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Speaker 1: Welcome inside. Happy Friday. The Jason Smith Show is Special Delivery.

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Speaker 1: Well, Steve, I have a big, hot basketball take coming

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Speaker 1: your way, But first I gotta say this.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I was one.

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Speaker 4: I was nervous how I.

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Speaker 1: Was gonna feel today, right, because the intensity and anxiety

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Speaker 1: of the baseball playoffs that I normally get the first

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Speaker 1: week and once it starts, it's just an uptick of

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Speaker 1: It doesn't matter if your team is in it or not.

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Speaker 1: It's so intense. It's such a great change. I was saying, Okay,

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Speaker 1: do I want a day off on Friday? Or am

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Speaker 1: I gonna miss having a game? And I was thinking, wow,

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Speaker 1: am I gonna feel? And I said, no, no, you know what,

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be okay with a day not having a game.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna be fine. We got college football, right, w

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Speaker 1: NBA Finals are going on, right, We're gonna be fine. No, no, no,

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Speaker 1: I wanted a game tonight. In fact, I wanted three

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Speaker 1: games tonight.

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Speaker 4: I want I did.

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Speaker 1: I didn't want a day off at the end. I

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Speaker 1: wanted I wanted there to be another fun. I wanted

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Speaker 1: there to be four games, even though the other games

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Speaker 1: were already decided, Like let you know, give the Reds,

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Speaker 1: though they were eliminated. Like I wanted more games tonight.

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Speaker 1: It's just that this week, the first week just takes

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Speaker 1: over and it's I don't know, like the change in

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Speaker 1: the calendar is so different than any other sport, right,

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Speaker 1: Like you see the intensity like to the NFL, yes,

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Speaker 1: you get to the playoffs, it's intense, but you know what,

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Speaker 1: the first seventeen weeks are pretty bleeping intense, right. The

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Speaker 1: NBA playoffs that's a bit of a change too. But

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Speaker 1: rare to see those big one to eight upsets. We

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Speaker 1: the we play attention to the teams are only going

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Speaker 1: to be around for a couple of games and they're

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Speaker 1: going to get eliminated. But the Baseball playoffs, that comes

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Speaker 1: in and it's I have no time. I am I

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I've been going here in LA to Dodger playoff

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Speaker 3: games since the mid nineties. It is, and I mean

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Speaker 3: just a superb atmosphere from start to finish. And I

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Speaker 3: know Major League Baseball is probably tapping itself on the back,

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Speaker 3: say hey, we did a good job with all these

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Speaker 3: of five doesn't start till Saturday. Everybody's gonna start on Saturday.

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Speaker 3: Why can't you have two games to and then a

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Speaker 3: couple others on the crowded Saturday sports schedule. They're probably saying, no, No,

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Speaker 3: as far as the sports schedule goes, they could have

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Speaker 4: Yeah. Oh well, I'm I'm, I'm one of the things.

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Speaker 1: Baseball should play in the playoffs, only on these days.

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Speaker 1: They should play Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday. Right, take those

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Speaker 4: And plus you have the NFL on the calendar. The

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Speaker 1: Okay, they got Sunday, they got Monday, they got Thursday.

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Speaker 1: Like those are the days they should play, right, compete

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Speaker 1: in about the same amount of time. I don't mind

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Speaker 1: baseball wise, to say, okay, because then every single night

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Speaker 1: of the sports calendar in October is insane, because then, okay,

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Speaker 1: in a couple of weeks. Like I needed that knixt

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Speaker 1: But October this time is such a great moment, Like

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Speaker 3: As your reference, the NBA preseason did start with the

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Speaker 3: Abu Dhabi game Thursday. Those two Nicks had beaten Philadelphia.

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Speaker 3: Those two will play again on Saturday, but I will

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Speaker 3: as far as the Saturday college football schedule tomorrow, they

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Speaker 3: And so yeah, again, baseball lucks out because the Cubs

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Speaker 3: yes they're in separate state. But the Cubs in Milwaukee

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Speaker 3: than one hundred miles. This is going to be a

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Speaker 3: great best of five rivalry and the Brewers are the

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Speaker 3: day game for Yankees at Toronto on Fox TV. That's

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Speaker 3: State at UCLA college football? Because those are your national

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Speaker 3: TV options, Steve, Yeah, you sure er built. I don't

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Speaker 1: I mean, are you sure Ucla is still going to

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Speaker 4: Are you sure that's still time? I was amazed.

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Speaker 3: I got sucked out at the scroll that it's only

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Speaker 3: a twenty four point favorite for Ben San Have you

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Speaker 1: I can't believe they still have a football program, Like

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Speaker 1: you know, it's just football is just not working here anymore.

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Speaker 4: We're a basketball I can remember.

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Speaker 3: Just a few short years after cade mcdown when UCLA

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Speaker 3: football beat Alabama and Michigan in the same month. I

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Speaker 3: can remember seeing multiple times Ucla beating Texas. Those years

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Speaker 1: Now, I do want to say this before I get

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Speaker 1: into the big basketball hot take, speaking of the baseball playoffs,

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Speaker 1: right like, okay, I'm yeah, look, I'm past the Mets

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Speaker 1: getting knocked out like they fired all their coaches today.

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Speaker 1: Oh great, now we're gonna win one hundred almost literally

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Speaker 1: all of them. Yeah, the only one, Carlos Mendoza, the

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Speaker 3: Final space coach. Might be still, he's.

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Speaker 1: Like the final girl at the end of a horror movie,

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Speaker 1: the only one left. I was here with everybody.

