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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to the best of The Jason Smith

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Speaker 1: Show with Mike Harmen podcast. Be sure to catch us

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Speaker 2: This is the best of the Jason Smith Show with

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Speaker 2: Mike Harmon on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 3: Oh that is us. Good evening, everybody, Happy fourth of July.

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Speaker 3: Aaron Torres, Arnie Spanier in for the guys, Jason Smith

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Speaker 3: and his best friend Mike Harmon right here on Fox

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Speaker 3: Sports Radio. We are live at the Fox Sports Radio studios.

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Speaker 3: Let me welcome my co host did and his anniversary

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Speaker 3: today won the only Aaron Torres. How you doing today? Torres?

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Speaker 4: Busy week of anniversaries for me.

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Speaker 3: Look at you? Wow?

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Speaker 5: Tonight is Let's do some quick mental math here. It

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Speaker 5: is my eighth anniversary of Fox Sports Radio. It's my

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Speaker 5: one versus year eight year, July fourth, twenty seventeen.

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Speaker 3: And I bet the under eight days. Wow.

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Speaker 4: Can you believe that good thing that you have no

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Speaker 4: say with the boss at all.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I was supposed to go to Summer League for

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Speaker 5: Lonzo Ball's debut and Scotch Shapiro care old. Yes, Scott

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Speaker 5: Shapiro called me in and said, would you like to

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Speaker 5: do a show with Mike Harmon?

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Speaker 4: So I sat in for Jason Smith.

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Speaker 5: The hot topic that night was Gordon Hayward going to

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Speaker 5: the Celtics.

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Speaker 3: Baby, when did you get promoted and start working with me?

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Speaker 3: Was that?

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Speaker 5: It was like February of twenty eighteen. By the way,

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Speaker 5: by the way, what's that demotion? Yeah, that was more

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Speaker 5: of a demotion. Also, tomorrow's my wedding anniversary. But nobody

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Speaker 5: cares about that.

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Speaker 3: Which is a big your anniversary? Your Fox Sports or

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Speaker 3: your wedding anniversary?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, it depends on the day.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. So Gordon, you've been married, Well, you've been married.

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Speaker 5: July fifth, twenty nineteen, and I've told that story many

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Speaker 5: times ex years. Yeah, six years. So that was the night.

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Speaker 5: Two things happened. Zion made his Summer League debut that day, right,

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Speaker 5: there was an earthquake in the middle of the game.

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Speaker 4: Nothing to do with Zion, hold your jokes.

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Speaker 6: Uh.

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Speaker 5: He did leave the game with a knee injury though

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Speaker 5: that was probably a pretty good sign that he wasn't

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Speaker 5: long for for the NBA. And then also right in

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Speaker 5: the middle of you know, the reception, it was, you know,

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Speaker 5: it was past the ceremony, everybody was out on the

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Speaker 5: dance floor. Kawhi Leonard signed with Clippers, right and.

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Speaker 4: Paul George got traded to the Clippers.

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Speaker 3: I think I was on the air for you that night.

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Speaker 6: You might have.

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Speaker 4: It was a Friday night.

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Speaker 5: I know you could have been in, but it was,

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Speaker 5: you know, it was crazy because it's easy to forget

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Speaker 5: this in hindsight, but you know, it was Kawhi is

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Speaker 5: either going to be a Laker or a Clipper, and

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Speaker 5: But also there was no one in the world that

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Speaker 5: thought Paul George was available in a trade. Now it's

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Speaker 5: easy in hindsight to be like, oh, okay, that was

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they got Kawhi and Paul George. So I'm sure

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Speaker 5: But there are pictures from the wedding reception of myself

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Speaker 5: Kawhi is a clipper?

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Speaker 3: Where did this Paul George thing come from? So I

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Speaker 3: want to tell you lots of tweets. I usually wouldn't

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Speaker 3: get to Twitter right away. They don't want to know

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Speaker 3: who was the best co host you ever worked with?

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Speaker 3: That's too easy, Aaron, who was the best looking co

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Speaker 3: host you ever work with? I'm sure he's probably from Arizona,

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Speaker 3: University of Arizona and lives in Vermont. You want to

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Speaker 5: Aaron, you want to It sounds like a major HR

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Speaker 3: So we we went ahead and we worked together. How

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Speaker 5: So we started in I think it was February twenty

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Speaker 5: First shifts we ever did, Arizona with the Packed won

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Speaker 5: time Arizona won a game while you were on air.

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Speaker 5: Probably it was ironically. Yeah, it was DeAndre Ayton, of

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Speaker 3: So geez, I can't believe you don't have any old

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Speaker 3: tapes or anything of your first show. I used to say,

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Speaker 3: I just do away. I'm not kidding around like a

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Speaker 3: week ago shows from like like forty years ago. That's

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Speaker 3: how crazy. I mean. It was like on a reel

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Speaker 3: just tossing everything, VHS taped, everything went out. I can't

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Speaker 5: You know, well, I mean you did ask Ian less

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Speaker 5: tape of us doing our first show together. So that

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Speaker 5: not today, but on Sunday when we threw it together.

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Speaker 3: Right, Well, of course they didn't even look. I'm sure

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Speaker 4: I'm sure he did look more than night I looked.

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Speaker 3: I looked whoa, whoa whoa.

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Speaker 7: Arnie called me last week, like I think it was

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Speaker 7: like Friday last week.

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Speaker 7: He's like, all right, we need we need to do this.

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Speaker 7: We need to find some some footage of Erentitarid's And

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Speaker 7: I was like, all right, I'll look for it. I'll

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Speaker 7: see I'll see what I do it eight years ago.

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Speaker 7: All right, first off, eight years ago. So I started looking.

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Speaker 7: I look on YouTube. I go back to his Twitter.

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Speaker 7: I scroll all the way eight years looking for a

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Speaker 7: tweet saying, oh, maybe like maybe like a live time.

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Speaker 3: I went to the podcast.

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Speaker 7: Oh I spent I spent a good maybe like forty

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Speaker 7: five maybe to an hour looking for this thing. Good

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Speaker 7: for you of my young young twenties, mid mid twenties

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Speaker 3: You know. So I just want to say I tried

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Speaker 5: Hour to r well, I'll tell you what I know.

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Speaker 3: I bet you a listener could find that fifteen minutes

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Speaker 4: I will say two things.

