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Speaker 1: You are listening to the Dan Patrick Show on Fox

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Speaker 1: Sports Radio. Greetings and welcome inside our one of the

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Speaker 1: Dan Patrick Show here on Fox Sports Radio. Jason Smith

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Speaker 1: Rob Parker in for Dan and the Danets today, coming

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Speaker 1: off a big game two. The Suns have a two

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Speaker 1: games and un leading the finals, and I'm gonna put

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Speaker 1: the over under at the number of times Rob Parker

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Speaker 1: says the word fugazy when it comes to the NBA

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Speaker 1: Finals at twenty five. We have a three hour show.

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Speaker 1: I'm putting Fugasi. You're gonna say at twenty five times?

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Speaker 1: Rop Are you gonna go over twenty five times with

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Speaker 1: fughaize today? Fugheizi, fugheisi, fugheisi, fugis five already soul I

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Speaker 1: am on pace? Okay, well burst at twenty five fughais threshold.

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Speaker 1: Good morning, mister Jason Smith. So listen, look, we watched

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Speaker 1: the Suns win last night and it was one of

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Speaker 1: those It's such a demoralizing loss for the Bucks because

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Speaker 1: everything they tried didn't work right. They had a great

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Speaker 1: first quarter and they got away from it in the

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Speaker 1: second quarter. They were they were big inside, it didn't work.

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Speaker 1: Jannis had a huge third quarter to carry them that

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Speaker 1: Devin Booker started out shooting terribly in the game, and

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Speaker 1: they wanted better foul calls. They didn't want to send

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Speaker 1: the son to the free throw line as many times

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Speaker 1: they got that. They got those things, and still they

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Speaker 1: lose by ten. And I short of the NBA changing

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Speaker 1: how they're gonna call the game, like you know, they

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Speaker 1: get Scott Foster on a plane to Milwaukee and go, okay,

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Speaker 1: just going and just call these games, right. We know

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Speaker 1: you don't like the Suns, right, they only won one.

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Speaker 1: Short of them changing how they call the game, I

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Speaker 1: don't see how the Bucks get back in this. You know,

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Speaker 1: this is a different situation. The Sons are grinding and

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Speaker 1: they're just finding away every single game, and the Bucks

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Speaker 1: seem like, you know, every ten point deficit looks like

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Speaker 1: twenty to them. Yeah, I'm not there yet. Only from

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Speaker 1: this damnpoint. If Middleton and Holiday were playing to their

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Speaker 1: expectations and they were losing like that, I would buy in.

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Speaker 1: I remember they you know, I remember Milwaukee losing by

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Speaker 1: thirty nine in Game two to Brooklyn and looked like

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Speaker 1: a battered and broken team before they went back home

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Speaker 1: to Milwaukee. I get it. It's a it's a it's

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Speaker 1: a tall order. The only reason there is hope is

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Speaker 1: that we saw Janice is not injured like we thought.

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Speaker 1: He was twenty in the third quarter, forty two for

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Speaker 1: the game. He's back and better than ever. So now

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Speaker 1: can Middleton catch fire? Can Holiday? They sold? They traded

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Speaker 1: everything to get him right, including a couple of firstborn

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Speaker 1: and it hasn't worked out. But I'm not there, Jason.

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Speaker 1: If those guys played well or decent or up to

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Speaker 1: the expectations and they were down O two, then I

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Speaker 1: would say, yeah, you know, it doesn't look like they

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Speaker 1: can get anything done. I think the emergence of Jannis

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Speaker 1: is a good sign going home. Bench players normally play

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Speaker 1: better at home. I'm not there yet. I don't think

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Speaker 1: it's over. Yeah, but Rob, you know, if they only

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Speaker 1: have to get to four, you know, I mean the Sons,

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Speaker 1: the Suns only need two more games. I remember, do

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Speaker 1: you remember a couple of years ago when Milwaukee was

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Speaker 1: up and I know it was the Eastern Conference Finals,

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Speaker 1: but they were up to Old and lost the next

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Speaker 1: four to Toronto in route to Toronto getting a championship.

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Speaker 1: So I hear what you're saying. I thought the next

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Speaker 1: when they won the first two games were an easy street.

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Speaker 1: So all of a sudden, a couple of guys are

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Speaker 1: hurt and things turn around. I'm just saying the NBA,

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Speaker 1: they won their first two games at home. I know

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Speaker 1: what the percentage is when teams win the first two

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Speaker 1: games of the finals, Like, what is it, seventy five

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Speaker 1: percent at a time they're gonna win the championship or

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Speaker 1: something like that. Only four teams have ever done it.

