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Speaker 1: Hello, Welcome in side hour three The Jason Smith Show

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Speaker 1: with my bes friend Mike Harmon. Lakers on top of

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Speaker 1: the Clippers right now, ninety five ninety two, late in

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Speaker 1: the third quarter, the Lakers and NBA best twenty and

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Speaker 1: one after leaving at halftime. They led at halftime tonight,

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Speaker 1: this game though close late in the third quarter.

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Speaker 3: Everybody's playing for the Lakers.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, like wait a minute, hang on a second, wait

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Speaker 1: wait Lucas at no Lucas playing, but Lebron, No Lebron,

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Speaker 1: Austin Reeves, Oh, Austin reason the Laker. The Lakers are healthy.

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Speaker 1: Everybody's playing. It's amazing. They're all playing tonight for the Lakers,

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Speaker 1: their entire team.

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Speaker 4: What is this like the ten twelve times something like

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Speaker 4: that this year that all three of those guys appeared

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Speaker 4: on a court together. I didn't even know if it's

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Speaker 4: that many just set a new.

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Speaker 2: Over Lebron Lake on the court at the same time

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Speaker 2: as Less.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean that's when you throw in Austin Reeves.

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Speaker 1: Ye forget it, man, not happening. But so far, Luca's

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Speaker 1: got twenty six, Reeves has twenty two, Lebron thirteen and

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Speaker 1: eight assists, so they're all playing. This is kind of

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Speaker 1: what you expect. And Luca also a ten assists on

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Speaker 1: the night, So this is kind of what you would

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Speaker 1: expect from the Lakers offensively when when everybody is playing

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Speaker 1: right for all of this, Okay, twenty seven games left,

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Speaker 1: twenty eight games left? What can the Lakers do? Can

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Speaker 1: they become championship contenders? This is sort of the way

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Speaker 1: the Lakers need to be built if they're going to win.

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Speaker 1: And this is Luca as the number one option offensively,

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Speaker 1: which that wasn't going to change, right. He's got nineteen

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Speaker 1: shots tonight, He's going to be the number one option.

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Speaker 1: Reeves really needs to be the next guy. He needs

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Speaker 1: to be the guy. They have to get him going

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Speaker 1: every night, and Lebron needs to kind of find his way.

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Speaker 1: But because Lebron is is such a great player and

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Speaker 1: can do so many different things, it's not like you're asking, Okay, hey,

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Speaker 1: you have to do something completely different to what you've

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Speaker 1: done your entire career. The guy could play any position, right,

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Speaker 1: He can take on a little bit of a supporting role.

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Speaker 1: He can take times where okay, this is now my

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Speaker 1: time with the basketball. But he really needs to be

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Speaker 1: the guy to kind of find his opportunities. And if

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Speaker 1: you're having a night where it looks like, hey, Luca's

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Speaker 1: got twenty six, Reeves has twenty four, Lebron's got thirteen

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Speaker 1: and eight, that's a big recipe for success for the Lakers.

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Speaker 1: I know we're still in the third quarter and we'll

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Speaker 1: see what happens in the fourth, but that's kind of

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Speaker 1: got to be the recipe for the Lakers where Lebron

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Speaker 1: is the number three option, but he finds all the

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Speaker 1: different ways to affect the box score, almost like a

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Speaker 1: kind of like Draymond what he would do in his

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Speaker 1: prime for the Warriors, except Lebron can even hit the

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Speaker 1: stat sheet more because sometime there was always be well,

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Speaker 1: there's Draymond with eleven points and nine rebounds and eight

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Speaker 1: assists and four blocks, and wow, he's playing really great.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Lebron's not gonna is going to be able

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Speaker 1: to have a little bit more than that, but like this,

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Speaker 1: this is kind of the way.

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Speaker 3: Things need to be for the Lakers going forward.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, Lebron's much better at the stuff that

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Speaker 4: shows up in a box score because he cares about

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Speaker 4: the box score. The I mean, that was the most

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Speaker 4: positive review anybody I think in sports media outside of

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Speaker 4: of the selected sicophants, have said anything about Lebron James

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Speaker 4: this year. So look at you, Joe positivity, rose colored glasses.

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Speaker 4: Don't you forgot the fact that he also survived a

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Speaker 4: very violent piece of contact in the low post where

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Speaker 4: an elbow came up to say get off me. That

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Speaker 4: was assessed a flagrant one because he flopped. Now I

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Speaker 4: will say he would have been called for technical for flopping.

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Speaker 2: Fast effort. There.

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Speaker 1: One thing that does bear to be watched, though, is

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Speaker 1: that Luca came out of the game looked like it

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Speaker 1: have been able to keep this a three three to

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Speaker 1: I don't know why, there's been no reason why, but

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Speaker 1: is sitting down deep on the bench. There's about sixteen

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Speaker 1: seconds to go on the third quarter. Luca doesn't look

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Speaker 2: Well, they are playing the Clippers.

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Speaker 1: It is the clip, but it is a four point game.

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Speaker 1: It's a close game, but it's the Clippers. Yeah, it

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Speaker 2: Why I said they have no chance at the playoffs?

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Speaker 2: So did they really really need Luca?

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Speaker 1: That is okay maybe, but maybe he was just doing

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Speaker 1: that to kind of just luw you into a false

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Speaker 1: sense of security. Ah, this is what I'm gonna do.

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Speaker 1: So again that merit's watching for Luca how he is.

