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Speaker 1: how are you doing well? Working for my financial independence?

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Speaker 3: On? Is that what you're doing? I'm doing something all right? July?

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Speaker 1: Did you guys grill barbecue? Do anything for lunch or

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Speaker 3: Went for a nice walk.

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Speaker 6: That's about it, is that your fourth walk to the

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Speaker 6: Very effestive for the delight. Yes, you know what I'm doing,

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Speaker 6: and I'm going to see a movie in a cemetery tonight.

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Speaker 3: Okay, that's real nice?

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Speaker 1: Is that your fiance that's romantic in the cemetery.

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Speaker 6: Hollywood Cemetery they have these like basically outdoor movie showings, and.

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Speaker 3: I've seen Top Gun. Really, Yes, that's surprising. It came

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Speaker 3: But where are you on players having a shelf life

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Speaker 6: I don't think that players have a shelf life in

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Speaker 6: terms of Darren like, your shelf life is when you

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Speaker 6: We got to improve the team build around me. That

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Speaker 1: Steph curse thirty six years old? So I mean he's right,

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Speaker 6: with everybody else the other. Tim Duncan, I'm not exactly

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Speaker 6: one hundred percent about to build around Luca Doncons who

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Speaker 6: You traded away one of those pieces, and just even

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I think Lebron also hurts himself the longer he plays

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Speaker 1: and doesn't win. I do because you start to look

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Speaker 6: Yeah, but that still doesn't take away to me the

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's not the same prime. And I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: So I get it. It's easier to score in the

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Speaker 1: they're inflated. They're not like real numbers to me, because

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Speaker 1: I don't have that issue. But if you're looking at

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Speaker 1: even in the playoffs. I think he was minus fifty

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Speaker 3: No, but that's not what I said.

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Speaker 6: I said, what's happening right now doesn't invalidate ten years ago.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, that's the figure that's you said, despite his numbers,

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, people would have taken him for a decent price.

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Speaker 3: This is like the.

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Speaker 1: Unofficial halfway point of the Major League Baseball season, fourth

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Speaker 1: Aaron Judge in the American League, not that Cole Raley

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Speaker 1: If he's turned it up in the second half, is

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Speaker 1: it possible. I'm just asking if the Mets make a run,

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Speaker 1: he's got twenty one home runs.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well if if. But also it's the most valuable

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Speaker 3: player for the whole season.

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Speaker 6: Juan Soda was a mystery man for the first what

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Speaker 6: twenty five games of the year. But that's why it's

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Speaker 6: that's why El Tany is far and away the NL favorite.

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Speaker 6: It's it's a lack of competition.

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Speaker 1: Do you think though, I still think that it has

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Speaker 1: more to do with him being the dual threat and

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Speaker 1: they don't even look. And I'm not saying he's not

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Speaker 1: doing anything, Don't get me wrong, That's not what I'm saying,

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Speaker 1: I think that because he pitches and hits, people just

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Speaker 1: think he's the MVP regardless. I mean the way it

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Speaker 1: just feels like that not based off and it shouldn't

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Speaker 1: be a fourgone conclusion that because he's gonna win the

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Speaker 1: MVP the next ten years in a row if he

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Speaker 1: does both or next eight in a row. I just

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Speaker 1: I find that to be I think there's gotta be

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Speaker 1: something where you look at.

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Speaker 3: His numbers from year to year. Was it good as good?

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Speaker 3: Was it worse? You know what I mean? Obviously the

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Speaker 3: other players got to be a ball. That's what I'm saying.

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Speaker 3: He's not eating against himself for MVP.

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Speaker 6: It's not is this show heal Tony's best year is

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Speaker 6: shoe hel Tany the best player in the National League.

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Speaker 3: But I'll give you a valuable player in the National League.

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Speaker 1: And I'll give you a perfect example. What year wasn't

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Speaker 1: Michael Jordan the MVP in the NBA. I mean, his

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Speaker 1: numbers couldn't have been more consistent. And that's all I'm saying.

