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Speaker 2: You're listening to the best of the Odd Couple. Love.

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Speaker 1: I love the fact that we all consider up here

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Speaker 1: in line acting like, oh man, I know every team.

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Speaker 1: You know that Sianna team, I'll tell you all about him,

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Speaker 1: and you know that Morehead State and all that kind

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Speaker 1: of stuff. Man, I love that I get to just

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Speaker 1: I get to just enjoy it, and you and I

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Speaker 1: will we do for a living. You know, you gotta

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Speaker 1: know everything, especially obviously NFL, MLB, NBA. You gotta know stuff,

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Speaker 1: what's going on. Lamar Jackson has to win this because

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Speaker 1: he hasn't won a Super Bowl. All these things that

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Speaker 1: just turn it on and enjoy it, man, And that

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Speaker 1: for me is such a great part of it. And

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Speaker 1: seeing that these kids, and you know, when basketball you

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Speaker 3: Are a lot of kids who are really, really, really good.

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Speaker 1: But because there's only five starters on the team, it's like,

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Speaker 1: But in basketball, man, this is why you get these

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Speaker 1: close games, in these upsets, or you know, is that

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Speaker 1: all you need is a dog one you know, good

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Speaker 1: Maybe they're juniors and seniors, maybe they're older. We know

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Speaker 1: football is different. You know, if you're Alabama, Miami Ohio

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Speaker 3: You know what I mean, you don't have a shot.

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Speaker 1: And in college basketball, you got a shot because on

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Speaker 3: You're not unfamiliar with these teams. And again you.

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Speaker 1: Might have a guy who is good who got better

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Speaker 3: And of course they went out and.

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Speaker 4: Beat SMU eighty nine to seventy nine and worked them

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Speaker 4: If it was just that it would it would you know,

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Speaker 1: So it makes Cinderella even more interesting because you have

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Speaker 1: And you do your son no justice when you go

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Speaker 4: And he made some case that you had to be

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Speaker 3: Right, I mean, the whole idea was nonsense.

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Speaker 4: And that's why that's the first thing I thought about

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Speaker 4: They've come close, So we're not talking about that. We've

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Speaker 4: seen the ratings when we had three out of four

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Speaker 4: Like I get that, But the early rounds of why

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Speaker 4: It ain't no, we're not here to see if every

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Speaker 4: like then we could stop because because that's not basketball.

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Speaker 4: Nobody is willing to watch that. Nobody wants to watch

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Speaker 4: get Duke barely winning seventy one to sixty five over Siena.

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Speaker 3: That's what you watch.

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Speaker 1: So to your point, they don't always have to be

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Speaker 1: You got to enjoy it. It was much better than

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Speaker 1: this is why you watch. You get games that are close,

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Speaker 1: unexpected games. Obviously you get some upsets, but that's what

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't like that, but that's why I enjoy it. Man.

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Speaker 1: You don't know any of these kids might not even

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Speaker 3: They're balling right now.

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Speaker 1: But my point is it's an entertaining game. They're competing

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Speaker 1: This ain't your eighties, seventies, eighties nineties basketball where you

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Speaker 3: They've been together so long.

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Speaker 1: There these teams, people transferring, people getting older guys, these

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Speaker 3: So there's gonna be This ain't gonna.

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Speaker 1: Be back in the day where you had these monstrous

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Speaker 1: Some of these guys man transferred from other schools and

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Speaker 1: older guys, you got a chance to really make some noise.

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Speaker 1: Missed its man Rob g some difficult news for them,

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Speaker 1: their star player. They're mister all everything is down right now.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it's a bad day for us Piston fans.

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Speaker 3: Right now.

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Speaker 6: Detroit basketball is down in a big way. Kate Cunningham

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Speaker 6: officially diagnosed with the collapse lung, expected terrible, an extended

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Speaker 3: Your best player, your only playmaker.

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Speaker 4: It's just a snack, all right. But I'm convinced.

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Speaker 4: I'm not convinced matchups matter.

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Speaker 3: No, couple of things.

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Speaker 4: And if they find out he has broken ribs in there, like, well,

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Speaker 4: Look at the game to night, they playing Washington, terrible

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Speaker 4: Tonight without Kid, I'm gonna I'm You'll be people will

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Speaker 1: No, nobody's gonna say it as one game. Yes, yes,

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Speaker 3: I think home court in the NBA not other sports.

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying you, but you would get

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Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: But I think again, they can have an opportunity to

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Speaker 3: K will be back what version, We'll have to wait

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Speaker 1: I believe long as he's eighty percent version eighty eight five,

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Speaker 1: it'll get tough with the Boston They're proven, they've been

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Speaker 3: I'm not. I don't buy them in a posting.

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Speaker 1: I don't think they're tough enough and the Knicks will

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Speaker 4: I think Cleveland can beat the Pistons if eight is

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Speaker 3: Can, but I don't buy I'm buying them.

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Speaker 3: I know it's the NBA is about match up. I

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Speaker 4: The Knicks have their number, but they have the Piston's number.

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Speaker 4: Go look at Cleveland is beating the Pistons for whatever reason, and.

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Speaker 1: I think they would get beat up literally like physically

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Speaker 3: I just don't buy.

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Speaker 4: And then again there's another exaggerate to say he's done nothing.

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Speaker 1: Point average. I'm not questioning average. Point said he's done

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Speaker 3: You said he does nothing.

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Speaker 1: Because that's not because for a start the NBA, that

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Speaker 4: Now he's got Donovan Mitchell who can take kids some

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Speaker 1: But if Donovan Mitchell, who's had some times he probably

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Speaker 4: There's a lot of great players. Woman need to name

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Speaker 4: the great players who don't have rings. No, I'm not

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Speaker 4: I'm not questioning what is that?

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Speaker 3: What we all have? You not watched him play? Yeah?

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Speaker 4: had amazing games. I watched his kid and I say

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Speaker 4: kid now, but when he was with did you watch

438
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Speaker 4: him when he first started with Okac.

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Speaker 3: In the watch the final leading to that leading up today?

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Speaker 2: Was he not?

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Speaker 1: And that's what we were all watched might need his

442
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Speaker 1: own team and he was terrible in the finals.

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Speaker 4: That be his worst series ever. Okay, but he did

444
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Speaker 4: play umble. I couldn't believe the first two rounds. I

445
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Speaker 4: couldn't believe how great because he didn't have to lead.

446
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Speaker 4: It was Katie and.

447
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Speaker 3: Was off the bench leader. That's my point.

448
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Speaker 1: He didn't have to lead rob when he's been the guy.

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Speaker 4: We've all he's not the guy in Cleveland, so it

450
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Speaker 4: should work for his advantage.

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Speaker 1: That doesn't even make the guy in Cleveland hasn't done it.

452
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Speaker 1: So maybe they haven't done it. Haven't done it.

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Speaker 3: You have equal a whole. I don't buy no Cleveland.

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Speaker 3: You could not say that.

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Speaker 4: That's fine, but to say he's done nothing in the

456
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Speaker 4: postseason is fall.

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Speaker 1: Somebody who had a great college career, not so much

462
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Speaker 1: to pros, but have a little little issue with somebody

463
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Speaker 1: who wants this jersey.

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Speaker 6: That's right, Matt Liinert said earlier this week on his

465
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Speaker 6: podcast with Jerry Ferrar from Entourage called The Throwback Show

466
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Speaker 6: that over the years, not under the Lincoln Riley era,

467
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Speaker 6: but over the years since he's been out of football,

468
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Speaker 6: the USC football program has approached him several times about

469
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Speaker 6: having his number eleven jersey unretire to give it to

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Speaker 6: a recruit, and Liner to his credit and said on

471
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Speaker 6: his podcast, no, hell no, I ain't doing that. More specifically,

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Speaker 6: here's what he said, absolutely effing not. I'm never gonna

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Speaker 6: unretire for some random dude who, by the way, now

474
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Speaker 6: could wear number eleven and then transfer after a year.

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Speaker 6: Said the only we had ever un retire my jersey

476
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Speaker 6: at USC is for one of my sons if they

477
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Speaker 6: happen to make it that far and they play ball

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Speaker 6: for the Trojans.

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Speaker 3: All right.

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Speaker 4: Matt Liner didn't make a lot of great decisions in college,

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Speaker 4: especially going back when he was going to be the

482
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Speaker 4: number one overall picks. I still say that's the craziest

483
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Speaker 4: because I've never heard of anybody who was going to

484
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Speaker 4: be the number one pick out of college who wanted

485
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Speaker 4: to go back to college and then drop to what

486
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Speaker 4: do you go tenth, eleventh somewhere like that the next year,

487
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Speaker 4: which I just like the number one pick, and and

488
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Speaker 4: you play your whole life and you're going to be

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Speaker 4: the number one pick. I just rolled the dice. You

490
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Speaker 4: could have got heard so many different things could happen,

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Speaker 4: but but, but, but finally, Matt Liner made the right decision.

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Speaker 4: I'm not giving up my number. Once they retire your number,

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Speaker 4: it should stay retired. There was a player for the

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Speaker 4: New York Giants.

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Speaker 1: Right, oh yeah, Carter, he wanted to get he wanted

496
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Speaker 1: launch tail.

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Speaker 4: Like, if I'm the Giants, do not ask, do not

498
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Speaker 4: make a quote for the paper, Do not ask for

499
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Speaker 4: Lawrence Taylor's fall number.

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Speaker 3: Like, can you stop?

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Speaker 4: I don't care if you wore up fifty six in

502
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Speaker 4: high school or what this is Lawrence Taylor of the

503
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Speaker 4: New York Football Giants.

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Speaker 3: Read the room.

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Speaker 4: Matt Lioner, you say all you want that that was

506
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Speaker 4: a machine that team, right, yes, no, Matt Lionerd, I'm

507
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Speaker 4: with him. Right some people I've said it was the

508
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Speaker 4: greatest team ever in college football. And he's supposed to

509
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Speaker 4: give up his number to somebody who might stay for

510
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Speaker 4: a couple of years, might be bouncing around, who might

511
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Speaker 4: be forty seven years old. I'm not doing it. I'm

512
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Speaker 4: not messing up my legacy. I'm not giving my number out.

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Speaker 4: And you could be like the Yankees and guess what,

514
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Speaker 4: Aaron Judges wearing number ninety nine for a reason because

515
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Speaker 4: they got a million numbers retired. Pick a death of

516
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Speaker 4: the number.

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Speaker 1: You know who I'm mad at in all of this.

518
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Speaker 1: I'm mad at usc rob Gie. You just mentioned it.

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Speaker 1: The idea that that you allow someone to keep pressuring you,

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Speaker 1: then you pressure Matt. Hey, Matt, how's the family, how's

521
00:23:03,720 --> 00:23:04,200
Speaker 1: everything going?

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Speaker 2: Hey?

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Speaker 1: Real quick, it was wondering if you give up your

524
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Speaker 1: number again? You know, we're asking again that to me,

525
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Speaker 1: that's insulting the Matt Liner and all that he did

526
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Speaker 1: for that school. Matt Liner had that school lit for

527
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Speaker 1: a three four year you know, three year run. Obviously

528
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Speaker 1: you had the Carson Palmer before him. They kind of

529
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Speaker 1: had a nice stretch there with Pete Carroll. But my

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Speaker 1: point is, man, and that's part of the reason why

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Speaker 1: the Rob's always points. Since I've been here, we've talked

532
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Speaker 1: about it a halful of times. That's why he didn't

533
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Speaker 1: want to leave. They were this singular football team in

534
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Speaker 1: Los Angeles. He was already in the NFL. They were

535
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Speaker 1: this is peak pre social media, so you can still

536
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Speaker 1: go to parties and wild out and not gonna be

537
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Speaker 1: on the phone and you know, somebody putting him out there.

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Speaker 1: Him and Reggie and Lyndale White and all those people

539
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Speaker 1: on those teams. They got to go hang out and

540
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Speaker 1: be stars and rock stars in LA. So that's why

541
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Speaker 1: he was like, shoot, I am I am the La Trojans,

542
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Speaker 1: so he felt like he was in the league. And

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Speaker 1: I just don't understand why they would even ask him,

544
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Speaker 1: because you know what else he does robs both of y'all.

545
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Speaker 1: Every time you ask. He puts me on the spot

546
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Speaker 1: to have to look like, quote unquote a jerk or something,

547
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Speaker 1: or an old head or a hater. And not that

548
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Speaker 1: I'm saying everybody thinks that, because we all seem to

549
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Speaker 1: be on the same page in agreement, but it says

550
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Speaker 1: you keep asking me, Now I have to be that

551
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Speaker 1: guy again. You know I'm not gonna do that. I

552
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Speaker 1: get the first ask if they felt the need. Hey,

553
00:24:15,320 --> 00:24:17,560
Speaker 1: we got this gerber crue. You know we're teetering on

554
00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:20,280
Speaker 1: get it's in between him coming here going to Oklahoma.

555
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Speaker 1: But boy, if he said he can have that number eleven,

556
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Speaker 1: he would do it, Like all right, I get the

557
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Speaker 1: first ask.

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Speaker 3: After that, what are we doing?

559
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Speaker 1: Because now you're making me have to be the bad

560
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Speaker 1: guy perceptionally maybe for some people, repeatedly. So I'm mad

561
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Speaker 1: more at the university for we've been asking him. He

562
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Speaker 1: worked too hard to earn that respect. Clearly is not

563
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Speaker 1: like he's going in the NFL Hall of Fame. Where

564
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Speaker 1: he could say, maybe I'll just focus and focus on

565
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Speaker 1: that one more. So leave him alone and don't ask

566
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Speaker 1: him again. He's absolutely right, And I'm to your last

567
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Speaker 1: point you were saying, Rob, I'm kind of appalled that

568
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Speaker 1: these kids keep asking. It's one thing if you're the

569
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Speaker 1: new guy on the team and you want to pay. Hey,

570
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Speaker 1: here's fifty thousand. I heard Rob Parker wears number ten.

571
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Speaker 1: I want number ten, but you're current. You're a current player. Hey, Rob,

572
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Speaker 1: here's fifty thousand. If you don't mind, I get your jersey.

573
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Speaker 1: Say all right, cool, I'll swap numbers with you because

574
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Speaker 1: you're playing actively, not someone who's a legend in retired.

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Speaker 4: But what's the point on retiring a number if you're

576
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Speaker 4: gonna issue it out again? And I do blame the

577
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Speaker 4: schools and the same thing, like numbers they even know,

578
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Speaker 4: like like even before Derek Jeter's number it goes to

579
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Speaker 4: the Hall of Fame, is gonna be retired at yet?

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Speaker 3: Data you know that number?

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Speaker 4: The equipment manager takes that out of a circulation. No,

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Speaker 4: the new young shortstop can't have number two. It ain't

583
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Speaker 4: happening like like that.

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Speaker 1: Hey, how what's up? I'm such to such agent. Can

585
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Speaker 1: I can he get numbers three?

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Speaker 3: Number two?

587
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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: He said he he'd be happy if you'll drafted if

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Speaker 1: he can get number two. Like what I'm saying like

590
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Speaker 1: like none of it makes any sense. It should never

591
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Speaker 1: come to that. It should never come to that. And

592
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Speaker 1: and Matt Liner has the right. What was the purpose

593
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Speaker 1: of the ceremony?

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Speaker 4: And my numbers retired and the memories and then some

595
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Speaker 4: other guys wear number eleven?

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Speaker 3: Right is it eleven? Yeah? That's my point.

597
00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:03,240
Speaker 1: You keep asking me to making me look like the

598
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Speaker 1: bad guy, put me on the spot or making me

599
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Speaker 1: feel weird or now I gotta tell a kid no,

600
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Speaker 1: and like leave me alone. I told you the first time,

601
00:26:10,359 --> 00:26:14,320
Speaker 1: go away. No, I'm done. Simple as that. I'm trying

602
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Speaker 1: to think. Is there any he said it best with

603
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Speaker 1: his son. If you're talking about an instance where you

604
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Speaker 1: would his son that is a foe, that's like an honor,

605
00:26:21,960 --> 00:26:23,480
Speaker 1: right yeah.

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Speaker 4: Well it would be in a family, right, and you'd

607
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Speaker 4: have the same you know, tame name.

608
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Speaker 3: Say, yeah, an honor.

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Speaker 1: I mean unless you have a you know, like if

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Speaker 1: you don't have kids, you have a godson or in

611
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Speaker 1: that family. But again family, but that that's about it.

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Speaker 1: That's the only thing I can think of that I

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Speaker 1: would that I would do, because I can't think of

614
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Speaker 1: any other scenario like I would.

615
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Speaker 4: I was trying to think of another situation of anybody.

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Speaker 1: Let me throw you Rob Parker's jersey, baseball jersey. What

617
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Speaker 1: was in high school? What high school did you go to?

618
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Speaker 1: Van Buren? Van Buren says, you know they retired your heights,

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Speaker 1: your baseball jersey. I didn't play, so scratch you. Let's

620
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Speaker 1: go to your college Southern Connectic. Southern CONNECTI just a hypothetical.

621
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Speaker 1: You played in southern Connecticut. They recently retired your jersey.

622
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Speaker 1: Another kid coming from your high school, from your own neighborhood. No, no,

623
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Speaker 1: you didn't even make you make your own. Now make

624
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Speaker 1: your own trying to give you.

625
00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:30,040
Speaker 3: Maybe he's from the neighborhood, from the high school. Now

626
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Speaker 3: he's coming. I'll deep you up, I'll help you all

627
00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:33,320
Speaker 3: you can, I'll.

628
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Speaker 2: Do all that.

629
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Speaker 3: You're not you never would have been number seven.

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Speaker 1: That's when come on, mister Parker man, I've been everybody

631
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Speaker 1: the neighborhood always told me about you.

632
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Speaker 3: Can I get the number seven?

633
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Speaker 4: No, No, I'm not. I'm not giving up my number

634
00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:47,840
Speaker 4: that I love it. That's what makes it special.

635
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Speaker 3: You ain't lying. You got to have certain things that

636
00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:50,720
Speaker 3: I wouldn't good.

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Speaker 1: Enough know anywhere to get, you know, retired, but number

638
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Speaker 1: ten and pioneered. Yea if somebody yeah since uh like

639
00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:02,640
Speaker 1: middle school, you know they because no real rhyme, saw.

640
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:03,359
Speaker 3: Some jerseys and all that.

641
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Speaker 1: And I row my daughter uh trying to you know,

642
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Speaker 1: try to get number ten recently out of said too many.

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Speaker 3: Tiers that she got it. So I'm glad you didn't

644
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Speaker 3: get it.

645
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Speaker 1: I'm like, but yeah, like I thought, I tried to

646
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Speaker 1: pay the scenario Roger, you you all right with that?

647
00:28:17,560 --> 00:28:19,600
Speaker 3: Or getting my number retired?

648
00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:19,840
Speaker 2: No?

649
00:28:19,960 --> 00:28:23,000
Speaker 3: Giving it up? Oh yeah, I'm giving it up. Yeah.

650
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Speaker 6: So I wonder what teams like, because you see this

651
00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:29,440
Speaker 6: in the NFL, like the Raiders, the Cowboys, I want

652
00:28:29,440 --> 00:28:32,959
Speaker 6: to say, Atlanta like, they do not retire jerseys. So

653
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Speaker 6: if that, if you're gonna bother to ask a guy

654
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Speaker 6: like Matt Lanner, who's a legend in that program, would

655
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Speaker 6: you just say we're not retiring any jerseys from now.

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Speaker 4: So one of the Cowboys just too. I don't think

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Speaker 4: that that's enough, I really do. I think I don't

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Speaker 4: know what the issue is of retiring somebody's number that

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Speaker 4: they never would and.

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Speaker 3: Again and again.

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Speaker 4: The Cowboys and Yankees are on par like as far

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Speaker 4: as you know for for for their sports. The Yankees

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Speaker 4: have retired numbers, and I think that's a tradition in baseball, definitely,

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Speaker 4: of retiring somebody's numbers. You don't want to get carried away.

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Speaker 4: But the Yankees have twenty seven World championship. I don't

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Speaker 4: know is that being carried away our team? I think

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Speaker 4: the Mets get carried away. They got one to no.

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Speaker 4: Two championships in their existence, right since nineteen sixty two,

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Speaker 4: and they got ten people's numbers retired.

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Speaker 3: It seems like a little bit high there's to get

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Speaker 3: to get all those names, right.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, nobody can score in this game as any two

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Speaker 1: to two two, and this whole over five minutes you

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Speaker 1: get we got four phasically fifty seconds left here.

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Speaker 3: It's crazy, all right.

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Speaker 1: By the way, A J debonsa b YU currently down

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Speaker 1: thirteen to Texas. He's been great, just scoring another buy.

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Speaker 1: You could tell he said screw everybody else. Watch his

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Speaker 1: bucket here, Rober he said, screw everybody else. I'm going

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Speaker 1: I don't care about nobody give me this layout. They're

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Speaker 1: down thirteen with that. Was it seven minutes left? I

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Speaker 1: couldn't see it. I think it was seven minutes or so.

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Speaker 1: Uh so, yeah, this is why we watched Man