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Speaker 1: just to get you caught up on things. Because he again,

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Speaker 1: baseball's been played for a long long time and stilly,

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Speaker 1: I've never seen this before. Oh yeah, what Kei K, dude,

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Speaker 1: we have the best record of the National League. You said,

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Speaker 1: never done this before, Okay, key K. Hernandez came in

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Speaker 1: to pitch for the Dodgers tonight in the sixth inning

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Speaker 1: against the Padres. In the sixth inning, he may go

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Speaker 1: three innings in relief tonight. The Padres lead the Dodgers

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Speaker 1: nine to nothing. Before you say, well, it's not so

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Speaker 1: out of ok sixth inning, nine nothing, it's a bullpen

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Speaker 1: game for the Dodgers. Anyway, Hernandez just got what looked

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Speaker 1: to be a double play grounder, except he threw the

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Speaker 1: ball into center face. Well you know, so, Padres have

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Speaker 1: two on and one out and he nearly hit Manny

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Speaker 1: Machado a couple seconds ago, and Machatto didn't look happy.

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Speaker 3: Machado didn't look like like like ha ha.

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Speaker 1: He looked like, come on, man, Like clearly you know,

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Speaker 1: Keik throws whatever that slop said, he just that. Just

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Speaker 1: the ball just moves, and uh see Machatta get upset

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Speaker 1: about it. It is like, dude, come on, and he's not

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Speaker 1: trying to hit you.

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Speaker 4: Well, I'm realizing why the Padres other than Dylan sees

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Speaker 4: the bullpen game for the Dodgers had the advantage in

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Speaker 4: this one.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the dirtiest player in the game.

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Speaker 4: Dominic Masterio was there celebrate Padre dumb in the sixth one.

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Speaker 3: I thought the dirt.

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Speaker 1: Uh well okay, well well he's not he's he's Johnny Hustle.

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Speaker 3: Remember he hustles the most only not he just doubled

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Speaker 3: off the wall.

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Speaker 1: Uh to make an eleven nothing lead for san Diego

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Speaker 1: over the Dodgers.

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 1: Key a Hernandez his e ra is. I hope you

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Speaker 1: didn't stream him in Fantasy today. As Era is going up,

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Speaker 1: as we say it is still crying. Uh No, No

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Speaker 1: he's not, No, he's he's over the Uh the getting

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Speaker 1: called to that hump's house. He was caught on ring camp.

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Speaker 1: I like, Olten this ball to the fence. He kind

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Speaker 1: of just stood there and watched it, like I'm gonna,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna. I'm gonna, uh peacock after my home run

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Speaker 4: You know what, you sell it, find your wins man.

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Speaker 4: If they want to throw him out there, it counts.

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Speaker 3: Just the same.

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Speaker 4: Uh, he's the worst, Like it's not gonna have. In

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Speaker 4: his final baseball guard stats forty one home runs against

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Speaker 3: Oh it's not gonna have a second line. No, it

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Speaker 3: doesn't matter, not gonna say it's all gonna look the same.

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Speaker 3: Throwing beach balls.

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Speaker 1: Uh yeah, he really, I mean I really like I

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Speaker 1: could swing the bat and hit the ball and supposedly, you.

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Speaker 3: Know, watching throw it's like he is throwing like seventy.

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Speaker 1: And I remember when I was a kid, like hitting

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Speaker 1: swinging against seventy was like, you know, I was like

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Speaker 3: Like swinging seventy was Wow. That's a lot. That's bringing it,

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Speaker 4: Man.

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Speaker 1: Uh So anyway, uh again, Key k could go three

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Speaker 1: innings for the Doctors sign in this game. Uh Now,

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Speaker 1: the big story we talked about this few minutes ago.

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Speaker 1: Shams Tron, a ESPN NBA insider, said that the Knicks

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Speaker 1: called both the t Wolves and the Thunder to get

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Speaker 1: permission interview there head coaches to fill in and well

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Speaker 1: to to six see Tom Thimbodeaux. But we're told no

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Speaker 3: So okay.

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Speaker 1: Also, according to Shams, they have not called the Mavericks

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Speaker 1: ESPN that if they do call the Mavericks, the Mavericks

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Speaker 1: would tell them no. Right now, there's a micro and

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Speaker 1: a macro point to make on this. Okay, here's the micro.

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Speaker 3: So proud I taught you that.

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Speaker 4: I know.

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Speaker 1: I love that. I love going I say that now

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Speaker 1: with people. So there's a micro and a macro point.

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Speaker 1: People think, wow, look at that. This guy really knows economics.

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, dude.

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Speaker 1: Let me tell you about what it's like to have

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Speaker 1: bitcoin one hundred and nine thousand dollars. Number one is

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Speaker 1: what's that number bitcoing? Oh oh that's Oh that's what's

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Speaker 1: it's worth? One hundred and nine thousands?

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Speaker 2: Oh wow?

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Speaker 3: Okay, all right, No, I don't think you want to

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Speaker 3: necessarily laugh at the bitcoin people, right, No, I'm saying,

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Speaker 3: I just gotta wait two weeks. I'm not laughing babe

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Speaker 3: with bitcoin.

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Speaker 1: But number one, and what do we say last week

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Speaker 1: if the Knicks are going down this road, I said

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Speaker 1: it went. If you're gonna go down the road of

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Speaker 1: calling on teams, call the heat for Eric Spolster. Call

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Speaker 1: him because maybe he says yes, he and Steve Kerr,

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Speaker 1: the two best coaches in the NBA go get a

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Speaker 1: guy that's been through every possible scenario, that's still a

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Speaker 1: young head coach that's coached big time athletes, big time superstars,

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Speaker 1: big time divas. He's managed big, big media situations. He

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Speaker 1: knows how to win in the playoffs. Maybe he's sick

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Speaker 1: of not having a team that can do anything in Miami.

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Speaker 1: I know that pat Riley's not gonna want to do

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Speaker 1: any favorites for the Knicks, but hey, if you're going

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Speaker 1: down the road for this, right, I would say call

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Speaker 1: the Warriors. But yeah, but you know, okay, all right,

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Speaker 1: but a lot of.

