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Speaker 1: Greetings, Welcome in Side hour three The Jason Smith Show

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Speaker 1: with special delivery Steve de Seger in for Mike Harmon. Hey, Steve,

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Speaker 1: where at this point I have to think maybe?

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Speaker 3: Maybe? I mean I don't know who.

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Speaker 1: The number one picking the drafts is going to be,

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Speaker 1: But are the Dodgers tanking Steve the number one pick?

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Speaker 3: I mean they may be tanking?

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Speaker 4: Wow, I mean this didn't just drop a ball in

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Speaker 4: center field. So it's not eight to two, it's eight

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Speaker 4: to four Giants at the moment.

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Speaker 3: Oh did they really wow with Aaron Judge playing centerfield?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 3: Soon he actually.

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Speaker 1: Made a couple of big plays that I got it

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Speaker 1: too soon And now no, this is how crazy is

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Speaker 1: for the Yankees, right as bad as they were for

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Speaker 1: so long losing first place of the Blue Jays.

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Speaker 3: Aaron Judge makes a couple of really good plays.

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Speaker 1: In center field tonight, and Cody Bellinger almost hits four

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Speaker 1: home runs tonight, agree and he got robbed of a four.

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Speaker 3: They got two home runs, then got robbed of a

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Speaker 3: home runs.

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Speaker 1: Thirteen up, and then another home run in the eighth inning,

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Speaker 1: three two run homers, and suddenly Cody Bellinger looks like

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Speaker 1: all the money they paid for him in the offseason.

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Speaker 4: And this is a guy that's always had the power, right,

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Speaker 4: but he's always had the big swing, and to me,

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Speaker 4: that always meant he's gonna hit the skids. He's gonna

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Speaker 4: have times and I mean weeks plural during the season

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Speaker 4: where he just gets into a slump because there's no

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Speaker 4: let's just make contact and get on. He doesn't go

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Speaker 4: in that gear when he's in the batters bug. But

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Speaker 4: when you have like his MVP season with the Dodgers

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Speaker 4: when he was a youngster years ago, when he's hot,

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Speaker 4: he is really and.

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Speaker 1: Here's the thing for for Bellinger, He's gonna end up

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Speaker 1: having the best year he's had probably since twenty nineteen,

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Speaker 1: right when he hit forty seven homers, knocked in one

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Speaker 1: hundred and fifteen run for the Dodgers. His war was

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Speaker 1: nine because he's gonna end up with more home runs

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Speaker 1: than any year he's had. Make's gonna make a run

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Speaker 1: there for RBIs as well. Batting average is about the

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Speaker 1: same as ops is about the same. Like he's gonna

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Speaker 1: wind up having his best year in a long time.

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Speaker 1: And that's the one thing I was afraid of. When

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Speaker 1: when the Yankees went out and they lost out on Soto,

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Speaker 1: so they did the revenge spending.

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Speaker 3: Oh go get Devin Williams. Yeah great, that's fine.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, yeah, telling Peter A Lonzo says, Hi, right,

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Speaker 1: all the guys that go out and get But Bellinger

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Speaker 1: in that stadium, I said, you talk about someone that

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Speaker 1: can continue to recharge his career in Yankee Stadium. That's

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Speaker 1: Bellinger like that. That's the one thing I was afraid of.

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Speaker 1: Not so much gold Schmidt. I knew he was going

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Speaker 1: to be some Okay, he's gonna be fine. He's not

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Speaker 1: gonna be the Paul Goldschmid of five six years ago.

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Speaker 1: But Bellinger's a guy like boy. If he starts getting

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Speaker 1: hot that you know him Lefty at the new Stadium,

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Speaker 1: I still call it the new stadium.

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Speaker 4: Watched a new version of the Yankee Stadium. Yeah, we

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Speaker 4: watch out for his dad did play for the Yankees.

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Speaker 1: And so far he's, you know, so far sixteen fifty four.

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Speaker 1: He's at nearly two ninety at the All Star break.

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Speaker 1: That's a it's a pretty good first half.

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Speaker 4: Amazingly, we have another update and the Dodgers, who've lost

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Speaker 4: six in a row. They were down eight to two.

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Speaker 4: Then a drop ball on the warning track in center

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Speaker 1: See, all I've had to do is say that you're tanking,

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Speaker 1: and look what happened.

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Speaker 4: Immediately turn around.

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Speaker 3: Are the Dodgers tanking? No, you just can't say we're tanking.

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Speaker 1: That's four more runs now, le Let's let's examine for

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Speaker 1: a second that Michael kinforda was your best player right now, Steve,

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Speaker 1: Let's look at this.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, not good if that's the case. No, sho Otani's

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Speaker 4: three for thirty slump is over. He home it again.

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Speaker 4: Tonight's landed in the bay. By the way, there is

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Speaker 4: one of the Japanese report. For those who areware, you

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Speaker 4: could probably guess there are many Japanese reporters that cover

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Speaker 4: literally go and find whatever fan catches an Otani home run,

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Speaker 4: the story behind the story gets sent to Japan. Over

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Speaker 4: every Otani home run. That's thirty two different home runs

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Speaker 4: that's pretty good. Like that, that's pretty good, but still ecstatic.

