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Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio. I'm super aware

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Speaker 1: of this because I'm gonna turn fifty next year. I

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Speaker 1: feel like there's a certain age in life, Ephraim, and

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Speaker 1: you and I are about the same age. I think

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Speaker 1: aware of this because there's a certain age in life

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Speaker 1: where you decide, apparently that everything that's new is bad.

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Speaker 1: It's just bad. Stop changing things. They don't make it

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Speaker 1: like they used to. World's going to hell in a handbasket.

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Speaker 1: Oh kids, these days all the things that older people say, right,

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Speaker 1: And I've always listened to that my whole life, and

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Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't want to be like that when

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Speaker 1: I get older, and now here I am sort of

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Speaker 1: in that, like every like three times a year, I'll

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Speaker 1: say something and you're like, oh, oh God, that's my

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Speaker 1: uncle or that's my dad or or whatever. And I

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Speaker 1: don't want to be this person. So I'm here to

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Speaker 1: say the opposite about the Playing Tournament, which from my believe,

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Speaker 1: might be one of the best additions to big time

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Speaker 1: sports in recent years, and this year is a flagship example,

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Speaker 1: as to why good evening, bud?

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Speaker 2: How are you good evening? How are you I?

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Speaker 1: I'm great man, I'm ready to rock. Yeah. How old

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Speaker 1: are you?

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Speaker 2: By the way, I'm forty seven?

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Speaker 1: Okay, I had a feeling you were just a you

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Speaker 1: just dismidged me to my party. Yeah that's what I thought. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: but you're you know, I mean we were in high

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Speaker 1: school again, what's that?

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Speaker 2: We were in high school together?

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Speaker 1: Exactly what? You graduate ninety three? So did I?

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Speaker 2: Okay?

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Speaker 1: Whoa, oh you all smarty pants or something? I get

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Speaker 1: too greats put that. Let's it's not above me, it's

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Speaker 1: not about me. Was it because you were so large

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Speaker 1: that you just scared people? Was that it where they're like,

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Speaker 1: let him do whatever he wants. He's three hundred pounds

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Speaker 2: The funny thing is I was just so disruptive. They

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Speaker 2: were like, what is going on here? And then I

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Speaker 2: just tested out of a couple of grades there it is.

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Speaker 1: So you know what, I've always thought you were very smart,

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Speaker 1: you will I've always felt that way talking to you.

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Speaker 1: So so anyway, we're not the same age, but you're

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Speaker 1: younger but smarter. So this is just getting worse the

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Speaker 1: more I talk.

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Speaker 2: No, man, it's we're together. Man. We we've got the

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Speaker 2: experience life the same way, right. We got to you

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Speaker 2: know when when our favorite songs dropped, we heard them

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Speaker 2: at the same time, We went to the prom at

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Speaker 2: the same time, all those things.

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Speaker 1: So absolutely, no, absolutely, and we've we've pretty much had

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Speaker 1: see things through a little bit of the same lens.

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Speaker 1: And so I wonder if you know kind of what

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Speaker 1: I'm talking about, Like, I don't like it when just

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Speaker 1: because it's new and it's changing, then that means it's bad.

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Speaker 1: Like if I hear one more time that the play

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Speaker 1: in tournament is this concocted thing, I'm like, okay, so

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Speaker 1: what if what if we just go back to the

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Speaker 1: top eight seeds in each conference? Was that not concocted

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Speaker 1: at some point picked it? Yeah, or I got a

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Speaker 1: better idea. How about the NBA or the NFL or

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Speaker 1: Major League Baseball or the NHL or any of this stuff.

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Speaker 1: It's all concocted. They're just leagues that people made and

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Speaker 1: and and then rules came up and and it's constantly changing.

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Speaker 1: I look at the Western Conference this year, and think

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Speaker 1: about the old crotchety people that say this is so

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Speaker 2: Well, you'd have.

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Speaker 1: Two forty six and thirty six teams that went home

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean the thing I really like about it,

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Speaker 2: very same people who are complaining about it probably felt

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Speaker 2: this way as well. And they complained about the fact

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Speaker 2: that I hate when teams tanked down the stretch. Teams

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Speaker 2: doing that. And so a thing was implemented where if

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Speaker 2: you're out of it. You're done. So now you're positioning

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Speaker 2: yourself to have more lottery balls. But what the last

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Speaker 2: year before, in all of these years, teams that were

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Speaker 2: like last year, the two teams that came out of

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Speaker 2: the playing tournament were represented each conference in the finals

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Speaker 1: You're talking about about the Lakers in the heat.

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Speaker 2: Yes, and so when you see things like that and

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Speaker 2: things like that are happening, then the value of the

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Speaker 2: actual playing tournament increases opposed to both of those teams

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Speaker 2: posturing down the stretch and just trying to get a

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Speaker 2: did last year. Right, nobody wants to see that. Like

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Speaker 2: people would go, I was going crazy when Luca and

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Speaker 2: Like it felt gross. And the fact that you had

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Speaker 2: two teams who took the play in route to the

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Speaker 2: championship of their conferences adds more validity and value to this.

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Speaker 2: It makes teams fight their fight. This last week, especially

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Speaker 2: in the Western Conference, has been like you couldn't lose

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Speaker 2: a game because you could go from six to ten respectively.

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Speaker 1: Well, I mean you know this because I guarantee that

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Speaker 1: New Orleans Pelicans on their home floor and came in hot,

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Speaker 1: the regular season. You're right, and you know all these games.

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Speaker 1: The Suns played the Kings the other night, and the

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Speaker 1: Lakers had a narrow one in Memphis and Golden State

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Speaker 1: and you already know who's gonna win, and if somebody

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Speaker 1: But not now. I mean five games, Ephraim five games separate.

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Speaker 1: In the Western Conference, the four seed from the ten

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Speaker 1: seed five games. That's it, and so there are clearly

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Speaker 1: ten good teams and then there are the five other teams,

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Speaker 1: and so it worked out well. I know it's not

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Speaker 1: always like that. We can go to the Eastern Conference

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Speaker 1: and their nine to ten game is a couple of

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Speaker 1: But obviously, out of that nine to ten game, you've

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Speaker 1: but this Western Conference that has to be one of

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Speaker 1: And then buckle up for Tuesday night. My god, my god,

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Speaker 1: like brandon Ingram, like the Pelicans, all the people who

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Speaker 1: followed by a geographical turf war that was a playoff

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Speaker 1: and one winner and one loser will play again a

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Speaker 1: will be no four or five game series. None. They're

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Speaker 1: all gonna go six games, because I don't think that

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Speaker 1: This year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it. And as a fan, everything you just

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Speaker 2: broke down. As a fan, that's exactly what you want

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Speaker 2: this as an NBA fan, this is the time of

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Speaker 2: year when people start watching the actual NBA games, and

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Speaker 2: so the games you watch you want them to mean something.

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Speaker 2: And for so long they didn't. Last few weeks, you know,

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Speaker 2: teams were done and uh, we didn't make it this year.

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Speaker 2: Let's start for next year in the middle of the year,

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Speaker 2: a month out. And so as a fan, and I

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Speaker 2: loved it. I loved watching every game. I loved looking

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Speaker 2: at teams like man and I hope they lose and

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Speaker 2: we win. And that's that's that's the entertainment part of it,

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Speaker 2: and we are gonna have one heck of a playing tournament.

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Speaker 2: I know, especially on on you know, in the Western Conference.

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Speaker 2: That's that's gonna be great.

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Speaker 1: I mean Game one Tuesday night, Pelicans are favored by

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Speaker 1: of days later. Man, Yeah, it's really good stuff. So

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Speaker 1: I just think it's really easy as a fan and

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Speaker 1: media in today's sports to just always rip the commissioner.

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Speaker 1: That's it, Rob Manfred, You've never done anything right. And

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Speaker 1: that's kind of true. You know whatever, Gary Bettman, he's

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Speaker 1: there ways to criticize, Yeah, but man, just my opinion here.

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Speaker 1: I from they got this one right. This was a

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this was right, and right from when they implemented

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Speaker 2: this is gonna be special. This is gonna be good

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Speaker 2: because the urgency is there, right, Guys, coming back from injury,

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Speaker 2: you still have a chance to make it in and

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Speaker 2: all you gotta do as we saw last year, is

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Speaker 2: get into the play and everything's possible. I know these

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Speaker 2: to the playoffs or to home and it allows teams

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Speaker 2: this is sport. This is what we want.

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Speaker 1: I want it. The other thing, yeah, the other thing

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Speaker 1: I think that's really really interesting about it is you'll

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Speaker 1: hear people will go gosh, now they're extending it all

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Speaker 1: the way to ten, and I go, ah, Respectfully, I

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Speaker 1: think you're looking at this wrong. It's not just that

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Speaker 1: get waxed by the one in the two seed. Well,

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Speaker 1: now there's a penalty for that. Now you're actually trying

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Speaker 1: to get to six, and they're making it even harder

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Speaker 1: that's great for the top two seeds because that means

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Speaker 1: they've earned something too. They get extra rest now and

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Speaker 1: taking some bumps and bruises to even get to them.

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Speaker 1: So it's no different than the wild card in baseball.

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Speaker 1: Like I loved it for a time, and I know

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Speaker 1: something extra to earn their way in because that that

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Speaker 1: is giving a reward to the ones and the two

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's you know, even the teams at the top

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Speaker 2: we don't want to catch them. We hope they don't

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Speaker 2: come out to play in And when does that ever happen?

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Speaker 2: When has the number one or two seed been worried

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Speaker 2: way that this year shook out? Oh seems you gotta worry.

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Speaker 1: Oh man, there's some there's some thump in that in

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Speaker 1: that play in tournament for real. We're broadcasting live from

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Speaker 1: I like that vibe. It's a take a breath Sunday,

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Speaker 6: As for the NBA, the regular season did end today.

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Speaker 6: The second round starts in May. The NHL regular season

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Speaker 6: ends this Thursday. Their playoffs start on Saturday. Today, Vegas

435
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Speaker 6: in overtime at home beat Colorado four three. Chase Elliott

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Speaker 6: won the NASCAR Race at texas As. For baseball, it

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Speaker 6: is underway at Dodger Stadium. Dodgers and Padre scoreless in

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Speaker 6: the bottom of the third there was a rain delay

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Speaker 6: at the start of over half an hour. Rain delay

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Speaker 6: last night at the.

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Speaker 1: Start of over two hours.

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Speaker 6: A real rarity that we have on back to back

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Speaker 6: nights in Los Angeles rain delays at beginning of bowl games.

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Speaker 6: I do recall, and in fact, the Dodgers historian said

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Speaker 6: this is the last time he can remember even rain

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Speaker 6: delays on back to back nights. April nineteen eighty eight

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Speaker 6: when the Padres were visiting, there were rainouts at Dodger

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Speaker 6: Stadium three straight nights. So you'd have to go back

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Speaker 6: a long ways into history decades plus to find out

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Speaker 6: the weather that's been going on here. But scoreless bottom

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Speaker 6: of the third inning here in the late contest earlier today,

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Speaker 6: Pirates won nine to two at the Phillies Orioles six

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Speaker 6: to four over the Brewers, and yes, the Masters champ

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Speaker 6: by four strokes is Scottie Scheffler. Colin Morikawa shot a

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Speaker 6: final round seventy four and fell to a tie for

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Speaker 6: third place. The guy who finished second was playing his

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Speaker 6: first ever major, Ludwig Oldberg from Sweden. This is a

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Speaker 6: guy who was the top amateur golfer in the world

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Speaker 6: amateur golf rankings for about thirty weeks. Just turn pro

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Speaker 6: last summer, played on Europe's winning Ryder Cup team last

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Speaker 6: year and then plays the first major of his career

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Speaker 6: this year. This is a guy who won the award

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Speaker 6: as the best college go for in the US the

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Speaker 6: previous two years at Texas Tech. What a story and

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Speaker 6: he looked great, not just one good shot, solid golf

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Speaker 6: day after day. It's just the attitude was there and

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Speaker 6: no nerves at all. It was in Rete.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, like Sunday you got Max Holmer, Colin Morricara. Everyone

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Speaker 1: is just being shredded by this course and this Ludwig.

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Speaker 1: Guys like I'm fine, I'm fine.

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Speaker 6: And he was, I mean by about the eighth hole

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Speaker 6: today in the final round is a three way tie

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Speaker 6: for first.

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Speaker 1: No big deal.

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Speaker 6: Rory McElroy at four overpart tied for twenty second place.

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Speaker 6: Tiger Woods was sixteen over. He shot eighty two yesterday.

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Speaker 6: Woods is seventy seven today, So his career worse for

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Speaker 6: seventy two holes. Colin Morikawa, I have read, lost three

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Speaker 6: hundred thousand dollars by bogeying the final hole, So he

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Speaker 6: sinks to that three way tie of course, it's a

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Speaker 6: three way tie for third where they each get a

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Speaker 6: million dollars. The winner earned three point six million dollars.

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Speaker 6: It's a larger perse, needless to say, at the Masters

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Speaker 6: these days. In fact, I also saw that if you

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Speaker 6: compare the first place money that say, Jordan Speith got

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Speaker 6: less than a decade ago for winning there, Ludwig Oberg

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Speaker 6: getting two point one six million dollars today for second

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Speaker 6: place is a larger amount than Speif got for winning

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Speaker 6: the Masters less than a decade ago.

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Speaker 1: Back to you, Yes, and Mari Kawa has announced that

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Speaker 1: he will be joining Live tomorrow morning. I'm kidding, I'm kidding.

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Speaker 1: Great stuff. Yeah, there's a lot to get to. I

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Speaker 1: want to explore that noise that you made when Steve

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Speaker 1: was talking about Tiger Woods finishing at sixteen over. We'll

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Speaker 1: get to all of it, Tyre Wright dot Com Studios,

496
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Speaker 1: But I want to throw this at you while we're

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Speaker 1: still talking about how the NBA playoffs have all shaken out.

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Speaker 1: No surprise that if you go to NBA dot com

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Speaker 1: right now and you click on offensive rating and defensive rating,

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Speaker 1: the top team are sprinkled all over there. The top

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Speaker 1: offensive rating Boston Celtics. Where are they in terms of

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Speaker 1: defensive rating? Their number two. So let's see one of

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Speaker 1: the best offenses, one of the best defense. Yep, I'll

504
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Speaker 1: take them. But you look around the NBA. Guess who else.

505
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Speaker 1: There's only one other team that can boast that it

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Speaker 1: is top four in both offensive and defensive rating. Do

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Speaker 1: you know who it is? God, I love talking NBA

508
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Speaker 1: with you. I really it is right, Yeah, the Lakers

509
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Speaker 1: are Oh wait, hold on, let me scroll. They're seventeenth

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Speaker 1: in defensive rating and they are fifteenth in offensive ratings,

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Speaker 1: so they are top seventeen. Right, all right, this is

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Speaker 1: which is exciting. No, the Lakers is I'm sorry, that

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Speaker 1: is strike one. That is not the answer that we're

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Speaker 1: looking for. You wanted to venture another guest.

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Speaker 2: Yes, how about Okay?

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Speaker 1: See the Oklahoma City Thunder offensive rating number three, defensive

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Speaker 1: rating number four. And if you go back through the

518
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Speaker 1: history of the NBA playoffs, the least sexy thing that

519
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Speaker 1: you will find repetitively is that the team that does

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Speaker 1: that banner thing at the end, they are almost always

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Speaker 1: a top seven rated defensive team. You do not win

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Speaker 1: the championship without being that caliber on the defensive side. Now,

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Speaker 1: Minnesota's been the top defensive team by far all year,

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Speaker 1: so certainly keep an eye on them. Although they've been

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Speaker 1: a little injured, they were wobbly down the stretch. That

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Speaker 1: lost today is a head scratcher in that they were

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Speaker 1: absolutely blown off the floor in a game that they

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Speaker 1: really wanted to have. But I think it's interesting and

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Speaker 1: I wonder your perspective, especially since, correct me if I'm wrong,

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Speaker 1: went to the Super Bowl as a rookie. Is that correct?

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Speaker 1: That's correct? And you were a young team and you

532
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Speaker 1: weren't supposed to necessarily get there, and you upset the

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Speaker 1: Vikings in order to get to the super Bowl, And

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Speaker 1: I think we do this come playoff time, where we go, Okay,

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Speaker 1: I know that team was good all year, but they're inexperienced.

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Speaker 1: They don't know how to win in the playoffs, so

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Speaker 1: they'll wilt. It's almost like that Ludwig guy that that

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Speaker 1: Steve was just talking about. Give me the Oklahoma City Ludwigs.

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Speaker 1: I think that these guys are really, really good, and

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Speaker 1: just because they're young does not mean that they're going

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Speaker 1: to cower under the lights of going against just a

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Speaker 1: line of champions. Let's be honest, the the the Lakers

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Speaker 1: and the Warriors, and the Nuggets and the Clippers and

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Speaker 1: the Suns. They're filled with players who have won championships before.

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Speaker 1: So it's a gauntlet. But I'm not dismissing these guys

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Speaker 1: just because they've never done it before. They're really good.

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Speaker 2: And I think the difference is just the way you

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Speaker 2: put it. When you are a young team and you're

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Speaker 2: going up against a team that has, you know, a

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Speaker 2: former champion on it, right, Like let's take the Clippers

551
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Speaker 2: with Kawhi, yep, I think that doesn't worry you. Your youth,

552
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Speaker 2: athleticism and quite frankly, ignorance to how big the stage is.

553
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Speaker 2: It's enough and situations like that, when you look at

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Speaker 2: teams that you may be fearing our question mark about

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Speaker 2: it's the championship teams that polds a bigger threat because

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Speaker 2: some having someone like Phoenix, Right, you have Kevin Durant.

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Speaker 2: We know what he's done in the finals and won

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Speaker 2: a couple of championships, yep. But then that's it. So

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Speaker 2: you're like, oh, okay, you up against Dallas and you

560
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Speaker 2: have Kyrie who got won, right, He's been there, he's

561
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Speaker 2: done it, he hit the shot, he hit the shot.

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Speaker 2: Luca hasn't anything. But when you go up against a

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Speaker 2: team like Golden State, a team like the Lakers who

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Speaker 2: have a championship pedigree, that's different than having a player

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Speaker 2: who's won a championship on it. That's a different mentality,

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Speaker 2: and that can give real scary, real quick because if

567
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Speaker 2: that team comes into your house and snatches the first game, psychologically,

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00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:21,160
Speaker 2: that has a bigger bearing on any anything else because

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Speaker 2: now it's like, oh snap, because to you it looks

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Speaker 2: like they've snapped in back to that form. So when

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Speaker 2: you have Golden State and you have the Lakers, who've

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Speaker 2: each won a championship in the last four years, and

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Speaker 2: the Corps who was there to win that championship is

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Speaker 2: still there, then that can be a problem.

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Speaker 1: It could be, and I think that's the difference. Then again,

576
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Speaker 1: the Pelicans and Kings could come out of this thing too,

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Speaker 1: So you're absolutely right, you know what I mean. Plenty

578
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Speaker 1: more on the NBA coming out, but coming up next.

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Speaker 1: I've been waiting all day to ask you this one.

