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Speaker 2: lou joins us at eleven fifteen, all kinds of things

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Speaker 2: on the sports cornucopia. And as you know, hours after

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Speaker 2: I signed off last Sunday morning, at six am Eastern,

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Speaker 2: Bill Walton, the Great Bill Walton passed, And in just

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Speaker 2: a minute, I'm going to give you my tribute to

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Speaker 2: Bill Walton. I know a lot of all the tributes

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Speaker 2: you've heard, how many of those folks all can play

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Speaker 2: courtside or were extremely close personal friends with one of

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Speaker 2: his teammates, Dave Myers. God rest his soul. I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: get to that in just a second, but before I do,

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Speaker 2: I just have to get something off my chest. About

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Speaker 2: the Minnesota Timberwolves because three weeks ago I gave my

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Speaker 2: lament about time for the sports gods to pay homage

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Speaker 2: to the Twin Cities, and what happens Thursday night is

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Speaker 2: beyond comprehension. I would just say this that the Minnesota

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Speaker 2: Timberwolves must have some kind of identity crisis, because, frankly,

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Speaker 2: I absolutely believe they were good enough to win the

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Speaker 2: NBA title this year. You don't beat Denver three times

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Speaker 2: in Denver, you don't beat them by after falling behind

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Speaker 2: by twenty in Game seven and falling down three to

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Speaker 2: two in the series. But they did, and it was

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Speaker 2: a very successful, exhilarating season in Timberwolves history. They were

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Speaker 2: very competitive the first four games, then they get demolished

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Speaker 2: game five. I can't explain it. There must be some

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Speaker 2: kind of identity crisis going on there in Minnesota. Reminds

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Speaker 2: me of an old joke. Young lady's walking by a

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Speaker 2: pet store. There's this talking parakeet. It looks at her

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Speaker 2: and says, hey, lady, she's what you're ugly. She thought

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Speaker 2: that was so adorable and cute, this goofy little parakeet.

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Speaker 2: Right the next day, she's walking by the same pet store,

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Speaker 2: and the parakeet shouts out, hey, Lanny, what you're ugly?

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Speaker 2: Lady gives kind of a stern look. This time. It

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Speaker 2: was fun of the first time, not so fun of

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Speaker 2: the second time she walks by the pet store. The

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Speaker 2: third day, parakeet says, hey, Lanny, what you're ugly? All right,

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Speaker 2: that's it. She turns tail heads into the pet store,

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Speaker 2: goes and sees the owner says, I don't really appreciate

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Speaker 2: your parakeet calling me names as I'm trying to walk by.

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Speaker 2: The owner apologizes profusely, says I will make sure it

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Speaker 2: doesn't happen again. The next day, the lady's walking by

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Speaker 2: the pet store. Sure enough, the parakeets says, hey, Lenny,

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Speaker 2: what you know? That's how I feel about the Minnesota Timberwolves. Please,

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Speaker 2: my goodness, it's not a talent situation, that's for sure.

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Speaker 2: You were good enough to win this damn thing, and

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Speaker 2: you biffed it. Gosh darn it. All right? Well, maybe

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Speaker 2: the Minnesota Twins or the Minnesota Vikings, or maybe not

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Speaker 2: Hope Spring's eternal. Maybe they needed Bill Walton.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 2: Bill Walton passed just hours after I signed off last week,

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Speaker 2: and I had to kind of wait my turn, but

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Speaker 2: I'm going to take advantage of it right now because

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Speaker 2: most of you identify with Bill Walton and his final

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Speaker 2: act in life. But Bill Walton actually led three lives.

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Speaker 2: Of course, his life at UCLA in the NBA and

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Speaker 2: then his broadcast ventures, which were epit. But let's take

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Speaker 2: you back to the fall of nineteen seventy three. Hours

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Speaker 2: before Bill Walton's first practice of his senior season in

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Speaker 2: the fall of seventy three, he walked into coach John

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Speaker 2: Wooden's office and he was sporting this big red neue

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Speaker 2: bushy beard. And of course, obviously UCLA had a clean

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Speaker 2: shaven policy, but Bill was just as precocious in nineteen

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Speaker 2: seventy three when he was twenty one years old as

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Speaker 2: he was when he was seventy one years old. Look,

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Speaker 2: he said, Coach, I know the rules, but I'm keeping

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Speaker 2: this beard. I'm proud of it. I'll see in practice

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Speaker 2: in four hours. Oh. Coach wouldn't calmly look back and said, William,

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Speaker 2: it's a lovely beard. I like it. It's a nice beard,

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Speaker 2: and I know you're proud of it, and I think

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Speaker 2: after a long pause, coach looked at him straight in

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Speaker 2: I understand. Four hours later, Walton returned to practice. Yes,

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Speaker 2: he was completely shaven, and that event sort of became

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Speaker 2: a metaphor for Bill Walton's lives. I say lives because

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Speaker 2: he led three college the NBA, and of course his

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Speaker 2: illustrious after basketball life, which included decades as he below broadcaster.

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Speaker 2: You know that. Remember he hadn't played in a real

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Speaker 2: in his final act, William three door Walton the third

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Speaker 2: was born November third, nineteen fifty two, La Mesa, California.

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Speaker 2: That's San Diego. And by his own admission, he was

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Speaker 2: kind of this skinny, scrawny guy. He stuttered horrendously, he

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Speaker 2: had a lisp, really couldn't speak at all, extremely shy,

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Speaker 2: carried that chiness on the court, very shy, reserved person. However,

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Speaker 2: over time, Bill Walton also by his own admission, found

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Speaker 2: a safe place in basketball. Additionally, by his own admission,

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Speaker 2: Bill Walton actually believes he peaked athletically at twelve years

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Speaker 2: old because he suffered a bad leg injury in the

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Speaker 2: sixth grade. True story, but you'd never know it if

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Speaker 2: you saw Bill Walton play courtside like I did. Simply put,

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Speaker 2: Bill Walt was Jokic before Jokic. Yes, I'm saying it,

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Speaker 2: only better. Picture a faster version who could jump out

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Speaker 2: of the gym. And he was a prolific scorer from

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Speaker 2: anywhere on the floor and all the while Bill Walton

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Speaker 2: bade everybody around him better and of course happier. And

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Speaker 2: at UCLA he sported a record with eighty six and four,

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Speaker 2: all four losses by a total of thirteen points. Now

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Speaker 2: Walton obviously played for coach John Wooden and the Bruins.

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Speaker 2: They won three consecutive National Player of the Year awards.

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Speaker 2: That was Bill Walton. He led UCLA to championships in

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Speaker 2: seventy two and seventy three. He was part of the

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Speaker 2: eighty eight game winning streak, and then he was selected

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Speaker 2: first overall in the seventy four NBA draft. Three years later,

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Speaker 2: Bill Walton led the Portland Trail Blazers to the team's

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Speaker 2: following season, Walton followed up by being the most valuable

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Speaker 2: player in the league, believe it or not in his

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Speaker 2: entire career, though Bill only played two hundred and nine

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Speaker 2: NBA games, and in his prime with the Portland Trailblazers

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Speaker 2: missed a lot of time. And these weren't just injuries,

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Speaker 2: there were serious injuries. They led to thirty nine surgeries,

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Speaker 2: almost all of them were on his feet and ankles.

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Speaker 2: But his style would play in those games and in

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Speaker 2: leading port into an NBA title in nineteen seventy seven

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Speaker 2: He just did things that would defy the odds. And

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Speaker 2: this is in the seventies, okay. And as you know,

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Speaker 2: it was announced on Monday, Bill Walton died at the

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Speaker 2: age of seventy one, and collectively there was a lump

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Speaker 2: in all of our throats. Everybody loved Bill Walden, but

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Speaker 2: long before his lovable jocularity with Dave pat former Detroit

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Speaker 2: Guy WDFN, he was this dominating six foot eleven center

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Speaker 2: who had an absolute all around game. I'm telling you

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Speaker 2: he could score, he could rebound, he could defend, and

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Speaker 2: the things he did and the way he ran the

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Speaker 2: a passer, he was a great passer, which was really

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Speaker 2: rare for a big man those days. And back then

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Speaker 2: they had some badass big men. You may have heard

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Speaker 2: of Kareem Abdul Jabbar or Bob Lanier or Dave Collins

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Speaker 2: or West Salzl the pivot. You go into the painting

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Speaker 2: against those guys, you better pack a lunch. It's not

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Speaker 2: like the NBA now. If Lebron went into the paint

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Speaker 2: like he did, he'd land on his ass twenty two

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Speaker 2: times a game. He may get up. I don't know,

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Speaker 2: but I'm telling you it was a different ballgame back then.

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Speaker 2: You all know what I'm talking about. Who saw it.

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Speaker 2: Walton more than held his own with those folks. But

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Speaker 2: even in that championship season in seventy seven, he was

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Speaker 2: so hobbled. Bill Walt could only play sixty five games.

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Speaker 2: That was the most he'd ever played in his prime.

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Speaker 2: And for me, what will always define Bill Walton was

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Speaker 2: his relationship and his juxtaposition with the great John Wooden. Frankly,

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Speaker 2: they were kindred spirits. I think they became the same person.

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Speaker 2: Bill Walton was never a coach, John Wooden was never

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Speaker 2: a broadcaster, and there was a forty two year old

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Speaker 2: generational gap when they started to form that partnership when

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Speaker 2: Bill Walton, which is seventeen years old. But somehow, some way,

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Speaker 2: John Wooden the coach and Bill Walton the player became

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Speaker 2: lifelong friends, forming, frankly and a wonderful love affair. And

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Speaker 2: this is the angle I'm gonna take you down tonight.

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Speaker 2: I don't think that people are doing two different people,

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Speaker 2: two different worlds. They form a friendship and a mentorship,

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Speaker 2: and frankly, it transcended time. They really loved each other

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Speaker 2: like a father and son. The partnership Walton then wood

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Speaker 2: and had at UCLA. Of course, that accounted for three

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Speaker 2: national championships in their lifetime of fabulous stories and certainly

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Speaker 2: life lessons. Now Walton's always going to be remembered for

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Speaker 2: his unique person and his willingness to be genuine, his

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Speaker 2: love for his coach, and his love for people, and

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Speaker 2: his love for relationships. But the lasting influence and the

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Speaker 2: greatest life lesson in the leadership lesson I think Bill

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Speaker 2: Walton was given by John Wooden was that wouldn't validated Walton,

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Speaker 2: despite of all his peccadillos. And it's a lesson that

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Speaker 2: Walton truly learned from the coach because if you ever

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Speaker 2: came across Bill Walton, Bill Walton validated you no matter

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Speaker 2: who you were. You see, wouldn't allow Walton to be

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Speaker 2: himself within the structure of his program. He didn't particularly

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Speaker 2: agree with Walton's protests on campus or his view on

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Speaker 2: and says, Bill, I know you feel very strongly about this,

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Speaker 2: but I just don't think that getting arrested, going to

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Speaker 2: all about. But Coach wouldn't dutifully build him out of

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Speaker 2: jail anyway. Bill Waltt later admitted it was maybe the

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Speaker 2: toughest day of his life. Coach wouldn't always found ways

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Speaker 2: to get inside Walton's head and to be an inspiration

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Speaker 2: and just inspire him long long after the partnership ended.

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Speaker 2: In return, Bill Walton dutifully regularly called Coach, wouldn't twice

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Speaker 2: a week until his passing and their conversations were not

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Speaker 2: just small talk. Frankly, they were very heartfelt exchanges.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 2: The great Maya Angelou once said, no one really remembers

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Speaker 2: what you said, no one remembers what you did, but

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Speaker 2: they'll always remember how you made them feel. Of course,

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Speaker 2: Walton's most famous performance the nineteen seventy three NCAA title

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Speaker 2: match UCLA versus Memphis State. Walt was twenty one and

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Speaker 2: twenty two from the field forty four points thirteen rebounds,

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Speaker 2: including four dunks which were disallowed that you didn't know

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Speaker 2: that see the Duncan college basketball was banned from nineteen

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Speaker 2: sixty seven to nineteen seventy six. Had those dunks been allowed,

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Speaker 2: Bill wall would have had fifty two points, but twenty

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Speaker 2: one to twenty two in a dominating performance in a

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Speaker 2: national championship game. And of course, of course coach wouldn't

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Speaker 2: typically typical fashion after the game, said William, how could

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Speaker 2: you miss that shot? But the performance people remember most

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Speaker 2: of the times, they call how Bill Walton made them

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Speaker 2: feel with every interaction. Perhaps Kareem Abdul Jabbar said it best.

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Speaker 2: On the court, Bill was a fierce player, but off

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Speaker 2: the court, Bill Walton wasn't happy until he was doing

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Speaker 2: and of course, the Road to Olmaha begins today. You're

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Speaker 9: All right, Bud, Bernie, I'm doing great, Thanks so much

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Speaker 2: Always a pleasure. Seven walk off home runs today in

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Speaker 2: the first day of the Regionals, Wake Forrest goes down

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Speaker 9: I'm looking at a strong, a very strong SEC conference

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Speaker 9: Without question, you just have to search for them, and Bernie,

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Speaker 9: I didn't bet one game today. However, I did bet

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Speaker 9: That's really what I'm looking for in these regionals. And

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Speaker 2: ever has been. Lou Let's have a little fun. I

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Speaker 9: I think it would be tough, only because they are

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Speaker 9: the University of Arizona, alma mater. After going down to one,

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Speaker 2: Another team. Lou obviously is more known for their basketball prowess,

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Speaker 9: As a number three seed, Bernie, I would be because

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Speaker 9: Yukon is north of the Mason Dixon and so they

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Speaker 2: You bring up an excellent point about north of the

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Speaker 2: Your point is taken a LIUW question for you, So

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Speaker 9: Tennessee and Texas. A and M are the teams that

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Speaker 9: They're the number one rated team. They have history recently

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Speaker 9: There's eleven SEC teams in this field of sixty four.

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Speaker 9: If you're asking me a team that's really a team

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Speaker 2: How about Clemson. Eric Becketch comes over from Michigan, turns

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Speaker 9: I could see that, Bernie. And while I've been talking

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Speaker 10: Virginia and Virginia, so let's not overlook the ACC They

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Speaker 2: So last question for me, Lou. Last year it was

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Speaker 9: I think if you're going to test me like that, Bernie,

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Speaker 9: the regionals I think is the most competitive, and that

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Speaker 2: Lou, you might be spot on. They put up nineteen

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Speaker 2: stuff was always, Lou. We got to get you on

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Speaker 2: later this summer and some of the bigger UFC cards

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Speaker 9: Lou, Thanks so much for the time, Bernie, I really

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll see in a couple weeks. Pa'll look forward

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Speaker 2: the new Father Kevin figures, how's everything, Kevin.

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Speaker 8: Everything is good, Bernie, everything is good.

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Speaker 11: Just trying to trying to sneak in a second of

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Speaker 2: I've been there. You'll get some sleep in a few years.

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Speaker 8: I'm sure. I'm sure.

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Speaker 11: We'll start with Major League Baseball from Friday night. It

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Speaker 11: was capped off, but the Yankees getting a victory in

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Speaker 11: San Francisco six to two over the Giants. Aaron Judge

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Speaker 11: two home runs, this New York's third consecutive victory. The

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Speaker 11: Rockets beat Walker Bueler and the Dodgers in Los Angeles

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Speaker 11: by the score of four to one. Seattle five, Angels

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Speaker 11: four in Anaheim, Christian Yelich with five fits in far

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Speaker 11: five RBI. From Milwaukee, they beat up on the White

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Speaker 11: Sox twelve to five. Shytown a major league worst fifteen

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Speaker 11: and forty three on the season, The Phillies have the

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Speaker 11: best record in the majors at forty and eighteen. They

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Speaker 11: defeated Saint Louis four to two. You had wins for

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Speaker 11: the Red Sox Braves and the Padres, who got twenty

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Speaker 11: three hits in what would be an eleven to eight

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Speaker 11: victory over Kansas City and the Stanley Cuff playoffs. Ryan

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Speaker 11: NuGen Hopkins scored two power play goals, leading Edmonton to

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Speaker 11: a three to one victory over Dallas, giving the Oilers

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Speaker 11: a three to two series lead in the Western Conference Finals.

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Speaker 11: In the NBA, the Sacramento Kings Report gave head coach

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Speaker 11: Mike Brown a three year contract extension back to Bernie Frido.

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Speaker 2: All right, thanks, Kevin, appreciated, Bud. So in case you

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Speaker 2: missed it, the Dallas Mavericks steamrolled the Minnesota Timberwolves Thursday night.

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Speaker 2: They completely ran away. With Game five, they clinched the

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Speaker 2: Western Conference Finals. Final score was one twenty four to

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Speaker 2: one oh three. But the old proverbial cliche that exactly

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Speaker 2: this score. It wasn't. The game wasn't as close as

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Speaker 2: that score indicates. Right, But give it up to Luca.

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Speaker 2: He sparks the blow out effort. He has a twenty

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Speaker 2: point first quarter, never took his foot off the gas.

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Speaker 2: Finished with thirty six points, tennisist, ten rebounds. It was

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Speaker 2: named the Magic Johnson Western Conference Finals MVP, but not

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Speaker 2: to be outdone, his back court mate Kyrie Irving added

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Speaker 2: thirty six points Saturday night on my show, I'm gonna

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Speaker 2: give a much more in depth sort of a look ahead.

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Speaker 2: The series doesn't start till next Thursday, and I'm not

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Speaker 2: going to rag on the NBA. I understand it's a

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Speaker 2: convenient target, but they do this every year. They never

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Speaker 2: start the you know, the NBA Finals till June sixth,

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Speaker 2: June seventh. I remember many years it doesn't until like

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Speaker 2: June twenty and June twenty first. I always remember that

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Speaker 2: because my birthday is June twenty first. Where am I

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Speaker 2: going with this? It's not their fault that, you know,

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Speaker 2: there were a lot of five game sweeps and four

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Speaker 2: game sweeps, and it wasn't necessarily a competitive, robust NBA series.

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Speaker 2: I know that the Lakers will pack themselves in the

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Speaker 2: back roll. Every game was closed. Okay, you got smoked

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Speaker 2: in five, all right, But the bottom line is this.

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Speaker 2: The Finals began Game one in Boston June sixth. Give

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Speaker 2: it up to Luka, the first player in NBA history

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Speaker 2: with at least one hundred and fifty rebounds one hundred

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Speaker 2: and fifty assists and a fifty three pointers in a

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Speaker 2: single postseason. He's he's made the next job mark. He's

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Speaker 2: made fifty fifty three pointers in the playoffs. All right,

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Speaker 2: you know they're drawing comparisons to Larry Bird again. I

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Speaker 2: saw Bird court site. I'm not quite ready to go there.

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Speaker 2: But if you saw Luca's performance Thursday, his ability to

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Speaker 2: single handedly create his own shot off the bounce repeatedly,

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Speaker 2: I don't care if you bang them, bump him, double

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Speaker 2: team him, slam him, Caitlin Clark, whatever you want to do.

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Speaker 2: The guy gets his shot off. He seems to square

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Speaker 2: up his release points the same. And Bird was a

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Speaker 2: little flash here. I know the average human being is

492
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Speaker 2: enamored with people who can run fast and jump high.

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Speaker 2: Luca can't do that, but he can do everything else.

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Speaker 2: And that was Larry Bird as well. And you know,

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Speaker 2: athleticism comes in all shapes and sizes and forms. People

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Speaker 2: are most notably attracted to speed and jumping ability. But

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Speaker 2: if that were the case, why is and Dereck Jones Jr.

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Speaker 2: Doing what Luca is doing? Okay, so give Luca his props,

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Speaker 2: because the truth of the matter is, when it comes

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Speaker 2: to production, when it comes to results, I tell you now,

501
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Speaker 2: he's got to put the cap ra on it. You

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Speaker 2: got to put the capra on it by winning the series.

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Speaker 2: But look, I want a tip of the cap to

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Speaker 2: the Minnesota Timberwolves. It's such a shame how the season ended.

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Speaker 2: One of their most successful, exhilarating seasons in the entire

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Speaker 2: history of the team, which is thirty five years going

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Speaker 2: back to eighty nine. They were very competitive. The first

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Speaker 2: four games completely hammered completely, as Kevin Figures would say,

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Speaker 2: Molly wop I primarily Doncinsonrving. Those two combined for seventy two.

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Speaker 2: Whether it was fatigue or their youth or pressure whatever,

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Speaker 2: the Wolves just didn't seem ready for the moment. And

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Speaker 2: I didn't frankly didn't see that coming. Again. Nice see

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Speaker 2: don Mark Anthony Edwards. They just took him out of

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Speaker 2: his game. They just did Karl Anthony Towns. He missed

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Speaker 2: his first four to three pointers. And you said to yourself,

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Speaker 2: all right, folks, good night, You've been a great audience.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for coming. Uh Because in game let's see, so

518
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Speaker 2: it's a five game series. So Game four, everybody said, well, look, hey,

519
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:14,760
Speaker 2: here we go. Now, All that really happened was that

520
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Speaker 2: the shots that Karl Anthony Towns had been missing the

521
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Speaker 2: first three games started to drop. And even John Wooden

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Speaker 2: once it it's a game of makes Missus Chuck Dailey

523
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Speaker 2: once told me everything looks a lot better when the

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Speaker 2: ball's going through the hoop. And so Karl Anthony Towns

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Speaker 2: either makes his shots or he doesn't. It seemed to

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Speaker 2: be as simple as that. What if Towns had, you know,

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Speaker 2: made three of his first four pointers, Well, what if

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Speaker 2: you're a hoo couyone, she'd be your uncle. It's forget it.

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Speaker 2: Jaden Daniel's got in foul trouble before the seats were warm.

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Speaker 2: Nas Reed picked the worst time, I have his worst

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Speaker 2: game of the season other than that, Missus Lincoln, how

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Speaker 2: is it play? It's something all young teams have to

533
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Speaker 2: go through. Sometimes you have to lose before you win.

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Speaker 2: It's very cliche. We'll see next year if Minnesota understands

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Speaker 2: the gravity of the moment. Truthfully, Luca and Irving have

536
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Speaker 2: been there. They've been there before Irving's won a championship.

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Speaker 2: But give it up to Dallas, boy, They're becoming a story.

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Speaker 2: And I'm gonna get into the Saturday night, they ran

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Speaker 2: a very precise offense and they got the shots they

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Speaker 2: wanted and they made them. Meanwhile, Minnesota was frenetic. They

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Speaker 2: turned the ball over and they allowed the Mavericks to

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Speaker 2: just simply impose their will on them and do whatever

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Speaker 2: they wanted way too easily. So the question is will

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Speaker 2: the t Wolves use the embarrassment of what happened to

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Speaker 2: them Thursday night? Will they find a way to use

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Speaker 2: that as fuel going forward? I will only have one

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Speaker 2: minor criticism about Anthony Edwards. It's like the ward on

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Speaker 2: Lincoln's nose. I hate to go there, but the truth

549
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Speaker 2: of the matter is, when you get to this stage

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Speaker 2: of the season, you played one hundred games, NBA starts

551
00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:57,840
Speaker 2: to become a little like football, meaning that it becomes

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Speaker 2: a game of attrition. What do I mean by that?

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Speaker 2: Anthony Edwards is gonna have to get in a little

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Speaker 2: better shape for the ground of a season that goes

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Speaker 2: his deep Jade McDaniels. He's gonna have to sharpen his

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Speaker 2: defensive skills so he'll stay out of foul trouble. And

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Speaker 2: by the way, he's got to be a better two

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Speaker 2: way player. I would say Carl Anthony Thomas has got

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Speaker 2: all the talent in the world. When the heat's on

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Speaker 2: and it's hard to breathe, he's got to find a

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Speaker 2: way to play a little bit more under control. The

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00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:29,640
Speaker 2: game was never in doubt. The series might have been

563
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Speaker 2: if the Timberwolves would have just stolen one more even

564
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Speaker 2: though we all know no team's ever come back from

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Speaker 2: three to zero. As a matter of fact, the teams

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Speaker 2: that are down three to zero in the history of

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Speaker 2: the NBA, there's only been four times allowed they've forced

568
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Speaker 2: the game seven. But it's all water under the bridge.

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Speaker 2: Now we'll dive more into the matchup between Boston and

570
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Speaker 2: Dallas Saturday night, and we'll get a little bit more

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Speaker 2: into the storylines, not the least of which I expect

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Speaker 2: Kyle Irving to return to a very hostile environment where

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Speaker 2: he left in very unceremonious circlecumstances a few years ago.