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Speaker 4: Those things that you had as qualifiers also describe a

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Speaker 4: certain coach from a certain town in the Midwest.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, the Bucks. No, no, the number, no, no, no, no, no,

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Speaker 3: it's one eight hundred. No call one eight hundred. Get

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Speaker 3: bent not happen, Call the heat for Eric Spulstra.

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Speaker 1: If you're already being okay, being told no for a

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Speaker 1: couple of guys, what's the worst it gonna happen? Right

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Speaker 1: my pat Riley's gonna laugh and say, no, well, what

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Speaker 1: about your shooting percentage?

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Speaker 3: At this point?

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Speaker 1: But maybe Spoons, just because that's the thing is that

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Speaker 1: if the coaches surprised them and say hey, I really

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Speaker 1: want this job. Then the team would have no choice

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Speaker 1: but to allow permission because they don't want a coach

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Speaker 1: wind up getting there.

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Speaker 4: Now, you're gonna find somebody there, Like if you keep

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Speaker 4: shooting your shot at the bar, eventually someone significant other

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Speaker 4: says yeah, whatever, go ahead, Like that's kind of what

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Speaker 4: you're doing.

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Speaker 1: A tea Wolves saying no and the Thunder saying no, okay,

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Speaker 1: I understand that. But it's gonna take the coach saying

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Speaker 1: I want to talk to them, and then it's open.

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Speaker 1: And then you have to do it because you can't

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Speaker 1: have the guy come back who wants another job, so.

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Speaker 3: You have to find it. You're gonna get rid of

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Speaker 3: him anyway.

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Speaker 1: Why not figure out compensation and you send a guy

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Speaker 1: someplace else he doesn't want to coach, or you he

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Speaker 1: wants to go someplace else.

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Speaker 3: You gotta figure it out.

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Speaker 1: So why not call the if you if you're calling

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Speaker 1: the Thunder, if you're calling the Rockets and you're calling

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Speaker 1: the t Wolves, why not call the go Big, get

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Speaker 1: the biggest, the big game, right, the big go, go

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Speaker 1: go and call Eric's but maybe Spolzer will say, hey, Pat,

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Speaker 1: it's been great, but we're not really winning. And you know,

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Speaker 1: I'm not behind bucket Hat Tyler Hero as our franchise player.

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Speaker 1: We're not making anything further than the seventh spot in

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Speaker 1: the playoffs.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, I really would like to go.

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Speaker 1: Pat Riley could say no, but but then he's gonna

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Speaker 1: let him go as a head coach.

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Speaker 4: Well, just like he did with Jimmy Butler. Yeah, I'm

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Speaker 4: not getting no. No, I'm not acquiescing Jimmy Butler got out.

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Speaker 4: This is because it's gonna like Geese. It's gonna take

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Speaker 4: the coach saying this is the job. I want to

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Speaker 4: make this happen. Teams, of course, are gonna say no.

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Speaker 4: It's gonna take the coach to say sorry, guys, but

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Speaker 4: I really want this gig. I really want I want

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Speaker 4: to talk to them, and you know the agent talks

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Speaker 4: back channel about hey, if if I say I want

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Speaker 4: the job, will I get it.

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Speaker 1: Yes, we give you a guarantee you'd get the job.

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Speaker 1: There's all ways to make it happen, but this is

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Speaker 1: where it is where the coach has to say yes,

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Speaker 1: because then that puts the team in a bad spot

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Speaker 1: because you can't bring the guy back at that point,

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Speaker 1: and the guy may as well be a free agent.

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Speaker 3: Then it's okay. We're gonna go aiding competies. If nothing else,

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Speaker 3: then the Knicks are screwing over.

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Speaker 4: I mean, this could be a great strategy, creating unrest

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna keep calling all the winners. Yeah, I want winners.

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Speaker 4: So all I'm doing is calling teams that made the playoffs.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna see if I can sow the seeds of

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Speaker 3: Celtics from Missoula. You're gonna do all of it. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's gonna be great. Stop. No, it's good teams. All

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Speaker 3: I can say, good teams, only good time. If Damian

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Speaker 3: Lillard hadn't gotten her, you don't know, No, I think

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Speaker 3: I think I don't. I think I seen enough of that.

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Speaker 3: But look, here's a dangerous part, right because obviously it's

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Speaker 3: funny seeing.

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Speaker 1: That everybody says no. The more name well no one

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Speaker 1: said no. Teams have said no. But it doesn't matter

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Speaker 1: because the more names that come up, that the Knicks

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Speaker 1: wind up going over on because it doesn't matter that

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Speaker 1: here's two names that the Knicks wanted to talk to.

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Speaker 1: They were both told no, Now we know that Jason

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Speaker 1: Kidd is on the radar. We had the mark Stein report,

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Speaker 1: there was mutual interest between both sides. This would now

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Speaker 1: be three times three guys mentioned that the Knicks aren't

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Speaker 1: going to get. The more names that are mentioned in

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Speaker 1: a coaching search, the less confidence anybody has that you

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Speaker 1: know what you're doing.

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Speaker 4: Can we slap them up on a Bingo card and

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Speaker 4: see how quickly we.

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Speaker 3: Get across I nine?

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Speaker 1: Doc?

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Speaker 4: No, how about how you go to Billy Donovan? He's

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Speaker 4: the third longest tenured coach him, Doc Rivers would be

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Speaker 4: the free space you have. Of course you know, oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: It makes the job look bad, It makes the Knicks

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Speaker 3: For the Knicks. He's already had three names that it

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Speaker 4: First off, when the when the grid came out of

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Speaker 3: Smith. Oh yeah, yeah, right, even sixty to one. I kid,

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Speaker 4: Hey, we were talking about it before, not four million

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Speaker 1: Betting, not six trillion to one. He's sixty to one.

