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Speaker 3: That's right, Alex Monico and Martin Wise. I'm Martin Wise,

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Speaker 3: joined here with Alex Monico, filling in for Rob Parker

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Speaker 3: and Kelvin Washington on a trash talking Tuesday, trashing the

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Speaker 3: Detroit Tigers. You stink blowing it to the Twins. It's ridiculous,

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Speaker 3: But uh, Alex, you're a Southern California guy, born and bred,

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Speaker 3: even though you now are traversed the networks for the

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Speaker 3: MSG networks covering the Knicks and the Rangers and whoever

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Speaker 3: else is over there the sphere.

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Speaker 4: Suppose getting ready for my fifth New York Winner. Let's

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Speaker 4: go there, you go, You could teach me a thing

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Speaker 4: or two. You survive Michigan a fifth year, Tell me

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Speaker 4: about the fifth winter.

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Speaker 3: Barely stay inside, That's what I did. But I knew

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Speaker 3: that you were super excited, as well as a lot

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Speaker 3: of Southern California was when Luka Doncics was announced and

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Speaker 3: as the newest star centerpiece for the Los Angeles like

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Speaker 3: as three years, hundred sixty five million dollars which I

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Speaker 3: did not realize this at the time when we were

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Speaker 3: discussing this on Saturday. Lines him up in the next

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Speaker 3: from two years from now to become the first million

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Speaker 3: ish a game player in the NBA. Oh yeah, we'll

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Speaker 3: be signing for just eighty million dollars, bud. They only

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Speaker 3: play eighty two so Luca spoiler alert, Luca will not

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Speaker 3: play eighty two games that year, so he will make

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Speaker 3: over a million dollars per game played. But it was

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Speaker 3: all smiles and elsagundo at Lynn Lakerland for everyone who

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Speaker 3: was there. Luca donc just did a dress the crowd

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Speaker 3: of media, reporters and several of his teammates. This is

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Speaker 3: what young Luca had to say.

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Speaker 5: Luca, good to see it, Congratulations you mentioned and kind

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Speaker 5: of the post you put out on social media the

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Speaker 5: Championships being important to you. Here you guys lost in

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Speaker 5: the first round. You look like a different person since then.

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Speaker 5: What do you feel like You're going to bring to

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Speaker 5: that championship pursuit next year, and how do you feel

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Speaker 5: like the team is constructed to try to achieve that goal.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, honestly, I think we have a great team. We

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Speaker 3: have what we need to compete for the championship. So

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Speaker 3: that was a little bit of a Luca, a lot

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Speaker 3: of bit of Dave McManaman. But we got the point.

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Speaker 3: Lucas says, we got all we need right here. Now

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Speaker 3: here's my question to you, Monica hit me and my

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Speaker 3: question to America at large, because when I saw Rachel

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Speaker 3: Nichols tweet this picture out, She's tweeted and said the

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Speaker 3: Lakers and Luca right now, she was straight down the middle.

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Speaker 3: She's not trying to start no stuff. Don't worry, I

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Speaker 3: will I retweet. I said, I see somebody missing Starling

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Speaker 3: Pop Martin. So Lucas says, we got all we need

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Speaker 3: to win a championship right here. Notably absent Austin Reeves,

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Speaker 3: Lebron James, and Lebron James Jr. From said press conference.

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Speaker 3: Now it was Lucas saying, we got all we got

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Speaker 3: right here in this room. Need to know what kind

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Speaker 3: of like on Lakers dot Com when you click roster.

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Speaker 6: I would really hope the ladder.

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Speaker 4: I I'd like to hypothesize he meant the ladder there

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Speaker 4: he insinuated the guys on the room, right, Martin, tell

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Speaker 4: me that's the case.

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Speaker 3: I mean. I put it like this man had a microphone,

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Speaker 4: Him Da and Marcus Smart, two of those three, as

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Speaker 4: you alluded to eloquently on Saturday, were paid not to

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Speaker 4: be at their previous teams, are enough to win a ring.

