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Speaker 1: more NFL coming up in about twenty minutes, but big

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Speaker 1: night in the NBA. Uh Lakers have a four point

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Speaker 1: lead over the Pelicans right now, I have not seen

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Speaker 1: any sort of confrontation between Luca and JJ Reddick, but

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Speaker 1: it is early in the third quarter, so still some time.

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Speaker 3: Well, just ahead a halftime, there was a little bit

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Speaker 3: of a conference between Luca and all the officials.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but that's fine.

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Speaker 3: I mean what he does. It was but it was

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Speaker 3: like he was holding a press conference for them.

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Speaker 1: They all know.

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Speaker 3: I think they all got to like you.

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Speaker 1: No, I think they all got together and said, hey,

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Speaker 1: we're all sick of you whining every single time down

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Speaker 1: the floor. Dude, We're not going to give you every call.

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Speaker 4: Man.

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Speaker 1: Okay, it's gonna make the more you want, the more

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Speaker 1: it's gonna make us not want to blow the whistle

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Speaker 1: for you. Okay, you're on the same page. You you good, Okay,

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Speaker 1: let's go. Yeah, I have a good half time.

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Speaker 3: And while your guy JJ Reddick wasn't in the face

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Speaker 3: of Luka Doncis, he didn't look particularly happy as he

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Speaker 3: was going to the locker room given that halftime interview.

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Speaker 3: H with the narrow lead over the Pelicans. But here

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Speaker 3: we are now, I do have a bit of a

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Speaker 3: solution for the biggest problem the NBA is facing.

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Speaker 1: Okay, the big problem that we can say no the Knicks.

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Speaker 1: The Knicks and one of the few teams go to

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Speaker 1: the finals, put some respect on that. We talked about

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Speaker 1: this the beginning of the show tonight. Tonight was throwback night. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: the games on NBC, going back and using the NBA

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Speaker 1: on NBC graphics from the nineties, the salad days of

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Speaker 1: the NBA. Right, they did it for the first game

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Speaker 1: between the Spurs and the Sixers. The Spurs went to

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Speaker 1: the fourth quarter of forty nine on the Sixers. They

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Speaker 1: won this game.

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Speaker 3: Please stick around. We created a lot of cool throwback

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Speaker 3: package just to show you.

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Speaker 1: Uh, and a game that tipped less than an hour ago,

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Speaker 1: Phoenix and Sacramento is a one point game, forty six,

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Speaker 1: forty five. This game also using all the graphics and

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Speaker 1: the nineties.

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Speaker 3: A lot of empty seats there in Sacramento. But this

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Speaker 3: is where I solve problems my car because I my

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Speaker 3: problem solved. Good for you problems over come on now

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Speaker 3: solve the next.

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Speaker 1: Sucking dude, dude, make make it, make it make it

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Speaker 1: real like everybody knows, like South Carl dude did. Did

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Speaker 1: And also I don't think Mick Cronin's throw anybody out

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Speaker 3: No, no, no, we're keeping an eye on that developing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you never know. That game is in the second

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Speaker 1: That's the biggest problem the NBA has, right we talk

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Speaker 1: twenty seven, right, Cavillers beat the Pistons, close game. Hey,

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Speaker 1: great game, mark again, that's awesome. Right, Magic won by seventeen,

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Speaker 1: It's like a I can't the going to games thing.

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Speaker 1: If you put the NBN NBC graphics on all of

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Speaker 4: You know?

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Speaker 1: But just the fact just seeing the NBC logo in

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Speaker 1: Like I find myself continuing to watch this game just

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Speaker 1: It's the Suns and the Kings. But I consider and

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Speaker 1: I can hear Marv Albert's voice saying, and here we

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Speaker 1: myself and Matt Gucus, like I could just something just

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Speaker 1: triggers me in my mind where I like that, and

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of people like that. And maybe

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Speaker 1: More people would watch just because it's fun to see

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Speaker 3: I think this is where we go to Andy's room

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Speaker 1: No, I don't want to turn it into an absolute joke. No,

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Speaker 1: give me something to say. Okay, let's go back to

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Speaker 1: the night. I'm telling you nineties.

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Speaker 3: Look, man, I'm trying to help you out as ninety

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Speaker 4: Do that?

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Speaker 3: Or or we do we cut off our nose to

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Speaker 3: You want to watch put up a stickman graphic, you can,

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Speaker 3: I don't know that you put the genie back in

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Speaker 3: Tesh doing his faux bouncing to the ball as we

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Speaker 5: Vess oh on at halftime, Peter Vessi inside the NBA

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Speaker 5: all the latest on trade rumors, but right now it's

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Speaker 5: all west fall and Walter Davis about to attack the

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Speaker 5: Kings and Phil Ford right now on NBC.

