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Speaker 1: Greetings, Welcome inside final hour tonight The Jason Smith Show

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Speaker 1: with my bes friend Mike Harmon. We're into the sixties, man,

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you. I know they only play forty minutes.

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Speaker 3: I know this, but there's a minute to go in

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Speaker 3: the fourth quarter of the Lakers Clippers Summer League game

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Speaker 3: and the score is sixty one to fifty eight. What

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Speaker 3: do we always say, It doesn't have to be great,

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Speaker 3: it just needs to be closed late, dude.

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Speaker 1: In forty minutes, an NBA team has not even scored

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Speaker 1: sixty points.

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Speaker 3: Last I look, the Lakers were shooting under thirty three. Same.

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Speaker 1: Come on, man, it's not like the Clippers shooting hell

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Speaker 1: of a lot o. They at least had a for it.

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Speaker 1: It started sixty sixty one to fifty eight with a

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Speaker 1: minute let the go.

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Speaker 3: This is like a low scoring college game. Yeah, this

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Speaker 3: is like you know this getting after you? I mean

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Speaker 3: this really it's I mean, little nohen Richardson't getting after you.

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Speaker 3: This is just insane. I mean, this is the score

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Speaker 3: sixty three to fifty eight with forty seconds left, Bronny

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Speaker 3: with seventeen five and five, three of four from three

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Speaker 3: point range, six and nine from the field. I mean,

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Speaker 3: let's go.

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Speaker 1: Look, two big things to say, right, first thing on

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Speaker 1: first thing is Brownie because then we get to Lebron

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Speaker 1: and the interaction that happened with him and Rob Polinka tonight.

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Speaker 3: Uh. This we talked about the pressure on Bronnie, right,

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Speaker 3: and I'm being serious. This could be Bronni's last chance

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Speaker 3: to prove he can be a player with the Lakers,

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Speaker 3: because at some point Lebron's gonna be gone after the

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Speaker 3: the the end of this year, regardless, probably gonna happen

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Speaker 3: before that. How much loyalty do they have to developing

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Speaker 3: Bronnie James as a player, right, He was someone that

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Speaker 3: was drafted obviously, did the favor for Lebron, brought him

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Speaker 3: in and he is having so far a pretty good

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Speaker 3: Summer League. This has been his best game he's got

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Speaker 3: now in the preseason to show he can be a

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Speaker 3: rotation player or that's gonna be it. The pressure Bronny

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Speaker 3: is under right now is insane because he's looking at hey,

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Speaker 3: my NBA future right here, because no one's gonna give

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Speaker 3: him as much of a shot as the Lakers are

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Speaker 3: right now, with whatever loyalty they have left to lebron

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Speaker 3: keeping him here, keeping everybody happy, there is no better

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Speaker 3: chance he's going to have to break into the rotation

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Speaker 3: because that's really what he's going to be as an

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Speaker 3: NBA player. Can he be a rotation player? Can he

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Speaker 3: be the seventh, eighth, ninth guy off, the ninth guy

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Speaker 3: on the team, on the first unit, off the bench.

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Speaker 3: Can he be that player? The pressure on him is

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Speaker 3: absolutely immense right now, and so far, so good for him.

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Speaker 3: He's he's been pretty he's been pretty good in the summer.

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Speaker 3: He held his own against Cooper Flagg, having his best

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Speaker 3: game tonight, showing that maybe he can be that guy

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Speaker 3: in earnest spot in the rotation, because if he doesn't

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Speaker 3: do it now, this is his last chance with the Lakers. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's a world beating but you've seen signs of improvement.

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Speaker 3: You've seen more assertiveness in terms of his offensive game,

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Speaker 3: putting up shots and with more makes. Right, we had

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Speaker 3: that long streak last summer where it was how many

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Speaker 3: games will it be before he hits a three point shot.

