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Speaker 3: our number two A lot of stuff to get to.

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Speaker 3: I know you just kind of mentioned it, but we

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Speaker 3: do have sound from these coaches, Tom Izzo and Dan Hurley.

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Speaker 3: Let's start with Dan hur early and then we'll talk

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Speaker 3: about it.

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Speaker 2: But they think that college basketball and America has turned

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Speaker 4: You know, society. You know, we've got often in a

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Speaker 4: lot of ways. I think with you know, we're trying

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Speaker 4: to develop young people. I think young people, the teachers

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Speaker 4: and coaches that impact their lives the most are not

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Speaker 4: the teachers and coaches that like gave them a grade

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Speaker 4: they didn't deserve. I mean, you remember the teachers and

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Speaker 4: coaches that pushed you uh to your maximum. You know

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Speaker 4: the same thing applies to coaching. I feel like I

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Speaker 4: got a responsibility. You know, I coach eighteen nineteen twenty

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Speaker 4: year old men. There's a lot of commitment that I've

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Speaker 4: got to instill in them to prepare them for the

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Speaker 4: real world. The real world is tough, it's cruel. You

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Speaker 4: got to be you got to be equipped. So on

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Speaker 4: the flip side of how I'm driving them and pushing

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Speaker 4: prepare them for life. And also are times that we

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Speaker 4: spend you know know together laughing, joking, making fun of

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Speaker 4: You unfortunately just sometimes see the monster.

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Speaker 2: And then of course we also heard Tom Mizzo had

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Speaker 5: You played real good. You start, you don't play it's good,

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Speaker 5: You work your way back in. It's the American way,

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Speaker 5: except the America has Gunnen soft. But that is the

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Speaker 5: American way. That's the way it works. And so I

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Speaker 3: They're not wrong, they're not wrong, but somebody's gonna say

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Speaker 3: want to upset the modern day athlete. You gotta have

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Speaker 3: kid gloves. But nah, I'm alver school too in that sense.

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Speaker 3: The world has gotten soft, but in the lines, in

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Speaker 2: They got to be tough on their guys. I don't

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Speaker 2: it's just a crutch. Tom Izzo is so tough on

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Speaker 2: since Moby Dick was a guppy twenty six years ago.

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Speaker 2: That really works. Stop with this whole there's not one

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Speaker 2: And you know that, Keith, you might need You might

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Speaker 2: And it's just you know why these guys all a

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Speaker 2: It's not about America being soft. You can't jerk these

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Speaker 2: got a four year scholarship, you were set. It's renewable

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Speaker 2: every year and if they want to force you off

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Speaker 2: And now they can't do it because the players can

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Speaker 2: They're making money where those kids had nothing before. And

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Speaker 2: the coaches had their scholarship in their back pocket, and

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Speaker 2: they treated them terribly. All those players, the only reason

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Speaker 2: is because those coaches often were the ones that recruited them.

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Speaker 2: And I get it. You never forget that right. He

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Speaker 2: if you didn't like your experience with him, for the

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Speaker 2: most part, you're not gonna go public and say this

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Speaker 2: guy was a terrible guy. Very seldom do you see

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Speaker 2: former players do that. I'll tell you the same thing.

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Speaker 2: Bobby Knight, the late Bobby Knight cracking a whip and

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Speaker 2: doing all that stuff to his players. You can't do

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Speaker 2: that today. Don't tell me that America's gotten solved. It's

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Speaker 2: more sophisticated, it's more understanding. You could be coach hard,

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Speaker 2: but it doesn't mean that you have to act like

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Speaker 2: to get them to work hard. There are different ways

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Speaker 2: of coaching. And Dan Hurley, you know, I get it.

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Speaker 2: He's won a couple of championships. I guess what, They

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Speaker 2: not saying that he don't have anything to do with it,

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Speaker 2: but that program's won champions Kevin Olly won a championship

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Speaker 2: I don't remember Kevin Olly being in that same temperature

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Speaker 2: Tom Izzo is best described as Fred Flintstone with a

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Speaker 2: better car. That's who he is. And I'm not gonna

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Speaker 2: all that, and treat the kids with disrespect and yell

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Speaker 2: It's one thing if they're not playing up the park,

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Speaker 2: to be that way. And I'm not against people giving

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Speaker 2: some tough love and all that, but they are more

