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Speaker 1: Hello, Welcome inside Final Hour tonight, the Jason Smith's Show

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Speaker 1: with my best friend Mike Harmon, Live from the Fox

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Speaker 1: Sports Radio Studios. Dodgers Padres bottom of the eighth. Padres

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Speaker 1: threatened in the top could not get a run across

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Speaker 1: Game of the year in Major League Baseball right now.

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Speaker 1: I'll explain, but there's too much I will sum up.

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Speaker 1: It's been the best game of the year. There's been ejections,

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Speaker 1: there's been guys getting hit, there's been big home runs,

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Speaker 1: there's been break good ramps at second base.

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Speaker 3: There's been lots of stuff. UH. Dodgers lead the Padres right.

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Speaker 1: Now eight six, and Andy pa has with his fourth

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Speaker 1: hit of the night, this a day after he got

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Speaker 1: hit in last night's game UH, in which Manny Machado

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Speaker 1: said after the game, Oh, we didn't hit him on purpose.

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Speaker 1: There's there's bigger dogs on that Dodgers roster we can

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Speaker 1: hit besides him. Well, two home runs and four hits tonight,

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Speaker 1: Andy Pa has clearly showing that yes, I am an

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Speaker 1: All Star, which means.

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Speaker 4: He'll wear it tomorrow. In is in the seventh inning

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Speaker 4: if the Dodgers are up big.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, go down there if that happens.

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Speaker 1: And there's wait a minute, is that Fox Sports radio

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Speaker 1: producer Justin Frosberg fighting Manny Machado.

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Speaker 5: I don't believe straight to the manager. Forget Manny.

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Speaker 3: Oh if you're charge into the ring?

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Speaker 4: Music there, Frostburg, what are we playing as you you

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Speaker 4: can breakstone glass?

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Speaker 3: Mike sh there you go. You're just here, dude, due,

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Speaker 3: Oh my dude, du dude, dune dune here.

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Speaker 1: Ut Frostburg comes charging out of the dug Come on,

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Speaker 1: you know I got she'll beat.

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Speaker 3: And here comes in.

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Speaker 1: Here comes in unidentified man in a Chargers hoodie who

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Speaker 1: is going to go right after Mike Shilt.

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Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, he is raining Haymakers.

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Speaker 4: He's wearing a leather vest and giant knee braces as he's.

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Speaker 5: Raining bubber gum.

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Speaker 3: You hate that guy? Is he? Is he your most

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Speaker 1: I didn't think you could hate Mike Shilt all that much,

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Speaker 1: but yeah, I guess you can.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know.

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Speaker 5: He just can't tell who's the star and who Isn't.

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Speaker 3: He just decided he has a punchable face.

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Speaker 1: Look, Pa has it in two ninety fifteen home runs

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Speaker 1: forty nine rbi is his OPS is now up over

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Speaker 3: Yeah, guy's an All Star. Man.

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Speaker 1: Guys gotta go to the All Star Game. I was

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Speaker 1: eighty percent before tonight, now one hundred percent.

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Speaker 5: Guy's got way better than Peter A Lonzo.

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Speaker 3: Uh well, don't forget go voting for the All Stars.

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Speaker 3: Your votes.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they need your votes, man, I mean not everybody

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Speaker 1: can just get to a million votes easy, Okay, keep

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Speaker 1: voting for Judge and Otani, make sure they get there

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Speaker 1: as starters. But tonight we saw one of the spring

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Speaker 1: sports crown there champion as the Florida Panthers beat the

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Speaker 1: Edmonton Oilers to win the Stanley Cup, a game that

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Speaker 1: was really never in doubt. After the first period, Florida

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Speaker 1: blitzed out to a three to nothing, leave Sam Reinhart

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Speaker 1: four goals on the night, first person to do that

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Speaker 1: in the Stanley Cup clinching game since nineteen fifty seven.

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Speaker 1: And the Panthers win the Cup five to one over

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Speaker 1: the Oilers. And already I'm seeing the odds for next

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Speaker 1: year come in. This gets into Norway. We're not talking

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Speaker 1: about next year. This is this gets in tonight already

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Speaker 1: in Vegas.

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Speaker 3: There are.

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Speaker 1: Let's just say there, there are differences in opinion as

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Speaker 3: For the Cup for next year. Right. Sports books are

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Speaker 1: They are divided between the Panthers, the Oilers, the Avalanche,

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Speaker 3: No, no, no, hey, fan, Duel's got the Hurricanes. FanDuel

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Speaker 1: The Hurricanes are the fourth phase, man, they'd a fourth

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Speaker 3: They're the favorite of FanDuel.

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Speaker 5: Dude.

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Speaker 3: You're a really good.

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Speaker 4: Team Panthers, Oilers, Avalanche, Canes, I headed the Stars and

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Speaker 4: the Vegas Golden Knights.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Frost Bring, It's not my fault you don't pay

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Speaker 1: attention to anything outside of your team. I'm sorry, but

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Speaker 1: that's I'm sorry. We almost we almost want well, I

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Speaker 5: But I'm pretty sure you didn't know who Brad Marshan

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Speaker 1: You we're in the Eastern Conference side, Yeah, because I

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Speaker 1: haven't watched Brad Marshan score goals against the Hurricanes for

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Speaker 3: No, that's happened. But here's the thing about this game.

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Speaker 3: Here's the thing about tonight.

