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Speaker 1: Hello, Welcome in side hour three The Jason Smith Show

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Speaker 1: with my bes friend Mike Harmon, where we'll get to

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Speaker 1: the Max Crosby traded in a second. But boy, I'll

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Speaker 1: tell you what. Sometimes Friday night sneak up on you

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Speaker 1: and they go here, We're gonna give you a plethora

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Speaker 1: of big time sports news and fun going into the weekend.

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Speaker 1: You know, coming in tonight, I'm like, well, okay, so

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Speaker 1: the biggest football story is gonna be Gino Smith is

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Speaker 1: getting cut. Nope, got one better than that. Okay, Well,

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Speaker 1: well the biggest basketball story is going nope, nope, got

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Speaker 1: one bigger than that. Oh well, the games tonight might

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Speaker 1: not Nope. We got big game results. Two of the

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Speaker 1: games from the NBA tonight. We haven't spent a lot

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Speaker 1: of time on just for a couple minutes, the Clippers

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Speaker 1: were absolutely boat racing san Antonio. Today we talked about

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Speaker 1: this game. In the first half, it was a twenty

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Speaker 1: point burial and it was Wow, look at the Clippers,

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Speaker 1: despite the fact they're trading their guys away. Kawhi Leonard

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Speaker 1: is single handedly keeping the Clippers in the playoff chase.

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Speaker 1: Here he had thirty tonight, Clippers were killing san Antonio.

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Speaker 1: San Antonio puts up a seventy point second half and

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Speaker 1: they come back to beat the Clippers one sixteen, one twelve.

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Speaker 1: And again, this is the scary part for the rest

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Speaker 1: of the NBA is that I still think the average

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Speaker 1: NBA fan Mike says, okay, well, yeah, san Antonio, what

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Speaker 1: did Wemby do? Because you know, once a week you

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Speaker 1: see a stat line from Wemby where it's forty two,

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Speaker 1: twenty seven, nineteen, twelve, nine and four, right, like, oh, Wemby,

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Speaker 1: but it's not this way. Wemby had a nice night tonight, right,

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Speaker 1: But Wenby is twenty seven and ten, all right. That

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Speaker 1: you see that how deep this team is. And they

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Speaker 1: go with with almost a ten man rotation that contribute

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Speaker 1: almost every single night right, Like Luke Corner tonight had

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Speaker 1: ten off the bench, right, So Keldon Johnson had ten

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Speaker 1: nineteen to nine and it wasn't even a great night

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Speaker 1: from Steph Castle. Doesn't matter, right, This is a this

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Speaker 1: is a Spurs team that is so deep. It's not like, well,

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Speaker 1: you know they're gonna win because their superstar is gonna

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Speaker 1: lead the way every single night. Right. This isn't Jordan

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Speaker 1: in the nineties. This isn't Lebron James in the past

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Speaker 1: few years with the Cavaliers and with the Lakers. This

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Speaker 1: is a Spurs team that is really, really deep. And

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Speaker 1: the sooner people see that, the more they'll keep taking

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Speaker 3: See six to eight players in double figures with regularity,

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Speaker 3: the bench getting heavy minutes. Here you're talking about twenty

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Speaker 3: was a fun run until it wasn't. You watch Kawhi

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Speaker 3: Leonard with another thirty point performance, Brook Lopez with twenty six.

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Speaker 3: You get some top heavy scoring out of them. But

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Speaker 3: for the Spurs in the second half was like they

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Speaker 3: used to watch the Warriors for all those years, Like

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Speaker 3: I kind of sleepwalked through the first Half's like, you

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Speaker 3: guys aret to play some basketball. Let's go play some basketball.