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Speaker 1: We're getting ready to go to the fourth quarter right now,

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Speaker 1: the Lakers with a four point lead. But yeah, he

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Speaker 1: why they could go all in and should go all

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Speaker 1: in on Yannis in the offseason when they do remake

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Speaker 1: the team. Is that, Yes, as great as Luca is,

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Speaker 1: he gets hurt and he's not healthy, and you're starting

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Speaker 1: to see a little bit of reasons why the Mavericks

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Speaker 1: wanted to part ways with Luca. Say, hey, he's not

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Speaker 1: getting healthy, he's not fixing his body, whatever's going on.

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Speaker 3: He's missing a lot of.

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Speaker 1: Games, and we just can't do that and we can't

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Speaker 1: pay the guy three hundred and fifty million dollars. So

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Speaker 1: the Lakers are starting to find out that as great

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Speaker 1: you know. And and I mean when you go out

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Speaker 1: and get Yannis, okay, not only is it a great

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Speaker 1: one too in the NBA than Luka and Yannis. But

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Speaker 1: gonna be lots of times where, hey, Jannis is gonna

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Speaker 1: have to carry the Lakers when it happens, and it's

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Speaker 1: going to be more of a Shaq Kobe one to

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Speaker 1: one a guy's taking turns than it would be just

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Speaker 1: this is Luca's team and somebody else. So I wonder

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Speaker 1: how much of a reality with Luca's health the Lakers

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Speaker 1: are seeing is Hey, in the offseason, we got to

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Speaker 1: do things differently simply because as much as we love Luca, yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's not showing us that he's someone that's going to

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Speaker 1: be playing sixty five games a year and we can

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Speaker 1: count him all the way through playoff.

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Speaker 4: Yah. It's something we talked about a little bit as

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Speaker 4: you declared the era of the Knicks ready to close,

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Speaker 4: wondering whether it actually really opened on Earth in certain

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Speaker 4: number here maybe it had. But all of that to say,

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Speaker 4: with the honest and his future, a lot of it

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Speaker 4: is predicated on that next stop, particularly with the Laker

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Speaker 4: rumor of how big is the window really?

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Speaker 2: Right when we talk about these.

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Speaker 4: Ageless wonders and remembering that on the grand scale, a

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Speaker 4: lot of these guys are they're still outliers that the

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Speaker 4: skills do a road pretty fast, usually in the mid thirties.

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Speaker 4: Now you can have some guys extend that, and that

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Speaker 4: goes for any sport. I watch it in the NFL,

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Speaker 4: all of a sudden you got Tom Brady and Aaron

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Speaker 4: and then got broken. But all of that, you have

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Speaker 4: a ways, but otherwise you find the cliff pretty fast.

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Speaker 4: Same thing in the NBA, where a lot of those

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Speaker 4: things erode. The games missed column starts getting bigger and bigger,

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Speaker 4: and even for Gianni's the last few years, he's top

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Speaker 4: seventy games once since twenty eighteen. Yeah, So I mean,

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Speaker 4: you know, he's another guy that you're gonna have to

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Speaker 1: So I mean, and look, and you're starting to understand

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Speaker 1: trading Luca was the right thing, right, that's never going

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Speaker 1: to convince it. But looking at it from the Mavericks perspective,

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Speaker 1: it was we're not going to give him this money

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Speaker 1: because we're not we're not convinced that he's going to

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Speaker 1: stay healthy, we're not convinced that he's going to be

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Speaker 1: someone that we can count on, and we have to

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Speaker 1: give him a lot of cash, so we're going to

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Speaker 1: trade him and we don't. Then that was the whole

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Speaker 1: impetus behind trading Luca. And while yeah, trading a superstar

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Speaker 1: and you're twenty five years old, that doesn't make sense

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Speaker 1: for anybody, but understand that there's a bit that goes

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Speaker 1: along with Luca. If he was a perfect superstar and

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Speaker 1: everything with sunshine, lollipops and rainbows, the Mavericks aren't trading him, right,

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Speaker 1: they're not doing it. But when it comes to making big,

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Speaker 1: you know, decisions in the three hundred millions of dollars

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Speaker 1: that can that can really be a thing, man.

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Speaker 4: Well, something we talked about at the time and I'll

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Speaker 4: wear it. I mean, look, it did not work out

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Speaker 4: any way shaping or form into what the best case

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Speaker 4: scenario was going to be. Look, Nico Harrison was going

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Speaker 4: to wear it no matter how well they played, right,

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Speaker 4: he ended up winning the lottery. We talked about that

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Speaker 4: a little earlier folks can go find the podcast that'll

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Speaker 4: go up on that particular topic. But the conspiracy theories,

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Speaker 4: they win the lottery, they get coup of flags, so

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Speaker 4: you at least get here's a big marquee guy. But

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Speaker 4: at the time it was all right, here's some veteran players,

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Speaker 4: and you try to make a run this year with Lucagne. Well,

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Speaker 4: Anthony Davis of course couldn't stay healthy, Kyrie Irving couldn't

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Speaker 4: get stay on the court, like go on on down

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Speaker 4: the line. Everything that could go wrong did But if

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Speaker 4: you're the base premise is we don't trust this guy

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Speaker 4: long term at three hundred and fifty million dollars or

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Speaker 4: whatever the hell the money was going to be. That's

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Speaker 4: a pragmatism thing that gets beyond the sentimentality and the

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Speaker 4: the anger and angst of a fan base.

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Speaker 1: So we'll keep you posted on this obviously big story.

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Speaker 1: You know, here's on the bench again. Does look like

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Speaker 1: he's coming back anytime soon. He's got a towel over

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Speaker 1: his over his legs, he's got a towel over his neck.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know if we're going to see him.

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Speaker 3: And everything seem fine, I mean, everything seemed fine.