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Speaker 2: than one ways of coaching. So you go ahead, and

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Speaker 2: you know what, guys like Tom Izzo should retire. If

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Speaker 2: you can't stand that America's so soft, retire Tom. Why

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Speaker 2: don't you give it up, go do like all the

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Speaker 2: other old coaches who bounced out. Yeah, they bounced out

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Speaker 2: because they can't adapt. Tom Mizzo can't adapt. Tom Mizzo

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Speaker 2: never wanted to take one and Dons Keith. That's why

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Speaker 2: why you don't win. I don't care how your coaching

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Speaker 2: because you refuse to adapt. When you don't adapt, you

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Speaker 2: know what happens. You become a dinosaur and you can

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Speaker 2: become extinct. And that's when I hear these coaches talk

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Speaker 2: like this. They don't read the room. They don't understand.

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Speaker 2: This ain't nineteen eighty five.

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Speaker 3: And they took a shot at the media, So I

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Speaker 3: know you caught that one. You're being part of the

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Speaker 3: immediately they know it, they said, the media that criticized them,

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Speaker 2: They don't know what they're talking about. Of course they

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Speaker 2: always do that. It's so easy. And guess what, Dan

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Speaker 2: Hurley and Tom Mizzo, you've never written a column for

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Speaker 2: You don't know what I do. You didn't go to

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Speaker 2: journalism school. That's the easiest crutch. Oh yeah, the media,

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Speaker 2: they don't know. They weren't on the team. They don't

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Speaker 2: Every time I hear it. It makes me sick to

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Speaker 2: that they used to have, and that is what makes

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Speaker 2: old time these old funny duddies, that's what they are. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it was sir Charles too.

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Speaker 3: Sir Charles said, the media, who don't know anything about sports, say,

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Speaker 3: why is he yelling at his players?

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Speaker 2: That's called coaching.

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Speaker 3: If parents and friends get mad because you're getting yelled at,

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Speaker 3: get better parents and better friends. But listen, man, it

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Speaker 3: is a changing of the guard and just modern day times.

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Speaker 3: Jim lary Naga hung it up, Nick Saban, I think

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Speaker 3: of the guard in the NIL and the transfer portals,

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Speaker 3: like this is not for me. A lot of these

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Speaker 3: thing we got to do. We got to pay these players,

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Speaker 3: and if recruiting involves, you know, competing with the dollar amount.

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Speaker 2: So I don't know. I don't know where we're heading.

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Speaker 3: I think it's a wild wild West still with college sports.

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Speaker 3: And I do think that old guard is going to

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Speaker 3: age out. And I mean you're seeing.

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Speaker 2: It, you're buying this.

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Speaker 3: I mean seriously, no, I know where they're coming from.

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Speaker 3: I just understand both sides. I was a former college athlete.

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Speaker 3: I understand coaching a guy hard. I also understand different

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Speaker 3: styles for different players. Some guys you you gotta talk

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Speaker 3: to them in private, you can't embarrass them. Some guys

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Speaker 2: That brings up. That's my point is that there's two sides.

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Speaker 12: Uh, Rob's the mad man right now. I have to

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Speaker 2: Taking my car man, Thank you. I appreciate the support.

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Speaker 2: You know that eight, seven, seven ninety nine on Fox

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Speaker 10: Hey, how you doing?

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Speaker 13: Thanks for taking the car looking at hey, mumboo, it

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Speaker 13: look like I said Giuliano. Listen, there's a difference between

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Speaker 3: You're on an odd couple with Rob Parker and keep

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Speaker 10: Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 2: What's happening? How are you? I'm good?

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Speaker 10: Are you good? I'm a new time listener. I just

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Speaker 3: We just keep it rolling with Trucker Don from Beantown, Boston.

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Speaker 2: There you go to truck or Don, what's up? You know,

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Speaker 10: It's I'm writing, I'm ripping.

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Speaker 2: Baby oil and cigarette.

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Speaker 10: Does that ever hold true?

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Speaker 11: If Rob Parker's writing or.

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Speaker 11: But you're right to a degree.

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Speaker 9: You know, there's an old saying, you know in the

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Speaker 2: Don do we lose them?

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Speaker 13: No?

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Speaker 10: No, I'm here.

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Speaker 9: If you don't mind a tiger, put down the driver

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Speaker 2: But first we're gonna get you caught up with mister

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Speaker 2: Steve de Seger. Hey there.

