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Speaker 1: few minus That's with John paulm Rosi. Fans still is

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Speaker 1: Bobby Benia Day. But Day two of NBA Free Agency

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Speaker 1: brought us all kinds of drama because now the question

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Speaker 1: really centers around what the hell is gonna happen with Giannis.

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Speaker 1: The big surprise move of the day the Milwaukee Bucks

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Speaker 1: waved Damian Lillard and they stretch his salary out over

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Speaker 1: the next forty five seasons so they could sign Miles

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Speaker 1: Turner away from the Indiana Pacers. Right Turner, who had

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Speaker 1: a great playoff, He's been really solid his career, you know,

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Speaker 1: twenty nine years old, and that they're thinking, Okay, now

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Speaker 1: we're not gonna get anything from Damian Lillard, so now

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Speaker 1: let's go and remake the team on the fly and

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Speaker 1: want to keep you honest happy. Now, the first thing

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say is this. Giannis has already said he

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Speaker 1: is upset with the waving of Damian Lillard. Now I

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Speaker 1: hope this is just Hey, I feel bad for the guy.

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Speaker 1: He gave up a lot to come here and it

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Speaker 1: didn't work out.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 1: They've been trying to get him out of Portland for

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Speaker 1: so long. I tried to get him out of port

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Speaker 1: Go play basketball where it matters, Go play where you

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Speaker 1: have a chance at things.

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Speaker 4: Get him out and if I'm fine, I'll leave.

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Speaker 1: And he leaves, and he goes to Milwaukee and it

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Speaker 1: doesn't go well and he gets hurt, and he's going

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Speaker 1: to be out most, if not all, of this year,

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Speaker 1: and it's it's it's so hard for the guy. But

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Speaker 1: Jannis is a smart guy, right, and I understand. I'm

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Speaker 1: hoping that's what he's doing because honestly, the Bucks had

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Speaker 1: to do this. They had to be aggressive because the

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Speaker 1: bottom line is they want to keep you honest.

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Speaker 2: Well, his tweet was brilliant. I don't know what's going on,

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Speaker 2: but I.

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Speaker 1: Want to say, dude, you know he he's thirty five

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Speaker 1: years old. This is Damian Lillard is thirty five. Yes,

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Speaker 1: he's still a dynamic player, but you're not going to

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Speaker 1: have him for this year. And when you come back

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Speaker 1: with Achilles injuries, it takes you a little bit longer, right,

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Speaker 1: Like just look at Aaron Rodgers, right, who didn't look

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Speaker 1: like he was even passable until the midway point.

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Speaker 4: Of last year.

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Speaker 1: Like he was out that's eighteen months before and he

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Speaker 5: Take this, and I yelled, I'm not dead yet. It

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Speaker 5: was harmon. You don't need it, put it in there,

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Speaker 5: and so you look that it looks that. So now

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Speaker 5: you have Damian Lillard who was gonna be coming back

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Speaker 4: What were you gonna do?

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Speaker 1: I mean, if you if you're sitting here saying, hey,

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Speaker 1: I'm in it long term with you, Milwaukee, if Damien,

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Speaker 1: when Damien comes back, he comes back, Okay, I get it.

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Speaker 1: But you're smart, right, So I hope this is just

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Speaker 1: I'm standing up for a guy here and I'm being

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Speaker 1: that was ever gonna happen to me? Thirty five? Coming

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Speaker 1: come back at thirty six thirty and you're thirty six

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Speaker 1: thirty seven, Are you still that guy? You still have

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Speaker 1: Bucks can't sit here and wait for that. They had

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Speaker 1: for Damian Lillard because again because of what he gave

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Speaker 1: up to go to Milwaukee, which was not his preferred destination.

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Speaker 1: I feel all for the guy, but it's a business.

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Speaker 1: You're paying Damen. He's getting paid one hundred and thirteen

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Speaker 1: million dollars so they can move on. He's gonna get that,

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Speaker 1: he's gonna rehab in Portland, back at home, everything he wants. Okay,

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Speaker 1: that's great, but like you have to make a decision

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Speaker 1: let's go and stretch. We think Miles Turner's the guy

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Speaker 1: we saw the team with Brook Lopez and moving on,

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Speaker 1: and you know, Miles Turner condit three. He's like brook Lopez, Okay,

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Speaker 1: we're seeing a vision. You can agree or disagree with

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Speaker 1: the vision, but I mean they kind of had to

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Speaker 1: make this move, like it was gutsy for them to

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Speaker 4: It's a bad headline, I get it. But they swallowed

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Speaker 1: Here's one hundred and ten million dollars and we're we're

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Speaker 1: gonna move on and try to remake this team on

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Speaker 5: A bit of a shock this morning until you put

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Speaker 5: it in proper perspective, much like the fact that the

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Speaker 5: Pacers didn't go over the top to keep Turner right

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Speaker 5: and he goes to the Bucks just slides over in

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Speaker 5: the Eastern Conference is we've got a guy who's injured,

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Speaker 5: and we know our window to be competitive is going

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Speaker 2: Hence, so what do we do in the interim?