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Speaker 3: Here he's going and confidently stepping into the line, making shots,

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Speaker 3: making plays and playing and maximizing his minutes. And that's

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Speaker 3: not to say he's anywhere near a finished product, but

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Speaker 3: be a certainty to make it to your point, A

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Speaker 3: men's pressure, loyalty to a point from the team because

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Speaker 3: of the whatever the relationship is ongoing with Lebron, But

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Speaker 3: you want to see him succeed because you don't want

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Speaker 3: to say all right and feed into the media narrative

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Speaker 3: that all it was was a favor to Lebron, as

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Speaker 3: it had been characterized all the way through that you

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Speaker 3: to make his way. It's not like he's suddenly gonna

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Speaker 3: But playing solid defense, showing ability to keep the basketball

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Speaker 3: moving and actually score with some regularity. Taken with the

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Speaker 3: grain of salt at summer league. But this is the

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Speaker 3: only thing you can evaluate, right you look at who's

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Speaker 3: The guy is rising to the moment. Whether it's enough,

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Speaker 3: only time will tell. But for the moment, he's taking

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Speaker 3: care of his business. Now, speaking of taking care of business,

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Speaker 3: we have the latest with Lebron James. Okay, this is a.

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Speaker 1: Weekend in which we watched Rich Paul say, hey, I've

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Speaker 1: gotten calls from four teams about Lebron James, including the

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Speaker 3: That's shy about saying who they are either, No, But

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Speaker 3: the other thing is, does he know that the league's

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Speaker 3: not going to touch him? And I know he's powerful

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Speaker 3: and he's got some big stars led by Lebron James.

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Speaker 3: And you talk about their whole catalog of players across

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Speaker 3: all sports that are under Clutch management as well as

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Speaker 3: media members. Is this like a double bird to Adam

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Speaker 3: Silver because that's not Hey, they contacted the Lakers like, eh,

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Speaker 3: we all know what talks, and these talks happen because

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Speaker 3: he did it during the draft. Yeah, hey, you know, Eshba,

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Speaker 3: don't don't make this move because here's what I'm gonna

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Speaker 3: make happen for Warriors, Cavaliers on right, these teams. So

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Speaker 3: you had Rich Paul say, hey, these teams have contacted me.

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Speaker 3: And over the weekend at the Lakers Summer League, when

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Speaker 3: Dave mcmanham and ESPN reporter who he and he and

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Speaker 3: Lebron have a you know, relationship that they go back

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Speaker 3: a while with, he said, hey, do you want to

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Speaker 3: talk about your future with the Lakers? And his response

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Speaker 3: was I don't got nothing to talk about. Okay. So now,

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Speaker 3: knowing full well this is going to get out. If

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Speaker 3: he could have just said no, thank you, I appreciate it,

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Speaker 3: got nothing to talk about. You know, the mcmnuman is

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Speaker 3: going to put that out there. This is the escalation

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Speaker 3: that the Lakers and Lebron have had with each other

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Speaker 3: over the past few months, where the Lakers are daring

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Speaker 3: Lebron to ask for a trade and Lebron's want the

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Speaker 3: Lebron wants the Lakers to say we're gonna trade you

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Speaker 3: or buy you out, one of the He wants one

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Speaker 3: of those things that this is just a continued escalation

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Speaker 3: from Hey, when we trade Luca, when we sell the team,

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Speaker 3: We're not gonna let you know we're selling the team.

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Speaker 3: We're not gonna let you know we're trading Anthony.

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Speaker 1: Davis and Lebron is wearing a welcome home hat in

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Speaker 3: Is just a company I haven't done. Welcome home is

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Speaker 3: not a big deal.

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Speaker 1: Hey, why are you working out at the Cavaliers facility

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Speaker 1: on the fourth of July.

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Speaker 3: Oh no, No, they're just back here working up. It's

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Speaker 3: an escalation.

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Speaker 1: They're fighting this in the media now because this is

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Speaker 1: what each side wants, right, Lakers want Lebron to ask

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Speaker 1: you want to go? Or we'll buy you out?

