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Speaker 2: Welcome back in to Fox Sports Saturday. I am Carmen

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Speaker 2: Vitally and I have Tracy Standler with me on this

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Speaker 2: wonderful kind of frigid I guess Saturday kind of across

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Speaker 2: the country, and we are This is the first time

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Speaker 2: bunch of fun on Radio Row.

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Speaker 4: I've been planning all morning to say that to you,

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Speaker 4: from Italy. I am great. I have the Dodgers on here.

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Speaker 4: They're up nine to nothing. There are people playing this

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Speaker 1: Single beauty of spring training.

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Speaker 2: In it, you get familiar with all the prospects that

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Speaker 3: A lot of guys, a lot of guys, but it's

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Speaker 2: videos from the super Bowl, which, yeah, that was the

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Speaker 2: last time I was working. I was in Italy, Tracy,

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Speaker 2: not Olympics related. I was in Rome. But I've been

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Speaker 2: gone for like, oh wait, we just got back yesterday.

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Speaker 2: I crashed at seven thirty. I'm like, still don't know

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Speaker 2: what day it is, what time it is? How wow

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Speaker 2: I'm supposed to be feeling. I have a diet coke

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Speaker 2: with me, my trustye fridge sig to keep me parked

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Speaker 2: up because I just I don't even know it's I

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Speaker 2: think it's like ten or eleven PM in Rome right now,

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Speaker 2: so that's.

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Speaker 1: Kind of the time zone I'm on.

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Speaker 2: But when I say that the entire country takes pride

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Speaker 2: in the fact that they are hosting the Winter Olympics,

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Speaker 2: I did not realize, like Turin, I felt like Turin

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Speaker 2: was not that long ago, and it which turns out

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Speaker 2: it like like Terino was in two thousand and six.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, really, yeah, I'm like that was twenty years

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Speaker 2: ago right now. I know I was like it didn't

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Speaker 2: Italy just have the Olympics, And I'm like, no, it's

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Speaker 2: been two decades they when they had from the last

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Speaker 2: time they had the Winter Olympics, So that was kind

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Speaker 2: of it was really funny. I spent a lot most

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Speaker 2: of my time in Rome. We went we did go

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Speaker 2: to Florence. There were the Olympic rings that were projected

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Speaker 2: onto these, you know, hundreds of year old monuments and

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Speaker 2: stuff like that in Florence all over the city. So

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Speaker 2: despite the fact that the Olympics were further north in Milan,

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Speaker 2: everybody was super excited in that country too, and it

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Speaker 2: took a lot of pride in it. I mean, you

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Speaker 2: saw the Olympic logo everywhere and Milan Courtina, Milano cortina

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Speaker 2: as you would say in Italian, and it was just

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Speaker 2: the visuals have been so incredibly stunning from like the

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Speaker 2: from the Alps, because the Alps, I think I think

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Speaker 2: France gets a lot of credit for the Alps or Switzerland.

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Speaker 2: It's like the French Alps, the Swiss Alps, but there's

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Speaker 2: the Italian Alps too, and we're getting a firsthand look

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Speaker 1: So I love it. I love it.

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Speaker 2: It was so cool to be over there and see

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Speaker 2: just the pride that Italy is taking right out and

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Speaker 2: hosting the Winter Olympics.

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Speaker 3: That's awesome. And these Olympics they been fun.

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Speaker 4: Honestly, I feel like they've been a lot of fun,

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Speaker 4: a lot of good storylines. And I was curious about that.

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Speaker 4: I was curious if it was in Rome two people

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Speaker 4: were just excited. And I hope it's like that here

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Speaker 4: when the Olympics are in Los Angeles. I hope that

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Speaker 1: It is so cool. And we're going to talk a

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Speaker 1: little bit more about the Olympics.

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Speaker 2: Well, we've got a great show because we're gonna also

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Speaker 2: we're going to get into literally everything right now, because

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Speaker 2: despite this kind of being a slower season, like you mentioned,

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Speaker 2: Olympic break, I should say, but it's like there's a

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Speaker 2: So this isn't just going to be football related today.

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Speaker 2: We're going to get to so many different things. But

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Speaker 2: I do want to keep talking about the Olympics because

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Speaker 2: I want to talk about one particular Olympian that we've

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Speaker 1: She just won gold.

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Speaker 2: Is Alyssa Loo and the story of I mean, it's

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Speaker 3: Yes, she's funny, but she.

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Speaker 2: Has been competing in this sport at a high level

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Speaker 2: autonomy over what her programs were, She had no autonomy

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Speaker 2: over what she was skating, what she was skating too,

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Speaker 2: and it became too much for her, as I think

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Speaker 2: such a crazy time in any girl's life, and then

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Speaker 2: to have the pressure of Olympic competition and World Championship competition.

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Speaker 1: But she came back a year ago one.

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Speaker 2: World She was the first female to win Worlds since

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Speaker 2: later she wins Olympic gold, and there's so much to

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Speaker 2: it just has to do with the fact that, hey,

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Speaker 2: we were conditioned to think that Olympic athletes have to

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Speaker 2: be these highly skilled, highly trained children, right, and they

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Speaker 2: have to be forced into like staying in this lane

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Speaker 2: and really rigorous competition, rigorous practice schedules. Everything is so

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Speaker 1: And she's being like, no, you don't have to do that,

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Speaker 2: I was struck by how much the announcers were talking

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's the free skate, but like a freer

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Speaker 4: It's just it's such a cool story, it really is,

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Speaker 3: All of these people are so skilled.

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Speaker 4: Obviously they are the absolute top of their sport, but

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Speaker 3: Relax is the perfect word.

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Speaker 4: Everyone else felt tense in comparison, because she truly was

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Speaker 4: just out there having fun. And I was actually saying

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Speaker 4: last night at dinner that whenever I watched the skate

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Speaker 4: I'm like, oh God, they're falling, They're gonna Oh my gosh,

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Speaker 3: Having so much fun.

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Speaker 4: And at the end of the day, it is a sport.

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Speaker 4: It should be fun, and that was a huge difference.

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Speaker 4: It was just really effortless because of her her joyous

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Speaker 4: attitude and it was cool to see. I cried actually

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Speaker 4: while watching her. I don't know why, but I got

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Speaker 2: Before I have been so emotional about these Olympics and

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Speaker 2: I don't know why. I just everything about just these

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Speaker 2: stories that you hear in the there's so much emphasis

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Speaker 2: on the human interest behind it, which I think is amazing,

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Speaker 2: especially because you know, not every not every single one

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Speaker 2: of these sports is a team sport, right, There's a

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Speaker 2: background on so many of these people is it's inspiring,

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Speaker 2: and that's what sports are meant to be. And that's

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Speaker 2: what the Olympics are supposed to be, right, They're supposed

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Speaker 2: to be inspiring and they're supposed to bring everybody together

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Speaker 2: because this is the world it's a world.

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Speaker 1: Competition, it's a global competition.

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Speaker 2: I also cried when Kennel Coin's Gofield when they got

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Speaker 2: the US women's hockey team took gold from Canada, which

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Speaker 2: it was like, it was such a good game.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, was it a good game.

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Speaker 2: And Kennel Coins Gofield had her son in her arms

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Speaker 2: as she was receiving her gold medal and the national

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Speaker 2: like what she had a vision of having the gold

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Speaker 2: came true, And oh my god, I was just sobbing

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Speaker 2: when I saw that, because I like, this is not

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Speaker 2: Kennel Coinschofield's first Olympics.

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Speaker 1: She's the veteran on that team. She's the captain, but

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Speaker 2: Incredible to have seen what the US women have done

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Speaker 2: Canada in such an incredibly back and forth game where

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Speaker 2: you're like, h they're down, Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Is it gonna happen? And then it was. It was.

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Speaker 1: It was so cool. And US women.

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Speaker 2: Are kicking you know what, like just in general and

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Speaker 2: the medal count and everything like US women's teams and

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Speaker 2: the individual and all of that.

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Speaker 1: They are killing it.

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Speaker 4: Oh they are, and it is so much fun to watch.

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Speaker 4: I mean, Norway seems to be running away with the most.

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Speaker 1: Metal count the medal count, but you are.

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Speaker 3: Right, the US women are absolutely killing it.

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Speaker 4: It has just been it's been really fun, exciting, and

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Speaker 4: you know, that story just proves it visually, visualization and

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Speaker 3: They're very real.

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Speaker 4: Your thoughts become reality because that's a very specific vision

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Speaker 4: to have, so to speak. But yeah, it was just

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Speaker 4: so much fun and there is such pride in it.

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Speaker 4: There is something about the Olympics that are just I

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Speaker 4: don't know, they just it kind of feels a little

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Speaker 4: bit like when you're a fan and you're a fan

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Speaker 4: weye so and I think the Olympics are the same

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Speaker 4: way because it's our country, so it's it's we.

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Speaker 3: And so as a US woman, I am very proud

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Speaker 3: of other US women at the athletes.

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Speaker 4: Who are performing in a way that you could put

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Speaker 4: be like, just do a free skate, and for six

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Speaker 4: I don't understand what that means.

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Speaker 2: The metal count is currently so Norway is they have

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Speaker 2: forty medals. The US is in second behind Norway with

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Speaker 2: thirty two medals, so there's an eight metal difference separating

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Speaker 2: So I just I think the Winter Olympics to me

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Speaker 2: And maybe it's also because like people aren't as familiar

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Speaker 2: that's one fifth that's now five fifteen.

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Speaker 3: Five fifteen on the West coast.

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Speaker 2: I've already seen a bunch of bars here in Chicago

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Speaker 2: I probably will be, Honestly, I got up really early today,

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Speaker 1: Open early for the for the gold medal game.

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Speaker 2: Come and watch and get it, you know, get drunk

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Speaker 1: Can why not?

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Speaker 3: Why not? Because you're watching another what's more.

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Speaker 2: What's more American than getting chunk while you're watching hockey.

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Speaker 4: There's nothing more a Hurrican than that and another US

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Speaker 1: A huge deal of it.

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Speaker 3: But you're welcome American.

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Speaker 2: I have Tracy Sandler with me. We are jamming. This

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Speaker 2: I don't know, I like I zone out every time,

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Speaker 2: it's not the off season any like it is the

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Speaker 4: There really is not. There is no such thing as

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Speaker 3: About what's coming up in at the NFL. Combine.

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Speaker 1: It is.

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Speaker 4: It's hard to describe it carved until you're there, but

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Speaker 3: Like we need to set a scene.

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Speaker 1: I know it's interesting because I think they've the NFL

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Speaker 2: Like I don't know that like you're going you care

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Speaker 3: be the same.

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Speaker 1: It wouldn't be the same. But and that's the beauty

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Speaker 1: of it.

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Speaker 2: And so because it's a convention city, everything is pretty

446
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Speaker 2: much interconnected in the downtown area. So you have the

447
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Speaker 2: major hotels that are all connected by breezeways and walkways,

448
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Speaker 2: so even if it's cold, you don't even have to

449
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Speaker 2: go outside most of the time. They're all connected to

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Speaker 2: the convention center. The convention center is huge, it's right

451
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Speaker 2: in the center of downtown. There's so many just like

452
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Speaker 2: there's it can hold so much. And then even that

453
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Speaker 2: is then connected to Lucas Oil, which is where all

454
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Speaker 2: the on field stuff is done. And it is just

455
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Speaker 2: the entire NFL world descends upon this very small, big

456
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Speaker 2: city and it's really really such a fun experience because

457
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Speaker 2: this is also where now it sets up the draft

458
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Speaker 2: and we'll get and I'll explain more about that too,

459
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Speaker 2: But this is where all of the media folks that

460
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Speaker 2: you might follow. This is where they get their sources,

461
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Speaker 2: This is where you keep up with those relationships, and

462
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Speaker 2: this is where you get those scoops. There is so

463
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Speaker 2: much that comes out of Combine Week for a journalist

464
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Speaker 2: that is working there, because this is where you get

465
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Speaker 2: to go and sit down and have coffee with you know,

466
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Speaker 2: player personnel director for this team, or you know, you

467
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Speaker 2: run into this coach or this that the other literally

468
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Speaker 2: on the elevator like or they're at the they're on

469
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Speaker 2: the elliptical next to you at the hotel gym, or

470
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Speaker 2: you know, of course are at the bar at two

471
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Speaker 2: o'clock in the morning because none of the bars in

472
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Speaker 2: Indie close at the time they're supposed to during Combine Week,

473
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Speaker 2: during Combine Week. During Combine Week, it's insane.

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Speaker 4: But I was just gonna say, would you say the

475
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Speaker 4: hottest spot in Indy is that Starbucks that connects from

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Speaker 4: the JW Marrio.

477
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's Starbucks in the JW is a reality

478
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Speaker 2: show in and of itself.

479
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Speaker 4: It is the place to be at least up until

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Speaker 4: three PM because that's when they close. And I know

481
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Speaker 4: that because I have several coffees a day during Combine Week.

482
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I post up there a lot, and we've

483
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Speaker 2: had journalists getting into fights with these insiders getting into

484
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Speaker 2: fights with each other. That happened last year in the

485
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Speaker 2: Starbucks and then yeah, you just something happens and you

486
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Speaker 2: just get sung Like I don't I can't stay out

487
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Speaker 2: till midnight on a good night normally, but somehow at

488
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Speaker 2: the Combine, I find myself like going back to my

489
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Speaker 2: hotel at two thirty in the morning every night. And

490
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Speaker 2: I don't know how it happens, But that's just Combine

491
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Speaker 2: week for you. And then of course there are all

492
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Speaker 2: the prospects that are there. They are meeting with teams,

493
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Speaker 2: they are doing their on field drills. If this is

494
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Speaker 2: an opportunity for teams to kind of get their hands

495
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Speaker 2: on these guys, talk to them in these in these

496
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Speaker 2: closed door meetings and really understand who they are as

497
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Speaker 2: all around people before they end up drafting them at

498
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Speaker 2: the end of April. So there there's a lot of

499
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Speaker 2: actual work that gets.

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Speaker 1: Done at the Combine.

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Speaker 2: But when I tell you it's the most fun week

502
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Speaker 2: of the NFL calendar, it is.

503
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Speaker 3: It is.

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Speaker 4: I would agree that it is. And just to reiterate,

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Speaker 4: never move it, NFL never move it, I.

506
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Speaker 2: Will be no, like, I won't even want to go.

507
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Speaker 2: I won't want to go unless it's like in a

508
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Speaker 2: similarly like set up city in the way that Indy

509
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Speaker 2: is just so perfectly set up for it. I'm very

510
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Speaker 2: excited to find out what the new hotspots are because

511
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Speaker 2: I feel like the old ones are kind of being

512
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Speaker 2: phased out, and we're going to find out, like what

513
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Speaker 2: the good steakhouses are, what the good hotspots are. It's

514
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Speaker 2: going to be a really fun week, and Tracy and

515
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Speaker 2: I will both be there. But for now, let's find

516
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Speaker 2: out what's going on around the world of sport.

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Speaker 1: It's been more wise.

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Speaker 7: Just about sixteen minutes left in the second half for

519
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Speaker 7: Arizona and Houston, a fourth length, first two ranked matchup here,

520
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Speaker 7: Arizona with a forty two to thirty nine lead. Again

521
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Speaker 7: the first half. Second half really kind of just getting

522
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Speaker 7: underway there. Five minutes left in the second half Kansas

523
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Speaker 7: State and Texas Tech, the thirteenth recred Raiders a big

524
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Speaker 7: eighty four to sixty eight. Remember Kansas State fired the

525
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Speaker 7: coach earlier this season. Eleven minutes left in the first

526
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Speaker 7: half of Missouri and Arkansas, the Tigers with a twenty

527
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Speaker 7: one to twenty lead over the twentieth RNGTH. Razorbacks Cincinnati

528
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Speaker 7: beat eighth RAE Kansas Date by sixteen points eighty four

529
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Speaker 7: to sixty eight. Is kansas Is worst lost to armreked

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Speaker 7: Conic in fifty three years. It's the worst home loss

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Speaker 7: that Bill self has ever suffered. Tennessee upset ninety three

532
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Speaker 7: Vanderbilt sixty nine to sixty five. There is also Texas

533
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Speaker 7: Tech junior forward j T. Topp and is diagnosed with

534
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Speaker 7: a season ending torn acl and at the Genesis Invitational

535
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Speaker 7: right now, Bridgeman that fifteen under is in Illee Royal McElroy,

536
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Speaker 7: thirteen under. Xander Showfley though, is making a run to

537
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Speaker 7: eleven under. And in the NBA, we're about half an

538
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Speaker 7: hour away from seeing the Phoenix Suns in Orlando Magic.