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Speaker 5: We divest, we reload, we reevaluate, we see how Haliburton

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Speaker 5: comes back, and then we get ready for twenty six,

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Speaker 5: twenty seven. Right, twenty five to twenty six, you're gonna

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Speaker 5: like Turner getting the offer that he doesn't know, you

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Speaker 5: set yourself up for the next iteration. Likewise, here with Milwaukee,

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Speaker 5: Damian Lillard's not gonna be there and by the rules,

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Speaker 5: you have a lot of fun with salary. Got Yeah,

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Speaker 5: you got to pay him every dime of it, But

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Speaker 5: when you can stretch it out and look, if he

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Speaker 5: back and reacclimate to that squad, either the end of

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Speaker 5: next year or twenty six twenty seven. Cool, But in

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Speaker 5: the interim he rehabs, and then he'll have his choice

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Speaker 5: of wherever he wants to go, and there'll be plenty

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Speaker 5: of what Damian Lillard has been. So in this case,

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Speaker 5: everybody wins, and for Giannis, he gets a guy like

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Speaker 5: Losing Lopez was big. He goes to the Clippers. Nice

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Speaker 5: addition for him. We talked about that a little bit

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Speaker 5: last night. But Miles Turner gives them a good number

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Speaker 5: two option as they retool that offense and retool that

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Speaker 5: again you're saying, hey, gyanis, look around the east, look

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Speaker 5: around the east. He got the next they still don't

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Speaker 5: have a coach. They're runnerless man. Hey, honest, let's go there.

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Speaker 5: See But now, but here's the rub.

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Speaker 1: The Bucks want to be honest, and all he has

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Speaker 1: been doing is getting itchy to go right all that

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Speaker 4: Maybe it was a little dull way below.

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Speaker 1: The skin, like maybe one of those when you you

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Speaker 1: know it kind of wakes you up a little bit

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Speaker 1: it sort of moves up a little bit.

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Speaker 5: Now it's up. Now you're up and you're fully scratching. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: that normally is after you watch the shingles and you

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Speaker 2: About it a little bit too much.

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Speaker 1: I go, where's that backscratcher? Drop it on the floor.

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Speaker 1: But all it's been has been Yannis going into the

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Speaker 1: last couple of off seasons. After first round, exit's going, I

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Speaker 1: wonder where we're going? What what are we doing? And

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Speaker 1: now they lose Damian Lillard and they trade him and

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Speaker 1: he's upset. Okay, what is going on here? I don't

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Speaker 1: know he's going to leave. Okay, I'll tell you right now.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna get traded this off season. But it's going

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Speaker 1: to be an end of free agency. Type trade because

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Speaker 1: Giannis is not going to go someplace where they make

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Speaker 1: him promise and say yeah, we'll do this, and then

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Speaker 1: we gotta go get this guy and this guy and

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Speaker 1: they don't get him the supporting cast he wants. He

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Speaker 1: be Kawhi when Kawhi got plopped into Toronto, right when

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Speaker 1: work well with these guys. He's gonna pick his destination

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Speaker 1: because he's mad. He wants he's not gonna trust Milwaukee

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Speaker 1: with the process after this. He knows my legacy is

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Speaker 1: a thing. Now he's having the Shaquille O'Neal mid season.

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Speaker 1: gotta worry about my legacy. So what he's going to

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Speaker 4: Let you.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure there's back channel stuff going on now and

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Speaker 1: teams are figuring their way out. You'll see some teams

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Speaker 1: making some moves and get the Brian Windhorse. Now, why

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Speaker 1: would they do that? Why would they do that? Meme

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Speaker 5: I gotta I gotta, folks, but I mean, I gotta

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Speaker 5: make sure I give the full picture.

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Speaker 4: I gotta step into the role. You know I got

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Speaker 1: But he's he's going to wait and see how teams

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Speaker 1: And the good news is I think I don't think

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Speaker 1: he's he's really looking at any one particular team he wants. Okay,

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Speaker 1: there's a couple of places I could go where I

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Speaker 1: can be happy, where if they have the right team

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Speaker 1: around me, we can win. But I'm not gonna go

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Speaker 1: make moves. Oh we can't, we can't get this player,

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Speaker 1: we can't get this player. I'm gonna go to a

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Speaker 1: going to be around me for next year. Whatever trade

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Speaker 1: And that's when it's going to happen. It will be

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Speaker 1: Major League Baseball already over, That's next, Jason and miss

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

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Speaker 1: The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon,

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Speaker 1: Hey, Tani on a full count pitch, just Homer to

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Speaker 8: I'm doing great. Happy Canada Day to our listeners who

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Speaker 4: See I liked it.

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Speaker 1: In ten years are going to be saying, oh, look

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Speaker 5: Jacob deGrom would go back.

435
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Speaker 8: Wow, I hadn't even thought of that as being a possibility.

436
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Speaker 2: We were just throwing names out of here.

437
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Speaker 8: I don't think so, just because again, I love what

438
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Speaker 8: the Grama has done this year for the Rangers.

439
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Speaker 1: There.

440
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Speaker 8: While they may move some players, I don't think Jake's

441
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Speaker 8: gonna be one of them. It's a big time contract,

442
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Speaker 8: as you both know, and for someone who has had

443
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Speaker 8: injuries in the past, I cannot imagine Jacob mcgrammould want

444
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Speaker 8: to go back and h and just sort of sip

445
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Speaker 8: from the fountain of what is right now a very

446
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Speaker 8: injured pitching staff. I think he wants to keep his distance.

447
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Speaker 8: He probably feels quite comfortable right now in Arlington.

448
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Speaker 2: Texas, all right now?

449
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Speaker 1: Speaking of New York teams, John Paul, Yes, okay, the

450
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Speaker 1: Mets after but the Yankees, boy, you watch them. It

451
00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:43,000
Speaker 1: looked like they were gonna run away with the Al East,

452
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Speaker 1: and suddenly they've hit the skids. They lost two more

453
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Speaker 1: in a row, and now suddenly Toronto and Tampa Bay,

454
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Speaker 1: who were kind of just hanging around five hundred, they're

455
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Speaker 1: a game and a game and a half out. What's

456
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Speaker 1: your level of concern scale of one to ten for

457
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Speaker 1: the Yankees.