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Speaker 1: Scotti Scheffler won the Masters, but a few days ago,

581
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Speaker 1: with his wife very very pregnant, he stated, I could

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Speaker 1: be leading on Sunday. If she goes into labor, I'm

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Speaker 1: out of here. I would love to ask how you

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Speaker 1: would have handled a similar situation. We'll do that next

585
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Speaker 1: on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 3: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in

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Speaker 3: the nation. Catch all of our shows at foxsports Radio

588
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Speaker 3: dot com and within the iHeartRadio app search FSR to

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Speaker 3: listen live.

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Speaker 1: All right, Tyrag dot com studios. Let's go back to

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Speaker 1: that rookie year, Ephrom Salam, and let's pretend that you

592
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Speaker 1: and your lovely we're expecting and it's the morning of

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Speaker 1: the game. You're going through your process, quiet time, getting

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Speaker 1: your things in order, getting ready to go to the stadium,

595
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Speaker 1: and you get that call and she goes into labor.

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Speaker 1: What do you do? Hot shot?

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Speaker 2: This might seem weird to to some people when I

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Speaker 2: say this, but she wouldn't have called. Huh, Yeah, I

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Speaker 2: know that doesn't sound weird to me at all. That

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Speaker 2: doesn't sound weird to me at all. She wouldn't have called.

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Speaker 2: If if she had, what would you do? That's a

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Speaker 2: tough one because I know my wife and I know

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Speaker 2: exactly what she would have said when I said, well,

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Speaker 2: why didn't you call? And she would have said, because

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Speaker 2: it's the super Bowl and knowing you you might have left.

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Speaker 2: The great thing about having the perfect partner for yourself

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Speaker 2: are the right partner, and my wife and I have

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Speaker 2: been together for twenty one years is she knows me

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Speaker 2: and I know her. And sometimes you have to protect

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Speaker 2: the person from themselves. Yep, good and bad ways. And

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Speaker 2: she would have based on how big the super Bowl is.

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Speaker 2: In my profession not to minimize childbirth the birth of

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Speaker 2: my son, and I was in the room for the

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Speaker 2: birth of both of them. And this goes back to

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Speaker 2: we made a conscious decision to not have kids until

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Speaker 2: I finished playing Here's will talk, and so this didn't

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Speaker 2: come up and we knew it. Now he knew his

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Speaker 2: wife was due going into the Masters. You don't think

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Speaker 2: they had that conversea So for anybody saying to him, oh,

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Speaker 2: well you should have left, or would you have or

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Speaker 2: any of that, they already talked about it. So whatever

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Speaker 2: he did is what the two people involved, three including

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Speaker 2: the baby, discussed. You get what I'm saying.

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Speaker 1: This wasn't a surprise, no, and it's it's beyond a

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Speaker 1: personal decision. I just think it's it's always interesting when

626
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Speaker 1: sports media does its thing, and male America does its

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Speaker 1: thing and acts like this kind of a thing is

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Speaker 1: just the stupidest decision of all, Like, of course, you

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Speaker 1: don't walk away from professional achievement to be at the

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Speaker 1: birth of your child. I'm like, are you sure about that?

631
00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:56,000
Speaker 1: Like it it's funny sometimes the way that that's blown off,

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00:38:56,200 --> 00:39:03,560
Speaker 1: Like I'm in kids work, Okay, I get what you're saying,

633
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Speaker 1: and I think what you're saying is is the way

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Speaker 1: most couples or most families would handle something like this,

635
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Speaker 1: Like Scottie Scheffler if she called him on the seventeenth

636
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Speaker 1: holl today. I mean, first of all, you're not supposed

637
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Speaker 1: to have your phone out at the Masters, so I

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Speaker 1: don't even know if he would have found out.

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Speaker 2: But she called him right something was wrong and then

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Speaker 2: I gotta go. Then you have to leave.

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Speaker 1: But I mean, you got a three shot lead with

642
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Speaker 1: a hole to play. I don't know many spouses, men

643
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Speaker 1: or woman in a situation like that that would be like, no,

644
00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:43,440
Speaker 1: call him because I need help breathing right now, Like

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Speaker 1: I just I don't. But it always, it always makes

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Speaker 1: me scratch my head when the media blows that off,

647
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Speaker 1: as if this professional achievement as amazing as it as,

648
00:39:57,040 --> 00:40:03,040
Speaker 1: it is just just Trump's the birth of your child.

649
00:40:03,320 --> 00:40:05,719
Speaker 1: I don't I just don't see it that way.

650
00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:15,200
Speaker 2: The great thing about relationships and individuals married having kids,

651
00:40:15,320 --> 00:40:19,839
Speaker 2: it's their relationship. So no matter what you would have done,

652
00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:27,600
Speaker 2: sir or ma'am who never played professional sports or would

653
00:40:27,680 --> 00:40:31,120
Speaker 2: never be in a situation like this, I mean, it's

654
00:40:31,320 --> 00:40:38,600
Speaker 2: it's it's easy to criticize, talk about it. I mean,

655
00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:41,560
Speaker 2: this has been going on forever. Guys have been having

656
00:40:41,600 --> 00:40:46,200
Speaker 2: to make this decision forever. I mean I've had players

657
00:40:46,600 --> 00:40:48,840
Speaker 2: who played in the game and left right after the

658
00:40:48,920 --> 00:40:50,880
Speaker 2: game in their pads and went to the hot like

659
00:40:50,960 --> 00:40:55,440
Speaker 2: all of that type of stuff, right right right, Well,

660
00:40:55,520 --> 00:40:57,920
Speaker 2: sometimes you need those pads. I mean, they can get

661
00:40:57,960 --> 00:41:01,000
Speaker 2: crazy over there. Question about that either.

662
00:41:01,520 --> 00:41:04,480
Speaker 1: All right, more on the Masters, more on the NBA,

663
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:07,000
Speaker 1: and oh, by the way, Oj Simpson, I got a

664
00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:12,080
Speaker 1: question for you coming up next Fox Sports Radio. Yeah,

665
00:41:12,200 --> 00:41:14,520
Speaker 1: glad you're with us on this Sunday night. As the

666
00:41:14,680 --> 00:41:18,040
Speaker 1: Masters has not a new but a champ again. The

667
00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:22,000
Speaker 1: NBA standings are all set for the playoffs. We were

668
00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:26,000
Speaker 1: just talking out reacting to Scottie Scheffler saying if his

669
00:41:26,120 --> 00:41:28,120
Speaker 1: wife goes into labor. I'm out of here. There was

670
00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:31,600
Speaker 1: another golfer who contended today who said something earlier in

671
00:41:31,640 --> 00:41:33,279
Speaker 1: the week that I really want to run by you

672
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:38,000
Speaker 1: and see how that one grabs you. And big time

673
00:41:38,120 --> 00:41:42,919
Speaker 1: NFL receiver has done what you do these days when

674
00:41:42,960 --> 00:41:47,520
Speaker 1: you're mad? Oh you unfollow your team on Instagram? Oh

675
00:41:47,640 --> 00:41:49,920
Speaker 1: my goodness, the horror. So we're going to get to

676
00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:52,560
Speaker 1: all of that, but I wanted to ask you this

677
00:41:53,360 --> 00:41:56,840
Speaker 1: in that OJ Simpson passed away earlier this week. This

678
00:41:57,040 --> 00:42:01,800
Speaker 1: is layered, It is complex. It is just quite frankly

679
00:42:02,040 --> 00:42:08,919
Speaker 1: different than any other sports individual that I've ever even

680
00:42:09,080 --> 00:42:13,879
Speaker 1: thought about or experienced or anything in my lifetime. There's

681
00:42:13,960 --> 00:42:18,480
Speaker 1: been more documentary time dedicated to this man and his

682
00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:23,360
Speaker 1: story in his situation than any other athlete. And I

683
00:42:23,480 --> 00:42:27,600
Speaker 1: think I'm including Michael Jordan on that. Like, seriously, it

684
00:42:28,160 --> 00:42:33,279
Speaker 1: has been that much attention around this for so so

685
00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:36,560
Speaker 1: long for someone who, by the way from you and

686
00:42:36,680 --> 00:42:42,120
Speaker 1: I never really saw him play. Like right, I was

687
00:42:42,239 --> 00:42:44,120
Speaker 1: born in seventy five. I think you were born in

688
00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:48,239
Speaker 1: seventy seven, is that correct? Seventy six? This man was

689
00:42:48,320 --> 00:42:50,560
Speaker 1: done playing by the time he was seventy. It was

690
00:42:50,680 --> 00:42:53,440
Speaker 1: nineteen seventy nine. He was done being good by the

691
00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:57,040
Speaker 1: time you and I were born, and yet he is

692
00:42:57,160 --> 00:43:01,560
Speaker 1: one of the most recognizable sports names of our lifetime.

693
00:43:02,239 --> 00:43:04,800
Speaker 1: What was your reaction this week when he passed away? Like,

694
00:43:04,920 --> 00:43:07,839
Speaker 1: what how did you process that? How do you remember him?

695
00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:12,520
Speaker 1: Which part parts? Well? I was They were like, uh,

696
00:43:12,640 --> 00:43:15,080
Speaker 1: you know, oh, Jay, I sought over my phone. OJ

697
00:43:15,200 --> 00:43:23,520
Speaker 1: passed away and I was like, woof, all right, that

698
00:43:23,680 --> 00:43:27,400
Speaker 1: was how I processed it. That was it.

699
00:43:29,880 --> 00:43:31,920
Speaker 2: Look, and I know I have to have an opinion.

700
00:43:33,280 --> 00:43:36,880
Speaker 1: You don't have to it does it does help, right,

701
00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:41,120
Speaker 1: because it's our job, right, you know what. But so

702
00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:43,320
Speaker 1: let me make you feel comfortable for a second. I

703
00:43:43,440 --> 00:43:48,360
Speaker 1: don't have some like well formed opinion on on on this.

704
00:43:48,880 --> 00:43:53,200
Speaker 1: I'm just curious how it hit you. It hit me like, man,

705
00:43:53,280 --> 00:44:04,520
Speaker 1: that's crazy, right, someone who was such a public figure

706
00:44:07,000 --> 00:44:10,360
Speaker 1: in the best and worst way you could possibly be

707
00:44:10,600 --> 00:44:17,000
Speaker 1: at the same time when your greatness, your accomplishments, your

708
00:44:17,040 --> 00:44:24,360
Speaker 1: great accomplishments, are overshadowed by the infamy of your actions.

709
00:44:26,840 --> 00:44:36,359
Speaker 1: It's like a paradox because OJ was beloved and then

710
00:44:36,440 --> 00:44:39,840
Speaker 1: he wasn't, then he was hated, and then he.

711
00:44:41,320 --> 00:44:46,160
Speaker 2: You know, even after all of that, he still walked

712
00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:49,120
Speaker 2: around like, hey, guys, what's going on.

713
00:44:51,160 --> 00:44:53,720
Speaker 1: That was a crazy period, man, right like the middle

714
00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:56,239
Speaker 1: of COVID is when he started that Twitter feed. Yeah,

715
00:44:56,280 --> 00:45:00,759
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, but your boy oj and everyone, and

716
00:45:00,960 --> 00:45:03,440
Speaker 1: some people took it as funny. Like I worked at

717
00:45:03,440 --> 00:45:06,600
Speaker 1: a radio station at the time where there were hosts

718
00:45:06,640 --> 00:45:09,279
Speaker 1: that were like, anytime he tweeted, They're like, okay, let's

719
00:45:09,320 --> 00:45:11,880
Speaker 1: play it because this is funny. And I was like,

720
00:45:13,160 --> 00:45:16,840
Speaker 1: I don't find it funny. That's just me though, And

721
00:45:16,960 --> 00:45:19,719
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to be like Johnny Sirius over here,

722
00:45:20,760 --> 00:45:24,080
Speaker 1: but I was like, this is not this is not

723
00:45:24,440 --> 00:45:30,760
Speaker 1: just some sort of notorious figure who has a quirky past.

724
00:45:31,680 --> 00:45:34,000
Speaker 2: It's funny. It's hard to find the most loved and

725
00:45:34,080 --> 00:45:38,799
Speaker 2: hated man on the planet Earth. It's hard to find

726
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:42,880
Speaker 2: a person like that, right, And he was one of

727
00:45:42,960 --> 00:45:50,440
Speaker 2: those people, which is crazy. And you know, I remember

728
00:45:50,640 --> 00:45:54,640
Speaker 2: the Bronco and I remember the case, and I remember

729
00:45:55,640 --> 00:46:01,000
Speaker 2: all of those things, and it just was a situation

730
00:46:01,480 --> 00:46:06,800
Speaker 2: where number one people lost their lives, which is horrific,

731
00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:15,120
Speaker 2: and the callousness of it to me was the thing

732
00:46:15,200 --> 00:46:20,680
Speaker 2: that I think bothered me the most. Whether he's guilty

733
00:46:20,840 --> 00:46:24,800
Speaker 2: or not. The callousness of it, and then the history

734
00:46:24,800 --> 00:46:27,560
Speaker 2: of domestic violence and all of that. Look, man, I'm

735
00:46:27,600 --> 00:46:31,879
Speaker 2: not with all of that. Right you want to punch

736
00:46:31,920 --> 00:46:37,279
Speaker 2: on somebody, punch on me, but it's coming back, and

737
00:46:37,440 --> 00:46:39,680
Speaker 2: so I'm not for that. You know, mothers. I have

738
00:46:39,800 --> 00:46:44,239
Speaker 2: a wife, you know, raising my sons to be protectors

739
00:46:46,360 --> 00:46:54,120
Speaker 2: not agitators. And so I don't have any sympathy, right,

740
00:46:54,400 --> 00:47:00,480
Speaker 2: like I take an account how everyone was raised when

741
00:47:01,400 --> 00:47:04,800
Speaker 2: in all of that, but even after the violence of

742
00:47:04,880 --> 00:47:08,000
Speaker 2: domestic violence, then you know, two people lost their lives

743
00:47:08,040 --> 00:47:11,120
Speaker 2: in a gruesome, horrific way that was seen all over

744
00:47:11,160 --> 00:47:16,160
Speaker 2: the world forever. And it to me, it's just like, look, man,

745
00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:21,040
Speaker 2: they put they put OJ in the ground, so it

746
00:47:21,160 --> 00:47:24,319
Speaker 2: goes all with him, It goes with him.

747
00:47:24,360 --> 00:47:27,239
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I mean, And I don't mean to put

748
00:47:27,280 --> 00:47:32,000
Speaker 1: you on the spot. Do you do you do you

749
00:47:32,280 --> 00:47:36,200
Speaker 1: spend your life right now? Like O. J. Simpson was

750
00:47:36,640 --> 00:47:38,320
Speaker 1: a murderer, like that is that?

751
00:47:39,080 --> 00:47:42,160
Speaker 2: I don't think we can't do that? No, I don't.

752
00:47:42,239 --> 00:47:44,279
Speaker 2: You can do whatever you want to do, like I don't.

753
00:47:44,520 --> 00:47:44,839
Speaker 2: I don't.

754
00:47:45,000 --> 00:47:48,600
Speaker 1: OJ is not a part of my daily fault, you

755
00:47:48,680 --> 00:47:49,480
Speaker 1: know what I mean? He's not.

756
00:47:50,040 --> 00:47:50,560
Speaker 2: I know he's not.

757
00:47:50,680 --> 00:47:53,840
Speaker 1: But do you do you view him as guilty? I

758
00:47:53,960 --> 00:47:57,600
Speaker 1: think O J viewed himself as guilty. That's an interesting

759
00:47:57,680 --> 00:48:04,279
Speaker 1: response say that, Well, he acted guilty. And let me

760
00:48:04,320 --> 00:48:07,200
Speaker 1: ask you a question. Go ahead, hypothetically.

761
00:48:08,320 --> 00:48:14,680
Speaker 2: Hypothetically, if you were the case, the subject in this case,

762
00:48:15,360 --> 00:48:19,600
Speaker 2: and you had gone through everything and then you were quitted,

763
00:48:23,320 --> 00:48:26,680
Speaker 2: would your course of action beat you, rub it in

764
00:48:26,760 --> 00:48:30,080
Speaker 2: everyone's face, including your children?

765
00:48:30,680 --> 00:48:37,120
Speaker 1: I would, Bill Buckner. Well he didn't, right, So that

766
00:48:37,440 --> 00:48:39,360
Speaker 1: further lets me know. And I was young when this,

767
00:48:39,480 --> 00:48:41,719
Speaker 1: all of this was happening. I was a teenager. But

768
00:48:41,840 --> 00:48:45,560
Speaker 1: as an adult you start looking at things and be

769
00:48:45,719 --> 00:48:48,480
Speaker 1: like man and my eyes.

770
00:48:48,640 --> 00:48:53,680
Speaker 2: OJ carried himself like he was guilty. He wrote the book,

771
00:48:54,680 --> 00:48:57,200
Speaker 2: he was on all the interviews, he'd want to do

772
00:48:57,320 --> 00:49:02,080
Speaker 2: the documentary if I had done it. What in what world?

773
00:49:04,360 --> 00:49:11,400
Speaker 2: In what world does someone of sound mind and innocence

774
00:49:12,040 --> 00:49:14,040
Speaker 2: carry on like that? Yeah?

775
00:49:14,080 --> 00:49:17,480
Speaker 1: Probably not so probably. All I'm going off is the

776
00:49:17,840 --> 00:49:21,280
Speaker 1: is the information, sure, And I mean at a minimum,

777
00:49:21,360 --> 00:49:26,600
Speaker 1: it's narcissm like with cup runners over a portion of it.

778
00:49:26,760 --> 00:49:33,280
Speaker 2: Which also leads to I mean, but in itself is dangerous.

779
00:49:33,320 --> 00:49:35,960
Speaker 1: No doubt, No, doubt, but in a way you get that,

780
00:49:36,239 --> 00:49:39,680
Speaker 1: You're like, I mean, that's where I do believe society

781
00:49:39,800 --> 00:49:45,000
Speaker 1: becomes a little bit complicit because our thirst for this

782
00:49:45,239 --> 00:49:50,680
Speaker 1: story never died. It never died, No, you know what

783
00:49:50,719 --> 00:49:50,960
Speaker 1: I mean.

784
00:49:51,080 --> 00:49:53,560
Speaker 2: He wouldn't let it die, and as well for us.

785
00:49:53,800 --> 00:49:57,880
Speaker 1: I'm not blaming hey, I'm not Yeah, I'm not putting

786
00:49:57,880 --> 00:50:02,040
Speaker 1: it on everybody else, but he yeah, he cruised around

787
00:50:02,160 --> 00:50:07,520
Speaker 1: with the idea that everybody still wanted oj content.

788
00:50:08,400 --> 00:50:10,920
Speaker 2: And even prior to that, even if they did went

789
00:50:11,000 --> 00:50:14,759
Speaker 2: to jail. Yeah, right before we went to prison. And

790
00:50:14,880 --> 00:50:19,400
Speaker 2: we all heard the tapes, right we are. There's violence,

791
00:50:19,520 --> 00:50:23,759
Speaker 2: there's evil, there's all that's there. So when you tie

792
00:50:23,800 --> 00:50:29,680
Speaker 2: all that together, you're like, well, hey, man, right, somebody

793
00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:33,520
Speaker 2: somebody it. If it adds up, it adds up. Now

794
00:50:33,560 --> 00:50:37,120
Speaker 2: everybody's going to solve the equation a different way. But

795
00:50:37,280 --> 00:50:40,640
Speaker 2: the facts are the facts. They are they are.