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Speaker 3: Right. These are the thing. This what each side is

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Speaker 3: escalating towards. And now you have what happened tonight. Lebron

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Speaker 3: at Summer League, walking with his family on the court,

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Speaker 3: says hello to all the Laker officials and gives a

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Speaker 3: quick handshake and a little hug to Rob Polinka. Okay,

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Speaker 3: now people are watching. I already see this on social media.

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Speaker 1: It's oh Lebron doesn't look happy with Rob Polinka, or

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Speaker 1: oh look see these guys.

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Speaker 3: Are fine well and depending on how your angle, right, Oh,

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Speaker 3: he's looking away, he's looking through him that he's not

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Speaker 1: This is this is what you call a big nothing

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Speaker 1: burger because Lebron's not going with his family in tow

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Speaker 1: only one of his kid's hands. He's not gonna go

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Speaker 1: look like a jerk and not say hi to the coaches,

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Speaker 1: not say hi to Rob Polinka. Right again, each side

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Speaker 1: wants to win this war. They each want to win.

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Speaker 1: The Lakers don't want to feel like, hey, we're gonna

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Speaker 1: suffer backlash from our fans, from our team because we

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Speaker 1: push Lebron out. Lebron doesn't want to look like a

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Speaker 3: I want out.

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Speaker 1: This is physical Lebron and the Lakers. Now, this is

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Speaker 1: Everything is cool. This is a nothing burger. It means

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Speaker 1: this is zero impact on the battle going on right

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Speaker 1: now between Lebron and the Lakers about what the next

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Speaker 3: Now. To be fair, I think if you did a

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Speaker 3: you can find odds on Lebron's next team. Those are

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Speaker 3: certainly there. Lakers minus seven hundred, so what is that

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Speaker 3: about an eighty eight percent implied probability? Cavaliers are next

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Speaker 3: Here's five salaries and we may still owe Keith van

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Speaker 3: do that, so it could require a lot of creativity

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Speaker 3: for a trade. His NBA minimum veterans minimum is three

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Speaker 3: point three million for the year, if you were to

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Speaker 3: reasonably the lowest common denominator of it all. But yeah,

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Speaker 3: the buyout trade market, Yeah, there's a little bit of

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Speaker 3: a standoff certainly going there and Rich Paul and you know,

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Speaker 3: flexing every chance he gets league wide or even in

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Speaker 3: this case of here's all the teams contacting. By the way,

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Speaker 3: it would appear that mcmhimon has now defeated Windhorst as

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Speaker 3: the Lebron James guy. Yeah, yeah, long gone. Yeah, he's

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Speaker 3: the guy. So he's the guy. So you know, you

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Speaker 3: have your relationships. We understand how the insider game works.

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Speaker 3: But this is what you're gonna get. You're gonna get

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Speaker 3: nebulous comments like this interpreted how you will, and then

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Speaker 3: Lebron sits on social media waiting to see which way

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Speaker 3: the wind blows. But look, here's why trade's gonna happen. Okay,

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Speaker 3: because it come. It comes back down to this. It

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Speaker 3: comes down to this. Lebron has always been the most

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Speaker 3: alpha of alpha males in the NBA. He has been

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Speaker 3: the straw that stirred the drink. Now for over twenty years,

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Speaker 3: of Luka. Doncis right, even when when Lebron opted into

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Speaker 3: I really don't see that because if he goes someplace

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Speaker 3: the Lakers sale to Mark Walter. Oh they told Luca,

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Speaker 3: but they didn't tell you. Well, no, they eventually they

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Speaker 3: don't know. You've got the Lebron sick of fans, and

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Speaker 3: I like watching you play basketball. The rest of this

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Speaker 1: Exit about a Fresca. Exit swallen, doome ignore all of

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Speaker 1: these signs at your own peril. Telling you just they're

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Speaker 3: what do we got Lebron standing with his teammates? Then

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Speaker 3: he was hanging out with DeAndre Ayton, right he actually

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Speaker 1: Oh, hey, dear do hey John, I'll send you that

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Speaker 3: I said a few minutes ago, I want to be fair.

