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Speaker 2: How's your fourth of July holiday weekend going, Rich Arnberger?

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Speaker 1: Awesome? Awesome. We uh we got back from Oahu.

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Speaker 3: Uh we uh we took a quick vacation out there.

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Speaker 1: Actually wasn't quick.

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Speaker 3: It was a week long, but it flew by, never

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Speaker 3: enough time on Hawaii. And then had a day's worth

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Speaker 3: of radio work before going on break for Thursday and Friday,

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Speaker 3: and then just a lot of.

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Speaker 1: Barbecuing, made some ribs last.

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Speaker 3: Night, you know, just doing the stuff that the the

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Speaker 3: great Americans who forged this country when they declared their

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Speaker 3: independence from the British.

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Speaker 1: What they were aiming was for a giant.

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Speaker 3: Two hundred and seventy to two hundred and ninety pound

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Speaker 3: gorilla to be trapesing around his yard in his underwear

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Speaker 3: making ribs at ten o'clock at night.

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Speaker 2: It was the vision of our founding fathers. I'm sure.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure Ben and George and John and Thomas. They

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Speaker 2: were just thinking that is that is the future of

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Speaker 2: this country. If we have a vision of the future,

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Speaker 2: it's rich Ornberger in his underwear and join a good

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Speaker 2: barbecue outdoors. So I'm glad you did that. We had

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Speaker 2: a good time as well over the weeks. You know,

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Speaker 2: my birthday being on the fourth of July is a

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Speaker 2: little bizarre, and I was really thinking about this because

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Speaker 2: none of my kids were with me on the fourth.

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Speaker 2: It was crazy. You know, it gets that you have

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Speaker 2: grown kids, right, And so I knew Paris was out

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Speaker 2: of town. She was with her boyfriend up at Lake Tahoe.

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Speaker 2: By the way, you want to hear some little symmetry here.

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Speaker 2: So my thirty third birthday, July fourth, nineteen ninety one,

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Speaker 2: I was covering the second year of the celebrity golf

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Speaker 2: tournament they still have every single year up there a

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Speaker 2: Lake Tahoe. It started in nineteen ninety I was up

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Speaker 2: there in nineteen ninety one and it just happened to

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Speaker 2: fall on the fourth of July weekend, and so I

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Speaker 2: celebrated my thirty third birthday there. Thirty three years later,

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Speaker 2: on my sixty sixth birthday, my daughter is celebrating the

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Speaker 2: fourth of July in Lake Tahoe.

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Speaker 3: It is weird, how life, You know, the wheel just

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Speaker 3: keeps on turning.

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Speaker 2: Keeps turning and turning and turning.

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Speaker 3: Uh and then Junior pretty soon, or I would assume,

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Speaker 3: by the transitive properties of the universe, just like Bronni

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Speaker 3: James joining Lebron in the League and Paris, she will

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Speaker 3: soon be hosting here on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 1: She will be your teammate on the air.

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Speaker 2: Well, I want to know, you know, will my great

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Speaker 2: grandchild be celebrating in Tahoe in my ninety ninth parday,

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Speaker 2: you know, sort of little symmetry there. Anyway, it was.

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Speaker 2: It was a great time. Hope everyone's enjoying the extended

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Speaker 2: weekend for this Fourth of July holiday. All right, So

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Speaker 2: you mentioned Bronnie James. By the way, a couple of

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Speaker 2: notes on our show today, Our dear friend John Paul

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Speaker 2: Morosi is going to be joining us in our final hour,

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Speaker 2: so he'll be here in a couple of hours. But

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Speaker 2: before he comes on at one o'clock, West Coast time

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Speaker 2: four o'clock on the East coast. Michael Thompson is going

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Speaker 2: to be joining us on the air.

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Speaker 1: Love that.

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Speaker 2: So I tried to get Mike on the show yesterday.

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Speaker 2: He was grandfather sitting, as he told me yesterday, but

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Speaker 2: he will be coming on with us at the top

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Speaker 2: of our third and final hour today to share not

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Speaker 2: only his thoughts on how his son basically ditched him,

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Speaker 2: because remember we opened the show last week as I

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Speaker 2: was texting Michael Thompson and I was texting him saying,

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Speaker 2: And he texted me back, it looks good, real good.

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Speaker 2: And the next morning it was announced that Klay Thompson

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Speaker 2: this story, and I said, apparently your four time NBA

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, And he texted back, have me on the show, heartman.

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Speaker 2: Well he didn't. He wasn't happy with that text that

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Speaker 2: but where did the Lakers go from here? So we

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Speaker 2: got a lot of news to get to. And speaking

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Speaker 2: of the Lakers, yesterday was Brownie James' debut in the

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Speaker 2: Summer League. And I was reminded yesterday because I had

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Speaker 2: have thought he would have gone off for forty points

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Speaker 2: a triple double. I mean, the way the producers wrote

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Speaker 2: the script for Bronnie's debut was it was like pure fantasy.

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Speaker 2: I was like, what is this. We showed his first basket,

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Speaker 2: he had a steal. We showed that his first basket

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Speaker 2: He was two for nine shooting, and we showed that.

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Speaker 2: So if you only were to watch the highlights, I like, Wow,

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Speaker 2: this is Bronnie James is unbelievable. What we did, of

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Speaker 2: course show you was how he basically got crossed over

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Speaker 2: Well here was my problem with the introductory press conference

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Speaker 2: for him last week, for Rubbka to step up and

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Speaker 2: say that Browny earned his way into the NBA. Why

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Speaker 2: are we pretending here, Bob? Why can't you just say

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Speaker 2: something along these lines. We had an opportunity to make

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Speaker 2: history here. This may never happen again. We've had many

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Speaker 2: sons of former NBA players playing in the league. That's

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Speaker 2: very common, but we've never had them play at the

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Speaker 2: same time, much less on the same team. We use

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Speaker 2: the fifty fifth overall pick. Take a look at fifty

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Speaker 2: fifth overall picks in the history of the NBA draft.

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Speaker 2: You won't recognize most of the names. It's essentially a

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Speaker 2: throwaway pick. But we had an opportunity to make history,

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Speaker 2: and we're going to give him every opportunity to have

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Speaker 2: his dream come true. Is he getting favoritism unlike anyone else? Obviously,

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Speaker 2: nobody with his one year college resume would ever get

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Speaker 2: But because he's the son of Lebron James and has

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Speaker 2: a chance to make history with his father, we're gonna

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Speaker 2: give him that opportunity. Just say it, because that's exactly

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Speaker 2: what it is. Ronnie James has no business in the NBA.

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Speaker 2: Maybe down the road, he works hard, but I don't

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Speaker 2: see it. I mean, he's just not that kind of player,

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Speaker 2: and so just celebrate for what it is. It's a

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Speaker 2: think that's fine, but don't make it more than it is.

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Speaker 2: I mean, for him to say, well, he earned his

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Speaker 2: way here, he did not. You did this for one reason,

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Speaker 2: one reason only to make sure that to keep Lebron

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Speaker 2: happy and have Lebron re up and stay with the Lakers. Period.

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Speaker 3: I didn't mind anything about this story, to be perfectly honest,

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Speaker 3: until the introductory press conference and the things that new

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Speaker 3: head coach JJ Reddick, acting president of Basketball Operations, in

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Speaker 3: general manager Rob Polinka, and every buddy, even the reporters

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Speaker 3: I think, We're trying their best to ask questions, but

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Speaker 3: it felt all too lobbed up. Yeah, it felt it

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Speaker 3: felt like it felt like everybody in the room, including

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Speaker 3: Bronnie by the way, understands what happened here, and nobody

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Speaker 3: was willing to address that elephant in the room. So

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Speaker 3: tiptoeing around that elephant gave little room for irony like yeah,

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Speaker 3: or or humor, or an opportunity to get to know.

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Speaker 1: Him, because like, here's the reality. I mean, this is

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Speaker 3: Like I want to get to know Bronnie James if

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Speaker 3: he's going to be a part of the sports lexicon,

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Speaker 3: if he is going to be an important part of

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Speaker 3: the Lakers, even if it's only because he's Lebron's son,

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Speaker 3: by the way, not because of anything he'll actually.

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Speaker 1: Contribute on court.

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Speaker 3: I would have liked to feel like we had an

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Speaker 3: of what we saw was fake, every last word of it.

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Speaker 3: It was all smacking of inauthenticity.

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Speaker 1: So much everybody walked out of there with red cheeks.

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Speaker 3: It was terrible, lying and pantomiming the script. It was disgraceful.

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Speaker 3: It was ridiculous. It was like you said, Steve a

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Speaker 3: side show. And they could have done so much more.

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Speaker 3: They could have been authentic. They could have said, look,

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Speaker 3: lebron James only has so much time left in this league.

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Speaker 3: His one wish was that he get to play with

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Speaker 3: his son. A fifty fifth overall pick is not a

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Speaker 3: valuable pick. And this is no offense to Bronni James.

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Speaker 3: We think that one day we can groom him into

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Speaker 3: being a very competent, if not star basketball player at

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Speaker 3: this pick. So any questions you have that are going

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Speaker 1: The obvious, don't bother. That's the explanation.

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Speaker 3: Now, if you'd like to get to know Dalton connect

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Speaker 3: or Bronnie James or their personalities or where they came from,

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Speaker 1: But that's the reason why Bronnie James is here.

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Speaker 3: Next question, and and you know what, it's just addressing

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Speaker 3: what everybody already knows. Instead, you get JJ Reddick. He's

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Speaker 3: earned this bull looney, get out of here. Who are

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Speaker 1: Like? I mean, like, look, he earned it as much

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Speaker 2: Thank you, and to see you've hit it on the spot.

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Speaker 2: Let me remind you that. So he went to see

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Speaker 2: Sierra Canyon, right, it's a private school. A lot of

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Speaker 2: money funneled into this high school, right, And I have

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Speaker 2: a friend of mine that actually announced games. They actually

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Speaker 2: junior year of high school, I said, how good is

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Speaker 2: since he was essentially born. He goes, to be honest

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Speaker 2: to you, he's maybe maybe the fourth best player on

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Speaker 2: he made second team All League, he averaged fourteen points,

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Speaker 2: averages less than five points in the game, shooting thirty

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Speaker 2: five percent twenty six percent for three point land. And

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Speaker 2: then they're like, well, he was a consensus four star

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Speaker 2: recruit really based on what he can only beased on

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Speaker 2: one thing, his father's name. And by the way, I

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Speaker 2: don't want to make this a personal attack on Brownie James.

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Speaker 2: In many ways he's sort of an innocent bystander, although

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Speaker 2: now he's been well versed as you said at the

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Speaker 2: press conference, saying, you know all these different things, but

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Speaker 2: he doesn't know any differently. His whole life has been

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Speaker 2: a privilege. He's been able to get whatever he wants.

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Speaker 2: And we talk about nepotism a lot, and it affects

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Actually, Montes, you know what, we should have been

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Speaker 3: Other, but I would, But I mean, after all these years,

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Speaker 2: You have nice nice outside the box.

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Speaker 1: He doesn't even drink coffee though we have a wine

436
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Speaker 1: in it.

437
00:24:21,119 --> 00:24:23,399
Speaker 2: But you also brought me a bottle of wine. And

438
00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:26,320
Speaker 2: what is that posting? What is that post? What is

439
00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:28,800
Speaker 2: the food? Porthos?

440
00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:33,280
Speaker 6: I brought porthos so a little variety of things from

441
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Speaker 6: port like this is.

442
00:24:34,080 --> 00:24:37,040
Speaker 2: A commercial she went to Portos even brought in like

443
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Speaker 2: a Porto's fruit part with a candle for me to

444
00:24:40,640 --> 00:24:43,280
Speaker 2: blow out. Yeah, and I'm like, why didn't Rich ever

445
00:24:43,320 --> 00:24:43,879
Speaker 2: do this for me?

446
00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:47,360
Speaker 1: Yeah? Yeah, this is uh, you know the I'll tell

447
00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:51,640
Speaker 1: you right now. Your gift is in the mail. I

448
00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:55,119
Speaker 1: mean that. Yeah. And it's been and it's been, and

449
00:24:55,119 --> 00:24:57,560
Speaker 1: it's been. You have so many gifts and I don't know,

450
00:24:57,880 --> 00:25:00,880
Speaker 1: maybe it's your fault. Maybe you gave me a bad address.

451
00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:04,880
Speaker 6: All right, let's start in Major League Baseball Fellows, where

452
00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:08,280
Speaker 6: the Braves had an exciting second inning. Three homers were

453
00:25:08,400 --> 00:25:12,040
Speaker 6: hit Adam Duval, Jared Kellmick and Matt Olson, and they're

454
00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:14,879
Speaker 6: beating the Phillies five zero, bottom of the third inning.

455
00:25:14,920 --> 00:25:17,480
Speaker 6: The Cardinals in the Nationals are tied it to a piece.

456
00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:20,320
Speaker 6: Top of the fourth the Tigers of score. They're up

457
00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:22,119
Speaker 6: on the Reds one zero. They're about to start the

458
00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:24,480
Speaker 6: bottom of the fourth inning and the Giants have added

459
00:25:24,520 --> 00:25:27,600
Speaker 6: another run. They're beating the Guardians three zero, bottom of

460
00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:31,080
Speaker 6: the fourth inning as well. In the WNBA, the sun

461
00:25:31,080 --> 00:25:33,520
Speaker 6: are on top of the Dream fifty seven to forty three,

462
00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:36,439
Speaker 6: with about two minutes to go in the third quarter.

463
00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:39,480
Speaker 6: At Wimbledon, we're still waiting for Coco Goff to start

464
00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:40,400
Speaker 6: her fourth round match.

465
00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:41,760
Speaker 2: It keeps getting pushed back.

466
00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:45,320
Speaker 6: She is next on the main what do we call

467
00:25:45,359 --> 00:25:47,480
Speaker 6: that core in the main court. They're waiting for this

468
00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:49,080
Speaker 6: one to wrap up, so she still has to play

469
00:25:49,119 --> 00:25:52,439
Speaker 6: her fourth center court center corps. I was like the

470
00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:55,119
Speaker 6: main one, what do we call this this center court?

471
00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:58,919
Speaker 6: American twelve seed Madison Keys she had to retire in

472
00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:01,080
Speaker 6: the third set of her fourth thrond match due to

473
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Speaker 6: a leg injury. On the men's side. Number one seed

474
00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:07,480
Speaker 6: Genics Sinner. He's headed to the quarterfinals, he defeated American

475
00:26:07,560 --> 00:26:10,520
Speaker 6: in fourteen seed Ben Shelton in straight sets. Cinner is

476
00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:13,399
Speaker 6: now going to face number five seed Danil Medvedev in

477
00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:17,040
Speaker 6: the quarterfinals and third seed Carlos Soukrass. He's also headed

478
00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:20,240
Speaker 6: to his ninth major quarterfinals appearance.

479
00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:23,359
Speaker 2: Back to you, guys, Hi, mine's a great stuff, and again,

480
00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:26,760
Speaker 2: thank you so much for you're very very generous as

481
00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:28,600
Speaker 2: happy birthday. Thank you very much.

482
00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:32,160
Speaker 3: Now I feel like that, like it's starting to turn.

483
00:26:32,200 --> 00:26:35,600
Speaker 3: Instead of feeling like so thankful that Monzi takes such

484
00:26:35,640 --> 00:26:37,439
Speaker 3: good care of you, now I'm starting to feel like

485
00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:39,720
Speaker 3: she's the student at the end of the class day

486
00:26:39,760 --> 00:26:41,840
Speaker 3: that says, hey, do we have homework and you're like,

487
00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:44,800
Speaker 3: it's Friday, don't ask now, don't what are you doing?

488
00:26:45,480 --> 00:26:48,399
Speaker 3: And like putting apples on the teacher's desk, making us

489
00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:50,280
Speaker 3: all look back, like what are you doing?

490
00:26:50,400 --> 00:26:52,440
Speaker 2: Mons?

491
00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:50,800
Speaker 7: Now?

492
00:26:52,600 --> 00:26:55,480
Speaker 2: Will you will understand it?

493
00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:56,399
Speaker 1: We'll start to expect this.

494
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Speaker 2: Yeah, go Hopefully Moncey's not listening right now. You do

495
00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:02,639
Speaker 2: not ever get me, because if you get me and

496
00:27:02,640 --> 00:27:05,239
Speaker 2: then I got to get you senter you know, you

497
00:27:05,280 --> 00:27:07,879
Speaker 2: know what, and then that's a vicious cycle, you know,

498
00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:11,160
Speaker 2: And then then you have to sort of one up.

499
00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:12,520
Speaker 2: Oh the pressure.

500
00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:15,720
Speaker 6: My birth is in January, January, January.

501
00:27:15,760 --> 00:27:18,520
Speaker 3: We need to we need to throw her like I mean, well,

502
00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:20,560
Speaker 3: we definitely need to do something for her.

503
00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:22,880
Speaker 2: You just don't do anything for me. We'll do something for.

504
00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:25,879
Speaker 3: Her, Okay, yeah, yeah, actually yeah, well we'll multiply the

505
00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:28,920
Speaker 3: efforts will make it so uncomfortable, like she'll walk out

506
00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:30,320
Speaker 3: and she'll be like a Honda Civic.

507
00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:31,800
Speaker 1: When did you guys buy me a car?

508
00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:36,240
Speaker 2: Can I get completely off the rails here with a story,

509
00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:38,880
Speaker 2: because I get sometimes I get tired of this whole

510
00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:43,480
Speaker 2: Lakers stuff and everything sometimes. Joey Bosa, did you see

511
00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:44,080
Speaker 2: this story?

512
00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:47,880
Speaker 1: I have missed any Charger stories. What's going on?

513
00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:53,160
Speaker 2: So Joey Bosa was upset with a report that said

514
00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:58,399
Speaker 2: that the food that the Chargers serve their players, like

515
00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:01,959
Speaker 2: in house food, is the worst in the NFL. They

516
00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:08,359
Speaker 2: gave him an f and he he came out and said,

517
00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:10,919
Speaker 2: first of all, I usually bring my own food.

518
00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:16,000
Speaker 1: Because he this.

519
00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:18,159
Speaker 2: I loved how he said this. He goes, look, you know,

520
00:28:18,320 --> 00:28:20,520
Speaker 2: I have a nutrition is you know, and so I

521
00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:22,879
Speaker 2: have a very specific diet and everything else. So I

522
00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:26,320
Speaker 2: normally bring my own food. But what I do have

523
00:28:26,400 --> 00:28:29,080
Speaker 2: to eat here, Uh, it's.

524
00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:31,240
Speaker 1: Not Oh my god.

525
00:28:31,520 --> 00:28:34,520
Speaker 2: And of course really there's you know how it is.

526
00:28:34,720 --> 00:28:38,240
Speaker 2: You know, like when you're a kid, whether you whether

527
00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:40,360
Speaker 2: you know or you're not quite sure how good a

528
00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:42,600
Speaker 2: cook made your mom or dad is okay, you have

529
00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:43,760
Speaker 2: nothing to compare it to.

530
00:28:44,280 --> 00:28:48,320
Speaker 3: Buddy, I have this situation with my mom, a slight detour.

531
00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:53,680
Speaker 3: I thought in my life, I thought steak was not good.

532
00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:56,240
Speaker 3: I thought it was I thought it was something.

533
00:28:55,920 --> 00:28:57,440
Speaker 2: That that was me and chicken.

534
00:28:57,640 --> 00:29:00,480
Speaker 3: Yeah, I thought you were forced to eat steak. I

535
00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:03,600
Speaker 3: thought everybody in the world who talked about, oh my gosh,

536
00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:05,360
Speaker 3: I want a grill a steak, I'd be like, oh,

537
00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:06,920
Speaker 3: you're insane, You're insane.

538
00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:08,040
Speaker 1: Why would you ever want to do that?

539
00:29:08,560 --> 00:29:12,239
Speaker 3: And then one day my parents, because they realized they

540
00:29:12,280 --> 00:29:14,840
Speaker 3: had never taken us to a fancy dinner, not once,

541
00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:17,840
Speaker 3: not ever, right, you know, if we went out, it

542
00:29:17,960 --> 00:29:19,520
Speaker 3: was like, you know, we're gonna throw these kids in

543
00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:21,080
Speaker 3: the car and we're gonna bring them to a pizza

544
00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:25,440
Speaker 3: hut because they are feral. They are animals, so that's

545
00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:28,240
Speaker 3: the only place we could trust them, you know, or

546
00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:30,920
Speaker 3: a diner, local diner, in New York, grown up on

547
00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:35,240
Speaker 3: Long Island. So they bring us to a I think

548
00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:37,360
Speaker 3: it was a Morton steakhouse. It was one of the

549
00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:40,600
Speaker 3: nice Ruth Chris. It was Ruth Chris, you know, one

550
00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:43,440
Speaker 3: of the nicer chain restaurants. And we sit down and

551
00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:45,760
Speaker 3: we have we have a meal, and I have no

552
00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:47,480
Speaker 3: idea how to order at a place like this. So

553
00:29:47,520 --> 00:29:51,360
Speaker 3: my dad orders filet mignon and I say what kind

554
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:52,800
Speaker 3: of steak is I was like, I don't know.

555
00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:55,640
Speaker 1: And he's like, just order that, order whatever you want.

556
00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:57,040
Speaker 3: He was like, you could get a t bone, you

557
00:29:57,040 --> 00:29:59,000
Speaker 3: could get a surline, you could get a you know,

558
00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:00,960
Speaker 3: a New York strip, you could get a flat. So

559
00:30:01,040 --> 00:30:04,760
Speaker 3: I and matter's where I get a file a and Buddy,

560
00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:08,640
Speaker 3: when I cut into this steak, it like sang to me.

561
00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:11,360
Speaker 3: It was like hearing music for the first time. It

562
00:30:11,480 --> 00:30:14,840
Speaker 3: was like smelling Wow. I was like, are you kidding me?

563
00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:17,880
Speaker 3: This is the way steak is supposed to taste. I

564
00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:20,680
Speaker 3: from that point forward, I never said it to her

565
00:30:20,760 --> 00:30:24,840
Speaker 3: directly head on, but it was the moment where I realized, like, oh,

566
00:30:24,960 --> 00:30:26,760
Speaker 3: my mom can't cook, but she.

567
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Speaker 2: Just she and my mom was the exact same way

568
00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:32,720
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, my mom had many talents, but

569
00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:35,920
Speaker 2: she was not a happy cook. It wasn't something was

570
00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:38,960
Speaker 2: occasionally she had some Hungarian dishes, you know, that she

571
00:30:39,000 --> 00:30:40,880
Speaker 2: could put together. I want to read this. So this

572
00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:45,440
Speaker 2: was the NFL Players Association that had a survey about

573
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Speaker 2: players thoughts about teams accommodations, and the Chargers got an

574
00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:54,920
Speaker 2: F grade for food and cafeteria. Now, Joey Bossas said this,

575
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Speaker 2: I'll eat here sometimes, I'm quote, I'll eat here sometimes

576
00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:05,400
Speaker 2: it may not be the best setup, but they'll prepare

577
00:31:05,840 --> 00:31:09,240
Speaker 2: you food that's plenty good. They work harder than literally

578
00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:12,520
Speaker 2: anybody in the entire facility, so they may not have

579
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:15,760
Speaker 2: the best means back there, but they're freaking working their

580
00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:19,480
Speaker 2: butts off. That survey is not cool, man, How was

581
00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:24,520
Speaker 2: it exactly? I mean, how was the food? Now, you've

582
00:31:24,600 --> 00:31:29,080
Speaker 2: sampled food for three NFL franchises as a player with

583
00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:32,000
Speaker 2: the New England Patriots, the Arizona Cardinals, and the then

584
00:31:32,240 --> 00:31:35,880
Speaker 2: San Diego Chargers. Was there any difference in the food

585
00:31:36,000 --> 00:31:36,760
Speaker 2: on the premises?

