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Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio. Hello, welcome inside.

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Speaker 1: Happy Friday. Well, I mean, for everybody except Schooble, It's

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Speaker 1: Happy Friday. Jason Smith, Steve de Sager in from Mike

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Speaker 1: you know I gotta start. I gotta call you out

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Speaker 1: on this. You know you texted me earlier today and

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Speaker 1: you said, Hey, bet the house on Tarik Schooble today,

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Speaker 1: Tigers at home day, best pitcher in baseball against the Maritors,

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Speaker 1: whatever you need, put it all on Schoolble. You tell

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Speaker 1: me all of that today.

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Speaker 2: All I needed to hear was the first part of

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Speaker 2: the sentence you texted me today, And I know whatever

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Speaker 2: follows that is completely false. Although the guy doesn't have

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Speaker 2: many bad outings. Hearing the bit of the Detroit Tigers broadcasts,

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Speaker 2: they said, I think we have to go back to April,

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Speaker 2: since the last time this guy had a bad start.

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Speaker 2: We're at mid July here, so yeah, it's notable that

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Speaker 2: it's been a while, and I guess even he is

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Speaker 2: due for one of these, you know.

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Speaker 1: And the funny thing is is that we started watching

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Speaker 1: this game in the top of the fifth in because

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Speaker 1: you're my wife from Detroit. You know, the whole family's

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Speaker 1: Tiger fans. They're all Tigers.

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Speaker 2: It was one of the one Detroit going the fifth.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it has been an unbelievable run for Detroit

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Speaker 1: Sports in the last couple of years with the Lions

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Speaker 1: being so good and now the Tigers come out of

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Speaker 1: nowhere to their run last year. Now that the best

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Speaker 1: team in baseball. Really, it's it's been in the Pistons

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Speaker 1: having you know, finally there they're good in in basketball

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Speaker 1: again working on the Red Wings. But Michigan wins the

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Speaker 1: National Championship obviously, and they're still really good. Number one

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Speaker 1: recruit in the country. Like Detroit Sports has been off

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Speaker 1: the hook for what they've been able to celebrate. So

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Speaker 1: we come up today, she goes, Hey, is the is

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Speaker 1: and I love this? This This is my wife different

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Speaker 1: to my wife and my dad. Oh oh the games

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Speaker 1: on Apple TV, right, I'll get it up. I'm like, wow, Okay,

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Speaker 1: where's my dad is like, okay, so how do I

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Speaker 1: how do I find the I just click on the

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Speaker 1: apple to oh my dad, Okay, dadd, I'll tell you

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Speaker 1: to find it. So we turn on the game at

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Speaker 1: the top of the fifth inning, and you know, and

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Speaker 1: and the Mariners got a scratch run and then Reguez

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Speaker 1: goes deep and they put up another run, and it's

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Speaker 1: it's four to one.

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Speaker 3: Is an understatement. It was four forty he clocked. I

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Speaker 3: mean that was when he hit it.

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Speaker 1: He stopped and he stared, and look, it's not been

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Speaker 1: an unbelievable last year or two from from j Rod.

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Speaker 1: But he hits that home run. All of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: my wife goes click, I go, what happened to just

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Speaker 1: I'm a jinx? The game was fine until we turned

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Speaker 2: It's a and then she tuned back in and the

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Speaker 2: ninth inning, no cause it's been a seven run top

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Speaker 2: Detroit and not over bases loaded, two outs for the man.

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Speaker 1: You told me, Hey, what do you think cal Rally's

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Speaker 1: gonna hit two more home runs and knock in five runs?

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Speaker 1: You told me, bet the Tigers today. Bet everything on it.

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Speaker 1: I bet the Tigers. Look what I know.

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Speaker 2: I'm more amazed. I think that the guy's been hitting

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Speaker 2: close to suit two seventy this year that I even

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Speaker 2: am mmased at the power, because this is a guy

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Speaker 2: who could have serious power and go with a two

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Speaker 2: to twenty batting average the whole season. All the accolades

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Speaker 2: he's getting and the MVP votes, Okay, fine, if he's

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Speaker 2: runner up this year, all of that well deserved for Calrowly.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, this is a guy who's going to

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Speaker 1: go into the All Star break with at least thirty seven,

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Speaker 1: you know, with two more home runs today. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you're dear talking about a guy that, yeah, being leading

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Speaker 1: the league in home runs thirty eight home runs. It's

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Speaker 1: he's on pace right now. I believe for for sixty

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Speaker 2: I mean, really, Barry Bonds has the record by the

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Speaker 2: way home runs before an All Star break of thirty nine.

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Speaker 1: I mean he could have forty home runs by the

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Speaker 2: Granted some season start earlier than bye. I'm still impressed.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I mean it for it could be forty for

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Speaker 2: And this was a gold Gloves catcher last year. First off,

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Speaker 2: it's somebody at the catcher position doing this where you know,

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Speaker 2: let's be honest, where you wears you down. He had

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Speaker 2: about five hundred and fifty at bats last year and

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Speaker 2: still had a thirty homer, one hundred RBI season and

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Speaker 2: a Gold Glove. And he's been even better this year.