539
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Speaker 7: Later on we'll see the Pistons and the Bulls, the

540
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Speaker 7: Kings and those Spurs. Expect to see Victim Wint Binyama playing,

541
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Speaker 7: and Houston and New York is the primetime game on ABC.

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Speaker 7: NHL is still on Olympic break, so nothing on the

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Speaker 7: NHL side of things. So ladies, back to you, Thank.

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Speaker 1: You, Martin.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's really I'm so glad that they are. They've

546
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Speaker 2: gone back and forth in Olympic history with allowing NHL

547
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Speaker 2: players to play at the Olympics for their teams, and

548
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Speaker 2: I'm glad that this is. We love an Olympic break,

549
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Speaker 2: especially if she didn't make the team. You just get

550
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Speaker 2: to chill for yes, a.

551
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Speaker 3: Hot second, then you get a real break.

552
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Speaker 2: We are not done talking about the NFL Combine because

553
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Speaker 2: we are bringing on one of my favorites from NFL

554
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Speaker 2: Network that is going to be all over Combine coverage,

555
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Speaker 2: and that is miss Stacy Dale.

556
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Speaker 1: Stace, how are.

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Speaker 8: You doing great? Get to be with you, gals. Back

558
00:25:14,880 --> 00:25:17,320
Speaker 8: at you, right back at you. As I get ready

559
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Speaker 8: to go for this marathon to close out my NFL season,

560
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Speaker 8: it doesn't really end with the super Bowl. For me,

561
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Speaker 8: it's the Combine. Yes, I would say it's the hardest

562
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Speaker 8: event that I do, or the most laborious event that

563
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Speaker 8: I do, and yet it is one of the most

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Speaker 8: fun experiences that I could have ever been blessed.

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Speaker 9: With in my career.

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Speaker 8: It is just an awesome deal.

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Speaker 1: It really is.

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Speaker 2: And I am sorry to say though that it's going

569
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Speaker 2: to be very interesting what happens tomorrow morning and whether

570
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Speaker 2: or not which one of us is talking smack to

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Speaker 2: the other one, Because Stacy, I get you. You are

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Speaker 2: a citizen. You are a US citizen now, but you

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Speaker 2: are from Canada. Who are you rooting for in this game?

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Speaker 9: Well?

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Speaker 8: I get to root for both? So can I plead

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Speaker 8: the fifth here?

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Speaker 3: I'm going to allow it. I'm gonna allow it.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, I'm always going to go Canada first. But

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Speaker 8: but I've lived here for gosh most of my life now,

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Speaker 8: so I'll be happy whichever way goes. I guess I just.

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Speaker 1: Want everybody to have fun exactly, all right.

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Speaker 2: So it is it's such a it's it's an incredible

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Speaker 2: week and it is so much fun. But what what

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Speaker 2: is it that you will be doing this week?

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Speaker 1: And what is what is the purpose?

586
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Speaker 2: What does this week serve or what purpose does this

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Speaker 2: week serve for you in particular? And how does it

588
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Speaker 2: inform the rest of your cobbage throughout this draft cycle.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, this is the launching point really for these new prospects,

590
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Speaker 8: this new wave of prospects, and this is really how

591
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Speaker 8: things kick off for them. And what is a six

592
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Speaker 8: week interview? As you guys know, it is a very

593
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Speaker 8: intense process. I've talked to players historically in the NFL

594
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Speaker 8: who say the hardest part about getting into the NFL

595
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Speaker 8: isn't the three or four years they played in college.

596
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Speaker 8: It's getting through the the six weeks prior to their

597
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Speaker 8: draft at the end of April. Because this is a

598
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Speaker 8: job interview and you'll see a lot of our top

599
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Speaker 8: competitors not performing at the combine, which has become somewhat

600
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Speaker 8: of the thing. But they do have to go through

601
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Speaker 8: meetings extensively. They do have to meet with us the media,

602
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Speaker 8: and I am the lone reporter down there on the

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Speaker 8: field with them. So I just wrapped up this week

604
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Speaker 8: about one hundred and fifty of the top prospects que cards,

605
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Speaker 8: and I will be asking just a quintitude of questions

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Speaker 8: for these men, these young men, and telling stories. Our

607
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Speaker 8: crew is going to be a little bit smaller NFL

608
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Speaker 8: network this year, so it's going to mean a lot

609
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Speaker 8: more hope, hopefully interviews get these guys on camera. One

610
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Speaker 8: thing I've learned, ladies, these players love to be on camera.

611
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Speaker 8: They love to tell their story because guess what, coaches

612
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Speaker 8: like Matt Lafleur don't go to the combine and so

613
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Speaker 8: they see all the coverage that we provide in Indianapolis,

614
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Speaker 8: and so it'll be fun and there's certainly no shortage

615
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Speaker 8: of superstars in the made that we're going to see

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Speaker 8: next week.

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Speaker 4: Dacy, do you find that in recent years it's even

618
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Speaker 4: more so with loving to be on camera and personality

619
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Speaker 4: because we're now in a generation of players that have

620
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Speaker 4: grown up on camera their whole lives.

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Speaker 3: They live on social media.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, it's right, You're right, it's it's you know, this week,

623
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Speaker 8: I'm getting tagged on previous interviews I've done at the

624
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Speaker 8: combine or moments, whether it's a vertical and Anthony richardson

625
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Speaker 8: vertical and slow motion who had the highest vertical you

626
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Speaker 8: know jump of all time for a quarterback, or Xavier

627
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Speaker 8: Worthy who ran that four two one, And ladies, there's

628
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Speaker 8: a guy going to be knocking on the door. Brennan Thompson,

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Speaker 8: the Mississippi receiver. This guy is electric and so you

630
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Speaker 8: know he's going to be a heat and I assume

631
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Speaker 8: he's going to run in Indy. You know, these are

632
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Speaker 8: the moments where that could catapult a guy like Brennan

633
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Speaker 8: Thompson from a middle round type pick into you know

634
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Speaker 8: what we saw of Y Xavier Worthy going to the

635
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Speaker 8: Kent City Chief, so you know, and we got him

636
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Speaker 8: on camera and we captured that moment so you can

637
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Speaker 8: hear my passion kind of coming through. I think it

638
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Speaker 8: always does it at an event like this.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it can mean so much for these guys,

640
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Speaker 2: and you're right that not every coach is there and

641
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Speaker 2: they rely heavily on getting to see some of these personalities.

642
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Speaker 2: And you do such a wonderful job in telling these guys'

643
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Speaker 2: stories with so much nuance to stay. So we're just

644
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Speaker 2: I'm such a fan of the way that you conduct

645
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Speaker 2: these interviews. Who are you kind of looking towards seeing

646
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Speaker 2: what or let's actually let me let me get this

647
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Speaker 2: down to one position group because that would be way

648
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Speaker 2: too broad. But quarterbacks in particular. You mentioned that not

649
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Speaker 2: everybody throws, not everybody works out anymore, and that's becomes

650
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Speaker 2: kind of the norm. What do you think we can

651
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Speaker 2: expect out of this group of quarterbacks as they are

652
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Speaker 2: always kind of the most heavily covered in an event

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Speaker 2: like this.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, and even in this year, this year's group, we're

655
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Speaker 8: not going to have what we've had traditionally over the

656
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Speaker 8: last couple of years when you see five guys taken

657
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Speaker 8: in the first round, you might make the two. Fernando

658
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Speaker 8: will go. Fernando Mendozo will absolutely deniable go to the

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Speaker 8: Raiders with Quint Kubiak and company. And I mean, he's

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Speaker 8: just a knockout, like home run if you are looking

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Speaker 8: for all of the intangibles, the leadership qualities, the undefeated

662
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Speaker 8: record this past season. And then possibly Ty Simpson, and

663
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Speaker 8: he's going to be very interesting. He's the quarterback out

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Speaker 8: of Alabama who you know, just doesn't have as much

665
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Speaker 8: experience and we've seen historically, you know, fifteen starts for

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Speaker 8: him this past season, basically in his career, but played

667
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Speaker 8: in a pro style offense. So you know, we've seen

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Speaker 8: Mitch Turvisky, you know, the Chicago Bears out there, We've

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Speaker 8: seen Anthony Richardson, some of these quarterbacks who don't have

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Speaker 8: the sort of the longevity, if you will, of college experience.

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Speaker 8: And so he's going to be an interesting study. And

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Speaker 8: then you have a lot of.

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Speaker 9: Guys that are kind of middle round sort of.

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Speaker 8: Possibilities where you have like a Garrett Nuffmeyer of of LSU,

675
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Speaker 8: who's you know, kind of a Drew resize and can

676
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Speaker 8: really Dart the football, but has dealt with a few injuries.

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Speaker 8: You know, Carson Beck, Drew Aller who's coming back from

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Speaker 8: an injury as well foot injury, Taylor Green who's lightning

679
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Speaker 8: a dual threat quarterback out of Arkansas. So it's it's

680
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Speaker 8: going to be my job to grab some of these

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Speaker 8: guys on camera, but also again tell their stories, talk

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Speaker 8: to them and understand that regardless of how many stars

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Speaker 8: at the quarterback position we have this year, you're going

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Speaker 8: to have a bunch of guys drafted, possibly in later rounds,

685
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Speaker 8: and so we'll be telling their stories next Saturday.

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Speaker 4: Stacey, this is not confine related, but and Carmon, I

687
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Speaker 4: think you'll appreciate this. You were basically at the end

688
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Speaker 4: zone for that game tying touchdown from Kaylor Williams at

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Speaker 4: the Bear's lafe gape and you got the most incredible angle.

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Speaker 4: Will you just take us through what that was like?

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Speaker 4: Because that was it was Your angle was unbelievable.

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Speaker 8: Can we guys just agree that Apple should send me

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Speaker 8: free phones for the rest of my life?

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Speaker 1: Absolutely?

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Speaker 8: You know, like it was. It was honestly right place,

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Speaker 8: right time. I love Cole Koman, so I'm so so

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Speaker 8: I was so, you know, it's kind of a weird word,

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Speaker 8: but touch to be able to do that with him

699
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Speaker 8: being the one that caught the football. But I just

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Speaker 8: knew and you guys know this as as football experts,

701
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Speaker 8: as you know what we do that Caleb Williams Karma,

702
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Speaker 8: I saw you had a ton of games with me,

703
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Speaker 8: one of our one of our a number of incredible

704
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Speaker 8: women that cover this team, and did so well with

705
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Speaker 8: it this year. You know, Caleb loves to.

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Speaker 9: Throw it to that deep left end zone. I mean, listen,

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Speaker 9: how is.

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Speaker 8: This not on the scouting report traits?

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Speaker 3: You bring it up right fair?

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Speaker 8: This guy, well, this guy he loves to kind of

711
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Speaker 8: roll right, throw left. I mean he's he's you know,

712
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Speaker 8: call it hero ball. But he wins that hero ball

713
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Speaker 8: and he drops back like however many yards twenty some

714
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Speaker 8: yards and knowing that he had that mismatch with the

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Speaker 8: cornerback and with Cole And no, it's kind.

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Speaker 9: Of interesting too. You hate that the.

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Speaker 8: Bears lost that game if you're a Bears fan, But really,

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Speaker 8: Cole comment was his security blanket into his rookie season,

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Speaker 8: and so it was only fitting that it was Cole.

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Speaker 8: But I was at the right place at the right time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, like it was.

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Speaker 2: It was incredible, Like watching that from the press box

723
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Speaker 2: and then and like I'm always on Twitter as I'm

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Speaker 2: going through that and just seeing that angle, I was like,

725
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Speaker 2: oh my god, that was Stacy. Oh my god, that

726
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Speaker 2: was Stacy. Of course she was in that end zone.

727
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Speaker 2: She knows, but like, of course she knew to be

728
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Speaker 2: in that end zone because you're right, if you were

729
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Speaker 2: scouting Caleb Williams, you somehow, like I don't know, teams

730
00:33:43,320 --> 00:33:46,360
Speaker 2: still didn't cover him well enough. But at the same time,

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Speaker 2: that was just an insane play where he was backpedaling

732
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Speaker 2: twenty yards into whatever and you thought that was it.

733
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Speaker 2: And uh, the fact that they lost that game, I will.

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Speaker 8: Say, you're right in it. And but like I have

735
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Speaker 8: so much respect for the camera men and women that

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Speaker 8: actually hold those big eighty thousand dollars cameras and I

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Speaker 8: just had my little phone there. So shout out to

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Speaker 8: all the camera people that do that in that kind

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Speaker 8: of weather, because you guys know, these last few games

740
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Speaker 8: in Chicago were absolutely brutal. Oh they were in terms

741
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Speaker 8: of yeah, yeah, it was very cold and it was

742
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Speaker 8: even just holding my phone, but like I'm not holding

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Speaker 8: a you know, forty fifty pound camera on my shoulder.

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Speaker 2: Well, it still took a ton of skills, so well

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Speaker 2: done on that. I'm gonna I want to leave you

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Speaker 2: with one question, and that is, Saint Almos, are you

747
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Speaker 2: a fan of the shirt cocktail or not?

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Speaker 8: One hundred percent? It is a must, and I have

749
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Speaker 8: to have my own. I do not share. I'm you know,

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Speaker 8: I should have been in the food industry. I love food.

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Speaker 8: It is the vesterroom cocktail. I purchased thisauce here. I

752
00:34:52,080 --> 00:34:56,120
Speaker 8: can go buy it at Mariano's in Chicago. My dad's

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Speaker 8: a fan of it. Anything as hot as hell, like,

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Speaker 8: we are all down for it, so it's always a must.

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Speaker 8: And they have pretty good steaks and actually I kind

756
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Speaker 8: of dynamite tuna steak if you like tuna.

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Speaker 9: So oh, I got that there.

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Speaker 1: This will be the year. Who knows?

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Speaker 2: Stacy, thank you so so much for joining us then

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Speaker 2: giving us your time. We will see you next week

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Speaker 2: for the most insane week of the NFL calendar.

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Speaker 1: Thanks again, look forward to it.

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Speaker 8: Thanks for having me.

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Speaker 5: Ladies.

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Speaker 2: All right, we are going to take a quick break

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Speaker 2: and after this, the dudes and the don'ts. You're listening

767
00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:36,640
Speaker 2: to Fox Sports Radio. I knew this was coming depeche Mode.

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Speaker 2: This song in particular is like if I need to

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Speaker 2: ps like myself up. This is a song I put on.

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Speaker 2: No joke, depeche Mode. I'm Carmon Vitally, that's Tracy Sandler,

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Speaker 2: that's me. This is Fox Sports Saturday, and this is

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Speaker 2: depeche Mode. I always like, if I could go back,

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Speaker 2: I wish I was born like in the early seventies.

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Speaker 2: I think would have been the best because like to

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Speaker 2: be a teenager in the eighties and then like in

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Speaker 2: your twenties and the nineties.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that does feel like that was the move.

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Speaker 2: Like and then like you're buying a house like in

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Speaker 2: your early thirties and the early two thousands, like Chef's case,

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Speaker 2: like basically what my parents did. Yeah, my parents were

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Speaker 2: born in the like the late fifties. But like I

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Speaker 2: just I feel like we missed the boat on some I.

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Speaker 4: Think we did, because I would have liked to actually

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Speaker 4: live in an eighties movie, which you could have done

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Speaker 4: if you were a teenager in the eighties.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean like that's I grew up on those

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Speaker 2: movies too, like sixteen Candles and like pretty in pink

788
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Speaker 2: and all that, and it just like and they were

789
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Speaker 2: all they all took place in the Chicago suburbs because

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00:36:46,800 --> 00:36:49,719
Speaker 2: John Hughes is from Chicago, and so it was like

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Speaker 2: it just painted this picture of like what being a

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Speaker 2: teenager would have been like in the eighties in Chicago.