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Speaker 2: Coming up, we set up our topic tonight, the midnight hour.

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Speaker 2: We'll have two of them. I think they're both very

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Speaker 2: worthy of what could be some a pretty provocative commentary.

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Speaker 2: Hold that thought, Get ready to dial up eight seven, seven,

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Speaker 2: nine nine sixty six three six nine, because in nineteen

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Speaker 2: minutes here from where I sit in Las Vegas, it

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Speaker 2: will be the midnight hour. It'll be the midnight hour

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Speaker 2: for you as well as it pertains to the Bernie

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Speaker 2: Frattle Show on Bernie Fraddle. We're coming to you live

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Speaker 2: from the Las Vegas Fox Sports Radio tirect dot Com studios.

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Speaker 2: Keep it locked right there. You're listening to the Bernie

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Speaker 2: Fraddle Show on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 1: You don't listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

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Speaker 2: Now we're back on the Bernie Fraddle Show, Fox Sports

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Speaker 2: Radio Company. You live from the Tireck dot Com studios

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Speaker 2: here in Las Vegas, twelve minutes away from the midnight hour.

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Speaker 2: Take your calls eight seven seven nine nine six six

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Speaker 2: three six nine eight seven seven nine to nine one Fox.

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Speaker 2: From where I said here in Las Vegas, it will

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Speaker 2: be the midnight hour. Our colloquially, it will be the

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Speaker 2: minute hour where you're at too, because that's when we

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Speaker 2: take your calls. You may have heard Mike Tyson had

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Speaker 2: a little medical issue on a flare up with apparently

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Speaker 2: ulcer on a plane flight about a week ago, and

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Speaker 2: in the aftermath he was advised by his doctors. Now

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Speaker 2: and in a follow up consultation he had to only

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Speaker 2: do minimum light training over the next few weeks. So therefore,

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Speaker 2: it looks like the fight, the boxing match between Jake

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Speaker 2: Paul and Mike Tyson, which was supposed to go July

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Speaker 2: twentieth at Arlington Stadium Jerry's World, is going to be postponed. Now.

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Speaker 2: We will know a new date by next Friday. So

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Speaker 2: by the next time, by next Friday, when I sign

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Speaker 2: on my show, we should know the new date. I

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Speaker 2: expected to be at least nine backed up, at least

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Speaker 2: ninety days, but there's not a dot in my mind

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Speaker 2: that this fight is going to go on. If you

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Speaker 2: heard Mike Tyson's comments, he said, I want to thank

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Speaker 2: my fans around the world for their support, understanding, blah

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00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:04,279
Speaker 2: blah blah. I'm actually in better shape now than it

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Speaker 2: was in the nineties. Jake Paul, this may have bought

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Speaker 2: you some time, but in the end you'll still be

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00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:12,280
Speaker 2: knocked out. Not a boxing for good. I appreciate everyone's patience.

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Speaker 2: Can't wait to deliver an unforgettable performance later this year.

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Speaker 2: Ah shots fired. Paul wasted no time, said I fully

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Speaker 2: support postponing the event, so Mike Tyson has no excuses

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Speaker 2: come fight night. My fans know I don't want to

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Speaker 2: face iron Mike at anything but his best, but that

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Speaker 2: there'd be no mistake when he steps into the ring

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Speaker 2: with me, Jake Paul said, I will be ready to

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Speaker 2: claim my w with a sensational finish Paul versus Tyson.

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Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to it now. You may not be

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Speaker 2: so when we call in tonight in the midnight hour.

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Speaker 2: I want to get your thoughts. Is the Tyson Paul

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Speaker 2: fight as sham, is this little incident Mike is having

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Speaker 2: with his ulcer a sign from the boxing gods call

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Speaker 2: this damn thing off. You're going to be fifty eight

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Speaker 2: years old. Do you want to see it now more

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Speaker 2: than ever? Is this not change how you were gonna

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Speaker 2: feel you wanted to see it anyway? That's where I weigh.

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Speaker 2: There are multiple angles with which you could share on this,

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00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:12,360
Speaker 2: and I can already tell some people. I can already

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Speaker 2: tell I know where some people are gonna come from.

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Speaker 2: So we want to hear from you, Mike Tyson, Jake

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Speaker 2: Paul is postponed. How you feel about that? You think

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Speaker 2: it never should have been scheduled in the first place.

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Speaker 2: By the way, for what it's worth, Mike Tyson's not

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Speaker 2: competed in a professional box in twenty oh five, has

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Speaker 2: won one since twenty oh three. He did fight Roy

642
00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:40,040
Speaker 2: Jones Junior to a draw in a twenty twenty exhibition.

643
00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:42,839
Speaker 2: Tyson is still one of the greatest of all time.

644
00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:44,800
Speaker 2: I love the guy, man. I've met him a few times.

645
00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:48,319
Speaker 2: He's a very interesting, charismatic guy, and I mean that

646
00:36:48,560 --> 00:36:52,360
Speaker 2: very bright. Man has had quite the life. The second

647
00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:56,799
Speaker 2: subject tonight, should you carry to Will Pine. I don't

648
00:36:56,800 --> 00:36:59,279
Speaker 2: know if Bridget moynihan and Will Smith are coming, but

649
00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:05,279
Speaker 2: the robot are coming. Yes, next year in spring training. Look,

650
00:37:05,280 --> 00:37:07,280
Speaker 2: it's just a matter of time before Major League Baseball

651
00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:10,279
Speaker 2: goes to robots for umpires for at least for you know,

652
00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:15,120
Speaker 2: balls and strikes. Next spring. Rob Manfred announced Wednesday a

653
00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:18,000
Speaker 2: computerized camera system is going to be used to call

654
00:37:18,120 --> 00:37:20,719
Speaker 2: balls and strikes. His coming strength, he says, a cold

655
00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:23,520
Speaker 2: It will be more accurate than a human being standing there. Okay,

656
00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:28,359
Speaker 2: you know, insert your own Angel Hernandez joke right here. Now,

657
00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:31,520
Speaker 2: there's going to be a played umpire standing there as

658
00:37:31,560 --> 00:37:34,040
Speaker 2: a prop. He's going to be equipped with an ear piece.

659
00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:37,279
Speaker 2: He'll actually be crotched behind on plate. He'll single ball

660
00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:39,840
Speaker 2: or strike as soon as the camera system signals to

661
00:37:39,920 --> 00:37:42,320
Speaker 2: him whether or not it was a ball or strike.

662
00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:45,320
Speaker 2: And by the way, they're trying out the robot umpires

663
00:37:45,320 --> 00:37:48,799
Speaker 2: in some minor league games this season. Manfred went on

664
00:37:48,880 --> 00:37:51,120
Speaker 2: to say, we believe over the long haul, it's going

665
00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:53,680
Speaker 2: to be more accurate. It will reduce controversy in the

666
00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:55,480
Speaker 2: game and be good for the game. I'm not buying it.

667
00:37:55,920 --> 00:37:57,600
Speaker 2: I'll tell you my opinion right now, and we want

668
00:37:57,640 --> 00:37:59,839
Speaker 2: to hear yours. Do you like this? Is it an

669
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:02,319
Speaker 2: idea whose time has come? Have you had it with

670
00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:05,799
Speaker 2: the injured Hernandouz bad calls? Or is this? Come on, man,

671
00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:08,560
Speaker 2: this is baseball now, we knock it off. All the

672
00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:11,520
Speaker 2: other sports have gone electronic. We don't need to do that.

673
00:38:12,080 --> 00:38:15,879
Speaker 2: I hate it, Okay. I played at a high enough

674
00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:19,480
Speaker 2: level as a catcher to understand. You learn umpire tendencies.

675
00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:23,880
Speaker 2: Typically a fat ump doesn't see the low ball. True story,

676
00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:28,440
Speaker 2: it's all about visual Some umpires set up, uh you know,

677
00:38:28,920 --> 00:38:31,239
Speaker 2: let's pretend you're a catcher and you're receiving the ball.

678
00:38:32,000 --> 00:38:34,400
Speaker 2: Some umpires will set up to your left on the

679
00:38:34,440 --> 00:38:37,440
Speaker 2: inside of the back, inside of the you know, the

680
00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:40,600
Speaker 2: overall situation so he's looking at the plate from an

681
00:38:40,600 --> 00:38:43,520
Speaker 2: inside angle. Others set up over the outside of the plate,

682
00:38:43,960 --> 00:38:46,759
Speaker 2: Others set up over the top of the plate. Some

683
00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:51,359
Speaker 2: some umpires use full blown chess protectors, others don't. They

684
00:38:51,440 --> 00:38:56,120
Speaker 2: use the internal one. You if you understand umpires tendencies,

685
00:38:56,160 --> 00:38:59,319
Speaker 2: you might be able to understand the pitches. By the way,

686
00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:02,360
Speaker 2: some empires have a strike zone from nose to toes.

687
00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:04,960
Speaker 2: Other will pinch your player. And by the way, in

688
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:10,759
Speaker 2: the playoffs, the strike zone shrinks. Why because you can't

689
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:13,360
Speaker 2: out finance it. They're gonna force you to pitch the contact.

690
00:39:13,520 --> 00:39:17,200
Speaker 2: And that's why pitching always prevails in the playoffs. Power pitching. Finally,

691
00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:21,239
Speaker 2: the art form of framing a baseball and helping your

692
00:39:21,280 --> 00:39:23,359
Speaker 2: pitcher out. You're not gonna be able to do that

693
00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:25,600
Speaker 2: with a robot. So I don't like it. I don't

694
00:39:25,680 --> 00:39:27,680
Speaker 2: like too much of the human factor leaving the game.

695
00:39:27,719 --> 00:39:30,239
Speaker 2: So we have two topics tonight on the midnight hour,

696
00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:33,920
Speaker 2: the Tyson Paul Fights postpone. Is this a sign from

697
00:39:33,920 --> 00:39:36,160
Speaker 2: the gods? Maybe it should be canceled you how do

698
00:39:36,160 --> 00:39:38,399
Speaker 2: you feel about that? And how do you feel about

699
00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:42,759
Speaker 2: robot umpires coming to Major League Baseball? It's just a

700
00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:44,759
Speaker 2: matter of time. They're doing in the minor leagues now

701
00:39:44,800 --> 00:39:46,360
Speaker 2: and oh, by the way, they're gonna do it in

702
00:39:46,360 --> 00:39:48,680
Speaker 2: spring training next year. We want to hear from you.

703
00:39:48,719 --> 00:39:51,279
Speaker 2: Eight seven seven nine, nine six six three sixty nine

704
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Speaker 2: eight seven, seven, nine to nine on Fox. The callers

705
00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:57,080
Speaker 2: have been sensational since we started at the beginning of

706
00:39:57,080 --> 00:40:00,680
Speaker 2: the year. So keep a lock the midnight hours upon us.

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Speaker 2: to everybody. We're gonna get to the crew. We've got

718
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Speaker 2: two subjects this week. Eight seven seven nine nine sixty

719
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Speaker 2: six three sixty nine of course, the Jake Paul Mike

720
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Speaker 2: Tyson fight's been postponed. What's your thoughts on that? Robot

721
00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:52,600
Speaker 2: umpires yes or no? Yep, it's time. It's tomit that hour.

722
00:41:02,760 --> 00:41:05,279
Speaker 2: We wait, We waste no time. We head straight to

723
00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:09,800
Speaker 2: the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Jim joins this. Jim, how are you, buddy?

724
00:41:10,320 --> 00:41:12,239
Speaker 3: Hey? What's going on? Burning? My man?

725
00:41:13,320 --> 00:41:15,160
Speaker 2: So I'm looking forward to what you got that You

726
00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:16,840
Speaker 2: want to weigh in on both subjects or do you

727
00:41:16,880 --> 00:41:18,120
Speaker 2: have an opinion? What are your thoughts?

728
00:41:18,480 --> 00:41:18,680
Speaker 4: Oh?

729
00:41:18,800 --> 00:41:21,120
Speaker 12: My, two things they want to talk about. One one

730
00:41:21,239 --> 00:41:24,800
Speaker 12: is about Tyson and just a comment about Walton Titan.

731
00:41:25,440 --> 00:41:28,000
Speaker 12: You know, I think he ought to just let it go.

732
00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:30,839
Speaker 12: He's fifty eight years old, he's got nothing left to prove.

733
00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:34,200
Speaker 12: But it's just, you know, it's just the competitiveness in

734
00:41:34,280 --> 00:41:35,359
Speaker 12: them and stuff like that.

735
00:41:35,400 --> 00:41:37,080
Speaker 3: I just hope he doesn't get hurright.

736
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Speaker 13: You know.

737
00:41:37,960 --> 00:41:42,680
Speaker 2: So, yeah, he's he's got certain instincts that will never

738
00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:45,480
Speaker 2: leave him. We just don't know. I didn't think he

739
00:41:45,560 --> 00:41:48,600
Speaker 2: looked great twenty years ago, but let's you know, it'll

740
00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:50,399
Speaker 2: be a bit of a spectacle. But I would never

741
00:41:50,480 --> 00:41:52,239
Speaker 2: disavow to you guys get in the ring. I know

742
00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:55,480
Speaker 2: what that's like. So and he had the thoughts tonight, Jim.

743
00:41:55,680 --> 00:41:57,799
Speaker 12: Yeah, I just want one on Walt. You know, I

744
00:41:57,880 --> 00:42:00,879
Speaker 12: feel so bad about that. I'm only only four years

745
00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:03,120
Speaker 12: younger than him, so, you know, everybody that I liked

746
00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:05,200
Speaker 12: in sports and everything.

747
00:42:04,200 --> 00:42:05,640
Speaker 2: Is dropping around me.

748
00:42:05,719 --> 00:42:09,799
Speaker 12: Makes me wonder about my own inability. But the thing

749
00:42:09,840 --> 00:42:14,359
Speaker 12: about Walton, one story about him was he shows up

750
00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:17,040
Speaker 12: in Boston and all of a sudden there's a ring

751
00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:20,319
Speaker 12: at the doorbell and Robert Parrish answers his door and

752
00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:22,960
Speaker 12: there's Walton at his door, and he didn't know how

753
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:25,239
Speaker 12: he found him. Whatever he was, he said, Hey, talk

754
00:42:25,239 --> 00:42:27,759
Speaker 12: to you for a few minutes. And he goes, yeah, yeah,

755
00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:30,360
Speaker 12: come on, He goes, listen, I'm here. I'm here to

756
00:42:30,400 --> 00:42:33,319
Speaker 12: play to help you guys want a championship. You know,

757
00:42:33,360 --> 00:42:35,240
Speaker 12: I don't want to step on anybody's toes.

758
00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:36,719
Speaker 14: And here's a.

759
00:42:36,680 --> 00:42:40,399
Speaker 12: Future Hall of Famer, you know, showing up saying, hey,

760
00:42:40,440 --> 00:42:42,680
Speaker 12: I just want to help you guys. I mean, you

761
00:42:42,680 --> 00:42:45,239
Speaker 12: don't see that now in the league. You know, you've

762
00:42:45,320 --> 00:42:47,919
Speaker 12: never seen that from any of these guys in any sport, now,

763
00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:50,000
Speaker 12: you know. I mean, that's just the type of guy

764
00:42:50,040 --> 00:42:53,160
Speaker 12: he was, and you know, Parish really respected him for that.

765
00:42:53,280 --> 00:42:56,920
Speaker 12: And you know, the sad thing about him going to

766
00:42:56,960 --> 00:43:00,160
Speaker 12: the Celtics was the reason the Celtics got him is

767
00:43:00,160 --> 00:43:04,000
Speaker 12: because they were gearing up to play the Lakers, and

768
00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:07,880
Speaker 12: the Lakers lost to Houston with that Ralph Sanson's stupid

769
00:43:07,880 --> 00:43:08,680
Speaker 12: little hook shot.

770
00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:11,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, it bounced around nine times on the rim, and ye,

771
00:43:11,840 --> 00:43:12,560
Speaker 2: it ruined.

772
00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:15,440
Speaker 12: It ruined everything. But can you imagine if they met

773
00:43:15,560 --> 00:43:17,600
Speaker 12: in the Celtic one and each of them had had

774
00:43:17,840 --> 00:43:20,640
Speaker 12: two wins a piece against each other and going into

775
00:43:20,680 --> 00:43:21,360
Speaker 12: the next series.

776
00:43:21,760 --> 00:43:25,800
Speaker 2: Well, I'm glad you saw Walton okay, and I'm guessing

777
00:43:25,840 --> 00:43:28,759
Speaker 2: you remember his days in Portland. Tell the people I'm

778
00:43:28,800 --> 00:43:31,240
Speaker 2: not far off. He was Jokic before he was Jokic,

779
00:43:32,160 --> 00:43:33,279
Speaker 2: Yes he was.

780
00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:36,000
Speaker 12: And the poor thing about the guy he just had

781
00:43:36,520 --> 00:43:39,359
Speaker 12: he just had bum ankles and bump feet. I mean,

782
00:43:39,960 --> 00:43:43,080
Speaker 12: as great as Bobby Oh wasn't bad thing about him

783
00:43:43,160 --> 00:43:44,839
Speaker 12: is he had bum kneed. I mean he only let

784
00:43:44,880 --> 00:43:47,480
Speaker 12: did eight years to do all that he did, and

785
00:43:47,520 --> 00:43:50,200
Speaker 12: he only he only played eight years. You know, if

786
00:43:50,239 --> 00:43:52,200
Speaker 12: you need your help, if you got your health, you're good.

787
00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:54,040
Speaker 12: If you're not, you got to make the best of it.

788
00:43:54,080 --> 00:43:56,879
Speaker 12: While you're there, and he surely did. You know, God

789
00:43:56,920 --> 00:43:59,439
Speaker 12: bless him rest in peace, you know, Thanks again, Jim.

790
00:43:59,520 --> 00:44:04,480
Speaker 2: See you next week. Thirty nine surgeries Bill and Jacksonville

791
00:44:04,520 --> 00:44:06,319
Speaker 2: is up next to Good evening, Bill, Good morning, Bill,

792
00:44:06,360 --> 00:44:08,000
Speaker 2: wherever your thoughts maybe.

793
00:44:07,680 --> 00:44:13,640
Speaker 3: How are you good evening, gentleman, old school baseball guys

794
00:44:13,640 --> 00:44:16,759
Speaker 3: seventy four years old. But I played for twenty five

795
00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:20,520
Speaker 3: years Miami Dade South for doctor Charlie Green. Also twenty

796
00:44:20,520 --> 00:44:22,600
Speaker 3: five years in a semi pro league in New Jersey.

797
00:44:22,640 --> 00:44:25,000
Speaker 3: I'm old school. I don't like all these other changes

798
00:44:25,040 --> 00:44:28,480
Speaker 3: that have come about. But my gut feeling is as

799
00:44:28,560 --> 00:44:33,959
Speaker 3: robot umpires do, and the main reason is the late

800
00:44:34,040 --> 00:44:39,040
Speaker 3: movement and the speed the pitchers have nowadays. Okay, if

801
00:44:39,040 --> 00:44:42,360
Speaker 3: you set up on the inside the outside corners blind

802
00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:44,239
Speaker 3: to Tea in the Late movie, yes you're out of

803
00:44:44,280 --> 00:44:45,040
Speaker 3: the strike zone.

804
00:44:45,200 --> 00:44:48,200
Speaker 2: Hold that thought, Bill, stay of the line. That to

805
00:44:48,320 --> 00:44:50,879
Speaker 2: me is the reason I don't want things to change,

806
00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:55,200
Speaker 2: because if you've done your homework and you know mPire tendencies,

807
00:44:55,719 --> 00:44:58,719
Speaker 2: you craft your game plan around that. Continue on.

808
00:45:00,640 --> 00:45:03,680
Speaker 3: Okay, but that's the main problem years ago with these

809
00:45:03,760 --> 00:45:06,480
Speaker 3: umpires that say, well that's my strike zone. That's always

810
00:45:06,480 --> 00:45:08,759
Speaker 3: been a bunch of malooney to me. Okay, the strike

811
00:45:08,880 --> 00:45:12,560
Speaker 3: zone is a strike zone, and it's too difficult for

812
00:45:12,640 --> 00:45:16,000
Speaker 3: these umpires to see this late movement, whether it's down

813
00:45:16,520 --> 00:45:19,319
Speaker 3: or outside or anything else. And I don't I don't

814
00:45:19,360 --> 00:45:21,759
Speaker 3: like all changes. I'm old school, like I told you,

815
00:45:22,040 --> 00:45:26,040
Speaker 3: But in this case, it's good. How many years would

816
00:45:26,040 --> 00:45:28,839
Speaker 3: it like not to have seen Angel Hernandez or these

817
00:45:28,840 --> 00:45:32,120
Speaker 3: other umpires that thought they had their strike zone? I

818
00:45:32,200 --> 00:45:35,759
Speaker 3: hated that I pitched. I couldn't stand these umpires that

819
00:45:35,880 --> 00:45:38,680
Speaker 3: kept saying, well, that's my strike zone. Or how about

820
00:45:38,719 --> 00:45:41,279
Speaker 3: the World Series with the Florida Marlins with that one

821
00:45:41,440 --> 00:45:47,120
Speaker 3: umpire was that was a joke. That was a complete joke. Okay.

822
00:45:47,400 --> 00:45:51,279
Speaker 3: And now as long as it's accurate, I gotta say

823
00:45:51,280 --> 00:45:55,440
Speaker 3: that ten times it's accurate. I'm for it.

824
00:45:55,520 --> 00:45:58,160
Speaker 2: Good stuff, Bill, an outstanding opinion. Nine. I think you

825
00:45:58,200 --> 00:46:01,640
Speaker 2: made your case quite well. I'll talk to you next time.

826
00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:03,879
Speaker 2: Jerome and Charleston, how are you, my friend?

827
00:46:05,080 --> 00:46:06,000
Speaker 3: You can never.

828
00:46:06,200 --> 00:46:10,040
Speaker 15: Lose the human element. Okay, It's always gonna be there.

829
00:46:10,320 --> 00:46:14,840
Speaker 15: It's always gonna be needed right, wrong or wronger. Okay,

830
00:46:15,040 --> 00:46:18,680
Speaker 15: And by the way, i'd like to bring that robotic

831
00:46:18,760 --> 00:46:22,640
Speaker 15: stuff to the NBA because it drives me much.

832
00:46:23,280 --> 00:46:24,120
Speaker 16: Okay, what to know?

833
00:46:24,360 --> 00:46:26,160
Speaker 12: Call hey, Anthony.

834
00:46:25,719 --> 00:46:29,320
Speaker 15: Ammers got realized. You will not have a arrived until

835
00:46:29,360 --> 00:46:32,839
Speaker 15: you get the call Dotte gets because Adam Solber I

836
00:46:32,840 --> 00:46:36,279
Speaker 15: got a water for the Telviics. Adam Solber is not

837
00:46:36,320 --> 00:46:41,000
Speaker 15: gonna let you got dotage under no circumstances. And when

838
00:46:41,080 --> 00:46:45,080
Speaker 15: he's on it makes it even more difficult. So get ready,

839
00:46:45,120 --> 00:46:49,000
Speaker 15: Boston because that's coming. But you got four games left?

840
00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:50,200
Speaker 9: You what you got?

841
00:46:51,560 --> 00:46:54,880
Speaker 2: All right? Jerome, good stuff, my man, good stuff. So

842
00:46:55,560 --> 00:46:58,480
Speaker 2: Bill wants the robots. Jerome likes the human element, and

843
00:46:58,800 --> 00:47:01,839
Speaker 2: that's why we do this. Man, the callers are great

844
00:47:01,880 --> 00:47:04,200
Speaker 2: eight seven, seven, nine nine. On Fox, we have a

845
00:47:04,239 --> 00:47:07,799
Speaker 2: situation where the most boring conversations are the one where

846
00:47:07,840 --> 00:47:13,680
Speaker 2: everybody agrees. My man spoxweed in Oregon. I gotta tell you,

847
00:47:13,840 --> 00:47:16,440
Speaker 2: I'm guessing you don't chug a Ryan of Konnak. You

848
00:47:16,520 --> 00:47:17,680
Speaker 2: drink it slow, am I right?

849
00:47:18,760 --> 00:47:22,480
Speaker 4: Oh absolutely, that's I'm still sipping on my cocktail. I

850
00:47:23,280 --> 00:47:25,680
Speaker 4: can't even have a cigar with it. It's it's powerful,

851
00:47:25,719 --> 00:47:27,719
Speaker 4: and you you do don't want to fool around with

852
00:47:27,760 --> 00:47:28,120
Speaker 4: this thing.