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Speaker 1: He was having a great game and everything look good,

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Speaker 1: and I keep looking down and there he is again,

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Speaker 1: that's certainly going to be a story following the game.

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Speaker 1: Kait Kit kind of had to because they now trailed

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Speaker 3: Quote.

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Speaker 1: I still have what it takes to set more records

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Speaker 1: So I'm still letting you know I'm gonna make a

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Speaker 3: That should have been what the exact stated was for

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's in the subtext.

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Speaker 4: I think it's in the nod and the wing to

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Speaker 2: Is that truly where the appeal was the last couple

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Speaker 4: It wasn't a He's an extending his you know, undefeated

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean the fact that he you know, he's

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Speaker 1: He filed that big lawsuit against Showtime earlier this month, saying, Hey,

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Speaker 2: Less interest.

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Speaker 1: Oh listen, I'll just take the three forty as a lipsum, right,

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Speaker 1: partner for it right now. You want to put it on, Hey,

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Speaker 1: we can figure something around this money.

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Speaker 3: That you owe me.

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Speaker 4: But yeah, this was inevitable as long as he's still

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Speaker 1: There's a difference between hey, they're past their prime, but

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Speaker 3: But when I see things like.

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Speaker 1: Here's Mayweather, who's gonna fight John Gotti the third and

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Speaker 1: Jake Paul and it's just it's just an exhibition with

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Speaker 3: But they're still young enough where it's okay.

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Speaker 1: But just the flat Hey, I can make money because

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Speaker 4: Like no, I appreciate your your romanticism on the on

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Speaker 2: They may have some money they'd like a little more.

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Speaker 4: I don't know what Corono's settlement was with Disney over

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Speaker 2: Wait to see.

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Speaker 4: But you know, for Ronda Rousey, it's been a minute

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Speaker 2: Eye Dana.

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Speaker 4: But like if you if you don't get it, you

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Speaker 2: But look, and I'm saying, but it's a cash grab.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, well it's it's it's it's not quite

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Speaker 1: Floyd Mayweather is an overt cash grab. This is a hey,

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Speaker 1: there's a bunch of things. Oh yeah, And of course

435
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Speaker 1: yeah it's a cash grab, but there's other things to it,

436
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Speaker 1: Floyd may It's just a full cash grap And I

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Speaker 1: say this fully, fully telling you I really don't know

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Speaker 1: how good an MMA fighter Ronda Rousey was because there

439
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Speaker 1: was really no women's division. She was just Hey, we're

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Speaker 1: fighting people who been MMA fighters for a while. We

441
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Speaker 1: have no idea, there was no there was no frame

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Speaker 1: of reference to see how good she was.

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Speaker 3: She showed up and started crutching everybody. Okay, great.

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Speaker 1: Then after ten or so fights and and the other

445
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Speaker 1: fighters started understanding, this is how you combat Ronda Rousey.

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Speaker 1: Uh she got knocked out and never went back and

447
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Speaker 1: went right into WWE. I'm doing this now because you know,

448
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Speaker 1: so I say this, I'm excited for this fighting. And

449
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Speaker 1: I don't even know how good she was in her prime.

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Speaker 1: I can't even tell you what what what was the

451
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Speaker 1: what was the competition?

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Speaker 6: Like?

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Speaker 3: Where was it for those for those few years?

454
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Speaker 1: And you know, but she deserves so much credit, and

455
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Speaker 1: her and Corona both for getting people into the sport

456
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Speaker 1: to get it to where it is right now where

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Speaker 1: it's a it's a really big deal, you know. I

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Speaker 1: I kind of see that and for one time, could

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Speaker 1: I see Ronda Rousey fight g to Coronto?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and again? And maybe if this is like if

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Speaker 3: it's like Floyd Mayweather.

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Speaker 1: And it's and I see Ronda rouse g to Toronto

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Speaker 1: trying to fight again five or six more times, I'm

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Speaker 1: sure I'll feel the same way as Floyd Manyweather. But

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Speaker 1: this is also the first time we've seen this. Floyd now,

466
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Speaker 1: we've seen this so many times. Yeah, I'm gonna go

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Speaker 1: fight him and fight him in fact, what are we doing?

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Speaker 3: Right? So that for me, there's a difference between between

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Speaker 3: those two things.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the only thing for me is that's missing in

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Speaker 2: the here.

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Speaker 4: And I invoked the name of the late great Dustin

473
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Speaker 4: Diamonds him fighting Bonaducci on the undercard.

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Speaker 2: That's about where we're at here.

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Speaker 3: That was a big deal. When when celebrity lilebrity box

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Speaker 3: a thing.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, when that was I'm going to celebrity boxing out there, No, no,

478
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Speaker 4: I know, but celebrity death match, no, no, no.

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Speaker 1: Celebrity death match is what birthed celebrity boxing because it

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Speaker 1: made so much There was so much interest in celebrity

481
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Speaker 1: death match, Like, but what if we actually had them fight?

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Speaker 1: And I remember Danny Bonaducci fighting Greg Brady. Yeah, Barry Williams, Oh,

483
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Speaker 1: we should have changed his name to Greg Brady. I mean,

484
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Speaker 1: come on, the guy's Greg Brady.

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Speaker 6: Uh.

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Speaker 1: Like I remember when he when he fought him, and

487
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Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, it was kind of interesting to

488
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Speaker 1: see that. And now you know, fifteen years later, I'm like, yeah,

489
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Speaker 1: I don't know, man, Like what I want to what

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Speaker 1: I want to see? What's a good example when I

491
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Speaker 1: want to see, uh, Joey Lawrence fight.

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Speaker 3: Uh, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to think a big child start from likes.

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Speaker 2: You can't stop pt Alonzo.

