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Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: I am a big fan of being open and honest

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Speaker 2: with everyone and just letting people know where they stand,

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Speaker 2: where I stand, where you stand, like, please be an

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Speaker 2: open book. I try to be an open book. I

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Speaker 2: don't know why people like this is the beautiful, beautiful

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Speaker 2: you stand. And if they don't like it, who cares? Right,

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Speaker 2: That's the beautiful thing about this. So from salam As,

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Speaker 2: we broadcast live from these Fox Sports Radio studios, and

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Speaker 2: this game seven is about to start. I think that

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Speaker 2: for the second or third time, you and I should

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Speaker 2: probably let people know where we stand. Right don't you

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Speaker 2: think we should be an open book?

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Speaker 1: Right now?

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Speaker 3: I am an open book?

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Speaker 1: Okay? Okay?

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Speaker 2: So I mean would you like to start? Would you

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Speaker 2: like me to start? Or how would you like to

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Speaker 2: what's that?

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Speaker 3: Please start?

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Speaker 2: Okay? So the pacers are about to play the thunder,

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Speaker 2: and your two radio hosts tonight are going to wrap

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Speaker 2: up the word objectivity and we're going to put it

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Speaker 2: into a box and we're going to wrap the box,

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Speaker 2: we're going to throw that box in the trash can.

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Speaker 2: That's what we're going to do. There is no objectivity.

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Speaker 2: Tonight you are listening live to two rabbid intense Pacers

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Speaker 2: fans as this game gets going, because all based on

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Speaker 2: a conversation that started on this radio show exactly two

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Speaker 2: weeks ago. Turns out that you and I and as

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Speaker 2: we talked about a little bit last week, we got

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Speaker 2: together on a transaction a transaction, and we thought maybe

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Speaker 2: maybe things were a little bit out of whack in

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Speaker 2: terms of how much of an underdog the Pacers were.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if necessarily we thought the Pacers were

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Speaker 2: a chance. And these numbers are completely crazy. They're like

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Speaker 2: off the map, So like, I don't know, you want

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Speaker 2: to make this fun, and then you're like, let's make

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Speaker 2: this fun. I'm like, let's make this fun. And then

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Speaker 2: we're feeling very good about ourselves, and then we were

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Speaker 2: feeling very bad about ourselves. And now I'd like to know,

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Speaker 2: as we arrive at the final game, how you feeling.

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Speaker 3: I feel good, Okay, I feel great.

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Speaker 1: Okay.

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Speaker 4: The thing we love about game sevens, and why game

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Speaker 4: sevens are so popular is because anything can happen. It

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Speaker 4: doesn't matter where you're playing, and of course it helps

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Speaker 4: if you're at home, but it doesn't matter where you're playing.

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Speaker 4: It's literally all right, let's see how this thing golos.

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Speaker 4: And it's exciting that the Pacers have to feel amazing

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Speaker 4: right now because there's.

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Speaker 2: No pressure on them.

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Speaker 4: There's no pressure, yep, all the pressures on the greatest

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Speaker 4: team to ever play analytics wise. I mean, they've they've

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Speaker 4: beaten people by a point margin and never seen and

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Speaker 4: this era of we all of the all of those things.

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Speaker 4: The PACER's just here, they're just we should We don't

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Speaker 4: even know. We aren't even supposed to be here. So

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Speaker 4: let's do something special.

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Speaker 2: I'll tell you what, man, you come out of game

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Speaker 1: It was going away in the end.

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Speaker 2: The Pacers, they made a run at them and they

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Speaker 2: so they win, and they're up three to two, and

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Speaker 2: they look like they're dominant selves. They look like they've

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Speaker 2: in a game that the Thunder appeared to have no

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Speaker 2: I gotta tell you, Eve, the biggest surprise to me,

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Speaker 2: winning Game six, with an NBA Championship ring sitting there

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Speaker 2: There was a big game that night in the WNBA

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Speaker 2: Caitlyn Clark was in town, and so we had been

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Speaker 1: It was going to be a remote control night.

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Speaker 2: It was gonna be a toggle night because I want

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Speaker 2: to see what Caitlyn had for the Valkyries and what

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Speaker 2: the home crowd was feeling for that. But we also

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Speaker 2: had Game six of the NBA Finals, and by the

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Speaker 2: NBA Finals was not something anybody wanted to watch. The

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Speaker 2: Pacers had almost doubled what the thunder wor was gooring,

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Speaker 2: and I couldn't believe it.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's a title waiting for you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that was odd to me.

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Speaker 4: Yeah it you know, it happens, man, It happens like that.

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Speaker 4: You can get punched in the mouth and you can

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Speaker 4: feel and think that you can get.

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Speaker 5: Up from it.

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Speaker 4: But let's not forget this is the second youngest team

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Speaker 4: ever to play in the finals. The only person with

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Speaker 4: So they may not even know how to respond or

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Speaker 4: how they're supposed to act. That's why this journey is

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Speaker 4: the journey. Now, if this is next year, it's a

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Speaker 4: different situation based on especially if they end up losing

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Speaker 4: this tonight to Endy. If they're in this position next

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Speaker 4: year again, like, that's what you've learned from. So someone

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Speaker 4: what happened last year. There's not a lot of that

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Speaker 4: and so this is part of it.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 4: If they are able to pull this off, that's miraculous. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: it's miraculous. But you know, we'll see who's the rift?

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Speaker 2: Do we see? Is it Scott Foster? Is?

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Speaker 1: Do we have the okay? Good? Good? Well that's good

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Speaker 1: because you can't.

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Speaker 2: His nickname is the extender, and I don't think that

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Speaker 2: this series can be extended. I read the rules. It's

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Speaker 2: not allowed. So no Scott Foster necessary tonight. But I

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Speaker 2: tell you what I wonder immediately what you could do

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Speaker 2: to describe to people the weight of a one game

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Speaker 2: You don't get a series, you work your way, you

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Speaker 2: know everyone's looking at today. Everyone knows the thunder or

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Speaker 1: YadA, YadA, YadA.

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Speaker 2: But what I think we're all waiting for is who

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Speaker 2: looks like the weight of the moment is kind of

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Speaker 1: What did that feel like for you?

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Speaker 4: It was it was a surreal feeling. As the game

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Speaker 1: He's got to play from my hut.

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Speaker 3: It was a surreal feeling.

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Speaker 4: Because the thing about when I'm talking about youth, I'm

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Speaker 4: talking about it from experience. I was twenty two years old.

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Speaker 4: I was actually the youngest player to ever start in

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Speaker 4: the Super Bowl.

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Speaker 2: At the time.

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Speaker 4: And so for me it was nothing. It was like, oh, y'all,

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Speaker 4: don't do this every year. It was oh, you know,

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Speaker 4: this is my first experience in the NFL and here

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Speaker 4: we are in the super Bowl and I was too old.

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Speaker 4: I'll never forget our NFC championship game. We beat Minnesota

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Speaker 4: Man was that he was like this, I've been in

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Speaker 4: the league fifteen years, right, I've never even almost came

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Speaker 4: And you want to talk about ice in your veins

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Speaker 4: You cannot fester, you cannot wonder, you cannot get upset.

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Speaker 4: You just gotta let it go and move on. And

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Speaker 4: it's hard to do that when you're young.

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Speaker 2: Tell you what like, just you know, the the quick

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Speaker 2: like Kyrie Irving hit the Big three down the stretch,

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Speaker 1: Just remember how low scoring that game was.

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Speaker 1: Quarter missed all the shots.

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Speaker 2: Oh, everybody just missed all of the shots, right, So

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Speaker 2: what happens? I think the gravity of the moment is

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Speaker 1: It's a slower game.

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Speaker 2: Everything becomes more deliberate, everything's more stressful, and to a degree,

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Speaker 2: I find that to be.

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Speaker 1: A little bit of an equalizer.

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Speaker 2: I think it's harder to blow someone out run away

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Speaker 2: my glasses are are are foggy on this one, but

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Speaker 2: I feel like that little aspect of this could be

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Speaker 2: potentially a little helpful to Indiana on this night, because Okay,

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Speaker 2: see when they play here, things get going downhill fast, yes,

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Speaker 2: and they run away from people and they build these

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Speaker 2: seven minutes. I don't know, but I feel like that's

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Speaker 2: harder to do in game seven.

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Speaker 3: Yeah it is.

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Speaker 4: It's it's gonna be one of these situations where you know,

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Speaker 4: you really just you gotta hope and pray you're on.

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Speaker 4: You gotta hope you're on. And basketball is such a

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Speaker 4: nuanced thing, as I have spent the last you know,

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Speaker 3: Traffic to get back.

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Speaker 4: I got a whole and when we're doing storytime, I

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Speaker 4: got a whole nother story for that.

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Speaker 2: Oh good, I can't wait. I love storytime.

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Speaker 3: It's you know, halla Burton's out, he's hitting, He's hit

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Speaker 3: the three.

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Speaker 1: Yep.

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Speaker 4: Like this is going to be a heck of a game,

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Speaker 4: and is glad we're doing it together.

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Speaker 2: It's going to be a fight. You want to do storytime?

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Speaker 2: I'd love to hear storytime.

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Speaker 3: Let's do it when we come back.

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Speaker 2: Halfway through quarter one pacers by one. This one has

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Speaker 2: you got a story for us?

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Speaker 4: I'm like, no, that's open shoting.

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Speaker 3: Oh okay, all right, I mean the pay's got to

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Speaker 2: You're right. The Pacers last possession, I think they had

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: He's been there before, and that's what we were talking

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Speaker 4: Now story time, So we have another tournament, made hoops

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Speaker 4: This is three weekends in a row where I have

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Speaker 2: Well to give people around the country context leaving your house.

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Speaker 1: No traffic California no traffic.

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Speaker 2: I've had days where I've needed to go three miles

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Speaker 2: this is not this is the weekend. It's not rush hour.

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Speaker 2: This is not any of that. Oh no, oh no, oh,

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Speaker 2: oh boy, Tyrese. Haliburton is down. Haliburton is down, and

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Speaker 3: You know what that is?

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Speaker 2: Did he just tear his achilles? I mean, this was

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Speaker 2: exactly the worry. Watch it there, Yep, you see it?

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Speaker 7: And this is it is this unbelievable, awful, eerily reminiscent

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Speaker 2: There was a calf strain and there was a conversation

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Speaker 2: I would say a normal thinking human being at a

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Speaker 1: And and I don't.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what's.

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Speaker 1: Really scary right now.

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Speaker 2: It's the is did the Jason Tatum thing just happen

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Speaker 3: I don't know, man, that that is sad that that's.

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Speaker 2: And you know, yeah, I mean, like, gosh, there's so

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Speaker 1: But like, just even even if we whittle.

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Speaker 1: But I also just think about what.

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Speaker 2: Like Game seven in the championship round is people's favorite.

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Speaker 1: Thing in the world.

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Speaker 4: Time didn't want to become a legend? Oh gosh, listen

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Speaker 4: how you become a Guess who you can ask about it?

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Speaker 1: Who? Nick Foles?

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Speaker 2: You can eat a man has a statue.

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Speaker 1: Yep.

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Speaker 3: If you want to become a legend, this is how

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Speaker 1: Like Hostetler, Come on, it's there?

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Speaker 3: What else it's there?

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Speaker 1: Well? Yeah, has that ever happened in basketball?

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Speaker 2: Though? You know what I mean, I don't know. I

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Speaker 2: don't know who is Like, can we can we do this?

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Speaker 1: What?

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Speaker 3: Can we just call calf strains what they are?

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Speaker 1: Uh, precursors to tornic? Can we just.

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Speaker 4: Achille springs because this, oh it's a cab. No one

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Speaker 4: so they put it on the calf. Calf is a

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Speaker 4: Steve's about to fall out of his chair. Steve is

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Speaker 4: about to fall. He can't even take it. TJ time,

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Speaker 4: TJ time. I'll save story time for after, Yeah, for after.

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Speaker 4: And you know what, Let's get to him early. Let's

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Speaker 3: Wow, you guys are not wrong.

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Speaker 8: Exactly what we think happened just to happen on the

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Speaker 8: This is Game seven of the NBA Finals. Oklahoma City

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Speaker 8: is leading eighteen sixteen over the Pacers. We got four

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Speaker 8: Halliburton had just become the first player in the history

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Speaker 8: Where the player is trying for that quick burst with

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Speaker 8: It's eighteen all now, first quarter at Okce, where the

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Speaker 5: No sitting down. Tonight, Game seven of the NBA Final.

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Speaker 2: Everybody goes home with a torn cow. Anyway, go go ahead.

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Speaker 8: By the way, the Pacers franchise has won titles before.

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Speaker 8: They were ABA championships nineteen seventy sec and seventy three

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Speaker 3: You get that one.

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Speaker 8: The NBA Draft starts on Wednesday, and my goodness, we

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Speaker 8: about a minute ago, in the first quarter of Game

442
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Speaker 8: seven of the NBA Finals, OK see up twenty to

443
00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:08,280
Speaker 8: twenty over the Pacers, but Tyrese Halliburton out with a

444
00:24:08,320 --> 00:24:09,160
Speaker 8: serious injury.

445
00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:12,440
Speaker 2: Back to you, Steve goudstuff and thank you and E.

446
00:24:12,960 --> 00:24:13,520
Speaker 1: I don't know.

447
00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:16,720
Speaker 2: I mean again, we all know what we just saw.

448
00:24:17,480 --> 00:24:21,600
Speaker 2: Did you watch Tyrese actually exit the court?

449
00:24:21,720 --> 00:24:23,800
Speaker 3: Yeah, holy crap.

450
00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:28,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was as bout as hard to watch.

451
00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:33,959
Speaker 4: Yeah, and he's feeling on tonight. He was on, he

452
00:24:34,119 --> 00:24:37,480
Speaker 4: was he was on in his mind. I'm going for

453
00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:42,119
Speaker 4: forty Yep, I'm tonight. I'm giving him a forty point

454
00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:46,400
Speaker 4: triple double. That's that's how he came into the game.

455
00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:48,000
Speaker 4: That's how he came into shooting.

456
00:24:48,359 --> 00:24:49,080
Speaker 2: And when that.

457
00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:51,679
Speaker 4: Thing is snatched away from you, it's hard, man, it is.

458
00:24:52,160 --> 00:24:56,000
Speaker 4: This is probably going to be the most emotional he's ever.

459
00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:57,640
Speaker 3: Been in his entire life right now.

460
00:24:57,800 --> 00:24:58,040
Speaker 1: Yep.

461
00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:01,440
Speaker 3: And the other thing like to get you there.

462
00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:04,080
Speaker 1: Well, I mean it just.

463
00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:11,080
Speaker 2: I think about these kinds of moments when like everything

464
00:25:11,880 --> 00:25:14,400
Speaker 2: everything just changes, like.

465
00:25:14,440 --> 00:25:16,000
Speaker 1: Your whole world.

466
00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:20,760
Speaker 2: And again, it's sports. It's not a car accident. Nobody

467
00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:24,959
Speaker 2: has passed away tonight. But you go from a moment

468
00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:28,720
Speaker 2: of this guy's Q rating has gone up higher than

469
00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:31,439
Speaker 2: any other player in the NBA, in these playoffs. He

470
00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:35,400
Speaker 2: is at the biggest rise and that's not arguable. And

471
00:25:36,760 --> 00:25:39,440
Speaker 2: you have taken your team all the way to Game

472
00:25:39,520 --> 00:25:43,240
Speaker 2: seven of the NBA Finals. You're on the road, you

473
00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:47,440
Speaker 2: show up and immediately, as you just said, you're on

474
00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:52,800
Speaker 2: one like you've got an opportunity for a legendary performance.

475
00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:58,000
Speaker 2: And in one step. Now it's like, I don't even

476
00:25:58,040 --> 00:26:03,199
Speaker 2: think I'm playing basketball next year like that, Wow, what

477
00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:07,600
Speaker 2: mentally and emotionally he must be dealing with right now

478
00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:08,639
Speaker 2: to me is overwhelming.

479
00:26:09,640 --> 00:26:16,399
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's literally like it's literally you'd rather.

480
00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:22,400
Speaker 4: Be anywhere on any anywhere off the earth, anywhere outside

481
00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:23,359
Speaker 4: the atmosphere.

482
00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:25,800
Speaker 3: That's where you physically want to be.

483
00:26:25,920 --> 00:26:27,960
Speaker 4: You don't want to look at anything, you don't want

484
00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:28,920
Speaker 4: to hear anything.

485
00:26:29,280 --> 00:26:30,640
Speaker 3: The only thing that.

486
00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:36,560
Speaker 4: Almost saves this, almost is if they get this win. Oh,

487
00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:42,119
Speaker 4: that's the only thing they'll stop you from dipping down

488
00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:43,920
Speaker 4: into a form of depression.

489
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Speaker 3: Brother. And I'm telling you, it is real.

490
00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:48,080
Speaker 2: Yep, yep, it is real.

491
00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:49,080
Speaker 1: No, I believe it.

492
00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:51,520
Speaker 2: I believe it because when you're talking about the physical

493
00:26:51,560 --> 00:26:55,120
Speaker 2: side of this also, like even just you know, we've

494
00:26:55,160 --> 00:26:59,080
Speaker 2: watched story after story of athletes talk about when you

495
00:26:59,119 --> 00:27:03,080
Speaker 2: get that close to a title, whether it be Game

496
00:27:03,200 --> 00:27:07,920
Speaker 2: seven of the NBA Finals, whether it's losing the Super

497
00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:10,159
Speaker 2: Bowl in a close game. You know, you think about

498
00:27:10,440 --> 00:27:12,640
Speaker 2: the way the Eagles lost the Super Bowl a few

499
00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:15,360
Speaker 2: years ago to the Chiefs. You think about the Niners

500
00:27:15,359 --> 00:27:17,960
Speaker 2: with an overtime loss to the Super Bowl. You think

501
00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:21,600
Speaker 2: about the Atlanta Falcons when twenty eight to three, Like

502
00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:27,919
Speaker 2: when you lose a bass or a sporting event like that, Like,

503
00:27:28,160 --> 00:27:31,879
Speaker 2: guys have talked about how long it takes them to

504
00:27:31,880 --> 00:27:35,800
Speaker 2: get over it, and in fact, we've started to nickname

505
00:27:36,400 --> 00:27:39,960
Speaker 2: the following year for teams like that Super Bowl hangover,

506
00:27:41,080 --> 00:27:45,800
Speaker 2: like it is very, very difficult to recover from stuff

507
00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:49,439
Speaker 2: like this. And so you're right, you know, winning this

508
00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:54,720
Speaker 2: game tonight would maybe ease some of the pain, but

509
00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:58,320
Speaker 2: that is one hell of an order.

510
00:27:59,080 --> 00:28:01,320
Speaker 1: And I would just say, you know, you joked a

511
00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:01,840
Speaker 1: minute ago.

512
00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:06,119
Speaker 2: Hey TJ McConnell, you want to be a legend, here's

513
00:28:06,160 --> 00:28:09,960
Speaker 2: your opportunity. You're not wrong. I would say the early

514
00:28:10,040 --> 00:28:14,520
Speaker 2: returns on the first three minutes not looking great, kind

515
00:28:14,520 --> 00:28:17,320
Speaker 2: of kind of looks a little bit like the first

516
00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:21,280
Speaker 2: ten minutes of the movie when it's like, oh God,

517
00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:23,399
Speaker 2: you know what I mean, he needs to teen wolf

518
00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:23,840
Speaker 2: out here.

519
00:28:23,920 --> 00:28:26,000
Speaker 1: Sorry to age myself, but he needs to turn into a.

520
00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:32,920
Speaker 2: Wolf because the regular TJ McConnell immediately showed as someone

521
00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:34,920
Speaker 2: who looks like he's not going to be able to

522
00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:38,120
Speaker 2: help the Pacers get a good shot off on offense.

523
00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:43,880
Speaker 2: Oklahoma City's defense is real. And so he's a change

524
00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:46,440
Speaker 2: of pace guy and now he's just a pace guy.

525
00:28:48,080 --> 00:28:52,920
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's that's a different thing. That is, that is

526
00:28:53,440 --> 00:29:01,280
Speaker 4: a completely different thing when your role changes. Immediately everything

527
00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:08,840
Speaker 4: you got. People got to realize everything is. It becomes

528
00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:13,040
Speaker 4: ritual everything you do. I know, at a certain amount,

529
00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:17,280
Speaker 4: at the four minute mark, I'm going in, right, I know,

530
00:29:17,480 --> 00:29:22,200
Speaker 4: at the nine minute mark, I'm coming out. So once

531
00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:28,440
Speaker 4: you change what your responsibilities are, and now you are

532
00:29:30,920 --> 00:29:35,160
Speaker 4: the go to guy, not the spark, not the spark,

533
00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:38,959
Speaker 4: the go to guy. Now you have to give us

534
00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:43,480
Speaker 4: twenty five, not it's extra if you give us twenty five.