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Speaker 2: He has more homers right now than he had all

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Speaker 1: I think he has more homers than he has hits.

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Speaker 1: I think he's I think, but big Baseball night tonight.

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Speaker 1: Obviously we got the Dodgers the Giants coming up later

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Speaker 1: on last weekend before the All Star break. But I

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Speaker 1: just want for all of the talk and now that

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Speaker 1: you know, obviously the offseason in the NBA has been

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Speaker 1: going exactly how Lebron James wants it to everybody's talking

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Speaker 1: about him. I want for everybody who thinks Lebron James

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Speaker 1: is not going to get traded. I just want to

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Speaker 1: throw I just want to throw this out there. I

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Speaker 1: want to be very calm. I want to very quick

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Speaker 1: because we I've told you for the last couple of weeks. Hey,

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Speaker 1: this is the closest we've ever seen to Lebron being traded,

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Speaker 1: and the Lakers are daring him to ask for a trade.

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Speaker 1: They are just continuing to up the annie to get

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Speaker 1: Lebron to say I want out and they'll trade him

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Speaker 1: back to Cleveland. Okay, just understand I'm gonna go through here,

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Speaker 1: especially coming off the latest today that Ramona Shelburne and

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Speaker 1: on the changing of the guard for the Lakers from

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Speaker 1: Lebron to building around Luka Doncic. Okay, so let me

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Speaker 1: just let me just recap some stuff, and I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: ask a very simple question. Okay, Lebron James, who has

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Speaker 1: stirred the drink For the entirety of his NBA career.

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Speaker 1: The NBA has been all about him. He has enjoyed

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Speaker 1: it being all about him. He has been the biggest

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Speaker 1: is the biggest. He is the biggest star on the planet.

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Speaker 1: Of the last twenty years, he's outlasted Tom Brady, He's

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Speaker 1: is the guy. He is the guy. This is what's

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Speaker 1: Shelburn and Brian Winhorse today. So they go get Luka

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Speaker 1: Doncich and they did not give Lebron any notice. They

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Speaker 1: were trading Anthony Davis for Luka Doncic, ad who Lebron

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Speaker 1: brought in. They're both clutch sports, they're both really tight.

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Speaker 1: Right right after they get him, they try to get

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Speaker 1: Williams in the deal from the Hornets and it doesn't

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Speaker 1: go Lebron, who of course have been begging for a

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Speaker 1: center for a long time. The Lakers don't try to

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Speaker 1: get a center until after they go get Luka Doncic. Right,

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Speaker 1: they agree to sell the team to Mark Walter in June,

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Speaker 1: and Luka Doncic got a heads up and post the

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Speaker 1: congratulations on social media. Lebron James did not get the

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Speaker 1: same notice. Right, did Lebron get an extension? Height? We

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Speaker 1: still love you, we want to build around you, even

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Speaker 1: though we're not telling you what we're doing. No, no,

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Speaker 1: they said, one year you have to decide to opt

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Speaker 1: in or not. Of course he opting in for fifty

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Speaker 1: two million dollars this year. Nobody else is paying him.

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Speaker 1: He has been pushed to the side, and he has

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Speaker 1: since responded by showing up working out at the Cavaliers

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Speaker 1: a welcome home hat that he says, oh, no, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: come on, it's just a hat said to my company,

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Speaker 1: I'm not wearing a welcome home hat around Cleveland for

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Speaker 1: any other reason.

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Speaker 4: Not.

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Speaker 1: Are you guys reading into it. As we have said,

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Speaker 1: Lebron doesn't do anything without any sort of forethought or plan.

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Speaker 1: To get this out there, he is trying to push

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Speaker 1: this narrative of okay, if you want to put if

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Speaker 1: he's doing this through the media because it's kind of

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Speaker 1: how he has to do it, because nobody wants to

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Speaker 1: look bad. Hey, Cleveland is where I can go. This

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Speaker 1: is where I get That's where I want to go.

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Speaker 1: And we have said from the beginning, that's why I

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Speaker 1: the beginning, the only place he can finish is Cleveland,

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Speaker 1: because if it doesn't, he doesn't win there, it can

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Speaker 1: still be a success, right, can still be a success

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Speaker 1: because he goes there to finish his career. He can win.

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Speaker 1: He can he can walk off with with laurels and

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Speaker 1: presents and all kinds of stuff. He can move and

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Speaker 1: be the guy that takes the pressure off the young players.

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Speaker 1: That's where he can go. Right. So I ask you

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Speaker 1: this now after I just outlined all of that. With

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Speaker 1: what's going on in the offseason, how the Lakers are

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Speaker 1: moving away from Lebron, and you've seen different reports every

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Speaker 1: day from different insiders. The relationship between Lebron and the

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Speaker 1: Lakers is not there. The Lakers are waiting for him

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Speaker 1: to demand to trade. They both would would do everything

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Speaker 1: they can to make it happen. This is an everyday thing.

