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Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. Hello, welcome in side

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Speaker 1: hour three the Jason Smith Show with my bass friend

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Speaker 1: Mike Harmon.

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Speaker 2: Well dressed hobo.

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Speaker 1: We got Rick Buker on the way in about twenty minutes,

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Speaker 1: and boy, all of a sudden, Lakers have a Luca

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Speaker 1: dontage issue. Luca leaving Tonight's blowout loss at the hands

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Speaker 1: of the Oklahoma City Thunder with a hamstring injury. MRI

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Speaker 1: already set for Friday. Hopefully it's good news, but yo,

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Speaker 1: look we got into a little bit ago. This is

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Speaker 1: the the only question mark you have about Luca is

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Speaker 1: his long term health. Can his body withstand the riggers

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Speaker 1: of the NBA. His games played the last few years

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Speaker 1: haven't been great, and we know that. The reason he

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Speaker 1: was dealt by the Mavericks, one of the big reasons

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Speaker 1: why Nico Harrison wanted to trade him was, Hey, we

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Speaker 1: don't know that he can stay healthy, and he's doing

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Speaker 1: a lot of money from us.

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Speaker 3: What are we gonna do?

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Speaker 1: And it was like, we don't want to be the

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Speaker 1: guys that have sunk all this money into someone that

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Speaker 1: we don't know if he can stay healthy. And it's

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Speaker 1: not just about taking care of your body. It's just

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Speaker 1: can your body with stand the pounding of the NBA.

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Speaker 1: It's a lot of minutes for Luca. Every minute is

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Speaker 1: a heavy minute for him, a lot of pace, highest

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Speaker 1: usage rate in the NBA. He pulls up on a

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Speaker 1: pull up and goes straight to the court, and you

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Speaker 1: saw the look of horror from his teammates and even

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Speaker 1: the thunder looking around thirty two point deficit at that point,

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Speaker 1: seven thirty eight remaining in the third quarter, and nobody

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Speaker 1: was able to at least give the old College try

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Speaker 1: and rally because they got bludgeoned. But now your season

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Speaker 1: that after a fantastic march, not only for him, but

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Speaker 1: for your squad trying to you know, at chesty and

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Speaker 1: say hey we're here, we've arrived. We're ready to make

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Speaker 1: some noise and maybe upset the apple cart at the

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Speaker 1: top of the Western Conference. Suddenly he's laying in a heap.

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Speaker 1: I really, it's it's really you look back and go, yeah,

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Speaker 1: this is the Mavericks going, this is this is kind

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Speaker 1: of why we we didn't want to give him that money. Now,

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Speaker 1: I hope it's a blip and he's back out soon.

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Speaker 1: And you know what, the flip side of it is

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Speaker 1: that if it's a case of where he needs a

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Speaker 1: week to rest, not the worst thing, because look, the

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Speaker 1: Lakers aren't catching anybody else in the Western Conference. Could

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Speaker 1: they drop past third, Yeah, sure they could drop past third,

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Speaker 1: But does it really matter. You're not dropping out of six.

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Speaker 1: You know you've won a lot, You've proven you're a

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Speaker 1: fifty win team. You are a heavyweight playoff team. If

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Speaker 1: this is Luca just having to sit out for a bit, okay,

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Speaker 1: it's it's almost because look, you see this for players

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Speaker 1: that where like the the I don't want to call

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Speaker 1: it an advantageous injury because no injuries are like that.

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Speaker 1: But when when you know that guys are gonna go

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Speaker 1: through the year right now in in the NBA and

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Speaker 1: they're gonna get dinged up, and the one thing you

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Speaker 1: do don't want is you don't want it to sync

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Speaker 1: up with the playoffs. What you want to do is

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Speaker 1: sync it up when the guy can get a break

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Speaker 1: and he doesn't, you know, you know he's able to

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Speaker 1: you know, hit recharge on the on the batteries, and

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Speaker 1: maybe this is great. Luca's been going at at you know,

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Speaker 1: he's been going you know, hair on fire, for the

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Speaker 1: past two and a half months. So if he's got

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Speaker 1: to sit for a little bit and it's not that serious, okay,

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Speaker 1: oh maybe maybe maybe this is one of those hey

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Speaker 1: silver lining things where we make them sit for a

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Speaker 1: little bit, because hey, look, the Lakers are who they are.

