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Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports where Welcome to Fox Sports Saturday.

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Speaker 2: I'm Alex Curry in with Martin Wise today.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for spending your Saturday afternoon with us.

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Speaker 4: I'm back.

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Speaker 2: Baby life has been lifing this past month. Let me

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Speaker 2: just put it that way. A huge shout out to

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Speaker 2: all the incredible women who've been filling in on the show,

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Speaker 2: who will continue to fill in once my baby girl

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Speaker 2: comes next month. But quick little life update. I had

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Speaker 2: to move three times in three weeks. I don't wish

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Speaker 2: that on anybody. That was absolutely wild, especially uh, eight

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Speaker 2: months pregnant. That's not a fun thing to do.

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Speaker 3: Eire. You're talking to me, Martin.

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Speaker 4: That sounds horrible, dude.

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Speaker 5: It was.

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Speaker 3: We had mold remediation in our house.

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Speaker 2: It's just like I haven't moved in thirteen years, and

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Speaker 2: then I moved three times in three months. Absolutely wild. Thankfully,

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Speaker 2: everything's fine. I just laughed through the chaos. It was

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Speaker 2: the best remedy that you can do.

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Speaker 4: And we're back.

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Speaker 2: We're back, We're back home, we're back working. I'm so

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Speaker 2: happy to be back. And we're gonna dive into all

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Speaker 2: of it today because you guys, I've been out for

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Speaker 2: a minute, and I have some thoughts. We'll hit MLB.

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Speaker 2: It's uh, it's O Tawny Day, Happy o' tanny day.

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Speaker 2: It's his first start on the road. He's about to

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Speaker 2: hit them mound. They're in Kansas City right now, so

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Speaker 2: we'll get to that a little later after he finishes

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Speaker 2: his outings. He's only gone an inning in his first

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Speaker 2: two outings, but they've been positive and they've gotten better

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Speaker 2: each time.

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Speaker 4: Faster. You've hit one hundred like hisv.

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Speaker 2: Lo's insane, which is again at this point after his

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Speaker 2: second Tommy John non Tommy John surgery, because I still

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Speaker 2: don't want.

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Speaker 3: To like say it was that, but it was.

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Speaker 2: He's doing incredible and of course, like a little pregame

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Speaker 2: to that. Last night he hit his twenty ninth home run,

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Speaker 2: so he's just like in Fuego, he's leading the National

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Speaker 2: League in home runs.

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Speaker 3: Like this, give me a better player right now. I don't.

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Speaker 3: You can't. It's insane. We're gonna hit the NBA.

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Speaker 4: Oh go come back.

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Speaker 6: A few people say, Aaron Judge in New York. I

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Speaker 6: have to say, there's there's an argument, but Aaron Dudgeons

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Speaker 6: is about the pitch too.

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Speaker 2: Innings well, yeah, and we'll get to that a little later,

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Speaker 2: because I would love to have you come at me

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Speaker 2: with that o'h.

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Speaker 3: Come right back. We's have right back.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna hit the NBA honestly better finals than expected,

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Speaker 2: and that's all you can ask for. At this point,

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Speaker 2: NBA Draft came and went Cooper Flag. Can he fill

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Speaker 2: that loocal hole in Dallas? We'll get to that. NFL

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Speaker 2: is officially in their their summer off season, so of

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Speaker 2: course that was the perfect time for Aaron Rodgers to

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Speaker 2: let everybody know that this is pretty He's pretty sure

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Speaker 2: this is gonna be his last season.

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Speaker 3: So we'll get to that a little later in the show.

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Speaker 3: Martin, let's start in the NBA.

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Speaker 2: Let's do it, okay, because a season's officially over and

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Speaker 2: you got to tip your hat huge congrats to the

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Speaker 2: champs okay See winning their first title as the Thunder

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Speaker 2: in Oka See.

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Speaker 3: Congrats to Shake Gillis.

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Speaker 2: Alexander first player since Lebron James in twenty thirteen to

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Speaker 2: win the regular season MVP and Finals MVP in the

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Speaker 2: same season. Now, the Thunder were the best team in

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Speaker 2: the league all season, with the best records sixty eight

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Speaker 2: wins franchise record. Now were they flashy and exciting? Not really,

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Speaker 2: but they won and as I said moments ago, honestly.

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Speaker 3: It was a ended up being a good finals. I

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Speaker 3: think better than we all expected.

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Speaker 2: If we get a game seven, which is like the

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Speaker 2: best thing that can happen in sports, something's going right right.

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Speaker 3: It was the most watched Finals game in six years.

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Speaker 2: People can complain all they want. I was curious to

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Speaker 2: times it's like two smaller market teams, you don't have

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Speaker 2: big star power. There wasn't a lot of flashy stories

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Speaker 2: one of the big flashy stories going in When like

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Speaker 2: that's what you're reaching for. It's tough, but viewership for

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Speaker 2: the full postseason finals was up ten percent from last year.

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Speaker 6: Well especially too it goes on seven games, so as

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Speaker 6: this as the progresses, the story builds. But honestly, from

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Speaker 4: It was fine, Like, yeah, it was good, excited. I

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Speaker 2: You're a hardcore fan though this and this is kind

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Speaker 2: of like how I tried to explain it to like,

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Speaker 2: because I hang out with a lot of fifty fifty

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Speaker 2: sports fans, where like, you know, they get it and

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Speaker 2: it's on, but the finals were on, and you're like, oh,

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Speaker 2: oh cool, look the finals are on the background, instead

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Speaker 2: of being like, Okay, let's plan our day around where

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Speaker 2: we're going to be right when it starts.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna get the best table we got to have.

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Speaker 2: Like that was kind of the difference between I think

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Speaker 6: Sometimes you go see a big movie and it's a disappointment.

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Speaker 6: Like you go see a movie that's supposed to be

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Speaker 6: some break blockbuster and then you go watch a movie

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Speaker 6: that you've never heard of before that's in like Parasite,

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Speaker 6: it's in Korean. I'm reading the subtitles. All of a sudden,

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Speaker 6: it's the best movie I've ever seen. In my life,

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Speaker 6: and I had never heard of it before, Nobody ever talked.

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Speaker 4: About it, and I walked in and random turned it on.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, so that's the way I look at the games.

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Speaker 6: It's like, you know, I'm excited to just go go

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Speaker 6: to the movies.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: No, I was there too, And I became a big

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Speaker 2: Tyrese Haliburton fan throughout this this whole run. I love

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Speaker 2: a good underdog story and I love a good just.

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Speaker 3: Let me prove you wrong story.

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Speaker 2: I mean, heartbreaking end of the season for Halle tearing

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Speaker 3: Sealed the deal.

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Speaker 2: Pacers kept it close in the first half, but you're

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Speaker 2: not winning a Game seven without your star player, Like,

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Speaker 2: it's just it's not gonna happen. Who was your pick,

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Speaker 2: Like at the start of this series, did you see

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Speaker 3: Did you have OKAC in seven?

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Speaker 4: No? I thought that the Pacers are actually gonna win.

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Speaker 6: I thought they have a little bit more experiencing and

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Speaker 6: But honestly, at this point, the bigger thing to me

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Speaker 6: was when you're thinking about the way that this finals

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Speaker 6: was received, the Thunder are just boring.

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Speaker 4: That's what I'm saying.

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Speaker 3: It's not flashy, it's not exciting.

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Speaker 6: It's not different. It's a difference between flashy and exciting.

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Speaker 6: Like they're the the opposite of They're not just neutral.

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Speaker 6: They are boring, aggressively and intentionally boring. They like even

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Speaker 6: in the celebration they said, like Shay said, hey, guys,

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Speaker 6: act like we've been here before. You literally haven't been

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Speaker 6: here before. It's a bunch of losers who I've just

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Speaker 6: won a championship because they need to go celebrate. That's

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Speaker 6: the problem. That's the biggest problem to me. It's all

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Speaker 6: year this I'm too cool for school attitude out of

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Speaker 6: the Thunder. I get it, like they want to be

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Speaker 6: mature and all this, and I hear it, but it

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Speaker 6: I care about this stuff.

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Speaker 4: I think you should too.

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Speaker 2: Well, A lot of people invest a lot of time

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Speaker 2: like you said, caring, it's a lot of energy going

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Speaker 2: I yeah, they're the team that did like the funny

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Speaker 2: like postgame as someone who's getting interviewed. They come over

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Speaker 2: and put the towels on everybody's head. Yeah, that's about

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Speaker 2: as much excitement and personality that you saw out of

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Speaker 6: I mean, that's it, and that's it, and you know what, Hey, look,

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Speaker 6: if you don't want to pop the bottles in.

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Speaker 4: The locker room, that's fine. If that's not if that's

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Speaker 3: Shay they not did they not pop bottles in the

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Speaker 4: They barely did. They didn't even know how to do it.

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Speaker 6: Alex Caruso to lead the charge, but but no, I

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Speaker 6: just don't understand how like, do something else fun, do

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Speaker 4: You go paintball does put that on and so.

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Speaker 6: That celebration but it's just kind of Yeah, I just

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Speaker 6: it when guys who seem to have worked all this

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I like that.

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Speaker 2: Well, now we turn the page and get excited for

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Speaker 2: next year. The NBA Draft came and went this week,

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Speaker 2: and Cooper Flag, as we all thought and knew, went

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Speaker 2: number one to the MAVs.

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Speaker 3: This guy is the real deal.

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Speaker 7: Now.

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Speaker 3: I got a chance to interview him when he was

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Speaker 2: LA accepting his would An award, And this kid lives

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Speaker 2: to play ball.

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Speaker 3: It's all he wants to do, he told me.

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Speaker 2: Because obviously it was right after uh March Madness and

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Speaker 2: his college season had kind of come to an end.

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Speaker 2: But his family had to force him to take a

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Speaker 2: break after March Madness before getting him ready for the

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Speaker 2: NBA Draft and the season. He's like, all I want

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Speaker 2: to do. And I'm like, well, are you going to

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Speaker 2: like are you going to do anything?

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Speaker 7: Like?

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Speaker 2: You know, rest in between, He's like, I don't want to,

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Speaker 2: but my agent and family are forcing me to.

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Speaker 6: Well it's probably a good thing because they do say

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Speaker 6: that he's a big workout monster and then he wants

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Speaker 6: to go work like that's what Jason Kidd was talking

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Speaker 6: about after his integrating press conference, that he can't wait

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Speaker 6: to go work out. And so, you know, it'll be

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Speaker 6: interesting to see how he's going to be able to

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Speaker 6: adjust because I don't know. I'm I think that he

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Speaker 6: will be good his first year out, I don't know

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Speaker 6: how great he will be immediately and I think that

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Speaker 6: we kind of might need to pump the brakes a

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Speaker 6: little bit on the terms of but do you know

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Speaker 6: what to be fair? In the introductory press conference, Jason

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Speaker 6: Kidd was not living. There was no breaks pumped. No,

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Speaker 6: there was no breaks pumped on his end, So why should.

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Speaker 2: We even listening to Cooper Flag? After he got drafted,

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Speaker 2: he had a pretty good response to.

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Speaker 4: If if hell what they say they're building in Dallas,

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Speaker 6: With with the vision of what it is and the

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Speaker 4: Okay, so you got that if that was your if

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Speaker 3: If they can tap into that, they can be a

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Speaker 4: I mean, Luca, first of all, you's got to get

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Speaker 2: You saw that well, I mean we're seeing the we're

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Speaker 6: I mean I see pictures of the video and professional

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Speaker 2: But if that's the one knock on his like incredible

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Speaker 6: It's definitely better than a video of him drinking beer

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but like this soon in the off season, like

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Speaker 2: And like obviously also shout out to like new Lakers ownership,

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Speaker 6: Well, sure, plus he's been now, he's been traded twice.

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Speaker 6: I don't know about that. He's a big prospect. Then

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Speaker 6: it might be might.

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Speaker 2: Be off right, It might be has it found the

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Speaker 2: we've seen great players become great on that second chance,

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Speaker 3: In a city that is desperate to love you and

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Speaker 2: Up and take us back to that championship level like that,

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Speaker 3: It's just stories, it's.

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Speaker 6: Just I think at this point, it's almost a little

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Speaker 4: It was so shocking and surreal that nobody ever asked.

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Speaker 6: If it was a good idea to who to the

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Speaker 6: trading Luca Doncis to me was not insane. It's just

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Speaker 6: what they got back in the way that they did

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Speaker 6: it wasn't. Yeah, it's like breaking up.

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Speaker 4: It's like getting a sending getting.

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Speaker 6: A text divorced or a text message that's insane wild, right,

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Speaker 4: That would be crazy. Yeah, right, that's insane. But it's

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Speaker 4: like that doesn't mean maybe you still should house.

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Speaker 3: You were talking about like having kids and it like

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Speaker 6: But you maybe still should be together, right, Like there

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Speaker 4: Why would you ever consider it?

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Speaker 6: Now if they like if they traded Luka doncies and

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Speaker 6: I'm saying, three players back, like I could I could be.

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Speaker 4: Interested in different stories, you know, different stories.

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Speaker 6: So that's why I think it's we have to separate

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Speaker 4: I think obviously he was.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, they did, like it happened.

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Speaker 6: Like the Nuggets president this week all came out and said,

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Speaker 6: Like to me, I would think that Jokic is untradeable. Yes,

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Speaker 2: Kobe with the Lakers, sure like that was untradable. There

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Speaker 3: Want it, Yeah, wild, I'm excited.

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Speaker 2: talk here because Kevin Durant is now in Houston, Wall.

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Speaker 2: I mean, the new league year begins on July six,

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Speaker 4: Which is dumb.

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Speaker 3: Why dum Like it already happened.

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Speaker 4: We could just get through this.

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Speaker 3: Like it already happened.

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Speaker 4: It was done. Everybody's agreed to it.

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Speaker 4: So there you can wear the right hat.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you for saying that.

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Speaker 2: Now we knew that Sons were desperate to get this

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Speaker 2: will he be the missing piece that the Rockets needed?

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Speaker 2: They were a great, young, exciting team all season, and

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Speaker 2: I mean they finished second in the West last year

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Speaker 2: but lost to the Warriors in the first round. The

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Speaker 2: good positive thing about KD is he is a pretty

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Speaker 2: He's a pretty good plug and play player.

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Speaker 3: Sure, like you, he doesn't need much to fit in

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Speaker 3: with a new team. Obviously, we.

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Speaker 2: We saw what he did with the Warriors. That's where

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Speaker 2: he got his titles and his MVPs.

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Speaker 3: H didn't have.

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Speaker 2: Didn't have success in New York, didn't have success in

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Speaker 2: Phoenix with the Suns.

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Speaker 3: So, like, can he get back to that top tier KD?

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Speaker 3: And I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Like again, like he also needs to not like stay healthy.

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Speaker 2: He missed twenty games last season, which is like a

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Speaker 2: fourth of the season. But he's good when he's on.

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Speaker 2: He's still great. He's still a great player, and he

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Speaker 2: can be that veteran presence in a young, up and

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Speaker 2: coming locker room.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and I don't think he has to be the

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Speaker 4: old KD on this team.

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Speaker 6: I just think, honestly, if he just has to be

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Speaker 6: a guy you can get open and shoot the ball,

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Speaker 6: which has been something he's always been able to do. Yeah,

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Speaker 6: as long as he's able to do that, he'll be

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Speaker 6: absolutely fine. Like, there's no concern in my mind about

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Speaker 6: Kevin Durant as long as.

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Speaker 4: Like you said, able to stay healthy.

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Speaker 6: But to me, his injuries of late have been kind

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Speaker 6: of freak accident like rolling his ankle in that in

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Speaker 6: the warm ups like that. That doesn't happen to high schoolers.

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Speaker 6: That's just a weird thing that happens. I'm not playing much.

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Speaker 6: I'm gonta putting much stock into it, but I think

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Speaker 6: he's not gonna have to play. I'll have to play

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Speaker 6: big minutes in the playoffs, obviously, but this is gonna

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Speaker 6: be a situation where he's not gonna have to defend

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Speaker 6: the best player. He's not going to be the tallest

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Speaker 6: guy on the floor trying to get the rebounds. He's

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Speaker 6: not going to be the guy initiating the offense often.