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Speaker 4: But all of it to say we're leverage to the

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Speaker 1: A lot of five dollars bets on Steven Ace becoming

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Speaker 4: Nick Hey, just for giggles, it's James Dolan. You have

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 3: No, a lot of heavy hitters Cleveland. Are you you're

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Speaker 4: Maybe not as Darius Garland gonna stay. Is he a

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Speaker 4: We're calling for legitimately, like keep going out like he

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Speaker 3: Heroes with Ross eye Ghoul.

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Speaker 6: Now I'd like to introduce you what was it, mister

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Speaker 4: Tell spoiler spoiler if you haven't seen it by now,

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Speaker 4: so I'll call the box stop. The Knicks are this

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Speaker 3: Nix yo U. We'll have more on this updating and

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Speaker 1: But speaking of tire fires, well we got a big

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Speaker 1: this is a tire fire. Jason and Mike Fox Mets.

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Speaker 1: Now stop, we're the best record nationally.

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Speaker 3: What does that mean? I gotta explain to you. I'll

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

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

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show with My best

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Speaker 1: friend Mike Harmon. It's bold Keith k a Hernandez. I

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Speaker 3: You know, get your innings of work in.

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Speaker 4: He's a cult hero in Los Angeles if and it

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Speaker 1: It's hard to get past certain things. But like you

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Speaker 1: What a what a what a what a bad mark

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Speaker 3: Oh no, I celebrate all of those you need. You need,

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Speaker 3: On all this. Again, also with the shift and oh,

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Speaker 3: everything but the pitch clock. I'll keep that.

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Speaker 4: But when we look at the rosters, right, you think

443
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Speaker 4: the union would continue to fight for it more jobs,

444
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Speaker 4: but then it becomes the battle of Okay, now, the

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Speaker 4: economics of the game, and we already talked about it

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Speaker 4: with John bon Brosi. That'll be up in the podcast

447
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Speaker 4: wherever you get your audio later on, talking about the

448
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Speaker 4: call ups, right, because you've got a rash of call ups, well,

449
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Speaker 4: a lot of hitters, right. We talk about Jack he's

450
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Speaker 4: a big trading card guy by the way, so he's

451
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Speaker 4: beloved by fans outside of Kansas City in the hobby.

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Speaker 4: But you've got him, you got Roman Anthony, you got

453
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Speaker 4: all the guys the White Sox. You got a lot

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Speaker 4: of pitchers. Why because they're cheap and especially on the

455
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Speaker 4: pitching side. If you're not gonna be a good team,

456
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Speaker 4: you might as well develop guys. If nothing else, you're

457
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Speaker 4: showcasing them. Maybe some contender decides, hey, they can come

458
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Speaker 4: to eat innings for us. Right, So you have that

459
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Speaker 4: kind of churn as well, So will it necessarily help? Right,

460
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Speaker 4: it's the old battle that we had in the NFL

461
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Speaker 4: all those years ago.

462
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Speaker 3: Wow, look at.

463
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Speaker 4: Those rookie contracts. These guys haven't earned it, and they

464
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Speaker 4: came in and now you get the fight. The other

465
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Speaker 4: way is like this rookie slotting is for the birds

466
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Speaker 4: and what are we doing? Uh So, so you fight

467
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Speaker 4: and have all those battles. But for for major league baseball, Yeah,

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Speaker 4: the fact that most pitchers go five. If you get

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Speaker 4: five innings out of your starter most nights, you're feeling

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Speaker 4: pretty good.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you still and again you're using at least

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Speaker 1: three pitchers the rest of the game. Right now, Look, see,

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Speaker 1: so eleven you have eleven between infielders and outfielders, right,

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Speaker 1: and two catchers.

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Speaker 3: Some teams will wait.

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Speaker 1: But if you want to say thirteen position players, right,

477
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Speaker 1: if you go five, six and two right, okay, and

478
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Speaker 1: then fifteen pitchers, right, you'll have five starters, but you

479
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Speaker 1: also will have it could bring an extra one up

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Speaker 1: to be a swingman or a long reliever. I mean

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Speaker 1: you have ten you're talking about ten relief pitchers. And

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Speaker 1: if you're having three or four guys pitch a night,

483
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Speaker 1: well guess what. Okay, then you're the point where okay,

484
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Speaker 1: guys don't have to pitch back to back nights or

485
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Speaker 1: they don't They don't have to go so many innings

486
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Speaker 1: because you can bring them in for a little bit

487
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Speaker 1: and their innings are down. And and you're extending guys careers,

488
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Speaker 1: you're also creating jobs because you're creating two more major.

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Speaker 3: League jobs as a result.

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Speaker 1: Right, we're talking about I just created sixty jobs, right

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Speaker 1: for everybody.

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Speaker 3: I just created sixty more jobs.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 1: Oh, but but the pictures you need pictures, You need

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Speaker 1: more relief pictures. And this should be something that tells you, Okay,

496
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Speaker 1: it's time for Major League Baseball to make your adjustment.

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Speaker 4: But if you're a veteran picture, you're you're fearful of

498
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Speaker 4: getting cycled out for the the cheaper alternative at an

499
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Speaker 4: expanded universe. Maybe maybe it get your your value as

500
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Speaker 4: a nine year veteran gets diluted in the extra world

501
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Speaker 4: that you bring in. So maybe there's a battle in

502
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Speaker 4: the union that then flows from it. But I do

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Speaker 4: like the the expanded roster. Certainly the players Union as

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Speaker 4: a whole would like it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I could.

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Speaker 1: I could run the players Union now. Except that I

507
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Speaker 1: could run I just give I just gave you sixty jobs.

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Speaker 4: And now you gotta fight with ownership about getting the

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Speaker 4: money for those slots, which which should be fun. I mean,

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Speaker 4: you know, it's it's it's a good uh, it's a

511
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Speaker 4: good theory. But yeah, where we're at with pitching and

512
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Speaker 4: the the inability.

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Speaker 3: I mean, guys have been coddled.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, let's let's just call it what it is. It's

515
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Speaker 4: it's a different world that we that we live in.

516
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Speaker 4: I mean, all those years. Just put your hand and

517
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Speaker 4: fight through the bucket of rice like you're Nolan Ryan

518
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Speaker 4: and whatever.

