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Speaker 1: Steve's here. You don't want That's all my It's why

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Speaker 1: it's a no Hobo day. It's no Hobo day, No

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Speaker 1: no hobo. Uh So, hey, big day in the NFL.

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Speaker 1: Quarterback is back and who knew we missed that show

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Speaker 1: so much. But it's not often that a big anniversary

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Speaker 1: just stands out so much in the world of sports.

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Speaker 1: But you know, look, it's it's a it's a thing,

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Speaker 1: uh that fifteen years ago today, you know, all of

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Speaker 1: us who were old enough, we all remember where we were,

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Speaker 1: We all remember what we saw, we all remember seeing

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Speaker 1: And I don't know that I feel like this is

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Speaker 1: a hot take, but I don't know that really is

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Speaker 1: Steve is that I think this is the biggest moment

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Speaker 1: in basket for the last twenty five years. You want

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Speaker 1: to go back to two thousand, This has been the

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Speaker 1: biggest moment for basketball the last twenty five years, which

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Speaker 1: is kind of nice. Saying in twenty twenty five, you

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Speaker 1: can look back to a nice round number of two thousand, like, hey,

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Speaker 1: this is the biggest story, the biggest thing the NBA

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Speaker 2: And it was summer of twenty ten. Lebron James was,

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Speaker 2: to say the least a known quantity in high school

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Speaker 2: and congratulations for the Cabs not blowing it in the

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Speaker 2: standings and still being able to draft him. It was

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Speaker 2: looking a little dicey there for a little bit, and

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Speaker 2: the question was was he going to decide to stay

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Speaker 2: in Ohio or decide to go elsewhere. It's kind of like,

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Speaker 2: I think it's Martin Weiss on our airwave says a

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Speaker 2: lot of these draft like the NBA draft recently, this

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Speaker 2: really could have been done in a memo. But okay, fine,

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Speaker 2: you're having the I mean, people hockey fans left and

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Speaker 2: right across the continent complained about TEA draft show this

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Speaker 2: year that man, this is taking a long would you

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Speaker 2: just announced the next already, Lebron James in this announcement

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Speaker 2: it took, as I recall, it was sixty to ninety minutes,

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Speaker 1: It was an hour, and it was it was an

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Speaker 1: great for Lebron James, right, we know this, right, you

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Speaker 1: see how it is aged. You see how the decision

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Speaker 1: and the decision which turns fifteen today. There's been no

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Speaker 1: And when Jim Gray, finally, after an hour hour plus

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Speaker 4: To, the biggest play chance just gets hit, the ball

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Speaker 3: Everybody wants to know, Lebron, what's your decision?

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Speaker 6: And this fall, man, this is very tough, and this

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Speaker 3: That was a conclusion you woke up with this morning.

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Speaker 3: So there was after it, and you know, so no

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Speaker 2: He get more cheers at some high school or picking

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Speaker 1: I mean, just think about it for a second, right,

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Speaker 2: By the way, this clip that we just played of that,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought I light the I thought we were

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Speaker 1: gonna get the fail Mary on Thanksgiving Day from last

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Speaker 1: year of the Jets Dolphins. But it was this, this

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Speaker 1: story this stopped time. Here's Lebron James, the best player

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Speaker 1: that era. And when he said I'm gonna become a

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Speaker 1: it was how did this meeting go? How did this

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Speaker 2: Is doing his Shoudur Sanders impersonation.

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Speaker 1: Everywhere you looked, it was where is Lebron going to go?

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Speaker 1: And it got dragged out and there was no story

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Speaker 1: I mean, yes, when Lebron is still playing, he's still

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Speaker 1: most in the NBA. There has been no bigger moment

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Speaker 1: and fallout than what we had with the decision. Because

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Speaker 1: after Lebron made a decision, he became public enemy number one.

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Speaker 3: He left his hometown team.

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Speaker 2: How do you leave?

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Speaker 1: How do you leave Cleveland to go play someplace else? Well,

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Speaker 1: because he got together with Dwayne Wade, and Chris Botch

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Speaker 1: where do you want to play? And Dwayne Wade said, well,

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Speaker 3: Okay, we'll go to the Heat. Like it was that simple.

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Speaker 1: Like that, pat Riley gets all this credit for Hey,

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Speaker 1: we'll just cut everybody, sign you three and then that's

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Speaker 1: what we'll have going forward. But this was I mean, really,

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Speaker 1: there's been no bigger moment. We won't talk about Steph

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Speaker 1: the decision because all these other stories were big. But

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Speaker 1: And I'll tell you this, Stephen A. Smith had it

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Speaker 1: Stephen A. Smith wasn't quite the person he the personality

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Speaker 1: But because it was so crazy, like, we didn't report

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Speaker 1: And I remember coming into work every night, you know,

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Speaker 2: One item before we break A's All Star shortstep. Jack

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Speaker 1: Uh So Quarterback is back the Netflix show. And I'll

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Speaker 1: couple of other quart including Joe Burrow, but Cousins, who

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Speaker 1: was such a big story in the first Quarterback because

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Speaker 1: we got the story of of of what he would

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Speaker 1: like and how different he was and and and look,

439
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Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins kind of cut through the clutter of Oh,

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Speaker 1: this is not how you expect a quarterback to act, right,

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Speaker 1: you get you get the Mahomes. Okay, Mahomes that's great,

442
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Speaker 1: you understand. Mahomes is the big superstars dealing with things.

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Speaker 1: Here's Marcus Mariota, who is trying to stay a starting

444
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Speaker 1: quarterback in the NFL, and it's about a journey. It's

445
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Speaker 1: kind of like a mini Hard Knocks. And here's Kirk Cousins. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he's been good for a while, he's got got paid

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Speaker 1: a lot of money. Why is Kirk Cousins so interesting? Oh?

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Speaker 1: I get it, I get it. Kirk Kirk Cousins is

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Speaker 1: the guys. It seems like a real regular, albeit eccentric,

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Speaker 1: a little you know, kind of weird dude, but but

451
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Speaker 1: kind of a little bit more down to earth.

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Speaker 3: Than you'd expect.

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Speaker 6: This.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is Kirk Cousins weird. He's he's like,

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Speaker 1: you know it, Kirk Cousins is kind of like the

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Speaker 1: friend you have that.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a good dude.

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Speaker 1: He says a couple of things once in a while,

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Speaker 1: but it's a good dude. Like that's kind of how

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Speaker 1: you feel.

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Speaker 2: Even the head lies today of what he said in

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Speaker 2: the episode, I don't find terribly controversial.

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Speaker 1: Well, here's well, this is the one year around versary

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Speaker 1: of the decision. So now Kirk Cousins, who was still

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Speaker 1: a member of the well, I'm gonna get everything is

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Speaker 1: going to be the decision coming up. We got Joe

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Speaker 1: Burrow's decision with the batmobile. We got all these things happened,

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Speaker 1: the decision to walk Alonzo.

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Speaker 2: You boy, we're gonna get that thing some September game

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Speaker 2: and you're gonna have an anniversary for.

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Speaker 3: The Everything is a decision. The decision.

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Speaker 1: So Cousins, who is still backup quarterback with the Atlanta Falcons,

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Speaker 1: the Falcons have said, hey, we're going to keep him

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Speaker 1: rather than trade him.

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Speaker 3: He's valuable to us as a backup.

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Speaker 1: Clearly, nobody will trade for Cousins with the contract that

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Speaker 1: he has because last year in the offseason, the Falcons

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Speaker 1: gave him four years, one hundred and sixty million dollars,

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Speaker 1: only to see him watch them draft Michael Pennix Junior

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Speaker 1: in the top ten and then midway part of the season.

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Speaker 2: Later part of the.

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Speaker 1: Season, Cousins is not playing well. He's dinged up a

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Speaker 1: little bit. He loses his job to Michael Pennick.

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Speaker 2: And we do relate that by the way, he didn't

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Speaker 2: play well because of the shoulder.

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Speaker 1: He's not so they went and he lost his job.

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Speaker 1: Now Michael Pennick Junior is the president and the future,

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Speaker 1: and Kirk Cousins is a thirty plus million dollars a

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Speaker 1: year backup.

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Speaker 3: It is not at.

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Speaker 1: All how he thought it was going to go, not

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Speaker 1: at all how the Falcons thought it was going to go.