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Speaker 4: That was the quote from the San Francisco fan tonight. Okay,

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Speaker 4: all right, obay.

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Speaker 3: I think that's kind of fun. That's a fun thing.

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Speaker 4: It would be a great thirty for thirty if somebody

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Speaker 3: That would be great video.

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Speaker 4: Don't you think this would be a nice a nice

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Speaker 3: The Otani home run.

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Speaker 1: But the people who caught the boy bug, you get

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Speaker 4: Oh, it's all to interview the reporters who think of

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Speaker 1: Gotta go find that you working tonight? Not sure yet?

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Speaker 1: There it goes, gotta go to work. See you put

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Speaker 1: the hat on, get down there. Who caught the ball?

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Speaker 1: Who caught the ball? A couple minutes of your time?

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Speaker 3: That's great.

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Speaker 4: Well, Harmon's White Sox tonight? Can I update they? Oh, yeah,

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Speaker 4: they didn't lose last night because they got rained out

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Speaker 4: in Chicago, so they have a chance to lose twice tonight.

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Speaker 4: Is that that? What that means? Cleveland took the opener

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Speaker 3: Four to two.

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Speaker 4: They've just been playing through the rain to be done

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Speaker 1: See that's not even something that you can say it's great.

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Speaker 1: They're just doing that to torture the fans sit through

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Speaker 1: we get out of this. We're thirty games under five hundred.

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Speaker 1: What does it matter.

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Speaker 4: The Mets game is at Kansas City tonight and they

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Speaker 4: do you know when we get in the late innings

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Speaker 4: of regulation, it's Friday fireworks night. The fireworks started going

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Speaker 1: Not often you get fireworks after a three run double

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Speaker 4: You're taking the lead from when San Diego set off

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Speaker 1: So we got more baseball on the way, but Rick

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Speaker 1: Buker coming up in about fifteen minutes. All the latest

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Speaker 1: news in the NBA is Jannis on the move, what

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Speaker 1: does he make a Cooper Flagg's debut, and of course

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Speaker 1: the topic of the week that's going to continue, what

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Speaker 1: is going on with Lebron James and the Lakers. It

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Speaker 1: has been a steady stream of different stories over the

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Speaker 1: past few weeks about how Lebron and the Lakers are

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Speaker 1: at odds. And we've told you a trade can happen

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Speaker 1: any date. We're never been closer to a Lebron James

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Speaker 1: It would be difficult, but you can always make the

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Speaker 1: hold the facts. Hey, I was training, but you can

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Speaker 1: ask you a very simple question. Okay, since they got Luca,

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Speaker 1: the Lakers have been Luca centric, pushing Lebron to the side. Right,

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Speaker 3: Away from Lebron and towards Luca, and they want to

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Speaker 3: be done with the Lebron James business. Right.

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Speaker 1: They want to be out of the Lebron James business

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Speaker 1: and get him someplace else. So what have we seen

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Speaker 1: a move towards Luka Doncic And then the article today

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Speaker 1: by Ramona Shall and Brian Windhorst of ESPN breaking down

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Speaker 1: the Lakers move towards the Doncic era and away from

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Speaker 1: Lebron James. Right did They detail a lot of things

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Speaker 1: And a big quote from this is the Lakers put

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Speaker 1: a time clock on Lebron James era spring of twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty six. They did this by not extending his contract.

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Speaker 3: That's it.

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Speaker 1: Lebron James is going to be gone by that. Oh,

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Speaker 1: by the way, I told you this like two months

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Speaker 1: so I can be an NBA insider. Congratulations everybody, right,

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Speaker 1: but I told you that two months ago. Find it

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Speaker 1: on Twitter for proof.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 1: I don't lie when I say we're head of the curve.

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Speaker 1: But here's the thing. What have we seen since Luca

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Speaker 1: towards Luka Doncic And part of what Ramona Shelburne and

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Speaker 1: Brian Windhorst outline in the in the column here, they

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Speaker 1: didn't tell Lebron they were trading Anthony Davis for Luca.

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Speaker 1: They tried to make that big trade for Williams that

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Speaker 1: didn't work because he failed as physical. Meanwhile, Lebron had

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Speaker 1: They're daring him to say, we need you to say

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Speaker 3: So you own your high school. So that's great.

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Speaker 4: He did start, It's cool. As for the NL East

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Speaker 1: Boy, I remember one Soda was unhappy and sad to

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Speaker 3: Thank you. Steve.

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Speaker 1: is longtime friend of the show, Rick Buker. Rick, what's happening?

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Speaker 3: Man? How are you?

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Speaker 6: I am doing well, gentlemen, how are you? I'm surprised

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Speaker 6: to hear that you have problems. You don't have problems.

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Speaker 6: You do not have problems other than being a Knicks fan.

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Speaker 1: Hey, now, hey, listen, we're the overwhelming favorite to get

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Speaker 3: Man. I just have expectations now is what I have again?

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Speaker 3: You are.

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Speaker 6: work through it. We can do this together, Jason, I

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Speaker 6: do it.

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Speaker 3: All right. Look, well, first things first.