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Speaker 1: Right, So Florida wins, and I'm really surprised that you're

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Speaker 1: getting all the other co favorites. And what I'm hoping

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Speaker 1: team that's really good with shorter odds, because quite honestly,

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Speaker 1: this Panthers team is. It's as dominant as any team

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Speaker 1: that I've seen in hockey in maybe in the last

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Speaker 1: twenty years, right back to back Stanley Cups. And what

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Speaker 1: they remind me of is I think about three teams specifically, right,

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Speaker 1: I think about the Islanders of the eighties. They won

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Speaker 1: out of four Cups, and then the Red Wings won.

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Speaker 1: Red Wings won three out of five Cups in the

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Speaker 1: I know, I right, I like, the Red Wings haven't

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Speaker 1: the thing about about those teams words that, yeah they

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Speaker 1: have star players, Yeah they had star players. But those

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Speaker 1: teams that won all those Stanley Cups in a row,

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Speaker 1: they had great one through three. Their top three lines

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Speaker 1: you could get you could be getting an MVP cons

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Speaker 1: My Award winning performance by a third line player. Like,

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Speaker 1: the Panthers are so deep, and they've had this nucleus

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Speaker 1: there's nothing you can do. This team has no weaknesses,

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Speaker 1: right and net Bobrovski is terrific. They have no weaknesses

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Speaker 1: and that's what these teams were, like as good as

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Speaker 1: the Islanders were. Yeah, they had Bossi and Trachy scoring

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Speaker 1: The Red Wings their third line of guys like McCarty

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Speaker 1: this is why those teams won because they were so

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Speaker 1: good top to bottom. There's no weakness. You can't walk

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Speaker 1: here's how we win. Like, we have to make sure

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Speaker 1: we capitalize on the power play. We have to make

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Speaker 1: they don't have a lot of finishers. On the second effect,

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Speaker 1: there's nothing you can do. And no, by the way, yep,

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Speaker 1: they go grab Brad Marshan for nothing and he comes

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Speaker 1: in and shows yeah, I still got it. Especially in

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Speaker 1: the playoffs. They have a great mix of young players

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Speaker 1: wonder if in the next couple of years, we start

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Speaker 1: talking with them, going could they win four Cups in

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Speaker 1: a row? Could they do what the Islanders did the

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Speaker 3: Could they do that?

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Speaker 1: Because clearly they should be the they should be the

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Speaker 3: And not slowing down. It's not like suddenly they're gonna

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Speaker 1: And these guys are hitting free agency like this is

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Speaker 1: don't know who can really make that big jump next year,

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Speaker 1: we'll go grab great players.

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Speaker 3: Doesn't matter.

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Speaker 1: Oilers have two of the top five players in the league,

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Speaker 3: And it wasn't even close this series.

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Speaker 1: The Panthers got the first goal in all the games,

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Speaker 1: they played the Panthers, and the Panthers said, yeah, we'll show.

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Speaker 3: You what scoring first is like. And every game starts

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Speaker 1: Florida right outside of you look outside of you know,

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Speaker 1: This team is so much better than everybody else. I

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Speaker 1: really think in a couple of years we're saying, hey,

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Speaker 1: this could be history for the Panthers. Three cups in

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Speaker 1: a row. They're going for four, four cups in a row,

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Speaker 1: they're going for five. They're just that good.

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Speaker 4: Well, that's the beauty of the way the sport is played.

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Speaker 4: You also need a lot of luck on your side.

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Speaker 4: Right you go through their regular season. Only Katchuk was

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Speaker 4: Does do the hockey gods smile on you that each

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Speaker 4: and every year? Generally not, And obviously because we're talking

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Speaker 4: look at off season moves projections, teams that maybe petered

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Speaker 4: absolute wrong time. I'm not disagreeing Florida is in a

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Speaker 4: great position to keep things rolling, But from a betting

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Speaker 4: But we'll start seeing money coming in and we'll keep

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Speaker 4: an eye on that as we get into the off season.

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Speaker 4: But young old, good netminding. But this series and throughout

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Speaker 4: fifteen goals for the postseason just absolutely insane for today

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Speaker 4: in a laugher, But the quick starts that they had

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Speaker 4: time and time again, I gotta think physicality changes is

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Speaker 4: how you approach them as best you can. But trying

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Speaker 1: in a few minutes. Are the Pacers going to be

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Speaker 1: without their biggest star for Game six? Meanwhile, the biggest

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Speaker 1: thing I would say, I'd want to see that a

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00:20:25,359 --> 00:20:28,240
Speaker 1: little bit from her more than just hey, when this happens,

436
00:20:28,480 --> 00:20:31,159
Speaker 1: I'm gonna walk away and and whatever happens happens.

437
00:20:31,400 --> 00:20:33,159
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean this goes back to her days at

438
00:20:33,200 --> 00:20:33,719
Speaker 3: Iowa though.

439
00:20:33,760 --> 00:20:37,160
Speaker 4: I mean she was chirpy and chippy with players then,

440
00:20:38,119 --> 00:20:41,280
Speaker 4: and the same kind of thing. You know, Hey, crowd

441
00:20:41,280 --> 00:20:44,640
Speaker 4: gets insided, Referees start to come, teammates starts to come,

442
00:20:44,760 --> 00:20:47,080
Speaker 4: and they bail her out. She's like a wrestling manager

443
00:20:47,520 --> 00:20:49,480
Speaker 4: that talks a bunch of smack and man has to

444
00:20:49,520 --> 00:20:52,000
Speaker 4: have you know, the guys.

445
00:20:51,760 --> 00:20:52,680
Speaker 3: Take care of business.