853
00:47:28,840 --> 00:47:30,920
Speaker 2: I mean, you drink Kgnac kind of a sniffer. What

854
00:47:30,920 --> 00:47:32,880
Speaker 2: do you pour this damn thing in a red cup?

855
00:47:33,880 --> 00:47:35,720
Speaker 4: Well, I posted a picture.

856
00:47:35,760 --> 00:47:37,360
Speaker 12: It is a it is a I know, I'm.

857
00:47:37,160 --> 00:47:39,320
Speaker 2: Giving you a chance to tell the world, my friend.

858
00:47:39,600 --> 00:47:42,719
Speaker 4: Oh, it is in an old fashioned glass and it

859
00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:45,360
Speaker 4: has a two inch by two inch square ice cube,

860
00:47:45,880 --> 00:47:49,239
Speaker 4: which is what Vuka actually translates.

861
00:47:49,239 --> 00:47:51,520
Speaker 2: That's the thing these days, the big Yeah, that big

862
00:47:51,560 --> 00:47:54,040
Speaker 2: ice cube. That's that's the new new val reach thing

863
00:47:54,080 --> 00:47:54,480
Speaker 2: these days.

864
00:47:54,520 --> 00:47:58,640
Speaker 4: Go ahead, absolutely, and that's what the Old Square was called,

865
00:47:58,640 --> 00:48:00,800
Speaker 4: the Old Square before it was called the French Quarter.

866
00:48:02,840 --> 00:48:04,360
Speaker 4: All right, a little history there.

867
00:48:04,600 --> 00:48:07,000
Speaker 2: So what do you understand on either Jake Paul or

868
00:48:07,080 --> 00:48:07,960
Speaker 2: robot umpires?

869
00:48:08,560 --> 00:48:12,359
Speaker 4: All right, So with with robot umpires, I mean I understand,

870
00:48:12,640 --> 00:48:18,359
Speaker 4: but you know, everybody wants accuracy, accuracy, accuracy. We don't

871
00:48:18,480 --> 00:48:21,240
Speaker 4: know what the real deal is. I understand the human element.

872
00:48:21,800 --> 00:48:25,319
Speaker 4: It's it's it's it's a bit of a bygone era.

873
00:48:25,480 --> 00:48:27,520
Speaker 4: I you know, I get the old school. But you know,

874
00:48:27,560 --> 00:48:31,240
Speaker 4: when somebody is going to win the World Series and

875
00:48:31,280 --> 00:48:34,160
Speaker 4: you've got an empire that can't quite figure out what

876
00:48:34,160 --> 00:48:37,880
Speaker 4: his own strike zone might be, you know, it makes

877
00:48:37,880 --> 00:48:43,000
Speaker 4: it standard for everyone and that's that's the deal, and

878
00:48:43,040 --> 00:48:46,839
Speaker 4: we've got the technology to dig it. I don't know

879
00:48:46,880 --> 00:48:52,239
Speaker 4: what why why I said that. But also Tyson, if

880
00:48:52,239 --> 00:48:55,960
Speaker 4: he's truly sick, I mean, I'm sure he is, I'm

881
00:48:56,239 --> 00:48:59,719
Speaker 4: happy to have him take a breather. And if the

882
00:49:00,000 --> 00:49:02,120
Speaker 4: ownert is willing to do that, I think the spectacle

883
00:49:02,239 --> 00:49:05,000
Speaker 4: is just the men tremendous. Yeah, I would love to

884
00:49:05,000 --> 00:49:08,840
Speaker 4: see Tyson fight at sixty. I'm very close to that myself.

885
00:49:09,200 --> 00:49:11,520
Speaker 14: So well, I think I think.

886
00:49:11,440 --> 00:49:13,480
Speaker 2: It's going to be delayed about ninety days. It's just

887
00:49:13,520 --> 00:49:16,000
Speaker 2: that with his ulcer, the doctor says he can't keep

888
00:49:16,040 --> 00:49:19,520
Speaker 2: the same training regimen, so he's not gonna get ready. Yeah,

889
00:49:19,560 --> 00:49:21,239
Speaker 2: so go ahead if you would. So you still want

890
00:49:21,280 --> 00:49:22,120
Speaker 2: to see the fight.

891
00:49:22,520 --> 00:49:23,439
Speaker 3: Oh absolutely.

892
00:49:23,840 --> 00:49:26,000
Speaker 4: His opponent is being very gracious and he's not going

893
00:49:26,080 --> 00:49:28,480
Speaker 4: to declare victory before you know. Hey, I'm going to

894
00:49:28,520 --> 00:49:30,239
Speaker 4: fight a cripple to make sure that I'm going to win.

895
00:49:30,360 --> 00:49:33,359
Speaker 4: That's that's that's idiotic. And he's a stand up guy.

896
00:49:33,440 --> 00:49:36,880
Speaker 4: I think that's just terrific. So I do have a

897
00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:40,640
Speaker 4: couple of memories of Bill Walton. It's allowed, all right, then,

898
00:49:40,880 --> 00:49:44,960
Speaker 4: So the first one is during during the game the

899
00:49:45,280 --> 00:49:49,160
Speaker 4: game that they want to win the championship. We were

900
00:49:49,280 --> 00:49:51,920
Speaker 4: we were at home, my parents and I and a

901
00:49:51,920 --> 00:49:54,399
Speaker 4: couple of people and my my siblings who had three

902
00:49:54,440 --> 00:49:57,680
Speaker 4: siblings graduating from high school in downtown Portland, and we

903
00:49:57,760 --> 00:50:00,919
Speaker 4: waited until the game was over before we even bother

904
00:50:01,080 --> 00:50:03,399
Speaker 4: to actually go downtown. And they may have gone over

905
00:50:03,520 --> 00:50:07,200
Speaker 4: the thing, or they may have walked across the stage.

906
00:50:07,239 --> 00:50:11,200
Speaker 4: We didn't care. And there was all kinds of updates

907
00:50:11,320 --> 00:50:16,880
Speaker 4: during that particular graduation and then in me I'm twelve

908
00:50:16,920 --> 00:50:20,799
Speaker 4: at that time, and during the Bridge victory parade, I

909
00:50:20,880 --> 00:50:23,960
Speaker 4: had a little skull and crossbones plastic flag I bought,

910
00:50:23,960 --> 00:50:27,360
Speaker 4: and I put a thing called Philadelphia death flag on

911
00:50:27,400 --> 00:50:30,719
Speaker 4: the bottom. And Bill Walton he saw, he saw me,

912
00:50:30,800 --> 00:50:33,680
Speaker 4: He saw it. He lifted it up, he showed it

913
00:50:33,719 --> 00:50:36,799
Speaker 4: to everybody for a few seconds, he signed it and

914
00:50:36,840 --> 00:50:40,080
Speaker 4: made sure that got back to me. That's that's amazing.

915
00:50:40,960 --> 00:50:43,680
Speaker 2: And I got to say that Portland team, they fell back,

916
00:50:43,760 --> 00:50:47,520
Speaker 2: they fell behind two zip. That was a great Philadelphia team.

917
00:50:47,520 --> 00:50:50,280
Speaker 2: And the way that Portland came back, And as you remember,

918
00:50:50,320 --> 00:50:53,640
Speaker 2: coach Jack Ramsey, he was completely emotional about the importance

919
00:50:53,640 --> 00:50:55,000
Speaker 2: and impact that Bill Walton had.

920
00:50:55,680 --> 00:50:57,800
Speaker 4: Oh absolutely if Philadelphia had the best.

921
00:50:57,640 --> 00:50:59,839
Speaker 1: Team money could buy, it did time they did?

922
00:51:01,040 --> 00:51:01,319
Speaker 12: You know?

923
00:51:01,920 --> 00:51:04,200
Speaker 9: But hey, man, who loves your baby?

924
00:51:04,520 --> 00:51:08,120
Speaker 4: A little Tilly Savalis reference and you keep going, baby,

925
00:51:08,160 --> 00:51:09,240
Speaker 4: I love your show.

926
00:51:09,480 --> 00:51:12,680
Speaker 2: Thanks Bock, appreciate you man. Put the put the lollipop

927
00:51:12,719 --> 00:51:17,760
Speaker 2: in with your drink to pay the homage to Telly Savalis.

928
00:51:18,120 --> 00:51:21,480
Speaker 2: You're all getting in the night bj Poppy Tiger Man

929
00:51:21,480 --> 00:51:24,120
Speaker 2: in Utah. You're all up next eight seven, seven ninety

930
00:51:24,160 --> 00:51:26,279
Speaker 2: nine on Fox. We're just getting started at the midnight hour.

931
00:51:26,680 --> 00:51:29,240
Speaker 2: Jake Paul vers with Mike Tyson. Your thoughts. It got delayed,

932
00:51:29,600 --> 00:51:33,280
Speaker 2: robot umpires. I hate it, some people like it. We'll see.

933
00:51:33,719 --> 00:51:36,799
Speaker 2: I don't you know. It removes the human element. But

934
00:51:36,880 --> 00:51:40,719
Speaker 2: as we've seen in the NFL, has replay really removed

935
00:51:40,760 --> 00:51:43,600
Speaker 2: removed the human element or made the human element worse.

936
00:51:44,120 --> 00:51:46,399
Speaker 2: I'm Bernie Fraddlewerck coming to line from Las Vegas, Fox

937
00:51:46,440 --> 00:51:48,960
Speaker 2: Sports Radio, tirect dot Com studios. Keep it locked right here.

938
00:51:49,040 --> 00:51:52,960
Speaker 2: It's the Bernie Fraddle Show, Fox Sports Radio. All right,

939
00:51:53,000 --> 00:51:55,359
Speaker 2: back on the Bernie Frattle Show, Fox Sports Radio. Come

940
00:51:55,400 --> 00:51:58,080
Speaker 2: to life from the Tiret dot Com studios here in

941
00:51:58,400 --> 00:52:00,920
Speaker 2: Las Vegas. Just getting rolling on the midnight hour. From

942
00:52:00,920 --> 00:52:02,759
Speaker 2: where I sit here in Las Vegas, it is the

943
00:52:02,760 --> 00:52:06,120
Speaker 2: midnight hour from where you sit around the world. We

944
00:52:06,200 --> 00:52:08,759
Speaker 2: take their calls during the midnight hour. Eight seven, seven

945
00:52:08,840 --> 00:52:12,280
Speaker 2: nine ninety six six three six nine. Jake Paul versus

946
00:52:12,320 --> 00:52:16,200
Speaker 2: Mike Tyson, Your thoughts and that deal robot umpires? Yes

947
00:52:16,600 --> 00:52:20,239
Speaker 2: or no? PJ and Las Vegas is up next. Thanks

948
00:52:20,239 --> 00:52:24,000
Speaker 2: for hanging on, Bud. What's up, hey man.

949
00:52:24,719 --> 00:52:28,960
Speaker 17: My opinion on the umpires is that like analytics, they

950
00:52:29,080 --> 00:52:32,239
Speaker 17: like kill baseball, and so it's like the same thing.

951
00:52:32,320 --> 00:52:34,799
Speaker 17: You're gonna have the data on all those pitchers, on

952
00:52:34,880 --> 00:52:38,160
Speaker 17: the real true strikes and balls, and it's just gonna

953
00:52:38,200 --> 00:52:41,000
Speaker 17: make the game more boring. You need what all the

954
00:52:41,040 --> 00:52:44,359
Speaker 17: stuff you were talking about. People want the small ball,

955
00:52:44,440 --> 00:52:48,120
Speaker 17: they want the mind game of baseball, and it's just

956
00:52:48,200 --> 00:52:50,960
Speaker 17: gonna put more data into the game and that's not

957
00:52:51,040 --> 00:52:51,759
Speaker 17: what people want.

958
00:52:52,840 --> 00:52:55,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just not for it. I think it's gonna

959
00:52:56,000 --> 00:53:00,560
Speaker 2: have a unattended consequence and I'm not sure yet what

960
00:53:00,600 --> 00:53:02,680
Speaker 2: it is. We'll have to wait and see. They're trying

961
00:53:02,719 --> 00:53:05,160
Speaker 2: it in the minor leagues now. Anything on Tyson versus

962
00:53:05,280 --> 00:53:05,719
Speaker 2: Jake Paul.

963
00:53:07,680 --> 00:53:12,160
Speaker 17: I want to say Tyson. He has done over four

964
00:53:12,239 --> 00:53:15,560
Speaker 17: grams of mushroom and train for boxing for six hours.

965
00:53:15,600 --> 00:53:19,360
Speaker 17: The guy is from another planet. Like the heroic dose

966
00:53:19,480 --> 00:53:22,800
Speaker 17: is five and a half gramds. This guy is training boxing,

967
00:53:22,920 --> 00:53:27,480
Speaker 17: caking mushrooms. So I would never make my Mike Tyson

968
00:53:27,600 --> 00:53:27,960
Speaker 17: at all.

969
00:53:28,160 --> 00:53:29,759
Speaker 2: Well, fair enough, So so you want to see the

970
00:53:29,800 --> 00:53:32,680
Speaker 2: fight then, right, I want.

971
00:53:32,520 --> 00:53:33,200
Speaker 3: To see the fight.

972
00:53:33,400 --> 00:53:36,360
Speaker 17: That guy he's got, he's got what it takes.

973
00:53:36,920 --> 00:53:41,120
Speaker 2: All right, good stuff, appreciate it, PJ. Catch you next time. Uh,

974
00:53:41,280 --> 00:53:44,240
Speaker 2: Poppy in San Diego, look out here, cub your potteries

975
00:53:44,320 --> 00:53:45,719
Speaker 2: or they could figure out a way to win at home.

976
00:53:46,640 --> 00:53:49,960
Speaker 18: Yeah yeah, Bertie, well welcome back.

977
00:53:50,040 --> 00:53:51,200
Speaker 16: You know, it's good to have you.

978
00:53:51,719 --> 00:53:54,480
Speaker 18: And uh, thanks for hiving started from England and I

979
00:53:54,520 --> 00:53:56,200
Speaker 18: was gonna say if I could share a quick story

980
00:53:56,200 --> 00:53:59,080
Speaker 18: about Bill Walton. I actually have the I actually had

981
00:53:59,120 --> 00:54:01,120
Speaker 18: the privilege of meeting of them San Diego. Jinger stay up.

982
00:54:01,280 --> 00:54:03,439
Speaker 18: And when I was working in La as an actor

983
00:54:03,480 --> 00:54:06,160
Speaker 18: as a background, we finished doing the scene he had

984
00:54:06,200 --> 00:54:07,760
Speaker 18: to do a big scene. It was his spork scene

985
00:54:07,760 --> 00:54:09,920
Speaker 18: and there was someone with the flirters. It was a

986
00:54:09,920 --> 00:54:12,799
Speaker 18: big a lot of athletes right in the background. And

987
00:54:12,840 --> 00:54:15,200
Speaker 18: when he was done doing a scene. I was like,

988
00:54:15,200 --> 00:54:16,759
Speaker 18: this is my chance, now or never. And then a

989
00:54:16,800 --> 00:54:19,359
Speaker 18: bunch of background went with them, and Bill Walton took

990
00:54:19,400 --> 00:54:22,239
Speaker 18: time to talk to everyone. And when I talked to him,

991
00:54:22,280 --> 00:54:24,080
Speaker 18: I said, Hey, Bill Waltson, you still live in San

992
00:54:24,120 --> 00:54:25,960
Speaker 18: Diego And He's like, yes, I live in San Diego

993
00:54:26,000 --> 00:54:28,480
Speaker 18: and I was like, yeah, from San Diego to Bill Walston,

994
00:54:28,520 --> 00:54:31,160
Speaker 18: and he had so much positive things to say about

995
00:54:31,760 --> 00:54:34,920
Speaker 18: San Diego. And he was talking about his coach from

996
00:54:35,040 --> 00:54:37,759
Speaker 18: UCLA as his man story, how he approached them, and

997
00:54:37,800 --> 00:54:40,440
Speaker 18: he just wanted to see everyone happy. He signed a

998
00:54:40,480 --> 00:54:43,239
Speaker 18: couple of autographs people that had their books, and he

999
00:54:43,320 --> 00:54:44,880
Speaker 18: took a picture with me, and the whole time I

1000
00:54:44,960 --> 00:54:47,680
Speaker 18: was looking up like he's like over a steet taller

1001
00:54:47,680 --> 00:54:49,760
Speaker 18: than me, and I was just still happy and honored

1002
00:54:49,760 --> 00:54:50,120
Speaker 18: as Steve.

1003
00:54:50,160 --> 00:54:52,160
Speaker 3: Bill Walton was a great guy.

1004
00:54:52,400 --> 00:54:56,160
Speaker 2: Which is the story here. Over and over he validated

1005
00:54:56,200 --> 00:54:59,400
Speaker 2: everybody anything on Jake Paul Tyson.

1006
00:55:00,280 --> 00:55:03,400
Speaker 18: Yeah, Jake Paul Tidson. You know I think that fight, uh,

1007
00:55:03,600 --> 00:55:05,759
Speaker 18: it's you know, it's the money making a fight. And

1008
00:55:05,800 --> 00:55:07,919
Speaker 18: I think you know Jake Paon tax and they're good,

1009
00:55:08,120 --> 00:55:09,960
Speaker 18: they're good friends and they have it. It was like

1010
00:55:10,000 --> 00:55:12,120
Speaker 18: all scripted, and I think it will happen. To fight

1011
00:55:12,360 --> 00:55:13,279
Speaker 18: Ellenture will happen.

1012
00:55:13,360 --> 00:55:14,040
Speaker 2: I believe it will.

1013
00:55:14,800 --> 00:55:15,640
Speaker 3: Yeah.

1014
00:55:15,680 --> 00:55:18,960
Speaker 18: And on the rest the Empire. I mean, I'm not

1015
00:55:19,000 --> 00:55:21,680
Speaker 18: a I love baseball, play, the MLB, the show, but.

1016
00:55:21,920 --> 00:55:22,839
Speaker 12: You know, I don't think.

1017
00:55:22,880 --> 00:55:24,560
Speaker 3: I don't agree with that with robots.

1018
00:55:24,600 --> 00:55:27,200
Speaker 18: I mean I see robots everywhere, you know, like even

1019
00:55:27,200 --> 00:55:29,680
Speaker 18: when you go to restaurants, Susie, there's like robots coming

1020
00:55:29,680 --> 00:55:32,520
Speaker 18: out and for people you put in there, uh you know,

1021
00:55:32,800 --> 00:55:34,719
Speaker 18: put in their trades as bus boys, you put your

1022
00:55:34,719 --> 00:55:36,680
Speaker 18: trades on the rowbos And I don't like that. I

1023
00:55:36,960 --> 00:55:39,759
Speaker 18: don't agree with the robot element. I'll run to see

1024
00:55:39,920 --> 00:55:42,799
Speaker 18: human error because we're not perfect. So that's what I

1025
00:55:42,920 --> 00:55:43,600
Speaker 18: might take on that.

1026
00:55:43,640 --> 00:55:46,480
Speaker 2: Bernie things Bernos all right, poppy, good stuff is always

1027
00:55:46,520 --> 00:55:49,880
Speaker 2: and I think we'll still see human error just like

1028
00:55:49,960 --> 00:55:52,560
Speaker 2: we did when you go back thirty years in the

1029
00:55:52,600 --> 00:55:56,520
Speaker 2: Institute an instant replay or check that replay review in

1030
00:55:56,560 --> 00:56:01,480
Speaker 2: the National Football League. It's still a cluster. Tigerman in Utah,

1031
00:56:01,520 --> 00:56:03,480
Speaker 2: thanks for hanging on. What's up in your world?

1032
00:56:04,239 --> 00:56:08,160
Speaker 19: Hey, Bernie, you know you're You're absolutely amazing. It's always

1033
00:56:08,160 --> 00:56:09,120
Speaker 19: great to hear from you.

1034
00:56:09,320 --> 00:56:09,640
Speaker 2: Thank you.

1035
00:56:10,600 --> 00:56:16,239
Speaker 19: Selfishly, I'm I'm an umpire supervisor, so I work you know,

1036
00:56:16,360 --> 00:56:20,600
Speaker 19: Little league in high school as well, so obviously my

1037
00:56:20,760 --> 00:56:24,000
Speaker 19: take would be this is, you know, it's ridiculous. But

1038
00:56:24,719 --> 00:56:27,280
Speaker 19: I feel like Major League Baseball has a much bigger

1039
00:56:27,320 --> 00:56:29,880
Speaker 19: issue than this. I feel like they're trying to do

1040
00:56:30,000 --> 00:56:34,400
Speaker 19: everything that they can to make the game, what you know,

1041
00:56:34,520 --> 00:56:37,919
Speaker 19: different from when we were growing up. You know, they

1042
00:56:37,960 --> 00:56:41,160
Speaker 19: have the challenges now, they have the pitchclock now, it's

1043
00:56:41,200 --> 00:56:43,600
Speaker 19: it's just a whole lot of stuff that they're trying

1044
00:56:43,600 --> 00:56:47,759
Speaker 19: to do to really change the game artificially.

1045
00:56:49,520 --> 00:56:51,040
Speaker 3: I just don't really agree with it.

1046
00:56:51,120 --> 00:56:56,399
Speaker 19: I feel like umpires actually make, you know, good publicity

1047
00:56:56,440 --> 00:57:00,080
Speaker 19: for baseball. I mean, the amount of attention that an umpire,

1048
00:57:00,120 --> 00:57:04,160
Speaker 19: Angel Hernandez was guy on Twitter, he was on you know,

1049
00:57:04,239 --> 00:57:06,960
Speaker 19: they did a story on ESPN, Fox, I mean, he

1050
00:57:07,120 --> 00:57:09,480
Speaker 19: was everywhere. I mean, we're not going to get a

1051
00:57:09,520 --> 00:57:12,239
Speaker 19: story on you know, robots and all that. So I

1052
00:57:12,280 --> 00:57:15,799
Speaker 19: feel like the MLB is kind of shooting themselves in

1053
00:57:15,880 --> 00:57:18,760
Speaker 19: the foot for lack of better words. I mean, we

1054
00:57:18,880 --> 00:57:20,920
Speaker 19: love thinking about umpires.

1055
00:57:20,400 --> 00:57:22,480
Speaker 3: And it just doesn't make any sense to move away

1056
00:57:22,480 --> 00:57:22,760
Speaker 3: from that.

1057
00:57:23,400 --> 00:57:25,640
Speaker 2: I don't I don't like it, and I would just

1058
00:57:25,680 --> 00:57:30,320
Speaker 2: say this that the human factor in baseball will always

1059
00:57:30,320 --> 00:57:34,240
Speaker 2: be there even if you start to add robots. And

1060
00:57:34,360 --> 00:57:38,200
Speaker 2: it didn't solve the problem in the NFL. So look,

1061
00:57:38,480 --> 00:57:41,120
Speaker 2: it's all part of preparation. I think anything quickly on

1062
00:57:41,120 --> 00:57:44,520
Speaker 2: on Tyson and Jake Paul.

1063
00:57:46,000 --> 00:57:48,720
Speaker 19: I personally don't think that the fight will happen. I

1064
00:57:49,280 --> 00:57:51,400
Speaker 19: don't see what either of them have to gain from

1065
00:57:51,400 --> 00:57:55,160
Speaker 19: in at this point, so I kind of feel like

1066
00:57:55,240 --> 00:57:59,439
Speaker 19: it's a little smoke and mirrors. But Bernie, love you man.

1067
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Speaker 3: You have a great day.

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Speaker 19: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: Thanks tiger Man in Utah. Arthur in Philadelphia is up next.

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Speaker 2: Good evening, Good morning, Arthur, how are you? How are

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00:58:10,640 --> 00:58:11,920
Speaker 2: you doing good? Thank you?

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Speaker 20: The rope bart umpire, I mean, doesn't anybody think anymore?

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00:58:17,880 --> 00:58:19,760
Speaker 20: Everything's replaced by your owner nation.

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Speaker 9: What happens if a rope bark breaks down doing the game?

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00:58:23,000 --> 00:58:23,600
Speaker 14: What are you going to do?

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00:58:23,680 --> 00:58:24,160
Speaker 19: Describe it?

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Speaker 2: I love it. I didn't even think of that one.

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Speaker 20: Yes, yeah, I mean I don't understand it. I mean

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Speaker 20: everything you do today, artificial intelligence, I mean, doesn't anybody

1080
00:58:36,400 --> 00:58:37,440
Speaker 20: use their brain anymore?