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Speaker 1: What I you know, it's one, It's it's a preseason,

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Speaker 1: it's exhibition. Gave me hit a home run back off, Like,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, Like when I really want to see

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Speaker 1: Joey Lawrence fight?

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Speaker 2: Uh?

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Speaker 1: You watch the kid who played Ben from Friends? Like,

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Speaker 1: I don't think i'd want it. I don't know what

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Speaker 1: I would want to see that. I don't know, man,

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Speaker 1: pay per view it. I gotta have some standards, as

504
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Speaker 1: you know, in my life, I got I got to

505
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Speaker 1: stand up for something.

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Speaker 3: I can't. I can't just you know, roll over for everything.

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Speaker 2: I gotta have one change everything now though.

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Speaker 4: Somewhere, Hey, those Sprouse kids got to hang out on

509
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Speaker 4: the real life.

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Speaker 1: Oh I gotta see the Sprouse kids fight. How would

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Speaker 1: you they get to tag in it out? If it's

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Speaker 1: tag team, let's tag it out? Oh, now that would

513
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Speaker 1: be fun because that and I know, okay, I'm completely

514
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Speaker 1: here for entertainment.

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Speaker 3: Okay, for wrestling.

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Speaker 2: Okay, hey they still have to take a bump.

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Speaker 3: No, that's okay, and I get it.

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Speaker 1: But I would be there for that because all right,

519
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Speaker 1: that's we're talking about entertainment.

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Speaker 4: Okay, this is what Ronie Remiber would have lifted the

521
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Speaker 4: Kilton shown you the bruises on his repaired hip.

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Speaker 1: Like I mean, and look and also think about this perspective.

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Speaker 1: How entertaining is a Floyd Mayweather fight going to be.

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Speaker 1: We've seen it already where it wasn't great. We've seen

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Speaker 1: these past their prime fights that aren't great. Guys don't

526
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Speaker 1: go for the big knockouts. It's not a big wow.

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Speaker 1: Look at that.

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Speaker 3: No, we know it's guys holding each other up. Right.

529
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Speaker 3: You go back to Mayweather and Pakia.

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Speaker 1: Which was did these guys just get together and tell

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Speaker 1: each other, Hey, dude, like with Rocky.

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Speaker 3: And Thunderlips, So I had you a little bit, you

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Speaker 3: and me a little bit.

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Speaker 2: You know, we'll go at it a little bit.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, sure, and then oh Cogan body slamming him. Like

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Speaker 1: when we saw that fight, I was like, maybe that's

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Speaker 1: a fight that broke me where I said, everybody paid

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Speaker 1: all this money for this to watch them just kind

539
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Speaker 1: of dance around for twelve rounds. Like, I don't know

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Speaker 1: that you're gonna get any sort of of satisfaction or

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Speaker 1: that you watch a great fight with Mayweather, whereas with

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Speaker 1: Corono and Rowsie, maybe we will. And again, maybe I'll

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Speaker 1: change my mind after seeing that and go, oh man,

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Speaker 1: that was terrible. They just didn't do anything. They just

545
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Speaker 1: danced around each other for three rounds. But you know, hey,

546
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Speaker 1: I got to see it once and so because I

547
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Speaker 1: haven't seen it, and it's a little bit closer to

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Speaker 1: their primes than Floyd Mayweather.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm more into that than I'm in de Floyd Mayther.

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Speaker 1: I'm just laying out all these arguments here, and don't

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Speaker 1: bring up Peda Lonzo.

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Speaker 3: I'm just laying out all these arguments, are the.

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Speaker 4: Four of them gonna give a better effort than most

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Speaker 4: NBA players out a given night, eight seven to seven.

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Speaker 1: Hey, hey, no, no, I think what Harmon's saying is

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Speaker 1: that he thinks that the first two rounds, No, the

557
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Speaker 1: first two rounds will be legit for Ronda Rowsey and

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Speaker 1: Gina Carno, and then the third round they'll both sit out.

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Speaker 1: There will be no just be an empty octagon counting down.

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Speaker 4: Until we played the equivalent of an NBA game walk

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Speaker 4: in the announcing and the first couple of rounds.

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Speaker 2: We're done.

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Speaker 1: We only play three quarters, right, I think this is

564
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Speaker 1: this is again, this is how bad tanking is in

565
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Speaker 1: the NBA. There's gonna be guys getting to the league

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Speaker 1: in the next three or four years are going to

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Speaker 1: go so everybody plays all four quarters.

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Speaker 3: Like that's not like an optional thing like we did.

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Speaker 1: You generally do because I usually see you guys play

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Speaker 1: three quarters and they sit in the really good players,

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Speaker 1: right Like if I'm in a bad team, like I'm

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Speaker 1: only playing the first three quarters, right, like I'm sitting

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Speaker 1: in the far Oh I gotta be ready to play

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Speaker 1: all four Oh, I don't know. I never saw that

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Speaker 1: in the NBA. Okay, I guess I gotta get worried

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Speaker 1: for that.

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Speaker 4: Next level chess. It's four dimensional chests.

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Speaker 1: Let's go time now to find out what's trending in

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Speaker 1: the wide world of sports. From someone who's been called

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Speaker 1: the NBA tanker of sports talk radio anchors, he does

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Speaker 1: four hours of updates to night, but he really just

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Speaker 1: sits out after the third one.

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Speaker 3: It's Steve Desager.

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Speaker 7: Tanker, unlike other anchors. Ah, there's something in there, the.

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Speaker 1: Land spelled tanker without any we're talking about boxing.

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Speaker 2: So that's kind of where you have to keep going

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Speaker 2: with it.