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Speaker 8: I'm at about a seven, and I'm not a very

459
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Speaker 8: I tend to not be a reactionary person when it

460
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Speaker 8: comes to baseball slumps. But I look at this team

461
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Speaker 8: and say, the things that made them special, and Judge

462
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Speaker 8: is obviously Judge, He's in his own category. Jazz Chisholm

463
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Speaker 8: has actually played pretty well for them, but the things

464
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Speaker 8: that make them special. You look around their lineup, where

465
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Speaker 8: do they have true superstar separating talent on that team.

466
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Speaker 8: Judge Goldsmith's had a great year, Jazz weent healthy has

467
00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:38,720
Speaker 8: been really good, but they've got I think elsewhere. It's

468
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Speaker 8: someone in the normal range, average range of production. And

469
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Speaker 8: now the bill is coming due, I think for not

470
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Speaker 8: having Garrett Cole, the fifth spot of the rotation I

471
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Speaker 8: think is a bit of a concern. The fourth spot

472
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Speaker 8: is a concern. The bullpen is a concern, and you're

473
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Speaker 8: seeing now even when Judge goes through period of time

474
00:22:00,359 --> 00:22:04,679
Speaker 8: where he's just good as opposed to the best player

475
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Speaker 8: in the world, they're really vulnerable. There's no Sodo there anymore.

476
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Speaker 8: And Stanton of course is still just still working his

477
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Speaker 8: way back. Ben Rice is cooled off since the start

478
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Speaker 8: of the season. They're still a good team, but they're

479
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Speaker 8: not a great team, and they don't have even the

480
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Speaker 8: balance of a team like Detroit or Houston, and man,

481
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Speaker 8: this momentum that the Jays are building huge win Today

482
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Speaker 8: on Canada Day, the crowd was rocking at George Springer

483
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Speaker 8: a Grand Slam. If I'm the Yankees again, I'm not

484
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Speaker 8: panicking and all of a sudden I'm gonna miss the

485
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Speaker 8: playoffs because, after all, guys, it is the America League

486
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Speaker 8: of twenty twenty five. But I think the chance is real,

487
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Speaker 8: real that either the Rays or the Jays will pass them,

488
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Speaker 8: and honestly could happen before they also break.

489
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Speaker 5: Green and Carpenter and obviously school ball in on aunt.

490
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Speaker 5: How did the Tigers keep their edge with nothing to

491
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Speaker 5: play for in that division for the next three months.

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Speaker 8: Well, I'll talk about Mom about this, okay, because she's

493
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Speaker 8: gonna say, Johnny, you gotta keep it going, you get

494
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Speaker 8: you gotta keep them hungry. So I do think playing

495
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Speaker 8: for home field advantage is significant. And the other thing

496
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Speaker 8: that is probably even more significant than the homefield advantage

497
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Speaker 8: piece is this group really does like playing together. And

498
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Speaker 8: there's a lot of young guys who are in similar positions.

499
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Speaker 8: Some of them actually a lot of them are still

500
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Speaker 8: trying to earn their first major payday in this sport.

501
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Speaker 8: And so I think there's enough, there's enough hunger there.

502
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Speaker 8: And then that's where I'm a believer that while people

503
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Speaker 8: might say, oh, this is just the start of the

504
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Speaker 8: Tigers win, no, listen, their farm systems excellent. Mcgonagall's elite,

505
00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:55,600
Speaker 8: Clark's elite, the guy guys in the minor leagues that

506
00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:58,520
Speaker 8: are really really good. But I've always said this, just

507
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Speaker 8: when you think that it's the start of your window,

508
00:24:00,800 --> 00:24:04,520
Speaker 8: you better win right now, because there's a really unique

509
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Speaker 8: chemistry to this team that I think is largely predicated

510
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Speaker 8: on the fact that a lot of their guys are

511
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Speaker 8: still young and hungry and are still trying to make

512
00:24:12,119 --> 00:24:13,960
Speaker 8: their way and make their money in this game, and

513
00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:17,800
Speaker 8: that's actually a pretty powerful thing. It's worked well for

514
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Speaker 8: the Brewers for a while. It's kind of been the

515
00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:23,280
Speaker 8: ethos of the Rays for most of the last decade

516
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Speaker 8: and a half, and they've had a lot of success

517
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Speaker 8: during that period of time. The Guardians have had varying

518
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Speaker 8: levels of that vibe at different points, so I think

519
00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:33,400
Speaker 8: it's a very healthy thing to have as a team,

520
00:24:33,480 --> 00:24:36,320
Speaker 8: and they seem to really have it. They like playing together.

521
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Speaker 8: Aj Ininsch is maybe the manager of the year this year,

522
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Speaker 8: but it's been a fun team to watch because they're

523
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Speaker 8: not dependent on one superstar. It's maybe again the opposite

524
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Speaker 8: of the Yankees. It's a really good one through nine,

525
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Speaker 8: and I think that's the biggest reason why they've got

526
00:24:51,119 --> 00:24:54,840
Speaker 8: a comfortable lead right now in the Big Ten of baseball,

527
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Speaker 8: the Midwest Division, of course, as we like to call

528
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Speaker 8: the American League Central.