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Speaker 4: I'm the only one left now.

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Speaker 1: But my wife and I are having lunch today and

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Speaker 1: sitting next to us, is you know, because every third

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Speaker 1: it is all year round. Right, you do this, you think, oh,

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Speaker 1: who's the big team in LA, you know, with the Lakers. No,

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Speaker 1: La is a Dodger town. It is a baseball town.

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Speaker 1: one guy says, yeah, no, I got tickets for uh,

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Speaker 1: I got tickets for game two. And they're like, oh, oh,

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Speaker 1: game in LA and they're like, oh really, yeah, I guess. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Well that was the best part, is it? Like all

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Speaker 4: It was awesome. I'm going I want to leave right now.

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Speaker 4: Check check? Can I leave?

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Speaker 3: I just say I looked up these things for the

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Speaker 3: Dodgers Red Series this past week. Face value in the

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Speaker 3: but after the Dodgers scored I think it was ten

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Speaker 3: in the first game, it came below face value. For

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Speaker 3: Game number two, the clincher of the best of three,

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Speaker 3: it's about one hundred and thirty one hundred four, one

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Speaker 3: the Phillies are going to be in LA on Wednesday,

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Speaker 3: and by the way, that's another six pm Pacific, nine

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Speaker 3: Eastern start. The thing is, if there's still a game

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Speaker 3: four needed in this best of five Phillies at Dodgers

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Speaker 3: coming up, they could be moving it to three in

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Speaker 3: the afternoon in LA on Thursday, and then fans, you

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think so.

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Speaker 1: I definitely noticed last year during the NLCS when they

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Speaker 1: then Game six, the two guys.

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Speaker 4: I went to Game one.

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Speaker 1: In game six, I got to the Mets losing the

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Speaker 1: Dodgers celebrate Game one. Tons of Mets fans right during

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Speaker 1: the day one o'clock is apparently Mets fans. None of

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Speaker 1: us work, So tons of Mets fans a game one,

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Speaker 1: Game six not even close to as many Mets fans.

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Speaker 1: I was like, oh, okay, game six at night on

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Speaker 1: much better attended.

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Speaker 3: But in Major League Baseball, Jason has already announced today

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Speaker 3: that once we get to Game four of Phillies at Dodgers,

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Speaker 3: the latest it will start in LA is seven eastern

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Speaker 3: four o'clock in Los Angeles. It's either at three or four.

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Speaker 3: you know there's not a game on Thursday.

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Speaker 4: Wow, you I can't believe you.

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Speaker 1: the big game of the night, coming down to it

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Speaker 1: right now, Game one of the WNBA Finals. Las Vegas

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Speaker 1: leads Phoenix eighty seven to eighty six. Alyssa Thomas has

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Speaker 4: Now will continue to give you updated on this game.

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Speaker 1: But the big story before this game Kathy Engelbert, the

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Speaker 4: Oh did she speak really? Yeah, she spoke and said

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Speaker 4: They want a bigger pie out, they want better officiating.

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Speaker 1: No, no, they want all of these things. They don't

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Speaker 1: But it's clear that she is circling the drain and

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Speaker 1: He's someone that comes in with the cachet of being

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Speaker 3: And I'm sure the players would because it's the former player.

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Speaker 3: As you were talking about one thing, as you mentioned

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Speaker 3: six Final Game Exhibition. Is Engelberg came off sounding like

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Speaker 1: Magic Johnson WNBA commissioner. I'm putting it out there, I'm

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Speaker 3: Just imagine the tweets.

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Speaker 4: Oh my, oh my god, the tweets would be epic.

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Speaker 1: We could play the Magic Johnson Twitter game every night,

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Speaker 1: every single night.

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Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith

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Speaker 2: Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven

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Speaker 4: Tell you that Jet's Cowboys game.

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Speaker 1: Man upticked so many points in that game, steve so

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Speaker 3: That's that's the Cowboy and the Vikings have stayed in Europe,

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Speaker 4: They may never be allowed to come back. I don't

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Speaker 3: Maybe this is the excuse. Just trick them, send them

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Speaker 1: and they hit off of good pitchers. Hunter Green shows

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Speaker 1: up and it's what happened. I was so good for

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Speaker 1: the entire season. I show up here and I'm out

443
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Speaker 1: of the game. My season's over in the second inning.

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Speaker 1: The Dodgers. Nobody hits the baseball.

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Speaker 4: Like they do.

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Speaker 1: Not the Phillies, not the Yankees. You know, the teams

447
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Speaker 1: that we didn't play so far, We're gonna see them again.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna see the marriage Toronto.

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Speaker 3: I would add that they were the only team batting

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Speaker 3: average over two sixties. So George Springer's been white hot,

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Speaker 3: and they have Guerrero Junior, so they have something in

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Speaker 3: the Toronto lineup. And certainly the Yankees have power.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, oh oh, the Yankees. Look, you're looking for home runs,

454
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Speaker 1: the Yankees can get them for you. The Blue Jays

455
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Speaker 1: have it to a level, but nobody hits the baseball

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Speaker 1: with the confidence level with the ability of the Dodgers.

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Speaker 1: And look, Will Smith could be on his way as well.

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Speaker 3: He's available to catch time. And he didn't play, not

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Speaker 3: just the past week, he hasn't played in four weeks.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this is this guy who was the best hitting

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Speaker 1: catcher in baseball, you know, up until he got hurt.

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Speaker 1: And he's been an All Star for the last few years.