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Speaker 7: Down for the count three minutes to go, Lakers are

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Speaker 7: leading the Clippers one seventeen, one thirteen. Kawhi Leonard left

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Speaker 7: with a sore ankley at thirty one points for the

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Speaker 7: Clips tonight. Meanwhile, for the Lakers, yes, the Stars are

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Speaker 7: all playing. Luka Doncic thirty two points, Austin Reeves with

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Speaker 7: twenty nine Lebron James has eleven assists just two turnovers

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Speaker 7: in this game.

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Speaker 2: This is the last game going.

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Speaker 7: Denver has won one fifty seven to one oh three

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Speaker 7: at Portland. Nikola jokicch thirty two points, Oklahoma City and

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Speaker 7: Milwaukee each one. Minnesota sent Dallas to a tenth straight

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Speaker 7: loss one twenty two to one, eleven forty points for

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Speaker 7: Anthony Edwards. Cleveland won at seventh straight game, won eleven

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Speaker 7: to one thirteen at Charlotte Donovan Mitchell thirty two points.

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Speaker 7: Wins for Memphis and Miami and for Washington, which at

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Speaker 7: home beat Indiana one thirty one.

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Speaker 2: One eighteen.

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Speaker 7: The Wizards record now sixteen and thirty nine, Pacers fifteen

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Speaker 7: and four twenty two. The NBA season just resume last

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Speaker 7: night after the All Star break. Devin Booker of the

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Speaker 7: Suns is out Saturday with a hip injury. Sacramento forward

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Speaker 7: DeAndre Hunter had season ending eye surgery. The Kings have

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Speaker 7: lost fifteenth straight. In college basketball, number seven per due

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Speaker 7: an easy winner over Indiana ninety three sixty four, eighteenth

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Speaker 7: ranks Saint Louis BEDVCU eighty eight seventy five, and number

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Speaker 7: twenty two ranked Miami, Ohio now twenty seven and zero

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Speaker 7: after a win over Bowling Green ninety one seventy seven.

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Speaker 7: At the Winter Olympics, US men's hockey won at semifinals

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Speaker 7: six to two over Slovakia. It was five to nothing

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Speaker 7: in the second period. Canada won at semi three to

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Speaker 7: two against Finland after trailing to nothing late in the second.

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Speaker 7: An American took Golden Free skyle skiing Alex Ferrara and

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Speaker 7: men's halfpipe. The US earned bronze in short track speed

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Speaker 7: skating Korean Studdard and the women's fifteen hundred meters Tennessee balls.

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Speaker 7: Quarterback Joey Aguilar lost in court trying for an extra

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Speaker 7: year of eligibility. Rory McElroy is one shot back in La.

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Speaker 7: Scottie Scheffler barely made the cut at even par, as

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Speaker 7: did Patrick Cantley and Victor Hoblin. The Brown's new offensive

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Speaker 7: coordinator Travis Switzer from Baltimore. The Rams promoted Nate Shieldhouse

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Speaker 7: to offensive coordinator. Nascar is at Atlanta this Sunday on

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Speaker 7: Fox TV.

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Speaker 2: Again.

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Speaker 7: The annual scouting Combine in the NFL holds annually. Yes,

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Speaker 7: it starts on Monday. The Orioles won the spring training

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Speaker 7: opener against the Yankees to nothing. Pe Alonzo now with

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Speaker 7: Baltimore a two run homer not news.

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Speaker 1: Okay, that's not news. It's a preseason exhibition. Josey, don't

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Speaker 1: even need to give the score. But oh, but because

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Speaker 1: it's Pete Alonzo and Jason's a Mets fan. Oh, they

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Speaker 1: won two nothing the first game, Alonzo hit a home run.

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Speaker 3: It means nothing like a man nothing.

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Speaker 2: Who's mailing it in? Now?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, he hit it so hard it sounded like an

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Speaker 4: aluminum bat.

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Speaker 3: But it was that's great. Okay, that's great.

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Speaker 7: Okay, Lakers are leading the Clippers one eighteen, one fifteen

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Speaker 7: under two minutes to go back to you.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Steve O, Jason Smith, Mike Carmon lot from

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Speaker 1: the Fox Sports radio studios.

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Speaker 3: Look the whole thing.

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Speaker 1: I understand that this is now going to be a

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Speaker 1: big story through the course of the rest of the

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Speaker 1: exhibition season in baseball, right, Alonzo is the biggest name

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Speaker 1: UH to change teams this offseason. He did it very early.

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Speaker 1: It was a big free agent signing. And here's Pete

653
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Speaker 1: Alonzo hitting home runs. Fan favorite.

654
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Speaker 3: But like, understand that this is it's February. It's February. Yeah,

655
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Speaker 3: it's great. Hit a home run in spring training, that's awesome.

656
00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:33,640
Speaker 2: Hit a home run every day.

657
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Speaker 1: I feel like I'm going to be exhausted with the

658
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Speaker 1: Pee Alonzo storylines over the course of the next month

659
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Speaker 1: and a half. It's to be like, Okay, whatever ped

660
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Speaker 1: Alonso does every day is not a headline in.

661
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Speaker 3: Spring Train as a show, as a Mets fit.

662
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Speaker 1: I didn't even talk about Alonzo and spring Train in

663
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Speaker 1: the last seven eight years.

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Speaker 2: No, I did not, you stop every year.

665
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Speaker 4: He's in the best shape of his life. He's winning

666
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Speaker 4: the MVP. Yes, you raise an.

667
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Speaker 3: Your voice to me, you're raising your voice?

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Speaker 4: Come on, No, Actually, I was kind of going lower

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Speaker 4: and lower, deeper and deeper, way way down.

