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Speaker 1: we are getting ready for a fourth of July. That's

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Speaker 1: gonna be hot, right. We got the hot dog eating

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Speaker 1: contest which will be chestnut back.

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Speaker 3: Hot.

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Speaker 4: Hot is hot hot, hot, so damn hot, but maybe

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Speaker 4: not as hot as the as the two basketball takes

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Speaker 1: Okay, you're gonna be.

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Speaker 5: Hotter than my Caitlin Clark was rated properly based on

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Speaker 5: that fourteen or fifteen point win the other day.

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Speaker 1: It's it's you're you're, you're in the right ballpark because

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Speaker 1: it does have to do with Caitlin Clark. Okay, okay,

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Speaker 1: which is going to be the hotter take? Right? You

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Speaker 1: look at the big headline of the front page at

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Speaker 1: ESPN dot com right now, Dallas Wings beat the Phoenix

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Speaker 1: Mercury ninety eight eighty nine. Another big night for Paige Becker.

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Speaker 1: She goes for twenty three in the win. What will

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Speaker 1: be the hotter take a page? Beckers greater than Caitlyn Clark? Oh?

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Speaker 1: Is it be? After the fever absolutely thump the Las

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Speaker 1: showing up. She had twenty nine and the next best

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Speaker 1: person on the the Aces had six. Jackie Young had six.

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Speaker 1: She had twenty nine. Jackie Young's got six without Caitlin Clark.

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Speaker 1: The fever jump out to a huge lead, they never

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Speaker 1: look back and they win it eighty one point fifty four.

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Speaker 1: Hot take number two. Fever are better without Caitlin Clark.

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Speaker 1: Love it is it? Both both A and B are correct?

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Speaker 1: Like which hot take is gonna get more attention? Wrong?

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Speaker 1: Page Beckers better than Caitlyn Clark or Fever are a

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Speaker 1: better team without Kitlyn Clark.

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Speaker 5: People are gonna take calls as to what the best

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Speaker 5: hot dog condiment is and what the best side dishes.

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Speaker 1: So Monday, just to let you know if the answer,

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Speaker 1: the answer is mustard onions and okay, now go ahead.

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Speaker 5: I would say the more inscendiary would be the Page

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Speaker 5: Beckers because you want to talk about a team and

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Speaker 5: where you're at in terms of flow, you can just

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Speaker 5: make the argument, well, it's a different look because you

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Speaker 3: Argue that away.

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Speaker 5: But if you go player to player, NA, that's with

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Speaker 5: Sports Radio. But yeah, she's been fantastic, there's no question

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Speaker 5: about it. The Aces now are eight to nine. So

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Speaker 1: Wow? I'll tell you how about that? Kelsey Plum has

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Speaker 1: I don't care what people are saying about Caitlin Clark.

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Speaker 1: Let me tell you now, I'm gonna say the second

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Speaker 1: completely erroneous, right because Paige Beckers, honestly, she's been better

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Speaker 1: nother year. But Paige Beckers. Hey, she's had a terrific career.

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Speaker 1: I did not think she'd be able to come in

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Speaker 1: but I take the shots right now. She hasn't had

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Dallas, well, because they've stunk for a long time,

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Speaker 1: I mean, we're starting right from it, and there is

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Speaker 1: less pressure on Page Beckers as much as as she

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Speaker 3: Thing, will be good versus you know, lift us up. Yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 1: Now there's now there's a couple of things like this

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Speaker 1: is why this whole Caitlyn Clark. They're better without Caitlyn Clark. Okay,

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Speaker 1: just stop for one second. First thing is this, Yes,

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Speaker 1: anytime a star player is out, any team worth their

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Speaker 1: salt that cares bands together and gives you a great effort. Right,

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Speaker 1: we see it, we say when Halliburton is that what

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Speaker 1: was out, the Pacers were able to stay close and

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Speaker 1: keep it going for a while, Right, we see that.

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Speaker 1: It happens. Right, Good teams don't just become bad teams

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Speaker 1: when a star is hurt, but for a short period

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Speaker 1: able to exploit that because Caitlyn Clark is the show

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Speaker 1: and she is that great. But for a short period

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Speaker 1: of time, Yeah, without your best player. And it's not

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Speaker 1: like you don't have a lot of talent on this roster, right,

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Speaker 1: and Leah Boston is terrific, Kelsey Mitchell is tripping at

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Speaker 1: twenty five and twenty points to night Right. Sophie Cunningham

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Speaker 1: have really good players for a short amount of time. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you can do this now. Eventually, if they're without Kitlyn

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Speaker 1: Clark for months, you'll see that the Fever will sit

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Speaker 1: around five hundred gold. Boy, why aren't they better? Teams

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Speaker 1: are figuring them out when when you're missing your most

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Speaker 1: in assists and can hit threes from the logo, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna figure out a way to guard you a

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Speaker 1: little bit more. Right. I told you that the Fever

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Speaker 1: a natural. This is not all of a sudden Kaylyn Clark,

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Speaker 1: she's so overrated. No, We've seen this time and again

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Speaker 1: in sports, when a star player gets hurt for a

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Speaker 1: Let's be hyper focused on this, and let's make sure

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Speaker 5: Does this also show once and for all, I mean,

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Speaker 5: based on your slam this sucker down tour, that you

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Speaker 5: had Caitlyn Clark on, that you vexed her and killed

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Speaker 5: her shot, that her team rallied around to show their

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Speaker 5: worth in this space Again, I'm really also fueled the

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Speaker 5: fever to a whole other level.