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Speaker 1: They they've bought in. We we know who they are,

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Speaker 1: we know we know their identity. Nothing's going to change

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Speaker 1: in the playoffs. Nothing's going to change them with the

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Speaker 1: course the next few games, so everything is going to

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Speaker 1: be just fine. So but if it's a couple of games,

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Speaker 1: he's back for the beginning of the playoffs, Okay, great

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Speaker 1: like that. That's something where Luca gets a week and

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Speaker 1: a half of rest, and I think I think there's

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Speaker 1: worse things for Luca and that just trying to look

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Speaker 1: at this from a positive stands. Oh, that's it, right,

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Speaker 1: Any of those pipe dreams that he was going to

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Speaker 1: overtake Shay Gilders Alexander or the also sitting down and

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Speaker 1: clap Victor Weinbgnana for the MVP their pipe dreams eighty

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Speaker 1: four percent implied odds. When for Alexander, Guildtess Alexander, let

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Speaker 1: me get it right. Hyphenation at this moment, But your

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Speaker 1: only chance is him as close to one hundred percent

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Speaker 1: a hammi, right, it's not a low ankle spraying high

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Speaker 1: maybe you know he bumped knees with somebody. No, no,

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Speaker 1: we're talking about a hamstring, which finicky would be the

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Speaker 3: But something that doesn't resolve itself in a day or two. Right,

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Speaker 3: So if that means he's done for a week and

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Speaker 3: a half before you get into your first round matchup

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Speaker 3: and you roll from there, so be it. But your

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Speaker 3: proof of concept has worked, right, you can build a

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Speaker 3: pretty good squad and you haven't even done the real

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Speaker 1: That's the thing. This roster is flawed. We've watched it

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Speaker 1: all year long and they got Lebron to buy in

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Speaker 1: change his role. Reeves has at times been you know,

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Speaker 1: as you called him, Scottie Pippen. See, I'll even give

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Speaker 1: you that one because that was an old one. But

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Speaker 1: the rest of that roster you've got to go in

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Speaker 1: every night wishing and hoping that DeAndre Ayton is gonna

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Speaker 1: play well. Or that ruy Ha Chamora is a available

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Speaker 1: and b is gonna hit some shots. Like there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of wishing and wanting and hoping and low coefficients

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Speaker 1: in terms of your certainty in your algorithm to put

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Speaker 1: together what the Lakers can be. It all rests on

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Speaker 1: seventy seven shoulders now, So if he's got to be compromised,

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Speaker 1: you know, and for two weeks sitting him down gives

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Speaker 1: you a puncher's chance to make a little bit of

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Speaker 1: noise in the West. Guess what he's on Ice. He's

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Speaker 1: gonna go watch some movies and give us some reviews

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Speaker 1: on letterbox. So we'll have more from Rick Bucker coming

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Speaker 1: up in about that a little bit less than fifteen

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Speaker 1: minutes on Luca of the Future. Again, this is it's

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Speaker 1: a crappy reminder of why the Lakers, of why the

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Speaker 1: Mavericks traded him.

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Speaker 3: It's it's a real crappy reminder. What do you think

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Speaker 3: Nico said?

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Speaker 1: Nico was like, now, I mean, look, because it sucks, right,

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Speaker 1: it sucks that he's hurt. It's the only question about him.

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Speaker 1: It's the only question about him, is that can you

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Speaker 1: trust his health long term? And the fact that they

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Speaker 1: the Mavericks felt they couldn't that we have to, all right,

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Speaker 1: we're either gonna give him three hundred and fifty million

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Speaker 3: Do we know he's going to be healthy for us.

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Speaker 1: And it's it's a different it's a different situation with

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Speaker 1: not taking care of his body. With the Lakers, that's boy,

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Speaker 1: he's taking care of his body. And still you have

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Speaker 1: the soft tissue injury that comes up here, you still

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Speaker 1: have him being digged up a little bit. So it's

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Speaker 1: a little bit. It's it's sane. It's the same concern

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Speaker 1: where it's the overall health of Luca. But it's different

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Speaker 1: for the Mavericks who felt it, well, he's not gonna

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Speaker 1: to us, he's doing this and still he's not like

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Speaker 3: Thing it's like going forward with Luca.

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Speaker 1: You say, man, it's it's the one question about him,

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Speaker 1: and it's and it's the Maverick saying, yeah, this is

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Speaker 1: the you know, we knew this, we knew this, and

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Speaker 1: we were really uncomfortable with with with all of his

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Speaker 1: Cooper Flaga. So again, we got more on this coming

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Speaker 1: up at about fifteen minutes. But you want a great

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Speaker 1: big hot take over the first big NFL story of

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Speaker 1: the day. Oh, we got a great big hot take

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Speaker 1: hot take. So Kirk Cousins is now a Raider. Yeah, now,

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Speaker 1: we talked about this when happened. Hey, who's gonna be

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Speaker 1: the great backup?