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Speaker 1: There is so much smoke around this story. Lebron could

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Speaker 1: simply put it to bed by saying, I'm a Laker,

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Speaker 1: I don't know what you're talking about. I'm here, I'm

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Speaker 1: excited to win a championship. Lebron has not done that.

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Speaker 1: Lebron has not done that. The Lakers could put out

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Speaker 1: and say, hey, stop all this We're not trading Lebron.

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Speaker 1: He's here fifty two million, We're making a big run

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Speaker 1: this year. This is what's going on. Instead, the message

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Speaker 1: has been, yeah, you opt it in because okay, it's

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Speaker 1: a bad deal for us, and the end of next

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Speaker 1: spring that's gonna be it. We're going to be done

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Speaker 1: and we are walking away from you. Again what I

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Speaker 1: said like a couple months ago. So again I could

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Speaker 1: be an NBA insider, but I'm leading to this, Steve,

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Speaker 1: because I ask you this question, and for anybody who

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Speaker 1: thinks Lebron's not going to get traded, this is the

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Speaker 1: question I want to ask, after all of what's gone on,

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Speaker 1: after the Lakers have done so much to minimize him

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Speaker 1: and to minimize his impact and his standing with the team,

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Speaker 1: can he really come back and play this season for

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Speaker 1: the Lakers at this point with all that's going on,

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Speaker 1: can after all of this, can he really come back

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Speaker 1: and play this year with the Lakers be happy and

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Speaker 1: be happy being a guy that's just shunted to the

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Speaker 1: side for Luka Doncic. That's my question. And if you

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Speaker 1: can answer yes, well I disagree. I think you're absolutely wrong,

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Speaker 1: But the answer is no, there's no way. This is

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Speaker 1: not who Lebron is, it's not what he does. All

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Speaker 1: this is going on, there's no way he comes back.

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Speaker 1: And I'm telling you I think a trade by the

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Speaker 1: end of July, we might see it. We might see

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Speaker 1: detailing how the Lakers are moving on to Lebron, moving

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Speaker 1: Like what the big line from the article is, Hey,

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Speaker 1: spring of twenty twenty six is Lebron's end date with

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Speaker 2: And on my terms would be what you say if

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Speaker 2: two home runs for cal Raley. He has thirty eight

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Speaker 1: Woo, there we go, all right, Thank you Steve though

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Speaker 1: Jason Smith, Steve de Sager, Hey, a Lebron trade by

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Speaker 1: July thirty first, again, we're getting you. Just follow follow

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Speaker 1: have that breaking news on the basis loaded walk from

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Speaker 2: Faces loaded work, there's breaking news. It was in the

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Speaker 1: Just wow. I mean because the Mets don't hit with

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Speaker 2: It's just not trigonometry.

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Speaker 1: You know that they actually didn't get a hit. They

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Speaker 2: My concern actually for the Mets is that they've got

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we don't have enough time for my concerns with

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Speaker 2: all to himself, plus plane tickets for relatives.

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Speaker 1: I think he also had a rule that no, you

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Speaker 1: can't bunt against me because you can't do it. I'm

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Speaker 1: not gonna allow you. I can't. I can't go because

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Speaker 1: I can't feel it. We can't wait.

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Speaker 2: I can't and I won't throw over the first You can't.

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Speaker 1: Butt, not gonna do it, not gonna do uh. So

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Speaker 1: there is your play of the day, thanks to tire

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Speaker 1: rac dot com again big dumper Cow probably thirty eight

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Speaker 1: ord he could hit. He could be at forty by

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Speaker 1: the break, and that would be make the all time records.

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Speaker 1: Steve brought us minutes ago Barry Bond's thirty nine at

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Speaker 1: the All Star Break.

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Speaker 2: What I did not realize until I saw the list

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Speaker 2: from the great Sarah Langs. Do you remember the name

446
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Speaker 2: Chris Davis? A decade ago?

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Speaker 3: Talk about overpaid, They're still paying Chris, I think there's

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Speaker 3: contract is still what that's like Bobby Benia on steroids.

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Speaker 1: And I don't mean Biby Benie on. I mean like

450
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Speaker 1: the Bobby Benia contract on steroids.

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Speaker 2: He had thirty seven at an All Star break. Mark

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Speaker 2: McGuire nineteen ninety eight, speaking of had thirty seven at

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Speaker 2: an All Star break and nineteen sixty nine, Reggie Jackson

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Speaker 2: had thirty seven homers by All Star break. Oo.

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Speaker 1: Man, I mean that's just such an outlier with Reggie

456
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Speaker 1: all those years ago, all the home runs. Yeah, because

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Speaker 1: you look at Reggie and you think, you know, you

458
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Speaker 1: have this memory of Reggie, and I do as a

459
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Speaker 1: kid of he was the most intimidating slugger. I'm a kid,

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Speaker 1: grow up, going, I don't pitch the Reggie Jackson It's

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Speaker 1: going to be a home run, Oh my god. And

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Speaker 1: he did a Reggie now and they go and he

463
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Speaker 1: was tiny. He was tiny, He wasn't big like these

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Speaker 1: other guys.