446
00:20:52,760 --> 00:20:54,560
Speaker 4: I stirred it up and now I'm gonna I'm gonna

447
00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:56,720
Speaker 4: dip out here and and you guys now have a

448
00:20:56,720 --> 00:20:58,159
Speaker 4: tag team battle and get after it.

449
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Speaker 3: I know a lot of folks and you know.

450
00:21:01,240 --> 00:21:07,880
Speaker 4: Watching the socials, Sophie Cunningham becoming that hero for Caitlin Clark. Certainly,

451
00:21:08,520 --> 00:21:11,240
Speaker 4: she'd already won a lot of points and you'd seen

452
00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:16,480
Speaker 4: her fit and her her history. Her arrival to Indiana

453
00:21:16,840 --> 00:21:20,080
Speaker 4: was much heralded. And now she's, you know, a cult

454
00:21:20,160 --> 00:21:24,479
Speaker 4: hero for becoming, you know, the enforcer on this squad

455
00:21:24,480 --> 00:21:26,560
Speaker 4: where you already had a number of players that were

456
00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:31,280
Speaker 4: more than willing to stand in, but yeah, curiously officiated game.

457
00:21:31,560 --> 00:21:34,720
Speaker 4: They let it get physical a number of times. Sheldon

458
00:21:35,119 --> 00:21:38,880
Speaker 4: takes the l once again. She's now own twelve against

459
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Speaker 4: Clark and her career going back to the college days.

460
00:21:42,200 --> 00:21:45,760
Speaker 4: But that hard fallow at the end. I mean Sheldon

461
00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:49,160
Speaker 4: went to put the elbow out and Cunningham said, no,

462
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Speaker 4: none of that. I'm just coming over the top of

463
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Speaker 4: you show just a couple of inches taller. So maybe

464
00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:56,679
Speaker 4: it looks worse than it really was in the grand

465
00:21:56,760 --> 00:21:59,720
Speaker 4: scheme of things. But smothers her. It gets a little

466
00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:02,960
Speaker 4: bit spy, and for Caitlin Clark gets it's the next

467
00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:05,000
Speaker 4: in a long line. Do I need her to fight? No,

468
00:22:05,200 --> 00:22:08,880
Speaker 4: but stand in. I agree. If you're gonna talk as

469
00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:11,439
Speaker 4: much smack as she does, you're gonna keep getting this

470
00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:15,719
Speaker 4: right because it's not. It's not without some provocation on

471
00:22:15,760 --> 00:22:18,560
Speaker 4: her side side, you know, when hitting a big shot

472
00:22:18,840 --> 00:22:21,440
Speaker 4: and things of that nature. I will ask you this though,

473
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Speaker 4: Fever right now third favorite behind the Liberty and Links

474
00:22:26,240 --> 00:22:27,120
Speaker 4: at five to one.

475
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Speaker 3: You jumping in, Ooh, I should have jumped in earlier.

476
00:22:30,960 --> 00:22:32,480
Speaker 1: I should have jumped in. I should have jumped in

477
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Speaker 1: before the season when they were just hey, they're on

478
00:22:34,760 --> 00:22:37,159
Speaker 1: the cost, and they made some moves. But I'm telling you,

479
00:22:37,160 --> 00:22:38,960
Speaker 1: man should jump in five to one now. It's like

480
00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:41,520
Speaker 1: I I feel like the five to one.

481
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know. It should have been more than that.

482
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Speaker 3: Liberty like my dad.

483
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, but my dad. Hey dad, the lottery is

484
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Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty million dollars. I don't play unless

485
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Speaker 1: it's at least two hundred million. Oh right, right, right,

486
00:22:52,400 --> 00:22:54,560
Speaker 1: sorry dad, five to one. I don't need five to

487
00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:57,440
Speaker 1: one if you got me harming at like twenty to one.

488
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Speaker 5: A twenty to one because your dad hit more numbers

489
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Speaker 5: than Theankees have scored runs in the last three games.

490
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Speaker 1: Yes, because my dad actually hit one number the last one,

491
00:23:06,119 --> 00:23:07,080
Speaker 1: So he's leading.

492
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Speaker 3: The Yankees.

493
00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:13,720
Speaker 4: Struggling, taking to the woodshed by the by the Angels

494
00:23:13,880 --> 00:23:14,800
Speaker 4: for crying out loud.

495
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Speaker 3: But look, yeah, the fever before the yeah fever before

496
00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:19,239
Speaker 3: the season, they're right back where they were.

497
00:23:19,359 --> 00:23:22,960
Speaker 4: They drifted out a little bit once Clark got hurt,

498
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Speaker 4: but it's it's normalized.

499
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Speaker 1: If you think Caitlin Clark was good last year, okay,

500
00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:33,560
Speaker 1: just wait till you see the continuation of her middle

501
00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:37,200
Speaker 1: finger tour that she is doing and going to continue

502
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Speaker 1: to do over the rest of this season. Oh, you

503
00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:42,359
Speaker 1: hate me on social media. You're jealous of me. You

504
00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:44,719
Speaker 1: don't think I should be deserving of this success. All

505
00:23:44,760 --> 00:23:47,720
Speaker 1: the haters, the other players that don't like her. You

506
00:23:47,800 --> 00:23:49,959
Speaker 1: watch what she is going to roll up over the

507
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Speaker 1: course of the next couple of months. Here in the

508
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Speaker 1: w Right, we see this all the time. You see

509
00:23:53,600 --> 00:23:56,440
Speaker 1: teams go on middle finger tours because they've been disrespected.