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Speaker 14: Tiger Woods was arrested today in Florida on suspicion of duy.

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Speaker 14: No injuries reported. At high speed, he hit a truck,

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Speaker 14: his car flipped on its side and skidded. He was

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Speaker 14: likely impaired by medication, according to the sheriff. Yankee shut

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Speaker 14: out the Giants again three nothing right now at Toronto

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Speaker 14: at scoreless Blue Jays and A's top of the fourth,

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Speaker 14: but Toronto's starting pitcher Kevin Gosman as three and a

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Speaker 14: third perfect innings with seven strikeouts. Already at Miami, the

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Speaker 14: Marlins lead to one over the Rockies in the bottom

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Speaker 14: of the fifth. The late game in LA ten pm

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Speaker 14: Eastern time, will have the Dodgers against Arizona after LA

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Speaker 14: gets its championship rings. The Orioles gave former Tampa Bay

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Speaker 14: pitcher Shane Boz a five year extension. Former Gold Glove

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Speaker 14: outfielder Jason Hayward retired to the NCAA Men's Tournament Sweet sixteen.

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Speaker 14: Continuing tonight, early second half, Saint John's leads Number one

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Speaker 14: Duke forty six to forty four. Late first half Alabama

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Speaker 14: ahead of the one seed in the Midwest, Michigan thirty

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Speaker 14: eight thirty seven to Lake games later. The nit Semis

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Speaker 14: are next Thursday. In the women's Sweet sixteen, already wins

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Speaker 14: for Connecticut and Notre Dame. Halftime, one seed UCLA leads

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Speaker 14: Minnesota thirty four to twenty nine. Among the NBA games,

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Speaker 14: Indiana still leading the Clippers Pacers at home, up sixty

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Speaker 14: to fifty five early in the third. Atlanta leads at

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Speaker 14: Boston fifty six fifty late in the second quarter for

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Speaker 14: the Boston Celtics. Jalen Brown out with calf Titaness.

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Speaker 3: in for Kelvin Washington on a flashback Funky Friday, Funky

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Speaker 3: Flashback Friday.

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Speaker 2: That's right, We're in New York, be back in Los Angeles,

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Speaker 2: Kelvin Washington, and I will be back reunited. And it

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Speaker 2: feels so good. Appreciate Keith filling in these last two

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Speaker 2: days here on The Odd Couple always. And then it's

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Speaker 2: great to be in the same studio and get to

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Speaker 2: work where normally I'm back out in LA and you're

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Speaker 2: here in New York. Uh. And we're all going to

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Speaker 2: talk with John Morosi of course from MLB Network and

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Speaker 2: Baseball Insider, and there's a lot of stuff. The season

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Speaker 2: has just started to get to and I'm be interesting

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Speaker 2: to get his takes on as we get the season underway.

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Speaker 2: And it was interesting to me last night, Keith, after

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Speaker 2: after our show watching the second game on NBC, the

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Speaker 2: Dodgers and the Diamondbacks, just to see baseball back on,

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Speaker 2: you know what I mean on a regular.

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Speaker 3: Television, you know, like everybody jerseys clean and with NBC.

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Speaker 2: I thought that was just awesome, like like it brought

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Speaker 2: me to the old days when baseball used to be

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Speaker 2: on NBC. Sunday Night Baseball. Now, I know, I love

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Speaker 2: what they're doing. Like NBC really they figured it out

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Speaker 2: because now they got Sunday Night Football that goes into

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Speaker 2: Sunday Night Basketball and now Sunday Night Baseball and the Olympics. Right,

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Speaker 2: they got it all covered and all figured out. So

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Speaker 2: very very interesting, uh, in what NBC's doing. And I

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Speaker 2: love the Sunday Night Baseball. The other thing we could

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Speaker 2: talk about which I'll really be interested in, and this

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Speaker 2: is just me. You know, the Giants went out of

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Speaker 2: their way and did something that was just a lot

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Speaker 2: of people in baseball looked at it and said, what

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Speaker 2: are they doing? Which is basically Tony Vottello who they hired,

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Speaker 2: who was a top tier We get a program at

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Speaker 2: the University of Tennessee as their manager, which had never

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Speaker 2: been done in the history of Major League Baseball, which

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Speaker 2: is to hire a major league manager without any previous

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Speaker 2: professional coaching experience. You hear what I'm saying. Yeah, here's

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Speaker 2: why I didn't think it was a good move. I

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Speaker 2: don't care how well he did college. The pros are

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Speaker 2: something different. And how can the Giants, a storied franchise

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Speaker 2: in their own right in a division with the Dodgers

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Speaker 2: and Padres, use this as like a training ground?