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Speaker 1: But we'll have the good Falcons in the second. So

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Speaker 1: here's Cousins. And this is the first big thing coming

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Speaker 1: off of the second season of quarterback.

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Speaker 2: Is that he says he felt the.

497
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Speaker 1: Falcons weren't really truthful with me when they told me

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Speaker 1: what their offseason plans were at quarterback.

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Speaker 4: I wasn't expecting us to take a quarterback was so

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Speaker 4: high at the time, it felt like I had been

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Speaker 4: a little bit misled, or certainly if I had the

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Speaker 4: information around free agency, it certainly would have affected my decision.

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Speaker 4: I had no reason to leave Minnesota with how much

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Speaker 4: we loved it there if both teams are going to

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Speaker 4: be drafting a quarterback high. But I've also learned in

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Speaker 4: twelve years in this league that you're not entitled anything.

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Speaker 4: It's all about being able to earn your spot and

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Speaker 4: prove yourself sar.

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Speaker 1: He was saying he was misled by the Falcons who said, yeah,

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Speaker 1: we're going to take a quarterback. But here they are,

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Speaker 1: Michael Pennick Junior is there. They take him in the

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Speaker 1: top ten. Now, this is where Isaac, when you think

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna zach?

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Speaker 2: He felt misled.

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Speaker 3: He felt misled, Well, and who knows what they told him.

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Speaker 1: They may said, yeah, we're gonna take a quarterback, but

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Speaker 1: don't worry about it.

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Speaker 2: We just gave you four years, one hundred and sixty

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Speaker 2: million dollars. Right, they gave more money this offseason. He's

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Speaker 2: still on the team.

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Speaker 1: What are you worrying about? Man, what are you really

522
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Speaker 1: worried about? What do you think you're gonna do? Draft

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Speaker 1: a guy in the top ten because he's a vent?

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Speaker 1: Come on, we're not gonna do.

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Speaker 3: Oh wait, except they absolutely did that.

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Speaker 1: Yes, what would have been a better thing, right, This

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Speaker 1: would have been a better thing and a more apropos

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Speaker 1: thing for the kirk Cousins to say, hey, how'd you

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Speaker 1: feel about about Falcons?

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Speaker 5: Do it?

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Speaker 1: Instead of saying, well, I felt misled by the Falcons

532
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Speaker 1: a little bit. I would have said, I didn't think

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Speaker 1: the Falcons would be that's stupid, but here they are.

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Speaker 1: Because honestly, who gives a who gives a quarterback four

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Speaker 1: years and one hundred and sixty million dollars in the

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Speaker 1: off season and then drafts a quarterback in the top ten?

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Speaker 1: Who does that? I'll tell you who does that? Nobody,

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Speaker 1: No teams do that. No one is stupid at the time.

539
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Speaker 1: It's stupid now. It was stupid a month after, it

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Speaker 1: was stupid four months after, and it's just gonna be

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Speaker 1: more stupid as time goes on. Either Kirk Cousins is

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Speaker 1: your guy and you went out to get him. Hey,

543
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Speaker 1: four years, one hundred and sixty million, this is our guy, man,

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Speaker 1: this Oh but wait, but a quarterback's available, maybe we

545
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Speaker 1: should take him. This is like strategy that I see

546
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Speaker 1: teams using fantasy drafts and it screws up their team. Well,

547
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Speaker 1: I already have Mahomes. But oh man, I'm telling you,

548
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Speaker 1: what do I do? Another quarterback is right here?

549
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Speaker 3: Like I do? I go on, I take Jalen Hurts.

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Speaker 3: He's available. I mean another.

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Speaker 2: Quarterback through the day. If I pass here, I'll take

552
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Speaker 2: Jalen Hurts. Why not, I'll take.

553
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Speaker 1: Joll Like, these are decisions that are made in the

554
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Speaker 1: heat of the moment in fantasy drafts.

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Speaker 3: This is a decision. This was a.

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Speaker 1: Franchise altering decision. Now, I like either decision. I like

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Speaker 1: either one. I keep saying decision and decision. I like

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Speaker 1: going after Kirk Cousins. Just because Cousins got hurt didn't

559
00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:56,600
Speaker 1: work out, didn't mean it was a bad call at the.

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Speaker 3: Time, right, And it's not over a quarter No, it's not.

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Speaker 1: But he's not gonna be the quarter back unless something

562
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Speaker 1: happens to Michael Pennix and it's the NFL. I also

563
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Speaker 1: like going in and taking Michael Pennox in the top ten.

564
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Speaker 1: I like, hey, Penix has shown he could be special.

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Speaker 1: I wasn't the biggest Penix fan coming out of school,

566
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Speaker 1: but I'm not gonna say that, Hey, I didn't think

567
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Speaker 1: he could be a really good quarterback.

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Speaker 2: So okay, he proved healthy. He's more mature than some

569
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Speaker 2: guys coming out. Nobody not giving him a ten year contract.

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Speaker 1: Nobody does both of those things. Nobody, no team, not

571
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Speaker 1: even the Jets, do something like that. We thought the

572
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Speaker 1: Jets are gonna take Shador set I said, oh my good.

573
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Speaker 1: They're gonna give Justin Fields his two year, forty million dollars.

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Speaker 1: We're still gonna draft a quoin. It's gonna ha No, no,

575
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Speaker 1: why why do we draft a quarterback? We like Justin Fields.

576
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Speaker 1: He's our guy. He's come in and he's shown leadership

577
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Speaker 1: taking over. The Jets believe in him, and at least intangibly,

578
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Speaker 1: that's working other teams the same way.

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Speaker 3: No, we got our guy.

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Speaker 1: We're not gonna go go crazy to go draft Shador

581
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Speaker 1: Sanders or some other quarterback or you know, we couldn't

582
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Speaker 1: get Cam Word. Okay, that's fine, We're not gonna go

583
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Speaker 1: crazy doing it. But the Falcons decided they would do that.

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Speaker 1: That's just stupid. It's just stupid. And before you defend

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Speaker 1: it by saying people defended by saying, yeah, but they

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Speaker 1: have a backup quote doesn't matter.

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Speaker 3: You know you're you have Michael Pennock Junior is on

588
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Speaker 3: a rookie deal.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, just think about how great it would be if

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Speaker 1: you have your quarterback on a rookie deal and you

591
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Speaker 1: have that extra one hundred and twenty million dollars that

592
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Speaker 1: you could spend on other players to be better. Think

593
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Speaker 1: about that thirty million dollars that would go to Kirk

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Speaker 1: Cousins this year, or the money you paid him that

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Speaker 1: could go to other big players that could go to

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Speaker 1: bring bring something else in that you need offensively or defensively.

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Speaker 1: Think about how that would work. Like this made absolutely

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Speaker 1: no sense at the time, and it makes no sense

599
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Speaker 1: a year later. And the Falcons are absolutely stuck. I

600
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Speaker 1: really this was a decision and mean look and the

601
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Speaker 1: Falcons again, decision, decision, decision, Like the Falcons decision. Kirk

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Speaker 1: Cousins would do that decision again. The Falcons should say, yeah,

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Speaker 1: we would do that decision over again one hundred times

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Speaker 1: out of one hundred. Right, either you're going to get

605
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Speaker 1: a quarterback in the draft or you're going for Kirk Coutt.

606
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Speaker 1: Nobody does both. And you see how they're stuck right now.

607
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Speaker 1: Because Cousins isn't gonna take less money. He's not gonna say, hey,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna take less cash and and you're gonna yo.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna make them cut him, pay him all the

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Speaker 1: money that he's doing, and then he'll go sign someplace else.

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Speaker 1: He has been a businessman from the beginning, right he

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Speaker 1: he wanted a big offer from the Jets the first

613
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Speaker 1: time he was a free agent because he wanted the

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Speaker 1: Vikings to match it. Vikings match it gave him all

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Speaker 1: the all the money guaranteed, and that changed things for

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Speaker 1: quarterbacks forever. Guys are getting fully guaranteed contracts.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 1: He has been a great businessman. Don't let the Target

619
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Speaker 1: gear fool you. You know, he's the guy that will

620
00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:29,719
Speaker 1: show up in in you know, Target or Champion Target

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Speaker 1: Gear or Levi's or Lee or Wrangler or whatever else

622
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Speaker 1: some of the other styles they have there. The good

623
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Speaker 1: Fellow gear they have it at Target now, Oh Goodfellow

624
00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:41,720
Speaker 1: is a big thing. It's like a Polo knockoff, Ralph

625
00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:45,520
Speaker 1: Lrond knockoff. Like don't he will make sure that you

626
00:27:45,600 --> 00:27:49,560
Speaker 1: are paying him every single dime he deserves. The fact

627
00:27:49,720 --> 00:27:53,400
Speaker 1: it was stupid then, it's stupid now. And now they're stuck, and.