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Speaker 5: yes and put it on YouTube, that has to be somewhere.

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Speaker 4: I'll tell you why. One time I filled in with

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Speaker 5: And he booked Bill Belichick for US, so I remember

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Speaker 3: He tells everyone that, by the.

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Speaker 4: Way, yeah, it was.

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Speaker 5: It was like the only national interview that Bill Belichick

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Speaker 5: Andy Furman was tight with him, and it was like

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Speaker 5: the day after Christmas. I'm driving around and Lee de

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Speaker 5: Lapp was producing at the time, and he's like, oh.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Torris, we're gonna lead with this this.

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Speaker 5: Oh we might have Bill Belichick in hour two and

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Speaker 5: I'm like, oh, okay, cool, we gotta get Lebron.

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Speaker 3: So I remember that. I listened to that, So that

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Speaker 4: So great interview.

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Speaker 3: But uh, happy anniversary for your wedding and for your

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Speaker 5: Yes, both are equally important to me. Scott Shapiro, if

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Speaker 3: To believe me, you know we I've been getting tweets

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Speaker 3: people wanting to take phone calls.

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Speaker 3: Look, there's a couple of reasons. One, I don't know

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Speaker 3: if I could trust you Aarons actually introduced the calls

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Speaker 3: I'm driving, God forbid. I mean you're still learning how

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Speaker 4: Drove horse and carriage.

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Speaker 5: But yeah, you're old Arnie, Arnie, real quick, this is

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Speaker 3: Like? I hate you, man, I mean I hate you.

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Speaker 5: I mean it's you know, I mean it must have

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Speaker 5: just sitting around. Oh he was, I mean he he

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Speaker 3: So I did fit right in I absolutely fit right.

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Speaker 4: Do you still have the white wig?

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Speaker 4: It's all moldy and stuff.

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Speaker 3: No, we keep it clean, all right, We look, we

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Speaker 3: got a lot to get to. It's it's fourth of July.

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Speaker 3: Happy fourth of July. Everybody will have a little fun.

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Speaker 3: Will keep you busy, keep your company on this holiday.

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Speaker 3: Of course, it feels I don't know if it feels

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Speaker 3: But we'll keep you busy, and we do have a

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Speaker 3: lot of topics to get to. It is a busy show.

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Speaker 3: You want to be part of the show. Real simple,

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Speaker 3: Twitter is the best way, Aaron underscore Torres, I'm its

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Speaker 3: thinking genius one. I don't know. We could try to

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Speaker 3: take calls. A little nervous about that. I used to

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Speaker 3: be the king of calls. I know you say. Rob

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Speaker 3: Parker and Kelvin Washington say that the king of calls. Aaron.

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Speaker 5: I have never personally said that, but well someone said

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Speaker 5: they What was it Shay that told me that?

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Speaker 3: Did you say that? Did our producers say that? So? Yeah, yeah, okay,

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Speaker 3: Well I used to take calls. I used to take

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Speaker 3: like over sixty in an hour.

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Speaker 4: How about that sounds made up sixteen.

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Speaker 3: So, and this is caught using PD suspend it something, No,

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Speaker 5: If if Fox Sports Radio sent me to the hot

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Speaker 5: seventy one hot dogs. He fell just short of his

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Speaker 5: I mean, it's one thing if one day a year

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Speaker 5: It's not like he just shows up on July first

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Speaker 3: You know, I don't think he does that anymore. I

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Speaker 3: all right. So if you want to come on, Aaron

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Speaker 3: underscore Torres, I'm it sticking genius one. Are you like

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Speaker 3: Aaron and you can't stomach the Nathan's Hotdog contest? Are

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Speaker 3: you like me? And not only did you watch it?

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Speaker 3: After that airon? I went upstairs and I had two

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Speaker 3: what how many twinkies? No, I didn't have any twinkies.

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Speaker 4: My hot dogs and seventy eight twinkies.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, my wife wouldn't if she saw me eating a twinkie,

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Speaker 3: she'd rather catch me in bed with like two blodes

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Speaker 3: the twinkies. What do you eat it? You want to

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Speaker 3: I want to get to lebron he's the big news today.

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Speaker 3: I really don't even know where to start about the

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Speaker 3: the beginning. We know now with the new owners, Lebron's

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Speaker 3: Does Lebron even want to come back? What do you think, Aaron?

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Speaker 3: Are we doing the Lebron segment now? Yeah? Wellb get

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Speaker 3: You're driving, you're driving. I just that's fine. If you

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Speaker 5: I mean, I think the boss has gont require and

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Speaker 5: I'm not really totally sure how it works, but I mean,

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Speaker 4: They did take sixty Yes, yeah, it's in a sixty

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Speaker 3: Torres wants to probably go eat some pizza or something solid.

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Speaker 3: Twinking bro. Yes, we'll come back. We'll get to Lebron.

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Speaker 3: jump in, Aaron underscore, Toris, I'm in stinking genius one.

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Speaker 3: a grade fourth of July out there, all right, Torres.

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Speaker 3: Before we went to the break, we're getting ready to

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Speaker 3: I think he wants to be gone. I think all

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Speaker 3: right in.

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Speaker 5: If he believes the Lakers don't want him back, why

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Speaker 3: Option, the fifty two million or whatever it was.

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Speaker 5: Let me ask you, okay, let me ask you a

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Speaker 5: different questions. No, no, I listen, there are two sides

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Speaker 5: guys like us should never question a player for maximizing

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Speaker 5: would bring it up because if you know you're not

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Speaker 5: wanted somewhere, you have more money than you can ever spend,

439
00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:37,480
Speaker 5: and on top of everything else, you apparently don't believe

440
00:20:37,520 --> 00:20:40,359
Speaker 5: they can win right now with the roster currently constructed.

441
00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:43,359
Speaker 5: Based on the statement you released right after you signed

442
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Speaker 5: that contract, why did you sign the You could say, well,

443
00:20:47,160 --> 00:20:48,600
Speaker 5: you don't turn down fifty three million.

444
00:20:49,320 --> 00:20:52,120
Speaker 4: I guess I get it, but Arnie, I don't.

445
00:20:52,160 --> 00:20:54,080
Speaker 3: I can't speak for is it any different than Kobe

446
00:20:54,119 --> 00:20:55,960
Speaker 3: taking the money his last two years and people have

447
00:20:55,960 --> 00:20:56,480
Speaker 3: been very.