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Speaker 1: So I ask you this, now we've seen three months

530
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Speaker 1: of baseball. We have three months of baseball to go.

531
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Speaker 1: It's pretty easy to see Tigers are the best team

532
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Speaker 1: in the American League. Dodgers are the best team in

533
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Speaker 1: the National League. If they played a best of seven

534
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Speaker 1: right now, If they played a best of seven right.

535
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Speaker 4: Now, Dodgers Tigers, who do you have winning?

536
00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:19,800
Speaker 1: And you gotta be truthful because I know your dad's

537
00:25:19,840 --> 00:25:21,600
Speaker 1: gonna call you after this to go you didn't pick

538
00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:25,719
Speaker 1: the Tigers. So seven game series right now? Dodgers Tigers,

539
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Speaker 1: Who wins?

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Speaker 8: Detroit and Detroit. The reason I'm saying Detroit is is

541
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Speaker 8: I right now, I trust the Tigers' pitching depth in

542
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Speaker 8: terms of again what it's going to look like, not

543
00:25:40,880 --> 00:25:44,439
Speaker 8: just now, but in the later part of October, based

544
00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:48,320
Speaker 8: on all that we have seen. Who do feel more

545
00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:53,280
Speaker 8: comfortable about staying healthy and staying consistent as a staff

546
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Speaker 8: from now until the end of October. The Tiger staff

547
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Speaker 8: or the Dodgers staff, I would say the Tigers staff. Now. Offensively,

548
00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:06,159
Speaker 8: there's obviously Otani and Freeman are are in another world

549
00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:09,240
Speaker 8: and so and honestly, by the way, so is will Smith.

550
00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:11,639
Speaker 8: This season, he might win the batting title as a catcher,

551
00:26:11,680 --> 00:26:15,120
Speaker 8: which is really hard to do. But you know, Mookie's

552
00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:17,840
Speaker 8: had a bit of a tough year. I just think

553
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Speaker 8: that the way that you look at this from Detroit's perspective,

554
00:26:22,440 --> 00:26:25,159
Speaker 8: it's a it's a it's a lineup that balance is

555
00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:28,920
Speaker 8: right and left very very well. They're able to chase

556
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Speaker 8: slip the tun advantages here and there. Again, the Dodgers,

557
00:26:33,040 --> 00:26:34,960
Speaker 8: they beat the Yankees in five games last year. I

558
00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:37,879
Speaker 8: think that series was closer than that, And I just

559
00:26:37,920 --> 00:26:41,880
Speaker 8: think maybe they're just a tick more vulnerable this year.

560
00:26:42,000 --> 00:26:44,520
Speaker 8: The Dodgers are than they were a year ago, based

561
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Speaker 8: on just the ongoing pitching questions that I've got. So

562
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Speaker 8: does does that depend a little bit on on where

563
00:26:50,800 --> 00:26:53,080
Speaker 8: I live? Maybe I see the Tigers a lot. I

564
00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:55,040
Speaker 8: like their team that they've got a really, really nice

565
00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:57,800
Speaker 8: looking team. So I'm gonna believe in them until someone

566
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Speaker 8: tells me otherwise.

567
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Speaker 5: So we still got a couple of weeks before we

568
00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:03,399
Speaker 5: get past the All Star break and towards that trade

569
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Speaker 5: deadline JP. But how much movement are you anticipating? Like

570
00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:10,440
Speaker 5: how much anxiousness do we have a month out?

571
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Speaker 8: Yeah? I think it's still it's still developing, you know.

572
00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:18,680
Speaker 8: I was told recently that it's quite quiet in terms

573
00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:22,040
Speaker 8: of the GM level of actual negotiations on trades that

574
00:27:22,080 --> 00:27:24,480
Speaker 8: could happen, and I think it's because there's a lot

575
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Speaker 8: of teams that are still figuring out who they are.

576
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Speaker 8: I do think that'll change, probably as we emerge from

577
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Speaker 8: the All Star break. By then the draft will be

578
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Speaker 8: over and teams like the Orioles honestly, a team like

579
00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:41,960
Speaker 8: the Red Sox, I mean, you can't. They can't fool

580
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Speaker 8: anybody here. They should be sellers, and I suspect that

581
00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:49,280
Speaker 8: they'll move towards potentially doing that. I was told the

582
00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:52,440
Speaker 8: Rockies are all of a sudden more willing to actually

583
00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:56,240
Speaker 8: move their guys than they've been in a while. So

584
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Speaker 8: I think that the chess pieces are still getting to formulated.

585
00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:03,960
Speaker 8: But hey, when you're at when it's July one, It's

586
00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:07,000
Speaker 8: on thirty days of the deadline, so I do think

587
00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:11,119
Speaker 8: that it is no longer early and we'll start hearing

588
00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:13,920
Speaker 8: I think a bit more about where where these moves

589
00:28:13,960 --> 00:28:16,200
Speaker 8: could potentially happen as we get towards probably the middle

590
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Speaker 8: of the month.

591
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Speaker 1: He's on Twitter at John Morosi, that is at John

592
00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:21,960
Speaker 1: MOROSSI check him out on MLB Network.

593
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Speaker 4: What game you got this week? John Paul? What are

594
00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:24,240
Speaker 4: you doing?

