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Speaker 3: Well big time history.

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Speaker 1: Today in the NBA, the Nicks introduced Mike Brown as

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Speaker 1: their new head coach. Although I will say before we

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Speaker 1: he embracing the expectations of yes, we're supposed to win,

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Speaker 1: We're ready. I'm like, Okay, Greg, Again, it's not always

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Speaker 3: But a couple of things from today that I liked.

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Speaker 1: I like DeAndre Ayton basically saying, hey, listen, if you

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Speaker 1: don't win, people forget about you in the NBA.

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Speaker 3: I understand that.

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Speaker 1: And here's you know, Mike Brown not saying anything like, well,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna see how things go. We're gonna kind of

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Speaker 1: wait ah, we got I haven't even talked to the

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Speaker 4: No.

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Speaker 1: Right away, it was look, I understand the expectations, understand

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Speaker 1: where we're at. We have to get some things done. Okay, great,

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Speaker 1: so I've seen.

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Speaker 4: The starting lineup that they have. He also didn't say

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Speaker 4: anything about biting kneecaps so that's good.

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Speaker 1: No, there was nothing there. He's not winning the press conference.

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Speaker 1: But I mean, I've seen so much anti Mike brownness

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Speaker 1: Mike Brown looked like it's all settling in the Knicks.

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Speaker 3: Get Mike Brown.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, Mike Brown was the best of the

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Speaker 3: I just want to say, who else did you want

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Speaker 3: them to get? They called everybody else you would want?

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Speaker 3: Did you still want them at open They wouldn't. They

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Speaker 3: wouldn't let a interview. What are you gonna do? I mean,

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Speaker 3: you could only get it without jobs.

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Speaker 4: They said no, they you don't have permission to talk

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Speaker 1: So Mike Krzyzewski's not walking through that door. Jim Beheim

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Speaker 1: is not walking through that door. It's not happening.

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Speaker 3: I got who did you want? Okay, I understand if

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Speaker 3: you know that was a former Knicks coach, you were

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Speaker 1: Uh Rick Patino is not walking through that door, Like,

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Speaker 1: I get it that if you're if you're a little

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Speaker 1: want like you gotta hire somebody. Somebody else is out there.

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Speaker 1: The guy's got the guy. He's got the best pedigree

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Speaker 1: He's done. He checks all the boxes you want. He's

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Speaker 1: how he said today, Hey, my offensive system is going

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Speaker 3: Awesome. I mean, I don't know what you want.

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Speaker 1: If you don't like it, I get it, But give

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Speaker 3: There's no other choice.

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Speaker 4: It's kind of like the flip side of the coin

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Speaker 4: this is not even a Knicks conversation. Fine, get rid

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Speaker 4: They need to replace okay with dot dot dot and tell.

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Speaker 1: Me again, tell me, tell me who that guy is,

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Speaker 1: Tell me where they Tell me who's going to walk

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Speaker 3: Tell me the guy walking through that door. It was fifteen.

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Speaker 1: Years ago today, Lebron James walked through a door that

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Speaker 1: changed basketball as we know it. I didn't think this

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Speaker 1: It's the fifteenth anniversary of the decision where Lebron James

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Speaker 1: In case you missed it or you can't remember, which

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Speaker 1: when Lebron made that decision, in the decision fifteen years ago.

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Speaker 1: The answer to the question everybody wants to know, Lebron,

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Speaker 3: Decision in this fall? Man's very tough, and this fall

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Speaker 3: will take my talent Salva Beach and I'm joining Miami Heat.

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Speaker 3: Miami Heat. That was a conclusion you woke up with

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Speaker 1: That was a.

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Speaker 3: I heard half a clap.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, Hey, yo, stop clapping. Stop clapping? Wait what

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Speaker 1: do you mean stop clapping? At the age old question?

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Speaker 1: What is the sound of one hand clapping?

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Speaker 3: I think that was it. I think we just heard

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Speaker 1: I like, how nervous Jim Gray got like he didn't, like,

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Speaker 3: Miami heat? So Miami heat. We've been waiting sixty minutes

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Speaker 3: for this. That's it. It's just a sentence. We did

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Speaker 1: Sorry, I didn't have my follow up ready cause I

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Speaker 1: so and say, hey, it's a tough decision. I really

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Speaker 4: But where's the cat that you're going to put on

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Speaker 1: Do all the hats come? Nope, he's got the Cleveland hat.

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Speaker 1: Takes it all, throws it away a little three card

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Speaker 1: for Jim Gray to say, oh, h, that's decision you

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, at least he came back with something.

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Speaker 4: It's not the only awkward moment Jim Gray has had

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Speaker 3: No, no, this is true. This is true.

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Speaker 1: But look, in the last twenty five years in basketball,

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Speaker 1: this is the biggest moment that any league, professional college

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Speaker 1: basketball has had, has been the decision right Championship teams

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Speaker 1: come and go, great players come and go. We have

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Speaker 1: finals every year. Many millions of people watch the finals,

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Speaker 1: We've never had anything like the decision, nothing like what

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Speaker 1: answering one question for an hour. Okay, where where's he

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Speaker 1: gonna go? Where's he gonna play? The build up to this,

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Speaker 1: I can I feel for people that were too young

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Speaker 1: to pitch him and his team Maverick, Carter and everyone else.

