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Speaker 1: To Seger, Fox Sports Radio, Welcome inside Final Hour. Tonight

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Speaker 1: the Jason Smith Show was special Delivery Steve to Sager,

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Speaker 1: who is Mike Harmon? Who is a hobo? No, it's

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Speaker 1: a non Hobo Knight, Non Hobo Night to so not

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Speaker 1: Hobo Week Harmon on vacation to Saga in non Hobo Week.

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Speaker 1: Hey Steve, howdy?

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Speaker 2: Uh?

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Speaker 1: Now, before we I can I can really pull the

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Speaker 1: curtain back on the decision. You know, it turns fifteen

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Speaker 1: today Lebron deciding he's taking his talents to South Beach

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Speaker 1: to go play for the Miami Heat. But first we

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Speaker 1: have to because this is starting to gain a lot

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Speaker 1: of attention. You know, Jason Stark is a guy that

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Speaker 1: you know, I quote this, I don't know that I

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Speaker 1: quote anybody that I've spoken to professionally more than I

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Speaker 1: quote this from Jason Stark, longtime baseball insider and writer,

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Speaker 1: who says they've been playing baseball for a hundred He

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Speaker 1: said it so long ago that he used to have

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Speaker 1: gone from one hundred and twenty five years to now

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Speaker 1: to one hundred and fifty years. That's how long ago

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Speaker 1: he said. And it's still true. They've been playing baseball

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Speaker 1: for one hundred and fifty years and still regularly every

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Speaker 1: season you see something and go, well, I've never seen

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Speaker 1: that before, right, one hundred and fifty years of been

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Speaker 1: like you've seen everything in the NFL and the NBA,

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Speaker 1: I've never seen that before. So the Phillies are trying

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Speaker 1: to close out a three to one win over the Giants, and.

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Speaker 3: It would keep the Phillies a game ahead of the

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Speaker 3: Mets in the NL East because the Mets had a

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Speaker 3: big comeback and one in ten tonight.

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Speaker 1: And I'd like to say that I did my part

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Speaker 1: in this, because when you first brought this up to say, hey,

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Speaker 1: big out your final game going on tonight Major League Baseball,

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Speaker 1: the Phillies are up three to one in the night,

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Speaker 1: I said, yeah, yeah, great, whatever thanks a lot.

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Speaker 2: Uh.

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Speaker 1: And then a couple minutes later you say, wait a minute, Uh,

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Speaker 1: the Giants just win on a walk off. Well, okay,

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Speaker 1: we've seen walk offs before.

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Speaker 3: We've seen guy, I see the celebration, the reruns tackling

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Speaker 1: Win for that. Okay, so we said, okay, wait, they

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Speaker 1: win walk off three run homer by Patrick Bailey. The

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Speaker 1: catcher who was hitting. What was he in like one

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Speaker 3: He's a great defense and not defense first defense only catcher.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so the ninth batter in the order hits a

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Speaker 1: walk off, again, something we've seen before. But this is

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Speaker 1: something we had not seen in Major League Baseball in

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Speaker 1: almost one hundred years, because the last time a catcher

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Speaker 1: Major League Baseball was back in nineteen twenty six inside

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Speaker 1: the park walk off home run. And here's how it

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Speaker 2: On my drive right right fl the brick, it's Ginnas time,

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Speaker 1: So there was on Giants TV the ball I think

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Speaker 1: the ball hit the brick, Yes, hit the hit.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so so you both outfielders are getting back to

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Speaker 3: Going, over ran it and then really had to chase.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, the ball hits the brick and bounces straight to

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Speaker 3: Amazing bib again, and that doesn't describe all of what

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Speaker 3: Old days we had two catchers with walk off inside

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Speaker 3: I streamed him in Fantasy that day, so it worked.

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Speaker 1: Yeah here, yeah, I mean, I mean Baseball Reference is.

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Speaker 3: The other game that we had in the Bay Area,

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Speaker 1: So that's never happened before, never lead a walk off

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Speaker 3: And it was both the Northern California team and both

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Speaker 1: Same Just the A's. It's just the A's. They have

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Speaker 3: Yes, they're not the Oakland Age, they're not the West

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Speaker 1: No, no, no, but it's coming to everybod keeps it.