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Speaker 1: Do you know what I mean? For a novice like

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Speaker 1: I'm And then you got to deal with it. Even

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Speaker 1: managers in baseball who maybe didn't manage in the minor leagues, guess.

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Speaker 2: What they played in the majors. So there's a certain

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Speaker 2: degree of respect that you get. Keiths, you get me,

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Speaker 2: I do, even though you weren't a manager. When Lou

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Speaker 2: Panello was hired as a manager, he had never managed

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Speaker 2: in a minor league, but he played baseball for seventeen

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Speaker 2: eighteen years. Boos the manager of the Yankees. I think

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Speaker 2: this is year number nine. He was a broadcaster after

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Speaker 2: he played everybody in his family played in the Major League.

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Speaker 2: There's a different degree, and this is so unorthodox, so different.

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Speaker 2: And the people in San Francisco, I know, go ahead,

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Speaker 2: say it's only two games. You could poop poo it

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Speaker 2: all you want. All I know is their college coach

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Speaker 2: is now major league manager. His team out scored a

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Speaker 2: run at two games. Historic has never happened in the

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Speaker 2: history of the San Francisco Giants. Never happened.

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Speaker 3: Okay, coming in right now, our guy John Murosi. You

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Speaker 3: know him from MLB Network. He's an insider. We're gonna

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Speaker 3: talk shop with him right now, John, are you there?

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Speaker 11: I am indeed a happy opening day. This is an

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Speaker 11: international segment. I'm joining you live from Toronto where they're

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Speaker 11: defending AL champs at a beautiful pregame ceremony and now

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Speaker 11: trail the A's one nothing man.

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Speaker 10: This A's team.

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Speaker 11: If you're looking for a bit of a sleeper pick

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Speaker 11: to make the playoffs this year, I like the A's

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Speaker 11: of West Sacramento this season.

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Speaker 2: I like that I went to a game last year

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Speaker 2: in West Sacramento. I went. I loved the closeness of

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Speaker 2: it and everything. And I'm seeing the stadium that they're

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Speaker 2: building in Las Vegas. It'll be a couple of years

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Speaker 2: and it'll be ready to go there. But let's start.

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Speaker 2: I was at the opener of San Francisco to the

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Speaker 2: Yankees and the Giants, and now here we are. Two

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Speaker 2: games in. The Yankees have scored ten runs. The Giants

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Speaker 2: have scored none.

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Speaker 1: Judge got booed like crazy golden sombrero for strikeouts.

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Speaker 2: He had a home to run row home run. Today

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Speaker 2: Stanton is another home run, and I mean a home

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Speaker 2: run and another RBI. And he's off to a hot

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Speaker 2: start and the pitching has been great. What do you

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Speaker 2: make of the Yankees?

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Speaker 11: The Yankees to me, by just bringing back their cast

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Speaker 11: from last year, which for the most part they did.

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Speaker 10: They didn't make a ton.

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Speaker 11: Of changes that They did bring back Balanger, which is important.

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Speaker 11: They brought back Grisham, which was important. If they have

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Speaker 11: a healthy year, and if they get off to a

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Speaker 11: good start. Now here's why I think a good start

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Speaker 11: for the Yankee is paramount. They will get better as

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Speaker 11: the year goes along, just organically, in my view, with

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Speaker 11: Cole and Rodin, so internally, their rotation will improve. They've

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Speaker 11: got enough depth in their rotation now with the emergency

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Speaker 11: of Schlitzler from the start of last season that they

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Speaker 11: actually heal is not even part of their rotation to

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Speaker 11: begin the year. So they've gotten the depth they need

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Speaker 11: and if they just get off to a solid start,

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Speaker 11: they will only get better as the year goes along.

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Speaker 11: The unfortunate part for them is that the Baltimore Orioles

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Speaker 11: are better and the Red Sox are better. I saw

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Speaker 11: the Red Sox yesterday in Cincinnati. I love Roman Anthony.