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Speaker 6: So I think guys got it wrong, Like the same

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Speaker 6: reason I think Lebron having the numbers of MVPs he

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Speaker 6: has is laughable as well.

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Speaker 3: I think guys got it wrong. You think Lebron should

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Speaker 3: have how many?

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Speaker 6: I think for the last when Lebron was not the

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Speaker 6: last few years, No, No, when Lebron the end of

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Speaker 6: his first Cleveland run to through Miami to back to Cleveland.

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Speaker 6: I don't think there was a better player in the NBA.

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Speaker 6: So if your argument is should the best player and

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Speaker 6: always win the MVP, there you got. I would say,

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Speaker 6: I think guys got it wrong, like I think they

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Speaker 6: got it wrong with they got it wrong with Lebron.

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Speaker 3: See that's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: In those situations, great players, Michael didn't win it every

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Speaker 1: year even though he would. I don't know who is

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Speaker 1: better during his run. Maybe somebody had a great year.

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Speaker 1: And that's what I'm trying to say is with the show, Hey,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't matter what anybody else is doing, or if

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Speaker 1: his numbers are as good as it was the year before. Whatever,

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Speaker 1: they look at it and tell me if I'm wrong

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Speaker 1: eight seven seven ninety nine Fox. But I just get

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Speaker 1: the feeling like it doesn't matter what he does, he pitches,

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Speaker 1: he hits, he's gonna get my vote for MVP because

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Speaker 1: nobody he's a unicorn because nobody does it.

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Speaker 3: I don't think that's fair to the rest of the players.

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Speaker 3: I really problem is school he may be a unicorn.

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Speaker 1: What about tark skoobl and the year is having or

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Speaker 1: a Schemes who's not hitting gookins.

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Speaker 6: That's the thing, though, That's the thing, you know what

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Speaker 6: I mean? Or a picture of that, but the thing.

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Speaker 6: That's the thing though. Okay, so somebody who's dominating and pitching. Yes,

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Speaker 6: if he's pitching, and we'll see o Tiny ramp it

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Speaker 6: up down the stretch, and if he's pitching X y

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Speaker 6: Z better than otany and like Otiny's numbers on the

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Speaker 6: offensive side of the ball are worthy, which they obviously are.

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Speaker 1: What he does, he get hurt if he doesn't pitch, Well,

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Speaker 1: say he loses a few games, he gets knocked around.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well you think that if.

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Speaker 6: He plays worse than he shouldn't be atop the NL

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Speaker 6: MVP odds.

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Speaker 3: But I agree. But if his offense.

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Speaker 6: Is is like, if he's leading the National League in

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Speaker 6: several offensive categories and the other people in consideration aren't close,

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Speaker 6: he's got like thirteen more home runs than Tucker and

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Speaker 6: Armstrong like, he's not Crow Armstrong like, he's not close

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Speaker 6: in that regard. And on top of that, he is

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Speaker 6: warming up to pitch. If he turns out and gets

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Speaker 6: knocked around, it has an ERA of seven and is

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Speaker 6: zero for five for the Dodgers, then I don't think

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Speaker 6: his pitching would quantify in that counting.

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Speaker 3: But he's the hitting still.

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Speaker 6: Should and right now, even if he decided never to

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Speaker 6: pitch again this season, I think he has a strong

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Speaker 6: argument to.

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Speaker 3: Be the MVP.

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Speaker 1: I think if he doesn't pitch that people would be

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Speaker 1: more apt to look at other people. I think as

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Speaker 1: long as he pitches, he'll always be award to win,

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Speaker 1: and and somebody would have to beat him out. I

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Speaker 1: don't believe that, and I don't think that that's I

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Speaker 1: don't think it should I don't think it should be

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Speaker 1: like that.

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Speaker 3: I don't I don't think it should be like that.