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Speaker 1: Like that, that's the one thing. If the Dodgers win

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Speaker 1: the World Series this year. Last year it was they

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Speaker 1: were the best all around team. They added Sho heeo Tani,

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Speaker 1: their starting pitching was good enough, their bullpen was terrific,

467
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Speaker 1: They hit the baseball, they they got stuff from unhralded

468
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Speaker 1: players like Tommy Edmund. But this year, if they're gonna win,

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Speaker 1: they are gonna mash their way to the World Series.

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Speaker 1: There's no other way there. They're not gonna suddenly show

471
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Speaker 1: up and wow, look at this. Look at this Dodger

472
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Speaker 1: rotation keeping everybody off the scoreboard.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, no, not happening. It's gonna be games with the Phillies.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna have to win nine to eight and eleven,

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Speaker 1: nine and eight seven, Like this is how they're gonna win.

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Speaker 1: They are gonna win mashing their way to the World

477
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Speaker 1: Series because it's the only way they can because you're

478
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Speaker 1: not fixing the bullpen.

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Speaker 4: You figure out the ninth inning in theory with Roki Sasaki.

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Speaker 1: Okay, that's great, but you are you are not getting

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Speaker 1: there any other way than scoring a ton of runs

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Speaker 1: every game. And the good news for them is they're

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Speaker 1: hitting the baseball with no problem. That's the only team

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Speaker 1: hitting the baseball with no problems so far.

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Speaker 3: I wouldn't recommend a one run lead to the late

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Speaker 3: innings for the Dodgers, you know.

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Speaker 1: I mean, like they get up nine or nine to

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Speaker 1: nothing or eleven nothing and hold on to win eleven

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Speaker 1: nine yea or nine to eight.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Well, it was the Phillies that had that legendary comeback

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Speaker 3: at Dodger Stadium years ago, where what it was a

493
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Speaker 3: twelve to one or something like that, that think of

494
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Speaker 3: fifteen to two, and they came back and wound up winning.

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Speaker 3: There is on the mound the Slugger Show. Hey Otani

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Speaker 3: pitching in Game one at Philly tomorrow. Let's just say

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Speaker 3: this in advance. I mentioned this during the regular season

498
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Speaker 3: when Otani has been on the mound as a pitcher,

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Speaker 3: and you know they have that pitch com instead of

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Speaker 3: actually the catcher putting down different fingers for the signs.

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Speaker 3: Otani has always had to and this is in a

502
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Speaker 3: normal game in July or August, had to cover up

503
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Speaker 3: his ear with his glove to be able to hear

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Speaker 3: the pitch come properly. And that includes at home games.

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Speaker 3: What's going to happen at Philadelphia tomorrow. That's going to

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Speaker 3: be something I'm looking at in inning one of Game

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Speaker 3: one of this best of five. By the way, the

508
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Speaker 3: great Sarah Langs baseball researcher points out that we've got

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Speaker 3: Otani with fifty five homers this year, Kyle Schwarber the

510
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Speaker 3: Phils fifty six homers. So it's the first time multiple

511
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Speaker 3: players with at least fifty five in a season have

512
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Speaker 3: made the postseason the same year. And we mentioned cal

513
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Speaker 3: Rawley's gonna be playing for Seattle tomorrow, but we assume

514
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Speaker 3: shoey Otani's gonna both pitch and lead off in the

515
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Speaker 3: batting order. He would be the first starting pitcher ever

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Speaker 3: to lead off in a postseason game, because no starter

517
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Speaker 3: has hit anywhere in the order except eight or nine

518
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Speaker 3: in a playoff game, except for Babe Ruth once batted

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Speaker 3: sixth and pitched for Boston in nineteen eighteen. So we're

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Speaker 3: gonna get a little history tomorrow. But again, it is

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Speaker 3: two games in Philly, the better team in the regular season,

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Speaker 3: and if there's Game five, it's back at Philly the

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Speaker 3: next Saturday.

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Speaker 1: Now there's Dodgers Phillies. How about Yankees Blue Jays. The

525
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Speaker 1: controversy you didn't know you wanted, but we're getting it

526
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Speaker 1: was in August when the Yankees were playing a series,

527
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Speaker 1: or I'm sorry, it was in early September when right.

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Speaker 3: After the Yankees visited, right after the.

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Speaker 1: Yankees visited, and look, the Blue Jays won the division's

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Speaker 1: series against the Yankees. The Blue Jays were eight and

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Speaker 1: five against them overall, they were six and one in Toronto.

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Speaker 1: They had just beaten them. And so the Blue Jays

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Speaker 1: and the Astros are playing a series. And in early September,

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Speaker 1: former MLB major leaguer and manager Buck Martinez, who was

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Speaker 1: the Blue Jays TV analyst, had some very pointed things

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Speaker 1: to say about the Yankees, saying, quote, the Yankees, They're

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Speaker 1: not a good team. I don't care what their record

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Speaker 1: is okay, clip and save that and see if these

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Speaker 1: teams play again the rest of the season. Well, fast

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Speaker 1: forward now a few weeks and here the Yankees getting

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Speaker 1: ready to take on the Blue Jays, and Aaron Boone,

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Speaker 1: Yankee manager, had some thoughts on Buck Martinez's words, and

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Speaker 1: here he was talking about it earlier today.

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Speaker 5: I feel like, you know, obviously the last couple of

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Speaker 5: months really started to play really well, and you know,

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Speaker 5: contrary to some thoughts up here, we're a really good team.

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Speaker 6: Is that's all?

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Speaker 3: That's been a theme I guess around the team of

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Speaker 3: feeling that way.