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Speaker 3: Yet another time, the Clippers thought they had a chance.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, all these teams that had to travel to Lebron

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Speaker 1: to pitch him. Why you should come to the why

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Speaker 1: Why should come to their team? And the Knicks had

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Speaker 1: And the Knicks pitched Lebron like right after the Nets

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Speaker 1: Where is he going to go play? And just everything.

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Speaker 4: Not just an announcement during a SportsCenter type show. It

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Speaker 4: But a little context on how big it was the

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Speaker 4: in his NBA career? Is what we thought at the

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Speaker 4: the huge numbers for Game seven average ten million viewers.

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Speaker 4: The decision with Lebron that hour averaged ten million viewers

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Speaker 4: and even more than that when Lebron finally gave what

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Speaker 4: we heard an actual decision.

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Speaker 3: There was no game, There was no dribbling of a basketball.

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Speaker 3: It was just hit.

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Speaker 1: And it was in July when people are on vacation,

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Speaker 4: It was not a lead into an NBA show like

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Speaker 4: you know, you would have TNT have the All Star

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Speaker 4: announcements and then here's the brock.

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Speaker 3: It was nothing like that. You know.

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Speaker 1: Back at the time I was at ESPN, I was

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Speaker 1: All that more Coming up next right here, the decision

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Speaker 3: Steve Desaga in for Mike Harmon. Not a hobo. It's

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Speaker 1: Why does Kevin Durant go to the Warriors. He was

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Speaker 1: that's a I mean so many things because of the

438
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Speaker 1: decision changed what the NBA has done the last fifteen years,

439
00:20:27,720 --> 00:20:32,000
Speaker 1: team strategies, team team movements, and personnel decisions like I

440
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Speaker 1: mean it find something else that's been bigger than this,

441
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean in the history of the game.

442
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Speaker 1: Maybe it's Jordan's first championship and the Lakers and Celtics

443
00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:44,119
Speaker 1: robbery in the eighties, and and I don't know that

444
00:20:44,160 --> 00:20:48,119
Speaker 1: the Lakers Celtics robbery in the eighties begat anything close

445
00:20:48,160 --> 00:20:50,480
Speaker 1: to what Lebron's decision has. I don't know that Jordan

446
00:20:50,840 --> 00:20:54,240
Speaker 1: winning this first title begat anything else that we've seen

447
00:20:54,280 --> 00:20:56,200
Speaker 1: in the in the next few years was basically, oh,

448
00:20:56,320 --> 00:20:58,720
Speaker 1: Jordan one and now okay, they won three in a row,

449
00:20:58,760 --> 00:21:00,960
Speaker 1: then he retired, and then he came back and they

450
00:21:00,960 --> 00:21:03,000
Speaker 1: won three more in Okay, and then he left and

451
00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:04,720
Speaker 1: they stopped winning. So it's not like all of a

452
00:21:04,760 --> 00:21:07,359
Speaker 1: sudden still, all these things happened, but you can see

453
00:21:07,359 --> 00:21:11,640
Speaker 1: the after effect of Lebron and the decision. It may

454
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Speaker 1: go back further than the last twenty five years.

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Speaker 4: Speaking of winning, the Giants have just hit a three

456
00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:18,160
Speaker 4: run homer in the bottom of the night. They walked

457
00:21:18,160 --> 00:21:22,080
Speaker 4: off to beat the Phillies four to three against Jordan Romano.

458
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Speaker 3: We cannot call him the closer, astounding.

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Speaker 1: You give that title back to Kira Sedgwick. She earned

460
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Speaker 1: it well. I made that happen, didn't I I completely

461
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Speaker 1: made that do existence. You're welcome Giants fans, sorry Frostburg,

462
00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:36,119
Speaker 1: you welcome Giants fans.

463
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Speaker 4: As you were talking Durant, I still think looking back

464
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Speaker 4: at it, and this has been I mean, this was

465
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Speaker 4: before this decade, right that he was with Golden State.

466
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Speaker 4: It's the sad thing for us as just general fans

467
00:21:47,040 --> 00:21:51,200
Speaker 4: of basketball is we talk about those Big three in Miami,

468
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Speaker 4: including Lebron, had their four years and going to four

469
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Speaker 4: straight NBA finals. We didn't get a fourth year from

470
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Speaker 4: Kevin Durant in Golden State. You mentioned the major injury

471
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Speaker 4: and what that took away from them in that postseason,

472
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Speaker 4: but there were only three years on the board, and

473
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Speaker 4: then he didn't play for anybody after that. In here, Yeah,

474
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Speaker 4: j it missed a year.

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Speaker 1: That was really the last time that teams decided to say, Okay,

476
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Speaker 1: we're gonna go big three. Right, that was the last

477
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Speaker 1: one because okay, here the nets are going to try

478
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Speaker 1: to do it, and here's Durant and Kyrie they wanted

479
00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:24,960
Speaker 1: to play together, and then it's Simmons and it's hard

480
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Speaker 1: to wear.

481
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Speaker 3: But that didn't. That went so poorly.