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Speaker 3: It also helps a lot of young legs. Their last

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Speaker 3: team that they've dominated, no question, and kept Kate Cunningham

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Speaker 1: Now I will see your seventy point second half by

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Speaker 1: the San Antonio Spurs, and I will raise you a

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Speaker 1: seventy seven point second half tonight by the Knicks. They

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Speaker 1: everything is good. It's their first night with their original

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Speaker 1: But now here's Denver, who was getting healthy, and now

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Speaker 1: the other thing about the Knicks, you know, this is

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Speaker 1: Jalen brunts is great, but they won this game going

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Speaker 1: like the next level they can hit. There's teams that

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Speaker 1: getting Jason Tatum back like they did tonight. If the

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Speaker 1: next few weeks, and we saw tonight. Man. That's why

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Speaker 3: I mean the real MVPs are the Lakers, which softened

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Speaker 4: X squad. Clearly yes, and then they came out and

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Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, yeah, And I know Lakers are winning tonight

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Speaker 3: You me Frostburg, Steve and Alex teichert might have a

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Speaker 1: Nuggets did have a couple of guys come back tonight

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Speaker 1: you know it's you know, forty point burials. A forty

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Speaker 4: How I'm like, sell, sell your knicks.

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Speaker 1: Man, I'll tell you this is a big, big win tonight. Now,

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Speaker 1: Jason Tatum comes back tonight for the Celtics, right, the

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Speaker 1: other big story of the night. And and you know

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Speaker 1: great for this year because all the drama for the

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be awesome the lift he is gonna bring

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Speaker 1: I don't get a lot of the talk today that

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Speaker 1: If coming back from Andrey that you're talking about one

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Speaker 1: And well, tonight he looked a little rusty but still

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Speaker 1: And but this was a different level of return Tatum's

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Speaker 1: he's not the MVP. You know, there's still that little

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Speaker 1: when he came back tonight, he my goodness, man, it

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Speaker 1: because his return now is even bigger emotionally than I

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

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Speaker 2: That is not John Cena.

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Speaker 1: We just watched not one, not two, Okay, seventeen walks

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Speaker 5: again he's the captain of this team. He's he's the

432
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Speaker 5: one that Mark Torross is looking to to set the

433
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Speaker 5: tone and I think he's done a great job of

434
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Speaker 5: that so far. You could really tell how much the

435
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Speaker 5: players are enjoying being his teammate. And that includes Harper,

436
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Speaker 5: that includes Schooble. These guys all love being together. And

437
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Speaker 5: I do think that they've become a true team in

438
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Speaker 5: a very short amount of time and that bond certainly

439
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Speaker 5: it gets stronger when you win, and that to me

440
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Speaker 5: is the is the next big question. What can they

441
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Speaker 5: finish this off? Can they win one more game? And

442
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Speaker 5: they did last time around, and I think that will

443
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Speaker 5: be the true test of the success of this team

444
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Speaker 5: USA At the twenty twenty six classes.

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Speaker 3: Pull back obviously the greatness and excitement of each nation,

446
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Speaker 3: the crowd as they're walking in and you're experiencing the

447
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Speaker 3: folks there, they're in Houston. What's the general atmosphere there

448
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Speaker 3: at JP out panning?

449
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Speaker 5: I thought that, and honestly, the first crowd for the

450
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Speaker 5: Mexico Great Britain game was fantastic. Certainly very very pro Mexico,

451
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Speaker 5: which will be the case, I'm sure when Mexico plays

452
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Speaker 5: the US. I think that's going to be probably a

453
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Speaker 5: fifty five forty five matchup, maybe sixty to forty in

454
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Speaker 5: favor of Mexico. But I thought both crowds were excellent.

455
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Speaker 5: I think that the crowd was up in the upper

456
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Speaker 5: midter upper thirties for the US game, not quite a sellout,

457
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Speaker 5: but loud, really engaged. Houston's a great place to play

458
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Speaker 5: this and I've been in Houston a lot over my life.

