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Speaker 2: bringing us in on Fox Sports Radio E from how

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Speaker 2: we doing Buddy Man?

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Speaker 4: Oh man, this is crazy right right right craz z Are.

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Speaker 3: You on T shirts last weekend? Hey guy, I guess

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Speaker 3: that guy you gotta send him.

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Speaker 4: We got bru that game though, for real.

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Speaker 3: Like I know it.

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Speaker 4: Hey, I'm sitting there watching that. I'm like, oh, Jimmy

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Speaker 4: Butler showed up finally, and then flashes of Derek Fisher

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Speaker 4: and that was a tremendous, tremendous play by Derek White

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Speaker 4: with I mean it was a tenth of a second

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Speaker 4: just I have no words. That was a great game, though, God.

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Speaker 3: No, it was a great It was a great basketball game.

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Speaker 2: And you're right, I don't even know if I'd have

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Speaker 2: blamed Derek White if he had just stood and watched

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Speaker 2: the ball, because because everybody else was thought right, like, well,

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Speaker 2: that's the thought, like, we got one shot at it,

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Speaker 2: turn around, shoot if it goes in, great, If not,

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Speaker 2: we're gonna try again next year.

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Speaker 3: But but but my man crossed the boards and look

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Speaker 3: what he got.

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Speaker 2: The whole season comes down to a tenth of a second,

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Speaker 2: and the Celtics now have home court advantage back again,

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Speaker 2: and we'll figure this whole thing out tomorrow night. But

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Speaker 2: you know what, like something deeper than the game itself,

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Speaker 2: which was fantastic, and obviously we're going to get to

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Speaker 2: all the different pieces of that, but something a little

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Speaker 2: bit deeper level hit me from that game, based on

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Speaker 2: the conversation that you and I had a week ago,

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Speaker 2: and for those who weren't us, your point was that,

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Speaker 2: especially with the Celtics having a disappointing finish at the time,

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Speaker 2: that's what we thought to their season one round less

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Speaker 2: than where they went last year and falling prey.

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Speaker 3: To the eight seed Miami Heat.

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Speaker 2: Add that in with the finances that were on the table,

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Speaker 2: and you very much felt and I understood where you

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Speaker 2: were coming from and did not disagree that it was

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Speaker 2: time for Jason Tatum and Jalen Brown to break up.

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Speaker 5: UH.

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Speaker 3: Let me let me start by asking.

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Speaker 2: You if this week's events have changed your thought on

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Speaker 3: No.

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Speaker 4: No, And it actually heightens the thought because no matter

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Speaker 4: how you shake it as a team, you I don't

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Speaker 4: know if you can survive six hundred million dollars between

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Speaker 4: two players, especially with the new regulations and rules that

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Speaker 4: are going to play UH, with the Collective Bargaining Agreement,

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Speaker 4: the luxury taxes. In order to continue to fill that

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Speaker 4: roster around Tatum and and and Brown, It's gonna be

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Speaker 4: a lot of mid level UH exemptions, a lot of

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Speaker 4: young players undrafted. Got like it's going to be so difficult.

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Speaker 4: Do you can you keep a Marcus Smart.

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 4: Can can you keep a h. Grant Williams? Can you

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Speaker 4: with that amount of money dedicated to two players, I

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Speaker 4: mean goodness, that is over six hundred million dollars three

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Speaker 3: I believe, yep.

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Speaker 4: That's that's that's that's that's so what you would want

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Speaker 4: to do right now is cash in on that. Win

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Speaker 4: Game seven, win the championship, and now you can right.

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Speaker 3: Now you can maybe maybe you can it like that

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Speaker 3: gets hard, you know how it is.

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Speaker 2: Championship cities feel like handing out contracts as awards. Sometimes,

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Speaker 2: you know, you win one and and and everybody wants

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Speaker 3: Now even if they now, even if they win them

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Speaker 2: If I mean, they're going to have a hell of

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Speaker 4: Whole rest But who knows. I think they might be

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Speaker 4: they have to come back?

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Speaker 2: I don't know if they even know when this thing starts,

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Speaker 2: but yeah, and and and could that hurt them out

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Speaker 3: I doubt it.

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Speaker 2: But you know, listen, this week's events have shown us.

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Speaker 2: Let's let's not get ahead of ourselves. But here's where

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Speaker 2: my brain's at. Rather than fixate on what the Celtics

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Speaker 3: Should be able to do.

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Speaker 2: There is a massive flaw right now in the NBA system,

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Speaker 2: and I mean massive, and I'm telling you, Ephraim, we

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Speaker 2: got to make a big deal out of it. I

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Speaker 2: in the system and it needs to be filled. Luxury

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Speaker 2: tag penalties should not exist for home grown players. This

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Speaker 2: is a massive hole in the system. You know that

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Speaker 2: old book Nice Guys Finished Last. One of the reasons

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Speaker 2: it's so hard for young bucks to, for instance, have

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Speaker 2: the courage to ask people out on a date when

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Speaker 2: you're like high school age is because of that. Because

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Speaker 2: it feels like even when you do everything right, you.

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Speaker 3: Get punished for it.

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Speaker 2: You're a nice guy, you show up on time, you're

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Speaker 2: a gentleman, all of those things. What does it really

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Speaker 2: add up to at that age? Sometimes nothing? And that's wrong.

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Speaker 2: It feels wrong. You should not be penalized for doing

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Speaker 2: everything right. And that's exactly what the Celtics are facing

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Speaker 3: And I think it's brutal. I think it's brutal.

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Speaker 2: I think there are a bunch of teams out there

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Speaker 3: There are tons of teams out there.

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Speaker 2: You want to talk about, Giannis wherever you want to

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Speaker 2: go with this conversation. But luxury tax penalties should not

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Speaker 2: apply to players who are drafted and developed on a team,

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Speaker 2: because you're penalizing a team for doing it the right wa.

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Speaker 4: I you know what I see, I see, I see

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Speaker 4: what you're what you're doing that and that makes sense.

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Speaker 4: I don't, I can't. I can't argue with that, because

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Speaker 4: that's why there's a Larry Bird rule.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 4: It's not the same as what you're talking about, But

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Speaker 4: the Larry Bird rules allows you to re sign a

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Speaker 4: player that's that, that's on your roster, that you have

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Speaker 4: the rights to to an extra year with whatever that

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Speaker 2: Can go over said cap, But then you have to

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Speaker 3: To do it. Correct. Correct?

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Speaker 4: Yes, so you want an amendment to the amendment? Yes,

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Speaker 4: you like a double bird. Maybe a double bird.

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Speaker 3: Well, i'd like to I'd like to get the double

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Speaker 3: bird do right? Yes, And I really appreciate you, brother.

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Speaker 3: You're off to a great start, you know what I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: I'm just whether whether this is just a lesser tax.

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Speaker 3: I'm open to that too. But the bottom line is

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Speaker 3: the NBA.

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Speaker 2: Years ago put a lot of these rules into place,

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Speaker 2: saying that they wanted to stop so much movement. They

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Speaker 2: They wanted fans to be able to sync their teeth

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Speaker 2: into the same roster or great players and have them

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Speaker 2: stay their own And and teams are being penalized at

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Speaker 2: such a level now when they do it right, when

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Speaker 2: they nail a draft pick, it's like you should be

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Speaker 2: allowed to nail another one. And the Celtics nailed a

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Speaker 2: couple here, and now they're going to be penalized for

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Speaker 2: drafting both of those players, keeping both of those players,

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Speaker 2: succeeding with both of those players end up in cap hell, Yes,

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Speaker 2: you end up in cap hell? Like, come on, Tatum

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Speaker 2: and Brown should be allowed to stay with the Celtics. Steph,

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Speaker 2: Dre and Clay should be allowed to stay with the Warriors.

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Speaker 2: All of that, and you should be allowed to draft

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Speaker 2: every year because you've done it right. That That to

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Speaker 2: me is a huge, huge flaw in this whole system.

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Speaker 4: No one told those guys to both be all NBA. Okay,

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Speaker 4: that's what that's what skyrockety those those contracts. Okay, So

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Speaker 4: shame on them for developing them too.

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Speaker 3: Well, exactly exactly.

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Speaker 2: If only they what you feel like, right right, if

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Speaker 2: only they could do like Oklahoma City and trade everybody

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Speaker 4: Yeah, only they could do that. This is this is

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Speaker 4: going to be very interesting. I can't wait to see

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Speaker 4: because no matter what happens, yeah, I mean, you gotta

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Speaker 4: pay the piper, right that, that taxman is gonna come

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Speaker 4: a calling now. And as you know, as you know,

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Speaker 4: being a fan of a team that habitually, I mean

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Speaker 2: Billion payroll three so this year this year for a

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Speaker 2: and eighty million dollars. Wowsers for that team. Now, now, now,

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Speaker 2: don't get me wrong next year for anybody. Yeah, Joe Lakes,

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Speaker 2: Joe Lake was gonna eat.

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Speaker 3: He's gonna eat. The owner the owners of these teams

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Speaker 4: They but as a chan if you feel uneasy because

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Speaker 4: don't know what business where you can just sacrifice a

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Speaker 4: So it'll be interesting. As a fan of a team

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Speaker 4: like that, you're like, oh, just one more year, just

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Speaker 4: keep it together. But you never know that the moving parts,

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 2: Well, they're I mean the team you're talking about right now,

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Speaker 2: they're lucky to even still be trying this because Andrew

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Speaker 2: Wiggins took below market value. They're lucky, ye, to still

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Speaker 2: me this week because we're sitting here It's one thing

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Speaker 2: for everyone to be sticking Jalen Brown's name in the

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Speaker 2: And if they do that, I'm just sitting here going

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Speaker 2: why is every Why is everybody trying to trade Jalen Brown?

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Speaker 2: You know, I wonder what it is the NBA actually wants.

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Speaker 2: That's one thing that's probably underneath this discussion that you

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Speaker 2: I wonder, I wonder if they really do want Sacramento

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Speaker 4: So parody in the NBA. It was exciting coming down

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Speaker 3: I don't know that makes sense Outwardly it makes total sense.

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Speaker 3: Like I I that they would sit there and go,

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Speaker 3: It's Thursday night and I'll sit down and watch.

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Speaker 3: And that's fine, it will never not be that.

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Speaker 3: It counts, It counts.

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Speaker 4: Regard to La La Yeah, the next great big in

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Speaker 2: But that's how the leg that's all and it, and

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Speaker 8: after winning its first couple home games three and five.

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Speaker 7: At home this year.

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Speaker 8: In fact, the Celtics in their last twenty home playoff

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Speaker 8: games record of nine and eleven. NBA Finals won't begin

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Speaker 8: until Thursday. Game two is next Sunday night. We'll see

444
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Speaker 8: if the games are at Denver this week. The Nuggets

445
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Speaker 8: are eight to zero at home in these playoffs. Denver

446
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Speaker 8: has won six straight games overall. It's been a while

447
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Speaker 8: since they played, since the four game sweep of the

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Speaker 8: Lakers in the West Final.

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Speaker 7: That's what we did last Monday.

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Speaker 1: We'll move on.

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Speaker 8: Victor Wembaniama is in the French League Semis on Tuesday.

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Speaker 8: NBA Draft Une twenty second. The Spurs have the number

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Speaker 8: one overall selection. The NHL has a game six on

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Speaker 8: Monday night, Vegas at Dallas in the West Final. A

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Speaker 8: game seven there would be at Vegas on Wednesday night.

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Speaker 8: Next Sunday, there's a USFL doubleheader on Fox TV to

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Speaker 8: Major League Baseball in progress. The Braves at home scored

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Speaker 8: seven times in the first inning. They now lead seven

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Speaker 8: to two over the Phillies in the bottom of the fourth. Amazingly,

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Speaker 8: the A's lost again today Houston ten to one. Final

461
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Speaker 8: at Oakland. The A's record is ten and forty five.

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Speaker 8: They've still only won five home games this year. Come

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Speaker 8: Vegas five and twenty three. Rockies with a coors Field

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Speaker 8: game of eleven to ten over the New York Mets

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Speaker 8: at Tampa Bay Rays eleven to ten over the Dodgers.

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Speaker 8: Tampa Bay raised at home twenty six and six. The

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Speaker 8: Yankees and Garrett Cole beat the Padres in U Darvish

468
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Speaker 8: ten to seven. The final, Tigers in ten innings beat

469
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Speaker 8: the White Sox six to five. Now, the French Open

470
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Speaker 8: started today in the number two seed advanced to Arena Sablanka,

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Speaker 8: notable because she's from Belarus. Her opponent today from Ukraine,

472
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Speaker 8: and predictably, the Ukrainian refused to shake hands at the

473
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Speaker 8: net with the opponent when the opening round match finished.

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Speaker 8: She had said at the last Major she's from Kiev.

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Speaker 8: I'm not shaking hands with any Belarussian opponent or Russian opponent,

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Speaker 8: as long as there's war raging in my country. She

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Speaker 8: said at her post match press conference, this is Marta

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Speaker 8: Costuc in Ukraine for her, the opponent, to reject her

479
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Speaker 8: responsibility of having an opinion on the most important things

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Speaker 8: in the world. I cannot respect that. She said, I

481
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Speaker 8: hate her. I never said I hate her. I just

482
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Speaker 8: don't respect her. So needless to say, Sablenka from Belarus

483
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Speaker 8: was questioned often about this whole situation after the match.

484
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Speaker 8: She said, Listen, I've said many times Russian athletes Belarussian athletes,

485
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Speaker 8: nobody supports the war, nobody, how can you? But if

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Speaker 8: we could stop it, we would, but it's not in

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Speaker 8: our hands.

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Speaker 4: End quote that.

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00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:08,000
Speaker 3: Wow, that's okay, that's a that's a that's a different story.

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00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:11,080
Speaker 2: Kind of also like the one that Steve was just

491
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Speaker 2: talking about with the the a's, Uh, can we spend

492
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Speaker 2: two or three minutes on this something that can today

493
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Speaker 2: that I that I, yeah, this this is.

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Speaker 3: Wild the a's.

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00:27:21,720 --> 00:27:25,440
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, to call them a dumpster fire would be disrespectful

496
00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:28,000
Speaker 2: to all the other things that we've called a dumpster fire.

497
00:27:28,119 --> 00:27:30,720
Speaker 2: And yes, disrespectful to the dumpster and the fire.

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Speaker 3: I don't know what we've.

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Speaker 2: Got against it. This is the worst thing I've ever

500
00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:39,000
Speaker 2: seen in baseball in my entire life. There's a few

501
00:27:39,040 --> 00:27:42,240
Speaker 2: things to say there Vegas included, But can I start

502
00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:47,480
Speaker 2: by calling out the Houston Astros. This this, this is

503
00:27:47,520 --> 00:27:52,720
Speaker 2: a kid to when Billy Madison an old Adam Sandler

504
00:27:52,800 --> 00:27:57,680
Speaker 2: flick when as an adult, he goes back to elementary

505
00:27:57,680 --> 00:28:03,879
Speaker 2: school and he's playing dodgeball with kindergarteners and whacking them

506
00:28:04,320 --> 00:28:07,920
Speaker 2: as hard as he can and then celebrating as if

507
00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:11,520
Speaker 2: he's just achieved something even though he's like, what, you know,

508
00:28:11,640 --> 00:28:12,840
Speaker 2: fifteen years their senior.

509
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Speaker 3: That's, by the way, pretty good. It's hysterical.

510
00:28:17,320 --> 00:28:22,840
Speaker 2: Astro's Twitter account today shows video of one of their

511
00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:25,560
Speaker 2: home runs. As Steve said, they beat the A's ten

512
00:28:25,600 --> 00:28:30,640
Speaker 2: to one, and writes as a caption to the home

513
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Speaker 2: run in the ninth inning.

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Speaker 3: Ten runs in front of tens of fans. Man, that's funny.

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00:28:39,560 --> 00:28:43,360
Speaker 2: It is funny until you think about who the Astros

516
00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:48,160
Speaker 2: are are making fun of, Like make fun of the owner.

517
00:28:49,000 --> 00:28:52,920
Speaker 2: Don't make fun of the fans. The owner is the

518
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Speaker 2: evil one. If you had any sense for what A's

519
00:28:57,480 --> 00:29:02,200
Speaker 2: fans have been put through. Owner for years now is

520
00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:07,880
Speaker 2: purposefully finding ways to make sure that his ballpark is

521
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:11,960
Speaker 2: not filled finding ways. Trust me, I could go through

522
00:29:12,040 --> 00:29:15,600
Speaker 2: all of them. I watched the Spanos family do this

523
00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:18,280
Speaker 2: in San Diego, and the A's are doing it even worse.

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00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:21,040
Speaker 2: You might ask, well, why would they do that? Well,

525
00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:24,720
Speaker 2: it's actually quite obvious. Contractually, when it comes to a relocation,

526
00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:28,880
Speaker 2: you have to have made what they call in a contract,

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Speaker 2: a good faith effort to stay.

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Speaker 3: Well, how do you do that? Well, you pitch a

529
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Speaker 3: bunch of.

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Speaker 2: Different ideas, you get renderings, you put it to a vote.

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Speaker 2: You make sure that you don't pass the vote. How

532
00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:42,600
Speaker 2: do you make sure that you don't pass the vote. Well,

533
00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:45,959
Speaker 2: you can either ask for public money in California, or

534
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:49,280
Speaker 2: you can make sure that your fans all hate you

535
00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:53,000
Speaker 2: because of what you've put them through. And it's what

536
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:58,440
Speaker 2: John Fisher has done with a fine tooth comb for

537
00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:01,800
Speaker 2: years now, to the point where anybody showing up in

538
00:30:01,840 --> 00:30:05,120
Speaker 2: the building would be embarrassed to actually give any.

539
00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:07,160
Speaker 3: Dollars over to this person.

540
00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:12,160
Speaker 2: So for another Major League Baseball team to rip that

541
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Speaker 2: scab off, as they are days weeks away from finding

542
00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:21,000
Speaker 2: out that what seems inevitable is true, that they're going

543
00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:25,760
Speaker 2: to go play on the strip in the shadow of

544
00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:30,520
Speaker 2: a bulldozed Tropicana, which is ridiculous in its own right.

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Speaker 2: I mean, come on, man, like that just feels like

546
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Speaker 2: we're lacking a little bit of class here.

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Speaker 4: I get it, and I know it's a touchy subject.

548
00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:49,240
Speaker 4: And you know, the the players, the fans, they didn't

549
00:30:49,280 --> 00:30:55,480
Speaker 4: ask for this, they just want it. And A's fans

550
00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:58,400
Speaker 4: are My father in law is an A's fan, loves

551
00:30:58,440 --> 00:31:05,520
Speaker 4: them diehard, right they were howe oh, he's sick, right,

552
00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:08,680
Speaker 4: I mean the Bash Brothers. You go back like it

553
00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:15,719
Speaker 4: was exciting as baseball was exciting and now it's nothing.

554
00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:21,040
Speaker 4: And as a fan, it must like I'm it, must

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00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:23,480
Speaker 4: I must li liken it to well, no, because they've

556
00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:25,280
Speaker 4: never been really exciting. I was gonna say it to

557
00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:27,360
Speaker 4: be like a Clipper fan in LA or something like that,

558
00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:32,480
Speaker 4: but they never at least the A's have won, you

559
00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:34,400
Speaker 4: know what I mean, it's exciting when they.

560
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Speaker 3: Take a lead in a series. You're like, I want

561
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Speaker 3: they're going to mess it.

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Speaker 4: Up, right, but just to have all that come crashing down,

563
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Speaker 4: And then I get what you're saying about another team

564
00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:45,880
Speaker 4: poking fun at the people who have Note they have

565
00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:51,200
Speaker 4: nothing to do with the.

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Speaker 3: The destruction of a franchise.

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00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:55,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's it's a cheap shot, but once again, it's

568
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Speaker 4: it's uston so because.

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Speaker 2: That and it's and it's social media, Like, I'm not

570
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Speaker 2: believe I'm not losing any sleep over this. Yeah, I'm

571
00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:09,280
Speaker 2: not losing any sleep over this. Yeah, come on, I

572
00:32:09,360 --> 00:32:12,760
Speaker 2: mean they've been known to what you can fill that

573
00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:14,240
Speaker 2: in with a lot of different things.

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Speaker 4: Bang on the trash cans, so to speak. You played there,

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00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:23,840
Speaker 4: I did, played in that city. I played there, I

576
00:32:23,920 --> 00:32:26,360
Speaker 4: played there. Houston like a second home to me. I

577
00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:30,600
Speaker 4: get it. Very passionate, very passionate about their sports.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, aren't aren't we all?

579
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Speaker 2: But but yeah, I just I look at a situation

580
00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:43,680
Speaker 2: like this and relocations in general in sports, I think

581
00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:48,800
Speaker 2: are awful, They're tough, they'y're largely awful. They're they're they're

582
00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:51,920
Speaker 2: not always not all or as bad as others. I

583
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:55,120
Speaker 2: understand that you need to be able to function, and

584
00:32:55,200 --> 00:33:00,280
Speaker 2: sometimes certain cities, certain times it doesn't work out. But

585
00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:03,800
Speaker 2: by and large, I don't believe that a sports franchise

586
00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:07,360
Speaker 2: should be run like just any other business because if

587
00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:09,800
Speaker 2: everybody's like, well the ad dollars are bigger there, then

588
00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:11,720
Speaker 2: they are here. Well, then every team should just play

589
00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:13,720
Speaker 2: in the same city. Why don't we just do a

590
00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:16,920
Speaker 2: bubble every year? Everybody can be half the teams can

591
00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:19,440
Speaker 2: be in LA, half of them can be in New York.