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Speaker 6: He's got to be the guy to catch and shoot.

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Speaker 6: And that's what at this stage in the game he's

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Speaker 6: going to.

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Speaker 4: Be great at. But he's also like not a leader

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Speaker 4: like he who cares.

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Speaker 3: He's never been that guy.

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Speaker 2: No, But I'm saying that works for him in this

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Speaker 2: situation because he has such a good young core of

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Speaker 2: guys on Houston. And We've talked to a lot of

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Speaker 2: people around the team involved with the team, covering the team,

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Speaker 2: and that's kind of what they keep talking about, is

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Speaker 2: just the belief in the chemistry with this young group

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Speaker 2: and what they can't do, and wanting to keep them

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Speaker 2: together and then hopefully this is just an added bonus

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Speaker 2: that they can bring in that doesn't mess up necessarily

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Speaker 2: that chemistry and just kind of ads maybe that little

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Speaker 2: cherry on top that they need to get over that

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Speaker 2: like playoff hump.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean, well the playoff they had went around

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Speaker 6: in the playoffs, you know, saying they.

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Speaker 4: Well that's playoff hump. They have knocked they did not.

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Speaker 4: They just have no offense, right, they have no offense whatsoever.

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Speaker 6: And because of that, you know, they every time they

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Speaker 6: got down the court against the Warriors, you could see

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Speaker 6: that there was just nothing. There was just nothing that

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Speaker 6: they had in that matchup. And and I think that

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Speaker 6: obviously you look at the guys that they were able

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Speaker 6: to move off of in Phoenix. Jalen Green say, moved

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Speaker 6: to Phoenix, as you say, Jalen Green and Dylan Brooks.

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Speaker 4: Those are the guys Like I just do this when

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Speaker 4: I'm watching.

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Speaker 6: The postseason, especially in the first round, second early second round,

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Speaker 6: when the teams are incomplete, right, you know that you're

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Speaker 6: looking at you can.

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Speaker 2: Tell something you're watching like, oh, they're not gonna they're

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Speaker 2: not going to get past his round because they're missing

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Speaker 2: you can.

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Speaker 6: Say, like they would rather have which player, which is

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Speaker 6: the player they would most like to improve in this

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Speaker 6: lineup realistically, right and when you're watching that, that would

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Speaker 6: have been Jayalen Green and Dylan Brooks in some combination

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Speaker 6: of the two.

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Speaker 4: Now you have got a top player.

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Speaker 2: Now you've got an all star, one of the all

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Speaker 2: time greats players of our time right now. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: it should be exciting. They're gonna it's gonna be a

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Speaker 2: tough it's gonna be a tough season in the West.

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Speaker 2: Next year, obviously you got the champs, Lakers are going

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Speaker 2: to be better. I think Warriors will be a little better.

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Speaker 2: And then Houston now with KD, Like this should this

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Speaker 2: should be fun? It should be it should be all right, Martin,

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Speaker 2: what's trending?

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Speaker 6: The Bulls have traded point guard Lonzo Ball to Cleveland,

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Speaker 6: Isaac Korro coming back to Chicago. Sam Merrill will stay

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Speaker 6: in Cleveland on a four year, eighty I'm sorry, thirty

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Speaker 6: eight million dollar deal. Davion Mitchell will stay in Miami

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Speaker 6: on a two year, twenty four million dollar deal. Now

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Speaker 6: as Red reupps with the Timberwolves five years a one

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Speaker 6: hundred and twenty five million dollars. Ace Bailey number five

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Speaker 6: picking the NBA draft Wednesday. Oh I'm sorry that was

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Speaker 6: on Wednesday. Plans to report to the Utah Jazz as

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Speaker 6: expected today, Jazz representatives.

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Speaker 4: Saying that this was always the plan for Billy to

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Speaker 4: go home and get his stuff before reporting to Utah.

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Speaker 6: Show Hail Tani in the middle of his first or

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Speaker 6: sorry third start as a Dodger, but first road start

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Speaker 6: scoreless between the Dodgers and the Royals right now on

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Speaker 6: top of the second inning, top of the second, and

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Speaker 6: the Mets would lead. The Pirates won nothing. Top of

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Speaker 6: the second, Raise four nothing over the Orioles and to

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Speaker 6: the first, Mariners and Rangers scoreless on FS one, bottom

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Speaker 6: of the first, Cincinnati Leeds, San Diego one to nothing,

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Speaker 6: Saint Louis won nothing over Cleveland, and top of the second.

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Speaker 6: Bottom of the first, Red Sox with a three nothing

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Speaker 6: lead over the Blue Jays, and the top of the

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Speaker 6: second any of the Brewers lead the Rockies two to nothing, scoreless, Giants,

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Speaker 6: White Sox, and the Marlins have a two nothing lead

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Speaker 6: over the Diamondbacks. In the NHL, the Anaheim Ducks traded

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Speaker 6: goaltender John Gibson's all time leader and saves appearances and

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Speaker 6: starts for Anaheim. They're going to Detroit, Peter Mraz and

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Speaker 6: a draft pick going back to Anahe Alex backed us.

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Speaker 3: Martin back to I'm still listen to Fox Sports Saturday.

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Speaker 3: I'm Alex Curry here with Martin Wise. We're broadcasting live from.

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Speaker 2: The Fox Sports Radio studios in Los Angeles, and it

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Speaker 2: is time for our first guest, NBA insider Mark mcdina.

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Speaker 4: Thank you for joining the show, Alex, Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 10: Martin always get to talk with you too.

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Speaker 4: What's going on, pal Oh.

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Speaker 10: Nothing other than lots of things on pack of the

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Speaker 10: NBA drafted free agency. It's that time of the air.

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Speaker 4: Yes it is.

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Speaker 2: Season is officially over, but as you said, there's still

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Speaker 2: a lot of talk about. I just want to go

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Speaker 2: back to the champs real quick, under most dominating team

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Speaker 2: in the regular season, picking up their first title since

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Speaker 2: moving to Oklahoma City.

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Speaker 3: How impressed were you by the run that the Thunder

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Speaker 3: made this year?

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Speaker 2: And I know, I don't like talking about dynasty until

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Speaker 2: you've won two and you're looking at three, because it's

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Speaker 2: got to be three to be a dynasty.

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Speaker 3: But is this a core group that can be good

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Speaker 3: for a long time?

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Speaker 11: Yeah?

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Speaker 10: Good things done pack here. As far as what I

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Speaker 10: made at the championship, wasn't surprised. I thought that they

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Speaker 10: were the favorite to win the championship, but a lot

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Speaker 10: of things had to go right. Yes, there are injuries

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Speaker 10: in the Eastern Conference landscape. You always wonder what would

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Speaker 10: happen if Tyri Salburn did an injury his achilles in

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Speaker 10: Game seven. But the thunder there are the complete team shake.

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Speaker 10: Gilgis Alexander got MVP Regular season Finals for a reason.

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Speaker 10: Best scorer in the league, better passer, great leader, clutch player.

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Speaker 10: They had the best defensive team in the league with

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Speaker 10: so much wing depth, they know how to create turnovers.

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Speaker 10: Geddington offense, and Joe and Williams has because I think

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Speaker 10: one of the best two way players in the NBA.

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Speaker 10: So what does this mean moving forward? I would put

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Speaker 10: them as the early favorite to repeat, and that's saying

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Speaker 10: something because we haven't seen a repeat champion since the

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Speaker 10: Golden State Warriors in twenty seventeen and twenty eighteen. And

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Speaker 10: there's gonna be a lot of talk, you know, these

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Speaker 10: next few weeks about second April concerns and teams having

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Speaker 10: to make tough choices. The Thunder don't need to worry

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Speaker 10: about that just yet because Jane Williams chet Holmgren are

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Speaker 10: still under contract for the next two years. So your

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Speaker 10: question with this core group, can they maintain it the

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Speaker 10: next two years? The answer is yes, in the short term,

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Speaker 10: not guaranteed, but there's a plausible chance that they could

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Speaker 10: make history would being the first repeat NBA team since

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Speaker 10: twenty eighteen.

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Speaker 4: Mark, you just.

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Speaker 6: Talked about the second egg for Mark Medina joining us

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Speaker 6: here on Fox Sports Radio, And I have a theory

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Speaker 6: because just take this walk with me for a minute.

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Speaker 6: I try not to just judge things that these executives

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Speaker 6: do is just flatly stupid. So when the Brooklyn Nets

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Speaker 6: took five guards in the first round and or four

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Speaker 6: guards and Danny Wolf who plays point center, I was like,

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Speaker 6: that doesn't make a lot of sense, all right.

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Speaker 4: So the second layer, thinking with the second apron.

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Speaker 6: As it is, is it more valuable to have a

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Speaker 6: lot of young, cost controlled players as assets than it

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Speaker 6: is to try to move draft picks, Because, like you said,

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Speaker 6: these teams are gonna have quote unquote these tough decisions

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Speaker 6: to make And I just watched the Atlanta get Chris

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Speaker 6: STAPs Twarzenkis for George Niang the second round pick. So

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Speaker 6: like I'm wondering, like, is it more beneficial to have

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Speaker 6: these younger, cost control guys that you can maybe trade

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Speaker 6: down the line than it is to have.

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Speaker 4: Picks for like you know what I'm saying. As the

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Speaker 4: second apron devalued the draft pick.

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Speaker 10: In a way, But it depends on the timing. I

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Speaker 10: think draft picks are still very valuable when it comes

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Speaker 10: to leading into the trade deadline, certainly leading into the draft,

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Speaker 10: because when you have a draft that you can choose

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Speaker 10: which player you want. Now, obviously you don't always have

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Speaker 10: control because of who's available on the board, but I

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Speaker 10: think to your point posts NBA draft free agency, the

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Speaker 10: currency of having young control talent is an asset because

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Speaker 10: of what we were talking about with the second different

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Speaker 10: concerns here. I mean, when you're looking at the NBA landscape,

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Speaker 10: I think the Brooklyn Nets are literally the only team

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Speaker 10: right now that have cap space to work with everyone else.

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Speaker 10: They're going to be making moves to cut costs or

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Speaker 10: to improve on the margins. So with that, there's going

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Speaker 10: to be a lot of activity during this free agency period.

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Speaker 10: And obviously, if you anizant to the Koumpo gets traded,

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Speaker 10: that's a huge domino. But outside of that, a lot

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Speaker 10: of this activity might just be fake hustle of making

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Speaker 10: cost cutting moves and when you know moves better Marshall

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Speaker 10: Marshall moves than these high impact, splashy moves that we've

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Speaker 10: gotten accustomed to and spoil with over the years.

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Speaker 2: During fourth of July, well, speaking of making moves, Kevin

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Speaker 2: Durant will officially be trade into the Rockets when the

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Speaker 2: new league begins on July six, even though like we

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Speaker 2: know he's there, everyone knows he's there. What does Katie

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Speaker 2: bring to this team and can he make them a

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Speaker 2: legitimate title contender?

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Speaker 10: Definitely a legitimate title contenter because they just needed that

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Speaker 10: veteran star piece. They have a great young core, they

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Speaker 10: have great defensive depth, they have a great coach and

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Speaker 10: Mayo Dooka, and they really threaded the needle well where

665
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Speaker 10: they had to give up some things to get Kevin Durant,

666
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Speaker 10: but Phoenix should have gotten a lot more. The Sons

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Speaker 10: did not have to give up Alphri and Sngoon or

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Speaker 10: more than one first round pick. This was the number

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Speaker 10: ten pick, so they still have a lot of good

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Speaker 10: things his moving forward, fred a Athleets coming back now,

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Speaker 10: I've still put the Thunder as a favorite over the

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Speaker 10: Rockets because they have the community, They're coming off the

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Speaker 10: championship year. All the players are still pretty young. But

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Speaker 10: I would put Houston right behind them at number two,

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Speaker 10: assuming those there's no major injuries. And you know that's

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Speaker 10: something you can't discount because Kevin Durant, he's had injury

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Speaker 10: issues since his achilles in twenty nineteen, but went on

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Speaker 10: when he's healthy on the court, and he's played most

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Speaker 10: of the time, he's been as efficient as he's ever

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Speaker 10: been at all on BA level.

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Speaker 6: So Mark, when Ace Bailey said I'm not working on

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Speaker 6: for anybody because I have a spot in mind, that

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Speaker 6: spot was not Utah. Yeah, and I can't think of

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Speaker 6: any place that needs more like an NBA like they

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Speaker 6: need to, really, the NBA needs to. The tourism package

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Speaker 6: for Utah has to improve because nobody wants to go there.

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Speaker 6: It seems Ace Bailey allegedly reportedly reporting today to Utah

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Speaker 6: part of their team executives.

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Speaker 4: But what do you what's how does this end.

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Speaker 11: Yeah.

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Speaker 10: Interesting, I mean, how does it end. He's going to

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Speaker 10: play there his entire career. But I think in the

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Speaker 10: short term, I think things will be fine.

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Speaker 11: He's not the.

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Speaker 10: First player and not the last player to try to

696
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Speaker 10: dictate maneuver things behind the scenes where he gets drafted.

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Speaker 10: I think just the way he orchestrated it looked a

698
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Speaker 10: little clumsy, with you know, outright refusing to work out

699
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Speaker 10: with the Sixers and it's being very cagy with everything else.

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Speaker 10: And I think to the Jazz is defense. You know,

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Speaker 10: Danny Ainge, He's not worried about if someone wants to

702
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Speaker 10: be it or not. He's going to take the best

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Speaker 10: player available. And I think in the Sixers case, they

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Speaker 10: didn't take him because there's already question marks about Joel

705
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Speaker 10: Embiid's health and Paul saving with Paul George, just the

706
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Speaker 10: how they all coexisted last year, the last thing they

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Speaker 10: need to have is another distract. And I think VJ.

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Speaker 10: Edgecombe he's a great player. He still needs to develop,

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Speaker 10: but he has great upside and great attitude, great two

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Speaker 10: way talent, So I get that. But I don't think

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Speaker 10: the Jazz made any mistake with selecting Bailey because I think,

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Speaker 10: you know, once the frustration subsides, he'll want to play

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Speaker 10: his best basketball because that'll be his ticket toward winning

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Speaker 10: and being a star player and maybe eventually going to

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Speaker 10: a team that he wants to play down the line, Oh,

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Speaker 10: someone with.

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Speaker 2: The opposite attitude. Cooper Flagg as expected drafted first overall

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Speaker 2: by the MAVs. Will he be able to fill that

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Speaker 2: Lucas sized void in Dallas?

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Speaker 10: Yeah, great question, Alex. I don't think that he is

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Speaker 10: expected to fill that void as far as carrying a franchise,

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Speaker 10: but I think in a few years he will be

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Speaker 10: that guy. He'll be the franchise savior. He'll be this

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Speaker 10: guy they built around. But the very short term things

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Speaker 10: worked out perfectly for both the MAVs coming off all

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Speaker 10: the frustration anks losing Luca, losing Kyrie a month before

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Speaker 10: the playoffs started with his aco injury. But in Cooper's case,

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Speaker 10: he's drafted number one without having the conventional path that

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Speaker 10: most number one picks have of having to be the

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Speaker 10: franchise savior, even though there's question marks when's Kyrie coming back?

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Speaker 10: Can Anthony Davis be healthy? On paper, he's likely going

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Speaker 10: to be the third option, and so he has to

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Speaker 10: be prepared to have that number one, number two role

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Speaker 10: in case there's other injuries. But Matt McKenzie, his trainer,

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Speaker 10: told me the key word about Cooper Flagg is being adaptable.

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Speaker 10: He's very well equipped both with his attitude as well

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Speaker 10: as most importantly, his skill set as a versat defender.

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Speaker 10: Someone who has great athleticism can dunk really well, is

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Speaker 10: a good shooter. He can plug all those different holes

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Speaker 10: without being the jack of all trades, master of none.

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Speaker 10: He's just very skilled at a lot of good things.