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Speaker 5: What's that?

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Speaker 1: That's only that you kind of stressed the team, but

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Speaker 1: both you say, contrary to thoughts up here.

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Speaker 5: Oh, I know, I know Buck had some thoughts. That's

554
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Speaker 5: all ours sponded too, So he's wrong, But it doesn't matter.

555
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Speaker 5: We got to go play and we got to go perform,

556
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Speaker 5: as as everyone does at this time of years now.

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Speaker 3: He had some thoughts, Jason, and he went on to

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Speaker 3: say that night, Buck Martinez, the Yankees have a lot

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Speaker 3: of wild pitches, They make a lot of mistakes in

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Speaker 3: the field. They don't run the bases very well. If

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Speaker 3: they don't hit home runs, they don't have a chance

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Speaker 3: to win. End quote. And this followed the month before,

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Speaker 3: remember the Yankee announcer Michael k talking about on his show,

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Speaker 3: I know the Blue Jays are in for there are

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Speaker 3: in a first place team. They are not, you know.

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Speaker 3: And so this has gone back and forth in the summer.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, look, and you could tell Aaron Booz, oh it

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Speaker 4: doesn't matter.

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Speaker 1: No, clearly it does because hey, yeah, I know Buck

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Speaker 1: had some thoughts and all of this. And first of all,

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Speaker 1: let me say this, I get it because Aaron Boone

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Speaker 1: has had to listen for the narrative the last twelve

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Speaker 1: and a half months of the Yankees are a bad team. Fundamentally,

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Speaker 1: they're bad. They run the bases like little leaguers. All

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Speaker 1: the errors in the World Series, all the mistakes they made.

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Speaker 1: And this is on the coaches, right, when a team

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Speaker 1: plays like that, that's on the coach.

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Speaker 4: Hey why do they play this way? Man? How do

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Speaker 4: they play that?

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Speaker 1: And Aaron Boone has had to listen to that, and

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Speaker 1: it's been shots at him for the better part of

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Speaker 1: the last year. And this is why, like every like

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Speaker 1: I feel like he gets so close to getting fired

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Speaker 1: and yet somehow they pull it out of the fire,

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Speaker 1: and they win a couple of games in a row,

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Speaker 1: and here they are again. Aaron Boone is able to survive,

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Speaker 1: but you could tell it has really bothered him that

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Speaker 1: this is the narrative around the Yankees that fundamentally they're bad,

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Speaker 1: they're embarrassing. They play they they play the game in

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Speaker 1: a way that I can't believe they succeed the way

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Speaker 1: they do. You've had players around the league say it.

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Speaker 1: Now you have Buck Martinez saying I'm tough, I'm not

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Speaker 1: afraid to say it on television about the Yankees.

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Speaker 4: And I get that Aaron.

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Speaker 1: Boone is really mad going into this because this has

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Speaker 1: been a narrative that he's had to deal with now

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Speaker 1: for over a year, ever since the World Series.

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Speaker 3: And we brought it up on this show. The irony

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Speaker 3: is the Dodgers said after the fact, after they clinched

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Speaker 3: against all those Yankee mistakes in Game five of the

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Speaker 3: World Series last year, we knew we could count on

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Speaker 3: that from the Yankees. We knew from our scouting that

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Speaker 3: that was gonna come up, and it sure did. The

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Speaker 3: irony is the Dodger outfield has become that team this year,

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Speaker 3: which you referenced earlier, there's no confidence at all in

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Speaker 3: the Dodgers defensively. And I think you need look no

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Speaker 3: further than the guy who usually manned center field, who

608
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Speaker 3: is from Cuba, like Yasi Opuig. We're from Cuba. Andy

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Speaker 3: Pat has too often plays like Yasio Puig. He can

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Speaker 3: be spectacular, he can have power, and sometimes there's just

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Speaker 3: head scratching moments like wow, is this a seventeen year

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Speaker 3: old out in the outfit? How did this happen in

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Speaker 3: a major league game? So hopefully one of those won't happen.

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Speaker 3: The negative for Toronto going into this Yankee series that

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Speaker 3: starts tomorrow is their pitching hasn't been superb and they

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Speaker 3: allowed over two hundred home runs this year. The Yankees

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Speaker 3: head by far the most home runs hit of any

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Speaker 3: team in the Majors this year, number one in homers,

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Speaker 3: number one in RBIs, number one in walks. Yankees were

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Speaker 3: number one in runs scored also.

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Speaker 1: So now you're looking at this series, right and look,

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Speaker 1: I already said last night, Look.

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Speaker 4: The Yankees look like a team of destiny. Right.

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Speaker 1: You had the new Jeter play when McMahon goes into

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Speaker 1: the stands to get it. Yeah, and Schlittler shows up

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Speaker 1: like he's the new Andy Pettitt, where all the plaudits

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Speaker 1: for him a rookie hasn't done that in the game.

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Speaker 1: In the playoffs, they're going back to big, big performances.