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Speaker 1: Best defender in the WNBA. That's me by I slowed

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Speaker 1: Caitlin Clark down all by myself. And I don't mean

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Speaker 1: the injury. I mean not being able to THREEZ when

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Speaker 1: I said here comes the Caitlin Clark middle finger revenge story.

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Speaker 1: You see what things are gonna go yeah, right after that,

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Speaker 1: she just hit the skids. I am the best defender

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Speaker 1: like the radio version of a guy whose wingspan is

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Speaker 1: and and and and my I can get in front

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Speaker 1: of any pass and you're not gonna be able to

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Speaker 1: keep you in front of me. I am the radio

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Speaker 5: That huge wingspan, I mean that'll sew. I mean you

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Speaker 5: have no vertical so you got to make it up somewhere.

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Speaker 1: Now, look, the other part is this, Now, this is

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Speaker 1: this is where I'm gonna throw a curveball at you here. Right,

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Speaker 1: We've talked for a long time about how you look.

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Speaker 1: And you've seen the perceived jealousy of Caitlin Clark right

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Speaker 1: from three or three. And I can't I say perceived,

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Speaker 1: because not every player is jealous of Caitlyn Clark, but

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Speaker 5: I mean, with great power and great press comes people

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Speaker 1: I specifically didn't say anything going when is he gonna

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Speaker 1: and I was so embarrassed about it because they they

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Speaker 1: give the question. I'm like, oh, man, I have no idea.

431
00:20:16,119 --> 00:20:18,720
Speaker 1: I have no idea. Like the song that the question was,

432
00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:24,520
Speaker 1: this name is what but whatever was. It was a

433
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Speaker 1: name question, this name is the most popular, or the

434
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Speaker 1: name that means son in uh in in in the

435
00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:34,680
Speaker 1: most languages, or something like that. It was a word

436
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Speaker 1: that meant son. And we're going, okay, I don't I

437
00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:39,439
Speaker 1: don't know what it is. And then they play the

438
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Speaker 1: song clue and it's that Shahboozy song and I said, oh,

439
00:20:43,680 --> 00:20:47,439
Speaker 1: this is shaboozy and and not Zoey. And Pam says me, oh,

440
00:20:47,480 --> 00:20:48,960
Speaker 1: they play the song on your show all the time

441
00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:50,920
Speaker 1: you talk about you. I go, yes, just because what's

442
00:20:50,920 --> 00:20:53,240
Speaker 1: the name of the song? I go, I have no idea.

443
00:20:53,560 --> 00:20:57,320
Speaker 1: I have no idea this is. I could sing the words.

444
00:20:57,440 --> 00:20:58,879
Speaker 1: I don't know what this is. I don't know what

445
00:20:58,920 --> 00:21:00,960
Speaker 1: I'm singing the words, going to him, going now he's

446
00:21:01,040 --> 00:21:04,080
Speaker 1: telling me more, Okay, I don't know the name of this.

447
00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:07,560
Speaker 1: I can't believe I don't know this. This is like

448
00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:10,480
Speaker 1: in the Honeymooners when when when Ralph didn't know swany Lake,

449
00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:12,960
Speaker 1: Swanni River. And I'm sitting here going, I don't know

450
00:21:14,240 --> 00:21:16,679
Speaker 1: what is it? Ed Norton and I'm going, well, I

451
00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:22,399
Speaker 1: don't know what the song composer Norton, can we hear

452
00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:27,320
Speaker 1: a little bit about Swani River and I no, no,

453
00:21:27,359 --> 00:21:29,000
Speaker 1: I go no, and we got it wrong, and he

454
00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:30,800
Speaker 1: goes and he goes okay, And the song cluse, of course,

455
00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:35,200
Speaker 1: was Shaboozy, the bar song. I was like, oh great,

456
00:21:35,359 --> 00:21:37,960
Speaker 1: And the answer was barr was the name of the song.

457
00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:42,840
Speaker 1: So and I forget how they and we thought like, oh,

458
00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:45,400
Speaker 1: bar mitzvah, bat mitzvah. We should have gotten it right.

459
00:21:45,760 --> 00:21:47,280
Speaker 1: That was a thing. So we didn't get. It's one

460
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Speaker 1: of the two questions we didn't get. And I'm sitting

461
00:21:49,560 --> 00:21:52,760
Speaker 1: here going yeah. And I'm sitting going yeah, no, chaboozie.

462
00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:54,320
Speaker 1: And I know the song and I know the words.

463
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Speaker 1: I don't I don't know what the name of this

464
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Speaker 1: song is. I can't come up with it in thirty seconds.

465
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Speaker 1: I can't.

466
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Speaker 5: I hear that and I start bopping along. I don't

467
00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:08,200
Speaker 5: listen to the words. I'm like balancing, like what's it called?