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Speaker 1: And I'm like, I was so close. I was so close.

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Speaker 3: You were you were close.

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Speaker 4: Next time missed opportunity, but next time you could do different.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, my next life, my next life.

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Speaker 4: I want to come Whatever the eighties are in your

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00:37:05,400 --> 00:37:07,120
Speaker 4: next life, I'd like to come back.

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Speaker 2: I want that. I want that. All right, we are going.

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Speaker 2: It's time now for our recurring segment. It's called the

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Speaker 2: Dues and the don'ts of the Week.

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Speaker 6: Highlight that putting a spotlight on the.

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Speaker 3: Don't the subject brings me no joy.

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Speaker 1: That's insane.

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00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:29,040
Speaker 5: It's time for the dues and the don'ts in sports.

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Speaker 2: All right, Well, my first do is obviously just be

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00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:33,640
Speaker 2: born in the late seventies, early ages apparently, or like

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Speaker 2: the mid seventies.

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Speaker 1: I can't do math. It's fine. I my real do.

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Speaker 2: I I'm going to start with one ado and it's

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Speaker 2: do ask for advice from all over your industry. I

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Speaker 2: don't know if who saw this, Tracy, but Mark Pope,

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00:37:48,200 --> 00:37:52,080
Speaker 2: who is the head coach of the Kentucky basketball team,

814
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Speaker 2: he was asked by a reporter who is a teacher

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Speaker 2: at Kentucky was teaching a high level journalism class.

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Speaker 1: He was in his press conference.

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00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:02,879
Speaker 2: He took his students to this press conference from Mark

818
00:38:02,920 --> 00:38:06,160
Speaker 2: Pope and asked Mark Pope, Hey, what advice would you

819
00:38:06,239 --> 00:38:09,719
Speaker 2: give for young and inspiring aspiring journalists? And like this

820
00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:13,319
Speaker 2: industry is so crazy, especially like right now, talk about

821
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Speaker 2: wanting to be born earlier, because like I grew up

822
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Speaker 2: thinking of journalism as the golden age of journalism, when

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00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:20,840
Speaker 2: like writers and stuff were on the team planes with

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Speaker 2: the teams, and you had like all this access and

825
00:38:23,719 --> 00:38:26,240
Speaker 2: the long form wasn't dead and all this other stuff.

826
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Speaker 2: But the answer that Mark Pope gave was incredibly thorough

827
00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:34,520
Speaker 2: and incredibly thoughtful, and he was basically like, you know,

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Speaker 2: you're going to be pushed into doing things for clicks,

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Speaker 2: because that's how you're graded.

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Speaker 1: That's how you are evaluated.

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Speaker 2: Even when you get these jobs and and those headlines

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Speaker 2: matter and and for clicks, like that is the benchmark

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Speaker 2: that you were going to be graded against But if

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Speaker 2: you can be great at what you do, you have

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Speaker 2: power as a storyteller. So tell stories, tell true stories,

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Speaker 2: go after the truth. And it was it's just a

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Speaker 2: really wonderful again, really thought out answer. I encourage you

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Speaker 2: to go look it up on It's been circulating all

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Speaker 2: of our social media where it's here's a basketball coach

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Speaker 2: who is you know, faced with the media every single day,

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Speaker 2: and this was his perspective. And I think it's a

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Speaker 2: very valuable perspective to have the perspective of the people

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Speaker 2: that you are reporting on.

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Speaker 1: So shout out Mark Polks.

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Speaker 3: I could not agree more with all of that.

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Speaker 4: I have a don't that's a do if that makes sense,

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00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:29,040
Speaker 4: don't take yourself too seriously. Well, but Tara Lipinski and

848
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Speaker 4: Johnny we are commentating on the skating the Olympics.

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Speaker 3: They do a spectacular job.

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Speaker 4: Their social media is amazing and they are having the

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Speaker 4: most fun. They have their whole glam team and everybody

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Speaker 4: in their videos who are also having the most fun

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Speaker 4: and stare at the Olympics and enjoy it do all

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Speaker 4: the fun things. And I just have been so enjoying

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Speaker 4: watching them and watching their journey and seeing their posts

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Speaker 4: and everything they've been doing, and I love that they're

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Speaker 4: just being like, no, this is who we are. Yes,

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Speaker 4: this is serious, but it's still Olympics and we're gonna

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Speaker 4: have fun with it. And so don't take yourself too

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Speaker 4: seriously because at the end of the day, this is sports.

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Speaker 4: Have fun with it, and that could be true of

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Speaker 4: everything in life. Try to have fun wherever you can.

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Speaker 2: I think that's just a theme kind of for these Olympics,

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Speaker 2: between what we talked about with Alissa lou and how

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Speaker 2: she did things her own way, and she's clearly having fun.

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Speaker 2: She's skating free, she's relaxed. Like that's what I think

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Speaker 2: that we can learn a lot from that and that

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00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:25,840
Speaker 2: maybe you know, this grind culture, it had its place,

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Speaker 2: but maybe now it's it's all about kind of having.

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Speaker 1: Fun with what you do, because otherwise what's the point.

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Speaker 2: All Right, we are going to take a quick break here,

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Speaker 2: but when we come back a lot more about baseball, football,

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Speaker 2: you name it. You are listening to football Fox Sports Saturday.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back in to Fox Sports Saturday. I am Carmen Vitally.

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Speaker 2: I have Tracy Sandler with me on this third Saturday

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Speaker 2: and February, which is a perfect square of a month,

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Speaker 2: or like, I guess, not square, it's a rectangle.

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Speaker 1: But did you follow this Tracy at all?

879
00:41:02,520 --> 00:41:06,080
Speaker 2: Where like it started on a Sunday and goes till

880
00:41:06,200 --> 00:41:10,239
Speaker 2: like and so every Saturday is on like seven fourteen eight.

881
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Speaker 1: It's just like a perfect rectangle this year.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know.

890
00:41:37,400 --> 00:41:39,200
Speaker 2: It scratches my brain in the right way, you know,

891
00:41:39,520 --> 00:41:41,720
Speaker 2: I don't know. I love it seeing on a calendar

892
00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:43,759
Speaker 2: as someone who uses a physical calendar too. That just

893
00:41:43,760 --> 00:41:45,760
Speaker 2: like scratches my brain very well.

894
00:41:46,160 --> 00:41:48,640
Speaker 3: It's good symmetry, and I'm big into symmetry.

895
00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:52,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. Something else that you're really big into that

896
00:41:52,200 --> 00:41:54,320
Speaker 2: I want to get to is it baseball?

897
00:41:54,400 --> 00:41:58,160
Speaker 1: Yes? I love baseball so much. I'm so excited. Noted

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Speaker 1: doctor Fan y, which noted.

899
00:42:01,760 --> 00:42:05,200
Speaker 2: Let me let me preface it by saying that Tracy

900
00:42:05,239 --> 00:42:08,120
Speaker 2: is not a fair Weather fan, no at all. Tracy,

901
00:42:08,239 --> 00:42:10,680
Speaker 2: You what your season tickets have gone back generations, wasn't

902
00:42:10,719 --> 00:42:12,080
Speaker 2: it your grandparents.

903
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Speaker 3: My grandparents.

904
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Speaker 4: We have the same seats my grandparents bought when the

905
00:42:14,800 --> 00:42:16,640
Speaker 4: stadium opened in nineteen sixty two.

906
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Speaker 2: Yeah, So, like, you're not one of those people that's

907
00:42:20,000 --> 00:42:23,040
Speaker 2: jumped on the Dodger bandwagon because they've been really, really good.

908
00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:27,280
Speaker 1: This is this is in your literally like in your blood.

909
00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:29,200
Speaker 3: Literally I literally bleed blue.

910
00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:30,920
Speaker 1: I love that.

911
00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:34,400
Speaker 2: I like, that's what's so cool to me about well,

912
00:42:34,440 --> 00:42:36,600
Speaker 2: I mean all sports, but I feel like baseball is

913
00:42:36,680 --> 00:42:38,920
Speaker 2: so steeped in tradition in so many ways.

914
00:42:38,960 --> 00:42:40,520
Speaker 1: Where you do you.

915
00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:43,080
Speaker 2: Get like people passing down their season tickets and it's

916
00:42:43,400 --> 00:42:45,279
Speaker 2: it's like a way of life, and you just have

917
00:42:45,400 --> 00:42:47,799
Speaker 2: like do you do you score the games when you go?

918
00:42:48,160 --> 00:42:50,080
Speaker 4: You know, it's so funny. I used to I also

919
00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:52,319
Speaker 4: used to. I actually would like to bring this back.

920
00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:56,239
Speaker 4: I used to have this magnet like magnet board and

921
00:42:56,440 --> 00:42:57,960
Speaker 4: at the end of every day I would move the

922
00:42:57,960 --> 00:42:59,920
Speaker 4: teams on how the standings where.

923
00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:02,120
Speaker 3: God so cute, it was so cute.

924
00:43:02,200 --> 00:43:05,279
Speaker 4: I had it when I was a teenager. So when

925
00:43:05,320 --> 00:43:07,040
Speaker 4: I say it goes back, it goes way back. But

926
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Speaker 4: I feel like I want to bring that back. So

927
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Speaker 4: I used to score the games. I don't score the

928
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Speaker 4: games now, but there's someone who sits to run rows

929
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Speaker 4: in front of me, who scores every single game, and

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Speaker 4: I do respect it.

931
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Speaker 2: I think it's I think it's part of the fun.

932
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Speaker 2: I mean, I grew up. I grew up scoring the

933
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Speaker 2: games too. And then my first internships out of college

934
00:43:27,040 --> 00:43:29,360
Speaker 2: were actually for major League baseball teams. I worked for

935
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Speaker 2: the Dodgers and I worked for the Chicago White Sox,

936
00:43:33,040 --> 00:43:35,000
Speaker 2: and so it was really cool because I was in

937
00:43:35,040 --> 00:43:38,680
Speaker 2: their media relations department, but it was it's baseball information, really,

938
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Speaker 2: and I was in charge of doing a bunch of

939
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Speaker 2: the game notes to the pitching pages, getting like the

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Speaker 2: books ready for the announcers. And it was funny because

941
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Speaker 2: I'm like, well, I've grown up scoring these games, and

942
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Speaker 2: so now I can just do that and get paid

943
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Speaker 2: for it as an intern, which was like, there's just

944
00:43:55,960 --> 00:43:58,880
Speaker 2: something so comforting, and so again it's just it's so

945
00:43:58,920 --> 00:44:02,480
Speaker 2: steeped in tradition, it's a ritual, and that like it

946
00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:05,080
Speaker 2: really helps you kind of focus and pay attention to

947
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Speaker 2: a game.

948
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Speaker 8: That.

949
00:44:06,080 --> 00:44:08,360
Speaker 2: Granted, now with the pitch clock and everything like that

950
00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:10,960
Speaker 2: has has sped up quite a bit. But I always

951
00:44:10,960 --> 00:44:12,520
Speaker 2: did it as a kid because it's it's what kept

952
00:44:12,520 --> 00:44:15,280
Speaker 2: my attention, you know, been kept me from like spacing

953
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Speaker 2: out or wandering my mic hundering.

954
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Speaker 4: Do you know what I would do with it's not

955
00:44:19,520 --> 00:44:22,080
Speaker 4: only would I score games and move the magnets around,

956
00:44:22,320 --> 00:44:24,880
Speaker 4: I would paint my nails during Oh yeah, so that

957
00:44:24,920 --> 00:44:27,320
Speaker 4: would I'd have plenty of time to do it.

958
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Speaker 6: All.

959
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Speaker 3: I didn't paint them well, but I did paint them.

960
00:44:30,160 --> 00:44:32,759
Speaker 1: During games, like in the stadium too.

961
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Speaker 3: Not in the stadium. That would have been amazing.

962
00:44:35,000 --> 00:44:35,680
Speaker 1: Actually, that would be.

963
00:44:35,719 --> 00:44:40,560
Speaker 2: Really fun, pure little tracy, just like sitting there watching.

964
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Speaker 3: Excuse me, sir, can you be on me my nail file?

965
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Speaker 1: You know what?

966
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Speaker 2: You know what I actually used to do too, And

967
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Speaker 2: like this was back obviously the Cubs in particular, like

968
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Speaker 2: I grew up a White Sox fan because I could

969
00:44:52,120 --> 00:44:55,160
Speaker 2: go either Okay, I well, so you could go either way.

970
00:44:55,200 --> 00:44:56,640
Speaker 1: Where I'm from outside the city.

971
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Speaker 2: I grew up outside the city, directly west of the city,

972
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Speaker 2: so it was like half people my town were Cubs fans.

973
00:45:00,880 --> 00:45:04,120
Speaker 2: Have people in town were Sox fans, and at the time,

974
00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:08,360
Speaker 2: the Cubs were widely broadcast on WGN across the country.

975
00:45:08,719 --> 00:45:10,680
Speaker 2: So the Cubs have like a very national fan base

976
00:45:10,680 --> 00:45:12,319
Speaker 2: and even even today they have a very national fan

977
00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:15,600
Speaker 2: base because of it. The White Sox didn't have that,

978
00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:18,200
Speaker 2: so they really if you liked the White Sox like

979
00:45:18,200 --> 00:45:20,279
Speaker 2: you were from Chicago, because there was nobody outside of

980
00:45:20,360 --> 00:45:23,279
Speaker 2: Chicago that really liked the White Sox, liked wearing the

981
00:45:23,320 --> 00:45:25,440
Speaker 2: hats because the White Sox hat became kind of a

982
00:45:25,440 --> 00:45:27,920
Speaker 2: fashionst statement in the nineties and early two young.

983
00:45:29,360 --> 00:45:30,919
Speaker 1: But didn't actually like the White Sox.

984
00:45:30,960 --> 00:45:32,600
Speaker 2: So I made the decision to like the White Sox

985
00:45:32,600 --> 00:45:34,480
Speaker 2: because I was like, I live outside the city and

986
00:45:34,680 --> 00:45:36,920
Speaker 2: this is my hometown and whatever. And then I was

987
00:45:36,920 --> 00:45:38,720
Speaker 2: rewarded in two thousand and five with the World Series,

988
00:45:39,160 --> 00:45:41,399
Speaker 2: so like that kind of solidified for it. Like I said,

989
00:45:41,440 --> 00:45:44,919
Speaker 2: I worked for them, but I never hated the Cubs

990
00:45:44,920 --> 00:45:46,880
Speaker 2: because I had so many family members that were Cubs fans,

991
00:45:47,480 --> 00:45:49,759
Speaker 2: and the Cubs were they had day games because they

992
00:45:49,760 --> 00:45:51,839
Speaker 2: didn't have lights at Rickley for a long time, and

993
00:45:52,160 --> 00:45:54,560
Speaker 2: as a kid, even I remember bringing my little radio

994
00:45:54,760 --> 00:45:59,279
Speaker 2: like portable radio to school and I would thread the

995
00:45:59,360 --> 00:46:02,440
Speaker 2: little the earbud. I would thread it up through my

996
00:46:02,520 --> 00:46:05,040
Speaker 2: sleeve and just have a little earbud popping out where

997
00:46:05,080 --> 00:46:06,960
Speaker 2: my hand was, and I would rest my ear on

998
00:46:07,040 --> 00:46:10,319
Speaker 2: my hand and I would listen to the games in class.

999
00:46:10,360 --> 00:46:10,760
Speaker 3: Amazing.

1000
00:46:10,800 --> 00:46:12,719
Speaker 4: I feel like in Chicago that would probably have been

1001
00:46:12,719 --> 00:46:14,319
Speaker 4: fine too, Like I don't think anyone would have gotten

1002
00:46:14,320 --> 00:46:15,440
Speaker 4: mad at you, right, I mean.