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Speaker 2: And it was a huge swing. It was an intimidating presence.

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Speaker 2: It was a lot of strikeouts.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 2: I remember the clips from the nineteen seventy one All

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Speaker 2: Star Game. If you've never seen it, by the way

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Speaker 2: see it, because it's one Hall of Famer after another

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Speaker 2: was in the seventy one All Star Game, including Reggie Jackson,

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Speaker 2: who if there wasn't a light tower on top of

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Speaker 2: the roof at Old Tiger Stadium literally would have hit

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Speaker 2: it to another County home run he had that night.

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Speaker 1: His bat speed was a blur, like that's where where

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Speaker 1: you understand what does batspeed do for you?

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Speaker 2: And the bats swing related? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Oh my yeah, I mean he was good and this

479
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Speaker 1: is where you go. Okay, if a guy was coming

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Speaker 1: up from the miners now, you would say, okay, got

481
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Speaker 1: we gotta completely redo this swing. Okay, you're not gonna

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Speaker 1: be able to You're not gonna catch up to these

483
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Speaker 1: ninety eight mile an hour fast. Well, look, they do

484
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Speaker 1: throw harder now than they did in Reggie's day, but

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Speaker 1: they were still guys that through ninety five ninety eight

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Speaker 1: a lot. But his bat it was just like it

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Speaker 1: was like a whip when he brought that thing through

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Speaker 1: the strike zone and the ball would just fly off

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Speaker 1: of his bat and you see the power that he

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Speaker 1: would get on he would say, my goodness, how does

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Speaker 1: he do that? Like I watch like Bryce Harper right now,

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Speaker 1: and I just think he can at home runs one

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Speaker 1: handed if he wanted to, right. I look at Bryce

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Speaker 1: Harper's way more intimidating at the plate than Reggie Jackson was.

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Speaker 1: But this image of Reggie being such this, Oh my goodness,

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Speaker 1: I'm so afraid. Don't throw a strike, just walk him,

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Speaker 1: just walking.

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Speaker 2: Reggie was an All Star every year, seemingly for ten

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Speaker 2: fifteen years in a row, and an MVP and a

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Speaker 2: well earned mister October nickname with all his heroics not

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Speaker 2: only with the Yankees but Oakland before that in the postseason,

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Speaker 2: back when they didn't have wild card rounds and the such.

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Speaker 2: You really had to be a good team to enter

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Speaker 2: the postseason, and you were this close to the World

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Speaker 2: Series once you got into the playoffs. I did look

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Speaker 2: up the number of strike anyway. You had well over

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Speaker 2: fived five well over five hundred home runs.

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Speaker 1: He said, they're gonna say, well over five hundred strikeouts

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Speaker 1: a season.

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Speaker 2: It's just angue tied. Looking the strikeout totally, it's almost

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Speaker 2: two thousand and six hundred strikeouts for about twenty year career.

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Speaker 1: Okay, more career strikeouts Reggie Jackson or Nolan Ryan, who.

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Speaker 2: Had pitcher Nolan Ryan, But you did make me think.

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Speaker 1: Okay, it's again lot more baseball. Cut up Steve Allot

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Speaker 1: the night in sports for you in a few minutes

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Speaker 1: in What's trending. But if the door is open for

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Speaker 1: Lebron James trade, I'm saying ignore this at your own

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Speaker 1: peril because all the signs are there for Lebron James trade.

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Speaker 1: What about Giannis? Remember it was just a month and

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Speaker 1: a half ago where when the reports came out that

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Speaker 1: he was directing his people to look into what could

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Speaker 1: be potential landing spots if he wanted to leave the Bucks.

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Speaker 1: And we haven't really heard anything over the course of

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Speaker 1: the past month or so except hey, the Bucks did

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Speaker 1: bring in Miles Turner. He had a big statement today

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Speaker 1: about joining the Bucks. He wanted to keep winning. He

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Speaker 1: liked that the Bucks trying to redo their team around Yannis,

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Speaker 1: and they brought in Turner, they bought out Damian Lillard.

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Speaker 1: They said, Okay, here's a hundred million dollars. You never

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Speaker 1: want to see you again. This is how we're doing it, Yannish.

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Speaker 1: But Yannis was asked on a podcast, hey are you staying?

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Speaker 1: What's your deal? Are you going to get traded. And

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Speaker 1: he says, people tell me every day. They're telling me

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Speaker 1: all the time about going to the Knicks. Which, yeah,

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Speaker 1: just keep calling Yannis. If you call him and tell

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Speaker 1: him to go to the Knicks, tell him the Knicks.

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Speaker 1: But when he's asked if he's gonna get traded or

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Speaker 1: stay in Milwaukee, these hey, you got to stay in Milwaukee,

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Speaker 1: and he goes, yeah, probably we'll see. Wait wait, wait,

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Speaker 1: so what is it? That's how he answers the question

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Speaker 1: is probably I love Milwaukee, but we'll see. Like that's

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Speaker 1: his answer is he's I am riding the complete middle

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Speaker 1: of this fence whether I'm gonna stay with Milwaukee or

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Speaker 1: want to get traded. Now, why have we not seen

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Speaker 1: any trade so far? Right, because this gets into the

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Speaker 1: big question of Giannis, gets into the big question of

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Speaker 1: the off seasons. Boy, we thought we would get so

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Speaker 1: many big trades. Now we still are.

