,800 --> 01:17:34,439
Speaker 2: eleven down the stretch. The miracle Mets win the East

1438
01:17:34,600 --> 01:17:36,800
Speaker 2: by eight games. They went on to win the World

1439
01:17:36,880 --> 01:17:41,240
Speaker 2: Series in five over the Baltimore Orioles. Now they get

1440
01:17:41,280 --> 01:17:43,040
Speaker 2: to a way back on a cookie jar on this

1441
01:17:43,880 --> 01:17:47,439
Speaker 2: but it happened August ninth the Saint Louis Cardinals the

1442
01:17:47,479 --> 01:17:50,439
Speaker 2: Gas House Game nineteen thirty. There were twelve games out

1443
01:17:50,479 --> 01:17:53,240
Speaker 2: on August ninth, only one game over five hundred. On

1444
01:17:53,320 --> 01:17:56,120
Speaker 2: August ninth, they go thirty nine and ten down the stretch.

1445
01:17:56,479 --> 01:17:59,519
Speaker 2: They beat the Cubs. The forty two Cardinals twelve years

1446
01:17:59,600 --> 01:18:04,360
Speaker 2: later say franchise ten games back. On August fifth, they

1447
01:18:04,400 --> 01:18:07,599
Speaker 2: go forty four and nine, unheard of down the stretch,

1448
01:18:07,840 --> 01:18:10,360
Speaker 2: they overtake the Dodgers for the n L crown. And then,

1449
01:18:10,360 --> 01:18:12,840
Speaker 2: of course, who can forget the shot heard around the

1450
01:18:12,840 --> 01:18:17,879
Speaker 2: world Bobby Thompson nineteen fifty one, the New York Giants.

1451
01:18:18,360 --> 01:18:22,920
Speaker 2: The Giants trailed the Dodgers by thirteen games. On August twelfth,

1452
01:18:23,640 --> 01:18:25,920
Speaker 2: they go thirty eight and seven in their final forty

1453
01:18:25,960 --> 01:18:29,200
Speaker 2: five games. They forced a one game playoff with Brooklyn.

1454
01:18:29,520 --> 01:18:32,880
Speaker 2: Bobby Thompson's shot heard around the world gave the Giants

1455
01:18:33,040 --> 01:18:37,240
Speaker 2: this walk off win. Broadcaster Russ Hodges, You've heard it

1456
01:18:37,280 --> 01:18:39,839
Speaker 2: a thousand times. The Giants won the pennant. The Giants

1457
01:18:39,840 --> 01:18:42,719
Speaker 2: win the pennant. My buddy Dick Shapp was so upset,

1458
01:18:43,080 --> 01:18:44,760
Speaker 2: he said, if he'd have been in an elevator with

1459
01:18:44,800 --> 01:18:47,479
Speaker 2: a gun, and Rolf Brankett gave up the home run

1460
01:18:47,520 --> 01:18:50,519
Speaker 2: and Bobby Thompson hit it, he would have shot them both.

1461
01:18:50,760 --> 01:18:53,960
Speaker 2: Take heart, angels fans. You don't see how it can happen,

1462
01:18:54,200 --> 01:18:57,000
Speaker 2: and it might not happen, but there are ten quick

1463
01:18:57,080 --> 01:19:01,080
Speaker 2: examples right there that hope springs eternal. Major League Baseball

1464
01:19:01,240 --> 01:19:03,920
Speaker 2: eat it in August. Come up with chronicle the life

1465
01:19:04,040 --> 01:19:06,360
Speaker 2: of Kurt Flood. You're gonna want to hear this story.

1466
01:19:06,520 --> 01:19:11,080
Speaker 2: I'm Bernie Fratto. This is Fox Sports Radio. Keep it locked, Bernie.

1467
01:19:11,320 --> 01:19:13,360
Speaker 2: Now you heard the man that Bernie Fraddle show keeps

1468
01:19:13,479 --> 01:19:16,400
Speaker 2: rolling right along. My name is Bernie Frattle, coming you

1469
01:19:16,439 --> 01:19:19,240
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Speaker 2: you saw the Air movie in April, I bet you

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Speaker 2: liked it. I bet you probably didn't know the story.

1476
01:19:39,200 --> 01:19:43,200
Speaker 2: I'm lucky met Jimmy Vicero, Sonny's brother, many times, knowing

1477
01:19:43,240 --> 01:19:47,519
Speaker 2: wellre South went in Vegas, met Sonny once remember that story.

1478
01:19:48,800 --> 01:19:50,800
Speaker 2: Why do I bring it up because I think it

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Speaker 2: opens the door for a story that needs to be told,

1480
01:19:54,240 --> 01:19:56,439
Speaker 2: and it needs to be told in the big screen

1481
01:19:56,479 --> 01:19:59,640
Speaker 2: about a guy named Kurt Flood. Kurt Flood died in

1482
01:19:59,680 --> 01:20:04,280
Speaker 2: nineteen ninety seven. Free agency in baseball, as we know

1483
01:20:04,360 --> 01:20:08,320
Speaker 2: it was basically born in nineteen seventy five. So Baseball

1484
01:20:08,400 --> 01:20:13,800
Speaker 2: in the Union had ample time twenty two years to

1485
01:20:13,880 --> 01:20:18,759
Speaker 2: do something to help Kurt Flood, and they whift. Here's

1486
01:20:18,800 --> 01:20:22,080
Speaker 2: the story. So, back when Kurt Flood played, there was

1487
01:20:22,120 --> 01:20:25,080
Speaker 2: no such thing as free agency. When you signed with

1488
01:20:25,080 --> 01:20:27,280
Speaker 2: the major League Baseball team, they owned your rights and

1489
01:20:27,320 --> 01:20:32,280
Speaker 2: you were relegated essentially to a life of indentured servitude. Now,

1490
01:20:32,520 --> 01:20:35,479
Speaker 2: every free agent in any sport who was signed a

1491
01:20:35,520 --> 01:20:39,479
Speaker 2: megadeal contract going back to nineteen seventy six, you should

1492
01:20:39,520 --> 01:20:43,840
Speaker 2: be bowing at the altar of Kurt Flood. The fact

1493
01:20:43,920 --> 01:20:47,120
Speaker 2: that Major League Baseball or the Players Union didn't take

1494
01:20:47,160 --> 01:20:50,599
Speaker 2: care of him before his death. His criminal There needs

1495
01:20:50,680 --> 01:20:54,400
Speaker 2: to be a movie now. I would say most casual

1496
01:20:54,479 --> 01:20:57,960
Speaker 2: fans and probably most Major League Baseball players are either

1497
01:20:58,040 --> 01:21:02,559
Speaker 2: unaware of Kurt Flood and they don't understand what his

1498
01:21:02,600 --> 01:21:08,439
Speaker 2: relationship with was when it came to toppling. What baseball

1499
01:21:08,479 --> 01:21:12,519
Speaker 2: had was a long established policy called the reserve clause,

1500
01:21:12,920 --> 01:21:16,519
Speaker 2: and it opened the door for free agency. Now, many

1501
01:21:16,520 --> 01:21:21,599
Speaker 2: many many years ago, HBO Sports did a vignette called

1502
01:21:21,640 --> 01:21:24,920
Speaker 2: The Curious Case of Kurt Flood. It was a documentary

1503
01:21:25,000 --> 01:21:26,880
Speaker 2: I don't recall ever seeing, and I didn't even know

1504
01:21:26,960 --> 01:21:30,040
Speaker 2: what was out, but I told it was. Kurt Flood

1505
01:21:30,120 --> 01:21:32,400
Speaker 2: was in fact an All Star outfielder for the Saint

1506
01:21:32,400 --> 01:21:35,759
Speaker 2: Louis Cardinals in the sixties. I remember he played center

1507
01:21:35,760 --> 01:21:39,400
Speaker 2: field in the sixty seven series when the Cardinals beat Boston.

1508
01:21:39,400 --> 01:21:42,240
Speaker 2: In sixty eighth series, when the Cardinals lost to the

1509
01:21:42,240 --> 01:21:47,280
Speaker 2: Detroit Tigers, and Flood challenged the reserve clause because he

1510
01:21:47,360 --> 01:21:49,599
Speaker 2: was traded to Philadelphia. He didn't want to go there,

1511
01:21:50,680 --> 01:21:53,519
Speaker 2: and he took Major League Baseball to court and he

1512
01:21:53,600 --> 01:21:55,760
Speaker 2: ultimately lost. He took it to the Supreme Court in

1513
01:21:55,840 --> 01:21:59,960
Speaker 2: nineteen seventy two and his career was over. Kurt Flood

1514
01:22:00,400 --> 01:22:04,000
Speaker 2: never played Major League baseball again, but that case in

1515
01:22:04,080 --> 01:22:08,960
Speaker 2: nineteen seventy two completely galvanized the Major League Baseball Players

1516
01:22:08,960 --> 01:22:13,639
Speaker 2: Association in their fight because they were seeking impartial arbitration

1517
01:22:14,160 --> 01:22:17,040
Speaker 2: and they were seeking free agency, and by nineteen seventy five,

1518
01:22:17,439 --> 01:22:21,400
Speaker 2: the union finally prevailed, They got their way, and free

1519
01:22:21,400 --> 01:22:25,439
Speaker 2: agency was born, and it very quickly changed the face

1520
01:22:25,479 --> 01:22:32,240
Speaker 2: of baseball. Kurt Flood has basically become a historical footnote.

1521
01:22:32,360 --> 01:22:36,040
Speaker 2: There are multiple seven figure salaries just about I mean,

1522
01:22:36,080 --> 01:22:38,439
Speaker 2: the average major league salary in baseball is about three

1523
01:22:38,439 --> 01:22:41,280
Speaker 2: million dollars a year now, and all this high stakes

1524
01:22:41,360 --> 01:22:47,160
Speaker 2: collective bargaining agreement stuff, it's become the norm. And again

1525
01:22:47,439 --> 01:22:51,320
Speaker 2: I understand, it's my understanding that HBO did a documentary

1526
01:22:51,320 --> 01:22:53,799
Speaker 2: sometime around two thousand and eight. Two I didn't see it, okay,

1527
01:22:54,439 --> 01:22:57,519
Speaker 2: But rather than dive into the legal situations and twists

1528
01:22:57,520 --> 01:23:04,680
Speaker 2: in turns of Kurt Flood versus Bowieki, it begs the

1529
01:23:05,880 --> 01:23:12,080
Speaker 2: curiosity to further examine Kurt Flood's life and how much

1530
01:23:12,120 --> 01:23:20,639
Speaker 2: he suffered. Because Flood dealt with many battles involving racism, alcoholism,

1531
01:23:20,880 --> 01:23:26,320
Speaker 2: He was financially ruined, his family faced turmoil, and these

1532
01:23:26,360 --> 01:23:31,240
Speaker 2: are things that made him fight baseball harder because he

1533
01:23:31,400 --> 01:23:35,000
Speaker 2: wanted the same rights that major league athletes in all

1534
01:23:35,040 --> 01:23:40,160
Speaker 2: four sports take, you know, take for granted. Now, I

1535
01:23:40,200 --> 01:23:44,439
Speaker 2: think and what was unfortunate is Flood's teammates admitted that

1536
01:23:44,520 --> 01:23:47,040
Speaker 2: they really couldn't back them because they were afraid they'd

1537
01:23:47,040 --> 01:23:52,439
Speaker 2: lose their jobs as well. And Marvin Miller, who's probably

1538
01:23:52,439 --> 01:23:55,400
Speaker 2: the most influential director of all time with the Major

1539
01:23:55,479 --> 01:24:00,479
Speaker 2: League Baseball Players Association, told Flood, don't take on baseball.

1540
01:24:01,560 --> 01:24:05,120
Speaker 2: He got a million one chance of prevailing. Interestingly enough,

1541
01:24:05,720 --> 01:24:08,360
Speaker 2: in a way, Flood prevailed. He just never was able

1542
01:24:08,400 --> 01:24:13,919
Speaker 2: to He was never able to reap the benefits. Bob Gibson,

1543
01:24:14,120 --> 01:24:16,640
Speaker 2: the All Hall of Fame pitcher, Flood's teammate and a

1544
01:24:16,720 --> 01:24:20,160
Speaker 2: very close friend. He was very candid. People ask people,

1545
01:24:20,600 --> 01:24:22,800
Speaker 2: were you behind Kurt Flood? He says, yeah, I was

1546
01:24:22,840 --> 01:24:26,479
Speaker 2: behind Kurt Flood, ten steps behind Kurt Flood. He didn't

1547
01:24:26,479 --> 01:24:31,080
Speaker 2: want the fallout. He didn't want the fallout. He none

1548
01:24:31,120 --> 01:24:34,200
Speaker 2: of the players did. They were afraid that what happened

1549
01:24:34,240 --> 01:24:37,519
Speaker 2: to Kurt Flood would happen to them. But if Kurt

1550
01:24:37,520 --> 01:24:42,560
Speaker 2: Flood had not existed, I really wonder what might have

1551
01:24:42,640 --> 01:24:46,280
Speaker 2: happened in terms of how free agency would have been born.

1552
01:24:47,280 --> 01:24:50,400
Speaker 2: Kurt Flood, in his significance in baseball history, is something

1553
01:24:50,439 --> 01:24:53,120
Speaker 2: that really can't be understood just by looking at some

1554
01:24:53,200 --> 01:24:56,040
Speaker 2: simple record book. Okay, you got to look at the

1555
01:24:56,040 --> 01:24:59,400
Speaker 2: man's life. But he did play fifteen years from fifty

1556
01:24:59,479 --> 01:25:02,599
Speaker 2: six to seven one. He did take the nineteen seventy

1557
01:25:02,680 --> 01:25:05,360
Speaker 2: season off. He batted two to ninety three years. A

1558
01:25:05,360 --> 01:25:07,919
Speaker 2: three time All Star, he played center field for the Cardinals,

1559
01:25:08,200 --> 01:25:11,400
Speaker 2: won seven goal gloves. He was on three Pennant winning

1560
01:25:11,439 --> 01:25:15,920
Speaker 2: teams and earned two World Series rings. But at the

1561
01:25:16,000 --> 01:25:19,200
Speaker 2: end of the sixty nine season, the Saint Louis Cardinals

1562
01:25:19,240 --> 01:25:22,240
Speaker 2: traded him, along with Tim McCarver a couple of other players,

1563
01:25:22,280 --> 01:25:24,879
Speaker 2: to the Phillies for Dick Allen a couple other players.

1564
01:25:25,479 --> 01:25:27,960
Speaker 2: But the trade was different from any other trade because

1565
01:25:28,000 --> 01:25:31,440
Speaker 2: this is one of those situations where one of the stars,

1566
01:25:31,840 --> 01:25:35,519
Speaker 2: it was really Kurt Flood for Dick Allen, and there

1567
01:25:35,520 --> 01:25:37,599
Speaker 2: were the other players on both sides were throw ins.

1568
01:25:38,000 --> 01:25:42,240
Speaker 2: Kurt Flood refused to go. He not only refused to go,

1569
01:25:42,640 --> 01:25:44,640
Speaker 2: but he went to his personal lawyer and then to

1570
01:25:44,720 --> 01:25:48,519
Speaker 2: Marvin Miller, who was the founder and executive director of

1571
01:25:48,560 --> 01:25:51,200
Speaker 2: the Players Association, told him he wanted to assume Major

1572
01:25:51,320 --> 01:25:55,200
Speaker 2: League Baseball. This really sent shock waves not only through

1573
01:25:55,240 --> 01:25:59,920
Speaker 2: baseball but really all professional sports. And you can feel

1574
01:26:00,120 --> 01:26:04,920
Speaker 2: those waves today Because Kurt Flood stood his ground. He

1575
01:26:05,040 --> 01:26:08,559
Speaker 2: was aware that would cost him dearly. He was aware

1576
01:26:09,120 --> 01:26:11,519
Speaker 2: he was bringing his baseball life to an end, but

1577
01:26:11,560 --> 01:26:16,880
Speaker 2: he never wavered. See back in nineteen sixty nine, if

1578
01:26:16,880 --> 01:26:19,160
Speaker 2: you were a player in the Major League Baseball you

1579
01:26:19,200 --> 01:26:21,640
Speaker 2: were bound to your team for life. There was a

1580
01:26:21,680 --> 01:26:26,800
Speaker 2: thing called the reserve claw. Simply put, the player was property.

1581
01:26:27,320 --> 01:26:30,080
Speaker 2: The team owned you. You were property unless the team

1582
01:26:30,160 --> 01:26:33,479
Speaker 2: chose to trade you or release you. The first big

1583
01:26:33,560 --> 01:26:35,679
Speaker 2: league team you would sign with would be the only

1584
01:26:35,720 --> 01:26:38,320
Speaker 2: big League team you'd play for your entire career. A

1585
01:26:38,360 --> 01:26:43,400
Speaker 2: player's only recourse was just simply to retire. Interestingly enough,

1586
01:26:44,080 --> 01:26:46,720
Speaker 2: the language of the reserve clause was very confusing. You

1587
01:26:46,800 --> 01:26:49,000
Speaker 2: merely said if you played for a team, you must

1588
01:26:49,000 --> 01:26:51,639
Speaker 2: play for that team the next season. As well. Well

1589
01:26:51,680 --> 01:26:54,639
Speaker 2: two players before Flood it also challenged the reserve clause,

1590
01:26:55,120 --> 01:26:58,120
Speaker 2: and they ran up against Baseball's exemption from their anti

1591
01:26:58,160 --> 01:27:02,840
Speaker 2: trust laws and they lost. So the reserve clause really

1592
01:27:03,080 --> 01:27:07,160
Speaker 2: was an anti trust exemption, and leaguer scholars argue it

1593
01:27:07,200 --> 01:27:10,559
Speaker 2: as to its legality and such, But the courts are saying, yes,

1594
01:27:10,600 --> 01:27:12,920
Speaker 2: you're an American, you have the right to see comployment anywhere

1595
01:27:12,960 --> 01:27:16,560
Speaker 2: you like. But this right does not apply to baseball players.