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Speaker 3: Dude. You think you think I care about what the

671
00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:10,760
Speaker 3: student section has to say about Pete A. Lonzo. You

672
00:31:10,760 --> 00:31:11,520
Speaker 3: think I care about that?

673
00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:13,360
Speaker 2: Come on, man, all you do.

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Speaker 1: Congratulations on asking the worst question ever.

675
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Speaker 3: Congratulations for us.

676
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Speaker 2: Actually a great one. Let's because it cuts deep. Let's

677
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Speaker 2: see an l m V odds.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, now, American League MVP odds.

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, god yeah yeah.

680
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Speaker 2: Let's MVP odds.

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Speaker 1: As Mike Harmon peruses the m v P odds in

682
00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:41,520
Speaker 1: the American League again, he always jumps to odds and gambling.

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Speaker 1: You really do that a lot quicker than you ever

684
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Speaker 1: have before. Mike, I'm kind of form America. I'm going

685
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Speaker 1: where the trends were.

686
00:31:49,720 --> 00:31:51,520
Speaker 4: I tried to do this years ago, and I was

687
00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:54,320
Speaker 4: slapped down the wrists.

688
00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:56,320
Speaker 3: You jump right to odds forever.

689
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Speaker 1: I mean, I think there needs to be an intervention

690
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Speaker 1: for you at some point.

691
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Speaker 2: But bet, Bet, Bet Bett.

692
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Speaker 1: But coming up next, we get back to the biggest

693
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Speaker 1: story of the day, and I will tell you why.

694
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Speaker 1: I have never been more confident had a gold medal

695
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Speaker 1: for the United States and Hockey than I am right now.

696
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Speaker 3: That's next, right here, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 5: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith

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Speaker 5: Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern seven

699
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Speaker 5: pm Pacific.

700
00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:26,400
Speaker 4: Shies over the last six years, anybody.

701
00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:28,080
Speaker 2: Alonso drives the.

702
00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:32,800
Speaker 1: Ball to deep left field, the first of many absolute

703
00:32:32,880 --> 00:32:37,600
Speaker 1: hammer jobs for pen Alonso Baltimore, oriole.

704
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Speaker 2: Hammer jobs. Yo, you're playing the rocky music in the back.

705
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Speaker 3: I'm standing up in the studio.

706
00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:53,160
Speaker 2: I'm a little afraid to hit the old Google machine.

707
00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:54,960
Speaker 5: Man.

708
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Speaker 1: It's gonna be that kind of spring training for me,

709
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:01,440
Speaker 1: that kind of spring training. Petalando does something thet we

710
00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:04,480
Speaker 1: At least Frostburg's not sending me all the video of

711
00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:08,160
Speaker 1: Boba Schett butchering ground balls and.

712
00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:09,640
Speaker 2: Oh well, that's coming next week. We told you he

713
00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:10,640
Speaker 2: sucked two weeks ago.

714
00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:14,680
Speaker 4: Has made three steps he's taking backward on each ball

715
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Speaker 4: that he knows that he knows are being hit to him.

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Speaker 1: I just want to say that, Okay, you know, maybe

717
00:33:21,120 --> 00:33:23,920
Speaker 1: they're just picking the three errors that he's making and

718
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:27,440
Speaker 1: not counting the thousand other balls he's fielding cleanly.

719
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Speaker 2: You know, he just thinks.

720
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Speaker 1: But I mean some of those ground balls I see,

721
00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:34,440
Speaker 1: but shout, I go, Really he biffed that one.

722
00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:37,080
Speaker 3: Really he biffed that. Really he biffed that. This is guy,

723
00:33:37,160 --> 00:33:39,640
Speaker 3: this guy played shortstop and the majors for the past

724
00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:40,440
Speaker 3: few years.

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Speaker 4: Okay, well, I know what he's got to get himself

726
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Speaker 4: back into game shape. That just means he he skipped

727
00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:50,880
Speaker 4: leg day and fielding day all off season. Could have

728
00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:53,280
Speaker 4: had someone you know, hit hit some balls his way.

729
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Speaker 1: Final from the crypt, Lakers hold on to beat the

730
00:33:56,760 --> 00:33:59,880
Speaker 1: Clippers by three, now an NBA best twenty one and

731
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Speaker 1: one when they lead at halftime. Auton Reeves with twenty

732
00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:05,320
Speaker 1: nine points, had four to threes. We got more NBA

733
00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:07,840
Speaker 1: coming up, and about more big basketball as well coming

734
00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:10,640
Speaker 1: up in about fifteen minutes. But the big story of

735
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Speaker 1: the day today the United States just steam rolls over Slovakia,

736
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Speaker 1: setting up the showdown with Canada for the gold medal

737
00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:22,760
Speaker 1: in hockey on Sunday. And I got to be honest,

738
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Speaker 1: in thirty some odd years, I've never been more confident

739
00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:29,319
Speaker 1: and felt better about the United States winning the gold

740
00:34:29,360 --> 00:34:34,480
Speaker 1: medal in hockey than I do right now, Mike. I mean, really, Canada. Look, individually,

741
00:34:34,800 --> 00:34:37,320
Speaker 1: Canada is the better team. I don't think there's anybody

742
00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:40,399
Speaker 1: that's gonna argue that. But watching them play in these Olympics, yeah,

743
00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:42,680
Speaker 1: they're still a little loose. There's still a little bit

744
00:34:42,680 --> 00:34:44,880
Speaker 1: of how do we come together. We're pulling games out.