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Speaker 10: And because of that, he's going to have a lot

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Speaker 10: of success as a rookie year. He's going to win

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Speaker 10: rook of the Year. And I believe you know what

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Speaker 10: the one executive projected, He's going to be a multi

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Speaker 10: year All NBA guy, multi year All Sorry, I think

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Speaker 10: every single season after his rookie year, because of all

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Speaker 10: those great skills he guys.

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Speaker 3: I love that. I'm excited to see him. I think

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Speaker 3: he's the real deal.

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Speaker 2: I had a chance to talk to him, and as

752
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Speaker 2: you heard him say, he just wants to be a sponge,

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Speaker 2: which is all you want to hear from a new

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Speaker 2: guy in a franchise.

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Speaker 3: Mark, thank you so much for joining us. Really appreciate

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Speaker 3: your time.

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Speaker 10: Alex, mart I appreciate you both. Always fun talking to

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Speaker 10: you always.

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Speaker 2: All right, guys, when we come back the dues in

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Speaker 2: the dontes in sports. You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 11: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to Fox Sports Saturday. I'm Alex Curry here

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Speaker 2: with Martin Wise. We are broadcasting live from the Fox

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Speaker 2: Sports Radio studios in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 3: Thank you for spending your Saturday afternoon with us. It

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Speaker 3: is time now for the dues and the don'ts in

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Speaker 3: sports highlight.

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Speaker 11: Oh I love that putting a spotlight on the dot.

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Speaker 3: The subject brings me no joy.

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Speaker 5: That that's insane.

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Speaker 11: It's time for the dues and the don'ts in sports.

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Speaker 3: I gotta start out with a big do here, do

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Speaker 3: get your back. Rinaldo's new contract. Have you have you

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Speaker 3: looked at this thing, Martin?

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Speaker 4: No, give it to me mine blowing. Okay, let me

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Speaker 4: just tell you this is a two year deal.

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Speaker 2: Okay. He gets two hundred and forty four point two

778
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Speaker 2: three million dollars a year, fifteen percent ownership in a team.

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Speaker 2: That's forty five point three million dollars one hundred and

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00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:34,880
Speaker 2: ten thousand dollars per goal, fifty five thousand per assists,

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00:36:35,120 --> 00:36:39,040
Speaker 2: eleven million for a title, five point five million to

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Speaker 2: win the Golden Boot, eight point nine million to a

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Speaker 2: the Asian Cut League, sixteen full time employees for him

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Speaker 2: at all times, five point five million dollars in private

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Speaker 2: jet credits, and eighty two point four million dollars in

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Speaker 2: guaranteed sponsorship.

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Speaker 4: I think my favorite is the private jet credits. You

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Speaker 4: got only redeem these at a private jet, which is

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Speaker 4: like a cousin of foth cards.

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Speaker 6: I'll take actual money and then canvert it to a

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Speaker 6: place where you can only spend it here.

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Speaker 2: Well, I mean it's he's already getting almost two million

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00:37:14,160 --> 00:37:16,359
Speaker 2: a year just in the contract and all that other stuff.

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Speaker 3: And this is for two years. That's just one year.

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Speaker 3: Everything I just listened is one year. Wow, and he

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Speaker 3: gets up.

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Speaker 4: For two years. That's crazy, Saint. I'll go with you. Don't, okay,

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Speaker 4: don't have the NBA Draftee two days long.

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Speaker 6: I know we tried to do it last year because

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Speaker 6: Brianni was going to go in the second round, and

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00:37:34,600 --> 00:37:35,959
Speaker 6: you should have just kept it the same.

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Speaker 4: Let's fix it again, like let shorten it. The draft

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00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:41,600
Speaker 4: can be an hour and a half max.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's there's stretching for sponsorship here.

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Speaker 6: But it's let's remember, entertainment value probably could help drive

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Speaker 6: sponsorship dollars a little bit better than maybe just length

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Speaker 6: of programs.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, how long? Was it too long? Like three four hours? Hours?

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Speaker 3: Yet, that's that's way too long. Okay, I have another doom.

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Speaker 3: Do show your creative side.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if you've seen or watched the Mets

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00:38:07,160 --> 00:38:11,120
Speaker 2: broadcast at all recently, but they kind of turn their

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00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:15,080
Speaker 2: games into cinematic masterpieces and they've gone viral for it.

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Speaker 2: Their director John DeMar i't want to say his name

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Speaker 2: with Demarcico. He's a self proclaimed film junkie, and he's

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Speaker 2: been making these baseball moments look like old school film

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00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:33,440
Speaker 2: moments where you'll have like a side by side, like

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Speaker 2: instead of a two box. It's like, you know, like

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Speaker 2: in movies where it's like someone closer, someone further away,

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Speaker 2: and it's just it's it's so beautiful, he said. There's

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Speaker 2: so many moments over the course of a baseball game,

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Speaker 2: and baseball is a unique sport when it comes to

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Speaker 2: TV because you have time to implement cinematic devices. But

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Speaker 2: it's like it literally, it literally looks like a movie.

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Speaker 3: It's so beautiful.

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Speaker 2: I'll send it to you so you can like see

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Speaker 2: what I'm talking about, because it's like, good for him.

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Speaker 3: He's a film guy and he's literally making a film

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Speaker 3: every game.

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Speaker 6: Don't swear when getting when you get drafted. Oh, it's

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Speaker 6: just not a good look. No, it's not a good look.

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Speaker 6: And because now for like the first twenty game your career,

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00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:18,920
Speaker 6: people going to be like, oh, is this why you

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Speaker 6: swore when you got drafted.

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Speaker 4: You know, it's just not a good look. Save it later.

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Speaker 3: It's so hard.

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Speaker 2: I remember, like because when I would do postgame interviews

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Speaker 2: and it'd be a walk off interview and you know

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Speaker 2: that there's like a gatorade bucket coming, I would mentally like,

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Speaker 2: you have to practice because sometimes it like just again,

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Speaker 2: when you're on TV or radio, you have to be PG.

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Speaker 2: So I'm just like, you have to train your brain

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Speaker 2: to be like instead of like accidentally letting something slip.

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Speaker 2: And it's like it's a conscious effort before you go

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Speaker 2: live in any situation in this industry. It's hard when

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Speaker 2: it's like a part of your everyday lingo and you

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Speaker 2: curse like a sailor, like I'm not gonna lie. I

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Speaker 2: probably do like I definitely do outside of this, but

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Speaker 2: it's just, oh man, I feel so bad.

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Speaker 4: Okay, do always be you.

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Speaker 2: The Eagles held one of the fundraising events at a

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Speaker 2: bar at the Jersey Shore where they have like former

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Speaker 2: and current players.

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Speaker 3: Bartend and Jason Kelsey did not disappoint per us.

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Speaker 2: He got up on a chair, ripped off his pants

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Speaker 2: and was rocking a speedo and he looks trim.

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Speaker 6: Oh goodness, talk about trim well trimmer Jason Kelce or

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Speaker 6: Luca Dodgers.

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Speaker 3: Luka donchs all right, just check, but also like, what's

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Speaker 3: his belly out?

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Speaker 4: With Luca's belly out? Like we got like a we

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Speaker 4: got like a.

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Speaker 3: Have naked Kelsey?

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Speaker 2: All right?

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Speaker 4: When we come back.

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Speaker 2: It's a tawny day and NFL chacket.

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Speaker 3: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 11: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to our two of Fox Sports Saturday. I'm Alex

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Speaker 2: Curry here with Martin Wise. Thank you for spending your

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Speaker 2: Saturday afternoon with us. Now we talked all things NBA

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Speaker 2: last hour, the champs, the draft, Cooper flag, what will

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Speaker 2: the Lakers be next season?

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00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:10,319
Speaker 3: Will KD make Houston a championship team?

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Speaker 2: the podcast that'll be posted right after the show. This hour,

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Speaker 2: we're gonna hit MLB, Little NFL, new faces and new places,

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Speaker 2: best wide receiver, new quarterback Combo. Also Rogers announcing is

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00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:32,240
Speaker 2: probably his final season, which I mean, that was perfect

880
00:41:32,320 --> 00:41:34,200
Speaker 2: timing for him to do that.

881
00:41:35,080 --> 00:41:35,920
Speaker 3: I'm not surprised.

882
00:41:36,320 --> 00:41:38,200
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890
00:41:54,160 --> 00:41:56,759
Speaker 2: Okay, but let's start with some baseball because we are

891
00:41:56,840 --> 00:41:58,680
Speaker 2: in the dog days of summer right now, and as

892
00:41:58,719 --> 00:42:00,840
Speaker 2: I look at every team, that's what we have on

893
00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:04,520
Speaker 2: here right now, right That's that's just what we're living

894
00:42:04,560 --> 00:42:08,040
Speaker 2: in now now. Like in our industry, it's all baseball.

895
00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:10,759
Speaker 2: It's all baseball right now. Are you on are you

896
00:42:10,840 --> 00:42:12,400
Speaker 2: talking to me, Martin.

897
00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:13,440
Speaker 4: Enjoy it.

898
00:42:13,600 --> 00:42:14,040
Speaker 11: There we go.

899
00:42:14,719 --> 00:42:16,120
Speaker 4: I love it. I mean, you know, I was.

900
00:42:16,800 --> 00:42:19,319
Speaker 2: Baseball has been my entire life, Like I grew up

901
00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:22,000
Speaker 2: with season tickets to the Dodgers. I played softball and soccer,

902
00:42:22,440 --> 00:42:24,560
Speaker 2: and then my first job out of college was Angel's

903
00:42:24,560 --> 00:42:25,680
Speaker 2: sideline for a decade.

904
00:42:25,800 --> 00:42:26,480
Speaker 5: So I like.

905
00:42:28,120 --> 00:42:29,280
Speaker 3: Baseball is summer.

906
00:42:29,800 --> 00:42:31,359
Speaker 4: Absolutely mean, it's a picnic in the park.

907
00:42:31,680 --> 00:42:32,239
Speaker 3: It's fun.

908
00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:35,960
Speaker 2: And today was o tawny day. He made his third start,

909
00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:40,440
Speaker 2: first on the road in Kansas City. First two starts

910
00:42:41,480 --> 00:42:44,920
Speaker 2: only went one inning, both outings. First start since twenty

911
00:42:45,040 --> 00:42:48,200
Speaker 2: twenty three was against the Padres. You know, not bad,

912
00:42:48,360 --> 00:42:50,200
Speaker 2: not great, two hits.

913
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:50,440
Speaker 3: One in run.

914
00:42:50,520 --> 00:42:52,200
Speaker 2: Second start got up like I feel like he got

915
00:42:52,239 --> 00:42:53,880
Speaker 2: like the rust off against the Nationals.

916
00:42:53,960 --> 00:42:56,040
Speaker 3: No hits, no runs, sure, two strikeouts.

917
00:42:56,080 --> 00:42:59,480
Speaker 2: And then today he bumped it up to two innings,

918
00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:02,480
Speaker 2: gave up one hit, one walk and a strikeout.

919
00:43:02,520 --> 00:43:03,160
Speaker 3: Nowhere in runs.

920
00:43:03,200 --> 00:43:03,560
Speaker 11: So like.

921
00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:12,799
Speaker 2: Otani back being on the mound after winning his third

922
00:43:12,920 --> 00:43:17,560
Speaker 2: MVP last season, first time ever, like full time DH again.

923
00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:21,480
Speaker 2: He's been unanimous every time he's won MVP, leading the

924
00:43:21,560 --> 00:43:23,239
Speaker 2: National League with twenty nine home runs.

925
00:43:23,280 --> 00:43:26,000
Speaker 4: Let me make sure that's updated. Because that was about

926
00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:28,359
Speaker 4: an hour ago. He hasn't hit a home run today.

927
00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:29,560
Speaker 4: He hasn't hit a home run today.

928
00:43:29,680 --> 00:43:30,120
Speaker 5: Yeah, just.

929
00:43:31,680 --> 00:43:32,239
Speaker 3: Making sure.

930
00:43:32,719 --> 00:43:35,920
Speaker 2: We still got cal Rawley, the big dumper, leading the

931
00:43:35,960 --> 00:43:41,160
Speaker 2: league in home runs, which is just like Wild Seattle's catcher. Sure,

932
00:43:41,760 --> 00:43:45,280
Speaker 2: and then Judge right behind Otani with twenty eight home runs.

933
00:43:45,920 --> 00:43:49,160
Speaker 2: But we're in the dog day of the summer, almost

934
00:43:49,200 --> 00:43:51,160
Speaker 2: halfway through the season, which is crazy.

935
00:43:51,280 --> 00:43:54,799
Speaker 3: All Star Game voting. We're like right around the corner

936
00:43:54,840 --> 00:43:55,319
Speaker 3: from the All.

937
00:43:55,239 --> 00:43:58,800
Speaker 4: Star Game and he finished voting.

938
00:43:59,120 --> 00:44:00,799
Speaker 3: And you know what, the two stars, the.

939
00:44:00,840 --> 00:44:03,520
Speaker 2: Two faces of the league, show Heyo Tani and Aaron Judge,

940
00:44:03,560 --> 00:44:07,440
Speaker 2: the reigning MVPs in the American League in the National League,

941
00:44:08,000 --> 00:44:09,960
Speaker 2: have both been voted as the top players to the

942
00:44:10,000 --> 00:44:14,080
Speaker 2: Also Game. So they both like they're starters. That's happening,

943
00:44:14,640 --> 00:44:17,520
Speaker 2: And is anybody surprised? No, Like last year was a gift.

944
00:44:17,680 --> 00:44:20,520
Speaker 2: Last year was a gift for the World Series, having

945
00:44:21,239 --> 00:44:24,240
Speaker 2: the two storied franchises. I think for our company Fox Sports,

946
00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:27,000
Speaker 2: like having the World Series was absolutely insane. Having two

947
00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:28,880
Speaker 2: of the biggest names and two of the biggest stars

948
00:44:29,360 --> 00:44:31,319
Speaker 2: in Aaron Judge and show Heyo Tani, and now both

949
00:44:31,360 --> 00:44:33,520
Speaker 2: of them pick up right where they left off this year, like,

950
00:44:34,360 --> 00:44:37,520
Speaker 2: we're so lucky to be like in the middle of greatness.

951
00:44:37,640 --> 00:44:38,920
Speaker 3: I always tell people that like it.

952
00:44:39,280 --> 00:44:41,319
Speaker 2: It was the same with like people who complain about

953
00:44:41,360 --> 00:44:43,960
Speaker 2: Lebron James or people who were complaining about like Tom

954
00:44:44,040 --> 00:44:46,960
Speaker 2: Brady and the Patriots dynasty when that was happening or

955
00:44:48,320 --> 00:44:50,440
Speaker 2: Golden State Warriors. Is like, why are you complaining? You

956
00:44:50,560 --> 00:44:53,560
Speaker 2: are literally living in and witnessing greatness. Can you just

957
00:44:53,640 --> 00:44:55,399
Speaker 2: appreciate it when it's right in front of your face?

958
00:44:55,640 --> 00:44:55,839
Speaker 5: Yeah?

959
00:44:55,880 --> 00:44:57,279
Speaker 6: I don't think I'd say as long as it's not

960
00:44:57,360 --> 00:44:59,960
Speaker 6: happening against your team, Yeah, knew was rather your team

961
00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:01,239
Speaker 6: be the one that's being great.

962
00:45:01,320 --> 00:45:05,200
Speaker 4: I don't really have a baseball wearing a Dodgers Dodgers hat.

963
00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:06,040
Speaker 3: Yes, it's La.

964
00:45:06,200 --> 00:45:08,560
Speaker 4: That is you were literally wearing a Dodgers hat. This

965
00:45:08,680 --> 00:45:10,040
Speaker 4: hat is black, the Dodgers were.

966
00:45:10,200 --> 00:45:13,520
Speaker 3: It doesn't matter. It's that it's the Dodger logo. That's

967
00:45:13,560 --> 00:45:14,160
Speaker 3: a Dodger hat.