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Speaker 4: I'm gonna have to sign off right now. He had

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Speaker 3: I will say this as much as I chastised Michael

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Speaker 3: about to take the league over. He started three games

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Speaker 3: in his career that's far played in five. Luca has

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Speaker 3: more All pros than Michael Penicks. Michael Pennix has starts

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Speaker 3: in the NFL. I am fine with Luca Danta saying

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Speaker 3: A okay with it, because he should have a level

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Speaker 3: not because he has done so, but because he lost

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Speaker 3: one in such spectacular fashion that there's some level of

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna figure this out and then to be traded

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Speaker 3: unceremoniously from the team that you did lose that championship

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Speaker 3: just how how much better I look at how much

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Speaker 4: It's Luca two point zero. This is crazy stupid love

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Speaker 4: act three. This is after the Gosply makeover baby, except

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Speaker 4: it's in the gym, not at North Trimps. But you

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Speaker 4: brought up a phenomenal point when we were talking this out.

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Speaker 4: Because I'm the Laker fan of the room here, I'm

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Speaker 4: a little emotional looking at the painting. You're a more

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Speaker 4: logical looking at the painting. Working through this, you said,

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Speaker 6: Washington was in Dallas. Sure, which is a great thought.

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Speaker 4: And so again we gotta rebring it up based off

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Speaker 4: the Luca quote here, if Lebron had buy in, I

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Speaker 4: think they can go to see biscuit distance. The key

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Speaker 4: is going to be leadership and communication. I think the

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Speaker 3: That may not be the best take, but again they did.

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Speaker 3: There are two players expected to be in the rotation,

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Speaker 3: one a most definite starter, who were paid to leave.

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Speaker 3: They were evicted from their old job. They were paid

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Speaker 3: to leave, and now are back, you know, I mean

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Speaker 3: back working good for them, but paid to leave. And

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Speaker 3: I'm not talking for two weeks. I'm looking forever, like

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Speaker 3: you get paid to go on vacation, go two weeks

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Speaker 3: with the case that we trade all the work you

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Speaker 3: do throughout the year, oh fifty SOMEI weeks. You go

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Speaker 3: in there and punch the clock. We'll give you two back.

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Speaker 3: Here you go. No, no, they said, we're we are.

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Speaker 3: We'd rather not. They essentially got laid off, you know.

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Speaker 3: And so you're telling me that DeAndre Ayton, who I

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Speaker 4: Yes, but there's something to be said about again playing

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Speaker 4: meaningful basketball. Marcus Smart in the finals fifteen to five

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Speaker 4: Game one against the Bucks in the finals. Two guys

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Speaker 4: the finals and lost, and a guy chasing Jordan. You

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Speaker 4: would like to think and ringless JJ Redicks Noggin he

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Speaker 3: It's been an entire presidential term since any of those

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Speaker 3: other thing that you mentioned. Jonathan James Reddick, who made

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Speaker 3: the genius move of Game four, says, you know what

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Speaker 3: I've got it, I know what I'll do. I'm gonna

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Speaker 3: play My starter is the whole second half, like nobody

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Speaker 3: else has thought. I think it's a good idea to

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Speaker 3: keep my best players in as long as possible.

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Speaker 4: I'm shocked that you're not feeling a little more optimistic

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Speaker 6: Full eighty two, which, oh, by the way, we got

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Speaker 4: Sample of when Luca was festively plump and sad.

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Speaker 3: Listen, I think Luka Doncic can change the forces of

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Speaker 3: your franchise. I both would have traded him if I

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Speaker 3: was Dallas because I don't think you get this version

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Speaker 3: of Luka Doncics unless you do make a move. I

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Speaker 3: also would have been up there smiling like Ronald McDonald

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Speaker 3: as Luca Dodget if please let me give you a

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Speaker 3: hundred and sixty five million dollars, Please let me give

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Speaker 3: you a hundred and sixty five million dollars, I'd be

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Speaker 3: begging please.

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Speaker 4: I'm begging you to just try to talk to Lakers

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Speaker 4: Nation that if we have buy in.

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Speaker 3: But this is you could look, you'll have the buy

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Speaker 3: you could have the buy in. But here's the problem. Okay,

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Speaker 3: see is seventy.

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Speaker 6: Rob can you back me up? Please?

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Speaker 4: Luca was taken down this SGA roster minus of Caruso

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Speaker 4: and Hartenstein with two K seventy eights.