1003
00:46:15,360 --> 00:46:17,600
Speaker 2: I can't imagine I was that slick though, trace Like

1004
00:46:17,640 --> 00:46:19,520
Speaker 2: I'm sure my teachers knew exactly what I was doing

1005
00:46:19,520 --> 00:46:21,279
Speaker 2: and they were like, no, that's fine, like she's she's

1006
00:46:21,320 --> 00:46:23,560
Speaker 2: being parented right, clearly exactly.

1007
00:46:23,600 --> 00:46:25,320
Speaker 4: And I feel like, I mean, as we know, Chicago

1008
00:46:25,400 --> 00:46:30,080
Speaker 4: sports teams take things very seriously, I would imagine that

1009
00:46:30,120 --> 00:46:31,720
Speaker 4: your teachers were like, that's amazing.

1010
00:46:31,760 --> 00:46:33,000
Speaker 3: Also, what's the score?

1011
00:46:33,880 --> 00:46:36,840
Speaker 2: I will yes, you know what now that like you

1012
00:46:36,880 --> 00:46:38,440
Speaker 2: say that. I think there were a couple of times

1013
00:46:38,480 --> 00:46:40,360
Speaker 2: where like a teacher like leaned over and me and they're.

1014
00:46:40,200 --> 00:46:40,960
Speaker 1: Like, oh, what's the score?

1015
00:46:41,520 --> 00:46:44,440
Speaker 2: Like I gotcha, woll I wasn't. I wasn't slick. I

1016
00:46:44,160 --> 00:46:45,719
Speaker 2: was I was a kid. I was a stupid kid.

1017
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Speaker 4: I am going to admit something that I should not,

1018
00:46:47,840 --> 00:46:51,160
Speaker 4: but I'm going to admit it. Anyways, on cold Ndred

1019
00:46:51,160 --> 00:46:52,880
Speaker 4: the night before you and Kid Poro was in temporal

1020
00:46:52,920 --> 00:46:55,080
Speaker 4: and the Dodgers had a playoff game against the Reds.

1021
00:46:55,080 --> 00:46:57,200
Speaker 3: It was early this season. It was this season.

1022
00:46:57,280 --> 00:47:00,120
Speaker 4: Okay, so now I'm a full grown adult, Okay, the

1023
00:47:00,200 --> 00:47:04,200
Speaker 4: job full grin adults. And I was not at the game,

1024
00:47:04,280 --> 00:47:06,080
Speaker 4: and I was trying not to pay attention to my

1025
00:47:06,120 --> 00:47:08,759
Speaker 4: phone because I am in temple, but I heard behind me,

1026
00:47:08,840 --> 00:47:12,360
Speaker 4: I have a radar. Behind me, I hear someone say Kik,

1027
00:47:12,840 --> 00:47:14,400
Speaker 4: and I whip around and I was like, what did

1028
00:47:14,400 --> 00:47:14,560
Speaker 4: you do?

1029
00:47:14,600 --> 00:47:15,120
Speaker 3: What's the squad?

1030
00:47:15,920 --> 00:47:18,279
Speaker 4: And then and then they were kind of like my

1031
00:47:18,360 --> 00:47:21,000
Speaker 4: little my little Dodger Midians the rest of the night

1032
00:47:21,040 --> 00:47:22,520
Speaker 4: to make sure I knew what was going on.

1033
00:47:23,200 --> 00:47:25,400
Speaker 2: Like I said, sports, we talked about this in the Olympic.

1034
00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:28,160
Speaker 2: Sports bring people together, and especially stuff that's like so

1035
00:47:28,239 --> 00:47:31,239
Speaker 2: steeped in tradition. And I have my own thoughts too

1036
00:47:31,280 --> 00:47:33,360
Speaker 2: about like the NFL and how they've deluded their product

1037
00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:35,640
Speaker 2: and that's taking away from the tradition and the ritual

1038
00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:38,000
Speaker 2: of the NFL. But that's a story for another time,

1039
00:47:38,120 --> 00:47:40,680
Speaker 2: or a segment for another time. I should say, but

1040
00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:43,799
Speaker 2: this year baseball is back because baseball has a very

1041
00:47:43,840 --> 00:47:46,320
Speaker 2: short off season or always feels like a short off season,

1042
00:47:47,640 --> 00:47:49,200
Speaker 2: which I actually when I was working at baseball, I

1043
00:47:49,200 --> 00:47:52,200
Speaker 2: always really liked because, oh, you get the major holidays

1044
00:47:52,239 --> 00:47:56,640
Speaker 2: off like between you know, you're done it at the

1045
00:47:57,360 --> 00:48:01,320
Speaker 2: in October, and so then you get hollow. You get Thanksgiving,

1046
00:48:01,480 --> 00:48:03,160
Speaker 2: you get Christmas, you get New Year's.

1047
00:48:03,680 --> 00:48:04,839
Speaker 3: Yeah, very good point.

1048
00:48:05,360 --> 00:48:07,759
Speaker 2: And like in other sports in the NFL and my

1049
00:48:07,840 --> 00:48:11,719
Speaker 2: chosen profession, the amount of Christmases I've missed or like

1050
00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:13,880
Speaker 2: the New Year's that I've just spent like watching Netflix

1051
00:48:13,920 --> 00:48:15,360
Speaker 2: because I had to be up the next.

1052
00:48:15,520 --> 00:48:18,800
Speaker 3: Right, exactly, it's very different. It's very different in the NFL.

1053
00:48:19,080 --> 00:48:21,719
Speaker 2: But spring training is in full swing in the in

1054
00:48:21,760 --> 00:48:25,040
Speaker 2: their respective places. Both the Cubs and the Socks are

1055
00:48:25,080 --> 00:48:29,239
Speaker 2: in Arizona, so I tend to switch my focus down

1056
00:48:29,280 --> 00:48:31,400
Speaker 2: to where I went to school. In fact, it was

1057
00:48:31,440 --> 00:48:34,440
Speaker 2: great going to school at Arizona State because Cubs and

1058
00:48:34,480 --> 00:48:38,920
Speaker 2: Socks were right there. And yeah, this is happy. The

1059
00:48:38,920 --> 00:48:40,600
Speaker 2: Dodgers are on right now. The Cubs are on right now?

1060
00:48:41,320 --> 00:48:42,359
Speaker 2: Or did the Dodger game end?

1061
00:48:42,480 --> 00:48:45,319
Speaker 4: No, they're only in the fifth inning. They're up ten

1062
00:48:45,400 --> 00:48:48,440
Speaker 4: to two on the Angels, so even.

1063
00:48:48,320 --> 00:48:52,600
Speaker 2: Their farm system is just all the prospects are kicking,

1064
00:48:52,760 --> 00:48:54,200
Speaker 2: you know what and taking names.

1065
00:48:54,320 --> 00:48:58,880
Speaker 4: Yes, Yamamoto did start the game and he pitched very well,

1066
00:48:59,600 --> 00:49:01,960
Speaker 4: and I think there was a fielding error by to

1067
00:49:02,080 --> 00:49:04,920
Speaker 4: Oscar Hernandez, so that kept him in a little longer.

1068
00:49:05,080 --> 00:49:07,000
Speaker 4: But you know what, if there's a feeling her by

1069
00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:11,120
Speaker 4: Oscar Hernandez, we are so back. It's definitely, so definitely

1070
00:49:11,160 --> 00:49:12,040
Speaker 4: baseball season.

1071
00:49:12,560 --> 00:49:12,880
Speaker 1: All right.

1072
00:49:13,120 --> 00:49:16,920
Speaker 2: We're probably not the best narrator for this, given everything

1073
00:49:16,960 --> 00:49:18,439
Speaker 2: we just talked about and how big of a Dodger

1074
00:49:18,520 --> 00:49:18,920
Speaker 2: fan you.

1075
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Speaker 1: Are, But is a Dodger's three peat with the way

1076
00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:27,560
Speaker 1: that they are built, the way that they continued to build,

1077
00:49:30,719 --> 00:49:32,240
Speaker 1: is a three peat in inevitability?

1078
00:49:32,680 --> 00:49:34,480
Speaker 4: Well, so it's interesting, and I know there are people

1079
00:49:34,520 --> 00:49:36,440
Speaker 4: that think the Dodgers are rooting baseball and I have

1080
00:49:36,800 --> 00:49:40,040
Speaker 4: obviously very different opinion on that, and that's probably another

1081
00:49:40,080 --> 00:49:42,600
Speaker 4: a segment for another time. But you know, with the

1082
00:49:42,600 --> 00:49:45,600
Speaker 4: way they are built on paper right now, yes, it

1083
00:49:45,640 --> 00:49:49,640
Speaker 4: seems inevitable. But we have to remember they had a

1084
00:49:49,680 --> 00:49:53,360
Speaker 4: seven game series against the Blue Jays that went to

1085
00:49:53,400 --> 00:49:56,279
Speaker 4: extra innings for them to win, which just shows it

1086
00:49:56,360 --> 00:49:59,360
Speaker 4: is baseball, and things can happen to baseball, and that

1087
00:49:59,360 --> 00:50:01,680
Speaker 4: I mean the Blue Obviously we're a really really good

1088
00:50:01,680 --> 00:50:04,080
Speaker 4: baseball team last year and will be again this year,

1089
00:50:04,160 --> 00:50:07,480
Speaker 4: but it just shows it just baseball's weird.

1090
00:50:07,560 --> 00:50:09,280
Speaker 3: They swept the Brewers.

1091
00:50:08,880 --> 00:50:11,359
Speaker 4: And then seven games against the Blue Jays, like I said,

1092
00:50:11,400 --> 00:50:14,360
Speaker 4: extra inning. So right now as it stands, yes, it

1093
00:50:14,400 --> 00:50:17,880
Speaker 4: does feel like it's an inevitability. I have told myself

1094
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Speaker 4: to stop being worried about them in May, even though

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00:50:20,760 --> 00:50:22,680
Speaker 4: that won't happen. I'll still be worried about them in May.

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Speaker 4: But you just never know, because it's still baseball, and

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00:50:26,600 --> 00:50:29,360
Speaker 4: one swing of the bat, as we've seen, changes everything.

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Speaker 4: So it's different than like, I feel like it's different

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Speaker 4: than football if you have football, Like you look at

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00:50:35,000 --> 00:50:37,600
Speaker 4: the Super Bowl for instance, and Seahawks were just by

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00:50:37,640 --> 00:50:40,400
Speaker 4: far the better team. It wasn't really wasn't even close,

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Speaker 4: and you knew that going into it, and really there

1103
00:50:42,880 --> 00:50:46,000
Speaker 4: was no possible way they could lose that game baseball,

1104
00:50:46,040 --> 00:50:48,120
Speaker 4: no matter how good you are. I mean last year

1105
00:50:48,160 --> 00:50:52,319
Speaker 4: the Dodgers got swept by the Angels. You just so yes,

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00:50:52,480 --> 00:50:53,840
Speaker 4: and no, I think, is my answer.

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Speaker 2: No, that's fair. No, I mean, it is at the

1108
00:50:56,640 --> 00:50:58,600
Speaker 2: end of the day. We wouldn't watch these sports if

1109
00:50:58,680 --> 00:51:03,160
Speaker 2: like things were before gone conclusion before the season even started, right, Yeah,

1110
00:51:03,200 --> 00:51:05,799
Speaker 2: but you have to respect the way that I guess

1111
00:51:05,800 --> 00:51:07,120
Speaker 2: you don't have to respect it because there's a lot

1112
00:51:07,160 --> 00:51:09,719
Speaker 2: of people that are dissenting on what the Cubs are

1113
00:51:09,880 --> 00:51:12,360
Speaker 2: or what the Dodgers are quote unquote doing to baseball.

1114
00:51:13,440 --> 00:51:16,480
Speaker 2: But you can't in my opinion, and this is coming

1115
00:51:16,480 --> 00:51:18,360
Speaker 2: from someone who lives in Chicago, who you know, the

1116
00:51:18,400 --> 00:51:21,799
Speaker 2: Cubs just they kind of self imploded last year and

1117
00:51:21,960 --> 00:51:24,640
Speaker 2: at the end of the season, and they like this

1118
00:51:24,800 --> 00:51:27,360
Speaker 2: that the other They finally I think realized that they

1119
00:51:27,400 --> 00:51:32,120
Speaker 2: could defer money. So some of the contracts recently have

1120
00:51:32,239 --> 00:51:34,560
Speaker 2: reflected that thank god the Cubs are starting to spend money.

1121
00:51:34,560 --> 00:51:36,920
Speaker 2: But like, this is what happens when you do not

1122
00:51:37,000 --> 00:51:40,600
Speaker 2: have a hard salary cap, and you should hate you

1123
00:51:40,680 --> 00:51:43,040
Speaker 2: don't hate the player, hate the game. Like if you

1124
00:51:43,120 --> 00:51:45,799
Speaker 2: really think that the Dodgers are ruining things because they're

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00:51:45,840 --> 00:51:47,919
Speaker 2: spending a ton of money, well they're allowed to spend

1126
00:51:47,920 --> 00:51:48,520
Speaker 2: a ton of money.

1127
00:51:48,520 --> 00:51:50,040
Speaker 1: Everybody is allowed to spend a ton.

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Speaker 2: Of money exactly, And do they have the presence or

1129
00:51:54,000 --> 00:51:57,960
Speaker 2: the kind of revenue power that the Dodgers do being

1130
00:51:57,960 --> 00:52:01,439
Speaker 2: in such a big market, being such a legacy fans. No,

1131
00:52:01,880 --> 00:52:04,279
Speaker 2: But at the same time, I mean, baseball does have

1132
00:52:04,320 --> 00:52:09,520
Speaker 2: revenue sharing, and there is they're like, there's nothing really

1133
00:52:10,160 --> 00:52:13,359
Speaker 2: stopping anybody else from giving the Dodgers run for their money,

1134
00:52:13,440 --> 00:52:15,360
Speaker 2: especially the other legacy teams.

1135
00:52:15,400 --> 00:52:16,799
Speaker 1: When you talk about the.

1136
00:52:16,800 --> 00:52:20,240
Speaker 2: Cubs or the Yankees, who also have a really high payroll,

1137
00:52:20,320 --> 00:52:22,360
Speaker 2: or like I mean, any of these teams, especially in

1138
00:52:22,360 --> 00:52:25,440
Speaker 2: these bigger markets or these legacy teams, the door is

1139
00:52:25,480 --> 00:52:27,399
Speaker 2: open for you to do whatever it is you need

1140
00:52:27,440 --> 00:52:29,320
Speaker 2: to do to keep up with the with with with

1141
00:52:29,520 --> 00:52:33,360
Speaker 2: the Dodgers. So I think that's like we'll talk a

1142
00:52:33,360 --> 00:52:35,960
Speaker 2: lot more about that as you know, spring training goes

1143
00:52:36,000 --> 00:52:39,839
Speaker 2: on and as the baseball season nears. But I do

1144
00:52:39,920 --> 00:52:42,120
Speaker 2: think that that like when you don't have a salary

1145
00:52:42,120 --> 00:52:44,480
Speaker 2: cap or a hard cap and all you have to

1146
00:52:44,480 --> 00:52:48,400
Speaker 2: do is just pay more money. Hey, these are billionaire

1147
00:52:48,400 --> 00:52:52,160
Speaker 2: owners that own these teams, so spend it. Spend that

1148
00:52:52,200 --> 00:52:52,799
Speaker 2: money that.

1149
00:52:52,840 --> 00:52:54,840
Speaker 1: You have, however you don't have.

1150
00:52:55,480 --> 00:52:58,080
Speaker 2: I'm I'm and this is this is again lappable coming

1151
00:52:58,080 --> 00:52:59,680
Speaker 2: out of my mouth. Who again, I am a self

1152
00:52:59,680 --> 00:53:02,759
Speaker 2: proclaim white Sox fan who they don't spend money at all,

1153
00:53:03,400 --> 00:53:04,680
Speaker 2: literally at her, And.

1154
00:53:04,680 --> 00:53:06,359
Speaker 3: What are the White Sox going to be like this year?