482
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Speaker 1: They didn't even get to the three of them, didn't

483
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Speaker 1: even play fifty games together before they had to make

484
00:22:32,440 --> 00:22:36,800
Speaker 1: a trade and Gon. It went so poorly that NBA teams. Okay,

485
00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:39,560
Speaker 1: maybe three stars is not the way to go. Maybe

486
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Speaker 1: it's a big star and another complimentary big star, and

487
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Speaker 1: then it's a bunch of not role players, but people

488
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Speaker 1: who fit the system. And what we're trying to do,

489
00:22:47,640 --> 00:22:50,560
Speaker 1: right what the Oklahoma City Thunder how they built their

490
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Speaker 1: team around SGA and a couple of young stars ascending

491
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Speaker 1: stars and chat and Jalen Williams and hey, role players

492
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Speaker 1: that are contributing, like Lou Dort who's an All NBA

493
00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:03,199
Speaker 1: defensive player and Hartenstein signing him in free agency. Like

494
00:23:03,320 --> 00:23:06,439
Speaker 1: you see how teams are building now, the nick saying, okay, yeah,

495
00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:08,919
Speaker 1: we're not gonna go for three superstars, but hey, Jalen

496
00:23:08,960 --> 00:23:11,879
Speaker 1: Brunson and then a one A star in Karl Anthony Towns.

497
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Speaker 1: This is how we're doing it. The Celtics Jason Tatum

498
00:23:14,520 --> 00:23:16,600
Speaker 1: and a one A star in Jalen Brown not got

499
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Speaker 1: them a championship. This is now how teams went because

500
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Speaker 1: that the Kevin Duranting went so poorly in Brooklyn, it was,

501
00:23:21,880 --> 00:23:23,520
Speaker 1: oh my goodness, they could even get on the map.

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Speaker 3: All right, let's not do that anymore.

503
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Speaker 4: Part of the aftermath, though, of the decision of Lebron specifically,

504
00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:32,639
Speaker 4: is not just that Miami succeeded for four straight years

505
00:23:32,680 --> 00:23:36,479
Speaker 4: with the Big Three, it's the aftermath in Cleveland. And

506
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Speaker 4: I never would have guessed that a Lebron would consider

507
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Speaker 4: going back to Cleveland, or that Cleveland fans would re

508
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Speaker 4: engage with him and that ownership would have him back,

509
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Speaker 4: or there's chance for another title, or any of these

510
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Speaker 4: things in Cleveland Cavs history.

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Speaker 6: No.

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Speaker 1: I mean you would say after the door was shut

513
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Speaker 1: that night and thought that it was there burning his

514
00:23:57,400 --> 00:24:00,359
Speaker 1: jersey and stuff, and it's like, okay, you're never his

515
00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:03,239
Speaker 1: picture off the wall that had mirror that had been

516
00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:06,159
Speaker 1: painted on the sides of buildings. This is why you

517
00:24:06,200 --> 00:24:09,439
Speaker 1: never say never, because clearly, okay, it became okay for

518
00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:12,200
Speaker 1: him to go back because the Cavaliers saw that, okay, boy,

519
00:24:12,480 --> 00:24:14,840
Speaker 1: our existence without Lebron is really not great. Remember Dan

520
00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:16,760
Speaker 1: Gilbert and he said, oh, well win the title before

521
00:24:16,840 --> 00:24:17,520
Speaker 1: Lebron wins one.

522
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Speaker 3: Yeah, good luck.

523
00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:21,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, and then it was oh, okay, you want to

524
00:24:21,359 --> 00:24:23,919
Speaker 1: come back now, and cooler heads have prevailed and now

525
00:24:23,960 --> 00:24:26,080
Speaker 1: got never would have thought that could have again. It's

526
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Speaker 1: why you never say never, because he went he went

527
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Speaker 1: back to Cleveland, and you know. The funny thing is

528
00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:33,720
Speaker 1: when he went back to Cleveland. We were doing the

529
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Speaker 1: show here Harmon and I and I vividly remember that

530
00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:42,520
Speaker 1: Savannah James put out a message on social media when

531
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Speaker 1: they hit the off season, right when he was was

532
00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:46,920
Speaker 1: with Miami, and then you know, his decision was gonna

533
00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:48,400
Speaker 1: come up, and as well, he's really gonna leave Miami.

534
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Speaker 1: This went to four finals and all this kind of stuff,

535
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Speaker 1: and she put out a h a social media post

536
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Speaker 1: with a picture of Akron and it says the countdown

537
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Speaker 1: is real. And then it was up for maybe an

538
00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:03,879
Speaker 1: hour or two, a couple of hours, and then it

539
00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:07,000
Speaker 1: got taken down. And I remember that night looking at

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Speaker 1: Harmon on the shod. We talked and I said, he's

541
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Speaker 1: going back to Cleveland. This is not one of those

542
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Speaker 1: ends of the season. Hey, I'm excited because we're going

543
00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:18,439
Speaker 1: back home for the summer. Pretty sure Savannah James could

544
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Speaker 1: get up any kind of flight back off whenever she wanted, right.

545
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Speaker 4: Although I hear that Lebron James does train at the

546
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Speaker 4: Cavs facility, yea.