796
00:50:41,080 --> 00:50:45,440
Speaker 1: I just also like, I mean, you know, the the

797
00:50:45,600 --> 00:50:51,279
Speaker 1: legal system sort of went on trial itself here, right,

798
00:50:51,440 --> 00:50:54,360
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? And rightfully so, you know,

799
00:50:54,800 --> 00:50:57,520
Speaker 1: and so the idea of if you have money, you

800
00:50:59,040 --> 00:51:02,120
Speaker 1: you can you can be set free if you from.

801
00:51:02,040 --> 00:51:04,080
Speaker 2: The dawn time, it just usually doesn't happen to brown

802
00:51:04,120 --> 00:51:05,800
Speaker 2: people or black people. Well, there you go.

803
00:51:06,280 --> 00:51:09,120
Speaker 1: That's what the big divide was, right, Yeah, there was,

804
00:51:09,239 --> 00:51:11,160
Speaker 1: And there was that idea in the wake of the

805
00:51:11,760 --> 00:51:14,840
Speaker 1: Rodney King riot police officers getting off, there was the

806
00:51:16,040 --> 00:51:19,440
Speaker 1: thought process of, well, this was like a almost like

807
00:51:19,520 --> 00:51:20,320
Speaker 1: a makeup call.

808
00:51:20,600 --> 00:51:23,200
Speaker 2: A vindication or whatever, which you don't. You can't do

809
00:51:23,280 --> 00:51:25,640
Speaker 2: that with crime. But of course not, because that's dangerous.

810
00:51:25,920 --> 00:51:31,000
Speaker 1: There's people's lives, right, like many, many, many, like hundreds

811
00:51:31,040 --> 00:51:35,040
Speaker 1: of people's of lives were affected by this, But all

812
00:51:35,080 --> 00:51:37,440
Speaker 1: of that goes on, and it's still, like I just

813
00:51:37,719 --> 00:51:40,520
Speaker 1: the reason I was curious what you thought is because

814
00:51:40,560 --> 00:51:42,600
Speaker 1: that still goes on in a lot of us today.

815
00:51:43,239 --> 00:51:47,960
Speaker 1: When this broke a few days ago, the hosts that were,

816
00:51:48,400 --> 00:51:51,560
Speaker 1: you know, handling our station. It was in the morning

817
00:51:51,600 --> 00:51:55,840
Speaker 1: when it broke, and our morning show, what man, the calls,

818
00:51:55,920 --> 00:52:00,040
Speaker 1: the text, the the tweets, everything from every direction. It

819
00:52:00,160 --> 00:52:05,799
Speaker 1: was still a complete the full spectrum, the right center,

820
00:52:05,960 --> 00:52:09,319
Speaker 1: in between, underground, above ground, everything, the opinions are all

821
00:52:09,400 --> 00:52:12,480
Speaker 1: still sitting there and you're like, my god, it's been

822
00:52:15,160 --> 00:52:17,560
Speaker 1: we're coming up on fifty years since this man played

823
00:52:17,600 --> 00:52:18,359
Speaker 1: a football game.

824
00:52:20,320 --> 00:52:23,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the problem is you can't talk about his

825
00:52:24,560 --> 00:52:27,280
Speaker 2: just how great he was as a football player, because

826
00:52:27,320 --> 00:52:29,600
Speaker 2: what he's done after that has overshadowed any of that,

827
00:52:30,160 --> 00:52:33,040
Speaker 2: which makes it difficult, yep, which makes it difficult. You

828
00:52:33,080 --> 00:52:39,120
Speaker 2: can't even celebrate his accomplishments because he's made it where

829
00:52:39,239 --> 00:52:41,319
Speaker 2: you don't even feel like celebrating him. So how could

830
00:52:41,320 --> 00:52:44,480
Speaker 2: you even talk about, you know, how great he was,

831
00:52:45,120 --> 00:52:49,920
Speaker 2: you know as a football player, he sucked as a person.

832
00:52:51,000 --> 00:52:57,640
Speaker 2: So even if you did think he was innocent or

833
00:52:57,719 --> 00:53:00,480
Speaker 2: he didn't do it or he was proven innocent and

834
00:53:00,560 --> 00:53:04,680
Speaker 2: whatever that is, I mean, just the stuff that came

835
00:53:04,760 --> 00:53:07,560
Speaker 2: out and how we knew how he treated people and

836
00:53:08,840 --> 00:53:11,640
Speaker 2: how he treated her and all, I mean all it

837
00:53:11,719 --> 00:53:12,400
Speaker 2: was just horrific.

838
00:53:12,440 --> 00:53:14,640
Speaker 1: Man, come on, I'm glad you brought all that up. Yeah,

839
00:53:14,880 --> 00:53:18,759
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845
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Speaker 1: of quirky matchups that have been set up in the NBA.

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00:53:40,080 --> 00:53:43,600
Speaker 1: Did these two teams know what they were doing when

847
00:53:43,680 --> 00:53:47,400
Speaker 1: they played it the way they played it? And also

848
00:53:47,600 --> 00:53:51,640
Speaker 1: still ahead? Yeah, the wide receiver who has become next

849
00:53:51,719 --> 00:53:56,120
Speaker 1: in line to go ahead and unfollow his own particular team.

850
00:53:56,239 --> 00:53:59,160
Speaker 1: What's the message behind that? That's all still ahead? This

851
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Speaker 1: is Fox Sports Radio. This is not an accusation. It's

852
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Speaker 1: from Salama Mark Willard? Did the Bucks tank? I know

854
00:54:23,640 --> 00:54:27,759
Speaker 1: Yannis is going to be ready to go, and I

855
00:54:27,920 --> 00:54:33,160
Speaker 1: have no doubt that he did have a wee little injury, No,

856
00:54:33,400 --> 00:54:38,640
Speaker 1: no doubt, I'm sure he did. But the Bucks conveniently

857
00:54:38,800 --> 00:54:44,240
Speaker 1: fall to the three seed, the Knicks, who are the Knicks,

858
00:54:44,400 --> 00:54:46,920
Speaker 1: so like they're gonna go get the two seed if

859
00:54:47,400 --> 00:54:52,400
Speaker 1: if they can, because they're new and so that that

860
00:54:52,600 --> 00:54:56,560
Speaker 1: two seed now earns the winner of the of the

861
00:54:56,760 --> 00:54:59,400
Speaker 1: first the seven to eight playing game, which will be

862
00:54:59,440 --> 00:55:04,719
Speaker 1: played on when and that game in the Eastern Conference

863
00:55:04,800 --> 00:55:09,760
Speaker 1: will consist of one team who went to the finals

864
00:55:09,840 --> 00:55:14,880
Speaker 1: last year and another team who has a recent MVP

865
00:55:15,960 --> 00:55:20,080
Speaker 1: who sought out much of this season with an injury

866
00:55:20,160 --> 00:55:25,000
Speaker 1: but is now back, meaning they are by definition better

867
00:55:25,160 --> 00:55:28,520
Speaker 1: than what they're seeding says they are. So Miami and

868
00:55:28,600 --> 00:55:31,760
Speaker 1: Philadelphia will play. The winner will go play the Knicks.

869
00:55:32,440 --> 00:55:36,160
Speaker 1: That is a much harder first round matchup, in my opinion,

870
00:55:37,160 --> 00:55:40,680
Speaker 1: than the Indiana Pacers, which is what the Bucks got

871
00:55:41,320 --> 00:55:44,560
Speaker 1: for sitting Yannis out and losing a few basketball games

872
00:55:44,640 --> 00:55:45,240
Speaker 1: down the stretch.

873
00:55:50,800 --> 00:55:56,960
Speaker 2: This is what I'll say about that. Okay, Now, that's

874
00:55:57,000 --> 00:56:01,880
Speaker 2: a good point. And I mean, if you just looking

875
00:56:01,960 --> 00:56:06,000
Speaker 2: at it, you'd say, huh, I see that, m hm,

876
00:56:06,480 --> 00:56:09,960
Speaker 2: seventy six ers with Joel and be back. That's a problem.

877
00:56:12,560 --> 00:56:23,719
Speaker 2: But you tank to get the Indiana Pacers. Hey man,

878
00:56:25,520 --> 00:56:27,560
Speaker 2: you can trade one problem in for another one.

879
00:56:28,000 --> 00:56:29,680
Speaker 1: You could, no, I hear you.

880
00:56:29,880 --> 00:56:32,600
Speaker 2: Now. The thing about the Indiana Pacers, for those who

881
00:56:32,680 --> 00:56:35,600
Speaker 2: didn't watch the Pacers, not a lot of people outside

882
00:56:35,640 --> 00:56:46,239
Speaker 2: of Indiana did. They are dangerous and and I tell

883
00:56:46,280 --> 00:56:56,719
Speaker 2: you why because they're young and fast. And I don't

884
00:56:56,800 --> 00:56:59,880
Speaker 2: believe I'm mistaken when I say the Bucks are the

885
00:57:00,120 --> 00:57:01,280
Speaker 2: oldest team in the league.

886
00:57:02,600 --> 00:57:05,400
Speaker 1: Oh, I don't have that in front of me. I'm

887
00:57:05,640 --> 00:57:10,640
Speaker 1: pretty sure definitely in the top three of oldest teams

888
00:57:10,640 --> 00:57:17,920
Speaker 1: in the league. And that youth in that firepower, whoa.

889
00:57:19,240 --> 00:57:23,200
Speaker 2: I mean it is. That's one of my teams to

890
00:57:23,320 --> 00:57:28,280
Speaker 2: watch this playoff season. Now, if they were tanking, they

891
00:57:28,320 --> 00:57:34,440
Speaker 2: would have much rather got to the four seed and

892
00:57:34,680 --> 00:57:38,600
Speaker 2: one up against the fifth seed, which is the Orlando Magic.

893
00:57:41,280 --> 00:57:45,680
Speaker 2: So I hold off on the tanking because if you

894
00:57:45,800 --> 00:57:50,080
Speaker 2: were going to tank to get a favorable matchup, I

895
00:57:50,160 --> 00:57:52,280
Speaker 2: don't know if Indiana is the one.

896
00:57:52,960 --> 00:57:56,000
Speaker 1: Well, you might be right, and I'm not here to

897
00:57:56,640 --> 00:58:00,640
Speaker 1: blow off the Indiana Pacers, solid basketball team. Will say this,

898
00:58:01,600 --> 00:58:04,600
Speaker 1: What my belief is in terms of what works in

899
00:58:04,680 --> 00:58:08,200
Speaker 1: the playoffs is not what the Pacers do. You just

900
00:58:08,360 --> 00:58:12,960
Speaker 1: pointed out the Pacers' strengths, and you're right, but think

901
00:58:13,040 --> 00:58:18,000
Speaker 1: of the words that you use. They're young, exactly, they're young,

902
00:58:18,200 --> 00:58:21,640
Speaker 1: they're fast, they can score exactly. You know what they

903
00:58:21,680 --> 00:58:26,200
Speaker 1: don't do. They don't defend. They do not play any defense.

904
00:58:26,280 --> 00:58:29,080
Speaker 1: They don't play a lick of it, absolutely, not even

905
00:58:29,160 --> 00:58:34,840
Speaker 1: a tiny bit. In fact, there are only two teams

906
00:58:35,480 --> 00:58:39,520
Speaker 1: in the Eastern Conference who give up more points, both

907
00:58:39,600 --> 00:58:41,480
Speaker 1: of them have a losing record, and one of them

908
00:58:41,600 --> 00:58:47,600
Speaker 1: is the god forsake in Washington Wizards. So I don't

909
00:58:47,640 --> 00:58:51,800
Speaker 1: think that works in the playoffs. I'm absolutely As I said,

910
00:58:52,040 --> 00:58:54,680
Speaker 1: off the top. This is not an accusation. This is

911
00:58:54,800 --> 00:58:58,640
Speaker 1: probably just the way that it fell. And they decided,

912
00:58:58,680 --> 00:59:02,080
Speaker 1: which is completely within their right, that their chances in

913
00:59:02,120 --> 00:59:05,760
Speaker 1: the playoffs were better if Jannis didn't push it and

914
00:59:06,600 --> 00:59:10,080
Speaker 1: risk something, and so I totally support that, and if

915
00:59:10,120 --> 00:59:12,320
Speaker 1: that led to it falling the way that it fell,

916
00:59:12,400 --> 00:59:14,680
Speaker 1: and they lost their last two games while the Knicks

917
00:59:14,760 --> 00:59:17,560
Speaker 1: ended on a five game win streak, the Bucks were

918
00:59:17,600 --> 00:59:20,000
Speaker 1: well aware that that was a possibility when they made

919
00:59:20,040 --> 00:59:23,080
Speaker 1: the decision they made, and they were having problems before

920
00:59:23,160 --> 00:59:27,200
Speaker 1: Jannis got hurt, no doubt not. That has not worked

921
00:59:27,640 --> 00:59:30,360
Speaker 1: at all. It's been a wonky season for the Bucks.

922
00:59:30,400 --> 00:59:33,040
Speaker 1: And I am very very out on the idea of

923
00:59:33,160 --> 00:59:36,800
Speaker 1: them having a great playoff run. So there's all of that.

924
00:59:37,080 --> 00:59:39,120
Speaker 1: I just here's the way I would put it. Ee, Like,

925
00:59:39,640 --> 00:59:44,800
Speaker 1: I think they looked at this and said, Okay, what's

926
00:59:44,880 --> 00:59:47,400
Speaker 1: the bad thing that could happen if we sit them

927
00:59:47,440 --> 00:59:48,720
Speaker 1: out and we lose games?

928
00:59:48,880 --> 00:59:51,560
Speaker 2: And they looked at the bad thing and went I'm

929
00:59:51,640 --> 00:59:53,400
Speaker 2: fine with that. They should have been like, whoof, we

930
00:59:53,480 --> 00:59:56,960
Speaker 2: need to lose one more? Well maybe, but I'll tell

931
00:59:56,960 --> 01:00:05,000
Speaker 2: you they have eight players on their team shooting thirty

932
01:00:05,040 --> 01:00:08,000
Speaker 2: six percent are over from a three point line. Eight.

933
01:00:12,640 --> 01:00:13,720
Speaker 2: That is crazy.

934
01:00:14,280 --> 01:00:17,720
Speaker 1: They can score. They can score.

935
01:00:18,320 --> 01:00:21,000
Speaker 2: And what happens is when you're playing a younger team.

936
01:00:21,080 --> 01:00:24,680
Speaker 2: And I'm an advocate of playing defense in the playoffs.

937
01:00:25,520 --> 01:00:27,920
Speaker 2: The deeper you get, the better your defense has to be.

938
01:00:28,920 --> 01:00:31,960
Speaker 2: But what you can do in the first round as

939
01:00:32,040 --> 01:00:35,320
Speaker 2: you can catch an older team off guard and you

940
01:00:35,440 --> 01:00:41,920
Speaker 2: can force them to play your tempo. You can force

941
01:00:42,040 --> 01:00:48,120
Speaker 2: them to speed up. Now they're not playing their game,

942
01:00:49,040 --> 01:00:53,440
Speaker 2: they're playing yours. I've literally watched this team all season.

943
01:00:53,560 --> 01:00:54,040
Speaker 2: Come down.

944
01:00:54,920 --> 01:01:00,160
Speaker 1: You can make a basket and within three and a

945
01:01:00,200 --> 01:01:04,960
Speaker 1: half seconds they're scoring at the other end. Their problem,

946
01:01:05,600 --> 01:01:08,680
Speaker 1: that is what that's their mo o. Well, I mean,

947
01:01:08,920 --> 01:01:11,720
Speaker 1: if you if you want a little snapshot, this is

948
01:01:11,840 --> 01:01:13,720
Speaker 1: just one stat and I just happen to have it

949
01:01:13,800 --> 01:01:16,720
Speaker 1: in the back of my pocket here because of where

950
01:01:16,760 --> 01:01:20,280
Speaker 1: I live. The Bucks are the oldest team in the NBA,

951
01:01:20,400 --> 01:01:23,240
Speaker 1: but I'd argue that, you know, the core of the

952
01:01:23,440 --> 01:01:27,280
Speaker 1: Golden State Warriors also also pretty old, right, Oh yeah, yeah, absolutely.

953
01:01:27,800 --> 01:01:30,960
Speaker 1: Indiana Pacers the only team in the NBA that has

954
01:01:31,200 --> 01:01:35,680
Speaker 1: never lost a basketball game at Chase Center, which is

955
01:01:35,800 --> 01:01:39,160
Speaker 1: the home of the Golden State Warriors. The Pacers in

956
01:01:39,280 --> 01:01:44,440
Speaker 1: recent years. This includes their championship year. Every year the

957
01:01:44,520 --> 01:01:48,280
Speaker 1: Pacers come in and defeat the Warriors, and the Bucks

958
01:01:48,320 --> 01:01:51,600
Speaker 1: are not that good. So there's that aspect of this

959
01:01:51,760 --> 01:01:54,440
Speaker 1: conversation as well. The Bucks have not had a great year.

960
01:01:54,480 --> 01:01:59,080
Speaker 1: They're not that good. You know. The difference between the

961
01:01:59,200 --> 01:02:01,640
Speaker 1: three seed, the two seed, and the eight seed in

962
01:02:01,680 --> 01:02:03,240
Speaker 1: the East is four games.

963
01:02:03,840 --> 01:02:04,040
Speaker 2: You know.

964
01:02:04,240 --> 01:02:08,520
Speaker 1: It's it's all very very bunched up, and so I

965
01:02:08,640 --> 01:02:12,040
Speaker 1: don't think anybody is going to blow anybody out outside

966
01:02:12,120 --> 01:02:15,200
Speaker 1: of that one seed, and and and to be frank,

967
01:02:16,000 --> 01:02:21,000
Speaker 1: I'm having a pretty hard time imagining anybody other than

968
01:02:21,080 --> 01:02:23,280
Speaker 1: the Celtics coming out of the East.

969
01:02:23,800 --> 01:02:27,600
Speaker 2: Yes, that's a tough task. Now. The only other team,

970
01:02:30,480 --> 01:02:34,280
Speaker 2: you know, just based on playoff lure, I don't know

971
01:02:34,320 --> 01:02:37,080
Speaker 2: what it is, but you can never count to Chicago

972
01:02:37,080 --> 01:02:39,200
Speaker 2: Bulls out. I mean not, excuse me, not the Bulls.

973
01:02:39,240 --> 01:02:42,640
Speaker 2: You talk about the Miami Miamy Heat. Miami, not the Bulls.

974
01:02:42,760 --> 01:02:45,720
Speaker 2: Definitely not the Bulls, but the Miami Heat for whatever reason,

975
01:02:46,400 --> 01:02:49,600
Speaker 2: for whatever, we've seen it time and time again. So

976
01:02:49,800 --> 01:02:52,880
Speaker 2: we gotta start talking about it and stop ignoring it.