535
00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:48,400
Speaker 4: Now we need your twenty five. And in that shot,

536
00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:53,720
Speaker 4: the need and you know, the want and all that.

537
00:29:54,000 --> 00:29:55,160
Speaker 4: It makes it a different shot.

538
00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:55,920
Speaker 3: Now.

539
00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:58,280
Speaker 4: TJ's been in the league a long time, He's made

540
00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:02,080
Speaker 4: a career of effort. Just give the effort. Everything else

541
00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:04,480
Speaker 4: to fall into place. Just give the effort.

542
00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:04,920
Speaker 1: Yep.

543
00:30:06,800 --> 00:30:11,640
Speaker 2: Well here's the we're really searching. But you want your

544
00:30:11,640 --> 00:30:15,040
Speaker 2: silver lining and it's not so much of silver lining.

545
00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:20,360
Speaker 1: But what did you say off the top of the last.

546
00:30:20,120 --> 00:30:24,680
Speaker 2: Segment, you said, Look, game seven, you're on the road,

547
00:30:25,360 --> 00:30:28,760
Speaker 2: those role players, you got to let it flow. Hey,

548
00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:32,320
Speaker 2: you gotta let it hang out. You gotta just take

549
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:35,520
Speaker 2: that fear and somehow bottle it up and leave it

550
00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:41,840
Speaker 2: in the locker room. Well, now, I mean, gentlemen, you

551
00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:45,800
Speaker 2: have nothing to lose, and so I think that's what

552
00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:49,840
Speaker 2: you're what you're getting at, Like, just let it rip,

553
00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:54,840
Speaker 2: and if it sucks, it sucks. But there's there's nothing

554
00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:56,560
Speaker 2: to even think about out there.

555
00:30:57,120 --> 00:30:59,080
Speaker 1: The world already thought you were gonna lose.

556
00:31:00,360 --> 00:31:04,520
Speaker 2: Now those buses that went viral before the game, now

557
00:31:04,520 --> 00:31:07,080
Speaker 2: their engines are on. For those of you who don't

558
00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:09,920
Speaker 2: know what I'm talking about, there's a video circulating of

559
00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:15,400
Speaker 2: the buses that already say OKC Thunder twenty twenty five NBA.

560
00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:17,320
Speaker 1: Champions and.

561
00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:21,640
Speaker 2: You know there they are in the back of the

562
00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:22,880
Speaker 2: bowels of the stadium.

563
00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:25,960
Speaker 4: Ran that ran into something like that when I was

564
00:31:25,960 --> 00:31:27,960
Speaker 4: playing an NFC championship game.

565
00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:28,720
Speaker 2: Did you Oh?

566
00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:29,800
Speaker 1: Yeah.

567
00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:38,240
Speaker 4: During the game that we were currently playing in the

568
00:31:38,280 --> 00:31:42,280
Speaker 4: third quarter, the announcer tells the people in the stands

569
00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:47,320
Speaker 4: in Minnesota where they can go to purchase their Super

570
00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:48,160
Speaker 4: Bowl packages?

571
00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:54,600
Speaker 2: Did you tell them where they could go? Oh? We go,

572
00:31:56,560 --> 00:32:00,360
Speaker 2: I'll tell you where you go with your super Bowl package? Yeah,

573
00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:03,720
Speaker 2: Atlanta Falcons dot Com. I'm imagining that's not what he said.

574
00:32:05,840 --> 00:32:06,400
Speaker 1: Good lord.

575
00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:09,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I got a question for you about that too,

576
00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:11,520
Speaker 2: because Rick Carlisle made a big deal about it in

577
00:32:11,560 --> 00:32:15,200
Speaker 2: the in the pregame media session, and then a lot

578
00:32:15,200 --> 00:32:16,880
Speaker 2: of people have been like, you all know that the

579
00:32:16,920 --> 00:32:20,680
Speaker 2: Pacers busses have already been painted to right. I mean,

580
00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:24,120
Speaker 2: that's like those T shirts World Series champions t shirts,

581
00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:26,440
Speaker 2: and they make them for both teams and then whoever

582
00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:31,200
Speaker 2: doesn't win, they send them off, you know, right, they

583
00:32:31,200 --> 00:32:32,000
Speaker 2: send them off.

584
00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:34,800
Speaker 4: To That's a that's a funny that's a funny movie.

585
00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:38,520
Speaker 4: I'm working on something to put in a movie about that.

586
00:32:39,280 --> 00:32:39,760
Speaker 1: Okay.

587
00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:44,080
Speaker 4: I'll tell you a player, who, you know, a big

588
00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:52,880
Speaker 4: time player, was a supposed to win it all. He

589
00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:57,479
Speaker 4: didn't win it all, and he's haunted by that, the

590
00:32:57,480 --> 00:32:59,760
Speaker 4: fact that he didn't win it all, and so he

591
00:32:59,840 --> 00:33:01,640
Speaker 4: just needs to get away, get away from the game,

592
00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:05,720
Speaker 4: get away from everything, and so he flies to the

593
00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:12,160
Speaker 4: furthest region of where he thinks, you know, he can

594
00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:14,400
Speaker 4: go and get away with it. And it's a whole

595
00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:23,760
Speaker 4: village of kids and adults running around with with the

596
00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:31,320
Speaker 4: you know, the wyoming art barks World Champion shirts, shorts, everything, hats,

597
00:33:31,600 --> 00:33:32,920
Speaker 4: championship T shirts.

598
00:33:32,720 --> 00:33:35,160
Speaker 1: That never happened. Yeah. I like it.

599
00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:40,760
Speaker 2: By the way, because of tyre's' injury, your your story

600
00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:44,800
Speaker 2: time got interrupted and it feels like maybe we can

601
00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:48,200
Speaker 2: get to that coming up next. But we're early in

602
00:33:48,240 --> 00:33:50,720
Speaker 2: the second quarter. The Pacers lead by one, but their

603
00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:54,640
Speaker 2: star guard is out. We will keep you up to

604
00:33:54,720 --> 00:33:57,600
Speaker 2: date on everything as it unfolds. As we are crowning

605
00:33:57,640 --> 00:34:02,560
Speaker 2: an NBA champion tonight. We'll get to the Durant trade

606
00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:05,200
Speaker 2: as well. We're live in the Fox Sports Radio studios

607
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:07,840
Speaker 2: with me from Salama, Mark Willard on Fox Sports Radio.

608
00:34:09,440 --> 00:34:11,800
Speaker 2: All right, these are the Fox Sports Radio studios I

609
00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:16,520
Speaker 2: see from Salamo, Mark Willard. We'll get to storytime right now,

610
00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:18,120
Speaker 2: but I also tell you coming up at the top

611
00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:20,759
Speaker 2: of the hour, E from I like this is on

612
00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:22,719
Speaker 2: the fly because I don't know about you. I know

613
00:34:22,760 --> 00:34:26,520
Speaker 2: what my phone is doing right now. All my phone is,

614
00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:33,919
Speaker 2: it's loaded right now with friends, with co workers. Everybody

615
00:34:34,040 --> 00:34:40,000
Speaker 2: is saying the same thing. Man, it doesn't work anymore.

616
00:34:41,200 --> 00:34:44,760
Speaker 2: It's either the season is too long, it's too many games,

617
00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:46,880
Speaker 2: it's too many games close together.

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Speaker 3: I could just tell you what. I could tell you

619
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Speaker 3: what it is.

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00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:50,120
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't like.

621
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Speaker 2: We can get into it. But the bottom line is

622
00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:57,120
Speaker 2: that's how fans feel right now. Fans feel like what

623
00:34:57,160 --> 00:35:01,880
Speaker 2: we're looking at is just not workable. There's too many

624
00:35:02,000 --> 00:35:06,359
Speaker 2: twenty something year old players. Who's I mean, forget it right,

625
00:35:06,480 --> 00:35:10,560
Speaker 2: Jimmy Butler, Steph Curry. Okay, but when the twenty something's

626
00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:12,560
Speaker 2: bodies start blowing up here.

627
00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:15,799
Speaker 4: So let me tell you, talk to me that they

628
00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:18,719
Speaker 4: didn't add more games. No, they did not say they

629
00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:22,720
Speaker 4: two games, right. They even have put in a couple

630
00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:26,360
Speaker 4: breaks in there with the end season tournament and stuff

631
00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:30,479
Speaker 4: like that. So it's yep, it's not like it's more

632
00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:31,359
Speaker 4: games going on.

633
00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:33,760
Speaker 1: It's not more games.

634
00:35:33,800 --> 00:35:36,880
Speaker 4: The difference is the way they're training now. Lee athletes

635
00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:39,000
Speaker 4: are in better shape all of that, to eat all

636
00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:39,920
Speaker 4: of those things.

637
00:35:40,120 --> 00:35:42,040
Speaker 3: But there is no time off.

638
00:35:42,960 --> 00:35:43,160
Speaker 1: Yep.

639
00:35:43,840 --> 00:35:49,319
Speaker 4: These younger athletes train twenty four to seven, get off

640
00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:56,240
Speaker 4: the season, come in train. Especially it's detriment during Olympic years.

641
00:35:56,360 --> 00:35:56,600
Speaker 1: Yep.

642
00:35:58,080 --> 00:35:58,720
Speaker 3: Let's see.

643
00:36:00,440 --> 00:36:04,799
Speaker 4: Two of the guys who pull their achilles were on

644
00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:06,240
Speaker 4: the Olympic basketball team.

645
00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:09,479
Speaker 2: Correct. I mean Jason just watched but.

646
00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:11,120
Speaker 3: He no, no, he was there. You had to practice,

647
00:36:11,120 --> 00:36:12,359
Speaker 3: he had travel, had to do all of that.

648
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:13,040
Speaker 1: It was a joke.

649
00:36:13,080 --> 00:36:15,160
Speaker 3: But yes, yeah, I got it. I got it.

650
00:36:15,880 --> 00:36:17,640
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, can't rip.

651
00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:23,279
Speaker 3: Me off my soapbox with humor. Okay, I'm sorry, let's go.

652
00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:27,680
Speaker 4: And So what happens is number one, if you do

653
00:36:27,800 --> 00:36:29,640
Speaker 4: not allow your body to heal, it.

654
00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:33,600
Speaker 3: Won't Yep, it won't like if you don't.

655
00:36:33,960 --> 00:36:37,640
Speaker 4: Probably the best thing that happened to Lebron is him

656
00:36:37,719 --> 00:36:40,080
Speaker 4: hurting his knee his moniscus at the end of the year.

657
00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:43,839
Speaker 3: Yeah, because that made him sit down.

658
00:36:44,080 --> 00:36:46,080
Speaker 2: Well, there are a lot of examples of what you're

659
00:36:46,120 --> 00:36:48,200
Speaker 2: talking about. We talk about it here in the Bay

660
00:36:48,239 --> 00:36:50,600
Speaker 2: a lot because three years ago when the Warriors won

661
00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:54,400
Speaker 2: the championship, their older players were hurt off and on

662
00:36:54,680 --> 00:36:57,799
Speaker 2: all year long, and in fact, Steph Curry got hurt

663
00:36:57,880 --> 00:37:00,839
Speaker 2: with about three weeks to go until the playoffs, and

664
00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:04,080
Speaker 2: then he came back right as the playoffs started and

665
00:37:04,120 --> 00:37:07,040
Speaker 2: he looked rejuvenated, and they went and they went won

666
00:37:07,040 --> 00:37:11,040
Speaker 2: a title. You know, So like, I think that's what

667
00:37:11,120 --> 00:37:12,480
Speaker 2: we're getting that though, Man.

668
00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:13,399
Speaker 1: I know the guy.

669
00:37:13,560 --> 00:37:17,600
Speaker 4: You know, my son and my nephew, they work out

670
00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:20,879
Speaker 4: with the NBA trainer. They the guys are in there

671
00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:25,200
Speaker 4: working all the time. So why don't they stop. They

672
00:37:25,280 --> 00:37:29,719
Speaker 4: can't because that's the culture they they were raised in aau.

673
00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:33,439
Speaker 3: Basketball is just basketball year round round.

674
00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:35,440
Speaker 1: I know it. I know it.

675
00:37:35,560 --> 00:37:39,000
Speaker 4: My ten year old just played in three weeks. Let

676
00:37:39,000 --> 00:37:43,880
Speaker 4: me count in three weeks. My ten year old just

677
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:49,200
Speaker 4: played twenty games. Yep, he just played twenty games at ten,

678
00:37:49,640 --> 00:37:54,040
Speaker 4: which is now having me like, uh, you know what, let's.

679
00:37:53,800 --> 00:37:55,120
Speaker 3: Just pull back a little bit.

680
00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:59,600
Speaker 4: I hear you, right, because now it's becoming work, you

681
00:37:59,640 --> 00:37:59,799
Speaker 4: know what.

682
00:37:59,840 --> 00:38:02,440
Speaker 3: I sweet, we don't have time for story night.

683
00:38:02,719 --> 00:38:07,600
Speaker 4: Dang, it's this is a segue into my storytime. Okay,

684
00:38:08,239 --> 00:38:16,359
Speaker 4: But they it's NonStop basketball, training, working out, shooting, playing NonStop.

685
00:38:17,280 --> 00:38:20,360
Speaker 4: And if you don't allow when I play in football

686
00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:23,000
Speaker 4: is different. But after the season, I didn't do anything

687
00:38:23,040 --> 00:38:23,439
Speaker 4: for a month.

688
00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:24,319
Speaker 1: There you go.

689
00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:26,920
Speaker 4: I didn't lift the weight. I didn't do a jog,

690
00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:28,280
Speaker 4: I didn't do anything.

691
00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:30,680
Speaker 1: If I could well one whole month, there you go.

692
00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:32,960
Speaker 2: If I could have a nickel for every forty or

693
00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:35,480
Speaker 2: fifty or sixty year old athlete who has told me

694
00:38:36,000 --> 00:38:38,840
Speaker 2: exactly what you're telling me, I wouldn't need to be

695
00:38:38,920 --> 00:38:39,880
Speaker 2: working here tonight.

696
00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:40,800
Speaker 1: I'm telling you.

697
00:38:41,200 --> 00:38:43,400
Speaker 2: Michael Thompson, who I used to do a show with

698
00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:46,200
Speaker 2: Clay's dad, he used to joke with me. I think

699
00:38:46,239 --> 00:38:48,560
Speaker 2: he was joking, but he was like, when the off

700
00:38:48,640 --> 00:38:51,279
Speaker 2: season came, He's like, I grab my basketball and suck

701
00:38:51,280 --> 00:38:52,360
Speaker 2: it in the back of the closet.

702
00:38:53,120 --> 00:38:55,000
Speaker 1: That's that he goes, I go, I went and play tennis.

703
00:38:55,480 --> 00:38:58,399
Speaker 2: There's no basketball in the off season, and you let

704
00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:02,000
Speaker 2: those muscles rest period. Well, then we need to have

705
00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:04,640
Speaker 2: we need to start having some more conversations about this.

706
00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:05,560
Speaker 3: Yes we do.

707
00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:07,799
Speaker 1: You know what I mean, and we need your story time.

708
00:39:08,239 --> 00:39:11,839
Speaker 2: So live in the Fox Sports Radio studios, that's what

709
00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:15,359
Speaker 2: we're doing with Mark wetherd and from salam More. Next,

710
00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:20,279
Speaker 2: you're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio broadcasting live from

711
00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:24,400
Speaker 2: the Fox Sports Radio Studios. Pacers are hanging in there.

712
00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:29,160
Speaker 2: Tyrese Haliburton lower leg injury. Yeah, we get it. We

713
00:39:29,239 --> 00:39:34,160
Speaker 2: got eyes. Tyrese had the calf injury coming in that

714
00:39:34,200 --> 00:39:37,840
Speaker 2: thing popped after a tour. Itd start for him. And

715
00:39:38,040 --> 00:39:43,080
Speaker 2: right now the Indiana Pacers are hanging in there in

716
00:39:43,120 --> 00:39:45,840
Speaker 2: a game that now the thunder really really have to

717
00:39:45,880 --> 00:39:47,520
Speaker 2: feel like they're going to win.

718
00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:49,520
Speaker 1: And he from the world is all reacting.

719
00:39:49,960 --> 00:39:53,480
Speaker 2: The broadcast moments ago was showing all of the tweets

720
00:39:53,520 --> 00:39:57,120
Speaker 2: that were sent out by current NBA players and stars,

721
00:39:57,800 --> 00:40:01,080
Speaker 2: all of them sending up their reactions and and UH

722
00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:05,120
Speaker 2: and prayers to uh to Halliburton. But it's just a

723
00:40:05,160 --> 00:40:08,200
Speaker 2: bummer on all fronts because quite frankly, no matter what

724
00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:11,520
Speaker 2: happens tonight, no matter how this plays out, I think

725
00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:14,279
Speaker 2: this is gonna end up being kind of kind of

726
00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:17,640
Speaker 2: the biggest story of the night. And and you know

727
00:40:17,640 --> 00:40:19,279
Speaker 2: what I mean, this is what everyone's gonna want to

728
00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:22,719
Speaker 2: talk about. And I think that the NBA is going

729
00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:26,440
Speaker 2: to really have to dig into what you're talking about

730
00:40:26,960 --> 00:40:32,080
Speaker 2: and and think about. Again, I'm not saying changes, but

731
00:40:32,239 --> 00:40:33,880
Speaker 2: and maybe it's not the league. Maybe it's all of

732
00:40:33,880 --> 00:40:37,040
Speaker 2: these players, Like you got to think about the way

733
00:40:37,080 --> 00:40:40,439
Speaker 2: you're going about structuring. You said it so well it's

734
00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:44,799
Speaker 2: like everybody's in better shape, everybody eats better, but nobody

735
00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:49,560
Speaker 2: like this is the age of load management. What why

736
00:40:49,600 --> 00:40:52,040
Speaker 2: in the age of load management is this happening more?

737
00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:55,560
Speaker 2: And I agree with.

738
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Speaker 1: You, so fix it.

739
00:40:56,960 --> 00:40:59,600
Speaker 2: Stop playing all this stuff in the off season.

740
00:40:59,800 --> 00:41:04,160
Speaker 4: It's hard because the guys get so used to it

741
00:41:04,239 --> 00:41:09,400
Speaker 4: now it's literally part of the culture, like their gyms

742
00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:11,800
Speaker 4: and trainers all over the place.

743
00:41:12,719 --> 00:41:14,239
Speaker 3: I mean, and it.

744
00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:18,960
Speaker 4: Starts young, it starts dead, nine and ten years old.

745
00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:24,440
Speaker 4: Twenty games in three weeks, yep, twenty games in three weeks.

746
00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:29,960
Speaker 4: It's like and then there's like a skills camp Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,

747
00:41:31,320 --> 00:41:33,719
Speaker 4: and it's like, no, I.

748
00:41:33,640 --> 00:41:35,960
Speaker 2: Get it, and there's a fomo thing, and it's like,

749
00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:40,359
Speaker 2: if you're not doing it, you're falling behind. That's how

750
00:41:40,400 --> 00:41:41,520
Speaker 2: it feels to everybody.

751
00:41:41,640 --> 00:41:44,960
Speaker 4: The reason why I look at it a little differently

752
00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:47,200
Speaker 4: is because I didn't play a sport until high school.

753
00:41:47,719 --> 00:41:48,839
Speaker 3: It worked out, yep.

754
00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:54,160
Speaker 4: Literally, it's not how long you've been playing, it's how

755
00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:58,719
Speaker 4: fast can you close the gap. It's how fast you

756
00:41:58,719 --> 00:42:02,759
Speaker 4: can close the gap. So I started playing football my

757
00:42:02,920 --> 00:42:06,320
Speaker 4: ninth grade year. I was thirteen going on. I was

758
00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:09,319
Speaker 4: twelve one on thirteen skipped too great early on. That's

759
00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:17,120
Speaker 4: another story. But the thing was, there are people who

760
00:42:17,200 --> 00:42:21,240
Speaker 4: have been playing for five years already, Pop Warner and

761
00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:24,960
Speaker 4: every other thing for five years. Literally they've been playing

762
00:42:25,520 --> 00:42:31,759
Speaker 4: almost their whole life. In one year, in one year,

763
00:42:34,160 --> 00:42:37,840
Speaker 4: I caught up. I ate up a five year gap,

764
00:42:38,400 --> 00:42:42,080
Speaker 4: a five year head start in one year in football.