1155
00:53:07,280 --> 00:53:09,480
Speaker 2: The only hope, Tracy, that I have for the white

1156
00:53:09,560 --> 00:53:11,880
Speaker 2: Chicago White Sox this year is that there is a

1157
00:53:11,920 --> 00:53:15,120
Speaker 2: White Sox fan in the Vatican. And clearly that meant

1158
00:53:15,120 --> 00:53:18,400
Speaker 2: something for the Chicago Bears, so like it didn't happen

1159
00:53:18,480 --> 00:53:21,040
Speaker 2: soon enough for them to really like benefit from it

1160
00:53:21,120 --> 00:53:25,800
Speaker 2: last season. So perhaps like this season, there's going to

1161
00:53:25,880 --> 00:53:27,759
Speaker 2: be some like divine intervention because that's what it's going

1162
00:53:27,800 --> 00:53:30,400
Speaker 2: to take for the White Sox to be at all competitive.

1163
00:53:31,320 --> 00:53:33,520
Speaker 4: If they are competitive, that's going to be kind of amazing.

1164
00:53:33,520 --> 00:53:35,560
Speaker 4: You're right, that does help. And he's a White Sox fan.

1165
00:53:35,600 --> 00:53:37,319
Speaker 4: He's not a Cubs fan, he's not a Huse fan.

1166
00:53:37,400 --> 00:53:38,960
Speaker 2: He's he was at the two thousand and five World

1167
00:53:39,000 --> 00:53:40,480
Speaker 2: Series or one of the games of the two thousand

1168
00:53:40,480 --> 00:53:44,360
Speaker 2: and five World Series. There is documentation of that. And

1169
00:53:44,480 --> 00:53:46,359
Speaker 2: we are getting married in Rome, and so I really

1170
00:53:46,360 --> 00:53:47,640
Speaker 2: need to figure out a way to get a message

1171
00:53:47,640 --> 00:53:48,120
Speaker 2: too and be.

1172
00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:49,960
Speaker 1: Like, hey, oh white Sox fan, do and I'm getting

1173
00:53:49,960 --> 00:53:50,840
Speaker 1: married in your backyard.

1174
00:53:50,960 --> 00:53:53,279
Speaker 3: You want to come just go to the Vatican and

1175
00:53:53,320 --> 00:53:53,800
Speaker 3: send them a no.

1176
00:53:53,920 --> 00:53:55,840
Speaker 4: Listen, someone did that for bad buddy and then they

1177
00:53:55,880 --> 00:53:57,399
Speaker 4: got to get married, and then they got married.

1178
00:53:58,520 --> 00:54:00,960
Speaker 1: Give it a shot. Why not invite us? Maybe he'll

1179
00:54:00,960 --> 00:54:02,320
Speaker 1: marry us himself in the Vatican.

1180
00:54:02,360 --> 00:54:04,600
Speaker 4: Who knows, I would try it. The worst that can

1181
00:54:04,640 --> 00:54:06,440
Speaker 4: happen is he says no or doesn't respond.

1182
00:54:06,520 --> 00:54:07,040
Speaker 3: Let's be honest.

1183
00:54:07,640 --> 00:54:10,200
Speaker 2: Well, we're going to keep with the Chicago theme on

1184
00:54:10,239 --> 00:54:12,480
Speaker 2: the other side of this break, because there is a

1185
00:54:12,719 --> 00:54:16,080
Speaker 2: saga happening with the Chicago Bears and their stadium, and

1186
00:54:16,200 --> 00:54:18,480
Speaker 2: I want to talk about not only that, but what

1187
00:54:18,560 --> 00:54:21,120
Speaker 2: we've seen from some other stadiums that have been built

1188
00:54:21,160 --> 00:54:24,480
Speaker 2: across the league, and that is coming up right after this.

1189
00:54:24,560 --> 00:54:30,919
Speaker 2: You're listening to Fox Football Saturday, Sports Saturday. Sorry, guys, yep,

1190
00:54:31,080 --> 00:54:32,760
Speaker 2: keep eighties and nineties music going.

1191
00:54:32,960 --> 00:54:34,680
Speaker 1: That can just be a theme.

1192
00:54:36,000 --> 00:54:36,920
Speaker 3: Back again.

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00:54:37,160 --> 00:54:41,080
Speaker 2: There she is, that's Tracy Sandler. I'm Carmen Vitally. You're

1194
00:54:41,120 --> 00:54:44,880
Speaker 2: listening to Fox Sports Saturday. Keep saying Fox Football Saturday.

1195
00:54:44,920 --> 00:54:49,320
Speaker 2: Old habits die hard. It is no longer football season anymore.

1196
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Speaker 3: It's always football season.

1197
00:54:51,160 --> 00:54:56,040
Speaker 1: But it's always football season. It's always football season.

1198
00:54:56,080 --> 00:54:59,000
Speaker 2: We're going to like the craziest week of the NFL

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Speaker 2: calendar in two days trace the NFL Combine.

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00:55:03,600 --> 00:55:07,560
Speaker 1: He starts on Monday. For those of us that are covering.

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00:55:07,440 --> 00:55:11,400
Speaker 4: The super Bowl, was two weeks ago tomorrow, the when

1202
00:55:11,400 --> 00:55:12,960
Speaker 4: the Niners were in the Super Bowl in Vegas a

1203
00:55:12,960 --> 00:55:15,560
Speaker 4: couple of years ago, when I was packing for the combine,

1204
00:55:15,680 --> 00:55:19,160
Speaker 4: I like looked up and said, basically to my dogs,

1205
00:55:19,440 --> 00:55:22,239
Speaker 4: two weeks ago, at this moment, I was covering the

1206
00:55:22,280 --> 00:55:25,480
Speaker 4: Super Bowl, and now I am packing for the combine.

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00:55:25,719 --> 00:55:28,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, or you just do what I have done, which

1208
00:55:28,160 --> 00:55:30,600
Speaker 2: is the last two years. Actually, in fact, I've gone

1209
00:55:30,680 --> 00:55:34,600
Speaker 2: Super Bowl to Europe because of getting married there, and

1210
00:55:34,760 --> 00:55:36,799
Speaker 2: we've had to like like last year we got the venue,

1211
00:55:36,840 --> 00:55:38,520
Speaker 2: and like this year we finalized everything and then we're

1212
00:55:38,520 --> 00:55:41,799
Speaker 2: going straight into So in the month of February, I

1213
00:55:41,840 --> 00:55:43,799
Speaker 2: will have been home for a grand total I think

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Speaker 2: of five days.

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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Can you probably hear my voice.

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00:55:48,400 --> 00:55:50,080
Speaker 2: I've noticed my boys cracked a couple of times in

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00:55:50,120 --> 00:55:52,120
Speaker 2: this show, and I'm just like, I don't know what

1219
00:55:52,160 --> 00:55:53,080
Speaker 2: else to tell you.

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00:55:53,120 --> 00:55:54,600
Speaker 3: No, I actually am very impressed.

1221
00:55:54,680 --> 00:55:57,800
Speaker 4: I feel like you sound very bright eyed, bushy tailed,

1222
00:55:57,880 --> 00:55:58,720
Speaker 4: voice sounds strong.

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00:55:58,840 --> 00:56:01,120
Speaker 3: I've been very impressed with you. The entire time.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much.

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00:56:02,320 --> 00:56:04,720
Speaker 3: You're welcome. You know what else I'm impressed with? Well,

1226
00:56:05,120 --> 00:56:07,719
Speaker 3: I'm loving these segues, just so you know I do too.

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00:56:08,080 --> 00:56:10,640
Speaker 3: The iHeartRadio app, heck yeah.

1228
00:56:10,680 --> 00:56:12,880
Speaker 4: And with the iHeart Radio app, you can stream us

1229
00:56:12,920 --> 00:56:16,319
Speaker 4: wherever you happen to be, like Rome, for instance, There

1230
00:56:16,320 --> 00:56:18,400
Speaker 4: you go catch us and all of our Fox Sports

1231
00:56:18,480 --> 00:56:20,880
Speaker 4: Radio shows live twenty four to seven. And then new

1232
00:56:20,920 --> 00:56:24,040
Speaker 4: and improved iHeartRadio app. Just search Fox Sports Radio to

1233
00:56:24,080 --> 00:56:27,160
Speaker 4: stream us live all day every day, and be sure

1234
00:56:27,160 --> 00:56:29,600
Speaker 4: to select Fox Sports Radio as one of your presets

1235
00:56:29,719 --> 00:56:32,360
Speaker 4: so we'll always pop up at the top of your screen.

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00:56:32,640 --> 00:56:35,840
Speaker 1: There you go. You know it's been popping up at

1237
00:56:35,840 --> 00:56:38,359
Speaker 1: the top of my screen. See how about it? How

1238
00:56:38,400 --> 00:56:39,279
Speaker 1: about it? So good?

1239
00:56:39,680 --> 00:56:39,799
Speaker 4: Uh?

1240
00:56:40,520 --> 00:56:43,839
Speaker 2: Has been any time I refreshed social media? Like I

1241
00:56:43,880 --> 00:56:46,799
Speaker 2: was in Rome? I remember, and people started losing their

1242
00:56:46,840 --> 00:56:49,239
Speaker 2: minds in Chicago because oh my god, the Bears are

1243
00:56:49,280 --> 00:56:52,200
Speaker 2: moving to Indiana, And I was like what, And then

1244
00:56:53,040 --> 00:56:58,040
Speaker 2: sure enough it was like everybody just overreacted because this

1245
00:56:58,120 --> 00:57:00,719
Speaker 2: has been an absolute saga to get the Bears a

1246
00:57:00,840 --> 00:57:02,720
Speaker 2: new stadium.

1247
00:57:03,320 --> 00:57:04,399
Speaker 1: They have been at Soldier Field.

1248
00:57:04,440 --> 00:57:07,360
Speaker 2: They've only played in two stadiums in their one hundred

1249
00:57:07,360 --> 00:57:10,359
Speaker 2: plus year history, they played at Wrigley Field and now

1250
00:57:10,360 --> 00:57:15,120
Speaker 2: they play at Soldier Field. And Soldier Field, though is

1251
00:57:15,160 --> 00:57:18,120
Speaker 2: not owned by the Chicago Bears. The Soldier Field is

1252
00:57:18,160 --> 00:57:21,160
Speaker 2: owned by the Chicago Park District, and the Bears rent

1253
00:57:21,400 --> 00:57:23,920
Speaker 2: the Soldier Field to play their games, and so they

1254
00:57:23,920 --> 00:57:28,520
Speaker 2: are not directly benefiting from the amount of revenue that

1255
00:57:28,560 --> 00:57:30,440
Speaker 2: comes into Soldier Field in the same way that they

1256
00:57:30,480 --> 00:57:32,920
Speaker 2: would if they owned the stadium. So what if the

1257
00:57:32,960 --> 00:57:35,600
Speaker 2: mcaskee family wants. What the mcaskee family wants to do

1258
00:57:35,720 --> 00:57:39,840
Speaker 2: is build another stadium. Well, the city of Chicago put

1259
00:57:39,920 --> 00:57:42,200
Speaker 2: up a proposal for a site that seems to be

1260
00:57:42,240 --> 00:57:46,760
Speaker 2: going by the wayside. What happened initially is that years ago,

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00:57:46,800 --> 00:57:51,120
Speaker 2: at this point twenty twenty two, I believe the Bears

1262
00:57:51,160 --> 00:57:55,360
Speaker 2: purchased a lot from the old Arlington Racetrack, which is

1263
00:57:55,360 --> 00:57:58,280
Speaker 2: in a suburb of Chicago called Arlington Heights, and.

1264
00:57:58,440 --> 00:58:00,600
Speaker 3: Jimmy Garoppolo grew up by the way where.

1265
00:58:00,240 --> 00:58:01,120
Speaker 1: To Ggaroppolo grew up.

1266
00:58:01,160 --> 00:58:03,520
Speaker 2: In fact, actually there's there's like a sneaky number of

1267
00:58:03,520 --> 00:58:06,200
Speaker 2: people from Arlington Knights, I feel like in the league.

1268
00:58:06,680 --> 00:58:12,040
Speaker 2: But they did that and then brought Kevin Warren in

1269
00:58:12,080 --> 00:58:15,200
Speaker 2: who helped get US Bank Stadium built from Minnesota for

1270
00:58:15,240 --> 00:58:15,760
Speaker 2: the Vikings.

1271
00:58:16,240 --> 00:58:18,440
Speaker 1: But they like they bought that site in Arlington.

1272
00:58:18,160 --> 00:58:20,840
Speaker 2: Heights, brought in Kevin Warren and we're like, okay, build

1273
00:58:20,920 --> 00:58:22,800
Speaker 2: us a stadium. And then Kevin Warren's like, well, I

1274
00:58:22,800 --> 00:58:24,960
Speaker 2: don't have leverage because you already bought this site. So

1275
00:58:25,040 --> 00:58:27,360
Speaker 2: Arleton Heights knows that we want to build there, and

1276
00:58:27,520 --> 00:58:30,520
Speaker 2: they don't really have like they're not incentivized to work

1277
00:58:30,560 --> 00:58:34,680
Speaker 2: with us, really, and they're the Bears don't have enough

1278
00:58:34,720 --> 00:58:39,280
Speaker 2: liquid cash to actually get the stadium and the surrounding

1279
00:58:39,320 --> 00:58:42,800
Speaker 2: area done. And they're asking for some legislative pieces to

1280
00:58:42,880 --> 00:58:46,960
Speaker 2: this when it comes to the county or the tax

1281
00:58:47,000 --> 00:58:50,200
Speaker 2: codes and this, that the other. It's all really insane.

1282
00:58:50,240 --> 00:58:54,240
Speaker 2: And so then enter in the wild card, which is Indiana.

1283
00:58:54,400 --> 00:58:57,520
Speaker 2: The state of Indiana. State of Indiana is saying, hey,

1284
00:58:58,280 --> 00:59:02,360
Speaker 2: they passed a legislation that basically opens the door for

1285
00:59:02,600 --> 00:59:04,960
Speaker 2: the Chicago Bears to come into Indiana and build a

1286
00:59:04,960 --> 00:59:08,600
Speaker 2: stadium there and then the local government will help. And

1287
00:59:08,800 --> 00:59:11,520
Speaker 2: like they put together this really lovely package, put a

1288
00:59:11,520 --> 00:59:13,760
Speaker 2: bow on it and said here and everybody took that

1289
00:59:13,800 --> 00:59:16,120
Speaker 2: to me, and that the Bears were moving then to Indiana,

1290
00:59:16,520 --> 00:59:20,520
Speaker 2: and that's not the case. It's still a very like

1291
00:59:20,760 --> 00:59:24,760
Speaker 2: it's an ongoing negotiation. But the bill that would need

1292
00:59:24,800 --> 00:59:27,120
Speaker 2: to be passed for the Bears to build in Arlington

1293
00:59:27,160 --> 00:59:33,160
Speaker 2: Heights in the in the Illinois Congress in Illinois Congress

1294
00:59:33,200 --> 00:59:35,520
Speaker 2: like almost made it to the floor but then was

1295
00:59:35,520 --> 00:59:37,600
Speaker 2: canceled last minute. And at the same time this Indiana

1296
00:59:37,640 --> 00:59:40,200
Speaker 2: news came out, So everybody just like lost their marbles

1297
00:59:40,440 --> 00:59:41,800
Speaker 2: in the city of Chicago about this.

1298
00:59:43,040 --> 00:59:43,960
Speaker 1: I'm here to tell.

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Speaker 2: You that I it's it's still like, I still think

1300
00:59:47,400 --> 00:59:49,120
Speaker 2: Arlington Heights is going to be part of this, but

1301
00:59:50,480 --> 00:59:53,320
Speaker 2: the fact that the Bears are entertaining playing in another state,

1302
00:59:54,280 --> 00:59:56,200
Speaker 2: they wouldn't be the only NFL team to do it.

1303
00:59:57,040 --> 00:59:58,800
Speaker 1: But what makes.

1304
00:59:58,560 --> 01:00:02,360
Speaker 2: It insane to me is that the Bears training facility

1305
01:00:02,480 --> 01:00:04,600
Speaker 2: is on like the Illinois Wisconsin bord.

1306
01:00:04,640 --> 01:00:05,800
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you a little geography.