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00:58:39,040 --> 00:58:42,640
Speaker 2: I listen, I don't like it, and it's being tried

1082
00:58:42,640 --> 00:58:44,680
Speaker 2: in the minor leagues right now. And I think that

1083
00:58:44,760 --> 00:58:46,200
Speaker 2: you'll see well you're going to see it in Major

1084
00:58:46,280 --> 00:58:49,000
Speaker 2: league spreen training next year. Rob Manfred said it. And

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Speaker 2: I'm just not so sure this solves anything, quite honestly.

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00:58:53,680 --> 00:58:57,080
Speaker 2: What do you got on on Mike Tyson, Jake Paul,

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00:58:57,120 --> 00:58:58,000
Speaker 2: you have any thoughts on that?

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00:59:02,440 --> 00:59:04,480
Speaker 20: I mean, I don't think he has to he has

1089
00:59:04,560 --> 00:59:06,000
Speaker 20: to do that. He don't need to be.

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Speaker 21: Doing that, it said, just another way of making mind.

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Speaker 2: I don't have to go.

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Speaker 20: I don't forget.

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00:59:14,080 --> 00:59:15,000
Speaker 15: I mean, I don't blame that.

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00:59:15,040 --> 00:59:16,800
Speaker 20: I do it too if I'm gonna get the kind

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00:59:16,800 --> 00:59:19,680
Speaker 20: of money that they think they're going to get for that.

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00:59:19,760 --> 00:59:21,960
Speaker 20: But I mean I'm not I'm not crazy on that.

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Speaker 2: All right, Thanks for checking in, Arthur. Appreciate you man.

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Speaker 2: Uh Solomon in Los Angeles is up next. How are you.

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Speaker 22: I'm good man, Thanks for taking my call.

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Speaker 2: Appreciated.

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Speaker 22: I got a little I got a little something on

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Speaker 22: each subject. Go ahead, the robots. You know. Look, I

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00:59:39,280 --> 00:59:40,000
Speaker 22: will tell you this.

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Speaker 23: The money involved in professional sports right now, and when

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00:59:44,560 --> 00:59:47,800
Speaker 23: you get when you make a bad call, right when

1106
00:59:47,840 --> 00:59:50,520
Speaker 23: you lose a game and you don't make the playoffs,

1107
00:59:50,520 --> 00:59:53,240
Speaker 23: so you don't make the World Series, people get fired,

1108
00:59:53,480 --> 00:59:57,240
Speaker 23: players get traded, payers lose contracts.

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Speaker 22: It's gonna it's gotta ripple effect. Halls in baseball now,

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Speaker 22: in any sport, any professional sport, are very very important.

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Speaker 3: However, that said, I.

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Speaker 9: Think you're going to really sterilize the game.

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Speaker 22: That is going to be so weird without having an

1114
01:00:13,760 --> 01:00:15,640
Speaker 22: umpire behind the catcher.

1115
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Speaker 2: Well, you'll have a hold on hang right there, Big

1116
01:00:18,480 --> 01:00:22,920
Speaker 2: fella Bill had an umpire as a prop behind the plate,

1117
01:00:23,000 --> 01:00:25,280
Speaker 2: and once he hears the signal in his ear, he

1118
01:00:25,360 --> 01:00:29,280
Speaker 2: will be calling balls and strikes visually based on the

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Speaker 2: que he gets from the you know, the the evil

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Speaker 2: eyes it were. So you're still going to have that.

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Speaker 2: You're still going to have that.

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Speaker 22: That that's that's that's that's what we I mean, come on,

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Speaker 22: you know, I mean you could you could put a

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Speaker 22: robot to do You could you can make a robot

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Speaker 22: look like an umpire.

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Speaker 3: And do the same thing.

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Speaker 22: For that matter, that's probably like I like the human

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Speaker 22: element and you know, just have challenges. As far as

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Speaker 22: the fight, I definitely want to see that. I'm going

1130
01:00:59,080 --> 01:01:01,919
Speaker 22: to be seventy five July and I want to see

1131
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Speaker 22: Tyson beat this kid, because he comes off kind of

1132
01:01:05,320 --> 01:01:07,920
Speaker 22: you know, snarky and and you know, full of himself.

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Speaker 3: I've seen instagrams of Tyson working out. You do not

1134
01:01:12,320 --> 01:01:13,919
Speaker 3: want to get hit by that man.

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Speaker 22: I don't care what age he is, man, that's right.

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01:01:17,000 --> 01:01:18,560
Speaker 22: I don't know if you've caught any of his workout.

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Speaker 2: Of course I have. I think, and I think I'm

1138
01:01:22,640 --> 01:01:24,240
Speaker 2: not sure a hundred percent, but I think some of

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01:01:24,280 --> 01:01:26,280
Speaker 2: those videos are from like four or five years ago.

1140
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Speaker 2: But regardless, my Tyson is instincts that will never leave him.

1141
01:01:30,040 --> 01:01:33,160
Speaker 2: And when he steps in that ring, you know, it's

1142
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Speaker 2: I want to see what's going to happen because I've

1143
01:01:35,400 --> 01:01:38,320
Speaker 2: trained as a boxer, right, so yeah, I and I

1144
01:01:38,360 --> 01:01:41,440
Speaker 2: think I would be surprised if Tyson doesn't beat him.

1145
01:01:41,440 --> 01:01:43,919
Speaker 2: But you just don't know. This kid is weird. Man,

1146
01:01:44,440 --> 01:01:45,920
Speaker 2: go ahead, you have the last word, Solimon.

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Speaker 22: Sure, Man, if a FIK is a long time, his

1148
01:01:48,920 --> 01:01:51,720
Speaker 22: chances go down because this kid is younger and definitely

1149
01:01:51,720 --> 01:01:55,080
Speaker 22: could tire him out. But early in the fight, if

1150
01:01:55,120 --> 01:01:57,400
Speaker 22: Tyson gets to punch him, that's right, you sends him

1151
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Speaker 22: into it. I think he sends him up to another

1152
01:01:59,360 --> 01:02:01,640
Speaker 22: zip code and it lights out, and.

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Speaker 2: You know, what. I thought that too, Solomon. But if

1154
01:02:03,520 --> 01:02:06,320
Speaker 2: you saw the Tyro and Woodley fight the first one,

1155
01:02:06,600 --> 01:02:09,680
Speaker 2: Woodley caught him big time and somehow Jake Paul took

1156
01:02:09,720 --> 01:02:12,920
Speaker 2: the punch, and Woodley's no slouch. But good stuff. As always, Solomon,

1157
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Speaker 2: We'll hear from me again. Stephen, Ed and Bryce and

1158
01:02:17,560 --> 01:02:19,320
Speaker 2: Dallas you are up next. We're going to get to

1159
01:02:19,360 --> 01:02:20,840
Speaker 2: all of you, and nobody gets shuts out. I want

1160
01:02:20,880 --> 01:02:22,960
Speaker 2: to hear what you gotta say. Eight seven, seven, nine

1161
01:02:23,000 --> 01:02:26,120
Speaker 2: to nine on Fox eighteeven nine nine, six, six, three

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Speaker 2: six nine. We're gonna hear from the crew as well

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Speaker 2: as a man. That hour continues, but first we go

1164
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Speaker 2: to our guy, Kevin Figures with the latest.

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Speaker 8: Okay, Bernie.

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Speaker 11: In the Major League Baseball Friday Night, the Yankees got

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Speaker 11: two home runs from Aaron Judge and a seven plus

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01:02:37,160 --> 01:02:40,080
Speaker 11: inning effort from Marcus Stroman on the mound. They defeated

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01:02:40,120 --> 01:02:42,800
Speaker 11: San Francisco six to two for their third straight win

1170
01:02:42,880 --> 01:02:46,280
Speaker 11: and fourteenth victory in their last eighteen games. Ezekiel Tovar

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01:02:46,320 --> 01:02:48,080
Speaker 11: had three hits in a home run for Colorado. They

1172
01:02:48,120 --> 01:02:51,480
Speaker 11: defeated the Dodgers in Los Angeles four to one. Seattle

1173
01:02:51,480 --> 01:02:53,360
Speaker 11: blew a four nothing lead, but got a late home

1174
01:02:53,400 --> 01:02:55,520
Speaker 11: run from ty Frantz to come back and beat the

1175
01:02:55,520 --> 01:02:56,520
Speaker 11: Angels five to four.

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01:02:56,800 --> 01:02:58,560
Speaker 8: Luisa Rise had four hits, four.

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Speaker 11: Of the twenty three hits on the night for the

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01:03:00,040 --> 01:03:03,600
Speaker 11: Padres as they defeated the Royals eleven to eight. Minnesota

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01:03:03,600 --> 01:03:05,560
Speaker 11: has won four of their last five, with a victory

1180
01:03:05,600 --> 01:03:08,640
Speaker 11: over Houston six to one the final. There JD Martinez

1181
01:03:08,640 --> 01:03:10,200
Speaker 11: a home run as the Mets won a ten to

1182
01:03:10,280 --> 01:03:14,400
Speaker 11: nine shootout over the Diamondbacks. You had victories from Milwaukee, Atlanta, Boston,

1183
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Speaker 11: and Toronto, who walked off Pittsburgh in fourteen innings.

1184
01:03:17,600 --> 01:03:18,200
Speaker 8: And the NHL.

1185
01:03:18,240 --> 01:03:20,320
Speaker 11: The Oilers are one went away from their first Stanley

1186
01:03:20,320 --> 01:03:23,400
Speaker 11: Cup Finals appearance in nearly two decades, this after they

1187
01:03:23,400 --> 01:03:25,520
Speaker 11: picked up a three to one victory over Dallas in

1188
01:03:25,560 --> 01:03:28,040
Speaker 11: Game five of the Western Conference Finals. And Mental, we'll

1189
01:03:28,040 --> 01:03:29,880
Speaker 11: take this series with a game a home win, I

1190
01:03:29,880 --> 01:03:32,280
Speaker 11: should say. On Sunday night, and in boxing, as we

1191
01:03:32,280 --> 01:03:34,480
Speaker 11: have been talking about, the exhibition between Mike Tyson and

1192
01:03:34,560 --> 01:03:37,520
Speaker 11: Jake Paul has been postponed after Tyson fell ill with

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01:03:37,600 --> 01:03:38,320
Speaker 11: an ulcer.

1194
01:03:38,520 --> 01:03:39,920
Speaker 8: All right, back to Bernie Friddle.

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01:03:40,160 --> 01:03:42,560
Speaker 2: All right, thanks, Kevin, appreciate it, but back out to

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01:03:42,600 --> 01:03:46,640
Speaker 2: the phones. Back to Los Angeles Steven and Los Angeles

1197
01:03:46,680 --> 01:03:48,960
Speaker 2: joins the Bernie Frattle Show. What have you got for

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01:03:49,040 --> 01:03:49,360
Speaker 2: to tonight?

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Speaker 8: Steven?

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Speaker 24: Uh yeah, Bernie, I'm the boxing guy that talked to

1201
01:03:55,600 --> 01:03:58,240
Speaker 24: you a couple of months ago, and I mentioned that

1202
01:03:58,480 --> 01:04:01,480
Speaker 24: I have a family member that fought Muhammad Ali in

1203
01:04:01,520 --> 01:04:07,080
Speaker 24: the early sixties. But anyway, and let me just dispense

1204
01:04:07,200 --> 01:04:12,680
Speaker 24: with that issue. To me, this is just not a

1205
01:04:12,760 --> 01:04:15,760
Speaker 24: serious fight. It is for the value, both for the

1206
01:04:15,800 --> 01:04:21,080
Speaker 24: money and for the curiosity factor. But you know, I

1207
01:04:21,080 --> 01:04:22,919
Speaker 24: was raised up in the era to be the best.

1208
01:04:22,960 --> 01:04:25,840
Speaker 24: You gotta beat the best, and none of these guys

1209
01:04:25,880 --> 01:04:26,920
Speaker 24: are that anymore.

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Speaker 2: This is basically an exhibition. It's a bit of a spectacle.

1211
01:04:33,520 --> 01:04:36,880
Speaker 2: But you know, I got to tell Stephen, as a society,

1212
01:04:36,920 --> 01:04:41,000
Speaker 2: we've been infatuated with gladiator sports since the beginning of time.

1213
01:04:41,080 --> 01:04:43,520
Speaker 2: So to not take this seriously when I know both

1214
01:04:43,560 --> 01:04:46,800
Speaker 2: of these guys are I think it's a fool is

1215
01:04:46,800 --> 01:04:49,080
Speaker 2: a fool's errand this is going to be a serious

1216
01:04:49,280 --> 01:04:51,320
Speaker 2: I think it's going to be a serious contest. Go ahead.

1217
01:04:51,520 --> 01:04:54,920
Speaker 24: Oh yeah, I don't doubt that. To the best of

1218
01:04:54,960 --> 01:04:58,160
Speaker 24: their ability, they just they don't come up and I

1219
01:04:58,200 --> 01:05:01,920
Speaker 24: mean Mike Tyson. Are you thinking about Mike Tyson thirty

1220
01:05:02,000 --> 01:05:02,439
Speaker 24: years ago?

1221
01:05:02,760 --> 01:05:03,360
Speaker 13: Not now?

1222
01:05:03,720 --> 01:05:10,439
Speaker 24: But but the umpires. I want to say something how

1223
01:05:10,480 --> 01:05:16,640
Speaker 24: I measure this issue. When COVID first hit us, I

1224
01:05:16,680 --> 01:05:19,720
Speaker 24: had people around me that were, you know, refusing to

1225
01:05:19,880 --> 01:05:23,920
Speaker 24: get vaccinated, and they had their reasons, and no matter

1226
01:05:24,440 --> 01:05:27,080
Speaker 24: you know what I was able to say to them,

1227
01:05:27,280 --> 01:05:31,320
Speaker 24: they were just steadfast and dug in. There's nothing you

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01:05:31,360 --> 01:05:35,600
Speaker 24: can say to convince me. So I asked a lady

1229
01:05:35,600 --> 01:05:39,160
Speaker 24: that I work with, if I introduce you to a

1230
01:05:39,240 --> 01:05:42,560
Speaker 24: doctor that I know that could explain it to you better.

1231
01:05:42,880 --> 01:05:45,440
Speaker 24: She said, oh, you think a doctor could convince me?

1232
01:05:48,000 --> 01:05:51,040
Speaker 24: And that kind of said it all to me. I

1233
01:05:51,080 --> 01:05:55,560
Speaker 24: think that robots aren't going to stop finding people finding

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01:05:55,560 --> 01:05:59,160
Speaker 24: a way to disagree and to display everything.

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01:05:58,880 --> 01:06:02,920
Speaker 2: Look what happened with instant or replay review in the NFL.

1236
01:06:03,520 --> 01:06:05,000
Speaker 2: We don't know what there's going to be the law

1237
01:06:05,080 --> 01:06:08,360
Speaker 2: and it's in a consequences. Sorry. I appreciate you, Steven,

1238
01:06:08,480 --> 01:06:11,480
Speaker 2: enjoy your evening. Back to Las Vegas. Add in Las

1239
01:06:11,560 --> 01:06:14,200
Speaker 2: Vegas joins the show, high ed, Oh.

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Speaker 13: Bernie, yeah, last season, what the aviator game with my son?

1241
01:06:18,800 --> 01:06:20,919
Speaker 3: He picked? He took me out to the game.

1242
01:06:21,760 --> 01:06:25,520
Speaker 13: So now about the fourth inning, he tells me there's

1243
01:06:25,560 --> 01:06:28,480
Speaker 13: a human empire behind the plate. He tells me, you don't

1244
01:06:28,480 --> 01:06:31,760
Speaker 13: see anything different. I go, no, what because the computer

1245
01:06:31,880 --> 01:06:34,480
Speaker 13: umpire was going on. You know, they started testing the

1246
01:06:34,680 --> 01:06:40,080
Speaker 13: last year. Yeah, and I really didn't. You know, people

1247
01:06:40,320 --> 01:06:44,280
Speaker 13: stayed the robot. That's still the human umpire. And I,

1248
01:06:44,440 --> 01:06:46,640
Speaker 13: like you on old school, I was just to designated hitter.

1249
01:06:46,760 --> 01:06:49,280
Speaker 13: I was against the interleague player. But then I learned

1250
01:06:49,320 --> 01:06:49,800
Speaker 13: to live with it.

1251
01:06:50,400 --> 01:06:53,000
Speaker 3: But I really didn't. I didn't notice.

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01:06:53,000 --> 01:06:55,520
Speaker 13: He said, do you know that computer umpire behind her?

1253
01:06:55,600 --> 01:06:58,200
Speaker 13: I go no, And you know, let's still be the

1254
01:06:58,280 --> 01:07:00,400
Speaker 13: human because you've got to make the call at the

1255
01:07:00,640 --> 01:07:02,480
Speaker 13: you know, card ball down the line.

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Speaker 12: And you know, I.

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01:07:06,240 --> 01:07:09,280
Speaker 13: Think there's too many times where a bad call can

1258
01:07:10,320 --> 01:07:11,720
Speaker 13: change the situation of the game.

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Speaker 3: All right, we'll not wrong.

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01:07:13,720 --> 01:07:16,120
Speaker 2: It's happened. I mean, Don Dickinger the eighty five series

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01:07:16,120 --> 01:07:21,040
Speaker 2: appreciated ed were I weigh in look, and I was

1262
01:07:21,080 --> 01:07:23,320
Speaker 2: cool with the DH. I was cool with inner league play.

1263
01:07:23,440 --> 01:07:26,520
Speaker 2: All the game has evolved. Okay, as long as they

1264
01:07:26,520 --> 01:07:29,000
Speaker 2: don't change sixty feet six inches and ninety feet between

1265
01:07:29,040 --> 01:07:32,960
Speaker 2: the bases, I'm pretty cool. Were this to me? If

1266
01:07:32,960 --> 01:07:36,560
Speaker 2: your baseball is a thinking manage game, and if you

1267
01:07:36,640 --> 01:07:38,959
Speaker 2: do your homework and you know umpire tendencies, you're ahead

1268
01:07:38,960 --> 01:07:41,560
Speaker 2: of your competition. That's all I was trying to derive

1269
01:07:41,640 --> 01:07:44,480
Speaker 2: at earlier. Some umpires set up on the inside half

1270
01:07:44,480 --> 01:07:46,440
Speaker 2: of the plate, some set up on the outside, some

1271
01:07:46,520 --> 01:07:49,800
Speaker 2: over the top somewhere chess protector, some don't. These are

1272
01:07:49,840 --> 01:07:52,320
Speaker 2: all levels of baseball, not necessarily the major leagues, And

1273
01:07:52,360 --> 01:07:55,040
Speaker 2: I think if you know an umpires tendencies, you can

1274
01:07:55,080 --> 01:07:57,240
Speaker 2: work your game plan around that. I will stick to that,

1275
01:07:57,320 --> 01:07:59,880
Speaker 2: but we shall see. Bryce in Dallas is up next.

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01:08:00,320 --> 01:08:02,160
Speaker 2: How are you so well?

1277
01:08:02,200 --> 01:08:02,600
Speaker 3: How about you?

1278
01:08:02,960 --> 01:08:03,560
Speaker 2: Good? Thank you?

1279
01:08:05,440 --> 01:08:10,280
Speaker 25: So I'm with you normally on having human elements to games.

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Speaker 25: I will say that I'm a huge tennis fan, and

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Speaker 25: they went to the hawkeye system for the majority of

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01:08:15,520 --> 01:08:18,639
Speaker 25: the sport. The French Open is going on right now,

1283
01:08:18,720 --> 01:08:20,599
Speaker 25: and the French Open is the only place that doesn't

1284
01:08:20,600 --> 01:08:23,920
Speaker 25: have Hawkeye yet, and I'm starting to realize how much

1285
01:08:23,960 --> 01:08:29,720
Speaker 25: I appreciate Hawkeye. So having the robot full of the

1286
01:08:29,720 --> 01:08:33,280
Speaker 25: strike or baseball, I don't think it would be as

1287
01:08:33,600 --> 01:08:37,000
Speaker 25: bad or different than hawkeye calling.

1288
01:08:37,560 --> 01:08:39,920
Speaker 2: That's a fair analogy, and I'm willing to give it

1289
01:08:40,000 --> 01:08:43,800
Speaker 2: a try. And obviously that system seems to be working

1290
01:08:43,840 --> 01:08:45,880
Speaker 2: pretty well in tennis, right, I mean it seems to

1291
01:08:45,920 --> 01:08:46,760
Speaker 2: be working pretty well.

1292
01:08:47,720 --> 01:08:49,720
Speaker 25: Yeah, it's worth it great And like I said, I

1293
01:08:49,840 --> 01:08:55,000
Speaker 25: noticed that. Not it's the French Open. You have too

1294
01:08:55,000 --> 01:08:58,639
Speaker 25: many chair umpires right now making I don't know, very

1295
01:08:58,680 --> 01:09:01,960
Speaker 25: bad calls still without hawkeye. So it's changing the game.

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01:09:01,800 --> 01:09:06,599
Speaker 2: There anything quickly, Bryce on Tyson and Jacob.

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01:09:07,600 --> 01:09:11,000
Speaker 25: I think it's the gray exposition. Uh, the boxing.

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01:09:11,960 --> 01:09:16,360
Speaker 2: Fair enough, good stuff, good comments tonight, h Bryce Rod

1299
01:09:16,400 --> 01:09:17,840
Speaker 2: in Bakersfield, California.

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01:09:18,240 --> 01:09:22,040
Speaker 3: How are you, hey, Bernie, good morning. All the pleasure

1301
01:09:22,080 --> 01:09:23,040
Speaker 3: to hear you on the radio.

1302
01:09:23,240 --> 01:09:23,840
Speaker 2: Thank you, sir.

1303
01:09:24,640 --> 01:09:27,760
Speaker 3: Hey. Uh, when it comes to Tyson in this fight,

1304
01:09:28,680 --> 01:09:31,439
Speaker 3: if he adds one of those upper ceps, he's gonna

1305
01:09:31,479 --> 01:09:32,880
Speaker 3: launch him like space Epps.

1306
01:09:34,080 --> 01:09:34,719
Speaker 2: That's true.

1307
01:09:35,400 --> 01:09:39,000
Speaker 3: Oh, it's just the open. I mean, the game's over. Uh,

1308
01:09:39,400 --> 01:09:40,719
Speaker 3: it's gonna be interesting to watch.

1309
01:09:41,320 --> 01:09:41,439
Speaker 13: Uh.

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01:09:41,520 --> 01:09:44,240
Speaker 3: Then as far as the Empire thing goes, Paul was

1311
01:09:44,320 --> 01:09:48,360
Speaker 3: dead against that. And the more I keep talking baseball,

1312
01:09:48,800 --> 01:09:50,680
Speaker 3: and I keep seeing these pitches that are four and

1313
01:09:50,800 --> 01:09:52,600
Speaker 3: six inches off the plate and you couldn't hit it

1314
01:09:52,640 --> 01:09:58,760
Speaker 3: with the Giants. Okoya. Uh, Well, you know, I kind

1315
01:09:58,760 --> 01:10:01,680
Speaker 3: of want to see it and see how it works out,

1316
01:10:01,760 --> 01:10:03,479
Speaker 3: because you know, I wasn't happy, you know, to the

1317
01:10:03,600 --> 01:10:06,080
Speaker 3: enlarged the basis and all that. But it's exciting. It's

1318
01:10:06,120 --> 01:10:09,640
Speaker 3: put a little more excitement into the game. And I

1319
01:10:09,720 --> 01:10:13,640
Speaker 3: do believe if they do this, I think it's going

1320
01:10:13,680 --> 01:10:15,800
Speaker 3: to increase the offense. I think it's gonna increase it

1321
01:10:15,880 --> 01:10:17,760
Speaker 3: quite a bit. We're gonna have more action than the game.

1322
01:10:18,320 --> 01:10:21,479
Speaker 2: It's entirely possible, which is what fans want to see

1323
01:10:21,479 --> 01:10:24,799
Speaker 2: eat and quickly ride on. Jake Paul, Mike Tyson.

1324
01:10:26,160 --> 01:10:28,040
Speaker 3: Well, like I say, I just think Tyson's just going

1325
01:10:28,120 --> 01:10:31,160
Speaker 3: to launch him like space if he catches him.