547
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Speaker 3: Again not than that.

548
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Speaker 1: Well again, Lebron never does anything that's not calculated, which

549
00:25:30,240 --> 00:25:31,080
Speaker 1: is why.

550
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Speaker 3: Since he was a teenager. He's opened the door to

551
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Speaker 3: going back.

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Speaker 1: And I really thought today we were gonna get fifteenth

553
00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:38,800
Speaker 1: anniversary of the decision party. And went to bed last

554
00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:40,959
Speaker 1: night and I said, sure, he's gonna say today, I

555
00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:43,400
Speaker 1: want out. I want to get traded back to Cleveland. Lakers,

556
00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:45,080
Speaker 1: make it happen. I really thought there was gonna happen.

557
00:25:45,119 --> 00:25:45,720
Speaker 1: Too much money.

558
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Speaker 4: It's just I don't see how that. I don't see

559
00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:50,919
Speaker 4: how he's not a Laker the coming season. He just

560
00:25:51,280 --> 00:25:54,199
Speaker 4: everybody's been painted into the corner and this is just

561
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Speaker 4: how it's gonna be.

562
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Speaker 3: And I don't see him giving up. He does the

563
00:25:57,200 --> 00:25:59,120
Speaker 3: bulk of that money. He Oh no, he's not gonna

564
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Speaker 3: give it. The money.

565
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Speaker 1: He does like being a spare part. And this is

566
00:26:01,920 --> 00:26:04,880
Speaker 1: why the Lakers are daring him to ask for a trade,

567
00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:08,040
Speaker 1: because they know we're building around Luca. They wanted Luca

568
00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:10,240
Speaker 1: to lose weight, and Luca's getting in shrap to Miami.

569
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Speaker 4: He technically still Dwayne Wade's team in Riley's eyes.

570
00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:14,600
Speaker 3: And talked to Lebron for.

571
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Speaker 1: And then Lebron and they were like, yeah, it's gonna

572
00:26:17,040 --> 00:26:18,639
Speaker 1: be both of our teams, and Bosh is gonna be

573
00:26:18,680 --> 00:26:20,320
Speaker 1: the third guy, and Bosh was okay with because you

574
00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:22,640
Speaker 1: know it's Chris Bosh. But then after like the first year,

575
00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:24,880
Speaker 1: was oh, hey, no, this is Lebron's team and Wade

576
00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:26,760
Speaker 1: is the number two guy. Rather to be a number

577
00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:29,360
Speaker 1: two when you were the number one guy. You won

578
00:26:29,440 --> 00:26:31,240
Speaker 1: a title there already because he won.

579
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Speaker 4: With shot and he won it. I mean, he willed

580
00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:36,679
Speaker 4: them to victory in that postseason.

581
00:26:37,359 --> 00:26:39,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, do you talk about getting to the free throw

582
00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:40,720
Speaker 1: line and getting foul calls?

583
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Speaker 3: That was Dwayne Wade. They could have been out quickly

584
00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:45,080
Speaker 3: in that finals. Man, this is this is the first

585
00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:45,920
Speaker 3: time against.

586
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Speaker 1: Dallas, but that's when they were down two zip and

587
00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:51,320
Speaker 1: they came back and went almost zip. Yes, but this

588
00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:55,159
Speaker 1: was like going back to think about the different stops

589
00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:58,239
Speaker 1: for Lebron. He's always been someone that's wanted to be

590
00:26:58,240 --> 00:27:00,520
Speaker 1: in control of everything. He's not in control with the

591
00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:03,520
Speaker 1: Lakers anymore. Right he was in control, he had the decision,

592
00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:05,720
Speaker 1: he was in control going to the Lakers. Now he's

593
00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:09,080
Speaker 1: not anymore. And that's why this is We're never We've

594
00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:10,960
Speaker 1: never been as close to a Lebron trade as we

595
00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:13,879
Speaker 1: are right now. Where I really thought fifteenth anniversary of

596
00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:16,560
Speaker 1: the decision, he's gonna own it and say yep, okay,

597
00:27:16,720 --> 00:27:19,520
Speaker 1: or poetic there'd be some kind of story like Shams

598
00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:22,399
Speaker 1: would have the story that would be, hey, Lebron has

599
00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:24,640
Speaker 1: asked for a trade back to Cleveland and both sides

600
00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:26,680
Speaker 1: are gonna make it happen like that would have been

601
00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:29,399
Speaker 1: absolute poetry to have that today. And really, when I

602
00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:31,600
Speaker 1: went to bed last night, I'm laying in bed saying

603
00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:34,480
Speaker 1: to myself, Okay, what are the odds I'm gonna wake

604
00:27:34,560 --> 00:27:36,239
Speaker 1: up in the morning, and that's gonna be a big thing,

605
00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:37,800
Speaker 1: and then Shams will have it. It will be the

606
00:27:37,840 --> 00:27:41,760
Speaker 1: biggest of scoop since since Lebron the decision. What are

607
00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:44,240
Speaker 1: the odds that's gonna happen? I really thought the more time,

608
00:27:44,640 --> 00:27:46,760
Speaker 1: and I convinced myself a lot of things as I'm

609
00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:48,760
Speaker 1: trying to fall asleep, like, oh, I go from that

610
00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:50,640
Speaker 1: would be cool, though, this is gonna happen. I'm wanna

611
00:27:50,640 --> 00:27:52,320
Speaker 1: wake up in the morning. This is absolutely gonna happen.