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Speaker 2: And well, it's not an expiring contract, like you know,

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Speaker 2: Luca was due for that extension and Dallas said, no,

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Speaker 2: we're not gonna marry him, so let's trade him. No,

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Speaker 2: Janna still has three more years on his deal.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and and but Giannis is also unhappy, and he

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Speaker 1: wants to win and and clearly, look, hey, if I'm honest,

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Speaker 1: yes I want out because I've maxed out in Milwaukee. Right.

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Speaker 1: Are you really gonna You're gonna go through another rebuild

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Speaker 1: on the fly with other players They're gonna bring it. Really,

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Speaker 1: Miles Turner is a guy. No, Damian Lillard and Miles Turner.

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Speaker 1: Now you're over the top of the Eastern Conference. Come on, man,

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Speaker 1: I mean really.

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Speaker 3: But the bigger question is, Okay, we thought we were

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Speaker 3: gonna go We're told what a crazy trade offseason.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be okay there. Once one trade goes down,

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Speaker 1: I think it's gonna get contagious, and then other trades

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Speaker 1: will happen because other players will become available to make

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Speaker 1: deals and more teams will get involved. Yeah, nine to

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Speaker 1: oh the Lebron. I guarantee you, Steve. At least ten

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Speaker 1: teams will be in the Lebron trade because they'll want

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Speaker 1: to break that record. It's not like Katie hold the

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Speaker 1: record for most teams involved in a trade. Come on, so,

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Speaker 1: but this is the thing.

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Speaker 2: Then after it is a tim team trade, somehow the

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Speaker 2: Katie Burner account will have a comment. I know it's

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Speaker 2: going to end.

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Speaker 1: Technically not the first guy to break the record, but

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Speaker 1: congratulations to Lebron. But Yannis, this statement from podcast tells

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Speaker 1: you exactly why we haven't had a trade and what

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Speaker 1: we need to get them to happen. Are you staying

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Speaker 1: in Milwaukee? I probably? I love Milwaukee. We'll see, okay,

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Speaker 1: so I don't feel great if Milwaukee, I don't feel

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Speaker 1: but I don't feel like the door has closed. But

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Speaker 1: what is happening and what we have seen in the

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Speaker 1: NBA the last five years, I'll tell you exactly why

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Speaker 1: there has been a trade so far is because stars

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Speaker 1: have to be the bad guys. It's that simple, right,

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Speaker 1: We've gone from Hey, both sides are not really getting along.

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Speaker 1: So a team says black, thank you, We're going to

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Speaker 1: look out and try to trade you. Okay, that's great.

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Speaker 1: There's offers that are exchange and a trade winds up happening.

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Speaker 1: Teams aren't actively gonna go out and trade their stars

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Speaker 1: because they know it's really difficult to get them back.

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Speaker 1: And maybe we can get a guy to buy in mentally,

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Speaker 1: maybe if it's a quick change we can put in.

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Speaker 1: Maybe it's a coaching change, maybe it's some sort of

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Speaker 1: player change, and teammate change. Maybe it's a new bit

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Speaker 1: of energy, but for whatever reason, teams are not going

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Speaker 1: to trade their start. They haven't. You see the last

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Speaker 1: five years when of all the big players, the big

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Speaker 1: star player's been traded, when they've all said I want out.

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Speaker 1: Damian Lillard wasn't traded till he said time for me

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Speaker 1: to go, right. Kevin Durant not traded until he said

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Speaker 1: time for me to go. James Harden, I'm not traded

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Speaker 1: till he said time for me to go. Right. These

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Speaker 1: are the biggest players that have been traded the last

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Speaker 1: few years, and they all understood might have to be

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Speaker 1: the bad.

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Speaker 2: Guy Nico and he says, look, good time for you

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Speaker 2: to go.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, yeah, that's time for you to go.

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Speaker 2: But so how does he get to the Knicks? How

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Speaker 2: are we getting to the Knicks? Oh?

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Speaker 1: Karl Anthony Townsend and and uh and mccal bridges. Come on,

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Speaker 1: see that's easy. I'll put that in the NBA trade machine.

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Speaker 1: That'll work for a second.

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Speaker 2: But wasn't one of Giannis's answers, Nah, I mean literally nah.

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Speaker 3: As far as the New York area teams, yeah no,

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Speaker 3: But look, whether it's the Knicks or someplace else.

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Speaker 1: You know, he's got that wanderlust. But he's gotta be

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Speaker 1: the bad guy. The Bucks aren't gonna say, hey, we

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Speaker 1: get that you want out, so we're gonna look to

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Speaker 1: trade you. No, because if they can't make a trade,

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Speaker 1: they're all of a sudden they look bad. It's a

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Speaker 1: lack of interest in the franchise. The fan base gets upset,

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Speaker 1: they unplug Giannis unplugs because okay, they're gonna try to

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Speaker 1: trade him, but they couldn't. Why is he putting out

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Speaker 1: his best effort for the Bucks anymore? Teams don't do that, right.