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Speaker 1: Fanana Mendoza reminds you a lot of Kirk Cousins. They

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Speaker 1: both have the great smile and the kind of laws

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Speaker 1: Shuck's quality. Right, So Kirk Cousins, almost like his older brother,

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Speaker 1: has come into you know, to the Raiders to be

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Speaker 1: the guy that shows him the ropes. Is he gonna

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Speaker 1: have a cool little trophy room. Hey, Fernando, here's how

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Speaker 1: you store stuff in for it. I was gonna go, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna put my Heisman trophy first and then I'll

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Speaker 1: put my other stuff behind it. And then he says,

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Speaker 1: you're a wizard. So the hot take after today is,

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Speaker 1: are we sure that the Raiders are gonna take for

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Speaker 1: Nanda Mendoz with the number one pick, because I don't

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Speaker 3: Okay, right, kirk.

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Speaker 1: Cousins had no suitors, no suitors at all, didn't have

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Speaker 1: to give him one year and twenty million dollars, didn't

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Speaker 1: certainly didn't have to go to the extent of here's.

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Speaker 3: A five year, one hundred and fifty million.

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Speaker 1: Dollar contract, which, hey, that's great, congratulations to kirk cousins agent.

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Speaker 1: It looks great when when it's tweeted out by Adam

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Speaker 1: Schefter and Ian Rappaport. Oh, look at this contract. It's

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Speaker 1: a one year, twenty million dollar deal.

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Speaker 3: Why do this?

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Speaker 1: Why have this expensive contract when you didn't need to

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Speaker 1: give kirk Cousins twenty million dollars. He's a backup company.

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Speaker 1: Couldn't even eight million dollars six to eight million one year.

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Speaker 3: That's it. Why this bit.

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Speaker 1: He didn't have any sort of leverage coming at all.

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Speaker 1: Nobody else wanted him. But yet this is the contract

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Speaker 1: that could roll into another couple of years of contract

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Speaker 1: if kirk Cousins winds up playing well and is the quarterback.

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Speaker 1: Now in theory, you would say, well, of course, says

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Speaker 1: I'm just be the backup in the bridge quarterback. And yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's one thing to say he's gonna be the bridge

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Speaker 1: first week of football comes and it's he's a number

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Speaker 1: one pick in the draft. He sinks to he swims.

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Speaker 1: We put him out there. We're not gonna sit here

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Speaker 1: and sit have Fanano Mendoza sit on the bench. First

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Speaker 1: round picks play, first round quarterbacks play number one overall picks.

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Speaker 1: Don't sit right. But I get the Raiders. Their heart

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Speaker 1: supposedly is in the right place here with this situation

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Speaker 1: of hey, we have our we have our bridge guy,

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Speaker 1: and it's Kirk Cousins. And then eventually for Nana Mendoza

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Speaker 1: will take over Week eight, Week nine, blah blah blah.

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Speaker 1: But this contract changes a lot, especially right after his

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Speaker 1: pro day. They go out and get Kirk Cousins and

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Speaker 1: make sure that stuff is built in where if they

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Speaker 1: want to keep them they can whoa whoa, whoa, whoa whoa.

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Speaker 1: Hang on a second, are we sure they're gonna take

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Speaker 1: They're gonna take for Nando Mendoza, and it's not gonna be.

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Speaker 3: Hey, we really like.

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Speaker 1: The quarterbacks next year better after seeing him at his

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Speaker 1: pro day, watching tape as much as we have. He's

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Speaker 1: the number one pick this year because it's a bad

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Speaker 1: quarterback draft. We're probably gonna be here again this year

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Speaker 1: next year.

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Speaker 1: How are you?

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Speaker 4: I am doing well. I'm back from two days in Waco, Texas.

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Speaker 1: Wow, okay, doing a feature on the Baylor basketball team.

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Speaker 3: What were you doing?

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Speaker 4: So now I'm here with you. My mind is right.

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Speaker 3: Well, I have no doubt about that.

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Speaker 4: a lot of teams in the Western Conference. They all

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Speaker 4: have their Achilles heel. And the way the Lakers were playing,

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Speaker 4: the way Luka was playing, I thought that they're going

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Speaker 4: to be able to overcome their weaknesses. And then you

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Speaker 4: extract Luke out of that and it's it's well, they

434
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Speaker 4: they'll make the playoffs, but I don't know that they

435
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Speaker 4: get they get out of the first round if Luca's

436
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Speaker 4: not back in the next couple of weeks.