612
00:27:52,400 --> 00:27:53,840
Speaker 1: I really thought there was a big chance of that.

613
00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:57,080
Speaker 4: Well, it's one of those on paper logical things, just

614
00:27:57,200 --> 00:28:01,399
Speaker 4: like it's on paper logical that le Bron James ends

615
00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:04,480
Speaker 4: his long and glorious career where it started.

616
00:28:04,720 --> 00:28:07,840
Speaker 3: That's that's kind of how it should happens, the only

617
00:28:07,880 --> 00:28:10,080
Speaker 3: place that can happen, and because he would be going

618
00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:11,000
Speaker 3: to a great team.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he could retire here because clearly he's built his

620
00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:17,679
Speaker 1: off the court life here in his production l and movies.

621
00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:19,600
Speaker 1: He could do it here. There's only two places he

622
00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:21,200
Speaker 1: could do it here. He could do it in Cleveland

623
00:28:21,359 --> 00:28:23,639
Speaker 1: if he thought for sure he could win with the

624
00:28:23,720 --> 00:28:26,919
Speaker 1: Knicks or somewhere else. Yeah, because he's always had the

625
00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:28,120
Speaker 1: itch to play in Madison Square.

626
00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:32,040
Speaker 4: But that would be chasing. Everybody would forgive. Oh, Cleveland,

627
00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:32,600
Speaker 4: that's perfect.

628
00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:33,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, finish that way.

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Speaker 1: Because even if the thing is if he goes to

630
00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:38,440
Speaker 1: New York, he goes anywhere else and he loses, it

631
00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:41,600
Speaker 1: would be Ah, look how embarrassing. Lebron doesn't want that optic.

632
00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:43,560
Speaker 1: If he goes back to Cleveland and they don't win,

633
00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:45,960
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. He's just a kid from Akron going.

634
00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:48,080
Speaker 3: Already broke the curse for the whole sity. That's what

635
00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:48,400
Speaker 3: it is.

636
00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:51,840
Speaker 1: I won my title the chase down block and Kyrie,

637
00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:56,080
Speaker 1: I've already done that. If it doesn't end with a championship,

638
00:28:56,360 --> 00:28:59,360
Speaker 1: it still ends positively for me. That's the only place

639
00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:01,480
Speaker 1: he can go in a clear They'll go go home again.

640
00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:03,160
Speaker 1: It'll work, It'll absolutely work.

641
00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:05,360
Speaker 4: And Lebron was leading the league in minutes when he

642
00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:07,920
Speaker 4: was at Cleveland. When he was at Cleveland, the want

643
00:29:07,960 --> 00:29:11,000
Speaker 4: to to say the least was there, And I now

644
00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:15,000
Speaker 4: will restate this. I never saw a him leaving Cleveland,

645
00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:19,320
Speaker 4: b finishing with Miami after four years, and see getting

646
00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:23,360
Speaker 4: another four years in Cleveland and the title. Yeah, you know,

647
00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:26,280
Speaker 4: you could have all the money you had in your pocket.

648
00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:28,920
Speaker 4: You would have wagered on that and you would have lost.

649
00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:32,000
Speaker 1: It's like wagering all kinds of money on a Rockies loss.

650
00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:35,080
Speaker 1: That would happen. You would make a lot of cash,

651
00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:36,640
Speaker 1: although it would be a little bit at a time.

652
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:39,800
Speaker 1: Steve de Sager has more on that story and with

653
00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:42,160
Speaker 1: what's trending in the wide world of sports. How about

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Speaker 1: that walk off home run for the Giants Stevo.

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Speaker 4: Everything is final in Major League Baseball tonight, and yes,

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Speaker 4: the Giants.

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Speaker 3: Have beaten the Phillies four to three.

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Speaker 4: Is the final three run homer in the bottom of

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Speaker 4: the ninth and the A's at home did win ten

660
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Speaker 4: to one over Atlanta, which has.

661
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Speaker 3: Lost five straight.

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Speaker 4: Ronald Acunya, the Braves scratched from the lineup tonight with

663
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Speaker 4: a bad back. The A's led nine to nothing in

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Speaker 4: the second inning. They hit four early home runs, including

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Speaker 4: a leadoff inside the park homer from Lawrence Butler. The

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Speaker 4: one big negative as All Star shortstop Jacob Wilson, starting

667
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Speaker 4: All Star shortstop next week, left in the first inning,

668
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Speaker 4: hit by a pitch on the hand.

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Speaker 3: They call it a bruise. By the way.