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Speaker 1: In rewind they just not pick up their phone or no, no,

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Speaker 1: Madrashad was what will Obey?

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Speaker 5: Right?

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Speaker 1: Was that the will is not his co host on

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Speaker 3: It was, There's no question about it.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 1: But look, but to be honest about this throwback stuff

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Speaker 1: think about this for a second. Wouldn't it be great

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Speaker 1: if the NBA playoffs began right now? Okay, beginning of March.

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Speaker 1: When you start the playoffs, the last twenty games, as

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Speaker 1: we've seen, the NBA calendar are useless, right. I've told

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Speaker 1: you for a long time, fifty five sixty games is

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Speaker 1: the right number. I thought you could start playing Christmas

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Speaker 1: Day and go. But okay, you want to start November.

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Speaker 3: At some point you'll have to pay the piper for now.

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Speaker 3: I have the other I modest propose we don't cut

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but you know what they the chaos of it

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Speaker 3: But that's what I mean you that that's another angle

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Speaker 1: Exit up bout a Fresca, Exit swallen home. Jason Smith,

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Speaker 1: Mike Harmon, live from the Fox Sports Radio Stutors. Just

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Speaker 1: look about if the NBA playoffs began, now, how good

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're kidding, man, Come on, man, we're going We're

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Speaker 1: one of five teams have a chance to go to

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Speaker 2: Here we go.

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Speaker 3: Really current leaders in your odds as it will city

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Speaker 1: Oh Detroit basketball. Coming up next, we got a big

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best

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Speaker 1: friend Mike Harmon. Yeah, third quarter coming to an end

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Speaker 1: the toilet, right. And these are peds that aren't oh,

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Speaker 1: make sure I'm getting a contract at thirty four that

435
00:20:31,520 --> 00:20:33,320
Speaker 1: I hit pretty well and I get in there for

436
00:20:33,359 --> 00:20:35,560
Speaker 1: next year, because this is this is my peak earning years.

437
00:20:35,560 --> 00:20:37,440
Speaker 1: I'm not making more money than i'm making right now,

438
00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:39,639
Speaker 1: so I got to make sure and I am so

439
00:20:39,880 --> 00:20:42,440
Speaker 1: desperate to achieve that that this is what I wind

440
00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:46,120
Speaker 1: up doing, that that I'm okay running and riding the lightning,

441
00:20:46,320 --> 00:20:48,320
Speaker 1: that maybe this could come up bad and I could

442
00:20:48,359 --> 00:20:50,720
Speaker 1: wind up getting suspended, so to say, somebody stupid. Yeah

443
00:20:50,720 --> 00:20:53,480
Speaker 1: twenty years ago. Yeah, now it's just boy, how desperate

444
00:20:53,600 --> 00:20:57,119
Speaker 1: were they to have them get pulled and get caught

445
00:20:57,200 --> 00:20:58,080
Speaker 1: with a positive test?

446
00:20:58,119 --> 00:21:00,760
Speaker 3: Yeah? I mean, we know, you know the right, You're

447
00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:04,520
Speaker 3: always looking for the way to outrun the system. And

448
00:21:04,840 --> 00:21:08,639
Speaker 3: that goes back, however many years, take it to the

449
00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:12,680
Speaker 3: greenies in the room. But all those years of fighting

450
00:21:12,800 --> 00:21:15,879
Speaker 3: testing and then you have the Mitchell Report and go

451
00:21:16,000 --> 00:21:18,720
Speaker 3: on down the line and depending on where you came

452
00:21:18,760 --> 00:21:19,640
Speaker 3: in in the process.

453
00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:20,680
Speaker 1: And I look at some of the.

454
00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:23,600
Speaker 3: Luminaries, guys that made millions of dollars and then became

455
00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:26,640
Speaker 3: the strongest. Hey, let me wag my finger at how

456
00:21:26,760 --> 00:21:29,320
Speaker 3: terrible this is while I watch guys that look like

457
00:21:29,359 --> 00:21:32,600
Speaker 3: something out of my Saturday Morning cartoons and turn the

458
00:21:32,840 --> 00:21:34,879
Speaker 3: turned my head and just said they must just be

459
00:21:34,920 --> 00:21:36,920
Speaker 3: spending that much more time in the weight room. Look

460
00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:39,639
Speaker 3: at how serious there No, no, no, no, no, I watched

461
00:21:39,720 --> 00:21:42,479
Speaker 3: it happen. You all got rich and fat from the teams,

462
00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:45,080
Speaker 3: to the players, to the broadcasters and everybody else, and

463
00:21:45,119 --> 00:21:47,800
Speaker 3: you just kind of shrugged and moved on. But we

464
00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:50,720
Speaker 3: look at a guy like Profara at this point, it's

465
00:21:50,760 --> 00:21:53,400
Speaker 3: the well they got me last year, Can I can

466
00:21:53,440 --> 00:21:54,840
Speaker 3: I figure out a way around it?