1596
01:27:17,120 --> 01:27:20,120
Speaker 2: So when Kurt Flood came to Marvin Miller, his mind

1597
01:27:20,160 --> 01:27:24,240
Speaker 2: was made up. Flood said, I told Marvin Miller that

1598
01:27:24,840 --> 01:27:27,679
Speaker 2: given the court's history a bias towards owners in their monopoly,

1599
01:27:28,120 --> 01:27:29,720
Speaker 2: I didn't have a chance. I know we don't have

1600
01:27:29,760 --> 01:27:31,759
Speaker 2: a chance in what in hellow Winny. But more important

1601
01:27:31,760 --> 01:27:35,200
Speaker 2: that even if Kurt Flood knew that if he won,

1602
01:27:36,040 --> 01:27:38,639
Speaker 2: he wouldn't get anything. Even if he won the case,

1603
01:27:38,640 --> 01:27:40,760
Speaker 2: he wouldn't get anything because he'd never get a job

1604
01:27:40,800 --> 01:27:45,280
Speaker 2: in baseball again. But then Marvin Miller asked Kurt Flood

1605
01:27:45,320 --> 01:27:48,400
Speaker 2: a question, and this is why I believe there needs

1606
01:27:48,439 --> 01:27:51,599
Speaker 2: to be a short wing in the Hall of Fame

1607
01:27:52,439 --> 01:27:56,120
Speaker 2: honoring Kurt Flood. Because Marvin Miller asked, Kurt Flood, do

1608
01:27:56,160 --> 01:28:00,599
Speaker 2: you think what you're doing will benefit other players? Says yes,

1609
01:28:01,280 --> 01:28:04,280
Speaker 2: not only the Kurd players, but those to come. Marvin

1610
01:28:04,280 --> 01:28:07,559
Speaker 2: Miller said, that's good enough for me. And when Marvin

1611
01:28:07,560 --> 01:28:11,320
Speaker 2: Miller realized that Flood understood the odds were against him

1612
01:28:11,479 --> 01:28:13,439
Speaker 2: and he was still determined to go ahead with the case,

1613
01:28:14,560 --> 01:28:20,800
Speaker 2: Marvin Miller simply said, you are a union leader's dream.

1614
01:28:21,000 --> 01:28:24,320
Speaker 2: Kurt Flood was born in nineteen thirty eight in Houston,

1615
01:28:25,439 --> 01:28:30,160
Speaker 2: but he was raised in Oakland, California, and the Flood

1616
01:28:30,200 --> 01:28:34,600
Speaker 2: family was the subject and the target of tremendous racial bigotry.

1617
01:28:34,680 --> 01:28:38,040
Speaker 2: This was before World War Two in the South. Then

1618
01:28:38,120 --> 01:28:40,080
Speaker 2: never let him forget what things had been like before

1619
01:28:40,080 --> 01:28:43,640
Speaker 2: he grew up. And even when he went on in

1620
01:28:43,680 --> 01:28:48,000
Speaker 2: the minor leagues and played in states like Mississippi, the

1621
01:28:48,120 --> 01:28:56,120
Speaker 2: racial prejudices he felt were very much, you know, egregious.

1622
01:28:57,360 --> 01:29:00,439
Speaker 2: Most black baseball stars, Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, Ernie Banks,

1623
01:29:01,120 --> 01:29:03,960
Speaker 2: they were not wanting to really get involved during the

1624
01:29:04,000 --> 01:29:08,240
Speaker 2: Civil rights movement. So Kurt Flood's activism was way ahead

1625
01:29:08,240 --> 01:29:10,080
Speaker 2: of his time. And when it came for him to

1626
01:29:10,120 --> 01:29:12,400
Speaker 2: take a stand on being traded to Philadelphia, says, look,

1627
01:29:12,400 --> 01:29:15,679
Speaker 2: I do not regard myself as a piece of property

1628
01:29:16,000 --> 01:29:18,200
Speaker 2: to be bought or sold. This is what he told

1629
01:29:18,200 --> 01:29:20,800
Speaker 2: Commissioner Buy Kuhn in a letter he wrote when he

1630
01:29:20,880 --> 01:29:26,439
Speaker 2: requested the right to simply be a free agent. Kuhn said, basically, well,

1631
01:29:26,479 --> 01:29:29,120
Speaker 2: I'm sympathetic to your feelings, but I don't see how

1632
01:29:29,160 --> 01:29:33,479
Speaker 2: that applies to us. Well, Flood's teammates or colleagues, they

1633
01:29:33,520 --> 01:29:36,880
Speaker 2: were very skeptical of the suit. They didn't support him,

1634
01:29:37,280 --> 01:29:41,280
Speaker 2: And on the day that Kurt testified in court challenging

1635
01:29:41,320 --> 01:29:45,519
Speaker 2: Baseball's reserve clause, there were only two former players that

1636
01:29:45,560 --> 01:29:51,280
Speaker 2: actually stood by him, Jackie Robinson and Hank Greenberg. No

1637
01:29:51,560 --> 01:29:57,559
Speaker 2: active player in Major League Baseball stood by Kurt Flood. Now,

1638
01:29:59,400 --> 01:30:02,800
Speaker 2: the reason was simple. They were all fearful of retaliation

1639
01:30:02,920 --> 01:30:07,599
Speaker 2: from Major League Baseball owners. So Marvin Miller thought this

1640
01:30:07,720 --> 01:30:13,519
Speaker 2: was an impossible goal, but it amazingly actually came close

1641
01:30:14,200 --> 01:30:18,439
Speaker 2: to being in reach because when the Supreme Court announced

1642
01:30:18,439 --> 01:30:24,880
Speaker 2: their decision in nineteen seventy two, three members voted for Flood,

1643
01:30:25,400 --> 01:30:30,320
Speaker 2: five against, but Judge Lewis Powell, who was very sympathetic

1644
01:30:30,400 --> 01:30:35,160
Speaker 2: to Kurt Flood, withdrew from the case because he claimed

1645
01:30:35,200 --> 01:30:39,360
Speaker 2: there was a conflict of interest. He actually owned stock

1646
01:30:39,400 --> 01:30:43,280
Speaker 2: and anheuser Busch and nheuser Busch owned the Saint Louis Cardinals.

1647
01:30:43,920 --> 01:30:46,800
Speaker 2: But if Paul had remained, Flood might have won a

1648
01:30:46,840 --> 01:30:50,639
Speaker 2: five to four decision, But his withdrawal and combined by

1649
01:30:51,320 --> 01:30:56,160
Speaker 2: Chief Justice Warren Berger, who changed his mind. He initially

1650
01:30:56,200 --> 01:30:58,800
Speaker 2: was going to vote for Flood, but changed his mind

1651
01:30:58,800 --> 01:31:01,559
Speaker 2: in the eleventh hour, and in effect the court ruled

1652
01:31:02,200 --> 01:31:06,639
Speaker 2: that in reality, Flood maybe should have been a free agent,

1653
01:31:07,000 --> 01:31:09,920
Speaker 2: but baseball had an anti trustee that could only be

1654
01:31:09,920 --> 01:31:12,439
Speaker 2: removed by an Act of Congress, and free agency for

1655
01:31:12,520 --> 01:31:16,360
Speaker 2: players should only be attained through collective bargaining. And that

1656
01:31:16,520 --> 01:31:19,799
Speaker 2: is precisely what happened. None of this happens about Kurt Flood.

1657
01:31:20,240 --> 01:31:22,600
Speaker 2: Because of the pressure that Kurt Flood's suit brought to

1658
01:31:22,640 --> 01:31:26,160
Speaker 2: baseball and baseball owners, Marvin Miller said the union was

1659
01:31:26,240 --> 01:31:30,280
Speaker 2: able to bargain for binding arbitration on grievances, and finally,

1660
01:31:30,560 --> 01:31:35,240
Speaker 2: in nineteen seventy six, pitchers Andy Meslersmith and Dave McNally

1661
01:31:35,600 --> 01:31:39,080
Speaker 2: they agreed to play a season without a contract, and

1662
01:31:39,120 --> 01:31:44,080
Speaker 2: an arbitrator deemed them free agents overnight. Overnight, it changed

1663
01:31:44,080 --> 01:31:48,080
Speaker 2: in nineteen seventy six, and the system that Marvin Miller

1664
01:31:48,120 --> 01:31:54,400
Speaker 2: called once feudal, the one that ruled baseball since its inception, collapsed.

1665
01:31:55,120 --> 01:31:58,800
Speaker 2: What's interesting is the pundits started the weigh in. They

1666
01:31:58,840 --> 01:32:01,719
Speaker 2: said this would bring this would bring doom and gloom

1667
01:32:01,760 --> 01:32:06,160
Speaker 2: to the game. Players would be overpaid and the owners

1668
01:32:06,160 --> 01:32:11,519
Speaker 2: and skyrocketing salaries it would all ruin baseball. Unfortunately, Kurt

1669
01:32:11,520 --> 01:32:14,080
Speaker 2: Flood didn't benefit from any of this. He was a

1670
01:32:14,120 --> 01:32:17,000
Speaker 2: sensitive man, he was a high strung man, and he

1671
01:32:17,040 --> 01:32:19,600
Speaker 2: was a heavy drinker. He'd been a heavy drinker his

1672
01:32:19,680 --> 01:32:26,040
Speaker 2: whole life. His marriage fell apart, and as a man

1673
01:32:26,080 --> 01:32:28,439
Speaker 2: on an island doing the best he could to stand

1674
01:32:28,479 --> 01:32:30,840
Speaker 2: up for his rights, the only thing that happened on

1675
01:32:30,880 --> 01:32:33,760
Speaker 2: a daily basis were death threats. He claimed he was

1676
01:32:33,800 --> 01:32:36,360
Speaker 2: getting three to four to five death threats a day.

1677
01:32:36,400 --> 01:32:38,280
Speaker 2: So what did you do? He moved to Spain, moved

1678
01:32:38,280 --> 01:32:41,800
Speaker 2: to my arc of Spain, and he was in debt.

1679
01:32:42,479 --> 01:32:46,800
Speaker 2: He had unpaid child support. He'd been guilted into being

1680
01:32:47,240 --> 01:32:50,480
Speaker 2: a bad father, and he ended up in a psychiatric

1681
01:32:50,479 --> 01:32:54,120
Speaker 2: hospital in Barcelona. Finally, his sister sent him money to

1682
01:32:54,160 --> 01:32:57,760
Speaker 2: return to the United States, and by the time he

1683
01:32:57,880 --> 01:33:02,520
Speaker 2: got back, he was a He was a broken man.

1684
01:33:02,840 --> 01:33:07,519
Speaker 2: And somehow Kurt Flood started to put his life back

1685
01:33:07,560 --> 01:33:10,760
Speaker 2: together and in the early nineties he was given the

1686
01:33:10,840 --> 01:33:14,840
Speaker 2: Jackie Robinson Award by the NAACP for his contributions to

1687
01:33:14,880 --> 01:33:18,040
Speaker 2: black athletes, and in nineteen ninety four, and maybe what

1688
01:33:18,160 --> 01:33:20,080
Speaker 2: turned out to be one of the most satisfying moments

1689
01:33:20,120 --> 01:33:23,400
Speaker 2: of his life. Kurt Flood gave a speech on solidarity

1690
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Speaker 2: to the players as they prepared to go on strike,

1691
01:33:26,680 --> 01:33:29,320
Speaker 2: which they did do in nineteen ninety four. I know

1692
01:33:29,400 --> 01:33:31,160
Speaker 2: it all too well. That was my debut and radio

1693
01:33:31,160 --> 01:33:33,799
Speaker 2: in June. They went on strike on August eleventh, nineteen

1694
01:33:33,840 --> 01:33:36,559
Speaker 2: ninety four, canceled the World Series. And you know what

1695
01:33:36,600 --> 01:33:41,800
Speaker 2: happened after that twenty five years twenty five years after

1696
01:33:41,880 --> 01:33:45,920
Speaker 2: Kurt Flood had announced a suit against Baseball. He was

1697
01:33:45,960 --> 01:33:48,519
Speaker 2: given a standing ovation by the players after his speech,

1698
01:33:49,240 --> 01:33:52,080
Speaker 2: but it was too late. Kurt Flood never benefited from

1699
01:33:52,080 --> 01:33:54,200
Speaker 2: any of this. I don't know why they didn't take

1700
01:33:54,280 --> 01:33:57,080
Speaker 2: up a collection plate and take care of the guy. Finally,

1701
01:33:57,439 --> 01:34:00,240
Speaker 2: decades as a heavy smoker and a heavy drinker caught

1702
01:34:00,280 --> 01:34:03,320
Speaker 2: up to him. In nineteen ninety five, he was diagnosed

1703
01:34:03,400 --> 01:34:08,559
Speaker 2: with throat cancer. However, fortunately a lawyer who represented him

1704
01:34:08,720 --> 01:34:12,320
Speaker 2: paid his medical bills. But in January and nineteen ninety seven,

1705
01:34:12,360 --> 01:34:16,519
Speaker 2: two days before his fifty ninth birthday, Kurt Flood passed

1706
01:34:16,880 --> 01:34:20,520
Speaker 2: and Jesse Jackson did his eulogy, and in the final epitaph,

1707
01:34:21,280 --> 01:34:25,880
Speaker 2: Jesse Jackson said, quote Baseball didn't change Kurt Flood Kurt

1708
01:34:25,880 --> 01:34:30,360
Speaker 2: Flood changed baseball. He fought the good fight, a true martyr.

1709
01:34:30,920 --> 01:34:34,880
Speaker 2: So when Shohey Otani gets his big deal next year,

1710
01:34:35,439 --> 01:34:38,720
Speaker 2: or any player from that matter, Juan Soto, or in

1711
01:34:38,800 --> 01:34:41,920
Speaker 2: any sport for that matter, if Dalvin Cook gets paid,

1712
01:34:42,840 --> 01:34:47,120
Speaker 2: if Sakwan Barkley gets paid, if the NBA players continue

1713
01:34:47,120 --> 01:34:49,080
Speaker 2: to get paid to the tune of two billion dollars,

1714
01:34:49,080 --> 01:34:53,000
Speaker 2: even NHL, somewhere in their mind and heart, they should

1715
01:34:53,040 --> 01:34:57,080
Speaker 2: recognize Kurt Flood. Without Kurt Flood, I'm not so sure

1716
01:34:57,280 --> 01:35:01,520
Speaker 2: any of this Happens Air movie was a big success.

1717
01:35:01,960 --> 01:35:06,840
Speaker 2: I think floodmovie would be, maybe even a bigger success.

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Speaker 2: Speaking of dollars and cents, they say the running back

1723
01:35:26,320 --> 01:35:30,000
Speaker 2: position is being devalued. I'm not so sure I agree

1724
01:35:30,000 --> 01:35:34,479
Speaker 2: with that narrative. Maybe there's a shift, but there are

1725
01:35:34,560 --> 01:35:37,840
Speaker 2: reasons why. And let me bring you some facts and

1726
01:35:37,880 --> 01:35:40,400
Speaker 2: figures you may not be aware of. I'm Bernie Frattle

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01:35:40,800 --> 01:35:43,880
Speaker 2: Company Live from the Las Vegas Fox Sports Radio tirect

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01:35:43,880 --> 01:35:46,519
Speaker 2: dot Com studios. Keep it locked, You're listening to the

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01:35:46,520 --> 01:35:49,200
Speaker 2: Bernie Frattle Show on Fox Sports Radio. All right, back

1730
01:35:49,200 --> 01:35:52,599
Speaker 2: on the Bernie Frattle Show, Fox Sports Radio Company Live

1731
01:35:52,640 --> 01:35:56,080
Speaker 2: from the Tirac dot Com studios here in Las Vegas.

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01:35:56,120 --> 01:35:58,439
Speaker 2: Coming up top of the hour, what kind of brand

1733
01:35:58,439 --> 01:36:01,120
Speaker 2: new fool of you fin followed by what my name?

1734
01:36:01,200 --> 01:36:06,040
Speaker 2: The dance Sensation's sweeping the nation. This is sort of

1735
01:36:06,080 --> 01:36:10,960
Speaker 2: an interesting follow up to the Kurt flood saga NFL

1736
01:36:11,040 --> 01:36:14,400
Speaker 2: running backs. If I had a nickel for every time

1737
01:36:14,880 --> 01:36:18,160
Speaker 2: I heard NFL running backs complaining about their plate Elon

1738
01:36:18,280 --> 01:36:22,320
Speaker 2: Musk would be going my long. But it's not that

1739
01:36:22,400 --> 01:36:28,840
Speaker 2: they're wrong. It's not that they're wrong, it's that there

1740
01:36:29,080 --> 01:36:33,200
Speaker 2: is a context here. Okay, I do understand that in

1741
01:36:33,240 --> 01:36:39,720
Speaker 2: the last five years that on the aggregate salaries have

1742
01:36:40,280 --> 01:36:44,439
Speaker 2: reduced somewhat. Okay, I don't like the word replaceable. I

1743
01:36:44,479 --> 01:36:47,760
Speaker 2: don't like the word devalued I would use interchangeable. And

1744
01:36:47,800 --> 01:36:50,040
Speaker 2: there are two simple reasons why this is happening to

1745
01:36:50,120 --> 01:36:54,160
Speaker 2: running backs. Very simple one. NFL the game has changed,

1746
01:36:54,400 --> 01:36:58,000
Speaker 2: athletes have evolved, The game has become basketball on turf.