586
00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:40,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, very much so. Yeah.

587
00:31:40,680 --> 00:31:44,440
Speaker 3: Now, granted this, my career spanned from two thousand and

588
00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:49,120
Speaker 3: nine till twenty fourteen, so a lot has changed a lot,

589
00:31:49,360 --> 00:31:51,920
Speaker 3: definitely could have changed over the course of that time.

590
00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:56,000
Speaker 3: So I'm giving you a pie slice from yester year. Yeah,

591
00:31:56,040 --> 00:31:58,719
Speaker 3: in terms of how the food services and the quality

592
00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:02,440
Speaker 3: of the food was so in New England it was

593
00:32:02,480 --> 00:32:05,800
Speaker 3: the best set up by far. They had a full

594
00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:10,040
Speaker 3: kitchen staff. They set out you know, chafing dishes, you

595
00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:12,640
Speaker 3: know those covered trays that you'd see, had a buffet

596
00:32:12,680 --> 00:32:14,560
Speaker 3: where you open it up and you know they have

597
00:32:14,640 --> 00:32:16,920
Speaker 3: the food items in there. They had a cold bar

598
00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:21,200
Speaker 3: for salad, for fruit, always fully stocked, and then three

599
00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:23,719
Speaker 3: meals were served a deal breakfast a day.

600
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Speaker 2: And the quality of the food.

601
00:32:25,560 --> 00:32:27,840
Speaker 3: The quality of food was good quality food. I mean

602
00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:32,360
Speaker 3: better some days, worse others. Overall, I would say it

603
00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:35,240
Speaker 3: was it was a good too great.

604
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:38,560
Speaker 1: At times I would say, is the standard.

605
00:32:38,280 --> 00:32:41,400
Speaker 3: Like the average they were say they were, you know,

606
00:32:41,480 --> 00:32:44,040
Speaker 3: like a two to eighty hitter, like they were doing.

607
00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:46,000
Speaker 3: They were doing the job, you know what I mean.

608
00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:50,200
Speaker 3: They were doing the job. Now I moved on to Arizona.

609
00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:53,760
Speaker 3: I'll get back to Arizona in a second. When I

610
00:32:53,800 --> 00:32:56,600
Speaker 3: went to the Chargers, they had the most unique of

611
00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:57,600
Speaker 3: the three setups.

612
00:32:58,400 --> 00:33:00,880
Speaker 1: So the Chargers facility in San Diego.

613
00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:05,160
Speaker 3: Before they moved to Los Angeles, they had a basketball

614
00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:09,120
Speaker 3: court on the premises that they they didn't really love

615
00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:12,680
Speaker 3: that players were playing pickup games because they're worried about injury.

616
00:33:13,240 --> 00:33:16,840
Speaker 3: And this was the place where if they had received

617
00:33:16,960 --> 00:33:21,280
Speaker 3: money from the city government to build, they probably would

618
00:33:21,280 --> 00:33:25,240
Speaker 3: have built a permanent cafeteria on this area of the property,

619
00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:29,080
Speaker 3: but they never got that money, so instead they erected

620
00:33:29,240 --> 00:33:30,920
Speaker 3: a permanent catering tent.

621
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Speaker 1: I kid you not. We ate in a tent every.

622
00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:38,080
Speaker 3: Single day that they air conditioned with portable air conditioners,

623
00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:42,440
Speaker 3: and then they heated with portable heaters.

624
00:33:41,560 --> 00:33:42,760
Speaker 1: Depending on the season.

625
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:46,920
Speaker 3: And we were served one to two meals a day

626
00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:50,160
Speaker 3: and the food was okay to good. You know, some

627
00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:52,680
Speaker 3: days were some days better, you know. So say they

628
00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:55,240
Speaker 3: were like, you know, right at the Mendoza line in

629
00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:58,040
Speaker 3: terms of baseball, you know, they were hitting like maybe two.

630
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Speaker 1: Sixty two fifty.

631
00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:04,360
Speaker 2: Okay, it sounds like sort of high end leftovers.

632
00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:08,200
Speaker 1: That's actually that seems like that's yeah.

633
00:34:08,640 --> 00:34:11,400
Speaker 3: They had an omelet bar, you know, but occasionally the

634
00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:15,960
Speaker 3: guy was you know, you know, you see me all right.

635
00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:20,799
Speaker 3: Arizona had the most interesting situation of the three of them.

636
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:23,799
Speaker 3: So when I was with the Cardinals, they had this

637
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:28,160
Speaker 3: little they had this little corner, and then they didn't

638
00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:31,360
Speaker 3: have enough tables to seat everybody, so most people ate

639
00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:32,440
Speaker 3: in front of their lockers.

640
00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:34,680
Speaker 1: They had this little corner that almost.

641
00:34:34,320 --> 00:34:38,440
Speaker 3: Looked like an area where in a corporate office building

642
00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:41,400
Speaker 3: it would be like where they would put a coffee

643
00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:45,279
Speaker 3: nook where they set up chafing dishes. And I kid

644
00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:49,240
Speaker 3: you not, every single day the same exact food was served.

645
00:34:49,640 --> 00:34:54,480
Speaker 3: We had eggs and machaka, which is a a like

646
00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:58,000
Speaker 3: a Mexican breakfast meal, and you could make burritos out

647
00:34:58,000 --> 00:34:58,239
Speaker 3: of it.

648
00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:00,399
Speaker 1: And then for lunch it was like you.

649
00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:04,279
Speaker 3: Know, sometimes it varied, but it was usually like sandwiches

650
00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:08,360
Speaker 3: or some sort of like faheita thing, you know, also

651
00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:11,680
Speaker 3: that you could stuff inside of burritos. It was it

652
00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:17,239
Speaker 3: was the like, by far the lowest quality and the

653
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Speaker 3: lowest effort of the three. And the cafeteria staff was

654
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Speaker 3: sometimes harangued by you know, players or coaches like and

655
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Speaker 3: I'd be.

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Speaker 1: Like, don't don't yell at these people.

657
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, these people, they're they're not responsible for this.

658
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Speaker 2: This is this is seeking out the Midwell family exactly exactly.

659
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Speaker 1: So anyways, that that was my experience.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, the glowing Yelp review that Joey Bosa gave

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Speaker 3: the Chargers. Hey, listen, I bring my own food, but

662
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Speaker 3: sometimes when I do eat here, it's okay, it was

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Speaker 3: not real.

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Speaker 1: I read this.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, you're not doing them any favors, no at

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Speaker 2: all all. Right, coming up on the other side, I

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00:35:57,520 --> 00:35:59,960
Speaker 2: want to get to another NFL story that's sort of

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Speaker 2: emerged this week and disappeared almost as quickly as it appeared,

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Speaker 2: and I'm trying to figure out why. We'll explain. This

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Speaker 2: is Fox Sports Sunday, Steve Harvey, Rich Hornberger here, Fox

671
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Speaker 2: Sports Sunday. We are live from the Tyraq dot Com studios.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if you saw this. I'm sure you

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Speaker 2: did so. John Gruden essentially was expelled from the NFL

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Speaker 2: because of the leaking of some email exchanges he made

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Speaker 2: when working with ESPN to his old buddy Bruce Allen,

676
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Speaker 2: who was then working for the then washing Redskins, and

677
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Speaker 2: once these were released during the season, no less as

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Speaker 2: he's coaching the Oakland Raiders or the Vegas Raiders, I

679
00:36:57,160 --> 00:37:04,120
Speaker 2: guess they're Oakland Raiders, Vegas Raiders whatever. He was forced

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Speaker 2: to resign. Obviously the nature of these emails was such

681
00:37:09,239 --> 00:37:11,359
Speaker 2: that there was no way he could stay on the job.

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Speaker 2: But he suddenly realized, wow, like, not only I've had

683
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Speaker 2: a job, I'm like done. I've gone from the golden

684
00:37:21,719 --> 00:37:26,799
Speaker 2: boy of the NFL to completely erased. I have been canceled.

685
00:37:27,520 --> 00:37:31,520
Speaker 2: So he wanted to file a lawsuit because his suspicion is,

686
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Speaker 2: this was Roger Gadell on Roger Goodell. How else are

687
00:37:36,400 --> 00:37:38,719
Speaker 2: the Wall Street Journal in New York Times going to

688
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:42,440
Speaker 2: get the content of these emails when they are investigating

689
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Speaker 2: an organization for wrongdoing. I wouldn't even a member of

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Speaker 2: the organization. I'm having some kind of private emails with

691
00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:52,080
Speaker 2: a buddy of mine saying some very inappropriate things, not thinking,

692
00:37:52,120 --> 00:37:55,360
Speaker 2: of course, that they would eventually get leaked. Who leaked

693
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Speaker 2: him and he lost his case. It just amazing to me.

694
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Speaker 2: And by the way, John Gruden is no angel. Believe me.

695
00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:06,799
Speaker 2: I heard plenty of stories about John Gruden over the

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Speaker 2: years and the kind of person he was, and you know,

697
00:38:09,719 --> 00:38:13,080
Speaker 2: his chucky persona and everything else, maybe a little different

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00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:15,600
Speaker 2: than what's going behind the scenes. But it's just I

699
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Speaker 2: don't know if we've ever seen anything quite to this

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Speaker 2: extent about a prominent name, a Super Bowl winning coach,

701
00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:27,200
Speaker 2: a star and television commentator in prime time for more

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Speaker 2: than a decade get erased like John Gruden has gotten

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Speaker 2: a rased by the NFL.

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Speaker 1: Well, here's the thing.

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Speaker 3: If it was a malicious attempt to take him down

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Speaker 3: using obviously some really whoo man I look, I mean,

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Speaker 3: you know, to put it plainly, to have somebody's personal

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00:38:56,360 --> 00:39:03,000
Speaker 3: emails be released during the time those emails were released. Also,

709
00:39:03,520 --> 00:39:09,040
Speaker 3: remember like our country goes through phases where race relations

710
00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:13,600
Speaker 3: bubble to the surface of the zeitgeist more so than others.

711
00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:17,200
Speaker 3: And during that time also you have to remember race

712
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Speaker 3: relations were at the tip of everybody's tongues.

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Speaker 1: And look, it always is.

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00:39:23,440 --> 00:39:26,880
Speaker 3: It's burning in the background always and it can bubble

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Speaker 3: to the surface, but at that time it was a

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00:39:29,040 --> 00:39:33,160
Speaker 3: surface level you know, topic point or topic of conversation.

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00:39:34,280 --> 00:39:37,560
Speaker 3: And boy, it was just it was terrible timing for

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Speaker 3: John Gruden. And also he provided the rope to hang himself,

719
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Speaker 3: you know, just having words like that in writing exchanged

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Speaker 3: with anybody, you know, So it was it was a

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Speaker 3: disaster for him personally. It was a disaster obviously for

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Speaker 3: him professionally, and if this was malicious and this was

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Speaker 3: a takedown, there's some legal grounds for him to pursue.

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Speaker 2: Well, he tried to pursue him, and it got shot

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Speaker 2: down by the Supreme Court in the state of Nevada.

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Speaker 2: And then that's the whole point. In other words, he

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Speaker 2: was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. There

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Speaker 2: were hundreds of thousands of emails that they were investigating

729
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Speaker 2: to try to uncover the wrongdoings of that organization, and

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Speaker 2: the only ones that were leaked to The New York

731
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Speaker 2: Times and the Wall Street Journal were my private email

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Speaker 2: exchanges of Bruce Allen that had nothing to do with

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Speaker 2: their organization. It just seemed really really strange. All right,

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Speaker 2: Coming up on the other side, what do we make

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Speaker 2: more of what's happened around the National Basketball Association? This

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Speaker 2: So we're here in the month of July rich and

743
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Speaker 2: one of the highlights of this month will be the

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00:41:07,719 --> 00:41:11,239
Speaker 2: opening of the Olympic Games, which is coming up on

745
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Speaker 2: July twenty six in Paris. If you don't remember our

746
00:41:15,719 --> 00:41:18,280
Speaker 2: last Summer Games, they were delayed by a year because

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Speaker 2: of the COVID outbreak in twenty twenty. The twenty twenty

748
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Speaker 2: Games actually were competed in Tokyo in twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 2: so only I have a three year layoffs since our

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Speaker 2: last Summer games. Before I want to get into some

751
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Speaker 2: of this basketball news related to the Summer Games, have

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Speaker 2: you ever really been like an Olympic Games must watch person.

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Speaker 1: Only at times?

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Speaker 3: And I'll tell you the times where the Olympics have

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Speaker 3: really captivated me. I remember, oddly enough, my mom was

756
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Speaker 3: really into some of the figure skaters, so I remember

757
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Speaker 3: I can't remember if it was Scott Hamilton or maybe

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Speaker 3: it was Nancy Kerrigan, or you know, like when this

759
00:42:06,080 --> 00:42:10,520
Speaker 3: when I was real little Michael Phelps at for a

760
00:42:10,560 --> 00:42:14,680
Speaker 3: time obviously captivated all of us needed to watch that,

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Speaker 3: and then as a leftover because there was so much

762
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Speaker 3: interest in swimming at the Summer Games, even when Michael

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00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:26,520
Speaker 3: Phelps was phasing out Ryan Locktey And yeah, I mean

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Speaker 3: at times I would say like to me, to me,

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Speaker 3: the Olympics very similar to other fringe sports. When there's

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Speaker 3: a superstar, I become interested. Like, am I a huge

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00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:42,040
Speaker 3: UFC or Mixed Martial arts fan? No, I'm not a

768
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Speaker 3: huge fan. I pay attention to it. I like to

769
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Speaker 3: know who's you know, the stars of the game. But

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Speaker 3: when there's a breakout star like a Connor McGregor, when

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Speaker 3: there's a breakout star like a Ronda Rousey, it has

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Speaker 3: my interest.

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Speaker 1: Am I a cycling fan?

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Speaker 3: No, But when there's a breakout star and he happens

775
00:43:00,360 --> 00:43:04,520
Speaker 3: to be an American like Lance Armstrong, I'm paying attention.

776
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:07,879
Speaker 3: So the Olympics fall into that category. To me, it's

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Speaker 3: a fringe sport that when there's a superstar, I pay attention.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you never know when a star is going to

779
00:43:14,080 --> 00:43:18,759
Speaker 2: emerge from the Olympic Games Women's gymnastics. Obviously, he's had

780
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Speaker 2: a number of stars emerge under the Olympic banner, so

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00:43:23,320 --> 00:43:25,799
Speaker 2: it happens all the time. Now as far as Team

782
00:43:25,960 --> 00:43:31,319
Speaker 2: usay on the men's side, for basketball. No strangers here.

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00:43:31,520 --> 00:43:33,799
Speaker 2: I mean, this is what's interesting about the makeup of

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Speaker 2: this year's Olympic team. A couple of things. First of all,

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Speaker 2: Steph Curry is playing in his first Olympics. You're like what,

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00:43:44,840 --> 00:43:47,840
Speaker 2: It's like, Yeah, this is the first time that Steph

787
00:43:47,880 --> 00:43:52,319
Speaker 2: Curry will be playing in the Olympics. Lebron James and

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00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:57,040
Speaker 2: Anthony Davis have not played on the Olympic team since

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Speaker 2: twenty twelve. It's like, Wow, how's that happen? Right? This

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00:44:04,800 --> 00:44:08,240
Speaker 2: United States Olympic team. I mean, it's Devin Booker, Steph Curry,

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Speaker 2: Anthony Edwards, Tyrese Halliburton, Drew Holliday, Kevin Durant, Lebron James,

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Speaker 2: Kawhi Leonard, Jason Tatum, Anthony Davis, bam Adebayo, and Joelle Embiid. Like,

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Speaker 2: how you gonna beat that team?

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Speaker 1: Right?

795
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Speaker 2: By the way, it is the oldest by a good margin,

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Speaker 2: Olympic men's basketball team from the United States. Ever, it

797
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Speaker 2: is an older team. But I was my thought about

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Speaker 2: this because I remember the Dream Team very well. Obviously

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Speaker 2: in nineteen ninety two, that guy was already doing my

800
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Speaker 2: radio show, and it was such a story rich because

801
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Speaker 2: up until that time we have been so dominant in basketball.

802
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Speaker 2: There was a controversial, very controversial loss of the Soviet

803
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Speaker 2: Union in nineteen seventy two of the gold medal game.

804
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Speaker 2: But in eighty eight, using our college guys, we lost

805
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Speaker 2: and it didn't sit well. And so while the other

806
00:44:59,320 --> 00:45:04,279
Speaker 2: countries were obviously professionalizing their Olympic athletes, it was high

807
00:45:04,320 --> 00:45:07,040
Speaker 2: time for the United States to join the club. And

808
00:45:07,080 --> 00:45:10,040
Speaker 2: we paraded out, you know, the most legendary basketball team

809
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Speaker 2: of all time, and just ran over everybody. Then remember,

810
00:45:13,560 --> 00:45:18,760
Speaker 2: of course Monogenobili his country beat out our US Olympic team,

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Speaker 2: and suddenly Kobe Bryant showed him and said, okay, we

812
00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:26,680
Speaker 2: can't have that happen again, right, we can't have our

813
00:45:26,840 --> 00:45:31,200
Speaker 2: NBA stars lose at the Olympics. So I always but

814
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Speaker 2: when I'm looking at this Olympic team and I'm thinking

815
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Speaker 2: to myself, like if they don't win the gold medal,

816
00:45:40,200 --> 00:45:43,600
Speaker 2: and again, the internationals are very, very different. It's not

817
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Speaker 2: the same style of play you have in the NBA.

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Speaker 2: And the players that have been in the Olympics will acknowledge,

819
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Speaker 2: so it's a different game. But for instance, Wemby, he's

820
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Speaker 2: going to be in the Olympics.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah.

822
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Speaker 2: One guy that won't be is Luca. Was sort of

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00:45:56,320 --> 00:46:00,120
Speaker 2: elimination game between Greece and you know was Serbia and

824
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Speaker 2: Luca's out and Giannis is in. But this is a

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00:46:05,320 --> 00:46:07,160
Speaker 2: lose lose in a lot of ways. Like if the

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Speaker 2: United States wins the gold it's a big yawn. Of

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Speaker 2: course he win the gold medal, why wouldn't you, But

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Speaker 2: if they lose, Wow, I don't know. It just it's

829
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Speaker 2: hard for me thinking back of how the whole world

830
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Speaker 2: was watching that first Dream team to where we are

831
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Speaker 2: now with Olympic men's basketball. It just I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I am I driven to watch any of these games,

833
00:46:33,360 --> 00:46:36,160
Speaker 2: not really, but it'll be awfully big news if the

834
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Speaker 2: US goes down in flames. Not that I'm rooting for

835
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Speaker 2: that because I'm always pro United States, but it's almost

836
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Speaker 2: like they have everything to lose and almost nothing to gain.

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Speaker 3: I'll say this, the Olympics are a tremendous marketing tool.

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00:46:52,800 --> 00:46:57,160
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, So when when we're talking about, for example,

839
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Speaker 3: Lebron James, Lebron James, if there's one thing he does

840
00:47:01,280 --> 00:47:06,560
Speaker 3: better than any NBA player ever of all time, and

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00:47:06,680 --> 00:47:08,680
Speaker 3: I know there's a lot of people who want to say,

842
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Speaker 3: you know, is it Jordan or Lebron as the best

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Speaker 3: player on the planet, and that debate, that debate can

844
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Speaker 3: rage on. I'm talking strictly about marketing. No player has

845
00:47:23,320 --> 00:47:27,319
Speaker 3: ever marketed himself better than Lebron James. And I think

846
00:47:27,360 --> 00:47:31,960
Speaker 3: he has a specific awareness of when there are ebb

847
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Speaker 3: times with his profile and there are flow times, And

848
00:47:36,800 --> 00:47:40,440
Speaker 3: right now his profile is ebbed a little bit. What

849
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Speaker 3: I mean by that is, you know, when you're not

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00:47:42,840 --> 00:47:45,799
Speaker 3: making a deep run in the playoffs, you know, when

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00:47:45,840 --> 00:47:49,640
Speaker 3: you're not on the court having the level of success

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00:47:49,719 --> 00:47:53,280
Speaker 3: that people are expecting of you, all of a sudden,

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00:47:53,360 --> 00:47:55,920
Speaker 3: you know, don't get me wrong, He's made plenty of headlines.

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Speaker 3: A lot of them, you know, have been more like

855
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Speaker 3: master puppeteer. You know, it hasn't been directly about Lebron James.

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00:48:03,160 --> 00:48:06,800
Speaker 3: It's been more like, behind the scenes, Lebron's running the Lakers.

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00:48:07,239 --> 00:48:10,080
Speaker 3: JJ Reddick has been getting the headlines, but as a

858
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Speaker 3: part of those articles, Lebron James is his podcast partner.

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00:48:14,320 --> 00:48:17,920
Speaker 3: You know, his son Bronni is getting headlines as a

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Speaker 3: second round draft pick to the Lakers, and obviously who's

861
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Speaker 3: Bronni's dad?

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Speaker 1: It's Lebron James.

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Speaker 3: So he is a part of these articles. He's a

864
00:48:27,239 --> 00:48:29,839
Speaker 3: part of the zeitgeist. He's a part of the conversation,

865
00:48:30,000 --> 00:48:34,640
Speaker 3: but he's not headline material. But if he is a

866
00:48:34,840 --> 00:48:38,759
Speaker 3: member of the US Olympic men's basketball team and they

867
00:48:38,800 --> 00:48:40,719
Speaker 3: go out and do what they should do, which is

868
00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:46,000
Speaker 3: dominate the field in the international game, well then he's

869
00:48:46,040 --> 00:48:49,759
Speaker 3: going to headline the Olympics along with Steph Curry, along

870
00:48:49,800 --> 00:48:53,080
Speaker 3: with Anthony Davis, along with Anthony Edwards, along with This

871
00:48:53,160 --> 00:48:57,040
Speaker 3: team is stacked. It's almost impossible for them to lose.

872
00:48:57,360 --> 00:49:00,160
Speaker 3: And so I think he wanted to attach himself to

873
00:49:00,239 --> 00:49:04,680
Speaker 3: success on the basketball court again because the last two

874
00:49:04,719 --> 00:49:07,760
Speaker 3: seasons with the Lakers, one has ended in a suite

875
00:49:07,880 --> 00:49:10,680
Speaker 3: to Denver in the Western Conference finals and the next

876
00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:14,680
Speaker 3: was an early round bounce against the same team in

877
00:49:15,040 --> 00:49:18,839
Speaker 3: the Western Conference playoffs. So I think he wanted to

878
00:49:19,160 --> 00:49:24,160
Speaker 3: I think he wants another positive headline back in the

879
00:49:24,320 --> 00:49:29,960
Speaker 3: in the conversation for him and Team Lebron heading into.