467
00:21:54,960 --> 00:21:55,120
Speaker 1: Right?

468
00:21:55,520 --> 00:22:01,000
Speaker 3: Last year it was for a product that produces more testosterone,

469
00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:05,120
Speaker 3: and you either physically still need it or you're saying, hey,

470
00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:08,200
Speaker 3: I look, I've made a lot of money. I can

471
00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:10,200
Speaker 3: make a little more if I can evade the testing

472
00:22:10,280 --> 00:22:14,879
Speaker 3: protocols and evade getting caught here, I'm gonna make fifteen millions.

473
00:22:14,920 --> 00:22:18,360
Speaker 3: So now the Braves are without a guy. You had

474
00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:20,160
Speaker 3: fifteen million.

475
00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:20,720
Speaker 1: Dollars per year?

476
00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:23,320
Speaker 3: What three year, forty two million dollar deal? Four fits

477
00:22:23,359 --> 00:22:27,280
Speaker 3: that can't play in the World Baseball Classic, and you know,

478
00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:31,199
Speaker 3: you get the these statements that come out again you

479
00:22:31,240 --> 00:22:34,760
Speaker 3: think you can evade the system, and in his case, no,

480
00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:38,239
Speaker 3: he got struck down for the second time. And to

481
00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:40,840
Speaker 3: your point, yeah, maybe you're desperate that you need it.

482
00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:44,360
Speaker 3: Maybe it's just the cavalier of well, I won't get

483
00:22:44,440 --> 00:22:49,040
Speaker 3: lightning won't strike twice. There's no way they're gonna test

484
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Speaker 3: They tested me again.

485
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Speaker 5: God believe that.

486
00:22:52,160 --> 00:22:54,480
Speaker 3: Or you believe whatever you've read. I mean, how many

487
00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:56,880
Speaker 3: folks like you did you know back in the day

488
00:22:57,040 --> 00:22:59,959
Speaker 3: at Syracuse, Like, well, here's the way I can avoid

489
00:23:00,119 --> 00:23:02,800
Speaker 3: the tests that they're gonna give me. Whatever the home

490
00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:05,760
Speaker 3: remedies were, right, I know plenty of guys that were

491
00:23:05,840 --> 00:23:08,400
Speaker 3: running around drinking gallons of cranberry juice.

492
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Speaker 1: If I eat the poppy seed bagels, I'll get a

493
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Speaker 1: false test. I'll say, hey, I didn't do anything, but

494
00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:14,200
Speaker 1: I had poppy seed bagels, and they'll have to give

495
00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:16,760
Speaker 1: me the test like in a month, right, yeah, okay, right.

496
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Speaker 3: This will get out of my system in this many

497
00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:21,280
Speaker 3: days or whatever else. Like there's plenty of that with

498
00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:24,080
Speaker 3: profar might have thought he was gonna be in the

499
00:23:24,119 --> 00:23:26,000
Speaker 3: clear of that it was all right, I did this.

500
00:23:26,359 --> 00:23:27,920
Speaker 3: At this point, it's like, I know if the test

501
00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:31,119
Speaker 3: came early, right, because what do we talk about in

502
00:23:31,119 --> 00:23:33,199
Speaker 3: the NFL? You knew when you were gonna get tested?

503
00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:36,040
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you got bopped? Yeah, like you were dope.

504
00:23:36,640 --> 00:23:39,439
Speaker 3: Not What did Brady Cachuk say? They drug tested him

505
00:23:39,520 --> 00:23:41,240
Speaker 3: right after the gold medal game. They walked in and

506
00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:43,840
Speaker 3: they drug testing right away. Congraduate here, right here, here's

507
00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:46,280
Speaker 3: a bottle. Go ahead, we need something from that, right, Like, guys,

508
00:23:46,400 --> 00:23:49,199
Speaker 3: right after big performance, how many kickers? Hey, I just

509
00:23:49,280 --> 00:23:51,920
Speaker 3: kicked a couple of fifty plus yard field goals. Hey,

510
00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:52,440
Speaker 3: pee in the cup?

511
00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:54,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, we do it for you right now. So again,

512
00:23:54,760 --> 00:23:57,800
Speaker 1: just understand it's it's not about being stupid, it's about

513
00:23:57,800 --> 00:24:02,359
Speaker 1: being desperate. Uh. Now, he got more baseball coming up

514
00:24:02,440 --> 00:24:05,240
Speaker 1: later on in the show. But today was tag day

515
00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:07,720
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Right, we talked about Breise Hall getting

516
00:24:07,720 --> 00:24:10,560
Speaker 1: the franchise tag. We talked about Kenneth Walker not getting

517
00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:12,840
Speaker 1: a tag at all. God be allowed to hit free agency.