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Speaker 1: Look, we talked about the Lebron James situation a few

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Speaker 1: minutes ago and how he and the Lakers seem to

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Speaker 1: be at odds. But I feel like the Lakers are

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Speaker 1: daring Lebron to ask for a trade. He's taking pictures

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Speaker 1: at the Cavaliers training facility wearing a hat saying welcome home.

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Speaker 1: The big ESPN article today about how the Lakers are

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Speaker 1: moving away from a Lebron business and I say this,

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Speaker 1: and tell me agree or disagree on this? Is that

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Speaker 1: for all the If you think Lebron James can't get

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Speaker 1: traded after the Lakers have done so much to minimize

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Speaker 1: him at this point with the team and where he

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Speaker 1: is and their priorities, can he really come back and

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Speaker 1: play this season in La. I can't see it. I

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Speaker 1: can't see him playing the season with the Lakers. What's

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Speaker 1: going on?

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Speaker 6: Well, help me out here. How have they minimized him?

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Speaker 3: Let's see, they didn't.

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Speaker 1: They didn't tell They didn't tell them that they were

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Speaker 1: trading for the trade in ad they didn't they didn't

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Speaker 1: tell them that the team was being sold.

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Speaker 3: Uh, they didn't.

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Speaker 1: They didn't get a center until for him that he

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Speaker 1: and ad wanted for years, until after they got Luca.

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Speaker 1: They didn't offer a new they didn't offer a new contract.

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Speaker 1: They said, you play on this expiring deal. And that's

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Speaker 1: kind of it. I think those are messages, Rick.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, no, no, no, they are messages. But the message was

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Speaker 6: the second that they got Luka Doncic that we're moving

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Speaker 6: on and we're turning the page. And I mean, as

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Speaker 6: a realist, it makes.

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Speaker 3: The most sense. Everybody is giddy.

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Speaker 6: About the fact that they're they're somehow able to bridge this.

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Speaker 6: There's two ways that Lebron can can approach this. He

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Speaker 6: can approach it as look, I'm I'm Lebron James, I

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Speaker 6: need to be treated a certain way. Or he can

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Speaker 6: approach it as you know what, let me let me

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Speaker 6: handle them.

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Speaker 3: I think your dog disagrees with me.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, he's I didn't know that he was that vehement

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Speaker 6: about that.

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Speaker 1: This will be on the On the Dog podcast with

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Speaker 1: his dog, That's what it's going to be exactly.

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Speaker 3: But I.

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Speaker 6: Just I think there's a way for him to look

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Speaker 6: good in the situation. And that's to say, you know what,

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Speaker 6: I know, my time is up. I want to make

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Speaker 6: the best of this. I want to uh do whatever

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Speaker 6: is necessary to make this transition to Luca as easy

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Speaker 6: as possible.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 6: You know, in some ways, the way Dirk handled things

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Speaker 6: with with Luca, now they didn't they didn't completely overlap,

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Speaker 6: but he was inviting him and he was taking in

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Speaker 6: sort of the older statesman role. I think there's a

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Speaker 6: way for Lebron to do this rather than don't you

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Speaker 6: know who I am? Because at this point you know

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Speaker 6: who he is.

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Speaker 4: For what he's he's.

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Speaker 6: Getting paid one third of their their cap is the

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Speaker 6: one third of is he worth one third on the

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Speaker 6: court at this point? And I you know, outside of

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Speaker 6: the Lebron fans, I would think most people would say, no,

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Speaker 6: he's He's still a very good player. He's not a

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Speaker 6: great player at this point. So I look, I I

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Speaker 6: the Lakers are moving on. We knew that they were

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Speaker 6: going to be doing that the second that they got

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Speaker 6: Luka Dacic that there's no way to do that effectively.

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Speaker 6: If they're still trying to cater to Lebron. There's just

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Speaker 6: no there's no way to do it and do it

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Speaker 6: effectively and do it efficiently. So I don't it's not

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Speaker 6: a matter of him getting traded. I think it would

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Speaker 6: be really difficult to trade him. What I wonder is

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Speaker 6: does Lebron get to the point where he forces a buyout,

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Speaker 6: because you to take on the salary that he has

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Speaker 6: is would be very challenging. And I think, honestly, you know,

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Speaker 6: I don't. I don't see an attraction to Bradley Beale.

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Speaker 6: Everything that I've heard is he's he will get bought

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Speaker 6: out and he's going to end up with the Clippers.

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Speaker 6: I don't see Lebron James really wanting to go on place.

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Speaker 6: But but if there was any move that was going

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Speaker 6: to be made, I would think that he would force

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Speaker 6: a buyout so he could choose where he's going to go.

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Speaker 4: That is the follow up break we were talking earlier

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Speaker 4: that it seems a trade once Lebron opts in for

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Speaker 4: that amount of cash is just, to say the least prohibitive,

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Speaker 4: So the Lakers would have to eat a ton of

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Speaker 4: money at this point by letting Lebron opt in.