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Speaker 4: The Pirates O'Neil Cruz will be in next week's home

671
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Speaker 4: run Derby. He homer tonight at Kansas City, his sixteenth,

672
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Speaker 4: but the Pirates, like the Braves, have lost five in

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Speaker 4: a row. Kansas City beat him four to three with

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Speaker 4: the run in the bottom of the ninth. The Dodgers

675
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Speaker 4: have also lost five in a row. Lost three to

676
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Speaker 4: one at Milwaukee show Hey Otani with a leadoff homer,

677
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Speaker 4: his thirty first of the year leads the National League

678
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Speaker 4: in homers. But then winning pitcher Jacob Missowski continues his

679
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Speaker 4: greatness his first year. Over the next six innings, he

680
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Speaker 4: struck out twelve and got the victory San Francisco with

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Speaker 4: the home run to beat the Phils four to three,

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Speaker 4: and the Padres got a seventh inning homer to win

683
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Speaker 4: one nothing against Arizona. There was a stat I saw

684
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Speaker 4: that there had been just as many one nothing games

685
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Speaker 4: so far in Major League Baseball this year as there

686
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Speaker 4: were all of last year. And then Tonight's Padre won

687
00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:17,800
Speaker 4: nothing final that cinches it. Already more won nothing finals,

688
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Speaker 4: thirty nine of them this year than we had all

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Speaker 4: last season in the majors.

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Speaker 1: Now, I guess a seconds because I just went back

691
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Speaker 1: while you were doing this to watch the walk off

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Speaker 1: home run for the Giants, because it happened while we

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Speaker 1: were doing the show. It was an inside the park

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Speaker 1: walk off home run. It hit off that it hit

695
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Speaker 1: off the It hit off the top of the walls

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Speaker 1: in San Francisco, and it shot all the way into

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Speaker 1: the left field corner and it was an inside the

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Speaker 1: park home run.

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Speaker 3: I think we have it. This game is time failies

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Speaker 3: on the moon, faies on the mode.

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Speaker 4: Somewhere in the midst of that is Giant's TV, I assume,

702
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Speaker 4: because that's the number nine hitter who usually doesn't hit.

703
00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:16,440
Speaker 4: But Patrick Bailey with the game winning three run homer,

704
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Speaker 4: and that brings his batting average up to one ninety four.

705
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Speaker 4: Texas won thirteen to one at the Angels. Cleveland won

706
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Speaker 4: on a tenth inning grand slam at Houston against All

707
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Speaker 4: Star closer Josh Hayter, ten to six. Jose ramire Is

708
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Speaker 4: a two run homer in the first. This is a

709
00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:34,640
Speaker 4: Guardians team that had lost ten straight until Monday's game.

710
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Speaker 4: They scored more runs at Houston in these two days

711
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Speaker 4: than they scored that entire ten game losing streak that

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Speaker 4: just broke. The Mets won in a comeback, a thriller

713
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Speaker 4: in ten innings at Baltimore, seven to six. There's about

714
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Speaker 4: an hour rain delay at the start. The Mets eventually

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Speaker 4: get the w to stay a game two well to

716
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Speaker 4: tie the Phillies. I should say for first place in

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Speaker 4: the NL East, because they got four runs in the

718
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Speaker 4: eighth to tie this game on two homers Andjon Soto

719
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Speaker 4: of the Mets with the go ahead single.

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Speaker 3: He had three hits.

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Speaker 4: Saint Louis had a rain delay of over two hours

722
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Speaker 4: at the start and eventually beat Washington four to two. Wow,

723
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Speaker 4: it was Minnesota eight to one over the Cubs. Toronto

724
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Speaker 4: won its tenth straight game six to one at the

725
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Speaker 4: White Sox. Mercifully, they called it due to rain in

726
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Speaker 4: the seventh inning. Blue Jays are first in the Ale,

727
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Speaker 4: still three and a half games over the Yankees, who

728
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Speaker 4: won ten to three against Seattle Gencarlo Stantona three run

729
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Speaker 4: homer Aaron Judge his thirty fourth of the year. By

730
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Speaker 4: the way, the Yankees moved Jazz Chisholm back to second base.

731
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Speaker 4: There was a rain delay in this game. In the

732
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Speaker 4: fifth in New York, it was one nothing. In the sixth,

733
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Speaker 4: ten to three Yankees. The final, Detroit won its fifth

734
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Speaker 4: straight game. It was four to two over Tampa Bay,

735
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Speaker 4: and Boston won its fifth straight. More in a moment,

736
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Speaker 4: Miami won twelve to two at Cincinnati. That Boston win

737
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Speaker 4: was ten to two against Colorado. The losing pitcher, Kyle Freelan,

738
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Speaker 4: is one in ten. Trevor story X of the Rocks

739
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Speaker 4: homer four RBIs at Fenway, Brian Bayo the winning pitcher

740
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Speaker 4: through a complete game with ten stars breakouts, and we're

741
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Speaker 4: not yet to the All Star break. And the Colorado

742
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Speaker 4: Rockies record is twenty one and seventy one.

743
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Speaker 1: Back to you, Yeah, not kind of the record they

744
00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:13,200
Speaker 1: want to set by the time the Midsummer Classic starts.

745
00:34:13,760 --> 00:34:16,360
Speaker 4: This is astounding that you can be getting fifty games

746
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Speaker 4: under five hundred.

747
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Speaker 1: They're on pace to Blues one hundred and twenty five,

748
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Speaker 1: not two hundred and twenty two. Not they're gonna get

749
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Speaker 1: to one twenty one to White Sox that go see you,

750
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Speaker 1: They're gonna dust you.