880
00:49:29,719 --> 00:49:30,880
Speaker 1: The next basketball season.

881
00:49:31,040 --> 00:49:31,239
Speaker 2: Yeah.

882
00:49:31,360 --> 00:49:32,120
Speaker 1: I just.

883
00:49:33,520 --> 00:49:41,719
Speaker 2: In sports like track and field, swimming, gymnastics, winning an

884
00:49:41,760 --> 00:49:44,400
Speaker 2: Olympic gold medal is the ultimate in your sport.

885
00:49:44,920 --> 00:49:46,359
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, winning.

886
00:49:46,040 --> 00:49:49,680
Speaker 2: An Olympic gold medal in basketball is not the ultimate

887
00:49:49,719 --> 00:49:52,560
Speaker 2: for an NBA player, if it, Well, you're for a

888
00:49:52,840 --> 00:49:55,600
Speaker 2: golfer to win the Olympic gold medal as opposed to

889
00:49:55,600 --> 00:49:58,600
Speaker 2: winning a major golf championship or in tennis, winning a

890
00:49:58,640 --> 00:50:02,280
Speaker 2: gold medal or winning a Grand Slam tourna agreed, agreed,

891
00:50:02,520 --> 00:50:05,360
Speaker 2: It's it's just not And this this sort of frustrate

892
00:50:05,400 --> 00:50:10,160
Speaker 2: when I think Olympics, and I was an Olympics fanatic

893
00:50:10,200 --> 00:50:14,160
Speaker 2: as a kid. Uh, it's about track and field. Swimming

894
00:50:14,200 --> 00:50:16,160
Speaker 2: obviously a big part of it. I remember when Mark

895
00:50:16,200 --> 00:50:18,640
Speaker 2: Spitz broke through and won seven gold medals, seven world

896
00:50:18,719 --> 00:50:22,000
Speaker 2: records in nineteen seventy two. It's true nastics, Track and

897
00:50:22,040 --> 00:50:25,160
Speaker 2: field to me, is is the Olympics.

898
00:50:25,280 --> 00:50:29,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, diving, swimming, track and field. That's the only you know,

899
00:50:30,280 --> 00:50:36,759
Speaker 3: throwing sports, sprinting, long races, you know, pool races, diving competition,

900
00:50:36,840 --> 00:50:40,279
Speaker 3: all that stuff that I completely agree with you. I

901
00:50:40,280 --> 00:50:44,560
Speaker 3: think the Olympics. Look again, it's a great marketing tool

902
00:50:44,640 --> 00:50:47,839
Speaker 3: and the IOC knows this as well, and so as

903
00:50:47,920 --> 00:50:52,440
Speaker 3: a result, the committee wants to you know, rebrand itself

904
00:50:52,480 --> 00:50:56,520
Speaker 3: every few years and try to get themselves recognition and

905
00:50:56,560 --> 00:50:58,040
Speaker 3: so what do they do.

906
00:50:58,080 --> 00:51:02,399
Speaker 1: They roll out you know, skateboarding that's an Olympic sport now,

907
00:51:02,440 --> 00:51:02,799
Speaker 1: and they.

908
00:51:02,760 --> 00:51:06,640
Speaker 3: Roll out breakdancing that's in Olympic sports now, you know,

909
00:51:06,719 --> 00:51:10,040
Speaker 3: they roll out football and golf like to be included.

910
00:51:11,080 --> 00:51:14,320
Speaker 1: These sports don't belong. They don't belong.

911
00:51:15,239 --> 00:51:18,840
Speaker 3: It's it's kind of silly, you know, Olympic wrestling that belongs,

912
00:51:19,080 --> 00:51:21,040
Speaker 3: That belongs, you know, I mean there are certain sports

913
00:51:21,040 --> 00:51:21,839
Speaker 3: that always.

914
00:51:21,520 --> 00:51:23,880
Speaker 2: Have They're gonna have break dancing at the Olympics.

915
00:51:24,440 --> 00:51:27,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, break dancing, break dancing.

916
00:51:27,560 --> 00:51:30,600
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, listen, I mean, I mean, and you know

917
00:51:30,680 --> 00:51:32,879
Speaker 3: what it'll be judge.

918
00:51:32,680 --> 00:51:35,480
Speaker 2: You know what they eventually have to do. What's that

919
00:51:35,960 --> 00:51:40,759
Speaker 2: to get you into barbecuing? I mean, why if you're

920
00:51:41,160 --> 00:51:44,680
Speaker 2: break dancing is an Olympic sport, why would barbecuing not

921
00:51:44,760 --> 00:51:47,640
Speaker 2: be an Olympic sport? Well still, I mean, just can

922
00:51:47,680 --> 00:51:49,640
Speaker 2: you imagine the competition?

923
00:51:50,680 --> 00:51:53,959
Speaker 3: I guess that's what more than those curlers do during

924
00:51:53,960 --> 00:51:56,920
Speaker 3: the Winter Olympics. There's no question in my mind when

925
00:51:56,960 --> 00:52:00,960
Speaker 3: I'm barbecuing, Oh dude, I mean I I so I

926
00:52:01,040 --> 00:52:04,000
Speaker 3: bring one rag out, you know, to the barbecue you

927
00:52:04,200 --> 00:52:08,400
Speaker 3: or should say, like you know, a kitchen towel to handle,

928
00:52:08,640 --> 00:52:11,400
Speaker 3: you know, wiping off utensils, things like that. One of

929
00:52:11,440 --> 00:52:13,600
Speaker 3: the kitchen towels is draped over my shoulder. That's just

930
00:52:13,600 --> 00:52:16,680
Speaker 3: to dab my brow because Steve, it gets hot.

931
00:52:18,160 --> 00:52:20,960
Speaker 2: I want to see that gold medal draped around your

932
00:52:21,000 --> 00:52:24,600
Speaker 2: neck holding your flamethrower up. I mean, I just I

933
00:52:24,640 --> 00:52:27,799
Speaker 2: could just see that right there. It's like playing that.

934
00:52:28,520 --> 00:52:31,280
Speaker 2: I know you'd cry, cry many times.

935
00:52:31,400 --> 00:52:34,920
Speaker 3: No, yeah, playing the national anthem. Well I'm on the podium.

936
00:52:35,000 --> 00:52:37,360
Speaker 3: You'd be like j and I have a barbecue sauce

937
00:52:37,400 --> 00:52:39,759
Speaker 3: stained gold medal draped around my neck.

938
00:52:40,360 --> 00:52:41,160
Speaker 1: Forget about it.

939
00:52:41,560 --> 00:52:44,240
Speaker 2: They might tell you, can you not bring the flame

940
00:52:44,320 --> 00:52:48,560
Speaker 2: thrower up onto the metal stand?

941
00:52:49,080 --> 00:52:52,719
Speaker 1: And I would politely refuse. I would I mean, I'm not.

942
00:52:52,760 --> 00:52:53,280
Speaker 1: I wouldn't.

943
00:52:53,320 --> 00:52:55,919
Speaker 3: I wouldn't cuss anybody out. I wouldn't make a scene,

944
00:52:55,960 --> 00:52:57,200
Speaker 3: but I would politely refuse.

945
00:52:57,239 --> 00:53:00,359
Speaker 2: All right, I have an NFL story on the other side.

946
00:53:00,440 --> 00:53:03,080
Speaker 2: I'm going to get your reaction to that just seems

947
00:53:04,360 --> 00:53:08,880
Speaker 2: completely out of whack. I have like zero explanation for

948
00:53:08,960 --> 00:53:12,439
Speaker 2: what is going on right now with a well known

949
00:53:12,480 --> 00:53:17,080
Speaker 2: betting service and the upcoming season in the NFL. We'll

950
00:53:17,120 --> 00:53:20,760
Speaker 2: share it with you. This is Fox Sports Sunday, Steve

951
00:53:20,760 --> 00:53:25,879
Speaker 2: Harbin and Rich Harberger Here Fox Sports Sunday Live from

952
00:53:25,960 --> 00:53:29,480
Speaker 2: the tire rack dot Com studios. Just to update you.

953
00:53:31,520 --> 00:53:40,440
Speaker 2: Just because Monsey so graciously gifted me on my birthday,

954
00:53:41,200 --> 00:53:44,120
Speaker 2: Rich and I have an understanding that will not carry

955
00:53:44,120 --> 00:53:47,840
Speaker 2: over for the two of us. Now we'll do stuff

956
00:53:47,880 --> 00:53:51,479
Speaker 2: for her. Oh yeah, because she does stuff for us, right,

957
00:53:51,520 --> 00:53:52,760
Speaker 2: But between.

958
00:53:52,360 --> 00:53:55,600
Speaker 8: Us, nothing changed, Nothing's changed it all.

959
00:53:56,880 --> 00:53:58,600
Speaker 1: By the way, Happy birthday, Steve.

960
00:53:58,480 --> 00:54:05,480
Speaker 2: Thank you very much, chieppreciate that. Matt Eberflus. Yeah, in

961
00:54:05,520 --> 00:54:08,480
Speaker 2: two years as the head coach of the Chicago Bears,

962
00:54:08,520 --> 00:54:11,439
Speaker 2: he has a record of ten and twenty four, ten

963
00:54:11,480 --> 00:54:17,520
Speaker 2: and twenty four, and according to DraftKings dot Com, he

964
00:54:17,800 --> 00:54:21,759
Speaker 2: is the favorite to do something this upcoming season. Now,

965
00:54:21,840 --> 00:54:24,319
Speaker 2: based on a ten and twenty four record, I would

966
00:54:24,360 --> 00:54:27,480
Speaker 2: imagine he is the favorite to lose his job at

967
00:54:27,480 --> 00:54:29,600
Speaker 2: the end of the season, right. I mean, if you're

968
00:54:29,600 --> 00:54:34,200
Speaker 2: gonna have odds on who is the most likely coach

969
00:54:35,520 --> 00:54:38,440
Speaker 2: to be shown the door either during at the end

970
00:54:38,480 --> 00:54:41,560
Speaker 2: of the twenty twenty four season, Matt Eberflus would definitely

971
00:54:41,560 --> 00:54:45,400
Speaker 2: be on that list. But that's not what he's favored

972
00:54:45,400 --> 00:54:49,800
Speaker 2: by DraftKings to do no. He is favored at plus

973
00:54:49,920 --> 00:54:56,759
Speaker 2: nine hundred to win NFL Coach of the Year. So

974
00:54:56,840 --> 00:55:03,040
Speaker 2: he is the betting odds favorite, according to DraftKings dot Com,

975
00:55:03,080 --> 00:55:07,479
Speaker 2: to win NFL Coach of the Year in twenty twenty four.

976
00:55:08,600 --> 00:55:11,080
Speaker 2: Now I see this story and I'm like, okay, I'm

977
00:55:11,120 --> 00:55:13,480
Speaker 2: I'm I'm trying to think about this for a second,

978
00:55:13,520 --> 00:55:17,880
Speaker 2: because let's make it clearer. When we talk about gambling outlets,

979
00:55:19,360 --> 00:55:22,360
Speaker 2: who's ever running them? They're very smart people, Oh yeah,

980
00:55:22,400 --> 00:55:27,000
Speaker 2: because they make a lot of money by putting out

981
00:55:27,120 --> 00:55:31,800
Speaker 2: numbers that people are gonna bite on. Right, And I'm thinking,

982
00:55:33,200 --> 00:55:37,520
Speaker 2: how many people are running to make a bet on

983
00:55:37,600 --> 00:55:42,120
Speaker 2: Matt Eberflus to win NFL Coach of the Year. So

984
00:55:42,239 --> 00:55:44,959
Speaker 2: let let's let's let's just think about this for a second. Right,

985
00:55:45,360 --> 00:55:48,440
Speaker 2: So you draft Caleb Williams number one overall in the draft,

986
00:55:48,920 --> 00:55:54,120
Speaker 2: and as talented as he is and as great as

987
00:55:54,120 --> 00:55:57,640
Speaker 2: his potential is to be an elite quarterback in this league,

988
00:55:57,840 --> 00:56:00,640
Speaker 2: he will be a rookie. And if you saw Troy

989
00:56:00,680 --> 00:56:02,960
Speaker 2: Aikman as a rookie, John Elway is a rookie, Peyton

990
00:56:02,960 --> 00:56:05,560
Speaker 2: Manning is a rookie. Pretty much go down the list

991
00:56:05,840 --> 00:56:09,120
Speaker 2: of legendary quarterbacks, Hall of Fame quarterbacks and how they

992
00:56:09,120 --> 00:56:13,440
Speaker 2: looked as a rookie betting on him to take a

993
00:56:13,480 --> 00:56:15,640
Speaker 2: team that's ten and twenty four of the next two

994
00:56:15,760 --> 00:56:17,960
Speaker 2: years and I don't know, win twelve games.

995
00:56:18,520 --> 00:56:18,840
Speaker 1: Yeah.

996
00:56:18,920 --> 00:56:22,480
Speaker 2: Now, now you said, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. What happened

997
00:56:22,520 --> 00:56:26,520
Speaker 2: in Houston last year? Right? If one quarterback could do it,

998
00:56:26,560 --> 00:56:29,480
Speaker 2: another quarterback could do it. And I'm not saying it can't,

999
00:56:30,320 --> 00:56:33,160
Speaker 2: but it just seems when we talk about the Bears, who,

1000
00:56:33,160 --> 00:56:35,359
Speaker 2: by the way, have not had a quarterback make the

1001
00:56:35,400 --> 00:56:40,439
Speaker 2: Pro Bowl team since Jim McMahon almost forty years ago.

1002
00:56:41,239 --> 00:56:44,040
Speaker 2: The idea that Caleb Williams and what has been a

1003
00:56:44,080 --> 00:56:46,640
Speaker 2: graveyard for quarterbacks is going to be the guy to

1004
00:56:46,840 --> 00:56:50,200
Speaker 2: just immediately turned this thing around and make the Bears

1005
00:56:50,480 --> 00:56:53,320
Speaker 2: a playoff team. Because if the Bears do make the playoffs,

1006
00:56:53,680 --> 00:56:56,440
Speaker 2: guess what, Matt Eberflus will be the NFL Coach of

1007
00:56:56,440 --> 00:56:59,320
Speaker 2: the Year. I just don't see it. Am I missing

1008
00:56:59,360 --> 00:56:59,879
Speaker 2: something here?

1009
00:57:00,520 --> 00:57:00,800
Speaker 1: No?

1010
00:57:01,040 --> 00:57:03,840
Speaker 3: I don't think you're I don't think you're missing anything.

1011
00:57:03,880 --> 00:57:08,400
Speaker 3: I think that futures, futures are interesting bets because I

1012
00:57:08,440 --> 00:57:14,919
Speaker 3: think I think sometimes futures that like sportsbooks will put

1013
00:57:14,960 --> 00:57:19,040
Speaker 3: out a number, and they will they will try to

1014
00:57:19,280 --> 00:57:22,800
Speaker 3: encourage people to sort of squint and make that number

1015
00:57:22,920 --> 00:57:23,600
Speaker 3: work for them.

1016
00:57:24,320 --> 00:57:27,080
Speaker 1: And sometimes there's an.

1017
00:57:27,080 --> 00:57:31,960
Speaker 3: Un expected run on a certain candidate, you know, like

1018
00:57:32,720 --> 00:57:36,400
Speaker 3: for example, I don't know what eber Flus's number was

1019
00:57:37,240 --> 00:57:40,200
Speaker 3: before they drafted Caleb Williams in terms of coach of

1020
00:57:40,240 --> 00:57:42,120
Speaker 3: the Year. I don't even know if those odds were

1021
00:57:42,200 --> 00:57:44,120
Speaker 3: out for a future's bet like that.

1022
00:57:44,160 --> 00:57:45,120
Speaker 1: Prior to the draft.

1023
00:57:45,440 --> 00:57:47,120
Speaker 3: But on the other side of the draft, I bet

1024
00:57:47,160 --> 00:57:52,000
Speaker 3: you his his stock rose because of the quality of

1025
00:57:51,800 --> 00:57:55,720
Speaker 3: the college player that they drafted first overall. You know

1026
00:57:55,720 --> 00:57:57,360
Speaker 3: what I mean that all of a sudden there's a

1027
00:57:57,360 --> 00:57:59,840
Speaker 3: little bit more proof behind the fact that it's not

1028
00:58:00,120 --> 00:58:03,600
Speaker 3: just a rumor. Caleb Williams is actually a Chicago Bear.

1029
00:58:03,960 --> 00:58:06,560
Speaker 3: And so if you believe that the Chicago Bears would

1030
00:58:06,560 --> 00:58:10,120
Speaker 3: be much better with Caleb Williams than without him, well

1031
00:58:10,240 --> 00:58:12,680
Speaker 3: what does that mean? It doesn't mean they're a playoff team.

1032
00:58:13,000 --> 00:58:17,120
Speaker 3: I look around that division. The Vikings just lost their

1033
00:58:17,160 --> 00:58:20,120
Speaker 3: starting quarterback. They're breaking in a draft pick. Is he

1034
00:58:20,200 --> 00:58:25,640
Speaker 3: a better draft pick than Caleb Williams is their starter?

1035
00:58:25,840 --> 00:58:29,240
Speaker 3: Right now? Sam Darnold a better quarterback. And again this

1036
00:58:29,360 --> 00:58:32,080
Speaker 3: is all based on opinion than Caleb Williams. How are

1037
00:58:32,080 --> 00:58:34,840
Speaker 3: they going to handle the Detroit Lions? How does the

1038
00:58:34,880 --> 00:58:38,800
Speaker 3: rest of the NFC stack up against them? Is Jordan

1039
00:58:38,920 --> 00:58:41,920
Speaker 3: Love going to slump in what is going to feel

1040
00:58:41,960 --> 00:58:44,880
Speaker 3: like his sophomore year, you know, because he had to

1041
00:58:44,920 --> 00:58:47,720
Speaker 3: wait for a while behind Aaron Rodgers. You know, his

1042
00:58:47,840 --> 00:58:50,360
Speaker 3: second real year as a starter will see, you know.

1043
00:58:50,480 --> 00:58:52,840
Speaker 3: So if you think the Bears are going to have success,

1044
00:58:52,880 --> 00:58:54,800
Speaker 3: then maybe eber Flus is a good pick for that.

1045
00:58:55,160 --> 00:58:58,880
Speaker 3: And so futures bets can be a little bit misleading.

1046
00:58:59,360 --> 00:59:02,560
Speaker 3: Is he the life as candidate to win Coach of

1047
00:59:02,600 --> 00:59:06,120
Speaker 3: the Year? No, probably not, probably not. But is there

1048
00:59:06,160 --> 00:59:11,120
Speaker 3: good value potentially on betting him right now to be

1049
00:59:11,200 --> 00:59:15,200
Speaker 3: Coach of the Year at plus nine hundred? Maybe, you know,

1050
00:59:15,400 --> 00:59:18,120
Speaker 3: And that might be the reason why it's a popular bet.

1051
00:59:18,520 --> 00:59:23,560
Speaker 2: Understand this any Reid has not won an NFL Coach

1052
00:59:23,600 --> 00:59:25,400
Speaker 2: of the Year award as the coach of the Chiefs.

1053
00:59:25,840 --> 00:59:29,720
Speaker 2: Interesting he won once with the Eagles way back in

1054
00:59:29,720 --> 00:59:32,240
Speaker 2: two thousand and two, but as the coach of the Chiefs,

1055
00:59:32,960 --> 00:59:35,280
Speaker 2: three time Super Bowl champion, he has never been coach

1056
00:59:35,320 --> 00:59:39,280
Speaker 2: of the Year. In fact, Kevin Stefanski has been the

1057
00:59:39,320 --> 00:59:43,840
Speaker 2: two time coach of the Year. So again, this award

1058
00:59:43,960 --> 00:59:47,840
Speaker 2: is based on year to year improvement. So in order

1059
00:59:47,920 --> 00:59:50,120
Speaker 2: to win this award, you have to have a really

1060
00:59:50,200 --> 00:59:54,360
Speaker 2: bad team, even if it's your own doing, and then

1061
00:59:54,560 --> 00:59:57,440
Speaker 2: suddenly have a leap of five, six, seven wins the

1062
00:59:57,440 --> 00:59:59,680
Speaker 2: next year. That's how you win Coach of the Year.

1063
01:00:00,240 --> 01:00:02,880
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna throw some of the other names out

1064
01:00:02,920 --> 01:00:03,480
Speaker 2: at the top of that.

1065
01:00:03,600 --> 01:00:05,720
Speaker 3: And by the way, I agree with you, like Andy

1066
01:00:05,800 --> 01:00:07,400
Speaker 3: Reid for perfect example.

1067
01:00:07,560 --> 01:00:08,840
Speaker 1: And I don't know who won it in.

1068
01:00:08,840 --> 01:00:12,240
Speaker 3: Twenty thirteen, but the Chiefs were a two win team

1069
01:00:12,560 --> 01:00:14,320
Speaker 3: before he signed as a head coach.

1070
01:00:14,560 --> 01:00:17,000
Speaker 2: Ron Rivera won that year for the Carolina Panthers.

1071
01:00:17,080 --> 01:00:17,760
Speaker 1: Okay, there you go.

1072
01:00:17,920 --> 01:00:21,200
Speaker 3: Well he in twenty thirteen, he took a two win

1073
01:00:21,320 --> 01:00:24,760
Speaker 3: Chiefs game from a year ago who had Matt Cassel

1074
01:00:24,840 --> 01:00:28,000
Speaker 3: as their starting quarterback to an eleven win team that

1075
01:00:28,080 --> 01:00:32,240
Speaker 3: lost in the wildcard round the very next season with

1076
01:00:32,400 --> 01:00:35,880
Speaker 3: Alex Smith and that was obviously the lead in or

1077
01:00:35,920 --> 01:00:39,240
Speaker 3: i should say, the Bridge quarterback before they moved on

1078
01:00:39,280 --> 01:00:40,880
Speaker 3: to Patrick Mahomes in the draft.

1079
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Speaker 1: And the rest is history. With the Kansas City Chiefs.

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Speaker 3: But to that point, like if you are looking at

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Speaker 3: the Bears objectively and you trust eber Flus as a

1082
01:00:49,560 --> 01:00:53,000
Speaker 3: head coach at all, and you say, all right, how

1083
01:00:53,080 --> 01:00:57,120
Speaker 3: much better do you believe Caleb Williams is than Justin Fields?

1084
01:00:57,760 --> 01:01:00,440
Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean how much better was al? All right?