1326
01:10:31,360 --> 01:10:33,559
Speaker 2: The keys you want and I know that, but you

1327
01:10:33,680 --> 01:10:35,439
Speaker 2: want to see the fight then, right? You are up

1328
01:10:35,520 --> 01:10:36,160
Speaker 2: all yeah?

1329
01:10:36,200 --> 01:10:37,800
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, Oh not everybody is.

1330
01:10:37,960 --> 01:10:40,360
Speaker 2: I mean there are a lot, including some of my

1331
01:10:40,560 --> 01:10:43,240
Speaker 2: colleagues on this network that are just livid this is happening.

1332
01:10:43,280 --> 01:10:43,960
Speaker 2: I'm not one of them.

1333
01:10:44,000 --> 01:10:47,800
Speaker 3: But now and Bernie wanted to think, maybe you can

1334
01:10:47,840 --> 01:10:50,880
Speaker 3: answer this. One years ago, I believe there was a

1335
01:10:51,040 --> 01:10:54,679
Speaker 3: survey by all the coaches in the NBA about who

1336
01:10:54,720 --> 01:10:57,280
Speaker 3: they would want to have play center for one game,

1337
01:10:58,240 --> 01:11:02,040
Speaker 3: and I believe it was almost unanimous. You remember that

1338
01:11:02,120 --> 01:11:02,479
Speaker 3: at all?

1339
01:11:04,280 --> 01:11:08,639
Speaker 2: I don't. I can't say I remember it. Uh, I can't.

1340
01:11:08,640 --> 01:11:11,080
Speaker 2: I'd be lying if I said I know that there

1341
01:11:11,080 --> 01:11:15,400
Speaker 2: are GM surveys every year. Uh, but I can't remember

1342
01:11:15,439 --> 01:11:18,120
Speaker 2: that one specifically. But if you saw Bill Walton Courts

1343
01:11:18,360 --> 01:11:20,880
Speaker 2: like I did, he was Nicola Yogi.

1344
01:11:21,520 --> 01:11:23,439
Speaker 3: All right, he was awesome.

1345
01:11:23,680 --> 01:11:26,160
Speaker 2: You could jump through the gym. Thanks, thanks appreciated, Rod,

1346
01:11:26,280 --> 01:11:27,719
Speaker 2: Dario and Dallas. You're up next?

1347
01:11:27,880 --> 01:11:29,760
Speaker 19: How are you, hi, Heli sir?

1348
01:11:29,880 --> 01:11:31,120
Speaker 2: Are you good? Thank you?

1349
01:11:32,880 --> 01:11:35,639
Speaker 16: So my first point was going to be a reference

1350
01:11:35,720 --> 01:11:39,000
Speaker 16: to the tennis in regards to the MLB, because they

1351
01:11:39,479 --> 01:11:44,519
Speaker 16: you know, baseball is all about tradition, but tennis also

1352
01:11:45,200 --> 01:11:49,559
Speaker 16: they don't make they don't change rules. But with the Eagle.

1353
01:11:51,080 --> 01:11:54,080
Speaker 16: So Angel Hernandez is a really good friend of mine.

1354
01:11:54,560 --> 01:11:58,120
Speaker 16: And when I when I found out that he was retiring,

1355
01:11:58,760 --> 01:12:03,439
Speaker 16: you know, I called him and I don't know. I

1356
01:12:03,439 --> 01:12:05,719
Speaker 16: guess he missed my call. I'm not sure what happened.

1357
01:12:07,400 --> 01:12:12,680
Speaker 2: Ah, that's a punchline. No great job, Mark. Listen, here

1358
01:12:12,720 --> 01:12:16,000
Speaker 2: here's the deal. I gotta I gotta get to all

1359
01:12:16,000 --> 01:12:18,920
Speaker 2: these callers, Dario, but I appreciate the effort. There anything

1360
01:12:18,960 --> 01:12:21,120
Speaker 2: on Jake, Jake, Paul, Mike Tyson.

1361
01:12:23,960 --> 01:12:25,720
Speaker 16: I love Mike Tyson. I think he's one of the

1362
01:12:25,720 --> 01:12:26,800
Speaker 16: greatest boxers ever.

1363
01:12:27,320 --> 01:12:30,640
Speaker 2: You want to see the fight. I'm waiting for that

1364
01:12:30,720 --> 01:12:32,599
Speaker 2: one call tonight that says, oh, what the hell are

1365
01:12:32,600 --> 01:12:34,960
Speaker 2: we doing here? Go ahead, you get the last word.

1366
01:12:35,400 --> 01:12:37,719
Speaker 16: He hated his opponents and that's what made him great.

1367
01:12:38,000 --> 01:12:40,160
Speaker 16: Him and Jake call their buddies, and that's why it's

1368
01:12:40,160 --> 01:12:43,040
Speaker 16: not going to be a fight. He hated his opponents.

1369
01:12:43,840 --> 01:12:46,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, fair enough, fair enough. I still want to see it. Thanks, Dario,

1370
01:12:48,000 --> 01:12:51,280
Speaker 2: my man, Manuel and Guardana. The biggest thing to come

1371
01:12:51,320 --> 01:12:53,880
Speaker 2: out of Southern California since Paco's Tacos? What do you

1372
01:12:53,880 --> 01:12:54,599
Speaker 2: got for me tonight?

1373
01:12:55,640 --> 01:12:56,000
Speaker 16: Action?

1374
01:12:56,920 --> 01:12:59,000
Speaker 14: Tame and election?

1375
01:13:00,880 --> 01:13:01,960
Speaker 22: Bernie Prattle?

1376
01:13:02,120 --> 01:13:05,120
Speaker 16: My man, Hell the hell are you? Detroit's find it?

1377
01:13:05,520 --> 01:13:07,120
Speaker 2: Like I said, the biggest thing to come out of

1378
01:13:07,160 --> 01:13:10,639
Speaker 2: so Calston's Pacos Tacos. Man, Well, you got the floor?

1379
01:13:10,760 --> 01:13:13,000
Speaker 16: Oh okay, so you heard all right?

1380
01:13:13,240 --> 01:13:14,599
Speaker 8: No, no, no, no, oh.

1381
01:13:14,479 --> 01:13:16,800
Speaker 2: Hold on, I'm gonna tell you a quick story that

1382
01:13:16,880 --> 01:13:19,439
Speaker 2: no one cares about, you know what. Okay, time working

1383
01:13:19,479 --> 01:13:22,479
Speaker 2: at the Forum back in the day. Yes, I swear

1384
01:13:22,479 --> 01:13:24,560
Speaker 2: to God on a forty eight dollars bible. I'm in

1385
01:13:24,840 --> 01:13:27,639
Speaker 2: Paco's Tacos one night after a Laker game. By the way,

1386
01:13:27,640 --> 01:13:29,559
Speaker 2: here's the irony. I don't like their tacos are too little.

1387
01:13:29,560 --> 01:13:32,639
Speaker 2: I like the burritos. True story. Who do I see

1388
01:13:32,640 --> 01:13:36,800
Speaker 2: there getting a little nash about midnight? Swear to God,

1389
01:13:36,880 --> 01:13:38,599
Speaker 2: pat Riley, it's forty years ago.

1390
01:13:39,360 --> 01:13:43,040
Speaker 16: Make right, Hey, now you can't because I called Ben

1391
01:13:43,120 --> 01:13:47,439
Speaker 16: Mallard in nineteen eighty five. My dad took us to

1392
01:13:47,520 --> 01:13:49,840
Speaker 16: dinner that's like one of the only Mexican restaurants. We

1393
01:13:49,880 --> 01:13:53,000
Speaker 16: go to Pacos Tacos excellent, excellent food.

1394
01:13:53,640 --> 01:13:56,439
Speaker 2: So tacos are too little, though, ei they're like street anyway,

1395
01:13:56,960 --> 01:13:58,680
Speaker 2: So we'll get out. We'll get this on another day

1396
01:13:58,720 --> 01:14:00,880
Speaker 2: so we don't put the people this. What do you

1397
01:14:00,880 --> 01:14:01,599
Speaker 2: got for me tonight?

1398
01:14:01,600 --> 01:14:01,760
Speaker 12: Man?

1399
01:14:01,800 --> 01:14:06,760
Speaker 16: Well, so we're hit and eating our dinner. We see

1400
01:14:06,760 --> 01:14:12,000
Speaker 16: two skyscrapers walking Nut and Larry Bird and Bill Walton.

1401
01:14:12,479 --> 01:14:14,800
Speaker 16: So I'm assuming Bill Walton knew about the place from

1402
01:14:14,800 --> 01:14:20,040
Speaker 16: his UCLA days, since it's just a stone's throwaway. But uh, yeah, man,

1403
01:14:20,120 --> 01:14:20,920
Speaker 16: I was in awe.

1404
01:14:21,120 --> 01:14:21,360
Speaker 12: Man.

1405
01:14:21,479 --> 01:14:23,439
Speaker 16: You know, my dad didn't let me go up and

1406
01:14:23,479 --> 01:14:25,519
Speaker 16: ask for an autograph and say, hey, we're gonna respect

1407
01:14:25,560 --> 01:14:27,160
Speaker 16: these guys. These guys are legends.

1408
01:14:27,320 --> 01:14:28,639
Speaker 13: We're gonna let them have their dinner.

1409
01:14:29,040 --> 01:14:32,120
Speaker 16: Needless to say, about ten other yahoos didn't do do that.

1410
01:14:32,200 --> 01:14:33,639
Speaker 22: They went up and bum rushed them.

1411
01:14:33,680 --> 01:14:37,240
Speaker 16: But those guys could have been a better class, you know.

1412
01:14:37,360 --> 01:14:40,879
Speaker 16: I mean they taken you know, signing autographs for people,

1413
01:14:41,479 --> 01:14:44,479
Speaker 16: shaking hands and uh, it just goes to the point

1414
01:14:44,479 --> 01:14:46,880
Speaker 16: of Bill Walton. Man, I'm glad that you you did

1415
01:14:46,880 --> 01:14:49,400
Speaker 16: a deep dive on him earlier. The guy was a

1416
01:14:49,439 --> 01:14:52,679
Speaker 16: class at Bernie. Whether you go back to the days

1417
01:14:52,680 --> 01:14:58,400
Speaker 16: of UCLA, Portland, the Clippers, the Celtics, wherever he was

1418
01:14:59,000 --> 01:15:02,320
Speaker 16: was the place to Bill Walton was not only a

1419
01:15:02,360 --> 01:15:06,000
Speaker 16: physical talent, but I dare to say he may have

1420
01:15:06,080 --> 01:15:09,080
Speaker 16: even been a better broadcaster. I mean the guy, the

1421
01:15:09,080 --> 01:15:12,679
Speaker 16: way he painted the picture, the entertainment he gave you,

1422
01:15:13,840 --> 01:15:16,280
Speaker 16: it was the best of the NBA. So I want

1423
01:15:16,280 --> 01:15:19,160
Speaker 16: to say, l I p Bill Walton, and I'm not

1424
01:15:19,200 --> 01:15:22,759
Speaker 16: a fan of the robotom Bernie. I think a couple

1425
01:15:22,800 --> 01:15:27,160
Speaker 16: of your callers earlier made good points. Angry Bill and

1426
01:15:27,160 --> 01:15:30,519
Speaker 16: and Jerome bring it home that you know, a man

1427
01:15:30,760 --> 01:15:32,960
Speaker 16: sometimes you're painting corners.

1428
01:15:33,320 --> 01:15:35,360
Speaker 9: You get the feel of what the ump.

1429
01:15:35,240 --> 01:15:36,960
Speaker 16: Is calling, whether he's a little bit high or a

1430
01:15:36,960 --> 01:15:41,920
Speaker 16: little bit low in the in the quadrant. And that's baseball, man.

1431
01:15:42,160 --> 01:15:45,920
Speaker 16: You know, it's a thinkings man's game. It's a it's

1432
01:15:45,960 --> 01:15:50,320
Speaker 16: a game where you know, strategy comes heavily into play.

1433
01:15:51,000 --> 01:15:53,880
Speaker 16: And I don't like the robotoms. Hey, Bernie, keep up

1434
01:15:53,880 --> 01:15:57,439
Speaker 16: the good work. We'll resumed the pacos talk. One day.

1435
01:15:57,720 --> 01:16:00,639
Speaker 16: Maybe you and I will go down there great brand

1436
01:16:00,680 --> 01:16:01,479
Speaker 16: together one day.

1437
01:16:01,600 --> 01:16:03,559
Speaker 2: You never know, my friend, You never know. We'll catch

1438
01:16:03,560 --> 01:16:06,920
Speaker 2: you next week. We're gonna wrap it up. We want

1439
01:16:06,920 --> 01:16:08,960
Speaker 2: to hear. There's still time to get in eight seven, seven,

1440
01:16:09,080 --> 01:16:12,559
Speaker 2: nine ninety six, six three sixty nine Tonight's Midnight Hour

1441
01:16:12,640 --> 01:16:17,080
Speaker 2: of course, Tyson, Jake Paul and the robot umpire situation.

1442
01:16:17,120 --> 01:16:18,439
Speaker 2: You want to get a word on, Bill Walton. I

1443
01:16:18,439 --> 01:16:19,720
Speaker 2: got to hear from the crew as well. We got

1444
01:16:19,760 --> 01:16:22,240
Speaker 2: to get the guys in. I'm Bernie Fraddle. We're Kemedy

1445
01:16:22,280 --> 01:16:24,519
Speaker 2: Lyve from the Las Vegas Fox Sports Radio Tyreck dot

1446
01:16:24,560 --> 01:16:27,439
Speaker 2: Com Studios. Keep it locked, Bernie Frattles Show, Fox Sports Radio.

1447
01:16:28,800 --> 01:16:31,160
Speaker 2: All right back on the Bernie Frattle Show, Fox Sports

1448
01:16:31,240 --> 01:16:35,519
Speaker 2: radio wrap it up. The midnight hour callers outstanding as usual.

1449
01:16:36,120 --> 01:16:39,559
Speaker 2: Let's get one more in here, Gilberto and San Diego.

1450
01:16:39,560 --> 01:16:40,400
Speaker 2: What are your thoughts tonight?

1451
01:16:40,439 --> 01:16:42,919
Speaker 14: Buddy?

1452
01:16:44,120 --> 01:16:44,360
Speaker 2: Uh?

1453
01:16:44,520 --> 01:16:44,840
Speaker 13: Your so?

1454
01:16:46,320 --> 01:16:47,040
Speaker 2: How about that one?

1455
01:16:48,040 --> 01:16:48,320
Speaker 15: Hey?

1456
01:16:48,680 --> 01:16:49,080
Speaker 16: You are?

1457
01:16:49,240 --> 01:16:49,559
Speaker 15: You are?

1458
01:16:49,640 --> 01:16:50,360
Speaker 20: You are the men?

1459
01:16:50,439 --> 01:16:54,080
Speaker 14: And listen before I go into the topics. Are you

1460
01:16:54,120 --> 01:16:56,120
Speaker 14: watching the game tomorrow a La Madrid?

1461
01:16:56,880 --> 01:16:59,439
Speaker 2: Are you talking? Oh? You know what? What time is

1462
01:16:59,479 --> 01:17:01,440
Speaker 2: it on? I thought you were talking about the WNBA

1463
01:17:01,520 --> 01:17:02,240
Speaker 2: game in the morning.

1464
01:17:02,760 --> 01:17:07,679
Speaker 14: No, no, noon, Pacific Bucia ormund I can Real Madrid

1465
01:17:08,080 --> 01:17:08,639
Speaker 14: at the place?

1466
01:17:08,760 --> 01:17:11,439
Speaker 13: Oh wow, we can have a go Okay?

1467
01:17:11,720 --> 01:17:14,840
Speaker 2: I think Harry is Harry Kane playing for Real Madrid yet?

1468
01:17:15,680 --> 01:17:19,200
Speaker 14: No, Hurricane was playing for Bayern Munich.

1469
01:17:20,160 --> 01:17:22,120
Speaker 2: Okay, that's where he left. He just left like a

1470
01:17:22,160 --> 01:17:22,960
Speaker 2: week or two ago.

1471
01:17:23,840 --> 01:17:24,080
Speaker 14: Yeah.

1472
01:17:24,360 --> 01:17:27,280
Speaker 2: I missed him by five minutes at Tottenham Oxworth Stadium.

1473
01:17:27,280 --> 01:17:29,240
Speaker 2: I missed him by five minutes. Go ahead, what do

1474
01:17:29,280 --> 01:17:30,880
Speaker 2: we got tonight? But we're short on time?

1475
01:17:31,720 --> 01:17:36,800
Speaker 14: Okay, go ahead, listen, I improve the robot Empire for

1476
01:17:36,880 --> 01:17:39,559
Speaker 14: the strike zone because they've been so many bad calls

1477
01:17:39,600 --> 01:17:43,200
Speaker 14: and he's hurting pictures and he's hurting the game because

1478
01:17:43,560 --> 01:17:46,960
Speaker 14: none of them get it together. Okay, and about Tyson.

1479
01:17:47,560 --> 01:17:49,720
Speaker 14: I do want to see the match. I want him

1480
01:17:49,760 --> 01:17:52,559
Speaker 14: to knock him out, call in the third round or

1481
01:17:52,560 --> 01:17:55,200
Speaker 14: something like that. I really want to see Tyson fight.

1482
01:17:56,680 --> 01:17:59,120
Speaker 2: All right, while we're at it, good stuff there. While

1483
01:17:59,160 --> 01:18:02,559
Speaker 2: we're at it. Do you have any thoughts on Bill Walton?

1484
01:18:02,560 --> 01:18:04,160
Speaker 2: A lot of people chimed in on that. It was

1485
01:18:04,240 --> 01:18:06,599
Speaker 2: kind of a right. You know, they did a great job.

1486
01:18:06,640 --> 01:18:07,800
Speaker 2: Go ahead, I.

1487
01:18:08,240 --> 01:18:11,080
Speaker 14: Cut the end of his career. I actually watched the

1488
01:18:12,120 --> 01:18:15,719
Speaker 14: finals against I think it was the Lakers when Boston

1489
01:18:15,760 --> 01:18:18,840
Speaker 14: won in eighty six. I think, and uh, that's what

1490
01:18:18,920 --> 01:18:20,680
Speaker 14: I saw his career. But I think he was one

1491
01:18:20,720 --> 01:18:23,640
Speaker 14: of the greatest NBA bought the casters because he was

1492
01:18:24,040 --> 01:18:27,960
Speaker 14: funny and a legend in his own right.

1493
01:18:29,120 --> 01:18:31,320
Speaker 2: Thanks a lot, Gilberto. Catch it next time. Let's get

1494
01:18:31,320 --> 01:18:33,760
Speaker 2: one more in. I wish we had more time, Dave,

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Speaker 2: David Phoenix, do the best you can. We just got

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Speaker 2: about a minute.

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Speaker 24: All right.

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Speaker 21: So I think Bill Walton was the second best college

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01:18:41,439 --> 01:18:45,759
Speaker 21: basketball player ever, just barely behind Kareem and well ahead

1500
01:18:45,760 --> 01:18:50,160
Speaker 21: of whoever's number three. Bob Ryan had an interesting take.

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01:18:50,240 --> 01:18:54,320
Speaker 21: He thought that Walton in his prime might have been

1502
01:18:54,360 --> 01:18:57,360
Speaker 21: the best center ever because he was so great at

1503
01:18:57,360 --> 01:18:59,160
Speaker 21: both offense and defense.

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01:18:59,720 --> 01:19:02,599
Speaker 22: Yeah, a real quick story.

1505
01:19:03,040 --> 01:19:05,599
Speaker 21: I was friends with these two brothers, the Kinsey brothers.

1506
01:19:05,960 --> 01:19:09,240
Speaker 21: They were friends with Lalton and Bill. Walton was not

1507
01:19:09,439 --> 01:19:13,000
Speaker 21: involved in the Patty Hurst fiasco, but because he was

1508
01:19:13,080 --> 01:19:15,959
Speaker 21: friends with the guy named Jack Scott who was involved,

1509
01:19:16,439 --> 01:19:19,760
Speaker 21: my friends, the Kinsey brothers were actually visited by the

1510
01:19:19,840 --> 01:19:23,000
Speaker 21: FBI and questioned whether they had any involvement.

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01:19:23,840 --> 01:19:28,080
Speaker 2: Wow, Dave, good stuff as always. Man, won't be too long,

1512
01:19:28,120 --> 01:19:31,200
Speaker 2: we'd be talking Michigan football. Thanks for checking in. I

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01:19:31,280 --> 01:19:34,280
Speaker 2: want to thank all the college tonight. Outstanding job as usual,

1514
01:19:34,920 --> 01:19:38,880
Speaker 2: great viewpoints. Had some differentiation coming up top there. We

1515
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Speaker 2: got to wrap it up. I gotta get the crew

1516
01:19:40,200 --> 01:19:42,639
Speaker 2: in here, get their thoughts. We've got a lot more

1517
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Speaker 2: to talk about tonight, including you know, hard knocks and

1518
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1531
01:20:31,479 --> 01:20:33,240
Speaker 2: but I got to bring the crew in. We have

1532
01:20:33,400 --> 01:20:35,720
Speaker 2: some a lot of meat on the bone for these

1533
01:20:35,760 --> 01:20:41,720
Speaker 2: topics earlier. Kevin, let's start with you straight out your

1534
01:20:41,760 --> 01:20:45,800
Speaker 2: thoughts on the Jake Paul Mike Tyson match. And you know,

1535
01:20:46,000 --> 01:20:50,000
Speaker 2: is this recent situation I signed from the boxing gods

1536
01:20:50,040 --> 01:20:51,880
Speaker 2: maybe that you shouldn't go forward? Or what are your

1537
01:20:51,880 --> 01:20:52,639
Speaker 2: thoughts as a fan?

1538
01:20:53,520 --> 01:20:55,519
Speaker 11: Well as a fan, I'm not We've talked him. I

1539
01:20:55,560 --> 01:20:57,400
Speaker 11: spoken about this before, Bernie. I'm not a big fan

1540
01:20:57,439 --> 01:20:59,759
Speaker 11: of like the gimmick matches, but I certainly don't begrudge

1541
01:20:59,760 --> 01:21:00,479
Speaker 11: anybody else.

1542
01:21:00,520 --> 01:21:01,719
Speaker 8: I give credit to Jake Paul.

1543
01:21:01,720 --> 01:21:04,080
Speaker 11: He's found the niche, and he trained himself and has

1544
01:21:04,080 --> 01:21:06,920
Speaker 11: turned himself to a very solid boxer and performer and

1545
01:21:07,640 --> 01:21:10,240
Speaker 11: has had great success with it. So to each their own.

1546
01:21:10,640 --> 01:21:12,639
Speaker 11: It's not a fact that I would necessarily buy. I'm

1547
01:21:12,640 --> 01:21:16,439
Speaker 11: not into the gimmick exhibitions like this, but I understand

1548
01:21:16,439 --> 01:21:18,280
Speaker 11: that there's an audience for it, so I don't begrudge

1549
01:21:18,320 --> 01:21:20,519
Speaker 11: him or Mike Tyson for actually for doing it.

1550
01:21:20,560 --> 01:21:22,519
Speaker 8: But I have no interest personally in watching it.

1551
01:21:22,800 --> 01:21:25,800
Speaker 2: So it's my understanding. It's on Netflix, so if you

1552
01:21:25,880 --> 01:21:29,599
Speaker 2: have Netflix, you get it. We did talk about this before.

1553
01:21:29,640 --> 01:21:33,320
Speaker 2: The reason I'm revisiting it is because I've talked to

1554
01:21:33,400 --> 01:21:35,240
Speaker 2: a lot of people that think this is the dumbest

1555
01:21:35,280 --> 01:21:36,760
Speaker 2: thing ever. They don't want to see it happen, and

1556
01:21:36,840 --> 01:21:40,040
Speaker 2: now with this recent situation, it might not being able

1557
01:21:40,040 --> 01:21:45,160
Speaker 2: to really train the next few months the same way.

1558
01:21:45,400 --> 01:21:48,000
Speaker 2: It raises questions again asked to the validity.

1559
01:21:49,200 --> 01:21:50,760
Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean, I don't know why they would want

1560
01:21:50,800 --> 01:21:53,320
Speaker 11: to string everybody along unless you just wanted to add

1561
01:21:53,320 --> 01:21:56,240
Speaker 11: some extra drama to it and have some documentary, you know,

1562
01:21:56,760 --> 01:21:58,559
Speaker 11: series or something. Then you wanted to add some extra

1563
01:21:58,600 --> 01:22:00,599
Speaker 11: drama and build up to another date. But I don't

1564
01:22:00,640 --> 01:22:01,960
Speaker 11: know why they would do that. That doesn't seem to

1565
01:22:02,000 --> 01:22:03,320
Speaker 11: make a whole lot of sense to me either, So

1566
01:22:04,120 --> 01:22:06,479
Speaker 11: I think that is legitimate. I know they want to

1567
01:22:06,600 --> 01:22:08,360
Speaker 11: I'm pretty sure they want to get the fight done.