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Speaker 7: You know what's funny about the discourse around the Lakers

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Speaker 7: right now is outside of okay see, because you know,

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Speaker 7: the defending champ, they had the greatest regular season ever whatever,

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Speaker 7: the team that most people bring up as the biggest

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Speaker 7: third in the Western Conference of Denver Nuggets, and they're like, hey,

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Speaker 7: they got your they got Jamal Murray. You know, they're

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Speaker 7: they're legit. And he saw their offseason. What's funny is

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Speaker 7: all of the issues that Denver has is like a

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Speaker 7: mirror image of what the Lakers are. They got Jokic,

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Speaker 7: we got Luca, they got Jamal Murray, we got Lebron.

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Speaker 7: They got a defensively challenged roster. We got a defensive

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Speaker 7: challenge roster. And yet people come in and be like, hey,

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Speaker 7: you see their offseason. They got Bruce brown back shooting

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Speaker 7: twenty eight percent from three, but he's gonna be nice

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Speaker 6: And it's like, why do.

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Speaker 7: They get the benefit of the doubt with their one

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Speaker 6: It's a great point, mart You want to answer.

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Speaker 3: That, Yeah, I'll answer that because they got yo Kicch,

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Speaker 3: we got Luca.

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Speaker 6: They the gap between jo Kich and Luca is not

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Speaker 3: First of all, we have to now remeasure the gap

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Speaker 6: Yeah, remeasure it, babe, because the.

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Speaker 3: Gap was bigger at that weight. So now we got

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Speaker 3: to remessage the gap now that Luca's lost the weight

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Speaker 3: and been out there. But I think the Nuggets did

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Speaker 7: Course they did, but they get the benefit of the

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Speaker 7: doubt that the Lakers don't not understand it.

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Speaker 6: They do. And also that team took the thunder.

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Speaker 4: The seven AG's Hammy goes out might be a different

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Speaker 4: entire narrative of a playoffs.

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Speaker 3: You said that team, just to be clear, it was

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Speaker 3: not the Lakers that took them. Nowhere team right, That team,

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Speaker 7: The Giants gus because Luca ate two boxes of bad

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Speaker 3: Or was it because first year JAG first year Coachiet

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Speaker 3: Medick said I'm going to burn the boats at halftime

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Speaker 3: of game four? Or was it the decision to play

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Speaker 3: Maxi Kleeber, who you know Jackson Hayes was surprised to

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Speaker 7: Well, you know, Maxie Cleeber also got to shape this

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Speaker 7: off seven. No one's talking about it because you look

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Speaker 7: at that Men's Health article last year.

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Speaker 4: Last year, theme wise, gentlemen, it was a year of continuity.

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Speaker 4: It was the teams that had the most players, ironically

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Speaker 4: in key roles from the year prior working their way

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Speaker 4: and then you Pepper in a Caruso and a Hartenstein.

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Speaker 6: It works out brilliantly.

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Speaker 4: But everyone knew their said roles and they had their

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Speaker 7: It's fine, listen, you're living off two thousand and four

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Speaker 3: But you ain't impressing nobody with that O four jeep chair. Kee,

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Speaker 3: This is what you're asking him to do. You're asking

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Speaker 3: what you're asking him to do? Because what do you

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Speaker 3: Because here's I can see it now. Remember Darvinham had

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Speaker 4: First of all, you got a Caruso headband high different

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Speaker 6: I would like to think we talked to Pat Okay.

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Speaker 3: I tell you what, I'm not an agent, but if

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Speaker 3: trying to negotiate between the Sanghai Sharks and you know,

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Speaker 4: When Lebron wins his fifth ring with the Luka Doncis

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Speaker 4: Yeah, a similar look to how I look in a

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Speaker 3: Here's the thing, I am getting married on Saturday. However,

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Speaker 4: He's in two honeymoon stages right now, Martin, the Steelers

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Speaker 3: No, I am not.

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Speaker 9: Hey, thanks for having me on. Guys very well. All

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Speaker 9: These numbers just move like absolutely crazy.

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Speaker 3: Guy, so speaking, the numbers moving crazy. Dors Sanders moving

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Speaker 9: You know, it's funny because some people will come at

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Speaker 9: me on social media and say, wow, you must be

437
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Speaker 9: a degenerate gambler. You're betting preseason now, cause ha ha ha,

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Speaker 9: I gotta be blunt. I wish we had preseason eighteen

439
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Speaker 9: weeks a year in a regular season three weeks a year. Wow,

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Speaker 9: that's the value of preseason. It's all about reading things.

