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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm glad I got it. I got a better

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Speaker 4: You absolutely did. I'm glad to hear I did not

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Speaker 4: And you know, I missed you. I told Sean on

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Speaker 4: I'm so glad to be back here.

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Speaker 2: Well, we are back, and we're going to do our

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Speaker 2: thing over in the next couple of hours, We're going

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Speaker 2: to have two of our favorites on the show today.

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Speaker 2: Adam Aplan's going to be joined us. Boy do we

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Speaker 2: have a lot of NFL news to get to. The

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Speaker 2: and then our dear from Mark Medina is going to

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Speaker 2: into Mark. This is incredible. So I had a chance

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Speaker 3: Game against the Dallas Mavericks.

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Speaker 2: I had not covered a Lakers game for television since

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Speaker 4: I think I saw a picture with you and Jim Hill.

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Speaker 5: Is that the game?

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Speaker 3: That's the game?

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Speaker 2: So I am Mark was standing there because obviously Mark

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Speaker 3: The Mark actually appears on now.

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Speaker 2: Called Sports Central, and so it was you know what

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Speaker 2: It was like going to a high school reunion. It

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Speaker 4: Yes, well, You're like I guess I have not.

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Speaker 3: Are a story right now.

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Speaker 2: And you know I was, I was trying to make

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Speaker 2: they haven't lost the game since No.

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Speaker 4: Eight in a row.

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Speaker 3: I think it's eight in a row.

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Speaker 4: Right, big game, and they they look like it's all

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Speaker 5: Obviously it's still early on. You can tell they're still

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Speaker 4: Really just understand basketball in and out like they don't,

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Speaker 4: It's just it happened faster, I think than some of

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Speaker 2: and I'll tell you why. Because after the Charlotte loss,

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Speaker 3: He's getting a shot back.

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Speaker 2: You know, he had a little rust because he hadn't

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Speaker 2: You can just see he's comfortable in his role and

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Speaker 4: Rejuvenated, rejuvenated in a way where it's like we all

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Speaker 3: Well, he knows that.

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Speaker 2: And also this, the NBA knows they need the Lakers

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Speaker 3: But even the.

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Speaker 4: Both of those teams were always relevant. They were just

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Speaker 5: They aren't the faces still of the NBA.

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Speaker 4: So Lakers were always going to be talked about, and

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Speaker 4: I don't think the Warriors are going to win the championship,

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Speaker 2: The significance of tonight's game between the Lakers and Celtics,

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Speaker 5: It does matter.

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Speaker 2: I mean suddenly you know, just the name alone Lakers

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Speaker 2: They want Lakers Celtics. They're two most fabled franchises to

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Speaker 3: So the timing could not be perfect.

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Speaker 2: Yep, Jokic is putting up numbers that he has never

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Speaker 2: He just had a thirty twenty twenty, which had never

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Speaker 3: When you are doing this.

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Speaker 2: Jokic is your MVP.

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Speaker 4: He really is. Let's thank Kevin Durant for sending that

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Speaker 5: What he's doing, and he's been doing this all season.

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Speaker 4: Yes, those numbers we haven't seen crazy, but what he

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Speaker 5: And he does it.

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Speaker 5: Which is so awesome.

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Speaker 6: Those passes he throws, how he throws it perfect, a

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Speaker 6: it's like unreal, and he does it without even trying.

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Speaker 4: It is unreal.

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Speaker 2: The greatest of the greats. And I go back to

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Speaker 3: Adam, we got a lot to talk about.

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Speaker 2: Let's start with the Raider deal to get Geno Smith.

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Speaker 9: you know, the Raiders. Look, chip Kelly is interesting. Chip

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Speaker 2: All Right, so are we expecting Sam donald to ended

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Speaker 9: That is a big reason why Seattle likes him because

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Speaker 8: They're an absolute mess.

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Speaker 9: They have a bad roster, not just the quarterback, and

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Speaker 8: No, it's the Titans, right, The Titans have a bad roster.

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Speaker 8: Like you don't.

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Speaker 9: You don't all of a sudden become a really bad

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Speaker 8: That would surprise me. That would surprise me.

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Speaker 2: That would surprise me as well, because there's always you know,

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Speaker 3: If there I mean, is there any team that is so.

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Speaker 2: Desperate to get a quarterback, essentially cam Ward, that they

442
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Speaker 2: are willing to make a deal with the Titans to

443
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Speaker 2: move up to the number one pick?

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Speaker 3: Is that in the cards?

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Speaker 8: Well, just a couple of things here.

446
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Speaker 9: So when you look at the situation now with the Titans,

447
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Speaker 9: the steam that I got from being at the combine two.

448
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Speaker 8: Weeks ago is they clearly would like to trade out

449
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Speaker 8: of that pick.

450
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Speaker 9: I think it's questionable, to be honest with you, whether

451
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Speaker 9: you should whether they should do that. The Abdual Carter situation,

452
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Speaker 9: which I don't want to say it came out of nowhere.

453
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Speaker 9: I knew about the shoulder, but no one knew about

454
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Speaker 9: the foot. That stress reaction is a concerning situation. I've

455
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Speaker 9: covered this injury in fact, when I cover the NBA

456
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Speaker 9: for one year, that that is a very common NBA injuries,

457
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Speaker 9: a stress reaction, it's a precursor to a broken foot.

458
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Speaker 9: Now they Joe Rosenhoals's agent has been pretty emphatic that

459
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Speaker 9: he's going to be fine, he won't need surgery. It's

460
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Speaker 9: something I'm working on to see what thirty two teams think.

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Speaker 8: So we'll see.

462
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Speaker 9: But getting back to see his question, I just from

463
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Speaker 9: talking to people with the Titans, it sure seems like

464
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Speaker 9: they are very open to listening to move that pick,

465
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Speaker 9: because again, they have so many needs. It's yes, it's

466
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Speaker 9: quarterback number one. They have an edge rush problem, they

467
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Speaker 9: have a playmaker problem on defense, they've got a wide

468
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Speaker 9: receiver problem other than Calvin Ridley, they have a pretty

469
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Speaker 9: significant offensive line problem. You just stay there again, folks,

470
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Speaker 9: As I just said a couple minutes, you don't become

471
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Speaker 9: bad because you're just bad at one position.

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Speaker 8: They just don't have a very good roster.

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Speaker 4: Last one for me, Adam Miles Garrett. What's going to

474
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Speaker 4: happen with him and the Browns? Is he gonna say

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Speaker 4: in Cleveland or you think he gets moved?

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Speaker 9: Well, this is where I'm at with this thing. This

477
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Speaker 9: season doesn't start till August, excuse me, September, early September.

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Speaker 9: What I could tell you and what the situation is.

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Speaker 9: Andrew Burry's mate cleared to he's the general manager, that

480
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Speaker 9: they're not moving them. But this is what the Raiders

481
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Speaker 9: told me twenty eighteen with Khalil Mack. They told me

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Speaker 9: they were not moving them.

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Speaker 6: M hm.

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Speaker 9: And they moved them right before the season because John

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Speaker 9: Gruden and commeddy or personnel. He didn't he was not

486
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Speaker 9: the general manager. Reggie McKenzie was. But Reggie reluctantly traded him.

487
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Speaker 9: He didn't want to do it, but John pushed them

488
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Speaker 9: to do it, and the Raiders thought trade him to

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Speaker 9: the Bears, that they get a high pick for the

490
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Speaker 9: new season. Well, who knew the Raiders would make the

491
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Speaker 9: who knew the Bears would make the playoffs? Like nobody

492
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Speaker 9: knew that, you know, which makes Trubisky. But this is

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Speaker 9: a prediction. It's not it's not reporting here. I'm just

494
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Speaker 9: making prediction. They'll wind up moving him. I just don't

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Speaker 9: want to. Look, they've just cleared up a lot of

496
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Speaker 9: cap space. They've got a lot of work to do

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Speaker 9: with their cap.

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Speaker 8: We know they're they have to get a quarterback, they're

499
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Speaker 8: going to get one.

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Speaker 9: But to me, Miles Garrett, who's going to now make

501
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Speaker 9: probably thirty seven million a season whenever he gets this

502
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Speaker 9: new deal, whether it's with the Browns or the new team.

503
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Speaker 9: This situation with the Browns, it's just gotten out of

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Speaker 9: hand here and he's sick of it.

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Speaker 8: Now.

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Speaker 9: What the Browns are basically put out there, as I

507
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Speaker 9: understand it, they want Garrett to see what they're going

508
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Speaker 9: to do in free agency in the draft. Well here's

509
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Speaker 9: the thing though, if you're ever going to trade, and

510
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Speaker 9: you better do it by the draft. But they're hoping

511
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Speaker 9: that Garret will change his mind. It doesn't sound like

512
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Speaker 9: it based on what I've been told. So he sounds

513
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Speaker 9: like he's he's just had it with being there. He's

514
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Speaker 9: all the losing. It wears on you. Steve knows from

515
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Speaker 9: working for a club and covering this business for a

516
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Speaker 9: long time. Players sometimes Oh, by the way, I'll give

517
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Speaker 9: you a quick story before we get out of here.

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Speaker 9: Remember Carl Pickens, the former Sure, I've just I met

519
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Speaker 9: him at a business event in Philly. I mean I

520
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Speaker 9: spent two hours with him. It was one of my

521
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Speaker 9: favorite nights of being around NFL players. I now know

522
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Speaker 9: why he couldn't deal with playing for the Bengals.

523
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Speaker 8: It wears on you. I learned a lot from him

524
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Speaker 8: that night.

525
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Speaker 9: He didn't deny a lot of stuff was out there either,

526
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Speaker 9: so called Carl Pickens role, which was actually real because

527
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Speaker 9: about criticizing your team publicly, it really wears on players

528
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Speaker 9: when you know you don't have a chance. And that's

529
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Speaker 9: part of the situation with Miles. Garrity is sick of it,

530
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Speaker 9: and I don't blame him.

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Speaker 2: All right, final word here, I'm going to give you

532
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Speaker 2: seven teams and you tell me which one will be

533
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Speaker 2: the next team to solidify their quarterback situation for twenty

534
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Speaker 2: twenty five.

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Speaker 8: Seattle's one.

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Speaker 2: So we got the Jets, Steelers, Titans, Colts, Giants, Seahawks.

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Speaker 8: Seahawks won go ahead.

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Speaker 2: So Seahawks will be the next one to do it. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I mean, so you're saying Sam Darnold is going to

540
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Speaker 2: be a Seahawk.

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Speaker 9: I don't put outs on anything. I've learned my lesson

542
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Speaker 9: about putting its no I because here you know why,

543
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Speaker 9: Steve I'd a GM telling me something's going to happen

544
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Speaker 9: one hundredercent.

545
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Speaker 8: I put it out when I was at ESPN.

546
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Speaker 9: Yeah, and something happened before I went on the air. Yeah,

547
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Speaker 9: and I was not aware of it because I was

548
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Speaker 9: not looking at my phone. And he texted me after,

549
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Speaker 9: you know, he texted me to let me give me

550
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Speaker 9: heads up, and I was on TV and I didn't

551
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Speaker 9: see it.

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Speaker 3: All right, I'll rephrase it for you.

553
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Speaker 2: So according to Adam Kaplan, don't be surprised I got

554
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Speaker 2: Sam Donald ends up a Seahawks.

555
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Speaker 9: I think it's a very good probability of it. Yeah,

556
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Speaker 9: after that, Look, Pittsburgh. I've told you guys for two

557
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Speaker 9: months now, I'd be shocked if Russell will swamp back

558
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Speaker 9: to Pittsburgh.

559
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Speaker 8: Now others are reporting it.

560
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Speaker 9: Arthur Smith went at a benchumin he was told no

561
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Speaker 9: in my reporting, I've been quoted everywhere in this so

562
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Speaker 9: I mean it's that's what happened. So Russell is going

563
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Speaker 9: to find a job, folks, Steve, you just gave out

564
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Speaker 9: the teams. Yeah, there's a supplying demand problem.

565
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Speaker 8: Sure, there are not enough quarterbacks go around.

566
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Speaker 9: The Colts want to bring in someone to compete against

567
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Speaker 9: against richardson that that situation, and then there might be

568
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Speaker 9: something there might be a surprise here. There might be

569
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Speaker 9: a surprise at quarterback where you go, Why I didn't

570
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Speaker 9: see it happening, where some team maybe bring somebody in

571
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Speaker 9: to compete against Duck or just to be you know,

572
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Speaker 9: just to have a veteran presence.

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Speaker 8: You should never know.

574
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Speaker 9: But yeah, I would say Seattle with Donald's number one,

575
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Speaker 9: and then all the all these teams geo metric and

576
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Speaker 9: feilt their dance card. But it doesn't listen to folks

577
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Speaker 9: that there's one starting free agency at Sam Darnald.

578
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Speaker 8: The rest of them are back. The rest of them

579
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Speaker 8: are compete. That's it. That's all they are.

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Speaker 3: That would include Russell Wilson and Aaron Rodgers.

581
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Speaker 8: All right, no, no, no, Rogers will go to Rogers.

582
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Speaker 9: Not a free agent yet, all right, but he's going

583
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Speaker 9: to start for the Giants.

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Speaker 3: He will start for the Giants.

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Speaker 8: He ain't competing, he's not competing, not competing one year.

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Speaker 2: All right, Adam, And we could go all day. I

587
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Speaker 2: mean so many things going out.

588
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Speaker 8: I would like to do two segments.

589
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Speaker 3: Adam will do it again next week. Thanks so much.

590
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Speaker 8: You got it.

591
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Speaker 2: That's Adam Kaplan our Fox Sports Radio NFL Insider.

592
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Speaker 3: It is that crazy. It is that crazy.

593
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Speaker 2: But it's a domino effect and we just have to

594
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Speaker 2: see how the pieces fall. But if Sam Darnold ends

595
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Speaker 2: up with the Seahawks, which appears to be the case,

596
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Speaker 2: not one hundred percent, but appears to be the case,

597
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Speaker 2: where does that put the vikings?

598
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Speaker 3: I mean, JJ McCarthy is your quarterback, right.

599
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Speaker 4: And without experience, like you really don't know what it is.

600
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Speaker 4: Adam sounded like he knew something and he was like, oh,

601
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Speaker 4: you might see something crazy happened.

602
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Speaker 8: Well, what is it?

603
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Speaker 3: That's why I was trying to help him out. That's

604
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Speaker 3: why I was trying to help him out. All right,

605
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Speaker 3: let's find out what is trending right now, here's another

606
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Speaker 3: guy that has his thoughtnam what's hot? What's not? Always? Martin?

607
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Speaker 4: Martin? I like the fit today, by the way, Thank you,

608
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Speaker 4: thank you, appreciate it.

609
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Speaker 7: Gotcha see nothing from you?

610
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Speaker 2: Well, first of all, I have the same shirt on

611
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Speaker 2: every every Saturday and every Sunday that the exact same.