459
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Speaker 5: The people here are amazing, and they do a very

460
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Speaker 5: good job of hosting big events, Final Four, Super Bowl, obviously,

461
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Speaker 5: a lot of World Series. It's almost surprising it's taken

462
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Speaker 5: this long for a World Baseball Plastics to come here

463
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Speaker 5: is of course, it's the sixth edition, but I think

464
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Speaker 5: that Miami is a phenomenal place to host it. The

465
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Speaker 5: ballpark here in Houston is I think it's the amenities

466
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Speaker 5: for the fans really good. I think it's a great

467
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Speaker 5: place to watch a game, really great atmosphere. So there

468
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Speaker 5: are a lot of wonder the ballparks that you could

469
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Speaker 5: host this event at. Certainly we've seen it in California before,

470
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Speaker 5: San Francisco, La San Diego, been in Arizona. I just

471
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Speaker 5: think this is one of the better atmospheres to play

472
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Speaker 5: it in, and I'm really glad Houston's got its opportunity

473
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Speaker 5: and it's it's gonna have that great blend. When you

474
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Speaker 5: get Mexico in the US at Saint Pool, You're gonna

475
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Speaker 5: really draw well for both teams. And I think those games,

476
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Speaker 5: especially when Mexico plays at night on Sunday against Brazil,

477
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Speaker 5: when they play against the US, when they play against

478
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Speaker 5: Italy and which should be a really important game, I

479
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Speaker 5: think both get three great crowds out of those Mexico

480
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Speaker 5: games that are all happening in the evening.

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Speaker 1: John Paul Morose, the MLB Network insider from Houston, as

482
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Speaker 1: he took in the United States his fifteen to five

483
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Speaker 1: win over Brazil. Now looking at the one game, right,

484
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Speaker 1: would obviously have the one game to look at tonight.

485
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Speaker 1: The lineup looks incredible. The lineup looks locked in. They

486
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Speaker 1: didn't chase bad pitches. They took what was there for them.

487
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Speaker 1: If I said to you, hey, your biggest concern for

488
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Speaker 1: the United States is it the bullpen? Is it the

489
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Speaker 1: lack of depth starting pitching wise, especially if school's gonna

490
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Speaker 1: play one game and out, Like, what would you say

491
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Speaker 1: would be the biggest the biggest thing for the United

492
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Speaker 1: States going forward?

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Speaker 5: It's a great question. I'll say this, there is nothing

494
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Speaker 5: roster related that worries me. I really, I don't. I

495
00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:10,880
Speaker 5: don't have a worry if if if there's any if

496
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Speaker 5: they don't win, it's not it will not be because

497
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Speaker 5: of there's that there's a flaw on this roster. This

498
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Speaker 5: the roster is about as well constructed as you could

499
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Speaker 5: possibly imagine. I like, there's some youth there. Terrang is

500
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Speaker 5: a little younger, Anthony is a little younger, and then

501
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Speaker 5: the rest the rest of the group. There's just there's

502
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Speaker 5: no way that anyone could argue with really any of

503
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Speaker 5: the selections in my opinions, and even pitching wise, It's

504
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Speaker 5: interesting the you know, walk up pitch so well. Web

505
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Speaker 5: I thought was really good. Of course, he gave up

506
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Speaker 5: the early homer, but that was it. Uh, It's like

507
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Speaker 5: no hits after that. So I think in general, you know,

508
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Speaker 5: maybe they're still a way for schoobl to to stay

509
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Speaker 5: around for one more start. I'd love to see it.

510
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Speaker 5: I know a lot of people around the game would

511
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Speaker 5: love to see it. Certainly he has started. He's starting

512
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Speaker 5: early in enough to be able to come back. So

513
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Speaker 5: I'm not gonna say starting pitching is a concern because

514
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Speaker 5: I thought Web was really good. They've got really good

515
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Speaker 5: piggyback situations. Now I like what I'm seeing, and so

516
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Speaker 5: I really have no I have no concern just outside

517
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Speaker 5: of the randomness of baseball and how the best team

518
00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:21,400
Speaker 5: doesn't always win. There's nothing to really be worried about

519
00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:24,159
Speaker 5: with this team. And I thought Miller tonight, you know,

520
00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:26,600
Speaker 5: maybe wasn't the most efficient inning to start, but he's

521
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Speaker 5: able to rescue it though. I think Team USA checked

522
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Speaker 5: a lot of boxes. It was a really successful first

523
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Speaker 5: night for them.

