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Speaker 2: with me, Kevin Figures and he Adam. Also hit us

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Speaker 2: up on x at k fig one and at follow

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Speaker 2: Adam A thank you guys for joining us. Happy New

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Speaker 2: Year out there to the West coast, Happy New ye

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Speaker 2: and if you're in and for our friends listening Hawaii,

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Speaker 2: you still got a couple hours.

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Speaker 3: To go, y'all get a New Year every day day exactly.

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Speaker 3: Is this one of those opportunities where it's okay to

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Speaker 3: get drunk on the radio. It feels like it should be.

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Speaker 3: If Anderson Cooper and his boyfriend can get drunk on

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Speaker 3: the CNN broadcast, why can't we?

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Speaker 2: Kevin, I guess there's no rules saying that we can't.

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Speaker 2: The girls are wasted in the other room, greatly frowned upon.

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Speaker 2: I don't think that's that's the baby, let's go necessarily

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Speaker 2: true though right now I appreciate the honesty. I do

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Speaker 2: love that about you. My very first radio job in Oregon,

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Speaker 2: the morning guys who come in at four am, they

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Speaker 2: kept a bottle of fireball whiskey in their drawing at

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Speaker 2: every morning, every morning.

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Speaker 3: Okay, that was like the first time I felt like

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Speaker 3: I should stop drinking. I had a fireball incident. I

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Speaker 3: had a Mario Brothers fireball incident where I woke up

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Speaker 3: the next morning because the fireball gets you with the

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Speaker 3: indigestion when you got to get the pepsid ac. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: the esophagus is burning. It's on fire. That's the worst

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Speaker 3: option possible. First, of all those Oregon guys, I would

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Speaker 3: have thought they would have waked and baked, not waked

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Speaker 3: into fireballs like that too. Okay, maybe a little bit

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Speaker 2: Jega bombs down here teeth. Well, I hope you guys

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Speaker 2: are just college at one point, I'm sorry, just you

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Speaker 2: bring up fireball and like you know, we're young, we're broke,

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Speaker 2: we don't have any money, and all we had was

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Speaker 2: my roommate's older brother had a bottle of Fireball that

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Speaker 2: he hadn't opened, and he's like, well it was cheap,

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Speaker 2: you have to pay for it. Yeah, it was an

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Speaker 3: You can't smell cinnamon anymore. It's just snauxious than It's

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Speaker 3: like if you have a certain drink when you're sick,

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Speaker 3: and then you always associate it with being sick, like

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Speaker 3: having seven up or something like that. Now I can't

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Speaker 3: for me. Even sprites too close they had to take

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Speaker 3: Now it's storry. Yeah, I Fireball's the worst thing ever.

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Speaker 3: You know what, in twenty twenty six, I'm going to

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Speaker 3: continue to not drink. That just sealed it for me.

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Speaker 3: Just your non resolution fireball incident. I can't have it.

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Speaker 3: And hopefully you guys out there tonight are being safe,

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Speaker 3: are staying off the road, are not doing whatever. Michael

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Speaker 3: Irving was at the Miami game that had him going

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Speaker 3: like that, or he brought out the belt like none

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Speaker 2: Kevin, that was an impressive performance by the University of

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Speaker 2: Miami in a maybe even more oppressive performance by Michael

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Speaker 3: Can I say this? Somebody tweeted in that they want

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Speaker 3: more hate towards Ohio State.

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Speaker 2: Through you.

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Speaker 3: They want more trash talk, even though the story should

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Speaker 3: be about Miami winning. As Ben Maller would say, the

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Speaker 3: losing locker room has the bigger story.

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Speaker 2: Right, Well, look, we did bring up Ryan Day, and

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Speaker 2: you know the fact that, as their rationalist fans are,

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Speaker 3: Look, Spock's weed, who got to me? I follow out

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Speaker 3: Ohio State excited. I'm just saying, like his Blackbeard is fake.

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Speaker 3: They're all frauds there, apparently, because they got bounced in

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Speaker 3: their first game of the playoff this season. And they've

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Speaker 3: got way too many stickers on their helmets. Okay, it's

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Speaker 2: Some of them. Do you have to earn those stickers

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Speaker 3: Yeah, these parts of going around. Everybody gets a star,

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Speaker 3: maybe that's what they lost the game actually, because they

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Speaker 3: They thought they were just being protected by damn stickers.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well, look I would rip into Ohio State if

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Speaker 2: they lost to James Madison. It's not like with the

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Speaker 2: all due respect to James Madison.

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Speaker 3: Hey, Mario Cristo ball never wins a big game until now.