765
00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:45,279
Speaker 4: My second year, I got my first letter from a

766
00:42:45,360 --> 00:42:53,959
Speaker 4: college at fourteen. So in that one year, freshman sophomore year,

767
00:42:54,680 --> 00:43:00,520
Speaker 4: I made up a five year gap of youth sports, Warner,

768
00:43:00,640 --> 00:43:07,279
Speaker 4: whatever it is. And so it's not so much how

769
00:43:07,400 --> 00:43:10,000
Speaker 4: much do you have to play and how you got

770
00:43:10,040 --> 00:43:13,719
Speaker 4: to get these in and someone's getting better. It's how

771
00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:18,960
Speaker 4: you're training and how how much and how fast can

772
00:43:19,000 --> 00:43:23,719
Speaker 4: you erase the gap? Now I was older, I was

773
00:43:23,800 --> 00:43:27,440
Speaker 4: a teenager, so I could gauge how hard I needed

774
00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:30,799
Speaker 4: to work. I didn't have a dad. I had a dad,

775
00:43:30,800 --> 00:43:33,160
Speaker 4: but he wasn't telling me the secrets to be in

776
00:43:33,200 --> 00:43:38,000
Speaker 4: a pro We didn't have any professional trainers. All the

777
00:43:38,040 --> 00:43:43,719
Speaker 4: things our kids have access to now, specialized trainer he

778
00:43:43,880 --> 00:43:47,080
Speaker 4: got trainers for shooting, got trainers for ball handling, got

779
00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:48,920
Speaker 4: trainers for change of pace.

780
00:43:50,600 --> 00:43:51,160
Speaker 2: This is real.

781
00:43:52,120 --> 00:43:54,319
Speaker 3: Every day you go to a different trainer. Now you

782
00:43:54,440 --> 00:43:55,560
Speaker 3: fast forward.

783
00:43:55,280 --> 00:43:59,319
Speaker 4: That and to being in the league for four or

784
00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:02,640
Speaker 4: five six that's just in the offseason, you go back

785
00:44:02,680 --> 00:44:06,799
Speaker 4: and work with those trainers. My son works with with

786
00:44:06,960 --> 00:44:15,480
Speaker 4: Olan at Guard You who trained Shay this past week.

787
00:44:15,640 --> 00:44:17,920
Speaker 4: He worked with Lebron's trainer for when he was in

788
00:44:18,000 --> 00:44:25,120
Speaker 4: high school. This is real, and so when this is

789
00:44:25,440 --> 00:44:30,680
Speaker 4: the landscape of what's happening, and so when guys don't

790
00:44:30,719 --> 00:44:35,120
Speaker 4: allow their bodies to recover fully, I'm just gonna go

791
00:44:35,160 --> 00:44:36,600
Speaker 4: into the gym and put up to a shot, a

792
00:44:36,600 --> 00:44:39,120
Speaker 4: couple of shots. Yeah, you're putting up a thousand though

793
00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:43,360
Speaker 4: in the offseason, you're putting up a thousand shots. And

794
00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:46,839
Speaker 4: I'm not saying don't work. I'm not saying that. What

795
00:44:46,920 --> 00:44:50,359
Speaker 4: I'm saying is take time off and you don't have

796
00:44:50,440 --> 00:44:53,319
Speaker 4: to push it every day. You got eighty two more

797
00:44:53,360 --> 00:44:57,839
Speaker 4: games coming plus a long playoff run. I don't care

798
00:44:57,880 --> 00:45:00,279
Speaker 4: how good you eat, how much meat you don't eat,

799
00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:05,320
Speaker 4: or how vegan you are. Your body is your body.

800
00:45:06,080 --> 00:45:11,600
Speaker 4: Your body is your body, and it needs to rest.

801
00:45:13,280 --> 00:45:17,160
Speaker 4: And so you're seeing these younger guys, these younger athletes

802
00:45:18,160 --> 00:45:20,440
Speaker 4: really pushing their bodies to the limit.

803
00:45:21,040 --> 00:45:21,960
Speaker 2: And look, and.

804
00:45:23,680 --> 00:45:26,560
Speaker 4: I mean, there's nothing you can do to strengthen your achilles. Now,

805
00:45:26,560 --> 00:45:28,840
Speaker 4: you can get your calf muscles strong and your quad

806
00:45:28,840 --> 00:45:31,200
Speaker 4: and all of that, but your achilles is your achilles,

807
00:45:31,880 --> 00:45:35,160
Speaker 4: that's right. Like you can't strengthen your acl for your

808
00:45:35,320 --> 00:45:40,680
Speaker 4: mcl right are your joints. You can strengthen the muscles

809
00:45:40,840 --> 00:45:47,840
Speaker 4: around your joints, but there's gotta be a time where

810
00:45:48,160 --> 00:45:50,640
Speaker 4: you really have to and and and that's not an

811
00:45:50,640 --> 00:45:54,560
Speaker 4: Adam Silver's problem. He can't mandate GUIDs. Sit down, it's not.

812
00:45:54,760 --> 00:45:55,520
Speaker 1: But I'll tell you what.

813
00:45:55,760 --> 00:45:59,200
Speaker 2: The more I listen to you talk, the more offended

814
00:45:59,280 --> 00:46:03,600
Speaker 2: I keep getting at something that has already offended fans for.

815
00:46:03,560 --> 00:46:06,320
Speaker 1: A long time now, and it is load management.

816
00:46:07,040 --> 00:46:10,080
Speaker 2: So it's like, you're telling me that you'll take days

817
00:46:10,080 --> 00:46:13,799
Speaker 2: off during the season to recover, but you won't in

818
00:46:13,840 --> 00:46:19,120
Speaker 2: the off season. Well, how stupid is that? No wonder

819
00:46:19,160 --> 00:46:21,719
Speaker 2: everybody used to play eighty two games and not have

820
00:46:21,800 --> 00:46:27,440
Speaker 2: a first class plane ticket or a private plane. But

821
00:46:27,520 --> 00:46:31,640
Speaker 2: they were able to do all of that without getting injured. Yeah,

822
00:46:31,719 --> 00:46:35,600
Speaker 2: because there was no Drow League. There wasn't seventeen different

823
00:46:35,640 --> 00:46:39,520
Speaker 2: World Basketball championships in the off season, and there wasn't

824
00:46:39,520 --> 00:46:46,200
Speaker 2: what you're talking about with AAU culture. And so again,

825
00:46:46,440 --> 00:46:48,960
Speaker 2: like this is going to come off just sounding like

826
00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:52,200
Speaker 2: our opinion, and I guess it's nothing more than that,

827
00:46:53,160 --> 00:46:54,680
Speaker 2: But listen to what you're saying.

828
00:46:54,680 --> 00:46:58,920
Speaker 1: And how stupid is this? How stupid is it that.

829
00:46:59,800 --> 00:47:05,000
Speaker 2: We've got guys taking every second Thursday off during the

830
00:47:05,040 --> 00:47:09,680
Speaker 2: regular season, but but we can't get people, we can't

831
00:47:09,680 --> 00:47:10,840
Speaker 2: get people to rest.

832
00:47:11,120 --> 00:47:14,160
Speaker 3: In August, chet Holmgren missed his rookie year.

833
00:47:14,200 --> 00:47:15,640
Speaker 1: Why injury?

834
00:47:15,880 --> 00:47:21,560
Speaker 4: Where yeah, over body Juliet against.

835
00:47:22,880 --> 00:47:24,640
Speaker 3: No no, no, no, Yeah.

836
00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:27,759
Speaker 4: The Drew starts up in next the next couple of weeks,

837
00:47:28,400 --> 00:47:31,879
Speaker 4: and the Drew. I love the Drew, Love the Drew Drew.

838
00:47:31,920 --> 00:47:36,240
Speaker 2: That that's an it's an incredible experiences for players.

839
00:47:36,239 --> 00:47:38,160
Speaker 3: It's unbelievable. And I love the family. I know.

840
00:47:38,200 --> 00:47:39,759
Speaker 4: Then we're working with the Drew League and all we

841
00:47:39,840 --> 00:47:42,080
Speaker 4: got all kinds of stuff going on. Uh, you know

842
00:47:42,160 --> 00:47:46,920
Speaker 4: my life all you know outside of broadcasting, Yes, uh,

843
00:47:47,040 --> 00:47:49,080
Speaker 4: tremendous family has been run by the same family the

844
00:47:49,120 --> 00:47:52,120
Speaker 4: whole entire time, you know, looking for bigger and better

845
00:47:52,160 --> 00:47:58,279
Speaker 4: things to come. And so it's it's one of those

846
00:47:58,320 --> 00:48:03,640
Speaker 4: situations where you know, guys, really need that was a

847
00:48:03,680 --> 00:48:04,120
Speaker 4: bad call.

848
00:48:04,160 --> 00:48:10,240
Speaker 2: This is a terrible call. This is terrible, terrible, terrible, real, terrible, terrible,

849
00:48:11,360 --> 00:48:14,200
Speaker 2: terrible flop. I'm so tired of it. I don't know

850
00:48:14,280 --> 00:48:15,960
Speaker 2: why the officials fall.

851
00:48:16,080 --> 00:48:17,560
Speaker 3: Why would that.

852
00:48:19,760 --> 00:48:22,000
Speaker 2: Completely a play on? And if it's not a play on,

853
00:48:22,280 --> 00:48:25,400
Speaker 2: it should be a foul on. Lou dort and a fingerwag.

854
00:48:25,480 --> 00:48:28,520
Speaker 3: You just run across the path of someone.

855
00:48:28,680 --> 00:48:31,279
Speaker 1: Run good, Lord good, and then flop.

856
00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:32,080
Speaker 3: Your body to the ground.

857
00:48:32,280 --> 00:48:33,080
Speaker 1: I love it.

858
00:48:33,080 --> 00:48:35,200
Speaker 2: It should be more offensive to you than anybody on

859
00:48:35,280 --> 00:48:37,960
Speaker 2: planet Earth because you were an offensive lineman, like the

860
00:48:38,040 --> 00:48:43,120
Speaker 2: idea of when humongous athletic people get touched, they fall over.

861
00:48:43,840 --> 00:48:48,200
Speaker 2: It's literally what you built your job not doing, like

862
00:48:48,360 --> 00:48:51,520
Speaker 2: your balance, your core, your I am going to get

863
00:48:51,520 --> 00:48:53,879
Speaker 2: in your way, You're going to attack me, but I'm

864
00:48:53,920 --> 00:48:59,360
Speaker 2: going to stay right here. I can't stand it, man.

865
00:49:00,120 --> 00:49:01,960
Speaker 2: We got a lot to fix in the NBA here

866
00:49:02,000 --> 00:49:10,080
Speaker 2: this offseason, Aphrom, It's a lot to fix, man. It's frustrating.

867
00:49:10,280 --> 00:49:12,840
Speaker 2: It is very frustrating. It's sad.

868
00:49:14,600 --> 00:49:16,880
Speaker 4: I feel bad for Tyres as they're showing his family

869
00:49:16,920 --> 00:49:21,239
Speaker 4: back there waiting for him. It's just one of those things, man,

870
00:49:22,640 --> 00:49:25,880
Speaker 4: injuries happen. I've been on the other side of the

871
00:49:25,960 --> 00:49:31,160
Speaker 4: knife as well. I've had surgery and started a game

872
00:49:31,239 --> 00:49:38,000
Speaker 4: eleven days after search. God, so stupid. But you're built different.

873
00:49:38,120 --> 00:49:40,280
Speaker 4: To be a professional athlete, you got to be built different.

874
00:49:40,280 --> 00:49:42,480
Speaker 4: You gotta be crazy. And that's why everybody can't do

875
00:49:42,480 --> 00:49:46,200
Speaker 4: what I'm telling you. Man, the physical attributes you have

876
00:49:46,280 --> 00:49:52,040
Speaker 4: to be a professional athlete, they're one thing, but the

877
00:49:52,320 --> 00:49:58,920
Speaker 4: mental toughness and fortitude completely, you gotta be bonkers.

878
00:49:58,920 --> 00:49:59,160
Speaker 1: Man.

879
00:50:00,840 --> 00:50:03,000
Speaker 4: My kids, my wife is like, it's no way the

880
00:50:03,040 --> 00:50:04,360
Speaker 4: boys are playing football.

881
00:50:04,640 --> 00:50:05,840
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's all the table.

882
00:50:06,040 --> 00:50:06,319
Speaker 1: I know.

883
00:50:06,400 --> 00:50:09,480
Speaker 2: You've told me for years, very adamant about that, that

884
00:50:09,560 --> 00:50:11,640
Speaker 2: you played football so they don't have to.

885
00:50:12,200 --> 00:50:14,440
Speaker 3: It is you have to become a.

886
00:50:14,640 --> 00:50:17,160
Speaker 1: Psychopath, totally, totally.

887
00:50:17,280 --> 00:50:21,040
Speaker 4: It's a hard, hard sport to do. It's harder to

888
00:50:21,080 --> 00:50:24,359
Speaker 4: do it for over a decade, one hundred I think

889
00:50:24,400 --> 00:50:27,240
Speaker 4: one hundred and fifty nine games I think I've played

890
00:50:27,239 --> 00:50:32,360
Speaker 4: in and my body feels it every single day that

891
00:50:32,680 --> 00:50:37,160
Speaker 4: I breathe. I've not had a day without pain. And now, look,

892
00:50:37,200 --> 00:50:40,200
Speaker 4: this is a bood who you know, the smallest violin

893
00:50:40,280 --> 00:50:45,800
Speaker 4: in the world. But I just want to I'm saying

894
00:50:45,840 --> 00:50:50,000
Speaker 4: it to let people really understand the amount of trauma

895
00:50:50,360 --> 00:50:52,919
Speaker 4: professional athletes put on their bodies. And I'm talking about

896
00:50:52,920 --> 00:50:58,719
Speaker 4: all professional athletes, all of them. And so when you

897
00:50:58,840 --> 00:51:03,080
Speaker 4: do it for year after year after year, like I said,

898
00:51:03,200 --> 00:51:06,319
Speaker 4: these kids, these younger guys have been playing since they

899
00:51:06,320 --> 00:51:12,040
Speaker 4: were seven, eight nine, NonStop, from seven years old all

900
00:51:12,080 --> 00:51:14,879
Speaker 4: the way up to in pro NonStop year round.

901
00:51:16,280 --> 00:51:17,200
Speaker 3: It started off.

902
00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:19,839
Speaker 4: You do soccer, and then you go to baseball because

903
00:51:19,840 --> 00:51:22,319
Speaker 4: though the two youngest, you can be the youngest there.

904
00:51:23,080 --> 00:51:26,040
Speaker 4: And then you switch into soccer goes away, and then

905
00:51:26,080 --> 00:51:29,120
Speaker 4: you switch into baseball and you can start basketball around

906
00:51:29,160 --> 00:51:33,319
Speaker 4: five and so now you're doing baseball and basketball, and

907
00:51:33,520 --> 00:51:37,840
Speaker 4: right around nine ten.

908
00:51:39,560 --> 00:51:41,360
Speaker 3: You no longer are.

909
00:51:41,680 --> 00:51:48,120
Speaker 4: Checking for baseball, especially if you have any type of

910
00:51:48,160 --> 00:51:53,240
Speaker 4: skill in basketball. And at twelve is the definite cutoff.

911
00:51:53,440 --> 00:51:53,680
Speaker 2: YEP.

912
00:51:54,400 --> 00:51:57,520
Speaker 4: At twelve years old, you're either gonna be a baseball

913
00:51:57,560 --> 00:52:00,319
Speaker 4: player or you're gonna go play something else. And the

914
00:52:00,360 --> 00:52:03,360
Speaker 4: reason is because once you get out of little league,

915
00:52:04,239 --> 00:52:05,920
Speaker 4: you plan against guys trying.

916
00:52:05,680 --> 00:52:07,919
Speaker 2: To go to the to the league, YEP, to the show.

917
00:52:08,160 --> 00:52:08,319
Speaker 1: YEP.

918
00:52:09,920 --> 00:52:12,800
Speaker 2: It's hard, and it's hard hard.

919
00:52:12,920 --> 00:52:16,560
Speaker 4: Because those guys are all in YEP, they're all in

920
00:52:16,600 --> 00:52:18,200
Speaker 4: and you got I remember I'm a baseball coach.

921
00:52:18,320 --> 00:52:20,719
Speaker 2: No, they're trying to get their TJ surgery as quick

922
00:52:20,719 --> 00:52:21,280
Speaker 2: as possible.

923
00:52:21,280 --> 00:52:24,879
Speaker 4: So it's it's they're all in, and then you specialize.

924
00:52:24,880 --> 00:52:27,040
Speaker 4: Now you used to grow up. But we talked about

925
00:52:27,080 --> 00:52:29,600
Speaker 4: this a while. I can't wait till we talk baseball either,

926
00:52:29,640 --> 00:52:31,640
Speaker 4: because you know, I got some takes on what's going

927
00:52:31,680 --> 00:52:34,919
Speaker 4: on in baseball, and you were, you know, absolutely right

928
00:52:35,280 --> 00:52:38,440
Speaker 4: about the rules. Steve was talking about the rule changes

929
00:52:38,480 --> 00:52:42,120
Speaker 4: in house and enhance the game. We'll get there, but

930
00:52:42,200 --> 00:52:47,239
Speaker 4: you stopped becomings. Pitchers could hit and field and pitch

931
00:52:47,320 --> 00:52:49,359
Speaker 4: and do all of those things. But once you get

932
00:52:49,400 --> 00:52:54,200
Speaker 4: around thirteen years old and you can pitch, hey, hey,

933
00:52:55,920 --> 00:52:59,000
Speaker 4: I'm just gonna have you go with the pitching coach. Well,

934
00:52:59,000 --> 00:53:03,040
Speaker 4: everybody go to the bad like it becomes a specialized thing,

935
00:53:03,280 --> 00:53:05,799
Speaker 4: no doubt. Like you're going to be it. Once you're

936
00:53:05,800 --> 00:53:09,160
Speaker 4: deemed a picture, then that's your path. You're going to

937
00:53:09,200 --> 00:53:12,120
Speaker 4: go be a picture. Right Like in high school you

938
00:53:12,200 --> 00:53:14,640
Speaker 4: may have you used to have quarterbacks who played safety

939
00:53:14,920 --> 00:53:18,520
Speaker 4: or quarterbacks who played you know, cornerback or whatever. It's

940
00:53:18,560 --> 00:53:22,040
Speaker 4: like yeah, yeah, yeah, no man, you just a little

941
00:53:22,080 --> 00:53:25,040
Speaker 4: league park in America, and the best picture is also the.

942
00:53:25,000 --> 00:53:28,000
Speaker 3: Best hitter, and then the best elder in the best everything.

943
00:53:28,040 --> 00:53:29,920
Speaker 2: And then all of a sudden you get into college

944
00:53:30,080 --> 00:53:33,239
Speaker 2: and they look like they have their pants now when

945
00:53:33,280 --> 00:53:34,560
Speaker 2: they're trying to hit all of the sun.

946
00:53:35,280 --> 00:53:38,279
Speaker 1: It's unbelievable. You're like, oh my god, what happened to you?

947
00:53:38,400 --> 00:53:42,160
Speaker 4: That's what that it becomes specialized. That's what it youth

948
00:53:42,239 --> 00:53:46,680
Speaker 4: sports is. We're going to find the thing you do great,

949
00:53:47,440 --> 00:53:49,879
Speaker 4: and we're going to hyper focus on it to give

950
00:53:49,880 --> 00:53:51,680
Speaker 4: you a shot to go be a pro.

951
00:53:52,320 --> 00:53:56,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not into it, man, I gotta be honest

952
00:53:56,360 --> 00:53:57,600
Speaker 2: with you. I'm really not into it.

953
00:53:58,160 --> 00:53:59,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, because I'm on this journey.

954
00:54:00,120 --> 00:54:01,480
Speaker 2: I hear you want to stary.

955
00:54:01,719 --> 00:54:03,320
Speaker 3: We will get the storytime.

956
00:54:03,080 --> 00:54:05,040
Speaker 2: Pro will Actually, let's do it coming up next because

957
00:54:05,080 --> 00:54:08,319
Speaker 2: it's halftime and speaking you use the word bonkers, you're

958
00:54:08,360 --> 00:54:11,520
Speaker 2: ready for bonkers. The Pacers are ahead, it's halftime.

959
00:54:15,840 --> 00:54:18,000
Speaker 3: Can we catch out early option?

960
00:54:18,360 --> 00:54:20,319
Speaker 1: Oh yeah? Can you imagine if this is a one

961
00:54:20,320 --> 00:54:21,600
Speaker 1: point game with a minute ago this?

962
00:54:21,719 --> 00:54:23,279
Speaker 3: Can we cash out? Now?

963
00:54:23,719 --> 00:54:27,120
Speaker 1: Look at this radio show ever, you know what, I'll look.