510
00:23:56,480 --> 00:23:58,680
Speaker 1: They just want to say, blank you, blake you. You could

511
00:23:58,720 --> 00:24:01,360
Speaker 1: say the Pacers are on a middle finger tour right now.

512
00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:03,800
Speaker 1: Other teams have gone on it, right, they don't respect us.

513
00:24:04,600 --> 00:24:07,879
Speaker 1: But for Caitlyn Clark, this is more of a okay, like,

514
00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:09,800
Speaker 1: she knows the fan base she has of what she

515
00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:13,159
Speaker 1: means to the team, but social media is its own thing, right.

516
00:24:13,240 --> 00:24:15,280
Speaker 1: Most people get their news from social media, So you

517
00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:18,480
Speaker 1: would think that, oh, Kaitlyn Clark is very divisive. No,

518
00:24:18,640 --> 00:24:20,800
Speaker 1: Kaylyn Clark doesn't have nearly these men haters as a thing.

519
00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:24,399
Speaker 1: But they're all on social media and they're also playing

520
00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:26,719
Speaker 1: in the league, and they're coaches that don't like her.

521
00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:29,280
Speaker 3: They didn't pick her for the Olympic team last year.

522
00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:32,240
Speaker 1: She's like, okay, I got stronger in the offseason and

523
00:24:32,280 --> 00:24:35,080
Speaker 1: a bigger thing. She's already hitting threes at a bigger

524
00:24:35,160 --> 00:24:38,040
Speaker 1: rate than she did last year. She's more accurate from three,

525
00:24:38,080 --> 00:24:40,000
Speaker 1: which is gonna open up a whole new can of

526
00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:43,200
Speaker 1: worms for any opposition. You thought she was good last year,

527
00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:46,199
Speaker 1: this is the Caitlyn Clark middle Finger Tour where she

528
00:24:46,359 --> 00:24:48,120
Speaker 1: is gonna lay waste to the rest of the league

529
00:24:48,160 --> 00:24:51,560
Speaker 1: and she will bend you and make you admit, Okay,

530
00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:53,760
Speaker 1: she's great. I'm gonna make I want to make you

531
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Speaker 1: quit hating me. I'm gonna make you quit doing it

532
00:24:56,280 --> 00:24:59,240
Speaker 1: because you're gonna sound stupid. That's the kind of motivation

533
00:24:59,400 --> 00:25:01,520
Speaker 1: that she had, and it's it's great to have that

534
00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:04,520
Speaker 1: kind of motivation, right Bobby Axelrod and Billions would say

535
00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:05,800
Speaker 1: that hate endless resource.

536
00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:06,920
Speaker 3: You can you can.

537
00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:09,760
Speaker 1: Dine out on hate your entire life. You'll never You'll

538
00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:11,959
Speaker 1: never have it empty. We'll always be there for you,

539
00:25:12,160 --> 00:25:15,040
Speaker 1: but especially this season for her. You think you think

540
00:25:15,080 --> 00:25:16,840
Speaker 1: you don't like me, you're jealous of me, all of

541
00:25:16,960 --> 00:25:18,840
Speaker 1: all the different things. You don't think I'm good, You

542
00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:22,400
Speaker 1: don't think I deserve my standing in the w NBA. Okay,

543
00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:25,160
Speaker 1: just wait and just watch. This is why by by

544
00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:28,000
Speaker 1: game thirty, the Fever gonna be the best team in

545
00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:30,560
Speaker 1: the league and Caitlin Clark's gonna be the overwhelming favorite

546
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Speaker 1: for MVP.

547
00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:34,600
Speaker 4: Just watch, yeah, as we watch her go through this

548
00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:38,439
Speaker 4: this comeback, obviously, she's gonna have to make sure she

549
00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:41,960
Speaker 4: avoids the scuffles and they don't scratch her eyes out,

550
00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:45,760
Speaker 4: you know, like when they sent folks in and took

551
00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:47,920
Speaker 4: down the basilisk. I mean, because that was the rake

552
00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:51,080
Speaker 4: from Sheldon. I mean, that's bad. Scratch Accorney is suddenly,

553
00:25:51,119 --> 00:25:52,679
Speaker 4: I mean, how how far are you out? Or do

554
00:25:52,720 --> 00:25:56,000
Speaker 4: you have to wear the goggles? Are you suddenly? That

555
00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:58,680
Speaker 4: would be cool if Caitlyn Clark was suddenly in goggles

556
00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:01,399
Speaker 4: see what we did? Their whole marketing opportunity because she

557
00:26:01,440 --> 00:26:04,400
Speaker 4: could team with Walton Goggins because he's got his goggles, uh,

558
00:26:04,440 --> 00:26:04,760
Speaker 4: and it.

559
00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:05,440
Speaker 3: All goes together.

560
00:26:05,960 --> 00:26:09,879
Speaker 4: Forget about she's one of the famous MVP obviously, so

561
00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:14,160
Speaker 4: you have the opportunity now to to hit your stride.

562
00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:16,400
Speaker 4: This team is still coming together. A lot of changes

563
00:26:16,400 --> 00:26:18,320
Speaker 4: we talked about last night. When you talk about a

564
00:26:18,320 --> 00:26:22,160
Speaker 4: new coach, uh, a new rotation, a lot of new players,

565
00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:22,960
Speaker 4: and you.

566
00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:25,480
Speaker 3: Gotta you gotta love that the top of the league.

567
00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:28,320
Speaker 4: Is as strong as it is because they've got mountains

568
00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:31,200
Speaker 4: to climb and and it's good for the.