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Speaker 3: If I had a crystal ball and I looked into

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Speaker 2: Well, his game management certainly calls a lot of things

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Speaker 2: line of scrimmage. Now, maybe that's an indictment of Ohio State,

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Speaker 2: and maybe because it's happened in back to back games

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Speaker 2: You said, if they played Miami in Ohios they played

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Speaker 3: Okay, wait, don't know. Wait a second. They played Texas,

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Speaker 3: they barely won. They played Indiana they barely lost, and

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Speaker 3: of the first half, they played Miami and they lost

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Speaker 3: I don't know how good Texas was. I mean, they

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Speaker 3: don't know, Kevin, they played a lot of nobody's in

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Speaker 3: they may be big fat phonies. They were valued.

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Speaker 2: So see, this is what the guy who tweeted you

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Speaker 3: Is this not what you want?

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Speaker 2: Is this what you want?

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Speaker 3: Are you not entertained?

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Speaker 2: Which is not a bad point at him.

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Speaker 3: So you know, I'm just saying I finally got to

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Speaker 3: a good point in all my hopeless ranting about Ohio State.

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Speaker 3: They didn't play the stiffest competition.

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Speaker 2: No, they weren't battle tested enough. A pretty patty cake

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Speaker 2: Big Ten schedule all the way around. When you think

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Speaker 2: a given year. It has as much to do with

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Speaker 2: so I don't know that that is that is very

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Speaker 3: It just feels like piling on though, going after the

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Speaker 3: state of Ohio. You know, in Cincinnati, and they haven't

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Speaker 2: So it's just it's usually just Ohio State University, not

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Speaker 3: I'm just saying, like, I have a friend from Cleveland, Okay,

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Speaker 3: Mike Tucker, Mother Tucker. We used to call him, and

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Speaker 3: I still have a soft spot for those teams that

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Speaker 3: of success in their history. They're an outlier. Not this year,

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Speaker 2: Okay, God forbid. They don't win the national championship every

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Speaker 2: single solitary season.

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Speaker 3: Health they didn't even come close. Kevin, that was belt

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Speaker 2: She had a fat ass, you know what? I Yeah, Mike, Mike,

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Speaker 2: Michael Irvin, where you business? Two thousand and one, the

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Speaker 2: last time Miami won a national championship. We're talking about

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Speaker 3: Personal problems, all right, whatever, what do you mean where.

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Speaker 2: He's been sear it's about Belta ass and talking trash

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Speaker 2: just piling on Ohio State is a phenomenal program. They're

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Speaker 2: gonna bounce back. They're not going anywhere. They had a

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Speaker 2: bad year. It happens. I thought Alabama won the national

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Speaker 3: You're right, You're right. He set unrealistic expectations. But the

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Speaker 3: U is back. First, Texas was back. They made the

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Speaker 3: You Miami, Miami is back. When will USC be back?

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Speaker 3: Their next stup?

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Speaker 2: Right on?

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Speaker 3: Who's back?

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Speaker 2: A might take some time. How about they find themselves

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Speaker 2: a defensive coordinator? Yeah, good luck. That's that's a bit

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Speaker 2: of an issue.

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Speaker 3: That final play was unreal. I was watching that. I

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Speaker 3: don't want to out anyone, but my close personal friend

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Speaker 3: Carlo Jimenez, voice of the Clippers on the radio side,

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Speaker 3: went to USC just out.

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Speaker 2: Of them and gave away his job. His government name

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Speaker 2: where he lives. I don't want to take this. You

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Speaker 2: have to take this from Adam Carlough.

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Speaker 3: The signature call is Nylon and it's a good one.

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Speaker 3: But uh, he was not happy seeing that live and

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Speaker 3: it happened on my phone. I thought live actually first,

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Speaker 2: That was really really hoping Carlo would just smack the

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Speaker 2: it up to his face.

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Speaker 3: Well, I got an otter box case or whatever the

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Speaker 3: hell it is like, it's been through worse.

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Speaker 2: Come on, just take it, even throw it halfway or

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Speaker 2: ross into it dome.

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Speaker 3: Okay, were we are burying the lead here. First of all,

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Speaker 3: Eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox If you guys

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Speaker 2: Is a Fred Rogan special right here the West?

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Speaker 3: How dare you?

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Speaker 2: That's it through you.

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry twenty twenty six and you're still calling me

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Speaker 2: This is the company that you live in or Adamo

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Speaker 5: Your own brain.

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Speaker 6: That's not sexual.

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Speaker 2: Here you go.

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Speaker 3: Look, the NBA has had a problem for over twenty

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Speaker 3: You could figure it out. There are ways, dude, I

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Speaker 3: You want to tell, I can get you a toe.

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Speaker 3: They can figure this out somehow, just smooth things out.

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Speaker 3: They can go in rotation with certain conferences every year,

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Speaker 2: No, I don't disagree that Ben would agree. I disagree

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Speaker 3: All right, Kevin, you want to give me your New

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm going to go to college football on this one.