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Speaker 10: It's like a unifor I mentioned no, no, I was

613
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Speaker 10: talking about me. You didn't.

614
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Speaker 2: First of all, I complimented you, well, I should have

615
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Speaker 2: complimented you on the salad you ate, which looked absolutely delicious.

616
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Speaker 5: Nice, thank you, where's it from?

617
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Speaker 3: And he brought his own dressing. I like that as well. Wow,

618
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Speaker 3: so let's be clear.

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Speaker 7: I brought the salad, the dressing I bought from the store.

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Speaker 10: Gotchathing the ways team made is sound was like I

621
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Speaker 10: got a salad and made my own dressing.

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Speaker 3: Yes, but he made the salad and he bought the

623
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Speaker 3: dressing and brought the dressing. I did, Hey, I like it.

624
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Speaker 3: Look at that right now.

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Speaker 10: Kansas with a six point lead over twenty fourth r

626
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Speaker 10: inth Arizona with just under a minute left in the game,

627
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Speaker 10: eighty to seventy four, Arizona's twenty fourth right team in

628
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Speaker 10: the nation.

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Speaker 7: I'm pretty sure I just said that.

630
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Speaker 10: Thirteenth rank Maryland got to win over Northwestern seventy four

631
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Speaker 10: to sixty one. The seventh rngth Alabama beat Auburn went

632
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Speaker 10: a last second shot by Mark Spears in overtime, ninety

633
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Speaker 10: three to ninety one. Fourth CE beat South Carolina seventy

634
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Speaker 10: five to sixty five. Six ranked Saint John's, also in overtime,

635
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Speaker 10: held on against Marquette eighty six to eighty four. Tenth

636
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Speaker 10: ranked Iowa State beat Kansas State, twelveth rank Wisconsin upset

637
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Speaker 10: by Penn State, Louisville beat Stanford and excuse me, Louisvill

638
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Speaker 10: beat Stanford, Kentucky nineteenth ranc beat Missouri, the fifteenthreinetheen in

639
00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:23,080
Speaker 10: the Nation ninety one to eighty three, Arkansas where they

640
00:28:23,119 --> 00:28:26,359
Speaker 10: win over Mississippi State ninety three to ninety two, and

641
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Speaker 10: Texas A and M beat LSU sixty six to fifty two.

642
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Speaker 10: NFL resignings, Ronnie Stanley and the Ravens have agreed to

643
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Speaker 10: a three year sixty million dollars deal, forty four million

644
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Speaker 10: of that guaranteed. The Chiefs in Hollywood Brown have agreed

645
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Speaker 10: to a one year contract for next year, and Chiefs

646
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Speaker 10: had and Mike Kasecki agreed to a three year deal

647
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Speaker 10: to stay with Cincinnati and Chiefs receiver xavier' worthy was

648
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Speaker 10: arrested Friday night in Williams and County, Texas on the

649
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Speaker 10: charge of assault.

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Speaker 7: His lawyers have a different story there. But back to

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Speaker 7: you guys.

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Speaker 3: All right, Martin, thank you very much. We'll check in.

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Speaker 2: And by the way, yeah, good gear too.

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Speaker 3: It looks good.

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Speaker 8: I like it.

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Speaker 4: A good fit.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I mean I would say you're inspiring me, but that's

659
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Speaker 2: not that would be a lie because I'm never going

660
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Speaker 2: to change my look.

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Speaker 7: I respect it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well.

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Speaker 2: Everything I have exactly. I don't want to get see.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to scare too many people. They're already

665
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Speaker 2: scared out there, Martin. We'll check in with you a

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Speaker 2: little bit later on once again, this is Fox Sports Saturday.

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Speaker 2: We're coming live from the tai Iraq dot com studios. Manzi,

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Speaker 2: I don't know if you know this, but March Madness

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00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:31,640
Speaker 2: is getting very very close.

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Speaker 3: We're getting very excited.

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Speaker 2: Actually, my UCLA Bruins will be taken on us seed tonight,

672
00:29:38,560 --> 00:29:40,520
Speaker 2: last game before next week.

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Speaker 3: Thank you very much.

674
00:29:42,160 --> 00:29:44,880
Speaker 2: And I appreciate that we got the Big ten tournament

675
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Speaker 2: coming up and then boom, we got selection Sunday a

676
00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:50,800
Speaker 2: week from tomorrow, and so we are getting awfully close.

677
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Speaker 2: And I was looking at the rankings because there's been

678
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Speaker 2: a lot of buzz Saint John's today beating Marquette in overtime,

679
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Speaker 2: and obviously with Rick Patino there there there's a lot

680
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Speaker 2: of buzz about Patino and his amazing comeback. But here

681
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Speaker 2: here's a little note that is just sort of like

682
00:30:09,320 --> 00:30:12,720
Speaker 2: it's something that you should take in consideration. So you

683
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Speaker 2: got three of the top six ranked teams.

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Speaker 3: You have Auburn, you have a coach by Bruce Pearl,

685
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Speaker 3: you got Houston, which is coached by Kelvin Sampson, and

686
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Speaker 3: then you've got Saint John's coach by Rick Patino. What

687
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Speaker 3: do those guys all have in common.

688
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Speaker 2: They've all been given the sort of death penalty at

689
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Speaker 2: one point of their coaching career where they basically were

690
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Speaker 2: told leave and you cannot coach college basketball for a

691
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Speaker 2: couple of.

692
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Speaker 3: Years, all of them.

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Speaker 2: I mean, you go back to Bruce Pearl in his

694
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Speaker 2: time at Tennessee when he crossed the line he got nailed,

695
00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:54,280
Speaker 2: Kelvin Sampson his time in Indiana before he ended up

696
00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:56,920
Speaker 2: re emerging after being out for what was five years

697
00:30:57,280 --> 00:31:00,120
Speaker 2: and finally got back to college basketball at Houston. And

698
00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:04,479
Speaker 2: of course, the Rick Patino situation so bad that you know,

699
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Speaker 2: Louisville's championship under Patino is the only team ever to

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Speaker 2: actually lose at least cording to the NCAA A Championship

701
00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:15,440
Speaker 2: because of infractions that you know, he may say I

702
00:31:15,480 --> 00:31:16,560
Speaker 2: wasn't directly involved.

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00:31:16,600 --> 00:31:18,240
Speaker 3: It was the assistants. All right, you're the coach of

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Speaker 3: the team.

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Speaker 2: But I just find it interesting how you see these

706
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Speaker 2: coaches re emerge from the shadows, seemingly kicked out of

707
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Speaker 2: the sport and because of the quality of their coaching.

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00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:32,400
Speaker 2: And I'm sure just because they are involved in any

709
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Speaker 2: kind of cheating in the past, they would never do

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Speaker 2: it again.

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Speaker 4: People learn.

712
00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:38,600
Speaker 3: Sure.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, anyway, I just find it interesting to see how

714
00:31:42,520 --> 00:31:46,160
Speaker 2: these coaches have recycled. And if you said, any one

715
00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:48,840
Speaker 2: of these guys Bruce Pearl, Kevin Sampson way back in

716
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Speaker 2: the day are now Rick Patino would be in the

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Speaker 2: conversation of a coaching a team that could end up.

718
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Speaker 3: Winning a national championship. Only in college basketball when you're.

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Speaker 4: A good but you're a good coach, right, And I

720
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Speaker 4: think that's the point here. Now, correct me if I'm wrong,

721
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Speaker 4: because you know, I'm not as versed into college basketball.

722
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Speaker 4: But it does seem like this season, the amount of

723
00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:14,520
Speaker 4: upsets that have occurred has been real high in comparison

724
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Speaker 4: to other seasons. And I know that Auburn is number one,

725
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Speaker 4: but it's like again Saint John's b Yu. I feel like,

726
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Speaker 4: I don't I don't know, but it seems like this

727
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Speaker 4: is going to be an interesting dance.

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, and people would say, I take both sides

729
00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:33,600
Speaker 2: on that, right, Like, you know you wish you had

730
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Speaker 2: more dominant schools. I mean, Duke obviously is looking good,

731
00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:40,520
Speaker 2: but they've been beaten several times this year. They certainly

732
00:32:40,520 --> 00:32:43,640
Speaker 2: no team is unbeatable. There's always that argument, do you

733
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Speaker 2: want dominant teams or do you want to completely wide

734
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Speaker 2: open tournament. Look as we're sitting in there with our

735
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Speaker 2: brackets after a week from tomorrow, when the bracket, you

736
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Speaker 2: know we're all going to be sitting there trying to

737
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Speaker 2: figure this whole thing out. I will say this based

738
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Speaker 2: on what we saw a couple of years ago where

739
00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:03,040
Speaker 2: San Diego State was in the championship game, it would

740
00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:05,560
Speaker 2: be what Florida Atlantic in the semi final?

741
00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:08,400
Speaker 3: Anything as possible, So you know, you you.

742
00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:12,760
Speaker 2: Can now confidently fill out a bracket with a lot

743
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Speaker 2: of upsets, seemingly like okay, this is a shot in

744
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Speaker 2: the dark, and actually end up winning.

745
00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:20,000
Speaker 3: Yes, it's very real.

746
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Speaker 4: Yes, I'm very excited to fill up the bracket.

747
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Speaker 3: Oh yes, that's every every American does that. That's the

748
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Speaker 3: way you do all right.

749
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Speaker 2: Coming up on the other side, I want to get

750
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Speaker 2: a little baseball news. I know, near and dear de

751
00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:34,080
Speaker 2: Monsey with the Dodgers and everything else. But yeah, we

752
00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:37,800
Speaker 2: got some baseball news we got to get to coming

753
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Speaker 2: up here on Fox Sports Saturday. You're listening to Fox

754
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Speaker 2: Sports Radio Radio, Steve Harvey, montcy Billanos.

755
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Speaker 3: Here Fox Sports Saturday.

756
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Speaker 2: We're coming alve from the tairaq dot com studios. All right,

757
00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:58,160
Speaker 2: the endless spring training continues, by the way, not good

758
00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:04,120
Speaker 2: news for the Yankees. Garrett Cole, who missed first seventy

759
00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:07,880
Speaker 2: five games of last year after getting banged up in

760
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:11,880
Speaker 2: the spring training, pitched well, but you could tell in

761
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:14,200
Speaker 2: the World Series he'd beginning to run out of gas

762
00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:14,800
Speaker 2: a little.

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Speaker 4: Bit because he didn't run to first base or.

764
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Speaker 2: Well that that was very general. That that inning, that

765
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Speaker 2: half inning, will be replayed forever.

766
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Speaker 4: It's ridiculous. It's the whole, that whole inning.

767
00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:32,240
Speaker 2: Aaron Judge dropping the ball, and then everything that happened

768
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Speaker 2: after that, including as you say, Garrett Cole not.

769
00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:38,839
Speaker 3: Covering first base. Rizzo just looking at him like.

770
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we are you gonna make the run anyway. Yeah,

771
00:34:44,040 --> 00:34:46,600
Speaker 2: things are not looking good for the Yankees, no at all.

772
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Speaker 2: It seemed like last year was there one shot at it.

773
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:52,680
Speaker 2: Obviously they didn't come up with enough money to keep

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Speaker 2: one Soto. So yeah, don't expect too much from the

775
00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:58,120
Speaker 2: Yankees this year. Dodgers are a different story. But what

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Speaker 2: I wanted to bring up here because I haven't a

777
00:35:00,040 --> 00:35:02,200
Speaker 2: has to talk to you about this now. Again, this

778
00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:05,280
Speaker 2: is something that is only being done during spring training,

779
00:35:05,719 --> 00:35:08,759
Speaker 2: but usually things that are done in spring training end

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Speaker 2: up happening once we actually get into the regular season. Remember,

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Speaker 2: I never thought we would have a pitch clock. I

782
00:35:16,200 --> 00:35:18,279
Speaker 2: just never thought that was going to happen. It was

783
00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:20,440
Speaker 2: used at the minor league level for years. They used

784
00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:22,600
Speaker 2: it in spring training, and the next thing you know,

785
00:35:22,719 --> 00:35:23,480
Speaker 2: they used it.

786
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Speaker 3: And it works.

787
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Speaker 2: I was not a fan of the idea, but it works.

788
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Speaker 2: So the latest is the idea that you can challenge

789
00:35:32,400 --> 00:35:36,200
Speaker 2: balls and strikes. Now know there are challenges fair or foul.

790
00:35:36,239 --> 00:35:40,200
Speaker 2: We know challenges about safer out and now they've taken

791
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Speaker 2: it to the next level where a catcher can turn

792
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Speaker 2: around and say, yeah, I don't think he's going to

793
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:49,600
Speaker 2: look like you threw a strike. Now I think that

794
00:35:49,719 --> 00:35:52,440
Speaker 2: was a ball. Yeah, So we know every one of

795
00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:55,720
Speaker 2: the challenges is going to be a pitch you called

796
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Speaker 2: a ball. I'm going to say as a strike and

797
00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:03,319
Speaker 2: then they're basing it on the same mechanism we see

798
00:36:03,320 --> 00:36:07,359
Speaker 2: in tennis, where there's a ball that's deemed out, they

799
00:36:07,520 --> 00:36:10,719
Speaker 2: challenge it and you show the line and the ball

800
00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:12,920
Speaker 2: barely touches the line, meaning it's in.

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Speaker 3: And the same thing. I've seen challenges where pitches deemed

802
00:36:17,560 --> 00:36:20,640
Speaker 3: a ball and then they show the strike zone and

803
00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:22,720
Speaker 3: the top of the ball like a low pitch.

804
00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:25,320
Speaker 2: Hair is just a hair, and so they're saying, no,

805
00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:28,400
Speaker 2: we reverse the call. It was a strike.

806
00:36:28,800 --> 00:36:29,600
Speaker 4: Get out of my face.

807
00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:30,760
Speaker 5: No, that was not a strike.

808
00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:32,600
Speaker 4: I know it was because.

809
00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:32,920
Speaker 5: Of the hair.

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Speaker 4: I hate this. I was all for a challenge when

811
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Speaker 4: I didn't know what I was getting myself into. Now

812
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Speaker 4: I hate it.

813
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Speaker 5: That just happened.

814
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Speaker 4: The Padres were playing Martin Maldonado calls it and the

815
00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:47,439
Speaker 4: hair they called a strike. I was like, Okay, if

816
00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:50,279
Speaker 4: we're going to give that guy that strike, then everyone

817
00:36:50,360 --> 00:36:52,640
Speaker 4: needs to get that strike. And you might as well

818
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Speaker 4: just do robot umpires the whole way. I mean, you

819
00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:57,399
Speaker 4: can have a guy standing there and him be told

820
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Speaker 4: in an earpiece in quick time whether it's a ball strike,

821
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Speaker 4: and we don't have to do this and it can

822
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Speaker 4: be perfect at all.

823
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Speaker 5: Times, So why don't we just do that?