569
00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:31,840
Speaker 3: League as a whole.

570
00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:35,960
Speaker 4: Uh that this battle that she has when Angel rees

571
00:26:36,080 --> 00:26:38,880
Speaker 4: holding her own over there and you've got in SQ

572
00:26:39,160 --> 00:26:42,160
Speaker 4: and putting up big numbers, et cetera. Uh, that you're

573
00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:44,480
Speaker 4: still gonna have to run the gauntlet and they're just

574
00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:48,000
Speaker 4: getting warmed up. So these big performances with a little

575
00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:51,040
Speaker 4: bit of controversy on scuffles, it's good for the league.

576
00:26:51,359 --> 00:26:53,959
Speaker 3: Oh, I'll tell you man, And just think about this.

577
00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:57,359
Speaker 1: Right Wed, we talked about how, hey, you're not going

578
00:26:57,440 --> 00:26:59,480
Speaker 1: to realize how much you miss Caitlin Clark until she

579
00:26:59,560 --> 00:27:01,840
Speaker 1: comes back. Right, we talked about that, and congratulations everybody

580
00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:03,560
Speaker 1: else will stole that. Take a couple of days ago

581
00:27:04,560 --> 00:27:07,560
Speaker 1: because it happened. I got documented proof. But I told

582
00:27:07,600 --> 00:27:09,639
Speaker 1: you that. I told you, And now all of a sudden,

583
00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:13,520
Speaker 1: Caitlin Clark is back in Look. Big headline, last two games,

584
00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:16,320
Speaker 1: huge headline Saturday against the Liberty. You know, two and

585
00:27:16,359 --> 00:27:18,560
Speaker 1: a half million people watch the game tonight. It's the

586
00:27:18,560 --> 00:27:21,480
Speaker 1: big headline in basketball, especially the physical play.

587
00:27:21,560 --> 00:27:24,200
Speaker 3: How they respond like, I don't know what else to

588
00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:26,399
Speaker 3: tell you. I mean that you talk about a sport.

589
00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:29,879
Speaker 1: Nobody misses a player in their sport more than the

590
00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:31,200
Speaker 1: W missus, Caitlin Clark.

591
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Speaker 5: That iss, No.

592
00:27:34,080 --> 00:27:35,840
Speaker 3: We don't miss somebody. We haven't had him. We're not

593
00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:37,879
Speaker 3: getting We're not getting Doc Rivers.

594
00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:40,640
Speaker 1: It's not happening. It's not he's not on the list.

595
00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:43,480
Speaker 1: We have not called the Bucks for permission.

596
00:27:43,000 --> 00:27:45,360
Speaker 3: To interview him. You don't know that. I don't know

597
00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:47,560
Speaker 3: how I would. Oh no, we know everybody the Knicks call. Come.

598
00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:50,600
Speaker 3: You think that would be kept a secret?

599
00:27:50,800 --> 00:27:53,360
Speaker 5: Come on, I mean, let's be real. He's the only

600
00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:54,399
Speaker 5: one that's going to say yes.

601
00:27:54,600 --> 00:27:56,639
Speaker 1: Doc would be the guy. Doc would open the window

602
00:27:56,680 --> 00:27:58,800
Speaker 1: in his office and shout down to reporters at that

603
00:27:59,240 --> 00:27:59,800
Speaker 1: on the street.

604
00:28:00,520 --> 00:28:02,199
Speaker 3: Just got a call from the next you want to

605
00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:04,760
Speaker 3: go with it. I'm your source, I'm your sort o, Cordy.

606
00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:09,280
Speaker 3: He's just walking around Manhattan. He would ask me, why

607
00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:10,840
Speaker 3: am I'm in Manhattan yet? Yeah.

608
00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:12,600
Speaker 1: He would have the sandwich board and he would ring

609
00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:14,880
Speaker 1: the bell and it would be should I be Nick's

610
00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:15,359
Speaker 1: head coach?

611
00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:16,640
Speaker 3: And then vote Doc.

612
00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:19,600
Speaker 1: On the back Hatchtag's just ringing the bell walking up

613
00:28:19,640 --> 00:28:20,359
Speaker 1: and down the street.

614
00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:23,960
Speaker 4: You've got a budget, Smith, send send somebody to New

615
00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:25,000
Speaker 4: York and have them do that.

616
00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:28,760
Speaker 1: He's he's spinning the ox logo on one of those sites.

617
00:28:28,800 --> 00:28:32,160
Speaker 3: He's just spinning it around. Oh, I love it.

618
00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:34,800
Speaker 4: And he's got a stencil and spray paint and he's

619
00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:36,840
Speaker 4: spray paint a picture of his face.

620
00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:39,360
Speaker 1: Oh hey, hey, Doc, are you at the point now

621
00:28:39,360 --> 00:28:40,400
Speaker 1: where you're selling houses?

622
00:28:40,440 --> 00:28:42,240
Speaker 3: No? No, this is for the Knicks. Oh, because usually

623
00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:43,440
Speaker 3: see this for houses like.

624
00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:45,640
Speaker 1: A no no no, no no send the back vote tuck,

625
00:28:45,880 --> 00:28:47,440
Speaker 1: watch me spin, watch me spin.

626
00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:49,720
Speaker 3: That's how it goes. Oh, this is good. And don't

627
00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:51,800
Speaker 3: forget to vote for Judge and Otani.

628
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:55,560
Speaker 1: Exit out about of Fresca exit swollen down The Jason

629
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Speaker 1: Smith Show.

