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Speaker 2: On the YouTube, you do, all right, I want to first,

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Speaker 2: you know, start with the most topical thing I think

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Speaker 2: just in general this week, which is the NBA Playoffs,

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Speaker 2: Because this is an incredibly important weekendlating, UH for the

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Speaker 2: Western Conference in particular, and you know it's been this way.

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Speaker 2: I think I feel like all season where you're not

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Speaker 2: as sure about the West, the West just seems a

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Speaker 2: little bit more competitive. Things are a little bit more

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Speaker 2: not not competitive in the East, but they're a little

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Speaker 2: bit more predictable. So the seating is established in the

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Speaker 2: Eastern right, all ten spots that have already been locked up.

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Speaker 2: That is not the case in the Western Conference. So

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Speaker 2: in case you guys need a refresher, the first, second,

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Speaker 2: and third seeds are all locked. That's okay. See the

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Speaker 2: Houston Rockets and the Los Angeles Lakers locked up the

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Speaker 2: For the four seed, the Nuggets have to beat Houston

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Speaker 2: in their final game to secure home court.

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Speaker 4: Wait, we should tell everyone to pull out their chalkboards,

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Speaker 4: pull out their white boards.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna say this is gonna get.

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Speaker 4: It's that the Jiff from Hangover where he you know,

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Speaker 4: he's like looking at all the oh yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, A beautiful mind, but with Zach Alfnakis, which is

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Speaker 2: absolutely more I'm more Zach Allenannakis than I am beautiful mind.

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Speaker 2: But the Nuggets have to beat Houston in the final

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Speaker 2: game just cure home court. In the first round, the

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Speaker 2: Clippers have to get through the Warriors. It up there

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Speaker 2: at their place, and a win with a Denver loss

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Speaker 2: means the Clippers get the four seed. A win and

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Speaker 2: a Denver win means that they play each other in

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Speaker 2: Clippers have like the highest variants I think of anyone

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Speaker 4: Play And weirdly enough, I don't think they can be

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Speaker 3: But they can't get the sixth seed.

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Speaker 4: It's either the fourth or fifth or seventh or below

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Speaker 2: And then you also have their going like their last

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Speaker 2: on I know, I know they can't. The Warriors can't

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Speaker 4: Everyone everyone's, you know, fighting for a seat at the

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Speaker 2: It's it's all the Kings control their own destiny, but

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Speaker 2: the Maverick Stone at the bottom of all of this.

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Speaker 2: It's it's incredibly like this weekend is going to determine everything, and.

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Speaker 4: All eyes on that Clippers Warriors matchup on Sunday, right

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Speaker 4: the final day of the regular season, and I think

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Speaker 4: why it does have such weight because if the Warriors

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Speaker 4: do get the win, it will be a Warriors Lakers

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Speaker 4: first round matchup. You're talking about Lebron James, Steph Kirk,

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Speaker 3: I can't believe I said Jimmy before Luca, but I mean,

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Speaker 2: It's like still being a laquer because they're not still

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Speaker 2: absolutely insane to me, My.

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Speaker 4: Mom is it loves Jimmy Butler for his side quests,

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Speaker 4: for his NBA side quest. You know, she she's become

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Speaker 4: enamored with him, and she's like, wait, he's on the Warriors,

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Speaker 4: and it's like, you know, it's just kind of all

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Speaker 4: this movement is the Nuggets firing their coach this week.

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Speaker 4: I think the NBA met the moment with posts or

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Speaker 2: And like, if they're trying to get more people to

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Speaker 2: the Luca trade. Yeah, with the with the Nuggets firing

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Speaker 2: their coach. But I want to talk more about the

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Speaker 2: Warriors it just in general, because how much do we

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Speaker 2: trust them if they have to go through the plane,

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Speaker 2: do they still have the shot? Because if you would

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Speaker 2: as well as he as well as he ever has all. Oh,

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Speaker 4: Now, yeah, a little bit of a finger injury. I

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Speaker 4: think I think it's nothing. I mean, obviously he wouldn't

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Speaker 2: It right when they have such a variety of what

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Speaker 2: can happen. They're right, they're the wild card here.

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Speaker 4: We're gonna be sack that for that game after the

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Speaker 2: My other thing too, is now that the Warriors do

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Speaker 2: Mymy Butler plays really well at the Yeah.

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Speaker 4: Jimmy is one of my favorite creatures in all of sports.

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Speaker 2: So I feel like that's kind of a silver lining

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Speaker 2: Although did you get Jimmy Butler to kind of avoid

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Speaker 4: I feel like you did exactly. It was a little

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Speaker 4: bit too late though, with him adding his magic touch

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Speaker 4: they navigated they were in the play in tournament three

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Speaker 4: You've got Lebron James, Anthony Anthony Davis at the time

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Speaker 4: you tell you know, you take a one on one matchup,

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Speaker 4: think looking at the other teams and just how inconsistent

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Speaker 4: I think the Warriors will advance through the plan. But

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Speaker 4: let's hope, let's hope we get a Warriors Lakers first

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Speaker 2: I do think it's it's really interesting because obviously this

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Speaker 2: is where experience comes into play, and the Warriors have

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Speaker 2: all of the experience winning the Steph Curry even referred

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Speaker 2: to this game against the Clippers to end the season

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Speaker 2: as kind of a Game seven atmosphere, quote unquote. I

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Speaker 2: do think that all of that is going to help

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Speaker 2: them when it comes to Like, I'm not worried about

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Speaker 2: the Warriors and the plan, but I think it's the

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Speaker 2: ramifications of what happens after that if they have to

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Speaker 2: play the plan. It's not do I trust them to

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Speaker 2: win the plan? Of course I do. I don't Do

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Speaker 2: I trust them? Yes? Do I trust them to have

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Speaker 2: to forego that rest and still be okay and still

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Speaker 2: be viable as you get into the Western Conference, where

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Speaker 2: not only will you perhaps have to deal with the Lakers,

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Speaker 2: but you're gonna have to deal with one of the

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Speaker 2: best teams, if not the best team in the NBA

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Speaker 2: right now, which is the thunder.

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Speaker 4: Right Eventually, Let's say let's say the Warriors get that

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Speaker 4: seventh seed in a place a play in situation and

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Speaker 4: they're going up against a well rested, young, feisty, scrappy

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Speaker 4: Houston Rocket squad. YEP, I wouldn't. I wouldn't bet against

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Speaker 4: the Warriors necessarily, But it's not how you want to

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Speaker 4: start your postseason push.

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Speaker 2: No, no, because it's not like you get to you

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Speaker 2: get a break after that you go one to the

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Speaker 2: other end to the other depending on when you win

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Speaker 2: those series. But something that I find interesting between if

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Speaker 2: we're talking Warriors and Lakers, and this is what I

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Speaker 2: want to kind of get your opinion on too, because

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Speaker 2: you've been in LA for a long time, You've followed

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Speaker 2: Lebron's career. Lebron and I'm not one to talk necessarily

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Speaker 2: about legacy, but it's obviously very topical because we don't

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Speaker 2: know how much longer Lebron James is gonna end up playing.

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Speaker 2: If go with me here.

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Speaker 4: Okay, I'm on the journey with you.

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Speaker 2: If say we do get Lakers Warriors m M, and

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Speaker 2: And we were just talking about all the things that

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Speaker 2: Fast, exactly like I am getting an FCC violation if

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Speaker 4: Part of the they're like, hey, let's walk the line.

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Speaker 2: Let's get to some Masters, Niki because.

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Speaker 4: A tradition unlike any other.

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Speaker 2: Say Bryson de Shambo is like mister personality when it

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Speaker 2: near and dear to my my little ASU heart, my

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Speaker 2: ASU brethren has made people mad, big mad this week

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Speaker 2: because a Louis Ballister he wore an upside down font

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Speaker 2: sun Devil's hat, and people are really upset about it.

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Speaker 2: But then as if that wasn't offensive enough at Augusta,

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Speaker 2: which I can understand all of this too, because he

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Speaker 2: doesn't he's still in college. He's literally an ASU student

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Speaker 2: right now.

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Speaker 4: He's an amateur, and he.

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Speaker 2: Doesn't have like the sponsorships, he doesn't have the obligations

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Speaker 2: to wear all of the fancy golf stuff whatever. I

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Speaker 2: actually I love coming.

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Speaker 4: At it with a little bit of compassion. I'm gonna

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Speaker 4: come at it with some stern golf. Okay, you finish,

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Speaker 4: finish what else?

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Speaker 2: Well, I was gonna say, if that wasn't enough, he did.

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Speaker 2: He did do something that I can't say isn't typical

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Speaker 2: of what I would expect out of an Asu Sun devil.

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Speaker 2: He shall we say, relieved himself in Ray's Creek, which

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Speaker 2: I mean the masters Augusta is sacred ground, and so

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Speaker 2: to do this is just like such a blatant disregard

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Speaker 2: for any sort of tradition or decorum. Uh. And I

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Speaker 2: understand why people are now, but we actually have Jose

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Speaker 2: talking about this.

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Speaker 5: I completely Forgod that we have those russions from the

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Speaker 5: left of the tea box. And then I'm like, I

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Speaker 5: didn't really know where go, and since Jad had an

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Speaker 5: issue around the game, I'm like, okay, I'm just gonna

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Speaker 5: sneak here under river. Probably the people would not see

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Speaker 5: me that much. And then they caught for me, probably

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Speaker 5: one of the clubs that I really got today, like

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Speaker 5: real oued. So that was that was kind of funny.

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Speaker 5: It was not embarrassing at all for me. So if

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Speaker 5: I had to do it again, I would do it again.

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Speaker 4: Uh yeah, yeah, you know, here's here's the problem there

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Speaker 4: whose like there there are rushrooms near each tea box,

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Speaker 4: like there were he walked away from Russia, and I

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Speaker 4: know he said he forgot. Also the next hole, I

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Speaker 4: think much more guarded in terms of like trees and

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Speaker 4: places to pop off and do your things, should you,

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Speaker 4: And like he did choose one of the most visible

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Speaker 4: stretches even though he thought nobody could see him.

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Speaker 2: And also like race Creek is the thing, yeah, you

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Speaker 2: know the course if you know what Gusta like, you

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Speaker 2: know race Creek, right, and I just a.

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Speaker 4: Little bit of decorum for like is is nothing sacred anymore?

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Speaker 4: Like come on, I understand, and I'm I'm typically one.

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Speaker 2: We're having a college student on the Master.

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Speaker 4: I know some personalities don't like when when football coaches

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Speaker 4: wear backwards hats or you know, and they think it's

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Speaker 4: a sign. I'm going to stay out of that discussion,

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Speaker 4: but I do think like, hey, we're at Augusta, let's

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Speaker 4: maybe elevate the fit a little bit. Let's maybe, you know,

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Speaker 4: choose some discretion when picking your restroom.

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Speaker 2: It's a new age, no quote, no quote nights.

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Speaker 3: Educate yourself.

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Speaker 2: No, I'm with you here, I am, I am here.

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Speaker 2: All right, it's one thirty. Why don't we check into

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Speaker 2: with Martin Wise on the news desk.

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Speaker 8: Roy McElroy still having a smoker of around through eight holes,

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Speaker 8: he's four under. He's leading the tournament right now, the Masters.

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Speaker 4: That is justic case.

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Speaker 2: You've been under a rock the last few days.

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Speaker 8: Ten under. Right now, you've got a three shot of

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Speaker 8: lead on Bryson de Shambo, seven under. Right now, Justin Day,

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Speaker 8: Justin Rose, and Corey Conners all tied in third at

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Speaker 8: six under. Oh so was Shane Lowry. A lot of

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Speaker 8: people at six Scotti Scheffer's five under. Both of these

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Speaker 8: guys around even are two hundred plus and Justin Roses

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Speaker 8: plus two for the day. Shane Lowry won under but

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Speaker 8: again Rory four under through round three through eight holes

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Speaker 8: with a three shot lead ten under overall. Bottom of

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Speaker 8: the ninth inning, the Tigers have a four to nothing

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Speaker 8: lead over the Minnesota Twins. Top of the ninth inning.

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Speaker 8: Philadelphia leads Saint Louis four to one. Top of the

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Speaker 8: fifth on FS one, the Giants and the Yankees tied

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Speaker 8: two to two.

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Speaker 2: Top of the second inning.

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Speaker 8: The Blue Jays have a one nothing lead over the

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Speaker 8: Orioles Mets Athletics, scoreless through two. Top of the second inning.

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Speaker 8: Tampa with a one nothing lead over Atlanta started the

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Speaker 8: third inning. Top of the third inning, Marlins with they

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Speaker 8: won nothing lead over the Nationals and the White Sox

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Speaker 8: Carmen haven't given up a run yet. It's three, it's nothing,

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Speaker 8: nothing still bottom of the second ending. A lot of

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Speaker 8: baseball left yet, But you know you can't lowly looking up.

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Speaker 2: From here hopefully well, your Detroit Tigers are four, are

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Speaker 2: up four nothing, So here you're sitting pretty.

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Speaker 8: You know, some people say, you know, if the Dodgers

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Speaker 8: hadn't started the season three weeks before opening Day, and

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Speaker 8: everybody started to say maybe they wouldn't have dropped the

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Speaker 8: first couple of the Tigers. Let's see, but the Rangers

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Speaker 8: and that some people is really just me. The Hurricanes

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Speaker 8: having three nothing lead over the Rangers with eight thirty

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Speaker 8: left in the second period seven fifteen left in the

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Speaker 8: first period, the Kings lead the Avalanche one to nothing. Again,

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Speaker 8: Roy McElroy ten under your leader through eight holes the

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Speaker 8: third round of the Masters.

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Speaker 2: Back to you guys, thanks Martin. Now, someone who is

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Speaker 2: also familiar with the golf world, someone who is everywhere.

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Speaker 2: She is the New York Giants team reporter. She works

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Speaker 2: for MSG Networks, CBS Sports, HQ. My fellow Sun Devil,

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Speaker 2: Madeline Burke.

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Speaker 6: Hi, up, what's happening.

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Speaker 2: We just did a whole thing about uh our Asu

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Speaker 2: brethren making people mad because Louis Yeah, oh yeah.

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Speaker 6: I mean, hey, listen, he's representing our sun Devil nation.

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Speaker 6: Quite accurate.

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Speaker 4: Least I was going to say, as a U. C.

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Speaker 6: L A.

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Speaker 4: Bruin, I would expect that.