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Speaker 2: Listen, hear it's on the Illinois Wisconsin border, Like it

1308
01:00:08,600 --> 01:00:11,640
Speaker 2: literally is sixteen miles from the Wisconsin border. And then

1309
01:00:11,840 --> 01:00:15,360
Speaker 2: to have the stadium then be just over the border,

1310
01:00:15,960 --> 01:00:17,800
Speaker 2: despite the fact it's only like twenty miles from Soldier

1311
01:00:17,840 --> 01:00:21,440
Speaker 2: Field in Indiana, I'm like, so you're gonna essentially be

1312
01:00:21,480 --> 01:00:25,120
Speaker 2: having the Bears play everywhere but Illinois, which is wild

1313
01:00:25,720 --> 01:00:27,960
Speaker 2: for a legacy franchise that was the founding franchise of

1314
01:00:27,960 --> 01:00:32,720
Speaker 2: the NFL. Like, have some have some respect for the

1315
01:00:32,760 --> 01:00:37,160
Speaker 2: state that you were founded in. Now Kansas City, the

1316
01:00:37,240 --> 01:00:39,560
Speaker 2: Chiefs new stadium is now in Kansas and they have

1317
01:00:39,640 --> 01:00:42,720
Speaker 2: played forever in Missouri. It's still Kansas City, but Kansas

1318
01:00:42,720 --> 01:00:44,920
Speaker 2: City is Kansas City, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri. They

1319
01:00:44,920 --> 01:00:47,640
Speaker 2: are now gonna be playing in Kansas. We also know

1320
01:00:47,680 --> 01:00:50,160
Speaker 2: that both New York teams play in New Jersey, but

1321
01:00:50,160 --> 01:00:53,240
Speaker 2: I actually say both New York City teams, but on

1322
01:00:53,560 --> 01:00:55,920
Speaker 2: the only team that actually plays in New York is

1323
01:00:56,320 --> 01:00:57,160
Speaker 2: the Buffalo Bills.

1324
01:00:57,640 --> 01:00:59,720
Speaker 3: Oh, actually it's true. That's straight. It's actually very funny.

1325
01:00:59,720 --> 01:01:00,440
Speaker 1: But I think it.

1326
01:01:02,240 --> 01:01:04,760
Speaker 4: It's like everyone's used to that and that's almost how

1327
01:01:04,800 --> 01:01:05,760
Speaker 4: it's always been.

1328
01:01:06,400 --> 01:01:08,720
Speaker 3: And even with the Chiefs, I mean, it's at least

1329
01:01:08,760 --> 01:01:09,880
Speaker 3: Kansas is still in the name.

1330
01:01:10,640 --> 01:01:15,280
Speaker 2: That's yeah, Like I know that, like the states are like,

1331
01:01:15,280 --> 01:01:16,840
Speaker 2: like Missouri is upset.

1332
01:01:16,760 --> 01:01:19,959
Speaker 3: And I'm sure Missouri is very upset, and I understand.

1333
01:01:19,640 --> 01:01:22,800
Speaker 2: It and and diehard Kansas City Chiefs fans are like

1334
01:01:22,840 --> 01:01:25,280
Speaker 2: what are you doing, Like especially because like Arrowhead, and

1335
01:01:25,320 --> 01:01:27,200
Speaker 2: I think that like the Kiss City Royal Stadium I

1336
01:01:27,240 --> 01:01:29,920
Speaker 2: think is right there by Aarrawhead two and so like

1337
01:01:30,120 --> 01:01:32,080
Speaker 2: it was like a nice little park, and like Arrowhead's

1338
01:01:32,080 --> 01:01:34,640
Speaker 2: like really historic too, and so I feel like, I

1339
01:01:34,680 --> 01:01:36,520
Speaker 2: don't know, we're losing We're losing.

1340
01:01:36,240 --> 01:01:37,640
Speaker 1: So much of what makes football.

1341
01:01:37,680 --> 01:01:39,640
Speaker 2: And this goes back to like my earlier comment of

1342
01:01:39,680 --> 01:01:43,240
Speaker 2: like the history and the ritualism of NFL football is

1343
01:01:43,280 --> 01:01:47,160
Speaker 2: being deluded by a lot of things, but the stadiums

1344
01:01:47,280 --> 01:01:49,840
Speaker 2: and the traditions around the stadiums are also being diluted

1345
01:01:49,880 --> 01:01:51,720
Speaker 2: in the sense that like all these new stadiums all

1346
01:01:51,720 --> 01:01:55,800
Speaker 2: look very similar, they're following the same kind of whatever.

1347
01:01:55,920 --> 01:01:58,080
Speaker 2: And then if you're taking them out of the area

1348
01:01:58,320 --> 01:02:02,440
Speaker 2: that has the concentration of fans, I don't know. I

1349
01:02:02,440 --> 01:02:04,240
Speaker 2: just feel like we've were losing the plot. I feel

1350
01:02:04,240 --> 01:02:06,640
Speaker 2: like we've lost the plot when it comes to this Bears,

1351
01:02:06,720 --> 01:02:10,440
Speaker 2: especially this Bears stadium saga, where I was like, really, Northwest.

1352
01:02:10,040 --> 01:02:11,600
Speaker 1: Indiana, it's too weird.

1353
01:02:11,800 --> 01:02:14,240
Speaker 4: The Chicago Bears could not play in Northwest Indiana. It's

1354
01:02:14,240 --> 01:02:15,240
Speaker 4: so bizarre it.

1355
01:02:16,240 --> 01:02:18,560
Speaker 2: And like I think, oh again, it's twenty it would

1356
01:02:18,600 --> 01:02:21,200
Speaker 2: be twenty miles from where Soldier Field is right now,

1357
01:02:21,280 --> 01:02:24,320
Speaker 2: Like it wouldn't actually be that far and it's still

1358
01:02:24,360 --> 01:02:28,120
Speaker 2: on the lake. But there's something to be said about

1359
01:02:28,160 --> 01:02:31,280
Speaker 2: the visuals of what you know, Like, for instance, the

1360
01:02:31,320 --> 01:02:34,560
Speaker 2: Bears Packers rivalry is where you have the visuals, the

1361
01:02:34,600 --> 01:02:39,240
Speaker 2: aerial visuals of Green Bay in you know, in a neighborhood,

1362
01:02:39,640 --> 01:02:43,760
Speaker 2: but this like iconic Landmark Stadium, and then when they

1363
01:02:43,760 --> 01:02:46,280
Speaker 2: come to Chicago, it's on the lake front, and it's

1364
01:02:46,320 --> 01:02:49,320
Speaker 2: so it's a huge part of the team's identity and

1365
01:02:49,560 --> 01:02:51,800
Speaker 2: of the identity of these like rivalries too.

1366
01:02:52,200 --> 01:02:55,640
Speaker 1: And it's just I mean, I.

1367
01:02:55,560 --> 01:02:57,480
Speaker 2: Think the ant like I would have loved it if

1368
01:02:57,520 --> 01:02:59,280
Speaker 2: they could have figured it out with the city of Chicago,

1369
01:02:59,360 --> 01:03:02,600
Speaker 2: that seems to be off the table. But Arlington Heights

1370
01:03:02,640 --> 01:03:04,800
Speaker 2: is also like thirty minutes outside the city, and I

1371
01:03:04,800 --> 01:03:06,480
Speaker 2: don't think that's a big deal at all, because if

1372
01:03:06,520 --> 01:03:10,440
Speaker 2: you look at I mean, the Arizona Cardinals play in Glendale,

1373
01:03:10,640 --> 01:03:13,560
Speaker 2: I mean with Arizona, but like they're they're not in Phoenix.

1374
01:03:14,880 --> 01:03:15,600
Speaker 3: In San Francisco.

1375
01:03:15,720 --> 01:03:18,160
Speaker 2: Forty Niners are very much as we you know, as

1376
01:03:18,240 --> 01:03:22,000
Speaker 2: we saw Super Bowl Week, very much not in San Francisco.

1377
01:03:22,120 --> 01:03:24,800
Speaker 1: I mean even like the La Rams and Chargers, they're

1378
01:03:24,800 --> 01:03:27,720
Speaker 1: in Inglewood, like there. I know you can claim Los

1379
01:03:27,760 --> 01:03:30,160
Speaker 1: Angeles County, but like it's not the city of Los Angeles.

1380
01:03:31,240 --> 01:03:33,480
Speaker 2: So I don't think like being in a suburb is

1381
01:03:33,840 --> 01:03:36,520
Speaker 2: at all bad for the for the Chicago Bears, but

1382
01:03:36,600 --> 01:03:40,520
Speaker 2: like outside the state, even though it's right there, I'm

1383
01:03:40,600 --> 01:03:41,800
Speaker 2: drawing the line.

1384
01:03:41,560 --> 01:03:44,640
Speaker 3: Quite literally trying I agree with you.

1385
01:03:45,640 --> 01:03:47,280
Speaker 2: We're gonna talk a little bit a bit more about

1386
01:03:47,280 --> 01:03:49,960
Speaker 2: that with our next guest, but before that, let's take

1387
01:03:50,000 --> 01:03:51,760
Speaker 2: a quick update break with Wars.

1388
01:03:54,600 --> 01:03:57,520
Speaker 7: With time winding down to the second half, it's uh,

1389
01:03:57,720 --> 01:03:59,920
Speaker 7: I don't want to call it over yet. There's sick

1390
01:04:00,000 --> 01:04:03,280
Speaker 7: sixty nine to sixty three. Arizona has the lead forty

1391
01:04:03,360 --> 01:04:07,680
Speaker 7: seconds left, just about Arizona inbounds of the ball. It's

1392
01:04:07,680 --> 01:04:09,640
Speaker 7: going to be coming down to free throws and defense

1393
01:04:09,680 --> 01:04:12,040
Speaker 7: and trapping for them on that side of things. And

1394
01:04:12,160 --> 01:04:15,200
Speaker 7: another Top twenty match of Arkansas has a fifty six

1395
01:04:15,280 --> 01:04:19,440
Speaker 7: to fifty two lead over Missouri sixteen minutes.

1396
01:04:19,240 --> 01:04:20,200
Speaker 1: Left in the second half.

1397
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Speaker 7: There Darius Akoff just gave him fifty seven points. That

1398
01:04:23,560 --> 01:04:28,280
Speaker 7: kid is a walking certified bucket earlier today, Cincinnati beat Kansas,

1399
01:04:28,360 --> 01:04:31,640
Speaker 7: the eighth ranked team, by sixteen. That's eighty four to

1400
01:04:31,720 --> 01:04:34,880
Speaker 7: sixty eight, Kansas's worst lost to onnerecked opponent in fifty

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01:04:34,920 --> 01:04:38,000
Speaker 7: three years. Worst home loss for Bill self in his

1402
01:04:38,280 --> 01:04:42,880
Speaker 7: tenure career. Tennessee upset fourteenth Vanderbilt sixty nine to sixty five.

1403
01:04:43,280 --> 01:04:45,640
Speaker 7: NFL News, The Cowboys have agreed to a three year,

1404
01:04:45,760 --> 01:04:48,480
Speaker 7: twenty four million on a contract with Davonte Williams that

1405
01:04:48,520 --> 01:04:53,040
Speaker 7: includes sixteen million in guaranteed money. The Browns I'm sorry, yeah.

1406
01:04:53,080 --> 01:04:57,200
Speaker 7: Browns linebacker Jeremiah Owosu Coromoa. He hasn't played since offering

1407
01:04:57,240 --> 01:04:59,080
Speaker 7: a neck injury in twenty twenty four.

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01:04:59,520 --> 01:05:01,000
Speaker 1: Browns reporter Mary.

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01:05:00,800 --> 01:05:05,000
Speaker 7: Kay Cabot is reporting likely that it's likely that Jeremiah

1410
01:05:05,000 --> 01:05:06,760
Speaker 7: os Who Cormora is going.

1411
01:05:06,600 --> 01:05:09,439
Speaker 1: To have to retire. Texas Tech for where JT.

1412
01:05:09,640 --> 01:05:12,760
Speaker 7: Top And was diatoused with a season ending torn ACL

1413
01:05:13,600 --> 01:05:15,040
Speaker 7: That's the bad news for Texas Tech.

1414
01:05:15,080 --> 01:05:16,040
Speaker 1: They did get a.

1415
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Speaker 7: Win in the first game without him, one hundred to

1416
01:05:18,760 --> 01:05:23,160
Speaker 7: seventy two over Kansas State at the Genesis Invitational. Jacob

1417
01:05:23,160 --> 01:05:27,280
Speaker 7: Brisbane is eighteen under that for Arizona. I see, I

1418
01:05:27,280 --> 01:05:29,440
Speaker 7: didn't call it over yet still six point game, thirty

1419
01:05:29,480 --> 01:05:32,400
Speaker 7: seconds left. They're reviewing right now. The officials are a

1420
01:05:32,520 --> 01:05:35,280
Speaker 7: call in the game. So ladies, I'll take it back

1421
01:05:35,280 --> 01:05:36,880
Speaker 7: to you. But Carmen, I do have to ask you

1422
01:05:36,920 --> 01:05:39,720
Speaker 7: like one thing. That is it'll be quick, I promise,

1423
01:05:39,840 --> 01:05:43,720
Speaker 7: But I thought about this clancingly when it comes to

1424
01:05:43,760 --> 01:05:46,720
Speaker 7: the Bear Stadium thing. If you put another there's already

1425
01:05:46,760 --> 01:05:50,800
Speaker 7: a football stadium in Indiana that is already being publicly

1426
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Speaker 7: subsidized in some form or fashion, right in the.

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Speaker 1: Lucas Oliel Stadium.

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Speaker 7: How do people in Indiana fiel about paying for two

1429
01:05:57,840 --> 01:06:00,480
Speaker 7: NFL's teams, especially one that they're not a fan of.

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01:06:01,160 --> 01:06:02,360
Speaker 1: It's really interesting.

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01:06:02,080 --> 01:06:04,880
Speaker 2: Too, because like Indiana has had this huge push over

1432
01:06:05,000 --> 01:06:07,280
Speaker 2: like pretty much all of my lifetime being like, hey,

1433
01:06:07,320 --> 01:06:12,760
Speaker 2: the taxes in Illinois suck. Come over here, and I'm like, well, if, yeah,

1434
01:06:12,800 --> 01:06:17,920
Speaker 2: if you're subsidizing stadium built for two NFL teams, how

1435
01:06:17,960 --> 01:06:20,640
Speaker 2: long is that going to be true that your taxes don't, like,

1436
01:06:20,640 --> 01:06:23,280
Speaker 2: are better than what we're paying over here in Illinois.

1437
01:06:23,600 --> 01:06:25,160
Speaker 1: I don't know the answer to that. I just I

1438
01:06:25,200 --> 01:06:26,080
Speaker 1: think it's insane.

1439
01:06:26,120 --> 01:06:28,280
Speaker 2: But you know what, you know, who else might have

1440
01:06:28,360 --> 01:06:30,760
Speaker 2: something to say about this. I know she has something

1441
01:06:30,800 --> 01:06:33,680
Speaker 2: to say about This is our guest coming on right

1442
01:06:33,720 --> 01:06:38,120
Speaker 2: now from WGN here in Chicago, my very good friend,

1443
01:06:38,480 --> 01:06:39,280
Speaker 2: Caitlyn Sharky.

1444
01:06:39,920 --> 01:06:42,000
Speaker 1: What's up, Tank? Hi?

1445
01:06:42,440 --> 01:06:43,000
Speaker 9: How are you?

1446
01:06:45,040 --> 01:06:45,760
Speaker 1: I'm so good.