628
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Speaker 2: They stuck as a good word for it. They kind

629
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Speaker 2: of had to pick up that ten million dollar bonus

630
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Speaker 2: in the spring when the new NFL league year started.

631
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Speaker 2: We've got training camps starting in a few weeks. We've

632
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Speaker 2: got two quarterbacks going, but one is a declared starter

633
00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:10,080
Speaker 2: and it's not the guy you're paying the most. They're

634
00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:13,119
Speaker 2: on the hook for so much salary, well over twenty

635
00:28:13,119 --> 00:28:16,000
Speaker 2: five million dollars this year, that it's kind of like

636
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Speaker 2: what we talked about on last night's show, How in

637
00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:20,639
Speaker 2: the world is Lebron James ever going to be traded?

638
00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:23,200
Speaker 2: Because he just opted in for a set amount that's

639
00:28:23,280 --> 00:28:25,480
Speaker 2: more than double the twenty five million by the way,

640
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Speaker 2: So who's going to pick up a large portion of

641
00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:32,399
Speaker 2: what the Falcons owe this year to kirk Cousins to

642
00:28:32,520 --> 00:28:35,720
Speaker 2: make a trade possible. So it's looking more and more

643
00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:38,959
Speaker 2: like he stays as the backup. You let an NFL

644
00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:43,120
Speaker 2: season play out, and what do you know, Quarterbacks get hurt,

645
00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:48,520
Speaker 2: even good ones, even rookies, even top ten selections. Kirk

646
00:28:48,520 --> 00:28:51,560
Speaker 2: Cousins may be playing half the season this year for

647
00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:55,400
Speaker 2: all we know. They're in a corner of their own doing.

648
00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:58,240
Speaker 2: But it's not a bad thing now that you've done

649
00:28:58,240 --> 00:28:59,080
Speaker 2: that to keep him.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't I get that they're trying to, you know,

651
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Speaker 1: paint a rosy picture on this. Okay, well, maybe he plays,

652
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Speaker 1: you know, if Pennix gets hurts, Like, yeah, no, you know,

653
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Speaker 1: there's a reason why you're not paying your backup quarterback

654
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Speaker 1: thirty million dollars a year. Nobody does Again, the Jets don't.

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Speaker 1: The Raiders don't even do that. The Raiders.

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00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:20,880
Speaker 3: The Raiders don't even do that. And they had a

657
00:29:20,920 --> 00:29:22,480
Speaker 3: guy they could have won a game last year.

658
00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:24,240
Speaker 1: All the quarterback had to do was take the snap

659
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Speaker 1: from center and they would have beat the Chiefs. But

660
00:29:25,920 --> 00:29:27,720
Speaker 1: instead of hit him in a helmet, he fumbled. Right,

661
00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:31,440
Speaker 1: the Raiders did. Even the Lions at their worst before

662
00:29:31,560 --> 00:29:34,480
Speaker 1: Jared Golf wouldn't do something like this. But the Falcons,

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Speaker 1: I really it was this. This was getting Michael Pennick

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Speaker 1: Junior is awesome, right if he turns it, and it

665
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Speaker 1: doesn't matter if he turns out to be to be

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Speaker 1: bad or not.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 1: The signing of Kirk Cousins at the time, whether he's

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Speaker 1: good or bad. Yeah, anybody would have done it. Drafting

670
00:29:48,440 --> 00:29:51,040
Speaker 1: Michael Pennix at the time, Yeah, anybody would have done it.

671
00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:55,360
Speaker 1: Nobody would have done both. Nobody, no one, absolutely no one,

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00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:59,320
Speaker 1: not even if the Mets played football, and before Steve

673
00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:01,880
Speaker 1: Cohen bought the team, would the Mets do that? Not

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Speaker 1: even close.

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Speaker 2: Speaking of Mets, not.

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Speaker 1: Even the A's. They don't even have a home. They

677
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Speaker 1: wouldn't do something like that.

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Speaker 2: Just the A's not the Sacramento as. No, not the

679
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Speaker 2: West Sacramento. As you mentioned the Mets.

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Speaker 1: Yes, speaking of the Mets, you have some news about

681
00:30:18,440 --> 00:30:19,600
Speaker 1: the Mets Orioles game tonight.

682
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Speaker 2: We shall lead with the Mets game at Baltimore tonight

683
00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:25,560
Speaker 2: because there was about a one hour rain delay at

684
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Speaker 2: the start. Eventually, in ten, the Mets beat the O's

685
00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:31,959
Speaker 2: seven to six. Now the closer, Edwin Diaz, pitched a

686
00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:34,760
Speaker 2: scoreless ninth inning and then got credit for the victory

687
00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:38,120
Speaker 2: as Juan Soto had to go ahead single in the tenth.

688
00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:41,200
Speaker 2: The Mets hit two two run homers in the eighth

689
00:30:41,240 --> 00:30:43,240
Speaker 2: to come from six to two down to a six

690
00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:46,840
Speaker 2: to six tie. Francisco lindor Pete Alonzo with the two

691
00:30:46,920 --> 00:30:50,440
Speaker 2: long balls, and they were long each over four hundred feet.

692
00:30:50,840 --> 00:30:55,480
Speaker 2: Mets win seven to six at Baltimore. Believe it or not,

693
00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:57,680
Speaker 2: they're playing baseball in Saint Louis. There was an even

694
00:30:57,720 --> 00:30:59,960
Speaker 2: longer raind lay at the start there. And right now,

695
00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:03,880
Speaker 2: bottom of the second inning, we're past nine thirty in Missouri.

696
00:31:03,960 --> 00:31:07,440
Speaker 2: Cardinals scoreless with the Nationals end of two. Now they're

697
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:10,160
Speaker 2: in a rain delay in Chicago White Sox may be

698
00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:13,000
Speaker 2: facing defeat again. Blue Jays leads six to one over

699
00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:15,400
Speaker 2: the White Sox rain delay in the top of the seventh.

700
00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:18,880
Speaker 2: Minnesota was a winner over the Cubs eight to one.

701
00:31:18,920 --> 00:31:21,520
Speaker 2: Milwaukee beat the Dodgers three to one. The Dodgers have

702
00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:23,880
Speaker 2: lost five in a row, and the winning pitcher for

703
00:31:23,920 --> 00:31:27,080
Speaker 2: the Brewers, Jacob Misarowski, allowed a leadoff homer to Shoheo

704
00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:30,280
Speaker 2: Tani and then struck out twelve in his six innings.

705
00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:33,920
Speaker 2: Kansas City handed Pittsburgh a fifth straight loss, four to three.

706
00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:36,959
Speaker 2: The Yankees got an Aaron Judge homer, his thirty fourth,

707
00:31:37,000 --> 00:31:39,880
Speaker 2: in a ten to three win over Seattle. Gencarlos Stanton

708
00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:42,320
Speaker 2: with a three run shot. Cal Rale of the MS

709
00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:45,160
Speaker 2: did hit his thirty sixth home run. Detroit won its

710
00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:48,120
Speaker 2: fifth straight game, four to two over Tampa Bay. Boston

711
00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:51,160
Speaker 2: won its fifth straight game, ten two against Colorado. The

712
00:31:51,240 --> 00:31:54,560
Speaker 2: Rockies record is twenty one and seventy one. I would

713
00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:57,000
Speaker 2: say the All Star Break can't get here soon enough,

714
00:31:57,080 --> 00:31:59,880
Speaker 2: but they still have to play month's worth of games

715
00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:03,680
Speaker 2: after the All Star Break. They have twenty one wins

716
00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:06,640
Speaker 2: and the All Star Break comes up after this weekend.

717
00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:11,160
Speaker 1: Fifty games under five hundred goodness fifteen not fifteen before

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Speaker 1: the break.