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Speaker 2: From the Okay, okay, okay, okay, I mean that's true,

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Speaker 2: that's true, and I love that you said pack tend Sorry,

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Speaker 2: well all right, mad, it's just it's you and me, Okay, Well,

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Speaker 2: I want to start your the Giants team reporter. You're

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Speaker 2: very plugged in with that organization. They happen to have

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Speaker 2: a top five pick right now. There are some very

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Speaker 2: interesting things, especially now with the Derek Carr news in

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Speaker 2: New Orleans. Uh, there might be some more teams in

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Speaker 2: the market. Four quarterback. Then, we initially thought the Giants

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Speaker 2: have addressed the position in probably the most entertaining way

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Speaker 2: they possibly could have so far. How are things going there?

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Speaker 2: What do you feel like is going to happen come

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Speaker 2: draft Day? Where are are the Giants' priorities right now?

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Speaker 6: It's so fascinating to look at the way the Giants

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Speaker 6: are approaching this drafts because they could really go any

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Speaker 6: which way. I mean, yes, they signed Jameis Winston and

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Speaker 6: Russell Wilson in free agency and have perhaps the most

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Speaker 6: motivating pregame speech quarterbacks you've ever heard of. Aimen lots

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Speaker 6: of veteran experience there too, but that doesn't preclude them

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Speaker 6: from actually taking a quarterback even though people say, okay,

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Speaker 6: well they're good at that position. Russell Wilson's on a

567
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Speaker 6: one year deal right James Winston's on a two year deal,

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Speaker 6: So clearly they signed both of these guys with Okay,

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Speaker 6: this is not our long term plan, and that long

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Speaker 6: term planet quarterback still does need to be addressed. So

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Speaker 6: if they do love a guy, I don't think that

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Speaker 6: it completely precludes them. However, some of the comments we've

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Speaker 6: heard recently from Joe Shane, there's a lot less pressure

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Speaker 6: to go at the quarterback position at three, but it's

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Speaker 6: not a zero percent chance that they do that. You know,

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Speaker 6: there's still possibility that they go quarterback. There's still disability

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Speaker 6: Travis Herner if he's there as a player that a

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Speaker 6: lot of people in that organization really love. I mean, first,

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Speaker 6: perhaps the best player in this draft in Travis Hunter,

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Speaker 6: a duel carter. You know, you see that that comparison

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Speaker 6: with Michael Parsons. And famously in twenty twenty one when

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Speaker 6: the Giants packed on Michael Parsons, drafted Cadarius Tony and

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Speaker 6: you know, traded back in the draft drafted Cadarius Tony

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Speaker 6: and then also got Evan Neil out of that trade

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Speaker 6: as well. In hindsight, I think people, yeah, maybe if

586
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Speaker 6: we could pick between having Cadarius Tony and Evan Neil

587
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Speaker 6: or Michael Parsons, maybe should have gone the other direction.

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Speaker 6: But of course, hindsight is always twenty twenty. So there's

589
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Speaker 6: so many things on the table, and you know, the

590
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Speaker 6: quarterback position, of course, is such a big one. But

591
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Speaker 6: defense is something that you know, at the end of

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Speaker 6: last season, John Marrowin talking to the media, a lot

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Speaker 6: of you know, a lot of people remember how the

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Speaker 6: quarterback was a storyline, and hey, that's a thing that

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Speaker 6: needs to get addressed as well. But you know, marisaid,

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Speaker 6: quite frankly, he didn't think our defense played very real,

597
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Speaker 6: very well, and we need to make improvements there. I'm

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Speaker 6: tired of watching teams go up the field on us

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Speaker 6: and scoring so often. So the Giants have addressed that

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Speaker 6: quite a bit in the secondary. Maybe they do that

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Speaker 6: more at three in the draft. I don't know. We

602
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Speaker 6: got two weeks left, and every day I changed my

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Speaker 6: mind with where they're going.

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Speaker 4: Every day is a winding road. Now, Madeline, obviously you've

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Speaker 4: got such a good in depth breakdown and I guess

606
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Speaker 4: big picture view of what this team is doing. But

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Speaker 4: I want you to get a little you know, hypothetical

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Speaker 4: with me and take me inside this quarterback room with.

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Speaker 3: Russell and Jamis, and I.

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Speaker 4: Mean from Afar it seems like, you know, Russell's message

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Speaker 4: might be best communicated through Jamis right, because his speech

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Speaker 4: is I am sat, I am hooked. Everything that man says.

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Speaker 4: I don't know where it's going, but I'm you know what,

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Speaker 4: the horses, the horses are prepared for battle. And I'm

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Speaker 4: just I'm just very curious from your impressions of the

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Speaker 4: you know, covering this league, how is this dynamic going

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Speaker 4: to work out?

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Speaker 6: It's gonna be fascinating. First of all, I feel like

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Speaker 6: anyone wants to find a person who looks at you

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Speaker 6: the way Jamis Winston looks at a snow game, just

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Speaker 6: like the Disney Princess ball, and his eyes of just wow.

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Speaker 6: I mean, that man is pure joy. And when he

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Speaker 6: signed with the Giants, which was of course, about a

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Speaker 6: week or so prior to Russell Wilson, Jamis was the

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Speaker 6: first quarterback free agent signed, and a lot of the

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Speaker 6: players I spoke to kind of echoed the same sentiment,

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Speaker 6: like this is a kind of joy that his locker

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Speaker 6: room needs. You know, he is a really I mean

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Speaker 6: we see it as media members, as football fans, as

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Speaker 6: fans of the game. He loves the game, but he

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Speaker 6: also just loves the community and the teamwork element of it.

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Speaker 6: I think he's going to be a fantastic teammate in

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Speaker 6: that scenario. And then you've got Russell Wilson coming in

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Speaker 6: and this man in his introductory press conference, he must

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Speaker 6: have name dropped like every single Giants player on this

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Speaker 6: roster because he watches so much film and he was

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Speaker 6: specifically referencing plays and again, this is his very first

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Speaker 6: introductory media availability as a member of the New York Giants,

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Speaker 6: and he's referencing specific plays and specific routes and specific

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Speaker 6: elements of each of these players games. He's already so

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Speaker 6: familiar with the players on this roster. He's down at

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Speaker 6: Georgia Tech recently this week working out with Darius Slayton,

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Speaker 6: the wide receiver jan Dale Robinson, and then Theo Johnson

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Speaker 6: going into a second year tight end out of Penn State.

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Speaker 6: So he's working out with some of the guys already

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Speaker 6: this offseason. But he's also going to be such a

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Speaker 6: great example if they do bring in another young guy

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Speaker 6: or just as a leader of just what it takes

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Speaker 6: to be fully prepared and locked in for the task

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Speaker 6: at hands. So I mean, I think they really did

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Speaker 6: the personality hires are fantastic, but also to the skill

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Speaker 6: level and the experience level. And of course Russell Wilson,

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Speaker 6: he won his Super Bowl at MetLife Stadium and you

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Speaker 6: know a lot of positive memories there. So maybe that

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Speaker 6: good jujube follows along. We'll see.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure that Joshane and Brian Dabile are hoping. So

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Speaker 2: I want to switch gears really really quick, because I

658
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Speaker 2: know you do work with MSG Networks, you do work

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Speaker 2: with New York Knicks. You follow the Knicks. We didn't

660
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Speaker 2: talk a whole lot when we did our NBA segment

661
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Speaker 2: about the East because it's already locked up. But how

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Speaker 2: are the Knicks going to make noise in this in

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Speaker 2: this playoff? In these playoffs when all the conversation is

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Speaker 2: about Boston, and then even with Cleveland having the best record,

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Speaker 2: then Cleveland and then then I feel like the Knicks,

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Speaker 2: what are the vibes right now for you? Where do

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Speaker 2: you see this team going?

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Speaker 6: Well, the Knicks are such a fun team, right but

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Speaker 6: I think the biggest hurdle for them is the fact

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Speaker 6: that all season they haven't beaten any of the teams,

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Speaker 6: the top three teams in the NBA. You know, they

672
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Speaker 6: haven't beaten the Celtics, they haven't beaten the cab, they

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Speaker 6: haven't beaten the Center. And they came close the other

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Speaker 6: night last week at Madison Square Garden in overtime, but

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Speaker 6: lost to the Celtics. And I think that right there

676
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Speaker 6: was such a gut punch because going into the postseason

677
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Speaker 6: with at least one win, even if it took an

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Speaker 6: extra period to get it would have been helpful. You know,

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Speaker 6: they had Brunson back and they're like, Okay, we're at

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Speaker 6: full strength. We can do this now. Of course it's

681
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Speaker 6: different in the seven game series. But if you look

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Speaker 6: at the narrative following the Knicks going into the postseason,

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Speaker 6: as they are a very good team and even better

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Speaker 6: so now that Brunson has returned. However, they have struggled

685
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Speaker 6: against the best of the league. So can they get

686
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Speaker 6: over the hump or will this be another really fun,

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Speaker 6: energetic first round with maybe a second round exit. Really

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Speaker 6: depends on how it all shakes out.

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Speaker 2: Well, Madeline, I really appreciate you taking time a way

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Speaker 2: to talk to us. Thank you so much.

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Speaker 4: Duit up for battle, Madeline, I mean, enjoy the masters.

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Speaker 4: I hope you can tasks I'm so jealous, yes.

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Speaker 6: And I am looking forward to I feel like, you know,

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Speaker 6: somebody jump you know, Matt.

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Speaker 2: Mad that someone who worked with Jamis for like three

696
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Speaker 2: four years. You're gonna have a blast with them. So holy,

697
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Speaker 2: so much fun. Thank you so much for joining us.

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Speaker 2: Coming up next, it's the Dues and the Don'ts of

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Speaker 2: the week you're listening to Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: You've in that right now, we're all just going back

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Speaker 2: to analog. I miss the buttons. That's why I miss

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Speaker 2: having a BlackBerry. I miss having a BlackBerry over an

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Speaker 2: iPhone because like I did, just like sit there and

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Speaker 2: I could feel the keys.

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Speaker 4: You were one of those those girls who could just

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Speaker 4: be table absolutely breaking news in high school.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was doing like well. I I was also

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Speaker 2: the girl in high school that like ran the earpod

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Speaker 2: up in through my sleeve and like laid on last

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Speaker 2: I listen to Cubs games in VA baseball games in general,

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Speaker 2: like during class I was. I was resourceful.

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Speaker 4: You committed to the bit. I love it, but it's

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Speaker 4: not a bit because you're here now, Well what is

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Speaker 4: a bit?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're going to get to the de in the

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Speaker 2: don'ts of the week.

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Speaker 1: Highlight that putting a spotlight on the don't the subject

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Speaker 1: brings me no joy.

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Speaker 2: That that's insane.

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Speaker 1: It's time for the dues and the don'ts in sports.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So I have a do okay to start out?

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Speaker 2: Uh do you? In fact, because Caitlin Clark was on

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Speaker 2: with David Letterman on his show, and there is a

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Speaker 2: quote that came from this interview that is just absolutely iconic,

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Speaker 2: but also just proves that Kaitlin Clark is She's doing her,

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Speaker 2: but she's also doing the like we're all Kitlyn Clark

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Speaker 2: in this. He asks her, He asked her like, why

744
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Speaker 2: are you the way you are? And she just goes,

745
00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:21,799
Speaker 2: because I'm insane? And if that response hasn't verbatim come

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Speaker 2: out of my mouth, like why am I the way

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Speaker 2: that I am? I'm insane?

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Speaker 4: The amount of times I've used the word masochist in

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Speaker 4: my life, it's a little bit disproportionate to how they

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Speaker 4: should be, Like I just I've leaned on that as

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Speaker 4: an explanation for why I am the way I am.

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Speaker 2: So Yes, because I'm insane, I feel like everybody, especially

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Speaker 2: in this industry, or I mean, and I think it's

754
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Speaker 2: to a completely other degree when you're talking about the

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Speaker 2: greatest what who could be one of the greatest WNBA

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00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:55,080
Speaker 2: players of all time, one of the greatest women's college

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00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:58,320
Speaker 2: players that we've ever seen. To get to those levels

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Speaker 2: like you talk about the Kobe's, the Jordan's, the Lebron's,

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Speaker 2: the Tigers, like you, guys, all you have to be

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00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:06,680
Speaker 2: a sociopath in the best way. I said that about

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Speaker 2: Tom Brady. Also time I said about Tom Brady getting

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00:37:09,320 --> 00:37:10,880
Speaker 2: to watch him for two years in Tampa when I

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Speaker 2: was with the team and seeing the way he prepares

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00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:16,840
Speaker 2: and practices and just lives life. I'm like, he's a sociopath,

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Speaker 2: but in the best way.

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Speaker 3: I'm going to take this moving forward as do be psychotic?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what, maybe that would that would have

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Speaker 2: been a better one.

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Speaker 4: I love that.

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Speaker 2: Do you care?

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Speaker 3: Okay?

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Speaker 4: So my do is going to come in the form

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Speaker 4: of a question to you, Carmen. So it's Master's weekend.

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Speaker 4: Are we do aka yes on the pimento cheese sandwich?

775
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Speaker 4: Or do on the egg salad sandwich?

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Speaker 2: It's a really funny story. I was allergic to eggs

777
00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:44,239
Speaker 2: growing up, Okay, so I never ate them, and I've

778
00:37:44,239 --> 00:37:48,480
Speaker 2: grown out of that allergy. However, there is no consistency

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Speaker 2: like an egg, so it really weirds me out. So

780
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Speaker 2: like I've graduated. I'm such a baby. I've graduated. Scrambled eggs.

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Speaker 2: Egg salad is way too advanced.

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Speaker 4: You know what, a bridge too far understandable. Eggs are

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Speaker 4: kind of a funky concept if you think about them

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Speaker 4: too long and hard.

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Speaker 2: Mass producer.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, and let's Prevento cheese.

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Speaker 2: You can make a big vat of it and you

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00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:09,040
Speaker 2: just spread it on and like that's great.

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Speaker 4: You could be do on the ice cream sandwiches.

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Speaker 2: Oh absolutely, okay, I do. And I am due on

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00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:19,080
Speaker 2: the prices on the prices at the Masters. Okay, I

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Speaker 2: have another I guess don't okay, because we're going to

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Speaker 2: get to this with our next guest next hour, however,

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Speaker 2: and like I'm probably going to butcher his name, but

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Speaker 2: the Tennessee quarterback University of Tennessee, Nico Yamalavava. I know,

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Speaker 2: adding in there, I am Ala, I am Aliyaba. Thank you,

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Speaker 2: Technical producer, Chris Perfect.

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Speaker 1: I might have gotten the first part a little bit

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Speaker 1: wrong there, but it is.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I am Aliaba wanted a new deal quote unquote,

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00:38:57,360 --> 00:38:59,799
Speaker 2: and so I'm like, don't get too ahead of yourself here.