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Speaker 1: Don't worry, don't worry to worry. It's gonna happen. It's

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Speaker 1: gonna happen. They've broken ground. So look, today's been a

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Speaker 1: big day. We spent a lot of time talking about

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Speaker 1: the decision. Turning fifteen today when Lebron James sat in

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Speaker 1: How's it going to go? But you know, to talk

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Speaker 1: year has just started. It's early July. It's summer.

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Speaker 3: Nobody's actually going to NBA arenas for game time and

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Speaker 1: this story was. This was an entire shows, entire sports centers,

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Speaker 1: The team in the lead right now is the Dallas Mavericks.

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Speaker 1: a half before the special, this is Stephen A. Smith,

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Speaker 1: And you know, Stephen A. Smith was an NBA insider

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Speaker 1: are we doing this? They're saying, well, you're saying, ESPN

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Speaker 1: for those two days was, Oh, Stephen A. Smith says,

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Speaker 1: it's it's the it's the heat. If it is the heat,

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Speaker 3: We're gonna find out on live TV. It's not just

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Speaker 3: this will be confirmed by some other newspaper reporter.

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Speaker 1: And then obviously the heat was correct and he had it.

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Speaker 1: Now obviously he's not hurting right now with his status

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I guess he's an expert in every area

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Speaker 1: Yes, he is whatever?

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Speaker 3: Because he knows every roster of every team.

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Speaker 1: Hey, you want to you want to know how to

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Speaker 1: win a solitaire, you call Stephen A. Smith. He will

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Speaker 1: So there you go. We got more NBA coming up.

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Speaker 1: On the way, you talked about the the David Stern

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

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Speaker 1: Steve the Sagarin for Harmon. I don't know, it's a

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Speaker 1: backpack everything, and all of a sudden, the limo driver

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Speaker 1: gets out and he goes, excuse me, do you work here?

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Speaker 1: And I said, uh, yeah, I do. Why he goes, oh, okay,

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Speaker 1: I'm here. I'm here to take Commissioner Stern. Can you

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Speaker 1: go inside and get him for me? And I looked

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Speaker 1: at him and I said, I'm sorry. What He goes,

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Speaker 1: can you get Commissioner Stern for me? Can you go inside?

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Speaker 1: It's time for him to go? And I said, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'll see what I can do about that. And I

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Speaker 1: just I just walked. I didn't tell anybody anything. I'm like, blank,

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Speaker 1: that guy, man, I'm not kidding, who's he? Just like,

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Speaker 1: do you work here? Go get him for me? I

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Speaker 1: was like forgot, he's done with me. But yeah, I'm like,

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Speaker 1: you forget it. I'm gonna go. Hey, maybe after I

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Speaker 1: interview him and I'll find out that they'll tell him, Oh, hey,

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Speaker 1: you're your limo driver's waiting for you. So I walked

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Speaker 1: in like a limo driver was from New Jersey. Apparently

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Speaker 1: that's kind of how he sounded. He says, hey, do

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Speaker 1: you work it yet? Can you go get him for me?

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Speaker 1: And he second time not please not and not not

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Speaker 1: even ask him please say can you get him for me? Like, hey,

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Speaker 1: any guy walking by, I can I can tell to

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Speaker 1: go in? And I'm like like that I'm not gonna go.

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Speaker 1: So I walk in. I go, well, forget it. Maybe

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Speaker 1: I'll say after interview David Stern. And so I'm like okay.

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Speaker 1: So I come in and I set up and I

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Speaker 1: sit down, and I asked my producer what's going on?

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Speaker 1: He goes, okay, we'll know when a couple of minutes

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Speaker 1: be ready to go. Okay, great. I sit down and

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Speaker 1: have my headphones on. I got my questions ready already,

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Speaker 1: all see. He comes in and goes, oh uh, commissioners

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Speaker 1: not not coming in. We didn't get him. I'm so sorry.

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Speaker 1: What do you mean I came in two hours early. Again,

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, if you want to leave whatever. I soa

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Speaker 1: what happened? He goes, I know, apparently he was running

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Speaker 1: late and and somebody told him was time to go.

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Speaker 1: So so he apparently told somebody else going in and

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Speaker 1: they knew the dirty work. Did tell Commissioner Stern. So

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Speaker 1: I go, So for me not finding it, Like if

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Speaker 1: I had gone and found him and said, hey, you

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Speaker 1: do my interview and then you can leave, I would

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Speaker 1: have had the interview with David Stern. But because I

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Speaker 1: was like blank, that guy, so he just found somebody

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Speaker 1: else to go in and tell. So Commissioner Stern walked out.