524
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Speaker 3: Now, I used to watch Chinese TYPEI dominate the Little

525
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Speaker 3: League World Series on ABC's Wide World of Sports as

526
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Speaker 3: a kid. They got drubbed thirteen to show Heyo TODDI

527
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Speaker 3: with the Grand Slam. I are we going for the

528
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Speaker 3: crash course eventually to meet up with Japan in.

529
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Speaker 5: The final, Not necessarily, because I think that Venezuela's got

530
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Speaker 5: a really good team. The Dominicans have a really good team.

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Speaker 5: Mexico is a scary team, I think for a lot

532
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Speaker 5: of people. So I actually I do agree with the

533
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Speaker 5: premise that the US probably has the best roster in

534
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Speaker 5: this tournament, the second best. I think. Again, Japan plays

535
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Speaker 5: in this tournament so well, they've got the best player

536
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Speaker 5: in the planet. Maybe not quite as dominant as starting

537
00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:22,400
Speaker 5: staff as they had last time, but still really good.

538
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Speaker 5: But I put the Dominicans right in the same class,

539
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Speaker 5: and I thought Venezuela had a really really impressive first

540
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Speaker 5: first game as well, So for me, I don't look

541
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Speaker 5: at it as inevitable at all. I think it's important

542
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Speaker 5: to point out that we've had five classics in the past,

543
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Speaker 5: and US versus Japan has been the final game exactly once,

544
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Speaker 5: and that was last time, So I don't see it

545
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Speaker 5: as being inevitable. I think it's possible, maybe even likely,

546
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Speaker 5: but not inevitable because of the quality of the Dominicans,

547
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Speaker 5: the Venezuelans, the Mexicans, a lot of teams that I

548
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Speaker 5: think we have not even heard the best from yet

549
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Speaker 5: that could potentially be spoilering. And you mentioned the struggles

550
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Speaker 5: of the Taiwanese team against Japan. I think the one

551
00:28:06,880 --> 00:28:11,359
Speaker 5: team that could emerge from from that pool, it's gonna

552
00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:13,960
Speaker 5: be a great matchup between Korea and Australia. More than

553
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Speaker 5: likely that will decide the second bid out of out

554
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Speaker 5: of the Tokyo pool. And I think those are two

555
00:28:19,680 --> 00:28:21,399
Speaker 5: really good teams that are that are I think that

556
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Speaker 5: have taken big steps since the last Classic.

557
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Speaker 1: He's on Twitter at John Morosi, that is at John

558
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Speaker 1: Morosi from the World Baseball Classic in Houston. John Paul

559
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Speaker 1: enjoyed the weekend. We'll talk to you next week where

560
00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:37,200
Speaker 1: maybe the United States will be facing a fourteen or

561
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Speaker 1: fifteen year old pitcher at some point.

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Speaker 5: I think it's this mark my words, my friends, this

563
00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:46,560
Speaker 5: will be the easiest game the Americans play all tournament.

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Speaker 5: It will only get harder from here.

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Speaker 1: Take it easy, buddy, enjoy the weekend. We'll talk to

566
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Speaker 1: you next week.

567
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Speaker 5: Every weekend, guys, all the best.

568
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Speaker 1: Thank you, JB. There goes John Paul Rossi and look

569
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Speaker 1: and also Mike, you know you can't you can't. You

570
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Speaker 1: can't tamp down the advantage the United States have getting,

571
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Speaker 1: you know, getting all the pitches beforehand like they do

572
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Speaker 1: in Houston. You know, when the buzzer's going off, the

573
00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:09,320
Speaker 1: drums getting beaten like you. Oh okay, I know what

574
00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:11,600
Speaker 1: pitch is coming. It's just Brazil couldn't get it over

575
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Speaker 1: the place.