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Speaker 3: I think you should look at.

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Speaker 1: Every year individually and not we understand he's a great player,

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Speaker 1: and and if he stays healthy and continues on his

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Speaker 1: path a Hall of Famer and all that other stuff.

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Speaker 3: That is not my argument eight seven seven ninety nine.

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Speaker 3: On Fox.

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Speaker 1: My argument is, is it just a foregone conclusion. You

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Speaker 1: know that he's gonna be the MVP because he does

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Speaker 1: two things and nobody else does that.

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Speaker 3: And is that fair? Do you feel like that's fair

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Speaker 3: to everybody else?

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Speaker 1: There's nobody else doing that, So is he automatically the MVP?

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Speaker 1: That's that's what that's the That's what I'm trying to

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Speaker 1: get because that's what it feels like to me now,

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Speaker 1: is like there's no way to unseat him if he's

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Speaker 1: doing both.

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Speaker 6: His offense is enough. He doesn't need to do bow like.

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Speaker 6: His offense isn't nothing.

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Speaker 1: I think if he's not pitching it, Martin, it would

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Speaker 1: be it would be up more, up more up to

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Speaker 1: debate if he if he wasn't.

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Speaker 6: Pitching's first in ops, first in home run, second in triples,

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Speaker 6: Like he's just hitting the cover off of the ball.

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Speaker 1: He's not first in RBS's not first in batting average.

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Speaker 6: There's all the stag But if you're first in home

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Speaker 6: runs and second in triples, whose fault is it? If

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Speaker 6: you're like he's clearing the bases, He's cleared the base

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Speaker 6: is nearly forty times in at bats.

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Speaker 1: That to me is what is his batting average? Runners

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Speaker 1: in scoring position, because that's a more accurate. When people

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Speaker 1: say it's the bottom of the order. You got to

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Speaker 1: act like he's never up with anybody on base, or

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Speaker 1: is he just hitting home runs?

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Speaker 3: Are there more to challenge him when there's nobody on base.

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Speaker 6: I'll have his numbers in running and scoring position when

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Speaker 6: we come back from the break.

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Speaker 3: But I know this the number for home runs atop

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Speaker 3: the NL.

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Speaker 1: The numbers for triples right there, So if it's runners

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Speaker 1: of scoring position, they're not there.

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Speaker 3: Forty eight bats he's clear the basis eight seven, seven

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Speaker 3: ninety nine. On Fox? Is it fair? Shay? I know?

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Speaker 3: Is it? Thinks it's fair? Right?

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Speaker 1: Show he should be MVP every year. I'm not with it.

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Speaker 1: I think it should be not just based on him

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Speaker 1: being a unicorn. It's gotta be based on how he

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Speaker 1: performs that year.

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Speaker 3: It's not a.

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Speaker 1: Lifetime achievement award. Come on, man. I'm not saying he

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Speaker 1: doesn't deserve it this year if he plays better, but

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying it shouldn't be automatic. And that's what

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Speaker 1: it feels like to me. If I'm wrong, I want

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Speaker 3: Two eighty six with runners on. Okay, that's not that impressive.

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Speaker 1: I've never been against working on the holidays. Actually, I

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Speaker 3: Depends on which holiday he is and what I at

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Speaker 3: which one.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, to me, it's it's all about that if I

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Speaker 1: Now I can work easier to get here, you know,

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Speaker 1: use it.

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Speaker 6: So this is what I'll pull back the curtain for

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Speaker 6: everybody who's not familiar with Rob Parker's strategy. Christmas got

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Speaker 6: no use for it, Thanksgiving, no time for it. Fourth

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Speaker 6: the baseball tour starts. All these comp days, and so

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Speaker 6: that way I can go, or he could go to

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Speaker 6: watch the Reds in Cincinnati, then the Tigers in Detroit,

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Speaker 6: then the Twins in Minneapolis, and then what's another team

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Speaker 6: to watch the Padres, Angels, Dodgers, all the way up

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Speaker 6: to the Giants of the Mariners in fourteen days.