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Speaker 2: I you know, it's the nil era. I know it's

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Speaker 2: an era that we haven't seen before in college sports,

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00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:06,680
Speaker 2: but we have to. It can't just be the Wild

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00:39:06,680 --> 00:39:08,399
Speaker 2: West anymore. And you can't just be like, oh, I'm

806
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Speaker 2: going to hold out till I get a new deal.

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00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:11,520
Speaker 2: If you're gonna hold out and get a new deal,

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00:39:11,520 --> 00:39:14,239
Speaker 2: guess what you're gonna have the the other consequences that

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00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:16,200
Speaker 2: NFL players can have, which is you can get cut,

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Speaker 2: and that's exactly what Tennessee did. We're going to get

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Speaker 2: into that Michael Junior next hour. But don't get hut

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Speaker 2: of yourself, dude, don't get too full of yourself. I

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Speaker 2: am this is arian. This is a very interesting scenario,

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Speaker 2: and I'm very excited to unpack it.

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Speaker 4: It's a professional league now, and we're going to get

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Speaker 4: to this a little bit more later flesh it out.

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Speaker 4: But I'm gonna say, let's just say you're forty years old,

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Speaker 4: you're in the best shape of your life, or you

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Speaker 4: continue to be in the best shape of your life.

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Speaker 4: You're one of the best NBA players of all time,

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Speaker 4: and you look good without your shirt off. I'm gonna say,

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Speaker 4: don't listen to the haters. Don't put that shirt on when.

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Speaker 2: You're warming That sounds weird.

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Speaker 4: Ron James, don't listen to Isaiah Thomas if you need

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Speaker 4: to warm up without your shirt on in an emptycrypto

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Speaker 4: dot com Marena, you do you so do? You? Don't

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Speaker 4: listen to the doubters.

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Speaker 2: All right, y'all, we have a great next hour coming up.

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Speaker 2: So please stick around, don't go anywhere. This is Fox

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Speaker 2: Sports Saturday. Welcome back in to hour two of Fox

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Speaker 2: Sports Radio. I'm common Vitally in for Alex Curry, who

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Speaker 2: is out today is I'm in the host chair and

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Speaker 2: next to me in studio, Nikki Kay, how are you?

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Speaker 4: I couldn't be better having about to be here. I'm

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Speaker 4: having the best time. Great no better way to spend

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Speaker 4: such an exciting weekend. We got the NBA playoff race,

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Speaker 4: the hockey playoff race. We've got the Masters on.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we got a hockey update for Martin Weiss right

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Speaker 2: that we never get to talk about hockey. I would

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Speaker 2: love to talk more about hockey, but nobody I feel

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Speaker 2: So that's why tuer jam hockey people. Sure, jam, it

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Speaker 2: Coming up this hour, we have Mike Gullick Junior, who's

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Speaker 2: If you're with us. Last hour, I talked about how

868
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:09,719
Speaker 2: that read in particular is going to give me an

869
00:42:09,800 --> 00:42:11,440
Speaker 2: FCC violation before the event.

870
00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:13,960
Speaker 4: Literally, you know, say it five times to ast.

871
00:42:14,560 --> 00:42:14,680
Speaker 1: Uh.

872
00:42:15,480 --> 00:42:16,520
Speaker 4: I can't believe I made it through.

873
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Speaker 2: Did you did?

874
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Speaker 4: You did a fantasticbulations.

875
00:42:19,040 --> 00:42:20,120
Speaker 2: It did a fantastic job.

876
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Speaker 1: Yeah.

877
00:42:20,400 --> 00:42:22,200
Speaker 2: You never You never really realized what goes into this

878
00:42:22,280 --> 00:42:24,600
Speaker 2: until you're in the host chair and you're like, okay,

879
00:42:24,880 --> 00:42:27,759
Speaker 2: all right, I gotta do these reheats, all right, I

880
00:42:27,800 --> 00:42:30,239
Speaker 2: want to get to for everything that's going on right now.

881
00:42:31,800 --> 00:42:35,080
Speaker 2: The NFL said, all right, like count us in more

882
00:42:35,120 --> 00:42:37,880
Speaker 2: importantly or more specifically Derek Carr. So that count me

883
00:42:37,920 --> 00:42:41,160
Speaker 2: in because Derek Carr, now apparently quarterback of the New

884
00:42:41,200 --> 00:42:44,160
Speaker 2: Orleans Saints, is dealing with a shoulder injury that casts

885
00:42:44,280 --> 00:42:48,279
Speaker 2: doubt on his availability for the twenty twenty five season. Now,

886
00:42:48,280 --> 00:42:50,319
Speaker 2: if you'll recall, his twenty twenty four season was cut

887
00:42:50,360 --> 00:42:53,919
Speaker 2: short with injury. Also, I don't understand how you pop

888
00:42:54,040 --> 00:42:55,840
Speaker 2: up with a shoulder injury at this point of the

889
00:42:55,880 --> 00:42:58,120
Speaker 2: off season when you're not even on the field with

890
00:42:58,239 --> 00:43:01,640
Speaker 2: the coaches and going through pres This is both sides

891
00:43:01,680 --> 00:43:05,040
Speaker 2: are apparently mulling surgery quote unquote, this is all reported

892
00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:08,240
Speaker 2: by the you know, the usual suspects, the insiders, Ian Rappaport,

893
00:43:08,280 --> 00:43:11,040
Speaker 2: Adam Schefter, Diana Rossini, and in fact, Diana Rossini said

894
00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:13,399
Speaker 2: that there's a lot of people around the league, as

895
00:43:13,480 --> 00:43:17,400
Speaker 2: myself as well as myself wondering if there's more to

896
00:43:17,480 --> 00:43:18,040
Speaker 2: this story?

897
00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:21,000
Speaker 4: Right, And that was my first reaction to the story

898
00:43:21,040 --> 00:43:25,680
Speaker 4: was how peculiar the timing of a news drop like this, right,

899
00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:30,080
Speaker 4: because I don't I would be a fool to think

900
00:43:30,120 --> 00:43:32,800
Speaker 4: that Derek Carr's going through motions that would all of

901
00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:36,319
Speaker 4: a sudden aggravate or put it, you know, put up

902
00:43:36,520 --> 00:43:37,840
Speaker 4: for question.

903
00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:39,560
Speaker 3: The need for a surgery like this.

904
00:43:39,640 --> 00:43:40,880
Speaker 4: So why, why now.

905
00:43:41,080 --> 00:43:43,560
Speaker 2: Why now? Where did it come from? How in the

906
00:43:43,600 --> 00:43:46,920
Speaker 2: world did you not know about this prior? You can't

907
00:43:46,960 --> 00:43:49,120
Speaker 2: like these Saints don't have an out in Derek Carr's contract.

908
00:43:49,120 --> 00:43:50,719
Speaker 2: They pushed a bunch of money down the line so

909
00:43:50,760 --> 00:43:54,840
Speaker 2: that his dead cap this year is absolutely unsustainable, especially

910
00:43:54,840 --> 00:43:57,279
Speaker 2: if you're the New Orleans Saints, who are just perpetually

911
00:43:57,320 --> 00:44:01,279
Speaker 2: in cap hell every single year. This would But now,

912
00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:04,759
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, it's mid April and you may

913
00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:06,880
Speaker 2: need a quarterback. They have Spencer Ratler, which if you

914
00:44:06,920 --> 00:44:10,120
Speaker 2: believe in, if you're very online termally online like I am.

915
00:44:10,800 --> 00:44:13,480
Speaker 2: There was some talk about the agenda where there was

916
00:44:13,719 --> 00:44:16,640
Speaker 2: a contingent of Saints fans that wanted Spencer Ratler to

917
00:44:16,640 --> 00:44:19,040
Speaker 2: start over Derek Carr. He might have the chance to

918
00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:22,319
Speaker 2: now just because Derek Carr may not be available after all.

919
00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:26,040
Speaker 2: It completely kind of changes the landscape of then how

920
00:44:26,080 --> 00:44:28,200
Speaker 2: we look at the first round of the draft, because

921
00:44:28,520 --> 00:44:31,640
Speaker 2: the Saints have a top ten pick. But if you're

922
00:44:31,640 --> 00:44:33,560
Speaker 2: talking about, like if you assume cam Ward goes to

923
00:44:33,600 --> 00:44:36,759
Speaker 2: the Tennessee Titans, then you have Shadura Sanders, who has

924
00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:39,520
Speaker 2: your quarterback two pretty much, or I mean you could

925
00:44:39,600 --> 00:44:43,759
Speaker 2: argue for Jackson Dart I suppose, but quarterback two is

926
00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:47,440
Speaker 2: kind of widely accepted to be Shadura Sanders. He has

927
00:44:47,520 --> 00:44:50,440
Speaker 2: to clear now multiple teams that could possibly need a

928
00:44:50,480 --> 00:44:53,040
Speaker 2: quarterback on his way down to nine. And if that's

929
00:44:53,120 --> 00:44:55,879
Speaker 2: the case, and now you're set, if you're New Orleans

930
00:44:55,960 --> 00:44:57,920
Speaker 2: on drafting Shadore, now you have to talk about a

931
00:44:57,960 --> 00:45:01,520
Speaker 2: trade up, right, So that's it changes the entire landscape

932
00:45:01,560 --> 00:45:02,680
Speaker 2: now of the first round.

933
00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:05,719
Speaker 4: It's fascinating, truly. I know you mentioned New Orleans has

934
00:45:05,800 --> 00:45:08,719
Speaker 4: a top ten pick and top ten being there ninth, right,

935
00:45:09,000 --> 00:45:11,440
Speaker 4: not that right. There is a lot of things that

936
00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:14,560
Speaker 4: would have to go their way for Schaudur to ultimately

937
00:45:14,600 --> 00:45:19,120
Speaker 4: fall to ninth. So I would expect them to be aggressive.

938
00:45:19,600 --> 00:45:22,600
Speaker 2: They haven't drafted a quarterback in the first round. The

939
00:45:22,640 --> 00:45:26,080
Speaker 2: Saints have not in fifty four years. Wow, they haven't

940
00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:28,360
Speaker 2: done because if I think a lot of people, like

941
00:45:28,400 --> 00:45:29,960
Speaker 2: if you, if you think back to the whole Drew

942
00:45:30,000 --> 00:45:32,480
Speaker 2: Brees thing, like, they didn't draft Drew Brees. They traded

943
00:45:32,520 --> 00:45:34,440
Speaker 2: for him. So for as good of a quarterback as

944
00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:36,720
Speaker 2: he ended up being for them, they did not draft

945
00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:41,120
Speaker 2: Drew Brees. So it's it's it changes everything when it

946
00:45:41,160 --> 00:45:44,520
Speaker 2: comes to talking about even like the top five picks,

947
00:45:44,719 --> 00:45:48,440
Speaker 2: and yeah, staying at nine, even though I don't think

948
00:45:48,480 --> 00:45:51,399
Speaker 2: any of us, I guess if you're signing value, think

949
00:45:51,400 --> 00:45:53,600
Speaker 2: of Shaudar Sanders as a top ten pick. We know

950
00:45:53,680 --> 00:45:56,520
Speaker 2: quarterbacks rise based on need, and now there are multiple

951
00:45:56,520 --> 00:45:58,920
Speaker 2: teams in the top ten before that number nine pick

952
00:45:58,920 --> 00:46:00,960
Speaker 2: that the Saints have that could need a quarterback or

953
00:46:00,960 --> 00:46:03,720
Speaker 2: could take a quarterback, and you have to get creative

954
00:46:03,719 --> 00:46:04,600
Speaker 2: if you're the New Roland Saints.

955
00:46:04,600 --> 00:46:07,800
Speaker 4: At this point that being said, I was going to

956
00:46:07,880 --> 00:46:11,600
Speaker 4: run you through a little drill here. Oh and I

957
00:46:11,640 --> 00:46:14,840
Speaker 4: was gonna say, let's do for kicks and giggles a

958
00:46:15,280 --> 00:46:19,959
Speaker 4: fun little moment. Yeah, I'm learning quickly. I maybe late

959
00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:24,200
Speaker 4: to the ship station, but I bought that one. Hey,

960
00:46:24,480 --> 00:46:26,680
Speaker 4: so I was I was saying it'd be fun to

961
00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:29,200
Speaker 4: go through, you know, a top five mock draft.

962
00:46:29,680 --> 00:46:33,080
Speaker 2: It is the season. I've already done a bunch of mocks.

963
00:46:33,080 --> 00:46:36,279
Speaker 4: I'm gonna make you, Carmen, the GM of each of

964
00:46:36,320 --> 00:46:38,520
Speaker 4: these teams, and I'm going to put you on the clock.

965
00:46:38,880 --> 00:46:41,200
Speaker 3: And you can even tell me if you think there's.

966
00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:44,040
Speaker 4: Gonna be a movement. And you know, hey, maybe instead

967
00:46:44,080 --> 00:46:47,000
Speaker 4: of the Pats, that four were getting the Saints. But

968
00:46:47,280 --> 00:46:54,280
Speaker 4: let's let's proceed forward on the beats. All right, Welcome

969
00:46:54,320 --> 00:46:58,360
Speaker 4: to the twenty twenty five Fox Sports Radio mock Draft.

970
00:46:59,080 --> 00:47:02,719
Speaker 4: Carmen Vitally with the number one overall pick. The Tennessee

971
00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:03,920
Speaker 4: Titans are on.

972
00:47:03,800 --> 00:47:06,840
Speaker 2: The clock, and they should not need this full time

973
00:47:06,920 --> 00:47:09,960
Speaker 2: to arrive at the conclusion that they're taking quarterback cam

974
00:47:10,000 --> 00:47:13,400
Speaker 2: Ward from Miami. This is kind of a foregone conclusion.

975
00:47:13,640 --> 00:47:16,439
Speaker 2: Tennessee needs the quarterback. For as much smoke as there's

976
00:47:16,480 --> 00:47:18,440
Speaker 2: been of like, oh well, maybe they'll trade down, they

977
00:47:18,440 --> 00:47:19,919
Speaker 2: just want to drive the price up of the first

978
00:47:19,920 --> 00:47:23,560
Speaker 2: overall pick. You don't have any other contingency plan, and

979
00:47:23,640 --> 00:47:26,560
Speaker 2: I truly do believe that even if you know you

980
00:47:26,680 --> 00:47:29,640
Speaker 2: had a better quarterback class, cam Ward is still going

981
00:47:29,640 --> 00:47:29,840
Speaker 2: to be a.