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Speaker 3: Hey, home field advantage, man. That and the railroad coming through.

577
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Speaker 3: I mean, you got a lot going on.

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Speaker 1: Railroad's coming, Railroad's coming.

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Speaker 7: Uh.

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

581
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Speaker 1: world of sports from Special Delivery Steve de Sager, who

582
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Speaker 1: walked No. One tonight so he could have pitched for

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Speaker 1: Team Brazil and done just fine, Steve, O, what do

584
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Speaker 1: you got?

585
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Speaker 7: You know?

586
00:29:33,480 --> 00:29:38,440
Speaker 8: While Brazil's pitchers walked seventeen against the US, Brazil's batters

587
00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:42,920
Speaker 8: had sixteen strikeouts and drew just one walk in Houston

588
00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:45,960
Speaker 8: fifteen to five Team USA. The final. By the way,

589
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Speaker 8: Chinese type A just played another game. We'll get to

590
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Speaker 8: that final in a moment. But US captain Aaron Judge,

591
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Speaker 8: a two run homer in the first did I'm sorry,

592
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Speaker 8: but he grounded into a double play with based sload

593
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Speaker 8: in the second against.

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Speaker 6: A high schooler.

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Speaker 8: That's just did somewhere in the story Years from Now.

596
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Speaker 8: Bryce Terrag had three hits, including a gift three run

597
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Speaker 8: double in the fifth inning. Logan Webb from the Giants

598
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Speaker 8: the winning pitcher.

599
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Speaker 6: He was the.

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Speaker 8: Starter, allowed a leadoff homer and pretty much nothing after

601
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Speaker 8: that that home run by Lucas Ramirez, who also homerd

602
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Speaker 8: for Brazil in the eighth. The American second game is

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Speaker 8: Saturday night in Houston against Great Britain, also on Fox TV,

604
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Speaker 8: and then Monday night it's USA Mexico on Fox Mexico.

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Speaker 8: Today one it's opener against Great Britain. It was tied

606
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Speaker 8: one to one in the eighth, eight to two Mexico.

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Speaker 8: The final Jonathan Ronda of the Rays a three run

608
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Speaker 8: homer in the eighth. Jazz Chisholm of the Yankees zero

609
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Speaker 8: for five is Britain's leadoff hitter. Attendance thirty thousand for

610
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Speaker 8: that game and then thirty one thousand for the US

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Speaker 8: game in Houston. Japan won its opener in Tokyo thirteen

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Speaker 8: nothing over Chinese type shohe Otani hit a grand slam

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Speaker 8: in a ten run second inning. He went three for four.

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Speaker 8: Taiwan is a team one for twenty two with five walks.

615
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Speaker 8: But Taiwan has just played again and shut out Chechia

616
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Speaker 8: fourteen to nothing in a game shortened to seven innings,

617
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Speaker 8: similar to the seven inning loss they had in Tokyo

618
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Speaker 8: early this morning.

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Speaker 1: Are time they made them come back so early because

620
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Speaker 1: they got blown out. You have to play again right away.

621
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Speaker 6: That's right.

622
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Speaker 8: They didn't exactly put in a full nine inning effort,

623
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Speaker 8: and therefore Okay. Venezuela won six to two against the Netherlands,

624
00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:29,840
Speaker 8: which was held to four hits. Luisa Ria's two RBIs.

625
00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:32,320
Speaker 8: Cuba beat Panama three to one. It was three nothing

626
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Speaker 8: in the third Yuan Moncata two run homer. The rest

627
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Speaker 8: of his team went four for twenty seven. Puerto Rico

628
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Speaker 8: scored five runs in the fifth and won five nothing

629
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Speaker 8: against Columbia. The win to seth Lugo with four scoreless innings.