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Speaker 3: Actually go work a ranch.

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Speaker 1: Padres do win the game over the Dodgers eleven to one,

521
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Speaker 1: So a tire fire kind of game for the Dodgers,

522
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Speaker 1: which gets us to the other big tire fire of

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Speaker 1: the night, nich Show. Uh no stop, I'll.

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Speaker 3: Have more than next coming up in a bit, but

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Speaker 3: you open that door. Uh. Let's just say things are

526
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Speaker 3: not going well for the US men's national team as

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Speaker 3: we get ready for the Gold Cup, because tonight against Switzerland,

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Speaker 3: well this is kind of how it went. I'll be

529
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Speaker 3: cutting its international starts his second county, but this.

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Speaker 2: Time stunts in complete.

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Speaker 3: Control TNT on the call.

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Speaker 1: Yes, Switzerland scored four goals in the first forty minutes

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Speaker 1: against the United States tonight, the last tune up the

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Speaker 1: United States has before the Gold Cup begins, and they

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Speaker 1: get crunched by the Swiss for nothing.

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Speaker 3: That call of the fourth goal sounded like a shark jump.

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Speaker 3: It was it. Look it was. It was bad.

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Speaker 1: And the thing is, listen, we talked about this last night,

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Speaker 1: coming off the game this past weekend where they lose

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Speaker 1: to Turkey and it's and you see the big old goal.

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Speaker 1: What is happening. The point we made last night is

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Speaker 1: even is even bigger tonight. You can make excuses and

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Speaker 1: say it's the B team. Okay, I understand that because

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Speaker 1: a lot of guys are home. Polisic as home, Anthony

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Speaker 1: Robinson is home, like you know, I got players who

546
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Speaker 1: were home because they're resting. But there has not been

547
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Speaker 1: good news on or off the field for the USMNT

548
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Speaker 1: and I don't know how long. And I can't count

549
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Speaker 1: Pochettino getting hired because who knows well.

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Speaker 3: But in the moment it was a good head, right.

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Speaker 1: I got a great, big hot take for him coming up.

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Speaker 1: But the thing is the United States is I don't

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Speaker 1: know when the last time anything good has come up,

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Speaker 1: and they they look lost.

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Speaker 3: They still don't have an identity. It's the third head

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Speaker 3: coach they've had in the last few years.

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Speaker 1: Going from Klinsmann to to Greg Burhalter and now with Pochettino,

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Speaker 1: that's supposed to come in and bring an identity and

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Speaker 1: bring a style, and bring a and bring a culture.

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Speaker 1: And it's They're supposed to be physical and the desire

561
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Speaker 1: is going to be there, and I still don't see it.

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Speaker 1: They look absolutely lost. And here's why I'll give you

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Speaker 1: this hot take. If the Gold Cup goes really bad,

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Speaker 1: I know that Pochettino makes it to the World Cup

565
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Speaker 1: next year because it's been such a bad start. Because

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Speaker 1: think about it, you have players who know, like Polistic

567
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Speaker 1: knows I should be here playing with this because how

568
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Speaker 1: many reps am I going to get with the national

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Speaker 1: team as we get ready for the Olympics, right and

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Speaker 1: Foachino said before the Olympics, say if you're coming here,

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Speaker 1: don't bring your golf clubs. This is we got to

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Speaker 1: get ready for the World Cup. And still Polistic knows

573
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Speaker 1: this and didn't show up. And other players, Robinson doesn't

574
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Speaker 1: show up, other players not showing up. Here's your new

575
00:25:22,160 --> 00:25:24,920
Speaker 1: coach coming in and the best players are saying we're

576
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Speaker 1: not coming. Some of the best players saying we're not coming.

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Speaker 1: What does that tell you about where where guys like

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Speaker 1: Polisic view the men's national team and the disconnect there

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Speaker 1: is now between the coaching staff and people running the

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Speaker 1: US soccer and the best players in the world.

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Speaker 3: It's not there.

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Speaker 1: The United States for the last few years has shown, boy,

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Speaker 1: when they're motivated, and there's times where for the first

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Speaker 1: fifteen minutes of a game, they look like the best

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Speaker 1: team on the planet. They look at a team that

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Speaker 1: could blow out any of your big contenders, and then

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Speaker 1: after fifteen minutes go by, they just kind of sit back,

588
00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:56,919
Speaker 1: or they show up for games and they look disinterested.

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Speaker 1: Tonight was a game where they look disinterested and they

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Speaker 1: didn't bring a lot of energy. And I'm thinking about this,

591
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Speaker 1: and I'm saying, how do you not get the best

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Speaker 1: players who want to show up and play for the

593
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Speaker 1: new coach. There's so many issues going on right now,

594
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Speaker 1: but that's the biggest one is that I don't know

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Speaker 1: what kind of culture is going on right now. I

596
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Speaker 1: don't know if the players are responding to it. They

597
00:26:20,520 --> 00:26:23,440
Speaker 1: didn't really respond to Berhalter, didn't really respond to Klinsman,

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Speaker 1: not really responding to Pachatino because you've got guys not

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Speaker 1: showing up, and I'm saying to myself, is he really

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Speaker 1: even gonna make it? Because if you have a bad

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Speaker 1: running the Gold Cup and boy, look at this, are

602
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Speaker 1: we really gonna start playing better? No, again, it's the

603
00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:37,800
Speaker 1: B team, but there's no to get There's no impetus there,

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Speaker 1: there's no sense of urgency. I don't see a team

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Speaker 1: that's happy on the field playing with each other, even

606
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Speaker 1: when Polistic and the other guys are there. I don't

607
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Speaker 1: get a team that's all happy playing on the field.

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Speaker 1: There's a lot of crap going on that just prevents

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Speaker 1: them from Hey, we're gonna give you our best effort

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Speaker 1: every game, and it's gonna be good enough most nights

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Speaker 1: because we are really talented. There are such a tire

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Speaker 1: fire right now. If this Gold Cup goes bad, I

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Speaker 1: would not surprised if wallk we're gonna put money together.