1568
01:22:08,520 --> 01:22:10,000
Speaker 11: They don't want to, you know, tug on the chain

1569
01:22:10,040 --> 01:22:12,439
Speaker 11: of Jerry Jones at the Jerry's World for an event.

1570
01:22:12,479 --> 01:22:14,880
Speaker 11: This is big, So I don't think there's any sheanadigans

1571
01:22:14,920 --> 01:22:17,160
Speaker 11: going on. I think it's pretty legitimate. I do know

1572
01:22:17,320 --> 01:22:19,160
Speaker 11: that they eventually want to get this fight done at

1573
01:22:19,240 --> 01:22:19,839
Speaker 11: some point.

1574
01:22:19,960 --> 01:22:23,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think Mike Tyson had a legitimate episode with

1575
01:22:23,360 --> 01:22:26,320
Speaker 2: his He's had ulcers for his life and so all

1576
01:22:26,360 --> 01:22:30,200
Speaker 2: this is doing is curtailing as training. Any thoughts on

1577
01:22:30,720 --> 01:22:32,920
Speaker 2: the Robot umpires and or Bill Walton.

1578
01:22:32,760 --> 01:22:35,240
Speaker 11: Yeah, well, I mean on Bill Walton just you know,

1579
01:22:35,320 --> 01:22:38,439
Speaker 11: and I am not necessarily not necessarily literally not old

1580
01:22:38,520 --> 01:22:40,479
Speaker 11: enough to have seen him play. I know him mostly

1581
01:22:40,880 --> 01:22:43,640
Speaker 11: as an announcer, but you know, obviously looking back, you know,

1582
01:22:43,720 --> 01:22:47,880
Speaker 11: at his career at UCLA and unfortunately injuries really cut

1583
01:22:47,880 --> 01:22:50,120
Speaker 11: his NBA career short. There were some you know, our

1584
01:22:50,160 --> 01:22:52,559
Speaker 11: local affiliate did an interview with Ralph Lawler, the longtime

1585
01:22:52,640 --> 01:22:55,160
Speaker 11: voice of the Clippers, and jol Walton was an analyst

1586
01:22:55,160 --> 01:22:58,120
Speaker 11: with him for years and Ralph saw him play, broadcasted

1587
01:22:58,120 --> 01:23:00,240
Speaker 11: with him for a long time, and Ralph says, had

1588
01:23:00,240 --> 01:23:02,240
Speaker 11: he not been injured, Bill Walton would have been in

1589
01:23:02,280 --> 01:23:04,400
Speaker 11: the conversation for the greatest player in the history of

1590
01:23:04,439 --> 01:23:06,680
Speaker 11: the NBA. That's how good of a player that he

1591
01:23:06,840 --> 01:23:09,240
Speaker 11: was before he got injured. So that just tells you

1592
01:23:09,240 --> 01:23:11,200
Speaker 11: the kind of player that he was. And then as

1593
01:23:11,200 --> 01:23:13,360
Speaker 11: a broadcaster is one of the most entertaining broadcasters of

1594
01:23:13,400 --> 01:23:16,960
Speaker 11: all time. And this year, the utter humility to not

1595
01:23:17,000 --> 01:23:19,719
Speaker 11: want to necessarily burden other people. You know, he didn't

1596
01:23:19,720 --> 01:23:21,439
Speaker 11: necessarily say this, but this is the belief of people

1597
01:23:21,479 --> 01:23:23,280
Speaker 11: in his inner circle. He didn't want to have the

1598
01:23:23,320 --> 01:23:25,280
Speaker 11: sympathy tour or any of that. He knew that he

1599
01:23:25,320 --> 01:23:28,880
Speaker 11: had a very serious illness and that he wasn't going

1600
01:23:28,920 --> 01:23:30,840
Speaker 11: to necessarily make it, but he didn't want to make

1601
01:23:30,840 --> 01:23:32,599
Speaker 11: a big headline and make stories about it. He still

1602
01:23:32,640 --> 01:23:34,920
Speaker 11: went out and called games this past year for college

1603
01:23:34,960 --> 01:23:37,600
Speaker 11: basketball and still did his thing. So he's definitely going

1604
01:23:37,680 --> 01:23:40,120
Speaker 11: to be missed. Anybody that didn't know him had nothing

1605
01:23:40,160 --> 01:23:42,519
Speaker 11: but good things to say about him. So it's definitely

1606
01:23:42,720 --> 01:23:47,160
Speaker 11: a tough loss in the basketball community for Andrew Hernandez. Look,

1607
01:23:47,240 --> 01:23:49,720
Speaker 11: the thing for me is and I'll steal not this

1608
01:23:49,760 --> 01:23:52,000
Speaker 11: is not a political situation at all, but I'll steal

1609
01:23:52,000 --> 01:23:53,800
Speaker 11: align from the preamble when they say to make a

1610
01:23:53,840 --> 01:23:56,120
Speaker 11: more to form a more perfect union, and I look

1611
01:23:56,160 --> 01:23:58,280
Speaker 11: at it that same way when it comes to professional sports.

1612
01:23:58,479 --> 01:24:00,639
Speaker 11: You're never going to get things perfect, but you can

1613
01:24:00,680 --> 01:24:02,160
Speaker 11: try to get them more perfect.

1614
01:24:02,439 --> 01:24:03,160
Speaker 8: So if you can.

1615
01:24:03,040 --> 01:24:06,960
Speaker 11: Find a way to make penalties or call balls and

1616
01:24:06,960 --> 01:24:09,400
Speaker 11: strikes or whatever you want to call it fouls in

1617
01:24:09,479 --> 01:24:11,439
Speaker 11: the NBA, if you can find a way to make

1618
01:24:11,520 --> 01:24:14,320
Speaker 11: something as concrete as possible and take the human element

1619
01:24:14,360 --> 01:24:16,160
Speaker 11: out of it where the human element doesn't need to

1620
01:24:16,200 --> 01:24:18,160
Speaker 11: be there, I have no problem with it.

1621
01:24:18,360 --> 01:24:20,719
Speaker 8: You know, if you're talking, look, baseball is the only sport.

1622
01:24:20,760 --> 01:24:23,519
Speaker 11: You know, Basketball you know have fouls in football, you

1623
01:24:23,560 --> 01:24:26,120
Speaker 11: have fouls and penalties. Baseball is really the only sport

1624
01:24:26,160 --> 01:24:29,639
Speaker 11: where literally every single solitary play is dictated on a

1625
01:24:29,680 --> 01:24:32,320
Speaker 11: call that an umpire makes a ball or a strike,

1626
01:24:32,360 --> 01:24:36,960
Speaker 11: and that can dictate legacies, careers, money, that guys make

1627
01:24:37,439 --> 01:24:40,040
Speaker 11: one bad call, one miscall, it can have such a

1628
01:24:40,080 --> 01:24:43,720
Speaker 11: giant domino effect. And that's every single solitary pitch. If

1629
01:24:43,760 --> 01:24:46,599
Speaker 11: you can find a way to make it more perfect,

1630
01:24:46,880 --> 01:24:49,360
Speaker 11: to automate that, to know exactly what the strike zone

1631
01:24:49,479 --> 01:24:52,080
Speaker 11: is every single solitary night, and a player isn't guessing.

1632
01:24:52,400 --> 01:24:54,320
Speaker 11: On Tuesday, it's this umpire, so it might have a

1633
01:24:54,320 --> 01:24:56,320
Speaker 11: wider zone, And on Thursday it's this umpire, so it

1634
01:24:56,360 --> 01:24:58,200
Speaker 11: might be more narrow. If I just know every single

1635
01:24:58,240 --> 01:25:00,439
Speaker 11: night what my strike zone is, I don't know how

1636
01:25:00,439 --> 01:25:01,639
Speaker 11: that can be bad for the game.

1637
01:25:01,640 --> 01:25:03,000
Speaker 8: That's the way that I look at it.

1638
01:25:04,040 --> 01:25:06,760
Speaker 2: I think those are fair points regarding Walton that you

1639
01:25:06,840 --> 01:25:09,680
Speaker 2: kind of validated what I said most people identifying with

1640
01:25:09,720 --> 01:25:12,840
Speaker 2: his third act. He had three lives college, NBA and

1641
01:25:12,840 --> 01:25:17,680
Speaker 2: then as a broadcaster. And I know who Ralph Lawler is,

1642
01:25:17,720 --> 01:25:21,920
Speaker 2: and I will tell you just picture Nicola Jokic. But

1643
01:25:22,000 --> 01:25:23,920
Speaker 2: who can run like the win and jump out of

1644
01:25:23,920 --> 01:25:25,800
Speaker 2: the gym. And that's I think a lot of people

1645
01:25:26,040 --> 01:25:29,320
Speaker 2: be yes, honest to God. And you had to see.

1646
01:25:29,439 --> 01:25:32,320
Speaker 2: You could probably YouTube some of his You know, he

1647
01:25:32,400 --> 01:25:35,080
Speaker 2: only played two hundred and nine NBA games, amazingly and

1648
01:25:35,439 --> 01:25:38,320
Speaker 2: still what he did. But to see what he did

1649
01:25:38,360 --> 01:25:40,240
Speaker 2: as a big man, you didn't see big men in

1650
01:25:40,280 --> 01:25:44,200
Speaker 2: the seventies as these prolific passers. You see it now, Okay,

1651
01:25:45,160 --> 01:25:47,600
Speaker 2: Jokic is a great passer, but you didn't see that

1652
01:25:47,680 --> 01:25:50,240
Speaker 2: among the big men back in the seventies. Walt was

1653
01:25:50,360 --> 01:25:53,360
Speaker 2: way way way ahead of his time. Good good stuff, Kevin,

1654
01:25:53,360 --> 01:25:55,720
Speaker 2: And you know you're right about baseball. Maybe we uniform it.

1655
01:25:55,760 --> 01:25:59,000
Speaker 2: I'm keeping an open mind. My belief is that baseball

1656
01:25:59,080 --> 01:26:00,840
Speaker 2: is a thinking man's game. I'm going to keep an

1657
01:26:00,840 --> 01:26:03,599
Speaker 2: open mind. It's a thinking managed game. And I have

1658
01:26:03,680 --> 01:26:06,280
Speaker 2: no problem with fair foul home runs and that kind

1659
01:26:06,320 --> 01:26:10,400
Speaker 2: of stuff is subjected to instant replay. But on a subjectivity,

1660
01:26:10,720 --> 01:26:13,120
Speaker 2: when you have a situation where you know an umpire's

1661
01:26:13,439 --> 01:26:16,360
Speaker 2: tendancies and if you've done your homework, you can never

1662
01:26:16,439 --> 01:26:19,000
Speaker 2: completely indemnify yourself, you're right, try to make it better.

1663
01:26:19,040 --> 01:26:21,759
Speaker 2: And that's why I think they're trying to do because

1664
01:26:21,880 --> 01:26:25,599
Speaker 2: in this day and age of social media instant replay,

1665
01:26:26,880 --> 01:26:29,519
Speaker 2: you know, every single game is on TV twenty four

1666
01:26:29,560 --> 01:26:33,200
Speaker 2: to seven highlights. The world has shrunk, and I think

1667
01:26:33,280 --> 01:26:36,439
Speaker 2: people now see what they didn't see forty years ago,

1668
01:26:36,880 --> 01:26:39,479
Speaker 2: and that everything is scrutinized and everything's in a fish bowl.

1669
01:26:39,520 --> 01:26:43,200
Speaker 2: So perhaps you know the optics, if anything else, baseball

1670
01:26:43,240 --> 01:26:45,080
Speaker 2: needs to change, and perhaps this can help them and

1671
01:26:45,160 --> 01:26:48,360
Speaker 2: keep an open mind. Ian Roddy your shot. Let's start

1672
01:26:48,360 --> 01:26:50,679
Speaker 2: with the Jake Paul Tyson fight. Thoughts.

1673
01:26:51,200 --> 01:26:55,720
Speaker 26: Yeah, I just don't see what the point is for

1674
01:26:55,840 --> 01:26:59,280
Speaker 26: Jake Paul. I guess obviously it just gets more eyes

1675
01:26:59,320 --> 01:27:01,160
Speaker 26: on him, and he's fighting one of the one of

1676
01:27:01,200 --> 01:27:04,000
Speaker 26: the greatest boxers in history. But we all know he's

1677
01:27:04,439 --> 01:27:07,280
Speaker 26: Mike Tyson's old now, and this is just another indicator

1678
01:27:07,320 --> 01:27:10,360
Speaker 26: that that's the case. He's he's old, like getting ulcers.

1679
01:27:10,720 --> 01:27:12,680
Speaker 26: That that's an old man problem, you know. And I

1680
01:27:12,720 --> 01:27:14,439
Speaker 26: hate to, I hate to say it, and I hate to,

1681
01:27:14,960 --> 01:27:17,360
Speaker 26: you know, throw shade on Mike Tyson, but he's.

1682
01:27:17,200 --> 01:27:19,040
Speaker 8: Just he's too old for this.

1683
01:27:19,320 --> 01:27:21,519
Speaker 26: And I get what everyone's saying where it's like, you know,

1684
01:27:21,680 --> 01:27:25,280
Speaker 26: if Tyson lands just one hit early on Paul's gonna

1685
01:27:25,320 --> 01:27:27,719
Speaker 26: go down like a rock, you know, I get that.

1686
01:27:27,880 --> 01:27:30,240
Speaker 8: But he's not going to land ahead on him. Jake

1687
01:27:30,280 --> 01:27:32,280
Speaker 8: Paul's not stupid. He knows he is not.

1688
01:27:32,479 --> 01:27:35,000
Speaker 2: He may well be right. I think it's the novelty

1689
01:27:35,040 --> 01:27:37,439
Speaker 2: of this. So just to see, you know what Jake

1690
01:27:37,479 --> 01:27:39,439
Speaker 2: Paul started out, He fought some YouTube guy and knock

1691
01:27:39,520 --> 01:27:41,519
Speaker 2: him out. Oh blah blah blah. Well, he's not going

1692
01:27:41,600 --> 01:27:43,720
Speaker 2: to beat Nate Robinson. He's an NFL player. He put

1693
01:27:43,800 --> 01:27:46,120
Speaker 2: Nate Robinson's to sleep in about two minutes. But that's

1694
01:27:46,120 --> 01:27:49,720
Speaker 2: the thing, right, he kept he kept upping, but he's

1695
01:27:49,880 --> 01:27:53,799
Speaker 2: up the ante every time, including world champion UFC fighters.

1696
01:27:54,120 --> 01:27:55,920
Speaker 2: A lot of boxers don't want to fight him. He

1697
01:27:56,000 --> 01:27:59,479
Speaker 2: could have beat the same seven tomato cans that Fury beat. Anyway,

1698
01:27:59,520 --> 01:28:00,880
Speaker 2: continue with what you were saying.

1699
01:28:00,960 --> 01:28:03,400
Speaker 26: I get that, and I get that he's upgrading each

1700
01:28:03,439 --> 01:28:05,799
Speaker 26: and every time, but it's like, why can't you just

1701
01:28:05,800 --> 01:28:08,560
Speaker 26: just box a real boxer with one caveats?

1702
01:28:08,800 --> 01:28:10,200
Speaker 2: No one really wants to fight him.

1703
01:28:10,280 --> 01:28:11,840
Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, but anyway, and by the.

1704
01:28:11,840 --> 01:28:15,320
Speaker 2: Way, I think this is going to bring eyeballs. It

1705
01:28:15,520 --> 01:28:18,640
Speaker 2: just just simply going to because the novel aspect of it.

1706
01:28:18,680 --> 01:28:23,600
Speaker 2: Whether people gladigator sports are a different form of entertainment.

1707
01:28:23,640 --> 01:28:26,160
Speaker 2: But you bring up a lot of good points about

1708
01:28:26,200 --> 01:28:28,559
Speaker 2: that your thoughts on robot umpires.

1709
01:28:28,840 --> 01:28:33,160
Speaker 26: Yeah, honestly, I liked what what k fig was saying.

1710
01:28:33,240 --> 01:28:37,559
Speaker 26: Just there, Like, to me, nobody likes change, but this

1711
01:28:37,720 --> 01:28:41,320
Speaker 26: makes the product better. So I don't really see theory

1712
01:28:41,760 --> 01:28:42,320
Speaker 26: in theory.

1713
01:28:42,360 --> 01:28:45,400
Speaker 2: But it's not that we don't like change. The transition

1714
01:28:45,479 --> 01:28:46,280
Speaker 2: is going to be hard, but.

1715
01:28:46,240 --> 01:28:48,360
Speaker 26: Go ahead, but it makes the product better and that

1716
01:28:48,720 --> 01:28:51,519
Speaker 26: the calls are more accurate. There's there's no argument with that.

1717
01:28:51,800 --> 01:28:54,040
Speaker 26: It's just a fact, like that's why they're implementing it

1718
01:28:54,080 --> 01:28:57,519
Speaker 26: is because it unequivocally, inarguably makes the calls more accurate.

1719
01:28:57,560 --> 01:28:59,759
Speaker 2: The only argument existent, the only.

1720
01:28:59,680 --> 01:29:01,960
Speaker 26: Argument against it really is that you're taking out the

1721
01:29:02,000 --> 01:29:04,240
Speaker 26: human element, which I get, but I think the main

1722
01:29:04,360 --> 01:29:07,000
Speaker 26: argument with that is that you don't want change, and

1723
01:29:07,000 --> 01:29:09,640
Speaker 26: we're so used to baseball having the human element. But

1724
01:29:09,680 --> 01:29:11,719
Speaker 26: if there's a way where you can literally get every

1725
01:29:11,800 --> 01:29:14,320
Speaker 26: single call right on a pitch, you know, in theory,

1726
01:29:14,880 --> 01:29:16,160
Speaker 26: I don't know why you wouldn't want that.

1727
01:29:18,160 --> 01:29:21,160
Speaker 2: It makes it more consistent. So if you're an umpire

1728
01:29:21,280 --> 01:29:24,400
Speaker 2: and early in the game a pitch below your knees

1729
01:29:24,479 --> 01:29:26,000
Speaker 2: is a ball, and all of a sudden the seventh

1730
01:29:26,040 --> 01:29:29,439
Speaker 2: inning it's a strike, that's no good. You've got to

1731
01:29:29,479 --> 01:29:31,599
Speaker 2: be consistent. What I think the computer will be able

1732
01:29:31,600 --> 01:29:34,760
Speaker 2: to do, like Kevin said, is strive to make things

1733
01:29:34,800 --> 01:29:38,240
Speaker 2: better by making them more consistent. That was my interpretation.

1734
01:29:38,360 --> 01:29:40,160
Speaker 2: So you know, if this is going to be a strike,

1735
01:29:40,360 --> 01:29:41,719
Speaker 2: it's going to be a strike at the same time

1736
01:29:41,920 --> 01:29:44,320
Speaker 2: or the same pitch every time, because we're dealing with

1737
01:29:44,360 --> 01:29:46,479
Speaker 2: a computer, We're not dealing with a human being. Or

1738
01:29:46,479 --> 01:29:49,559
Speaker 2: it might be fatigued. That part I get, so I'm

1739
01:29:49,560 --> 01:29:51,920
Speaker 2: going to keep an open mind on it. My thing

1740
01:29:52,080 --> 01:29:54,479
Speaker 2: was that baseball is a thinking man's game. And if

1741
01:29:54,479 --> 01:29:57,080
Speaker 2: you know, umpires to listen Saturday, and I'm gonna have

1742
01:29:57,160 --> 01:29:59,920
Speaker 2: Larry Sorenson on. He had two hundred and six decis

1743
01:30:00,200 --> 01:30:02,920
Speaker 2: is a major league pitcher, eleven eleven years in the

1744
01:30:02,960 --> 01:30:04,760
Speaker 2: big Leagues's pitching your All Star game. He's doing play

1745
01:30:04,800 --> 01:30:07,040
Speaker 2: by play for Wake Forest now in the College World Series.

1746
01:30:07,200 --> 01:30:09,320
Speaker 2: I'm gonna talk to him about that. You know, catchers

1747
01:30:09,320 --> 01:30:11,640
Speaker 2: are gonna be a little frame anymore. There's gonna be

1748
01:30:11,680 --> 01:30:15,880
Speaker 2: some things. But to everybody's point, the ideology here is

1749
01:30:15,920 --> 01:30:18,920
Speaker 2: to remove from the game what has become a real eyesore.

1750
01:30:19,000 --> 01:30:21,040
Speaker 2: And I get it. I'm not going to debate that

1751
01:30:21,320 --> 01:30:25,080
Speaker 2: any Any thoughts on Bill Walton Ian Roddy from your perspective.

1752
01:30:24,760 --> 01:30:27,000
Speaker 26: Yeah, you know, his playing career was was well before

1753
01:30:27,040 --> 01:30:29,400
Speaker 26: my time and as a as a Trojan myself, I'm

1754
01:30:29,400 --> 01:30:31,559
Speaker 26: not gonna mention his time as a Bruin, of course,

1755
01:30:31,600 --> 01:30:34,599
Speaker 26: but he uh, you know, of course, just just one

1756
01:30:34,640 --> 01:30:37,560
Speaker 26: of the greats. And you know, even as a broadcaster,

1757
01:30:37,720 --> 01:30:40,400
Speaker 26: I was able to hear him plenty and just you know,

1758
01:30:40,439 --> 01:30:41,040
Speaker 26: he'll be missed.

1759
01:30:41,160 --> 01:30:41,799
Speaker 8: He'll be missed.

1760
01:30:42,720 --> 01:30:45,920
Speaker 2: All right, good stuff, Mark Ramsey or any of those

1761
01:30:45,960 --> 01:30:48,280
Speaker 2: three subjects to the catch your fancy.

1762
01:30:49,960 --> 01:30:53,240
Speaker 27: I guess the umpire thing is, it's something that I'm

1763
01:30:53,240 --> 01:30:55,720
Speaker 27: thinking about when it comes to now it you know,

1764
01:30:56,080 --> 01:30:59,000
Speaker 27: is going to be technology that calls balls and strikes.

1765
01:30:59,439 --> 01:31:01,559
Speaker 27: All the play are going to have to get used

1766
01:31:01,600 --> 01:31:05,040
Speaker 27: to this new strike zone, and that'll take time for

1767
01:31:05,040 --> 01:31:07,960
Speaker 27: everybody to get it. And know, you know, like you said,

1768
01:31:08,280 --> 01:31:11,400
Speaker 27: above the knees and then across your letters across your chest,

1769
01:31:11,880 --> 01:31:14,479
Speaker 27: just to get used to that. Then if, like you

1770
01:31:14,600 --> 01:31:18,000
Speaker 27: just said, if there's going to be a physical umpire

1771
01:31:18,200 --> 01:31:22,799
Speaker 27: getting messages from a machine, let's hope the physical person

1772
01:31:22,960 --> 01:31:26,000
Speaker 27: doesn't mistake the call from the machine, and that will

1773
01:31:26,000 --> 01:31:27,240
Speaker 27: start a whole controversy.

1774
01:31:29,080 --> 01:31:31,679
Speaker 2: You know, we just don't know. We all thought when

1775
01:31:31,960 --> 01:31:36,400
Speaker 2: instant replay or check. I keep seeing that NFL replay

1776
01:31:37,080 --> 01:31:41,240
Speaker 2: was instituted decades ago, that they would just finally solve

1777
01:31:41,280 --> 01:31:43,640
Speaker 2: this problem with these stupid referees.

1778
01:31:43,720 --> 01:31:45,160
Speaker 28: It takes too long for them to do it.

1779
01:31:45,200 --> 01:31:47,400
Speaker 27: Like if you just got five guys out of a

1780
01:31:47,439 --> 01:31:50,479
Speaker 27: bar to sit down in New York and call the game.

1781
01:31:50,920 --> 01:31:53,160
Speaker 27: They could do it so quickly they would all agree

1782
01:31:53,200 --> 01:31:56,680
Speaker 27: it's this or that. But just the way the analysts

1783
01:31:56,720 --> 01:31:59,760
Speaker 27: you know, watch and call games from New York, it's

1784
01:31:59,840 --> 01:32:01,760
Speaker 27: kind it just takes way too long when they do it.