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Speaker 1: And then we had the fun chatter and everybody campaigning

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Speaker 1: for MVP. SGA says like Live Morgan of the wwe

439
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Speaker 1: watch me, just watch me work. And they go and

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Speaker 1: obliterate these guys, almost as if they had a bunch

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Speaker 1: of press clippings up in the locker room.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's I mean Sta, if you look at his

443
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Speaker 4: his season this year, he's the defending Most Valuable Player.

444
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Speaker 4: He's been better this year than he was last year.

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Speaker 4: I know the points might be down a little bit,

446
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Speaker 4: but he's been more efficient, He's done more with less.

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Speaker 4: And so I look, I'm a voter. I have to

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Speaker 4: pick five guys for that ballot. I have to figure

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Speaker 4: out one through five how I'm going to order them,

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Speaker 4: and and part of me is looking forward to that

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Speaker 4: because I like challenges. The other part of me is, like,

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Speaker 4: you know, it's it's how do I how do I

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Speaker 4: determine that? I mean, how do you if you look

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Speaker 4: at what what Nikola Jokic is doing is out of

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Speaker 4: this world. We would have been we would have been

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Speaker 4: saved if if if somehow Victor woman Yama and Nikola

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Speaker 4: Jokic had not met the sixty five game minimum like

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Speaker 4: that would have really made things a lot easier. But now,

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Speaker 4: as good as Shay has been, I mean, it's hard

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Speaker 4: to think that he's not going to be at the

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Speaker 4: top of my ballot. But then I look at what

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Speaker 4: Nikola Jokic is going to be is on his way

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Speaker 4: to being the second player ever to lead the league

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Speaker 4: in total rebounds and total assists. The only other guy

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Speaker 4: who's done that is wil Chamberlain in sixty seven sixty eight.

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Speaker 4: How do you ignore that? How do you ignore what

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Speaker 4: Jalen Brown has done with the Boston Celtics. What I mean,

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Speaker 4: Kate Cunningham probably not going to play enough games to qualify,

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Speaker 4: but they're the best team in the in the Eastern Conference,

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Speaker 4: and he was the central part.

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Speaker 3: Of that it.

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Speaker 4: And then you got Luca who has come on has

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Speaker 4: been a house on fire. So I feel like I'm

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Speaker 4: I may even be forgetting somebody like Uh And for

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Speaker 4: my money, is the best two way player in the league,

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Speaker 4: the most the most impactful two way player in the league,

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Speaker 4: more more so even than than Shay or Jalen Brown.

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Speaker 4: So Shay's if If Shaye ends up winning it again,

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Speaker 4: I have no problem with that. If Jo gets his

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Speaker 4: fourth in five years, I don't know that I have

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Speaker 4: a problem with that. If Victor wembin Yama somehow ends

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Speaker 4: up there, I don't think it he will. But we

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Speaker 4: have a lot of worthy m vps in in this race,

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Speaker 4: and I'll be really interested to see how the other

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Speaker 4: ninety nine voters vote, because I don't even know how

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Speaker 4: I'm going to vote at this point.

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Speaker 1: Well, you know you said you said you were going

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Speaker 1: Brunson first, UH and No second, right, and then.

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Speaker 3: Josh Hart third.

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Speaker 1: You drop Karl Anthony towns because you know, he's getting

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Speaker 1: dropped out of the rotation a lot lot more off.

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Speaker 1: So I think that was that was the top of

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Speaker 1: your ballot you had.

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Speaker 4: Well, I will say that feeling Brunson probably deserves a

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Speaker 4: little more attention than than than he has gotten. But

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Speaker 4: it tells you just how uh, you know, how thick

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Speaker 4: the race is. I'm curious how you are feeling about

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Speaker 4: your New York Knicks at this point before I tell

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Speaker 4: you how I'm feeling about them.

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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, I'm glad you asked because I've thought

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Speaker 1: about this, and I went because I knew you were

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Speaker 1: going to ask me about it. One of two things

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Speaker 1: is going to happen. Either this is a tea that

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Speaker 1: is just waiting for the playoffs and they've been waiting

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Speaker 1: for the playoffs for a little while, right, because you

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Speaker 1: kind of get that a bit where, hey, the Knicks

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Speaker 1: have been in the thick of it the last few years.

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Speaker 1: They know how to win playoff basketball. The home court

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Speaker 1: advantage thing is not that big a deal. At some point.

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Speaker 1: I think the Knicks got to where, hey, we're just

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Speaker 1: waiting for the playoffs.

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Speaker 3: But there's a.

