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Speaker 4: All Right, the numbers are in for the WBC.

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Speaker 3: Kelvin and Rod has them and their robust I mean,

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Speaker 3: there's no other way of looking at it or sugarcoating it.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a big week for us here at Fox

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Speaker 5: because they were killing the game when it came to

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Speaker 5: the WBC ratings. The twenty twenty six WBC Final, where

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Speaker 5: Temysa came up small once again, had a robust, to

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Speaker 5: quote Rob Parker, ten point seven to eight million viewers,

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Speaker 5: most watched WC telecast on any network ever. All Right,

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Speaker 5: and just for some contexts in case you know, they

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Speaker 5: at ten point it's not a big number. I've heard

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Speaker 5: numbers bigger than that. For context, guys, The twenty twenty

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Speaker 5: five NBA Finals average viewership ten point two million viewers. So, Rob,

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Speaker 5: I ask you this, with these raidings coming out for

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Speaker 5: the WBC the championship game specifically, does this cement the

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Speaker 5: fact that baseball is now the number two sport in America?

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Speaker 4: Not basketball?

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna say this first. I don't think it ever was.

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Speaker 3: What wasn't you know the NFL? We know where that

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Speaker 3: fits in baseball. No, sport can compete because it's only

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Speaker 3: once a week. It's just totally different. And even the

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Speaker 3: people who watch, they don't care about the teams that

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Speaker 3: they're watching. They might have a player or two on

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Speaker 3: their fantasy so that changes. And the other part is

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Speaker 3: the gambling aspect that you cannot ignore. Okay, football used

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Speaker 3: to be Kelvin on ABC for Monday Night Football for

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Speaker 3: a long time. Do you know why it moved off

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Speaker 3: prior to fantasy, you know what I mean? And yeah,

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Speaker 3: and football, so it's in a different league. Baseball, these

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Speaker 3: numbers to me are significant, and part of it is

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Speaker 3: you had about twenty or twenty five Hall of famers

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Speaker 3: retire right a rod big poppy bonds.

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Speaker 4: Pool, am I right?

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Speaker 3: Like twenty five like Hall of famers, guys who played

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Speaker 3: a long time. So there was a lull. Then the

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Speaker 3: game got born because it was home run to strikeouts.

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Speaker 3: I'll be the first one to tell you is just brutal, right,

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Speaker 3: no base running, no hit stuff. The shift guy hit

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Speaker 3: that and now you look and as you see numbers

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Speaker 3: the trend. Baseball's numbers continue to grow, and probably the

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Speaker 3: most promising is the social media numbers, right because that's

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Speaker 3: your future, that's your young people. So those numbers have

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Speaker 3: pretty shocking for me. Even for me, you know, I

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Speaker 3: I'm not all the way crazy. These numbers Kelvin for

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Speaker 3: an exhibition in March. These are raties counting Venezuela, you know,

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Speaker 3: NBA Saturday night primetime games down twenty percent. Sunday's doing

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Speaker 3: what moves the needles now, Kelvin, and baseball is doing

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Speaker 6: That's great for baseball.

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Speaker 7: It's been and I've had the honor of doing the

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Speaker 4: So if you're the league, we're not not to the

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Speaker 6: What, without a doubt, without a doubt.

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Speaker 7: And so what I'm gonna do it on my portion

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Speaker 7: of this segment, Rob, I'm gonna just echo what you said,

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Speaker 7: but the NBA version in that everything you said is

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Speaker 6: I think if you're the NBA, you.

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Speaker 7: Take note of that, right, Leagues Falter, you talked about

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Speaker 7: becomes it's back running. Now it's a Bohemians, it's on

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Speaker 7: another level. But MLB had a lull for a while.

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Speaker 7: some things are just happen. Stands right, you just get

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Speaker 7: great baseball postseason series, right, you can't.

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Speaker 7: Well, in NBA, same thing you're getting towards the end

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Speaker 7: sounds he's retiring. Kobe Bryant, God Bless the Dead passed

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Speaker 7: Starting to get young guys they're coming in Earl as

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Speaker 7: heck Rob eighteen, nineteen twenty. They have to find their way.

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Speaker 7: They don't know a player. They're like Bambi, you don't

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Speaker 7: They're too young. Well, they don't know how to win.

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Speaker 7: The NBA has to look at what MLB did, start

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Speaker 7: to work on issues, right all right, yeah, analytics, just

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Speaker 7: like they did in baseball. Analytics said, well home run

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Speaker 7: but getting base running is fun. Guys, trying to steal

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Speaker 7: NBA stop shooting as many threes, start stop being so

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Speaker 7: competing and having rivalries. We talk about it this year.