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Speaker 1: Four teams have come back from O two to win

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Speaker 1: the NBA Finals. And I remember people when the ut

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Speaker 1: when the Clippers were down O two and back to

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Speaker 1: won the first two series coming back. All I'm saying

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Speaker 1: game one a Game three in Milwaukee, and I think

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Speaker 1: But definitely they needed to split, uh, you know in Phoenix,

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Speaker 1: Jason to make the task a lot easier to manage. See,

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Speaker 1: I look at it like this. This is why I'm

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Speaker 1: not as in a playoff where we see momentum changes

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Speaker 1: entire way because if injuries in different situations, boy, it

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Speaker 1: looks like one team this is totally out of it, right, right,

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Speaker 1: and then the next game they come back and it's,

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Speaker 1: oh boy, how do they win by thirty? But watching

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Speaker 1: these two teams, right, I think everything we've seen so

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Speaker 1: Suns know what they want to do and they're doing

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Speaker 1: it well enough where the Bucks are still trying to

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Speaker 1: figure out what to do. Right. That that's I think

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Speaker 1: everything comes down to that, because it's not like this

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Speaker 1: is a great finals. It's not a great incredibly great

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Speaker 1: played finals. Look, these are neither of these two teams

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Speaker 1: or elite teams. They're gonna look, we'll look back at

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Speaker 1: them in history and go, that's why that's six. Will

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Speaker 1: you write that down? That's six? Food Gay, I'm like one, two, three,

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Speaker 1: four five six for Rod Parker Um. But the Suns

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Speaker 1: are doing what they need to do. They are grinding

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Speaker 1: through these games. Right, They're not well played games, but

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Speaker 1: that's part of what makes a championship team is you

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Speaker 1: can grind through games and you can win like this.

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Speaker 1: They're not playing their A games, you know, but they're

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Speaker 1: doing it well enough. Meanwhile, Milwaukee, you watch them, and

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Speaker 1: I go, they change every five minutes, all right, Like

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Speaker 1: I said, they played the first quarter, and they and

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Speaker 1: maybe they figured out what they want to do. Then

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Speaker 1: Then they said, okay, let's just stand around and watch

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Speaker 1: Yannis do it in the third quarter, which he does,

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Speaker 1: but they can't cut the lead any to any more

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Speaker 1: still don't know what their identity is and what they

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Speaker 1: want to do in the finals. How do they want

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Speaker 1: Middleton and Holiday and get them involved right away. Do

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Speaker 1: we want to force it to Yannis early and then

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Speaker 1: that'll open things up later on? They I feel like

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Speaker 1: they still don't know how they want to attack. This

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Speaker 1: and they're still trying to figure things out. Look, even

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Speaker 1: Jannis in his post game said, I'm not worried. You know,

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Speaker 1: And look, Holliday had a horrible game last night. He'll

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Speaker 1: be there when we need He'll be there. The finals

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Speaker 1: are two zip. You're down two zip. Okay, it's not

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Speaker 1: best of twenty five, this is the best of seven.

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Speaker 1: I feel like they still fit. Well, we have to

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Speaker 1: we're still trying to figure out how to play the

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Speaker 1: Suns in the finals. No, I hear you, and and

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Speaker 1: it all makes sense, it's all logical. But these playoffs

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Speaker 1: If you remember again. And I'm going back to the

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Speaker 1: and all of a sudden Milwaukee one. But but you know,

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Speaker 1: I hear you, and and you know Milwaukee has issues

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Speaker 1: about about exactly what they want to do. But you

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Speaker 1: can't win when you're when you're two guys you're relying

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Speaker 1: he's not a number two. Really, he's not a Robin.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, he was a second round pick and he's

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Speaker 1: my god, you know what a player Middleton is. And

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Speaker 1: then again in the holiday thing, he's got to show up.

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Speaker 1: He's got to Last night was a game. I called

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Speaker 1: it an upset game. I thought, really that they would

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Speaker 1: get the whistle with the referees, which they did. I

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Speaker 1: thought Jannis would play much better because he's got the

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Speaker 1: But I expected Holiday to play better at Middleton. They

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Speaker 1: can't play like that and expect Yannis to have to

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Speaker 1: You know, you know me, Jason, I'm not normally missed

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Speaker 1: an optimistic. Far from it. No, I was stunned gazing

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Speaker 1: And you're like, oh, I'm not ready to call the

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Speaker 1: finals over. I'm like, who are you? And what have

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Speaker 1: you done with Rob Parker exactly? I know this is

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Speaker 1: have been crazy? Would you admit that? Right? Haven't we

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Speaker 1: seen teams like? You know? I just remember when Dallas

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Speaker 1: won the first two games at the Clippers, you know, like,

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Speaker 1: and they were up thirty two eleven in game three

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Speaker 1: series set match, right, No, they didn't get it done

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Speaker 1: so and they dominated and they Dallas was doing whatever,

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Speaker 1: winning in seven games. I see, I get that, but

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Speaker 1: season where you're playing a team where that's not gonna happen. Right, Like,

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Speaker 1: the reason we've seen all of this in the in

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Speaker 1: the playoffs is because everybody's hurt. All the stars were hurt.

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Speaker 1: You know. The Phoenix's path to the finals is well documented.