630
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Speaker 8: Edwin Diaz struck out three in the ninth, and the

631
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Speaker 8: Dominican Republic was tied with Nicaragua, whose manager is Dusty Baker.

632
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Speaker 8: The game was three to three in the sixth Dominicans

633
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Speaker 8: with that star studded lineup did win twelve three, three

634
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Speaker 8: RBIs each Vladimir Guerrero Junior and Julio Rodriguez. In the

635
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Speaker 8: NBA's late game in La, Lakers lead with under five

636
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Speaker 8: minutes to go one nineteen ninety eight against Indiana, forty

637
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Speaker 8: four points for Luka Doncic. This would be the eighth

638
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Speaker 8: straight loss of the Indiana Pacers. New York Final was

639
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Speaker 8: one forty two to one oh three at Denver despite

640
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Speaker 8: thirty eight from Nikola Jokic. Phoenix Edge New Orleans won

641
00:32:24,920 --> 00:32:28,440
Speaker 8: eighteen one sixteen Devin Booker thirty two points by the

642
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Speaker 8: Way Suns injured forward Dylan Brooks was arrested overnight for

643
00:32:31,960 --> 00:32:35,520
Speaker 8: duy At San Antonio, the Spurs trailed the Clippers by

644
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Speaker 8: twenty five in the third quarter and still came back

645
00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:42,080
Speaker 8: to win one sixteen, one twelve despite thirty points from

646
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Speaker 8: Kawhi Leonard of La Houston over Portland one oh six

647
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Speaker 8: ninety nine the Blazers Denny Avdia out again with a

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Speaker 8: bad back. Kevin Durant twenty points, eight turnovers for the Rockets.

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Speaker 8: Miami won at Charlotte, ending the Hornets six game winning

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Speaker 8: streak one twenty eight one twenty Tyler Hero three thirty

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Speaker 8: three points, he'd have won four straight, and Boston sent

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Speaker 8: Dallas to a six straight loss one twenty to one hundred.

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Speaker 8: Jason Tatum returned after a torn achilles last May, played

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Speaker 8: twenty seven minutes and at fifteen points, twelve rebounds, seven

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Speaker 8: assists for Boston to college basketball number nineteen. Miami Ohio

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Speaker 8: finishes its regular season thirty one to oher after an

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Speaker 8: overtime win one ten one oh eight at Ohio U

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Speaker 8: eighteenth ranks. Saint John survived at Seaton Hall seventy two

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Speaker 8: sixty five. North Carolina star freshman Caleb Wilson is out

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Speaker 8: for the year after thumb surgery and h.

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Speaker 1: Easy, Steve, You're gonna You're gonna Harmon's gonna have a

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Speaker 1: heart attack. If you'd say Caleb Williams is out for

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Speaker 1: the year, just man, you gotta get that name right, man.

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Speaker 1: You know, Harmon's gonna just He's just gonna fall right

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Speaker 1: off the chair.

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Speaker 8: Is this thumb does not have a painted nail. If

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Speaker 8: the NHL shootout wins for Anaheim and Colorado, the Raiders

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Speaker 8: traded edge rusher Max Crosby to Baltimore for two first rounders.

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Speaker 8: The Raiders are cutting quarterback Gino Smith.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Steve. Coming up next, Yes, hey, we got more.

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Speaker 1: We got a big NFL Power Hour on the way.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna kick things off next with not one, but

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Speaker 1: two big quarterback stories from today. One I just want

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Speaker 1: to shake my head and just say, please make it

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Speaker 1: go away. That's next Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 6: And I'm sure Jason instill hate America.

