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Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Rado.

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Speaker 2: I mean, there are always lots of questions, lots of

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Speaker 2: think there's one question that stands out above the rest tonight, Ephram.

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Speaker 3: And that is what just happened.

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Speaker 2: And here's kind of the framework I'm using when I

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Speaker 2: ask that, I know, anytime something large happens, think about

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Speaker 2: when you get some news that you weren't expecting or whatnot,

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Speaker 2: You'll say, let me sleep on it, let me process this.

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Speaker 2: I need a minute to really kind of have perspective

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Speaker 2: on what just took place. So maybe the fact that

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Speaker 2: it's five o'clock in the west right now where you

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Speaker 2: and I sit, this basketball game has only been over

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Speaker 2: for about two and a half hours, bud Ephram. As

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Speaker 2: far as the larger view, I get it, two teams played,

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Speaker 2: the better team won, the best player has made a

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Speaker 2: hell of a name for herself. We'll see where her

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Speaker 2: career goes from here. But this was landmark. This was different.

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Speaker 2: I do think that today is going to outrate what

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Speaker 2: we see tomorrow night between the Yukon men and Purdue.

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Speaker 2: But but I ask you so like, in the big picture,

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Speaker 2: for women's sports and women's basketball.

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Speaker 3: What just happened? Anybody? Hey, how are you? I'm great?

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Speaker 3: I couldn't be better. What happened?

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Speaker 4: We just got you know, front row seats at one

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Speaker 4: heck of a national championship game for the ladies. I

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Speaker 4: mean it was unbelievable. My whole family was in My

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Speaker 4: wife was in there watch, we were all invested. I

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Speaker 4: can't wait to see what those numbers are. You know,

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Speaker 4: I would probably say around fifteen million. Maybe take the over. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: so take the over. I think I think we got

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Speaker 4: treated today to uh, one heck of a of a

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Speaker 4: basketball game at a very very high level, and ultimately

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Speaker 4: the better team came away with the victory. And that's

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Speaker 4: saying something, seeing that they lost five players last year

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Speaker 4: from last year's team to the w NBA Draft. That is,

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Speaker 4: you know, shout out to don Staley and what she's

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Speaker 4: done with this program. And they you know, fought against

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Speaker 4: They were thirty seven and oh coming into this game.

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Speaker 4: This is the team that put them out of the

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Speaker 4: final four last year. Heartbreaking for them. They were undefeated

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Speaker 4: when they lost. And you know, on the flip side

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Speaker 4: of that, Caitlyn Clark, you know it sucks because she's

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Speaker 4: gotten every single award and record you can have in

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Speaker 4: college basketball except for except for and and that is

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Speaker 4: something that's it will hunt her, but it won't be

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Speaker 4: the end all be all for her.

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Speaker 3: It just it was.

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Speaker 4: It was a tremendous, tremendous game to watch. I enjoyed

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Speaker 4: every second of it. We all did as a family.

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Speaker 4: And kudos to NCAA and the women's bracket for entertaining

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Speaker 4: us like the way that they did. This was a

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Speaker 4: tremendous year for women's basketball in college.

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Speaker 3: No doubt about it. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: My girl and I got back from from some weekend

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Speaker 2: outings and come to find and we got back right

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Speaker 2: about halftime, and my parents have been hanging with the

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Speaker 2: the house and there's my parents, and there's my kids

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Speaker 2: and my oldest son, who is in a golf tournament today.

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Speaker 2: He gets back right at the same time. Everybody walked in.

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Speaker 2: What does that count them up? That's a party of

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Speaker 2: seven and everybody with plenty of other sports on today,

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Speaker 2: Big day, NBA, Major League Baseball, everybody's locked in. Everybody's

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Speaker 2: locked in on Iowa and South Carolina. Uh so it

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Speaker 2: was awesome, absolutely awesome. Now, a lot of what you

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Speaker 2: and I have just stated, I think is sort of

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Speaker 2: the baseline for all of this, and it is too

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Speaker 2: early to have the larger conversation we we we need ratings,

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Speaker 2: and we need to see over a period of weeks, months,

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Speaker 2: or may have not had. I think it had a

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Speaker 2: just a masterful effect, but maybe not the one that

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Speaker 2: some people want it to be.

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Speaker 3: That's kind of my take.

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Speaker 2: Like you, you start to look at all of our

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Speaker 2: favorite sports in the world and think about their landmark moment,

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Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Like.

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Speaker 3: What was it? If you ask people today, if you're

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Speaker 3: Was it? Was it Magic versus Bird?

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Speaker 2: You know, maybe it was Maybe it was Michael Jordan

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Speaker 2: right right. We could go to any of those or

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Speaker 2: kind of broaden it, because this wasn't just about today's game.

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Speaker 2: This is about the whole season and the characters that

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Speaker 2: that rose to the forefront. Angel Reese in addition to

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Speaker 2: Caitlin Clark, the story, the whole book with all of

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Speaker 2: And so for me though all of these you know,

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Speaker 2: Joe Namath in football, like, is this the kind of

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Speaker 2: thing David Beckham comes to MLS? Is this the kind

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Speaker 2: of thing that sort of launches a league into a

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Speaker 2: different stratosphere? Or did we just simply experience the year

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Speaker 2: to remember and then we go back to our normal

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Speaker 2: behavior starting next year?

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Speaker 3: That will be the case.

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Speaker 4: And it's you know, it's sad to say, but you know,

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Speaker 4: I think what Kaitlyn Clark was able to do and

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Speaker 4: the rivalries that she had with you know, LSU and

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Speaker 4: any of the other top schools South Carolina, it just

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Speaker 4: it galvanized us, right because we finally got to see.

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Speaker 3: Young women.

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Speaker 4: In the light that athletes already see each other in dynamic, aggressive,

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Speaker 4: relentless and unapologetic. And as a former and the current athlete,

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Speaker 4: I still consider myself an athlete. I think it's important

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Speaker 4: for us to be held at a standard as athletes,

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Speaker 4: male or female. I don't care, right, trash talk is

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Speaker 4: part of the game. Some players do it, some players don't.

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Speaker 4: You know, Caitlin trash talks and everybody does, so don't

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Speaker 4: single someone out because they, oh, they do it more,

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Speaker 4: Are they do it less? Are they are not classy?

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Speaker 4: Most of that is coming from people who never played sports.

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Speaker 4: They don't understand what it is.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 4: There's a case where you can go over the line

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Speaker 4: in terms of trash talk, but you gotta back it up.

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Speaker 4: Some of the greatest trash talk was on the planet Earth.

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Speaker 4: Most people didn't even know about Larry Bird. Ask anybody

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Speaker 4: who played against him in that era. Ask anybody, yep,

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Speaker 4: but it was nothing out in the media about it

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Speaker 4: the matter is Larry Bird will tell you exactly what

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Speaker 4: you're about to do to you, and do it to

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Speaker 4: you and keep doing it. There's a funny thing, man

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Speaker 4: that there's this clip of someone saying that I think

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Speaker 4: they were playing against the Pistons, I think Isaiah's time

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Speaker 4: and said this, And one year they played them, and

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Speaker 4: what's his name of knock you tooth out? Bill Lambert? Lambert, sure, right,

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Speaker 4: and he was then. But but what I'm saying is

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Speaker 3: Bird and uh.

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Speaker 4: He looked at Isaiah and was like, y, you ain't

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Speaker 4: got no brothers to guard me, and went on and

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Speaker 4: destroyed them, and then after the game said, hey, many,

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Speaker 4: don't ever disrespect me like that. He was talking about

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Speaker 4: ice coal. Now that's ice cold. It was Larry Bird,

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Speaker 4: Larry Legend, French lick.

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Speaker 3: And so.

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Speaker 4: I love the energy of this year's entire women's college

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Speaker 4: basketball season. It was unbelievable.

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Speaker 3: Agreed. Agreed.

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Speaker 2: You know, although that's why there's Actually I love all

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Speaker 2: the words you use, but there's a different one that

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Speaker 2: stands out to me. When you talked about dynamic and

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Speaker 2: unapologetic and all of that, you want to know what

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Speaker 2: out of this particular tournament, that has the potential in

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Speaker 2: certain ways to sustain. Here's my word. Watchable. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 2: that's my word. And here's what I mean by that.

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Speaker 2: I mean that has no disrespect to anyone who has

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Speaker 2: come before her. But the way I've watched the women's

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Speaker 2: game this year, I look at it like this, and

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Speaker 2: I look at all sports like this. All sports, whether

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Speaker 2: just like a concert or theater, characters that you want

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Speaker 2: a ticket to go see. There are very well established

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Speaker 3: They just don't do it. They don't get you going.

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Speaker 2: It's why, in many ways, like you and I spent

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Speaker 2: so much time talking about Steph Curry and Lebron James,

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Speaker 3: But the reason that we have so much discussion.

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Speaker 2: About that outside of the fact that you're a fan

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Speaker 2: the other, but outside of that is these two dudes

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Speaker 2: They're different, you.

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Speaker 3: Know what I mean.

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Speaker 2: I could argue that I'll give you another example, Kawhi Leonard.

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Speaker 3: Is that a TV character, Eh? Not always? Not always?

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Speaker 3: Is you know, he doesn't rate the same way.

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Speaker 2: The beauty of what just happened for women's sports is

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Speaker 2: that in basketball, because it's happened before in other sports.

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Speaker 3: Serena Willilliams. Watchable, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 2: I mean, go back to some of the track and

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Speaker 2: field stars, way back to flow soccer.

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Speaker 3: Yes, thank you soccer, women's US soccer. I can't even

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Speaker 3: watch them, man, thank you.

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Speaker 2: I mean from Brandy Chastain, who once upon a time

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Speaker 2: became what a television character, right, That's what Caitlyn Clark

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Speaker 2: did here. And for years I specifically have thought about

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Speaker 2: the sport of basketball, as someone who is a traditional

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Speaker 2: below the rim. I want NBA. I want women and

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Speaker 2: Yama people. I want people hitting their head on the

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Speaker 2: top of the backboard. I'm not watching women play basketball.

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Speaker 2: And Caitlyn Clark more than any player I've ever seen.

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Speaker 2: And there have been greats from from you know, Cheryl Miller,

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Speaker 2: But from a watch a bill, any standpoint a character,

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Speaker 2: the realization of I am wildly entertained by watching this

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Speaker 3: This is the greatest I've ever seen in that sport.

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Speaker 2: And that's what this did for women's basketball is it

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Speaker 2: made people realize, you know what, there are players, There

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Speaker 2: are players both genders in this particular sport who could

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Speaker 4: Man, it was beautiful to see. I will say this

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Speaker 4: about the women's game, especially in college. The women are

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Speaker 4: more fundamentally sound sure than the guys are.

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Speaker 3: Kind of have to be, probably because it is it's

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Speaker 3: a different game.

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Speaker 4: You can get away with being fundamentally unsound and overly

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Speaker 4: explosive fast? You get away with all of that in

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Speaker 4: the men's game. In women's game, nahnundamentals aren't locked in

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Speaker 4: right watch the game. My nine year old was like, man,

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Speaker 4: they really do pump fake a lot. Yeah you know why? Well, yeah, right,

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Speaker 4: they really set the screens. They don't just run by,

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Speaker 4: They really set the screens. They have great I'm having

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Speaker 2: Just like in basketball, a successful game plan starts with

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Speaker 4: I don't see it, na, And that shouldn't be the topic.

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Speaker 6: the men's championship tomorrow nights. Yukon did tie, was tied

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Speaker 6: with Alabama last night with twelve minutes left, but wound

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Speaker 6: up beating him eighty six seventy two. So now for

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Speaker 6: the Huskies, it's a tournament record eleven straight double digit victories,

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Speaker 6: including last year's attorney although, as mentioned, for the first

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Speaker 6: time this tournament, they weren't up by thirty against the opponents.

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Speaker 3: So there's that.

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Speaker 6: Yukon had only trailed for twenty eight seconds total in

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Speaker 6: its first four tournament games this year. So the fact

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Speaker 6: that Bama in its first ever fire and four was

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Speaker 6: actually tied with twelve minutes.

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Speaker 3: To go, and you know who gave you know who?

447
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Speaker 3: You know who they were trailing to. Huh that might

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Speaker 3: be the Aztecs tex Baby, that's right.

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Speaker 4: Yes, Oh my god, we had to sid what was

450
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Speaker 4: like two to nothings.

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Speaker 3: That was it. That was impressive, you.

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Speaker 6: Con in their program's history. By the way, this will

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Speaker 6: be their sixth national title game appearance tomorrow night. They're

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Speaker 6: five and zero all time in the final, including title

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Speaker 6: wins against San Diego State, Georgia Tech, and Butler. A

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Speaker 6: game that you know, that's two hours.

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Speaker 3: Of my life.

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Speaker 6: I'm never gonna go. Wow, maybe seriously, might be the

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Speaker 6: worst college basketball game I have ever seen in my life.

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Speaker 2: That I'm offended that you said might be, because I

461
00:28:23,119 --> 00:28:24,880
Speaker 2: want to know what else you saw that even could

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Speaker 2: consider being in the same sentence.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I'll I'll give you that one.

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Speaker 6: Actually, without further consideration to the NBA scoreboard, The Bucks

465
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Speaker 6: in the third quarter are leading the next sixty six

466
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Speaker 6: sixty four, despite twenty eight points already from Jalen Brunson.

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Speaker 6: It's mid third quarter at San Antonio and the Spurs

468
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Speaker 6: are ahead of Philadelphia seventy two to sixty five victor

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Speaker 6: Webbin Yama with twenty points. Dallas got an overtime win

470
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Speaker 6: against Houston today one forty seven to one thirty six,

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Speaker 6: So the Golden State Warriors clinch a play in spot today.

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Speaker 6: With that Houston loss, the Rockets have dropped five straight.

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Speaker 6: We've got one week left in this people. NBA regular

474
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Speaker 6: season ends a week from today. The Clippers at home

475
00:29:04,840 --> 00:29:07,480
Speaker 6: were down by twenty six in the third quarter and

476
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Speaker 6: still defeated. Cleveland won twenty to one eighteen. Indiana edge

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Speaker 6: Miami one seventeen to one fifteen. About to start Golden

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Speaker 6: State's home game against a Utah team that's lost eleven

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Speaker 6: in a row and the late game at ten PM

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Speaker 6: Eastern time. The Lakers, who've won four straights, they've won

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Speaker 6: nine of ten hosting Minnesota. William Byron took the NASCAR

482
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Speaker 6: Race at Martinsville. Baseball Cleveland at Minnesota reigned out. Sunday

483
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Speaker 6: night ballgame has Houston still ahead at Texas three, ninthing

484
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Speaker 6: bottom of the six.

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Speaker 2: Back to you, okay, Steve, awesome stuff. Appreciate it as always,

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Speaker 2: Tyrech dot com Studios, Mark Willardy from Salam Lakers are

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Speaker 2: gonna go.

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Speaker 3: Mess this up, dude, Man, please don't mess this up.

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Speaker 3: Best of we gonna mess it up. Please don't mess

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Speaker 3: this up. I've been falling too man.

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Speaker 2: Well I know, but I don't know if you I

492
00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:53,680
Speaker 2: don't know if you know what I mean when I

493
00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:56,720
Speaker 2: say I'm gonna mess this up. They're gonna mess this up.

494
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Speaker 2: This was going to be the best play in a ball.

495
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Speaker 3: Time's up and leave it. We're keep this up. We're

496
00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:07,960
Speaker 3: trying to get out of there. Man, I know you are.

497
00:30:08,440 --> 00:30:11,720
Speaker 3: Don't to get out of this and you watch.

498
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Speaker 2: For the first time in the history of Laker basketball,

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Speaker 2: Adam Silver is.

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Speaker 3: Going to make that call. He's going to call the

501
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Speaker 3: rest's room tonight.

502
00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:22,760
Speaker 2: He's going to be like, I'm on all the calls

503
00:30:23,240 --> 00:30:25,880
Speaker 2: to go the Timberwolve's way. I want, I want every

504
00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:28,800
Speaker 2: time Kat touches the ball, we're going to the free

505
00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:34,240
Speaker 2: throw line because we need ourselves some good solid urgency.

506
00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:39,640
Speaker 2: One and done basketball involving the Los Angeles Lakers and

507
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Speaker 2: the Golden State Warriors at the same time.

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Speaker 3: That's what we need. Then take our spot. You know what.

509
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Speaker 2: I took a little sleep on the on the NBA

510
00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:54,160
Speaker 2: standings for a minute, like I you know, you zero

511
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Speaker 2: in on certain things, and I kind of was like, Okay,

512
00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:02,560
Speaker 2: it's king very much like the Warriors will be in LA.

513
00:31:02,720 --> 00:31:05,240
Speaker 2: This was on Wednesday last week or the week that

514
00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:07,960
Speaker 2: just was, And I'm like, okay, two weeks from tonight

515
00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:09,240
Speaker 2: is the nine ten games?

516
00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:11,479
Speaker 3: Very very likely this is gonna be the Warriors at

517
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Speaker 3: the Lakers.

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Speaker 2: And then I told you, we kind of went on

519
00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:17,200
Speaker 2: some outings and went some places this weekend and I

520
00:31:17,280 --> 00:31:19,400
Speaker 2: came back and I'm like, the.

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Speaker 3: Hell happened here? Why are the Pelicans in this? What

522
00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:28,440
Speaker 3: are we doing? Where did they come from? First of all?

523
00:31:28,920 --> 00:31:30,560
Speaker 3: And what here's the Kings.

524
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Speaker 2: All it takes is Malik Monk gets hurt a couple

525
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Speaker 2: of losses in a row, and you're like the Kings

526
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Speaker 2: and I actually could get boy, listen, Northern California could

527
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Speaker 2: get into that too.

528
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Speaker 3: If it's the Warriors and Kings, what you want?

529
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's I mean, it's a much more west trip.

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Speaker 2: You're not You're not wrong about that, but I'm just

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Speaker 2: saying in a more umbrell of you forget the Warriors

532
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Speaker 2: for a second. The way this thing was shaping up

533
00:31:56,640 --> 00:32:00,080
Speaker 2: as recently as a week ago, which was you were

534
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:05,160
Speaker 2: gonna get Curry and and Clay and Draymond and Lebron

535
00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:09,840
Speaker 2: and a D and Kevin Durant and uh and Devin

536
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Speaker 2: Booker and dear Fox.

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Speaker 3: I mean, all these all gonna be in the playing tournament.