745
00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:47,080
Speaker 1: At the end, we you know, we were down to

746
00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:49,879
Speaker 1: nothing and had to use everything we could to get

747
00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:53,840
Speaker 1: back against Finland and watch Tamuslani complaining about officiating calls

748
00:34:53,840 --> 00:34:57,239
Speaker 1: on social media. But the United States has just been

749
00:34:57,360 --> 00:35:03,239
Speaker 1: a machine, especially defense. Their offense is waking up a

750
00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:05,720
Speaker 1: little bit now, which is which is bad news for Canada.

751
00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:10,000
Speaker 1: But overall, yeah, the offense has been okay. Defensively, the

752
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Speaker 1: United States has been bleep at aces. They've been gold

753
00:35:12,719 --> 00:35:16,120
Speaker 1: medal performance in every game. They are shutting everybody down.

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00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:19,560
Speaker 1: No one's getting great chances and as great a goalie

755
00:35:19,560 --> 00:35:23,359
Speaker 1: as Connor Hellibuk is, he hasn't had to steal any games. Usually, Okay,

756
00:35:23,360 --> 00:35:25,480
Speaker 1: you got to count on your your best goalie to

757
00:35:25,520 --> 00:35:26,120
Speaker 1: steal you a.

758
00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:26,759
Speaker 3: Game or two.

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00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:29,400
Speaker 1: He hasn't had to do that yet, so he just

760
00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:31,560
Speaker 1: has to do it once. Just has to steal one game.

761
00:35:31,719 --> 00:35:33,960
Speaker 1: Just have to play play the be the hell of book.

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00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:36,239
Speaker 1: That's that's the you know, the three times asn't a

763
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Speaker 1: winner and heart winner. Just has to be that guy

764
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Speaker 1: on Sunday. And the fact they haven't needed him for it,

765
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Speaker 1: I mean, and I don't know how much they will

766
00:35:43,880 --> 00:35:47,279
Speaker 1: actually need it because defensively, they've just been shutting other

767
00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:50,640
Speaker 1: teams down like Slovakia I think had three straight power

768
00:35:50,680 --> 00:35:52,080
Speaker 1: plays today and they have a shot.

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Speaker 3: On goal like there was there was no holes in

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Speaker 3: the United States.

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Speaker 1: When they're defending a man down like what they did

772
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Speaker 1: today should be taught at hockey camps, like this is

773
00:36:01,080 --> 00:36:03,560
Speaker 1: how you shut down angles, this is how you're active

774
00:36:03,640 --> 00:36:06,480
Speaker 1: defensively like the United States. I know it's not pretty,

775
00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:10,080
Speaker 1: but man, nobody is getting chances. And even though it's

776
00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:12,560
Speaker 1: gonna be a rock fight right for it's not like

777
00:36:12,600 --> 00:36:14,799
Speaker 1: something where hey, United State's gonna win this game five.

778
00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:17,600
Speaker 1: Nothing Like if if you put the over under for

779
00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:19,200
Speaker 1: me at goals at three and a half, I'll still

780
00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:22,440
Speaker 1: take the under because this has like nothing to one,

781
00:36:22,520 --> 00:36:23,520
Speaker 1: nothing to.

782
00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:24,400
Speaker 3: One written all over it.

783
00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:27,879
Speaker 1: But the United States is just playing so incredibly well

784
00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:31,239
Speaker 1: and all kinds of mad props. Bill Garren putting the

785
00:36:31,239 --> 00:36:33,279
Speaker 1: team together, saying, you know, we're gonna take twenty one

786
00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:35,000
Speaker 1: of the twenty four players who played in the four

787
00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:38,040
Speaker 1: Nations last year because we played pretty well. We can't

788
00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:40,719
Speaker 1: get everybody on the same page with two practices, so

789
00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:41,840
Speaker 1: we still like.

790
00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:42,359
Speaker 2: What we have.

791
00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:45,719
Speaker 1: We're gonna go with mainly the entire roster of what

792
00:36:45,760 --> 00:36:48,560
Speaker 1: we had, and it's working because they they don't look

793
00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:50,879
Speaker 1: like a team that hasn't played together. You know, their

794
00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:53,560
Speaker 1: breakouts are on time, coming back and back checking is

795
00:36:53,600 --> 00:36:55,440
Speaker 1: on time, like they are playing at such a high

796
00:36:55,520 --> 00:36:58,400
Speaker 1: level defensively, and I know they're gonna face an incredible

797
00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:00,560
Speaker 1: level of talent like they haven't so far.

798
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Speaker 3: In this tournament.

799
00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:03,920
Speaker 1: But I remember we're pretty good too, and and what

800
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:06,759
Speaker 1: we're doing. I do not see Canada being able to

801
00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:09,880
Speaker 1: get loose on the United States defensively. And they're a

802
00:37:09,880 --> 00:37:13,359
Speaker 1: little bit loose defensively on the side. Kachucks are warming up,

803
00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:17,080
Speaker 1: and and and and Icle and the Hughes brothers. Yeah,

804
00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:19,279
Speaker 1: I can see the United States taking this game and

805
00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:22,399
Speaker 1: suddenly saying, hey, finally we get over on Canada. I've

806
00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:24,719
Speaker 1: never been more comf thirty some odd years, never more

807
00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:25,760
Speaker 1: confident on a gold medal.

808
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:27,960
Speaker 2: I like that getting over on Canada.

809
00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:35,520
Speaker 4: Heavyweight chick Canada exactly as we said one of the

810
00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:38,480
Speaker 4: books I'm looking at, the Canadians are a slight favorite,

811
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Speaker 4: about fifty five percent win probability.

812
00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:44,280
Speaker 2: The over under is at five goals.

813
00:37:45,560 --> 00:37:47,480
Speaker 3: You go back, See you went back to the betting

814
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:48,320
Speaker 3: so fast.