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Speaker 3: So who knows what news would have been made when

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Speaker 3: Jason Smith had a chance to corner the all powerful

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Speaker 3: NBA commissioner in his last interview the.

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Speaker 1: Day who had just said live, I've been talking to

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Speaker 1: everybody else, all right.

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Speaker 3: He'd be so sick of things exactly.

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Speaker 1: Asked me anything you want hey the eighty five draft? Oh,

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Speaker 1: completely frozen envelope, completely frozen. I knew it right when

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Speaker 1: I grabbed it. I knew the we knew the next

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Speaker 1: we're getting youing for months months we knew this answer.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh thanks, I appreciate that.

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Speaker 3: Commission So round Ball Rock your idea? Yes, actually yeah.

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Speaker 3: I don't take credit for this, but decades from now

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Speaker 3: people will be clamoring to have that be the musical

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Speaker 3: theme of my league.

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Speaker 1: I said to John Tesh, No, you want d D

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Speaker 1: give something a little bit bigger off the top? Come on? Can?

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Speaker 3: I mentioned, as we just this has been a great show.

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Speaker 1: But so what do you see, John? Do you see?

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Speaker 1: John Tesh so excited? Can't wait for round Ball Rocks.

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Speaker 3: It's going to be part of the new coverage next year.

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Speaker 3: I mentioned this.

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Speaker 1: He's like, that's when the check start clearing, right, when

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Speaker 1: when you actually start that's what I get paid again, Right.

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Speaker 3: Let's be honest. There had to be an agreement, I mean,

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Speaker 3: like a formal, written in pen business agreement for that theme,

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Speaker 3: which was the theme we all heard for NBA broadcasts

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Speaker 3: in the nineties when NBC had it to come back

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Speaker 3: and be part of NBC broadcast starting next season because

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Speaker 3: as people know, TNT doesn't have the NBA no more

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Speaker 3: NBC does, and Peacock and so they're gonna run it

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Speaker 3: into the ground, I'm sure. And there's gonna be Amazon

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Speaker 3: with NBA games as well. No, I'm not kidding. There's

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Speaker 3: gonna be Sunday Night basketball. There's gonna be Monday Night basketball.

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Speaker 3: You thought it was just like Wednesday Friday there during

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Speaker 3: Sunday Night football, that's gonna be the theme. They're gonna

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Speaker 3: take that out and play round ball rock.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 3: The theory is that NBC, since they already have Sunday

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Speaker 3: Night Football and now Sunday Night Basketball, you know what's

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Speaker 3: up forbid at the moment is Sunday Night baseball because

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Speaker 3: the ESPN opted.

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Speaker 1: Out of that.

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Speaker 3: Nobody has Sunday Night Baseball starting next season. Yet, so

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Speaker 3: I am expecting an announcement one way or another, because

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Speaker 3: we got the All Star.

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Speaker 1: Game coming up.

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Speaker 3: That's a perfect place to make News's gonna have Sunday

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Speaker 3: Night Baseball just here.

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Speaker 1: Marv Albert and Lamets welcome the Phillies in the City Field,

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Speaker 1: the Baltimore Orioles. Not what they had in mind, that

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Speaker 1: Gucas and Mike for Tello on the call of this one.

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Speaker 1: We go now live to City Field at Grimace's seat.

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Speaker 1: The Colorado Rockies twenty one up and seventy one down.

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Speaker 1: Not often eighteen fifty games under five hundred is on

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Speaker 1: Sunday Night Baseball, but they take on the Yankees and Aaron.

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Speaker 3: Judge and Sunday Night Baseball has been getting very good

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Speaker 3: ratings tonight, by the way, the best they've had in years,

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Speaker 3: and ESPN says, no, no, we don't want to pay

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Speaker 3: that for that, and then they get an audience. And

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Speaker 3: by the way, part of the package that's leaving is

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Speaker 3: not just Sunday Night Baseball. ESPN carries the first week

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Speaker 3: of the playoffs. ESPN carries the home run Derby. Next year,

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Speaker 3: somebody new is going to have the home run derby.

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Speaker 3: Perhaps maybe that will be part of the announcement next week.