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Speaker 1: The best players are you kidding? Yes? And their championship run.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Phoenix, Hello is food gaysy point blank, no Ad,

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Speaker 1: no Jamal Murray, no Kawhi letter. It can't be any

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Speaker 1: easier than that. Well and well, look and look at

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Speaker 1: the Bucks, right they go through where where the Nets

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Speaker 1: barely had one of their guys healthy. Right, and the

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Speaker 1: Hawks are in the Eastern Conference finals. Who that's not

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Speaker 1: an Eastern Conference Finals team with one star. But that's

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Speaker 1: the way the playoffs unfolded. Look at this is a

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Speaker 1: playoff where you're just outlasting the other team. You know,

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Speaker 1: the other teams it's gonna be Hey, we stayed healthy

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Speaker 1: You know, they know what they want to do. They

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Speaker 1: I'm doing here. You can either be an optimist, which

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Speaker 1: I'm not. I don't want to be blindly optimistic, or

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Speaker 1: you can be a realist. And the realist in me

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Speaker 1: says this series is not over. That's the part I

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Speaker 1: agree with you. However, the Bus are going to have

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Speaker 1: to play at a different level across the board from

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Speaker 1: Holiday and Middleton in particular, in order to have a chance,

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Speaker 1: and they can't lose a game at home. Phoenix is

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Speaker 1: really good. I think I would agree with what Jason

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Speaker 1: said earlier. They have been the best team in this playoffs.

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Speaker 1: They have not hit a bump. They've worked through without

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Speaker 1: having Chris Paul. They have a very athletic deep roster.

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Speaker 1: Bridges has been fantastic, and Eyton is a really good player.

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Speaker 1: Even when he doesn't score, he's a good player. I

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Speaker 1: think Phoenix is the better team. I picked them before

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Speaker 1: the series. I'm gonna stay with it. But the Bucks

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Speaker 1: have to win on Sunday in order for there to

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Speaker 1: even be a conversation, And that would be the first

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Speaker 1: question I would have. Can they win on Sunday? Home

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Speaker 1: court is good cooking here, They'll be ready to go.

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Speaker 1: I think that they will win, but I wouldn't listen.

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't bet on the Bucks right now. If Phoenix

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Speaker 1: just seems to me to be a much better team. Wow,

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Speaker 1: you you when the matchup was Buck Sons, you picked

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Speaker 1: the Sons they did? Wow, that's good talks. Mike lives

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Speaker 1: in the Bucks had a little bit of a you

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Speaker 1: guys talking about it earlier with the Fugaisi conversation. The

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Speaker 1: Bucks play in Brooklyn minus their stars. If if Brooklyn

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Speaker 1: has all three stars, the Bucks winning game, that's a

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Speaker 1: gentleman's sweep. If if Atlanta doesn't lose Tray Young, and

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Speaker 1: Atlanta I think is a good team. I don't think

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Speaker 1: by any stretch they're great if they don't lose Trey Young.

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Speaker 1: I don't know that the Bucks win that series. So

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Speaker 1: I think the Bucks have some flaws. Middleton is a

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Speaker 1: really good scorer, He's streaky, He's not athletic. And I'm

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Speaker 1: not sure what has happened with Holiday. He's had a

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Speaker 1: few moments, but um whether whether this moment is new

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Speaker 1: to him, because I've thought I thought Holiday would be

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Speaker 1: more of an impact in the finals or even throughout

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Speaker 1: his playoff run, he has been less than the other

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Speaker 1: part of and I wrote a column today for a

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Speaker 1: dead Spin about Jannis as I think Jannis has already won.

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Speaker 1: I think people and people will say, what do you

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Speaker 1: mean he won? Well, a lot of people they ridiculed

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Speaker 1: Yannis for staying in Milwaukee, for signing that Supermax. People

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Speaker 1: liked said he'll be another He'll be another star that

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Speaker 1: never wins a ring. He was dumb. Why would he

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Speaker 1: do that? He could have gone to Miami like Lebron did,

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Speaker 1: right with that team, or he could have gone to

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Speaker 1: Golden State the way Kad did. He could have just

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Speaker 1: forced his way out of Milwaukee. He would have got

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Speaker 1: paid no matter where he went and had a chance

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Speaker 1: at winning a title. And now look at where he is.

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Speaker 1: He's in the NBA Finals. He might not win it,

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Speaker 1: but he did get there. Right. This franchise hasn't won

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Speaker 1: him fifty years, but he's in the NBA Finals and

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Speaker 1: still has a chance. And here's the better part. Go

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Speaker 1: as they go forward, maybe he can get another player

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Speaker 1: to come to Milwaukee to see what they're building there,

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Speaker 1: to say, you know what, Milwaukee, you can get to

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Speaker 1: the finals, you can have a chance to win. You

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Speaker 1: do make the same money no matter where you're playing,

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Speaker 1: and you don't have the same pressures that go with

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Speaker 1: going to some other big towns like New York or LA.

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Speaker 1: You know the pressure that comes with it. So I

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Speaker 1: think Jannis has won. Mike, Yeah, I agree. I totally agree.

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Speaker 1: Jannis does not come from the coddled AAU background. He

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Speaker 1: drew up in a very tough situation and he has

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Speaker 1: created his own path. And I thought last night his

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Speaker 1: third quarter, which is the highest scoring individual third quarter

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Speaker 1: since Jordan in ninety three in an NBA finals, that

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Speaker 1: was all hard. That's nine days after what appeared to

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Speaker 1: be a year long injury and his heart, his desire,

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Speaker 1: his want to that's something to aspire to. And I

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Speaker 1: agree to you with you. I think he's already won

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Speaker 1: back conversation. And he played at a level last night

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Speaker 1: off of injury. That is that's what stars are made up.