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Speaker 3: And I'll take that All Star Game over the NBA

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Speaker 2: I love Noah and the NBC's done a phenomenal job.

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Speaker 2: Yeah? So I would have the National Signing Day go

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Speaker 3: The college football calendar is an unmitigated disaster, and that

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Speaker 3: It's always seven ninety nine on Fox. Must be a

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Speaker 3: good subject. James calling from Tacoma. James, what's up? You're

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Speaker 7: Hight.

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Speaker 4: Not just to NBA, like you suggested, from all sports,

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Speaker 3: Now, James, you are you a Seahawks fan or are

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Speaker 3: you just a concern sports fanatic and you want you

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Speaker 4: No, I'm a sports fan, even NBA. But they break

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Speaker 3: Ooh yeah, I like where your heads at.

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Speaker 2: I agree with you. That's a great call. And we

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Speaker 2: there's no reason why the loser of Seattle in San

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Speaker 3: But if it's the Carolina Panthers, we can make an exception.

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Speaker 2: Ken, No, we can't.

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Speaker 3: You're right, they're gonna lose either way.

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Speaker 2: But exactly, I wasn't gonna say that out loud. I

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Speaker 3: But I want fairness. I want teams who want to win.

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Speaker 2: N eleven or twenty twelve?

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Speaker 3: They have to have a majority. It's not going to happen,

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Speaker 2: Still very idealistic, but you know what, I'm right there

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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 6: Lions are lighting up. I guess it's a good subject.

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Speaker 3: FNA Cottonna, Happy New Year, Welcome back again. I'm out

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Speaker 3: of mislies, Kevin figures. We're fn A in for Ben

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Speaker 3: Mallards tonight f and at Holidays special edition. Oh yeah,

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Speaker 3: the f show here on FSR. All right, Kevin. So

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Speaker 3: it was a good subject. People are excited about it.

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Speaker 3: Then when I talk about changes in sports, since people

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Speaker 3: are making personal changes right now with New Year's resolutions,

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Speaker 3: why not change up a league, a team do something here?

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Speaker 3: And it looks like we got uh, Dustin and Bakersfield, Bakersfield,

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Speaker 3: let's go Dustin Baker Happy New Year.

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Speaker 2: Happy.

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Speaker 8: You know, I'm taking a little bit of liberty with this,

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Speaker 8: but I just always wanted to say that, and.

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Speaker 4: So people can hear me that something's got to.

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Speaker 8: Be done about these owners moving football teams because I

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Speaker 8: lost my Oakland Raiders. Never going to be the same.

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Speaker 8: The Chargers aren't the Chargers. They're in LA now, Like

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Speaker 8: it just doesn't work. You know, something's got to be

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Speaker 8: done about that because they're just biting the hand that

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Speaker 8: fed them for so many years.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but how do you how do you hurt these

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Speaker 3: billionaire owners? What's the land like? Look at the Spanos

478
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Speaker 3: is they're making way more money in La Fantasy.

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Speaker 8: It would be cool if they were all like the Packers,

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Speaker 8: owned by the city.

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Speaker 6: So I'm just saying.

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Speaker 8: It's not a real change that could happen. I feel

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Speaker 8: like I lost a friend when the Raiders moved.

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Speaker 2: I feel you well, by the way, and I grew

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Speaker 2: up an La Raiders fan, so we stole from Oakland

486
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Speaker 2: to begin with the film the first go around and

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Speaker 2: felt that's it when they went back. So I totally

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Speaker 2: get it. And here's the issue. I think most people

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Speaker 2: would love to and they fantasize about, especially American sports,

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Speaker 2: would love to kind of mirror the European soccer model. Basically,

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Speaker 2: your team is part of your community, right, There's never

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Speaker 2: any talk of Everton moving somewhere. That just would never happen.

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Speaker 2: It's just it's a different vibe. It's a different concept.

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Speaker 2: Players are walking down the street to interact with everyday

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Speaker 2: people like it's nothing in their town that like the

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Speaker 2: soccer team is sort of the heartbeat of the entire

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Speaker 2: city and a lot of NFL cities. You brought up

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Speaker 2: the Packers, you know, they're one of those. And unfortunately,

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Speaker 2: in some senses, I mean all for capitalism, all that,

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Speaker 2: you know, want to be able to make as much

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Speaker 2: money as you possibly can. The NFL, these pro sports

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Speaker 2: leagues are just chasing the almighty dollar and whatever is

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Speaker 2: most pro or profitable for them. If that means leaving

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Speaker 2: a city they've been in forever, if it means leaving

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Speaker 2: the state of Missouri and going to Kansas, even though

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Speaker 2: it's not that far away, if you're the Kansas City chiefs,

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Speaker 2: if it's the Chicago Bears potentially talk about flirting with

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Speaker 2: moving out of Illinois completely. That's what these teams are

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Speaker 2: going to do, and that's what they've been empowered to do. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 2: all they care about is making every single solitary stent

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Speaker 2: they possibly can. They say they care about the fans,

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Speaker 2: but in reality they really don't. You know who, the

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Speaker 2: reality of it.