1785
01:32:01,760 --> 01:32:04,519
Speaker 8: Football wise, Yes, the execution is brutal.

1786
01:32:04,560 --> 01:32:08,120
Speaker 2: Now we didn't see that coming years ago when this

1787
01:32:08,280 --> 01:32:10,439
Speaker 2: was instituted. So my only question is going to be

1788
01:32:10,479 --> 01:32:16,599
Speaker 2: what don't we see coming with this? There could be nothing.

1789
01:32:15,880 --> 01:32:18,320
Speaker 27: Like you said, like you were saying, it's framing. It's

1790
01:32:18,360 --> 01:32:21,559
Speaker 27: what a catcher does, yes, help his picture. That's what

1791
01:32:21,640 --> 01:32:24,160
Speaker 27: a pictuer does to bring the ball in a certain

1792
01:32:24,200 --> 01:32:26,080
Speaker 27: way to fool a batter.

1793
01:32:26,360 --> 01:32:27,280
Speaker 8: And so if it's.

1794
01:32:27,080 --> 01:32:31,120
Speaker 27: Gonna be a machine, you can't fool a machine because

1795
01:32:31,200 --> 01:32:34,519
Speaker 27: the ball curves or dips a certain way. And then

1796
01:32:34,600 --> 01:32:37,160
Speaker 27: that's going to be a fight against what the strike

1797
01:32:37,280 --> 01:32:39,880
Speaker 27: zone is versus you know, what the piccher can do

1798
01:32:39,960 --> 01:32:43,280
Speaker 27: with the ball. So that just you know, the imagination

1799
01:32:43,439 --> 01:32:47,560
Speaker 27: goes will of what could happen, and it's caused more controversy.

1800
01:32:47,720 --> 01:32:50,240
Speaker 27: So is a manager going to come out of the

1801
01:32:50,320 --> 01:32:52,920
Speaker 27: dugout to argue call you know, balls and strikes now

1802
01:32:53,040 --> 01:32:56,519
Speaker 27: because of the machine, it's just crazy.

1803
01:32:57,920 --> 01:32:59,280
Speaker 2: Do you want to see Tyson fight.

1804
01:33:01,000 --> 01:33:04,599
Speaker 27: I think he's been training so hard. But like Ian

1805
01:33:04,720 --> 01:33:07,559
Speaker 27: just said, he is old, but he's been training so hard.

1806
01:33:07,600 --> 01:33:10,760
Speaker 27: Maybe it caused his also because he's old, but he's

1807
01:33:10,800 --> 01:33:13,240
Speaker 27: training very hard to get ready for the fight because

1808
01:33:13,880 --> 01:33:16,559
Speaker 27: he has reputation, you know, to hold up and just

1809
01:33:16,640 --> 01:33:22,040
Speaker 27: being him. I wouldn't buy it, but I can see

1810
01:33:22,080 --> 01:33:25,880
Speaker 27: that it would be something to do because if if

1811
01:33:26,000 --> 01:33:30,799
Speaker 27: Jake challenged Mike, then he has to take the challenge

1812
01:33:30,840 --> 01:33:33,240
Speaker 27: and try to, you know, break the guy's face because

1813
01:33:33,280 --> 01:33:35,599
Speaker 27: that's what boxes do you get in the ring, and

1814
01:33:35,680 --> 01:33:37,320
Speaker 27: that's the consequence of getting in the ring.

1815
01:33:37,439 --> 01:33:39,679
Speaker 28: So I wouldn't buy it. It's not a big deal.

1816
01:33:40,000 --> 01:33:42,320
Speaker 27: But if if you know, if there's a challenge, then

1817
01:33:42,400 --> 01:33:44,960
Speaker 27: go with the challenge and you know, let the punches fly,

1818
01:33:45,160 --> 01:33:47,519
Speaker 27: see what happens. I think I think Mike would take

1819
01:33:47,560 --> 01:33:48,000
Speaker 27: him out.

1820
01:33:48,200 --> 01:33:49,679
Speaker 2: Do you have an opinion on Bill Walton.

1821
01:33:50,800 --> 01:33:53,719
Speaker 28: I remember him being hurt most of the time, being

1822
01:33:53,760 --> 01:33:54,240
Speaker 28: a player.

1823
01:33:54,680 --> 01:33:56,720
Speaker 2: It was sad, thirty nine surgeries.

1824
01:33:56,280 --> 01:33:58,280
Speaker 28: He would you know, he was just it was like

1825
01:33:58,520 --> 01:33:59,639
Speaker 28: U see la stuff.

1826
01:33:59,720 --> 01:34:02,920
Speaker 27: And then I think he was a trailblazer for a while, yes,

1827
01:34:03,000 --> 01:34:05,320
Speaker 27: and then he became I guess a Celtic, But I

1828
01:34:05,360 --> 01:34:08,439
Speaker 27: just remember him being really good. People liked him. He

1829
01:34:08,560 --> 01:34:10,960
Speaker 27: was big and tough, and he held his own. He

1830
01:34:10,960 --> 01:34:13,479
Speaker 27: could score a lot, but I just remember him being

1831
01:34:13,720 --> 01:34:15,200
Speaker 27: hurt for a lot of the time.

1832
01:34:15,439 --> 01:34:17,720
Speaker 2: He and I mentioned this in my commentary. By his

1833
01:34:17,800 --> 01:34:20,240
Speaker 2: own admission, he believed he peaked as an athlete at

1834
01:34:20,280 --> 01:34:24,439
Speaker 2: twelve because he suffered his first major leg injury knee

1835
01:34:24,479 --> 01:34:27,160
Speaker 2: injury in the sixth grade, and it was never really

1836
01:34:27,240 --> 01:34:30,519
Speaker 2: quite the same. So he played. His face was in pain,

1837
01:34:31,000 --> 01:34:33,400
Speaker 2: his body language is in pain, but he powered through

1838
01:34:33,400 --> 01:34:36,280
Speaker 2: it like nobody I've ever seen. It's a lesson I

1839
01:34:36,280 --> 01:34:39,040
Speaker 2: think anybody could take from. And you know, this is

1840
01:34:39,040 --> 01:34:41,320
Speaker 2: a guy who navigated through life in a way that

1841
01:34:41,400 --> 01:34:45,479
Speaker 2: most people could never imagine. So quite a man left

1842
01:34:45,520 --> 01:34:49,679
Speaker 2: quite an imprint. As you heard the callers mentioned coming up,

1843
01:34:50,600 --> 01:34:55,120
Speaker 2: will Bronnie James be the next Bill Walton. Well, let's

1844
01:34:55,120 --> 01:34:57,760
Speaker 2: tell you what Brownie's plans are, because now he has

1845
01:34:57,840 --> 01:35:01,920
Speaker 2: made a decision. I'm Bernie Fraddle. We're comedy live from

1846
01:35:01,960 --> 01:35:04,439
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1847
01:35:04,439 --> 01:35:06,400
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1848
01:35:06,640 --> 01:35:10,240
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1849
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1850
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1851
01:35:16,920 --> 01:35:19,840
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1852
01:35:19,920 --> 01:35:22,320
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1856
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1857
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1858
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Speaker 2: after we get off the air. All right, so you're

1859
01:35:46,280 --> 01:35:49,639
Speaker 2: gonna hear a lot about Brownie James here. You already

1860
01:35:49,680 --> 01:35:53,400
Speaker 2: are between now and the NBA Draft, which I believe

1861
01:35:53,439 --> 01:35:56,600
Speaker 2: is around June twenty sixth thereabouts. They'll quote me on that,

1862
01:35:56,720 --> 01:36:00,519
Speaker 2: but right around there. And look, I got nothing against

1863
01:36:00,520 --> 01:36:03,000
Speaker 2: Brownnie James. I've heard him in interviews. I think he's

1864
01:36:03,080 --> 01:36:06,839
Speaker 2: a very respectful young man. He's well grounded. I'm impressed

1865
01:36:06,880 --> 01:36:10,760
Speaker 2: by him. I'm impressed by his demeanor. But then there's

1866
01:36:10,760 --> 01:36:14,960
Speaker 2: the reality. He averaged four point eight points per game,

1867
01:36:15,080 --> 01:36:17,679
Speaker 2: shot about thirty one percent. I think from the floor

1868
01:36:18,240 --> 01:36:20,479
Speaker 2: as a backup player on a team that went eight

1869
01:36:20,520 --> 01:36:24,400
Speaker 2: to twelve and a not great conference this year. And

1870
01:36:24,439 --> 01:36:27,080
Speaker 2: then there was some talk about, well, maybe he transferred

1871
01:36:27,200 --> 01:36:31,840
Speaker 2: to Dukane where Lebron, where Lebron's former high school teammate

1872
01:36:31,880 --> 01:36:33,320
Speaker 2: is a head coach, maybe he'd get a chance to

1873
01:36:33,360 --> 01:36:36,120
Speaker 2: kill on the floor. But then, you know, you run

1874
01:36:36,160 --> 01:36:38,200
Speaker 2: the risk of putting him on the floor and against

1875
01:36:38,280 --> 01:36:40,760
Speaker 2: a ten athletes who are pretty damn good, and he

1876
01:36:40,840 --> 01:36:42,880
Speaker 2: might even be more exposed. So maybe he better try

1877
01:36:42,920 --> 01:36:44,760
Speaker 2: to get to the NBA before people figure out it

1878
01:36:44,800 --> 01:36:46,720
Speaker 2: really can't play Now. What do I mean by that?

1879
01:36:46,800 --> 01:36:49,599
Speaker 2: Doesn't mean he can't play basketball. What it means is

1880
01:36:49,920 --> 01:36:51,600
Speaker 2: he's not going to be the type of guy that

1881
01:36:51,720 --> 01:36:54,280
Speaker 2: I can see today. Not that it can't change next year,

1882
01:36:54,280 --> 01:36:57,519
Speaker 2: but I got to deal with today. You put him

1883
01:36:57,520 --> 01:37:00,840
Speaker 2: on an NBA roster, and he's going to tribute. He's

1884
01:37:00,880 --> 01:37:04,160
Speaker 2: gonna contribute in a meaningful way, with a legitimate role.

1885
01:37:04,880 --> 01:37:07,320
Speaker 2: You know. I'm also not going to go as far

1886
01:37:07,360 --> 01:37:11,000
Speaker 2: as to say what Jason Whitlock said, which I think

1887
01:37:11,040 --> 01:37:13,800
Speaker 2: he called him a prop. You don't quote me on that.

1888
01:37:13,880 --> 01:37:16,800
Speaker 2: I did, you know, maybe he didn't say that. I

1889
01:37:16,800 --> 01:37:18,760
Speaker 2: don't know, but I know that. There have been some

1890
01:37:18,920 --> 01:37:21,960
Speaker 2: detractors out there. Look, this is gonna be one of

1891
01:37:22,000 --> 01:37:26,280
Speaker 2: those deals. Okay, professional sports is one of the last

1892
01:37:26,280 --> 01:37:30,599
Speaker 2: true meritocracies. You can't buy your way in. Typically you can't.

1893
01:37:31,040 --> 01:37:33,120
Speaker 2: You know, luck your way in. You got. It's like

1894
01:37:33,200 --> 01:37:35,960
Speaker 2: being a lifeguard. Okay, you can talk to talk and

1895
01:37:36,000 --> 01:37:37,880
Speaker 2: walk the walk, but eventually, one of these days, if

1896
01:37:37,920 --> 01:37:39,960
Speaker 2: you have to dive in the pool to say someone

1897
01:37:39,960 --> 01:37:42,879
Speaker 2: from drowning, everybody's gonna know if you can swim or not. Okay,

1898
01:37:43,120 --> 01:37:46,439
Speaker 2: there's no bsing around here now. I got no b

1899
01:37:46,560 --> 01:37:50,120
Speaker 2: for Lebron using his power too. The dude's got, you know,

1900
01:37:50,240 --> 01:37:53,080
Speaker 2: twenty years in the NBA, he's earned the right to

1901
01:37:53,280 --> 01:37:56,880
Speaker 2: exercise his power and privilege. I got no problem with that.

1902
01:37:56,920 --> 01:37:59,200
Speaker 2: He wants to see his son play in the NBA.

1903
01:37:59,360 --> 01:38:01,599
Speaker 2: He wants to play with his son. I got no

1904
01:38:01,640 --> 01:38:04,040
Speaker 2: problem with that. Frankly, I hope it happens. It may

1905
01:38:04,040 --> 01:38:06,639
Speaker 2: be a spectacle, but I'm a parent of kids who

1906
01:38:06,640 --> 01:38:09,720
Speaker 2: were athletes. My daughter was a division ie athlete. My

1907
01:38:09,800 --> 01:38:12,640
Speaker 2: son could have been elected to do other things. I

1908
01:38:12,720 --> 01:38:14,559
Speaker 2: know what it's like for a father to want something

1909
01:38:14,640 --> 01:38:17,720
Speaker 2: like that. So Lebron, of all the times I've dogged you,

1910
01:38:17,800 --> 01:38:20,320
Speaker 2: this is not one of them. If it happens, it happens.

1911
01:38:20,720 --> 01:38:23,679
Speaker 2: So where are we here, Well, Bronnie James had until

1912
01:38:23,720 --> 01:38:26,559
Speaker 2: Wednesday to decide if you wanted to return to college,

1913
01:38:26,640 --> 01:38:28,680
Speaker 2: which I've already spilled the beans and shared with you.

1914
01:38:28,760 --> 01:38:31,760
Speaker 2: He does not. He's nineteen. He's made up his mind.

1915
01:38:31,800 --> 01:38:33,519
Speaker 2: He's got an agent by the name of Rich Paul.

1916
01:38:34,040 --> 01:38:36,160
Speaker 2: If that makes an If that rings a bell, that's

1917
01:38:36,240 --> 01:38:40,040
Speaker 2: Lebron's agent. A parent's my understanding that Rich Paul told

1918
01:38:40,439 --> 01:38:44,160
Speaker 2: Adrian Wrojanowski this last week that Brownie will forego his

1919
01:38:44,240 --> 01:38:46,920
Speaker 2: remaining college eligibility. He's going to stay in the draft.

1920
01:38:48,080 --> 01:38:50,599
Speaker 2: Somewhere along the line, Paul said, Brownie will not sign

1921
01:38:50,600 --> 01:38:54,800
Speaker 2: a two way contract. Well, isn't that lovely? Okay, you're

1922
01:38:54,800 --> 01:38:59,200
Speaker 2: gonna dictate your Yeah, it's likely done. Look, you don't

1923
01:38:59,200 --> 01:39:01,080
Speaker 2: have to send it to a contract. The team can

1924
01:39:01,120 --> 01:39:02,960
Speaker 2: still send you back and forth to the G League.

1925
01:39:03,000 --> 01:39:05,880
Speaker 2: All right. What they are telling us is that he's

1926
01:39:05,920 --> 01:39:07,800
Speaker 2: a really good prospect who has a lot of room

1927
01:39:07,880 --> 01:39:09,880
Speaker 2: for growth. This is a quote from Rich Paul. It

1928
01:39:09,920 --> 01:39:11,640
Speaker 2: only takes one team. I don't care what that team is.

1929
01:39:11,680 --> 01:39:14,240
Speaker 2: It could be number one or number fifty eight. Rich

1930
01:39:14,280 --> 01:39:16,280
Speaker 2: Paul said, I do care about the plan, the development,

1931
01:39:16,360 --> 01:39:18,960
Speaker 2: the team's strategy, the opportunity, the financial commitment. That's why

1932
01:39:19,000 --> 01:39:21,600
Speaker 2: I'm not doing a two way deal. Every team understands that.

1933
01:39:23,400 --> 01:39:29,360
Speaker 2: Let's also again reiterate the reality. Bronnie James average four

1934
01:39:29,400 --> 01:39:33,840
Speaker 2: point eight points, two point eight rebounds, two point one assists,

1935
01:39:34,160 --> 01:39:38,720
Speaker 2: averaged about nineteen minutes a game playing for USC not

1936
01:39:38,840 --> 01:39:42,960
Speaker 2: exactly a basketball powerhouse. He was a backup and he

1937
01:39:43,479 --> 01:39:44,640
Speaker 2: you know, this is a team that was eight and

1938
01:39:44,640 --> 01:39:48,800
Speaker 2: twelve in conference. Brownie didn't make his debut till mid December.

1939
01:39:49,840 --> 01:39:52,800
Speaker 2: He appears to be okay, thank god, from that cardiac

1940
01:39:53,080 --> 01:39:56,479
Speaker 2: arrest incident he had during the offseason. Underwent a procedure

1941
01:39:56,560 --> 01:40:01,720
Speaker 2: to contreat this, which apparently was a congenital defect, and

1942
01:40:01,760 --> 01:40:03,720
Speaker 2: I think he's been fully clear. So I think it

1943
01:40:03,720 --> 01:40:08,040
Speaker 2: feels like that's completely behind him now. The consensus and

1944
01:40:08,080 --> 01:40:10,960
Speaker 2: the group think Echo Chamber believe that the Lakers will

1945
01:40:11,040 --> 01:40:16,120
Speaker 2: draft Bronnie so he can play with his father. I think,

1946
01:40:17,040 --> 01:40:19,880
Speaker 2: you know. Rich Paul also went on to say that

1947
01:40:19,920 --> 01:40:22,679
Speaker 2: he wants them to treat Bronnie just like any other prospect.

1948
01:40:23,120 --> 01:40:25,759
Speaker 2: How could that be. How could you treat him like anyony.

1949
01:40:25,760 --> 01:40:29,519
Speaker 2: He's Lebron's son, That's impossible. Who wants in the drafted

1950
01:40:29,560 --> 01:40:32,320
Speaker 2: average four point eight points and was a backup fourteen,

1951
01:40:32,360 --> 01:40:35,280
Speaker 2: then went eight and twelve. He's even gonna get drafted now.

1952
01:40:35,880 --> 01:40:39,360
Speaker 2: Apparently Bronnie did receive invitations from multiple teams to work

1953
01:40:39,400 --> 01:40:41,560
Speaker 2: out before the draft. He's only gonna visit with a

1954
01:40:41,600 --> 01:40:44,360
Speaker 2: couple of them. I think it's a Lakers and Phoenix.

1955
01:40:45,439 --> 01:40:49,080
Speaker 2: So again, we're heading toward a collision course here. And

1956
01:40:49,080 --> 01:40:50,800
Speaker 2: by the way, the Lakers could sign him as an

1957
01:40:50,880 --> 01:40:54,559
Speaker 2: undrafted amateur free agent. That could happen as well. I

1958
01:40:54,600 --> 01:40:56,880
Speaker 2: can't imagine why you'd waste a draft choice on Brownie.

1959
01:40:56,920 --> 01:41:01,320
Speaker 2: With all due respect the basketball international sport, fifty eight

1960
01:41:01,320 --> 01:41:03,680
Speaker 2: guys are getting drafted. I mean their first rounders that

1961
01:41:03,800 --> 01:41:05,680
Speaker 2: never make it. There are second rounders, why don't even

1962
01:41:05,720 --> 01:41:10,080
Speaker 2: make the team. So this is an ongoing story. We're

1963
01:41:10,080 --> 01:41:12,160
Speaker 2: all gonna be watching it. And by the way, Lebron,

1964
01:41:12,280 --> 01:41:14,000
Speaker 2: I'm gonna talk about this a little later in the show.

1965
01:41:14,560 --> 01:41:17,599
Speaker 2: He may have tipped his hand. Remember he's a free

1966
01:41:17,640 --> 01:41:20,400
Speaker 2: agent after June twenty ninth, and I'll tell you what

1967
01:41:20,400 --> 01:41:22,200
Speaker 2: his options are coming up just a little bit later

1968
01:41:22,240 --> 01:41:24,719
Speaker 2: in the show, coming up with Christopher Fetz World of Soccer.

1969
01:41:24,760 --> 01:41:26,919
Speaker 2: But first we go back to our guy, Kevin Figures

1970
01:41:26,960 --> 01:41:28,120
Speaker 2: with the latest.

1971
01:41:27,840 --> 01:41:29,400
Speaker 8: All Right, Bernie and Friday Night.

1972
01:41:29,439 --> 01:41:31,880
Speaker 11: In Major League Baseball, Aaron Judge closed out his hot

1973
01:41:31,920 --> 01:41:34,200
Speaker 11: month of May with a bang two home runs as

1974
01:41:34,200 --> 01:41:36,840
Speaker 11: the Yankees defeated at the Giants in San Francisco six

1975
01:41:36,920 --> 01:41:39,719
Speaker 11: to two. Judge fourteen home runs in the month of May.

1976
01:41:39,920 --> 01:41:43,160
Speaker 11: He leads the majors with twenty on the season. Colorado

1977
01:41:43,160 --> 01:41:45,639
Speaker 11: started Dakota Hudson, pitched into the eighth inning and shut

1978
01:41:45,640 --> 01:41:47,720
Speaker 11: down the Dodgers in a four to one victory. In

1979
01:41:47,760 --> 01:41:50,559
Speaker 11: Los Angeles, the Padres scored nine of their eleven runs

1980
01:41:50,560 --> 01:41:52,920
Speaker 11: in the eighth inning as they defeated Kansas City eleven

1981
01:41:52,960 --> 01:41:55,760
Speaker 11: to eight. Carlos Santana home run for the Twins. They

1982
01:41:55,840 --> 01:41:59,240
Speaker 11: defeated Houston six to one. Christian Yelich continued its hot

1983
01:41:59,240 --> 01:42:00,920
Speaker 11: start of the season and he had a five hit

1984
01:42:01,040 --> 01:42:02,880
Speaker 11: night for the Brewers as they hammer at the White

1985
01:42:02,920 --> 01:42:06,040
Speaker 11: Sox twelve to five. You had victories for Boston, Cleveland,

1986
01:42:06,080 --> 01:42:09,040
Speaker 11: and Philadelphia, who has the best record in baseball. They

1987
01:42:09,040 --> 01:42:11,280
Speaker 11: beat Saint Louis four to two Game five in the

1988
01:42:11,280 --> 01:42:13,920
Speaker 11: Western Conference Finals, and the Stanley Cup playoffs saw Edmonton

1989
01:42:13,960 --> 01:42:16,200
Speaker 11: pick up a three to one win over Dallas place

1990
01:42:16,240 --> 01:42:18,080
Speaker 11: in the Oiler's just one went away from the Stanley

1991
01:42:18,080 --> 01:42:20,200
Speaker 11: Cup Final. And an NBA news, the Kings and head

1992
01:42:20,240 --> 01:42:22,919
Speaker 11: coach Mike Brown reportedly agreed to a three year contract

1993
01:42:23,000 --> 01:42:25,920
Speaker 11: extension back to Bernie Fratdo love the.

1994
01:42:26,000 --> 01:42:28,960
Speaker 2: Update and my all name team. Carlos Santana just wanted

1995
01:42:29,000 --> 01:42:31,200
Speaker 2: to one think Evan has he changed his evil ways?

1996
01:42:32,760 --> 01:42:35,360
Speaker 2: Thanks for earning that joke. All right, joy the rest

1997
01:42:35,360 --> 01:42:38,920
Speaker 2: of your eating pal you too. All right, listen, we

1998
01:42:38,960 --> 01:42:41,200
Speaker 2: are coming up on the Olympics here, we're about forty

1999
01:42:41,200 --> 01:42:43,080
Speaker 2: five days away. I was just in Paris all the

2000
01:42:43,120 --> 01:42:46,120
Speaker 2: stuff that means soccer. But hell, you know, we don't

2001
01:42:46,120 --> 01:42:49,439
Speaker 2: need games on the field. We don't need anything happening.

2002
01:42:49,479 --> 01:42:51,559
Speaker 2: There's always news in the world of soccer. That's kind

2003
01:42:51,560 --> 01:42:53,240
Speaker 2: of an oxyborn what I just said. That's why we

2004
01:42:53,320 --> 01:42:57,800
Speaker 2: bring you at this time every week Chris Perffett's World of.

2005
01:42:57,800 --> 01:43:15,880
Speaker 5: Soccer goals, the thrilling, finishes, the international drum. It's all

2006
01:43:15,920 --> 01:43:18,879
Speaker 5: here in this report from the World of Soccer.