468
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Speaker 5: No idea, but I can't. I can't even tell you.

469
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Speaker 5: I can't even tell you what it is.

470
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Speaker 1: And I'm like, oh, the bar song, right right right? Okay, yeah,

471
00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:20,280
Speaker 1: yeah okay. And and and the thing is is that

472
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Speaker 1: it's not like he says the bar song in the

473
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Speaker 1: in the in the song he doesn't like. He keeps

474
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Speaker 1: saying the bar song. You know, everybody at the bar

475
00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:30,560
Speaker 1: getting tipsy is the big one. But but it's the

476
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Speaker 1: bar song. And I was like, man, if he said

477
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Speaker 1: it in there, he might a guy. I would have got, oh,

478
00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:37,720
Speaker 1: it's the bar song. But no, but just didn't get it.

479
00:22:37,760 --> 00:22:39,840
Speaker 1: And I was so mad. I'm like, I've heard this

480
00:22:40,040 --> 00:22:43,000
Speaker 1: song so many times and Tystir plays it like three

481
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Speaker 1: times a week. We play Shaboozi, just a feel good song.

482
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Speaker 5: But the fact that it's called the bar song, he

483
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Speaker 5: could have plunked a lot of money in front of me.

484
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Speaker 3: I know, I would have been dusing many other things.

485
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Speaker 1: I was oh. I was like, oh my god, we

486
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Speaker 1: got it wrong. I was like, I can't believe we

487
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Speaker 1: did that. I can't believe we did that.

488
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Speaker 5: You know his next show you can get in for

489
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Speaker 5: one hundred and thirty two dollars. It's Saturday in Belgium.

490
00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:10,520
Speaker 5: Shaboozie is in Belgium, Wow, and Germany, then Switzerland. Then

491
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Speaker 5: he's in Paris at the Hookodrome, followed by a couple

492
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Speaker 5: of shows in Montreal.

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Speaker 1: Wow. So he's doing the big European tour. Then he's

494
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Speaker 1: coming back, making his way slowly backside end of September.

495
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Speaker 1: All right, I'm sure, I'm sure his big song will

496
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Speaker 1: be the bar song, and people know play the bar song.

497
00:23:28,119 --> 00:23:29,680
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

498
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Speaker 5: Yeah, And then he screws him all over by singing

499
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Speaker 5: I love this bar.

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Speaker 1: So yeah. So I was kind of embarrassed, and Ty

501
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Speaker 1: Shirt laid off that song this week for some and

502
00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:43,920
Speaker 1: maybe because we were just kind of, you know, reading

503
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Speaker 1: each other's brains a bit. But you know, ya gets

504
00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:47,600
Speaker 1: in on a Thursday night, we got shaboozy.

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Speaker 3: Look at that.

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Speaker 5: A little bit of a holiday holiday holiday feel to it.

507
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Speaker 5: Wherever you are, however you're listening, Thanks for being part

508
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Speaker 5: of the extended family. As we get into the holidays,

509
00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:02,000
Speaker 5: I'll raise my O Versus coffee cup in your honor

510
00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:04,080
Speaker 5: and we'll do the heavy lift and just sit back

511
00:24:04,119 --> 00:24:07,280
Speaker 5: and enjoy and enjoy your friends on the roads with you.

512
00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:11,399
Speaker 1: So tonight, your White Sox are on the verge of

513
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Speaker 1: what's gonna be another loss of the Dodgers, five shock King,

514
00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:17,600
Speaker 1: Freddie Freeman having a big night, Michael Confordo's got a

515
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Speaker 1: home run. The Dodgers just continue to roll, and you know,

516
00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:24,760
Speaker 1: last night. We spent a lot of time on Clayton Kershaw. Right, well, look, hey,

517
00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:27,639
Speaker 1: last time we ever see anybody get to three thousand strikeouts?

518
00:24:27,720 --> 00:24:29,840
Speaker 1: Damn skippy, We're gonna spend some a lot of time

519
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Speaker 1: on Clayton Kershaw get her to three thousand. And I

520
00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:36,119
Speaker 1: forgot about this until my dad sent it to me

521
00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:39,600
Speaker 1: today because it started to make the rounds on social media,

522
00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:41,960
Speaker 1: Like all Clayton Kershaw stuff like he did throughout his career,

523
00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:44,320
Speaker 1: is starting to make the rounds, and you know, hitting

524
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Speaker 1: that mark that he did, you know, everything became all

525
00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:50,840
Speaker 1: about Clayton Kershaw earlier today and he sends me this thing,

526
00:24:50,880 --> 00:24:53,200
Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh my goodness, I forgot about that.