968
00:45:14,640 --> 00:45:17,080
Speaker 12: I don't know, that's definitely that's a Dodger hat. I

969
00:45:17,320 --> 00:45:19,320
Speaker 12: think this is really what time in That is a

970
00:45:19,400 --> 00:45:22,000
Speaker 12: Dodger Yeah, the La doctors. I'm dissenting on that, Like

971
00:45:22,120 --> 00:45:24,000
Speaker 12: I have a black tiger's hat. I don't think of

972
00:45:24,040 --> 00:45:25,279
Speaker 12: it as a tiger's hat. I think if it is

973
00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:25,920
Speaker 12: a Detroit hat.

974
00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:26,359
Speaker 13: No, you see.

975
00:45:26,520 --> 00:45:29,440
Speaker 14: I love that that's a logo, like that's one that's

976
00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:33,279
Speaker 14: a cool It's city City of LA logo. But I

977
00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:35,360
Speaker 14: can't wear it because I'm not a Dodgers fan, and

978
00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:37,440
Speaker 14: I hate that I can't wear it. But I've accepted

979
00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:38,200
Speaker 14: that I can't wear it.

980
00:45:38,280 --> 00:45:41,040
Speaker 6: So the fact that you're wearing if you live in

981
00:45:41,160 --> 00:45:43,280
Speaker 6: Los Angeles and this hat just says LA.

982
00:45:43,239 --> 00:45:45,560
Speaker 4: On it and is black, but it's the Dodger's logo.

983
00:45:46,000 --> 00:45:48,640
Speaker 14: So would you get if you someday moved out of

984
00:45:48,840 --> 00:45:51,160
Speaker 14: LA and wanted to get like a tattoo or something,

985
00:45:51,520 --> 00:45:54,400
Speaker 14: would you get that logo tattooed on your body with

986
00:45:54,520 --> 00:45:55,640
Speaker 14: it being the Dodger's logo.

987
00:45:56,120 --> 00:45:56,160
Speaker 12: No?

988
00:45:56,440 --> 00:45:59,040
Speaker 4: But last week when I was outside of l A,

989
00:45:59,160 --> 00:45:59,960
Speaker 4: I wore this hat.

990
00:46:00,400 --> 00:46:00,600
Speaker 5: Yeah.

991
00:46:01,920 --> 00:46:04,120
Speaker 1: I guess the problem is is like, what's the alternative?

992
00:46:04,160 --> 00:46:06,760
Speaker 1: What is the other very big known l A symbol?

993
00:46:06,880 --> 00:46:09,080
Speaker 4: If it is not, it's not it's the Dodgers l A.

994
00:46:09,239 --> 00:46:11,600
Speaker 2: It's like the New York Yankees, Like that's the New

995
00:46:11,719 --> 00:46:13,280
Speaker 2: York Like it's very perfect.

996
00:46:14,520 --> 00:46:16,200
Speaker 4: But again, that's why I have the Tiger's cap, but

997
00:46:16,239 --> 00:46:20,480
Speaker 4: it's not the Yankees logo on a green hat. That

998
00:46:20,600 --> 00:46:22,319
Speaker 4: does not make it to me a Yank.

999
00:46:22,440 --> 00:46:25,760
Speaker 2: But they sell they sell these hats in like every

1000
00:46:25,960 --> 00:46:30,640
Speaker 2: different kind of like color. They have prints on them,

1001
00:46:30,960 --> 00:46:33,719
Speaker 2: like I wear I wear my black on black like

1002
00:46:33,840 --> 00:46:36,400
Speaker 2: I have like that, but then it's like black stitching

1003
00:46:36,400 --> 00:46:36,960
Speaker 2: instead of the white.

1004
00:46:37,160 --> 00:46:40,200
Speaker 14: Yeah, I think it's my Dodgers Dodger game with the Yankees,

1005
00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:42,120
Speaker 14: because like that's just a green Yankees hat.

1006
00:46:42,200 --> 00:46:45,520
Speaker 4: Then yeah, so this is a black Dodgers hat. Yeah,

1007
00:46:45,640 --> 00:46:50,799
Speaker 4: here's the problem. The Dodgers don't wear black. They sell

1008
00:46:50,840 --> 00:46:53,640
Speaker 4: it at the stadium, not to Dodgers fans, just an

1009
00:46:53,760 --> 00:46:57,759
Speaker 4: or generic fance I love it orange hat. If I

1010
00:46:57,920 --> 00:47:00,640
Speaker 4: if I got the L A the L A Y here,

1011
00:47:00,960 --> 00:47:01,400
Speaker 4: what if I.

1012
00:47:01,480 --> 00:47:04,239
Speaker 6: Got an orangel A the L the L and the

1013
00:47:04,320 --> 00:47:07,520
Speaker 6: A and orange and then the hat and blue which

1014
00:47:07,560 --> 00:47:08,400
Speaker 6: are Mets colors.

1015
00:47:08,520 --> 00:47:11,919
Speaker 3: And now it's gonna say longly colored Dodgers. But it's okay,

1016
00:47:13,280 --> 00:47:14,120
Speaker 3: I'm actually curious.

1017
00:47:14,160 --> 00:47:14,640
Speaker 4: This is something.

1018
00:47:15,880 --> 00:47:17,480
Speaker 3: This is something we're gonna ask fans.

1019
00:47:17,520 --> 00:47:22,200
Speaker 2: Okay, if you are wearing a L A the Dodgers

1020
00:47:22,920 --> 00:47:26,879
Speaker 2: l A logo hat, and it's not blue, Say it's black,

1021
00:47:26,920 --> 00:47:28,200
Speaker 2: say it's gray, say it's green.

1022
00:47:28,400 --> 00:47:30,480
Speaker 3: Is it still considered a Dodgers hat?

1023
00:47:30,560 --> 00:47:32,560
Speaker 4: And it's not a hat that says, to be clear,

1024
00:47:33,000 --> 00:47:35,680
Speaker 4: Dodgers Dodgers.

1025
00:47:37,800 --> 00:47:40,360
Speaker 6: I'm painting a picture for the It's just the L

1026
00:47:40,440 --> 00:47:43,360
Speaker 6: and the A. There's no script Dodgers anywhere.

1027
00:47:43,400 --> 00:47:44,640
Speaker 4: On the on my hat.

1028
00:47:44,719 --> 00:47:46,200
Speaker 3: But that's a Dodgers logo.

1029
00:47:47,520 --> 00:47:51,919
Speaker 1: Thing for self selecting a high selecting group by pinging

1030
00:47:51,960 --> 00:47:53,839
Speaker 1: people because this is a sports station. But I think

1031
00:47:54,360 --> 00:47:56,319
Speaker 1: you ask people on like I don't know, a rock station,

1032
00:47:56,360 --> 00:47:58,319
Speaker 1: most people just say, yeah, it's an L A hat

1033
00:47:59,000 --> 00:48:00,120
Speaker 1: because that's who that is.

1034
00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:01,799
Speaker 2: I'm gonna put it out there and I'm gonna I'm

1035
00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:03,839
Speaker 2: going to ask the internet. I'm gonna clip that we're

1036
00:48:03,840 --> 00:48:04,279
Speaker 2: gonna ask.

1037
00:48:04,400 --> 00:48:08,120
Speaker 3: I really think this is gonna be like one hundred zero. Yeah,

1038
00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:09,040
Speaker 3: that's not your hat.

1039
00:48:09,080 --> 00:48:12,400
Speaker 2: And I love it because the Dodgers Dodger is a

1040
00:48:12,440 --> 00:48:15,800
Speaker 2: black Dodgers hat, but they don't want black dogs.

1041
00:48:16,520 --> 00:48:19,120
Speaker 4: It's a Dodger's hat and I'm looking for it.

1042
00:48:21,239 --> 00:48:23,640
Speaker 1: Just because their their their name has the first letter

1043
00:48:24,040 --> 00:48:25,799
Speaker 1: that is the logo that they're really clear.

1044
00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:27,840
Speaker 4: I'm wearing this hat because i need a haircut.

1045
00:48:29,160 --> 00:48:30,960
Speaker 3: Oh my god, Wait, Martin, I didn't tell you this.

1046
00:48:31,120 --> 00:48:32,799
Speaker 2: When I got out of my car today, I looked

1047
00:48:32,840 --> 00:48:35,439
Speaker 2: to my right and I thought that was I thought

1048
00:48:35,440 --> 00:48:39,160
Speaker 2: it was you getting out of a car. Our studio

1049
00:48:39,320 --> 00:48:41,279
Speaker 2: is like next to a yoga studio, so there's a

1050
00:48:41,280 --> 00:48:42,120
Speaker 2: lot of people usually.

1051
00:48:41,920 --> 00:48:43,799
Speaker 4: Getting out for especially at the top of the album.

1052
00:48:43,880 --> 00:48:46,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, when we're arriving and I look over, I'm like, huh,

1053
00:48:47,080 --> 00:48:48,440
Speaker 2: Martin with a headband.

1054
00:48:48,880 --> 00:48:51,520
Speaker 3: That's new. That's interesting, And then did a double take.

1055
00:48:51,560 --> 00:48:53,200
Speaker 3: I was like, oh no, that's not Martin. Okay, I

1056
00:48:53,239 --> 00:48:54,719
Speaker 3: gotta I gotta laugh. I gotta tell him that.

1057
00:48:54,840 --> 00:48:57,280
Speaker 4: But like, it must have been a good looking fellow.

1058
00:49:00,239 --> 00:49:00,759
Speaker 3: It was great.

1059
00:49:00,800 --> 00:49:04,040
Speaker 2: Okay, let's switch to some football. Because NFL off season

1060
00:49:04,239 --> 00:49:06,480
Speaker 2: is in full of fact. Mini camps are done. We're

1061
00:49:06,520 --> 00:49:09,080
Speaker 2: about three to four weeks away from training camp, so

1062
00:49:09,239 --> 00:49:12,160
Speaker 2: everyone is off enjoying kind of that last bit of summer.

1063
00:49:12,360 --> 00:49:15,719
Speaker 2: So obviously it's the perfect time for Aaron Rodgers to

1064
00:49:15,760 --> 00:49:17,799
Speaker 2: make headlines because that's what he does.

1065
00:49:18,080 --> 00:49:20,120
Speaker 3: And he went on Pat McAfee to tell him.

1066
00:49:20,800 --> 00:49:24,560
Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure that this is going to be his

1067
00:49:24,760 --> 00:49:27,120
Speaker 2: final season of his NFL career.

1068
00:49:27,560 --> 00:49:29,200
Speaker 15: Pretty sure this is it. You know, that's why we

1069
00:49:29,320 --> 00:49:32,040
Speaker 15: just did a one year deal. Steelers didn't need to

1070
00:49:32,239 --> 00:49:34,360
Speaker 15: you know, put any extra years on that or anything. So,

1071
00:49:35,640 --> 00:49:39,840
Speaker 15: you know, this was really about finishing with love and

1072
00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:44,040
Speaker 15: fun and peace. For the career that I've had. I've

1073
00:49:44,040 --> 00:49:47,239
Speaker 15: played twenty freaking news, you know, like, it's been a long,

1074
00:49:47,480 --> 00:49:47,920
Speaker 15: long run.

1075
00:49:48,040 --> 00:49:48,680
Speaker 13: I've enjoyed it.

1076
00:49:48,760 --> 00:49:51,759
Speaker 15: And what better place to finish than in one of

1077
00:49:51,800 --> 00:49:56,759
Speaker 15: the cornerstone franchises of the NFL with Mike Tomlin and

1078
00:49:57,560 --> 00:50:00,919
Speaker 15: the great group of leadership and guys in the city

1079
00:50:01,000 --> 00:50:03,400
Speaker 15: that you know expects expects you to win.

1080
00:50:04,239 --> 00:50:06,319
Speaker 2: So he signed a one year, thirteen point six million

1081
00:50:06,360 --> 00:50:09,279
Speaker 2: dollar contract, which at this point like it was kind

1082
00:50:09,320 --> 00:50:09,960
Speaker 2: of his only option.

1083
00:50:10,120 --> 00:50:13,000
Speaker 3: We were hearing that he wanted to go other places.

1084
00:50:13,480 --> 00:50:16,080
Speaker 2: The Rams kind of had him as like a backup,

1085
00:50:16,440 --> 00:50:19,759
Speaker 2: maybe third option if Stafford's did contract and work out.

1086
00:50:19,920 --> 00:50:24,319
Speaker 2: Vikings were also maybe an option, but they stuck with JJ.

1087
00:50:26,440 --> 00:50:28,600
Speaker 2: So what is his final season gonna look like?

1088
00:50:29,000 --> 00:50:29,040
Speaker 7: Like?

1089
00:50:29,280 --> 00:50:31,920
Speaker 3: Must watch TV? A farewell tour?

1090
00:50:32,760 --> 00:50:36,720
Speaker 2: He said, like he's gonna give the Steelers everything he's gotten.

1091
00:50:36,920 --> 00:50:41,680
Speaker 3: An empty the tank obviously, and you just hope that

1092
00:50:41,800 --> 00:50:44,160
Speaker 3: now he's two years removed from the Achilles injury.

1093
00:50:44,400 --> 00:50:46,759
Speaker 2: So we're not going to get the MVP Rogers that

1094
00:50:46,840 --> 00:50:49,640
Speaker 2: we saw was that like four years ago, but maybe

1095
00:50:49,719 --> 00:50:52,040
Speaker 2: we get a better than five and two Rogers from

1096
00:50:52,760 --> 00:50:54,680
Speaker 2: last year in New York.

1097
00:50:55,080 --> 00:50:56,680
Speaker 4: Like, there's got to be there's got to be a

1098
00:50:56,800 --> 00:50:58,680
Speaker 4: good structure around him.

1099
00:50:58,760 --> 00:51:00,120
Speaker 6: Is going to be so much better than a was

1100
00:51:00,160 --> 00:51:03,600
Speaker 6: in New York, part because he's not gonna have any

1101
00:51:03,760 --> 00:51:06,759
Speaker 6: influence on building the structure around him, so.

1102
00:51:06,960 --> 00:51:07,759
Speaker 4: It will be better.

1103
00:51:08,360 --> 00:51:08,520
Speaker 5: Yeah.

1104
00:51:08,560 --> 00:51:10,120
Speaker 4: Yeah, Well, it's a functional franchise.

1105
00:51:10,520 --> 00:51:12,920
Speaker 2: It's a storied functional franchise opposed to like one of

1106
00:51:12,960 --> 00:51:14,480
Speaker 2: the most dysfunctional franchises.

1107
00:51:14,680 --> 00:51:17,480
Speaker 6: I mean even dysfunctional, whether or not the Jets or

1108
00:51:17,480 --> 00:51:19,160
Speaker 6: they could have been perfectly functional.

1109
00:51:19,239 --> 00:51:22,239
Speaker 4: But if he's gonna come in and hire his offensive coordinator,

1110
00:51:22,360 --> 00:51:24,600
Speaker 4: then bringing his his receivers and then.

1111
00:51:24,520 --> 00:51:25,920
Speaker 6: Make them trade in the middle of a year for

1112
00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:29,160
Speaker 6: another one his receivers, and that that's dysfunction right there.

1113
00:51:29,280 --> 00:51:31,960
Speaker 6: So I don't imagine that the Pittsburgh Steelers, who have

1114
00:51:32,040 --> 00:51:33,799
Speaker 6: had a certain way of doing business for the last

1115
00:51:33,880 --> 00:51:37,160
Speaker 6: thirty years or so, are going to be moving in

1116
00:51:37,280 --> 00:51:39,879
Speaker 6: that way. So the structure around them just be better

1117
00:51:39,960 --> 00:51:44,560
Speaker 6: in general. Yeah, Now, but I am not. DK Metcalf

1118
00:51:44,680 --> 00:51:48,399
Speaker 6: is my number one receiver. Is like we were talking

1119
00:51:48,400 --> 00:51:50,360
Speaker 6: about in the earlier today to show about the playoffs,

1120
00:51:50,400 --> 00:51:51,759
Speaker 6: you look at what I'd like that to be a

1121
00:51:51,800 --> 00:51:52,600
Speaker 6: better I'd like that to be.