630
00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:58,120
Speaker 3: With my best friend Mike Carbon.

631
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Speaker 1: Time how to find out what's trending in the y

632
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Speaker 1: world of sports for man who's been called.

633
00:29:03,040 --> 00:29:05,920
Speaker 3: Steve de Saga because he is Steve de Sager.

634
00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:11,160
Speaker 6: Steve may have thrown the biggest curveball on that intro compared.

635
00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:12,840
Speaker 3: To any of the others. Yeah you like that one.

636
00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:15,840
Speaker 6: We did have six WNBA games, by the way, tonight,

637
00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:18,560
Speaker 6: not only Caitlin Clark with the twenty points in Indiana's

638
00:29:18,560 --> 00:29:20,760
Speaker 6: win over Connecticut, which is two and nine, but New

639
00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:23,000
Speaker 6: York and Minnesota each one again. New York ten and

640
00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:26,160
Speaker 6: one after edging Atlanta eighty six eighty one thirty four

641
00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:29,800
Speaker 6: points for Sabrina Yanescu. Minnesota is eleven in one after

642
00:29:29,840 --> 00:29:33,680
Speaker 6: beating Las Vegas seventy six sixty two for Vegas. Asia Wilson,

643
00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:36,640
Speaker 6: still in concussion protocol, she missed a third straight game.

644
00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:40,280
Speaker 6: The late game had Seattle winning easily at La Dallas

645
00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:43,240
Speaker 6: was one and eleven but beat Golden State, and it

646
00:29:43,360 --> 00:29:47,200
Speaker 6: was Washington winning at Chicago seventy nine seventy two Chicago

647
00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:51,280
Speaker 6: three and eight. NBA Finals Game six will be Thursday

648
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:54,680
Speaker 6: at Indiana. Oklahoma City leads the series three games to two.

649
00:29:54,880 --> 00:29:59,040
Speaker 6: Pacers guard Tyrese Halliburton reportedly as a string calf. Indiana

650
00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:02,720
Speaker 6: traded its first draft choice for next week to New Orleans,

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Speaker 6: along with a players rights for a first round or

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Speaker 6: next year. Thirteen more international players withdrew from the NBA Draft,

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Speaker 6: which starts Wednesday, twenty fifth. Fourteen international early entries still.

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Speaker 5: Remain in the draft.

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Speaker 6: By the way, the Olympic Hockey schedule was released today

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Speaker 6: for next February in Italy, it'll be yes NHL players

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Speaker 6: at the winner games for the first time since twenty fourteen.

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Speaker 6: There will be twelve teams in the tournament. Last year,

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Speaker 6: the Stanley Cup final had Florida beating Edmonton in seven.

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Speaker 6: Florida beat Edmonton in six this year, five to one.

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Speaker 6: Tonight's final. In Game six, Sam Bennett name playoff MVP

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Speaker 6: after scoring fifteen goals in the postseason. Sam Reinhardt had

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Speaker 6: four goals tonight, including a couple of empty netters. So

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Speaker 6: after the game went final, Associated Press quickly pointed out

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Speaker 6: that with a Miami team winning a title tonight, since

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Speaker 6: the Miami Dolphins last won a playoff game, the Panthers

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Speaker 6: have won two Stanley Cup ups, the Miami Heat have

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Speaker 6: won three NBA titles, and even the Marlins have won

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Speaker 6: a World Series since the last Dolphins playoff win in

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Speaker 6: the two thousand seasons.

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Speaker 1: Oh wow, you the Dolphins just getting sides twice right there.

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Speaker 6: Well, history is what it is. These Panthers, by the way,

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Speaker 6: became one of the rare teams in NHL history to

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Speaker 6: capture the Cup after winning four series as the lower

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Speaker 6: seeded club every time LA Kings twenty twelve Devils in

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Speaker 6: nineteen ninety five. This Florida team forty seven wins. Edmonton

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Speaker 6: had forty eight wins in the regular season. PGA Tour

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Speaker 6: commissioner Jay Monahan will step down when his contract ends

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Speaker 6: next year. At College Baseball's World Series, both UCLA and

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Speaker 6: Oregon State were eliminated. Arkansas goes into the Semis against

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Speaker 6: two and OHO LSU. By the way, the Atlanta Falcons

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Speaker 6: signed the UFL's leading rusher, Jashan Corbyn from Florida State,

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Speaker 6: and they cut running back Jase mcclell in a sixth rounder.

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Speaker 3: A year ago.

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Speaker 6: The Jets signed UFL kicker Harrison Meavis, known as the

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Speaker 6: thicker kicker at Missouri, where he booted a sixty one yarder.

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Speaker 6: He's listed at five eleven two thirty six. Off to

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Speaker 6: Jets camp.

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Speaker 3: By the way.

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Speaker 6: Chargers training camp starts in a month. They'll be playing

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Speaker 6: in the Hall of Fame exhibition in late July. US

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Speaker 6: men's soccer plays again Thursday at the FIFA Club World Cup.

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Speaker 6: Manchester City plays a day game in Philadelphia Wednesday, the

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Speaker 6: Lake Ballgame, and the Majors went to the Dodgers over

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Speaker 6: San Diego eight six. Andy Pa has two home runs,

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Speaker 6: going four for four. Will Smith had a three hit night,

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Speaker 6: including a homer. By the way, pitcher Showeo Tottie Starred

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Speaker 6: on Monday, set a viewing record on MLB's streaming TV.