527
00:24:54,400 --> 00:24:57,800
Speaker 1: Fifteen years ago. Right, My dad had just moved out

528
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Speaker 1: to Los Angeles from Syracu, and I was looking for

529
00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:03,480
Speaker 1: something fun to do with him that I know he

530
00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:07,760
Speaker 1: would like to do. And I got tickets for what

531
00:25:07,920 --> 00:25:11,399
Speaker 1: was called Safe at Home, which Joe Tory, who was

532
00:25:11,440 --> 00:25:15,959
Speaker 1: that then the manager of the Dodgers was that's his uh,

533
00:25:16,400 --> 00:25:20,600
Speaker 1: his big charity is Safe Charity, Right, It's it's about

534
00:25:20,680 --> 00:25:23,480
Speaker 1: it's dedicated to raising awareness and aimed at ending the

535
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Speaker 1: cycle of domestic violence, right, so he you know, he's

536
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Speaker 1: safe at home, and he had Sandy Kofax as his guest,

537
00:25:30,400 --> 00:25:32,040
Speaker 1: and I was like, oh my god, my dad is

538
00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:34,119
Speaker 1: gonna flip if we get this. So I get tickets

539
00:25:34,160 --> 00:25:37,040
Speaker 1: to go see it. And and TJ Simers of the

540
00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:40,560
Speaker 1: La Times, you know, you know who for the longest

541
00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:42,760
Speaker 1: time was one of the biggest writers here in Los Angeles.

542
00:25:42,760 --> 00:25:45,560
Speaker 1: He's the moderator and I'm like, I got it. Sandy

543
00:25:45,640 --> 00:25:47,920
Speaker 1: Kofax I the guy. It's it's like seeing a yetti

544
00:25:48,240 --> 00:25:50,120
Speaker 1: like Sandy Covin's gonna come out. He's going to talk

545
00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:52,879
Speaker 1: about his life and career and everything else. Oh my goodness. Right,

546
00:25:53,480 --> 00:25:56,080
Speaker 1: So he comes out and and and Cofax and Tory

547
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Speaker 1: sit down and t J. Simers just jumps right in

548
00:25:58,880 --> 00:26:01,400
Speaker 1: and the first thing he has any he cofexes Sandy Kofax,

549
00:26:01,720 --> 00:26:04,000
Speaker 1: I heard you tried to throw Willy Mason couldn't do it,

550
00:26:04,320 --> 00:26:06,800
Speaker 1: And We're like, whoa, my and my dad. My dad

551
00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:09,920
Speaker 1: just goes holy blank like the first question about you

552
00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:11,960
Speaker 1: know people, he grew up watching them. You tried to

553
00:26:12,000 --> 00:26:14,800
Speaker 1: throw Willy Mays and you couldn't. And Sandy Kofax tells

554
00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:16,920
Speaker 1: this great story about how he was the one guy

555
00:26:17,000 --> 00:26:19,520
Speaker 1: you know when you tried to throw inside, you couldn't

556
00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:21,560
Speaker 1: throw inside at Willy Mays, you couldn't hit him. You

557
00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:24,119
Speaker 1: could try to throw anywhere, you couldn't hit Willy, and

558
00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:25,920
Speaker 1: he would always be able to stay in the box.

559
00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:28,560
Speaker 1: There's this amazing story that he tells, and and you know,

560
00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:31,679
Speaker 1: he finishes telling the story and Sandy Kofax goes, you know,

561
00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:34,760
Speaker 1: so you couldn't hit Willy. Now we're in an auditorium

562
00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:37,240
Speaker 1: that's got about a thousand people in it, right, and

563
00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:40,200
Speaker 1: it's it's mostly filled, and you know, he tells that story.

564
00:26:40,200 --> 00:26:42,600
Speaker 1: He says, but you couldn't hit Willy, And before people

565
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Speaker 1: clap and applaud me and my dad were about like

566
00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:47,840
Speaker 1: ten rows back. My dad just goes, yeah, you're right,

567
00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:55,400
Speaker 1: really loud. That is right, dadd Okay, let Sandy tell

568
00:26:55,400 --> 00:26:55,800
Speaker 1: the story.

569
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Speaker 3: Right.

570
00:26:56,440 --> 00:26:58,840
Speaker 1: So this is the point this gets to because the

571
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Speaker 1: big picture and stuff that the round today is at

572
00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:06,919
Speaker 1: this event, this picture of Sandy Kofax showing Clayton Kershaw

573
00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:10,240
Speaker 1: how he threw his curveball right, and I'm like, oh

574
00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:13,720
Speaker 1: my god, I forgot I forgot about that that Kershaw

575
00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:17,080
Speaker 1: showed up midway through. And this is at the point

576
00:27:17,160 --> 00:27:19,080
Speaker 1: like when Clayton kersher had been in the league for

577
00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:22,200
Speaker 1: a year or two and he was a really good pitcher, right,

578
00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:24,760
Speaker 1: he was really good, but he wasn't Clayton Kershaw yet.

579
00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:26,199
Speaker 1: Like he hadn't had a big he hadn't had a

580
00:27:26,200 --> 00:27:28,320
Speaker 1: twenty win year yet. He had a couple of years

581
00:27:28,359 --> 00:27:30,240
Speaker 1: where his war was really good. He had a low

582
00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:33,560
Speaker 1: e ra but you could tell, okay, hey, Clayton Kershaw

583
00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:36,440
Speaker 1: could be special, right, but you know, he's still young,

584
00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:38,199
Speaker 1: and he got to see which way it goes. And

585
00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:40,679
Speaker 1: they bring Clayton Kershaw out and I'm like, oh my goodness,

586
00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:43,640
Speaker 1: and bring Clayton Kershaw and he walks up to Kofax

587
00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:45,680
Speaker 1: and he gets on his knees right away and does it.