595
00:28:24,720 --> 00:28:28,119
Speaker 8: So? I've gotten the Cubs and the Guardians rematch the

596
00:28:28,160 --> 00:28:31,200
Speaker 8: twenty sixteen World Series. I get to drive. I get

597
00:28:31,240 --> 00:28:34,440
Speaker 8: to drive it is, which is awesome. So, Mike, you

598
00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:37,360
Speaker 8: let me know if there's any big alumni events going

599
00:28:37,359 --> 00:28:39,440
Speaker 8: on your alma minor there in the Great City Chicago,

600
00:28:39,520 --> 00:28:41,280
Speaker 8: let me know. I'll stop by a salo on my

601
00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:41,920
Speaker 8: way to town.

602
00:28:42,280 --> 00:28:44,200
Speaker 2: See if we can pull that off. Let's go, all right,

603
00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:44,880
Speaker 2: nothing else.

604
00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:48,840
Speaker 5: We'll give you some credits at a couple of local establishments, all.

605
00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:51,760
Speaker 8: Right, And I would love that. And again, I love

606
00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:54,560
Speaker 8: being able to drive, especially this time of year. Gas

607
00:28:54,640 --> 00:28:57,200
Speaker 8: up the car. I'm a Midwesterner. It's the fourth of July.

608
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Speaker 8: Hit the road, baby, I'm looking forward.

609
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Speaker 4: To it, all right, we'll enjoy the weekend.

610
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Speaker 1: And hey, before you hit the road, remember call Stirnsy

611
00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:05,240
Speaker 1: and say you bring back Grimace.

612
00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:09,120
Speaker 2: Okay, get a starter.

613
00:29:08,920 --> 00:29:12,240
Speaker 8: If you can, but you gotta certainly deliver Grimace for

614
00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:14,240
Speaker 8: my buddy Jason Smith Grimmas first.

615
00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:15,520
Speaker 4: Then we'll work on a starting picture.

616
00:29:15,560 --> 00:29:22,640
Speaker 5: Okay, grip buddy, we'll talk you safe travels, buddy. No,

617
00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:25,600
Speaker 5: I get that right, because Grimace can help you right now.

618
00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:26,600
Speaker 4: Yes, you got it.

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Speaker 2: You got them on tomorrow. Yeah, you got a month

620
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Speaker 2: till the deadline.

621
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Speaker 4: Tomorrow, I got one.

622
00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:32,840
Speaker 2: Great. You can meander along a little bit longer and longer.

623
00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:34,720
Speaker 4: We got a doubleheader against the Brewers tomorrow.

624
00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:38,840
Speaker 1: Grimace. Grimace comes back tomorrow. We need Grimace tomorrow. That'd

625
00:29:38,880 --> 00:29:41,040
Speaker 1: be great tomorrow for Grimace. How about a couple of

626
00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:45,240
Speaker 1: other WWE superstars or something. Again, let's start with Grimace.

627
00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:46,840
Speaker 1: Let's start with Grimace and then go from there.

628
00:29:46,880 --> 00:29:48,960
Speaker 2: How have they not come back to them at this point?

629
00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:49,480
Speaker 6: I don't know.

630
00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:51,440
Speaker 2: You've hit the mid point of the season.

631
00:29:51,400 --> 00:29:52,720
Speaker 4: For a week and half. Bring what do we do

632
00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:54,280
Speaker 4: while we're losing games? Bring Grimace back?

633
00:29:54,320 --> 00:29:54,800
Speaker 3: What's going on?

634
00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:57,600
Speaker 4: Bring Grimace back? How do you not have them come back.

635
00:29:58,280 --> 00:29:59,800
Speaker 2: What's not?

636
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:02,560
Speaker 4: I don't know who Grimas is, but bring it back.

637
00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:03,200
Speaker 4: I gotta doing that.

638
00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:05,480
Speaker 5: You're doing a side told I don't know. I mean

639
00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:08,920
Speaker 5: the Yankees are doing the Costanza bobblehead. Tickets for the bobblehead.

640
00:30:09,760 --> 00:30:12,840
Speaker 5: The bobblehead sales are higher than the get in price

641
00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:16,480
Speaker 5: for that because it's it's Costanza's sleeping under under his head.

642
00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:18,200
Speaker 4: That is a legit bobble.

643
00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:20,400
Speaker 2: Does it come with the faux Playboy magazine?

644
00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:20,880
Speaker 5: Ah?

645
00:30:21,080 --> 00:30:21,840
Speaker 4: That, I don't think so.

646
00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:24,120
Speaker 2: Or maybe the talaries Georgie.

647
00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:27,760
Speaker 4: Maybe that's why it's uh so sought after. You never know.

648
00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:31,760
Speaker 5: Well, they've done the Seinfeld Crew the last couple of years,

649
00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:33,240
Speaker 5: so you got to keep the set going. But this

650
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Speaker 5: one looks spectacular. Tomorrow's Yamamoto day. I just saw a

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Speaker 5: commercial where he was talking to his bobblehead. It was

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Speaker 5: next level stuff. Let's find out what's trending right now

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Speaker 5: the wide world of sports. So someone who's been called

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Speaker 5: the George Costanza of Fox Sports Radio, was that wrong?

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Speaker 4: He walks around the hallway saying, this.

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Speaker 3: Is the summer of Steve.

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Speaker 4: It's the summer of Steve.

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Speaker 2: He's gonna eat a block of cheese like an apple.

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Speaker 6: Did you hear Mike just say that the bobblehead is spectacular? Spectacular? Fact,

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Speaker 6: we have a Dodger lead of six to one over

661
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Speaker 6: the White Sox. In the bottom of the fifth, LA

662
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Speaker 6: scored four runs in the first. Now show, hey Otani

663
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Speaker 6: is in his thirtieth homer. Only once in the last

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Speaker 6: twenty five years we had three guys get to thirty

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Speaker 6: homers before the All Star break in twenty nineteen, it

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Speaker 6: was Pete Alonzo, Cody Bellinger and Christian Yelich. This year

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Speaker 6: to the thirty home run mark already Aaron Judge, Cal

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Speaker 6: Rawly and now show, Hey Otani. It's the Royals leading

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Speaker 6: at Seattle five to three in the bottom of the seventh.