518
00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:17,280
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones, quarterback of the Colts, was hit with the

519
00:24:18,800 --> 00:24:23,200
Speaker 1: seldom used transition tag. Now what is the transition tag?

520
00:24:23,240 --> 00:24:25,560
Speaker 1: You might say, Well, I'll explain it for you. I

521
00:24:25,560 --> 00:24:27,640
Speaker 1: feel like I should be doing with like those Jurassic

522
00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:32,480
Speaker 1: Park PowerPoint. What is the Creocene era? The tag guarantees

523
00:24:32,560 --> 00:24:35,399
Speaker 1: the Colts the right of first refusal for Daniel Jones,

524
00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:38,720
Speaker 1: preserving the right to match any competing offer sheet he

525
00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:41,439
Speaker 1: might sign with another team. Okay, so this is what

526
00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:45,280
Speaker 1: the transition tag is. If Jones does not sign a

527
00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:48,000
Speaker 1: competing offer sheet, like nobody else wants to sign him.

528
00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:51,120
Speaker 1: He'll get a one year guaranteed salary of thirty seven

529
00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:53,879
Speaker 1: and a half million dollars. Okay, so this is this

530
00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:56,000
Speaker 1: is what they've done. The transition tag. It's a little

531
00:24:56,040 --> 00:24:58,920
Speaker 1: bit lower, but it's a little bit easier to match.

532
00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:01,520
Speaker 1: But this is what the the Colts have decided to do.

533
00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:05,120
Speaker 1: So it's right of first refusal for Daniel Jones if

534
00:25:05,160 --> 00:25:09,000
Speaker 1: no team signs him one year, thirty seven point eight

535
00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:13,400
Speaker 1: million dollars. I got news for the Colts. I got

536
00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:16,520
Speaker 1: news for lots of teams. It's great the Colts did this,

537
00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:18,680
Speaker 1: and I know they feel like maybe we were riding

538
00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:22,119
Speaker 1: the lightning on this. Nobody was gonna do this for

539
00:25:22,240 --> 00:25:25,520
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones. No one is going in like this with

540
00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:29,760
Speaker 1: money for Daniel Jones. Nobody is. Daniel Jones is a

541
00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:33,840
Speaker 1: quarterback of one, meaning there's one team that thinks he's

542
00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:36,320
Speaker 1: really valuable and he is to that team. Because this

543
00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:39,080
Speaker 1: is why we say there's a system for everybody. I

544
00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:42,120
Speaker 1: told you last what last offseason, Daniel Jones. Watch out

545
00:25:42,200 --> 00:25:44,520
Speaker 1: him and the Colts. He's gonna take over and watch

546
00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:46,920
Speaker 1: what he's gonna do with all those offensive weapons. It's

547
00:25:46,920 --> 00:25:48,880
Speaker 1: gonna play right into what he does well, and Daniel

548
00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:51,440
Speaker 1: Jones is having a Pro Bowl type season before he

549
00:25:51,440 --> 00:25:53,160
Speaker 1: wind up getting knocked out. For the other Colts, we're

550
00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:55,560
Speaker 1: steaming towards being the number one seed in the AFC.

551
00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:58,280
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones gets hurt and they're finishing the season with

552
00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:02,119
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers at quarterback. But nobody else is at this

553
00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:04,840
Speaker 1: point saying, hey, we want to go spend a lot

554
00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:07,120
Speaker 1: of money on Daniel Josh. Minnesota might wanted to bring

555
00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:10,399
Speaker 1: him back, but no one's gonna spend that kind of

556
00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:13,040
Speaker 1: money on him. Yeah, if Daniel Jones was out there

557
00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:16,440
Speaker 1: for free, okay, I can see, you know, because hey,

558
00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:19,600
Speaker 1: he clearly showed that, you know what, he restarted his career.

559
00:26:19,840 --> 00:26:23,520
Speaker 1: But the money that he would be due, teams are

560
00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:26,240
Speaker 1: looking at guys like Kyler Murray and Gino Smith is

561
00:26:26,240 --> 00:26:28,440
Speaker 1: gonna be out there and two and they're saying, yeah,

562
00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:31,240
Speaker 1: they're gonna be less money and they actually have a

563
00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:34,919
Speaker 1: little bit better resume. Daniel Jones would be interesting if

564
00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:37,400
Speaker 1: I didn't have to pay anything for him. He's valuable

565
00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:40,040
Speaker 1: to the Colts, but that's really it, and there's no

566
00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:42,600
Speaker 1: way he's leaving. He wants to have a nice, long

567
00:26:42,640 --> 00:26:45,280
Speaker 1: career in the NFL. He's not gonna jump and sign

568
00:26:45,359 --> 00:26:47,639
Speaker 1: someplace else. Say yeah, they want me, I'm going here. No,

569
00:26:47,760 --> 00:26:50,520
Speaker 1: he knows. Hey, I went to Indianapolis and I had

570
00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:53,040
Speaker 1: the best year of my career. I was fantastic. I

571
00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:55,600
Speaker 1: want to go back there. There should be so much

572
00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:58,760
Speaker 1: interest in him going back and the Colts having him.