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Speaker 1: You're seeing names like Hoyit, Will Helman, Mike Bottaker and

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Speaker 1: all this stuff. I gotta tell you this is how

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Speaker 1: this series goes. The Yankees take the first two games

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Speaker 1: in Toronto. You talk about the Dodgers mashing, they are

633
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Speaker 1: going to mash. They're gonna hit. They're motivated, they are

634
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Speaker 1: hot at the right time, eliminating the Red Sox, seizing

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Speaker 1: momentum after the seventh inning of Game two, where ridiculously

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Speaker 1: the Red Sox decided to go conservative and play for

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Speaker 1: one run. And ever since that moment, when the Yankees

638
00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:14,399
Speaker 1: got out of that bases loaded jam, the Red Sox

639
00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:17,280
Speaker 1: didn't score and the Yankees were able to score enough

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Speaker 1: runs to win. They're gonna hit. They're gonna score seven

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Speaker 1: to eight runs the first two games. They're gonna go

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Speaker 1: back to the stadium. It's gonna be two nothing Yankees,

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Speaker 1: and the Yankees are gonna win this series and they

644
00:28:26,760 --> 00:28:29,960
Speaker 1: are gonna blow torch their way through Toronto. I get

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Speaker 1: how good Toronto is. I get they've been playing well,

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Speaker 1: but as you said, their pitching is not good. They

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Speaker 1: give up a lot of home runs. The Yankees hit

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Speaker 1: home runs. You're seeing Volpi get hot in the first

649
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Speaker 1: round of the playoffs. Chishom when he gets in the lineup,

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Speaker 1: he's affecting the game.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 1: Maybe sitting him out the first game was the best

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Speaker 1: thing because now he's really motivated the last couple of games.

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Speaker 1: But this is a team. Now Ben Rice has jumped in.

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Speaker 1: He was sitting out the first game, and he's played well.

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Speaker 1: They are going to absolutely destroy the baseball and it

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Speaker 1: could be a sweep.

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Speaker 4: But I'll say, I'll be nice.

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Speaker 1: I'll say Yankees in five, and they wind up winning

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Speaker 1: the series and they go on to the ALCS.

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Speaker 3: Game five would be at Toronto. Since Toronto finished as

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Speaker 3: division champion winning that tiebreaker against the Yanks, they had

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Speaker 3: finished tied in the al E standings. Keep in mind

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Speaker 3: the schedule. These are day games. This weekend in Toronto,

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Speaker 3: four pm Eastern Saturday, Fox TV Yankees at Toronto Game one,

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Speaker 3: Then four pm Eastern Sunday on FS ONE Yankees at

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Speaker 3: Toronto for Game two, and then FS one will have

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Speaker 3: Tuesday Nights Game three of the best of five from

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Speaker 3: New York.

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Speaker 1: You like offense, It's going to be a Yankees explosion

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Speaker 1: starting tomorrow in Toronto. And maybe some errors too, but

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Speaker 1: enough hits and they're gonna wind up winning.

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Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith

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Speaker 2: Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven

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Speaker 2: pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 1: And the guy we're going to talk to right now.

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Speaker 1: He is the owner, editor, proprietor of College Footballnews dot Com.

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Speaker 1: You're once op shopping for everything college football, all the picks,

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Speaker 1: all the prognostications, all the analysis. He is with us

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Speaker 1: now live from snap Dragon Stadium in San Diego. He

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Speaker 1: just can't stay away from good football. It is Pete

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Speaker 1: feu Tech. He's on Twitter at Pete few Tech. Pete,

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Speaker 1: what's happening, man.

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Speaker 6: I'm witnessing the greatest show on turf here with San

685
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Speaker 6: Diego State. It was like my call of the week

686
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Speaker 6: was at San Diego State. Colorado State was going to

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Speaker 6: go under the forty one and they're at like ninety

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Speaker 6: five and like our first half or something right now,

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Speaker 6: don't even know anymore. No, it's going good. It's lovely

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Speaker 6: down here, and I like being on your Pacific time zone.

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Speaker 6: It's more fun. Why are you there this week kids

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Speaker 6: in college and parents weekend? And he's a senior. I've

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Speaker 6: never come out here for it. So I'm out here

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Speaker 6: among the pretty and beautiful people of San Diego for

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Speaker 6: the weekend.

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Speaker 1: Oh nice, Oh very good. And you're getting to see

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Speaker 1: a big win. They're up big over Colorado State. It's

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Speaker 1: a win win situation for you.

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Speaker 6: Yes, my cat, my hard earned money going towards hopefully

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Speaker 6: like a pick in the second half or some more

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Speaker 6: more production from this.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, over three hundred yards for the Aztecs first time.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll tell you what.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna love waking up at eight thirty tomorrow to

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Speaker 1: watch Wisconsin Michigan.

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Speaker 4: You're gonna love that.

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Speaker 6: That's the best, absolutely the best. My honeymoon in Hawaii,

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Speaker 6: I think thank Don mcdammity, Eagles were going off at

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Speaker 6: like five in the morning or something like that, and

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Speaker 6: an AFC championship kids, I get so much part of

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Speaker 6: the East Coast. The Pacific time zone is just just

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Speaker 6: great for sports. I just move out here.

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Speaker 3: Except for the London games. But we'll move on.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that that happens exactly all right now, one of

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Speaker 1: the big games of the week, Steve, we talked about, Look,

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Speaker 1: arch Manning has to show us something tomorrow against Florida. Right,

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Speaker 1: it's a bad Florida team, but he's had three weeks,

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Speaker 1: he's had three bye weeks to figure out. It's still

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Speaker 1: Florida on the road. If he doesn't show us anything tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: I don't know that I can expect any from the

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Speaker 1: rest of the season.

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Speaker 6: It's my call of the offseason. I had two big

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Speaker 6: calls of the offseason. One of them actually came true

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Speaker 6: is that Mississippi State was going to beat Arizona State.