592
00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:23,600
Speaker 2: Call them whatever the hell you want. Let's buggy. I mean,

593
00:33:24,160 --> 00:33:26,120
Speaker 2: what are we doing and what are we swift?

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00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:27,960
Speaker 3: Yeah?

595
00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:34,840
Speaker 2: So this has been and again somebody who sat there

596
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Speaker 2: on the flagship station of the San Diego Chargers and

597
00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:40,880
Speaker 2: watch that thing get ripped from people?

598
00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:45,000
Speaker 3: This has been even grosser.

599
00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:49,680
Speaker 2: It's now the city in the moment doesn't care as

600
00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:53,200
Speaker 2: much about this team as San Diego cared about the Chargers.

601
00:33:53,520 --> 00:33:56,960
Speaker 3: But the behavior from the owner. I know, this guy

602
00:33:57,040 --> 00:34:00,000
Speaker 3: makes Art Modell and Dean Spanos look like a couple

603
00:34:00,160 --> 00:34:01,240
Speaker 3: of stuffed animals.

604
00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:07,320
Speaker 2: I'm telling you, man, this dude is gross from every level.

605
00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:12,759
Speaker 2: So I just think, if you're with another team right now,

606
00:34:13,000 --> 00:34:14,800
Speaker 2: enjoy your team and leave this one alone.

607
00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:20,839
Speaker 3: Right, Never come here? Yeah right, man, don't come down

608
00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:21,279
Speaker 3: this road.

609
00:34:21,760 --> 00:34:25,640
Speaker 2: However, all all all of their roads now appear to

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Speaker 2: be leading to Vegas.

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00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:29,319
Speaker 3: I gotta throw a couple. I got a couple throw.

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00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:31,560
Speaker 2: I gotta throw a couple Vegas things at you here man,

613
00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:34,080
Speaker 2: and see what you think about this. Some things that

614
00:34:34,120 --> 00:34:37,359
Speaker 2: people probably don't know about where this is going. We're

615
00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:40,000
Speaker 2: in the tire rack dot Com studios. Mark with Herd

616
00:34:40,200 --> 00:34:43,040
Speaker 2: from Salama will do that next on Fox Sports Radio.

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00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:48,120
Speaker 2: You don't need me to tell you that Vegas is wild.

618
00:34:49,080 --> 00:34:52,400
Speaker 2: You know, Vegas is wild, but maybe in some ways

619
00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:54,359
Speaker 2: that you don't even know. We're live in the tire

620
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Speaker 2: rack dot Com studios this place. I mean, we joked

621
00:34:58,320 --> 00:35:00,000
Speaker 2: a second ago that maybe all the teams should just

622
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:03,439
Speaker 2: go to La and New York. Maybe all the teams

623
00:35:03,480 --> 00:35:06,680
Speaker 2: should just end up in Vegas. Man, this city is

624
00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:10,719
Speaker 2: really they're really going to approve This is amazing. I

625
00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:13,600
Speaker 2: don't know if you've read into this. They're really going

626
00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:17,760
Speaker 2: to approve three hundred and eighty million dollars in public

627
00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:23,239
Speaker 2: money without a vote. You don't need to do a

628
00:35:23,320 --> 00:35:29,160
Speaker 2: vote in Nevada. And they will also do it, you know,

629
00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:33,600
Speaker 2: bonds and different things without raising taxes.

630
00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:39,240
Speaker 3: So they're just going to do this by next week.

631
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Speaker 3: You need three hundred and eighty million.

632
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Speaker 2: You want us to bulldoze a trap, no problem, Let's

633
00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:48,759
Speaker 2: just let's just build you a baseball stadium. But I

634
00:35:48,800 --> 00:35:51,799
Speaker 2: got questions e from you know this having lived in LA.

635
00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:55,919
Speaker 2: You know what the story of TV sports has been

636
00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:59,200
Speaker 2: in the city of Los Angeles over the last fifteen years.

637
00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:03,719
Speaker 2: Are so popular that they got their own TV network

638
00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:07,520
Speaker 2: and DirecTV and the Lakers fought for an entire offseason

639
00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:11,719
Speaker 2: and then the season started and like three games were

640
00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:14,880
Speaker 2: not available to the entire public. The pressure was so

641
00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:21,120
Speaker 2: hot after three games that DirecTV caved and poof, the

642
00:36:21,200 --> 00:36:24,840
Speaker 2: Lakers have their own network and it's available everywhere. Well

643
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:27,200
Speaker 2: about a year or two later, the Dodgers are like,

644
00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:28,440
Speaker 2: we're gonna.

645
00:36:28,200 --> 00:36:32,720
Speaker 3: Do the same thing. Watch this, but there's no pressure.

646
00:36:34,160 --> 00:36:41,279
Speaker 2: The Dodgers' television network and DirecTV fought and fought and

647
00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:46,560
Speaker 2: fought and fought and fought and fought and fought and

648
00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:47,760
Speaker 2: fought and fought.

649
00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:52,040
Speaker 3: And that is just how the story ends. And so

650
00:36:53,560 --> 00:36:56,959
Speaker 3: you can't just do it the same.

651
00:36:56,960 --> 00:37:01,480
Speaker 2: When it's baseball the city of Vega with glitz and glamour.

652
00:37:01,880 --> 00:37:06,480
Speaker 2: You bring hockey, okay, you bring the Raiders, Fine, you bring.

653
00:37:06,239 --> 00:37:10,320
Speaker 3: The A's in the middle of a one and eighteen

654
00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:11,160
Speaker 3: degrees summer.

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00:37:15,680 --> 00:37:17,759
Speaker 2: I don't know what the hell's going on here, man,

656
00:37:17,800 --> 00:37:19,759
Speaker 2: but that doesn't sound like a good idea to me.

657
00:37:21,719 --> 00:37:23,360
Speaker 4: I bet that roof will be closed.

658
00:37:24,239 --> 00:37:24,680
Speaker 3: I bet it.

659
00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:29,160
Speaker 4: It'd be a stadium with the at an indoor stadium. Yeah,

660
00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:30,760
Speaker 4: problem problem solved.

661
00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:31,400
Speaker 3: You think.

662
00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:35,520
Speaker 2: Not problem solved. It's baseball. It doesn't fit into the

663
00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:38,759
Speaker 2: lexico of the city. How many years before the Astros

664
00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:41,840
Speaker 2: are tweeting again ten runs in front of tens of

665
00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:45,560
Speaker 2: fans in Vegas because the A's are there.

666
00:37:45,719 --> 00:37:46,239
Speaker 3: I get it.

667
00:37:46,280 --> 00:37:48,960
Speaker 4: The thing with Vegas is there's always built in fans.

668
00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:52,800
Speaker 4: There's always somebody who wants to see an attraction.

669
00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:53,279
Speaker 3: Right.

670
00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:56,759
Speaker 4: You wonder why a magician can continue to do the

671
00:37:56,760 --> 00:38:01,440
Speaker 4: same act for twenty five thirty years in Vegas because

672
00:38:01,480 --> 00:38:03,640
Speaker 4: it's Vegas, and that's what people go to see. They

673
00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:07,000
Speaker 4: go to see stuff. They will go to see a

674
00:38:07,040 --> 00:38:10,759
Speaker 4: game because it's Vegas. It's part of the allure. It's

675
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:15,120
Speaker 4: part of the We can go see a football game,

676
00:38:15,160 --> 00:38:17,839
Speaker 4: we can go see a circus, so leg we can

677
00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:21,720
Speaker 4: go see a baseball game. People are going to fill

678
00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:28,360
Speaker 4: their Vegas card up with baseball, with boxing, with football,

679
00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:32,440
Speaker 4: all of those things, because that's what Vegas is about.

680
00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:36,319
Speaker 4: It's an attraction city. So whether you're a fan or not,

681
00:38:37,239 --> 00:38:42,279
Speaker 4: it's still an attraction. Well, but baseball and it's right

682
00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:46,840
Speaker 4: there on this you can walk to it. How many

683
00:38:46,880 --> 00:38:52,000
Speaker 4: baseball stadiums can you just walk to? Well, that depends

684
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:54,160
Speaker 4: on the city. Like I'm saying, if you're visiting a

685
00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:58,560
Speaker 4: city right like you're not. If you go to a

686
00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:04,520
Speaker 4: city and you want to go to a game, like you,

687
00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:06,960
Speaker 4: Vegas is set up for people to walk everywhere you

688
00:39:06,960 --> 00:39:09,479
Speaker 4: can walk to the right, right.

689
00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:13,640
Speaker 2: Sure, they're baseball cities Denver, San Francisco. There are cities

690
00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:16,680
Speaker 2: that have that ballpark right there, San Diego. But but

691
00:39:17,840 --> 00:39:22,640
Speaker 2: I'm also talking to just about like what makes Vegas work, Like, hey, honey,

692
00:39:22,719 --> 00:39:25,240
Speaker 2: let's get all dressed up. We're here for lights, glitz,

693
00:39:25,320 --> 00:39:29,080
Speaker 2: glamour stars and I don't know, three to two in

694
00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:32,239
Speaker 2: the eighth inning, I like, I don't know. It's just like,

695
00:39:32,360 --> 00:39:35,520
Speaker 2: how is the NBA the only sport that's not there?

696
00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:39,040
Speaker 4: It'll be there, Lebron's what Lebrin was like, I want

697
00:39:39,440 --> 00:39:41,280
Speaker 4: when I retire, I want to own a team in Vegas.

698
00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:45,400
Speaker 2: It's kind of so that's common. It's how are they last?

699
00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:46,440
Speaker 2: They should have been first?

700
00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:50,840
Speaker 4: Yeah, but you know it's which team is it gonna be?

701
00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:55,280
Speaker 4: It's not gonna be an expansion team, So which team.

702
00:39:55,480 --> 00:39:57,879
Speaker 4: Will it be which one of these small market.

703
00:39:57,560 --> 00:40:01,120
Speaker 2: Teams you know, BEF Lebron wants it to be an

704
00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:01,919
Speaker 2: expansion team.

705
00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:03,280
Speaker 3: Oh yes it will.

706
00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:07,200
Speaker 4: Well, now you got to have two expansion teams, so

707
00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:08,600
Speaker 4: you got you know.

708
00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:14,920
Speaker 2: I'm glad, I'm glad you brought up the name Lebron

709
00:40:15,360 --> 00:40:19,200
Speaker 2: James Aphram. I think we should have a conversation about

710
00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:20,400
Speaker 2: Lebron James.

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726
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727
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Speaker 2: Game number seven. More on that and the potential series

728
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Speaker 2: matchup coming up, because oh, by the way, this hasn't

729
00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:23,520
Speaker 2: been great for the Nuggets either. They won't get arrested

730
00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:26,759
Speaker 2: Celtics team, but they'll be on the road if the

731
00:41:26,760 --> 00:41:30,759
Speaker 2: Celtics go ahead and end up winning this series. So

732
00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:34,120
Speaker 2: we'll get to all of that. But you bring up Lebron,

733
00:41:34,719 --> 00:41:38,200
Speaker 2: and because it was happening in real time as you

734
00:41:38,239 --> 00:41:41,040
Speaker 2: and I were talking last week, I don't feel like

735
00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:43,760
Speaker 2: you and I had the opportunity to really pull apart

736
00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:47,960
Speaker 2: what Lebron did and what Lebron said in that post

737
00:41:48,160 --> 00:41:52,520
Speaker 2: game press conference last week where he dipped his toe

738
00:41:52,640 --> 00:41:58,719
Speaker 2: into the potential retirement waters. And also enough reporting has

739
00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:02,240
Speaker 2: been done after the fact that certainly makes it feel

740
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:07,760
Speaker 2: like there's at least the possibility that somehow Lebron continues

741
00:42:08,120 --> 00:42:13,160
Speaker 2: his career elsewhere away from the Lakers. Eve from how

742
00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:16,680
Speaker 2: did you translate everything that you saw?

743
00:42:17,200 --> 00:42:22,960
Speaker 4: First off, that was a pretty savvy ploy to get

744
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:27,680
Speaker 4: the attention off being swept and having us talk about

745
00:42:27,719 --> 00:42:32,040
Speaker 4: how great the Denver Nuggets are. All anybody could talk

746
00:42:32,080 --> 00:42:36,160
Speaker 4: about after the game was oh my god, Lebron James

747
00:42:36,680 --> 00:42:42,000
Speaker 4: may not come back for his twenty fourth season. Oh no, Well,

748
00:42:42,200 --> 00:42:44,760
Speaker 4: we've heard him for the last three years talk about

749
00:42:44,840 --> 00:42:48,520
Speaker 4: he's adamant about playing with his son. So does that

750
00:42:48,680 --> 00:42:50,960
Speaker 4: mean all of a sudden he no longer wants to

751
00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:58,239
Speaker 4: play with his son because if he retires, that dream

752
00:42:58,320 --> 00:43:00,799
Speaker 4: is over right, But this is what he's wanted, Well,

753
00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:04,640
Speaker 4: this is I will play with my son. Are against him?

754
00:43:04,800 --> 00:43:05,040
Speaker 3: Right?

755
00:43:06,120 --> 00:43:13,640
Speaker 4: So averaging twenty eight points a game, seven rebounds, six

756
00:43:13,719 --> 00:43:18,680
Speaker 4: assists in your twentieth year, nothing about that says to me,

757
00:43:20,160 --> 00:43:22,919
Speaker 4: I'm going to retire. I'm done with basketball. I've done

758
00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:25,880
Speaker 4: all that I can do. What I did Here is

759
00:43:25,960 --> 00:43:29,920
Speaker 4: him talk about not playing the game and just to

760
00:43:29,960 --> 00:43:33,640
Speaker 4: play it and not in you know, not being in

761
00:43:33,640 --> 00:43:38,399
Speaker 4: pursuit of a championship. He's not going to do that, now,

762
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:41,279
Speaker 4: that's what I heard. I heard that he's going to

763
00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:47,719
Speaker 4: continue to play, but only if the goal is to

764
00:43:47,760 --> 00:43:53,200
Speaker 4: win a championship. Now does that mean that the Lakers

765
00:43:53,239 --> 00:43:56,480
Speaker 4: gotta do something? Another team has to? He he wants

766
00:43:56,520 --> 00:43:58,759
Speaker 4: to be in a position to where he's competing for

767
00:43:58,800 --> 00:44:01,440
Speaker 4: a championship. And I get that. Understand that. In your

768
00:44:01,480 --> 00:44:04,920
Speaker 4: twenty all time leading scorer. You don't need to go

769
00:44:04,960 --> 00:44:07,400
Speaker 4: out there and just play basketball. You need to go

770
00:44:07,440 --> 00:44:09,920
Speaker 4: out there and play basketball with the hopes of winning

771
00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:14,040
Speaker 4: a championship. And I'm okay with that. That makes sense

772
00:44:14,080 --> 00:44:17,399
Speaker 4: to me. Sure, But him not playing and him maybe

773
00:44:17,480 --> 00:44:20,640
Speaker 4: not playing for the Lakers. We know he wants to

774
00:44:20,640 --> 00:44:23,320
Speaker 4: go play with Steph. Okay, we get it, we don't, okay,

775
00:44:24,280 --> 00:44:26,600
Speaker 4: but there is no deal to be made.

776
00:44:26,920 --> 00:44:27,759
Speaker 3: You think that's it.

777
00:44:28,040 --> 00:44:29,760
Speaker 4: I know he wants to go. He said it himself,

778
00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:31,240
Speaker 4: I would love to play with Steph Curry.

779
00:44:31,239 --> 00:44:34,120
Speaker 3: Well, I mean that's on the shop.

780
00:44:35,200 --> 00:44:36,520
Speaker 4: But it would be the worst thing he could ever do.

781
00:44:37,120 --> 00:44:39,840
Speaker 4: You gotta remember it. Lebron just doesn't say things just

782
00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:43,640
Speaker 4: to say things, okay, just doesn't drop little things out

783
00:44:43,760 --> 00:44:44,800
Speaker 4: just in passing.

784
00:44:45,840 --> 00:44:49,640
Speaker 2: Sure, but it was a very hypothetical situation. Was a

785
00:44:49,680 --> 00:44:52,400
Speaker 2: player that you'd love to play with, of course.

786
00:44:54,200 --> 00:44:58,319
Speaker 4: Going there Steph? Well, no one thought KD would be

787
00:44:58,360 --> 00:45:04,480
Speaker 4: there with Steph, right right, I mean, listen, listen.

788
00:45:04,680 --> 00:45:07,960
Speaker 2: Crazier things have happened in this And if you know

789
00:45:08,160 --> 00:45:11,399
Speaker 2: anything about the Warriors owner, I think that he would

790
00:45:11,440 --> 00:45:13,120
Speaker 2: be very very interested.

791
00:45:13,320 --> 00:45:16,440
Speaker 3: What I definitely oh yeah, oh.

792
00:45:16,239 --> 00:45:20,359
Speaker 2: Of course, of course, absolutely so I do think it's

793
00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:25,120
Speaker 2: Plan B, maybe even Plan C. Here's what I think

794
00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:29,720
Speaker 2: was going on there, But what I don't know is why.

795
00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:33,399
Speaker 2: And there are a few multiple choice that we could

796
00:45:33,440 --> 00:45:37,160
Speaker 2: throw out. Here's what I think was going on. While

797
00:45:37,239 --> 00:45:40,080
Speaker 2: so many of us and you have been at the

798
00:45:40,080 --> 00:45:43,960
Speaker 2: front of the line, have been standing outside Rob Polinka's

799
00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:50,240
Speaker 2: office with flowers because of all of these wonderful deadline moves,

800
00:45:50,360 --> 00:45:54,280
Speaker 2: and yes they were. They turned They turned a team

801
00:45:54,880 --> 00:45:59,479
Speaker 2: that was superstar heavy and headed for missing the entire

802
00:45:59,520 --> 00:46:03,399
Speaker 2: playoffs into a team that went to the conference finals. Oh,

803
00:46:03,440 --> 00:46:08,239
Speaker 2: those deals did that, and so that's it. Lebron's point was,

804
00:46:10,200 --> 00:46:13,640
Speaker 2: that's all the same to me. That's all the same

805
00:46:13,680 --> 00:46:16,600
Speaker 2: to me. You come in fourth place, twenty third place,

806
00:46:17,480 --> 00:46:23,480
Speaker 2: it's all losing. And all of the deals that Polinka

807
00:46:23,560 --> 00:46:29,680
Speaker 2: made kept future assets in place. Polenka did not mortgage

808
00:46:29,680 --> 00:46:32,319
Speaker 2: the future in order to do what he did, and

809
00:46:32,360 --> 00:46:35,719
Speaker 2: I think Lebron wants him to because if he does

810
00:46:35,760 --> 00:46:39,920
Speaker 2: that again this offseason, that means no Kyrie, and it

811
00:46:39,960 --> 00:46:45,920
Speaker 2: also means no championship because Lebron is only another year older.

812
00:46:46,480 --> 00:46:49,840
Speaker 2: You said it yourself one hundred different ways over the

813
00:46:49,880 --> 00:46:54,160
Speaker 2: last few weeks about watching how Lebron started to break down.

814
00:46:54,239 --> 00:46:56,080
Speaker 3: Had to pick spots in the playoffs.

815
00:46:56,320 --> 00:46:59,000
Speaker 2: He can't do it for seven game series and then

816
00:46:59,040 --> 00:47:01,440
Speaker 2: another seven game series in a sixth game.

817
00:47:01,760 --> 00:47:04,759
Speaker 3: Can't do it every night. They can't do it anymore.

818
00:47:05,280 --> 00:47:10,239
Speaker 2: So Lebron is either telling the Lakers you have got

819
00:47:10,280 --> 00:47:15,880
Speaker 2: to get more aggressive about the now or and I

820
00:47:15,920 --> 00:47:21,200
Speaker 2: think this is less likely, he's saying Anthony Davis is

821
00:47:21,200 --> 00:47:21,719
Speaker 2: not the guy.

822
00:47:24,239 --> 00:47:26,560
Speaker 4: I don't think he has a problem with Anthony Davis.

823
00:47:26,680 --> 00:47:31,120
Speaker 4: I think he has a problem with relying on Anthony Davis.

824
00:47:31,200 --> 00:47:33,919
Speaker 4: He loves Anthony Davis, loves playing with him when he's

825
00:47:33,920 --> 00:47:38,040
Speaker 4: playing the way he should play. He just has a

826
00:47:38,080 --> 00:47:41,479
Speaker 4: problem with relying on him. And I get that. I mean,

827
00:47:41,520 --> 00:47:46,400
Speaker 4: Anthony Davis is a top ten talent, top five talent offensively, defensively.

828
00:47:46,440 --> 00:47:49,359
Speaker 4: Not very many players in the entire league play both

829
00:47:49,440 --> 00:47:51,360
Speaker 4: ends of the court. It just doesn't happen. Might be

830
00:47:51,440 --> 00:47:54,400
Speaker 4: a top one, It might be a top one talent, right.