824
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Speaker 4: But I don't like this challenge thing because it is

825
00:37:05,600 --> 00:37:08,960
Speaker 4: not it's actually not fair. It actually doesn't make it

826
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:10,320
Speaker 4: any more fair in my opinion.

827
00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:13,279
Speaker 2: All right, so understand how this has worked since the

828
00:37:13,320 --> 00:37:17,280
Speaker 2: beginning of time in baseball. So when you have pitchers

829
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Speaker 2: that are known as control pitchers. I use Greg Maddix

830
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Speaker 2: as an example. So Greg Maddox was a master of

831
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Speaker 2: manipulating the strike se So he had such preciseness that

832
00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:35,520
Speaker 2: he could start, you know, low pitches, inside pitches, outside pitches,

833
00:37:36,719 --> 00:37:42,400
Speaker 2: and systematically expand the strike zone because he's hitting a

834
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Speaker 2: spot consistently. And then if he moves it as shade

835
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Speaker 2: over and now technically it's out of the strike zone,

836
00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:53,839
Speaker 2: he's still getting that pitch as a strike. That would

837
00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:57,040
Speaker 2: all be taken away if you have electronic umpire. In

838
00:37:57,080 --> 00:38:00,480
Speaker 2: other words, if it's a mechanized strike zone where if

839
00:38:00,520 --> 00:38:03,520
Speaker 2: it touches the line or obviously inside the line, buzzer

840
00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:03,920
Speaker 2: goes off.

841
00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:07,720
Speaker 3: Strike done. Yes, right, it's right.

842
00:38:07,719 --> 00:38:11,080
Speaker 2: And it's and it's custom to every single batter in

843
00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:14,040
Speaker 2: Major League Baseball. Then it gets back to, well, why

844
00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:15,880
Speaker 2: exactly do we have umpires to begin with?

845
00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:17,920
Speaker 3: Since they don't call fouls.

846
00:38:18,000 --> 00:38:22,720
Speaker 2: They don't call penalties like in basketball and football respectively. Again,

847
00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:27,160
Speaker 2: strike ball, safe, out, fair, foul, that's it. Yeah, all

848
00:38:27,160 --> 00:38:30,120
Speaker 2: of that can be done electronically. You take the umpires

849
00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:34,319
Speaker 2: off the field period. Yeah, and not worry about it.

850
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Speaker 4: But you can have them there just aesthetically because because

851
00:38:39,600 --> 00:38:41,520
Speaker 4: people are not going to like not seeing it, So

852
00:38:41,680 --> 00:38:43,720
Speaker 4: just have them there. They can have a little earpiece

853
00:38:43,719 --> 00:38:46,279
Speaker 4: that tells them literally if it's ball or strike and.

854
00:38:46,239 --> 00:38:48,320
Speaker 3: Then and then we're not gonna pay a guy for that.

855
00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:51,560
Speaker 4: List people get paid for stupid things, so we can

856
00:38:51,600 --> 00:38:54,120
Speaker 4: make it. We can make this work. Also, I mean,

857
00:38:54,360 --> 00:38:57,759
Speaker 4: let's be real. Our pitchers now, like Greg Maddox, that

858
00:38:57,800 --> 00:39:01,040
Speaker 4: they know they're not place them all where they want

859
00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:04,520
Speaker 4: to nowadays, well they try to try, but nowadays it's speed.

860
00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:08,520
Speaker 4: Nowadays it's the fastest pitch. It's not about putting the

861
00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:10,880
Speaker 4: ball in a that's not a thing anymore. I mean,

862
00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:13,600
Speaker 4: I'm sure a few, but now it's just about speed.

863
00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:14,960
Speaker 4: Can you throw one hundred and two?

864
00:39:15,040 --> 00:39:15,279
Speaker 5: Great?

865
00:39:15,320 --> 00:39:15,879
Speaker 4: Get out there.

866
00:39:16,400 --> 00:39:18,520
Speaker 3: That's a good point. I like that idea. You're right.

867
00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:20,719
Speaker 2: I mean, we now know that these guys basically throw

868
00:39:20,760 --> 00:39:22,719
Speaker 2: as hard as they can, for as long as they can,

869
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:25,799
Speaker 2: and then bring in the next start exactly because in

870
00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:28,240
Speaker 2: the old days, what pitchers used to do is actually

871
00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:30,399
Speaker 2: set up batters, knowing they were going to face them

872
00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:32,399
Speaker 2: three or four times during the course of the game.

873
00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:34,759
Speaker 2: They would pitch one way the first time to set

874
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Speaker 2: up the second time they face him, and so on

875
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Speaker 2: and so forth.

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Speaker 5: And that's not really a thing interesting.

877
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Speaker 3: I like that. Okay, I'm thinking about this all right.

878
00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:46,360
Speaker 2: Well again, I like I've been a proponent for eliminating

879
00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:49,319
Speaker 2: umpires long before this happened. And this is no knock.

880
00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:51,319
Speaker 2: I'm sure there's a lot of nice umpires. I've met

881
00:39:51,360 --> 00:39:52,760
Speaker 2: a few over the years, and nice people.

882
00:39:52,880 --> 00:39:55,319
Speaker 3: They're just not necessary, but we can keep them there.

883
00:39:55,360 --> 00:39:58,279
Speaker 2: You do all electronically, but even just standing there, they

884
00:39:58,360 --> 00:39:59,560
Speaker 2: give me one of those jobs.

885
00:40:00,040 --> 00:40:02,040
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896
00:40:28,200 --> 00:40:30,760
Speaker 2: So, yeah, we're into the month of March right now,

897
00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:33,520
Speaker 2: which means there's a lot of things going on. Obviously,

898
00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:37,600
Speaker 2: we've been talking about the NFL and what's going on

899
00:40:37,640 --> 00:40:41,600
Speaker 2: with the quarterback carousel as we get ready for free agency,

900
00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:43,560
Speaker 2: and obviously the draft coming up, so we get a

901
00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:46,799
Speaker 2: lot of news there coming up. Baseball as we get

902
00:40:46,840 --> 00:40:50,400
Speaker 2: through the spring training. But this is basketball time. It is,

903
00:40:50,960 --> 00:40:54,960
Speaker 2: you know, March Madness. A week from tomorrow selection Sunday,

904
00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:57,560
Speaker 2: we're gonna get The field is sixty eight. By the way,

905
00:40:57,600 --> 00:41:02,400
Speaker 2: they are talking about expanding the field for the NCAA

906
00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:08,120
Speaker 2: tournament beyond sixty eight, seventy two, seventy six. My attitude

907
00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:11,919
Speaker 2: about this is you don't have to do that. That's

908
00:41:11,920 --> 00:41:18,200
Speaker 2: why you have conference tournaments. So technically, most teams are

909
00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:23,640
Speaker 2: very very very few schools that are excluded from their

910
00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:27,240
Speaker 2: own conference tournaments, and if you are one of those,

911
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:32,320
Speaker 2: you probably didn't belong there anyway. But technically the conference

912
00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:37,440
Speaker 2: tournaments are an opportunity because if you win your conference tournament,

913
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:41,400
Speaker 2: it gets you an automatic bid into the NCAA tournament,

914
00:41:41,680 --> 00:41:43,520
Speaker 2: which then gives you an opportunity to.

915
00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:45,120
Speaker 3: Win a championship.

916
00:41:45,800 --> 00:41:49,080
Speaker 2: And we go back to that Yukon run with Kimba

917
00:41:49,200 --> 00:41:51,320
Speaker 2: Walker where they won the Big East Tournament.

918
00:41:51,320 --> 00:41:53,040
Speaker 3: They had to win five games and five.

919
00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:56,040
Speaker 4: Nights eight, which is got five.

920
00:41:55,880 --> 00:41:59,279
Speaker 2: Straight nights they played, won it, and then won six

921
00:41:59,360 --> 00:42:02,040
Speaker 2: games and won the end, say, championship. So you don't

922
00:42:02,080 --> 00:42:06,560
Speaker 2: need to expand the NC tournament because you already have

923
00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:07,960
Speaker 2: the conference tournament.

924
00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:09,800
Speaker 4: No, no, no, at that point, just like let everyone

925
00:42:09,840 --> 00:42:12,000
Speaker 4: in just put in one hundred, right.

926
00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:14,399
Speaker 2: Then get rid of the conference tournaments and have two

927
00:42:14,480 --> 00:42:16,759
Speaker 2: hundred and you know how many you know, two hundred

928
00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:17,600
Speaker 2: and fifty six teams?

929
00:42:17,640 --> 00:42:19,719
Speaker 4: Is yeah, yeah, I don't I agree. I don't think

930
00:42:19,760 --> 00:42:23,400
Speaker 4: there needs to be any more teams added. I don't

931
00:42:23,760 --> 00:42:26,640
Speaker 4: get what the fun in that would be. It would

932
00:42:26,680 --> 00:42:29,600
Speaker 4: just be more what is the first couple of games?

933
00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:32,480
Speaker 3: Well, you have the first four as they call them.

934
00:42:32,320 --> 00:42:34,439
Speaker 2: The first four, the first four and by the way,

935
00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:38,880
Speaker 2: twice twice Virginia Commonwealth, remember when Shaka Smart was the coach,

936
00:42:39,080 --> 00:42:41,920
Speaker 2: and then a few years ago my UCLA Bruins actually

937
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:45,040
Speaker 2: went from the first four to the final four.

938
00:42:45,160 --> 00:42:47,239
Speaker 5: Yeah, so what we have the first eight.

939
00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:49,720
Speaker 4: I'm just like, I don't, I don't. I don't get

940
00:42:49,760 --> 00:42:52,200
Speaker 4: why expand it doesn't need to do that. I'm just

941
00:42:52,239 --> 00:42:54,320
Speaker 4: gonna water down the first couple of rounds.

942
00:42:54,400 --> 00:42:57,120
Speaker 3: No, well, imagine the nightmare for brackets, all right?

943
00:42:57,160 --> 00:43:00,359
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, can you imagine a bread Seriously, let's say

944
00:43:00,480 --> 00:43:05,200
Speaker 2: you expanded the NCAA turning by another week, so you

945
00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:09,400
Speaker 2: just you doubled it twice. So instead of sixty four schools,

946
00:43:09,400 --> 00:43:12,200
Speaker 2: you have two hundred and fifty six schools down to one,

947
00:43:12,280 --> 00:43:15,200
Speaker 2: twenty eight down to sixty four. How would you like

948
00:43:15,239 --> 00:43:16,480
Speaker 2: to look at your bracket?

949
00:43:16,560 --> 00:43:18,040
Speaker 4: No? No, no, no.

950
00:43:17,400 --> 00:43:20,120
Speaker 2: With two hundred and fifty six schools on it, I

951
00:43:20,200 --> 00:43:23,680
Speaker 2: want one. Honest, folks, the majority of schools that are

952
00:43:23,719 --> 00:43:26,880
Speaker 2: currently on your bracket you don't know anything about.

953
00:43:27,239 --> 00:43:28,880
Speaker 3: You don't know any of the players.

954
00:43:29,120 --> 00:43:31,640
Speaker 2: You don't even I mean half the time we sit

955
00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:35,840
Speaker 2: here that first week and we're trying to quizz each other.

956
00:43:35,719 --> 00:43:38,680
Speaker 3: On school nicknames. Yes, all right, so what is this

957
00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:41,200
Speaker 3: school's nickname? What are they known as? We do this

958
00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:43,680
Speaker 3: every year? Okay, enough of that.

959
00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:46,200
Speaker 4: Yeah, No, if it's not on one sheet, I don't

960
00:43:46,239 --> 00:43:49,799
Speaker 4: want it. I want on one sheets and if not,

961
00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:51,000
Speaker 4: then it doesn't work for me.

962
00:43:51,560 --> 00:43:54,320
Speaker 2: Sixty four with a little extra you know, at the

963
00:43:54,360 --> 00:43:57,560
Speaker 2: bottom there you have the four games, you know, and

964
00:43:57,680 --> 00:43:59,440
Speaker 2: yet no one ever counts those games.

965
00:43:59,480 --> 00:44:01,720
Speaker 3: No, no, they don't even count.

966
00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:05,120
Speaker 2: So the four schools that win those games, you will

967
00:44:05,239 --> 00:44:07,600
Speaker 2: you actually get a choice of two because in the

968
00:44:07,640 --> 00:44:09,080
Speaker 2: bracket it says either.

969
00:44:08,960 --> 00:44:14,839
Speaker 3: Or right, yeah, and yeah, just keep it the way

970
00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:15,120
Speaker 3: it is.

971
00:44:15,280 --> 00:44:19,319
Speaker 4: Yes, it really is unnecessary. It's going to just make

972
00:44:19,360 --> 00:44:22,120
Speaker 4: the beginning a little less interesting. And don't you want

973
00:44:22,120 --> 00:44:23,200
Speaker 4: to be interested from the beginning.

974
00:44:23,320 --> 00:44:23,600
Speaker 8: I do.

975
00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:25,960
Speaker 2: I do exactly, And like I've said many times, and

976
00:44:26,040 --> 00:44:29,160
Speaker 2: this is something that I think about every year.

977
00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:32,320
Speaker 3: I have done shows, many shows over the years.

978
00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:36,120
Speaker 2: On that Thursday and Friday, the first two days of

979
00:44:36,200 --> 00:44:39,799
Speaker 2: the tournam, you have sixteen games on Thursday, sixteen on Friday, eight,

980
00:44:39,880 --> 00:44:42,440
Speaker 2: on Saturday eight on Sunday to get to the sweet sixteen.

981
00:44:42,920 --> 00:44:46,759
Speaker 2: That Thursday and Friday should literally be national holidays. Nobody

982
00:44:46,840 --> 00:44:50,040
Speaker 2: is working, everyone is staring at their brackets.

983
00:44:50,239 --> 00:44:53,320
Speaker 3: That's all anyone's doing all day long, right both those days.

984
00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:55,360
Speaker 2: Some people say, well, you should only do it the

985
00:44:55,360 --> 00:44:57,279
Speaker 2: first day, because after the first day most people are

986
00:44:57,360 --> 00:44:58,400
Speaker 2: ripping up their brackets.

987
00:44:58,600 --> 00:45:00,319
Speaker 3: I wouldn't rip up the brackets this year.

988
00:45:00,440 --> 00:45:01,720
Speaker 7: No, I wouldn't.

989
00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:04,320
Speaker 2: I think when Mancy you brought this up earlier, there's

990
00:45:04,360 --> 00:45:06,759
Speaker 2: going to be a ton of upsets, if you can

991
00:45:06,880 --> 00:45:08,799
Speaker 2: even call them that. Yes, I don't even call them

992
00:45:08,880 --> 00:45:13,160
Speaker 2: upsets anymore, just you know, they're just the recognizable school names.

993
00:45:13,560 --> 00:45:16,120
Speaker 3: And then you have schools like, oh, I don't know

994
00:45:16,120 --> 00:45:17,160
Speaker 3: anything about that school.