1085
01:01:00,480 --> 01:01:02,480
Speaker 2: Well, let me give you some other Matt Castle, All right,

1086
01:01:02,520 --> 01:01:04,960
Speaker 2: let me give me some because you do gambling shows

1087
01:01:05,040 --> 01:01:07,440
Speaker 2: right here on the Fox Sports right a network. All right,

1088
01:01:07,520 --> 01:01:12,560
Speaker 2: So behind Eberflues at plus nine hundred, you have Robert

1089
01:01:12,680 --> 01:01:17,640
Speaker 2: Salah the Jets and Jim Harbaugh of the Chargers at

1090
01:01:17,680 --> 01:01:21,240
Speaker 2: plus eleven hundred. Let's just stay with those three coaches. Okay, sure,

1091
01:01:21,680 --> 01:01:26,360
Speaker 2: Iberflus with the Bears, Slad with the Jets, Harbaugh with

1092
01:01:26,520 --> 01:01:31,440
Speaker 2: the Chargers. Which one of those three coaches do you

1093
01:01:31,600 --> 01:01:36,640
Speaker 2: believe will have the biggest improvement in terms of wins

1094
01:01:37,320 --> 01:01:40,040
Speaker 2: from twenty twenty three to twenty twenty four.

1095
01:01:40,360 --> 01:01:43,400
Speaker 3: Now I'd have to go back and look at the records,

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01:01:43,920 --> 01:01:50,080
Speaker 3: because I know the Chargers won five games. I'm trying

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Speaker 3: to think how.

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01:01:50,840 --> 01:01:53,320
Speaker 2: Many holds I'll get to it. I think they won

1099
01:01:54,080 --> 01:01:57,000
Speaker 2: seven games. Let me give the exact total.

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01:01:57,080 --> 01:02:00,360
Speaker 3: Yeah, the Jets won seven right, and the Charge just

1101
01:02:00,400 --> 01:02:05,640
Speaker 3: one five and the Bears won seven. So I mean

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01:02:05,720 --> 01:02:09,800
Speaker 3: the knee jerk reaction is the Chargers right, because you

1103
01:02:09,920 --> 01:02:15,120
Speaker 3: have a star quarterback who's in the prime of his career,

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01:02:15,880 --> 01:02:18,680
Speaker 3: who has had some health concerns, none of them as

1105
01:02:18,760 --> 01:02:20,040
Speaker 3: major as an achilles.

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01:02:20,200 --> 01:02:22,240
Speaker 2: I'm sorry. Do they have any receivers? They have no

1107
01:02:22,360 --> 01:02:24,400
Speaker 2: running back, no wide receivers, and no title.

1108
01:02:24,440 --> 01:02:26,440
Speaker 3: Well they have running backs, they got in two running

1109
01:02:26,440 --> 01:02:29,640
Speaker 3: backs from the Ravens, but astrians.

1110
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Speaker 2: They have pedestrians at just about every skill position. No

1111
01:02:33,120 --> 01:02:35,520
Speaker 2: matter how good to your quarterback is, you still have

1112
01:02:35,560 --> 01:02:36,680
Speaker 2: to have offensive weapons.

1113
01:02:36,720 --> 01:02:38,720
Speaker 3: Well, I don't disagree with that. And then they they

1114
01:02:38,760 --> 01:02:41,240
Speaker 3: traded away or lost in free agency all of their

1115
01:02:41,240 --> 01:02:44,240
Speaker 3: offensive weapons who contributed in a major way last year,

1116
01:02:44,280 --> 01:02:47,680
Speaker 3: Austin Eckler, Mike Williams, Keenan Allen, you know, and they

1117
01:02:47,720 --> 01:02:50,920
Speaker 3: really I mean, they got lad mcconklely or whatever his

1118
01:02:51,000 --> 01:02:53,360
Speaker 3: name is in the draft, so we'll see if that

1119
01:02:53,680 --> 01:02:56,120
Speaker 3: pans out for them. But I do agree with you

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01:02:56,160 --> 01:02:58,760
Speaker 3: the cupboards look a little bit beare, But that's the

1121
01:02:58,840 --> 01:03:01,840
Speaker 3: knee jerk reaction. The team who I think is going

1122
01:03:01,880 --> 01:03:06,280
Speaker 3: to have the most improvement and be the most dangerous team. Again,

1123
01:03:06,320 --> 01:03:10,280
Speaker 3: we're assuming health for star players is the New York

1124
01:03:10,360 --> 01:03:14,240
Speaker 3: Jets is Robert Sala. And here's the reason why it

1125
01:03:14,280 --> 01:03:16,560
Speaker 3: has nothing to do with Robert Sala. Frankly, it has

1126
01:03:16,680 --> 01:03:19,760
Speaker 3: really not much to do with Matt Everfluss or Jim

1127
01:03:19,800 --> 01:03:22,760
Speaker 3: Harbaugh in terms of this next season.

1128
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Speaker 1: Over the course of.

1129
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Speaker 3: Seasons, who do I think is going to pan out

1130
01:03:26,520 --> 01:03:29,080
Speaker 3: and be the best coaching higher or the best coach

1131
01:03:29,120 --> 01:03:33,360
Speaker 3: for their franchise? Most likely Jim Harbaugh because his past

1132
01:03:33,800 --> 01:03:40,320
Speaker 3: precedes him. He has renovated many disastrous organizations into becoming

1133
01:03:40,520 --> 01:03:46,120
Speaker 3: champions or playoff contenders, etc. Matt Eberflus has a short

1134
01:03:46,160 --> 01:03:47,840
Speaker 3: tenure as a head coach in this league and it

1135
01:03:47,880 --> 01:03:50,640
Speaker 3: has not gone well. Robert Sala the same. But what

1136
01:03:50,760 --> 01:03:54,960
Speaker 3: Robert Sala has that neither of these two other coaches

1137
01:03:55,040 --> 01:03:59,200
Speaker 3: have is a team ready to be a playoff contender

1138
01:03:59,240 --> 01:04:02,000
Speaker 3: potentially read need to be a Super Bowl contender if

1139
01:04:02,040 --> 01:04:06,000
Speaker 3: everything goes right. You have a dominant defense that is

1140
01:04:06,040 --> 01:04:09,040
Speaker 3: a very talented defense, You do have a lot of

1141
01:04:09,080 --> 01:04:12,880
Speaker 3: skill around that offense, a great supporting cast for a quarterback,

1142
01:04:13,160 --> 01:04:15,920
Speaker 3: and you have one of the best quarterbacks walking the planet.

1143
01:04:16,000 --> 01:04:19,800
Speaker 1: Earth still assuming health in Aaron Rodgers. Now, if he

1144
01:04:19,880 --> 01:04:20,440
Speaker 1: plays like.

1145
01:04:20,400 --> 01:04:23,440
Speaker 3: Aaron Rodgers should at a star level and he doesn't

1146
01:04:23,480 --> 01:04:26,440
Speaker 3: get hurt, well, the Jets are the most dangerous team

1147
01:04:26,960 --> 01:04:30,280
Speaker 3: in the AFC in terms of going from the bottom

1148
01:04:30,320 --> 01:04:32,680
Speaker 3: to the top. I still think the Chiefs are obviously

1149
01:04:32,960 --> 01:04:36,040
Speaker 3: very dangerous, the Baltimore Ravens, the Buffalo Bills, But the

1150
01:04:36,080 --> 01:04:38,400
Speaker 3: New York Jets could be that out of nowhere team

1151
01:04:38,800 --> 01:04:42,000
Speaker 3: that comes up and people start talking about them potentially

1152
01:04:42,040 --> 01:04:43,120
Speaker 3: winning a championship.

1153
01:04:43,320 --> 01:04:46,560
Speaker 2: Assuming health, your faith in Aaron Rodgers coming back at

1154
01:04:46,600 --> 01:04:49,360
Speaker 2: age forty and suddenly making the Jets a winner is

1155
01:04:49,480 --> 01:04:54,640
Speaker 2: far greater than mine. I smell disaster. I smell another

1156
01:04:54,960 --> 01:04:58,480
Speaker 2: aborted season by Aaron Rodgers. That is my gut feeling.

1157
01:04:58,760 --> 01:05:01,960
Speaker 2: And by the way, as I say that, Jets fans

1158
01:05:02,000 --> 01:05:06,880
Speaker 2: are rejoicing right now because whatever I say, the opposite

1159
01:05:06,920 --> 01:05:10,160
Speaker 2: tends to happen. So Jets fans are in total glee

1160
01:05:10,280 --> 01:05:13,720
Speaker 2: right now. This is that finally, Harmon is all in.

1161
01:05:14,040 --> 01:05:17,720
Speaker 2: The Jets are gonna suck, and that usually means they're

1162
01:05:17,800 --> 01:05:20,800
Speaker 2: going to be good. It's just amazing. These Coaches of

1163
01:05:20,840 --> 01:05:25,160
Speaker 2: the Year Awards Phil Jackson eleven NBA Championships. One Coach

1164
01:05:25,200 --> 01:05:28,360
Speaker 2: of the Year Vince Lombardi. One Coach of the Year.

1165
01:05:29,400 --> 01:05:32,280
Speaker 2: Belichick actually won three if you want to, you know,

1166
01:05:32,320 --> 01:05:37,440
Speaker 2: but he also won six titles. So anyway, Kevin Stefanski

1167
01:05:37,480 --> 01:05:40,120
Speaker 2: has more Coach of the Year awards than Andy Reid. Yeah,

1168
01:05:40,320 --> 01:05:43,360
Speaker 2: so that that award is a very bizarre award, to

1169
01:05:43,400 --> 01:05:45,360
Speaker 2: say the least. All right, let's find out what it's

1170
01:05:45,520 --> 01:05:46,640
Speaker 2: trending right now.

1171
01:05:47,120 --> 01:05:47,760
Speaker 1: She's star.

1172
01:05:47,960 --> 01:05:51,520
Speaker 2: She is the number one in our hearts and our

1173
01:05:51,600 --> 01:05:56,360
Speaker 2: minds every day, not just every year, every day. Monty

1174
01:05:56,440 --> 01:05:59,480
Speaker 2: Belanos here, I'm with rich on the Jets.

1175
01:05:59,600 --> 01:06:02,680
Speaker 6: Don't you remember weeks ago we were deciding on the

1176
01:06:02,760 --> 01:06:06,280
Speaker 6: over unders, who was going to underachieve overachieve? He brought

1177
01:06:06,360 --> 01:06:07,600
Speaker 6: up the Jets and I said, I was like, I

1178
01:06:07,640 --> 01:06:10,360
Speaker 6: think they're gonna go over And you were like, why

1179
01:06:10,760 --> 01:06:14,480
Speaker 6: how he is so against Aaron Rodgers and the Jets

1180
01:06:14,520 --> 01:06:16,000
Speaker 6: performing well, he just.

1181
01:06:15,920 --> 01:06:18,280
Speaker 1: Doesn't believe it. He's been feeling like this for weeks.

1182
01:06:20,120 --> 01:06:23,720
Speaker 2: I wasn't sold on them a year ago. And of course,

1183
01:06:24,520 --> 01:06:27,520
Speaker 2: you know it all gets thrown out with the immediate injury, right,

1184
01:06:27,920 --> 01:06:31,400
Speaker 2: but even less. First of all, Robert Salah, who was

1185
01:06:31,440 --> 01:06:36,280
Speaker 2: a very respected defensive coordinator is an awful head coach. Well,

1186
01:06:36,360 --> 01:06:38,240
Speaker 2: we don't know it yet, because what I mean, we

1187
01:06:38,320 --> 01:06:41,400
Speaker 2: don't know it. Look at his record, since you don't

1188
01:06:41,400 --> 01:06:43,880
Speaker 2: know Jets, Okay, who has he made back? Well, they

1189
01:06:43,880 --> 01:06:47,080
Speaker 2: have a really good defense. They're losers year after year

1190
01:06:47,120 --> 01:06:50,960
Speaker 2: after year. I wouldn't sure like that. I'm not saying

1191
01:06:50,960 --> 01:06:52,760
Speaker 2: look at I would hire him in a heartbeat to

1192
01:06:52,760 --> 01:06:55,920
Speaker 2: be my defensive coordinator, but not as my head coach.

1193
01:06:56,080 --> 01:07:00,480
Speaker 3: The greatest coaches that have ever coached this game have

1194
01:07:00,640 --> 01:07:04,480
Speaker 3: all had great quarterbacks. And by the way, that's there

1195
01:07:04,560 --> 01:07:08,720
Speaker 3: are exceptions. There are exceptions. There there are times where coaches,

1196
01:07:08,880 --> 01:07:11,440
Speaker 3: in spite of their quarterback have found ways to have

1197
01:07:11,520 --> 01:07:13,200
Speaker 3: playoff success or even Super Bowl.

1198
01:07:13,360 --> 01:07:16,720
Speaker 2: Also coaches that make quarterbacks. Dan Fouts with the Chargers

1199
01:07:17,080 --> 01:07:20,120
Speaker 2: was a journeyman for six years until a guy named

1200
01:07:20,160 --> 01:07:23,040
Speaker 2: Don Coriel showed up and made him a Hall of

1201
01:07:23,040 --> 01:07:27,640
Speaker 2: Fame quarterback. There was no indication that Dan Fouts would

1202
01:07:27,640 --> 01:07:30,040
Speaker 2: ever get a sniff of the Hall of Fame until

1203
01:07:30,040 --> 01:07:31,960
Speaker 2: a guy named Don Coriel joined them.

1204
01:07:31,960 --> 01:07:34,120
Speaker 3: Well, there's no question, and I mean, by the way,

1205
01:07:34,320 --> 01:07:37,880
Speaker 3: that's rock call of coach. Rock party is benefiting more

1206
01:07:37,920 --> 01:07:39,800
Speaker 3: from Kyle Shanahan than vice versa.

1207
01:07:39,880 --> 01:07:41,040
Speaker 1: Let's be honest with each other.

1208
01:07:41,120 --> 01:07:44,680
Speaker 3: Maw Ryan benefited more from Kyle Shanahan as offensive coordinator

1209
01:07:44,920 --> 01:07:50,320
Speaker 3: more than vice versa. But for the most part, great

1210
01:07:50,400 --> 01:07:55,320
Speaker 3: quarterbacks helped make great coaches great. No, and so Robert Sale,

1211
01:07:55,320 --> 01:07:57,560
Speaker 3: He's got a great quarterback. The question is Canny stay

1212
01:07:57,600 --> 01:07:58,560
Speaker 3: healthy at age forty?

1213
01:08:00,200 --> 01:08:03,640
Speaker 2: All I know is no team had a bigger upgraded

1214
01:08:03,720 --> 01:08:07,720
Speaker 2: quarterback from year to year than the Packers had last

1215
01:08:07,800 --> 01:08:11,080
Speaker 2: year getting rid of of fading Aaron Rodgers for an

1216
01:08:11,160 --> 01:08:14,080
Speaker 2: emerging Jordan Love. You talk about upgrade and look at

1217
01:08:14,080 --> 01:08:14,600
Speaker 2: the numbers.

1218
01:08:15,000 --> 01:08:17,160
Speaker 6: Well, I think we have nine Sundays till the start

1219
01:08:17,200 --> 01:08:18,679
Speaker 6: of the NFL seasons already.

1220
01:08:18,920 --> 01:08:19,320
Speaker 2: Do what.

1221
01:08:21,120 --> 01:08:21,680
Speaker 1: Happens?

1222
01:08:22,360 --> 01:08:25,360
Speaker 6: All right, let's go to Major League Baseball. Fellas another

1223
01:08:25,479 --> 01:08:28,400
Speaker 6: homer for the Braves, this time it's Eli White. So

1224
01:08:28,520 --> 01:08:31,080
Speaker 6: they are still blanking the Phillies six to zero bottom

1225
01:08:31,120 --> 01:08:34,040
Speaker 6: of the seventh inning, Mets and Pirates scoreless, and they're

1226
01:08:34,040 --> 01:08:34,759
Speaker 6: about to start.

1227
01:08:34,600 --> 01:08:36,320
Speaker 1: The eighth inning in Pittsburgh.

1228
01:08:36,360 --> 01:08:39,080
Speaker 6: The Cardinals have extended their lead over the Nationals six

1229
01:08:39,120 --> 01:08:41,120
Speaker 6: to three bottom of the sixth inning. But the Nationals

1230
01:08:41,120 --> 01:08:42,800
Speaker 6: do have a man on first and second and they

1231
01:08:42,800 --> 01:08:44,439
Speaker 6: have all their outs left for this inning.

1232
01:08:44,640 --> 01:08:45,959
Speaker 2: The White Sox have added.

1233
01:08:45,760 --> 01:08:47,320
Speaker 6: Some more runs that are on top of the Marlins

1234
01:08:47,360 --> 01:08:49,519
Speaker 6: four to one. They're about to start the seventh inning.

1235
01:08:49,840 --> 01:08:52,760
Speaker 6: Detroit's Cole Keith, with an RBI single, has extended the

1236
01:08:52,760 --> 01:08:55,800
Speaker 6: Tigers League oh The Tigers lead over the Reds two

1237
01:08:55,800 --> 01:08:58,080
Speaker 6: to one top of the eighth inning, and the Guardians

1238
01:08:58,080 --> 01:09:00,000
Speaker 6: of taking the lead over the Giants five to three.

1239
01:09:00,160 --> 01:09:01,240
Speaker 2: Start of the seventh inning.

1240
01:09:01,360 --> 01:09:03,760
Speaker 6: The Twins have tied the game against the Astros to

1241
01:09:03,960 --> 01:09:06,719
Speaker 6: two bottom of the fifth, The Cubs one more run

1242
01:09:06,760 --> 01:09:09,479
Speaker 6: over the Angels three zero, bottom of the sixth. The

1243
01:09:09,600 --> 01:09:12,120
Speaker 6: Rangers now back on top of the Rays four two

1244
01:09:12,280 --> 01:09:14,759
Speaker 6: bottom of the fourth inning, and the Royals are blanking

1245
01:09:14,840 --> 01:09:17,439
Speaker 6: the Rockies four zero top of the third inning. In

1246
01:09:17,479 --> 01:09:20,280
Speaker 6: the w NBA, the Sun beat the dream eighty to

1247
01:09:20,320 --> 01:09:22,600
Speaker 6: sixty seven. Connecticut is tied for the best record in

1248
01:09:22,640 --> 01:09:25,400
Speaker 6: the league with the New York Liberty at seventeen and four.

1249
01:09:25,720 --> 01:09:29,960
Speaker 6: At Wimbledon, Coco Goff has officially started her fourth round match.

1250
01:09:30,200 --> 01:09:33,040
Speaker 6: She is losing in her first set, four games to

1251
01:09:33,160 --> 01:09:37,120
Speaker 6: three to fellow American Emma Navarro. Is it I think

1252
01:09:37,120 --> 01:09:39,760
Speaker 6: it's Emma Navarro? Maybe it's not Emmenavarro. Navarro is the

1253
01:09:39,800 --> 01:09:41,760
Speaker 6: last name, and I see an ean. I'm guessing it's Emma,

1254
01:09:41,800 --> 01:09:42,479
Speaker 6: but it may be wrong.

1255
01:09:42,560 --> 01:09:44,879
Speaker 2: Oh for it, we'll say.

1256
01:09:46,880 --> 01:09:49,240
Speaker 1: Right, no, no, imagine it is Emma Navarro.

1257
01:09:49,479 --> 01:09:51,960
Speaker 6: She is ranked our seat in nineteen in this seed

1258
01:09:51,960 --> 01:09:53,840
Speaker 6: and she is up again four games to three in

1259
01:09:53,880 --> 01:09:57,040
Speaker 6: the first set against Coco Golf in the round of sixteen.

1260
01:09:57,479 --> 01:10:00,120
Speaker 2: Back to you guys, all right, well Montsi, thanks, thank

1261
01:10:00,120 --> 01:10:03,040
Speaker 2: you very much, very very very much. By the way,

1262
01:10:03,040 --> 01:10:05,000
Speaker 2: coming up in our next hour top of the hour,

1263
01:10:05,080 --> 01:10:11,600
Speaker 2: Klay Thompson's dad, Michael Thompson, my former broadcast partner, longtime

1264
01:10:11,760 --> 01:10:15,479
Speaker 2: a radio announcer for the Lakers, will be joining us,

1265
01:10:15,560 --> 01:10:18,080
Speaker 2: and then John Paul Morosi will also be joining us

1266
01:10:18,080 --> 01:10:21,040
Speaker 2: in the next hour. So very busy hour coming up.

1267
01:10:22,120 --> 01:10:25,639
Speaker 2: I was getting back to the Lebron James situation here,

1268
01:10:27,160 --> 01:10:30,320
Speaker 2: so they're now announcing because we heard that he got

1269
01:10:30,360 --> 01:10:33,559
Speaker 2: a two year max deal, second year being a player option.

1270
01:10:34,160 --> 01:10:38,240
Speaker 2: But now it's coming out that he did exactly take

1271
01:10:38,280 --> 01:10:42,519
Speaker 2: the full max, that he left two point seven million

1272
01:10:42,560 --> 01:10:45,600
Speaker 2: on the table. I started laugh at this, right, So

1273
01:10:45,800 --> 01:10:50,200
Speaker 2: instead of one hundred and four million, he took one

1274
01:10:50,280 --> 01:10:53,240
Speaker 2: hundred and one point three to five million. Jeez, I

1275
01:10:53,560 --> 01:10:57,000
Speaker 2: don't know. I mean you talked about I mean, what

1276
01:10:57,120 --> 01:10:59,879
Speaker 2: do I mean? How do you explain that to the wife?

1277
01:11:00,080 --> 01:11:02,080
Speaker 2: I mean seriously, how do you go home and you're

1278
01:11:02,120 --> 01:11:02,679
Speaker 2: like you did?

1279
01:11:02,760 --> 01:11:02,840
Speaker 3: What?

1280
01:11:03,479 --> 01:11:03,679
Speaker 1: How?

1281
01:11:03,960 --> 01:11:06,519
Speaker 3: I mean, like we got these fancy salt shakers? Are

1282
01:11:06,520 --> 01:11:08,960
Speaker 3: we going to be able to avoid afford the salt?

1283
01:11:09,040 --> 01:11:09,920
Speaker 1: That's you?

1284
01:11:09,920 --> 01:11:15,160
Speaker 2: You left two point six y five million on the

1285
01:11:15,280 --> 01:11:19,720
Speaker 2: table that could have been in our pockets and settled

1286
01:11:20,280 --> 01:11:22,439
Speaker 2: for only one hundred and one point three to five million.

1287
01:11:22,960 --> 01:11:24,920
Speaker 2: I mean, what the hell are you thinking?

1288
01:11:25,040 --> 01:11:26,840
Speaker 9: Do you guys know how hard that was for Lebron

1289
01:11:26,880 --> 01:11:29,760
Speaker 9: to do? Probably I can't. He has he has a

1290
01:11:29,800 --> 01:11:33,200
Speaker 9: free Spotify account, he doesn't pay for Spotify premium. That's yeah,

1291
01:11:33,479 --> 01:11:35,160
Speaker 9: Leaven three million dollars on the table. That's a lot

1292
01:11:35,160 --> 01:11:35,439
Speaker 9: of money.

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Speaker 1: Can you imagine every three songs he has to listen

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Speaker 1: to an ad?

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Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, when you have, when you have

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Speaker 2: the kind of wealth that Lebron has. I always try

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01:11:44,640 --> 01:11:47,640
Speaker 2: to try to put this kind of money situation in perspective.