831
00:47:54,480 --> 00:47:57,960
Speaker 2: The problem is, Hey, my favorite joking row season Ephrom

832
00:47:58,080 --> 00:48:01,839
Speaker 2: was when someone said ad stas for alternating days.

833
00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:05,160
Speaker 3: I mean, come on, you got that's pretty good. You

834
00:48:05,239 --> 00:48:07,799
Speaker 3: gotta laugh at it. You gotta laugh at it.

835
00:48:08,360 --> 00:48:12,359
Speaker 4: Yeah, So that's where the frustration is with Lebron. So

836
00:48:13,120 --> 00:48:16,879
Speaker 4: what can we do to subsidize that? What can we

837
00:48:17,000 --> 00:48:21,000
Speaker 4: do with this team to where I'm not asked to

838
00:48:21,040 --> 00:48:25,080
Speaker 4: play forty minutes a game during the regular season, and well,

839
00:48:25,160 --> 00:48:31,200
Speaker 4: we're not beholden to Anthony Davis being great for eighty

840
00:48:31,239 --> 00:48:35,080
Speaker 4: two games? Well, hell, sixty games? So what moves can

841
00:48:35,120 --> 00:48:39,799
Speaker 4: be made to offset that but still give us a

842
00:48:39,880 --> 00:48:43,120
Speaker 4: chance to be viable and to compete in the West?

843
00:48:44,239 --> 00:48:48,080
Speaker 2: I mean, I hope that Lebron and every Laker fan,

844
00:48:48,560 --> 00:48:53,800
Speaker 2: I hope you have something more creative than the ridiculousness

845
00:48:53,840 --> 00:48:59,200
Speaker 2: I keep hearing in thinking, don't be the next franchise

846
00:48:59,320 --> 00:49:02,680
Speaker 2: that think Kyrie Irving is on the way to give

847
00:49:02,719 --> 00:49:03,280
Speaker 2: you a title.

848
00:49:03,360 --> 00:49:05,120
Speaker 3: I wouldn't want it. I wouldn't want that.

849
00:49:05,239 --> 00:49:09,840
Speaker 2: Be thank you don't be that team, My gosh, be

850
00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:13,200
Speaker 2: more creative, have a brain. Look at what's going on

851
00:49:13,360 --> 00:49:18,720
Speaker 2: around Why would you? I mean, definition of insanity. Let's

852
00:49:18,760 --> 00:49:22,759
Speaker 2: acquire Kyrie Irving and everything will get better. Ask his

853
00:49:22,880 --> 00:49:25,000
Speaker 2: last three teams how that's doing.

854
00:49:26,239 --> 00:49:26,359
Speaker 3: So.

855
00:49:27,400 --> 00:49:30,080
Speaker 2: I don't know which way this is gonna go, but

856
00:49:30,840 --> 00:49:33,160
Speaker 2: I do think that Lebron is sitting here with another

857
00:49:33,239 --> 00:49:37,319
Speaker 2: year on his deal, and he and the reason retirement.

858
00:49:36,840 --> 00:49:38,480
Speaker 3: Came up because I don't even there's anyway, and hell

859
00:49:38,560 --> 00:49:41,319
Speaker 3: he's retiring. It's not even just his son. It's not

860
00:49:41,400 --> 00:49:43,799
Speaker 3: even just his son. You're right, it is his son.

861
00:49:43,840 --> 00:49:46,600
Speaker 2: But it's not only that there's no way Lebron James

862
00:49:46,640 --> 00:49:48,360
Speaker 2: is pulling a surprise retirement.

863
00:49:48,560 --> 00:49:49,840
Speaker 3: He's gonna throw chalk.

864
00:49:49,640 --> 00:49:52,319
Speaker 2: In the air at every arena one more time, and

865
00:49:52,360 --> 00:49:55,799
Speaker 2: he's gonna get gifts, and that's Lebron like he's going

866
00:49:55,880 --> 00:49:58,799
Speaker 2: to get the tour. So I don't think you can

867
00:49:58,920 --> 00:50:04,560
Speaker 2: get to Koch Tires exactly. But the reason he floated

868
00:50:04,640 --> 00:50:08,439
Speaker 2: it is it's the only leverage that he has right now.

869
00:50:08,680 --> 00:50:12,440
Speaker 2: Of course, do what I say are a walk away.

870
00:50:15,840 --> 00:50:16,120
Speaker 3: Away.

871
00:50:16,920 --> 00:50:20,080
Speaker 4: Lebron has always been very strategic in his twenty year career.

872
00:50:21,280 --> 00:50:25,319
Speaker 4: It's gotten him four championships. Doesn't seem like a lot

873
00:50:25,320 --> 00:50:29,960
Speaker 4: of championships in that amount of years, but he's got four.

874
00:50:34,120 --> 00:50:38,600
Speaker 4: The only thing he has to play for now are championships.

875
00:50:39,680 --> 00:50:43,960
Speaker 4: He's got all the statistical records, but he doesn't have

876
00:50:44,000 --> 00:50:47,880
Speaker 4: the championships. So the only thing he wants to do

877
00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:50,799
Speaker 4: now is every single year from now and for the

878
00:50:50,800 --> 00:50:54,880
Speaker 4: next three years is having an opportunity to play and

879
00:50:54,960 --> 00:51:01,520
Speaker 4: win a championship. That's it. That's the only thing he wants,

880
00:51:02,400 --> 00:51:04,400
Speaker 4: and a slight part of that is to play with

881
00:51:04,440 --> 00:51:07,200
Speaker 4: his son. I'm sure he'll go to Cleveland or somewhere where.

882
00:51:07,840 --> 00:51:11,040
Speaker 4: If Utah drafts his son, I'm sure he'll go to Utah,

883
00:51:11,480 --> 00:51:16,200
Speaker 4: you know. But that's outside of his basketball career goals.

884
00:51:16,960 --> 00:51:18,839
Speaker 4: It's to win a championship. You gotta at least get

885
00:51:18,840 --> 00:51:23,960
Speaker 4: two more at least. But the longer you play, the

886
00:51:24,040 --> 00:51:28,239
Speaker 4: more it takes away from the goat conversation in my opinion, Right,

887
00:51:28,280 --> 00:51:31,000
Speaker 4: you're gonna play thirty years to get six championships. That

888
00:51:31,120 --> 00:51:32,440
Speaker 4: doesn't make you the goat, does it?

889
00:51:33,239 --> 00:51:36,160
Speaker 2: Well, I don't know. Do you think that that's what's

890
00:51:36,200 --> 00:51:39,600
Speaker 2: still driving him. He thinks he's already there. No, I

891
00:51:39,680 --> 00:51:43,200
Speaker 2: think he's already there. Well, het, by the way, well

892
00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:46,319
Speaker 2: that's so funny. He does think he's already there, but

893
00:51:46,560 --> 00:51:52,840
Speaker 2: he does. He also understands and hears the argument, do

894
00:51:52,880 --> 00:51:55,840
Speaker 2: why he's not there? It's not yeah, it's not a

895
00:51:55,880 --> 00:52:00,000
Speaker 2: bad argument. Right, it's not a bad argument there. Right,

896
00:52:00,120 --> 00:52:02,560
Speaker 2: But he's got Anthony Davis and now he's saying, we

897
00:52:02,600 --> 00:52:05,759
Speaker 2: need even more help. So let's picture what a championship

898
00:52:05,800 --> 00:52:07,360
Speaker 2: looks like. Even if he gets.

899
00:52:07,280 --> 00:52:10,520
Speaker 4: Well, I'm going to like, it's not gonna look like

900
00:52:10,560 --> 00:52:12,040
Speaker 4: his championships used to look.

901
00:52:12,160 --> 00:52:13,279
Speaker 3: No, but I'll tell you this.

902
00:52:14,280 --> 00:52:16,400
Speaker 4: If the Lakers started the season with the team they

903
00:52:16,440 --> 00:52:19,200
Speaker 4: acquired at the trade deadline, we would be having a

904
00:52:19,239 --> 00:52:20,600
Speaker 4: different conversation right now.

905
00:52:22,560 --> 00:52:24,680
Speaker 3: I believe we would have Does he think that? Does

906
00:52:24,719 --> 00:52:25,239
Speaker 3: he think that?

907
00:52:26,360 --> 00:52:28,600
Speaker 4: I don't know, but I know what I would I

908
00:52:28,760 --> 00:52:32,080
Speaker 4: what I know and what I believe because those spells, well,

909
00:52:32,080 --> 00:52:35,200
Speaker 4: we didn't have a d and we didn't have Lebron,

910
00:52:35,840 --> 00:52:39,920
Speaker 4: the team would have been better suited to compete than

911
00:52:39,960 --> 00:52:43,720
Speaker 4: it was when we I mean, if seven new players

912
00:52:43,719 --> 00:52:49,200
Speaker 4: on the playoff team, right, seven new players, so we

913
00:52:49,239 --> 00:52:52,520
Speaker 4: would have been better. We would have been better, capable

914
00:52:52,480 --> 00:52:56,399
Speaker 4: of better, better able to compete in the West during

915
00:52:56,440 --> 00:53:00,000
Speaker 4: the regular season. If we start with that playoff team.

916
00:53:00,640 --> 00:53:04,560
Speaker 2: I fully agree you're not in the playing tournament. If

917
00:53:04,239 --> 00:53:06,200
Speaker 2: if if that team starts.

918
00:53:06,040 --> 00:53:08,680
Speaker 4: I mean I would argue the top three seeds. I

919
00:53:08,680 --> 00:53:11,279
Speaker 4: would argue that in the heartbeat would definitely.

920
00:53:10,960 --> 00:53:13,560
Speaker 2: Be to maybe maybe yeah, especially the way it went

921
00:53:13,600 --> 00:53:16,000
Speaker 2: this year. Yeah, the three seed was only four or

922
00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:19,560
Speaker 2: five games ahead of the playing tournament team. So that's

923
00:53:19,680 --> 00:53:22,960
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928
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Speaker 2: it's not Kyrie Irving? Then who is it that's coming

929
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Speaker 2: up next on Fox Sports Radio?

930
00:53:43,680 --> 00:53:44,040
Speaker 3: Okay?

931
00:53:44,080 --> 00:53:47,360
Speaker 2: These arethe tirag dot com studios. That's a from Salama

932
00:53:47,480 --> 00:53:50,440
Speaker 2: Mark Willard, Fox Sports Radio. So glad you're with us tonight.

933
00:53:50,480 --> 00:53:53,319
Speaker 2: However you're bringing us in all right, man, So if

934
00:53:53,320 --> 00:53:54,920
Speaker 2: you're with me, the Kyrie, ain't it?

935
00:53:55,400 --> 00:53:59,720
Speaker 3: Who is? Okay?

936
00:53:59,760 --> 00:54:03,799
Speaker 4: So you would have to just start with what are

937
00:54:03,840 --> 00:54:04,480
Speaker 4: they lacking?

938
00:54:04,600 --> 00:54:07,359
Speaker 3: What do they need? Right?

939
00:54:08,239 --> 00:54:16,239
Speaker 4: They answered that need with the trade deadline. Now you

940
00:54:16,280 --> 00:54:22,040
Speaker 4: substitute out a D'Angelo Russell for another point guard who

941
00:54:22,080 --> 00:54:25,920
Speaker 4: can give you a little bit of defense and still

942
00:54:26,000 --> 00:54:31,520
Speaker 4: that scoring pop, but at a reasonable price. I like

943
00:54:31,600 --> 00:54:36,200
Speaker 4: Shrewder because I love his on ball defense. I don't

944
00:54:36,280 --> 00:54:38,760
Speaker 4: know what his price will be the thing the Lakers

945
00:54:38,760 --> 00:54:40,839
Speaker 4: have going for him is they're wide open in terms

946
00:54:40,920 --> 00:54:47,080
Speaker 4: of roster space. They have three guys really under salary

947
00:54:47,480 --> 00:54:54,120
Speaker 4: and the third Rory is for a year. So outside

948
00:54:54,120 --> 00:54:57,759
Speaker 4: of that, the number one priority of this offseason is

949
00:54:57,800 --> 00:54:59,720
Speaker 4: just re signed Austin Reeves.

950
00:55:01,000 --> 00:55:01,760
Speaker 3: Period.

951
00:55:02,719 --> 00:55:05,560
Speaker 4: They can't allow him to go away, and like they

952
00:55:05,560 --> 00:55:06,440
Speaker 4: did with Caruso.

953
00:55:07,760 --> 00:55:11,759
Speaker 2: It's a wild statement, isn't it. I Mean, it all

954
00:55:11,760 --> 00:55:13,840
Speaker 2: comes down to Austin Reeves.

955
00:55:14,080 --> 00:55:17,400
Speaker 4: But it's gotta be you gotta keep Austin Reeves.

956
00:55:17,880 --> 00:55:19,879
Speaker 2: I get what you're saying to a degree because when

957
00:55:19,880 --> 00:55:23,359
Speaker 2: you ask what do they need? They need shooting, they

958
00:55:23,400 --> 00:55:25,919
Speaker 2: need need shooting. They yeah, they took care of things

959
00:55:25,960 --> 00:55:29,000
Speaker 2: on the defensive end. They need they need shooting, and

960
00:55:29,360 --> 00:55:37,080
Speaker 2: they needed to be distributed to distributed intelligently. And that's

961
00:55:37,120 --> 00:55:41,800
Speaker 2: why I vote so firmly against the idea of Kyrie Irving.

962
00:55:42,200 --> 00:55:45,600
Speaker 2: But understand, I would say that no matter what basketball

963
00:55:45,640 --> 00:55:48,760
Speaker 2: team we're talking about, this is one of those moments

964
00:55:48,760 --> 00:55:52,880
Speaker 2: in sports that quite frankly, I've come to really dislike,

965
00:55:53,400 --> 00:55:57,919
Speaker 2: which is every single team out there thinking that they

966
00:55:58,320 --> 00:56:01,160
Speaker 2: are going to be the magic its for the player

967
00:56:01,200 --> 00:56:04,279
Speaker 2: who has been to not one, not two, not.

968
00:56:04,440 --> 00:56:06,759
Speaker 3: Three, not four we can play that whole game.

969
00:56:06,800 --> 00:56:10,040
Speaker 2: How many teams are you going to go mess up

970
00:56:10,280 --> 00:56:15,680
Speaker 2: or come away disgruntled yourself before we realize.

971
00:56:15,880 --> 00:56:19,719
Speaker 3: It's not the team, it's not the situation. It's you.

972
00:56:20,840 --> 00:56:24,839
Speaker 3: It's you. It's you. I don't I don't know any

973
00:56:24,960 --> 00:56:25,719
Speaker 3: other way to say it.

974
00:56:25,840 --> 00:56:29,400
Speaker 4: Kyrie, You're right. You know what i'd like to see.

975
00:56:31,040 --> 00:56:35,279
Speaker 4: I like Seth Curry. Right, that's a good name, not

976
00:56:35,440 --> 00:56:38,000
Speaker 4: good death. It's not Steph Curry, but it's Seth Curry.

977
00:56:38,040 --> 00:56:40,760
Speaker 4: We know what he's gonna bring. He's gonna bring toughness

978
00:56:40,800 --> 00:56:43,640
Speaker 4: and the ability to shoot. He can create his own shot,

979
00:56:43,800 --> 00:56:48,000
Speaker 4: and he can dorn sure, hit the hit the open jumper.

980
00:56:48,160 --> 00:56:48,759
Speaker 3: I like that.

981
00:56:49,600 --> 00:56:52,560
Speaker 4: I also like Josh Hart. Love to get him back

982
00:56:52,600 --> 00:56:57,200
Speaker 4: in the Laker uniform. He's had his best year. He's

983
00:56:57,239 --> 00:57:04,600
Speaker 4: a three and D guy, great wing defender, knock down shooter,

984
00:57:05,120 --> 00:57:07,759
Speaker 4: can create his own shot at the rim. I like

985
00:57:07,840 --> 00:57:12,200
Speaker 4: see moves like that. To me, speak volumes. That's how

986
00:57:12,239 --> 00:57:19,120
Speaker 4: you you should want to really, you know, just add

987
00:57:19,680 --> 00:57:23,600
Speaker 4: these little subtle pieces. You don't need the big marquee name.

988
00:57:24,560 --> 00:57:28,680
Speaker 4: You got two marquee names. You need to just take

989
00:57:28,720 --> 00:57:33,240
Speaker 4: the pressure off of that so you know. To me,

990
00:57:33,520 --> 00:57:36,840
Speaker 4: those are the types of of names and the types

991
00:57:36,920 --> 00:57:42,520
Speaker 4: of moves that I think would benefit the Lakers outside

992
00:57:42,520 --> 00:57:46,600
Speaker 4: of a big splashy Kyrie, Are you know, God forbid

993
00:57:46,680 --> 00:57:48,480
Speaker 4: James Harden or something like that.

994
00:57:49,640 --> 00:57:52,600
Speaker 2: The problem is is you the fan, and I think

995
00:57:52,680 --> 00:57:55,200
Speaker 2: the Lakers, the organization, they'd like to do something that

996
00:57:55,280 --> 00:57:59,760
Speaker 2: helps now and the future, and Lebron's not interested in that.

997
00:57:59,600 --> 00:58:03,120
Speaker 2: And that's that's the problem. I don't think he wants

998
00:58:03,160 --> 00:58:06,000
Speaker 2: them thinking young. I don't think he wants them thinking

999
00:58:06,040 --> 00:58:08,080
Speaker 2: in the future. I think he wants them to shove

1000
00:58:08,080 --> 00:58:09,720
Speaker 2: all their chips in the middle of the table.

1001
00:58:09,880 --> 00:58:10,080
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1002
00:58:10,120 --> 00:58:13,800
Speaker 4: But if you do that, if you bring seth or

1003
00:58:14,320 --> 00:58:19,680
Speaker 4: or Josh into the fold of what they are building now,

1004
00:58:21,080 --> 00:58:24,520
Speaker 4: I think that gives you something, right, I think that

1005
00:58:24,680 --> 00:58:28,640
Speaker 4: gives you a real run at at at at a championship.

1006
00:58:28,680 --> 00:58:30,160
Speaker 3: Now, they got to get some other pieces. I think

1007
00:58:30,160 --> 00:58:33,160
Speaker 3: they got to get bigger. You need.

1008
00:58:34,960 --> 00:58:40,000
Speaker 4: A real, tangible big that could play with and for

1009
00:58:40,480 --> 00:58:50,040
Speaker 4: Anthony Davis. I think that's important because you know Anthony

1010
00:58:50,080 --> 00:58:51,080
Speaker 4: Davis will wear down.

1011
00:58:51,160 --> 00:58:51,920
Speaker 3: We know that.

1012
00:58:53,400 --> 00:58:58,160
Speaker 4: You don't need a superstar big you just need someone

1013
00:58:58,200 --> 00:59:00,600
Speaker 4: to be able to give you some real I really

1014
00:59:00,920 --> 00:59:03,400
Speaker 4: loved when Andre Drummond was there. It didn't work out,

1015
00:59:04,840 --> 00:59:06,400
Speaker 4: but Andre Drummond was great.

1016
00:59:07,640 --> 00:59:08,040
Speaker 3: I love.

1017
00:59:09,040 --> 00:59:13,880
Speaker 4: Uh wasn't DeAndre Jordan there too?

1018
00:59:14,280 --> 00:59:17,240
Speaker 3: Didn't we have DeAndre Jordan before Jondre Jordan?

1019
00:59:18,520 --> 00:59:21,960
Speaker 4: Right, But you just need someone active who can rebound,

1020
00:59:22,240 --> 00:59:27,520
Speaker 4: block shots, catch a lob right. Get Dwight Howard back

1021
00:59:27,520 --> 00:59:28,200
Speaker 4: from Taiwan.

1022
00:59:29,040 --> 00:59:30,880
Speaker 3: Come on, man, let's go Dwight yourself.

1023
00:59:31,800 --> 00:59:35,520
Speaker 2: This is yourself, Andre Jordan and Dwight Howard, come on, man,

1024
00:59:36,000 --> 00:59:36,360
Speaker 2: like you.

1025
00:59:36,320 --> 00:59:40,560
Speaker 3: Know, it's funny. Those are actually lebron type moves. They are. Yeah,

1026
00:59:40,600 --> 00:59:40,840
Speaker 3: it was.

1027
00:59:41,360 --> 00:59:45,040
Speaker 2: And and that's why the Lakers don't want to do them,

1028
00:59:45,560 --> 00:59:49,120
Speaker 2: because those are those are those are things for for

1029
00:59:49,320 --> 00:59:53,200
Speaker 2: right now. And that's the way guys in their thirties think,

1030
00:59:53,800 --> 00:59:58,200
Speaker 2: especially championship level players. Hell Draymond Green spent about ten

1031
00:59:58,240 --> 01:00:03,400
Speaker 2: minutes on his podcast about Tristan Thompson and it's like, Okay,

1032
01:00:03,600 --> 01:00:06,840
Speaker 2: I get it. You guys, all right, you came in together,

1033
01:00:07,360 --> 01:00:12,200
Speaker 2: You've danced in the NBA Finals together, your veterans together.