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Speaker 7: I brought it up earlier. Starting to have guys and

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Speaker 7: it's the All Star countries. How do we start to

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Speaker 7: Winby looks like he's going to be amazing for a

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Speaker 7: there in Philly Brunton with the Knicks, you have your

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Speaker 6: I love it.

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Speaker 7: The All Star Game was pretty solid. We mostly all

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Speaker 7: agreed on that. And another thing I'll go to, as

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Speaker 6: If you look at twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 7: Last well, they were second with only two hundred and

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Speaker 7: They're online, their global seventy five percent of their social

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Speaker 6: They call it the old tiny effect.

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Speaker 7: So the NBA is king for the youth, for social media,

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Speaker 7: They went through a law. They fixed it, Rob Manfred, they.

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Speaker 3: Fixed the game, right people, all the time, you gotta

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Speaker 3: give Rob manfre credit because a credit because he was

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Speaker 3: he was getting bashed when things weren't going well, and

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Speaker 6: And I will tell you Rob why I give him credit.

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Speaker 7: I apologize for cutting you off there, but you know

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Speaker 7: Baseball had a history of not budging, of not being progressive,

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Speaker 7: as saying no, no, no. This is how my great

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Speaker 3: Fox, So we got all right, Chili Tim in Atlanta.

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Speaker 3: You're in the couple of Fox Sports Radio. What's up, Chili?

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Speaker 8: Guys doing? Man?

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Speaker 6: Great?

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Speaker 6: What's up? Chilli? Chill? You alright? Many signed off? Sound

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm just chill. That's like, get the name Chili.

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Speaker 4: And they choked it down. I mean, my god.

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Speaker 8: And so the NBA doesn't have that sense to worry

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Speaker 8: So you make you say the rivalry, but definitely that

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Speaker 8: they started to become hated and in the NBA didn't

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Speaker 8: right now it could be the Thunder, But the Thunder

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good point. Chillie, appreciate it. Have a

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Speaker 4: Thank you.

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Speaker 3: What about I appreciate you Andre in Massachusetts. You're on

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Speaker 10: Thanks for taking the call. Happy Friday, you know, enjoying

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Speaker 10: March madness. You know this cut quotes from me, you know,

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Speaker 4: Yet baseball is up. Andre. That's that's the only thing I'm.

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Speaker 10: Talking about, because Baseball's finally decides to innovate and they've

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Speaker 10: It doesn't take a tremendous amount of time and you actually.

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Speaker 3: Get something, So then it should just be we should

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Speaker 3: just use it on every pitch. No, I'm asking you

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Speaker 3: if you want to get it right.

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Speaker 10: I like the idea of a challenge. First of all,

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Speaker 10: how do that umpires this is a baseball thing. How

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Speaker 10: do they see it from the dugout and know that

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Speaker 10: it's right? You know, looking at that angle. I don't

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Speaker 10: understand it, but they do, and the umpires miscalled. I

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Speaker 10: just think it makes it better. Give that guy an

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Speaker 10: extra pitch if if it was not right, or if

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Speaker 10: it's right, you're out and keep it moving. But I

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Speaker 10: think it's going to increase the interest taking the call.

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Speaker 6: Yep, thank you, No doubt that, Drake, thank you, man,

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Speaker 6: appreciate it.

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Speaker 4: Well, I don't know about that. You every pitch, you

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Speaker 4: know what I mean? I don't. I don't know if

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Speaker 4: I want to go to here yet.

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Speaker 7: I think, But going back to my earlier rod Man

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Speaker 7: for a point, I think this is where you give

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Speaker 7: it a shot. You try it, If it doesn't work,

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Speaker 7: you move on and we can always say hey, I

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Speaker 7: tried it, and you'll get credit for that versus not

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Speaker 7: trying it. It's so funny because the technology only gets

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Speaker 7: better on TV for us to clearly see. Then when

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Speaker 7: they miss it, right, it becomes egregious in different angles,

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Speaker 7: a million different angles.

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Speaker 3: You're like, oh see, my only fear on that is

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Speaker 3: if I hate anywhere in the box, it's a strike.

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Speaker 4: Right.

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Speaker 3: So if I'm a picture, I'm not. I'm not throwing

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Speaker 3: the ball over the plate, is what I'm trying to say.

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Speaker 6: But now is it not already? Though? In a sense

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Speaker 6: of like, no, I mean, that's technically.