1747
01:36:58,600 --> 01:37:00,880
Speaker 2: Put your athletes in space to make a play, spread

1748
01:37:00,880 --> 01:37:04,240
Speaker 2: the field when you're one on one battles. Why now

1749
01:37:04,400 --> 01:37:07,280
Speaker 2: such the quarterback becomes ultra important, even more so than

1750
01:37:07,520 --> 01:37:11,519
Speaker 2: even before the game is completely quarterback centered. You run

1751
01:37:11,560 --> 01:37:15,479
Speaker 2: the offense through your quarterback. Look at Pat Mahomes, I

1752
01:37:15,520 --> 01:37:17,800
Speaker 2: bet you didn't know there were two hundred and fifty

1753
01:37:17,840 --> 01:37:21,880
Speaker 2: players picked before Isaiah Pacheco in the seventh round running

1754
01:37:21,920 --> 01:37:24,799
Speaker 2: back out of Rutgers in the twenty twenty two draft.

1755
01:37:25,240 --> 01:37:28,599
Speaker 2: That didn't stop Isaiah Pachecko, a running back, from being

1756
01:37:28,680 --> 01:37:31,360
Speaker 2: the leading rusher in the Super Bowl, drafted in the

1757
01:37:31,400 --> 01:37:36,479
Speaker 2: seventh round. We have a simple supply and demand issue.

1758
01:37:37,800 --> 01:37:41,200
Speaker 2: There are simply more running backs than there are jobs.

1759
01:37:41,680 --> 01:37:44,880
Speaker 2: There's an ambundance of running backs. There's an imbalance to

1760
01:37:44,920 --> 01:37:47,880
Speaker 2: supply and demand that you don't have at other positions.

1761
01:37:47,960 --> 01:37:51,720
Speaker 2: So therefore, gams don't want to overpay running backs. The

1762
01:37:51,760 --> 01:37:55,280
Speaker 2: bottom line, if you lose an elite wide receiver, much

1763
01:37:55,320 --> 01:37:58,599
Speaker 2: more difficult to interchange and replace. Same with the quarterback,

1764
01:37:58,840 --> 01:38:02,559
Speaker 2: Same with an elite's event pass rusher. History shows us

1765
01:38:02,800 --> 01:38:06,120
Speaker 2: repeatedly time and time again that other running backs can

1766
01:38:06,160 --> 01:38:10,439
Speaker 2: step in and they're interchangeable. Now, think about kurd flood.

1767
01:38:10,479 --> 01:38:12,080
Speaker 2: When you think of this, do we really need to

1768
01:38:12,120 --> 01:38:15,920
Speaker 2: take up a collection plate for Saquon Barkley or Dalvin

1769
01:38:15,960 --> 01:38:19,000
Speaker 2: Cook or Ezekiel Elliott. Let's put this in perspective, and

1770
01:38:19,040 --> 01:38:21,080
Speaker 2: you know you don't count anybody's money, but I think

1771
01:38:21,080 --> 01:38:23,679
Speaker 2: I'm going to break that rule just this one time. Now,

1772
01:38:23,840 --> 01:38:27,000
Speaker 2: Saquon Barkley has been offered three years, thirteen million, year

1773
01:38:27,080 --> 01:38:31,200
Speaker 2: thirty nine million, or if he doesn't accept that by Monday,

1774
01:38:31,360 --> 01:38:34,080
Speaker 2: he'll be franchised at ten million a year. Let's say

1775
01:38:34,120 --> 01:38:37,920
Speaker 2: Barkley's franchised. So before this season starts, Barkley Hill have

1776
01:38:37,960 --> 01:38:41,439
Speaker 2: earned forty one million, one hundred and ninety four thousand dollars.

1777
01:38:41,600 --> 01:38:44,600
Speaker 2: Forty one million, one hundred ninety four thousand dollars. Is

1778
01:38:44,640 --> 01:38:48,360
Speaker 2: that as much as he wants? No, Does he feel disrespected? Probably?

1779
01:38:48,680 --> 01:38:52,400
Speaker 2: It's still forty one million dollars. Dalvin Cook, he's a

1780
01:38:52,400 --> 01:38:54,639
Speaker 2: man without a team right now, still has some gas

1781
01:38:54,640 --> 01:38:57,720
Speaker 2: in the tank. There's not a robust interest in him

1782
01:38:57,760 --> 01:39:01,519
Speaker 2: at this point. There probably will be later, maybe not robusts,

1783
01:39:01,560 --> 01:39:04,599
Speaker 2: but they'll be interested Dalvin Cook if he never plays

1784
01:39:04,600 --> 01:39:09,599
Speaker 2: another down in the NFL thirty nine million, one hundred

1785
01:39:09,640 --> 01:39:11,920
Speaker 2: and twenty five thousand dollars is what Dalvin Cook will

1786
01:39:11,920 --> 01:39:14,960
Speaker 2: have earned. Ezekiel Elliott currently a man without a team room,

1787
01:39:14,960 --> 01:39:17,320
Speaker 2: where as they'll end up back with Dallas seventy one

1788
01:39:17,320 --> 01:39:23,160
Speaker 2: million dollars. So between Barkley, Cook and Ezekiel oh nothing

1789
01:39:23,439 --> 01:39:26,600
Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty two million dollars in contracts, and

1790
01:39:26,680 --> 01:39:30,479
Speaker 2: their careers aren't done. Only four running backs have been

1791
01:39:30,520 --> 01:39:33,080
Speaker 2: selected in the first round the past four drafts. There

1792
01:39:33,080 --> 01:39:35,000
Speaker 2: hasn't been a running back taken higher than twenty four

1793
01:39:35,080 --> 01:39:40,080
Speaker 2: since twenty eighteen, when the New York Giants took Saquon Barkley. Look,

1794
01:39:41,120 --> 01:39:46,320
Speaker 2: the game evolves, sports evolves, life evolves. You can say

1795
01:39:46,320 --> 01:39:50,000
Speaker 2: that running backs are devalued. I merely say that things

1796
01:39:50,040 --> 01:39:53,600
Speaker 2: have changed from the standpoint of they're now more interchangeable

1797
01:39:54,000 --> 01:39:58,120
Speaker 2: because in the National Football League one hundred yards long,

1798
01:39:58,240 --> 01:40:01,320
Speaker 2: fifty five yards wide. The bottom line is simply this.

1799
01:40:02,240 --> 01:40:05,200
Speaker 2: You put players in space on turf on an island

1800
01:40:05,240 --> 01:40:07,320
Speaker 2: to make a play. You spread the field. When you're

1801
01:40:07,320 --> 01:40:10,120
Speaker 2: one on one battles, you on athlete. The other team

1802
01:40:10,160 --> 01:40:12,400
Speaker 2: you have creative. The other team three yards in a

1803
01:40:12,400 --> 01:40:15,840
Speaker 2: cloud of dust. Is long gone. Now running backs are important.

1804
01:40:16,240 --> 01:40:17,760
Speaker 2: You want to move the chains. They got to be

1805
01:40:17,760 --> 01:40:19,240
Speaker 2: able to block, They got to be able to protect

1806
01:40:19,240 --> 01:40:21,599
Speaker 2: your quarterback, catch your ball in the backfield. But we're

1807
01:40:21,640 --> 01:40:25,280
Speaker 2: finding out next man up works with a running back

1808
01:40:25,280 --> 01:40:31,960
Speaker 2: position seemingly better than other positions. That is just simply reality.

1809
01:40:32,720 --> 01:40:35,519
Speaker 2: Complaining about it, You're gonna fall in my deaf ears.

1810
01:40:36,040 --> 01:40:39,519
Speaker 2: Chinese have a proverb, you can curse the darkness, or

1811
01:40:39,560 --> 01:40:42,960
Speaker 2: you can light a candle. Barkley's gonna earn forty one

1812
01:40:43,000 --> 01:40:45,320
Speaker 2: million in his career if you never play pass this year.

1813
01:40:46,200 --> 01:40:48,320
Speaker 2: And I already told you Dalvin Cook thirty nine million

1814
01:40:48,320 --> 01:40:51,519
Speaker 2: is Eekiel seventy one million? How sorry? Do you really

1815
01:40:51,520 --> 01:40:54,679
Speaker 2: want to feel for him? Coming up? What's the toughest

1816
01:40:54,680 --> 01:40:57,040
Speaker 2: thing to do in all the sports? You already know it,

1817
01:40:57,240 --> 01:41:00,200
Speaker 2: but I've got more evidence. But first, let's go back

1818
01:41:00,200 --> 01:41:02,040
Speaker 2: to our guy, Steve de Segard with the latest.

1819
01:41:03,439 --> 01:41:06,280
Speaker 8: Baseball's late ball game in Anaheim Saturday went to the

1820
01:41:06,320 --> 01:41:09,639
Speaker 8: Angels in ten innings in a comeback against Houston thirteen

1821
01:41:09,720 --> 01:41:12,880
Speaker 8: to twelve. Shoheo Tani hit his thirty third home run

1822
01:41:12,920 --> 01:41:14,760
Speaker 8: as part of a three run bottom of the ninth

1823
01:41:14,840 --> 01:41:17,920
Speaker 8: to tie. Detroit, held Seattle to three hits and beat

1824
01:41:17,960 --> 01:41:21,080
Speaker 8: the Mariners six nothing. Yankees held on six to three

1825
01:41:21,240 --> 01:41:24,479
Speaker 8: at Colorado and early three run homer from Juncarlo Stanton,

1826
01:41:24,760 --> 01:41:27,400
Speaker 8: Minnesota's first in the AL Central Game and a half

1827
01:41:27,439 --> 01:41:30,479
Speaker 8: over Cleveland. The Twins won ten to seven at Oakland

1828
01:41:30,479 --> 01:41:33,719
Speaker 8: at six straight losses for the A's Milwaukee's first place

1829
01:41:33,840 --> 01:41:36,160
Speaker 8: alone in first in the ed L Central game over

1830
01:41:36,200 --> 01:41:39,400
Speaker 8: the Reds. After shutting out Cincinnati again three nothing, the

1831
01:41:39,439 --> 01:41:43,200
Speaker 8: Reds offense went one for twenty eight with twelve strikeouts.

1832
01:41:43,360 --> 01:41:46,759
Speaker 8: Baltimore won at seventh straight game six ' five over Miami.

1833
01:41:47,000 --> 01:41:49,400
Speaker 8: White Sox held on for a win at Atlanta six

1834
01:41:49,520 --> 01:41:52,680
Speaker 8: to five. The lost to Spencer Strider. San Francisco won

1835
01:41:52,720 --> 01:41:55,559
Speaker 8: its fourth straight game three to one at Pittsburgh. The

1836
01:41:55,600 --> 01:41:57,880
Speaker 8: Dodgers won their sixth in a row five to one

1837
01:41:57,920 --> 01:41:59,920
Speaker 8: over the Mets. New York held to just three hit

1838
01:42:00,160 --> 01:42:02,240
Speaker 8: That game was tied one one going to the seventh.

1839
01:42:02,280 --> 01:42:05,320
Speaker 8: Mookie Batts of LA four for four, including his twenty

1840
01:42:05,360 --> 01:42:09,080
Speaker 8: seventh homer. Washington and Saint Louis split a doubleheader. Tampa

1841
01:42:09,120 --> 01:42:12,719
Speaker 8: Bay swept two at Kansas City. Philadelphia swept a twin bill.

1842
01:42:12,800 --> 01:42:16,360
Speaker 8: Against the Padres. Rory McElroy led the Scottish Open by

1843
01:42:16,400 --> 01:42:19,160
Speaker 8: one stroke to start the final round. Steph Curry leads

1844
01:42:19,160 --> 01:42:22,479
Speaker 8: the Celebrity Golf tournament in Lake Tahoe. The Wimbledon Men's

1845
01:42:22,520 --> 01:42:25,639
Speaker 8: Final begins at nine am Eastern Time. The Women's champion

1846
01:42:25,680 --> 01:42:30,240
Speaker 8: Saturday was unseated. Marquette von Drusiva. Mexico plays Sunday night

1847
01:42:30,280 --> 01:42:33,479
Speaker 8: in Soccer's Gold Cup final in La against Panama on

1848
01:42:33,600 --> 01:42:37,559
Speaker 8: Fox TV. The WNBA All Star Game MVP was Jewel

1849
01:42:37,680 --> 01:42:39,840
Speaker 8: Lloyd in Vegas. I'm Steve Desager.

1850
01:42:40,960 --> 01:42:45,519
Speaker 2: All right, thanks so much, Steve, appreciate it. So there

1851
01:42:45,520 --> 01:42:48,559
Speaker 2: are very few aspects in life where you can feel

1852
01:42:48,760 --> 01:42:52,320
Speaker 2: seven times out of ten and still be considered great

1853
01:42:53,160 --> 01:42:58,439
Speaker 2: at what you do. So let's see score thirty on

1854
01:42:58,479 --> 01:43:03,519
Speaker 2: your MCAT. You're not getting into medical school. Let's say

1855
01:43:03,560 --> 01:43:06,040
Speaker 2: you only win thirty percent of your bets. You're going

1856
01:43:06,080 --> 01:43:11,040
Speaker 2: to be losing money. What's the old joke if you finish.

1857
01:43:12,320 --> 01:43:15,280
Speaker 2: If you finished last in your class in medical school,

1858
01:43:15,400 --> 01:43:17,880
Speaker 2: they call you a doctor. You finished last in your

1859
01:43:17,880 --> 01:43:24,000
Speaker 2: class in betting school, they call you a bankrupt. But

1860
01:43:24,080 --> 01:43:26,559
Speaker 2: in baseball, if you get a hit thirty percent of

1861
01:43:26,600 --> 01:43:29,200
Speaker 2: the time, you might be headed to the Hall of Fame.

1862
01:43:29,920 --> 01:43:32,599
Speaker 2: And that's because there's not a dot in my mind.

1863
01:43:32,600 --> 01:43:35,080
Speaker 2: It is the most difficult thing to do in any sport.

1864
01:43:35,880 --> 01:43:38,320
Speaker 2: Take Ted Williams, one of the greatest hitters to ever

1865
01:43:38,360 --> 01:43:40,640
Speaker 2: play Major League baseball. Nineteen year career played for the

1866
01:43:40,640 --> 01:43:43,919
Speaker 2: Boston Red Sox. Had a three forty four batting average.

1867
01:43:44,080 --> 01:43:47,080
Speaker 2: That's about a thirty four percent success rate, todd for

1868
01:43:47,160 --> 01:43:50,120
Speaker 2: seventh best in the sports history. But even he famously

1869
01:43:50,160 --> 01:43:52,519
Speaker 2: said that hitting a baseball is the hardest thing to

1870
01:43:52,560 --> 01:43:55,120
Speaker 2: do in sports. So why is that the case? Yes,

1871
01:43:55,400 --> 01:43:59,280
Speaker 2: hitting a round object with another round object traveling ninety

1872
01:43:59,280 --> 01:44:02,559
Speaker 2: miles an hour is very difficult. Yes, I'm qualified to

1873
01:44:02,560 --> 01:44:05,000
Speaker 2: speak on this. Played baseball at a fairly high level.

1874
01:44:06,320 --> 01:44:09,840
Speaker 2: For one, the physics they're extreme. The velocity of the

1875
01:44:09,880 --> 01:44:13,559
Speaker 2: average Major league fastball is probably ninety five miles an hour. Now,

1876
01:44:13,640 --> 01:44:16,000
Speaker 2: when that ball whizzes in that speed and you're less

1877
01:44:16,000 --> 01:44:19,080
Speaker 2: than sixty feet away, about sixty feet six inches, the

1878
01:44:19,160 --> 01:44:23,280
Speaker 2: batter has one hundred and fifty milliseconds to decide whether

1879
01:44:23,320 --> 01:44:26,679
Speaker 2: you want to swing. That's a blink of an eye.