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Speaker 6: This never works. But the other one was Florida was

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Speaker 6: gonna win this game. It just seemed like one of

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Speaker 6: those moments where we saw a couple of years ago

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Speaker 6: against Tennessee. We saw it late last year against LSU,

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Speaker 6: where every once in a while in the swamp Billy

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Speaker 6: Napier's Gators ended up rising up and rocking on defense.

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Speaker 6: And we still don't know what this this Texas team

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Speaker 6: really is. I mean, they at the one game against

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Speaker 6: Lawoa State where Okay, the defense look great, but they

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Speaker 6: don't really played anybody else's note. I think this is

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Speaker 6: one of those games where I'm sure, look, Arch is

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Speaker 6: gonna be fine, he's gonna be a good quarterback, he's

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Speaker 6: gonna be the number one overall pick whenever.

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Speaker 4: And all that.

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Speaker 6: But you're right, it hasn't quite happened yet. And this

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Speaker 6: is one of those games against the you know, for

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Speaker 6: all the proms that Florida's had this year, that defense

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Speaker 6: is fantastic. I think it is one of the those

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Speaker 6: games that Texas has the problems with fete.

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Speaker 3: As far as Alabama, they lost to Vanderbilt last year.

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Speaker 3: Bama is hosting him this time. That's tomorrow. The quote

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Speaker 3: that jumped out at me from the Vanderbilt quarterback, Diego Pavia,

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Speaker 3: if we play our game Saturday, it won't be close.

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Speaker 3: End quote. Vanderbilt is a deserved underdog in this game

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Speaker 3: in tuscaloosad tomorrow, are they not?

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Actually, he got his last name wrong. It's Diego Manzel.

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Speaker 6: That's that's exact type of player. And if he if

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Speaker 6: look if he if he's right and they win this

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Speaker 6: in Rock, heisan race kind of over right. I mean,

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Speaker 6: because there's no one else out there, and Pavia has

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Speaker 6: been great so far, and Vanderbilt and he's doing great

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Speaker 6: things with it. But look, I I we always kind

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Speaker 6: of you know, put you know, thoughts and ideas in

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Speaker 6: the heads, like, well, Alabama is going to care about

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Speaker 6: this one because the last year and this is going

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Speaker 6: to be one of those games and all that kind

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Speaker 6: of stuff. Yeah, but what I'm hearing this is one

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Speaker 6: of those things they are so sick of hearing about

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Speaker 6: Diego Pavia. They are so sick of that loss last year.

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Speaker 6: I think this is one of those games where they

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Speaker 6: just come out and thunder dunk on them. I'm just like, Okay, yeah,

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Speaker 6: this is cute and all. You're good in all, Vanderbilt,

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Speaker 6: but Bama's you know, Bama, and I think this is

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Speaker 6: one of those games whe they're going to come up

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Speaker 6: and do something special.

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Speaker 1: All right, Pete, how many points would you have to

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Speaker 1: get to take UCLA over Penn State? Like the sprints

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Speaker 1: twenty four and a half. If you said fifty, maybe

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Speaker 1: I'll take forty. I'm still taking Penn State fifty maybe,

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Speaker 1: but forty I'm still taking Penn State.

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Speaker 6: Well, is the thing about Ucla. They're sort of scoring

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Speaker 6: a little bit. They just don't seem to have all

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Speaker 6: the parts there. So I mean, you're right. I mean,

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Speaker 6: if you're telling me right now, I'm getting off the

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Speaker 6: bus up forty eight and a half to nothing. Yeah,

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Speaker 6: i'd probably, you know, go for something like that. It's

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Speaker 6: so bad, I mean you And the problem is also

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Speaker 6: their schedule. Look at who UCLA has left. They're going

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Speaker 6: over twelve. I mean, there's if it's done, there's some

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Speaker 6: massive upset along the way because they're going to be

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Speaker 6: double digit underdogs the rest of the way. And I'll

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Speaker 6: throw another one at you and you kind of brought

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Speaker 6: up earlier. Find me the Wisconsin win the rest of

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Speaker 6: the season and show me how without a massive weird

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Speaker 6: twist and something crazy going with this this Luke fickel offense.

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Speaker 6: Find me where that wins coming. He ain't coming tomorrow, Michigan.

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Speaker 6: Let's Fichigan decide to turn it over eight times.

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Speaker 3: Actually, I think that's two great examples for my next question.

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Speaker 3: U CLA program Wisconsin program. Is college football starting to

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Speaker 3: pass by some of the teams that you speak competitive?

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Speaker 3: Things are so different in the world of college football.

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Speaker 6: There's there's a bunch of different factors that play at

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Speaker 6: both of them. One Ucla for some reason, and this

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Speaker 6: is the program of John Wooden, you know, and Sam Gilbert. Okay,

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Speaker 6: you know, uh, they can't figure out Nil really, you

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Speaker 6: know Ucla, you know they give all the money to

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Speaker 6: the NIKO. They just don't have any other parts with them.

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Speaker 6: And their schedule is brutal. Wisconsin, it just isn't working

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Speaker 6: and their schedule is brutal. So like if you're a

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Speaker 6: team like Cal, or a team like look at what

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Speaker 6: Virginia has left to play, you could tell if you

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Speaker 6: give Wisconsin cal schedule, you could see how they're probably

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Speaker 6: going seven and five or eight four even. I mean,

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Speaker 6: but when you've got this brutal sway, and this is

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Speaker 6: the new world to college football, where some teams play

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Speaker 6: the good team, some teams miss them, and that's really

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Speaker 6: it's just a perfect storm for teams like this. But

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Speaker 6: except for UCLA, who's just flat out bad.