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Speaker 6: The Diamondbacks are ready to send San Francisco to a

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Speaker 6: four straight losses eight to two Arizona. In the top

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Speaker 6: of the eight startersz At Gallen went seven innings with

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Speaker 6: ten strikeouts. Everything else is final wins for the Cubs

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Speaker 6: and the Angels. Wins for Houston and Texas Rangers ten

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Speaker 6: to two over Baltimore. Winning pitcher Jacob de gram Is

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Speaker 6: nine and two ERA two point one three had six

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Speaker 6: strikeouts in six innings tonight. In fact, de gram in

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Speaker 6: each of his last fourteen starts, has allowed two runs

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Speaker 6: or less six hits are less. That is the longest

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Speaker 6: streak by any traditional starter in the modern era of

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Speaker 6: Major League Baseball. Cincinnati at Boston suspended by rain after

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Speaker 6: three innings.

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Speaker 4: Boston's up two to one.

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Speaker 6: That game continues Wednesday afternoon rainouts at Washington at Philadelphia

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Speaker 6: at the Mets, doubleheaders for all of them. Tomorrow. The

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Speaker 6: A's one in ten innings, four to three at Tampa

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Speaker 6: Bay Miami one, it's eighth in a row. Pittsburgh won

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Speaker 6: it's fifth straight game. Toronto on Canada Day, beat the

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Speaker 6: Yankees twelve to five. George Springer two homers, seven RBIs,

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Speaker 6: including a grand Slam Aaron Judge in the loss, single double,

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Speaker 6: three walks.

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Speaker 1: And Canada had all their guys. They all they No

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Speaker 1: one called saying I'm opting out. It's been too long

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Speaker 1: of a season. Canada had all their guys for that game.

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Speaker 6: They even had George Springer, who looked like he disconnected

696
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:52,640
Speaker 6: his own next sliding head first into third yesterday. Kids

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Speaker 6: do not slide head first into a base. This is

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Speaker 6: why MLB All Star Game voting ends on Wednesday. You

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Speaker 6: know your fingers for Aaron Judge. NBA got those last boats. No,

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Speaker 6: they are an NBA MVP. Shay gilds Yous. Alexander agreed

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Speaker 6: to a four year Supermax extension. The Milwaukee Bucks are

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Speaker 6: waiving Damian Lillard to sign free agent center Miles Turner.

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Speaker 6: The seventy six ers are re signing Eric Gordon. Larry

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Speaker 6: Nance junior is signing with Cleveland. Tim Hardaway junior signing

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Speaker 6: with Denver. Guard Duncan Robinson.

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Speaker 4: No other juniors, No other ju ju out? Yeah, John

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Speaker 4: Stark junior. Oh, No, okay.

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Speaker 6: Guard Duncan Robinson left, James, Okay, Now we're talking about

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Speaker 6: NBA players. Guard Duncan Robinson left the Heat for Detroit.

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00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:43,800
Speaker 6: The Raptors re signed center yacka Portal. The Nuggets acquired

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Speaker 6: Jonas Valenshunas from Sacramento for Dario Sarich w NBA. The

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Speaker 6: Commissioner's Cup Final was tonight, Indiana to not have Caitlin

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Speaker 6: Clark still out with a groin injury. Bots the fever

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Speaker 6: one at Minnesota seventy four fifty nine and the FISA

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Speaker 6: Collier of Minnesota six of eight eighteen shooting five turnovers.

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Speaker 6: Her team Minnesota was fourteen and two. They just won

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Speaker 6: in dominant fashion against lowly Connecticut on Sunday night, when

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Speaker 6: Collier at twenty three points.

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Speaker 4: Vec Collier and Clark were named the All.

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Speaker 6: Star Game captains and the rest of the starters named Monday,

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Speaker 6: including rookie Page Beckers. Indianapolis is going to be hosting

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Speaker 6: the WNBA All Star Game July nineteenth.

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Speaker 4: Back to you, Thank you, Steve O.

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Speaker 1: Jason Smith, Mike Harmon, Live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. Hey,

725
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Speaker 1: after what we saw today in the NBA, it is

726
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Speaker 1: time to pay homage to the absolute end of an era.

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Speaker 1: It was not a long era, but it was a

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Speaker 1: big era. We have to celebrate it. That's next, Jason

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Speaker 1: and Mike Fox Era.

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

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

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Speaker 2: pm Pacific, Fox.

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Speaker 1: Sports Radio Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.

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Speaker 8: Home Up.

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Speaker 5: Uh.

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Speaker 1: After what happened today in NBA Free agency, we have

737
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Speaker 1: to celebrate the end of an era.

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Speaker 4: It's an era. It's a big era. It's not a

739
00:35:07,080 --> 00:35:10,120
Speaker 4: long error. It's not like by yeah, but it's something

740
00:35:10,239 --> 00:35:12,359
Speaker 4: that really and I can, I can.

741
00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:16,160
Speaker 1: I can paint this in a way where it seems like,

742
00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:18,560
Speaker 1: even though this era is over and this team didn't

743
00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:20,960
Speaker 1: win a championship, they still kind of won.