1880
01:44:27,160 --> 01:44:29,400
Speaker 2: And even though a hitter has one hundred and fifty

1881
01:44:29,479 --> 01:44:33,519
Speaker 2: milliseconds where they want to swing. The ball is only

1882
01:44:33,560 --> 01:44:36,800
Speaker 2: in the hitting zone where it reaches your bat less

1883
01:44:36,800 --> 01:44:40,240
Speaker 2: than ten milliseconds. And this comes to us from a

1884
01:44:40,280 --> 01:44:45,360
Speaker 2: physics professor who studied this at cal And you know

1885
01:44:45,560 --> 01:44:49,080
Speaker 2: this gentleman. Actually his name is David Kagan, and he's

1886
01:44:49,680 --> 01:44:53,040
Speaker 2: been called the Einstein of the National Pasttime Basically, the

1887
01:44:53,080 --> 01:44:54,880
Speaker 2: amount of time the ball's in a spot where the

1888
01:44:54,880 --> 01:44:57,720
Speaker 2: battle can make contact and keep it in fair territory

1889
01:44:58,439 --> 01:45:01,000
Speaker 2: is like a photo finish at the Kentucky Derby, but

1890
01:45:01,040 --> 01:45:04,720
Speaker 2: even even closer. Plus hitting around baseball with a round

1891
01:45:04,760 --> 01:45:08,360
Speaker 2: bat squarely. That adds sort of an additional a degree

1892
01:45:08,360 --> 01:45:11,320
Speaker 2: of difficulty to this puzzle, which is very complicated. You

1893
01:45:11,320 --> 01:45:14,439
Speaker 2: have two curvy objects. They have to connect in just

1894
01:45:14,520 --> 01:45:17,280
Speaker 2: the right way. It's very difficult. If you're just off

1895
01:45:17,320 --> 01:45:20,200
Speaker 2: by a smidge, it's a file ball or a miss

1896
01:45:20,560 --> 01:45:23,800
Speaker 2: or an out. Instead of the ball landing over the

1897
01:45:23,840 --> 01:45:26,559
Speaker 2: wall or dropping in for it, imagine the bat as

1898
01:45:26,600 --> 01:45:29,799
Speaker 2: a target. Now, if the bat hits the ball exactly

1899
01:45:29,840 --> 01:45:35,080
Speaker 2: the correct spot, well, it's called a bullseye, and that

1900
01:45:35,160 --> 01:45:39,759
Speaker 2: bullseye is one fifth of an echine diameter. If that happens,

1901
01:45:40,680 --> 01:45:42,880
Speaker 2: it might be a home run. But if the ball

1902
01:45:42,880 --> 01:45:47,400
Speaker 2: makes contact with that ring just outside the bullseye, basically

1903
01:45:47,400 --> 01:45:49,719
Speaker 2: a ground ball back to the pitcher. In other words,

1904
01:45:49,760 --> 01:45:52,799
Speaker 2: the margin for error where a batter can make contact

1905
01:45:52,840 --> 01:45:54,800
Speaker 2: with the ball and hope to get a hit is

1906
01:45:54,920 --> 01:45:57,200
Speaker 2: half the width of your SIM card and your old iPhone.

1907
01:45:57,920 --> 01:46:01,000
Speaker 2: Remember what sim cards were. That's your margin for error.

1908
01:46:02,240 --> 01:46:06,840
Speaker 2: So if you peek inside a hitter's brain, you can

1909
01:46:06,920 --> 01:46:10,839
Speaker 2: understand a little bit why this becomes so difficult. Because

1910
01:46:11,640 --> 01:46:16,080
Speaker 2: they've actually studied the neural processes involved with rapid decision

1911
01:46:16,120 --> 01:46:21,439
Speaker 2: making using exercises like hitting a baseball, and they compare

1912
01:46:21,479 --> 01:46:24,320
Speaker 2: it to hitting a bullet with another bullet. You're hitting

1913
01:46:24,360 --> 01:46:28,120
Speaker 2: something that's moving super fast with something else that's moving

1914
01:46:28,400 --> 01:46:32,240
Speaker 2: super fast. Now, a gentleman named Tom Kaminski studied this

1915
01:46:32,439 --> 01:46:35,200
Speaker 2: University of Delaware. He compares trying to hit a baseball

1916
01:46:35,200 --> 01:46:37,360
Speaker 2: like trying to catch a peanut in your mouth from

1917
01:46:37,360 --> 01:46:41,040
Speaker 2: someone to one hundred feet away, although even then it's

1918
01:46:41,120 --> 01:46:43,680
Speaker 2: much easier to get in good possession to catch the

1919
01:46:43,680 --> 01:46:48,000
Speaker 2: peanut because you have time. Hitting a baseball is a

1920
01:46:48,080 --> 01:46:51,360
Speaker 2: marvel if you have to stop and think about it. Now.

1921
01:46:51,400 --> 01:46:54,360
Speaker 2: What's more, not only does it take incredible hand eye

1922
01:46:54,400 --> 01:46:59,080
Speaker 2: coordination of baseball players, but you really have to understand

1923
01:46:59,120 --> 01:47:01,599
Speaker 2: that typically they hand that coordination to baseball players transfers

1924
01:47:01,680 --> 01:47:06,160
Speaker 2: very well to other sports, right athletes. Well, they might

1925
01:47:06,200 --> 01:47:08,920
Speaker 2: look really competent on the soccer field of the basketball court,

1926
01:47:09,439 --> 01:47:10,840
Speaker 2: but all of a sudden, put a bat in their

1927
01:47:10,880 --> 01:47:14,040
Speaker 2: hand and they don't look as athletics. Sometimes that's just

1928
01:47:14,080 --> 01:47:19,559
Speaker 2: the fact. It's because successful hitters they're exceptional in two areas. First,

1929
01:47:19,640 --> 01:47:22,559
Speaker 2: hitting a baseball is not about how fast a batter

1930
01:47:22,600 --> 01:47:25,240
Speaker 2: can swing, but rather how they can stop themselves from

1931
01:47:25,240 --> 01:47:28,400
Speaker 2: swinging at pitches they don't want to swing at. The

1932
01:47:28,520 --> 01:47:30,679
Speaker 2: pitches are not likely to be able to do anything

1933
01:47:30,720 --> 01:47:34,240
Speaker 2: with or get a hit with, So you're also trying

1934
01:47:34,240 --> 01:47:38,000
Speaker 2: to prevent strikeouts while creating opportunities to get a hit.

1935
01:47:38,200 --> 01:47:41,040
Speaker 2: So you've got to determine one hundred and fifty milliseconds

1936
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Speaker 2: whether you want to swing or not swing. Either way,

1937
01:47:45,320 --> 01:47:49,360
Speaker 2: it's a fast decision, and if you're wrong, you're wrong.

1938
01:47:49,439 --> 01:47:52,000
Speaker 2: There's not much margin of error. The second important area

1939
01:47:52,080 --> 01:47:57,559
Speaker 2: is a hitter's ability to identify those pitches. So typical

1940
01:47:57,560 --> 01:48:00,800
Speaker 2: person in the stands they're not really able to tell

1941
01:48:00,840 --> 01:48:04,120
Speaker 2: the difference between a fastball and a curveball. They can't.

1942
01:48:04,920 --> 01:48:09,599
Speaker 2: It's like if you were showed the faces of two

1943
01:48:09,640 --> 01:48:12,720
Speaker 2: different strangers in one hundred and fifty milliseconds and you

1944
01:48:12,720 --> 01:48:15,479
Speaker 2: had to pick out which who was who. That's how

1945
01:48:15,560 --> 01:48:18,280
Speaker 2: much time you have to discern whether you're seeing a

1946
01:48:18,320 --> 01:48:20,960
Speaker 2: curveball or a fastball based on the spin of the

1947
01:48:20,960 --> 01:48:27,640
Speaker 2: ball right, and so distinguishing between these decisions you have

1948
01:48:27,720 --> 01:48:31,000
Speaker 2: to make so quickly at such a high rate of speed.

1949
01:48:31,840 --> 01:48:36,160
Speaker 2: Even if you have a highly athletically specialized brain plenty

1950
01:48:36,200 --> 01:48:39,880
Speaker 2: of intense training, well you're going to fail seven times

1951
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Speaker 2: out of ten minimum. Take Michael Jordan, he went and

1952
01:48:45,080 --> 01:48:47,000
Speaker 2: played minor league baseball for a couple of years. He

1953
01:48:47,000 --> 01:48:49,840
Speaker 2: actually at two h two in double A, which I'm

1954
01:48:49,840 --> 01:48:52,840
Speaker 2: marveled by that because I know how talented double A

1955
01:48:53,080 --> 01:48:57,719
Speaker 2: baseball players are. It's basically they are major league prospects

1956
01:48:57,840 --> 01:48:59,240
Speaker 2: or just not in the major leagues. Not all of

1957
01:48:59,280 --> 01:49:00,600
Speaker 2: them are going to get there. So the fact that

1958
01:49:00,680 --> 01:49:03,160
Speaker 2: Jordan did that when we failed eighty percent of the time.

1959
01:49:03,479 --> 01:49:07,960
Speaker 2: And Jordan has athleticism that's unparalleled, he has competitiveness that's

1960
01:49:08,000 --> 01:49:11,840
Speaker 2: on parallel, and he was at an elite hitter. He

1961
01:49:11,960 --> 01:49:13,560
Speaker 2: was hit two of two. If his name would have

1962
01:49:13,600 --> 01:49:16,719
Speaker 2: been Eddie Gazinski, he probably would have been released much sooner.

1963
01:49:16,760 --> 01:49:21,360
Speaker 2: But he was Michael Jordan. He tried right. Jordan checked

1964
01:49:21,400 --> 01:49:23,920
Speaker 2: every box. But when hitting a baseball, I will tell

1965
01:49:23,960 --> 01:49:26,080
Speaker 2: you the long and the short of it is, you

1966
01:49:26,160 --> 01:49:27,720
Speaker 2: got to keep your head in the tunnel. You got

1967
01:49:27,720 --> 01:49:30,320
Speaker 2: to see the ball, and it's not so easy. There

1968
01:49:30,320 --> 01:49:34,120
Speaker 2: are very few people that can hit a baseball when

1969
01:49:34,160 --> 01:49:36,800
Speaker 2: it's traveling ninety miles an hour, and then you put

1970
01:49:36,800 --> 01:49:39,839
Speaker 2: a wrinkle on it, you change location, you change speeds,

1971
01:49:40,160 --> 01:49:42,559
Speaker 2: it becomes even more daunting. So yeah, I know this

1972
01:49:42,600 --> 01:49:47,040
Speaker 2: is sort of like old territory. But once again, after

1973
01:49:47,120 --> 01:49:50,599
Speaker 2: many studies have done, it's all good. Gris for the mill.

1974
01:49:50,920 --> 01:49:54,360
Speaker 2: The toughest thing to do in all the sports is yes,

1975
01:49:54,960 --> 01:50:01,400
Speaker 2: hitting a baseball. Coming up, couple of in the NFL

1976
01:50:01,520 --> 01:50:05,320
Speaker 2: to update you on, including the fact that Roger Goodell

1977
01:50:05,439 --> 01:50:09,000
Speaker 2: and one of his stated goals may be getting closer.

1978
01:50:09,760 --> 01:50:12,479
Speaker 2: I'll explain. I'm Bernie fraddlew comes to your life from

1979
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Speaker 2: the Las Vegas Fox Sports Radio TIREC dot Com studios.

1980
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Speaker 2: Keep it locked right here. You're listening to the Bernie

1981
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Speaker 2: Frattle Show on Fox Sports Radio. All right back on

1982
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Speaker 2: the Bernie Frattle Show, Fox Sports Radio Comedy live from

1983
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Speaker 2: the Tirak dot com studios here in Las Vegas, fourteen

1984
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Speaker 2: minutes away from what kind of brand new fool you

1985
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Speaker 2: followed by followed by what my name? By the way,

1986
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Speaker 2: Tonight's show brought to you by Discover. At the end

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1988
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1990
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Speaker 2: dot com slash match. Some NFL notes. First of all,

1991
01:50:54,280 --> 01:50:58,360
Speaker 2: Roger Goodell had a stated goal many years ago that

1992
01:50:58,439 --> 01:51:02,200
Speaker 2: he wants to grow the league into an entity that

1993
01:51:02,280 --> 01:51:07,880
Speaker 2: generates twenty five billion dollars a year in revenue. And

1994
01:51:07,960 --> 01:51:10,800
Speaker 2: the NFL is actually marching toward that. Believe it or not,

1995
01:51:11,320 --> 01:51:13,840
Speaker 2: They're getting closer to that long stated goal of twenty

1996
01:51:13,840 --> 01:51:17,559
Speaker 2: five billion annual revenue. Why well, Amazon just checked in

1997
01:51:17,600 --> 01:51:19,840
Speaker 2: with a new one point two billion dollar media rights

1998
01:51:19,840 --> 01:51:23,639
Speaker 2: deal for Thursday Night Football. That take that took effect

1999
01:51:23,640 --> 01:51:26,759
Speaker 2: excuse me, last season, and that brought in the league

2000
01:51:26,760 --> 01:51:31,040
Speaker 2: brought in almost twelve billion in national revenue. According to Forbes,

2001
01:51:31,760 --> 01:51:34,280
Speaker 2: which is an increase of seven percent over the year

2002
01:51:34,320 --> 01:51:36,719
Speaker 2: before of an eleven point one billion, So they're almost

2003
01:51:36,760 --> 01:51:41,080
Speaker 2: halfway home now with teams local earnings added in. This

2004
01:51:41,240 --> 01:51:45,479
Speaker 2: is local earnings, the NFL in total might be closer

2005
01:51:45,479 --> 01:51:49,599
Speaker 2: to twenty billion in total revenue heading into twenty twenty three,

2006
01:51:50,400 --> 01:51:53,799
Speaker 2: so you district revenue evenly among the team's thirty two teams.

2007
01:51:54,280 --> 01:51:56,679
Speaker 2: And every club received three hundred and seventy two million

2008
01:51:56,720 --> 01:52:01,600
Speaker 2: from the NFL national cofferslast year, and the majority of

2009
01:52:01,600 --> 01:52:03,479
Speaker 2: that payment two hundred and forty nine million of it

2010
01:52:03,800 --> 01:52:06,479
Speaker 2: when it comes from media rights deals that total more

2011
01:52:06,479 --> 01:52:10,920
Speaker 2: than ten billion annually, and this pot is only going

2012
01:52:11,360 --> 01:52:16,840
Speaker 2: to grow this coming season. YouTube is taking over the

2013
01:52:16,960 --> 01:52:21,160
Speaker 2: rights to the NFL Sunday ticket and they have paid

2014
01:52:21,160 --> 01:52:26,479
Speaker 2: the NFL two billion dollars annually for that right. Compared

2015
01:52:26,520 --> 01:52:29,559
Speaker 2: to the what Direct TV was paying. They were paying

2016
01:52:29,680 --> 01:52:33,200
Speaker 2: one point five billion. There's another half half a billion

2017
01:52:33,280 --> 01:52:36,360
Speaker 2: right there, another five hundred million that YouTube is paying.

2018
01:52:36,400 --> 01:52:38,479
Speaker 2: And I want to look to possibly sign up for

2019
01:52:38,520 --> 01:52:40,800
Speaker 2: it what it costs, and you know it's not cheap.

2020
01:52:41,520 --> 01:52:44,559
Speaker 2: I'm gonna do it. It's not cheap, but YouTube knew

2021
01:52:44,680 --> 01:52:47,200
Speaker 2: darn well. You get used to this seeing every game

2022
01:52:47,240 --> 01:52:48,880
Speaker 2: in other cities, even the ones you don't live in.

2023
01:52:49,240 --> 01:52:51,280
Speaker 2: And they're paying the NFL two billion because I know

2024
01:52:51,320 --> 01:52:54,880
Speaker 2: they'll probably make money off that, off the subscriptions soever

2025
01:52:54,920 --> 01:52:58,080
Speaker 2: way you turn around. The NFL's founding new ways to

2026
01:52:58,160 --> 01:53:01,559
Speaker 2: make money. Almost hit print money. But someone mishear that

2027
01:53:01,800 --> 01:53:05,960
Speaker 2: and selectively listen, and I don't want that. So but

2028
01:53:06,160 --> 01:53:09,439
Speaker 2: despite the huge media rights the NFL sees every year,

2029
01:53:10,640 --> 01:53:15,720
Speaker 2: the league actually has the contractual opportunity to opt out

2030
01:53:15,800 --> 01:53:18,680
Speaker 2: of some of these deals, and should they choose to

2031
01:53:18,720 --> 01:53:21,960
Speaker 2: do so, they would only do so because they're getting

2032
01:53:22,000 --> 01:53:24,879
Speaker 2: a better offer from somebody else. How you like them apples,

2033
01:53:25,520 --> 01:53:28,720
Speaker 2: So the current media goes by the way, they're also backloaded.

2034
01:53:28,760 --> 01:53:33,000
Speaker 2: So then the annual payments will they increase well beyond

2035
01:53:33,000 --> 01:53:37,080
Speaker 2: the average annual value. Basically the league, they don't opt out,

2036
01:53:37,120 --> 01:53:39,240
Speaker 2: they're still going to see it increase in earnings anyway

2037
01:53:39,280 --> 01:53:43,360
Speaker 2: is slice it. The NFL continues to be a haven

2038
01:53:43,760 --> 01:53:46,799
Speaker 2: for money, and you know what money talks in the NFL.

2039
01:53:48,080 --> 01:53:51,200
Speaker 2: What I checked into this, believe we talked about the

2040
01:53:51,200 --> 01:53:55,240
Speaker 2: Denver Broncos earlier when I previewed the AFC West and

2041
01:53:55,760 --> 01:53:59,280
Speaker 2: Denver last year in the offseason. What we're in the

2042
01:53:59,280 --> 01:54:02,200
Speaker 2: off season, we're not anymore. They showed out the most

2043
01:54:02,240 --> 01:54:07,360
Speaker 2: cabbage in the NFL offseason. Here's why that's significant. The

2044
01:54:07,439 --> 01:54:11,360
Speaker 2: last six teams that have spent the most in the offseason,

2045
01:54:12,320 --> 01:54:16,320
Speaker 2: the twenty twenty two Jacksonville Jags, the twenty one Pats,

2046
01:54:16,720 --> 01:54:19,639
Speaker 2: the twenty Dolphins, the nineteen Jets, and the eighteen Bears.