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Speaker 3: It's because he works for all the holidays.

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Speaker 6: He uses all the comp days, so that way he

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Speaker 6: could take off, you know August fourth, Oh.

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Speaker 5: He's gonna be going the whole entire August.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I know this August is going to be.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, between the NABJ National Association of Black Journalists and

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Speaker 1: I have so much time. Last year they forced me

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Speaker 1: to take off because they said I was going to

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Speaker 1: lose the time. So I'm going to take off in August,

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Speaker 1: right before we get ready for football season and whatnot.

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Speaker 3: And I'm thinking in.

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Speaker 1: August August August August.

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Speaker 3: Was like two and a half a world tour basically,

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Speaker 3: and boy and the other thing too.

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Speaker 1: The last thing is before we get into our topic,

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Speaker 1: do you think Martin, I'll be able to do this.

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Speaker 1: I want to go dark for three days. I want

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Speaker 1: to go to Hawaii. I'm going to plug my phone in,

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Speaker 1: turn it off, just let it charge, talk to my

666
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Speaker 1: family and friends, and say, anybody that really needs me,

667
00:32:50,680 --> 00:32:53,840
Speaker 1: call the hotel. Here's a hotel number. If there's an emergency,

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Speaker 1: you call. But other than that, I will have no

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Speaker 1: outside content.

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Speaker 3: Who are you? Okay by myself, I'm just gonna go.

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Speaker 6: But I don't even know if a hotel even has

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Speaker 6: that apparatus in place anymore. What what somebody could call

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Speaker 6: you like to take, like to take and deliver a message? No,

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Speaker 6: but I mean if I have a blinking light on

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Speaker 6: the phone said like A.

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Speaker 3: I don't know. I've stayed in a hotel, yes, a

677
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Speaker 3: couple of days. I don't even think.

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Speaker 6: There was I'm trying to remember there was even if

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Speaker 6: there was a phone in the room, there was.

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Speaker 1: A phone I just had them call me to wake

681
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Speaker 1: me up make sure I miss my flight. Like they

682
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Speaker 1: still do the wake up calls, they still give you messages.

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Speaker 1: My point is, do you think I'm gonna be able

684
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Speaker 1: to survive for three days without any contact on social media, phone, three.

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Speaker 5: Hours on the show, without being on your phone.

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Speaker 3: I could do it easily, without a doubt, without a doubt. Shay,

687
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Speaker 3: you can too.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, No, easy, easy, especially if I'm on vacation. Easy.

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Speaker 6: I have not not I say I would have anxiety

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Speaker 6: knowing I had somewhere to be or something.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, Like if I'm at work, then I'm gonna be like, oh,

692
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Speaker 9: I'm gonna check my phone. But if I'm like gone

693
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Speaker 9: on vacation, I got nowhere to be. I'm chilling like

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Speaker 9: I don't want to look at my phone.

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Speaker 3: It's easy. You'll have a good time. You don't even

696
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Speaker 3: think about your phone.

697
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Speaker 1: Well, see, and everybody gets on me about my phone.

698
00:34:18,800 --> 00:34:20,520
Speaker 1: But I'm getting information and knowledge.

699
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Speaker 3: I'm not.

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Speaker 7: I'm not talking to you, know, dang well you're texting

701
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Speaker 7: Lady's stop it.

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Speaker 1: It's just it's just knowledge, all right, Mar We're gonna

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Speaker 1: finish up this final hour to program.

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Speaker 3: You feel like Okay, I got it. I got it.

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Speaker 6: So Grant Williams was on a podcast. Uh you know

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Speaker 6: what what is it called? It's done by actually one

707
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Speaker 6: of my USC cohort, like one of my classmates, and

708
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Speaker 6: I've randomly saw her posters on Instagram.