1122
00:51:52,640 --> 00:51:53,799
Speaker 4: A better player. Dk.

1123
00:51:54,400 --> 00:51:56,680
Speaker 6: I think he's a fine number two receiver on like,

1124
00:51:56,800 --> 00:51:59,439
Speaker 6: but when you're looking at the top duos or top

1125
00:51:59,520 --> 00:52:01,200
Speaker 6: receiving combos.

1126
00:52:00,840 --> 00:52:02,360
Speaker 3: Which we're going to get to in a little bit, I.

1127
00:52:02,360 --> 00:52:04,680
Speaker 4: Wouldn't have DK and Aaron Rodgers in the top No.

1128
00:52:05,760 --> 00:52:05,800
Speaker 5: No.

1129
00:52:06,040 --> 00:52:10,440
Speaker 2: Eight nine, No, I mean it's definitely gonna be I

1130
00:52:10,480 --> 00:52:14,560
Speaker 2: think the best quarterback he's ever been with, right because

1131
00:52:14,600 --> 00:52:19,440
Speaker 2: he was with Russell Wilson and Gino Smith before. So

1132
00:52:19,600 --> 00:52:24,319
Speaker 2: if Rogers is, you know, half half plus better than

1133
00:52:24,320 --> 00:52:27,719
Speaker 2: he was last year, he's on his mobile anymore since

1134
00:52:27,760 --> 00:52:28,919
Speaker 2: the Achilles as we've seen.

1135
00:52:29,600 --> 00:52:32,880
Speaker 6: But I just think between DK me I think it's

1136
00:52:32,960 --> 00:52:36,600
Speaker 6: kind of fitting that DK Metcalf is the replacement for

1137
00:52:36,680 --> 00:52:39,920
Speaker 6: George Pickens in Pittsburgh because I think those are the

1138
00:52:39,960 --> 00:52:42,080
Speaker 6: two most overrated receivers in football.

1139
00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:45,120
Speaker 4: With Pickens being number one and DK being second.

1140
00:52:45,360 --> 00:52:48,640
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, he's going to be number one, He's going

1141
00:52:48,680 --> 00:52:49,680
Speaker 3: to be number two in Dallas.

1142
00:52:50,000 --> 00:52:53,040
Speaker 4: Fine Cede Lamber most overrated receivers.

1143
00:52:53,080 --> 00:52:55,440
Speaker 6: What I'm saying, the idea that George Pickens was ever

1144
00:52:55,520 --> 00:52:58,200
Speaker 6: a number one receiver I think was a myth. And

1145
00:52:58,400 --> 00:53:01,600
Speaker 6: dk Metcalf is to me a guy that's like maybe

1146
00:53:01,640 --> 00:53:05,480
Speaker 6: a one or two trick pony, and like he's heavily penalized.

1147
00:53:05,600 --> 00:53:08,040
Speaker 6: He's just average across the board and everything. And you

1148
00:53:08,080 --> 00:53:10,680
Speaker 6: know what, he made a great tackle on an interception

1149
00:53:10,800 --> 00:53:11,480
Speaker 6: on Buddha Banker.

1150
00:53:11,520 --> 00:53:13,919
Speaker 4: It was one of the coolest plays in a decade. Yeah,

1151
00:53:14,080 --> 00:53:14,879
Speaker 4: it was it. What else?

1152
00:53:18,400 --> 00:53:22,719
Speaker 2: Okay, so Vegas didn't think it made that big of

1153
00:53:22,960 --> 00:53:26,799
Speaker 2: a difference for the Steelers. Adding Aaron Rodgers. Their over

1154
00:53:26,880 --> 00:53:29,239
Speaker 2: under win total I think is still set at eight

1155
00:53:29,280 --> 00:53:34,759
Speaker 2: and a half wins. So before they got Rogers because

1156
00:53:34,760 --> 00:53:37,080
Speaker 2: again they didn't have a quarterback. When the schedule release

1157
00:53:37,160 --> 00:53:39,279
Speaker 2: came out and the over under wind totals came out,

1158
00:53:39,600 --> 00:53:43,800
Speaker 2: I said, this might be Mike tomlins first ever, not

1159
00:53:44,160 --> 00:53:46,160
Speaker 2: like because he's he's never had a losing season.

1160
00:53:48,200 --> 00:53:48,600
Speaker 11: I did.

1161
00:53:49,280 --> 00:53:51,120
Speaker 2: Without having a quarterback. At that point, I was like,

1162
00:53:51,239 --> 00:53:54,480
Speaker 2: this might be his first losing season. But now adding Rogers,

1163
00:53:56,239 --> 00:53:58,120
Speaker 2: I thought maybe would make a little bit more of

1164
00:53:58,120 --> 00:53:58,720
Speaker 2: an impact.

1165
00:53:59,080 --> 00:54:02,120
Speaker 3: But according to Vegas. It hasn't like win total is

1166
00:54:02,160 --> 00:54:03,480
Speaker 3: still set at eight and a half wins.

1167
00:54:03,760 --> 00:54:06,080
Speaker 6: I think the win total was set with the idea

1168
00:54:06,120 --> 00:54:08,759
Speaker 6: that Aaron Rodgers was coming. Like I think if the

1169
00:54:08,920 --> 00:54:12,640
Speaker 6: news had been announced that Aaron Rodgers actually was retiring

1170
00:54:12,760 --> 00:54:15,160
Speaker 6: this year instead of the nebulous, I'm pretty sure I

1171
00:54:15,360 --> 00:54:17,399
Speaker 6: want to get attention for all seventeen weeks, no matter

1172
00:54:17,440 --> 00:54:19,360
Speaker 6: what the stulis record is that he said on Tuesday

1173
00:54:19,400 --> 00:54:22,759
Speaker 6: at Pat McAfee, then I think we would have seen

1174
00:54:22,800 --> 00:54:25,560
Speaker 6: the win lost total drop. If that had been then

1175
00:54:25,560 --> 00:54:28,319
Speaker 6: announcement that he had made on McAfee, we were going

1176
00:54:28,360 --> 00:54:31,279
Speaker 6: down to maybe six or seven. But yeah, this is

1177
00:54:31,360 --> 00:54:33,680
Speaker 6: the thing about what's going to happen in Pittsburgh this year.

1178
00:54:34,200 --> 00:54:36,920
Speaker 6: It's not exactly sexy. Yeah, it's going to be the

1179
00:54:36,960 --> 00:54:40,400
Speaker 6: same as it always is. Aaron Rodgers is worse at

1180
00:54:40,520 --> 00:54:42,640
Speaker 6: quarterback today than he's ever been in his life.

1181
00:54:42,760 --> 00:54:42,960
Speaker 11: Yeah.

1182
00:54:43,000 --> 00:54:46,000
Speaker 6: True, He's also the best quarterback that Pittsburgh has had

1183
00:54:46,080 --> 00:54:46,839
Speaker 6: the last five years.

1184
00:54:46,920 --> 00:54:49,799
Speaker 4: That's big Ben, even the last two years. Big Ben.

1185
00:54:50,120 --> 00:54:51,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he came out, Big Ben said, I think

1186
00:54:52,000 --> 00:54:54,479
Speaker 2: every week is going to be must watch TV. Fans

1187
00:54:54,520 --> 00:54:56,040
Speaker 2: of football are going to be coming out, whether it's

1188
00:54:56,040 --> 00:54:57,600
Speaker 2: at home or on the road, because you want to

1189
00:54:57,600 --> 00:55:00,319
Speaker 2: get a glimpse of greatness one last time. I don't

1190
00:55:00,320 --> 00:55:02,560
Speaker 2: know if it's going to be greatness one last time,

1191
00:55:02,600 --> 00:55:05,080
Speaker 2: but I think because he's such a polarizing player, people

1192
00:55:05,160 --> 00:55:07,040
Speaker 2: love to hate on him and people love to watch.

1193
00:55:08,160 --> 00:55:10,080
Speaker 2: Even if he fails, people are going to tune in

1194
00:55:10,440 --> 00:55:12,439
Speaker 2: to watch, So I think that's kind of the must

1195
00:55:12,520 --> 00:55:16,600
Speaker 2: watch TV. But also, like people are, people are a

1196
00:55:16,640 --> 00:55:18,520
Speaker 2: little tired of his story, and people are a little

1197
00:55:18,760 --> 00:55:23,520
Speaker 2: tired of the whole Rogers situation, and the Steelers are

1198
00:55:23,600 --> 00:55:29,800
Speaker 2: a pretty well loved franchise and now you just brought

1199
00:55:29,840 --> 00:55:34,800
Speaker 2: on probably one of the more disliked players in the

1200
00:55:34,880 --> 00:55:37,160
Speaker 2: league on your team. So that's also something new that

1201
00:55:37,280 --> 00:55:38,719
Speaker 2: I think they're going to be dealing with, which is

1202
00:55:38,800 --> 00:55:42,160
Speaker 2: going to be interesting. And he has that de gaff attitude,

1203
00:55:42,320 --> 00:55:45,839
Speaker 2: like the aloof like whatever, but it's gonna be It's

1204
00:55:45,880 --> 00:55:46,720
Speaker 2: gonna be interesting.

1205
00:55:47,520 --> 00:55:50,840
Speaker 4: It's gonna be interesting. He cares so much, Yeah, to

1206
00:55:50,960 --> 00:55:52,960
Speaker 4: be like I don't care, But also like.

1207
00:55:53,000 --> 00:55:54,680
Speaker 2: Did you see the other quote where he goes, once

1208
00:55:54,680 --> 00:55:56,279
Speaker 2: I'm done playing, you're not gonna hear from me.

1209
00:55:56,719 --> 00:55:58,360
Speaker 4: You're not going to see me. It's like, dude, this

1210
00:55:58,640 --> 00:56:01,200
Speaker 4: was so calculated you coming out this week.

1211
00:56:01,680 --> 00:56:05,640
Speaker 2: Once everything was done NFL wise and news, everybody's taken

1212
00:56:05,680 --> 00:56:06,160
Speaker 2: a little break.

1213
00:56:06,239 --> 00:56:07,680
Speaker 3: This is when you decided to give us.

1214
00:56:07,760 --> 00:56:10,320
Speaker 2: You know, you could have the spotlight and all the

1215
00:56:10,400 --> 00:56:12,320
Speaker 2: conversations and all the attention was going to be on

1216
00:56:12,400 --> 00:56:15,520
Speaker 2: Oh okay, this is he's pretty sure, he's pretty sure

1217
00:56:15,560 --> 00:56:17,000
Speaker 2: this is going to be his last year, and now

1218
00:56:17,040 --> 00:56:18,160
Speaker 2: everyone's going to talk about it.

1219
00:56:18,400 --> 00:56:19,600
Speaker 4: Yeah. I do buy him, though.

1220
00:56:19,640 --> 00:56:22,440
Speaker 6: I do think that when he's when it's over, we

1221
00:56:22,560 --> 00:56:25,000
Speaker 6: won't to hear from him on the football realm of things,

1222
00:56:25,040 --> 00:56:27,239
Speaker 6: but you'll hear about You'll hear about him a lot.

1223
00:56:27,440 --> 00:56:29,480
Speaker 3: Yes, Oh yeah, Oh yeah.

1224
00:56:29,480 --> 00:56:29,880
Speaker 4: He can't.

1225
00:56:30,160 --> 00:56:33,719
Speaker 3: He can't not stay in the media, which is hilarious.

1226
00:56:34,160 --> 00:56:38,480
Speaker 2: Other fun news this week, tiight End University was held

1227
00:56:38,520 --> 00:56:42,600
Speaker 2: in Nashville this week were you does it pop up

1228
00:56:42,640 --> 00:56:45,760
Speaker 2: on your social because it was basically like Taylor Swift

1229
00:56:45,880 --> 00:56:49,480
Speaker 2: performing with all the guys. At night, she did a

1230
00:56:49,520 --> 00:56:52,759
Speaker 2: surprise performance shake it Off one song, and then the

1231
00:56:52,880 --> 00:56:56,840
Speaker 2: next night she was seen with Kittle and Travis and.

1232
00:56:56,920 --> 00:57:00,360
Speaker 3: They were all singing along to Love Story like it

1233
00:57:00,480 --> 00:57:01,799
Speaker 3: was just I loved it so.

1234
00:57:01,880 --> 00:57:04,279
Speaker 6: Much isn't like tight End University. I thought it was

1235
00:57:04,320 --> 00:57:08,160
Speaker 6: like for kids. Is that no college kids?

1236
00:57:08,239 --> 00:57:08,359
Speaker 5: Right?

1237
00:57:08,840 --> 00:57:12,719
Speaker 2: So I think it's where it's where like all the

1238
00:57:12,840 --> 00:57:15,080
Speaker 2: top tight ends in the league spend a few days

1239
00:57:15,080 --> 00:57:17,000
Speaker 2: together and it's kind of like summer camp vibes where

1240
00:57:17,000 --> 00:57:19,680
Speaker 2: they do some training and they do some drills, but they.

1241
00:57:19,560 --> 00:57:20,720
Speaker 3: Also have a lot of fun and there's a lot

1242
00:57:20,720 --> 00:57:21,200
Speaker 3: of events.

1243
00:57:22,120 --> 00:57:24,760
Speaker 4: So this was just a lot of dudes listening to

1244
00:57:24,880 --> 00:57:25,520
Speaker 4: Taylor Swift.

1245
00:57:26,120 --> 00:57:28,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, well and their wives and their family. Like it's

1246
00:57:29,000 --> 00:57:31,360
Speaker 2: like it's like a whole big like everybody's out there.

1247
00:57:31,440 --> 00:57:34,160
Speaker 2: Like the wives all throw events, like the families throw events.

1248
00:57:34,600 --> 00:57:37,640
Speaker 2: That's why she's there because it's a family like get

1249
00:57:37,720 --> 00:57:41,040
Speaker 2: together and it seems really fun. It's really home brand

1250
00:57:41,160 --> 00:57:44,280
Speaker 2: for obviously, like like the top tight end personalities. It

1251
00:57:44,400 --> 00:57:47,360
Speaker 2: was founded by Greg Olsen, George Kittle, and Travis Kelce.

1252
00:57:47,520 --> 00:57:50,760
Speaker 2: Could you ever imagine like a wide receiver like having

1253
00:57:50,800 --> 00:57:52,440
Speaker 2: a weekend like this.

1254
00:57:52,920 --> 00:57:56,400
Speaker 4: I I don't think Taylor Swift would be the keynote performer.

1255
00:57:57,400 --> 00:57:58,600
Speaker 3: She wasn't the keynote performer.

1256
00:57:58,720 --> 00:58:00,720
Speaker 2: She just came with Travis and and like surprise and

1257
00:58:00,800 --> 00:58:03,000
Speaker 2: like got up and like it was like a special

1258
00:58:03,080 --> 00:58:05,240
Speaker 2: treat they gave it. They had a couple they had

1259
00:58:05,320 --> 00:58:08,120
Speaker 2: like country artists that were like the performers got you,

1260
00:58:08,960 --> 00:58:11,360
Speaker 2: and then she was just there and surprised everybody with

1261
00:58:11,480 --> 00:58:13,560
Speaker 2: shake it Off, which was cute.

1262
00:58:13,720 --> 00:58:15,080
Speaker 6: I wonder how you feel it would be the guy

1263
00:58:15,080 --> 00:58:17,400
Speaker 6: who was like actually the guy supposed to be there

1264
00:58:17,440 --> 00:58:18,040
Speaker 6: and it's like oh.

1265
00:58:17,960 --> 00:58:20,200
Speaker 2: Wow, Oh they were there, like like Luke Combs maybe

1266
00:58:20,320 --> 00:58:21,760
Speaker 2: was one. I don't want to be butchering them. They

1267
00:58:21,800 --> 00:58:23,800
Speaker 2: had like big names that were there.

1268
00:58:24,120 --> 00:58:27,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, we're not in my Luke Holmbs. You could tell

1269
00:58:27,600 --> 00:58:31,040
Speaker 4: me that Luke Combs is a profit for the Royals,

1270
00:58:31,160 --> 00:58:31,800
Speaker 4: or you can tell you.