964
00:54:27,040 --> 00:54:31,279
Speaker 2: Look and see what we can take out. Now, I'm

965
00:54:31,320 --> 00:54:33,640
Speaker 2: a look I'm gonna long get a look right now

966
00:54:34,000 --> 00:54:38,520
Speaker 2: and then we'll go from there. Okay, storytime is next

967
00:54:38,800 --> 00:54:41,320
Speaker 2: when the Fox Sports Radio studios with e from Salama

968
00:54:41,320 --> 00:54:42,680
Speaker 2: Mark Willen, It's Fox Sports Radio.

969
00:54:43,719 --> 00:54:46,640
Speaker 6: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in

970
00:54:46,640 --> 00:54:50,000
Speaker 6: the nation. Catch all of our shows at Foxsports Radio

971
00:54:50,160 --> 00:54:55,000
Speaker 6: dot com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to listen.

972
00:54:54,760 --> 00:55:01,720
Speaker 2: Live halftime in Oklahoma City eventful, to say the least,

973
00:55:02,440 --> 00:55:06,880
Speaker 2: the Pacers lead by one. Tyrese Halliburton's career has taken

974
00:55:07,719 --> 00:55:11,319
Speaker 2: a turn, and I don't think I'm overstating that he's

975
00:55:11,360 --> 00:55:12,560
Speaker 2: certainly out for tonight.

976
00:55:13,880 --> 00:55:15,120
Speaker 1: It's one of those injuries.

977
00:55:15,600 --> 00:55:18,520
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers ask Kevin Durant asked where you could literally

978
00:55:18,560 --> 00:55:21,560
Speaker 2: see on the TV. You can see the calf and

979
00:55:21,600 --> 00:55:24,719
Speaker 2: the achilles pop. I don't want to go too far

980
00:55:24,800 --> 00:55:27,440
Speaker 2: with what this means for next year, but this appears

981
00:55:27,880 --> 00:55:28,360
Speaker 2: to have.

982
00:55:28,280 --> 00:55:30,879
Speaker 1: Every look of a long injury next year.

983
00:55:31,320 --> 00:55:36,360
Speaker 2: Yeah, for Tyrese Haliburton, this is a long term, significant injury.

984
00:55:37,040 --> 00:55:41,520
Speaker 2: But somehow someway one quarter without him and the Pacers

985
00:55:41,560 --> 00:55:48,080
Speaker 2: actually won that quarter. So hanging around, hanging around, but

986
00:55:48,160 --> 00:55:51,239
Speaker 2: a second half on the road of Game seven is

987
00:55:51,320 --> 00:55:52,200
Speaker 2: around the corner.

988
00:55:52,800 --> 00:55:54,240
Speaker 1: But I'm kind of with.

989
00:55:54,120 --> 00:55:57,120
Speaker 2: You, Like the longer this goes and it stays close,

990
00:55:58,239 --> 00:56:02,959
Speaker 2: the sphincter's factor takes over, and therefore it doesn't matter

991
00:56:02,960 --> 00:56:04,920
Speaker 2: what jersey you got on, and it doesn't matter what

992
00:56:05,000 --> 00:56:10,000
Speaker 2: building you're in. It just becomes nervous time. And so

993
00:56:10,840 --> 00:56:13,000
Speaker 2: a little bit of an equalizer. I think the third

994
00:56:13,080 --> 00:56:17,440
Speaker 2: quarter will be fascinating. The thunder could blow them off

995
00:56:17,440 --> 00:56:21,560
Speaker 2: the court or this. We could be here all night,

996
00:56:22,480 --> 00:56:25,440
Speaker 2: so we'll see. We're in the five sports radio studios.

997
00:56:25,920 --> 00:56:28,480
Speaker 2: We're gonna we'll have an answer on an NBA champion

998
00:56:28,560 --> 00:56:33,320
Speaker 2: before we're done. So that's exciting. And then at long last,

999
00:56:33,400 --> 00:56:35,920
Speaker 2: we've we've been waiting for your story. I think we

1000
00:56:36,160 --> 00:56:37,399
Speaker 2: should get to your story, all right.

1001
00:56:37,719 --> 00:56:42,200
Speaker 4: So, as you know, I've already said, you know, twenty

1002
00:56:42,280 --> 00:56:50,640
Speaker 4: games in literally three weeks, no game is closer than

1003
00:56:51,719 --> 00:56:55,960
Speaker 4: you know, one hour drive. And so this week's tournament

1004
00:56:56,040 --> 00:56:58,920
Speaker 4: was in still beat the Mad Hoops tournament.

1005
00:57:00,120 --> 00:57:03,480
Speaker 3: And we go down and we.

1006
00:57:03,440 --> 00:57:09,280
Speaker 4: Have two games yesterday, not too bad, one at one

1007
00:57:10,040 --> 00:57:13,399
Speaker 4: what was it, one forty five and the other one

1008
00:57:13,440 --> 00:57:17,960
Speaker 4: at four fifty five. The breaks in between are deadly,

1009
00:57:19,560 --> 00:57:27,080
Speaker 4: and then our Sunday morning game got switched to eight am.

1010
00:57:27,200 --> 00:57:28,959
Speaker 1: Okay, so.

1011
00:57:31,160 --> 00:57:37,440
Speaker 4: At six am I have to wake up, wake a

1012
00:57:37,600 --> 00:57:42,320
Speaker 4: ten year old up. I can't even make him eat

1013
00:57:42,480 --> 00:57:46,160
Speaker 4: at six fifteen am. Who's eating at six o'clock in

1014
00:57:46,160 --> 00:57:49,120
Speaker 4: the morning at a ten year old in the summer.

1015
00:57:49,760 --> 00:57:50,680
Speaker 1: That's a nobody.

1016
00:57:50,760 --> 00:57:51,600
Speaker 3: So I had him.

1017
00:57:51,440 --> 00:57:53,840
Speaker 4: Put his uniform on, put a sweat to his sweats

1018
00:57:53,840 --> 00:57:56,280
Speaker 4: and his sweatshirt on. I got his favorite pillow and

1019
00:57:56,320 --> 00:58:01,240
Speaker 4: a blanket, took it to the car and you know,

1020
00:58:01,600 --> 00:58:03,640
Speaker 4: let him lay on his blanket and his pillow in

1021
00:58:03,680 --> 00:58:06,920
Speaker 4: the car seatboat. Of course we get down there. It

1022
00:58:06,960 --> 00:58:08,800
Speaker 4: takes the whole first half of them to wake up.

1023
00:58:09,280 --> 00:58:13,520
Speaker 4: Just two teams full of zombies, just of course, going

1024
00:58:13,640 --> 00:58:14,240
Speaker 4: back and.

1025
00:58:14,120 --> 00:58:17,320
Speaker 3: Forth with each other. They end up winning. Was a

1026
00:58:17,360 --> 00:58:17,840
Speaker 3: good game.

1027
00:58:19,040 --> 00:58:23,880
Speaker 4: Then we played at eight am. Then we played again

1028
00:58:24,840 --> 00:58:35,920
Speaker 4: at twelve twenty pm. Okay, I'm like, bruh, where do

1029
00:58:36,000 --> 00:58:42,200
Speaker 4: we supposed to do for five hours? And seal Beach

1030
00:58:43,120 --> 00:58:45,400
Speaker 4: just far enough for you, don't for you not to

1031
00:58:45,440 --> 00:58:50,080
Speaker 4: come home right right, not far enough to get a hotel.

1032
00:58:50,400 --> 00:58:50,600
Speaker 6: No.

1033
00:58:50,680 --> 00:58:53,840
Speaker 2: I think that the business owners at the mall set

1034
00:58:53,880 --> 00:58:55,840
Speaker 2: the times for these games out of control.

1035
00:58:56,000 --> 00:58:58,040
Speaker 1: I swear they know what they're doing.

1036
00:58:59,200 --> 00:59:05,080
Speaker 4: Twenty dollar apart, yep, forty eight dollars weekend fee. Come on, man,

1037
00:59:05,560 --> 00:59:07,400
Speaker 4: eighty five dollars tournament fee.

1038
00:59:07,520 --> 00:59:09,840
Speaker 2: Stop it.

1039
00:59:10,000 --> 00:59:13,560
Speaker 4: Six hundred dollars shoes. Everybody got out of Kobe's you

1040
00:59:13,600 --> 00:59:15,520
Speaker 4: know how Kobe's already get geez.

1041
00:59:17,120 --> 00:59:17,760
Speaker 1: You're triggering.

1042
00:59:18,080 --> 00:59:19,360
Speaker 3: I'm just letting you know, man.

1043
00:59:19,560 --> 00:59:21,560
Speaker 2: And so right now, I love it when people pay

1044
00:59:21,680 --> 00:59:24,560
Speaker 2: thousands of dollars for their kid to play, and then

1045
00:59:24,600 --> 00:59:27,480
Speaker 2: you arrive at the tournament and they're like, yeah, that'd

1046
00:59:27,600 --> 00:59:30,680
Speaker 2: be like twenty five dollars for you to come in here.

1047
00:59:31,200 --> 00:59:32,800
Speaker 2: What do you mean twenty five dollars for me to

1048
00:59:32,840 --> 00:59:37,480
Speaker 2: come in here? I funded this damn tournament already. I

1049
00:59:37,560 --> 00:59:38,440
Speaker 2: own this tournament.

1050
00:59:38,480 --> 00:59:40,040
Speaker 4: It's a racket. I got to get one of these gyms.

1051
00:59:40,040 --> 00:59:41,960
Speaker 4: We were looking in the one, though we are, we're

1052
00:59:41,960 --> 00:59:43,600
Speaker 4: looking in the one to put over here.

1053
00:59:43,840 --> 00:59:45,800
Speaker 1: I'll buy into it. If the pacers win.

1054
00:59:46,160 --> 00:59:47,320
Speaker 3: Right there we go, I like it.

1055
00:59:47,400 --> 00:59:50,280
Speaker 4: Oh oh before I yeah, let me finish and then

1056
00:59:50,280 --> 00:59:56,240
Speaker 4: we'll get to the other partner. And so the third

1057
00:59:56,320 --> 01:00:00,680
Speaker 4: game was at two thirty. We're on the end at five.

1058
01:00:01,040 --> 01:00:03,240
Speaker 1: Yes, So.

1059
01:00:06,280 --> 01:00:10,439
Speaker 4: I gotta get out of there by no later than

1060
01:00:10,560 --> 01:00:14,760
Speaker 4: three forty to get here on time. As I'm driving

1061
01:00:15,160 --> 01:00:18,800
Speaker 4: the speed limit, of course, with precious cargo in. My

1062
01:00:18,920 --> 01:00:22,960
Speaker 4: ten year old who's upset in the back playing the

1063
01:00:23,040 --> 01:00:30,400
Speaker 4: Nintendo switch to not the one, the two because he

1064
01:00:30,440 --> 01:00:35,240
Speaker 4: didn't play well in his opinion. Well, they were playing

1065
01:00:35,280 --> 01:00:39,000
Speaker 4: against eleven year old who I'll send you a picture

1066
01:00:39,040 --> 01:00:39,680
Speaker 4: and you tell me.

1067
01:00:39,640 --> 01:00:40,800
Speaker 3: How old this young man is.

1068
01:00:40,920 --> 01:00:49,920
Speaker 9: Oh god, yeah, I saw him drive the kids. I

1069
01:00:49,480 --> 01:00:52,240
Speaker 9: saw him.

1070
01:00:52,520 --> 01:00:55,440
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, he bought beer at halftime.

1071
01:00:56,040 --> 01:01:00,320
Speaker 4: Go ahead, I'm sending you this picture right now, gonna

1072
01:01:00,400 --> 01:01:06,160
Speaker 4: blow your mind, all right. And so I'm driving. I'm

1073
01:01:06,160 --> 01:01:12,680
Speaker 4: coming up, uh getdy, you know, almost to where we

1074
01:01:12,760 --> 01:01:17,120
Speaker 4: need to be, and a car and the car in

1075
01:01:17,160 --> 01:01:20,760
Speaker 4: front of me goes over this plywood and it floats,

1076
01:01:20,800 --> 01:01:24,479
Speaker 4: It flips it up in the air. So there's a

1077
01:01:24,640 --> 01:01:29,880
Speaker 4: giant piece of plywood floating in.

1078
01:01:29,920 --> 01:01:31,560
Speaker 3: The air towards the front of the car.

1079
01:01:31,840 --> 01:01:35,960
Speaker 4: Oh smash, no boom, plywood explodes.

1080
01:01:37,000 --> 01:01:38,360
Speaker 1: Oh god, oh boy.

1081
01:01:39,240 --> 01:01:39,800
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1082
01:01:40,080 --> 01:01:44,040
Speaker 4: So I'm like, oh my god, I get here in time.

1083
01:01:46,560 --> 01:01:49,959
Speaker 4: I go look in the front of my car and

1084
01:01:51,400 --> 01:01:56,120
Speaker 4: the front it's an electric car. Yes, So the whole

1085
01:01:56,120 --> 01:01:58,720
Speaker 4: front grille is like a solar unit with cameras, all

1086
01:01:58,800 --> 01:01:59,720
Speaker 4: kinds of stuff in there.

1087
01:02:00,280 --> 01:02:02,400
Speaker 3: The emblem is just hanging.

1088
01:02:02,120 --> 01:02:06,040
Speaker 4: Down this plywood stuck between my bumper, my bumper as

1089
01:02:06,040 --> 01:02:10,680
Speaker 4: a hole on the left.

1090
01:02:11,440 --> 01:02:13,800
Speaker 3: Hey man, do I talk this up to the au

1091
01:02:13,880 --> 01:02:14,680
Speaker 3: journey as well?

1092
01:02:14,920 --> 01:02:16,000
Speaker 1: Yes, you do?

1093
01:02:16,560 --> 01:02:18,440
Speaker 2: This is these are the kinds of things that happened,

1094
01:02:19,320 --> 01:02:21,400
Speaker 2: uh in these in these situations.

1095
01:02:21,720 --> 01:02:25,800
Speaker 4: So now that was the beginning of the show. I

1096
01:02:26,000 --> 01:02:32,240
Speaker 4: was filling out my mobile claim for all State. Okay, hope, hope,

1097
01:02:32,480 --> 01:02:36,240
Speaker 4: hopinging it's going to protect me from Mayhem like that.

1098
01:02:39,360 --> 01:02:43,880
Speaker 2: Speaking of Mayhem, lou Dort just hit a.

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01:02:44,040 --> 01:02:46,160
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, that was crazy. What the hell was that?

1100
01:02:46,160 --> 01:02:46,760
Speaker 3: That was crazy?

1101
01:02:46,920 --> 01:02:47,320
Speaker 1: Anyway?

1102
01:02:47,720 --> 01:02:49,840
Speaker 2: Uh, you could have called all State. You could have

1103
01:02:49,920 --> 01:02:52,400
Speaker 2: called Triple A. You could have called Steve de Seger.

1104
01:02:52,520 --> 01:02:53,560
Speaker 3: I would have preferred him.

1105
01:02:53,720 --> 01:02:54,320
Speaker 1: You you, You.

1106
01:02:54,280 --> 01:02:57,840
Speaker 2: Could have done that and and and that I've learned

1107
01:02:57,840 --> 01:03:01,320
Speaker 2: would probably work as well. It's a problem. So so

1108
01:03:01,440 --> 01:03:03,920
Speaker 2: let's go. Let's go see Steve de Seger.

1109
01:03:04,320 --> 01:03:04,760
Speaker 1: There he is.

1110
01:03:04,880 --> 01:03:06,760
Speaker 5: I will listened to said claim.

1111
01:03:07,040 --> 01:03:09,160
Speaker 8: But you're right, it probably would work just as well,

1112
01:03:09,640 --> 01:03:12,640
Speaker 8: which is not good for anybody. We got ten minutes

1113
01:03:12,680 --> 01:03:15,280
Speaker 8: to go, third quarter at Oklahoma City. This is Game

1114
01:03:15,360 --> 01:03:18,240
Speaker 8: seven of the NBA Finals. The Thunder now up fifty

1115
01:03:18,280 --> 01:03:21,040
Speaker 8: four to fifty one on the Pacers. The huge news

1116
01:03:21,120 --> 01:03:24,320
Speaker 8: that Tyrese Halliburton of Indiana left in the first quarter

1117
01:03:24,360 --> 01:03:27,000
Speaker 8: with an achilles injury had to be helped off the court.

1118
01:03:27,360 --> 01:03:31,080
Speaker 8: He had nine points early on three three pointers. Leading

1119
01:03:31,080 --> 01:03:34,440
Speaker 8: scorer for his team has now passcal Siakam with thirteen.

1120
01:03:34,840 --> 01:03:37,760
Speaker 8: You had mentioned early in the show that these Game

1121
01:03:37,840 --> 01:03:41,280
Speaker 8: sevens of the NBA Finals tend to be slogs, and

1122
01:03:41,360 --> 01:03:44,680
Speaker 8: in fact, with a score of twenty five twenty two

1123
01:03:44,880 --> 01:03:47,840
Speaker 8: after the first quarter, that was actually the highest scoring

1124
01:03:47,960 --> 01:03:51,160
Speaker 8: first quarter of any Game seven of the Finals in

1125
01:03:51,200 --> 01:03:52,600
Speaker 8: the last forty years.

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01:03:53,160 --> 01:03:55,240
Speaker 5: So yes, proof of point.

1127
01:03:55,880 --> 01:03:59,280
Speaker 8: Indiana in the finals for the first time since two thousand.

1128
01:03:59,360 --> 01:04:01,360
Speaker 5: They have not won an NBA title.

1129
01:04:01,480 --> 01:04:05,919
Speaker 8: The Thunder franchise moved to OKC in two thousand and eight.

1130
01:04:06,000 --> 01:04:08,280
Speaker 8: They made the finals twenty twelve, but have not won

1131
01:04:08,320 --> 01:04:12,000
Speaker 8: an NBA title since the move. The Suns are trading

1132
01:04:12,080 --> 01:04:15,440
Speaker 8: Kevin Durant to Houston for Jalen Green, Dylan Brooks, and

1133
01:04:15,520 --> 01:04:19,120
Speaker 8: a first rounder this week, plus five second round draft choices.

1134
01:04:19,400 --> 01:04:23,400
Speaker 8: The NBA Draft starts on Wednesday. In the WNBA wins

1135
01:04:23,400 --> 01:04:26,840
Speaker 8: for Seattle over New York. Wins for Atlanta, Washington, and

1136
01:04:26,920 --> 01:04:29,840
Speaker 8: Las Vegas, which beat Indiana eighty nine to eighty one.

1137
01:04:30,240 --> 01:04:34,240
Speaker 8: Caitlin Clark in defeat nineteen points, tenn assists, eight turnovers.

1138
01:04:34,560 --> 01:04:37,920
Speaker 8: Keegan Bradley won the Travelers by one stroke. In Connecticut,

1139
01:04:38,240 --> 01:04:40,960
Speaker 8: US men's soccer has beaten eighty two to one. The

1140
01:04:41,000 --> 01:04:43,600
Speaker 8: Gold Cup tournament is on Fox and FS one. The

1141
01:04:43,640 --> 01:04:47,480
Speaker 8: Americans will play a quarterfinal next Sunday. Alex Plot took

1142
01:04:47,480 --> 01:04:50,800
Speaker 8: the IndyCar Race at Roade America in Wisconsin, his sixth

1143
01:04:50,880 --> 01:04:54,680
Speaker 8: victory in nine events so far this season. Chase Briscoe

1144
01:04:54,680 --> 01:04:57,760
Speaker 8: was the NASCAR winner at Pocono. Denny Hamlin was second.

1145
01:04:58,160 --> 01:05:01,040
Speaker 8: LSU won the College World Series for the second time

1146
01:05:01,080 --> 01:05:04,720
Speaker 8: in the last three years. They beat Coastal Carolina again today,

1147
01:05:04,800 --> 01:05:07,000
Speaker 8: five to three, after taking the opener of the best

1148
01:05:07,040 --> 01:05:11,000
Speaker 8: of three series yesterday one nothing. That win yesterday ended

1149
01:05:11,040 --> 01:05:14,800
Speaker 8: Coastal's twenty six game winning streak. They'd gone two months

1150
01:05:14,800 --> 01:05:18,680
Speaker 8: without a loss. In Major League Baseball, Tonight, the Phillies

1151
01:05:18,720 --> 01:05:21,240
Speaker 8: are hosting the Mets. Those two are tied for first

1152
01:05:21,320 --> 01:05:24,080
Speaker 8: in the NL East, but not for long bottom of

1153
01:05:24,080 --> 01:05:26,560
Speaker 8: the eighth. The Phillies are up seven to one on

1154
01:05:26,640 --> 01:05:29,880
Speaker 8: New York, and the Mets today sent catcher Francisco Alvarez

1155
01:05:29,920 --> 01:05:33,000
Speaker 8: to triple a. He struck out thirty eight times in

1156
01:05:33,080 --> 01:05:34,280
Speaker 8: thirty five games.