573
00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:01,600
Speaker 1: This should be unnett necessary. But I get the Colts

574
00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:03,320
Speaker 1: wanting to protect them because you don't know how things

575
00:27:03,320 --> 00:27:06,400
Speaker 1: are gonna go. But there was no even in the offseason,

576
00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:08,879
Speaker 1: all of this talk about Daniel Judges. Daniel Jones is

577
00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:11,000
Speaker 1: coming back to the Colts. He's gonna heal, He's gonna

578
00:27:11,040 --> 00:27:12,960
Speaker 1: get back. They're gonna make him the number one quarterback

579
00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:14,880
Speaker 1: again because they saw how good he was. And they'll

580
00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:16,520
Speaker 1: bring back Alec Pierce. That's the big one.

581
00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:16,679
Speaker 4: Now.

582
00:27:16,680 --> 00:27:18,720
Speaker 1: You want to bring him back because he's averages, you know,

583
00:27:18,800 --> 00:27:23,320
Speaker 1: thirty seven yards of reception. But Daniel Jones, I never

584
00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:26,720
Speaker 1: thought there was any situation where he wouldn't be going

585
00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:27,480
Speaker 1: back to the Colts.

586
00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:29,760
Speaker 3: No, it's just a question of what type of deal

587
00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:31,440
Speaker 3: it was gonna be. On the fact that he used

588
00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:35,959
Speaker 3: this transition tag, the estimation is that it's fewer than

589
00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:39,359
Speaker 3: two dozen since it was brought in nineteen ninety three.

590
00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:44,080
Speaker 3: But you talk about a thirty seven million dollar price

591
00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:48,960
Speaker 3: in a row, I line them up dollar bills that

592
00:27:49,520 --> 00:27:53,080
Speaker 3: you're just looking at a huge amount of money and

593
00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:55,840
Speaker 3: nobody else is going on to that level like he

594
00:27:55,880 --> 00:27:57,920
Speaker 3: would have had interest, no question about it. We talked

595
00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:00,720
Speaker 3: about Kyler Murray and the fact that the the Cardinals

596
00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:03,720
Speaker 3: still have to pay him nearly that same amount. I mean,

597
00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:05,840
Speaker 3: someone's gonna get a bargain because you know they're not

598
00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:08,240
Speaker 3: gonna have to pay him that much since he's already

599
00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:12,160
Speaker 3: getting that kind of deal. But I guess you would

600
00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:14,720
Speaker 3: wonder if Minnesota would give him a multi year deal

601
00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:18,240
Speaker 3: or one of these other squads would decide, hey, that

602
00:28:18,359 --> 00:28:21,160
Speaker 3: was we saw enough with Steichen, Hey we like what's

603
00:28:21,160 --> 00:28:24,640
Speaker 3: been generated there. But coming back off injury, Anthony Richardson's

604
00:28:24,680 --> 00:28:27,600
Speaker 3: already been given permission to go figure out a trade

605
00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:31,119
Speaker 3: partner that for the Colts, yeah, you want to keep

606
00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:34,480
Speaker 3: building on what was a very successful first half of

607
00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:36,719
Speaker 3: a year. I'm presuming he's healthy and ready to go.

608
00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:40,560
Speaker 1: He is the first quarterback to get the transition tag

609
00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:47,320
Speaker 1: since nineteen ninety six. Ninety six Jeff George getting the

610
00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:49,360
Speaker 1: transition tag in nineteen ninety six.

611
00:28:49,440 --> 00:28:51,680
Speaker 3: I saw his name on the list. I didn't realize

612
00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:52,760
Speaker 3: he was last.

613
00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:55,400
Speaker 1: Jeff's never did it when like Hackenberg, we know we

614
00:28:56,240 --> 00:28:58,480
Speaker 1: the Jet side people on the transition tag. When they

615
00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:02,200
Speaker 1: transitioned from being really bad to really really bad. That's

616
00:29:02,240 --> 00:29:04,400
Speaker 1: the Jets transition. We go from really bad, We're gonna

617
00:29:04,440 --> 00:29:07,280
Speaker 1: go down. We're gonna be really taking it to Kenyon

618
00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:11,640
Speaker 1: Drake got the transition tables in twenty twenty, and your

619
00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:14,880
Speaker 1: bears gave Kyle Fuller the transition tag in twenty eighteen.