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Speaker 1: If Jannis wants to get traded, if he says I

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Speaker 1: want out, watch how fast that trade happens. Watch how

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Speaker 1: fast other teams line up and say, okay, here's what

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Speaker 1: we have for you. It's Giannis will go get him.

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Speaker 1: But that's the one truth in the NBA the last

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Speaker 1: five years. If you are a star and you want

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Speaker 1: to get traded, you have to be the bad guy. Now.

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Speaker 1: It's not a great development in the NBA because clearly

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Speaker 1: due deal. I don't like the fact that a player

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Speaker 1: could just say nah, tight, I want out now a

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00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:14,960
Speaker 1: player anymore? Okay, But that's what does it right? And

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Speaker 1: you have to go along with what a great strategy is.

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00:29:17,400 --> 00:29:19,760
Speaker 1: And if it's a strategy that works, it's what you

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Speaker 1: have to do. And since we've seen, okay, one of

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Speaker 1: the big players goten dealt Hey, the minute they say

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00:29:24,480 --> 00:29:27,080
Speaker 1: I want out, it will happen. If Lebron said to

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Speaker 1: the Lakers, I want out and you get me to Cleveland,

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Speaker 1: that's gonna happen. Now, he's got to know that the

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Speaker 1: Cleveland Cavaliers have a trade in place. Is what they do.

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Speaker 1: They want him, they can give up what they want.

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Speaker 1: He will say I want out, the trade will happen.

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Speaker 1: But all big stars, that's how it's gotta be. Teams

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Speaker 1: aren't gonna move on from big superstars just because they

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Speaker 1: sound like they're a little upset or they sound like

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Speaker 1: they don't know. If they want to say, they have

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Speaker 1: to be the bad guy, and teams are more than

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Speaker 1: happy waiting for that to happen. If they don't say anything, great,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna move on. James Harden did everything he could

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Speaker 1: to get traded, and then finally I had to say,

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Speaker 1: this is beyond repair. You know, in Houston and in Brooklyn,

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Speaker 1: this is beyond repair. Okay, great, Okay, you're going. You're

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Speaker 1: going Kevin Durant, same way Damian Lillard had to ask

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Speaker 1: out because the Blazers weren't gonna trade him. Like this

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Speaker 1: is how it has to go. If Yannis wants out,

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Speaker 1: he's got to ask for it. If he does, it'll happen.

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Speaker 1: If not, the Bucks will just whistle past the graveyards out.

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Speaker 1: Go alrighty we'll go into next season. You and Miles Turner.

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Speaker 1: It's a new NBA jam with you and MT. We're excited.

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Speaker 2: I just love the player empowerment era and all the

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Speaker 2: NBA Finals appearances that James Harden had, So congratulations, it

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Speaker 2: all worked out for all of us.

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Speaker 1: So are you on the NBA trade machine, Steve? Can

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Speaker 1: you get Yiannis to the next.

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Speaker 2: No, and and really don't want Yannis on the next system?

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Speaker 1: I thought touch your root for me. I was happy

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Speaker 1: when the Lakers got Luca.

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Speaker 2: It's not a matter of you. I'm not inserting you

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Speaker 2: into it. He signed for three more years with the Bucks. Okay,

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Speaker 2: So I think it's good for for example, baseball, if

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Speaker 2: not all the stars are in La New York and

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Speaker 2: in the NBA. If not all the stars are in

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Speaker 2: LA and New York.

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Speaker 1: And Okay, what's what's better for the NBA A Pacers

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Speaker 1: Thunder final or a Knicks Lakers Final.

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Speaker 2: What's better for the Ganna scoring fifty in Game seven

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Speaker 2: of the final?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, but fifty for the Bucks in games said, No,

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Speaker 1: fifty for the Knicks in game seven of the finals.

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Speaker 1: Brunson can have fifty in game one and Yanna's gonna

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Speaker 1: have fifty in Game seven?

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Speaker 2: Aint can I happen?

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Speaker 1: Be the BA? If you're the bad guy, you'll get traded.

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Speaker 1: One guy who isn't the bad guy is, of course,

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Speaker 1: Steve de Seger. He's got what's trending for you right

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Speaker 1: now all night tonight in the wide world of sports,

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Speaker 1: including the big basses loaded walk to Pete Alonzo in

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Speaker 1: the third inning of the Mets Royals.

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Speaker 2: Sorry didn't get the sound on that one. Matt's lead

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Speaker 2: won nothing at the Royals in the top of the

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Speaker 2: fourth And yes, the Alonso basses full walk is the

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Speaker 2: lone score code. I Senga is back on the hill

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Speaker 2: off the injured list seven and three records for the Mats.

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Speaker 2: He has three scoreless innings despite six base runners. It's

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Speaker 2: three scoreless innings. We did have a Yankee win at home,

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Speaker 2: their fifth t'sight win eleven to nothing over the Cubs.