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Speaker 1: You know, it's funny you say that Pete to go

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Speaker 1: back to Florida and Texas for a second. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I don't know if the team has had a harder

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Speaker 1: month schedule that I can ever remember than what Florida's

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Speaker 1: got right now that they're in the middle of number three, LSU,

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Speaker 1: number four, Miami number nine, Texas number six, Texas A

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Speaker 1: and M four top ten teams in a month. I

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Speaker 1: don't know anybody that's you probably gotta go back to

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Speaker 1: the forties when it was Army playing Navy and then

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Speaker 1: playing Columbia and then playing California Institute Technology.

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Speaker 4: Like, I don't know about a tougher run than Florida's

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Speaker 4: got right now.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, take a look at what Oklahoma's got coming up.

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Speaker 6: And here's another kind of funky twist. I think I

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Speaker 6: got this right where I don't think Texas University of

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Speaker 6: Texas the biggest athletic department in the country. It's Texas Football,

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Speaker 6: not Texas State, Texas Antonio University of Texas. I don't

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Speaker 6: think has a home game for like five weeks in

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Speaker 6: a row in the middle of the season, starting tomorrow.

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Speaker 6: I think I have that right. It's close to that.

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Speaker 6: But like, it's crazy how these schedules are being set

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Speaker 6: up with so many teams, especially in the SEC, who

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Speaker 6: just have these brutal, unmanageable suits where you're looking at

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Speaker 6: them unless there's something truly special, there's no way you're

837
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Speaker 6: going to the college football playoffs, You're gonna have at

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Speaker 6: least two losses coming out of these stretches. So it's

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Speaker 6: gonna be tough for both these teams.

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Speaker 3: What about a matchup that Jason brought up earlier this

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Speaker 3: evening with Clemson at North Carolina, because realistically, these are

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Speaker 3: two winless programs so far this year. Carolina had two

843
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Speaker 3: cupcakes and Clemson beat Troy, essentially winsless. As they go

844
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Speaker 3: into the game at Chapel Hill.

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Speaker 6: Tomorrow, I'm gonna harp on this again. Schedule, schedule, schedules.

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Speaker 6: I believe I came on this show, oh about a

847
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Speaker 6: few months ago, and I was asked the question, who's

848
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Speaker 6: that sweeper team out there? And I think I said

849
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Speaker 6: the Belichick because look at that schedule for North Carolina.

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Speaker 6: There's this game against Clemson and nothing else. And I

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Speaker 6: honestly said that that's the thing we would be talking

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Speaker 6: him in November about a oh wow, look at you

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Speaker 6: got a you know, one loss North Carolina team only

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Speaker 6: because of the schedule. They're bad and so kind of,

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Speaker 6: like I said before, we're about Alabama's kind of like

856
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Speaker 6: enough of this. I think you're gonna get that with

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Speaker 6: Clemson tomorrow and they with a week off, they're gonna

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Speaker 6: be like, Okay, they just need to tweak, They just

859
00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:09,680
Speaker 6: need something positive to go their way, and then everything

860
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Speaker 6: starts to rock. I think that starts to happen tomorrow

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Speaker 6: for Clemson.

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Speaker 1: College Footballnews dot COM's Pete fu Tech our guest Jason

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Speaker 1: Smith Steve de Sega in from Mike Carmon. All Right,

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Speaker 1: big marquee game of the day. We got Miami in

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Speaker 1: Florida State. Not quite as marquee as it was after

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Speaker 1: Week one when Florida State played, you know, beat outbaut

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Speaker 1: But okay, but.

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Speaker 4: Pete, at this point, I am.

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Speaker 1: Kind of all in on Miami going undefeated. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I really I don't know where the loss is. This

871
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Speaker 1: is the best Miami team so far that I have

872
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Speaker 1: seen in years, and I don't know.

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Speaker 4: Where the l is for them.

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Speaker 6: I want to see if Look as I'm sitting here

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Speaker 6: on a Friday night, Friday night games are weird. It's

876
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Speaker 6: just they throw teams off their schedule. Nothing's quite right.

877
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Speaker 6: That certainly happened with Florida State last week. They couldn't

878
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Speaker 6: tackle a lick. So if they couldn't tackle Virginia. God

879
00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:02,919
Speaker 6: bless you against an NFL offensive line like Miami has.

880
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Speaker 6: Now it's Mario Christobal, So there's gonna be a fifth

881
00:40:07,239 --> 00:40:11,440
Speaker 6: it's you know what, when he was there was always

882
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Speaker 6: when at Oregon, there is always that November Arizona game,

883
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Speaker 6: and he was like three years in a row where

884
00:40:16,239 --> 00:40:19,440
Speaker 6: it was like Arizona or Arizona State where they kept whiffing.

885
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Speaker 6: And so there's it's like at SMU or some there's

886
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Speaker 6: gonna be some place that they're gonna make a mistake.

887
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Speaker 6: But you're right, they're gonna be eleven and one. I

888
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Speaker 6: think they win the ACC Championship, and I do think

889
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Speaker 6: they're a top four team. And if they show it tomorrow,

890
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Speaker 6: I mean, who knows. Maybe if Friday night think was

891
00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:38,759
Speaker 6: a blip for Florida State and they're back, we have

892
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Speaker 6: the team that played like they did against Alabama, I

893
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Speaker 6: don't think. So I think Miami comes back going because

894
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Speaker 6: I'm with you, I think, And I also keep thinking

895
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Speaker 6: Carson beck is cross possibly the most underappreciated player in

896
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Speaker 6: the country. He's not winning the Heisman. He might be

897
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Speaker 6: the number one overall pick next year.