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Speaker 3: You know who is right about this?

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Speaker 2: All you care money?

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Speaker 3: The joker new right, It's about sending a message. I

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Speaker 3: like this phone call though ideally, yeah, Dustin, I think

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Speaker 3: we're both with you and an idealistic standpoint. We want

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Speaker 3: all these teams to stay with the loyal fan bases

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Speaker 3: that have been through the struggles over the years with them,

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Speaker 3: and hopefully eventually their faith is rewarded as they get

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Speaker 3: to the promised Land with these teams before they end

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Speaker 3: up moving, because that is brutal, it is, all right,

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Speaker 3: Blind Sea Bass. I think he's a regular here on

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Speaker 3: the Ben mallor show calling from Nashville, Adam Ashley, Blind SeaBASS,

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Speaker 3: what's up?

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Speaker 4: What have y'all?

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Speaker 6: So?

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Speaker 10: First off, Kevin with years man, I would agree with

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Speaker 10: you usually except for this one. I gotta I gotta

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Speaker 10: disagree because it's early signing periods actually helped us keep

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Speaker 10: the number one quarterback in the state of Tennessee, in

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Speaker 10: the state of Tennessee who is playing for my Commodorees

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Speaker 10: next year. So I'm happy that, you know, deciding day

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Speaker 10: was early.

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Speaker 2: You know, the personal benefit for you, I understand and

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Speaker 2: I get you for people in this situation, And congratulations

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Speaker 2: to Vandy in the turnaround they've had. It's been great,

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Speaker 2: but I think you have more uniformity. But that's just

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Speaker 2: my thing.

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Speaker 10: This has been an amazing season for us, but as

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Speaker 10: so the rules that what I would change is with

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Speaker 10: the challenges in all the leagues except for hockey, let's

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Speaker 10: follow their model. You get one challenge and you get

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Speaker 10: one time out. If you challenge a play and you

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Speaker 10: lose it, not only do you lose your time out.

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Speaker 5: But you also get a penalty.

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Speaker 10: So it'll stop some of this, you know, having to

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Speaker 10: keep running them back and forth to the to review

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Speaker 10: a play. If it's not oh dude, i've strength too

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Speaker 10: much night.

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Speaker 11: Oh, if it's not, if.

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Speaker 10: It's not a booth review, you get one time out

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Speaker 10: and if you are one time out and one challenge

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Speaker 10: and if you lose it. If you lose the challenge,

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Speaker 10: then it's a fifteen yard penalty for an unfortunate life conduct.

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Speaker 3: That's harsh. It's very harsh for those who hate ins

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Speaker 3: to replay and don't like going back to the command

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Speaker 3: censor perfect and slowing down the game. I get it.

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Speaker 2: One thing. I'll meet you halfway on. I would not

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Speaker 2: necessarily be opposed to there being more authority and have

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Speaker 2: the being a sky judge, because now they'll say they'll

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Speaker 2: look and see if a guy scored, and they'll say

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Speaker 2: the sky judge said x y or Z and they'll

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Speaker 2: just keep on pushing. If we did that a lot

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Speaker 2: more often, it took the challenges and lessen the challenges,

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Speaker 2: I think the game would move a lot more. We

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Speaker 2: wouldn't be bogged down as much as we are. So

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Speaker 2: I do think they should probably adopt more of a

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Speaker 2: sky judge and have more officials up top telling the

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Speaker 2: officials on the field, Wow, let's keep it pushing, no

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Speaker 2: needs to stop here. Well, I think that would help.

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Speaker 3: We do have the hawkeye camera now where Jerry Renner

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Speaker 3: comes out and actually spots the ball on the field.

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Speaker 2: Quite what the hawkeye cam is.

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Speaker 3: He's pretty exact with it. Actually, he's really good at it. No,

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Speaker 3: but they are getting better over time. Instant replay across

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Speaker 3: all sports is still somewhat new compared to you know

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Speaker 3: how far back we can go with these leagues. Uh,

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Speaker 3: they're streamlining it. Streamlining it will get there. They'll get

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Speaker 3: better and better. It'll be refined hopefully and take less

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Speaker 3: and less time. But I understand what blind and Sea

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Speaker 3: Bass is saying. Sea Bass kick his assy about apparently

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Speaker 3: kicked his ass and dropped his ass. Gunner in Minnesota's

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Speaker 3: calling in Gutner here on the Ben Mallor show. I'm

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Speaker 3: out of Mosley's Kevin figures in for Big Ben.