448
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Speaker 5: But he was kobe lifetime Laker, was to retire as

449
00:21:01,320 --> 00:21:06,320
Speaker 5: a Laker. Loll Lebron His clear priority is he clearly

450
00:21:06,359 --> 00:21:09,359
Speaker 5: wants to put himself in yet another position where he

451
00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:11,320
Speaker 5: believes he can win a championship. He doesn't believe like

452
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Speaker 5: that's happening with the lot.

453
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Speaker 3: I don't think he wanted to find out how much

454
00:21:13,640 --> 00:21:15,159
Speaker 3: it would have been worth on the open market, it

455
00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:18,600
Speaker 3: wouldn't have been fifty two million dollars, so that could

456
00:21:18,640 --> 00:21:20,600
Speaker 3: have been another reason out there. And again I don't

457
00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:23,520
Speaker 3: begrudge him for taking the fifty two mil. I certainly

458
00:21:23,640 --> 00:21:25,199
Speaker 3: understand it. I don't care if he has all the

459
00:21:25,200 --> 00:21:28,040
Speaker 3: money in the world or not. It's still what he

460
00:21:28,119 --> 00:21:30,680
Speaker 3: deserves and still what he earned out there, so I'm

461
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Speaker 3: okay with it. I just feel I felt like it

462
00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:38,520
Speaker 3: started going south real quick after that, though, and it's

463
00:21:38,560 --> 00:21:40,439
Speaker 3: got to the point now I don't think he's going

464
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Speaker 3: to be on this Laker roster when the season starts.

465
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Speaker 4: There don't know where's it going to go.

466
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Speaker 3: I think it's going to be Cleveland. Do you think

467
00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:51,760
Speaker 3: they want him? That's that's the million dollar question. I mean,

468
00:21:51,800 --> 00:21:54,359
Speaker 3: he was in the Cleveland facility. But then again, he said, well,

469
00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:56,879
Speaker 3: I work out here every summer, but you wear a

470
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Speaker 3: hat that said welcome home, and you know, don't play

471
00:22:01,320 --> 00:22:04,280
Speaker 3: us for fools. Don't try to be like Aaron Rodgers

472
00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:07,199
Speaker 3: and use different wording. And I come here and you

473
00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:10,879
Speaker 3: know you do it on purpose. When when you go

474
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Speaker 3: ahead and wear a hat like that, you're sending a

475
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Speaker 3: message that's like you taking a picture and go, hey,

476
00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:18,119
Speaker 3: look at my new friend, and you send it to

477
00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:20,359
Speaker 3: your wife and it's some beautiful blonde next to you

478
00:22:20,440 --> 00:22:22,760
Speaker 3: or something like that. We're in a bikini. You got

479
00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:24,920
Speaker 3: blondes on your mind tonight. Man. But you know what

480
00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:27,720
Speaker 3: I'm saying, You're trying to send the message, and that's

481
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Speaker 3: what he was doing. I think he wants to leave

482
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Speaker 3: now because he's a little embarrassed, and I think the

483
00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:35,760
Speaker 3: Lakers want to move on from him. They're just trying

484
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Speaker 3: to figure out the best possible way and how not to.

485
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Speaker 5: Take a big hit right now. So I know you

486
00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:45,440
Speaker 5: kind of tease this before the before the break. I

487
00:22:46,080 --> 00:22:49,439
Speaker 5: do think he's going to be a Laker because I

488
00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:52,480
Speaker 5: don't really think there's a market for him. And listen, Arnie,

489
00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:55,000
Speaker 5: you know, we can maybe get Mark Medina on later

490
00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:58,440
Speaker 5: or something to explain all these details. These NBA trades,

491
00:22:58,480 --> 00:23:03,000
Speaker 5: you gotta trade salary for salary, and if somebody has

492
00:23:03,280 --> 00:23:07,280
Speaker 5: a player or two that are the equivalent of fifty

493
00:23:07,359 --> 00:23:10,199
Speaker 5: three million, I find it very hard to believe that

494
00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:13,600
Speaker 5: they are going to give that player or those players

495
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Speaker 5: up for one year of Lebron James. Like if you're

496
00:23:16,359 --> 00:23:18,119
Speaker 5: the Cleveland Cavaliers like, oh, he wants to go back

497
00:23:18,160 --> 00:23:20,520
Speaker 5: to Cleveland, Well, who are you gonna trade Evan Mobley?

498
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Speaker 5: You're gonna trade a twenty three to twenty four year

499
00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:25,280
Speaker 5: old Evan Mobley for a forty one year old Lebron?

500
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Speaker 3: No, but what happens if the team that you trade

501
00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:30,919
Speaker 3: into it will say Cleveland he brings because Luke what

502
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Speaker 3: he did to that team's worth when he was there.

503
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Speaker 3: Suppose he's gonna bring in more money to the team.

504
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Speaker 3: Doesn't that mean anything or No?

505
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Speaker 5: I think if you're Cleveland and you have a very

506
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Speaker 5: finite window to potentially win the East next year, I

507
00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:49,040
Speaker 5: don't think i'd have to see who they'd have to

508
00:23:49,080 --> 00:23:52,520
Speaker 5: give up. But I don't know if Lebron makes them better.

509
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Speaker 5: And I don't think it's about making money. When you

510
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Speaker 5: have a chance to legitimately compete for a championship next

511
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Speaker 5: year or at least the Eastern Conference, at least the

512
00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:03,960
Speaker 5: NBA Finals in winning the East.

513
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Speaker 3: Why doesn't he make them better? You don't still think

514
00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:07,400
Speaker 3: he's an elite player. You don't think he's a top

515
00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:10,280
Speaker 3: ten player. You don't think he's a guy twenty points

516
00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:10,520
Speaker 3: a game.

517
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Speaker 4: I don't think he's a top ten player.

518
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Speaker 3: Though you think he lost most of his skills. How

519
00:24:15,800 --> 00:24:17,320
Speaker 3: many more years do you think he has left?

520
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Speaker 5: Well to the first question, I don't think he's lost

521
00:24:20,480 --> 00:24:23,720
Speaker 5: most of his skills. But again, who are you giving up?

522
00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:26,959
Speaker 5: Are you giving up Evan Mobley? Are giving up Donovan Mitchell?