982
00:47:29,880 --> 00:47:30,560
Speaker 4: Great line over.

983
00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:34,120
Speaker 2: Yes, Okay, so cam Ward quarterback.

984
00:47:33,760 --> 00:47:39,160
Speaker 4: Sign steal delivered and with number two, the Cleveland Browns

985
00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:43,960
Speaker 4: are selecting Travis Hunter. Travis Hunter, do you quarterback.

986
00:47:43,560 --> 00:47:46,920
Speaker 2: Slash wide receiver out of the University of Colorado? Do

987
00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:48,160
Speaker 2: I think he's.

988
00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:49,800
Speaker 3: Going to be playing both ways in the NFL?

989
00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:52,000
Speaker 2: So I think it's interesting because I don't know how

990
00:47:52,080 --> 00:47:53,680
Speaker 2: to staate like there's a reason we haven't seen that

991
00:47:53,920 --> 00:47:56,239
Speaker 2: and like in a long time, right, and you think

992
00:47:56,280 --> 00:47:59,160
Speaker 2: of the era where this was, this did happen when

993
00:47:59,160 --> 00:48:04,120
Speaker 2: you talk about like the NFL wasn't what it is

994
00:48:04,200 --> 00:48:06,839
Speaker 2: now as far as the preparation, as far as how

995
00:48:06,840 --> 00:48:09,719
Speaker 2: many prices signs. I do realize that they don't do

996
00:48:09,760 --> 00:48:14,440
Speaker 2: two a days anymore in training camp. But if you

997
00:48:14,440 --> 00:48:16,799
Speaker 2: think about the season itself and just how kind of

998
00:48:16,840 --> 00:48:20,239
Speaker 2: regimented everything is between the meetings and all of that,

999
00:48:20,760 --> 00:48:24,040
Speaker 2: it's not just the stamina that Travis Hunter would need

1000
00:48:24,040 --> 00:48:26,880
Speaker 2: to play both ways. It's also the mental side of things,

1001
00:48:27,200 --> 00:48:30,040
Speaker 2: because there is a huge jump from the college game

1002
00:48:30,120 --> 00:48:31,960
Speaker 2: to the NFL game. For as similar as they look

1003
00:48:31,960 --> 00:48:36,040
Speaker 2: on paper playing them. Any player will tell you there

1004
00:48:36,080 --> 00:48:38,080
Speaker 2: is a grace period you need, There is a learning

1005
00:48:38,120 --> 00:48:41,200
Speaker 2: curve that you have trying to get used to NFL competition,

1006
00:48:41,440 --> 00:48:43,680
Speaker 2: to the NFL playbook, to the way coaches want you

1007
00:48:43,719 --> 00:48:47,719
Speaker 2: to play. And for that reason, I think it's extremely

1008
00:48:47,760 --> 00:48:51,799
Speaker 2: hard in today's NFL to have a true two way player. Now,

1009
00:48:52,040 --> 00:48:53,960
Speaker 2: does that mean that he won't play on both sides

1010
00:48:53,960 --> 00:48:56,120
Speaker 2: of the ball. I don't think so. I think that

1011
00:48:56,120 --> 00:48:57,440
Speaker 2: would be just.

1012
00:48:57,440 --> 00:49:01,320
Speaker 4: Maybe immediately right, let him get his under him. Welcome

1013
00:49:01,360 --> 00:49:02,439
Speaker 4: to the league, young man.

1014
00:49:02,600 --> 00:49:05,560
Speaker 2: You know, I think that the fact that he plays

1015
00:49:05,600 --> 00:49:07,799
Speaker 2: mirroring positions, and I've talked about this before, where he

1016
00:49:07,880 --> 00:49:10,719
Speaker 2: plays wide receiver and cornerback, which mirror each other on

1017
00:49:10,760 --> 00:49:14,359
Speaker 2: the field. Playing each of those makes him better at

1018
00:49:14,360 --> 00:49:16,520
Speaker 2: the other one. So being a corner and makes him

1019
00:49:16,520 --> 00:49:18,680
Speaker 2: a better wide receiver. Being a wide receiver makes him

1020
00:49:18,680 --> 00:49:21,439
Speaker 2: a better corner. And I do think that whatever team

1021
00:49:21,480 --> 00:49:24,640
Speaker 2: gets him is going to use him primarily as a corner,

1022
00:49:25,080 --> 00:49:28,520
Speaker 2: but have packages for him on offense because that is

1023
00:49:28,600 --> 00:49:29,560
Speaker 2: such a fun.

1024
00:49:29,680 --> 00:49:31,040
Speaker 4: It's so it's so awesome.

1025
00:49:31,040 --> 00:49:34,120
Speaker 2: It's it's a cheat code that no one else has, right,

1026
00:49:34,200 --> 00:49:36,760
Speaker 2: And so I do think that like, and then because

1027
00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:39,279
Speaker 2: of that experience, I think that he can be and

1028
00:49:39,320 --> 00:49:41,880
Speaker 2: I know Mena Kimes have said this before too, he

1029
00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:45,840
Speaker 2: can be a Pro Bowl caliber All Pro corner within

1030
00:49:45,920 --> 00:49:47,759
Speaker 2: his first couple of years of the league because he

1031
00:49:47,800 --> 00:49:51,360
Speaker 2: has that experience. So I think as soon as you possibly,

1032
00:49:51,360 --> 00:49:53,160
Speaker 2: like any team possibly can That's why I think he's

1033
00:49:53,160 --> 00:49:55,520
Speaker 2: gonna go second. Like, do the Cleveland Browns need a

1034
00:49:55,520 --> 00:49:56,919
Speaker 2: corner yees shirt? Do they need a receiver?

1035
00:49:57,040 --> 00:49:57,200
Speaker 6: Yes?

1036
00:49:57,239 --> 00:50:00,880
Speaker 2: Shirt? Do they need other things? Absolutely, you cannot pass

1037
00:50:01,160 --> 00:50:02,560
Speaker 2: on a player like.

1038
00:50:02,520 --> 00:50:05,080
Speaker 4: Jobshah one of one. All right, love that the pick

1039
00:50:05,160 --> 00:50:07,520
Speaker 4: is in. Okay, number three, the New York Giants are

1040
00:50:07,560 --> 00:50:08,200
Speaker 4: on the clock.

1041
00:50:08,320 --> 00:50:10,359
Speaker 2: We heard from Madeline Burke, who is the Giants team

1042
00:50:10,400 --> 00:50:13,200
Speaker 2: reporter last hour, and she said, for as much as

1043
00:50:13,239 --> 00:50:16,080
Speaker 2: the moves that they made getting Jameis Winston Russell Wilson

1044
00:50:16,080 --> 00:50:18,360
Speaker 2: doesn't preclude them from maybe taking a quarterback at this

1045
00:50:18,800 --> 00:50:21,279
Speaker 2: a number three overall, she does think there's a lot

1046
00:50:21,320 --> 00:50:24,600
Speaker 2: to be said for the defense, and their owner John

1047
00:50:24,600 --> 00:50:26,960
Speaker 2: Mara said, yeah, defense was not what we wanted it

1048
00:50:26,960 --> 00:50:30,200
Speaker 2: to be last year. I am going with Abdul Carter

1049
00:50:30,400 --> 00:50:33,600
Speaker 2: Penn State Dresher, he is I think the best player

1050
00:50:33,760 --> 00:50:37,040
Speaker 2: in this draft, which again doesn't mean that he goes

1051
00:50:37,080 --> 00:50:39,000
Speaker 2: first overall. We know that because of need and all

1052
00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:41,600
Speaker 2: of that other stuff. But like I think Abdul Carter

1053
00:50:41,760 --> 00:50:45,200
Speaker 2: is an incredible player and he's ready now.

1054
00:50:44,960 --> 00:50:48,120
Speaker 4: So far, the Saints are looking okay, okay, all right,

1055
00:50:48,200 --> 00:50:51,040
Speaker 4: So with the fourth overall pick, the New England Patriots.

1056
00:50:51,080 --> 00:50:52,759
Speaker 4: They've got their quarterback.

1057
00:50:52,400 --> 00:50:54,520
Speaker 2: They do. And I love Drake May. I've loved Drake May.

1058
00:50:54,800 --> 00:50:57,040
Speaker 2: He was one of my draft rushers last year. But

1059
00:50:57,760 --> 00:51:00,120
Speaker 2: here's where I think things could get a little tricky,

1060
00:51:00,200 --> 00:51:02,200
Speaker 2: where like maybe the Saints want to jump the Jets,

1061
00:51:02,320 --> 00:51:04,120
Speaker 2: for instance, like outside of the top five, but like

1062
00:51:04,200 --> 00:51:06,239
Speaker 2: to get into the top five to get shudder. I

1063
00:51:06,280 --> 00:51:09,080
Speaker 2: think that the Patriots, given all the holes that they have,

1064
00:51:09,520 --> 00:51:11,480
Speaker 2: are one of those teams that you could potentially see

1065
00:51:11,480 --> 00:51:14,200
Speaker 2: trading out. However, I did not have them trading out.

1066
00:51:14,320 --> 00:51:17,600
Speaker 2: I just had them taking defensive tackle Mason Graham auto Christ.

1067
00:51:18,160 --> 00:51:20,840
Speaker 4: They could be a potential, you know, willing partner to

1068
00:51:20,960 --> 00:51:23,080
Speaker 4: dance with the Saints to rest.

1069
00:51:23,200 --> 00:51:26,040
Speaker 2: But I just I mean, I do think that Mason

1070
00:51:26,040 --> 00:51:28,520
Speaker 2: Graham best defensive tackle in this class out of Michigan.

1071
00:51:29,400 --> 00:51:31,920
Speaker 2: I think he's a phenomenal player. That Michigan defense in

1072
00:51:31,960 --> 00:51:34,640
Speaker 2: general great great, Like there's a bunch of guys coming

1073
00:51:34,640 --> 00:51:36,640
Speaker 2: out of Michigan this year on the defensive side and

1074
00:51:36,680 --> 00:51:38,560
Speaker 2: on the defensive line in particular, that are going to

1075
00:51:38,600 --> 00:51:41,440
Speaker 2: be great players. Mason Graham, don't overthink it. He's going

1076
00:51:41,520 --> 00:51:43,720
Speaker 2: to be a staple for that or for whatever organization

1077
00:51:43,719 --> 00:51:44,160
Speaker 2: he goes.

1078
00:51:44,040 --> 00:51:46,160
Speaker 4: To perfect And for the fifth and final pick of

1079
00:51:46,239 --> 00:51:51,040
Speaker 4: our mock draft, the Jacksonville Jaguars are on the clock.

1080
00:51:51,480 --> 00:51:55,239
Speaker 2: So again you have Trevor Lawrence. For good, for better,

1081
00:51:55,320 --> 00:51:59,319
Speaker 2: or for worse. You made that arrangement. He still needs

1082
00:51:59,320 --> 00:52:02,320
Speaker 2: more protection. I feel like that offensive line needs a

1083
00:52:02,360 --> 00:52:05,319
Speaker 2: lot of work, and this is not as good of

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00:52:05,320 --> 00:52:07,279
Speaker 2: an offensive line class I think as people want it

1085
00:52:07,320 --> 00:52:09,359
Speaker 2: to be. A lot of the guys are very raw

1086
00:52:09,680 --> 00:52:12,240
Speaker 2: and it's pretty top heavy when it comes to those prospects.

1087
00:52:12,280 --> 00:52:14,320
Speaker 2: So like, if you need an offensive lineman, you're gonna

1088
00:52:14,320 --> 00:52:16,799
Speaker 2: have to spend a premium pick on getting him. A

1089
00:52:16,840 --> 00:52:20,560
Speaker 2: guy I really like out of Missouri armand Membao. He

1090
00:52:20,960 --> 00:52:24,000
Speaker 2: is offensive tackle. I think he's a true tackle. He's

1091
00:52:24,040 --> 00:52:26,239
Speaker 2: going to be an excellent player. He's still a little

1092
00:52:26,320 --> 00:52:28,600
Speaker 2: rough around the edge, is still a little raw. He

1093
00:52:28,719 --> 00:52:31,760
Speaker 2: needs developing, and that's where this new staff with Liam

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00:52:31,800 --> 00:52:34,719
Speaker 2: Cohen in Tampa is going to have to step up

1095
00:52:34,840 --> 00:52:38,759
Speaker 2: and develop him. But I think that going offensive line

1096
00:52:38,880 --> 00:52:40,680
Speaker 2: like you can't go wrong when you're trying to rebuild

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00:52:40,680 --> 00:52:44,080
Speaker 2: a franchise or retool a franchise, I guess in the

1098
00:52:44,480 --> 00:52:47,200
Speaker 2: Jaguars case, by going through the trenches.

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Speaker 4: So am Vitally. I just learned more from you than

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00:52:50,719 --> 00:52:56,360
Speaker 4: I have any of my reading. So I'm termally online.

1101
00:52:56,520 --> 00:52:58,960
Speaker 2: I talk to a lot of people. All of my

1102
00:52:59,480 --> 00:53:01,840
Speaker 2: all of my opinions on things are usually vetted by

1103
00:53:01,920 --> 00:53:06,359
Speaker 2: somebody that has direct knowledge of that situation. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: I can't wait.

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Speaker 4: It's also just around the corner, Holy smokes twenty six

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00:53:10,840 --> 00:53:12,920
Speaker 4: a lot of weeks, a couple weenty fourth period.

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Speaker 2: Sorry, Okay, all right, y'all, we are going to take

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Speaker 2: a break. Coming up next, we're going to talk about

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Speaker 2: a little bit more Lakers, a little bit more Major

1110
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Speaker 2: League Baseball. Stay right there, you're listening to Fox Sports Radio.

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00:53:25,719 --> 00:53:30,840
Speaker 2: Welcome back into Fox Sports Saturday. I'm Carmen Vitally in

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00:53:30,960 --> 00:53:34,359
Speaker 2: for Alex Curry. We're vibing. I've got little Nikki Kay

1113
00:53:34,400 --> 00:53:36,919
Speaker 2: with me. That'sday filling in.

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00:53:37,200 --> 00:53:38,719
Speaker 3: Thrilled to be here, thrilled to join you.

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Speaker 4: Remember for the best pregame show every weekend, be sure

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Speaker 4: Eastern six to nine Pacific. We will count you down

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00:53:53,560 --> 00:53:57,000
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Speaker 4: on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app So Karvin.