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Speaker 12: Okay, what's up, guys, how's it going?

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Speaker 2: Good? Gun, Happy to know your man. What's on your mind?

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Speaker 3: I'm not allowed to drive.

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Speaker 12: I got a couple of things I would like to

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Speaker 12: change the NBA, of course, I would like to switching

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Speaker 12: kings from East to West, and what's the East? But man,

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Speaker 12: so I think they go over to the East to

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Speaker 12: have a rival with Milwaukee and Chicago.

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Speaker 5: That'd be great.

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Speaker 3: Wait a second, wait, you want to realign?

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Speaker 2: Like what, so, who are we.

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Speaker 3: You want to realignment? Milwaukee and Chicago are already in

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Speaker 3: the East.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they've They've moved on. They moved out of the

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Speaker 2: Western Conference like forty years to the East.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Memph for the East. Yeah, I could see that

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Speaker 3: a couple of.

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Speaker 12: Other seasons, switch them around. I want to see them

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Speaker 12: a couple of good rivals over there.

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Speaker 2: Well if expansion, if when expansion happens, you're going to

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Speaker 2: see that. By the way, just to balance out on

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Speaker 2: the levels of the conference is if if you were

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Speaker 2: potentially going to expand to Las Vegas and Seattle, that's

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Speaker 2: two Western Conference teams right there, and so you would

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Speaker 2: think that Memphis would be like a natural move to

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Speaker 2: the east. Man So, yeah, in Minnesota too.

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Speaker 12: Yeah, and I change baseball a little bit too.

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Speaker 2: Okay, what do you want to change on baseball?

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Speaker 12: Well, those divisions don't making it. Some of the divisions

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Speaker 12: don't make any sense. I'll tell you that. Because it's

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Speaker 12: the central Minnesota. I can't see I tendensee in with Minnesota.

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Speaker 12: In Cleveland and Detroit, how are they They're way.

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Speaker 3: Far away from them geographically. We have real issues. But

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Speaker 3: what I say, why don't we just do away with

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Speaker 3: divisions and conferences altogether. Let's fix the whole thing right now,

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Speaker 3: not take just small measures.

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Speaker 10: Yeah, that's that's true.

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Speaker 12: I agree.

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Speaker 7: I agree.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'll say this, and this is something stop the

627
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Speaker 2: East versus West violence for major League Baseball at the

628
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Speaker 2: very least. It's something that Rob Manfred, who have not

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Speaker 2: been the biggest fan of, but I do like some

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Speaker 2: of the things he's done. This is actually one thing

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Speaker 2: that it's on his agenda before he retires here in

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Speaker 2: a couple of years. He wants to do away with

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Speaker 2: the American of the National League, and he wants to

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Speaker 2: make it regional. He wants to make it east and

635
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Speaker 2: west and make it more geographically relevant or based as

636
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Speaker 2: opposed to having the Ale in the NL. So I

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Speaker 2: know it's going to ruffle a lot of feathers for

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Speaker 2: a lot of people, but it wouldn't necessarily bother me

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Speaker 2: that much.

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Speaker 3: Haven't we seen like somebody put together what some of

641
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Speaker 3: the faux divisions could be then, or a mock division,

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Speaker 3: and you have like the Giants and the A's and

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Speaker 3: the same division with the Angels and the Dodgers because

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Speaker 3: they're all on the West coast with the Seattle Mariners,

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Speaker 3: and that's how they're kind of combining things, right. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I get that. I just I don't like this East

647
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Speaker 3: versus West stuff. Kevin, We've been through this in the nineties.

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Speaker 3: We have to stop.

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Speaker 2: He's just trying to keep the peace, man, I feel it.

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Speaker 3: Let's go to Rob calling from Memphis. We're putting your

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Speaker 3: team in the Eastern Conference soon.

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Speaker 12: Rob.

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Speaker 3: What's up you're on with Kevin and Adam and for

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Speaker 3: Ben Maller.

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Speaker 6: Hey, it's my birthday. Happy New Year, everybody.

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Speaker 2: Happy New Year, and happy birthday to you brother.

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Speaker 6: Thank you.

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Speaker 5: I appreciate it. I'm going to an Indian conversation as well.

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Speaker 5: I personally love the NBA Cup and I think we

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Speaker 5: can improve it a little bit. Even though it was

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Speaker 5: great this year. I love the intensitary brought out and

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Speaker 5: see how people are complaining it felt like playoff atmosphere

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Speaker 5: in the.

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Speaker 6: Middle of the season. So come on, you know, I.