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Speaker 1: We put money to get Pochatino. You know they don't

615
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Speaker 1: have a lot of money, but they can't go into

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Speaker 1: the World Cup this way. I would not be surprised.

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Speaker 1: Suddenly it's a new head coach getting ready when we're

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Speaker 1: getting ready to go play in the World clame I mean,

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Speaker 1: you know they qualified for the World Cup though, yeah, no,

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Speaker 1: I know, but it doesn't matter.

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Speaker 3: You know, we had to think we're gonna go there

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Speaker 3: and win a couple of games, and I oh no, no, no,

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Speaker 3: come on now, you see that, right now? Come on?

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Speaker 4: That was a completely sarcasm bucket full because they get

625
00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:31,000
Speaker 4: the automatic qualifier. But all of that to say, we

626
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Speaker 4: watched with the US men's Olympic basketball team clamoring. He

627
00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:40,240
Speaker 4: had guys like Joel Embiid had choices of where he

628
00:27:40,359 --> 00:27:42,800
Speaker 4: was gonna play, eh, and he chose to play for

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Speaker 4: the US. And you had Steph Curry with his heroics

630
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Speaker 4: and Lebron James back out there, guys who are well decorated, rich,

631
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Speaker 4: beyond their wildest dreams, but it still mattered to them.

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Speaker 4: Right here, you can't I don't care if it's a

633
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Speaker 4: B team. The effort that was or lack thereof, on

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Speaker 4: display tonight coming out of the landon Donovan Polisic.

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Speaker 3: Polisic dad flap is insane to me.

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Speaker 4: How do you not have that as a all right,

637
00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:15,119
Speaker 4: we'll show him blink that guy. We're gonna go up

638
00:28:15,119 --> 00:28:18,359
Speaker 4: and give an effort and if that's your best effort,

639
00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:24,400
Speaker 4: then thirty years of work and building, you're at square one.

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00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:27,320
Speaker 4: I mean you still need to lay a base of

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Speaker 4: a foundation at this point.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it doesn't feel like the case anybody. He's made

643
00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:34,119
Speaker 3: no progress. No, nobody's on the same page. I don't know.

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00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:37,160
Speaker 1: It doesn't seem like the relationships are good between US Soccer,

645
00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:41,120
Speaker 1: the coaching staff and the players. There's an absolute mess

646
00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:42,840
Speaker 1: and it and it hasn't It's been this way for

647
00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:45,160
Speaker 1: eight years. I mean we've all these young players and

648
00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:49,600
Speaker 1: Policit's been playing for almost a decade. Ride the wonder

649
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Speaker 1: kin this is and it's it's no, it's not kid, dad,

650
00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:56,440
Speaker 1: it's it's a wonder kid. It's it's it's a phrase,

651
00:28:56,440 --> 00:28:56,880
Speaker 1: it's a word.

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Speaker 3: Or Holland as Spider Man when he first start. I mean,

653
00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:01,640
Speaker 3: we don't have that tell he's not a kid anymore.

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00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:03,600
Speaker 1: If it's a bad Gold Cup, you're really going to

655
00:29:03,640 --> 00:29:04,800
Speaker 1: see poach Tino get a chance?

656
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Speaker 3: Or is it?

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Speaker 1: Or are they just going to go to the players.

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Speaker 1: Who's going to get you excited? We'll hire whoever you

659
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Speaker 1: want because we we we gotta have you got at

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Speaker 1: least seem like, you want to be here? Who do

661
00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:14,520
Speaker 1: you guys want? Who do you guys want? As your

662
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Speaker 1: head coach?

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Speaker 3: Will go get him and that's that's they'd have to do.

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Speaker 4: Whoever the Knicks has permission for, No, you go no, no, no, no, no.

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Speaker 1: Tims would be better, he would because he would look

666
00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:27,080
Speaker 1: very disapprovingly at the team if they're not playing well.

667
00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:29,080
Speaker 1: It would fit well, and he wouldn't put any subs in.

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Speaker 1: It would just be all.

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Speaker 3: These well, so those guys don't have to show up.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, oh that's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you don't want

671
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Speaker 1: to be here, it's all good, don't worry about it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we're we're all.

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Speaker 3: I like that. That's good. You could have played net

674
00:29:40,720 --> 00:29:42,720
Speaker 3: tonight though, X I could have.

675
00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:47,000
Speaker 1: I could have and it would have been great, right,

676
00:29:47,600 --> 00:29:48,520
Speaker 1: best keeper ever.

677
00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:51,080
Speaker 4: If they told the goalie forty minutes in and just

678
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Speaker 4: had a guy I had him standing over.

679
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Speaker 3: On the sideline. We're gonna do it. We're gonna put

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Speaker 3: a sweeper in front of the net where if the

681
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Speaker 3: ball gets in front, somebody can clear it. That's all.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna have.

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Speaker 1: Time how to find out what's trending in the wide

684
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Speaker 1: world of sports. But guy's been called the Jurgen Klinsman

685
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Speaker 1: of Fox Sports Radio. He also watched night's game for

686
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Speaker 1: the USMNT and left.

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Speaker 3: It's Steve de Seger.

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Speaker 5: It's just gotting sad at this point. The record for

689
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Speaker 5: the new US coaches five and five. The US will

690
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Speaker 5: be hosting the World Cup in a year. The Americans

691
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Speaker 5: tonight in Nashville were down four to nothing in the

692
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Speaker 5: first half. Four nothing the final. Switzerland over the Americans

693
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Speaker 5: in this exhibition, the US with literally no shots on goal.

694
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Speaker 3: In the ninety minutes.

695
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Speaker 5: The US men will host the Gold Cup tournament this

696
00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:35,440
Speaker 5: month on Fox and FS one, starting this Sunday. By

697
00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:38,320
Speaker 5: the way, today Senegal won at England and an exhibition

698
00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:41,000
Speaker 5: three to one, and it's a final in San Diego,

699
00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:44,720
Speaker 5: Padres eleven to one over the La Dodgers. This was

700
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Speaker 5: an all bullpen game, so they had loud Trevino pitch

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Speaker 5: the first inning and then oh.