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Speaker 6: Essentially, Yeah, and and I mean at this point it's

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Speaker 6: like in their shoes. I think that they would you know,

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Speaker 6: if Lebron protests, if Lebron decides to sit out, whatever

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Speaker 6: it might be, I think he ultimately is going to

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Speaker 6: look worse in that situation. And so I just feel

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Speaker 6: like a lot of this is posturing by Rich Paul

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Speaker 6: to try to maintain as much leverage as possible. And

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Speaker 6: and look, we've had you know, I mean, Lebron is

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Speaker 6: the king of a passive aggressive move? Is he not

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Speaker 6: like thing? Not recently I think his entire.

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Speaker 4: Career and recently it hasn't ended.

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Speaker 6: Yes, exactly so, And and how much of those threats

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Speaker 6: have actually come to fruition. Usually it's a leverage play. Look,

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Speaker 6: he's just in a position. And I know that this

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Speaker 6: is this is this is hard for every player, and

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Speaker 6: I can only imagine what it's like for someone who

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Speaker 6: has had the immense control and power and influence and

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Speaker 6: presence that Lebron James has has had to be facing

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Speaker 6: this reality of oh, I'm not number one in their

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Speaker 6: thoughts and dreams, Like I mean, that's a hard reality

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Speaker 6: for anyone to kind of come to terms with, or

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Speaker 6: any NBA player to come to terms with when they've

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Speaker 6: enjoyed that. But Lebron James has enjoyed that to the

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Speaker 6: ns degree pretty much his entire career. But the reality

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Speaker 6: is he's not there now and it's not as if

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Speaker 6: there's twenty nine other teams that are salivating to get him,

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Speaker 6: and I just that's the you know, that's the difficulty

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Speaker 6: to have. There's so many mixed messages here from Lebrot.

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Speaker 6: I mean, you can't talk. You can't opt in to

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Speaker 6: your contract and then say it in the same breath.

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Speaker 6: You know, I still want to play for championships. It's

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Speaker 6: like you had a choice here. You could do the

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Speaker 6: Tom Brady, you could do the Jalen Brunson.

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Speaker 3: You could take.

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Speaker 6: Less to create some flexibility. I never tell a player

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Speaker 6: to do that. If you want to take your money,

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Speaker 6: take your money, I have no problem with that. But

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Speaker 6: don't tell me same time. Hey, you know what, I

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Speaker 6: believe that I you know, I'm only satisfied if I'm

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Speaker 6: playing for championships. You can't have it as much as

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Speaker 6: Lebron James has had it every which way, I don't

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Speaker 6: know that he can have it both ways in this situation.

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Want insider Rick Buker, our guest Jason Smith,

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Speaker 1: Steve the Saga, Fox Sports Radio Okay, So from Lebron,

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Speaker 1: let's go to Giannis, who does a podcast where he says,

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Speaker 1: all my friends and there telling me to go to

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Speaker 1: the Knicks. I'm like yeah, And then he gets asked, hey,

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Speaker 1: so are you gonna get traded? He goes, well, I

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Speaker 1: love Milwaukee. I'll probably stay. We'll see, so he'll probably stay.

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Speaker 1: But then he says, we'll see. What's going on with Giannis?

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Speaker 6: Well, I think, like I think, as as any of

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Speaker 6: us in that situation, he doesn't want to He wants

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Speaker 6: to see what his options are. He wants to know, like, Okay,

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Speaker 6: if I did go to New York, what would look like?

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Speaker 6: And who would I be traded for? And uh and

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Speaker 6: and so I don't think he's closing the door on that.

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Speaker 6: But I from everything that I've heard and I've heard

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Speaker 6: him say, and what I know behind the scenes, like

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Speaker 6: he wants to stay in Milwaukee. That's that is his preference.

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Speaker 6: And I would dare say, ultimately that's what I expect

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Speaker 6: him to do. So, but you know, at this point,

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Speaker 6: why close the door on something better possibly presenting it?

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Speaker 6: I don't know what that's something better would be, but

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Speaker 6: and don't tell me what're playing for the new red

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Speaker 6: mix would be that thing. I don't I don't know

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Speaker 6: what that would be. But honestly, like he, I think

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Speaker 6: he recognized first of all, with all international players, I

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Speaker 6: don't know of one of them that is that is

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Speaker 6: asked to be moved. Luka Doncics was in tears over

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Speaker 6: the fact that that he was moved. For everything that's

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Speaker 6: happening in Denver, or was happening in Denver over the

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Speaker 6: last year. You never heard a peep from Nikola jokicch

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Speaker 6: about you know what I need. I need to get

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Speaker 6: out of here, and I don't think that you ever will.

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Speaker 6: It is just it is a there's a level of

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Speaker 6: gratitude that international players have when NBA teams not only

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Speaker 6: pick them, but choose to build around them. It is

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Speaker 6: it is a it is a badge of honor. And

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Speaker 6: they don't have the same feeling about, well, I have

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Speaker 6: to be in LA or New York or one of

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Speaker 6: the major markets or any of that. They just don't

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Speaker 6: think that way. We just heard Ricky Rubio talking talking

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Speaker 6: about the NBA culture now, as I think as an

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Speaker 6: international player, it really didn't fit him. Guys talking about

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Speaker 6: you know the car that they were driving and all

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Speaker 6: of the you know, the glitz and the glamour, the

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Speaker 6: euro the Euros, the international players are just so grateful

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Speaker 6: that they're here and that they're in the NBA that

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Speaker 6: the idea of making demands is really is a little

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Speaker 6: out of character. I would say that Jannis is the

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Speaker 6: closest one who came to it when he when he

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Speaker 6: dropped the end of you know, I don't know if

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Speaker 6: I want to stay here if I can't play for championships,

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Speaker 6: and that was you know, that was go get me

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Speaker 6: Damian Lillard. And he saw how that happened, but how

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Speaker 6: that turned out, and I think that that was an

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Speaker 6: awakening for him, like, Okay, maybe I should just play.