2047
01:54:20,800 --> 01:54:25,080
Speaker 2: They've turned that win improvement by an average of five

2048
01:54:25,320 --> 01:54:31,080
Speaker 2: point three wins more per season. Now Denver, Denver was

2049
01:54:31,120 --> 01:54:34,160
Speaker 2: six and eleven last year, or were they five and

2050
01:54:34,520 --> 01:54:37,080
Speaker 2: five and twelve? I think maybe five and twelve. So

2051
01:54:37,120 --> 01:54:38,880
Speaker 2: does that mean they can jump to ten wins? Well,

2052
01:54:38,920 --> 01:54:41,920
Speaker 2: according to this model, they spent the most money and

2053
01:54:41,960 --> 01:54:43,520
Speaker 2: that would merely fall in line. And you saw what

2054
01:54:43,600 --> 01:54:46,280
Speaker 2: Jacksonville did last year, worse to first. They went from

2055
01:54:46,280 --> 01:54:50,440
Speaker 2: like three to fourteen to what eleven and six whatever?

2056
01:54:50,480 --> 01:54:55,600
Speaker 2: They were dramatic improvement. So that bodes well. If you

2057
01:54:55,760 --> 01:54:59,040
Speaker 2: are a Denver Bronco fan, you spend the most cabbage,

2058
01:54:59,080 --> 01:55:02,120
Speaker 2: the most cheese, you get the most returned. The last

2059
01:55:02,120 --> 01:55:05,480
Speaker 2: six teams that have done that have increased their win

2060
01:55:05,600 --> 01:55:09,600
Speaker 2: total by as much as five per season. The question

2061
01:55:09,720 --> 01:55:13,400
Speaker 2: becomes whether or not Sean Payton, who's already won one

2062
01:55:13,480 --> 01:55:16,640
Speaker 2: Super Bowl with the Saints, can follow that same path.

2063
01:55:17,200 --> 01:55:20,880
Speaker 2: The question comes also asked to whether or not Russell

2064
01:55:20,880 --> 01:55:24,200
Speaker 2: Wilson and his life and his life as a football player,

2065
01:55:24,760 --> 01:55:27,480
Speaker 2: and all the first and little coaches that clogged his

2066
01:55:27,600 --> 01:55:32,280
Speaker 2: arteries up last year with confusion, They're all gone, simplify

2067
01:55:32,320 --> 01:55:36,080
Speaker 2: your life. Sean Payton's running the show, and it seems

2068
01:55:36,120 --> 01:55:41,200
Speaker 2: to me that regardless of who is in charge, Denver

2069
01:55:41,240 --> 01:55:42,960
Speaker 2: can't do much worse than they did last year with

2070
01:55:43,040 --> 01:55:46,800
Speaker 2: Nathaniel Hackett. So along in the short of it is

2071
01:55:47,360 --> 01:55:49,400
Speaker 2: Denver fans I think have a reason to be optimist.

2072
01:55:49,440 --> 01:55:52,120
Speaker 2: I think Russell Wilson will be better. I think Sean

2073
01:55:52,200 --> 01:55:56,280
Speaker 2: Payton will be certainly a tremendous influence. We had Chad

2074
01:55:56,320 --> 01:55:58,680
Speaker 2: Anders on my show a couple of times, one to

2075
01:55:58,760 --> 01:56:01,840
Speaker 2: four point three to fan in deni'ver very knowledgeable guy.

2076
01:56:01,960 --> 01:56:05,400
Speaker 2: He says, yeah, you can see the culture in Bronco

2077
01:56:05,520 --> 01:56:09,800
Speaker 2: Land has changed quite a bit. Finally, one final thing.

2078
01:56:10,240 --> 01:56:13,680
Speaker 2: I don't know who the Panthers, Broncos, New York Giants

2079
01:56:13,720 --> 01:56:17,560
Speaker 2: and Titans pissed off this year, but those four teams,

2080
01:56:18,160 --> 01:56:20,800
Speaker 2: not only do they not have any scheduled primetime games,

2081
01:56:21,560 --> 01:56:24,480
Speaker 2: they all have to play three straight road games. The

2082
01:56:24,560 --> 01:56:26,960
Speaker 2: Giants were a playoff team last year, and they're in

2083
01:56:27,000 --> 01:56:30,480
Speaker 2: a major metropolitan area. So you're leaving out a major

2084
01:56:30,520 --> 01:56:32,960
Speaker 2: market team out of the national picture, a team that

2085
01:56:33,000 --> 01:56:35,520
Speaker 2: not only made the playoffs, went to the Minnesota and

2086
01:56:35,680 --> 01:56:39,160
Speaker 2: won a playoff game. And I don't know what the

2087
01:56:39,160 --> 01:56:43,760
Speaker 2: schedule maker was thinking. So the Panthers, Broncos, Giants, and

2088
01:56:43,800 --> 01:56:46,680
Speaker 2: Titans don't have a single primetime game this year, and

2089
01:56:46,800 --> 01:56:49,880
Speaker 2: all of them have to play three straight road games

2090
01:56:50,160 --> 01:56:53,120
Speaker 2: at some point in their schedule. What's the significance of

2091
01:56:53,160 --> 01:56:57,840
Speaker 2: that in the NFL? When you go back thirty years,

2092
01:56:58,440 --> 01:57:01,920
Speaker 2: teams that have to play three three straight road games.

2093
01:57:03,040 --> 01:57:08,360
Speaker 2: When you get to that third straight road game, they're

2094
01:57:08,400 --> 01:57:11,960
Speaker 2: twenty three and forty four straight up, twenty one and

2095
01:57:12,040 --> 01:57:15,720
Speaker 2: forty five against the spread. That means they're failing seventy

2096
01:57:15,920 --> 01:57:18,520
Speaker 2: percent of the time. It's tough enough to play in

2097
01:57:18,560 --> 01:57:22,320
Speaker 2: the road once in the NFL, much less go back,

2098
01:57:22,680 --> 01:57:24,680
Speaker 2: go back on the road a second week and then

2099
01:57:24,720 --> 01:57:27,080
Speaker 2: play a third straight road game. Will four teams have

2100
01:57:27,160 --> 01:57:29,720
Speaker 2: to do that this year? The Broncos. Who I just

2101
01:57:29,760 --> 01:57:33,240
Speaker 2: mentioned the Giants, Titans, and Panthers and it hasn't boded

2102
01:57:33,280 --> 01:57:35,920
Speaker 2: well in a past. Plus none of those teams get

2103
01:57:35,960 --> 01:57:39,760
Speaker 2: primetime games. Not sure why the schedule maker is angry

2104
01:57:39,800 --> 01:57:42,280
Speaker 2: with them. I see that tongue in cheek, but they

2105
01:57:42,360 --> 01:57:47,240
Speaker 2: sure didn't do those teams any favors. NFL is getting closer.

2106
01:57:47,360 --> 01:57:50,960
Speaker 2: More talking points coming up. Speaking of talking points, you

2107
01:57:50,960 --> 01:57:52,400
Speaker 2: know what you love it? You can't lay without it.

2108
01:57:52,520 --> 01:57:55,040
Speaker 2: It's that time coming up? What kind of brand new

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Speaker 2: fool you followed by? What my name? Keep it locked?

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Speaker 2: Listen to the Bernie Frattle Show on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 1: Live from the tire rat dot Com studios of Fox

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Speaker 1: Sports Radio.

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Speaker 7: Here's Bernie Frado.

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

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01:58:13,280 --> 01:58:16,520
Speaker 2: keeps rolling right along. My name is Bernie Fraddaw're coming

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Speaker 2: to you live from the tyrac dot com studios here

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Speaker 2: know it's at this time every week that we take

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Speaker 2: a little look around our great land of ours, and

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Speaker 2: frankly around the globe, and we seem to find out

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Speaker 2: about events that take place, behaviors that people engage in.

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01:58:51,400 --> 01:58:56,040
Speaker 2: And sometimes they're innocuous and just silly and stupid, harmless.

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01:58:56,120 --> 01:58:58,560
Speaker 2: Other times they are a little bit more serious. And

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01:58:58,640 --> 01:59:02,280
Speaker 2: of course there are also those actions had people engage

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01:59:02,320 --> 01:59:07,000
Speaker 2: in where you know, they go on vacation, their brain

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01:59:07,040 --> 01:59:09,240
Speaker 2: goes on vacation, and they put their button charge and

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01:59:09,280 --> 01:59:12,480
Speaker 2: they get themselves in trouble and sometimes they end up

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01:59:12,480 --> 01:59:16,920
Speaker 2: in jail. But anyway you slice it, anyway, you characterize it,

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01:59:17,520 --> 01:59:21,760
Speaker 2: anyway you want to label it, these behaviors in every

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01:59:21,800 --> 01:59:25,520
Speaker 2: instance clauses to scratch our head and ask ourselves, what

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01:59:25,600 --> 01:59:26,920
Speaker 2: kind of brand new fool are you?

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01:59:33,120 --> 01:59:33,200
Speaker 9: So?

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01:59:33,680 --> 01:59:35,680
Speaker 1: What kind of brand new fool are you?

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Speaker 2: Oh boy, well, this week we take you to the

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Speaker 2: city Iowa, meet mister Bowman. Mister Bowman, well, I guess

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01:59:43,120 --> 01:59:49,160
Speaker 2: it's lawnmar stopped working, so he went and asked his

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01:59:49,520 --> 01:59:54,320
Speaker 2: neighbor not to borrow their lawnmower, but if their neighbor

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01:59:55,040 --> 01:59:58,880
Speaker 2: would mow his lawn. I'm not sure what the neighbor

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01:59:58,960 --> 02:00:01,040
Speaker 2: said or what was the greed to her not agreed to.

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Speaker 2: But a couple of days later, when mister Bowman realized

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Speaker 2: his lawn hadn't been mowed yet, well, the fifty three

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02:00:10,160 --> 02:00:13,240
Speaker 2: year old decided he would take matters into his own hands.

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02:00:14,000 --> 02:00:16,600
Speaker 2: He went next door and said, when are you gonna

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Speaker 2: mow my lawn. I don't know what happened then, but

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02:00:21,800 --> 02:00:25,280
Speaker 2: I do know what happened next. The lawn wasn't mowed,

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Speaker 2: and so mister Bowman did what any knucklehead would do

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Speaker 2: in a situation like that, He set his neighbor's house

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Speaker 2: on fire because they didn't mow his lawn. According to

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Speaker 2: court documents, on a recent Sunday, just before six pm,

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Speaker 2: the SIUs City Police well they received a report of

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Speaker 2: a fire on Eighth Street. The corner of the home

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02:00:47,680 --> 02:00:51,440
Speaker 2: was burned, cost about three thousand dollars in damages, and

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02:00:51,520 --> 02:00:55,040
Speaker 2: there was actually a fire. Investigation revealed this obviously to

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Speaker 2: be arson. Mister Bowman used sticks and plywood propped up

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Speaker 2: against the house, and even he used to fuel accelerant.

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Speaker 2: The victims were in the house at the time of

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Speaker 2: the fire. A neighbor noticed the fire and banged on

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Speaker 2: their door. Somehow they got the fire to put out

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Speaker 2: be put out. Fortunately, to the best of my knowledge,

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Speaker 2: I don't think anybody was hurt. Mister Boone was upset.

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Speaker 2: Court documents revealed he lives next door to the victim.

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Speaker 2: He was upset he had he asked the victims to

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Speaker 2: mold their long the day before and they hadn't mowed. Well. Fortunately,

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Speaker 2: mister Bowman admitted to making a mistake and perhaps the

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Speaker 2: craziest thing about this whole darn deal. And by the way,

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Speaker 2: he was held in the Woodbury County Jail on twenty

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Speaker 2: thousand dollars bond. He used gasoline from the lawnmower that

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Speaker 2: wasn't working to start the fire. All I gotta say, is,

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Speaker 2: mister Bowman, what kind of brand new fool of you?

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Speaker 2: All Right, mister Sweeke, you've got some good stories. You've

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Speaker 2: played this game before, you're up.

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Speaker 10: All right, Bernie, Well, we're gonna take a little trip

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Speaker 10: down to Japan for this one where a unknown named

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Speaker 10: man spent about what was it about twelve grand to

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Speaker 10: live out his lifelong dream? Now, Bernie, but you're wondering,

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Speaker 10: what is this man's lifelong dream that he gets to

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Speaker 10: live out for twelve grand? Well, he gets to live

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02:02:22,800 --> 02:02:25,520
Speaker 10: his life out for one day to become a human

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Speaker 10: sized dog.

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Speaker 7: And by.

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Speaker 10: And by that, the man literally twelve grand for this,

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02:02:34,040 --> 02:02:38,320
Speaker 10: got to do a light a human sized a costume.

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Speaker 10: It's it's it's of a colleague, you know, like Laddie Lassie,

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02:02:42,240 --> 02:02:45,600
Speaker 10: all that good stuff. He did a costume, went full

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Speaker 10: garb and went quadrupedal on all fours with a like

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Speaker 10: we want to be like I want to be taken

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02:02:52,600 --> 02:02:54,040
Speaker 10: for a walk. He got to live his life as

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Speaker 10: a dog for one day in a costume, go go

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Speaker 10: on walks with a leash around his neck by someone

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Speaker 10: walking him, and you know, to put the icing on

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02:03:03,280 --> 02:03:06,920
Speaker 10: the cake. He even was kenneled in a crate for

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02:03:07,040 --> 02:03:11,120
Speaker 10: the night just to get the whole effect. So all

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Speaker 10: that for twelve grand, All that for twelve grand to

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Speaker 10: live his life. And he wanted to get the full

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Speaker 10: treatment on like that. And he wentknown unnamed because he

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Speaker 10: didn't want his friends to know his him, because he

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02:03:24,080 --> 02:03:26,200
Speaker 10: thought they might catch on and feel like they was

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Speaker 10: a little on the weird side.

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Speaker 7: So gee, you think indeed?

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Speaker 10: Right?

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02:03:31,720 --> 02:03:35,120
Speaker 7: So unknown man in Japan who dressed as a dog.

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Speaker 10: By the way, if you look at the costume it's

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Speaker 10: a little on the creepy side.

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Speaker 7: But unknown man in Japan, what kind of brand new

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02:03:41,000 --> 02:03:41,600
Speaker 7: fool are you?

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Speaker 4: Sir?

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Speaker 2: You know, there were a couple of jokes that I

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02:03:44,440 --> 02:03:47,640
Speaker 2: could insert here, but I think I'm just simply simply

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02:03:47,680 --> 02:03:52,600
Speaker 2: going to pass and once again fairly innocuous versus crazy.

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02:03:53,160 --> 02:03:56,280
Speaker 2: And I guess I should say allegedly set the neighbor's

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Speaker 2: house on fire because he didn't mold the lawn CAUs,

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02:03:58,920 --> 02:04:02,640
Speaker 2: you know, just in case. But these are the kinds

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Speaker 2: of behaviors people engage in every week. So of course

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Speaker 2: that little bit allows us to segue into our second

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Speaker 2: favorite bit of the week, which we lovingly refer to

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Speaker 2: as what my Name? And Mark Ramsey will be joining

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Speaker 2: us tonight on the game all right. Recently the College

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02:04:24,920 --> 02:04:31,200
Speaker 2: World Series in baseball was played, and a pitcher for LSU, well,

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Speaker 2: my fastball as a pitcher for LSU in the World Series.

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Speaker 2: College World Series was clocked at one hundred miles an

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Speaker 2: hour forty six times. Patrick sweek at what my Name?

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Speaker 10: I'm gonna go, who is Clayton Kershaw?

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02:04:50,960 --> 02:04:54,760
Speaker 2: Not Clayton Kershaw? Pretty sure Kershaw's not in college, but

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Speaker 2: I will appreciate the effort hald I pitched for LSU

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Speaker 2: in the College Baseball World Series. My fastball was clocked

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Speaker 2: at one hundred miles per hour forty six times. Mark Ramsey,

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Speaker 2: what my name?

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02:05:07,760 --> 02:05:10,160
Speaker 6: I'm just gonna throw out a name, Jeff Bridges.

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Speaker 2: Jeff Bridges, not bad. I like Jeff Bridges. Not Jeff Bridges.

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02:05:14,440 --> 02:05:16,640
Speaker 2: It's actually a kid by the name of Paul Skens.

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02:05:17,200 --> 02:05:19,800
Speaker 2: Paul was the number one pick overall in the Draft

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02:05:19,880 --> 02:05:26,840
Speaker 2: Baseball Draft just last week. Paul Skeens. All right, this year,

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02:05:26,880 --> 02:05:29,320
Speaker 2: I'll be playing quarterback. Now we flipped the college football

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02:05:29,720 --> 02:05:33,600
Speaker 2: This euro will be playing quarterback for University of Louisville Louisville,

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Speaker 2: and yes, I will be the only quarterback in college

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Speaker 2: football history when we play Notre Dame. I'll be the

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Speaker 2: only quarterback in college football history to start against Notre

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Speaker 2: Dame for three different schools. Mark Ramsey, went my name.

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02:05:52,320 --> 02:05:54,720
Speaker 6: I'm gonna say new Rockney Junior.