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Speaker 3: Ohio State is number one in the country. After the

899
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Speaker 3: game against Minnesota Saturday night. They have the big newonick

900
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Speaker 3: off in a week at Illinois, and Ohio State still

901
00:41:02,560 --> 00:41:04,600
Speaker 3: last to play Penn State. Do you believe in this

902
00:41:04,800 --> 00:41:07,600
Speaker 3: offense yet and this team yet for Ohio State?

903
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Speaker 6: Kind of hard, I mean, but maybe not. But even

904
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Speaker 6: if you don't, this defense is shocking here. I mean,

905
00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:20,120
Speaker 6: it's unbelievably good considering all the talent that has to play,

906
00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:22,839
Speaker 6: had to replace. Last year's team had so much there

907
00:41:23,200 --> 00:41:27,600
Speaker 6: and now this year. Look at the red zone scoring

908
00:41:27,719 --> 00:41:31,359
Speaker 6: percentage for defense. You have three teams that are under

909
00:41:31,480 --> 00:41:33,799
Speaker 6: sixty percent, you know, so everyone else is giving up

910
00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:37,799
Speaker 6: six point sixty percent more times more. Ohio States at

911
00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:41,600
Speaker 6: twenty eight percent. Ohio State's not giving up anything in

912
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Speaker 6: the red zone and they're going to go. If they

913
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Speaker 6: keep Minnesota under ten points, it'll be the first time

914
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Speaker 6: this like nineteen seventy ish something that they've gone to.

915
00:41:51,719 --> 00:41:53,680
Speaker 6: This program has gone four straight games in a row

916
00:41:53,800 --> 00:41:56,880
Speaker 6: without allowing that many points a row. So this defense

917
00:41:57,000 --> 00:41:59,640
Speaker 6: has been at least for the last thirty years, is

918
00:41:59,719 --> 00:42:02,839
Speaker 6: still great and I think that's it's gonna keep carrying them.

919
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Speaker 6: The offense is just gonna be good enough to get by, all.

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Speaker 4: Right, Pete.

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Speaker 1: So lastly, we don't have a lot of big top

922
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Speaker 1: twenty five games tomorrow. Can you spot a big upset

923
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Speaker 1: You wouldn't be surprised to see whether it's a top ten,

924
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Speaker 1: top fifteen team, you got a big upset for tomorrow,

925
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Speaker 1: you wouldn't be surprised that I'm gonna.

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Speaker 6: Stick with it. I mean, I'm all lay at this point.

927
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Speaker 6: I just kind of think that Texas. You're right, we

928
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Speaker 6: haven't seen anything about Ohio State yet except they played Texas.

929
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Speaker 6: We haven't seen anything in Texas except they weren't awful

930
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Speaker 6: defensively against Ohio State. I'm not buying in Texas. I

931
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Speaker 6: just think this is one of those that they're gonna,

932
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Speaker 6: you know, come up and either either they show out

933
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Speaker 6: tomorrow and they like, yeah, we're Texas. Were really are

934
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Speaker 6: that good? But again, I'm gonna say at home that

935
00:42:47,719 --> 00:42:51,360
Speaker 6: billion naper defense desperation. No one's thinking they're gonna do anything.

936
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Speaker 6: They're they've been keeping teams closed, and I think they're

937
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Speaker 6: gonna do something pretty good tomorrow.

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Speaker 3: Last question for me is about Notre Dame. After the

939
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Speaker 3: zero to two start, we're still ranked. Do you expect

940
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Speaker 3: them after that start to win ten in a row

941
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Speaker 3: and beat USC and Notre Dames just fine.

942
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Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I said it at the time. And not

943
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Speaker 6: only not only they lose those two games, they lost

944
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Speaker 6: to that Miami team, like we said, is probably going

945
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Speaker 6: to be in the ACC Championship, almost certainly in the

946
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Speaker 6: college football playoffs, and that was a close game that

947
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Speaker 6: came down to the final second Texas A and m there,

948
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Speaker 6: but for a miss snap and a fourth down stop

949
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Speaker 6: they get that one. So those are about as acceptable

950
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Speaker 6: as those losses that get and ten wins in a row. Yes,

951
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Speaker 6: Notre Dame's absolutely in the college football playoff and I

952
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Speaker 6: don't think it's closed. I think they're gonna be that.

953
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Speaker 6: This offense is unstoppable.

954
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Speaker 4: CJ.

955
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Speaker 6: Carr is being talked about now is a postential top

956
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Speaker 6: five overall pick someday. That running back tandem of Darian

957
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Speaker 6: Price and Jeremiah Love the best of the country. I

958
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Speaker 6: think they cruised the ten and two and I think

959
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Speaker 6: they are waltz right into the college football playoffs.

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Speaker 1: He's on Twitter at Pete feu tech, that's at Pete feutech,

961
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Speaker 1: at college Footballnews dot com as the website, or at

962
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Speaker 1: snap Dragon Stadium for the second half of what is

963
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Speaker 1: going to be the over hitting for San Diego State again.

964
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Speaker 1: The big upsets for Pete Florida over Texas and UCLA

965
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Speaker 1: on the field over Penn State.

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Speaker 4: Okay, well the first one.

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Speaker 6: The nuts and the under in this San Diego State

968
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Speaker 6: Colorado stick game. It's not even gonna come close.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Pete, enjoy the game, enjoyed parents weekend. We'll talk

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Speaker 4: to you next week.

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Speaker 6: City guys,