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Speaker 1: Big part of me that gets bigger every day that

514
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Speaker 1: just says this Jalen Brunson Karl Anthony Towns thing is

515
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Speaker 1: going to absolutely erupt and explode. And the Knicks are

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Speaker 1: going out in the first round and they're gonna completely

517
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Speaker 1: remake the roster after this year, and Karl Anthony Town's

518
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Speaker 1: are gonna get delt and somebody else is gonna get

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Speaker 1: delt because to continue to see this not working in

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Speaker 1: Karl Anthony Towns to be benched and why is he

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Speaker 1: why The fact that he's still being benched at times

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Speaker 1: at this point in the season tells you that is

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Speaker 1: this really gonna work? Like part of me thinks they're

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Speaker 1: just waiting and then it's gonna be like a light

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Speaker 1: switch when the playoffs start. They've been here before, they

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Speaker 1: do it. But man, Rick, I see this every single

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Speaker 1: that was in New York all week last week, and

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Speaker 1: every single topic on every day was what is up

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Speaker 1: with this? Why is Karl Anthony Towns not the All

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Speaker 1: Star that he was? Why are they still having problems?

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Speaker 1: And I can see it really flaming out in the

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Speaker 1: first round.

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Speaker 4: You know, it reminds me of what the Minnesota Timberwolves

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Speaker 4: have gone through at times because there are times where

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Speaker 4: they just can't play Rudy Gobert and you're paying him

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Speaker 4: a ton of money, and you know, he's multiple Defensive

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Speaker 4: Player of the Year. I mean obviously different types of

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Speaker 4: players Kat and Rudy, but it's the same issue in

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Speaker 4: terms of, like, you are paying him a lot of

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Speaker 4: money and he's supposed to be a foundational piece of

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Speaker 4: what you do, and yet there are times where you

542
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Speaker 4: simply can't play him. And then it's like, well, how

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Speaker 4: do we play now? Because we were counting on that

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Speaker 4: guy being a big piece of what we are and

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Speaker 4: now he's not here and we don't really have like

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Speaker 4: a substitute that works. Mitchell robin is great, and he's

547
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Speaker 4: great in his role. He's great off the bench. Anybody

548
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Speaker 4: who thinks that, well, if Kat's not playing, well we

549
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Speaker 4: just insert Mitchell Robinson and we play him thirty minutes.

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Speaker 4: That just means that Jalen Brunson is going to see

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Speaker 4: double teams from the beginning of the game to the end.

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Speaker 4: They'll make somebody else beat him because they'll make Mitchell

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Speaker 4: Robinson be a score. Go ahead, kill us, go get

554
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Speaker 4: fifty Mitchell, We dare you go ahead? And so yeah,

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Speaker 4: I mean, this is this is where how teams are constructed.

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Speaker 4: But I look, you can look, you can look across

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Speaker 4: the board at teams that we were very high on

558
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Speaker 4: at the beginning of the year, and their flaws, their

559
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Speaker 4: inherent flaws are exposed. The Houston Rockets not having a

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Speaker 4: point guard, not having a a floor leader that runs

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Speaker 4: the show that's going to come invite them. I mean,

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Speaker 4: it's somewhere along the line Minnesota. The fact that with

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Speaker 4: Mike Conley, you know, being as old as he is

564
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Speaker 4: and not being able to play the same role, they

565
00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:13,280
Speaker 4: don't really have that guy they can organize everything, and

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Speaker 4: that all of that is going to loom large when

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Speaker 4: you get to the playoffs. People are going to focus

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Speaker 4: on that. They're going to pinpoint it, and they're going

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Speaker 4: to take advantage of it. And that's why I still

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Speaker 4: look at the you know, I mean, Oklahoma City, do

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Speaker 4: they have they played the entire year without their second

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Speaker 4: best player, Daleen Williams, and are running away with the league.

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Speaker 4: It's to me, it's okay, see it's Denver. Whoever comes

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Speaker 4: out of the out of the Eastern Conference is going

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Speaker 4: to be fodder for for whoever comes out of the West.

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Speaker 1: As I see it, all right, Rick, last one for you,

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Speaker 1: real quick, talking about New York greats and Jason stock

578
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Speaker 1: in the streets there and getting consoled by other Knicks fans.

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Speaker 1: Amari Stoudamar is reportedly going into the Hall of Fame

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Speaker 1: other than the wine bats.

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Speaker 3: How do you remember him?