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Speaker 4: What I'm saying. I wouldn't stay away from the middle

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Speaker 4: of the plate.

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Speaker 7: I hear what you say. You know what I'm saying,

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Speaker 7: Give it to me. If I'm painting the corners, I

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Speaker 7: might not get all the all the.

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Speaker 3: You wouldn't get every single do you do? You know

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Speaker 3: what I'm saying. You can't you get the ball? That's it,

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Speaker 3: all right, it'll.

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Speaker 7: Be interesting, man, That's why we again, We'll have to

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Speaker 7: wait and see here Mark Funky Comdina.

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Speaker 6: Are you in the video games? Celebrities are just a

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Speaker 7: Well, The Global Gaming League is a video game league

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Speaker 7: he's in the video games. He worked so much I

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Speaker 7: doubt he even has time. Mark Funky Copemadina essentially Sports Fox,

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Speaker 6: What's up Mark?

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Speaker 11: Hey? Kelvin's answer, I'm not much of a gamer now,

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Speaker 11: but this is true.

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Speaker 6: Back of the day.

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Speaker 11: I was one of many people that love Golden Islands.

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Speaker 11: In sixty four.

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Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I unlocked every.

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Speaker 11: Single sheet code, including being the Facility level and double

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Speaker 11: Agent in a record time.

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Speaker 7: I'm just gonna say this and we'll get to you.

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Speaker 7: I missed a lot of high school because of that game.

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Speaker 7: That's all I'm gonna say. It's all I'm gonna say

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Speaker 7: all is you.

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Speaker 11: Didn't miss a lot of high school though, if you

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Speaker 11: know what I mean.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I copy that. I guess I made Mama made it.

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Speaker 7: I'm here today. Let's jump in here, man, you know,

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Speaker 7: just put a little quick button, just a quick conversation

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Speaker 7: Rob and I were having with the listeners as well.

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Speaker 7: MLB has had a great few seasons, really kind of

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Speaker 7: getting them back out there and really growing the game.

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Speaker 4: And we were talking about the let's talk about the

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Speaker 4: WBC numbers.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, and that's where the genesis of the conversation was.

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Speaker 7: They had great ratings. Thanks Rod for that. The WBC

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Speaker 7: had great ratings. And Rob and I we sit here,

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Speaker 7: we talk baseball a lot, and we enjoy and we

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Speaker 7: talk about how it's been growing and it's kind of

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Speaker 7: getting back to some high acclaim NBA. Where do you

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Speaker 7: feel right now it's kind of been taking a beating

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Speaker 7: some black guys.

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Speaker 6: Do you think that it's kind of slowly.

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Speaker 7: Merging back or if you were to talk to Oudam Silver,

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Speaker 7: would you say, hey, some ways to kind of help

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Speaker 7: it grow again?

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Speaker 11: Well, it's gotten better, but it's still working progress. And

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Speaker 11: some of the things on why it's gotten better. There's

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Speaker 11: been relatively better player availability. I think some of the

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Speaker 11: games are better, but when you're looking at just the

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Speaker 11: way games are distributed, you know, for all this talk

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Speaker 11: about hey, they have multiple platforms Allen streaming. They also

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Speaker 11: went back to network television, and even in this age

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Speaker 11: of cord cutting, people selve network TV. So some of

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Speaker 11: that has led to improvement, but it's still work in progress.

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Speaker 11: And you can't compare to what the numbers were for

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Speaker 11: the Bulls in the nineties and even you know Warriors

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Speaker 11: Cavaliers NBA Finals a decade ago.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just weird that the WBC got such high

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Speaker 3: ratings for exhibition in March.

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Speaker 4: You know what I mean compared to the NBA finals.

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Speaker 4: That that is what a.

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Speaker 11: Star power is hitting number one but number two. I mean,

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Speaker 11: look at Olympics Paris games with you know, USA basketball.

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Speaker 11: People tuned in because it was the Stars. It was

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Speaker 11: good games, good of competition. So I think again that's

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Speaker 11: why I say work in progress. There there has been

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Speaker 11: better available ability, better games, but I think the feeling

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Speaker 11: is how it's always been. Most casual fans and general

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Speaker 11: untrist fans, they tuned into the NBA. Once the playoffs start, you.

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Speaker 4: Rode off the Lakers. Are you still writing them off?

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Speaker 11: Well? To be clear, Rob, I wrote off the Lakers

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Speaker 11: to win a championship.

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Speaker 4: I know that's what I said. That's that's what I'm

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Speaker 4: talking about.

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Speaker 12: It.

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Speaker 11: I mean, I didn't write them off to make the playoffs.

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Speaker 13: I didn't that.

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Speaker 3: I didn't say did did I say playoffs? With that,

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Speaker 3: I'd just say you you wrote them off? And I'm

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Speaker 3: right there with you, all right, So I'm not I

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Speaker 3: haven't changed my mind at all, But I'm.

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Speaker 11: I don't think you're JJ Reddick. I mean, great coaching

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Speaker 11: of Lak and everyone.

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Speaker 3: To buy in when they get when they get knocked

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Speaker 3: out in the first round, again, I would match up talking.

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Speaker 11: In all seriousness, Rob. Obviously they're playing a lot better.

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Speaker 11: We've seen that. Some of the things have a lot

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Speaker 11: to do with availability, time on the court, DeAndre and

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Speaker 11: being a better version of himself and actually buying in

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Speaker 11: and even though they're not a great defensive team, effort

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Speaker 11: communication goes a long way. But I still think they're stealing.

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Speaker 11: Is what I've said before, that they're a playoff team.

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Speaker 11: They can get to the second round, but I think

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Speaker 11: that there they don't have enough, you know, assuming no

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Speaker 11: major injuries on those teams to beat sant Or or

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Speaker 11: Oklahoma City. But look, in the playoffs, you need your

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Speaker 11: best stars playing at their best. And as of the

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Speaker 11: last two weeks, Luka Dancic, Austin Reeves center Lebron James

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Speaker 11: has Let me ask.

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Speaker 7: You this, there are the Nuggets in a position where

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Speaker 7: they're kind of sleep walking to the playoffs. Do you

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Speaker 7: see some issues there? They're five and five their last ten.

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Speaker 7: They haven't looked great in some games. The Lakers have

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Speaker 7: kind of had their number during the regular season because

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Speaker 7: like Houston's getting a little smoke. They've been struggling Lakers

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Speaker 7: for a period about a month or so ago. Get

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Speaker 7: a little smoke and it's like Denver just skating underneath.

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Speaker 7: No one's really bringing them up.

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Speaker 11: Yeah. Yeah, the Nuggets are in a weird situation. I

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Speaker 11: think that I'm not raining them off because they have

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Speaker 11: Nicola Jokic, Jamal Murray has mostly been healthy consistent, but

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Speaker 11: they've had inconsistency everywhere else. Aaron Horan just came back

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Speaker 11: from injuries, but they've always had overlapping ailments with him

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Speaker 11: or Peyton Watson and Christian Brown. Obviously it's with Theokch

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Speaker 11: and Murray, and it's good that they've been healthy, but

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Speaker 11: they have had to deal with a lot of different

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Speaker 11: starting lineup combinations and rotation combinations. With their supporting cast.

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Speaker 11: So with that, I still think that they're a better

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Speaker 11: team than the Minnesota Timberwolves than the Houston Rockets, but

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Speaker 11: I put them put them in that second tier in

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Speaker 11: the Western Conference with the Lakers. If Lakers Nuggets, you know,

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Speaker 11: face off of the playoffs now, I guess because of

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Speaker 11: how recently both teams have played, the edge would go

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Speaker 11: to the Lakers, But plenty of change can happen between

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Speaker 11: now and late April early May when they could possibly

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Speaker 11: face in the postseason. But I think it's very clear that,

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Speaker 11: barring major injuries, the tier in the West, it's thunder

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Speaker 11: Spurs in the first tier, second tier, Lakers, Nuggets, and

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Speaker 11: then everyone else they're all just pretenders.

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Speaker 3: How about I believe it was Tracy McGrady. I can't

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Speaker 3: find it right now. I'm almost positive who thumbs down

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Speaker 3: put a thumbs down on the idea of expansion. He

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Speaker 3: just says there's not enough talent to expand two more teams.

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Speaker 3: I thought this was interesting. You know, normally these guys

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Speaker 3: are not really shaking the boat that much, and I

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Speaker 3: agree with that. I would rather see two teams move

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Speaker 3: from where they are than to add two more teams.

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Speaker 4: What's your take on that.

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Speaker 11: Yeah, it's a very fair point. I mean, especially when

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Speaker 11: you're looking at the landscape this season, where there's a

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Speaker 11: lot of I think.

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Speaker 4: There's ten teams.

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Speaker 11: Ten teams, Yeah, yeah, I mean, let's see Net's Wizards, Pacers, Jazz, Kings.

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Speaker 11: They've all been terrible. And there's even more terrible teams

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Speaker 11: with Dallas, New Orleans, Memphis. But I think those are

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Speaker 11: different because those had more to do with injuries than

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Speaker 11: the other teams, where their rosters were just terrible to

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Speaker 11: begin with, right But when you add another team, expansion

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Speaker 11: teams usually have losing seasons to start out. I think

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Speaker 11: there's another thing, and it's it's ultimate first world issues,

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Speaker 11: but that's applicable in professional sports when you expand. Now

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Speaker 11: you have to share money with those teams, and I

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Speaker 11: think that there's angst with the ownership ranks to do

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Speaker 11: that right away, because on one hand, you think, hey, well,

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Speaker 11: the league's fine, they just negotiated this media rights deal

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Speaker 11: and they're gaining eleven billion dollars. But I think from

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Speaker 11: the owner's point of view, they were the ones that

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Speaker 11: were part of that value, and so to add new

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Speaker 11: franchises that don't have anything to do with that. Why

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Speaker 11: is it fair for them to all of a sudden

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Speaker 11: share that revenue. But I think there's a few things here.

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Speaker 11: The NBA wants to expand because they know Seattle they

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Speaker 11: did them wrong when they relocate to OKAC because that

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Speaker 11: fan base is great Las Vegas. They've shown through summer

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Speaker 11: league exhibition play with preseason games to Team USA games

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Speaker 11: ahead of Olympics, and the WNBA with the ace is

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Speaker 11: that there is an appetite for basketball. But it's a

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Speaker 11: matter of you know, not putting the cart before the orse,

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Speaker 11: so to speak. Right, So I think expansion is is inevitable,

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Speaker 11: but I don't think it's imminent.

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Speaker 6: Well, I'll tell you what owners want.

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Speaker 7: That five hundred million dollars they would get if it's

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Speaker 7: somewhere around seven and a half.

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Speaker 3: Billion, buddy, Buddy's right, though, you have to split the

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Speaker 3: TV money two more mouths, you know what I mean,

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Speaker 3: if you add those teams.

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Speaker 4: So you got to look at the long term.

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Speaker 3: As far as the money, I think I think that

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Speaker 3: marked that's a great point.

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Speaker 7: You know, they want some extra five hundred morewners getting

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Speaker 7: five hundred million dollars, that's not nothing to sneeze that. Hey,

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Speaker 7: Mark Man, We appreciate it as always. Brother, have a

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Speaker 7: great weekend.

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Speaker 11: Appreciate you guys, and hope your brackets still all right.

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Speaker 7: Bracket smack it monitors, so far so good?

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Speaker 6: Oh man, Hey, thank you. Appreciate it all right. Appreciate

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Speaker 6: last call.

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Speaker 7: No doubt, Last call Rob eight seven seven ninety nine

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Speaker 7: on Fox Last call, hit us up.

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Speaker 6: And also we were just talking a little bit about expansion.

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Speaker 7: You at once said something about a star player and

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Speaker 7: his interest in buying a team. We'll talk about that

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Speaker 7: as well. It's the hock Cup on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 13: It's last Call time on the Odd Couple. If you

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Speaker 13: had a take and couldn't get in a whole show,

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Speaker 13: here's your chi. You call us on Fox. Hurry up,

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Speaker 13: Robin Kelvin, gotta get out of here. Fox Sports Radio

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Speaker 7: Hey, big shout out to Mark Medina just joined us.

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Speaker 7: Appreciate that the I Couple. Robin Kelvin on a funky

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Speaker 7: Flashback Friday. Shout out to DJ Ally Alex on the

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Speaker 7: ones and twos throughout the show. And as you just heard,

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Speaker 6: All right, Rob, it's time for last.

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Speaker 12: This is the last call.

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Speaker 6: Who we got?

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Speaker 4: Who we got?

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Speaker 3: Kevin in Culver City, my Marty grow Wings God, the

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Speaker 3: last caller here on the odd Couple Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 4: What's up, keV? I hate the wings? Thank you, my man.

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Speaker 9: I'm glad you enjoyed it, brother, appreciate you, man.

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Speaker 3: They were so good. My goodness, gracious, great job, Thank you,

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Speaker 3: my man.

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Speaker 6: Appreciate of course.

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Speaker 8: I got the training.

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Speaker 6: Man.

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Speaker 8: Gonna have to turn up a little bit.