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Speaker 2: Fifty Miami a twelve to two winner at Cincinnati Boy.

720
00:32:14,960 --> 00:32:17,120
Speaker 2: The Marlins are getting closer to the five hundred mark

721
00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:19,400
Speaker 2: now as we approached the break. Anthony Davis of the

722
00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:23,200
Speaker 2: Mavericks reportedly at eye surgery this offseason for a detached retina,

723
00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:26,000
Speaker 2: but he's due to be healthy for training camp in September.

724
00:32:26,360 --> 00:32:31,040
Speaker 2: Two WNBA games tonight Washington Beach Chicago eighty one seventy nine,

725
00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:34,880
Speaker 2: although Angel Rees had twenty two points fifteen rebounds, and

726
00:32:34,960 --> 00:32:37,880
Speaker 2: it was New York at home beating Las Vegas eighty

727
00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:42,040
Speaker 2: seven to seventy eight. Sabrina Yinescu with twenty eight points.

728
00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:44,760
Speaker 2: By the way, she was one of the early selections

729
00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:47,440
Speaker 2: for the All Star Game, which is coming up in

730
00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:52,000
Speaker 2: Indianapolis July nineteenth. The team captains Nafisa Collier and Caitlin

731
00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:55,400
Speaker 2: Clark had the draft of their rosters tonight. One of

732
00:32:55,440 --> 00:32:59,760
Speaker 2: those selected was Asia Wilson to Caitlin Clark's squad along

733
00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:02,240
Speaker 2: with You and Ask You, but Wilson in her game

734
00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:04,520
Speaker 2: for Vegas tonight, left in the first half with a

735
00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:06,280
Speaker 2: wrist injury after a fall.

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Speaker 1: Didn't Caitlyn Clark draft Angel rees first. Overall, didn't that happen?

737
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Speaker 1: I thought I saw that somewhere.

738
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Speaker 2: Not in our dream first, Hey, come on, did not happen.

739
00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:17,600
Speaker 2: In fact, she was taken very late in the draft.

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00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:21,160
Speaker 2: Angel Reese a reserve taken by Team NAFISA Collier. I

741
00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:25,080
Speaker 2: did notice they switched to coaches. So Collier Minnesota is

742
00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:27,920
Speaker 2: going to get the Minnesota coach. And we did have.

743
00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:30,560
Speaker 2: By the way, Caitlyn Clark news today that she is

744
00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:33,560
Speaker 2: returning to the court tomorrow. She's missed five straight games

745
00:33:33,560 --> 00:33:36,480
Speaker 2: with a groin injury, and number one Arena Sablenka won

746
00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:38,880
Speaker 2: her Wimbledon quarter final in three sets.

747
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Speaker 1: Back to you, Nega, Steve O, The Jason Smith Show,

748
00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:44,200
Speaker 1: Steve de Sager, and from Mike Harmon coming up next. Yes,

749
00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:47,680
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousin is not the only big quarterback making news

750
00:33:47,760 --> 00:33:49,960
Speaker 1: with Quarterback release on Netflix.

751
00:33:50,280 --> 00:33:52,480
Speaker 3: Way do we tell you what Joe Burrow had.

752
00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:56,960
Speaker 1: To say about the Batmobile? My best advice I can

753
00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:01,280
Speaker 1: give to the ultra rich. Coming up next, Fox Sports Radio.

754
00:34:01,520 --> 00:34:05,160
Speaker 1: Don't avoid taxes, Well, pay your taxes, pay your tax yeah, ye,

755
00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:09,520
Speaker 1: don't avoid yeah, don't avoid paying your taxes. Yeah, yes,

756
00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:12,360
Speaker 1: Wesley Snipes will be on my podcast. We'll talk about that.

757
00:34:12,680 --> 00:34:14,040
Speaker 1: Yeah maybe mc hammerton.

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Speaker 3: Sure.

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00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:17,720
Speaker 5: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith

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00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:20,839
Speaker 5: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven

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Speaker 5: pm Pacific.

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio. The Jason Smith Show is Steve Disager

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00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:29,080
Speaker 1: and from Mike Harmon. You can stream this show in

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00:34:29,120 --> 00:34:31,399
Speaker 1: all of our Fox Sports Radio shows live twenty four

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Speaker 1: to seven in the new and improved iHeartRadio app. Just

766
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Speaker 1: search Fox Sports Radio in the app to stream us live.

767
00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:39,000
Speaker 1: And one of the newest features in the app, you

768
00:34:39,000 --> 00:34:41,520
Speaker 1: can select Fox Sports Radio is one of your presets,

769
00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:44,279
Speaker 1: just like the presets on a radio dial, So be

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Speaker 1: sure to preset Fox Sports Radio in the iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 1: It'll always pop up at the top.

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Speaker 3: Of your screen.

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00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:52,520
Speaker 2: So here we are.

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Speaker 1: Quarterback is back on Netflix, NFL news is coming in.

775
00:34:57,000 --> 00:35:00,360
Speaker 1: We just broke down the Kirk Cousins decision visions a

776
00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:05,000
Speaker 1: big desative decisions. But now Joe Burrow also gave us

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00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:07,960
Speaker 1: a big story Toad with his decision. C Steve, Everything's

778
00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:08,919
Speaker 1: going to be a decision today?

779
00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:09,480
Speaker 2: Is it really?

780
00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:10,440
Speaker 3: Everything's a decision?

781
00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:11,080
Speaker 2: Should it be?

782
00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:12,840
Speaker 3: You made a decision to come into work today, didn't you.

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00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:15,160
Speaker 2: I think we all did. Yeah, and now.

784
00:35:15,040 --> 00:35:18,600
Speaker 1: You're thinking about doing that over again, just like Kirk Cousins, just.

785
00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:19,440
Speaker 2: Like Lebron James.

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00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:22,399
Speaker 1: Now we know that Joe Burrow, who is a part

787
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Speaker 1: of the subject of this version of Quarterback which is

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00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:28,560
Speaker 1: airing on Netflix, he was going to buy the Batmobile

789
00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:30,719
Speaker 1: a few months ago. Now, you know, one of the

790
00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:33,040
Speaker 1: few Batmobiles that were on sale like for you know

791
00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:35,200
Speaker 1: that well publicized. Yeah, there was like I think there

792
00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:37,040
Speaker 1: was like five or seven of them, and they were

793
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Speaker 1: like three million dollars each, and he was going to

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Speaker 1: buy it.

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00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:41,560
Speaker 3: Remember that there was video of him a practice.

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00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:42,840
Speaker 1: Telling his friend, Hey, you hear, I'm gonna buy the

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00:35:42,840 --> 00:35:45,480
Speaker 1: Batmobile and buy the BA buy the Battlebile. Now he

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00:35:45,640 --> 00:35:50,080
Speaker 1: says on on Quarterback that he decided against it after

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Speaker 1: the big break in that happened at his home a

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Speaker 1: few months ago.

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00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:55,560
Speaker 3: Uh he was not home.

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00:35:55,880 --> 00:35:59,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he wasn't home and there was a break in,

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00:35:59,360 --> 00:36:03,160
Speaker 1: and he you know, and now he's thinking, Okay, maybe

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00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:05,120
Speaker 1: I'm not going to buy that because maybe I have

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00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:07,319
Speaker 1: the Batmobile and and someone tries to come in and

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00:36:07,360 --> 00:36:08,920
Speaker 1: steal it. They put on a they put on a

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00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:10,480
Speaker 1: cape and then you get in and try to.

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00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:14,920
Speaker 2: Steal a battle. But actually this crime is something that

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00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:17,319
Speaker 2: you really need to put the spotlight up in the

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00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:18,960
Speaker 2: air for and get shure man on.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, get Batman. Why but Batman can't get here?

812
00:36:21,760 --> 00:36:24,759
Speaker 1: Why because the batmobile was stolen. He gets he's gonna

813
00:36:24,760 --> 00:36:26,919
Speaker 1: get in an uber and Batman will be here really

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00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:27,359
Speaker 1: really soon.

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Speaker 3: I mean it was members of.