620
00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:16,640
Speaker 1: I remember, and then retired today.

621
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:20,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, my center retired today. Yeah, congratulations on that. It's

622
00:29:20,160 --> 00:29:22,000
Speaker 3: kind of a big deal. Boy, he was a pro bowler.

623
00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:24,760
Speaker 3: He gave him a big contract. Boy, good luck. So

624
00:29:24,920 --> 00:29:29,800
Speaker 3: the question here is I have enough money, I'm leaving goodbye.

625
00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:33,320
Speaker 3: He will have to pay back potentially four million dollars

626
00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:34,240
Speaker 3: in bonuses, not if.

627
00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:38,120
Speaker 1: They can't find him, well, not if they can't find me.

628
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:41,240
Speaker 3: Is this the act of a man saying I wanted

629
00:29:41,440 --> 00:29:44,440
Speaker 3: to renegotiate after a really good year and they told

630
00:29:44,520 --> 00:29:47,480
Speaker 3: him the pound sand So he said, I'm believing made it.

631
00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:50,360
Speaker 1: Time now to find out what's trending in the wide

632
00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:52,400
Speaker 1: world of sports with someone who's been called the Daniel

633
00:29:52,480 --> 00:29:56,800
Speaker 1: Jones of Fox Sports Radio. They loved him in New York.

634
00:29:57,240 --> 00:29:59,480
Speaker 1: They didn't like him in New York. Now they love

635
00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:03,320
Speaker 1: men Indie, but not as much as Kurtzignetti or Fernando Mendoza.

636
00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:05,760
Speaker 1: It's Steve to say yes, just like that, I am

637
00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:06,520
Speaker 1: just like that.

638
00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:09,480
Speaker 6: We have two late games in the NBA in La

639
00:30:09,840 --> 00:30:12,920
Speaker 6: Pelicans are leading the Lakers with about seven minutes to go,

640
00:30:13,080 --> 00:30:16,200
Speaker 6: ninety four to eighty six, Lakers with twenty turnovers in

641
00:30:16,320 --> 00:30:21,200
Speaker 6: counting Luka Donsich with twenty points seven turnovers. And the

642
00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:24,240
Speaker 6: really late game it started well after eleven Eastern time.

643
00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:27,960
Speaker 1: The game started at midnight, tip off at twelve thirty man.

644
00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:30,520
Speaker 1: As well Don Kirshner's rock concert on NBC.

645
00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:33,720
Speaker 3: And this game nicely done.

646
00:30:33,360 --> 00:30:35,160
Speaker 6: Paul Schaeffer with a special appearance.

647
00:30:35,240 --> 00:30:38,000
Speaker 1: They were waving goodbye on SNL. They're all waving at

648
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:40,040
Speaker 1: the end, and then we tipped off this game.

649
00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:44,640
Speaker 6: So who's the special guests? Is it gonna be Casey

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Speaker 6: in the Sunshine Band? Perhaps, Well, let's see. Well, this

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Speaker 6: is a throwback game to the nineties. It's the Cat

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Speaker 6: and they're doing the Graph of the nineties and coming up

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Speaker 6: on Saturday Night Live. It will be hosted by one

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Speaker 6: Ona Ryder and musical guest Sponge Wow heyel a point

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Speaker 6: for even coming up with that.

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Speaker 1: Sixteen candles down the drain duty to do You Do?

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Speaker 7: Do You?

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Speaker 6: The Phoenix Suns are leading at Sacramento mid third quarter,

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Speaker 6: sixty nine to sixty three. There's a late night doubleheader

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Speaker 6: of college hoops on FS one already at Arizona State,

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Speaker 6: the sun Devils beat number fourteen Kansas seventy to sixty.

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Speaker 6: ASU led by twenty at the half, and then the

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Speaker 6: game at UCLA going on right now. Bruins lead number

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Speaker 6: nine Nebraska fifty two to thirty six with eleven minutes

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Speaker 6: to go. Georgia upsid Alabama. TCU won at number ten

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Speaker 6: Texas Tech Vanderbilt in overtime win at Ole Miss Saint

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Speaker 6: John's came back to edge Georgetown. And Miami, Ohio ranked

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Speaker 6: nineteenth in the country this week, it's highest ranking since

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Speaker 6: nineteen fifty three. Is now thirty and oh Miami Ohio

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Speaker 6: seventy four to seventy two winners against Toledo by the

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Speaker 6: way I didn't mention in the NBA at Minnesota, forty

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Speaker 6: one points for Anthony Edwards in a victory against Memphis,

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Speaker 6: and at Orlando thirty seven points for Polo Bencero in

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Speaker 6: a victory against Washington, which has lost six in a

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Speaker 6: row to the NHL. Dallas has won ten straight. Got

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Speaker 6: a six to one win at Calgary under two minutes

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Speaker 6: to play. San Jose. Sharks are up six to five

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Speaker 6: on Montreal victories for Minnesota and Colorado wins for Buffalo

679
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Speaker 6: and Boston as well. The New York Jets franchise tagged

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Speaker 6: running back Bresee Hall. Today was the deadline to do that.