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Speaker 2: Cody Bellinger with three home runs. In fact, he's the

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Speaker 2: first player in Major League history with a three homer

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Speaker 2: game when it's his first game against a former team.

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Speaker 2: He does that to the Cubs, a team that entered

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Speaker 2: first place in the NL Central two games over Milwaukee

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Speaker 2: the Brewers, a team that have won four games in

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Speaker 2: a row. The Brewers in action tonight. In fact, many

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Speaker 2: games that have now gone final include the one in Milwaukee,

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Speaker 2: Brewers eight three over the Nationals. The Red Sox with

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Speaker 2: a two run homer bottom of the ninth, beat Tampa

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Speaker 2: Bay and closer Pete Fairbanks five to four. Red Sox

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Speaker 2: have won eight straight. Baltimore beat Miami five to two,

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Speaker 2: Colorado a three to two winner at Cincinnati with a

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Speaker 2: run in the eighth on a wild pitch. Seattle at

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Speaker 2: twelve three victory at Detroit cal Raleigh two more homers.

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Speaker 2: He has thirty eight. The Mariners scored seven times in

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Speaker 2: the ninth inning, including a grand slam from Raleigh. The

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Speaker 2: Twins lead the Pirates two to one in the bottom

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Speaker 2: of the eighth inning double header at the White It

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Speaker 2: sucks after a rain out Thursday, Cleveland one Tonight's opener

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Speaker 2: four to two. Cleveland leads four to three top of

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Speaker 2: the seventh of the nightcap. Rangers ahead seven to three

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Speaker 2: at Houston at the top of the eighth. Braves have

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Speaker 2: a six to five lead at Saint Louis in the

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Speaker 2: bottom of the seventh inning for Atlanta, Matt Olsen is

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Speaker 2: replacing the Braves Ronald Acunya in Tuesday's All Star home

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Speaker 2: run derby, which is in Atlanta, by the way, and

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Speaker 2: updating Dustin May. Dodgers starting pitcher has just allowed a

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Speaker 2: solo homer to Willia Damas one nothing San Francisco over

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Speaker 2: the Dodgers bottom of the second. The Dodgers have lost

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Speaker 2: six games in a row. Back to you, Thank you.

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Speaker 1: has absolutely hit the skids, but luckily I have advice

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Speaker 1: Happy Friday, Jason and Steve Fox.

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Speaker 1: version posted right after we get off the air. Well, Steve,

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Speaker 1: it's Friday night, so I'm here to solve some problems.

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Speaker 2: Just on Fridays.

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Speaker 1: I'm here to solve problems.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is free for the weekend.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Well I can't. I can't just give it away.

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Speaker 3: I can't just give it away all during the week.

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Speaker 2: No, of course not.

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Speaker 1: You got kids, Like, yeah, listen, lawyers they do pro

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Speaker 1: bono work, but they still work on all the other stuff.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 1: It's you know, they do one case, Okay, I'll do

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Speaker 1: this one pro bono case, right, which always turns out

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Speaker 1: to be the big cases.

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Speaker 2: So the lawyer for Sonny Bono, was he literally doing

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Speaker 2: pro bono work?

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Speaker 1: He was, well, probably unless he was suing Sonny Bono,

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Speaker 1: then he'd be doing anti bono work. But if you

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Speaker 1: were suing anti, if you were suing Sonny Bono on

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Speaker 1: behalf of somebody else and they weren't paying you, you

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Speaker 1: would be doing what.

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Speaker 2: Pro bono work, anti bono.

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Speaker 1: Anti bono pro bono work, Yes, that's you'd be doing

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Speaker 1: right there. Or you know, now, if you're doing it

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Speaker 1: for bono from you two, you'd be doing it that

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Speaker 1: way as well. That would be pro bono work though,

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Speaker 1: so it'll be pro bono.

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Speaker 2: This is almost as confusing as the NBA salary camp.

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Speaker 1: Exactly exactly quite why is there an apron involved? Okay,

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Speaker 1: So tonight, big Headline WNBA Tonight, Caitlin Clark back for

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Speaker 1: the fever second game back they beat the Dream ninety

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Speaker 1: nine eighty two fever now ten and ten. Caitlyn Clark

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Speaker 1: tonight twelve points, nine assists, five out of seventeen from

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Speaker 1: the floor, one out of seven from three point range.

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Speaker 1: She's a trend, it is and here's the thing. And

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Speaker 1: this is where I'm like, boy, she's not been here's

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Speaker 1: the thing. She's not been good this year. That's the

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Speaker 1: whole thing. I shouldn't say she's not been great this year.

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Speaker 1: She has been good at times, and yes she was

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Speaker 1: injured in out of the lineup, but she has not

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Speaker 1: been great this year. And you know, lots of times

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Speaker 1: I get in depth with with advice and how to

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Speaker 1: help start you know me, my my pro bono anti bono,

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Speaker 1: pro bono anti bono work. But with Caitlyn Clark, it's

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Speaker 1: pretty simple, right, It's it's it's very simple thing. And

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Speaker 1: this is I would say here, I could solve all

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Speaker 1: your problems. Start making shots. That's what I would say,

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Speaker 1: Start making shots. She has been horrendous from the floor

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Speaker 1: this season.