1271
00:58:33,280 --> 00:58:35,680
Speaker 2: It's okay, I'm new to country. It's like it's my

1272
00:58:35,920 --> 00:58:39,600
Speaker 2: newest like I'm learning. But yeah, also not necessarily my.

1273
00:58:39,800 --> 00:58:41,919
Speaker 6: You could tell me Luke Combs for two thousand yards

1274
00:58:41,960 --> 00:58:45,160
Speaker 6: in New Jersey High School last year, going, oh.

1275
00:58:45,400 --> 00:58:45,760
Speaker 4: I love that.

1276
00:58:45,880 --> 00:58:48,480
Speaker 2: Okay, we're gonna take a quick break here, but when

1277
00:58:48,480 --> 00:58:50,280
Speaker 2: we come back, new faces in new places.

1278
00:58:50,320 --> 00:58:52,480
Speaker 3: Wide Receiver edition. You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.

1279
00:58:55,240 --> 00:58:57,720
Speaker 2: Welcome back to Fox Sports Saturday. Am Alex Curry here

1280
00:58:57,760 --> 00:59:00,120
Speaker 2: with Martin Wise, coming to you live from Fox or

1281
00:59:00,120 --> 00:59:03,480
Speaker 2: It's Radio Studios. Thank you for spending your Saturday afternoon

1282
00:59:03,560 --> 00:59:07,040
Speaker 2: with us. Okay, I just got this update again, like

1283
00:59:07,160 --> 00:59:09,800
Speaker 2: creeping on my phone. Have you seen this yet? Nick's

1284
00:59:09,800 --> 00:59:15,080
Speaker 2: reportedly contacted Don Staley for head coaching job. No, yeah,

1285
00:59:15,560 --> 00:59:17,800
Speaker 2: hold on, okay, so tell me this is on Complex

1286
00:59:17,880 --> 00:59:25,600
Speaker 2: and Complex Sports just came up. Yeah, so was reportedly

1287
00:59:25,680 --> 00:59:29,080
Speaker 2: contacted by the New York Knicks for their head coaching position.

1288
00:59:30,560 --> 00:59:33,880
Speaker 2: That's like, wild, are you seeing it anywhere else?

1289
00:59:35,080 --> 00:59:38,360
Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm seeing I'm seeing a bunch of stories that

1290
00:59:38,440 --> 00:59:40,800
Speaker 6: are aggregating the story.

1291
00:59:40,600 --> 00:59:41,160
Speaker 4: That you saw.

1292
00:59:41,360 --> 00:59:45,080
Speaker 6: So yeah, okay, this is kind of the downfall of

1293
00:59:45,160 --> 00:59:46,520
Speaker 6: the Internet that we're at today.

1294
00:59:46,920 --> 00:59:47,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, how real is it?

1295
00:59:47,960 --> 00:59:51,240
Speaker 6: Well, just all feed one thing, feeds all into back

1296
00:59:51,360 --> 00:59:54,360
Speaker 6: into the others. Right on its face, the idea that

1297
00:59:54,560 --> 00:59:57,840
Speaker 6: the Knicks would ask Don Staley to like the Nicks

1298
00:59:57,840 --> 01:00:00,720
Speaker 6: would reach out to Don Staley, it's not a completely

1299
01:00:00,760 --> 01:00:03,880
Speaker 6: and totally implausible, It's not ridiculous on its face, but

1300
01:00:03,920 --> 01:00:06,440
Speaker 6: it's one of those things that if you saw it,

1301
01:00:06,640 --> 01:00:08,480
Speaker 6: it'd be like, this is the type of thing that

1302
01:00:08,560 --> 01:00:10,280
Speaker 6: somebody would make up to try to get a ton

1303
01:00:10,320 --> 01:00:11,560
Speaker 6: of retweets and get people mad.

1304
01:00:11,680 --> 01:00:16,040
Speaker 16: Yes, right, Like I'm trying to be clear, I don't

1305
01:00:16,120 --> 01:00:20,360
Speaker 16: think that ridiculous, right, Yeah, I'm not saying it's ridiculous,

1306
01:00:20,400 --> 01:00:21,840
Speaker 16: But when I do the update in a minute, I'm

1307
01:00:21,880 --> 01:00:23,680
Speaker 16: not going to say this until I see more people

1308
01:00:23,800 --> 01:00:25,120
Speaker 16: come out with the actual truth.

1309
01:00:25,400 --> 01:00:27,000
Speaker 4: I should say the actual truth.

1310
01:00:27,080 --> 01:00:30,720
Speaker 6: But like more reports that are I'm seeing Knicks Fan

1311
01:00:30,880 --> 01:00:33,800
Speaker 6: TV with this, which kind of makes me. It makes

1312
01:00:35,120 --> 01:00:37,400
Speaker 6: this is the type of thing that just in general

1313
01:00:37,520 --> 01:00:39,760
Speaker 6: makes me want this is what happened once Elon broke

1314
01:00:39,840 --> 01:00:42,560
Speaker 6: the blue checks. These are the types of things that

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Speaker 6: if I had seen it would I wouldn't have thought

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Speaker 6: twice about it.

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01:00:46,480 --> 01:00:48,680
Speaker 4: But now when you say that, it makes me wonder.

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Speaker 6: Here's why it makes me wonder, Hey, because just take

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01:00:52,200 --> 01:00:55,000
Speaker 6: the racial and gender aspects out of it.

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Speaker 4: That's why I think people would make it up and

1321
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Speaker 4: get upset with it.

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Speaker 9: Right.

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Speaker 6: Also, South Carolina, I think objectively South on women's basketball

1324
01:01:01,200 --> 01:01:02,600
Speaker 6: right now is probably a better job than the New

1325
01:01:02,680 --> 01:01:03,440
Speaker 6: York Nickson.

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01:01:03,160 --> 01:01:06,760
Speaker 2: At W definitely also like her notable like accolades, three

1327
01:01:06,840 --> 01:01:10,800
Speaker 2: time NCAA Women's Basketball National champ, four times Coach of

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01:01:10,840 --> 01:01:14,120
Speaker 2: the Year, four times WBCA National Coach of the Year,

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01:01:14,680 --> 01:01:17,920
Speaker 2: highest paid coach in women's college basketball USA Basketball National

1330
01:01:18,000 --> 01:01:20,360
Speaker 2: Coach of the Year, six time w NBA All Star,

1331
01:01:20,440 --> 01:01:23,280
Speaker 2: three time Olympical Metalist, two time College.

1332
01:01:23,000 --> 01:01:25,160
Speaker 3: Player of the Year. Like, her resume is as good

1333
01:01:25,200 --> 01:01:28,760
Speaker 3: as it can get for a female coach, well.

1334
01:01:29,080 --> 01:01:33,880
Speaker 4: A coach in general. Yeah, she is the best women's

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01:01:33,920 --> 01:01:35,120
Speaker 4: basketball coach.

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01:01:35,080 --> 01:01:37,760
Speaker 3: And so respected in the game right now.

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01:01:37,920 --> 01:01:40,920
Speaker 6: So it's like, would you rather be the top of

1338
01:01:41,000 --> 01:01:44,160
Speaker 6: your game right now with you have the job security

1339
01:01:44,280 --> 01:01:46,280
Speaker 6: and long term success and then me just look at

1340
01:01:46,320 --> 01:01:49,600
Speaker 6: some of the other legends that have coached women's college basketball,

1341
01:01:49,640 --> 01:01:52,560
Speaker 6: which to the point right now WNBA is catching up

1342
01:01:52,600 --> 01:01:53,880
Speaker 6: in valuation, getting.

1343
01:01:53,720 --> 01:01:57,040
Speaker 2: Money and all that, but college basney value. She could

1344
01:01:57,080 --> 01:01:59,520
Speaker 2: add value to the w if she decides to go that.

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01:01:59,640 --> 01:02:02,080
Speaker 6: Well, I don't think. I think if she would stay

1346
01:02:02,080 --> 01:02:04,360
Speaker 6: where she's at, I think over going to one of

1347
01:02:04,400 --> 01:02:06,400
Speaker 6: those the w n B A but like going to

1348
01:02:06,560 --> 01:02:09,440
Speaker 6: the Knicks, Yeah, I don't feel like is an automatic

1349
01:02:09,640 --> 01:02:12,960
Speaker 6: upgrade for her in terms of UH, in terms.

1350
01:02:12,680 --> 01:02:15,880
Speaker 4: Of stature and status and all of that.

1351
01:02:16,120 --> 01:02:18,400
Speaker 6: Like she is a top of the game right now

1352
01:02:18,440 --> 01:02:20,360
Speaker 6: and on her way to being a Hall of Famer

1353
01:02:21,200 --> 01:02:26,439
Speaker 6: and both players she's a player, player, player and coach. Yeah,

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01:02:26,760 --> 01:02:29,360
Speaker 6: And like unless she feels that there's some level of

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01:02:30,240 --> 01:02:33,800
Speaker 6: that she has completed the job quote unquote South Carolina. Yeah,

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01:02:33,920 --> 01:02:37,160
Speaker 6: then maybe then she she's actively looking for new opportunities,

1357
01:02:37,400 --> 01:02:40,120
Speaker 6: but I haven't heard anything of, which is another one

1358
01:02:40,160 --> 01:02:41,880
Speaker 6: why it just makes me raise my eyebrows.

1359
01:02:42,800 --> 01:02:43,360
Speaker 3: Interesting.

1360
01:02:44,520 --> 01:02:49,600
Speaker 2: Interesting, and just like this, not just the scrutiny of

1361
01:02:50,360 --> 01:02:53,120
Speaker 2: going to New York, but going to a Knicks team

1362
01:02:53,800 --> 01:02:59,280
Speaker 2: that just had a completely like historic season, like getting

1363
01:02:59,600 --> 01:03:01,120
Speaker 2: to the East Conference Final for the first time and

1364
01:03:01,200 --> 01:03:03,480
Speaker 2: what was it twenty five years and then firing the

1365
01:03:03,520 --> 01:03:07,560
Speaker 2: head coach and then just it's yeah, it's a bit

1366
01:03:07,600 --> 01:03:12,840
Speaker 2: of an interesting situation there anyway, but intriguing, intriguing.

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Speaker 4: All right, Martin, I don't know.

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Speaker 6: I don't know this guy, Jalen Martin, Associate editor news

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01:03:18,680 --> 01:03:20,360
Speaker 6: letter manager at Bronxite.

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Speaker 3: You're doing a deeper dive.

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01:03:21,840 --> 01:03:26,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, all right, all right, alright, we'll throw we'll

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Speaker 2: throw throw it in the backseat and see how much

1373
01:03:27,760 --> 01:03:31,200
Speaker 2: heat it picks up on Monday, see how real deal

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01:03:31,760 --> 01:03:32,040
Speaker 2: it is.

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01:03:32,560 --> 01:03:33,680
Speaker 3: But now tell us what's trending?

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Speaker 11: What you got.

1377
01:03:37,920 --> 01:03:38,920
Speaker 4: Some NBA trades?

1378
01:03:39,160 --> 01:03:42,360
Speaker 6: The Bulls trade Lonzo Ball to Cleveland for Isaac Ocoro,

1379
01:03:42,560 --> 01:03:45,240
Speaker 6: sam Merril signsay four year, thirty eight million dog deal

1380
01:03:45,280 --> 01:03:48,160
Speaker 6: to stay in Cleveland, Daveion Mitchell, we'll sign a two year,

1381
01:03:48,280 --> 01:03:50,560
Speaker 6: twenty four million dollars to stay in Miami, and Nas

1382
01:03:50,640 --> 01:03:53,400
Speaker 6: reed we'll stay with the Wolves on a five year,

1383
01:03:53,720 --> 01:03:56,520
Speaker 6: one hundred and twenty five million dollar deal. Ace Bailey,

1384
01:03:56,640 --> 01:03:58,800
Speaker 6: number five pick in the draft, plans to report to

1385
01:03:58,840 --> 01:04:02,600
Speaker 6: the Utah Jazz to day. The Shohal Tani pitched earlier today,

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01:04:02,680 --> 01:04:05,960
Speaker 6: pitched two winnings, had put a two strikeout, a hit,

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01:04:06,080 --> 01:04:08,840
Speaker 6: and gave up a hit, and gave up a walk

1388
01:04:09,160 --> 01:04:11,800
Speaker 6: to his third start in Dodger uniform. Right now, the

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Speaker 6: Royals lead that game three to nothing in the bottom

1390
01:04:15,440 --> 01:04:20,040
Speaker 6: of the fifth inning. Elsewhere in Major League Baseball, the

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01:04:20,520 --> 01:04:23,200
Speaker 6: Giants and White Sox scoreless top of the sixth. At

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01:04:23,360 --> 01:04:25,120
Speaker 6: the top of the sixth inning, the Brewers with a

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01:04:25,200 --> 01:04:27,240
Speaker 6: five to nothing lead over the Rockies.

1394
01:04:27,600 --> 01:04:30,120
Speaker 4: The Orioles trail the Rays eight to nothing.

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01:04:30,200 --> 01:04:32,920
Speaker 6: In the top of the fifth inning, Guardians doubling up

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01:04:32,960 --> 01:04:35,200
Speaker 6: to the Cardinals six to three. Top of the fifth,

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01:04:35,240 --> 01:04:38,560
Speaker 6: same story for the Diamondbacks and Marlin six to three.

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01:04:38,640 --> 01:04:42,320
Speaker 6: Arizona in the lead, Rangers lead the Mariners to the

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01:04:42,480 --> 01:04:44,680
Speaker 6: one top of the fifth inning on Fox. Bottom of

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Speaker 6: the fourth inning, the Reds three up on the Padres

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01:04:47,840 --> 01:04:48,400
Speaker 6: three to nothing.

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01:04:48,680 --> 01:04:51,200
Speaker 4: Red Sox pounding the Blue Jays nine to one.

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01:04:51,600 --> 01:04:54,000
Speaker 6: In the top of the fourth Mets pirates and Arandela

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01:04:54,160 --> 01:04:57,680
Speaker 6: New York with a one nothing lead there. Earlier day,

1405
01:04:57,720 --> 01:05:00,920
Speaker 6: the Ads beat the Yankees seven to nothing. The Tigers

1406
01:05:01,120 --> 01:05:05,280
Speaker 6: beat the Twins ten to nothing. Ron Washington, anahem Angels

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01:05:05,360 --> 01:05:08,640
Speaker 6: manager to remain on medical League for the season. Washington

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01:05:08,880 --> 01:05:12,560
Speaker 6: seventy three years old and the oldest manager in baseball.

1409
01:05:12,720 --> 01:05:17,120
Speaker 6: Bennie pass Galentino to three run homer, six to three.

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01:05:17,240 --> 01:05:21,240
Speaker 6: Now the score as that as a very happy Royals

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01:05:21,320 --> 01:05:27,000
Speaker 6: fan right outside of the fountain, as that's Passportinos.

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Speaker 4: Twelve all the year.

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Speaker 3: Have you ever caught a home run?

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Speaker 5: No?

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01:05:29,440 --> 01:05:31,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel like that would be an exciting moment.

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01:05:33,240 --> 01:05:34,440
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's got to come.

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01:05:35,000 --> 01:05:38,280
Speaker 6: Like I'll say this, though, I'm not at this stage

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01:05:38,360 --> 01:05:40,320
Speaker 6: in my life and my athletic ability.

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01:05:40,960 --> 01:05:41,840
Speaker 3: I'm getting out of the way.

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01:05:41,920 --> 01:05:46,440
Speaker 6: Man, I'm not moving either way. I'm not getting out

1421
01:05:46,480 --> 01:05:48,720
Speaker 6: of or into the way. So if it comes to me,

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01:05:49,200 --> 01:05:51,520
Speaker 6: I got it. Okay, if it comes to me, I'm

1423
01:05:51,560 --> 01:05:53,720
Speaker 6: not moving, I'm making the play. I'm here but I'm

1424
01:05:53,760 --> 01:05:56,840
Speaker 6: not exerting myself one way or another, no chance.

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Speaker 5: I love it.