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Speaker 4: I just remember him, you know, as part of that

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Speaker 4: Phoenix Sun seven Seconds or less and with Sean Marian

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Speaker 4: and Steve Nash, I mean basically the the the combo

585
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Speaker 4: with Steve Nash, sort of the modern day version of

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Speaker 4: Stockton Malone. Different style of play, but you know, he

587
00:29:20,080 --> 00:29:22,080
Speaker 4: was just he was a pogo stick. He was he

588
00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:26,480
Speaker 4: was just, you know, wearing the goggles and just crushing

589
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Speaker 4: dunks on people time after time after time. Ultimately, I'm

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Speaker 4: I'm That's That's how I'm going to remember. I'm going

591
00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:38,080
Speaker 4: to remember him before the knees went bad and then

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Speaker 4: the New York the Nick said, oh there's a guy

593
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Speaker 4: who once was good and now he has bad knees,

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Speaker 4: and we could pay a lot of money for him

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Speaker 4: to come to New York. Sign us up.

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Speaker 3: I don't do that. Wait, which guy are you talking about.

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Speaker 3: There's a couple of those guys, Rick, yeah, hey, hey,

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Speaker 3: enumerate those like you did the MVP race.

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Speaker 4: Exactly exactly right. That was that was a Nick special.

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Speaker 4: He was. I mean, you know the best part of

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Speaker 4: that is because I was uh uh that you know,

602
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Speaker 4: that was the summer of Lebron, if I'm not mistaken,

603
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Speaker 4: and and and so I was steeped in all of that.

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Speaker 4: And I remember, like Amaristottemyer was even surprised that Dick

605
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Speaker 4: were going to get in. He was like, but you

606
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Speaker 4: know what what it was? The next the next came

607
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Speaker 4: up empty on everybody else. Isaiah Thomas had convinced them

608
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Speaker 4: that they were going to get Lebron James and uh

609
00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:35,720
Speaker 4: and and maybe Twain Wade too, And when they didn't,

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Speaker 4: they were left holding the bag and said, Okay, well

611
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Speaker 4: Amari is still out there. We got we got to

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Speaker 4: give him money to somebody might as well be Amri.

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Speaker 1: He's on Twitter, at Rick Buker, that is at Rick Buker.

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Speaker 1: Check him out on FS one as well. They on

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Speaker 1: the Ball podcast. Rick is always man appreciated. Glad, glad

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Speaker 1: you were able to get some waves in and and

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Speaker 1: and keeping some positivity for you here on a Thursday night.

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Speaker 4: Thank you, Thank you, so much, and you know what,

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Speaker 4: I still feel a little of that.

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Speaker 3: Nicely done.

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Speaker 1: All right, get Rick's book wherever you get for your

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Speaker 1: fine bookstores.

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Speaker 3: Coachable coming out soon.

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Speaker 4: Time.

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Speaker 1: Gotta find out what's trending in the wide world of

626
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Speaker 1: sports with someone who we're not getting any work out

627
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Speaker 1: of right now, because the Clippers have cut the deficit

628
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Speaker 1: to the wemby less Spurs to the point where not

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Speaker 1: only could the Clippers pull this out, but Monty might

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Speaker 1: win some money. How about that betting the Clippers mid game? Listen, man,

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Speaker 1: what's trending?

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Speaker 2: It's not as close as I wanted to be.

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Speaker 3: Jason, You're right, You're right.

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Speaker 2: It was a lot worse. They seem to be putting

635
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Speaker 2: together a run here in La. The Spurs are up

636
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Speaker 2: one oh four to eighty seven. There's still about seven

637
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Speaker 2: and a half minutes left. Uh So, luckily, luckily, it's

638
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Speaker 2: not a blowout. It was a hot second ago. There

639
00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:58,080
Speaker 2: was a blowout already, and it was the thunder who

640
00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:02,200
Speaker 2: absolutely crushed, dominate, and blew out whatever word you want

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Speaker 2: to use against the Lakers. One thirty nine to ninety

642
00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:10,040
Speaker 2: six was the final score. Sga Shai Gilges Alexander leading

643
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Speaker 2: MVP candidate, putting on his his own show twenty eight

644
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Speaker 2: point seven rebound, seven assists. Luka Dancic did leave the

645
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Speaker 2: game in the third quarter with the left hamstring injury.

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Speaker 2: He is set to undergo an MRI on Friday. The

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Speaker 2: Warriors gave the Calves a run for their money at

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Speaker 2: one point, even taking the lead in the fourth quarter,

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Speaker 2: but the Cavaliers survived one eighteen to one eleven. They've

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Speaker 2: officially clinched a playoffs spot. Donovan Mitchell twenty five points.