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Speaker 3: There's no date for such an announcement. I'm just saying,

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Speaker 3: you're just thinking that would be perfect for their SO programming.

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Speaker 3: Note as we switch paragraphs. The Women's Euro Soccer Championship

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Speaker 3: started last Wednesday. Fox has the rights so FS one.

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Speaker 3: Tomorrow it's England against Netherlands and then France plays on

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Speaker 3: Fox TV tomorrow against Wales. Spain is the defending Women's

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Speaker 3: World Cup champ Of course it's a Euro tournament, so

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Speaker 3: they're in it and they're still great. They won yesterday

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Speaker 3: six to two against Belgium, outshot them thirty three to

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Speaker 3: four in the game, and then we had a lopsided

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Speaker 3: Germany win, at least on the stat sheet. It was

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Speaker 3: Germany over Denmark two to one and a big crowd

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Speaker 3: in Switzerland thirty four thousand for this Germany outshot them

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Speaker 3: twenty seven to five. And also at the Eurosweden three

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Speaker 3: nothing against windless Poland. We have the FIFA Club World

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Speaker 3: Cup semifinals that started in New Jersey at the Jets

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Speaker 3: Giant Stadium today. It was three o'clock on a Tuesday

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Speaker 3: and they had over seventy thousand people there to watch

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Speaker 3: Chelsea win. Same stadium on Wednesday, and it's going to

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Speaker 3: be Real Madrid against Paris and Jermont, and the final

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Speaker 3: will be Sunday in New Jersey, the same stadium that's

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Speaker 3: going to have the World Cup final next summer. By

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Speaker 3: the way, Chelsea, just by making the final of this

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Speaker 3: FIFA Club World Cup, they're guaranteed it ly eighty eight

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Speaker 3: million dollars to split among themselves.

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Speaker 2: Pretty good.

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Speaker 3: That's a pretty good, astounding amount of money once they

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Speaker 3: expanded this into a regular tournament. Real Madrid just won

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Speaker 3: its quarterfinal on Saturday in New Jersey with seventy six

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Speaker 3: thousand people there, and Paris and German had eliminated Bayern Munich.

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Speaker 3: But the US is hosting this and it's kind of

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Speaker 3: a dry run before the us CO hosts the World

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Speaker 3: Cup next summer.

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Speaker 1: So we'll have more on Nikola Jokic coming up in

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Speaker 1: about ninety seconds. There's your big appetizer into what's trending

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Speaker 1: in the wide world of sports. So Steve de Seger

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Speaker 1: has more details on that now, including inside the park,

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Speaker 1: walk off home runs and more.

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Speaker 3: Steve can't believe how that ended by the way labor

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Speaker 3: piece for the NHL and its players Union, they have

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Speaker 3: officially ratified a new four year CBA through twenty thirty.

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Speaker 3: One seed Arena Sablenca won her Wimbledon quarter final in

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Speaker 3: three sets, and an American, Amanda an Asimova, also won.

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Speaker 3: The men's number two Carlos Alcarez wins again. He advanced

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Speaker 3: and next up on Friday, American number five seed Taylor

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Speaker 3: Fritz As has won twenty three straight matches this year.

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Speaker 3: Novak Djokovic plays his quarterfinal on Wednesday, as does number

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Speaker 3: one Yanick Sinner, who is battling an elbow injury. How

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Speaker 3: the game ended at San Francisco tonight a three run

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Speaker 3: homer inside the park job by the number nine hitter

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Speaker 3: who was batting under two hundred giants for to three

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Speaker 3: over the Phillies, and that means the Mets are now

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Speaker 3: tied for first in the NL East with the Phills.

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Speaker 3: The Mets came back to win in ten at Baltimore

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Speaker 3: seven to six. Mets scored four times in the eighth

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Speaker 3: to tie it on a couple of homers and then

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Speaker 3: Juan Soto and the tenth at the go ahead single.

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Speaker 3: He had three hits. There was about an hour rain

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Speaker 3: to lay at the start. There rain playing a part

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Speaker 3: in a lot of these games tonight, But Mike Goodness,

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Speaker 3: such good baseball on the Tuesday schedule this evening. Cleveland

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Speaker 3: won on a tenth inning Grand Slam at Houston, off

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Speaker 3: All Star closer Josh Hader ten to six. Jose Ramirez

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Speaker 3: had hit a two run homer in the first. This

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Speaker 3: is a Guardian's team that had lost ten in a

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Speaker 3: row until yesterday's win at Houston. The Astros offen with

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Speaker 3: runners in scoring position two for twenty one.