744
00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:22,600
Speaker 2: Did you bring a cake?

745
00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:24,680
Speaker 4: No, there's no cake. There's no cake.

746
00:35:25,120 --> 00:35:26,360
Speaker 2: It's not a celebration.

747
00:35:27,280 --> 00:35:29,840
Speaker 1: Is a cake or it's a No, it's a celebration

748
00:35:30,040 --> 00:35:31,759
Speaker 1: on the radio. And if we want to, we can

749
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Speaker 1: have cake after Oh it doesn't matter. Yeah, uh, farewell,

750
00:35:37,239 --> 00:35:39,520
Speaker 1: Indiana Pacers will always have.

751
00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:44,440
Speaker 4: The Spring of twenty twenty five, Miles Turner signs with

752
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Speaker 4: the Bucks.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, in free agency, which is the most absolute gut

754
00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:52,440
Speaker 1: punch to the Pacers they could possibly have, because that's there, that's.

755
00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:55,200
Speaker 2: Literally walking across the street. Only about the.

756
00:35:55,239 --> 00:35:56,680
Speaker 1: Only thing worse would have been saying I'm going to

757
00:35:56,719 --> 00:35:58,440
Speaker 1: play for the Knicks, Right, That's the only thing that

758
00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:01,040
Speaker 1: would have been. Maybe, I don't know, because the regular

759
00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:03,359
Speaker 1: season rivalry is just that big a deal. But now

760
00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:07,239
Speaker 1: you're losing Miles Turner, right, You've lost him. Halliburton is

761
00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:10,120
Speaker 1: out for for most, if not all, of this year.

762
00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:14,600
Speaker 1: You're gonna lose other players, this era of the Pacers.

763
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:17,120
Speaker 4: This moment in time, they had. It's over right.

764
00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:18,879
Speaker 1: This is not gonna be a pace team that suddenly, Hey,

765
00:36:18,920 --> 00:36:20,759
Speaker 1: we're showing up and we're all gonna hit three's when

766
00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:23,320
Speaker 1: weever we want to. And TJ. McConnell's gonna play like

767
00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:25,359
Speaker 1: Lebron when he goes in for twenty two minutes a night,

768
00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:29,120
Speaker 1: like they had this incredible moment this playoffs. And this

769
00:36:29,239 --> 00:36:30,840
Speaker 1: is where I mean, I'm being honest when I say this,

770
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:34,040
Speaker 1: even though they didn't win the title like it would.

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00:36:34,120 --> 00:36:36,680
Speaker 1: You know, when you look back in history and think of, Okay,

772
00:36:37,280 --> 00:36:39,840
Speaker 1: the spring of twenty twenty five, the NBA Playoffs, what

773
00:36:39,920 --> 00:36:42,120
Speaker 1: are you gonna think about the first team that's gonna

774
00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:44,160
Speaker 1: come to your mind of the Pacers, It's gonna be

775
00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:46,200
Speaker 1: the Pacers. Nick Series's gonna be the Pacers with all

776
00:36:46,239 --> 00:36:49,160
Speaker 1: their comebacks and the Pacers nearly getting there and Halliburton

777
00:36:49,200 --> 00:36:51,560
Speaker 1: becoming a star, and the drama with him and his

778
00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:55,560
Speaker 1: dad and Yannis. I mean, the Pacers really won because

779
00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:59,120
Speaker 1: they won the battle of Hey, what was this playoffs

780
00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:02,879
Speaker 1: all about? Isn't about Lebron? Even though the thunder one

781
00:37:02,960 --> 00:37:05,439
Speaker 1: and SGA won, it wasn't about them. It wasn't about

782
00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:07,120
Speaker 1: the Knicks, you know, it was almost about the knicks.

783
00:37:07,600 --> 00:37:09,680
Speaker 1: It was about the pacer. You will think back to, Wow,

784
00:37:09,840 --> 00:37:12,680
Speaker 1: this run the Pacers had. And you know when we

785
00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:15,320
Speaker 1: talked with Rick Buker a week ago and he was like,

786
00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:17,160
Speaker 1: you know, it's gonna be interesting to see how if

787
00:37:17,239 --> 00:37:19,239
Speaker 1: the Pacers lose this year's there was the middle of

788
00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:21,920
Speaker 1: the NBA Finals. He's be interesting to see how history

789
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:24,399
Speaker 1: remembers this Indiana Pacers team.

790
00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:26,200
Speaker 4: And on the court, it's gonna be.

791
00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:28,640
Speaker 1: Hey, the Pacers showing everybody what it means when you

792
00:37:28,719 --> 00:37:30,440
Speaker 1: can have five guys on the court at the same time.

793
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:31,160
Speaker 4: They condit a three.

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00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:32,800
Speaker 1: You know, not they hit him all the time, but

795
00:37:32,840 --> 00:37:34,319
Speaker 1: when this is how you're able to come back. It's

796
00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:35,799
Speaker 1: how they're able to come back in all these fourth

797
00:37:35,880 --> 00:37:38,239
Speaker 1: quarters of games because they would have five guys on

798
00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:40,799
Speaker 1: the floor and even though a couple of guys are

799
00:37:40,880 --> 00:37:43,640
Speaker 1: really good at shooting threes, anybody could. Miles Turner could

800
00:37:43,719 --> 00:37:45,759
Speaker 1: it one, right, Neie Smith could win them are good

801
00:37:45,800 --> 00:37:47,880
Speaker 1: at one. Like, that's something the teams are gonna take

802
00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:50,439
Speaker 1: away and say, we want to incorporate this. We want

803
00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:51,920
Speaker 1: all five of our guys to being able to hit

804
00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:55,040
Speaker 1: threes because comebacks are easy. You can't guard everybody, but

805
00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:58,800
Speaker 1: overall it's gonna be This is who the playoffs were about. Like,

806
00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:01,799
Speaker 1: this was about the Indiana Pacers, even though this era

807
00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:03,680
Speaker 1: is over, not like we thought it was going to

808
00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:05,680
Speaker 1: continue on next year because of the way they were

809
00:38:05,719 --> 00:38:09,640
Speaker 1: able to just defy the odds and overcome obstacles and

810
00:38:09,719 --> 00:38:11,520
Speaker 1: miracle shots and miracle comebacks.