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Speaker 2: The Hornets crews passed the Suns one twenty seven to

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Speaker 2: one oh seven, Conkain Nipple setting the record for the

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Speaker 2: Hornets for the most threes in the season with two

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Speaker 2: hundred and sixty one. With that loss by the Suns,

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Speaker 2: the Rockets clinched a spot in the playoffs. The Pistons

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Speaker 2: defeated the Timberwolves one thirteen to one oh eight. In baseball,

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Speaker 2: the games have wrapped up. The Braves blew out the

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Speaker 2: Diamondbacks seventeen to two, and the Giants outscored the Mets

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Speaker 2: seven to two.

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Speaker 3: In the NHL, do we have any game still going on?

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Speaker 2: The Hurricanes did clinch a spot in the Stanley Cup Playoffs.

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Speaker 2: With their win over the Blue Jackets five to one

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Speaker 2: in the third period, the Flames and the Golden Knights

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Speaker 2: are tight at three late in the third period, where

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Speaker 2: the Mammoth lead the crack In five to two. After

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Speaker 2: two periods, the Predators are up on the Kings four

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Speaker 2: to three. And when it comes to the NFL free

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Speaker 2: agent quarterback Kirk Cousins signing a deal with the Raiders

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Speaker 2: that's gonna pay him a guaranteed twenty million, while the

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Speaker 2: Raiders are also said to host quarterback Fernando Mendoza for

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Speaker 2: a Top thirty visit on Tuesday.

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Speaker 3: Back to you guys, Thanks a bunch of money.

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Speaker 1: Jason Smith Mike Harmon Live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. Hey,

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Speaker 1: I use the phrase positivity Thursday. Yeah, a couple seconds ago.

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Speaker 1: You want a great positivity Thursday for our entire country.

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Speaker 3: Let's go.

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Speaker 1: I got it for you coming up next. It's also

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Speaker 1: not going to be positive for another country, but positive

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Speaker 1: for US USA Usay Jason.

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Speaker 3: And Mike Fox. Batam batam, batam, batam bomb.

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith Show with my best friend

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Speaker 1: Mike Harmon. Yeah, all we can have some positivity on

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Speaker 1: the Thursday. That is what we are all about. I

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Speaker 1: have positivity for the entirety of the United States, not

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Speaker 1: so much for another country.

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Speaker 3: Okay, some not so much, not so much so. The

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Speaker 3: last week while I was on vacation.

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Speaker 1: Has not been a great week for the US men's

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Speaker 1: national team soccer wise. Let's just it's not been great.

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Speaker 1: You want you want to push some harsher terms, it's

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Speaker 1: not been great, But it's positivity Thursday. It's not been

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Speaker 1: great so much so I'm I'm I'm willing to if

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Speaker 1: I could go and bet money the second the World

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Speaker 1: Cup is over. Pochattino says, See, I'm gone, I'm going

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Speaker 1: back to Europe. I'm gone. He seems like he's got

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Speaker 1: one foot out the door, right. Whatever he's tried to

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Speaker 1: do has not worked, and they're still worried about Polistic

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Speaker 1: and their work. It's still the same players, the same

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Speaker 1: generation that we thought was gonna be great and isn't

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Speaker 1: and now getting ready we're going in this World Cup

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Speaker 1: and we're gonna get diced, right, But positively, I mean.

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Speaker 3: It's a pretty good group though.

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Speaker 1: Come on, yes, positivity Thursday, right, Okay, yeah, but I

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Speaker 1: can make everybody feel better about this, right, make every

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Speaker 1: feel better about this because we're not Italy. No, I

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Speaker 1: mean we had John Paul Morosi on Tuesday night. After that,

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Speaker 1: get like, all right, let's talk some baseball, Let's talk

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Speaker 1: some abs. He's spoken Italian for about four minutes, and

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Speaker 1: I was trying to do a real time translator, trying

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Speaker 1: to feed it through my computer making sure he wasn't

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Speaker 1: cursing anybody to a you know, a grizzly demise or

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Speaker 1: just cursing. Today Italy fired the soccer president or the

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Speaker 1: president of soccer. He was the president of president everybody

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Speaker 1: because they have missed the World Cup now for the

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Speaker 1: third straight time. Italy the two thousand and six champs,

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Speaker 1: right Italy, which is like when you talk about the

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Speaker 1: history of soccer, like Italy the third or fourth team

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Speaker 1: that rolls out in Brazil, England, Germany, Italy, Like that

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Speaker 1: rolls off your tongue. And this is now the third

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Speaker 1: World Cup that they are missing. They're firing people. So

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Speaker 1: as bad as you think we have it here in