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02:05:56,040 --> 02:06:00,000
Speaker 2: You're good at this game. Sorry, not newt Rockney Junior.

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02:06:01,360 --> 02:06:04,920
Speaker 2: I like it all right. I played quarterback for Louisville

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Speaker 2: and this year, when we played Notre Dame, will be

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02:06:06,720 --> 02:06:10,280
Speaker 2: the only quarterback college football history to start against Notre

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02:06:10,360 --> 02:06:15,360
Speaker 2: Dame for three different schools. Patrick Squeaker, what my name?

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02:06:16,080 --> 02:06:19,680
Speaker 7: Who is Jackson dart Hey?

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02:06:19,680 --> 02:06:22,760
Speaker 2: Hey? Is he still a USC or he transfer? No?

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Speaker 7: I think he transferred.

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Speaker 2: I like that name. It's actually Jack Plumber, Jack Plummer.

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02:06:28,040 --> 02:06:29,880
Speaker 2: I think he's the son of Jake Plumber, So you

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02:06:29,880 --> 02:06:31,800
Speaker 2: guys aren't too far off. Instead of Jackson, it was

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02:06:31,880 --> 02:06:34,640
Speaker 2: Jack and instead of Neuke Rocky Junior is Jack Plummer.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if he's a junior, but I'm pretty

2256
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Speaker 2: sure his father Jake Plummer.

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Speaker 7: I'm pretty sure too.

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02:06:38,320 --> 02:06:41,880
Speaker 2: I'm all right, we'll have to look into that. Maybe

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Speaker 2: that dog guy in Japan can look into that for us,

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02:06:43,920 --> 02:06:47,720
Speaker 2: all right, all right. We're the first brother combination to

2261
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Speaker 2: appear on a Wheaty's box, first brother combination to appear

2262
02:06:52,720 --> 02:06:55,920
Speaker 2: in a Reedy's box. Just happening this month. Mark Ramsey,

2263
02:06:55,920 --> 02:06:56,480
Speaker 2: what my name?

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Speaker 6: I'm just gonna throw out a name. Johnny Bench and

2265
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Speaker 6: his son. I don't I don't know.

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02:07:01,880 --> 02:07:03,240
Speaker 2: I have no idea he does have a son. I

2267
02:07:03,400 --> 02:07:05,320
Speaker 2: like I like it. I like it Johnny Bench, not

2268
02:07:05,360 --> 02:07:09,600
Speaker 2: Johnny Bench. We're the first brother combination to appear in

2269
02:07:09,640 --> 02:07:12,720
Speaker 2: a Wheaties box. Patrick Sweeker, what my name.

2270
02:07:13,720 --> 02:07:16,640
Speaker 10: Who I am gonna go on a lemon Say? Who

2271
02:07:16,880 --> 02:07:18,879
Speaker 10: is Eli Payn Manning?

2272
02:07:19,680 --> 02:07:23,240
Speaker 2: Hey, that's not bad, same sport. It's actually the Watt

2273
02:07:23,240 --> 02:07:27,120
Speaker 2: brothers JJ Watton will be They'll be in a Wheaties box,

2274
02:07:28,040 --> 02:07:35,640
Speaker 2: all right. Recently baseball had the home run derby Tuesday.

2275
02:07:36,440 --> 02:07:40,320
Speaker 2: I'm the only rookie to win the Major League Baseball

2276
02:07:40,360 --> 02:07:43,440
Speaker 2: home run derby, Mark Ramsey with my.

2277
02:07:43,440 --> 02:07:47,720
Speaker 6: Name, let's see rookie, rookie, rookie.

2278
02:07:47,920 --> 02:07:48,879
Speaker 2: It's a rookie.

2279
02:07:50,680 --> 02:07:53,600
Speaker 6: Uh, it's not Ken Griffy Jr.

2280
02:07:53,840 --> 02:07:57,640
Speaker 2: Not Ken Griffy Jr. I'm the only rookie to win

2281
02:07:57,920 --> 02:08:00,440
Speaker 2: the Major League Baseball home run derby, Patrick week Of

2282
02:08:00,520 --> 02:08:01,040
Speaker 2: what my name?

2283
02:08:01,880 --> 02:08:03,879
Speaker 7: Who is Pete Alonzo?

2284
02:08:04,720 --> 02:08:07,400
Speaker 2: Oh? That's a good guest too, same city. It's actually

2285
02:08:07,480 --> 02:08:13,000
Speaker 2: Aaron Judge. Aaron Judge did it all right? Clayton Kershaw

2286
02:08:13,240 --> 02:08:17,080
Speaker 2: recently had his tenth All Star appearance as a member

2287
02:08:17,120 --> 02:08:20,960
Speaker 2: of the Los Angeles Dodgers. He ties the all time

2288
02:08:21,080 --> 02:08:26,800
Speaker 2: Dodger record that was set by me, Mark Ramsey, What

2289
02:08:26,960 --> 02:08:27,360
Speaker 2: my name?

2290
02:08:30,240 --> 02:08:32,680
Speaker 6: This is a totally wrong wild guests.

2291
02:08:32,680 --> 02:08:37,800
Speaker 2: Ferguson Jenkins I love Ferggy Jenkins Man, good Canadian pitcher

2292
02:08:37,840 --> 02:08:42,240
Speaker 2: for the Cubs. Not Fergie Jenkins. All right. Clayton Kershaw

2293
02:08:42,360 --> 02:08:45,080
Speaker 2: appeared in his tenth Major League Baseball All Star Game

2294
02:08:45,080 --> 02:08:48,640
Speaker 2: as a Dodger this past week. He ties the all

2295
02:08:48,680 --> 02:08:51,960
Speaker 2: time appearance record as a Dodger that was originally set

2296
02:08:52,000 --> 02:08:55,320
Speaker 2: by me, Patrick sweek At, What my name?

2297
02:08:56,080 --> 02:09:00,840
Speaker 7: Who? Who is? Definitely not Trevor Bower.

2298
02:09:00,880 --> 02:09:03,720
Speaker 10: I'm going with Sandy Kofax.

2299
02:09:04,320 --> 02:09:08,520
Speaker 2: You're sneaking your so on. One goes a little deeper

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02:09:08,520 --> 02:09:10,640
Speaker 2: into the cookie jar. But if you're a Dodger fan,

2301
02:09:10,720 --> 02:09:14,280
Speaker 2: you remember this. Actually, pee Wee Reese, Pee Wee Reese

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02:09:14,320 --> 02:09:16,440
Speaker 2: was the shortstop of the Dodger did it ten years

2303
02:09:16,480 --> 02:09:19,360
Speaker 2: in a row, for ten years. All right? We are

2304
02:09:19,400 --> 02:09:22,840
Speaker 2: the only guys, what's got the same name? We're the

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02:09:22,880 --> 02:09:27,400
Speaker 2: only father son duo to participate in the Major League

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02:09:27,440 --> 02:09:31,360
Speaker 2: Baseball home run Derby. Patrick SWEEKA, what my name?

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02:09:32,520 --> 02:09:37,640
Speaker 10: Oh, it's gotta be who is Ken, Griffy and Junior?

2308
02:09:38,320 --> 02:09:41,440
Speaker 2: Not them? No, no, nope, I don't think Senior ever

2309
02:09:41,640 --> 02:09:44,640
Speaker 2: was in the home run derby. Uh I'm We're the

2310
02:09:44,680 --> 02:09:47,520
Speaker 2: only father son duo to participate in the MLB home

2311
02:09:47,600 --> 02:09:50,560
Speaker 2: run Derby. I'll give you a clue. The son did

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02:09:50,600 --> 02:09:55,680
Speaker 2: it this year Okay, So, Mark Ramsey, what my name

2313
02:09:57,400 --> 02:09:57,640
Speaker 2: is it?

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02:09:57,680 --> 02:09:59,160
Speaker 6: Guerrero Junie, you got it?

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02:09:59,200 --> 02:10:03,880
Speaker 2: There you go, Vladimir Guerrero Junior, Latimer Guerrero Senior. Sorr.

2316
02:10:03,880 --> 02:10:05,640
Speaker 2: I should have gave you rub should have gave you

2317
02:10:05,640 --> 02:10:10,000
Speaker 2: the clue as well. Patrick, all right, finally one, we're gonna.

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02:10:10,000 --> 02:10:12,480
Speaker 2: We're gonna. I just found this out the other day.

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Speaker 2: This is interesting. This is pure trivia. Okay, we're vacating

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Speaker 2: the world of sports and getting into the world of entertainment.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 2: My parents named me after James Taylor. They decided my name,

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Speaker 2: they would name me after James Taylor before I was

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Speaker 2: even born, because they believed I was gonna be a star.

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Speaker 2: Mark Ramsey wasn't my name?

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Speaker 6: Oh gosh, I'm not sure who Fiona but Apple? I

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Speaker 6: don't know Fiona Apple.

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Speaker 10: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Not Fiona Apple. My parents, before I was even born,

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Speaker 2: decided they were gonna name me after James Taylor because

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Speaker 2: they believed I would grow up to be a star.

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Speaker 2: Patrick Sweaker, what my name?

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Speaker 7: Who is Lebron James?

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Speaker 2: I'm shocked he's not retiring. I'm shocked. It's actually it's

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Speaker 2: actually Taylor Swift. Taylor Swift. Yeah, she said that, you know,

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Speaker 2: I believe she's telling the truth. All right, guys, good job.

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Speaker 2: This is not easy. It's never easy, it's not designed

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Speaker 2: to be easy, But you guys did a good job.

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Speaker 2: Patrick Sweeks Progressive Play of the day. So good job again, guys,

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Speaker 2: And of course you folks will have to wait another

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Speaker 2: seven days for another rousing additions of brand new fool

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Speaker 2: and what my name? I'm Bernie Frattle. Come to you

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Speaker 2: live from the Las Vegas Fox Sports Radio tirerack dot

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Speaker 2: Com studios. Keep it locked right here. You're listening to

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Speaker 2: the Bernie Frattles Show on Fox Sports Radio. All right,

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Speaker 2: back on the Bernie Frattle Show, Fox Sports Radio. Come

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Speaker 2: to you live from the tirack dot Com studios here

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Speaker 2: in Las Vegas. Before we dive into the progressive power

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Speaker 2: play of the day. Well, as part of our what

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Speaker 2: My Name segment, we talked about the fact that Jack Plumber,

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Speaker 2: current quarterback now for the Louisville Cardinals. This is the

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Speaker 2: third college team he'll have been a quarterback for. He'll

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Speaker 2: be the only quarterback in college football history to start

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Speaker 2: against Notre Dame for three different schools. But it turns

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Speaker 2: out he is not the son of the former Jake

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Speaker 2: Plumber of Arizona State and NFL fame. Credit Patrick Speaker, Patrick,

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Speaker 2: what did you.

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Speaker 7: Find, so Bernie?

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Speaker 10: I did a little bit of digging just to see

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Speaker 10: is is Jack Plumber Jake's son?

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Speaker 7: And apparently.

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Speaker 10: Jack was often asked whether you know he is the son,

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Speaker 10: and he has gone on record saying not related to

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Speaker 10: Jake in any way as far as he knows. Uh so,

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Speaker 10: no relation was not any familiar, no uncle, no, you know,

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Speaker 10: great grandfather, whatever you want to call it. So to

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Speaker 10: quote the immortal Jerry Springer, Jake Plumber, you are not

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Speaker 10: the father.

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Speaker 2: As far as you knows. What you said, as far

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Speaker 2: as we know, yeah, well that's what I assumed. And

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Speaker 2: you know what happens when you assume, It makes an

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Speaker 2: ass out of you and me. Well, out of you,

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Speaker 2: but me so fair enough. That's why we employed the

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Speaker 2: crack staff here, all right. So as a segue to that,

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Speaker 2: at this time every week, Patrick also brings us his

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Speaker 2: progressive power play of the day.

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Speaker 1: This has been one heck of a fight from the

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Speaker 1: Angels tonight.

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Speaker 7: How about a.

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Speaker 11: Second fielder biber Bond hits at the Cussinger.

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Speaker 2: Those courtesy of Bally Sports Los Angeles Air Bally Sports West.

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Speaker 2: Look a game like that can turn a team's fortunes around.

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Speaker 2: And I saw it. It looked like a tailor made

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Speaker 2: double play. And these things happen. That's baseball and long

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Speaker 2: the short of it is, you know, And someone asked

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Speaker 2: me to to revisit this. So at the end of

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Speaker 2: the show, I'll talk about some of the greatest pen

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Speaker 2: and chased comebacks of teams who were buried. The Angels

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Speaker 2: are only one game under five hundred, and it's July sixteenth.

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Speaker 2: When I tell you some of these teams and their comebacks,

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Speaker 2: you might be very surprised, and you might take heart

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Speaker 2: because it's not nearly as late in the season as

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Speaker 2: you think. And look, they get trout back. If they

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Speaker 2: keep on to Otani. Anything can happen. But a game

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Speaker 2: like that tonight the way it ended. The Angels won

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Speaker 2: thirteen to twelve. They beat Houston. They've been scuffling lately,

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Speaker 2: multiple lead changes in that game, but they prevail to

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Speaker 2: get to w their one game under five hundred. That

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Speaker 2: would have been a gut wrenching loss had they not won,

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Speaker 2: because they had to come up with three in the

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Speaker 2: ninth to tie the game. They take it to extra

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Speaker 2: innings and they're holding on thirteen. Oh man, it would

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Speaker 2: have been wow. Well you get the picture, Patrick, and

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Speaker 2: at Progressive dot com. By the way, or wemben Yama.

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Speaker 2: You heard my assessment of him, and I know that

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Speaker 2: people have a tendency to selectively listen, and I made

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Speaker 2: the statement that although it's clear he has excellent handles

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Speaker 2: and his vision is way above average, he's a very

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02:16:19,200 --> 02:16:25,040
Speaker 2: good passer. His wingspan is ridiculous. He shows good instincts

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Speaker 2: on the floor. From what I can see, maturity, He's

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Speaker 2: knocked off his pins multiple times. Physically he is. Let

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Speaker 2: me just put it to you this way. We were

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Speaker 2: told that Victor wemban Yama was generational. Right, can't miss unbelievable,

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Speaker 2: Get out of the way. He's already in the Hall

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Speaker 2: of Fame. That's very much the implication. Well, from what

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Speaker 2: I saw, I saw a skillful player. But I've also

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Speaker 2: seen other players at age nineteen, and since you told

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Speaker 2: us he would be generational, I compared him to other

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Speaker 2: generational players I saw at nineteen, Magic and Darryl Dawkins,

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Speaker 2: Bill Walton, Lebron James Kobe Bryant, lou El Sinder. I

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Speaker 2: will just say this, and this is an objective statement.

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Speaker 2: There are objective truths and there are personal feelings. I

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Speaker 2: don't confuse the two. Objectively, at nineteen Wemby is, in

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Speaker 2: terms of his stage of development, nowhere near any of

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Speaker 2: those players I just mentioned. Now, that doesn't mean he

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Speaker 2: can't get there, doesn't mean he won't get there, but

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Speaker 2: he has to do it. And people are saying, we'll

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Speaker 2: give it three years for growing to his body. Three years.

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Speaker 2: What do you call him a project?

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Speaker 10: Now?

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Speaker 2: Three years. Every one of those players had instant success

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Speaker 2: in the NBA when they stepped onto an NBA floor. Now,

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Speaker 2: I'm not casting expersions. I'm not creating an additional pressure

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Speaker 2: on Wemby. It's going to be fun to watch. You're

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02:17:47,480 --> 02:17:49,600
Speaker 2: the ones that told us he would be generational. So

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Speaker 2: not only in my belief in terms of his body type,

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Speaker 2: in terms of his strength, relative explosiveness, willingness to absorb contact,

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Speaker 2: all those things. By the way, the NBA Summer League,

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Speaker 2: it's twenty percent of an NBA game, twenty percent nowhere

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Speaker 2: near NBA caliber. But I've also seen plenty of other

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02:18:10,840 --> 02:18:16,920
Speaker 2: players make stellar debuts, Zion Dame Lillard, Devin Booker, Dion Waiters,

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02:18:17,480 --> 02:18:21,160
Speaker 2: Andrew Wiggins, Christaps Porsingas. All of them were far more

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Speaker 2: impressive than Wemby in their debut. And I realized Wemby

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02:18:24,720 --> 02:18:26,440
Speaker 2: only scored nine points in the first game. Then he

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02:18:26,480 --> 02:18:28,720
Speaker 2: scored twenty seven. So the difference in the two was

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02:18:29,120 --> 02:18:31,000
Speaker 2: the second game the ball went in the basket the

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Speaker 2: first time. It didn't. Doesn't change his body type, his

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Speaker 2: relative explosiveness, or what I consider to be an NBA body.

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Speaker 2: I think he's got a long way to go, and

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Speaker 2: that's all I'm going to say. He may get there.

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Speaker 2: I'm not rooting against him. I like him, but it

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Speaker 2: didn't match up with what we were told. Be that

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Speaker 2: as it may. The game he played in it was

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Speaker 2: the second most watched NBA Summer League game of all time,

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Speaker 2: one point four million viewers. The only game that drew

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Speaker 2: more viewers was Zion back in time nineteen and I

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Speaker 2: was there for that too. That was a night of

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Speaker 2: the earthquake here in Vegas. He had one point six

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Speaker 2: million people watch that game. And I will tell you

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Speaker 2: Zion was the man against boys, but he can't stay

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Speaker 2: on the floor, regardless when he was on the floor

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Speaker 2: man against boys. I didn't see that in wemb at all.