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Speaker 11: I think that their outfield overall is one of the

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Speaker 11: most productive in the sport. They're going to defend better

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Speaker 11: this year. Their rotation is led by a legit ace

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Speaker 11: in Crochet.

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Speaker 10: They've added Sunny Gray as well.

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Speaker 11: Of course, there's a lot to like with his Red

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Speaker 11: Sox team. So whether you're the Blue Jays of the Yankees,

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Speaker 11: the two teams that met the Division Series a year ago.

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Speaker 11: For me, Robins, he there's a lot more competition now

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Speaker 11: in the American League East, and there's gonna be a

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Speaker 11: lot of This could be a multiple bid division. You'd

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Speaker 11: like to say that the same year in basketball it's

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Speaker 11: a multi bit division.

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Speaker 10: I believe in baseball this season.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, John, I'm still on the Giants. I'm a Yankee fan.

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Speaker 3: I'm not worried about the Yankees, but I'm still on

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Speaker 3: the Giants and Tony Vittello. I feel like right now

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Speaker 3: there's some panic buster Posey and them. They trusted this guy.

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Speaker 3: They spent a lot of money. They've been trying to

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Speaker 3: put this team together for a while, and they've chosen

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Speaker 3: him to be their leader. And you know, he just

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Speaker 3: came out after the game, he said, I would say

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Speaker 3: at this point, emotions are a little too high, whereas unfortunately,

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Speaker 3: this game's not like football.

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Speaker 2: Baseball is more about intent and it's intense.

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Speaker 3: Like he's gonna have all the right words, but those

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Speaker 3: guys got to look into his eyes and know that

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Speaker 3: he's in control.

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Speaker 2: He can lead the way.

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Speaker 3: Do you think this is just baseball the first two days?

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Speaker 3: If they get swept tomorrow, is it gonna be panicked?

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Speaker 3: And I'll tell you this is not a good look

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Speaker 3: out there for San Francisco.

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Speaker 2: They got to get right.

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Speaker 10: I understand it.

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Speaker 14: It is.

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Speaker 11: I guess I'll make a couple of points. Number One,

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Speaker 11: there's a lot of teams are gonna lose series of

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Speaker 11: the Yankees of season, so it's a little bit magnified

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Speaker 11: because it's early and because Vitello is coming in without

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Speaker 11: professional baseball experience. I think that he has said the

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Speaker 11: right things. The Giants felt as though they needed to

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Speaker 11: have a different voice and different approach, and a little

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Speaker 11: bit of a younger approach with some backing from the

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Speaker 11: college game. I think all those things are valid. The

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Speaker 11: biggest thing they've got to do is they need to

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Speaker 11: make sure that Rafael Devers is comfortable and at the

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Speaker 11: heart of everything that they are doing. If he is

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Speaker 11: not in sync and locked in and feeling supported by

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Speaker 11: everyone one through nine, then it's not going to work.

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Speaker 11: And obviously, Devers was traded from Boston's. He worked a

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Speaker 11: Bob Melvin for half a year in San Francisco. Melvin's

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Speaker 11: out now a new manager, so basically he's had three

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Speaker 11: managers in the last less than a year, and at

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Speaker 11: some point he's going to have to produce like the

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Speaker 11: player that he could be. If he doesn't, I do

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Speaker 11: think the Giants will struggle.

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Speaker 10: You can't.

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Speaker 11: You cannot pull the plug on a manager this soon.

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Speaker 10: There's this no.

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Speaker 2: No no, no, no no no.

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Speaker 9: No.

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Speaker 10: One Raven you know or even even say that it's

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Speaker 10: his fault.

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Speaker 11: I think that they they wanted to have a different approach.

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Speaker 11: They've got it, and I think that they need to

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Speaker 11: let this just calm the waters for a while before

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Speaker 11: we before we look at it and say it was

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Speaker 11: a mistake or or an ill conceived notion to bring

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Speaker 11: in some of them the college ranks.

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Speaker 2: All I'm saying to you is it can turn quickly.

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Speaker 2: And that's all I'm saying. If they start out oh

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Speaker 2: to ten or ohn eleven or one and nine, no,

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Speaker 2: people will will wonder if this was the right thing.