1034
01:00:12,840 --> 01:00:17,160
Speaker 2: Like they've got something against rookies that's ended up being the.

1035
01:00:17,080 --> 01:00:18,640
Speaker 3: Story of the Warriors this year.

1036
01:00:18,920 --> 01:00:23,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like they suffer from rookie ism and and you

1037
01:00:23,520 --> 01:00:25,920
Speaker 2: know what I mean, they do and they're not even

1038
01:00:26,000 --> 01:00:28,760
Speaker 2: rookies we're talking about, but just young players. Yeah, Jordan

1039
01:00:28,800 --> 01:00:32,080
Speaker 2: Poole and Johnathan Kamingay they you know, like they they've

1040
01:00:32,080 --> 01:00:32,680
Speaker 2: held them down.

1041
01:00:32,880 --> 01:00:33,680
Speaker 3: I understand it.

1042
01:00:33,720 --> 01:00:36,760
Speaker 2: Twenty and twenty one year olds don't win championships usually,

1043
01:00:37,160 --> 01:00:41,720
Speaker 2: so I get it right. But the organization is caught

1044
01:00:41,760 --> 01:00:45,360
Speaker 2: in between going, look, we have a future to think about.

1045
01:00:45,680 --> 01:00:48,920
Speaker 2: The all time great players are like, you really don't,

1046
01:00:49,600 --> 01:00:52,760
Speaker 2: because what is it you think you have once Lebron

1047
01:00:52,800 --> 01:00:55,760
Speaker 2: and Steph are gone, No, you don't, You've got nothing.

1048
01:00:56,360 --> 01:00:58,640
Speaker 2: And so they want the chips all in the middle

1049
01:00:58,680 --> 01:01:00,840
Speaker 2: of the table. I want if they're a way to

1050
01:01:00,840 --> 01:01:01,360
Speaker 2: match it up.

1051
01:01:01,440 --> 01:01:04,800
Speaker 3: Now, you said this Warrior rumor, there's no deal to

1052
01:01:04,920 --> 01:01:08,600
Speaker 3: be had. Are you sure, man, I don't know. You

1053
01:01:08,680 --> 01:01:11,439
Speaker 3: gotta be scratching my head. Now. Well, here's the thing.

1054
01:01:11,600 --> 01:01:14,920
Speaker 3: If Lebron demands it, what do you do. It's not

1055
01:01:14,960 --> 01:01:17,000
Speaker 3: gonna work. What do you mean it's not gonna work.

1056
01:01:17,000 --> 01:01:19,320
Speaker 4: They're not gonna do that. The Laker's not gonna help

1057
01:01:19,360 --> 01:01:21,040
Speaker 4: the Warriors beat them.

1058
01:01:21,560 --> 01:01:25,160
Speaker 3: Well, Lebron. If Lebron demands it and goes then I'll

1059
01:01:25,160 --> 01:01:28,680
Speaker 3: take a year off. Thanks. Well, when he comes back,

1060
01:01:28,680 --> 01:01:34,040
Speaker 3: guess who has his rights? Not the Lakers. If he

1061
01:01:34,080 --> 01:01:34,960
Speaker 3: sits a whole year.

1062
01:01:34,840 --> 01:01:39,480
Speaker 4: Out, yeah, if he sits yes, yeah, if he sits out,

1063
01:01:39,720 --> 01:01:43,680
Speaker 4: if he retired or whatever that is, you sit out

1064
01:01:43,680 --> 01:01:44,000
Speaker 4: a year?

1065
01:01:44,520 --> 01:01:49,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, yes, yep, we got you, homie.

1066
01:01:50,720 --> 01:01:53,400
Speaker 2: You really think the Lakers are gonna power play Lebron James?

1067
01:01:54,080 --> 01:01:56,280
Speaker 2: How do you think Anthony Davis send it up on your.

1068
01:01:56,400 --> 01:02:01,000
Speaker 4: I want Lebron on, I want you. I want Anthony

1069
01:02:01,080 --> 01:02:02,120
Speaker 4: Davis on the Lakers.

1070
01:02:02,160 --> 01:02:04,240
Speaker 3: But but does Lebron want that?

1071
01:02:05,000 --> 01:02:08,360
Speaker 2: And and and if Jordan Poole, Andrew Wiggins and Jonathan

1072
01:02:08,560 --> 01:02:09,200
Speaker 2: Minga were.

1073
01:02:09,080 --> 01:02:14,120
Speaker 4: Guess where guess where Bronnie James is playing college? I

1074
01:02:14,160 --> 01:02:17,000
Speaker 4: hear you, brother, But you think Lebron James wants to

1075
01:02:17,120 --> 01:02:21,280
Speaker 4: leave l A when his son, his seed is playing down.

1076
01:02:22,480 --> 01:02:23,240
Speaker 3: He didn't think so.

1077
01:02:23,360 --> 01:02:30,160
Speaker 4: But everything Lebron has been setting up and his family

1078
01:02:30,280 --> 01:02:32,960
Speaker 4: has been for this. He's here in l A. They

1079
01:02:32,960 --> 01:02:35,800
Speaker 4: got three high they got three homes here in l A.

1080
01:02:36,120 --> 01:02:40,400
Speaker 3: You are so right. They have a right company here. Yep.

1081
01:02:40,480 --> 01:02:42,160
Speaker 3: His son is going to college here.

1082
01:02:42,960 --> 01:02:46,479
Speaker 4: His news. His youngest son is going to Campbell Hall.

1083
01:02:47,480 --> 01:02:51,280
Speaker 2: So why did he say what he said because he's posturing?

1084
01:02:51,360 --> 01:02:57,200
Speaker 2: Because why why would you need the posture. You're right

1085
01:02:57,240 --> 01:02:59,240
Speaker 2: where you are, You're right where you want to be.

1086
01:02:59,760 --> 01:03:03,240
Speaker 2: You just want the team to be better. And sometimes

1087
01:03:03,440 --> 01:03:06,240
Speaker 2: when you're on a team and you want to get better,

1088
01:03:06,600 --> 01:03:10,400
Speaker 2: you posture. But a one thason on our team that

1089
01:03:10,560 --> 01:03:15,000
Speaker 2: does no posturing, I'm talking about You're going to get

1090
01:03:15,400 --> 01:03:21,880
Speaker 2: what he's bringing without any secret messages to read between

1091
01:03:21,880 --> 01:03:22,480
Speaker 2: the lines.

1092
01:03:22,840 --> 01:03:28,640
Speaker 4: He is a straight shooter and that's one steven ss

1093
01:03:28,720 --> 01:03:29,240
Speaker 4: to say.

1094
01:03:30,160 --> 01:03:32,040
Speaker 7: Ex man, Yeah, just the facts.

1095
01:03:32,280 --> 01:03:35,360
Speaker 8: NASCAR six hundred was postponed to tomorrow due to rain.

1096
01:03:35,480 --> 01:03:38,439
Speaker 8: The races Charlotte, thank you very much. It's gonna start

1097
01:03:38,440 --> 01:03:41,280
Speaker 8: at three pm Eastern tomorrow from Charlotte on Fox TV

1098
01:03:41,440 --> 01:03:43,680
Speaker 8: or a minor Monday night. Game seven of the NBA's

1099
01:03:43,720 --> 01:03:47,560
Speaker 8: East Finals Miami was ahead three games to none. Series

1100
01:03:47,640 --> 01:03:50,040
Speaker 8: is still going. They'll play at Boston. A year ago,

1101
01:03:50,160 --> 01:03:52,840
Speaker 8: Boston eliminated the Heat in the East Finals, holding on

1102
01:03:52,880 --> 01:03:55,440
Speaker 8: to win Game seven at Miami. Jimmy Butler missed a

1103
01:03:55,520 --> 01:03:59,160
Speaker 8: late jumper. In these past two years of Heat versus

1104
01:03:59,200 --> 01:04:01,080
Speaker 8: Celtics in the Conference finals.

1105
01:04:01,600 --> 01:04:06,480
Speaker 7: The home team is four and nine. Boston is home tomorrow,

1106
01:04:06,520 --> 01:04:07,480
Speaker 7: So who knows.

1107
01:04:08,440 --> 01:04:11,680
Speaker 8: Joseph Neugarden won the Indy five hundred, his first in

1108
01:04:11,680 --> 01:04:14,040
Speaker 8: his twelfth straight year competing there.

1109
01:04:14,120 --> 01:04:15,560
Speaker 7: New Garden, a native of Tennessee.

1110
01:04:15,640 --> 01:04:18,919
Speaker 8: For team owner Roger Penske, it's his nineteenth Indy five

1111
01:04:19,000 --> 01:04:22,600
Speaker 8: hundred victory, extending his record he bought the Speedway in

1112
01:04:22,640 --> 01:04:26,920
Speaker 8: twenty nineteen. Speaking of massive career success, we're still waiting

1113
01:04:26,960 --> 01:04:30,640
Speaker 8: for one more Miami Heat win because pat Riley is

1114
01:04:30,680 --> 01:04:34,360
Speaker 8: still one win away from his nineteenth appearance in an

1115
01:04:34,480 --> 01:04:38,800
Speaker 8: NBA finals as executive coach or player. In other words,

1116
01:04:39,200 --> 01:04:42,600
Speaker 8: in twenty five percent of all the finals ever in

1117
01:04:42,640 --> 01:04:45,640
Speaker 8: the history of the league, and all of these, of

1118
01:04:45,680 --> 01:04:48,600
Speaker 8: course in about the last fifty years. It's just a

1119
01:04:48,720 --> 01:04:51,760
Speaker 8: stunning resume. The NHL has a Game six on Monday

1120
01:04:51,840 --> 01:04:54,360
Speaker 8: nights Vegas at Dallas in the West Final.

1121
01:04:54,440 --> 01:04:56,680
Speaker 7: A Game seven would be Wednesday night at Vegas.

1122
01:04:56,920 --> 01:04:59,720
Speaker 8: The Stars extended the series last night, so the Stanley

1123
01:04:59,720 --> 01:05:01,880
Speaker 8: Cup Final will not start until.

1124
01:05:01,560 --> 01:05:04,520
Speaker 7: Saturday, with Florida on the road for sure.

1125
01:05:05,040 --> 01:05:07,800
Speaker 8: As for baseball, tonight, Atlanta scored seven runs in the

1126
01:05:07,800 --> 01:05:10,720
Speaker 8: first inning. It's now Braves ten to four over the Phillies.

1127
01:05:10,800 --> 01:05:14,480
Speaker 8: In the bottom of the seventh earlier at Coursefield, Colorado,

1128
01:05:14,560 --> 01:05:17,080
Speaker 8: eleven to ten over the Mets, New York Mets with

1129
01:05:17,120 --> 01:05:21,000
Speaker 8: that payroll, twenty seven and twenty seven at Yankee Stadium,

1130
01:05:21,040 --> 01:05:23,400
Speaker 8: New York, ten to seven over the Padres, and you

1131
01:05:23,520 --> 01:05:27,000
Speaker 8: Darvish Padres with that payroll, twenty four and twenty nine

1132
01:05:27,560 --> 01:05:31,080
Speaker 8: Rays in a slug fest, eleven ten over the Dodgers.

1133
01:05:31,680 --> 01:05:35,040
Speaker 8: And yes, the Oakland A's lost again. Ten and forty

1134
01:05:35,040 --> 01:05:39,560
Speaker 8: five record as have lost what is that eleven.

1135
01:05:39,240 --> 01:05:39,680
Speaker 7: In a row?

1136
01:05:39,720 --> 01:05:41,760
Speaker 8: It took a long time to count, but the final

1137
01:05:41,840 --> 01:05:44,840
Speaker 8: was Houston ten to one at Oakland. And they're not

1138
01:05:44,960 --> 01:05:47,920
Speaker 8: just losing, they're getting killed in a lot of these games.

1139
01:05:48,200 --> 01:05:51,560
Speaker 8: The run differential for Oakland already this season, we're not

1140
01:05:51,680 --> 01:05:56,120
Speaker 8: done with May. It's minus two hundred nearly. It's over

1141
01:05:56,280 --> 01:05:59,680
Speaker 8: one hundred runs worse than the second worst team.

1142
01:05:59,480 --> 01:06:01,840
Speaker 7: The Royal, in run differential.

1143
01:06:02,480 --> 01:06:05,320
Speaker 8: The A's during the eleven game losing streak, they've been

1144
01:06:05,360 --> 01:06:09,200
Speaker 8: outscored fifty nine to nineteen. I would say, hey, it's early,

1145
01:06:09,440 --> 01:06:12,920
Speaker 8: you can make it up. You can beat the Miami heat. No,

1146
01:06:13,080 --> 01:06:15,600
Speaker 8: I can't say that in good conscious. I just cannot

1147
01:06:15,640 --> 01:06:19,840
Speaker 8: say that. Although if Miami pulls off this victory tomorrow.

1148
01:06:20,800 --> 01:06:23,960
Speaker 8: This is a team that got outscored in the regular season.

1149
01:06:24,240 --> 01:06:27,600
Speaker 8: Their point differential was minus twenty six. They earned the

1150
01:06:27,640 --> 01:06:30,520
Speaker 8: eighth seed. If they can make the finals, they'd be

1151
01:06:30,560 --> 01:06:33,080
Speaker 8: the first team since nineteen fifty nine to be in

1152
01:06:33,120 --> 01:06:36,680
Speaker 8: the NBA Finals after being outscored in the regular season.

1153
01:06:36,760 --> 01:06:39,880
Speaker 3: Thank you, poor Kansas City Royals.

1154
01:06:39,920 --> 01:06:41,880
Speaker 2: They're doing a great job at taking for the first

1155
01:06:41,880 --> 01:06:43,919
Speaker 2: pick and the A's are screwing everything up.

1156
01:06:44,360 --> 01:06:47,240
Speaker 3: It's incredible. Sixteen and thirty eight.

1157
01:06:47,360 --> 01:06:51,960
Speaker 2: That is a legitimate awful record, and the Royals are

1158
01:06:52,000 --> 01:06:53,800
Speaker 2: what six and a half.

1159
01:06:53,640 --> 01:06:56,440
Speaker 3: Games clear of the A's. The Royals only had in

1160
01:06:56,640 --> 01:06:57,440
Speaker 3: forty five.

1161
01:06:58,000 --> 01:07:01,960
Speaker 8: The Royals had seven home wins today, but the A's

1162
01:07:01,960 --> 01:07:03,760
Speaker 8: are five and twenty three.

1163
01:07:03,600 --> 01:07:04,400
Speaker 7: At home this year.

1164
01:07:05,600 --> 01:07:06,400
Speaker 3: Unbelievable.

1165
01:07:07,560 --> 01:07:10,920
Speaker 2: Steve mentions the run differential more than one hundred runs

1166
01:07:10,960 --> 01:07:14,200
Speaker 2: worse than the next team. Also, just look at the

1167
01:07:14,280 --> 01:07:18,160
Speaker 2: number of runs given up. Forget forget how many they've scored.

1168
01:07:18,920 --> 01:07:22,040
Speaker 2: The A's have given up three hundred and eighty eight

1169
01:07:22,440 --> 01:07:26,520
Speaker 2: runs this year. The next worst team in baseball is

1170
01:07:26,600 --> 01:07:30,080
Speaker 2: the Rockies. Will remind you that they play in Denver,

1171
01:07:30,560 --> 01:07:34,720
Speaker 2: a mile above sea level, and they have given up

1172
01:07:34,880 --> 01:07:39,880
Speaker 2: eighty nine fewer runs than the mark.

1173
01:07:39,960 --> 01:07:43,600
Speaker 8: The team era for the A's, the team era is

1174
01:07:43,800 --> 01:07:48,680
Speaker 8: six point eight. One team era for like the Pirates

1175
01:07:48,760 --> 01:07:49,520
Speaker 8: is three point eight.

1176
01:07:49,600 --> 01:07:50,560
Speaker 3: Wow. Yeah.

1177
01:07:50,640 --> 01:07:53,280
Speaker 2: So if you if you play fantasy baseball, just just

1178
01:07:53,560 --> 01:07:55,120
Speaker 2: start whoever's playing the A's.

1179
01:07:55,320 --> 01:07:58,560
Speaker 3: That's that's the rule. It's stunning. It's stunning.

1180
01:07:58,640 --> 01:08:00,760
Speaker 2: And what I hate my just about it is I

1181
01:08:00,760 --> 01:08:03,200
Speaker 2: think John Fisher, the owner of the A's, has got

1182
01:08:03,200 --> 01:08:06,000
Speaker 2: his feet up on an automan and a cigar and laughing.

1183
01:08:06,320 --> 01:08:11,760
Speaker 2: This is going exactly according to plan. It's absolutely perfect

1184
01:08:11,760 --> 01:08:15,960
Speaker 2: for him. So tough stuff, man, tough stuff with the age.

1185
01:08:15,960 --> 01:08:17,640
Speaker 2: All right, we got some NFL stuff to get to

1186
01:08:17,760 --> 01:08:20,400
Speaker 2: for sure, But just to put a bowl on on

1187
01:08:20,439 --> 01:08:23,839
Speaker 2: what we were talking about, I still think it's largely

1188
01:08:24,000 --> 01:08:28,400
Speaker 2: fantasy land. But if you're telling me that that, if

1189
01:08:28,479 --> 01:08:31,559
Speaker 2: Lebron says, look, this isn't gonna work out, you need

1190
01:08:31,560 --> 01:08:34,000
Speaker 2: to get me out of here. I'm a billionaire. So

1191
01:08:34,240 --> 01:08:37,479
Speaker 2: that private plane flight from San Francisco to La is

1192
01:08:37,520 --> 01:08:43,000
Speaker 2: forty five minutes. We're fine, and they concoct a not

1193
01:08:43,080 --> 01:08:46,840
Speaker 2: gonna happens, Oh, Wiggins and Pool offer. You're telling me

1194
01:08:46,960 --> 01:08:50,720
Speaker 2: that the Lakers, what's going to happen. Yes, hey, I'm

1195
01:08:50,800 --> 01:08:51,640
Speaker 2: not wishing for it.

1196
01:08:51,720 --> 01:08:55,040
Speaker 3: Brother. I think that's how way robbery sounds like. Highway

1197
01:08:55,200 --> 01:08:56,120
Speaker 3: robbery sounds like.

1198
01:08:57,640 --> 01:09:01,839
Speaker 2: The Lakers would be getting two guys easily into their twenties.

1199
01:09:01,920 --> 01:09:05,160
Speaker 3: One of them's twenty three for one year of Lebron

1200
01:09:05,720 --> 01:09:08,679
Speaker 3: one year, he's about to be thirty nine.

1201
01:09:08,920 --> 01:09:12,639
Speaker 4: He's the equivalent of a basketball crackhead too. So let's

1202
01:09:12,720 --> 01:09:17,760
Speaker 4: not well you're talking about how you're talking about Jordan Poole.

1203
01:09:17,920 --> 01:09:22,720
Speaker 3: No, not Lebron. You call him a basketball crackhead.

1204
01:09:23,840 --> 01:09:26,479
Speaker 4: Hey, man, you don't never know what a crackhead is

1205
01:09:26,479 --> 01:09:26,800
Speaker 4: gonna do.

1206
01:09:27,160 --> 01:09:29,840
Speaker 3: Okay, he does fall down here.

1207
01:09:29,880 --> 01:09:33,000
Speaker 4: You don't ever know what Jordan Boo's gonna do in

1208
01:09:33,040 --> 01:09:35,679
Speaker 4: the basketball court. No, No, I'm not taking way about talent.

1209
01:09:35,800 --> 01:09:38,680
Speaker 4: He's talented. No, but we don't know, man, that thing

1210
01:09:38,760 --> 01:09:41,920
Speaker 4: will show up or not show up or who He's

1211
01:09:42,000 --> 01:09:44,400
Speaker 4: like one of those video games the second he drives.

1212
01:09:44,479 --> 01:09:47,080
Speaker 4: They should have this little thing on TV where it stops.

1213
01:09:47,160 --> 01:09:51,040
Speaker 4: It just freeze frames and then here comes a multiple choice. Okay,

1214
01:09:51,520 --> 01:09:54,200
Speaker 4: basketball fan, what do you think is gonna happen next?

1215
01:09:54,560 --> 01:09:58,679
Speaker 2: That's pretty funny. Is Jordan going to fall on his face.

1216
01:09:59,439 --> 01:10:03,639
Speaker 2: Is Jordan going to reverse layup and score? Is Jordan

1217
01:10:03,720 --> 01:10:07,519
Speaker 2: going to see end up in the stands for any reason?

1218
01:10:08,200 --> 01:10:13,400
Speaker 2: Or Jordan d all of the above? All of the

1219
01:10:13,520 --> 01:10:19,080
Speaker 2: above is usually the right answer. Sure, guy, my guy,

1220
01:10:19,400 --> 01:10:22,479
Speaker 2: Come on, man, I think they're trading him. I don't

1221
01:10:22,520 --> 01:10:24,760
Speaker 2: know where. I don't think he's gonna be on the

1222
01:10:24,800 --> 01:10:25,920
Speaker 2: Warriors when they get back.

1223
01:10:27,160 --> 01:10:30,679
Speaker 3: I agree with that. Yeah, I don't think so. I don't.

1224
01:10:30,720 --> 01:10:32,240
Speaker 2: I don't think they have a I don't think they

1225
01:10:32,320 --> 01:10:34,840
Speaker 2: feel like they have a whole lot of choice. I think,

1226
01:10:34,840 --> 01:10:37,000
Speaker 2: if you're a Warrior fan, I'm hoping for it.

1227
01:10:37,080 --> 01:10:38,920
Speaker 3: I don't think the team can heal with him there.

1228
01:10:39,880 --> 01:10:43,240
Speaker 2: I do not think that they can function at the

1229
01:10:43,680 --> 01:10:47,479
Speaker 2: highest of levels for sure. And I also think that

1230
01:10:47,880 --> 01:10:52,519
Speaker 2: if they would like their luxury tax penalty to come down,

1231
01:10:52,600 --> 01:10:54,000
Speaker 2: the only way to do it is to get his

1232
01:10:54,120 --> 01:10:59,160
Speaker 2: salary off of the roster. Three and seventy five million

1233
01:10:59,200 --> 01:11:01,519
Speaker 2: this year, with Jordan making four million next year, he

1234
01:11:01,560 --> 01:11:04,760
Speaker 2: makes twenty eight You know what the luxury tax is

1235
01:11:04,880 --> 01:11:08,280
Speaker 2: on that, that little twenty four million dollar hike. You're

1236
01:11:08,320 --> 01:11:12,360
Speaker 2: talking about close to one hundred million dollars ouch just

1237
01:11:12,400 --> 01:11:15,040
Speaker 2: for him. Maybe, so if you're if you're a Warrior fan,

1238
01:11:15,160 --> 01:11:16,960
Speaker 2: what you're hoping for with that trade is that you

1239
01:11:17,080 --> 01:11:22,000
Speaker 2: get something back, because like they might just dump.

1240
01:11:21,840 --> 01:11:25,960
Speaker 4: Him, you'll get some peace of mind back. How about that?

1241
01:11:26,280 --> 01:11:27,479
Speaker 3: There you go, There you go.

1242
01:11:29,600 --> 01:11:31,880
Speaker 4: Can't put a price a piece of mind.

1243
01:11:32,680 --> 01:11:34,360
Speaker 3: I don't think it would feel that way.

1244
01:11:35,080 --> 01:11:39,760
Speaker 2: Speaking of speaking of people who have been dumped by

1245
01:11:39,800 --> 01:11:42,320
Speaker 2: the Bay Area, California. We need to get to this

1246
01:11:42,439 --> 01:11:45,080
Speaker 2: Garoppolo story. My goodness, we need to get to this

1247
01:11:45,240 --> 01:11:49,000
Speaker 2: Garoppolo story. But also coming up next, we have some

1248
01:11:49,160 --> 01:11:52,080
Speaker 2: audio to play for you that if you have not

1249
01:11:52,240 --> 01:11:55,599
Speaker 2: seen it yet, we will hold your hand and walk

1250
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Speaker 2: you through what happened, in my opinion, the crazy est

1251
01:12:00,640 --> 01:12:04,599
Speaker 2: end to a sporting event that I have ever seen

1252
01:12:05,439 --> 01:12:10,080
Speaker 2: in my entire life. We will do that coming up next.

1253
01:12:10,640 --> 01:12:12,640
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1254
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Speaker 2: the tyrack. Dot Com studios did you see this?

1261
01:12:31,080 --> 01:12:35,280
Speaker 3: Did you hear this? Hornell versus pel Mack. Did you

1262
01:12:35,400 --> 01:12:39,840
Speaker 3: see this? This high school championship sectional game in New York?

1263
01:12:41,120 --> 01:12:41,680
Speaker 3: Did you see it?

1264
01:12:42,160 --> 01:12:42,200
Speaker 5: No?

1265
01:12:44,520 --> 01:12:47,720
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm gonna do everything I can to make this

1266
01:12:47,960 --> 01:12:52,880
Speaker 3: work on radio. I'll let you know that.

1267
01:12:53,400 --> 01:12:56,719
Speaker 2: Here's the scene. There are runners at second and third.

1268
01:12:58,439 --> 01:13:02,880
Speaker 2: The Hornell is the defensive team. They're up by a run.

1269
01:13:03,160 --> 01:13:07,320
Speaker 2: There are two outs, runners at second and third. Two outs.

1270
01:13:07,880 --> 01:13:11,200
Speaker 2: They are up five to four for a chance to

1271
01:13:11,360 --> 01:13:16,559
Speaker 2: win the sectional championship against two strikes on the batter.

1272
01:13:16,680 --> 01:13:21,680
Speaker 2: They're against a school called Palmack. Okay, two strikes on

1273
01:13:21,800 --> 01:13:28,320
Speaker 2: the batter. Okay, just keep in mind that in the

1274
01:13:28,479 --> 01:13:33,400
Speaker 2: cold third strike, the catcher has the ball pop out

1275
01:13:33,439 --> 01:13:37,320
Speaker 2: of his glove for just a moment and bounces on

1276
01:13:37,400 --> 01:13:40,719
Speaker 2: the ground and he picks it right back up. Go ahead, guys,

1277
01:13:40,920 --> 01:13:42,679
Speaker 2: play it two.

1278
01:13:42,640 --> 01:13:43,439
Speaker 4: And two, two on.

1279
01:13:44,960 --> 01:13:57,840
Speaker 5: Strike three, and he's out. Horn Out wins it. Oh

1280
01:13:57,840 --> 01:14:03,920
Speaker 5: wait a minute's got to pay attention. I'm not sure

1281
01:14:03,960 --> 01:14:10,559
Speaker 5: what's going on here. So is this the way it's

1282
01:14:10,560 --> 01:14:27,479
Speaker 5: gonna end? Wow, hell Ma's gonna win it. So they're

1283
01:14:27,479 --> 01:14:29,519
Speaker 5: gonna send everyone back here. I'm not sure what they're

1284
01:14:29,560 --> 01:14:34,679
Speaker 5: doing to talk about it. Maybe not. They're getting a victory.

1285
01:14:35,680 --> 01:14:36,920
Speaker 4: Wow, this has gotta be.

1286
01:14:39,400 --> 01:14:40,200
Speaker 1: The most desire.

1287
01:14:41,400 --> 01:14:43,360
Speaker 5: We're was gonna lose the championship because of that.

1288
01:14:46,160 --> 01:14:46,439
Speaker 3: Wow.

1289
01:14:47,520 --> 01:14:49,160
Speaker 2: I don't want to I don't want to laugh at

1290
01:14:49,200 --> 01:14:51,320
Speaker 2: their their just it's a brutal fitness.

1291
01:14:51,360 --> 01:14:57,439
Speaker 3: But the play is absolutely unbelievable. He's like, is this

1292
01:14:57,520 --> 01:14:59,439
Speaker 3: how it's gonna end? And he's like, wow.

1293
01:15:01,479 --> 01:15:03,360
Speaker 4: So as the walls.

1294
01:15:04,680 --> 01:15:09,840
Speaker 2: Right, you asked it, yes, So the catcher has the

1295
01:15:09,960 --> 01:15:13,000
Speaker 2: ball hit the ground, but in his excitement, you gotta

1296
01:15:13,080 --> 01:15:13,920
Speaker 2: tag the runner.

1297
01:15:14,439 --> 01:15:17,320
Speaker 3: You never tag the runner. So the celebration is on.

1298
01:15:18,240 --> 01:15:21,240
Speaker 2: About eighty five percent of the team heads to a

1299
01:15:21,400 --> 01:15:25,320
Speaker 2: dog pile on the mound. The second Basement is losing

1300
01:15:25,439 --> 01:15:30,080
Speaker 2: his mind because he saw the whole thing. Now confusion

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01:15:30,120 --> 01:15:32,320
Speaker 2: as to whether or not, and this often happens. The

1302
01:15:32,479 --> 01:15:38,040
Speaker 2: umpire signals strike three because it was and then you

1303
01:15:38,280 --> 01:15:41,280
Speaker 2: change to the safe sign when the ball hits the ground.

1304
01:15:41,760 --> 01:15:44,960
Speaker 2: Never tags the runner. Here comes the runner from third,

1305
01:15:45,360 --> 01:15:48,880
Speaker 2: Here comes the runner from second. Meantime, the catcher's got

1306
01:15:48,960 --> 01:15:51,719
Speaker 2: the ball at the bottom of a dog pile. Second

1307
01:15:51,800 --> 01:15:55,800
Speaker 2: Basement is losing it, trying to get everyone's attention way

1308
01:15:55,920 --> 01:16:01,880
Speaker 2: too late ballgame. You lose the sectional championship.

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01:16:03,560 --> 01:16:05,720
Speaker 3: Wow, that was.

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01:16:07,960 --> 01:16:11,720
Speaker 2: And that How did you even that kid? Oh dude,

1311
01:16:11,720 --> 01:16:15,960
Speaker 2: it's all over Twitter. It's everywhere today. It was everywhere today.

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01:16:16,520 --> 01:16:20,240
Speaker 2: And that kid is everything. He is this close to

1313
01:16:20,320 --> 01:16:22,920
Speaker 2: boom goes the dynamite Like that was one of my

1314
01:16:23,160 --> 01:16:26,960
Speaker 2: favorite like young kid broadcasting moments in a small town.

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Speaker 4: So let me give you something. Let me give you something. Friday, No, Thursday,

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01:16:36,040 --> 01:16:40,559
Speaker 4: Thursday playoffs, Little League. My team the Nationals. My son

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01:16:40,640 --> 01:16:43,479
Speaker 4: plays on the team. I'm an assistant coach. All right,

1318
01:16:44,160 --> 01:16:46,280
Speaker 4: I'm at work. I'm filling in on the eye couple

1319
01:16:46,680 --> 01:16:49,920
Speaker 4: from four to seven. Our game is that our game

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01:16:50,000 --> 01:16:53,360
Speaker 4: is at five fifteen, right, I'm watching the game because

1321
01:16:53,400 --> 01:16:54,759
Speaker 4: they broadcast the games.

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01:16:55,240 --> 01:16:56,360
Speaker 3: They stream this day.

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01:16:56,439 --> 01:17:00,639
Speaker 4: Yes, in the third inning, we're down ten nothing. Oh god,

1324
01:17:01,040 --> 01:17:03,360
Speaker 4: there's a mercy rule. We have one more at bat,

1325
01:17:03,640 --> 01:17:06,920
Speaker 4: one more up to get a point or the game

1326
01:17:07,000 --> 01:17:10,120
Speaker 4: is over. We scored three runs a point. Okay, we

1327
01:17:10,200 --> 01:17:13,840
Speaker 4: scored three runs. Okay, so now it's ten to three.

1328
01:17:14,720 --> 01:17:17,080
Speaker 4: So now we we can't let them score three runs

1329
01:17:17,160 --> 01:17:20,000
Speaker 4: or the game is over. Okay, we strike them out,

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01:17:20,560 --> 01:17:25,639
Speaker 4: all right, going to the next inning. Okay, we score

1331
01:17:25,800 --> 01:17:31,760
Speaker 4: seven runs. No, we score seven runs. It's ten to ten.

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01:17:32,800 --> 01:17:36,400
Speaker 4: They come up, they don't hit it. All right, we're

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01:17:36,439 --> 01:17:41,280
Speaker 4: going into extra innings. We're now in the fifth inning. Okay,

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01:17:41,439 --> 01:17:44,280
Speaker 4: it's ten to ten. We're up to bat. We scored

1335
01:17:44,400 --> 01:17:45,920
Speaker 4: twelve runs.

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01:17:46,880 --> 01:17:47,280
Speaker 3: Stop it.

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01:17:47,720 --> 01:17:50,160
Speaker 4: It's twenty two to ten.

1338
01:17:51,200 --> 01:17:54,320
Speaker 3: Cats. They came up and scored thirteen runs. Listen to me.

1339
01:17:55,200 --> 01:17:57,840
Speaker 4: We burned our pictures. The reason we scored so much

1340
01:17:57,880 --> 01:17:59,479
Speaker 4: is that ran out. They ran out of pictures too.

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01:18:00,040 --> 01:18:04,720
Speaker 4: They switched the picture four times in that inning. We

1342
01:18:05,040 --> 01:18:07,799
Speaker 4: ran out of pit where our picture? You only seventy

1343
01:18:07,840 --> 01:18:10,200
Speaker 4: seven pictures. After that, you gotta go sit down. So

1344
01:18:10,320 --> 01:18:13,599
Speaker 4: we burned two of our pictures. We had a game

1345
01:18:13,640 --> 01:18:16,639
Speaker 4: the day before, so our one of our aces, he's done.

1346
01:18:16,720 --> 01:18:21,680
Speaker 4: He can't play. The coach looks around and says, Elijah,

1347
01:18:23,280 --> 01:18:26,599
Speaker 4: I need you to be our emergency pitcher. My son,

1348
01:18:26,920 --> 01:18:32,000
Speaker 4: Elijah Salam, you gotta go out there and this beyond

1349
01:18:32,120 --> 01:18:36,840
Speaker 4: emotional game and get three strike, three outs so we

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01:18:36,920 --> 01:18:41,360
Speaker 4: can win this game. My son looks at me and says, Dad,

1351
01:18:41,439 --> 01:18:44,400
Speaker 4: I'm so nervous. I said, hey man, hey, I said,

1352
01:18:44,400 --> 01:18:48,160
Speaker 4: hey man, Now, my son's pitcher before he chicks before

1353
01:18:48,600 --> 01:18:49,120
Speaker 4: but he doesn't.

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01:18:49,120 --> 01:18:49,519
Speaker 3: He's not one.

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01:18:49,560 --> 01:18:53,639
Speaker 4: He doesn't practice pitching. He doesn't. He's just an emergency pitcher. Okay,

1356
01:18:53,760 --> 01:18:55,960
Speaker 4: I said, hey man, you got it, homie, just go

1357
01:18:56,120 --> 01:18:59,080
Speaker 4: do what you do. He goes out there, God bless

1358
01:18:59,240 --> 01:19:03,679
Speaker 4: this beautiful and you. First batter strikes him out. People

1359
01:19:03,760 --> 01:19:07,519
Speaker 4: going crazy. This is the longest game and at Sherman

1360
01:19:07,560 --> 01:19:11,120
Speaker 4: Oaks Little League history, it's going on three hours. The

1361
01:19:11,240 --> 01:19:14,679
Speaker 4: whole every other game is over, so everybody's watching our game.

1362
01:19:15,800 --> 01:19:19,280
Speaker 4: It's packed cheering. Strikes him out. He walks the next batter.

1363
01:19:20,720 --> 01:19:24,320
Speaker 4: Hey man, don't don't worry about that. Next batter comes up,

1364
01:19:24,880 --> 01:19:29,599
Speaker 4: four pitches, three strikes, Get out of there. Last batter,

1365
01:19:30,520 --> 01:19:33,519
Speaker 4: All right, this is the top of their lineup. This

1366
01:19:33,680 --> 01:19:39,559
Speaker 4: is not the botom. Oh yeah, my beautiful son. One strike,

1367
01:19:41,640 --> 01:19:46,479
Speaker 4: two strike, last pitch, he hit him with a change up.

1368
01:19:46,560 --> 01:19:49,360
Speaker 4: He's not throwing the heat. He dropped that thing over

1369
01:19:49,439 --> 01:19:53,439
Speaker 4: the plate. You're out of here. We went twenty two

1370
01:19:54,120 --> 01:19:58,600
Speaker 4: to ten. Are you kidding me? And you watched this

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01:19:58,840 --> 01:20:00,680
Speaker 4: on the stream, so I was there.

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Speaker 3: I got dam.

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Speaker 3: We'll see if the Celtics get there.

1378
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Speaker 2: But this NBA Finals, should they get there, should remind

1379
01:20:21,600 --> 01:20:25,400
Speaker 2: everybody in the NBA they've got it wrong. They absolutely

1380
01:20:25,560 --> 01:20:30,560
Speaker 2: have it wrong, and change should be on the horizon.

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Speaker 2: We will explain again what we're talking about there in

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01:20:34,040 --> 01:20:36,160
Speaker 2: a little bit, but we also got to get to.

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Speaker 2: tire buying should be. You know what I thought of

1389
01:20:56,760 --> 01:21:00,840
Speaker 2: when I saw DeAndre Hopkins get relief and then the

1390
01:21:00,920 --> 01:21:04,599
Speaker 2: story comes out that maybe it's Bills, maybe it's Chiefs

1391
01:21:05,160 --> 01:21:07,280
Speaker 2: and the top level teams are.

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01:21:07,280 --> 01:21:08,240
Speaker 3: Coming after him.

1393
01:21:08,760 --> 01:21:14,080
Speaker 2: However, that all fell apart because of Odell Beckham's contract.

1394
01:21:14,560 --> 01:21:18,240
Speaker 2: And here we go again last year and I'm blanking

1395
01:21:18,320 --> 01:21:20,679
Speaker 2: on the cat's name. Who was the receiver that got

1396
01:21:20,760 --> 01:21:24,280
Speaker 2: signed by the Jacksonville Jaguars and it blew up the

1397
01:21:24,320 --> 01:21:29,280
Speaker 2: whole receiver market? He was he was the former cardinal

1398
01:21:29,320 --> 01:21:32,200
Speaker 2: as well. I'll think of his name in a second.

1399
01:21:32,320 --> 01:21:37,599
Speaker 2: But whenever one bad contract is thank you Christian Kirk.

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01:21:38,320 --> 01:21:42,360
Speaker 2: Soon as Christian Kirk's deal got signed, all that's oh.

1401
01:21:42,520 --> 01:21:45,559
Speaker 2: Tyreek Hill gotta go, A J. Brown gotta go, Deebo.

1402
01:21:45,680 --> 01:21:48,040
Speaker 2: Samuel's upset. Dk Metcalf.

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01:21:48,120 --> 01:21:52,760
Speaker 3: He's upset because one contract got signed that was out

1404
01:21:52,840 --> 01:21:53,200
Speaker 3: of whack.

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01:21:53,280 --> 01:21:57,040
Speaker 2: And it's the same thing here with Odell Beckham that's

1406
01:21:57,120 --> 01:21:59,400
Speaker 2: now sending this whole market out of whack. It's the

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01:21:59,479 --> 01:22:03,240
Speaker 2: same thing with Deshaun Watson and quarterbacks. That's why Lamar

1408
01:22:03,400 --> 01:22:07,439
Speaker 2: Jackson it took so long, But I thought of your boy.

1409
01:22:08,439 --> 01:22:12,280
Speaker 2: I thought of Andre Johnson because you've told me enough

1410
01:22:12,360 --> 01:22:14,360
Speaker 2: about him, and I know you just ran into him

1411
01:22:14,360 --> 01:22:17,240
Speaker 2: again at the Final four not too long ago.

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01:22:18,120 --> 01:22:21,800
Speaker 3: Where have all the Andre Johnson's gone? And here's what

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01:22:21,960 --> 01:22:26,320
Speaker 3: I mean by that. As soon as we get a

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01:22:26,520 --> 01:22:27,479
Speaker 3: clear view.

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Speaker 2: From a receiver that they are essentially a diva, that is,

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01:22:35,800 --> 01:22:42,120
Speaker 2: you cheat like DeAndre Hopkins. Did you complained publicly about targets,

1417
01:22:43,479 --> 01:22:48,880
Speaker 2: even the little stuff like Tyreek Odell to a degree

1418
01:22:48,960 --> 01:22:53,479
Speaker 2: Stefan Diggs last year. As soon as I see that, man,

1419
01:22:54,960 --> 01:22:59,280
Speaker 2: I'm out. I'm out because it's been proven over and

1420
01:22:59,520 --> 01:23:01,760
Speaker 2: over and over again. While I think a team is

1421
01:23:01,880 --> 01:23:05,920
Speaker 2: much better with a great receiver, it's not needed. It's

1422
01:23:05,960 --> 01:23:11,960
Speaker 2: not a necessity. Tyreek Hill to the Dolphins refreshed my memory.

1423
01:23:11,960 --> 01:23:14,240
Speaker 2: Who won the Super Bowl last year? That would be

1424
01:23:14,320 --> 01:23:14,840
Speaker 2: Kansas City.

1425
01:23:15,640 --> 01:23:17,120
Speaker 3: I can't sit you, okay.

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01:23:17,840 --> 01:23:24,200
Speaker 2: So I don't understand the need to cowtow to the

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01:23:24,320 --> 01:23:29,800
Speaker 2: receivers that show themselves to be divas because you.

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01:23:29,920 --> 01:23:34,720
Speaker 3: Don't need them. You want them, but you don't need them.

1429
01:23:35,240 --> 01:23:38,720
Speaker 2: And so if there are receivers out there now, particularly

1430
01:23:38,840 --> 01:23:42,320
Speaker 2: ones coming off of being suspended for cheating, who are

1431
01:23:42,400 --> 01:23:46,640
Speaker 2: going to take advantage of Odell Beckham's contract and have

1432
01:23:46,920 --> 01:23:51,519
Speaker 2: that trickle all the way down to prevent them from

1433
01:23:51,640 --> 01:23:55,719
Speaker 2: joining your team, good riddance as far as I'm concerned.

1434
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Speaker 4: Well, I'll tell you this about receivers, Like, you don't

1435
01:24:00,160 --> 01:24:03,479
Speaker 4: need them until you don't have them. Ask New England,

1436
01:24:03,880 --> 01:24:12,200
Speaker 4: Ask Green Bay, ask Baltimore. Like it's easy to say

1437
01:24:12,760 --> 01:24:15,240
Speaker 4: you don't need them, but when you don't have them,

1438
01:24:16,000 --> 01:24:19,439
Speaker 4: like a real person who can get separation, someone who

1439
01:24:19,479 --> 01:24:29,040
Speaker 4: can constantly get open, then you understand that need. And

1440
01:24:30,240 --> 01:24:36,400
Speaker 4: there are very few who can consistently do that, and

1441
01:24:36,600 --> 01:24:40,840
Speaker 4: so when you have one, it makes life for your quarterback,

1442
01:24:40,880 --> 01:24:44,080
Speaker 4: who is the most important person on the offense. It

1443
01:24:44,200 --> 01:24:47,560
Speaker 4: makes it a little easier for him. That's why Baltimore

1444
01:24:48,160 --> 01:24:54,120
Speaker 4: has overloaded the receiver room now because they're valuable options

1445
01:24:54,880 --> 01:24:57,479
Speaker 4: for Lamar Jackson to now throw the ball down the

1446
01:24:57,560 --> 01:25:01,720
Speaker 4: field with this new throw first offense that they're implementing.

1447
01:25:02,880 --> 01:25:07,040
Speaker 4: If they didn't do that, they didn't draft the Zay Flowers,

1448
01:25:07,080 --> 01:25:10,200
Speaker 4: if they didn't get ob j the young kid who

1449
01:25:10,280 --> 01:25:11,000
Speaker 4: was there last year.

1450
01:25:11,240 --> 01:25:12,320
Speaker 3: Baits right.

1451
01:25:12,479 --> 01:25:16,400
Speaker 4: If if they had this new batement, if they had

1452
01:25:16,439 --> 01:25:22,080
Speaker 4: this new philosophy, without any of that, then they wouldn't

1453
01:25:22,120 --> 01:25:22,920
Speaker 4: make the playoffs.

1454
01:25:24,080 --> 01:25:26,080
Speaker 3: So you need that guy.

1455
01:25:26,160 --> 01:25:29,200
Speaker 4: Now. DeAndre Hopkins cheated, but he's still when he plays,

1456
01:25:30,720 --> 01:25:31,439
Speaker 4: he's unguardable.

1457
01:25:31,479 --> 01:25:34,880
Speaker 3: I understand he's fantastic. I'm not saying that, but I.

1458
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Speaker 4: Would bet more on him than Obij right now.

1459
01:25:38,400 --> 01:25:41,960
Speaker 2: But my point is, I mean Tom Brady conducted a

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Speaker 2: dynasty without a great receiver.

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Speaker 4: Tom Brady, listen to that, Listen to what you just said.

1462
01:25:47,800 --> 01:25:51,680
Speaker 4: Tom Brady. He is an outlier. He is not the

1463
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Speaker 4: no arm right. You cannot continue to use him as

1464
01:25:56,680 --> 01:25:59,920
Speaker 4: because he is the greatest. I was like Michael Tharton,

1465
01:26:00,040 --> 01:26:02,160
Speaker 4: Michael Jordan won to say, like, yeah, we get it,

1466
01:26:02,880 --> 01:26:04,080
Speaker 4: they are the outliers.

1467
01:26:04,760 --> 01:26:08,040
Speaker 3: So but then give it not the norm? Right? Well?

1468
01:26:08,520 --> 01:26:10,000
Speaker 3: Are they are? They not the norm?

1469
01:26:10,200 --> 01:26:12,719
Speaker 2: Is it not the norm that the great quarterback usually

1470
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Speaker 2: wins the Super Bowl? And tell me when the great

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Speaker 2: receiver was the centerpiece of winning a Super Bowl in

1472
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Speaker 2: the last twenty years.

1473
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Speaker 3: No, no, no, that's not the case.

1474
01:26:23,200 --> 01:26:25,840
Speaker 4: But even but even when Tom Brady the one year

1475
01:26:25,960 --> 01:26:29,000
Speaker 4: he had the greatest receiver in the NFL, he put

1476
01:26:29,080 --> 01:26:30,719
Speaker 4: up numbers no one had seen before.

1477
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Speaker 3: Right, but they didn't win the super Bowl.

1478
01:26:32,760 --> 01:26:34,840
Speaker 4: They did not win the Super Bowl. But it wasn't

1479
01:26:34,960 --> 01:26:40,439
Speaker 4: because it wasn't because of Brandy Moss. No, I understand

1480
01:26:40,479 --> 01:26:42,439
Speaker 4: that that wasn't the reason why they didn't win.

1481
01:26:43,120 --> 01:26:46,680
Speaker 2: I'm not here advocating for like not having wide receivers

1482
01:26:46,720 --> 01:26:47,320
Speaker 2: on your team.

1483
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Speaker 3: I just think the leverage is out of whack right now,

1484
01:26:50,640 --> 01:26:53,000
Speaker 3: the leverages out of winning. Yes, the leverage is out

1485
01:26:53,040 --> 01:26:53,400
Speaker 3: of whack.

1486
01:26:54,600 --> 01:26:59,200
Speaker 2: When Tyreek Hill is doing thirty a year, Odell with

1487
01:26:59,360 --> 01:27:02,120
Speaker 2: all of the injuries and issues, is getting fifteen a year,

1488
01:27:02,320 --> 01:27:04,080
Speaker 2: Christian Kirk eighteen.

1489
01:27:03,760 --> 01:27:09,160
Speaker 4: A year, that's crazy. That is ridiculous. It's unbelievable. And man,

1490
01:27:09,240 --> 01:27:12,400
Speaker 4: and you get with the market bears and that's phenomenal.

1491
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Speaker 2: Good for them. I'm not trying to take anybody else's money.

1492
01:27:15,640 --> 01:27:17,320
Speaker 2: I'm just telling you what I would do if I

1493
01:27:17,439 --> 01:27:19,800
Speaker 2: was running a team. That's not where I'm putting that dough.

1494
01:27:20,240 --> 01:27:22,960
Speaker 4: If you had just where I like, if Buffalo has

1495
01:27:23,000 --> 01:27:28,320
Speaker 4: a receiver, right, Stefan Diggs, they have that, Yep, So yeah,

1496
01:27:28,479 --> 01:27:32,360
Speaker 4: I wouldn't put the money there because they had. Like

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01:27:32,600 --> 01:27:39,360
Speaker 4: I if I'm Detroit though, right, if I'm Detroit, I'm like,

1498
01:27:41,280 --> 01:27:44,160
Speaker 4: I think I put some money out there building on

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Speaker 4: what we have.

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Speaker 3: I don't know, but this is Detroit. Detroit. They've already

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01:27:50,960 --> 01:27:52,240
Speaker 3: got Saint Brown.

1502
01:27:53,000 --> 01:27:55,559
Speaker 2: I know that Williams the kid is now in trouble

1503
01:27:55,640 --> 01:27:58,920
Speaker 2: with the gambling situation, but put a bunch of draft

1504
01:27:58,960 --> 01:27:59,800
Speaker 2: stock into him.

1505
01:28:01,520 --> 01:28:05,320
Speaker 4: You can't use him if you want to take teams

1506
01:28:05,400 --> 01:28:12,879
Speaker 4: like Detroit. When you are on the CUSP. Everybody's expecting Detroit,

1507
01:28:13,080 --> 01:28:16,879
Speaker 4: especially since Aaron Rodgers is out of that division. Everyone

1508
01:28:17,040 --> 01:28:20,360
Speaker 4: is expecting Detroit to take a huge step forward. So

1509
01:28:20,520 --> 01:28:22,960
Speaker 4: if I'm a GM and if I'm a coach, I'm

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01:28:23,080 --> 01:28:26,280
Speaker 4: going to give ourselves a chance, and I'm going to

1511
01:28:26,360 --> 01:28:31,080
Speaker 4: do everything we can to take that step. They already

1512
01:28:31,200 --> 01:28:35,479
Speaker 4: had a prolific offense. If you add a bona fide,

1513
01:28:36,760 --> 01:28:43,040
Speaker 4: knockdown Hall of Fame receiver, who still can go? I mean,

1514
01:28:43,320 --> 01:28:46,599
Speaker 4: Jared Golf is like, please yes, please yes, and please yes.

1515
01:28:47,280 --> 01:28:50,920
Speaker 2: No. Of course he is. Of course he is by

1516
01:28:50,960 --> 01:28:53,080
Speaker 2: the same token. I'm sitting here looking at the last

1517
01:28:53,520 --> 01:28:55,600
Speaker 2: twenty Super Bowl champions and.

1518
01:28:56,080 --> 01:28:58,120
Speaker 4: If we're not talking about a team winning the super Bowl,

1519
01:28:58,439 --> 01:29:04,000
Speaker 4: we're talking about a team like De Troit making the playoffs. Okay, Okay, right,

1520
01:29:04,120 --> 01:29:05,960
Speaker 4: That's that's where I am with it. I'm not saying

1521
01:29:06,040 --> 01:29:08,240
Speaker 4: him going somewhere is going to be the difference between

1522
01:29:08,280 --> 01:29:12,560
Speaker 4: the Super Bowl. Hey man, if he gets to Washington,

1523
01:29:13,800 --> 01:29:17,000
Speaker 4: if he gets to Detroit, if he gets to these

1524
01:29:17,160 --> 01:29:23,080
Speaker 4: places where you know the Saints, now there's a different

1525
01:29:23,160 --> 01:29:25,280
Speaker 4: conversation to be at hut Well, he can't go back

1526
01:29:25,320 --> 01:29:27,040
Speaker 4: to Houston. I would love for him to go back

1527
01:29:27,080 --> 01:29:29,320
Speaker 4: to Houston. That would be amazing for him to go

1528
01:29:29,479 --> 01:29:34,040
Speaker 4: back to Houston. How great would that be? Miko would

1529
01:29:34,080 --> 01:29:34,400
Speaker 4: love that.

1530
01:29:35,080 --> 01:29:37,599
Speaker 3: Yes, it would right, It would write a crazy wrong

1531
01:29:40,680 --> 01:29:44,120
Speaker 3: Billy J. Stroud would would love it, right.

1532
01:29:44,120 --> 01:29:46,599
Speaker 4: So that's how I'm I'm not thinking about him being

1533
01:29:46,640 --> 01:29:50,439
Speaker 4: the difference maker in Buffalo or well, I mean.

1534
01:29:50,920 --> 01:29:53,360
Speaker 2: The only reason I'm talking about out because that's what

1535
01:29:53,479 --> 01:29:55,439
Speaker 2: we got, Like those were the two teams that were

1536
01:29:55,479 --> 01:29:58,479
Speaker 2: closest to getting him, which is eyebrow raising to me.

1537
01:29:58,600 --> 01:30:01,760
Speaker 2: I understand that the Chiefs are probably feeling like even

1538
01:30:01,840 --> 01:30:04,800
Speaker 2: though they want it, you know, they I'm sure they

1539
01:30:04,920 --> 01:30:07,800
Speaker 2: missed having Tyreek Hill. I'm sure they would love life.

1540
01:30:07,800 --> 01:30:10,880
Speaker 2: It's easy to have a true yeah, of course, my gosh,

1541
01:30:10,960 --> 01:30:13,880
Speaker 2: we're already the champs. Let's add a one Buffalo. I

1542
01:30:13,920 --> 01:30:16,240
Speaker 2: don't know how they're feeling about the way things ended

1543
01:30:16,640 --> 01:30:19,599
Speaker 2: with Stefan Diggs. They're also feeling like, man, we're good,

1544
01:30:19,680 --> 01:30:22,760
Speaker 2: but we can't get to the end. So maybe they've

1545
01:30:22,840 --> 01:30:25,840
Speaker 2: got a conversation to have. I just when I'm one

1546
01:30:25,880 --> 01:30:29,560
Speaker 2: of those teams, that's not where I would put my

1547
01:30:29,760 --> 01:30:33,120
Speaker 2: last resource because there just has not been enough of

1548
01:30:33,200 --> 01:30:36,000
Speaker 2: a correlation between that kind of a move and.

1549
01:30:36,479 --> 01:30:37,120
Speaker 3: Winning a ring.

1550
01:30:37,840 --> 01:30:39,960
Speaker 4: I get that, but it's also about if that's the

1551
01:30:40,080 --> 01:30:45,360
Speaker 4: last piece you feel you need, if that's whether if

1552
01:30:45,439 --> 01:30:47,720
Speaker 4: that's the last piece you feel you need then I

1553
01:30:47,800 --> 01:30:50,840
Speaker 4: can understand it because we're talking about teams that are

1554
01:30:50,880 --> 01:30:54,600
Speaker 4: on the CUSP, teams that are right there ready to

1555
01:30:54,680 --> 01:30:59,599
Speaker 4: take the next step. They're already losing heartbreaking playoff games.

1556
01:30:59,640 --> 01:31:02,599
Speaker 4: That type of thing. I get it. You just human

1557
01:31:02,720 --> 01:31:06,400
Speaker 4: nature itself is like, let's do it. We need it,

1558
01:31:06,520 --> 01:31:07,000
Speaker 4: Let's do it.

1559
01:31:08,400 --> 01:31:10,120
Speaker 3: I hear you. I hear you.

1560
01:31:10,400 --> 01:31:12,840
Speaker 2: It's just it's hard for me when I when I

1561
01:31:12,960 --> 01:31:16,360
Speaker 2: look at it and I go, Okay, Juju Smith Schuster

1562
01:31:17,200 --> 01:31:22,240
Speaker 2: and uh Marquez Valdez Scantling were on the team that

1563
01:31:22,560 --> 01:31:27,400
Speaker 2: took care of Diggs and Gabe Davis and Jamar Chase

1564
01:31:27,840 --> 01:31:29,439
Speaker 2: and t Higgins.

1565
01:31:29,000 --> 01:31:35,720
Speaker 3: And you know what because of the outlier. Yeah, not

1566
01:31:35,880 --> 01:31:39,800
Speaker 3: everybody the best quarterback in football, No, but those two

1567
01:31:39,920 --> 01:31:41,880
Speaker 3: teams have the two closest guys.

1568
01:31:41,920 --> 01:31:46,519
Speaker 4: Like I said, the outlier is not the rule, it's

1569
01:31:46,560 --> 01:31:50,640
Speaker 4: the exception to the rule. Patrick Mahomes is in a

1570
01:31:50,720 --> 01:31:55,720
Speaker 4: class by himself. So yeah, I would expect someone in

1571
01:31:55,800 --> 01:31:59,640
Speaker 4: their own class to pull something off like that. But

1572
01:31:59,800 --> 01:32:01,800
Speaker 4: to think the rest of the league and the rest

1573
01:32:01,840 --> 01:32:04,400
Speaker 4: of the guys to be able to do that, that's

1574
01:32:04,680 --> 01:32:07,360
Speaker 4: pretty tough. I don't think any other quarterback in the

1575
01:32:07,439 --> 01:32:10,320
Speaker 4: National Football League could have done what Tom Brady did

1576
01:32:10,600 --> 01:32:12,519
Speaker 4: with his receiving corps outside of it.

1577
01:32:12,680 --> 01:32:13,480
Speaker 3: Probably.

1578
01:32:15,320 --> 01:32:19,320
Speaker 4: Yeah, probably, I mean with Randy Moss right, Like, I

1579
01:32:19,360 --> 01:32:22,320
Speaker 4: don't think any of the quarterback and that includes Peyton

1580
01:32:22,400 --> 01:32:25,600
Speaker 4: Manning and and and Drew Brees.

1581
01:32:25,520 --> 01:32:26,280
Speaker 3: And all of them.

1582
01:32:27,560 --> 01:32:29,360
Speaker 4: I don't think anybody would have been able to do that.

1583
01:32:30,640 --> 01:32:34,960
Speaker 4: So we can't hold that as the standard because that's

1584
01:32:34,960 --> 01:32:37,760
Speaker 4: an impossible standard to live up to.

1585
01:32:38,800 --> 01:32:41,559
Speaker 2: Yeah, then again, there are all the ones that were

1586
01:32:41,680 --> 01:32:43,360
Speaker 2: just visitors to the party as well.

1587
01:32:43,880 --> 01:32:47,080
Speaker 3: You know, Nick Foles won a Super Bowl and who

1588
01:32:47,200 --> 01:32:51,040
Speaker 3: is his best receiver? Nick Foles? Baby, you know what

1589
01:32:51,080 --> 01:32:51,360
Speaker 3: I mean?

1590
01:32:52,439 --> 01:32:58,479
Speaker 2: Like Russell Wilson won a Super Bowl and were there

1591
01:32:58,640 --> 01:33:03,439
Speaker 2: superstar receivers? Eli Manning won his Super Bowls? Right like

1592
01:33:03,840 --> 01:33:10,400
Speaker 2: superstar receivers? Sure, okay, plaques like what have you? Roethlisberger,

1593
01:33:10,720 --> 01:33:14,240
Speaker 2: who were his receivers? You know they're good ones, they

1594
01:33:14,240 --> 01:33:18,120
Speaker 2: had good ones, but diva number ones.

1595
01:33:20,240 --> 01:33:22,639
Speaker 3: Not much, not much.

1596
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Speaker 2: Mark with it E from Salaam Fox Sports Radio. See

1605
01:33:53,240 --> 01:33:57,280
Speaker 2: I've already learned this ephrom because I live in San Francisco, California.

1606
01:33:58,280 --> 01:34:03,000
Speaker 2: I've learned just when you think you're done talking about

1607
01:34:03,120 --> 01:34:09,479
Speaker 2: Jimmy Garoppolo, no no, no, no, no, no no no no.

1608
01:34:11,040 --> 01:34:14,639
Speaker 2: To Ken Mutumbo shows up as soon as you think

1609
01:34:14,720 --> 01:34:19,120
Speaker 2: you're done with the Garoppolo story, and he says, no, no, no,

1610
01:34:20,520 --> 01:34:25,400
Speaker 2: You're not done yet. You're not done yet. So you're

1611
01:34:25,479 --> 01:34:29,200
Speaker 2: just talking about Tom Brady a minute ago. Are you

1612
01:34:29,400 --> 01:34:30,120
Speaker 2: sure he's done?

1613
01:34:32,479 --> 01:34:32,519
Speaker 4: Like?

1614
01:34:33,920 --> 01:34:34,400
Speaker 3: How sure?

1615
01:34:36,479 --> 01:34:39,639
Speaker 4: I guess I'm not really sure. I don't know until

1616
01:34:39,880 --> 01:34:43,080
Speaker 4: you know who knows these days.

1617
01:34:44,840 --> 01:34:45,519
Speaker 3: This guy.

1618
01:34:46,880 --> 01:34:51,000
Speaker 2: Held Garoppolo away from starting with the New England Patriots.

1619
01:34:51,040 --> 01:34:54,120
Speaker 2: It went all the way up to ownership and now

1620
01:34:54,240 --> 01:34:56,400
Speaker 2: he's finally got a new gig in Vegas.

1621
01:34:56,160 --> 01:34:59,160
Speaker 3: And Tom went and bought the team.

1622
01:35:02,080 --> 01:35:03,160
Speaker 8: Now, now.

1623
01:35:05,040 --> 01:35:08,640
Speaker 2: We have a few rungs on the conspiracy ladder here

1624
01:35:08,680 --> 01:35:10,639
Speaker 2: that we're going to have to climb before Tom Brady

1625
01:35:10,720 --> 01:35:12,240
Speaker 2: is suiting up for the Raiders this year.

1626
01:35:13,200 --> 01:35:16,639
Speaker 3: But this situation is wild.

1627
01:35:18,000 --> 01:35:22,400
Speaker 2: Garoppolo's press conference, when it was originally scheduled, got delayed

1628
01:35:22,680 --> 01:35:25,840
Speaker 2: for a day. And here's another thing we've learned in

1629
01:35:25,880 --> 01:35:29,000
Speaker 2: San Francisco after the Carlos Corea situation with the Giants.

1630
01:35:29,040 --> 01:35:33,680
Speaker 2: When a press conference gets canceled, there's a reason. And

1631
01:35:33,880 --> 01:35:38,080
Speaker 2: so as it turns out, Garoppolo still needed foot surgery

1632
01:35:39,479 --> 01:35:43,680
Speaker 2: and the signing bonus on his contract was turned into

1633
01:35:43,760 --> 01:35:44,479
Speaker 2: base salary.

1634
01:35:45,400 --> 01:35:47,479
Speaker 3: The Raiders will.

1635
01:35:47,479 --> 01:35:51,320
Speaker 2: Owe him nothing if something happens with his foot. That

1636
01:35:51,560 --> 01:35:54,000
Speaker 2: is the quickest way to say that. Jimmy has signed

1637
01:35:54,280 --> 01:35:58,760
Speaker 2: all of the addendums that essentially put the risk on

1638
01:35:59,120 --> 01:36:04,320
Speaker 2: him if anything happens with his foot, including damage that

1639
01:36:04,479 --> 01:36:06,959
Speaker 2: could be career threatening.

1640
01:36:07,840 --> 01:36:11,719
Speaker 3: So couple of things here first and foremost.

1641
01:36:12,000 --> 01:36:15,920
Speaker 2: You may remember back to the NFC title game last year,

1642
01:36:16,720 --> 01:36:19,760
Speaker 2: forty nine ers end up with no quarterbacks, couldn't throw

1643
01:36:19,840 --> 01:36:24,599
Speaker 2: the ball. Jimmy is on the sidelines, Cameras catch him

1644
01:36:24,640 --> 01:36:27,160
Speaker 2: smiling and people went nuts.

1645
01:36:27,760 --> 01:36:30,120
Speaker 3: You're not supposed to smile in that situation.

1646
01:36:29,840 --> 01:36:32,760
Speaker 2: And they thought maybe you'd be ready by now you

1647
01:36:32,840 --> 01:36:35,320
Speaker 2: should have suited up and been ready as an emergency.

1648
01:36:35,800 --> 01:36:37,840
Speaker 3: This was actually a discussion point.

1649
01:36:38,280 --> 01:36:40,639
Speaker 2: I wonder if maybe now we want to put that away,

1650
01:36:40,800 --> 01:36:45,040
Speaker 2: knowing that Jimmy was not even close to healthy, not

1651
01:36:45,240 --> 01:36:49,280
Speaker 2: even close. He's still not as we sit here today.

1652
01:36:50,080 --> 01:36:52,960
Speaker 2: So that's number one. But number two, I do wonder

1653
01:36:53,040 --> 01:36:55,040
Speaker 2: what you think in terms of where this is going.

1654
01:36:55,880 --> 01:37:00,599
Speaker 2: The Raiders didn't sign anybody else of any consequence. In fact,

1655
01:37:01,240 --> 01:37:04,479
Speaker 2: they even let Jared Stidham go, who had an interesting

1656
01:37:04,640 --> 01:37:07,479
Speaker 2: end of the year last year. So it doesn't feel

1657
01:37:07,560 --> 01:37:10,639
Speaker 2: like they've got a plan B, and it doesn't feel

1658
01:37:10,720 --> 01:37:13,360
Speaker 2: like they're convinced contractually in their Plan A.

1659
01:37:14,479 --> 01:37:22,160
Speaker 3: So what is the plan? Where's this going? So you believe.

1660
01:37:23,560 --> 01:37:28,760
Speaker 4: That this is a Tom Brady play, I don't know that.

1661
01:37:28,840 --> 01:37:33,000
Speaker 3: I believe that. I don't like. I don't, I don't.

1662
01:37:33,720 --> 01:37:37,120
Speaker 2: It's interesting that he's there and that the Raiders don't

1663
01:37:38,040 --> 01:37:43,280
Speaker 2: have an in emergency break glass answer here.

1664
01:37:44,000 --> 01:37:47,400
Speaker 3: They don't have that, you know what I think? What

1665
01:37:47,520 --> 01:37:48,000
Speaker 3: do you think?

1666
01:37:48,400 --> 01:37:52,640
Speaker 4: I think within that division and the gauntlet of quarterbacks

1667
01:37:52,680 --> 01:37:57,679
Speaker 4: that are present in that division, if Jimmy isn't ready

1668
01:37:57,760 --> 01:38:00,160
Speaker 4: to play, or if he doesn't play, well, what's the

1669
01:38:00,240 --> 01:38:01,120
Speaker 4: worst that can happen?

1670
01:38:02,400 --> 01:38:04,479
Speaker 3: Sure, what's the great draft pick?

1671
01:38:04,920 --> 01:38:09,880
Speaker 4: You get the next one, which is Caleb Williams, and

1672
01:38:10,040 --> 01:38:13,719
Speaker 4: you brand him as the one for the next twelve

1673
01:38:13,840 --> 01:38:18,759
Speaker 4: years in Sin City. That's the worst that can happen.

1674
01:38:19,040 --> 01:38:22,400
Speaker 4: So if I'm an owner and I'm sitting there and

1675
01:38:22,560 --> 01:38:29,639
Speaker 4: I'm like, eh, we no longer have the responsibility.

1676
01:38:30,920 --> 01:38:33,599
Speaker 3: Right of this of the salary.

1677
01:38:35,040 --> 01:38:39,280
Speaker 4: So let's just see what we got. Let's just see

1678
01:38:39,320 --> 01:38:43,240
Speaker 4: what we got, and if it doesn't work out, guess

1679
01:38:43,280 --> 01:38:45,639
Speaker 4: what's waiting for us at the end of the road,

1680
01:38:46,439 --> 01:38:47,559
Speaker 4: a real pot of gold.

1681
01:38:50,120 --> 01:38:52,400
Speaker 3: So what do you do? You make?

1682
01:38:52,680 --> 01:38:54,559
Speaker 2: You make, You make it sound like getting the first

1683
01:38:54,640 --> 01:38:56,640
Speaker 2: overall pick in the draft is just a snap of

1684
01:38:56,720 --> 01:38:57,200
Speaker 2: a finger.

1685
01:38:57,560 --> 01:39:00,919
Speaker 4: Well, no, you just gotta be poor in a division

1686
01:39:00,960 --> 01:39:02,599
Speaker 4: where you're clearly the worst team.

1687
01:39:03,640 --> 01:39:05,320
Speaker 3: That's not going to be difficult.

1688
01:39:06,320 --> 01:39:08,960
Speaker 4: I mean, out of any of those teams in that division,

1689
01:39:10,160 --> 01:39:13,599
Speaker 4: who do you have the Raiders beating twice or once

1690
01:39:13,800 --> 01:39:14,120
Speaker 4: for them?

1691
01:39:14,280 --> 01:39:16,920
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I mean maybe Denver.

1692
01:39:17,479 --> 01:39:21,439
Speaker 4: Maybe they'll build up, they'll beat.

1693
01:39:21,280 --> 01:39:23,720
Speaker 3: The Chargers once, because that's what the Chargers do. They

1694
01:39:23,800 --> 01:39:24,000
Speaker 3: do that.

1695
01:39:24,320 --> 01:39:26,400
Speaker 4: Oh look, look, look, but we got some new blood

1696
01:39:26,439 --> 01:39:31,000
Speaker 4: over there, right we got some new blood over there,

1697
01:39:31,080 --> 01:39:33,880
Speaker 4: we got weapons, we got all kinds of stuff going

1698
01:39:33,960 --> 01:39:38,080
Speaker 4: on there. So hopefully Justin Herbert is able to take

1699
01:39:38,120 --> 01:39:40,400
Speaker 4: that next step. I really wish they would have got

1700
01:39:40,479 --> 01:39:41,040
Speaker 4: rid of the head coach.

1701
01:39:41,080 --> 01:39:44,080
Speaker 3: But me, but.

1702
01:39:46,920 --> 01:39:53,400
Speaker 4: In that division, the Raiders are like, we'll see, Yeah.

1703
01:39:53,280 --> 01:39:55,120
Speaker 3: They're not gonna win it. They're not gonna win it.

1704
01:39:55,800 --> 01:39:58,839
Speaker 2: I guess my question would be, you had the seventh

1705
01:39:58,960 --> 01:40:02,000
Speaker 2: pick in the draft this year, why wouldn't you have

1706
01:40:02,160 --> 01:40:04,719
Speaker 2: tried to package that with something and go get someone

1707
01:40:05,240 --> 01:40:11,479
Speaker 2: right now? Because waiting for Yes, but that that's not

1708
01:40:11,600 --> 01:40:14,800
Speaker 2: that easy to get again, it is if.

1709
01:40:14,680 --> 01:40:16,200
Speaker 3: You got the worst record in the league.

1710
01:40:16,200 --> 01:40:16,439
Speaker 4: It is.

1711
01:40:17,000 --> 01:40:18,000
Speaker 3: This is not the NBA.

1712
01:40:18,200 --> 01:40:21,760
Speaker 4: This is not the lottery, right that you be the

1713
01:40:21,840 --> 01:40:24,400
Speaker 4: worst team in the league. Yeah, but you can get

1714
01:40:24,520 --> 01:40:27,920
Speaker 4: that bad. There's no Darren Waller out there, Devanta Adams,

1715
01:40:27,960 --> 01:40:29,040
Speaker 4: they still put up numbers.

1716
01:40:30,080 --> 01:40:32,600
Speaker 3: Okay, but I get I'll tell you this.

1717
01:40:33,240 --> 01:40:35,240
Speaker 4: It's easier to be that bad in the NFL that

1718
01:40:35,439 --> 01:40:36,160
Speaker 4: is in the NBA.

1719
01:40:38,200 --> 01:40:41,320
Speaker 3: Oh for sure. So sure with with that.

1720
01:40:41,600 --> 01:40:44,800
Speaker 2: Now, if you if you look up and down the

1721
01:40:44,960 --> 01:40:48,679
Speaker 2: league right now, uh, there aren't a lot of teams

1722
01:40:48,960 --> 01:40:54,599
Speaker 2: who stand out as potentially bad, awful number one overall, Right,

1723
01:40:54,760 --> 01:40:57,240
Speaker 2: Like there's Washington, is there?

1724
01:40:57,720 --> 01:41:00,760
Speaker 3: Arizona and right Arizona.

1725
01:41:01,120 --> 01:41:04,160
Speaker 2: Right, But that's complex because you just broke Kyler Murray

1726
01:41:04,240 --> 01:41:05,080
Speaker 2: off a big number.

1727
01:41:05,240 --> 01:41:07,479
Speaker 4: But so you now you go from thirty two to

1728
01:41:07,560 --> 01:41:10,280
Speaker 4: being out of the thirty one team. Now you've narrowed

1729
01:41:10,320 --> 01:41:14,280
Speaker 4: it down to about three teams. Okay, I like my odds.

1730
01:41:14,400 --> 01:41:18,599
Speaker 4: I like my odds in a three team race. Yeah,

1731
01:41:18,880 --> 01:41:20,160
Speaker 4: I mean that's thirty three percent.

1732
01:41:20,240 --> 01:41:20,439
Speaker 3: Chant.

1733
01:41:20,520 --> 01:41:23,920
Speaker 2: You know you're you're, you're, you're making a compelling argument

1734
01:41:24,040 --> 01:41:25,880
Speaker 2: right now. You think this is just one big tank.

1735
01:41:26,120 --> 01:41:27,920
Speaker 3: Hey man, what.

1736
01:41:30,280 --> 01:41:33,200
Speaker 4: We've all said and Caleb was was didn't even have

1737
01:41:33,240 --> 01:41:36,599
Speaker 4: to play this year. He could sit out the whole

1738
01:41:36,680 --> 01:41:38,400
Speaker 4: year and just get ready for the truth of course,

1739
01:41:38,880 --> 01:41:40,800
Speaker 4: and still be right with you.

1740
01:41:41,080 --> 01:41:42,880
Speaker 3: If I was him, I would do that. Probably I should.

1741
01:41:43,360 --> 01:41:45,920
Speaker 4: I'm sure the twenty five million I'm just speculating. I

1742
01:41:45,960 --> 01:41:48,880
Speaker 4: don't know these numbers for sure, But the twenty plus

1743
01:41:49,000 --> 01:41:52,679
Speaker 4: million he's getting paid in NILS to play, Yeah, okay,

1744
01:41:52,720 --> 01:41:55,920
Speaker 4: what are you gonna do? Yeah, I'll play college football

1745
01:41:55,920 --> 01:41:59,160
Speaker 4: one year for twenty million dollars. Why wouldn't I right?

1746
01:41:59,400 --> 01:42:02,920
Speaker 4: Why wouldn't I on top of the insurance policy he has,

1747
01:42:04,280 --> 01:42:08,240
Speaker 4: so worst case scenario for him is a hundred million dollars.

1748
01:42:09,360 --> 01:42:11,960
Speaker 3: Well, if Jimmy plays, and if Jimmy.

1749
01:42:11,720 --> 01:42:15,280
Speaker 4: Places, then look that's that it doesn't. If Jimmy plays,

1750
01:42:15,320 --> 01:42:19,240
Speaker 4: then that answers the question, right, you believe in l

1751
01:42:20,160 --> 01:42:23,800
Speaker 4: bring him there, right, if he plays up to the

1752
01:42:23,880 --> 01:42:26,880
Speaker 4: standard he set, then you'll have a pretty good team.

1753
01:42:26,920 --> 01:42:30,559
Speaker 4: It's still going to even if he plays in that division,

1754
01:42:30,640 --> 01:42:34,280
Speaker 4: it's still going to be a dog fight. It's still

1755
01:42:34,360 --> 01:42:35,439
Speaker 4: gonna be That's.

1756
01:42:36,280 --> 01:42:37,160
Speaker 3: That's my point.

1757
01:42:37,360 --> 01:42:39,519
Speaker 2: I don't think that the Raiders will do very well

1758
01:42:39,680 --> 01:42:42,280
Speaker 2: even with him, but they'll probably do well enough to

1759
01:42:42,360 --> 01:42:44,880
Speaker 2: not be able to sniff the number one overall pick.

1760
01:42:44,960 --> 01:42:46,439
Speaker 2: And it's not like at the end of the year

1761
01:42:46,600 --> 01:42:49,400
Speaker 2: like that you feel like you've got your answer going forward.

1762
01:42:51,000 --> 01:42:54,320
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's a quarterback rich class. So even

1763
01:42:54,360 --> 01:42:58,679
Speaker 4: if you don't get Caleb, which I'm I'm sure everybody

1764
01:42:58,800 --> 01:43:04,120
Speaker 4: wants him outside of six months, then you know your

1765
01:43:04,200 --> 01:43:07,519
Speaker 4: replacement is there. You know your next twelve year guy

1766
01:43:07,720 --> 01:43:12,720
Speaker 4: is there. So you just hey, man, look you gotta

1767
01:43:12,760 --> 01:43:16,519
Speaker 4: go out and you gotta play. That's just that, I

1768
01:43:16,640 --> 01:43:21,439
Speaker 4: get it. I understand. That's more viable to me than

1769
01:43:22,120 --> 01:43:23,920
Speaker 4: Tom Brady parachuting into the stadium.

1770
01:43:25,960 --> 01:43:29,759
Speaker 3: Oh, I agree with that. I agree with that completely.

1771
01:43:30,360 --> 01:43:34,360
Speaker 2: When he sat on the beach and just looked into

1772
01:43:34,400 --> 01:43:38,960
Speaker 2: his little phone and put up his Instagram story, I'll

1773
01:43:39,040 --> 01:43:41,280
Speaker 2: be honest, I believed him.

1774
01:43:42,160 --> 01:43:44,639
Speaker 3: I believed him. I thought he was I thought that's

1775
01:43:44,680 --> 01:43:47,880
Speaker 3: the way he would do it. That was sincere. It

1776
01:43:47,960 --> 01:43:50,360
Speaker 3: almost felt like Steve de Seger was talking to me

1777
01:43:50,479 --> 01:43:53,960
Speaker 3: like it was like, I'm like, that's right, like it resonated.

1778
01:43:54,680 --> 01:43:59,080
Speaker 3: It's just it's sunk in. And so that's how I

1779
01:43:59,160 --> 01:44:04,640
Speaker 3: felt when when when Tom talked, Hi Steve, just like that,

1780
01:44:04,800 --> 01:44:06,559
Speaker 3: Yay Steve, Hello, gentlemen.

1781
01:44:07,200 --> 01:44:10,320
Speaker 8: We did discuss the greats and soon to be what

1782
01:44:10,560 --> 01:44:14,559
Speaker 8: World Series champion Oakland A's last hour. Actually, the A's

1783
01:44:14,720 --> 01:44:18,479
Speaker 8: own game notes do notes that the A's were a

1784
01:44:18,560 --> 01:44:19,840
Speaker 8: third of the way through the season.

1785
01:44:20,640 --> 01:44:23,040
Speaker 7: They're on pace to lose over one hundred and thirty

1786
01:44:23,200 --> 01:44:24,200
Speaker 7: games this year.

1787
01:44:24,920 --> 01:44:26,120
Speaker 3: Can you I mean it's a record?

1788
01:44:26,160 --> 01:44:26,400
Speaker 4: Do you know?

1789
01:44:26,600 --> 01:44:28,040
Speaker 3: I bet you say it's a record.

1790
01:44:28,200 --> 01:44:31,720
Speaker 8: It would be the most since the eighteen ninety nine

1791
01:44:31,960 --> 01:44:35,839
Speaker 8: Cleveland Spiders, who lost one thirty four.

1792
01:44:36,120 --> 01:44:36,719
Speaker 7: In a season.

1793
01:44:36,800 --> 01:44:39,080
Speaker 8: But remember they didn't quite play as many games total

1794
01:44:39,560 --> 01:44:43,080
Speaker 8: back then, the A's have even worse. Yeah, exactly. This

1795
01:44:43,160 --> 01:44:45,320
Speaker 8: is one hundred and sixty two game season they're working

1796
01:44:45,400 --> 01:44:48,000
Speaker 8: on here. But I mean a thirteen lost season in

1797
01:44:48,080 --> 01:44:51,080
Speaker 8: football would start playing on your mind. Imagine it's suiting

1798
01:44:51,200 --> 01:44:54,320
Speaker 8: up daily and losing one hundred thirty times in one

1799
01:44:54,520 --> 01:44:58,360
Speaker 8: season in your sport. They've already been swelled in eight series.

1800
01:44:59,479 --> 01:45:02,599
Speaker 2: The team in the National League has twenty two wins.

1801
01:45:03,760 --> 01:45:04,639
Speaker 2: The A's have ten.

1802
01:45:05,880 --> 01:45:07,120
Speaker 3: They just lost ten.

1803
01:45:08,080 --> 01:45:10,840
Speaker 8: Yeah, five wins at home, five wins on the road.

1804
01:45:11,680 --> 01:45:14,479
Speaker 8: They have only won one series all year, and that

1805
01:45:14,640 --> 01:45:17,000
Speaker 8: was when they got to play at Kansas City. The

1806
01:45:17,160 --> 01:45:20,920
Speaker 8: Royals at home were seven and twenty one going into today.

1807
01:45:21,840 --> 01:45:25,400
Speaker 8: So the Oakland A's have played seventeen series total. They

1808
01:45:25,439 --> 01:45:28,720
Speaker 8: have lost sixteen of the seventeen, including getting swept at

1809
01:45:28,720 --> 01:45:31,320
Speaker 8: home by Houston ten to one today's finals. So the

1810
01:45:31,400 --> 01:45:34,400
Speaker 8: A's have lost eleven games in a row, have lost

1811
01:45:34,520 --> 01:45:38,280
Speaker 8: nineteen of their last twenty one. Attendance was eight thousand

1812
01:45:38,280 --> 01:45:42,200
Speaker 8: and eighth nine. All of the runs in this game came.

1813
01:45:42,400 --> 01:45:43,400
Speaker 3: That's not true the.

1814
01:45:45,000 --> 01:45:45,479
Speaker 7: Home run.

1815
01:45:46,080 --> 01:45:48,320
Speaker 8: This is not their first or last eight thousand crowd.

1816
01:45:48,439 --> 01:45:50,759
Speaker 8: Just for the record, didn't they have a two thousand

1817
01:45:50,880 --> 01:45:54,880
Speaker 8: something a couple of weeks ago. This game today, Yeah,

1818
01:45:54,920 --> 01:45:57,120
Speaker 8: there's gonna be some more of those down the line.

1819
01:45:57,120 --> 01:45:57,599
Speaker 7: I'm guessing.

1820
01:45:57,680 --> 01:45:59,720
Speaker 8: This game today was tied one to one after one.

1821
01:46:00,280 --> 01:46:04,640
Speaker 8: Eventually seven home runs hit by Houston and that was that.

1822
01:46:04,960 --> 01:46:09,559
Speaker 8: Tonight at Atlanta eleven four Braves over Philadelphia. Braves scored

1823
01:46:09,640 --> 01:46:13,120
Speaker 8: seven runs in the first inning. Colorado eleven ten over

1824
01:46:13,160 --> 01:46:16,559
Speaker 8: the Mets. Tampa Bay eleven ten over the Dodgers. Yankees

1825
01:46:16,560 --> 01:46:19,920
Speaker 8: beat the Padres in U Darvish ten to seven. Texas

1826
01:46:19,960 --> 01:46:22,440
Speaker 8: has been having a great year, but so has Baltimore,

1827
01:46:22,479 --> 01:46:25,720
Speaker 8: and the Orioles beat Texas three to two. Cleveland won

1828
01:46:25,800 --> 01:46:27,479
Speaker 8: on a two run double bottom of the ninth by

1829
01:46:27,560 --> 01:46:30,639
Speaker 8: Jose Ramirez, four to three over Saint Louis. Cardinals record

1830
01:46:30,760 --> 01:46:33,560
Speaker 8: just twenty four and thirty one ten inning wins for

1831
01:46:33,720 --> 01:46:38,040
Speaker 8: Seattle and Detroit. Joseph Newgarden won the Indy five hundred,

1832
01:46:38,160 --> 01:46:40,720
Speaker 8: his first in his twelfth straight year competing there. He

1833
01:46:40,800 --> 01:46:43,599
Speaker 8: took the lead on the final lap, passing Marcus Ericson

1834
01:46:43,680 --> 01:46:47,080
Speaker 8: last year's winner. New Garden, the native of Tennessee. NASCAR

1835
01:46:47,200 --> 01:46:49,680
Speaker 8: six hundred was postponed to tomorrow due to rain. The

1836
01:46:49,760 --> 01:46:52,240
Speaker 8: race at Charlotte will start at three pm Eastern Time

1837
01:46:52,280 --> 01:46:55,040
Speaker 8: on Fox TV. On the holiday, FS one will have

1838
01:46:55,160 --> 01:46:58,000
Speaker 8: the Exfinity Race. Before that, it was rained out yesterday.

1839
01:46:58,320 --> 01:47:01,559
Speaker 8: Cup Series practice and qualify where each rained out yesterday

1840
01:47:01,680 --> 01:47:04,360
Speaker 8: in Charlotte. William Byron will start from the poll tomorrow.

1841
01:47:04,680 --> 01:47:08,320
Speaker 8: Tennis's French Open began today. Number three Jessica Pagoula advance.

1842
01:47:08,400 --> 01:47:11,000
Speaker 8: Game seven of the NBA's East Finals is Monday night.

1843
01:47:11,280 --> 01:47:13,960
Speaker 8: The NHL has a game six Monday night Vegas at

1844
01:47:14,040 --> 01:47:16,920
Speaker 8: Dallas in the West Final. And in golf at Colonial,

1845
01:47:17,040 --> 01:47:20,679
Speaker 8: Emiliano Grilo won in a playoff after a double bogie

1846
01:47:20,720 --> 01:47:23,680
Speaker 8: on the seventy second hole. Scottie Scheffler moved up to

1847
01:47:23,720 --> 01:47:26,559
Speaker 8: a tie for third. He earned about a half million dollars.

1848
01:47:27,040 --> 01:47:29,439
Speaker 8: The winner got over one and a half million dollars.

1849
01:47:30,439 --> 01:47:32,960
Speaker 8: And there was a live golf event in DC this weekend.

1850
01:47:33,040 --> 01:47:36,160
Speaker 8: Harold Varner the winner go Each winner on the live

1851
01:47:36,240 --> 01:47:40,560
Speaker 8: tour gets four million dollars. PGA winner got one and

1852
01:47:40,600 --> 01:47:43,080
Speaker 8: a half. Third place got one and a half million

1853
01:47:43,200 --> 01:47:45,439
Speaker 8: on the live golf event. And again, these aren't four

1854
01:47:45,560 --> 01:47:49,200
Speaker 8: round tournaments and there's no cut. Phil Mickelson finished forty

1855
01:47:49,280 --> 01:47:52,880
Speaker 8: fourth out of forty five golfers today three rounds of golf,

1856
01:47:53,439 --> 01:47:56,000
Speaker 8: nine over par total, he gets one hundred and thirty

1857
01:47:56,080 --> 01:47:59,320
Speaker 8: thousand dollars for the weekend. In the PGA event, you

1858
01:47:59,439 --> 01:48:02,040
Speaker 8: had to tie for sixteenth place to get about one

1859
01:48:02,120 --> 01:48:05,479
Speaker 8: hundred and thirty thousand. Nicholson was almost dead last.

1860
01:48:05,920 --> 01:48:07,439
Speaker 4: Just for the record, Thank you.

1861
01:48:09,360 --> 01:48:10,360
Speaker 3: It's unbelievable.

1862
01:48:11,520 --> 01:48:14,400
Speaker 2: Really start to let the outrage kind of settle down

1863
01:48:15,160 --> 01:48:18,040
Speaker 2: and ask every human being what would you do? Right?

1864
01:48:18,160 --> 01:48:19,840
Speaker 3: Why wouldn't you what you do if you were in

1865
01:48:19,920 --> 01:48:22,120
Speaker 3: their case? Kidding me? What would you what would you do?

1866
01:48:22,880 --> 01:48:23,760
Speaker 3: What would you do?

1867
01:48:26,400 --> 01:48:29,000
Speaker 2: Speaking of baseball, Steve was just talking about with the

1868
01:48:29,080 --> 01:48:30,080
Speaker 2: A's and that whole thing.

1869
01:48:30,360 --> 01:48:33,880
Speaker 3: Let me let me throw these seven teams at you,

1870
01:48:34,280 --> 01:48:34,559
Speaker 3: and you.

1871
01:48:34,680 --> 01:48:37,160
Speaker 2: Tell me if you can figure out what they have

1872
01:48:37,560 --> 01:48:40,280
Speaker 2: in common or why they are in a story that

1873
01:48:40,360 --> 01:48:45,040
Speaker 2: I'm reading right now, the Dodgers, the Padres, the Mets,

1874
01:48:45,360 --> 01:48:50,200
Speaker 2: and the Yankees, and then to a lesser degree, the Cubs,

1875
01:48:50,920 --> 01:48:53,440
Speaker 2: the Giants and the Mariners.

1876
01:48:53,960 --> 01:48:55,040
Speaker 3: What do you what do you what do you think?

1877
01:48:56,400 --> 01:48:58,120
Speaker 3: What do you think I'm talking about with that group

1878
01:48:58,200 --> 01:48:59,080
Speaker 3: of teams right there?

1879
01:49:00,280 --> 01:49:03,720
Speaker 4: Probably salaries maybe.

1880
01:49:04,600 --> 01:49:08,720
Speaker 2: Well, I mean you're you're you're related, you're related to

1881
01:49:08,800 --> 01:49:12,920
Speaker 2: the right answer in that they are the teams right

1882
01:49:13,080 --> 01:49:19,240
Speaker 2: now considered to be the suitors for show Hey Otani

1883
01:49:20,280 --> 01:49:26,479
Speaker 2: and Show I gotta compliment Show the Money, Show Hey

1884
01:49:26,680 --> 01:49:29,120
Speaker 2: the Money. Absolutely, that should be his nickname. By the way,

1885
01:49:29,200 --> 01:49:32,280
Speaker 2: I don't know why show Hey the Money Man. Just

1886
01:49:32,439 --> 01:49:34,640
Speaker 2: have it be on the jersey, like, let's go make

1887
01:49:34,720 --> 01:49:37,840
Speaker 2: it like the XFL he hate me, Show Hey the Money.

1888
01:49:38,360 --> 01:49:43,800
Speaker 2: Like this dude and his representatives have done an amazing

1889
01:49:44,040 --> 01:49:50,120
Speaker 2: job because in baseball terms, this is like Lebron and

1890
01:49:50,280 --> 01:49:53,920
Speaker 2: his free agency that led to Miami. I'm not suggesting

1891
01:49:54,000 --> 01:49:58,880
Speaker 2: a television show with Jim Gray, but one evaluator in

1892
01:49:59,000 --> 01:50:03,800
Speaker 2: baseball recently told, uh, buster only quote, anybody who tells

1893
01:50:03,880 --> 01:50:07,520
Speaker 2: you that they know what's going to happen is completely

1894
01:50:07,760 --> 01:50:13,200
Speaker 2: full of bleep. And that's amazing. It's amazing that it

1895
01:50:13,360 --> 01:50:18,000
Speaker 2: is as quiet as it is. I know, we're only

1896
01:50:18,120 --> 01:50:20,720
Speaker 2: fifty five games in, but then again, I would be like,

1897
01:50:21,000 --> 01:50:25,080
Speaker 2: we're fifty five games in, you get one hundred baseball

1898
01:50:25,200 --> 01:50:29,679
Speaker 2: games left until the largest free agency in the history

1899
01:50:29,880 --> 01:50:35,839
Speaker 2: of the sport is about to take place, and nobody

1900
01:50:35,960 --> 01:50:43,200
Speaker 2: knows a damn thing nobody knows anything. Nobody is seemingly

1901
01:50:43,400 --> 01:50:45,680
Speaker 2: trying to know anything. I don't know if it's the

1902
01:50:45,800 --> 01:50:48,800
Speaker 2: language barrier, I don't know what it is. But the

1903
01:50:48,840 --> 01:50:52,559
Speaker 2: guy's doing it again. Ops over eight point fifty lead

1904
01:50:52,600 --> 01:50:55,519
Speaker 2: in the American League in strikeouts. He is just be

1905
01:50:55,760 --> 01:50:59,880
Speaker 2: bopping along on his way to telling teams put five

1906
01:51:00,000 --> 01:51:01,520
Speaker 2: one hundred mil on the table.

1907
01:51:01,640 --> 01:51:06,479
Speaker 3: Just to get a meeting. Just a meeting. You can't

1908
01:51:06,800 --> 01:51:09,000
Speaker 3: offer five hundred. I don't even want to come talk

1909
01:51:09,080 --> 01:51:09,240
Speaker 3: to you.

1910
01:51:12,200 --> 01:51:17,120
Speaker 4: And the crazy thing is a greater player as he is.

1911
01:51:18,080 --> 01:51:24,280
Speaker 4: What he means to baseball outside of that circle doesn't

1912
01:51:24,320 --> 01:51:27,640
Speaker 4: move the needle. So he has a.

1913
01:51:29,320 --> 01:51:31,960
Speaker 3: Commercial, a New Balance commercial. I believe.

1914
01:51:33,600 --> 01:51:36,479
Speaker 4: No one knows who that is. They're running these commercials

1915
01:51:36,560 --> 01:51:41,200
Speaker 4: during the NBA the playoffs. So I was like, Babe,

1916
01:51:41,240 --> 01:51:42,760
Speaker 4: do you know who that is? She was like, no,

1917
01:51:46,600 --> 01:51:48,360
Speaker 4: I ask my kid, Hey, do you guys know who

1918
01:51:48,439 --> 01:51:51,200
Speaker 4: that is? No, ask my mother in law, who's a

1919
01:51:51,320 --> 01:51:53,200
Speaker 4: diehard Cubs fan and a baseball fan.

1920
01:51:53,800 --> 01:51:54,479
Speaker 3: Do you know who that is?

1921
01:51:54,760 --> 01:51:54,880
Speaker 6: Oh?

1922
01:51:54,920 --> 01:51:55,800
Speaker 3: That show? Hey a tana.

1923
01:51:57,760 --> 01:52:01,080
Speaker 4: And that's the problem, whether you like basketball or not.

1924
01:52:02,080 --> 01:52:07,160
Speaker 4: If Lebron James pops on the screen, well, basketball players

1925
01:52:07,200 --> 01:52:11,599
Speaker 4: are different. I get no helmets and no hats because

1926
01:52:11,640 --> 01:52:17,120
Speaker 4: they're marketed differently well, but also because there's them on

1927
01:52:17,240 --> 01:52:17,599
Speaker 4: a team.

1928
01:52:18,520 --> 01:52:22,120
Speaker 2: Yes, let me of them on a team and and

1929
01:52:22,320 --> 01:52:25,519
Speaker 2: and they don't wear hats or helmets, and no sport

1930
01:52:26,960 --> 01:52:30,439
Speaker 2: or its best player, you know, although though there there

1931
01:52:30,479 --> 01:52:31,400
Speaker 2: are exceptions.

1932
01:52:31,760 --> 01:52:35,280
Speaker 3: But you know this better than anyone being right.

1933
01:52:35,840 --> 01:52:39,439
Speaker 2: It's all about the This is base as an offensive lineman.

1934
01:52:40,640 --> 01:52:44,200
Speaker 2: Hold on, I'm not talking NFL players. NFL players when

1935
01:52:44,240 --> 01:52:45,840
Speaker 2: you walk down the street or like, I know who

1936
01:52:45,920 --> 01:52:46,200
Speaker 2: that is.

1937
01:52:47,479 --> 01:52:49,600
Speaker 4: I'm not talking about an offensive line, and I'm not

1938
01:52:49,640 --> 01:52:55,559
Speaker 4: about the best player in the entire sport. No, it's fair, right,

1939
01:52:55,680 --> 01:52:58,479
Speaker 4: I'm not talking about I'm not talking about I'm not

1940
01:52:58,520 --> 01:53:04,040
Speaker 4: talking about He is box office, but no one knows.

1941
01:53:05,720 --> 01:53:07,800
Speaker 3: I'm serious. This is a real thing.

1942
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Speaker 4: This man has a commercial where they don't show his

1943
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Speaker 4: name or anything.

1944
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Speaker 3: He's just doing it. No one knows, right, But so

1945
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Speaker 3: what I'm saying.

1946
01:53:19,760 --> 01:53:24,799
Speaker 4: That, yep, you gotta come up with a better marketing

1947
01:53:25,080 --> 01:53:29,839
Speaker 4: strated for your league, for the entire league.

1948
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Speaker 2: Well, he's an angel, it doesn't matter's kind of the deal. No,

1949
01:53:35,560 --> 01:53:38,160
Speaker 2: it does, because Mike Trout's not recognizable either.

1950
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Speaker 3: But it all is. Oh, that's kind of the point.

1951
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Speaker 2: That's why rival evaluators think he's going to either be

1952
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Speaker 2: a Dodger or a Yankee.

1953
01:53:47,840 --> 01:53:51,040
Speaker 4: You have to you have to not even a met

1954
01:53:52,320 --> 01:53:56,439
Speaker 4: not even a met You got the Yankees, you got

1955
01:53:56,520 --> 01:54:01,960
Speaker 4: the Dodgers, and possibly San Francisco, m outside of that,

1956
01:54:02,880 --> 01:54:09,080
Speaker 4: maybe Boston outside of that. Broh, they can give you

1957
01:54:09,160 --> 01:54:13,160
Speaker 4: a trillion dollars. You just gonna be somewhere, being somewhere

1958
01:54:13,200 --> 01:54:16,040
Speaker 4: with a trillion dollars and maybe that's all it takes.

1959
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Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, nothing wrong with that, right, But.

1960
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Speaker 4: For baseball, man, they gotta figure this thing out.

1961
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Speaker 1: Man.

1962
01:54:24,160 --> 01:54:27,080
Speaker 4: You they always ask, well, why don't kids play I'm

1963
01:54:27,200 --> 01:54:30,559
Speaker 4: in I just told you one of the best baseball

1964
01:54:30,600 --> 01:54:32,480
Speaker 4: games I've ever been a part of I've ever seen

1965
01:54:33,200 --> 01:54:37,120
Speaker 4: in Little League. Eighty percent of those kids, by the

1966
01:54:37,160 --> 01:54:39,040
Speaker 4: time they get to high school or playing something else,

1967
01:54:41,520 --> 01:54:42,440
Speaker 4: they're playing something else.

1968
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Speaker 3: Yep. Yeah, there's no question about it. The Progressive Player

1969
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1970
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Speaker 2: Plus circle back to the NBA Finals that have yet

1971
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Speaker 2: to come together and what we've learned because of the

1972
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1973
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1974
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Speaker 1: The pitch to Gino swung on, I'll rocket the left

1975
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Speaker 1: field absolutely mass see you later.

1976
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Speaker 3: Walk it off.

1977
01:55:13,920 --> 01:55:19,840
Speaker 4: Gino three run blasting the murders path looting. They've taken

1978
01:55:19,960 --> 01:55:22,200
Speaker 4: the game, They've taken the series.

1979
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Speaker 8: Shit up.

1980
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Speaker 2: O Mariners Win. That's from Cairo Mariners Radio Network. It's

1981
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1982
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1985
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1986
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1987
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Speaker 3: All right, man, we think we're gonna see tomorrow night.

1988
01:55:59,000 --> 01:56:00,520
Speaker 3: I believe it's gonna be a of a game.

1989
01:56:02,160 --> 01:56:05,160
Speaker 4: I made a statement on Friday filling in for Rob

1990
01:56:05,200 --> 01:56:11,760
Speaker 4: Parker on they are couple that Miami was gonna come

1991
01:56:11,840 --> 01:56:14,400
Speaker 4: out and play like that was their Game seven because

1992
01:56:14,440 --> 01:56:18,200
Speaker 4: they knew going back to Boston for an actual Game

1993
01:56:18,280 --> 01:56:23,120
Speaker 4: seven it'd be too much. And I'm gonna stick to that.

1994
01:56:24,440 --> 01:56:30,640
Speaker 4: I think they've given up a tremendous opportunity. They clearly

1995
01:56:30,720 --> 01:56:34,040
Speaker 4: don't have the momentum anymore, especially the way they lost

1996
01:56:34,080 --> 01:56:38,960
Speaker 4: that game. That was a defeating loss to be point

1997
01:56:39,560 --> 01:56:41,760
Speaker 4: and you gotta remember they put point nine seconds back

1998
01:56:41,800 --> 01:56:44,760
Speaker 4: on the clock. Yes, indeed, it was two point one

1999
01:56:44,800 --> 01:56:48,880
Speaker 4: seconds after Jimmy Butler got filed. They put point nine

2000
01:56:48,920 --> 01:56:52,360
Speaker 4: seconds back on. That doesn't go back on. We're not

2001
01:56:52,440 --> 01:56:57,520
Speaker 4: having this conversation. All of that and the letdown and

2002
01:56:57,880 --> 01:57:02,640
Speaker 4: Jimmy Butler not being the Jimmy we've become accustomed to, well,

2003
01:57:02,640 --> 01:57:07,160
Speaker 4: he's been that way the last three games. I believe Boston,

2004
01:57:08,040 --> 01:57:13,200
Speaker 4: much to my chagrin, pulls this out and they win

2005
01:57:13,360 --> 01:57:15,360
Speaker 4: a game set and the first team to ever come

2006
01:57:15,440 --> 01:57:20,440
Speaker 4: back down three and win four games in a row

2007
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Speaker 4: and win a game seven, and they had to Denver

2008
01:57:27,360 --> 01:57:33,840
Speaker 4: on Thursday to play the Denver Nuggets. That's what I

2009
01:57:33,880 --> 01:57:34,920
Speaker 4: think is gonna happen tomorrow.

2010
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Speaker 2: I think they would stay. I think they would stay

2011
01:57:39,480 --> 01:57:42,040
Speaker 2: home and host Game one of the NBA Finals. If

2012
01:57:42,040 --> 01:57:45,480
Speaker 2: I'm not mistaken, correct, I don't think they won. They

2013
01:57:45,560 --> 01:57:47,800
Speaker 2: won fifty seven games this year and the Nuggets won

2014
01:57:47,880 --> 01:57:51,720
Speaker 2: fifty three. Unless I'm mistaken about how that that that

2015
01:57:51,880 --> 01:57:56,320
Speaker 2: comes together. I Boston would have a home court advantage.

2016
01:57:56,320 --> 01:57:59,720
Speaker 2: So Boston had home court advantage. Huh, Boston's got the

2017
01:57:59,720 --> 01:58:02,520
Speaker 2: better record. They got the better record than the Denver Nuggets.

2018
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Speaker 2: So hm ah h changes things a little bit, done it.

2019
01:58:08,360 --> 01:58:13,000
Speaker 2: But I'll just say this, you are probably you are

2020
01:58:13,120 --> 01:58:18,200
Speaker 2: probably right, and if that happens, you know, I'm gonna

2021
01:58:18,200 --> 01:58:21,000
Speaker 2: continue banging on my druma about Jaylen Brown and Jason

2022
01:58:21,040 --> 01:58:24,880
Speaker 2: Tatum being another example of why the luxury tax penalty

2023
01:58:24,960 --> 01:58:25,720
Speaker 2: should not be the.

2024
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Speaker 3: Same for homegrun players drafted and developed there.

2025
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Speaker 2: I cannot stand that we might be entering an off

2026
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Speaker 2: season of trying to break those two up just because

2027
01:58:35,680 --> 01:58:36,760
Speaker 2: just because.

2028
01:58:36,560 --> 01:58:39,320
Speaker 4: Well you don't have to break them up. Well, you

2029
01:58:39,360 --> 01:58:42,200
Speaker 4: don't have to, you don't have to write, and I

2030
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Speaker 4: hope that they don't. But that's gonna call to be

2031
01:58:45,920 --> 01:58:46,840
Speaker 4: a that's going.

2032
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Speaker 2: Yes, it will, and it's gonna cost you more than

2033
01:58:49,200 --> 01:58:53,400
Speaker 2: it should, which is essentially my point. I'll remind everybody

2034
01:58:53,480 --> 01:58:57,080
Speaker 2: of this though, and you know this in sports, when

2035
01:58:57,120 --> 01:59:00,600
Speaker 2: you're down by a lot, whether it's within a game,

2036
01:59:01,120 --> 01:59:05,240
Speaker 2: within a series, within a season, when you're down by

2037
01:59:05,280 --> 01:59:10,600
Speaker 2: a whole lot, a lot of times when you get back,

2038
01:59:10,760 --> 01:59:14,440
Speaker 2: even what's the auto response.

2039
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Speaker 3: You relax? True, it's the auto response because it's like Okay,

2040
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Speaker 3: we did it.

2041
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Speaker 2: We're back on even ground. Okay, deep breath, and Boston

2042
01:59:28,840 --> 01:59:32,080
Speaker 2: has not been a great home team. So if there's

2043
01:59:32,240 --> 01:59:35,040
Speaker 2: any star who's going to be comfortable on the road

2044
01:59:35,080 --> 01:59:36,879
Speaker 2: in this situation, it's Buckets.

2045
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Speaker 4: That's not what happened with this Trumon Oaks Little League Nationals.

2046
01:59:40,520 --> 01:59:42,760
Speaker 4: We were down being and we came back and stepped

2047
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Speaker 4: on the gas. Let's do that.

2048
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Speaker 3: Let's cut out boys, man, let's go