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Speaker 2: You're listening to Fox Sports Saturday mal Screen here with

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Speaker 2: Martin Wise. We were broadcasting live from the Fox Sports

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Speaker 2: Radio studios in Los Angeles. It is time for our

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Speaker 2: next guest. He is the owner of the Sporting Tribune,

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Speaker 2: A Rashmarcazi. Thanks for joining the show.

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01:06:10,360 --> 01:06:11,680
Speaker 5: Thanks for having me. Good to be on.

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01:06:12,000 --> 01:06:12,360
Speaker 4: I love it.

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01:06:12,440 --> 01:06:15,680
Speaker 2: Let's talk some baseball sense. It's o'tanni day. Not a

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01:06:15,720 --> 01:06:17,640
Speaker 2: great day for the Dodgers of the plate. They're losing

1435
01:06:17,720 --> 01:06:21,880
Speaker 2: right now six nothing. But O'tani did hit his enna

1436
01:06:22,000 --> 01:06:24,720
Speaker 2: leading twenty ninth home run yesterday. He's getting back into

1437
01:06:24,760 --> 01:06:26,959
Speaker 2: form on the mound. He had his third start today,

1438
01:06:27,000 --> 01:06:30,080
Speaker 2: bumped up to two innings. How dangerous will Otani be

1439
01:06:30,240 --> 01:06:32,800
Speaker 2: once he's back to full strength both hitting and pitching?

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01:06:33,880 --> 01:06:36,400
Speaker 5: Dude? You know, I mean like he's I had a schedule.

1441
01:06:36,560 --> 01:06:40,360
Speaker 5: I think everyone, oh yeah, was talking to the Dodgers

1442
01:06:40,440 --> 01:06:42,840
Speaker 5: felt be after the All Star break. So the fact

1443
01:06:42,840 --> 01:06:46,080
Speaker 5: that he's even pitching right now, that's a plus. And again,

1444
01:06:46,160 --> 01:06:48,680
Speaker 5: I'm not really concerned about the pitch count, you know,

1445
01:06:48,800 --> 01:06:52,280
Speaker 5: I mean they are all moving towards him being ready

1446
01:06:52,360 --> 01:06:54,480
Speaker 5: to go for the postings. And again, when you're the

1447
01:06:55,000 --> 01:06:57,840
Speaker 5: Dodgers and you've won the division how many times in

1448
01:06:57,880 --> 01:07:01,040
Speaker 5: a row and whatever, it's really about, you know, trying

1449
01:07:01,080 --> 01:07:03,520
Speaker 5: to get Shoe Halo Toni in position to be on

1450
01:07:03,680 --> 01:07:07,360
Speaker 5: that pitching step come post season. But that also goes

1451
01:07:07,440 --> 01:07:09,720
Speaker 5: to the guys who are hurt, you know, Tyler Blastal

1452
01:07:09,760 --> 01:07:12,480
Speaker 5: and Blake Smelling. You know, I don't think anyone on

1453
01:07:12,600 --> 01:07:17,400
Speaker 5: that team is particularly concerned about, you know, being healthy

1454
01:07:17,600 --> 01:07:19,800
Speaker 5: like in June or July. It's like, who's going to

1455
01:07:19,840 --> 01:07:22,160
Speaker 5: be healthy come late October?

1456
01:07:22,720 --> 01:07:23,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, ahrash.

1457
01:07:24,320 --> 01:07:28,479
Speaker 6: Luka Doncs has been photographed and apparently has been looks

1458
01:07:28,720 --> 01:07:34,800
Speaker 6: so much skinnier, so much trim right right, not skinny, right,

1459
01:07:34,880 --> 01:07:37,040
Speaker 6: He's just just in the best shape of his life.

1460
01:07:37,480 --> 01:07:39,880
Speaker 6: On what is the June twenty eighth, What do you

1461
01:07:39,920 --> 01:07:42,840
Speaker 6: think of this? The Lakers and his extension pending? Just

1462
01:07:42,920 --> 01:07:45,120
Speaker 6: how the Lakers feel about Luka Doncs at this moment

1463
01:07:45,200 --> 01:07:45,520
Speaker 6: in time.

1464
01:07:46,200 --> 01:07:48,240
Speaker 5: You know, that was my first thought, the way that

1465
01:07:48,360 --> 01:07:51,920
Speaker 5: the Mavericks leaked and talked about Luca post trade. I mean,

1466
01:07:52,000 --> 01:07:56,400
Speaker 5: it's one thing when you trade a generational talent like that,

1467
01:07:57,040 --> 01:07:59,280
Speaker 5: but just all of the talk about you know that

1468
01:07:59,400 --> 01:08:02,200
Speaker 5: he likes hookah and he likes beer, and he's never

1469
01:08:02,320 --> 01:08:05,160
Speaker 5: in shape and whatever you knew he would get in shape.

1470
01:08:05,160 --> 01:08:08,560
Speaker 5: I mean, it happened to Shaquille O'Neill when he got

1471
01:08:08,680 --> 01:08:12,320
Speaker 5: delk to the heat and he won in another title.

1472
01:08:12,440 --> 01:08:15,360
Speaker 5: So again, I expect Luc and against this is another

1473
01:08:15,480 --> 01:08:18,519
Speaker 5: thing ahead of schedule. I certainly expected Luca to be

1474
01:08:18,600 --> 01:08:22,000
Speaker 5: in the best shape of his career going into next season.

1475
01:08:22,080 --> 01:08:23,920
Speaker 5: The fact that he's in the best shape of his career,

1476
01:08:24,000 --> 01:08:28,639
Speaker 5: perhaps his life in June. Is you so really thrilled

1477
01:08:28,640 --> 01:08:28,960
Speaker 5: about that?

1478
01:08:29,600 --> 01:08:30,479
Speaker 3: I mean, I love it.

1479
01:08:30,600 --> 01:08:33,400
Speaker 2: And Lakers now with new ownership, it's approve you wrong

1480
01:08:33,479 --> 01:08:37,200
Speaker 2: here for Luca. But what moves the Lakers need to

1481
01:08:37,360 --> 01:08:40,760
Speaker 2: make before the season to build that championship team around

1482
01:08:40,800 --> 01:08:41,439
Speaker 2: Luca and Lebron.

1483
01:08:42,320 --> 01:08:44,920
Speaker 5: Yeah, they need a censor and they need a center

1484
01:08:45,040 --> 01:08:47,559
Speaker 5: of who can I mean, like Luca really works well

1485
01:08:47,680 --> 01:08:51,439
Speaker 5: with big bans who can jump in, are athletic and

1486
01:08:51,720 --> 01:08:55,800
Speaker 5: just catch his lobs towards the basket. Again saying you

1487
01:08:55,920 --> 01:08:59,000
Speaker 5: don't necessarily need a superstar, not that they're going to

1488
01:08:59,040 --> 01:09:02,040
Speaker 5: be able to get one cap situation, but just a

1489
01:09:02,200 --> 01:09:05,080
Speaker 5: big man who's quite frankly better than Jackson Hayes. And

1490
01:09:05,120 --> 01:09:06,920
Speaker 5: that's not gonna be hard to do. So, you know,

1491
01:09:07,080 --> 01:09:10,599
Speaker 5: if they can get a center who can play towards

1492
01:09:10,720 --> 01:09:14,479
Speaker 5: Lucas Strings and you know, they they may make it

1493
01:09:14,680 --> 01:09:17,400
Speaker 5: like a small move this offseason that we don't think

1494
01:09:17,520 --> 01:09:20,240
Speaker 5: is a big move. If they can get a big

1495
01:09:20,360 --> 01:09:24,880
Speaker 5: man that is at least you know, serviceable, Uh, that

1496
01:09:25,120 --> 01:09:26,559
Speaker 5: that'll go a long way.

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01:09:27,080 --> 01:09:30,880
Speaker 6: Now, joined us on the Sporting Tribunal on Fox Sports Radio.

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01:09:31,160 --> 01:09:33,360
Speaker 6: Do they need a big man more than any Austin

1499
01:09:33,439 --> 01:09:35,680
Speaker 6: Reeves at forty something million dollars a year?

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01:09:36,800 --> 01:09:39,360
Speaker 5: Yeah, So the reason situation will be unique just because

1501
01:09:39,400 --> 01:09:42,120
Speaker 5: of the cap situation there. And you know again that

1502
01:09:42,360 --> 01:09:46,160
Speaker 5: that's the reason again the Lakers would not normally be

1503
01:09:46,280 --> 01:09:48,960
Speaker 5: in the market to be trading in US threes. But

1504
01:09:49,560 --> 01:09:52,040
Speaker 5: I do think that that that there is a certain

1505
01:09:52,400 --> 01:09:56,960
Speaker 5: caps that they can spend there. So, uh, they they

1506
01:09:57,200 --> 01:09:59,280
Speaker 5: they love Reeves, but if they get to a point

1507
01:09:59,280 --> 01:10:02,840
Speaker 5: where like he he's not accepting it again, then what

1508
01:10:06,560 --> 01:10:08,799
Speaker 5: he did, Like listen, if he's not gonna be accepting

1509
01:10:08,840 --> 01:10:11,120
Speaker 5: you know, a four year contract get close to one

1510
01:10:11,200 --> 01:10:13,679
Speaker 5: hundred million dollars, like there may be a situation where

1511
01:10:13,680 --> 01:10:15,920
Speaker 5: they have to move on from them. So I don't

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01:10:16,160 --> 01:10:20,040
Speaker 5: know if that happens in the offseason. I do think

1513
01:10:20,240 --> 01:10:22,960
Speaker 5: Gostins begins this season and they try to work towards

1514
01:10:23,200 --> 01:10:24,120
Speaker 5: some kind of a deal.

1515
01:10:25,120 --> 01:10:27,800
Speaker 2: Now the West is gonna be It's gonna be tough

1516
01:10:28,000 --> 01:10:30,680
Speaker 2: again next year. Obviously you have the defending champs. You

1517
01:10:30,760 --> 01:10:34,599
Speaker 2: got KD now on the Rockets. Lakers are gonna be better.

1518
01:10:36,520 --> 01:10:40,160
Speaker 2: Let's let's start with with Houston. It's not officially official yet,

1519
01:10:40,240 --> 01:10:41,800
Speaker 2: like it will be well in the six when the

1520
01:10:41,840 --> 01:10:44,559
Speaker 2: new league starts, but like, how much does KD make

1521
01:10:44,640 --> 01:10:46,320
Speaker 2: the Rockets now a championship contender?

1522
01:10:47,560 --> 01:10:51,200
Speaker 5: The big thing about KD is that he's a veteran presence.

1523
01:10:51,280 --> 01:10:53,719
Speaker 5: And again I know people want to maybe like knock

1524
01:10:53,880 --> 01:10:56,160
Speaker 5: KD on social media, but you know, when you look

1525
01:10:56,160 --> 01:10:58,200
Speaker 5: at the guys who has done what he's done, or

1526
01:10:58,240 --> 01:10:59,960
Speaker 5: you can go back to the time with the Warriors

1527
01:11:00,120 --> 01:11:05,360
Speaker 5: when he won multiple titles and finals MVPs and TVUSA,

1528
01:11:05,560 --> 01:11:07,880
Speaker 5: like all time leading scorer and gold medals, Like you

1529
01:11:08,000 --> 01:11:10,000
Speaker 5: want a player like that on your team. So when

1530
01:11:10,040 --> 01:11:13,960
Speaker 5: you have a young, talented team like Houston and you

1531
01:11:14,120 --> 01:11:17,479
Speaker 5: have the number two seed, one of the things that

1532
01:11:17,560 --> 01:11:20,320
Speaker 5: they didn't have was that veteran presidence. But it's not

1533
01:11:20,479 --> 01:11:23,639
Speaker 5: like he's just coming in as that net presidence coming

1534
01:11:23,680 --> 01:11:26,080
Speaker 5: off the bench or something like that like Chris Paul.

1535
01:11:26,439 --> 01:11:28,800
Speaker 5: I mean, KD is still when he's on like one

1536
01:11:28,800 --> 01:11:31,000
Speaker 5: of the best players in the league. So that's the

1537
01:11:31,080 --> 01:11:31,559
Speaker 5: biggest thing.

1538
01:11:31,600 --> 01:11:35,080
Speaker 13: It's not just the talented KD, but the mindset and

1539
01:11:35,200 --> 01:11:38,360
Speaker 13: the veteran presidence of a guy who's played in the finals,

1540
01:11:38,520 --> 01:11:41,400
Speaker 13: played in gold medal games, played in big spots that

1541
01:11:41,479 --> 01:11:43,840
Speaker 13: these guys have not year two.

1542
01:11:43,760 --> 01:11:47,879
Speaker 6: For Jim Harbaugh in Los Angeles, justin Harbor two playoff

1543
01:11:48,040 --> 01:11:51,120
Speaker 6: games in his career, I believe far and both of

1544
01:11:51,200 --> 01:11:51,839
Speaker 6: them losses.

1545
01:11:52,520 --> 01:11:54,920
Speaker 4: Does that change in year two for Harbor?

1546
01:11:55,880 --> 01:11:57,519
Speaker 5: I think it does. I mean, I mean, the biggest

1547
01:11:57,560 --> 01:11:59,800
Speaker 5: thing that Harbaugh does, and I said this before, is

1548
01:11:59,840 --> 01:12:02,400
Speaker 5: for season with these guys, is that he changes the

1549
01:12:03,000 --> 01:12:05,840
Speaker 5: culture of a team and he takes them from a

1550
01:12:05,880 --> 01:12:09,000
Speaker 5: team that you know hasn't won in the postseason to

1551
01:12:09,120 --> 01:12:12,200
Speaker 5: a team that can get to the conference championship game. Again,

1552
01:12:12,280 --> 01:12:16,280
Speaker 5: I was very surprised by their performance in Houston in

1553
01:12:16,439 --> 01:12:19,680
Speaker 5: year one, but I do expect them to kind of

1554
01:12:19,720 --> 01:12:21,760
Speaker 5: be pick up where they left off in terms of

1555
01:12:21,840 --> 01:12:25,280
Speaker 5: contending for the division, going back to the postseason, but

1556
01:12:25,720 --> 01:12:28,799
Speaker 5: again finding a way to win that playoff game, getting

1557
01:12:28,920 --> 01:12:33,200
Speaker 5: to you know, maybe a conference championship game and seeing

1558
01:12:33,240 --> 01:12:35,320
Speaker 5: how far that they can go. But this is a

1559
01:12:35,400 --> 01:12:38,720
Speaker 5: big season for Justin Herbert. Again, he has been one

1560
01:12:38,760 --> 01:12:41,479
Speaker 5: of the best quarterbacks in the league talent wise. But

1561
01:12:41,600 --> 01:12:42,840
Speaker 5: at the end of the day, if you're gonna be

1562
01:12:42,920 --> 01:12:44,800
Speaker 5: viewed as one of the best quarterbacks in the league,

1563
01:12:45,080 --> 01:12:46,920
Speaker 5: you've got to win in the postseason.

1564
01:12:47,760 --> 01:12:49,240
Speaker 3: Let's talk about the other LA team.

1565
01:12:49,800 --> 01:12:54,360
Speaker 2: The Rams picked up DeVante Adams paired with Matthew Stafford.

1566
01:12:54,400 --> 01:12:56,839
Speaker 2: I think this is probably the best new wide receiver

1567
01:12:57,360 --> 01:12:59,639
Speaker 2: like in a new place combo with a quarterback.

1568
01:13:00,640 --> 01:13:02,960
Speaker 3: Do you see them winning the NFC West And does

1569
01:13:03,000 --> 01:13:03,920
Speaker 3: he make the team better?

1570
01:13:04,800 --> 01:13:05,040
Speaker 1: I do?