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Speaker 3: I want to be fair. I want to be fair, right.

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Speaker 1: I said the the Lebron James coming to Summer lead time. Look,

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Speaker 1: I told you a few minutes ago, he's getting traded, right,

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Speaker 1: It's happening. It's gonna happen. The Lakers are shunting him inside.

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Speaker 1: Everything that's going on right now is just to continued

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Speaker 1: escalation from both sides. The Lakers want Lebron to ask

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Speaker 3: Or will buy you? Out right?

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Speaker 1: Every bit has been an escalation since the Lakers got

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Speaker 1: I don't think there's anything incredibly controversy you can read into.

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Speaker 1: He's holding his kids hands. He's not going to be

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Speaker 1: a jerk, He's not whatever it is, where's our body

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Speaker 3: After the game.

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Speaker 1: Lakers players, not the players playing in the summer League,

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Speaker 1: you know, real live Lakers players were going to be

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Speaker 1: It does look like, Hey, we're gonna photo shop Lebron

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Speaker 1: It is really awkward. It is a it is typically

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Speaker 3: I get it. But after everything going on.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's great now Lebron.

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Speaker 1: Okay, And he's got the bucket hat down like over

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Speaker 3: but he's the gun in his head.

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Speaker 1: Yea yeah, but I mean really, I mean, look it

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Speaker 1: and what doesn't Lebron and Rich Paul saying, four teams

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Speaker 1: that if Lebron is a Laker, right, why would he

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Speaker 1: Why would that happen? There's no reason.

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Speaker 3: Why would Lebron say I got nothing to talk about

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Speaker 3: this weekend, that's who you said to Dave McManaman. Those

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Speaker 1: Why the Lakers don't tell Lebron things, why they're building

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Speaker 1: around Luca, Why they're not going out to get a

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Speaker 3: This could not mean this.

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna sit here and say and and slant

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Speaker 1: I said this this handshake that that he did before

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Speaker 3: No, it's at least a good uh thought piece. This

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Speaker 3: up alongside the water corner and ask for coming.

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Speaker 1: It's like during COVID when the one person the pictures like,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to be too close because you never know.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna be off to the side. I'll be in

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Speaker 3: the picture with you, but I'll be off to the side.

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Speaker 3: There's a lot of photos that you can now date.

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Speaker 3: Yeah this is without the metadata, but you can date

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Speaker 3: it for them for that process. Here is that you

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Speaker 3: might think there's Lebron there's like, yeah, yea dearly doesn't

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Speaker 3: want to be in the picture, and I'm with my

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Speaker 3: Lakers teammates. But I'm not really with my Lakers teammates.

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Speaker 3: Let's see. They want Broun to be shoulder to shoulder

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Speaker 3: with his teammate while his daughter holds his hand down

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Speaker 3: he's staying a Laker while you like it, whether you

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Speaker 3: like it or not. Zuried to the Lakers.

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Speaker 1: Confirmed again, you can read whatever you want to into

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Speaker 1: this picture. You have it the comments handshake right, but

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Speaker 1: in the end, okay, the handshake was fine. This is

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Speaker 1: somebody cropped him out and just said here, let me

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Speaker 1: just fix that. In response to the Lakers putting up

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Speaker 1: squad showing out and Las Vegas just going on down,

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Speaker 1: do you think Lebron texted Deondre eight and all the

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Speaker 1: way from that side of the picture, welcome to the team.

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Speaker 1: He sent a text here, hey's gonna tell dude, you could.

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Speaker 3: Just tell me. We're like, you're only like eight feet away. Hey,

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Speaker 3: welcome to the team. Is that Lebron James poker face?

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Speaker 3: It's again, it's just staring at because poker's been in

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Speaker 3: the news, right, you got the World Series of Poker.