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Speaker 1: He's already as stars, a two time MVP, but to

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Speaker 1: showcase that in an NBA Finals game against a very

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Speaker 1: good funk line from Phoenix was impressive. He just needs

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Speaker 1: a little help. Pamian Lillard. Sorry it sneeze there for

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Speaker 1: a second though. You need to him the sorry up

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Speaker 1: with that, Pamian Lillard? Sorry? Sorry? Now, the thing though

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Speaker 1: about this, Mike is that is that Mike colors with

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Speaker 1: us here on the Dan Patrick Show, Jason Smith, Rob

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Speaker 1: Parker uh In for the guys today is that Yes,

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Speaker 1: while Jannis was great, it was more of hey, okay,

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Speaker 1: Middleton is it's not his night. It's not Holiday's night,

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Speaker 1: so we're gonna stand around and watch Yannis do his thing.

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Speaker 1: And while you say, if you said to me in

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Speaker 1: a vacuum, hey, you should see Yannis's third quarter, right,

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Speaker 1: you know you when when the guy scoring twenty points

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Speaker 1: in a quarter, that is terrific. What are the Bucks

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Speaker 1: up by five? Up by ten? They didn't delete at all,

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Speaker 1: you know, and then that's a big warning sign that hey,

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Speaker 1: can they rely on yat when we get down to it.

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Speaker 1: Stars have to win NBA titles and this is a

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Speaker 1: this is a going into halftime after a bad second quarter. Okay,

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Speaker 1: they're down eleven, Jannie does his thing and he is

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Speaker 1: remarkable in the third quarter, and they're down ten going

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Speaker 1: to the fourth quarter. Well, because, but that's the help wanted,

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Speaker 1: signed Jason. I mean, they didn't get anything from anybody else, right,

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Speaker 1: Middleton doesn't make any shots. I mean Middleton and Holiday

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Speaker 1: combined to shoot about thirty two percent between the two

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Speaker 1: of them last night. You can't win with your second

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Speaker 1: and third stars not showing up, and Janice kept them Listen.

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Speaker 1: If Yannace doesn't have that quarter, then they're down twenty

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Speaker 1: five going to the fourth and we're all flipping to

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Speaker 1: watch something else. So, yeah, the other stars have shown up.

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Speaker 1: When Yannie got hurt, Middleton and Holiday were fantastic. So

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Speaker 1: my expectation in this is the part where I agree

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Speaker 1: with with Rob on this. My expectation is the other

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Speaker 1: two will show up on Sunday night and the Bucks

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Speaker 1: will get a win. My question would come on Wednesday night.

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Speaker 1: What happens after the emotion leads from Sunday and can

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Speaker 1: you win both games at home? Because that's the only

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Speaker 1: way you have chance in the series. Is the hold

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Speaker 1: home court, no doubt. I mean, they have to do it, U.

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Speaker 1: And the other thing is, uh, the officials, I mean

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Speaker 1: the official We talked about that. I was on Mic

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Speaker 1: show yesterday, and you know how it works in the

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Speaker 1: NBA when when they see a big disparity, a big

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Speaker 1: unbalanced when it comes to free throws for a team,

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Speaker 1: they worked the referees and then what happens. It worked

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Speaker 1: last night, didn't it? Yeah? It did. It's it switched

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Speaker 1: around and I know it's a different crew, but you

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Speaker 1: know as well as I do that there was conversations

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Speaker 1: that it can't be that way, and then they just

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00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:54,520
Speaker 1: kind of buried the whistle of last night. The Bucks

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Speaker 1: did get to the line a lot and a disparity

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Speaker 1: the other way, So yeah, corrected, and it's still that

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Speaker 1: part wasn't enough. Mike. Have you started a go a

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Speaker 1: go fund me for U to get Scott Foster and

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Speaker 1: referee games three in games four. Has that started yet,

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00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:14,720
Speaker 1: because that that'll get you right back in it. I mean, yeah,

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Speaker 1: suddenly it's gonna be too too when it's a brand

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Speaker 1: new series. If that happens, can Scott Foster help Middleton

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Speaker 1: make up three? Nobody'll get him to the free throw

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Speaker 1: line to shoot three? Yeah, that might be it. You

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Speaker 1: can follow them on Twitter at Heller Sports. That is

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Speaker 1: at Heller Sports. Mike Keller ten seventy of the Game Madison.

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Speaker 1: You hear him right here on the Dan Patrick Show.

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Speaker 1: H Mike has always appreciate your time, best of luck.

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Speaker 1: Hopefully we'll talk soon, all right, appreciate it. And what

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Speaker 1: about those Milwaukee Brewers basketball still going on right now? Hey,

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Speaker 1: I just we can't just pooh pooh them with fifty

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Speaker 1: three wins. Are you surprised when they are in the

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Speaker 1: central They shouldn't be there without Yells. Yellows hasn't done

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Speaker 1: anything that's a big or there is a power outage,

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Speaker 1: and he is not. He is a total shadow of

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Speaker 1: what he was before he shattered his kneecap at the

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Speaker 1: end of nineteen. I know he's got back issues, but

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Speaker 1: it's robbed him of a lot right now. So without

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Speaker 1: that and the injuries they've had. Offensively, UNI, you look

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Speaker 1: at their run production, for them to be seven games

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Speaker 1: clear in the division and sixteen seventeen games over five hundred,

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Speaker 1: it's really impressive. Their pitching, uh is really October scary.

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Speaker 1: If they can throw three starters and they're two back

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Speaker 1: at the bullpen guys and Devin Williams and Josh Hader. Uh,

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Speaker 1: if they can be there in October, look out, because

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Speaker 1: if you shut people down, you've got a shot. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you just have to avoid the Mets. That that's your things. Nonsense,

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Speaker 1: all right here right? Hey, hey, Mike, I missed the game.

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Speaker 1: Can you tell me how did Josh Hayder do against

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Speaker 1: the Mets? Can you tell me? I missed? Hey, guys,

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Speaker 1: I don't have any more time right now. That's right,

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Speaker 1: you got a run, I gotta run, hello, right, take

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Speaker 1: it easy, Mike, Thanks Mike. Great stuff from Mike Kelly.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I can't talk about that. They're having a

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Speaker 1: great seed. Look, they were my dark horse pick for

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Speaker 1: the World Series. There that it's an easy to Oh yeah,

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Speaker 1: I love the Brewers coming in there. Pitching is great

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Speaker 1: and and he's right to be able to be doing

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Speaker 1: this without yellow. I mean that's huge. Man. They have

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Speaker 1: almost as many wins on the road did they do

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Speaker 1: at home. That's how well they've played so But the

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Speaker 1: one thing that Mike talked about getting into Game three

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Speaker 1: and trying to win Game three in Game four is is,

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Speaker 1: you know, sometimes this Finals reminds me a little bit

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Speaker 1: of the Lakers Pistons Final from two thousand and four,

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Speaker 1: and I'm going back a little bit. I got to

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Speaker 1: explain to generation right, Yeah, I got the Generation Z

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Speaker 1: that the Pistons were actually in the finals once. Yes, um,

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Speaker 1: when the Pistons and their heavy defense was able to

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Speaker 1: to uh, to really overwhelm the Lake. Remember that that

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Speaker 1: was a that was and no one saw that coming,

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Speaker 1: that they'd be able to play defense the way they did.

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Speaker 1: But in that series, I remember watching it going, Man,

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Speaker 1: the Lakers are down seven and it feels like they're

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Speaker 1: down twenty because the Buckets were so hard to come by.

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Speaker 1: They had to work for so many hoops and seven

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Speaker 1: point leads seem like they're twenty point leads. And that's

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Speaker 1: kind of how this series has been so far for

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Speaker 1: the Bucks. The Bucks get no easy baskets, right, because

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Speaker 1: they're still struggling with their identity who they are. They

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Speaker 1: get no easy baskets, and every time down the court,

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Speaker 1: it's how are we going to do this? We're gonna

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Speaker 1: rely on Jana's to make a shot, and there's a

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Speaker 1: lot of pressure, whereas the Suns are still getting out

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Speaker 1: transition and they're getting a fair share of easy buckets.

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Speaker 1: You gotta have some kind of easy buckets to juice

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Speaker 1: your offense, and the Suns are getting it, and you know,

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Speaker 1: maybe they're not getting it to the point they were

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Speaker 1: in the in the regular season when they're scoring one

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Speaker 1: hundred and thirty points, but they are playing a very

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Speaker 1: good defensive team in Milwaukee, but they're still doing enough,

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Speaker 1: and they're getting these easy buckets in transition, where every

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Speaker 1: time for the Bucks going down the floor, it's okay, hey,

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Speaker 1: we gotta get a hoop here, And and if they

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Speaker 1: cut it to four, it still seems like it's a

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Speaker 1: big lead for the Suns, And when the Sun's hit

635
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Speaker 1: a triple to get it back out to nine, you

636
00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:10,280
Speaker 1: feel like the game is over. They need to get

637
00:33:10,360 --> 00:33:13,080
Speaker 1: more easy buckets somehow if they're gonna get in this,

638
00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:15,440
Speaker 1: because you can't just fight every single time down the

639
00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:17,600
Speaker 1: floor for a bucket for a buck No, it makes

640
00:33:17,600 --> 00:33:20,760
Speaker 1: it difficult. And like you say, it does, even a

641
00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:23,280
Speaker 1: lead of six or eight points just seems like you

642
00:33:23,320 --> 00:33:26,080
Speaker 1: can't get over to hump right it just so, so

643
00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:29,880
Speaker 1: you definitely you gotta get the uh, the easy bunnies

644
00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:33,240
Speaker 1: on the other end, your transition baskets, you know, just

645
00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:36,080
Speaker 1: things where you don't have to set up against the

646
00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:38,600
Speaker 1: defense and grind just to get a basket. But some

647
00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:41,920
Speaker 1: easy ones and they've been far and few between for

648
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Speaker 1: the Bucks. And you know, and I'm glad I'm not

649
00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:46,560
Speaker 1: the only one that was surprised at you being mister

650
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Speaker 1: positivity for the Bucks. Mike Keller was surprised as it

651
00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:53,080
Speaker 1: as well. So this no sometimes you know what I mean.

652
00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:56,280
Speaker 1: I'm I'm very real, as you know, and I'm gonna

653
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Speaker 1: be h very I use my critical thinking and I

654
00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:02,480
Speaker 1: always looking at something with a what a what A

655
00:34:02,720 --> 00:34:05,400
Speaker 1: what a keen eye? And I'm not that quick to

656
00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:08,520
Speaker 1: join the group and to follow the band or whatever.

657
00:34:08,640 --> 00:34:12,360
Speaker 1: But in this case, it's just been a crazy NBA

658
00:34:13,200 --> 00:34:16,920
Speaker 1: playoffs and I just I'm not saying I picked the

659
00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:19,520
Speaker 1: Suns in six So I'm not saying I'm just saying

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Speaker 1: I don't think the series is over yet, like it's

661
00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:23,839
Speaker 1: gonna be a four game suite. See you're talking about

662
00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:25,960
Speaker 1: critical thinking, and I'm thinking you're gonna say, well, I

663
00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:28,319
Speaker 1: woke up and had coffee today, so I felt good,

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Speaker 1: so I'm ready. You know, I'm feeling positive about the Bucks,

665
00:34:31,160 --> 00:34:33,960
Speaker 1: where like no coffee or anything, it's it's doom and gloom.

666
00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:36,560
Speaker 1: The Bucks are gonna lose. It's over to them. I

667
00:34:36,719 --> 00:34:41,120
Speaker 1: know everybody probably was expected that. Thanks for listening to

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Speaker 1: The Dan Patrick Show podcast. Be sure to catch us

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Speaker 1: Sports Radio. It is The Dan Patrick Show. Jason Smith,

685
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:32,920
Speaker 1: Rob Parker in for Dan and the Dan Netts Today.

686
00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:36,040
Speaker 1: Thanks to Mike Keller for stopping by with us. As

687
00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:38,759
Speaker 1: surprised as I was that Rob Parker was mister positivity

688
00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:40,799
Speaker 1: when it comes to the Bucks. Here I am coming

689
00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:43,680
Speaker 1: and going, Hey, I think the series is over. You're like, Nah,

690
00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:46,239
Speaker 1: the Bucks can do it. I'm like, are you like

691
00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:48,440
Speaker 1: a pod person, Like you're gonna unzip your head. It's

692
00:35:48,440 --> 00:35:50,080
Speaker 1: not gonna be Rob Parker and you're gonna be like

693
00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:53,439
Speaker 1: Venom or something. It'll be the end of Scooby Doo.

694
00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:56,320
Speaker 1: You know when they always pull the mask off somebody.

695
00:35:56,360 --> 00:35:59,640
Speaker 1: I love that on that Scooby Doo. I was always Hey,

696
00:35:59,760 --> 00:36:04,160
Speaker 1: it's mister Heller, right, it's uh, it's Joe black Well,

697
00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:07,319
Speaker 1: you know whatever. It may be kind of crazy, it was.

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00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:09,600
Speaker 1: It was that Rob Parker from the Odd Couple, and

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00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:11,000
Speaker 1: he would have got away with it too if it

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00:36:11,040 --> 00:36:18,120
Speaker 1: wasn't for us sleeping kids. You meddling kids. Right. Uh

701
00:36:18,160 --> 00:36:21,080
Speaker 1: so we'll have more NBA on the way coming up.

702
00:36:21,120 --> 00:36:24,200
Speaker 1: But you know, big baseball story that is now gonna

703
00:36:24,239 --> 00:36:27,280
Speaker 1: get into the All Star Break and beyond. The Dodgers

704
00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:30,239
Speaker 1: are going to be without Trevor Bauer and his leave

705
00:36:30,280 --> 00:36:34,680
Speaker 1: administrative leave was extended by Major League Baseball as Major

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00:36:34,719 --> 00:36:38,040
Speaker 1: League Baseball in the passing, the police investigate claims of

707
00:36:38,520 --> 00:36:41,279
Speaker 1: sexual assault against him, levied by a woman who he

708
00:36:41,320 --> 00:36:45,759
Speaker 1: had a couple of sexual trysts with, and it's a

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00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:50,040
Speaker 1: it's a situation now for the Dodgers Rob where he's

710
00:36:50,080 --> 00:36:53,239
Speaker 1: not gonna come back until there's some kind of of

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00:36:53,239 --> 00:36:56,280
Speaker 1: of resolution. And by that, I mean either there's charges

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00:36:56,320 --> 00:36:58,560
Speaker 1: filed and then okay, then he's not coming back, or

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00:36:58,960 --> 00:37:01,280
Speaker 1: the passing the police are not going to file charges

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00:37:01,320 --> 00:37:04,520
Speaker 1: and then Baseball does their investigation and then potentially can

715
00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:07,399
Speaker 1: come back. But it's gonna be a long time either way,

716
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:10,439
Speaker 1: and the Dodgers have to go forward as if they're

717
00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:13,160
Speaker 1: not gonna have him for the rest of the season,

718
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:15,320
Speaker 1: because I don't I don't know when you can expect

719
00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:17,000
Speaker 1: to say okay, because not something right after the All

720
00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:19,600
Speaker 1: Star break, Hey, Bower's coming back. I mean I don't

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00:37:19,600 --> 00:37:22,800
Speaker 1: see the MLBPA getting in a fight with Baseball about

722
00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:25,520
Speaker 1: reinstate him. No, they're waiting for this up, you know,

723
00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:29,080
Speaker 1: for the Pasadena police to come through and have their

724
00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:31,399
Speaker 1: and have their decision, and that's gonna be a while.

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Speaker 1: You know what, Jason, I'm not convinced he's ever gonna

726
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:39,360
Speaker 1: pitch for the Dodgers again. I'm not. I just aside

727
00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:42,520
Speaker 1: from the criminal charges, you know what I mean, organizations

728
00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:46,960
Speaker 1: can also deem people of just that we'd rather not do,

729
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:49,839
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, Like, we don't want uh,

730
00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:53,520
Speaker 1: this guy to win, to wear our uniform anymore, regardless

731
00:37:53,560 --> 00:37:56,640
Speaker 1: of the other stuff, Like because he's already admitted to

732
00:37:56,719 --> 00:38:01,239
Speaker 1: this that about the uh, you know, contact with the

733
00:38:01,360 --> 00:38:04,840
Speaker 1: woman a couple of times, right for a sexual tryst

734
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:09,160
Speaker 1: or whatever. Some of the details are disturbing and I

735
00:38:09,239 --> 00:38:15,400
Speaker 1: think that hurts him. They've already, okay, canceled his Bobblehead night.

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00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:19,040
Speaker 1: That's for like mid August. So they've already said we're

737
00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:22,000
Speaker 1: not doing that regardless, right because a week from now

738
00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:24,600
Speaker 1: they could say, hey, he's cleared or whatever and he

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00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:28,279
Speaker 1: can play again. They've already canceled that. They've taken all

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00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:32,120
Speaker 1: his merchandise down from the website and from the stores

741
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Speaker 1: at Dodger Stadium. Doesn't that signal something to you? Yeah?

742
00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:40,200
Speaker 1: This is this is where if you say, is he

743
00:38:40,280 --> 00:38:42,520
Speaker 1: ever going to pitch again for the Dodgers, that goes

744
00:38:42,560 --> 00:38:45,560
Speaker 1: down every day, you know, I mean short short of

745
00:38:45,680 --> 00:38:48,600
Speaker 1: a you know, the the no charges being filed, and

746
00:38:48,840 --> 00:38:51,960
Speaker 1: I don't know that that's gonna happen. Uh, yeah, I don't.

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00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:54,160
Speaker 1: I don't know that he pitches again because here's the thing,

748
00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:57,080
Speaker 1: and you hit on what the big thing is that

749
00:38:57,680 --> 00:39:01,480
Speaker 1: he's already admitted. Yes, these injuries, but these were part

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00:39:01,520 --> 00:39:04,439
Speaker 1: of consent when they were when they were having sex.

751
00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:07,120
Speaker 1: And look, and this is a world that I am not. Uh,

752
00:39:07,280 --> 00:39:08,880
Speaker 1: you know that that I don't know a lot about.

753
00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:10,840
Speaker 1: I mean I understand that there you know that there's

754
00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:14,279
Speaker 1: you know, everybody has different you know, sexual preferences and

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00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:15,960
Speaker 1: what they like. And I get that this is not

756
00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:19,359
Speaker 1: really my world. But when you do something and you

757
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:22,720
Speaker 1: when you're accused of something. Take the Mickey Callaway situation

758
00:39:22,719 --> 00:39:26,320
Speaker 1: for earlier this year, Mickey Callaway wasn't fired right away

759
00:39:26,360 --> 00:39:29,879
Speaker 1: because he denied the charges. There was an investigation, it

760
00:39:29,880 --> 00:39:32,319
Speaker 1: came through and then Mickey Callaway was let go, but

761
00:39:32,480 --> 00:39:35,640
Speaker 1: because he hasn't denied it that that's the red flag

762
00:39:35,640 --> 00:39:37,640
Speaker 1: to say, Okay, I mean baseball should have sat him

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00:39:37,640 --> 00:39:40,400
Speaker 1: down right away because of that. Okay, so you admit

764
00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:43,120
Speaker 1: to that, yes, but it's consensual. And I listened to

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00:39:43,160 --> 00:39:45,799
Speaker 1: Amy dash who's who's on Fox Sports Radio all the time,

766
00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:47,959
Speaker 1: one of the smartest people in the world, and she says,

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00:39:48,040 --> 00:39:49,960
Speaker 1: you know, listen, it breaks down like this. For me,

768
00:39:50,040 --> 00:39:54,520
Speaker 1: is that just because there was consent doesn't mean that

769
00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:57,759
Speaker 1: these injuries you can just wipe them away. And if

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00:39:57,760 --> 00:40:00,480
Speaker 1: you think about a perspective of let's just say, you know,

771
00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:03,439
Speaker 1: you and I are hanging out and and and and

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00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:05,839
Speaker 1: we're and you're saying, you know, you don't have the

773
00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:09,000
Speaker 1: guts to throw this baseball through my window in my car,

774
00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:10,440
Speaker 1: And I'm like, what are you talking about. You don't

775
00:40:10,480 --> 00:40:12,600
Speaker 1: have the guts. I dare you to throw this baseball

776
00:40:12,600 --> 00:40:15,000
Speaker 1: through my car? You know, you throw this baseball through

777
00:40:15,000 --> 00:40:16,200
Speaker 1: my car. I want you to do I want you

778
00:40:16,200 --> 00:40:17,560
Speaker 1: to do it. I'm like, no, I'm not gonna do it.

779
00:40:17,600 --> 00:40:19,280
Speaker 1: I want you to do it. And all our friends

780
00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:21,320
Speaker 1: are hanging around and they're egging me on and you say,

781
00:40:21,440 --> 00:40:23,719
Speaker 1: go ahead, throw that ball through my car. And then

782
00:40:23,719 --> 00:40:26,120
Speaker 1: I throw the baseball through your car window. It shatters it,

783
00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:29,600
Speaker 1: it breaks, Um, guess what, And I'm in trouble for

784
00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:33,200
Speaker 1: for damaging your car. And you can say, I'm gonna

785
00:40:33,239 --> 00:40:35,279
Speaker 1: sue you. You're gonna you know you you did this

786
00:40:35,320 --> 00:40:37,640
Speaker 1: every you know I have witnesses. But wait a minute,

787
00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:39,080
Speaker 1: but you asked me to do it, you told me

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Speaker 1: it was okay. Doesn't matter, you throw a baseball through

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00:40:41,160 --> 00:40:44,600
Speaker 1: my window. So just just because you know there's you

790
00:40:44,600 --> 00:40:46,960
Speaker 1: can say, well, there was consent, doesn't mean that that

791
00:40:47,040 --> 00:40:49,080
Speaker 1: you're not on the hook for what happens. And that's

792
00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:51,680
Speaker 1: part of what the investigation has going on right now. Jason,

793
00:40:51,719 --> 00:40:54,719
Speaker 1: no doubt. Chris Brussa and I talked about this, and

794
00:40:54,800 --> 00:40:57,759
Speaker 1: Chris belongs to a fraternity, and I said, Chris, you

795
00:40:57,840 --> 00:41:00,600
Speaker 1: have to look at it like this, And Jason, this

796
00:41:00,600 --> 00:41:05,600
Speaker 1: this wild register. Right. There's hazing in fraternities, right, and

797
00:41:06,000 --> 00:41:08,840
Speaker 1: when you sign up for it, you're you're agreeing to

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00:41:09,239 --> 00:41:11,440
Speaker 1: go apart along with the hazing in order to make

799
00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:16,200
Speaker 1: it into the fraternity. But sometimes the hazing turns deadly, right,

800
00:41:16,600 --> 00:41:20,200
Speaker 1: and people go overboard. So you might have signed up

801
00:41:20,239 --> 00:41:23,000
Speaker 1: for hazing. But and and you know your kid is

802
00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:25,319
Speaker 1: at college or whatever and then they wind up dead.

803
00:41:25,800 --> 00:41:28,120
Speaker 1: Does that mean that, oh no, well he signed up

804
00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:30,840
Speaker 1: for hazing, he knew what the fraternity was about. No,

805
00:41:31,760 --> 00:41:34,839
Speaker 1: there is a degree of everything. And that's why I'm

806
00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:39,720
Speaker 1: not convinced that Bower's going to pitch for the Dodgers again.

807
00:41:40,040 --> 00:41:43,040
Speaker 1: I'm not saying he's not gonna pitch somewhere else or

808
00:41:43,120 --> 00:41:46,759
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, But but I'm not convinced that, uh,

809
00:41:47,160 --> 00:41:49,239
Speaker 1: you know, he'll be back with the Dodgers. And I've

810
00:41:49,239 --> 00:41:51,040
Speaker 1: already seen I don't know if you've seen this story

811
00:41:51,239 --> 00:41:55,400
Speaker 1: Dave Stewart, the former Dodger pitcher. The Dodgers are celebrating

812
00:41:56,080 --> 00:42:01,040
Speaker 1: uh one of their championships, and Dave Steward is refusing

813
00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:04,680
Speaker 1: to take part in it. Over the way to Dodgers

814
00:42:04,719 --> 00:42:07,759
Speaker 1: have handled this Trevor Bauer situation. You could read that

815
00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:11,759
Speaker 1: story on mlbbro dot com. But but that says a

816
00:42:11,800 --> 00:42:15,440
Speaker 1: lot to me. Yeah, this is this is something where

817
00:42:15,640 --> 00:42:18,640
Speaker 1: you with every day it feels like he's thrown his

818
00:42:18,760 --> 00:42:20,759
Speaker 1: last pitch, you know, and it's still you don't know

819
00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:22,399
Speaker 1: how things are going to go, and We're wait. You're

820
00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:24,600
Speaker 1: waiting for the investigation to go out, and that's the

821
00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:26,800
Speaker 1: right thing, but with every day going on, it certainly

822
00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:29,480
Speaker 1: seems like it's less and less and less twitter at,

823
00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:33,200
Speaker 1: how about Afresca Rob at Rob Parker FS one coming

824
00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:35,680
Speaker 1: up next? Who Rob is not going to see at

825
00:42:35,680 --> 00:42:38,080
Speaker 1: the All Star Game next weekend. We get a big

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Speaker 1: conversation on the way right here, Fox