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Speaker 2: You know, my and my dad's later years, it was

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01:11:51,200 --> 01:11:53,880
Speaker 2: really hard for him. He was he wasn't a sports

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01:11:53,880 --> 01:11:57,280
Speaker 2: fanatic like his son, but you know he followed sports.

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Speaker 2: The money situation just got to him. I mean he

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01:12:00,479 --> 01:12:04,280
Speaker 2: was a depression baby. This is a man that I

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01:12:04,400 --> 01:12:09,400
Speaker 2: wish I had one one hundredth of the aptitude he

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01:12:09,560 --> 01:12:14,040
Speaker 2: had in terms of handling money. It's crazy how he

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01:12:14,120 --> 01:12:18,880
Speaker 2: was able to accumulate money and you know, save money.

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Speaker 2: And he was a genius, I mean flat out genius.

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Speaker 2: But if you're if you're Lebron James and you find

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01:12:26,080 --> 01:12:29,639
Speaker 2: an extra three million dollars sitting around, what do you do? Like, oh,

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01:12:30,120 --> 01:12:34,439
Speaker 2: like you've reached it in your pocket, like, oh three

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01:12:34,479 --> 01:12:38,720
Speaker 2: million dollars? Like okay, okay, what do I do with this?

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01:12:39,680 --> 01:12:43,280
Speaker 2: If you had an extra three mil just to sort

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01:12:43,280 --> 01:12:45,200
Speaker 2: of you know, like money you just didn't count, what

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01:12:45,240 --> 01:12:47,880
Speaker 2: do you do with it? If your guy like Lebron James, Well,

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Speaker 2: here's the thing. Do you throw it back in the coffee,

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Speaker 2: you say, let's let's go out for a nice weekend,

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01:12:52,960 --> 01:12:54,000
Speaker 2: or I don't know what to do.

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01:12:54,360 --> 01:12:58,720
Speaker 3: Here's the thing when when you're making more money than

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01:12:58,800 --> 01:13:00,120
Speaker 3: you can spend.

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01:13:00,240 --> 01:13:02,360
Speaker 2: Well, don't say that because we've seen people with more

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01:13:02,400 --> 01:13:04,320
Speaker 2: wealth than this blow through all their money.

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01:13:04,360 --> 01:13:08,000
Speaker 3: So no question, Yeah, no question but Lebron James, on

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01:13:08,080 --> 01:13:11,160
Speaker 3: top of these contracts, has earned so much money in endorsement.

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01:13:11,280 --> 01:13:16,559
Speaker 3: So unless he is literally I mean pouring money out

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01:13:17,160 --> 01:13:20,240
Speaker 3: onto the street and setting it on fire, it's going

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01:13:20,320 --> 01:13:22,639
Speaker 3: to be hard to burn through all this cash when

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01:13:22,640 --> 01:13:26,120
Speaker 3: we're talking about two or three million dollars in terms

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01:13:26,120 --> 01:13:30,400
Speaker 3: of leaving those crumbs comparatively.

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01:13:29,800 --> 01:13:31,679
Speaker 1: On the table to his net worth.

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01:13:32,960 --> 01:13:40,360
Speaker 3: This this was done of out of exactly what we're

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01:13:40,400 --> 01:13:45,439
Speaker 3: reading right now, which is a public relations ploy. It is,

1331
01:13:45,680 --> 01:13:49,439
Speaker 3: it is so scripted, it is so easy to see through.

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01:13:49,560 --> 01:13:54,800
Speaker 3: It's so again it lacks any sort of authenticity, like

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01:13:54,880 --> 01:14:00,200
Speaker 3: this idea that Lebron James really cares not to take

1334
01:14:00,280 --> 01:14:03,760
Speaker 3: that two million dollars to improve the Lakers. I mean,

1335
01:14:03,840 --> 01:14:07,120
Speaker 3: is that the insinuation is the thought process. He left

1336
01:14:07,120 --> 01:14:09,040
Speaker 3: that money on the table so the Lakers could go

1337
01:14:09,160 --> 01:14:12,120
Speaker 3: chase down somebody, all right, needs that two million dollars

1338
01:14:12,160 --> 01:14:12,880
Speaker 3: more than he does.

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01:14:13,040 --> 01:14:16,519
Speaker 2: I'll actually explain this. This is how complicated things are

1340
01:14:16,600 --> 01:14:19,200
Speaker 2: when you talk about the cap in the NBA.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

1342
01:14:19,920 --> 01:14:25,720
Speaker 2: So apparently this decision by Lebron James has allowed the

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01:14:25,840 --> 01:14:31,759
Speaker 2: Lakers to avoid having their twenty thirty two first round

1344
01:14:31,760 --> 01:14:35,000
Speaker 2: pick to be frozen from being included in a trade

1345
01:14:35,040 --> 01:14:38,559
Speaker 2: next summer. Okay, now think about this for a second.

1346
01:14:38,640 --> 01:14:42,559
Speaker 2: Like this, So, in other words, by by conceding this

1347
01:14:42,680 --> 01:14:46,960
Speaker 2: two point sixty five million dollars, this now allows the

1348
01:14:47,040 --> 01:14:54,040
Speaker 2: Lakers to trade their twenty thirty two first round pick

1349
01:14:54,360 --> 01:14:57,000
Speaker 2: in a trade next summer. Got it got, That's what

1350
01:14:57,000 --> 01:14:57,280
Speaker 2: it did.

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Speaker 9: And it also gives them access to the tax payer mid

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01:15:00,520 --> 01:15:04,040
Speaker 9: level exception, I think, and it loosens up some of

1353
01:15:04,040 --> 01:15:05,679
Speaker 9: the restrictions on trades they can make.

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01:15:05,920 --> 01:15:08,479
Speaker 1: This makes a lot more sense. Yeah, I people listen,

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01:15:08,560 --> 01:15:09,960
Speaker 1: I I don't you know?

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01:15:10,080 --> 01:15:12,080
Speaker 2: By the way, would you be interested in the lakers

1357
01:15:12,120 --> 01:15:13,800
Speaker 2: twenty thirty two first round pick?

1358
01:15:13,920 --> 01:15:15,160
Speaker 9: Yeah? Why not?

1359
01:15:15,439 --> 01:15:17,080
Speaker 2: Do you think that's the top two? You think that's

1360
01:15:17,080 --> 01:15:19,920
Speaker 2: a lottery pick? It could be Lakers in twenty thirty two?

1361
01:15:20,040 --> 01:15:20,519
Speaker 9: Probably is.

1362
01:15:20,640 --> 01:15:21,559
Speaker 2: I mean a deal be.

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01:15:21,520 --> 01:15:23,519
Speaker 9: Gone by that, I think. I think this free agency.

1364
01:15:23,520 --> 01:15:25,960
Speaker 9: People are starting to realize how awful the new CBA

1365
01:15:26,080 --> 01:15:28,640
Speaker 9: is with these first and second aprons. It's like, this

1366
01:15:28,680 --> 01:15:30,519
Speaker 9: is bad. Has has anyone looked at what's going on

1367
01:15:30,560 --> 01:15:31,439
Speaker 9: with the Phoenix Suns?

1368
01:15:31,720 --> 01:15:32,160
Speaker 1: Oh? I know?

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01:15:32,520 --> 01:15:35,280
Speaker 9: Yeah, they can't do anything. The Celtics are going to

1370
01:15:35,320 --> 01:15:37,439
Speaker 9: be in that it's so funny that the Celtics are

1371
01:15:37,439 --> 01:15:39,840
Speaker 9: they going to create their own mess. The Celtics won

1372
01:15:39,880 --> 01:15:42,639
Speaker 9: a title, paid everybody a bajillion dollars, and the owners

1373
01:15:42,640 --> 01:15:43,840
Speaker 9: are like, yeah, we're not gonna deal with that. We're

1374
01:15:43,840 --> 01:15:44,599
Speaker 9: gonna sell the team.

1375
01:15:44,840 --> 01:15:45,120
Speaker 1: Bye.

1376
01:15:45,160 --> 01:15:47,840
Speaker 2: Phoenix Suns won sixty four games the year after they

1377
01:15:47,840 --> 01:15:50,240
Speaker 2: were in the NBA Finals with Devin Booker and a

1378
01:15:50,240 --> 01:15:53,000
Speaker 2: lot of role players. Then they decided we need Kevin

1379
01:15:53,040 --> 01:15:56,240
Speaker 2: Durant and then for some reason, we need Bradley Beal.

1380
01:15:56,520 --> 01:15:59,599
Speaker 2: Oh jeez, some of these people get paid a lot

1381
01:15:59,640 --> 01:16:02,040
Speaker 2: of money to make some really bad decisions. All right,

1382
01:16:02,040 --> 01:16:04,160
Speaker 2: coming up on the other side, we'll get back to

1383
01:16:04,200 --> 01:16:07,040
Speaker 2: some NFL news. We can't be that far away from

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01:16:07,080 --> 01:16:11,280
Speaker 2: the NFL right weeks away, to be exact. This is

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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Sunday, Steve hartin Rich Rnberger Fox Sports Sunday

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01:16:15,680 --> 01:16:18,800
Speaker 2: Live from the tai Iraq dot Com Studios. I did

1387
01:16:18,840 --> 01:16:22,840
Speaker 2: not get my invitation. Maybe you did and and didn't

1388
01:16:22,840 --> 01:16:25,040
Speaker 2: tell me about it. Did you get your invite to

1389
01:16:25,320 --> 01:16:28,960
Speaker 2: Michael Rubins Hampton's White Party, which is known as the

1390
01:16:29,080 --> 01:16:31,479
Speaker 2: number one fourth of July Bash? Did you actually get

1391
01:16:31,479 --> 01:16:32,160
Speaker 2: that invitation?

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01:16:32,840 --> 01:16:36,920
Speaker 3: No, I didn't and this is the second year in

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01:16:36,960 --> 01:16:37,360
Speaker 3: a row.

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01:16:37,680 --> 01:16:40,559
Speaker 1: Yeah, and every year that preceded those years.

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01:16:42,240 --> 01:16:46,000
Speaker 3: You know what was interesting about the invitations was they

1396
01:16:46,040 --> 01:16:51,799
Speaker 3: were hand painted by an artist who apparently has sold

1397
01:16:51,800 --> 01:16:55,839
Speaker 3: paintings for like millions and millions of dollars in the past.

1398
01:16:56,000 --> 01:17:00,559
Speaker 3: Like like, So, not only are you invited to one

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01:17:00,600 --> 01:17:03,800
Speaker 3: of the most exclusive parties in one of the most

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01:17:03,840 --> 01:17:08,640
Speaker 3: exclusive areas on the planet, but also you're giving a

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01:17:08,680 --> 01:17:10,560
Speaker 3: piece of artwork as your invitation.

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01:17:11,320 --> 01:17:15,680
Speaker 2: It's unbelievable. Well, maybe next year. One guy that did

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01:17:15,680 --> 01:17:18,559
Speaker 2: get an invite and showed him in his full fashion

1404
01:17:18,680 --> 01:17:22,400
Speaker 2: glory with Joe Burrow. Oh yeah, ah had Joe Burrow

1405
01:17:22,479 --> 01:17:24,320
Speaker 2: was out there, by the way, He was also at

1406
01:17:24,360 --> 01:17:27,599
Speaker 2: the Paris Fashion Week before that, so he's he's been

1407
01:17:27,640 --> 01:17:30,880
Speaker 2: hanging out showing off his fashion and everything else. And

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01:17:31,000 --> 01:17:33,479
Speaker 2: actually when I saw the picture, there was a picture

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01:17:33,479 --> 01:17:37,000
Speaker 2: with him and Libby Dunn. Although we found out yesterday

1410
01:17:37,240 --> 01:17:39,880
Speaker 2: Moncey and I because I was thinking, now, I know,

1411
01:17:40,000 --> 01:17:42,880
Speaker 2: she's with you know, the hottest picture in baseball right now,

1412
01:17:42,920 --> 01:17:47,920
Speaker 2: Paul Peiness. But apparently the report is Joe Burrow and

1413
01:17:47,960 --> 01:17:55,480
Speaker 2: his significant other broke up. Oh, so that was interesting.

1414
01:17:55,520 --> 01:17:57,760
Speaker 2: Tom Brady was there. I mean just about everybody was

1415
01:17:57,760 --> 01:18:01,400
Speaker 2: there except for you and me and next year. But

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01:18:01,520 --> 01:18:04,000
Speaker 2: my first thought when I saw this picture was, oh,

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01:18:04,040 --> 01:18:08,920
Speaker 2: that's right Joe Burrow. I remember him. A couple of

1418
01:18:08,960 --> 01:18:11,280
Speaker 2: years ago. He was the hottest thing in the NFL.

1419
01:18:11,880 --> 01:18:14,800
Speaker 2: Led the Bengals to a road victory in the ANFC

1420
01:18:15,000 --> 01:18:18,720
Speaker 2: Championship Game over Patrick Mahome and the Chiefs got to

1421
01:18:18,760 --> 01:18:24,040
Speaker 2: the Super Bowl against the Rams. And then last year happened.

1422
01:18:25,120 --> 01:18:27,680
Speaker 2: He wasn't healthy to start the season, and then the

1423
01:18:27,720 --> 01:18:33,320
Speaker 2: season ended quickly and the Bengals fell back into their

1424
01:18:34,160 --> 01:18:39,200
Speaker 2: usual spot, which is complete Nowheresville. What is your gut

1425
01:18:39,240 --> 01:18:41,960
Speaker 2: feeling about Joe Burrow for the upcoming season. I mean,

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01:18:42,000 --> 01:18:46,320
Speaker 2: by all accounts, he seems to be healthy. He has

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01:18:46,360 --> 01:18:48,439
Speaker 2: said that, Look, I know I can play this game,

1428
01:18:49,320 --> 01:18:51,799
Speaker 2: and I know I'll be successful on him on the field.

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01:18:52,040 --> 01:18:54,240
Speaker 2: By the way, his buddy Jamar Chase was also at

1430
01:18:54,280 --> 01:18:57,400
Speaker 2: the white party. But what is your gut feeling are

1431
01:18:57,479 --> 01:18:59,720
Speaker 2: we going to cause a couple of years ago, we

1432
01:18:59,720 --> 01:19:03,000
Speaker 2: were talking about Joe Burrow as a you know, one

1433
01:19:03,080 --> 01:19:06,599
Speaker 2: of those generational talents like this, this guy's got it all,

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01:19:06,920 --> 01:19:10,280
Speaker 2: He's got the game, he's got the charisma. He is

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01:19:10,360 --> 01:19:14,360
Speaker 2: a star. Do you still kind of have that kind

1436
01:19:14,360 --> 01:19:16,160
Speaker 2: of projection for the career Joe Burrow?

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01:19:16,640 --> 01:19:18,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I do.

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Speaker 3: I think he is a uniquely talented human being. I

1439
01:19:22,640 --> 01:19:26,240
Speaker 3: think he has the skill set that will help him

1440
01:19:26,880 --> 01:19:29,920
Speaker 3: play this game for a long time and he will

1441
01:19:30,080 --> 01:19:31,080
Speaker 3: elevate a roster.

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01:19:31,360 --> 01:19:34,639
Speaker 1: He has that type of talent. The problem with Joe

1443
01:19:34,640 --> 01:19:35,280
Speaker 1: Burrow is.

1444
01:19:35,720 --> 01:19:39,799
Speaker 3: Well a his health, which he's been injured too often

1445
01:19:40,280 --> 01:19:42,559
Speaker 3: to really exploit that talent. And then the other problem

1446
01:19:42,680 --> 01:19:45,479
Speaker 3: is the organization he plays for. Look for as good

1447
01:19:45,520 --> 01:19:49,840
Speaker 3: as Philip Rivers was, he was playing for an organization

1448
01:19:49,960 --> 01:19:55,640
Speaker 3: in the then San Diego Chargers who got into contract

1449
01:19:55,680 --> 01:19:59,600
Speaker 3: disputes with players every single time a big payday was

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01:19:59,600 --> 01:20:00,000
Speaker 3: coming up.

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01:20:00,320 --> 01:20:01,960
Speaker 2: Bengals are the same way, and.

1452
01:20:01,880 --> 01:20:04,200
Speaker 3: The Bengals are the same way. You saw it, I

1453
01:20:04,240 --> 01:20:07,280
Speaker 3: mean the it already happened with Jamar Chase.

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01:20:07,400 --> 01:20:07,559
Speaker 2: Yep.

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01:20:07,800 --> 01:20:08,599
Speaker 1: It's going to be.

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01:20:08,640 --> 01:20:11,960
Speaker 3: The future, and it could be a potentially bleak future

1457
01:20:12,000 --> 01:20:14,840
Speaker 3: for Joe Burrow if he stays in Cincinnati.

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01:20:14,960 --> 01:20:17,800
Speaker 2: I'm in lockstep with you. That's exactly the point I

1459
01:20:17,880 --> 01:20:22,000
Speaker 2: was gonna make. Sometimes you're just on organizations that are

1460
01:20:22,040 --> 01:20:25,080
Speaker 2: not gonna go the extra mile to help you win.

1461
01:20:26,960 --> 01:20:31,599
Speaker 2: Chiefs are doing that for Patrick Mahomes. The Bengals will

1462
01:20:31,640 --> 01:20:33,680
Speaker 2: not do that for Joe Burrow. He's gonna win it.

1463
01:20:34,520 --> 01:20:36,320
Speaker 2: He's gonna be have to do it on his own.

1464
01:20:36,680 --> 01:20:39,160
Speaker 2: What happened to Klay Thompson? Why isn't he a Laker?

1465
01:20:39,200 --> 01:20:41,599
Speaker 2: While asks his dad Michael coming up, this is Fox

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Speaker 2: Sports Sunday, Oh, having all the fun in the world

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Speaker 2: right now is someone that I have known for more

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01:21:10,280 --> 01:21:14,920
Speaker 2: than twenty years. We did a radio show together, fabulously

1475
01:21:15,120 --> 01:21:21,040
Speaker 2: successful for about five years before we were unceremoniously broken up.

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01:21:22,320 --> 01:21:25,360
Speaker 2: By the way, in the history of the Lakers organization,

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01:21:25,680 --> 01:21:30,240
Speaker 2: only one man, the legendary Hall of Famer Chick Hern,

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01:21:30,880 --> 01:21:34,200
Speaker 2: has been a member of the radio broadcast and the

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01:21:34,240 --> 01:21:38,040
Speaker 2: team longer than this gentleman. That's how long he's been

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01:21:38,080 --> 01:21:41,160
Speaker 2: doing it, and he's had an eyewitness to what has

1481
01:21:41,200 --> 01:21:46,200
Speaker 2: been an interesting odyssey. Who are the once proud Laker franchise?

1482
01:21:47,000 --> 01:21:50,639
Speaker 2: He is again the great Michael Thompson. Michael, how are

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01:21:50,680 --> 01:21:51,120
Speaker 2: you today?

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01:21:51,800 --> 01:21:54,280
Speaker 10: Oh? I got a correct? You forgot the legendary student

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01:21:54,320 --> 01:21:55,920
Speaker 10: Lands who's been there longer than me.

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Speaker 2: But not on the radio.

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01:22:00,160 --> 01:22:03,920
Speaker 1: On the radio, But.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Stu lance Is he's he's mister television these days. Well, Michael,

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01:22:11,880 --> 01:22:14,439
Speaker 2: you and I a week ago, as Rich and I

1490
01:22:14,520 --> 01:22:16,400
Speaker 2: were getting ready for to start our show, I was

1491
01:22:16,520 --> 01:22:18,559
Speaker 2: texting you and asking you right at the top of

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Speaker 2: our show, how does it look with Clay a good

1493
01:22:21,360 --> 01:22:25,840
Speaker 2: chance he's going to be a Laker? And your attitude was, yeah, looking,

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01:22:25,960 --> 01:22:28,639
Speaker 2: it's looking pretty good, Like you know, seems like all

1495
01:22:28,640 --> 01:22:31,599
Speaker 2: the pieces are falling into place. And then the very

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01:22:31,640 --> 01:22:34,200
Speaker 2: next day, of course, it was announced that Clay had

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01:22:34,280 --> 01:22:37,080
Speaker 2: signed with the Dallas Mavericks. I texted you and said

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01:22:37,080 --> 01:22:40,559
Speaker 2: that apparently your four time NBA champion son knows a

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Speaker 2: loser when he sees one. You were not happy about that. So,

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Speaker 2: now that you've had a chance to talk about this

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01:22:47,479 --> 01:22:49,960
Speaker 2: and sort of try to figure it out, just let's

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01:22:50,040 --> 01:22:52,160
Speaker 2: leave out the fact that you know Clay's your son.

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01:22:52,280 --> 01:22:58,200
Speaker 2: Just observing a star of Clay's caliber, his origins and

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01:22:58,240 --> 01:23:03,360
Speaker 2: his chance to join an organization that as a young

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01:23:03,400 --> 01:23:09,080
Speaker 2: man he loved, spearheaded by his all time idle Kobe Bryant.

1506
01:23:09,439 --> 01:23:13,800
Speaker 2: What happened here? Why is it that Klay Thompson is

1507
01:23:13,880 --> 01:23:14,920
Speaker 2: not a Laker?

1508
01:23:15,680 --> 01:23:18,439
Speaker 10: Well, he had he had two great choices there. Obviously,

1509
01:23:18,600 --> 01:23:22,120
Speaker 10: he Mavericks had a success last year getting to the finals,

1510
01:23:22,120 --> 01:23:24,360
Speaker 10: and when he appealed to him, Lucas are very young

1511
01:23:24,920 --> 01:23:28,439
Speaker 10: and building. Superstar Kyrie is still in his crime. They

1512
01:23:28,520 --> 01:23:30,479
Speaker 10: has a good depth on that team. They got some

1513
01:23:30,520 --> 01:23:33,439
Speaker 10: big guys from the player on the rim, and he

1514
01:23:33,600 --> 01:23:36,120
Speaker 10: just put in all the factors and saw that the

1515
01:23:36,160 --> 01:23:39,160
Speaker 10: plays game fits in in all the teams in the league.

1516
01:23:39,320 --> 01:23:42,320
Speaker 10: Catch and shoots now the three, and that's what everybody

1517
01:23:42,320 --> 01:23:45,360
Speaker 10: looks for now. So he style would fit and either

1518
01:23:45,479 --> 01:23:48,000
Speaker 10: here or in Dallas. But he was looking He says

1519
01:23:48,040 --> 01:23:50,000
Speaker 10: he's looking forward to a change of scenery, going to

1520
01:23:50,040 --> 01:23:52,920
Speaker 10: Texas house to stay in California. So he seems to

1521
01:23:52,960 --> 01:23:57,600
Speaker 10: be happy with it. Chance to get back to the

1522
01:23:57,600 --> 01:24:00,000
Speaker 10: finals in the coming years, So they can't.

1523
01:24:03,560 --> 01:24:09,439
Speaker 3: Michael, that's looking forward looking back. Is there any hard

1524
01:24:09,479 --> 01:24:12,120
Speaker 3: feelings with how things happened with the Warriors?

1525
01:24:13,960 --> 01:24:17,240
Speaker 10: No, the only the only regrets about it.