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Speaker 3: You got that guy that got thrown out because he

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Speaker 3: wouldn't shut up everybody. You got thrown out. He got bad. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: indefinite uh run for screaming and causing a ruckus along

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Speaker 3: the way. But yeah, just the responses to this or

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Speaker 3: just I can't read half of them, but that's that's

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Speaker 3: pretty good stuff.

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Speaker 1: So again, nothing to see here, nothing to see here.

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Speaker 1: Lebron is very happy to be a Laker.

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Speaker 3: Eddie's gonna stay well because you got plenty of folks

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Speaker 3: going wow, I thought Lebron hated his teammates. Like, you've

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Speaker 3: been serious. There's no sarcasm. Font We'll get to the

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Speaker 3: big football story coming up in ninety seconds.

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Speaker 1: But first, a guy who's been called the Lebron James

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Speaker 1: of Fox Sports Radio because when he poses for pictures

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Speaker 1: he likes to stand to the side and not be

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Speaker 1: shouldered to shoulder with anyone.

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Speaker 5: It is Steve de Sager with what's trending? I got

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Speaker 5: nothing to say. We'll get to the baseball news and

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Speaker 5: the cow rally win at the home run.

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Speaker 3: When he's asked about his future, he's got nothing to say.

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Speaker 5: In the late Summer league game in Vegas tonight, the

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Speaker 5: Lakers lost sixty seven to fifty eight to the Clippers.

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Speaker 3: Brady played all four quarters. Right, they didn't stop.

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Speaker 5: School games, and somebody's losing by fifty now. Bronni James

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Speaker 5: had seventeen points, five rebounds, five assists. Dalton connect has

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Speaker 5: not had a great summer to this point three of

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Speaker 5: fifteen shooting for the Lakers tonight, including one of eight

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Speaker 5: from three point range. Among the other games, the Hawks

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Speaker 5: won in overtime against Houston, Jacob topp in twelve points

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Speaker 5: in fourteen minutes, but he left with a hip injury.

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Speaker 5: The Rockets reed Shephard was shut down after playing two games.

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Speaker 5: Cooper Flag of Dallas shut down after two games this summer.

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Speaker 5: He did score thirty one of their sixty nine points

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Speaker 5: on Saturday. The team only scored sixty nine tonight against Charlotte,

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Speaker 5: losing as Charlotte first rounder Khan Kinnepel had sixteen. The

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Speaker 5: NBA Summer League was seven more games tomorrow. It goes

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Speaker 5: till July. The twentieth spur center Victor wimban Yama is

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Speaker 5: cleared to return after the blood cloud at his shoulder

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Speaker 5: last season. The seventy six ers Paul George had Arthur

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Speaker 5: scopikknee surgery after an injury in a recent workout. The

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Speaker 5: Cavaliers gave team president Kobe Altman an extension through twenty

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Speaker 5: thirty in the WNBA. Minnesota is now nineteen and four

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Speaker 5: after winning at chio Icago ninety one, seventy eight and

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Speaker 5: AFISA Collier twenty nine points. She's one of the All

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Speaker 5: Star Game captains along with Caitlin Clark. The WNBA All

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Speaker 5: Star Game is this Saturday in Indianapolis, Atlanta All Star

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Speaker 5: Ryan Howard out for the rest of the month with

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Speaker 5: a knee injury. For Chicago Tonight, All Star reserve Angel

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Speaker 5: Reese had twenty two points, ten rebounds, five turnovers. Phoenix

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Speaker 5: is fifteen and six after winning on a last second

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Speaker 5: free throw seventy eight seventy seven at Expansion Golden State.

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Speaker 5: As for the NFL news, the Jets gave wide receiver

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Speaker 5: Garrett Wilson a four year extension. The Jets were five

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Speaker 5: and twelve last year. He had one hundred and one receptions.