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Speaker 6: Giants were beaten at home three to two by Cleveland,

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Speaker 6: although Rafael Devers, now with the Giants, had an RBI double,

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Speaker 6: but the team left thirteen men on base. Dodgers now

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Speaker 6: three and a half up on the Giants, five over

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Speaker 6: the Padres in the NL West Houston and the Cubs

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Speaker 6: each one. Kansas City ended a six game losing streak,

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Speaker 6: winning six to one at Texas. Seattle got an early

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Speaker 6: Grand Slam from Rawley is twenty seventh homers. He had

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Speaker 6: a eight nothing over Boston. The Angels shut out the

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Speaker 6: Yankees for nothing. Yanks have lost five straight. Atlanta came

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Speaker 6: back and beat the Mets in ten. Miami came back

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Speaker 6: to beat Philadelphia. Toronto hit two solo homers bottom of

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Speaker 6: the ninth, Dade Arizona five to four.

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Speaker 3: Back to you.

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Speaker 1: You know, I think Cal Rowly is the Anthony Santander

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Speaker 1: of this year. Where I think Anthony Santander had a

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Speaker 1: home run every night last year, I feel like Cal

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Speaker 1: Rawly has a home run every night.

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Speaker 6: It's a catcher doing this. He also had a two

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Speaker 6: run double, so he's got sixty RBIs already We're in

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Speaker 6: mid June.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a maazing legend. Thank you, Steve.

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Speaker 1: The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon Love and the

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio Studios. Coming up next, will the Pacers

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Speaker 1: be without their biggest star for Game six of the

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Speaker 1: NBA Finals.

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Speaker 3: Jason and Mike, you are listening to 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, Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 1: The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.

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Speaker 1: So we're getting set for Game six of the NBA

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Speaker 1: Finals on Thursday. The thunder goat for the closer and

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden, maybe wait a minute, the Pacers

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Speaker 1: might not have Tyres Halliburton. Halliburton dinged up his calf

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Speaker 1: last night. You played in the first you saw in

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00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:19,960
Speaker 1: the first half he was dribbling in for an attempt

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Speaker 1: at the basket and he fell down taking off the floor,

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Speaker 1: gets examined as his calf wrapped up, comes back and

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Speaker 1: plays plays the rest of the game. After the game,

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Speaker 1: he talked about having a calf strain. His calf wasn't

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Speaker 1: feeling good. And then Shams Tarani I had the report

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Speaker 1: earlier today that Halliburton, with his calf strain, is going

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Speaker 1: to have an MRI to determine the severity of the strain.

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Speaker 1: Now it's a weird thing because I'm not going to

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Speaker 1: sit here and say he's not hurt, because obviously he's

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Speaker 1: he's dinged up and he hurt his calf.

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Speaker 3: You see that. How hurt is he? Right?

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Speaker 1: Because whichever the reality is for the Pacers, neither one

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00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:09,440
Speaker 1: is good, right, because you know, Halliburton is someone who

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Speaker 1: plays on confidence, and he had a bad game in

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Speaker 1: Game five, and I don't know, is this MRI away

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Speaker 1: to try to explain and get the pressure off him

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Speaker 1: that hey, he was really hurt and so he's really

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Speaker 1: got to go get an MRI. Is just a garden

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Speaker 1: variety MRI that, hey, just to be sure, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: have him take an MRI. He not doesn't know that

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Speaker 1: we need to, but we're just gonna have him get it.

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Speaker 1: And this gets out there because hey, look, Halliburton is

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Speaker 1: someone that reads what is said about him and watches

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Speaker 1: what's said about him. We know he talks about in

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Speaker 1: the post game, and so if all of a sudden.

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Speaker 1: The narrative is, boy Tyre's Halliburton is terrible. How do

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Speaker 1: you get the needle closer to zero? Well, he's got

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Speaker 1: to have an MRI, okay, because.

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Speaker 4: Here's what you have to use the needle.

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Speaker 3: You're gonna get the needle.

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Speaker 1: So I don't think he's that dinged up, because he

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Speaker 1: played the second most minutes of anybody on the Pacers

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Speaker 1: last night. If he was really hurt, he wouldn't have

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Speaker 1: been able to play, and they would have taken him

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Speaker 1: out of the game we played it. Both of those

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Speaker 1: things would have happened. But clearly he was good enough

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Speaker 1: to play till the end of the game. So how

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Speaker 1: bad is the quad strain really? Or how bad is

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Speaker 1: the cat strained really? And at the same time, if

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Speaker 1: it was really bad, he wouldn't have come back in

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Speaker 1: the game. He goes off, he gets examined. It's game five.

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Speaker 1: It's not a winner go home game. It's a game

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Speaker 1: you're already losing. In Hey, we want to make sure

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Speaker 1: we have two days in between games. Let's make sure

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Speaker 1: we have them for game six back in Indiana, and

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Speaker 1: we'll make it go in game six and game seven.

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Speaker 1: Never know what could happen. Let's make sure we have that.

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Speaker 1: We don't want to put anything else at risk, because

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Speaker 1: the last thing you want is to have your star injured.

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Speaker 1: But he was looked at a couple of times and

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Speaker 1: he was still okay with going back in the game.

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Speaker 1: So how hurt is he really?

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Speaker 3: Right now?

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Speaker 1: The second part is this, let's just say this MRI

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Speaker 1: comes back and it's bad and he's out. Then you

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Speaker 1: got to turn around and say, what the hell are

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Speaker 1: the pacers doing? What the hell the pacers doctors doing

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Speaker 1: allowing him back in the game when he clearly was hurt?