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00:54:07,200 --> 00:54:09,319
Speaker 4: Last night, I was at the Los Angeles Lakers game

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00:54:09,440 --> 00:54:13,279
Speaker 4: as they were taking on the Houston Rockets battle. If

1124
00:54:13,320 --> 00:54:16,200
Speaker 4: the Lakers won, they got the three seed, which they did,

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00:54:16,320 --> 00:54:19,239
Speaker 4: all was fine and dandy. I was there covering the

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00:54:19,239 --> 00:54:21,719
Speaker 4: game with my coworker, Timothy Parker, and we were there

1127
00:54:21,840 --> 00:54:26,440
Speaker 4: extraordinarily early because that was when our live hit for

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00:54:26,760 --> 00:54:31,640
Speaker 4: the TV broadcast was and that is also when Lebron

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00:54:31,719 --> 00:54:34,080
Speaker 4: James happens to be warming up. Right, it's a seven

1130
00:54:34,239 --> 00:54:36,719
Speaker 4: thirty tip. This man is in a full lather and

1131
00:54:36,719 --> 00:54:40,600
Speaker 4: sweat working out at four pm. Right, Love it, right,

1132
00:54:40,680 --> 00:54:44,040
Speaker 4: love it. My friend Timothy, he said, I tried to

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00:54:44,080 --> 00:54:46,279
Speaker 4: get in here to get Lebron's walk in see the

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Speaker 4: pregame fit. Even he was.

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00:54:48,239 --> 00:54:50,520
Speaker 2: Too, I would say he's one of the guys that's there,

1136
00:54:50,560 --> 00:54:53,560
Speaker 2: like early, early and getting himself yeah, ready to go.

1137
00:54:53,800 --> 00:54:54,040
Speaker 2: All that.

1138
00:54:54,160 --> 00:54:58,000
Speaker 4: To mention Lebron is working out without a shirt on,

1139
00:54:58,760 --> 00:55:01,279
Speaker 4: I didn't think anything of it because, mind you, there

1140
00:55:01,400 --> 00:55:04,640
Speaker 4: is no one else in the arena besides Timothy, myself

1141
00:55:04,719 --> 00:55:08,399
Speaker 4: or photographer and Lebron's you know, the guy's helping him,

1142
00:55:08,440 --> 00:55:12,000
Speaker 4: you know, yeah, coach, exactly like the milk. No one

1143
00:55:12,040 --> 00:55:15,120
Speaker 4: else is in there. Didn't think anything of it. Lebron,

1144
00:55:15,440 --> 00:55:17,440
Speaker 4: you know, goes through his warm up, finishes with this

1145
00:55:17,520 --> 00:55:21,600
Speaker 4: half court shots, free throws. Bye. It wasn't a thing

1146
00:55:21,920 --> 00:55:24,400
Speaker 4: until it became a thing when Isaiah Thomas, who was

1147
00:55:24,400 --> 00:55:29,000
Speaker 4: on the NBA TV broadcast, decided to rip into Lebron

1148
00:55:29,640 --> 00:55:35,200
Speaker 4: for working out without a shirt, saying, what what is

1149
00:55:35,239 --> 00:55:38,040
Speaker 4: this league now? And I'm gonna lay out so you

1150
00:55:38,040 --> 00:55:39,480
Speaker 4: can hear the audio for yourself.

1151
00:55:40,480 --> 00:55:41,880
Speaker 2: Shirts and skins is what they're doing.

1152
00:55:41,760 --> 00:55:42,480
Speaker 7: And everything there.

1153
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Speaker 9: I just totally one hundred percent object to this. And

1154
00:55:47,680 --> 00:55:50,359
Speaker 9: if I was the GM of Code Drew, I would

1155
00:55:50,560 --> 00:55:53,279
Speaker 9: never let one of my players walk out on the

1156
00:55:53,320 --> 00:55:57,520
Speaker 9: floor looking like this. I mean, we are professional, inn

1157
00:55:57,719 --> 00:56:02,920
Speaker 9: be a lead. We ain't summer league at the YMCAs.

1158
00:56:03,040 --> 00:56:05,759
Speaker 9: I think I think coaches gotta go back to suits.

1159
00:56:06,600 --> 00:56:08,880
Speaker 9: Just mean absolutely loutely.

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Speaker 2: Uh okay, Isaiah Thomas, sir, talking talking mess. That sounds weird.

1161
00:56:15,719 --> 00:56:21,080
Speaker 2: Listen being grumpy and being bitter and resentful of the

1162
00:56:21,120 --> 00:56:24,160
Speaker 2: games superstars. That does not sound like him? What's oh?

1163
00:56:24,320 --> 00:56:28,200
Speaker 4: Oh wow? How I'm brand Isaiah? No, the thing was

1164
00:56:28,440 --> 00:56:31,320
Speaker 4: nobody was in the arena and that that man was

1165
00:56:31,320 --> 00:56:33,760
Speaker 4: was doing what he needed to do to get ready pregame,

1166
00:56:34,320 --> 00:56:38,560
Speaker 4: and respectfully, like Lebron's, Lebron's carried this league.

1167
00:56:38,440 --> 00:56:41,200
Speaker 2: For I sound like if I looked like that at forty.

1168
00:56:40,920 --> 00:56:46,560
Speaker 4: One, by all means I I was. I was a

1169
00:56:46,560 --> 00:56:50,000
Speaker 4: little confused that that was the argument he chose to pick.

1170
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Speaker 2: It doesn't make any any sense at all, because like,

1171
00:56:54,160 --> 00:56:55,799
Speaker 2: who does this hurt whatsoever?

1172
00:56:55,920 --> 00:56:56,000
Speaker 4: Like?

1173
00:56:56,160 --> 00:56:58,440
Speaker 2: Right, this is about Lebron getting warmed up in the

1174
00:56:58,440 --> 00:57:01,560
Speaker 2: way that he and like Lebron belongs to the old

1175
00:57:01,600 --> 00:57:04,000
Speaker 2: school train of thoughts. He because he's been in the

1176
00:57:04,040 --> 00:57:04,720
Speaker 2: league since.

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Speaker 4: Here he is he is the greatest start in the game,

1178
00:57:06,840 --> 00:57:09,520
Speaker 4: and he is still full sweat, full workout, not taking

1179
00:57:09,560 --> 00:57:14,080
Speaker 4: the pregame, you know, preparation lightly. This man has invested

1180
00:57:14,160 --> 00:57:18,560
Speaker 4: everything into his preparation and to be hung up on

1181
00:57:18,600 --> 00:57:21,080
Speaker 4: a detail about a shirt when nobody else is in

1182
00:57:21,560 --> 00:57:25,040
Speaker 4: is in the building is wild. I it's funny because

1183
00:57:25,040 --> 00:57:28,360
Speaker 4: it's like I understand the you know, kind of angst

1184
00:57:28,360 --> 00:57:32,400
Speaker 4: that golf fans felt over Jose's upside down hat at

1185
00:57:32,480 --> 00:57:35,760
Speaker 4: the at the Masters. I get that kind of like, hey,

1186
00:57:35,880 --> 00:57:40,640
Speaker 4: let's like dress up for the moment. Yeah, but Lebron James,

1187
00:57:41,240 --> 00:57:43,000
Speaker 4: if you need to warm up without a shirt on

1188
00:57:43,320 --> 00:57:45,560
Speaker 4: in an empty arena by all means.

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Speaker 2: To do so, It's it doesn't make any sense to

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00:57:48,600 --> 00:57:50,800
Speaker 2: me that that, Like I guess in a way it's

1191
00:57:50,800 --> 00:57:52,600
Speaker 2: almost a form of flattery because it's like if this

1192
00:57:52,720 --> 00:57:54,120
Speaker 2: is the only thing you can pick a part about

1193
00:57:54,160 --> 00:57:59,360
Speaker 2: Lebront at this stage of his career, which it is. Uh,

1194
00:57:59,440 --> 00:58:02,480
Speaker 2: And I think Lebron say not too long ago, like

1195
00:58:02,520 --> 00:58:05,480
Speaker 2: how NBA coverage is basically just like the old guard,

1196
00:58:05,640 --> 00:58:09,440
Speaker 2: like making or like talking and hating on like current players.

1197
00:58:09,520 --> 00:58:12,520
Speaker 4: That's one of my biggest gripes with coverage, like the

1198
00:58:13,160 --> 00:58:16,760
Speaker 4: trashing from generation to generation. I mean Lebron even went

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Speaker 4: in and said like that if Yannis played in the seventies,

1200
00:58:19,400 --> 00:58:21,400
Speaker 4: you could score over two hundred. I forget what the

1201
00:58:21,440 --> 00:58:24,600
Speaker 4: exact thing was, but it's like, dude, like the founding

1202
00:58:24,640 --> 00:58:27,280
Speaker 4: fathers established this league, so you could have the platform

1203
00:58:27,280 --> 00:58:29,200
Speaker 4: you have today, So let's not go back and say

1204
00:58:29,240 --> 00:58:30,880
Speaker 4: we could have done this if we were you know.

1205
00:58:31,160 --> 00:58:33,400
Speaker 4: And also from the founding fathers.

1206
00:58:33,560 --> 00:58:36,480
Speaker 3: You're not playing in today's day and age, so it's it's.

1207
00:58:36,360 --> 00:58:38,680
Speaker 2: Kind of a this just doesn't hurt anyone either. And

1208
00:58:38,680 --> 00:58:41,120
Speaker 2: it's so funny too because coming from like I've I've

1209
00:58:41,400 --> 00:58:44,280
Speaker 2: focused and covered the NFL for most of my career

1210
00:58:45,560 --> 00:58:48,520
Speaker 2: and like, guys warm up in all states of undressed

1211
00:58:48,600 --> 00:58:52,320
Speaker 2: to a not empty are like arena by the way,

1212
00:58:52,440 --> 00:58:55,400
Speaker 2: or like our stadium, like all the time, Like there's

1213
00:58:55,720 --> 00:58:57,080
Speaker 2: there's a thing with a bunch of the guys I

1214
00:58:57,160 --> 00:58:59,520
Speaker 2: used to work with in Tampa, the players in Tampa,

1215
00:58:59,600 --> 00:59:03,200
Speaker 2: like Tristanwurf's best left tackle in the league. He has

1216
00:59:03,240 --> 00:59:05,960
Speaker 2: a whole kind of posse crew, and they all go

1217
00:59:06,040 --> 00:59:08,919
Speaker 2: out on the field to do warm ups barefoot. They

1218
00:59:08,960 --> 00:59:12,160
Speaker 2: have no shoes on ground and like you have guys,

1219
00:59:12,200 --> 00:59:15,000
Speaker 2: You've David and Joku in Cleveland, who is warming up

1220
00:59:15,000 --> 00:59:17,560
Speaker 2: without a shirt on in like minus seven degree. Brother, Like,

1221
00:59:18,120 --> 00:59:20,320
Speaker 2: there's this has never been a thing in like any

1222
00:59:20,360 --> 00:59:23,680
Speaker 2: other sport. And I'm also like I don't see basketball

1223
00:59:23,720 --> 00:59:28,000
Speaker 2: as stuffy as golf. Absolutely, absolutely Like golf, golf is

1224
00:59:28,000 --> 00:59:30,360
Speaker 2: one thing where the tradition matters. I get it, there's

1225
00:59:30,400 --> 00:59:32,600
Speaker 2: a very certain way to do things and that has

1226
00:59:32,640 --> 00:59:36,520
Speaker 2: been upheld throughout like every generation. But the NBA is

1227
00:59:36,560 --> 00:59:41,640
Speaker 2: not golf. The NBA is way more closely opposite white,

1228
00:59:41,640 --> 00:59:45,080
Speaker 2: the opposite. I mean, I don't even see like I

1229
00:59:45,120 --> 00:59:46,760
Speaker 2: guess a lot of people aren't in the stadium when

1230
00:59:46,800 --> 00:59:49,360
Speaker 2: you see like baseball players kind of playing catch and

1231
00:59:49,400 --> 00:59:51,240
Speaker 2: doing things in the in the stadium before they do

1232
00:59:51,280 --> 00:59:53,040
Speaker 2: games because they don't have practices either. But like some

1233
00:59:53,080 --> 00:59:54,000
Speaker 2: of those guys, if.

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00:59:53,920 --> 00:59:59,360
Speaker 4: You saw Clayton Kershaw's shirt during BP before games, he's

1235
00:59:59,400 --> 01:00:02,880
Speaker 4: got the rip, Oh yeah, he's got his hat on

1236
01:00:02,920 --> 01:00:06,600
Speaker 4: a skew. He is just looking like the ultimate dad

1237
01:00:06,600 --> 01:00:08,960
Speaker 4: on a mission, just hanging out with the guys.

1238
01:00:09,400 --> 01:00:11,920
Speaker 2: For as traditional as baseball has been, I do feel

1239
01:00:11,920 --> 01:00:15,440
Speaker 2: like baseball is kind of stepping into the moment and

1240
01:00:15,480 --> 01:00:18,200
Speaker 2: trying to kind of up interest around Major League, which

1241
01:00:18,240 --> 01:00:20,080
Speaker 2: is like something else now. I wanted to get.

1242
01:00:19,920 --> 01:00:21,080
Speaker 4: Into razzle dazzle.

1243
01:00:22,520 --> 01:00:26,160
Speaker 2: Baseball is like meeting the moment very very well when

1244
01:00:26,200 --> 01:00:28,160
Speaker 2: it comes to their marketing strategy. When it comes to

1245
01:00:28,200 --> 01:00:30,560
Speaker 2: the changes they've made to the actual game. The pitch

1246
01:00:30,600 --> 01:00:34,040
Speaker 2: clock coming in last year, a couple of years, bigger bases,

1247
01:00:34,240 --> 01:00:36,920
Speaker 2: Like you're trying to bring offense back to all of

1248
01:00:36,960 --> 01:00:39,960
Speaker 2: this and the latest example of this now is the

1249
01:00:40,160 --> 01:00:42,600
Speaker 2: is the torpedo bats. But like at the at the

1250
01:00:42,640 --> 01:00:46,200
Speaker 2: base of all of this is innovation that is having

1251
01:00:46,280 --> 01:00:48,680
Speaker 2: to keep up with each generation and keep up with

1252
01:00:48,760 --> 01:00:52,320
Speaker 2: the times. And I don't think that that's a bad thing,

1253
01:00:52,480 --> 01:00:54,440
Speaker 2: and that across the board.