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Speaker 2: But he's nineteen. Let's see what happens from here. Coming

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Speaker 2: up Chris Purfett's World of Soccer. But first let's go

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Speaker 2: back to our guy. Steve de Sager with the latest.

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Speaker 8: The busy Saturday in Major League Baseball was capped by

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Speaker 8: the Angels comeback win in ten innings over Houston thirteen

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Speaker 8: to twelve. The game winning run scored on a throwing

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Speaker 8: air show. Hey Otani with his thirty third home run

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Speaker 8: of the season. That was part of a three run

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Speaker 8: bottom of the ninth to tie. The Yankees led at

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Speaker 8: Colorado six ' to one in the second and ing

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Speaker 8: Gen Carlos Stanton a three run homer sixty three Yankees

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02:19:49,120 --> 02:19:51,920
Speaker 8: the final. Detroit held Seattle to just three hits in

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02:19:51,959 --> 02:19:55,880
Speaker 8: a six nothing Tigers victory. Milwaukee shut out Cincinnati again

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02:19:55,920 --> 02:19:58,800
Speaker 8: three to nothing. Minnesota handed Oakland a six straight lost

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Speaker 8: ten to seven, Tenants just ten thousand there In the

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Speaker 8: East Bay, Baltimore won its seventh straight game six '

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Speaker 8: five over Miami, and the White Sox held on six

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Speaker 8: to five at Atlanta. The Dodgers won their sixth game

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Speaker 8: in a row. San Francisco won its fourth straight. Saint

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Speaker 8: Louis and Washington split a doubleheader. Tampa Bay up to

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Speaker 8: sixty wins already after a doubleheader sweep at Kansas City,

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Speaker 8: and Philadelphia swept a twin bill against the Padres. Kyle

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02:20:23,200 --> 02:20:25,920
Speaker 8: Schwarber Homert in each game. He has twenty four. The

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Speaker 8: Wimbledon Men's Final starts at nine am Eastern time, number

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Speaker 8: two seed Novak Djokovic against number one Carlos Alcarez Saturday morning.

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02:20:34,160 --> 02:20:37,760
Speaker 8: The Ladies champion was Marquette van Drusova, the first unseated

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Speaker 8: woman to take the title there. Mexico plays Sunday night

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Speaker 8: in la and the Gold Cup Soccer tournament final against

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Speaker 8: Panama Saturday night in Vegas was the WNBA All Star Game.

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Speaker 8: Brianna Stewart's team won one forty three to one twenty seven,

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Speaker 8: and the game MVP Jewel Lloyd had thirty one points.

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Speaker 8: I'm Steve Desager.

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Speaker 2: All right, thanks so much, Steve. Well, here we are again,

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02:21:00,760 --> 02:21:03,960
Speaker 2: not that far removed from Men's World Cup last fall

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Speaker 2: Women's World Cup where the USA team looks for their

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Speaker 2: three peet. We are just a week away as they

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02:21:10,680 --> 02:21:14,480
Speaker 2: will face off against Vietnam. That, among other things, always

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Speaker 2: plenty of things in the news, which is why at

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Speaker 2: this time every week we bring you Chris purfets World

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Speaker 2: of Soccer.

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Speaker 9: The greatest goals, the thrilling finishes, the international.

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Speaker 1: Drama him It's all here in this report from the

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Speaker 1: World of Soccer. The Women's World Cup is here, Bernie.

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Speaker 11: After the long wait, we have finally arrived at the

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Speaker 11: next World Cup event taking place co hosted between the

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Speaker 11: island countries of Australia and New Zealand. A lot of

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Speaker 11: these games will be late games for US here in

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02:21:58,080 --> 02:22:02,520
Speaker 11: the North American continent. Expect a lot of overnights, three ams,

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Speaker 11: midnights six pm Pacific, nine Eastern, things of that nature.

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Speaker 11: But it means on Friday at nine pm Eastern, sixth Pacific,

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Speaker 11: the United States kicks off their campaign against groupmate Vietnam.

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Speaker 1: It's a fascinating.

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Speaker 11: Women's World Cup because as much as I believe that

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Speaker 11: the conversation has been about the United States women's team

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Speaker 11: in this country, and why shouldn't it be it's the

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Speaker 11: team that represents our country, I believe this Women's World

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02:22:31,440 --> 02:22:34,039
Speaker 11: Cup is more opened up versus World Cups the past.

2530
02:22:34,280 --> 02:22:35,680
Speaker 11: I think a lot of people have written in the

2531
02:22:35,760 --> 02:22:39,119
Speaker 11: United States team to just simply coast through go through

2532
02:22:39,160 --> 02:22:41,520
Speaker 11: a three pt, which hasn't really been done in the

2533
02:22:41,520 --> 02:22:44,840
Speaker 11: women's game. The closest was Germany in the aughts, but

2534
02:22:44,959 --> 02:22:47,520
Speaker 11: even they failed to succeed in their three p The

2535
02:22:47,560 --> 02:22:51,360
Speaker 11: women's team is undergoing something of a sea change, and

2536
02:22:51,400 --> 02:22:54,360
Speaker 11: I think it's most evidenced by the retirement announcement of

2537
02:22:54,440 --> 02:22:57,680
Speaker 11: Megan Rapino that this will be probably not just her

2538
02:22:57,760 --> 02:23:00,680
Speaker 11: last World Cup run, but also her final year of

2539
02:23:00,760 --> 02:23:04,000
Speaker 11: professional play in the game of soccer. She's had a long,

2540
02:23:04,040 --> 02:23:08,040
Speaker 11: emblematic career. She represents much of the women's team, not

2541
02:23:08,160 --> 02:23:11,240
Speaker 11: just into heart and soul and ability on the pitch,

2542
02:23:11,280 --> 02:23:14,480
Speaker 11: but also in how they have tried to use their

2543
02:23:14,520 --> 02:23:17,960
Speaker 11: platform to evidence change around them, not always successfully, but

2544
02:23:18,480 --> 02:23:21,440
Speaker 11: nevertheless that has been the characteristic of the women's team

2545
02:23:21,440 --> 02:23:24,320
Speaker 11: and a lot of women's soccer. This is indeed probably

2546
02:23:24,320 --> 02:23:27,279
Speaker 11: the last rallying cry for her and Alex Morgan, unless

2547
02:23:27,280 --> 02:23:30,840
Speaker 11: Alex can still play into her deep late thirties. But

2548
02:23:32,040 --> 02:23:34,560
Speaker 11: the new generation of the US women is trying to

2549
02:23:34,640 --> 02:23:36,959
Speaker 11: come up. One of those is probably to keep an

2550
02:23:36,959 --> 02:23:40,160
Speaker 11: eye on most is Sophia Smith. Probably I would say

2551
02:23:40,320 --> 02:23:43,480
Speaker 11: the second best player in this tournament. I'll get to

2552
02:23:43,480 --> 02:23:46,920
Speaker 11: the first in the second. And indeed Sophia Smith is

2553
02:23:46,920 --> 02:23:49,560
Speaker 11: going to have a lot on her plate, especially as

2554
02:23:49,680 --> 02:23:52,879
Speaker 11: Malory Swanson will be missing much of this Cup with

2555
02:23:52,920 --> 02:23:55,760
Speaker 11: an injury. If the US wants to continue to be

2556
02:23:55,800 --> 02:23:58,240
Speaker 11: that team that just simply puts goals on the board,

2557
02:23:58,240 --> 02:23:59,680
Speaker 11: they're going to need a lot more out of her.

2558
02:24:00,160 --> 02:24:03,120
Speaker 11: Probably need to look maybe also to Trinity Rodman, who

2559
02:24:03,240 --> 02:24:07,199
Speaker 11: yes is the daughter of former NBA star Dennis Rodman.

2560
02:24:08,160 --> 02:24:10,720
Speaker 11: Now last World Cup the women's team was accused of

2561
02:24:10,720 --> 02:24:15,480
Speaker 11: poor sportsmanship for piling goals onto unsuspecting countries, and that

2562
02:24:15,600 --> 02:24:18,879
Speaker 11: accusation might come up again because their group is not

2563
02:24:19,080 --> 02:24:21,480
Speaker 11: great and I expect the US to walk through here

2564
02:24:21,959 --> 02:24:26,880
Speaker 11: no problem whatsoever, especially against the kickoff opponent Vietnam, who

2565
02:24:26,920 --> 02:24:30,440
Speaker 11: just got outscored nine to zero by Spain in a

2566
02:24:30,640 --> 02:24:33,920
Speaker 11: international friendly leading up to this Cup. The problem for

2567
02:24:33,959 --> 02:24:36,360
Speaker 11: the United States women's team is not going to come

2568
02:24:36,760 --> 02:24:38,880
Speaker 11: in the group stage. It's going to come as other

2569
02:24:38,920 --> 02:24:41,200
Speaker 11: Titans emerge from their group, and this is a year

2570
02:24:41,280 --> 02:24:44,720
Speaker 11: where there is more competition than ever to the United States.

2571
02:24:44,840 --> 02:24:47,640
Speaker 11: Crown I mentioned that Sophia Smith might be the second

2572
02:24:47,879 --> 02:24:50,600
Speaker 11: best player in this tournament. My first best is for

2573
02:24:50,720 --> 02:24:53,480
Speaker 11: Sam Kerr, one of the members of the Matilda's. The

2574
02:24:53,480 --> 02:24:57,600
Speaker 11: Australians who are the co hosts of this tournament and hosts,

2575
02:24:57,760 --> 02:25:00,560
Speaker 11: especially in the women's side, all we want to go

2576
02:25:00,680 --> 02:25:04,800
Speaker 11: very strong, and indeed Australia is a very very big

2577
02:25:04,840 --> 02:25:07,520
Speaker 11: sleeper pick in my opinion. I don't know if they'll

2578
02:25:07,560 --> 02:25:10,000
Speaker 11: be able to stack up against some of the teams

2579
02:25:10,040 --> 02:25:12,600
Speaker 11: later on, and indeed they have a rough road to

2580
02:25:12,760 --> 02:25:15,280
Speaker 11: that final, but they will be playing with heart and

2581
02:25:15,360 --> 02:25:18,360
Speaker 11: passion through a lot of this. Germany is currently number

2582
02:25:18,400 --> 02:25:21,040
Speaker 11: two in the world, behind the United States, and they're

2583
02:25:21,040 --> 02:25:23,840
Speaker 11: putting together one of their best rosters since their runs

2584
02:25:24,120 --> 02:25:27,760
Speaker 11: in the two thousands. Spain another one of my favorites,

2585
02:25:27,800 --> 02:25:31,240
Speaker 11: as they put together a fantastic roster that's clicking at

2586
02:25:31,240 --> 02:25:36,880
Speaker 11: the right time between Aitana Bonmadi and Alexia Putellis, who's

2587
02:25:36,920 --> 02:25:39,080
Speaker 11: coming in and as a back to back winner of

2588
02:25:39,080 --> 02:25:42,560
Speaker 11: the women's Blondure. However, on the downside for her, she

2589
02:25:42,640 --> 02:25:45,680
Speaker 11: did tear her ACL a while ago and has yet

2590
02:25:45,720 --> 02:25:48,800
Speaker 11: to play a full ninety minutes for the Spanish national team.

2591
02:25:49,240 --> 02:25:52,160
Speaker 11: Or England, who the longtime rivals for the United States

2592
02:25:52,200 --> 02:25:54,760
Speaker 11: and the women's game, and quite honestly, I see them

2593
02:25:54,800 --> 02:25:57,280
Speaker 11: going the wrong way right now. I'm not a big

2594
02:25:57,280 --> 02:25:59,280
Speaker 11: fan of them in this tournament, but nevertheless, if they

2595
02:25:59,360 --> 02:26:02,000
Speaker 11: decide to click in the eleventh hour, could still pose

2596
02:26:02,000 --> 02:26:05,119
Speaker 11: a problem. I haven't even talked about Spain or Brazil,

2597
02:26:05,600 --> 02:26:08,400
Speaker 11: or Japan, who always seems a surprise, or the rising

2598
02:26:08,480 --> 02:26:11,400
Speaker 11: state of Norway. The point is I'm trying to make

2599
02:26:11,520 --> 02:26:13,400
Speaker 11: is that I've heard a lot in leading up to

2600
02:26:13,480 --> 02:26:16,560
Speaker 11: this tournament that indicates that the United States women's team

2601
02:26:16,640 --> 02:26:19,280
Speaker 11: is somehow invincible. I do not believe it to be so.

2602
02:26:19,800 --> 02:26:21,480
Speaker 11: I believe that the rest of the world has been

2603
02:26:21,520 --> 02:26:24,200
Speaker 11: catching up to the women's team. I believe that with

2604
02:26:24,280 --> 02:26:27,040
Speaker 11: this generational sea change, it will pose a problem. I

2605
02:26:27,120 --> 02:26:29,760
Speaker 11: still expect them to win, but I don't see their

2606
02:26:29,879 --> 02:26:33,080
Speaker 11: victory as being ordained. And I know that maybe run

2607
02:26:33,280 --> 02:26:35,720
Speaker 11: rubbed some people the wrong way who are parachuting into

2608
02:26:35,760 --> 02:26:38,400
Speaker 11: soccer on the national side, in the World Cup side

2609
02:26:38,400 --> 02:26:40,600
Speaker 11: because they want to hear the United States is going

2610
02:26:40,640 --> 02:26:42,760
Speaker 11: to roll through this thing and win, and they don't

2611
02:26:42,800 --> 02:26:46,160
Speaker 11: care to hear about questions and concerns and everything else,

2612
02:26:46,200 --> 02:26:48,320
Speaker 11: and they just want to wave the flag. I'm telling you,

2613
02:26:48,560 --> 02:26:50,680
Speaker 11: Bernie that this is probably one of the deepest World

2614
02:26:50,760 --> 02:26:53,199
Speaker 11: Cups for the women's side we've seen in a while.

2615
02:26:53,800 --> 02:26:57,200
Speaker 11: And I believe that if the United States wants to

2616
02:26:57,280 --> 02:27:00,280
Speaker 11: make it and make history, lift the trop if be

2617
02:27:00,360 --> 02:27:03,000
Speaker 11: three times straight, they need to keep their egos in check.

2618
02:27:03,160 --> 02:27:06,480
Speaker 11: They need to keep their expectations in check. The veterans

2619
02:27:06,520 --> 02:27:09,320
Speaker 11: have to lead the young guns, and everyone has to

2620
02:27:09,320 --> 02:27:11,400
Speaker 11: do their part, because the problem is once you get

2621
02:27:11,400 --> 02:27:14,959
Speaker 11: to knockout rounds, problem with single late elimination is you

2622
02:27:15,080 --> 02:27:18,760
Speaker 11: only get one game. Here's to a fantastic World Cup Burnie,

2623
02:27:18,800 --> 02:27:20,720
Speaker 11: and we'll catch you next time. After the Americans have

2624
02:27:20,760 --> 02:27:22,520
Speaker 11: taken the field in the world of.

2625
02:27:22,480 --> 02:27:26,160
Speaker 2: Soccer, thanks Chris. And of course they take the field

2626
02:27:26,160 --> 02:27:28,880
Speaker 2: next week. By this time next week on the year,

2627
02:27:28,920 --> 02:27:31,520
Speaker 2: they will have had their first game against Vietnam. I

2628
02:27:31,560 --> 02:27:34,199
Speaker 2: don't think they'll have trouble getting out of their group stage,

2629
02:27:34,560 --> 02:27:38,280
Speaker 2: but as you advance, curious to see how they'll do

2630
02:27:38,320 --> 02:27:41,920
Speaker 2: against England or Germany if they should match up against

2631
02:27:41,959 --> 02:27:45,240
Speaker 2: those two teams. They're looking for a three peat, and

2632
02:27:45,560 --> 02:27:48,800
Speaker 2: while they are favored, I think, as Chris said, the

2633
02:27:48,840 --> 02:27:52,320
Speaker 2: field is deeper this year, and so victories are going

2634
02:27:52,360 --> 02:27:56,640
Speaker 2: to be hard fought and sometimes goals are accidents in soccer.

2635
02:27:57,360 --> 02:28:00,400
Speaker 2: We'll see what happens. We'll see what happens. But I

2636
02:28:00,400 --> 02:28:03,720
Speaker 2: don't know that this team the US is feeling, will

2637
02:28:03,720 --> 02:28:06,240
Speaker 2: be as dominant as teams in the past, even if

2638
02:28:06,280 --> 02:28:10,280
Speaker 2: they do prevail and get their three peat. Coming up,

2639
02:28:10,560 --> 02:28:13,560
Speaker 2: if you're an Angel fan, take heart, since naty redfan,

2640
02:28:13,760 --> 02:28:17,520
Speaker 2: take hart. If your team is under five hundred, take heart.

2641
02:28:17,959 --> 02:28:21,800
Speaker 2: Some of the greatest pen and chases began after July,

2642
02:28:22,040 --> 02:28:24,760
Speaker 2: when teams looked like they were out of it. Got

2643
02:28:24,760 --> 02:28:26,480
Speaker 2: a few to share with you. You get a kick

2644
02:28:26,480 --> 02:28:28,320
Speaker 2: out of I'm Bernie Fraddleck coming to you live from

2645
02:28:28,320 --> 02:28:31,279
Speaker 2: the Las Vegas Fox Sports Radio Tirac dot com studios.