995
00:45:17,239 --> 00:45:18,480
Speaker 4: That's the one that's going to go far.

996
00:45:18,560 --> 00:45:23,279
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, that's that's it. So it's it's fun. So

997
00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:27,960
Speaker 3: March obviously is March Madness, but it's also a critical

998
00:45:28,080 --> 00:45:30,799
Speaker 3: time for the NBA. Now, we got a long way

999
00:45:30,800 --> 00:45:31,040
Speaker 3: to go.

1000
00:45:31,160 --> 00:45:33,640
Speaker 2: I mean, the playoffs will begin in April and then

1001
00:45:33,680 --> 00:45:35,000
Speaker 2: it's an endless playoffs.

1002
00:45:35,080 --> 00:45:36,200
Speaker 3: We understand that.

1003
00:45:36,880 --> 00:45:39,359
Speaker 2: But I like where the NBA is right now, I

1004
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:43,200
Speaker 2: really do. I've been highly critical of the NBA. Certainly

1005
00:45:43,239 --> 00:45:46,319
Speaker 2: they deserve to be criticized for that debacle that we

1006
00:45:46,360 --> 00:45:50,359
Speaker 2: saw on All Star weekend. But since then, with the

1007
00:45:50,440 --> 00:45:53,960
Speaker 2: Luca deal, at least for now, looking very positive for

1008
00:45:54,040 --> 00:45:57,120
Speaker 2: the Lakers. The Jimmy Butler deal certainly has had positive

1009
00:45:57,600 --> 00:46:01,240
Speaker 2: effects on the Golden State Warriors. Have these young teams

1010
00:46:01,280 --> 00:46:04,520
Speaker 2: like Cleveland Oklahoma City. A lot of people just don't

1011
00:46:04,560 --> 00:46:07,600
Speaker 2: trust they're as good as their record indicates. I mean,

1012
00:46:07,640 --> 00:46:10,920
Speaker 2: these are the two best teams by far record wise

1013
00:46:10,920 --> 00:46:15,040
Speaker 2: in the NBA, and then the Celtics of the team

1014
00:46:15,080 --> 00:46:15,759
Speaker 2: to beat in the East.

1015
00:46:15,800 --> 00:46:18,600
Speaker 3: No one takes Cleveland. Did you see Cleveland? I mean,

1016
00:46:19,760 --> 00:46:23,480
Speaker 3: how do you discount Cleveland with the backhart all star

1017
00:46:23,600 --> 00:46:27,320
Speaker 3: backcourt that they have. They went into Boston overcame a deficit.

1018
00:46:27,480 --> 00:46:31,240
Speaker 3: One in Boston, one in Boston. Yes, and Oklahoma City,

1019
00:46:31,880 --> 00:46:35,439
Speaker 3: they've not just been winning, they've been winning big and.

1020
00:46:35,360 --> 00:46:37,800
Speaker 4: They win as a team, like yes, shay Gil just

1021
00:46:37,880 --> 00:46:41,719
Speaker 4: Alexander is their star. But they play so together, Like

1022
00:46:42,360 --> 00:46:44,600
Speaker 4: I feel like when I see them, they're just a

1023
00:46:44,600 --> 00:46:46,839
Speaker 4: couple of friends that go out to play. They're gonna

1024
00:46:46,880 --> 00:46:50,680
Speaker 4: go hoop and that's a problem. Well everybody else is maybe, oh,

1025
00:46:50,680 --> 00:46:52,640
Speaker 4: I gotta go do my job. I feel like those

1026
00:46:52,640 --> 00:46:54,520
Speaker 4: guys are out there they just want to go hoop.

1027
00:46:54,520 --> 00:46:57,040
Speaker 4: And then after the game they all get interviewed together.

1028
00:46:57,160 --> 00:47:00,160
Speaker 5: They they're all friends and I feel like that so

1029
00:47:00,160 --> 00:47:02,439
Speaker 5: it makes them stand out. Now will they get far?

1030
00:47:02,800 --> 00:47:03,319
Speaker 5: I don't know.

1031
00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:06,560
Speaker 4: They are young, but I think that that gives them

1032
00:47:06,600 --> 00:47:09,040
Speaker 4: an edge. I just feel like their brotherhood is very

1033
00:47:09,360 --> 00:47:14,240
Speaker 4: tightly knit. And it's evident game after game, every interview,

1034
00:47:14,440 --> 00:47:16,640
Speaker 4: it's all of them together. It doesn't matter who they're

1035
00:47:16,640 --> 00:47:18,400
Speaker 4: trying to interview, they're all together.

1036
00:47:18,640 --> 00:47:21,520
Speaker 2: The dilemma for the NBA is simple. So you got

1037
00:47:21,520 --> 00:47:24,240
Speaker 2: Adam Silver, the commissioner, sitting there. He's been very quiet

1038
00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:25,600
Speaker 2: ever since. Remember that trade.

1039
00:47:25,640 --> 00:47:28,359
Speaker 4: Well, he doesn't have much to say because right now,

1040
00:47:28,400 --> 00:47:30,879
Speaker 4: like you said, the NBA is thriving, not just because

1041
00:47:30,880 --> 00:47:34,400
Speaker 4: of the teams. We've got Lebron talking smack to stephen A. Smith,

1042
00:47:34,560 --> 00:47:38,759
Speaker 4: we got Charles and Kendrick Perkins fighting. The NBA right

1043
00:47:38,800 --> 00:47:40,239
Speaker 4: now is thriving.

1044
00:47:40,440 --> 00:47:43,799
Speaker 2: Okay, you mentioned the stephen A. Okay, First of all,

1045
00:47:43,800 --> 00:47:46,879
Speaker 2: we know that stephen A is a Diar Knicks fan. Yes,

1046
00:47:46,960 --> 00:47:49,120
Speaker 2: he said that many times, many times.

1047
00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:49,799
Speaker 3: I respect that.

1048
00:47:49,840 --> 00:47:52,360
Speaker 2: I always respect guys in our industry to make it

1049
00:47:52,400 --> 00:47:54,080
Speaker 2: clear who they like and don't like.

1050
00:47:54,400 --> 00:47:58,480
Speaker 3: The idea that you're an impartial observer is an oxymoron.

1051
00:47:58,520 --> 00:47:59,280
Speaker 3: If you're in the business.

1052
00:47:59,360 --> 00:48:01,600
Speaker 2: The reason you're in this business is because you are

1053
00:48:01,680 --> 00:48:04,400
Speaker 2: a sports fan. And if you're a sports fan, you

1054
00:48:04,440 --> 00:48:07,640
Speaker 2: have schools or teams you like, and schools are teams

1055
00:48:07,680 --> 00:48:08,160
Speaker 2: you don't like.

1056
00:48:08,400 --> 00:48:12,680
Speaker 3: Okay, that's being honest. Well, I'm an impartial observer. Get

1057
00:48:12,680 --> 00:48:15,879
Speaker 3: out of here. I'm a sports journalist. Sports journalist, Come

1058
00:48:15,880 --> 00:48:18,480
Speaker 3: on again, that's an oxymoron. If you wanted to be

1059
00:48:18,520 --> 00:48:20,160
Speaker 3: a journalist, you're not going to be in sports. You're

1060
00:48:20,200 --> 00:48:22,640
Speaker 3: a fan, okay, whether you're a writer, it doesn't matter

1061
00:48:22,640 --> 00:48:24,279
Speaker 3: what you're doing in sports. You're just being a fan.

1062
00:48:25,680 --> 00:48:27,719
Speaker 3: But you know, actually, somebody had asked me, I was

1063
00:48:27,719 --> 00:48:30,799
Speaker 3: on a radio show yesterday, asked about you think that

1064
00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:36,640
Speaker 3: was a setup? And I put it this way. I've

1065
00:48:36,680 --> 00:48:40,400
Speaker 3: worked with stephen A, so I know who he is.

1066
00:48:40,480 --> 00:48:43,680
Speaker 2: I know what he's about, and I respect steven A

1067
00:48:43,920 --> 00:48:46,480
Speaker 2: for his great success that he's had over the years,

1068
00:48:47,040 --> 00:48:51,399
Speaker 2: and I wouldn't put it past him to embellish. Yes,

1069
00:48:52,560 --> 00:48:54,719
Speaker 2: the bottom line is is that he's a Knicks fan.

1070
00:48:55,480 --> 00:48:57,000
Speaker 2: And so if.

1071
00:48:57,400 --> 00:48:59,560
Speaker 3: Lebron is having fun with him.

1072
00:48:59,719 --> 00:49:03,680
Speaker 2: Because as he's an overt Knicks fan and he gets

1073
00:49:03,719 --> 00:49:07,279
Speaker 2: into a little back and forth, I had to share

1074
00:49:07,320 --> 00:49:09,360
Speaker 2: this story. Ready for this, this is a story for

1075
00:49:09,440 --> 00:49:14,080
Speaker 2: back in the day. So I worked for the flagship

1076
00:49:14,160 --> 00:49:17,520
Speaker 2: of the Lakers, So this is back in Kobe's day.

1077
00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:20,120
Speaker 2: So we had a lot of back and forth with Kobe,

1078
00:49:20,120 --> 00:49:21,719
Speaker 2: and I had a lot of fun with Kobe over

1079
00:49:21,760 --> 00:49:24,239
Speaker 2: the years, but I was sort of what we call

1080
00:49:24,320 --> 00:49:28,000
Speaker 2: the anti Kobe yes, because my partners at the time,

1081
00:49:28,400 --> 00:49:31,320
Speaker 2: Michael Thompson, who's still of course part of the Laker broadcast,

1082
00:49:31,400 --> 00:49:35,319
Speaker 2: father of Clay, and then Victor Brick Jacobs were die

1083
00:49:35,360 --> 00:49:38,680
Speaker 2: hard suck ups to the Lakers. I mean like they

1084
00:49:38,719 --> 00:49:41,759
Speaker 2: would never even hint of a disparaging word about the

1085
00:49:41,840 --> 00:49:45,040
Speaker 2: Lakers period, and so I had to balance that on

1086
00:49:45,080 --> 00:49:45,560
Speaker 2: our show.

1087
00:49:46,360 --> 00:49:49,239
Speaker 3: So I was at a Laker game at what was

1088
00:49:49,280 --> 00:49:51,560
Speaker 3: then known as Staples Center, and I.

1089
00:49:51,560 --> 00:49:54,200
Speaker 2: Was out front and the statue area, and I was

1090
00:49:54,239 --> 00:49:57,760
Speaker 2: there with my partner, vic the Brick, who was always

1091
00:49:57,880 --> 00:50:00,239
Speaker 2: dressed in full Laker yah.

1092
00:50:00,320 --> 00:50:02,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, he had a fur hat.

1093
00:50:02,160 --> 00:50:04,399
Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, imagine being a so called member

1094
00:50:04,440 --> 00:50:07,360
Speaker 2: of the media and you're literally dressed in a Laker

1095
00:50:07,480 --> 00:50:09,799
Speaker 2: poncho with a Laker fur hat on.

1096
00:50:09,880 --> 00:50:11,640
Speaker 3: All right, this is what I mean, Marshall journalist.

1097
00:50:11,760 --> 00:50:12,000
Speaker 11: Right.

1098
00:50:12,320 --> 00:50:16,359
Speaker 3: So I'm standing there and this young guy i'd say

1099
00:50:16,440 --> 00:50:18,920
Speaker 3: late twenties, early thirties walks up to the two of

1100
00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:22,399
Speaker 3: us and he said, oh, you know, Louise, you can't

1101
00:50:22,560 --> 00:50:25,040
Speaker 3: listen to you guys all the time, you know, obviously

1102
00:50:25,040 --> 00:50:27,520
Speaker 3: a Laker fan, and he was, you know, just saying

1103
00:50:27,800 --> 00:50:29,879
Speaker 3: listening you guys, love you guys and everything else. And

1104
00:50:29,920 --> 00:50:33,480
Speaker 3: standing behind him was this older gentleman.

1105
00:50:34,600 --> 00:50:38,160
Speaker 7: And he this.

1106
00:50:37,520 --> 00:50:41,279
Speaker 2: This guy locked eyes with me because the guy, this

1107
00:50:41,360 --> 00:50:43,719
Speaker 2: young guy is like, hey Steve Harbin, Victor break blah

1108
00:50:43,719 --> 00:50:47,040
Speaker 2: blah blah. And this old guy is locking eyes on me,

1109
00:50:47,640 --> 00:50:51,160
Speaker 2: I mean with contempt. And then all of a sudden

1110
00:50:51,600 --> 00:50:56,520
Speaker 2: he charges me, I wouldn't kill you.

1111
00:50:55,760 --> 00:51:01,080
Speaker 3: You want to say bad words about Kobe. And this

1112
00:51:01,160 --> 00:51:03,319
Speaker 3: young guy is restraining and turns out there it's the

1113
00:51:03,360 --> 00:51:10,080
Speaker 3: guy's dad and the dad's guy that says all these

1114
00:51:10,080 --> 00:51:11,120
Speaker 3: bad things about Gore.

1115
00:51:11,160 --> 00:51:12,520
Speaker 7: I would kill you, how about it?

1116
00:51:12,560 --> 00:51:17,759
Speaker 3: And he's literally restraining him, and I'm standing there and

1117
00:51:17,800 --> 00:51:20,399
Speaker 3: the guy's like, dad, calm down, calm down. It's a show.

1118
00:51:20,880 --> 00:51:22,279
Speaker 8: I will not take another day.

1119
00:51:24,960 --> 00:51:27,600
Speaker 3: And you and you feel that passion, right, what did

1120
00:51:27,680 --> 00:51:34,160
Speaker 3: you tell you? I was was just horrified.

1121
00:51:34,640 --> 00:51:34,960
Speaker 8: I was.

1122
00:51:35,120 --> 00:51:38,120
Speaker 3: I almost started to laugh, but I mean I mean

1123
00:51:38,400 --> 00:51:41,799
Speaker 3: literally his eyeballs are popping out of his Oh yeah,

1124
00:51:41,840 --> 00:51:43,960
Speaker 3: he's an older guy, the gray hair and everything. He

1125
00:51:44,640 --> 00:51:45,400
Speaker 3: charged me.

1126
00:51:47,080 --> 00:51:50,080
Speaker 2: Fortunately his son got in between. But he just the

1127
00:51:50,200 --> 00:51:53,120
Speaker 2: verbal barrage. And believe me, I'm cleaning it up here

1128
00:51:53,200 --> 00:51:55,719
Speaker 2: for radio right now of all the things he said

1129
00:51:55,760 --> 00:51:56,200
Speaker 2: about me.

1130
00:51:56,800 --> 00:52:00,520
Speaker 3: But I mean, this is a good thing. And I

1131
00:52:00,560 --> 00:52:03,680
Speaker 3: say it's a good thing because you know, we want

1132
00:52:03,719 --> 00:52:05,120
Speaker 3: to bring passion to what we do.