977
01:02:53,360 --> 01:02:54,959
Speaker 1: Here they are in the playing again.

978
01:02:55,120 --> 01:02:56,640
Speaker 2: This is exactly where they want to be.

979
01:02:57,200 --> 01:03:00,120
Speaker 1: As crazy as that sounds, They're probably gonna lose to

980
01:03:00,200 --> 01:03:04,400
Speaker 1: the Sixers on Wednesday night, and then on Friday night

981
01:03:04,600 --> 01:03:07,440
Speaker 1: they will defeat either the Bulls or the Hawks and

982
01:03:07,560 --> 01:03:10,320
Speaker 1: they will go play Boston, and Boston will look at

983
01:03:10,400 --> 01:03:13,640
Speaker 1: them as they arrive in Boston and they will roll

984
01:03:13,680 --> 01:03:18,520
Speaker 1: their eyes and go, really, these guys, we won sixty

985
01:03:18,600 --> 01:03:22,840
Speaker 1: four games and this is who's showing up. We didn't

986
01:03:22,880 --> 01:03:25,840
Speaker 1: need that, but I tell you who we do need

987
01:03:25,920 --> 01:03:28,280
Speaker 1: to show out to day, Steve de Sager, you knew

988
01:03:28,320 --> 01:03:31,320
Speaker 1: I was gonna do it. I got you. I got you,

989
01:03:32,760 --> 01:03:36,200
Speaker 1: our man, the birthday boy, Steve de Saga. Good evening

990
01:03:36,280 --> 01:03:37,160
Speaker 1: once again, gentlemen.

991
01:03:37,200 --> 01:03:39,680
Speaker 6: It will be Golden State at Sacramento in an NBA

992
01:03:39,840 --> 01:03:44,040
Speaker 6: playing game Tuesday, ten pm Eastern time. The loser is out.

993
01:03:44,640 --> 01:03:48,160
Speaker 6: Just before that, Tuesday seven thirty pm Eastern, it's the

994
01:03:48,280 --> 01:03:50,800
Speaker 6: Lakers at New Orleans again in a play in that

995
01:03:51,000 --> 01:03:54,240
Speaker 6: loser will play on Friday. Lakers won at New Orleans

996
01:03:54,320 --> 01:03:58,120
Speaker 6: today one twenty four to oneh eight. Lebron James twenty

997
01:03:58,160 --> 01:04:02,760
Speaker 6: eight points, eleven rebounds, seventeen assists. It's his one hundred

998
01:04:02,800 --> 01:04:05,640
Speaker 6: and twelfth career triple doubles. So the Lakers clinched the

999
01:04:05,760 --> 01:04:08,520
Speaker 6: eighth seed, they avoid the nine to ten matchup, and

1000
01:04:08,640 --> 01:04:11,280
Speaker 6: they get two cracks at it essentially this week before

1001
01:04:11,360 --> 01:04:14,680
Speaker 6: the actual first round of the postseason begins next weekend.

1002
01:04:15,080 --> 01:04:17,960
Speaker 6: The Kings and Warriors each one at home to finish

1003
01:04:18,040 --> 01:04:22,240
Speaker 6: the regular season. Sacramento's win was dominating about a forty

1004
01:04:22,280 --> 01:04:27,680
Speaker 6: point victory against Portland dementas Sabonis had eighteen points, eleven rebounds,

1005
01:04:27,840 --> 01:04:32,240
Speaker 6: nine assists. Sabonis with his seventy seventh double double of

1006
01:04:32,360 --> 01:04:36,200
Speaker 6: this season. That it only happened six times in NBA history,

1007
01:04:36,280 --> 01:04:38,840
Speaker 6: but the last guy to have that many double doubles

1008
01:04:38,920 --> 01:04:42,919
Speaker 6: in one season was Moses Malone in nineteen seventy nine,

1009
01:04:43,120 --> 01:04:43,440
Speaker 6: so it.

1010
01:04:43,520 --> 01:04:46,280
Speaker 2: Had been a while since the O. J.

1011
01:04:46,400 --> 01:04:49,400
Speaker 1: Simpsons career nineteen seventy nine. Exactly.

1012
01:04:50,000 --> 01:04:52,800
Speaker 6: Rockets and Spurs each won their finale, so the Rockets

1013
01:04:52,800 --> 01:04:56,360
Speaker 6: finished forty one and forty one. Spurs got to play

1014
01:04:56,440 --> 01:04:59,120
Speaker 6: the Pistons to finish up, so that's a w Pistons

1015
01:04:59,160 --> 01:05:02,720
Speaker 6: finished fourteen and sixty eight. You mentioned how bad the

1016
01:05:02,760 --> 01:05:07,680
Speaker 6: Wizards they lost to finish fifteen and sixty seven. Wizards

1017
01:05:07,720 --> 01:05:11,320
Speaker 6: lost at Boston and of course Boston's been sitting people recently.

1018
01:05:11,600 --> 01:05:14,480
Speaker 6: Still doesn't matter. You're playing Washington one thirty two to

1019
01:05:14,600 --> 01:05:17,360
Speaker 6: one twenty two the final. Peyton Pritchard had thirty eight

1020
01:05:17,440 --> 01:05:20,800
Speaker 6: points and twelve assists. The Wizards lost sixth straight to

1021
01:05:20,960 --> 01:05:24,200
Speaker 6: end the season. Hornets and Heat with wins. Pacers won

1022
01:05:24,240 --> 01:05:27,000
Speaker 6: their game one fifty seven to one fifteen.

1023
01:05:27,040 --> 01:05:31,240
Speaker 1: I tell you, brother, hey man, you're gonna tell about

1024
01:05:31,240 --> 01:05:32,040
Speaker 1: putting it a hay.

1025
01:05:33,920 --> 01:05:35,919
Speaker 6: It was against the Hawks, who have now lost six

1026
01:05:36,000 --> 01:05:39,120
Speaker 6: in a row, and the Hawks were already locked in

1027
01:05:39,320 --> 01:05:42,160
Speaker 6: as the Bulls were into the nine versus ten matchup

1028
01:05:42,240 --> 01:05:46,240
Speaker 6: Wednesday night this week that loser will be eliminated. Meanwhile,

1029
01:05:46,320 --> 01:05:48,439
Speaker 6: Philly won at home against the Nets one oh seven

1030
01:05:48,520 --> 01:05:51,160
Speaker 6: eighty six. The seventy six ers have won eight in

1031
01:05:51,240 --> 01:05:55,000
Speaker 6: a row. Philadelphia is in a playing game hosting Miami

1032
01:05:55,280 --> 01:05:58,520
Speaker 6: on Wednesday. The Magic beat the Bucks. Milwaukee with a

1033
01:05:58,560 --> 01:06:01,040
Speaker 6: win would have clinched the two. Instead, it goes to

1034
01:06:01,120 --> 01:06:03,640
Speaker 6: the New York Knicks, who got an overtime victory against

1035
01:06:03,640 --> 01:06:06,680
Speaker 6: the Bulls one twenty to one to nineteen Jalen Brunson

1036
01:06:06,800 --> 01:06:09,800
Speaker 6: forty points. Knicks have won five straight. They finished with

1037
01:06:09,960 --> 01:06:14,120
Speaker 6: fifty wins the Bucks had forty nine victories again. The

1038
01:06:14,160 --> 01:06:17,840
Speaker 6: play in tournament starts Tuesday. Scottie Scheffler won the Masters

1039
01:06:17,920 --> 01:06:22,640
Speaker 6: by four stroke. Ludwig Oberg finished second in his first major.

1040
01:06:22,920 --> 01:06:25,920
Speaker 6: Colin Morikawa shot a final round seventy four, fell to

1041
01:06:26,040 --> 01:06:29,760
Speaker 6: a tie for third place. Bryson Deshambeau tied for six.

1042
01:06:29,920 --> 01:06:34,160
Speaker 6: Xander Schauffley finished eighth ten back in. The NHL regular

1043
01:06:34,240 --> 01:06:37,240
Speaker 6: season ends Thursday. The hockey playoffs starts Saturday, Vegas in

1044
01:06:37,320 --> 01:06:41,360
Speaker 6: overtime winner today defeating Colorado four to three. Chase Elliott

1045
01:06:41,360 --> 01:06:44,480
Speaker 6: won the NASCAR Race at Texas to Major League Baseball

1046
01:06:44,600 --> 01:06:48,120
Speaker 6: victories for the Orioles and Pirates. Pittsburgh Pirates are eleven

1047
01:06:48,200 --> 01:06:51,760
Speaker 6: and five so far. The Dodgers eleven and six, are

1048
01:06:51,840 --> 01:06:54,360
Speaker 6: leading at home against the Padres three to one in

1049
01:06:54,480 --> 01:06:57,360
Speaker 6: the top of the six. Looks like they've just brought

1050
01:06:57,440 --> 01:07:00,480
Speaker 6: home a run on a basis loaded double play get three.

1051
01:07:00,720 --> 01:07:03,720
Speaker 6: Two Dodgers in the lead over the Padres. The Dodger

1052
01:07:03,800 --> 01:07:08,000
Speaker 6: starting pitcher Tonight, James Paxton, went five plus innings, walked eight,

1053
01:07:08,720 --> 01:07:11,320
Speaker 6: and gave up a solo homer to Manny Machado, always

1054
01:07:11,360 --> 01:07:13,960
Speaker 6: a fan favorite at Dodger Stadium, la a three to

1055
01:07:14,000 --> 01:07:16,000
Speaker 6: two leader in the six. And by the way, there

1056
01:07:16,240 --> 01:07:20,160
Speaker 6: was an actual rain delay before this game of half hour,

1057
01:07:20,280 --> 01:07:22,800
Speaker 6: plus rain delay of over two hours at the start

1058
01:07:22,840 --> 01:07:27,200
Speaker 6: of last night's game. There were three straight rainouts in

1059
01:07:27,360 --> 01:07:31,320
Speaker 6: nineteen eighty eight when the Padres were visiting the Dodgers.

1060
01:07:31,480 --> 01:07:34,000
Speaker 6: It is very rare to have rain outs, as you

1061
01:07:34,120 --> 01:07:36,960
Speaker 6: know at Dodger Stadium. In fact, from two thy to

1062
01:07:37,120 --> 01:07:40,640
Speaker 6: twenty eighteen there were none. There's actual rain these days

1063
01:07:40,680 --> 01:07:41,840
Speaker 6: in Los Angeles, bec to you.

1064
01:07:43,840 --> 01:07:47,480
Speaker 1: That's what I've heard, and it is not being received kindly.

1065
01:07:50,360 --> 01:07:53,680
Speaker 1: You do not mess around as we as we push

1066
01:07:53,720 --> 01:07:57,040
Speaker 1: toward May in southern California with rain is very unsettling

1067
01:07:57,120 --> 01:08:00,880
Speaker 1: to the local populace, especially divers who may not be

1068
01:08:01,000 --> 01:08:08,480
Speaker 1: used to it. Let's say, gosh, it's funny. Tyrag dot

1069
01:08:08,520 --> 01:08:11,640
Speaker 1: com Studios, Mark Willardy from Salam thank you, Steve, appreciate

1070
01:08:11,760 --> 01:08:15,280
Speaker 1: that so much. A few things on this. By the way,

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01:08:15,400 --> 01:08:18,080
Speaker 1: while we're while we're talking out the NBA and the

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Speaker 1: Bucks thing, let's get back over to the Western Conference.

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Speaker 1: And boy, you said it earlier, right, this thing was fun.

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01:08:26,640 --> 01:08:28,960
Speaker 1: Down the stretch. You could not lose a game or

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01:08:29,000 --> 01:08:35,000
Speaker 1: else there were major major consequences or were there? So?

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Speaker 1: A couple of nights ago, Golden State lost to New Orleans,

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01:08:39,720 --> 01:08:43,960
Speaker 1: close game, five point game, Golden State loses. Turns out,

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01:08:44,760 --> 01:08:48,519
Speaker 1: if they had won that game with what then happened

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Speaker 1: in Sacramento, with the Suns rallying and winning by one,

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Speaker 1: the Warriors would have been the eight seed. They would

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Speaker 1: have been in New Orleans on on two, and the

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01:09:01,360 --> 01:09:07,479
Speaker 1: Kings and Lakers would have been battling. However, I wonder,

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01:09:08,280 --> 01:09:11,439
Speaker 1: I like, granted, they've got to play a second game,

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01:09:11,680 --> 01:09:14,080
Speaker 1: but they got to a point? Did the Warriors? And

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01:09:14,160 --> 01:09:17,599
Speaker 1: Steve Kerr knew this. That's why he sat Steph Curry

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Speaker 1: and Draymond Green today. They won anyway, but he sat

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Speaker 1: him he wasn't trying to chase a nine seed or

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Speaker 1: an eight seed. And I wonder how much of its

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01:09:28,080 --> 01:09:30,599
Speaker 1: same as what I said about the Bucks, where they

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01:09:30,720 --> 01:09:33,680
Speaker 1: looked at the consequences and said, sure, we'd rather be

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Speaker 1: the eight. But if it doesn't go our way, is

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Speaker 1: it really that bad? No, it's not, because, as I

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Speaker 1: told you, I think a week ago, if I'm Golden State,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to play the Lakers. They're tall. I

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01:09:51,000 --> 01:09:52,960
Speaker 1: don't want to play the Lakers. I want to play

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Speaker 1: the Sacramento Kings because they are wounded and familiar and

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01:09:58,479 --> 01:10:01,120
Speaker 1: there's a big brother little brother thing going on there.

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01:10:02,479 --> 01:10:05,080
Speaker 1: Let's be real. They're on the road next week, but

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Speaker 1: they're favored. They're favored to win that game in Sacramento. Granted,

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01:10:08,760 --> 01:10:10,920
Speaker 1: you've got to go win another one, but there is

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Speaker 1: a very good puncher's chance that that team that's awaiting

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Speaker 1: them is not the Lakers, it's the Pelicans. And to me,

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Speaker 1: if you're looking at that from the Warrior perspective, that's

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Speaker 1: that's that's better. I'm not saying they can't beat the Lakers.

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01:10:25,160 --> 01:10:29,040
Speaker 1: They have, but that matchup, to me is the one

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01:10:29,120 --> 01:10:32,040
Speaker 1: that if if if all things are being equal, I'd

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Speaker 1: go ahead and avoid Anthony Davis period period.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So this this may listen. The nine to ten thing

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01:10:44,200 --> 01:10:49,799
Speaker 1: is really hard to do. But considering where the Warriors

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01:10:49,920 --> 01:10:53,320
Speaker 1: ended up this season, I don't think that this draw

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01:10:53,600 --> 01:10:57,479
Speaker 1: is all that bad for them. Not they think they're toughest. Yeah,

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01:10:57,520 --> 01:11:01,000
Speaker 1: their toughest thing is that this King's Warriors thing. That's

1114
01:11:01,080 --> 01:11:07,719
Speaker 1: gonna be crazy. Yep, that's it was crazy for seven

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01:11:07,800 --> 01:11:10,479
Speaker 1: games last year. Yeah, man, that bus ride. That's this

1116
01:11:10,960 --> 01:11:17,760
Speaker 1: the bus ride bra yep. And there's another aspect to it.

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01:11:17,840 --> 01:11:19,479
Speaker 1: By the way, you're going to go on the road.

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01:11:19,560 --> 01:11:21,320
Speaker 1: But you don't even need an airport.

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01:11:23,000 --> 01:11:24,040
Speaker 2: Right here in California.

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Speaker 1: That's good. Like this.

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01:11:29,160 --> 01:11:30,400
Speaker 2: I'm so excited.

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01:11:31,320 --> 01:11:36,479
Speaker 1: It's a big night. It's a really big night Tuesday.

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Speaker 2: I'm really excited.

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Speaker 1: It's it's it's I think that you and I talked

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01:11:41,439 --> 01:11:46,880
Speaker 1: about this no less than four or five weeks ago,

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01:11:47,640 --> 01:11:49,840
Speaker 1: where you looked at the way that this whole thing

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01:11:50,040 --> 01:11:52,320
Speaker 1: was was shaking out. And by the way, at that time,

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Speaker 1: it did not look like the Sacramento Kings were going

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01:11:55,800 --> 01:11:59,760
Speaker 1: to be a part of the playing tournament. It didn't

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01:11:59,760 --> 01:12:00,960
Speaker 1: look like that at that point.

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01:12:01,080 --> 01:12:01,360
Speaker 2: They were.

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01:12:01,600 --> 01:12:04,160
Speaker 1: They were up in the in the in the top

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01:12:04,240 --> 01:12:07,439
Speaker 1: five at that time. But everything's so close, and Malik

1134
01:12:07,560 --> 01:12:09,640
Speaker 1: Monk got hurt and this that the other and the

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01:12:09,760 --> 01:12:12,800
Speaker 1: Kings were four and six down the stretch and uh,

1136
01:12:12,880 --> 01:12:15,479
Speaker 1: and here they are. Uh. And the Warriors and Kings

1137
01:12:15,560 --> 01:12:18,120
Speaker 1: end up tied for the the bottom record as far

1138
01:12:18,200 --> 01:12:20,000
Speaker 1: as the West teams that are that are moving on.

1139
01:12:21,000 --> 01:12:25,479
Speaker 1: But this Western Conference playing Tournament, I would argue, is

1140
01:12:25,600 --> 01:12:28,880
Speaker 1: set up to be the best playing tournament that that

1141
01:12:29,080 --> 01:12:30,920
Speaker 1: we've seen. I grant, no, it's only been a few

1142
01:12:31,000 --> 01:12:33,720
Speaker 1: years that they're doing this, but this, this is I

1143
01:12:33,760 --> 01:12:37,200
Speaker 1: would imagine what they were thinking about when they drew

1144
01:12:37,280 --> 01:12:44,240
Speaker 1: this thing up. Yeah, it's uh, this is exactly what

1145
01:12:44,360 --> 01:12:53,280
Speaker 1: they want. This is exactly what they want. That night

1146
01:12:53,400 --> 01:12:55,880
Speaker 1: is going to be something. Man, that's gonna be something.

1147
01:12:56,640 --> 01:13:00,720
Speaker 1: And Brandon Ingram will be back, so that's going to

1148
01:13:00,800 --> 01:13:05,960
Speaker 1: be a different looking I think Pelicans Lakers game in

1149
01:13:06,040 --> 01:13:10,479
Speaker 1: the first of the two games there on Tuesday. So yeah, man,

1150
01:13:10,720 --> 01:13:14,000
Speaker 1: this is about as urgent and as good as what

1151
01:13:14,120 --> 01:13:16,880
Speaker 1: the NBA has to offer this quickly into the postseason.

1152
01:13:17,320 --> 01:13:19,720
Speaker 1: So that's coming up on Tuesday. Much more to say

1153
01:13:20,240 --> 01:13:23,120
Speaker 1: about that, but coming up next, I do want to

1154
01:13:23,240 --> 01:13:27,120
Speaker 1: explore that noise you made when Steve mentioned that Tiger

1155
01:13:27,240 --> 01:13:33,240
Speaker 1: Woods limped around for a sixteen over par finish to

1156
01:13:33,360 --> 01:13:37,719
Speaker 1: the Masters. Did you enjoy watching him? Did you hate

1157
01:13:38,320 --> 01:13:41,400
Speaker 1: watching him? That's next with e from Salam, Mark Willard,

1158
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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio. Yeah, heck, back to life, back to reality? Okay,

1159
01:13:48,080 --> 01:13:52,599
Speaker 1: Tiger ty REQ dot Com Studios, Mark Willardy from Salam

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01:13:54,760 --> 01:13:56,760
Speaker 1: Let's be real, did you enjoy it or not? Do

1161
01:13:56,840 --> 01:13:57,960
Speaker 1: you like watching him? Or not.