523
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Speaker 5: I guess if you're giving up don Darius Garland? Maybe,

524
00:24:30,880 --> 00:24:33,800
Speaker 5: But again, it can't just be Darius Garland. It's got

525
00:24:33,800 --> 00:24:37,879
Speaker 5: to be other pieces. And I just don't know that

526
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Speaker 5: at forty one years old.

527
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Speaker 3: Now, can I just push back on that when you

528
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Speaker 3: said that, Look, I'm not a capologist. Nobody listening to

529
00:24:46,119 --> 00:24:47,840
Speaker 3: the show as a capologist, so I could probably make

530
00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:50,120
Speaker 3: stuff up and nobody could really press me on that.

531
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Speaker 3: But look who you're dealing with now, You're dealing with

532
00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:56,680
Speaker 3: the Walters group who came up with a new way

533
00:24:57,240 --> 00:25:00,080
Speaker 3: to pay everybody for the Dodgers by giving them what

534
00:25:00,200 --> 00:25:03,360
Speaker 3: fifty cents up front and everything else is like backloaded

535
00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:04,160
Speaker 3: deferred money.

536
00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:04,400
Speaker 7: Yeah.

537
00:25:04,520 --> 00:25:08,000
Speaker 3: Right, So if anybody could come up with shenanigans, for

538
00:25:08,080 --> 00:25:11,560
Speaker 3: lack of better words, it would be him. Right, There'd

539
00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:13,679
Speaker 3: be a way to say, okay, Lebron, you get your

540
00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:16,959
Speaker 3: fifty two million or fifty three million or whatever it is.

541
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Speaker 3: But fifty two million will be deferred as a bonus

542
00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:23,399
Speaker 3: and your salaries a million dollars or something like that.

543
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Speaker 3: I don't know. Can can they rework it like that

544
00:25:25,840 --> 00:25:27,440
Speaker 3: or is that not possible? I don't know.

545
00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:29,879
Speaker 4: I don't know.

546
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Speaker 5: I also don't know, like when I mean, I assume

547
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Speaker 5: Genie Buss is still running things at the moment, so

548
00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:40,120
Speaker 5: I mean, obviously Rob Polink is running things.

549
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Speaker 3: But I disagree with that.

550
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Speaker 5: By the way, why I don't think Jesus, I know,

551
00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:47,040
Speaker 5: I talk to her talking about blonds down stops.

552
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Speaker 3: I didn't know who different this this uh, you know

553
00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:54,760
Speaker 3: buy has been going on for years, you know what

554
00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:58,040
Speaker 3: I mean a matter of fact, I don't think I

555
00:25:58,080 --> 00:26:00,840
Speaker 3: think the Walters group had the Okay, hey, the Luca trade.

556
00:26:00,880 --> 00:26:04,880
Speaker 3: What did you think about that? Oh? Am I wrong

557
00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:07,960
Speaker 3: on that? Is that crazy to think that since they

558
00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:11,080
Speaker 3: were in the works of buying this thing, that they

559
00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:13,440
Speaker 3: would have to give final approval of something like that or.

560
00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:15,960
Speaker 4: No, I would think that that is not accurate.

561
00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:22,160
Speaker 3: Really, the Luca trade was in February, Arnie, no but anything. Yeah,

562
00:26:22,160 --> 00:26:23,879
Speaker 3: but it was fine five months ago. But this has

563
00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:26,040
Speaker 3: been going on for over a year and a half,

564
00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:29,320
Speaker 3: two years this purchase.

565
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Speaker 4: All I'll say is.

566
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Speaker 5: Considering that no one had an inkling that Luca was

567
00:26:37,119 --> 00:26:41,560
Speaker 5: even available. Yeah, I think that there were probably not

568
00:26:41,760 --> 00:26:44,479
Speaker 5: very many parties that were privy to that trade.

569
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Speaker 3: I could see Genie calling over and said, look, I

570
00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:49,000
Speaker 3: know we're getting real close to this purchase. I just

571
00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:51,119
Speaker 3: want you to know we're making a big trade. I

572
00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:53,800
Speaker 3: hope it doesn't affect the purchase of the Lakers, and

573
00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:57,199
Speaker 3: this is what we're gonna do. So I could be crazy,

574
00:26:57,240 --> 00:26:59,919
Speaker 3: Maybe maybe you're right. Maybe I'm completely nuts on that

575
00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:01,480
Speaker 3: we're gonna come back. I got more Lebron.

576
00:27:01,520 --> 00:27:03,000
Speaker 4: I was gonna say, let's get back to Lebron.

577
00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:05,440
Speaker 3: I want to I want to talk about what, what, what,

578
00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:08,440
Speaker 3: what he did on social media today and how he's

579
00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:10,480
Speaker 3: going to be remembered as a Waker and what the

580
00:27:10,520 --> 00:27:12,600
Speaker 3: Waker fans think of them. So all that's coming up next.

581
00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:15,600
Speaker 3: But first, let's check in with my buddy, who's mad

582
00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:19,040
Speaker 3: at me today because I made him work. It's Steve

583
00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:20,600
Speaker 3: the Sager. What's going on to saga?

584
00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:23,600
Speaker 6: We let Arnie think that he actually carries power in

585
00:27:23,640 --> 00:27:24,240
Speaker 6: the am.

586
00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:25,880
Speaker 3: I not paying you double time.

587
00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:28,000
Speaker 9: Today paying You've never paid for anything?

588
00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:30,879
Speaker 3: Pay you double time? Okay?

589
00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:33,600
Speaker 5: Are you mad that he lumped you in and said

590
00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:36,159
Speaker 5: that you were also at the first July fourth with

591
00:27:36,200 --> 00:27:37,200
Speaker 5: Benjamin Franklin and.

592
00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:44,040
Speaker 4: Both in person. Actually, wow, the same era you have. Wow,

593
00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:46,320
Speaker 4: the youngest charm to you while Arnie Spain.

594
00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:50,920
Speaker 6: Arnie remembers fondly like Sandy Kofax pitching to Roberto Clemente.

595
00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:53,800
Speaker 3: Sure, hey, by the way, the saga who is the

596
00:27:53,920 --> 00:27:55,360
Speaker 3: king of phone calls? Back? Then?

597
00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:55,960
Speaker 9: Uh?

598
00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:57,280
Speaker 3: Who is the king of phone calls?

599
00:27:57,320 --> 00:28:00,840
Speaker 9: That would be of course, by the way.