1447
01:06:45,920 --> 01:06:49,960
Speaker 2: We just spent a segment talking about this Bears stadium saga,

1448
01:06:50,040 --> 01:06:53,520
Speaker 2: because and kind of comparing it to like what else

1449
01:06:53,600 --> 01:06:55,600
Speaker 2: is happening around the league with new with teams that

1450
01:06:55,640 --> 01:06:58,760
Speaker 2: have built new stadiums or building new stadiums, whether they're

1451
01:06:58,800 --> 01:07:00,600
Speaker 2: in the same state that they said they were going

1452
01:07:00,680 --> 01:07:03,760
Speaker 2: to be in, and this that the other. But I

1453
01:07:03,800 --> 01:07:06,680
Speaker 2: want to get your perspective on everything that's happened, because

1454
01:07:06,720 --> 01:07:09,680
Speaker 2: I was actually in Europe when D Day happened on

1455
01:07:09,760 --> 01:07:14,120
Speaker 2: Thursday apparently. What was What's been your takeaway from the

1456
01:07:14,520 --> 01:07:15,920
Speaker 2: news this week coming out.

1457
01:07:15,760 --> 01:07:18,680
Speaker 1: Of Indiana, out of Illinois, And where do you think

1458
01:07:18,760 --> 01:07:20,560
Speaker 1: that this ultimately lands?

1459
01:07:21,440 --> 01:07:22,200
Speaker 3: Oh?

1460
01:07:22,240 --> 01:07:24,480
Speaker 9: And I think too, you know, And I was talking

1461
01:07:24,560 --> 01:07:27,640
Speaker 9: yesterday with some friends about you know, because that's the

1462
01:07:27,640 --> 01:07:29,440
Speaker 9: first thing you think about when all this news is

1463
01:07:29,440 --> 01:07:32,360
Speaker 9: happening and circulating. While other NFL teams do it another

1464
01:07:32,480 --> 01:07:35,760
Speaker 9: NFL teams. I don't know why it feels so different

1465
01:07:35,960 --> 01:07:39,760
Speaker 9: here in Chicago that the Bears are considering going to Indiana.

1466
01:07:40,120 --> 01:07:42,240
Speaker 9: Like I'm like, well, yeah, New York does it. And

1467
01:07:42,240 --> 01:07:45,120
Speaker 9: I'm like, okay, San Francisco, They're far away the same state,

1468
01:07:45,120 --> 01:07:46,640
Speaker 9: you know. I was like literally running through all these

1469
01:07:46,640 --> 01:07:48,880
Speaker 9: stadiums in my mind and I'm like, why does it

1470
01:07:48,960 --> 01:07:52,280
Speaker 9: feel so different here in Chicago? And I think one

1471
01:07:52,400 --> 01:07:55,000
Speaker 9: because it's a saga that I believe has gone on

1472
01:07:55,360 --> 01:07:59,680
Speaker 9: way longer than the fan base and the Caskeys, you know,

1473
01:08:00,120 --> 01:08:03,000
Speaker 9: thought it would. Kevin Warren was brought in to get

1474
01:08:03,040 --> 01:08:05,640
Speaker 9: shovels in the ground and design a stadium, and here

1475
01:08:05,680 --> 01:08:10,040
Speaker 9: we are years later. Still I don't know playing political

1476
01:08:10,080 --> 01:08:12,160
Speaker 9: games is to where the stadium.

1477
01:08:11,800 --> 01:08:12,200
Speaker 5: Is going to go.

1478
01:08:12,360 --> 01:08:15,320
Speaker 9: So when I found out the news, you know, I

1479
01:08:15,360 --> 01:08:17,559
Speaker 9: actually got an email. I was walking out of Wuthering

1480
01:08:17,640 --> 01:08:18,639
Speaker 9: Heights shout out.

1481
01:08:18,520 --> 01:08:20,839
Speaker 1: Great movies and I'm like, oh no.

1482
01:08:20,920 --> 01:08:22,080
Speaker 9: I'm like I don't want to deal with this is

1483
01:08:22,160 --> 01:08:24,240
Speaker 9: killing the end of the movie and all my emotions,

1484
01:08:25,360 --> 01:08:28,600
Speaker 9: and I walk out and I'm like, oh, okay. To me,

1485
01:08:28,680 --> 01:08:31,000
Speaker 9: I was like, Okay, well they're just you know, they're

1486
01:08:31,040 --> 01:08:35,479
Speaker 9: making another play on this, and I still believe they

1487
01:08:35,520 --> 01:08:40,280
Speaker 9: are very far away from haim In Indiana becoming the

1488
01:08:40,320 --> 01:08:42,040
Speaker 9: home of the Bears for a number of reasons. I

1489
01:08:42,120 --> 01:08:45,559
Speaker 9: think it's again the politics that are involved here in

1490
01:08:45,600 --> 01:08:48,599
Speaker 9: Cook County and Illinois, and then of course in Indiana

1491
01:08:48,600 --> 01:08:52,320
Speaker 9: and Indiana's like maybe getting the cart before the horse,

1492
01:08:52,400 --> 01:08:55,080
Speaker 9: because you know, it's a great opportunity for them. But

1493
01:08:55,200 --> 01:08:58,040
Speaker 9: for me, it's like I have so many questions yet,

1494
01:08:58,080 --> 01:09:02,040
Speaker 9: like can they even build their environmentally safe to build there?

1495
01:09:02,320 --> 01:09:05,519
Speaker 9: Where are the renderings? We've seen renderings from every other

1496
01:09:05,680 --> 01:09:08,160
Speaker 9: stadium site, And that's the part that's confusing to me too.

1497
01:09:08,160 --> 01:09:12,880
Speaker 9: I'm like, Gary provided renderings, Portage provided renderings, Where are

1498
01:09:13,040 --> 01:09:17,960
Speaker 9: the Ham and Indiana renderings? So there's so many question marks. Unfortunately,

1499
01:09:18,000 --> 01:09:20,559
Speaker 9: I think this is going to go on even longer.

1500
01:09:21,760 --> 01:09:24,679
Speaker 4: Well, switching to just the team for a second, because

1501
01:09:24,720 --> 01:09:26,760
Speaker 4: people are very excited about them. As we're going into

1502
01:09:26,800 --> 01:09:29,600
Speaker 4: the combine, what is the feeling in Chicago kind of

1503
01:09:29,640 --> 01:09:32,320
Speaker 4: what the Bears need to do to take the next step,

1504
01:09:32,479 --> 01:09:34,920
Speaker 4: how to improve and building on the momentum, because as

1505
01:09:34,920 --> 01:09:37,000
Speaker 4: we've seen with the Lions, it's not so easy to do.

1506
01:09:37,040 --> 01:09:38,400
Speaker 3: We've seen that with a lot of teams.

1507
01:09:38,640 --> 01:09:40,760
Speaker 4: Where the Bears need to do this offseason to make

1508
01:09:40,800 --> 01:09:43,800
Speaker 4: sure they're still contending whether they're in Chicago or in

1509
01:09:43,960 --> 01:09:45,559
Speaker 4: Hammond in the coming years.

1510
01:09:46,640 --> 01:09:50,400
Speaker 9: Right, it's a very different feeling combine. I mean, this

1511
01:09:50,439 --> 01:09:53,799
Speaker 9: is my just finish my sixth Bear season in Chicago,

1512
01:09:53,840 --> 01:09:55,720
Speaker 9: and the combine is always a big deal because that

1513
01:09:55,800 --> 01:09:58,360
Speaker 9: the Bears have really high draft capital and they need

1514
01:09:58,400 --> 01:10:00,920
Speaker 9: to rebuild the team, and you have to pay attention

1515
01:10:00,960 --> 01:10:02,360
Speaker 9: what are they going to do. There's many years where

1516
01:10:02,360 --> 01:10:03,360
Speaker 9: like what are they going to do with the number

1517
01:10:03,360 --> 01:10:05,320
Speaker 9: one pick? That's not the story anymore, and that's a

1518
01:10:05,320 --> 01:10:07,560
Speaker 9: good thing for the Bears. I think there's gonna be

1519
01:10:07,600 --> 01:10:09,760
Speaker 9: a lot of buzz and attention around Ben Johnson and

1520
01:10:09,840 --> 01:10:12,800
Speaker 9: Ryan Poles just based on how the season ended and

1521
01:10:12,840 --> 01:10:15,400
Speaker 9: the momentum that they're hoping to carry forward. But I

1522
01:10:15,400 --> 01:10:17,759
Speaker 9: think it's going to be a really interesting off season

1523
01:10:18,040 --> 01:10:21,280
Speaker 9: for Ryan Poles and a staff because this is the

1524
01:10:21,320 --> 01:10:25,840
Speaker 9: first time he has to make decisions based on success.

1525
01:10:26,160 --> 01:10:29,000
Speaker 9: And I think it's not that it's easy to rebuild

1526
01:10:29,000 --> 01:10:31,040
Speaker 9: a team. It's not easy to rebuild a team, but

1527
01:10:31,160 --> 01:10:34,320
Speaker 9: of course you get a little bit more of leeway,

1528
01:10:34,400 --> 01:10:35,600
Speaker 9: Like when you have a number one pick, you know

1529
01:10:35,640 --> 01:10:37,879
Speaker 9: what you're doing. When you have to build an offensive

1530
01:10:37,920 --> 01:10:40,160
Speaker 9: line and address it. In free agency, you know what

1531
01:10:40,240 --> 01:10:42,920
Speaker 9: to do, you know who to go get. Now you

1532
01:10:42,960 --> 01:10:45,640
Speaker 9: know the margins of like, Okay, the calf space is

1533
01:10:45,640 --> 01:10:48,880
Speaker 9: becoming an issue. Who you cut there? Do you go

1534
01:10:49,000 --> 01:10:52,320
Speaker 9: for one of the big free agents possible free agency?

1535
01:10:52,360 --> 01:10:54,160
Speaker 9: You trade for a max property. So I think the

1536
01:10:54,240 --> 01:10:56,960
Speaker 9: decision making for Ryan Pols and then how he approaches

1537
01:10:57,000 --> 01:11:01,639
Speaker 9: this draft the combine is going to be very different

1538
01:11:01,720 --> 01:11:04,000
Speaker 9: than what he's been used to because again, it's a

1539
01:11:04,040 --> 01:11:05,680
Speaker 9: good thing. It's a good thing, but it's certainly a

1540
01:11:05,680 --> 01:11:06,640
Speaker 9: different challenge.

1541
01:11:06,960 --> 01:11:08,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, I keep saying this is like the least dramatic

1542
01:11:08,960 --> 01:11:11,000
Speaker 2: and off season has been in Chicago in a very

1543
01:11:11,120 --> 01:11:13,240
Speaker 2: very long time. But at the same time, it's such

1544
01:11:13,280 --> 01:11:16,679
Speaker 2: a good point in that, like, it might not be dramatic,

1545
01:11:16,720 --> 01:11:19,400
Speaker 2: but this is perhaps the most strategic.

1546
01:11:19,000 --> 01:11:21,559
Speaker 1: Off season that Ryan Poles is going.

1547
01:11:21,360 --> 01:11:24,519
Speaker 2: To have to navigate because of the fact that, yeah,

1548
01:11:24,560 --> 01:11:27,640
Speaker 2: like you don't have this seemingly unlimited cap space that

1549
01:11:27,680 --> 01:11:31,200
Speaker 2: you've had the last couple of years, and you aren't

1550
01:11:31,240 --> 01:11:33,320
Speaker 2: picking at the top of the draft, so like, who's

1551
01:11:33,320 --> 01:11:34,920
Speaker 2: going to be available? You have to do your homework

1552
01:11:34,960 --> 01:11:37,200
Speaker 2: on a bunch of other people. What do you think

1553
01:11:37,320 --> 01:11:39,720
Speaker 2: is the biggest priority then for what Ryan Poles and

1554
01:11:39,720 --> 01:11:42,000
Speaker 2: Ben Johnson are going to go into this combine to

1555
01:11:42,080 --> 01:11:44,080
Speaker 2: do and maybe this off season.

1556
01:11:44,120 --> 01:11:45,960
Speaker 1: Just in general, I.

1557
01:11:45,920 --> 01:11:48,559
Speaker 9: Think it has to be the D line, and because

1558
01:11:48,560 --> 01:11:52,000
Speaker 9: they're so close on everything else. Obviously, the O line

1559
01:11:52,000 --> 01:11:54,639
Speaker 9: has been a work in progress and a focus for

1560
01:11:54,760 --> 01:11:55,800
Speaker 9: Ryan Folds for years and.

1561
01:11:55,760 --> 01:11:56,519
Speaker 1: It's paid off.

1562
01:11:56,520 --> 01:11:59,439
Speaker 9: It's paid off tremendously, and then he got his head

1563
01:11:59,479 --> 01:12:01,519
Speaker 9: coach and play and now his quarterback seems to be

1564
01:12:01,560 --> 01:12:04,439
Speaker 9: developing quite well. So for me, I'm like, if I'm

1565
01:12:04,479 --> 01:12:07,040
Speaker 9: Ryan Pols, I'm like, Okay, where were our areas of weakness?

1566
01:12:07,160 --> 01:12:09,960
Speaker 9: And I still think it's that D line. I think

1567
01:12:10,000 --> 01:12:11,720
Speaker 9: there's a lot of question marks there and this is

1568
01:12:11,720 --> 01:12:13,800
Speaker 9: supposed to be a great draft for D line miss

1569
01:12:14,240 --> 01:12:17,240
Speaker 9: so it kind of falls into his lap perfectly. Like

1570
01:12:17,320 --> 01:12:19,280
Speaker 9: if I'm Ryan Pols, I'm like, thank god, this is

1571
01:12:19,280 --> 01:12:22,759
Speaker 9: not like a receiver quarterback draft, because I got plenty

1572
01:12:22,800 --> 01:12:24,960
Speaker 9: of those and I've addressed that in the last couple

1573
01:12:25,000 --> 01:12:27,920
Speaker 9: of years. So if the timing has worked out, to me,

1574
01:12:28,120 --> 01:12:30,719
Speaker 9: it's all about the D line men and then making

1575
01:12:30,760 --> 01:12:33,800
Speaker 9: those tough decisions of how do you address it? Do

1576
01:12:33,840 --> 01:12:36,200
Speaker 9: you take a chance on a vet, you know, like

1577
01:12:36,240 --> 01:12:39,000
Speaker 9: the Bradley Chubbs of the world, or you know, selling

1578
01:12:39,000 --> 01:12:42,920
Speaker 9: it all for Max Crost, or do you trust a

1579
01:12:43,000 --> 01:12:47,280
Speaker 9: young talent that you can draft, you know, and in April.

1580
01:12:47,960 --> 01:12:51,000
Speaker 4: It's such a good question because you could trust. I

1581
01:12:51,000 --> 01:12:52,840
Speaker 4: feel like you could do both in a way. You

1582
01:12:52,880 --> 01:12:56,040
Speaker 4: can trust the talent but still bring in somebody that

1583
01:12:56,120 --> 01:12:58,280
Speaker 4: you know is a veteran that you know can get

1584
01:12:58,280 --> 01:13:01,320
Speaker 4: the job done. So I think that's very interesting. I

1585
01:13:01,360 --> 01:13:02,800
Speaker 4: want to go back to something you said, this is

1586
01:13:02,840 --> 01:13:05,600
Speaker 4: the first time where they're building on success in a

1587
01:13:05,600 --> 01:13:07,960
Speaker 4: long time. I think I'm paraphrasing what you said, but

1588
01:13:08,000 --> 01:13:11,000
Speaker 4: there was such an interesting comment. Do you think now

1589
01:13:11,120 --> 01:13:14,600
Speaker 4: for Bears fans, which is completely understandable there was so

1590
01:13:14,680 --> 01:13:16,560
Speaker 4: much suffering for so many years.

1591
01:13:16,680 --> 01:13:17,360
Speaker 3: So good now?

1592
01:13:17,439 --> 01:13:19,680
Speaker 4: Is it is anything less than a playoff like a

1593
01:13:19,680 --> 01:13:21,840
Speaker 4: playoff run just unacceptable.

1594
01:13:23,160 --> 01:13:25,599
Speaker 9: I think it has to be. And I mean they

1595
01:13:25,680 --> 01:13:28,280
Speaker 9: kind of did that, I don't think. To me going

1596
01:13:28,400 --> 01:13:31,000
Speaker 9: the last season, I was like, if they make the playoffs, like, wow,

1597
01:13:31,080 --> 01:13:33,559
Speaker 9: that'll be tremendous. You know, I wanted them to get

1598
01:13:33,560 --> 01:13:36,400
Speaker 9: eight wins and I would have been impressed. And so

1599
01:13:36,680 --> 01:13:38,280
Speaker 9: they you know, they go they not only get to

1600
01:13:38,320 --> 01:13:40,680
Speaker 9: the playoffs and they win a playoff game, and I

1601
01:13:40,720 --> 01:13:43,440
Speaker 9: think they were so close on so many other accounts.