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Speaker 5: Chargers wide receiver Mike Williams will start training camp on

514
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Speaker 5: the pup list physically unable to perform. The Florida Panthers

515
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Speaker 5: will raise their second straight Stanley Cup banner after starting

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Speaker 5: the NHL season October seventh against Chicago. The rest of

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Speaker 5: the league's schedule comes out on Wednesday, and this will

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Speaker 5: be the NHL's last eighty two game regular season before

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Speaker 5: going to eighty four games as part of the new CBA.

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Speaker 3: Because we need more games in the NA and more

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Speaker 3: give you the NBA.

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Speaker 2: Two.

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Speaker 5: Let's get to ninety ninety five. Let's get there, and

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Speaker 5: then you'll have your hundred million dollar player. If the

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Speaker 5: NHL plays one thousand games a year, we might have

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Speaker 5: a hundred million dollar player in that sport.

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Speaker 3: Well, I don't know. St if you see some of

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Speaker 3: those big salaries in the NHL, not what they.

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Speaker 5: Were, certainly not. Meanwhile, cal Rally won a million dollars.

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Speaker 5: Just tonight, the Mariners catcher, a switch hitter, won the

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Speaker 5: home run Derby in Atlanta, first catcher to win this.

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Speaker 5: He beat Tampa Bay's Junior Camonaro eighteen fifteen in the

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Speaker 5: final dhhow Hey Otania. The Dodgers will lead off in

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Speaker 5: the National League and Tuesday Nights All Star Game. Atlanta's

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Speaker 5: own Ronald Acunya will bat second for the American League lineup.

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Speaker 5: Aaron Judge will bat third tomorrow than cal Raley fourth.

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Speaker 5: Raleigh of Seattle committed to play for Team USA and

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Speaker 5: next year's World Baseball Classic. The team's captain is Aaron

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Speaker 5: Judge of the Yankees. The Americans are due to play

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Speaker 5: games in March in Houston and Miami. The MLB Draft

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Speaker 5: finished today. Twenty rounds total. The Tampa Bay Rays will

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Speaker 5: be sold, according to the Athletic, for one point seven

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Speaker 5: billion dollars. The buyers are led by a Florida based developer.

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Speaker 5: Former Blue Jays pitcher Jim Clancy died at age sixty nine.

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Speaker 5: He was an All Star in nineteen eighty two. Major

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Speaker 5: League Baseball's regular season games resume on Friday. Reminder, Fox

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Speaker 5: TV has Tuesday nights All Star Game.

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Speaker 3: Back to You, Thank You, Steve O, The Jason Smith

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Speaker 3: Show with Mike Carmen live from the Fox Sports Radio studios.

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Speaker 3: So insiders, coaches, front office members, scouts all were asked

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Speaker 3: very big column on ESPN dot com TA. They got

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Speaker 3: a lot of attention early on in the day. I

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Speaker 3: was like, Wow, this has got a big deal because

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Speaker 3: they were all asked to rank the NFL quarterbacks one

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Speaker 3: to thirty two. Right, best quarterbacks in the NFL. Rank

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Speaker 3: them one to thirty two. Right again, scouts, coaches, insiders,

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Speaker 3: personnel people, are we doing the bottom ten? I tried

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Speaker 3: to pitch the bottom ten earlier today. You never acknowledge

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Speaker 3: my note. No, they were all asked, all asked to

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Speaker 3: rank the top quarterbacks in the game. One to thirty two. Again, coaches,

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Speaker 3: multiple coaches, scouts, multiple scouts, insiders, multiple insiders, front office,

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Speaker 3: multiple people, and they came up with the top five.

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Speaker 3: That is the exact same list I gave you in

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Speaker 3: January when I told you who the best quarterbacks in

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Speaker 3: the NFL were. Because in January I said, listen, there's

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Speaker 3: four great quarterbacks in the NFL. Joe Burrow, Lamar Jackson,

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Speaker 3: Josh Allen, Patrick Mahomes. Sure is what makes a great quarterback.