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Speaker 1: Well, now you're a USC guy, not a Michigan guy.

710
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Speaker 1: Does does the master trump the underground?

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Speaker 6: I'm just asking, no, the connection that I had with

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Speaker 6: one of Lachelle's Smith as I met her at us C. No,

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Speaker 6: I'm just asking I got the football team I root

714
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Speaker 6: for the answers Michigan. If you asked me where I

715
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Speaker 6: went to college and met Michelle Smith at the us C.

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Speaker 3: What school? When you talk to people, what school do

717
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Speaker 3: you say you went to? Miss where I went to school?

718
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Speaker 3: I'm not you.

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Speaker 6: I don't do that dance of like, oh my more

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Speaker 6: impressive quote unquote.

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Speaker 3: School you're talking about? Undergrad is where you went to school?

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Speaker 3: I'm a undergrad? Is where you went to see I'm

723
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Speaker 3: a Southern Connecticut guy. What are you talking about?

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Speaker 1: Exactly exactly, I'm not at Southern Connecticut State University in

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Speaker 1: New Haven, Connecticut.

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Speaker 5: Where'd you get your undergrad?

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Speaker 3: Though? That's why I got onto that.

728
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Speaker 5: So when people ask you where'd you go to school,

729
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Speaker 5: you say that.

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Speaker 3: I went to Missouri.

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Speaker 1: No, no, no, I say I went to Southern Connecticut

732
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Speaker 1: and Columbia.

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Speaker 3: Those are the two schools I went to. All right,

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Speaker 3: you're ready. Yes.

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Speaker 6: So Lachelle Smith had Grant Williams on her podcast, and

736
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Speaker 6: on this podcast, Grant Williams said, you know, basically, all

737
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Speaker 6: this conversation has been the players have been getting taken

738
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Speaker 6: to the cleaners in this new CBA, this new second apron.

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Speaker 3: Well, who signed, who signed that agreement the CBA, He's

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Speaker 3: one of the people. That's what I'm saying that I'm

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Speaker 3: just I'm setting it just kills me, like the union,

742
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Speaker 3: you agree to this, go ahead.

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Speaker 6: So he's saying that basically, and he goes and brings

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Speaker 6: up a talking point that I've heard Adam Silver say

745
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Speaker 6: several times across like different places. And to me, this

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Speaker 6: shows that the nf the NBA Players Association, the Players Union,

747
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Speaker 6: which is one of the stronger ones in professional sports,

748
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Speaker 6: got taken to the cleaners. For sure, because I first

749
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Speaker 6: heard Adam Silver say this on breakfast Ball, the show

750
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Speaker 6: on that FS one.

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Speaker 3: I never missed breakfast Ball.

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Speaker 6: If we're going to have a Super Bowl and it's

753
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Speaker 6: Packers verse Deelers.

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Speaker 3: You guys will celebrate that.

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Speaker 6: No one would talk about Pittsburgh being a small market

756
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Speaker 6: or green Bay being a small market. It's been intentional

757
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Speaker 6: to create a CBA that allows more teams to compete.

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Speaker 6: Grant then said this is from breakfast a month and

759
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Speaker 6: a half ago. Grant Williams said yesterday on this podcast

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Speaker 6: that you know between the second apron being the way

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Speaker 6: it is, and between the second apron being the way

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Speaker 6: it is and parody being the way it is, that

763
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Speaker 6: it's easier now for NFL. Like the NFL parody is

764
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Speaker 6: the reason why people are locked in, and now the

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Speaker 6: NBA is gonna have more parody because of it, and

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Speaker 6: also saying that these taxes help benefit basketball because if

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Speaker 6: you look at baseball, baseball pays there. You know, they

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Speaker 6: can just pay for whatever they're looking for. Right in

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Speaker 6: terms of the Dodgers, Yankees, whoever, the highest paid teams

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Speaker 6: of the teams that end up in the World Series

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Speaker 6: are the ones that are the most successful. And my

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Speaker 6: whole thing is why if you are basketball, are you

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Speaker 6: trying to be like any other like you should not

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Speaker 6: be like baseball? You should not be like football. The

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Speaker 6: thing that why baseball works the way it does is

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Speaker 6: because in the the big one hundred and sixty two

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Speaker 6: inventory of the regular season, you have to have these

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Speaker 6: big event feeling type of moments where you have five

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Speaker 6: three all stars on one side, three all stars on

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Speaker 6: the other side. Let's watch them play a weekend series.