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Speaker 3: Rob your appreciates with the choir here. I'm glad we

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Speaker 3: found you tonight. There is somebody who believes in the

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Speaker 3: NBA Cup.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, I gotta admit I'm a soccer fan

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Speaker 5: as well, so I'm kind of already accustomed to a

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Speaker 5: mid season tournament, so you know, it went overwell with me.

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Speaker 5: But hey, it's just gotten better each year so far.

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Speaker 5: People just need to give it some time. But what

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Speaker 5: I would do, though, to add some interest to it,

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Speaker 5: We need to add some stakes to it.

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Speaker 6: We don't care that.

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Speaker 5: They get some extra money, you know, good for them,

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Speaker 5: But to make us care a little bit more, how

678
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Speaker 5: about we guarantee them a playoff spot for winning the

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Speaker 5: NBA Cup or guarantee them a draft spot for the

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Speaker 5: NBA Cup.

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Speaker 2: I am so happy that you said this. This is

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Speaker 2: something that I've talked about from day one. When it

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Speaker 2: comes to the Cup. There has to be something in

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Speaker 2: it for the fans. The players playing harder in an

685
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Speaker 2: October and November game is great, they should anyway, But

686
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Speaker 2: the system is what it is. They're trying to incentivize

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Speaker 2: the guys to play harder and give them something to

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Speaker 2: play towards, which is five hundred grand if they won

689
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Speaker 2: the tournament. That's phenomenal for them. I, as a fan

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Speaker 2: of the team, could care less if they're padding their

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Speaker 2: pockets with five does nothing for me. So to your point,

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Speaker 2: maybe it's given them a bonus draft pick at the

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Speaker 2: end of the first round. Maybe we can say, no, go.

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Speaker 6: On, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry. No.

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Speaker 5: Look, can I say one more thing? How about for

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Speaker 5: the guys that you know don't make it because I

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Speaker 5: don't like the idea of tanking, you know, for some

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Speaker 5: of these teams that I think do it.

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Speaker 3: Well, we'll get to that later in the show. By

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Speaker 3: the way, Rob.

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Speaker 5: Continuing, Yeah, to me, tanking is kind of like fixing. Oops,

702
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Speaker 5: shouldn't have said that on the radio. But anyway, the

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Speaker 5: last let's say four teams that are in there, let's

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Speaker 5: make them play, uh, for that for that draft spot,

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Speaker 5: you know, for the for the number one draft spot.

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Speaker 5: How about a you know, a little consolation tournament, you know,

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Speaker 5: one game tournament for the.

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Speaker 2: Must have been listening to me over the past three

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00:32:35,080 --> 00:32:37,520
Speaker 2: or four years, man, I swear this is great. Minds

710
00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:39,640
Speaker 2: think alike because I've been saying this to us. How

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Speaker 2: about having a secondary playoff tournament where you actually have

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Speaker 2: to play for the first overall pick. Yeah, the players

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Speaker 2: get the players get compence, the players are going to

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Speaker 2: make money, and the team is going to play for

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Speaker 2: a situation where they can actually find a way to

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Speaker 2: get the top draft pick.

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Speaker 3: I mean you might have to make the GM and

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Speaker 3: the owners play. Who care more than the players about

719
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Speaker 3: the first pick? But I do agree that would be

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Speaker 3: really interesting.

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Speaker 2: Well, and that's in the situation like that, Adam, you

722
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Speaker 2: would have to incentivize it for the players. It's a

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Speaker 2: reverse of the NBA Cup.

724
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Speaker 3: You get to keep your job. How about that.

725
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Speaker 2: You're incentivizing it for the fans by tying some sort

726
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Speaker 2: of draft compensation with something else into the cup, and

727
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Speaker 2: you're incentivating centivizing it for the players financially in a

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Speaker 2: playing for a draft pick situation.

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Speaker 3: These are idea for it, Kevin, Should we keep this

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Speaker 3: going in the next segment.

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Speaker 2: I still have more calls coming in about this. This

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Speaker 2: has been a fun topic, so let's keep this going.

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Speaker 3: Eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox.

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Speaker 2: Nine on Fox, sorry to cut you off, Adam Whead.

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Speaker 3: No, I cut you off first. Gosh jinks all right,

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Speaker 3: coming up next more fn A here in for Ben Mallor.

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Speaker 2: Happy New Year. A little bit, a little bit of a.

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Speaker 3: Car crash there, we crashed Ben's car just for a second.

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Speaker 3: He's it's a nice car. It's a nice car. It's

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Speaker 3: a McLaren. We'll be back next, coming back with your

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Speaker 3: phone calls. Eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox. I'm

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Speaker 3: Adam Allislin. He's Kevin Figures. Happy New Year. It's FNA

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Speaker 3: in on the Ben Malor Show.

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Speaker 2: Please talk to me, please, f and A Cotton Welcome

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Speaker 2: back in. We are alive from the Fox Sports Radio studios.