588
00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:48,840
Speaker 1: We're not worthy, right, he doesn't. We're not worthy for Kofax.

589
00:27:48,880 --> 00:27:51,200
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my goodness, this is amazing. And then

590
00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:53,040
Speaker 1: they're saying, you know, and Kershaw you know, And now

591
00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:56,000
Speaker 1: you think about Kershaw's curveball and a slider and go, hey, Sandy,

592
00:27:56,040 --> 00:27:57,800
Speaker 1: let me show you something about how to hold you know,

593
00:27:57,800 --> 00:27:59,760
Speaker 1: how to hold the ball. But like that was such

594
00:27:59,840 --> 00:28:01,520
Speaker 1: a big moment because he's showing them a right, this

595
00:28:01,560 --> 00:28:02,800
Speaker 1: is what I do. This is what I do, and

596
00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:05,000
Speaker 1: I go, oh man, twelve year old me would have

597
00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:06,240
Speaker 1: liked to see this again. I had to become a

598
00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:08,720
Speaker 1: pitcher instead of playing trying to play shortstop and third

599
00:28:08,720 --> 00:28:11,080
Speaker 1: base man. Sandy Kofax showed me how to throw his

600
00:28:11,119 --> 00:28:12,840
Speaker 1: curveball what he would do, and Kersher are doing the

601
00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:14,920
Speaker 1: same thing, and it was a fun thing. Like they're

602
00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:16,919
Speaker 1: just on stage going this is how I would hold it,

603
00:28:16,960 --> 00:28:18,919
Speaker 1: and Sandy's like, I put my finger here, my finger here,

604
00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:20,720
Speaker 1: and I kind of get the torque this way, and

605
00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:23,080
Speaker 1: Kursha's okay, well, I hold it like this and I

606
00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:25,000
Speaker 1: just kind of I have my arm kind of spin

607
00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:27,400
Speaker 1: a little bit and it just watch you like, oh

608
00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:29,879
Speaker 1: my goodnes, these are this is amazing. And like you

609
00:28:29,920 --> 00:28:33,480
Speaker 1: could tell at that time, here's one legend, Dodger legend

610
00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:35,760
Speaker 1: who's trying to bring, you know, bridge the gap to

611
00:28:35,840 --> 00:28:39,840
Speaker 1: this next pitching legend that the Dodgers have. And you know, look,

612
00:28:39,920 --> 00:28:43,640
Speaker 1: Fernando Valenzuela was amazingly good. He was terrific. You know,

613
00:28:43,720 --> 00:28:46,000
Speaker 1: Kershaw comes up the same kind of hype, the same

614
00:28:46,080 --> 00:28:50,000
Speaker 1: sort of talent level that he had and so okay, well,

615
00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:52,760
Speaker 1: now here's Sandy with with Clayton Kershaw, who's the next

616
00:28:52,760 --> 00:28:55,480
Speaker 1: big guy after Fernando. And you know, Sandy's you know,

617
00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:57,600
Speaker 1: almost in his eighties at this point, and he's you know,

618
00:28:57,680 --> 00:29:00,440
Speaker 1: still up here telling stories and just watching them back

619
00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:03,600
Speaker 1: and forth talking about how they're holding different pitches like

620
00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:06,680
Speaker 1: it was it was in raptures. I'm going, this is amazing,

621
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Speaker 1: like this ping ponging back and forth between Kershaw and

622
00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:12,640
Speaker 1: Kofax and Kershaw I look over at my dad and

623
00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:15,240
Speaker 1: my dad is just standing. He's staring at Kofax the

624
00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:18,200
Speaker 1: whole time like he like even didn't even see it,

625
00:29:18,240 --> 00:29:20,000
Speaker 1: Like lay Curse is not even on the stage. It's

626
00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:22,480
Speaker 1: just like, oh, here's Sandy. This is how I hold

627
00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:25,320
Speaker 1: my curveball. I mean, it was really an amazing night

628
00:29:25,360 --> 00:29:27,520
Speaker 1: and you and you see the video of it and

629
00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:30,040
Speaker 1: that came out today and pictures and you see how

630
00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:32,240
Speaker 1: young Kershaw is and you think about him now with

631
00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:35,680
Speaker 1: his dad bought and you know, nearing the end, we

632
00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:38,080
Speaker 1: talked about it last night that this is probably gonna

633
00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:41,440
Speaker 1: wind up being the beginning of Kershaw's farewell tour, that

634
00:29:41,480 --> 00:29:43,880
Speaker 1: this year's probably gonna be it because I don't know

635
00:29:43,920 --> 00:29:46,000
Speaker 1: what kind of place the Dodgers are going to have

636
00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:48,800
Speaker 1: for him next year when all their pitchers do come back,

637
00:29:48,840 --> 00:29:50,720
Speaker 1: Like this is going to wind up being the ride

638
00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:53,440
Speaker 1: for Kershaw. And you just think back and go, man,

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Speaker 1: those fifteen years that they went by in a blink

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Speaker 1: from Kershaw where he was there, because I still remember

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Speaker 1: that moment clear day to where we are right now.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I remember that event and what a big deal

643
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Speaker 5: it was, right because Kofax was a yetti whatever. You

644
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Speaker 5: would show up at Varo Beach for a day or two,

645
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Speaker 5: it was all right if folks stood in line long

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Speaker 5: enough and we're polite enough that you might get close

647
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Speaker 5: enough to just breathe the same air, let alone, maybe

648
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Speaker 5: get a picture or an autograph, and remember a lot

649
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Speaker 5: of that.