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Speaker 6: Maybe I should just enjoy being in Milwaukee and playing

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Speaker 6: for this team. And I think with this being a

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Speaker 6: family man with his brothers there, like all of that

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Speaker 6: changes in a way in New York that I'm not

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Speaker 6: sure from what I know, appeals enough to Jannis to say, Milwaukee,

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Speaker 6: get me up out of here.

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Speaker 1: Rick Buker you can follow on Twitter at Rick Buker,

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Speaker 1: that is at Rick Buker. Check out the On the

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Speaker 1: Ball podcast as well, all about what Mike Brown will

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Speaker 1: bring to the Knicks as he gets them to the

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Speaker 1: Fox boy a first championship since nineteen seventy three. Because

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Speaker 1: that's the latest on the ball, right, that's you got?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, well no, nope, yeah, you wait for that. Hold

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Speaker 6: your breath, Hold your breath.

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Speaker 1: A hey, uh hey, real quick in in in less

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Speaker 1: than a minute. What did you make a Cooper Flag's

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Speaker 1: debut last night?

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Speaker 6: Uh? It was understandable. I mean, you know, the nerves. Hey,

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Speaker 6: I gotta ask you, like, do you remember what he

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Speaker 6: did in his first game for.

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Speaker 3: Duke that's a O.

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Speaker 6: Well, that's right, that's right, And that's how we're going

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Speaker 6: to look back on this Summer League game. Okay, every

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Speaker 6: guy's gone through it. I think I think Wemby was

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Speaker 6: was a tragedy in his first game. Tim Duncan, I

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Speaker 6: don't think stood out, especially now the way.

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Speaker 3: It's a production to pros.

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Speaker 6: This is what he's been dreaming of his entire life,

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Speaker 6: and it's always.

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Speaker 3: A slumpy game.

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Speaker 6: And he asked, he was to ask to do more,

651
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:03,720
Speaker 6: you know, do everything, show everything that you can. And

652
00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:06,400
Speaker 6: that's a little too much rope for a guy his

653
00:32:06,440 --> 00:32:11,320
Speaker 6: first time playing in a pro game. So understandable. I

654
00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:14,040
Speaker 6: actually I liked a lot of what I saw because

655
00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:17,600
Speaker 6: he played hard. He showed the skills and the and

656
00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:21,400
Speaker 6: the package that he has in terms of an array

657
00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:23,680
Speaker 6: of skills. I think he's just gonna I think he's

658
00:32:23,680 --> 00:32:26,240
Speaker 6: gonna be fine. And I'm not gonna take too much

659
00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:28,040
Speaker 6: out of out of what happened last night. And I'm

660
00:32:28,080 --> 00:32:30,959
Speaker 6: certainly not going to play this Bronnie dreams play at

661
00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:35,160
Speaker 6: Cooper Flag as I saw somehow, Come on, now, what

662
00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:39,440
Speaker 6: are we doing? What are we doing? Yeah?

663
00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:41,840
Speaker 3: Rick, as always, buddy, thanks so much. We'll talk to

664
00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:45,440
Speaker 3: you next week. Enjoyed the weekend, my friend. Have fun, Bronio.

665
00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:50,000
Speaker 3: There I go, there it goes, Rick.

666
00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:52,920
Speaker 1: You care uh, time out to find out what's trending

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00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:54,200
Speaker 1: in the wide world of sports.

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00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:56,800
Speaker 3: From a special delivery Steve de Seger.

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Speaker 1: Because maybe we got another Dodgers happening right now against

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00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:02,560
Speaker 1: the Giants.

671
00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:04,280
Speaker 4: Still down one on the road. By the way, as

672
00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:06,960
Speaker 4: we're talking with Rick Buker, he's at Vegas covering the

673
00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:09,000
Speaker 4: Summer League, and one of the late games is in

674
00:33:09,040 --> 00:33:11,840
Speaker 4: the final seconds right now. Houston down ninety four to

675
00:33:11,920 --> 00:33:14,479
Speaker 4: ninety two to the Clippers. But Reed Sheppard has twenty

676
00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:18,160
Speaker 4: eight points and Alex Sar is playing for Washington in Vegas.

677
00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:21,120
Speaker 4: They got killed by the Suns tonight, Butsar had fifteen points.

678
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:25,520
Speaker 4: Raptors won easily. Hornets beat Utah Duke first rounder kN

679
00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:28,560
Speaker 4: Kanneppel one of eight shooting from the floor for Utah.