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Speaker 6: When the Dodgers play the Yankees, people are locked in.

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Speaker 6: When the Dodgers go play the Padres, people are locked

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Speaker 6: in because those are big names, big series. Might lose

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Speaker 6: a little bit on the on the Rockies the Rockies

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Speaker 6: White Sox game today, but the reality is that's the

786
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Speaker 6: way baseball is going to have to be.

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Speaker 3: In football, it's.

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Speaker 6: The scarcity of games is the reason why it matters,

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Speaker 6: because you could be seven and five or five and

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Speaker 6: seven and still make a run because you're only playing

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Speaker 6: seventeen games. The NBA needs to find its own way

792
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Speaker 6: instead of trying to copy what made other sports popular.

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Speaker 3: And it's just it's just whacked to me.

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Speaker 1: I didn't buy his comparison because under breakfast ball, I

795
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Speaker 1: don't know what they said or follow up the small market.

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Speaker 1: He could say, the Packers, what do you say the Packers.

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Speaker 1: And so those are two storied franchises, okay, like Story.

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Speaker 3: OKC and Indiana. They haven't won anything.

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Speaker 1: Like it's not a fair comparison to look at the

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Speaker 1: markets and say, well it was those teams playing, you

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Speaker 1: wouldn't think anything of it.

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Speaker 3: Well, there's a big difference.

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Speaker 1: And in the NBA's history, would you call the Spurs

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Speaker 1: a great organization?

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 1: They won five championship in twenty tes okay, and they

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Speaker 1: have three of the lowest rated NBA finals. Why why

808
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Speaker 1: could they weren't a good team? No, it's small markets

809
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Speaker 1: matter in the NBA. We just watched the lowest rated

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Speaker 1: NBA finals since the since the COVID. But I don't

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Speaker 1: even I disagree with that premise because when so like

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Speaker 1: you think about this, I'm thirty five, okay, so that

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Speaker 1: for the majority of my life I should have said

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Speaker 1: the majority I said a third of my life. Cleveland

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Speaker 1: was the epicenter of the NBA, and nobody was crying

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Speaker 1: for Cleveland.

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Speaker 3: But nobody was saying.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, got get if you have an old

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Speaker 1: you have an all time you have an all time

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Speaker 1: great because I can.

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Speaker 3: Get because no point on it. If you have an

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Speaker 3: all time great and a small well.

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Speaker 1: Most people don't have an all time I'm just saying

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Speaker 1: the market size does matter. I'll give you a better one.

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Speaker 1: The New Jersey Nets went to two finals. They're part

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Speaker 1: of the worst rated finals too when they played. The

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Speaker 1: reason is that they're in New Jersey, but they were

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Speaker 1: considered a small market because they don't have a television

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Speaker 1: market Martin.

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Speaker 3: They don't have a big enough fan base. So they

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Speaker 3: got to the finals.

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Speaker 1: They had an exciting team, carried kittles, all the stuff,

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Speaker 1: and they still didn't rate.

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Speaker 6: Right because they didn't have an all time great or

835
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Speaker 6: sustained period.

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Speaker 3: Because I'm talking about the market size.

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Speaker 1: The Cleveland was different from the standpoint, but Lebron left

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Speaker 1: there because he felt he couldn't get anybody to come

839
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Speaker 1: supposedly to Cleveland, right, and that wasments.