600
00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:03,320
Speaker 6: To answer your question from the first segment, it's Rob

601
00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:05,600
Speaker 6: Parker who says that Rob Parker Show is the kise.

602
00:28:06,440 --> 00:28:09,840
Speaker 6: Nobody else has said that, certainly not Ben Mallar. In fact,

603
00:28:09,840 --> 00:28:12,280
Speaker 6: every time Rob says that when Alex is on the board,

604
00:28:12,359 --> 00:28:17,920
Speaker 6: Alex plays the Ben Mallard drop in. We've got updates

605
00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:21,200
Speaker 6: on July fourth, Major League Baseball, as Houston is leading

606
00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:24,200
Speaker 6: seven to one at Dodger Stadium, bottom of the fifth inning.

607
00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:26,720
Speaker 6: You may know, the Dodgers have some pitching injuries, so

608
00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:29,080
Speaker 6: when it comes to this point in the starting rotation,

609
00:28:29,240 --> 00:28:33,080
Speaker 6: they don't have anybody. So tonight it was Ben Casparius

610
00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:36,920
Speaker 6: as the starter. He allowed three homers in his three innings,

611
00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:40,640
Speaker 6: which means now in his last four outings, Casparius of

612
00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:44,800
Speaker 6: the Dodgers has allowed seventeen runs in under sixteen innings.

613
00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:49,960
Speaker 6: The Dodgers currently have seven starting pitchers on the injured list.

614
00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:53,440
Speaker 6: That does include Tyler Glass now who pitched a rehabouting

615
00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:55,680
Speaker 6: at Triple A last night four and a third inning,

616
00:28:55,760 --> 00:28:58,520
Speaker 6: so he could be back sooner than later. It's going

617
00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:01,720
Speaker 6: to be show Hey Otaniaturday night on Fox TV. That's

618
00:29:01,760 --> 00:29:05,040
Speaker 6: due to pitch two innings, essentially another all bullpen game,

619
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Speaker 6: and they'll be going up against a great lefty from

620
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:09,360
Speaker 6: er Valdez on Fox.

621
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Speaker 4: Zebeger real quick? What is the plan with Otani?

622
00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:12,040
Speaker 5: Like?

623
00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:14,560
Speaker 4: What is the like way stretch him out slowly?

624
00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:18,480
Speaker 3: Yeah? So like time, what's going on here? Let's go?

625
00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:19,640
Speaker 4: Is there a sinator?

626
00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:19,720
Speaker 3: Like?

627
00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:21,560
Speaker 4: So will he be pitching you know.

628
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:22,600
Speaker 9: Once a week?

629
00:29:22,840 --> 00:29:23,120
Speaker 3: Yeah?

630
00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:24,360
Speaker 9: Not five man rotation?

631
00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:25,040
Speaker 3: Gotcha?

632
00:29:25,280 --> 00:29:28,120
Speaker 5: But would it be like if it's the playoffs, like

633
00:29:28,720 --> 00:29:31,320
Speaker 5: and he's ramped up, like, would he go seven innings?

634
00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:33,360
Speaker 4: Like it's not just going to be never two three innings?

635
00:29:34,360 --> 00:29:37,360
Speaker 6: Seven sounds like an awful lot, Yeah, never again will

636
00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:38,000
Speaker 6: he go seven.

637
00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:39,120
Speaker 9: Yeah, and and by the.

638
00:29:39,120 --> 00:29:41,400
Speaker 6: Way, for people calling he should be the closer, he

639
00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:44,120
Speaker 6: should be, well, then that takes that takes a picture

640
00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:46,760
Speaker 6: completely out of his comfort zone because now he doesn't

641
00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:49,400
Speaker 6: even know if he's going in the game. Fair so fair,

642
00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:51,560
Speaker 6: I'm not so sure about that. And keep in mind

643
00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:53,600
Speaker 6: through all of this, he threw a lot of what

644
00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:57,200
Speaker 6: they call simulated games batting practice against minor leaguers and oh,

645
00:29:57,200 --> 00:29:58,480
Speaker 6: that would have been a hit, and that would have

646
00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:01,200
Speaker 6: been an out that type of thing. Because he can't

647
00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:04,280
Speaker 6: go to the minors for rehab start lack Tyler Glasston.

648
00:30:04,360 --> 00:30:06,200
Speaker 5: I think that's the most interesting part, is like, oh,

649
00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:07,760
Speaker 5: he just can't do rehab starts.

650
00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:09,280
Speaker 4: Because he's the best hitter in baseball.

651
00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:11,000
Speaker 9: You'd be sending your DH to triple.

652
00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:14,120
Speaker 3: Ah, he should have done the triple. A team should

653
00:30:14,120 --> 00:30:17,360
Speaker 3: have said we'll play at Dodger Stadium before the Dodger game. Oh,

654
00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:20,040
Speaker 3: that would have been thinking out of a lot of people.

655
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Speaker 9: That's why I span your needs to be running the Dodgers.

656
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Speaker 3: There you go, look at me. I'm an idea guy.

657
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Speaker 3: That's me.

658
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Speaker 9: The A's, don't call them.

659
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Speaker 6: The Oakland A's are leading four nothing over Justin Verlander

660
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Speaker 6: and the Giants in the bottom of the second, Kansas

661
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Speaker 6: City up six to two at Arizona, bottom of the third,

662
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Speaker 6: and my goodness, all weekend we're gonna get White Sox

663
00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:39,600
Speaker 6: at Rockies.

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Speaker 9: People set the DVR.

665
00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:44,360
Speaker 6: It's the White Sox leading three to two at Colorado

666
00:30:44,440 --> 00:30:46,160
Speaker 6: in the bottom of the night. If the Rockies don't

667
00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:48,040
Speaker 6: win this one, that means their home record will be

668
00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:51,760
Speaker 6: nine and thirty five this year. Padres won in ten

669
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Speaker 6: against Texas. Toronto won in ten against the Angels on

670
00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:57,720
Speaker 6: a throwing air. Toronto's won six in a row. Meanwhile,

671
00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:00,400
Speaker 6: the Yankees have lost five straight. Mets beat him six

672
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:02,840
Speaker 6: to five, and the Mets second in the nl EA,

673
00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:05,160
Speaker 6: is just a half game behind the Phillies, who lost

674
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Speaker 6: at home today nine to six to Cincinnati, Milwaukee and

675
00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:11,640
Speaker 6: Baltimore with wins Detroit one again two to one at Cleveland,

676
00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:13,600
Speaker 6: which has lost eight in a row, and a w

677
00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:16,480
Speaker 6: NBA note that league is off tonight, but Caitlin Clark

678
00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:19,240
Speaker 6: will miss a fifth straight game Saturday due to her

679
00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:20,320
Speaker 6: growing entry back to you.