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01:13:59,640 --> 01:14:11,000
Speaker 2: What Tiger Woods. Oh no, I don't. It's hard. I mean,

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01:14:11,080 --> 01:14:20,120
Speaker 2: I love him back in playing golf, But did you

1164
01:14:20,360 --> 01:14:28,519
Speaker 2: enjoy Jordan's playing for the Wizards, you know what I mean?

1165
01:14:29,040 --> 01:14:40,720
Speaker 1: Willie Mays for the Mets. It's just like, yeah, the Raiders, Raiders, Broncos, Seattle. No,

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01:14:40,920 --> 01:14:43,560
Speaker 1: it's it's it's very difficult. Well, and I'd say this

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01:14:43,720 --> 01:14:49,920
Speaker 1: one's different because this is less about Gosh, he can't

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01:14:50,720 --> 01:14:53,000
Speaker 1: hit the ball the way he used to. Maybe this

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01:14:53,160 --> 01:14:57,439
Speaker 1: is the nature of the sport because in golf, we're

1170
01:14:57,479 --> 01:15:00,360
Speaker 1: not watching every single shot, we're not seeing the whole thing.

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01:15:00,400 --> 01:15:03,040
Speaker 1: And quite frankly, even just watching him swing on TV,

1172
01:15:03,240 --> 01:15:06,720
Speaker 1: you're like, yeah, there goes the ball. Like it's not

1173
01:15:07,240 --> 01:15:11,439
Speaker 1: it's not the same experience. What's hard for me is

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01:15:11,560 --> 01:15:13,559
Speaker 1: he looks like you can't even bend over and get.

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01:15:13,479 --> 01:15:14,880
Speaker 2: The ball out of there. That's the problem.

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01:15:15,200 --> 01:15:19,680
Speaker 1: That walk, that walk where which looks like someone who

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01:15:19,840 --> 01:15:22,679
Speaker 1: is trying to make it look like they're not hurt,

1178
01:15:23,360 --> 01:15:26,120
Speaker 1: but you can tell they are. And then when he

1179
01:15:26,200 --> 01:15:28,200
Speaker 1: puts the ball in the hole and he's got to

1180
01:15:28,240 --> 01:15:29,840
Speaker 1: go over there and get the ball out of the hole,

1181
01:15:30,560 --> 01:15:36,280
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh God, my man, is in tremendous pain,

1182
01:15:37,840 --> 01:15:44,040
Speaker 1: and so for me, that's the that's the vibe you

1183
01:15:44,240 --> 01:15:46,479
Speaker 1: sort of wish you could tell Tiger, and I'm sure

1184
01:15:46,479 --> 01:15:49,720
Speaker 1: a thousand people have. You know, you don't have to

1185
01:15:49,800 --> 01:15:51,680
Speaker 1: do this, right, you have to do it, man, you

1186
01:15:51,800 --> 01:15:56,880
Speaker 1: don't have to do this. And he is and I'll

1187
01:15:57,200 --> 01:16:01,920
Speaker 1: never ever ever someone else when it's time to give

1188
01:16:02,000 --> 01:16:05,720
Speaker 1: him up and hang him up. If if if your

1189
01:16:05,880 --> 01:16:09,080
Speaker 1: chosen sport will have you and someone wants to pay you,

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01:16:09,200 --> 01:16:11,160
Speaker 1: and you want to be there, then damn it, you

1191
01:16:11,320 --> 01:16:14,920
Speaker 1: get to be there. Period. It's not for us to say.

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01:16:15,840 --> 01:16:20,600
Speaker 1: I just hope he's doing this for him and and

1193
01:16:20,920 --> 01:16:23,760
Speaker 1: whatever that reason is, whatever it is he's trying to prove,

1194
01:16:23,880 --> 01:16:26,799
Speaker 1: or maybe it's for Charlie, or it may be for Charlie,

1195
01:16:26,960 --> 01:16:31,040
Speaker 1: and maybe I don't know what it's all about, but

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01:16:31,200 --> 01:16:34,439
Speaker 1: whatever it is, I just hope it's it's that and

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01:16:34,520 --> 01:16:37,680
Speaker 1: it's kind of pure and and there's some enjoyment out

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01:16:37,720 --> 01:16:41,639
Speaker 1: of this, because on Thursday he looks like he's having

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01:16:41,760 --> 01:16:46,320
Speaker 1: fun a little bit, you know, and then you get

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01:16:46,320 --> 01:16:49,360
Speaker 1: to Saturday and Sunday and it's like there's no smiling,

1201
01:16:50,280 --> 01:16:57,880
Speaker 1: there's wincings. It totally so I don't know, man, Like,

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01:16:58,760 --> 01:17:01,679
Speaker 1: if he's having fun out there, then dude, it doesn't

1203
01:17:01,680 --> 01:17:04,000
Speaker 1: look like yeah, but it doesn't.

1204
01:17:04,120 --> 01:17:07,080
Speaker 2: But if he is okay, but it doesn't look like

1205
01:17:07,160 --> 01:17:09,479
Speaker 2: he's having fun, and that's the problem I'm having with it.

1206
01:17:11,280 --> 01:17:14,720
Speaker 2: Like just watching him walk from from hold the hole

1207
01:17:16,280 --> 01:17:23,400
Speaker 2: walk into the fairways, it's like and look, as an

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01:17:23,479 --> 01:17:30,040
Speaker 2: athlete who played with injuries, you can convince yourself. But

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01:17:30,720 --> 01:17:33,679
Speaker 2: what it does is and the reason he's so erratic

1210
01:17:33,760 --> 01:17:39,559
Speaker 2: and all over the place is you naturally, your body

1211
01:17:40,320 --> 01:17:45,880
Speaker 2: won't allow you to use that same muscle memory because

1212
01:17:46,000 --> 01:17:49,720
Speaker 2: it's protecting you and and psychologically you're protecting yourself. Like

1213
01:17:49,800 --> 01:17:56,080
Speaker 2: if I if I swing the way I want to swing,

1214
01:17:58,200 --> 01:18:01,360
Speaker 2: it's gonna hurt. So you try to adjust and this

1215
01:18:01,479 --> 01:18:06,160
Speaker 2: is happening as it's actually happening right in midswing and

1216
01:18:06,600 --> 01:18:09,560
Speaker 2: all of it. Sure, So now you don't have that

1217
01:18:09,640 --> 01:18:18,400
Speaker 2: control you normally have. And when your mind is fighting

1218
01:18:18,760 --> 01:18:26,240
Speaker 2: your body, this is what it looks like. This is

1219
01:18:26,320 --> 01:18:30,640
Speaker 2: what it looks like. And I know he's trying to

1220
01:18:30,680 --> 01:18:33,120
Speaker 2: hold on to it, but the damage has been done

1221
01:18:33,200 --> 01:18:39,960
Speaker 2: and it can't be undone. Once your body starts to

1222
01:18:40,000 --> 01:18:46,120
Speaker 2: break down, it doesn't go back right, No matter how

1223
01:18:46,160 --> 01:18:49,080
Speaker 2: many surgeries you have and how much money you have

1224
01:18:49,360 --> 01:18:51,800
Speaker 2: or what, it doesn't go back.

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01:18:54,360 --> 01:18:59,040
Speaker 1: It's interesting though, man, even just you know, sometimes I

1226
01:18:59,240 --> 01:19:03,519
Speaker 1: look at Tiger Woods is to the Masters the way,

1227
01:19:03,640 --> 01:19:06,479
Speaker 1: and please understand this the way I mean it. Tiger

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01:19:06,560 --> 01:19:10,840
Speaker 1: Woods is to the Masters. What for some of us,

1229
01:19:11,000 --> 01:19:15,320
Speaker 1: a pet is to our home, which is that like, dude,

1230
01:19:15,680 --> 01:19:19,479
Speaker 1: you're not shopping, you're not paying the bills, you're not

1231
01:19:19,680 --> 01:19:22,920
Speaker 1: keeping the lights on here. But man, it is a

1232
01:19:23,000 --> 01:19:25,559
Speaker 1: hell of a lot more comfortable just because you're here.

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01:19:28,000 --> 01:19:31,120
Speaker 1: And that's all I mean by that, Just like your

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01:19:31,200 --> 01:19:37,160
Speaker 1: presence just makes everybody feel better. And so I almost

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01:19:37,360 --> 01:19:39,920
Speaker 1: like there's a weird sort of connect here where it's

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01:19:40,000 --> 01:19:43,680
Speaker 1: like I'm with you. This is hard to watch, but

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01:19:43,920 --> 01:19:47,720
Speaker 1: I'm glad he's there. I kind of want him there

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01:19:47,760 --> 01:19:50,000
Speaker 1: and don't want to watch it. That's kind of what

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01:19:50,160 --> 01:19:54,000
Speaker 1: I've arrived at. It was like all anyone was rooting

1240
01:19:54,080 --> 01:19:58,160
Speaker 1: for was for him to actually complete the tournament. That's

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01:19:58,200 --> 01:20:05,040
Speaker 1: all anybody wanted, and he did, so that's worth something.

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01:20:05,080 --> 01:20:07,320
Speaker 1: I guess it's because it's not good enough for him.

1243
01:20:07,720 --> 01:20:09,559
Speaker 1: It's not good enough for him. I mean, you hear

1244
01:20:09,600 --> 01:20:11,639
Speaker 1: all the quotes. He still thinks he can win this thing.

1245
01:20:17,320 --> 01:20:26,000
Speaker 1: Eighty two seventy seven over the weekend. Wow, which is,

1246
01:20:26,080 --> 01:20:28,439
Speaker 1: by the way, is still an amazing score. Augusta. I

1247
01:20:28,479 --> 01:20:30,040
Speaker 1: don't know if you've I don't know how close you

1248
01:20:30,160 --> 01:20:34,679
Speaker 1: watched this tournament. Good lord, good lord. That place is hard,

1249
01:20:37,280 --> 01:20:38,479
Speaker 1: absolutely ludicris.

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01:20:38,600 --> 01:20:39,560
Speaker 2: What place did he come in?

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01:20:40,800 --> 01:20:46,080
Speaker 1: Dead last of the people who made the cut? Of course, yeah,

1252
01:20:46,600 --> 01:20:50,679
Speaker 1: he came in sixtieth of the sixty. Is finished okay

1253
01:20:50,800 --> 01:20:54,160
Speaker 1: for him? Yeah? No, I hear you. There's one other

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01:20:54,280 --> 01:20:57,680
Speaker 1: comment made by a PGA Tour player out at the

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01:20:57,760 --> 01:20:59,519
Speaker 1: Masters this week that I want to run by. You

1256
01:20:59,600 --> 01:21:02,240
Speaker 1: will do that coming up next on Fox Sports Radio

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01:21:05,800 --> 01:21:09,160
Speaker 1: on into a Sunday evening all across the land here

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01:21:09,240 --> 01:21:11,840
Speaker 1: on Fox Sports Radio. Glad you're with us as the

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01:21:12,000 --> 01:21:16,160
Speaker 1: Masters recrowns it's champ number one in the world. The

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01:21:16,360 --> 01:21:21,200
Speaker 1: favorite actually goes out there and wins. The NBA schedule

1261
01:21:21,320 --> 01:21:24,240
Speaker 1: for the postseason is all set and it is just

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01:21:24,479 --> 01:21:28,000
Speaker 1: a wee bit juicy. Speaking of Juicy, we've got a

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01:21:28,080 --> 01:21:33,200
Speaker 1: wide receiver and his football team getting further and further apart, supposedly,

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Speaker 1: So we'll get to all of that as we're broadcasting

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Speaker 1: I also want to throw this at you, especially before

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Speaker 1: we move on from anything Masters related. Ephraim, I thought

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01:21:55,080 --> 01:21:58,000
Speaker 1: this one was really interesting. I love this. I'll say

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01:21:58,080 --> 01:22:00,560
Speaker 1: that up front. I love this because I love it

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01:22:00,600 --> 01:22:04,280
Speaker 1: when athletes just go ahead and like, let us in,

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01:22:05,120 --> 01:22:09,760
Speaker 1: let us in be human. But a lot of the

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01:22:09,920 --> 01:22:13,040
Speaker 1: viewing public when it comes to sports, I bet you

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01:22:13,280 --> 01:22:19,120
Speaker 1: know this, we unknowingly ask the athletes to be inhuman.

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01:22:20,080 --> 01:22:23,160
Speaker 1: We ask them to be something different and that is

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Speaker 1: to be It's just like in the NBA. We don't

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Speaker 1: like it if Lebron James has got the ball in

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Speaker 1: his hands, well five seconds left to go in a

1281
01:22:32,439 --> 01:22:37,600
Speaker 1: tie game, and he penetrates and then does the unthinkable.

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Speaker 1: He passes. He passes to an open man. How dare you?

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Speaker 1: You're supposed to be a stone Colt killer. You're supposed

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Speaker 1: to want it, be it, make it all about you.

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Speaker 1: That's for some reason, what pays and plays in the

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01:23:01,520 --> 01:23:04,960
Speaker 1: NBA lexicon if you will. This is different, this is golf.

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Speaker 1: But listen to Max Holmer, who was one of a

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Speaker 1: few who shared the lead as they approached the halfway

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Speaker 1: point of today's round. Didn't go his way today, And

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Speaker 1: this comment is from a few days ago. This is

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Speaker 1: when he was in contention after a couple of rounds.

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Speaker 1: Listen to the way he broke it down.

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Speaker 7: I wrote something in my journal yesterday that just said,

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Speaker 7: however good I am is how good I am. I

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01:23:30,760 --> 01:23:32,800
Speaker 7: don't need to try to be better than I am,

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Speaker 7: and I can just see wherever that takes me. Maybe

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Speaker 7: it's winning this, maybe it's not. When I'm okay with that.

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Speaker 1: Okay, what's your reaction to that comment? I mean, it's

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Speaker 1: it's it's pretty profound if you think about it. However

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01:23:52,760 --> 01:23:56,880
Speaker 1: good I am is how good I am? So, as

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01:23:56,880 --> 01:24:06,280
Speaker 1: an athlete, Art Shall used to tell me something, yours

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01:24:06,400 --> 01:24:12,439
Speaker 1: never as bad as you think you are, and you're

1303
01:24:12,600 --> 01:24:19,519
Speaker 1: never as good as they say you are. And that's

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01:24:19,600 --> 01:24:21,679
Speaker 1: both sides of the pendulum.

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Speaker 2: Right. We're our toughest critics, yep. So after a bad game,

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01:24:29,640 --> 01:24:35,439
Speaker 2: athletes are harder on themselves than anybody else. And he

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01:24:35,640 --> 01:24:38,439
Speaker 2: wanted me. I think, I just I don't know. I

1308
01:24:38,520 --> 01:24:46,840
Speaker 2: had a rough game against Kevin Green, okay, and I

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01:24:47,040 --> 01:24:48,640
Speaker 2: was like, please don't cut me, and he was like,

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01:24:48,760 --> 01:24:55,280
Speaker 2: hey man, you're here. Just keep in mind, you're never

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01:24:55,360 --> 01:24:58,320
Speaker 2: as bad as you think you are. You're never as

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01:24:58,439 --> 01:25:02,320
Speaker 2: good as they say say you are. That'll keep you

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01:25:02,439 --> 01:25:07,960
Speaker 2: focused and that'll keep you constant. So I understand what

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01:25:08,120 --> 01:25:13,880
Speaker 2: he's saying. However good I am is how good I am. Now,

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01:25:14,120 --> 01:25:20,280
Speaker 2: what he didn't say is how good he can be. Right,

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01:25:20,400 --> 01:25:23,680
Speaker 2: he didn't tell you how good he was or how

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01:25:23,720 --> 01:25:27,559
Speaker 2: good he could be. What he told you was whatever

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01:25:27,760 --> 01:25:31,960
Speaker 2: that is, whatever that level is. I'm okay with it

1319
01:25:33,200 --> 01:25:34,800
Speaker 2: because he's the one who has to put in the

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01:25:34,880 --> 01:25:41,560
Speaker 2: work to get there. So however that transpart, however that

1321
01:25:41,720 --> 01:25:45,560
Speaker 2: is displayed, he's okay with it because he's earned that,

1322
01:25:47,120 --> 01:25:51,559
Speaker 2: and that in itself is profound for an athlete.

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01:25:52,040 --> 01:25:55,800
Speaker 1: Yes, I love that. I love the way you answered it,

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01:25:56,520 --> 01:25:59,120
Speaker 1: and I want everyone to hear because maybe you were

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01:25:59,160 --> 01:26:02,759
Speaker 1: just kind of passing listening. Maybe someone in your listening party,

1326
01:26:02,800 --> 01:26:05,679
Speaker 1: in your car or wherever you are, was talking. Listen

1327
01:26:05,760 --> 01:26:08,800
Speaker 1: again to what Max Holmers said, because it is it

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01:26:08,960 --> 01:26:13,800
Speaker 1: is indeed profound and I certainly hope that it's not

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01:26:14,040 --> 01:26:16,479
Speaker 1: twisted in a negative way.

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Speaker 7: Take another listen, and that just said, however good I

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01:26:21,840 --> 01:26:23,479
Speaker 7: am is how good I am. I don't need to

1332
01:26:23,560 --> 01:26:25,680
Speaker 7: try to be better than I am, and I can

1333
01:26:25,760 --> 01:26:27,960
Speaker 7: just see wherever that takes me. Maybe it's winning this,

1334
01:26:28,120 --> 01:26:29,720
Speaker 7: maybe it's not. When I'm okay with that.

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01:26:31,320 --> 01:26:35,320
Speaker 1: That's the part that I think American sports fan is

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01:26:35,439 --> 01:26:39,000
Speaker 1: gonna hate. It's gonna take me where it takes me,

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01:26:40,000 --> 01:26:43,920
Speaker 1: and maybe that's good enough to win the Masters. Maybe

1338
01:26:43,960 --> 01:26:50,080
Speaker 1: it's not, and I'm okay with that, Like that's the part.

1339
01:26:50,160 --> 01:26:53,400
Speaker 1: Don't you think the American whoa, Hey, you're okay with

1340
01:26:53,600 --> 01:26:54,160
Speaker 1: not winning.

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Speaker 2: The great thing about today, our current present day, is

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01:27:06,400 --> 01:27:13,559
Speaker 2: how in tune not only regular people are, but also

1343
01:27:13,720 --> 01:27:24,599
Speaker 2: athletes are too. Mental health. Yes, we didn't talk about

1344
01:27:24,680 --> 01:27:30,680
Speaker 2: that enough in sports because sports figures were revered and

1345
01:27:31,000 --> 01:27:40,960
Speaker 2: seemed to be godly almost and on almost all occasions,

1346
01:27:41,280 --> 01:27:50,559
Speaker 2: they cease to be human beings if you're constantly chasing people.

1347
01:27:50,680 --> 01:27:56,920
Speaker 2: Have no idea how much being a professional athlete wears

1348
01:27:57,120 --> 01:28:02,880
Speaker 2: on and weighs on your mental health, not only for

1349
01:28:02,960 --> 01:28:06,560
Speaker 2: the goals and the things that you've set forth for

1350
01:28:06,640 --> 01:28:16,439
Speaker 2: yourself the expectation of millions. Now, if you sat at

1351
01:28:16,439 --> 01:28:21,680
Speaker 2: a desk and you did a job and millions of

1352
01:28:21,760 --> 01:28:27,280
Speaker 2: people watched you, and they had an expectation of how

1353
01:28:27,400 --> 01:28:32,760
Speaker 2: you should do that job and told you every day

1354
01:28:34,080 --> 01:28:38,280
Speaker 2: all day, how well do you think you can.

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01:28:38,240 --> 01:28:43,759
Speaker 1: Do that job? I think you're under selling it because

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01:28:44,160 --> 01:28:51,240
Speaker 1: it's not just do that job, expectations of others telling

1357
01:28:51,320 --> 01:28:59,519
Speaker 1: you every day. Oh, there's also a millionaire professional who

1358
01:28:59,600 --> 01:29:06,760
Speaker 1: has been hired to stop you from doing that job. Right,

1359
01:29:06,920 --> 01:29:11,160
Speaker 1: So every day you go to work, there is a

1360
01:29:11,560 --> 01:29:16,519
Speaker 1: highly paid professional whose job it is to stop you

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01:29:16,760 --> 01:29:23,960
Speaker 1: from doing well. In golf, that's a little bit more abstract.

1362
01:29:24,479 --> 01:29:28,519
Speaker 1: It's a little bit more abstract because there is no defense,

1363
01:29:28,720 --> 01:29:32,880
Speaker 1: except that the defense is the course itself, the weather,

1364
01:29:33,640 --> 01:29:37,880
Speaker 1: the gods, whatever you want to say. But that's one

1365
01:29:37,880 --> 01:29:40,040
Speaker 1: of the reasons I love this from a golfer because

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01:29:40,080 --> 01:29:44,439
Speaker 1: it's such a mental sport. Right, there's no defense, but

1367
01:29:44,520 --> 01:29:47,000
Speaker 1: there's also no teammate. I can't pass the ball to

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01:29:47,080 --> 01:29:50,280
Speaker 1: someone when I don't have it. Today, I just said

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01:29:50,479 --> 01:29:54,080
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I don't. I can't do that. And every

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01:29:54,200 --> 01:29:59,640
Speaker 1: athlete sometimes doesn't have the good stuff. But you got

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01:29:59,760 --> 01:30:02,360
Speaker 1: to just go out there and wear it. And as

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Speaker 1: soon as you do it, especially if you do it

1373
01:30:04,360 --> 01:30:09,360
Speaker 1: on Sunday of a major, you're a choker. You choked.

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01:30:11,160 --> 01:30:14,280
Speaker 1: We can't just be that. For instance, Max Homa, who

1375
01:30:14,640 --> 01:30:16,840
Speaker 1: was right there in the thick of this thing, got

1376
01:30:16,880 --> 01:30:19,960
Speaker 1: to Amen corner and on the twelfth hole, which is

1377
01:30:20,120 --> 01:30:24,880
Speaker 1: a tremendously mysterious par three, it's this tiny little green

1378
01:30:25,000 --> 01:30:29,240
Speaker 1: over water and for whatever reason, on TV, it looks

1379
01:30:29,360 --> 01:30:31,880
Speaker 1: like something that any pro should be able to nail

1380
01:30:31,920 --> 01:30:34,360
Speaker 1: the middle of the green whenever they want. But it

1381
01:30:34,600 --> 01:30:39,000
Speaker 1: doesn't work that way. It's got mysterious wind, it's got

1382
01:30:39,080 --> 01:30:41,400
Speaker 1: all kinds of weird things going on, and it seems

1383
01:30:41,439 --> 01:30:44,639
Speaker 1: to play a role Sunday at the Masters every April,

1384
01:30:45,360 --> 01:30:49,000
Speaker 1: and Max hit the ball to the left center of

1385
01:30:49,120 --> 01:30:52,519
Speaker 1: the green and it landed as if it was landing

1386
01:30:52,560 --> 01:30:57,080
Speaker 1: on a sidewalk, and the ball shot into the bushes.

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Speaker 1: Your tournament's over, choker.

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Speaker 2: That's it, man. It's tough, especially for golfers man that

1389
01:31:11,360 --> 01:31:17,880
Speaker 2: mental look. Remember when Tiger was Tiger, Oh yeah, and

1390
01:31:19,760 --> 01:31:23,720
Speaker 2: that Sunday would come around and he had that red

1391
01:31:23,800 --> 01:31:30,439
Speaker 2: shirt on and he was maybe two three shots back. Yeah,

1392
01:31:30,479 --> 01:31:32,080
Speaker 2: you're not just playing against yourself.

1393
01:31:32,600 --> 01:31:38,360
Speaker 1: New dudes were melting, melting, yes.

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Speaker 2: And they called it the tiger's roar, because if he

1395
01:31:43,640 --> 01:31:48,759
Speaker 2: was behind you, you would hear the gallery go crazy

1396
01:31:51,800 --> 01:31:54,719
Speaker 2: once he got to the green as you're getting ready

1397
01:31:54,800 --> 01:32:05,439
Speaker 2: to tee off, and that's the tigers roar. And that's

1398
01:32:05,560 --> 01:32:13,479
Speaker 2: why we saw so many just crumble. Yep.

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01:32:13,800 --> 01:32:17,400
Speaker 1: Everybody just wilted, some of them before they even got

1400
01:32:17,439 --> 01:32:18,000
Speaker 1: to the first t.

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01:32:20,439 --> 01:32:23,519
Speaker 2: So it's it's a real thing out there, man. You

1402
01:32:23,640 --> 01:32:26,639
Speaker 2: got to be tapped in as a golfer.

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01:32:27,200 --> 01:32:34,040
Speaker 1: Woof yeah. I hope that resonates with people the way

1404
01:32:34,080 --> 01:32:37,240
Speaker 1: at least it did for us, which is to say,

1405
01:32:37,520 --> 01:32:40,760
Speaker 1: and especially in golf where there is no defense, I'm

1406
01:32:40,840 --> 01:32:42,560
Speaker 1: going to go out there. I know the work that

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01:32:42,640 --> 01:32:46,400
Speaker 1: I've put in. My job is to simply play as

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01:32:46,560 --> 01:32:51,280
Speaker 1: well as I can play, and in many ways it

1409
01:32:51,439 --> 01:32:55,519
Speaker 1: is completely out of my hands. After that, I go

1410
01:32:55,680 --> 01:32:59,760
Speaker 1: play as well as I can possibly play. Someone else

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01:32:59,760 --> 01:33:04,280
Speaker 1: plays one stroke better, totally out of your hands. You

1412
01:33:04,360 --> 01:33:06,760
Speaker 1: don't get to go play defense. You can't clap in

1413
01:33:06,880 --> 01:33:09,880
Speaker 1: his backswing, you can't tackle him while he's trying to putt.

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01:33:10,360 --> 01:33:13,479
Speaker 1: You can't do any of that. Just sit there and

1415
01:33:14,000 --> 01:33:17,840
Speaker 1: watch him beat you. And that's what Scotty Scheffler has

1416
01:33:17,920 --> 01:33:22,200
Speaker 1: largely been doing. He might be one of the most

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01:33:22,400 --> 01:33:26,639
Speaker 1: understated elite athletes. And I know you'll go over Well,

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01:33:26,880 --> 01:33:31,000
Speaker 1: the market's because it's golf. Well, Scheffler is starting to

1419
01:33:31,320 --> 01:33:35,360
Speaker 1: do Tiger things. And I get that he's not Tiger

1420
01:33:35,479 --> 01:33:40,120
Speaker 1: for a thousand different reasons. But I mean, the Mickelson's

1421
01:33:40,160 --> 01:33:44,599
Speaker 1: of the world have gotten way more attention than Scotty Scheffler,

1422
01:33:44,840 --> 01:33:48,000
Speaker 1: and he is truly starting to move into very, very

1423
01:33:48,240 --> 01:33:52,960
Speaker 1: elite territory. All right, it's Mark with her Dene from Salam.

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Speaker 1: Shortly after the show, the podcast is going to go up.

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01:33:56,080 --> 01:33:57,880
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01:33:57,960 --> 01:33:59,680
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1427
01:33:59,680 --> 01:34:02,799
Speaker 1: do is search Fox Sports Radio wherever you get your podcast.

1428
01:34:02,920 --> 01:34:05,439
Speaker 1: Be sure to also follow, rate and review the podcast

1429
01:34:05,520 --> 01:34:08,680
Speaker 1: when you're there. Just search Fox Sports Radio wherever you

1430
01:34:08,800 --> 01:34:11,160
Speaker 1: get your podcast, and then you will see this show

1431
01:34:11,240 --> 01:34:16,240
Speaker 1: posted right after we get off the air. Okay, coming

1432
01:34:16,360 --> 01:34:19,759
Speaker 1: up next, a wide receiver has taken the next step.

1433
01:34:20,400 --> 01:34:26,320
Speaker 1: We need some dramatic music. He has unfollowed his team.

1434
01:34:27,320 --> 01:34:29,920
Speaker 1: What does it mean? Where does this go next? We'll

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01:34:29,960 --> 01:34:39,120
Speaker 1: tell you in a moment on Fox Sports Radio Live

1436
01:34:39,200 --> 01:34:43,120
Speaker 1: Intheti Rag dot Com Studios with Eve from Salama, Mark Witherard,

1437
01:34:43,160 --> 01:34:46,040
Speaker 1: and I do wonder if Brandon Ayuk was playing this

1438
01:34:46,200 --> 01:34:53,000
Speaker 1: song on his phone on Spotify when he opened his

1439
01:34:53,160 --> 01:35:04,479
Speaker 1: ig account and dramatically and emphatically pressed unfollow thank you

1440
01:35:06,160 --> 01:35:10,240
Speaker 1: on the San Francisco forty nine ers Instagram feed. And

1441
01:35:10,360 --> 01:35:14,600
Speaker 1: you know what that means, aphram. Once you have unfollowed

1442
01:35:14,960 --> 01:35:25,639
Speaker 1: your team on Instagram, you know what happens, right, Yeah,

1443
01:35:26,200 --> 01:35:32,320
Speaker 1: exactly exactly, So nothing happens except for that. I always

1444
01:35:32,400 --> 01:35:35,240
Speaker 1: love this topic because this is the most like it's

1445
01:35:35,479 --> 01:35:38,320
Speaker 1: just within the last five or six years. It's the

1446
01:35:38,439 --> 01:35:42,960
Speaker 1: snap react. It's what players do and and what makes

1447
01:35:43,000 --> 01:35:46,439
Speaker 1: me laugh is kind of twofold, and it's it's I

1448
01:35:47,040 --> 01:35:51,320
Speaker 1: enjoy laughing and I laugh at everyone because one, it's

1449
01:35:51,360 --> 01:35:55,320
Speaker 1: a it's a funny, passive aggressive thing to do. Well,

1450
01:35:55,360 --> 01:36:00,920
Speaker 1: I'm gonna unfollow you. Okay, So that did nothing. But

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01:36:01,040 --> 01:36:03,519
Speaker 1: the funnier part for me is also the fans who

1452
01:36:03,560 --> 01:36:08,000
Speaker 1: are like, oh god, that means nothing, and I'm like, no,

1453
01:36:08,160 --> 01:36:11,840
Speaker 1: it doesn't. It means something. I don't know if it's

1454
01:36:12,000 --> 01:36:16,080
Speaker 1: going anywhere, but it means something to Brandon, it means

1455
01:36:16,160 --> 01:36:18,760
Speaker 1: something to these players. They don't do it unless they

1456
01:36:18,800 --> 01:36:22,200
Speaker 1: are boy. I'm telling they are hop and mad Ephra.

1457
01:36:24,560 --> 01:36:30,439
Speaker 1: They are hopping mad with their contractual situation. So what

1458
01:36:30,560 --> 01:36:35,360
Speaker 1: does it mean? And where's this going? It means.

1459
01:36:37,400 --> 01:36:40,320
Speaker 2: He's telling the forty nine ers he means business and

1460
01:36:40,400 --> 01:36:50,880
Speaker 2: he's unhappy, and where's it going? Him unfollowing them doesn't

1461
01:36:51,120 --> 01:36:55,320
Speaker 2: send it in a direction. That's the funny part. That's

1462
01:36:55,400 --> 01:37:05,160
Speaker 2: the deep sigh from me, because no point and in

1463
01:37:05,240 --> 01:37:08,920
Speaker 2: the organization when they're talking about what they need to do,

1464
01:37:09,080 --> 01:37:14,120
Speaker 2: will they say, well, he unfollowed us, so well, I

1465
01:37:14,200 --> 01:37:16,679
Speaker 2: guess we got to trade him. Now that means nothing.

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01:37:19,400 --> 01:37:20,760
Speaker 1: So it's just.

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01:37:23,400 --> 01:37:28,000
Speaker 2: The generational I'm not going to answer your phone call.

1468
01:37:28,600 --> 01:37:32,240
Speaker 2: Mm hmm, I'm not going to answer your phone call.

1469
01:37:34,600 --> 01:37:37,400
Speaker 2: I wonder and this is interesting to me. I would

1470
01:37:37,479 --> 01:37:41,200
Speaker 2: love to know this. How many professional players who are

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01:37:41,320 --> 01:37:45,960
Speaker 2: happy and on their team don't follow their team on

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01:37:46,080 --> 01:37:46,679
Speaker 2: social media?

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01:37:47,280 --> 01:37:51,760
Speaker 1: Oh I don't know. Well, remember now we're talking about something. Yeah,

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01:37:51,880 --> 01:37:54,800
Speaker 1: the last time this came up, Justin Field did it. Yeah,

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01:37:55,439 --> 01:37:58,000
Speaker 1: And I remember having a conversation with you about it

1476
01:37:58,120 --> 01:37:59,920
Speaker 1: and Justin Fields was like, no, no, no, no, no,

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01:38:00,320 --> 01:38:04,280
Speaker 1: I just the season gets crazy and I just need

1478
01:38:04,360 --> 01:38:08,559
Speaker 1: a break from all things NFL. And I'm like, nope,

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01:38:08,640 --> 01:38:12,680
Speaker 1: you're going to be traded because because you know so

1480
01:38:12,840 --> 01:38:15,120
Speaker 1: much more than we know, and there was something that

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01:38:15,720 --> 01:38:18,800
Speaker 1: something happened there, there was a conversation that you didn't like.

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01:38:20,000 --> 01:38:25,360
Speaker 1: And that's all I see here. Deebo Samuel, just a

1483
01:38:25,439 --> 01:38:29,360
Speaker 1: couple of seasons ago, did the exact same thing. In fact,

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01:38:29,560 --> 01:38:36,840
Speaker 1: scrubbed all all pictures, logos, scrubbed everything. Forty nine ers

1485
01:38:37,360 --> 01:38:44,800
Speaker 1: scrubbed it all and publicly asked for a trade. Many

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01:38:44,840 --> 01:38:48,080
Speaker 1: signed a big, huge contract and came back and played

1487
01:38:48,080 --> 01:38:51,599
Speaker 1: wide receiver for the forty nine ers. Look, this one's

1488
01:38:51,640 --> 01:38:54,160
Speaker 1: a little bit more complex. Do the Niners want to

1489
01:38:54,160 --> 01:38:57,679
Speaker 1: pay two wide receivers? The brock Party situation is coming,

1490
01:38:57,960 --> 01:39:01,880
Speaker 1: not this offseason, but next, and so I think that

1491
01:39:02,000 --> 01:39:05,120
Speaker 1: there is a real conversation here. But the only thing

1492
01:39:05,160 --> 01:39:07,559
Speaker 1: I have my eye on is not Brandon's Instagram. It's

1493
01:39:07,600 --> 01:39:11,800
Speaker 1: the calendar. Because here's what I can promise you. The

1494
01:39:11,960 --> 01:39:14,000
Speaker 1: draft is in less than two weeks and if Brandon

1495
01:39:14,040 --> 01:39:16,400
Speaker 1: Ayuk has not been traded by then, he's not being

1496
01:39:16,479 --> 01:39:26,840
Speaker 1: traded period. That's it. And right like he has the

1497
01:39:27,000 --> 01:39:32,360
Speaker 1: power of you know, your your your teenager at home

1498
01:39:33,240 --> 01:39:37,479
Speaker 1: who starts making demands about what they're going to do

1499
01:39:37,720 --> 01:39:41,679
Speaker 1: with their time and their money, and you're like, what money?

1500
01:39:44,479 --> 01:39:49,840
Speaker 1: Brandon Ayuk is under contract next year? The forty nine

1501
01:39:49,960 --> 01:39:56,040
Speaker 1: ers can threaten a franchise tag. He is still in

1502
01:39:56,160 --> 01:40:06,960
Speaker 1: a rookie contract. They hold every card and that's the

1503
01:40:07,040 --> 01:40:17,439
Speaker 1: whole point. It's funny, you know what. It becomes such

1504
01:40:17,479 --> 01:40:19,439
Speaker 1: a big thing, right, Like.

1505
01:40:21,720 --> 01:40:22,479
Speaker 2: You unfollowed them?

1506
01:40:24,800 --> 01:40:27,639
Speaker 1: Well, it's all over the internet, it's everywhere.

1507
01:40:27,680 --> 01:40:31,160
Speaker 2: I would love to know how many players don't follow

1508
01:40:31,200 --> 01:40:36,280
Speaker 2: their team and what you think about those players if

1509
01:40:36,280 --> 01:40:40,040
Speaker 2: you find out. Let's just say, for the sake of argument,

1510
01:40:42,320 --> 01:40:46,840
Speaker 2: Travis Kelsey didn't follow the Kant City Chiefs on social media.

1511
01:40:48,200 --> 01:40:50,920
Speaker 2: What if he didn't, what would we be saying. I

1512
01:40:50,960 --> 01:40:53,560
Speaker 2: don't think what is Tavis trying to say? Well, I

1513
01:40:53,600 --> 01:40:54,599
Speaker 2: don't think we'd say anything.

1514
01:40:54,640 --> 01:40:57,080
Speaker 1: I do think there's a big difference between not following

1515
01:40:57,160 --> 01:41:02,679
Speaker 1: and unfollowing, right, But to that point they are tied together.

1516
01:41:03,160 --> 01:41:06,040
Speaker 2: What is he unhappy? Is that why he doesn't follow them?

1517
01:41:09,080 --> 01:41:12,760
Speaker 2: Because that's when we that's what starts to happen. I

1518
01:41:12,880 --> 01:41:18,000
Speaker 2: wonder if you know, does Michael Parsons follow the Dallas

1519
01:41:18,040 --> 01:41:23,000
Speaker 2: Cowboys And there might have been something there actually recently

1520
01:41:23,280 --> 01:41:25,720
Speaker 2: right there?

1521
01:41:26,479 --> 01:41:27,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, does.

1522
01:41:30,160 --> 01:41:37,360
Speaker 2: Does Lamar Jackson not follow the Baltimore Ravens. I don't know.

1523
01:41:39,960 --> 01:41:43,840
Speaker 2: Deshaun Watson surely has to follow the Cleveland Browns.

1524
01:41:43,880 --> 01:41:46,040
Speaker 1: I would think, I don't. I don't think he follows

1525
01:41:46,080 --> 01:41:46,720
Speaker 1: the Texans though.

1526
01:41:46,760 --> 01:41:51,320
Speaker 2: But what if somebody on one team say, I play

1527
01:41:51,400 --> 01:41:57,400
Speaker 2: for the Rams, and I follow the New York Giants,

1528
01:41:57,439 --> 01:42:02,840
Speaker 2: and I follow a myriad of teams? What am I saying?

1529
01:42:05,240 --> 01:42:10,200
Speaker 2: I say all this to say, reread so much into

1530
01:42:10,520 --> 01:42:16,679
Speaker 2: things that don't have anything to do with a player

1531
01:42:16,800 --> 01:42:23,599
Speaker 2: playing with likes dislike, like we spend so much time

1532
01:42:23,760 --> 01:42:27,559
Speaker 2: on trying to decipher what that is. So if I'm

1533
01:42:27,560 --> 01:42:29,200
Speaker 2: in the league and I love the league, and I'm

1534
01:42:29,240 --> 01:42:32,200
Speaker 2: playing and like, look, okay for casing point. When I

1535
01:42:32,280 --> 01:42:36,000
Speaker 2: got into the league, I got drafted by Atlanta Falcons.

1536
01:42:36,680 --> 01:42:41,800
Speaker 2: My best friend played for the Pittsburgh Steelers. My brother

1537
01:42:42,200 --> 01:42:47,200
Speaker 2: roommate brother from another mother, Kyle Turley, drafted in the

1538
01:42:47,280 --> 01:42:53,040
Speaker 2: same draft, plays for the New Orleans Saints. Right like,

1539
01:42:53,160 --> 01:42:57,760
Speaker 2: we were all over the league Chicago Bears. So if

1540
01:42:57,840 --> 01:43:01,240
Speaker 2: I followed their teams, just to stay updated on what

1541
01:43:01,439 --> 01:43:03,439
Speaker 2: was going on with that. What would that be saying?

1542
01:43:08,320 --> 01:43:10,679
Speaker 2: Or what if I chose not to follow anybody because

1543
01:43:10,680 --> 01:43:12,960
Speaker 2: I didn't want to pour too much stock in social media.

1544
01:43:13,600 --> 01:43:17,040
Speaker 1: I can confirm that Lamar Jackson does follow the Baltimore Ravens.

1545
01:43:17,120 --> 01:43:20,960
Speaker 2: There you go. I'd love to I'd love to to. Next,

1546
01:43:21,080 --> 01:43:24,760
Speaker 2: do you have homework? You have honer? I'm sure the

1547
01:43:24,880 --> 01:43:27,679
Speaker 2: one that only Steve di Sega would beat us to it. Anyway.

1548
01:43:27,800 --> 01:43:31,040
Speaker 1: Oh, he probably already did it, just like you thinking

1549
01:43:31,080 --> 01:43:32,240
Speaker 1: about it, right, I have that.

1550
01:43:32,360 --> 01:43:37,080
Speaker 6: Right cerebral cerebral, still trying to count up the walks

1551
01:43:37,120 --> 01:43:41,000
Speaker 6: the Dodgers are issuing to. It is San Diego sixty

1552
01:43:41,040 --> 01:43:43,040
Speaker 6: three at Dodger Stadium. In the bottom of the eighth

1553
01:43:43,080 --> 01:43:45,560
Speaker 6: inning of the Sunday night game, Jerkson Profar of the

1554
01:43:45,600 --> 01:43:48,080
Speaker 6: Padres with a three run double in the seventh for

1555
01:43:48,280 --> 01:43:51,040
Speaker 6: the lead. By the time the Dodgers had issued their

1556
01:43:51,120 --> 01:43:53,840
Speaker 6: twelfth walk of the night to the Padre lineup. They

1557
01:43:53,920 --> 01:43:56,320
Speaker 6: said that was the most LA had given up in

1558
01:43:56,439 --> 01:43:58,600
Speaker 6: a game in over twenty years, and that was a

1559
01:43:58,680 --> 01:44:01,719
Speaker 6: tenant in game, so the most the Dodgers had allowed

1560
01:44:01,840 --> 01:44:05,920
Speaker 6: in a nine inning game. Apparently it had gone back

1561
01:44:05,960 --> 01:44:08,400
Speaker 6: to nineteen ninety two to twelve walks. Well, it's now

1562
01:44:08,479 --> 01:44:09,240
Speaker 6: thirteen walks.

1563
01:44:09,240 --> 01:44:09,840
Speaker 1: They've given up.

1564
01:44:09,880 --> 01:44:10,679
Speaker 2: We're go to the ninth.

1565
01:44:10,760 --> 01:44:14,240
Speaker 6: It is Padre six ' three over the Dodgers. Earlier,

1566
01:44:14,400 --> 01:44:18,680
Speaker 6: we did have wins in Major League Baseball four Cleveland,

1567
01:44:18,720 --> 01:44:21,160
Speaker 6: which beat the Yankees in ten innings eight seven. The

1568
01:44:21,240 --> 01:44:24,040
Speaker 6: Yankees were eight and one on the road, and Oakland

1569
01:44:24,120 --> 01:44:27,960
Speaker 6: won seven to six over Washington. Yesterday, A's attendance was

1570
01:44:28,320 --> 01:44:31,920
Speaker 6: three thousand and three thirty. The Oakland A's at home

1571
01:44:32,000 --> 01:44:33,720
Speaker 6: were two and seven, but they got a home win

1572
01:44:33,800 --> 01:44:36,719
Speaker 6: today and attendance was eight thousand and six thirty.

1573
01:44:36,800 --> 01:44:41,600
Speaker 1: So take that not true. I mean, I know what

1574
01:44:41,800 --> 01:44:44,240
Speaker 1: you're saying is true, but no, that's not true.

1575
01:44:44,560 --> 01:44:48,320
Speaker 6: Yeah this maybe they brought back the cardboard cutouts from

1576
01:44:48,360 --> 01:44:52,080
Speaker 6: the COVID season home wins for Houston and Arizona as well.

1577
01:44:52,200 --> 01:44:54,439
Speaker 6: Cubs won at Seattle three to two, the loss to

1578
01:44:54,520 --> 01:44:58,840
Speaker 6: Luis Castillo, who's four. Well we have this NBA note

1579
01:44:58,920 --> 01:45:02,120
Speaker 6: the Lakers not only one. They dominated at New Orleans.

1580
01:45:02,280 --> 01:45:05,479
Speaker 6: Lebron James is still as young as he seems, and

1581
01:45:05,600 --> 01:45:07,439
Speaker 6: the Lakers are going to stay in New Orleans for

1582
01:45:07,520 --> 01:45:10,360
Speaker 6: a playing game there on Tuesday. The loser will then

1583
01:45:10,439 --> 01:45:13,479
Speaker 6: play Friday. The winner of Tuesday's game goes to Denver

1584
01:45:13,680 --> 01:45:17,000
Speaker 6: Congratulations for Game one of the first round series on Saturday.

1585
01:45:17,560 --> 01:45:20,080
Speaker 6: So it's Tuesday at seven to thirty pm Eastern time,

1586
01:45:20,280 --> 01:45:24,120
Speaker 6: Lakers against the Pelicans again. Today's final was one twenty

1587
01:45:24,200 --> 01:45:28,479
Speaker 6: four to one oh eight. Lebron James seventeen assists as

1588
01:45:28,560 --> 01:45:31,640
Speaker 6: part of his one hundred twelfth career triple double. The

1589
01:45:31,720 --> 01:45:35,360
Speaker 6: stunning stat from the folks appropriately at stats in to

1590
01:45:35,640 --> 01:45:38,840
Speaker 6: average this season at that age thirty nine years old,

1591
01:45:38,960 --> 01:45:43,080
Speaker 6: to average at least twenty five points, seven rebounds, eight assists.

1592
01:45:43,920 --> 01:45:46,439
Speaker 6: They say the next oldest player to get all of

1593
01:45:46,560 --> 01:45:49,960
Speaker 6: those marks for a full season was a twenty nine

1594
01:45:50,080 --> 01:45:52,479
Speaker 6: year old Russell Westbrook six years ago.

1595
01:45:53,200 --> 01:45:54,120
Speaker 1: He's playing a.

1596
01:45:54,160 --> 01:45:57,120
Speaker 6: Little bit like he's early thirties, not late thirties. And

1597
01:45:57,560 --> 01:45:59,320
Speaker 6: by the way, for those who saw the bad hip

1598
01:45:59,400 --> 01:46:01,439
Speaker 6: late in the game for Anthony Davis, he says, I'll

1599
01:46:01,439 --> 01:46:03,000
Speaker 6: be I'll be out there on Tuesday.

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01:46:03,080 --> 01:46:05,559
Speaker 1: Don't we worry about We'll talk about that. We're gonna talk.

1601
01:46:05,439 --> 01:46:08,080
Speaker 2: About Yeah, we don't talk about Bruno.

1602
01:46:08,360 --> 01:46:12,360
Speaker 6: Then Golden State at Sacramento. It's Tuesday at ten pm

1603
01:46:12,439 --> 01:46:15,080
Speaker 6: Eastern Time. The loser is out. Rematch of the first

1604
01:46:15,160 --> 01:46:17,720
Speaker 6: round last year. In the East, Philadelphia won its eight

1605
01:46:17,760 --> 01:46:20,479
Speaker 6: straight game, finished the regular season with an easy win

1606
01:46:20,560 --> 01:46:23,400
Speaker 6: against the Nets. Philly's in a playing game, which will

1607
01:46:23,439 --> 01:46:27,160
Speaker 6: host Miami on Wednesday. Winner goes to New York to

1608
01:46:27,240 --> 01:46:30,320
Speaker 6: start a first round series this weekend with game one Saturday.

1609
01:46:30,360 --> 01:46:32,559
Speaker 6: The New York Knicks are the two seed in the East,

1610
01:46:32,600 --> 01:46:35,240
Speaker 6: behind number one Boston because the next one in overtime

1611
01:46:35,640 --> 01:46:38,559
Speaker 6: forty points for Jalen Brunson overtime win against the Bulls

1612
01:46:38,600 --> 01:46:39,479
Speaker 6: one twenty to one.

1613
01:46:39,640 --> 01:46:40,040
Speaker 2: Nineteen.

1614
01:46:40,479 --> 01:46:43,439
Speaker 6: Bucks lost at Orlando. The Bulls were already locked into

1615
01:46:43,479 --> 01:46:46,120
Speaker 6: the nine seed and will host ten seed Atlanta on

1616
01:46:46,280 --> 01:46:49,639
Speaker 6: Wednesday night. Atlanta's lost six in a row, lost one

1617
01:46:49,800 --> 01:46:53,559
Speaker 6: fifty seven to one fifteen at the Pacers today. Loser

1618
01:46:53,680 --> 01:46:57,360
Speaker 6: of that Bulls Atlanta Wednesday nights play in would be

1619
01:46:57,720 --> 01:47:01,600
Speaker 6: eliminated in the NHL regular seat against Thursday, Vegas. With

1620
01:47:01,680 --> 01:47:04,840
Speaker 6: an overtime win today four to three against Colorado, Chase

1621
01:47:04,920 --> 01:47:08,280
Speaker 6: Elliott won the NASCAR race at Texas and Guys. Tomorrow

1622
01:47:08,400 --> 01:47:11,400
Speaker 6: is April fifteenth, not just tax Day, It is Jackie

1623
01:47:11,479 --> 01:47:15,360
Speaker 6: Robinson Day to be celebrated around Major League Baseball. It's

1624
01:47:15,400 --> 01:47:18,679
Speaker 6: a tradition that started fifteen years ago where every MLB

1625
01:47:18,880 --> 01:47:22,920
Speaker 6: player on that day whears number forty two, Jackie Robinson's

1626
01:47:22,960 --> 01:47:26,880
Speaker 6: old number, and it was MLB that retired that jersey

1627
01:47:27,000 --> 01:47:30,920
Speaker 6: number universally in Major League Baseball over twenty five years ago.

1628
01:47:31,520 --> 01:47:36,200
Speaker 6: Jackie Robinson on that day, debuted for the Brooklyn Dodgers

1629
01:47:36,240 --> 01:47:38,679
Speaker 6: in nineteen forty seven, a decade before they ever moved

1630
01:47:38,720 --> 01:47:41,160
Speaker 6: to Los Angeles. He was Rookie of the Year in

1631
01:47:41,200 --> 01:47:44,600
Speaker 6: the National League that season, the first Rookie of the

1632
01:47:44,680 --> 01:47:47,960
Speaker 6: Year ever named. He led the league in steals and

1633
01:47:48,200 --> 01:47:50,720
Speaker 6: sacrifices that year, and then two years later he was

1634
01:47:50,840 --> 01:47:54,360
Speaker 6: National League MVP nineteen forty nine, starting a string of

1635
01:47:54,479 --> 01:47:57,760
Speaker 6: six straight All Star seasons. Jackie Robinson grew up in

1636
01:47:57,960 --> 01:48:01,800
Speaker 6: La in Pasadena, just us the freeway from the Rose Bowl.

1637
01:48:02,479 --> 01:48:05,160
Speaker 6: In fact, when they show every New Year's the sun

1638
01:48:05,360 --> 01:48:08,840
Speaker 6: setting over the top of the Rose Bowl, just look

1639
01:48:08,880 --> 01:48:11,320
Speaker 6: at that hillside on the right, and that's the neighborhood

1640
01:48:11,320 --> 01:48:14,200
Speaker 6: where Jackie Robinson grew up, just to the right of that,

1641
01:48:14,600 --> 01:48:17,320
Speaker 6: just east and in fact, the park and wreck in

1642
01:48:17,439 --> 01:48:21,280
Speaker 6: that neighborhood. To this day is Jackie Robinson Park and

1643
01:48:21,439 --> 01:48:24,479
Speaker 6: Rec Center Jackie Robinson Day tomorrow.

1644
01:48:24,720 --> 01:48:25,080
Speaker 2: Back to you.

1645
01:48:25,760 --> 01:48:29,360
Speaker 1: Love it, love it, absolutely love it Steve de Sega everybody,

1646
01:48:29,520 --> 01:48:30,519
Speaker 1: and happy birthday.

1647
01:48:30,720 --> 01:48:31,000
Speaker 2: Thank you.

1648
01:48:31,720 --> 01:48:35,160
Speaker 1: Yes indeed, Mark Willard and I from Salam Live ti

1649
01:48:35,240 --> 01:48:38,760
Speaker 1: IRAQ dot Com Studios. Uh what does it do to

1650
01:48:38,960 --> 01:48:44,599
Speaker 1: you that phrase? That phrase? Uh, Anthony Davis exits game?

1651
01:48:45,560 --> 01:48:53,200
Speaker 2: What does that do to you? Nothing? Good? Okay, it

1652
01:48:53,240 --> 01:48:56,479
Speaker 2: nothing that I know. I was watching it and I

1653
01:48:56,560 --> 01:48:58,600
Speaker 2: saw it and I was like, oh no, don't do that.

1654
01:49:00,000 --> 01:49:02,880
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm used to the grimaces. But look, first

1655
01:49:02,880 --> 01:49:04,800
Speaker 2: of all, I'm not gonna bash him because he's played more.

1656
01:49:05,840 --> 01:49:08,120
Speaker 2: He played more games this year than he's ever played,

1657
01:49:08,640 --> 01:49:11,160
Speaker 2: and we needed that. We needed all of it. Him

1658
01:49:11,200 --> 01:49:16,639
Speaker 2: and Lebron. Him and Lebron took on the challenge because

1659
01:49:16,840 --> 01:49:20,960
Speaker 2: if they would have played like they did the last

1660
01:49:21,000 --> 01:49:25,160
Speaker 2: few years, we wouldn't even be the eighth seed. Now

1661
01:49:25,280 --> 01:49:27,599
Speaker 2: keep in mind, people, the eighth seed is a playoff

1662
01:49:27,680 --> 01:49:35,800
Speaker 2: seed outside of before the play in So you know,

1663
01:49:36,600 --> 01:49:42,600
Speaker 2: I'm just but what I'm saying is there was a

1664
01:49:42,720 --> 01:49:46,439
Speaker 2: lot of pressure on both of these gentlemen's shoulders to

1665
01:49:46,600 --> 01:49:51,479
Speaker 2: show up yep, and they showed up, So kudos to them.

1666
01:49:51,520 --> 01:49:55,320
Speaker 2: The regular season is over one game to get into

1667
01:49:55,400 --> 01:49:59,439
Speaker 2: the playoffs. I like our chances against the team that

1668
01:50:01,240 --> 01:50:04,240
Speaker 2: we have the recipe to dominate. We beat them, I

1669
01:50:04,320 --> 01:50:06,360
Speaker 2: believe with three out of the four times we played them.

1670
01:50:06,720 --> 01:50:13,120
Speaker 2: That is correct, and so I like our chances and

1671
01:50:13,680 --> 01:50:15,840
Speaker 2: I really like our chances in the playoffs. I hate

1672
01:50:15,880 --> 01:50:19,360
Speaker 2: that it's going to have to be the Denver Nuggets

1673
01:50:20,280 --> 01:50:24,360
Speaker 2: because that's the one team I think they don't match

1674
01:50:24,439 --> 01:50:25,080
Speaker 2: up well against.

1675
01:50:25,479 --> 01:50:27,360
Speaker 1: Well, it doesn't have to be that. That's if you

1676
01:50:27,479 --> 01:50:29,960
Speaker 1: win on Tuesday. You could lose Tuesday and then win

1677
01:50:30,120 --> 01:50:33,280
Speaker 1: on Friday and then play the OKAC Thunder. Well, I'm

1678
01:50:33,360 --> 01:50:36,400
Speaker 1: pretty sure they want to just well, I don't know. Well,

1679
01:50:36,439 --> 01:50:39,200
Speaker 1: of course they want to. I don't know. Yeah, it's

1680
01:50:39,240 --> 01:50:41,320
Speaker 1: not over. There is there is. I'm not saying they

1681
01:50:41,360 --> 01:50:43,320
Speaker 1: would do it on purpose. I'm just they don't want

1682
01:50:43,320 --> 01:50:44,720
Speaker 1: to play. They don't want to have to play the

1683
01:50:44,800 --> 01:50:47,320
Speaker 1: Kings or Golden State either. No, I know that, but

1684
01:50:47,439 --> 01:50:51,080
Speaker 1: they there is a path to where they would play

1685
01:50:51,160 --> 01:50:51,920
Speaker 1: someone else.

1686
01:50:51,760 --> 01:50:54,880
Speaker 2: In the playoffs, right, but they don't want to play

1687
01:50:54,920 --> 01:50:55,800
Speaker 2: either one of those teams.

1688
01:50:55,920 --> 01:50:57,439
Speaker 1: Correct, You don't want to get into a one.

1689
01:50:57,560 --> 01:51:02,120
Speaker 2: You don't. We're not with them, not with the youth

1690
01:51:02,400 --> 01:51:05,040
Speaker 2: on one side and the experience on the other side. Right,

1691
01:51:05,240 --> 01:51:05,840
Speaker 2: you don't want that.

1692
01:51:06,280 --> 01:51:09,559
Speaker 1: And both teams have the three point shooters where if

1693
01:51:09,600 --> 01:51:11,000
Speaker 1: you're hot on a given night.

1694
01:51:11,000 --> 01:51:12,800
Speaker 2: And I saw all you need in this one, oh

1695
01:51:12,920 --> 01:51:18,280
Speaker 2: my god, as well as Anthony Davis is Oho to

1696
01:51:18,400 --> 01:51:20,960
Speaker 2: nine against Sabonis. So there's that.

1697
01:51:23,040 --> 01:51:23,960
Speaker 1: That's an odd number.

1698
01:51:24,800 --> 01:51:24,960
Speaker 2: Yep.

1699
01:51:25,120 --> 01:51:26,360
Speaker 1: He's so much better of a.

1700
01:51:26,400 --> 01:51:30,160
Speaker 2: Player than then for whatever reason, for whatever reason, it

1701
01:51:30,439 --> 01:51:31,439
Speaker 2: just doesn't translate.

1702
01:51:31,960 --> 01:51:36,200
Speaker 1: I'm watching it. I'm like, bro, it's just one of

1703
01:51:36,240 --> 01:51:39,639
Speaker 1: those matchups. Man, you ain't getting his head. He takes

1704
01:51:39,680 --> 01:51:44,559
Speaker 1: it to Anthony. Yeah, Draymond gets in his head. Yeah, yeah,

1705
01:51:45,040 --> 01:51:47,120
Speaker 1: you get in his head, get in his head. He'd

1706
01:51:47,120 --> 01:51:48,800
Speaker 1: be going crazy. Well, I mean when you step on

1707
01:51:48,880 --> 01:51:51,920
Speaker 1: his chest, you step on his chest and you could

1708
01:51:51,920 --> 01:51:54,719
Speaker 1: get into his chest and spring and spring your body

1709
01:51:54,760 --> 01:52:01,120
Speaker 1: off of him. But yes, Anthony doesn't talk enough. No,

1710
01:52:01,439 --> 01:52:03,880
Speaker 1: he needs to get into his head. Yeah, because boy,

1711
01:52:03,960 --> 01:52:06,720
Speaker 1: he get that game nuts. Yeah.

1712
01:52:07,360 --> 01:52:09,080
Speaker 2: So we don't want that small we don't just have

1713
01:52:09,160 --> 01:52:11,560
Speaker 2: to figure it out against themver man, that's it.

1714
01:52:12,240 --> 01:52:14,560
Speaker 1: Listen, I'm looking at it right, Now, I didn't know

1715
01:52:14,680 --> 01:52:17,160
Speaker 1: this till you said it. Did you know that today

1716
01:52:17,800 --> 01:52:21,840
Speaker 1: Anthony Davis playing in this game today has matched the

1717
01:52:22,080 --> 01:52:24,600
Speaker 1: most number of games he has ever played in the

1718
01:52:24,720 --> 01:52:25,799
Speaker 1: season of his career.

1719
01:52:26,040 --> 01:52:28,560
Speaker 2: Just said that most games he's ever played. Yeah, I

1720
01:52:28,640 --> 01:52:31,400
Speaker 2: just wanted to highlight it again. Okay, look, I'm tapping

1721
01:52:31,760 --> 01:52:34,439
Speaker 2: you're for a bunch of stuff there, I'm tapped in. Okay,

1722
01:52:34,520 --> 01:52:36,080
Speaker 2: I know what's going. I know what's going.

1723
01:52:36,479 --> 01:52:38,960
Speaker 1: Five out of it. I would not have guessed that

1724
01:52:39,040 --> 01:52:40,479
Speaker 1: he played seventy five out of eighty.

1725
01:52:40,560 --> 01:52:42,599
Speaker 2: That's what That's exactly why I wanted to give him

1726
01:52:42,640 --> 01:52:45,519
Speaker 2: hiss props. Yeah, that's exactly why I wanted to give

1727
01:52:45,560 --> 01:52:47,920
Speaker 2: him as props because that was the biggest thing. Well,

1728
01:52:48,080 --> 01:52:50,040
Speaker 2: you're a d oh is he?

1729
01:52:50,560 --> 01:52:50,720
Speaker 1: You know?

1730
01:52:51,280 --> 01:52:56,000
Speaker 2: Always doubtful? Are you know? All that?

1731
01:52:56,600 --> 01:52:59,439
Speaker 1: So how's how's that gonna go? If he's if he

1732
01:52:59,520 --> 01:53:01,120
Speaker 1: doesn't make it through Tuesday.

1733
01:53:00,840 --> 01:53:02,920
Speaker 2: I think they can beat them with I think they

1734
01:53:02,960 --> 01:53:06,360
Speaker 2: can beat the Pelicans without him Tuesday, but I know

1735
01:53:06,479 --> 01:53:07,840
Speaker 2: he will be out there. I think they can.

1736
01:53:09,000 --> 01:53:12,000
Speaker 1: That was that I just watched all the highlight of

1737
01:53:12,040 --> 01:53:13,920
Speaker 1: the fourth year because I turned this one off. Yeah,

1738
01:53:14,000 --> 01:53:17,200
Speaker 1: that was a real limb. Now he laid down on

1739
01:53:17,280 --> 01:53:17,639
Speaker 1: the ground.

1740
01:53:17,960 --> 01:53:20,040
Speaker 2: Finally, I understand. But I know this guy. You know,

1741
01:53:20,160 --> 01:53:22,840
Speaker 2: remember the guy who came over to stretch him. That's

1742
01:53:22,920 --> 01:53:25,639
Speaker 2: my guy, John Ishup. He was my trainer in Houston.

1743
01:53:26,200 --> 01:53:29,400
Speaker 1: So you already talked to him. Hey, man, what I

1744
01:53:29,439 --> 01:53:30,599
Speaker 1: said was, that's my guy.

1745
01:53:31,120 --> 01:53:35,360
Speaker 2: I understand that. The reason he's in the NBA is because, well,

1746
01:53:35,360 --> 01:53:36,840
Speaker 2: I don't even want to put out because of you.

1747
01:53:37,080 --> 01:53:38,320
Speaker 2: I don't want to do that. I don't want to

1748
01:53:38,360 --> 01:53:40,800
Speaker 2: do that. I don't want to do that. But he was,

1749
01:53:41,040 --> 01:53:44,519
Speaker 2: he was an NFL trainer. Just FYI, I got you.

1750
01:53:44,880 --> 01:53:47,040
Speaker 2: And I don't know if you know my correlation or

1751
01:53:47,120 --> 01:53:52,400
Speaker 2: my relationship with the New Orleans Hornets at the time

1752
01:53:52,479 --> 01:53:56,320
Speaker 2: and then the Pelicans. But my childhood friend, good friend

1753
01:53:56,360 --> 01:54:01,080
Speaker 2: of mine, like family Dale Demps' was the GM there. Yes, yes,

1754
01:54:01,200 --> 01:54:05,679
Speaker 2: we have discussed this, right, So I don't know John

1755
01:54:06,080 --> 01:54:10,440
Speaker 2: went from football to New Orleans poof.

1756
01:54:11,680 --> 01:54:12,439
Speaker 1: So that works.

1757
01:54:12,960 --> 01:54:15,160
Speaker 2: So does a hold off said about that?

1758
01:54:15,800 --> 01:54:18,599
Speaker 1: Okay, so a text message has been, hey, don't even

1759
01:54:18,640 --> 01:54:21,080
Speaker 1: worry about you. I didn't say anything like that. I

1760
01:54:21,240 --> 01:54:23,840
Speaker 1: didn't say anything like that. You I did.

1761
01:54:24,080 --> 01:54:27,040
Speaker 2: No, no, but that's not such shit. He would never

1762
01:54:28,280 --> 01:54:31,000
Speaker 2: he would have never divulged any of that type of

1763
01:54:31,080 --> 01:54:31,760
Speaker 2: information to me.

1764
01:54:31,880 --> 01:54:34,960
Speaker 1: No, No, they are feeling good about his chances to play.

1765
01:54:35,040 --> 01:54:39,080
Speaker 1: He said that his words. Yes, yes, he said that himself.

1766
01:54:43,080 --> 01:54:44,840
Speaker 1: Back to wrap this thing up with a boat. He's

1767
01:54:44,880 --> 01:54:53,160
Speaker 1: from salam Mark Wheeler FBI over here, Okay, these arethtyrag

1768
01:54:53,240 --> 01:54:55,240
Speaker 1: dot com Studios eight from Before we get out of

1769
01:54:55,280 --> 01:54:57,720
Speaker 1: here and get Plank and Spaniard in here, I need

1770
01:54:57,800 --> 01:55:01,280
Speaker 1: to know if there's something wrong with me. America is

1771
01:55:01,280 --> 01:55:05,600
Speaker 1: supposed to root for the underdog, right, isn't that the deal?

1772
01:55:09,240 --> 01:55:09,440
Speaker 2: Yep?

1773
01:55:10,200 --> 01:55:14,240
Speaker 1: Okay? So why is it that when we get to

1774
01:55:14,360 --> 01:55:19,200
Speaker 1: a golf major and golf is the only sport that's

1775
01:55:19,360 --> 01:55:22,120
Speaker 1: like this, you know what I mean, like you can't

1776
01:55:22,240 --> 01:55:27,320
Speaker 1: get to the biggest moment of your season, and then

1777
01:55:27,880 --> 01:55:32,440
Speaker 1: suddenly present to the American audience, here is this person

1778
01:55:32,560 --> 01:55:38,720
Speaker 1: you've never heard of before. Like the Chiefs and Niners

1779
01:55:38,760 --> 01:55:42,720
Speaker 1: are in the Super Bowl and starting at quarterback, this

1780
01:55:42,920 --> 01:55:49,640
Speaker 1: guy named Bob. Just here he is, and everything that

1781
01:55:49,720 --> 01:55:52,720
Speaker 1: you've been waiting for all year long now revolves around

1782
01:55:53,040 --> 01:55:54,600
Speaker 1: this guy, Bob.

1783
01:55:54,920 --> 01:55:55,160
Speaker 2: Bob.

1784
01:55:57,440 --> 01:56:00,120
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is about me, but the

1785
01:56:00,200 --> 01:56:04,880
Speaker 1: PGA Tour it presents this to us. You get to

1786
01:56:04,960 --> 01:56:09,160
Speaker 1: the ultimate moment and here comes somebody up the leaderboard

1787
01:56:09,280 --> 01:56:12,800
Speaker 1: and you're like, I am a golf fan and I

1788
01:56:12,960 --> 01:56:16,360
Speaker 1: do not have any clue who that person is at all.

1789
01:56:17,560 --> 01:56:20,280
Speaker 1: And it's fine if they're they're on Thursday, you're like, oh,

1790
01:56:20,400 --> 01:56:23,840
Speaker 1: that's cute, you're visiting. And then you get there on

1791
01:56:23,960 --> 01:56:26,520
Speaker 1: Friday and your eyebrows go up and you're like, huh,

1792
01:56:27,120 --> 01:56:31,600
Speaker 1: nice story. Then you get to Saturday and I don't

1793
01:56:31,600 --> 01:56:33,520
Speaker 1: know about everyone else, but for me, I'm like, get

1794
01:56:33,560 --> 01:56:37,080
Speaker 1: that guy out of here, get him out of here

1795
01:56:37,160 --> 01:56:40,120
Speaker 1: right now. And I don't know what it is about me.

1796
01:56:40,280 --> 01:56:47,120
Speaker 1: I want. I want the players who I know to

1797
01:56:47,240 --> 01:56:50,840
Speaker 1: do well. And I feel bad because Steve talked about

1798
01:56:50,880 --> 01:56:58,640
Speaker 1: this guy last hour. Uh Ludwig Lug something. Yeah, his

1799
01:56:58,840 --> 01:57:01,080
Speaker 1: name starts with an AD, but it's pronounced with an

1800
01:57:01,120 --> 01:57:03,360
Speaker 1: O and it has like a little There were a

1801
01:57:03,440 --> 01:57:08,160
Speaker 1: bunch of guys on the leaderboard this week who had

1802
01:57:08,320 --> 01:57:11,840
Speaker 1: letters where I'm like, that's not from the alphabet. That like,

1803
01:57:11,920 --> 01:57:15,120
Speaker 1: we don't have that letter in our alphabet. So I

1804
01:57:15,200 --> 01:57:19,040
Speaker 1: don't even know what I'm supposed to say when I

1805
01:57:19,120 --> 01:57:22,440
Speaker 1: see this, and that's great. I'm I'm like, it's a

1806
01:57:22,520 --> 01:57:25,520
Speaker 1: global game. I get it. It's not even about rooting

1807
01:57:25,640 --> 01:57:30,520
Speaker 1: for Americans. It's just about, like I want to I

1808
01:57:30,560 --> 01:57:34,680
Speaker 1: would like to know who I'm rooting for. And I

1809
01:57:34,800 --> 01:57:37,280
Speaker 1: find it to be strange that you're at your ultimate

1810
01:57:37,400 --> 01:57:41,920
Speaker 1: championship and somebody that has never done anything can just

1811
01:57:42,120 --> 01:57:44,080
Speaker 1: walk out on a golf course and beat the best

1812
01:57:44,120 --> 01:57:44,600
Speaker 1: in the world.

1813
01:57:46,920 --> 01:57:51,680
Speaker 2: Golf only promotes and marks about five guys. One of

1814
01:57:51,720 --> 01:57:58,760
Speaker 2: them isn't viable. So outside of that, you know, I

1815
01:57:59,000 --> 01:58:02,120
Speaker 2: guess that's the lure of it. Remember when people use

1816
01:58:02,200 --> 01:58:06,040
Speaker 2: it in Vegas you could bet Tiger versus the field. Yes,

1817
01:58:07,960 --> 01:58:11,200
Speaker 2: oh my, could you imagine that being an option right now?

1818
01:58:11,760 --> 01:58:16,160
Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, you put a lot of money on

1819
01:58:16,240 --> 01:58:19,520
Speaker 2: the field like that. That was the real thing.

1820
01:58:19,640 --> 01:58:22,320
Speaker 1: Getting there with Shaeffler. We're getting there with Shaffler, are we?

1821
01:58:22,400 --> 01:58:22,560
Speaker 2: Though?

1822
01:58:25,160 --> 01:58:27,880
Speaker 1: Kinda? This is one of the first time. How many

1823
01:58:27,960 --> 01:58:31,480
Speaker 1: majors he's got, that's his second, but he's like in

1824
01:58:31,600 --> 01:58:35,560
Speaker 1: his twenties. I get it, second Masters in three years,

1825
01:58:35,840 --> 01:58:36,240
Speaker 1: I get it.

1826
01:58:36,320 --> 01:58:38,080
Speaker 2: I would love number one player in the world. I

1827
01:58:38,120 --> 01:58:42,000
Speaker 2: would love to know at tigers same age he is. Now,

1828
01:58:42,800 --> 01:58:47,880
Speaker 2: what those stats were, Well, we could probably find that out.

1829
01:58:48,040 --> 01:58:49,960
Speaker 2: I mean, I just threw it out there. I'm not

1830
01:58:50,000 --> 01:58:52,080
Speaker 2: going to look it up. But anything like that, Oh.

1831
01:58:52,800 --> 01:58:57,000
Speaker 1: Well, Yeah, Scotti Shaffler is twenty seven years old and

1832
01:58:58,120 --> 01:59:02,880
Speaker 1: this was his fifth start in the Masters. I believe

1833
01:59:03,000 --> 01:59:05,960
Speaker 1: only three players in the history of the sport have

1834
01:59:06,160 --> 01:59:14,160
Speaker 1: won their second Masters faster than Scotty. Let's see Tiger

1835
01:59:14,280 --> 01:59:20,800
Speaker 1: Woods majors by the time he was seven, twenty seven

1836
01:59:20,960 --> 01:59:27,560
Speaker 1: years old. One was Tiger born, Tigers born a year.

1837
01:59:28,320 --> 01:59:31,080
Speaker 1: He's in between the two of us. He's born in

1838
01:59:31,160 --> 01:59:36,160
Speaker 1: seventy six, so that means he was twenty one in

1839
01:59:36,520 --> 01:59:41,880
Speaker 1: nineteen ninety seven to one and then so he was

1840
01:59:41,960 --> 01:59:45,840
Speaker 1: twenty seven in ninety In two thousand and three, yeah,

1841
01:59:45,840 --> 01:59:50,880
Speaker 1: he won one, two, three, four, yeah, seven, No, eight, eight,

1842
01:59:51,000 --> 01:59:55,720
Speaker 1: eight majors eight, Yeah, he had things a bit different.

1843
01:59:56,400 --> 02:00:01,640
Speaker 1: Eight and three Green jackets just seems a bit different

1844
02:00:01,720 --> 02:00:07,120
Speaker 1: to me. So I wasn't talking about but with betting, No,

1845
02:00:07,320 --> 02:00:09,160
Speaker 1: you said betting exactly.

1846
02:00:09,400 --> 02:00:12,240
Speaker 2: But the reason it was like that at this time

1847
02:00:12,480 --> 02:00:15,960
Speaker 2: for him was because of those eight majors, and everybody

1848
02:00:16,120 --> 02:00:20,120
Speaker 2: was like, it wasn't three, it wasn't two, right, it

1849
02:00:20,280 --> 02:00:21,960
Speaker 2: was like, oh, this dude gonna win.

1850
02:00:22,560 --> 02:00:25,080
Speaker 1: It's one of the first times in the last forty

1851
02:00:25,200 --> 02:00:27,360
Speaker 1: years that the favorite has won.

1852
02:00:28,120 --> 02:00:30,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, well if he does, he does that a couple

1853
02:00:30,600 --> 02:00:31,840
Speaker 2: more times. We got action.

1854
02:00:32,360 --> 02:00:35,040
Speaker 1: Okay, okay, all right, fair.

1855
02:00:34,960 --> 02:00:38,200
Speaker 2: Enough until then, watch out for the vig.

1856
02:00:39,200 --> 02:00:41,680
Speaker 1: Well, I'm glad because I've i've I've heard of him,

1857
02:00:41,760 --> 02:00:45,120
Speaker 1: I've heard of Scottie Scheffler. So it's all good, all right,

1858
02:00:45,200 --> 02:00:48,080
Speaker 1: my man. Great, great chatting with you tonight, and we'll

1859
02:00:48,120 --> 02:00:51,560
Speaker 1: do it again next week. Absolutely okay for eight from

1860
02:00:51,600 --> 02:00:55,080
Speaker 1: salam I'm Mark Wellard playing and Spaniard coming up next

1861
02:00:55,120 --> 02:00:58,000
Speaker 1: to right where you are on Fox Sports Radio.