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Speaker 3: I mean, this is right.

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Speaker 5: The iPhone came out at the end of seven or

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Speaker 5: something like that, right eight, so you still end you

653
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Speaker 5: got a little bit of an older crowd, So it's

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Speaker 5: not like there's a lot of video and audio that

655
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Speaker 5: started circulating out of this. It became almost like Kofax

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Speaker 5: himself that this really happened. For those people that were there,

657
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Speaker 5: it was magical and Simer's obviously writing it up and

658
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Speaker 5: his colleagues at the LA Times and it got some run.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, it's those moments, right.

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Speaker 5: My daughter celebrated her seventeenth birthday the other day. Man,

661
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Speaker 5: I remember her, and I watch our colleagues that have

662
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Speaker 5: babies running around. I'm like, boy, that's a long time

663
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Speaker 5: time ago, but here we are just that fast. And

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Speaker 5: now Clayton Kershaw, he's got all his kids that were

665
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Speaker 5: watching the game last night running into the locker room,

666
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Speaker 5: all those videos you saw, and when he wasn't answering

667
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Speaker 5: questions about Michael Taylor stealing third base and sliding and

668
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Speaker 5: all that stuff, he was talking about where he's at

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Speaker 5: in his baseball mortality, of how special it's been to

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Speaker 5: be there, and how they had his back. A lot

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Speaker 5: of what we talked about that should have been part

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Speaker 5: and encapsulated in it, right, because when you had that

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Speaker 5: twenty ten conversation, he was just starting to become that guy.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 5: I heard Ned Coletti talking about it a little bit earlier.

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Speaker 5: He was on a five point seventy. I was in

677
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Speaker 5: the car and he was saying, look, we had to

678
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Speaker 5: send him down because he was striking guys out, but

679
00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:47,920
Speaker 5: he was wild. Like you remember Randy Johnson when he

680
00:31:47,960 --> 00:31:51,360
Speaker 5: came up, it was a strikeout or a walk, Yeah,

681
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Speaker 5: walking six guys per nine. Kershaw not quite as bad,

682
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Speaker 5: but enough to where it was a problem. So go

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Speaker 5: back and fix that and lo and behold, do you

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Speaker 5: then have this run of one of the most amazing

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Speaker 5: things we've seen. Boy, I wish they would release that.

686
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Speaker 5: I'd pay for that to see every conversation.

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Speaker 1: It really was fun. Man. I'll tell you uh time

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Speaker 1: now to find out what's trending in the wide world

689
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Speaker 1: of sports. Martin Weiss has all the details of the

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Speaker 1: Mets three to win over the Brewers m dub Go ahead,

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Speaker 1: what do you got?

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Speaker 7: Did you know that? Today?

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Speaker 8: Seriously, today is the first time a Mets starter recorded

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Speaker 8: out in the seventh inning since June seventeenth.

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Speaker 1: That just sounds absolutely right. Yeah, we've been terrible.

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Speaker 7: Yes, and over the last calendar month.

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Speaker 8: Peterson the starting picture today is the only Mets picture

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Speaker 8: to start.

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Speaker 7: I'm pitching to the seventh. He's done it four times.

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Speaker 1: He's our best picture. I mean, he's our best picture.

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Speaker 1: I mean it sounds like he's our Kofax, He's our Kershaw.

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Speaker 1: He's our best picture.

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Speaker 8: I was going to say, he sounds like the smartest

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Speaker 8: kid in the summer school right now, June seventeenth, But

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Speaker 8: I was reading that.

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Speaker 7: I wasn't going to bring it up.

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Speaker 8: But since you know, you teed me up so perfectly there,

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Speaker 8: I felt, you know, congratulations three to two over the

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Speaker 8: Brewers today.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, thank you, buddy, appreciate it.

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Speaker 7: You're welcome.

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Speaker 3: All right, go look up at my team at the

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Speaker 3: last time.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I was to say, turning, turning to Live Baseball,

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Speaker 8: Mike Harmer, closed your eyes. Dodgers five nothing over the

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Speaker 8: White Sox right now in the bottom of the sixth inning.

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Speaker 8: They surely should have got that one yesterday against Kershaw.

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Speaker 8: That would have been there. No, that would have been it.

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Speaker 8: That's all.

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Speaker 5: But for that fifth pitch that was called the ball

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Speaker 5: against will Smith.

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Speaker 7: You know, and I went back and watched it. You

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Speaker 7: had a point.

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Speaker 8: No argument at all from the White Sox. They're like,

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Speaker 8: let's hear, let's get out of here, because.