1254
01:00:54,320 --> 01:00:57,800
Speaker 4: For it's so interesting. For a couple of years there,

1255
01:00:58,040 --> 01:01:00,680
Speaker 4: I think it was like right after the pandemic and

1256
01:01:00,720 --> 01:01:04,080
Speaker 4: it was like this like whole you know conundrum. Can

1257
01:01:04,240 --> 01:01:07,040
Speaker 4: baseball stay relevant? Can it keep up with the NFL

1258
01:01:07,080 --> 01:01:11,560
Speaker 4: and NBA. I think the pitch clock literally and figuratively

1259
01:01:11,600 --> 01:01:14,760
Speaker 4: change the game with interest and excitement for people to

1260
01:01:14,800 --> 01:01:19,720
Speaker 4: be able to casually enjoy a game because there are

1261
01:01:19,800 --> 01:01:23,080
Speaker 4: so many of them. But now you're making things quicker.

1262
01:01:23,520 --> 01:01:26,800
Speaker 4: And yes, you mentioned the torpedo bats, which I'm going

1263
01:01:26,880 --> 01:01:28,800
Speaker 4: to say it right here and now put it on

1264
01:01:28,840 --> 01:01:31,440
Speaker 4: my put it on my tombstone. I like big bats,

1265
01:01:31,520 --> 01:01:32,479
Speaker 4: and I cannot lie.

1266
01:01:34,120 --> 01:01:39,200
Speaker 2: I I'm so tired of like these these pureists and

1267
01:01:39,240 --> 01:01:42,640
Speaker 2: traditionalists all over the place just being like you're ruining

1268
01:01:42,640 --> 01:01:45,720
Speaker 2: the but but but no, you're not. You are making

1269
01:01:45,800 --> 01:01:48,600
Speaker 2: it more exciting so that more people turn in, tune in,

1270
01:01:48,680 --> 01:01:50,560
Speaker 2: so that this game can sustain itself.

1271
01:01:50,600 --> 01:01:53,480
Speaker 3: We want to see dingers, we want dingers.

1272
01:01:52,960 --> 01:01:55,080
Speaker 2: Seekers, and we're not allowed to advocate for the use

1273
01:01:55,120 --> 01:01:56,000
Speaker 2: of steroids anymore.

1274
01:01:56,080 --> 01:01:57,760
Speaker 4: So dang it.

1275
01:01:58,240 --> 01:02:03,400
Speaker 2: Now you've developed an invation that completely legally ups the

1276
01:02:03,480 --> 01:02:06,760
Speaker 2: offense that every team could use if they wanted to.

1277
01:02:06,800 --> 01:02:09,400
Speaker 2: You've made it readily available for every team should they

1278
01:02:09,400 --> 01:02:13,360
Speaker 2: want to. I'm just like all of these conversations going

1279
01:02:13,400 --> 01:02:15,480
Speaker 2: back to Lebron, going back to the Major League Baseball,

1280
01:02:15,520 --> 01:02:18,720
Speaker 2: it's just the old guard not being able to let go.

1281
01:02:19,080 --> 01:02:23,200
Speaker 4: And Okay, like, at the risk of sounding really, I mean,

1282
01:02:23,800 --> 01:02:26,600
Speaker 4: I don't want to sound flippant, but like, how did

1283
01:02:26,640 --> 01:02:29,680
Speaker 4: it take us this long to think of customized bats?

1284
01:02:29,920 --> 01:02:33,400
Speaker 2: It took an mit grad right to just make this

1285
01:02:33,560 --> 01:02:36,919
Speaker 2: team what more material? I got all the place where

1286
01:02:36,960 --> 01:02:38,400
Speaker 2: the ball hits the back, right.

1287
01:02:38,240 --> 01:02:40,200
Speaker 3: I got all in on torpedo bats.

1288
01:02:40,240 --> 01:02:42,560
Speaker 4: You know, basically for those of you who have not

1289
01:02:42,840 --> 01:02:46,440
Speaker 4: understood the science behind it, they have customized where the

1290
01:02:46,520 --> 01:02:51,160
Speaker 4: mass of the bat is in relation to each hitter's swing.

1291
01:02:51,280 --> 01:02:54,680
Speaker 4: And it's like, duh, groundbreaking. We've got customized cleats, We've

1292
01:02:54,720 --> 01:02:55,800
Speaker 4: got customized gear.

1293
01:02:56,400 --> 01:02:59,800
Speaker 2: I just people players already had the choice of bat

1294
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Speaker 2: within regulations obviously, but they had.

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01:03:02,080 --> 01:03:04,640
Speaker 4: Their own kids illuminum, right metal.

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01:03:04,840 --> 01:03:07,520
Speaker 2: I forget what there were rules that they had by,

1297
01:03:07,600 --> 01:03:10,120
Speaker 2: but they were already. Yeah. So I just I think in.

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01:03:10,680 --> 01:03:13,680
Speaker 4: The pitching has gotten so good. So this is just

1299
01:03:13,800 --> 01:03:17,760
Speaker 4: a little arms race moment. Yes, let the batters, Let

1300
01:03:17,800 --> 01:03:20,080
Speaker 4: the batters, you know, go to town.

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01:03:20,600 --> 01:03:21,320
Speaker 2: Let the players.

1302
01:03:21,480 --> 01:03:23,280
Speaker 4: I likes and I cannot lie.

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01:03:23,480 --> 01:03:25,800
Speaker 2: I love that. Let let the players move the game

1304
01:03:25,840 --> 01:03:28,120
Speaker 2: forward and to move the show forward. We're gonna check

1305
01:03:28,120 --> 01:03:28,800
Speaker 2: in with Martin.

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01:03:28,560 --> 01:03:30,160
Speaker 4: Waite in the next transition.

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01:03:32,320 --> 01:03:34,000
Speaker 8: All right, we got a little bit of action going

1308
01:03:34,040 --> 01:03:36,800
Speaker 8: on their masters right now. Rory McElroy had like a

1309
01:03:36,840 --> 01:03:40,640
Speaker 8: three shot lead just a couple holes ago. Now it's

1310
01:03:40,680 --> 01:03:44,040
Speaker 8: down to one. He's nine under, Corey Connors and Bryson

1311
01:03:44,080 --> 01:03:47,120
Speaker 8: de Shamba breathing down his neck at eight under. Rory's

1312
01:03:47,120 --> 01:03:49,800
Speaker 8: three under for the day, they're both he and Corey

1313
01:03:49,840 --> 01:03:52,840
Speaker 8: Connors through twelve holes to Shambos through eleven. There's like

1314
01:03:52,920 --> 01:03:56,040
Speaker 8: five guys tied for fourth at sixth under right now.

1315
01:03:56,360 --> 01:03:58,880
Speaker 8: Most of those guys through at least eleven holes. But

1316
01:03:58,920 --> 01:04:02,320
Speaker 8: again Rory had a restroke lead. Now it's down to

1317
01:04:02,600 --> 01:04:05,360
Speaker 8: just one. In Major League Baseball, top of the seventh

1318
01:04:05,360 --> 01:04:07,760
Speaker 8: in the Yankees doubling up the Giants eight to four.

1319
01:04:07,840 --> 01:04:10,600
Speaker 8: That wins on FS one top of the sixth, Blue

1320
01:04:10,720 --> 01:04:13,440
Speaker 8: Jays three, Orioles two, bottom of the fifth, and in

1321
01:04:13,480 --> 01:04:16,240
Speaker 8: the A's on the board two to nothing against the

1322
01:04:16,280 --> 01:04:19,600
Speaker 8: Mets bottom of the fifth inning, Rays two, Braves nothing

1323
01:04:19,680 --> 01:04:21,880
Speaker 8: and bottom of the fifteen as well the Nationals, I'm

1324
01:04:21,880 --> 01:04:24,960
Speaker 8: sorry the Marlins taking the lead here four to three

1325
01:04:25,360 --> 01:04:26,920
Speaker 8: and at the bottom of the fifth and in the

1326
01:04:26,920 --> 01:04:30,840
Speaker 8: Red Sox two, White Sox nothing. In the NFL, the

1327
01:04:30,920 --> 01:04:34,120
Speaker 8: Hurricanes have a five to three lead over the Rangers

1328
01:04:34,120 --> 01:04:36,880
Speaker 8: with ten to fifteen left in the third period. With

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01:04:37,160 --> 01:04:39,880
Speaker 8: six fifty left in the second period, the Kings lead

1330
01:04:39,920 --> 01:04:41,480
Speaker 8: the Avalanche three to two.

1331
01:04:41,560 --> 01:04:41,880
Speaker 2: Again.

1332
01:04:42,560 --> 01:04:45,840
Speaker 8: At the Masters, Rory McElroy through twelve holes has a

1333
01:04:45,840 --> 01:04:49,440
Speaker 8: one stroke lead at nine under Corey Connors and bryceon

1334
01:04:49,440 --> 01:04:52,920
Speaker 8: DESHAMBA eight under right there on his heels back to

1335
01:04:53,000 --> 01:04:53,720
Speaker 8: you guys.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Martin, appreciate it. We are now going to bring

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01:04:59,040 --> 01:05:01,960
Speaker 2: in a favorite of mind, a favorite of ours. His

1338
01:05:02,040 --> 01:05:03,040
Speaker 2: name is Michael Junior.

1339
01:05:03,760 --> 01:05:07,160
Speaker 3: He says, too late that break.

1340
01:05:07,600 --> 01:05:10,560
Speaker 2: Oh, we're starting with a Taylor Swift, early noted swifty

1341
01:05:10,760 --> 01:05:15,080
Speaker 2: and sports commentator Mike Golic junior food connoisseur. Should I say,

1342
01:05:15,120 --> 01:05:16,040
Speaker 2: I don't know what else do you want me to

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01:05:16,040 --> 01:05:16,880
Speaker 2: add to your title? Mike?

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01:05:18,240 --> 01:05:21,000
Speaker 7: These at work. Between Taylor Swift songs and that kind

1345
01:05:21,080 --> 01:05:23,560
Speaker 7: introduction here, We're off to a roaring start here. Can't

1346
01:05:23,560 --> 01:05:23,920
Speaker 7: believe it.

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01:05:24,160 --> 01:05:28,120
Speaker 2: I'm phenomenal. Thank you so much for joining us. I

1348
01:05:28,320 --> 01:05:31,360
Speaker 2: want to first talk. I was going we were gonna

1349
01:05:31,360 --> 01:05:35,000
Speaker 2: get right into NBA playoffs, but uh, Nico, I am

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01:05:36,000 --> 01:05:38,360
Speaker 2: I am ala liva Liaba, I am aliaba.

1351
01:05:38,600 --> 01:05:40,520
Speaker 4: There it is just a couple more vowels in there.

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01:05:40,600 --> 01:05:40,760
Speaker 1: I know.

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01:05:40,760 --> 01:05:44,160
Speaker 2: There's so many bells, tennessee this whole thing, Mike, You

1354
01:05:44,200 --> 01:05:46,200
Speaker 2: and I have talked about the nil stuff. We've talked

1355
01:05:46,200 --> 01:05:47,920
Speaker 2: about kind of this new age, the wild West of

1356
01:05:48,000 --> 01:05:51,320
Speaker 2: college football. Nico says, Hey, I want a new deal.

1357
01:05:51,400 --> 01:05:54,000
Speaker 2: I'm not playing until I get it. And then Tennessee

1358
01:05:54,000 --> 01:05:58,080
Speaker 2: goes huh fine bye. What are the ramifications of all

1359
01:05:58,120 --> 01:05:59,080
Speaker 2: of this? What are your thoughts?

1360
01:06:00,480 --> 01:06:02,760
Speaker 7: I think this is the first right Like for a

1361
01:06:02,800 --> 01:06:05,160
Speaker 7: lot of us that cover college sports and the NFL,

1362
01:06:05,600 --> 01:06:09,160
Speaker 7: that sounds familiar what you just described right offseason hold

1363
01:06:09,200 --> 01:06:12,000
Speaker 7: out with star player and team that ends with them

1364
01:06:12,040 --> 01:06:14,200
Speaker 7: not reaching a deal and so the team decides to

1365
01:06:14,280 --> 01:06:16,840
Speaker 7: release player. We see that all the time in the NFL.

1366
01:06:16,880 --> 01:06:20,120
Speaker 7: With college the difference is, on many friends one, we

1367
01:06:20,200 --> 01:06:23,280
Speaker 7: haven't actually had holdouts before in college. This is still

1368
01:06:23,320 --> 01:06:25,360
Speaker 7: part of the new age and the changes in the sport.

1369
01:06:25,680 --> 01:06:28,600
Speaker 7: Obviously with college football, one of the big differences is

1370
01:06:29,080 --> 01:06:31,720
Speaker 7: there aren't long term contract structures like we have in

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01:06:31,720 --> 01:06:34,360
Speaker 7: the NFL, and so you can have some version of

1372
01:06:34,400 --> 01:06:37,600
Speaker 7: free agency every year and that cuts both ways. Right

1373
01:06:37,600 --> 01:06:40,360
Speaker 7: for Nico Yamliaba, if I'm a quarterback who sees a

1374
01:06:40,400 --> 01:06:43,240
Speaker 7: bunch of other big quarterback deals going out this offseason,

1375
01:06:43,520 --> 01:06:46,080
Speaker 7: maybe feels like relative for a starter that helped his

1376
01:06:46,160 --> 01:06:50,160
Speaker 7: team to go into playoff contention last year, I'm underpaid.

1377
01:06:50,360 --> 01:06:51,800
Speaker 7: You go in and you kick your feed up and

1378
01:06:51,800 --> 01:06:53,040
Speaker 7: you ask for money, and you think it's going to

1379
01:06:53,080 --> 01:06:55,120
Speaker 7: be all great, But on the other side for Tennessee,

1380
01:06:55,160 --> 01:06:58,120
Speaker 7: we're getting to this point now where the scouting departments

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01:06:58,120 --> 01:07:01,240
Speaker 7: for college teams have what essentially in the NFL would

1382
01:07:01,240 --> 01:07:04,040
Speaker 7: have been a college scouting department aka their high school

1383
01:07:04,080 --> 01:07:06,920
Speaker 7: recruiting scouting, and then a pro scouting department where you're

1384
01:07:06,920 --> 01:07:09,920
Speaker 7: in charge of scouting the other teams. And so, Yes,

1385
01:07:10,160 --> 01:07:12,400
Speaker 7: Niko and all these quarterbacks, it can be free agency

1386
01:07:12,440 --> 01:07:15,320
Speaker 7: for them every year. But Tennessee also has access to

1387
01:07:15,400 --> 01:07:17,400
Speaker 7: a lot of other quarterbacks in the portal every year

1388
01:07:17,400 --> 01:07:20,080
Speaker 7: because of that. So if they decide, hey, we believe

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01:07:20,200 --> 01:07:22,440
Speaker 7: our quarterback that we know and see every day and

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01:07:22,520 --> 01:07:25,320
Speaker 7: practicing in these games is worth X amount of money

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01:07:25,440 --> 01:07:27,800
Speaker 7: and we're not willing to go over that, They've got

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01:07:27,800 --> 01:07:30,360
Speaker 7: to have the contingency plans in place, as does everyone

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01:07:30,360 --> 01:07:33,120
Speaker 7: else in college sports right now. Until we get more structure,

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01:07:33,360 --> 01:07:35,520
Speaker 7: you've always kind of got to be looking over your

1395
01:07:35,560 --> 01:07:38,160
Speaker 7: shoulder trying to figure out, hey, is one of the

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01:07:38,160 --> 01:07:39,840
Speaker 7: guys in our team all of a sudden going to

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01:07:39,880 --> 01:07:42,280
Speaker 7: start to value himself differently than we do, And do

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01:07:42,360 --> 01:07:44,320
Speaker 7: we have a plan in place to go and try

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Speaker 7: and counteract that if he does.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the other side of the coin.

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01:07:47,680 --> 01:07:50,400
Speaker 4: So, Mike, all that to say, I'm going to shift

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01:07:50,440 --> 01:07:53,640
Speaker 4: gears here a little bit. As a fellow Swifty, I

1403
01:07:53,720 --> 01:07:57,840
Speaker 4: have somewhat of a scenario I'd like you to help

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01:07:57,960 --> 01:08:00,919
Speaker 4: me navigate through. Right. First of all, I'm watching Rory

1405
01:08:01,000 --> 01:08:03,400
Speaker 4: McElroy at the top of the leaderboard and the words

1406
01:08:03,400 --> 01:08:05,200
Speaker 4: that come to mind are I think I've seen this

1407
01:08:05,280 --> 01:08:06,920
Speaker 4: film before and I didn't like the ending.

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01:08:07,360 --> 01:08:09,960
Speaker 3: M So I'm going to tee up for you.

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01:08:10,160 --> 01:08:13,880
Speaker 4: Three NBA Western Conference teams, and I want you to

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01:08:13,920 --> 01:08:17,360
Speaker 4: give me their Taylor Swift era. Okay, because I'm thinking

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01:08:17,360 --> 01:08:20,439
Speaker 4: the Oklahoma City Thunder are in their nineteen eighty nine

1412
01:08:20,520 --> 01:08:22,800
Speaker 4: era right now, right, so I want you to give

1413
01:08:22,840 --> 01:08:25,919
Speaker 4: me the respective eras you are feeling for the vibes

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01:08:26,000 --> 01:08:29,720
Speaker 4: of the Golden State Warriors, the Denver Nuggets, and the

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01:08:29,760 --> 01:08:33,439
Speaker 4: Los Angeles Clippers. What era, what album matches their moment

1416
01:08:33,520 --> 01:08:34,000
Speaker 4: right now?

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01:08:34,800 --> 01:08:38,040
Speaker 7: Ooh, all right, let's start with the Denver Nuggets here.

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01:08:38,200 --> 01:08:40,920
Speaker 7: So a team definitely going through a little bit of

1419
01:08:40,960 --> 01:08:44,240
Speaker 7: turmoil right now. The edges up for everyone. You've got

1420
01:08:44,320 --> 01:08:47,080
Speaker 7: nikodiokicch coming out and saying hey where I'm from. When

1421
01:08:47,120 --> 01:08:50,000
Speaker 7: the coach gets fired, usually you're next on the list,

1422
01:08:50,040 --> 01:08:51,680
Speaker 7: and so everyone's got to kind of play with that

1423
01:08:51,760 --> 01:08:54,360
Speaker 7: sense of urgency. Here feels like we could be getting

1424
01:08:54,360 --> 01:08:56,160
Speaker 7: the reputation nuggets.

1425
01:08:55,680 --> 01:08:58,080
Speaker 4: Now right Look what you made jokicch do?

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01:08:59,280 --> 01:09:02,679
Speaker 7: Yeah, what you made Jokic do? And if we know anything,

1427
01:09:02,680 --> 01:09:04,759
Speaker 7: it's you don't want to challenge and put Taylor swifts

1428
01:09:04,760 --> 01:09:06,439
Speaker 7: back against the wall. And I don't know if I'd

1429
01:09:06,439 --> 01:09:08,080
Speaker 7: want to do that with Nikola Jokic.

1430
01:09:07,920 --> 01:09:09,160
Speaker 2: Either, Russell Westbrook.

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01:09:10,600 --> 01:09:14,400
Speaker 7: I'd say a reputation era for them. For Golden State,

1432
01:09:14,600 --> 01:09:17,400
Speaker 7: this is kind of tough because you've got a team where, hey,

1433
01:09:17,479 --> 01:09:20,200
Speaker 7: maybe their best days are behind them right now, but

1434
01:09:20,600 --> 01:09:23,240
Speaker 7: they've got a little bit of an infusion of life

1435
01:09:23,320 --> 01:09:25,800
Speaker 7: around the trade deadline with Jimmy Butler. They're on the

1436
01:09:25,920 --> 01:09:28,080
Speaker 7: edge of the postseason right now, big game against the

1437
01:09:28,080 --> 01:09:30,360
Speaker 7: Clippers coming up to try and decide what their playoff

1438
01:09:30,400 --> 01:09:31,479
Speaker 7: seeding is going to look like.

1439
01:09:31,560 --> 01:09:34,439
Speaker 6: And so, hmmm, I'll say, I'll.

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01:09:34,320 --> 01:09:38,439
Speaker 7: Say tortured poets department because you've got step Curry with

1441
01:09:38,520 --> 01:09:40,960
Speaker 7: the throbbing thumb that he's dealing with going into this

1442
01:09:41,000 --> 01:09:43,320
Speaker 7: game right now, probably, and I would say, like tortured

1443
01:09:43,360 --> 01:09:46,040
Speaker 7: poet's department. It's been a pretty long run in the

1444
01:09:46,080 --> 01:09:47,760
Speaker 7: lead up to this. It was a long album, but

1445
01:09:48,200 --> 01:09:50,160
Speaker 7: better than it gets credit for. And I think right

1446
01:09:50,160 --> 01:09:52,400
Speaker 7: now the Golden State Warriors at this point in the

1447
01:09:52,439 --> 01:09:54,680
Speaker 7: back half of the season have maybe been better than

1448
01:09:54,680 --> 01:09:56,360
Speaker 7: they got credit for in the midway point.

1449
01:09:56,840 --> 01:09:58,840
Speaker 4: I love that so much. I was thinking the same.

1450
01:09:58,880 --> 01:10:01,280
Speaker 4: And then and then give me one Clippers, who do

1451
01:10:01,280 --> 01:10:03,880
Speaker 4: you have, you know, the resurgence of Kawhi if healthy

1452
01:10:04,120 --> 01:10:06,799
Speaker 4: kind of underrated, the Clippers flying under the radar?

1453
01:10:08,040 --> 01:10:09,760
Speaker 7: Uh, you know what, if we're gonna talk about under

1454
01:10:09,760 --> 01:10:12,559
Speaker 7: the radar and underrated, I'll give them lover Era. Then

1455
01:10:12,960 --> 01:10:15,840
Speaker 7: lover we got robbed of lover Fest because of the pandemic.

1456
01:10:15,880 --> 01:10:17,840
Speaker 7: It's an album that's got a bunch of hits on it.

1457
01:10:17,880 --> 01:10:19,680
Speaker 7: And then if we had, you know, gone back and

1458
01:10:19,720 --> 01:10:22,440
Speaker 7: put out different singles and maybe you have that situation

1459
01:10:22,600 --> 01:10:24,920
Speaker 7: with you know, Cruel Summer where you've got the banger

1460
01:10:24,960 --> 01:10:26,160
Speaker 7: of the summer, it would have been different.

1461
01:10:26,280 --> 01:10:26,680
Speaker 1: But it's not.

1462
01:10:26,800 --> 01:10:29,479
Speaker 7: That's like, will we won't be about Kawhi Leonard injuries. Instead,

1463
01:10:29,520 --> 01:10:31,040
Speaker 7: what we've got us here and now in a team

1464
01:10:31,080 --> 01:10:33,240
Speaker 7: that like that album, May your right be flying a

1465
01:10:33,280 --> 01:10:35,360
Speaker 7: little bit under the radar and that's okay because in

1466
01:10:35,400 --> 01:10:37,479
Speaker 7: the right circumstances it can still go off.

1467
01:10:38,280 --> 01:10:41,880
Speaker 4: Mike I Carmen's shaking her edge. It's all lost on her.

1468
01:10:42,040 --> 01:10:46,040
Speaker 4: I'm smiling air to air because those were the exact

1469
01:10:46,080 --> 01:10:48,360
Speaker 4: three albums I had pinned. So nailed it.

1470
01:10:50,320 --> 01:10:53,479
Speaker 2: You've got range. Let no one say that that Michael

1471
01:10:53,640 --> 01:10:58,960
Speaker 2: Junior does not have range. I we haven't given our

1472
01:10:59,080 --> 01:11:01,280
Speaker 2: due to the East at all. So I want to

1473
01:11:01,280 --> 01:11:03,160
Speaker 2: ask you a little bit about the East because we've

1474
01:11:03,160 --> 01:11:05,479
Speaker 2: talked a lot about the West. Rightfully so too, because

1475
01:11:05,479 --> 01:11:07,200
Speaker 2: that's kind of where all the drama lies and has

1476
01:11:07,320 --> 01:11:10,280
Speaker 2: all season long. You've got the ten seeds all locked

1477
01:11:10,360 --> 01:11:12,640
Speaker 2: up in the East already, and basically you have for

1478
01:11:13,040 --> 01:11:14,840
Speaker 2: the last few months. I don't think there was really

1479
01:11:14,920 --> 01:11:18,559
Speaker 2: any surprises there. But you've got the top two seeds

1480
01:11:18,600 --> 01:11:21,360
Speaker 2: battling it out with. You've got Cleveland has the best record.

1481
01:11:21,479 --> 01:11:23,759
Speaker 2: You've got Boston though you know they're the raining champs.

1482
01:11:23,760 --> 01:11:27,040
Speaker 2: There's I feel like, still kind of the favorites in

1483
01:11:27,080 --> 01:11:28,920
Speaker 2: a lot of ways. You've got the Knicks, who are

1484
01:11:28,920 --> 01:11:31,200
Speaker 2: feisy and fun. What do you see how do you

1485
01:11:31,240 --> 01:11:32,920
Speaker 2: see this playing out in the East.

1486
01:11:33,320 --> 01:11:36,400
Speaker 7: Yeah, until further notice, You're going to have to prove

1487
01:11:36,439 --> 01:11:39,000
Speaker 7: it for me with anyone other than the Boston Celtics.

1488
01:11:39,320 --> 01:11:43,320
Speaker 7: No disrespect the Cleveland Cavaliers, long incredibly rangy defensive team.

1489
01:11:43,400 --> 01:11:46,519
Speaker 7: Donovan Mitchell's got that game breaker ability to them. All

1490
01:11:46,560 --> 01:11:48,640
Speaker 7: things they've proven over the long body of work of

1491
01:11:48,680 --> 01:11:50,600
Speaker 7: this season. But now you get to this time of

1492
01:11:50,680 --> 01:11:53,840
Speaker 7: year whereas everyone always talks about, everything gets pretty different here.

1493
01:11:53,840 --> 01:11:55,760
Speaker 7: The game planning changes. When all of a sudden it's

1494
01:11:55,760 --> 01:11:58,240
Speaker 7: the best of seven series. You're locked in more defensively.

1495
01:11:58,800 --> 01:12:00,680
Speaker 7: And Boston is a team that got the medal at

1496
01:12:00,720 --> 01:12:02,840
Speaker 7: this time of year that remember, isn't just a flash

1497
01:12:02,880 --> 01:12:04,240
Speaker 7: of the pan from when they won it last year.

1498
01:12:04,280 --> 01:12:06,519
Speaker 7: They didn't built towards that moment over a long time.

1499
01:12:07,000 --> 01:12:10,080
Speaker 7: The Knicks, unfortunately, they've been a lot of fun, But

1500
01:12:10,120 --> 01:12:11,840
Speaker 7: that's a team that seems to have had a lid

1501
01:12:12,080 --> 01:12:14,680
Speaker 7: in terms of their performance against the top end competition,

1502
01:12:14,720 --> 01:12:16,479
Speaker 7: both in the East and the West. So I have

1503
01:12:16,600 --> 01:12:20,160
Speaker 7: questions about their limitations. Obviously everyone's gonna focus on Tibbs

1504
01:12:20,200 --> 01:12:22,439
Speaker 7: in the minutes and all that stuff, but it's more

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01:12:22,479 --> 01:12:25,200
Speaker 7: than that. The exciting team to me would be the

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01:12:25,240 --> 01:12:27,840
Speaker 7: Detroit Pistons, considering what they've done during the course of

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01:12:27,880 --> 01:12:31,559
Speaker 7: the regular season, young upstart team that's been for a

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01:12:31,560 --> 01:12:34,360
Speaker 7: lot of this year because Milwaukee obviously the game stuff

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01:12:34,439 --> 01:12:36,439
Speaker 7: is complicated that that's been a team that's sort of

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01:12:36,439 --> 01:12:38,679
Speaker 7: been kind of in the middle ground all year long,

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01:12:38,760 --> 01:12:41,120
Speaker 7: and so the East you're right, gets kind of put

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01:12:41,160 --> 01:12:43,519
Speaker 7: in the background because I do think the picture is

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01:12:43,520 --> 01:12:45,920
Speaker 7: a little bit more stable there. That feels like a

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01:12:45,960 --> 01:12:48,720
Speaker 7: two team race where we might have some fun NCAA

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01:12:48,800 --> 01:12:51,280
Speaker 7: March Madness style in the first round or two, but

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01:12:51,439 --> 01:12:53,960
Speaker 7: ultimately it's going to be Boston and Cleveland, and I

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01:12:53,960 --> 01:12:56,320
Speaker 7: think until further notice, it's going to be Boston versus

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01:12:56,320 --> 01:12:56,920
Speaker 7: the world for me.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, well I'll go. Don't let them put that

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Speaker 2: on a shirt. And Mike, I really appreciate you joining us.

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01:13:05,360 --> 01:13:08,759
Speaker 2: We really been playing ball and doing all the Taylor

1522
01:13:08,760 --> 01:13:10,840
Speaker 2: Swifty things that you just did that went completely over

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01:13:10,880 --> 01:13:13,000
Speaker 2: my head. I knew you were the guy for the job,

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01:13:13,200 --> 01:13:15,240
Speaker 2: so did Nicky.

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01:13:15,400 --> 01:13:16,240
Speaker 4: You met the moment.

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Speaker 7: Always a pleasure, guys. Thank you for the kind introduction

1527
01:13:19,960 --> 01:13:22,040
Speaker 7: and the opportunity to belch Taylor Swift album.

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01:13:23,439 --> 01:13:25,679
Speaker 2: Thank you guys so much. You're you're listening to Fox

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01:13:25,680 --> 01:13:28,400
Speaker 2: Sports Radio. Stay tuned for the feel good story of

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01:13:28,439 --> 01:13:31,840
Speaker 2: the week coming up next. Good Vibes Today. Welcome back

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01:13:31,960 --> 01:13:37,000
Speaker 2: in to Fox Sports Radio Fox Sports Saturday. I'm Karma Vitally.

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01:13:37,840 --> 01:13:39,479
Speaker 2: I've been in the host chair for Alex Curry, who

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01:13:39,439 --> 01:13:40,880
Speaker 2: has been out today, and it's been so much fun

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01:13:40,920 --> 01:13:43,559
Speaker 2: because I've had Nicky k with me in the other

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01:13:43,640 --> 01:13:44,200
Speaker 2: host chair.

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01:13:44,400 --> 01:13:46,400
Speaker 3: It's been an absolute pleasure.

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01:13:46,760 --> 01:13:49,280
Speaker 2: Oh wow, oh now we're gonna have accents.

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01:13:49,360 --> 01:13:50,080
Speaker 3: Where that came from.

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01:13:50,200 --> 01:13:53,200
Speaker 2: It's okay, it fits. You're in golf attire. There there

1540
01:13:53,200 --> 01:13:55,960
Speaker 2: are British men golfing right now on our TV. I

1541
01:13:55,960 --> 01:13:57,439
Speaker 2: get it. It's cool. I love it.

1542
01:13:57,520 --> 01:14:00,320
Speaker 4: When I went over to London, I found myself, you know,

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01:14:00,600 --> 01:14:03,600
Speaker 4: just picking up the accent. And my host, who's my

1544
01:14:03,640 --> 01:14:06,559
Speaker 4: best friend, she married a British man, and he looked

1545
01:14:06,600 --> 01:14:09,160
Speaker 4: at me and he goes, you really like trying to

1546
01:14:09,200 --> 01:14:11,719
Speaker 4: speak like us. I was like, aren't close AND's.

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01:14:11,520 --> 01:14:14,840
Speaker 3: Like absolutely not, absolutely not, absolutely I.

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01:14:15,200 --> 01:14:16,960
Speaker 2: Have Actually I have family in London. So I've grown

1549
01:14:17,040 --> 01:14:20,000
Speaker 2: up going to England like every other year, and it's

1550
01:14:20,040 --> 01:14:20,679
Speaker 2: my favorite.

1551
01:14:21,120 --> 01:14:22,240
Speaker 4: Such a fun city.

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01:14:22,479 --> 01:14:24,840
Speaker 2: I love that cities. I wish I had that accent though,

1553
01:14:24,920 --> 01:14:27,120
Speaker 2: Like they're like, oh your accents so cute. It's so American,

1554
01:14:27,160 --> 01:14:28,880
Speaker 2: and I'm like, it is not cute.

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01:14:29,720 --> 01:14:30,600
Speaker 4: Are you aggressive?

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01:14:31,280 --> 01:14:33,120
Speaker 2: We do get very aggressive. They do not. That is

1557
01:14:33,160 --> 01:14:37,559
Speaker 2: not something that you used to describe British joyful. Anyway,

1558
01:14:37,640 --> 01:14:40,840
Speaker 2: thanks for indulging us on that tangent. If you missed

1559
01:14:40,880 --> 01:14:43,960
Speaker 2: any of Toda's show, please go and check out the podcast,

1560
01:14:44,040 --> 01:14:46,320
Speaker 2: which will be up immediately following when we're off the air,

1561
01:14:46,360 --> 01:14:48,840
Speaker 2: thanks to our wonderful producers. Just search Fox Sports Radio

1562
01:14:48,880 --> 01:14:51,439
Speaker 2: wherever you get your podcasts. We every single one of

1563
01:14:51,439 --> 01:14:54,240
Speaker 2: our shows goes up right afterwards. It's a great time.

1564
01:14:54,240 --> 01:14:56,479
Speaker 2: If you missed any of today's show, just go search

1565
01:14:56,479 --> 01:14:59,679
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio wherever you get your podcasts. And now

1566
01:15:00,160 --> 01:15:02,599
Speaker 2: let's talk some feel good stories of the week, should

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01:15:02,720 --> 01:15:08,559
Speaker 2: shall we? I will start because we haven't even really

1568
01:15:09,120 --> 01:15:12,920
Speaker 2: addressed the championship games that happened last weekend, or you know,

1569
01:15:13,040 --> 01:15:15,679
Speaker 2: like in the case of the men's tournament last Monday,

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01:15:16,920 --> 01:15:21,439
Speaker 2: I really really loved the fact that though Yukon won again,

1571
01:15:21,640 --> 01:15:25,000
Speaker 2: as far as the women's tournament goes, Paige Becker's got

1572
01:15:25,000 --> 01:15:28,200
Speaker 2: her first championship and that was something that was you

1573
01:15:28,200 --> 01:15:30,040
Speaker 2: could just see the emotion on her face the way

1574
01:15:30,080 --> 01:15:34,160
Speaker 2: she hugged Gino was so cute. I loved it so much.

1575
01:15:34,240 --> 01:15:39,240
Speaker 2: But what came out afterwards, which is so funny. Rebecca

1576
01:15:39,280 --> 01:15:43,559
Speaker 2: Lobo was on a Sarah Spain's podcast and Good Game

1577
01:15:43,560 --> 01:15:46,040
Speaker 2: with Sarah Spain, and she told a really funny story

1578
01:15:46,080 --> 01:15:49,240
Speaker 2: of what happened right after they got off the court

1579
01:15:49,560 --> 01:15:51,320
Speaker 2: and you saw the emotion, like I said, like the

1580
01:15:51,600 --> 01:15:53,439
Speaker 2: hugging and all of that kind of I just it

1581
01:15:53,520 --> 01:15:58,040
Speaker 2: was incredible, right, and Page came out and she said, like,

1582
01:15:58,040 --> 01:16:00,360
Speaker 2: Gino has been so wonderful, Our connections great. I can

1583
01:16:00,400 --> 01:16:01,880
Speaker 2: go to him with anything. I go into his office.

1584
01:16:01,880 --> 01:16:03,439
Speaker 2: We talk about life, we talk about basketball, we talk

1585
01:16:03,439 --> 01:16:07,680
Speaker 2: about everything. Well, it turns out Gino roasted Page at

1586
01:16:07,680 --> 01:16:12,120
Speaker 2: the postgame presser where you know they're all ride and high.

1587
01:16:12,160 --> 01:16:15,320
Speaker 2: This is minutes after the confetti has come down, and

1588
01:16:15,400 --> 01:16:19,000
Speaker 2: he basically just goes, hey, Page, go sit down. You

1589
01:16:19,040 --> 01:16:21,280
Speaker 2: can sit next to her. You only have one ring,

1590
01:16:21,400 --> 01:16:23,320
Speaker 2: She's got more. And he points to Rebecca Lobo and

1591
01:16:23,479 --> 01:16:26,920
Speaker 2: then he goes down the line and he points at

1592
01:16:26,920 --> 01:16:30,639
Speaker 2: each of his former players that have like she she's

1593
01:16:30,680 --> 01:16:34,960
Speaker 2: got four, that's three, two, Like just back and forth,

1594
01:16:35,040 --> 01:16:37,600
Speaker 2: just humbling Page, which I think is so indicative of

1595
01:16:37,640 --> 01:16:39,720
Speaker 2: their relationship. So despite the fact that it's been a

1596
01:16:39,760 --> 01:16:41,880
Speaker 2: couple weeks and all that kind of stuff just coming down,

1597
01:16:41,920 --> 01:16:44,960
Speaker 2: I just I loved hearing that and hearing Rebecca Lobo

1598
01:16:45,120 --> 01:16:47,360
Speaker 2: just say like, hey, yeah, he's roasting her. But that's

1599
01:16:47,400 --> 01:16:48,880
Speaker 2: that's what we love about Gino and I thought that

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01:16:48,920 --> 01:16:49,439
Speaker 2: was really sweet.

1601
01:16:49,520 --> 01:16:51,479
Speaker 4: Wanted to write off that. I was at the UCLA

1602
01:16:51,560 --> 01:16:54,600
Speaker 4: Woman's Final four game covering the Bruins as they just

1603
01:16:54,640 --> 01:16:58,080
Speaker 4: got decimated by Yukon. I mean, that team was on

1604
01:16:58,120 --> 01:17:01,519
Speaker 4: a mission and it's just really cool to see. I mean,

1605
01:17:01,560 --> 01:17:06,120
Speaker 4: the conversation we were having about college women's basketball as

1606
01:17:06,200 --> 01:17:09,320
Speaker 4: much as three years ago was the biggest talking point

1607
01:17:09,360 --> 01:17:14,760
Speaker 4: was is Yukon bad for women's basketball? Right? The dynastynastic

1608
01:17:14,920 --> 01:17:16,640
Speaker 4: nature of it, And to see them now, we're like,

1609
01:17:17,720 --> 01:17:21,920
Speaker 4: that's not even relevant in you know, thirteen national championships,

1610
01:17:21,920 --> 01:17:24,000
Speaker 4: but that's not the discourse because of how far the

1611
01:17:24,040 --> 01:17:27,680
Speaker 4: game and the popularity has come. Awesome stuff, What a

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01:17:27,680 --> 01:17:29,680
Speaker 4: great Final Four, and I think it's only going to

1613
01:17:29,720 --> 01:17:32,519
Speaker 4: continue to flourish. But real quick, here, my feel good

1614
01:17:32,600 --> 01:17:35,719
Speaker 4: story of the week is the Masters. There's something about

1615
01:17:35,760 --> 01:17:39,280
Speaker 4: this weekend that makes me so thrilled for you know,

1616
01:17:39,800 --> 01:17:42,040
Speaker 4: the postseason push we're gonna get, for the NHL, for

1617
01:17:42,120 --> 01:17:45,719
Speaker 4: the NBA. I love seeing the scenes from Augusta National

1618
01:17:45,760 --> 01:17:49,680
Speaker 4: on our TVs. I love Rory McElroy maybe having the

1619
01:17:49,760 --> 01:17:51,160
Speaker 4: chance at redemption, even though I.

1620
01:17:51,200 --> 01:17:52,920
Speaker 2: Kind of he's a ton under now so he was nine,

1621
01:17:53,280 --> 01:17:55,200
Speaker 2: he gained I think he got a birdie.

1622
01:17:55,240 --> 01:17:57,720
Speaker 3: They're on twelve or thirteen, I forget what it was.

1623
01:17:57,800 --> 01:18:01,320
Speaker 4: But if he can pull it off, that will be

1624
01:18:01,560 --> 01:18:03,840
Speaker 4: the ultimate feel good moment, even though you know he's

1625
01:18:03,880 --> 01:18:07,120
Speaker 4: had his trials and tribulations as a personality and as

1626
01:18:07,120 --> 01:18:09,719
Speaker 4: a golfer. I think the fact that he's been chasing

1627
01:18:09,720 --> 01:18:14,120
Speaker 4: a major championship for over ten years and to get

1628
01:18:14,120 --> 01:18:18,920
Speaker 4: it and get the Grand Slam, so to speak. Yeah, here,

1629
01:18:19,000 --> 01:18:21,920
Speaker 4: I think we're in for some some special emotions. That is,

1630
01:18:22,040 --> 01:18:25,559
Speaker 4: if he doesn't blow it right, I mean, which which

1631
01:18:25,840 --> 01:18:26,519
Speaker 4: we talked about.

1632
01:18:26,600 --> 01:18:28,920
Speaker 2: You can't take for the trauma, the trauma.

1633
01:18:28,880 --> 01:18:32,599
Speaker 4: Rory story, the Rory story, the story of roll right,

1634
01:18:32,720 --> 01:18:33,280
Speaker 4: it could be great.

1635
01:18:33,280 --> 01:18:35,439
Speaker 2: If he doesn't blow it, it could be great. You're right,

1636
01:18:35,439 --> 01:18:39,200
Speaker 2: this could be a feel good story. Before there is

1637
01:18:39,200 --> 01:18:43,720
Speaker 2: something so nostalgic though of like of watching Augusta and

1638
01:18:43,760 --> 01:18:48,040
Speaker 2: The Masters and having these storylines and that no matter

1639
01:18:48,080 --> 01:18:52,280
Speaker 2: who's leading, no matter who's in the termin who missed

1640
01:18:52,280 --> 01:18:55,920
Speaker 2: the cut, there is something so just nostalgic about the

1641
01:18:55,920 --> 01:18:58,559
Speaker 2: Masters that makes everyone tune in. I mean there's it's

1642
01:18:58,600 --> 01:19:01,400
Speaker 2: on countless people's bucket lists to go. It's on mine. Like,

1643
01:19:01,479 --> 01:19:04,479
Speaker 2: I'm not a huge, like avid golf fan, but I

1644
01:19:04,520 --> 01:19:06,160
Speaker 2: would love to go to the Masters.

1645
01:19:06,280 --> 01:19:08,240
Speaker 4: I was listening to one of the hosts say that

1646
01:19:08,360 --> 01:19:12,559
Speaker 4: this tournament or this event is where people connect to

1647
01:19:12,680 --> 01:19:16,120
Speaker 4: the game of golf truly and purely, and they connect together.

1648
01:19:15,880 --> 01:19:17,360
Speaker 2: Too, and see they connect with each other.

1649
01:19:18,320 --> 01:19:20,880
Speaker 4: Have your phones there at time stands still. It's iconic,

1650
01:19:20,960 --> 01:19:23,240
Speaker 4: it's classic, and it's it's elite.

1651
01:19:23,840 --> 01:19:26,479
Speaker 2: Yeah, that is, and hopefully it'll be a feel good

1652
01:19:26,479 --> 01:19:29,719
Speaker 2: story for Rory. Uh. That's it for us today, you guys,

1653
01:19:29,720 --> 01:19:32,719
Speaker 2: thank you so much for joining us. I'm common Vial Alex.

1654
01:19:32,920 --> 01:19:35,800
Speaker 2: This is Nikki Kay. Have a great weekend, y'all. This

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Speaker 2: is Fox Sports Radio.