1157
01:05:34,680 --> 01:05:36,600
Speaker 5: Dodgers beat Washington.

1158
01:05:36,240 --> 01:05:39,120
Speaker 8: Thirteen to seven, even though LA was down three to

1159
01:05:39,160 --> 01:05:42,080
Speaker 8: nothing in the sixth inning, Max Munsey with a grand

1160
01:05:42,120 --> 01:05:44,960
Speaker 8: slam and a three run homer. The Giants are second

1161
01:05:44,960 --> 01:05:47,880
Speaker 8: in the NL West, still three and a half games

1162
01:05:47,920 --> 01:05:51,280
Speaker 8: behind La. Padres, still five back. Giants won their game

1163
01:05:51,360 --> 01:05:54,680
Speaker 8: nine to five over Boston. The Padres with a run

1164
01:05:54,720 --> 01:05:57,440
Speaker 8: in the bottom of the ninth, get a one run

1165
01:05:57,600 --> 01:06:01,640
Speaker 8: win three to two over Kansas City. Colorado beat Arizona

1166
01:06:01,720 --> 01:06:04,720
Speaker 8: four to two. The Rockies record now eighteen at sixty

1167
01:06:05,120 --> 01:06:07,680
Speaker 8: wins on the road for Cleveland and Houston, and the

1168
01:06:07,760 --> 01:06:09,960
Speaker 8: Yankees scored three in the bottom of the eighth to

1169
01:06:10,040 --> 01:06:13,840
Speaker 8: edge Baltimore four to two. Orioles catcher Adlee Rushman is

1170
01:06:13,960 --> 01:06:17,200
Speaker 8: likely out through the All Star break with a strained oblique.

1171
01:06:17,600 --> 01:06:20,240
Speaker 8: In the NBA, they're at a timeout right now, nine

1172
01:06:20,320 --> 01:06:22,800
Speaker 8: to twenty to go, third quarter of Game seven of

1173
01:06:22,840 --> 01:06:26,840
Speaker 8: the Finals at Oklahoma City. Thunder leading fifty six fifty

1174
01:06:26,920 --> 01:06:30,640
Speaker 8: one over the Indiana Pacers. Each team shooting forty one

1175
01:06:30,720 --> 01:06:33,960
Speaker 8: percent from the floor. In fact, Okse, the team that's

1176
01:06:34,000 --> 01:06:36,960
Speaker 8: in the lead from three point range is five of

1177
01:06:37,080 --> 01:06:40,760
Speaker 8: twenty three and one final note on the College World Series.

1178
01:06:40,800 --> 01:06:42,360
Speaker 8: I don't know if you saw it, but in the

1179
01:06:42,520 --> 01:06:46,520
Speaker 8: very first inning of the last game of the season,

1180
01:06:47,360 --> 01:06:51,640
Speaker 8: the Coastal Carolina manager was thrown out for arguing balls

1181
01:06:51,640 --> 01:06:54,960
Speaker 8: and strikes and his first base coach was tossed in

1182
01:06:55,040 --> 01:06:59,480
Speaker 8: a similar argument two for the price of one in

1183
01:06:59,560 --> 01:07:05,080
Speaker 8: the first standing of the final. The explanation afterwards was that, A,

1184
01:07:05,360 --> 01:07:08,880
Speaker 8: of course, you can't argue balls and strikes, and after

1185
01:07:08,960 --> 01:07:13,320
Speaker 8: you get a warning, it's immediately an ejection. After you

1186
01:07:13,320 --> 01:07:17,600
Speaker 8: you keep going after it. His again, I have to

1187
01:07:17,600 --> 01:07:22,560
Speaker 8: emphasize his explanation. The Coastal Carolina managers. I may have

1188
01:07:22,680 --> 01:07:26,920
Speaker 8: heard a warning, but then his sentence after that was

1189
01:07:27,440 --> 01:07:30,360
Speaker 8: you've already blown three calls out.

1190
01:07:30,400 --> 01:07:31,360
Speaker 5: He went back to.

1191
01:07:31,320 --> 01:07:34,640
Speaker 2: You, Yeah, I got feelings about this. I love that

1192
01:07:34,680 --> 01:07:38,160
Speaker 2: you brought this up, Steve. And apparently also I guess

1193
01:07:38,160 --> 01:07:41,920
Speaker 2: the guy's name is Kevin Schnall. Maybe has now already

1194
01:07:41,920 --> 01:07:45,680
Speaker 2: been they've already levied some sort of a two game suspension.

1195
01:07:45,280 --> 01:07:45,959
Speaker 5: For next year.

1196
01:07:46,120 --> 01:07:50,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, for next year for quote bumping. Now I watch

1197
01:07:50,080 --> 01:07:50,680
Speaker 2: the highlight.

1198
01:07:51,040 --> 01:07:52,160
Speaker 5: No, an umpire tripped.

1199
01:07:52,640 --> 01:07:55,280
Speaker 2: That's not a bump. That's a dude that tripped over

1200
01:07:55,320 --> 01:07:58,840
Speaker 2: his own feet and fell on his butt. That's what

1201
01:07:58,920 --> 01:08:02,960
Speaker 2: that umpire legs in the air the hall. It was tremendous.

1202
01:08:03,040 --> 01:08:08,360
Speaker 2: It was worthy of a cartoon. That umpire went flying, truly.

1203
01:08:08,600 --> 01:08:10,920
Speaker 3: The essence of the unathletic.

1204
01:08:10,520 --> 01:08:16,760
Speaker 2: Beautiful, yes, completely uncoordinated and uh and went all the

1205
01:08:16,760 --> 01:08:20,360
Speaker 2: way down, all the way down and landed on the butt.

1206
01:08:20,560 --> 01:08:26,760
Speaker 2: And and now they are suspending the Coastal Carolina head

1207
01:08:26,800 --> 01:08:32,120
Speaker 2: coach because of this maneuver. I get bothered in major

1208
01:08:32,200 --> 01:08:34,599
Speaker 2: games when people get thrown out for words.

1209
01:08:35,439 --> 01:08:36,120
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's bad.

1210
01:08:36,360 --> 01:08:37,080
Speaker 1: I don't like that.

1211
01:08:37,360 --> 01:08:40,760
Speaker 2: I agree with that, and I and I realized that

1212
01:08:40,880 --> 01:08:43,559
Speaker 2: there is at a certain point it's like, okay, that's

1213
01:08:43,680 --> 01:08:46,720
Speaker 2: enough words. We've got to move on. And somehow you

1214
01:08:46,760 --> 01:08:49,960
Speaker 2: have to move on. So I understand that. But I

1215
01:08:50,040 --> 01:08:53,240
Speaker 2: think it's funny when people go ooh, he must have

1216
01:08:53,280 --> 01:08:56,880
Speaker 2: said the really bad stuff. I'm like, y'all realize nobody

1217
01:08:56,920 --> 01:09:00,960
Speaker 2: else heard it. I have no idea what the difference

1218
01:09:01,040 --> 01:09:06,280
Speaker 2: is between bleepity bleep and right. And I hate you.

1219
01:09:06,280 --> 01:09:10,479
Speaker 2: You meet ball sandwich, like there's no difference. Nobody can

1220
01:09:10,560 --> 01:09:15,040
Speaker 2: hear them. I think umpires and referees and and all

1221
01:09:15,080 --> 01:09:20,280
Speaker 2: of this they need. They especially in baseball, they need

1222
01:09:20,360 --> 01:09:24,439
Speaker 2: like thick skin training. Man, it's your job to walk away.

1223
01:09:24,880 --> 01:09:27,479
Speaker 2: You need to go touch the outfield wall. Go touch

1224
01:09:27,520 --> 01:09:31,360
Speaker 2: the outfield wall. But we're not throwing out head coaches

1225
01:09:31,760 --> 01:09:34,920
Speaker 2: in an elimination championship game in the first inning because

1226
01:09:34,920 --> 01:09:35,519
Speaker 2: of words.

1227
01:09:35,920 --> 01:09:37,680
Speaker 3: That's stupid, that's ridiculous.

1228
01:09:38,080 --> 01:09:44,280
Speaker 4: And speaking of baseball, can we just agree that, you know,

1229
01:09:44,400 --> 01:09:46,240
Speaker 4: not a lot of diehard fans are gonna be like,

1230
01:09:46,280 --> 01:09:52,760
Speaker 4: wait a minute, but the Dodgers are really uplifting baseball

1231
01:09:52,840 --> 01:09:58,600
Speaker 4: right now in a major way. Well, explain the word uplifting.

1232
01:09:58,760 --> 01:10:00,840
Speaker 4: I think I get where you're coming. I didn't want

1233
01:10:00,880 --> 01:10:04,960
Speaker 4: to say saving, okay, so I chose uplifting it.

1234
01:10:05,120 --> 01:10:06,880
Speaker 1: Okay.

1235
01:10:06,920 --> 01:10:12,120
Speaker 4: The level of excitement sure surrounding that organization. Did you

1236
01:10:12,160 --> 01:10:15,479
Speaker 4: watch that? I'm sure you did that Padre's Dodger series.

1237
01:10:15,560 --> 01:10:17,720
Speaker 1: Oh beautiful, beautiful.

1238
01:10:17,840 --> 01:10:19,599
Speaker 3: I'm you want to talk about must Ce TV?

1239
01:10:20,000 --> 01:10:22,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, Now, I don't know if what you're saying is

1240
01:10:22,640 --> 01:10:25,599
Speaker 2: what we need? Are more managers? Like we need more

1241
01:10:26,240 --> 01:10:29,160
Speaker 2: sixty two year old people chest bumping each other. Funny,

1242
01:10:29,280 --> 01:10:29,880
Speaker 2: it's funny.

1243
01:10:30,000 --> 01:10:33,280
Speaker 4: But I remember last year around this time I had

1244
01:10:33,280 --> 01:10:37,240
Speaker 4: the same sentiment about the Dodgers Yankees.

1245
01:10:37,360 --> 01:10:40,760
Speaker 3: Yep, you did a series, and I.

1246
01:10:40,680 --> 01:10:44,600
Speaker 4: Said, wouldn't this be amazing if this was if this

1247
01:10:44,840 --> 01:10:49,000
Speaker 4: was the World Series? And what happened it was.

1248
01:10:48,960 --> 01:10:50,360
Speaker 1: The World Series World Series.

1249
01:10:52,200 --> 01:10:54,040
Speaker 4: A lot of people were like, well, the Padres aren't

1250
01:10:54,040 --> 01:10:57,519
Speaker 4: really do tell that to them, Tell that to the

1251
01:10:57,560 --> 01:10:59,040
Speaker 4: Dodger Tell that to the Padres.

1252
01:10:59,040 --> 01:11:00,360
Speaker 1: Oh no, they're not.

1253
01:11:00,040 --> 01:11:07,040
Speaker 4: They Yeah, And in that playoff series last year, that's

1254
01:11:07,080 --> 01:11:12,880
Speaker 4: how that's how rivalry starts. And so it was. It

1255
01:11:13,000 --> 01:11:19,240
Speaker 4: was such a good showing on the on the on

1256
01:11:19,280 --> 01:11:23,600
Speaker 4: the on the mound. It's just the energy that for

1257
01:11:23,640 --> 01:11:26,440
Speaker 4: those first five hitters could that lineup.

1258
01:11:27,240 --> 01:11:30,559
Speaker 2: Doesn't quit and people don't realize that, Like they're sitting

1259
01:11:30,560 --> 01:11:32,760
Speaker 2: there in first place with a really good record and

1260
01:11:32,800 --> 01:11:36,479
Speaker 2: their whole pitching staff is gone, is gone, so like

1261
01:11:37,400 --> 01:11:39,800
Speaker 2: pitch today right right, Well that was because they are

1262
01:11:40,960 --> 01:11:43,439
Speaker 2: nine rounds or something. But but yeah, the point is

1263
01:11:43,439 --> 01:11:46,000
Speaker 2: is in theory, they're they have one of the best

1264
01:11:46,000 --> 01:11:49,759
Speaker 2: records in baseball and and they should get a lot better.

1265
01:11:50,160 --> 01:11:51,960
Speaker 1: They should get a lot better here real soon.

1266
01:11:53,520 --> 01:11:57,040
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's it really, they.

1267
01:11:56,920 --> 01:11:58,519
Speaker 2: Are are are.

1268
01:11:58,479 --> 01:12:03,400
Speaker 4: Really you know hitting in the time where you had

1269
01:12:03,439 --> 01:12:06,800
Speaker 4: the NFL Draft, you had to you know, the playoffs,

1270
01:12:06,920 --> 01:12:11,160
Speaker 4: NBA playoffs for them to be playing even the National

1271
01:12:11,240 --> 01:12:13,559
Speaker 4: Series today. That game today was crazy.

1272
01:12:13,680 --> 01:12:16,439
Speaker 1: Yep. Yeah, They're down three to nothing about halfway through

1273
01:12:16,439 --> 01:12:16,920
Speaker 1: the game.

1274
01:12:16,840 --> 01:12:19,160
Speaker 3: And they grand Slam in the seventh.

1275
01:12:19,240 --> 01:12:20,880
Speaker 2: By the time you get to the night Lightning, they

1276
01:12:20,880 --> 01:12:24,000
Speaker 2: got a position player pitch and the thing was going on.

1277
01:12:24,080 --> 01:12:26,840
Speaker 4: But that's the excitement that the amount of runs being

1278
01:12:26,920 --> 01:12:31,520
Speaker 4: scored now by these franchise I think is unbelievable.

1279
01:12:31,560 --> 01:12:32,759
Speaker 3: I think that's what you need.

1280
01:12:33,760 --> 01:12:36,080
Speaker 1: Tell you what lots to get to.

1281
01:12:36,120 --> 01:12:38,200
Speaker 2: And in fact, as we were having that conversation, the

1282
01:12:38,200 --> 01:12:40,840
Speaker 2: game was tied a minute seventeen ago. Now the Thunder

1283
01:12:40,920 --> 01:12:44,719
Speaker 2: up by nine. That's the third quarter I was worried about.

1284
01:12:45,240 --> 01:12:46,720
Speaker 2: You can stream the show and all of our Fox

1285
01:12:46,760 --> 01:12:49,479
Speaker 2: Sports Radio shows live twenty four to seven in the

1286
01:12:49,520 --> 01:12:51,840
Speaker 2: new and improved iHeart Radio app. You just search Fox

1287
01:12:51,880 --> 01:12:54,439
Speaker 2: Sports Radio in the app to stream us live, and

1288
01:12:54,600 --> 01:12:56,320
Speaker 2: one of the newest features in the app is that

1289
01:12:56,520 --> 01:12:58,840
Speaker 2: you can select Fox Sports Radio is one of your presets,

1290
01:12:58,920 --> 01:13:01,439
Speaker 2: just like the presets on a radio dials, so be

1291
01:13:01,479 --> 01:13:04,160
Speaker 2: sure to preset Fox Sports Radio in the iHeartRadio app.

1292
01:13:04,200 --> 01:13:06,439
Speaker 2: It's always gonna pop up right there at the top

1293
01:13:06,720 --> 01:13:09,400
Speaker 2: of your screen. Okay, we got so much going on,

1294
01:13:09,520 --> 01:13:12,960
Speaker 2: we haven't even gotten to Kevin Dang Durant. So let's

1295
01:13:13,000 --> 01:13:16,479
Speaker 2: do that and continue to watch Game seven of the

1296
01:13:16,560 --> 01:13:19,920
Speaker 2: NBA Finals together. Coming up next on Fox Sports Radio.

1297
01:13:20,560 --> 01:13:26,000
Speaker 2: We're live in the Fox Sports Radio studios. I mean

1298
01:13:26,040 --> 01:13:32,240
Speaker 2: you said it earlier, TJ McConnell time, he's potentially having

1299
01:13:33,640 --> 01:13:37,639
Speaker 2: a little bit of a moment. He's keeping it, he's

1300
01:13:37,760 --> 01:13:41,280
Speaker 2: keeping it in it there for a moment, he's bawling.

1301
01:13:43,520 --> 01:13:47,639
Speaker 2: But the Pacers are down in the third quarter. Halliburton's out.

1302
01:13:47,640 --> 01:13:49,759
Speaker 2: If you're just joining us, TJ.

1303
01:13:49,960 --> 01:13:51,840
Speaker 1: Time, Halliburton is.

1304
01:13:52,439 --> 01:13:56,160
Speaker 2: Halliburton's not in this game, and we firmly believe that

1305
01:13:56,200 --> 01:13:58,439
Speaker 2: Halliburton will not be in any games next year either,

1306
01:13:59,240 --> 01:14:02,640
Speaker 2: And so that's kind of a bigger NBA issue that

1307
01:14:02,760 --> 01:14:04,200
Speaker 2: everyone's talking about tonight.

1308
01:14:05,439 --> 01:14:08,240
Speaker 1: Really, really glad you're with us. No one near done yet.

1309
01:14:08,240 --> 01:14:09,960
Speaker 2: For the best pregame show every week, and be sure

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Speaker 2: what'd you think of the what'd you think of the

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Speaker 2: Kevin Durant deal?

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Speaker 4: I was like, Wow, but that that that's crazy to

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Speaker 4: me because it is what.

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Speaker 3: One first round draft pick in there?

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Speaker 2: One this year's number ten overall pick. It also included

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Speaker 2: Jalen Green and then Dylan Brooks. You got to get

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Speaker 2: the salaries to match. Those are the players, and then

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Speaker 2: the tenth pick in this year's draft that's Wednesday, and

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Speaker 2: then five future second round second round picks.

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Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, what'd you think that?

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Speaker 4: Uh? I thought it would be much more than that.

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Speaker 4: I thought, at least, you know, it'd be multiple first

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Speaker 4: round draft picks. But look, I don't know if it's

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Speaker 4: more about hoof these turnovers? Boy goodness gracious, that's how

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Speaker 4: they get you. Then they feed off these turnovers. Gotta

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Speaker 4: take care of the ball, you know, I thought he

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Speaker 4: would fetch more. How about the fact that I don't

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Speaker 4: think Phoenix wants Jalen Green. I think they're looking to

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Speaker 4: ship him somewhere else.

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Speaker 2: It's interesting. Interesting.

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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that's what happens when you're in the playoff,

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Speaker 4: your number two seed, you're in the playoffs, you're supposed

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Speaker 4: to be to go to guy, and you're benched in

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Speaker 4: the fourth quarter in multiple playoff games.

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Speaker 3: That's a.

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Speaker 4: That's a uh to hold the mirror in front of

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Speaker 4: the face type of situation, no doubt.

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Speaker 2: I mean, here's here's what I would say. My first

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Speaker 2: two takeaways are. Number One, the Rockets are a legit

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Speaker 2: title contender next year. Yes, when you combined Kevin Durant

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Speaker 2: with the youth and an athleticism and now got a

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Speaker 2: little playoff experience too. Shan Goon, I'm in Thompson Thoms

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Speaker 2: you know what I mean, Everything that that Houston is

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Speaker 2: going to have to be able to throw at the

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Speaker 2: at the league. Now, I think that they are a

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Speaker 2: true title contender. And what Phoenix is is a cautionary tale.

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Speaker 2: That's a cautionary tale. The Phoenix Suns. They got hosed

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Speaker 2: on this deal. But they didn't get hosed on this

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Speaker 2: deal today. They got hosed on this deal last offseason

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Speaker 2: when they decided not when it was painfully obvious to

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Speaker 2: everybody watching that they had to move on from one

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Speaker 2: of their high priced stars. It wasn't working. They were

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Speaker 2: way too hop top heavy. Kevin Durant, Bradley Beal, Devin Booker.

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Speaker 2: I was convinced they were going to trade Kevin Durant

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Speaker 2: last year, and as soon as that story was coming

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Speaker 2: together there they were to hold a press conference, and

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Speaker 2: no doubt, they were led by their owner Matt Ishbia,

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Speaker 2: and the press conference was basically to kiss Kevin Durant'

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Speaker 2: butt and tell him this team's gonna all be all

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Speaker 2: about him next year, and off we go to run.

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Speaker 1: It back and do it again.

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Speaker 2: And you didn't even make the play in tournament with

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Speaker 2: three of the highest priced players in the league. It's embarrassing.

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Speaker 2: And you led yourself down a road now trading him

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Speaker 2: when everyone knew you had to trade him, and therefore

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Speaker 2: you got pennies on the dollar.

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Speaker 3: Devin book are somewhere really day drinking right now.