680
00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:33,040
Speaker 4: Kyle Philipowski thirty two points and eight fowls Intonight's game,

681
00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:35,440
Speaker 4: It's ten to fell out. Walter Clayton from the Florida

682
00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:38,560
Speaker 4: Gators had twenty one points. The next lost bad lead

683
00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:41,400
Speaker 4: to the Pistons. Tyler Kolloch of New York from Marquette

684
00:33:41,480 --> 00:33:45,000
Speaker 4: ten points, eight assists. He had five turnovers as well,

685
00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:47,720
Speaker 4: and he was zero five from three point range. Jacob

686
00:33:47,760 --> 00:33:52,000
Speaker 4: Toppen nineteen points. Hawks defeated the Heat Celtics over the Grizzlies,

687
00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:56,080
Speaker 4: Gig Jackson of Memphis sixteen points. Las Vegas Summer League

688
00:33:56,080 --> 00:34:00,360
Speaker 4: started Thursday, goes from July tenth to July twentieth two.

689
00:34:00,360 --> 00:34:03,920
Speaker 4: At WNBA games. Tonight, Seattle won at home against Connecticut

690
00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:07,600
Speaker 4: seventy nine sixty five. The Connecticut's Son two and seventeen.

691
00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:11,960
Speaker 4: Caitlin Clark with twelve points, nine assists. Indiana beat Atlanta

692
00:34:12,200 --> 00:34:15,200
Speaker 4: ninety nine eighty two Clark, though from three point range

693
00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:18,920
Speaker 4: one of seven. The Chicago Bears general manager Ryan Poles

694
00:34:19,000 --> 00:34:22,760
Speaker 4: reportedly as an extension through twenty twenty nine Wimbledon semi

695
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:25,359
Speaker 4: final wins for number one Yonick Center and number two

696
00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:29,080
Speaker 4: Carlos Alcarez. In the late night baseball, the Dodgers were

697
00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:32,440
Speaker 4: down big at rival San Francisco. In fact, it was

698
00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:35,479
Speaker 4: an eight to two Giants League going to the sixth inning.

699
00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:38,759
Speaker 4: It's now eight seven as the Dodgers have just left

700
00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:40,360
Speaker 4: a man on top of the eighth, We're going to

701
00:34:40,400 --> 00:34:42,480
Speaker 4: the bottom of the eighth. In the Bay Area and

702
00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:45,440
Speaker 4: also in Northern California, Blue Jays lead seven to three

703
00:34:45,640 --> 00:34:48,840
Speaker 4: at the a's bottom of the eighth. Diamondbacks at Angels

704
00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:51,440
Speaker 4: tied five to five bottom of the ninth inning. White

705
00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:55,080
Speaker 4: Sox won and eleven innings to split a doubleheader against Cleveland.

706
00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:58,480
Speaker 4: Atlanta won six' five At Saint. Louis The mets are

707
00:34:58,520 --> 00:35:00,759
Speaker 4: only a half game back of the First phillies in

708
00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:02,839
Speaker 4: THE Nl. East The mets were down three to one

709
00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:04,920
Speaker 4: going to the, eighth but still won At Kansas city

710
00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:07,520
Speaker 4: eight to. Three San diego beat Philadel.

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00:35:07,560 --> 00:35:09,640
Speaker 1: Field yeah no wait, no, wait wait, wait we had

712
00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:12,480
Speaker 1: you had a big three run double From Mark, vientos

713
00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:14,560
Speaker 1: back to back home runs From lindor And.

714
00:35:14,719 --> 00:35:17,959
Speaker 3: Soto let's let's let's let that breathe a little, Bit steve.

715
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:20,360
Speaker 4: Though and then there's The, phillies who did get a

716
00:35:20,520 --> 00:35:23,560
Speaker 4: thirtieth home run From Kyle, schwarber but at l At

717
00:35:23,600 --> 00:35:26,000
Speaker 4: San diego four to, two which is too bad for

718
00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:27,920
Speaker 4: a guy who's been a great starter for The phills this.

719
00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:31,080
Speaker 4: Year Ranger suarez had AN era under two coming into.

720
00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:33,879
Speaker 4: Tonight he allowed one earned run in six and two.

721
00:35:33,920 --> 00:35:37,040
Speaker 4: Thirds seattle got two more homers From Cal. Raleigh he

722
00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:40,840
Speaker 4: has thirty. Eight seattle won twelve three At. Detroit boston

723
00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:43,200
Speaker 4: won its eighth straight, game five to four Over Tampa

724
00:35:43,239 --> 00:35:45,040
Speaker 4: bay on a two run homer bottom of the. Ninth

725
00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:48,360
Speaker 4: milwaukee won it's fifth in a. Row pittsburgh lost at seventh,

726
00:35:48,360 --> 00:35:51,240
Speaker 4: straight and The yankees won their fifth straight eleven nothing

727
00:35:51,400 --> 00:35:55,480
Speaker 4: over The Cubs Cody bellinger three, homers six RBIs so

728
00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:57,680
Speaker 4: The cubs lead in THE Nl central down to one

729
00:35:57,800 --> 00:35:59,360
Speaker 4: game over The. Brewers back to, You.

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00:35:59,719 --> 00:36:00,440
Speaker 3: Thank, You STEVE.