1133
00:52:05,239 --> 00:52:06,920
Speaker 2: We do have passion to what we do. We have

1134
00:52:07,239 --> 00:52:10,320
Speaker 2: passionate opinions. Whether you agree or disagree or it doesn't

1135
00:52:10,320 --> 00:52:13,399
Speaker 2: really matter. This is how we feel. If you disagree, great,

1136
00:52:13,440 --> 00:52:15,759
Speaker 2: if you don't. You know, you know, it works both

1137
00:52:15,760 --> 00:52:16,640
Speaker 2: ways where.

1138
00:52:16,400 --> 00:52:18,280
Speaker 3: You know, people are like, ah, man, you're the smartest

1139
00:52:18,280 --> 00:52:20,239
Speaker 3: guy in the room, and then the next guy is like,

1140
00:52:20,560 --> 00:52:22,759
Speaker 3: you are a complete idiot. You know, I get this

1141
00:52:22,840 --> 00:52:26,200
Speaker 3: all the time. But the bottom line is is that

1142
00:52:26,200 --> 00:52:31,279
Speaker 3: that passion speaks volumes about the sport. If you have

1143
00:52:31,440 --> 00:52:35,680
Speaker 3: fans that are that passionate, well we'll attack somebody for

1144
00:52:35,760 --> 00:52:38,680
Speaker 3: being negative about someone on the team. And this whole

1145
00:52:38,719 --> 00:52:41,960
Speaker 3: thing between steven A and Lebron, you want to see that.

1146
00:52:42,120 --> 00:52:45,439
Speaker 2: As a fan, You're like, yeah, you know, tell him off, man,

1147
00:52:45,520 --> 00:52:48,200
Speaker 2: you know, let's let's get it back and forth. Steven

1148
00:52:48,239 --> 00:52:51,160
Speaker 2: A understands that Lebron understands that, so you know, maybe

1149
00:52:51,160 --> 00:52:52,120
Speaker 2: a little embellish.

1150
00:52:52,560 --> 00:52:54,360
Speaker 3: You know, steven A couldn't wait to talk about it

1151
00:52:54,400 --> 00:52:57,720
Speaker 3: the next day. But that's a good thing for the NBA.

1152
00:52:57,760 --> 00:53:01,799
Speaker 4: Absolutely, we're again the as were already being talked.

1153
00:53:01,520 --> 00:53:03,280
Speaker 5: About with no real reason.

1154
00:53:03,440 --> 00:53:05,759
Speaker 4: Now there's actual reason to talk about them even more.

1155
00:53:06,360 --> 00:53:09,239
Speaker 4: Whether that was done on purpose so that somebody would

1156
00:53:09,320 --> 00:53:13,600
Speaker 4: catch it on camera, probably, you know, because there's I

1157
00:53:13,640 --> 00:53:15,520
Speaker 4: have a hard time believing that lebron cannot get a

1158
00:53:15,520 --> 00:53:19,279
Speaker 4: hold of stephen A privately, just literally, if you wanted

1159
00:53:19,280 --> 00:53:20,000
Speaker 4: to talk to him, you to.

1160
00:53:20,000 --> 00:53:21,960
Speaker 5: Call him right now on the phone.

1161
00:53:22,040 --> 00:53:24,799
Speaker 4: So obviously that was done maybe so somebody would catch it.

1162
00:53:25,200 --> 00:53:27,760
Speaker 4: And it's interesting how it was just like one video

1163
00:53:27,840 --> 00:53:30,040
Speaker 4: that is out there where somebody caught him going up

1164
00:53:30,080 --> 00:53:30,800
Speaker 4: to him and recorded it.

1165
00:53:30,840 --> 00:53:31,960
Speaker 5: Because I haven't seen other angles.

1166
00:53:31,960 --> 00:53:34,279
Speaker 4: The only angle I've seen is the back of steven A.

1167
00:53:34,640 --> 00:53:37,279
Speaker 4: There's no other angle. So it's just interesting, you know

1168
00:53:37,880 --> 00:53:39,360
Speaker 4: that we don't really see what steven A does. But

1169
00:53:39,400 --> 00:53:42,640
Speaker 4: I agree I probably a little bit scripted in the

1170
00:53:42,640 --> 00:53:45,400
Speaker 4: sense that they wanted people to see them have that interaction.

1171
00:53:45,480 --> 00:53:49,880
Speaker 3: Bottom line is you're talking NBA, Absolutely talking en talking

1172
00:53:50,400 --> 00:53:51,480
Speaker 3: NBA and.

1173
00:53:51,880 --> 00:53:54,640
Speaker 4: With again a Lakers team that is doing well because

1174
00:53:54,680 --> 00:53:58,480
Speaker 4: this wouldn't matter. If the Lakers weren't doing well right Like,

1175
00:53:58,840 --> 00:54:00,880
Speaker 4: it wouldn't matter. People would be like, why are you

1176
00:54:00,920 --> 00:54:03,520
Speaker 4: talking about the Lakers? Talk about the Cavs, talk about OKC,

1177
00:54:03,680 --> 00:54:05,319
Speaker 4: and it's like, you're right right now, the Lakers are

1178
00:54:05,320 --> 00:54:07,560
Speaker 4: playing really well and they're all of a sudden a

1179
00:54:07,640 --> 00:54:09,080
Speaker 4: number two seating in the Western Conference.

1180
00:54:09,239 --> 00:54:10,920
Speaker 3: So all of this does matter.

1181
00:54:11,200 --> 00:54:14,600
Speaker 4: It's a good conversation to have as an anti Laker fan.

1182
00:54:14,840 --> 00:54:15,879
Speaker 4: I want to talk about it.

1183
00:54:17,080 --> 00:54:18,160
Speaker 3: Everyone's talking about it. I don't.

1184
00:54:18,400 --> 00:54:22,680
Speaker 2: That's the bottom line. How about James Harden's fifty point

1185
00:54:22,719 --> 00:54:23,520
Speaker 2: game the other day.

1186
00:54:23,680 --> 00:54:27,200
Speaker 4: James Harden, I apologize for ever doubting you. Okay, you

1187
00:54:27,320 --> 00:54:27,640
Speaker 4: have been.

1188
00:54:27,880 --> 00:54:30,640
Speaker 2: You realize he's one fifty game short of tying Kobe

1189
00:54:30,680 --> 00:54:33,320
Speaker 2: for third most fifty point games in an NBA career.

1190
00:54:33,440 --> 00:54:36,000
Speaker 4: He has scored fifty points against seventeen different.

1191
00:54:35,719 --> 00:54:38,560
Speaker 3: Franchise About that. Come on, come on, the Beard still

1192
00:54:38,600 --> 00:54:39,440
Speaker 3: has he still had.

1193
00:54:39,480 --> 00:54:41,840
Speaker 4: I'm sorry for all the bad things I said, James,

1194
00:54:42,200 --> 00:54:42,759
Speaker 4: take it back.

1195
00:54:42,960 --> 00:54:45,239
Speaker 2: Well, we'll have much more on The NBA is going

1196
00:54:45,280 --> 00:54:48,799
Speaker 2: to be joined by our NBA insider, Mark Medena. This

1197
00:54:49,239 --> 00:54:55,640
Speaker 2: is Fox Sports Saturday, Steve Hartman and Montcy Belanos. Here

1198
00:54:55,719 --> 00:54:58,520
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Saturday coming alive from the tire rack dot

1199
00:54:58,520 --> 00:55:00,800
Speaker 2: Com studios. By the way, you can read this show

1200
00:55:01,320 --> 00:55:03,640
Speaker 2: and all of our Fox Sports Radio shows live twenty

1201
00:55:03,680 --> 00:55:06,400
Speaker 2: four to seven and the new and improved iHeartRadio app.

1202
00:55:07,040 --> 00:55:09,640
Speaker 2: Just search Fox Sports Radio in the app to stream

1203
00:55:09,680 --> 00:55:12,560
Speaker 2: us live. And one of the newest features in the

1204
00:55:12,560 --> 00:55:15,640
Speaker 2: app is that you can select Fox Sports Radio as

1205
00:55:15,680 --> 00:55:18,840
Speaker 2: one of your presets. It's like the presets on a

1206
00:55:18,920 --> 00:55:23,439
Speaker 2: radio dial, So be sure to preset Fox Sports Radio

1207
00:55:23,480 --> 00:55:26,239
Speaker 2: and the iHeartRadio app. It will always pop up at

1208
00:55:26,280 --> 00:55:30,440
Speaker 2: the top of your screen. It's one thing about getting

1209
00:55:30,960 --> 00:55:35,360
Speaker 2: a new car, you know immediately I have to be

1210
00:55:35,400 --> 00:55:38,399
Speaker 2: an old school I have to first of all bring

1211
00:55:38,440 --> 00:55:39,919
Speaker 2: my daughter in the car because she.

1212
00:55:39,880 --> 00:55:41,840
Speaker 5: Has She's going to tell.

1213
00:55:42,160 --> 00:55:46,799
Speaker 2: These are the features dad, that you can actually make

1214
00:55:46,800 --> 00:55:47,520
Speaker 2: your life easier.

1215
00:55:47,640 --> 00:55:47,799
Speaker 8: Yeah.

1216
00:55:47,920 --> 00:55:50,000
Speaker 4: Do you have Apple TV in your car or Apple

1217
00:55:50,120 --> 00:55:52,320
Speaker 4: the Now your phone is like right.

1218
00:55:52,200 --> 00:55:55,239
Speaker 3: There, yes, So in other words, I can control the

1219
00:55:55,239 --> 00:55:56,080
Speaker 3: phone one hundred percent.

1220
00:55:56,160 --> 00:55:57,040
Speaker 5: I don't mean to be Apple.

1221
00:55:57,440 --> 00:55:58,600
Speaker 3: Yes, but I don't have.

1222
00:55:58,560 --> 00:56:01,520
Speaker 2: An app car, you remember, because I have this, Oh

1223
00:56:01,600 --> 00:56:03,800
Speaker 2: you have a drawing, I have a droid.

1224
00:56:03,760 --> 00:56:05,759
Speaker 3: But I can control.

1225
00:56:07,080 --> 00:56:11,120
Speaker 2: I can control my telephone, not by packing it up well,

1226
00:56:11,840 --> 00:56:13,080
Speaker 2: not that I ever done.

1227
00:56:12,880 --> 00:56:20,400
Speaker 4: That, but everything is right there. Good, yeah, so much LEAs,

1228
00:56:20,600 --> 00:56:24,280
Speaker 4: much easier, much safer, Yes, absolutely, yes.

1229
00:56:24,160 --> 00:56:26,360
Speaker 2: So uh yeah, that's the good thing about it. So

1230
00:56:26,440 --> 00:56:29,160
Speaker 2: once again we talked about streaming and everything else. That's

1231
00:56:29,160 --> 00:56:31,359
Speaker 2: why I always look at some of these numbers and

1232
00:56:31,400 --> 00:56:34,160
Speaker 2: you know how many people are watching sports and everything else.

1233
00:56:34,200 --> 00:56:38,000
Speaker 2: And I'm like, you know, trust me, more people talk

1234
00:56:38,080 --> 00:56:41,240
Speaker 2: about sports now than in my entire lifetime.

1235
00:56:41,680 --> 00:56:45,719
Speaker 3: And it's not even close. What was a niche when

1236
00:56:45,760 --> 00:56:48,759
Speaker 3: I was a kid, seemingly a kid that was way

1237
00:56:48,800 --> 00:56:52,560
Speaker 3: out there in that little, tiny world that was sports.

1238
00:56:53,600 --> 00:56:56,880
Speaker 3: Now it's just this huge ocean, it really is. And

1239
00:56:56,960 --> 00:57:00,960
Speaker 3: the big money just keeps rolling in and these athletes

1240
00:57:01,000 --> 00:57:03,839
Speaker 3: are just you know, you know, we're just talking about name,

1241
00:57:03,920 --> 00:57:07,000
Speaker 3: image and likeness. Like we were talking about a Cooper Flag, right,

1242
00:57:07,360 --> 00:57:10,319
Speaker 3: So Cooper Flag is making about five million this year

1243
00:57:10,360 --> 00:57:10,719
Speaker 3: at Duke.

1244
00:57:10,840 --> 00:57:12,320
Speaker 5: Not bad, it's not too shabby.

1245
00:57:12,440 --> 00:57:15,640
Speaker 3: And you know, you remembered this. He was seventeen at

1246
00:57:15,680 --> 00:57:17,880
Speaker 3: the start of the year. He turned eighteen in December.

1247
00:57:19,720 --> 00:57:21,840
Speaker 3: The fact that he was born in December two thousand

1248
00:57:21,880 --> 00:57:22,560
Speaker 3: and six.

1249
00:57:22,440 --> 00:57:23,080
Speaker 5: That's gross.

1250
00:57:23,680 --> 00:57:24,320
Speaker 4: That's gross.

1251
00:57:24,480 --> 00:57:29,600
Speaker 3: I mean, I mean born December of two thousand and six.

1252
00:57:29,720 --> 00:57:32,240
Speaker 2: But you know he's been talking about maybe I want

1253
00:57:32,280 --> 00:57:33,320
Speaker 2: to stay in Duke.

1254
00:57:33,400 --> 00:57:34,480
Speaker 3: I mean, what's the hurry wrong?

1255
00:57:34,600 --> 00:57:34,880
Speaker 1: Why not?

1256
00:57:35,320 --> 00:57:37,520
Speaker 3: And you're saying, Okay, let's say you double.

1257
00:57:37,360 --> 00:57:39,919
Speaker 2: Your nil money. Let's say you made ten million next year.

1258
00:57:40,320 --> 00:57:42,000
Speaker 2: That's still not as much money as you're gonna make

1259
00:57:42,040 --> 00:57:44,400
Speaker 2: in the NBA. And do the math. So his rookie

1260
00:57:44,440 --> 00:57:47,400
Speaker 2: contract would be a four year deal he'd be making.

1261
00:57:47,920 --> 00:57:50,360
Speaker 2: I mean, right now, your rookie deal's worth between let's

1262
00:57:50,400 --> 00:57:52,600
Speaker 2: say twelve and twenty million each of the four years.

1263
00:57:52,800 --> 00:57:55,200
Speaker 2: Then you start getting into the really big money. So

1264
00:57:55,280 --> 00:57:58,160
Speaker 2: let's say his rookie contract is somewhere in that neighborhood.

1265
00:57:58,360 --> 00:58:00,840
Speaker 2: But by the time he gets a year, assuming he's

1266
00:58:00,920 --> 00:58:04,080
Speaker 2: as good at players everyone thinks he is, I mean,

1267
00:58:04,080 --> 00:58:10,000
Speaker 2: we're looking at eighty million a year. So the longer

1268
00:58:10,000 --> 00:58:12,280
Speaker 2: you put it off, the longer you have to wait

1269
00:58:13,120 --> 00:58:14,120
Speaker 2: to get that deal.