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Speaker 1: Tonight.

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Speaker 3: Texas won thirteen to one at the Angels, the win

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Speaker 3: to Nathan Valde A's ten to one over Atlanta, which

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Speaker 3: has lost five in a row. A's All Star shortstop

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Speaker 3: Jacob Wilson did leave hit by a pitch early on

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Speaker 3: the hand. It is called a bruce speaking to all Stars.

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Speaker 3: The Pirates O'Neal Cruz will be in next week's home

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Speaker 3: runner be any homer Tonight at Kansas City, but with

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Speaker 3: a run bottom of the night, the Royals beat the

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Speaker 3: Pirates four to three. Pittsburgh has lost five straight. San

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Speaker 3: Diego won nothing over Arizona on a seventh inning home run.

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Speaker 3: It was Saint Louis four to two over Washington. Long

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Speaker 3: rang to lay of over two hours at the start,

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Speaker 3: Milwaukee sent the Dodgers to a fifth straight loss, three

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Speaker 3: to one, lead off homer from shohe Otana. He has

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Speaker 3: thirty one home runs to lead the National League. But

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Speaker 3: then the starter Jacob Mazarowski, in six innings, struck out

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Speaker 3: twelve and they beat the Dodgers in Clayton Kershaw, who

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Speaker 3: had been four and oh allowed two runs in six innings.

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Speaker 3: By the way, the Dodgers called up former Reds closer

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Speaker 3: Alexis Diaz.

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Speaker 1: They could use arms, to say the least.

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Speaker 3: Unfortunately, this year in the majors and minors, Diaz, in

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Speaker 3: about twenty five innings has allowed twenty two runs. Dodger

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Speaker 3: pitcher Tyler glassnow, who's been injured, will start Wednesday afternoon.

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Speaker 3: Minnesota beat the Cubs eight to one. Toronto won its

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Speaker 3: tenth straight game, six to one at the White Sox.

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Speaker 3: That game was called due to rain in the seventh.

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Speaker 3: The Blue Jays first in the AL East, still three

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Speaker 3: and a half games over the Yankees, who won ten

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Speaker 3: to three against Seattle. Cal Rawley did hit his thirty

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Speaker 3: sixth home run, but Aaron Judge had his thirty fourth

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Speaker 3: for the Yanks, and Hincarlo Stanton hit a three run

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Speaker 3: shot by the way. The Yankees moved Jazz Chisholm back

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Speaker 3: to second base rain delay in the fifth inning.

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Speaker 1: In New York.

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Speaker 3: Yankees were only up one to nothing in the sixth,

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Speaker 3: and ten to three was the final. Detroit wins on

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Speaker 3: a two run homer in the seventh, four to two

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Speaker 3: over Tampa Bay. Tigers have won five straight. Colt Keith

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Speaker 3: the hero. He had two hits three RBIs. The rest

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Speaker 3: of the Tigers went two for twenty three, but it's

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Speaker 3: another win, and the Rays have lost seven of ten.

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Speaker 3: Miami won again twelve two at Cincinnati, and the Red

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Speaker 3: Sox won their fifth straight, ten two over Colorado, a

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Speaker 3: complete game with ten strikeats for Brian Bao. The loss

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Speaker 3: to Kyle Freeland. He's one in ten and the Rockies

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Speaker 3: record now twenty one and seventy one. Final notes from

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Speaker 3: the WNBA. They had the team captains for this month's

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Speaker 3: All Star Games select draft their rosters. Team Caitlin Clark

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Speaker 3: includes her fever teammate Aliah Boston, also Sabrina Yenescu and

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Speaker 3: Asia Wilson, who did leave her game for Vegas in

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Speaker 3: the first half with a wrist injury. Tonight, New York

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Speaker 3: beat the Las Vegas Aces eighty seven seventy eight. Yunescue

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Speaker 3: with twenty eight points, although from three point range she

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Speaker 3: was one of nine, and Washington Beach Chicago eighty one

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Speaker 3: seventy nine Chicago five and thirteen. Angel Reese did have

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Speaker 3: a good game with twenty two points fifteen rebounds.