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Speaker 1: They're saying, what whatever, we're really going to get that

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Speaker 1: call on Culton Kershaw's three thousand strikeout night. Let's just

728
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Speaker 1: fight battles.

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Speaker 8: We can win, right, That's fair the middle of the

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Speaker 8: sixth inning, the Mariners having one nothing lead over the Royals.

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Speaker 8: Top of the ninth enning, the Giants lead the Diamondbacks

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Speaker 8: six to one. Earlier today in Major League Baseball, we

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Speaker 8: saw the Angels beat the Braves five to one. One

734
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Speaker 8: Zach Netto finished a triple shy of the cycle. The

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Speaker 8: Blue Jays in first place. They haven't been in first

736
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Speaker 8: place in the AL, least this late in the season

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Speaker 8: since twenty sixteen, beat the Yankees eight to five. Clark

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Speaker 8: Switt left in the third inning with right fore arm

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Speaker 8: tightness and the bone brews that caused all of us

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Speaker 8: here at Foxforts Radio to miss the actual live shot

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Speaker 8: of Kershaw's three thousand strikeout. The brone brews suffered by

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Speaker 8: Max Muntsy will have him out for at least six weeks.

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Speaker 8: Guardian starting pitcher Louis Hartiz has been placed on paid

744
00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:36,480
Speaker 8: leave over reported MLB investigation into gambling. The betting integrity

745
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:39,120
Speaker 8: firm flagged two individual pitches from our ties on June

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Speaker 8: fifteenth and June twenty seventh. James would announce that he'll

747
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Speaker 8: be participating the home run Derby and had a mini

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Speaker 8: home run derby himself with his twenty third against the

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Speaker 8: Tigers today and was five for five as the Nationals

750
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Speaker 8: beat the Tigers eleven to seven.

751
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Speaker 7: In the NBA, the Lakers have.

752
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Speaker 8: Agreed to a one year deal to bring back big

753
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Speaker 8: man Jackson Hayes. The Dallas Mavericks are final an agreement

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Speaker 8: to have Frank Vogel join the team as lead assistant

755
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Speaker 8: coach behind Jason Kidd. Speaking of those Mavericks, their former

756
00:35:08,480 --> 00:35:11,320
Speaker 8: assistant Jared Dudley finalizing a deal to become the top

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Speaker 8: assistant coach for the Denver Nuggets under former interim now

758
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Speaker 8: full time guy David Adamman.

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Speaker 7: And the Steelers.

760
00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:21,200
Speaker 8: Announced they've signed Omar Khan the GM to a three

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Speaker 8: year contract.

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Speaker 7: He'll be there to at least twenty twenty eight.

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Speaker 1: Back to you guys, so clearly, TJ, there will be

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Speaker 1: no wrath of Kahn looking for a new contract. DJ

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Speaker 1: card I had to get that. So coming up next

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Speaker 1: with the best of NBA free agency in the trade

767
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Speaker 1: season still to come. Uh, what moves have been the

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Speaker 1: worst so far in free agency? Yeah, that's next right here,

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Speaker 1: Jason and Mike Fox.

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Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith

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Speaker 2: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven

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Speaker 2: pm Pacific.

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best

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Speaker 1: friend Mike Harmon, who Alex Tyshert in a very hey,

775
00:36:06,680 --> 00:36:12,520
Speaker 1: sexy Friday mood, Mucco Hobo. So, the first week of

776
00:36:12,640 --> 00:36:16,000
Speaker 1: NBA Free agency in the books, we've seen all the

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Speaker 1: quote big moves so far again, you know, Miles Turner

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Speaker 1: of the biggest name to change teams. Yes, it's it's

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00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:25,480
Speaker 1: it was busy, but it wasn't unbelievable.

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Speaker 3: It's still so billion dollars it is.

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Speaker 1: It is a lot of money, but.

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Speaker 5: Greater than the gross domestic product of many many nations.

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Speaker 1: It's money that was given out and most everybody stayed

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Speaker 1: with their team. So while I'm still waiting to find

785
00:36:39,239 --> 00:36:41,480
Speaker 1: waiting for the move, and this is probably gonna wind

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Speaker 1: up being something that's a result of free agency, plus

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Speaker 1: what trades happened after. Look, if you want to say

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Speaker 1: the team that I like the least what they did

789
00:36:52,360 --> 00:36:56,600
Speaker 1: in free agency, that's easy because they they went to

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00:36:56,640 --> 00:37:00,720
Speaker 1: a philosophy that no one is going to be able

791
00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:03,680
Speaker 1: to use and say it's going to be successful. The

792
00:37:03,760 --> 00:37:08,320
Speaker 1: Clippers spent a lot of money to keep James harden

793
00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:11,160
Speaker 1: way more than James harden Is worth. You know, he's

794
00:37:11,239 --> 00:37:14,040
Speaker 1: thirty percent of their salary cap at forty one million year.

795
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Speaker 1: We're gonna bring it back for two years. The guy's

796
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Speaker 1: thirty six. Brook Lopez is thirty seven, right, they bring

797
00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:22,560
Speaker 1: him in thirty sevens in a row, and Nicholas Patoum

798
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Speaker 1: is thirty six. These are their big free agent signings.

