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Speaker 2: Well, that's right, you heard the man. It is that

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Speaker 2: time of week. My name is Bernie Frotter. We have

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Speaker 2: comedy live from the Fox Sports Radio studios here in

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Speaker 2: Las Vegas. We'll take you up to three am Pacific,

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Speaker 2: six am Eastern and tonight. I've got about twelve hours

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Speaker 2: of material and we'll squeeze it into four because, let's

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Speaker 2: face it, folks, we have hit the sports lottery. We're

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Speaker 2: sixteen hours away from selection Sunday, and you know it.

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Speaker 2: In the end, few things in life can match the

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Speaker 2: uniqueness of this month long phenomenon known as March Madness.

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Speaker 2: All the unscripted outcomes, the bragging rights, the constant reminders

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Speaker 2: that we are always potentially witnessing something unique and always

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Speaker 2: witnessing something that is far from ordinary. We're also eighteen

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Speaker 2: hours away from what will promise to be an epic

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Speaker 2: baseball game Sunday night the United States and Dominican Republic.

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Speaker 2: This may be the de facto World Series, this may

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Speaker 2: be the real World Series. And if you are a statmonger,

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Speaker 2: you might be interested to find out that, cumulatively, the

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Speaker 2: Dominican Republic lineup is three for twenty seven against Paul

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Speaker 2: skeins at in fifty cents to get you a cup

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Speaker 2: of coffeed Whitecastle. Won't matter when the game starts on Sunday.

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Speaker 2: And yes, I put my butt out there. I'm not

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Speaker 2: saying I'm rooting for them, but what I am saying,

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Speaker 2: and I said it before the tournament and all the

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Speaker 2: baseball people I know, I do think the Dominican Republic

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Speaker 2: wins it this year. But we shall see eighteen hours

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Speaker 2: from now how it gets real. There were two noteworthy

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Speaker 2: NBA performances this week. One has been completely underreported. When

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Speaker 2: with me the whole show. We're going We're going stem

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Speaker 2: to Stern. The other one was perceived as superficial, artificial, illegitimate, controversial.

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Speaker 2: We're going to break both down as we get into

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Speaker 2: the show. How about those Vikings, Please don't try to

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Speaker 2: force Fetus that they've found your savior at quarterback. His

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Speaker 2: former team is paying thirty eight million dollars so they

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Speaker 2: guy who's missed twenty one games in the last three years.

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Speaker 2: But I digress. There are some pros and cons. There

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Speaker 2: are some pluses and minuses. We're gonna get to all

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Speaker 2: that in the show as well. And last week I

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Speaker 2: began my monologue with not that Max Crosby had just

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Speaker 2: simply signed with the Baltimore Ravens, although it wouldn't be

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Speaker 2: tremendous ripple effect. Now there's a ripple effect going the

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Speaker 2: other way, and we're going to get to that too.

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Speaker 2: Lots to unpack there that you were gonna want to

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Speaker 2: which I knew was going to be epic. I knew

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Speaker 2: it was going to be sensational. The pomp, the circumstance,

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Speaker 2: the competitive nature, the desire, the want to and at

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Speaker 2: the end of the day, the fast forward the United

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Speaker 2: beat Canada, and I mean hung on. Canada completely pissed

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Speaker 2: away an eighth ning possibility of a rally. They meant

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Speaker 2: to giants. A slogan Webb who stepped up big and

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Speaker 2: the America's middle relief was not great, but they got

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Speaker 2: a new lease on life. And see, this whole ordeal

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Speaker 2: with all due respect to Bryce Harper, he's three for twenty.

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Speaker 2: If Billy Martin were managing this team, he'd said, Bryce Harper,

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Speaker 2: because Bryce Harper doesn't deserve us to play, but he's

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Speaker 2: Buddy's three for twenty. The USA started the tournament smoothly

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Speaker 2: talk about a gritty, gutty performance. So Italy wins eight

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Speaker 2: You've got the Dominican Republic on Sunday night. This is

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Speaker 2: The Americans will see themselves painted as a team who

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Speaker 2: got Juliogan Zalez in the Dominican Republic saying I'd rather

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Speaker 2: so sure. Showtime Sunday Night, you're gonna have Ranny Cy

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Speaker 2: Missus Lincoln. I was in play. The Dominicans have been

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Speaker 2: here for it. The Dominican Republic again. They've rode teams

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Speaker 2: This Dominican team is the best they've ever had.

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Speaker 2: One of the things to watch Sunday night is you

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Speaker 2: that tomorrow. Are some of my listening audience. It's already Sunday,

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Speaker 2: So Sunday from three o'clock Pacific, six o'clock Eastern through

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Speaker 2: You'll get your brackets, you'll get your you will have

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Speaker 2: our World Cup Finals set well, not what we won't. Yes,

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Speaker 2: the bracketology, winners and losers as we head into Sunday.

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Speaker 2: and by the way, later in the show, I will

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Speaker 2: all right, you'd be blue to your TV Sunday. Don't

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Speaker 2: even though they were sidelined in their loss to Purdue.

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Speaker 2: Billideo and Dent were both held out I'm told for

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Speaker 2: precautionary reasons, and Toll reporters they expect to play next week.

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Speaker 2: Keep that in mind when you fill out your bracket.

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Speaker 2: Why with those two on the floor since January first,

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Speaker 2: throughout the first five weeks of the season, since January first,

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Speaker 2: Ucla don't look now they're a top five offense in

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Speaker 2: the country. Have to feel for Tulsa. One of the

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Speaker 2: best seasons in Tulsa history is going to end without

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Speaker 2: an NCAA tournament bid. They failed to Wichita State eighty

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Speaker 2: one to sixty eight in the American Semi Finals. Again,

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Speaker 2: injuries and foul trouble cost them one of the games

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Speaker 2: that was disappointing to a lot of betters. Today. I'm

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Speaker 2: sure the books did quite well on Yukon betting on

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Speaker 2: the Yukon Saint John's game. Because Yukon entered Saturday evening

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Speaker 2: in a prime position to secure number one seed, especially

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Speaker 2: after Florida lost their Vanderbilt and Houston lost Arizona. They

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Speaker 2: did not take advantage, and I think it will cost them.

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Speaker 2: Yukon will fall to a number two seed. In fact,

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Speaker 2: I think Yukon will be behind Houston for the top

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Speaker 2: two seed as far as the official seating goes. That's

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Speaker 2: the way I see it. Not Florida, but South Florida.

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00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:24,679
Speaker 2: They look pretty impressive as well, eighty six to sixty

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Speaker 2: four game over Charlotte. There's a ton of noise around

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Speaker 2: that program. They're probably going to lose their coach. They're

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Speaker 2: forty minutes away from punching their ticket. But if you

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Speaker 2: want to see an entertaining game, South Florida Wichita State

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00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:39,880
Speaker 2: on sunny and don't look now. Could there be two

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Speaker 2: teams getting in from the mac Akron. They came back

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Speaker 2: from a twelve point deficit, They had a three pointed

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Speaker 2: with six seconds left. They beat Toledo seventy nine to

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Speaker 2: seventy six. And I don't know why people dog the

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Speaker 2: mackets produced a lot of good players over the years,

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Speaker 2: and we'll never know. Back in twenty twenty, that great

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Speaker 2: Dayton team that was thirty one and oh or whatever

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Speaker 2: they heck, they were twenty nine to zero with Obi

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Speaker 2: topp and we'll never got a chance to know what

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Speaker 2: they could have do. That team could have made some

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Speaker 2: noise in the tournament. Akron's going to be in most

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Speaker 2: tell me Miami will be in, but it's going to

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Speaker 2: be a playing game. But at least they got a shot.

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Speaker 2: And you win Tuesday, you advance to Thursday. And you know,

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Speaker 2: once you get into big dance, you get on the

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Speaker 2: dance floor, anything could happen. So these are the things

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Speaker 2: to watch on Sunday as you you know, turn on

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Speaker 2: the TV for selection Sunday. But we are twenty four

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Speaker 2: minutes away from three what I consider to be extra

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Speaker 2: fun topics tonight, because well, one I believe is a

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Speaker 2: little polarizing, when I believe is a little polarizing, and

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Speaker 2: she'd make for good debate. But you know how I feel,

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Speaker 2: because the most boring conversations in sports are when everybody agrees,

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Speaker 2: and when everybody agrees, there's there's not much room to

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Speaker 2: go with that, right, But we got three classic topics

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Speaker 2: for our midnight hour. See from where I sit in

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Speaker 2: twenty four minutes here, the clock will strike midnight in

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Speaker 2: Las Vegas literally and perhaps where you live the clock

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Speaker 2: strikes midnight as well. And I know I've got listeners

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Speaker 2: in Mexico and Australia and Japan, England, Ireland, even Detroit,

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Speaker 2: certainly Canada. Our good buddy brought client in Canada. We

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Speaker 2: got regulars eight seven, seven, nine, nine, six six, three, six, nine,

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Speaker 2: eighty seven, seven ninety nine on Fox twenty three minutes

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Speaker 2: from now will be the midnight hour here in Vegas. Literally,

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Speaker 2: but figuratively, it's the midnight hour for everybody, which is

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Speaker 2: metaphorical for you've got the last word. So I'm going

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Speaker 2: to set these topics up, and I'm going to give

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Speaker 2: a lot of sort of texture to these topics to

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Speaker 2: give you food for thought before you actually call in.

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Speaker 2: Can't wait him, Bernie Frattle, We're coming to you live

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Speaker 2: from Lat Vegas Fox Sports Radio Studios. Don't go away.

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Speaker 2: Hi, We're back at the Bernie Fradtle Show Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: We are sixteen minutes away from the midnight hour. It

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Speaker 2: turns twelve midnight literally here in Las Vegas. What we

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Speaker 2: call it the midnight hour because figuratively it's the midnight

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Speaker 2: hour everywhere, and you get to last word. By the way,

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Speaker 2: before I set up the topics, want to remind everybody

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Speaker 2: So we do a little thing on the Bernie Frattle Show.

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Speaker 2: We've been doing it for years now and it's caught

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Speaker 2: on like wildfire. It's been a behemoth thanks to the callers.

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Speaker 2: Eight seven, seven nine nine six six three sixty nine

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Speaker 2: your calls, We'll load them up, We'll get it rolling.

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Speaker 2: These are our three topics tonight. The bam at a

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Speaker 2: Bio eighty three point game will not go away. For some,

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Speaker 2: it's a hell of a performance. For some, it's legitimate

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Speaker 2: for others, it's controversial, it's superficial, it's artificial. What are

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Speaker 2: the key points of contention, Well, you can't deny there

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Speaker 2: were some late game tactics used to help Bam surpass

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Speaker 2: Kobe and his eighty one point mark. And some people

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Speaker 2: went so far as they say the achievement was an

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Speaker 2: ethical and a mockery of competitive basketball because there was

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Speaker 2: blatant stat padding. There was come on, now, you score

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Speaker 2: eighty three points in any game. That's saying something. But

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Speaker 2: this is this messy because there were intentional fouls to

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Speaker 2: gain possessions. And this was at the point of the

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Speaker 2: game where the Heat were leading by more than twenty

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Speaker 2: And I told that Eric Spolstra allegedly ordered players to

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Speaker 2: intentionally file Wizards players to get the ball back for Adebayo.

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Speaker 2: One of his teammates, Keishad Johnson intentionally allegedly intentionally missed

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Speaker 2: a free throw late in the game to created another

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Speaker 2: scoring opportunity for Bam. Well, by the way, Bam is

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Speaker 2: twenty nine shots, fifteen or three pointers, seven more free throws.

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Speaker 2: You imagine if he'd been hot, we might be talking Wilt,

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Speaker 2: not Kobe. And that's another reason that detractors argued to

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Speaker 2: the total was artificial. He sot forty three attempts free

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Speaker 2: throw forty three free throws, miss seven. He was only

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Speaker 2: twenty and forty three from the field and miss seven

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Speaker 2: free throws. It's the first time a player ever scored

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Speaker 2: seventy points while shooting under fifty percent for the game. Also,

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Speaker 2: Spolstra elected to keep bam at a Bayou in the

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Speaker 2: game during a massive blowout and even used to coach

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Speaker 2: his challenge on a charging call and under four him

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Speaker 2: and it's left to keep the sporing momentum going. And

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Speaker 2: by the way, the Horses. Critics argue that defeat came

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Speaker 2: against the team the Wizards, who are thirty one games

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Speaker 2: under five hundred, and they are tanking, YadA YadA ya.

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Speaker 2: And even though he had seventy points with nine minutes

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Speaker 2: to go, they just kept going. But the defenders, hey,

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Speaker 2: bam Adebio himself said, I had seventy points with nine minutes,

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Speaker 2: so why would I say take me out? Blame the

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Speaker 2: Wizards coach for not doubling on me. Eric Spolzer said

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Speaker 2: he apologizes absolutely no one. When a player gets close

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Speaker 2: to history, you go for it. But other former players

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Speaker 2: not so much think he was said bad, But well,

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Speaker 2: what do my callers think? I want to We've heard

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Speaker 2: what the coach thinks, We've heard what a lot of

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Speaker 2: media people think. We've heard what players think. I want

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Speaker 2: to hear what my callers think. Eight seven seven ninety

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Speaker 2: three sixty nine was bam Adebayo's eighty three point game

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Speaker 2: legit artificial FIGAISI you know where I am going with that?

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Speaker 2: All right, if you haven't enjoyed the World Baseball Classic,

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Speaker 2: I think you might be in lying for a frontal

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Speaker 2: about me. Baseball has never been more popular. Every metric

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Speaker 2: points to it, and the World Baseball Classic has arrived

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Speaker 2: as a truly epic event. Bryce Harper said, though it's

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Speaker 2: not quite the Olympics. Well, that brings us to our

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Speaker 2: second topic. In twenty twenty eight in Los Angeles, where

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Speaker 2: the Olympics will be hosted, Yes, there will be baseball.

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Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, there'll be games played at

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Speaker 2: Dodger Stadium between July thirteenth and nineteenth, but as of now,

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Speaker 2: there are no plans for Major League Baseball players to

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Speaker 2: be allowed to play. However, that could change. This would

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Speaker 2: be a first. Rob Manfred, the commissioner, says he's optimistic

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Speaker 2: about the participation. What they would have to do, if

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Speaker 2: very similar to what the NHL does, is basically shut

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Speaker 2: the season down for a bit. It wouldn't be as

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Speaker 2: long as the NHL, but it'd be at least ten days,

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Speaker 2: if not longer, and perhaps being extended All Star break.

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Speaker 2: But you've got things like insurance coverage, roster flexibility, and

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Speaker 2: there's always going to be the concern about injuries. Okay,

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Speaker 2: my people tell me that it's likely that this could

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Speaker 2: happen because this creates a massive marketing opportunity for Major

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Speaker 2: League Baseball and the Players Association, and both have shown

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Speaker 2: strong interest. When you've got stars in the game like

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Speaker 2: Bryce Harper publicly pushing for it, but that helps a lot. Okay,

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Speaker 2: So the plan, the current proposal, would involve creating a

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Speaker 2: temporary pause in the Major League Baseball season. You essentially

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Speaker 2: extended Midsummer break that you know, the All Star Game

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Speaker 2: as it were, to accommodate the tournament. That would allow

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Speaker 2: high profile stars to participate. And I think there's only

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Speaker 2: going to be eight teams. I have to check into that.

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Speaker 2: I know the Dominican Republic has already qualified, and of

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Speaker 2: course USA is already qualified because they're the host tournament.

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Speaker 2: It's not a madic birth. And I believe the top

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Speaker 2: two teams from the Americas, including excluding the United States

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Speaker 2: and the World Baseball Team will qualify. Then there's also

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Speaker 2: going to be a tournament in November twenty twenty seven

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Speaker 2: called the WBSC Premier and the top team from Asia

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Speaker 2: and the top team from Europe will also qualify. And

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Speaker 2: then in March twenty twenty eight there will be one

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Speaker 2: final spot. It'll actually not an eight team tournament, it's

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Speaker 2: a sixteen tournament. Bryce Harper wants major League baseball players

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Speaker 2: in the twenty twenty eight Olympics. He's made no bones

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Speaker 2: about it. What do you feel would you like to

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Speaker 2: see this happen or keep it the way it is?

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Speaker 2: We've got plenty of minor league talent that can step in. Look.

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Speaker 2: Team Italy didn't have a single player invited to play

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Speaker 2: for Team USA and for their starters, their third basement

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Speaker 2: or second basemin or left fielder Dante Norri from Northfield

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Speaker 2: High Score spoke at that banquet or their crosstown rival

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Speaker 2: banquet in twenty twenty four. This kick can really play.

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Speaker 2: It's never been hired in double A. Look what he's doing.

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Speaker 2: The Inlys got four players that aren't even the big

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Speaker 2: leagues and they're in the semi finals. So you know,

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Speaker 2: we've got plenty of talent here. And I will tell

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Speaker 2: you I went to the Olympics in eighty four in

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Speaker 2: Los Angeles and baseball was brutal. I eat brutal the team,

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Speaker 2: A lot of them foreign teams weren't that good. It's

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Speaker 2: different now. So number one, batman of Bayo, you know I'm.

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Speaker 7: Going with that.

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Speaker 2: Number two. Would you like to see Olympic baseball with

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Speaker 2: major league players in twenty twenty eight? Number three, take

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Speaker 2: me out to the ballgame, buy me some people. Well,

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Speaker 2: I'll tell you what. Let's say you go to a

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Speaker 2: Saint Louis Cardinal game. This year, they announced the launch

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Speaker 2: of the Coca Cola Unlimited all you can eat tickets

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Speaker 2: for regular season games at Bush Stadium. Yes, yes, sir,

640
00:38:55,960 --> 00:38:59,000
Speaker 2: Starting as low was twenty nine dollars. You buy a ticket,

641
00:38:59,239 --> 00:39:02,720
Speaker 2: you go to the game. You include all the fountain

642
00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:07,040
Speaker 2: drinks you can drink, Coca Cola products, hot dogs, chicken, tenors, Broughtworths,

643
00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:11,279
Speaker 2: nacho chips and cheese, French fries, popcorn, beanuts, kettle chips,

644
00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:14,440
Speaker 2: and ice cream cups. I'm in myles will probably get tired.

645
00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:18,320
Speaker 2: Once you check in Unlimited ticket holders, you get a wristband.

646
00:39:18,360 --> 00:39:20,200
Speaker 2: You may select up to three out of per visit

647
00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:23,400
Speaker 2: from one dedicated concession stand. It's going to be intersection

648
00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:25,920
Speaker 2: two sixty five. You can come back as long as

649
00:39:25,920 --> 00:39:30,520
Speaker 2: you like. Yes, that's just a good idea, or is

650
00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:35,880
Speaker 2: this a bad gimmuck pandering to our primal interests getting

651
00:39:35,880 --> 00:39:38,120
Speaker 2: people to eat to come to a game? Just a

652
00:39:38,239 --> 00:39:42,080
Speaker 2: quick yesterday, good idea? Our bad gimmut? The Coca Cola

653
00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:46,880
Speaker 2: unlimited Cardinals all you could eat seats again, bam ad

654
00:39:46,920 --> 00:39:50,600
Speaker 2: a baio is eighty three points figasi legitimate or not?

655
00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:54,120
Speaker 2: Would you like to see our major leaguers shut down

656
00:39:54,120 --> 00:39:57,880
Speaker 2: the league during the Olympics in twenty twenty eight to

657
00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:01,160
Speaker 2: fill out those rosters in much the same way hockey

658
00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:06,600
Speaker 2: did most recently eight seven, seven, nine, nine, six six

659
00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:10,880
Speaker 2: three sixty nine eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox.

660
00:40:11,320 --> 00:40:13,520
Speaker 2: Let's take your calls, Let's have some fun, let's have

661
00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:16,760
Speaker 2: some good arguments. Let's blow it up. It's the midnight

662
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:19,560
Speaker 2: hour and you're listening to the Bernie Frattle Show, right

663
00:40:19,640 --> 00:40:22,000
Speaker 2: you heard the man. The Bernie Frale Show keeps rolling

664
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:26,319
Speaker 2: right along. Take up to three in Pacific, six a

665
00:40:26,320 --> 00:40:29,960
Speaker 2: am Eastern. The call bank is full lined up, folks,

666
00:40:30,000 --> 00:40:31,880
Speaker 2: Please be patient. I really want to get to all

667
00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:34,719
Speaker 2: of you. Hear what you've got to say. We got

668
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:43,560
Speaker 2: three great topics, bam adebio, legitimate, fagazy, artificial, superficial. Got

669
00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:48,239
Speaker 2: admit some late game tactics helped them surpass Kobe, but

670
00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:51,560
Speaker 2: there are defenders where you weigh in Olympic Baseball in

671
00:40:51,600 --> 00:40:54,560
Speaker 2: twenty twenty eight, July thirteenth to the nineteenth, would you

672
00:40:54,600 --> 00:40:57,719
Speaker 2: like to see major league players play just like the

673
00:40:57,800 --> 00:41:00,400
Speaker 2: NHL did, shut down the season for a couple of weeks.

674
00:41:00,640 --> 00:41:03,600
Speaker 2: It could happen. It's what Bryce Harper wants. And finally

675
00:41:04,239 --> 00:41:06,839
Speaker 2: you're gonna go to Bush Stadium this year. Twenty nine

676
00:41:06,880 --> 00:41:11,440
Speaker 2: bucks get you all you can eat, hot dogs, chicken tenders, brats, nachos,

677
00:41:11,440 --> 00:41:17,080
Speaker 2: French rice, popcorn, peanuts, ice cream, cheese. Great idea or

678
00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:20,080
Speaker 2: goofy gimmick? Would you do it? It's time for the

679
00:41:20,120 --> 00:41:31,239
Speaker 2: men at Hour. All right, here we go, that's letter

680
00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:37,120
Speaker 2: rip Bark in Maryland. You lead us off today. Welcome in, Ernie.

681
00:41:37,239 --> 00:41:38,520
Speaker 7: It's always the pleasure.

682
00:41:38,600 --> 00:41:39,800
Speaker 8: You're the best, my brother.

683
00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:42,800
Speaker 3: Thanks for the first topic.

684
00:41:43,640 --> 00:41:45,560
Speaker 8: I think you're gonna have to help me out. I'm

685
00:41:45,560 --> 00:41:50,319
Speaker 8: getting off from work. The damn thing is manufactured. It's

686
00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:56,480
Speaker 8: nobody's gonna respect that. Okay, I'm just telling you it

687
00:41:56,520 --> 00:42:01,480
Speaker 8: was manufactured. I'm a Wizards fan. Is absolute ridiculous. Bama

688
00:42:01,560 --> 00:42:04,799
Speaker 8: is a great two way player. He's more defensive. I've

689
00:42:04,880 --> 00:42:08,680
Speaker 8: never seen him as no Kevin Durant or any prolific

690
00:42:09,040 --> 00:42:12,200
Speaker 8: offensive score. Yeah, you know, I don't respect that. I

691
00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:15,640
Speaker 8: don't like it. The way they went about it is

692
00:42:15,680 --> 00:42:19,680
Speaker 8: stat driven. Okay, it's who gays the big time? Okay.

693
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:22,440
Speaker 8: What was the second topic, Bernie?

694
00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:26,120
Speaker 2: The second topic is Olympics are coming to Los Angeles

695
00:42:26,160 --> 00:42:29,520
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty eight. There will be baseball sixteen tournament

696
00:42:29,520 --> 00:42:32,560
Speaker 2: from the thirteenth to the nineteenth to July. Bryce Harper

697
00:42:32,560 --> 00:42:35,360
Speaker 2: would like to see US copy of the NHL model

698
00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:37,839
Speaker 2: and have major league players shut down the season. He'd

699
00:42:37,880 --> 00:42:40,080
Speaker 2: be able to play for Team USA. Would you like

700
00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:40,680
Speaker 2: to see that?

701
00:42:41,400 --> 00:42:45,839
Speaker 8: Yes, entirely, because now this is nationalistic. If we lose

702
00:42:45,880 --> 00:42:49,040
Speaker 8: the Olympics. Baseball is an American sport, just like the

703
00:42:49,239 --> 00:42:57,279
Speaker 8: w just like the World Baseball Championship. Okay, it's taken on.

704
00:42:57,560 --> 00:43:00,320
Speaker 8: It's just like US hockey. We got to know, we

705
00:43:00,400 --> 00:43:03,200
Speaker 8: got to defend it. If we don't win it, it's

706
00:43:03,239 --> 00:43:08,040
Speaker 8: a indictment on American baseball. We have to we gotta

707
00:43:08,080 --> 00:43:10,560
Speaker 8: put our best in there. It's just like I grew

708
00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:13,880
Speaker 8: up in the era where where where the Olympics? It

709
00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:19,359
Speaker 8: was college and then going against European pros. Okay, I

710
00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:22,480
Speaker 8: remember all of that. I hated it, the Bobby Knight

711
00:43:22,520 --> 00:43:26,600
Speaker 8: thing at the last minute. Uh, I forget what.

712
00:43:26,600 --> 00:43:29,640
Speaker 2: Olympics Los Angeles a right.

713
00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:34,240
Speaker 8: It made me sick to my stomach. Okay, we gotta

714
00:43:34,520 --> 00:43:37,880
Speaker 8: we gotta fight fire with fire. It's professional now. Okay,

715
00:43:38,200 --> 00:43:42,000
Speaker 8: I agree with Bryce, even though you know I'm a

716
00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:44,239
Speaker 8: I'm a national fan. He went to Philly, But I

717
00:43:44,600 --> 00:43:48,200
Speaker 8: like Bryce. But yes, he's got the right idea. Okay, no, no, no,

718
00:43:48,239 --> 00:43:50,920
Speaker 8: we gotta fight fire and let me let me tell

719
00:43:50,920 --> 00:43:53,960
Speaker 8: you something. If we don't win it, it's an indictment

720
00:43:54,200 --> 00:43:56,959
Speaker 8: on our sports. Okay, this is what we were bread.

721
00:43:57,160 --> 00:44:00,480
Speaker 8: Basketball is ourse, Baseball is ouse. We got I'll win it.

722
00:44:00,480 --> 00:44:02,480
Speaker 8: We got to go with our best because they're not

723
00:44:02,520 --> 00:44:03,240
Speaker 8: playing around.

724
00:44:03,680 --> 00:44:04,919
Speaker 9: What was the third for sure?

725
00:44:04,960 --> 00:44:07,920
Speaker 2: Okay? So in Saint Louis they announced the launch of

726
00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:11,080
Speaker 2: the Coca Cola Unlimited All you can Eat seats twenty

727
00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:14,320
Speaker 2: nine bucks. There's ten items. Is it a goofy gimmick

728
00:44:14,480 --> 00:44:16,400
Speaker 2: or is it something you think? It's a great idea?

729
00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:20,560
Speaker 8: All let me tell you something. They're onto something. Okay,

730
00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:24,040
Speaker 8: when you go to the stadium and you can get

731
00:44:24,080 --> 00:44:25,759
Speaker 8: all you can eat because you can pay for two

732
00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:28,880
Speaker 8: hot dogs and I damn near twenty dollars, you know

733
00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:31,399
Speaker 8: what I mean? You got to have it. I mean,

734
00:44:32,520 --> 00:44:36,320
Speaker 8: I think this is a brilliant idea. It's a brilliant sales,

735
00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:41,799
Speaker 8: compact sales concept. All all, all of baseball teams will

736
00:44:41,800 --> 00:44:43,120
Speaker 8: adopt that all you can eat?

737
00:44:43,120 --> 00:44:43,840
Speaker 10: Are you crazy?

738
00:44:44,040 --> 00:44:47,280
Speaker 8: We need to get in. That's a that's a no brainer.

739
00:44:47,600 --> 00:44:49,360
Speaker 8: I buy a ticket if I can you all I

740
00:44:49,360 --> 00:44:51,399
Speaker 8: can eat? That's all I got to say.

741
00:44:51,400 --> 00:44:53,799
Speaker 2: Burnie, all right, Mark, good energy, great energy, thanks a lot.

742
00:44:54,200 --> 00:44:56,399
Speaker 2: Just a caveat. It's only going to be from one.

743
00:44:56,480 --> 00:45:00,319
Speaker 2: It's my understanding, one dedicated concession stand near Sex two

744
00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:05,160
Speaker 2: sixty five. So we'll unpack that later. Thanks again, Mark, Joel,

745
00:45:05,160 --> 00:45:07,040
Speaker 2: and Seattle. Welcome into the Bernie Fouder Show.

746
00:45:07,840 --> 00:45:08,880
Speaker 3: How are you doing, Bernie?

747
00:45:09,120 --> 00:45:11,280
Speaker 2: Good? Buddy? You good?

748
00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:15,239
Speaker 3: Just waiting for Adam Silver to make a decision on expansion.

749
00:45:16,200 --> 00:45:20,440
Speaker 2: It's gonna be about six years, I think, seriously. But

750
00:45:20,600 --> 00:45:23,399
Speaker 2: let's continue on. What are your thoughts on the bam

751
00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:25,320
Speaker 2: Adebayo eighty three points.

752
00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:29,400
Speaker 3: Against the Washington Generals.

753
00:45:29,920 --> 00:45:36,560
Speaker 2: Exactly exactly all we needed was red klots. I think

754
00:45:36,600 --> 00:45:39,040
Speaker 2: that says it all right there. Let's hear your thoughts

755
00:45:39,080 --> 00:45:42,600
Speaker 2: on the Olympic baseball situation in twenty twenty eight.

756
00:45:43,760 --> 00:45:45,880
Speaker 3: I just hope we have it. I don't know what

757
00:45:45,960 --> 00:45:47,360
Speaker 3: else to say.

758
00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:53,480
Speaker 2: Well, basically, look like Mark said in Maryland, there was

759
00:45:53,480 --> 00:45:54,960
Speaker 2: a time. I mean I went to the eighty four

760
00:45:54,960 --> 00:45:58,600
Speaker 2: Olympics in the LA excuse me. The baseball is brutal.

761
00:45:58,880 --> 00:46:01,040
Speaker 2: I mean, some of those foreign teas are terrible. We

762
00:46:01,120 --> 00:46:04,120
Speaker 2: sent a college all star team twenty three to twenty

763
00:46:04,120 --> 00:46:06,399
Speaker 2: five guys got to the big leagues and mopped up.

764
00:46:06,680 --> 00:46:09,000
Speaker 2: But we're in a different world right now. So basically

765
00:46:09,040 --> 00:46:12,040
Speaker 2: that's what that's that involves. But you'd have to shut

766
00:46:12,080 --> 00:46:14,799
Speaker 2: down Major League Baseball for at least three weeks. There's

767
00:46:14,840 --> 00:46:17,520
Speaker 2: insurance issues, injury, there's all kinds of stuff, but it's

768
00:46:17,560 --> 00:46:20,000
Speaker 2: trending toward maybe happening. All right, What are your thoughts

769
00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:21,880
Speaker 2: about the all you can eat Coca Cola seats in

770
00:46:21,920 --> 00:46:24,239
Speaker 2: Saint Louis.

771
00:46:24,640 --> 00:46:28,440
Speaker 3: I'm more wondering, was that last callers sound like stephen

772
00:46:28,520 --> 00:46:29,439
Speaker 3: Ah Smith.

773
00:46:30,760 --> 00:46:32,360
Speaker 2: In what way? He has good energy?

774
00:46:33,400 --> 00:46:33,560
Speaker 8: Oh?

775
00:46:33,600 --> 00:46:38,359
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, I'm all for that. Sounds good. Twenty nine

776
00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:40,800
Speaker 3: bucks for all that all that grub.

777
00:46:42,239 --> 00:46:45,239
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I mean there's like ten or ten or

778
00:46:45,239 --> 00:46:47,239
Speaker 2: twelve different items and they all they're all good.

779
00:46:47,400 --> 00:46:47,640
Speaker 9: You know.

780
00:46:48,440 --> 00:46:50,520
Speaker 2: It's not like sushi and some of these goofy things

781
00:46:50,520 --> 00:46:53,680
Speaker 2: you got at the ballpark. Okay, man, anything else tonight?

782
00:46:54,920 --> 00:46:56,919
Speaker 3: No, you have a good You have a good night.

783
00:46:57,239 --> 00:47:00,440
Speaker 2: Thanks, Joe, appreciate you checking in from Seattle. Tony in Miami.

784
00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:01,240
Speaker 2: How you been? Tony?

785
00:47:02,200 --> 00:47:03,000
Speaker 8: It with Bernie.

786
00:47:03,000 --> 00:47:05,400
Speaker 11: I'm actually cruising on Alton. The other guy brought up

787
00:47:05,400 --> 00:47:06,040
Speaker 11: Adam Silver.

788
00:47:06,160 --> 00:47:07,239
Speaker 3: I swear to.

789
00:47:07,239 --> 00:47:10,799
Speaker 11: God, I saw him walk out about ten minutes ago

790
00:47:10,960 --> 00:47:14,799
Speaker 11: the S and M bondage club called Twist. He had

791
00:47:14,800 --> 00:47:17,400
Speaker 11: a ball in his mouth and a chain, and I

792
00:47:17,440 --> 00:47:21,560
Speaker 11: think a taller man on stairs that could have been Lebron,

793
00:47:21,640 --> 00:47:22,759
Speaker 11: but I'm not sure.

794
00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:28,560
Speaker 2: That's a bad metal picture. Tony, Oh my goodness, we

795
00:47:28,640 --> 00:47:31,279
Speaker 2: have women Filder listening tonight. Go ahead, Tony, you're up.

796
00:47:31,600 --> 00:47:35,800
Speaker 11: Yeah, I don't have anything on the baseball. I'm down here.

797
00:47:36,200 --> 00:47:40,080
Speaker 11: So I love, I love, I love, I like BAM

798
00:47:40,120 --> 00:47:40,439
Speaker 11: a lot.

799
00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:43,120
Speaker 7: Yeah, go back about.

800
00:47:43,080 --> 00:47:46,600
Speaker 11: The twenty years I've got play like that. Nowhere at

801
00:47:46,680 --> 00:47:50,719
Speaker 11: all in any league, I'm sorry, Nowhere on all in

802
00:47:50,760 --> 00:47:55,560
Speaker 11: that time would that player score. His high would be

803
00:47:55,719 --> 00:47:59,960
Speaker 11: like maybe thirty one, thirty five in a league with integers,

804
00:48:00,040 --> 00:48:06,960
Speaker 11: the league where the players play hard, everyone's trying. And

805
00:48:08,040 --> 00:48:13,360
Speaker 11: I really think this was a good for the league.

806
00:48:13,400 --> 00:48:15,240
Speaker 11: It was a kick in the mouth. And if you remember,

807
00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:18,680
Speaker 11: you got a steal chet memory, But about four months ago,

808
00:48:18,760 --> 00:48:21,600
Speaker 11: maybe five, but whever that gambling thing, I called and

809
00:48:21,640 --> 00:48:24,600
Speaker 11: I said, Bernie, one of these guys is gonna score

810
00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:26,640
Speaker 11: one hundred and fifteen points and no one's gonna care.

811
00:48:26,719 --> 00:48:27,520
Speaker 9: You can go to the tape.

812
00:48:27,960 --> 00:48:30,920
Speaker 2: No I know, no, I do remember you saying that,

813
00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:36,279
Speaker 2: because essentially, when you have players betting on in in

814
00:48:36,440 --> 00:48:41,320
Speaker 2: game props, on individual performances, it changes the dynamic. And

815
00:48:41,360 --> 00:48:44,279
Speaker 2: you know what's weird, We're talking about a guy who

816
00:48:44,280 --> 00:48:47,560
Speaker 2: missed thirty shots. He missed fifteen three pointers, he missed

817
00:48:47,560 --> 00:48:49,759
Speaker 2: seven free throws. Can you imagine if he hits a

818
00:48:49,840 --> 00:48:52,359
Speaker 2: handful of those, he might have caught wilt for crying

819
00:48:52,440 --> 00:48:52,839
Speaker 2: out loud?

820
00:48:53,760 --> 00:48:57,920
Speaker 11: Yeah, I think somebody, somebody will unless they fix this.

821
00:48:58,320 --> 00:49:00,359
Speaker 11: Like I said, am Seller's got to get shipped down

822
00:49:00,719 --> 00:49:03,400
Speaker 11: to South America, somewhere he doesn't belong here, does belonging

823
00:49:03,440 --> 00:49:03,799
Speaker 11: the NBA.

824
00:49:04,320 --> 00:49:05,359
Speaker 7: I blame him.

825
00:49:05,960 --> 00:49:09,080
Speaker 11: Uh, it's it's this would have never happened with a

826
00:49:09,120 --> 00:49:13,360
Speaker 11: man of integrity, a man with a backbone. And I

827
00:49:13,440 --> 00:49:17,160
Speaker 11: used to love basketball. I haven't watched, forget a whole game.

828
00:49:17,200 --> 00:49:19,200
Speaker 11: I haven't watched two to three quarters of a game

829
00:49:19,480 --> 00:49:23,000
Speaker 11: since twenty one when when Yannis won it, the game's

830
00:49:23,040 --> 00:49:26,160
Speaker 11: falling apart. It's like a Pinto. Not a Pinto, maybe

831
00:49:26,160 --> 00:49:30,319
Speaker 11: a Corolla that's twenty years old that's on its last limb.

832
00:49:30,320 --> 00:49:33,600
Speaker 11: And people were pissed off. But I'm like, uh, are

833
00:49:33,600 --> 00:49:35,920
Speaker 11: you angry for flooring it? You know they drive going

834
00:49:35,960 --> 00:49:38,040
Speaker 11: on a dry ride and then it just dying down.

835
00:49:38,560 --> 00:49:42,840
Speaker 11: I'm not angry. And I think Riley Exposa or whatever

836
00:49:43,200 --> 00:49:46,240
Speaker 11: I think they saw, they saw this league's like who played?

837
00:49:46,320 --> 00:49:49,520
Speaker 11: No one cares, so let's drive it down, let's let's

838
00:49:49,600 --> 00:49:52,760
Speaker 11: let's let's stick it down. There was there are people

839
00:49:53,239 --> 00:49:57,000
Speaker 11: complaining about the you know that was that was unsports

840
00:49:57,000 --> 00:50:00,799
Speaker 11: Look like, dude, it's like this is this is ten

841
00:50:00,880 --> 00:50:03,240
Speaker 11: years too late, you know, so I have no problem

842
00:50:03,239 --> 00:50:06,680
Speaker 11: with it. No one, I don't care. Nobody threw the

843
00:50:06,719 --> 00:50:09,400
Speaker 11: watching he hit forty he did, it went forty three

844
00:50:09,440 --> 00:50:10,000
Speaker 11: through at tenth.

845
00:50:10,560 --> 00:50:13,600
Speaker 2: So here's what's interesting prior to this, and you're right,

846
00:50:13,640 --> 00:50:15,920
Speaker 2: Bam was a good two way player, never had more

847
00:50:15,960 --> 00:50:17,919
Speaker 2: than forty one points in a game in his entire career,

848
00:50:17,920 --> 00:50:20,080
Speaker 2: and all of a sudden, Bam and everybody was kind

849
00:50:20,080 --> 00:50:21,560
Speaker 2: of a little wild. Look what I did there? Didn't

850
00:50:21,560 --> 00:50:24,880
Speaker 2: you mean to do that? And everybody was in on it. Finally,

851
00:50:25,719 --> 00:50:29,239
Speaker 2: this gimmick in Saint Louis all you can eat twenty

852
00:50:29,320 --> 00:50:32,960
Speaker 2: nine bucks. You heard the food items that I you know, good,

853
00:50:33,440 --> 00:50:36,240
Speaker 2: good idea gimmick? Silly? What are your thoughts? Are they pandering?

854
00:50:38,040 --> 00:50:42,279
Speaker 11: I think only here where the strip mall Kung Fu

855
00:50:42,760 --> 00:50:46,719
Speaker 11: Kung Fu Wayne, where it's fourteen ninety nine all you

856
00:50:46,760 --> 00:50:49,160
Speaker 11: can eat? Nobody thought that would work. So I think

857
00:50:49,200 --> 00:50:52,440
Speaker 11: that family is now going to Saint Louis and loading up.

858
00:50:52,560 --> 00:50:55,239
Speaker 11: I mean, garbage is garbage, Bernie. I know you got

859
00:50:55,239 --> 00:50:55,880
Speaker 11: the other callers.

860
00:50:55,960 --> 00:50:56,640
Speaker 7: Have a great night.

861
00:50:57,040 --> 00:51:00,760
Speaker 2: Thank you, Tony. Jim in Massachusetts bat clean up tonight.

862
00:51:01,480 --> 00:51:02,520
Speaker 2: Let her rip, Jim.

863
00:51:03,440 --> 00:51:06,439
Speaker 7: What's going on, Bernie? The eighty three point game, Hey,

864
00:51:06,480 --> 00:51:09,680
Speaker 7: that's a good thing. But they're playing in the league

865
00:51:10,040 --> 00:51:12,800
Speaker 7: where there's no hand checking, there's no body and people

866
00:51:12,840 --> 00:51:15,120
Speaker 7: and stuff like that. So hey, they may have helped

867
00:51:15,160 --> 00:51:17,000
Speaker 7: them a little bit, but that's what the league's turn

868
00:51:17,080 --> 00:51:20,480
Speaker 7: into a joke. If he wanted to score eighty three,

869
00:51:20,560 --> 00:51:22,879
Speaker 7: let him go back and play in the eighties. Dan,

870
00:51:22,920 --> 00:51:28,640
Speaker 7: I'll tip my hat if he gets eighty three. All right, baseball, Bernie,

871
00:51:28,760 --> 00:51:30,680
Speaker 7: what are you talking about? They're not going to shut

872
00:51:30,719 --> 00:51:34,440
Speaker 7: down a whole business that.

873
00:51:33,760 --> 00:51:36,320
Speaker 2: They're talking about it. They're really talking about a Jim

874
00:51:36,600 --> 00:51:41,680
Speaker 2: the commissioner. They've had discussions. Go ahead, you got the floor.

875
00:51:41,719 --> 00:51:44,080
Speaker 2: But this is not a zero. I think it's better

876
00:51:44,080 --> 00:51:47,040
Speaker 2: than fifty to fifty they do it. Continue on, it's.

877
00:51:46,880 --> 00:51:50,839
Speaker 7: A zero, Bernie, you're talking how many countries? Twenty five guys?

878
00:51:50,880 --> 00:51:52,320
Speaker 7: Where are you gonna house all the ticket?

879
00:51:53,320 --> 00:51:57,200
Speaker 2: Where six teams is it. It's only sixteens whatever.

880
00:51:57,640 --> 00:51:59,960
Speaker 7: All those all those people, where are you gonna house them?

881
00:52:00,000 --> 00:52:03,399
Speaker 7: Where you're gonna food and baseball? Bernie. I can fly

882
00:52:03,560 --> 00:52:06,920
Speaker 7: from Logan out there, watch the game in the third inning,

883
00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:10,759
Speaker 7: come back to Boston, get a root canal, go back

884
00:52:11,320 --> 00:52:15,400
Speaker 7: to la and you'll still be in the third inning. Boring, boring, boring.

885
00:52:15,440 --> 00:52:18,480
Speaker 7: No one wants to see baseball in the Olympics. The

886
00:52:18,520 --> 00:52:21,160
Speaker 7: only reason they have hockey and the other It's fast paced,

887
00:52:21,440 --> 00:52:23,560
Speaker 7: it's moving, you always see something.

888
00:52:25,120 --> 00:52:27,640
Speaker 2: It's become a lot more of an international game now though, Jim,

889
00:52:27,800 --> 00:52:30,400
Speaker 2: I'm not dismissing what you're saying, but I think we

890
00:52:30,440 --> 00:52:32,040
Speaker 2: have to let this, let this play out. So I

891
00:52:32,080 --> 00:52:35,000
Speaker 2: know what you weigh in on that, and you know

892
00:52:35,000 --> 00:52:38,400
Speaker 2: where you're weigh in on. Vam Adebayo. So about the

893
00:52:38,440 --> 00:52:43,440
Speaker 2: Cardinals is they launched their Coca Cola unlimited tickets in.

894
00:52:45,280 --> 00:52:47,680
Speaker 7: Food and everything. Well, you know what I'm gonna do

895
00:52:48,040 --> 00:52:51,240
Speaker 7: later on today, I'm gonna give our our FK Junior

896
00:52:51,280 --> 00:52:53,000
Speaker 7: a call and get him over there on.

897
00:52:52,960 --> 00:52:53,520
Speaker 2: The Here you go.

898
00:52:53,680 --> 00:52:57,480
Speaker 7: We gotta we got a country that's that's obef and

899
00:52:57,560 --> 00:52:59,680
Speaker 7: everything and kids. We're trying to get that under control,

900
00:52:59,760 --> 00:53:02,279
Speaker 7: and I gonna throw more jump food at everybody just

901
00:53:02,320 --> 00:53:04,400
Speaker 7: to get them in the stadium. Come on, give me

902
00:53:04,440 --> 00:53:05,160
Speaker 7: a break, Brining.

903
00:53:05,719 --> 00:53:08,040
Speaker 2: You know all right, Jim, you're you're you're in rere

904
00:53:08,120 --> 00:53:10,600
Speaker 2: form tonight. Jim, I love you, man, but it's someone

905
00:53:11,000 --> 00:53:13,080
Speaker 2: no one pissed in your court flakes today. Did I

906
00:53:13,120 --> 00:53:15,160
Speaker 2: love you man, but you're you're in rere form tonight.

907
00:53:17,200 --> 00:53:19,720
Speaker 7: That rings up the bands in Cleveland.

908
00:53:19,760 --> 00:53:22,399
Speaker 2: Look how that Nickel beer Knight Cleveland nineteen seventy four,

909
00:53:22,480 --> 00:53:25,080
Speaker 2: My friend, what are the great sporting events of all time?

910
00:53:26,320 --> 00:53:28,479
Speaker 2: Nickel Beer Knight in Cleveland? They had to bring it back.

911
00:53:29,120 --> 00:53:32,880
Speaker 7: It just goes to show our age Bernie. One last

912
00:53:32,880 --> 00:53:36,440
Speaker 7: thing quickly, though, Did they settle the contract with the WNBA?

913
00:53:36,560 --> 00:53:37,560
Speaker 7: Are they not yet?

914
00:53:38,080 --> 00:53:41,160
Speaker 2: Not yet? They're still arguing. They said that if they

915
00:53:41,160 --> 00:53:43,719
Speaker 2: didn't have it settled by March tenth, uh, they'd have

916
00:53:43,800 --> 00:53:45,799
Speaker 2: to alter some things. Well, they didn't do that. It's

917
00:53:45,800 --> 00:53:48,960
Speaker 2: a clown league. Look, I know that the owners, I think,

918
00:53:49,000 --> 00:53:52,880
Speaker 2: have tended a very generous proposal. They're increasing the salary

919
00:53:52,920 --> 00:53:55,880
Speaker 2: cap by like five hundred percent, So you're gonna have

920
00:53:55,880 --> 00:53:58,439
Speaker 2: a million dollar players that play for forty four days

921
00:53:58,520 --> 00:54:00,439
Speaker 2: or whatever the hell of the league is. And that's

922
00:54:00,440 --> 00:54:02,160
Speaker 2: still not good enough. They want a piece of the pie.

923
00:54:02,640 --> 00:54:04,560
Speaker 2: But the short answer to your question is they don't

924
00:54:04,560 --> 00:54:05,120
Speaker 2: have a deal yet.

925
00:54:05,960 --> 00:54:08,320
Speaker 7: Oh well, I don't think they're gonna have a season.

926
00:54:08,360 --> 00:54:09,680
Speaker 7: Then he put me, I.

927
00:54:09,640 --> 00:54:12,000
Speaker 2: Don't figure something out. I don't know if they have one.

928
00:54:12,040 --> 00:54:15,200
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't Yeah, I don't care. I

929
00:54:15,280 --> 00:54:18,000
Speaker 2: just don't care. Forgive me, we're good. I'll go to

930
00:54:18,040 --> 00:54:20,120
Speaker 2: confession twice this week. I don't give a damn. I'm

931
00:54:20,160 --> 00:54:22,279
Speaker 2: going to Hell on a scholarship. I couldn't care less

932
00:54:22,280 --> 00:54:25,319
Speaker 2: about the WNBA. Jim, great stuff as always. Man, We'll

933
00:54:25,320 --> 00:54:28,120
Speaker 2: see you next week. H eight seven seven nine nine

934
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Speaker 2: six six three sixty nine eight seven seven ninety nine

935
00:54:31,080 --> 00:54:34,000
Speaker 2: one Fox gives a callby part of the action. We're

936
00:54:34,080 --> 00:54:40,400
Speaker 2: rocket and rolling. Andrew in Bakersfield joins us. Next. Welcome in, Andrew, Bernie.

937
00:54:40,520 --> 00:54:41,800
Speaker 12: Oh what's up? Bernie?

938
00:54:41,960 --> 00:54:42,360
Speaker 2: I warrer you.

939
00:54:43,200 --> 00:54:46,560
Speaker 12: I'm all right. Quick question? Does Motown music? Do they

940
00:54:46,600 --> 00:54:49,280
Speaker 12: have to be from Detroit to be considered Motown?

941
00:54:50,440 --> 00:54:50,760
Speaker 7: Well?

942
00:54:50,960 --> 00:54:54,480
Speaker 2: Motown was founded by a Barry Gordy Junior, and I've

943
00:54:54,520 --> 00:54:57,239
Speaker 2: been in their studios on West Grand Boulevard, it's an

944
00:54:57,239 --> 00:54:59,960
Speaker 2: old house, it's famous, and a lot of those are

945
00:55:00,040 --> 00:55:02,480
Speaker 2: artists were from the South, and the musicians were from

946
00:55:02,520 --> 00:55:07,040
Speaker 2: the South. They're from all over. However, they formed what

947
00:55:07,200 --> 00:55:11,840
Speaker 2: became Motown Records, and it was its own distinctive sound,

948
00:55:11,880 --> 00:55:15,200
Speaker 2: which all these years later is universal, was timeless. Let's

949
00:55:15,200 --> 00:55:17,680
Speaker 2: face it, it feel good music. I get comments all the

950
00:55:17,719 --> 00:55:19,880
Speaker 2: time on my music. Got to night.

951
00:55:20,880 --> 00:55:26,680
Speaker 12: Yeah that's good, Okay, so bam for me, it's just total,

952
00:55:28,040 --> 00:55:28,920
Speaker 12: total cheese.

953
00:55:29,600 --> 00:55:30,320
Speaker 9: It's no good.

954
00:55:30,440 --> 00:55:36,160
Speaker 12: It's a sham. Yeah. And I don't see how you

955
00:55:36,160 --> 00:55:37,839
Speaker 12: could see it any other way, you know.

956
00:55:38,000 --> 00:55:41,040
Speaker 2: And I'm with you, man, it's just but the people

957
00:55:41,080 --> 00:55:44,200
Speaker 2: are pushing back. But when you consider that Eric Spolstro

958
00:55:44,400 --> 00:55:47,200
Speaker 2: was telling his team to, you know, fill guys, even

959
00:55:47,239 --> 00:55:48,879
Speaker 2: though they were up by more than twenty. All right

960
00:55:48,880 --> 00:55:52,000
Speaker 2: on down the line, continue on Olympic baseball in twenty

961
00:55:52,000 --> 00:55:53,760
Speaker 2: twenty eight, Would you like to see the hockey format

962
00:55:53,840 --> 00:55:54,640
Speaker 2: Olympic baseball?

963
00:55:56,160 --> 00:55:58,600
Speaker 12: Let me just I just got to do one last

964
00:55:59,040 --> 00:56:01,160
Speaker 12: Laker thing. I can't even remember what else I was

965
00:56:01,200 --> 00:56:04,480
Speaker 12: gonna say, But I heard Lebron's clip, this audio clip

966
00:56:04,480 --> 00:56:07,320
Speaker 12: talking about the team. That's what I'm talking about. Lebron

967
00:56:07,760 --> 00:56:11,040
Speaker 12: you're the man, my friend. Good job, all right? Thanks?

968
00:56:11,680 --> 00:56:12,040
Speaker 8: All right?

969
00:56:12,120 --> 00:56:14,360
Speaker 2: What are your thoughts on the Cardinals and they're launching

970
00:56:14,440 --> 00:56:21,160
Speaker 2: their Coca Cloa unlimited all you can eat seats. Are

971
00:56:21,200 --> 00:56:27,040
Speaker 2: you there? Do we lose Andrew? Ah? But Lucy, all right,

972
00:56:27,080 --> 00:56:29,640
Speaker 2: I guess we have no more Andrew eight seven seven

973
00:56:30,200 --> 00:56:33,560
Speaker 2: nine nine six six three six nine seven ninety nine

974
00:56:33,560 --> 00:56:36,960
Speaker 2: on Fox Paul in Asheville, Thanks for your patience. Welcome

975
00:56:36,960 --> 00:56:38,040
Speaker 2: into the Bernie frattlesfield.

976
00:56:38,800 --> 00:56:39,759
Speaker 9: Hey you get me, Bernie?

977
00:56:39,760 --> 00:56:40,120
Speaker 7: How you doing?

978
00:56:40,160 --> 00:56:41,360
Speaker 9: Pleasure and be on with you.

979
00:56:41,840 --> 00:56:42,920
Speaker 2: Nice to have you. Welcome in.

980
00:56:44,719 --> 00:56:47,480
Speaker 9: Hey, So listen. So the first point the man at

981
00:56:47,520 --> 00:56:52,600
Speaker 9: a bio Bertie both both two things can be right

982
00:56:52,640 --> 00:56:56,239
Speaker 9: in a situation, and it sure was too gaisy. But

983
00:56:56,320 --> 00:56:59,480
Speaker 9: the other point of that is we have bitch to

984
00:56:59,520 --> 00:57:02,800
Speaker 9: and complain about the NBA teams tanking. And we're talking

985
00:57:02,840 --> 00:57:05,359
Speaker 9: more about bamed by the Bio's record of eighty three

986
00:57:05,400 --> 00:57:08,600
Speaker 9: points than we are about teams tanking. Like, let's focus

987
00:57:08,600 --> 00:57:11,160
Speaker 9: on the positives, and like you have to think of

988
00:57:11,200 --> 00:57:14,520
Speaker 9: the business decision bam by the Bio made now unto

989
00:57:14,680 --> 00:57:18,120
Speaker 9: eternity or you know, for a long time. Anytime there's

990
00:57:18,160 --> 00:57:21,840
Speaker 9: a TV that shows NBA scoring leaders. He's getting right

991
00:57:21,920 --> 00:57:25,120
Speaker 9: up there, right behind Wilt and that's going to carry

992
00:57:25,120 --> 00:57:28,000
Speaker 9: on his legacy for a long time. Without that game

993
00:57:28,360 --> 00:57:30,880
Speaker 9: eighty one points and not to find Kobe Bryant eighty

994
00:57:30,880 --> 00:57:33,400
Speaker 9: three points. Told to find Bam out the bio and

995
00:57:33,440 --> 00:57:36,880
Speaker 9: that's that's his legacy. So good for him. And like

996
00:57:36,960 --> 00:57:39,200
Speaker 9: he busted his ass against the team that was tanking

997
00:57:39,280 --> 00:57:40,280
Speaker 9: like advantage Bam.

998
00:57:40,400 --> 00:57:44,280
Speaker 2: So thank you. I got to tell you I appreciate

999
00:57:44,360 --> 00:57:47,240
Speaker 2: your perspective because one of my favorite things about the

1000
00:57:47,240 --> 00:57:50,400
Speaker 2: midnight hour is the most boyant conversations with everybody just

1001
00:57:50,400 --> 00:57:53,640
Speaker 2: simply agrees. And you've got an alternative perspective here, and

1002
00:57:53,720 --> 00:57:57,320
Speaker 2: I can respect that. So listen. It's a topic that's

1003
00:57:57,320 --> 00:58:02,080
Speaker 2: had legs for a freaking full week. So they did

1004
00:58:02,120 --> 00:58:05,200
Speaker 2: have their defenders, all right. How about the other two topics,

1005
00:58:05,200 --> 00:58:10,960
Speaker 2: Olympic Baseball and Cardinals Coca Cola unlimited seats Olympic Baseball.

1006
00:58:11,160 --> 00:58:14,560
Speaker 9: Hell yes, capital letters, fifty thousand exclamation points.

1007
00:58:14,760 --> 00:58:15,800
Speaker 7: What I love it.

1008
00:58:16,480 --> 00:58:19,520
Speaker 9: Look what nationalism is doing for sports, and now that

1009
00:58:19,560 --> 00:58:22,880
Speaker 9: we have professional athletes that are proud to where the

1010
00:58:23,000 --> 00:58:27,240
Speaker 9: jerseys of their country, like the effort you're seeing this

1011
00:58:27,280 --> 00:58:32,080
Speaker 9: World Baseball Classics is like October baseball. And if you

1012
00:58:32,120 --> 00:58:34,640
Speaker 9: think about the placement of the calendar of the Olympics,

1013
00:58:35,120 --> 00:58:38,040
Speaker 9: that can be Major League Baseball's introduction to people over

1014
00:58:38,120 --> 00:58:40,840
Speaker 9: the middle of the summer. Hey remember us. It would

1015
00:58:40,840 --> 00:58:44,280
Speaker 9: be an introduction to some international stars. And then when

1016
00:58:44,320 --> 00:58:46,600
Speaker 9: the second half of the season would pick back up,

1017
00:58:46,960 --> 00:58:49,680
Speaker 9: right as school is starting, people are going to jump

1018
00:58:49,680 --> 00:58:53,640
Speaker 9: in with the expanded wildfire. People are loving it and

1019
00:58:53,640 --> 00:58:55,480
Speaker 9: I just think it would be a phenomenal thing.

1020
00:58:55,440 --> 00:58:59,919
Speaker 2: For the baseball well said, appreciate it now. Finally, real quick,

1021
00:59:00,000 --> 00:59:03,120
Speaker 2: the Cardinals unlimited Coca Cola all you can eat Sea.

1022
00:59:03,160 --> 00:59:04,760
Speaker 2: It's a great idea or goofy gimmick?

1023
00:59:05,480 --> 00:59:07,919
Speaker 9: Have you paid attention to Cardinals Murnie? Something we got

1024
00:59:07,920 --> 00:59:09,720
Speaker 9: to get people of the ballpark and it's not the

1025
00:59:09,760 --> 00:59:14,840
Speaker 9: baseball Listen, it's a phenomenal thing. It makes affordability for

1026
00:59:15,320 --> 00:59:17,640
Speaker 9: the family to go to the ballpark. And I will

1027
00:59:17,680 --> 00:59:20,120
Speaker 9: tell you there's a single baseball team here in Asheville,

1028
00:59:20,240 --> 00:59:24,000
Speaker 9: affiliate of the Houston Aster. Yeah, yes, they have a section.

1029
00:59:24,080 --> 00:59:27,280
Speaker 9: But like the second thing, you know, unlimited free with

1030
00:59:27,320 --> 00:59:29,360
Speaker 9: the pretty you can only go.

1031
00:59:29,360 --> 00:59:31,080
Speaker 7: Through the line maybe two times in the.

1032
00:59:31,080 --> 00:59:32,920
Speaker 9: Middle of the summer. The lines are going to be

1033
00:59:32,960 --> 00:59:35,400
Speaker 9: forever like people. It's not like people are.

1034
00:59:35,320 --> 00:59:39,600
Speaker 2: Can catch that's the catch. No, Hey, a great call.

1035
00:59:39,880 --> 00:59:41,560
Speaker 2: I'm not sure if this is your first time, Paul,

1036
00:59:41,600 --> 00:59:45,640
Speaker 2: but don't be a stranger. I appreciate your perspectives a lot.

1037
00:59:45,680 --> 00:59:48,240
Speaker 2: All right, the the Midnight Hour is off and run.

1038
00:59:49,000 --> 00:59:51,840
Speaker 2: Coming up next to be Jeff and Denver, James and Tacoma,

1039
00:59:51,920 --> 00:59:55,520
Speaker 2: Andy and Washington. He on the five making Minnesota. Please

1040
00:59:55,520 --> 00:59:58,439
Speaker 2: be patient, I really do want to hear what all

1041
00:59:58,480 --> 00:59:59,960
Speaker 2: of you have to say. By the way, for the

1042
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:02,680
Speaker 2: bet pregame show every weekend, be sure to tune into

1043
01:00:02,680 --> 01:00:06,240
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1044
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1045
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1046
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1049
01:00:19,200 --> 01:00:21,600
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1050
01:00:21,600 --> 01:00:22,120
Speaker 2: Frattle Show.

1051
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1052
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1055
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Speaker 2: Hi, We're back on the Bernie Frautle Show. The Men

1056
01:00:41,400 --> 01:00:44,600
Speaker 2: at Hour continues. Caller has been fantastic so far. Let's

1057
01:00:44,680 --> 01:00:47,320
Speaker 2: just keep it rolling. We go out to Denver. We're

1058
01:00:47,360 --> 01:00:50,520
Speaker 2: joined by Jeff. Jeff, Welcome back into the Bernie Frattle Show.

1059
01:00:50,560 --> 01:00:51,000
Speaker 2: How are you.

1060
01:00:51,880 --> 01:00:52,800
Speaker 13: Hey, Bernie good?

1061
01:00:52,840 --> 01:00:55,320
Speaker 14: Just smoking the cigar, drink your few beers. One of

1062
01:00:55,320 --> 01:01:00,280
Speaker 14: the time in the bam here tonight. I mean, you

1063
01:01:00,320 --> 01:01:02,120
Speaker 14: put up thirty one in the first quarter, why not

1064
01:01:02,200 --> 01:01:04,600
Speaker 14: go for it? Despite fair whatever.

1065
01:01:04,480 --> 01:01:08,520
Speaker 2: Happened later, Well, they certainly went for it. I mean

1066
01:01:08,560 --> 01:01:10,320
Speaker 2: he had all kinds of help, And I think that's

1067
01:01:10,360 --> 01:01:15,680
Speaker 2: where the controversy arises, when you're following guys intentionally and

1068
01:01:15,720 --> 01:01:17,360
Speaker 2: you know, right down down the line like things I said.

1069
01:01:17,560 --> 01:01:20,240
Speaker 2: But I was, Look, we have the segments that we

1070
01:01:20,280 --> 01:01:24,120
Speaker 2: can have all varying opinions, so you feel it was legitimate.

1071
01:01:24,320 --> 01:01:26,280
Speaker 2: It was a legitimate eighty three point performance.

1072
01:01:27,840 --> 01:01:31,200
Speaker 14: Oh just for you know whatever, When you have thirty

1073
01:01:31,200 --> 01:01:32,840
Speaker 14: one in the first quarter, why not go for it?

1074
01:01:33,080 --> 01:01:33,920
Speaker 14: That's all I'm saying.

1075
01:01:34,560 --> 01:01:37,880
Speaker 2: Okay, I accept that. Let's continue on what are your

1076
01:01:37,880 --> 01:01:41,520
Speaker 2: thoughts on baseball in the Olympics given the popularity the

1077
01:01:41,720 --> 01:01:45,680
Speaker 2: WBC and the NHL in their format recently.

1078
01:01:46,600 --> 01:01:51,400
Speaker 14: Absolutely, I mean there's twenty teams in the World Baseball Classic.

1079
01:01:51,440 --> 01:01:55,600
Speaker 14: Why is there only six in the Olympics. But yes, well.

1080
01:01:57,160 --> 01:01:59,800
Speaker 2: They have a different qualifying mechanism. There's actually sixteen in

1081
01:01:59,840 --> 01:02:02,840
Speaker 2: the World Cup. In the World Baseball it's really a

1082
01:02:02,920 --> 01:02:06,080
Speaker 2: totally different tournament from the ground up, but it's an

1083
01:02:06,120 --> 01:02:10,240
Speaker 2: international tournament. Nonetheless, you'll have a team from Asia, the America,

1084
01:02:10,400 --> 01:02:12,200
Speaker 2: South America, and of course Europe.

1085
01:02:12,240 --> 01:02:14,960
Speaker 14: But continue on, Well, they need to put more in

1086
01:02:15,000 --> 01:02:17,640
Speaker 14: because the World Baseball Classic is outstanding.

1087
01:02:17,920 --> 01:02:20,400
Speaker 15: Yes, I mean those guys are going ball to the

1088
01:02:20,440 --> 01:02:23,720
Speaker 15: wall and that I didn't get to see it, but

1089
01:02:23,800 --> 01:02:26,880
Speaker 15: that the Canada game where there was a bench coding

1090
01:02:26,880 --> 01:02:28,600
Speaker 15: ball and they were actually throwing haymakers.

1091
01:02:28,760 --> 01:02:31,680
Speaker 14: I mean this matters to those countries very much so.

1092
01:02:32,480 --> 01:02:34,480
Speaker 2: Very much so. And do you make it out to

1093
01:02:34,520 --> 01:02:36,000
Speaker 2: many Colorado Rockies games?

1094
01:02:37,760 --> 01:02:41,640
Speaker 14: Not anymore. I went to twenty straight home openers and

1095
01:02:41,640 --> 01:02:42,560
Speaker 14: I had teasing tickets.

1096
01:02:42,560 --> 01:02:45,960
Speaker 2: But you gotta love Michael Lorenzon, don't you. Right now?

1097
01:02:46,200 --> 01:02:47,840
Speaker 2: Michael Lorenzen, you gotta love.

1098
01:02:47,800 --> 01:02:51,000
Speaker 14: Him yeah, I see that he's a Rocky and the

1099
01:02:51,080 --> 01:02:53,200
Speaker 14: Rockies actually have a couple of starting pitchers in the

1100
01:02:53,240 --> 01:02:54,280
Speaker 14: World Baseball Classic.

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01:02:54,320 --> 01:02:56,360
Speaker 2: So that, well, what a gutty performance. If you know,

1102
01:02:56,360 --> 01:02:58,120
Speaker 2: and if you knew his personal story, he's an Orange

1103
01:02:58,160 --> 01:03:01,680
Speaker 2: County guy. He's an amazing human beings speak speaking of baseball. So,

1104
01:03:02,160 --> 01:03:04,360
Speaker 2: Samluis Cardinals and they're all you can eat ticket, what

1105
01:03:04,400 --> 01:03:05,160
Speaker 2: are your thoughts on that?

1106
01:03:07,560 --> 01:03:13,000
Speaker 14: Outstanding? I mean it gives the family with a few

1107
01:03:13,080 --> 01:03:15,160
Speaker 14: kids a chance to go to a game and I

1108
01:03:15,280 --> 01:03:17,080
Speaker 14: have to spend two hundred dollars in food.

1109
01:03:17,920 --> 01:03:21,320
Speaker 2: All right, but listen here, I hear you. Good stuff, Jeff.

1110
01:03:21,360 --> 01:03:25,960
Speaker 2: Always appreciate your perspectives. Thanks for checking in, James and Tacoma, Washington.

1111
01:03:26,280 --> 01:03:27,760
Speaker 2: Welcome into the Bernie Frattle Show.

1112
01:03:29,000 --> 01:03:31,480
Speaker 16: Yeah. First, the stars of basketball. I think anything's real

1113
01:03:31,600 --> 01:03:35,080
Speaker 16: shaky when somebody's trying to do somebody just get a record.

1114
01:03:35,080 --> 01:03:39,080
Speaker 16: And if you remember, years ago, A C. Green was

1115
01:03:39,160 --> 01:03:42,000
Speaker 16: injured and purposely came into a game, started a game,

1116
01:03:42,520 --> 01:03:46,640
Speaker 16: just those contective games played, Street State Attack came in

1117
01:03:46,720 --> 01:03:49,959
Speaker 16: for like one play came out Aty Green.

1118
01:03:50,480 --> 01:03:50,720
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1119
01:03:50,840 --> 01:03:56,000
Speaker 10: As far as the Baseball Olympics, I've already heard them

1120
01:03:55,960 --> 01:04:00,280
Speaker 10: announced the reduced the season from her sky took games

1121
01:04:00,720 --> 01:04:01,920
Speaker 10: to one hundred and fifty four.

1122
01:04:02,480 --> 01:04:04,880
Speaker 2: You've for that. I have not heard that reported anywhere?

1123
01:04:04,960 --> 01:04:09,160
Speaker 2: Is that you can I have heard what they're talking about? Well,

1124
01:04:09,280 --> 01:04:12,000
Speaker 2: go continue on. I had not heard that, James. Was

1125
01:04:12,000 --> 01:04:13,720
Speaker 2: that reported from a reputable agency?

1126
01:04:15,240 --> 01:04:18,840
Speaker 17: I heard from Jeff Passen again, this mustn't know that

1127
01:04:18,840 --> 01:04:20,960
Speaker 17: they're talking about talking about.

1128
01:04:22,760 --> 01:04:25,120
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, So it's it's it's one of the it's

1129
01:04:25,120 --> 01:04:28,880
Speaker 2: one of the talking points at this point, because yeah, okay,

1130
01:04:28,920 --> 01:04:32,640
Speaker 2: I hear you. It's it's it's it's merely a talking point. Yeah,

1131
01:04:32,680 --> 01:04:37,760
Speaker 2: because they didn't reduce the NHL season games. No, So

1132
01:04:37,880 --> 01:04:38,160
Speaker 2: all right?

1133
01:04:38,760 --> 01:04:39,000
Speaker 18: Uh?

1134
01:04:39,040 --> 01:04:40,840
Speaker 2: And then the same Louis Cardinals and they're all you

1135
01:04:40,880 --> 01:04:43,240
Speaker 2: can eat ticket goofy gimmick or great idea.

1136
01:04:46,800 --> 01:04:49,480
Speaker 17: Of what's what happened at Super eleven yesterday? Hears today

1137
01:04:49,560 --> 01:04:54,840
Speaker 17: is not a high day bar for three dollars and

1138
01:04:54,920 --> 01:04:59,440
Speaker 17: fourteen cents, and I was eleven yesterday one for.

1139
01:04:59,400 --> 01:05:08,120
Speaker 2: Pretty well, it does speak to our primal interests, doesn't it, James?

1140
01:05:08,160 --> 01:05:11,160
Speaker 2: So I appreciate your call, Thanks so much. We stayed

1141
01:05:11,160 --> 01:05:13,640
Speaker 2: in the state of Washington, Andy. I believe it's state

1142
01:05:13,680 --> 01:05:14,200
Speaker 2: in Washington.

1143
01:05:14,200 --> 01:05:17,560
Speaker 3: Correct, that is correct, Bernie. How are you tonight?

1144
01:05:17,760 --> 01:05:19,240
Speaker 2: Doing well? Thanks for checking in Andy.

1145
01:05:19,880 --> 01:05:22,360
Speaker 19: Yeah, Hey, I just have a quick question before he

1146
01:05:22,360 --> 01:05:27,280
Speaker 19: addressed the three points. Did you speak often about working

1147
01:05:27,320 --> 01:05:29,640
Speaker 19: in Detroit? Did you ever work with Rod Parker?

1148
01:05:30,080 --> 01:05:31,920
Speaker 2: Oh? My god, Yes, Rob and I are friends. We

1149
01:05:31,960 --> 01:05:34,320
Speaker 2: must have done over two hundred shows together at Detroit

1150
01:05:34,680 --> 01:05:37,440
Speaker 2: for ninety seven to one was w KRK at the

1151
01:05:37,520 --> 01:05:41,320
Speaker 2: time those were That was between two thousand and two

1152
01:05:41,440 --> 01:05:44,160
Speaker 2: and two thousand and eight. Yeah, we did it all.

1153
01:05:44,640 --> 01:05:47,920
Speaker 2: We're part of the Lions pre and post postgame show

1154
01:05:47,960 --> 01:05:51,040
Speaker 2: as well. Yeah, Rob, I've known Rob for many many years.

1155
01:05:51,520 --> 01:05:53,520
Speaker 19: I'd love to hear you guys shout it up a

1156
01:05:53,520 --> 01:05:55,800
Speaker 19: little bit at some point on the radio.

1157
01:05:55,960 --> 01:06:00,680
Speaker 3: Here, Hey, how the bear me?

1158
01:06:01,200 --> 01:06:03,280
Speaker 19: I was good with you know when coming out to

1159
01:06:03,400 --> 01:06:07,320
Speaker 19: the strong start and all, but I don't know, I

1160
01:06:07,400 --> 01:06:09,960
Speaker 19: just don't really care for the ending and the way

1161
01:06:10,000 --> 01:06:11,160
Speaker 19: it got manipulated.

1162
01:06:11,320 --> 01:06:13,760
Speaker 2: So, yeah, that was the thing as a thing is

1163
01:06:13,760 --> 01:06:15,200
Speaker 2: it got goo if you the other caller brought up

1164
01:06:15,200 --> 01:06:17,040
Speaker 2: an excellent point. You had thirty one in the first quarter,

1165
01:06:17,400 --> 01:06:19,440
Speaker 2: but when you're following guys at cent so you get

1166
01:06:19,480 --> 01:06:21,560
Speaker 2: the point. We don't need to believe it. All right,

1167
01:06:21,800 --> 01:06:25,560
Speaker 2: Olympics Baseball twenty twenty eight. You want to see a

1168
01:06:25,600 --> 01:06:27,160
Speaker 2: copy of what we did with the NHL?

1169
01:06:28,080 --> 01:06:30,960
Speaker 19: Absolutely, why not the girl the game?

1170
01:06:31,760 --> 01:06:35,439
Speaker 2: What could it hurt us? And then the only other

1171
01:06:35,480 --> 01:06:38,440
Speaker 2: thing is the Saint Louis Cridinals all you can eat ticket.

1172
01:06:40,280 --> 01:06:43,320
Speaker 20: I gotta just say go for it. Who cares?

1173
01:06:43,680 --> 01:06:45,480
Speaker 19: I would love to see a family go out and

1174
01:06:45,520 --> 01:06:47,880
Speaker 19: have it to have a nice night like that and

1175
01:06:48,120 --> 01:06:49,920
Speaker 19: eat and drink all they want.

1176
01:06:50,320 --> 01:06:52,520
Speaker 2: I'll be curious to see how it plays out. All right,

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01:06:52,520 --> 01:06:55,320
Speaker 2: thanks a lot. I appreciate your call. I know they

1178
01:06:55,360 --> 01:06:58,560
Speaker 2: tried something similar here at UNLB basketball games many years ago.

1179
01:06:58,720 --> 01:07:01,080
Speaker 2: I don't know that it worked that well. Hugh on

1180
01:07:01,320 --> 01:07:04,120
Speaker 2: the five, Hugh, it's been a minute. How you been man?

1181
01:07:04,600 --> 01:07:08,240
Speaker 14: Yes, sir Bertie, just so happy to get back.

1182
01:07:08,080 --> 01:07:10,200
Speaker 5: On and have a chinwag with you for a minute here.

1183
01:07:11,880 --> 01:07:12,880
Speaker 18: All right, the three.

1184
01:07:12,680 --> 01:07:15,680
Speaker 7: Topics we're really begin where wanting to go first?

1185
01:07:15,680 --> 01:07:18,800
Speaker 2: Why don't we start with the bammane bio eighty three

1186
01:07:18,840 --> 01:07:21,480
Speaker 2: point game seems to have the most legs. You dive

1187
01:07:21,560 --> 01:07:25,480
Speaker 2: a diet right right down the middle. Controversial, legitimate, superficial.

1188
01:07:25,480 --> 01:07:27,240
Speaker 2: What are your thoughts well, all.

1189
01:07:27,080 --> 01:07:29,240
Speaker 13: The above, it's all the above.

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01:07:30,920 --> 01:07:34,800
Speaker 5: Well, what I find interesting is that, uh, you know,

1191
01:07:34,880 --> 01:07:38,680
Speaker 5: you have to bush it's Bush League, you know, making

1192
01:07:38,720 --> 01:07:41,360
Speaker 5: way for him to score points. But Bernie still have

1193
01:07:41,480 --> 01:07:43,880
Speaker 5: to put the ball in the hoop and that's an

1194
01:07:43,880 --> 01:07:48,960
Speaker 5: accomplishment and eighty three eighty three points is not something

1195
01:07:49,000 --> 01:07:52,479
Speaker 5: that everybody does, right. But the thing that I find

1196
01:07:52,560 --> 01:07:57,120
Speaker 5: interesting too is that it seems like it's a disrespect

1197
01:07:57,160 --> 01:08:01,360
Speaker 5: in the public's mind to Kobe, and nobody's really talking

1198
01:08:01,360 --> 01:08:05,439
Speaker 5: about Wilt. Well Will went on the next night after

1199
01:08:05,480 --> 01:08:07,640
Speaker 5: scoring one hundred points and had like fifty five and

1200
01:08:07,680 --> 01:08:10,680
Speaker 5: twenty seven rebounds or something ridiculous like that, So that

1201
01:08:10,720 --> 01:08:15,040
Speaker 5: looked more meaningful because of That's what he did, is

1202
01:08:15,080 --> 01:08:19,679
Speaker 5: he scored a lot of point all the time. So yeah,

1203
01:08:19,680 --> 01:08:21,240
Speaker 5: that's my that's my take on that.

1204
01:08:22,680 --> 01:08:26,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the fact that Kobe has been overshadowed

1205
01:08:26,880 --> 01:08:30,320
Speaker 2: therein lies. I think some of the consternation here because yeah,

1206
01:08:30,439 --> 01:08:32,559
Speaker 2: Kobe was beloved by most and so it's a little

1207
01:08:32,800 --> 01:08:35,160
Speaker 2: it's a little different dynamic continue on.

1208
01:08:35,880 --> 01:08:39,200
Speaker 5: Yeah, and it's also that it's also a sign of

1209
01:08:40,000 --> 01:08:44,080
Speaker 5: time is going on, and you know, people think, you know,

1210
01:08:44,320 --> 01:08:46,479
Speaker 5: Kobe is still in the it's still in the mind,

1211
01:08:46,520 --> 01:08:49,559
Speaker 5: whereas Wilt and those guys in that era are starting

1212
01:08:49,560 --> 01:08:51,880
Speaker 5: to fade away. And that's just going to continue on

1213
01:08:52,320 --> 01:08:54,200
Speaker 5: because that's that's the way it rolls.

1214
01:08:54,320 --> 01:09:00,040
Speaker 9: Time to goes on. So okay, baseball, Wow, that one's kind.

1215
01:08:59,880 --> 01:09:02,360
Speaker 5: Of near and hearing me just like you said, I went.

1216
01:09:02,439 --> 01:09:02,720
Speaker 3: I was.

1217
01:09:02,840 --> 01:09:03,360
Speaker 7: I went to the.

1218
01:09:03,360 --> 01:09:08,960
Speaker 5: Nineteen eighty four Olympics at Dodger Stadium, and believe it

1219
01:09:09,040 --> 01:09:10,880
Speaker 5: or not, the thing I remember most is like the

1220
01:09:10,880 --> 01:09:15,160
Speaker 5: first time I experienced the wave in this in a stadium.

1221
01:09:15,640 --> 01:09:17,759
Speaker 5: Later to find out I get to start it in Washington.

1222
01:09:18,200 --> 01:09:22,080
Speaker 5: But it just goes to proof that the competition was

1223
01:09:22,439 --> 01:09:25,320
Speaker 5: that poor that I remember I.

1224
01:09:25,240 --> 01:09:27,960
Speaker 2: Got to tell it was sitting behind first base and

1225
01:09:29,720 --> 01:09:33,080
Speaker 2: the Mexican team was terrible and the Italian team was terrible.

1226
01:09:33,120 --> 01:09:35,800
Speaker 2: And I'll never forget you. Somebody had a pop fly

1227
01:09:35,800 --> 01:09:40,400
Speaker 2: out of the second basement and his gloves stabbed it.

1228
01:09:40,400 --> 01:09:42,240
Speaker 2: He was like a high school JV player, maybe not

1229
01:09:42,280 --> 01:09:44,559
Speaker 2: even that. And the ball he not only he not

1230
01:09:44,600 --> 01:09:46,719
Speaker 2: only dropped it, the ball rifled in the right field

1231
01:09:46,880 --> 01:09:50,440
Speaker 2: and I hear the fans behind me yelling those smuddles,

1232
01:09:50,720 --> 01:09:56,480
Speaker 2: tho smuddles, little damn funny, right, continue on, that's hilarious,

1233
01:09:57,120 --> 01:09:57,960
Speaker 2: well true story.

1234
01:09:58,840 --> 01:09:59,840
Speaker 13: Well check this out.

1235
01:10:00,160 --> 01:10:03,920
Speaker 5: That's funny because I played at Dodger Stadium for the

1236
01:10:03,960 --> 01:10:07,960
Speaker 5: CIF Finals in nineteen eighty seven and I played second day.

1237
01:10:08,800 --> 01:10:10,840
Speaker 5: So that's that's near and dear to me too. But

1238
01:10:10,840 --> 01:10:12,160
Speaker 5: I didn't drop any balls.

1239
01:10:12,560 --> 01:10:13,559
Speaker 2: What high school did you go to?

1240
01:10:14,280 --> 01:10:15,320
Speaker 7: Let turn of high school?

1241
01:10:15,560 --> 01:10:15,720
Speaker 2: Oh?

1242
01:10:15,760 --> 01:10:15,960
Speaker 7: Sure?

1243
01:10:16,000 --> 01:10:18,280
Speaker 2: Listening? Okay, So was that was that? Two A at

1244
01:10:18,280 --> 01:10:18,599
Speaker 2: the time?

1245
01:10:18,680 --> 01:10:20,360
Speaker 8: Three eight now two as?

1246
01:10:20,439 --> 01:10:23,440
Speaker 5: Yeah, the way we lost we loft the Capitol Valley unfortunately.

1247
01:10:23,840 --> 01:10:26,200
Speaker 7: Oh but I'd say.

1248
01:10:26,120 --> 01:10:28,439
Speaker 2: Matt Morenovitch is at Taple Valley those years, believe it

1249
01:10:28,520 --> 01:10:31,880
Speaker 2: or not. Yeah, you might have a picture anyway. All right, finally,

1250
01:10:32,320 --> 01:10:33,960
Speaker 2: you one of your thoughts on the all you can

1251
01:10:34,000 --> 01:10:35,200
Speaker 2: eat stuff at Saint Louis.

1252
01:10:35,840 --> 01:10:36,960
Speaker 21: Well, I'll get to that.

1253
01:10:37,200 --> 01:10:40,560
Speaker 5: But the thing about the previous thing was was the

1254
01:10:40,640 --> 01:10:44,040
Speaker 5: point is it was taking out the ten games during

1255
01:10:44,120 --> 01:10:45,799
Speaker 5: the MLB season, right.

1256
01:10:46,479 --> 01:10:48,640
Speaker 2: I have not heard that. I have not heard that.

1257
01:10:49,320 --> 01:10:51,000
Speaker 2: It's so I can't comment on it, but go.

1258
01:10:51,000 --> 01:10:54,920
Speaker 5: Ahead, okay, okay, yeah, because that would that would that's

1259
01:10:55,000 --> 01:10:58,840
Speaker 5: not a bad idea. It's a long season. And now

1260
01:10:58,920 --> 01:11:01,880
Speaker 5: in the era where people were making gazillions, and they're

1261
01:11:02,040 --> 01:11:05,439
Speaker 5: they're they're seeing as assets rather than than you know,

1262
01:11:05,520 --> 01:11:08,000
Speaker 5: than people and players, and they were getting rested and

1263
01:11:08,040 --> 01:11:08,599
Speaker 5: all that stuff.

1264
01:11:08,680 --> 01:11:11,760
Speaker 9: Well, you know, the two dozen or so.

1265
01:11:11,880 --> 01:11:15,439
Speaker 5: Players that go and play during the Olympics, they're not

1266
01:11:15,479 --> 01:11:17,120
Speaker 5: going to get a break. But the rest of the

1267
01:11:17,920 --> 01:11:19,639
Speaker 5: all the other people are going to get a break.

1268
01:11:19,720 --> 01:11:21,880
Speaker 5: And that's not a bad thing, you know, I don't

1269
01:11:21,920 --> 01:11:23,400
Speaker 5: think so that might kind of there's.

1270
01:11:23,240 --> 01:11:26,960
Speaker 2: Some things daring out that among insurance and the owner. Yeah,

1271
01:11:27,160 --> 01:11:28,640
Speaker 2: there are there are some things.

1272
01:11:29,080 --> 01:11:31,519
Speaker 13: Yep, for sure, for sure, okay.

1273
01:11:33,120 --> 01:11:38,240
Speaker 5: And lastly, so well in Saint Louis, it's going to

1274
01:11:38,320 --> 01:11:42,960
Speaker 5: keep America fat, I guess. But just it's twenty nine

1275
01:11:43,000 --> 01:11:43,679
Speaker 5: dollars ticket.

1276
01:11:44,720 --> 01:11:45,800
Speaker 7: That's that's a good thing.

1277
01:11:45,880 --> 01:11:47,639
Speaker 9: But I caught on to something that you said.

1278
01:11:47,560 --> 01:11:49,320
Speaker 5: That it's only going to be served from like one

1279
01:11:49,360 --> 01:11:50,320
Speaker 5: concession standard.

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Speaker 2: That's correct, that's correct, right, Okay.

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Speaker 5: So the punny think about that is today I went,

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01:11:55,160 --> 01:11:56,840
Speaker 5: I just walked into a seven eleven and there's a

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01:11:56,960 --> 01:11:59,880
Speaker 5: sign on the door that says, get any large pizza

1284
01:12:00,080 --> 01:12:03,560
Speaker 5: today for three dollars and fourteen cents, And I just

1285
01:12:03,760 --> 01:12:05,840
Speaker 5: I didn't want one, but I asked the guy and

1286
01:12:05,920 --> 01:12:07,519
Speaker 5: he's like, oh, they're all gone, you know.

1287
01:12:07,600 --> 01:12:09,040
Speaker 7: So it's gonna be for a limited time.

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01:12:09,600 --> 01:12:14,080
Speaker 2: We'll see how this plays out. You're not wrong, all right.

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01:12:15,400 --> 01:12:16,439
Speaker 2: You always appreciate you.

1290
01:12:16,520 --> 01:12:16,720
Speaker 19: Man.

1291
01:12:17,320 --> 01:12:20,120
Speaker 2: It'll be a stranger. We have so many calls. I

1292
01:12:20,160 --> 01:12:23,200
Speaker 2: wish I could give people more time. Let's go to

1293
01:12:23,560 --> 01:12:36,080
Speaker 2: uh Nick in Minnesota. You're up next'll do go ahead, bank.

1294
01:12:37,200 --> 01:12:40,240
Speaker 22: We somebody doing something for the home fans for ones

1295
01:12:40,439 --> 01:12:41,120
Speaker 22: Eric Spolstra.

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Speaker 9: People are going to want to go to him, all right,

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01:12:45,920 --> 01:12:46,320
Speaker 9: that's fair.

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01:12:47,560 --> 01:12:53,400
Speaker 22: And if you're scoring anything more than what Jordan's scored

1299
01:12:53,439 --> 01:12:58,080
Speaker 22: in the playoff game, and it was sixty three, then

1300
01:12:58,200 --> 01:13:01,200
Speaker 22: that's but that's in a playoff game. Write anything more

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01:13:01,320 --> 01:13:02,559
Speaker 22: than that here for yourself.

1302
01:13:03,600 --> 01:13:08,439
Speaker 2: Oh, no question, no question. The game. The outcome of

1303
01:13:08,520 --> 01:13:14,320
Speaker 2: the game was decided by the way. So okay, So Nick,

1304
01:13:14,400 --> 01:13:17,040
Speaker 2: what are your thoughts on the Saint Louis Cardinals and

1305
01:13:17,439 --> 01:13:18,519
Speaker 2: they all you could eat ticket?

1306
01:13:21,840 --> 01:13:22,200
Speaker 3: Love it.

1307
01:13:24,200 --> 01:13:25,679
Speaker 2: All right, buddy, anything else?

1308
01:13:29,400 --> 01:13:34,000
Speaker 13: Bolts are gonna win the championships, the Bulls.

1309
01:13:35,560 --> 01:13:38,160
Speaker 2: Wolves, I wouldn't mind seeing that.

1310
01:13:38,320 --> 01:13:38,439
Speaker 12: Man.

1311
01:13:38,520 --> 01:13:42,400
Speaker 2: I like Michael Nory, he's Dante Nory's dad, and I

1312
01:13:42,560 --> 01:13:44,800
Speaker 2: like Chris Finch too. They they're knocking on the door.

1313
01:13:45,080 --> 01:13:48,559
Speaker 2: I don't know, man, I would like to see that, honestly, Nick,

1314
01:13:49,080 --> 01:13:50,519
Speaker 2: thanks for checking in. Appreciate you.

1315
01:13:51,160 --> 01:13:51,280
Speaker 12: Uh.

1316
01:13:51,680 --> 01:13:55,840
Speaker 2: The Minute hour will continue. Alan from Saint Louis, John

1317
01:13:56,000 --> 01:13:58,960
Speaker 2: from Maine, you are up next, and I think Paul

1318
01:13:59,160 --> 01:14:01,800
Speaker 2: had a follow up and we will allow it. We're

1319
01:14:01,840 --> 01:14:03,639
Speaker 2: here to have fun in the min that hour. Hay

1320
01:14:03,720 --> 01:14:06,200
Speaker 2: Ted everybody, I'm Bernie Fradder. We're coming line from Las Vegas.

1321
01:14:06,200 --> 01:14:08,479
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio Studios. Keep it locked. You can listen

1322
01:14:08,520 --> 01:14:09,320
Speaker 2: to the Bernie Frawdles.

1323
01:14:10,280 --> 01:14:12,960
Speaker 23: Don't listen no, Fox Sports Radio Radio.

1324
01:14:16,800 --> 01:14:18,840
Speaker 2: All right, back on the Bernie Fraddle Show. We wrapping

1325
01:14:18,840 --> 01:14:20,519
Speaker 2: it up on the Men that hour. We got four

1326
01:14:20,600 --> 01:14:22,200
Speaker 2: callers left. We want to get to all of them.

1327
01:14:22,520 --> 01:14:25,840
Speaker 2: Let's keep the line moving. Alan from Saint Louis, welcome in. Alan.

1328
01:14:25,880 --> 01:14:27,559
Speaker 3: How are you, Bernie?

1329
01:14:27,600 --> 01:14:31,240
Speaker 24: How you doing good? Sir Man, I'm felm feeling good.

1330
01:14:31,280 --> 01:14:34,120
Speaker 24: I'm enjoying this show. And first of all, and forth,

1331
01:14:34,240 --> 01:14:38,519
Speaker 24: I'm at a biol concerns. It really doesn't bother me.

1332
01:14:38,640 --> 01:14:42,040
Speaker 24: I've seen crazier things. And let's face it, if this

1333
01:14:42,160 --> 01:14:46,519
Speaker 24: were a prolific score like James Harden, Steph Curry Kevin Durant.

1334
01:14:47,920 --> 01:14:50,559
Speaker 24: I think people may talk about it, but they would

1335
01:14:50,680 --> 01:14:53,439
Speaker 24: be as upset about it because Ben Malta Byo is

1336
01:14:53,520 --> 01:14:54,519
Speaker 24: not a prolific score.

1337
01:14:54,720 --> 01:14:56,640
Speaker 8: So no, I think the Kobe.

1338
01:14:56,439 --> 01:15:01,479
Speaker 24: Bryant people wouldn't mind seeing Durant or Curry pass pass

1339
01:15:01,680 --> 01:15:02,920
Speaker 24: him up instead.

1340
01:15:03,120 --> 01:15:06,800
Speaker 2: Fair enough, sent a bit man at Obio. Okay, fair enough, Allen.

1341
01:15:06,840 --> 01:15:09,800
Speaker 2: What are your thoughts on Olympics baseball in twenty twenty eight,

1342
01:15:09,960 --> 01:15:12,320
Speaker 2: just like the NHL, oh I thought.

1343
01:15:12,200 --> 01:15:13,400
Speaker 3: I think it's gonna be wonderful.

1344
01:15:13,760 --> 01:15:16,479
Speaker 20: I mean, let's face anything, anything to promote the game,

1345
01:15:16,560 --> 01:15:19,760
Speaker 20: it's nothing. Let's say, there's nothing negative about it. And

1346
01:15:19,920 --> 01:15:21,760
Speaker 20: I think, and you know, we call to the people

1347
01:15:21,800 --> 01:15:24,880
Speaker 20: how people criticize athletes all they playing the kids game

1348
01:15:24,960 --> 01:15:25,360
Speaker 20: and stuff.

1349
01:15:25,960 --> 01:15:28,400
Speaker 16: Sometimes I think a little rest, a little rest.

1350
01:15:28,240 --> 01:15:31,400
Speaker 20: Can't help players, especially once whom I have nagging injury.

1351
01:15:31,479 --> 01:15:33,360
Speaker 20: So I don't have a problem with it at all.

1352
01:15:33,520 --> 01:15:36,639
Speaker 2: Good deal, Good deal, Yeah.

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01:15:37,479 --> 01:15:43,000
Speaker 20: Louis, I love it and burn Let's face it, I'm

1354
01:15:43,080 --> 01:15:47,479
Speaker 20: sixty seven years old. I have never been through something

1355
01:15:47,520 --> 01:15:49,920
Speaker 20: the Cardinals are going through right now, and that's a

1356
01:15:50,000 --> 01:15:54,200
Speaker 20: total rebuild. They have always retooled in the past.

1357
01:15:54,320 --> 01:15:54,720
Speaker 2: That's true.

1358
01:15:54,760 --> 01:15:58,320
Speaker 20: So every time. Every year before the season starts, they've

1359
01:15:58,439 --> 01:15:59,960
Speaker 20: already sold three million kicks.

1360
01:16:00,439 --> 01:16:01,160
Speaker 2: That's very true.

1361
01:16:01,280 --> 01:16:06,120
Speaker 20: I think this is more about getting fans in the seats, maybe.

1362
01:16:06,040 --> 01:16:06,720
Speaker 8: Enjoy a game.

1363
01:16:06,960 --> 01:16:09,479
Speaker 20: And let's face it, i've heard some of the previous callers.

1364
01:16:10,320 --> 01:16:13,200
Speaker 20: I'll see those hot dogs at Busch stadiums ain't no

1365
01:16:13,360 --> 01:16:14,559
Speaker 20: kid eating more than want of them.

1366
01:16:14,640 --> 01:16:19,280
Speaker 2: Anyway, Alan, great stuff, man, appreciate your enthusiasm. Thanks for

1367
01:16:19,360 --> 01:16:22,200
Speaker 2: checking in as always, John from me, and you're up next.

1368
01:16:22,200 --> 01:16:22,560
Speaker 2: How are you.

1369
01:16:24,720 --> 01:16:28,000
Speaker 13: I'm doing good, Bernie. I'm gonna keep it short and

1370
01:16:28,120 --> 01:16:32,519
Speaker 13: sweet because I hate to sound my voice. First one

1371
01:16:32,920 --> 01:16:36,200
Speaker 13: is bam. All I have to say is in twenty

1372
01:16:36,320 --> 01:16:40,080
Speaker 13: years when future reporters are looking at stuff and looking

1373
01:16:40,160 --> 01:16:43,240
Speaker 13: over the history and they see that record and they

1374
01:16:43,360 --> 01:16:46,960
Speaker 13: see he went to the free throw line forty three times,

1375
01:16:47,000 --> 01:16:49,280
Speaker 13: they're gonna look at each other and be like, what

1376
01:16:50,360 --> 01:16:53,040
Speaker 13: was this sponsored by Make a Wish Foundation.

1377
01:16:52,800 --> 01:16:56,679
Speaker 2: Or something interesting? Twenty times? Go ahead.

1378
01:16:58,120 --> 01:17:00,680
Speaker 13: The second one is I think that you should leave

1379
01:17:00,720 --> 01:17:06,160
Speaker 13: it with the college kids or whatever. I enjoy watching

1380
01:17:06,240 --> 01:17:09,000
Speaker 13: the college baseball and stuff. It's a lot of fun.

1381
01:17:09,120 --> 01:17:10,360
Speaker 13: You see the up and comers.

1382
01:17:10,479 --> 01:17:10,920
Speaker 2: Oh yeah.

1383
01:17:12,280 --> 01:17:15,680
Speaker 9: Third one is Uhi, Hey, Yeah, it.

1384
01:17:15,720 --> 01:17:18,040
Speaker 13: Sounds like that, sounds like a good time. But just

1385
01:17:18,160 --> 01:17:20,400
Speaker 13: remember you take the kids there and stuff like that.

1386
01:17:20,720 --> 01:17:22,479
Speaker 13: Just remember at the end of the game, you got

1387
01:17:22,600 --> 01:17:24,840
Speaker 13: to get those sugar bombs back in the car and

1388
01:17:25,400 --> 01:17:26,040
Speaker 13: the ride home.

1389
01:17:26,320 --> 01:17:29,840
Speaker 2: So that's all for you, all right, Thanks a lot,

1390
01:17:30,240 --> 01:17:34,759
Speaker 2: John from Maine appreciated. All right, So Paul and Asho

1391
01:17:34,840 --> 01:17:36,719
Speaker 2: had a quick follow up. We will allow it. Go ahead,

1392
01:17:36,760 --> 01:17:37,479
Speaker 2: Paul your back up.

1393
01:17:38,560 --> 01:17:42,240
Speaker 9: Hey, this is a weird thing for me to say,

1394
01:17:42,280 --> 01:17:43,560
Speaker 9: and I want you to hear me out, but I

1395
01:17:43,680 --> 01:17:46,960
Speaker 9: really think the NBA can learn a lot from the

1396
01:17:47,000 --> 01:17:48,120
Speaker 9: World Baseball Classic.

1397
01:17:48,160 --> 01:17:49,000
Speaker 7: Can let me explain.

1398
01:17:49,600 --> 01:17:51,320
Speaker 9: And it's all about changing the schedule.

1399
01:17:51,920 --> 01:17:52,240
Speaker 7: It's like.

1400
01:17:54,240 --> 01:17:58,200
Speaker 9: Nobody cares about NBA Opening Day. So if you couldn't move,

1401
01:17:58,479 --> 01:18:01,720
Speaker 9: if you couldn't move the All Star Game to the

1402
01:18:01,880 --> 01:18:07,040
Speaker 9: beginning of the season and do like a big FanFest

1403
01:18:08,560 --> 01:18:11,400
Speaker 9: maybe some events, and then you do your also like

1404
01:18:11,479 --> 01:18:14,519
Speaker 9: to do your All Star Game and you get people excited,

1405
01:18:14,560 --> 01:18:16,639
Speaker 9: and you put it on a Tuesday or a Wednesday

1406
01:18:16,720 --> 01:18:20,839
Speaker 9: during the football season, anyone announce and the opening weekend

1407
01:18:21,000 --> 01:18:23,439
Speaker 9: and you blow it out. And then on the back

1408
01:18:23,560 --> 01:18:26,160
Speaker 9: end of that burning like when you think about the

1409
01:18:26,280 --> 01:18:29,920
Speaker 9: NBA All Star Game, and everybody is complaining about leading

1410
01:18:30,000 --> 01:18:33,280
Speaker 9: up to about how bad it's been, complaining about the tanking.

1411
01:18:34,439 --> 01:18:37,160
Speaker 9: What if you take your Christmas Day line up to

1412
01:18:37,240 --> 01:18:40,839
Speaker 9: your five mega matches and put that on the weekend

1413
01:18:41,560 --> 01:18:44,120
Speaker 9: of the current All Star weekend, which is the week

1414
01:18:44,280 --> 01:18:45,160
Speaker 9: after the Super Bowl.

1415
01:18:45,439 --> 01:18:47,479
Speaker 2: Listen, but I got to get to one more caller.

1416
01:18:49,680 --> 01:18:52,280
Speaker 2: We're welcome to call back in next week and talk

1417
01:18:52,320 --> 01:18:54,320
Speaker 2: about some of these some of these issues. But you're

1418
01:18:54,360 --> 01:18:57,280
Speaker 2: not wrong. I think the NBA is trying to spicings

1419
01:18:57,320 --> 01:19:01,599
Speaker 2: up the beginning with their season tournament. So I don't

1420
01:19:01,600 --> 01:19:02,680
Speaker 2: mean to cut you off, but I don't want to

1421
01:19:02,720 --> 01:19:04,080
Speaker 2: get I want to get the last caller he shot.

1422
01:19:04,160 --> 01:19:07,200
Speaker 2: That is our man, Poppy. Poppy, welcome in, bud, finish

1423
01:19:07,280 --> 01:19:07,800
Speaker 2: us up tonight.

1424
01:19:08,280 --> 01:19:11,240
Speaker 21: Hey, yes, well bam on a bio complete joke, you know,

1425
01:19:11,360 --> 01:19:15,080
Speaker 21: like putting out those numbers and copying well Chamberlaine, like

1426
01:19:15,200 --> 01:19:18,240
Speaker 21: come on now night, No, like, dude, dude, something new,

1427
01:19:18,560 --> 01:19:21,880
Speaker 21: you know, like that's a complete joke. Adam Silver, you know,

1428
01:19:23,000 --> 01:19:24,360
Speaker 21: you know you got to do something about it.

1429
01:19:24,479 --> 01:19:26,479
Speaker 2: You don't take all right real quickly, Poppy, what do

1430
01:19:26,560 --> 01:19:28,840
Speaker 2: you got for us on the Olympics Baseball twenty eight,

1431
01:19:28,920 --> 01:19:29,840
Speaker 2: twenty eight, twenty eight.

1432
01:19:30,040 --> 01:19:31,839
Speaker 21: Well, I love it. It shows passion.

1433
01:19:32,000 --> 01:19:32,160
Speaker 12: You know.

1434
01:19:32,240 --> 01:19:35,000
Speaker 21: It's more you know the players what national team I

1435
01:19:35,000 --> 01:19:37,080
Speaker 21: am going to play? Am I gonna be a for Mexico?

1436
01:19:37,120 --> 01:19:38,840
Speaker 21: Am I gonna play for Brazilian?

1437
01:19:38,920 --> 01:19:39,759
Speaker 8: So they got to decide.

1438
01:19:39,760 --> 01:19:40,240
Speaker 12: So I love that.

1439
01:19:40,400 --> 01:19:43,280
Speaker 2: It's very compat beautiful saint though. I saw you can

1440
01:19:43,360 --> 01:19:44,200
Speaker 2: eat Poppy.

1441
01:19:44,920 --> 01:19:45,439
Speaker 8: You can hear.

1442
01:19:45,600 --> 01:19:48,719
Speaker 21: Oh yeah, we all have a bargain, especially with this recession,

1443
01:19:48,760 --> 01:19:49,519
Speaker 21: with this economy.

1444
01:19:49,640 --> 01:19:50,080
Speaker 11: Let's call.

1445
01:19:50,479 --> 01:19:53,040
Speaker 21: Let's get out what you're eating, get your funk, staying

1446
01:19:53,160 --> 01:19:53,719
Speaker 21: for your fuck.

1447
01:19:53,840 --> 01:19:54,120
Speaker 10: Let's go.

1448
01:19:54,360 --> 01:19:54,760
Speaker 21: I love it.

1449
01:19:55,200 --> 01:19:57,320
Speaker 2: Let's go, Poppy. Make sure you call back next week.

1450
01:19:57,360 --> 01:19:59,080
Speaker 2: We had a ton of callers tonight. I allowed the

1451
01:19:59,160 --> 01:20:02,080
Speaker 2: one gentleman this second bite of the apple. We'll get

1452
01:20:02,080 --> 01:20:03,880
Speaker 2: you back on next week for more airtime. But I

1453
01:20:03,960 --> 01:20:08,040
Speaker 2: appreciate all the callers checking in. For the most part,

1454
01:20:08,200 --> 01:20:11,040
Speaker 2: the bamman of bio thing people agree on. But there

1455
01:20:11,080 --> 01:20:13,519
Speaker 2: were some good alternative opinions too. You can't put eighty

1456
01:20:13,560 --> 01:20:16,760
Speaker 2: three in without having some junk on your trunk. Coming up,

1457
01:20:16,840 --> 01:20:19,760
Speaker 2: we'll talk NBA with Mark Medina. Keep it locked, listen

1458
01:20:19,800 --> 01:20:25,040
Speaker 2: to the Bernie fraddle. That's right. You heard the man

1459
01:20:25,560 --> 01:20:27,840
Speaker 2: Bernie Fraddle Show keeps rolling right along. My name is

1460
01:20:27,880 --> 01:20:30,599
Speaker 2: Bernie Fradder. We're company line for the Fox Sports Radio studios.

1461
01:20:31,000 --> 01:20:34,639
Speaker 2: We'll take you up to three am Pacific, six am Eastern.

1462
01:20:35,200 --> 01:20:38,760
Speaker 2: We got lots more business to get to. Oh what

1463
01:20:38,920 --> 01:20:42,920
Speaker 2: a week for the NBA in terms of NBA headlines, storylines,

1464
01:20:43,720 --> 01:20:48,439
Speaker 2: and good old arguments. Yup, three words. It's that time.

1465
01:20:49,479 --> 01:20:54,080
Speaker 2: Mark Medina, Medina Magic, our Fox Sports Radio NBA guru

1466
01:20:55,080 --> 01:20:57,600
Speaker 2: very much as his pulse finger on the pulse of

1467
01:20:57,640 --> 01:21:00,240
Speaker 2: the league. Mark as usual. We got a lot to

1468
01:21:00,640 --> 01:21:03,840
Speaker 2: unpack tonight, but I kind of have to start with

1469
01:21:03,960 --> 01:21:06,799
Speaker 2: bam at a Bayo. We've we've heard from the media,

1470
01:21:06,880 --> 01:21:10,320
Speaker 2: We've heard from the fans, We've heard from everybody except

1471
01:21:10,960 --> 01:21:13,920
Speaker 2: from your vantage point. How do the players inside the

1472
01:21:14,040 --> 01:21:17,360
Speaker 2: league feel about bam at a Baio's performance?

1473
01:21:18,160 --> 01:21:21,479
Speaker 18: Well, I think publicly a lot of players have congratulated him,

1474
01:21:21,479 --> 01:21:24,240
Speaker 18: whether it's on social media or public interviews. I want

1475
01:21:24,280 --> 01:21:28,559
Speaker 18: to be surprised though, if there's some internal angst about

1476
01:21:29,120 --> 01:21:32,280
Speaker 18: recognizing it a hell of an achievement you're talented to

1477
01:21:32,400 --> 01:21:35,600
Speaker 18: do it, but having an issue with the way he

1478
01:21:35,800 --> 01:21:38,880
Speaker 18: went about it and that's the thing here. I think

1479
01:21:38,960 --> 01:21:41,479
Speaker 18: both things can be true. You have to be really

1480
01:21:41,520 --> 01:21:44,040
Speaker 18: a talented basketball player to score any three points. But

1481
01:21:44,160 --> 01:21:47,080
Speaker 18: the way he did it, it just felt unnatural because

1482
01:21:47,120 --> 01:21:50,320
Speaker 18: they're intentionally fouling the Wizards to get the ball back,

1483
01:21:50,520 --> 01:21:54,240
Speaker 18: and they're intentionally fouling him to stop the clock. It

1484
01:21:54,400 --> 01:21:55,160
Speaker 18: just didn't sit well.

1485
01:21:55,320 --> 01:21:55,479
Speaker 5: Men.

1486
01:21:55,680 --> 01:21:59,080
Speaker 18: And here's the thing I think that helps crystallize my

1487
01:21:59,240 --> 01:22:03,599
Speaker 18: position is that when Kobe Bryant, well before he had

1488
01:22:03,640 --> 01:22:06,559
Speaker 18: the eighty one points, he had sixty two points against

1489
01:22:06,560 --> 01:22:10,040
Speaker 18: the Dallas Mavericks through three quarters, and assistant coach Brian

1490
01:22:10,160 --> 01:22:13,759
Speaker 18: Shaw relayed to him that the former coach Phil Jackson

1491
01:22:13,840 --> 01:22:16,040
Speaker 18: wanted to know how much longer he wanted to play

1492
01:22:16,080 --> 01:22:18,360
Speaker 18: in the fourth quarter, and he said, I'm good, And

1493
01:22:18,720 --> 01:22:20,400
Speaker 18: Brian Shaw asked him, well, what do you mean, like

1494
01:22:20,479 --> 01:22:23,360
Speaker 18: you have the chance to score seventy and he said, well,

1495
01:22:23,840 --> 01:22:26,160
Speaker 18: I'll do that some other time. We've already won the game.

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Speaker 18: So clearly, Kobe Bryant, who's someone that very rarely passed

1497
01:22:32,320 --> 01:22:35,080
Speaker 18: up shots and had a scorers mentality, he knew that

1498
01:22:35,720 --> 01:22:37,840
Speaker 18: the record would only mean so much if it was

1499
01:22:37,880 --> 01:22:41,680
Speaker 18: in the confines of an actual game. That dictated the

1500
01:22:41,760 --> 01:22:44,000
Speaker 18: result here, and I think that's something that we all

1501
01:22:44,120 --> 01:22:47,280
Speaker 18: have to keep in mind with debating this topic.

1502
01:22:48,120 --> 01:22:51,519
Speaker 2: Duley noted Narron lies the rub because Ben had seventy

1503
01:22:51,560 --> 01:22:54,360
Speaker 2: points with nine minutes to go. I'm told that Eric

1504
01:22:54,400 --> 01:22:57,519
Speaker 2: Spolster instructed his players to file. One even missed a

1505
01:22:57,600 --> 01:23:00,760
Speaker 2: free throw on purpose. And the game was just led

1506
01:23:00,840 --> 01:23:03,519
Speaker 2: by twenty against the team who was taking So I

1507
01:23:03,560 --> 01:23:06,800
Speaker 2: think making that distinction like he just did is really

1508
01:23:06,840 --> 01:23:09,320
Speaker 2: what brings this to light in why people felt it

1509
01:23:09,400 --> 01:23:10,320
Speaker 2: was so superficial.

1510
01:23:10,680 --> 01:23:14,360
Speaker 18: Yeah, and here's another distinction. Lakers Raptors in shoot thousand

1511
01:23:14,360 --> 01:23:19,840
Speaker 18: and six, Kobe Bryant didn't have didn't have a roster

1512
01:23:20,000 --> 01:23:22,600
Speaker 18: that was very competitive. Yeah, there are respectable players like

1513
01:23:22,760 --> 01:23:26,479
Speaker 18: Lamar Odom or Luke Walton, but that season, primarily he

1514
01:23:26,640 --> 01:23:29,559
Speaker 18: was shooting and scoring a lot. It was his highest

1515
01:23:29,600 --> 01:23:33,080
Speaker 18: scoring output in his twenty year career because the team

1516
01:23:33,200 --> 01:23:36,320
Speaker 18: was very flawed. The other thing is the Raptors weren't great,

1517
01:23:36,439 --> 01:23:40,280
Speaker 18: but they needed every basket out of Kobe Bryant just

1518
01:23:40,360 --> 01:23:43,639
Speaker 18: to win that game. And here's the other thing. Phil Jackson,

1519
01:23:43,880 --> 01:23:47,800
Speaker 18: as we all know, he often instructed Kobe to pass

1520
01:23:48,120 --> 01:23:50,760
Speaker 18: and trust his teammates, so who he was playing with

1521
01:23:50,920 --> 01:23:54,200
Speaker 18: Shaq to defer to him in that game, he defended

1522
01:23:54,280 --> 01:23:58,000
Speaker 18: Kobe with his high volume shooting and felt like this

1523
01:23:58,320 --> 01:24:05,640
Speaker 18: was an incident where his high volume scoring wasn't contradicting

1524
01:24:06,600 --> 01:24:09,800
Speaker 18: helping the team, that this was helping the team actually win.

1525
01:24:10,040 --> 01:24:13,800
Speaker 18: So there's very distinct differences where comparing Bam out of

1526
01:24:13,800 --> 01:24:16,960
Speaker 18: Bio's eighty three point game versus Kobe bryant eighty one

1527
01:24:17,040 --> 01:24:19,080
Speaker 18: point game mark.

1528
01:24:18,960 --> 01:24:23,240
Speaker 2: There was another very distinctive performance this week that I'm

1529
01:24:23,400 --> 01:24:26,760
Speaker 2: very surprised isn't getting much more run. I want you,

1530
01:24:26,920 --> 01:24:30,640
Speaker 2: I want to get your thoughts on SGA's breaking of

1531
01:24:30,680 --> 01:24:34,360
Speaker 2: Wilt's one hundred and twenty seven straight twenty point games,

1532
01:24:34,760 --> 01:24:36,200
Speaker 2: and I want to just set this up for just

1533
01:24:36,280 --> 01:24:39,559
Speaker 2: a second to give it some perspective other than Will.

1534
01:24:39,840 --> 01:24:42,240
Speaker 2: The only other player to do it in seventy two

1535
01:24:42,320 --> 01:24:45,519
Speaker 2: straight games was Kevin Durant. Even Lebron only did it

1536
01:24:45,680 --> 01:24:48,479
Speaker 2: forty nine straight games. And when you consider in that run,

1537
01:24:49,080 --> 01:24:51,800
Speaker 2: Shay Gilsey's team was one O three and twenty four,

1538
01:24:52,320 --> 01:24:55,720
Speaker 2: Wills was sixty six and sixty and Shay Gildy so

1539
01:24:55,760 --> 01:24:58,679
Speaker 2: only thirty two minutes a game, it took well forty

1540
01:24:58,760 --> 01:25:01,400
Speaker 2: nine minutes a game on average to do it. Although,

1541
01:25:01,439 --> 01:25:05,240
Speaker 2: to be fair, what broke Wilt's record streak. We's got

1542
01:25:05,360 --> 01:25:07,920
Speaker 2: kicked out after four minutes of a game once because

1543
01:25:07,960 --> 01:25:09,559
Speaker 2: he argued to call. But I want to get your

1544
01:25:09,600 --> 01:25:13,400
Speaker 2: thoughts because the more I watch, listen, and observe Sta,

1545
01:25:13,880 --> 01:25:16,479
Speaker 2: the more I like him. Why isn't this record getting

1546
01:25:16,560 --> 01:25:17,080
Speaker 2: more run?

1547
01:25:18,960 --> 01:25:23,320
Speaker 18: Why it's not getting more run? I think there's a

1548
01:25:23,400 --> 01:25:24,360
Speaker 18: few things here.

1549
01:25:26,200 --> 01:25:26,519
Speaker 14: We're in.

1550
01:25:27,040 --> 01:25:30,120
Speaker 18: We're in an era where there's just higher scoring games,

1551
01:25:30,160 --> 01:25:33,760
Speaker 18: and so there is almost scoring inflation because of more possessions,

1552
01:25:34,280 --> 01:25:38,000
Speaker 18: more three point shots. I think even though Wilt Chamberlain

1553
01:25:38,280 --> 01:25:40,639
Speaker 18: is one of the best scores and what's the most

1554
01:25:40,840 --> 01:25:43,200
Speaker 18: big men of all time, there is kind of a

1555
01:25:43,320 --> 01:25:46,439
Speaker 18: mystique about them because this is before, you know, the

1556
01:25:46,560 --> 01:25:50,760
Speaker 18: television era, and so to be clear, well, there's this

1557
01:25:50,920 --> 01:25:53,920
Speaker 18: younger generation that doesn't believe in the hundred point game

1558
01:25:54,200 --> 01:25:57,519
Speaker 18: it actually did happen. But I think what gets lost

1559
01:25:57,600 --> 01:26:00,679
Speaker 18: in this is even though Wilt Chamberlain was a dominant

1560
01:26:00,720 --> 01:26:02,960
Speaker 18: big men and one of the best scores in this era,

1561
01:26:03,439 --> 01:26:07,240
Speaker 18: he wasn't always associated with winning basketball, you know, so

1562
01:26:07,360 --> 01:26:09,679
Speaker 18: a lot of times he was seen as a guy

1563
01:26:09,800 --> 01:26:12,639
Speaker 18: that relied more on his talent than his work ethic.

1564
01:26:13,360 --> 01:26:16,560
Speaker 18: You may recall when he was with the Lakers, it

1565
01:26:16,680 --> 01:26:21,080
Speaker 18: was seeing that Jerry West and Gail Goodridge earned more

1566
01:26:21,080 --> 01:26:23,360
Speaker 18: of the line's share of the credit for the championship

1567
01:26:23,439 --> 01:26:25,840
Speaker 18: run than he did. And he was a player that

1568
01:26:25,920 --> 01:26:30,920
Speaker 18: alls had a reputation of not playing through injuries, and so, yeah,

1569
01:26:31,040 --> 01:26:34,120
Speaker 18: maybe that's part of it. I think as far as

1570
01:26:34,200 --> 01:26:37,880
Speaker 18: the current era, it might be more because we're so

1571
01:26:38,080 --> 01:26:39,960
Speaker 18: used to these highest scoring performances.

1572
01:26:40,680 --> 01:26:42,400
Speaker 2: I think it's one of those under the radar things.

1573
01:26:42,439 --> 01:26:44,479
Speaker 2: I mean, but averaging twenty points a game for one

1574
01:26:44,520 --> 01:26:47,639
Speaker 2: hundred and twenty seventh straight there's something to be said

1575
01:26:47,680 --> 01:26:50,360
Speaker 2: for that kind of consistency. All Right, we have to

1576
01:26:50,439 --> 01:26:52,800
Speaker 2: talk about the Lakers because the narrative has been all

1577
01:26:52,840 --> 01:26:55,639
Speaker 2: over the map this week. Early in the week, we're

1578
01:26:55,680 --> 01:26:58,320
Speaker 2: hearing that they're ten and two without Lebron. When Luca

1579
01:26:58,439 --> 01:27:00,880
Speaker 2: and Reeves are on the floor, then we're hearing that

1580
01:27:00,960 --> 01:27:04,360
Speaker 2: if Lebron would just accept his number three role and

1581
01:27:04,400 --> 01:27:07,559
Speaker 2: shoot less than twenty shots a game, the Lakers could

1582
01:27:07,560 --> 01:27:10,680
Speaker 2: be a factor. They kind of for at least one

1583
01:27:10,760 --> 01:27:14,679
Speaker 2: game proved that Saturday night against Denver, Lebron only shot

1584
01:27:14,840 --> 01:27:18,400
Speaker 2: thirteen times, played forty minutes. Thought he played pretty well

1585
01:27:18,520 --> 01:27:19,400
Speaker 2: daving for balls.

1586
01:27:19,920 --> 01:27:21,080
Speaker 19: So is this new.

1587
01:27:21,400 --> 01:27:26,479
Speaker 2: Laker rotation well, I can't think of the correct moniker.

1588
01:27:27,280 --> 01:27:30,120
Speaker 2: Can this version of the Lakers actually sustain and maybe

1589
01:27:30,200 --> 01:27:31,680
Speaker 2: make more of a playoff run than we would have

1590
01:27:31,760 --> 01:27:32,519
Speaker 2: originally thought?

1591
01:27:33,479 --> 01:27:34,719
Speaker 13: I mean, very well. Could.

1592
01:27:34,920 --> 01:27:37,439
Speaker 18: It's all subjects or change. But I think, you know,

1593
01:27:37,560 --> 01:27:41,080
Speaker 18: because of injuries and just how tight this Western Conference is.

1594
01:27:41,240 --> 01:27:44,040
Speaker 18: But I think what's been really different here with the

1595
01:27:44,120 --> 01:27:47,600
Speaker 18: Lakers is they've gotten signature wins this week against the

1596
01:27:47,680 --> 01:27:51,320
Speaker 18: New York Andecks, against the Minnesota Timberwolves, against the Denver

1597
01:27:51,479 --> 01:27:55,000
Speaker 18: Nuggets Saturday night and overtime. And I think when we're

1598
01:27:55,080 --> 01:27:58,200
Speaker 18: talking about the Lakers flalls and all that, a lot

1599
01:27:58,280 --> 01:28:00,280
Speaker 18: of it had to do with the top heavy part

1600
01:28:00,360 --> 01:28:04,320
Speaker 18: of the limp and their defensive you know, their lack

1601
01:28:04,400 --> 01:28:07,920
Speaker 18: of defensive depth. But I think Zen and now I

1602
01:28:08,000 --> 01:28:11,280
Speaker 18: didn't really have concerns about the Lakers big three in

1603
01:28:11,320 --> 01:28:14,040
Speaker 18: their chemistry. I think a lot of it just had

1604
01:28:14,080 --> 01:28:16,519
Speaker 18: to do with they weren't having time on the floor together,

1605
01:28:16,960 --> 01:28:19,400
Speaker 18: and when they weren't having time on the floor together,

1606
01:28:19,880 --> 01:28:23,920
Speaker 18: all the rest of the roster deficiencies were too glaring

1607
01:28:24,040 --> 01:28:28,160
Speaker 18: to ignore. But what changed here is there's been more

1608
01:28:28,240 --> 01:28:31,320
Speaker 18: ball movement. It's not just Luca jacket up shots. It's

1609
01:28:31,439 --> 01:28:35,320
Speaker 18: within the confines of the offense. Austin, Reeves and Luca

1610
01:28:35,439 --> 01:28:37,880
Speaker 18: have always had a great one to two punch. But

1611
01:28:38,040 --> 01:28:42,000
Speaker 18: sometimes there's been this discomfort with Lebron because I think

1612
01:28:42,120 --> 01:28:44,280
Speaker 18: Lebron has been willing to take a back seat, but

1613
01:28:44,400 --> 01:28:48,519
Speaker 18: he wants to make the right basketball play, and sometimes

1614
01:28:48,600 --> 01:28:51,040
Speaker 18: it seemed like he was making the right play, but

1615
01:28:51,240 --> 01:28:53,840
Speaker 18: Luke and Austin weren't. And then the other thing is

1616
01:28:54,240 --> 01:28:57,160
Speaker 18: they never had consistent three point shooting. They didn't have

1617
01:28:57,280 --> 01:29:01,160
Speaker 18: consistency with Deandraiden, they didn't have And see on defense,

1618
01:29:01,560 --> 01:29:04,120
Speaker 18: all of a sudden, now all these things are coming

1619
01:29:04,200 --> 01:29:08,639
Speaker 18: to full bloom. Now is it sustainable? The defense makes

1620
01:29:08,680 --> 01:29:12,800
Speaker 18: me hard to believe because they're very flawed, deadre and

1621
01:29:12,880 --> 01:29:15,200
Speaker 18: you never know what version of him you're going to get.

1622
01:29:15,680 --> 01:29:18,200
Speaker 18: Marcus smart hitting big shots, but as we saw with

1623
01:29:18,280 --> 01:29:22,120
Speaker 18: the Boston Celtics, he sees her famine. But I think

1624
01:29:22,160 --> 01:29:24,920
Speaker 18: when it comes to big three, I think that is sustainable.

1625
01:29:25,160 --> 01:29:27,240
Speaker 18: Hear me out, Bernie, I know the record is what

1626
01:29:27,400 --> 01:29:30,559
Speaker 18: it is. The stats say what they are, but their

1627
01:29:30,680 --> 01:29:34,679
Speaker 18: lack of time together really was a factor here because

1628
01:29:34,840 --> 01:29:37,960
Speaker 18: Lebron missed the first fourteen games of the season because

1629
01:29:38,040 --> 01:29:41,160
Speaker 18: he had that psiatic issue. Once he came back, didn't

1630
01:29:41,160 --> 01:29:43,439
Speaker 18: take long for Austin Reeves to have a cast strain

1631
01:29:43,880 --> 01:29:48,720
Speaker 18: on Christmas Day. So all these injuries overlapped each other,

1632
01:29:48,800 --> 01:29:50,840
Speaker 18: and when they did get that rare time to play

1633
01:29:50,880 --> 01:29:54,000
Speaker 18: with each other, it was a small sample size because

1634
01:29:55,040 --> 01:29:58,320
Speaker 18: of those previous injuries that I mentioned. So I think

1635
01:29:58,479 --> 01:30:01,240
Speaker 18: now they have a full run way to actually get

1636
01:30:01,320 --> 01:30:03,320
Speaker 18: on court time together, and I think that you'll see

1637
01:30:03,360 --> 01:30:05,920
Speaker 18: those numbers and prove through these next few weeks of

1638
01:30:06,000 --> 01:30:08,160
Speaker 18: the last home stretch of the regular season.

1639
01:30:08,680 --> 01:30:14,640
Speaker 2: So we talked about use the word sustainable Lebron. It

1640
01:30:14,760 --> 01:30:17,320
Speaker 2: sounds like he will accept this role, but as is

1641
01:30:17,400 --> 01:30:20,639
Speaker 2: sustainable in the playoffs, because there's kind of an odd

1642
01:30:20,800 --> 01:30:23,000
Speaker 2: energy around him and you never know what it's going

1643
01:30:23,120 --> 01:30:27,040
Speaker 2: to emerge. But for now he's playing the role. What

1644
01:30:27,200 --> 01:30:31,800
Speaker 2: happens when the playoffs starts, Yeah, I.

1645
01:30:31,880 --> 01:30:34,920
Speaker 18: Think I think Lebron James has shown throughout his twenty

1646
01:30:34,960 --> 01:30:38,880
Speaker 18: three of your career that he's willing to you know,

1647
01:30:39,040 --> 01:30:42,519
Speaker 18: be a passer and move off the ball. You know,

1648
01:30:42,640 --> 01:30:45,720
Speaker 18: he obviously wants to have his fingerprints. But I think,

1649
01:30:45,800 --> 01:30:48,679
Speaker 18: to be clear, JJ Reddick said, it's not like he's

1650
01:30:48,720 --> 01:30:51,320
Speaker 18: a role player. He's still a high usage player. And

1651
01:30:51,479 --> 01:30:54,040
Speaker 18: so I think that the tug and pool with his

1652
01:30:54,160 --> 01:30:57,200
Speaker 18: time with the Lakers has less to do with on

1653
01:30:57,479 --> 01:31:00,600
Speaker 18: the court than it is the front office edynamics and

1654
01:31:00,680 --> 01:31:04,400
Speaker 18: his influence over basketball personnel. I think that's the big thing.

1655
01:31:04,479 --> 01:31:06,280
Speaker 18: I think the other thing we have to keep in mind.

1656
01:31:07,040 --> 01:31:09,960
Speaker 18: Let it pertains in his time at the Lakers, he

1657
01:31:10,640 --> 01:31:13,920
Speaker 18: didn't always have the patience to have this off the

1658
01:31:14,000 --> 01:31:16,840
Speaker 18: ball roll or have a reduced ball handling role, but

1659
01:31:16,920 --> 01:31:20,520
Speaker 18: that's because of the teammates around him. He would eventually

1660
01:31:20,600 --> 01:31:24,559
Speaker 18: he would at first defer to guys like Dennis Schroeder

1661
01:31:24,720 --> 01:31:29,200
Speaker 18: or Russell Westbrook or D'Angel Russell, but then eventually he

1662
01:31:29,280 --> 01:31:31,719
Speaker 18: saw that they don't always make the right basketball play,

1663
01:31:32,320 --> 01:31:34,840
Speaker 18: and so he would take matters into his own hands.

1664
01:31:34,920 --> 01:31:40,160
Speaker 18: Here it's luka dojo. He's what Lebron James said after

1665
01:31:40,439 --> 01:31:44,320
Speaker 18: he made that game winner Saturday night against Denver Nuggets.

1666
01:31:44,360 --> 01:31:48,120
Speaker 18: A generational star. So it's much different dynamic. I mean,

1667
01:31:48,160 --> 01:31:50,160
Speaker 18: he is an All Star caliber player. He has a

1668
01:31:50,200 --> 01:31:52,600
Speaker 18: lot of respect for Luca, So I think it is

1669
01:31:52,680 --> 01:31:55,640
Speaker 18: sustainable for the playoffs. But again, I don't think what

1670
01:31:55,840 --> 01:31:59,160
Speaker 18: is sustainable is the Lakers playing well defensively. I don't

1671
01:31:59,160 --> 01:32:01,760
Speaker 18: think it is stable for DeAndre at And to have

1672
01:32:02,240 --> 01:32:05,160
Speaker 18: a dominant performance. I don't think it is sustainable for

1673
01:32:05,320 --> 01:32:08,080
Speaker 18: Marcus Smart to hit threes. Marcus Smart's always going to

1674
01:32:08,120 --> 01:32:11,000
Speaker 18: defend at a high level. He's going to inject a

1675
01:32:11,080 --> 01:32:13,479
Speaker 18: lot of energy into the team, but he's not always

1676
01:32:13,520 --> 01:32:14,880
Speaker 18: going to make a lot of threes like he did

1677
01:32:14,920 --> 01:32:15,759
Speaker 18: against the Nuggets.

1678
01:32:16,800 --> 01:32:20,280
Speaker 2: Tom with Mark Medina Medina Magic, our Fox Sports radio guru.

1679
01:32:21,400 --> 01:32:25,799
Speaker 2: By the way, what the hell has happened to Dalton Connect?

1680
01:32:27,840 --> 01:32:28,760
Speaker 9: What happened to him?

1681
01:32:28,760 --> 01:32:31,320
Speaker 18: I mean, he's not really playing is either or Yeah?

1682
01:32:31,320 --> 01:32:34,200
Speaker 2: I mean exactly what. He was a first round draft choice,

1683
01:32:34,560 --> 01:32:37,360
Speaker 2: thought he had a good camp, showed some flashes his

1684
01:32:37,520 --> 01:32:39,519
Speaker 2: rookie year. He's no where to be found.

1685
01:32:39,600 --> 01:32:42,680
Speaker 18: What happened, Well, I think what happened was this. They

1686
01:32:42,760 --> 01:32:47,480
Speaker 18: felt that his three point shooting was inconsistent, but regardless,

1687
01:32:48,560 --> 01:32:50,920
Speaker 18: he didn't bring anything else to the table. They would

1688
01:32:50,960 --> 01:32:53,840
Speaker 18: always talk about when he got drafted they wanted to

1689
01:32:53,960 --> 01:32:56,599
Speaker 18: make him a complete player. When I've talked to Dalton Connect,

1690
01:32:57,080 --> 01:32:59,439
Speaker 18: he mentioned that that was his goal to show that

1691
01:32:59,520 --> 01:33:02,160
Speaker 18: he's more than just a shooter, and they didn't really

1692
01:33:02,240 --> 01:33:05,920
Speaker 18: see that. He didn't really play well defensively, He didn't

1693
01:33:05,960 --> 01:33:10,000
Speaker 18: really know the plays itself, and his supposed strength as

1694
01:33:10,040 --> 01:33:12,719
Speaker 18: a shooter came in a way. So as a result,

1695
01:33:13,160 --> 01:33:16,320
Speaker 18: he's not really getting many rotation minutes there, and I

1696
01:33:16,400 --> 01:33:20,000
Speaker 18: want to be surprised, you know, moving forward that he's

1697
01:33:20,080 --> 01:33:20,719
Speaker 18: not on the team.

1698
01:33:21,439 --> 01:33:24,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, seems like it's trending in that direction, speaking of

1699
01:33:24,720 --> 01:33:29,040
Speaker 2: a complete player, you start the arguments for MVP start

1700
01:33:29,120 --> 01:33:32,080
Speaker 2: to heat up. So far it's been you know, Jokic

1701
01:33:32,360 --> 01:33:35,000
Speaker 2: and Shay Gilgis, but all of a sudden, it looks

1702
01:33:35,080 --> 01:33:37,720
Speaker 2: like Wimby is right there in the mix. Would it

1703
01:33:37,800 --> 01:33:41,439
Speaker 2: surprised you if Victor Winbinyamo won the MVP this year?

1704
01:33:42,000 --> 01:33:45,040
Speaker 18: It would not surprise me because he's been very, very dominant.

1705
01:33:45,040 --> 01:33:48,360
Speaker 18: I think it's telling that, you know, spurts Ketch Mcsjohnson

1706
01:33:48,479 --> 01:33:50,800
Speaker 18: is saying that they're going to try to make him

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01:33:50,800 --> 01:33:53,680
Speaker 18: available so he doesn't miss too many games because of

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01:33:53,720 --> 01:33:56,479
Speaker 18: that sixty five game rule. Victor Webbin Yama has this

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01:33:56,640 --> 01:33:59,120
Speaker 18: old soul that actually gives a you know what about

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01:33:59,120 --> 01:34:02,320
Speaker 18: the regular season, and he has a shippy ness with

1711
01:34:02,680 --> 01:34:05,560
Speaker 18: his opponents, but he's also a great team guy and

1712
01:34:05,640 --> 01:34:08,640
Speaker 18: he's all about great war habas. So if I had

1713
01:34:08,680 --> 01:34:10,880
Speaker 18: to pick an MVP, I think it is going to

1714
01:34:10,920 --> 01:34:14,559
Speaker 18: go to shay Gilgess Alexander because his play hasn't dropped off,

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01:34:15,120 --> 01:34:19,000
Speaker 18: and I think the Thunder collectively have still been doing

1716
01:34:19,160 --> 01:34:23,120
Speaker 18: pretty well even though there's been overlapping injuries around the roster,

1717
01:34:23,240 --> 01:34:27,480
Speaker 18: and I think that's a testament to share with his productivity.

1718
01:34:28,640 --> 01:34:32,280
Speaker 18: I would put Nikole Jokic second because he's been averaging

1719
01:34:32,320 --> 01:34:35,680
Speaker 18: a triple double and there's been a lot of injuries

1720
01:34:35,760 --> 01:34:38,840
Speaker 18: that they've had to deal with. Jamal Murray's been mostly healthy,

1721
01:34:38,920 --> 01:34:42,360
Speaker 18: but there's been very notable injuries as Aaron Gordon. He

1722
01:34:42,520 --> 01:34:46,639
Speaker 18: just came back against the Lakers, but he had missed

1723
01:34:46,880 --> 01:34:50,240
Speaker 18: some extended time. Same thing with Christian Brown and Peyton Watson.

1724
01:34:50,320 --> 01:34:53,880
Speaker 18: But even with all those different roster combinations and Koley

1725
01:34:53,960 --> 01:34:56,720
Speaker 18: Jokic has been as dangerous as ever. But this is

1726
01:34:56,760 --> 01:34:59,280
Speaker 18: a very tight race, and I think it's between or

1727
01:34:59,320 --> 01:35:03,439
Speaker 18: among those players. You know obviously can say that Cad

1728
01:35:03,600 --> 01:35:07,040
Speaker 18: Kenningham or Jalen Brown have a puncher's chance, even Luka Doncic,

1729
01:35:07,160 --> 01:35:10,519
Speaker 18: but Eying it is really among those three players because

1730
01:35:10,560 --> 01:35:13,639
Speaker 18: of how dominant and consistent they've been and the fact

1731
01:35:13,640 --> 01:35:15,759
Speaker 18: that they're on championship contended teams.

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01:35:16,000 --> 01:35:17,439
Speaker 2: I was going to ask you if you thought Luca

1733
01:35:17,520 --> 01:35:19,880
Speaker 2: had a puncher's chance, he's probably gonna win the scoring

1734
01:35:20,000 --> 01:35:22,120
Speaker 2: title or at least maintain the score.

1735
01:35:22,240 --> 01:35:24,120
Speaker 18: Yeah, I would rank him six. I mean, he's been

1736
01:35:24,160 --> 01:35:26,720
Speaker 18: playing a high level, but I think because of the

1737
01:35:26,800 --> 01:35:31,559
Speaker 18: Lakers inconsistency man the fact that you know, Luca's scored

1738
01:35:31,560 --> 01:35:34,479
Speaker 18: a lot, but his defense is coming on, I don't

1739
01:35:34,520 --> 01:35:35,280
Speaker 18: think he's in the run.

1740
01:35:35,360 --> 01:35:40,000
Speaker 2: In here talk Way, Mark Madina, Medina, Magic Are, Fox

1741
01:35:40,240 --> 01:35:44,200
Speaker 2: Sports Radio, NBA Guru. Is it too soon to look

1742
01:35:44,240 --> 01:35:48,120
Speaker 2: ahead of the draft. We're hearing reports the kid out

1743
01:35:48,160 --> 01:35:51,040
Speaker 2: of Kansas. People have been hard at him for missing games,

1744
01:35:51,080 --> 01:35:53,639
Speaker 2: but apparently he's having some sort of issue with full

1745
01:35:53,720 --> 01:35:55,040
Speaker 2: body cramps. Have you heard that?

1746
01:35:56,400 --> 01:35:56,599
Speaker 9: Yeah?

1747
01:35:56,680 --> 01:35:59,080
Speaker 18: I mean that's been the thing, and the mL is like,

1748
01:35:59,240 --> 01:36:02,280
Speaker 18: can he ever finish the second half? And you know

1749
01:36:02,400 --> 01:36:06,800
Speaker 18: the thing that's interesting about college basketball is you never

1750
01:36:07,080 --> 01:36:10,000
Speaker 18: quite know what their trajectory is going to be until

1751
01:36:10,080 --> 01:36:14,679
Speaker 18: the season's actually over. Like the interview process is really important.

1752
01:36:14,720 --> 01:36:19,080
Speaker 18: The full body at work is important. But the biggest

1753
01:36:19,160 --> 01:36:24,120
Speaker 18: thing is availability. And so even though every prospect's young,

1754
01:36:24,280 --> 01:36:26,680
Speaker 18: if you're missing a lot of games, now there are

1755
01:36:26,840 --> 01:36:29,000
Speaker 18: red flags on Okay, what is this going to mean

1756
01:36:29,360 --> 01:36:31,200
Speaker 18: for an age two game season? Or are they going

1757
01:36:31,240 --> 01:36:33,880
Speaker 18: to hit a ricky wall? You know that much sooner,

1758
01:36:34,360 --> 01:36:36,880
Speaker 18: but you know, I think the bigger things is going

1759
01:36:36,960 --> 01:36:39,800
Speaker 18: to be how the NCAA tournament plays out, as well

1760
01:36:39,800 --> 01:36:42,720
Speaker 18: as that interview process, because that's when they get they

1761
01:36:42,760 --> 01:36:44,920
Speaker 18: have a sense of what makes each player.

1762
01:36:45,040 --> 01:36:49,720
Speaker 2: Took last thing for you, Mark. I think a lot

1763
01:36:49,800 --> 01:36:54,479
Speaker 2: of folks had high hopes for the Knicks and all

1764
01:36:54,479 --> 01:36:57,160
Speaker 2: of a sudden down the stretch they've hit some real

1765
01:36:57,280 --> 01:37:00,560
Speaker 2: speed bumps. They haven't really hunkered down on defense. I

1766
01:37:00,640 --> 01:37:04,759
Speaker 2: think they need more out of Karl Anthony Towns. Jalen

1767
01:37:04,800 --> 01:37:07,840
Speaker 2: Brunson has been inconsistent in my view. What are your

1768
01:37:07,920 --> 01:37:12,240
Speaker 2: thoughts now that Boston has emerged again with Jason Tatum.

1769
01:37:12,680 --> 01:37:14,439
Speaker 2: Did the Knicks have a chance of getting out of

1770
01:37:14,479 --> 01:37:15,120
Speaker 2: the Easton near.

1771
01:37:15,080 --> 01:37:16,800
Speaker 3: View, they have a chance.

1772
01:37:16,920 --> 01:37:20,400
Speaker 18: I think they're more pretender than contender the Knicks. They've

1773
01:37:20,400 --> 01:37:24,080
Speaker 18: been one of the best defensive teams since January. I

1774
01:37:24,160 --> 01:37:27,599
Speaker 18: think they've been playing with more physicality, but their offense

1775
01:37:28,040 --> 01:37:30,760
Speaker 18: has taken a back seat. Even though you know, Karl

1776
01:37:30,760 --> 01:37:33,360
Speaker 18: Anthony Towns and Jaylen Brunson have Greek chemistry and they

1777
01:37:33,479 --> 01:37:35,160
Speaker 18: run a lot of pick and roll, you know, with

1778
01:37:35,680 --> 01:37:38,719
Speaker 18: Kat diving to the rim or popping out for a jumper.

1779
01:37:39,400 --> 01:37:43,280
Speaker 18: Their shooting's been inconsistent. Carl Anthony towns Is usage rate

1780
01:37:43,360 --> 01:37:47,360
Speaker 18: has been lower, and they have really struggled with finding

1781
01:37:47,880 --> 01:37:50,240
Speaker 18: a definitive third option. I mean, Josh Hart is a

1782
01:37:50,320 --> 01:37:52,840
Speaker 18: great energy guy, but you never know what you're going

1783
01:37:52,920 --> 01:37:56,320
Speaker 18: to get with Mikhail Bridges or Ogion Noby. You're never

1784
01:37:56,439 --> 01:37:57,800
Speaker 18: going to know what you're going to get as far

1785
01:37:57,800 --> 01:38:01,080
Speaker 18: as consistent playing time with Jordan Clarkson. So I think,

1786
01:38:01,240 --> 01:38:04,600
Speaker 18: you know what they've been talking about winning a championship.

1787
01:38:05,200 --> 01:38:06,800
Speaker 18: That's not going to happen in New York. And I

1788
01:38:06,840 --> 01:38:08,880
Speaker 18: don't even think they're going to get to the conference finals.

1789
01:38:08,920 --> 01:38:11,920
Speaker 18: I think it's going to be between the Boston Celis

1790
01:38:11,960 --> 01:38:14,640
Speaker 18: and Troy Pistons. I think the Celtics are actually the

1791
01:38:14,720 --> 01:38:17,400
Speaker 18: favorite to get to the finals because Jason Tatum's back.

1792
01:38:17,800 --> 01:38:20,960
Speaker 18: But more importantly, they have played really, really well with

1793
01:38:21,760 --> 01:38:24,439
Speaker 18: Jaylen Brown being the MVP mix and their role players

1794
01:38:24,520 --> 01:38:26,200
Speaker 18: play out of their mind that I think you have

1795
01:38:26,280 --> 01:38:28,599
Speaker 18: to actually take them seriously and not just think, oh yeah,

1796
01:38:29,080 --> 01:38:31,479
Speaker 18: they are a team that was competitive but nothing more. No,

1797
01:38:31,640 --> 01:38:34,639
Speaker 18: they are in continuing status mark.

1798
01:38:34,960 --> 01:38:37,720
Speaker 2: Hard to argue with that great stuff, and who knows

1799
01:38:37,800 --> 01:38:41,360
Speaker 2: what the news cycle continues to bring as we continue

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01:38:41,400 --> 01:38:45,920
Speaker 2: this segments.

1801
01:38:43,760 --> 01:38:46,479
Speaker 18: Always a pleasure, and I'm looking for your apology about

1802
01:38:46,520 --> 01:38:47,720
Speaker 18: all that Luca criticism.

1803
01:38:48,479 --> 01:38:50,600
Speaker 2: Oh no, no, no, they're never going to win a championship.

1804
01:38:50,680 --> 01:38:52,720
Speaker 2: You didn't win a champion Oh you go find a

1805
01:38:52,800 --> 01:38:55,800
Speaker 2: shine box. No, no, no, that's the standard. I'm sorry.

1806
01:38:56,520 --> 01:39:00,960
Speaker 2: The Lakers are the Lakers are. They are a franchise

1807
01:39:01,040 --> 01:39:04,599
Speaker 2: of arrows. We're finishing up the Clown era and entering

1808
01:39:04,640 --> 01:39:07,040
Speaker 2: the Luca era. He's not gonna win a championship. I

1809
01:39:07,360 --> 01:39:09,680
Speaker 2: just complimented him as boat as best as I can.

1810
01:39:10,040 --> 01:39:12,200
Speaker 2: I think it should be mentioned for the MVP this year.

1811
01:39:12,680 --> 01:39:16,320
Speaker 18: Okay, well, least let's say this isn't a trade that

1812
01:39:17,120 --> 01:39:19,400
Speaker 18: makes Nico Harrison vindicatett.

1813
01:39:19,040 --> 01:39:21,160
Speaker 2: I said, I'd give it three years and for now

1814
01:39:21,760 --> 01:39:25,479
Speaker 2: I see the same kind of defense. Well, look, he

1815
01:39:25,760 --> 01:39:28,640
Speaker 2: saved him four hundred and eighty million dollars. We know

1816
01:39:28,760 --> 01:39:31,360
Speaker 2: he got back Anthony Davis, which didn't amount to much,

1817
01:39:31,800 --> 01:39:34,040
Speaker 2: but lebron never wanted him to leave in the first place.

1818
01:39:34,080 --> 01:39:36,200
Speaker 2: So that takes us down a rabbit hole. Neither one

1819
01:39:36,240 --> 01:39:38,600
Speaker 2: of us, unfortunately, have time to go down tonight, but

1820
01:39:38,680 --> 01:39:39,360
Speaker 2: maybe another time.

1821
01:39:39,439 --> 01:39:41,759
Speaker 18: Mark the discuss.

1822
01:39:41,880 --> 01:39:44,240
Speaker 2: There you go, Pal, and we'll get well, we'll we'll

1823
01:39:44,280 --> 01:39:46,600
Speaker 2: devote the whole segment to Bronnie James while we're at it.

1824
01:39:47,240 --> 01:39:48,880
Speaker 18: Sounds like a plan, all right, Mark.

1825
01:39:48,760 --> 01:39:52,800
Speaker 2: Thanks Pal, Mark Medina Medina Magic every Saturday night. By

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1865
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Speaker 2: on whether or not Kyler Murray will work in Minnesota.

1866
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Speaker 2: The Pros and the Cons the first one of our

1867
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Speaker 2: segments growing in great popularity for obvious reasons. Well, it's

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Speaker 2: the Fantasy Files with Brandon.

1869
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Speaker 6: Fantasy Files with Brandon Deutsch, your go to fantasy football

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Speaker 6: segment are got one gone?

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Speaker 25: What is up, everybody? It is Brandon Deutsch on the

1872
01:42:33,400 --> 01:42:36,360
Speaker 25: Bernie Freda Show and Fantasy Files and yes, Bernie, we

1873
01:42:36,439 --> 01:42:40,360
Speaker 25: will be discussing Kyler Murray today and more free agent

1874
01:42:40,479 --> 01:42:44,799
Speaker 25: signings and how that is impacting their fantasy value moving forward.

1875
01:42:45,120 --> 01:42:47,120
Speaker 25: I first want to just get the Kyler stuff out

1876
01:42:47,120 --> 01:42:49,040
Speaker 25: of the way. All he needs to do is be

1877
01:42:49,080 --> 01:42:51,679
Speaker 25: a better quarterback than JJ McCarthy. They won nine games

1878
01:42:51,720 --> 01:42:54,519
Speaker 25: with Max Brosber and JJ McCarthy at quarterback last year,

1879
01:42:54,600 --> 01:42:57,560
Speaker 25: so I with Brian Flores still as their DC, I

1880
01:42:57,600 --> 01:42:59,360
Speaker 25: think the Vikings are actually going to be way better

1881
01:42:59,439 --> 01:43:01,480
Speaker 25: than people think. I think it could be a resurgence

1882
01:43:01,520 --> 01:43:04,280
Speaker 25: here for Kyler Murray, and I think fantasy purposes. He's

1883
01:43:04,320 --> 01:43:06,960
Speaker 25: always been pretty good because of his rushing ability, and

1884
01:43:07,040 --> 01:43:10,320
Speaker 25: he didn't have much great coaching there besides Cliff Kingsbury

1885
01:43:10,920 --> 01:43:13,120
Speaker 25: in his early time, and that led to a playoff

1886
01:43:13,120 --> 01:43:15,559
Speaker 25: appearance in some great years from Kyler. But once Kingsbury

1887
01:43:15,720 --> 01:43:18,120
Speaker 25: was gone, he had nothing else really going. And now

1888
01:43:18,160 --> 01:43:20,960
Speaker 25: he is Kevin O'Connell one of the best offensive minds

1889
01:43:20,960 --> 01:43:22,920
Speaker 25: in the league. I think it's a win win and

1890
01:43:23,040 --> 01:43:25,680
Speaker 25: they got him for basically nothing, so I'm going to

1891
01:43:25,720 --> 01:43:27,360
Speaker 25: get that out of the way. I wouldn't draft him

1892
01:43:27,360 --> 01:43:29,519
Speaker 25: in fantasy. I'm not saying I would take him in

1893
01:43:29,640 --> 01:43:33,200
Speaker 25: the first few rounds. In terms of quarterbacks. I'm meaning

1894
01:43:33,360 --> 01:43:36,439
Speaker 25: first few rounds, round five through round ten, when you

1895
01:43:36,600 --> 01:43:39,599
Speaker 25: truly start drafting quarterbacks unless you want to take Allen

1896
01:43:39,680 --> 01:43:43,200
Speaker 25: in round one, but I'd consider him if we get

1897
01:43:43,240 --> 01:43:45,360
Speaker 25: into those later rounds. I think he'll be a sneaky

1898
01:43:45,439 --> 01:43:48,120
Speaker 25: productive fantasy player, and I think Jefferson has a bounce

1899
01:43:48,160 --> 01:43:50,680
Speaker 25: back here because of it as well. I wanted to

1900
01:43:50,720 --> 01:43:55,160
Speaker 25: get into my favorite fantasy signings basically how they're going

1901
01:43:55,200 --> 01:43:57,280
Speaker 25: to be impacted in fantasy football. I think number one

1902
01:43:58,000 --> 01:44:00,160
Speaker 25: is pretty obvious. I think some people would say the

1903
01:44:00,200 --> 01:44:04,920
Speaker 25: best wide receiver on the market and out not named

1904
01:44:04,960 --> 01:44:07,320
Speaker 25: Alec Pierce, who obviously resigned with the Colts, and I'll

1905
01:44:07,320 --> 01:44:09,840
Speaker 25: get him into him in a moment. But Mike Evans

1906
01:44:09,920 --> 01:44:11,880
Speaker 25: to the forty nine ers I think is a big, big,

1907
01:44:11,960 --> 01:44:15,559
Speaker 25: big signing for fantasy purposes. I mean, Kyle Shannan's known

1908
01:44:15,600 --> 01:44:17,960
Speaker 25: as like the architect of the modern NFL with the

1909
01:44:18,160 --> 01:44:20,840
Speaker 25: X receiver in terms of how he's used him. I mean,

1910
01:44:20,880 --> 01:44:22,479
Speaker 25: he really hasn't had one in a long time. But

1911
01:44:22,600 --> 01:44:25,439
Speaker 25: Mike Evans is going to have another one thousand season,

1912
01:44:25,600 --> 01:44:28,000
Speaker 25: probably this upcoming year, and I could see him going

1913
01:44:28,040 --> 01:44:31,120
Speaker 25: in round five, round six in fantasy. I'd take him

1914
01:44:31,160 --> 01:44:33,439
Speaker 25: in round four. I'd even consider him in round three.

1915
01:44:33,560 --> 01:44:36,360
Speaker 25: I think he has one incredible year left I think

1916
01:44:36,400 --> 01:44:38,559
Speaker 25: it is this year now. As long as he stays

1917
01:44:38,560 --> 01:44:42,120
Speaker 25: away from the substation enough, I think he can avoid injury.

1918
01:44:42,720 --> 01:44:45,439
Speaker 25: I'm just kidding, but you know it is an issue.

1919
01:44:45,479 --> 01:44:47,439
Speaker 25: He wasn't injured last year, but his entire career he

1920
01:44:47,520 --> 01:44:50,360
Speaker 25: wasn't injured, So we'll see. Obviously, the forty nine ers

1921
01:44:50,400 --> 01:44:55,920
Speaker 25: training regimen has been people have criticized it obviously with

1922
01:44:56,040 --> 01:44:57,640
Speaker 25: all the injuries the last few years. But if he

1923
01:44:57,720 --> 01:44:59,680
Speaker 25: remains healthy, I love that signing. I'm going to give

1924
01:44:59,680 --> 01:45:02,800
Speaker 25: that an plus, just for fantasy purposes. The one I

1925
01:45:02,880 --> 01:45:07,120
Speaker 25: didn't like, though, is Romeo Dobbs to the Patriots, just

1926
01:45:07,400 --> 01:45:10,439
Speaker 25: just for the money perspective. I think fantasy wise he'll

1927
01:45:10,479 --> 01:45:13,960
Speaker 25: be fine. I just don't know. You know, if you're

1928
01:45:13,960 --> 01:45:18,000
Speaker 25: a Romeo Dobbs dynasty holder, I would say I would

1929
01:45:18,040 --> 01:45:20,560
Speaker 25: trade him because I still think they're gonna trade for

1930
01:45:20,600 --> 01:45:22,680
Speaker 25: AJ Brown. I still think they're gonna trade for a

1931
01:45:22,680 --> 01:45:26,559
Speaker 25: wide receiver one and Drake May last season was known

1932
01:45:26,680 --> 01:45:29,400
Speaker 25: for throwing two different receivers right like he had a

1933
01:45:29,520 --> 01:45:32,680
Speaker 25: kaish on Booty was having big games, Stefan Diggs to

1934
01:45:32,760 --> 01:45:36,000
Speaker 25: Mario Douglas, Hunter Henriette tight end, like there were a

1935
01:45:36,080 --> 01:45:38,599
Speaker 25: bunch of different factors in that offense, and it's always

1936
01:45:38,640 --> 01:45:41,599
Speaker 25: going to be a run heavy offense, you know, especially

1937
01:45:41,680 --> 01:45:44,960
Speaker 25: with Henderson going into year two. Right, So I don't

1938
01:45:45,080 --> 01:45:47,880
Speaker 25: love the Romeo Dobbs being their wide receiver one, even

1939
01:45:47,920 --> 01:45:50,280
Speaker 25: though I like Romeo Dobbs, He's a solid wide receiver

1940
01:45:50,400 --> 01:45:54,920
Speaker 25: two four years. You know, sixty eight million is not

1941
01:45:55,200 --> 01:45:57,360
Speaker 25: a great I know it was originally reported four years

1942
01:45:57,400 --> 01:45:59,639
Speaker 25: eighty million. It was actually four years sixty eight million.

1943
01:46:00,120 --> 01:46:03,320
Speaker 25: Still too much. I don't love the impact for fantasy,

1944
01:46:03,400 --> 01:46:06,040
Speaker 25: especially with them still being on the wide receiver market.

1945
01:46:06,720 --> 01:46:11,320
Speaker 25: Another receiver that I actually like fantasy wise is Wandeale

1946
01:46:11,400 --> 01:46:14,439
Speaker 25: Robinson and the Titans. The contract. Again, you can say

1947
01:46:14,439 --> 01:46:16,120
Speaker 25: what you want about the contract. It's a team that

1948
01:46:16,320 --> 01:46:17,880
Speaker 25: needed to spend a lot of money at over one

1949
01:46:17,920 --> 01:46:21,280
Speaker 25: hundred million in cap space, so I wouldn't be too

1950
01:46:21,320 --> 01:46:23,479
Speaker 25: worried about that. But remember one of the Robinson I

1951
01:46:23,560 --> 01:46:26,880
Speaker 25: said this last week wide receiver fourteen last season, once

1952
01:46:26,920 --> 01:46:29,400
Speaker 25: Malik Nighbors went down, he was incredible for the Giants.

1953
01:46:29,479 --> 01:46:31,519
Speaker 25: I think he can be that security blanket in a

1954
01:46:31,640 --> 01:46:34,280
Speaker 25: big year for Cam Mordon the Titans. Titans are sneaky,

1955
01:46:34,800 --> 01:46:38,400
Speaker 25: sneaky nine to ten win playoff team. Maybe at their peak.

1956
01:46:38,439 --> 01:46:40,400
Speaker 25: I think that's a ceiling for them. I could see

1957
01:46:40,439 --> 01:46:42,799
Speaker 25: it absolutely with what they've been doing in free agency.

1958
01:46:43,400 --> 01:46:46,920
Speaker 25: Alec Pierce obviously, I love that Michael Pittman being traded

1959
01:46:47,000 --> 01:46:50,240
Speaker 25: helps him a lot. Getting into the running backs, obvious

1960
01:46:50,560 --> 01:46:53,439
Speaker 25: one is Kenneth Walker. He's going to be a first

1961
01:46:53,520 --> 01:46:56,400
Speaker 25: round pick in fantasy. I would think after what he

1962
01:46:56,479 --> 01:46:58,400
Speaker 25: did in the playoffs, and remember he hasn't had as

1963
01:46:58,479 --> 01:47:00,600
Speaker 25: much usage as these other running backs, and fantasy we

1964
01:47:00,680 --> 01:47:03,759
Speaker 25: always get concerned about usage, right, Like McCaffrey's a dangerous

1965
01:47:03,800 --> 01:47:06,639
Speaker 25: pick this upcoming year because he had about five hundred touches,

1966
01:47:06,720 --> 01:47:09,439
Speaker 25: just like Saquon was going into this. You know, this

1967
01:47:09,520 --> 01:47:11,920
Speaker 25: time last year, I told people, do not draft Saquon Barkley.

1968
01:47:11,960 --> 01:47:12,400
Speaker 2: I was right.

1969
01:47:12,800 --> 01:47:15,120
Speaker 25: He had a bazillion touches the year before, and he

1970
01:47:15,160 --> 01:47:17,120
Speaker 25: knew it wasn't gonna be that great. Kenneth Walker was

1971
01:47:17,120 --> 01:47:19,960
Speaker 25: always splitting the Zach Charboney, So you know, now he's

1972
01:47:19,960 --> 01:47:21,960
Speaker 25: going to be a workhorse running back in and Andy

1973
01:47:22,000 --> 01:47:24,559
Speaker 25: Reid system that desperately needs a running back for him

1974
01:47:24,640 --> 01:47:29,240
Speaker 25: to kind of revel, you know, revitalize his I would

1975
01:47:29,280 --> 01:47:32,760
Speaker 25: say finesse in his entire system and his offense. Like

1976
01:47:32,840 --> 01:47:35,639
Speaker 25: he it needs to be implemented. Then without a run game,

1977
01:47:35,680 --> 01:47:37,960
Speaker 25: it was just becoming so past dependent that they couldn't

1978
01:47:38,000 --> 01:47:40,200
Speaker 25: do anything. So that was that was great for fantasy purposes.

1979
01:47:40,240 --> 01:47:42,519
Speaker 25: I'd consider him in round one. And another guy that

1980
01:47:42,560 --> 01:47:45,519
Speaker 25: I'd considered pretty high in fantasy drafts that is a

1981
01:47:45,560 --> 01:47:48,360
Speaker 25: playmaker is Traves Etn to the Saints. I like what

1982
01:47:48,439 --> 01:47:50,720
Speaker 25: Tyler Schuck did last year. I think that's going to

1983
01:47:50,760 --> 01:47:53,240
Speaker 25: be one of the sneakiest signings of free agency. I

1984
01:47:53,439 --> 01:47:56,880
Speaker 25: love Travis Etn. He was the RB ten last year,

1985
01:47:56,920 --> 01:48:00,240
Speaker 25: and he was the RB three three years ago. Twenty

1986
01:48:00,280 --> 01:48:01,880
Speaker 25: twenty four, he had a down year, but these are

1987
01:48:01,920 --> 01:48:04,760
Speaker 25: two top ten finishes in the last three years, and

1988
01:48:04,920 --> 01:48:07,560
Speaker 25: now you know he is a young quarterback that you

1989
01:48:07,640 --> 01:48:09,680
Speaker 25: can rely on a little bit. That reminds me a

1990
01:48:09,680 --> 01:48:11,360
Speaker 25: little bit of Lawrence and the way he plays, a

1991
01:48:11,400 --> 01:48:14,000
Speaker 25: little rushing ability, a good arm downfield. I'm not saying

1992
01:48:14,040 --> 01:48:16,880
Speaker 25: he is Trevor Lawrence, but I like that one a lot.

1993
01:48:16,960 --> 01:48:19,160
Speaker 25: I would consider Travis Etn in round two. I know

1994
01:48:19,280 --> 01:48:21,360
Speaker 25: that might seem a little high, the price might seem

1995
01:48:21,360 --> 01:48:25,479
Speaker 25: a little high, but again, Bernie. It always depends these

1996
01:48:25,520 --> 01:48:28,120
Speaker 25: free agent signings. Where they go is so important. That's

1997
01:48:28,160 --> 01:48:30,760
Speaker 25: why Mike Evans, if he had stayed in Tampa next year,

1998
01:48:30,800 --> 01:48:32,960
Speaker 25: I wouldn't have loved it, Just like if Travis Etn

1999
01:48:33,040 --> 01:48:35,040
Speaker 25: had stayed in Jacksonville, I might have cooled off a

2000
01:48:35,040 --> 01:48:36,680
Speaker 25: little bit because I think they'll have it down year

2001
01:48:36,720 --> 01:48:38,559
Speaker 25: as a team. They had such a good year this year,

2002
01:48:38,960 --> 01:48:41,760
Speaker 25: but they leave, Kenneth Walker leaves. He finally gets to

2003
01:48:41,800 --> 01:48:44,559
Speaker 25: be the work course. I love it. So those are

2004
01:48:44,640 --> 01:48:47,000
Speaker 25: my thoughts on the initial free agent signings. Obviously, next

2005
01:48:47,040 --> 01:48:49,120
Speaker 25: week we'll talk about more and some more NFL draft

2006
01:48:49,160 --> 01:48:52,519
Speaker 25: stuff in prospects for your dynasty teams. I'm Brandon Deutsch.

2007
01:48:52,520 --> 01:48:55,000
Speaker 25: You can find me at PSD Takes, Brandon hest Deutsch

2008
01:48:55,080 --> 01:48:57,519
Speaker 25: on TikTok and Brandon Deutsch on YouTube.

2009
01:48:57,560 --> 01:49:01,160
Speaker 2: Back to you, Bernie, good stuff, Brandon, Like if Mike

2010
01:49:01,200 --> 01:49:03,800
Speaker 2: Evans can stay healthy, which is always a question, man,

2011
01:49:04,520 --> 01:49:07,519
Speaker 2: that's got the potential to explode. And you got to

2012
01:49:07,560 --> 01:49:10,080
Speaker 2: believe Kenneth Walker in Kansas City. I know he didn't

2013
01:49:10,120 --> 01:49:13,679
Speaker 2: catch the ball on the backfield much, but gamey reed.

2014
01:49:13,760 --> 01:49:15,840
Speaker 2: Believe it or not, He's always been a run first coach.

2015
01:49:16,360 --> 01:49:18,840
Speaker 2: It's just been hidden. All right, good stuff. As we

2016
01:49:18,880 --> 01:49:20,719
Speaker 2: get closer to the draft, there'll be more to add

2017
01:49:20,760 --> 01:49:23,080
Speaker 2: to it, and before you know it, hell, it's going

2018
01:49:23,160 --> 01:49:27,439
Speaker 2: to be football season again. Coming up, I want to

2019
01:49:27,479 --> 01:49:31,840
Speaker 2: give my two cents on Kyler Murray, Mark and Minnesota

2020
01:49:31,880 --> 01:49:34,400
Speaker 2: as specifically, if I would talk about this tonight and yes,

2021
01:49:34,479 --> 01:49:37,880
Speaker 2: I'm going to. Is the fit gonna work? What are

2022
01:49:37,960 --> 01:49:42,400
Speaker 2: the potential speed bumps? I'll give you my thoughts coming

2023
01:49:42,439 --> 01:49:44,680
Speaker 2: up because I'm really torn about this. I'm not high

2024
01:49:44,720 --> 01:49:48,760
Speaker 2: in this move at all. He can prove me wrong.

2025
01:49:49,400 --> 01:49:52,800
Speaker 2: Kyler Murray could prove me wrong, but he's still got

2026
01:49:52,960 --> 01:49:56,880
Speaker 2: to do it. We'll see if he does it. By

2027
01:49:56,920 --> 01:49:59,320
Speaker 2: the way, if you miss any if tonight's show you

2028
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Speaker 2: want to catch the podcast to just search Fox Sports

2029
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2030
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Speaker 2: Tonight's podcast will be posted. Be sure to follow the

2031
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2032
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Speaker 2: Just search Fox Sports Radio and the Bernie Frattle Show

2033
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Speaker 2: wherever you get your podcasts, and you'll find tonight's full

2034
01:50:16,840 --> 01:50:20,760
Speaker 2: show posted right after we get off the air. Coming up,

2035
01:50:20,840 --> 01:50:24,320
Speaker 2: my thoughts on Kyler Murray, Keep it locked you're listening

2036
01:50:24,360 --> 01:50:25,400
Speaker 2: to the Bernie Frattle Show on.

2037
01:50:26,439 --> 01:50:29,160
Speaker 23: You don't listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

2038
01:50:34,479 --> 01:50:38,639
Speaker 2: All right, back on the Bernie Frattle Show, Fox Sports Radio.

2039
01:50:39,520 --> 01:50:42,120
Speaker 2: By the way, coming up top of the hour, the

2040
01:50:42,280 --> 01:50:47,439
Speaker 2: return by popular demand, what kind of brand new food you?

2041
01:50:47,840 --> 01:50:52,439
Speaker 2: Followed by what my name? Oh yeah, baby, yep. People

2042
01:50:52,520 --> 01:50:55,599
Speaker 2: brought it up during football, and I said, yeah, we'll

2043
01:50:55,640 --> 01:50:59,560
Speaker 2: bring it back at some point. Football is sil voluminous.

2044
01:51:00,880 --> 01:51:02,439
Speaker 2: We got to get the peeps what they want. But

2045
01:51:02,640 --> 01:51:07,640
Speaker 2: it's time for a little hijinks. I'm speaking of hijinks.

2046
01:51:07,800 --> 01:51:08,120
Speaker 19: All right.

2047
01:51:08,240 --> 01:51:12,000
Speaker 2: So Kyler Murray has officially signed a one year league

2048
01:51:12,040 --> 01:51:15,120
Speaker 2: minimum contract one point three million with the Minnesota Vikings.

2049
01:51:16,479 --> 01:51:21,800
Speaker 2: He signed Thursday, And what the hell? It's a nice

2050
01:51:21,920 --> 01:51:26,879
Speaker 2: cheap flyer for the Vikings because well, his former employer

2051
01:51:27,040 --> 01:51:31,800
Speaker 2: is paying thirty six million dollars of his salary this year,

2052
01:51:32,600 --> 01:51:36,280
Speaker 2: and so the Vikes, well it makes it, I guess,

2053
01:51:36,320 --> 01:51:39,320
Speaker 2: a low financial risk. And what this is really sort

2054
01:51:39,360 --> 01:51:43,760
Speaker 2: of being characterized as a prove it, a prove it

2055
01:51:43,840 --> 01:51:48,240
Speaker 2: opportunity for Kyler Murray to rejuvenate his career after being

2056
01:51:48,280 --> 01:51:51,920
Speaker 2: released by the Cardinals. All right, so does it have

2057
01:51:52,000 --> 01:51:55,439
Speaker 2: a chance to work well, he's going to be he

2058
01:51:55,720 --> 01:52:00,120
Speaker 2: meeting Kyler Murray's is going to be the beneficiary of

2059
01:52:00,400 --> 01:52:03,040
Speaker 2: being able to throw the ball to a handful of

2060
01:52:03,080 --> 01:52:09,519
Speaker 2: elite pass catchers TJ. Hockinson, Jordan Addison, Justin Jefferson. It's

2061
01:52:09,600 --> 01:52:12,559
Speaker 2: not close. That's the best receiving core Kyler Murray will

2062
01:52:12,640 --> 01:52:16,439
Speaker 2: have ever worked with. He's also working for a guy,

2063
01:52:16,600 --> 01:52:22,400
Speaker 2: Kevin O'Connell that's got a far better reputation for maximizing

2064
01:52:22,479 --> 01:52:25,640
Speaker 2: quarterback talent than a lot of these whackass people have

2065
01:52:25,720 --> 01:52:28,080
Speaker 2: been hearing on the radio for the past week ripping him. Well, well,

2066
01:52:28,080 --> 01:52:30,200
Speaker 2: if he's such a great quarterback, whis Burg White, couldn't

2067
01:52:30,200 --> 01:52:34,280
Speaker 2: he fixed JJ McCarthy of all. Okay, look, well he's

2068
01:52:34,320 --> 01:52:37,000
Speaker 2: the only guy with Matthew Stafford. He was already established,

2069
01:52:37,120 --> 01:52:39,120
Speaker 2: was he. I guess you weren't there in Detroit when

2070
01:52:39,120 --> 01:52:42,800
Speaker 2: Matt Stafford was under five hundred and would roll right,

2071
01:52:43,000 --> 01:52:45,559
Speaker 2: roll right, roll right, roll right, throw across the Midland

2072
01:52:45,560 --> 01:52:48,559
Speaker 2: into a sea of hands for interceptions, more pick sixes

2073
01:52:48,600 --> 01:52:52,160
Speaker 2: than anybody of all time. When Matt Stafford got to

2074
01:52:52,400 --> 01:52:56,960
Speaker 2: the Rams, Kevin O'Connell tightened him up. He did. If

2075
01:52:57,000 --> 01:53:00,479
Speaker 2: you'd seen Matt Stafford, who does have prolific arm talent.

2076
01:53:01,320 --> 01:53:05,080
Speaker 2: But let's be fair. Okay, got to the never won

2077
01:53:05,120 --> 01:53:07,080
Speaker 2: a playoff game once with the Lions, and I don't

2078
01:53:07,120 --> 01:53:09,639
Speaker 2: want to hear any crap about it. He had no support. Yeah,

2079
01:53:09,840 --> 01:53:12,400
Speaker 2: for a lot of the years he didn't. But there

2080
01:53:12,439 --> 01:53:15,160
Speaker 2: were three or four Lions teams he was on, including

2081
01:53:15,240 --> 01:53:19,639
Speaker 2: twenty fourteen where Stafford had an elite defense Pro Bowlers.

2082
01:53:19,960 --> 01:53:24,120
Speaker 2: They were twelve and four Calvin Johnson. Okay, and I

2083
01:53:24,120 --> 01:53:26,400
Speaker 2: remember if Peter King told me once we were talking,

2084
01:53:26,880 --> 01:53:28,840
Speaker 2: he said, you know, you think, just one time, Matt

2085
01:53:28,840 --> 01:53:31,000
Speaker 2: Stafford might put this team on his back. He got

2086
01:53:31,040 --> 01:53:33,240
Speaker 2: to LA they won a Super Bowl, Thank you, Chikwowski.

2087
01:53:33,320 --> 01:53:35,799
Speaker 2: Dark But Stafford had a good year, had his moments,

2088
01:53:36,400 --> 01:53:40,360
Speaker 2: but O'Connell tightened him up. Okay, give Kevin O'Connell credit.

2089
01:53:40,400 --> 01:53:44,559
Speaker 2: He's also a good guy. He also successfully revitalized Sam

2090
01:53:44,680 --> 01:53:48,040
Speaker 2: Darnold's career. You can give Kyle shanahan credit for that.

2091
01:53:48,600 --> 01:53:50,960
Speaker 2: But he didn't win fourteen games under Kryle shann and

2092
01:53:51,000 --> 01:53:54,080
Speaker 2: he won under Kevin McConnell. So I'm defending Kevin O'Connell.

2093
01:53:56,160 --> 01:54:00,839
Speaker 2: Why it also might work well, can Kevin Connell devised

2094
01:54:00,880 --> 01:54:05,479
Speaker 2: the system to help Murray's dual threat capability. Is does

2095
01:54:05,560 --> 01:54:09,120
Speaker 2: have thirty two career rushing touchdowns, and that's an element

2096
01:54:09,200 --> 01:54:14,000
Speaker 2: that the Vikings offense hasn't had in previous years. The

2097
01:54:14,080 --> 01:54:17,080
Speaker 2: other thing, too, is we're told, you know, I guess

2098
01:54:17,160 --> 01:54:19,680
Speaker 2: Kyler Murray is a lifelong Vikings fan. I didn't know this.

2099
01:54:21,000 --> 01:54:25,200
Speaker 2: He's excited to be there, but there are there's the

2100
01:54:25,280 --> 01:54:29,519
Speaker 2: reality too. Okay, if you look at the scheme that

2101
01:54:31,120 --> 01:54:34,200
Speaker 2: Kyler Murray is going to be a part of, Kevin

2102
01:54:34,240 --> 01:54:39,320
Speaker 2: O'Connell's scheme typically prefers your prototypical big body, tall pocket

2103
01:54:39,400 --> 01:54:43,560
Speaker 2: passer will operate an under center. Now I've said it

2104
01:54:43,600 --> 01:54:47,120
Speaker 2: a thousand times. Size is the least important aspect in

2105
01:54:47,120 --> 01:54:50,000
Speaker 2: all the sport. If you can play, you can play.

2106
01:54:51,120 --> 01:54:54,280
Speaker 2: Now Murray's five to ten, he's got to scramble. First. Mentality,

2107
01:54:54,560 --> 01:54:58,000
Speaker 2: there's your issue. He's default mechanism, mister run. That's going

2108
01:54:58,040 --> 01:55:00,800
Speaker 2: to clash with a system that relies heavily on timing

2109
01:55:00,840 --> 01:55:04,360
Speaker 2: in the middle of the field. Reads. This has to

2110
01:55:04,480 --> 01:55:08,800
Speaker 2: be ironed out. There was talk that Kevin O'Connell wanted

2111
01:55:08,840 --> 01:55:10,960
Speaker 2: to get mac Jones, Mack Jones might have been fine,

2112
01:55:12,080 --> 01:55:15,240
Speaker 2: and I'm not joking, he'd fit really well in that offense,

2113
01:55:15,440 --> 01:55:18,080
Speaker 2: but you probably couldn't sell that press conference and the

2114
01:55:18,120 --> 01:55:20,440
Speaker 2: fan base might have lost their mind. But you might

2115
01:55:20,520 --> 01:55:22,880
Speaker 2: have won more games. But listen, let's let this have

2116
01:55:23,000 --> 01:55:26,480
Speaker 2: a chance to play out. But the other thing, too,

2117
01:55:26,600 --> 01:55:28,520
Speaker 2: is you have to hope that Kyler Murray if you're

2118
01:55:29,360 --> 01:55:32,600
Speaker 2: a Vikings fan, in one of these days, the sports

2119
01:55:32,680 --> 01:55:36,640
Speaker 2: gods has to throw some pixie dust over the Vikings.

2120
01:55:36,640 --> 01:55:38,480
Speaker 2: They've been to the Super Bowl four times, lost at

2121
01:55:38,480 --> 01:55:41,920
Speaker 2: four times, having been back to a super Bowl in

2122
01:55:42,040 --> 01:55:45,400
Speaker 2: thirty three years thirty four years. Murray's missed twenty one

2123
01:55:45,480 --> 01:55:47,880
Speaker 2: games over the past three seasons due to lots of

2124
01:55:47,960 --> 01:55:52,280
Speaker 2: various injuries, so there's a durability risk there as well.

2125
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Speaker 2: And then I'm not buying this. They're saying he's the

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Speaker 2: favorite to start, but he's still got to compete with

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Speaker 2: JJ McCarthy. They invested in JJ McCarthy more so than

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Speaker 2: Kyler Murray. I do not think they brought Kyler Murray

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Speaker 2: in to not start, although stranger things have happened. The

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01:56:11,080 --> 01:56:15,040
Speaker 2: Seahawks brought in Matt Flynn to start years ago, and

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01:56:15,280 --> 01:56:18,200
Speaker 2: Russell Wilson beat him out, so we'll see. There are

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01:56:18,320 --> 01:56:21,960
Speaker 2: other issues. Now I wasn't there, so I can't testify

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01:56:22,080 --> 01:56:27,120
Speaker 2: to this, but there have been allegations concerns regarding Kyler

2134
01:56:27,240 --> 01:56:30,640
Speaker 2: Murray's independent study happens in Arizona that remain a talking point.

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Speaker 2: There are people to this day that question, will Kyler

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Speaker 2: Murray fully come in to O'Connell's complex playbook and do

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01:56:39,520 --> 01:56:44,680
Speaker 2: his studying? Okay, how motivated will Kyler Murray be to

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Speaker 2: take advantage of this fresh start. He's got a ton

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01:56:47,000 --> 01:56:51,080
Speaker 2: to proof. He wasn't a disaster in Arizona, but his

2140
01:56:51,200 --> 01:56:53,520
Speaker 2: time in Arizona was really unfulfilled. I think from a

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Speaker 2: production standpoint and certainly a win standpoint. And I think

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01:56:57,120 --> 01:57:00,160
Speaker 2: Kyler Murray's heard the criticism over the years, and I

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01:57:00,200 --> 01:57:02,360
Speaker 2: think he wants to show the rest of the NFL

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01:57:02,400 --> 01:57:05,360
Speaker 2: that he can be a productive quarterback. He's s thirty

2145
01:57:05,400 --> 01:57:08,760
Speaker 2: one and forty nine and seven NFL seasons not been easy,

2146
01:57:09,840 --> 01:57:14,240
Speaker 2: and he's accustomed to the fact that he's associated with

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01:57:14,320 --> 01:57:17,400
Speaker 2: a losing team in the NFL. But from what I'm

2148
01:57:17,440 --> 01:57:20,400
Speaker 2: told is he doesn't like losing. Well, who the hell does.

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Speaker 2: The good news is Murray is stepping in for a

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01:57:24,000 --> 01:57:27,160
Speaker 2: team that frankly is ready to win now and the

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01:57:27,280 --> 01:57:29,400
Speaker 2: Vikings have a couple of years and their Super Bowl,

2152
01:57:30,560 --> 01:57:33,440
Speaker 2: their Super Bowl windows going to close. So listen, we

2153
01:57:33,640 --> 01:57:35,800
Speaker 2: know what the objective is here.

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01:57:36,640 --> 01:57:37,440
Speaker 8: Can he do that?

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01:57:38,760 --> 01:57:41,280
Speaker 2: I think Murray believes he has the infrastructure to do

2156
01:57:41,440 --> 01:57:46,280
Speaker 2: that organizationally and in between the Lions. But the big

2157
01:57:46,440 --> 01:57:49,040
Speaker 2: question for me is how the hell is Kyler Murray

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01:57:49,120 --> 01:57:52,480
Speaker 2: really going to fit into Kevin O'Connell's offense. If you

2159
01:57:52,600 --> 01:57:57,200
Speaker 2: really look at it objectively, it's far from a perfect fit. Okay,

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01:57:58,680 --> 01:58:01,720
Speaker 2: watch the Vikings over the last few years. Their quarterbacks

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01:58:01,760 --> 01:58:06,760
Speaker 2: are under center a lot. They target the intermediate middle

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01:58:06,800 --> 01:58:09,840
Speaker 2: of the field a lot. Carler Murray is not a

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01:58:09,880 --> 01:58:13,880
Speaker 2: player who's going under center for you know how much

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01:58:13,920 --> 01:58:16,200
Speaker 2: of his career is Carl Murray going under center. When

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01:58:16,240 --> 01:58:18,560
Speaker 2: he first started in the league, he was in Cliff

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01:58:18,640 --> 01:58:24,960
Speaker 2: Kingsbury's offense, which operated almost exclusively from the shotgun now

2167
01:58:25,520 --> 01:58:29,600
Speaker 2: and Drew Petsing, Murray was more often an understander, but no,

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01:58:29,880 --> 01:58:32,960
Speaker 2: still never really threw over the middle, and for obvious reasons,

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01:58:32,960 --> 01:58:35,160
Speaker 2: it's a little harder for shorter quarterbacks to find those

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Speaker 2: throwing windows. O'Connell's a sharp guy, better than people are

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01:58:39,360 --> 01:58:41,400
Speaker 2: giving him credit for. I don't think he's going to

2172
01:58:41,480 --> 01:58:44,320
Speaker 2: run the same type of schemes for Murray's going to

2173
01:58:44,360 --> 01:58:47,440
Speaker 2: take advantage of Murray, who is very bobile. He does

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Speaker 2: have a quick release and can't throw a pretty good

2175
01:58:50,000 --> 01:58:55,400
Speaker 2: vertical ball, all right, Murray's strengths are the exact opposite

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01:58:55,520 --> 01:58:59,640
Speaker 2: of Kirk cousins strengths. And you know, O'Connell found an

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Speaker 2: offense that Cousins could do some well in. So you

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01:59:04,800 --> 01:59:09,000
Speaker 2: will see adjustments. You will see adjustments. And how O'Connell

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Speaker 2: can figure this riddle out. And how optimistic are the

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01:59:13,880 --> 01:59:18,160
Speaker 2: folks in Minnesota. I'm not so sure, Okay. I think

2181
01:59:19,680 --> 01:59:21,960
Speaker 2: part of the reason is the Vikings officials all knowledged

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01:59:21,960 --> 01:59:24,000
Speaker 2: about a month ago. Part of this is they want

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01:59:24,040 --> 01:59:29,160
Speaker 2: to add genuine competition for JJ McCarthy, who finished his

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01:59:29,280 --> 01:59:32,680
Speaker 2: first season, you know, as a quarterback with a thirty

2185
01:59:32,720 --> 01:59:36,320
Speaker 2: five QBR that ranks twenty fourth among twenty six quarterback

2186
01:59:36,360 --> 01:59:39,480
Speaker 2: to start at least ten games. And let's not forget Carler.

2187
01:59:39,560 --> 01:59:41,839
Speaker 2: Murray was the number one overall pick in twenty nineteen.

2188
01:59:42,320 --> 01:59:43,920
Speaker 2: He has a counter for one hundred and fifty three

2189
01:59:44,000 --> 01:59:47,640
Speaker 2: touchdowns and so I'll be shocked if he doesn't win

2190
01:59:48,280 --> 01:59:51,680
Speaker 2: the job. What does it mean for the long term

2191
01:59:52,400 --> 01:59:54,760
Speaker 2: deal for the Vikings. Well, the matters what happens next year.

2192
01:59:55,680 --> 01:59:58,960
Speaker 2: That is next year is the year for the Vikings.

2193
01:59:59,200 --> 02:00:02,720
Speaker 2: So I would say, you know, Kyler Murray ends up

2194
02:00:02,760 --> 02:00:05,640
Speaker 2: getting it done, or he runs the risk of falling

2195
02:00:05,680 --> 02:00:07,960
Speaker 2: into the category well not maybe not a Trey Lance

2196
02:00:08,040 --> 02:00:10,480
Speaker 2: or a pack Still Lynch or Johnny Manziel, but he'll

2197
02:00:10,520 --> 02:00:13,360
Speaker 2: fall off the radar. He'll fall off the radar. Come

2198
02:00:13,400 --> 02:00:15,720
Speaker 2: it up, Come it up? What kind of brand new

2199
02:00:15,720 --> 02:00:18,080
Speaker 2: fool of you? Or what my name? Keep it locked

2200
02:00:18,080 --> 02:00:24,600
Speaker 2: to the Bernie Fraddle Show on Fox Sports Radio. That's right,

2201
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Speaker 2: you heard the man. Bernie Fradles Show keeps rolling right along.

2202
02:00:29,120 --> 02:00:30,920
Speaker 2: My name is Bernie Fraddle or Keny Lyon from the

2203
02:00:31,040 --> 02:00:36,840
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio studios here in Las Vegas, and we'll

2204
02:00:36,880 --> 02:00:39,040
Speaker 2: take up to three in Pacific six A eight Eastern,

2205
02:00:39,480 --> 02:00:41,400
Speaker 2: and it's time to bring back what has been a

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Speaker 2: fan favor for a long time. We took a hiatus

2207
02:00:44,680 --> 02:00:50,200
Speaker 2: during football, et cetera, et cetera. But you know, well

2208
02:00:50,920 --> 02:00:53,040
Speaker 2: here on the Bernie Frattle Show, we do a lot

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02:00:53,120 --> 02:00:56,120
Speaker 2: of observing. You can observe a lot by watching, as

2210
02:00:56,200 --> 02:00:59,640
Speaker 2: Yogi Berra once said, And as we do, we discover

2211
02:00:59,800 --> 02:01:02,680
Speaker 2: that people do things in the United States and certainly

2212
02:01:02,720 --> 02:01:06,320
Speaker 2: around the world that catch our attention. And sometimes they're

2213
02:01:06,440 --> 02:01:10,960
Speaker 2: not very bright. Oftentimes they get people into trouble and

2214
02:01:11,040 --> 02:01:14,480
Speaker 2: sometimes even land them in jail. But anyway you slice it,

2215
02:01:14,560 --> 02:01:17,160
Speaker 2: any way you describe it, in any way you characterize it,

2216
02:01:17,240 --> 02:01:20,600
Speaker 2: they always leave us scratching our head and asking ourselves,

2217
02:01:21,120 --> 02:01:22,960
Speaker 2: what kind of a brand new fool are you?

2218
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Speaker 5: So?

2219
02:01:29,640 --> 02:01:31,600
Speaker 23: What kind of brand new fool are you?

2220
02:01:33,040 --> 02:01:33,240
Speaker 7: Well?

2221
02:01:33,320 --> 02:01:37,160
Speaker 2: Why not we begin? We resume with what kind of

2222
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Speaker 2: brand new fool are you? And we take you to

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Speaker 2: Palm Coast, Florida. Yep, we introduce you to a gentleman

2224
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Speaker 2: by the name of I think his name is Lance Kurtz.

2225
02:01:52,120 --> 02:01:56,160
Speaker 2: Reportally broke into a Palm Coast gas station recently stole

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Speaker 2: some items. He was identified and later arrested. And I'll

2227
02:02:00,960 --> 02:02:04,919
Speaker 2: tell you why in just a minute. But deputies responded

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Speaker 2: to the business because the alarm went offer early Sunday morning,

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02:02:08,080 --> 02:02:11,840
Speaker 2: found the front door of the business unlocked. Inside, there

2230
02:02:11,920 --> 02:02:15,840
Speaker 2: was an empty gas station and there was something on

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02:02:16,120 --> 02:02:22,000
Speaker 2: the counter that well kind of gave mister Kurtz away,

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02:02:22,600 --> 02:02:25,120
Speaker 2: and then the gas station owner reviewed the surveillance video

2233
02:02:25,160 --> 02:02:27,480
Speaker 2: and then showed a man entering his store from the back,

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Speaker 2: taking multiple items, and then unlocking the front door and

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Speaker 2: leaving well. Law enforcement officers said they recognized Kurtz from

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02:02:37,080 --> 02:02:40,080
Speaker 2: a previous vehicle fire near the gas station that actually

2237
02:02:40,160 --> 02:02:43,240
Speaker 2: happened earlier in the night, so they spoke with Kurtz,

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Speaker 2: who was found at the same location as his disabled vehicle,

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Speaker 2: and he reported admitting to breaking into the business and

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Speaker 2: taking the items. The sheriff said, well, he must have

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Speaker 2: really wanted those items to break into a closed convenience

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02:02:59,320 --> 02:03:03,680
Speaker 2: store to get him, but that's not what did him in.

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02:03:04,880 --> 02:03:07,680
Speaker 2: That item on the counter that they found that he

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02:03:07,840 --> 02:03:12,400
Speaker 2: left behind, yes, his debit card with his name on

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02:03:12,960 --> 02:03:18,840
Speaker 2: his debit card YEP. Quote Leaving behind a debit card

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Speaker 2: does not absolving from theft or committing a burgerley, the

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02:03:22,080 --> 02:03:25,200
Speaker 2: sheriff said. The twenty year old man was arrested booked

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02:03:25,240 --> 02:03:28,800
Speaker 2: into Flagler County Jail on charges of arm burgley of

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02:03:28,920 --> 02:03:33,680
Speaker 2: a dwelling structure and pettit theft what YEP. He was

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Speaker 2: later released on posting a ten thousand dollars bound. So

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02:03:36,480 --> 02:03:40,240
Speaker 2: mister Kurtz from Palm Kills, Florida, who breaks into a

2252
02:03:40,320 --> 02:03:43,720
Speaker 2: freaking closed gas station to take a few items, but

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02:03:44,000 --> 02:03:47,240
Speaker 2: leaves behind his debit card and returns to the scene

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02:03:47,240 --> 02:03:50,680
Speaker 2: where his vehicle fire had screwed up his night. What

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02:03:51,000 --> 02:03:57,560
Speaker 2: kind of brand new fool are you? Okay, mister Brandon Deutsch,

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Speaker 2: let a rip.

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Speaker 25: All right, We're gonna stay in Florida. Here where a

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02:04:02,280 --> 02:04:05,240
Speaker 25: man in the middle of the road climbed into an

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02:04:05,240 --> 02:04:09,120
Speaker 25: Amazon delivery van and drove off with the driver inside.

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Speaker 25: Video shows a Marin Island man climb into an Amazon

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Speaker 25: delivery van drive off with the driver inside because the

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02:04:18,800 --> 02:04:22,640
Speaker 25: driver wanted to move the truck. Breverd County Sheriff's Office

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Speaker 25: said on February twenty fifth, the Amazon driver stopped on

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Speaker 25: Cefas Core to make delivery when Joseph Baldy, sixty four,

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02:04:29,840 --> 02:04:31,960
Speaker 25: and a Beije Toyota yelled at the driver, then got

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Speaker 25: into the van and drove off while the driver chased

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Speaker 25: and confronted him. According to an assault, video shows Baldy

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Speaker 25: throw the van into drive, accelerate, and later slam on

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Speaker 25: the brakes while the driver was inside The driver also

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02:04:47,960 --> 02:04:51,160
Speaker 25: ended up striking his face and had a metal rack

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Speaker 25: thrust into his arm. According to the report, victim told

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02:04:56,840 --> 02:04:59,120
Speaker 25: deputies Baldi got out of the vehicle, left it and

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Speaker 25: drive in The victim managed to bring it to a stop.

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Speaker 25: Who During a traffic stop on Monday, when asked why

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02:05:05,960 --> 02:05:09,120
Speaker 25: I entered the Amazon drug, Baldy told reporters because it

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02:05:09,200 --> 02:05:10,800
Speaker 25: was in the middle of the road. You and I

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Speaker 25: have more common sense than to not leave your truck

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Speaker 25: in the middle of the road. Baldy, what kind of

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Speaker 25: brand new fool?

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Speaker 2: Are you? All?

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Speaker 19: Right?

2282
02:05:24,520 --> 02:05:29,040
Speaker 2: Brandon? Pretty good? You've done this before, yes, in a while,

2283
02:05:29,080 --> 02:05:31,360
Speaker 2: but good little story with lots of twists and turns.

2284
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Speaker 2: We had actually people asking about this. They didn't you know,

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Speaker 2: I don't think it's appropriate to do do it during

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Speaker 2: the NFL and college football season. We just got too

2287
02:05:39,320 --> 02:05:41,040
Speaker 2: much to get to. But as we get down the

2288
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Speaker 2: rest of the year, more room for high jinks, and

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Speaker 2: I think people like it. And of course, the the

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Speaker 2: what kind of brand new fool of you? Segment wouldn't

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Speaker 2: be complete unless we followed up with our second favorite

2292
02:05:55,600 --> 02:05:58,960
Speaker 2: segment that we lovingly refer to as what My Name?

2293
02:06:00,680 --> 02:06:03,040
Speaker 2: And here we go? All right, guys, we're going to

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Speaker 2: start interestingly enough in the world of college football, and

2295
02:06:07,840 --> 02:06:13,200
Speaker 2: you'll know why in a minute. I'm the only college

2296
02:06:13,360 --> 02:06:19,320
Speaker 2: football coach in history to coach six different schools to

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Speaker 2: a bowl game. He's also a coach who won a

2298
02:06:23,360 --> 02:06:26,800
Speaker 2: national championship. Brandon, what my name?

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Speaker 25: I believe that this is the coach had just passed away? Rip,

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02:06:33,800 --> 02:06:34,920
Speaker 25: This is Lou Holtz.

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Speaker 2: Nicely done, outstanding winner winner. That was going to be

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Speaker 2: my next clue. He just passed away, and give him

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Speaker 2: tribute to the Goulds a couple of weeks ago. Quite

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Speaker 2: the guy. Well, while we're at it, I am the

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Speaker 2: only college basketball coach that has taken six schools to

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02:06:55,040 --> 02:07:00,120
Speaker 2: the Big Dance. Here's a clue. I'm still coaching in

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02:07:00,160 --> 02:07:04,560
Speaker 2: the Big East and just won my conference tournament. Mark Ramsey,

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02:07:04,600 --> 02:07:05,320
Speaker 2: what my name.

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Speaker 25: I'm thinking is it? Ami GASEI? Uh, they got Patino?

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Speaker 7: You got it.

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Speaker 2: That's an excellent cast. Rick Pattino. Rick Patino right somewhat lost,

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Speaker 2: guys in the in the World Baseball Classic, which to

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Speaker 2: me has just been the greatest thing since Pepperoni Pizza.

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Speaker 2: I love this so much. Is that baseball's opening day

2315
02:07:35,240 --> 02:07:39,320
Speaker 2: is just around the corner. That's a couple of weeks away. Well,

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02:07:39,400 --> 02:07:42,760
Speaker 2: there's a certain player in the American League who's hit

2317
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Speaker 2: a home run on five straight opening days. Yes, I

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02:07:48,400 --> 02:07:51,200
Speaker 2: play for an American League East team and I've hit

2319
02:07:51,320 --> 02:07:55,880
Speaker 2: a home run on five straight opening days. Not a

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Speaker 2: lot of clues I can give on this one. It's

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Speaker 2: kind of one of those things either nobody had, don't

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Speaker 2: and it's very trivial. Brandon Deutsch. What my name?

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Speaker 25: So a lot of people would say Aaron Judge, but

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Speaker 25: I'm not going to go Aaron Judge because I believe

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Speaker 25: this player played for Team Canada and he's played on

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Speaker 25: a multitude of different teams.

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Speaker 26: Is this Tyler O'Neill is absolutely Tyler O'Dell nicely done,

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Speaker 26: And there's talk that he's aware that he has hit

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Speaker 26: home run.

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Speaker 2: He's obviously aware that he's done it five straight years,

2331
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Speaker 2: and he wants to do it for six straight years.

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Speaker 2: By the way, they're saying, he's lost some weight and

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02:08:36,960 --> 02:08:41,560
Speaker 2: he's ready to go bananas. He did recently represent Team

2334
02:08:41,680 --> 02:08:45,080
Speaker 2: Canada in the twenty twenty six World Baseball Classic, So

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Speaker 2: good call by you all the way around. All right, Well,

2336
02:08:50,600 --> 02:08:53,680
Speaker 2: we talked about Kyler Murray and I got it. By

2337
02:08:53,720 --> 02:08:56,280
Speaker 2: the way, I got an interesting tweet from a gentleman

2338
02:08:56,360 --> 02:08:59,600
Speaker 2: named totally Fused. He says, Bernie, the little wee quarterback

2339
02:08:59,720 --> 02:09:01,800
Speaker 2: is not what we've been told he will be. Why

2340
02:09:01,960 --> 02:09:04,960
Speaker 2: is Murray constantly pushed down our throats. He's tiny, doesn't

2341
02:09:04,960 --> 02:09:07,560
Speaker 2: study first, moves to run. He's not a quarterback. It

2342
02:09:07,600 --> 02:09:09,680
Speaker 2: won't be. The Vikings disappointed me and Bernie. They have

2343
02:09:09,720 --> 02:09:12,880
Speaker 2: a quarterback with Jagen. You're not wrong, totally Fused. But

2344
02:09:13,080 --> 02:09:15,640
Speaker 2: this is a story. It is a story, and the

2345
02:09:15,720 --> 02:09:17,800
Speaker 2: Vikings are desperate to get the Super Bowl. And I

2346
02:09:17,840 --> 02:09:19,960
Speaker 2: think you know how I feel. I'm not quite as

2347
02:09:20,040 --> 02:09:23,600
Speaker 2: demonstrative about Kyler Murray as you are. Not wrong. You're

2348
02:09:23,640 --> 02:09:26,280
Speaker 2: not wrong, totally Fused. I'm not high on Kyler Murray

2349
02:09:26,280 --> 02:09:31,360
Speaker 2: at all in this situation. But there is one quarterback.

2350
02:09:31,680 --> 02:09:36,280
Speaker 2: I'm the only Super Bowl quarterback in history to win

2351
02:09:36,400 --> 02:09:43,320
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl and be released the following season. Here's

2352
02:09:43,360 --> 02:09:47,760
Speaker 2: a clue. I was an AFC quarterback and John Harball

2353
02:09:47,920 --> 02:09:50,760
Speaker 2: was my coach, Mark Ramsey, what my name?

2354
02:09:52,520 --> 02:09:56,040
Speaker 25: See after you said Harball, I was thinking John Harball. Yeah,

2355
02:09:56,920 --> 02:09:58,640
Speaker 25: at first, I was thinking all the guy that from

2356
02:09:58,680 --> 02:10:02,240
Speaker 25: a Raider. But that's not right. I'm lost on this one.

2357
02:10:02,640 --> 02:10:07,680
Speaker 25: I think I got this one, alrighty. You know it's

2358
02:10:07,680 --> 02:10:10,280
Speaker 25: funny because Flacco played a few more seasons with Baltimore

2359
02:10:10,360 --> 02:10:13,200
Speaker 25: after Is this Trent Dilfer.

2360
02:10:13,440 --> 02:10:21,680
Speaker 2: Is absolutely Trent Dilfer? All right? You guys on fire

2361
02:10:22,560 --> 02:10:26,560
Speaker 2: molling right along. That is four in a row, all right.

2362
02:10:27,760 --> 02:10:32,160
Speaker 2: I uh, for some reason, I really would have liked

2363
02:10:32,200 --> 02:10:35,960
Speaker 2: to have seen Japan play Italy Monday, but Venezuela earned it.

2364
02:10:36,720 --> 02:10:39,400
Speaker 2: But while we're on the subject, By the way, I'm

2365
02:10:39,400 --> 02:10:41,560
Speaker 2: going to Japan later and you're with my wife and

2366
02:10:41,640 --> 02:10:46,160
Speaker 2: I'm going to Tokyo Dome, all right. I, to this

2367
02:10:46,360 --> 02:10:50,520
Speaker 2: day am the only Major League Baseball player with a

2368
02:10:50,640 --> 02:10:55,480
Speaker 2: Japanese heritage. It's in the Hall of Fame, Mark Ramsey.

2369
02:10:55,640 --> 02:10:56,480
Speaker 2: What my name.

2370
02:10:58,560 --> 02:10:59,960
Speaker 25: I'm thinking as Godzilla?

2371
02:11:05,160 --> 02:11:09,320
Speaker 2: Is it a Sui? That's a great name. Adki Matsue.

2372
02:11:09,520 --> 02:11:11,360
Speaker 2: You know I interviewed him before the two thousand and

2373
02:11:11,800 --> 02:11:15,040
Speaker 2: six World Well it's two thousand and six American League

2374
02:11:15,120 --> 02:11:17,360
Speaker 2: Championship playoffs, and he was a really nice guy. They

2375
02:11:17,440 --> 02:11:20,320
Speaker 2: lost to the Tigers that year. It's not Adkie Montsui

2376
02:11:20,880 --> 02:11:22,600
Speaker 2: is go ahead.

2377
02:11:22,880 --> 02:11:25,120
Speaker 25: I was just gonna say he can't be the only

2378
02:11:25,240 --> 02:11:28,720
Speaker 25: Japanese player in the Hall of Fame. Eachiro Suzuki, the.

2379
02:11:28,720 --> 02:11:30,040
Speaker 2: Owly Japanese player in the Hall of Fame.

2380
02:11:30,400 --> 02:11:33,080
Speaker 25: Wow, it won't be for long. But yeah, who do you.

2381
02:11:33,080 --> 02:11:35,080
Speaker 2: Think would be? Oh, yeah, of course ODDI yeah, you

2382
02:11:35,200 --> 02:11:37,600
Speaker 2: think it is. You know, it is it. He's the

2383
02:11:37,640 --> 02:11:40,160
Speaker 2: only Major League Japanese born player in the Hall of Fame.

2384
02:11:41,720 --> 02:11:43,720
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, when you think about it, it's

2385
02:11:43,760 --> 02:11:47,560
Speaker 2: only really been that this generation where Japanese players started

2386
02:11:47,600 --> 02:11:51,000
Speaker 2: to come over, right, I mean stahower O never played

2387
02:11:51,000 --> 02:11:52,680
Speaker 2: over here, and there's a lot of other guys, right,

2388
02:11:52,760 --> 02:11:56,280
Speaker 2: so it's it's a relatively new thing opening the agreement

2389
02:11:56,320 --> 02:11:58,760
Speaker 2: between Japanese Major League Baseball and across. These teams are

2390
02:11:58,800 --> 02:12:01,560
Speaker 2: fortune to bring him over. But yeah, he's the only one,

2391
02:12:02,120 --> 02:12:04,320
Speaker 2: all right, This one should be a layup for you guys.

2392
02:12:05,200 --> 02:12:09,600
Speaker 2: I am the first catcher to hit fifty home runs

2393
02:12:10,200 --> 02:12:13,920
Speaker 2: in a season. Here's a clue. I'm currently playing for

2394
02:12:14,000 --> 02:12:16,880
Speaker 2: Team USA. Mark Ramsey went, my name.

2395
02:12:19,080 --> 02:12:22,720
Speaker 25: Is Does he have a nickname? Is it like Rally?

2396
02:12:23,480 --> 02:12:23,920
Speaker 7: You got it?

2397
02:12:24,000 --> 02:12:27,200
Speaker 2: It's Cayl Riley and his the name is the Big Dumper.

2398
02:12:28,000 --> 02:12:29,800
Speaker 2: The Big Dumper the next clue is going to be

2399
02:12:29,880 --> 02:12:34,520
Speaker 2: He refused to shake Randy a rose Aarraina's hand, and

2400
02:12:34,600 --> 02:12:36,400
Speaker 2: I'm kind of wondering how the hell that's gonna work

2401
02:12:36,400 --> 02:12:38,400
Speaker 2: out when those two, I'm it'll work out. The Lily

2402
02:12:38,520 --> 02:12:41,280
Speaker 2: had figured out, but a rose Arena was none too

2403
02:12:41,440 --> 02:12:45,240
Speaker 2: pleased about that whole deal. I'm sure you saw that, right.

2404
02:12:45,240 --> 02:12:47,280
Speaker 25: Brandon, Yeah, I saw that.

2405
02:12:47,440 --> 02:12:48,960
Speaker 23: That was he did it?

2406
02:12:49,040 --> 02:12:52,560
Speaker 25: Didn't he do it with the other Mariner the other

2407
02:12:52,680 --> 02:12:55,600
Speaker 25: day in the Canadian game?

2408
02:12:56,520 --> 02:12:57,320
Speaker 2: I missed that one.

2409
02:12:57,360 --> 02:12:57,560
Speaker 5: I know.

2410
02:12:57,680 --> 02:13:00,280
Speaker 2: This was like the first game that Yeah, the e

2411
02:13:00,400 --> 02:13:04,520
Speaker 2: rosarina popped off. He was pissed. Anyway, water under the bridge?

2412
02:13:04,720 --> 02:13:09,120
Speaker 2: Maybe all right. I am the first switch hitter to

2413
02:13:09,240 --> 02:13:11,840
Speaker 2: hit home twenty home runs from the left side and

2414
02:13:12,000 --> 02:13:16,960
Speaker 2: twenty home runs from the right side in the same season.

2415
02:13:18,440 --> 02:13:23,560
Speaker 2: A clue. I'm also playing four team USA. Brandon, what

2416
02:13:23,760 --> 02:13:24,120
Speaker 2: my name?

2417
02:13:25,960 --> 02:13:30,320
Speaker 25: Yeah, this one's This one's tricky because I think it's

2418
02:13:30,360 --> 02:13:33,680
Speaker 25: the same guy. I think it's gotta be cal Raally.

2419
02:13:33,920 --> 02:13:36,480
Speaker 2: No, it is cal Rawley. I'm a little dirty pool

2420
02:13:36,560 --> 02:13:37,840
Speaker 2: by the every now.

2421
02:13:37,760 --> 02:13:40,320
Speaker 8: And then I will I will slip one in like that.

2422
02:13:40,680 --> 02:13:43,880
Speaker 2: But yeah, you're a little dirty pool by me. All right,

2423
02:13:44,560 --> 02:13:50,600
Speaker 2: last one. So we have a situation where we know

2424
02:13:50,760 --> 02:13:54,160
Speaker 2: that the the Japanese can't play the Americans now in

2425
02:13:54,240 --> 02:13:57,320
Speaker 2: the finals because the Japanese team is lost, and I

2426
02:13:57,360 --> 02:14:00,360
Speaker 2: can't lie. I've predicted the Dominican Republic. He's going to

2427
02:14:00,400 --> 02:14:04,320
Speaker 2: win this thing, okay, and we will see. We will see.

2428
02:14:05,080 --> 02:14:07,720
Speaker 2: But be that as it may. It just seems like

2429
02:14:07,840 --> 02:14:13,280
Speaker 2: yesterday that the twenty twenty three World Cup came doing it.

2430
02:14:13,600 --> 02:14:16,480
Speaker 2: What do I keep calling World Cup? It's World Baseball Classic.

2431
02:14:16,840 --> 02:14:23,440
Speaker 2: Came doing it in pretty pretty dramatic fashion. I struck out.

2432
02:14:23,720 --> 02:14:26,680
Speaker 2: I was the final out of the twenty twenty three

2433
02:14:28,080 --> 02:14:31,000
Speaker 2: World Baseball Classic. I made the final out by striking

2434
02:14:31,080 --> 02:14:34,440
Speaker 2: out Mark Ramsey, What my name? And here's a clue,

2435
02:14:34,640 --> 02:14:36,520
Speaker 2: Shoho Tani struck me out?

2436
02:14:40,280 --> 02:14:43,360
Speaker 25: Also known as a fish. Mister Trout, There you go,

2437
02:14:44,080 --> 02:14:44,839
Speaker 25: Mike Trout.

2438
02:14:46,120 --> 02:14:50,960
Speaker 2: Very true, and that will include the arousing editions of

2439
02:14:51,600 --> 02:14:53,360
Speaker 2: what kind of brand new fool are you?

2440
02:14:53,680 --> 02:14:54,680
Speaker 8: And what my name?

2441
02:14:56,480 --> 02:14:59,680
Speaker 2: Thanks to all the participants, Thanks to all who listened,

2442
02:15:00,160 --> 02:15:03,800
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2443
02:15:04,080 --> 02:15:06,680
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2444
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Speaker 2: Coming up, the Bernie Frattle Show continues, and I want

2457
02:15:57,720 --> 02:16:02,040
Speaker 2: to touch on that Max Crosby reversal and some of

2458
02:16:02,080 --> 02:16:07,320
Speaker 2: the ripple effects that that is having. I'm Bernie Fraddle.

2459
02:16:07,720 --> 02:16:10,200
Speaker 2: Were company live from the Fox Sports Radio studios here

2460
02:16:10,200 --> 02:16:12,200
Speaker 2: in Las Vegas. Keep it locked or listening to the

2461
02:16:12,240 --> 02:16:14,120
Speaker 2: Bernie Fraddle Show on Fox Sports Radio.

2462
02:16:16,640 --> 02:16:19,320
Speaker 23: Don't listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

2463
02:16:23,120 --> 02:16:25,040
Speaker 2: All right, We're back at the Bernie Fraddle Show Fox

2464
02:16:25,360 --> 02:16:28,840
Speaker 2: Sports Radio. One of the big stories of the week

2465
02:16:29,240 --> 02:16:34,280
Speaker 2: again Max Crosby. Stunningly, the Baltimore Ravens backed out of

2466
02:16:34,280 --> 02:16:38,920
Speaker 2: their trade for Max Crosby, and their decision came after

2467
02:16:39,240 --> 02:16:42,760
Speaker 2: the Raiders had already begun reaching players reaching agreements with

2468
02:16:42,959 --> 02:16:48,280
Speaker 2: other players in free agency. Okay, so did Baltimore just

2469
02:16:48,360 --> 02:16:50,800
Speaker 2: get cool feet or did they discover a new issue.

2470
02:16:52,959 --> 02:16:56,480
Speaker 2: What this shows you is that any trade that occurs

2471
02:16:56,840 --> 02:17:00,920
Speaker 2: after the NFL's in season deadline in November, it cannot

2472
02:17:01,000 --> 02:17:05,000
Speaker 2: be finalized until the new league year period, which happened

2473
02:17:05,040 --> 02:17:09,800
Speaker 2: to be March tenth, Tuesday at four pm Eastern. Trades

2474
02:17:09,840 --> 02:17:14,240
Speaker 2: are almost always contingent on each player passing and physical

2475
02:17:15,160 --> 02:17:20,040
Speaker 2: to the satisfaction of the club position, but look based

2476
02:17:20,120 --> 02:17:23,000
Speaker 2: on protocol, the Ravens likely had a good sense of

2477
02:17:23,080 --> 02:17:27,040
Speaker 2: Crosby's status and what was going on before announcing the deal.

2478
02:17:28,000 --> 02:17:31,080
Speaker 2: We all know in early January Crosby underwent surgery to

2479
02:17:31,200 --> 02:17:35,920
Speaker 2: repair a torn meniscuts and his left knee, and they

2480
02:17:36,000 --> 02:17:38,720
Speaker 2: think it might have happened Week seven AGAINSTITUTEFS. I don't know,

2481
02:17:39,840 --> 02:17:42,560
Speaker 2: and it's been I believe reported that Bolzimore was fully

2482
02:17:42,760 --> 02:17:47,320
Speaker 2: versed on the status at Crosby's recovery. Before you know,

2483
02:17:48,000 --> 02:17:52,520
Speaker 2: league consensuses that they simply got cold feet. So here

2484
02:17:52,600 --> 02:17:55,480
Speaker 2: we are now. Last week I talked about my opening

2485
02:17:55,560 --> 02:18:01,560
Speaker 2: monologue when Crosby signed with the Ravens, for minute, all

2486
02:18:01,879 --> 02:18:05,960
Speaker 2: of the ripple effects across the league, for the other

2487
02:18:06,040 --> 02:18:08,160
Speaker 2: teams who might have wanted to take a shot and

2488
02:18:08,200 --> 02:18:11,160
Speaker 2: get him, like the Bears or the Cowboys or the Commanders,

2489
02:18:11,920 --> 02:18:15,520
Speaker 2: and how that affected them, and how it affected other

2490
02:18:16,120 --> 02:18:20,400
Speaker 2: players looking for big contracts. Well, Crosby is now about

2491
02:18:20,440 --> 02:18:25,280
Speaker 2: two months past postop. He's just recently gotten rid of

2492
02:18:25,360 --> 02:18:28,720
Speaker 2: his crutches, and I don't know if the Raiders have

2493
02:18:28,800 --> 02:18:32,160
Speaker 2: done an updated scan, since the miniscus repairs never guaranteed

2494
02:18:32,840 --> 02:18:35,840
Speaker 2: and theoretically can have long term effects. Let's be honest.

2495
02:18:35,840 --> 02:18:38,360
Speaker 2: So it's not a major surgery at all, not at

2496
02:18:38,480 --> 02:18:42,000
Speaker 2: all to scope. He's only twenty eight year old years old.

2497
02:18:43,000 --> 02:18:45,240
Speaker 2: If you're telling me the Ravens doctors may have seen

2498
02:18:45,320 --> 02:18:48,240
Speaker 2: something worse than whatever Vegas has closed. I don't know,

2499
02:18:48,440 --> 02:18:51,720
Speaker 2: We don't know, we may never know. It's difficult to

2500
02:18:51,760 --> 02:18:54,880
Speaker 2: believe Crosby's knees and that much worse shape than was

2501
02:18:55,000 --> 02:18:58,600
Speaker 2: originally expected. Then again, when you have the discretionary nature

2502
02:18:58,600 --> 02:19:01,760
Speaker 2: of physicals, even the slightest added risk could have made

2503
02:19:01,800 --> 02:19:05,840
Speaker 2: Crosby's cost, which was enormous to the Ravens, too much

2504
02:19:06,760 --> 02:19:13,039
Speaker 2: for Baltimore's stomach. But the notion that you know Max Crosby,

2505
02:19:14,360 --> 02:19:20,280
Speaker 2: or that the Ravens would move on Trey Hendrickson so

2506
02:19:20,480 --> 02:19:23,720
Speaker 2: fast that it reduced cost without having to get up

2507
02:19:23,760 --> 02:19:26,840
Speaker 2: the first round draft picks, including the fourteenth pick overall

2508
02:19:26,920 --> 02:19:31,880
Speaker 2: this year, makes this a curious story. Also, there's nothing

2509
02:19:31,959 --> 02:19:37,360
Speaker 2: that prevented Baltimore from simultaneously entertaining free agent Trey Henderson

2510
02:19:37,640 --> 02:19:40,600
Speaker 2: to use a comparable edge rusher without the added cost

2511
02:19:40,680 --> 02:19:44,120
Speaker 2: of first round multiple picks. The Ravens agreed to a

2512
02:19:44,200 --> 02:19:47,879
Speaker 2: deal with Henderson, about two and a half years older

2513
02:19:48,000 --> 02:19:51,240
Speaker 2: than Max Crosby, just a couple hours after the news

2514
02:19:51,480 --> 02:19:54,600
Speaker 2: on Crosby. Doesn't that raise questions?

2515
02:19:55,400 --> 02:19:55,560
Speaker 7: Now?

2516
02:19:56,720 --> 02:19:58,760
Speaker 2: Intrepid journalists have been coming out of the world work.

2517
02:19:58,800 --> 02:20:00,840
Speaker 2: Apparently it's not the first time the Ravens of knicks

2518
02:20:00,879 --> 02:20:03,880
Speaker 2: the deal like this. It's been reported that back in

2519
02:20:03,959 --> 02:20:07,879
Speaker 2: twenty twenty, their medical staff refused to sign sign off

2520
02:20:07,920 --> 02:20:09,680
Speaker 2: on a three year, thirty million dollar deal with a

2521
02:20:10,200 --> 02:20:14,879
Speaker 2: defensive tackle, Michael Brockers, and in twenty eighteen, when DaCosta

2522
02:20:15,400 --> 02:20:18,480
Speaker 2: was Ozzie Newsom's assistant. They nullified a four year deal

2523
02:20:18,520 --> 02:20:20,960
Speaker 2: with a receiver by the name of Ryan Grant after

2524
02:20:21,080 --> 02:20:24,880
Speaker 2: ankle concerns led to a failed physical. That was a

2525
02:20:24,959 --> 02:20:27,560
Speaker 2: twenty nine million dollar deal. Then neither Grant nor Brockers

2526
02:20:27,680 --> 02:20:30,800
Speaker 2: lasted more than three seasons in the NFL after their

2527
02:20:30,840 --> 02:20:34,520
Speaker 2: failed physicals, though Brockers did start thirty eight games in

2528
02:20:34,600 --> 02:20:38,080
Speaker 2: its final three years. Also, back in twenty oh five,

2529
02:20:38,720 --> 02:20:42,800
Speaker 2: when Iszie Newsom was the GM of the Ravens, a

2530
02:20:42,920 --> 02:20:45,680
Speaker 2: guard by the name of Roberto Garza field of physical

2531
02:20:45,720 --> 02:20:49,119
Speaker 2: after he unwent knee surgery. So this isn't the first time,

2532
02:20:50,160 --> 02:20:53,800
Speaker 2: but now what happens. The Raiders sort of enter a limbo.

2533
02:20:54,200 --> 02:20:57,360
Speaker 2: This is a somewhat of an unprecedented story in the

2534
02:20:57,480 --> 02:21:00,640
Speaker 2: fact that you've got this much draft capital, this much

2535
02:21:00,680 --> 02:21:03,360
Speaker 2: star power. It's a free agent deal or a big deal,

2536
02:21:03,640 --> 02:21:05,959
Speaker 2: really nothing like we've ever seen. The Raiders don't really

2537
02:21:06,000 --> 02:21:11,400
Speaker 2: have any recourse. There's really no way to artificially recreate

2538
02:21:11,480 --> 02:21:15,080
Speaker 2: the value that the Raiders had had or asked for.

2539
02:21:15,680 --> 02:21:18,120
Speaker 2: And there were multiple teams that were interested in the Patriots,

2540
02:21:18,200 --> 02:21:21,560
Speaker 2: the Bears, the Cowboys, and I think after all hell

2541
02:21:21,600 --> 02:21:25,640
Speaker 2: broke loose last Tuesday. It's going to be pretty hard

2542
02:21:25,680 --> 02:21:29,000
Speaker 2: for me to imagine that the Raiders would command two

2543
02:21:29,080 --> 02:21:33,000
Speaker 2: first round picks for Max Crosby now, right, and then

2544
02:21:33,680 --> 02:21:36,080
Speaker 2: Max Crosby's a good guy. He's already back in the

2545
02:21:36,120 --> 02:21:39,600
Speaker 2: facility working out. But all these intrepid reporters want to

2546
02:21:39,680 --> 02:21:42,440
Speaker 2: know that after this thirteen minute heartfelt could buy to

2547
02:21:42,520 --> 02:21:46,640
Speaker 2: the Raiders fans, Well, the deal got mixed. He was

2548
02:21:46,680 --> 02:21:49,800
Speaker 2: back in the Raiders' facility working out. How do those

2549
02:21:49,879 --> 02:21:51,000
Speaker 2: conversations go now?

2550
02:21:52,120 --> 02:21:52,240
Speaker 19: All?

2551
02:21:52,320 --> 02:21:55,120
Speaker 2: Right? So do I think is there a reality where

2552
02:21:55,120 --> 02:21:59,320
Speaker 2: the Raiders play where Max Carsby plays for the Raiders

2553
02:21:59,360 --> 02:21:59,760
Speaker 2: this season?

2554
02:22:00,720 --> 02:22:00,920
Speaker 7: I do?

2555
02:22:01,720 --> 02:22:04,200
Speaker 2: I do they have the caps based to afford him?

2556
02:22:04,720 --> 02:22:06,520
Speaker 2: And I think at this point it's very unclear with

2557
02:22:06,600 --> 02:22:09,480
Speaker 2: their teams like Jacksonville or Dallas or Chicago are going

2558
02:22:09,520 --> 02:22:12,600
Speaker 2: to come back to the bargaining table and the Raiders

2559
02:22:12,680 --> 02:22:15,840
Speaker 2: have no leverage, and he's returning to a team that's

2560
02:22:15,920 --> 02:22:19,960
Speaker 2: better on paper now than it was before he left. Okay,

2561
02:22:20,680 --> 02:22:24,160
Speaker 2: by the way, just so you know Ravens fans. Trey

2562
02:22:24,240 --> 02:22:28,000
Speaker 2: Henderson is also coming off a season shortened by injury.

2563
02:22:28,480 --> 02:22:31,560
Speaker 2: He had core muscle surgery in January for a pelvic issue,

2564
02:22:32,320 --> 02:22:34,440
Speaker 2: but he hasn't taken a physical yet to the best

2565
02:22:34,480 --> 02:22:38,360
Speaker 2: of our knowledge. Again, this story has become a very

2566
02:22:38,520 --> 02:22:42,400
Speaker 2: curious one. Well or what eighty six days away from

2567
02:22:42,440 --> 02:22:45,880
Speaker 2: World Cup Soccer, and based on the enjoyment of the

2568
02:22:46,000 --> 02:22:49,960
Speaker 2: NHL Hockey and the Olympics. The Olympics, you know two

2569
02:22:50,080 --> 02:22:55,680
Speaker 2: years ago with basketball and the World Baseball Classic, the

2570
02:22:55,760 --> 02:22:59,160
Speaker 2: international flavor of sports does nothing except to add more excitement.

2571
02:22:59,560 --> 02:23:04,760
Speaker 2: And that's a fact. It's time for Chris Purfett's World

2572
02:23:04,800 --> 02:23:05,199
Speaker 2: of Soccer.

2573
02:23:06,480 --> 02:23:20,480
Speaker 6: The greatest goals, the thrilling finishes, the international drum, Ain't.

2574
02:23:22,360 --> 02:23:25,760
Speaker 23: It's all here in this report from the World of Soccer.

2575
02:23:26,040 --> 02:23:27,960
Speaker 27: All right, we've got a few months coming up to

2576
02:23:28,040 --> 02:23:30,640
Speaker 27: the World Cup, and I want to get to some

2577
02:23:30,760 --> 02:23:33,520
Speaker 27: international news because we've had quite a bit of international news.

2578
02:23:33,879 --> 02:23:35,960
Speaker 27: First thing we should do is rebound to a story

2579
02:23:36,080 --> 02:23:39,400
Speaker 27: we previously talked about in the World of Soccer, which

2580
02:23:39,480 --> 02:23:43,480
Speaker 27: were questions about the security costs at Jellette Stadium, and

2581
02:23:43,920 --> 02:23:46,879
Speaker 27: that Foxborough, the small town that it is, really couldn't

2582
02:23:46,879 --> 02:23:49,280
Speaker 27: pay for it, and nobody seemed to really foot the bill. Well,

2583
02:23:49,680 --> 02:23:51,360
Speaker 27: the one footing the bill would happen to be the

2584
02:23:51,480 --> 02:23:55,200
Speaker 27: man who also happens to host Jillette Stadium itself.

2585
02:23:55,280 --> 02:23:57,199
Speaker 25: That's right. New England Patriots owner.

2586
02:23:57,040 --> 02:24:01,400
Speaker 27: Robert Kraft agreed this week that his company would help

2587
02:24:01,440 --> 02:24:04,480
Speaker 27: pay up for the security costs necessary to play those

2588
02:24:04,640 --> 02:24:08,640
Speaker 27: seven games at Chellette Stadium here this summer. It's going

2589
02:24:08,720 --> 02:24:11,959
Speaker 27: to end the protracted public drama that's kind of really

2590
02:24:12,200 --> 02:24:16,680
Speaker 27: gone overboard when it comes to all this again, Foxborough

2591
02:24:16,760 --> 02:24:19,080
Speaker 27: had been left holding this bill. Nobody could really give

2592
02:24:19,160 --> 02:24:22,920
Speaker 27: them questions about it. Almost eight million dollars that it

2593
02:24:22,959 --> 02:24:25,160
Speaker 27: would have had to pay for for their plea for

2594
02:24:25,280 --> 02:24:28,360
Speaker 27: police to be able to take in the massive amount

2595
02:24:28,400 --> 02:24:30,960
Speaker 27: of people they'll probably be commuting up from Boston for

2596
02:24:31,240 --> 02:24:33,880
Speaker 27: the games. But that's resolved taken care of.

2597
02:24:34,400 --> 02:24:34,600
Speaker 6: Yay.

2598
02:24:35,000 --> 02:24:38,320
Speaker 27: Not quite so yay is the news for Team Mexico.

2599
02:24:39,120 --> 02:24:41,920
Speaker 27: Marcel Ruiz was ruled out of the twenty twenty six

2600
02:24:42,000 --> 02:24:45,640
Speaker 27: World Cup. He's got a torn acl so that is

2601
02:24:45,720 --> 02:24:50,080
Speaker 27: a key midfielder that is now disappearing for Mexico, who

2602
02:24:50,240 --> 02:24:53,440
Speaker 27: like the United States, gets an automatic qualifier along with

2603
02:24:53,600 --> 02:24:58,600
Speaker 27: Canada into this. They what he was suffered during the

2604
02:24:58,640 --> 02:25:03,080
Speaker 27: CONCA CAFT Champions Cup up. He plays for San Diego

2605
02:25:03,320 --> 02:25:06,920
Speaker 27: FC and just tore his acl in about the fortieth

2606
02:25:07,000 --> 02:25:10,120
Speaker 27: minute of that game. It's a huge blow for l

2607
02:25:10,240 --> 02:25:14,680
Speaker 27: Tree and one that they can probably ill afford at

2608
02:25:14,760 --> 02:25:15,280
Speaker 27: this point.

2609
02:25:16,560 --> 02:25:17,280
Speaker 25: Two weeks ago.

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Speaker 27: They're goalkeeper Luis anhel Malagon, who plays for Club America

2611
02:25:22,840 --> 02:25:26,960
Speaker 27: in the Lega MX tore his achilles and that's going

2612
02:25:27,040 --> 02:25:30,440
Speaker 27: to rule him out as well. And there's other injuries

2613
02:25:30,520 --> 02:25:34,480
Speaker 27: that Team Mexico is currently battling right now that are

2614
02:25:34,520 --> 02:25:37,720
Speaker 27: almost getting really kind of long to list. This could

2615
02:25:37,760 --> 02:25:40,280
Speaker 27: be a really tough sledding if they don't get some

2616
02:25:40,400 --> 02:25:43,160
Speaker 27: help right now. But at the very least we know this,

2617
02:25:43,320 --> 02:25:46,240
Speaker 27: they'll be down a goalkeeper, it could be down a midfielder.

2618
02:25:46,600 --> 02:25:49,680
Speaker 27: Heading into the big tournament now, there is a bigger

2619
02:25:49,800 --> 02:25:53,840
Speaker 27: issue besides Mexico when it comes to one country, and

2620
02:25:53,920 --> 02:25:56,440
Speaker 27: that could just be one country, a question of whether

2621
02:25:56,520 --> 02:25:58,760
Speaker 27: or not we will see them at all in the

2622
02:25:58,840 --> 02:26:01,880
Speaker 27: World Cup. And for those who might be keeping your

2623
02:26:01,879 --> 02:26:03,880
Speaker 27: head down on stuff, there is a war going on.

2624
02:26:04,080 --> 02:26:06,520
Speaker 27: Well it's not actually a war because wars have to

2625
02:26:06,560 --> 02:26:09,400
Speaker 27: be approved by Congress. The Speaker of the House is

2626
02:26:09,440 --> 02:26:13,279
Speaker 27: insisting this isn't actually a war. It's some other Orwellian

2627
02:26:13,480 --> 02:26:16,120
Speaker 27: term for a war, as we clearly see a war

2628
02:26:16,240 --> 02:26:20,720
Speaker 27: happening on our TVs against Iran. Now we have to

2629
02:26:20,800 --> 02:26:25,920
Speaker 27: put aside the humanitarian element of the war itself. We

2630
02:26:26,040 --> 02:26:28,560
Speaker 27: have to put aside the fact that the President of

2631
02:26:28,560 --> 02:26:32,840
Speaker 27: the United States was awarded the FIFA Peace Award and

2632
02:26:33,040 --> 02:26:35,360
Speaker 27: is now waging this war. However, we have to put

2633
02:26:35,400 --> 02:26:39,400
Speaker 27: that all to the side to talk about Iran's soccer team,

2634
02:26:39,840 --> 02:26:43,600
Speaker 27: because the men's soccer team actually ran through the Asian

2635
02:26:43,640 --> 02:26:46,840
Speaker 27: Football Confederation to get to the World Cup. They are

2636
02:26:47,040 --> 02:26:51,400
Speaker 27: in a Group G alongside Egypt, New Zealand and Belgium.

2637
02:26:51,520 --> 02:26:53,800
Speaker 27: And to be honest, I know Egypt's a bit of

2638
02:26:53,879 --> 02:26:55,640
Speaker 27: a powerhouse, but this was a team, and this was

2639
02:26:55,680 --> 02:26:57,800
Speaker 27: a group I was really looking towards because I feel

2640
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Speaker 27: like Iran is live in that group against an aging

2641
02:27:01,080 --> 02:27:05,800
Speaker 27: Belgium and a very uneven Egyptian team, and instead there

2642
02:27:05,879 --> 02:27:09,199
Speaker 27: are countless questions of whether they will even be able

2643
02:27:09,280 --> 02:27:13,199
Speaker 27: to play. Now, Trump put out a very odd statement

2644
02:27:13,320 --> 02:27:16,840
Speaker 27: saying that the national soccer team's life and safety could

2645
02:27:16,879 --> 02:27:18,800
Speaker 27: be in danger, which is again a very odd thing

2646
02:27:18,879 --> 02:27:21,320
Speaker 27: to say coming from a host where you are supposed

2647
02:27:21,320 --> 02:27:23,160
Speaker 27: to guarantee the safety of those people.

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02:27:23,879 --> 02:27:24,760
Speaker 23: For a lot of things.

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02:27:25,040 --> 02:27:27,480
Speaker 27: The World Cup has tried to be above a lot

2650
02:27:27,560 --> 02:27:31,840
Speaker 27: of these wars that has happened throughout its throughout its history.

2651
02:27:32,360 --> 02:27:35,080
Speaker 27: It tries to keep it to the side. But that

2652
02:27:35,160 --> 02:27:38,280
Speaker 27: doesn't seem like it's going to be the chance. It's

2653
02:27:38,360 --> 02:27:42,320
Speaker 27: a very odd situation. Team Iran finds itself in in

2654
02:27:42,720 --> 02:27:46,560
Speaker 27: the comments from Trump or one of them. Then on Wednesday,

2655
02:27:46,600 --> 02:27:50,280
Speaker 27: the Iranian Sporting Sports Minister said that Iran could not

2656
02:27:50,400 --> 02:27:54,080
Speaker 27: participate in the twenty twenty six World Cup. The team

2657
02:27:54,160 --> 02:27:57,960
Speaker 27: itself is still saying that they want to go to

2658
02:27:58,080 --> 02:28:00,879
Speaker 27: the World Cup. They say that nobody can exclude them.

2659
02:28:01,840 --> 02:28:06,760
Speaker 27: There is stipulations for FIFA to follow. Yanni and Fantino

2660
02:28:07,560 --> 02:28:10,200
Speaker 27: still believes Iran will play. He's trying to get Trump

2661
02:28:10,560 --> 02:28:13,240
Speaker 27: to guarantee that they can play. But you know it's

2662
02:28:13,560 --> 02:28:16,080
Speaker 27: the host's responsibility to do that. I don't think we

2663
02:28:16,120 --> 02:28:19,840
Speaker 27: should be like debating this. However, there is if for

2664
02:28:19,959 --> 02:28:22,640
Speaker 27: summer reason they couldn't. There is Article six the World

2665
02:28:22,720 --> 02:28:26,360
Speaker 27: Cup regulations. There would be a financial penalty for such

2666
02:28:26,400 --> 02:28:28,800
Speaker 27: a move, but also FIFA then would be able to

2667
02:28:28,879 --> 02:28:31,080
Speaker 27: call up any nation it chooses to fill the void.

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02:28:31,400 --> 02:28:33,720
Speaker 27: This has never been called before in the history of

2669
02:28:33,760 --> 02:28:36,600
Speaker 27: FIFA and the World Cup. It's never been called before.

2670
02:28:36,680 --> 02:28:40,039
Speaker 27: There's been Olympics where countries have had disputes with each

2671
02:28:40,040 --> 02:28:42,400
Speaker 27: other and having traveled the Olympics, but it's never happened

2672
02:28:42,840 --> 02:28:45,640
Speaker 27: in the World Cup. Iran's not the other the only

2673
02:28:45,720 --> 02:28:48,840
Speaker 27: team being inconvenienced by all of this as well. A

2674
02:28:48,920 --> 02:28:52,960
Speaker 27: Rock is supposed to play in a international playoff round

2675
02:28:53,800 --> 02:28:57,840
Speaker 27: taking place in Mexico. They're due to face either Bolivia

2676
02:28:58,000 --> 02:29:02,360
Speaker 27: or Suram at the end of March. However, because this

2677
02:29:02,760 --> 02:29:06,360
Speaker 27: conflict is spilled over into their airspace, their coach of

2678
02:29:06,480 --> 02:29:09,280
Speaker 27: the team has called for a postponement that apparently will

2679
02:29:09,360 --> 02:29:12,240
Speaker 27: not happen. It's a mess all around. I'm sure we're

2680
02:29:12,240 --> 02:29:14,480
Speaker 27: gonna be able to continue to talk about this because

2681
02:29:14,560 --> 02:29:18,439
Speaker 27: this doesn't seem to be going anywhere anytime soon. Regardless

2682
02:29:18,480 --> 02:29:22,160
Speaker 27: of say it's a shame, it's a shame because the

2683
02:29:22,200 --> 02:29:24,440
Speaker 27: Iranian team is very good and we all love to

2684
02:29:24,440 --> 02:29:24,879
Speaker 27: see them.

2685
02:29:24,800 --> 02:29:26,960
Speaker 23: In the World Cup. We'll see you next time on

2686
02:29:27,080 --> 02:29:27,800
Speaker 23: the World of Soccer.

2687
02:29:29,240 --> 02:29:31,280
Speaker 2: All right, Coming up, we wrap up the Bernie Frattles

2688
02:29:31,320 --> 02:29:34,240
Speaker 2: Show and one of the NBA performances. By the way,

2689
02:29:34,280 --> 02:29:38,880
Speaker 2: the Midnight Hour callers did so well tonight. As always,

2690
02:29:39,560 --> 02:29:42,600
Speaker 2: we talked at linked about the shade or check that

2691
02:29:42,680 --> 02:29:47,199
Speaker 2: about the bam Ada bios eighty three points. Was it real?

2692
02:29:47,400 --> 02:29:49,920
Speaker 2: Was it superficial? Was it artificial? Was it a fagas?

2693
02:29:50,160 --> 02:29:54,240
Speaker 2: Was it legitimate? A lot of good cross section commentary.

2694
02:29:54,360 --> 02:29:56,200
Speaker 2: But when you have the coach ordering people to file

2695
02:29:56,680 --> 02:30:00,440
Speaker 2: when you're up twenty all right, the point of the

2696
02:30:00,480 --> 02:30:05,680
Speaker 2: matter is that particular performance took up a lot of

2697
02:30:05,680 --> 02:30:07,200
Speaker 2: the air in the room for the NBA this week,

2698
02:30:07,240 --> 02:30:11,040
Speaker 2: but there was another record that was actually broken. And

2699
02:30:11,160 --> 02:30:13,199
Speaker 2: I really want to give this guy as Flowers because

2700
02:30:13,240 --> 02:30:16,200
Speaker 2: when you when you hear what he did within the

2701
02:30:16,320 --> 02:30:20,080
Speaker 2: context of but I'm about to describe, you're gonna have

2702
02:30:20,200 --> 02:30:23,840
Speaker 2: probably even more respect for this guy who's really making

2703
02:30:23,920 --> 02:30:27,200
Speaker 2: quite his name for himself in the NBA. A you know,

2704
02:30:27,720 --> 02:30:30,440
Speaker 2: a clear front runner, if not the front runner to

2705
02:30:30,520 --> 02:30:35,400
Speaker 2: win the MVP this year alongside Jokic and maybe Wemby.

2706
02:30:35,800 --> 02:30:38,480
Speaker 2: And he's also the defending champ. I'll get to that

2707
02:30:39,040 --> 02:30:41,840
Speaker 2: coming up. You're gonna want to hear this. This young

2708
02:30:41,920 --> 02:30:44,120
Speaker 2: man deserves a lot of props for what he did

2709
02:30:44,200 --> 02:30:46,960
Speaker 2: this past week in the NBA. I'm Bernie fraddleer Kemedy

2710
02:30:47,040 --> 02:30:50,200
Speaker 2: Lave from Las Vegas. Fox Sports Radio Studios keep it locked.

2711
02:30:50,240 --> 02:30:51,680
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2712
02:30:51,440 --> 02:30:54,200
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2713
02:30:54,280 --> 02:30:56,960
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02:30:57,040 --> 02:31:02,119
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2716
02:31:08,160 --> 02:31:11,560
Speaker 2: Already, we are wrapping it up on the Bernie Frown Show,

2717
02:31:14,000 --> 02:31:18,960
Speaker 2: and I want to thank my producers Mark and Brandon

2718
02:31:19,760 --> 02:31:22,920
Speaker 2: for the great job turning all the dials, keeping us

2719
02:31:22,959 --> 02:31:26,600
Speaker 2: glue together, keeping the airplane flying safely in mid air,

2720
02:31:27,920 --> 02:31:34,080
Speaker 2: managing the time clock, certainly the run down, all the reads,

2721
02:31:34,240 --> 02:31:37,000
Speaker 2: all those things that go along with being a producer,

2722
02:31:37,160 --> 02:31:40,640
Speaker 2: the behind the scenes stuff. You cannot do a radio show,

2723
02:31:40,840 --> 02:31:44,640
Speaker 2: particularly a national radio show, when we are syncing up

2724
02:31:44,680 --> 02:31:48,600
Speaker 2: with six hundred affiliates without dedicated producers, So greatly appreciate

2725
02:31:48,760 --> 02:31:53,560
Speaker 2: all the efforts. As always, that's the department of redundancy department.

2726
02:31:56,080 --> 02:32:01,280
Speaker 2: Everybody talked ad nauseum at lengths, you know, from both

2727
02:32:01,360 --> 02:32:05,000
Speaker 2: sides of the coin about bam Adebayo's eighty three point

2728
02:32:05,080 --> 02:32:12,400
Speaker 2: game this past week. Fair enough, fair enough, but somehow

2729
02:32:12,640 --> 02:32:15,920
Speaker 2: under the radar, and I do mean it seemingly must

2730
02:32:15,920 --> 02:32:21,160
Speaker 2: have been under the radar that Shane Gilgess Alexander broke

2731
02:32:21,360 --> 02:32:24,760
Speaker 2: a record that stood for sixty three years, and it

2732
02:32:24,879 --> 02:32:31,600
Speaker 2: was held by the legendary will Chamberlain. Now the record

2733
02:32:32,080 --> 02:32:36,720
Speaker 2: was for consecutive regular season games of scoring at least

2734
02:32:36,959 --> 02:32:46,000
Speaker 2: twenty points. The record occurred on March twelfth, this past

2735
02:32:46,040 --> 02:32:52,920
Speaker 2: week Thursday as the uh As the the Thunder beat

2736
02:32:53,040 --> 02:32:56,520
Speaker 2: Boston one oh four one oh two, and Shake Gilder

2737
02:32:56,520 --> 02:32:59,120
Speaker 2: scored thirty five points. That extended his streak to one

2738
02:32:59,200 --> 02:33:02,120
Speaker 2: hundred and twenty seven games. Wilts was one hundred and

2739
02:33:02,600 --> 02:33:08,400
Speaker 2: twenty six games. Now again this some perspective. People have asked, well,

2740
02:33:08,400 --> 02:33:12,240
Speaker 2: hasn't anybody else will Well, no, Kevin Durant was the

2741
02:33:12,320 --> 02:33:16,280
Speaker 2: closest at seventy two games. And I know you're gonna

2742
02:33:16,280 --> 02:33:19,240
Speaker 2: ask about Lebron, so just say you right now. His

2743
02:33:20,680 --> 02:33:25,680
Speaker 2: topped out at forty nine games. So see gild this

2744
02:33:25,720 --> 02:33:27,600
Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty seven games. And to be fair,

2745
02:33:28,560 --> 02:33:32,160
Speaker 2: got to be fair to wil Chamberlain. The reason the

2746
02:33:32,200 --> 02:33:36,920
Speaker 2: streak got broken, which was back on January nineteenth, nineteen

2747
02:33:37,000 --> 02:33:40,920
Speaker 2: sixty three, is because he got kicked out of a

2748
02:33:41,000 --> 02:33:44,200
Speaker 2: game or rejected from a game four minutes into it

2749
02:33:45,560 --> 02:33:48,800
Speaker 2: after apparently allegedly arguing with the referee about a call.

2750
02:33:49,760 --> 02:33:52,800
Speaker 2: So SGA won one hundred and twenty seven games, Wilt

2751
02:33:52,840 --> 02:33:55,040
Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty six. But I want to give

2752
02:33:55,120 --> 02:34:01,200
Speaker 2: this some perspective that may cause you to look at

2753
02:34:01,240 --> 02:34:08,120
Speaker 2: this even more favorably. Okay, So during the streak, yes,

2754
02:34:08,320 --> 02:34:10,680
Speaker 2: we'll average forty nine points a game and Shay average

2755
02:34:10,720 --> 02:34:16,600
Speaker 2: thirty three, but the team record of of of of

2756
02:34:18,640 --> 02:34:21,279
Speaker 2: the Thunder in those one hundred and twenty seven games

2757
02:34:22,440 --> 02:34:25,480
Speaker 2: was one oh three and twenty four. There were seventy

2758
02:34:25,600 --> 02:34:32,560
Speaker 2: nine games over five hundred and to contrast that, in

2759
02:34:32,720 --> 02:34:35,120
Speaker 2: Wilt's one hundred and twenty six games streak, they were

2760
02:34:35,160 --> 02:34:39,160
Speaker 2: only six games over five hundred, sixty six and sixty

2761
02:34:39,480 --> 02:34:42,760
Speaker 2: and it only took Shay Gillis thirty four minutes a

2762
02:34:42,800 --> 02:34:49,600
Speaker 2: game on average to to, you know, achieve that record

2763
02:34:49,600 --> 02:34:51,880
Speaker 2: of one hundred and twenty seven straight games of scoring

2764
02:34:51,959 --> 02:34:54,800
Speaker 2: twenty points or more. But will actually played forty eight

2765
02:34:54,879 --> 02:34:59,920
Speaker 2: minutes a game. So I would say, if you look

2766
02:35:00,080 --> 02:35:05,920
Speaker 2: at SGA, you define this, you define this as modern

2767
02:35:05,959 --> 02:35:10,920
Speaker 2: efficiency at its finist because he averages only two point

2768
02:35:11,000 --> 02:35:13,400
Speaker 2: one turnovers during it. This is diffused ever for a

2769
02:35:13,440 --> 02:35:17,400
Speaker 2: thirty point scorer, and will Will streak was basically built

2770
02:35:17,440 --> 02:35:20,920
Speaker 2: an unprecedented volume. He was a volume shooter, a volume player,

2771
02:35:21,600 --> 02:35:24,920
Speaker 2: and you know, when you look at the efficiency with

2772
02:35:25,040 --> 02:35:30,720
Speaker 2: which Shake Gill just plays, it's really it's really an

2773
02:35:30,760 --> 02:35:34,480
Speaker 2: incredible record. And I don't it just it hasn't frankly

2774
02:35:34,600 --> 02:35:40,160
Speaker 2: gotten the run because it's just not something anybody really noticed.

2775
02:35:41,720 --> 02:35:45,040
Speaker 2: The streak started November one, twenty twenty four. I mean

2776
02:35:45,080 --> 02:35:49,560
Speaker 2: that was what a week before the presidential election. That's

2777
02:35:49,600 --> 02:35:54,800
Speaker 2: how long it's been. And and sixteen months later the

2778
02:35:54,920 --> 02:36:00,880
Speaker 2: game that carried, you know, historical importance because this is

2779
02:36:01,160 --> 02:36:03,840
Speaker 2: now one hundred and twenty seven game honesty and continuing.

2780
02:36:04,480 --> 02:36:08,280
Speaker 2: And it's a fitting record because Shake Gil just once said,

2781
02:36:08,360 --> 02:36:11,680
Speaker 2: my life is all about consistency. I'm consistent in everything

2782
02:36:11,760 --> 02:36:14,520
Speaker 2: I do, and he is. He is really quite the guy.

2783
02:36:15,240 --> 02:36:18,480
Speaker 2: And I think the first big thing you note about

2784
02:36:19,040 --> 02:36:22,920
Speaker 2: SGA's accomplishment is that he even ever even came close

2785
02:36:23,040 --> 02:36:27,080
Speaker 2: to Will Chamberlain's record. Nobody else had previously done so

2786
02:36:27,200 --> 02:36:30,920
Speaker 2: in the NBA, and the longest twenty points streak before

2787
02:36:31,000 --> 02:36:34,400
Speaker 2: that actually even belonged to Will Chamberlain himself at ninety

2788
02:36:34,440 --> 02:36:38,680
Speaker 2: two games. And so Chamberlain is kind of like this

2789
02:36:38,879 --> 02:36:42,760
Speaker 2: mythical seven foot figure because this statistical feature so singular.

2790
02:36:43,200 --> 02:36:44,760
Speaker 2: He was the only player to ever score one hundred

2791
02:36:44,760 --> 02:36:47,120
Speaker 2: points of the game. He had fifty points in the season,

2792
02:36:47,200 --> 02:36:48,800
Speaker 2: never foled out of a game in his whole life.

2793
02:36:49,040 --> 02:36:51,920
Speaker 2: He was quite an athlete of Kansas, a world class

2794
02:36:52,040 --> 02:36:54,520
Speaker 2: volleyball player, but no one ever really saw him play

2795
02:36:54,600 --> 02:36:59,560
Speaker 2: on TV. All right, Oscar Robertson, the great Oscar Robertson,

2796
02:37:00,720 --> 02:37:03,760
Speaker 2: seventy nine games in a row. That was third place.

2797
02:37:04,200 --> 02:37:07,360
Speaker 2: You heard me, I talked about current players, Kevin Durant

2798
02:37:07,440 --> 02:37:13,600
Speaker 2: seventy two in Lebron forty nine. There're still current players.

2799
02:37:14,240 --> 02:37:16,200
Speaker 2: Chamberlain the only player to push the streak as long

2800
02:37:16,200 --> 02:37:20,680
Speaker 2: as the equivalence of entire season. Even Oscar Robertson, well,

2801
02:37:21,800 --> 02:37:23,880
Speaker 2: he did it for seventy nine out of eighty two games,

2802
02:37:23,959 --> 02:37:27,280
Speaker 2: but that's only sixty three percent of Chamberlain's record. Now,

2803
02:37:28,040 --> 02:37:30,560
Speaker 2: Kevin Barrant, I know I'm saying this for a third time.

2804
02:37:31,760 --> 02:37:34,400
Speaker 2: Among current players, Kevin Durant the only other player to

2805
02:37:34,520 --> 02:37:36,879
Speaker 2: get more than halfway to Chamberlain. He had a seventy

2806
02:37:36,920 --> 02:37:39,800
Speaker 2: two gamer that started in his last season in Oklahoma City.

2807
02:37:40,040 --> 02:37:42,160
Speaker 2: That's how long ago it's been. And then did you

2808
02:37:42,240 --> 02:37:45,640
Speaker 2: know early into his Warriors career, I know you probably wonder, well,

2809
02:37:45,640 --> 02:37:48,560
Speaker 2: how about Kobe Bryant. Well, Kobe Bryant actually scored twenty

2810
02:37:48,640 --> 02:37:52,040
Speaker 2: points in a game sixty three games in a row,

2811
02:37:52,440 --> 02:37:55,600
Speaker 2: exactly halfway to Chamberlain's won twenty six That was from

2812
02:37:55,640 --> 02:37:59,279
Speaker 2: December of two thousand and five to November two thousand

2813
02:37:59,280 --> 02:38:02,520
Speaker 2: and six. Now, if you're wondering about the longest current

2814
02:38:02,760 --> 02:38:05,680
Speaker 2: active streak, it's actually Kawhi Leonard at forty two games.

2815
02:38:06,480 --> 02:38:09,880
Speaker 2: And now Joel Embiid is injured, He's actually scored twenty

2816
02:38:09,920 --> 02:38:12,600
Speaker 2: plus points twenty four games in a row. They're the

2817
02:38:12,760 --> 02:38:17,040
Speaker 2: only active players whose streaks actually extend back to last year,

2818
02:38:17,160 --> 02:38:22,080
Speaker 2: let alone twenty twenty four. So SGA streak isn't as

2819
02:38:22,120 --> 02:38:24,960
Speaker 2: a result of the type of game being played in

2820
02:38:25,000 --> 02:38:28,120
Speaker 2: this era. It's just a superlative achievement because this guy

2821
02:38:28,920 --> 02:38:32,160
Speaker 2: is the reigning MVP and against all that historical backdrop,

2822
02:38:32,600 --> 02:38:34,880
Speaker 2: it's worth doing some math when you look at the

2823
02:38:34,959 --> 02:38:38,520
Speaker 2: extremity of the streak in context over the past two seasons,

2824
02:38:39,040 --> 02:38:44,000
Speaker 2: during which SGA embarked on this mission, this record setting mission.

2825
02:38:44,560 --> 02:38:46,440
Speaker 2: There have been players named to an All Star team

2826
02:38:46,520 --> 02:38:49,280
Speaker 2: that have scored twenty plus points in about seventy percent

2827
02:38:49,360 --> 02:38:52,800
Speaker 2: of their games. Given that probability, the odds of an

2828
02:38:52,800 --> 02:38:55,680
Speaker 2: All Star reaching twenty points and one hundred and twenty

2829
02:38:55,720 --> 02:38:58,680
Speaker 2: six games in a row are about three hundred and

2830
02:38:58,959 --> 02:39:02,120
Speaker 2: twenty trillion to one according to these math So how

2831
02:39:02,200 --> 02:39:04,400
Speaker 2: did how did sg do it? How did he beat

2832
02:39:04,440 --> 02:39:07,560
Speaker 2: those odds? And by the way, during that streak he

2833
02:39:07,640 --> 02:39:12,520
Speaker 2: scored forty one points. It's because he's plays smart, he

2834
02:39:12,680 --> 02:39:17,200
Speaker 2: plays hard, he makes his free throws, and he takes

2835
02:39:17,320 --> 02:39:20,800
Speaker 2: high percentage shots a lot of times from mid range.

2836
02:39:21,840 --> 02:39:25,880
Speaker 2: SGA is not a static player. He's improved. He's terrific,

2837
02:39:26,000 --> 02:39:29,360
Speaker 2: and he's getting even better. Yes, bam Adebayo took all

2838
02:39:29,360 --> 02:39:32,560
Speaker 2: the air out this week, but SGA's record's better. It's

2839
02:39:32,600 --> 02:39:34,720
Speaker 2: gonna do it for the Bernie Frattle Show. Keep it

2840
02:39:34,840 --> 02:39:36,560
Speaker 2: locked up next to great Andy Ferman.