2007
01:43:19,600 --> 01:43:24,559
Speaker 6: June one, three PM Eastern is the biggest day in

2008
01:43:24,640 --> 01:43:28,559
Speaker 6: the world of soccer. It is time for the UEFA

2009
01:43:28,800 --> 01:43:33,840
Speaker 6: Champions League Final, a single match to between the two

2010
01:43:33,880 --> 01:43:38,400
Speaker 6: best teams in Europe. It is a match that enthralls

2011
01:43:38,439 --> 01:43:43,799
Speaker 6: the world, beaten only probably by the FIFA World Cup Final.

2012
01:43:44,200 --> 01:43:49,120
Speaker 6: And this year we have Spain and Germany Borussia Dortmund

2013
01:43:49,520 --> 01:43:55,520
Speaker 6: from the German Bundesliga against the Royalty of Europe, Spain's

2014
01:43:55,720 --> 01:44:00,320
Speaker 6: Real Madrid. It has been a fantastic road for both

2015
01:44:00,360 --> 01:44:04,320
Speaker 6: clubs to reach this day. Here Real Madrid once again

2016
01:44:04,400 --> 01:44:08,040
Speaker 6: capturing another La Liga title along the way, while staring

2017
01:44:08,080 --> 01:44:11,639
Speaker 6: down some of the giants in the Champions League and

2018
01:44:11,800 --> 01:44:16,080
Speaker 6: slamming through as they always do. They won Champions League

2019
01:44:16,120 --> 01:44:19,280
Speaker 6: just two years ago and are once again back on

2020
01:44:19,400 --> 01:44:21,960
Speaker 6: top with all of the fortunes looking their way with

2021
01:44:22,080 --> 01:44:26,360
Speaker 6: a very young twenty year old Jude Bellingham, a phenomenal

2022
01:44:26,439 --> 01:44:30,280
Speaker 6: young phenom star. All of the names they have Anisius Junior,

2023
01:44:30,680 --> 01:44:32,560
Speaker 6: you can go on and on down the list, and

2024
01:44:32,600 --> 01:44:35,439
Speaker 6: they're ready to add Killian and Bape at some point

2025
01:44:35,479 --> 01:44:36,639
Speaker 6: here in the future.

2026
01:44:37,280 --> 01:44:39,799
Speaker 8: The Royalty befits Real Madrid.

2027
01:44:39,840 --> 01:44:43,639
Speaker 6: They are the most decorated club in European sports. Out

2028
01:44:43,640 --> 01:44:48,040
Speaker 6: there right now, and naturally you can probably find them

2029
01:44:48,120 --> 01:44:51,160
Speaker 6: as of Friday night as a betting favorite minus one

2030
01:44:51,360 --> 01:44:55,000
Speaker 6: sixty five in this match. But while they may be

2031
01:44:55,200 --> 01:44:57,760
Speaker 6: getting some very long shot odds, last I saw was

2032
01:44:57,760 --> 01:45:00,680
Speaker 6: about plus four twenty five when I look this up

2033
01:45:00,680 --> 01:45:04,439
Speaker 6: here on Friday night. But Barussia Dortmund has not been

2034
01:45:04,520 --> 01:45:08,400
Speaker 6: a slouch in the Champions League's playoffs their domestic season,

2035
01:45:08,680 --> 01:45:12,160
Speaker 6: not really much to talk about, finishing fifth in Germany,

2036
01:45:12,400 --> 01:45:16,519
Speaker 6: with obviously their real attention, their real attention coming here

2037
01:45:16,880 --> 01:45:21,040
Speaker 6: to prepare for Real Madrid, to prepare and try to

2038
01:45:21,120 --> 01:45:24,759
Speaker 6: win Europe. Barusia Dortmund probably the second best known club

2039
01:45:25,040 --> 01:45:28,799
Speaker 6: in Germany after Bayern Munich, the founders of the great

2040
01:45:28,920 --> 01:45:33,799
Speaker 6: Yellow Wall, a massive massive tifo or moving your image

2041
01:45:33,840 --> 01:45:37,719
Speaker 6: dispersed among the fans, that is raised, a massive banner

2042
01:45:37,840 --> 01:45:42,519
Speaker 6: raised in their stands by their delirious fans. The yellow

2043
01:45:42,600 --> 01:45:47,040
Speaker 6: and black of Borussia Dortmund will be here at Wembley

2044
01:45:47,200 --> 01:45:50,080
Speaker 6: and they will be showing up because this is not

2045
01:45:50,160 --> 01:45:52,200
Speaker 6: a team that had an easy road here. They had

2046
01:45:52,240 --> 01:45:55,639
Speaker 6: to play and defeat Paris Saint Germain. They had to

2047
01:45:55,720 --> 01:46:00,040
Speaker 6: play Milan, a very decorated Italian club. They had to

2048
01:46:00,080 --> 01:46:04,280
Speaker 6: get past at Lettiico Madrid in a thunderous second leg,

2049
01:46:04,400 --> 01:46:07,439
Speaker 6: showing they have shown you everything you so desire from

2050
01:46:07,479 --> 01:46:10,560
Speaker 6: a club here that is not one of the usuals

2051
01:46:10,600 --> 01:46:13,920
Speaker 6: of this new era, as so dominated by the Milan

2052
01:46:14,040 --> 01:46:19,360
Speaker 6: clubs Real Madrid and Manchester City, but rest assured they

2053
01:46:19,360 --> 01:46:24,880
Speaker 6: are no strangers to the top of this pyramid. While

2054
01:46:24,920 --> 01:46:28,080
Speaker 6: their last Champions League can win came in nineteen ninety

2055
01:46:28,160 --> 01:46:30,880
Speaker 6: seven and they were runners up in twenty thirteen to

2056
01:46:30,960 --> 01:46:35,519
Speaker 6: Bayern Munich, Norman has always shown themselves a respectable play

2057
01:46:35,760 --> 01:46:38,280
Speaker 6: wherever they've been and it is in this game we

2058
01:46:38,320 --> 01:46:42,719
Speaker 6: will be saying farewell to two great players of both sides,

2059
01:46:43,880 --> 01:46:47,960
Speaker 6: both German. Actually, Tony Kruz for Real Madrid, who has

2060
01:46:48,000 --> 01:46:52,600
Speaker 6: been playing for the club for ten years, their phenomenal midfielder,

2061
01:46:52,600 --> 01:46:54,840
Speaker 6: has announced he will be leaving the club at the.

2062
01:46:54,840 --> 01:46:55,639
Speaker 8: End of this year.

2063
01:46:56,160 --> 01:46:59,639
Speaker 6: And for Dorman it's a bit more of a stronger story.

2064
01:46:59,680 --> 01:47:04,879
Speaker 6: It is he's a homegrown kid from dormant himsorrowself Marco Reese,

2065
01:47:05,360 --> 01:47:09,679
Speaker 6: age thirty five, who has been with Dortmund since twenty twelve.

2066
01:47:10,880 --> 01:47:14,000
Speaker 6: He spent his youth career there as well, made his

2067
01:47:14,080 --> 01:47:16,360
Speaker 6: way up up there and has been with them for

2068
01:47:16,400 --> 01:47:19,439
Speaker 6: some of their finest years and has been a club

2069
01:47:19,520 --> 01:47:23,120
Speaker 6: captain for the past five It's already been heartfelt farewells

2070
01:47:23,160 --> 01:47:28,200
Speaker 6: to Reese the in Bundesliga, and here in Wembley it

2071
01:47:28,240 --> 01:47:31,120
Speaker 6: will be farewell for him as well. It is a

2072
01:47:31,280 --> 01:47:35,120
Speaker 6: major match, Bernie, Dortmund looking to play the spoiler, Real

2073
01:47:35,200 --> 01:47:37,640
Speaker 6: Madrid looking to continue their legacy.

2074
01:47:37,720 --> 01:47:38,880
Speaker 8: It is what we live for.

2075
01:47:38,960 --> 01:47:43,000
Speaker 6: The Champions League is one of the finest nights of

2076
01:47:43,080 --> 01:47:46,680
Speaker 6: soccer you can ask for out there, and you know

2077
01:47:46,840 --> 01:47:49,800
Speaker 6: we're going to be continuing throughout the summer because once

2078
01:47:49,880 --> 01:47:53,000
Speaker 6: Champions League is over, there's still plenty more to come.

2079
01:47:53,800 --> 01:47:55,040
Speaker 8: Just as the United States.

2080
01:47:54,840 --> 01:47:58,639
Speaker 6: Women's team, who welcome in their new coach, Emma Hayes

2081
01:47:59,240 --> 01:48:04,559
Speaker 6: and has been camp meeting the media and saying that

2082
01:48:04,600 --> 01:48:06,720
Speaker 6: she's not going to change much. The DNA of a

2083
01:48:06,760 --> 01:48:09,439
Speaker 6: team that honestly just had its worst World Cup showing

2084
01:48:09,479 --> 01:48:11,920
Speaker 6: out there and now to turn around and prepare for

2085
01:48:12,439 --> 01:48:15,960
Speaker 6: the Olympic Games coming up here in Paris here very soon.

2086
01:48:16,400 --> 01:48:19,960
Speaker 6: And also in about two weeks time, Euro twenty twenty four,

2087
01:48:20,040 --> 01:48:23,559
Speaker 6: the Euro Championships is going to be underway, and you

2088
01:48:23,600 --> 01:48:25,680
Speaker 6: want to talk about one of the finest competitions you

2089
01:48:25,720 --> 01:48:29,080
Speaker 6: can find outside of a World Cup year. It will

2090
01:48:29,080 --> 01:48:32,200
Speaker 6: be there, and so too will be the Copa America,

2091
01:48:32,320 --> 01:48:35,759
Speaker 6: being held between most of the countries of South America,

2092
01:48:35,800 --> 01:48:38,519
Speaker 6: but also included this year in a twist, some of

2093
01:48:38,560 --> 01:48:41,360
Speaker 6: the top countries from the CONCACAF region that is North America,

2094
01:48:41,360 --> 01:48:44,960
Speaker 6: and yes, that does include the United States men's team

2095
01:48:45,360 --> 01:48:49,280
Speaker 6: will be there. Of course, the men do not play

2096
01:48:50,160 --> 01:48:53,320
Speaker 6: in the Olympics soccer it is for the men's and

2097
01:48:53,479 --> 01:48:57,600
Speaker 6: under twenty three competition, whereas realmen's soccer it is the

2098
01:48:57,680 --> 01:48:58,400
Speaker 6: senior game.

2099
01:48:58,560 --> 01:49:00,439
Speaker 8: As expected, rest.

2100
01:49:00,280 --> 01:49:03,479
Speaker 6: Assured, this is going to be a fantastic summer of soccer.

2101
01:49:03,600 --> 01:49:07,200
Speaker 6: We're almost at the halfway point of the Major League

2102
01:49:07,200 --> 01:49:09,720
Speaker 6: Soccer season as well. We haven't really gotten to talk

2103
01:49:09,760 --> 01:49:12,240
Speaker 6: too much about it, mostly because MLS, while it is

2104
01:49:12,280 --> 01:49:15,519
Speaker 6: here in the United States, it's not exactly the best soccer.

2105
01:49:15,560 --> 01:49:16,479
Speaker 8: But rest assured.

2106
01:49:16,760 --> 01:49:20,480
Speaker 6: Leonel Messi continues to draw eyes to the MLS competitions

2107
01:49:20,680 --> 01:49:24,200
Speaker 6: and we will dive further and further into that. For now,

2108
01:49:24,240 --> 01:49:28,519
Speaker 6: though we ask you watch the Champions League Final. It

2109
01:49:28,600 --> 01:49:30,599
Speaker 6: is some of the finest you will see out there.

2110
01:49:31,400 --> 01:49:34,160
Speaker 6: I have loved the story of Dortmund and Real Madrid

2111
01:49:34,240 --> 01:49:37,040
Speaker 6: coming to this table and we will next time on

2112
01:49:37,080 --> 01:49:39,360
Speaker 6: the World of Soccer, we'll recap it and tell you

2113
01:49:39,400 --> 01:49:40,080
Speaker 6: all about it.

2114
01:49:40,200 --> 01:49:41,320
Speaker 8: See you soon, Bernie.

2115
01:49:42,160 --> 01:49:45,240
Speaker 2: This is in fact a big deal, Chris, you nailed it.

2116
01:49:46,320 --> 01:49:50,320
Speaker 2: Dortmund versus Real Madrid. This is basically to crown the

2117
01:49:50,439 --> 01:49:54,360
Speaker 2: champion of Europe. I believe it will kick off noon

2118
01:49:54,520 --> 01:49:57,559
Speaker 2: Pacific time, which is a time zone we're in. The

2119
01:49:57,600 --> 01:50:01,639
Speaker 2: game will be played at Wembley Stadium in London, which

2120
01:50:01,680 --> 01:50:04,120
Speaker 2: of course is special to me. I was just there

2121
01:50:04,160 --> 01:50:06,880
Speaker 2: ten days ago. I tweeted out a picture of myself

2122
01:50:06,920 --> 01:50:10,519
Speaker 2: standing right outside of Wembley Stadium. It's an awesome place

2123
01:50:10,520 --> 01:50:13,960
Speaker 2: to be. And of course Real Madrid, led by Christian

2124
01:50:14,000 --> 01:50:16,519
Speaker 2: and Romaldo, they are a heavy favorite. But you get

2125
01:50:16,560 --> 01:50:21,120
Speaker 2: these teams together and you know, just about anything can happen.

2126
01:50:21,200 --> 01:50:25,120
Speaker 2: I think the match prediction is that Real Madrid is

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Speaker 2: clearly the leading favorite to win the Champions League trophy

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Speaker 2: would have been their fifteenth trophy. But you cannot underestimate

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Speaker 2: Barussia Dortmund, because these guys are going to make Real

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Speaker 2: Madrid work for everything. So we shall see coming up.

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Speaker 2: We talked about Bronnie James's plans. Could Lebron James throw

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Speaker 2: a curveball into the mixt year. I'll tell you what

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Speaker 2: we think we know. Did his agent accidentally slip up

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Speaker 2: the other day? Let's tell you what we think we know,

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Speaker 2: we think we know. I'm Bernie Fraddle work, coming you

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Speaker 2: live from the Las Vegas Fox Sports Radio tirect dot

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Speaker 2: com studios. Keep it locked right here. You're listening to

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Speaker 2: the Bernie Frattle Show on Fox Sports Radio. All right,

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Speaker 2: we are wrapping it up on the Bernie Fraddle Show,

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Speaker 2: coming you live from the tarrac dot Com studios here

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Speaker 2: in Las Vegas. Before I go any further this evening

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Speaker 2: or this morning, depending on your perspective, I want to

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Speaker 2: thank my broadcast team back in Los Angeles. They've been

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Speaker 2: with me since eleven pm Pacific on Saturday night. Of course,

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Speaker 2: Mark Ramsey, our technical producer, turning all the dials, keeping

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Speaker 2: us food together. They're running the type ship, keeping the

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Speaker 2: plane in the air. That for a mixed metaphors. Kevin

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Speaker 2: Figgers our man, Molly whopping all of the updates, and

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Speaker 2: Ian Roddy, great job as always, guys. He and Roddy

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Speaker 2: taking all the calls at midnight hour. We took another

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Speaker 2: eighteen calls tonight in the midnight hour. The callers were outstanding.

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Speaker 2: Appreciate it in, you know, really good interesting perspectives, and

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Speaker 2: like I've always said, the most boring conversations are when

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Speaker 2: everybody agrees. So there were some really good, I thought,

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Speaker 2: varying opinions on robots umpires in baseball, which they're going

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Speaker 2: to be doing I think in spring training next year.

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Speaker 2: They're doing in the minor leagues now just a matter

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Speaker 2: of time. We talked about the Dyson Tyson Jake Paul fight.

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Speaker 2: Mike Tyson has the ulcer situation which is not allowing

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Speaker 2: him to train, so therefore the fight's being backed up

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Speaker 2: until he can resume his training. I am told by

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Speaker 2: people I trust that this fight is going on one

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Speaker 2: hundred percent and that you will probably see an alternative

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Speaker 2: date by next Friday.

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Speaker 3: June.

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Speaker 2: Staff did some great tributes to Bill Walton. If you

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Speaker 2: missed my tribute to Bill Walton at the top of

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Speaker 2: the show, it was about a ten minute tribute. You know,

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Speaker 2: I got to see Bill Walton play court side. So

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Speaker 2: Bill Walton had three lives, his UCLA, his NBA life,

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Speaker 2: and then of course as a broadcaster that was his

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01:53:03,600 --> 01:53:07,040
Speaker 2: final act, which most people identify with the most in

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Speaker 2: the last forty years, and again after the show. Shortly

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Speaker 2: after the show, our podcast Dean Roddy will be taking

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Speaker 2: care of that. It will be going up. If you

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Speaker 2: missed any of tonight's show, be sure to check out

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Speaker 2: the podcast. Just search Fox Sports Radio wherever you get

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Speaker 2: your podcast. Be sure to also follow, rate and review

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Speaker 2: the podcast. Again, just search Fox Sports Radio wherever you

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Speaker 2: get your podcast. You'll see the show posted right after

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Speaker 2: we get off the air. All right, as I mentioned

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Speaker 2: a while back, you're going to be hearing the name

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Speaker 2: Bronnie James a lot here in the next coming weeks.

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Speaker 2: It has already started. And again I got no beef

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Speaker 2: with Bronnie whatsoever. It seems like a respectable young man,

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Speaker 2: well grounded young man, very personable and all the you know,

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01:53:54,200 --> 01:53:56,400
Speaker 2: checks all out of the boxes. I didn't say it

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Speaker 2: could play. That remains to be seen. It's a hard

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Speaker 2: time swallowing the four point eight points, the two point

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Speaker 2: eight rebounds, the two point one assists while playing a

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Speaker 2: whopping nineteen minutes a game for USC as a backup

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Speaker 2: on a team that went eight and twelve in conference.

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01:54:15,000 --> 01:54:17,120
Speaker 2: Could he have transferred to Duquane this year and played

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Speaker 2: for Lebron's high school teammate head coach and gotten a

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Speaker 2: chance to show Pedal his wares in the Atlantic ten. Sure,

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Speaker 2: but then he would have been exposed and they would

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Speaker 2: have realized he couldn't play and would have killed his

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Speaker 2: opportunity for the draft. So I think, you know, you

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Speaker 2: have a situation here where you got to strike while

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01:54:33,920 --> 01:54:36,200
Speaker 2: the iron is hot, and they get in the NBA

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Speaker 2: Draft before someone figures out something's right. And again, I

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Speaker 2: want to be clear, this is a father Lebron who

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Speaker 2: this is his dream, not Brownie's dream, and I hope

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Speaker 2: they put it together. I know that may sound like

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Speaker 2: an oxymoron coming from me, but why not. Let's see

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Speaker 2: this happen. Lebron wants it to happen. He's got the

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Speaker 2: means to make it happen. You cannot deny the man.

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Speaker 2: For you, He's in the power that he's earned in

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Speaker 2: his twenty years in the NBA. It's just the way

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Speaker 2: it works, man. If you got it, flaunt it. And

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Speaker 2: he's doing it. So that begs the question, we know

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Speaker 2: what Bronni's plans are. He told everybody Wednesday that he's

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Speaker 2: not going to stay in college. He's he's up for

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Speaker 2: the draft, and whether he's draft one of the top

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Speaker 2: fifty eight players we're gonna be watching June twenty six,

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Speaker 2: it's gonna add a wrinkle, or maybe he signs as

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Speaker 2: an amateur free agent. But here's the kicker. If he's

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Speaker 2: not on the same team with Lebron, is then that

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01:55:30,400 --> 01:55:32,120
Speaker 2: kind of kills that dream of him playing together. I

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Speaker 2: suppose he could play against him, but I just have

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Speaker 2: a hard time seeing Bronni getting on the floor with

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Speaker 2: anybody in the NBA next year in a meaningful game

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Speaker 2: where he's counted to, you know, function in a role

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Speaker 2: that might help lead his team to victory. I'm not

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Speaker 2: seeing that now. Just this last week, Lebron's agent may

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Speaker 2: have inadvertly maybe revealed what Lebron really plans to do

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Speaker 2: this offseason. Now, I'm sure you already know. Lebron has

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Speaker 2: a fifty one morellion dollar player option for next season,

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Speaker 2: and that will expire June twenty ninth. If Lebron opts

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Speaker 2: out of the final year of his deal, he would

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Speaker 2: become a free agent. Now, earlier this month, Lebron expressed

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Speaker 2: he still wasn't sure what he plans to do this offseason. Now,

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Speaker 2: I think there's a better chance of Led Zeppelin re

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Speaker 2: recording the Gilligan's Island theme song and selling a million

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Speaker 2: copies than Lebron leaving the Lakers. They just don't see it,

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Speaker 2: especially since it appears imminent that they're about to hire

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Speaker 2: JJ Redick. It's you know, they've drug it out three weeks.

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Speaker 2: I said they drag it out four to five. I'm wrong,

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Speaker 2: They're gonna dry drag it out six. But I think

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Speaker 2: they're gonna hire JJ Redick, and I would be shocked

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Speaker 2: if Lebron opts out, But his agent possibly inadvertently tipped

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Speaker 2: off Lebron's plans. Apparently. Rich Paul was on the TNT's

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Speaker 2: alternative broadcast during Game two of the Western Conference Finals

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Speaker 2: between the t Wolves and Dallas about a week ago,

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Speaker 2: I think it was, and he was asked about the

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Speaker 2: Lakers head coaching vacancy and dropped sort of this interesting thought.

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Speaker 2: He said, quote, look, Lebron's a free agent. I've got

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Speaker 2: to be focused on his business, and he should be

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Speaker 2: focused on his business and let the Lakers hire whoever

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Speaker 2: they want to hire. Lebron has a pending player option,

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Speaker 2: and you already knew that. Chris Haynes Bleacher Reports Chris Hanes,

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Speaker 2: he does a great job, by the way. He really

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Speaker 2: knows his stuff. He was also on the broadcast tried

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Speaker 2: to confirm if Paul meant, well, does that mean Lebron

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Speaker 2: James was declining his player option to become a free agent,

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Speaker 2: and Rich Paul kind of backtracked and said he doesn't

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Speaker 2: know what James plans to do. We're really gonna do

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Speaker 2: this again. Lebron's just gonna milk this for all it's worth.

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01:57:43,640 --> 01:57:47,120
Speaker 2: Remember last year, you know I'm up retire. I don't

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Speaker 2: think we're going to come on, shut up. And I

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Speaker 2: don't think he's ever going to retire. I think he

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Speaker 2: played nunder twenty years because he wants to and he

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01:57:52,560 --> 01:57:56,720
Speaker 2: probably can. There have been rumblings about Lebron potentially leaving

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Speaker 2: the Lakers to play for whatever team drafts Brownie, but

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Speaker 2: I think there's only one other even the mix, that

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Speaker 2: would maybe Phoenix, I don't know, I can't see it,

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Speaker 2: maybe the Sixers. What's interesting, if Lebron was really serious

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Speaker 2: on winning and playing with Brownie, take let's money go

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Speaker 2: to the Sixers. The Sixers got a sald. The Sixers

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Speaker 2: can afford him, and they could do this whole deal.

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Speaker 2: But I think Lebron wants to stay in LA. I

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Speaker 2: really do. Whether or not Lebron James stays with the

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Speaker 2: Lakers might be one of the more interesting stories of

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Speaker 2: the offseason. I think it'll ultimately be any climactic. I

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01:58:26,320 --> 01:58:30,200
Speaker 2: think the most interesting story right now will be does

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Speaker 2: somebody actually invest a draft choice on Brownie James? Do

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01:58:36,360 --> 01:58:38,880
Speaker 2: you really want to do that? Or sign him as

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Speaker 2: an amateur free agent? Let him get into camp and

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01:58:40,800 --> 01:58:44,560
Speaker 2: see what he can do. Again. I just can't get

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01:58:44,600 --> 01:58:46,840
Speaker 2: past the four point eight points as a backup player

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01:58:46,880 --> 01:58:52,280
Speaker 2: on a USC team. It wasn't exactly great. All right,

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna be back on these airwaves here at eleven

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Speaker 2: pm Pacific time on Saturday night. We got all kinds

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Speaker 2: of stuff look ahead of the NBA Finals. We got

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01:59:01,720 --> 01:59:05,040
Speaker 2: more stuff on robots and baseball, NFL hard knocks, brand

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01:59:05,080 --> 01:59:07,480
Speaker 2: new food, what by name. It's all there, so we'll

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Speaker 2: see it Saturday night. Keep it locked. The Great Anthony

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Speaker 2: Gargano up next on Fox Sports Radio.