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00:36:28,480 --> 00:36:33,240
Speaker 2: A large criminal network. It wasn't just your neighborhood guys

817
00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:38,000
Speaker 2: breaking in. It was a whole operation that investigated I

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00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:41,040
Speaker 2: mean they in a bad way. I want to say

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Speaker 2: this put the time in with the famous athletes, Burrow

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Speaker 2: being one of them, knowing he was going to be

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Speaker 2: gone that day, et cetera. This is screaming Batman get involved.

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00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:53,759
Speaker 1: See and I'm thinking of Batman getting in a way

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00:36:53,800 --> 00:36:56,600
Speaker 1: Moo to try to try to get someplace as a

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Speaker 1: batmobile was stolen.

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00:36:57,640 --> 00:36:59,480
Speaker 3: He gets in a weymo into the driverless cars.

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Speaker 2: Maga, Mega left here, Mega left here, Mega left here.

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Speaker 3: There's no one in the car.

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Speaker 2: There's no one in the car.

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Speaker 3: Like man.

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Speaker 1: Maybe the batmobile was the first way moo because it

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Speaker 1: could drive without a drive.

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Speaker 2: You were kind of doing the Christian Bale automated voice. Yes,

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00:37:13,239 --> 00:37:15,120
Speaker 2: maybe the way more voice should be Christian Bale.

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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, Commissioner Gordon, No one's going to know it's me,

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Speaker 1: Bruce Wayne if I talk like this, But if I

836
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Speaker 1: do my normal voice, people will.

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Speaker 3: Know it's a Batman.

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Speaker 2: So it's like when Superman puts on glasses this question,

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Speaker 2: we won't recognize him at all.

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Speaker 1: I don't know who that guy isn't all. I couldn't

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00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:32,359
Speaker 1: tell you. Pirate Steve. Yeah, you know Steve on our team.

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00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:34,120
Speaker 3: Dress is like a pirate. No, no, you talk.

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00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:38,839
Speaker 1: So he had a second decision to not buy the batmobile.

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Speaker 1: Part of what he says, everybody knows where I live now,

845
00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:43,959
Speaker 1: and he still lives in that house or he still

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00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:44,640
Speaker 1: owns that house.

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00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:47,040
Speaker 2: Other things to deal without that point is put it.

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00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:49,279
Speaker 1: Maybe getting back, maybe to get to the Batmobile needs

849
00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:52,160
Speaker 1: to be lower my list of priorities. But after the

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00:37:52,239 --> 00:37:54,360
Speaker 1: break in right now, because of course I have advice

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00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:56,480
Speaker 1: for the ultra rich, right for you know, look when

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00:37:56,560 --> 00:37:59,799
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow signed a three hundred million dollar contract extension, like.

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00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:01,840
Speaker 2: Well, well they get a paper and pencil.

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00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:06,520
Speaker 1: When you see stories like this, I say, okay, if

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00:38:06,520 --> 00:38:08,920
Speaker 1: I was really rich, right, And this is just me,

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00:38:09,040 --> 00:38:10,600
Speaker 1: but I think my advice is pretty sound.

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00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:11,000
Speaker 3: Right.

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00:38:11,040 --> 00:38:13,000
Speaker 1: You don't want to obviously, you want to avoid stuff

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00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:14,600
Speaker 1: like this happening. You know you're not going to be

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00:38:14,600 --> 00:38:17,239
Speaker 1: home all the time, and you know that people are

861
00:38:17,239 --> 00:38:18,719
Speaker 1: going to know where you live. They're going to see

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00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:20,279
Speaker 1: you coming out to your car. Hey, dude, that's Joe

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00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:22,440
Speaker 1: burrow Man. Joe burrow is next door to People are

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00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:24,880
Speaker 1: going to know where you live. If I was really

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Speaker 1: ultra rich, right and I needed a play, like where

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Speaker 1: was I going to live in Cincinnati for the season, I.

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Speaker 3: Would go wherever I was.

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Speaker 1: If I was ultra rich in an athlete, I would

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Speaker 1: buy a place. I'd buy a great place in the biggest,

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Speaker 1: most guarded gated community I could, right, because at least

871
00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:44,120
Speaker 1: in the gated community, things are a little bit harder.

872
00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:46,520
Speaker 1: It's a little bit harder to have someone people break in,

873
00:38:46,920 --> 00:38:50,680
Speaker 1: take your stuff and leave because hence, gated community.

874
00:38:49,920 --> 00:38:52,239
Speaker 2: Like Calabasas near where the Rams.

875
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:54,799
Speaker 1: Practice, I would one hundred try to because it's okay, right,

876
00:38:54,840 --> 00:38:57,000
Speaker 1: you can still live in a great, great house, right,

877
00:38:57,040 --> 00:38:59,240
Speaker 1: It's just in a gated community. And lots of stars

878
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Speaker 1: live in gated commune, but I would absolutely do. I'm

879
00:39:01,560 --> 00:39:04,160
Speaker 1: not gonna live on my own somewhere out far.

880
00:39:04,280 --> 00:39:04,879
Speaker 3: Hey, I'm here.

881
00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:07,760
Speaker 1: My closest neighbor's a mile and a half away. That's

882
00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:09,920
Speaker 1: that's not a great decision because people are gonna know,

883
00:39:09,920 --> 00:39:12,120
Speaker 1: they're gonna know where you live. The second thing is

884
00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:14,680
Speaker 1: when I'm out of town, if I have if I

885
00:39:14,719 --> 00:39:17,640
Speaker 1: have a three hundred million dollar contract, I'm pretty sure

886
00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:19,960
Speaker 1: I could hire an assistant or someone to come and

887
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:22,719
Speaker 1: stay at the house. And hey, I'm out of town

888
00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:25,719
Speaker 1: for these four days or five days, stay at the house.

889
00:39:25,719 --> 00:39:27,279
Speaker 2: I'll pay. Just say, all you do is stay at

890
00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:27,600
Speaker 2: the house.

891
00:39:27,680 --> 00:39:29,359
Speaker 3: Nothing you need to do? And what about the game

892
00:39:29,560 --> 00:39:30,279
Speaker 3: from the house?

893
00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:30,520
Speaker 5: Yeah?

894
00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:30,840
Speaker 2: Watching it?

895
00:39:30,920 --> 00:39:32,080
Speaker 3: Here's you need anything else you need?

896
00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:34,439
Speaker 1: Hey, yeah, maybe there's certain things you need to do. Hey,

897
00:39:34,440 --> 00:39:36,080
Speaker 1: can you you know my dog is here?

898
00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:37,040
Speaker 2: Whatever the plants?

899
00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:39,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, make sure you water the plants. The boy that

900
00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:41,520
Speaker 1: scene from the bear with about the plant watering.

901
00:39:41,760 --> 00:39:44,320
Speaker 2: So another spoiler alert reference.

902
00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:45,840
Speaker 3: No, no, no, it's just the beginning of one of

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Speaker 3: the episodes. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Those two things. One gated community and anytime I was

905
00:39:51,840 --> 00:39:54,440
Speaker 1: out of town, I have the money to spend to

906
00:39:54,440 --> 00:39:57,759
Speaker 1: give somebody three hundred dollars a day to just live

907
00:39:57,800 --> 00:39:59,759
Speaker 1: at the house. Right, don't leave, Hey, go out and

908
00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:02,239
Speaker 1: do you thing. Just don't leave for the entire day,

909
00:40:02,239 --> 00:40:04,280
Speaker 1: of the entire night, go to the movies, go to dinner,

910
00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:07,840
Speaker 1: do but sleep, sleep there overnight, stay there. It's just

911
00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:09,759
Speaker 1: so people know that there are people there and I'll

912
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Speaker 1: pay you to go do that.

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Speaker 2: It's just like all athletes now have the money to

914
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Speaker 2: get somebody else to drive them home. It should seem

915
00:40:17,719 --> 00:40:21,719
Speaker 2: like they should know that before the evening starts. It

916
00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:24,360
Speaker 2: seems like what you were talking about, an athlete should

917
00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:27,960
Speaker 2: know that before the season starts. It's a little astounding

918
00:40:28,719 --> 00:40:31,280
Speaker 2: that it's not followed up on quite as figuous.

919
00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:33,279
Speaker 1: And then you can own the batmobile, and then you

920
00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:35,080
Speaker 1: can have the batmobile, can be in your run. You

921
00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:37,319
Speaker 1: can have that person drive it around a drive it

922
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Speaker 1: to the store. But just make sure you know nobody's steal. Okay, Greg,

923
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Speaker 1: I got I got, I got the batmobile.