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Speaker 4: But I mean, they own the playoffs. It's not going

812
00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:15,239
Speaker 4: to be around for them again.

813
00:38:15,320 --> 00:38:18,280
Speaker 1: And then but this this spring, this playoffs, this spring

814
00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:21,480
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty five, they owned the NBA playoffs.

815
00:38:21,520 --> 00:38:24,400
Speaker 5: Yeah, we look at their run and you know, injuries

816
00:38:24,840 --> 00:38:28,759
Speaker 5: happen over the course of playoff run, beneficiaries before the

817
00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:33,920
Speaker 5: the ultimate fall for for Halliburton, and and certainly Carlisle,

818
00:38:34,000 --> 00:38:37,840
Speaker 5: I think got some flowers, and rightly so for the

819
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:41,520
Speaker 5: job that he did putting that squad out in positions

820
00:38:41,600 --> 00:38:46,200
Speaker 5: to stay in games, to fight through adversity late in games.

821
00:38:46,239 --> 00:38:48,320
Speaker 5: I mean, if nothing else, it's a coach's clinic. So

822
00:38:48,440 --> 00:38:50,480
Speaker 5: this is one that you know, you box up and

823
00:38:50,560 --> 00:38:53,040
Speaker 5: start sending the high school coach, here's how to motivate

824
00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:56,279
Speaker 5: your kids. Look at the Indiana Pacers, a team that

825
00:38:56,360 --> 00:39:00,480
Speaker 5: wouldn't die. That's really how you re because they didn't

826
00:39:00,480 --> 00:39:03,400
Speaker 5: win anything, so you can only celebrate it so far.

827
00:39:03,880 --> 00:39:05,600
Speaker 5: Right in the moment, it's like, wow, that was a

828
00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:07,120
Speaker 5: hell of a run. Five years from now, am I

829
00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:09,040
Speaker 5: remembering that run necessarily?

830
00:39:09,400 --> 00:39:10,920
Speaker 4: No, I'm oh you to remember the year.

831
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Speaker 1: Remember the Halliburton shot against the Knicks and the choke

832
00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:15,960
Speaker 1: signal and all the comebacks and Haliburton getting hurt in

833
00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:18,640
Speaker 1: Game seven? What that could have meant for the Pacers

834
00:39:18,719 --> 00:39:21,560
Speaker 1: and winning. No, Okay, if you say, hey, twenty five

835
00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:24,640
Speaker 1: on the thunderbeat the Pacers, you're gonna think haliburt.

836
00:39:24,280 --> 00:39:26,040
Speaker 2: No, you gonna have a hell of a run.

837
00:39:26,239 --> 00:39:30,120
Speaker 5: And certainly Halliburton's dad being confined to the box for

838
00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:32,239
Speaker 5: a while and sent to the sin bin.

839
00:39:32,719 --> 00:39:36,120
Speaker 2: I don't discount that for what it meant.

840
00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:39,239
Speaker 5: I think for the NBA as a whole, maybe there's

841
00:39:39,520 --> 00:39:42,880
Speaker 5: both from the Pacers side and for the roster construction

842
00:39:43,040 --> 00:39:47,000
Speaker 5: of the Thunder that we're seeing the shift, because also

843
00:39:47,080 --> 00:39:50,359
Speaker 5: the rules will make you shift, and we'll see how

844
00:39:50,640 --> 00:39:54,440
Speaker 5: how teams can can stay together or try to going

845
00:39:54,560 --> 00:39:57,239
Speaker 5: forward with the new aprons and everything else. But for

846
00:39:57,440 --> 00:39:59,920
Speaker 5: this perfect moment in time, as those rules come in

847
00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:05,160
Speaker 5: to focus. You saw a Pacers squad that just kept coming,

848
00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:09,320
Speaker 5: and certainly if you were on the wrong side of

849
00:40:09,480 --> 00:40:12,440
Speaker 5: those last second shots by Halliburton, you ain't forgetting those

850
00:40:12,520 --> 00:40:16,520
Speaker 5: runs anytime soon soon, and McConnell will haunt your dreams.

851
00:40:16,760 --> 00:40:18,279
Speaker 2: Yeah no, but I got it.

852
00:40:18,920 --> 00:40:22,279
Speaker 1: This was about them, This was this playoff. Even though

853
00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:24,480
Speaker 1: they didn't win, it was about them and that's kind

854
00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:25,040
Speaker 1: of a victory.

855
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Speaker 5: Well, I'm also taking the victory lap because Timbodeau did

856
00:40:27,680 --> 00:40:29,600
Speaker 5: still get fired like we said he would.

857
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Speaker 2: Before the playoffs started.

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Speaker 1: Coming up next, we break down the craziest NFL move

859
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Speaker 1: of the day, Fox Is it?

860
00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:36,520
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers