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Speaker 1: This is straight Fire with Jason McIntire.

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Speaker 2: What is up Straight Fire Fire. It's me Jason McIntire,

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Speaker 2: straight here for Wednesday, March the eleventh, Folks, I thought

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Speaker 2: we would be doing a podcast today. College basketball. So

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Speaker 2: many games Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, NBA get wild and uh,

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Speaker 2: I mean Lakers have a big game against the Timberwold's

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Speaker 2: happening right now? You've got World Baseball Classic. Italy jumps

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Speaker 2: to an eight nothing lead over Team USA. What the heck?

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Speaker 2: And then the neutron bomb goes off. Max Crosby's trade

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Speaker 2: to the Ravens voided. Now a lot is being thrown

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Speaker 2: out there from reporters that this is some chicanery from

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Speaker 2: the Ravens who had buyer's remorse giving up two ones

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Speaker 2: for an older guy coming off a major injury or

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Speaker 2: minor injury. I don't know, we're calling it. Trey Hendrickson

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Speaker 2: is still on the market. Are the Ravens gonna then

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Speaker 2: scoop up Trey Hendrickson and call it a day? Is

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Speaker 2: this dirty pool? I don't totally know what to make

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Speaker 2: of it. I'll just say this, so I was never

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Speaker 2: down with the trading two ones for Crosby. I thought

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Speaker 2: that was insane. I thought that was a major overpay.

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Speaker 2: When Dallas is involved in speculation, people, that's when you

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Speaker 2: know it's a bad move. And I told you guys

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Speaker 2: this Rashan Gary put out his note online thank you

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Speaker 2: to the Packers, sad to go, blah blah blah. He

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Speaker 2: was gonna get cut. Meanwhile, they somehow get a fourth

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Speaker 2: round pick out of it from the Cowboys for a

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Speaker 2: guy they were gonna cut. That's insanity they I don't

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Speaker 2: know how they pulled that up with that Jerry Jones

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Speaker 2: doing dumb things. Jerry Jones. Jones did decillity of Trey

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Speaker 2: Lance trade. There was one other one, Oh the overpay

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Speaker 2: for the wide receiver from Carolina whose name escapes me,

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Speaker 2: Rob Do you know it from Carolina? Remember they traded

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Speaker 2: for some guy I think he was on Carolina within

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Speaker 2: the last three years.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I'm not to really wrap up Steve Smith.

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Speaker 2: No, Notoa. But bottom line is, Jerry Jones says something

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Speaker 2: This to me was a dumb thing by the Ravens.

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Speaker 2: They were not a Max Crosby. They didn't make the

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Speaker 2: playoffs and Max Crosby's put them over the top. They

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Speaker 2: have a great linebacker, a great safety. The corners were

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Speaker 2: kind of shoddy. They had no pass rush. I mean,

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Speaker 2: they got Lamar Jackson who seems to be maybe declining,

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Speaker 2: wide receiver. They weren't a Max Crosby away. But I

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Speaker 2: just wonder. Rob is a big Raiders guy. He was

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Speaker 2: all stoked. I know a guy I work with who's

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Speaker 2: a huge Raiders fan too. They're key. They got a

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Speaker 2: billion picks, they're winning free agency. They got a center

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Speaker 2: to go with Mendoza. Bowers Genty should be improved. They

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Speaker 2: got a couple of good cornerbacks. Like every all signs

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Speaker 2: are pointing up. And now it's like whoa, whoa wait

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Speaker 2: a minute. And I know people think, oh, hey, it's

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Speaker 2: no big deal. They can still afford Crosby. But they

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Speaker 2: were making all these signings and all these moves in

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Speaker 2: the anticipation Crosby was gone. They've also I think they

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Speaker 2: have eleven draft picks. Now you gotta pay two first

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Speaker 2: salary cap guys to chime in on whether or not

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Speaker 2: they could technically still Afford Krosby or do they have

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Speaker 2: to come to Linderbaumb and say, Bro, we can't go

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Speaker 2: to twenty seven mil? Could we go to twenty four year?

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Speaker 2: So the highest paid, like, are they gonna have to

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Speaker 1: Rob.

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Speaker 2: I know you're a Raiders fan. You were geeked. What

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Speaker 2: is your status currently as we record this late Tuesday night.

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Speaker 3: It's stupid, it's ridiculous, it's it's a bad look for

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Speaker 3: all parties involved. And depending on which NFL insider you follow,

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Speaker 3: that the Baltimore Ravens got cold feet.

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Speaker 2: Point.

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Speaker 3: That's it's It's that simple, because everybody knew. This has

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Speaker 3: been well documented. Ian Rappaport, Adam Schefter, you know, pick

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Speaker 3: whoever your favorite NFL insider is. When Max Crosby got

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Speaker 3: Like that's the reality. He is currently rehabbing a knee

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Speaker 3: Everybody agrees he's actually ahead of schedule. Whatever. I don't

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Speaker 3: But the consensus was that he's not gonna be football

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Speaker 3: And instead the Baltimore Ravens, which apparently they have been

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Speaker 3: that you know what, I think we paid too much.

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Speaker 3: You know, we're playing a twenty nine year old pass

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Speaker 2: Interesting, So what becomes like, does Crosby want to go

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Speaker 2: I got traded, thank you, and now I got to

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Speaker 2: if you're the Raiders, you had two ones burd in hand,

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Speaker 2: Now you got to give that back. What if someone's like,

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Speaker 2: We would agree on that, right. I don't know that

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Speaker 2: Remember the Patriots last year spent the most in free agency.

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Speaker 2: crunching this earlier, asking Google Gemini, PS, I'm no longer

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Speaker 2: Like there's different ways that you can chart this, but

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Speaker 2: you know, neither had a superstar quarterback. I'm not calling

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Speaker 2: I think that's like rob there's a world where the

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's entirely possible. That's not the craziest thing I've

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Speaker 3: He did a whole last seven minute video saying goodbye

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Speaker 2: You know, there was a I don't know if it's

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Speaker 2: They were what happened.

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Speaker 2: So I'm looking at the They were sitting some guys tonight,

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Speaker 3: And then here's the worst part of it all again.

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Speaker 2: This is good, Like.

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Speaker 3: Adebaio became the first player in NBA history to score

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Speaker 2: Wow, Yeah, that is fascinating. So uh, I guess they're

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Speaker 2: I need to ask about this Luca Donca story. So

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Speaker 2: jest but not totally that you know, maybe the NBA

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Speaker 2: should rescind a few of his technicals given what he's

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Speaker 2: going through. I mean, his fiance is not coming over here.

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Speaker 2: He has only seen his two daughters for a ganner

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Speaker 2: total of two days in the last since, like was

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Speaker 2: it December. I mean, that's not right. So he's going

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Speaker 2: through a lot of family stuff. He's going through what

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Speaker 2: appears to be a breaking off of the relationship. And oh,

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00:21:42,880 --> 00:21:45,159
Speaker 2: by the way, in the article, it was kind of

440
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Speaker 2: an ugly scene in the hospital room when after the

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Speaker 2: wife girlfriend gave birth to the second kid. I guess

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Speaker 2: Luca's like, all right, well I'm gonna take my daughter

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Speaker 2: and go back to America. And she called the police

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Speaker 2: on him or something. It's just an ugly story. And listen,

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Speaker 2: I know a lot of people are bashing the hell

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Speaker 2: out of Luca. Oh, he whints, he complains all the time.

447
00:22:04,040 --> 00:22:05,760
Speaker 2: Sometimes you guys don't know what people are going through.

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Speaker 2: And obviously that's no excuse to barket referees and do

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Speaker 2: the money sign. He got fined for that, But like,

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Speaker 2: I don't know, on some level, to me, it is

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Speaker 2: a little bit explainable. Like you know, Damian Liller went

452
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Speaker 2: through a real tough phase. He got traded to Milwaukee,

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Speaker 2: he was going through a divorce. I don't know when

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Speaker 2: I put that, I don't follow it up. But like

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Speaker 2: when you're off field stuff is disintegrating, it's obviously going

456
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Speaker 2: to carry over into your on field. That's just natural.

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Speaker 2: And again, I'm not defending Luca for the for the antics,

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Speaker 2: but like I wonder, do some of these guys feel

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Speaker 2: like jerks rob for the way they've crushed Luca for

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Speaker 2: his behavior when oh, wouldn't you know he's going through

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Speaker 2: some major family stuff.

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Speaker 3: Yeah you would think so, but I promise you they

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Speaker 3: don't feel bad. Like and you know this, working in

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Speaker 3: sports media as long as you have, and being around

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Speaker 3: athletes and being around agent and so on and so forth.

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Speaker 2: The way that people in.

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Speaker 3: General view these guys and gals as professionals, they're not

468
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Speaker 3: viewed as humans. They're viewed as something else. They're viewed

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Speaker 3: almost as entertainers. They're viewed as ideas. They're viewed as

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Speaker 3: you know, gladiators, you know, like they do exactly like

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Speaker 3: they don't have real issues, Like they don't. They can't

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Speaker 3: understand what it means like to struggle to pay a bill.

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Speaker 3: They don't know what it's like to, you know, to

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Speaker 3: get picked last in a pickup game. They don't know

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Speaker 3: what it's like to not get the girl right like

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Speaker 3: they in their eyes, these guys and women like they

477
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Speaker 3: live charmed lifestyles and their only job is to show

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Speaker 3: up and perform for us. And it doesn't matter what's

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Speaker 3: going on in your personal life. It doesn't matter what

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Speaker 3: you're going through, you know, even physically with with ailments.

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00:23:42,960 --> 00:23:46,159
Speaker 3: It's like, if you're there, then I expect a certain

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Speaker 3: product from you and Luka Doncic is clearly like we

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Speaker 3: there was speculations going with issue with is I guess fiance,

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Speaker 3: But I don't think anyone knew was that this extent,

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Speaker 3: and I was honestly surprised that he put out the

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Speaker 3: statement himself. I get to try to get ahead of

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00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:04,760
Speaker 3: the story because you know, between him and and the

488
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Speaker 3: whole thing going on with Dak Prescott and his wedding.

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Speaker 2: Oh Prescott, Yeah, another athlete, and I guess, yeah, there's

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Speaker 2: allegations he was cheating on his fiance. The wedding is

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Speaker 2: like the month or something, I don't know, ye, and

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Speaker 2: they broke it off. It's tough out there being a

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Speaker 2: rich athlete, no kidding. I was gonna say, there's a

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Speaker 2: Bill Burr. I don't know if you've seen it, I'll

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Speaker 2: send it to you. Rob. It's not really appropriate to

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Speaker 2: play on here, obviously, but Bill Burr was on Jimmy

497
00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:34,320
Speaker 2: Fallon and talking about what it's like for guys out there.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to really sick because I don't want this.

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Speaker 2: People will clip it off and make me look like

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Speaker 2: an idiot. It is hilarious because Bill Burr is a

501
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Speaker 2: comedian and he pulls it off great, But you know,

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Speaker 2: I don't know what's going on with Dak. Obviously not

503
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Speaker 2: a great look to get caught cheating before before you're

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Speaker 2: about to get married. I think he's got a couple

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Speaker 2: of kids with this lady. Like listen, man, some of

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Speaker 2: these athletes, you know, they it's tough making make a

507
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Speaker 2: tough decisions or bad decisions, right.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and and and the thing is that you're never

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Speaker 3: going to be given the same level of privacy that

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Speaker 3: everyone else is going to be given. Like it'd be

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Speaker 3: one thing if you know, hey, Tyreek Hill, you know

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Speaker 3: when he allegedly punched his pregnant girlfriend or something like,

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00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:16,080
Speaker 3: you know, things like that, Like you don't deserve privacy.

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Speaker 3: I think that. And when you're committing something that's like

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Speaker 3: abuse or a crime, I don't think you should be

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Speaker 3: protected from that kind of stuff. But when it's just hey,

517
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Speaker 3: you guys broke up. Hey your wedding got called off. Hey,

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Speaker 3: you haven't been able to see your kids in months

519
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Speaker 3: because of things are going badly with your spouse, Like,

520
00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:35,320
Speaker 3: like that's.

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Speaker 2: A real thing.

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Speaker 3: And no matter whether you're a you know, plumber or

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Speaker 3: you are a the face of a multi billion dollar corporation,

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Speaker 3: Like Luka Doncic, like, you deserve some grace in that situation.

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Speaker 2: That's a tough one. All right, Well, Team USA just

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Speaker 2: lost to Italy. They're calling this the biggest win in

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Speaker 2: Italian baseball history. I didn't know Italians had a baseball

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Speaker 2: somebody I guess might have been a joke, but like,

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Speaker 2: so World Baseball Classic, I guess it's Mexico had a

530
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Speaker 2: guy who punched out a star USA player or American

531
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Speaker 2: and they were like, in the off season, he's an electrician,

532
00:26:13,160 --> 00:26:15,280
Speaker 2: and I'm like, come on, is this real now? I

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Speaker 2: don't know. That could have been like a joke, but

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Speaker 2: it does seem odd that we would lose to Italy

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Speaker 2: in baseball. I mean, that's our sport. How are we

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Speaker 2: losing to Italy? I don't know, rob. I mean when

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Speaker 2: Team USA what was it called the Redeemed Team came

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Speaker 2: after the three to two I don't remember, and we

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Speaker 2: got bronze and we were crucified. Fortunately there was no

540
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Speaker 2: social media at the time, but it was like, that

541
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Speaker 2: was horrendous for us. Is this going to be the

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Speaker 2: same Italy and baseball? I can't name any other players,

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Speaker 2: can you?

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Speaker 3: I mean, some of the guys play in the majors,

545
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Speaker 3: but none of them have the star power that the

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Speaker 3: Americans like. This is not losing to Mexico or losing

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Speaker 3: to the dr or even you know, to was it Japane. No,

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00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:03,399
Speaker 3: you should roll in this one, and the embarrassing that

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00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:03,800
Speaker 3: we didn't.

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00:27:04,359 --> 00:27:07,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, we got taking n Rice.

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Speaker 3: Stickers are all coming off my truck right now.

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Speaker 2: Aaron Judge strikes out with the time he was the

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Speaker 2: time run in the ninth inning. Italy was plus seven

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Speaker 2: hundred in this one. I did not. I haven't bet

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Speaker 2: any of the World Baseball Classic, but man, that is crazy.

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Speaker 2: All Right, we're back tomorrow. We'll go back to college basketball.

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Speaker 2: It's a big one. We'll see you then