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Speaker 1: No one wins a championship or even gets far in

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Speaker 1: the playoffs when you're built around guys in their mid thirties. Man,

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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't. I mean, I'm not reinventing the

802
00:37:36,680 --> 00:37:38,799
Speaker 1: wheel here. I'm not building a better mouse trap. I'm

803
00:37:38,840 --> 00:37:42,520
Speaker 1: just saying teams don't sign players who are in their

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Speaker 1: mid to late thirties and think this is going to

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Speaker 1: get us where we need to go, especially since you're

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00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:49,200
Speaker 1: a team that, Oh, by the way, it's not like

807
00:37:49,239 --> 00:37:50,759
Speaker 1: you're relying on a big start. You were lying on

808
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Speaker 1: Kawhi Leonard, who also getting to be mid thirties. Like,

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Speaker 1: I don't get the Clippers philosophy. They have seen what

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00:37:57,040 --> 00:37:59,560
Speaker 1: they've done over the past few years, and they can't

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Speaker 1: get more than Hey, nice forty five win team in

812
00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:05,120
Speaker 1: the regular season out in the first round of the playoffs,

813
00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:08,200
Speaker 1: and the team is just getting older. And you see

814
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Speaker 1: it with James Harden more than anything. Yes, he still plays,

815
00:38:11,120 --> 00:38:12,959
Speaker 1: really had a much better regular season than I thought.

816
00:38:12,960 --> 00:38:15,200
Speaker 1: I give him that much better regular season, But in

817
00:38:15,239 --> 00:38:18,520
Speaker 1: the playoffs, the first round, he's stunk for half the round, right,

818
00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:21,359
Speaker 1: he had three bad games, two good games, and two

819
00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:24,200
Speaker 1: mad games. But the one they needed most in Game seven,

820
00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:28,920
Speaker 1: he scores seven points. You don't win by building around players.

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Speaker 1: And this is not the NBA of the mid eighties,

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00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:34,640
Speaker 1: where hey, these role players are showing up at thirty

823
00:38:34,680 --> 00:38:37,440
Speaker 1: five and winning three championships by the time they're thirty nine. Like,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't work that way. Nobody wins bad. Look look

825
00:38:41,200 --> 00:38:44,640
Speaker 1: at the Lakers. They've been holding onto Lebron Carries, Lebron Carries,

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Speaker 1: Lebron Carries, been there seven years, man, and every year

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Speaker 1: it just keeps getting a little bit worse in the

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Speaker 1: playoffs for Lebron James. But here are the Clippers, and

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Speaker 1: you're gonna go give more money to James Harden and

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Speaker 1: you're gonna bring in Lopez in but two, you don't win.

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Speaker 1: Keep saying, Hey, our big core are guys who are

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Speaker 1: thirty five years old, because you don't have money to

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Speaker 1: go out and get the younger players who are gonna

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Speaker 1: come in and be big difference makes You are relying

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Speaker 1: on these guys to play the majority of minutes. That

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Speaker 1: is not gonna win. That's why what I don't like

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Speaker 1: the most Clippers.

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Speaker 3: You're gonna take them.

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Speaker 5: I'll stay in the West and I'll look over at

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Speaker 5: the Minnesota Timberwolves. Fortunately, our boss Scott Shapiro is traveling,

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Speaker 5: so he's not gonna hear this. Nas Reed and Julius

842
00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:34,000
Speaker 5: Randall are there, big big moves to resign them, and

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00:39:34,040 --> 00:39:36,759
Speaker 5: the dollar amounts I had to do double takes. And

844
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Speaker 5: I love naz Reid. I think he's a good player.

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Speaker 5: Is he that good man? You're spending it on somebody,

846
00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:46,080
Speaker 5: but you're running back with the squad that you know

847
00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:50,799
Speaker 5: we've watched it, right, is butting your head against the

848
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Speaker 5: wall saying I'm gonna.

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Speaker 3: Get through eventually.

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Speaker 5: I don't see it in Julius Randall. I mean, you

851
00:39:56,840 --> 00:40:01,359
Speaker 5: have plenty of history with him, so that that just

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00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:06,520
Speaker 5: doesn't work. So yeah, I understand your Clippers vexation, except

853
00:40:06,520 --> 00:40:09,800
Speaker 5: they did get Brook Lopez, who evidently was the glnchpin

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Speaker 5: for so many teams championships hopes.

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Speaker 1: I mean really, I mean we're not.

856
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Speaker 3: Come on, how many of those did you hear?

857
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:22,279
Speaker 1: We should have had him? I mean, look, I would say,

858
00:40:22,360 --> 00:40:24,279
Speaker 1: what do I know about basketball? I know not to

859
00:40:24,280 --> 00:40:27,160
Speaker 1: build around guys in their mid thirties. I know not

860
00:40:27,280 --> 00:40:29,520
Speaker 1: to build around guys I'm in the mid thirties.

861
00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:33,480
Speaker 5: Does Sacramento count by signing Dennis Shrewder.

862
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Speaker 1: Exit, up out of Fresca, exit, swollen Doome coming up next?

863
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Speaker 1: What story this week has made me really scared? Fox