924
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Speaker 2: I'm all good.

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Speaker 1: Two biggest pieces of advice gated community, someone staying at

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Speaker 1: the house. Two biggest deterrence you can have to no.

927
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Speaker 3: Batman.

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Speaker 1: I'm disappointed. I thought I would hear that much earlier.

929
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Speaker 1: If we were talking about the bat. It was a decision.

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Speaker 8: How are you, Jason and Steve? My friends, Good evening.

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Speaker 8: I do come to you from the great state of Michigan,

947
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Speaker 8: which is just among us friends, the base single best

948
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Speaker 8: place in the world to spend the summer. Tell you know,

949
00:42:01,239 --> 00:42:04,799
Speaker 8: we all lakes would all of a sudden be overcrowded

950
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Speaker 8: with people realizing the sheer beauty of our states. So

951
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Speaker 8: it's just among us, just among us friends. But I

952
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Speaker 8: will say this, the baseball team is pretty great too.

953
00:42:13,840 --> 00:42:17,439
Speaker 8: I was there with my family tonights watching the game,

954
00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:19,360
Speaker 8: so I got to be a spectator, which was a

955
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Speaker 8: lot of fun. And it was a bit of a

956
00:42:21,719 --> 00:42:25,080
Speaker 8: classic Tigers game from this season. They're down to nothing early,

957
00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:28,440
Speaker 8: they tie it, and then Zach mckinsree's run around the

958
00:42:28,440 --> 00:42:30,880
Speaker 8: bases like nobody else can, and all of a sudden,

959
00:42:30,880 --> 00:42:33,200
Speaker 8: Cole Keith comes up hit the two run over. Then

960
00:42:33,239 --> 00:42:35,680
Speaker 8: the bullpen shuts them down and the Tigers win. It's

961
00:42:35,680 --> 00:42:39,000
Speaker 8: been an amazing formula that this is not just a

962
00:42:39,040 --> 00:42:42,560
Speaker 8: good start, it's not just a charming story. This is

963
00:42:42,600 --> 00:42:46,360
Speaker 8: a really really good baseball team. Not maybe the brand

964
00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:49,919
Speaker 8: name team with the Dodgers, even the Mets, but they

965
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:51,960
Speaker 8: play really good baseball and it's a lot of fun

966
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Speaker 8: to watch.

967
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Speaker 1: Are they really this good? Jp A? Are they really

968
00:42:55,880 --> 00:42:58,520
Speaker 1: this good? Or they they're peaking now? They're a really

969
00:42:58,520 --> 00:43:00,760
Speaker 1: good team? Are they really the best team in baseball?

970
00:43:00,880 --> 00:43:04,680
Speaker 8: Well, so here's what I would say, They've they've played

971
00:43:04,719 --> 00:43:08,640
Speaker 8: the best to this point. Now, I realize that the

972
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Speaker 8: ale Central is not the National League West. I get that,

973
00:43:12,280 --> 00:43:15,680
Speaker 8: but in terms of their execution and the way they're

974
00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:19,160
Speaker 8: playing the game, there's not a better team in the

975
00:43:19,160 --> 00:43:22,759
Speaker 8: sport right now. There really isn't. And they're doing the

976
00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:25,640
Speaker 8: little things very well. And also look at it and

977
00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:29,400
Speaker 8: realize that Carry Carpenter is not right now on the

978
00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:33,359
Speaker 8: active roster. They spend fifteen million dollars on Alex Cobb

979
00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:35,920
Speaker 8: and he's yet to throw a pitch for them this season.

980
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:39,279
Speaker 8: Who knows if he actually will, so not everything has

981
00:43:39,280 --> 00:43:41,799
Speaker 8: gone right for them. They've had some injuries too, but

982
00:43:42,200 --> 00:43:46,000
Speaker 8: Aj Hinch and Chris Fetter, they're pitching coach really know

983
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Speaker 8: how to get the most out of this group. And

984
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Speaker 8: what's happening with the Tigers now is players who have

985
00:43:51,800 --> 00:43:56,200
Speaker 8: had mixed results elsewhere are coming to Detroit and getting better.

986
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Speaker 8: And guys like Flaarty, who helped the Dodgers Wan series

987
00:44:00,560 --> 00:44:04,359
Speaker 8: last year, decided to come back. It's a really good

988
00:44:04,400 --> 00:44:07,919
Speaker 8: culture with They've got I think a bona fide star

989
00:44:08,239 --> 00:44:12,120
Speaker 8: in Riley Green. And do they need one more bat

990
00:44:12,239 --> 00:44:16,040
Speaker 8: to win the World Series? Probably? There are some spots

991
00:44:16,080 --> 00:44:19,759
Speaker 8: you could argue maybe one more outfielder, maybe one more infielder.

992
00:44:20,040 --> 00:44:24,840
Speaker 8: But the way in which this lineup is very well balanced,

993
00:44:24,880 --> 00:44:28,240
Speaker 8: left and right switch hitter. There's just it's a nice

994
00:44:28,320 --> 00:44:31,239
Speaker 8: it's a nice team. So right now, I'm going to

995
00:44:31,280 --> 00:44:34,000
Speaker 8: say it, they're the best team in baseball and it's

996
00:44:34,120 --> 00:44:36,480
Speaker 8: up to the rest of the group to prove me

997
00:44:36,640 --> 00:44:40,320
Speaker 8: wrong or prove the Tigers otherwise. At some point between

998
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Speaker 8: now and the end of October.

999
00:44:41,520 --> 00:44:44,080
Speaker 2: Tigers won tonight. If they win the next game, they'll

1000
00:44:44,120 --> 00:44:47,240
Speaker 2: be sixty and thirty four this year. But I will

1001
00:44:47,280 --> 00:44:50,640
Speaker 2: discuss what's going on in the Al East. Toronto with

1002
00:44:50,719 --> 00:44:53,799
Speaker 2: a tenth straight win. Wow, you know, the Yankees did

1003
00:44:53,800 --> 00:44:57,680
Speaker 2: win at home, and in fact, Judge homered and Stanton homer,

1004
00:44:57,920 --> 00:45:01,480
Speaker 2: so I can pass along the updated Langstad They're Yankees

1005
00:45:01,560 --> 00:45:04,479
Speaker 2: record when those two sluggers homer in the same game.

1006
00:45:04,800 --> 00:45:08,560
Speaker 2: It's only forty six and seven ever since Kevin.

1007
00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:11,920
Speaker 1: That's also every game that Stanton has played since he's

1008
00:45:11,920 --> 00:45:13,640
Speaker 1: signed with the Yankees, fifty three games.

1009
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Speaker 3: That's only playing see a.

1010
00:45:16,560 --> 00:45:20,640
Speaker 8: Bit of our listeners. That's a joke, Jas and continue.

1011
00:45:20,800 --> 00:45:22,799
Speaker 2: They are still three and a half back in the

1012
00:45:22,840 --> 00:45:26,000
Speaker 2: red hot Toronto Blue Jays who've not only had, to

1013
00:45:26,120 --> 00:45:28,600
Speaker 2: say the least, a great month. As we head into

1014
00:45:28,640 --> 00:45:31,320
Speaker 2: the All Star break, they've got a couple of starting

1015
00:45:31,360 --> 00:45:34,200
Speaker 2: pitchers and it seems like they've found a closer and

1016
00:45:34,239 --> 00:45:37,000
Speaker 2: they have all stars in the lineup. I mean, the

1017
00:45:37,080 --> 00:45:39,960
Speaker 2: Toronto Blue Jays, not just for a couple of weeks,

1018
00:45:40,000 --> 00:45:41,560
Speaker 2: are looking like a playoff team here.