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Speaker 2: And my only thing, John, is this, uh the idea

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Speaker 2: that you're bringing a novice to the game and I'm

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Speaker 2: talking about major league. I know what he did in college,

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Speaker 2: but in a division with the Dodgers and the Padres,

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Speaker 2: and he's supposed to learn on the job again in

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Speaker 2: that division with those teams. That's a tall order, is

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Speaker 2: all I'm saying. And that and that's all I'm saying.

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Speaker 11: And that's that's a very fair point. And in fairness,

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Speaker 11: and when when you look at it, he hasn't even

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Speaker 11: really had a chance to screw up a game yet

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Speaker 11: with his bullpen maneuvering because he hasn't haven't played well

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Speaker 11: enough so he hasn't even really he hasn't even made

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Speaker 11: a mistake yet.

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Speaker 10: No, it will be if we're being candid about it.

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Speaker 11: But that's and and again the personnel and the experience

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Speaker 11: a lot of really good managers in that division and

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Speaker 11: around the sport.

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Speaker 10: There's no there's no scholarships here.

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Speaker 11: But this is a use the to use the term

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Speaker 11: that that I know Jim Leyland was always a very

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Speaker 11: very big fan of about about how hard it is

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Speaker 11: to win in the Major League, and so I think

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Speaker 11: that they've got the personnel to be competitive, but they

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Speaker 11: don't have the personnel to finish ahead of the Dodgers

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Speaker 11: in my opinion, So it's going to be a difficult

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Speaker 11: road ahead for them no matter what.

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Speaker 2: All right, last thing, I know, we're up against it.

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Speaker 2: The Mets did not make the playoffs last year. I

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Speaker 2: think they had the second highest payroll. They made some

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Speaker 2: major moves Bashett, you know, which was a big pick

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Speaker 2: up for them, and they scored all the day, beat

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Speaker 2: up on Skiens. I mean, maybe ifoot ball was caught

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Speaker 2: in center field will be a little different, but they

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Speaker 2: got to them. What are the expectations for the Mets?

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Speaker 2: You got them penciled into the postseason.

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Speaker 11: I think that in general, the Mets are a team that,

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Speaker 11: if things break right for them with the rotation, they're

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Speaker 11: a playoff team. I have them penciled in there, but

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Speaker 11: I don't have them in pen because America the National

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Speaker 11: Here's why. I'll tell you that the National League ees

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Speaker 11: much like the AL East, I believe teams have improved.

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Speaker 11: The Braves are not going to struggle back to back years.

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Speaker 11: The Braves in the NL are like the Orioles in

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Speaker 11: the AL. They're not going to be that bad in

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Speaker 11: back to back years. And and yes I know that

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Speaker 11: they're they're without Profar again, but I.

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Speaker 10: Think the pitch is going to be more stable.

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Speaker 11: I look at the Marlins as being they're a better

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Speaker 11: team top to bottom. The Phillies. Yes, they're getting a

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Speaker 11: little bit older, but man, how many pitchers in the

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Speaker 11: planet are better than Christopher Sanchez.

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Speaker 9: Not man.

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Speaker 11: I mean maybe maybe he's top five in the game

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Speaker 11: for me right now.

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Speaker 10: He's that good.

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Speaker 11: And even though they lose Suarez, they're they're a really

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Speaker 11: good ball club. So I've got the Phillies still being

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Speaker 11: their toughest competition. And for the Mets, it's gonna have

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Speaker 11: to be the young guys. How good is McLain, how

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Speaker 11: good is benj They're they're relying on a different type

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Speaker 11: of roster. They don't have pen Alonzo anymore. So I've

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Speaker 11: got them softly in one.

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Speaker 10: Of those last spots, but I do not have them

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Speaker 10: winning the division.

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Speaker 1: All right, Thanks so much, Thanks John, really appreciate it.

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Speaker 10: But baseball is back, my friends. It's a wonderful time.

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Speaker 11: But year.

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Speaker 10: You reach out any time, and I'm sure, I'm sure

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Speaker 10: by the next time we talk, the Giants will have

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Speaker 10: won a game. But but again.

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Speaker 11: I'm pretty sure about that.

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Speaker 10: I'm pretty sure. Let's let's let's talk next week.

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Speaker 11: And I think they will have won a game by then.

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Speaker 11: I'm just not as sure about them being able to

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Speaker 11: win series from the Dodgers or a team like the Yankees.

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Speaker 10: That's what I'm not sure about.