751
00:34:24,160 --> 00:34:24,960
Speaker 3: Like so long.

752
00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:28,000
Speaker 4: It was the Expansion Mets of nineteen sixty two, one

753
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Speaker 4: hundred and twenty losses in a season, and then Harmon's

754
00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:33,960
Speaker 4: White Sox says, oh, hold my beer. They wrote that

755
00:34:34,680 --> 00:34:36,799
Speaker 4: last year. Somebody's even worse this year.

756
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Speaker 1: It's astounding exit out about a fresco Jason Smith, Steve

757
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Speaker 1: de seger in for Mike Harmon coming up next. Well,

758
00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:47,000
Speaker 1: it's been a year since another big decision was made,

759
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Speaker 1: this one in the NFL, and I guarantee you this

760
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Speaker 1: quarterback would do that decision over again.

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Speaker 3: That's next Fox Jason Simatalka.

762
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Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith

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Speaker 2: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven

764
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Speaker 2: pm Pacific.

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with Steve de

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Speaker 1: seger in for Mike Harmon. Not a hobo, Yeah, we'll

767
00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:19,200
Speaker 1: play that Giant's walk off three run inside the Park

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Speaker 1: home run coming up in.

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Speaker 3: A few minutes.

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Speaker 1: But you know, with the fifteenth anniversary of the decision

771
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Speaker 1: Lebron James going on today, it is about the first anniversary.

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Speaker 1: You have the Kirk Cousins decision, which got a lot

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Speaker 1: of attention today as Quarterback is back for Netflix and

774
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Speaker 1: it's gonna continue to follow Kirk Cousins because the first

775
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Speaker 1: season went so well, because wow, Kirk Cousins is or

776
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Speaker 1: not is a.

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Speaker 3: Little well, it went well for us watching Kirk Cousins as.

778
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Speaker 1: Wow, he's a little weird, but seems to be pretty

779
00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:52,280
Speaker 1: down to earth. He's got a room under the stairs

780
00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:54,120
Speaker 1: where he keeps his trophies like Harry Potter.

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Speaker 4: Okay, oh wait a minute, at least no humans are

782
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Speaker 4: in the room under no no.

783
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Speaker 3: He's like no, I like Sunday, no post on Sunday.

784
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Speaker 1: So Cousins addresses in the beginning of Quarterback, which is

785
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Speaker 1: debuting in the trailers and you've seen stuff that's coming out,

786
00:36:11,400 --> 00:36:14,680
Speaker 1: addressed the big decision in the offseason which has seen

787
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Speaker 1: him lose his job as Falcons starting quarterback because the

788
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Speaker 1: Falcons went and drafted Michael Pennix Junior early in the

789
00:36:22,719 --> 00:36:26,080
Speaker 1: first round last year. And for the first time, Cousins

790
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Speaker 1: talks about this and feels that the Falcons weren't quite

791
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Speaker 1: as upfront with him as they could have been when

792
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Speaker 1: they told them about their strategy.

793
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Speaker 6: I wasn't expecting us to take a quarterback was so high.

794
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Speaker 6: At the time, it felt like I had been a

795
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Speaker 6: little bit misled, or certainly if I had the information

796
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Speaker 6: around Vegacy, it certainly would have affected my decision. I

797
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Speaker 6: had no reason to leave Minnesota with how much we

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Speaker 6: loved it there if both teams are going to be

799
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Speaker 6: drafting a quarterback high. But I've also learned in twelve

800
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Speaker 6: years in this league that if you're not entitled anything,

801
00:36:58,120 --> 00:36:59,959
Speaker 6: it's all about being able to earn your spot.

802
00:37:00,239 --> 00:37:01,320
Speaker 2: Can prove yourself.

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Speaker 1: Now, Ziah, that's a great thing to say, I go.

804
00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:06,319
Speaker 1: Maybe they did were in his upfront with him. Maybe

805
00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:08,880
Speaker 1: they didn't think they were going to draft a quarterback

806
00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:10,920
Speaker 1: as high when Pennix was there, they decided to pull

807
00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:14,120
Speaker 1: the trigger on it. A better statement for Cousins would

808
00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:16,640
Speaker 1: have been, I didn't think we'd be this stupid. I

809
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Speaker 1: really I didn't think the Falcons would be this stupid

810
00:37:19,200 --> 00:37:22,319
Speaker 1: because what they did was super Falcon, you know, yeah,

811
00:37:22,360 --> 00:37:24,440
Speaker 1: but what they did was still well, again, why not.

812
00:37:24,560 --> 00:37:27,080
Speaker 1: He's not gonna play. He's only there because he won't

813
00:37:27,080 --> 00:37:29,800
Speaker 1: take it. He won't take any sort of of of

814
00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:33,680
Speaker 1: of lesser money or some kind of situation march where

815
00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:36,200
Speaker 1: that will make it easy for the Falcons to move

816
00:37:36,239 --> 00:37:38,760
Speaker 1: on from him. Because what the Falcons did was stupid.