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Speaker 3: Hey, by the way, the SEGA, did you hear that

681
00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:27,560
Speaker 3: there's a former Dodger and a rapper putting together a

682
00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:31,120
Speaker 3: group to put the investors to back the a's and

683
00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:33,840
Speaker 3: relocate them to Vegas. Did you see that?

684
00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:35,920
Speaker 5: That is a true story. He's not making it up.

685
00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:39,640
Speaker 5: It's Chanho Park Shanhol somehow involved. I thought it right

686
00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:41,200
Speaker 5: before he went on here and.

687
00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:44,080
Speaker 3: The rapper Sugar, right, did they get them right.

688
00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:47,280
Speaker 9: To relocate to I've already relocated.

689
00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:49,440
Speaker 5: I think they're gonna buy I think they're gonna buy

690
00:31:49,480 --> 00:31:53,400
Speaker 5: a piece of whoever would it be the family that

691
00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:56,000
Speaker 5: already owns it, the Fishers.

692
00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:57,120
Speaker 9: Or whatever that took him out of Oakland?

693
00:31:57,200 --> 00:31:57,360
Speaker 8: Yeah?

694
00:31:57,400 --> 00:32:00,880
Speaker 3: Yeah, there was a talk that there's having there's problems

695
00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:03,640
Speaker 3: right now from what I hear, some type.

696
00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:06,120
Speaker 6: Of they already broke ground on the new saw that

697
00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:09,160
Speaker 6: they have raised. The Tropicana which used to be across

698
00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:11,440
Speaker 6: the street. I say, used to be across the street

699
00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:14,200
Speaker 6: from MGM on the strip is where that ballpark's going

700
00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:17,640
Speaker 6: to be. With air conditioning in the new place distributed

701
00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:20,680
Speaker 6: through the seats instead of a centralized system. With the

702
00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:21,640
Speaker 6: Vegas summer heat.

703
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Speaker 3: I think they needed more money. I think they needed

704
00:32:23,640 --> 00:32:27,600
Speaker 3: more backing. So it says that Sugar, Did I say

705
00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:29,480
Speaker 3: that right? Am? I saying that, right, you're asking me

706
00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:33,640
Speaker 3: and Channo Park are joining a group of investors that

707
00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:37,800
Speaker 3: are backing the A's at a two billion dollar valuation. Wow.

708
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:40,360
Speaker 6: Yeah, the ballpark is supposed to be one point seventy

709
00:32:40,400 --> 00:32:44,200
Speaker 6: five billion. The state responsibility is only a portion of that,

710
00:32:44,280 --> 00:32:46,360
Speaker 6: way less than half of that under four hundred million.

711
00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:48,160
Speaker 6: In other words, a lot less than the Raiders.

712
00:32:48,480 --> 00:32:50,120
Speaker 5: I was just say I think that was a part

713
00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:52,200
Speaker 5: of the reason why people didn't think it was actually

714
00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:54,400
Speaker 5: gonna happen. The state was like, we're tired of helping

715
00:32:54,400 --> 00:32:55,760
Speaker 5: you build all these stadiums in.

716
00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:58,960
Speaker 6: And the reason they helped the Raiders there, well, there's

717
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:02,719
Speaker 6: Twofold is one UNLV players there, so that's a state school.

718
00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:04,640
Speaker 6: So they can say, well, of course we put state

719
00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:07,920
Speaker 6: money toward this. But also the Raiders owner. People talk

720
00:33:07,960 --> 00:33:10,600
Speaker 6: about all NFL owners are rich, some of them are

721
00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:12,160
Speaker 6: not rich until they sell their team.

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00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:12,560
Speaker 3: Yep.

723
00:33:12,680 --> 00:33:15,840
Speaker 6: I mean the Raiders and Chargers have been since nineteen

724
00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:18,840
Speaker 6: sixty rivals and they almost went together to build a

725
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:22,960
Speaker 6: stadium before they each moved. Because they're each cash poor.

726
00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:25,360
Speaker 6: They don't have stadium money solo.

727
00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:27,360
Speaker 5: Well, that's like the Bus family, like the you know,

728
00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:31,480
Speaker 5: the money family tied into the organization until of course, like.

729
00:33:31,480 --> 00:33:33,480
Speaker 6: That when the O'Malleys owned the Dodgers, that was a

730
00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:34,960
Speaker 6: very successful franchise.

731
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Speaker 9: They didn't have this kind of money.

732
00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:38,440
Speaker 3: Yeah, but the A's you'll remember this to Saga, they

733
00:33:38,440 --> 00:33:41,440
Speaker 3: were historic. Remember the Gene tennis, the Joe.

734
00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:45,680
Speaker 6: Rudy Rolly fingers yingers right, oh my, or sure star

735
00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:48,120
Speaker 6: player was probably making fifty thousand bucks back.

736
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Speaker 4: But well no, but to.

737
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Speaker 5: Might of Blue, right, he was an Oaklany right to

738
00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:55,160
Speaker 5: this conversation about Chanhill Park.

739
00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:56,880
Speaker 4: I mean, that was the thing with the Fisher guy

740
00:33:56,920 --> 00:33:57,680
Speaker 4: to begin with.

741
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Speaker 5: I just think it's gonna work out because it's Vegas

742
00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:02,080
Speaker 5: and it's gonna be awesome.

743
00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:06,200
Speaker 4: But the way MLB handled that was so embarrassing.

744
00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:08,759
Speaker 6: Just it was just all they're sharing a triple A

745
00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:12,080
Speaker 6: stadium for the whole season and potentially what three years?

746
00:34:12,120 --> 00:34:14,000
Speaker 4: Yeah, in twenty twenty eight, I think it is.

747
00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:16,000
Speaker 9: Yeah, that's three seasons.

748
00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:18,839
Speaker 6: Not just in sharing, so that same field is going

749
00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:20,480
Speaker 6: to have one hundred and sixty games on it.