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Speaker 1: the United States, but boy, men, when's a women's World Cup,

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Speaker 1: that's when we can win. Yeah, we're not Italy because wow,

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Speaker 1: maybe Italy sold their souls. Hey, we'll get as far

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Speaker 1: as become to the World Baseball Classic. All right, that's fine,

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Speaker 1: But this means that we're gonna take it the Yin

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Speaker 1: and Yang. We're gonna take it out of the soccer team. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's fine. We missed the two World Cups before that,

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Speaker 1: we can miss this one year. Like they're they're they're

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Speaker 1: losing to mont Andegro and losing on penalties and like

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Speaker 1: this is Italy, man, Like, yeah, they won it all

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Speaker 1: in two thousand and six, one of the most storied

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Speaker 1: countries in the history of soccer, and this is missing

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Speaker 1: the third could you this is the equivalent if the

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Speaker 1: United States missed didn't qualify for the Olympics and men's

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Speaker 1: basketball for three straight years. That's the that's the that's

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Speaker 1: the equivalent of it, because that's not happening. But can

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Speaker 1: you imagine if we don't qualify now now that Wemby

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Speaker 1: is playing and other countries are really good and maybe

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Speaker 1: but not qualifying for the Olympics, that that's the equivalent

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Speaker 1: for us here. Yeah, Bosnia Herzegovina with the shootout with

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Speaker 1: like which is a whole other thing. You know how

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Speaker 1: I feel about shootouts? And pedalty kicks. Just fact that

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Speaker 1: Italy's in a shootout. No, but that made that World Cup.

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Speaker 1: But that's how you back that out. I will say

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Speaker 1: some positivity. The Southwest Autism Research and Resource Center, they

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Speaker 1: got sixteen thousand, five hundred and ten dollars for that

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Speaker 1: espresso machine out of the dunk Gay from the World

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Speaker 1: Baseball Clubs. Right, that's what Team Italy doing some good there.

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Speaker 3: I like that. That's a little bit.

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Speaker 1: There's more positivity, positivity Thursday in Italy.

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Speaker 3: That's a positive. Now we need more espresso.

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Speaker 1: We're missing three straight World Cups, but we have really

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Speaker 1: good charity got sixteen thousands. If I bought an espresso

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Speaker 1: machine and had here at Fox Sports, how long do

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Speaker 1: you think it would stay in the kitchen before I

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Speaker 1: found somebody's home?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 3: Are you kidding?

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Speaker 1: Alex Teischer would take that home with the first night

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Speaker 1: and he would say, I don't know what happened. What

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Speaker 1: do you mean, have you take a Yeah, I made

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Speaker 1: you an espresso machine.

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Speaker 3: Thief Tyser would feel about. He would do that.

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Speaker 1: He would do the Indiana Jones thing of like where

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Speaker 1: where in the in the first movie where he's got

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Speaker 1: the weight of the of the idol, and he's got

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Speaker 1: to put the sand on and pay it off the

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Speaker 1: same time, so the trap doesn't know. That's how Tyser

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Speaker 1: would take that espresso machine.

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Speaker 3: I'm a little offended. You would take the espresso machine.

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Speaker 3: Not that way.

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Speaker 1: You and Monty would both take it. You would find

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Speaker 1: a way, and then you would split it, like one

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Speaker 1: week at her place and one week at your place.

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Speaker 1: When we get her place, Well, whose weekends? Whose weekdays?

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Speaker 3: Well, you switch off, So let's have a custody of

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Speaker 3: a kid. It's like you switch off every other weekend.

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Speaker 3: I had a kid. We have an expresso machine.

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Speaker 1: If Harmon bought an espresso, it's just espresso. There's no

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Speaker 1: x espresso espresso. If Harmon brought an espresso machine, he said,

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Speaker 1: how long until someone took it?

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Speaker 2: Here?

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Speaker 1: I said, Oh, Tyser would take it right away, I said,

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Speaker 1: But then I thought, how much Moncey like likes uh

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Speaker 1: espresso and free drinks that you get from your brain.

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Speaker 2: I get free drinks with or without an espresso machine?

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Speaker 1: Here, I said, so you two would, So, I said,

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Speaker 1: you two would YouTube would split it?

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Speaker 3: Sure? Sure, yeah, look at it. I get it free.

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Speaker 1: Anyway you want to tell a story about how you

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Speaker 1: get your free espresso.

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Speaker 3: But there's no story.

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Speaker 1: I just walk up and get a free drink. Oh, okay, okay, espresso,

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Speaker 1: no X, there's no, There is no there's no