1019
00:45:42,320 --> 00:45:44,640
Speaker 8: I think they are a playoff team. I would be

1020
00:45:44,680 --> 00:45:47,320
Speaker 8: stunned if they missed the playoffs. At this point in time,

1021
00:45:47,480 --> 00:45:52,080
Speaker 8: they are a playoff team. Vladimergero Junior. We still haven't

1022
00:45:52,120 --> 00:45:54,319
Speaker 8: even seen the best of him yet. And look at

1023
00:45:54,320 --> 00:45:57,280
Speaker 8: how well they're playing. The man that's gotten them going

1024
00:45:57,760 --> 00:46:00,920
Speaker 8: in my view is Boba Schett and the way that

1025
00:46:00,960 --> 00:46:04,319
Speaker 8: Bo has played of late. He is the guy. And

1026
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Speaker 8: you referenced Sarah's statistic on Stanton and judge when Bishett

1027
00:46:10,120 --> 00:46:13,800
Speaker 8: is going, he is the catalyst for the Toronto Blue Jays.

1028
00:46:13,920 --> 00:46:16,040
Speaker 8: He is the one that really gets this team going.

1029
00:46:16,080 --> 00:46:19,840
Speaker 8: And remember we talked a second ago about the Tigers

1030
00:46:19,880 --> 00:46:22,600
Speaker 8: not getting a lot out of Alex Cobb, or actually

1031
00:46:22,600 --> 00:46:24,680
Speaker 8: nothing out of Alex Cobb. The Jays have had a

1032
00:46:24,680 --> 00:46:28,200
Speaker 8: minimal production from Anthony Santander and look at how they're

1033
00:46:28,239 --> 00:46:31,239
Speaker 8: playing now. In the case of the Jays, they've had

1034
00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:34,600
Speaker 8: a really good season, an all Star season from Malejandro Kirks.

1035
00:46:34,920 --> 00:46:39,399
Speaker 8: They have had a young player and Addison Barger look

1036
00:46:39,600 --> 00:46:45,240
Speaker 8: like a budding star, and crucially, they have gotten George

1037
00:46:45,239 --> 00:46:47,640
Speaker 8: Springer the amount of DH days that he needs to

1038
00:46:47,680 --> 00:46:52,719
Speaker 8: be productive, and they're being rewarded now with his amazing

1039
00:46:53,239 --> 00:46:57,319
Speaker 8: bounce back season. So for me, in every way, this

1040
00:46:57,480 --> 00:47:00,480
Speaker 8: Jays team, maybe they've been a bit of a revelation

1041
00:47:00,640 --> 00:47:03,640
Speaker 8: or a surprise over the last month, But can I

1042
00:47:03,680 --> 00:47:07,240
Speaker 8: call them a sustainable surprise because that's what I'm seeing

1043
00:47:07,239 --> 00:47:10,480
Speaker 8: from them right now. They are a sustainable surprise with

1044
00:47:10,560 --> 00:47:15,239
Speaker 8: some veterans of the rotation. Health with the pitching might

1045
00:47:15,280 --> 00:47:17,000
Speaker 8: be the one thing that I'll be a little bit

1046
00:47:17,040 --> 00:47:19,600
Speaker 8: worried about, and maybe they need to add to a

1047
00:47:19,640 --> 00:47:22,839
Speaker 8: rental starter, But guess what, those types of guys are

1048
00:47:22,880 --> 00:47:26,480
Speaker 8: typically out there and available, and I would trust the

1049
00:47:26,600 --> 00:47:29,560
Speaker 8: Jays and Pete Walker to get the best out of

1050
00:47:30,160 --> 00:47:32,040
Speaker 8: a move that they might make here at some point

1051
00:47:32,080 --> 00:47:32,880
Speaker 8: in the next few weeks.

1052
00:47:33,160 --> 00:47:35,200
Speaker 1: John Paul, can the Yankee still win the East or

1053
00:47:35,239 --> 00:47:37,080
Speaker 1: is their best chance to do it coming gone?

1054
00:47:37,800 --> 00:47:41,120
Speaker 8: I think it certainly still win the division. This thing

1055
00:47:41,200 --> 00:47:42,560
Speaker 8: is not over yet by anything.

1056
00:47:42,520 --> 00:47:44,719
Speaker 1: They've given up at a lot of real estate or

1057
00:47:44,880 --> 00:47:46,000
Speaker 1: just the last three weeks.

1058
00:47:46,520 --> 00:47:49,040
Speaker 8: Yeah, they've given up a lot of real estate. They're

1059
00:47:49,080 --> 00:47:52,239
Speaker 8: a team and I know that this will be said

1060
00:47:52,280 --> 00:47:55,480
Speaker 8: by Yankee fans and I'm sure the media a lot

1061
00:47:55,520 --> 00:47:57,640
Speaker 8: in New York, but this is a team that needs

1062
00:47:57,640 --> 00:48:00,840
Speaker 8: to make a trade. They put as Chisholm back to

1063
00:48:00,880 --> 00:48:05,880
Speaker 8: second base. There's a there's a gap in this, I

1064
00:48:05,880 --> 00:48:09,480
Speaker 8: think in the lineup and also in the rotation potentially

1065
00:48:09,480 --> 00:48:13,239
Speaker 8: for some impact. So we're about to find out how

1066
00:48:13,320 --> 00:48:16,480
Speaker 8: serious the Yankees are about about making a run at this.

1067
00:48:17,080 --> 00:48:20,080
Speaker 8: And Brian Cashman's going to have to I think if

1068
00:48:20,080 --> 00:48:24,759
Speaker 8: he really wants to put together a team that can

1069
00:48:24,840 --> 00:48:27,600
Speaker 8: get back to the World Series. You got to realize

1070
00:48:27,640 --> 00:48:31,399
Speaker 8: it and compare side by side last year's team, which

1071
00:48:31,520 --> 00:48:33,959
Speaker 8: wasn't good enough to win it, and this year's team

1072
00:48:34,320 --> 00:48:37,120
Speaker 8: and last year's team which wasn't good enough to win it.

1073
00:48:37,120 --> 00:48:40,279
Speaker 8: It's a lot better than this year's team. Of course,

1074
00:48:40,360 --> 00:48:43,680
Speaker 8: last year you had Soto. Last year you had a fuller,

1075
00:48:43,719 --> 00:48:47,120
Speaker 8: healthier season of Stanton, last year you had Garrett Cole.

1076
00:48:47,480 --> 00:48:51,040
Speaker 8: There's last year. You didn't necessarily have the up and

1077
00:48:51,080 --> 00:48:54,000
Speaker 8: down bullpen that we've seen out of the Yankees at

1078
00:48:54,000 --> 00:48:58,200
Speaker 8: different times this season. So there's some worries there for

1079
00:48:58,239 --> 00:49:00,920
Speaker 8: the Yankees, no doubt. But but this is a team

1080
00:49:00,960 --> 00:49:05,040
Speaker 8: that I believe has the capability to make a big

1081
00:49:05,080 --> 00:49:09,279
Speaker 8: time trade, and now it's gonna require a little bit

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Speaker 8: of I don't know if ruthless is the right word,

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Speaker 8: but they're gonna have to be quite unsympathetic the way

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Speaker 8: that the teams have put together because there's a lot

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Speaker 8: of really popular players, some of them are homegrown, but

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Speaker 8: it's not been good enough. They still have the best

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Speaker 8: player in the world though, and Aaron Judge the best

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00:49:28,480 --> 00:49:31,319
Speaker 8: hitter at least, and now they need to find a way,

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Speaker 8: I think, to make a couple more moves to accentuate

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Speaker 8: the group. I think Cash we'll do it, but there's

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Speaker 8: no doubt now the task lies ahead for him.

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Speaker 2: About the San Diego Padres, amazingly, they're out of the

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00:49:44,239 --> 00:49:47,040
Speaker 2: wild card picture at the moment. If the season ended tonight,

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00:49:47,080 --> 00:49:50,480
Speaker 2: the Padres would not make the playoffs. It astounds me.

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00:49:50,560 --> 00:49:53,840
Speaker 2: And they're scoreless bottom of the seventh right now against Arizona.

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00:49:53,960 --> 00:49:56,920
Speaker 2: It astounds me that they're not better because they're a

1097
00:49:56,960 --> 00:49:59,359
Speaker 2: little top heavy in the lineup. If someone like Jake

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00:49:59,440 --> 00:50:02,200
Speaker 2: Cronin were with just better with the bat, I think

1099
00:50:02,200 --> 00:50:05,080
Speaker 2: it would change the whole bottom of the lineup. Instead,

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Speaker 2: they get in these lulls and low scoring games and

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00:50:08,120 --> 00:50:10,359
Speaker 2: really have to rely on the pitching and the great

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Speaker 2: bullpen they do have. With a couple of All stars

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00:50:12,600 --> 00:50:15,959
Speaker 2: at the back end, they can get better, and don't

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Speaker 2: They need to get better trade deadline.