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Speaker 2: Kevin Figures Adam Alson filling in for Ben Malard. Happy

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Speaker 2: brand new YouTube channel for the show. Just search Ben

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Speaker 2: Malors Show within YouTube. Again, that's Ben Malard's show. Be

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Speaker 8: Thank god for the Internet.

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Speaker 3: All right, we're talking about what change you would make

757
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Speaker 3: to your favorite sport, and we got Joel coming in,

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Speaker 3: calling in from Seattle. Joel, what's up? You're on with

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Speaker 3: Adam Ousle and Kevin Figures?

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Speaker 5: How you doing?

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Speaker 7: Happy New Year? I was calling because I'm a long

762
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Speaker 7: time I grew up with the SuperSonics and we're opening

763
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Speaker 7: Adam Silver. We'll give us our team back.

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Speaker 3: But anyway that will happen, that will happen at some point,

765
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Speaker 3: Joels hashtag Sonic Scape.

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Speaker 7: Other than that, I want I wanted to tell you

767
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Speaker 7: about Tommy lasorda rant when he went to take Doug

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Speaker 7: Raw out in the eighty one versus the Yankees.

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Speaker 2: For sure, Yeah, I'm aware of the rant, and I'm

770
00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:27,480
Speaker 2: curious of the relevance to what's going on tonight. But

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Speaker 2: sure is baklava involved. That was a different bakua.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, no, that was that was a different one.

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Speaker 4: He told He told Doug Raw, you can't get this

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Speaker 4: guy out.

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Speaker 7: That guy out was Vicky Rivers, Jackson and the other guy. Anyway,

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Speaker 7: it's hilarious.

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Speaker 2: You're ash, Yes it is. Yea. Doug Rowl was a

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Speaker 2: picture for the Dodgers and Tommy the sorta went out

779
00:35:51,040 --> 00:35:52,520
Speaker 2: there and Doug was trying to plead his case to

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Speaker 2: stay in the game, and Tony was basically saying, I

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00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:57,200
Speaker 2: don't give a bleep, give me the bleeping ball. Yes,

782
00:35:57,320 --> 00:35:59,080
Speaker 2: very funny, you can look it up. What else do

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00:35:59,120 --> 00:35:59,919
Speaker 2: you have in your mind tonight?

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00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:04,879
Speaker 7: Or Davy Lopes walks in and says, hey, Tommy, you're

785
00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:09,120
Speaker 7: causing the scene, and he says, who won that f

786
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Speaker 7: for you?

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Speaker 6: Anyway?

788
00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:14,279
Speaker 7: Uh So, I wanted to talk about what do you

789
00:36:14,280 --> 00:36:17,399
Speaker 7: think of the game Saturday night? Are the Hawks gonna win?

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Speaker 6: Oh?

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Speaker 3: We're talking about the Seahawks burs of the forty nine

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Speaker 3: ers for the number one overall seed in the NFC.

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Speaker 7: Gotta gotta bottle up McCaffrey.

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Speaker 2: That is true. I will say this. You're gonna have

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Speaker 2: to listen to fn A on FSR on Friday night

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Speaker 2: last Saturday morning to figure out what our official prediction

797
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Speaker 2: for that game is gonna be. How about that?

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Speaker 3: That's a good tease, But you'll hear from Jeff Schwartz.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we will ask Jeff Schwartz about it. Our colleague

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Speaker 2: here f Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 3: The Swartz is with us tonight.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Seri.

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Speaker 3: Schwartz is as big as ours, so.

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Speaker 2: He'll give his thoughts on that game and many others

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Speaker 2: around college and pro football. All right, Joel, appreciate your college.

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Speaker 3: Thanks Sean Wisconsin, Sean, what's up with that?

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Speaker 7: An A?

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Speaker 2: And for Ben Maller, what's going on?

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Speaker 3: New Year?

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Speaker 2: What's going on?

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Speaker 13: Happy New Year to you guys, too.

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Speaker 3: Happy near?

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Speaker 2: So what's on your mind?

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Speaker 3: Sean?

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Speaker 13: Oh, you know, I'm a little what I want what

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Speaker 13: I called in to talk about you guys, I'm talking

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Speaker 13: about no more. So I'm just gonna switch it up

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Speaker 13: and say that. You know, I appreciate you guys talking

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Speaker 13: sports talk on New Year's You know a lot of

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Speaker 13: people take off on this day, and I just appreciate

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Speaker 13: you guys being at work.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Draymond Green, people work on holidays. It's not just

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Speaker 3: basketball players out there. Okay. I know you're making the

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Speaker 3: ultimate sacrifice. You're real servant to the people. I'm sorry

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Speaker 3: he can he.