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Speaker 4: All right, Yeah, that'll be good. Let me know.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and we'll this time, we'll meet. We've been seeing

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Speaker 3: pictures of some of our callers and none of them match,

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Speaker 3: so it'll.

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Speaker 6: Be no listen, that's what we didn't even bring it up.

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Speaker 6: We didn't talk about. I'm still shook it.

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Speaker 3: I'm showing picture of Andre from Massachusetts and no, did

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Speaker 3: not match up.

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Speaker 6: I was just I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I don't know what I expected show him from Sacramento.

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Speaker 4: Nobody knew he was Filipino. You know, I seen it.

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Speaker 9: I don't look like Justin Bieber.

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Speaker 6: The Lakers.

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Speaker 9: Look, I'm not gonna do it. I did last season, but.

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Speaker 6: I don't do it. Don't do it.

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Speaker 9: There's a difference. There's a difference. I see a look

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Speaker 9: in Luca's face and the way he's playing. If they

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Speaker 9: play like that with the offense, he's not playing on

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Speaker 9: the string where everybody else is feeding off of him.

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Speaker 9: With the defense is going to him and trying to blitz,

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Speaker 9: and that's opening it up for guys like eight and

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Speaker 9: Smart and Lebron. And if Lebron is playing like this

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Speaker 9: and he sees the end of the tunnel and possibly

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Speaker 9: a championship and he gives his all, we get Cleveland

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Speaker 9: Lebron Lebron in twenty and sixteen against the Warriors. The

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Speaker 9: Lakers got a legit shot. And if they Aton decides

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Speaker 9: he wants to play like the player that we've been

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Speaker 9: expecting be his whole career for this playoff run, the Lakers,

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Speaker 9: who have to just shot because the Spurs have not

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Speaker 9: been there yet. How many shot makers do they actually

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Speaker 9: have outside of Wimbyona and Oklahoma City? Are they healthy

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Speaker 9: enough as they were last season to go on this

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Speaker 9: run with guys like Jenna Williams and Shy So.

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Speaker 6: I'm jumping in. I want to make the best Let's

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Speaker 6: let's bet on that.

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Speaker 2: I want.

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Speaker 3: Let's bet another wings you can get your wings back?

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Speaker 3: Do you want to make a bet?

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Speaker 9: Give me give me a week.

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Speaker 6: We're good.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Kevin, you're him and you're hey.

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Speaker 6: Hey Rob. I wanted it on that. Listen.

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Speaker 7: They look great, they look great right now, they're playing great.

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Speaker 7: But this is that West is going to be crazy

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Speaker 7: to have to get what they would have to get

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Speaker 7: through to get there.

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Speaker 6: That's gonna be let me.

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Speaker 2: Say that quick.

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Speaker 4: I want to say this real quick about you know.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it was like for a lot of people

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Speaker 3: thought it was a foregoing conclusion that Lebron was going

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Speaker 3: to get the Las Vegas franchise. This is years ago

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Speaker 3: for him to now come out and say that he's

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Speaker 3: not interested at all.

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Speaker 4: People, it's funny.

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Speaker 3: Can you google the old articles about being interested in that?

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Speaker 4: But Kel, what do you make of that. Yeah, well

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Speaker 4: it's real simple.

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Speaker 3: He's there so much big money in Vegas, he wasn't

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Speaker 3: gonna get that team. I'm telling, like the casino owners,

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Speaker 3: Steve Waan and all those guys. I just think, Remember

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Speaker 3: those guys are so wealthy, right, Lebron still works for somebody, no.

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Speaker 4: Matter how much money he has. You know what I mean.

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Speaker 3: He draws a paycheck from somebody. Those guys don't draw

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Speaker 3: a paycheck from anybody.

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Speaker 6: But let me add this real quick.

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Speaker 7: But don't But wouldn't you want like, hey, the Googer,

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Speaker 7: what's the what's the people on the Lakers and the Dodgers?

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Speaker 6: Magic is a minority owner.

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Speaker 7: Would you want somebody just to kind of be hey, Lebron,

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Speaker 7: people don't know me, people don't know all of us

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Speaker 7: with the big money.

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Speaker 3: He was in a group with the Red Sox people,

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Speaker 3: the Fenway group, and they're not interested.

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Speaker 4: So there's his group.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, we're interested.

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Speaker 7: Interesting weekend, my friend, you're going you're doing anything living?

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Speaker 3: Jason Smith Show with Mike Harmon is coming up next.

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Speaker 2: I never miss your radio show.

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Speaker 6: I never hear it, so I never miss it. Did

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Speaker 6: you hear that