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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. Right after our show is over, the

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Speaker 1: best of Podcasts goes up. Just search our names, Jason

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Speaker 1: Smith and Mike Harmon wherever you get your podcasts from

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Speaker 1: download rate us Subscribe. We'll love you forever and ever

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Speaker 1: and ever again. Wherever you get your podcast, just search

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Speaker 1: our names, Jason Smith, Mike Harmon, get it right after

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Speaker 1: it's over. We love putting this content out for you,

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Speaker 1: every single and America.

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Speaker 6: I made sure to take out all Jason Smith's hatred

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Speaker 6: of Team USA just because the podcast, So make sure

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Speaker 6: you get it, just.

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Speaker 1: Because I can revel an Aaron Judge grounding into a

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Speaker 1: double playoffs very anti captain America right now he is no,

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Speaker 1: not after you ground ass.

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Speaker 4: But I mean it's the same kind of idea here.

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Speaker 1: I could do this all day and I know.

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Speaker 6: It is Jason hate Proof downloaded.

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Speaker 1: No no, no, I I am I. I did not

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Speaker 1: root against America tonight. I want us to win. And

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Speaker 1: everybody says healthy and I am okay that Aaron Judge

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Speaker 1: grounded into a double play against the kid who you're

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Speaker 1: I am okay with that. That Oh, because my dad,

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Speaker 1: my dad, my dad's not going to come over to

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Speaker 1: the house for like months now. After after that, like

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Speaker 1: as soon as I sent him that text, Dad, Eric

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Speaker 1: Judge can't even hit high school pitching. I didn't even

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Speaker 1: get anything back. I did. I just saw Walt has

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Speaker 1: notification silenced. It's like, all right, Dad, I'll see you tomorrow. Well,

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Speaker 1: if he would have answered the phone, I would have

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Speaker 1: called him, but I was also I was also getting

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Speaker 1: ready for the show. Uh now, we'll have more on

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Speaker 1: that coming up next hour. But we'll got Mix Crosby

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Speaker 1: in the Big Trade coming up in ten minutes. But

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Speaker 1: quarterback news ahead of that, And I don't know which

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Speaker 1: is the more depressing, more us a bigger story. Geno

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Speaker 1: Smith is going to get waved by the Raiders. We

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Speaker 1: found it out earlier today. So the Raiders now waving

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Speaker 1: goodbye to Gino Smith and Max Crosby. And uh so

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Speaker 1: you think, okay, well, Geno Smith, the Jets are going

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Speaker 1: to be in on him. The Jets seem like they're

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Speaker 1: in on Tua. The Jets are in on Kyler Murray,

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Speaker 1: the Jets are in on Derek Carr like they're in

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Speaker 1: on everybody.

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Speaker 3: Have you ever thrown a pass in the National Football.

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Speaker 1: But when I saw this today, I said, okay. I

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Speaker 1: got upset for about five minutes, and then I said,

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Speaker 1: you know what, We're gonna stink anyway. Why this is

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Speaker 1: just full tank? This is full tank because Frank Reich,

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Speaker 1: new Jets offensive coordinator, according to reports, may prefer Carson

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Speaker 1: Wentz to be his quarterback because hey, he knows how

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Speaker 1: to execute his system. All right now, When I saw this,

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Speaker 1: I said, man, are you kidding me? Then I said,

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Speaker 1: but how are we gonna be? Whoever we sign, it

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Speaker 1: doesn't matter, We're gonna stink. I'm all in on the

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Speaker 1: tank for twenty twenty seven for Arch Manning or Dante Moore,

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Speaker 1: whoever it is. But I'm all in for that.

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Speaker 7: Then.