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Speaker 3: No, no way.

703
00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:52,920
Speaker 1: Now he hasn't been on the senior PGA tour in

704
00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:55,560
Speaker 1: a long time. I know he's just.

705
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Speaker 5: Been putting around, isn't that say? And then Matt Souer

706
00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:00,960
Speaker 5: up from the miners again pitch the next four and

707
00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:05,360
Speaker 5: two thirds innings, allowed nine runs and thirteen hits, one

708
00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:09,640
Speaker 5: hundred and eleven pitches in relief, and then Key K Hernandez,

709
00:31:09,640 --> 00:31:13,440
Speaker 5: a pitching position player, was pitching the rest of the game.

710
00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:16,480
Speaker 5: It is these days in Major League Baseball legal for

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Speaker 5: a position player to be used on the hill if

712
00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:24,200
Speaker 5: you're down eight. So Dave Roberts waited until they fell behind.

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00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:26,360
Speaker 3: Nine to nothing and immediately put kick in the game

714
00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:28,520
Speaker 3: or told the other pitcher, hey, give up a couple

715
00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:31,280
Speaker 3: more swine, get kik a in. Okay, it's the same result.

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00:31:31,400 --> 00:31:35,880
Speaker 4: Yes, when do they get pitch restrictions on position players.

717
00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:37,840
Speaker 5: Well, when you're throwing fifty miles an hour, I'm not

718
00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:42,400
Speaker 5: sure that's necessary because that literally most of his pitches

719
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Speaker 5: some under fifty miles per hour.

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Speaker 3: Starting game one of the NLDS.

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Speaker 1: Boy, it's it's going to be Dylan Ceason, Hernandez and LCS.

722
00:31:51,680 --> 00:31:56,640
Speaker 1: So I noticed the mash as you recall the Dodgers

723
00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:59,000
Speaker 1: did have those full games against events.

724
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Speaker 3: At the NLCS. Yes, you're nothing has changed. And by

725
00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:02,400
Speaker 3: the way, Keith A.

726
00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:05,320
Speaker 5: Hernandez at the plate, he became the guy in the

727
00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:08,720
Speaker 5: DH spot. Once you do this, you lose the DH

728
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Speaker 5: and he was zero for two with two strikeouts as

729
00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:14,360
Speaker 5: a better because, as everyone knows, pitchers can't hit. As

730
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Speaker 5: for the late game in Major League Baseball at Arizona Diamondbacks,

731
00:32:18,720 --> 00:32:21,479
Speaker 5: they're just closing about to close out a ten to

732
00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:24,920
Speaker 5: three win against Seattle, which means the Mariners will still

733
00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:27,719
Speaker 5: be three back at first place Houston in the AL West.

734
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Speaker 5: Houston was beaten at home by the White Sox four

735
00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:32,760
Speaker 5: to two, even though the White Sox offense was four

736
00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:36,960
Speaker 5: for thirty with thirteen strikeouts and the White Sox record

737
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:39,720
Speaker 5: on the road had been six and twenty six. The

738
00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:42,520
Speaker 5: San Francisco Giants won their sixth straight game with four

739
00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:45,680
Speaker 5: runs top of the ninth A. Giants win at Colorado

740
00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:49,360
Speaker 5: six to five. Rockies record now twelve and fifty four.

741
00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:52,320
Speaker 5: The Giants are second in the NL West half game

742
00:32:52,360 --> 00:32:54,720
Speaker 5: behind the Dodgers San Diego, only one back.

743
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Speaker 3: The Angels have.

744
00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:57,600
Speaker 5: Won in ten innings, two to one over the A's.

745
00:32:57,880 --> 00:33:00,480
Speaker 5: Toronto won ten to nine at Saint Louis Is a

746
00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:03,920
Speaker 5: sixteen to four winner at Minnesota. The Yankees won ten

747
00:33:03,920 --> 00:33:06,160
Speaker 5: to two at Kansas City, and early home run for

748
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:09,240
Speaker 5: Aaron Judge is twenty fourth and by the way, Giancarlo

749
00:33:09,360 --> 00:33:12,920
Speaker 5: stand with the elbow injury started rehabit double a tonight

750
00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:14,680
Speaker 5: at a walk to run single and.

751
00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:15,600
Speaker 3: An RBI single.

752
00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:18,000
Speaker 5: The Mets one again came back for a ten inning

753
00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:21,240
Speaker 5: victory over Washington five to four. Cincinnati won its fifth

754
00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:24,520
Speaker 5: straight one nothing at Cleveland, Andrew Rabbits six and one

755
00:33:24,560 --> 00:33:27,280
Speaker 5: got the win a complete game three hitter. Detroit won

756
00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:29,680
Speaker 5: again five to three at Baltimore. And as for the

757
00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:32,880
Speaker 5: TV ratings of the NHL Stanley Cup Final, the last

758
00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:37,120
Speaker 5: couple of games averaged two point four million viewers. The

759
00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:40,920
Speaker 5: college softball finale got two point four million viewers. Recently

760
00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:41,719
Speaker 5: on cable.

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00:33:41,800 --> 00:33:43,160
Speaker 3: Back to you, Thank you, Steve O.

762
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Speaker 1: Coming up next, the big bomb that dropped today at

763
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Speaker 1: one NFL press conference.

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Speaker 3: We got it for you, Jason to Mike Well.

765
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Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith

766
00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:58,160
Speaker 2: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven

767
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Speaker 2: pm Pacific.

768
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:02,800
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best

769
00:34:02,800 --> 00:34:06,560
Speaker 1: friend Mike Carmen. Back into the NBA Finals coming up

770
00:34:06,600 --> 00:34:11,080
Speaker 1: in about twelve minutes. But Aaron Rodgers met the media

771
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Speaker 1: today for the first time as a member of the Steelers,

772
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Speaker 1: went through practice handed the ball off through some footballs,

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Speaker 1: and then dropped the big bombshell when he was asked

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Speaker 1: about the suspicious looking ring on the ring finger of

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00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:28,360
Speaker 1: his left hand, got a hurry or anything else. A

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Speaker 1: wedding ring.