1526
01:24:21,400 --> 01:24:24,080
Speaker 2: Hang on a second, Michael, we're having a little audio problems.

1527
01:24:24,360 --> 01:24:27,000
Speaker 2: Let's do reconnect with Michael if we could here. Obviously

1528
01:24:27,040 --> 01:24:29,400
Speaker 2: I want to hear what Michael has to say. Just

1529
01:24:29,400 --> 01:24:31,880
Speaker 2: hang on, Michael, We're gonna reset with you right there.

1530
01:24:34,960 --> 01:24:37,240
Speaker 2: You know, just my own personal thought. I'll interject it

1531
01:24:37,320 --> 01:24:39,519
Speaker 2: before we get Michael back on. There's there's a number

1532
01:24:39,520 --> 01:24:43,719
Speaker 2: of reasons I think why, uh, Clay decided that maybe

1533
01:24:43,840 --> 01:24:46,439
Speaker 2: Dallas was a better fit. But I mean again, I'm

1534
01:24:46,439 --> 01:24:49,320
Speaker 2: gonna throw something at Michael here in a second. Let's

1535
01:24:49,320 --> 01:24:52,120
Speaker 2: see if we get Michael back here as bo is

1536
01:24:52,200 --> 01:24:54,200
Speaker 2: talking to him, make sure he's got a better connection,

1537
01:24:54,240 --> 01:24:55,960
Speaker 2: because I don't want to lose him here.

1538
01:24:56,240 --> 01:24:58,800
Speaker 3: One of one of the most fascinating things about this

1539
01:24:58,880 --> 01:25:03,439
Speaker 3: story is Clay I think handled the departure from Golden

1540
01:25:03,479 --> 01:25:08,880
Speaker 3: State extremely well, the heartfelt note that he posted to

1541
01:25:08,960 --> 01:25:13,360
Speaker 3: social media saying goodbye to the fan base. But I

1542
01:25:13,439 --> 01:25:16,599
Speaker 3: have to imagine even moving on potentially to a better

1543
01:25:16,680 --> 01:25:23,160
Speaker 3: situation for Clay, potential legacy boosting move to the Mavericks.

1544
01:25:23,680 --> 01:25:25,519
Speaker 3: There still has to be a little bit of a

1545
01:25:25,560 --> 01:25:31,480
Speaker 3: tug at the heartstrings because essentially the Warriors wanted Steph

1546
01:25:31,520 --> 01:25:35,519
Speaker 3: and didn't want Clay. You know, if we're gonna do now,

1547
01:25:35,880 --> 01:25:37,680
Speaker 3: there's a variety of factors.

1548
01:25:37,760 --> 01:25:40,519
Speaker 1: But that's what this boils down to.

1549
01:25:40,720 --> 01:25:44,160
Speaker 3: And I'm curious, like you know, if there's moments where

1550
01:25:44,200 --> 01:25:49,639
Speaker 3: he considers what transpired last season or during negotiations where

1551
01:25:50,240 --> 01:25:52,519
Speaker 3: that does rub him the wrong way.

1552
01:25:52,880 --> 01:25:55,879
Speaker 2: Well, it was an interesting end of his season. Obviously,

1553
01:25:55,920 --> 01:26:00,360
Speaker 2: their last game where they got eliminated. He had no points.

1554
01:26:01,400 --> 01:26:03,280
Speaker 2: He missed every shot in that game. So we're not

1555
01:26:03,680 --> 01:26:07,400
Speaker 2: we're having a hard time with Michael. Okay, so what's

1556
01:26:07,400 --> 01:26:07,960
Speaker 2: going on here?

1557
01:26:07,960 --> 01:26:08,599
Speaker 1: But we are.

1558
01:26:08,640 --> 01:26:10,360
Speaker 9: We are working to get Michael.

1559
01:26:10,080 --> 01:26:12,920
Speaker 2: Back, Okay, because I know John Paul Morose is going

1560
01:26:12,960 --> 01:26:15,280
Speaker 2: to be joining us, so we might be able to

1561
01:26:15,320 --> 01:26:18,920
Speaker 2: move Michael later in the hour if it's possible. Yes, Okay,

1562
01:26:18,960 --> 01:26:21,160
Speaker 2: So I do want to do a reconnect. By the way,

1563
01:26:21,200 --> 01:26:25,320
Speaker 2: I do have one theory about this. So Michael Thompson

1564
01:26:25,920 --> 01:26:30,960
Speaker 2: won two championships as a player for the Lakers. And

1565
01:26:31,080 --> 01:26:34,360
Speaker 2: if you don't know this, uh, the announcers for teams

1566
01:26:34,439 --> 01:26:37,559
Speaker 2: are employed by the teams, right, So whether it's a

1567
01:26:37,680 --> 01:26:41,040
Speaker 2: it's an analyst. I mean you're employed by San Diego State, right,

1568
01:26:41,080 --> 01:26:44,519
Speaker 2: I mean, of course, yeah, so they hire you as

1569
01:26:44,600 --> 01:26:50,320
Speaker 2: an analyst for their football team. And Michael has earned

1570
01:26:50,479 --> 01:26:55,639
Speaker 2: three more championship rings as an announcer, so they won

1571
01:26:55,720 --> 01:26:58,200
Speaker 2: championships at nine to twenty ten and of course the

1572
01:26:58,240 --> 01:27:05,599
Speaker 2: Bubble Championship in twenty twenty. So if Clay were to

1573
01:27:05,680 --> 01:27:10,760
Speaker 2: join the Lakers and the Lakers win the championship, his

1574
01:27:10,800 --> 01:27:14,519
Speaker 2: father would still have one more ring than him. I mean,

1575
01:27:14,560 --> 01:27:18,360
Speaker 2: think about that. So Michael has five rings. Two is

1576
01:27:18,360 --> 01:27:20,880
Speaker 2: a player, three is an announcer. Clay has four rings

1577
01:27:20,880 --> 01:27:24,040
Speaker 2: as a player, or we're on the same team, his

1578
01:27:24,160 --> 01:27:26,840
Speaker 2: dad will always have one more ring. Right, But if

1579
01:27:26,920 --> 01:27:30,000
Speaker 2: Clay goes elsewhere and wins a ring, guess what he

1580
01:27:30,080 --> 01:27:30,800
Speaker 2: catches dad?

1581
01:27:31,080 --> 01:27:33,320
Speaker 1: Well, so that might have been a part of the calculus.

1582
01:27:33,360 --> 01:27:37,240
Speaker 2: I was thinking about this, and I'm thinking that might

1583
01:27:37,280 --> 01:27:41,720
Speaker 2: be part of it. I forget, you know, forget the

1584
01:27:41,720 --> 01:27:45,160
Speaker 2: fact that I want to win. We got him, all right, Michael.

1585
01:27:45,200 --> 01:27:47,000
Speaker 2: I want to throw something out at you right now,

1586
01:27:47,000 --> 01:27:49,559
Speaker 2: because Rich and I were just talking about this. So

1587
01:27:49,640 --> 01:27:53,320
Speaker 2: one of my theories on why Clay decided not to

1588
01:27:53,400 --> 01:27:57,800
Speaker 2: join the Laker organization. Is that you his father has

1589
01:27:58,240 --> 01:28:01,679
Speaker 2: one more championship ring than he. If two is a player,

1590
01:28:01,720 --> 01:28:04,719
Speaker 2: three isn't an announcer, he has four as a player.

1591
01:28:05,120 --> 01:28:06,800
Speaker 2: If you both were to be with the Lakers and

1592
01:28:06,800 --> 01:28:09,960
Speaker 2: win a championship, you're still one ahead of him. He

1593
01:28:10,000 --> 01:28:12,320
Speaker 2: wants to catch you and pass you. He doesn't want

1594
01:28:12,320 --> 01:28:15,000
Speaker 2: to always be one behind dad. That's my theory.

1595
01:28:15,439 --> 01:28:17,160
Speaker 10: You know, that's a great theory. I never thought of that,

1596
01:28:17,200 --> 01:28:19,960
Speaker 10: So that's now it makes sense. So it makes complete sense.

1597
01:28:19,960 --> 01:28:22,160
Speaker 10: Every you know, once every twenty years hard when you

1598
01:28:22,200 --> 01:28:22,919
Speaker 10: make sense.

1599
01:28:22,800 --> 01:28:27,000
Speaker 2: Yes, doesn't that make sense? He's like, wait a second, Dad, No, no, no, no, no,

1600
01:28:27,360 --> 01:28:29,639
Speaker 2: everyone thinks, well, he wants to win one more ring

1601
01:28:29,720 --> 01:28:32,599
Speaker 2: than you know, Steph and Draymond. I'm like, no, no, no, no, no.

1602
01:28:33,040 --> 01:28:36,280
Speaker 2: He wants to win more rings than anyone in the

1603
01:28:36,280 --> 01:28:39,680
Speaker 2: Thompson family and he works in the same organization as

1604
01:28:39,720 --> 01:28:42,000
Speaker 2: a dad. He can ever catch you?

1605
01:28:42,040 --> 01:28:44,600
Speaker 10: Now, well, no, he can never catch it because I

1606
01:28:44,640 --> 01:28:46,679
Speaker 10: really have nine rings. I've got two of the players,

1607
01:28:46,680 --> 01:28:48,040
Speaker 10: three an four of the dad.

1608
01:28:50,040 --> 01:28:50,280
Speaker 4: Yeah.

1609
01:28:50,520 --> 01:28:53,400
Speaker 3: By the way, you know, you tell me what, yeah,

1610
01:28:53,560 --> 01:28:56,200
Speaker 3: that every twenty years thing. I mean, it just happened

1611
01:28:56,280 --> 01:28:59,479
Speaker 3: with Michael as well. I mean, that's unbelievable. You know,

1612
01:28:59,600 --> 01:29:01,640
Speaker 3: I wanted to get back to the question I asked you,

1613
01:29:01,680 --> 01:29:04,240
Speaker 3: Michael before we lost connection, because I think a lot

1614
01:29:04,280 --> 01:29:07,200
Speaker 3: of fans of Clay would like to hear. And there

1615
01:29:07,280 --> 01:29:10,800
Speaker 3: are a tremendous number of Klay Thompson fans, not just

1616
01:29:10,880 --> 01:29:14,080
Speaker 3: in the Golden State Bay area, but also in the

1617
01:29:14,280 --> 01:29:18,880
Speaker 3: LA area as well and across the country because NBA Superstars,

1618
01:29:19,280 --> 01:29:22,439
Speaker 3: they have fans in every city. And the Splash Brothers

1619
01:29:22,600 --> 01:29:25,320
Speaker 3: was such a thing, and the dominance of the Golden

1620
01:29:25,360 --> 01:29:28,080
Speaker 3: State Warriors dynasty was such a thing, and.

1621
01:29:28,040 --> 01:29:30,320
Speaker 1: Clay had so much to do with it.

1622
01:29:30,320 --> 01:29:34,280
Speaker 3: It really does feel like, unfortunately for Clay, the day

1623
01:29:34,280 --> 01:29:38,559
Speaker 3: Warriors chose Steph and they didn't chose Klay Thompson. And

1624
01:29:39,240 --> 01:29:42,800
Speaker 3: I read his heartfelt letter to the fan base, and

1625
01:29:42,920 --> 01:29:45,439
Speaker 3: I thought it was beautifully written, very much so in

1626
01:29:45,520 --> 01:29:48,600
Speaker 3: his voice. You know, sometimes you see these goodbyes and

1627
01:29:48,640 --> 01:29:53,439
Speaker 3: they're very plain and clearly they're just public relations stunts.

1628
01:29:53,560 --> 01:29:56,240
Speaker 3: This one very much so felt like Clay meant every

1629
01:29:56,280 --> 01:29:58,639
Speaker 3: word of it, and it definitely felt like he wrote

1630
01:29:58,680 --> 01:30:03,080
Speaker 3: it and and so I think he handled everything with class.

1631
01:30:03,560 --> 01:30:08,479
Speaker 3: But is there any animus. Is there any hard feelings

1632
01:30:08,479 --> 01:30:11,080
Speaker 3: at all leaving Golden State, even though he's moving on

1633
01:30:11,160 --> 01:30:13,800
Speaker 3: to what looks like a great opportunity in Dallas.

1634
01:30:14,200 --> 01:30:16,559
Speaker 10: No, you can't have any hard feelings. Sure, it would

1635
01:30:16,560 --> 01:30:18,240
Speaker 10: have been nice for those guys to play it out

1636
01:30:18,240 --> 01:30:20,880
Speaker 10: together and go out together, Draymond Clay and Steph, but

1637
01:30:21,280 --> 01:30:23,960
Speaker 10: he's had so many blessings and so many great times

1638
01:30:23,960 --> 01:30:26,280
Speaker 10: playing for the Warriors and living in the Bay. So

1639
01:30:26,439 --> 01:30:29,800
Speaker 10: there's nothing one of the little thing to be bitter

1640
01:30:29,840 --> 01:30:32,240
Speaker 10: about or have any kind of animosity about. Just be

1641
01:30:32,360 --> 01:30:34,280
Speaker 10: thankful for the thirteen years you had to day he

1642
01:30:34,320 --> 01:30:37,479
Speaker 10: was able to come back from two devastating injuries and

1643
01:30:37,720 --> 01:30:41,160
Speaker 10: win another championship, So there is nothing to be bitter about,

1644
01:30:41,320 --> 01:30:43,360
Speaker 10: and just look forward to the future and be thankful

1645
01:30:43,520 --> 01:30:45,439
Speaker 10: for what they accomplished in Golden State.

1646
01:30:45,920 --> 01:30:48,000
Speaker 2: So, Michael, I have a theory about why it's been

1647
01:30:48,000 --> 01:30:51,880
Speaker 2: so difficult for the Lakers to land players, because again,

1648
01:30:51,920 --> 01:30:54,040
Speaker 2: when we talk about state taxes, when you're making that

1649
01:30:54,120 --> 01:30:57,080
Speaker 2: kind of money, you're standing at thirteen percent state tax

1650
01:30:57,200 --> 01:31:00,960
Speaker 2: in a state like Texas. Zero even if the numbers

1651
01:31:01,000 --> 01:31:04,479
Speaker 2: look similar, Clay will make a lot more money in

1652
01:31:04,560 --> 01:31:07,559
Speaker 2: his pocket playing for the Mavericks than he would for

1653
01:31:07,640 --> 01:31:13,320
Speaker 2: the Lakers. But that aside with Lebron James, with Anthony

1654
01:31:13,400 --> 01:31:16,840
Speaker 2: Davis both coming off all NBA seasons, a forty seven

1655
01:31:16,920 --> 01:31:20,000
Speaker 2: win team with Ruey and Austin and you know, some

1656
01:31:20,080 --> 01:31:23,400
Speaker 2: pieces in place, and with d Lo coming back. Are

1657
01:31:23,439 --> 01:31:26,680
Speaker 2: you surprised it's been so difficult for the Lakers to

1658
01:31:26,840 --> 01:31:29,519
Speaker 2: acquire talent to bolster this roster.

1659
01:31:30,240 --> 01:31:32,880
Speaker 10: No, not really, not really. They've got Anthony Davis. That's

1660
01:31:32,880 --> 01:31:34,760
Speaker 10: about a talent is you can get. He's the third

1661
01:31:34,800 --> 01:31:38,240
Speaker 10: best center in the game. Obviously, D'Angelo Russell's a solid player.

1662
01:31:38,280 --> 01:31:43,680
Speaker 10: Obviously they drafted well when they selected Austin Reeves. Oh

1663
01:31:43,760 --> 01:31:45,599
Speaker 10: what's not he wasn't even drafted. I don't think so.

1664
01:31:45,960 --> 01:31:46,160
Speaker 2: Now.

1665
01:31:46,240 --> 01:31:49,479
Speaker 10: I mean, it's tough to get a plus free agents

1666
01:31:49,479 --> 01:31:52,120
Speaker 10: now because the salary caps make us so difficult to

1667
01:31:52,160 --> 01:31:53,599
Speaker 10: go out and sign a play who was worth forty

1668
01:31:53,640 --> 01:31:56,639
Speaker 10: or fifteen million dollars. So, no, the Lakers was still

1669
01:31:56,680 --> 01:32:01,160
Speaker 10: a destination franchise, a destination city. So when Lebron leaves eventually,

1670
01:32:01,240 --> 01:32:03,599
Speaker 10: they'll be able to attract big time free agency game

1671
01:32:03,640 --> 01:32:04,320
Speaker 10: to take his place.

1672
01:32:05,120 --> 01:32:07,439
Speaker 3: How did you feel about the selection of Bronnie James

1673
01:32:07,520 --> 01:32:09,120
Speaker 3: with the second pick the Lakers had.

1674
01:32:09,640 --> 01:32:12,400
Speaker 10: I love it, man, is a great storyline. Just think

1675
01:32:12,479 --> 01:32:14,360
Speaker 10: now Steve Hart is actually going to pay attention to

1676
01:32:14,400 --> 01:32:17,200
Speaker 10: the preseason to see how Bronnie James is playing. He

1677
01:32:17,280 --> 01:32:19,120
Speaker 10: basically is going to bring the kind of attention that

1678
01:32:19,200 --> 01:32:22,800
Speaker 10: Caitlyn Clark's brought to the WNBA and curiosity. People want

1679
01:32:22,800 --> 01:32:24,840
Speaker 10: to see what he's like seeing him on the court

1680
01:32:24,880 --> 01:32:26,760
Speaker 10: with his dad warming up or in the game with

1681
01:32:26,800 --> 01:32:30,000
Speaker 10: his dad. So plus, he's a solid player. Yeah, he's

1682
01:32:30,000 --> 01:32:31,760
Speaker 10: got some growing to do, but he doesn't as a

1683
01:32:31,840 --> 01:32:35,120
Speaker 10: second round pick. He reminds me of Gary Payton the

1684
01:32:35,160 --> 01:32:37,320
Speaker 10: second the way he plays the game. He's athletic and

1685
01:32:37,320 --> 01:32:40,200
Speaker 10: he can jump and get up and down the floor.

1686
01:32:40,240 --> 01:32:41,880
Speaker 10: So I love the fact that the Lakers are going

1687
01:32:41,880 --> 01:32:43,960
Speaker 10: to give him a shot of his NBA dream.

1688
01:32:44,160 --> 01:32:46,639
Speaker 2: Yeah. Unfortunately, there were guys on the court that were

1689
01:32:46,760 --> 01:32:48,599
Speaker 2: on the court with him last night that will never

1690
01:32:48,600 --> 01:32:50,160
Speaker 2: get a shot of playing with the Lakers that are

1691
01:32:50,240 --> 01:32:53,240
Speaker 2: much better players because their last name is in James.

1692
01:32:53,320 --> 01:32:55,880
Speaker 2: Call it for what it is. I understand it's a

1693
01:32:55,960 --> 01:32:57,960
Speaker 2: chance to make history. We've seen a lot of sons

1694
01:32:57,960 --> 01:33:01,280
Speaker 2: of legendary players playing the NBA but never obviously at

1695
01:33:01,280 --> 01:33:03,679
Speaker 2: the same time and much less on the same team.

1696
01:33:03,800 --> 01:33:06,880
Speaker 2: It's a publicity stunt. Look. I had a friend that

1697
01:33:07,040 --> 01:33:09,559
Speaker 2: was the announcer for Sierra Canyon a couple of years ago.

1698
01:33:09,880 --> 01:33:11,960
Speaker 2: I asked him about Bronnie James. He says, look at

1699
01:33:12,000 --> 01:33:14,320
Speaker 2: Bessie's the fourth plus player in the team. He averaged

1700
01:33:14,360 --> 01:33:16,240
Speaker 2: eight points a game as a junior. I mean the

1701
01:33:16,960 --> 01:33:19,680
Speaker 2: numbers don't I mean, I watched the game yesterday. Did

1702
01:33:19,720 --> 01:33:21,040
Speaker 2: you watch this game yesterday?

1703
01:33:21,439 --> 01:33:24,360
Speaker 10: Yeah, I watched it yesterday. He looked, Okay, okay.

1704
01:33:24,280 --> 01:33:26,799
Speaker 1: Two for nine. What did he do? Well?

1705
01:33:27,280 --> 01:33:28,880
Speaker 10: Well, he expect him to come on and go nine

1706
01:33:28,880 --> 01:33:31,320
Speaker 10: for nine. I mean, get a chance, give him.

1707
01:33:31,240 --> 01:33:33,200
Speaker 2: A chance to Well, what about the guys that were

1708
01:33:33,240 --> 01:33:36,240
Speaker 2: actually playing well, how about giving them a chance? Why

1709
01:33:36,240 --> 01:33:39,120
Speaker 2: won't they get an opportunity to emerge from the summer

1710
01:33:39,200 --> 01:33:41,320
Speaker 2: league and get a chance to play for the big team.

1711
01:33:41,600 --> 01:33:43,479
Speaker 10: Well they will. A lot of these guys you see

1712
01:33:43,479 --> 01:33:44,760
Speaker 10: on the summ League tam are going to play for

1713
01:33:44,800 --> 01:33:46,240
Speaker 10: the G League team and then you can work your

1714
01:33:46,280 --> 01:33:47,080
Speaker 10: way from their hartan.

1715
01:33:47,200 --> 01:33:49,200
Speaker 2: Okay, Well that would be what I would. I would

1716
01:33:49,200 --> 01:33:51,559
Speaker 2: bury Brownie on the G League for as long as

1717
01:33:51,600 --> 01:33:53,719
Speaker 2: it takes for him to get up to the NBA level.

1718
01:33:54,080 --> 01:33:54,800
Speaker 2: That's what I want.

1719
01:33:55,520 --> 01:33:58,559
Speaker 10: No nobody wants to see him and Elsa Gunda.

1720
01:33:58,600 --> 01:33:59,200
Speaker 2: We want to see him.

1721
01:33:59,200 --> 01:34:01,920
Speaker 10: At Crypto dot com, I'm catching the preseason playing with

1722
01:34:01,960 --> 01:34:04,800
Speaker 10: his father on the floor. Come on, you know, you

1723
01:34:04,840 --> 01:34:05,759
Speaker 10: know you're gonna be watching.

1724
01:34:07,640 --> 01:34:10,080
Speaker 2: See what happens with me and Michael Rich. I mean,

1725
01:34:10,120 --> 01:34:14,200
Speaker 2: it's just you know, friends, It's unbelievable. It's really unbelievable. Well, Michael,

1726
01:34:15,280 --> 01:34:17,000
Speaker 2: thanks for joining us. I wish we had had a

1727
01:34:17,000 --> 01:34:20,720
Speaker 2: clear audio a little bit earlier. Look, I'm rooting for

1728
01:34:20,880 --> 01:34:23,479
Speaker 2: Brownie James. I'm rooting for the Lakers. You know, I

1729
01:34:23,560 --> 01:34:28,000
Speaker 2: am a Lakers fan, but I have a lot of

1730
01:34:28,040 --> 01:34:31,280
Speaker 2: concerns because this is a roster that won forty seven

1731
01:34:31,320 --> 01:34:34,800
Speaker 2: games with Lebron and Ad healthy last year and a

1732
01:34:34,880 --> 01:34:37,360
Speaker 2: first round exit in the playoffs. For me to think

1733
01:34:37,400 --> 01:34:40,320
Speaker 2: they'd have the same cast back and get the same

1734
01:34:40,360 --> 01:34:43,679
Speaker 2: results next season just seems wishful.

1735
01:34:44,240 --> 01:34:47,880
Speaker 10: Boy, with fans like you, Lakers will need me haters.

1736
01:34:48,000 --> 01:34:50,519
Speaker 2: Oh, come on, by the way, this is a guy

1737
01:34:50,560 --> 01:34:53,040
Speaker 2: that I've been when Kobe's last years and the Lakers

1738
01:34:53,080 --> 01:34:55,280
Speaker 2: had losing seasons. Kept telling me every year if they're

1739
01:34:55,280 --> 01:34:58,519
Speaker 2: gonna have a winning season. So uh, Michael, love you man,

1740
01:34:58,560 --> 01:35:00,479
Speaker 2: Thank you so much, and all my best of the

1741
01:35:00,680 --> 01:35:02,000
Speaker 2: entire Thompson family.

1742
01:35:02,400 --> 01:35:04,439
Speaker 10: That's right. If you will want of disciples, you know

1743
01:35:04,439 --> 01:35:06,080
Speaker 10: you'd be camless. You always doubting.

1744
01:35:06,800 --> 01:35:08,640
Speaker 2: By the way, I know Clay loves me. I know

1745
01:35:08,720 --> 01:35:11,080
Speaker 2: trece Lesmian. I know your family loves me, even if

1746
01:35:11,120 --> 01:35:13,280
Speaker 2: you have trepidations exactly.

1747
01:35:13,400 --> 01:35:15,400
Speaker 10: Yeah. I try to convince them to hate you, but

1748
01:35:15,400 --> 01:35:16,400
Speaker 10: they they still like you.

1749
01:35:16,560 --> 01:35:19,439
Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Michael. Great stuff is always thank

1750
01:35:19,520 --> 01:35:22,320
Speaker 2: you there. He is the great Michael Thompson. The Thompson

1751
01:35:22,320 --> 01:35:26,200
Speaker 2: family is an amazing family. And as you know, I

1752
01:35:26,439 --> 01:35:28,600
Speaker 2: don't know his oldest son Michael as well, but I

1753
01:35:28,640 --> 01:35:31,519
Speaker 2: certainly know Clay and a Trace and they're just super

1754
01:35:31,560 --> 01:35:34,519
Speaker 2: young man. It's a great, great family. But Michael is

1755
01:35:34,560 --> 01:35:36,600
Speaker 2: one of those guys. When he became my partner, his

1756
01:35:36,640 --> 01:35:39,519
Speaker 2: former Laker teammates said, you have no idea what you

1757
01:35:39,640 --> 01:35:44,439
Speaker 2: just sign on for. He's so annoying. He is annoying. Hi,

1758
01:35:44,760 --> 01:35:47,599
Speaker 2: a guy that is far from annoying, very informative. Our

1759
01:35:47,600 --> 01:35:51,439
Speaker 2: dear friend John Paul Morosi, our Fox Sports Radio MLB insider,

1760
01:35:51,479 --> 01:35:54,719
Speaker 2: will join US. This is Fox Sports Sunday. Steve Hartman

1761
01:35:54,840 --> 01:35:57,960
Speaker 2: and Rich Roberger. Here Fox Sports Sunday. We are live

1762
01:35:58,000 --> 01:36:01,799
Speaker 2: from the tai Iraq dot Com student is Let's switch gears.

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01:36:02,600 --> 01:36:06,599
Speaker 2: Johnny is right now. Is our esteemed Fox Sports Radio

1764
01:36:06,840 --> 01:36:12,160
Speaker 2: MLB insider, the one, the only John Paul Morosese, JP,

1765
01:36:12,320 --> 01:36:14,839
Speaker 2: Hope you had a great Fourth of July holiday weekend.

1766
01:36:14,840 --> 01:36:18,839
Speaker 2: I want to get right to this. I'm a stats

1767
01:36:18,920 --> 01:36:22,320
Speaker 2: guy that's well chronicled, and every once in a while

1768
01:36:22,320 --> 01:36:25,799
Speaker 2: I see an anomaly with statistics that need to be explaining.

1769
01:36:25,880 --> 01:36:28,599
Speaker 2: Maybe you can do that for me right now, let's go.

1770
01:36:29,160 --> 01:36:36,960
Speaker 2: The Seattle Mariners today have a team batting average of

1771
01:36:37,120 --> 01:36:45,040
Speaker 2: two sixteen. That is, their team batting average to sixteen,

1772
01:36:45,640 --> 01:36:50,479
Speaker 2: dead last in the major leagues, and they're sitting in

1773
01:36:50,560 --> 01:36:55,040
Speaker 2: first place in the Ale West. How's that happened?

1774
01:36:56,400 --> 01:37:01,240
Speaker 7: Their pitching is that good? The division thus far has

1775
01:37:01,280 --> 01:37:05,200
Speaker 7: been that mediocre, although the Astros are beginning to change

1776
01:37:05,200 --> 01:37:07,400
Speaker 7: that narrative with how they've played over the last month.

1777
01:37:08,600 --> 01:37:13,639
Speaker 7: Their run production in terms of timely situations has been

1778
01:37:14,600 --> 01:37:17,600
Speaker 7: better than you would expect. I looked this up the

1779
01:37:17,640 --> 01:37:22,000
Speaker 7: other day. Cal Roley could be the very rare and

1780
01:37:22,320 --> 01:37:24,080
Speaker 7: I'm not even sure how many people in the history

1781
01:37:24,080 --> 01:37:26,439
Speaker 7: of the game have done this who have driven in

1782
01:37:27,240 --> 01:37:30,839
Speaker 7: one hundred runs in the season with a batting average

1783
01:37:30,880 --> 01:37:35,240
Speaker 7: below two hundred. Again, I'll repeat that, a sub two

1784
01:37:35,400 --> 01:37:41,120
Speaker 7: hundred batting average with one hundred RBI, it's not necessarily

1785
01:37:41,439 --> 01:37:43,880
Speaker 7: likely to happen. I tend to think that if he

1786
01:37:43,920 --> 01:37:46,040
Speaker 7: gets two hundred RBI by the end of the season,

1787
01:37:46,080 --> 01:37:49,479
Speaker 7: his batting average will move up above two hundred. But

1788
01:37:49,600 --> 01:37:52,800
Speaker 7: his first half of the year has basically been one

1789
01:37:52,960 --> 01:37:57,000
Speaker 7: ninety seven ninety eight with about fifty RBI, So that's

1790
01:37:57,360 --> 01:38:02,320
Speaker 7: mathematically we're in that in that ballpark. So Julio Rodriguez

1791
01:38:02,439 --> 01:38:05,559
Speaker 7: is that a four starts the season, But some of

1792
01:38:05,600 --> 01:38:10,759
Speaker 7: their other complimentary players, Dylan Moore among them, have actually

1793
01:38:10,760 --> 01:38:13,320
Speaker 7: been pretty good. Dominic can Zone when healthy, has been

1794
01:38:13,320 --> 01:38:18,760
Speaker 7: pretty good. So it's been a very confusing lineup. I

1795
01:38:18,800 --> 01:38:22,400
Speaker 7: think the premise of your question, though, is very fair,

1796
01:38:22,920 --> 01:38:25,400
Speaker 7: and I would answer it in one of two ways.

1797
01:38:25,800 --> 01:38:28,880
Speaker 7: If they continue to bat in the low two hundreds

1798
01:38:29,160 --> 01:38:32,080
Speaker 7: over the big one sixty two, Houston is going to

1799
01:38:32,120 --> 01:38:35,400
Speaker 7: catch them, because Houston's offense is trending in a better direction.

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01:38:36,040 --> 01:38:39,400
Speaker 7: If Seattle wants to still be in first place when

1801
01:38:39,439 --> 01:38:42,320
Speaker 7: the season is over, that average is going to have

1802
01:38:42,400 --> 01:38:45,519
Speaker 7: to come up or else simply. Really, the one team

1803
01:38:45,520 --> 01:38:47,240
Speaker 7: that I think has a good chance to catch them

1804
01:38:47,360 --> 01:38:51,160
Speaker 7: is Houston because Texas has had a poor first half.

1805
01:38:51,520 --> 01:38:55,280
Speaker 7: The Angels look like sellers again. Oakland, as we know,

1806
01:38:55,720 --> 01:38:59,120
Speaker 7: isn't also ran in this division, getting ready to go

1807
01:38:59,160 --> 01:39:03,519
Speaker 7: to Sacramento eventually and then to Las Vegas. So I

1808
01:39:03,560 --> 01:39:06,840
Speaker 7: really think the division has allowed this to be true.

1809
01:39:07,360 --> 01:39:09,320
Speaker 7: But I don't think, guys, that it's going to be

1810
01:39:09,360 --> 01:39:10,480
Speaker 7: true for six months.

1811
01:39:11,520 --> 01:39:15,000
Speaker 3: What is going on with the Yankees? They started the

1812
01:39:15,080 --> 01:39:19,920
Speaker 3: season so promising. Obviously they made some offseason acquisitions want Soto,

1813
01:39:20,000 --> 01:39:24,439
Speaker 3: Alex Verdugo. But these past twenty games or so have

1814
01:39:24,680 --> 01:39:28,280
Speaker 3: just been terrible. They got the win win was it

1815
01:39:28,320 --> 01:39:30,599
Speaker 3: was it today or yesterday over the Red Sox?

1816
01:39:30,720 --> 01:39:34,000
Speaker 7: Yesterday the highest scoring game with Ben Rice three home runs.

1817
01:39:34,080 --> 01:39:36,320
Speaker 3: There you go, Yeah, fourteen to four victory over the

1818
01:39:36,360 --> 01:39:41,880
Speaker 3: Red Sox. But that's after as of Friday being five

1819
01:39:42,040 --> 01:39:45,519
Speaker 3: and fifteen over the last twenty games. I mean, just

1820
01:39:45,640 --> 01:39:49,519
Speaker 3: really struggling. What's up with the Yankees? Why are they slumping?

1821
01:39:50,800 --> 01:39:50,960
Speaker 10: Well?

1822
01:39:51,000 --> 01:39:54,560
Speaker 7: I think a couple reasons. Number one up until yesterday,

1823
01:39:54,840 --> 01:39:57,800
Speaker 7: where maybe it now looks like Ben Rice is going

1824
01:39:57,840 --> 01:40:00,879
Speaker 7: to be their answer at first base. They were missing

1825
01:40:00,920 --> 01:40:03,920
Speaker 7: the level of production that they used to get from

1826
01:40:03,920 --> 01:40:07,160
Speaker 7: Anthony Rizzo. Rizzo was on the il over the long term,

1827
01:40:07,439 --> 01:40:11,559
Speaker 7: as is John Carlos Stanton. Stanton did have a solid

1828
01:40:11,600 --> 01:40:14,360
Speaker 7: start to the year, but the Stanton injury and the

1829
01:40:14,439 --> 01:40:18,160
Speaker 7: Rizzo injury happened right around the same time. Cleyber Torres

1830
01:40:18,200 --> 01:40:22,080
Speaker 7: has been by and large a disappointment this year. DJ

1831
01:40:22,200 --> 01:40:24,760
Speaker 7: Lemayhew has never really gotten all the way back from

1832
01:40:24,760 --> 01:40:28,599
Speaker 7: his foot issues. He's batting under two hundred. The catching position,

1833
01:40:28,760 --> 01:40:30,759
Speaker 7: they've not gotten a ton of offense out of either,

1834
01:40:31,120 --> 01:40:33,600
Speaker 7: and so when you line up all of those elements,

1835
01:40:34,240 --> 01:40:39,280
Speaker 7: they need Soto and Judge to be MVPs or else.

1836
01:40:39,320 --> 01:40:41,560
Speaker 7: The rest of the lineup is simply not going to

1837
01:40:41,600 --> 01:40:44,320
Speaker 7: be able to be productive enough for them to win

1838
01:40:44,400 --> 01:40:48,559
Speaker 7: games consistently. And it seems like finally it caught up

1839
01:40:48,560 --> 01:40:51,400
Speaker 7: with them a little bit that they didn't have Garrett

1840
01:40:51,439 --> 01:40:54,000
Speaker 7: Cole until recently. Louis Heel came out at the beginning

1841
01:40:54,040 --> 01:40:55,639
Speaker 7: of the year and was one of the best pitchers

1842
01:40:55,640 --> 01:40:58,680
Speaker 7: in baseball for the first two months, been less so

1843
01:40:59,320 --> 01:41:02,880
Speaker 7: the case over the last month, so their bullpen is

1844
01:41:02,920 --> 01:41:07,200
Speaker 7: still really good, but from where I sit, they probably

1845
01:41:07,240 --> 01:41:11,000
Speaker 7: need at least one starter, maybe one leverage reliever, and

1846
01:41:11,040 --> 01:41:13,320
Speaker 7: then probably a bat if they really want to win

1847
01:41:13,320 --> 01:41:16,479
Speaker 7: the World Series. They might be able to still hold

1848
01:41:16,520 --> 01:41:19,680
Speaker 7: on and win the division with the current cast, but

1849
01:41:19,840 --> 01:41:22,639
Speaker 7: I don't see enough depth to get all the way

1850
01:41:22,680 --> 01:41:26,200
Speaker 7: through the playoffs with this particular roster. They need some

1851
01:41:26,240 --> 01:41:30,559
Speaker 7: more improvements. Now Baltimore. I think they're going to get

1852
01:41:30,560 --> 01:41:33,840
Speaker 7: even better in the second half, and that's because Baltimore

1853
01:41:34,000 --> 01:41:39,360
Speaker 7: has more prospect capital to move to upgrade their team

1854
01:41:39,800 --> 01:41:42,960
Speaker 7: at the deadline, which is now coming up. Goodness, my friends,

1855
01:41:43,000 --> 01:41:45,600
Speaker 7: just three weeks from Tuesday, so it's going to be

1856
01:41:45,640 --> 01:41:48,080
Speaker 7: a very busy month ahead. Of course, we got the

1857
01:41:48,120 --> 01:41:50,519
Speaker 7: All Star Game a week from Tuesday, a lot of

1858
01:41:50,560 --> 01:41:53,639
Speaker 7: really great storylines happening. But I do tend to think

1859
01:41:53,680 --> 01:41:57,200
Speaker 7: that with the Yankees, it's been too dependent on a

1860
01:41:57,280 --> 01:42:00,400
Speaker 7: couple players in that lineup, and then when you face

1861
01:42:01,200 --> 01:42:05,160
Speaker 7: really good pitchers or just credible, smart major league pitchers

1862
01:42:05,160 --> 01:42:08,280
Speaker 7: that game plan well, they're basically just gonna say, listen,

1863
01:42:09,040 --> 01:42:12,880
Speaker 7: if you're a lefty, we're not gonna let judge beat you.

1864
01:42:13,160 --> 01:42:15,559
Speaker 7: If you're writing, we're not gonna let Soto beat you.

1865
01:42:15,840 --> 01:42:18,920
Speaker 7: We're gonna pitch carefully to the other guy, and then

1866
01:42:19,520 --> 01:42:23,719
Speaker 7: we're gonna challenge Faulty or Ben Rice or a slumping

1867
01:42:23,840 --> 01:42:26,960
Speaker 7: labor Torres that they're gonna have to find ways to

1868
01:42:26,960 --> 01:42:29,519
Speaker 7: beat us. And I think over the last month the

1869
01:42:29,560 --> 01:42:33,960
Speaker 7: opposition has been more successful in in navigating those two

1870
01:42:34,680 --> 01:42:38,160
Speaker 7: massive offensive threats in the middle of the lineup, because

1871
01:42:38,200 --> 01:42:40,479
Speaker 7: if you can do that, you've got a much better

1872
01:42:40,600 --> 01:42:43,679
Speaker 7: chance than usual to beat the Yankees All star lineups.

1873
01:42:43,680 --> 01:42:46,799
Speaker 2: Obviously starting lineups were announced. I was excited for Jerks

1874
01:42:46,880 --> 01:42:50,639
Speaker 2: and Profar because fall in with the podrais yet story.

1875
01:42:50,720 --> 01:42:51,160
Speaker 1: What I mean.

1876
01:42:51,479 --> 01:42:53,800
Speaker 2: I mean, this one guy at one time was being

1877
01:42:54,040 --> 01:42:58,280
Speaker 2: talked about as a potential perennial All Star very early

1878
01:42:58,320 --> 01:43:01,920
Speaker 2: in his career, and then it's to go sideways. Padres

1879
01:43:01,920 --> 01:43:04,800
Speaker 2: decided to keep him as a utility guy. But the

1880
01:43:04,840 --> 01:43:07,680
Speaker 2: guy I want to talk about is Stephen Kwan. So

1881
01:43:07,840 --> 01:43:10,760
Speaker 2: this guy has been a glove guy, you know, two

1882
01:43:10,840 --> 01:43:13,120
Speaker 2: years in the majors with the Guardians, a couple of

1883
01:43:13,160 --> 01:43:16,120
Speaker 2: gold gloves, you know, like about a two seventy hitter,

1884
01:43:16,400 --> 01:43:19,479
Speaker 2: nothing special, no real power, and all of a sudden,

1885
01:43:19,479 --> 01:43:21,639
Speaker 2: the guy's hitting three to sixty five and he's had

1886
01:43:21,640 --> 01:43:25,400
Speaker 2: a two hundred and fifty three point rise in his ops.

1887
01:43:25,439 --> 01:43:27,960
Speaker 2: What the heck is he eating? Well?

1888
01:43:28,000 --> 01:43:30,479
Speaker 11: He is one of the smartest players in the game,

1889
01:43:31,479 --> 01:43:35,080
Speaker 11: really smart, and has talked a lot about what he's

1890
01:43:35,160 --> 01:43:39,080
Speaker 11: learned with mental health and how to allow himself through

1891
01:43:39,120 --> 01:43:43,360
Speaker 11: meditation and just to really taken care of his emotional

1892
01:43:43,400 --> 01:43:45,320
Speaker 11: health to be able to be his best.

1893
01:43:45,120 --> 01:43:45,679
Speaker 1: On the field.

1894
01:43:45,720 --> 01:43:48,160
Speaker 7: That's been one key thing. The other piece is he's

1895
01:43:48,160 --> 01:43:50,280
Speaker 7: been able to add more power, and so if you

1896
01:43:50,320 --> 01:43:53,200
Speaker 7: look at his power numbers, he's already basically a surpassed

1897
01:43:53,320 --> 01:43:55,840
Speaker 7: the home run total from last year in the first

1898
01:43:55,840 --> 01:43:58,960
Speaker 7: three months of the season. So I think he's getting stronger.

1899
01:43:59,600 --> 01:44:01,840
Speaker 7: He's built thing up a really solid base now of

1900
01:44:02,439 --> 01:44:05,360
Speaker 7: major league at bats to where when you've got someone

1901
01:44:05,439 --> 01:44:08,519
Speaker 7: who's as smart as kwan Is and he's he's played chess,

1902
01:44:08,560 --> 01:44:10,920
Speaker 7: he's actually that's one of the things he's actually done

1903
01:44:11,000 --> 01:44:14,880
Speaker 7: to help engage with young people in Cleveland is to

1904
01:44:14,920 --> 01:44:18,679
Speaker 7: play chess with them and against them, really using his mind.

1905
01:44:19,320 --> 01:44:22,320
Speaker 7: So he's a true student of the game. And I

1906
01:44:22,360 --> 01:44:24,800
Speaker 7: think that he just has such great knowledge of his

1907
01:44:24,920 --> 01:44:30,400
Speaker 7: balanced body awareness swings that he's become an extraordinary player

1908
01:44:30,760 --> 01:44:33,479
Speaker 7: in a great force. Came from a great college program

1909
01:44:33,520 --> 01:44:35,320
Speaker 7: in Oregon State, so he had a lot of high

1910
01:44:35,400 --> 01:44:39,520
Speaker 7: level baseball even before he signed professionally. And I just think, guys,

1911
01:44:39,560 --> 01:44:42,320
Speaker 7: it's just for me, Steve. It just it speaks to

1912
01:44:42,400 --> 01:44:48,640
Speaker 7: the the the wonder of baseball that the same outfield

1913
01:44:49,040 --> 01:44:52,840
Speaker 7: at the All Star Game will have Aaron Judge and

1914
01:44:52,880 --> 01:44:56,640
Speaker 7: Stephen Kwan. Aaron Judge, who obviously is one of the

1915
01:44:56,640 --> 01:45:00,360
Speaker 7: most imposing people you'll ever meet in life, just to

1916
01:45:00,479 --> 01:45:03,920
Speaker 7: sheer physical strength and athleticism, and then Stephen Kwan, who

1917
01:45:04,000 --> 01:45:08,479
Speaker 7: just has a very different body presence and athleticism, but

1918
01:45:08,560 --> 01:45:13,680
Speaker 7: they're both extraordinary baseball players in their own way. And

1919
01:45:14,120 --> 01:45:16,160
Speaker 7: as someone who loves the game and wants to always

1920
01:45:16,280 --> 01:45:20,680
Speaker 7: draw attention to the diversity of it. Yes, it's a

1921
01:45:20,720 --> 01:45:26,000
Speaker 7: diversity of country of origin and your personal and cultural traditions,

1922
01:45:26,040 --> 01:45:28,920
Speaker 7: all those things, but just the diversity of body types

1923
01:45:28,960 --> 01:45:32,200
Speaker 7: and who is able to thrive in this game, I

1924
01:45:32,240 --> 01:45:35,080
Speaker 7: just think is something that as a parent and as

1925
01:45:35,120 --> 01:45:38,080
Speaker 7: someone who's coached youth sports, I just love being able

1926
01:45:38,120 --> 01:45:40,439
Speaker 7: to share that with young people that hey no matter

1927
01:45:40,520 --> 01:45:43,439
Speaker 7: how you view yourself and who you are, there's a

1928
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Speaker 7: place for you in this game. And I really think

1929
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Speaker 7: that having Stephen Kwan on the field starting for the

1930
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Speaker 7: American League on Tuesday is going to represent something very

1931
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Speaker 7: powerful for a lot of families.

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Speaker 1: Across the world, no question about it.