1602
01:13:43,720 --> 01:13:47,160
Speaker 9: I think too this once this fan base got a

1603
01:13:47,200 --> 01:13:50,120
Speaker 9: taste of that, it was like, why can't we go

1604
01:13:50,160 --> 01:13:52,360
Speaker 9: to the super Bowl next year? Like it's immediately like

1605
01:13:52,840 --> 01:13:54,679
Speaker 9: we have all the pieces we need. We have the coach,

1606
01:13:54,720 --> 01:13:56,920
Speaker 9: we have the quarterback, we have all the things we

1607
01:13:56,960 --> 01:14:00,360
Speaker 9: need to do, the culture in place. So I say, yeah,

1608
01:14:00,400 --> 01:14:03,519
Speaker 9: if they're not if they're not favorites for you know,

1609
01:14:03,640 --> 01:14:06,360
Speaker 9: playoff runs, the playoff runs, then it is kind of

1610
01:14:06,400 --> 01:14:07,080
Speaker 9: a disappointment.

1611
01:14:07,200 --> 01:14:08,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was gonna say, I don't even know if

1612
01:14:08,720 --> 01:14:12,519
Speaker 2: a playoff like game is like I think it's like

1613
01:14:12,680 --> 01:14:16,439
Speaker 2: NFC Championship at this point where it's I mean, it's

1614
01:14:16,479 --> 01:14:20,200
Speaker 2: insane to count on linear success, especially in this league,

1615
01:14:20,280 --> 01:14:22,360
Speaker 2: but I have to imagine that that's.

1616
01:14:22,040 --> 01:14:23,960
Speaker 1: What Bears fans are going to be expecting.

1617
01:14:24,800 --> 01:14:28,639
Speaker 2: But Caitlin, I am so excited to see you this

1618
01:14:28,720 --> 01:14:31,360
Speaker 2: week down in Indy. It's gonna be a very interesting

1619
01:14:31,400 --> 01:14:33,960
Speaker 2: one for the Bears and just in general, favorite week

1620
01:14:33,960 --> 01:14:35,400
Speaker 2: of the year. So thank you so much for taking

1621
01:14:35,439 --> 01:14:38,320
Speaker 2: some time with us right now, and we'll see you

1622
01:14:38,320 --> 01:14:39,160
Speaker 2: in a couple of days.

1623
01:14:39,200 --> 01:14:40,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, see you in Indy.

1624
01:14:40,200 --> 01:14:44,479
Speaker 9: Of course, sank travel Cindy, everybody.

1625
01:14:43,720 --> 01:14:44,479
Speaker 1: Thanks Caitland.

1626
01:14:45,240 --> 01:14:48,200
Speaker 2: That was Caitlyn Sharky of w G. And coming up,

1627
01:14:48,240 --> 01:14:51,200
Speaker 2: we have our last segment of the day.

1628
01:14:51,240 --> 01:14:54,120
Speaker 4: I can't believe it's flown by, hasn't it.

1629
01:14:54,160 --> 01:14:56,160
Speaker 2: We're gonna we're gonna talk about some fun things. The

1630
01:14:56,280 --> 01:14:57,920
Speaker 2: LOL Moment of the week is coming up after this.

1631
01:14:58,000 --> 01:15:01,360
Speaker 2: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. What a nice little

1632
01:15:01,360 --> 01:15:02,519
Speaker 2: eighties day we've had.

1633
01:15:03,920 --> 01:15:06,479
Speaker 1: I'm carn Batally. I have Tracy Sandler with me.

1634
01:15:06,640 --> 01:15:10,639
Speaker 2: You're listening to Fox Sports Saturday here on Fox Sports Radio.

1635
01:15:11,439 --> 01:15:13,360
Speaker 1: We've had a show Trace we have.

1636
01:15:13,600 --> 01:15:15,600
Speaker 3: We've heard a lot of ground today.

1637
01:15:15,640 --> 01:15:19,920
Speaker 2: We have i mean during the season, the football season.

1638
01:15:20,040 --> 01:15:22,639
Speaker 2: This is Fox Football Saturday, so we are very much

1639
01:15:22,680 --> 01:15:24,080
Speaker 2: inundated with football content.

1640
01:15:25,040 --> 01:15:27,200
Speaker 1: But now we get to kind of branch out a little.

1641
01:15:27,200 --> 01:15:33,080
Speaker 2: We talked at Olympics baseball stadiums, and then of course

1642
01:15:33,120 --> 01:15:35,160
Speaker 2: the NFL Combine, which is coming up on Monday. Tracy

1643
01:15:35,160 --> 01:15:38,320
Speaker 2: and I will both be there down in Indianapolis, Indiana.

1644
01:15:38,640 --> 01:15:42,160
Speaker 2: It's gonna I'm I'm so I'm so stoked, I'm so stoked.

1645
01:15:42,200 --> 01:15:42,800
Speaker 3: I'm excited to.

1646
01:15:42,920 --> 01:15:46,240
Speaker 4: Actually, I wasn't sure if I was ready for it,

1647
01:15:46,280 --> 01:15:48,760
Speaker 4: but now that we're closer, I'm like, I'm ready.

1648
01:15:48,840 --> 01:15:51,240
Speaker 2: I'm never ready for it. I have not even thought

1649
01:15:51,240 --> 01:15:52,880
Speaker 2: about like what I'm packing or what.

1650
01:15:52,920 --> 01:15:54,280
Speaker 3: Well, you know, I definitely haven't done that.

1651
01:15:54,479 --> 01:15:56,920
Speaker 2: No, I'm never ready for it. But it's the it's

1652
01:15:56,960 --> 01:15:58,080
Speaker 2: the most fun week of the year.

1653
01:15:58,000 --> 01:16:01,719
Speaker 1: The most fun week of the year. And something else it's.

1654
01:16:01,560 --> 01:16:04,599
Speaker 2: Fun is our last segment, which I have converted into

1655
01:16:04,800 --> 01:16:07,120
Speaker 2: the llll moment of the week because I think we

1656
01:16:07,200 --> 01:16:09,200
Speaker 2: all need a little bit of a laugh these days.

1657
01:16:10,439 --> 01:16:13,240
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go first race and this this shouldn't be

1658
01:16:13,240 --> 01:16:16,400
Speaker 2: surprised to anybody, especially given if you've ever seen what

1659
01:16:16,439 --> 01:16:20,320
Speaker 2: my dog looks like. But there was another good boy

1660
01:16:21,000 --> 01:16:28,960
Speaker 2: that got loose on an Olympic track. Nasgool, a Czechoslovakian

1661
01:16:29,280 --> 01:16:33,639
Speaker 2: wolf dog, was cross the finish line at a cross

1662
01:16:33,640 --> 01:16:36,920
Speaker 2: country skiing event for the Winter Olympics with some of

1663
01:16:36,960 --> 01:16:39,479
Speaker 2: the athletes, and he had been on the course for

1664
01:16:39,520 --> 01:16:42,720
Speaker 2: a while. He escaped his home, which I guess is

1665
01:16:42,760 --> 01:16:47,240
Speaker 2: a bed and breakfast close by the course, and his

1666
01:16:47,320 --> 01:16:50,320
Speaker 2: owners had gone actually to watch another race like hours

1667
01:16:50,360 --> 01:16:54,240
Speaker 2: and hours away, and he I guess didn't really like

1668
01:16:54,280 --> 01:16:56,080
Speaker 2: the fact that he was left behind, so instead he

1669
01:16:56,120 --> 01:16:59,200
Speaker 2: got out of the house and he joined the athletes

1670
01:16:59,320 --> 01:17:03,320
Speaker 2: on this cross entry race. On the course triggered the

1671
01:17:03,360 --> 01:17:08,599
Speaker 2: finish line camera and somebody on Twitter pointed out, very

1672
01:17:08,800 --> 01:17:11,280
Speaker 2: very astutely that his name is Nosgul, which.

1673
01:17:11,120 --> 01:17:13,400
Speaker 1: I was going to ask this dogs.

1674
01:17:16,880 --> 01:17:20,760
Speaker 2: Like the Rings, servants of the Dark Lord Souron in

1675
01:17:20,840 --> 01:17:24,960
Speaker 2: Lord of the Rings, and how fitting that he was

1676
01:17:25,000 --> 01:17:27,640
Speaker 2: an Olympic participant where the symbol for the Olympics is

1677
01:17:27,680 --> 01:17:28,280
Speaker 2: seven rigs.

1678
01:17:28,760 --> 01:17:31,160
Speaker 1: You scream like one of them that I don't. I

1679
01:17:31,200 --> 01:17:34,960
Speaker 1: don't think so. I think he's much friendlier than the Ring.

1680
01:17:35,320 --> 01:17:36,839
Speaker 3: Then why are you naming him Nosgule?

1681
01:17:36,920 --> 01:17:37,200
Speaker 8: I don't.

1682
01:17:37,280 --> 01:17:37,519
Speaker 1: I don't.

1683
01:17:37,600 --> 01:17:40,400
Speaker 3: I mean, if you lords, they must be.

1684
01:17:40,479 --> 01:17:42,160
Speaker 2: But also, like if you look at this dog, like

1685
01:17:42,200 --> 01:17:43,680
Speaker 2: so a lot of people thought initially that he was

1686
01:17:43,720 --> 01:17:44,360
Speaker 2: a wolf.

1687
01:17:44,360 --> 01:17:44,760
Speaker 1: And he does.

1688
01:17:44,920 --> 01:17:47,240
Speaker 2: He's a wolf dog, so like he is part wolf,

1689
01:17:47,240 --> 01:17:49,320
Speaker 2: for it has some wolf DNA to him, if you know,

1690
01:17:49,400 --> 01:17:53,040
Speaker 2: think about wolf dogs. And he does look like a

1691
01:17:53,080 --> 01:17:56,280
Speaker 2: wild animal and he looks kind of ferocious, but apparently

1692
01:17:56,360 --> 01:17:59,439
Speaker 2: he like like as soon as he crossed the finish line,

1693
01:17:59,479 --> 01:18:02,120
Speaker 2: handlers got to him and they were just you know,

1694
01:18:02,160 --> 01:18:04,240
Speaker 2: giving him pets and he was just loving on everybody,

1695
01:18:04,280 --> 01:18:06,200
Speaker 2: and you're like, oh, you're not scary, but I can't

1696
01:18:06,240 --> 01:18:10,040
Speaker 2: imagine being an athlete looks working and you look over

1697
01:18:10,080 --> 01:18:12,320
Speaker 2: and you're like, is that like because you're not paying attention,

1698
01:18:12,439 --> 01:18:14,599
Speaker 2: like you're focused on your race, and like seeing something

1699
01:18:14,640 --> 01:18:15,680
Speaker 2: like that out of the corner your eye, You're like,

1700
01:18:15,680 --> 01:18:16,759
Speaker 2: oh my guy's that a wolf?

1701
01:18:17,200 --> 01:18:20,240
Speaker 4: I mean seriously, that that would have to be terrifying.

1702
01:18:20,520 --> 01:18:22,400
Speaker 4: And I don't think there's any point you know, is

1703
01:18:22,439 --> 01:18:24,559
Speaker 4: not a wolf until you cross the fish till.

1704
01:18:24,400 --> 01:18:26,479
Speaker 2: You cross the right exactly like if you again, if

1705
01:18:26,479 --> 01:18:28,720
Speaker 2: you look up a picture of this dog, if you've

1706
01:18:28,720 --> 01:18:30,959
Speaker 2: seen the like I mean, this was covered very extensively

1707
01:18:31,000 --> 01:18:32,120
Speaker 2: this week, but I was just like.

1708
01:18:32,120 --> 01:18:33,800
Speaker 1: Oh my god, he looks like a wolf.

1709
01:18:33,800 --> 01:18:35,519
Speaker 2: And I initially when I saw the video, at first

1710
01:18:35,560 --> 01:18:36,920
Speaker 2: I thought he was I thought he was a wolf.

1711
01:18:37,000 --> 01:18:40,920
Speaker 2: So all's well, that ends well though, and the owners

1712
01:18:40,920 --> 01:18:42,639
Speaker 2: were basically like, yeah, we were so glad that nothing

1713
01:18:42,680 --> 01:18:45,639
Speaker 2: happened and that everybody just loves him and now he's

1714
01:18:45,680 --> 01:18:49,760
Speaker 2: the hero of the Milan Courtina Winter Olympics.

1715
01:18:50,200 --> 01:18:53,160
Speaker 3: Well that was also my LOL moment of the week.

1716
01:18:53,240 --> 01:18:56,280
Speaker 4: But I will say that last week there was also

1717
01:18:56,400 --> 01:18:59,320
Speaker 4: a dog that got out during an event. I don't

1718
01:18:59,320 --> 01:19:02,000
Speaker 4: think it was the final event, but there was another

1719
01:19:02,040 --> 01:19:04,320
Speaker 4: dog and it was really funny because they kept changing

1720
01:19:04,360 --> 01:19:07,599
Speaker 4: the camera angles like he was a real Olympic event,

1721
01:19:07,680 --> 01:19:11,479
Speaker 4: which was incredible and really, what I must say that

1722
01:19:11,520 --> 01:19:14,479
Speaker 4: I've learned from these Olympics, the number one thing is

1723
01:19:14,479 --> 01:19:14,920
Speaker 4: that there.

1724
01:19:14,760 --> 01:19:15,719
Speaker 3: Should be more dogs.

1725
01:19:16,160 --> 01:19:16,960
Speaker 1: There should be more dogs.

1726
01:19:17,000 --> 01:19:17,880
Speaker 3: There should be more dogs.

1727
01:19:17,880 --> 01:19:20,120
Speaker 2: You know what's funny As someone who just spent the

1728
01:19:20,160 --> 01:19:23,000
Speaker 2: last week in Italy, it is the most dog friendly

1729
01:19:23,040 --> 01:19:26,960
Speaker 2: country I think I've been to ever, Like you are,

1730
01:19:27,000 --> 01:19:29,759
Speaker 2: you can bring a dog in anywhere, Like it doesn't

1731
01:19:29,840 --> 01:19:32,719
Speaker 2: shock me at all that like this that they had

1732
01:19:32,720 --> 01:19:34,559
Speaker 2: like a dog that you know, like was at an

1733
01:19:34,560 --> 01:19:37,360
Speaker 2: airbb or like whatever, like they run an Airbnb and

1734
01:19:37,479 --> 01:19:41,439
Speaker 2: their dog is like the Airbnb dog or the bed

1735
01:19:41,479 --> 01:19:44,439
Speaker 2: and breakfast dog, because like I literally we were sitting

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Speaker 2: having at pattivo, which is happy hour at a nice

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Speaker 2: little like charcuterie place with like wine, and we're sitting

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Speaker 2: at our little table and we have this big plate

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Speaker 2: like spread of meats and cheeses in front of us.

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Speaker 2: And in walks this guy with his dog and he

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Speaker 2: sits down table next to us, and this dog was

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Speaker 2: just hanging out with us. He was absolutely begging for food,

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Speaker 2: but it was so cute. He's like, are you like

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Speaker 2: okay with him? Like yes, So really, we just we

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Speaker 2: just need to take some notes from Italy and just

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Speaker 2: be a really dog friendly country, because only good things

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Speaker 2: happen with with with dogs. As Tracy and I both know,

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Speaker 2: my dog Mazzarell Stick Mazie for short, also looks like

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Speaker 2: a wolf, so this was this was especially fun for me.

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Speaker 2: I've had so much fun today. So thank you guys

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Speaker 2: so much for listening. Thank you Tracy, thank you Chris,

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Speaker 2: thank you Bo, thank you Martin. We will talk to

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Speaker 2: you next week. You've listening to Fox Sports Saturday