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Speaker 2: The Phoenix Suns are back to who they used to.

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Speaker 4: Do, just out there day drinking, look looking for some help.

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Speaker 4: They're back to who they used to be Man, Hello,

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Speaker 4: darkness friend.

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Speaker 1: Well, that's that's.

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Speaker 2: That's what happens next, right, Like that's like count three

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Speaker 2: to two one before Devin Booker makes a phone call

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Speaker 2: and says, get me out of here.

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Speaker 3: Got to I mean? And he is mister Phoenix.

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Speaker 2: Right, that's the guy they want to keep. That's the

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Speaker 2: guy they want to keep. All right, we are dangerously

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Speaker 2: close to it, looking like this is going to be

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Speaker 2: the thunders ball game. But we'll head into our final

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Speaker 2: hour and crown a champion one way or another. Much

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Speaker 2: more to get to coming up next on Fox.

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Speaker 1: Sports Radio, Fox Sports Radio Radio.

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Speaker 10: Can I read you what I wrote? I want to

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Speaker 10: read you what I wrote. I want to read you

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Speaker 10: what I wrote. All right, let's do it, Okay, I

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Speaker 10: want to read you what I wrote. Thunders up by

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Speaker 10: thirteen started the fourth quarter. There's no Tyrese Halliburton.

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Speaker 2: Optimism is on life support for the Indiana Pacers. So

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Speaker 2: you could make the case that the timing of what

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Speaker 2: I wrote is based on that.

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Speaker 1: You could, but I don't think so.

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Speaker 2: And I think that this is capturing where a lot

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Speaker 2: of NBA fans are tonight.

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Speaker 1: As Tyrese Halliburton is out, he absolutely.

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Speaker 2: One without me being a doctor, I don't know how

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Speaker 2: this is anything but a torn achilles. You watched it

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Speaker 2: pop right there on National TV. And so now, from

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Speaker 2: Dame Lillard to Jason Tatum to Tyrese Halliburton, three of

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Speaker 2: the top star guards in the Eastern Conference are all

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Speaker 2: likely going to miss next year as well. And so

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Speaker 2: add that in to kind of the rest of what

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Speaker 2: we see in the NBA right now, and we're live

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Speaker 2: in the Fox Sports radio studios. Here's what I wrote,

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Speaker 2: and I want to know what you think of this.

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Speaker 2: I wrote, from the injuries, to the load management during

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Speaker 2: the season that they won't do in the off season,

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Speaker 2: to the flopping, to the foul baiting, the NBA, which

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Speaker 2: I love, is becoming a frustrating watch.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I can see your frustrations.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I just think that there's so many and I

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Speaker 2: know that you'll say that this is simplifying it, but

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Speaker 2: I feel like there's a lot of fixable problems that

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Speaker 2: aren't being fixed. And that's what kind of gets me.

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Speaker 2: Everything in life has struggles, Everything has problems. Some people

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Speaker 2: don't believe there's anything, but there's no such thing as problems.

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Speaker 1: They're just opportunities. For growth or whatever like. But when

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Speaker 1: when you're looking at this, when you're.

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Speaker 2: Watching officials constantly getting fooled, just constantly getting fooled, superstar

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01:21:11,840 --> 01:21:20,080
Speaker 2: players who have basically been consistently rewarded for falling on

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Speaker 2: the ground rather than trying to score the basketball. And

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Speaker 2: then what I think is really the crux of the

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Speaker 2: issue you've brought up tonight with Haliburton going out, and

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Speaker 2: that is a fact that these guys will take Tuesday

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Speaker 2: Night off on TNT, but they won't rest in August.

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Speaker 2: And that's why as bodies get bigger, stronger, faster, more talented,

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Speaker 2: and more aware of their health, more of them are

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Speaker 2: getting hurt.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And so the NBA champion often.

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Speaker 2: Over the last handful of years feels less like the

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Speaker 2: NBA champion and just the team that lucked to the finish.

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Speaker 1: With their players.

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Speaker 3: War of attrition, That's what.

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Speaker 2: It feels like. And I'm not saying that the Thunder

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Speaker 2: aren't the best team. They've been the best team all year,

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Speaker 2: but they're also the only one left with their players,

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Speaker 2: is it?

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Speaker 1: They're the only ones left?

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Speaker 2: So sometimes I've got to be lucky, man. Yeah, sure,

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Speaker 2: that's always part of it. Yeah, So I'm not mad

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Speaker 2: at that. I'm not mad that it looks like the

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Speaker 2: thunder who are now up by sixteen, are going to

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Speaker 2: win the NBA title.

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Speaker 1: I just think that there's.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think there's a lot in the NBA that

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01:22:40,960 --> 01:22:45,479
Speaker 2: leads us down the road of screaming on social media

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01:22:45,840 --> 01:22:50,120
Speaker 2: and calling for you know, oh, conspiracy theories and all

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Speaker 2: of this stuff.

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Speaker 1: I get it. I get why people feel that way.

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Speaker 2: I don't buy it, but I get why people feel

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Speaker 2: that way.

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Speaker 4: Look, this year in the NBA, and I know these

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Speaker 4: ratings are historically low for finals, but this has been

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Speaker 4: a good year in the NBA. It's been a good year.

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Speaker 4: We had some movement that we had never seen before

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Speaker 4: and never thought we would even.

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Speaker 3: Ever see.

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01:23:20,640 --> 01:23:26,280
Speaker 4: And so, you know, just things like that add to

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Speaker 4: where we are now or to essentially newbies about to

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Speaker 4: be crowned. Somebody's gonna be crowned NBA champion, and you know,

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Speaker 4: if it were the Pacers, I think it'd be the

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Speaker 4: first time that the team was crowned and won the

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Speaker 4: NBA Finals without a true like number one star. And

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Speaker 4: it goes to the level of teamwork that you know. Now, No,

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Speaker 4: it's not about it's shifting away from you go get

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Speaker 4: these three stars right, and you have to now build

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01:24:07,520 --> 01:24:09,479
Speaker 4: out a team. You have to build out guys who

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Speaker 4: can actually come off the bench and do something, not

1475
01:24:12,479 --> 01:24:16,840
Speaker 4: run around for three minutes so your stars can rest

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Speaker 4: and then come back and go back to the bench.

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Speaker 2: You have to literally put.

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Speaker 3: A team together.

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Speaker 4: And I like that aspect of it because now in

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Speaker 4: the last seven years we've had a different champion, and

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Speaker 4: so I think the parody in the league boats well

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01:24:34,280 --> 01:24:40,200
Speaker 4: for small market teams Indiana. Okay, See, if you draft

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01:24:40,439 --> 01:24:44,920
Speaker 4: well and develop, then you have a better shot than

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Speaker 4: going out and spending a bunch of money on free agents.

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Speaker 1: Yep, I agree. I'm okay with that.

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Speaker 3: NBA.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree with you on that front. If this

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01:24:53,760 --> 01:24:58,320
Speaker 2: could get more parody to the show, if this could

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Speaker 2: get more teams in the mix, I like that. Like

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Speaker 2: I could sit here today and I bet, especially with

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Speaker 2: the injuries and the unknown about trades and whatnot, I

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Speaker 2: bet I could like sell you on the idea of

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Speaker 2: almost ten teams who have a shot next year.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And I've never felt that way in my entire life.

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Speaker 4: No, but for a long time we've been dominated by dynasties, right,

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Speaker 4: you know, eighties, nineties, two.

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Speaker 2: Thous hello, I mean all of them.

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Speaker 4: So yeah, this is a you know, essentially a new

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Speaker 4: NBA and it's going to take a minute to get

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01:25:35,720 --> 01:25:38,080
Speaker 4: used to it. But look what's on the horizon. We

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01:25:38,160 --> 01:25:40,400
Speaker 4: got the Cooper Flags getting ready to come into the

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01:25:40,479 --> 01:25:44,400
Speaker 4: league and it's exciting. The league is now more global

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Speaker 4: now than ever before. People are able to watch all

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Speaker 4: over the world, whether you have you know, satellite or not.

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Speaker 4: Now you're getting to stream the games. It's a global game.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 4: We have more international players. When the last time an

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Speaker 4: American born player was even considered for the MVP. That's

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Speaker 4: taken some time to get used to for sure. But

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Speaker 4: the last seven eight of them haven't even been from

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Speaker 4: this country, right, And for those who don't know, Shay

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Speaker 4: is from Canada, he's not American.

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Speaker 3: You're not like us.

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Speaker 2: Nope, no, you're not wrong on that. That's and that's

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Speaker 2: zoom out, big picture, all of that stuff. I am

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Speaker 2: really fascinated with the big news of the night, which

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Speaker 2: is not going to be the thunderbus, and the fact

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Speaker 2: that you can get darn close to you know, turning

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Speaker 2: the ignition and fired up and you know, they're like

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01:26:43,920 --> 01:26:45,800
Speaker 2: they're up sixteen, ten and a half to go. I

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Speaker 2: know it's the Pacers, so maybe they'll come back for

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Speaker 2: one guy. The key to that, Yeah, he's out there.

1524
01:26:51,000 --> 01:26:53,840
Speaker 2: That's the lead story of the night. That's the lead

1525
01:26:53,880 --> 01:26:56,640
Speaker 2: story of the night, which is Halliburton is out. And

1526
01:26:57,040 --> 01:27:01,360
Speaker 2: I'm very, very locked in on the point that you're making,

1527
01:27:02,400 --> 01:27:05,559
Speaker 2: which is that these guys don't rest anymore. This is

1528
01:27:05,640 --> 01:27:09,959
Speaker 2: cultural in the sport of basketball. And then you combine

1529
01:27:10,040 --> 01:27:13,519
Speaker 2: that with the fact that they do rest during the season,

1530
01:27:14,640 --> 01:27:18,679
Speaker 2: and I think fans a have a right to be upset,

1531
01:27:19,240 --> 01:27:21,200
Speaker 2: and b the league has a right to be very

1532
01:27:21,240 --> 01:27:24,800
Speaker 2: concerned because you can say this is a great year

1533
01:27:25,200 --> 01:27:29,120
Speaker 2: because of parody, because of the international contingent.

1534
01:27:29,560 --> 01:27:31,040
Speaker 1: You're not wrong on any of that.

1535
01:27:31,720 --> 01:27:35,920
Speaker 2: But any sport will tell you that the worst thing

1536
01:27:36,000 --> 01:27:39,000
Speaker 2: that can happen to it is for its stars to

1537
01:27:39,040 --> 01:27:39,719
Speaker 2: not be available.

1538
01:27:40,040 --> 01:27:42,920
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that's in any sport. Yeah, you're absolutely right.

1539
01:27:42,960 --> 01:27:44,200
Speaker 1: That is the number one.

1540
01:27:44,280 --> 01:27:47,639
Speaker 2: And we have got like I can sit here today

1541
01:27:48,360 --> 01:27:51,679
Speaker 2: and already tell you without even playing the first game

1542
01:27:51,720 --> 01:27:54,720
Speaker 2: of next year that there are three stars who will

1543
01:27:54,760 --> 01:27:58,360
Speaker 2: not be available. So that's that's not a good thing.

1544
01:27:58,840 --> 01:28:01,640
Speaker 2: And I don't know how you address it, because we

1545
01:28:01,680 --> 01:28:06,240
Speaker 2: don't even have majority opinion on what's causing it, even

1546
01:28:06,240 --> 01:28:07,679
Speaker 2: though I agree with your thinking.

1547
01:28:08,080 --> 01:28:12,120
Speaker 4: You know what, another thing that I've just been watching,

1548
01:28:13,560 --> 01:28:20,200
Speaker 4: Kobe Bryant did something to the game of basketball that

1549
01:28:21,560 --> 01:28:26,240
Speaker 4: is now the standard. He changed the type of shoes

1550
01:28:26,520 --> 01:28:33,599
Speaker 4: people wore. So now all of the shoes are low top,

1551
01:28:34,640 --> 01:28:40,240
Speaker 4: and so every basketball shoe pretty much essentially.

1552
01:28:40,400 --> 01:28:42,840
Speaker 3: Is a low top shoe.

1553
01:28:43,160 --> 01:28:43,360
Speaker 1: Now.

1554
01:28:43,479 --> 01:28:48,040
Speaker 4: That never was the case before. It was either quartertop

1555
01:28:48,120 --> 01:28:53,519
Speaker 4: or high top correct right for ankle support achilles support.

1556
01:28:53,960 --> 01:28:57,320
Speaker 4: Remember when Kobe came back from his achilles injury, he

1557
01:28:57,439 --> 01:29:01,280
Speaker 4: no longer wore the low tops. So I don't know

1558
01:29:01,280 --> 01:29:06,000
Speaker 4: if there's any correlation there, huh. But just look at

1559
01:29:06,040 --> 01:29:09,200
Speaker 4: the footwear that's going on out out there right now.

1560
01:29:10,439 --> 01:29:13,599
Speaker 4: Everybody's got on Kobe's or low tops or every every

1561
01:29:14,280 --> 01:29:18,080
Speaker 4: basketball player now has a low type basketball shoes.

1562
01:29:18,160 --> 01:29:20,080
Speaker 2: If you look fast, they look like running shoes.

1563
01:29:20,200 --> 01:29:20,360
Speaker 1: Yep.

1564
01:29:20,640 --> 01:29:23,160
Speaker 4: Would you ever if you went to the gym or

1565
01:29:23,200 --> 01:29:25,040
Speaker 4: to the park and somebody was playing in running shoes,

1566
01:29:25,080 --> 01:29:27,280
Speaker 4: you wouldn't play with them because they leedle to do anything.

1567
01:29:28,520 --> 01:29:32,600
Speaker 4: They liable to do anything you are doing some A

1568
01:29:32,720 --> 01:29:38,080
Speaker 4: six Yes, there's no telling what you're gonna do. So look,

1569
01:29:38,120 --> 01:29:40,800
Speaker 4: and I'm not saying that is the reason, but I'm

1570
01:29:40,840 --> 01:29:45,120
Speaker 4: just saying that things that make you go hmm.

1571
01:29:45,160 --> 01:29:47,920
Speaker 3: So you know, I don't have the scientific.

1572
01:29:47,760 --> 01:29:54,240
Speaker 4: Uh uh discovery to back up that hypothesis, but I

1573
01:29:54,280 --> 01:29:55,200
Speaker 4: can't be far off.

1574
01:29:55,400 --> 01:29:56,639
Speaker 3: Maybe maybe not, I don't know.

1575
01:29:56,760 --> 01:29:59,639
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, listen, we got to listen to uh,

1576
01:30:00,160 --> 01:30:07,080
Speaker 2: listen to every idea right now because this is a threat.

1577
01:30:07,680 --> 01:30:08,759
Speaker 1: This, this is a threat.

1578
01:30:08,920 --> 01:30:11,679
Speaker 2: In fact, i'd love to run this by you since

1579
01:30:11,720 --> 01:30:15,360
Speaker 2: you were just talking about the Dodgers. There's a major

1580
01:30:15,400 --> 01:30:19,400
Speaker 2: baseball voice this week, John Hayman on MLB Network. Essentially

1581
01:30:20,680 --> 01:30:24,519
Speaker 2: off of that Padres Dodgers brawl or bench clearing incident.

1582
01:30:24,600 --> 01:30:25,599
Speaker 1: It wasn't really a brawl.

1583
01:30:26,200 --> 01:30:29,439
Speaker 2: A couple managers got some you know, bumped their man

1584
01:30:29,479 --> 01:30:33,840
Speaker 2: boobs up against one another, but whatever. But off of

1585
01:30:33,840 --> 01:30:38,559
Speaker 2: that incident, there was a point he made that is

1586
01:30:38,960 --> 01:30:43,879
Speaker 2: related to the point we're making about a game missing

1587
01:30:43,960 --> 01:30:47,960
Speaker 2: its stars. And it was a controversial take and I

1588
01:30:48,000 --> 01:30:51,439
Speaker 2: would love to hear if you agree with it. So

1589
01:30:51,560 --> 01:30:54,760
Speaker 2: we'll get to that coming up next with e from

1590
01:30:54,760 --> 01:30:57,240
Speaker 2: Salama Mark Ward and this is Fox Sports Radio.

1591
01:30:59,360 --> 01:31:02,280
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1592
01:31:02,320 --> 01:31:05,679
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1594
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1595
01:31:12,520 --> 01:31:16,080
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, these are the Fox Sports Radio studios from

1596
01:31:16,080 --> 01:31:20,080
Speaker 2: my I don't, I don't. I don't think we're going

1597
01:31:20,120 --> 01:31:23,679
Speaker 2: to win. I don't think we're going to win? What

1598
01:31:24,960 --> 01:31:26,439
Speaker 2: I don't think we're going to win?

1599
01:31:26,560 --> 01:31:30,200
Speaker 4: Did you see what we could have cashed out for?

1600
01:31:30,600 --> 01:31:33,400
Speaker 4: That was your mission to do an option?

1601
01:31:33,920 --> 01:31:36,439
Speaker 1: It was not an option? Okay, no, no I did,

1602
01:31:36,880 --> 01:31:38,160
Speaker 1: I did. I went on.

1603
01:31:38,760 --> 01:31:41,439
Speaker 2: I don't think you have I know I did. Oh no, no,

1604
01:31:41,640 --> 01:31:43,840
Speaker 2: oh no, I did. At halftime I looked.

1605
01:31:44,439 --> 01:31:46,799
Speaker 1: It was not allowing us an option.

1606
01:31:48,000 --> 01:31:56,040
Speaker 2: Hmmm, so so you say so so so so you say,

1607
01:31:56,760 --> 01:32:00,960
Speaker 2: say I do. That's exactly what I say. I also

1608
01:32:01,080 --> 01:32:05,400
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1609
01:32:05,960 --> 01:32:08,479
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1610
01:32:08,520 --> 01:32:10,760
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1612
01:32:14,080 --> 01:32:16,519
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1613
01:32:16,920 --> 01:32:19,479
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1614
01:32:19,560 --> 01:32:22,479
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1615
01:32:22,479 --> 01:32:24,200
Speaker 2: the air, which is coming up here at the top

1616
01:32:24,240 --> 01:32:26,479
Speaker 2: of the hour and we hand it off to Plank

1617
01:32:26,920 --> 01:32:31,519
Speaker 2: and span your and they can celebrate the Oklahoma City

1618
01:32:31,560 --> 01:32:38,960
Speaker 2: Thunders likely championship, still just down seventeen with six minutes

1619
01:32:39,000 --> 01:32:41,360
Speaker 2: to go, and they are the pacers. So who knows,

1620
01:32:42,200 --> 01:32:45,639
Speaker 2: but it looks like okay, so he's got this thing.

1621
01:32:46,680 --> 01:32:48,280
Speaker 2: I wanted to run this by you. I don't know

1622
01:32:48,280 --> 01:32:51,800
Speaker 2: if you heard this this week. So for those who

1623
01:32:51,840 --> 01:32:57,200
Speaker 2: didn't follow the Dodger Padre dust up, you know, it

1624
01:32:57,240 --> 01:32:59,919
Speaker 2: was four games of going back and forth and Fernando

1625
01:33:00,120 --> 01:33:03,880
Speaker 2: Tatis got hit three times in four games, and by

1626
01:33:03,960 --> 01:33:06,439
Speaker 2: the fourth game, these two teams, who already didn't like

1627
01:33:06,479 --> 01:33:07,640
Speaker 2: each other, were really.

1628
01:33:07,360 --> 01:33:08,799
Speaker 1: Really ticked off at one another.

1629
01:33:09,600 --> 01:33:13,360
Speaker 2: And so when Tatis got hit late in that game,

1630
01:33:13,640 --> 01:33:15,320
Speaker 2: oh my god, the.

1631
01:33:15,200 --> 01:33:20,080
Speaker 1: Padres turned around and threw one.

1632
01:33:20,720 --> 01:33:27,960
Speaker 2: Up at the upper portion of Sho heo Tani. And

1633
01:33:28,400 --> 01:33:32,080
Speaker 2: one thing, just one quick observation. I was pretty impressed

1634
01:33:32,120 --> 01:33:34,400
Speaker 2: with show. Hey, so it was good. So you know what.

1635
01:33:36,160 --> 01:33:38,720
Speaker 1: That man was like meditating in the middle of all

1636
01:33:38,720 --> 01:33:39,240
Speaker 1: of this.

1637
01:33:39,280 --> 01:33:41,880
Speaker 2: Was like no, no, no, it's fine, right, Like the

1638
01:33:42,160 --> 01:33:44,320
Speaker 2: it was almost as if the dugout was like, we're

1639
01:33:44,360 --> 01:33:47,760
Speaker 2: coming and he just he put his hand up as

1640
01:33:47,840 --> 01:33:52,040
Speaker 2: if he was Darth Vader, and everybody just stopped, and

1641
01:33:52,080 --> 01:33:58,280
Speaker 2: he was like.

1642
01:33:55,360 --> 01:33:57,960
Speaker 3: Like was climbing over the gate, and I'm like, where

1643
01:33:57,960 --> 01:33:58,479
Speaker 3: are you going?

1644
01:33:58,520 --> 01:33:59,960
Speaker 1: Where you? Yeah? Where are you going? Old man?

1645
01:34:00,800 --> 01:34:03,040
Speaker 2: But show he holds his hand up like, obi, wan,

1646
01:34:04,200 --> 01:34:07,640
Speaker 2: these aren't the baseball players you're looking for, and just

1647
01:34:07,760 --> 01:34:11,519
Speaker 2: walks off to first base. Okay, So I'm impressed by

1648
01:34:11,520 --> 01:34:16,200
Speaker 2: that number one, but number two. John Hayman on MLB

1649
01:34:16,320 --> 01:34:21,120
Speaker 2: Network the next day, and I'll paraphrase essentially, he says, Look,

1650
01:34:23,120 --> 01:34:26,400
Speaker 2: I'm not in favor of throwing at anyone, but this

1651
01:34:26,439 --> 01:34:30,040
Speaker 2: stuff happens in baseball, and so if you get to

1652
01:34:30,080 --> 01:34:35,400
Speaker 2: that point where you feel it is an absolute necessity, okay, fine,

1653
01:34:35,640 --> 01:34:43,960
Speaker 2: but not him anyone else. So you could throw at someone,

1654
01:34:44,200 --> 01:34:48,080
Speaker 2: you could even throw it Freddy Freeman, but you can't

1655
01:34:48,360 --> 01:34:52,559
Speaker 2: throw at him because he is too important to the

1656
01:34:52,600 --> 01:34:54,559
Speaker 2: success of this game as a whole.

1657
01:34:55,240 --> 01:34:58,000
Speaker 1: Therefore you cannot risk hurting him.

1658
01:34:58,479 --> 01:35:01,639
Speaker 4: WHOA, I mean, what is your reaction to that. The

1659
01:35:01,920 --> 01:35:03,920
Speaker 4: ladies of the w n B A don't feel that

1660
01:35:04,040 --> 01:35:04,920
Speaker 4: way about.

1661
01:35:05,520 --> 01:35:08,920
Speaker 2: Don't That's that is a great that's one comp Yep,

1662
01:35:09,840 --> 01:35:10,880
Speaker 2: they sure don't.

1663
01:35:10,760 --> 01:35:16,120
Speaker 4: Right the NFL changed the rules to protect Tom Brady

1664
01:35:17,439 --> 01:35:24,080
Speaker 4: and Patrick Mahon and Patrick Mahoon. Yes, yes, uh so, Yeah.

1665
01:35:24,240 --> 01:35:29,480
Speaker 4: I mean he is the face of baseball, and he's

1666
01:35:29,520 --> 01:35:36,559
Speaker 4: gotta be like the nicest guy ever, like, strikes out, nice,

1667
01:35:36,680 --> 01:35:40,840
Speaker 4: hits a home run, nice, still the bay's nice, quails

1668
01:35:41,240 --> 01:35:44,760
Speaker 4: brew haha, nice. I mean he's he's got to be

1669
01:35:44,800 --> 01:35:45,920
Speaker 4: the coolest guy on the planet.

1670
01:35:46,200 --> 01:35:49,280
Speaker 1: He's pretty easy to to like.

1671
01:35:50,080 --> 01:35:55,240
Speaker 2: Yes, I don't know if feels that way, but go ahead.

1672
01:35:55,640 --> 01:35:59,040
Speaker 2: Well he not in jail, No, he reported.

1673
01:36:00,240 --> 01:36:02,920
Speaker 3: This week. Where where were where?

1674
01:36:03,040 --> 01:36:03,880
Speaker 1: You know? Jail?

1675
01:36:04,120 --> 01:36:04,880
Speaker 3: Where Whi's one?

1676
01:36:05,080 --> 01:36:07,160
Speaker 1: I'll look it up, Okay, I'll look it up.

1677
01:36:08,080 --> 01:36:10,960
Speaker 4: Maybe we'll give Steve some homework before we bring him on.

1678
01:36:11,800 --> 01:36:13,960
Speaker 4: Where's Epe in jail?

1679
01:36:16,800 --> 01:36:17,120
Speaker 2: Okay?

1680
01:36:17,240 --> 01:36:22,880
Speaker 3: Pennsylvania. Homework done? Yeah, Pennsylvania. How long?

1681
01:36:23,000 --> 01:36:23,640
Speaker 2: How long is he in?

1682
01:36:24,640 --> 01:36:26,160
Speaker 1: Fifty seven months?

1683
01:36:26,680 --> 01:36:29,160
Speaker 3: That's cushions, that's cushy.

1684
01:36:29,720 --> 01:36:33,200
Speaker 1: That's uh yeah, little less than five years.

1685
01:36:34,439 --> 01:36:36,120
Speaker 2: He'll be out in one and a half.

1686
01:36:36,320 --> 01:36:40,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, Yeah, federal.

1687
01:36:42,320 --> 01:36:44,519
Speaker 3: Cushiony mattress full of.

1688
01:36:46,560 --> 01:36:52,680
Speaker 2: He is at the Federal Correctional Institution alan Woodlow a

1689
01:36:52,840 --> 01:36:54,320
Speaker 2: low security.

1690
01:36:53,960 --> 01:36:54,400
Speaker 3: Very low.

1691
01:36:54,560 --> 01:36:58,280
Speaker 4: There's no gates, there's no there's no's no fences.

1692
01:36:58,479 --> 01:36:59,120
Speaker 1: No, no.

1693
01:36:59,280 --> 01:37:02,320
Speaker 2: I saw him at Subway getting the meatball sandwich about

1694
01:37:02,840 --> 01:37:06,559
Speaker 2: about halfway through the first day. Yeah, No, he's fine,

1695
01:37:07,200 --> 01:37:11,599
Speaker 2: he's right anyway you buy this. You're a football player.

1696
01:37:12,120 --> 01:37:15,360
Speaker 2: You telling me that one guy has to be put

1697
01:37:15,680 --> 01:37:16,800
Speaker 2: in glass?

1698
01:37:17,920 --> 01:37:18,280
Speaker 1: Really?

1699
01:37:18,520 --> 01:37:20,840
Speaker 3: Yeah, because he does something no one in the league does.

1700
01:37:20,920 --> 01:37:22,559
Speaker 1: Right now, when you.

1701
01:37:22,479 --> 01:37:27,520
Speaker 4: Have something that no one else is doing protected.

1702
01:37:27,280 --> 01:37:29,360
Speaker 1: He has not been doing that for over.

1703
01:37:29,200 --> 01:37:31,360
Speaker 3: A year, but now he's coming back.

1704
01:37:31,560 --> 01:37:34,440
Speaker 4: Okay, So do you want to throw at the shoulders

1705
01:37:34,720 --> 01:37:35,879
Speaker 4: of the next.

1706
01:37:35,880 --> 01:37:38,240
Speaker 1: Well, I don't. I don't like throwing at the shoulders

1707
01:37:38,320 --> 01:37:38,639
Speaker 1: or the head.

1708
01:37:38,680 --> 01:37:41,599
Speaker 2: You can't throw it, man, I don't. I don't like that.

1709
01:37:41,720 --> 01:37:43,599
Speaker 2: No matter what we're talking about. You want to send

1710
01:37:43,600 --> 01:37:45,960
Speaker 2: a message. It hurts like hell to get hit in

1711
01:37:46,000 --> 01:37:49,040
Speaker 2: the ribs. And don't tell me that fastballs from major

1712
01:37:49,120 --> 01:37:50,720
Speaker 2: league pitchers that they don't know where they're going.

1713
01:37:50,880 --> 01:37:52,559
Speaker 3: He hit him at one hundred miles an hour, Yes

1714
01:37:52,600 --> 01:37:53,120
Speaker 3: he did.

1715
01:37:53,000 --> 01:37:56,280
Speaker 2: And that's completely dangerous and somebody could literally get killed.

1716
01:37:56,880 --> 01:37:59,080
Speaker 2: So like, no, I'm not in favor of that, but

1717
01:37:59,120 --> 01:38:00,960
Speaker 2: I'm not in favor of it for Freddie Freeman or

1718
01:38:01,000 --> 01:38:01,519
Speaker 2: Mookie Bets.

1719
01:38:01,880 --> 01:38:04,800
Speaker 4: No, of course, not any or any player. No one

1720
01:38:04,920 --> 01:38:07,120
Speaker 4: on the Dodgers, because I'm a Dodger fan.

1721
01:38:07,520 --> 01:38:11,160
Speaker 2: No one on any of the teams from Oh I mean,

1722
01:38:11,280 --> 01:38:12,640
Speaker 2: I mean maybe the athletics.

1723
01:38:12,680 --> 01:38:14,640
Speaker 1: I don't even know if that counts, but do you

1724
01:38:14,720 --> 01:38:15,400
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying.

1725
01:38:15,520 --> 01:38:18,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, Like, no, I'm not in favor of high and tight,

1726
01:38:18,640 --> 01:38:21,840
Speaker 2: but I'm also not in favor of eliminating one player as.

1727
01:38:21,720 --> 01:38:26,360
Speaker 1: If he he like, no, do you like to the padres?

1728
01:38:26,439 --> 01:38:29,960
Speaker 2: Fernando Tatis is a massive cash cow if you're gonna

1729
01:38:30,040 --> 01:38:31,240
Speaker 2: hit him three times.

1730
01:38:31,360 --> 01:38:34,360
Speaker 4: And man, when he gets hit, he is like somebody

1731
01:38:34,600 --> 01:38:37,160
Speaker 4: shot him out of a rocket, right. He almost does

1732
01:38:37,160 --> 01:38:40,160
Speaker 4: a backflip at the plate. I'm like, bro, really, hey.

1733
01:38:40,040 --> 01:38:42,360
Speaker 1: Man, okay, hey, everybody's a showman.

1734
01:38:42,479 --> 01:38:46,439
Speaker 4: He's going to hurt himself in the reaction, right. But

1735
01:38:46,439 --> 01:38:48,720
Speaker 4: but that's like my ten year old and when he

1736
01:38:48,760 --> 01:38:52,240
Speaker 4: gets pushed in the game, he flies into the stands.

1737
01:38:52,240 --> 01:38:58,560
Speaker 4: I'm like, you're gonna hurt yourself reacting to the push.

1738
01:38:59,439 --> 01:39:01,200
Speaker 1: I mean I used to do the same thing. I

1739
01:39:01,240 --> 01:39:03,519
Speaker 1: had to get to that free throw line. Man, I

1740
01:39:03,520 --> 01:39:04,799
Speaker 1: had to get to that free throw.

1741
01:39:04,880 --> 01:39:06,759
Speaker 3: You're the original free throw merchant.

1742
01:39:06,840 --> 01:39:10,160
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, And now I hate it all right,

1743
01:39:10,240 --> 01:39:11,679
Speaker 2: Look run man.

1744
01:39:11,960 --> 01:39:14,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean once they're down by.

1745
01:39:14,280 --> 01:39:16,080
Speaker 3: Twelve, hey, that's what it's.

1746
01:39:16,160 --> 01:39:19,640
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean Oklahoma City's calling a time out

1747
01:39:19,880 --> 01:39:20,960
Speaker 2: so they're worried enough.

1748
01:39:21,160 --> 01:39:21,959
Speaker 3: Six possession.

1749
01:39:22,560 --> 01:39:25,200
Speaker 2: It is the Pacers. If anybody would do this, it's

1750
01:39:25,240 --> 01:39:29,000
Speaker 2: the Pacers. So okay, we'll keep an eye on it.

1751
01:39:29,080 --> 01:39:33,880
Speaker 2: Twelve point game. What do we got about four minutes ago? Hmm, okay, so.

1752
01:39:35,479 --> 01:39:40,320
Speaker 3: Right where we want them anyway.

1753
01:39:41,080 --> 01:39:46,280
Speaker 2: Anyway, I don't think you get to put yourself above

1754
01:39:47,320 --> 01:39:49,479
Speaker 2: the rest of the game, because the rest of the

1755
01:39:49,520 --> 01:39:52,000
Speaker 2: game already kind of feels like the Dodgers have done

1756
01:39:52,000 --> 01:39:54,160
Speaker 2: that anyway, So I don't think that's good.

1757
01:39:54,800 --> 01:39:58,040
Speaker 1: I know you're a fan, but I don't think that's good.

1758
01:39:58,320 --> 01:39:58,599
Speaker 3: Okay.

1759
01:39:59,400 --> 01:40:02,240
Speaker 2: And by the way, hey, you can have that opinion

1760
01:40:02,320 --> 01:40:04,240
Speaker 2: all you want. It doesn't matter if the pits are

1761
01:40:04,320 --> 01:40:06,439
Speaker 2: on the mountain disagrees with you. He's gonna throw the

1762
01:40:06,439 --> 01:40:09,120
Speaker 2: ball wherever he throws the ball, and he got suspended

1763
01:40:09,160 --> 01:40:12,720
Speaker 2: for three games. He appealed, but he got suspended for

1764
01:40:12,720 --> 01:40:13,400
Speaker 2: three games.

1765
01:40:14,800 --> 01:40:22,639
Speaker 4: So yeah, it's I think. You know, it just took

1766
01:40:22,680 --> 01:40:25,479
Speaker 4: me back to old school baseball. It took me back

1767
01:40:25,520 --> 01:40:33,639
Speaker 4: to you know, dog day rivalries in mid season. It's

1768
01:40:33,640 --> 01:40:37,400
Speaker 4: not even mid season. Have they played half the games yet?

1769
01:40:37,479 --> 01:40:38,559
Speaker 1: Not quite? Not quite.

1770
01:40:38,640 --> 01:40:39,799
Speaker 3: They're getting the games.

1771
01:40:40,680 --> 01:40:43,799
Speaker 2: Yeah, lord, so many games.

1772
01:40:46,400 --> 01:40:49,120
Speaker 3: It's kind of how I'm trying to be an advt baseball.

1773
01:40:49,160 --> 01:40:50,800
Speaker 3: I'll be like du playing again to day.

1774
01:40:51,240 --> 01:40:53,639
Speaker 2: Yeah, never get a break. I mean, after all these years,

1775
01:40:53,680 --> 01:40:55,880
Speaker 2: I gotta feel like Steve feels that way, like so

1776
01:40:56,040 --> 01:41:00,760
Speaker 2: many updates. It just my god, all the time with

1777
01:41:00,880 --> 01:41:01,400
Speaker 2: the talking.

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01:41:01,520 --> 01:41:04,120
Speaker 8: We are at the midpoint this week of the Major

1779
01:41:04,200 --> 01:41:06,960
Speaker 8: League Baseball season, and I know that because the Colorado

1780
01:41:07,040 --> 01:41:10,960
Speaker 8: Rockies record at eighteen and sixty, it's easy to do

1781
01:41:11,000 --> 01:41:15,280
Speaker 8: the calculations off that. By the way, the Padres closer

1782
01:41:15,320 --> 01:41:18,280
Speaker 8: that you referenced, Robert Suarez, who is appealing the three

1783
01:41:18,320 --> 01:41:22,040
Speaker 8: game suspension his right as a union member. Therefore, was

1784
01:41:22,080 --> 01:41:25,160
Speaker 8: pitching this weekend and got the win in San Diego today,

1785
01:41:25,520 --> 01:41:27,559
Speaker 8: three to two over Kansas City with a run bottom

1786
01:41:27,560 --> 01:41:30,200
Speaker 8: of the ninth. Giants are still second in the NLS,

1787
01:41:30,280 --> 01:41:32,880
Speaker 8: still three and a half behind the Dodgers, Padres still

1788
01:41:32,920 --> 01:41:35,880
Speaker 8: five back. Giants beat Boston nine to five, and the

1789
01:41:35,880 --> 01:41:38,680
Speaker 8: Dodgers were down three to nothing in the sixth and

1790
01:41:38,760 --> 01:41:42,880
Speaker 8: still won thirteen to seven. Over Washington. Shoeo Tani pitched

1791
01:41:42,920 --> 01:41:45,880
Speaker 8: a scoreless first inning with two strikeouts, and at the

1792
01:41:45,880 --> 01:41:48,639
Speaker 8: plate he had five RBIs, hit a three run triple,

1793
01:41:48,680 --> 01:41:51,200
Speaker 8: and a two run homer, his twenty sixth of the year.

1794
01:41:51,680 --> 01:41:54,600
Speaker 8: Seattle's Cal Raley hit his thirty first home run of

1795
01:41:54,600 --> 01:41:57,679
Speaker 8: the year. Seattle beat the Cubs in Chicago fourteen to six,

1796
01:41:57,920 --> 01:42:00,519
Speaker 8: and tonight the Phillies now alone in four in the

1797
01:42:00,640 --> 01:42:02,880
Speaker 8: nl East. Game up on, the Mets beat New York

1798
01:42:03,000 --> 01:42:08,080
Speaker 8: seven to one. Well, they're winding down the NBA regular season,

1799
01:42:08,240 --> 01:42:10,719
Speaker 8: and the lead at Oklahoma City for the Thunder, which

1800
01:42:10,760 --> 01:42:14,280
Speaker 8: just over four minutes left, is ninety three seventy nine

1801
01:42:14,360 --> 01:42:17,800
Speaker 8: against the Indiana Pacers. So, as veteran NBA writer Mark

1802
01:42:17,840 --> 01:42:22,080
Speaker 8: Stein points out, Commissioner David Stern had crowned eight different

1803
01:42:22,200 --> 01:42:26,800
Speaker 8: champions in his thirty postseasons as commission for Adam Silver,

1804
01:42:26,960 --> 01:42:31,080
Speaker 8: this will already be crowning a ninth different franchise as

1805
01:42:31,120 --> 01:42:35,439
Speaker 8: the titleist in his twelve postseasons as commissioner, and this

1806
01:42:35,520 --> 01:42:39,200
Speaker 8: will be a record seventh new NBA champion in the

1807
01:42:39,240 --> 01:42:43,559
Speaker 8: past seven seasons of this league. Assuming OKAC at home

1808
01:42:43,640 --> 01:42:46,320
Speaker 8: holds on to a double digit lead, in the final minutes,

1809
01:42:46,400 --> 01:42:49,920
Speaker 8: and for those expecting a Pacers comeback, there is one

1810
01:42:50,120 --> 01:42:53,320
Speaker 8: element in the equation missing if it's close in the

1811
01:42:53,360 --> 01:42:56,880
Speaker 8: last two minutes. Tyrese Halliburton, not on the court, left

1812
01:42:56,880 --> 01:42:59,320
Speaker 8: in the first quarter with an achilles injury, had to

1813
01:42:59,360 --> 01:43:02,120
Speaker 8: be helped all off. So we do have for the

1814
01:43:02,160 --> 01:43:05,800
Speaker 8: Pacers sixteen points each off the bench for TJ. McConnell

1815
01:43:05,880 --> 01:43:08,799
Speaker 8: and Benedict Mather, And in fact McConnell had the last

1816
01:43:08,840 --> 01:43:11,519
Speaker 8: twelve points of the third quarter for his team. In

1817
01:43:11,520 --> 01:43:13,720
Speaker 8: other words, nobody else scored in an eight and a

1818
01:43:13,760 --> 01:43:17,639
Speaker 8: half minute span. Indiana got outscored by fourteen points in

1819
01:43:17,680 --> 01:43:21,040
Speaker 8: the third, scorings about even between these two teams in

1820
01:43:21,080 --> 01:43:23,479
Speaker 8: the fourth, but still a double digit lead for the

1821
01:43:23,520 --> 01:43:27,559
Speaker 8: home squad led by MVP Shay gilgis Alexander Now from

1822
01:43:27,600 --> 01:43:30,800
Speaker 8: three point range, he's two of eleven, but Sga, in

1823
01:43:30,840 --> 01:43:33,759
Speaker 8: a game seven of the finals, has twenty seven points,

1824
01:43:33,880 --> 01:43:37,759
Speaker 8: twelve assists and just one turnover. The Sons are trading

1825
01:43:37,840 --> 01:43:41,599
Speaker 8: Kevin Durant to Houston. By the way, the Florida Panthers

1826
01:43:41,640 --> 01:43:44,880
Speaker 8: Stanley Cup victory parade was today, including a rally at

1827
01:43:45,120 --> 01:43:49,840
Speaker 8: Fort Lauderdale Beach Jacksonville Jaguars rookie Travis Hunter has signed

1828
01:43:49,840 --> 01:43:52,960
Speaker 8: his rookie contract. He reportedly gets a thirty million dollars

1829
01:43:53,080 --> 01:43:56,960
Speaker 8: signing bonus US Men's soccer two to one over eighty

1830
01:43:57,040 --> 01:43:59,160
Speaker 8: at the Gold Cup Tournament tonight. The Americans play a

1831
01:43:59,240 --> 01:44:03,639
Speaker 8: quarterfinal next Sunday. Alex Polot took the IndyCar Race. Chase Briscoe,

1832
01:44:03,680 --> 01:44:07,240
Speaker 8: the NASCAR winner at Pocono LSU, won the College World

1833
01:44:07,320 --> 01:44:10,439
Speaker 8: Series title, and by the way. In Major League Baseball,

1834
01:44:10,479 --> 01:44:12,960
Speaker 8: the Yankees got three runs bottom of the eighth to

1835
01:44:13,000 --> 01:44:16,200
Speaker 8: beat Baltimore four to two, while Detroit won nine to

1836
01:44:16,200 --> 01:44:18,880
Speaker 8: three at Tampa Bay. The race second in the Al East,

1837
01:44:18,960 --> 01:44:21,639
Speaker 8: now two and a half games behind the New York Yankees.