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Speaker 3: You win, You win games, your team win games because

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Speaker 3: of you, and you make everybody around you better. Right,

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Speaker 3: those three things, those are your four best quarterbacks. Right.

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Speaker 1: If Matthew Staffords a little younger, maybe he would be

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Speaker 1: in that list. But win games, win games by yourself,

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Speaker 1: make everybody better. Four guys, Burrow, Lamar, Josh Allen, Patrick Mahomes.

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Speaker 1: And our topic that night was you have to now

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Speaker 1: add Jayden Daniels to this list because he is that good.

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Speaker 1: One year rookie doesn't matter. Those are the five best

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks in the NFL. What list does ESPN put out today?

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Speaker 1: Five best quarterbacks? Mahomes, Alan Lamar, Jackson, Joe Burrow, Jayden Daniels.

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Speaker 1: There's your list. We did the work of however, many

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Speaker 1: countless people six months ago, by these are the best

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Speaker 1: guys in the league.

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Speaker 3: What what do you need this for? Why you got

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Speaker 3: the tiebreaker by an eighth of an inch because because

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Speaker 3: I had five and six flop, but we still got to.

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Speaker 1: The same time. These are the guys, These are the guys.

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Speaker 1: These are the guys. Like I did the work of.

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Speaker 1: I can now not only be an insider, but I

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Speaker 1: could apparently be a coach. I could be front office,

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Speaker 1: I could be a scout, the pr guy.

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Speaker 3: I know.

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Speaker 1: And you're saving money with me because I could do

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Speaker 1: all of these jobs apparently because this way all of

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Speaker 1: the information everybody you looked at it. Oh, and I said,

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Speaker 1: these are the five guys, these are the best quarterbacks,

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Speaker 1: and tada, these are the top five guys on the list.

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Speaker 3: It's funny that we get to that endgame so quickly.

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Speaker 3: With Daniels obviously massive rookie season can't be understated how

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Speaker 3: how special he was, and even though he played hurt

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Speaker 3: for a good chunk of the year, which limited the

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Speaker 3: you know, Hail Mary pass that will live in infamy

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Speaker 3: in Chicago was the one that he couldn't get it

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Speaker 3: to the end zone because he was still dealing with

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Speaker 3: the after effects of that. And so you know, four

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Speaker 3: to five the offensive line, maybe he'll run a little

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Speaker 3: less and keep himself out of harm's way. But all

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Speaker 3: of that to say that he had a massive year

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Speaker 3: and for once in a Kingsbury led offense, there was

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Speaker 3: no second half letdown and so Jade Daniels is special

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Speaker 3: just because of that. Now, to take it a step further.

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Speaker 1: After the Super Bowl, I said, look, he's not quite

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Speaker 1: top five guy, but Jalen Hurts his number six and

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Speaker 1: what he did in the playoffs and specifically the Super Bowl,

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Speaker 1: which is one of the great all time performances by

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Speaker 1: a quarterback, blew out the Chiefs great defense. He did

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Speaker 1: everything in this game, throwing the football, running the football.

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Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts his number six. Now, maybe he doesn't quite

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Speaker 1: have the resume doing quite as much as some of

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Speaker 1: these other guys, but right below that top five that's

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Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts, which is ridiculous today when we saw the

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Speaker 1: story that Nick Siriani has had to defend Jalen Hurts

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Speaker 1: that he was along for the ride for the Eagles

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Speaker 1: team that won the Super Bowl last year, he said,

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Speaker 1: that's a bunch of bs. I can't believe people are

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Speaker 1: saying that about Jalen Hurts. And you know what, I

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Speaker 1: don't always agree with Nick Sirianni. In fact, as many

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Speaker 1: times I don't, but I am complete with him on this.

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Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts is fantastic. Again, He's the sixth best quarterback

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Speaker 1: in the league. I put him by himself on that

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Speaker 1: second rung of you know guys, right below the five

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Speaker 1: elite players because he has done it with really good weapons.

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Speaker 1: He has done it without good weapons. Is he quite

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Speaker 1: as dynamic as some of these other courts? No, but

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Speaker 1: still you have to account all of his offense, not

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Speaker 1: just throwing the football, but what he does running the

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Speaker 1: football as well.

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Speaker 3: You can't.

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Speaker 1: Well, eighteen touchdowns and five picks, no, no count the

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Speaker 1: rushing Touchdowns't they count for everybody? Now you're at to

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Speaker 1: thirty two to thirty three touchdowns and five picks last year.

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Speaker 1: The off he butt's out there over thirty five hundred yards.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: But Sakuon Barkley, Okay, Yes, Saquon Barkley had a great year,

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Speaker 3: had it phenomenally one of the great years of all

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Speaker 3: time by a running back, So, yeah, he's gonna get

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Speaker 3: three hundred and fifty carries last year. There's only so

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Speaker 3: that well, you're clearly not gonna throw it as much.

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Speaker 3: But oh, by the way, they still threw it. No,

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Speaker 3: by the way, who also had a good year running

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Speaker 3: the football for the Eagles? Oh, Jalen Hurts. And when

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Speaker 3: Big Trember, we said, this is the biggest thing for

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Speaker 3: the Eagles in the playoffs. It's a long season. He's

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Speaker 3: getting up closer to thirty. What's he gonna have left

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Speaker 3: in the playoffs? He wasn't nearly the same dynamic running back.

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Speaker 3: Doesn't matter who took over Jalen Hurts and they won

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Speaker 3: the Super Bowl and he had he had three phenomenal

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Speaker 3: Jalen Hurts is that good? I don't get any Jalen

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Speaker 3: Hurts hate at this point in his career. Well, he's

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Speaker 3: the guy that's gonna get lumped in with so many

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Speaker 3: others that have been great in team sports, where where

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Speaker 3: you kind of diminished it a little bit as you

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Speaker 3: forty nine er teams, Joe Montana, Steve Young were fantastic.

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Speaker 3: But you had Rice, you had Taylor, you had Rathman,

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Speaker 3: you had Roger Craig, you had a lot of all starts,

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Speaker 3: and you had guys on the defense. And Bill Walshrudz said, well,

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Speaker 3: he helped me. He stir the drink and I had

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Speaker 3: a fight with him at a fantasy thing long long ago.

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Speaker 3: So he's always on my mind. But all of that

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Speaker 3: to say, you know Troy Aikman's career with the Cowboys

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Speaker 3: forty five hundred yards and thirty five touchdowns, he never

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Speaker 3: gets put into the categories of all time greats. Right.

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Speaker 3: Look at Terry Bradshaw, look at his run. He's he's

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Speaker 3: For Jalen Hurts because you have the offensive and defensive lines,

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Speaker 3: pushed away. How many times do you think he rushed

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Speaker 3: the ball last years? Push aside, push that off to

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Speaker 3: the side. Four straight years of double digit rushing touchdowns.

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Speaker 3: How many times you think he ran the ball? One

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Speaker 3: hundred and twenty? He's at one hundred and fifty last year. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: that's about where he's averaging over the last four years.

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Speaker 3: So it's not just Saquon Barkley's running the ball three

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Speaker 3: fifty times a year. So you know, you've got to

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Speaker 3: look at it in totality. The guy's a winner, and

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Speaker 3: last year he put up nearly sixty eight percent completion rate.

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Speaker 3: It's only getting more efficient and better. He is.

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Speaker 1: I don't get it. He is that good exit? How

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Speaker 1: about a Fresco exit swollen dome. Jason Smith Mike Harmon

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Speaker 1: Live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. Coming up next,

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Speaker 1: our big final thoughts on the home run Derby, the

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Speaker 1: big Dumper controversy, and what you can fix on the

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Speaker 1: home run Derby.

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Speaker 3: That's a easy fix. That's next Fox, What about Being Fixed.

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

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

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Speaker 2: pm Pacific,