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Speaker 6: Needs to retire, but that's beside the point.

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Speaker 13: Anyways, I just wanted to give you guys appreciation. Man,

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Speaker 13: give you guys the props man. Appreciate you.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate you listening. Thanks for the support man, Thank you.

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Speaker 3: Did we go one segment too long with the college?

831
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Speaker 3: What's happening right now?

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Speaker 2: Getting later and later until the night or earlier and

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Speaker 2: earlier into the morning, depending on how you want to

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Speaker 2: look at it.

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Speaker 3: We can try one more.

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Speaker 2: That's kind of how this goes. Adam.

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Speaker 3: Is this Versace in Seattle, of course, Versace Versace.

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Speaker 11: Hello, Hello, Happy New Year, Happy New Year. I want

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Speaker 11: to say a long time listeners, but I had a

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Speaker 11: couple of rule changes that I would like the NFL

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Speaker 11: to adopt, thank god. First one, I hate the on

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Speaker 11: side kicks. I would much rather than have like a

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Speaker 11: fourth and fifteen to have the team spoke forward on there.

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Speaker 11: That would be way better than the onside kick rule

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Speaker 11: that we got right now, like a slim chance of

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Speaker 11: it being successful, So fourth and fifteen would be better

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Speaker 11: to watch.

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Speaker 3: I feel like, Kevin, what do you think about that?

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Speaker 2: I don't disagree with that at all. If you're going

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Speaker 2: to tell people that they have to declare for onside kick,

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Speaker 2: and I understand why they do it for safety purposes.

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Speaker 2: Then just get rid of it completely and have them

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Speaker 2: to be able to do it fourth or fifteen. The

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Speaker 2: conversion rate on it, especially since they've changed it, has

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Speaker 2: been astronomically low, so what's the point. Yeah, So just

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Speaker 2: have it be fourth and fifteen or fourth and twenty.

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Speaker 2: I think the UFL does this. I think they make

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Speaker 2: it like a fourth and twenty instead of an on

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Speaker 2: side kick. It's an exciting play. I'd much rather go

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Speaker 2: that route. So I agree with you on.

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Speaker 11: That for sure, for sure. And the other one I

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Speaker 11: wanted to change is I hate the idea of there

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Speaker 11: being a tie, So I wish like in the regular

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Speaker 11: season they have overtime like they do in the playoffs,

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Speaker 11: so there's no ties.

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Speaker 3: Have we gotten I know we got the Cowboys and

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Speaker 3: the Packers tie this season? Did we get to.

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Speaker 2: That was the only one this year?

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Speaker 3: I think the average has been two?

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Speaker 2: Yeah per year.

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Speaker 3: I mean, how many games do they play? Over three

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Speaker 3: hundred games per year.

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Speaker 2: Or something like that, fifty something games or something like that.

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Speaker 3: We we can deal with a couple of ties. I

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Speaker 3: almost like the wonkiness of it and just the awkwardness

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Speaker 3: of teams being like, well, we played pretty hard tonight

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Speaker 3: and you know, we wanted to win, but we didn't

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Speaker 3: lose either.

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Speaker 2: So it was the NFL talking out of both sides

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Speaker 2: of his mouth to a certain degree when they say, like,

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Speaker 2: we care about players safety, we don't want them out

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Speaker 2: there playing for much longer than they need to. But yeah,

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Speaker 2: we're sitting here talking about having potentially eighteen you know

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Speaker 2: game regular season when you have you know, guys tearing

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Speaker 2: acls and achilles every other week, yep, yep, yep.

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Speaker 11: And then one more thing, one more thing. Some of

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Speaker 11: the flags that are thrown are terrible. I wish we

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Speaker 11: to review the flags.

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Speaker 3: Review the flags, review the flags.

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Speaker 11: Some of them are still are off.

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Speaker 3: This is some meta humor going on.

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Speaker 2: There absolutely a review.

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Speaker 7: The review, review, review.

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Speaker 2: The penalty penalties. He wants penalties to be under instant,

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Speaker 2: replay them play well. It's like, I mean, how much

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Speaker 2: longer do you want these games to last? I mean,

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Speaker 2: I think bri has a thought on this. For as

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Speaker 2: far as pass interference plays, I know that. Well, I'm

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Speaker 2: just traumatized from twenty eighteen, right.

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Speaker 3: We're traumatized from happening to hear about it from you

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Speaker 3: for so long. Its twenty eighteen. I will never get

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Speaker 3: over it. Never I'll go.

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Speaker 2: Down neither if I were you horrible.

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Speaker 3: Have you ever been cheated with one of your teams, Kevin?

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Speaker 2: Never once, It's never happened.

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Speaker 3: Tuck Rule more Fina coming up next in for Ben

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Speaker 3: Maller here on Fox Sports Radio