1571
01:13:05,439 --> 01:13:07,920
Speaker 5: I do. I mean I was surprised and dagas sort

1572
01:13:07,920 --> 01:13:10,760
Speaker 5: of the odds in San Francisco. Yeah, look at all

1573
01:13:10,800 --> 01:13:13,000
Speaker 5: the guys that they've lost. But you know, when when

1574
01:13:13,080 --> 01:13:16,280
Speaker 5: you look at the track record of Matthew Stafford, which

1575
01:13:16,280 --> 01:13:17,960
Speaker 5: I just think is so great that he came back,

1576
01:13:18,040 --> 01:13:19,840
Speaker 5: and I know there was that moment there where you

1577
01:13:19,920 --> 01:13:23,760
Speaker 5: know he could have left, but you know, having DeVante In,

1578
01:13:23,840 --> 01:13:26,880
Speaker 5: Matthew Stafford, you know, work in the off season and

1579
01:13:27,000 --> 01:13:30,040
Speaker 5: kind of be on the same page Pokin Nakulak's coming back.

1580
01:13:30,120 --> 01:13:32,360
Speaker 5: But the really reason that I'm excited about the Rams

1581
01:13:32,400 --> 01:13:35,600
Speaker 5: going into this season, and I think every ramspin was

1582
01:13:35,920 --> 01:13:39,720
Speaker 5: pleasantly surprised by this that young defense and how they

1583
01:13:39,840 --> 01:13:42,080
Speaker 5: played and how much they're going to grow in year

1584
01:13:42,160 --> 01:13:45,400
Speaker 5: two together. That's the reason I think a lot of

1585
01:13:45,439 --> 01:13:48,839
Speaker 5: people are thinking that this team has a chance to succeed.

1586
01:13:48,960 --> 01:13:51,640
Speaker 5: We know that the offense, you know, led by Stafford

1587
01:13:51,720 --> 01:13:54,439
Speaker 5: and which Sean mcday colin plays, will be good, but

1588
01:13:54,560 --> 01:13:57,599
Speaker 5: that young defense, I mean, if they continue to develop,

1589
01:13:57,960 --> 01:13:59,679
Speaker 5: I get you look at the postseason, there was only

1590
01:13:59,720 --> 01:14:02,519
Speaker 5: one team that gave Philadelphia a run for their money,

1591
01:14:03,160 --> 01:14:04,160
Speaker 5: and it was the Rams.

1592
01:14:05,360 --> 01:14:07,080
Speaker 3: That's chae. That's fair.

1593
01:14:07,960 --> 01:14:09,880
Speaker 6: When you look at the NBA the draft, it just

1594
01:14:10,000 --> 01:14:12,360
Speaker 6: happened to like obviously draft and offseason.

1595
01:14:12,439 --> 01:14:13,880
Speaker 4: But the Clippers and the Lakers.

1596
01:14:13,920 --> 01:14:16,160
Speaker 6: I know that you know, Sporting Tribune basically is like

1597
01:14:16,320 --> 01:14:20,479
Speaker 6: Big LA and Vegas coverage. So I'm wondering who had

1598
01:14:20,520 --> 01:14:24,040
Speaker 6: the more impressive offseason thus far to you between the

1599
01:14:24,120 --> 01:14:24,600
Speaker 6: Lakers and the.

1600
01:14:24,600 --> 01:14:28,840
Speaker 5: Clippers, and why you know, nonether one's really done much,

1601
01:14:28,920 --> 01:14:31,360
Speaker 5: But I do think that's going to change. The team

1602
01:14:31,400 --> 01:14:33,879
Speaker 5: that I've told everyone to watch for is the Clippers.

1603
01:14:33,960 --> 01:14:36,600
Speaker 5: I do not think the Clippers are content to go

1604
01:14:36,760 --> 01:14:40,759
Speaker 5: into next season running back the same team that lost

1605
01:14:40,840 --> 01:14:43,519
Speaker 5: in the first round. So whether that's moving on from

1606
01:14:43,600 --> 01:14:47,360
Speaker 5: Norman Howell, whether that's trying to package together again, they

1607
01:14:47,400 --> 01:14:49,599
Speaker 5: don't have a ton of picks. That again, people can

1608
01:14:49,680 --> 01:14:52,360
Speaker 5: continue to showcase that meme of that Paul George Strait.

1609
01:14:52,880 --> 01:14:54,960
Speaker 5: I just don't think that the Clippers are going to

1610
01:14:55,000 --> 01:14:57,800
Speaker 5: be content going into next season with the same team

1611
01:14:57,840 --> 01:15:00,840
Speaker 5: that lost to Denver in the first shrounded Again, I mean,

1612
01:15:00,880 --> 01:15:06,559
Speaker 5: they took Denver to Game seven. But I do think

1613
01:15:06,800 --> 01:15:08,920
Speaker 5: watch out for the Clippers to make some kind of

1614
01:15:08,960 --> 01:15:11,479
Speaker 5: a move to shake things up. Now what that looks like,

1615
01:15:11,600 --> 01:15:13,719
Speaker 5: what that will be, I'm not quite sure, but neither

1616
01:15:13,800 --> 01:15:16,200
Speaker 5: one has really done a whole lot. Again, you look

1617
01:15:16,280 --> 01:15:19,360
Speaker 5: at the you know, the Clippers with a last pig

1618
01:15:19,439 --> 01:15:20,479
Speaker 5: of the first round.

1619
01:15:20,439 --> 01:15:20,800
Speaker 7: And the.

1620
01:15:22,320 --> 01:15:24,760
Speaker 5: Lakers with no picks in the first round. So you know,

1621
01:15:25,120 --> 01:15:27,160
Speaker 5: I'm not going to say that a second round pick

1622
01:15:27,240 --> 01:15:30,880
Speaker 5: is gonna do too much for like the wonderful teams

1623
01:15:30,920 --> 01:15:32,640
Speaker 5: put the Clippers. Look out for the Clippers to make

1624
01:15:32,680 --> 01:15:33,240
Speaker 5: a big splash.

1625
01:15:34,040 --> 01:15:34,960
Speaker 3: I gotta do something.

1626
01:15:35,000 --> 01:15:37,719
Speaker 2: If it didn't work last year, you gotta fix it, Arash.

1627
01:15:37,880 --> 01:15:40,320
Speaker 3: Thank you so much for joining us. We appreciate it always.

1628
01:15:40,840 --> 01:15:42,120
Speaker 5: You guys are the best. Fuck you soon.

1629
01:15:42,320 --> 01:15:43,720
Speaker 2: All right, we're gonna take one more break here, but

1630
01:15:43,760 --> 01:15:45,920
Speaker 2: when we come back, our feel good stories of the week.

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01:15:45,960 --> 01:15:49,680
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01:16:19,479 --> 01:16:22,120
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01:16:22,240 --> 01:16:26,040
Speaker 2: some feel good stories because why not. I love ending

1650
01:16:26,080 --> 01:16:29,040
Speaker 2: on a high note, and this first one was like

1651
01:16:29,160 --> 01:16:34,720
Speaker 2: a feel good ending to a bad, sad situation. This week,

1652
01:16:34,760 --> 01:16:39,519
Speaker 2: a fan got banned from every MLB park from saying

1653
01:16:39,680 --> 01:16:43,560
Speaker 2: some from evil things to Ka tell Marte about his

1654
01:16:44,160 --> 01:16:46,800
Speaker 2: late mother when they were in Chicago.

1655
01:16:47,960 --> 01:16:48,719
Speaker 3: When it happened.

1656
01:16:49,720 --> 01:16:52,360
Speaker 2: It's just you could see, like to make a player

1657
01:16:52,560 --> 01:16:58,599
Speaker 2: cry on the field, like you have to say something evil, evil, evil.

1658
01:16:58,680 --> 01:17:01,439
Speaker 2: So the White Sox banned the thing from their stadium

1659
01:17:01,479 --> 01:17:04,120
Speaker 2: for life, and then the rest of Major League Baseball

1660
01:17:04,200 --> 01:17:06,880
Speaker 2: followed to and did the right thing and banned that

1661
01:17:07,080 --> 01:17:12,280
Speaker 2: fan from every MLB park for life. But then it

1662
01:17:12,439 --> 01:17:15,120
Speaker 2: was shared that over three hundred fans I think they're

1663
01:17:15,120 --> 01:17:18,160
Speaker 2: around eighteen thousand dollars now from all over the world

1664
01:17:18,560 --> 01:17:22,640
Speaker 2: have donated to the d Backs Foundation in Katel Marte's

1665
01:17:22,880 --> 01:17:27,720
Speaker 2: late mother's honor, And that's like turning a bad situation

1666
01:17:28,560 --> 01:17:30,880
Speaker 2: into some good. And then he got a standing ovation

1667
01:17:31,320 --> 01:17:35,880
Speaker 2: being back home back in Arizona this week, and it's

1668
01:17:36,080 --> 01:17:41,400
Speaker 2: just yeah, he's getting he's getting some really awesome support

1669
01:17:41,520 --> 01:17:44,719
Speaker 2: from fans, not only like Arizona fans, but like around

1670
01:17:44,760 --> 01:17:46,160
Speaker 2: the world, which you love to see.

1671
01:17:46,600 --> 01:17:50,040
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's all especially after watching it was clearly impacted

1672
01:17:50,800 --> 01:17:51,880
Speaker 6: much what that fan said.

1673
01:17:52,000 --> 01:17:55,759
Speaker 4: So you know there's no space for that in baseball.

1674
01:17:55,960 --> 01:17:58,360
Speaker 2: No, he lost his mother in a car accident, so

1675
01:17:58,520 --> 01:18:01,599
Speaker 2: like you can imagine how gnarly whatever was said had

1676
01:18:01,640 --> 01:18:05,880
Speaker 2: to have been to make him visibly upset right on

1677
01:18:06,000 --> 01:18:06,360
Speaker 2: the field.

1678
01:18:06,840 --> 01:18:08,800
Speaker 4: All right, I got another one. Do you have a

1679
01:18:09,360 --> 01:18:11,080
Speaker 4: do you have any feel goods? Sure? I got I

1680
01:18:11,160 --> 01:18:12,160
Speaker 4: got one. Okay.

1681
01:18:12,760 --> 01:18:15,360
Speaker 6: Simon Wayang, I'm sure you've heard of him. Okay, he

1682
01:18:15,640 --> 01:18:20,519
Speaker 6: was the thirty third draft pick in the NHL draft. Okay,

1683
01:18:21,240 --> 01:18:25,080
Speaker 6: he's the highest picked Chinese draft pick ever.

1684
01:18:25,640 --> 01:18:26,599
Speaker 4: What the NHL.

1685
01:18:27,080 --> 01:18:30,880
Speaker 6: He was inspired by the NHL traveling to China in

1686
01:18:30,960 --> 01:18:34,760
Speaker 6: twenty seventeen and eighteen and watching the Boston Bruins play

1687
01:18:34,800 --> 01:18:37,679
Speaker 6: the Calgary Flames and Cadillac Arena in Beijing.

1688
01:18:38,120 --> 01:18:40,080
Speaker 2: And that's why you do it, and that's why you're

1689
01:18:40,120 --> 01:18:45,120
Speaker 2: seeing all of these leagues do these around the world games.

1690
01:18:45,760 --> 01:18:48,720
Speaker 4: It works. There you go, it works. It worked for

1691
01:18:48,800 --> 01:18:49,920
Speaker 4: Simon Wayne worked.

1692
01:18:50,080 --> 01:18:50,519
Speaker 3: I love that.

1693
01:18:51,040 --> 01:18:54,160
Speaker 4: Okay, I got another one.

1694
01:18:54,960 --> 01:19:02,040
Speaker 2: Barry Bonds is finally getting a statue outside Giants Stadium.

1695
01:19:02,720 --> 01:19:06,800
Speaker 3: Give this man his flowers. Put him in the Hall

1696
01:19:06,840 --> 01:19:07,280
Speaker 3: of Fame.

1697
01:19:07,640 --> 01:19:11,160
Speaker 2: Already get off your high horse, all you voters, and

1698
01:19:11,360 --> 01:19:13,720
Speaker 2: acknowledge this man for what he is. One of the

1699
01:19:13,800 --> 01:19:17,599
Speaker 2: greatest baseball players of all time, seven hundred and sixty

1700
01:19:17,640 --> 01:19:18,439
Speaker 2: two home runs.

1701
01:19:18,560 --> 01:19:22,120
Speaker 3: Everyone was on steroids during that time, even the pitchers.

1702
01:19:22,360 --> 01:19:24,480
Speaker 4: I'm sure more.

1703
01:19:24,880 --> 01:19:27,920
Speaker 2: Than you think players during that time that are in

1704
01:19:27,960 --> 01:19:29,880
Speaker 2: the Hall of Fame were also all doing that. He

1705
01:19:30,080 --> 01:19:31,960
Speaker 2: was just the best, and you always got to bring

1706
01:19:32,040 --> 01:19:36,800
Speaker 2: down the number one top player. I will die on

1707
01:19:36,920 --> 01:19:38,920
Speaker 2: this hill Barry Bonds deserves to be in the Hall

1708
01:19:38,920 --> 01:19:39,160
Speaker 2: of Fame.

1709
01:19:39,200 --> 01:19:41,280
Speaker 4: You can also cut his career in half and still

1710
01:19:41,400 --> 01:19:42,760
Speaker 4: have a really good argument for it.

1711
01:19:43,000 --> 01:19:46,639
Speaker 3: Still Hall of Fame career, Like, it is mind blowing

1712
01:19:46,760 --> 01:19:46,920
Speaker 3: to me?

1713
01:19:47,320 --> 01:19:48,280
Speaker 4: Would you put him in the Hall?

1714
01:19:48,600 --> 01:19:48,800
Speaker 5: Yeah?

1715
01:19:49,680 --> 01:19:50,280
Speaker 4: Like, how was he not?

1716
01:19:50,880 --> 01:19:51,080
Speaker 5: To me?

1717
01:19:51,200 --> 01:19:55,240
Speaker 4: I think that the steroid era to me was it's

1718
01:19:55,240 --> 01:19:57,920
Speaker 4: saved baseball. It's safe, It's saved baseball.

1719
01:19:58,080 --> 01:19:59,360
Speaker 6: But to me, there was a lot of people in

1720
01:19:59,400 --> 01:20:01,600
Speaker 6: the locker room, notepads who could have been reporting on

1721
01:20:01,680 --> 01:20:02,280
Speaker 6: what was happening.

1722
01:20:02,479 --> 01:20:05,639
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh, a lot of well a lot of those

1723
01:20:05,920 --> 01:20:08,400
Speaker 4: people who are voting, well, who gets it gets out?

1724
01:20:08,760 --> 01:20:10,640
Speaker 4: I think hippocritical.

1725
01:20:11,040 --> 01:20:13,400
Speaker 2: Well, it's also like a lot of players I know,

1726
01:20:13,439 --> 01:20:15,840
Speaker 2: a lot of players retired early because they decided, Okay,

1727
01:20:15,840 --> 01:20:16,960
Speaker 2: I'm not going to go that route.

1728
01:20:18,200 --> 01:20:19,040
Speaker 4: But that was just the game.

1729
01:20:19,280 --> 01:20:22,120
Speaker 2: Everybody was on it, everybody was doing it like it

1730
01:20:22,240 --> 01:20:24,360
Speaker 2: was like it was the norm. Like they just had greenies,

1731
01:20:24,400 --> 01:20:28,240
Speaker 2: which was basically speed, just hanging out in the clubhouse

1732
01:20:28,320 --> 01:20:29,679
Speaker 2: like baseball is every day.

1733
01:20:30,200 --> 01:20:33,320
Speaker 4: Like give me dingers, give me like just give.

1734
01:20:33,160 --> 01:20:37,840
Speaker 2: Me action, give me excitement, and Barry Bonds was excitement

1735
01:20:38,439 --> 01:20:40,280
Speaker 2: and I just put him in the hall. Thank you

1736
01:20:40,400 --> 01:20:42,080
Speaker 2: for giving him a statue. Thank you so much for

1737
01:20:42,160 --> 01:20:45,880
Speaker 2: spending your Saturday afternoon with us. I'll see you next week.

1738
01:20:45,920 --> 01:20:48,479
Speaker 2: Don't go anywhere case Steve Hartman and Martin Wiseer coming

1739
01:20:48,560 --> 01:20:50,000
Speaker 2: up next here on Fox Sports Radio.