1933
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that diversity of you know, body types. It's really

1934
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Speaker 3: one of the few sports where a Jose Altuve could

1935
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Speaker 3: stand on second next to you know, I mean Fernando

1936
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Speaker 3: Tatis Junior for example, he used to play shortstop before

1937
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Speaker 3: he was moved to outfield, who towered over him in

1938
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Speaker 3: the infield, and they can both be successful players in

1939
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Speaker 3: this league. It's amazing speaking of you know, a foreign

1940
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Speaker 3: born player who's had success playing in Major League Baseball,

1941
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Speaker 3: Shoheo Tani just dhing this year due to the elbow injury,

1942
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Speaker 3: still recovering from. Seems like he snapped the slump he

1943
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Speaker 3: was in yesterday two for two to two RBI day,

1944
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Speaker 3: But that doesn't tell the whole story when you look

1945
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Speaker 3: at the five played appearances. He was hit by a pitch,

1946
01:46:39,920 --> 01:46:42,760
Speaker 3: he stole a base hit, a home run, tripled, he

1947
01:46:42,800 --> 01:46:45,880
Speaker 3: had two walks, so he really he worked for it

1948
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Speaker 3: in a five to three victory for the Dodgers. One

1949
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Speaker 3: of the storylines that has kind of gone away, and

1950
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Speaker 3: I'm curious your thoughts is this fact that his interpreter

1951
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Speaker 3: got into all this trouble and shoe hey Otani. There

1952
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Speaker 3: was speculation of his involvement for a time because obviously

1953
01:47:05,600 --> 01:47:08,360
Speaker 3: the facts were still being sorted out earlier in the season,

1954
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Speaker 3: major League Baseball having their investigation, a federal investigation occurring

1955
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Speaker 3: alongside of all of that, and Mitch o'harror facing a

1956
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Speaker 3: penalty obviously legally for his actions. Shoe he Otani has

1957
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Speaker 3: been able to completely compartmentalize all of that and play

1958
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Speaker 3: at an all star level, potentially an MVP level.

1959
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Speaker 1: How on earth has he been able to do this?

1960
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Speaker 4: Well?

1961
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Speaker 7: I think it's a great question, Rich and it's something

1962
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Speaker 7: that I think when we go back to how this

1963
01:47:39,320 --> 01:47:42,000
Speaker 7: regular season began, and this was the dominant story in

1964
01:47:42,040 --> 01:47:45,960
Speaker 7: American sports for a period of time, and I do

1965
01:47:46,040 --> 01:47:49,160
Speaker 7: think that and Dave Roberts shared this with us. We

1966
01:47:49,160 --> 01:47:52,120
Speaker 7: were there for the opening day, the domestic opening day,

1967
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Speaker 7: and then actually the beginning of a series against the Giants,

1968
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Speaker 7: and during those conversations, Dave Roberts told our MLB Network

1969
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Speaker 7: broadcast crew. So this is when that story was first

1970
01:48:02,760 --> 01:48:06,439
Speaker 7: very hot and very fresh. He said, I've never quite

1971
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Speaker 7: seen someone compartmentalize as well as Otani has, And that

1972
01:48:10,800 --> 01:48:14,519
Speaker 7: was from his manager being very president and right there

1973
01:48:14,520 --> 01:48:17,439
Speaker 7: in those conversations and observing it up close. I think

1974
01:48:17,479 --> 01:48:20,839
Speaker 7: that too, from talking to people around the Dodgers, especially

1975
01:48:20,880 --> 01:48:25,479
Speaker 7: at that time, it did seem as though maybe that

1976
01:48:25,479 --> 01:48:30,160
Speaker 7: that Misuhara himself had created a bit of a barrier

1977
01:48:30,240 --> 01:48:33,760
Speaker 7: between Otani and his teammates and Otani and the organization,

1978
01:48:34,360 --> 01:48:38,960
Speaker 7: and that once obviously he was dismissed and a new interpreter,

1979
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Speaker 7: Will Ireton, who has been a part of the organization

1980
01:48:41,160 --> 01:48:45,160
Speaker 7: for a long time, was brought in, that Otani seemed

1981
01:48:45,160 --> 01:48:49,160
Speaker 7: to be more approachable to his peers and the organization

1982
01:48:49,760 --> 01:48:52,080
Speaker 7: and just got to be a bit more comfortable. And

1983
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Speaker 7: so I guess that in that context, rich to the

1984
01:48:56,920 --> 01:48:58,840
Speaker 7: extent that and you know this from a standpoint of

1985
01:48:58,880 --> 01:49:01,960
Speaker 7: being in a professional being in the locker rooms, that

1986
01:49:02,840 --> 01:49:07,600
Speaker 7: maybe it took that ability to be closer to his teammates,

1987
01:49:08,680 --> 01:49:10,760
Speaker 7: and certainly the way in which it happened was not

1988
01:49:10,800 --> 01:49:14,519
Speaker 7: something to anybody envision and certainly it's very sad that

1989
01:49:14,560 --> 01:49:17,880
Speaker 7: he had to go through it, but the relationships being

1990
01:49:17,960 --> 01:49:21,599
Speaker 7: stronger and more authentic with his teammates has been an

1991
01:49:21,640 --> 01:49:24,360
Speaker 7: undeniable positive for him. And it seems to me that,

1992
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Speaker 7: however tumultuous that period of time was, the end result

1993
01:49:28,720 --> 01:49:33,040
Speaker 7: from his individual experience is that he has a new

1994
01:49:33,040 --> 01:49:37,200
Speaker 7: interpreter who is much more in tune with everybody else

1995
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Speaker 7: around him, and I think it's resulted in better teammate

1996
01:49:41,000 --> 01:49:45,120
Speaker 7: relationships for him, and that I think is really important

1997
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Speaker 7: and Shoey deserves an immense amount of credit for that.

1998
01:49:47,880 --> 01:49:50,960
Speaker 7: It's certainly assigned the largest contract in the history of

1999
01:49:51,000 --> 01:49:53,840
Speaker 7: North American pro sports, and then that's the way your

2000
01:49:53,880 --> 01:49:56,439
Speaker 7: first season begins. It was again after Game one, I

2001
01:49:56,520 --> 01:49:58,200
Speaker 7: was there and Seul when it all happened, it was

2002
01:49:58,520 --> 01:50:01,840
Speaker 7: it was surreal. But I think now you've got to

2003
01:50:01,880 --> 01:50:04,280
Speaker 7: credit him for the way that he's handled things, and

2004
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Speaker 7: it's been a remarkable first half. He's leading the National

2005
01:50:07,720 --> 01:50:11,280
Speaker 7: League in OPS and I think it shows by the

2006
01:50:11,320 --> 01:50:14,080
Speaker 7: way he's leading the NL and OPS at a time

2007
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Speaker 7: when the other part of his full time job is

2008
01:50:17,040 --> 01:50:19,400
Speaker 7: to rehab his arm and get it ready for next season.

2009
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Speaker 7: So it's just remarkable what he's been able to do.

2010
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Speaker 7: And let's not forget too that the last number of

2011
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Speaker 7: weeks they've been without Mookie Betts and so you're without

2012
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Speaker 7: one of the other MVP front runners for a long

2013
01:50:32,840 --> 01:50:35,640
Speaker 7: period of time. And now it's up to show A

2014
01:50:35,840 --> 01:50:39,040
Speaker 7: and Freddie Freeman and Will Smith to listen, they're blessed

2015
01:50:39,040 --> 01:50:42,519
Speaker 7: with a tremendous depth of offensive talent. But that was

2016
01:50:42,520 --> 01:50:44,880
Speaker 7: a shock to the system too, losing someone like Mooki,

2017
01:50:44,920 --> 01:50:47,280
Speaker 7: who's the catalyst of the team. So I think you

2018
01:50:47,400 --> 01:50:50,120
Speaker 7: have to give show An a plus for the first

2019
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Speaker 7: half of his career, the first half of season one

2020
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Speaker 7: of his career with the Los Angeles Dodgers.

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Speaker 2: All right, great stuff, JP. Of course, we got the

2022
01:50:56,840 --> 01:50:58,519
Speaker 2: All Star Game coming up, and then we're going to

2023
01:50:58,560 --> 01:51:01,120
Speaker 2: get into that trade deadlines. See if any big names

2024
01:51:01,120 --> 01:51:03,439
Speaker 2: are going to be moved around Major League Baseball. This

2025
01:51:03,560 --> 01:51:06,280
Speaker 2: man will be all over it and joining us every

2026
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Speaker 2: single Sunday. JP, have a great week. We'll talk to

2027
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Speaker 2: you next Sunday.

2028
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Speaker 7: My favorite month of the year, My friends, looking forward

2029
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Speaker 7: to all the best. Hold everybody out of safe and

2030
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Speaker 7: happy for the July weekend. All the best friends.

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Speaker 2: Thank thanks so much. The great John Paul Morosi joining us.

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Speaker 1: There.

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Speaker 2: Now let's find out what is trending. She's been on hold.

2034
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Speaker 2: We had it sort of a shifting of our clock

2035
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Speaker 2: with the extent of Michael Thompson interview, and we had

2036
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Speaker 2: to get a lot of questions in for JP Monts

2037
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Speaker 2: and we got to give Monzies mic God, right now,

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Speaker 2: that would be good.

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Speaker 10: Thank you?

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Speaker 1: There We all hello.

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Speaker 6: Yes, No, I'll let it slide this time just because

2042
01:51:44,280 --> 01:51:45,960
Speaker 6: it was Michael Thompson and JP.

2043
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Speaker 2: But next time I'm not gonna let it slide, all right.

2044
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Speaker 6: I also really have to use the rushrooms, so it

2045
01:51:50,640 --> 01:51:51,680
Speaker 6: couldn't have been at a worse time.

2046
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Speaker 2: No, we're good, guys, We're good. Everything's fine talking Yes, no, guys.

2047
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Speaker 6: Nineteen seed Eminavarrow has upset two seats Coco Golf at

2048
01:52:01,280 --> 01:52:05,320
Speaker 6: Wimbledon in straight sets. She's advancing to her first Grand

2049
01:52:05,439 --> 01:52:08,800
Speaker 6: Slam quarter final. On the men's side, number one seed

2050
01:52:08,840 --> 01:52:11,559
Speaker 6: Yannick Singer and number three seed Carlos alcraz won their

2051
01:52:11,600 --> 01:52:14,760
Speaker 6: fourth round matches. They're also headed to the quarterfinals in

2052
01:52:14,800 --> 01:52:18,280
Speaker 6: Formula one. Lewis Hamilton won the British Grand Prix in

2053
01:52:18,360 --> 01:52:21,679
Speaker 6: the NBA. This just tweeted by shams of the athletic

2054
01:52:21,760 --> 01:52:24,920
Speaker 6: three time gold medalist Kevin Durant's sideline for the startup

2055
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Speaker 6: Team USA training camp due to a strained calf. In

2056
01:52:28,560 --> 01:52:31,960
Speaker 6: the WNBA right now, Asia Wilson's got eighteen points and

2057
01:52:32,000 --> 01:52:34,559
Speaker 6: the Aces are beating the Wings sixty to forty eight

2058
01:52:34,720 --> 01:52:37,280
Speaker 6: early in the third quarter. Earlier today, the Sun beat

2059
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Speaker 6: the dream eighty to sixty seven. Connecticut is tied for

2060
01:52:39,760 --> 01:52:41,760
Speaker 6: the best record in the league with the New York

2061
01:52:41,800 --> 01:52:45,519
Speaker 6: Liberty at seventeen and four. In Major League Baseball, the

2062
01:52:45,520 --> 01:52:47,840
Speaker 6: Braves hit four homers. They shut out the Phillies six

2063
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Speaker 6: to zero. The Tigers with the five to one win

2064
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Speaker 6: over the Reds. The Guardians came back to beat the

2065
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Speaker 6: Giants five to four, and Jake Berger just walked it

2066
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Speaker 6: off with walked it off for the Marlins a three

2067
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Speaker 6: run shot. They beat the White Sox seven four. The

2068
01:53:00,320 --> 01:53:04,160
Speaker 6: Cardinals outscored the Nationals eight three. Francisco Lindor had a

2069
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Speaker 6: two RBI single giving the Mets a three to two

2070
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Speaker 6: lead in the ninth and they secured the victory over

2071
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Speaker 6: the Pittsburgh Pirates. Games going on right now at Tie

2072
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Speaker 6: one in Minnesota between the Astros and the Twins tied

2073
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Speaker 6: at two apiece. They're about to start the bottom of

2074
01:53:16,960 --> 01:53:20,840
Speaker 6: the ninth inning. The Rangers have exploded after Corey Seeger hit.

2075
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Speaker 1: A three run shot.

2076
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Speaker 6: They just kept scoring. They're all over the Rays twelve

2077
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Speaker 6: to two. Top of the eighth inning. The Royals are

2078
01:53:26,439 --> 01:53:29,479
Speaker 6: blanking the Rockies five zero. Bottom of the seventh. The

2079
01:53:29,520 --> 01:53:32,240
Speaker 6: Orioles are shutting out the A's four zero bottom of

2080
01:53:32,280 --> 01:53:35,120
Speaker 6: the second. The Diamondbacks and the Padres are tied at

2081
01:53:35,160 --> 01:53:37,920
Speaker 6: one apiece after two innings, while the Brewers and the

2082
01:53:37,960 --> 01:53:40,559
Speaker 6: Dodgers are scoreless after two innings, and the Blue Jays

2083
01:53:40,560 --> 01:53:43,000
Speaker 6: and the Mariners are scoreless in the bottom of the

2084
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Speaker 6: second inning.

2085
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Speaker 9: Back to you guys, it's all right, all.

2086
01:53:46,800 --> 01:53:50,000
Speaker 2: Right, man, do what you have to do right now.

2087
01:53:50,080 --> 01:53:52,639
Speaker 2: I have to do I know, and do it right now.

2088
01:53:52,800 --> 01:53:55,040
Speaker 2: All right. On the other side, we will get to

2089
01:53:55,520 --> 01:53:57,760
Speaker 2: our thoughts about the upcoming week. I also want to

2090
01:53:57,800 --> 01:54:02,480
Speaker 2: talk about a sport the needs a Caitlin Clark infusion.

2091
01:54:03,200 --> 01:54:06,800
Speaker 2: This is Fox Sports Sunday. Steve Harbady read Chrnberger Fox

2092
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Speaker 2: Sports Sunday Live from the tire rag dot Com studios.

2093
01:54:09,920 --> 01:54:14,479
Speaker 2: Want to thank are supporting crew. Second to none, of course,

2094
01:54:14,840 --> 01:54:18,400
Speaker 2: the legend herself. Moncey Belanios taking care of business. Now

2095
01:54:18,439 --> 01:54:26,160
Speaker 2: back in her seat. Chris is on the board. Hello,

2096
01:54:27,200 --> 01:54:29,360
Speaker 2: have you been watching all this soccer action here?

2097
01:54:29,520 --> 01:54:32,480
Speaker 8: Absolutely? Absolutely? I know you're not a fan. I do

2098
01:54:32,600 --> 01:54:35,960
Speaker 8: not care to indulge in any of your complaints about soccer,

2099
01:54:36,040 --> 01:54:40,960
Speaker 8: but hey, on Big Fox Cope America, Euros this has

2100
01:54:40,960 --> 01:54:44,640
Speaker 8: been phenomenal stuff asides from Team USA just deciding to

2101
01:54:44,800 --> 01:54:47,760
Speaker 8: just lay the biggest egg I've ever seen in my life.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well again, that's this is the problem again. If

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01:54:51,840 --> 01:54:54,280
Speaker 2: if the United States is not relevant in a sport,

2104
01:54:54,600 --> 01:54:59,280
Speaker 2: it's hard for me. I'm sorry. Yeah, what are way

2105
01:54:59,360 --> 01:55:01,000
Speaker 2: up though? On Big Fox?

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01:55:01,720 --> 01:55:04,200
Speaker 8: People care about soccer in this country, but I do

2107
01:55:04,280 --> 01:55:06,160
Speaker 8: not know if they will if those same people will

2108
01:55:06,160 --> 01:55:09,040
Speaker 8: care about Team USA as long as Team USA keeps

2109
01:55:09,040 --> 01:55:12,160
Speaker 8: going out there and stinking it up against a Panama

2110
01:55:12,320 --> 01:55:13,400
Speaker 8: country we created.

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Speaker 2: Well, I've been doing TV this weekend, so I did

2112
01:55:15,400 --> 01:55:18,080
Speaker 2: a lot of Copa America coverage, so I got all

2113
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Speaker 2: the names down and I was really good at yesterday. Bo,

2114
01:55:21,360 --> 01:55:23,360
Speaker 2: did you have a chance to talk any off air

2115
01:55:23,560 --> 01:55:26,360
Speaker 2: with Michael Thompson not a Laker inside?

2116
01:55:26,400 --> 01:55:27,000
Speaker 1: I did not.

2117
01:55:27,400 --> 01:55:29,960
Speaker 9: We had to get his phone working, and then we

2118
01:55:30,040 --> 01:55:32,200
Speaker 9: let Michael go I have I have two things grinding

2119
01:55:32,240 --> 01:55:33,680
Speaker 9: my gears right now, Steve, can I tell you one

2120
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Speaker 9: of them?

2121
01:55:33,960 --> 01:55:34,240
Speaker 2: Sure?

2122
01:55:35,320 --> 01:55:37,960
Speaker 9: Well, I guess number one is Paul George wearing number eight.

2123
01:55:38,840 --> 01:55:40,160
Speaker 9: That's he.

2124
01:55:40,160 --> 01:55:40,680
Speaker 1: He might be.

2125
01:55:40,680 --> 01:55:44,400
Speaker 9: Lamer than Jason Tatum. It's hard to tell. The Other

2126
01:55:44,440 --> 01:55:48,680
Speaker 9: thing is, I don't know why the Giants allowed the

2127
01:55:49,320 --> 01:55:52,240
Speaker 9: roundtable discussion about Saquon Barkley to be aired on TV,

2128
01:55:52,360 --> 01:55:56,560
Speaker 9: but I'm glad they did. That was really funny. Good

2129
01:55:56,640 --> 01:55:59,400
Speaker 9: thing that guy doesn't play you twice next year at least.

2130
01:55:59,200 --> 01:56:05,960
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, so interesting stuff there, Yeah, sa Kwon Barkley.

2131
01:56:06,480 --> 01:56:08,520
Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, Paul George is really man.

2132
01:56:08,640 --> 01:56:13,800
Speaker 2: Paul George. Uh, I think the Clippers. Uh that's edition

2133
01:56:13,880 --> 01:56:18,080
Speaker 2: by subtraction. I I you know, And it's not a

2134
01:56:18,240 --> 01:56:21,200
Speaker 2: it's not a personal thing with Paul George. It's just

2135
01:56:21,280 --> 01:56:24,760
Speaker 2: his game. I mean, in my opinion, Rich, he may

2136
01:56:24,760 --> 01:56:29,720
Speaker 2: be the most overrated All Star in the NBA.

2137
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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 3: Well, the problem is he's effective the when available, I

2139
01:56:37,520 --> 01:56:42,320
Speaker 3: mean over the I guess past handful of years since

2140
01:56:42,320 --> 01:56:46,200
Speaker 3: he's been in LA hand selected by Kawhi Leonard, I mean,

2141
01:56:46,480 --> 01:56:48,120
Speaker 3: how often are they on the.

2142
01:56:48,080 --> 01:56:50,280
Speaker 1: Court together during that span of time.

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Speaker 3: Just that to the answer that question, it kind of

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Speaker 3: spells out all the issues with the Clippers over the

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Speaker 3: course of their time with these two superstars or all

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Speaker 3: stars or false all stars, whatever you want to say.

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Speaker 3: I looked at him as a star, look at him

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Speaker 3: as a productive player. I just I just think from

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Speaker 3: the standpoint of what the Clippers got out of that

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Speaker 3: deal or got out of Paul George during the time

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Speaker 3: with him, just it was it was due to the

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Speaker 3: fact that they couldn't keep those two stars healthy, it

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Speaker 3: seemed at the same time, at any point during their tenure.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but consider what they gave up or had to

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Speaker 2: give up, including Shay Gilgis Alexander to get him, and

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Speaker 2: then he walks away and they get nothing. Yeah, I

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Speaker 2: think they got nothing while he was there. They weren't

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Speaker 2: any better with Paul George than they were pre Paul George.

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Speaker 9: I think it's just the perfect encapsulation of this new

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Speaker 9: second apron because you have Steve Balmer, probably the richest

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Speaker 9: man in the NBA. Yes, it has no desire whatsoever

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Speaker 9: to be a part of what he would have to

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Speaker 9: pay for that team.

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Speaker 2: So yeah, it's amazing. I mean, the man has enough

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Speaker 2: money to literally buy the entire league. I'm gonna give

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Speaker 2: you a sport that desperately is in need of a

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Speaker 2: Caitlin Clark. That is women's tennis. Cocoa Goff just lost

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Speaker 2: again at Wimbledon before the quarterfinals. She's never reached the court.

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Speaker 2: Remember she had her breakout five years ago in her

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Speaker 2: first ever Grand Slam tournament, and she made it to

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Speaker 2: the fourth round of Wimbledon. We're all talking about Coco Goff.

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Speaker 2: She did win the US Open last year. But let's

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Speaker 2: face it, in tennis, by far the biggest stage is Wimbledon.

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Speaker 2: You know, you can make arguments about you know, majors

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Speaker 2: and golf as masters bigger than the US Open and

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Speaker 2: the Open Championship. There is no argument. In tennis, thank

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Speaker 2: you very much. Wimbledon is by far the biggest stage

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Speaker 2: and last year's champion, I can't even remember her name,

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Speaker 2: went down in the first round. This is a sport,

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Speaker 2: women's tennis that has had so many stars, the latest

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Speaker 2: obviously being Serena A, Chris Evert, Martine Nevrat, to Loovo

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Speaker 2: go down the list and it is anonymous right now?

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Speaker 8: Is it one of those problems because you kind of

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Speaker 8: always worried about this with golf and Tiger would go

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Speaker 8: and I always felt like, yeah, there word names in

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Speaker 8: women's tennis before, but not to the transformative level that

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Speaker 8: Serena had on tennis.

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Speaker 2: And we start we're getting so many one time Grand

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Speaker 2: Slam winners on the women's side now and they just disappear.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, and we we've gotten teased by stuff like leg

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Speaker 8: Osaka and Cocoa Goff and it's just nobody. I think

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Speaker 8: it's going to be hard to ask anybody to show

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Speaker 8: that level of dominance.

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Speaker 2: That tech wins the French. You know, nobody cares about

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Speaker 2: the French. Who care about Wimbledon. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Well, and also, let's be honest, like with Osaka, the

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Speaker 3: storyline was excuses, like you know, and don't get me wrong,

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Speaker 3: mental health is a great excuse because it's a real

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Speaker 3: thing and athletes absolutely struggle with their mental health at times.

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Speaker 3: But you know, one of the things that separated Tiger

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Speaker 3: from the rest of the field, or Serena from the

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Speaker 3: rest of the field, or Caitlin Clark the way she's

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Speaker 3: handled the extreme criticism levied her way over the course

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Speaker 3: of the time that she's been the professional in her

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Speaker 3: given sport is the fact that mentally they seem to

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Speaker 3: be able to handle the pressure. Tom Brady, what's the

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Speaker 3: greatest aspect of his game. He's not a great athlete

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Speaker 3: his mind, you know So, I think tennis needs that

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Speaker 3: dominant mental player women's tennis especially to step up and

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Speaker 3: sort of take the reins of the sport.

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Speaker 2: Again, there's the problem on the men's side, obviously, with

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Speaker 2: a feder and an adult and Djokovic and Serena on

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Speaker 2: the lady side, they have set the bar so high. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: where the hell do you go from here? I mean,

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Speaker 2: it just it's it's they need a They need a

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Speaker 2: Caitlyn Clark is what they need. I think all sports

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Speaker 2: needed Kitlyn Clark. All right, don't go anywhere. Much more

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