817
00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:40,880
Speaker 1: It was stupid on draft night, we said it. It

818
00:37:40,920 --> 00:37:44,000
Speaker 1: was stupid. Three months later, it was stupid six months later,

819
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Speaker 1: and it's stupid now. Nobody goes in the off season,

820
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Speaker 1: gives a quarterback four years and one hundred and eighty

821
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Speaker 1: million dollars and then drafts a quarterback at the top

822
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Speaker 1: of the first round. Nobody does that. Not the Jets

823
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Speaker 1: on their worst day, not the Raiders on any day,

824
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Speaker 1: because the Raiders clearly could do it, Not the.

825
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Speaker 3: Lines when they didn't know what was going on.

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Speaker 1: Even if the Mets were playing football, they wouldn't do that.

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Speaker 1: Nobody does that. They went out and got their quarterback. Great,

828
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Speaker 1: you don't go draft a quarterback in the first round

829
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Speaker 1: that you know is going to play. You don't go

830
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Speaker 1: sign a guy for year one hundred and eighty million

831
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Speaker 1: dollars and turn him into a bridge quarterback because at

832
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Speaker 1: some point you knew Michael Pennick Junior was gonna play,

833
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Speaker 1: and all the pundits and the experts who said idiotic

834
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Speaker 1: things like everybody who says that Michael Pennock Junior is

835
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Speaker 1: gonna play this year don't know what they're talking about.

836
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Speaker 1: This job as Kirk Cousins for this season.

837
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Speaker 3: We leave right away. We knew right away.

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Speaker 1: I feel like Ron Howard rested development. They were not

839
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Speaker 1: right about that. You knew he was gonna play because

840
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Speaker 1: high first round picks always play, they always play. And

841
00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:48,200
Speaker 1: Cousins got hurt, was ineffective, lost his job, and now

842
00:38:48,239 --> 00:38:50,920
Speaker 1: the Falcons are stuck. They're stuck because if a backup

843
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Speaker 1: quarterback that they owe one hundred and twenty million dollars

844
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Speaker 1: to the next three years, that boy, you can sit

845
00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:59,160
Speaker 1: here and say, well, at least they have the position.

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Speaker 1: Taking care of Cousins is okay being there? You have

847
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Speaker 1: a quarterback under a rookie deal you could have taken.

848
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Speaker 1: It will be nice to have that thirty million dollars

849
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Speaker 1: a year the next three years to be able to

850
00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:10,719
Speaker 1: go out and pay and get better players to show

851
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:12,920
Speaker 1: up whatever positions you want to shore up, right whatever

852
00:39:12,960 --> 00:39:14,759
Speaker 1: you want to go in free agency. Be nice to

853
00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:17,719
Speaker 1: have that money. Signing Kirk Cousins whether it worked out

854
00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:21,880
Speaker 1: or not, good move. Right drafting Michael Pennix junior, whether

855
00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:23,520
Speaker 1: it works out or not, good move. You think he

856
00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:26,040
Speaker 1: could be a star doing one of those two things.

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00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:26,560
Speaker 3: Teams do.

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00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:30,160
Speaker 1: Nobody ever does both of those things. That's why it

859
00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:32,840
Speaker 1: was stupid, then stupid a few months ago, stupid now.

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Speaker 4: High first round picks more these days get to play,

861
00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:39,080
Speaker 4: kind of like how baseball draft choices come up from

862
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Speaker 4: the miners sooner or sooner and sooner. Because remember when

863
00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:45,440
Speaker 4: Carson Palmer Heisman Trophy when it was drafted, they put

864
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Speaker 4: it into his contract. Okay, you're not going to play,

865
00:39:47,600 --> 00:39:51,120
Speaker 4: so don't bad mouth, and that's part of our business deal.

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Speaker 4: And then you'll be taking over in Cincinnati. It's a

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Speaker 4: little different these days, I will say. Historically, Steve Young

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Speaker 4: and Joe Montana were both together on the same San

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Speaker 4: Francisco forty nine ers team for four or five years.

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Speaker 4: The difference is even though Young had been highly thought

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Speaker 4: of coming out of college, Remember the USFL existed first,

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Speaker 4: and he played for the LA team on a huge

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Speaker 4: contract that I'm sure he never collected on for a

874
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Speaker 4: couple of years. I mean, by the time the league

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Speaker 4: folded the La Express, we're playing at the local junior

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Speaker 4: college not far from here, not at the coliseum. But

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Speaker 4: then he was a losing quarterback for his first couple

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Speaker 4: of seasons with Tampa Bay and then Montana's backup.

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Speaker 3: This is not quite the same. That's also thirty years ago.

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Speaker 3: I mean, like I say, three years exactly.

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Speaker 1: I think it's have changed with the NFL and the

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Speaker 1: Falcon I mean, I really the Falcons, Like that's like

883
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Speaker 1: what you do in the fantasy when you panic and

884
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Speaker 1: go oh. I took my second quarterback way too early

885
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Speaker 1: because he was there. I didn't Jalen Hurts was there,

886
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Speaker 1: so I took him and said, why are you taking

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Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts. You already have Josh Allen. You're never gonna

888
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Speaker 1: play Jalen Hurts. Oh, but this is how the Falcons

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Speaker 1: did it again. Stupid then stupid. Now coming up next

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Speaker 1: that big inside the park, walk off and we'll pull

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Speaker 1: the curtain back on the