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Speaker 1: Remember back when Frank Reich was the head coach and

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Speaker 1: he started Sam Hellinger those few games going, He's got

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Speaker 1: that special sauce. I'm like, oh, no, they're tanking there

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Speaker 1: for a big draft pick. Okay, No, Frank w Reich

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Speaker 1: knows what's going on now. I'm like, okay, if we could,

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Speaker 1: if we signed Carson Wentz to be our starting quarterback,

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Speaker 1: you know, we are officially just tanking all the way

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Speaker 1: until next year. You know, we are just thinking twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty seven. And and you know, obviously Aaron Glenn is

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Speaker 1: gonna still be the coach because if he's okay with it,

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Speaker 1: you know that he's gotten the he's gotten the nod

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Speaker 1: that Yeah, no matter what you do this year, you'll

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Speaker 1: be here next year. Aaron, you got an A on

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Speaker 1: the NFL p A grades. Everybody loves you. I gotta

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Speaker 1: b I'm withde Johnson. I'm happy. But if we signed

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Speaker 1: Carson Wentz, you know we are absolutely tanking for next

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Speaker 1: season on.

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Speaker 4: A former MVP contender.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, dude, that was that was pre that was pre pandemic.

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Speaker 1: He was an MVP can that was.

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Speaker 3: Pre pandemic by like three years. Yeah, it's a lifetime ago.

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Speaker 3: It's a decade again.

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Speaker 6: And he's gonna be the best Jets quarterback since Nameth.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but what if he actually accidentally wins you a

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Speaker 3: couple of games.

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Speaker 1: I'm not worried a I'm just putting that in the

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Speaker 1: Carson Wentz. I'm not worried about that. No, No, I.

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Speaker 3: Mean, because look, if you're gonna be anti America, I'm

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Speaker 3: gonna root for the Jets' si he's.

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Speaker 6: Gonna win them one more game, then they should win

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Speaker 6: to cost the March Manning.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it'll be it'll be a a wrestling

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Speaker 1: match with the Jets and the Dolphins because they're gonna

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Speaker 1: absolutely stink this year. And then it's gonna come down

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Speaker 1: to like Week seventeen, Wentz versus quinn Ewers, and we're

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Speaker 1: gonna win like fourteen to ten, and the Dolphins are

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Speaker 1: gonna pick first and get arch Manning and Dante more

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Speaker 1: will say, no, I'm not even going to the NFL.

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Speaker 1: I still don't want to go to the Jets. I

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Speaker 1: didn't want to go last year, I'm not going this year.

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Speaker 1: I'm pulling a rocket Ismael and I'm going to the CFL.

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Speaker 1: I am I'm done, and the Jets saying, well, we

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Speaker 1: tank for no reason because now we're not getting a

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Speaker 1: quarterback now either.

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Speaker 4: Jet Show. Yeah, yeah, it's been setting up quite nicely.

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Speaker 3: But this was a nice, delicious add on to the

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Speaker 3: Geno Smith paranoia that's out there all my life circle.

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Speaker 1: I kind of think it would be better now instead

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Speaker 1: of these quarterbacks all going to different places, that the

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Speaker 1: Jets get all of them and it's a big it's

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Speaker 1: a it's Derek Carr and Tua and Carson Wentz and

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Speaker 1: and Kyler Murray all battling it out to be the

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Speaker 1: quarterback for the Jets.

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Speaker 3: Really would just be an extension of that reality show

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Speaker 3: that we pitched on the show about a decade ago,

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Speaker 3: and we talked, we saw that out of on day

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Speaker 3: three you don't take anything but quarterbacks.

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Speaker 1: Yeah no, but but now think about this, what if

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Speaker 1: you did this talk about reality show. The Jets signed

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Speaker 1: all four of those guys and everybody got four games. Everybody,

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Speaker 1: no matter what, everybody gets, no matter how you're doing. Hey,

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Speaker 1: what a great four game stretch for Kyler Murray thirteen touchdowns,

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Speaker 1: no picks up, that's up, Nope. Two has gonna play

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Speaker 1: now now I know we're four and oh we're going

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Speaker 1: into two. Is gonna do it?

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Speaker 4: Next?

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Speaker 1: Man up? Exit out by the Fresca exit Swolling Dome

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Speaker 1: coming up. Next, we get into the biggest move of

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Speaker 1: the offseason. Max Crosby is now a Raven