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00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:35,040
Speaker 3: It's a wedding ring. Congratulation, Thank you, I love you.

778
00:34:36,160 --> 00:34:37,040
Speaker 2: It's been a couple months.

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00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:40,920
Speaker 1: Eh, I left the Jets, I got married. I was

780
00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:45,960
Speaker 1: really bad last couple of years, but now I'm married. Uh,

781
00:34:46,400 --> 00:34:47,440
Speaker 1: he wouldn't say the.

782
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Speaker 4: Way your vocal and Fletcher was like, what I just

783
00:34:50,520 --> 00:34:52,600
Speaker 4: I decided to do it would take to take it

784
00:34:52,640 --> 00:34:55,640
Speaker 4: down another level. Oh, I'm just as opposed to a

785
00:34:55,680 --> 00:34:57,399
Speaker 4: positive I needed some positivity.

786
00:34:57,440 --> 00:34:58,160
Speaker 3: I got married.

787
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Speaker 4: You made it sound like I need it a couple

788
00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:06,680
Speaker 4: of a couple of bad years New York as opposed

789
00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:10,040
Speaker 4: to you know what a couple of years I realize

790
00:35:10,080 --> 00:35:13,640
Speaker 4: where I'm at my life, and I got married like positivity.

791
00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:16,040
Speaker 4: You the way you phrased it was like, you know,

792
00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:20,640
Speaker 4: it's bad things, and so I compounded it and bad things.

793
00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:23,319
Speaker 3: Wouldn't say who he was married to.

794
00:35:24,440 --> 00:35:26,879
Speaker 1: And now, of course everybody's going to race to try

795
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:28,600
Speaker 1: to find out because he's opened the door to that.

796
00:35:28,719 --> 00:35:28,879
Speaker 3: Right.

797
00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:31,920
Speaker 1: This is when I said the other night that I

798
00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:34,919
Speaker 1: don't My big concern for the Steelers is how much

799
00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:38,720
Speaker 1: is Aaron Rodgers still about football? Because at this point,

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Speaker 1: with the way he's been the last couple of years,

801
00:35:41,239 --> 00:35:45,239
Speaker 1: taking all the time to choose to sign this year, Uh,

802
00:35:45,480 --> 00:35:47,040
Speaker 1: I look at him and say, this is a guy

803
00:35:47,080 --> 00:35:51,560
Speaker 1: that's playing football because he still wants to be famous

804
00:35:51,640 --> 00:35:55,399
Speaker 1: and still have the same platform that he's had for

805
00:35:55,480 --> 00:35:58,319
Speaker 1: his career. Because when you stop playing, your platform goes

806
00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:00,640
Speaker 1: down a little bit. And Aaron Rodgers is very and

807
00:36:00,680 --> 00:36:02,759
Speaker 1: you know, maybe he finds his audience after his playing

808
00:36:02,840 --> 00:36:05,040
Speaker 1: days are over. But I like it now, like is

809
00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:07,600
Speaker 1: he playing because he still loves football? Is he's playing

810
00:36:07,640 --> 00:36:09,520
Speaker 1: because well, I don't know what else I'm gonna do.

811
00:36:09,560 --> 00:36:11,800
Speaker 1: And I really like the fact last three and a

812
00:36:11,840 --> 00:36:14,200
Speaker 1: half years have been the most popular player in the NFL.

813
00:36:14,239 --> 00:36:16,320
Speaker 1: Every time I say or do something, people talk about

814
00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:19,719
Speaker 1: it because I look at this and I go this

815
00:36:20,360 --> 00:36:22,600
Speaker 1: instance here where he tells everybody he's married but wouldn't

816
00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:24,960
Speaker 1: say who he's married to. This tells me he's in

817
00:36:25,040 --> 00:36:29,760
Speaker 1: the Hollywood portion of his career, where he's the aging

818
00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:32,800
Speaker 1: star that is always looking for a way to grab

819
00:36:32,840 --> 00:36:35,360
Speaker 1: the news cycle. How am I gonna grab the news cycle?

820
00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:36,920
Speaker 1: What am I gonna do? How can I do it?

821
00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:40,960
Speaker 1: Because I'm getting older? Because if he got married and

822
00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:43,160
Speaker 1: it was a private thing and didn't want to tell anybody,

823
00:36:43,239 --> 00:36:44,560
Speaker 1: then say, hey, you got a ring on your left

824
00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:47,239
Speaker 1: hand yet, Nu, it's uh, I don't want to talk

825
00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:49,359
Speaker 1: about it, that's fine. Or don't wear the ring, right,

826
00:36:49,440 --> 00:36:51,279
Speaker 1: don't need to wear the ring? No Joe rules says

827
00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:52,719
Speaker 1: you have to wear a wedding ring. I've been married

828
00:36:52,719 --> 00:36:55,760
Speaker 1: for twenty years. I don't wear a redding ring. It's

829
00:36:55,800 --> 00:36:56,880
Speaker 1: you know, you don't have to do it if you

830
00:36:56,880 --> 00:36:58,200
Speaker 1: want to keep it a secret, if you want to

831
00:36:58,239 --> 00:37:00,880
Speaker 1: keep its private. Okay, I understand. But he wears the

832
00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:04,160
Speaker 1: ring and everybody's talking about it. When he signs his contract,

833
00:37:04,239 --> 00:37:06,680
Speaker 1: he puts his hand right in that spot in the picture.

834
00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:08,480
Speaker 1: He signed with his right hand. But my left hand

835
00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:10,600
Speaker 1: is what you see. I got the wedding ring on there. Oh,

836
00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:13,720
Speaker 1: people are talking about Aaron Rodgers. Hey, he pats himself

837
00:37:13,719 --> 00:37:15,680
Speaker 1: on the back. Did a great job getting people talking

838
00:37:15,719 --> 00:37:18,000
Speaker 1: about me. Am I married or not? Now I go

839
00:37:18,040 --> 00:37:19,760
Speaker 1: to the press conference, I go, yeah, I've been married

840
00:37:19,960 --> 00:37:20,799
Speaker 1: married a couple of months.