441
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Speaker 9: It's all about having a good team, which I do.

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Speaker 9: They read the socials, they follow the beat reporters. We

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Speaker 9: get the best lines, the best injury information, who's not

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Speaker 9: gonna play, who's going to play. You have to know

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Speaker 9: the coaches too. You have to know what coach is

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Speaker 9: a good BS sir. I'm not trying to say they're lying,

447
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Speaker 9: but you know you could tell which who's gonna play with.

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Speaker 9: If a coach is aggressive as he wants to win.

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Speaker 9: Most coaches don't care. They just want a healthy squad

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Speaker 9: for the regular season. It's the reason why the preseason

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Speaker 9: was cut from four to three weeks. So I do

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Speaker 9: get it, and I get the teams that want to

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Speaker 9: play and actually want to maybe not this week so much.

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Speaker 9: Self played their starters. But yet some teams are we

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Speaker 9: see opening night we had like Detroit, I mean they

456
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Speaker 9: played nobody. I mean they you know, tried guys out

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Speaker 9: the whole game, second half. I thought they were ever

458
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Speaker 9: going to play some more guys. They didn't at all,

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Speaker 9: didn't care about the game. Chargers may have cared about

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Speaker 9: the game a little bit more, but uh, you know,

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Speaker 9: that's what you have to find out. They're the core

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Speaker 9: components that make up a winning sports. Better for myself,

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Speaker 9: as you could see, Alex, I sent you a couple

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Speaker 9: of tickets of some copies of tickets. We don't have

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Speaker 9: to say the amounts. They were very good amounts, but

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Speaker 9: I don't want to look like I'm bragging or anything.

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Speaker 9: But you could see the stuff I bet at the

468
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Speaker 9: counter compared to the closing line. There's no sport any

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Speaker 9: time of the year that I'll take one and a

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Speaker 9: half points on a game at the counter, And it

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Speaker 9: went to seven that's right. Circa had minus seven on

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Speaker 9: the Bengals today where I showed you a ticket taking

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Speaker 9: one and a half now. But the only bad thing

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Speaker 9: is not a lot of the sportsbooks have these lines guys.

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Speaker 9: They're scared to death to put the lines up. As

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Speaker 9: you see where I bet it at, they put the lineup.

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Speaker 9: They had it up. It was there was only one

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Speaker 9: sportsbook in Las Vegas up when the sportsbooks back East

479
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Speaker 9: Draftking Fanzul they had lines up. Hard Rock and Florida

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Speaker 9: had lines up. But none of the major core casinos,

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Speaker 9: none of the big companies here in Las Vegas. One

482
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Speaker 9: had them up. But that's when they got a little bet.

483
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Speaker 9: But that's what it is. That's what it is here.

484
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Speaker 9: It's all about. It's a cat and mouse game and

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Speaker 9: I'm just trying to grind away and make some money. Guys.

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Speaker 4: Well, crack Alex here, appreciate you joining us. Last time

487
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Speaker 4: I saw you were picking up the tap because you

488
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Speaker 4: won and I lost and it was all in on

489
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Speaker 4: me and the Aaron Rodgers Jets. Now I'm following them

490
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Speaker 4: to Pittsburgh where I bet MGM the over is juiced

491
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Speaker 4: at eight and a half. Team total wins minus one

492
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Speaker 4: twenty even money on the under. I'm getting plus money

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Speaker 4: though on Pittsburgh crack to make the playoffs.

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Speaker 6: Am I on an emotional plank here?

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Speaker 4: Or is there a real merit to a top ten

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Speaker 4: talent and top ten company culture in Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 9: Listen, you know we're very rare that you have someone

498
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Speaker 9: on social media talks about their losers. Everyone that's on there,

499
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Speaker 9: these influencers only want to talk about wins. I lost

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Speaker 9: betting under on the Steelers last year, but what happened

501
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Speaker 9: was the end of the year. I thought it was

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Speaker 9: gonna happen earlier. They started losing. At the end of

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Speaker 9: the year. I lost by one win. I had under

504
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Speaker 9: on season wins this year. Everyone is they just everyone's

505
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Speaker 9: anti Rogers. Just say that people just don't like them personally,

506
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Speaker 9: and so actually they're betting me under again. However, myself,

507
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Speaker 9: I'm not betting. I'm neutral to it, not betting either way.