750
00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:22,880
Speaker 4: Wow, I didn't even I mean, I guess I should

751
00:34:22,880 --> 00:34:23,439
Speaker 4: have known that.

752
00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:25,759
Speaker 3: But all right, thank you the SEGA. I'll think what

753
00:34:25,760 --> 00:34:28,080
Speaker 3: we'll do. We'll come back more and Lebron more in

754
00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:30,560
Speaker 3: some of the moves that the Lakers made and other

755
00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:33,359
Speaker 3: moves in the NBA. All that coming up next right

756
00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:35,880
Speaker 3: here on Fox Sports Radio.

757
00:34:36,360 --> 00:34:39,000
Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith

758
00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:42,120
Speaker 2: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven

759
00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:43,040
Speaker 2: pm Pacific.

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Speaker 3: All Right, good evening, everyone, Aaron Torres, Arnie Spaniel, win

761
00:34:46,520 --> 00:34:48,960
Speaker 3: for the guys to night, Jason Smith and his best

762
00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:52,799
Speaker 3: Fred Mike Harmon on this Friday. I hope everybody had

763
00:34:52,800 --> 00:34:57,319
Speaker 3: a great Fourth of July out there, all right. Cut

764
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Speaker 3: it back to Lebron now, and I do want to

765
00:34:59,680 --> 00:35:06,840
Speaker 3: get his latest social media signals today or whatever you

766
00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:10,440
Speaker 3: want to call them. But before I get to that, Aaron,

767
00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:13,200
Speaker 3: I'm just kind of curious, how's he gonna be remembered

768
00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:16,279
Speaker 3: as a Laker. I mean, he's certainly not gonna be

769
00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:19,560
Speaker 3: as popular as I hate to say this, real Lakers

770
00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:23,160
Speaker 3: like a Kobe or a Magic or even a Kareem.

771
00:35:23,200 --> 00:35:26,799
Speaker 3: Even though Kareem started his, you know, his career in Milwaukee.

772
00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:29,359
Speaker 3: He's still a Laker and everybody thinks of him as

773
00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:30,839
Speaker 3: a Laker. There's no doubt about that.

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00:35:30,960 --> 00:35:34,320
Speaker 5: Shack started his career in Orlando people, and he didn't

775
00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:36,040
Speaker 5: end his career in LA. I think people still think

776
00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:38,120
Speaker 5: of him as a Laker, absolutely.

777
00:35:38,880 --> 00:35:41,920
Speaker 3: And he went to Miami and other teams.

778
00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:45,200
Speaker 5: All Boston, Cleveland. He was with Cleveland for a year,

779
00:35:45,280 --> 00:35:50,120
Speaker 5: actually with Lebron. So we were you and either ones

780
00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:52,120
Speaker 5: that had this conversation when I filled in for Plank

781
00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:55,320
Speaker 5: the other day. I don't think he's gonna be remembered fondly.

782
00:35:55,520 --> 00:35:58,120
Speaker 5: And I know there's a lot of people out there

783
00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:00,120
Speaker 5: that would say he won a championship, one of their

784
00:36:00,200 --> 00:36:03,680
Speaker 5: Western Conference final but they also missed the playoffs a bunch.

785
00:36:04,239 --> 00:36:10,000
Speaker 5: They lost in the first round this year. And you know,

786
00:36:10,480 --> 00:36:14,280
Speaker 5: I'll just be real, is that I really believe.

787
00:36:15,560 --> 00:36:15,799
Speaker 8: That.

788
00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:19,160
Speaker 5: I think he's actually sort of killed the Lakers brand

789
00:36:19,239 --> 00:36:23,400
Speaker 5: in this town. When I got here, it was amazing,

790
00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:25,880
Speaker 5: you know, Lakers were the biggest thing in the city.

791
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:28,840
Speaker 5: And now everybody loves the Dodgers. And I think a

792
00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:30,600
Speaker 5: part of it, I mean, everybody always love the Dodgers,

793
00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:32,400
Speaker 5: but it just feels like the Dodgers are bigger. But

794
00:36:32,440 --> 00:36:35,440
Speaker 5: I feel like a lot of it is Lebron. Why

795
00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:38,200
Speaker 5: what why was he brought him a championship. But I

796
00:36:38,200 --> 00:36:40,799
Speaker 5: don't want to hear about bubble, no bubble. I don't

797
00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:42,040
Speaker 5: want to hear that, right, I don't even want to

798
00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:44,239
Speaker 5: debate that he still brought you. I don't care if

799
00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:46,720
Speaker 5: it was a one game season or one hundred game season.

800
00:36:46,719 --> 00:36:48,960
Speaker 5: It makes no difference to me. Everybody played by the

801
00:36:49,000 --> 00:36:50,960
Speaker 5: same rules. But that's beside the board. He brought you

802
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:56,280
Speaker 5: a championship. Why is what exactly is it the arrogance?

803
00:36:56,440 --> 00:37:00,799
Speaker 5: Why is he not popular? Especially among Lakers? It seems like,

804
00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:05,040
Speaker 5: you know, well, I just think the organization he became

805
00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:07,440
Speaker 5: bigger than the organization. I think you know, you have

806
00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:09,920
Speaker 5: you lived out here, you have an understanding of the

807
00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:12,880
Speaker 5: history of the organization. It's like as good as Magic was,

808
00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:15,600
Speaker 5: as good as Call, nobody was bigger than the Lakers.

809
00:37:15,719 --> 00:37:19,000
Speaker 5: And you know, I think Lebron thought he was still

810
00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:21,720
Speaker 5: in Cleveland. And it's like, you know, I'm gonna hire

811
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:23,799
Speaker 5: the coaches that I want, I'm gonna run off the

812
00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:24,880
Speaker 5: coaches that I don't like.

813
00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:26,560
Speaker 4: I'm gonna bring on my son.

814
00:37:28,239 --> 00:37:31,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just I'm gonna trade Anthony Davis or that's.

815
00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:33,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I don't know about that.

816
00:37:33,920 --> 00:37:35,719
Speaker 5: I'll tell you what you know what was his I'm

817
00:37:35,719 --> 00:37:37,799
Speaker 5: gonna bring in Russell Westbrook and then it didn't work,

818
00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:39,839
Speaker 5: and all of a sudden, he's trying to blame everybody else,

819
00:37:39,840 --> 00:37:43,920
Speaker 5: and so I just think, you know the I go

820
00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:45,880
Speaker 5: back to Arnie and I might have told this story

821
00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:47,400
Speaker 5: to you. I know I've said it on air before.

822
00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:53,160
Speaker 5: I just go back to I remember the first one

823
00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:54,840
Speaker 5: or two press conferences that he did. I don't know

824
00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:57,360
Speaker 5: if it was the opening press conference or what, but

825
00:37:57,440 --> 00:38:00,000
Speaker 5: one of the reporters asked him, what would it mean

826
00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:03,200
Speaker 5: to your legacy to win a championship as a Laker,

827
00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:05,880
Speaker 5: And he said something that I stuck with me forever.

828
00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:10,040
Speaker 5: He said, Uh, my legacy's already set. It wouldn't mean anything.

829
00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:13,000
Speaker 5: And I was like, Bro, he don't get it. Like,

830
00:38:13,400 --> 00:38:15,440
Speaker 5: no one in LA cares about what you did with

831
00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:17,319
Speaker 5: the Cavs, no one in LA cares what you did

832
00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:22,439
Speaker 5: in Miami. If you don't bring championships to LA, you're

833
00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:25,320
Speaker 5: not gonna be remembered fondly. And so, if I'm reading

834
00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:27,759
Speaker 5: this correctly, and I don't know exactly, I don't know

835
00:38:27,800 --> 00:38:29,640
Speaker 5: exactly what year he joined the team, but I believe

836
00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:32,759
Speaker 5: it was the twenty eighteen twenty nineteen season right, two

837
00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:37,040
Speaker 5: miss playoff appearances, three first round exits. Yeah, I'm sorry,

838
00:38:37,160 --> 00:38:38,720
Speaker 5: that's not the standard for the Lakers.

839
00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:41,000
Speaker 3: That might doesn't make you belove this is what you're saying.

840
00:38:41,040 --> 00:38:44,520
Speaker 3: There'll be no statue or shoulder be a statue because

841
00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:46,279
Speaker 3: I mean, he is one of the best players in

842
00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:48,200
Speaker 3: the history of the game, and one or two depending

843
00:38:48,239 --> 00:38:49,120
Speaker 3: on how you want to look at it.

844
00:38:49,120 --> 00:38:50,040
Speaker 4: Didn't Genie say that.

845
00:38:50,120 --> 00:38:52,360
Speaker 5: She I know she doesn't really have a say anymore,

846
00:38:52,400 --> 00:38:55,200
Speaker 5: but I don't think he deserves a statue. I mean,

847
00:38:55,680 --> 00:38:57,200
Speaker 5: let's let's just talk this out real quick, and I

848
00:38:57,280 --> 00:39:00,680
Speaker 5: know we only have a minute. He's not a top Laker, right,

849
00:39:00,719 --> 00:39:03,240
Speaker 5: I mean, he's not ahead of Magic, he's not out Kobe,

850
00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:05,200
Speaker 5: he's not ahead of Jerry West, he's not ahead of

851
00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:07,720
Speaker 5: Sareem No, that's already four right there.

852
00:39:08,040 --> 00:39:09,959
Speaker 4: I wouldn't put him ahead of Shack for sure.

853
00:39:10,080 --> 00:39:11,279
Speaker 3: That's five. Five.

854
00:39:11,400 --> 00:39:14,480
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, so I don't know. I mean, let me

855
00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:14,920
Speaker 4: ask you this.

856
00:39:14,960 --> 00:39:18,000
Speaker 3: You can't have a statue for everybody who has had

857
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:22,840
Speaker 3: a bigger impact on Lakers history, Robert Rory or Lebron

858
00:39:22,920 --> 00:39:28,600
Speaker 3: James Robert Robert Ory. Yes, he's made his big shot

859
00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:30,480
Speaker 3: Bob of course, absolutely.

860
00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:33,120
Speaker 4: Rick Fisher, I would say Derek Fisher's had a bigger

861
00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:33,640
Speaker 4: impact on.

862
00:39:33,600 --> 00:39:37,000
Speaker 5: Your right about that too. Yeah, you're doesn't have a statue.

863
00:39:37,880 --> 00:39:41,000
Speaker 5: I mean serious, Hal Gasol, as best I know, doesn't

864
00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:41,600
Speaker 5: have a statue.

865
00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:44,920
Speaker 3: He was a big part of Laker Lord two. You're

866
00:39:44,960 --> 00:39:47,520
Speaker 3: one hundred percent right on that. But he gets a

867
00:39:47,600 --> 00:39:50,720
Speaker 3: lot of hatred for that reason. I'm not sure why.

868
00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:53,279
Speaker 3: I think it's because of the arrogance and some of

869
00:39:53,280 --> 00:39:56,200
Speaker 3: the stuff going on and some of the times we

870
00:39:56,239 --> 00:39:58,640
Speaker 3: live in and some people don't like his politics or whatever.

871
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:01,040
Speaker 3: But he feels I feel like sometimes he gets a

872
00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:03,560
Speaker 3: bad rap on the whole thing. Aaron, I feel like

873
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Speaker 3: we let's go on too much.

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Speaker 5: Let's revisit this because I have a further thought on

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Speaker 5: Lebron that I want to run by you throughout the

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Speaker 5: show tonight.

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Speaker 3: So all right, and well, we got a lot. I

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Speaker 3: want to get to the MJ situation. I thought that

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Speaker 3: was a interesting quote by Paul George, so that's gonna

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Speaker 3: be something. Also, got a great stat on home field

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Speaker 3: in the NFL that we have to go over. You're

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Speaker 3: silly gonna love this why NFL home field might not

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Speaker 3: be as big as it used to be. You want

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Speaker 3: to be part of the show, real simple, Aaron, underscore Torres,

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Speaker 3: I'm its thinking genius one. So we'll certainly take your tweets.

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Speaker 3: We got a lot of them. That Torres doing a

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Speaker 3: bad job keeping his eye on the tweets out there,

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Speaker 3: So bad job by Torres. Shame on you, Aaron.

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Speaker 4: So I didn't know I was our social media producer.

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Speaker 3: Where you are now, I've promoted you to social media

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Speaker 3: producer like Animal House. You have to drive us to

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Speaker 3: the food King. So we're in for the guys tonight.

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Speaker 3: Jason Smith and his best read Mike Harmon here on

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Speaker 3: Fox Sports Radio