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Speaker 8: This month, offense has to be the thing, and for them, Steve,

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Speaker 8: it was a very welcome return for you, Darvish to

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Speaker 8: come back, that was great. I agree with you. And

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00:50:28,320 --> 00:50:33,040
Speaker 8: groner Worth is someone who I still believe there's some

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00:50:33,160 --> 00:50:36,440
Speaker 8: upside with him, but there just hasn't been enough production

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Speaker 8: consistently to return to that star all star level that

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00:50:41,400 --> 00:50:44,040
Speaker 8: we saw him have earlier on in his career. I agree.

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Speaker 8: I think he's probably the X factor for them going forward,

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00:50:47,600 --> 00:50:53,000
Speaker 8: and they can't rely always on Tatis and Machado to

1114
00:50:53,520 --> 00:50:56,719
Speaker 8: carry the way because there are other lineups in this

1115
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Speaker 8: National League right now. The Dodgers, the Cubs come to mind,

1116
00:51:00,920 --> 00:51:03,800
Speaker 8: the Mets, the Phillies, and even with all the Meths injuries.

1117
00:51:04,280 --> 00:51:06,400
Speaker 8: I still think they have a bit of a deeper

1118
00:51:06,440 --> 00:51:09,160
Speaker 8: lineup right now than the Podreys do, so I'm with you.

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00:51:09,200 --> 00:51:13,919
Speaker 8: I think they have to make a potentially a very

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Speaker 8: difficult decision, which could be would you move a Dylan

1121
00:51:18,719 --> 00:51:22,680
Speaker 8: Cease for a bat? So basically, would you give up

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00:51:23,160 --> 00:51:27,760
Speaker 8: Cease let's say the Chicago Cubs and bring back either

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00:51:27,800 --> 00:51:30,120
Speaker 8: a young Owen Casey or one of their major league

1124
00:51:30,120 --> 00:51:33,160
Speaker 8: outfitterers to make it all work out. That's the kind

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00:51:33,200 --> 00:51:37,360
Speaker 8: of a trade that I'm sure Aj Preller, who is

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00:51:37,400 --> 00:51:40,719
Speaker 8: one of the more imaginative executives in the game, will

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00:51:40,719 --> 00:51:43,040
Speaker 8: give a lot of thought to potentially executing here in

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Speaker 8: the next several weeks.

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Speaker 1: All right, Lastly, John Paul, the Dodgers lose again. Clayton

1130
00:51:46,960 --> 00:51:49,560
Speaker 1: Kershaw pitch as well. They follow the Brewers three to one.

1131
00:51:49,640 --> 00:51:52,239
Speaker 1: This is five losses in a row. Is this one

1132
00:51:52,239 --> 00:51:54,520
Speaker 1: of those? Hey, every team has one of these in

1133
00:51:54,600 --> 00:51:55,960
Speaker 1: them over the course of the season.

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Speaker 3: War Is there something the Dodgers need to worry about?

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Speaker 8: I would say this, they are a great but flawed team.

1136
00:52:06,760 --> 00:52:10,000
Speaker 8: They we have to remember how last year's playoffs went.

1137
00:52:10,160 --> 00:52:12,880
Speaker 8: They're one loss away from from getting bounced in the

1138
00:52:12,920 --> 00:52:15,680
Speaker 8: first round, and who knows at that point what happens

1139
00:52:15,680 --> 00:52:17,799
Speaker 8: to the roster, to the coaching staff if that had

1140
00:52:17,800 --> 00:52:22,239
Speaker 8: been the result. So they are beatable. They they have

1141
00:52:22,360 --> 00:52:27,640
Speaker 8: looked very beatable in recent days. I'm gonna say this,

1142
00:52:28,719 --> 00:52:31,800
Speaker 8: I am still confident that they have the best chance

1143
00:52:31,800 --> 00:52:34,560
Speaker 8: of anybody to win the National League. And part of

1144
00:52:34,560 --> 00:52:36,480
Speaker 8: the reason is I think Mookie Bets is gonna have

1145
00:52:36,480 --> 00:52:39,120
Speaker 8: a better second half. He We've got to remember how

1146
00:52:39,120 --> 00:52:43,640
Speaker 8: his season started. I feel like with with the with

1147
00:52:43,680 --> 00:52:46,839
Speaker 8: the illness and just being behind. I think he needs

1148
00:52:46,840 --> 00:52:49,520
Speaker 8: the All Star break in a in a very serious way,

1149
00:52:49,600 --> 00:52:52,000
Speaker 8: just from a standpoint of his swing and getting everything

1150
00:52:52,440 --> 00:52:55,000
Speaker 8: locked back into place. We're gonna see a better Mookie

1151
00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:57,879
Speaker 8: Bets in the second half. And they also believe they're

1152
00:52:57,920 --> 00:53:00,399
Speaker 8: gonna get their their pitching back healthier. That they've got

1153
00:53:00,400 --> 00:53:04,279
Speaker 8: Glass now coming back tomorrow. So I'm I am. I'm

1154
00:53:04,320 --> 00:53:08,800
Speaker 8: actually still pretty bullish on the Dodgers long term, but

1155
00:53:08,920 --> 00:53:11,160
Speaker 8: by that I mean being able to make it to

1156
00:53:11,200 --> 00:53:14,200
Speaker 8: the World Series again this season. But there are some

1157
00:53:14,400 --> 00:53:17,279
Speaker 8: questions that we have to see answered by their guys

1158
00:53:17,320 --> 00:53:19,360
Speaker 8: who are coming back, and that starts tomorrow night with

1159
00:53:19,400 --> 00:53:24,360
Speaker 8: Tyler glassnow, who's honestly, guys, going to struggle to be

1160
00:53:24,440 --> 00:53:28,160
Speaker 8: as effective as Ryan Pepio has been for the race.

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00:53:28,200 --> 00:53:30,600
Speaker 8: Pepio started the game that I was at tonight. He

1162
00:53:30,760 --> 00:53:33,160
Speaker 8: was outstanding and and I think it's going to be

1163
00:53:33,200 --> 00:53:36,799
Speaker 8: a very challenging thing for Glass now to be able

1164
00:53:36,840 --> 00:53:39,600
Speaker 8: to equal the production of the man that was traded

1165
00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:42,040
Speaker 8: for Glassdow to become a Los Angeles Dodger.

1166
00:53:42,600 --> 00:53:45,480
Speaker 1: He's on Twitter at John Morosi, that is at John

1167
00:53:45,560 --> 00:53:48,640
Speaker 1: Morosi next time seeing with his family in a Tigers game.

1168
00:53:49,080 --> 00:53:51,000
Speaker 3: Say hey, tell Stirsy.

1169
00:53:51,040 --> 00:53:55,560
Speaker 1: I said, Hi, Hey, I know I know you from

1170
00:53:55,560 --> 00:53:57,800
Speaker 1: the Jasons Smith Show featuring Steve de Sager.

1171
00:53:59,440 --> 00:54:01,959
Speaker 8: I know you. I heard your voice. And there may

1172
00:54:02,040 --> 00:54:05,640
Speaker 8: in fact be people driving home from the ballpark and

1173
00:54:05,680 --> 00:54:08,680
Speaker 8: Detroit listening to this conversation right now. That is the

1174
00:54:08,719 --> 00:54:10,000
Speaker 8: beauty of radio.

1175
00:54:10,200 --> 00:54:12,600
Speaker 1: And I wouldn't be doing my job, I find and

1176
00:54:12,680 --> 00:54:16,200
Speaker 1: tell you next time you talk to Sternsy that Alonso contract,

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00:54:16,320 --> 00:54:19,439
Speaker 1: John Paul, it's just getting more and more expensive every time.

1178
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Speaker 8: Now, David, sign it.

1179
00:54:22,120 --> 00:54:24,960
Speaker 3: Now, take it easybody, have fun. We'll talk to you

1180
00:54:25,040 --> 00:54:25,359
Speaker 3: next week.

1181
00:54:25,800 --> 00:54:26,640
Speaker 8: You guys, thank you so much.

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Speaker 3: There goes John Paul. Morosi,