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Speaker 9: One thing good about bet MGM. They put up different

509
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Speaker 9: every week after after week one, after week two, after

510
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Speaker 9: week three, they put up a new adjusted line on

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Speaker 9: season wins. I want to tell you something, Only two

512
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Speaker 9: or three sportsbooks in the world do that. So I

513
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Speaker 9: like to see what happens that first week, see what happens,

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Speaker 9: and then we go from there. To be honest with you,

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Speaker 9: I probably lean to the over with you, so because

516
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Speaker 9: it was it was, it was banged down to the

517
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Speaker 9: other for a while, and they didn't know they were

518
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Speaker 9: who was going to be the quarterback? And Rogers, I

519
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Speaker 9: don't know. I'm not gonna say he held out because

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Speaker 9: he didn't hold out. We all kind of knew what

521
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Speaker 9: was happening there and we'll see what happens. Though I

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Speaker 9: leaned over with you, all right.

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Speaker 3: Crag uh. The NFC North to me is an enigma.

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Speaker 3: I feel like all those teams right now in terms

525
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Speaker 3: of win totals are all kind of packed together, and

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Speaker 3: I feel like I like the Lions, but the coordinators,

527
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Speaker 3: I don't like the Vikings, with the with the ostensibly

528
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Speaker 3: rookie quarterback. All they do at Bears camp apparently is

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Speaker 3: fight and the Packers Jordan Love is he feels the

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Speaker 3: only player that you go through the supermarket and say, hey,

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Speaker 3: you know who plays for the Packers? They Jordan loved

532
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Speaker 3: the only answer that anybody has. I know some people,

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Speaker 3: but I'm me crack. Where are you looking at for?

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Speaker 3: The NFC North.

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Speaker 9: Listen, I bet I did just bet someone you don't

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Speaker 9: like there. I bet at bet MGM. Actually they had

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Speaker 9: plus four to seventy five on the Vikings. I thought

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Speaker 9: it was pretty good value. Backs then NFC North. Now

539
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Speaker 9: that the Lions at the time they were minus minus

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Speaker 9: one twenty, they're now plus one forty five at bet MGM,

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Speaker 9: Packers plus two seventy five, Vikings plus three to one,

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Speaker 9: the Bears plus five fifty. It just so happens that

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Speaker 9: you picked the division NFC North, where I made a

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Speaker 9: ton of bets. I bet Vikings too make the playoffs.

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Speaker 9: I took a dollar ten, even laid a dollar ten.

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Speaker 9: And I actually made a bet last week just because

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Speaker 9: I was an outlier. I found the Lions at plus

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Speaker 9: one ninety not to make the playoffs plus twent eighty

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Speaker 9: five I've seen also. Now, that's nothing to do with

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Speaker 9: that first preseason game. That means nothing. As a matter

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Speaker 9: of fact, all of these preseasons games mean nothing for

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Speaker 9: the regular season. How many times have we seen in

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Speaker 9: the past when they had four games, teams go four

554
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Speaker 9: to zho he's going four and the exact opposite happens

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Speaker 9: during the season. So you pick the division that I

556
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Speaker 9: have a lot of bets. I also have Bears not

557
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Speaker 9: to make the playoffs too. I know that's upsetting for

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Speaker 9: a lot of people, a lot of Bears fans, a

559
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Speaker 9: lot of Chicago love. Here in Las Vegas, we get

560
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Speaker 9: so many people that bet on the Bears that there

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Speaker 9: is no value here in town betting on the Bears.

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Speaker 9: The only thing you can do is anti Bears, underseason wins,

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Speaker 9: no playoffs. I chose no playoffs. There a smaller bet

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Speaker 9: on the underseason wins. But I don't know. I think

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Speaker 9: the Vikings. We'll see how this quarterback does here. I'm here.

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Speaker 9: He's a little bit better than people think, maybe in

567
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Speaker 9: preseason here, you know, in his workouts, in his warm

568
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Speaker 9: ups and on the sidelines. But it's really maybe more

569
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Speaker 9: of a anti Lions bet. I think the Lions have

570
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Speaker 9: a real tough schedule compared to Minnesota, especially these first

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Speaker 9: the first half of the season. So we'll see what

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Speaker 9: happens here. But I am actually pro Vikings, anti Bears,

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Speaker 9: and anti Lions.