681
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Speaker 6: Braves outfielder Jerrekson Profar was handed a one year suspension

682
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Speaker 6: after failing at ped test for the second time in

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Speaker 6: the last year. He served eighty games last season. Among

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Speaker 6: the many exhibitions, Toronto got a three run homer bottom

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Speaker 6: of the eighth to beat the Canadian national team ten

686
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Speaker 6: to seven. World Baseball Classic starts this week. Team USA

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Speaker 6: won its exhibition in Arizona against the San Francisco Giants

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Speaker 6: fifteen to one. Pitcher Paul Skens at Pittsburgh started four

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Speaker 6: strikeouts no walks in his three innings of work. Then

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Speaker 6: Matthew Boyd to the Cubs with two and two third scoreless,

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Speaker 6: four strikeouts, no walks, Alex Bregman a solo homer. Tomorrow,

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Speaker 6: it's the US against the Rockies. Team USA's opponent to

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Speaker 6: open the tournament Friday night is Brazil in Houston on Fox.

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Speaker 1: Team That's like in the in the late seventies Rush

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Speaker 1: against the United States and hockey. We have Team USA

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Speaker 1: against the Rockies. Like wow, that would be like a

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Speaker 1: Mike Ruzioni Biblical proportions. Upset for that.

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Speaker 6: By the way, Brazil baseball, they just stopped it in

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Speaker 6: the seventh inning.

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Speaker 1: It was that bad.

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Speaker 6: They lost fourteen to four to the A's. A's can't

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Speaker 6: call them. Oakland scored seven times in the first inning,

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Speaker 6: and we had Kansas City shutting out Cuba for nothing.

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Speaker 1: Today. Back to you like you, Steve, Jason Smith, Mike

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Speaker 1: Harmon live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. We have

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Speaker 1: more NFL on the way, but coming up next. We

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Speaker 1: do this when teams, athletes, coaches deserve it. We have

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Speaker 1: a big time appreciation moment for a squad that absolutely

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Speaker 1: deserves it. Coming up next, right here, who is it?

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Speaker 1: That's next Jason to Mike, Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 7: Don't ask why five second dance party do do?

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

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

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Speaker 2: pm Pacific.

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Speaker 1: With a Whoop Whoop, and and it and A and

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Speaker 1: a nix Yo Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show

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Speaker 1: with my best friend Mike Harmon. Yeazer, we got big

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Speaker 1: stuff from the NFL coming up in about ten minutes,

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Speaker 1: big great, fat hot take on Kyler Murray. But you know,

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Speaker 1: we like to do this when it merits to have

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Speaker 1: an appreciation moment. We're pull of positivity here on a

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Speaker 1: Tuesday night for a team, athlete, coach that deserves recognition

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Speaker 1: for what they've been doing.

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Speaker 3: Are you raising your voice on me?

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Speaker 1: You know cameras are on, man, dude, you know cameras

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Speaker 1: are on right now. Second half, UCLA leads number nine

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Speaker 1: Nebraska by twelve fifty seven forty five. They have been

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Speaker 1: on top by between ten and fifteen points for basically

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Speaker 1: this entire game, and for UCLA coming off that eighty

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Speaker 1: two point fifty nine loss to Michigan State where Mick

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Speaker 1: Cronin threw one of his own players out of the game,

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Speaker 1: melted down with a reporter after you've raised your I

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Speaker 1: mean this whole thing. It seemed like it was over

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Speaker 1: for UCLA at that point. Right at that point the season,

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Speaker 1: they were seventeen to nine, didn't look like they were

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Speaker 1: doing anything. And Mick Cronin I can't believe he was

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Speaker 1: still allowed to coach the game of the following Saturday

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Speaker 1: against Illinois, told you because that was he was. I

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Speaker 1: the low point for UCLA basketball was hit. Since then,

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Speaker 1: they beat number ten Illinois, they beat him in overtime,

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Speaker 1: they beat usc Now they lost in Minnesota. But if

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Speaker 1: they hold on to win tonight, this is the third

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Speaker 1: win over a top ten team that they all have

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Speaker 1: had in the last month and a half. Because they

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Speaker 1: already beat number four per Due right they have the

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Speaker 1: win against Illinois Nebraska, this will be three top ten

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Speaker 1: wins in the last month. They win this game tonight,

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Speaker 1: they are safely not even like bubble because right now

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Speaker 1: they're bubble. They're projected potentially be able. We got a

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Speaker 1: ways to go. They are safely into the NCAA Tournament,

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Speaker 1: which is something considering how this season was teetering on

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Speaker 1: being absolute anarchy coming off of that loss to a

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Speaker 1: Michigan State and here they are now just a few

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Speaker 1: minutes away, holding on to a twelve point lead of

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Speaker 1: basically guaranteeing they'll be in the tournament.

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Speaker 3: Well'll be their seventeenth win at home. So as long

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Speaker 3: as they don't leave the friendly confines of the home court,

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Speaker 3: they're great to.

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Speaker 1: Keep playing at Paul. That's dang. I appreciate that.

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Speaker 3: For the course of the year, they are sixteen and

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Speaker 3: one entering tonight's play, four and oher against top opponents.

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Speaker 3: On the road neutral three and nine, zero to three.

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Speaker 1: Against good teams.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, play at home, take care of business, and

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Speaker 3: they still have what one more game on the road

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Speaker 3: at USC. I mean they're kicking off the kicking out

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Speaker 3: the twenty six year old.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, on the squad, this would be twenty wins, they

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Speaker 1: would be twelve and seven in conference. They would again

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Speaker 1: three wins, top ten teams. It's pretty easy. It's probably

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Speaker 1: gets them into the top twenty five. Win this game

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Speaker 1: and then you beat USC on Saturday. This will get

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Speaker 1: you in. They'll they'll be ranked somewhere in the top

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Speaker 1: between twenty and twenty five. Like this, this should get

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Speaker 1: you in and I mean for all teams that say, oh,

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Speaker 1: look at the chaos we had at the season, how

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Speaker 1: are we ever gonna do something positive? We just had

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Speaker 1: to mail it until the end of the year. Like

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Speaker 1: this shows you that you can come back from something really,

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Speaker 1: really bad, something that will could derail your season, and

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Speaker 1: you can still not only survive it, but thrive after it.

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Speaker 1: Because they were dead in the water after this, I thought,

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Speaker 1: it's a new head coach knew everything, and Mick Cronin

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Speaker 1: and UCLA have found a way to not only bounce back,

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Speaker 1: but here they are again. They are seven minutes away

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Speaker 1: from being safely into the NCAA tournament. Probably is a

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Speaker 1: top Probably is a seventh seed, maybe a seven or

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Speaker 1: eight at worse, I say six to seven, but probably

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Speaker 1: seven or eight they would be at I would say

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Speaker 1: at the end, depending how far they go in the

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Speaker 1: Big ten tournament.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it'd be curious to see. I mean, for McK cronin,

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Speaker 3: it's just these the latest in the line of UCLA

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Speaker 3: coaches who weren't exactly how should we say, nice and

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Speaker 3: soft and warm and fuzzy and cuddley. I mean, they're

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Speaker 3: all bristle at at any criticism and in his case

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Speaker 3: that extreme didn't think it would cost him, particularly with

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Speaker 3: that game against Illinois on the horizon, but they came

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Speaker 3: out and they get a big win in that spot.

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Speaker 3: Uh and and in a convincing way, and certainly for

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Speaker 3: this game as as we've watched this one unfold. Uh,

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Speaker 3: pretty commanding lead all the way through against uh the

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Speaker 3: Mayor's squad. Uh and if they finished this off in

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Speaker 3: fine fashion, yeah, uh you get ready for the tournament

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00:39:45,080 --> 00:39:48,720
Speaker 3: to where they they become a dangerous squad. We've watched

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Speaker 3: it over the course of the year where they've had

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Speaker 3: some pretty good runs, but on neutral and away from home,

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Speaker 3: they're just so much a different squad.

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Speaker 1: I mean really, I mean but look, I get the

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Speaker 1: you talk about home and away and where they are. Okay, yeah,

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Speaker 1: at home they're great, and away they're not great. But

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Speaker 1: games run a neutral floor, so okay, yeah, but.

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Speaker 3: They're three and nine, so we'll see.

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Speaker 1: I feel like this is yeah, it's it's at home.

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Speaker 1: But I mean, you can't cut up three wins over

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Speaker 1: top ten team. No, no, no wins seven und good coach.

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Speaker 1: I can still call him a baby, oh sure, but

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Speaker 1: to be able to still be that guy to still

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Speaker 1: have USLA at this point. Uh, it really isn't It

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Speaker 1: really is incredible. It really is incredible to be where

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Speaker 1: they are right now, again, seven minutes away from clinching that.

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Speaker 3: But if they put him out on the East coast,

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Speaker 3: he's gonna complain about the travel again.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he'll always complain. But where they are now,

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Speaker 1: look at where they are coming up next. Yes, that great,

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Speaker 1: big hot take on the biggest NFL story of the day.

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Speaker 1: Jason and Mike