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Speaker 2: No.

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Speaker 3: Angel Rees was not selected to be on Caitlin Clark's team.

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Speaker 3: She was one of the reserves on the NAFISA Collier team.

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Speaker 3: Indianapolis will host WNBA All Star Game July nineteenth.

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Speaker 1: I will have more on this story coming up in

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Speaker 1: a few minutes, but really quick on NICOLEA Jokic. Right,

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Speaker 1: this story comes up today and there's two angles on it.

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Speaker 1: Jokicic could have signed a contract extension with the Nuggets

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Speaker 1: this summer, except he has said that no, he's going

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Speaker 1: to delay that until next summer. Now there's the school

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Speaker 1: of thought of hey, he wants to see if the

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Speaker 1: Nuggets are still really good, and maybe this turns into

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Speaker 1: a Yannis Buck situation where hey, I'm looking at other

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Speaker 1: options because maybe my future is not with the Nuggets

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Speaker 1: because the team winning a championship, we have gone into disrepair,

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Speaker 1: which is kind of what's happened to the Bucks. But

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Speaker 1: the other part of it is this A lot of

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Speaker 1: it could be financially motivated for Yokics because he can

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Speaker 1: sign a much bigger extension if he waits a year. Now,

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Speaker 1: he's got three years left on the contract he signed

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two. The last year of his contract

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Speaker 1: is set. Now he's set to make sixty two million

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Speaker 1: dollars in two years. Okay, son, we say that again

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Speaker 1: out loud, sixty two million dollars in twenty twenty seven

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Speaker 1: to twenty eight. If he signs this extension next off season,

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Speaker 1: that salary goes up to seven seven million dollars for

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Speaker 1: the last year of his deal. So he signs his

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Speaker 1: contract extension, two years from there, he goes to seventy

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Speaker 1: seven million. And this I feel so good about the

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Speaker 1: bull prediction I made like two years ago. I said, Listen,

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Speaker 1: by the time we get to twenty thirty, someone in

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Speaker 1: the NBA or the NFL is going to be making

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Speaker 1: one hundred million dollars a year. And it's more than

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Speaker 1: likely now going to be the NBA than the NFL.

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Speaker 1: I don't know that the quarterback is going to get

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Speaker 1: there because things seem to be going a little bit

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Speaker 1: more arithmetically and not geometrically. But if Yokich waits until

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Speaker 1: next offseason, all of a sudden, now we're at somebody

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Speaker 1: making seventy seven million dollars a year. So say you

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Speaker 1: wait two years after that and another it goes up

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Speaker 1: another fifteen million. Somebody's making ninety million a year. By

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Speaker 1: twenty thirty, somebody in the NBA is making one hundred

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Speaker 1: million dollars a year, and it's probably Wemby. If you

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Speaker 1: saying who's it going to be, it's probably gonna be

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Speaker 1: Wemby making one hundred million dollars a year and twenty

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Speaker 1: thirty one, ming Hell, sure, we are on PA And

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Speaker 1: that might be the greatest Bowl prediction I've ever made.

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Speaker 1: By twenty thirty, someone's making one hundred million dollars a year.

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Speaker 1: We can have that. By twenty we are on pace

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Speaker 1: to that, especially if this happens with Jokic next offseason.

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Speaker 3: These are the kind of numbers that we used to

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Speaker 3: discuss in years past, like Messi or Ronaldo if you

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Speaker 3: include all their endorsements, or Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson

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Speaker 3: if you include all their endorsements. This is the kind

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Speaker 3: of money they pulled down last year. We're talking salary

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Speaker 3: from the team, actual checks with taxes taken out of them,

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Speaker 3: payroll checks, because remember there was the huge SuperMac extension

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Speaker 3: recently that Oklahoma City gave the MVP Shay Gilgas Alexander.

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Speaker 3: This is a concrete number, not a guess. In twenty thirty,

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Speaker 3: he is making seventy million dollars for an eighty two

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Speaker 3: game seasons.

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Speaker 1: Who's to say he plays all eighty two. He might

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Speaker 1: be playing.

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Speaker 3: Seventy games for seventy million dollars in twenty thirty.

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Speaker 1: Sixty games, fifty five games. That's how it goes down.

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Speaker 1: Steve Stound one hundred million by twenty thirty. Get ready

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Speaker 1: for it to be wemby