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Speaker 6: Crack.

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Speaker 4: I got one more for you here at the most

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Speaker 4: casual better wants to a slam take out the money

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Speaker 4: from the mattress and hit.

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Speaker 6: Over on Niners ten and a half wins. Well, you're

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Speaker 6: the professional here.

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Speaker 4: It's actually juiced more on BETMGM to the under minus

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Speaker 4: one eighteen under ten and a half. We know they

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Speaker 4: don't have the first play schedule this year. Where are

583
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Speaker 4: you on the San Francisco Niners could be a futures

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Speaker 4: thought as well as that team.

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Speaker 3: Total.

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Speaker 9: Okay, very popular bet here in Vegas. The last at

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Speaker 9: my co host Jeff Sports on Sunday. He likes San

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Speaker 9: fran this year, so I don't want to, you know,

589
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Speaker 9: burst his bubble a little bit. But they also have

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Speaker 9: MGM also has forty nine ers to make the playoffs. Yes,

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Speaker 9: minus one eighty. I think maybe that might be a

592
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Speaker 9: good way to go compared to the actual over under.

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Speaker 9: But you know one thing about bet MGM compared to

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Speaker 9: most books again, and you know, I don't mean to

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Speaker 9: be doing a commercial are for BETMGM. Hell no, just

596
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Speaker 9: kind of telling them like it is though that now

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Speaker 9: I only know two sportsbooks in the country that actually

598
00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:22,200
Speaker 9: you can go to the alternate line and you can

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Speaker 9: bet overseason wins or under. You can go literally I'm

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Speaker 9: looking at San Fran right at BETMGM, you can go

601
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Speaker 9: over four and a half or you can go under

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Speaker 9: fifteen and a half. That's crazy. I mean obviously I

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Speaker 9: like both over and under. You got a lay a

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Speaker 9: ton of juice. So look at the median ground here.

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Speaker 9: I'm gonna look at the over ten and a half

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Speaker 9: minusote two as being the median line here. Ten and

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Speaker 9: a half wins under ten and a half minus eighteen

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Speaker 9: over ten and a half minuso two. Now, I didn't

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Speaker 9: bet this, but if anything, I may go to that

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00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:56,960
Speaker 9: alternative line over nine and a half minus the dollars

611
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Speaker 9: seventy five. Again, didn't bet it. Think they're going to

612
00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:03,120
Speaker 9: be okay. Jeff Schwartz made some really good points on

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Speaker 9: our show, so I have to go with him by

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00:32:05,320 --> 00:32:07,880
Speaker 9: you know, former football player nine years. He's really in

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Speaker 9: tune with a lot of the camps and the players.

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Speaker 9: He knows a lot of the guys. Still he leaned

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Speaker 9: over there. I'm gonna leaneddy over there with him. But

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Speaker 9: not a bet. The bets I made I mentioned they're ready.

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Speaker 9: I'll just give you guys one crazier bet too. You're

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Speaker 9: gonna make not today, You're gonna make it more towards

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Speaker 9: game time. I'm gonna say go Eagles under. Shop around

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Speaker 9: for the best line super Bowl champs. Everyone thinks they

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Speaker 9: have a great schedule. This is gonna be easy. You know,

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Speaker 9: the Eagles are the best team in football. I'll play

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Speaker 9: it right now. Shop around these you can go under

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Speaker 9: eleven and a half, maybe even under twelve and a half,

627
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Speaker 9: maybe even late two to one. I love betting against

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Speaker 9: the former Super Bowl winner the next season because I

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Speaker 9: know you're gonna have to lay juice on anything you

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Speaker 9: do with the Eagles. That's the taxi lay. You're gonna

631
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Speaker 9: lay more juice on the games. You're gonna lay more

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Speaker 9: juice on the futures. Just look to go for super

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Speaker 9: Bowl champs under. That's what I always say.

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Speaker 3: That's Bill Krackenberger. If you liked what you had to hear,

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Speaker 3: you can check him out Saturday and Sunday mornings on

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Speaker 3: Countdown and the Kickoff. Your wallet will thank you and

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Speaker 3: crack we thank you here. Thanks for joining us, my friends.

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Speaker 9: Thank you guys, anytime, anytime, guys,