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Speaker 2: Her field's playing ten eleven games and seven of them

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Speaker 2: have just been awful from three point range.

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Speaker 1: Angel Reese has a better field goal percentage than Natlan

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Speaker 1: Clark does not tell me that. I'm telling you to

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Speaker 1: look it up. Angel Reese has a better field goal

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Speaker 1: percentage than Kitlynkark. Caitlyn Clark has become this year a

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Speaker 1: volume scorer. Right. Here's her last few games tonight, five

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Speaker 1: out of seventeen last game, four for twelve before that,

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Speaker 1: three for thirteen before that, seven for twenty, three for fourteen.

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Speaker 1: She had a couple of big games in the next two,

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Speaker 1: but then going back six out of eighteen, four out

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Speaker 1: of eleven, she's not been good. She has been a

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Speaker 1: volume scorer for whatever reason. Her accuracy is gone. Teams

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Speaker 1: are allowing her to shoot and she is not making

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Speaker 1: them pay. And here are the fever sitting at ten

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Speaker 1: and ten. Now her numbers still look okay, because wait, mate,

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Speaker 1: you know when you're taking all these shots, okay, man,

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Speaker 1: you know, if you take enough shot, you're gonna get

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Speaker 1: twenty points, even if you're poor for twenty.

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Speaker 2: That's the number that looks okay, the point totals. But actually,

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Speaker 2: in the last five games she's only actually made for

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Speaker 2: three pointers. And she keeps gunning from long range.

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Speaker 3: She has taken twelve, eighteen, twenty eight thirty five threes

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Speaker 3: in the last four games and made four.

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Speaker 1: Of them out. Okay, she is just for whatever reason,

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Speaker 1: she is not hitting shots. And when whether it's she's

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Speaker 1: got to get used to a different a different style,

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Speaker 1: whether she is being asked too much of her on

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Speaker 1: the ball the entire game and she can't get her

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Speaker 1: shots off, you know, the Fever. We're trying a different

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Speaker 1: strategy of Hey, let's take some of the pressure off

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Speaker 1: of her. And then the Knicks did this with Jalen

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Speaker 1: Brunson during the season. Hey, we understand we need you

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Speaker 1: to play forty eight minutes a night, Jalen. So we'll

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Speaker 1: take a few possessions here and there where you're not

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Speaker 1: bringing the ball up the court. We can't take you

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Speaker 1: out of the game, but you don't have to bring

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Speaker 1: the ball up the court. So, hey, this is what

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Speaker 1: the Fever tried to do the last couple of games.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna maybe do a little something different. Ery McDonald

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Speaker 1: started to point at point guard along with Caitlyn. They

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Speaker 1: went back to the old lineup tonight. But but Caitlin

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Speaker 1: Clark is just not the same player. And you can

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Speaker 1: blame Andrews, you can, but she is just not hitting shots.

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Speaker 1: And it's a variety right watching the game, it's a

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Speaker 1: variety of just miss threes. It's open threes, it's heat

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Speaker 1: check threes, it's stuff close to the basket. She is

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Speaker 1: just not the same player, and and it's hard to

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Speaker 1: tell why at this point because it's been such stops

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Speaker 1: and starts throughout her the end.

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Speaker 2: And it's not just that though, it's she had before

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Speaker 2: this latest injury, back to back eight turnover games when

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Speaker 2: they ask her to be everything at the guard spot,

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Speaker 2: the ball handler, and the outside shooter, create everything and

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Speaker 2: be a shooter.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it is. She is not the same player this year.

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Speaker 1: And it's kind of weird so far. You know, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know how hard she works, but it's it's definitely

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Speaker 1: been a Hey she's in the limelight a lot, and

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Speaker 1: she's at country music concerts, and she's at a zoo,

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Speaker 1: and she's here, she's this and now here. Hey, here's

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Speaker 1: a year where she's struggling, struggling to stay healthy, struggling

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Speaker 1: to to really dent the score the way she can.

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Speaker 1: I mean, really, I can't argue with anybody that says, hey,

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Speaker 1: Caitlin Clark's not been great. No, she hasn't. I mean,

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Speaker 1: she's been good. She's still she's still leading the league

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Speaker 1: and assists right, still moving the offense still. You know,

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Speaker 1: her vision of the court is fantastic. But as far

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Speaker 1: as what you know, she's supposed to be leading the

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Speaker 1: WNBA in scoring, She's supposed to be that Steph Curry

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Speaker 1: of the W and she just isn't. And she's struggling incredible.

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Speaker 2: And missed a lot of time as three weeks with

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Speaker 2: one injury, missed the last five games with most recent

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Speaker 2: and the All Star Games a week from tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, she didn't get hurt one game in college and

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Speaker 1: now she's already had two injuries this year in the W.

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Speaker 1: Coming up next, we've got a big story out of

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Speaker 1: the NFL. Jason and Steve Fox