731
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:03,960
Speaker 1: O coming up, next a journey from worse to first

732
00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:07,200
Speaker 1: that none of us saw. Coming that's next right, Here Jason,

733
00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:09,800
Speaker 1: Smith steve De sager in For. Harmon this Is Fox Sports.

734
00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:13,800
Speaker 2: Radiote be sure to catch live editions Of The Jason

735
00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:16,920
Speaker 2: Smith show With Mike harmon weekdays at ten Pm, eastern

736
00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:21,160
Speaker 2: seven Pm pacific On Fox Sports radio and The iHeartRadio.

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00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:25,600
Speaker 3: App don't let it, breathe get, ready get, ready look

738
00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:25,959
Speaker 3: At steve.

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00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:28,520
Speaker 1: GO i just want to drink something out of a

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00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:31,279
Speaker 1: out of an opaque glass right, now like a big.

741
00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:36,600
Speaker 3: Bottle so let's start. Drinking Happy.

742
00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:41,200
Speaker 1: Friday Jason, Smith steve The sager in For Mike.

743
00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:44,200
Speaker 3: Harmon it's one of Those friday.

744
00:36:44,239 --> 00:36:48,880
Speaker 1: Nights, Now STEVE o has a BIG cfl update coming

745
00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:51,040
Speaker 1: our way in about ten. Minutes and WHEN i WHEN

746
00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:53,279
Speaker 1: i say That steve's got A cfl, update we know

747
00:36:53,320 --> 00:36:54,520
Speaker 1: what's something everybody wants to.

748
00:36:54,560 --> 00:37:00,319
Speaker 3: Hear i'm a little moist right. Now i'm white next.

749
00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:04,040
Speaker 4: Week by the, WAY I i gotta.

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00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:06,840
Speaker 3: Say, THIS i don't, okay, okay tysh.

751
00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:14,680
Speaker 1: Them this is a worst to first story THAT i

752
00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:17,319
Speaker 1: didn't see. Coming and this is a this is a

753
00:37:17,760 --> 00:37:20,520
Speaker 1: story that maybe even a month and a half, AGO

754
00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:24,160
Speaker 1: i could say definitively, worst and NOW i can say.

755
00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:27,760
Speaker 3: Definitively, first The New York giants are going to The Super.

756
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:31,000
Speaker 3: Bowl come, on The giant waste time with.

757
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:34,439
Speaker 1: That i'm Half look a month and a half, ago

758
00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:37,239
Speaker 1: The yankees were on top of THE Al, east and

759
00:37:37,280 --> 00:37:41,840
Speaker 1: THE Al east was the worst division in. Baseball everybody was.

760
00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:45,319
Speaker 1: Terrible The Red sox were, underperforming The rays were under five.

761
00:37:45,480 --> 00:37:48,680
Speaker 1: Hundred The orioles have been, Terrible The Blue jays were

762
00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:50,919
Speaker 1: just kind of hanging around right this is And i'm

763
00:37:50,920 --> 00:37:53,480
Speaker 1: saying The. Yankees, boy The yankees scare me because they

764
00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:56,600
Speaker 1: haven't really hit their stride. YET i know they can play,

765
00:37:56,640 --> 00:37:58,360
Speaker 1: better and they got a five game lead in this.

766
00:37:58,440 --> 00:38:00,920
Speaker 1: Division and then what you see over the course of

767
00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:04,320
Speaker 1: the past six. Weeks, boy The yankees really hit the, skids,

768
00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:08,120
Speaker 1: man and they're pretty. Good but look at The Blue jays,

769
00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:11,480
Speaker 1: now who were suddenly fifteen games over five. Hundred, heard,

770
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:14,799
Speaker 1: YES i mean they they won eight in a. Row

771
00:38:14,840 --> 00:38:17,720
Speaker 1: The Red sox have now won eight in a. Row

772
00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:21,640
Speaker 1: The rays are five games over five. Hundred you're talking

773
00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:25,359
Speaker 1: about four teams within five games of first.

774
00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:26,160
Speaker 3: Place in THE Al.

775
00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:29,399
Speaker 1: East this is a deeper and better division than THE Nl.

776
00:38:29,440 --> 00:38:32,160
Speaker 1: West now they've gone from, boy this is a bad

777
00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:35,200
Speaker 1: division now now they're the best division in baseball because

778
00:38:35,200 --> 00:38:38,839
Speaker 1: they got four teams that are all pretty. Good, now

779
00:38:38,880 --> 00:38:41,200
Speaker 1: clearly THE Al spentral is the worst division, now but

780
00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:42,520
Speaker 1: like this, ale least.

781
00:38:42,360 --> 00:38:44,480
Speaker 4: In arizona's not a five hundred.

782
00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:45,200
Speaker 3: Team, YEAH i.

783
00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:47,520
Speaker 1: Mean in a month and a, half it's gone from,

784
00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:50,359
Speaker 1: hey these teams are just. Stuck but, hey The Red

785
00:38:50,400 --> 00:38:52,480
Speaker 1: sox have been on a run since they Traded Rafael,

786
00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:54,719
Speaker 1: devers you know the old addition by. SUBTRACTION i think

787
00:38:54,719 --> 00:38:57,520
Speaker 1: they're like seventeen and nine since they Traded, devers and

788
00:38:57,560 --> 00:38:59,759
Speaker 1: now they've won eight in a. Row The rays have played,

789
00:38:59,760 --> 00:39:02,400
Speaker 1: well and The Blue jays have been absolutely red. HOT

790
00:39:02,719 --> 00:39:04,560
Speaker 1: i don't know they give up first place the rest

791
00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:06,960
Speaker 1: of the. WAY i, mean The Blue jays lineup is really,

792
00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:09,440
Speaker 1: good and they've really kind of just hit a stride

793
00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:11,919
Speaker 1: right now or the course of the past four or five.

794
00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:13,560
Speaker 1: Weeks and The yankees are going to have to make

795
00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:15,880
Speaker 1: moves if they're going to sustain or going to make

796
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:17,440
Speaker 1: a run back up because now they're just one of

797
00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:20,399
Speaker 1: other really good. Teams but you go top, four one through,

798
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:21,719
Speaker 1: four these teams.

799
00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:23,480
Speaker 3: They can all beat each. Other they could all beat anybody.

800
00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:25,120
Speaker 1: Else, MAN i don't think i'd say, this but in

801
00:39:25,160 --> 00:39:27,719
Speaker 1: six weeks they went from worse to first best division of.

802
00:39:27,719 --> 00:39:30,600
Speaker 4: Baseball Now Blue jay's leading that, conversation but The yankees

803
00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:32,960
Speaker 4: have as if tonight won five in a row and

804
00:39:33,080 --> 00:39:36,120
Speaker 4: yet not recaptured first place in the. Division that's how

805
00:39:36,120 --> 00:39:38,279
Speaker 4: strong it is what you're talking. About so at the,

806
00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:42,279
Speaker 4: moment if the season ended, tonight the three wild card

807
00:39:42,360 --> 00:39:45,960
Speaker 4: teams in The American league would be the three division

808
00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:49,880
Speaker 4: teams right Behind. TORONTO a team Like, seattle which has

809
00:39:49,920 --> 00:39:53,600
Speaker 4: been okay this, year would not be getting the final wild. Card,

810
00:39:54,160 --> 00:39:57,240
Speaker 4: Yankees Red, sox And rays would be the three wild.

811
00:39:57,320 --> 00:39:59,120
Speaker 3: Cards that is all good from the same.

812
00:39:59,160 --> 00:40:00,960
Speaker 4: Division that is astounding to.

813
00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:03,920
Speaker 3: Me and you look at some of the things with.

814
00:40:04,040 --> 00:40:06,600
Speaker 1: Baseball was where math doesn't ever seem to work out for,

815
00:40:06,680 --> 00:40:10,239
Speaker 1: you is that you look at The, yankees who lead

816
00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:14,640
Speaker 1: The American league and actually Lead Major League baseball in run. Differential,

817
00:40:14,719 --> 00:40:18,279
Speaker 1: right they are plus one. Seventeen, okay think about. That

818
00:40:18,480 --> 00:40:20,560
Speaker 1: The yankees are plus one seventh.

819
00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:23,080
Speaker 4: Less than one hundred and seventeen games of the. Season so, yes.

820
00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:25,080
Speaker 3: It's, amazing, right that's an amazing.

821
00:40:25,200 --> 00:40:27,400
Speaker 4: Numbers one hundred games best.

822
00:40:27,239 --> 00:40:31,360
Speaker 1: Run differential In Major League. Baseball the Blue jays are plus. Twenty,

823
00:40:31,760 --> 00:40:33,600
Speaker 1: okay they're plus, twenty.

824
00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:36,759
Speaker 4: They Say Michael kay was talking about before they met.

825
00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:38,840
Speaker 4: Up there's no way The Blue jays are a better.

826
00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:41,960
Speaker 4: Team look at the sets in that same sweep.

827
00:40:42,040 --> 00:40:44,840
Speaker 1: And The Blue jay and that's where The Ron howard

828
00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:47,759
Speaker 1: arrested development comes. In turns out The Blue jays were

829
00:40:47,800 --> 00:40:50,480
Speaker 1: a better. TEAM i, mean at plus, twenty they have

830
00:40:50,520 --> 00:40:52,879
Speaker 1: a two game lead over The. Yankees like math never

831
00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:53,600
Speaker 1: seems to work in.

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00:40:53,640 --> 00:40:57,920
Speaker 4: Baseball, yeah because we've seen The Washington nationals who just

833
00:40:57,960 --> 00:41:00,640
Speaker 4: Fired Dave martinez his. Manager how did he stay his

834
00:41:00,719 --> 00:41:05,000
Speaker 4: manager so? Far they were going literally nowhere In may

835
00:41:05,080 --> 00:41:07,560
Speaker 4: of twenty nineteen and wound up The World series. Winners,

836
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:10,759
Speaker 4: yeah they're no explaining the season stats on that.

837
00:41:10,800 --> 00:41:13,000
Speaker 3: One, no, no, no not at, all not at. ALL

838
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:13,800
Speaker 3: i look The yankees of