1270
00:58:14,680 --> 00:58:19,720
Speaker 4: And I understand that, but college is short lived. Yes,

1271
00:58:19,760 --> 00:58:23,600
Speaker 4: there's an expiration date on it. And I get that

1272
00:58:23,720 --> 00:58:25,439
Speaker 4: you want to you're trying to get to the big

1273
00:58:25,480 --> 00:58:28,160
Speaker 4: contract one percent, but you're already making good money that

1274
00:58:28,200 --> 00:58:30,880
Speaker 4: I feel like if I was Cooper Cup. Why not

1275
00:58:31,000 --> 00:58:33,560
Speaker 4: one more year? Live it up in college? You're the man.

1276
00:58:33,720 --> 00:58:36,280
Speaker 2: Well, Peyton Manning came back a senior year at Tennessee

1277
00:58:36,400 --> 00:58:39,800
Speaker 2: and this is many years before they were making any money, obviously,

1278
00:58:41,280 --> 00:58:44,480
Speaker 2: and he wanted one more run. Yeah, win a national championship.

1279
00:58:44,480 --> 00:58:46,680
Speaker 2: Didn't win, It didn't win the Heisman. Didn't hurt his

1280
00:58:46,800 --> 00:58:47,880
Speaker 2: NFL career at all.

1281
00:58:48,080 --> 00:58:48,560
Speaker 4: Look it up.

1282
00:58:48,760 --> 00:58:51,240
Speaker 2: Tim Duncan played four full years at Wake Forest. He

1283
00:58:51,280 --> 00:58:53,880
Speaker 2: could have come out any year during that run. Did

1284
00:58:53,880 --> 00:58:56,760
Speaker 2: it affect his NBA career? Actually for the better because

1285
00:58:57,000 --> 00:58:59,680
Speaker 2: he was ready for the NBA day one.

1286
00:58:59,760 --> 00:59:01,959
Speaker 4: And I did it without making any money. So here

1287
00:59:02,000 --> 00:59:06,440
Speaker 4: you are making money, able to live your best college life.

1288
00:59:07,040 --> 00:59:07,440
Speaker 6: College.

1289
00:59:08,320 --> 00:59:09,720
Speaker 5: Yes, the best time.

1290
00:59:10,200 --> 00:59:13,680
Speaker 4: And there's an expiration date on it. Would you go

1291
00:59:13,720 --> 00:59:14,360
Speaker 4: back to college?

1292
00:59:15,600 --> 00:59:18,920
Speaker 2: I do in my dreams all the time, because that

1293
00:59:19,040 --> 00:59:21,280
Speaker 2: is I don't know about you. I'm always the guy

1294
00:59:21,320 --> 00:59:24,920
Speaker 2: that has that dream that suddenly I have re enrolled

1295
00:59:24,960 --> 00:59:28,680
Speaker 2: in college, not shown up for any classes is exactly

1296
00:59:28,720 --> 00:59:31,400
Speaker 2: what it was for me at UCLA and then all

1297
00:59:31,400 --> 00:59:33,160
Speaker 2: of a sudden lights the day of a final and

1298
00:59:33,240 --> 00:59:35,720
Speaker 2: I absolutely not only don't know where the class is,

1299
00:59:35,920 --> 00:59:38,240
Speaker 2: I don't even know what the class is.

1300
00:59:38,240 --> 00:59:39,800
Speaker 4: Is this a recurring nightmare for you?

1301
00:59:39,960 --> 00:59:41,520
Speaker 3: I have this a lot, do you do?

1302
00:59:42,400 --> 00:59:45,160
Speaker 2: I always seem to have a lot of dreams where

1303
00:59:45,440 --> 00:59:48,720
Speaker 2: I'm trying to find my way to someplace.

1304
00:59:48,280 --> 00:59:51,480
Speaker 3: Or out of some place. That is that is a

1305
00:59:51,520 --> 00:59:52,920
Speaker 3: recurring theme with a lot of a.

1306
00:59:52,920 --> 00:59:54,760
Speaker 4: Lot of your dreams. Have you looked into what that means?

1307
00:59:55,880 --> 00:59:58,040
Speaker 4: There has to be an underlying meaning I have.

1308
00:59:58,200 --> 01:00:00,520
Speaker 2: I have very vivid dreams, like I make up and

1309
01:00:00,560 --> 01:00:02,200
Speaker 2: I remember my dreams.

1310
01:00:02,280 --> 01:00:03,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll look it up.

1311
01:00:03,200 --> 01:00:05,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, I have to figure that one out. All right,

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Speaker 2: let's find out what is trending right now. Mark meden

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Speaker 2: are NBA insider is going to be joining us on

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Speaker 2: the other side. But first, the ultimate Insider, Martin, how

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Speaker 2: are you moving?

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Speaker 10: The Ultimate Insider in that I am currently inside the

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Speaker 10: update booth.

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Speaker 7: That is about as far inside as you'll.

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Speaker 3: Be inside this studio very shortly.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, but as far as insider.

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Speaker 5: You're insider, you're inside.

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Speaker 3: No. Do you ever have dreams about returning to the

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Speaker 3: University of Michigan? Everyone's no.

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Speaker 11: No.

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Speaker 3: Dreams about going back to college?

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Speaker 8: No? No.

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Speaker 10: And if I was not a dream about going back

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Speaker 10: to college, your damn sure wouldn't be about homework, loser.

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Speaker 3: You didn't. You didn't have homework back in my day.

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Speaker 3: I heard to tell you that.

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Speaker 7: I heard some of your stories about I. You maneuvered

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Speaker 7: those blue book exams.

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Speaker 3: You had to do it, man. That was the survival

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Speaker 3: of the fittest.

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Speaker 10: Authorities have declined to press charges against Chiefs far receiver xavier' Worthy.

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Speaker 10: Worthy was arrested Friday night in Williamson County, Texas on

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Speaker 10: a charge of assault of a family member or house

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Speaker 10: member by impeding the breathing or circulation. But the Attorney General,

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Speaker 10: I mean sorry, the district attorney in Austin says he

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Speaker 10: is not currently accepting the case, so no charge is

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Speaker 10: pressed against Xavier Worthy. Ronnie Stanley and the Ravens agreed

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Speaker 10: to a three year, sixty million dollar deal with forty

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Speaker 10: four million dollars guaranteed.

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Speaker 7: The Chiefs and wide receiver Hollywood.

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Speaker 10: Brown have agreed to a one year contract for the

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Speaker 10: twenty twenty five season, and Cincinnati tied end Mike Gasecki

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Speaker 10: agrees to a three year deal to stay with the Bengals.

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Speaker 10: In men's college basketball, we have a couple of games

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Speaker 10: going on right now. Number two Duke with a forty

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Speaker 10: one to thirty two lead over North Carolina with three

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Speaker 10: minutes left in the first half, just under nine minutes

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Speaker 10: left in the first half, and number eleven Clemson Oh.

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Speaker 7: Wow, fifty three to thirty five.

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Speaker 10: The score between them and Virginia Attack for DNA attack

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Speaker 10: thirteen and seventeen on the year. Fifth rank Florida has

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Speaker 10: a sixty eight to forty nine lead over Mississippi just

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Speaker 10: over ten minutes left in the first half there earlier today,

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Speaker 10: Mark seriars today overtime game winning floater for Alabama, the

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Speaker 10: seventh thraine team in the nation, and beat Auburn, the

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Speaker 10: number one ring team in the nation, ninety three to

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Speaker 10: ninety one. Tennessee b South Carolina seventy five to sixty five,

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Speaker 10: Saint John's in overtime squeeze past twenty three to Marquette

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01:02:19,680 --> 01:02:22,120
Speaker 10: eighty six to eighty four. Tenth rank to Iowa State

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Speaker 10: with the win over Kansay State. Wisconsin upset by Penn

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Speaker 10: State eighty six to seventy five. Louisville beat Stanford, Maryland

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Speaker 10: beat Northwestern sixteenth i MEAN nineteenth rank Kentucky beat fifteenth

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Speaker 10: ranked Missouri ninety one to eighty three and John CALLIPOWERI

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Speaker 10: and the Arkansas Razorbacks upset Mississippi State twenty five I'm

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Speaker 10: sorry ninety three to ninety one ninety two.

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Speaker 7: Mississippi State is the twenty fifth ranked team.

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Speaker 10: In the nation and in the NBA right now, seven

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Speaker 10: twenty two left in the third quarter, Brooklyn as a

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Speaker 10: sixty eight to fifty six lead over Charlotte, and the

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Speaker 10: Houston Rockets lead the New Orleans Pelicans twenty eight to

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Speaker 10: eighteen with three minutes left in the first quarter.

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Speaker 7: Monsey back to you and Nerd Steve rt.

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Speaker 3: Thank you very much, Ultimate Nerd. Please, if you're gonna

1378
01:03:06,000 --> 01:03:08,840
Speaker 3: address me any way, thank you, Thank you very much.

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Speaker 8: Martin.

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Speaker 2: Once again, we're coming you live from the tire rack

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Speaker 2: dot Com studios. Don't forget after the show. Our podcast

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Speaker 2: is going up, so if you miss any of today's show,

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Speaker 3: Well that podcast rated five stars.

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01:03:22,800 --> 01:03:25,400
Speaker 2: Please just give it the Ultimate five stars again, just

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Speaker 3: One reason to give it a five stars is this.

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Speaker 2: Man joining us right now is our NBA insider and

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01:03:36,680 --> 01:03:39,160
Speaker 2: a man that I brushed elbows with just the other day,

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Speaker 2: The great Mark Medina is joining us right now. Mark,

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Speaker 2: were you in a state of shock to actually see

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Speaker 2: me at a Lakers game?

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Speaker 11: Well? I wasn't at a state of shock to see

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01:03:48,760 --> 01:03:50,680
Speaker 11: at a Lakers game, because You've been at plenty of

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01:03:50,720 --> 01:03:52,760
Speaker 11: Lakers games. But I was at a state of shock

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01:03:53,080 --> 01:03:54,800
Speaker 11: to see you at that game because I didn't know

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01:03:54,840 --> 01:03:58,000
Speaker 11: about it. But it was cool to reminisce and also

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01:03:58,120 --> 01:04:02,360
Speaker 11: see how giddy to reunite.

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Speaker 2: Well, yes, for those that don't know, Jim Hill is

1402
01:04:05,760 --> 01:04:09,439
Speaker 2: a legendary longtime television sports.

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01:04:09,120 --> 01:04:11,480
Speaker 3: Anchor in the LA area. It's got a star in

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01:04:11,520 --> 01:04:12,560
Speaker 3: the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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01:04:12,640 --> 01:04:16,800
Speaker 2: I was there when that star was actually introduced, and

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01:04:16,840 --> 01:04:19,560
Speaker 2: we did a show called Sports Central that I was

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Speaker 2: the original co host of for twelve years, and now

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01:04:22,760 --> 01:04:25,840
Speaker 2: Mark does it. So it's like, yeah, they had They

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01:04:25,880 --> 01:04:29,040
Speaker 2: took a picture of us together called us the Ogs.

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Speaker 3: Is that a good thing? I don't know.

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Speaker 11: I just you know, it's always a good thing. I

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01:04:33,200 --> 01:04:36,600
Speaker 11: think people call Lebron James and Kevin Durant, Steph Curry

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Speaker 11: og so you're a good confidence.

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Speaker 2: Nice all right, Mark, Let's let's talk a little bit

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Speaker 2: about what's been going on with Luca and the Lakers.

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Speaker 3: I had some thoughts early on. I didn't know if

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Speaker 3: the chemistry would be right.

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01:04:48,000 --> 01:04:51,200
Speaker 2: But I pointed out to Montcy after that ugly loss

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01:04:51,200 --> 01:04:52,280
Speaker 2: they had to Charlotte that.

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Speaker 3: Lebron brought it up. Look, it's not about him fitting

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Speaker 3: him with us. We need to fit in with him.

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Speaker 3: Uh And it seems led by Lebron, they've done just that.

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Speaker 2: And you just see the comfort level of Luca now

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01:05:05,400 --> 01:05:08,480
Speaker 2: on the court with Lebron and his new Laker teammates.

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Speaker 3: How far are we going to go with this?

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Speaker 11: Well, they could win a championship. I'm not going to

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Speaker 11: pin them as the favorites yet. I think that's still honor.

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01:05:18,000 --> 01:05:22,520
Speaker 11: That honor still is among Oklahoma City, Boston or Cleveland.

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01:05:22,520 --> 01:05:25,200
Speaker 11: The look the Lakers eight game winning streaker, nine and two.

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Speaker 11: Since the Luca Doctics trade the Celtics tonight, that can

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01:05:29,240 --> 01:05:33,439
Speaker 11: give some clarity on where they stand. But I think

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Speaker 11: that this fit with Lebron and lucas been seamless. They're

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Speaker 11: two generational talents and they make because of their gravity

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01:05:41,880 --> 01:05:44,640
Speaker 11: guys are making open shots all of a sudden. I

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Speaker 11: don't understand this, but without Anthony Davis they're almost on

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Speaker 11: a better defensive team. But I think got the question

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Speaker 11: at hand. The Lebron Luca fit, what I've seen is

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Speaker 11: almost kind of an inverse of Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul

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Speaker 11: Jabbar and hear me out here, doesn't necessarily need to

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Speaker 11: worry about scoring. He's willing to give that up, just

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01:06:05,040 --> 01:06:08,480
Speaker 11: as it was with Kareem, willing to give up kind

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Speaker 11: of the locker room because that's their natural instincts anyway,

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01:06:11,680 --> 01:06:15,840
Speaker 11: But it's still Lebron's team, Kareem's case. He's still getting

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Speaker 11: the touches. So what I'm getting at is it's a

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Speaker 11: perfect fit as far as Luca, Lebron, Magic and Kareem

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01:06:23,040 --> 01:06:26,520
Speaker 11: because there is that hierarchy, but it allows, you know,

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01:06:26,720 --> 01:06:29,960
Speaker 11: both players not to do have to do as much

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Speaker 11: as they once did before.

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Speaker 4: Mark, nice talking to you, Thanks for joining us.

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Speaker 11: Likewise, all right, so we gotta.

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Speaker 5: Let's talk the MVP here, Mark, because I feel.

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Speaker 4: Like for the entire season up until now, really it's

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Speaker 4: been Shae Gil just Alexander and for good reason. But

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Speaker 4: Nikola Jokic what he has also done all season.

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Speaker 5: Including last night making history.

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Speaker 4: Is the MVP now gonna change for the last couple

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Speaker 4: of weeks of the NBA.