1838
01:44:22,280 --> 01:44:23,360
Speaker 2: The winner of the.

1839
01:44:23,400 --> 01:44:28,720
Speaker 8: Travelers by one stroke, Keegan Bradley in Connecticut. Notable this

1840
01:44:28,880 --> 01:44:32,400
Speaker 8: tournament because it is a quote signature event, the last

1841
01:44:32,439 --> 01:44:35,360
Speaker 8: one of the PGA Tour season, which means it's a

1842
01:44:35,439 --> 01:44:40,080
Speaker 8: huge purse. Keegan Bradley claims a grand prize of three

1843
01:44:40,160 --> 01:44:45,960
Speaker 8: point six million dollars today and the tie for second

1844
01:44:46,240 --> 01:44:50,160
Speaker 8: gets a goal for almost two point two million. Jason

1845
01:44:50,240 --> 01:44:52,599
Speaker 8: Day one of those who tied for fourth. That's almost

1846
01:44:52,600 --> 01:44:56,840
Speaker 8: a million dollars. Scotti, Scheffler and Rory McElroy today tied

1847
01:44:56,920 --> 01:45:00,799
Speaker 8: for sixth place. That's still seven hundred twent twenty thousand

1848
01:45:00,840 --> 01:45:06,040
Speaker 8: dollars each. Capturing the Women's PGA min Lee Now she

1849
01:45:06,120 --> 01:45:08,640
Speaker 8: had a final round seventy four but never gave up

1850
01:45:08,680 --> 01:45:11,280
Speaker 8: the lead. It was a four stroke advantage to start

1851
01:45:11,320 --> 01:45:13,960
Speaker 8: the day. She is ranked in the top twenty five

1852
01:45:14,120 --> 01:45:17,960
Speaker 8: in the world. The purse from the LPGA for this

1853
01:45:18,080 --> 01:45:20,160
Speaker 8: major is up from a year ago when it was

1854
01:45:20,200 --> 01:45:22,360
Speaker 8: about ten and a half million dollars. Now it's a

1855
01:45:22,400 --> 01:45:25,800
Speaker 8: record twelve million dollar perse so that matches the US

1856
01:45:25,840 --> 01:45:29,479
Speaker 8: Women's Open for most prize money. The winner today takes

1857
01:45:29,479 --> 01:45:32,799
Speaker 8: home one point eight million dollars, same amount she earned

1858
01:45:32,840 --> 01:45:37,160
Speaker 8: for a US Women's Open victory three years ago. She's Australian.

1859
01:45:37,280 --> 01:45:40,559
Speaker 8: Minji Lee though is a Texas resident and she wins

1860
01:45:40,640 --> 01:45:42,320
Speaker 8: in Frisco, Texas today.

1861
01:45:42,360 --> 01:45:46,320
Speaker 2: Back to you, great stuff, Steve, appreciate that very much

1862
01:45:47,240 --> 01:45:50,799
Speaker 2: and great work tonight. As always, it is Mark Willardy

1863
01:45:50,880 --> 01:45:53,599
Speaker 2: from salam and we are live in the Fox Sports

1864
01:45:53,680 --> 01:45:54,560
Speaker 2: Radio studios.

1865
01:45:54,680 --> 01:45:57,519
Speaker 1: So are you telling me that you're not allowed to

1866
01:45:57,560 --> 01:45:58,759
Speaker 1: foul Luca either?

1867
01:46:00,080 --> 01:46:00,240
Speaker 4: Is that?

1868
01:46:00,439 --> 01:46:03,720
Speaker 2: Is that what I'm hearing. No, Oh, that's what it

1869
01:46:03,760 --> 01:46:04,400
Speaker 2: sounded like to me.

1870
01:46:04,840 --> 01:46:10,719
Speaker 4: Well, basketball foules, it's different. Okay, Now you can't throat

1871
01:46:10,800 --> 01:46:12,800
Speaker 4: kick him. I mean you know what I mean, Like,

1872
01:46:13,240 --> 01:46:17,240
Speaker 4: throwing a hundred mile an hour fastball at someone is

1873
01:46:17,280 --> 01:46:20,519
Speaker 4: completely different than a hard foul going to the rim.

1874
01:46:20,680 --> 01:46:24,120
Speaker 2: But that's now that that wasn't the conversation, Like, yeah,

1875
01:46:24,240 --> 01:46:26,400
Speaker 2: throwing the ball at anybody's head, I don't care who

1876
01:46:26,400 --> 01:46:31,280
Speaker 2: it is is wrong, but like, don't do that to him.

1877
01:46:31,280 --> 01:46:32,000
Speaker 1: Well, but but.

1878
01:46:33,479 --> 01:46:34,160
Speaker 3: He's special.

1879
01:46:34,320 --> 01:46:37,960
Speaker 2: If you're gonna throw at the padres, then they get

1880
01:46:38,000 --> 01:46:39,080
Speaker 2: to throw at you.

1881
01:46:39,320 --> 01:46:41,920
Speaker 3: Yeah, but don't throw it. Why would you throw at him?

1882
01:46:42,360 --> 01:46:45,040
Speaker 2: Because that's your best player. That's exactly who I want

1883
01:46:45,040 --> 01:46:47,439
Speaker 2: to throw at. You threw it our best player.

1884
01:46:47,520 --> 01:46:49,639
Speaker 3: Yeah, but they throw Joe at him a couple of times.

1885
01:46:49,680 --> 01:46:50,360
Speaker 3: Just f yi.

1886
01:46:50,479 --> 01:46:53,120
Speaker 4: I mean he got hit. He had hit a couple

1887
01:46:53,080 --> 01:46:55,600
Speaker 4: of times, and he's got hit three times. Okay, so

1888
01:46:55,800 --> 01:46:57,759
Speaker 4: he got hit what two times?

1889
01:46:57,760 --> 01:47:01,240
Speaker 1: Okay? All right? It was like the ahead, who.

1890
01:47:01,120 --> 01:47:03,919
Speaker 3: Would you take if you're starting a team tatiste or show?

1891
01:47:03,960 --> 01:47:05,080
Speaker 1: Hey, that's not the point.

1892
01:47:05,120 --> 01:47:06,200
Speaker 3: I just asked the question.

1893
01:47:06,360 --> 01:47:09,000
Speaker 2: That's not the point, of course, would Okay, then you

1894
01:47:09,479 --> 01:47:12,240
Speaker 2: throw at him. Wait a minute, so now the it's

1895
01:47:12,280 --> 01:47:13,520
Speaker 2: on the podre.

1896
01:47:13,640 --> 01:47:16,760
Speaker 4: Just messing around, all right, I'm just messing around.

1897
01:47:17,000 --> 01:47:18,960
Speaker 1: I mean are we Are we really supposed to?

1898
01:47:19,160 --> 01:47:19,280
Speaker 4: Uh?

1899
01:47:20,080 --> 01:47:23,640
Speaker 2: Are we really supposed to in those emotional moments be

1900
01:47:23,720 --> 01:47:25,639
Speaker 2: thinking about the greater good of the game.

1901
01:47:28,120 --> 01:47:32,320
Speaker 3: Yes, it's really yes, yeah, absolutely.

1902
01:47:32,760 --> 01:47:35,040
Speaker 1: Who is the most elite pass rusher? You used to

1903
01:47:35,120 --> 01:47:35,519
Speaker 1: go up.

1904
01:47:35,400 --> 01:47:36,679
Speaker 3: Against Dwight Freeney?

1905
01:47:36,840 --> 01:47:38,320
Speaker 1: Did you touch him?

1906
01:47:38,680 --> 01:47:40,400
Speaker 3: I tried to clip his body to them.

1907
01:47:40,720 --> 01:47:41,719
Speaker 1: That's bad for the game.

1908
01:47:42,000 --> 01:47:45,840
Speaker 4: No, it's not. Why it's the contact sport. There is

1909
01:47:45,880 --> 01:47:48,040
Speaker 4: no contact in baseball like literally.

1910
01:47:47,760 --> 01:47:49,519
Speaker 1: Now, well that's not true.

1911
01:47:49,640 --> 01:47:50,040
Speaker 3: None.

1912
01:47:52,160 --> 01:47:54,759
Speaker 2: When do you make contact with them? When you tag people?

1913
01:47:55,080 --> 01:47:59,840
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh, so now tag is a contact sport.

1914
01:48:00,240 --> 01:48:04,920
Speaker 2: It is actual contact like tag contact. I mean you're

1915
01:48:04,960 --> 01:48:07,479
Speaker 2: touching another person. There's content.

1916
01:48:07,520 --> 01:48:09,400
Speaker 3: You're not even touching them with your hand. It's a

1917
01:48:09,439 --> 01:48:10,360
Speaker 3: glove like.

1918
01:48:10,520 --> 01:48:13,800
Speaker 2: I mean you contact the ball with the bat where

1919
01:48:13,840 --> 01:48:20,639
Speaker 2: it goes boom boom. Anyway you get you you catch

1920
01:48:20,680 --> 01:48:21,760
Speaker 2: my don't touch him?

1921
01:48:22,200 --> 01:48:23,320
Speaker 1: Yeah?

1922
01:48:23,520 --> 01:48:26,360
Speaker 2: That that that would be uh, that would be something else.

1923
01:48:26,600 --> 01:48:29,120
Speaker 2: That would be something else. If you could if you

1924
01:48:29,160 --> 01:48:32,800
Speaker 2: could bubble wrap and uh and set aside and and

1925
01:48:32,960 --> 01:48:36,320
Speaker 2: do all of those things in UH in Major League

1926
01:48:36,320 --> 01:48:38,960
Speaker 2: Baseball in the emotional moments, I don't quite think that

1927
01:48:38,960 --> 01:48:43,280
Speaker 2: that's realistic. So anyway, all right, we're coming down the

1928
01:48:43,280 --> 01:48:47,200
Speaker 2: stretch here, NBA Championship, three minutes to go.

1929
01:48:48,320 --> 01:48:51,680
Speaker 1: There's still a Stones shins.

1930
01:48:51,280 --> 01:48:55,080
Speaker 2: In hell but not really Thunder up still by double digits.

1931
01:48:55,120 --> 01:48:57,759
Speaker 2: Coming down the stretch here we will have the final

1932
01:48:57,840 --> 01:49:01,200
Speaker 2: answer UH moments away here in the Fox Sports Radio

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01:49:01,200 --> 01:49:04,120
Speaker 2: studios with e from Salam. I'm Mark Willard and this

1934
01:49:04,200 --> 01:49:08,520
Speaker 2: is Fox Sports Radio. These are Fox Sports Radio Studios.

1935
01:49:09,479 --> 01:49:15,120
Speaker 2: Oklahoma City Thunder are about to be NBA champions More

1936
01:49:15,120 --> 01:49:17,240
Speaker 2: on that in a second. I don't want this show

1937
01:49:17,280 --> 01:49:20,679
Speaker 2: to get away from us, though, without getting your thoughts

1938
01:49:21,160 --> 01:49:24,880
Speaker 2: on something that may and after everything we've been through

1939
01:49:25,760 --> 01:49:31,120
Speaker 2: this last year or two, everything with.

1940
01:49:31,760 --> 01:49:33,400
Speaker 1: The Sanders family.

1941
01:49:34,720 --> 01:49:38,120
Speaker 2: And quite frankly, you and I talked a lot about

1942
01:49:38,120 --> 01:49:41,479
Speaker 2: this coming out of the draft in a way, I

1943
01:49:41,520 --> 01:49:45,920
Speaker 2: mean the Shador Sanders story, with what happened at the draft,

1944
01:49:47,040 --> 01:49:48,920
Speaker 2: maybe for the first time and this was almost a

1945
01:49:49,000 --> 01:49:52,080
Speaker 2: welcome thing for a lot of fans out there. It

1946
01:49:52,200 --> 01:49:56,640
Speaker 2: made him a sympathetic figure for the first time in

1947
01:49:56,680 --> 01:49:59,519
Speaker 2: a while. Even though there wasn't really much of a

1948
01:49:59,560 --> 01:50:03,200
Speaker 2: reason to root for Shador. Prior to all of this,

1949
01:50:04,040 --> 01:50:05,960
Speaker 2: a lot of people were like, Okay, now I'm rooting

1950
01:50:05,960 --> 01:50:11,760
Speaker 2: for the guy. Dude, dude, get the message the team

1951
01:50:11,840 --> 01:50:13,760
Speaker 2: is giving you, get it quick.

1952
01:50:15,720 --> 01:50:16,720
Speaker 1: And put an end to it.

1953
01:50:17,880 --> 01:50:20,439
Speaker 2: Two speeding tickets this month, one of them over one

1954
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Speaker 2: hundred miles an hour, and skipping a court date off

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Speaker 2: of one of them.

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Speaker 1: Dude, I think you're gonna win that job. I really do.

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Speaker 2: But I'd close that chapter real quick if I were Shador.

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Speaker 4: The problem is he may have missed his opportunity to

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Speaker 4: win that job. When you're late. He was only I

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Speaker 4: was only drafted fifty four picks after him.

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Speaker 1: Yep.

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Speaker 4: So when you're a late I don't care what position

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Speaker 4: you play. You're a late round draft pick. You don't

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Speaker 4: have the reason I had the career I had, and

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Speaker 4: I was able to do because I did everything right.

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Speaker 4: I did everything right and it still was one of

1967
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Speaker 4: the hardest things on the world to do. And I

1968
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Speaker 4: was an offensive lineman.

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Speaker 3: This is.

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Speaker 4: A quarterback, a face of the franchise. You're fighting to

1971
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Speaker 4: be the face of a franchise, and right now you

1972
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Speaker 4: are the face of bodycam footage twice twice, and so

1973
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Speaker 4: this isn't good. What we're not being privy to is

1974
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Speaker 4: speculate they're having conversations upstairs about what happens if we

1975
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Speaker 4: just release them. Wow, someone has brought that up upstairs.

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Speaker 4: Now we would never know the answer to that. But

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Speaker 4: someone on that staff, especially given the fact that the

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Speaker 4: coaches didn't he didn't want to.

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Speaker 3: Draft him, right, he was told to draft him. So

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Speaker 3: someone is saying.

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Speaker 4: See, this is why we didn't want to do that.

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Speaker 4: So how do we get from under this before it

1983
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Speaker 4: gets worse? When you're a late round draft pick, I

1984
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Speaker 4: don't care who you are and what position you play,

1985
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Speaker 4: you never want that conversation to be had. You never

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Speaker 4: want them to talk to talk about you for anything

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Speaker 4: that has nothing to do with practice. Anytime the conversation

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Speaker 4: shifts to something happening off it's late to practice, late

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Speaker 4: to meetings, uh, speeding tickets like any any of that. Oh,

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Speaker 4: you're you're losing. And that's if your first round draft pick.

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Speaker 4: At least you know you got more chances as a

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Speaker 4: fifth round draft pick. There are no consequences for them

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Speaker 4: releasing you.

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Speaker 3: You're only saving grace.

1995
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Speaker 4: Is such a dysfunctional organization, a franchise that it.

1996
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Speaker 2: You know, it's a good point.

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Speaker 4: So that's your only saving grace. But outside of that,

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Speaker 4: I'm highly disappointed. Has Dion said anything about it? No,

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Speaker 4: wonder what that sounds like?

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Speaker 2: What? What? What?

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Speaker 3: What that like?

2002
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Speaker 2: Where?

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Speaker 3: Where we? Where? Where are we? What's going on? To

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Speaker 3: do it?

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Speaker 2: Twice ninety one in a sixty five zone? Then failed

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Speaker 2: to appear. That's not that's not how you're doing it.

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Speaker 8: Man.

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Speaker 4: It's a privileged to be in a national football league.

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Speaker 2: And then yeah, and then followed that up with a

2010
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Speaker 2: citation for driving one hundred and one.

2011
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Speaker 1: This week.

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Speaker 4: In my opinion, and people said, well, he's just he's

2013
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Speaker 4: a kid. He's making mistakes. Yeah, you don't get a

2014
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Speaker 4: chance to be a kid as a professional athlete, and

2015
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Speaker 4: you really don't get a chance to be a kid

2016
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Speaker 4: as a quarterback in a national football You have to

2017
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Speaker 4: grow up well. And I hold this I was twenty

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Speaker 4: two years old.

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Speaker 2: This might be unfair, but I hold Shadeur to a

2020
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Speaker 2: higher standard because he's been a celebrity now for a

2021
01:54:38,880 --> 01:54:42,000
Speaker 2: long time and grew up Sander's son.

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Speaker 1: This is not new to him.

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Speaker 4: So that's the problem. I'm having I'm having the problem

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Speaker 4: of you know, better fool me once.

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Speaker 1: My man, they haven't even gotten the camp yet.

2026
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Speaker 4: You know, he may not even make it. It's a

2027
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Speaker 4: real thing. He may not even make it. And I

2028
01:55:09,080 --> 01:55:11,120
Speaker 4: know a lot of people out there like, oh, come on, man,

2029
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Speaker 4: he made a mistake.

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Speaker 3: It's not it.

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Speaker 4: I wish people well, it's impossible for them to understand

2032
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Speaker 4: it because not everybody can do it. But there is

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Speaker 4: a level of expectation for everybody who's drafted in that room.

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Speaker 4: The higher you get drafted, the more chances you get

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Speaker 4: to reach that expectation. The lower you get drafted, no

2036
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Speaker 4: matter who you are, the fewer chances you have. Now,

2037
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Speaker 4: what will be wild is if it was one more

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Speaker 4: incident off the field before camp, like if something else happened.

2039
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Speaker 4: That's what happens when you burn through those those speed bumps.

2040
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Speaker 4: That's what happens when you burned through that. He can't

2041
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Speaker 4: do anything else, I wouldn't think.

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Speaker 2: I mean, the Browns have already. You know, you're sort

2043
01:56:10,960 --> 01:56:13,520
Speaker 2: of asking, like, what's been the follow up. I've not

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Speaker 2: heard anything from Dion. The Browns have had to address

2045
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Speaker 2: it publicly and just said quote, he's taking care of

2046
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Speaker 2: the tickets, so he's going to financially take care of those.

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Speaker 2: It's not right to a fourth degree misdemeanor. It's not like, no,

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Speaker 2: it's no, it's not, but the law right. But but

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Speaker 2: the point you're making is that prior to even getting

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01:56:39,040 --> 01:56:42,160
Speaker 2: to training camp, the Browns are having to hold a

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Speaker 2: press conference ridiculous with regard to their fifth round draft pick,

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Speaker 2: their fourth string quarterback, and discipline.

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Speaker 1: And you're not wrong.

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Speaker 2: Whether people agree with this or believe you or whatever,

2055
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Speaker 2: teams don't put up with that.

2056
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Speaker 1: There's no reason for them to.

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Speaker 3: No at all.

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Speaker 4: And that's where he's put himself, especially at that position.

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Speaker 2: I mean, do you realize how scary that is for

2060
01:57:10,680 --> 01:57:17,160
Speaker 2: a multi billion dollar organization to hand over face of

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Speaker 2: the team duties. And this has already happened twice before

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Speaker 2: camp even opens.

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Speaker 1: Hey man, great stuff tonight.

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Speaker 3: And shout out to the okay, see thunder.

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Speaker 2: We we we gave it a good try. We give

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Speaker 2: it a really good try. And shout out to Tyrese Halliburton.

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Speaker 2: Man that uh that's said that it is. It is

2068
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Speaker 2: really sad. All right, great show tonight, Glad you're with us,

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Speaker 2: Stay right where you are because Plank and Spain. You're

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Speaker 2: our next