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 1: Because I find it and I find it hard to

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Speaker 1: believe that that's going to be the outcome of this,

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Speaker 1: is that the pacers really blew it, because this doesn't

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Speaker 1: really happen that often, where a guy goes in, gets examined,

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Speaker 1: comes back out and plays and hurts himself even worse,

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Speaker 1: and you find out.

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Speaker 3: Whoops, yeah, we missed it.

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Speaker 1: We mis diagnosed that, we missed we missed this cast

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Speaker 1: strain that was a blown achilles or whatever it was.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we kind of didn't see that.

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Speaker 1: So if it comes out that he's really hurt, it's like, well,

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Speaker 1: what did you do How did you let him back

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Speaker 1: in the game?

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Speaker 3: How did you let him back in?

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Speaker 1: How did you how did he go through all these

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Speaker 1: protocols and you let him back in this game that

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Speaker 1: you didn't need to win, where now you're missing him

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Speaker 1: for the rest of the series. So no matter how

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Speaker 1: this comes out, it doesn't come out great for the Pacers.

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Speaker 1: Obviously wanted to come out that he plays, that he's

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Speaker 1: healthy and plays well, he's an exciting player, he's having

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Speaker 1: a terrific playoff and and the series is going to

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Speaker 1: be much better. They have a much better chance of

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Speaker 1: moving on to the game seven uh with him than

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Speaker 1: without him. And obviously I never want to see a

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Speaker 1: guy hurt. But like whenever the outcome means for the Pacers,

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Speaker 1: it's boy boy, this is it's it's kind of one

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Speaker 1: way is a little weird. The other one is is

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Speaker 1: even worse. So I don't know if if you're Indiana

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Speaker 1: here that that any any answer here turns out to

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Speaker 1: be great. There is one that's much much less worse

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Speaker 1: than the other. But I don't know how this is

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Speaker 1: gonna go.

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Speaker 4: Spread started as thunder minus five now up to minus

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Speaker 4: six uh for tomorrow or for Thursdays. I keep trying

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Speaker 4: to advance it, trying to get it done, but he

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Speaker 4: gets that extra day of rest.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's the curiosity. Uh do you do?

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Speaker 4: You just do the MRI just to say, hey, let's

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Speaker 4: make sure it's all there, uh and all clear?

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Speaker 3: Could you have done it undercover of darkness? I don't know.

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Speaker 4: We always want full disclosure from teams about these things.

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Speaker 4: NFL has the UH inane finding system. Sometimes it is,

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Speaker 4: sometimes it's not, depending on what they decide on a

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Speaker 4: given UH circumstance. But in this case, the passivity of

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Speaker 4: the way Haliburton went through those thirty four minutes. Maybe

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Speaker 4: believe it was a lot worse and maybe he shouldn't

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Speaker 4: have been out there at all, but he was there

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Speaker 4: and a non factor, So that's how we have to

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Speaker 4: judge it. In his post game, didn't really talk about

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Speaker 4: how much he was hurting, just more so that he

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Speaker 4: didn't play well and just kind of matter of factly

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Speaker 4: stated those those things. So curious what comes out of

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Speaker 4: the MRI excuse making protection all of those things certainly

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Speaker 4: in play here. I'd like to think it's not malfeas

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Speaker 4: it's and that he sent a guy back out there hey,

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Speaker 4: shoot him up, get.

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Speaker 3: Him out there. I mean, this isn't an eighties football movie.

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Speaker 3: Get out of here. I don't want your life going on.

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Speaker 3: John Voight, what do you got, Frostburg?

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Speaker 5: You mentioned that the Pacers might be without their best player,

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Speaker 5: but I'm not so sure about that.

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Speaker 1: I said he's out there without there. I said without

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Speaker 1: their biggest star. I didn't say he said their biggest.

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Speaker 3: Obie to Jason.

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Speaker 1: Obie Topping, Obie, what do you think of Tom Thibodeau

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Speaker 1: getting fired? I'm popping. I don't care Obi Topping, I'm popping.

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Speaker 3: I'm still playing. It doesn't matter now. Look look, obviously

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Speaker 3: I hope he plays. I hope he's okay. I want

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Speaker 3: him there.

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Speaker 1: But you judge Offul last night, and I feel pretty

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Speaker 1: good about that. He's going to be out there for

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Speaker 1: Game six because he finished again. Rick Carlyle would have

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Speaker 1: pulled him if he really looked that bad and did

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Speaker 1: look like they would have said, you know what, he's

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Speaker 1: having a tough time movie, let's take him out. But

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Speaker 1: he handles the ball every single time the four So

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Speaker 1: I mean, I I really I don't know how much

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Speaker 1: this is. This is really going to be something that

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Speaker 1: affects Game six. You know, as far as Halliburton's availability.

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Speaker 4: Well, maybe he comes out like a house of fire.

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Speaker 4: It's all a big ropodope.

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Speaker 3: How about that?

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Speaker 1: Oh and all of a sudden, he's absolutely fine.

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Speaker 3: He's just shaking his leg. Yeah, look I feel fine.

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Speaker 4: Look at this right here, I'm shaking his leg like

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Speaker 4: Otani on his Instagram page showing the hit By pick.

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Speaker 1: Maybe he just people liked g oh boy, there would

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Speaker 1: have been a wheelchair.

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Speaker 3: Would have been a wheel It's gotta be a wheelchair.

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Speaker 1: Gott a wheelchair exit out about a Fresca exit swollen

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Speaker 1: dome coming up next, My buddy, Ben Mallard.

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