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Speaker 3: But that's not what they're talking about.

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Speaker 6: They're talking about people having the ability to compete because

842
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Speaker 6: of parody, not because like, oh you can't get this

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00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:03,040
Speaker 6: guy to come here. You are in this point the

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Speaker 6: ratings are so low, Like if you have the stars,

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Speaker 6: if you have people who deem to be the best

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Speaker 6: in this sport, and those stars are also charismatic, I

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Speaker 6: think that's the biggest problem that's come across the NBA

848
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Speaker 6: in the last five years. Giannis is the most decently charismatic,

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Speaker 6: but Jokic is boring and has no interest in being

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Speaker 6: on television and being an entertainer.

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Speaker 3: Like Steph Curry.

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Speaker 6: You know, he's as an entertaining style of play, but

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Speaker 6: I would not say he is an entertaining personality. He's

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Speaker 6: I would I'm not calling Steph an entertaining personality.

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Speaker 3: He's boring. Yeah, his style of play is not boring.

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00:41:37,120 --> 00:41:39,360
Speaker 6: But in terms of the personality, Anthony Edwards to me,

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Speaker 6: he has a ton of personality and an exciting style

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Speaker 6: of play.

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Speaker 3: And but you look at the Packers.

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Speaker 6: What made the Packers the packers for Adam Silver or

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Speaker 6: what makes the small market franchises that are pillars in

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Speaker 6: the NFL the pillars that they are.

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00:41:53,040 --> 00:41:55,440
Speaker 3: It's historically they had the success.

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Speaker 6: The first two MVPs were from Green Bell, the first

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Speaker 6: two Super Bowls were won in green and they have

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Speaker 6: been a contender.

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Speaker 1: Like oh, but that's not the point that I'm making

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Speaker 1: built But to the point, that's what built them up.

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Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying, right, but you can't.

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Speaker 1: But you can't look at Indiana that's never won anything,

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Speaker 1: or or okay, see that's a new franchise, and put

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Speaker 1: them on par with the Steelers and with the Packers,

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Speaker 1: and saying just going by markets because it's not just that.

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Speaker 3: Uh they thought that.

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Speaker 1: A perfect example is Jacksonville was supposed to be the Packers.

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Speaker 1: Oh you're able to do it in green Bay, right,

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Speaker 1: with a small market, So let's go put a team

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Speaker 1: in Jacksonville. Has it been as successful. No, that's why

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Speaker 1: they played three of their games in Europe every year

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Speaker 1: because they can't sell tickets, and and it's it's a

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Speaker 1: small market and they haven't won, and they haven't been

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Speaker 1: able to sustain success.

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Speaker 9: Wait you think that they the only reason they're in

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Speaker 9: Europe is because they can't sell tickets.

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Speaker 3: Oh, that's part of it. It's a big reason. No,

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Speaker 3: it's it is that they picked them. But the owner

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Speaker 3: also to London. Oh yeah, I get that.

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Speaker 1: No, no, no, but I'm saying for them to have three games,

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Speaker 1: they've had way more than anybody because they don't sell

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Speaker 1: they don't do well there. Yeah, that's all I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: In Jacksonville, right, that was a model. Green Bay was

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Speaker 1: supposed to be the model for why Jacksonville would work.

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Speaker 1: And I bet you if you told them if they

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Speaker 1: could move somewhere else, they probably would at this point.

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Speaker 3: All right?

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Speaker 6: Your your question is should the should the NBA try

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Speaker 6: to be more like the NFL or like Major League

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Speaker 6: Baseball and in that trying to enhance the parody like

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Speaker 6: the NFL has are trying to eliminate some of these

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Speaker 6: for Peter taxes and luxury taxes that exist are make

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Speaker 6: those peniments so punitive that you don't see the stars

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Speaker 6: lining up. You look at the Dodgers, they have five

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Speaker 6: All Stars or six All Stars.

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