841
00:37:20,920 --> 00:37:21,520
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay.

842
00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:24,600
Speaker 1: Oh so now okay, Now people are gonna try to

843
00:37:24,640 --> 00:37:26,600
Speaker 1: find out who I'm married to, and that's gonna be

844
00:37:26,640 --> 00:37:29,080
Speaker 1: a story Like if he was a really private thing

845
00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:30,880
Speaker 1: and he didn't want people to know, it would have

846
00:37:30,880 --> 00:37:32,960
Speaker 1: been handled differently. But now this is what he is.

847
00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:35,640
Speaker 1: This is how I'm getting attention. I'm a Steeler now,

848
00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:37,440
Speaker 1: oh and I'm married. Now people are gonna spend the

849
00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:39,160
Speaker 1: next week trying to find out who my wife is.

850
00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:41,960
Speaker 1: And maybe I tell everybody on Pat mcafeere. Maybe I don't.

851
00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:45,920
Speaker 1: He is in that Hollywood. How do I grab the

852
00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:48,440
Speaker 1: limelight still? How do I grab the big part of

853
00:37:48,480 --> 00:37:50,520
Speaker 1: the news cycle. Oh, I'm gonna do it this way.

854
00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:52,759
Speaker 1: I'm gonna let people gonna tease that I'm married, you know,

855
00:37:53,040 --> 00:37:54,960
Speaker 1: like he worked this out with a PR person and

856
00:37:55,040 --> 00:37:57,360
Speaker 1: manager going yeah, this is gonna be our avenue to

857
00:37:57,400 --> 00:37:59,080
Speaker 1: go out and try to get the optics to get

858
00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:01,080
Speaker 1: people talking about you. Like that's what I look at

859
00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:03,000
Speaker 1: right now. That's why I go Is he still all

860
00:38:03,040 --> 00:38:05,919
Speaker 1: about football or is he only playing because now, hey,

861
00:38:05,960 --> 00:38:08,200
Speaker 1: this is my avenue to stay in the limelight.

862
00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:10,880
Speaker 4: Are you playing win a date with Tad Hamilton? Is

863
00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:13,880
Speaker 4: that what we're doing now. I mean, look, football is

864
00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:15,840
Speaker 4: not a game that you could go, right, was that

865
00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:16,320
Speaker 4: Michael E.

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00:38:16,480 --> 00:38:16,680
Speaker 1: Knight?

867
00:38:17,120 --> 00:38:21,640
Speaker 3: That was Toe for Grace? And okay? All right, okay,

868
00:38:21,800 --> 00:38:24,719
Speaker 3: I forget who else was in. I just know it

869
00:38:24,760 --> 00:38:26,480
Speaker 3: was Toe first. Okay, I thought I thought it was

870
00:38:26,480 --> 00:38:30,719
Speaker 3: a dude from the soap opera Michael E. Knight. That's good.

871
00:38:31,000 --> 00:38:34,040
Speaker 4: You will have to look it up in post. But

872
00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:38,680
Speaker 4: with this, it's it's an interesting story for some. I

873
00:38:39,000 --> 00:38:45,719
Speaker 4: don't care, because football you can't fake right, especially quarterback.

874
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Speaker 4: You're gonna get your ass kicked pretty fast. I don't

875
00:38:49,160 --> 00:38:54,600
Speaker 4: think you're coming back to playhouse in this respect playing football.

876
00:38:55,040 --> 00:38:57,120
Speaker 4: If you're gonna go and get bludgeoned, you're right. You

877
00:38:57,280 --> 00:39:00,400
Speaker 4: just two years ago missed an entire season off the

878
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:04,120
Speaker 4: fourth snap of a game. You battled back from that,

879
00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:07,080
Speaker 4: you played pretty well down the stretch. I gotta think

880
00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:09,880
Speaker 4: it's a little more than just all right. I want

881
00:39:10,000 --> 00:39:13,680
Speaker 4: some more publicity because he could still continue to get that.

882
00:39:13,840 --> 00:39:16,280
Speaker 3: I mean, plenty of x NFL guys is just away

883
00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:17,799
Speaker 3: for him. How do I do it? Now?

884
00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:20,319
Speaker 1: Hey, no one's talking now. This is another thing people

885
00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:21,560
Speaker 1: are spending talking about.

886
00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:24,200
Speaker 4: Because this has been something that's been percolating for a while.

887
00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:26,359
Speaker 4: Who's he dating, what's he doing? Is he get did

888
00:39:26,440 --> 00:39:30,440
Speaker 4: he get married? That was that was speculative before the

889
00:39:30,600 --> 00:39:33,520
Speaker 4: ring photo that you point out in the foreground. I

890
00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:36,040
Speaker 4: would have liked it if it was his elbow was

891
00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:38,279
Speaker 4: crooked a little bit more so. Then it looked like

892
00:39:38,320 --> 00:39:40,120
Speaker 4: he was just covering up his paper so he didn't

893
00:39:40,200 --> 00:39:44,000
Speaker 4: cheat and see the terms of his contract. But you know,

894
00:39:44,080 --> 00:39:46,080
Speaker 4: for him, I don't think he could fake it. And

895
00:39:46,120 --> 00:39:48,080
Speaker 4: with Mike Tomlin, you sure as hell can't.

896
00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:50,839
Speaker 3: From Todd, well, see, you'll see how the season goes,

897
00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:53,600
Speaker 3: He'll see how this he'll be better than the Jets. Well,

898
00:39:53,640 --> 00:39:55,200
Speaker 3: the Steelers are better than the Jets.

899
00:39:55,640 --> 00:39:58,560
Speaker 1: Exit out about a Fresco exit swollen dome coming up next.

900
00:39:58,560 --> 00:40:02,200
Speaker 1: Two big takes as we get into Game three of

901
00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:03,440
Speaker 1: the NBA Finals.

902
00:40:03,920 --> 00:40:04,320
Speaker 3: Fox