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Speaker 11: Oh, it's definitely going to be fluid. I think that

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01:07:03,200 --> 01:07:05,400
Speaker 11: a lot of people will still favor Shait go to

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Speaker 11: Alexander because the thunder are the best team in the

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Speaker 11: Western Conference, and he's really elevated his game where he's

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01:07:12,360 --> 01:07:17,080
Speaker 11: a lot more consistent, not just with his strengths as scoring,

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Speaker 11: but better being a better passer, mitigating some of his

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Speaker 11: defensive shortcomings. But you know, I open the season, I

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01:07:24,440 --> 01:07:28,400
Speaker 11: talked to a few gms and most of them chose Shay,

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Speaker 11: but a few of them said, you know what, I'm

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Speaker 11: going to put my vote from Nikole Jokic because he's

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Speaker 11: still going to be playing at a high caliber level.

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Speaker 11: And even if I have question marks about Denver and

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Speaker 11: consistency and how they've lost a bunch of key role players,

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Speaker 11: that's going to highlight Nikole Jokic's value even more. And

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Speaker 11: it is a Most Valuable Player award, And so I

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01:07:50,720 --> 01:07:53,920
Speaker 11: think that some people will vote accordingly, but there's no

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01:07:53,960 --> 01:07:56,120
Speaker 11: way around it. A lot of people still use win

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01:07:56,240 --> 01:08:01,040
Speaker 11: loss records Sometimes when an MVP caliber players already won

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01:08:01,120 --> 01:08:04,280
Speaker 11: an awards, sometimes that goes against them of being an incumbent.

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Speaker 11: But this race is going to go down to the wire,

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01:08:06,640 --> 01:08:09,760
Speaker 11: and I think it will ultimately go down Queen Shay

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Speaker 11: and Nicola.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's what I was gonna say.

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01:08:11,680 --> 01:08:15,200
Speaker 4: So, voter fatigue is a real thing with Nikola Jokic,

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01:08:16,280 --> 01:08:16,599
Speaker 4: it is.

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Speaker 11: It is a real thing. But what's challenging is there's

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01:08:19,400 --> 01:08:22,200
Speaker 11: so many variables each year. I don't know in the

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01:08:22,280 --> 01:08:26,760
Speaker 11: percentage pie where voter fatigue fits in. Sometimes that does

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01:08:26,840 --> 01:08:31,120
Speaker 11: fit in, Sometimes the win loss record fits in. Sometimes

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01:08:31,160 --> 01:08:35,679
Speaker 11: just individual brilliant performances fit in, like the Nikola Jokic

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01:08:35,880 --> 01:08:39,639
Speaker 11: thirty twenty twenty triple double yesterday. It kind of varies

1489
01:08:39,880 --> 01:08:43,040
Speaker 11: year to year, but predominantly those are the three factors

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Speaker 11: that most voters take into account.

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Speaker 2: All right, So, Oklahoma City is eleven games clear of

1492
01:08:49,960 --> 01:08:53,440
Speaker 2: the rest of the Western Conference, and the Cleveland Cavaliers

1493
01:08:53,479 --> 01:08:55,599
Speaker 2: have the best record in the NBA. They are eight

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01:08:55,640 --> 01:08:59,240
Speaker 2: games ahead of the Celtics, currently on a thirteen game

1495
01:08:59,240 --> 01:09:03,080
Speaker 2: winning streak, and no one not only is predicting a

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01:09:03,200 --> 01:09:08,000
Speaker 2: Cavaliers thunder NBA Finals, it seems like no one wants

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01:09:08,120 --> 01:09:12,120
Speaker 2: a Cavaliers Thunder NBA Finals. So when you're looking at

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01:09:12,120 --> 01:09:18,200
Speaker 2: the two seeds right now, the Celtics Lakers versus Cavs Thunder.

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Speaker 3: I think it's very clear where the NBA would stand

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Speaker 3: on this. Why aren't people taking the Thunder, who, by

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01:09:24,640 --> 01:09:27,840
Speaker 3: the way, have a point differential of twelve point eight

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01:09:27,920 --> 01:09:31,479
Speaker 3: per game this year and the Cavaliers with their fifty

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01:09:31,560 --> 01:09:34,880
Speaker 3: three to ten record, thirteen game winning streak, Why are

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01:09:34,920 --> 01:09:40,080
Speaker 3: they not taking them more seriously as so far clearly

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01:09:40,560 --> 01:09:42,280
Speaker 3: the two best teams in the NBA.

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Speaker 11: Well, really good question. There's a few things on pack here.

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01:09:46,840 --> 01:09:51,679
Speaker 11: I think that the Oklahoma City Thunder, there are some skepticism. Okay,

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01:09:51,680 --> 01:09:54,639
Speaker 11: they haven't made a deep playoff push. They're still quote

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01:09:54,720 --> 01:09:58,960
Speaker 11: unquote and experience with the Cleveland Cavaliers. They've had regular

1510
01:09:59,000 --> 01:10:02,880
Speaker 11: season success, but we've seen in history that that doesn't

1511
01:10:02,880 --> 01:10:06,200
Speaker 11: always mean anything in the playoffs. The most recent examples

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01:10:06,200 --> 01:10:09,559
Speaker 11: that come to mind twenty nineteen Houston Rockets, they weren't

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01:10:09,560 --> 01:10:11,519
Speaker 11: able to beat the Warriors in seven games in the

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01:10:11,520 --> 01:10:14,760
Speaker 11: Western Conference Finals. The Phoenix Suns, yes, they got the

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01:10:14,880 --> 01:10:18,000
Speaker 11: NBA Finals in twenty twenty one. The following years after

1516
01:10:18,200 --> 01:10:21,479
Speaker 11: flamed out. But I think the Cleveland Cavaliers have shown

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01:10:21,520 --> 01:10:24,920
Speaker 11: they're not those kind of teams because Kenny Atkinson instant

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01:10:24,960 --> 01:10:28,080
Speaker 11: impact is a great offensive mine first year head coach,

1519
01:10:28,600 --> 01:10:33,719
Speaker 11: and the chemistry with their backcourt Darius Garland and Donovan Mitchell.

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01:10:34,320 --> 01:10:37,160
Speaker 11: They compliment each other well. Same thing with Evan Bobowie

1521
01:10:37,520 --> 01:10:40,240
Speaker 11: and Jared Allen with the Thunder. There might be some

1522
01:10:40,320 --> 01:10:43,760
Speaker 11: weaknesses with their rebounding, their questions can't shut homeer and

1523
01:10:43,920 --> 01:10:47,200
Speaker 11: stay healthy, but Shay has been on the tear. They

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01:10:47,240 --> 01:10:49,960
Speaker 11: have so many wing defenders and that means a lot

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01:10:49,960 --> 01:10:53,040
Speaker 11: in the playoffs. But with all that said, I would

1526
01:10:53,080 --> 01:10:56,200
Speaker 11: pin Oklahoma City and Boston we get to the finals.

1527
01:10:56,240 --> 01:10:58,960
Speaker 11: But you see teams like the Lakers, the Warriors, they

1528
01:10:58,960 --> 01:11:02,439
Speaker 11: may teach very deadline moves. They're now in the picture.

1529
01:11:02,640 --> 01:11:04,920
Speaker 11: The Denver Nuggets, they stole the shot because of their

1530
01:11:05,000 --> 01:11:07,600
Speaker 11: Koyovick web gain at This is going to be a

1531
01:11:07,760 --> 01:11:10,400
Speaker 11: very wide open playoffs and it's gonna be fun to watch.

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01:11:10,880 --> 01:11:11,160
Speaker 9: All right.

1533
01:11:11,160 --> 01:11:13,200
Speaker 4: You know, I have to ask about the Clippers Mark, so.

1534
01:11:13,600 --> 01:11:15,880
Speaker 5: Of course, okay, okay, of course I got it.

1535
01:11:15,920 --> 01:11:18,240
Speaker 4: So the two questions we'll quick here.

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01:11:18,880 --> 01:11:21,960
Speaker 11: I answer the question that Clippers aren't winning the champion Mark.

1537
01:11:22,160 --> 01:11:25,719
Speaker 4: Why yeah, why would you just burst my bubble so fast?

1538
01:11:25,800 --> 01:11:27,479
Speaker 5: No, listen, I know that. Okay Withoo.

1539
01:11:27,640 --> 01:11:32,240
Speaker 4: Two questions here, Norman Powell, Exactly when did that injury happen?

1540
01:11:32,520 --> 01:11:34,439
Speaker 5: I'm just confused because it seemed like it. Did it

1541
01:11:34,479 --> 01:11:36,880
Speaker 5: happen when he was participating at All Star weekend.

1542
01:11:37,160 --> 01:11:39,080
Speaker 4: I feel like it came out of nowhere and he's

1543
01:11:39,080 --> 01:11:41,840
Speaker 4: still injured and we need him. Second, I feel like

1544
01:11:41,880 --> 01:11:45,160
Speaker 4: when the Clippers lose is because Zoo doesn't get the ball.

1545
01:11:47,000 --> 01:11:51,519
Speaker 11: Yeah, well, there's two things. When norm Pal got the injury,

1546
01:11:51,560 --> 01:11:55,160
Speaker 11: not queer Clippers aren't very transparent with that, but left

1547
01:11:55,160 --> 01:11:59,120
Speaker 11: the teller knee injuries are very sensitive, so uh, you know,

1548
01:11:59,560 --> 01:12:03,440
Speaker 11: it kind of has its ways of getting better sometimes,

1549
01:12:03,840 --> 01:12:06,360
Speaker 11: you know not, so when he came back, I think

1550
01:12:06,360 --> 01:12:09,759
Speaker 11: he had more complications with it beats the Zoo bots. Yeah.

1551
01:12:09,800 --> 01:12:12,800
Speaker 11: That's something that actually Tylu mentioned to me during one

1552
01:12:12,840 --> 01:12:14,880
Speaker 11: of the before one of the games this past week.

1553
01:12:14,880 --> 01:12:17,840
Speaker 11: If they talk a lot about how best to feature them,

1554
01:12:17,840 --> 01:12:19,840
Speaker 11: they want to feature them a lot. But yes, they

1555
01:12:19,880 --> 01:12:23,120
Speaker 11: often say it also depends on who has the hot hand,

1556
01:12:23,240 --> 01:12:27,360
Speaker 11: how he's being defended. But I'm with you. When the

1557
01:12:27,360 --> 01:12:31,120
Speaker 11: Clippers are playing well, he's having a monster performance, so

1558
01:12:31,160 --> 01:12:34,160
Speaker 11: it's on them to put him in the best position

1559
01:12:34,240 --> 01:12:35,880
Speaker 11: to succeed, to make sure he gets the ball.

1560
01:12:36,240 --> 01:12:37,960
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, so there you go.

1561
01:12:38,160 --> 01:12:39,880
Speaker 2: See, I thought she was going to ask you about

1562
01:12:39,960 --> 01:12:42,400
Speaker 2: James Hardy after it's fifty point game MVP talk.

1563
01:12:42,600 --> 01:12:43,559
Speaker 5: Let's go James.

1564
01:12:44,240 --> 01:12:46,599
Speaker 11: They beat the Knicks well without Jalen brunss. I guess

1565
01:12:46,640 --> 01:12:47,479
Speaker 11: that doesn't cot I.

1566
01:12:47,520 --> 01:12:49,080
Speaker 4: No, no, we also beat the Pistons.

1567
01:12:49,520 --> 01:12:52,240
Speaker 3: Hey, hey, all right, wait, wait, why he mentioned he

1568
01:12:52,280 --> 01:12:54,400
Speaker 3: did a couple of weeks. What's what's the update on

1569
01:12:54,439 --> 01:12:55,320
Speaker 3: Brunson's injury.

1570
01:12:55,920 --> 01:12:59,280
Speaker 11: Yeah, I was at the Clippers next game yesterday. They

1571
01:12:59,320 --> 01:13:03,400
Speaker 11: haven't given a definitive timetable, only they're reevaluating him in

1572
01:13:03,439 --> 01:13:06,040
Speaker 11: two weeks. The key thing for the listener, that doesn't

1573
01:13:06,040 --> 01:13:08,040
Speaker 11: mean that's when he's coming back. That's when they're going

1574
01:13:08,080 --> 01:13:11,760
Speaker 11: to see. Okay, what can you do? They didn't say

1575
01:13:12,000 --> 01:13:14,400
Speaker 11: severity of ankle sprain. It could be grade one, two

1576
01:13:14,479 --> 01:13:16,880
Speaker 11: or three. But the reality of this, guys, they're in

1577
01:13:16,920 --> 01:13:19,479
Speaker 11: third place in the West or the East that were

1578
01:13:19,520 --> 01:13:23,160
Speaker 11: clearly behind Boston and Cleveland. They don't they're only I

1579
01:13:23,160 --> 01:13:25,360
Speaker 11: think four and a half games over Milwaukee, so they're

1580
01:13:25,479 --> 01:13:28,240
Speaker 11: very vulnerable. They're going to lean on Carl Anthony Towns.

1581
01:13:28,240 --> 01:13:31,760
Speaker 11: They do have some depth with Josh Harnojian Andobi, but

1582
01:13:32,400 --> 01:13:35,360
Speaker 11: I think that's a very tough hill to climb. They'll

1583
01:13:35,400 --> 01:13:37,200
Speaker 11: still be in the playoffs, but I don't think that

1584
01:13:37,240 --> 01:13:38,519
Speaker 11: they're going to be a contending team.

1585
01:13:38,960 --> 01:13:41,360
Speaker 4: Sucks for the Knicks. Mark, thank you so much for

1586
01:13:41,439 --> 01:13:42,000
Speaker 4: joining us.

1587
01:13:42,000 --> 01:13:42,960
Speaker 5: We appreciate if.

1588
01:13:42,920 --> 01:13:45,519
Speaker 4: You guys want to follow Mark on Twitter, Instagram, Mark

1589
01:13:45,560 --> 01:13:48,360
Speaker 4: g underscore Medina. He's doing a bunch of stuff. We

1590
01:13:48,400 --> 01:13:50,840
Speaker 4: actually just saw you on TV about an hour ago while.

1591
01:13:50,720 --> 01:13:52,800
Speaker 5: We were doing the show, or like, there's Mark Medina.

1592
01:13:52,960 --> 01:13:54,960
Speaker 5: Thank you. We will talk to you next week.

1593
01:13:55,600 --> 01:13:58,040
Speaker 11: Love it always honored me on the best Fox Sports

1594
01:13:58,160 --> 01:13:59,040
Speaker 11: radio show the Weekend.

1595
01:13:59,120 --> 01:13:59,720
Speaker 8: Appreciate you.

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01:14:00,200 --> 01:14:00,960
Speaker 3: It is the great.

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01:14:01,000 --> 01:14:04,400
Speaker 2: Mark Medina read it just like we wrote it, I know, right,

1598
01:14:04,640 --> 01:14:07,920
Speaker 2: absolutely does never misses and saying that all right, coming

1599
01:14:07,960 --> 01:14:10,080
Speaker 2: up on the other side, what kind of week do

1600
01:14:10,160 --> 01:14:12,519
Speaker 2: we have ahead in the sports world? Will break it down?

1601
01:14:12,560 --> 01:14:20,920
Speaker 2: This is Fox Sports Saturday Fire the great videos Ever,

1602
01:14:22,840 --> 01:14:24,839
Speaker 2: did you ever see the video of this warrant?

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01:14:25,360 --> 01:14:26,960
Speaker 5: I don't know if I have seen it. Now I

1604
01:14:27,280 --> 01:14:28,479
Speaker 5: gotta go see if I have seen it.

1605
01:14:28,600 --> 01:14:31,479
Speaker 3: I mean it's a great pie. Yeah.

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01:14:31,520 --> 01:14:33,960
Speaker 4: What what is this song in? Is this in Wayne's world?

1607
01:14:34,920 --> 01:14:35,720
Speaker 5: Why do I have likeg it?

1608
01:14:35,760 --> 01:14:35,920
Speaker 4: Well?

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01:14:36,160 --> 01:14:37,760
Speaker 3: They play this a lot of places, but it was

1610
01:14:37,840 --> 01:14:39,559
Speaker 3: most notorious.

1611
01:14:38,840 --> 01:14:40,160
Speaker 7: For its video.

1612
01:14:40,479 --> 01:14:44,080
Speaker 3: It's let me see him warrant cherry Pie.

1613
01:14:44,320 --> 01:14:47,559
Speaker 2: All right once again Fox Sports Saturday. We're coming alive

1614
01:14:47,600 --> 01:14:50,519
Speaker 2: from the tire rack dot Com studios. I want to

1615
01:14:50,520 --> 01:14:53,280
Speaker 2: thank our crew today. Martin New Chorus getting ready for his.

1616
01:14:53,200 --> 01:14:55,400
Speaker 3: Own show here. So he just goes from one booth

1617
01:14:55,439 --> 01:14:55,840
Speaker 3: to the next.

1618
01:14:56,000 --> 01:14:59,000
Speaker 2: That's right, Mary Mac. Just playing my tunes, a lot

1619
01:14:59,000 --> 01:14:59,920
Speaker 2: of my tunes today.

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01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:02,320
Speaker 5: Mary mc, you're talking about you played Spice Girls and

1621
01:15:02,360 --> 01:15:03,320
Speaker 5: you didn't even react.

1622
01:15:03,479 --> 01:15:04,720
Speaker 3: I just let it go.

1623
01:15:05,360 --> 01:15:09,160
Speaker 2: But because I knew that she was sometimes she decides, Okay,

1624
01:15:09,160 --> 01:15:11,240
Speaker 2: I'm going to give Steve a day. Sure, sure, yeah,

1625
01:15:11,280 --> 01:15:13,400
Speaker 2: well I appreciate that, Mary Mack, thank you so much.

1626
01:15:13,880 --> 01:15:16,400
Speaker 2: I and of course putting this whole thing together is

1627
01:15:16,400 --> 01:15:20,559
Speaker 2: our new brilliant producer and we got so much coming up.

1628
01:15:20,640 --> 01:15:23,200
Speaker 3: I mean, it's getting to that point. Are you seeing

1629
01:15:23,200 --> 01:15:23,800
Speaker 3: the video yet?

1630
01:15:24,040 --> 01:15:26,400
Speaker 4: Yes? No, I have seen this, Yes you have seen it.

1631
01:15:26,439 --> 01:15:28,880
Speaker 4: I have seen this video. It's been a while, but

1632
01:15:28,920 --> 01:15:29,439
Speaker 4: I've seen it.

1633
01:15:29,560 --> 01:15:32,360
Speaker 3: Yes, can you even have that video like that anymore?

1634
01:15:32,439 --> 01:15:34,800
Speaker 2: I mean it's like it's so over the top that

1635
01:15:34,960 --> 01:15:36,680
Speaker 2: it's like in those days, you could play that kind

1636
01:15:36,680 --> 01:15:37,000
Speaker 2: of stuff.

1637
01:15:37,040 --> 01:15:39,840
Speaker 4: You just music videos in general. I used to get

1638
01:15:39,880 --> 01:15:44,000
Speaker 4: ready for school watching MTV music videos in the morning, right,

1639
01:15:44,200 --> 01:15:46,519
Speaker 4: That's how I got ready. Now, music videos are.

1640
01:15:46,560 --> 01:15:49,880
Speaker 2: Like I know, if you had been around when you know,

1641
01:15:50,040 --> 01:15:52,960
Speaker 2: MTV was first introduced back in my day, and.

1642
01:15:52,880 --> 01:15:54,599
Speaker 3: We literally would watch it all day long.

1643
01:15:54,680 --> 01:15:57,160
Speaker 2: Even though they basically had the rotation of about ten

1644
01:15:57,200 --> 01:15:59,679
Speaker 2: to fifteen videos, they played over and over and over again.

1645
01:15:59,439 --> 01:16:00,000
Speaker 4: Watch it all over.

1646
01:16:00,640 --> 01:16:02,519
Speaker 3: They still have like that channel, like you know, back

1647
01:16:02,560 --> 01:16:04,600
Speaker 3: to the eighties the night you know, but.

1648
01:16:04,600 --> 01:16:07,799
Speaker 4: It's not the same. It's not They're not the same.

1649
01:16:08,520 --> 01:16:08,880
Speaker 3: All right.

1650
01:16:08,920 --> 01:16:12,320
Speaker 2: So we got March Madness again a week from tomorrow.

1651
01:16:12,960 --> 01:16:18,240
Speaker 2: I we were talking about this that next Saturday, we'll

1652
01:16:18,240 --> 01:16:21,160
Speaker 2: give Medina a week off. We should get Aaron Torres

1653
01:16:21,479 --> 01:16:25,400
Speaker 2: on the show. That guy, yeah, that guy. I mean,

1654
01:16:25,479 --> 01:16:27,840
Speaker 2: Aaron is you know, so connected to the college game,

1655
01:16:27,880 --> 01:16:30,560
Speaker 2: but especially when it comes to college basketball.

1656
01:16:30,600 --> 01:16:32,200
Speaker 3: Of course, he's a U kond guy. You know.

1657
01:16:32,400 --> 01:16:33,680
Speaker 2: I want to hear what he has to say. I

1658
01:16:33,720 --> 01:16:36,120
Speaker 2: mean it's you know, they're all thinking about a three

1659
01:16:36,200 --> 01:16:39,240
Speaker 2: peat this year. You know when Hurley decided to stay

1660
01:16:39,360 --> 01:16:43,160
Speaker 2: instead of taking you know, allegedly the Laker job. Well

1661
01:16:43,160 --> 01:16:45,200
Speaker 2: they were destroying Seaton Hall earlier today.

1662
01:16:45,360 --> 01:16:47,479
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I want to get his thoughts on that.

1663
01:16:47,560 --> 01:16:50,160
Speaker 2: But see if you can sneak him into our final

1664
01:16:50,240 --> 01:16:53,880
Speaker 2: hour next Saturday, Yeah, which will be the day before

1665
01:16:54,200 --> 01:16:57,160
Speaker 2: selection Sunday, and then things get serious. You know, get

1666
01:16:57,160 --> 01:16:59,640
Speaker 2: those brackets out. Do you do you only do a

1667
01:16:59,800 --> 01:17:02,400
Speaker 2: bracket or how does that work? Because I know you're

1668
01:17:02,439 --> 01:17:07,599
Speaker 2: in multiple fantasy football leagues. I mean one league's going well,

1669
01:17:07,920 --> 01:17:09,200
Speaker 2: suddenly you're competing.

1670
01:17:09,560 --> 01:17:12,040
Speaker 4: No, I only I think the first year I did

1671
01:17:12,120 --> 01:17:14,080
Speaker 4: a bracket, I think I did two, and then.

1672
01:17:13,960 --> 01:17:17,240
Speaker 5: I felt like I cheated. I felt dirty. So I

1673
01:17:17,360 --> 01:17:19,160
Speaker 5: no longer do two brackets.

1674
01:17:19,320 --> 01:17:19,840
Speaker 3: Just one.

1675
01:17:20,360 --> 01:17:20,840
Speaker 5: That's it.

1676
01:17:21,560 --> 01:17:23,160
Speaker 4: See here, I don't think it's the same as playing

1677
01:17:23,240 --> 01:17:24,439
Speaker 4: multiple fantasy football.

1678
01:17:24,479 --> 01:17:27,760
Speaker 2: Here's the problem because again, I'm a diehard UCLA guy.

1679
01:17:27,960 --> 01:17:31,120
Speaker 2: Right Like in twenty twenty one when they went from

1680
01:17:31,120 --> 01:17:33,800
Speaker 2: the first four to the final four, I think I

1681
01:17:33,880 --> 01:17:36,280
Speaker 2: actually did have an winning that first game they were

1682
01:17:36,320 --> 01:17:38,640
Speaker 2: going against I believe it was Michigan State and they

1683
01:17:38,640 --> 01:17:41,160
Speaker 2: were down big in that game early came back and

1684
01:17:41,200 --> 01:17:42,519
Speaker 2: then I had them out, and then you had it.

1685
01:17:42,520 --> 01:17:44,719
Speaker 3: And then when they get a run, I'm like, and then.

1686
01:17:44,640 --> 01:17:46,120
Speaker 8: You just you.

1687
01:17:46,240 --> 01:17:48,479
Speaker 3: I could have I could have nobody had U sill

1688
01:17:48,520 --> 01:17:50,479
Speaker 3: a the final four. I could have just Homer did

1689
01:17:50,600 --> 01:17:53,439
Speaker 3: the whole way to the final four. Yeah, so's it's

1690
01:17:53,479 --> 01:17:57,679
Speaker 3: that fine line. Yes, you know, I only do one bracket.

1691
01:17:57,680 --> 01:17:59,680
Speaker 3: I just you know, I just do one, and I

1692
01:17:59,720 --> 01:18:01,760
Speaker 3: do a very neatly. I print it out.

1693
01:18:01,920 --> 01:18:04,719
Speaker 2: Of course, I do a print out, and I can't

1694
01:18:04,720 --> 01:18:07,759
Speaker 2: handwrite worked crap, but I have I have good printing,

1695
01:18:08,280 --> 01:18:10,720
Speaker 2: you know, and I can print really well. Yes, and

1696
01:18:10,720 --> 01:18:15,000
Speaker 2: it's all bracketed. And then I circle winners or do

1697
01:18:15,040 --> 01:18:16,240
Speaker 2: you cross out losers?

1698
01:18:16,280 --> 01:18:16,960
Speaker 3: How do you do it?

1699
01:18:17,000 --> 01:18:20,120
Speaker 4: I I scribble out the I don't just do one

1700
01:18:20,160 --> 01:18:22,160
Speaker 4: line across. I scribble out so I can't see the

1701
01:18:22,200 --> 01:18:22,639
Speaker 4: name at all.

1702
01:18:23,200 --> 01:18:23,960
Speaker 3: Really, yes?

1703
01:18:24,160 --> 01:18:24,360
Speaker 11: Yes?

1704
01:18:24,400 --> 01:18:24,599
Speaker 3: What?

1705
01:18:25,000 --> 01:18:25,400
Speaker 4: Yeah?

1706
01:18:25,479 --> 01:18:28,280
Speaker 2: So do you you do you circle winners or cross

1707
01:18:28,439 --> 01:18:29,519
Speaker 2: out losers or both?

1708
01:18:29,680 --> 01:18:34,599
Speaker 4: I cross out the loser cross yes, but but I

1709
01:18:34,720 --> 01:18:35,839
Speaker 4: like it. It looks cleaner.

1710
01:18:35,960 --> 01:18:36,760
Speaker 3: But what are you doing?

1711
01:18:37,160 --> 01:18:40,519
Speaker 2: And do you do you circle winners cross out losers

1712
01:18:40,560 --> 01:18:41,200
Speaker 2: both neither.

1713
01:18:41,840 --> 01:18:45,040
Speaker 3: It's all digital. It's an app, so it just's automatic.

1714
01:18:45,160 --> 01:18:46,639
Speaker 5: Need you to print it out and have.

1715
01:18:46,760 --> 01:18:51,040
Speaker 2: To print The idea is you need to walk around

1716
01:18:51,080 --> 01:18:52,400
Speaker 2: with a bracket and.

1717
01:18:52,360 --> 01:18:54,920
Speaker 4: Then when you're mad at your bracket, you can just

1718
01:18:55,040 --> 01:18:56,720
Speaker 4: rip it up and by the end of.

1719
01:18:56,720 --> 01:18:59,559
Speaker 3: It you're like that aspect, I like that, I can

1720
01:18:59,680 --> 01:19:04,080
Speaker 3: as you just hitting the delete buttons, I'm saying gone.

1721
01:19:03,920 --> 01:19:05,840
Speaker 5: Or like, do you also like write it out? And

1722
01:19:05,880 --> 01:19:07,000
Speaker 5: then you're like no, no, no, I.

1723
01:19:07,000 --> 01:19:09,679
Speaker 4: Messed up, and like you change your answer like before

1724
01:19:09,720 --> 01:19:10,759
Speaker 4: it actually starts.

1725
01:19:10,960 --> 01:19:12,240
Speaker 3: But well then you scribble it out.

1726
01:19:12,320 --> 01:19:13,280
Speaker 5: Yeah, you scribble it out.

1727
01:19:13,439 --> 01:19:15,200
Speaker 3: But then how do you know that that wasn't a

1728
01:19:15,240 --> 01:19:18,120
Speaker 3: seam that lost and it was you said, that's the

1729
01:19:18,120 --> 01:19:19,120
Speaker 3: same gradual.

1730
01:19:18,920 --> 01:19:21,280
Speaker 5: So then well it's it's the one that's visible.

1731
01:19:21,360 --> 01:19:23,559
Speaker 4: And then if I if it loses again, then there's

1732
01:19:23,560 --> 01:19:24,559
Speaker 4: a bunch of scribbles on it.

1733
01:19:24,680 --> 01:19:26,080
Speaker 5: Don't don't don't question.

1734
01:19:27,560 --> 01:19:29,400
Speaker 3: By the way, I do want to. I do want

1735
01:19:29,400 --> 01:19:31,599
Speaker 3: to tell you guys, we have a bracket challenge here

1736
01:19:31,640 --> 01:19:35,719
Speaker 3: at Fox Sports Radio, and last year I finished top four.

1737
01:19:36,640 --> 01:19:39,400
Speaker 3: Stop bragging, yeah, the idea and as a matter of.

1738
01:19:39,280 --> 01:19:40,240
Speaker 5: Fact, stop bragging.

1739
01:19:40,520 --> 01:19:43,280
Speaker 3: Yeah, In fact, I had you con Winny at all,

1740
01:19:43,960 --> 01:19:47,600
Speaker 3: Everyone's like, what you you con after you were terrorizing

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