2646
02:28:31,360 --> 02:28:33,560
Speaker 2: Keep it locked. You're listening to the Bernie Frattle Show

2647
02:28:33,600 --> 02:28:40,960
Speaker 2: on Fox Sports Radio. Wrapping it up on the Bernie

2648
02:28:41,000 --> 02:28:44,360
Speaker 2: Frattle Show or comedy live from the Las Vegas Fox

2649
02:28:44,360 --> 02:28:49,920
Speaker 2: Sports Radio Tyrac dot com studios. Before go any further,

2650
02:28:50,040 --> 02:28:53,039
Speaker 2: I want to thank my broadcast team back in Los Angeles.

2651
02:28:53,760 --> 02:28:58,080
Speaker 2: They've been with me since eleven pm Pacific on Saturday night,

2652
02:28:58,200 --> 02:29:02,600
Speaker 2: Mark Ramsey, our technical producer, Steve de Sager on all

2653
02:29:02,600 --> 02:29:06,600
Speaker 2: our updates, and of course in Patrick Sweka, guys turning

2654
02:29:06,640 --> 02:29:09,119
Speaker 2: the dials, keeping a song, dude together, diving in there

2655
02:29:09,160 --> 02:29:12,320
Speaker 2: on brand new fool and what my Name, and generally

2656
02:29:13,120 --> 02:29:17,280
Speaker 2: serving to contribute to all the hygiens. So you heard

2657
02:29:17,280 --> 02:29:19,920
Speaker 2: the prudential play of the day and it was Patrick

2658
02:29:20,640 --> 02:29:23,840
Speaker 2: sharing the Angels and the way they came back to

2659
02:29:23,879 --> 02:29:28,039
Speaker 2: beat Houston thirteen to twelve and was kind of a gritty,

2660
02:29:28,120 --> 02:29:32,120
Speaker 2: gutty victory that would have been a backbreaking loss had

2661
02:29:32,120 --> 02:29:36,360
Speaker 2: the Angels gotten beat again because they've really been scuffling

2662
02:29:36,400 --> 02:29:39,480
Speaker 2: the last two weeks, and of course Tony's not been

2663
02:29:39,520 --> 02:29:42,760
Speaker 2: the same on the mound, and Trout's been hurt, which

2664
02:29:42,879 --> 02:29:45,040
Speaker 2: led to the trade toks and things of that nature,

2665
02:29:45,120 --> 02:29:48,840
Speaker 2: and people worried that the Angels season is going right

2666
02:29:48,879 --> 02:29:54,000
Speaker 2: in the dumper. It's only July sixteenth. Now, why do

2667
02:29:54,080 --> 02:29:56,880
Speaker 2: I say that? What if I told you? Since nineteen

2668
02:29:56,959 --> 02:30:01,240
Speaker 2: ninety five, there have been eleven instances where a team

2669
02:30:01,320 --> 02:30:04,600
Speaker 2: was under five hundred at the All Star break and

2670
02:30:04,640 --> 02:30:07,000
Speaker 2: they came back to win their division. There have been

2671
02:30:07,080 --> 02:30:12,000
Speaker 2: nine additional instances where a team was under five hundred

2672
02:30:12,360 --> 02:30:16,240
Speaker 2: at the All Star break and they came back to

2673
02:30:16,320 --> 02:30:21,840
Speaker 2: be a wild card team, which sort of leads to

2674
02:30:21,920 --> 02:30:27,640
Speaker 2: some of the greatest and most unpredictable and sensational Pennant

2675
02:30:27,720 --> 02:30:32,560
Speaker 2: Race Pennant Chase comebacks of all time because every year

2676
02:30:33,480 --> 02:30:37,560
Speaker 2: baseball teams they duke it out and did the dog

2677
02:30:37,680 --> 02:30:40,240
Speaker 2: Days in July and August did really when these things

2678
02:30:40,240 --> 02:30:43,520
Speaker 2: are decided, you know, the first couple months of the year,

2679
02:30:43,600 --> 02:30:47,320
Speaker 2: everything's new, everything's fresh, no one's heard, you're not sore.

2680
02:30:48,000 --> 02:30:51,080
Speaker 2: You get to September. Many times it's close to being

2681
02:30:51,120 --> 02:30:54,080
Speaker 2: decided you're winding on the season. But July and August

2682
02:30:54,560 --> 02:30:57,080
Speaker 2: is when it's hot. And when the heat gets hot,

2683
02:30:57,160 --> 02:30:59,680
Speaker 2: it's hard to breathe. And can you be great when

2684
02:30:59,720 --> 02:31:04,080
Speaker 2: the you mistion the situation demands greatness? And there have

2685
02:31:04,200 --> 02:31:08,360
Speaker 2: been multiple teams. Take heart if you're an Angels fan.

2686
02:31:08,440 --> 02:31:11,200
Speaker 2: I'm just going to use them as an example. Take

2687
02:31:11,200 --> 02:31:14,960
Speaker 2: the nineteen seventy eight New York Yankees. Yankees trailed and

2688
02:31:15,000 --> 02:31:16,840
Speaker 2: this is a team that had won the World Series

2689
02:31:16,879 --> 02:31:20,080
Speaker 2: the year before, when Reggie Jackson famously hit the three

2690
02:31:20,080 --> 02:31:23,039
Speaker 2: home runs off three different pitchers on three pitches in

2691
02:31:23,120 --> 02:31:27,039
Speaker 2: the seventy seven World Series to win it. The Yankees

2692
02:31:27,080 --> 02:31:31,400
Speaker 2: the following season in seventy eight, they trailed by fourteen games.

2693
02:31:31,440 --> 02:31:34,400
Speaker 2: They trailed the Boston Red Sox by fourteen games in

2694
02:31:34,440 --> 02:31:37,440
Speaker 2: the Al East. There wasn't a wildcard back then. On

2695
02:31:37,560 --> 02:31:41,160
Speaker 2: July twentieth, the Yankees were fourteen games back. This is

2696
02:31:41,240 --> 02:31:44,720
Speaker 2: July twentieth, remember today's On July sixteenth, what de Bronch

2697
02:31:44,760 --> 02:31:47,840
Speaker 2: Bombers do. Somehow managed to go fifty two to twenty

2698
02:31:47,840 --> 02:31:50,720
Speaker 2: one down the stretch in the final seventy three games.

2699
02:31:51,160 --> 02:31:55,280
Speaker 2: Bucky Dent October second, nineteen seventy eight in the one

2700
02:31:55,360 --> 02:31:59,039
Speaker 2: game tiebreaker, hits a home run. One of the great stories,

2701
02:31:59,080 --> 02:32:02,680
Speaker 2: My buddy Dick shapp wi me Jeremy, same situation. Jeremy

2702
02:32:02,800 --> 02:32:05,560
Speaker 2: was only eight years old. Dick took him to the game.

2703
02:32:06,120 --> 02:32:10,000
Speaker 2: He was rummaging around the press box and finding out

2704
02:32:10,000 --> 02:32:12,680
Speaker 2: if someone had an extra ticket for a son. Sure enough,

2705
02:32:12,680 --> 02:32:14,360
Speaker 2: a guy named Bucky Dent says, hey, you can have

2706
02:32:14,440 --> 02:32:17,160
Speaker 2: extra one of mine. Jeremy goes to the game. Bucky

2707
02:32:17,240 --> 02:32:19,879
Speaker 2: Dent hits the home run. Can't make this stumb up.

2708
02:32:19,920 --> 02:32:22,440
Speaker 2: The Yankees actually go back to repeat win the World Series.

2709
02:32:22,520 --> 02:32:25,119
Speaker 2: There were fourteen games back on July twentieth. How about

2710
02:32:25,120 --> 02:32:29,480
Speaker 2: the nineteen ninety five Seattle Mariners, the kid Ken Griffey Jr.

2711
02:32:29,600 --> 02:32:32,879
Speaker 2: Still in his mid twenties. Then on August third, the

2712
02:32:32,959 --> 02:32:37,040
Speaker 2: Mariners trailed the California Angels by thirteen games on August third,

2713
02:32:37,959 --> 02:32:41,520
Speaker 2: and they were two games under five hundred on August third.

2714
02:32:42,040 --> 02:32:44,080
Speaker 2: What did Seattle do? They went thirty five and ten

2715
02:32:44,160 --> 02:32:46,920
Speaker 2: down the stretch. The Angels went twenty two and thirty three.

2716
02:32:47,200 --> 02:32:50,080
Speaker 2: Seattle wins the West. They get all the way to

2717
02:32:50,120 --> 02:32:53,440
Speaker 2: the Alcs. They lose to the Cleveland Indians. For a

2718
02:32:53,520 --> 02:32:57,680
Speaker 2: chance to go to the World Series. Remember this is

2719
02:32:57,800 --> 02:33:01,400
Speaker 2: August third in the Mariners trail by thirteen games. Now

2720
02:33:01,400 --> 02:33:03,280
Speaker 2: this one, you gotta go way back on the Cookie jar.

2721
02:33:03,640 --> 02:33:06,400
Speaker 2: Cubs eleven games back behind the New York Giants on

2722
02:33:06,480 --> 02:33:09,959
Speaker 2: July fifth, this is nineteen thirty five. They surge. They

2723
02:33:09,959 --> 02:33:12,600
Speaker 2: win sixty two of their last eighty four games. Somehow

2724
02:33:12,600 --> 02:33:14,720
Speaker 2: they win twenty one in a row. After Labor Day,

2725
02:33:15,160 --> 02:33:17,920
Speaker 2: the Cubs win the pennant and they go to the

2726
02:33:17,959 --> 02:33:21,000
Speaker 2: World Series the nineteen ninety three Atlanta Raiders. On this one,

2727
02:33:21,040 --> 02:33:24,840
Speaker 2: I remember well because the Braves were down by ten

2728
02:33:24,920 --> 02:33:27,840
Speaker 2: games on July twenty third, and they made a deal

2729
02:33:27,879 --> 02:33:30,879
Speaker 2: to get Fred crime Dog McGriff. They go forty nine

2730
02:33:30,920 --> 02:33:33,440
Speaker 2: and sixteen in their final sixty nine games. They pulled

2731
02:33:33,440 --> 02:33:35,680
Speaker 2: the NL West out over the Giants by one game

2732
02:33:36,080 --> 02:33:37,880
Speaker 2: on the second of the last day of the season.

2733
02:33:38,280 --> 02:33:41,879
Speaker 2: But remember on July twenty third, this is only July sixteenth,

2734
02:33:42,160 --> 02:33:45,680
Speaker 2: the Braves they were ten games back in the NL West.

2735
02:33:45,879 --> 02:33:50,080
Speaker 2: There was no wild card back then another one, you

2736
02:33:50,120 --> 02:33:51,920
Speaker 2: gotta go way back on the Cookie jar. In nineteen

2737
02:33:51,959 --> 02:33:55,280
Speaker 2: sixty four, the Saint Louis Cardinals, they had Bob Gibson

2738
02:33:56,040 --> 02:33:58,680
Speaker 2: Hall of Famer. But as late as August twenty fourth,

2739
02:33:59,480 --> 02:34:02,280
Speaker 2: the Cardinals were eleven games out. But they go twenty

2740
02:34:02,280 --> 02:34:04,640
Speaker 2: eight and eleven in the final thirty nine games to

2741
02:34:04,800 --> 02:34:07,879
Speaker 2: capture the pennant. You really want to go back in

2742
02:34:07,920 --> 02:34:10,879
Speaker 2: the cookie jar. How about the nineteen fourteen Boston Braves.

2743
02:34:11,240 --> 02:34:13,960
Speaker 2: They were called the Miracle Braves. They were fifteen games

2744
02:34:13,959 --> 02:34:17,279
Speaker 2: out of first place at the All Star break fifteen games.

2745
02:34:17,959 --> 02:34:19,920
Speaker 2: They go sixty eight to nineteen the second half of

2746
02:34:19,959 --> 02:34:22,760
Speaker 2: the season, win the pennant by ten games. Now one

2747
02:34:22,760 --> 02:34:26,240
Speaker 2: of the lovable teams the sixty nine Miracle Mets. On

2748
02:34:26,280 --> 02:34:31,920
Speaker 2: August fourteenth, the sixty nine Mets trailed the Chicago Cubs

2749
02:34:32,120 --> 02:34:34,960
Speaker 2: by ten games in the NL East. They finished this

2750
02:34:35,040 --> 02:34:37,920
Speaker 2: season on a thirty eight and eleven run. They allowed

2751
02:34:37,920 --> 02:34:41,320
Speaker 2: the Miracle Mets to capture the East and run away

2752
02:34:41,320 --> 02:34:45,400
Speaker 2: with the East by eight games. There weren't even divisional playoffs.

2753
02:34:45,400 --> 02:34:47,240
Speaker 2: Then the Mets go on to claim the World Series

2754
02:34:47,280 --> 02:34:50,760
Speaker 2: in five games. They beat the Baltimore Oriols, a very

2755
02:34:50,800 --> 02:34:54,480
Speaker 2: good Baltimore Orioles team. This is not a recent phenomenon.

2756
02:34:54,600 --> 02:34:56,200
Speaker 2: You want to go back on the cookie jar again.

2757
02:34:56,560 --> 02:35:01,199
Speaker 2: About nineteen thirty. The Saint Louis Cardinals for twelve games

2758
02:35:01,520 --> 02:35:05,080
Speaker 2: out of first place on August ninth. This is only

2759
02:35:05,160 --> 02:35:09,040
Speaker 2: July sixteenth, only one game over five hundred. Yeah, they

2760
02:35:09,040 --> 02:35:11,480
Speaker 2: got hot. You have to get hot. They were thirty

2761
02:35:11,560 --> 02:35:14,600
Speaker 2: nine and ten in their final forty nine games. They

2762
02:35:14,640 --> 02:35:18,640
Speaker 2: surpassed the Cubs win by two games. Again, back in

2763
02:35:18,720 --> 02:35:21,560
Speaker 2: nineteen forty two, Cardinals did the same thing they'd done

2764
02:35:21,600 --> 02:35:25,120
Speaker 2: twelve years earlier. They're way off the lead in the

2765
02:35:25,200 --> 02:35:28,240
Speaker 2: National League. This time they trailed Saint Louis. Check that

2766
02:35:28,360 --> 02:35:32,039
Speaker 2: Saint Louis trailed by ten games on August fifth. What

2767
02:35:32,120 --> 02:35:34,520
Speaker 2: do they do? They go forty four and nine down

2768
02:35:34,560 --> 02:35:38,320
Speaker 2: the stretch. They overtake the Dodgers for the National League crown.

2769
02:35:38,959 --> 02:35:42,600
Speaker 2: Notice these dates. And finally, perhaps the most famous one

2770
02:35:42,600 --> 02:35:47,560
Speaker 2: of all the nineteen fifty one New York Giants. You

2771
02:35:47,600 --> 02:35:52,480
Speaker 2: ever heard of Russ Hodges the Giants, the famous radio broadcaster.

2772
02:35:53,080 --> 02:35:54,960
Speaker 2: If you close your eyes, you can probably still hear

2773
02:35:55,000 --> 02:35:57,760
Speaker 2: them saying, the Giants win the Pennant. The Giants win

2774
02:35:57,840 --> 02:36:01,720
Speaker 2: the Pennant. But before Bobby Bompson hit that famous home

2775
02:36:01,800 --> 02:36:05,920
Speaker 2: run off Rath Bronca, which went on to be called

2776
02:36:06,080 --> 02:36:09,200
Speaker 2: the Shot heard around the world, a walk off win,

2777
02:36:09,600 --> 02:36:13,240
Speaker 2: putting him in the World Series just a month before.

2778
02:36:14,080 --> 02:36:17,160
Speaker 2: Month and a half before, the Giants trailed the Dodgers

2779
02:36:17,160 --> 02:36:21,880
Speaker 2: by thirteen games on August twelfth. Again, this is only

2780
02:36:22,120 --> 02:36:25,959
Speaker 2: July sixteenth. On August twelfth, the Giants trailed the Dodgers

2781
02:36:26,000 --> 02:36:30,000
Speaker 2: by thirteen games, caught fire, went thirty eight and seven

2782
02:36:30,040 --> 02:36:32,320
Speaker 2: in their final forty five games, forced the one game

2783
02:36:32,360 --> 02:36:36,240
Speaker 2: playoff with Brooklynd. Bobby Thompson hits the shot herd around

2784
02:36:36,280 --> 02:36:40,000
Speaker 2: the world and the Giants win. The Pennant Angels fans,

2785
02:36:40,440 --> 02:36:44,640
Speaker 2: Shohio Tani fans, Mike Trout fans take heart. It might

2786
02:36:44,680 --> 02:36:47,400
Speaker 2: not happen. The odds are against it, but it's happened

2787
02:36:47,400 --> 02:36:51,200
Speaker 2: so many times before. Remember Hope springs a Turnlin Baseball,

2788
02:36:51,600 --> 02:36:54,280
Speaker 2: even in July. It's gonna do it for the Bernie

2789
02:36:54,280 --> 02:36:56,920
Speaker 2: Fraddles show back on these airwaves next Friday at eleven.

2790
02:36:57,440 --> 02:37:00,040
Speaker 2: Keep it Locked up. Next the Great Andy Furman on

2791
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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio.