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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 Frottle. We are

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Speaker 2: coming to your line from the Fox Sports Radio studios

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Speaker 2: here in Las Vegas. We'll take you up to three

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Speaker 2: am Pacific, six am Eastern, and as usual, no shortage

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Speaker 2: of content tonight, and we're gonna get to all of it.

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Speaker 2: And before I get to what seems to be the

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Speaker 2: gift that keeps on giving, I start with a little

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Speaker 2: story about two hunters out in the wilderness and as

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Speaker 2: they turned the corner around a tree, they saw a bear,

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Speaker 2: and the bear saw them, and the bear started to

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Speaker 2: take take up chase, and one of the hunters kneels down,

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Speaker 2: reaches into his knapsack, puts on his brand new Nike

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Speaker 2: tennis shoes, and starts to take off along with his buddy.

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Speaker 2: And his buddy looks at him and says, wait a minute,

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Speaker 2: you really think those tennis shoes are going to help

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Speaker 2: you out run that bear, and looks at his find

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Speaker 2: and says, I don't have to outrun the bear, I

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Speaker 2: just have to outrun you. Actually done, Mark, Look, obviously

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Speaker 2: that's a metaphor. For how I honestly feel about Lebron. Now,

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Speaker 2: I have no idea what's going to happen in the

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Speaker 2: next nine months. Perhaps Lebron plays the entire season with

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Speaker 2: the Lakers, as Mark Medinaz convinced he will. Maybe that happens.

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Speaker 2: Maybe he's traded midseason. Maybe he's gone before the season.

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Speaker 2: All I know is I trust my eyes and they

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Speaker 2: tell me a lot, and something is brewing somewhere. I

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Speaker 2: just can't tell you what, when, how where.

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Speaker 3: It's real simple.

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Speaker 2: Lebron has had his feelings hurt by the Lakers, and

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Speaker 2: this isn't the first time.

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Speaker 3: You know, they didn't go for his deal.

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Speaker 2: I mean, he's tired at the end of the season

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Speaker 2: and says, well, I don't know if I'm gonna retire

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Speaker 2: or don't ask me, oh, you want to play three

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Speaker 2: more years.

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Speaker 3: They claim they didn't ask for an extension. Okay, fine, don't.

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Speaker 2: I was in the room, but he wasted no time

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Speaker 2: in opting in and took us fifty two million dollars,

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Speaker 2: which is his right. Lebron's feelings are hurt. It's out

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Speaker 2: there as plain as day. He says he understands the transition.

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Speaker 2: He understands but he's got frustration because he wants to

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Speaker 2: be part of a championship team.

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Speaker 3: Don't, with all due.

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Speaker 2: Respect, when he talks, he's got the credibility of a

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Speaker 2: dermatologist with acne. It just doesn't fly with me, all right.

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Speaker 2: I think it started after Luca was acquired in the

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Speaker 2: trade back on February first, right, And I think Lebron

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Speaker 2: feels slighted because he helped the Lakers win the championship.

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Speaker 2: In the bubble, the Lakers have gone through six st

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Speaker 2: eight losing seasons, and then February first, everything really started

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Speaker 2: to flip. The Lakers started to transition to Luca as

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Speaker 2: their central figure, and that's been made clear since. For one,

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Speaker 2: the Lakers did not approach James about a contract extension,

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Speaker 2: indicating they're fine, this is your last season to be

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Speaker 2: under contract with him. So this is the first time

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Speaker 2: in Lebron's career he's on an expiring contract, and it's

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Speaker 2: the first time he's not the guy.

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Speaker 3: His feelings are hurt.

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Speaker 2: Allegedly, they gave Luca heads up about the ownership sale

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Speaker 2: rather than Lebron. The Lakers also reportedly barely gave Lebron

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Speaker 2: James advanced notice that Anthony Davis was being traded though

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Speaker 2: he understood given the sensitive nature of the topic.

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Speaker 3: And he's got nothing.

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Speaker 2: He ain't got nothing to say, but he wants to

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Speaker 2: sit there front and center for the whole world to see.

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Speaker 3: At the Summer League, he.

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Speaker 2: Said he would do what he needed to do to

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Speaker 2: give him the best chance of winning a championship. Right,

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Speaker 2: and then he talks about on Twitter he' in Cleveland

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Speaker 2: and welcome home and un bop up up up by.

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Speaker 2: Oh but I do this every year, Well you don't

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Speaker 2: tweet about it every year. For now, Lebron is on

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Speaker 2: the Lakers, and I know that people keep telling me, well,

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Speaker 2: they had the third best seed. Well they played the

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Speaker 2: sixth seed in the playoffs.

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Speaker 3: How did that work out? So that that third best

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Speaker 2: You know that in fifty cents to get you a

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Speaker 2: cup of coffee, carls Jr. So the blooebirds are coming

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Speaker 2: out too, by the way, And now and then I'll

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Speaker 3: People will will will weigh in. And when it was reported,

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Speaker 2: Everybody's now aggregating the Ramona Shelbourne and Brian Windhors's story

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Speaker 2: that was published on Friday, and people are commenting. One

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Speaker 2: guy named Buck says, who cares? Get him out of

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Speaker 2: laa steps we can get back to liking the Lakers again.

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Speaker 2: Nobody needs them hanging around. LBJ got his feeling hurt.

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Speaker 2: What the hell is kindergarten? That's somebody named Bob. Somebody

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Speaker 2: Brownie started packing.

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Speaker 4: Wow.

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Speaker 3: Look, I don't think Lebron and I.

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Speaker 2: Know Lebron has a lot of supporters and he's a

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Speaker 2: good basketball player and he'll go to the Hall of Fame.

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Speaker 3: But this isn't ending the way he wanted it to end.

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Speaker 2: And I just I am not going to try to

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Speaker 2: But it just doesn't feel like this can cool exist.

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Speaker 2: This feels to me like, you know, Jimmy Johnson and

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Speaker 2: Jerry Jones parted ways on March thirtieth, nineteen ninety four,

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Speaker 2: but it started at a banquet in late January, and

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Speaker 2: things that Johnson didn't like, and all of a sudden,

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Speaker 2: the echo chamber started to gossip and one thing led

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Speaker 2: to another, and finally, Jerry Jones once said five hundred

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Speaker 2: coaches could have coached those Dallas Cowboys.

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Speaker 3: Jimmy Don said, this isn't gonna work.

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Speaker 2: So I think now, after several situations and points of

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Speaker 2: demarcation since February first, it just looks to me like

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Speaker 2: it's a little but Lebron gonna brewed all season. The

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Speaker 2: Lakers aren't gonna win a championship next year. Okay, He's

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Speaker 2: being paid fifty two million dollars. That's just right. The

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Speaker 2: Lakers agreed to it. That's one third of their entire

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Speaker 2: salary cap. I already told you how I felt about

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Speaker 2: DeAndre Adon last week. Missed one hundred and four games

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Speaker 2: in the last four years. If you're banking on DeAndre

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Speaker 2: Ayton to be the lynchpin to overcome Houston and Golden

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Speaker 2: I think you got a better chance of you know,

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Speaker 2: led Zeppelin re recording the Gilligan's Island theme song and

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Speaker 2: selling the man copies. We'll get to Lebron a little

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Speaker 2: bit with Medina, but it's just becoming a tarotact broken

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Speaker 2: record Let's talk about Cooper Flag. And let me start

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Speaker 2: by saying this. I covered nine summer leagues.

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Speaker 3: I'm not this year. I've had enough.

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Speaker 2: Cooper Flag's eighteen years old, and the summer league means nothing.

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Speaker 2: I am telling you it means nothing. And so what

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Speaker 2: if Cooper Flag was five to twenty one when he

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Speaker 2: would be working nap out of parts next month, playing

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Speaker 2: means nothing. And he had thirty one on Saturday night

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Speaker 2: and even that means nothing. But I was more impressed

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Speaker 2: with him on Thursday. You know why because he showed

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Speaker 2: me a level of insure of maturity. Cooper Flag did

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Speaker 2: that he can impact the game even if his SHOT's

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Speaker 2: not dropping. That's a sign of maturity. Everything looks better

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Speaker 2: when the shots are going through.

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Speaker 3: The hoop they weren't. So what he makes hustle plays.

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Speaker 3: He's got energy, He'll block your shot, he'll defend, he'll pass.

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Speaker 3: His court sense is unreal. His transition game is unbelievable.

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Speaker 3: He also showed that he doesn't let potential shooting wills

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Speaker 3: affect him, that he can still contribute. He can compartmentalize,

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Speaker 3: and he's eighteen years old. As a matter of.

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Speaker 2: Fact, I'll go so far as to say in some ways,

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Speaker 2: Flags quote unquote Soco game on Thursday showed why he

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Speaker 2: wants the topic in the draft. Even if he has

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Speaker 2: a bad knight shooting the ball, he's able to do

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Speaker 2: other things on the floor to make a positive impact

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Speaker 2: on the game, whether it's defense, hustling for rebounds, making

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Speaker 2: unselfish players to find open teammates. His versatility was absolutely

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Speaker 3: And by the way, he's got some star polishing.

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Speaker 2: He may not have the greatest handlers in the world,

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Speaker 2: but he will be much better. And he appeared being

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Speaker 3: And oh, by the way, he absolutely made the most

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Speaker 3: important play in what he described as one of the

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Speaker 3: worst games of his life. With a minute tend to

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Speaker 3: go in the game, and I'm sure Medenery members this,

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Speaker 3: Cooper Flag swooped in from the weak side to swat

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Speaker 3: away DJ Stewart's driving lap and then he pushed the

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Speaker 3: he approached the paint. Does the smart thing. He's got

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Speaker 3: excellent peripheral vision.

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Speaker 2: Found teammate Ryan Nemard wide open for a three pointer,

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Speaker 2: and that gave the Mavericks the lead for good in

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Speaker 2: an eighty seven eighty five win. And by the way,

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Speaker 2: I liked ron physical latitude. He showed effort, he showed

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Speaker 2: physical latitude. I just said that that's department of redundancy department.

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Speaker 2: He contested shots.

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Speaker 3: Look, he's never going to be a good offensive player

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Speaker 3: in this league. He's going to be a good offensive

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Speaker 2: Know he wasn't at Arizona State, and he wasn't with

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Speaker 2: and hit a three. Whoopee damn do. But he had

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Speaker 2: a chance to hit the game winner and he didn't.

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Speaker 2: And that doesn't mean anything either, because even when Brownie's playing, the.

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Speaker 3: Summer League means nothing. They're not projectable.

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Speaker 2: Although that game now is the fourth most watched Summer

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Speaker 2: look at the box score for Cooper Flag five to

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Speaker 2: twenty one from the floor, all five from behind the arc,

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Speaker 2: that's going to stand out. But I think his coaches

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Speaker 2: and the people who care, the people who know consider

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Speaker 2: the defensive stop and the insist with the minutes to

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Speaker 2: who he is as a very good basketball player, great

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Speaker 2: basketball player, someone who said, someone who could very well

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Speaker 2: be the face of the NBA at some point.

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Speaker 3: And I'll tell you right now, this dude's going to

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Speaker 3: sell tickets.

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Speaker 2: People are still gonna want to see the stars SGA

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Speaker 2: love the guy Curry, Okay, but you've seen them all

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Speaker 2: a million times. The MAVs coaches, I think, were happy

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Speaker 2: after the game. They talked about that final play. They said,

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Speaker 2: that's what he does.

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Speaker 3: He makes winning plays, whether it's on offense or defense.

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Speaker 3: He is as advertised, whether it's making the right pass

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Speaker 3: or having a good defensive possession or scoring the ball,

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Speaker 3: that's what he does. He's assertive. He's assertive.

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Speaker 2: The Lakers were determined to make Cooper flag as uncomfortable

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Speaker 2: in his new role as possible. They kept trapping him

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Speaker 2: were all over him like white on rice, and they

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Speaker 2: defended him physically throughout the night. And I think it

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Speaker 2: was a satdary respect. When you have someone like a

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Speaker 2: a great decision maker. He did it a duke, he

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Speaker 2: I know you're wrapping up a long day here at

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Speaker 2: Even though Lebron has not asked for a trade or

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Speaker 2: Well, listen, you're consistent in I think you try to

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Speaker 2: He could have said what you said, he's thinking. He

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Speaker 3: He did what the.

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Speaker 2: Petulant Lebron always does, and this is who he is.

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Speaker 8: What I'm trying to tell you is nothing is going

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Speaker 8: And so you know, he's feeding all this stuff because

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Speaker 8: he hopes that it creates pressure for the Lakers. But

436
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Speaker 8: the Lakers are looking at the way I'm outlining it

437
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Speaker 8: that they're very practical about it, and they'll just play

438
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Speaker 8: the waiting games, say nothing, and once the season starts,

439
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Speaker 8: everything else will be about the games itself.

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Speaker 2: I understand Lucas playing basketball overseas, honing his games.

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Speaker 3: That true.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, he definitely has been. I've been told that he's

443
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Speaker 8: been working diligently with the training staff and gain himself

444
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Speaker 8: a better shape. Now, I'm not under no illusion he's

445
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Speaker 8: mister ironman and he's going to be the slim down

446
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Speaker 8: guy with a six pack. But I do believe that

447
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Speaker 8: he is going to report next season in much better shape,

448
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Speaker 8: and we're going to see his best season of his

449
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Speaker 8: career next season.

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Speaker 2: Austin Reeves, I understand, is enjoying a little golf up

451
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Speaker 2: at the tournament in the lake, Tyler.

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Speaker 3: Was that true?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

455
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Speaker 2: Neither one of those guys saw fit to sit front

456
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Speaker 2: and center so the whole world could look at me,

457
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Speaker 2: look at me.

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Speaker 3: I'm still here, Lebron. There's my problem. And listen, this

459
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Speaker 3: is just a conversation we're having, all right.

460
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Speaker 2: I think it's history is going to play itself out.

461
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Speaker 2: The Lakers are doing with what they're gonna do. It's

462
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Speaker 2: just that the behavior is completely diametrically opposed to what

463
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Speaker 2: I think the image of Lebron wants himself to be.

464
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Speaker 3: And I we'll just leave We'll just leave it there.

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Speaker 2: You saw Cooper Flag up close and personal, and if

466
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Speaker 2: this is I haven't gotten my credential in three years.

467
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Speaker 2: I just had enough of the Summer League. It's a

468
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Speaker 2: wonderful event, by the way, I just had done enough,

469
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Speaker 2: did it enough. But he'd have been one guy I'd

470
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Speaker 2: like to see. So you saw him up close and personal.

471
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Speaker 2: Mark everybody forgets his kids eighteen years old and what

472
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Speaker 2: I saw Friday night, and you could just react to

473
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Speaker 2: what I'm going to say. The shots might have not

474
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Speaker 2: been dropping, but that showed to me why all the

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Speaker 2: one reason why he was the number one pick, because

476
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Speaker 2: of his poise, because of the ability to impact the

477
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Speaker 2: game even though he's not scoring. His energy is transition,

478
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Speaker 2: game is defense, his court sense, he's something special.

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Speaker 3: Give me your thoughts. You saw him court side.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I think you outlined it really well. Now, he

481
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Speaker 8: did have a bounce back performance today against the Santonian Spurs.

482
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Speaker 8: Shot a lot better, went ten to twenty one from

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Speaker 8: the field, game from three, a lot of shots at

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Speaker 8: the free throw line because he was attacking the room

485
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Speaker 8: with a lot of aggressiveness. But I'm with you. Poor

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Speaker 8: shooting night or not, he showed a lot of great

487
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Speaker 8: qualities everywhere else because he had an impact game in

488
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Speaker 8: every fast as far as his playmaking, his rebounding, his defense.

489
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Speaker 8: I think he's a really great playmaker in the open floor.

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Speaker 8: You know, he needs to get in better shape, but

491
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Speaker 8: all these rookies aren't used to this kind of speed, physicality,

492
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Speaker 8: and the fact that they haven't played significant basketball since

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Speaker 8: their college season ended. But what I thought was really fascinating.

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Speaker 8: Where a few things. One when a few reporters included myself,

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Speaker 8: talked to Mark Cuban, he said, exactly what he's what

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Speaker 8: you just said that he is eighteen years old and

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Speaker 8: he's just getting started. And Cuban, unprompted, mentioned that there

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Speaker 8: could be parallels that he and Kobe Bryant are going through. Now.

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Speaker 8: He made it clear Cooper Flag and the late Kobe

500
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Speaker 8: Bryant are not the same kind of players. But the

501
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Speaker 8: point that he was making was when Kobe was drafted

502
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Speaker 8: in nineteen ninety six, it was straight out of high school.

503
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Speaker 8: He needed two years to develop before becoming a defensive

504
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Speaker 8: starter in an All Star and he thinks that Cooper

505
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Speaker 8: Flag could be the same way because he doesn't have

506
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Speaker 8: that kind of pressure to be that franchise savior. Because

507
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Speaker 8: Kyrie Irving, Anthony Davis, Klay Thompson, D'Angel Russell, Daniel Dafford,

508
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Speaker 8: Derek Lively the second they're all on the team, they

509
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Speaker 8: have pretty good debt. But he also saw that some

510
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Speaker 8: of his patent fadeaways were early signs of what Derk

511
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Speaker 8: Nooviski showed during his early years in Dallas. So that

512
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Speaker 8: was point number one point number two. I talked with

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Speaker 8: this trainer, Matt McKenzie earlier today and he was saying

514
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Speaker 8: that even though like the Summer League game didn't matter

515
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Speaker 8: and he wasn't concerned about his play, that he was

516
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Speaker 8: really upset with how poorly he played in his debut.

517
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Speaker 8: I mean, afterwards, he told the media he felt like

518
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Speaker 8: he was one of the worst games of his life,

519
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Speaker 8: and he was caring that, you know, strong criticism and

520
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Speaker 8: you know, frustration in between games so much that he

521
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Speaker 8: talked with Matt about what can they do to improve

522
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Speaker 8: his game, And the message that he was talking about

523
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Speaker 8: was just reinforcing, Hey, when your SHOT's not falling, continue

524
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Speaker 8: to find ways to impact the rest of the game

525
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Speaker 8: with your rebounding, with your defense and your playmaking, and

526
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Speaker 8: eventually your shot will fall and lo and behold. Saturday,

527
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Speaker 8: his shot did fall. So what I take away from

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Speaker 8: this he's very self critical, He's very competitive, but he

529
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Speaker 8: uses that in a good way because he uses a motivation,

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Speaker 8: He doesn't lose confidence and he just finds ways to

531
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Speaker 8: adjust a hit. He has a much better game his

532
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Speaker 8: next valued.

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Speaker 3: I want to.

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Speaker 2: Talk real quickly Mark about the West End. It's going

535
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Speaker 2: to be the Wild Wow West next.

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Speaker 5: Year, you got Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I actually think mark Oklahoma City because they're younger and

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Speaker 2: just the way they had handled this offseason, they have

539
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Speaker 2: a legitimate chance to repeat. Who presents the biggest challenge

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Speaker 2: to them? Houston, Denver or Minnesota?

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Speaker 8: Yeah, great question, I get. I would say Oklahoma City

542
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Speaker 8: would beat all three of semly no major injuries. But

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Speaker 8: if I had to choose a team that could threaten

544
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Speaker 8: the thunder the best, it's the Houston Rockets. I mean,

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Speaker 8: Kevin Durant is a huge game changer. There's definitely gonna

546
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Speaker 8: be questions about his their ability because he's been having

547
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Speaker 8: you know, injuries off and on ever since injurying his

548
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Speaker 8: achilles in twenty nineteen, but went on the floor. He

549
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Speaker 8: is one of the most efficient NBA players still to

550
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Speaker 8: this day, and the Rockets didn't give up their major

551
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Speaker 8: pieces when they got him in that trade with the Suns.

552
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Speaker 8: They still have Alman Thompson, great two way player, very athletic,

553
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Speaker 8: one of the best defenders in my view in the NBA,

554
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Speaker 8: and then Alberd Sengoon. I think you can make the

555
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Speaker 8: case the next season he could be like fifth sixth

556
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Speaker 8: best center in the NBA, if not better behind Nikole

557
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Speaker 8: Jokic and Joel Embiid, assuming he doesn't have a major injury.

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Speaker 8: He's become a much more developed player, both defensively and offensively.

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Speaker 8: He's absorbed the physicality a lot better. And they have

560
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Speaker 8: a really good defensive identity and they're very well coached,

561
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Speaker 8: So I would take them. Yeah, you can't discount the Nuggets.

562
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Speaker 8: They got Nikole Jokic, He's going to play another MVP year.

563
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Speaker 8: Jabal Murray's expected to be healthy. Getting Cam Johnson was

564
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Speaker 8: a great move because he's a great two way player.

565
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Speaker 8: Michael Porter Junior, great score, but inconsistent, doesn't play much defense,

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Speaker 8: so they're.

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Speaker 5: Back in the mix.

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Speaker 8: I just think that the Rockets have so much more

569
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Speaker 8: depth the Minnesota Timberwolves. Yeah, I would count them as fourth,

570
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Speaker 8: but I feel like the Rockets have much more of

571
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Speaker 8: a defensive identity than the Timberwolves too.

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Speaker 2: Wrap it up with Mark Medina Medina Magic Are Fox

573
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Speaker 2: Sports Radio NBA guru. Mark, I don't will why we

574
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Speaker 2: don't talk about the other LA team is that much?

575
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Speaker 3: And perhaps some day the basketball gods will throw our

576
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Speaker 3: good buddy Ben mall Or a bone and the Clippers will.

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Speaker 2: Find them find their way into the NBA finals. Look,

578
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Speaker 2: they pick up Brook Lopez.

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Speaker 3: If you look at the.

580
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Speaker 2: Clippers season last year, Kawhi didn't play his first game

581
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Speaker 2: till after New Year's and after that the Clippers really

582
00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:45,800
Speaker 2: played well. And if you look back at that Denver series,

583
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Speaker 2: it was a seven game series and they went out

584
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Speaker 2: in the first round to two point losses, and they

585
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Speaker 2: actually outscored Denver cumulatively. The only concern is that their players,

586
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Speaker 2: you know, like James Harden and Leonard and in Nicholas Patoum,

587
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Speaker 2: and they're all in their thirties. So did the Clippers

588
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Speaker 2: window close last.

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Speaker 3: Year or could they have get up off the campus

590
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Speaker 3: one time next year and makes some real noise.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I don't think the Clippers will make noise next season.

592
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Speaker 8: I mean it's comforting for them that Kawhi Leonard got

593
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Speaker 8: through a postseason healthy. But even if they're conservative with them,

594
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Speaker 8: or he starts out midway through the season, this idea

595
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Speaker 8: that he can just run it back with a better

596
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Speaker 8: queen bill of health history is now on his style

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Speaker 8: with that. That's point number one. Point number two, it's

598
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Speaker 8: good that they brought James Harden back He's still playing

599
00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:40,080
Speaker 8: really well, but he's a regular season player. In the playoffs,

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Speaker 8: he continued to be inconsistent. I think the interesting thing

601
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Speaker 8: that they did is not sign Norman Pale to an extension.

602
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Speaker 8: I thought he was very deserving. He was a great starter,

603
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:54,480
Speaker 8: elevated his game after being six man. But I think

604
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Speaker 8: that they did that because they wanted to keep flexibility

605
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Speaker 8: to make major moves next year. And so getting John Collins, Yeah,

606
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Speaker 8: that's that's good. You have another forward, another body, another

607
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Speaker 8: great defender. But that cost cutting move as much as

608
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Speaker 8: they're going to miss Norman Palell with his two way consistency,

609
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Speaker 8: that could open them up to make some moves, not

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Speaker 8: this upcoming season, but the following off season. So answer

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Speaker 8: your question, I don't think that they're going to go

612
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Speaker 8: anywhere next season. They'll make the playoffs, but you know,

613
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Speaker 8: maybe the second round, but they're not going to be

614
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Speaker 8: a huge thread in the West. But they do have

615
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Speaker 8: flexibility to make some moves the following off season.

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Speaker 2: Mark, I got a feeling you're gonna get hot on

617
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Speaker 2: the roulette table tonight, so I'm not gonna hold it

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Speaker 2: any further.

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Speaker 3: Buddy.

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Speaker 8: Hey, let's see what numbers should I bet my chips

621
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Speaker 8: on six. Okay if I if I win it, I'll

622
00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:52,920
Speaker 8: credit you. But if not, a hold against.

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Speaker 3: This, absolutely I'll face the music. Mark always appreciate you man.

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Speaker 3: Have fun tonight, all right, take care of my appreciate

625
00:32:01,120 --> 00:32:04,520
Speaker 3: Smart Medina. Medina Magic comes to us every Saturday night

626
00:32:04,560 --> 00:32:08,400
Speaker 3: on the Bernie Frattle Show. He is our Fox Sports

627
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Speaker 3: Radio NBA guru.

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Speaker 2: And you know, Mark maintains his objectivity, I think, and

629
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Speaker 2: he covers the Lakers and he sees those guys and.

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Speaker 3: We'll see what happens at the end of the day.

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Speaker 2: A lot of times, after all is said and done,

632
00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:26,840
Speaker 2: more said than done, and the machinations that would have

633
00:32:26,960 --> 00:32:31,000
Speaker 2: to be maneuvered to trade Lebron are not going to

634
00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:32,880
Speaker 2: be easy. But as I said at the top of

635
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Speaker 2: the show, I'm starting to liken this to the Jimmy

636
00:32:36,240 --> 00:32:40,760
Speaker 2: Johnson Jerry Jones divide back in ninety four, after Dallas

637
00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:42,720
Speaker 2: won their second straight Super Bowl.

638
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Speaker 3: And it just started to leak out. Jerry wasn't getting

639
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Speaker 3: enough credit.

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Speaker 2: He said some things that got back to Jimmy, and

641
00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:50,880
Speaker 2: one thing led to another, and all of a sudden,

642
00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:54,000
Speaker 2: Jerry said, it a banquet to anybody when the earshot.

643
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Speaker 2: I'll come on, five hundred guys could have coached that team.

644
00:32:56,080 --> 00:32:58,600
Speaker 2: Then Jimmy said this isn't gonna work, and they parted

645
00:32:58,680 --> 00:33:01,360
Speaker 2: ways on March thirtieth. Took about two months to brew.

646
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Speaker 2: And I think as this, I said, Lebron's feelings were hurt,

647
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Speaker 2: and I think, is this sore festers over the next

648
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Speaker 2: couple of months. I don't know how they coexist simultaneously.

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Speaker 2: I am not predicting he's going anywhere. I'm not making

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Speaker 2: any predictions. Nobody knows what's gonna happen. He may very

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Speaker 2: well be on the roster for the entire season. He

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Speaker 2: may get traded before the trade deadline or after the

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Speaker 2: or there are some folks who don't believe he'll ever

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Speaker 2: suit up again with the Lakers.

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I just don't know, and I'm not gonna guess. But

657
00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:37,200
Speaker 2: I do know that when I looked at Lebron's face,

658
00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:41,360
Speaker 2: it's written all over his face, and he will try

659
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Speaker 2: to be the company man.

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Speaker 3: I don't know what he's gonna do it.

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Speaker 2: This is gonna be fun to watch because oftentimes the

662
00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:51,240
Speaker 2: storylines that are formed have nothing to do with the

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Speaker 2: box score and everything to do with the dynamic, which will.

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Speaker 3: Be our segue. We have a little bit more of

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Speaker 3: a free forum open Mike night tonight on the midnight hour.

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Speaker 2: From where I sit here in Las Vegas, we are

667
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Speaker 2: nineteen minutes away from midnight. Literally literally be twelve midnight.

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Speaker 2: Figuredly you get the last word in the midnight hour.

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Speaker 2: I'll tee you up on some topics, but we want

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Speaker 2: to hear from you. Eight seven seven nine ninety six

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Speaker 2: six three six nine. I'm Bernie Frattle.

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Speaker 3: We are company line from the Las Vegas Fox Sports

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Speaker 3: Radio Studios. Don't go away.

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Speaker 2: You're listening to the Bernie Frattle Show on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: Now we're back at the Bernie Frattle Show, Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: Come your live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios here

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Speaker 2: in Las Vegas, twelve minutes away from the midnight hour.

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Speaker 2: In twelve minutes, it will strap will the I try

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Speaker 2: to take it in English. That's the time I rent

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Speaker 2: a tone from that place. The clock will strike twelve

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Speaker 2: here in twelve minutes in Las Vegas. Literally perhaps were

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Speaker 2: you live the same situation if you're in the Pacific

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Speaker 2: time zone, but literally and figuratively it's the twelve min

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Speaker 2: that hour which means you get the last word. So

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Speaker 2: let's dive right into it now. We used to do

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Speaker 2: a thing called the rant, which we still do.

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Speaker 3: You don't have to.

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00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:17,200
Speaker 2: You can call and have your own topic, just you know,

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Speaker 2: have a good take and don't suck or we'll run

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Speaker 2: you like somebody used to say, We're not gonna run you.

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00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:26,560
Speaker 3: We don't run you. Maybe. So look, if you want

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Speaker 3: to comment on Lebron, you can have you can have

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Speaker 3: at it.

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Speaker 2: Okay, you know, if you want to come in on

695
00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:38,760
Speaker 2: Adel Reese being in the cover, you know, the video game, Okay,

696
00:35:39,080 --> 00:35:41,880
Speaker 2: that's fine too. Those those are really topics I'm going

697
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Speaker 2: to dive into. But if you want to, if you

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00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:47,200
Speaker 2: got something to say, fine, well I want to start tonight.

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Speaker 3: Is let's come in out of left field for a

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Speaker 3: little bit. Is Deon Sanders a hypocrite? Okay?

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Speaker 2: You know, I realized there was a time when nil

702
00:35:57,440 --> 00:36:01,160
Speaker 2: meant that a player could capitalize on his own profitability

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00:36:01,200 --> 00:36:04,000
Speaker 2: and his own marketability based on his name in image

704
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Speaker 2: and like this. But now let's face it, it's just

705
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Speaker 2: pay for play. Bryce Underwood, out of Belleville High School

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Speaker 2: in Michigan, is a freshman quarterback at Michigan this year.

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00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:16,399
Speaker 2: It has never taken a snap in college football. Most

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Speaker 2: people don't know his name, but he's getting twelve million bucks. Okay,

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00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:23,360
Speaker 2: we'd know about the Texas Tech situation. It didn't seem

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Speaker 2: to bother Dion though last year when Schudor was making

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Speaker 2: six point five million and Travis Center was five point

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Speaker 2: two million, and Dion went on to say there needs

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00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:35,520
Speaker 2: to be a salary cap. Well, I believe there is

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Speaker 2: one twenty point five million a year. What we need

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00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:42,399
Speaker 2: to do is is you know, structure this transfer thing.

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Speaker 2: Maybe you can transfer once and that's it, right, put

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00:36:45,320 --> 00:36:48,279
Speaker 2: some put some teeth into this. I'll never forget. When

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Speaker 2: Dion came out of Florida State, he didn't want to

719
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Speaker 2: be drafted by the Lions and he was really relieved

720
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Speaker 2: when he got drafted by the Atlanta Falcons and he said, well,

721
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Speaker 2: if Detroit would have drafted me, then I had to

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Speaker 2: put me on Layawa because it wouldn't be able to

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Speaker 2: afford me. So Deana, he's never been worried except at

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Speaker 2: Big twelve media day on Wednesday, he was asked how

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Speaker 2: he believes and Il should be handled. He said he

726
00:37:07,120 --> 00:37:08,759
Speaker 2: wishes it was a cap and he went on, the

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Speaker 2: problem is you got a guy and that's not that

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00:37:10,719 --> 00:37:12,160
Speaker 2: darn good, but he can go to other school. They

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00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:14,040
Speaker 2: give him half a million dollars. You can't compete with that.

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Speaker 2: You didn't worry about that.

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Speaker 3: You know before? Or why now? Is Deon a hypocrite?

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Speaker 3: Or does Deon really have a point? He says, all

733
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Speaker 3: you have to do is look at the playoffs and

734
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Speaker 3: see what those teams spend.

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Speaker 2: You understand darn well why they're in the playoffs. It's

736
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Speaker 2: hard to compete with someone who's getting twenty five to

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Speaker 2: thirty million to a.

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Speaker 3: Darn freshman class. We're not complaining or not.

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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, sure sounds like you are, But look,

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Speaker 2: the truth of the matter is buying a team. It

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Speaker 2: just has Texas A and M with their you know,

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Speaker 2: I've chronicled the last three years. They're woes and trying

743
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Speaker 2: to buy a football team. And we'll see if it

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00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:51,440
Speaker 2: works for Texas Tech this year. So tell me what

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00:37:51,480 --> 00:37:53,480
Speaker 2: you think about Dion's comments. And again, if you want

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00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:56,319
Speaker 2: to come out on Lebron, fine with me. You want

747
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Speaker 2: to come out on injury, whatever, Let's have some fun tonight.

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Speaker 3: We don't have to.

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Speaker 2: Agree the most boring conversations when everybody agrees e.

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Speaker 3: Secondly, let's get your first impression thoughts. There's been so

751
00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:12,680
Speaker 3: many overreactions on Cooper Flag and Brownie Thursday night. What

752
00:38:12,760 --> 00:38:13,719
Speaker 3: were your takeaways?

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Speaker 2: That was the hottest ticket in the history of the

754
00:38:17,600 --> 00:38:20,879
Speaker 2: Las Vegas Summer League. It costs two hundred and twenty

755
00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:23,080
Speaker 2: three bucks to get in the door. And oh, by

756
00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:25,920
Speaker 2: the way, if you wanted to sit courtside three Grand

757
00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:29,560
Speaker 2: Laurier Bowl's he for about six forty five The game

758
00:38:29,600 --> 00:38:36,320
Speaker 2: didn't tip off I think till two seven pm. People

759
00:38:36,360 --> 00:38:38,880
Speaker 2: were lining up at six o'clock in the morning outside

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Speaker 2: the Thomas and Max Center to secure their spot. And

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Speaker 2: you know, I'm sure you have some thoughts. Finally, a

762
00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:49,640
Speaker 2: little bit of fun here. There was a radio host

763
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Speaker 2: in Kansas City that I guess body Shane Patrick Mahomes.

764
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Speaker 2: I don't care if the guy's built like a donut salesman,

765
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Speaker 2: and I'm not saying he is. But if you had

766
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Speaker 2: a game to win and your life is on the line,

767
00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:04,879
Speaker 2: which current NFL quarterback would you want with the ball

768
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Speaker 2: in his hands in the fourth quarter. I love Lamar Jackson,

769
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Speaker 2: it wouldn't be him. I like Josh Allen, It wouldn't

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Speaker 2: be him. It would be Patrick Mahomes because he's done

771
00:39:13,239 --> 00:39:16,360
Speaker 2: it too many times. But how about you, So, do

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Speaker 2: you think Deanon Sanders is a hypocrite? Didn't seem to

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Speaker 2: matter when Chador was six point five and Travis was

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Speaker 2: five point two. That's eleven point seven million dollars right

775
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Speaker 2: there between two guys number two. What are your takeaways

776
00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:35,719
Speaker 2: on Bronnie and Cooper Flagg the other night and Browny's improved. Look,

777
00:39:35,719 --> 00:39:38,000
Speaker 2: he'll never be an offensive player in the NBA, but

778
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Speaker 2: he might have a role.

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Speaker 3: He could eat up six to eight minutes a game.

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Speaker 3: We'll see.

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Speaker 2: We'll see if the Lakers keep him, if le Bron's gone,

782
00:39:44,160 --> 00:39:47,719
Speaker 2: And then Patrick Mahomes, he's the guy I'd want in

783
00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:49,239
Speaker 2: the fourth quarter to win a game with my life

784
00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:51,360
Speaker 2: is out the line. Which quarterback would you want? And again,

785
00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:53,760
Speaker 2: if you want to come in on Lebron open season,

786
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Speaker 2: I don't care.

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Speaker 3: You could defend him.

788
00:39:55,960 --> 00:39:59,279
Speaker 2: You can say whatever you want to say, except for

789
00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:01,719
Speaker 2: the seven words like George Carlin say because that could

790
00:40:01,760 --> 00:40:04,680
Speaker 2: get your run. Eight seven seven nine nine on Fox

791
00:40:05,640 --> 00:40:08,200
Speaker 2: eight seven seven nine ninety six sixty three six nine,

792
00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:10,319
Speaker 2: The callers are what make them in that hour.

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Speaker 3: You've been fantastic. We'll take your calls, We'll get you

794
00:40:13,160 --> 00:40:15,239
Speaker 3: on the air, and we're looking for what you got

795
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Speaker 3: to say is Deanna.

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Speaker 2: Hypocrite reaction to Brownie and Cooper Patrick Mahomes, he'd be

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Speaker 2: my guy to win a game in the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 2: And if you want to talk about Lebron, Andel Reese

799
00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:27,279
Speaker 2: or the price or rice in Nebraska, I don't care,

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Speaker 2: keep it locked and listen to the Bernie Frattle Show

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00:40:30,080 --> 00:40:32,399
Speaker 2: on Fox Sports Radio.

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00:40:32,640 --> 00:40:35,399
Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

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Speaker 2: That's right, you heard the man Bernie Fraddle Show. Keeps

804
00:40:41,680 --> 00:40:44,520
Speaker 2: for rolling right along. My name is Bernie Frottle. We

805
00:40:44,520 --> 00:40:47,200
Speaker 2: are a comedy line from the Fox Sports Radio compound

806
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Speaker 2: here in Las Vegas.

807
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Speaker 3: Take you up to three am Pacific, six a m.

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Speaker 2: Eastern into what has already been a very spirited show,

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00:40:55,080 --> 00:40:58,560
Speaker 2: what promises to be a very spirited midnight hour what

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Speaker 2: with Dion and Cooper and Bronnie and Patrick Mahomes.

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Speaker 3: And again, if you want to comment.

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00:41:03,200 --> 00:41:06,680
Speaker 2: On Lebron or injuries, take the one you're most passionate about,

813
00:41:06,800 --> 00:41:08,759
Speaker 2: run with it. Or if you have a couple going

814
00:41:08,800 --> 00:41:11,360
Speaker 2: in the order you want all I can say is

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Speaker 2: we call it the Midnight Hour eight seven seven on

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Speaker 2: Fox eight seven seven nine ninety six six three six nine.

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Speaker 3: Lit's here from you. Be patient. I promise I'll get

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Speaker 3: to all of you.

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Speaker 2: We begin with Marshawan in California. Marshaan, Is this your

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Speaker 2: first time calling the midnight hour?

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Speaker 5: Gloat?

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Speaker 3: Hi, Marshawn, you are on the air. Is this your

823
00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:33,000
Speaker 3: first time calling the midnight Hour?

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Speaker 9: No, Bernie, this is in Marshawn.

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00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:36,240
Speaker 10: This is Martin.

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Speaker 2: Okay, no problem. I either I can't read or something,

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Speaker 2: but good to have you on. Welcome back in.

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Speaker 3: How are you?

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Speaker 11: Hey, Bernie?

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Speaker 9: Thanks you a lot.

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Speaker 8: Man.

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Speaker 10: Let me just get right to it so I don't

833
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Speaker 10: waste any of your.

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Speaker 9: Time right here, Let's start off.

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Speaker 10: With uh Brandon for his name? Up, Cooper, Cooper, Flag

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Speaker 10: and bron Ronnie Yep.

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Speaker 9: I don't know.

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Speaker 11: Oh.

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Speaker 10: I got a feeling as we got into that huddle.

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Speaker 10: They probably gave this guy the green light and told

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00:42:05,160 --> 00:42:07,680
Speaker 10: him to hey, man, shoot and take. You can't shoot

842
00:42:07,719 --> 00:42:10,799
Speaker 10: anymore because I've never seen him be that inefficient in

843
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Speaker 10: his college career, so I don't see him taking.

844
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Speaker 9: I think it was like.

845
00:42:14,760 --> 00:42:18,200
Speaker 10: Thirty one shots to score like twenty points. That's not

846
00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:21,000
Speaker 10: his normal game. And I think the next day he

847
00:42:21,160 --> 00:42:22,080
Speaker 10: proved that by throwing.

848
00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:28,520
Speaker 9: I think he got thirty one and twenty shots. But Bertie,

849
00:42:28,560 --> 00:42:32,480
Speaker 9: I remember when the NBA Finals was on tape delay.

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00:42:33,440 --> 00:42:34,520
Speaker 8: Yeah, now we're.

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00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:35,560
Speaker 9: Talking about Now, we're.

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00:42:35,440 --> 00:42:39,239
Speaker 10: Talking about three thousand dollars for a Summer League court

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00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:40,839
Speaker 10: type ticket.

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00:42:41,360 --> 00:42:43,960
Speaker 2: People were lined up starting at six am at the

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Speaker 2: Thomas and Mac on Thursday morning.

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00:42:46,600 --> 00:42:52,640
Speaker 3: Because I am un sounded well, yeah.

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00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:54,360
Speaker 2: But remember you've heard me say it a thousand times.

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00:42:54,400 --> 00:42:57,080
Speaker 2: We don't have royalty in this country. Our athletes and

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00:42:57,120 --> 00:42:59,759
Speaker 2: our entertainers are, in fact our royalty. And I think

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Speaker 2: Cooper Flag at eighteen years old, is incredibly projectable, just

861
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Speaker 2: like another eighteen year old was back in two thousand

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Speaker 2: and three by the name of Lebron James.

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Speaker 3: You got the last word.

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Speaker 10: But this is my This is my name because I

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Speaker 10: love Summer League. Why I used to because it was

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Speaker 10: one of those affordable tickets.

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Speaker 9: I may not be able to.

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Speaker 10: Afford a regular season game, but I can afford.

869
00:43:20,280 --> 00:43:22,560
Speaker 9: A Summer League game and see two or three and

870
00:43:22,640 --> 00:43:23,560
Speaker 9: see people run.

871
00:43:23,600 --> 00:43:25,279
Speaker 10: And I used to love that. We used to have

872
00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:27,120
Speaker 10: it out here in Long Beach, over our Long Beach

873
00:43:27,160 --> 00:43:35,240
Speaker 10: state second Dion Sanders. Of course he's a hitocrit's hen't

874
00:43:35,280 --> 00:43:39,600
Speaker 10: even give money to your guys.

875
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:39,600
Speaker 9: Give money to your son.

876
00:43:40,960 --> 00:43:41,520
Speaker 4: It's hit.

877
00:43:42,280 --> 00:43:45,480
Speaker 10: But when you're talking about another guy, this is a

878
00:43:45,600 --> 00:43:48,680
Speaker 10: guy who went on record and said I will not

879
00:43:48,920 --> 00:43:51,840
Speaker 10: recruit any kid who.

880
00:43:51,640 --> 00:43:55,160
Speaker 9: Comes from a single family home, no wing fall.

881
00:43:55,280 --> 00:43:58,200
Speaker 10: Well his the hell this grew up in a single

882
00:43:58,239 --> 00:43:58,879
Speaker 10: family home.

883
00:43:59,160 --> 00:44:03,000
Speaker 9: He wasn't with that girl's mama. So I just I'm

884
00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:07,280
Speaker 9: a big I'm a big deal supporter, But I really

885
00:44:07,320 --> 00:44:09,719
Speaker 9: have a feeling he's.

886
00:44:09,520 --> 00:44:11,440
Speaker 10: Gonna be like the Wizard of Us.

887
00:44:11,719 --> 00:44:14,719
Speaker 9: We're gonna pull back those curtains and we're gonna see

888
00:44:14,760 --> 00:44:18,759
Speaker 9: this little tiny man who po some smoke and some

889
00:44:18,920 --> 00:44:22,160
Speaker 9: mirrors and he had us convinced you how to change

890
00:44:22,160 --> 00:44:23,040
Speaker 9: college football.

891
00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:27,560
Speaker 2: Great way to start us off with the outstanding call.

892
00:44:27,880 --> 00:44:30,239
Speaker 2: I love, I love the energy, don't don't, don't be

893
00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:33,000
Speaker 2: a stranger. So what you're basically saying is, hey, Dion,

894
00:44:33,400 --> 00:44:35,000
Speaker 2: don't be peeing out of my shoes and telling me

895
00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:37,399
Speaker 2: it's raining. He does have ten years and fifty four

896
00:44:37,440 --> 00:44:41,080
Speaker 2: million dollars. We'll see how they do. Excellent, excellent call.

897
00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:43,600
Speaker 2: Michael lepper Crown in Boston, you're up next.

898
00:44:44,960 --> 00:44:47,480
Speaker 4: Oh and welcome to the Midnight Hour. The Red Sox

899
00:44:47,800 --> 00:44:48,319
Speaker 4: and far by the.

900
00:44:48,320 --> 00:44:50,400
Speaker 3: Way, Yeah, they're doing well well one nine in a

901
00:44:50,480 --> 00:44:51,400
Speaker 3: row or something.

902
00:44:51,840 --> 00:44:54,560
Speaker 4: Nine Yeah, and Big Ben was a very good host

903
00:44:54,560 --> 00:44:55,439
Speaker 4: and I was in La.

904
00:44:55,920 --> 00:44:57,480
Speaker 3: But anyways, Ben's a good man.

905
00:44:58,520 --> 00:45:00,080
Speaker 4: I don't think the kickers are going to wear the

906
00:45:00,160 --> 00:45:04,560
Speaker 4: time sooner anyway. And Lebron too bad. He feeling is

907
00:45:04,560 --> 00:45:06,760
Speaker 4: the heart and I said seem last week he should

908
00:45:06,760 --> 00:45:09,799
Speaker 4: come to Boston for one year and he wouldn't have

909
00:45:09,880 --> 00:45:12,239
Speaker 4: his feelings so bad. He'd be even though they hit

910
00:45:12,360 --> 00:45:14,600
Speaker 4: him there. He could make a difference for one year

911
00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:16,040
Speaker 4: and he is productive.

912
00:45:16,600 --> 00:45:19,080
Speaker 3: Well, if we play for free, maybe that could happen.

913
00:45:19,120 --> 00:45:22,319
Speaker 4: But other now, oh no, no, the subjects have a

914
00:45:22,480 --> 00:45:26,359
Speaker 4: huge salary cap right now to they have no they

915
00:45:26,400 --> 00:45:30,520
Speaker 4: need players. Cooper Flag begging by the way, betting shouldn't

916
00:45:30,520 --> 00:45:33,240
Speaker 4: be allowed for the Summer League. In my opinion, Cooper

917
00:45:33,280 --> 00:45:38,520
Speaker 4: Flag is a good boy from Maine. Great, he's a lefty,

918
00:45:38,680 --> 00:45:41,359
Speaker 4: a great decision maker with great poise. And I can't

919
00:45:41,360 --> 00:45:45,000
Speaker 4: wait to see the Los Angeles Lakers and Dallas games

920
00:45:45,040 --> 00:45:48,279
Speaker 4: this year. They should be a doozy and Kit and

921
00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:51,200
Speaker 4: Clark well, Kitten Talk and Angel Rees still have that

922
00:45:51,280 --> 00:45:54,480
Speaker 4: great rivalry. And for a quarterback I would put in

923
00:45:55,080 --> 00:45:58,600
Speaker 4: I wouldn't put in Drake May probably, Oh my god, okay,

924
00:45:58,280 --> 00:46:02,920
Speaker 4: and I I mean maybe he's like he's like Cooper Flags,

925
00:46:02,920 --> 00:46:06,120
Speaker 4: he's developing, And I say, de Young Sanders, he's a

926
00:46:06,200 --> 00:46:07,040
Speaker 4: total hypocrite.

927
00:46:08,520 --> 00:46:13,520
Speaker 2: All right, Mike, keep pulling down there in Boston. Beautiful

928
00:46:13,520 --> 00:46:16,520
Speaker 2: summer there on the Cape Mark and Texas Joint. Just

929
00:46:16,520 --> 00:46:18,920
Speaker 2: welcome back in Mark. How are you very good?

930
00:46:18,960 --> 00:46:19,800
Speaker 12: How you doing tonight?

931
00:46:20,200 --> 00:46:20,800
Speaker 3: Doing well?

932
00:46:22,480 --> 00:46:23,040
Speaker 5: Are you there?

933
00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:27,560
Speaker 3: I am here? You got the floor? Okay, regale America

934
00:46:27,640 --> 00:46:29,880
Speaker 3: with your thoughts pretty well.

935
00:46:30,239 --> 00:46:32,600
Speaker 13: I'll go with my homes that quarterback.

936
00:46:32,960 --> 00:46:33,520
Speaker 14: Two and three.

937
00:46:33,560 --> 00:46:35,879
Speaker 13: I would take Brady in Montana.

938
00:46:35,840 --> 00:46:39,480
Speaker 3: But they're not playing anymore. I'm talking about your curn guys.

939
00:46:40,120 --> 00:46:42,160
Speaker 2: Probably, although Brady came off the bench right now, I

940
00:46:42,200 --> 00:46:43,759
Speaker 2: might take him as well, but go ahead.

941
00:46:43,800 --> 00:46:46,960
Speaker 13: Yeah, but who would you rather have starting Caleber Brady

942
00:46:46,960 --> 00:46:48,319
Speaker 13: for the Bears.

943
00:46:48,160 --> 00:46:51,560
Speaker 2: Not Caleb. Ben Johnson's a yeller. I'm curious to see

944
00:46:51,560 --> 00:46:54,560
Speaker 2: how that's gonna work out. I'm serious, I'm serious. Ben

945
00:46:54,600 --> 00:46:57,000
Speaker 2: Johnson left a premier situation in Detroit.

946
00:46:58,000 --> 00:46:58,400
Speaker 3: Go ahead.

947
00:46:58,400 --> 00:46:58,920
Speaker 14: He's got it.

948
00:46:59,000 --> 00:47:01,720
Speaker 11: He's got a a major challenge in Chicago.

949
00:47:02,680 --> 00:47:05,359
Speaker 3: All right, any thoughts on your you know, takeaway from

950
00:47:05,360 --> 00:47:07,960
Speaker 3: Brownie or or Cooper Flat.

951
00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:12,560
Speaker 8: I would say, I'm sorry his dad played a big

952
00:47:12,600 --> 00:47:13,040
Speaker 8: role in that.

953
00:47:13,920 --> 00:47:15,200
Speaker 12: I do like flag a lot.

954
00:47:16,480 --> 00:47:18,120
Speaker 2: All right, Mark, appreciate you, man. I want to get

955
00:47:18,160 --> 00:47:20,120
Speaker 2: to all the callers. We're gonna get to all you.

956
00:47:20,200 --> 00:47:23,319
Speaker 2: Please be patient, I know, don't drop off, man, We're

957
00:47:23,320 --> 00:47:25,759
Speaker 2: gonna get to all you. Christopher in North Carolina, you've

958
00:47:25,800 --> 00:47:27,880
Speaker 2: been a part of this FIESCA before on Saturday Night.

959
00:47:27,960 --> 00:47:28,319
Speaker 3: How are you?

960
00:47:29,640 --> 00:47:31,919
Speaker 11: I'm doing well, Bernie. This is my last call before

961
00:47:31,960 --> 00:47:33,400
Speaker 11: I moved to England.

962
00:47:33,040 --> 00:47:37,719
Speaker 3: So you're moving to England, you could still call in

963
00:47:37,800 --> 00:47:38,120
Speaker 3: from there.

964
00:47:38,120 --> 00:47:44,040
Speaker 2: We've had callers from Japan, Italy, Ireland, even Detroit. Yeah,

965
00:47:45,239 --> 00:47:46,239
Speaker 2: what's prompting to move?

966
00:47:48,360 --> 00:47:50,920
Speaker 3: Move as a job. Well, that's why I was in

967
00:47:50,960 --> 00:47:51,640
Speaker 3: London last year.

968
00:47:51,680 --> 00:47:55,120
Speaker 2: And okay, I'll tell you what you call because we're

969
00:47:55,320 --> 00:47:57,799
Speaker 2: a morning drive in London right now. It's nine am

970
00:47:57,840 --> 00:47:59,840
Speaker 2: in London, man or eight am. So all right, go ahead,

971
00:48:00,239 --> 00:48:02,160
Speaker 2: I'll take all your ad.

972
00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:06,520
Speaker 11: I appreciate Bernie. So let's start with LBJ. So the

973
00:48:06,640 --> 00:48:09,760
Speaker 11: all time scoring leader number two. He is the first

974
00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:14,359
Speaker 11: NBA player to be a billionaire with all of his investments.

975
00:48:14,520 --> 00:48:17,520
Speaker 11: So let's see, he needs fifty two million per what.

976
00:48:18,280 --> 00:48:19,239
Speaker 10: I don't know.

977
00:48:19,800 --> 00:48:23,040
Speaker 11: The man is a greedy anyhow, I won't say that word.

978
00:48:23,239 --> 00:48:26,279
Speaker 11: He's greedy. He doesn't care about winning. If he cared

979
00:48:26,320 --> 00:48:29,480
Speaker 11: about winning, he would be like any other player that say,

980
00:48:29,680 --> 00:48:32,760
Speaker 11: I'm forty two years old, I want my last chance.

981
00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:36,000
Speaker 11: I'm going to give the team the money. I don't

982
00:48:36,120 --> 00:48:36,600
Speaker 11: need it.

983
00:48:36,880 --> 00:48:42,319
Speaker 2: But no, he's got all the credibility of a dermatologist

984
00:48:42,360 --> 00:48:43,800
Speaker 2: with acne. When he's trying to tell us where he

985
00:48:43,840 --> 00:48:45,800
Speaker 2: wants to do. One thing, he does another go ahead.

986
00:48:47,560 --> 00:48:50,880
Speaker 11: He's no inference than any player in the NBA that

987
00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:54,520
Speaker 11: thinks they want the money was most important. Then that's

988
00:48:54,520 --> 00:48:57,160
Speaker 11: all he cares about. He doesn't care about winning. He's

989
00:48:57,200 --> 00:49:01,560
Speaker 11: got so many accolades. Why does I'm sorry, I can

990
00:49:01,640 --> 00:49:06,759
Speaker 11: go on. I demand is like my favorite NFL quarterback,

991
00:49:07,080 --> 00:49:08,200
Speaker 11: and he's no different.

992
00:49:08,560 --> 00:49:09,840
Speaker 14: They're both hypocrits.

993
00:49:09,840 --> 00:49:12,760
Speaker 2: You're talking about Aaron Rodgers, aren't you remember.

994
00:49:12,880 --> 00:49:14,720
Speaker 11: I know I wasn't going to say the word, but

995
00:49:14,760 --> 00:49:18,000
Speaker 11: my point is they're hypocrites. They think that they're the

996
00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:21,880
Speaker 11: most important thing, Lebron, you're past your prime. You're an

997
00:49:21,880 --> 00:49:24,680
Speaker 11: old man. You're on the age of social security. In

998
00:49:24,719 --> 00:49:26,160
Speaker 11: the sandpoint of the NBA.

999
00:49:26,320 --> 00:49:31,120
Speaker 3: Go away, you don't get away for three moriars real quickly, Christopher,

1000
00:49:31,200 --> 00:49:33,560
Speaker 3: do you have anything regarding Diana? Is he a hypocrite?

1001
00:49:34,400 --> 00:49:36,520
Speaker 11: Well, I'm going to what's that one? I want to

1002
00:49:36,520 --> 00:49:41,440
Speaker 11: touch on one last one. It's mister mahomes Kill quarterback.

1003
00:49:41,680 --> 00:49:42,480
Speaker 5: I would take.

1004
00:49:42,560 --> 00:49:45,320
Speaker 11: Half my roster to give the Kansas City because I

1005
00:49:45,360 --> 00:49:48,400
Speaker 11: would win, and I would win NFL. Finally, in my

1006
00:49:48,480 --> 00:49:52,279
Speaker 11: sixty years, I would see a Super Bowl. So bottom line, Bernie,

1007
00:49:52,360 --> 00:49:54,879
Speaker 11: I would love to see mahomes I don't care what

1008
00:49:55,000 --> 00:49:57,000
Speaker 11: shape he's in. God bless the man. I'd have him

1009
00:49:57,080 --> 00:50:00,480
Speaker 11: number one every team because demand's a winner. Thank you

1010
00:50:00,520 --> 00:50:00,920
Speaker 11: for your time.

1011
00:50:00,960 --> 00:50:03,239
Speaker 3: Hey, what city are you moving to in England?

1012
00:50:04,200 --> 00:50:05,320
Speaker 10: I'm moving right to London.

1013
00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:09,040
Speaker 11: I'm sorry, I'm moving right into London.

1014
00:50:09,360 --> 00:50:12,160
Speaker 3: All right, cool, all right, all right, we'll hear from

1015
00:50:12,239 --> 00:50:12,600
Speaker 3: you again.

1016
00:50:13,880 --> 00:50:16,880
Speaker 2: Andre in Massachusetts, glad you're part of this Fiesca to that,

1017
00:50:16,960 --> 00:50:20,480
Speaker 2: I'm sure you've got a lot to say, Andre, Andre

1018
00:50:20,520 --> 00:50:25,640
Speaker 2: in Massachusetts. That is a pretty I think we are, Andre, Andre,

1019
00:50:25,719 --> 00:50:29,359
Speaker 2: how are you, Bud, welcome in, Thank you so.

1020
00:50:29,400 --> 00:50:30,239
Speaker 9: Much for having me.

1021
00:50:30,760 --> 00:50:32,840
Speaker 13: Thrilled to be here. Quite a bit to get to you.

1022
00:50:32,920 --> 00:50:38,240
Speaker 13: Let's start off in terms of Cooper Flag and and

1023
00:50:38,440 --> 00:50:41,360
Speaker 13: Brianni James. Listen, Cooper Flag, it's going to take time

1024
00:50:41,480 --> 00:50:44,920
Speaker 13: because he gray shirted, right, so he's the second youngest rookie.

1025
00:50:44,960 --> 00:50:47,760
Speaker 13: He essentially kipped over a senior year of high school

1026
00:50:47,800 --> 00:50:50,480
Speaker 13: to start at Duke last year. Where did this thing?

1027
00:50:50,560 --> 00:50:53,520
Speaker 13: Deserves to be the number one overall pick. But he's

1028
00:50:53,560 --> 00:50:57,080
Speaker 13: a different Cooper Flag is highly skilled, He's a hard

1029
00:50:57,080 --> 00:51:00,760
Speaker 13: working young man. He's not necessarily this explosive athlete.

1030
00:51:00,960 --> 00:51:02,280
Speaker 4: So there is going to be just.

1031
00:51:02,160 --> 00:51:05,319
Speaker 13: Like when the young quarterbacks step up into the NFL, right,

1032
00:51:05,320 --> 00:51:07,760
Speaker 13: it takes them time to adjust to the NFL speed.

1033
00:51:07,760 --> 00:51:10,480
Speaker 13: That's gonna be the same thing with Cooper Flag. Relative

1034
00:51:10,520 --> 00:51:13,839
Speaker 13: to Bronni James, I think he's representing himself nicely and

1035
00:51:13,880 --> 00:51:15,800
Speaker 13: in summer league, you know, and he's staying on the

1036
00:51:15,840 --> 00:51:17,440
Speaker 13: team and it's a good storyline. Will he be a

1037
00:51:17,520 --> 00:51:20,320
Speaker 13: rotation player for the Lakers. No, but it's a good storyline.

1038
00:51:20,360 --> 00:51:23,399
Speaker 13: The NBA getting all their money with the matchup. Now

1039
00:51:23,560 --> 00:51:25,880
Speaker 13: to the second thing, the straight through line over to

1040
00:51:25,960 --> 00:51:28,959
Speaker 13: Lebron James in terms of what's going on with his situations.

1041
00:51:29,080 --> 00:51:32,000
Speaker 13: Here's what it comes down to, point period, end of stories.

1042
00:51:32,360 --> 00:51:35,640
Speaker 13: Lebron James is now Robins and so he's having essentially

1043
00:51:35,840 --> 00:51:38,520
Speaker 13: a mid life crisis. That's what we're seeing in real time.

1044
00:51:38,760 --> 00:51:43,120
Speaker 13: He's always been batman since he's a sophomore at Saint Vincent,

1045
00:51:43,160 --> 00:51:46,400
Speaker 13: Saint Mary's. You know, couver Sports illustrated as a junior,

1046
00:51:46,440 --> 00:51:49,680
Speaker 13: the chosen one, all right, But the Lakers with Luca

1047
00:51:49,760 --> 00:51:52,640
Speaker 13: Don trich Okay or any other team that he goes

1048
00:51:52,680 --> 00:51:55,239
Speaker 13: to for that matter, he is not going to be

1049
00:51:55,360 --> 00:51:57,560
Speaker 13: the north Star. He's not going to be the epicenter.

1050
00:51:57,760 --> 00:52:00,640
Speaker 13: And that's what he is trying to grapple with. Frankly,

1051
00:52:00,920 --> 00:52:03,840
Speaker 13: I don't like how it's being handled in the early stages,

1052
00:52:03,840 --> 00:52:06,799
Speaker 13: which is typical Lebron trying to control the narrative, trying

1053
00:52:06,800 --> 00:52:08,120
Speaker 13: to take back power.

1054
00:52:08,200 --> 00:52:09,200
Speaker 5: We see all these.

1055
00:52:09,120 --> 00:52:12,440
Speaker 13: Storylines, Oh, you know, they're gonna waige him and he's

1056
00:52:12,440 --> 00:52:14,720
Speaker 13: gonna buy out his contract, go to all these other teams.

1057
00:52:14,800 --> 00:52:17,880
Speaker 13: It's not realistic. In everybody, including Lebron James knows it.

1058
00:52:18,040 --> 00:52:21,880
Speaker 13: Here's why LA is the optimal place for him because

1059
00:52:21,880 --> 00:52:25,600
Speaker 13: of his business interest. He wants to be a movie mogul.

1060
00:52:25,800 --> 00:52:27,839
Speaker 13: That's why he's in La to do all the other

1061
00:52:27,880 --> 00:52:30,000
Speaker 13: things off the court. Never mind the fact that it's

1062
00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:33,359
Speaker 13: good his family's there, they're settled in Okay, and never

1063
00:52:33,400 --> 00:52:35,960
Speaker 13: mind the weather, which is better on his aging body.

1064
00:52:36,520 --> 00:52:38,840
Speaker 13: All Right, that's the best situation for him at the

1065
00:52:38,920 --> 00:52:41,200
Speaker 13: end of the day. But he's having a hard time realizing.

1066
00:52:41,200 --> 00:52:41,279
Speaker 4: Me.

1067
00:52:41,480 --> 00:52:43,680
Speaker 13: So that's all this stuff about Cleveland. They already have

1068
00:52:43,680 --> 00:52:46,759
Speaker 13: a championship team ready with Kenny Atkinson at the Helm

1069
00:52:46,960 --> 00:52:51,719
Speaker 13: my New York. Okay, these other teams that he's gonna

1070
00:52:51,719 --> 00:52:53,480
Speaker 13: have to go to number one, he's still not He's

1071
00:52:53,480 --> 00:52:56,640
Speaker 13: still gonna be Robins. And it's a harder it's a

1072
00:52:56,680 --> 00:52:58,320
Speaker 13: harder thing to do to start fresh, to try to

1073
00:52:58,360 --> 00:53:00,439
Speaker 13: compete for a championship than where you are right now.

1074
00:53:00,560 --> 00:53:04,480
Speaker 13: So it is a fascinating storyline because it really just

1075
00:53:04,520 --> 00:53:07,160
Speaker 13: comes down to the hubris that we have as human beings,

1076
00:53:07,160 --> 00:53:11,160
Speaker 13: and lebron La is the best place for you. You

1077
00:53:11,160 --> 00:53:12,719
Speaker 13: want to do the thing with Bronni, you want to

1078
00:53:12,719 --> 00:53:14,440
Speaker 13: play with your son Bright, you want to be a

1079
00:53:14,480 --> 00:53:17,000
Speaker 13: movie mogul, you want to try to compete for championships

1080
00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:20,280
Speaker 13: with a transcendent star Luka Doncics. LA checked all the boxes,

1081
00:53:20,400 --> 00:53:21,799
Speaker 13: but you don't have the last word.

1082
00:53:22,160 --> 00:53:25,480
Speaker 2: Did you see tonight Andre the look on his face

1083
00:53:25,520 --> 00:53:28,839
Speaker 2: as he sat there with that little Bill Murray Caddyshack

1084
00:53:28,960 --> 00:53:32,040
Speaker 2: cap On watching the game mid court there?

1085
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Speaker 3: Did you see him do face? He looks like he

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00:53:34,719 --> 00:53:36,960
Speaker 3: just smelled it fart. That's what it get used to it.

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Speaker 3: That's what he's gonna look like all year's That was real.

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Speaker 13: I just feel like if he tries to what is it?

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00:53:45,719 --> 00:53:49,480
Speaker 13: You know, if you try to continue on doing things

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00:53:49,520 --> 00:53:51,880
Speaker 13: the way that you've always done that, which is basically

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00:53:51,960 --> 00:53:55,120
Speaker 13: bulldozing people with this whole player empowerment, he's gonna find

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Speaker 13: himself in a worse situation business wise and career. It's

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00:53:59,600 --> 00:54:02,319
Speaker 13: just all of those things, Lebron. If you can just

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00:54:02,360 --> 00:54:05,120
Speaker 13: take a step back and give a little bit, I

1095
00:54:05,160 --> 00:54:07,200
Speaker 13: think LA will be a place for you. If you

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00:54:07,239 --> 00:54:09,120
Speaker 13: want to just continue on with what you've always done,

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00:54:09,160 --> 00:54:12,040
Speaker 13: player empowerment but bulldozing it. His last years are not

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00:54:12,080 --> 00:54:15,040
Speaker 13: going to be what they otherwise, what INCONCLUDI Patty Mahomes

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00:54:15,160 --> 00:54:16,960
Speaker 13: his dad bod you know, and is he still the

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Speaker 13: best quarterback. To be the man, you got to beat

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Speaker 13: the man. Okay, so he is for me still the

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00:54:20,880 --> 00:54:24,800
Speaker 13: best quarterback. These guys that I'm pulling for, Lamar, Josh Allen,

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00:54:25,160 --> 00:54:27,040
Speaker 13: Joe Burrow, you got to show it to me, and

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00:54:27,640 --> 00:54:30,440
Speaker 13: particularly Lamar Jackson, even though I hate to point him out.

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00:54:30,440 --> 00:54:33,840
Speaker 13: You know he's passed you for getting through and breaking

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00:54:33,840 --> 00:54:37,280
Speaker 13: through all these MVPs. But until that happens, Patty Mahomes,

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Speaker 13: Andy Reid, you know what they have set up in

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00:54:39,960 --> 00:54:42,600
Speaker 13: Kansas City. They are the de facto champions. He's the

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00:54:42,600 --> 00:54:43,120
Speaker 13: best quarterback.

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Speaker 5: Thanks taking the call.

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Speaker 3: Bury always appreciate the energy.

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Speaker 3: try to get to you as quickly as I can

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Speaker 3: and want to give everybody their due.

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Speaker 2: Let's hear from you, MJ in Texans. Thanks for your patience.

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Speaker 2: You are up next.

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00:56:12,000 --> 00:56:13,719
Speaker 3: Good morning, sir, Good morning sir.

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Speaker 15: Yeah, I before I get to the main thing I

1146
00:56:18,960 --> 00:56:22,520
Speaker 15: want to hit on. Uh, you can't get me to

1147
00:56:22,560 --> 00:56:25,520
Speaker 15: say anything bad about the on maybe the time and

1148
00:56:25,680 --> 00:56:29,200
Speaker 15: is just bad fair about the silent salary cap. But

1149
00:56:29,440 --> 00:56:32,759
Speaker 15: he's the greatest athlete that I've ever witnessed, and I'm

1150
00:56:32,800 --> 00:56:36,040
Speaker 15: talking about pound for pound in the history of sports.

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Speaker 3: So I agree with that MJ. I played minor league baseball.

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00:56:40,400 --> 00:56:42,399
Speaker 2: They put a wrinkle on that Dion was not only

1153
00:56:42,480 --> 00:56:44,600
Speaker 2: a major league baseball player, which no one ever talks about,

1154
00:56:44,640 --> 00:56:45,440
Speaker 2: he was a good one.

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00:56:45,800 --> 00:56:47,000
Speaker 3: So I'm with you on that one.

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00:56:47,200 --> 00:56:49,600
Speaker 2: We're just having a little fun because it was ironic

1157
00:56:50,480 --> 00:56:53,640
Speaker 2: that when it benefited him they can spend money. But

1158
00:56:53,719 --> 00:56:56,520
Speaker 2: now he's trying to you go ahead, you got the floor.

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00:56:56,520 --> 00:56:57,480
Speaker 2: You know where I was going with that.

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Speaker 15: Yeah, So I want to I want to talk talk

1161
00:57:00,239 --> 00:57:06,919
Speaker 15: about I've never since uh it's inception, since I've been

1162
00:57:07,040 --> 00:57:10,920
Speaker 15: watching tennis, meaning because I wasn't there back then at

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00:57:10,920 --> 00:57:15,200
Speaker 15: the beginning, but I know the history. I've never seen

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Speaker 15: someone get destroyed the way this lady did today against

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Speaker 15: what's her name switched?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I know it was six L six Ego swire Tech. Uh, yeah,

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00:57:32,080 --> 00:57:37,200
Speaker 3: that was She's the one who won Yeah.

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Speaker 9: That was embarrassing. Man.

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Speaker 15: Uh, this lady, just the lady she defeated.

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Speaker 3: Her name is Amanda Anisonova.

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Speaker 15: Yes, Andersonova. She just came off of thrilling win against

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Speaker 15: the number one ranked Saba Linka, and to see her

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00:57:53,400 --> 00:57:56,920
Speaker 15: perform the way she did today was pathetic, man. And

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Speaker 15: to see someone get beat in a final, in a

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Speaker 15: in a a Grand Slam tendency then, man, that I

1176
00:58:04,480 --> 00:58:08,320
Speaker 15: couldn't believe that took place today. I went to look

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Speaker 15: at it thinking it was owned. It was already over

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Speaker 15: with when I wit to tune in. So I want

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Speaker 15: to ask you who do you pick to win the day?

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00:58:17,480 --> 00:58:21,240
Speaker 15: Between the Gentleman Center and Alcoats.

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Speaker 3: I like Alcarez. But but to your point about this

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00:58:27,120 --> 00:58:32,080
Speaker 3: young lady, Anna Sonova, she's twenty three. She was so nervous.

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00:58:33,200 --> 00:58:35,680
Speaker 3: She just wasn't herself. I think she was caught up

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Speaker 3: in the moment.

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Speaker 2: And that that's why when when we talk about people

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00:58:39,840 --> 00:58:43,200
Speaker 2: like Patrick Mahomes, I call it quantum physics, when you

1187
00:58:43,240 --> 00:58:45,080
Speaker 2: know the whole role is watching and you you know

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00:58:45,160 --> 00:58:49,320
Speaker 2: you still have to compete. So interesting call, there's interesting

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Speaker 2: observation anything else on any of other topics that we

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Speaker 2: talked about today.

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Speaker 15: Yeah, I heard you talking about Mahomes and Lamar Jackson,

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Speaker 15: the uhday modern quarter quarterback. But I watch out for

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Speaker 15: a guy named c J. Stroud and Shedull Sanders.

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Speaker 9: Man.

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Speaker 15: Don't be surprised if he's at some point he's starting

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Speaker 15: uh for Cleveland. Uh uh this year, they might start

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Speaker 15: Flacco at the beginning, but I believe we're going to

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Speaker 15: see Dull Sanders at some time during the season and

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Speaker 15: c J. Stroud going to have a gonna have a

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Speaker 15: good year.

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Speaker 14: Man.

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Speaker 15: Look out for the chance.

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Speaker 3: CJ. S John's the goods. There's no he's always been

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Speaker 3: so the Califaria thanks a lot. Uh m j uh.

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Speaker 2: I think Schudor has a long way to go, but look,

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Speaker 2: let's see what happens. I I have my thoughts on that,

1207
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Speaker 2: but I kind of want to stay on track here.

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Speaker 8: Uh.

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Speaker 2: John in South Carolina is up next? Is this your

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Speaker 2: first four A into the midnight hour?

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Speaker 5: John?

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Speaker 3: Hello, good John? How are you?

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Speaker 12: I'm doing great? So first thing I want to say

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Speaker 12: is I was an ESDN guy into like a year ago,

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Speaker 12: and I love Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 3: That's what we want to hear, John.

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Speaker 12: I love Fox Sports Radio. You guys have the best

1218
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Speaker 12: I mean two cups. You know, Colin, Dan Patrick, you

1219
01:00:25,640 --> 01:00:30,640
Speaker 12: guys are all great. But here's my thing. Everybody, everybody

1220
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Speaker 12: talks about the trade from uh Luca to the Lakers.

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Speaker 12: And I'm a California guy born and raised. Okay, I

1222
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Speaker 12: think right now, no doubt that was the best trade

1223
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Speaker 12: the Dallas Mavericks ever made.

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Speaker 2: Well, I've always said what I've always said, Jonas, I'm

1225
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Speaker 2: giving it three years before I passed judgment because uh

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Speaker 2: Luca's been a pro for twelve years.

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Speaker 3: And eight in the NBA, and he is who he is.

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Speaker 3: And all of a sudden, if you look at.

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Speaker 2: This Mavericks team now with Anthony Davis, if he can

1230
01:01:07,880 --> 01:01:13,000
Speaker 2: stay healthy, Kyrie and now Cooper Flagg, you know they might.

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Speaker 3: Have the last laugh.

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Speaker 12: And Klay Thompson.

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Speaker 3: Clay Thompson absolutely, I'm.

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Speaker 12: Gonna tell you right now, I think their roster is

1235
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Speaker 12: better than the roster they had when they went to

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Speaker 12: the finals two years ago.

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Speaker 3: All right, any thoughts on Dianna? Is he a hypocrite?

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Speaker 15: Oh?

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Speaker 12: I love Beyon I do too, but on.

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Speaker 3: This subject, man, he really flipped.

1241
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Speaker 5: Go ahead, here's my thing.

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Speaker 12: I'm a father, I was, I was southern California after

1243
01:01:53,320 --> 01:01:57,760
Speaker 12: the year in nineteen eighty one, I raised my boys.

1244
01:01:58,400 --> 01:02:03,040
Speaker 3: What did you go to high school in socam Bell Gardens?

1245
01:02:03,280 --> 01:02:03,680
Speaker 3: Go ahead?

1246
01:02:05,080 --> 01:02:09,520
Speaker 12: So I raised my boys and I raised them in Tucson, Arizona,

1247
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Speaker 12: and I raised them to be the best they could be.

1248
01:02:15,720 --> 01:02:21,880
Speaker 12: And you know they they were not. They were not me,

1249
01:02:22,400 --> 01:02:28,520
Speaker 12: no doubt, but they were good. My son was first

1250
01:02:28,520 --> 01:02:34,400
Speaker 12: team All State point guard in Arizona as a freshman.

1251
01:02:36,400 --> 01:02:40,560
Speaker 12: So I wanted him to play football, right, So I

1252
01:02:40,600 --> 01:02:43,920
Speaker 12: tried to get him to play football, and he's like.

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Speaker 8: Dad, I just don't like it.

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Speaker 12: I'm like, you know what, son, do what you gotta do?

1255
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Speaker 12: You know what I mean? Because I think parents sometimes

1256
01:02:53,760 --> 01:02:59,440
Speaker 12: are growing kids' life. But I think Dion is a

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Speaker 12: great He's a great coach.

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01:03:01,960 --> 01:03:02,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree with all that.

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01:03:03,800 --> 01:03:08,960
Speaker 12: He's a great mentor. And I think he gets a

1260
01:03:09,040 --> 01:03:14,080
Speaker 12: bad rap just by being you know, prime time.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate it, John Listen.

1262
01:03:17,240 --> 01:03:21,880
Speaker 2: I think Dion's legacy is secure and he turned around.

1263
01:03:21,920 --> 01:03:25,120
Speaker 2: Everybody forgets Colorado won one game two years ago. You

1264
01:03:25,160 --> 01:03:27,000
Speaker 2: were thirteen and twelve. The last two years they're on

1265
01:03:27,000 --> 01:03:28,560
Speaker 2: the map. They sell out. We'll see what they do

1266
01:03:28,600 --> 01:03:32,080
Speaker 2: this year. But I don't think anybody would disagree that

1267
01:03:32,200 --> 01:03:36,040
Speaker 2: Dion's impact on pop culture, the world of sports, the NFL,

1268
01:03:36,160 --> 01:03:40,240
Speaker 2: college football, even Major League baseball. He's a very interesting,

1269
01:03:40,320 --> 01:03:44,480
Speaker 2: complex guy. And I don't know if anybody remembers this,

1270
01:03:44,560 --> 01:03:46,840
Speaker 2: but four years ago and he was looking for a coach.

1271
01:03:47,680 --> 01:03:50,040
Speaker 2: This was not tongue in cheek. I said, hied, Dion Sanders.

1272
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Speaker 2: He's going to get players. He's going to put you

1273
01:03:52,760 --> 01:03:56,000
Speaker 2: back on the map. And obviously he wasn't even in

1274
01:03:56,040 --> 01:03:56,360
Speaker 2: the mix.

1275
01:03:56,400 --> 01:03:59,960
Speaker 3: But Andrew in Bakersfield, how are you, Andrew? What's up? Man?

1276
01:04:01,360 --> 01:04:01,600
Speaker 14: Hey?

1277
01:04:01,600 --> 01:04:03,360
Speaker 16: Bernie?

1278
01:04:04,240 --> 01:04:05,480
Speaker 12: All right? How you doing tonight?

1279
01:04:06,160 --> 01:04:06,360
Speaker 3: Well?

1280
01:04:06,400 --> 01:04:12,920
Speaker 16: Man, okay, now I'm forgetting what I okay? So Lebron okay.

1281
01:04:13,240 --> 01:04:16,439
Speaker 16: Sorry to break to everybody. He's still batman in LA.

1282
01:04:16,720 --> 01:04:20,440
Speaker 16: In fact, he's probably still batman in the NBA, and

1283
01:04:21,160 --> 01:04:26,880
Speaker 16: Steath is Robin okay, and he will continue, in my opinion,

1284
01:04:26,960 --> 01:04:29,840
Speaker 16: to be batman as long as he plays at a

1285
01:04:29,920 --> 01:04:31,200
Speaker 16: high level, which he is.

1286
01:04:33,440 --> 01:04:36,560
Speaker 2: Why do you suppose in the Lakers said no thanks

1287
01:04:36,600 --> 01:04:39,120
Speaker 2: when he wanted a second year or even the third

1288
01:04:39,200 --> 01:04:41,160
Speaker 2: year onto his contract.

1289
01:04:41,680 --> 01:04:42,840
Speaker 3: Why do you suppose he said no?

1290
01:04:44,800 --> 01:04:48,720
Speaker 16: I don't know. I haven't thought about all the details.

1291
01:04:49,200 --> 01:04:53,600
Speaker 16: I've just kind of thought about it on a bird's

1292
01:04:53,640 --> 01:04:59,960
Speaker 16: eye view. Okay, Now my rant sort of is how

1293
01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:02,880
Speaker 16: how often is the CBA for the NBA? How often

1294
01:05:02,880 --> 01:05:04,800
Speaker 16: does it happen the collective bible?

1295
01:05:04,880 --> 01:05:07,120
Speaker 2: Well, it's it's all based on the contract. I think

1296
01:05:07,160 --> 01:05:09,200
Speaker 2: the next CBA is in for about eight more years

1297
01:05:09,960 --> 01:05:14,480
Speaker 2: something along those lines. You know they can, you know

1298
01:05:14,520 --> 01:05:16,320
Speaker 2: you can. You can get a three year deal, a

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Speaker 2: five year deal. Obviously you don't want to, you know,

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Speaker 2: you want you want as much stability as you can,

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Speaker 2: you know, I mean, I think, I think it. I

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Speaker 2: think the current CBA runs out in twenty thirty. But

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Speaker 2: is is youre a point attached to that.

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Speaker 16: Or Yeah, So there was nothing mentioned to me about

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Speaker 16: injuries or load management. I think there should be a

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Speaker 16: penalty for players who try and do load management, and

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Speaker 16: they should have an independent doctor look and see if

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Speaker 16: he's really injured.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but see hold on, hold on, you know, load management.

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Speaker 2: Steph Curry talked about this two years ago. Sometimes it's planned.

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Speaker 2: Their theory is that if you send a game out,

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Speaker 2: you are preventing future injury. So it's almost like biding

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01:06:08,560 --> 01:06:12,280
Speaker 2: your time and pacing yourself by the way, there is

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Speaker 2: some de facto penalty because if you don't play more

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Speaker 2: than sixty five games, you're not eligible for certain postseason awards.

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Speaker 16: Yeah, but I don't think they should be skipping any

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Speaker 16: games for potential injuries.

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Speaker 2: Right, Well, it's a philosophical discussion. I don't know if

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Speaker 2: I buy it one hundred percent anything on Dion.

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Speaker 16: That's all I got.

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Speaker 2: All right, Thanks Andrew Bryce in Texas. Welcome back in

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Speaker 2: to the Bernie Frottle Show.

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Speaker 17: Before I get to what I actually want to talk about.

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Speaker 17: To answer all your questions about your topics, all hit

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Speaker 17: it chrits, Bernie, they're all crits, Lebron James, Deion Sanders.

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Speaker 5: It's okay.

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01:06:52,000 --> 01:06:53,840
Speaker 17: It's what my father used to say. Don't do as

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Speaker 17: I say?

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Speaker 8: Or what is it?

1330
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Speaker 17: Do as I say, not as I do.

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Speaker 8: That's what it is my.

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Speaker 17: Dad would always say. But the thing that I really

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01:07:03,000 --> 01:07:05,320
Speaker 17: want to get into, I'm glad that there's another college

1334
01:07:05,400 --> 01:07:06,600
Speaker 17: night about tennis.

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Speaker 13: But as you always say, he missed the beat on

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01:07:09,120 --> 01:07:11,080
Speaker 13: What's going on tomorrow?

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Speaker 17: Yes it is Stiller versus Alkarez. The Alcarez is looking

1338
01:07:13,920 --> 01:07:17,240
Speaker 17: to become the only second person ever to repeat the

1339
01:07:17,320 --> 01:07:21,040
Speaker 17: Channel Plans first one being bored who did it.

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Speaker 8: Three times in a row.

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Speaker 17: I always got your show and talk about tennis and

1342
01:07:25,240 --> 01:07:27,440
Speaker 17: how I don't understand how more people are involved in this.

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01:07:27,960 --> 01:07:30,480
Speaker 17: If you watch the French Open last month, this is

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01:07:30,520 --> 01:07:32,000
Speaker 17: going to be a danger of a match.

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Speaker 2: Fan, Well, it's a rematch which which it is gonna

1346
01:07:35,640 --> 01:07:37,920
Speaker 2: which gonna which you know, which is going.

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01:07:37,760 --> 01:07:41,280
Speaker 3: To add to the drama. And listen.

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Speaker 2: One of the reasons that I think tennis in the

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01:07:43,920 --> 01:07:47,120
Speaker 2: United States is it nearly is it popular? As you mentioned,

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01:07:47,120 --> 01:07:49,000
Speaker 2: Bjorn Borgs is the player you know from Mace and

1351
01:07:49,080 --> 01:07:52,480
Speaker 2: Roe to create who are the Americans? The young American

1352
01:07:52,520 --> 01:07:57,200
Speaker 2: twenty three year old got smoked Saturday, But uh yeah.

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Speaker 17: Yet two Americans in the men's final or in the

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Speaker 17: men's quart of You had Ben Shelton in the quarterfinals

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01:08:03,480 --> 01:08:05,040
Speaker 17: and Taylor Bricks went all the way to the Sydney.

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Speaker 17: They're knocking on the door, Bernie, the young Americans are

1357
01:08:08,680 --> 01:08:10,360
Speaker 17: knocking on the door. If they're coming.

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Speaker 2: Fair enough, they're coming fair enough. I mean, look, it's

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Speaker 2: a fact. It's an incredible sport. There's something very majestic

1360
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Speaker 2: about the situation, you know, over at Wimbledon, and uh,

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Speaker 2: you know, Center Center's looking for his redemption. This is

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01:08:27,040 --> 01:08:31,200
Speaker 2: going to be a blockbuster Wimbledon final five weeks ago.

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Speaker 2: You saw them and they got after it pretty big

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Speaker 2: at Roland Garros. And we'll see what the TV ratings are.

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Speaker 17: If I appreciate you, Bernie, you have a great night.

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Speaker 2: Okay, nothing, I guess on the that's fine. Listen, this

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01:08:46,400 --> 01:08:49,800
Speaker 2: is uh. This is a segment for callers. I try

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Speaker 2: to I try to lead to witness somewhat.

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Speaker 3: But eight seven, seven.

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Speaker 2: Nine to nine on Fox eight seven seven, nine ninety

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Speaker 2: six six streets sixty nine, plenty of time to get in.

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Speaker 3: Rick in Louisiana, you are up next. Yes, hello a Rick,

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Speaker 3: you're you're on the air.

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Speaker 5: Oh hey, yes, hey, thanks Bernie for taking my call.

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Speaker 3: How are you bet good sir? Are you all right?

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01:09:12,320 --> 01:09:16,680
Speaker 5: I was just calling. I was gonna talk about Lebron.

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01:09:17,160 --> 01:09:19,880
Speaker 5: Lebron was at the game to look at it some,

1378
01:09:20,080 --> 01:09:22,880
Speaker 5: but he was also you heard it here that he

1379
01:09:23,000 --> 01:09:29,559
Speaker 5: was looking at his potential new teammate one women trade.

1380
01:09:30,640 --> 01:09:34,920
Speaker 5: Both they talked about and Bronnie and that went to

1381
01:09:35,040 --> 01:09:37,880
Speaker 5: Dallas Trade and and then it's going to be a

1382
01:09:37,920 --> 01:09:44,160
Speaker 5: big reunion between him and Kyrie and Ad and uh

1383
01:09:44,400 --> 01:09:48,560
Speaker 5: now Russell in Dallas.

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Speaker 2: Well, I won't rule that out. I think anything could happen.

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Speaker 5: I think, yeah, yeah, go ahead, and I'm sorry, No,

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01:09:58,360 --> 01:10:02,880
Speaker 5: you got the floor, all right. And the other one

1387
01:10:03,080 --> 01:10:08,320
Speaker 5: was as far as Dion, Dion is not a hypocrite.

1388
01:10:09,080 --> 01:10:14,040
Speaker 5: The rule is when it's nepotism, salary count doesn't apply.

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Speaker 3: What are your thoughts?

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01:10:20,080 --> 01:10:22,840
Speaker 2: Did you hear what the radio host in Kansas City

1391
01:10:22,840 --> 01:10:25,160
Speaker 2: said about Patrick Mahomes. He kind of body shamed them.

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Speaker 2: My thoughts are, if it's the fourth quarter of a

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01:10:27,640 --> 01:10:30,519
Speaker 2: football game and it's twenty twenty five, I'm still picking

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Speaker 2: Mahomes if my life's.

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Speaker 5: On the line, Okay, I would say it depends on

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Speaker 5: where the ball is. If the ball is at the

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Speaker 5: end of the game and the ball is within the five,

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01:10:41,479 --> 01:10:44,439
Speaker 5: maybe the two or three, I'm going with Jalen Hurst

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Speaker 5: because they still haven't proven that the toos push can

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01:10:48,280 --> 01:10:51,960
Speaker 5: be stopped. But outside of that, I think you need

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01:10:52,000 --> 01:10:53,639
Speaker 5: to put the ball in my homes hands.

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Speaker 3: Yeah no' That's how I feel. Abou all right, good stuff,

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01:10:58,560 --> 01:10:59,479
Speaker 3: freak anything else, Bud.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, they need to not extend that NFL season because

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01:11:05,439 --> 01:11:08,759
Speaker 5: then you're going to see more injuries when you start

1406
01:11:08,840 --> 01:11:10,920
Speaker 5: going up higher them, you know, I know they want

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01:11:10,960 --> 01:11:14,360
Speaker 5: the money and it makes money because you know, NFL

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01:11:14,479 --> 01:11:17,680
Speaker 5: makes the money, you know. But when you start extending

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01:11:17,760 --> 01:11:21,240
Speaker 5: more games, because it's gone to sixteen with now seventeen,

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01:11:21,320 --> 01:11:25,160
Speaker 5: going up to eighteen, you're gonna see a lot more injuries.

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01:11:25,479 --> 01:11:26,960
Speaker 5: So no, that's true.

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Speaker 2: All right, thanks a lot rick, And I know that

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Speaker 2: that's a real political football right now. Roger Goodell would

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Speaker 2: like an eighteen game season. The players' unions against it.

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01:11:36,439 --> 01:11:38,760
Speaker 2: It does mean more revenue, but what is the price

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01:11:38,800 --> 01:11:39,680
Speaker 2: that comes along with it?

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01:11:39,720 --> 01:11:41,160
Speaker 3: And LinkedIn's the season.

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Speaker 2: If they did that, they would probably have a situation

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01:11:44,280 --> 01:11:46,679
Speaker 2: where you'd have two bye weeks and then you'd play

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Speaker 2: the super Bowl on Sunday before President's Day and people

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01:11:50,360 --> 01:11:53,200
Speaker 2: would have that day off. Anyway, coming up, we wrap

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Speaker 2: up The Midnight Hour eight seven seven nine nine six

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Speaker 2: six three six nine eight seven seven ninety nine one

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Speaker 2: Fox is Deonna Hypocrite based on a Sari cap doots

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01:12:03,200 --> 01:12:07,960
Speaker 2: takeaways from Cooper and Brownie and of course, uh the situation.

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01:12:08,880 --> 01:12:10,680
Speaker 2: I still think Patrick Mahomes would be my guy. You

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01:12:10,720 --> 01:12:12,200
Speaker 2: can buy the shame of them all you want. And

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Speaker 2: Bernie Freddy, We're coming to your line from Las Vegas.

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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio Studios.

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Speaker 3: Keep it locked. You listened to the Bernie Frale Show,

1431
01:12:17,400 --> 01:12:18,280
Speaker 3: Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: All right back on the Bernie Fradle Show, Fox Sports

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Speaker 2: Radier wrapping up the minute hour. Steve in Los Angeles,

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01:12:26,960 --> 01:12:28,440
Speaker 2: you are up next.

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Speaker 14: Hey, buddy, first time my rest you show. I really

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01:12:31,000 --> 01:12:31,280
Speaker 14: like it.

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01:12:31,680 --> 01:12:32,479
Speaker 3: Well, thank you, sir.

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Speaker 14: You're doing a great job. So I want to talk

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01:12:35,280 --> 01:12:38,720
Speaker 14: about a couple of things. One, Lebron James, all right

1440
01:12:38,800 --> 01:12:41,720
Speaker 14: out here in LA we can't stand him. You know,

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01:12:42,000 --> 01:12:43,800
Speaker 14: I wasn't even a Kobe guy. You know, I'm a

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01:12:44,040 --> 01:12:47,879
Speaker 14: magic Kareem. You know, Lebron James is not the greatest

1443
01:12:47,880 --> 01:12:52,200
Speaker 14: basketball player of all time. We Kareem ubduing Jabbari, high

1444
01:12:52,200 --> 01:12:57,200
Speaker 14: school college pros. So if he's all butt hurt, because

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01:12:57,360 --> 01:13:00,639
Speaker 14: you know, Scott and Luca without telling him, they sold

1446
01:13:00,640 --> 01:13:03,519
Speaker 14: the team without calling him, and the new ownership of

1447
01:13:03,560 --> 01:13:06,000
Speaker 14: the team, they don't care about Lebron, they don't care

1448
01:13:06,040 --> 01:13:09,000
Speaker 14: about Browny. They get rid of them, ship them out,

1449
01:13:09,280 --> 01:13:10,479
Speaker 14: Get whatever you can for me.

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01:13:10,600 --> 01:13:11,320
Speaker 5: Did you start.

1451
01:13:11,120 --> 01:13:13,840
Speaker 14: Rebuilding it on Luca? Which is going to be their plan.

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Speaker 14: Another thing is we're talking about load management. I'm not

1453
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Speaker 14: a professional athlete. I'm an industrial athlete. I'm a UPS

1454
01:13:22,840 --> 01:13:25,920
Speaker 14: driver and have been for thirty eight years. And with

1455
01:13:26,080 --> 01:13:30,080
Speaker 14: it's one hundred and ten degrees and you have to

1456
01:13:30,120 --> 01:13:34,760
Speaker 14: work twelve hours delivering three hundred and fifty boxes, ten

1457
01:13:34,840 --> 01:13:37,679
Speaker 14: thousand dollars worth of ten thousand pounds worth of boxes,

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01:13:38,479 --> 01:13:41,240
Speaker 14: you know, being watched by the minute. I have no

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01:13:41,400 --> 01:13:44,240
Speaker 14: sympathy for these guys with the load management. And you

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01:13:44,439 --> 01:13:46,880
Speaker 14: mentioned how Steph Curry said, well, it prevents the next injury.

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Speaker 9: Guess what.

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Speaker 5: My back hurts all the time.

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Speaker 14: When guys you get hurt at work and they twist

1464
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Speaker 14: their knee, they have to come back to work the

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Speaker 14: next day.

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01:13:54,080 --> 01:13:56,040
Speaker 5: Because we don't make forty.

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Speaker 14: Fifty five million dollars a year. You know, Kawhi Leonard

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01:14:00,960 --> 01:14:04,479
Speaker 14: is going to make more money, you know, in one

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Speaker 14: year than than than you know, most of us. Ten

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01:14:08,320 --> 01:14:10,040
Speaker 14: people will make it a lifetime. One hundred people make

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Speaker 14: it a lifetime.

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Speaker 3: That's fair.

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Speaker 2: I think you're listen. You raise a good issue, Steve.

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Speaker 2: The current modern athlete. There's more of a disconnect between

1475
01:14:18,240 --> 01:14:21,360
Speaker 2: the athlete of today and the fan than there ever

1476
01:14:21,439 --> 01:14:21,840
Speaker 2: has been.

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Speaker 3: This isn't anything else I want to get to all

1478
01:14:24,680 --> 01:14:25,880
Speaker 3: the cars and don't be a stranger.

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Speaker 8: We just real quick.

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01:14:29,200 --> 01:14:31,960
Speaker 14: James Worthy goes on a local you know of five

1481
01:14:32,040 --> 01:14:36,320
Speaker 14: seventy am out there petros money and he talks about

1482
01:14:36,360 --> 01:14:38,760
Speaker 14: how they used to have to fly, you know, with

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01:14:39,280 --> 01:14:42,439
Speaker 14: regular people on the plane t w A. His pre

1484
01:14:42,680 --> 01:14:47,439
Speaker 14: meal game was too you know, hamburgers, large fries and

1485
01:14:47,479 --> 01:14:50,320
Speaker 14: a coke before he got to the forum. And with

1486
01:14:50,439 --> 01:14:52,680
Speaker 14: these guys and you know, with the with the trainers

1487
01:14:53,200 --> 01:14:57,040
Speaker 14: and everything, they're just spoiled. And you know they that's

1488
01:14:57,040 --> 01:15:02,000
Speaker 14: why the NBA is losing fan you know they're now

1489
01:15:02,080 --> 01:15:05,800
Speaker 14: number three. So but I keep listening to the show

1490
01:15:05,920 --> 01:15:08,080
Speaker 14: you're doing.

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01:15:07,560 --> 01:15:09,559
Speaker 2: So yeah, good, look forward to hearing from you again.

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Speaker 2: John and Reno you are up next. Good evening, Good morning,

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01:15:14,280 --> 01:15:18,200
Speaker 2: Yes sir, that too, Yes sirs, time for a cocktail

1494
01:15:18,240 --> 01:15:19,000
Speaker 2: and a phone call.

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Speaker 3: All right.

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Speaker 18: So I got a question Espne. I don't know if

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01:15:29,360 --> 01:15:31,400
Speaker 18: they get paid or what they do. They always talk

1498
01:15:31,439 --> 01:15:34,639
Speaker 18: about the Cowboys. I'm wondering if Fox are the same

1499
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Speaker 18: with basketball.

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Speaker 3: Well, you play, here's what you have to do, and

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01:15:38,240 --> 01:15:40,439
Speaker 3: a sir, let me let me address that. You got

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01:15:40,439 --> 01:15:41,240
Speaker 3: to play the hits.

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01:15:41,600 --> 01:15:45,840
Speaker 2: You've got to play the Hits, John, what's topical, what's polarizing.

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01:15:46,560 --> 01:15:49,360
Speaker 2: The opposite of love is not hate, its indifference. The

1505
01:15:49,439 --> 01:15:52,000
Speaker 2: Cowboys are still believing or not America's team based on

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01:15:52,120 --> 01:15:53,080
Speaker 2: road attendants all that.

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Speaker 3: So what you try to do.

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01:15:55,200 --> 01:15:59,000
Speaker 2: Something prompted you to call the name and yeah and

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01:15:59,160 --> 01:16:01,559
Speaker 2: some got in your or what but that and that's

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01:16:01,600 --> 01:16:04,080
Speaker 2: the idea is to stoke that fire by playing the.

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Speaker 3: Hits go ahead.

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Speaker 18: It's outside of the markets like La San Francisco, there's

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01:16:12,080 --> 01:16:14,360
Speaker 18: really not a big interest in basketball. You can look

1514
01:16:14,360 --> 01:16:15,559
Speaker 18: at the ratings, they're down.

1515
01:16:16,520 --> 01:16:20,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's the storylines behind what's happening. We're not

1516
01:16:20,400 --> 01:16:24,519
Speaker 2: talking about box scores and scoring titles and championships. We're

1517
01:16:24,560 --> 01:16:28,200
Speaker 2: talking about the human condition here and how it's manifesting

1518
01:16:28,240 --> 01:16:30,160
Speaker 2: and sil for the whole world to see. I don't

1519
01:16:30,160 --> 01:16:32,880
Speaker 2: know if you saw the bronze face at the Summer

1520
01:16:32,920 --> 01:16:35,560
Speaker 2: League tonight, you know they say have pictures worth a

1521
01:16:35,600 --> 01:16:36,240
Speaker 2: thousand wards.

1522
01:16:36,240 --> 01:16:37,439
Speaker 3: That was worth ten million words.

1523
01:16:37,439 --> 01:16:42,120
Speaker 2: So I will tell you right now, today's July thirteenth,

1524
01:16:42,520 --> 01:16:44,519
Speaker 2: two three weeks from now, we won't be talking basketball

1525
01:16:44,520 --> 01:16:47,479
Speaker 2: at all. We'll be in the football. So we're gonna

1526
01:16:47,479 --> 01:16:49,639
Speaker 2: play the Hits is what we're gonna do. Whatever's topical.

1527
01:16:49,720 --> 01:16:50,320
Speaker 2: That's the idea.

1528
01:16:50,400 --> 01:16:56,759
Speaker 18: John, and then Angel Reese. They've been they've been getting

1529
01:16:56,760 --> 01:17:00,759
Speaker 18: her name wrong. Okay, it's anal grease.

1530
01:17:01,400 --> 01:17:04,519
Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, all right, John, don't be don't be

1531
01:17:04,560 --> 01:17:05,439
Speaker 3: a stranger, my man.

1532
01:17:07,320 --> 01:17:08,639
Speaker 18: Tom, I really enjoy your show.

1533
01:17:09,160 --> 01:17:11,680
Speaker 2: Thanks a lot, appreciate it, and we'll try to have

1534
01:17:11,720 --> 01:17:13,280
Speaker 2: more time for you next time. We wrap it up

1535
01:17:13,320 --> 01:17:16,559
Speaker 2: with Josh here in Las Vegas. Josh, bring us home.

1536
01:17:17,280 --> 01:17:19,960
Speaker 13: Hey, how doing money? Hey man, are you staying cool?

1537
01:17:20,560 --> 01:17:23,759
Speaker 3: I'm staying cool? Was it one hundred and thirteen today

1538
01:17:23,800 --> 01:17:24,280
Speaker 3: something like that?

1539
01:17:25,000 --> 01:17:25,200
Speaker 4: Yeah?

1540
01:17:25,240 --> 01:17:27,080
Speaker 8: Yeah, man, Yeah, you know, you put.

1541
01:17:26,920 --> 01:17:28,280
Speaker 3: On a jacket, go about your business.

1542
01:17:28,320 --> 01:17:30,559
Speaker 14: Go ahead.

1543
01:17:33,920 --> 01:17:36,160
Speaker 5: Best fact ever had dad box?

1544
01:17:36,800 --> 01:17:38,160
Speaker 18: You know all that.

1545
01:17:38,320 --> 01:17:39,519
Speaker 3: Actually that's very true.

1546
01:17:39,520 --> 01:17:43,439
Speaker 13: Actually you had to build that body to take them hits,

1547
01:17:44,720 --> 01:17:44,920
Speaker 13: you know.

1548
01:17:45,800 --> 01:17:47,599
Speaker 2: I think that's one of the One of the trainers

1549
01:17:47,600 --> 01:17:50,920
Speaker 2: said that as a rebuttal, I did not hear this

1550
01:17:51,760 --> 01:17:54,400
Speaker 2: radio personality in Kansas City and the context of which

1551
01:17:54,400 --> 01:17:55,240
Speaker 2: he said, I don't know.

1552
01:17:55,360 --> 01:17:56,639
Speaker 3: Maybe he's trying to be cute.

1553
01:17:56,840 --> 01:17:58,960
Speaker 2: But if I needed to win a game and I

1554
01:17:59,000 --> 01:18:01,320
Speaker 2: have to deal with today's quarterback, Mahomes is my guy,

1555
01:18:01,400 --> 01:18:02,839
Speaker 2: go ahead.

1556
01:18:02,600 --> 01:18:06,240
Speaker 13: Oh well, so yeah, uh and then what are.

1557
01:18:06,160 --> 01:18:08,160
Speaker 3: We talking about Ron James?

1558
01:18:08,840 --> 01:18:11,519
Speaker 2: Uh or check check that, Well you can talk about Lebron.

1559
01:18:11,720 --> 01:18:14,240
Speaker 2: Was Dianna hypocrite? And what were you takeaways from Cooper

1560
01:18:14,280 --> 01:18:16,360
Speaker 2: and Brown? We just got about a minute, my friend.

1561
01:18:16,560 --> 01:18:20,120
Speaker 13: Okay, I just think those guys are just arrogant, and

1562
01:18:20,160 --> 01:18:22,320
Speaker 13: I believe they do great jobs of what they do,

1563
01:18:22,880 --> 01:18:25,479
Speaker 13: but they rubbed people the wrong way, and I think

1564
01:18:25,479 --> 01:18:26,920
Speaker 13: that's why they get a lot of bad bubbs.

1565
01:18:28,560 --> 01:18:29,679
Speaker 3: You couldn't be more right.

1566
01:18:29,960 --> 01:18:34,400
Speaker 2: I mean, it's a situation where there's something about Lebron

1567
01:18:34,720 --> 01:18:38,360
Speaker 2: and his demeanor. Now that just you said it, there's

1568
01:18:38,439 --> 01:18:41,439
Speaker 2: rough people the wrong way. Now, DM doesn't really rub

1569
01:18:41,479 --> 01:18:42,840
Speaker 2: me the wrong way, but I think on this deal,

1570
01:18:42,880 --> 01:18:44,639
Speaker 2: these are hypocrite, Bunny.

1571
01:18:45,120 --> 01:18:45,360
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1572
01:18:46,280 --> 01:18:48,880
Speaker 13: They get off of like two o'clock in the morning.

1573
01:18:48,960 --> 01:18:50,840
Speaker 13: So like, I listened to your radio and are you

1574
01:18:50,880 --> 01:18:55,240
Speaker 13: are you still doing the the show, like the the

1575
01:18:55,400 --> 01:18:58,880
Speaker 13: bit with the with the crazy calls, and like are

1576
01:18:58,960 --> 01:19:01,000
Speaker 13: the stories? And then do what's my name?

1577
01:19:01,360 --> 01:19:01,639
Speaker 3: Yes?

1578
01:19:01,880 --> 01:19:03,960
Speaker 2: That's coming up in an hour and seven minutes. It's

1579
01:19:03,960 --> 01:19:06,920
Speaker 2: called what kind of brand new fool of You? Followed

1580
01:19:06,960 --> 01:19:07,840
Speaker 2: by what my name?

1581
01:19:07,920 --> 01:19:08,120
Speaker 3: Yes?

1582
01:19:08,160 --> 01:19:08,320
Speaker 18: Sir?

1583
01:19:08,360 --> 01:19:12,479
Speaker 3: At the two am Pacific time every Sunday morning.

1584
01:19:12,880 --> 01:19:13,720
Speaker 14: Good to let you know.

1585
01:19:14,160 --> 01:19:16,800
Speaker 13: I'm a Vegas guy too, so like, but when I

1586
01:19:16,800 --> 01:19:18,960
Speaker 13: get in my car at two o'clock this morning, I

1587
01:19:19,040 --> 01:19:23,040
Speaker 13: make sure I turn on for that is the pretty

1588
01:19:23,080 --> 01:19:24,880
Speaker 13: much on sports radio. And I've listened to it, and

1589
01:19:26,600 --> 01:19:29,280
Speaker 13: I only hear you one night a week, but that's

1590
01:19:29,320 --> 01:19:30,120
Speaker 13: the stuff right there.

1591
01:19:30,200 --> 01:19:31,759
Speaker 3: Man, Appreciate you.

1592
01:19:31,760 --> 01:19:34,639
Speaker 2: Thanks driving safe out there, Josh, He's a Vegas roads

1593
01:19:34,680 --> 01:19:37,840
Speaker 2: can be a little hazardous if you if you get

1594
01:19:37,880 --> 01:19:40,320
Speaker 2: my drift. Thanks so much to all the callers tonight.

1595
01:19:40,720 --> 01:19:44,519
Speaker 2: Outstanding job, and we appreciate the thoughts. We don't all

1596
01:19:44,520 --> 01:19:47,719
Speaker 2: have to agree, like kind of like the players union

1597
01:19:47,880 --> 01:19:50,960
Speaker 2: in baseball and the owners. What if I told you

1598
01:19:51,000 --> 01:19:54,880
Speaker 2: we might be looking at another big long workstoppage coming

1599
01:19:54,960 --> 01:19:57,760
Speaker 2: up after the twenty twenty sixth season. I hate to

1600
01:19:57,800 --> 01:20:00,479
Speaker 2: say it, but I think it's coming. I'll tell you

1601
01:20:00,520 --> 01:20:04,400
Speaker 2: why and what's going on. You're listening to the.

1602
01:20:04,400 --> 01:20:07,240
Speaker 3: Bernie Frale Show on Fox Sports Radio. Keep it locked

1603
01:20:07,280 --> 01:20:08,679
Speaker 3: right here on Fox Sports Radio.

1604
01:20:10,560 --> 01:20:13,320
Speaker 1: You don't listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

1605
01:20:15,760 --> 01:20:16,280
Speaker 3: That's right.

1606
01:20:16,320 --> 01:20:19,679
Speaker 2: You heard the man, Bernie Fradle Show keeps rolling right along.

1607
01:20:20,640 --> 01:20:23,680
Speaker 2: My name is Bernie Fraddle. We're comingy alive from the

1608
01:20:23,760 --> 01:20:27,400
Speaker 2: Las Vegas Fox Sports Radio Studios. Take you up to

1609
01:20:27,439 --> 01:20:29,080
Speaker 2: three am Pacific, six a m.

1610
01:20:29,520 --> 01:20:31,160
Speaker 3: Eastern. I want to think all.

1611
01:20:31,000 --> 01:20:35,280
Speaker 2: The outstanding callers, another raucous midnight hour chopping it up,

1612
01:20:35,360 --> 01:20:38,799
Speaker 2: had some new ones and some moles standbys, and.

1613
01:20:39,680 --> 01:20:41,680
Speaker 3: Always appreciate it, always appreciate it.

1614
01:20:41,760 --> 01:20:42,040
Speaker 5: And I.

1615
01:20:44,600 --> 01:20:47,680
Speaker 2: Look, you don't like to look too far down the

1616
01:20:47,720 --> 01:20:50,800
Speaker 2: road and create problems don't exist yet. But with the

1617
01:20:50,840 --> 01:20:53,719
Speaker 2: All Star Game looming Tuesday night and my finger always

1618
01:20:53,760 --> 01:20:57,679
Speaker 2: on the pulse of baseball, uh, no one will ever

1619
01:20:57,680 --> 01:21:00,719
Speaker 2: forget what happened in nineteen ninety four when a player

1620
01:21:00,800 --> 01:21:05,439
Speaker 2: strike actually canceled the World Series. And it seems like

1621
01:21:05,479 --> 01:21:08,000
Speaker 2: it's unthinkable that there could ever be another work stoppage.

1622
01:21:08,000 --> 01:21:13,799
Speaker 2: But in fact, after what twenty seven years of labor

1623
01:21:13,840 --> 01:21:17,559
Speaker 2: piece just in twenty twenty one, the owner was implemented

1624
01:21:17,600 --> 01:21:20,080
Speaker 2: a lock out over some various economic points, and there

1625
01:21:20,120 --> 01:21:24,880
Speaker 2: was conflict and it ended ninety nine days with an

1626
01:21:24,920 --> 01:21:28,160
Speaker 2: agreement on a new CBA. So the question is, after

1627
01:21:28,280 --> 01:21:31,880
Speaker 2: next season, when the CBA needs to be negotiated again,

1628
01:21:32,720 --> 01:21:36,600
Speaker 2: could the unthinkable happen? Could there be another labor stoppage?

1629
01:21:37,240 --> 01:21:40,040
Speaker 2: The unfortunate answer is I'm gonna say yes, there's going

1630
01:21:40,080 --> 01:21:41,759
Speaker 2: to be one.

1631
01:21:41,920 --> 01:21:44,240
Speaker 3: And if you followed.

1632
01:21:43,960 --> 01:21:50,440
Speaker 2: These negotiations throughout history, first and foremost, all CBA negotiations

1633
01:21:50,479 --> 01:21:54,439
Speaker 2: have I've always been contentious and many of them have

1634
01:21:54,680 --> 01:21:56,040
Speaker 2: resulted in labor stoppage.

1635
01:21:56,040 --> 01:21:56,840
Speaker 3: This is nothing new.

1636
01:21:57,040 --> 01:21:59,800
Speaker 2: You go back to nineteen seventy two, the players went

1637
01:21:59,840 --> 01:22:02,840
Speaker 2: on strike over a pension dispute. It only lasted about

1638
01:22:02,880 --> 01:22:05,360
Speaker 2: two weeks, but it was it was disrupt They've happened

1639
01:22:05,439 --> 01:22:08,800
Speaker 2: during the season. The very next year, the owners implemented

1640
01:22:08,880 --> 01:22:12,799
Speaker 2: a lot implement and excuse me, a lockout during spring

1641
01:22:12,880 --> 01:22:17,880
Speaker 2: training over salary arbitration. Nineteen seventy six is when things

1642
01:22:17,960 --> 01:22:22,200
Speaker 2: really got going. The owners implemented a lockout during spring

1643
01:22:22,240 --> 01:22:25,400
Speaker 2: training over the evolving issue of player free agency. That's

1644
01:22:25,880 --> 01:22:29,960
Speaker 2: you know, the catfish Hunner, Nolan Ryan, Reggie Jackson. Before

1645
01:22:30,320 --> 01:22:34,960
Speaker 2: free agency, players were you know, relegated.

1646
01:22:34,439 --> 01:22:36,160
Speaker 3: To a life of indentured servitude.

1647
01:22:36,880 --> 01:22:38,680
Speaker 2: The case of Kurd Flood if you ever want to

1648
01:22:38,720 --> 01:22:41,200
Speaker 2: read a sad story, Kurt Flood was a great player

1649
01:22:41,240 --> 01:22:43,280
Speaker 2: and a great man and retired didn't want to go

1650
01:22:43,280 --> 01:22:46,400
Speaker 2: to Philadelphia. He challenged baseball reserve clause and for the

1651
01:22:46,600 --> 01:22:49,280
Speaker 2: life of me, I don't know why they don't have

1652
01:22:49,320 --> 01:22:53,040
Speaker 2: a Kurt flood Wing in Cooperstown because what he he

1653
01:22:53,080 --> 01:22:56,360
Speaker 2: did really set the stage to bring baseball out of

1654
01:22:56,400 --> 01:22:59,960
Speaker 2: the you know, dark ages. In nineteen eighty to play

1655
01:23:00,000 --> 01:23:03,040
Speaker 2: as went on strike during spring training because they didn't

1656
01:23:03,120 --> 01:23:06,680
Speaker 2: like the structure of free agency. Now, nineteen eighty one

1657
01:23:06,760 --> 01:23:10,719
Speaker 2: is when it really ish started to get real. Halfway

1658
01:23:10,720 --> 01:23:13,280
Speaker 2: through the season, the players went on a fifty day

1659
01:23:13,360 --> 01:23:16,120
Speaker 2: strike that created a split season, and they started to

1660
01:23:16,160 --> 01:23:19,920
Speaker 2: strike over free agent compensation. Meaning if you're a free

1661
01:23:19,920 --> 01:23:22,559
Speaker 2: agent and somebody signs you away from your team, how

1662
01:23:22,640 --> 01:23:29,880
Speaker 2: is that team that loses you compensated? Now, you know,

1663
01:23:30,960 --> 01:23:34,840
Speaker 2: I think the season resumed like August eleventh with the

1664
01:23:34,840 --> 01:23:37,679
Speaker 2: All Star Game in Cleveland, and you had a split season,

1665
01:23:38,200 --> 01:23:40,920
Speaker 2: and the Cincinnati Reds were pissed because they had the

1666
01:23:40,920 --> 01:23:43,040
Speaker 2: best record in all of baseball, but they didn't win

1667
01:23:43,200 --> 01:23:44,320
Speaker 2: either of the split season, so.

1668
01:23:44,280 --> 01:23:45,320
Speaker 3: They didn't go to the playoffs.

1669
01:23:45,840 --> 01:23:48,080
Speaker 2: I didn't have any sympathetic sympathy for it, even though

1670
01:23:48,120 --> 01:23:50,679
Speaker 2: I was part of the Reds organization up until nineteen

1671
01:23:50,720 --> 01:23:55,960
Speaker 2: eighty because they voted twenty five zero to strike, So

1672
01:23:56,960 --> 01:24:01,160
Speaker 2: you know, I guess elections have consequences. Right nineteen eighty five,

1673
01:24:01,760 --> 01:24:04,760
Speaker 2: another one, this was in July. The players struck again

1674
01:24:04,800 --> 01:24:07,760
Speaker 2: over the pension fund and salaber arbitration. I remember it

1675
01:24:07,880 --> 01:24:10,760
Speaker 2: was right before, right around July fourth and only last in.

1676
01:24:10,800 --> 01:24:11,280
Speaker 3: For two days.

1677
01:24:11,280 --> 01:24:15,200
Speaker 2: Actually was in August nineteen ninety the owners implemented a

1678
01:24:15,200 --> 01:24:19,400
Speaker 2: lockout over salary arbitration and free agency. Now they began

1679
01:24:19,479 --> 01:24:24,000
Speaker 2: spring training late and push back. Opening Day nineteen ninety

1680
01:24:24,080 --> 01:24:28,479
Speaker 2: four was the Kreme delacreme. That was the strike. They

1681
01:24:28,520 --> 01:24:32,200
Speaker 2: walked out August eleventh. They were didn't until the following,

1682
01:24:32,600 --> 01:24:35,000
Speaker 2: you know, season, spring training nineteen ninety five. He had

1683
01:24:35,000 --> 01:24:38,200
Speaker 2: replacement players in spring training. And the reason is is

1684
01:24:38,240 --> 01:24:41,880
Speaker 2: because the owners thought they were going to get a

1685
01:24:41,920 --> 01:24:45,720
Speaker 2: salary cap. The entirety of the nineteen ninety four postseason

1686
01:24:45,760 --> 01:24:49,400
Speaker 2: was canceled. The nineteen ninety five season was significantly abbreviated,

1687
01:24:49,720 --> 01:24:52,320
Speaker 2: and the only reason play resumed because a federal judge

1688
01:24:52,360 --> 01:24:54,960
Speaker 2: reinstated the terms of the previous CB eight ordered back

1689
01:24:55,000 --> 01:24:59,280
Speaker 2: on the field. The players were not going to ever

1690
01:24:59,560 --> 01:25:03,759
Speaker 2: bow down to a salary cap, and the same situation

1691
01:25:03,840 --> 01:25:07,200
Speaker 2: happened in twenty twenty one. There was an owner implemented lockout.

1692
01:25:07,600 --> 01:25:11,760
Speaker 2: There were multiple economic points conflict, and I think the

1693
01:25:11,760 --> 01:25:14,720
Speaker 2: players checked that the owners locked them out because they

1694
01:25:14,720 --> 01:25:18,120
Speaker 2: were concerned the players might strike. Lasted ninety nine days

1695
01:25:18,120 --> 01:25:21,679
Speaker 2: there was a new CBA. But even then read between

1696
01:25:21,720 --> 01:25:25,800
Speaker 2: the lines, the owners want a salary cap. Now you'll know,

1697
01:25:26,680 --> 01:25:29,759
Speaker 2: you already know that all of the other major leagues,

1698
01:25:29,840 --> 01:25:33,720
Speaker 2: the NHL, the NBA, and of course the NFL have.

1699
01:25:33,840 --> 01:25:35,000
Speaker 3: A salary cap.

1700
01:25:36,400 --> 01:25:39,080
Speaker 2: I'm of the belief this Baseball Union is so strong

1701
01:25:39,360 --> 01:25:41,719
Speaker 2: they will never succumb to a salary cap.

1702
01:25:42,040 --> 01:25:45,280
Speaker 3: Now you've got the luxury tax, which is you know,

1703
01:25:45,439 --> 01:25:52,120
Speaker 3: kind of a fagazy because some teams have no compunction

1704
01:25:52,200 --> 01:25:55,280
Speaker 3: about paying the luxury tax, which is in the millions

1705
01:25:55,320 --> 01:25:57,360
Speaker 3: and millions of dollars, like the Dodgers and Yankees and

1706
01:25:57,720 --> 01:25:59,080
Speaker 3: for a while the Oriels, et cetera.

1707
01:25:59,720 --> 01:26:04,479
Speaker 2: But I think what's gonna happen again? Specifically, you know,

1708
01:26:04,520 --> 01:26:08,200
Speaker 2: it's there's always concerned about how revenues are divided between

1709
01:26:08,240 --> 01:26:11,040
Speaker 2: players and they're the product and the club owners.

1710
01:26:11,760 --> 01:26:15,000
Speaker 3: But here's the kicker. I'm convinced that the owner's side

1711
01:26:15,040 --> 01:26:18,400
Speaker 3: and Rob Manfred, they haven't one hundred percent showed their cards.

1712
01:26:18,400 --> 01:26:18,800
Speaker 3: But come on.

1713
01:26:18,840 --> 01:26:20,240
Speaker 2: You know what the elephant in the room is. It's

1714
01:26:20,240 --> 01:26:22,839
Speaker 2: always been they're going to gear up for another salary

1715
01:26:22,840 --> 01:26:24,960
Speaker 2: cap push. This has been the elephant in the room

1716
01:26:25,000 --> 01:26:28,920
Speaker 2: for Major League Baseball forever, just about And when you

1717
01:26:28,920 --> 01:26:30,720
Speaker 2: look at the recent spending at the top of the

1718
01:26:30,760 --> 01:26:33,200
Speaker 2: market by teams like the Dodgers and to a lesser

1719
01:26:33,200 --> 01:26:39,599
Speaker 2: extent they Mets, they they're the reason, I think, from

1720
01:26:39,680 --> 01:26:44,040
Speaker 2: a league standpoint and from you know, a competitive standpoint

1721
01:26:44,520 --> 01:26:49,200
Speaker 2: from other owners, that they believe it's time to have

1722
01:26:49,240 --> 01:26:52,320
Speaker 2: a salary cap once again. This is not new, all right.

1723
01:26:52,520 --> 01:26:54,880
Speaker 2: Major League Baseball again already has a luxury tax and

1724
01:26:54,960 --> 01:26:59,439
Speaker 2: high payrolls. They call it the competitive balance tax, which

1725
01:26:59,479 --> 01:27:03,559
Speaker 2: puts a gup on some situations. But the Dodgers aren't

1726
01:27:03,600 --> 01:27:08,080
Speaker 2: an all that sensitive to you know, competitive balance tax penalties.

1727
01:27:08,680 --> 01:27:11,479
Speaker 2: But you know, there hasn't been a repeat World Series

1728
01:27:11,560 --> 01:27:14,040
Speaker 2: champion twenty five years, and then if you look in

1729
01:27:14,120 --> 01:27:16,240
Speaker 2: the last few years, we've had multiple ever, you know,

1730
01:27:16,920 --> 01:27:20,600
Speaker 2: teams win.

1731
01:27:19,360 --> 01:27:20,120
Speaker 3: The World Series.

1732
01:27:20,680 --> 01:27:24,880
Speaker 2: The key is there's already whispers, there's whispers that they

1733
01:27:24,920 --> 01:27:28,400
Speaker 2: want a salary cap. One of the Oriols owners, David Rubertsin,

1734
01:27:28,439 --> 01:27:29,200
Speaker 2: recently said.

1735
01:27:29,000 --> 01:27:31,080
Speaker 3: This quote, I wish it would be the case that.

1736
01:27:31,000 --> 01:27:32,760
Speaker 2: We would have a salary cap in baseball the we

1737
01:27:32,800 --> 01:27:35,960
Speaker 2: other sports do, and maybe eventually we will. We don't

1738
01:27:35,960 --> 01:27:38,080
Speaker 2: have that now. I suspect we'll have something closer to

1739
01:27:38,160 --> 01:27:41,719
Speaker 2: what the NFL and NBA have, but there's no guarantee

1740
01:27:42,120 --> 01:27:44,840
Speaker 2: of that. I don't see it happening, and I think

1741
01:27:44,880 --> 01:27:47,920
Speaker 2: this could get very contentious and very ugly because every

1742
01:27:47,920 --> 01:27:52,200
Speaker 2: time they call for a salary cap in baseball, the

1743
01:27:52,320 --> 01:27:56,479
Speaker 2: rationality is that will promote competitive balance across the sport. See,

1744
01:27:56,520 --> 01:27:59,400
Speaker 2: this isn't really true. It hasn't been true in the past.

1745
01:28:00,000 --> 01:28:02,920
Speaker 2: The caps do is limit labor costs, and that appeals

1746
01:28:02,920 --> 01:28:06,519
Speaker 2: to owner gives them cost certainty. So the owners like

1747
01:28:06,600 --> 01:28:09,800
Speaker 2: the fact that they can reduce their labor costs. But

1748
01:28:09,840 --> 01:28:13,120
Speaker 2: the competitive balance stuff, I think it's just a fagazy

1749
01:28:13,160 --> 01:28:16,599
Speaker 2: to rally fans and opinion shapers around the idea because

1750
01:28:16,800 --> 01:28:19,000
Speaker 2: the perception from the owner side that is you're part

1751
01:28:19,000 --> 01:28:21,840
Speaker 2: of a cap league, which is they believe better for

1752
01:28:21,920 --> 01:28:26,799
Speaker 2: franchise values than the alternative. And it's a situation where

1753
01:28:28,360 --> 01:28:31,599
Speaker 2: they believe that if you just can't continually keep buying

1754
01:28:31,640 --> 01:28:36,519
Speaker 2: the best players, naturally it will create a you know,

1755
01:28:36,760 --> 01:28:39,240
Speaker 2: a more competitive balance. But the truth of the matter

1756
01:28:39,280 --> 01:28:40,960
Speaker 2: is the highest payrolls don't always win. As a matter

1757
01:28:41,000 --> 01:28:45,360
Speaker 2: of fact, the highest payrolls almost never win. Here's where

1758
01:28:45,920 --> 01:28:47,960
Speaker 2: it really is going to get ugly. I really believe it,

1759
01:28:49,120 --> 01:28:52,160
Speaker 2: because implementing a Sari cap is going to be you know,

1760
01:28:53,000 --> 01:28:54,120
Speaker 2: the sisiphus pushing the.

1761
01:28:54,160 --> 01:28:54,880
Speaker 3: Rock up the hill.

1762
01:28:55,400 --> 01:28:58,360
Speaker 2: The union has never the Major League Baseball Players Union

1763
01:28:58,640 --> 01:29:01,840
Speaker 2: has never shown any willing to even discuss the cap.

1764
01:29:02,400 --> 01:29:05,880
Speaker 2: And even if the Major League Baseball Players Association isn't

1765
01:29:05,920 --> 01:29:09,760
Speaker 2: quite as strong and ideologically resolute as it was under

1766
01:29:09,800 --> 01:29:13,000
Speaker 2: Marvin Miller and then Don Fear who you remember Don

1767
01:29:13,040 --> 01:29:15,040
Speaker 2: Fear seeing his face in nineteen ninety.

1768
01:29:14,760 --> 01:29:18,200
Speaker 3: Four, agreeing to a salary cap would be.

1769
01:29:18,160 --> 01:29:21,120
Speaker 2: A complete sea change, change in philosophy, major shift in

1770
01:29:21,120 --> 01:29:25,400
Speaker 2: philosophy in Major League Baseball, which ain't ever going to happen. Okay,

1771
01:29:26,320 --> 01:29:30,000
Speaker 2: caps do typically carry some guaranteed, you know, share of

1772
01:29:30,040 --> 01:29:33,679
Speaker 2: revenue for the players, and it starts to become more

1773
01:29:33,680 --> 01:29:38,160
Speaker 2: complicated too, because owners will argue that certain things like

1774
01:29:38,520 --> 01:29:41,479
Speaker 2: real estate developments and equity stakes, regional sport networks, those

1775
01:29:41,520 --> 01:29:45,320
Speaker 2: aren't baseball revenues. While the players will argue that money

1776
01:29:45,320 --> 01:29:48,719
Speaker 2: source wouldn't exist without baseball in the players playing the games.

1777
01:29:49,280 --> 01:29:54,439
Speaker 2: So it gets very convoluted, it gets very ugly, and

1778
01:29:54,520 --> 01:29:59,000
Speaker 2: the bottom line is, you know, you're going to have loggerheads,

1779
01:29:59,040 --> 01:30:02,960
Speaker 2: guys fighting with each other, and it's going to get ugly,

1780
01:30:02,960 --> 01:30:04,560
Speaker 2: all right. And one of the other things too is

1781
01:30:04,680 --> 01:30:10,040
Speaker 2: salary cap doesn't necessarily come with a salary floor. Okay,

1782
01:30:10,640 --> 01:30:14,240
Speaker 2: you have some chronically neglectful owners. Now I'm in the

1783
01:30:14,320 --> 01:30:18,560
Speaker 2: name names like Bob Nutting and Pittsburgh, or Stuart Sternberg

1784
01:30:18,680 --> 01:30:21,400
Speaker 2: or the Tampa Bay Rays or Bruce Sherman in Miami,

1785
01:30:21,880 --> 01:30:23,280
Speaker 2: which I.

1786
01:30:23,240 --> 01:30:24,120
Speaker 3: Can't list them all.

1787
01:30:26,360 --> 01:30:28,960
Speaker 2: You know, they don't exactly break the bank, do they,

1788
01:30:29,280 --> 01:30:31,759
Speaker 2: And signing on to a new economic system that enforces

1789
01:30:31,800 --> 01:30:36,920
Speaker 2: them to invest in payroll is something that's not likable

1790
01:30:36,960 --> 01:30:37,280
Speaker 2: to them.

1791
01:30:37,320 --> 01:30:37,519
Speaker 3: Now.

1792
01:30:38,120 --> 01:30:42,479
Speaker 2: Rob Manfrom recently talked about this long standing skis and

1793
01:30:42,560 --> 01:30:45,559
Speaker 2: what he said, look, quote, I have owners with really

1794
01:30:45,560 --> 01:30:47,680
Speaker 2: strong hell views that I need to coalesce into a

1795
01:30:47,720 --> 01:30:51,559
Speaker 2: position that will ultimately take to the MLBPA, which means

1796
01:30:52,000 --> 01:30:55,080
Speaker 2: the owners don't always get along either. Okay, I don't

1797
01:30:55,120 --> 01:30:57,559
Speaker 2: know how many of them want a salary cap, but

1798
01:30:57,600 --> 01:31:03,360
Speaker 2: a lot of them. Do teams share national broadcast revenues equally,

1799
01:31:03,360 --> 01:31:06,800
Speaker 2: but on the local front, each team contributes forty eight

1800
01:31:06,800 --> 01:31:09,840
Speaker 2: percent of the local revenues, meaning they're local broadcast contracts,

1801
01:31:09,880 --> 01:31:14,360
Speaker 2: game day revenues, ticket sales, concession sales, parking, sponsorship, merch

1802
01:31:14,400 --> 01:31:17,000
Speaker 2: all that stuff. They pool those revenues and then they're

1803
01:31:17,000 --> 01:31:23,240
Speaker 2: distributed equally among teams. Okay, small market, low revenue teams

1804
01:31:23,280 --> 01:31:28,080
Speaker 2: benefit quite well from the system. Okay, so you're essentially

1805
01:31:28,160 --> 01:31:30,519
Speaker 2: having the Dodgers, Yankees, Mets, and the high payrole team

1806
01:31:30,760 --> 01:31:33,439
Speaker 2: pay for the bottom feeders like the Pirates raising Marlins.

1807
01:31:34,280 --> 01:31:38,200
Speaker 2: And this revenue sharing has been beneficial for small market

1808
01:31:38,200 --> 01:31:41,360
Speaker 2: teams because they're getting profitability with a lot a lot

1809
01:31:41,360 --> 01:31:44,320
Speaker 2: of risk. But the question is are they willing to

1810
01:31:44,360 --> 01:31:47,639
Speaker 2: spend the money, spend that money to make their teams better.

1811
01:31:48,600 --> 01:31:54,519
Speaker 2: That's where the philosophical differences reside. And there are owners

1812
01:31:54,520 --> 01:31:57,120
Speaker 2: that oppose the revenue sharing the way it is right now,

1813
01:31:57,120 --> 01:31:59,280
Speaker 2: and I know there's going to be other matters that

1814
01:31:59,360 --> 01:32:04,519
Speaker 2: will be discuss For one thing, I think the owners

1815
01:32:04,520 --> 01:32:07,120
Speaker 2: are likely to press for an international draft once again,

1816
01:32:07,840 --> 01:32:09,840
Speaker 2: and they're probably going to ask the players to approve

1817
01:32:09,880 --> 01:32:12,880
Speaker 2: another round of playoff expansion this time from twelve teams

1818
01:32:12,880 --> 01:32:16,080
Speaker 2: to fourteen. And those things came up in the last

1819
01:32:16,080 --> 01:32:20,479
Speaker 2: CBA negotiations and they fell short and they ended up,

1820
01:32:20,520 --> 01:32:22,320
Speaker 2: you know, getting back on the field because they weren't

1821
01:32:22,320 --> 01:32:26,600
Speaker 2: going to get their salary cap. But if you think that,

1822
01:32:27,800 --> 01:32:30,280
Speaker 2: you know, baseball is flourishing right now. They're setting a

1823
01:32:30,320 --> 01:32:34,639
Speaker 2: tenants records, people are enjoying games. You've got excellent penet races,

1824
01:32:34,680 --> 01:32:38,040
Speaker 2: you've got storylines, you got Aaron Judge looks like this

1825
01:32:38,200 --> 01:32:43,439
Speaker 2: generation's Babe Ruth. But when you have Tony Clark, who

1826
01:32:43,479 --> 01:32:45,360
Speaker 2: played for the Tigers. I got to know Tony a

1827
01:32:45,360 --> 01:32:48,240
Speaker 2: little bit. He's now the executive director of the Major

1828
01:32:48,320 --> 01:32:49,840
Speaker 2: League Baseball Players Association.

1829
01:32:49,880 --> 01:32:52,000
Speaker 3: What he said last month quote.

1830
01:32:51,800 --> 01:32:53,960
Speaker 2: Unless I'm mistaken, the league has come out and said

1831
01:32:53,960 --> 01:32:56,960
Speaker 2: there is going to be a work stoppage. So I

1832
01:32:56,960 --> 01:32:59,080
Speaker 2: don't think I'm speaking out of school in that regard.

1833
01:32:59,560 --> 01:33:01,400
Speaker 2: Throw it all together in a blender and added up

1834
01:33:01,439 --> 01:33:03,320
Speaker 2: when you look at all the important issues where there's

1835
01:33:03,439 --> 01:33:07,519
Speaker 2: very little common ground shots across the ball from Rob

1836
01:33:07,560 --> 01:33:10,599
Speaker 2: Manfred and the fact that people are already lining up

1837
01:33:10,640 --> 01:33:13,400
Speaker 2: taking sides, and time has a way of going by

1838
01:33:13,520 --> 01:33:15,960
Speaker 2: fast and the future has a way of arriving ahead

1839
01:33:16,000 --> 01:33:18,559
Speaker 2: of schedule. You've got the rest of the season to enjoy,

1840
01:33:18,720 --> 01:33:22,080
Speaker 2: and they're twenty twenty six season to enjoy. But do

1841
01:33:22,240 --> 01:33:26,599
Speaker 2: not be surprised at all if we see a lockout

1842
01:33:26,680 --> 01:33:30,759
Speaker 2: and a workstoppage after the twenty twenty six season.

1843
01:33:32,120 --> 01:33:33,200
Speaker 3: I think it's inevitable.

1844
01:33:33,920 --> 01:33:36,920
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1852
01:33:58,360 --> 01:34:04,240
Speaker 2: continue with our divisional reviews, and tonight we're going to

1853
01:34:04,320 --> 01:34:07,519
Speaker 2: talk about what I think is probably, at least for

1854
01:34:07,520 --> 01:34:12,439
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five, the league's most competitive division, the NFC West.

1855
01:34:12,880 --> 01:34:14,880
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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio and the iHeart Radio App. Well, I

1875
01:35:17,040 --> 01:35:19,400
Speaker 2: think the NFC West is going to be very interesting

1876
01:35:19,439 --> 01:35:23,880
Speaker 2: this year, and you can argue the case that it's

1877
01:35:23,920 --> 01:35:27,240
Speaker 2: the most competitive division simply by looking at.

1878
01:35:27,160 --> 01:35:27,920
Speaker 3: The lower half.

1879
01:35:28,080 --> 01:35:31,000
Speaker 2: Okay, the Niners have typically been elite, not so much

1880
01:35:31,080 --> 01:35:33,880
Speaker 2: last year because they were a master unit. But the

1881
01:35:33,920 --> 01:35:37,120
Speaker 2: Cardinals steady improvement under their new head coach, Jonathan Gannon,

1882
01:35:37,160 --> 01:35:40,200
Speaker 2: suggests they might surprise some people. Did you know that

1883
01:35:40,320 --> 01:35:44,320
Speaker 2: Arizona led the division in scoring last year and finished

1884
01:35:44,320 --> 01:35:51,720
Speaker 2: second in points allowed? You can't rule them out, do

1885
01:35:51,760 --> 01:35:53,280
Speaker 2: I think they're gonna win the Vision though I actually

1886
01:35:53,320 --> 01:35:55,800
Speaker 2: think the forty nine ers are. They're over under total

1887
01:35:55,840 --> 01:35:57,720
Speaker 2: based on BETMGM ten and a half wins. I think

1888
01:35:57,720 --> 01:36:00,840
Speaker 2: they're an eleven win team. The key question Robert Sala

1889
01:36:00,920 --> 01:36:03,800
Speaker 2: returns can he return this defense to dominance as it

1890
01:36:03,840 --> 01:36:07,479
Speaker 2: once was. The Niners actually finished eighth last year in

1891
01:36:07,520 --> 01:36:10,920
Speaker 2: the NFL and yards allowed, but twenty ninth in points allowed.

1892
01:36:11,680 --> 01:36:15,800
Speaker 2: That's basically because their special teams units were terrible. They

1893
01:36:15,880 --> 01:36:18,719
Speaker 2: ranked last and field position allowed. Still, it's a defense

1894
01:36:18,760 --> 01:36:22,480
Speaker 2: that did struggle to stop the run. They rarely forced turnovers.

1895
01:36:22,680 --> 01:36:25,600
Speaker 2: They nearly had two turnovers the last ten weeks of

1896
01:36:25,600 --> 01:36:26,080
Speaker 2: the season.

1897
01:36:26,479 --> 01:36:27,960
Speaker 3: And yes, they.

1898
01:36:27,800 --> 01:36:31,000
Speaker 2: Were hampered by a ton of injuries cluster injuries, and

1899
01:36:31,040 --> 01:36:34,639
Speaker 2: they also had a very inexperienced coordinator. Now, Robert Sala

1900
01:36:35,880 --> 01:36:38,880
Speaker 2: was the architect of the defense, and if he can

1901
01:36:38,920 --> 01:36:42,640
Speaker 2: return it back to its twenty seventeen form, then the

1902
01:36:42,760 --> 01:36:48,160
Speaker 2: Niners can easily win this division. Maybe not easily, but

1903
01:36:48,479 --> 01:36:54,599
Speaker 2: the Niners did so it's pretty obvious that they they

1904
01:36:54,680 --> 01:36:57,519
Speaker 2: are focusing on defense because if you know the draft,

1905
01:36:57,560 --> 01:37:00,240
Speaker 2: which was just three months ago, the Niners open up

1906
01:37:00,240 --> 01:37:04,240
Speaker 2: with five straight defensive players. But the Niners have also

1907
01:37:04,280 --> 01:37:06,160
Speaker 2: had some pretty good receivers in the past. That one

1908
01:37:06,200 --> 01:37:09,479
Speaker 2: they won't have this year is Deebo Samuel. He's in

1909
01:37:09,720 --> 01:37:13,240
Speaker 2: Washington now. Brandon Ayuk is nursing an injury. You will

1910
01:37:13,240 --> 01:37:18,360
Speaker 2: not be ready for training camp. DeMarcus Robinson could be suspended.

1911
01:37:18,920 --> 01:37:25,559
Speaker 2: But this is an early opportunity for Juwan. Listen uh

1912
01:37:26,840 --> 01:37:30,360
Speaker 2: check that it's an early opportunity for Juwan Jennings. He

1913
01:37:30,439 --> 01:37:33,839
Speaker 2: was by the way, they're most maybe the most productive

1914
01:37:33,840 --> 01:37:35,000
Speaker 2: receiver in twenty twenty four.

1915
01:37:35,320 --> 01:37:36,160
Speaker 3: Ricky Piersall.

1916
01:37:36,280 --> 01:37:41,360
Speaker 2: You remember he was shot before the season started, but

1917
01:37:41,520 --> 01:37:44,720
Speaker 2: recovered and came back and played. And as there's some

1918
01:37:44,760 --> 01:37:48,000
Speaker 2: other names you haven't heard from, Jacob Cowing, Jordan Watkins,

1919
01:37:48,479 --> 01:37:51,439
Speaker 2: but Brock Purdy has said he's looked at these guys

1920
01:37:51,439 --> 01:37:53,800
Speaker 2: and rookies and there they're standing out.

1921
01:37:53,920 --> 01:37:54,320
Speaker 3: All right.

1922
01:37:55,120 --> 01:37:57,160
Speaker 2: You got to have a breakout player, and most likely

1923
01:37:57,200 --> 01:37:58,960
Speaker 2: that breakout player is going to be a linebacker with

1924
01:37:59,000 --> 01:38:01,960
Speaker 2: the name of Dee winners. Robert Sala said he's one

1925
01:38:02,000 --> 01:38:04,599
Speaker 2: of the fastest linebackers in the league, and they spent

1926
01:38:04,680 --> 01:38:07,160
Speaker 2: an early third round pick. He's a weak side linebacker,

1927
01:38:07,680 --> 01:38:11,080
Speaker 2: but he was outstanding in OTAs. Will the Niners be

1928
01:38:11,080 --> 01:38:14,479
Speaker 2: better than twenty twenty four, Yes, they have to be,

1929
01:38:14,880 --> 01:38:17,800
Speaker 2: but the injury risks are still present because you do

1930
01:38:17,840 --> 01:38:20,720
Speaker 2: have an aging cast to stars. All right, they're left

1931
01:38:20,720 --> 01:38:23,640
Speaker 2: tackle Trent Williams's thirty seven year old, and Christian McCaffrey

1932
01:38:23,880 --> 01:38:27,000
Speaker 2: feels like an old twenty nine, but he still ranks

1933
01:38:27,000 --> 01:38:30,280
Speaker 2: fifth among all active players in career touches nineteen hundred

1934
01:38:30,320 --> 01:38:35,320
Speaker 2: and like any NFL team, health matters. But the Niners

1935
01:38:35,320 --> 01:38:40,040
Speaker 2: have a very talented eleven rookie class. Eleven picks that

1936
01:38:40,080 --> 01:38:43,200
Speaker 2: were rookies in their class. Add enough talent around them

1937
01:38:43,400 --> 01:38:47,360
Speaker 2: and solid leadership and good quarterbacking, the Niners can win

1938
01:38:47,400 --> 01:38:49,280
Speaker 2: eleven twelve games. And oh, by the way, did I

1939
01:38:49,320 --> 01:38:53,880
Speaker 2: mention the Niners have the league's easiest schedule. Now, there's

1940
01:38:53,920 --> 01:38:55,840
Speaker 2: no sitting as an easy schedule in the NFL. I

1941
01:38:55,880 --> 01:38:59,760
Speaker 2: hate that when people say. But in terms of who

1942
01:38:59,760 --> 01:39:03,760
Speaker 2: they are play playoff teams record community record last year

1943
01:39:03,800 --> 01:39:06,920
Speaker 2: expectation the Natters are grading out is the easiest schedule.

1944
01:39:07,000 --> 01:39:08,479
Speaker 2: You know the Rams are going to be on their tail.

1945
01:39:09,120 --> 01:39:11,360
Speaker 2: Their win total is nine and a half wins. I'm

1946
01:39:11,360 --> 01:39:13,280
Speaker 2: not sure if the Rams win nine, go nine to

1947
01:39:13,280 --> 01:39:16,080
Speaker 2: eight or ten mints of it. There's too many there's

1948
01:39:16,080 --> 01:39:21,559
Speaker 2: too many unknowns. The Rams run defense last year was

1949
01:39:21,600 --> 01:39:24,519
Speaker 2: not good. It was an undersized defense. They were a

1950
01:39:24,640 --> 01:39:27,719
Speaker 2: very poor match for teams like the Eagles. The Eagles

1951
01:39:27,760 --> 01:39:29,439
Speaker 2: played the Rams twice last year. Did you know they

1952
01:39:29,520 --> 01:39:31,400
Speaker 2: ran for almost six hundred yards in those two games,

1953
01:39:31,479 --> 01:39:34,920
Speaker 2: five hundred ninety nine yards by the way, Los Angeles,

1954
01:39:34,920 --> 01:39:39,040
Speaker 2: the Rams finished twenty sixth then yards allowed per rush.

1955
01:39:39,280 --> 01:39:42,160
Speaker 2: They did sign a gentleman by the name of This

1956
01:39:42,240 --> 01:39:44,800
Speaker 2: guy makes my all name team. He's a defensive tackle

1957
01:39:44,840 --> 01:39:47,680
Speaker 2: by the name of Poona Ford five to eleven, three

1958
01:39:47,760 --> 01:39:54,120
Speaker 2: hundred pound you know, defensive tackle whose specialty is stopping

1959
01:39:54,160 --> 01:39:54,519
Speaker 2: the run.

1960
01:39:55,080 --> 01:39:59,599
Speaker 3: Well, let's see if he can do it. As I mentioned,

1961
01:39:59,760 --> 01:40:03,320
Speaker 3: the position to watch in San Francisco is receiver.

1962
01:40:03,439 --> 01:40:07,080
Speaker 2: The position to watch in Los Angeles is running back.

1963
01:40:07,560 --> 01:40:10,720
Speaker 2: Now kyn Williams has really flashed. As a matter of fact,

1964
01:40:10,760 --> 01:40:12,200
Speaker 2: if he keeps it up, he'd be the first Rams

1965
01:40:12,280 --> 01:40:16,479
Speaker 2: running back to receive an extension, a contract extension since

1966
01:40:16,680 --> 01:40:20,240
Speaker 2: well Todd Gurley might be it might be a four

1967
01:40:20,280 --> 01:40:23,600
Speaker 2: letter Ordinally he got that disastrous extension for eighty one

1968
01:40:23,720 --> 01:40:26,840
Speaker 2: million dollars that didn't quite work out right. Now, the Rams,

1969
01:40:26,840 --> 01:40:28,920
Speaker 2: believe it or not, they've drafted at least one running

1970
01:40:28,960 --> 01:40:32,400
Speaker 2: back in the last eight drafts. I would have thought

1971
01:40:32,439 --> 01:40:35,240
Speaker 2: they would spend some time to develop Blake Korm, who

1972
01:40:35,240 --> 01:40:37,040
Speaker 2: they got out of Michigan in the third round last year.

1973
01:40:37,080 --> 01:40:39,800
Speaker 2: He has a very similar skill set to Williams, but

1974
01:40:39,880 --> 01:40:43,320
Speaker 2: they also brought on a rookie named Jarquest Hunter who

1975
01:40:43,400 --> 01:40:46,800
Speaker 2: runs a four four forty and so you've got explosiveness

1976
01:40:46,800 --> 01:40:49,880
Speaker 2: there that Kyen and Blake Korum, as good as he is,

1977
01:40:50,000 --> 01:40:55,360
Speaker 2: don't have. Jordan Whittington a wide receiver promises or should

1978
01:40:55,439 --> 01:40:58,880
Speaker 2: expect to be a breakout player. He was a preseason

1979
01:40:58,960 --> 01:41:02,200
Speaker 2: standout last year twenty twenty four, whenever he got the opportunities,

1980
01:41:02,760 --> 01:41:04,840
Speaker 2: and he was a six round pick and he only

1981
01:41:04,840 --> 01:41:08,559
Speaker 2: started a couple of games, but he had in the

1982
01:41:08,560 --> 01:41:11,639
Speaker 2: games he started, he had six catches for sixty two

1983
01:41:11,720 --> 01:41:15,599
Speaker 2: yards and seven catches for eighty nine yards, and one

1984
01:41:15,640 --> 01:41:18,400
Speaker 2: game he caught three balls and had eighty six yards. Now,

1985
01:41:18,439 --> 01:41:20,800
Speaker 2: apparently he had a great spring. Puka Naku was on

1986
01:41:20,840 --> 01:41:21,760
Speaker 2: an excused.

1987
01:41:21,400 --> 01:41:25,720
Speaker 3: Absence, So Waitington took a ton of snaps and took

1988
01:41:25,720 --> 01:41:28,960
Speaker 3: a lot of the workload during spring, and he drew

1989
01:41:29,520 --> 01:41:31,960
Speaker 3: a lot of praise from coaches.

1990
01:41:32,000 --> 01:41:36,960
Speaker 2: And he should be considered a guy who would jump

1991
01:41:36,960 --> 01:41:40,280
Speaker 2: in his wide receiver three, but as a guy who

1992
01:41:40,600 --> 01:41:43,559
Speaker 2: is going to be counted on for a lot of production.

1993
01:41:44,720 --> 01:41:46,920
Speaker 3: So again the question I asked this about every team.

1994
01:41:46,960 --> 01:41:49,400
Speaker 2: Will they be better? Will the Rams be better than

1995
01:41:49,400 --> 01:41:52,800
Speaker 2: they were in twenty twenty four? Well, they started three

1996
01:41:52,880 --> 01:41:55,840
Speaker 2: and six and twenty twenty three and one and four

1997
01:41:55,920 --> 01:41:59,880
Speaker 2: last season, but managed to chase the playoff position both years.

1998
01:42:00,479 --> 01:42:03,920
Speaker 2: But they did address some needs I didn't even mention.

1999
01:42:05,600 --> 01:42:09,360
Speaker 2: They picked up a DeVante Adams, who they tell us

2000
01:42:09,479 --> 01:42:14,000
Speaker 2: is rejuvenated. They do have some continuity along their offensive line.

2001
01:42:14,680 --> 01:42:20,040
Speaker 2: They do have an improved interior defensive line, and I

2002
01:42:20,080 --> 01:42:27,479
Speaker 2: think the Rams are thinn at cornerback. And look, I

2003
01:42:27,520 --> 01:42:29,879
Speaker 2: got nothing against Matt Stafford. I just have Matt Stafford

2004
01:42:29,880 --> 01:42:34,280
Speaker 2: fatigue from Detroit. And Stafford's a guy you might win with,

2005
01:42:34,360 --> 01:42:37,160
Speaker 2: You're not gonna win because of Sean mcvado is the

2006
01:42:37,200 --> 01:42:38,000
Speaker 2: next factor here.

2007
01:42:38,080 --> 01:42:40,000
Speaker 3: So I only think there are.

2008
01:42:39,840 --> 01:42:42,400
Speaker 2: Two teams that can win this division, the forty nine

2009
01:42:42,479 --> 01:42:44,760
Speaker 2: ers in the RAMS. But I'll be surprised if the

2010
01:42:44,760 --> 01:42:47,240
Speaker 2: forty nine ers don't. But as I mentioned, this is

2011
01:42:47,840 --> 01:42:52,439
Speaker 2: arguably the most competitive division. Because the team's slated to

2012
01:42:52,439 --> 01:42:54,840
Speaker 2: finish third and fourth. Their win total is eight and

2013
01:42:54,840 --> 01:42:57,960
Speaker 2: a half each, which is much more than the bottom

2014
01:42:57,960 --> 01:42:59,800
Speaker 2: feeders in the other division. So let's start with this.

2015
01:42:59,840 --> 01:43:03,679
Speaker 2: Their win total is eight and a half. All right,

2016
01:43:03,760 --> 01:43:07,680
Speaker 2: You got Sam Darnald, He's our new starting quarterback. He's

2017
01:43:07,720 --> 01:43:11,519
Speaker 2: got something to prove after his tenure in Minnesota ended.

2018
01:43:11,600 --> 01:43:15,439
Speaker 2: He was having a spectacular season, and you remember how

2019
01:43:15,479 --> 01:43:20,640
Speaker 2: it ended in those final two games. Eleven sacks, a

2020
01:43:20,640 --> 01:43:23,240
Speaker 2: completion percentage of fifty eight percent, which is not good

2021
01:43:23,240 --> 01:43:26,280
Speaker 2: over the last two games. And the problem was the pressure,

2022
01:43:27,120 --> 01:43:30,960
Speaker 2: the agapp pressure, which means Seattle, which already has a

2023
01:43:31,040 --> 01:43:35,280
Speaker 2: leaky offensive line, will have to answer a major question.

2024
01:43:35,439 --> 01:43:39,719
Speaker 2: Can they protect Sam Donald? Right They have a new

2025
01:43:40,160 --> 01:43:42,960
Speaker 2: offensive coordinator, Clinton Kubiak, and they got a new offensive

2026
01:43:42,960 --> 01:43:46,599
Speaker 2: line coach. Three to five spots are settled, but their

2027
01:43:46,640 --> 01:43:49,840
Speaker 2: center position in right guard is not so that's a

2028
01:43:50,000 --> 01:43:53,320
Speaker 2: major question mark in Seattle. The position to watch there,

2029
01:43:53,320 --> 01:43:58,400
Speaker 2: it's obviously quarterback. Now, I think they have high hope

2030
01:43:58,400 --> 01:44:01,519
Speaker 2: for Sam Darnald, but the contract also has an out

2031
01:44:02,040 --> 01:44:04,439
Speaker 2: after one year in thirty seven million, which means, even

2032
01:44:04,479 --> 01:44:08,160
Speaker 2: if there's no quarterback competition in twenty twenty five, their

2033
01:44:08,160 --> 01:44:11,280
Speaker 2: third round pick Jalen Milroe, who they say they're high

2034
01:44:11,320 --> 01:44:14,599
Speaker 2: on out of Alabama, they could project as their twenty

2035
01:44:14,600 --> 01:44:19,040
Speaker 2: twenty six starter if for some reason Sam Darnold doesn't

2036
01:44:19,080 --> 01:44:23,360
Speaker 2: fit the bill. Now I do, I have heard that

2037
01:44:23,400 --> 01:44:28,040
Speaker 2: they are they are implementing certain slot packages for mil Row,

2038
01:44:28,240 --> 01:44:31,800
Speaker 2: and he's working hard to you know, shake the h

2039
01:44:32,680 --> 01:44:34,960
Speaker 2: shake the label of a first you know, a run

2040
01:44:35,000 --> 01:44:40,200
Speaker 2: first quarterback who you know can throw. But they are

2041
01:44:40,240 --> 01:44:42,280
Speaker 2: saying Klint Kubiak is saying, this is a guy who

2042
01:44:42,320 --> 01:44:45,200
Speaker 2: shows up at four thirty in the morning. Nobody asks

2043
01:44:45,280 --> 01:44:48,120
Speaker 2: them or nobody. You know, he doesn't nobody. He works

2044
01:44:48,120 --> 01:44:51,320
Speaker 2: harder than he does, and he's basically trying to fill

2045
01:44:51,360 --> 01:44:54,560
Speaker 2: in the blanks and find that ceiling so that he

2046
01:44:54,600 --> 01:44:59,040
Speaker 2: can be a legitimate pocket passing major league quarterback. The

2047
01:44:59,120 --> 01:45:01,439
Speaker 2: breakout player he looked for in Seattle was a linebacker

2048
01:45:01,520 --> 01:45:06,360
Speaker 2: named Terrese Knight. The defense, believe it or not, ranked

2049
01:45:06,400 --> 01:45:09,240
Speaker 2: in the top five and opponent's points per game, and

2050
01:45:09,320 --> 01:45:14,280
Speaker 2: the defense could have a breakout season. They had a

2051
01:45:14,280 --> 01:45:17,599
Speaker 2: big uptick after Week ten and that coincided with Knight's

2052
01:45:17,600 --> 01:45:20,840
Speaker 2: promotion to a starter, and he averaged nine tackles a

2053
01:45:20,880 --> 01:45:23,599
Speaker 2: game when his snapcount got up there as a starter.

2054
01:45:23,680 --> 01:45:28,400
Speaker 2: So the question will the Seahawks be better in than

2055
01:45:28,439 --> 01:45:31,240
Speaker 2: they weren't twenty twenty four when they had Gino Smith? Okay,

2056
01:45:31,880 --> 01:45:34,400
Speaker 2: I don't know. It's a flip of the coin. The

2057
01:45:34,439 --> 01:45:37,200
Speaker 2: team is built on a defense that can stop just

2058
01:45:37,240 --> 01:45:39,680
Speaker 2: about anyone in a run game. That should be improved.

2059
01:45:40,160 --> 01:45:42,960
Speaker 2: The question, and I'll repeat it. You have to keep

2060
01:45:43,040 --> 01:45:46,479
Speaker 2: Sam Donald off his back, you have to keep him clean.

2061
01:45:47,520 --> 01:45:52,880
Speaker 2: And he is replacing Gino Smith, who was serviceable. He

2062
01:45:52,960 --> 01:45:54,519
Speaker 2: came out of the gate. Remember he had that great

2063
01:45:54,600 --> 01:45:56,960
Speaker 2: Monday night game two years ago and said, y'all wrote

2064
01:45:56,960 --> 01:45:59,200
Speaker 2: me up on I ain't right back. But Geno Smith

2065
01:46:00,120 --> 01:46:02,720
Speaker 2: is a competitor and he showed flashes, but he was

2066
01:46:02,800 --> 01:46:07,479
Speaker 2: never really that consistent in my view. But he had

2067
01:46:07,479 --> 01:46:10,240
Speaker 2: a ceiling. And the question is was Gino Smith's ceiling

2068
01:46:10,320 --> 01:46:12,280
Speaker 2: higher than Sam Donald's. Well, if that was the case,

2069
01:46:12,560 --> 01:46:15,040
Speaker 2: then Seattle won't be better. And if they can't keep

2070
01:46:15,080 --> 01:46:18,280
Speaker 2: Sam Donald and they can't protect him.

2071
01:46:18,320 --> 01:46:20,880
Speaker 3: Then they won't be better. Again. They're gonna have.

2072
01:46:20,840 --> 01:46:26,000
Speaker 2: To have their defense lead the way, which is what

2073
01:46:26,080 --> 01:46:29,719
Speaker 2: Seattle is primed to do. They do have an easier schedule,

2074
01:46:30,479 --> 01:46:32,400
Speaker 2: so they'll be Taco playoff noise.

2075
01:46:32,520 --> 01:46:33,040
Speaker 3: I'm not so.

2076
01:46:33,080 --> 01:46:36,479
Speaker 2: Sure the Cardinals I think are better than Seattle. Their

2077
01:46:36,479 --> 01:46:38,160
Speaker 2: win totals eight and a half will not surprise me.

2078
01:46:38,200 --> 01:46:40,479
Speaker 2: If they win nine games, not at all. How much

2079
01:46:40,520 --> 01:46:43,880
Speaker 2: better is their defense? That's the key question. The Cardinals

2080
01:46:44,080 --> 01:46:47,000
Speaker 2: last year quietly finished both top twelve and points scored

2081
01:46:47,040 --> 01:46:50,320
Speaker 2: in total yards, but the defense was basically average. Now

2082
01:46:50,360 --> 01:46:53,960
Speaker 2: they had an interesting twenty twenty five draft. Their first

2083
01:46:53,960 --> 01:46:58,519
Speaker 2: five pickture on defense, including Will Johnson from Michigan, Walter Nolan,

2084
01:46:58,560 --> 01:47:02,360
Speaker 2: a defensive tackle, step in and contribute immediately. They added

2085
01:47:02,400 --> 01:47:06,439
Speaker 2: some great free agent signings a defensive tackle Cali's Campbell,

2086
01:47:06,960 --> 01:47:10,960
Speaker 2: an edge rusher Josh Sweat, and another defensive tackle, Dalvin Tomlinson.

2087
01:47:11,479 --> 01:47:15,000
Speaker 2: So their defense is now a strength. Kyler Murray, all

2088
01:47:15,040 --> 01:47:19,280
Speaker 2: eyes will be on Kyler Murray. He's telling reporters that

2089
01:47:19,400 --> 01:47:23,639
Speaker 2: his knee injury bothered him throughout the entire twenty twenty

2090
01:47:23,640 --> 01:47:26,680
Speaker 2: four season, and look for Kyler Murray to run the.

2091
01:47:26,640 --> 01:47:28,000
Speaker 3: Ball more now.

2092
01:47:28,160 --> 01:47:30,120
Speaker 2: Last year he averaged a career high in QBR on

2093
01:47:30,200 --> 01:47:33,519
Speaker 2: passing success, but he ran for only half as many

2094
01:47:33,640 --> 01:47:37,439
Speaker 2: yards as he did the year before. If he gets

2095
01:47:37,479 --> 01:47:39,639
Speaker 2: back to the level where he was the year before,

2096
01:47:39,680 --> 01:47:42,520
Speaker 2: where he ran for eight hundred nineteen yards and eleven touchdowns,

2097
01:47:43,240 --> 01:47:47,240
Speaker 2: he exploits all these talents. Kyler Murray could have a

2098
01:47:47,240 --> 01:47:50,760
Speaker 2: Pro Bowl year, and combined with the Cardinals defense, you

2099
01:47:50,920 --> 01:47:54,400
Speaker 2: have to watch his team. Jonathan Gannon has established a

2100
01:47:54,439 --> 01:47:58,600
Speaker 2: culture there that's legit. One other thing that has to

2101
01:47:58,640 --> 01:48:02,679
Speaker 2: happen for Arizona to makes him real noise. Marvin Harrison

2102
01:48:02,760 --> 01:48:06,120
Speaker 2: Junior has to have a genuine breakout year, no question.

2103
01:48:06,920 --> 01:48:09,000
Speaker 2: As a wide receiver at Ohio State. He had his

2104
01:48:09,080 --> 01:48:13,200
Speaker 2: moments as a rookie, but he you know, only one

2105
01:48:13,240 --> 01:48:16,920
Speaker 2: hundred plus receiving yards twice was held to fewer than

2106
01:48:17,000 --> 01:48:21,880
Speaker 2: fifty yards receiving in ten games. Harrison was the number

2107
01:48:21,880 --> 01:48:24,920
Speaker 2: four overall pick in twenty twenty four. People have called

2108
01:48:24,960 --> 01:48:30,360
Speaker 2: him a generational receiver. Now he's head into a sophomore year,

2109
01:48:30,479 --> 01:48:33,240
Speaker 2: he's put on weight, he's gotten stronger. They say he's

2110
01:48:33,280 --> 01:48:36,679
Speaker 2: going to have improved chemistry with Kyler Murray. And by

2111
01:48:36,720 --> 01:48:38,559
Speaker 2: the way, they didn't target him a lot last year.

2112
01:48:38,560 --> 01:48:41,080
Speaker 2: He's only targeted on twenty percent of his roots. That

2113
01:48:41,160 --> 01:48:44,360
Speaker 2: only times for eighty seventh among qualifying players.

2114
01:48:44,720 --> 01:48:46,719
Speaker 3: That's not a lot for a number four overall pick.

2115
01:48:47,560 --> 01:48:49,400
Speaker 3: So you have a.

2116
01:48:50,920 --> 01:48:53,439
Speaker 2: New offensive cordiator and Drew Petsing and he's going to

2117
01:48:53,520 --> 01:48:55,960
Speaker 2: force targets to his wide receiver one who is going

2118
01:48:56,040 --> 01:48:58,879
Speaker 2: to be Marvin Harrison. All Right, I checked that Petsing,

2119
01:48:59,240 --> 01:49:02,880
Speaker 2: he returns. He hasn't necessarily done that in the past years,

2120
01:49:02,880 --> 01:49:06,160
Speaker 2: but I think you're going to have to this year. Okay,

2121
01:49:06,280 --> 01:49:07,320
Speaker 2: they have inevitable question.

2122
01:49:07,640 --> 01:49:12,880
Speaker 3: Will Arizona be better than they were in twenty twenty four. Well,

2123
01:49:13,080 --> 01:49:14,360
Speaker 3: they had a very good offseason.

2124
01:49:14,479 --> 01:49:18,880
Speaker 2: Everybody believed that Arizona had as good an offseason as

2125
01:49:19,720 --> 01:49:21,960
Speaker 2: is anybody in the NFL. And it's maybe the most

2126
01:49:21,960 --> 01:49:25,720
Speaker 2: talented roster Arizona has had since in ten years. That's

2127
01:49:25,720 --> 01:49:29,120
Speaker 2: when Carson Palmer was the quarterback in Arizona in twenty fifteen.

2128
01:49:29,120 --> 01:49:32,040
Speaker 2: They were thirteen and three that year. Now, that is

2129
01:49:32,080 --> 01:49:35,000
Speaker 2: not a realistic goal or record in twenty twenty five.

2130
01:49:35,479 --> 01:49:37,160
Speaker 2: But could Arizona win ten games?

2131
01:49:37,320 --> 01:49:37,960
Speaker 3: Absolutely?

2132
01:49:39,000 --> 01:49:41,559
Speaker 2: They double their win total last year under Jonathan Gannon,

2133
01:49:41,840 --> 01:49:43,800
Speaker 2: and I think they can do it again this year.

2134
01:49:44,960 --> 01:49:48,000
Speaker 2: Is there a scenario where they win the division? Maybe,

2135
01:49:48,840 --> 01:49:50,360
Speaker 2: but that means you're going to have to go into

2136
01:49:50,360 --> 01:49:53,719
Speaker 2: San Francisco and win, and go into Los Angeles to win. Typically,

2137
01:49:53,800 --> 01:49:55,439
Speaker 2: teams that win their division they win on the road.

2138
01:49:55,920 --> 01:49:58,400
Speaker 2: I'm still sticking with the Niners to win the division,

2139
01:49:58,479 --> 01:50:01,040
Speaker 2: go eleven and six. Not sure if the Rams will

2140
01:50:01,040 --> 01:50:03,240
Speaker 2: be nine to eight or ten and seven. They may

2141
01:50:03,240 --> 01:50:04,920
Speaker 2: make a run out the playoffs, but they can't afford

2142
01:50:04,960 --> 01:50:06,960
Speaker 2: to start three and six or one and four like

2143
01:50:07,000 --> 01:50:09,599
Speaker 2: they've done the last two years. The Seahawks I'm most

2144
01:50:09,680 --> 01:50:13,439
Speaker 2: dubious about in this division. Sam Donold could come through,

2145
01:50:14,040 --> 01:50:17,160
Speaker 2: but they need an offensive line to protect him. And

2146
01:50:17,200 --> 01:50:20,160
Speaker 2: then I think Arizona is gonna be sneaky good and

2147
01:50:20,200 --> 01:50:23,920
Speaker 2: they're actually really the team to watch.

2148
01:50:24,240 --> 01:50:27,520
Speaker 3: I really believe that next week we will.

2149
01:50:30,320 --> 01:50:32,599
Speaker 2: Actually next week I'll be out, So the following week

2150
01:50:32,720 --> 01:50:36,519
Speaker 2: I'm going to preview the AFC South And he heard

2151
01:50:36,520 --> 01:50:39,800
Speaker 2: one of the other callers talk about s CJ.

2152
01:50:39,920 --> 01:50:40,320
Speaker 3: Stroud.

2153
01:50:42,360 --> 01:50:44,280
Speaker 2: Yes, he had a bit of a sophomore slump this year,

2154
01:50:44,280 --> 01:50:47,280
Speaker 2: but on the bright side, that just shows how great

2155
01:50:47,280 --> 01:50:50,880
Speaker 2: he was in his rookie season. And I think detections

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01:50:50,920 --> 01:50:51,400
Speaker 2: are legit.

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01:50:51,560 --> 01:50:54,200
Speaker 3: I mean, you saw the way they spanked the Chargers

2158
01:50:54,200 --> 01:50:58,240
Speaker 3: in that first round of the playoff. You know again

2159
01:50:58,320 --> 01:50:59,439
Speaker 3: they need to protect CJ.

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01:50:59,520 --> 01:51:02,639
Speaker 2: Stroud will talk about this in a future show, but

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01:51:03,200 --> 01:51:06,080
Speaker 2: the FC South would be another interesting division with the

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01:51:06,120 --> 01:51:09,920
Speaker 2: Texans and the Colts and well the Jaguars and Titans

2163
01:51:09,960 --> 01:51:13,840
Speaker 2: not so much battling it out coming up. One of

2164
01:51:13,840 --> 01:51:17,679
Speaker 2: the things to look forward to this season is there

2165
01:51:17,760 --> 01:51:22,320
Speaker 2: are a ton of quarterbacks with new teams and that

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01:51:22,360 --> 01:51:25,160
Speaker 2: makes for great storylines. Now, does a change of scenery

2167
01:51:25,200 --> 01:51:29,960
Speaker 2: for quarterbacks always amount to a panacea? Not always, Frankly,

2168
01:51:29,960 --> 01:51:32,519
Speaker 2: when a veteran quarterback joins a new team, it always

2169
01:51:32,520 --> 01:51:35,360
Speaker 2: brings a wave of optimism and people start to say

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01:51:35,400 --> 01:51:37,160
Speaker 2: that was our missing piece. Remember that's what we were

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01:51:37,200 --> 01:51:40,280
Speaker 2: told when Aaron Rodgers went to the Jets two years ago. Yeah,

2172
01:51:40,360 --> 01:51:44,200
Speaker 2: all the pieces are just missing a quarterback. Well, there's

2173
01:51:44,240 --> 01:51:47,599
Speaker 2: a whole batch of quarterback moves in twenty twenty five,

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01:51:47,680 --> 01:51:51,240
Speaker 2: and they checked the same boxes. Let's have a quick

2175
01:51:51,280 --> 01:51:54,160
Speaker 2: look at how they might fare as they head to

2176
01:51:54,200 --> 01:51:56,639
Speaker 2: their new team. In twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 3: I'm Bernie Fridlewerck Comedy line for the Las Vegas Fox

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01:51:59,400 --> 01:52:01,800
Speaker 3: Sports Radio Studios. Keep it locked. You're listening to the

2179
01:52:01,800 --> 01:52:03,719
Speaker 3: Bernie Frattle Show on Fox Sports Radio.

2180
01:52:06,080 --> 01:52:09,080
Speaker 2: Are back on the Bernie Frattle Show, Fox Sports Radio.

2181
01:52:09,080 --> 01:52:11,080
Speaker 2: Come to your line for the Fox Sports Radio Studios

2182
01:52:11,080 --> 01:52:15,680
Speaker 2: here in Las Vegas, just fourteen minutes away from the

2183
01:52:15,760 --> 01:52:18,200
Speaker 2: Dan Sensation sweep the national kind of brand new food.

2184
01:52:18,280 --> 01:52:20,240
Speaker 2: You followed by what my name? Before I get into

2185
01:52:20,280 --> 01:52:24,240
Speaker 2: quarterback expectations and yes, hope springs eternal, but it doesn't

2186
01:52:24,280 --> 01:52:27,360
Speaker 2: always work out that way. We'll take a quick roll

2187
01:52:27,400 --> 01:52:29,920
Speaker 2: call of all the qbs going to new teams and

2188
01:52:29,960 --> 01:52:33,639
Speaker 2: what their expectations are. Uh, just to get something off

2189
01:52:33,680 --> 01:52:36,280
Speaker 2: my chest real quick. As a caller brought up during

2190
01:52:36,280 --> 01:52:39,680
Speaker 2: the midnight hour, he could see Lebron going to the

2191
01:52:39,760 --> 01:52:45,479
Speaker 2: Dallas Mavericks. Now, believe it or not, a writer took

2192
01:52:45,520 --> 01:52:47,880
Speaker 2: the time to rank all twenty nine teams thirty teen,

2193
01:52:48,040 --> 01:52:49,679
Speaker 2: you know, twenty nine of the landing spots.

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01:52:50,120 --> 01:52:53,479
Speaker 3: We know he's not going to Utah, but Dallas is

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01:52:53,560 --> 01:52:54,639
Speaker 3: near the top of the list.

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01:52:54,880 --> 01:52:59,960
Speaker 2: If if James asks for a move, it's a team

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01:53:00,040 --> 01:53:01,680
Speaker 2: to keep an eye on. And you can make a

2198
01:53:01,760 --> 01:53:05,040
Speaker 2: case because Lebron has already played with their two best

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01:53:05,040 --> 01:53:08,559
Speaker 2: players Anthony daeveson Kyrie Irving, and he tried to play

2200
01:53:08,560 --> 01:53:10,479
Speaker 2: with them both at the same time in Los Angeles,

2201
01:53:10,560 --> 01:53:14,880
Speaker 2: so there's a theory that he would fit. Lebron wants

2202
01:53:14,920 --> 01:53:18,000
Speaker 2: to win now, that aligns with Nico Harrison's short term

2203
01:53:18,040 --> 01:53:21,600
Speaker 2: plan to win now, and obviously.

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01:53:21,160 --> 01:53:23,160
Speaker 3: The two know each other.

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01:53:23,240 --> 01:53:29,400
Speaker 2: I believe through their mutual Nike connections, Lebron in theory,

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01:53:29,600 --> 01:53:33,600
Speaker 2: could be a great mentor for Cooper Flag And we

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01:53:34,479 --> 01:53:37,679
Speaker 2: hear that the Dallas might have something that Lakers want

2208
01:53:37,800 --> 01:53:42,200
Speaker 2: like Max Christy and plus their twenty twenty nine first

2209
01:53:42,280 --> 01:53:45,439
Speaker 2: round pick, and because they just made this major trade,

2210
01:53:45,439 --> 01:53:48,360
Speaker 2: that the move would deprive Dallas of most of its

2211
01:53:48,400 --> 01:53:52,040
Speaker 2: depth and cost a decent chunk of draft capital. And

2212
01:53:52,280 --> 01:53:55,200
Speaker 2: this is just all wild speculation here, but it's feasible

2213
01:53:55,680 --> 01:53:59,719
Speaker 2: with other teams involved. Because Irving tried to recruit Lebron

2214
01:53:59,800 --> 01:54:03,400
Speaker 2: James Dallas two years ago, it's possible. Maybe this time

2215
01:54:03,439 --> 01:54:07,040
Speaker 2: it works. I know the favorite in the clubhouse is Cleveland.

2216
01:54:07,560 --> 01:54:10,160
Speaker 2: I don't know, though, I mean all roads seemingly lead

2217
01:54:10,160 --> 01:54:13,719
Speaker 2: back to Cleveland. If Lebron again asks for a deal

2218
01:54:14,200 --> 01:54:18,400
Speaker 2: and wants to leave Los Angeles, odds are he might

2219
01:54:18,439 --> 01:54:22,000
Speaker 2: be more comfortable for another homecoming. The Calves were sixty

2220
01:54:22,040 --> 01:54:25,519
Speaker 2: four win team last year. They were the number one seed.

2221
01:54:26,600 --> 01:54:29,439
Speaker 2: Now they're ready to win now. The only time they've

2222
01:54:29,439 --> 01:54:32,000
Speaker 2: ever won at the highest level was with Lebron. But

2223
01:54:32,080 --> 01:54:35,080
Speaker 2: a deal would be immensely complicated. The Calves would have

2224
01:54:35,160 --> 01:54:39,080
Speaker 2: to aggregate salaries to acquire Lebron, and doing so would

2225
01:54:39,120 --> 01:54:42,320
Speaker 2: mean hard capping themselves the second Apron. Cleveland would have

2226
01:54:42,400 --> 01:54:44,640
Speaker 2: to shed about twenty million and salary just to do so.

2227
01:54:45,720 --> 01:54:48,240
Speaker 2: They'd probably have to trade Darius Garland just for cap

2228
01:54:48,320 --> 01:54:51,600
Speaker 2: purposes only, and so with other valuable players. Not clear

2229
01:54:51,640 --> 01:54:53,640
Speaker 2: if Cleveland would want to take a swing, big swing

2230
01:54:53,760 --> 01:54:57,400
Speaker 2: like this right, but I think for those who want

2231
01:54:57,400 --> 01:55:00,240
Speaker 2: to dream, if you put Lebron and Donovan Mitch and

2232
01:55:00,240 --> 01:55:02,520
Speaker 2: Evan Mobley on the team together in the weakest decent

2233
01:55:03,040 --> 01:55:05,640
Speaker 2: this is by far the weakest Eastern Conference as long

2234
01:55:05,680 --> 01:55:08,720
Speaker 2: back as I can remember, they might have a path

2235
01:55:08,760 --> 01:55:09,240
Speaker 2: to the finals.

2236
01:55:09,280 --> 01:55:13,280
Speaker 3: Everybody stays healthy, all right, James to Cleveland.

2237
01:55:13,760 --> 01:55:17,200
Speaker 2: Well, you know, the short explanation is it's doable, but

2238
01:55:17,240 --> 01:55:20,000
Speaker 2: it would be costly. It would require sacrifices on both sides.

2239
01:55:20,360 --> 01:55:22,040
Speaker 2: But again, it has to.

2240
01:55:22,000 --> 01:55:25,680
Speaker 3: Start with Lebron wanting out and broadcasting that he wants out,

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01:55:26,240 --> 01:55:31,040
Speaker 3: and both teams expressing the desire to want to do it.

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01:55:31,080 --> 01:55:34,160
Speaker 3: I mean, the only other teams that are even mildly

2243
01:55:34,200 --> 01:55:37,480
Speaker 3: realistic I think are the Golden State Warriors. They tried

2244
01:55:37,480 --> 01:55:39,040
Speaker 3: to trade for James at the end of the twenty

2245
01:55:39,080 --> 01:55:42,200
Speaker 3: twenty fourth trade trade deadline. Lebron turned them.

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01:55:42,200 --> 01:55:44,480
Speaker 2: Now, maybe things are different now because he had the

2247
01:55:44,520 --> 01:55:47,760
Speaker 2: experience of playing with Stephen and the Olympics. He said,

2248
01:55:48,080 --> 01:55:50,400
Speaker 2: you know, Lebron claims that he and Draymond are close

2249
01:55:51,040 --> 01:55:56,440
Speaker 2: despite their rivalries, and you know, again, matching money is

2250
01:55:56,440 --> 01:55:58,680
Speaker 2: not going to be easy. Finally, the Knicks. I mean, look,

2251
01:55:59,000 --> 01:56:01,800
Speaker 2: Lebron's been having a dance with the Knicks is twenty ten.

2252
01:56:01,840 --> 01:56:04,600
Speaker 2: He met with him in twenty ten, right before the

2253
01:56:04,640 --> 01:56:10,240
Speaker 2: infamous you know, I'm taking my talents to Miami, which

2254
01:56:10,400 --> 01:56:12,600
Speaker 2: July eighth, this last Tuesday was the fifteen.

2255
01:56:12,360 --> 01:56:13,520
Speaker 3: Year anniversary of that.

2256
01:56:14,160 --> 01:56:16,080
Speaker 2: He's used the Knickson leverage in the past, but it

2257
01:56:16,200 --> 01:56:18,600
Speaker 2: never made more sense than to do right now. He

2258
01:56:18,680 --> 01:56:20,960
Speaker 2: might be able to make life easier than Jalen Brunson.

2259
01:56:21,840 --> 01:56:22,360
Speaker 3: But I don't know.

2260
01:56:22,360 --> 01:56:27,760
Speaker 2: You got it again, You've got you've got to shuffle

2261
01:56:27,760 --> 01:56:31,680
Speaker 2: pieces around. Who goes Karl Anthony towns Og. I don'ob

2262
01:56:32,080 --> 01:56:35,160
Speaker 2: Michael Bridges, Mitchell Robinson. I don't know Josh Hart. The

2263
01:56:35,200 --> 01:56:38,120
Speaker 2: truth of the matter is they would be long term

2264
01:56:38,200 --> 01:56:42,160
Speaker 2: du and Donchic teammates. But getting James Frankly might give

2265
01:56:42,160 --> 01:56:45,120
Speaker 2: the Knicks their best chance to win in fifty years.

2266
01:56:45,760 --> 01:56:46,200
Speaker 3: I don't know.

2267
01:56:46,280 --> 01:56:49,760
Speaker 2: It's all speculation and all problem all right. As I

2268
01:56:49,760 --> 01:56:52,520
Speaker 2: said a minute ago, when a veteran quarterback joins the

2269
01:56:52,560 --> 01:56:55,920
Speaker 2: new team, it's a wave of optimism because this is

2270
01:56:55,920 --> 01:56:58,680
Speaker 2: our messy piece. But you don't have to go back

2271
01:56:58,680 --> 01:57:00,640
Speaker 2: that far to remember. This is what they were saying

2272
01:57:01,360 --> 01:57:03,640
Speaker 2: when Aaron Rodgers was on his way to the New

2273
01:57:03,720 --> 01:57:05,400
Speaker 2: York Jets two years ago. That's all they needed the

2274
01:57:05,440 --> 01:57:10,120
Speaker 2: quarterback right replaced Zach Wilson. We're off and running now.

2275
01:57:10,160 --> 01:57:12,879
Speaker 2: There have been a few moves that have become success stories,

2276
01:57:13,040 --> 01:57:17,760
Speaker 2: but recent history says when a quarterback, when a veteran

2277
01:57:17,840 --> 01:57:23,160
Speaker 2: quarterback joins a new team expectations are usually high, and

2278
01:57:23,200 --> 01:57:27,520
Speaker 2: it usually doesn't go the way teams hope the results.

2279
01:57:27,520 --> 01:57:30,840
Speaker 2: Oftentimes the team even takes a step back, or at best,

2280
01:57:31,040 --> 01:57:35,200
Speaker 2: a step sideways. Here's the batch of veteran quarterbacks. There's

2281
01:57:35,240 --> 01:57:38,080
Speaker 2: several in twenty twenty five. And by the way, if

2282
01:57:38,120 --> 01:57:44,520
Speaker 2: you don't think football is here Saturday, the Chargers rookies

2283
01:57:45,520 --> 01:57:47,720
Speaker 2: are in camp. We've got the Hall of Fame game

2284
01:57:47,760 --> 01:57:50,960
Speaker 2: two weeks from next Thursday. We start with Aaron Rodgers.

2285
01:57:50,960 --> 01:57:54,040
Speaker 2: He goes to Pittsburgh forty two years old. Pittsburgh is

2286
01:57:54,080 --> 01:57:56,120
Speaker 2: in fact the playoff contender. Their win total was eight

2287
01:57:56,120 --> 01:57:58,879
Speaker 2: and a half. Look, I think they got a shot

2288
01:57:59,400 --> 01:58:01,920
Speaker 2: because they won ten games last year and the year

2289
01:58:01,960 --> 01:58:03,680
Speaker 2: before they got to the playoffs with Kenny Pickett.

2290
01:58:03,680 --> 01:58:06,760
Speaker 3: They got the playoffs with Wilson and Justin Fields. Why not.

2291
01:58:06,920 --> 01:58:09,840
Speaker 2: Sam Darnold twenty eight, goes to a fringe playoff team.

2292
01:58:09,840 --> 01:58:13,640
Speaker 2: Their win total is seven and a half. I don't know, man,

2293
01:58:13,680 --> 01:58:14,480
Speaker 2: I just don't know.

2294
01:58:14,880 --> 01:58:17,560
Speaker 3: Gino Smith, thirty five years old, gets a three year

2295
01:58:17,600 --> 01:58:20,120
Speaker 3: deal reunited with Pete Carroll. The win total for the

2296
01:58:20,200 --> 01:58:22,600
Speaker 3: Raiders is seven and a half. And the sharp people

2297
01:58:22,640 --> 01:58:24,960
Speaker 3: I know, they're betting yonder.

2298
01:58:25,520 --> 01:58:28,360
Speaker 2: Daniel Jones heads to Indianapolis, He's probably gonna win the job.

2299
01:58:28,400 --> 01:58:28,640
Speaker 3: Now.

2300
01:58:29,080 --> 01:58:32,640
Speaker 2: Anthony Richardson just isn't ready. He's twenty eight years old.

2301
01:58:32,680 --> 01:58:35,320
Speaker 2: He's in a career reboot mode. He actually has a

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01:58:35,720 --> 01:58:38,440
Speaker 2: road playoff win on his resume when they beat Minnesota.

2303
01:58:38,440 --> 01:58:40,960
Speaker 3: But the inconsistency drives people nuts.

2304
01:58:40,960 --> 01:58:43,400
Speaker 2: Although I'm hearing good reports that Daniel Jones is doing

2305
01:58:43,440 --> 01:58:44,680
Speaker 2: pretty well in Indianapolis.

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01:58:44,800 --> 01:58:46,960
Speaker 3: Their win total is seven and a half, but.

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01:58:46,960 --> 01:58:51,120
Speaker 2: As Daniel Jones the missing link to vault them past Houston,

2308
01:58:51,280 --> 01:58:52,880
Speaker 2: Come on, you know the answer to that question.

2309
01:58:53,360 --> 01:58:54,760
Speaker 3: Russell Wilson thirty.

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01:58:54,480 --> 01:58:57,080
Speaker 2: Seven years old going to the New York Giants, here's

2311
01:58:57,120 --> 01:58:59,960
Speaker 2: where the lowest expectations are of all their win total

2312
01:59:00,240 --> 01:59:02,760
Speaker 2: five and a half. Same with Justin Fields going to

2313
01:59:02,800 --> 01:59:05,160
Speaker 2: the other New York team, twenty six years old, new coach,

2314
01:59:05,600 --> 01:59:09,000
Speaker 2: win total five and a half. Now, based on historical patterns,

2315
01:59:09,800 --> 01:59:12,480
Speaker 2: the safer bets are the low expectation veterans.

2316
01:59:12,480 --> 01:59:14,960
Speaker 3: So Russell Wilson and Justin.

2317
01:59:14,760 --> 01:59:18,920
Speaker 2: Fields, if passed his prolog, actually have the best setup

2318
01:59:19,240 --> 01:59:21,480
Speaker 2: for exceeding what are very modest win totals.

2319
01:59:21,640 --> 01:59:22,640
Speaker 3: The danger zone.

2320
01:59:22,880 --> 01:59:26,960
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers faces the most risk, he faces the highest expectations,

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01:59:27,600 --> 01:59:29,320
Speaker 2: and you know there's going to be a spotlight.

2322
01:59:29,760 --> 01:59:30,600
Speaker 3: Sam Donald and.

2323
01:59:32,120 --> 01:59:35,600
Speaker 2: Daniel Jones fit the problematic young veterans that hopes they

2324
01:59:35,640 --> 01:59:40,600
Speaker 2: profile well. It historically disappoints the bottom line. Veteran quarterback

2325
01:59:40,640 --> 01:59:44,760
Speaker 2: wounds are consistently over valued. They generate excitement, but they

2326
01:59:44,920 --> 01:59:49,000
Speaker 2: rarely deliver. So Aaron Rodgers, Sam Darnald, Daniel Jones, they

2327
01:59:49,000 --> 01:59:51,760
Speaker 2: fit the mold to have major disappointing years where we

2328
01:59:51,800 --> 01:59:54,160
Speaker 2: shall see it's another quarterback carousale.

2329
01:59:54,560 --> 01:59:56,720
Speaker 3: Keep it locked. What kind of brand new fool is

2330
01:59:56,800 --> 01:59:58,040
Speaker 3: up next?

2331
01:59:58,640 --> 01:59:59,280
Speaker 1: Don't listening?

2332
01:59:59,360 --> 01:59:59,400
Speaker 13: No?

2333
01:59:59,520 --> 02:00:03,520
Speaker 2: Fox Yep, that's right, you heard the man. The Bernie

2334
02:00:03,520 --> 02:00:06,400
Speaker 2: Fraddle Show keeps rolling right along. My name is Bernie

2335
02:00:06,400 --> 02:00:08,879
Speaker 2: frattle Wire. Come to you line from the Fox Sports

2336
02:00:08,960 --> 02:00:10,680
Speaker 2: Radio studios here.

2337
02:00:10,320 --> 02:00:11,839
Speaker 3: In Las Vegas.

2338
02:00:13,480 --> 02:00:15,920
Speaker 2: And yes we've come to that juncture in the show

2339
02:00:16,000 --> 02:00:18,200
Speaker 2: and that time in the week.

2340
02:00:18,640 --> 02:00:19,840
Speaker 3: Well you know what, you love it?

2341
02:00:19,840 --> 02:00:24,480
Speaker 2: You cantley without it because our staff we certainly, as

2342
02:00:24,560 --> 02:00:27,560
Speaker 2: Yogi Bear would say, you can observe a lot by watching,

2343
02:00:28,320 --> 02:00:30,560
Speaker 2: and that's what we do. Because across this great land

2344
02:00:30,560 --> 02:00:32,600
Speaker 2: of arms from sea to Oily Sea and even around

2345
02:00:32,640 --> 02:00:36,360
Speaker 2: the planet, the globe, the universe. Well, people they do things.

2346
02:00:36,400 --> 02:00:40,080
Speaker 2: They do things that catch your attention. And sometimes they're

2347
02:00:40,120 --> 02:00:45,440
Speaker 2: innocuous and silly and not real smart. Other times they

2348
02:00:45,480 --> 02:00:50,440
Speaker 2: become far more dangerous, and oftentimes they involve running and

2349
02:00:50,480 --> 02:00:52,520
Speaker 2: follow the law and can even land you in jail.

2350
02:00:53,440 --> 02:00:57,040
Speaker 2: But any one of these behaviors that we observe, any

2351
02:00:57,040 --> 02:01:00,640
Speaker 2: way you describe it, any way you characterize it, anyway

2352
02:01:00,800 --> 02:01:05,120
Speaker 2: you recognize it, they always always leave us scratching our

2353
02:01:05,160 --> 02:01:07,920
Speaker 2: head and asking ourselves, what kind of brand new fool

2354
02:01:07,920 --> 02:01:13,480
Speaker 2: are you?

2355
02:01:14,320 --> 02:01:14,400
Speaker 15: So?

2356
02:01:14,920 --> 02:01:16,880
Speaker 1: What kind of brand new fool are you?

2357
02:01:17,920 --> 02:01:21,320
Speaker 2: Well, tonight we take you to Elkins, West Virginia and

2358
02:01:22,560 --> 02:01:25,520
Speaker 2: file this under the old cliche, which never made sense

2359
02:01:25,560 --> 02:01:25,760
Speaker 2: to me.

2360
02:01:25,960 --> 02:01:28,880
Speaker 3: Stick out like a sore thumb. I've never seen a

2361
02:01:28,960 --> 02:01:30,680
Speaker 3: sore thumb. I don't know what a sore thumb looks

2362
02:01:30,720 --> 02:01:32,960
Speaker 3: like or does it stick up. But work with me,

2363
02:01:33,160 --> 02:01:35,760
Speaker 3: all right, work with me, because.

2364
02:01:35,640 --> 02:01:38,200
Speaker 2: I bet you've been driving down the road and perhaps

2365
02:01:38,240 --> 02:01:40,280
Speaker 2: observes a vehicle in front of you or to the

2366
02:01:40,320 --> 02:01:44,360
Speaker 2: side of you that had a really loud, noisy car

2367
02:01:44,400 --> 02:01:49,000
Speaker 2: and perhaps their exhaust was blown black smoke and dark

2368
02:01:49,080 --> 02:01:51,880
Speaker 2: smoke and crazy smoke and You're like, what the hell

2369
02:01:51,960 --> 02:01:54,720
Speaker 2: is their problem? Okay, they haven't been to small pros

2370
02:01:54,760 --> 02:01:57,280
Speaker 2: in a while. There's a plug, all right, big thing

2371
02:01:57,320 --> 02:02:02,000
Speaker 2: in California. So take it to Elkins with Virginia. We

2372
02:02:02,160 --> 02:02:07,360
Speaker 2: introduce you to mister Lindsey Stuter. And he happened to

2373
02:02:07,360 --> 02:02:10,320
Speaker 2: be driving down the road and minding his own business,

2374
02:02:10,400 --> 02:02:13,080
Speaker 2: or so he thought. But he had one of those

2375
02:02:13,160 --> 02:02:18,240
Speaker 2: cars that was making funny noises and emitting lots of smoke.

2376
02:02:19,480 --> 02:02:22,640
Speaker 2: And the deputies with the Randolph County Sheriff's Department took

2377
02:02:22,720 --> 02:02:26,800
Speaker 2: notice and they pulled him over because quote in the report,

2378
02:02:26,840 --> 02:02:29,600
Speaker 2: had had an exhaust that was emitting an excessive and

2379
02:02:29,760 --> 02:02:37,120
Speaker 2: unusual noise according to a criminal complaint. Well, the deputies

2380
02:02:37,160 --> 02:02:40,920
Speaker 2: then make contact with a vehicles driver, mister stud and

2381
02:02:40,960 --> 02:02:44,440
Speaker 2: a passenger, and deputies learned this is where the fund

2382
02:02:44,440 --> 02:02:50,240
Speaker 2: began a license and registration please, Well that's when they

2383
02:02:50,240 --> 02:02:53,960
Speaker 2: found out that mister Studter's operator's license had been suspended

2384
02:02:54,920 --> 02:03:02,920
Speaker 2: for unpaid citations. Now, uh, as the fund continued, the deputies,

2385
02:03:03,160 --> 02:03:05,840
Speaker 2: who are trained to do this, as they spoke with

2386
02:03:05,920 --> 02:03:09,840
Speaker 2: mister stud noted quote the annotated in the report, he

2387
02:03:09,880 --> 02:03:14,960
Speaker 2: had quote constricted pupils and was extremely fidgety while trying

2388
02:03:14,960 --> 02:03:21,520
Speaker 2: to locate his proper documentation, and then they noticed quote,

2389
02:03:21,560 --> 02:03:26,240
Speaker 2: a large machete position between the front passenger seat and

2390
02:03:26,280 --> 02:03:30,800
Speaker 2: their center console. At that point, the deputy asked for

2391
02:03:30,920 --> 02:03:35,400
Speaker 2: the vehicle's occupants to exit. According to the complaint, they

2392
02:03:35,440 --> 02:03:37,920
Speaker 2: then brought in a canine unit that was used to

2393
02:03:38,480 --> 02:03:41,520
Speaker 2: sniff the area of the vehicle, which resulted all now

2394
02:03:41,640 --> 02:03:46,480
Speaker 2: not really gets fun positive indication for the presence of narcotics,

2395
02:03:46,920 --> 02:03:50,600
Speaker 2: which was resulted in a complete search of the vehicle. Now,

2396
02:03:50,640 --> 02:03:55,480
Speaker 2: during the search, the deputies also located a quote, loaded

2397
02:03:56,080 --> 02:04:00,800
Speaker 2: hypodermic needle with an unidentified liquid substance, forty seven grams

2398
02:04:00,840 --> 02:04:04,760
Speaker 2: of meth one ounce determined to be heroin or fentanyl,

2399
02:04:05,200 --> 02:04:09,480
Speaker 2: a mushroom consistent with psilocybin, a container of THC dabs,

2400
02:04:09,680 --> 02:04:12,920
Speaker 2: four tramadol pills. According to the complaint, guys are walking

2401
02:04:12,960 --> 02:04:16,960
Speaker 2: apothecary of illegal drugs. Well, it all started by sticking

2402
02:04:17,000 --> 02:04:19,440
Speaker 2: out like a sore thumb with a bad exhaust. If

2403
02:04:19,440 --> 02:04:22,080
Speaker 2: it had just gone to the small place had gotten

2404
02:04:22,080 --> 02:04:24,760
Speaker 2: it fixed, he wouldn't be sitting in jail charged with

2405
02:04:24,800 --> 02:04:28,520
Speaker 2: possession and intent to deliver a controlled substance and he's

2406
02:04:28,600 --> 02:04:32,880
Speaker 2: being held in Tigart Regional County Jail. Other than that,

2407
02:04:33,120 --> 02:04:35,600
Speaker 2: missus Lincoln, how's the play? And mister Studter, how is

2408
02:04:35,640 --> 02:04:39,720
Speaker 2: your day? Mister Studter of Elkins, West Virginia. What kind

2409
02:04:39,760 --> 02:04:45,080
Speaker 2: of brand new fool are you? Brianna take it away?

2410
02:04:45,640 --> 02:04:50,480
Speaker 19: Alrighty, So we're actually gonna head to Florida in honor

2411
02:04:50,560 --> 02:04:55,080
Speaker 19: of Shay, since you know, Sha always loved his Florida bits.

2412
02:04:55,720 --> 02:05:00,640
Speaker 19: So a Florida horse clinic mistakenly paid a risk optionists,

2413
02:05:01,160 --> 02:05:07,440
Speaker 19: Yessica A Ruha, aged twenty nine. They paid her were

2414
02:05:07,520 --> 02:05:11,680
Speaker 19: over four hundred thousand dollars of somebody else's salary, So

2415
02:05:11,760 --> 02:05:15,320
Speaker 19: she was getting her checks every you know, bi weekly,

2416
02:05:15,520 --> 02:05:19,000
Speaker 19: and she was getting three hundred and forty dollars three

2417
02:05:19,120 --> 02:05:21,720
Speaker 19: hundred and forty thousand dollars more than she was supposed

2418
02:05:21,760 --> 02:05:24,840
Speaker 19: to be. Well over a year spanned, and she never

2419
02:05:24,920 --> 02:05:28,480
Speaker 19: told anybody, So it was about two years and so

2420
02:05:28,560 --> 02:05:32,960
Speaker 19: a please report obtained, Yeah, in early twenty twenty three,

2421
02:05:33,600 --> 02:05:37,280
Speaker 19: that's when the mistake on the payroll was initially found,

2422
02:05:37,400 --> 02:05:40,879
Speaker 19: and she just kept just just pocketing that money. So obviously,

2423
02:05:40,920 --> 02:05:44,200
Speaker 19: like some moral issues with her to just be like, oh, well,

2424
02:05:44,360 --> 02:05:47,600
Speaker 19: you know, so she has been charged with a grand

2425
02:05:47,640 --> 02:05:51,720
Speaker 19: theft of one hundred thousand dollars or more and money

2426
02:05:51,840 --> 02:05:56,000
Speaker 19: laundering of also one hundred thousand dollars or more. There

2427
02:05:56,080 --> 02:06:00,400
Speaker 19: is no time of there's no noe of bail, there's

2428
02:06:00,480 --> 02:06:03,160
Speaker 19: no option to bail for her, and so she remains

2429
02:06:03,200 --> 02:06:07,320
Speaker 19: in custody and the Palm Beach made attention center. So

2430
02:06:07,520 --> 02:06:10,600
Speaker 19: a yessica, aaruha, what kind of brand new fool are you?

2431
02:06:12,320 --> 02:06:14,400
Speaker 3: I might add, who are the fools that allowed this

2432
02:06:14,440 --> 02:06:15,720
Speaker 3: to go on for? Was it a year?

2433
02:06:16,240 --> 02:06:17,160
Speaker 19: Two years?

2434
02:06:17,280 --> 02:06:17,800
Speaker 3: Two years?

2435
02:06:17,960 --> 02:06:19,360
Speaker 1: So they didn't notice it?

2436
02:06:19,400 --> 02:06:21,840
Speaker 19: They didn't notice it. And a Florida horse clinic. I

2437
02:06:21,880 --> 02:06:24,200
Speaker 19: was kind of thinking about that. I'm like, where where

2438
02:06:24,200 --> 02:06:26,520
Speaker 19: are the horses in Florida? Like why?

2439
02:06:27,080 --> 02:06:28,440
Speaker 3: Why where are the.

2440
02:06:28,360 --> 02:06:30,720
Speaker 19: Horses roam like on the beaches like Palm Beach, like

2441
02:06:30,760 --> 02:06:33,400
Speaker 19: Miami like that crazy.

2442
02:06:33,280 --> 02:06:34,960
Speaker 3: Sounds like the people who run the place.

2443
02:06:36,360 --> 02:06:38,360
Speaker 19: I don't know if it's like a Florida horse clinic.

2444
02:06:38,360 --> 02:06:40,120
Speaker 19: It's not even like and I think it's like a

2445
02:06:40,200 --> 02:06:44,600
Speaker 19: vet it says with a vetinarian checks. So maybe they're

2446
02:06:44,640 --> 02:06:46,760
Speaker 19: just like so rich that they didn't even notice that

2447
02:06:46,760 --> 02:06:48,040
Speaker 19: they were missing that much money.

2448
02:06:48,080 --> 02:06:50,040
Speaker 3: It's crazy. And that's why we call this segment what

2449
02:06:50,160 --> 02:06:54,480
Speaker 3: kind of brand newfooliad never never fails to surprise the

2450
02:06:54,560 --> 02:06:58,600
Speaker 3: links to the human condition. All right, Brandon who's training

2451
02:06:58,640 --> 02:07:01,320
Speaker 3: under Branda tonight? Are pretty Are you sure? Welcome in

2452
02:07:01,480 --> 02:07:04,120
Speaker 3: and you are making your debut for what kind of

2453
02:07:04,120 --> 02:07:06,160
Speaker 3: brand new fool you? Yes? I am.

2454
02:07:06,200 --> 02:07:09,960
Speaker 20: And we're gonna stay in Florida. Okay, we're gonna stay

2455
02:07:09,960 --> 02:07:13,520
Speaker 20: in Florida, you know because typically in honor of Shay,

2456
02:07:13,760 --> 02:07:15,960
Speaker 20: we'll look up Florida and we find a lot of

2457
02:07:15,960 --> 02:07:20,200
Speaker 20: great things. So Florida man hijack's Key West sightseeing train

2458
02:07:20,320 --> 02:07:23,920
Speaker 20: for meth fueled joy ride on his birthday and he

2459
02:07:24,040 --> 02:07:27,520
Speaker 20: picks up passengers, So let's worry about that. A man

2460
02:07:27,600 --> 02:07:31,200
Speaker 20: in Florida was arrested on his birthday Friday after authorities

2461
02:07:31,200 --> 02:07:36,240
Speaker 20: caught him with a trackless sightseeing train and even picking

2462
02:07:36,320 --> 02:07:40,880
Speaker 20: up passengers while high on meth. He was celebrating his

2463
02:07:40,920 --> 02:07:44,720
Speaker 20: fifty seventh trip around the Sun on Independence Day when

2464
02:07:44,720 --> 02:07:47,720
Speaker 20: he turned up on a conchour train depot and Key

2465
02:07:47,760 --> 02:07:52,400
Speaker 20: West and allegedly weaseled his way into conducting one of

2466
02:07:52,400 --> 02:07:58,839
Speaker 20: their vehicles. Yes, Winslow allegedly bamboozled a well meaning employee

2467
02:07:58,840 --> 02:08:02,040
Speaker 20: into forking over the key after claiming he used to

2468
02:08:02,080 --> 02:08:04,080
Speaker 20: work at the Okay, what are we doing here? After

2469
02:08:04,120 --> 02:08:06,440
Speaker 20: claiming why would they give him the keys, claiming he

2470
02:08:06,520 --> 02:08:08,760
Speaker 20: used to work at the company years prior, and requesting

2471
02:08:08,760 --> 02:08:14,120
Speaker 20: a tour of the train. So this guy's name, Jonathan

2472
02:08:14,120 --> 02:08:16,760
Speaker 20: Patrick Winslow? What kind of brand new fool?

2473
02:08:17,000 --> 02:08:19,880
Speaker 3: Are you? Gotta love?

2474
02:08:19,960 --> 02:08:23,040
Speaker 2: The three names there? Like you know, Lee Harvey Allswell,

2475
02:08:23,160 --> 02:08:25,240
Speaker 2: John Wilkes Booth. You're not a real criminal?

2476
02:08:25,320 --> 02:08:27,640
Speaker 3: Nless? You got three names right right, Brandon?

2477
02:08:28,320 --> 02:08:31,760
Speaker 2: Well, that concludes another rousing edition of what kind of

2478
02:08:31,800 --> 02:08:36,560
Speaker 2: brand new fool of you? And involving cars driving down

2479
02:08:36,640 --> 02:08:40,440
Speaker 2: the road with bad exhausts that land a guy in jail.

2480
02:08:40,240 --> 02:08:43,800
Speaker 3: And horse clinics and hell hijacking a train? What the hell? Yeah,

2481
02:08:43,800 --> 02:08:44,520
Speaker 3: we've all been there.

2482
02:08:44,600 --> 02:08:47,920
Speaker 2: Yeah sure, all right, good job, And that now allows

2483
02:08:48,000 --> 02:08:50,080
Speaker 2: us to segue.

2484
02:08:49,680 --> 02:08:55,160
Speaker 3: Into our second favorite bit, what my name? All right?

2485
02:08:55,200 --> 02:08:56,840
Speaker 2: This one kind of shocked me. We're going to be

2486
02:08:56,840 --> 02:08:59,480
Speaker 2: all over the map tonight. This is random. I am

2487
02:08:59,560 --> 02:09:04,680
Speaker 2: currently the highest paid punter in the NFL. I make

2488
02:09:04,760 --> 02:09:07,240
Speaker 2: three point nine to five million. It's just almost four

2489
02:09:07,280 --> 02:09:07,840
Speaker 2: million a year.

2490
02:09:09,320 --> 02:09:14,200
Speaker 3: And let's start with you. Brandon. What my name? I'll

2491
02:09:14,240 --> 02:09:15,160
Speaker 3: give you a clue.

2492
02:09:15,200 --> 02:09:18,240
Speaker 2: He punts for an AFC West team that hasn't made

2493
02:09:18,240 --> 02:09:20,160
Speaker 2: the playoffs in nine years.

2494
02:09:22,360 --> 02:09:23,880
Speaker 1: Oh, I don't know about this one.

2495
02:09:24,120 --> 02:09:27,080
Speaker 20: I was gonna say the Chiefs punter, but obviously they've

2496
02:09:27,120 --> 02:09:29,040
Speaker 20: won the division about a bazillion years in a row.

2497
02:09:29,120 --> 02:09:32,120
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go TBD on this. I'm gonna take.

2498
02:09:31,960 --> 02:09:35,080
Speaker 3: That album, no problem. Okay, nope, Well this he's kind

2499
02:09:35,080 --> 02:09:39,240
Speaker 3: of got an obscure name. I will although his first name.

2500
02:09:39,360 --> 02:09:41,000
Speaker 3: I'll give you one more clue of Brandon.

2501
02:09:41,600 --> 02:09:45,400
Speaker 2: His first name is the exact same name of Tony

2502
02:09:45,480 --> 02:09:46,840
Speaker 2: Soprano's son.

2503
02:09:47,800 --> 02:09:52,960
Speaker 20: Yeah, I'm I've only finished one season of the Sopranos.

2504
02:09:51,880 --> 02:09:57,680
Speaker 2: All good, Okay, I'm the highest paid punter in the NFL.

2505
02:09:58,520 --> 02:10:01,560
Speaker 2: I make just under four million year, and I punt

2506
02:10:01,640 --> 02:10:05,600
Speaker 2: for a team in the AFC West and we have

2507
02:10:05,680 --> 02:10:07,680
Speaker 2: made the playoffs in nine years. I'll give you a clue.

2508
02:10:07,720 --> 02:10:13,360
Speaker 2: It's not the Chiefs, and it's not the Broncos, and

2509
02:10:13,400 --> 02:10:18,240
Speaker 2: it's not the Chargers'. I was gonna go to Brianna,

2510
02:10:18,280 --> 02:10:20,760
Speaker 2: but yeah, it's all good.

2511
02:10:21,040 --> 02:10:21,680
Speaker 1: It's all good.

2512
02:10:21,920 --> 02:10:24,640
Speaker 3: It's all good. It's a winner, Winter Winter Winner.

2513
02:10:24,880 --> 02:10:26,600
Speaker 19: I was only going to say a J only because

2514
02:10:26,600 --> 02:10:28,800
Speaker 19: I knew the Sopranos and I don't know what last

2515
02:10:28,840 --> 02:10:30,320
Speaker 19: name I was going to come up with. So thank

2516
02:10:30,320 --> 02:10:31,040
Speaker 19: God for Brandon.

2517
02:10:32,200 --> 02:10:35,160
Speaker 2: This is one of this a random question. Brandy good good,

2518
02:10:35,320 --> 02:10:36,120
Speaker 2: good job Brandon.

2519
02:10:36,160 --> 02:10:36,320
Speaker 18: Here.

2520
02:10:36,360 --> 02:10:40,680
Speaker 2: Look, I was flabbergasted. Now I know Al Davis once.

2521
02:10:40,880 --> 02:10:43,040
Speaker 2: He's the only guy to ever draft U punter in

2522
02:10:43,080 --> 02:10:44,920
Speaker 2: the first round. Ray guy in the Hall of Fame,

2523
02:10:46,040 --> 02:10:49,360
Speaker 2: and we hopefully he probably earns his money because if

2524
02:10:49,400 --> 02:10:51,000
Speaker 2: you watch your Raiders, they punt a lot.

2525
02:10:51,000 --> 02:10:54,440
Speaker 3: Right, So we'll leave it right there. All right, let's

2526
02:10:54,440 --> 02:10:55,360
Speaker 3: go to basketball.

2527
02:10:56,040 --> 02:10:59,560
Speaker 2: I have missed more shots than anybody in the history

2528
02:10:59,680 --> 02:11:00,680
Speaker 2: of the NBA.

2529
02:11:01,600 --> 02:11:05,040
Speaker 3: Brianna, what my name? And I will give you a clue.

2530
02:11:05,560 --> 02:11:07,840
Speaker 3: He played for a West Coast team, and his name

2531
02:11:07,880 --> 02:11:10,080
Speaker 3: came up a couple times with callers tonight on the

2532
02:11:10,120 --> 02:11:11,520
Speaker 3: midnight hour. Brianna, what my name?

2533
02:11:13,360 --> 02:11:17,160
Speaker 19: Oh gosh, I'm just gonna say Lebron because I'm just praying.

2534
02:11:16,800 --> 02:11:23,880
Speaker 3: Here, I'll give you he's Nornger playing and he won

2535
02:11:23,960 --> 02:11:28,720
Speaker 3: five championships with the same team. Kobe Kobe Bryant, Oh

2536
02:11:29,240 --> 02:11:32,000
Speaker 3: miss Moore shots and any rest his soul miss more

2537
02:11:32,040 --> 02:11:36,080
Speaker 3: shots than anybody in the history of the NBA. And

2538
02:11:36,120 --> 02:11:39,800
Speaker 3: while we're on the subject, as a Major League Baseball

2539
02:11:39,800 --> 02:11:42,520
Speaker 3: player that's retired in the Hall of Fame, I have

2540
02:11:42,640 --> 02:11:46,440
Speaker 3: struck out more times than anybody in history, twenty five

2541
02:11:46,480 --> 02:11:52,160
Speaker 3: hundred times. Mark Ramsey, what my name? My nickname was, mister.

2542
02:11:52,040 --> 02:11:55,400
Speaker 1: October Reggie Jackson.

2543
02:11:55,760 --> 02:11:58,920
Speaker 3: It is, in fact Reggie Jackson. The guys are three

2544
02:11:59,000 --> 02:12:03,280
Speaker 3: for three, all right.

2545
02:12:03,320 --> 02:12:09,320
Speaker 2: So cal Raley, aka the Big Dumper Seattle see not Seahawks,

2546
02:12:09,320 --> 02:12:13,440
Speaker 2: Seattle Mariners to be in the home run derby. He

2547
02:12:13,480 --> 02:12:17,520
Speaker 2: broke the Mariners record by hitting. He now has thirty

2548
02:12:17,520 --> 02:12:20,880
Speaker 2: eight home runs. He broke the Mariners record of thirty

2549
02:12:20,920 --> 02:12:25,920
Speaker 2: five home runs before the All Star break. He broke

2550
02:12:26,080 --> 02:12:32,320
Speaker 2: my record, Brandon, what my name? Here's your clue. He's

2551
02:12:32,360 --> 02:12:33,960
Speaker 2: in the Hall of Fame. Left handed hitter.

2552
02:12:34,000 --> 02:12:37,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, Ken griff If that Ken Griffith Jr. Right out

2553
02:12:37,440 --> 02:12:41,160
Speaker 3: of the gate, had to be right, always had to be.

2554
02:12:41,880 --> 02:12:44,640
Speaker 2: He's got to be the greatest Mariner of all time? Right, Well,

2555
02:12:44,680 --> 02:12:50,160
Speaker 2: maybe him an Inchiro meck and met. On that same subject,

2556
02:12:50,840 --> 02:12:56,720
Speaker 2: cal Rally also broke my American League record of thirty.

2557
02:12:56,400 --> 02:13:01,480
Speaker 3: Seven home runs before the All Star break. Brianna, what

2558
02:13:01,600 --> 02:13:04,560
Speaker 3: my name, here's a clue. He played for the New

2559
02:13:04,640 --> 02:13:05,280
Speaker 3: York Yankees.

2560
02:13:05,320 --> 02:13:08,040
Speaker 2: He hit three home runs in the nineteen seventy seven

2561
02:13:08,080 --> 02:13:10,000
Speaker 2: World Series, and his name might have been mentioned on

2562
02:13:10,040 --> 02:13:10,680
Speaker 2: the show earlier.

2563
02:13:10,680 --> 02:13:19,400
Speaker 3: Brianna, what my name? Yes, good, guess his nickname is

2564
02:13:19,440 --> 02:13:20,360
Speaker 3: mister October.

2565
02:13:20,480 --> 02:13:21,360
Speaker 19: Oh, Reggie Jackson.

2566
02:13:21,440 --> 02:13:22,480
Speaker 3: It's Reggie Jackson.

2567
02:13:23,200 --> 02:13:26,600
Speaker 2: You don't take Reggie Jackson hit thirty seven home runs

2568
02:13:27,760 --> 02:13:31,120
Speaker 2: in nineteen sixty nine before the All Star break. He

2569
02:13:31,160 --> 02:13:33,000
Speaker 2: only hit ten the rest of the way the second

2570
02:13:33,040 --> 02:13:39,280
Speaker 2: half of the season. All right, last one. I'm the

2571
02:13:39,320 --> 02:13:43,480
Speaker 2: only player in Major League Baseball history with thirty nine

2572
02:13:43,560 --> 02:13:47,680
Speaker 2: home runs before the All Star break. Mark Ramsey, what

2573
02:13:47,840 --> 02:13:51,760
Speaker 2: my name. Here's a clue. I had a lot of

2574
02:13:51,760 --> 02:13:54,080
Speaker 2: home runs, but I'm not in the Hall of Fame

2575
02:13:54,200 --> 02:13:59,640
Speaker 2: because of alleged steroid use. Played for the team in

2576
02:13:59,680 --> 02:14:00,400
Speaker 2: the Bay Area.

2577
02:14:01,480 --> 02:14:04,440
Speaker 3: My head swoll up to ten times its size when

2578
02:14:04,480 --> 02:14:08,800
Speaker 3: I was playing. Oh, my father also played in the

2579
02:14:08,800 --> 02:14:09,480
Speaker 3: major leagues.

2580
02:14:09,920 --> 02:14:14,000
Speaker 21: Oh his name escapes me, but he headed, like you said,

2581
02:14:14,000 --> 02:14:15,960
Speaker 21: a giant head.

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Speaker 2: All right, I'm the only player with thirty nine home

2583
02:14:18,840 --> 02:14:21,720
Speaker 2: runs in Major League Baseball history, thirty nine home runs

2584
02:14:21,720 --> 02:14:26,040
Speaker 2: before the All Star break, Brandon, what my Name?

2585
02:14:26,040 --> 02:14:31,360
Speaker 3: Here's a clue, you got it, Barry Bonds, Martsie guys

2586
02:14:31,400 --> 02:14:35,480
Speaker 3: swept the board, AJ Cole, Kobe Bryant, Reggie Jackson, Aaron Judge,

2587
02:14:35,560 --> 02:14:36,520
Speaker 3: Ken Griffey Jr.

2588
02:14:36,640 --> 02:14:44,000
Speaker 2: Reggie Jackson twice, and Barry Bonds, which now you know

2589
02:14:44,600 --> 02:14:47,720
Speaker 2: allows us to move on. Another rousing edition of What

2590
02:14:47,880 --> 02:14:51,160
Speaker 2: My Name? And What kind of brand new food are You?

2591
02:14:52,440 --> 02:14:55,000
Speaker 2: Is in the books, by the way, the Home Run Derby.

2592
02:14:56,120 --> 02:14:58,680
Speaker 2: So while I was in Detroit, I covered the two

2593
02:14:58,720 --> 02:15:01,640
Speaker 2: thousand and five All Star Game in Comerica Park, and

2594
02:15:01,680 --> 02:15:04,920
Speaker 2: that's the year that's infamous because Bobby A. Bray you

2595
02:15:05,960 --> 02:15:08,360
Speaker 2: won the two thousand and five Home Run Derby with

2596
02:15:08,440 --> 02:15:12,960
Speaker 2: the then record forty one home runs during the Derby,

2597
02:15:13,880 --> 02:15:15,920
Speaker 2: but he only hit six home runs in the second

2598
02:15:15,960 --> 02:15:19,440
Speaker 2: half of the season, and it really raised questions about

2599
02:15:19,600 --> 02:15:21,640
Speaker 2: is there a home run Derby curse?

2600
02:15:22,520 --> 02:15:26,520
Speaker 3: What happens? Why do these guys fall off? Bobby Bray,

2601
02:15:26,520 --> 02:15:28,080
Speaker 3: you swing really wasn't the same.

2602
02:15:28,160 --> 02:15:29,920
Speaker 2: I think the next two or three years you only

2603
02:15:29,960 --> 02:15:32,120
Speaker 2: had like a combined ten home runs.

2604
02:15:32,800 --> 02:15:35,640
Speaker 3: And it's not the first time it happened. David Wright.

2605
02:15:37,080 --> 02:15:40,920
Speaker 2: He also had a situation where he hit twenty home

2606
02:15:41,000 --> 02:15:43,120
Speaker 2: runs before the All Star break, he only hit six

2607
02:15:43,600 --> 02:15:46,440
Speaker 2: and that triggered years of tabloid stories and people calling

2608
02:15:46,440 --> 02:15:49,880
Speaker 2: in the radios shows about how the home run derby

2609
02:15:50,000 --> 02:15:53,680
Speaker 2: ruined your swing and there's a curse. And what's interesting

2610
02:15:53,840 --> 02:15:58,360
Speaker 2: is now you know there's more baseball nerds and baseball

2611
02:15:58,400 --> 02:16:03,120
Speaker 2: analytics nerds. We they started to research back about fifteen

2612
02:16:03,200 --> 02:16:06,680
Speaker 2: years and when they discovered that they don't believe there

2613
02:16:06,720 --> 02:16:09,120
Speaker 2: is a home run derby curse. Okay, the second half

2614
02:16:09,200 --> 02:16:12,400
Speaker 2: drops and home runs doesn't happen because you are in

2615
02:16:12,440 --> 02:16:16,040
Speaker 2: the All Star Game. It just happens because they believe

2616
02:16:16,160 --> 02:16:19,400
Speaker 2: that there's a natural regression to the mean when you

2617
02:16:19,440 --> 02:16:22,320
Speaker 2: hit so many home runs in the first half of

2618
02:16:22,360 --> 02:16:25,320
Speaker 2: the year. Now there are eight brave souls that have

2619
02:16:25,440 --> 02:16:28,600
Speaker 2: entered the home run derby Tuesday night or Monday Night.

2620
02:16:28,600 --> 02:16:33,560
Speaker 2: Excuse me, Pete Alonzo, Alec Beam, Adolas Garcia, Gunner Henderson

2621
02:16:33,600 --> 02:16:36,959
Speaker 2: to Oscar Hernanz, the Dodgers, Marcello Is who owned Bobby

2622
02:16:36,959 --> 02:16:42,000
Speaker 2: Wood Junior. Check that I've given you the wrong names.

2623
02:16:42,840 --> 02:16:46,119
Speaker 2: The one I'm watching is cal Rally because cal Rally

2624
02:16:46,320 --> 02:16:51,280
Speaker 2: has has gotten himself into a situation where he's got

2625
02:16:51,280 --> 02:16:53,880
Speaker 2: thirty eight home runs and he doesn't the cheap ones,

2626
02:16:53,920 --> 02:16:55,480
Speaker 2: and he's a switch hitter, and he gets the ball

2627
02:16:55,560 --> 02:16:59,920
Speaker 2: up in the air. And history shows that players without

2628
02:17:00,040 --> 02:17:04,800
Speaker 2: blandish home run rates entering the All Star Game regressed

2629
02:17:04,800 --> 02:17:06,720
Speaker 2: to the mean. They just simply regressed to the mean

2630
02:17:08,600 --> 02:17:12,480
Speaker 2: of the twenty highest home run rates in the past

2631
02:17:12,480 --> 02:17:16,680
Speaker 2: five years dropped off in the season's second half. There's

2632
02:17:16,720 --> 02:17:19,240
Speaker 2: only a couple of counter examples, and you got to

2633
02:17:19,280 --> 02:17:22,240
Speaker 2: go back to twenty one and twenty two, and both

2634
02:17:22,280 --> 02:17:26,960
Speaker 2: times it was Aaron Judge. Aaron Judge, who, by the way,

2635
02:17:27,480 --> 02:17:29,280
Speaker 2: I meant to put this on the list today for

2636
02:17:29,320 --> 02:17:35,400
Speaker 2: what my name. He's the fastest player in baseball history

2637
02:17:35,560 --> 02:17:38,200
Speaker 2: to three hundred and fifty home runs. And he not

2638
02:17:38,240 --> 02:17:43,760
Speaker 2: only did it fast, he broke Mark McGuire's record. He

2639
02:17:43,800 --> 02:17:49,160
Speaker 2: did it two hundred games faster than Mark McGuire did it.

2640
02:17:49,640 --> 02:17:53,080
Speaker 2: But this narrative of the home run derby hangover the

2641
02:17:53,120 --> 02:17:54,960
Speaker 2: second half slump doesn't really mean.

2642
02:17:56,080 --> 02:17:57,480
Speaker 3: It really doesn't mean it's a curse.

2643
02:17:57,560 --> 02:18:01,119
Speaker 2: Okay, get you get the If the sluggers the enter

2644
02:18:01,400 --> 02:18:04,560
Speaker 2: the contest the All Star break, they change their swings.

2645
02:18:04,560 --> 02:18:07,080
Speaker 2: They go on to suffer a power outage the second

2646
02:18:07,120 --> 02:18:10,080
Speaker 2: half of the season, and again since twenty sixteen, sixty

2647
02:18:10,080 --> 02:18:12,800
Speaker 2: eight percent of all Home Run Derby participants have hit

2648
02:18:12,840 --> 02:18:16,360
Speaker 2: few home runs per played appearance after the All Star break.

2649
02:18:16,400 --> 02:18:19,039
Speaker 3: It's a classic case though, of what.

2650
02:18:18,879 --> 02:18:23,240
Speaker 2: The nerds are calling confusing causation versus correlation, because the

2651
02:18:23,280 --> 02:18:26,800
Speaker 2: Derby participants and other sluggers that also have big first

2652
02:18:26,800 --> 02:18:28,320
Speaker 2: half four months totals they aren't even in the All

2653
02:18:28,360 --> 02:18:31,000
Speaker 2: Star Game, tend to tail off later in the season.

2654
02:18:31,360 --> 02:18:34,280
Speaker 2: There are no conspiracy theories. By the way, it doesn't

2655
02:18:34,440 --> 02:18:37,640
Speaker 2: you know, you kind of not have to include inside

2656
02:18:37,640 --> 02:18:40,920
Speaker 2: the park home runs. But the truth of the matter

2657
02:18:41,000 --> 02:18:43,960
Speaker 2: is a hitter's flaball rate is really your defining characteristics.

2658
02:18:44,560 --> 02:18:47,640
Speaker 2: You have extreme flyaball hitters like Jose Ramirez who hits

2659
02:18:47,680 --> 02:18:50,280
Speaker 2: a flyaball forty eight percent of the time, and they

2660
02:18:50,280 --> 02:18:52,920
Speaker 2: put most of their balls play in the air, which

2661
02:18:52,959 --> 02:18:55,840
Speaker 2: is twice the rate of ground ball hitters. So the

2662
02:18:55,879 --> 02:18:59,320
Speaker 2: truth of the matter is conspiracy. Think all you want.

2663
02:18:59,360 --> 02:19:03,320
Speaker 2: It's just secific form of regression. And you know, I

2664
02:19:03,360 --> 02:19:05,960
Speaker 2: am of the belief that the home run Derby has

2665
02:19:06,080 --> 02:19:09,160
Speaker 2: jumped the shark it's boring now to me. They've changed

2666
02:19:09,200 --> 02:19:11,600
Speaker 2: the rules one hundred times. It's harder to follow. They

2667
02:19:11,640 --> 02:19:14,120
Speaker 2: got a goofy scoring system, and it's just one of

2668
02:19:14,120 --> 02:19:15,760
Speaker 2: those situations where I think they have to come up

2669
02:19:15,800 --> 02:19:16,360
Speaker 2: with something new.

2670
02:19:16,640 --> 02:19:16,800
Speaker 4: Now.

2671
02:19:16,840 --> 02:19:19,920
Speaker 3: Two years ago, Ken Griffy Jr.

2672
02:19:20,120 --> 02:19:21,520
Speaker 2: Was At the All Star Game and it says, you

2673
02:19:21,560 --> 02:19:23,240
Speaker 2: know what, I still think I could win this thing,

2674
02:19:24,160 --> 02:19:28,640
Speaker 2: and it spawned, you know, guys like Albert Poolholz and

2675
02:19:28,840 --> 02:19:31,720
Speaker 2: Sammy Sosa. We wanted to do this Veterans home run

2676
02:19:31,760 --> 02:19:33,920
Speaker 2: derby and I would like to see that. Maybe we'll

2677
02:19:33,920 --> 02:19:35,680
Speaker 2: talk about that in the future show. I've talked about

2678
02:19:35,680 --> 02:19:37,680
Speaker 2: it in past shows.

2679
02:19:37,840 --> 02:19:40,640
Speaker 3: I'm Bernie Fraddroch Comedy Live from the Las Vegas Fox

2680
02:19:40,640 --> 02:19:42,920
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2681
02:19:42,920 --> 02:19:44,720
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2682
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2683
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2684
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2686
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2687
02:20:01,959 --> 02:20:05,480
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2688
02:20:05,520 --> 02:20:09,000
Speaker 2: Come to live from the Las Vegas Fox Sports Radio Studios.

2689
02:20:09,040 --> 02:20:11,360
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2690
02:20:11,360 --> 02:20:13,600
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2691
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2692
02:20:17,560 --> 02:20:20,360
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2693
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2694
02:20:22,600 --> 02:20:25,080
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2695
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2696
02:20:28,160 --> 02:20:30,360
Speaker 2: So be sure to preset Fox Sports Radio in the

2697
02:20:30,400 --> 02:20:34,200
Speaker 2: iHeartRadio app and it will always pop up on the

2698
02:20:34,240 --> 02:20:37,600
Speaker 2: top of your screen. By the way, a little later

2699
02:20:37,600 --> 02:20:41,440
Speaker 2: in the show, you haven't forgotten, I bet you did.

2700
02:20:41,800 --> 02:20:45,520
Speaker 2: Last Tuesday, July eighth was the fifteenth anniversary of a

2701
02:20:45,600 --> 02:20:51,840
Speaker 2: very seminal event which frankly changed the landscape. You'd completely

2702
02:20:51,920 --> 02:20:55,119
Speaker 2: change the map of the NBA. And once that remind you,

2703
02:20:55,120 --> 02:20:57,520
Speaker 2: you'll the memory of what return. By the way, not

2704
02:20:57,600 --> 02:21:01,280
Speaker 2: for nothing, don't look now. Another big events coming to

2705
02:21:01,360 --> 02:21:04,640
Speaker 2: Las Vegas in twenty twenty eight. The Legion Stadium will

2706
02:21:04,640 --> 02:21:07,800
Speaker 2: host the Final Four. Now, ten years ago, this would

2707
02:21:07,840 --> 02:21:11,160
Speaker 2: have been inconceivable. The NFL shut down Tony or almost

2708
02:21:11,200 --> 02:21:14,840
Speaker 2: fantasy football convention. At one time, the NFL said they

2709
02:21:14,840 --> 02:21:18,720
Speaker 2: would never even play an exhibition game here. Yes, and

2710
02:21:18,800 --> 02:21:21,080
Speaker 2: betting is legal. When we get all that. Now we've

2711
02:21:21,120 --> 02:21:23,200
Speaker 2: got an NFL team, We've had a Super Bowl here,

2712
02:21:23,240 --> 02:21:28,000
Speaker 2: We've had an NHL team. We think the A's are

2713
02:21:28,040 --> 02:21:30,040
Speaker 2: coming in twenty twenty eight. Now we're going to have

2714
02:21:30,800 --> 02:21:33,640
Speaker 2: the Final four and it will bring a tremendous amount

2715
02:21:33,680 --> 02:21:37,080
Speaker 2: of revenue to Las Vegas. And it's an idea, frankly,

2716
02:21:37,720 --> 02:21:40,760
Speaker 2: whose time has come. And Legion Stadium is in a

2717
02:21:40,760 --> 02:21:45,160
Speaker 2: magnificent facility. And we just toasted a regional here two

2718
02:21:45,200 --> 02:21:49,600
Speaker 2: years ago, Danny Hurley's Yukon team events from the regional

2719
02:21:49,640 --> 02:21:51,920
Speaker 2: past here two years ago. So this has been a

2720
02:21:51,920 --> 02:21:54,800
Speaker 2: long time in coming and I believe it'll be the

2721
02:21:54,840 --> 02:21:57,720
Speaker 2: first to many. Well, we're just down the heels now

2722
02:21:57,879 --> 02:22:01,560
Speaker 2: of World Cup soccer. It will be here before you

2723
02:22:01,640 --> 02:22:03,600
Speaker 2: know it. And if you're like me, you watched with

2724
02:22:03,640 --> 02:22:07,000
Speaker 2: great interests last Sunday night the Gold Cup Cocky CAF

2725
02:22:07,080 --> 02:22:10,400
Speaker 2: final between the US and Mexico, and Mexico prevailed two

2726
02:22:10,440 --> 02:22:14,200
Speaker 2: to one. There was actually some drama in that game. Yeah,

2727
02:22:14,240 --> 02:22:17,640
Speaker 2: we do cover it all here on the Bernie Frattle Show.

2728
02:22:18,040 --> 02:22:20,640
Speaker 2: It's time Chris Purfett's World of Soccer.

2729
02:22:21,560 --> 02:22:29,600
Speaker 1: The Greatest Goals, the thrilling finishes.

2730
02:22:30,720 --> 02:22:39,600
Speaker 6: The International drama. It's all here in this report from

2731
02:22:39,600 --> 02:22:40,800
Speaker 6: the World of Soccer.

2732
02:22:40,879 --> 02:22:43,120
Speaker 21: It's the last little drip of club soccer we'll have

2733
02:22:43,200 --> 02:22:45,880
Speaker 21: outside of some friendlies until well. The calendar is going

2734
02:22:45,920 --> 02:22:48,600
Speaker 21: to pick up pretty quickly here again in a couple

2735
02:22:48,680 --> 02:22:51,400
Speaker 21: of months, because the Club World Cup has given us

2736
02:22:51,440 --> 02:22:52,199
Speaker 21: no time off.

2737
02:22:52,240 --> 02:22:54,039
Speaker 1: But what a match we have for the final?

2738
02:22:54,120 --> 02:22:57,240
Speaker 21: As I thought, it is two European clubs meeting Paris

2739
02:22:57,360 --> 02:22:58,680
Speaker 21: and Germaine and Chelsea.

2740
02:23:00,040 --> 02:23:01,320
Speaker 1: I gotta say, who am I picking?

2741
02:23:01,600 --> 02:23:04,520
Speaker 21: I've gotta go with Parising Germaine in this matchup three

2742
02:23:04,560 --> 02:23:08,200
Speaker 21: pm Eastern on TBS. This new version of PSG are,

2743
02:23:08,320 --> 02:23:11,040
Speaker 21: if I may use some British bit of arse kickers,

2744
02:23:11,320 --> 02:23:14,160
Speaker 21: and have been just housing everyone they have met there

2745
02:23:14,240 --> 02:23:17,760
Speaker 21: the current champions of UEFA and Europe, thus champions of

2746
02:23:17,760 --> 02:23:20,400
Speaker 21: the world as far as I'm concerned, and Chelsea walla

2747
02:23:20,440 --> 02:23:23,640
Speaker 21: good story probably gets dispatched, but who knows, exhaustion might

2748
02:23:23,640 --> 02:23:27,440
Speaker 21: finally catch up with them. It is in East Rutherford,

2749
02:23:27,480 --> 02:23:29,960
Speaker 21: New Jersey, at Medlife Stadium, where it will be a

2750
02:23:30,320 --> 02:23:35,400
Speaker 21: ball me eighty two degrees around kickoff time. I know

2751
02:23:35,440 --> 02:23:38,160
Speaker 21: that doesn't sound like much, but to some Europeans that

2752
02:23:38,360 --> 02:23:44,240
Speaker 21: sounds particularly warm, and it is a question for Johnny Infantino,

2753
02:23:44,720 --> 02:23:46,520
Speaker 21: who met with the press in the lead up to

2754
02:23:46,720 --> 02:23:49,400
Speaker 21: the final, and he has gone ahead and said that

2755
02:23:49,480 --> 02:23:53,640
Speaker 21: he wishes he wants to use stadiums with roofs in

2756
02:23:53,680 --> 02:23:56,600
Speaker 21: the twenty twenty six Men's World Cup to ease concern

2757
02:23:56,840 --> 02:24:00,959
Speaker 21: over the severe weather that will be happening, extreme heat

2758
02:24:01,280 --> 02:24:04,080
Speaker 21: that has plagued this Club World Cup. But in the

2759
02:24:04,120 --> 02:24:06,039
Speaker 21: real World Cup he wants to go to stadiums that

2760
02:24:06,120 --> 02:24:11,400
Speaker 21: only have roofs and coverings, which will limit I don't

2761
02:24:11,440 --> 02:24:14,520
Speaker 21: know how much he knows about soccer stadiums around the

2762
02:24:14,600 --> 02:24:15,320
Speaker 21: United States.

2763
02:24:15,360 --> 02:24:16,960
Speaker 1: That's going to limit a lot of stuff.

2764
02:24:17,200 --> 02:24:20,000
Speaker 21: And I think that FIFA was coming in expecting for

2765
02:24:20,040 --> 02:24:23,959
Speaker 21: the final to be held in MetLife Stadium near New York, So.

2766
02:24:25,640 --> 02:24:26,440
Speaker 1: What's up with that?

2767
02:24:27,080 --> 02:24:30,760
Speaker 21: Is that going to be changed pretty dramatically pretty quickly.

2768
02:24:31,400 --> 02:24:33,920
Speaker 1: Look, it's not good.

2769
02:24:34,120 --> 02:24:36,880
Speaker 21: This is a question that FIFA has had to deal

2770
02:24:36,920 --> 02:24:40,080
Speaker 21: with because this is in the summertime for a massively

2771
02:24:40,120 --> 02:24:43,320
Speaker 21: aerobic sport for a lot of athletes who are used

2772
02:24:43,360 --> 02:24:48,200
Speaker 21: to playing in fall, spring and winter conditions in calm Europe.

2773
02:24:48,320 --> 02:24:51,840
Speaker 21: But climate change and global warming has made it such

2774
02:24:51,920 --> 02:24:55,920
Speaker 21: that in the past twenty plus years, it has become really,

2775
02:24:56,040 --> 02:24:59,200
Speaker 21: really dangerous to play those kind of things outside, and

2776
02:24:59,240 --> 02:25:02,840
Speaker 21: we'll continue to get dangerous ads temperatures continue to rise

2777
02:25:02,879 --> 02:25:05,360
Speaker 21: across the globe and there's no way around that.

2778
02:25:05,680 --> 02:25:07,800
Speaker 1: Global warming effects soccer.

2779
02:25:08,760 --> 02:25:11,560
Speaker 21: So we'll see where exactly he's going to find all

2780
02:25:11,600 --> 02:25:14,279
Speaker 21: of these covered stadiums, because I'll tell you the Azteca

2781
02:25:14,720 --> 02:25:19,360
Speaker 21: in Mexico City that ain't covered. MetLife Stadium ain't covered,

2782
02:25:19,480 --> 02:25:22,039
Speaker 21: Miami ain't covered. Are we going to play every game

2783
02:25:22,080 --> 02:25:24,960
Speaker 21: in so far? I sure hope not. He also mentioned

2784
02:25:25,000 --> 02:25:26,680
Speaker 21: a lot about some of the changes to the format.

2785
02:25:26,680 --> 02:25:30,080
Speaker 21: He's very hopeful for twenty twenty nine, as to be expected.

2786
02:25:30,400 --> 02:25:33,119
Speaker 21: We'll see later on on the revenues and everything how

2787
02:25:33,160 --> 02:25:36,480
Speaker 21: much of success this Club World Cup will be for FIFA.

2788
02:25:36,879 --> 02:25:38,400
Speaker 1: Now, I got to move on to some bad news

2789
02:25:38,400 --> 02:25:38,879
Speaker 1: from the week.

2790
02:25:40,120 --> 02:25:45,040
Speaker 21: I had talked up Crystal Palace in the last episode

2791
02:25:45,200 --> 02:25:48,760
Speaker 21: of the World of Soccer talking about their stunning victory

2792
02:25:48,800 --> 02:25:50,720
Speaker 21: in the FA Cup and how they be playing in

2793
02:25:50,760 --> 02:25:51,600
Speaker 21: Europa League.

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Speaker 1: That won't happen.

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02:25:53,680 --> 02:25:57,000
Speaker 21: They are by punishment of YUEFA getting knocked back down

2796
02:25:57,040 --> 02:26:00,560
Speaker 21: to YUEFA Conference League, which is the third tier, and

2797
02:26:00,600 --> 02:26:02,120
Speaker 21: I guess the question is what happened.

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02:26:02,680 --> 02:26:05,080
Speaker 1: It's very simple. There is rules.

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02:26:04,760 --> 02:26:08,039
Speaker 21: Across UEFA, which governs Europe, that they have started to

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02:26:08,160 --> 02:26:12,039
Speaker 21: enforce a little bit stronger about ownership groups who have

2801
02:26:12,160 --> 02:26:17,560
Speaker 21: stakes in multiple clubs because of the very transparent conflict

2802
02:26:17,640 --> 02:26:21,440
Speaker 21: of interest that happens between it and Crystal Palace got caught.

2803
02:26:22,160 --> 02:26:23,000
Speaker 1: In this case, it.

2804
02:26:23,000 --> 02:26:25,760
Speaker 21: Happens to be the stake of one John Texter, an

2805
02:26:25,760 --> 02:26:30,440
Speaker 21: American businessman who is railing against Dick, who happens to

2806
02:26:30,520 --> 02:26:34,600
Speaker 21: own stakes in both Crystal Palace and in the French

2807
02:26:34,680 --> 02:26:38,440
Speaker 21: club Leone. Now this is where it gets tricky because

2808
02:26:38,480 --> 02:26:41,640
Speaker 21: Texter has been in the process knowing that this rule

2809
02:26:41,720 --> 02:26:45,960
Speaker 21: is there, of selling his steak to Woody Johnson, the

2810
02:26:46,000 --> 02:26:49,600
Speaker 21: American owner of the New York Jets. He understands the

2811
02:26:49,680 --> 02:26:51,880
Speaker 21: rule and he's trying and he has been trying to

2812
02:26:51,879 --> 02:26:53,840
Speaker 21: get out of it. But the timetable was not good

2813
02:26:53,879 --> 02:26:56,760
Speaker 21: to n enough for UEFA, and they went after Texter,

2814
02:26:56,800 --> 02:27:00,160
Speaker 21: who owns forty three percent of the club through Eagle Football,

2815
02:27:00,200 --> 02:27:03,440
Speaker 21: and also a majority stake in Leon, which is against

2816
02:27:03,480 --> 02:27:05,800
Speaker 21: the rules. Texter has called it a black eye few

2817
02:27:05,879 --> 02:27:09,600
Speaker 21: WAIFA that will never fade. It is very disappointing. I

2818
02:27:09,640 --> 02:27:11,800
Speaker 21: think a lot of people wanted to see Crystal Palace

2819
02:27:12,360 --> 02:27:15,920
Speaker 21: rules and rules in everything, but I think it's very

2820
02:27:15,920 --> 02:27:18,400
Speaker 21: clear that Crystal Palace is not part of any kind

2821
02:27:18,440 --> 02:27:21,680
Speaker 21: of nefarious multi clubs setup. It is not one of

2822
02:27:21,680 --> 02:27:24,040
Speaker 21: these clubs that has been caught in the past trading

2823
02:27:24,080 --> 02:27:27,200
Speaker 21: players amongst themselves and has never been the case between

2824
02:27:27,280 --> 02:27:28,840
Speaker 21: Leon and Crystal Palace.

2825
02:27:29,640 --> 02:27:33,240
Speaker 1: It's regrettable and finally, we continue the.

2826
02:27:33,200 --> 02:27:37,800
Speaker 21: Story of the late Diego Jota, the Liverpool forward Portuguese

2827
02:27:37,879 --> 02:27:41,320
Speaker 21: forward who tragically perished in a car crash in Spain

2828
02:27:41,440 --> 02:27:43,560
Speaker 21: last month alongside his brother.

2829
02:27:44,200 --> 02:27:46,359
Speaker 1: Liverpool has for the first.

2830
02:27:46,120 --> 02:27:50,160
Speaker 21: Time in its extremely long career decided to retire a number,

2831
02:27:50,160 --> 02:27:53,240
Speaker 21: and it is Diego's number twenty, which he wore for

2832
02:27:53,280 --> 02:27:56,800
Speaker 21: over five years with the club. Scored sixty five goals

2833
02:27:56,879 --> 02:27:59,520
Speaker 21: help them win the Premier League title. This past year

2834
02:27:59,520 --> 02:28:02,200
Speaker 21: helped them win a FA Cup and two League Cups.

2835
02:28:03,120 --> 02:28:07,199
Speaker 21: It is going to be retired across all levels, women's youth,

2836
02:28:07,920 --> 02:28:11,040
Speaker 21: every level of Liverpool. Nobody shall wear the number twenty

2837
02:28:11,080 --> 02:28:14,879
Speaker 21: again in honor of Diago Jota, who even still in

2838
02:28:14,920 --> 02:28:18,400
Speaker 21: the Club World Cup going on and in euro Women's

2839
02:28:18,440 --> 02:28:20,680
Speaker 21: Euros which we really haven't had a chance much to

2840
02:28:20,720 --> 02:28:21,280
Speaker 21: talk about.

2841
02:28:22,760 --> 02:28:23,920
Speaker 1: Tributes continue to.

2842
02:28:23,840 --> 02:28:27,240
Speaker 21: Go in of Jota and his distinct style of celebrating

2843
02:28:27,280 --> 02:28:30,279
Speaker 21: after a goal, where you sit down, cross your legs

2844
02:28:30,640 --> 02:28:34,040
Speaker 21: and mimic like you are playing a video game controller.

2845
02:28:34,600 --> 02:28:38,440
Speaker 21: It was the fun, childlike side of Jota that everyone

2846
02:28:38,520 --> 02:28:43,760
Speaker 21: loved about the celebration and which has inspired his memory

2847
02:28:43,800 --> 02:28:47,680
Speaker 21: across tributes coming in from rock bands like Oasis to

2848
02:28:47,920 --> 02:28:50,680
Speaker 21: all levels of soccer. I can't think of a more

2849
02:28:50,720 --> 02:28:54,520
Speaker 21: fitting honor than having your number retired. I just wish

2850
02:28:54,600 --> 02:28:58,680
Speaker 21: it wasn't under these circumstances where he is no longer

2851
02:28:58,720 --> 02:29:01,520
Speaker 21: here to see it. Until next time, Bernie, stay cool

2852
02:29:01,520 --> 02:29:03,320
Speaker 21: in the summer. This has been the world of soccer.

2853
02:29:04,879 --> 02:29:08,800
Speaker 2: There you have it, Christopherfett's World of Soccer, and the

2854
02:29:08,959 --> 02:29:11,520
Speaker 2: steam will pick up between now and next year. The

2855
02:29:11,520 --> 02:29:15,320
Speaker 2: world of the World Cup will be upon us before.

2856
02:29:15,040 --> 02:29:15,400
Speaker 3: You know it.

2857
02:29:15,440 --> 02:29:18,800
Speaker 2: MANI games right there in Los Angeles, coming up. We

2858
02:29:18,840 --> 02:29:22,680
Speaker 2: wrap up the show and we remember Tuesday, July eighth,

2859
02:29:22,800 --> 02:29:27,280
Speaker 2: the fifteen year anniversary of an event that frankly changed

2860
02:29:27,280 --> 02:29:30,400
Speaker 2: the landscape of the NBA. I'm Bernie Frattle. We're comedy

2861
02:29:30,440 --> 02:29:33,040
Speaker 2: line from the Las Vegas, Fox Sports Radio Studios. Keeping locked.

2862
02:29:33,040 --> 02:29:35,800
Speaker 2: You're listening to the Bernie Fraddle Show on Fox Sports Radio.

2863
02:29:37,480 --> 02:29:39,600
Speaker 2: All right, we're wrapping it up on the Bernie Frattle Show.

2864
02:29:40,760 --> 02:29:46,959
Speaker 2: Thanks to my producers Mark and Brianna and Brandon in

2865
02:29:47,200 --> 02:29:50,240
Speaker 2: training tonight, turning all the dials, keeping this flue together,

2866
02:29:50,400 --> 02:29:54,119
Speaker 2: brand new fool what my name Answering all the phones,

2867
02:29:54,160 --> 02:29:57,119
Speaker 2: taking care of all the callers, and keeping the plane

2868
02:29:57,120 --> 02:30:00,480
Speaker 2: in the air. Appreciate all the teamwork and hard working

2869
02:30:00,520 --> 02:30:01,920
Speaker 2: on the professionalism.

2870
02:30:03,520 --> 02:30:04,600
Speaker 3: It came and went.

2871
02:30:05,200 --> 02:30:08,920
Speaker 2: But once I mentioned it, it's going to be right

2872
02:30:08,959 --> 02:30:11,120
Speaker 2: back in the front of your memory.

2873
02:30:11,840 --> 02:30:12,800
Speaker 3: Fifteen years ago.

2874
02:30:12,920 --> 02:30:18,840
Speaker 2: Last Tuesday, July eighth, it was televised in ESPN and

2875
02:30:18,879 --> 02:30:22,160
Speaker 2: they called it quote the Decision. That was the night

2876
02:30:22,280 --> 02:30:25,080
Speaker 2: Lebron James declared he was taking his talents to South

2877
02:30:25,080 --> 02:30:29,520
Speaker 2: Beach to join Dwayne Wade and Chris Bosh. Now the

2878
02:30:29,520 --> 02:30:34,120
Speaker 2: announcement really kind of sent shockwaves through the NBA, But

2879
02:30:34,360 --> 02:30:37,400
Speaker 2: it wasn't just that that he would, you know, what

2880
02:30:37,560 --> 02:30:39,400
Speaker 2: he decided to do with the next stage.

2881
02:30:39,160 --> 02:30:39,720
Speaker 3: Of his career.

2882
02:30:40,480 --> 02:30:44,840
Speaker 2: It undeniably it triggered a chain reaction that's rippled across

2883
02:30:44,879 --> 02:30:48,600
Speaker 2: the NBA and beyond for fifteen years and will continue.

2884
02:30:49,680 --> 02:30:51,800
Speaker 2: And it wasn't just on the court, it was off

2885
02:30:52,160 --> 02:30:55,400
Speaker 2: and it affects pretty much every player, every team, every executive,

2886
02:30:55,440 --> 02:31:00,600
Speaker 2: every franchise, and anybody influencing the NBA because it became

2887
02:31:00,640 --> 02:31:04,080
Speaker 2: one of the most consequential moments in sports history for

2888
02:31:04,160 --> 02:31:10,240
Speaker 2: one simple reason, the player empowerment era was born. And

2889
02:31:10,320 --> 02:31:14,320
Speaker 2: that's the most law, that is by far the most

2890
02:31:14,360 --> 02:31:17,279
Speaker 2: impactful effect, the most long lasting effect.

2891
02:31:17,000 --> 02:31:17,720
Speaker 3: Of the decision.

2892
02:31:18,320 --> 02:31:21,280
Speaker 2: And it wasn't even just that. Even Lebron James lead

2893
02:31:21,360 --> 02:31:26,920
Speaker 2: up to the decision was player empowerment in and of itself.

2894
02:31:27,000 --> 02:31:28,920
Speaker 2: And I'll jog your memory.

2895
02:31:28,600 --> 02:31:29,360
Speaker 3: In just a second.

2896
02:31:29,879 --> 02:31:32,400
Speaker 2: We are still now very much living in the player,

2897
02:31:32,080 --> 02:31:36,520
Speaker 2: in the player empowerment era to this day. Why you

2898
02:31:36,560 --> 02:31:39,520
Speaker 2: see guys all the time dictating their landing spots, not

2899
02:31:39,600 --> 02:31:41,920
Speaker 2: even in just free agency. Jimmy Butler, why don't they

2900
02:31:41,959 --> 02:31:44,000
Speaker 2: have a out of Miami? That's just one of a

2901
02:31:44,040 --> 02:31:46,840
Speaker 2: thousand and he you know, Stevie do ord his way

2902
02:31:46,879 --> 02:31:52,640
Speaker 2: into the Golden State rotation. So players dictate their landing spots,

2903
02:31:52,720 --> 02:31:55,520
Speaker 2: whether it be free agency, They try to maneuver trades,

2904
02:31:55,520 --> 02:31:57,320
Speaker 2: They put pressure on their teams to get them more

2905
02:31:57,360 --> 02:32:01,400
Speaker 2: help angle their way to another specific destiny. Draft Knight,

2906
02:32:01,520 --> 02:32:05,360
Speaker 2: you hear, You've seen it all your It's not going away.

2907
02:32:05,640 --> 02:32:09,240
Speaker 2: Some of these efforts are obviously more successful than others,

2908
02:32:09,240 --> 02:32:12,920
Speaker 2: but there's no doubt this is a players league, and

2909
02:32:13,000 --> 02:32:15,760
Speaker 2: the player empowerment in the NBA, I believe is the

2910
02:32:15,760 --> 02:32:19,400
Speaker 2: most significant of any of this Invinien sports. And it

2911
02:32:19,480 --> 02:32:25,120
Speaker 2: actually even started before Lebron James had that event, But

2912
02:32:25,720 --> 02:32:28,400
Speaker 2: the event culminated because what happened.

2913
02:32:28,760 --> 02:32:30,400
Speaker 3: Lebron first narrowed.

2914
02:32:30,120 --> 02:32:35,040
Speaker 2: His choice down to six teams, and he took meetings

2915
02:32:35,040 --> 02:32:38,000
Speaker 2: with every one of them. The Nets, the Knicks, the Knicks,

2916
02:32:38,160 --> 02:32:42,879
Speaker 2: remember the Knicks, the heat the Clippers, the Calves some

2917
02:32:42,920 --> 02:32:45,840
Speaker 2: thought he might stay and the Bulls and that order.

2918
02:32:46,160 --> 02:32:48,000
Speaker 2: And that was during the first few days of July,

2919
02:32:48,520 --> 02:32:52,959
Speaker 2: before taking another few days to make his decision. But

2920
02:32:53,040 --> 02:32:55,160
Speaker 2: instead of visiting the teams in each of the cities,

2921
02:32:56,000 --> 02:32:58,920
Speaker 2: Lebron brought the teams to him and took the meetings

2922
02:32:58,920 --> 02:33:00,560
Speaker 2: in his business office Cleveland.

2923
02:33:01,120 --> 02:33:02,439
Speaker 3: This is one of the first.

2924
02:33:02,160 --> 02:33:05,400
Speaker 2: Signs that we were going to see a sea change

2925
02:33:05,440 --> 02:33:08,000
Speaker 2: in the NBA. Then Lebron took almost a sudden a

2926
02:33:08,080 --> 02:33:11,600
Speaker 2: full week after the meetings that was another sign. And

2927
02:33:11,640 --> 02:33:14,920
Speaker 2: when he decided to announce his decision, he didn't just

2928
02:33:14,920 --> 02:33:18,199
Speaker 2: announce his decision. He did it in a primetime interview

2929
02:33:18,280 --> 02:33:21,640
Speaker 2: televised an ESPN, and that was, in and of itself,

2930
02:33:22,000 --> 02:33:26,840
Speaker 2: a decision that again showed that players could really wield

2931
02:33:26,840 --> 02:33:27,360
Speaker 2: their power.

2932
02:33:27,520 --> 02:33:32,280
Speaker 3: Once Lebron flexed his muscle in this way, players started

2933
02:33:32,320 --> 02:33:35,160
Speaker 3: to follow suit. Over the years, there have been other

2934
02:33:35,280 --> 02:33:39,240
Speaker 3: type Division esque processes with a series of meetings where

2935
02:33:39,280 --> 02:33:41,640
Speaker 3: the location is picked by a player and they come

2936
02:33:41,720 --> 02:33:43,440
Speaker 3: to him. Now, they haven't all.

2937
02:33:43,400 --> 02:33:47,840
Speaker 2: Bad TV specials, because most folks agreed that was a mistake,

2938
02:33:47,959 --> 02:33:50,480
Speaker 2: even though I understand that it raised two or three

2939
02:33:50,480 --> 02:33:53,320
Speaker 2: million for a boys club in New Jersey. But regardless,

2940
02:33:53,920 --> 02:33:56,720
Speaker 2: it's one of those situations that I think people look

2941
02:33:56,760 --> 02:34:00,640
Speaker 2: at Lebron and they read that decision night in the pejorative,

2942
02:34:01,800 --> 02:34:04,440
Speaker 2: But it didn't change the fact that all of a sudden,

2943
02:34:04,440 --> 02:34:07,720
Speaker 2: now it added a new dimension to free agent lists

2944
02:34:07,760 --> 02:34:11,720
Speaker 2: and trade demands and preferred destinations. And then all of

2945
02:34:11,760 --> 02:34:15,040
Speaker 2: a sudden, now you got players weighing on roster decisions,

2946
02:34:15,120 --> 02:34:20,600
Speaker 2: coaching decisions. Teams practice schedules, when they practice, where they practice,

2947
02:34:20,840 --> 02:34:23,600
Speaker 2: how they travel, where they stay, who gets to work

2948
02:34:23,600 --> 02:34:26,400
Speaker 2: for the team behind the scenes, whether it's even assistant

2949
02:34:26,400 --> 02:34:29,920
Speaker 2: coaches or trainers, or even a Sun playing for the team. Right,

2950
02:34:30,400 --> 02:34:33,920
Speaker 2: the players have the power to determine just about anything

2951
02:34:34,000 --> 02:34:37,800
Speaker 2: these days, and they take full advantage of it. They

2952
02:34:37,920 --> 02:34:42,439
Speaker 2: use it at just about every opportunity, and it's.

2953
02:34:42,360 --> 02:34:43,160
Speaker 3: Become their right.

2954
02:34:43,320 --> 02:34:47,840
Speaker 2: And you know, if they're for that opportunity, you'd use

2955
02:34:47,879 --> 02:34:50,480
Speaker 2: it too, if you were able to, I would say

2956
02:34:50,520 --> 02:34:55,359
Speaker 2: to this day, though, Lebron has himself taken player empowerment

2957
02:34:55,400 --> 02:34:58,320
Speaker 2: to the highest levels of any player in the history

2958
02:34:58,360 --> 02:35:01,800
Speaker 2: of the NBA. Okay, starting by his experiences in Miami.

2959
02:35:01,840 --> 02:35:03,480
Speaker 2: Because Lebron, Wade, and.

2960
02:35:03,520 --> 02:35:05,440
Speaker 3: Chris Bosch, they all took a little less than the

2961
02:35:05,480 --> 02:35:08,520
Speaker 3: maximum salary so they could team up and leave enough

2962
02:35:08,600 --> 02:35:11,440
Speaker 3: room so that the Heat could re sign you Donnas

2963
02:35:11,440 --> 02:35:16,320
Speaker 3: Haslam and bring in Mike Miller. Now, Lebron James was.

2964
02:35:16,360 --> 02:35:19,240
Speaker 2: Angry when the Heat used the amnesty provision to get

2965
02:35:19,240 --> 02:35:22,480
Speaker 2: out of Mike Miller's contract a few years later, and

2966
02:35:22,959 --> 02:35:26,920
Speaker 2: that actually fired up Lebron to exert even more pressure

2967
02:35:27,520 --> 02:35:30,120
Speaker 2: on teams. Now, the four years Lebron was in Miami,

2968
02:35:30,360 --> 02:35:32,959
Speaker 2: they made the finals all four years and they won

2969
02:35:33,000 --> 02:35:37,400
Speaker 2: two championships, but after watching Miami he used the amnesty provision.

2970
02:35:38,000 --> 02:35:43,400
Speaker 2: He basically, you know, decided that he was never going

2971
02:35:43,480 --> 02:35:46,160
Speaker 2: to allow some of this, you know what he would

2972
02:35:46,200 --> 02:35:48,600
Speaker 2: consider to be in a net front office that could

2973
02:35:48,640 --> 02:35:51,879
Speaker 2: not supply him with you know, whether the Batman, Robin

2974
02:35:51,920 --> 02:35:55,000
Speaker 2: or whatever you want to like the earlier caller reference. Again,

2975
02:35:55,800 --> 02:35:59,120
Speaker 2: Lebron ended up going back to Cleveland. He routinely signed

2976
02:35:59,160 --> 02:36:01,720
Speaker 2: one year deals with the player option for a second season.

2977
02:36:02,280 --> 02:36:04,600
Speaker 2: That way he could leverage and pressure the Cavs into

2978
02:36:04,640 --> 02:36:09,400
Speaker 2: doing anything his way, making win now moves with the

2979
02:36:09,440 --> 02:36:12,959
Speaker 2: threat looming that he could leave. And then he brought

2980
02:36:13,000 --> 02:36:16,520
Speaker 2: in his preferred role players like Miller and James Jones

2981
02:36:16,560 --> 02:36:19,000
Speaker 2: and G. R. Smith and Kendrick Perkins and Chris Anderson,

2982
02:36:19,080 --> 02:36:22,440
Speaker 2: well Williams dere Then he even got coaches fired. You

2983
02:36:22,480 --> 02:36:25,560
Speaker 2: can't tell me he didn't get David Black fired and

2984
02:36:25,720 --> 02:36:31,160
Speaker 2: hired Tylou And then Lebron even relinquished a little bit

2985
02:36:31,200 --> 02:36:33,120
Speaker 2: control that he had with the Lakers, but he still

2986
02:36:33,160 --> 02:36:36,720
Speaker 2: exerted his influence to get them to trade for Anthony Davis,

2987
02:36:36,920 --> 02:36:41,560
Speaker 2: to draft his son Brownie, to hire their coach, and

2988
02:36:41,600 --> 02:36:44,039
Speaker 2: he routinely puts pressure on the front off the statements

2989
02:36:44,040 --> 02:36:46,680
Speaker 2: and subliminal messages about how the team needs to be

2990
02:36:46,720 --> 02:36:50,840
Speaker 2: making moves to prioritize his winner to win. By the way,

2991
02:36:51,120 --> 02:36:54,880
Speaker 2: you notice, since leaving Cleveland, Lebron is not taking anything

2992
02:36:55,040 --> 02:36:58,080
Speaker 2: less than the max. But that wasn't the only sea

2993
02:36:58,160 --> 02:37:01,480
Speaker 2: change in the NBA. Something that was called the Scoops

2994
02:37:01,560 --> 02:37:07,280
Speaker 2: Era was born because Lebron that night hadn't even been

2995
02:37:07,320 --> 02:37:11,800
Speaker 2: on Twitter. He joined Twitter that week because Chris Paul

2996
02:37:12,040 --> 02:37:14,440
Speaker 2: suggested he, dude, he should.

2997
02:37:14,720 --> 02:37:16,000
Speaker 3: And you know these days you.

2998
02:37:16,000 --> 02:37:19,680
Speaker 2: Take you know, well, Adrian wold Janowski's not active anymore,

2999
02:37:19,680 --> 02:37:23,120
Speaker 2: but scham Scherannia people look for these tweets. And one

3000
02:37:23,120 --> 02:37:26,200
Speaker 2: of the most memorable parts of the decision week that

3001
02:37:26,400 --> 02:37:32,800
Speaker 2: was following before, during, and after was on Twitter. It

3002
02:37:32,959 --> 02:37:35,960
Speaker 2: was it was called the Scoops Era, and it was born.

3003
02:37:36,120 --> 02:37:39,000
Speaker 2: You don't really remember, you didn't always have notification set

3004
02:37:39,240 --> 02:37:41,760
Speaker 2: for some of your favorite reporters, and you weren't always

3005
02:37:41,800 --> 02:37:45,640
Speaker 2: hanging on a thread and watching transaction news That week

3006
02:37:45,840 --> 02:37:48,879
Speaker 2: on Twitter started the blow by blow reporting of Lebron's

3007
02:37:48,920 --> 02:37:51,160
Speaker 2: various meetings with teams now they supposedly went, and who

3008
02:37:51,200 --> 02:37:52,680
Speaker 2: was in or out of the mix and which didy

3009
02:37:52,680 --> 02:37:54,920
Speaker 2: and all that kind of stuff. Now these days, Brian

3010
02:37:54,959 --> 02:37:58,400
Speaker 2: Wenthurst and they've credited or blamed the decision for creating

3011
02:37:58,400 --> 02:38:02,320
Speaker 2: the scoops here of NBA media. I think on balance

3012
02:38:02,400 --> 02:38:05,920
Speaker 2: it's a net positive. It's beneficial. It's not always accurate,

3013
02:38:06,320 --> 02:38:08,600
Speaker 2: but now the scoops is almost the entirety of the

3014
02:38:08,720 --> 02:38:12,360
Speaker 2: NBA media landscape. I mean, remember when Sean's on February

3015
02:38:12,400 --> 02:38:16,360
Speaker 2: first tweeted out about Luca going to Dowllas some people

3016
02:38:16,600 --> 02:38:19,000
Speaker 2: they weren't even sure if it was true or eve

3017
02:38:19,000 --> 02:38:19,520
Speaker 2: Ben hacked.

3018
02:38:19,720 --> 02:38:21,000
Speaker 3: Nope, it wasn't.

3019
02:38:21,320 --> 02:38:24,920
Speaker 2: Finally, another big thing that came out of the decision was,

3020
02:38:25,640 --> 02:38:28,320
Speaker 2: you know, the Big three era that became the norm.

3021
02:38:28,360 --> 02:38:31,240
Speaker 2: The idea of a big three players is still really

3022
02:38:31,240 --> 02:38:33,960
Speaker 2: alive and well because basically every time a team makes

3023
02:38:33,959 --> 02:38:36,200
Speaker 2: a big trade or free agency signing, you see a

3024
02:38:36,240 --> 02:38:39,680
Speaker 2: graphic on TV somewhere saying this is the new Big three, Like,

3025
02:38:39,920 --> 02:38:41,400
Speaker 2: who's going to stop these guys?

3026
02:38:41,560 --> 02:38:41,720
Speaker 3: Right?

3027
02:38:42,040 --> 02:38:45,039
Speaker 2: So, the Heagles trio didn't start the so called big

3028
02:38:45,080 --> 02:38:47,560
Speaker 2: three trend in the modern NBA. Believe it or not,

3029
02:38:47,600 --> 02:38:49,880
Speaker 2: it was actually the Celtics who united Kevin Garnett and

3030
02:38:49,920 --> 02:38:52,520
Speaker 2: Reale and with Paul Pierce. But once Miami built a

3031
02:38:52,520 --> 02:38:55,520
Speaker 2: bigger batter, Big three, it kickstarted an arms race. And

3032
02:38:55,560 --> 02:38:58,760
Speaker 2: it still kind of goes on to this day. Right,

3033
02:38:59,400 --> 02:39:03,520
Speaker 2: you've got the Big three now, really, Frankly and okay,

3034
02:39:03,520 --> 02:39:09,480
Speaker 2: see with Chad Holgren and SGA and Jared and Jared

3035
02:39:09,560 --> 02:39:11,400
Speaker 2: not Jared Allen. I'm having a brain cramp, but you

3036
02:39:11,400 --> 02:39:12,360
Speaker 2: know what I'm talking about.

3037
02:39:12,920 --> 02:39:16,160
Speaker 3: So it all goes back to that infamous night on

3038
02:39:16,280 --> 02:39:21,320
Speaker 3: July eighth, twenty ten, and fifteen years later, player empowerment

3039
02:39:21,320 --> 02:39:23,800
Speaker 3: in the NBA is alive and well, and it all

3040
02:39:23,840 --> 02:39:25,200
Speaker 3: started with Lebron and the.

3041
02:39:25,160 --> 02:39:27,680
Speaker 2: Decision, and it was an anniversary that just kind of

3042
02:39:28,000 --> 02:39:30,280
Speaker 2: flitted behind the night. But now you know, and now

3043
02:39:30,320 --> 02:39:32,600
Speaker 2: you remember, it's gonna do it for the Bernie Fratter Show.

3044
02:39:32,800 --> 02:39:36,279
Speaker 2: See you soon up next, Keep it locked. Andy Furman,

3045
02:39:36,360 --> 02:39:37,240
Speaker 2: the Great Andy Furman,