815
00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:52,200
Speaker 1: I'm trying so fast back to the betting man again.

816
00:37:52,239 --> 00:37:55,680
Speaker 3: But you're going so fast to the betting, like.

817
00:37:54,320 --> 00:37:56,799
Speaker 1: I like, you have it right on your computer and

818
00:37:56,840 --> 00:37:59,959
Speaker 1: you are just like sending sending Duke gets out to bet.

819
00:38:00,719 --> 00:38:01,759
Speaker 2: Let's go bet on this man.

820
00:38:01,880 --> 00:38:04,399
Speaker 4: No duckets are staying in my pocket. I got other

821
00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:07,959
Speaker 4: I got other plans for them. But the in terms

822
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:11,240
Speaker 4: of informing the conversation, you know, because the eye test

823
00:38:11,360 --> 00:38:16,520
Speaker 4: is there. Certainly, we watched the early returns from teams Swamy,

824
00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:19,320
Speaker 4: and they were they were swarming to nothing, and they're like,

825
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:22,600
Speaker 4: all right, now, we we got some chaos here, and

826
00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:25,880
Speaker 4: then it was the all right time to play some hockey.

827
00:38:26,280 --> 00:38:28,320
Speaker 4: Like they blew a whistle or something, and all of

828
00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:31,319
Speaker 4: a sudden Canada woke up. Now they won't sleep walk

829
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Speaker 4: against the United States. I mean there's there's a lot.

830
00:38:34,719 --> 00:38:36,640
Speaker 4: I mean, not just the gold medal. I mean there's

831
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Speaker 4: it's a whole other level of rivalry and chaos that

832
00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:42,560
Speaker 4: will ensue. I mean, throw the records out when these

833
00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:44,720
Speaker 4: two teams get together and these two nations.

834
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Speaker 2: Uh, but I think we get it over.

835
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Speaker 4: I think we get a little bit of a wide

836
00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:54,080
Speaker 4: open game and some some glory where the skaters get

837
00:38:54,120 --> 00:38:56,359
Speaker 4: to work here and that the clamps can't be put

838
00:38:56,400 --> 00:39:00,200
Speaker 4: down quite so easily on the the goal scorer, and

839
00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:04,279
Speaker 4: maybe the Hughes didn't tag team partners and they get

840
00:39:04,320 --> 00:39:05,120
Speaker 4: over once again.

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00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:09,560
Speaker 1: Well, look, the main thing to worry about for this game,

842
00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:12,120
Speaker 1: outside of the fact that, look, we're so well positioned

843
00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:14,759
Speaker 1: again thirty years they were more confident. Let's make sure

844
00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:16,879
Speaker 1: we at least get the uniforms right and we don't

845
00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:20,759
Speaker 1: have this ridiculous USA and Slovakia in the same uniforms

846
00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:21,959
Speaker 1: facing that was pretty bad.

847
00:39:22,239 --> 00:39:25,040
Speaker 3: Who okayed that? Like? I mean it, like, who okayed that? Today?

848
00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:26,520
Speaker 1: Why as soon as they take the ice? I'm like,

849
00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:28,760
Speaker 1: who thought this was a good idea?

850
00:39:28,800 --> 00:39:29,120
Speaker 3: Who said?

851
00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:31,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, your uniforms with the white and the blue,

852
00:39:31,239 --> 00:39:33,600
Speaker 1: and your uniforms the white and the blue. Yeah, that's fine.

853
00:39:33,880 --> 00:39:36,560
Speaker 1: Come on, man, Like they don't allow that in youth sports.

854
00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:38,520
Speaker 1: They would say, hey, these teams are too close. Somebody's

855
00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:40,800
Speaker 1: gotta wear pennies nuts. All right, Fine, we'll wear pennies,

856
00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:41,120
Speaker 1: all right.

857
00:39:41,200 --> 00:39:42,840
Speaker 3: I mean that. It was ridiculous.

858
00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:46,759
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was one of the things you notice, right

859
00:39:46,800 --> 00:39:49,799
Speaker 4: going back to the women's game yesterday of hey, how

860
00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:52,759
Speaker 4: do you not stay on the goal scorer? Now, they

861
00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:56,000
Speaker 4: had another camrangle that we eventually got in the highlight

862
00:39:56,440 --> 00:39:59,080
Speaker 4: package when it was put together for prime time. But

863
00:39:59,200 --> 00:40:01,759
Speaker 4: same thing here is, all right, we're going out for

864
00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:04,799
Speaker 4: this gate and I love the build up at right,

865
00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:09,040
Speaker 4: and they show the in arena music and the lights

866
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:12,200
Speaker 4: and the build up and it was like they're wearing

867
00:40:12,360 --> 00:40:15,120
Speaker 4: essentially the same uniforms. It's not gonna be good friendsbody,

868
00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:18,600
Speaker 4: we have problems with officials on everything.

869
00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:20,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's make it even harder.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean not that I was expecting a player

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Speaker 1: to go. You know, I thought he was on my team.

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Speaker 1: I couldn't tell, you know, I mean I didn't know,

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Speaker 1: but I wouldn't have passed him for a breakaway the

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Speaker 1: other way if I knew he was were But I

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Speaker 1: just saw it on the corner my eye. He looked

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Speaker 1: like he was wearing the same jersey. I was bad

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Speaker 1: job by them. Exit up about a Fresca exit swollen dome.

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Speaker 1: Coming up next, we got more from the NBA and

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Speaker 1: an apology from a big time sports personality. We told

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Speaker 1: you was gonna happen three days ago. That's next, Jason

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Speaker 1: and Mike Fox