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Speaker 2: All right. Appreciate it. John Morosi from my MLB network

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Speaker 2: joining us here on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 3: So we talked Yanks, we talked Giants. Coming up next,

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Speaker 3: Rob hates what the Dodgers are doing. Of course, this

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Funky Flash Friday, It's The Odd Couple with Rob Parker.

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Speaker 3: I told y'all Rob hates what the Dodgers are doing.

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Speaker 3: I'm always hating on the Dodgers. If you listened yesterday,

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Speaker 3: you heard me hating on the Dodgers. People were calling up,

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Speaker 3: but Rob, what is it? Specifically? Is this show hay

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Speaker 3: Is this show Hayes contract, show Hayes gambling? Sorry, excuse me,

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Speaker 3: I should have said that is it show?

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Speaker 10: Hey?

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Speaker 2: And the deferred money? Is it the TV contract?

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Speaker 9: Like?

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Speaker 2: What is it?

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Speaker 3: This time that the Dodgers have done besides went back

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Speaker 3: to back World Series championships. Sign up all the best players,

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Speaker 3: make all the best trades. What is it this time

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Speaker 3: with these La Dodgers that's got you a little chapped?

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Speaker 9: You know?

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Speaker 2: What I'm bothered by is that the Dodgers have reached

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Speaker 2: an agreement for the naming rights to their field to

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Speaker 2: a Japanese fashion retailer. I mean, the Dodgers are making

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Speaker 2: money hand over fist. Why are they cash strapped? What

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Speaker 2: are the Dodgers doing money? Stop it. I always had

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Speaker 2: a lot of respect for the Dodgers, you know why,

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Speaker 2: because they didn't sell out. It's still called Dodger Stadium.

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Speaker 2: Could they make a ton of money if they put

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Speaker 2: a name on that building? Absolutely? The Yankees, the Dodgers

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Speaker 2: and Yankees refuse to go down that route. Hold on

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Speaker 2: to your name. Everything Keith is not for sale. No,

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Speaker 2: I don't care. And now here we are, it's some field.

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Speaker 2: I don't even want to say the name. I refuse

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Speaker 2: to say Glow. I think it's like and I've seen

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Speaker 2: Unique Glow. I actually only made one purchase there. Actually,

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Speaker 2: when I was in London, went to Unique Glow it's

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Speaker 2: like an H and M. I needed like a cheap

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Speaker 2: set of gloves and a hacken. It's a Jeopardese fashi

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Speaker 2: in Japan. So say say let's based in Japan. I

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Speaker 2: guarantee you show he Otani has something to do with this.

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Speaker 2: Maybe he's got equity, maybe he's a part owner.

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Speaker 3: And then I mean, they have this whole pipeline where

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Speaker 3: if you're coming from Japan to l A, the you know,

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Speaker 3: the travel packages are all set up to come see

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Speaker 3: the Dodgers, and they've made Otani's money back in his

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Speaker 3: contract because of all those fans in the Far East.

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Speaker 2: I get it. I understand it's another way to cash in.

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Speaker 2: Don't don't do it, though, you don't need to do it.

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Speaker 2: The Yankees have a big brown, the biggest brand of sports,

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Speaker 2: right them and the Cowboys, right. They don't need to

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Speaker 2: sell them. They don't need to sell a name that

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Speaker 2: the so and so feel that Dodger Stadium really is

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Speaker 2: that what we're gonna say. I'm not calling it that

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Speaker 2: it's Dodger Stadium than me, It's Yankee Stadium, It's Fenway Paul.

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Speaker 2: Everything doesn't have to be for sale. It's bad enough.

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Speaker 2: We got a patch on uniforms. Right, yeah, we're gonna

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Speaker 2: sell everything is that, We're gonna do the helmets. It's

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Speaker 2: it's it's awful. Can we hold on this something? And

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Speaker 2: the whole idea is these iconic ballparks. That's why in

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Speaker 2: Houston you don't know what to call the stadium because

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Speaker 2: it's been named three or four times am I right

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Speaker 2: from Enron to all kinds of different names, to changes

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Speaker 2: every five or six years. You can't even say, oh, yeah,

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Speaker 2: what a great ballpark I was as the kid going

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Speaker 2: to the States Stadium because you can't even name it.

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Speaker 2: All right, our number three is coming up here on

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Speaker 2: the odd couple, and you know what you need to do,

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Speaker 2: stick and stay America