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Speaker 2: And I was like, look, I know that the like

539
00:32:18,240 --> 00:32:21,960
Speaker 2: I know we're gonna lose two of these teams, but man,

540
00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:24,040
Speaker 2: that was gonna be great theater here coming up in

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Speaker 2: a week and a half, and it and it, and

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Speaker 2: it may still be. You got a lot of work

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Speaker 2: to do. You got a lot of words. You got

544
00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:33,000
Speaker 2: a tough game tonight. We've got a tough game. We've

545
00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:36,960
Speaker 2: got a tough game tonight. Tough game tonight.

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Speaker 3: You got it? Okay. Yeah.

547
00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:43,680
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, the Warriors, like, we don't even we're not even

548
00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:45,840
Speaker 2: gonna play staph tonight. Just take the night off.

549
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Speaker 4: We're working on something here. I mean, you guys have

550
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Speaker 4: the ten seed locked in, so you know, why burn it?

551
00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:52,880
Speaker 4: Why burn the rubber off.

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Speaker 3: It looks like it's gonna be that. Yeah. I mean

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Speaker 3: they're not gonna be any worse than that, obviously, No,

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Speaker 3: I mean Houston is eliminated.

555
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Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, But the Warriors play the Lakers on Tuesday.

556
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Speaker 2: A couple of losses in a row, couple wins row

557
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Speaker 2: by the Warriors. Hold hold.

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Speaker 3: Honestly could go the other way too. Lakers could still

559
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Speaker 3: be the ten cedro. We're good, man. We don't keep

560
00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:17,840
Speaker 3: on pushing people.

561
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Speaker 4: We're trying to get to six. Man, I know you are.

562
00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:21,560
Speaker 4: I know what you're trying to do.

563
00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:24,960
Speaker 3: We're a game out of six.

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Speaker 2: You got you got four games left, and only one

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Speaker 2: of them, I would argue, is easy.

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Speaker 3: I don't know. Nothing's easy. Okay, well you know, I mean,

567
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Speaker 3: but Memphis go. Don't mess around with Memphis on a

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Speaker 3: Friday night. What are we doing? I mean, we need

569
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Speaker 3: that game. You'll happen.

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Speaker 4: We're gonna need the the Pelicans game. Yeah, that's gonna

571
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Speaker 4: determine you know, six, seven or eight. All right, we

572
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Speaker 4: got more on that coming up later on in the show.

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Speaker 4: Coming up next. Talk about watchability. I mean, he might

574
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Speaker 4: be the person in his given sport who has.

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Speaker 3: Defined watchability throughout the history of the game, and out

576
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Speaker 3: of nowhere name popped up again today.

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Speaker 2: We'll tell you we're talking about in a minute. That's

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Speaker 2: he from Salama Mark Wellard, Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in

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Speaker 2: It's liventhetie rech dot com Studios. That is he from Salama,

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Speaker 2: Mark Wellard. Good Sunday evening to you. Glad you're with us.

585
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Speaker 2: Tiger Tiger Tiger Woods, y'all, As the the Great Chris

586
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Speaker 2: Rock once said.

587
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Speaker 3: So the report is that he's gonna play.

588
00:34:48,600 --> 00:34:51,479
Speaker 2: He can break the record for the most consecutive made

589
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Speaker 2: cuts at the Masters with his twenty fifth if he's

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Speaker 2: able to play the first two rounds and actually get

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Speaker 2: into uh to the weekend. Caught my eye, especially today

592
00:35:02,280 --> 00:35:06,239
Speaker 2: because of Caitlyn Clark, and she's obviously the lead of

593
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Speaker 2: the day and and in in a in a flash

594
00:35:11,080 --> 00:35:14,200
Speaker 2: sort of a way because we've really only known her

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Speaker 2: really well for for a couple of years years two years.

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Speaker 2: Caitlyn Clark, it is kind of in women's college hoop

597
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:27,640
Speaker 2: right now. It's kind of the Tiger Woods. She's playing

598
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Speaker 2: that role. Look, we could be as real as we

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Speaker 2: want here, and I have no This is not a

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Speaker 2: controversial statement that I'm about to make, and it's not

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Speaker 2: taking anything away from anything that anyone has achieved.

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Speaker 3: South Carolina could be going for thirty.

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Speaker 2: Eight and oh today, and if they were doing it

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Speaker 2: against Yukon, no one would be watching, not like this.

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Speaker 3: How many millions fewer? Nobody? I mean, there you go.

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Speaker 2: I know it's hard to have that of a conversation

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Speaker 2: without people going, oh, you know, dismissing women's sports. Sometimes

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Speaker 2: I look at it the other way and go, I

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00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:11,279
Speaker 2: feel like Caitlyn Clark's presence at times has been dismissed

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Speaker 2: and diminished by those who are like, see, this is

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Speaker 2: what women's basketball can do. And it's like yes, and

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00:36:18,040 --> 00:36:21,360
Speaker 2: I get you, but don't forget what this is actually

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00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:25,440
Speaker 2: all about. This is about an unbelievable television character who

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Speaker 2: we all want to watch.

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Speaker 3: That's my CTV.

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Speaker 4: If you love basketball, watching Kaitlyn Clark play is amazing

617
00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:47,759
Speaker 4: because it's it's so fluid, it's it's good high level basketball,

618
00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:50,720
Speaker 4: and this tournament, especially once you get down to about

619
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Speaker 4: the Sweet sixteen was tremendous.

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Speaker 3: It was amazing.

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Speaker 4: All of the top teams are there, all with stars,

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Speaker 4: first round WNBA draft picks.

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Speaker 3: You know what.

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Speaker 4: I was my wife and I we had date night

625
00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:19,239
Speaker 4: Friday night, hey, and we were watching The Gang and

626
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Speaker 4: I was saying, man, I was saying, you know, ice

627
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Speaker 4: Cube and the Big Three offered her five million dollars.

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Speaker 3: Yes.

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Speaker 4: I was like, man, she should take that, you should

630
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Speaker 4: And she said why. I mean, she's gonna be the

631
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Speaker 4: first pick in the draft. I said, yeah, she won't

632
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Speaker 4: make even anywhere close to that in the WNBA. She said, what, No,

633
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Speaker 4: get out of here. She said, there's no way. I said, oh,

634
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Speaker 4: let's ask the computer that's in our pocket, right, And

635
00:37:54,520 --> 00:37:56,719
Speaker 4: I think the highest paid player just signed a two

636
00:37:56,760 --> 00:38:01,200
Speaker 4: year deal for like five hundred thousand dollars. That's the

637
00:38:01,239 --> 00:38:06,080
Speaker 4: reality of the situation. Kaitlyn Clark, Andrew Reese, all of

638
00:38:06,120 --> 00:38:10,399
Speaker 4: the other dynamic they're making more money in college than

639
00:38:10,440 --> 00:38:14,680
Speaker 4: they will in the WNBA. And that is a travesty. Yep,

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00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:18,560
Speaker 4: that is a travesty. And she was like why. I said,

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Speaker 4: because in the grand scheme of things, and I don't

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00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:26,840
Speaker 4: want to say nobody, but not enough people watch WNBA games.

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Speaker 4: I said, so this is probably going to be as

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Speaker 4: popular as Kaitlyn Clark will ever be.

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Speaker 3: Right now, I agree with you.

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Speaker 2: I do think though, that people will want to watch her,

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Speaker 2: even at the next level, for how long.

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Speaker 3: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: My understanding though, by the way, is that the Big

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Speaker 2: Three is building that so that she can do both.

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Speaker 3: That'll be amazing. I don't think she needs to pick

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Speaker 3: one of the other.

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Speaker 4: Outside that deal in a heartbeat a heartbeat, heartbeat worse,

654
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Speaker 4: she should play the Big Three.

655
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Speaker 2: Of course, you should take five million dollars in play

656
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Speaker 2: in the Big Three, And I'm with you. R he

657
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Speaker 2: does have to choose between the two, then I'm taking

658
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Speaker 2: five million dollars over.

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Speaker 3: Yes, you are correct.

660
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Speaker 2: The highest paid player in the WNBA makes two hundred

661
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Speaker 2: and forty one.

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Speaker 3: Out of control. That's it. It's out of control. That's

663
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Speaker 3: out of control.

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Speaker 2: So yes, I would take the five But I do believe,

665
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Speaker 2: if I read ice Cube correct, that they are making

666
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Speaker 2: that offer but also saying that this is something that

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Speaker 2: can be done concurrently.

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Speaker 3: Do it. Let's make it happen. There you go. I

669
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Speaker 3: would love she can make she can make five point two.

670
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Speaker 3: I would love to see that, right, right.

671
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Speaker 4: And so it's one of those things where as dynamic

672
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Speaker 4: as this year has been the last two years in

673
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Speaker 4: women's basketball college basketball, once you get to the next level,

674
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Speaker 4: it dramatically drops down in terms of interest, viewership, and money.

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Speaker 3: And that's sad. Think about it.

676
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Speaker 4: In terms of the women's soccer national soccer team, they

677
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Speaker 4: had to be the best in the world, yes, for

678
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Speaker 4: twelve years, the best in the world, to get equal

679
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Speaker 4: pay with the men who couldn't get out of the

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Speaker 4: group stage.

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Speaker 3: And they still had to scream about it.

682
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Speaker 4: And still I'm talking about the greatest teams in the world,

683
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Speaker 4: not the country, the world, yep.

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Speaker 3: And had to beg and scream and kick and plead.

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Speaker 4: Gotta stop man out of control. It's out of control,

686
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Speaker 4: right right.

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Speaker 2: But in this particular case, you know there is that

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Speaker 2: the data is going to is going to be what

689
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Speaker 2: it is. I do think that there is going to

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Speaker 2: be really interesting to see what kind of a ratings

691
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Speaker 2: driver she is at the next level whatever, at whatever

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Speaker 2: she decides to do. Tyrack dot Com Studios Mark willerty

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Speaker 2: from salam coming up next. Hey, we got to talk

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Speaker 2: about your Texans team we will. Yeah, it was Tradavious

695
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Speaker 2: White first, it was Stefan Diggs after that, and there

696
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Speaker 2: have been a number of others. The Bills are going

697
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Speaker 2: through what looks like a complete redo, which is risky

698
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Speaker 2: when you got a player like Josh Allen in his prime.

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Speaker 2: With all that said, though, Eve from I'm actually a

700
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Speaker 2: little bit more interested in the Texans than the Bills,

701
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Speaker 2: with how they came out of this deal this week.

702
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Speaker 2: And I know that you're rubbing your hands together. I

703
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Speaker 2: might be about to throw some water on him. Now, Okay,

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Speaker 2: I got concerns. I got concerns and a little bit

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Speaker 3: The way tie or buying should be.

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Speaker 2: That Tank Dell is now coming off of a torn

712
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Speaker 2: acl But just the arrival, like, I got a few

713
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Speaker 2: things that I want to get at, but talk me

714
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Speaker 2: through this. Just the arrival of Stefan Diggs, does that

715
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Speaker 2: not sort of get in the way of the development

716
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Speaker 2: of Tank Dell and Nico Collins even just a little bit.

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Speaker 4: No, why not because most teams work with three wide

718
00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:35,280
Speaker 4: receiver sets.

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Speaker 2: You work with them, Yes, but you're not going to

720
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Speaker 2: get like thousand yard popping production from three different guys.

721
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Speaker 3: No, I feel like all three have that ability. They

722
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Speaker 3: do have that ability.

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Speaker 4: But like you said, Tank Dell is coming off an

724
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Speaker 4: acl But guess what you don't have to do now,

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Speaker 4: I guess what he doesn't have to do. He doesn't

726
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Speaker 4: have to feel like he has to rush back. Yeah,

727
00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:07,320
Speaker 4: you give yourself time. As we've found in all professional sports,

728
00:43:07,600 --> 00:43:12,040
Speaker 4: there's a war of attrition. If you can go in

729
00:43:12,040 --> 00:43:16,319
Speaker 4: to the later parts of the season December January into

730
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Speaker 4: the playoffs healthy with playmakers, you have an excellent opportunity

731
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Speaker 4: and a chance to do something special in the playoffs.

732
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Speaker 4: Not having enough is a problem for sure, having too

733
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Speaker 4: many great players, and I take that problem.

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Speaker 2: Okay, this is where the conversation always goes, too many

735
00:43:40,719 --> 00:43:42,600
Speaker 2: great players are too many good players?

736
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Speaker 3: No, And I know what you're saying. I know what

737
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Speaker 3: you're saying there.

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Speaker 2: All it's a great problem to have until it actually

739
00:43:48,440 --> 00:43:52,959
Speaker 2: does sort of become a problem, which is to say

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Speaker 2: it's not that like, why should the Texans care if

741
00:43:56,560 --> 00:43:59,520
Speaker 2: Nico Collins only gets nine hundred yards instead of twelve hundred?

742
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Speaker 3: Didn't?

743
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Speaker 2: But you know who does, Nico Collins. Nico Collins cares

744
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Speaker 2: and Stefan Diggs. I'm going to apologize ahead of time.

745
00:44:10,200 --> 00:44:16,520
Speaker 2: I've never met the man. However, I have seen and

746
00:44:16,719 --> 00:44:23,120
Speaker 2: heard what feels like enough to make me feel like

747
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Speaker 2: Digs not his, but can a little bit of a problem.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I get that, I understand.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So now we're not only potentially getting in the

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Speaker 2: way of two young receivers, we are now providing a

751
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Speaker 2: mentor for them who might be.

752
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Speaker 3: Precisely who you do not want mentoring these.

753
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Speaker 4: Two young receivers. That's a situation where prior to the trade,

754
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Speaker 4: the work is done.

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Speaker 3: Hmm.

756
00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:07,680
Speaker 4: Prior to the trade the work is done. So he

757
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Speaker 4: said some nice things on what I'm saying is there's

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Speaker 4: a trust level there, right Like you go you sit

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Speaker 4: down with Dimiko Ryans and you say, hey, we want

760
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Speaker 4: to do this, but you voiced a concern you just

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Speaker 4: voiced right now, Dimigo is the captain of that ship.

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Speaker 4: I don't believe he's willing to sacrifice the flow of

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Speaker 4: that ship by bringing in something that's going to throw

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Speaker 4: it off balance.

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Speaker 3: So what I would say is.

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Speaker 4: This is a we'll wait and see situation, but based

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Speaker 4: on who I know Dimiko is and the culture he's

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Speaker 4: building there, this has been addressed. You also have to

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Speaker 4: remember this is a contract year. They voided the remaining

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Speaker 4: three years of his deal.

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Speaker 3: Correct.

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Speaker 4: This is a one year, twenty three point whatever million

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Speaker 4: dollar deal for a receiver who still wants to continue playing.

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Speaker 4: Players notoriously are tremendous in contract years, so they've given

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Speaker 4: themselves a little buffer there. They've made the situation conducive

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Speaker 4: to getting the best digs that they can get, and

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Speaker 4: I think that's a smart move. He's a free agent

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Speaker 4: after this year.

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Speaker 2: I get it, and they will probably let him walk

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Speaker 2: and they might be Super Bowl champions for all I know.

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Speaker 2: I like, huge believer in Jamiico Ryans, huge believer in CJ. Stroud,

782
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Speaker 2: love so many of the things that they were doing

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Speaker 2: and building. And I'm not saying I'm off the train

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Speaker 2: by any stretch. Sound like, well, I tell you what

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Speaker 2: I get. The antennas go up when you start going

786
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Speaker 2: name hunting instead of fit hunting, because you're not that

787
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Speaker 2: far off as you are. You already won a playoff game.

788
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Speaker 2: You already went and danced into the conference final four,

789
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Speaker 2: and then you came out and went, let's go stef

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Speaker 2: On Diggs and Joe Mixing.

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Speaker 4: I'm like, that's but you gave yourself a knockout punch.

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Speaker 4: You gave yourself a knockout punch. Imagine how open the

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Speaker 4: field is going to be now. Imagine what defenses are

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Speaker 4: going to have to try to stop with Mixing in

795
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Speaker 4: the backfield, with Diggs, with Dale right like. Imagine now

796
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Speaker 4: being a defensive coordinator trying to stop a quarterback that's

797
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Speaker 4: young and can make every throw and that's a leader.

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Speaker 4: Imagine what that feels like as an offensive coordinator putting

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Speaker 4: that game plan together.

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Speaker 2: Do you remember when we had this exact conversation in

801
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Speaker 2: a different sport last February. Do you remember do you

802
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Speaker 2: remember when there was a trade in the NBA and

803
00:48:16,160 --> 00:48:18,879
Speaker 2: You're like, no one's gonna be able to stop them.

804
00:48:19,920 --> 00:48:23,480
Speaker 2: The floor is now completely busted, wide open, and I

805
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Speaker 2: don't know how.

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Speaker 3: Defenses are gonna do anything about it. You remember that

807
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Speaker 3: the Suns.

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Speaker 2: Remember when the Dallas Mavericks got Kyrie Yes, and you

809
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Speaker 2: told me that the defenses, there's nothing they can.

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Speaker 4: What I also told you was they're not a very

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Speaker 4: good defensive team. I said that. I said they're going

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Speaker 4: to have to try to outscore people because they gave

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Speaker 4: up their defensive presence. So in a series, Yeah, Luca

814
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Speaker 4: and Kyrie are going to have to be sational, which

815
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Speaker 4: is very difficult to do. I said that. Yeah, listen,

816
00:49:05,719 --> 00:49:07,680
Speaker 4: the Texans got better on defense as well.

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Speaker 3: They definitely did. No, No, I'm not. I'm not sounded

818
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Speaker 3: like I'm fighting right now? Are we fighting? This is.

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Speaker 2: A prediction of failure. This is a cautionary warning shot.

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Speaker 2: This feels like Odell Beckham to the Browns. To me,

821
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Speaker 2: that's what it feels like.

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Speaker 3: To me.

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Speaker 2: It feels like massive name value fantasy football first round

824
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Speaker 2: draft pick. Add them to the mix, and oh god,

825
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Speaker 2: what's anybody gonna do?

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Speaker 3: And then what happens next is just people yelling at

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Speaker 3: each other. That's what happened next.

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Speaker 2: People yelled at each other for two or three years,

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Speaker 2: and then they broke up. And I hear you. You

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Speaker 2: make a very very good point with regard to how

831
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Speaker 2: the Tecans can wiggle out of this in ten months,

832
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Speaker 2: And yes they can. And they might, but my mind

833
00:50:13,880 --> 00:50:16,840
Speaker 2: just started bouncing around to different things I've seen before.

834
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Speaker 2: Stefan Diggs taking shots at Josh Allen on Twitter the

835
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Speaker 2: night before the trade went down. Go back to watching

836
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Speaker 2: quarterbacks on Netflix when they're following Kirk Cousins around. And

837
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Speaker 2: this is just a fun little game, no big deal,

838
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Speaker 2: but it's something I filed in my memory bank. They

839
00:50:35,200 --> 00:50:37,520
Speaker 2: were the cameras went through the Vikings locker room and

840
00:50:37,560 --> 00:50:42,520
Speaker 2: started asking all of the Vikings, Hey, if there's one

841
00:50:42,600 --> 00:50:45,880
Speaker 2: player on this team that you don't want watching your kids,

842
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Speaker 2: who would it be.

843
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Speaker 3: And they went to every locker digs it, digs, digs, digs, digs.

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Speaker 2: And then one guy was like, ah, Bobby over there

845
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Speaker 2: is kind of funny.

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Speaker 3: Digs digs.

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Speaker 2: They said it with a smile, but eve from him like,

848
00:51:05,040 --> 00:51:08,600
Speaker 2: this guy has got something going on in locker rooms.

849
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Speaker 2: And I'm a very especially in football, and Dimiko knows this.

850
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Speaker 2: Dimiko's a phenomenal presence for the people around him. And

851
00:51:20,360 --> 00:51:23,640
Speaker 2: I would protect the hell out of my young receivers.

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Speaker 3: This is just my perception. I don't want them around

853
00:51:27,480 --> 00:51:31,000
Speaker 3: Stefan Dicks, no matter how talented he is.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well you know you rent somebody for one year

855
00:51:39,960 --> 00:51:42,880
Speaker 4: with the hopes that they push you over the top. Yep,

856
00:51:44,520 --> 00:51:48,600
Speaker 4: And it's a one year experiment. The only thing that

857
00:51:48,640 --> 00:51:52,640
Speaker 4: happens is your young players get older. They didn't sign

858
00:51:52,680 --> 00:51:58,200
Speaker 4: them to a five year deal, four year deal. They

859
00:51:58,239 --> 00:52:02,640
Speaker 4: gave themselves an out if it doesn't work, which is

860
00:52:02,680 --> 00:52:11,640
Speaker 4: a smart move. It's a smart move because you're insure

861
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Speaker 4: yourself you get the best behavior. Mm, yeah, you do,

862
00:52:18,400 --> 00:52:18,640
Speaker 4: you do.

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Speaker 3: He's not.

864
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Speaker 4: Look, he's not He's not an idiot. Now, I mean

865
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Speaker 4: he's seen some of his brethren walked and talk themselves

866
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Speaker 4: out of the league.

867
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not gonna call the man an idiot. He's

868
00:52:34,040 --> 00:52:34,680
Speaker 3: not an idiot.

869
00:52:35,320 --> 00:52:39,319
Speaker 2: But quarterbacks don't grow on trees. And this man has

870
00:52:39,360 --> 00:52:44,600
Speaker 2: talked himself away from Kirk Cousins and Josh Allen, and

871
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Speaker 2: I don't think that that's very smart. When he's a

872
00:52:46,920 --> 00:52:49,120
Speaker 2: wide receiver. He ended up with CJ.

873
00:52:49,239 --> 00:52:49,640
Speaker 3: Stroud.

874
00:52:49,920 --> 00:52:57,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, that might beat the maybe, I mean.

875
00:52:58,680 --> 00:53:00,680
Speaker 3: Rightly how this thing shakes out, But to me, it

876
00:53:01,480 --> 00:53:02,000
Speaker 3: just thinking.

877
00:53:02,920 --> 00:53:06,680
Speaker 2: I'm not sitting here telling you that the Texans aren't

878
00:53:06,680 --> 00:53:07,200
Speaker 2: going to be good.

879
00:53:07,280 --> 00:53:08,360
Speaker 3: That's not what I'm saying.

880
00:53:08,520 --> 00:53:13,480
Speaker 2: I just if we get to week five and people

881
00:53:13,480 --> 00:53:15,440
Speaker 2: are throwing helmets on the sideline.

882
00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:19,520
Speaker 4: Then you sit them down. It's fine, it's all good, man.

883
00:53:20,320 --> 00:53:24,440
Speaker 4: They've given themselves an out.

884
00:53:25,719 --> 00:53:28,960
Speaker 2: Yes, they've given themselves an out. I hope that he

885
00:53:29,040 --> 00:53:31,880
Speaker 2: doesn't and if you don't need it, you wan image

886
00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:34,520
Speaker 2: you won. But I hope he doesn't leave damage.

887
00:53:34,520 --> 00:53:36,520
Speaker 4: It's not that much damage, man, it's it's it's not

888
00:53:36,680 --> 00:53:39,799
Speaker 4: that fragile. And those locker rooms and those meeting rooms

889
00:53:39,840 --> 00:53:44,000
Speaker 4: aren't that fragile. I mean, there have been guys cancers.

890
00:53:44,040 --> 00:53:46,000
Speaker 4: I've been a part of teams with cancers in the

891
00:53:46,000 --> 00:53:52,600
Speaker 4: locker room. Give me and and those guys have been removed. Yes,

892
00:53:53,160 --> 00:53:55,839
Speaker 4: the one thing that a locker room is is elastic.

893
00:53:56,880 --> 00:53:59,120
Speaker 4: You can deal with those presents in the locker room,

894
00:53:59,160 --> 00:54:01,960
Speaker 4: which you can't do. You can't deal with that, that

895
00:54:02,120 --> 00:54:08,480
Speaker 4: shaky force upstairs from upstairs coaching GM's owners, those are

896
00:54:08,800 --> 00:54:10,560
Speaker 4: those have resounding effects.

897
00:54:10,880 --> 00:54:13,640
Speaker 3: I agree with that. I agree with that absolutely.

898
00:54:14,719 --> 00:54:22,120
Speaker 4: The locker room's built to be resilient. So just just

899
00:54:22,239 --> 00:54:25,719
Speaker 4: know that it's not the end of the world. Oh,

900
00:54:25,719 --> 00:54:26,960
Speaker 4: I don't think it's the end of the world.

901
00:54:27,239 --> 00:54:32,600
Speaker 3: It is a is a it's a yellow light. That's all.

902
00:54:34,760 --> 00:54:37,279
Speaker 2: Just like in basketball, successful game plan starts with the

903
00:54:37,320 --> 00:54:40,120
Speaker 2: right players the team. Attractor supply brings hustle and heart,

904
00:54:40,280 --> 00:54:42,359
Speaker 2: and that's what really sets them apart. So lates up

905
00:54:42,600 --> 00:54:44,719
Speaker 2: your sneakers and make the winning play by heading to

906
00:54:44,760 --> 00:54:48,600
Speaker 2: your local tractor supply store today. With all that, I

907
00:54:48,640 --> 00:54:51,880
Speaker 2: would like to take a broader view now of the

908
00:54:51,920 --> 00:54:54,600
Speaker 2: moves that have happened within the AFC and kind of

909
00:54:54,640 --> 00:54:57,120
Speaker 2: take your temperature to see what you think about the

910
00:54:57,160 --> 00:54:59,760
Speaker 2: way it stacks up. Now with E from Salama, Mark Willard,

911
00:54:59,800 --> 00:55:01,000
Speaker 2: and this is Fox Sports Radio.

912
00:55:03,040 --> 00:55:05,799
Speaker 3: All right, we're in the tirag dot com studios.

913
00:55:05,840 --> 00:55:11,560
Speaker 2: Mark Willerty from Salam, Like, we could even call this

914
00:55:11,680 --> 00:55:15,479
Speaker 2: a sort of an AFC power rankings if you want.

915
00:55:15,600 --> 00:55:17,880
Speaker 2: I feel like you're excited though right now, so you

916
00:55:18,000 --> 00:55:20,640
Speaker 2: might like, are you gonna tell me the Texans are

917
00:55:20,960 --> 00:55:21,439
Speaker 2: number two?

918
00:55:21,680 --> 00:55:27,239
Speaker 3: Is that what you're gonna tell me? I mean, maybe

919
00:55:27,280 --> 00:55:31,839
Speaker 3: they are? Is that how you feel? Anything? Tell me?

920
00:55:32,760 --> 00:55:36,680
Speaker 3: Tell me anything's possible, man, I mean, are they number

921
00:55:36,680 --> 00:55:42,800
Speaker 3: one in your power ratings? No? Okay? Is that the

922
00:55:42,880 --> 00:55:44,720
Speaker 3: chief still? Yes?

923
00:55:45,800 --> 00:55:50,440
Speaker 2: All right, let's have some fun with the the Houston Texans. Then,

924
00:55:50,440 --> 00:55:51,680
Speaker 2: for a minute, what if I asked it to you

925
00:55:51,719 --> 00:55:55,520
Speaker 2: this way, make some sort of noise.

926
00:55:57,200 --> 00:55:59,600
Speaker 3: When I get to the team that you feel like

927
00:55:59,680 --> 00:56:00,880
Speaker 3: the tech Exans are above.

928
00:56:02,360 --> 00:56:14,759
Speaker 2: Okay, Kansas City Chiefs, Baltimore Ravens, Cincinnati Bengals mm hmm.

929
00:56:18,920 --> 00:56:21,880
Speaker 4: I was debating where to go next. That was noise

930
00:56:21,920 --> 00:56:26,080
Speaker 4: that counts as noise, That is noise.

931
00:56:29,280 --> 00:56:31,360
Speaker 3: Buffalo Bills mm hmmm.

932
00:56:34,920 --> 00:56:48,360
Speaker 2: Los Angeles Chargers mm hmmm, Cleveland Browns, Jacksonville Jaguars, Miami

933
00:56:48,400 --> 00:56:50,359
Speaker 2: Dolphins mm hmm.

934
00:56:51,080 --> 00:56:54,520
Speaker 3: Okay, okay, So.

935
00:56:56,120 --> 00:56:59,880
Speaker 4: So you're going Chiefs, Ravens, Texans, So let me explain.

936
00:57:00,880 --> 00:57:03,880
Speaker 4: Hear me, Let's go every one of those teams. I

937
00:57:03,960 --> 00:57:05,200
Speaker 4: made a noise too.

938
00:57:07,640 --> 00:57:08,360
Speaker 3: They have.

939
00:57:09,840 --> 00:57:14,440
Speaker 4: Something we're not quite sure of. Are question marks, I

940
00:57:14,440 --> 00:57:20,280
Speaker 4: should say, yep, legitimate question marks, not fan question marks.

941
00:57:20,400 --> 00:57:22,600
Speaker 3: You know. I try to keep that part out of it.

942
00:57:23,760 --> 00:57:24,720
Speaker 3: Just based on.

943
00:57:26,720 --> 00:57:29,440
Speaker 4: What they're doing where they are now. You know, we

944
00:57:29,520 --> 00:57:34,680
Speaker 4: haven't had the draft yet, but all of that based

945
00:57:34,720 --> 00:57:38,800
Speaker 4: on the tech. The way the Texans drafted is another

946
00:57:38,880 --> 00:57:48,280
Speaker 4: reason why I think they'll be dramatically better because they've

947
00:57:48,320 --> 00:57:50,720
Speaker 4: shown that they can take young talent and develop them

948
00:57:50,880 --> 00:57:57,200
Speaker 4: extremely fast. That is a real talent. That is something

949
00:57:57,600 --> 00:58:01,840
Speaker 4: that a lot of people don't put a lot of

950
00:58:04,200 --> 00:58:10,640
Speaker 4: thought into can your young talent come in and become

951
00:58:10,920 --> 00:58:16,200
Speaker 4: NFL players immediately? Do you have a system set up

952
00:58:16,640 --> 00:58:21,600
Speaker 4: to where that is possible for them? And in this

953
00:58:21,720 --> 00:58:25,000
Speaker 4: one year, the Texans have shown that they do that,

954
00:58:25,000 --> 00:58:30,040
Speaker 4: that's what they do, then they wouldn't added some older

955
00:58:30,040 --> 00:58:35,680
Speaker 4: pieces around yep to solidify that. I like what they've

956
00:58:35,680 --> 00:58:39,080
Speaker 4: done in terms of Cleveland. We don't know what's going

957
00:58:39,120 --> 00:58:42,720
Speaker 4: on at the quarterback position, which designed Deshaun Watson. What

958
00:58:43,360 --> 00:58:48,240
Speaker 4: we get, we don't know. We don't know is that

959
00:58:48,280 --> 00:58:51,320
Speaker 4: defense still going to be able to lead them like

960
00:58:51,400 --> 00:58:57,760
Speaker 4: it was this past season? This question mark with the

961
00:58:57,760 --> 00:59:05,320
Speaker 4: Buffalo Bills, which Josh Allen, do we get the reckless one?

962
00:59:06,040 --> 00:59:10,080
Speaker 4: We know they're lost, they've lost key pieces. How do

963
00:59:10,160 --> 00:59:15,600
Speaker 4: they recover from that? And and and what do they

964
00:59:15,640 --> 00:59:21,160
Speaker 4: do to add those pieces? Is that defense going to

965
00:59:21,240 --> 00:59:23,280
Speaker 4: be what the defense used to be? I mean, are

966
00:59:23,280 --> 00:59:28,800
Speaker 4: they still waiting on von Miller to get healthy because

967
00:59:28,800 --> 00:59:33,760
Speaker 4: they used to get after the quarterback Cincinnati Bengals, which

968
00:59:33,840 --> 00:59:39,040
Speaker 4: Joe Burrow shows up, Which Joe Burrow shows up?

969
00:59:39,440 --> 00:59:42,640
Speaker 3: Well, how many Joe Burrows are there? The one that's

970
00:59:42,640 --> 00:59:45,360
Speaker 3: healthy and the one that's not Those are the only two.

971
00:59:45,440 --> 00:59:48,600
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I got the health those are the only two.

972
00:59:49,240 --> 00:59:51,760
Speaker 3: I'm not quite sure who's coming there, right.

973
00:59:51,600 --> 00:59:54,080
Speaker 2: But my argument there would be that that's that's true

974
00:59:54,080 --> 00:59:56,600
Speaker 2: about every single football player in the lead.

975
00:59:56,760 --> 01:00:00,400
Speaker 4: That's not necessarily true. How many times is Josh been

976
01:00:00,480 --> 01:00:02,520
Speaker 4: hurt and missed games?

977
01:00:03,080 --> 01:00:07,280
Speaker 3: He has been very fortunate? What about what about what

978
01:00:07,360 --> 01:00:12,160
Speaker 3: about Patrick Mahomes? Yeah?

979
01:00:12,280 --> 01:00:14,800
Speaker 2: I mean right, what not suffered the major He has

980
01:00:14,800 --> 01:00:16,280
Speaker 2: not suffered the major injury.

981
01:00:16,400 --> 01:00:21,480
Speaker 4: So when we're like, once you start having serious injuries

982
01:00:22,720 --> 01:00:32,920
Speaker 4: multiple then defont just doesn't reset and turn off. You

983
01:00:33,000 --> 01:00:40,120
Speaker 4: become more susceptible. So that like Aaron Rodgers him coming back? Right,

984
01:00:40,200 --> 01:00:45,240
Speaker 4: remember when the shoulders? How many times the collar bone?

985
01:00:46,640 --> 01:00:50,600
Speaker 4: So now when we're in a situation where forty plus

986
01:00:50,640 --> 01:00:55,000
Speaker 4: year old quarterback comes in after achilles, does he have

987
01:00:55,080 --> 01:00:59,880
Speaker 4: any other lower leg injury? Does the other leg where

988
01:00:59,880 --> 01:01:03,920
Speaker 4: he has been overcompensating for a year. Like, all these

989
01:01:03,920 --> 01:01:08,200
Speaker 4: things happen because injuries and injury history and things like that.

990
01:01:09,520 --> 01:01:12,800
Speaker 4: So when I ask not talking about Joe Burrow's talent,

991
01:01:13,480 --> 01:01:17,840
Speaker 4: not at all, but will he be available? We don't know,

992
01:01:17,840 --> 01:01:21,720
Speaker 4: We don't we don't know any quarterback or any player

993
01:01:21,760 --> 01:01:26,280
Speaker 4: coming off a serious injury. There's a question mark there, rightfully,

994
01:01:26,320 --> 01:01:34,600
Speaker 4: So it's fair. The Chargers, Okay, they got rid of

995
01:01:34,720 --> 01:01:38,760
Speaker 4: a lot of punch on offense. They bring a coach

996
01:01:38,800 --> 01:01:44,080
Speaker 4: in who can now create an environment where a quarterback

997
01:01:44,160 --> 01:01:51,640
Speaker 4: at the talent of that they have will execute. But

998
01:01:51,720 --> 01:02:00,240
Speaker 4: all those are still question marks. The Jacksonville Jaguars, I mean,

999
01:02:00,240 --> 01:02:03,640
Speaker 4: I don't even know what to start there. I mean

1000
01:02:03,640 --> 01:02:07,120
Speaker 4: I feel I feel I feeled uh taking advantage of

1001
01:02:08,040 --> 01:02:13,680
Speaker 4: by Jacksonville because two years ago we were singing their

1002
01:02:13,720 --> 01:02:16,960
Speaker 4: praises yep, and last year we were like, oh they

1003
01:02:17,200 --> 01:02:24,240
Speaker 4: they got us, man, they tricked us. So I asked

1004
01:02:24,240 --> 01:02:28,520
Speaker 4: the question, well, those all those teams have question marks.

1005
01:02:28,560 --> 01:02:31,800
Speaker 3: Yes they do. Are you arguing that Houston does not?

1006
01:02:33,360 --> 01:02:36,919
Speaker 4: No, Based on what Houston was able to do last year,

1007
01:02:37,680 --> 01:02:40,560
Speaker 4: their question marks are how much better are they gonna

1008
01:02:40,560 --> 01:02:43,800
Speaker 4: make them? But it's not like are they gonna get

1009
01:02:43,840 --> 01:02:50,440
Speaker 4: worse that? That's c J. Stroud is showing up. Sure, sure,

1010
01:02:50,520 --> 01:02:53,440
Speaker 4: but the man, the defense has gotta work. The defense

1011
01:02:53,480 --> 01:02:55,960
Speaker 4: got worse. Defense gotta work. We haven't even had the

1012
01:02:56,040 --> 01:03:00,120
Speaker 4: draft yet. Nope, Diggs has got to not make everybody crazy.

1013
01:03:02,640 --> 01:03:05,120
Speaker 4: The ball needs to get spread around effectively.

1014
01:03:05,240 --> 01:03:07,360
Speaker 2: This is a team that beat the Colts by four

1015
01:03:07,400 --> 01:03:10,080
Speaker 2: points on the road on January sixth to make the playoffs.

1016
01:03:10,080 --> 01:03:14,960
Speaker 2: Otherwise they would not have even been in. Like I listen,

1017
01:03:15,120 --> 01:03:19,040
Speaker 2: I hear you, I hear you. I just think again,

1018
01:03:19,840 --> 01:03:24,960
Speaker 2: I've I've been burned too many times in following sports

1019
01:03:24,960 --> 01:03:28,400
Speaker 2: by the team that goes look at all of our names?

1020
01:03:29,560 --> 01:03:33,120
Speaker 2: Was it was it Vince Young who once upon a

1021
01:03:33,200 --> 01:03:36,320
Speaker 2: time in the preseason called the Philadelphia Eagles dream team.

1022
01:03:37,280 --> 01:03:39,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, but anybody who knew football knew that was gonna

1023
01:03:39,280 --> 01:03:44,080
Speaker 4: be a situation, right, okay, right? Like you took one

1024
01:03:44,120 --> 01:03:46,480
Speaker 4: of the best dbs man and man DB's in the

1025
01:03:46,560 --> 01:03:49,840
Speaker 4: league and made them a zone player.

1026
01:03:51,160 --> 01:03:52,439
Speaker 3: How was that ever gonna work?

1027
01:03:53,480 --> 01:03:57,280
Speaker 4: It didn't just think about it like I mean, the

1028
01:03:57,360 --> 01:03:59,400
Speaker 4: things that were they were trying to do were in

1029
01:03:59,480 --> 01:04:01,520
Speaker 4: conducive to the talent that they brought in there. They

1030
01:04:01,520 --> 01:04:07,200
Speaker 4: brought in names, But you still have to be able

1031
01:04:07,240 --> 01:04:08,680
Speaker 4: to fit these names.

1032
01:04:09,200 --> 01:04:11,880
Speaker 3: Yes, and in the right order.

1033
01:04:12,560 --> 01:04:18,040
Speaker 2: So so you knew when when Kobe and Powe and

1034
01:04:18,080 --> 01:04:22,200
Speaker 2: Steve Nash and Dwight Howard, I knew that was you knew.

1035
01:04:22,960 --> 01:04:25,640
Speaker 4: I felt so I felt awful. You knew I was

1036
01:04:26,000 --> 01:04:32,960
Speaker 4: just I was faking the optimism. Ain't no way. Okay, Look,

1037
01:04:33,280 --> 01:04:35,840
Speaker 4: a name means something, right now, don't get me wrong. Now,

1038
01:04:35,840 --> 01:04:39,040
Speaker 4: we we have a guy with the name on our

1039
01:04:39,160 --> 01:04:43,280
Speaker 4: team that resonates like if you trade for the first

1040
01:04:43,280 --> 01:04:46,440
Speaker 4: of all, he's not there's no option to be traded,

1041
01:04:46,880 --> 01:04:47,440
Speaker 4: trade claws.

1042
01:04:48,080 --> 01:04:48,720
Speaker 3: We're not doing that.

1043
01:04:49,000 --> 01:04:53,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, but the name alone, you know, when you bring

1044
01:04:53,080 --> 01:04:56,520
Speaker 4: that into your organization, then you get greatness. And that's

1045
01:04:56,520 --> 01:04:58,440
Speaker 4: when Stephen in the sacred.

1046
01:04:58,360 --> 01:05:01,400
Speaker 6: Thank you and no trade clause because no contract. South

1047
01:05:01,440 --> 01:05:04,520
Speaker 6: Carolina won the women's final in college hoops today right

1048
01:05:04,640 --> 01:05:07,440
Speaker 6: number one. They finished thirty eight O beat Iowa eighty

1049
01:05:07,480 --> 01:05:10,720
Speaker 6: seven to seventy five. Caitlin Clarken defeat thirty points on

1050
01:05:10,840 --> 01:05:14,200
Speaker 6: ten of twenty eight shooting. She had five assists, four turnovers.

1051
01:05:14,440 --> 01:05:17,560
Speaker 6: Iowa led ten nothing early, but late first quarter it

1052
01:05:17,600 --> 01:05:19,760
Speaker 6: was only twenty two to twenty. By the way, the

1053
01:05:19,800 --> 01:05:23,680
Speaker 6: WNBA Draft is a week from tomorrow. Camilla Cardoso could

1054
01:05:23,720 --> 01:05:27,160
Speaker 6: be a top five selection. Six foot seven from South Carolina.

1055
01:05:27,520 --> 01:05:30,880
Speaker 6: Seventeen rebounds in this game. In fact, South Carolina is

1056
01:05:30,880 --> 01:05:34,320
Speaker 6: a team out rebounded him fifty one twenty nine they

1057
01:05:34,360 --> 01:05:37,240
Speaker 6: were dominating the paint on offense and off the bench.

1058
01:05:37,320 --> 01:05:40,680
Speaker 6: Freshman Tessit Johnson had nineteen points. Did you know the

1059
01:05:40,720 --> 01:05:45,400
Speaker 6: South Carolina bench today outscored Iowa subs thirty seven to nothing.

1060
01:05:45,680 --> 01:05:46,480
Speaker 3: Oh my goodness.

1061
01:05:46,560 --> 01:05:50,000
Speaker 6: The Men's Championship is tomorrow night, number one Connecticut against

1062
01:05:50,000 --> 01:05:53,200
Speaker 6: Purdue in late night NBA action. The Lakers are going

1063
01:05:53,240 --> 01:05:56,320
Speaker 6: to be hosting the Minnesota Timberwolves in a half an hour.

1064
01:05:56,440 --> 01:05:59,440
Speaker 6: Lebron James out for LA due to illness. Lakers have

1065
01:05:59,520 --> 01:06:01,919
Speaker 6: not only won four in a row, they've won nine

1066
01:06:01,920 --> 01:06:05,680
Speaker 6: of their last ten games. NBA regular season ends a

1067
01:06:05,680 --> 01:06:10,120
Speaker 6: week from today. Lakers in LA yesterday defeated Cleveland today

1068
01:06:10,240 --> 01:06:12,800
Speaker 6: in the same building at Los Angeles. It was Cleveland

1069
01:06:12,880 --> 01:06:15,320
Speaker 6: versus the Clippers. Cleveland was up in the third quarter

1070
01:06:15,360 --> 01:06:18,959
Speaker 6: by twenty six and did not win at halftime. In fact,

1071
01:06:18,960 --> 01:06:22,120
Speaker 6: Cleveland was up eighty to fifty nine. Eighty to fifty nine.

1072
01:06:22,440 --> 01:06:25,240
Speaker 6: Clippers win at one twenty to one eighteen. Paul George

1073
01:06:25,320 --> 01:06:29,520
Speaker 6: thirty nine points twenty three in the fourth quarter. Dallas

1074
01:06:29,560 --> 01:06:32,520
Speaker 6: in overtime sent Houston to a fifth straight loss, one

1075
01:06:32,640 --> 01:06:36,480
Speaker 6: forty seven to one thirty six. Kyrie Irving forty eight points.

1076
01:06:36,800 --> 01:06:39,920
Speaker 6: The Houston loss clinches for Golden State a play in

1077
01:06:40,040 --> 01:06:43,080
Speaker 6: spot at least Golden State in action final seconds of

1078
01:06:43,120 --> 01:06:46,200
Speaker 6: the first half now halftime leading sixty eight to fifty

1079
01:06:46,240 --> 01:06:49,040
Speaker 6: four over a Utah team that it looks like will

1080
01:06:49,040 --> 01:06:52,760
Speaker 6: be losing its twelfth straight game. Tonight, New York's Jalen

1081
01:06:52,800 --> 01:06:55,280
Speaker 6: Brunson with forty three points in a win at Milwaukee

1082
01:06:55,400 --> 01:06:57,000
Speaker 6: won twenty two to one oh nine. The Bucks have

1083
01:06:57,080 --> 01:07:01,720
Speaker 6: lost four straight and they've started overtime. Philly is leading

1084
01:07:01,760 --> 01:07:05,280
Speaker 6: at San Antonio one thirteen to one eleven. Tyrese Maxi

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Speaker 6: with forty six points as Joel andb to the six

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Speaker 6: Ers is out tonight as they managed the knee. Boston

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Speaker 6: won its fifth straight. New Orleans won at Phoenix. Victories

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Speaker 6: for Toronto and Oklahoma City NHL among the nine games.

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Speaker 6: Carolina shut out Columbus three nothing.

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Speaker 3: Today.

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Speaker 6: In Major League Baseball, Houston has just won at Texas

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Speaker 6: three to one. The Houston Astros did have a two

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Speaker 6: to seven record until this result. Boston and the Yankees

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Speaker 6: each one again. In fact, the Yankees are eight and

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Speaker 6: two so far. The Pittsburgh Pirates are eight and two

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Speaker 6: after edging Baltimore three to two. Kansas City won its

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Speaker 6: fourth straight game, Milwaukee with another win. Cleveland at Minnesota

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Speaker 6: was rained out. William Byron took the NASCAR race at Martinsville.

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Speaker 6: NASCAR is on FS one again next Sunday at Texas. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 6: we had the Texas Open on the PGA Tour and

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01:07:53,320 --> 01:07:57,400
Speaker 6: in a playoff in San Antonio, ac Shay Battilla is

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Speaker 6: the winner, a guy who led by four strokes to

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Speaker 6: start the day. Rory McElroy finished third. Nine back guys.

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Speaker 6: We've got the Masters starting on Thursday, and this is

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Speaker 6: the sixth time in the last seven years that the

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Speaker 6: guy who wins the last event before the Masters gets

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Speaker 6: that victory to qualify for the Masters. He's not only

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Speaker 6: going to Augusta, but he gets an invite to next

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Speaker 6: month's PGA Championship now as well. And Battia secures his

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Speaker 6: status on the PGA Tour through the twenty twenty six season.

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Speaker 6: So what a weekend. He's headed to Augusta where a

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Speaker 6: decade ago he played in the first Drive Chip and

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Speaker 6: Pot National Finals. Now he's gonna be, you know, a

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Speaker 6: real golfer at Augusta. No offense, and we did have

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Speaker 6: the live golf event in Miami today, South Africa's Dean

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Speaker 6: Burmester defeats Sergio Garcia in a playoff at Durrell. You know,

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Speaker 6: Live golfs they're gonna have thirteen of their golfers at

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Speaker 6: Augusta starting this Thursday. Here's the money difference, shall we say?

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Speaker 6: You know, it's a great story. The guy who went

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Speaker 6: on the PGA Tour today, Sergio Garcia, was in a

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Speaker 6: playoff to try and win a four million dollar first

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Speaker 6: prize because every Live Golf event the winner gets four

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Speaker 6: million dollars plus any team money for the weekend. By

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01:09:15,400 --> 01:09:17,920
Speaker 6: the way, so this guy who'd never won on the

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Speaker 6: Live Tour or on the PGA Tour gets four million

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Speaker 6: dollars for three days of golf in Miami this weekend.

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01:09:25,960 --> 01:09:28,519
Speaker 6: And veteran Sergio Garcia is now zero and three in

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Speaker 6: playoffs on the Live Tour. But don't shed a tear.

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Speaker 6: He gets two and a quarter million for not winning

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Speaker 6: the tournament. Today, the third place golfer Live Golf got

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01:09:40,000 --> 01:09:42,800
Speaker 6: one and a half mill which is almost as much

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01:09:43,200 --> 01:09:47,479
Speaker 6: as the winner of the PGA event got today. How

1133
01:09:47,479 --> 01:09:50,760
Speaker 6: about this conversation. Dustin Johnson famously is on the Live

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01:09:50,800 --> 01:09:53,280
Speaker 6: Golf Tour today. That's why he's disappeared. You'd never see

1135
01:09:53,320 --> 01:09:56,320
Speaker 6: him golf anymore on the Live Golf Tour today he

1136
01:09:56,439 --> 01:10:00,000
Speaker 6: tied for twenty fourth place and earned almost two hundred

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01:10:00,040 --> 01:10:03,360
Speaker 6: undred thousand dollars in the PGA event, a tie for

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01:10:03,439 --> 01:10:09,080
Speaker 6: twenty fifth was sixty seven thousand dollars and one more

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01:10:09,280 --> 01:10:11,799
Speaker 6: day of golf. It's, you know, four rounds of golf,

1140
01:10:11,880 --> 01:10:14,200
Speaker 6: but there is this good thing to end. The guy

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01:10:14,280 --> 01:10:17,360
Speaker 6: Bettilla who won the Texas Open today did so in

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01:10:17,479 --> 01:10:22,200
Speaker 6: San Antonio at the exact place where he's got a

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01:10:22,200 --> 01:10:24,600
Speaker 6: little history with. The woman who is now his fiance,

1144
01:10:24,880 --> 01:10:27,639
Speaker 6: who met him on the green had the victory embrace.

1145
01:10:27,680 --> 01:10:30,720
Speaker 6: It turns out, two years ago, when she was a

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01:10:30,800 --> 01:10:34,240
Speaker 6: student at Texas A and M, this golfer messaged her

1147
01:10:34,360 --> 01:10:37,600
Speaker 6: and said, Hey, I'm playing in a tournament in San Antonio,

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01:10:37,640 --> 01:10:39,880
Speaker 6: you want to come meet me there. She had never

1149
01:10:39,920 --> 01:10:45,000
Speaker 6: been to a golf tournament. She went, They became boyfriend girlfriend,

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01:10:45,000 --> 01:10:48,200
Speaker 6: they're now engaged and now they're going to Augusta.

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01:10:48,720 --> 01:10:52,639
Speaker 3: Back to you, man, and.

1152
01:10:52,600 --> 01:10:54,719
Speaker 2: You want to know why Steve gets a new initial

1153
01:10:54,920 --> 01:11:00,760
Speaker 2: every hour, every hour because he can bring the flavor

1154
01:11:01,439 --> 01:11:06,320
Speaker 2: the fever for the flavor of the stories we're talking about.

1155
01:11:06,760 --> 01:11:07,800
Speaker 3: Nobody does it better.

1156
01:11:08,880 --> 01:11:12,920
Speaker 2: Although all those people he were just talking about, Uh,

1157
01:11:13,040 --> 01:11:14,880
Speaker 2: there's one person who can buy them all.

1158
01:11:15,840 --> 01:11:18,600
Speaker 3: You see someone finally hit the power ball? Did they?

1159
01:11:19,200 --> 01:11:20,360
Speaker 3: One point three billion?

1160
01:11:20,920 --> 01:11:27,280
Speaker 2: One person in Oregon one point three billion.

1161
01:11:28,120 --> 01:11:29,800
Speaker 3: I hope there's one of them states where you don't

1162
01:11:29,840 --> 01:11:31,040
Speaker 3: have you can be anonymous.

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01:11:32,000 --> 01:11:38,120
Speaker 2: Oh god, seriously, seriously, can you imagine no news band's

1164
01:11:38,240 --> 01:11:40,400
Speaker 2: just waiting out by some seven to eleven or something.

1165
01:11:40,439 --> 01:11:45,600
Speaker 2: They're like, oh yes, I mean, my god, my god.

1166
01:11:46,439 --> 01:11:50,240
Speaker 2: One point three billion? Now what live golf tours? Like,

1167
01:11:50,280 --> 01:11:53,479
Speaker 2: we might want to partner with this guy? Right, you

1168
01:11:53,600 --> 01:11:54,720
Speaker 2: got a few bucks?

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01:11:55,200 --> 01:12:01,439
Speaker 3: Yeah? Now what? Now what? I think everybody always picks

1170
01:12:01,439 --> 01:12:03,600
Speaker 3: the lump sum. You got to take the lumps. You

1171
01:12:03,640 --> 01:12:05,800
Speaker 3: got to take the lump sum. And it's crazy, Like,

1172
01:12:06,040 --> 01:12:07,200
Speaker 3: I mean, it's stupid.

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01:12:07,280 --> 01:12:08,840
Speaker 2: Right, You get to a certain amount of money and

1174
01:12:08,880 --> 01:12:10,800
Speaker 2: you're just like, what the hell is money anymore? This

1175
01:12:10,920 --> 01:12:13,439
Speaker 2: is just stuff like you're never going to run out

1176
01:12:13,439 --> 01:12:16,599
Speaker 2: of it, and this obviously qualifies for that. It is fun, though,

1177
01:12:16,600 --> 01:12:19,280
Speaker 2: to look at what the person will actually walk away

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Speaker 2: with when you win. Air quotes one point three billion

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01:12:23,320 --> 01:12:30,439
Speaker 2: dollars That check the after taxes net result of that

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Speaker 2: whole thing.

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01:12:32,720 --> 01:12:35,880
Speaker 3: Probably someone in the neighborhood of four hundred million. I

1182
01:12:35,880 --> 01:12:39,640
Speaker 3: think it'd be closer to probably six.

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01:12:39,960 --> 01:12:43,040
Speaker 2: No, no, no, you get if you choose the lump sum, right,

1184
01:12:43,600 --> 01:12:45,800
Speaker 2: it gets cut in half. The amount is in half,

1185
01:12:45,840 --> 01:12:48,240
Speaker 2: so you're the amount is just like six hundred and

1186
01:12:48,240 --> 01:12:51,040
Speaker 2: fifty million, and that's before taxes.

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Speaker 3: Which I feel like.

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Speaker 2: I feel like the taxes might be in the fifty

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Speaker 2: percent bracket somewhere somewhere near that.

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Speaker 3: But then if you take the what is it twenty

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Speaker 3: years the annuity, Yeah, the twenty year.

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Speaker 4: So what would that be? One point three billion over

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Speaker 4: divided by twenty.

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Speaker 3: Something? Come on, man's supposed to be quick with it.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know if that many zeros.

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Speaker 4: I got my phone here, hang on one point three one.

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Speaker 2: Nope, nope, I ran out of zeros. I'm sorry. I

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Speaker 2: can't do it. Like Mike Singletary live in the Tirech

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Speaker 2: dot Com studios while we're on golf, I mentioned Tiger

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Speaker 2: last hour. I wanted to actually ask you something about Tiger.

1201
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Speaker 2: Will do that coming up next. And then this whole

1202
01:13:44,479 --> 01:13:49,400
Speaker 2: mlbpa idea that the pitch clock is ruining everyone's arms.

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Speaker 3: We get into that a little bit at the top

1204
01:13:51,560 --> 01:13:52,000
Speaker 3: of the hour.

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Speaker 2: Plenty of Caitlin Clark and Lakers and Warriors as well

1206
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Speaker 2: with Eapram Salama, Mark Ward on Fox Sports Radio, Okay Live,

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Speaker 2: Tyrack dot Com Studios, Mark Willardy from Salam I had

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Speaker 2: mentioned Tiger Woods last hour. If you're just joining us,

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Speaker 2: The reports are that Tiger is going to play in

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01:14:12,520 --> 01:14:15,639
Speaker 2: the Masters. He'll go for a record twenty fifth straight

1211
01:14:15,800 --> 01:14:20,320
Speaker 2: cut made at Augusta. I get conflicted though, now every

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01:14:20,320 --> 01:14:23,920
Speaker 2: time he plays. You know, we said Caitlin Clark this

1213
01:14:24,040 --> 01:14:27,680
Speaker 2: year became the Tiger Woods of women's basketball. She just

1214
01:14:28,080 --> 01:14:31,160
Speaker 2: stands out and games are not going to rate the

1215
01:14:31,200 --> 01:14:33,479
Speaker 2: same and not be the same when she's not in him.

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Speaker 3: And the same for Tiger, except for not really anymore.

1217
01:14:38,240 --> 01:14:41,960
Speaker 2: So when you watch him play, it feels like you're

1218
01:14:42,080 --> 01:14:47,400
Speaker 2: chasing ghosts a little bit because you want the flashes

1219
01:14:47,439 --> 01:14:48,400
Speaker 2: of who he used to be.

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Speaker 3: You know that they're never really going to be there again.

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Speaker 2: And now I find myself rooting more for him to

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01:14:54,600 --> 01:14:58,080
Speaker 2: just get through it all as opposed to win it all.

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Speaker 2: I mean, that's actually the biggest question for Tiger Woods

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01:15:02,080 --> 01:15:04,880
Speaker 2: next weekend is not can he win?

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Speaker 3: It's can he.

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Speaker 2: Play four rounds? Do you enjoy watching this version of

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Speaker 2: Tiger Woods?

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Speaker 4: No, of course not. It's like watching the Wizard version

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01:15:14,400 --> 01:15:21,759
Speaker 4: of the of Jordan. Yeah, nobody wants to see that. Looking.

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Speaker 3: I'm pulling for him. I hope he does make the cut.

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Speaker 3: I does.

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Speaker 4: I hope he's you know, competitive, but the chances of

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Speaker 4: that happening are very slim.

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean, i mean, he made it last year,

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Speaker 3: but then he had to withdraw.

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Speaker 4: Of course, your body is only you. You will only

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01:15:43,840 --> 01:15:51,240
Speaker 4: get one man won only get one. And so you know,

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01:15:51,560 --> 01:15:57,360
Speaker 4: it's clock never goes back, it only goes forward. So

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01:15:57,479 --> 01:16:02,680
Speaker 4: watching him hobble up and down, that's not entertaining for me.

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Speaker 2: You say that, and then the best player on your

1241
01:16:07,760 --> 01:16:11,719
Speaker 2: favorite basketball team is thirty nine years old.

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Speaker 3: I mean, he's in the top tennis scoring. What the hell?

1243
01:16:17,960 --> 01:16:23,200
Speaker 3: What is happening there? Is playing year old? No, not

1244
01:16:23,240 --> 01:16:24,720
Speaker 3: even close. I'm not, by the.

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01:16:24,640 --> 01:16:28,120
Speaker 2: Way, don't don't you dare take this as criticism. I'm like, man,

1246
01:16:29,360 --> 01:16:32,800
Speaker 2: what on earth is going different? Man?

1247
01:16:32,920 --> 01:16:33,599
Speaker 3: It's just different?

1248
01:16:33,720 --> 01:16:37,200
Speaker 2: Well, why have I guess here would actually be my question,

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01:16:38,000 --> 01:16:43,400
Speaker 2: especially considering the sport that he plays the level at

1250
01:16:43,400 --> 01:16:45,400
Speaker 2: which he plays all of that.

1251
01:16:46,160 --> 01:16:49,280
Speaker 3: Like, I don't feel like the.

1252
01:16:49,280 --> 01:16:54,320
Speaker 2: Lebron James conversation sounds like the Tom Brady one did yet,

1253
01:16:54,920 --> 01:16:56,200
Speaker 2: and it probably should.

1254
01:16:57,600 --> 01:16:59,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely doesn't sound like that yet.

1255
01:17:00,080 --> 01:17:02,280
Speaker 2: And I know Tom was, Tom was what he gets

1256
01:17:02,280 --> 01:17:06,440
Speaker 2: it forty three, forty two, forty three, and that's football.

1257
01:17:07,720 --> 01:17:10,920
Speaker 2: But it's also like quarterbacking is not like anybody's asked

1258
01:17:10,920 --> 01:17:12,120
Speaker 2: for him to take off and run.

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Speaker 3: All over the place. There's no way to diminish it. No,

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Speaker 3: Lebron is still dunking on people. But with God, thank you,

1261
01:17:20,840 --> 01:17:25,200
Speaker 3: you're averaging twenty five point four a night. He's shooting

1262
01:17:25,200 --> 01:17:27,719
Speaker 3: better from a three point line, and he's ever has

1263
01:17:28,160 --> 01:17:31,880
Speaker 3: thirty five minutes a night. That's crazy talk. What do

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01:17:32,000 --> 01:17:36,000
Speaker 3: we do sixty eight games this year? That's nuts. He

1265
01:17:36,080 --> 01:17:37,240
Speaker 3: played sixty eight games.

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Speaker 2: There's four to go, like eight point two assists, seven

1267
01:17:43,840 --> 01:17:45,000
Speaker 2: point two rebounds.

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01:17:47,280 --> 01:17:50,080
Speaker 3: If they were a few notches.

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Speaker 2: Further up in those standings, I mean, you'd be hard

1270
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Speaker 2: pressed to keep him out of the MVP conversation.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you're absolutely right, But look, man, every once in

1272
01:18:07,320 --> 01:18:17,560
Speaker 4: a while, get a generational talent. Bless with all the gifts, size, speed, longevity.

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Speaker 4: We've just never seen it at this level at all.

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Speaker 3: Wow.

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Speaker 2: I mean you say, every once in a while you

1276
01:18:29,360 --> 01:18:34,559
Speaker 2: get a generational talent and like the first thought in

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01:18:34,640 --> 01:18:35,800
Speaker 2: my head is like.

1278
01:18:39,000 --> 01:18:39,719
Speaker 3: No, you don't.

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01:18:40,400 --> 01:18:42,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean like when Kareem was doing what he

1280
01:18:42,120 --> 01:18:44,960
Speaker 4: was doing, like you were just like was like, oh

1281
01:18:45,000 --> 01:18:46,120
Speaker 4: my god, I.

1282
01:18:46,080 --> 01:18:47,360
Speaker 3: Know, but you know it's different.

1283
01:18:48,000 --> 01:18:50,960
Speaker 2: Like again, if I just made a snapshot this portion

1284
01:18:51,080 --> 01:18:53,759
Speaker 2: of the career, this aspect of it that we're talking

1285
01:18:53,760 --> 01:18:56,639
Speaker 2: about right now, you don't get this every now and again.

1286
01:18:56,720 --> 01:18:58,920
Speaker 3: No, you've never seen you don't have it. You do

1287
01:18:59,080 --> 01:19:03,360
Speaker 3: not see someone at forty years old take this role

1288
01:19:04,800 --> 01:19:06,599
Speaker 3: at this position on the floor.

1289
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Speaker 4: No, that's why no one's ever scored forty thousand points.

1290
01:19:13,680 --> 01:19:16,800
Speaker 3: Think about that. That's oh my god, forty thousand.

1291
01:19:18,600 --> 01:19:22,479
Speaker 2: It's just one of those things where the majesty that

1292
01:19:22,680 --> 01:19:27,400
Speaker 2: is Michael Jordan I think sometimes prevents people from feeling

1293
01:19:27,560 --> 01:19:33,120
Speaker 2: comfortable saying what should be said about Lebron. It's kind

1294
01:19:33,120 --> 01:19:36,160
Speaker 2: of uncomfortable with it because you get shouted down or

1295
01:19:36,160 --> 01:19:38,400
Speaker 2: you end up in the barber shop. And I'm not

1296
01:19:38,479 --> 01:19:41,320
Speaker 2: here to say Lebron is better than Michael, but.

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Speaker 3: Lebron doing something we've never seen before. Thank you, thank you.

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Speaker 2: And people don't want to really go all in on

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Speaker 2: it because it feels like you're gonna slip and fall

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01:19:50,960 --> 01:19:53,960
Speaker 2: into that Lebron Michael thing, which is like, I don't know,

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Speaker 2: just too played out. Everybody's done there yelling and everybody

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Speaker 2: has their point and nobody.

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Speaker 4: Wants to to have that conversation anymore. Yeah, it's tough, man,

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01:20:08,800 --> 01:20:14,280
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, Mike was was something special and

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01:20:14,400 --> 01:20:23,160
Speaker 4: Lebron is something different. Better go win that game tonight though, Yeah,

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01:20:23,160 --> 01:20:25,200
Speaker 4: they need to win it. He's not playing, but we

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Speaker 4: need this one. Yeah, yep, yep. So and that one

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Speaker 4: starts shortly, so we'll get into it a little bit.

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Speaker 4: Steph is sitting out, but.

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Speaker 2: The Warriors are winning and the Lakers and Tea Wolves

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Speaker 2: are getting going, so we'll dive into that. But also,

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Speaker 2: Major League Baseball Players Association says the pitch clock is

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01:20:45,800 --> 01:20:49,479
Speaker 2: now causing all kinds of injuries. Do you buy that

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Speaker 2: or not? I've got some data. Let's get into that conversation.

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Speaker 2: We'll do that coming up. Mark with it.

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Speaker 3: He from salon Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: I'm about to ball from one of our brethren, JP Morosi.

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Speaker 2: Comes on Fox Sports Radio all the time, one of

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Speaker 2: the foremost baseball voices out there. First of all, though

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Speaker 2: I would imagine, not I would imagine. I know you've

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Speaker 2: been a member of a players union before at a

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Speaker 2: very high level.

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Speaker 3: Correct, Yeah, it's correct.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So let's talk about not the NFLPA, but the MLBPA.

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Speaker 2: If I told you that in nineteen ninety two something

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Speaker 2: happened fifty four times, in two thousand and two, it

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01:21:47,640 --> 01:21:53,200
Speaker 2: happened forty two times, in twenty twelve it happened thirty

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Speaker 2: one times, and then in twenty twenty two it only

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01:21:58,280 --> 01:22:02,760
Speaker 2: happened eight times. Does that sound kind of like a

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01:22:02,880 --> 01:22:07,680
Speaker 2: dying quail to you? Yeah, a little bit, little bit

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Speaker 2: little who's that fair?

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Speaker 3: Okay?

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Speaker 2: The numbers I just gave you, and again courtesy of

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01:22:14,200 --> 01:22:18,839
Speaker 2: JP Morosi, are the number of times over the last

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01:22:19,640 --> 01:22:24,439
Speaker 2: four decades that a pitcher has thrown two hundred plus

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01:22:24,479 --> 01:22:27,360
Speaker 2: innings in a season in Major League Baseball.

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Speaker 3: So I'll give you those numbers again now that you

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Speaker 3: know what it is.

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01:22:31,600 --> 01:22:35,919
Speaker 2: Two hundred plus innings for any pitcher in a season

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01:22:36,680 --> 01:22:39,760
Speaker 2: in Major League Baseball in nineteen ninety two, fifty four

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01:22:39,800 --> 01:22:44,360
Speaker 2: of them. Ten years later in two forty two of them,

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01:22:45,600 --> 01:22:50,719
Speaker 2: in twenty twelve, thirty one of them, and two seasons

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Speaker 2: ago in twenty twenty.

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Speaker 3: Two, just eight.

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Speaker 2: Okay, So why is the Players is Sociation now saying

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Speaker 2: that the reason people can't throw two hundred plus innings

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01:23:05,320 --> 01:23:09,280
Speaker 2: and everybody's arms are breaking down? And we understand part

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01:23:09,320 --> 01:23:11,719
Speaker 2: of this is analytics. I get that when the pitchers

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01:23:11,760 --> 01:23:15,479
Speaker 2: getting pulled earlier in games, that's part of it. But

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Speaker 2: the Players Union would like you to believe it was

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01:23:17,439 --> 01:23:23,559
Speaker 2: the pitch clock, which has been around now for one

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01:23:23,640 --> 01:23:31,640
Speaker 2: season and one week. This has been going on. This

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01:23:31,720 --> 01:23:40,800
Speaker 2: has been going on for thirty years. So I don't

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01:23:40,800 --> 01:23:43,120
Speaker 2: want to put thoughts in your head of words in

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Speaker 2: your mouth.

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Speaker 3: What's your take on.

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01:23:48,040 --> 01:23:52,519
Speaker 2: The Players Union pointing at the pitch clock, which by

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01:23:52,560 --> 01:23:56,120
Speaker 2: the way, introduced last year and then sped up a little.

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01:23:55,920 --> 01:24:02,640
Speaker 3: Bit more this year, But you react to the early injuries.

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Speaker 2: Shane Bieber Spencer Strider and the Players Union would like

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01:24:07,360 --> 01:24:09,920
Speaker 2: to point to the pitch clock as the reason.

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Speaker 4: No, I don't. That seems like a weird correlation based

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01:24:19,479 --> 01:24:28,559
Speaker 4: on the metrics you gave us. Now, I mean, has

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01:24:28,600 --> 01:24:34,519
Speaker 4: the has the pitch clock taking anything away from the game?

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Speaker 3: What do you think?

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Speaker 4: I think it's added a sense of urgency to the game,

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Speaker 4: to a game that's normally a little bit laissez faire

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Speaker 4: when it comes to that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and.

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Speaker 4: I think a sense of urgency is something that baseball needs.

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01:25:01,680 --> 01:25:07,960
Speaker 4: Style of play, speed of game, marketing, and like diehard

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01:25:08,000 --> 01:25:10,040
Speaker 4: baseball fans, you're listening to me, like, oh, this dude

1377
01:25:10,040 --> 01:25:13,639
Speaker 4: doesn't know what he's talking about. Get it so sure

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01:25:14,560 --> 01:25:17,680
Speaker 4: you know, But the fact of the matter is baseball,

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01:25:18,120 --> 01:25:24,240
Speaker 4: as well as all sports, it's entertainment and I shouldn't

1380
01:25:24,280 --> 01:25:27,160
Speaker 4: be able to get up off the couch go make

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01:25:27,200 --> 01:25:35,679
Speaker 4: a meal in between pitches. No TVO, no DV are needed.

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Speaker 2: It reminded me of a great comedy sketch by Nate Bargatzi,

1383
01:25:40,880 --> 01:25:44,639
Speaker 2: who just hosted Saturday the Night Live a few weeks ago.

1384
01:25:45,600 --> 01:25:48,960
Speaker 2: He's talking about getting older and how he got up

1385
01:25:49,000 --> 01:25:53,439
Speaker 2: and went to the kitchen during the kickoff and it

1386
01:25:53,600 --> 01:25:55,840
Speaker 2: just opened the fridge and got a snack, and he

1387
01:25:55,960 --> 01:26:00,479
Speaker 2: is like the person on television caught a football and

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01:26:00,680 --> 01:26:05,599
Speaker 2: ran a one hundred and two yards in the time

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01:26:05,680 --> 01:26:11,360
Speaker 2: that it took me to cross my couch. That's impressive.

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Speaker 2: A little bit different than what you're saying. I get,

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01:26:14,920 --> 01:26:17,559
Speaker 2: and you're right. I would argue that the pitch clock

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01:26:17,600 --> 01:26:21,720
Speaker 2: has been fantastic for the game of baseball. And I

1393
01:26:21,760 --> 01:26:26,080
Speaker 2: am I'm not like you know, I'm not bringing newspapers

1394
01:26:26,120 --> 01:26:29,160
Speaker 2: to the rolled up in my right hand to wave

1395
01:26:29,200 --> 01:26:29,919
Speaker 2: them at players.

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01:26:29,920 --> 01:26:31,720
Speaker 3: And I go to games. You know.

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Speaker 2: I don't know how you define a die hard, but

1398
01:26:34,880 --> 01:26:37,360
Speaker 2: I go to a handful of games every year. I

1399
01:26:37,479 --> 01:26:40,240
Speaker 2: love the sport. I can watch it on a nightly basis.

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01:26:41,080 --> 01:26:43,960
Speaker 2: I'm all in on baseball, but I love this thing.

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01:26:44,200 --> 01:26:49,559
Speaker 2: I love the pitch clock. It just it adds a

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01:26:49,600 --> 01:26:52,400
Speaker 2: sense of urgence. Whenever you can add urgency in a

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01:26:52,520 --> 01:26:56,280
Speaker 2: sporting event, it's good for the game.

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01:26:57,520 --> 01:26:59,640
Speaker 4: That's why the last two minutes of a half in

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01:26:59,640 --> 01:27:02,280
Speaker 4: foot or the last two minutes of a game in

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01:27:02,320 --> 01:27:06,519
Speaker 4: football are so exciting. The last five minutes of an

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01:27:06,640 --> 01:27:17,599
Speaker 4: NBA game, they're exciting because there's a sense of urgency

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01:27:18,800 --> 01:27:21,760
Speaker 4: like I said, baseball can use a little bit of

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01:27:21,760 --> 01:27:23,360
Speaker 4: that across the board.

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Speaker 2: Now, I mean, I'll give you something else too, especially

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01:27:26,360 --> 01:27:29,040
Speaker 2: with you as a dad of kids.

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Speaker 3: And what are they nine and eleven? Twelve? Not a twelve? Okay?

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01:27:33,720 --> 01:27:38,200
Speaker 3: So and I know they're big into baseball? Correct? Yeah? Practice?

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Speaker 3: How to go coach? Coach here, I'm here with you. Okay.

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Speaker 3: Oh so it was like a late practice. Yeah, we

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01:27:47,800 --> 01:27:52,360
Speaker 3: got late practices on Sunday. Damn, I'm messing around. Okay.

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01:27:52,680 --> 01:27:56,040
Speaker 3: Got a game Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.

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Speaker 4: Okay, good exactly. Anyway, this is my life.

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01:28:01,840 --> 01:28:03,519
Speaker 3: Yeah, we got one of those coaches in our league

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Speaker 3: two anyway.

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Speaker 2: All good point being though, I find as a dad

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Speaker 2: with kids who enjoyed the game, the pitch clock is

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Speaker 2: a total boon. I mean it is. It has changed everything.

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Speaker 2: The ability to watch a game at home, the ability

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Speaker 2: to go to a game when maybe there is school

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Speaker 2: the next day. These games that largely start six forty

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Speaker 2: five seven o'clock, the difference when we know that they're

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01:28:35,560 --> 01:28:41,960
Speaker 2: probably going to end by nine thirty on average, nine

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Speaker 2: to twenty, maybe even if you're lucky, versus those seven

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Speaker 2: to ten Dodger Stadium starts with pitchers checking the runner

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01:28:50,479 --> 01:28:53,519
Speaker 2: over at first for an hour and a half, and

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Speaker 2: god forbid, there's a close game and we're making pitching

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Speaker 2: changes and doing these things late, and it's like it's

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Speaker 2: eleven at night, for God's sakes, how am I supposed

1435
01:29:04,960 --> 01:29:08,360
Speaker 2: to consume this? And and so I think it's it's

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Speaker 2: one of those little things that baseball for years is like,

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01:29:11,760 --> 01:29:15,680
Speaker 2: we need to attract the young the younger fan and

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01:29:15,720 --> 01:29:18,639
Speaker 2: they were thinking so much about pop, right, well, let's

1439
01:29:18,720 --> 01:29:22,960
Speaker 2: juice the ball. And you know, we need more action,

1440
01:29:23,160 --> 01:29:26,000
Speaker 2: we need the ball and play. We need more home runs,

1441
01:29:26,040 --> 01:29:28,799
Speaker 2: we need more stolen bases. All of that is true.

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01:29:29,400 --> 01:29:33,880
Speaker 2: But something simple like this I think is huge for

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01:29:33,960 --> 01:29:36,800
Speaker 2: attracting young fans. And it's not what you would think.

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01:29:36,880 --> 01:29:40,479
Speaker 2: You weren't thinking like, oh that boy. Everybody really loves

1445
01:29:40,520 --> 01:29:43,240
Speaker 2: when the pitcher throws it a lot, but it it

1446
01:29:44,200 --> 01:29:50,280
Speaker 2: simply ends earlier. It just ends earlier. And that's tremendous

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01:29:50,320 --> 01:29:52,320
Speaker 2: if you want to drive this toward young fans.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we need the young energy. We need baseball all

1449
01:30:00,360 --> 01:30:06,240
Speaker 4: to that energy to show hey, bro right, everybody was captivated.

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01:30:06,280 --> 01:30:09,679
Speaker 4: We need that on a night in night out basis

1451
01:30:09,720 --> 01:30:10,640
Speaker 4: around baseball.

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01:30:12,520 --> 01:30:13,040
Speaker 3: That flip.

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01:30:13,120 --> 01:30:17,200
Speaker 2: Come on, man, Well, I just think that what bothers

1454
01:30:17,240 --> 01:30:20,800
Speaker 2: me about the MLBPA going this way is that what

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01:30:20,880 --> 01:30:26,200
Speaker 2: I feel is both players association and ownership and the

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01:30:26,200 --> 01:30:32,240
Speaker 2: sport itself and its executive branch seem to consistently do things.

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Speaker 3: That get in the way of what's obviously good for

1458
01:30:36,160 --> 01:30:42,679
Speaker 3: the game. The pitch clock is to me obviously good

1459
01:30:42,680 --> 01:30:43,240
Speaker 3: for the game.

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01:30:44,400 --> 01:30:47,320
Speaker 2: So even though as a pitcher and a player you

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01:30:47,360 --> 01:30:51,280
Speaker 2: may not like it, it may not really fit. You're like, oh, gosh,

1462
01:30:51,520 --> 01:30:53,160
Speaker 2: I'm in a hurry a little bit up there.

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01:30:53,840 --> 01:30:54,200
Speaker 3: So what.

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01:30:56,200 --> 01:30:58,600
Speaker 2: If it's good for the game, why can you not

1465
01:30:58,800 --> 01:31:01,839
Speaker 2: see how that benefits to you the player?

1466
01:31:02,920 --> 01:31:04,680
Speaker 3: You know, watching Major League.

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01:31:04,400 --> 01:31:08,080
Speaker 2: Baseball what they've done with the with the Oakland A's

1468
01:31:08,280 --> 01:31:11,400
Speaker 2: not just over the last week, but months and years

1469
01:31:11,680 --> 01:31:14,320
Speaker 2: were watching this as they now get ready to go

1470
01:31:14,360 --> 01:31:18,160
Speaker 2: play in a minor league baseball park. Free agents are

1471
01:31:18,160 --> 01:31:20,559
Speaker 2: going to sign with this team for a minor league

1472
01:31:20,600 --> 01:31:22,840
Speaker 2: baseball park, and road teams are going to come in

1473
01:31:22,920 --> 01:31:28,599
Speaker 2: to play in a minor league baseball park and leave

1474
01:31:28,640 --> 01:31:33,000
Speaker 2: their fan base all in the possibility of going to

1475
01:31:33,120 --> 01:31:39,400
Speaker 2: Vegas because that deal is far from done. Like this, well, No,

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01:31:39,520 --> 01:31:41,840
Speaker 2: they are like they are. They're going to go play

1477
01:31:41,880 --> 01:31:46,240
Speaker 2: in a minor league yard up there for the A's

1478
01:31:46,280 --> 01:31:49,320
Speaker 2: to go behave the way they have and Major League

1479
01:31:49,320 --> 01:31:53,280
Speaker 2: Baseball to never step in is bad for the game.

1480
01:31:54,560 --> 01:31:57,720
Speaker 3: But they but, but they empower it repeatedly and it's

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01:31:57,760 --> 01:31:59,240
Speaker 3: the biggest head scratcher to me.

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01:32:04,560 --> 01:32:08,439
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's some changes that need to happen, man, that's evident,

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01:32:10,560 --> 01:32:13,559
Speaker 4: and I think the pitchcock was one of those changes

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01:32:13,600 --> 01:32:15,160
Speaker 4: that ye needed to happen.

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Speaker 3: I really do.

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Speaker 2: with Caitlin Clark and a whole new day for women's basketball,

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Speaker 2: plus a Lakers game that gets underway that's going to

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Speaker 2: and a half of our Basketball Live looks like. So

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Speaker 2: all of that is still ahead right here on Fox

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Speaker 2: back to Caitlyn in a second. And I don't know

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Speaker 2: if that's ever been something we could do before, Ephraim,

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Speaker 2: Could we ever just use the first name of a

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Speaker 2: women's basketball player, just like, yeah, well, we'll talk about

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Speaker 2: Caitlyn coming up. Everybody knows exactly what we're talking about.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if that's been the case before. But

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Speaker 2: before we do that, I wanted to mention that the

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Speaker 2: Kings won.

1511
01:33:39,240 --> 01:33:47,280
Speaker 3: Man. I just just just over here passing along facts.

1512
01:33:47,680 --> 01:33:50,000
Speaker 4: I'm watching all the games. Man, I got to set up. Well,

1513
01:33:50,479 --> 01:33:53,559
Speaker 4: I know, I see it all. Tell us about your setup.

1514
01:33:53,560 --> 01:33:54,400
Speaker 4: I want to hear about it.

1515
01:33:56,880 --> 01:33:58,560
Speaker 3: Four beautiful.

1516
01:33:58,800 --> 01:34:03,759
Speaker 4: I guess these are forty forty I don't know, fifty

1517
01:34:03,880 --> 01:34:06,320
Speaker 4: maybe fifty two inch televisions.

1518
01:34:06,760 --> 01:34:11,120
Speaker 3: Damn what you got four of them in the same room? Yeah? Talk,

1519
01:34:11,600 --> 01:34:16,240
Speaker 3: good job. Are they like a four square or they

1520
01:34:16,280 --> 01:34:18,360
Speaker 3: are they like around on one wall and two on

1521
01:34:18,400 --> 01:34:18,920
Speaker 3: the other wall.

1522
01:34:19,400 --> 01:34:25,719
Speaker 2: Okay, is one of them like the main the main dance.

1523
01:34:26,439 --> 01:34:29,080
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, because most of the games are over or

1524
01:34:29,160 --> 01:34:31,559
Speaker 4: all of them except for the Warriors and the Lakers.

1525
01:34:31,600 --> 01:34:34,479
Speaker 4: I got the Lakers on the two on the bottom,

1526
01:34:34,800 --> 01:34:38,840
Speaker 4: Warriors up top, and then the Spurs game just was over.

1527
01:34:39,560 --> 01:34:39,640
Speaker 3: No.

1528
01:34:39,800 --> 01:34:43,240
Speaker 2: I meant like if you got you know, like an

1529
01:34:43,360 --> 01:34:46,360
Speaker 2: NFL Sunday going on, or just like, is there one

1530
01:34:46,360 --> 01:34:48,639
Speaker 2: of your TVs that you're like, that's where the.

1531
01:34:48,600 --> 01:34:53,080
Speaker 3: Main event goes. No, I could have on that TV. No, No, okay,

1532
01:34:53,200 --> 01:35:00,479
Speaker 3: not necessarily. They're all the same size. Yeah, good man,

1533
01:35:00,960 --> 01:35:04,840
Speaker 3: I'm in the studio though it's not my house. Oh,

1534
01:35:04,880 --> 01:35:07,720
Speaker 3: I thought you were talking about your house. You're Oh,

1535
01:35:07,800 --> 01:35:09,800
Speaker 3: I know that. Yeah, I know what you're looking at.

1536
01:35:09,800 --> 01:35:13,240
Speaker 3: Those are not fifty two inches of these. I don't

1537
01:35:13,280 --> 01:35:15,479
Speaker 3: know that's something that happen. Have you been in the

1538
01:35:15,520 --> 01:35:20,000
Speaker 3: new Have you been in the new studio? Yeah? Oh

1539
01:35:20,080 --> 01:35:23,280
Speaker 3: no maybe no, no, no, no, this is a new, big

1540
01:35:23,320 --> 01:35:26,599
Speaker 3: one now, okay, No, No, I know, I know, I'm aware.

1541
01:35:27,680 --> 01:35:31,280
Speaker 3: I know. Ye. No, I know about my place of

1542
01:35:31,320 --> 01:35:33,160
Speaker 3: employment and not the other one, not the one we

1543
01:35:33,160 --> 01:35:40,240
Speaker 3: were over there. Wat I know, I know, I know. Okay,

1544
01:35:40,439 --> 01:35:43,280
Speaker 3: are they fifty two? Maybe my perspective has just changed

1545
01:35:43,320 --> 01:35:46,880
Speaker 3: through the years, because fifty two used to sound really big,

1546
01:35:47,840 --> 01:35:54,160
Speaker 3: and that's now kind of just what people do. I mean,

1547
01:35:54,200 --> 01:36:00,240
Speaker 3: they got to be at least they're pretty big. Okay, Okay,

1548
01:36:00,520 --> 01:36:04,280
Speaker 3: all right, pretty big? Good?

1549
01:36:05,800 --> 01:36:08,600
Speaker 4: So not because I have a fifty five inch in

1550
01:36:08,640 --> 01:36:12,400
Speaker 4: my bedroom, okay, and these are just a tiny bitch smaller.

1551
01:36:12,560 --> 01:36:19,200
Speaker 4: So I would say, oh, good lord, Anthony Davis. It's

1552
01:36:19,200 --> 01:36:20,880
Speaker 4: a big game that's being played right now. It's a

1553
01:36:20,960 --> 01:36:23,679
Speaker 4: huge it's a big game. It's a big game.

1554
01:36:23,800 --> 01:36:27,479
Speaker 3: Everybody needed to lose one today. So we have the

1555
01:36:28,560 --> 01:36:31,160
Speaker 3: Kings and Lakers have the exact same record.

1556
01:36:32,000 --> 01:36:33,920
Speaker 2: And you go ahead, and the Warriors are going to

1557
01:36:33,960 --> 01:36:37,600
Speaker 2: win this basketball game, and so they are going to

1558
01:36:37,640 --> 01:36:42,519
Speaker 2: be an even two games back of the Lakers and

1559
01:36:42,520 --> 01:36:44,840
Speaker 2: the Kings. And I do believe that the Warriors and

1560
01:36:44,920 --> 01:36:49,519
Speaker 2: Lakers will we'll get together here pretty soon, yeah, Tuesday,

1561
01:36:49,920 --> 01:36:53,080
Speaker 2: and we'll get together in l A on Tuesday. And

1562
01:36:53,120 --> 01:36:56,639
Speaker 2: so in theory, if if the Lakers were to fall

1563
01:36:56,680 --> 01:37:03,880
Speaker 2: to Minnesota tonight, that if if if that were to happen,

1564
01:37:04,560 --> 01:37:07,280
Speaker 2: then the Warriors would have an opportunity on Tuesday.

1565
01:37:06,960 --> 01:37:12,160
Speaker 3: Night to move within a half game. Sounds sounds rather scary.

1566
01:37:13,080 --> 01:37:14,960
Speaker 3: We're trying to get to six. Man, we're trying to

1567
01:37:15,160 --> 01:37:18,160
Speaker 3: y'all have to play in for yourself. You're trying to

1568
01:37:18,200 --> 01:37:20,120
Speaker 3: get to six, but you might end up in ten.

1569
01:37:20,240 --> 01:37:22,200
Speaker 3: We're trying to get to six. Bro, I know what

1570
01:37:22,240 --> 01:37:24,720
Speaker 3: you're trying to do. Quite sure what y'all Big game

1571
01:37:24,800 --> 01:37:27,160
Speaker 3: got big game tonight. Sure what y'all doing. I know

1572
01:37:27,200 --> 01:37:27,800
Speaker 3: what we're doing.

1573
01:37:30,680 --> 01:37:32,559
Speaker 2: You know what I do have a question for you

1574
01:37:32,680 --> 01:37:37,320
Speaker 2: about all of these teams because we have officially reached

1575
01:37:37,360 --> 01:37:40,920
Speaker 2: the point where when you I've noticed this. It happened

1576
01:37:40,960 --> 01:37:44,000
Speaker 2: last year too. The Warriors were trying to get the

1577
01:37:44,040 --> 01:37:47,599
Speaker 2: six and they did. By the way, only forty four

1578
01:37:47,640 --> 01:37:51,960
Speaker 2: wins last year got you the sixth seed. This year,

1579
01:37:52,320 --> 01:37:54,320
Speaker 2: I don't think forty four wins would have even got

1580
01:37:54,320 --> 01:37:57,320
Speaker 2: you into the playing turning the way this thing's gonna

1581
01:37:57,360 --> 01:38:00,200
Speaker 2: end up, right, yeah, you're gonna have ten teams that

1582
01:38:00,920 --> 01:38:04,160
Speaker 2: end up with a better record than that. So what

1583
01:38:04,360 --> 01:38:06,559
Speaker 2: happens at this point in the year is there are

1584
01:38:06,600 --> 01:38:09,519
Speaker 2: certain teams that are playing, other teams that are not,

1585
01:38:10,240 --> 01:38:13,320
Speaker 2: and then certain teams that are playing, but they're strategic

1586
01:38:13,400 --> 01:38:16,320
Speaker 2: with the way they go about it, such as the

1587
01:38:16,360 --> 01:38:23,920
Speaker 2: guys who are resting tonight Curry embid others. So what's

1588
01:38:24,000 --> 01:38:30,160
Speaker 2: hard to tell is who's actually really playing well because

1589
01:38:30,200 --> 01:38:32,240
Speaker 2: you get down to the stretch and you're like, they're

1590
01:38:32,280 --> 01:38:35,840
Speaker 2: all playing well, and in every city, I know what's

1591
01:38:35,880 --> 01:38:39,799
Speaker 2: being said, Hey, our guys are peaking at the right time,

1592
01:38:41,360 --> 01:38:44,320
Speaker 2: and it's like, are they and I know they are exceptions.

1593
01:38:44,360 --> 01:38:46,639
Speaker 2: The Pelicans have only won four of their last ten.

1594
01:38:47,400 --> 01:38:49,599
Speaker 2: The Kings have only won five of their last ten.

1595
01:38:50,760 --> 01:38:52,599
Speaker 3: The Lakers have won nine of their last.

1596
01:38:52,479 --> 01:38:55,160
Speaker 2: The Lakers have won nine of ten, The Mavericks have

1597
01:38:55,240 --> 01:38:58,000
Speaker 2: won nine of ten. And then you've got a lot

1598
01:38:58,000 --> 01:39:01,680
Speaker 2: of seven and threes dotted throughout the Western Conference playoffs

1599
01:39:02,800 --> 01:39:08,240
Speaker 2: teams in their last ten. So everybody's hot or are

1600
01:39:08,280 --> 01:39:12,559
Speaker 2: they not? And they're just simply playing two out of

1601
01:39:12,600 --> 01:39:16,080
Speaker 2: every three games against teams that are are mailing it.

1602
01:39:16,040 --> 01:39:23,040
Speaker 3: In what I don't really care. I just want to W.

1603
01:39:23,360 --> 01:39:26,000
Speaker 3: We need to W. We're climbing out of a hole, man,

1604
01:39:29,320 --> 01:39:31,559
Speaker 3: We're climbing. We're climbing. We're trying to get out of here,

1605
01:39:32,560 --> 01:39:33,639
Speaker 3: trying to get to the town.

1606
01:39:37,560 --> 01:39:40,479
Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you what, the six would be a

1607
01:39:40,479 --> 01:39:44,280
Speaker 2: pretty advantageous position you'd be going against. I don't know

1608
01:39:44,320 --> 01:39:47,280
Speaker 2: where you're going to be going against probably Minnesota or

1609
01:39:47,320 --> 01:39:51,960
Speaker 2: Oklahoma City, and I wonder about those two teams.

1610
01:39:52,040 --> 01:39:52,519
Speaker 3: I know that.

1611
01:39:52,920 --> 01:39:55,880
Speaker 2: I know the thought when you look at the entire

1612
01:39:55,920 --> 01:39:59,679
Speaker 2: Western Conference forget you know, Kings and whatnot. Like I mean,

1613
01:40:01,000 --> 01:40:03,400
Speaker 2: I don't personally think there's going to be too much

1614
01:40:03,800 --> 01:40:05,680
Speaker 2: coming out of the playing tournament that's going to go

1615
01:40:05,800 --> 01:40:07,040
Speaker 2: deep into the playoffs.

1616
01:40:07,160 --> 01:40:09,439
Speaker 3: I apologize it from that's what I said.

1617
01:40:09,479 --> 01:40:12,280
Speaker 2: I believe it. I could be wrong. I know the Lakers,

1618
01:40:12,320 --> 01:40:14,599
Speaker 2: I know you think that they can win the whole I.

1619
01:40:14,600 --> 01:40:17,240
Speaker 3: Think there's one team that they can't beat.

1620
01:40:17,560 --> 01:40:21,519
Speaker 4: And as the different Nuggets, Well that's sound, that's true.

1621
01:40:21,840 --> 01:40:25,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, but I'm specifically wondering about Minnesota and Oklahoma

1622
01:40:25,840 --> 01:40:31,880
Speaker 2: City and their lack of deep playoff experience and whether

1623
01:40:31,960 --> 01:40:35,479
Speaker 2: that's really the driving force or if the fact that

1624
01:40:35,560 --> 01:40:39,120
Speaker 2: both of those teams are fantastic defensive.

1625
01:40:38,520 --> 01:40:41,599
Speaker 3: Teams and always have been all year long.

1626
01:40:42,120 --> 01:40:44,479
Speaker 2: And when you look at who wins the NBA title

1627
01:40:44,520 --> 01:40:48,240
Speaker 2: this year or any year, it's always someone who is

1628
01:40:48,280 --> 01:40:51,280
Speaker 2: a top seven defensive team, and it never gets talked

1629
01:40:51,280 --> 01:40:54,400
Speaker 2: about because no one cares, No one wants to talk

1630
01:40:54,400 --> 01:40:57,080
Speaker 2: about defense. No one even knows how to watch it

1631
01:40:57,120 --> 01:41:00,200
Speaker 2: in the NBA. No one watches defense in the NBA.

1632
01:41:00,640 --> 01:41:02,559
Speaker 2: But you don't win a title unless you are a

1633
01:41:02,640 --> 01:41:05,600
Speaker 2: top seven defensive squad. And both of those teams have

1634
01:41:05,680 --> 01:41:09,960
Speaker 2: been doing it all year long. I'm a believer. I'm

1635
01:41:10,000 --> 01:41:11,600
Speaker 2: a believer in those teams.

1636
01:41:13,439 --> 01:41:21,920
Speaker 3: Sounds good? No, no, why not? No? You gotta give

1637
01:41:21,960 --> 01:41:27,160
Speaker 3: me a reason. You can't just blow it off. When

1638
01:41:27,240 --> 01:41:35,880
Speaker 3: you get into the playoffs. The court shrinks, not actually true,

1639
01:41:35,920 --> 01:41:37,200
Speaker 3: but that's okay.

1640
01:41:38,080 --> 01:41:43,519
Speaker 4: Not physically shrinks, but because you're playing the same team

1641
01:41:43,600 --> 01:41:46,479
Speaker 4: over and over again, in the constant adjustments being made,

1642
01:41:47,920 --> 01:41:54,439
Speaker 4: the court shrinks, and so you gotta be really good

1643
01:41:55,920 --> 01:42:00,519
Speaker 4: at the things that you know the team that you are.

1644
01:42:02,920 --> 01:42:07,400
Speaker 4: The scary thing about the Lakers this year is they

1645
01:42:07,400 --> 01:42:12,080
Speaker 4: can actually shoot the ball now, which is something that.

1646
01:42:13,960 --> 01:42:14,200
Speaker 3: You know.

1647
01:42:14,280 --> 01:42:18,600
Speaker 4: If it wasn't Lebron attacking the rim or ad controlling

1648
01:42:18,640 --> 01:42:26,080
Speaker 4: the paint, then the Lakers struggle if they couldn't physically

1649
01:42:26,160 --> 01:42:29,040
Speaker 4: dominate you inside. Well, this year they're in the top

1650
01:42:29,120 --> 01:42:34,760
Speaker 4: seven and three point shooting, and since the All Star right,

1651
01:42:34,760 --> 01:42:40,000
Speaker 4: they're the number one team, which is crazy to even say.

1652
01:42:40,520 --> 01:42:45,080
Speaker 4: But that's the dangerous part about them because we know

1653
01:42:45,520 --> 01:42:49,080
Speaker 4: that they can score inside. Now, if they can drive

1654
01:42:49,120 --> 01:42:53,840
Speaker 4: and kick and have a legitimate shot of making these

1655
01:42:53,880 --> 01:42:58,800
Speaker 4: wide open threes, then they're the team that's a problem,

1656
01:42:58,840 --> 01:43:03,040
Speaker 4: as well as their length as Vanderbilt, which I don't

1657
01:43:03,040 --> 01:43:06,160
Speaker 4: know when he's coming back, and and Cam Reddish is

1658
01:43:06,200 --> 01:43:12,200
Speaker 4: now back, and then Spencer Dinwiddy their lengths on the wings.

1659
01:43:14,280 --> 01:43:20,160
Speaker 3: You know. So that's why I say, okay, sounds good. No,

1660
01:43:20,439 --> 01:43:23,599
Speaker 3: I mean, Minnesota's like falling away the number one.

1661
01:43:23,479 --> 01:43:27,200
Speaker 2: Defensive team in the NBA. It's why I dismissed the idea.

1662
01:43:27,240 --> 01:43:31,519
Speaker 2: Everybody's got their cool little clippers and Maverick stakes. Watch out, No,

1663
01:43:31,640 --> 01:43:34,800
Speaker 2: don't watch out. They don't play defense well enough. They

1664
01:43:34,800 --> 01:43:36,040
Speaker 2: don't play defense well enough.

1665
01:43:36,040 --> 01:43:38,599
Speaker 3: They're not gonna win. Then you look at the teams

1666
01:43:38,600 --> 01:43:39,519
Speaker 3: that are kind of in the.

1667
01:43:39,439 --> 01:43:45,000
Speaker 2: Middle, Lakers, Warriors, Suns, and they've been playing better in

1668
01:43:45,080 --> 01:43:47,679
Speaker 2: the last couple of months in terms of defense. Could

1669
01:43:47,680 --> 01:43:52,160
Speaker 2: they scare someone, I guess. But Minnesota's won in Boston's

1670
01:43:52,160 --> 01:43:55,400
Speaker 2: two and they are a reason that they sit where

1671
01:43:55,400 --> 01:43:56,520
Speaker 2: they sit in the standings.

1672
01:43:58,840 --> 01:44:01,559
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is, It's true. And you know who you

1673
01:44:01,600 --> 01:44:05,479
Speaker 3: know what else scares me? I do?

1674
01:44:06,560 --> 01:44:09,040
Speaker 4: I mean, a scary thing would be not to throw

1675
01:44:09,120 --> 01:44:12,840
Speaker 4: to this man on time. Now, that's scary, right, that's

1676
01:44:12,880 --> 01:44:14,519
Speaker 4: one steven S de Sager.

1677
01:44:15,760 --> 01:44:18,320
Speaker 6: Wow, I didn't know where that one was going to

1678
01:44:18,439 --> 01:44:21,679
Speaker 6: the NBA guys, of course. The NBA regular season ends

1679
01:44:21,720 --> 01:44:24,599
Speaker 6: a week from today. Lakers have the late game tonight,

1680
01:44:24,680 --> 01:44:27,800
Speaker 6: under two minutes to go first quarter, LA Leeds Minnesota

1681
01:44:27,880 --> 01:44:31,439
Speaker 6: twenty nine to twenty six. Spencer Dinwiddie, a starter tonight,

1682
01:44:31,560 --> 01:44:35,240
Speaker 6: has nine points. Lebron James out due to illness. Lakers

1683
01:44:35,240 --> 01:44:37,439
Speaker 6: have not only won four in a row, they've won

1684
01:44:37,560 --> 01:44:38,679
Speaker 6: nine of their last ten.

1685
01:44:38,760 --> 01:44:39,559
Speaker 3: In fact, at home.

1686
01:44:39,600 --> 01:44:43,080
Speaker 6: They beat Cleveland yesterday in that same building. Today in La,

1687
01:44:43,160 --> 01:44:45,720
Speaker 6: the Clippers came back and beat Cleveland one twenty to

1688
01:44:45,760 --> 01:44:49,120
Speaker 6: one eighteen, even though the Clippers were trailing by twenty

1689
01:44:49,200 --> 01:44:52,760
Speaker 6: six points in the third quarter. Dallas in overtime beat

1690
01:44:52,800 --> 01:44:56,360
Speaker 6: Houston one, forty seven to one thirty six. Houston Rockets

1691
01:44:56,360 --> 01:44:59,200
Speaker 6: have lost five in a row. Kyrie Irving with forty

1692
01:44:59,240 --> 01:45:02,200
Speaker 6: eight points Luke Kadonsich of the MAVs with thirty seven.

1693
01:45:02,360 --> 01:45:05,840
Speaker 6: The Houston loss means officially the Warriors clinched at least

1694
01:45:05,840 --> 01:45:09,120
Speaker 6: a play in spot today, so Steph Curry is out

1695
01:45:09,160 --> 01:45:12,559
Speaker 6: for rest tonight as in the fourth quarter. The Warriors

1696
01:45:12,600 --> 01:45:16,479
Speaker 6: are leading one oh three to ninety one now against

1697
01:45:16,560 --> 01:45:21,719
Speaker 6: the Utah Jazz, and well, let's just assume Utah loses again.

1698
01:45:21,880 --> 01:45:24,360
Speaker 6: That'll be a twenty nine and forty nine record. That'll

1699
01:45:24,400 --> 01:45:28,840
Speaker 6: be a twelfth straight loss for the Utah Jazz. Oklahoma

1700
01:45:28,880 --> 01:45:31,400
Speaker 6: City survived tonight at Charlotte one twenty one to one

1701
01:45:31,479 --> 01:45:34,680
Speaker 6: eighteen Josh Getty at triple double, so ok See, there

1702
01:45:34,680 --> 01:45:36,320
Speaker 6: are three teams that have a chance at the one

1703
01:45:36,360 --> 01:45:38,840
Speaker 6: seed in the West. Oksee's only a game back of

1704
01:45:38,880 --> 01:45:42,120
Speaker 6: defending champion Denver. Minnesota on the court right now in

1705
01:45:42,280 --> 01:45:44,920
Speaker 6: La is only a half game back. But we know

1706
01:45:45,160 --> 01:45:49,439
Speaker 6: the ten teams for the West that are advancing after

1707
01:45:49,479 --> 01:45:52,439
Speaker 6: this next week, we just don't know the order. Meanwhile,

1708
01:45:52,479 --> 01:45:55,120
Speaker 6: we know in the East, the Boston Celtics will be

1709
01:45:55,200 --> 01:45:57,280
Speaker 6: the one seed. In fact, the Celtics won their fifth

1710
01:45:57,280 --> 01:45:59,960
Speaker 6: straight game beat Portland one twenty four to one oh seven,

1711
01:46:00,400 --> 01:46:03,400
Speaker 6: Jalen Brown twenty six points. Jason Tatum did not play

1712
01:46:03,479 --> 01:46:06,280
Speaker 6: due to a bruce knee. Boston has a chance at

1713
01:46:06,360 --> 01:46:09,960
Speaker 6: roughly sixty five wins this year. It's possible nobody else

1714
01:46:10,000 --> 01:46:13,040
Speaker 6: in the East even has fifty wins. That's how huge

1715
01:46:13,080 --> 01:46:16,680
Speaker 6: a margin is in the East between the Celtics and

1716
01:46:16,760 --> 01:46:20,559
Speaker 6: everybody else in the standings. Earlier wins for Orlando and

1717
01:46:20,680 --> 01:46:23,679
Speaker 6: Indiana at home. New Orleans won at Phoenix one thirteen

1718
01:46:23,680 --> 01:46:26,280
Speaker 6: to one oh five Pelicans and a four game losing streak.

1719
01:46:26,320 --> 01:46:26,600
Speaker 2: C J.

1720
01:46:26,760 --> 01:46:30,959
Speaker 6: McCollum thirty one points, Zion Williamson with twenty nine. Toronto

1721
01:46:31,040 --> 01:46:33,559
Speaker 6: and New York with victories. That Nicks win was at

1722
01:46:33,600 --> 01:46:35,560
Speaker 6: Milwaukee won twenty two to one to oh nine. The

1723
01:46:35,600 --> 01:46:38,679
Speaker 6: Bucks have lost four straight. Jalen Brunson of New York

1724
01:46:38,840 --> 01:46:42,280
Speaker 6: forty three points and in double overtime. Philadelphia had won

1725
01:46:42,320 --> 01:46:44,960
Speaker 6: its fifth straight game, a victory at San Antonio one

1726
01:46:45,080 --> 01:46:48,000
Speaker 6: thirty three to one to twenty six. Joel Embiid was

1727
01:46:48,040 --> 01:46:50,000
Speaker 6: out tonight for the Sixers due to the knee he

1728
01:46:50,000 --> 01:46:52,559
Speaker 6: had just come back from injury this past week. So

1729
01:46:52,720 --> 01:46:56,519
Speaker 6: Tyrese Maxi had fifty two points, seven assists and one

1730
01:46:56,600 --> 01:46:59,920
Speaker 6: turnover for Philly. Sacramento a winner at Brooklyn one ozero

1731
01:47:00,400 --> 01:47:03,559
Speaker 6: to seventy seven. Dennis Shrewder of the Nets one of

1732
01:47:03,680 --> 01:47:07,080
Speaker 6: twelve shooting from the floor. In college basketball, the women's

1733
01:47:07,120 --> 01:47:11,320
Speaker 6: final was today Number one South Carolina completed an undefeated

1734
01:47:11,360 --> 01:47:14,560
Speaker 6: season thirty eight to zero, beating Iowa in the championship

1735
01:47:14,640 --> 01:47:19,160
Speaker 6: game eighty seven to seventy five. Camilla Cardoso with seventeen rebounds.

1736
01:47:19,560 --> 01:47:23,240
Speaker 6: NHL wins for Carolina and for Nashville in overtime. William

1737
01:47:23,240 --> 01:47:26,760
Speaker 6: Byron took the NASCAR race at Martinsville. In the new

1738
01:47:26,920 --> 01:47:32,400
Speaker 6: United Football League, DC beat Houston twenty three to eighteen,

1739
01:47:32,600 --> 01:47:35,760
Speaker 6: and Birmingham won at Michigan twenty to thirteen. Although that

1740
01:47:35,840 --> 01:47:38,639
Speaker 6: Michigan kicker that last week had the game winning sixty

1741
01:47:38,640 --> 01:47:41,720
Speaker 6: four yard field goal kicked a sixty two yarder in

1742
01:47:41,760 --> 01:47:45,519
Speaker 6: today's game. Tonight's MLB contest went to Houston at Texas.

1743
01:47:45,600 --> 01:47:47,840
Speaker 6: Astros record was two and seven, but they got a

1744
01:47:47,880 --> 01:47:51,280
Speaker 6: victory three to one over the Rangers, Cubs, and Red

1745
01:47:51,320 --> 01:47:54,200
Speaker 6: Sox each one. Yankees won again. They're eight and two

1746
01:47:54,360 --> 01:47:57,400
Speaker 6: Atlanta and Pittsburgh with wins. Pirates are eight and two

1747
01:47:57,720 --> 01:48:00,439
Speaker 6: Milwaukee and the Royals with wins. Kansas City, he's won

1748
01:48:00,479 --> 01:48:03,200
Speaker 6: four straight. Cleveland at Minnesota was reigned out. They'll make

1749
01:48:03,240 --> 01:48:06,240
Speaker 6: it up in August. Cleveland pitcher Shane Bieber will have

1750
01:48:06,320 --> 01:48:11,120
Speaker 6: elbow surgery. Braves pitcher Spencer Streider is out elbow ligament damage.

1751
01:48:11,120 --> 01:48:13,479
Speaker 6: He went on the IL officially and what you were

1752
01:48:13,520 --> 01:48:15,680
Speaker 6: talking about the A's For those who are unaware of

1753
01:48:15,720 --> 01:48:18,439
Speaker 6: the big news this week that the Oakland A's have

1754
01:48:18,520 --> 01:48:21,799
Speaker 6: a three year lease to play in Sacramento starting next season,

1755
01:48:22,080 --> 01:48:24,080
Speaker 6: with an option for a fourth year in case the

1756
01:48:24,120 --> 01:48:27,160
Speaker 6: Las Vegas Stadium isn't ready. The Triple A Ballpark in

1757
01:48:27,200 --> 01:48:31,040
Speaker 6: Sacramento holds fourteen thousand fans, their attendance in Oakland so

1758
01:48:31,120 --> 01:48:34,559
Speaker 6: far this year averaging six thousand, five hundred in their

1759
01:48:34,600 --> 01:48:36,920
Speaker 6: final year on the Oakland lease. The A's at the

1760
01:48:36,920 --> 01:48:40,000
Speaker 6: time of the announcement were one and six. They're up

1761
01:48:40,000 --> 01:48:42,360
Speaker 6: to three and seven now after the win at Detroit today,

1762
01:48:42,400 --> 01:48:45,040
Speaker 6: but they do have by far the lowest payroll in

1763
01:48:45,120 --> 01:48:46,680
Speaker 6: Major League Baseball BECTI.

1764
01:48:46,560 --> 01:48:48,800
Speaker 3: Still it's gonna be wild, man.

1765
01:48:49,400 --> 01:48:53,240
Speaker 2: You ever you had any of those friends who just

1766
01:48:53,880 --> 01:48:59,960
Speaker 2: do not have that in their DNA to ever be embarrassed, Yeah,

1767
01:49:00,280 --> 01:49:04,880
Speaker 2: they'll kill you know, karaoke naked through the quad whatever, like,

1768
01:49:04,920 --> 01:49:10,519
Speaker 2: they'll just do it and they don't feel embarrassed. That

1769
01:49:10,840 --> 01:49:14,880
Speaker 2: is John Fisher, the owner of the Oakland A's. I

1770
01:49:15,479 --> 01:49:19,280
Speaker 2: don't I don't know how I don't know how he

1771
01:49:19,360 --> 01:49:24,320
Speaker 2: doesn't get embarrassed. Steve just said it like they're they're

1772
01:49:24,360 --> 01:49:26,719
Speaker 2: about to. It's one thing to have an empty major

1773
01:49:26,800 --> 01:49:32,040
Speaker 2: league stadium, how about an empty minor league stadium? Yes, dude,

1774
01:49:32,040 --> 01:49:40,599
Speaker 2: pretty bad dude, but he doesn't get embarrassed. M Something else, Man,

1775
01:49:40,840 --> 01:49:44,639
Speaker 2: Something else. Ti rag dot Com Studios with with ephrom

1776
01:49:44,680 --> 01:49:47,080
Speaker 2: Salam Mark Willard. I want to get back into UH,

1777
01:49:47,120 --> 01:49:50,360
Speaker 2: into Caitlin Clark and UH and pull this apart with

1778
01:49:50,400 --> 01:49:53,599
Speaker 2: you a little bit, because this is one thing I'm

1779
01:49:53,640 --> 01:49:56,160
Speaker 2: trying to really figure this out and and in the

1780
01:49:56,200 --> 01:49:58,639
Speaker 2: most respectful way but also in the most real way

1781
01:49:59,200 --> 01:50:02,040
Speaker 2: when it comes to it's not for me women's sports.

1782
01:50:02,080 --> 01:50:07,240
Speaker 2: It's women's basketball, which traditionally most fans I know are like,

1783
01:50:07,360 --> 01:50:08,280
Speaker 2: it's just such.

1784
01:50:08,360 --> 01:50:11,920
Speaker 3: Like if you love the NBA, if you love the.

1785
01:50:11,920 --> 01:50:18,280
Speaker 2: NBA, it's so high flying, it's just so athletic that

1786
01:50:20,200 --> 01:50:25,120
Speaker 2: quite frankly, for many watching college basketball at all can

1787
01:50:25,160 --> 01:50:29,559
Speaker 2: be a challenge men or women. But that's what I've

1788
01:50:29,600 --> 01:50:32,880
Speaker 2: always heard from fans, just like I have a hard

1789
01:50:32,880 --> 01:50:35,439
Speaker 2: time watching women's basketball because it's just played too far

1790
01:50:35,479 --> 01:50:41,439
Speaker 2: below the rim and maybe fundamentals don't get you going Okay, fine,

1791
01:50:42,680 --> 01:50:47,280
Speaker 2: what's happening now? Because of Caitlin Clark and how dynamic

1792
01:50:47,360 --> 01:50:49,840
Speaker 2: she is, I do hear a lot of people and

1793
01:50:49,920 --> 01:50:54,120
Speaker 2: I get it, like the sort of empowerment movement behind

1794
01:50:54,120 --> 01:50:59,519
Speaker 2: what's happening will suggest see, women's basketball can be a

1795
01:50:59,760 --> 01:51:04,760
Speaker 2: rate So why don't you promote the game more? And

1796
01:51:04,840 --> 01:51:10,479
Speaker 2: I'm like, I agree if you change one word. This

1797
01:51:10,560 --> 01:51:14,200
Speaker 2: isn't about promoting the game. It's about promoting the players.

1798
01:51:15,640 --> 01:51:19,759
Speaker 2: And I don't know how often a Caitlin Clark comes around.

1799
01:51:19,800 --> 01:51:26,760
Speaker 2: I'm thinking somewhere between never and never ever. But this

1800
01:51:26,840 --> 01:51:29,080
Speaker 2: is what David Stern did back in the day that

1801
01:51:29,200 --> 01:51:32,120
Speaker 2: made the NBA great, Like we're still in the day

1802
01:51:32,160 --> 01:51:35,360
Speaker 2: and age, like forget women, men, it doesn't matter who's playing.

1803
01:51:36,320 --> 01:51:39,880
Speaker 2: There are very few like u Ephraim who will sit

1804
01:51:39,920 --> 01:51:43,599
Speaker 2: there on a Tuesday night and you're like, Charlotte's playing Miami,

1805
01:51:44,640 --> 01:51:49,680
Speaker 2: let's watch. A lot of people are like nah, like

1806
01:51:49,760 --> 01:51:52,839
Speaker 2: it's this has gotta be Lebron or Steph or Jannis

1807
01:51:53,960 --> 01:51:57,759
Speaker 2: or jokicch or a great, great team.

1808
01:51:57,800 --> 01:52:02,000
Speaker 3: But you're not watching for the love of the game.

1809
01:52:02,040 --> 01:52:06,439
Speaker 3: You're watching for the individuals. And it was David Stern

1810
01:52:06,479 --> 01:52:07,160
Speaker 3: who made this.

1811
01:52:07,080 --> 01:52:12,040
Speaker 2: About Magic versus Bird and Lebron versus Kobe, as opposed

1812
01:52:12,040 --> 01:52:16,759
Speaker 2: to Lakers versus Celtics or Lakers versus Calves or whatever.

1813
01:52:17,680 --> 01:52:22,360
Speaker 2: And so my suggestion would be less about you know,

1814
01:52:23,240 --> 01:52:25,920
Speaker 2: networks promoting the game. It would almost be more on

1815
01:52:26,120 --> 01:52:28,000
Speaker 2: universities to promote the players.

1816
01:52:28,840 --> 01:52:32,760
Speaker 4: Yeah, but they're not there long enough, so fair so,

1817
01:52:33,200 --> 01:52:37,080
Speaker 4: you know, that's what was the great thing about you know,

1818
01:52:37,120 --> 01:52:40,200
Speaker 4: these last few years, and and the women's game. The

1819
01:52:40,200 --> 01:52:43,360
Speaker 4: women's game, they're there for four years. Man, they're like that. Yeah,

1820
01:52:43,439 --> 01:52:45,320
Speaker 4: so you get to get you get to know them

1821
01:52:45,520 --> 01:52:48,800
Speaker 4: and you root for them, and you know, we were

1822
01:52:48,840 --> 01:52:55,599
Speaker 4: all excited to see Angel and Caitlin Uh come back,

1823
01:52:57,400 --> 01:53:01,080
Speaker 4: you know. And so that's what really drove up viewers

1824
01:53:01,240 --> 01:53:04,599
Speaker 4: and and and the buzz this season, and then also

1825
01:53:05,720 --> 01:53:10,639
Speaker 4: South Carolina because they bounce back. So the narrative was there.

1826
01:53:10,920 --> 01:53:14,200
Speaker 4: What was the story going into the men's season? What

1827
01:53:14,360 --> 01:53:15,000
Speaker 4: was the story?

1828
01:53:15,280 --> 01:53:16,400
Speaker 3: I'm still looking for it.

1829
01:53:18,320 --> 01:53:22,280
Speaker 2: I mean, you have the matchup that quote unquote everyone wants.

1830
01:53:22,800 --> 01:53:25,200
Speaker 2: I don't I don't think this is going to do

1831
01:53:25,280 --> 01:53:27,120
Speaker 2: that well tomorrow night, I really don't.

1832
01:53:29,000 --> 01:53:31,200
Speaker 4: No, it won't be as electric as it was today

1833
01:53:31,240 --> 01:53:35,040
Speaker 4: because that was I mean, that was phenomenal.

1834
01:53:35,360 --> 01:53:39,240
Speaker 2: It was tremendous because it had television characters. Zach Edi

1835
01:53:39,360 --> 01:53:42,000
Speaker 2: is not a television character. That's not a ratings driver.

1836
01:53:43,200 --> 01:53:47,439
Speaker 2: And we're at the end of the tournament exactly, all right.

1837
01:53:47,439 --> 01:53:49,760
Speaker 2: We more on this as we wrap things up and

1838
01:53:49,800 --> 01:53:52,280
Speaker 2: get ready for Plank and Spaniard as well, with eat

1839
01:53:52,240 --> 01:53:57,519
Speaker 2: from salam Mark Weller at Fox Sports Radio tirag dot

1840
01:53:57,560 --> 01:54:01,880
Speaker 2: com studios. Yeah, it's a good one second quarter t

1841
01:54:02,040 --> 01:54:06,040
Speaker 2: Wolves by one. No Karl Anthony Towns for the Wolves,

1842
01:54:06,080 --> 01:54:12,120
Speaker 2: no Lebron for the Lakers, big old basketball game too,

1843
01:54:13,080 --> 01:54:16,080
Speaker 2: all right, man, So while you're checking that one out,

1844
01:54:16,080 --> 01:54:17,960
Speaker 2: a few more minutes with us before we hand it

1845
01:54:18,000 --> 01:54:21,519
Speaker 2: over to uh playing and Spaniard and talking out obviously

1846
01:54:21,560 --> 01:54:23,920
Speaker 2: the women's National Championship game. And this is always that

1847
01:54:24,000 --> 01:54:28,680
Speaker 2: sort of utopian thought that that that doesn't exist. You know,

1848
01:54:29,320 --> 01:54:33,000
Speaker 2: we love to boy, let's can we eliminate gender? Can

1849
01:54:33,080 --> 01:54:38,760
Speaker 2: we eliminate race from our thought process? Like, No, we can't,

1850
01:54:38,840 --> 01:54:41,720
Speaker 2: We we won't. We don't that that'd be great if

1851
01:54:41,760 --> 01:54:44,160
Speaker 2: we could. It's just not realistic. If you ask me,

1852
01:54:45,240 --> 01:54:48,760
Speaker 2: the differences in culture and gender and everything that people bring.

1853
01:54:49,760 --> 01:54:52,040
Speaker 2: I try to do whatever I can to celebrate those

1854
01:54:52,080 --> 01:54:55,360
Speaker 2: things and and but accept and acknowledge there there are

1855
01:54:55,480 --> 01:54:56,720
Speaker 2: there are differences here.

1856
01:54:57,480 --> 01:55:02,000
Speaker 3: I know. The thought is when something like.

1857
01:55:02,000 --> 01:55:05,160
Speaker 2: This happens, or maybe this is the first time something

1858
01:55:05,240 --> 01:55:08,760
Speaker 2: like this has happened, but to make it sort of

1859
01:55:09,280 --> 01:55:14,440
Speaker 2: a bigger in like an umbrella way about the entire sport,

1860
01:55:14,520 --> 01:55:16,560
Speaker 2: and I just happen to think it's much more about

1861
01:55:16,600 --> 01:55:20,640
Speaker 2: the individual. So in other words, instead of being like, Okay,

1862
01:55:23,000 --> 01:55:29,600
Speaker 2: the women's game is now X, it's like, eh, it

1863
01:55:29,720 --> 01:55:35,400
Speaker 2: is absolutely a better version of itself now. But that's

1864
01:55:35,440 --> 01:55:39,840
Speaker 2: only because there's a standout individual. And each time one

1865
01:55:39,840 --> 01:55:42,960
Speaker 2: of those comes along, it becomes a little bit easier

1866
01:55:43,160 --> 01:55:49,200
Speaker 2: for us to believe that that standout individual can look

1867
01:55:49,240 --> 01:55:53,480
Speaker 2: different or be a different whatever tender than what we're

1868
01:55:53,600 --> 01:55:58,200
Speaker 2: used to, and it can inspire the next Caitlin Clark

1869
01:55:58,200 --> 01:56:00,160
Speaker 2: who might be six years old and in front of

1870
01:56:00,200 --> 01:56:03,800
Speaker 2: the TV today, Like, to me, that's that's what it's

1871
01:56:03,840 --> 01:56:07,720
Speaker 2: actually all about. But this is this is about the individual,

1872
01:56:07,760 --> 01:56:10,400
Speaker 2: and every time one comes along that gets our attention,

1873
01:56:11,120 --> 01:56:13,720
Speaker 2: it does move everything forward a little bit like a

1874
01:56:13,800 --> 01:56:19,800
Speaker 2: s areena like ama ham, you know, like a anaka

1875
01:56:19,880 --> 01:56:22,600
Speaker 2: sore and stam or whatever whatever the sport may be.

1876
01:56:23,400 --> 01:56:25,680
Speaker 2: And and I do think that it's special this time

1877
01:56:25,720 --> 01:56:29,480
Speaker 2: because it's basketball and uh and for me, this is

1878
01:56:29,520 --> 01:56:33,839
Speaker 2: the most entertained I've ever been by one individual female

1879
01:56:33,840 --> 01:56:34,720
Speaker 2: basketball player.

1880
01:56:35,000 --> 01:56:37,560
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's been some great ones, uh too, but I

1881
01:56:37,600 --> 01:56:41,200
Speaker 4: think Caitlin Clark, you know, captured the hearts of America

1882
01:56:41,240 --> 01:56:45,160
Speaker 4: in the world, uh, just based on just the sheer

1883
01:56:45,320 --> 01:56:48,640
Speaker 4: numbers and the excitement and the way she approaches the game.

1884
01:56:50,640 --> 01:56:54,960
Speaker 3: It was you know, Musty TV. It was Musty TV. U.

1885
01:56:55,200 --> 01:56:57,240
Speaker 4: Now in a week or so, sho, he's going to

1886
01:56:57,520 --> 01:57:00,760
Speaker 4: join uh, the other greatest players on the planet Earth,

1887
01:57:01,320 --> 01:57:05,520
Speaker 4: and it'll get a little bit more difficult for because

1888
01:57:06,880 --> 01:57:12,120
Speaker 4: everybody's good, everybody's great, and it's gonna be a situation

1889
01:57:12,280 --> 01:57:17,400
Speaker 4: where you know, how great can you be? How great

1890
01:57:17,960 --> 01:57:21,400
Speaker 4: are you? Or do you want to be? And also

1891
01:57:21,600 --> 01:57:25,320
Speaker 4: the team that she goes to, which is Indiana correct

1892
01:57:26,040 --> 01:57:29,920
Speaker 4: the fever. The first time, I'm going I'm going to

1893
01:57:30,000 --> 01:57:32,160
Speaker 4: admit that I have no idea.

1894
01:57:32,800 --> 01:57:34,880
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm going to I'm going to believe you on

1895
01:57:35,000 --> 01:57:37,360
Speaker 3: that one. I will believe you.

1896
01:57:37,680 --> 01:57:40,680
Speaker 4: Yeah, But I say that to say this was a

1897
01:57:40,800 --> 01:57:44,720
Speaker 4: heck of a moment. For college basketball, especially for the women,

1898
01:57:45,360 --> 01:57:52,680
Speaker 4: and you know, historically normally that excitement doesn't travel.

1899
01:57:54,520 --> 01:57:55,560
Speaker 3: To the w n b A.

1900
01:57:55,880 --> 01:57:58,960
Speaker 4: I mean you look at the the Yukon I mean

1901
01:57:58,960 --> 01:58:03,040
Speaker 4: not the Yukon excuse me, the Yeah, the Yukon teams,

1902
01:58:04,760 --> 01:58:09,840
Speaker 4: uh Gino's teams. They would I mean, it was that

1903
01:58:10,040 --> 01:58:14,280
Speaker 4: was so dominant. It was people loved them. And then okay,

1904
01:58:14,400 --> 01:58:17,800
Speaker 4: those players get drafted and they spread out over the league.

1905
01:58:17,840 --> 01:58:19,760
Speaker 4: They're not all on the same team anymore, and it

1906
01:58:19,920 --> 01:58:23,840
Speaker 4: just becomes okay, they're great players. You know, did it

1907
01:58:23,960 --> 01:58:28,320
Speaker 4: raise w NBA salaries? Is Caitlin Clark going to the

1908
01:58:28,400 --> 01:58:30,320
Speaker 4: w n B A and it's what if she says, look,

1909
01:58:30,400 --> 01:58:34,640
Speaker 4: I demand the first million dollar contract like whatever that is.

1910
01:58:35,120 --> 01:58:38,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, yeah, I don't know how that part of

1911
01:58:38,720 --> 01:58:41,760
Speaker 2: it plays out, but I do think that even the

1912
01:58:41,800 --> 01:58:45,280
Speaker 2: picture you're painting is an interesting one. I'd like to

1913
01:58:45,320 --> 01:58:47,600
Speaker 2: see how she looks against the other best players in

1914
01:58:47,600 --> 01:58:48,040
Speaker 2: the world.

1915
01:58:49,960 --> 01:58:50,920
Speaker 3: I would I would like to.

1916
01:58:51,040 --> 01:58:52,880
Speaker 2: I am interested to see that, and I don't think

1917
01:58:52,920 --> 01:58:56,400
Speaker 2: I've ever felt that way before. And part of it

1918
01:58:56,440 --> 01:58:58,600
Speaker 2: is what I also said earlier, which is that I

1919
01:58:58,640 --> 01:59:00,640
Speaker 2: think a lot of people have you know, all the

1920
01:59:00,680 --> 01:59:03,320
Speaker 2: comparisons to Steph Curry and whatnot, they're just like, Wow,

1921
01:59:03,360 --> 01:59:06,080
Speaker 2: this Caitlin Clark can really shoot it. And if you

1922
01:59:06,160 --> 01:59:08,600
Speaker 2: watch her in this tournament or at all throughout the year,

1923
01:59:08,640 --> 01:59:11,240
Speaker 2: you realize, my god, she's so much more than that.

1924
01:59:12,200 --> 01:59:15,640
Speaker 2: She's just phenomenal all around the floor.

1925
01:59:16,360 --> 01:59:22,720
Speaker 3: Her vision is insane, it's crazy, absolutely bananas. She's got

1926
01:59:22,760 --> 01:59:24,440
Speaker 3: some Jay Will stuff going on.

1927
01:59:24,520 --> 01:59:27,800
Speaker 2: Man, with that passing, and when you factor in the

1928
01:59:27,800 --> 01:59:33,360
Speaker 2: shooting as well, it's so entertaining and I am absolutely

1929
01:59:33,440 --> 01:59:35,640
Speaker 2: interested to see what it looks like at the next level.

1930
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's gonna be exciting, it's gonna be fun. There'll

1931
01:59:41,800 --> 01:59:44,040
Speaker 4: be a buzz at the beginning. I hope the buzz

1932
01:59:44,040 --> 01:59:47,680
Speaker 4: carries throughout the whole year. I hope the team is

1933
01:59:47,720 --> 01:59:51,560
Speaker 4: good and they can compete. So that's another thing, right,

1934
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Speaker 4: you know, most teams with the number one pick, well

1935
01:59:56,680 --> 02:00:00,400
Speaker 4: aren't ready to compete for championships.

1936
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Speaker 3: Right, So there's that.

1937
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Speaker 4: But that's okay, it's fine, it's fine, you know what

1938
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Speaker 4: I mean, winning, But excitement comes with winning.

1939
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Speaker 3: It does. But I like for me the stage.

1940
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Speaker 2: I mean, Caitlyn Clark's first game in the w NBA

1941
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Speaker 2: next year, that's bigger than the last game.

1942
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's true, but you know what I mean, Kaitlyn

1943
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Speaker 4: Clark on a four and twenty eight team.

1944
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Speaker 3: Have the same buzz to it. Not ideal, not ideal.

1945
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Speaker 2: Yeah, hey, good, good luck with your with your game

1946
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Speaker 2: here for the rest of the night, buddy.

1947
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Speaker 3: I appreciate. We'll see you next week. I wish you

1948
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Speaker 3: really good luck. I hope you know since any sarcasm

1949
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Speaker 3: at all, play against Man, you know their next