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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio, Greetings, welcome in side our three, The

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Speaker 1: Jason Smith Show with my bass friend Mike Harmon. They

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Speaker 1: are who we thought they were, and we let about

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Speaker 1: the hook could be saying that about the Lakers. Hey,

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Speaker 1: our chance to prove our start is not a fluke.

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Speaker 1: We got the defending chance tonight. We're gonna show you.

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Speaker 1: I'm Luca, I'm Austin. We don't need Lebron James. I

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Speaker 1: think they need Lebron James. One one ninety two is

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Speaker 1: the final. This game was not close from the three

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Speaker 1: minute mark of the first quarter. That sounds about right.

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Speaker 1: That's where the game started to get away from the

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Speaker 1: Lakers and it never never got back thirty eighteen after one,

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Speaker 1: and then they.

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Speaker 2: Got doubled up in the second quarter forty to twenty

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Speaker 2: and it's been a laugh for ever since. We just

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Speaker 2: had sad Luca sitting on the bench. It's like, where's

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Speaker 2: my phone? This will be let me play candy Crush

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Speaker 2: or something else or solitaire too soon.

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Speaker 1: Well, no, no, no, you can't do the solitaire thing. Dude.

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Speaker 1: That's bad. Nobody, that's a bad joke now. Man. There's

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Speaker 1: a lot of upset people about that. There's a lot

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Speaker 1: of people want people's careers to end, and people are

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Speaker 1: apologizing on social media. The solitaire is I.

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Speaker 2: Mean, wow, I didn't look into it. I just took

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Speaker 2: the cash. No, that doesn't doesn't excuse you. Yeah, you're

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Speaker 2: supposed to be the smartest person in the room. That's

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Speaker 2: what people keep telling me all these years. You're a brilliant,

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Speaker 2: brilliant equation breaking through in math petition, and you're smarter

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Speaker 2: than the rest of us.

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Speaker 1: And no, who knew. One guy bored with his career

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Speaker 1: and playing solitaire in an incredibly embarrassing situation turns out

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Speaker 1: who didn't like it or tried to help him within it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah kind of weird, right, I have that spiraled out

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Speaker 2: of control. But whatever Luca was doing, we laughed at it.

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Speaker 2: His pregame it was the all right, we're about to

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Speaker 2: go take on the defending champs, and they did the

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Speaker 2: locker room shot where they're just sitting there, legs folded,

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Speaker 2: hanging out on their phones and then all of a

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Speaker 1: Solitaire. No, get you look, big day in Major League Baseball,

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Speaker 1: school Ball and schemes of your cy Young Award winners.

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Speaker 1: And now we get to the point of the of

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Speaker 1: the year whenever, Hey, when someone wins something, it becomes

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Speaker 1: about what's next. Now, for for Trek school Ball and

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Speaker 1: Paul Skins, it's okay, they won. Now when are they

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Speaker 1: gonna get traded? Right? Because now we get it, it's

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Speaker 1: the silly see and the time of the year that

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Speaker 1: the stars. Because now when you hear something about somebody,

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Speaker 1: yes it's a Boris client. Great, you just know. If

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Speaker 1: I know a guy's a Boris client, I know he's

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Speaker 1: leaving my team. And you knew that today was schoobl

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Speaker 1: He's a Boris client's while we're talking about school getting

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Speaker 1: traded away from the Tigers, because you know he's not

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Speaker 1: the guy after this today, certain things will get me

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Speaker 1: Top gun viper. He went Merlin, he went Tim Robbins.

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Speaker 1: He didn't want to say, I don't want to just

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Speaker 1: hit you off the top with Maverick and Iceman and Goose. No, no,

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Speaker 1: I love the guy. He loves top Gun like I do.

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Speaker 1: just talk about top gun with him. Did they How

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Speaker 1: much more did he did he go on? In the

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Speaker 1: I think you know I want to I want to

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Speaker 1: to it, but you go Merlin Man, Like, not a

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Speaker 1: lot of people remember Merlin. No, it's good, you know.

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Speaker 1: don't even know, like I think they mentioned Merlin's name

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Speaker 1: But I'm like, dude, you want Merlin man. That's a

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Speaker 1: that's a deep pull, that's a deep po. I if

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Speaker 1: I would just want to talk about top Gun. Don't

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Speaker 1: No, I want to talk about.

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Speaker 2: Top Gun, top Gun, And then you run some Hamilton line.

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Speaker 2: See if he's as well versed in that the whole show.

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Speaker 2: So Scott Boris, You're you're now okay, philosophically. For as

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Speaker 2: long as you and I have been doing this show together,

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Speaker 2: mutter something under your breath to where you're not, you know,

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Speaker 2: the biggest advocate, well as a guy who is a

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Speaker 2: guy's got nine billion pages of datus. Oh you'll tell

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Speaker 2: you how great I am. But but that, but that,

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Speaker 1: Of what it was with Scott bar because I tell

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Speaker 1: you that when I met Scott Bors. This is about

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Speaker 1: going back like fifteen years. I want to say a

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Speaker 1: talking and he goes, he sends to me, he says, so,

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Speaker 1: how to feel about Manny? And I said, well, I

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Speaker 1: is that? I go cause I'm gonna say back when

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Speaker 1: when this was, you know, a contract you never got

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Speaker 1: to go. I think the Dodge should give him like

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Speaker 1: three years and one hundred million dollars. And Boris looked

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Speaker 1: at me and said, well, don't sell them short. And

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Speaker 1: I was like, I like that. I mean that was back.

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Speaker 1: I mean you're talking about fifty where the idea of

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Speaker 1: making thirty million dollars a year was like, that's never

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Speaker 1: gonna happen. But that's how big Manny Ramirez was with

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Speaker 1: the Dodgers. When he comes in, yeah, he just don't

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Speaker 1: sell him short. But I always got with Boris, I'm like, okay, here,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you why he's so valuable, like having

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Speaker 1: to talk about his clients, go, this guy's the best.

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Speaker 1: He's a five tool athlete. No one's a better five

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Speaker 1: tool than him. He does this, he does like okay,

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Speaker 1: you are you do you really walk into these meetings

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Speaker 1: and and and try to tell the gms and the

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Speaker 1: owners this like they don't know this already, Like they go, wait, wait, wait,

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Speaker 1: he had an ops of nine under this year. I

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Speaker 1: don't I didn't get that information anywhere. Really, Oh you

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Speaker 1: mean you think we can sell more hot dogs if

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Speaker 1: we sign him because people will come to games. Really,

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Speaker 1: that's fascinating. Really did well wait a minute, wait a minute,

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Speaker 1: he was third in the league at home runs. How

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Speaker 1: did I not know this? Like this is what he does.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, they know the resume.

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Speaker 2: But it's also the kind of thing that it's been

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Speaker 2: Obviously I say that with you know, tongue in cheek

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Speaker 2: laughing about it, because does that mean every other agent

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Speaker 2: how a guy compares against the rest of the free agent.

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Speaker 2: They just kind of come in winging it. Here's my guy,

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Speaker 1: He had, uh, how many how many RBIs? One hundred

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Speaker 1: really good. Would you what was your ops? Do you know?

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Speaker 1: I mean I had it, I could get it on

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Speaker 1: my phone, but I did. Okay by his ops, I'm

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Speaker 1: sure was great.

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Speaker 2: Now the stuff out parking attendance and whether little Johnny

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Speaker 2: or Susie is gonna get an extra half an ice

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Speaker 2: cream per home game is actually kind of interesting.

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Speaker 1: I mean that's very creative. Wait, you can guarantee me

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Speaker 1: that if Little Susie comes to the game, because if

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Speaker 1: we sign Manny Ramirez, I'm gonna get that extra ice

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Speaker 1: cream salt.

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Speaker 2: Really, can you estimate how many Little Susie's are gonna

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Speaker 2: be in the crowd?

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Speaker 1: Because I need one ice cream? Isn't getting it getting

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Speaker 1: it done here?

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Speaker 6: You know.

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Speaker 1: But but but again, that was the old me where

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Speaker 1: I was suspicious sometimes with Scott boris now the guy's

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Speaker 1: top Gun like me. I love the guy. I mean

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Speaker 1: I want all of his references to be made in

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Speaker 1: Top Merlin and everything else in there Merlin. Okay, so wait,

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Speaker 1: so if Bellinger is a cut wait wait, if Bellinger

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Speaker 1: is a combination of Viper and Merlin and Maverick, what

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Speaker 1: the hell is scooball?

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Speaker 2: But it's I mean, come on, oh maybe laugh though

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Speaker 2: you start the quote, you get Viper in and it's like,

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Speaker 2: it's an interesting way to describe your guy, and then

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Speaker 1: that's not it for Scott Boris today. Scott Boris has jokes.

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Speaker 1: Of course. Pete Alonzo, one of his famous clients, getting

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Speaker 1: And oh look, I said goodbye, I say to Apple

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Speaker 3: I think Pete, at this point in his career, he's

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Speaker 1: Okay, had that question a lot.

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Speaker 3: Okay, there's no doubt that peace pursuers are prime to

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Speaker 1: Okay, at the end, he was just saying words to

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but there's gotta be a lot of people taking

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Speaker 1: I don't know if he was reading that off of

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Speaker 1: get all those words. You know, good Pete Alonso picked

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Speaker 1: a peck of pickled peppers. I mean that was that

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Speaker 1: kind of like that. That was good. Look, I want

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Speaker 1: to hear you do that again. How bleep and bore

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Speaker 1: We just had Halloween, had a lot of pumpkins, had parties.

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Speaker 2: It's too bad you can't call him a panther too,

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Speaker 2: penguin polar bear.

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Speaker 1: Sure, well, that's what I'm saying, is the penguin tell

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Speaker 1: you he hasn't played in fifty years. No, that is,

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Speaker 1: but now now now I love Now, I love Scott Boris.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, great, because he got all those peas

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Speaker 2: he starts that whole literation thing there, there was just

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Speaker 2: this road oh yeahs and showing off reading off a dictionary.

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Speaker 2: Is that it was like he was choosing his words

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Speaker 2: carefully and say I.

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Speaker 1: Don't think there's really much of a market here. But

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Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, what do I say here to take?

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Speaker 7: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: I have that.

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Speaker 1: Then hear him again say, and if you sign him

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Speaker 1: basically he pays for himself. Like that, that's his point

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Speaker 1: to him. Well, I'm not making money. I'm breaking even

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Speaker 1: right because I'm giving him all this money. I want

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Speaker 1: to make money. I still own the team, i still

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Speaker 1: want to make money, like that's the whole thing I

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Speaker 1: want to So I'm not making money if he pays

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Speaker 1: for himself, because I'm giving you money. This is this

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Speaker 1: is not you're giving me his services for free. I

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Speaker 1: have to give you money to make sure and we

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Speaker 1: have to make sure we win because if we don't win,

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Speaker 1: people are not gonna be primed to come out to

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Speaker 1: us lose in prime situations.

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Speaker 2: They're not gonna do it. They're gonna stay a spell.

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Speaker 2: Going with a pumpkin juice is yeah, I think that

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Speaker 2: you can do. But see now you just killed Scott Bores.

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Speaker 2: No more peas, no more top gun references. Look what

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Speaker 2: you did there. It's all your fault. It's amusspemous, Tom

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Speaker 2: Felton have been hanging out on on Broadway.

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Speaker 1: Now, I think I think it's better when you can go.

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Speaker 2: I love Scott Bars now he's your guy, he's you're now,

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Speaker 2: He's all fun until he goes back into a boardroom

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Speaker 2: with your owner now to discuss your free agent.

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Speaker 1: Now I think we should hear. Here's what I would say. Okay,

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Speaker 1: here's how we play. We play a game of volleyball,

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Speaker 1: me and my friend, and we have our shirts off,

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Speaker 1: and you and your friend and what you can keep

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Speaker 1: your shirt on like Goose does. And whoever wins he

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Speaker 1: plays for us for free, or if you guys win,

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Speaker 1: I pay him a lot of money. And you're all

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Speaker 1: wearing jorts.

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Speaker 2: Yes, well, well, well okay, Maverick is wearing jeans, okay,

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Speaker 1: Ice also wearing pet No one's wearing jeorts. No one's

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Speaker 1: wearing to I'm updating it for today's game. Maverick is

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Speaker 1: where Maverick is playing beach volleyball and jeans. That's what's happening.

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Speaker 1: There's no gene shorts. There are Now you're thinking of

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Speaker 1: the SNL skit. We play volleyball and jean shorts. That's

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Speaker 1: all the top gun auditions. It says here we play

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Speaker 1: volleyball and jean shorts. Is that true h exit out

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Speaker 1: Buker on The Ball Podcast, Rick, I need I need

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Speaker 1: your investigative mind here right off the bat. I need

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Speaker 1: to know something, and I think only you would know this. Okay,

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Speaker 1: you ready, I'm very scared, but yes, yeah, Well, final

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Speaker 1: two minutes on the second night of back to backs

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Speaker 1: where the only type of minutes Jalen Brunson plays is

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Speaker 1: heavy minutes when they're losing by thirteen. Shouldn't he be

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Speaker 1: out of the game in avoiding any type of injury

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Speaker 1: like he had tonight when he has an ankle injury

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Speaker 1: and he leaves MSG in a walking boot and on crutches.

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Speaker 1: Can you tell me did Tibbs actually coach the team tonight?

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Speaker 1: In said of Mike.

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Speaker 6: Brann No, no, no, no, I got no answer for

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Speaker 6: you on that night. Why are you putting me on

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Speaker 6: the spot. You know what, We've had such great opportunity

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Speaker 6: to talk about the Knicks the previous three weeks with

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Speaker 6: really interesting things to talk about, and now Danlon Brunson

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Speaker 6: is still somehow secretly pasting the team. You're hurting me.

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Speaker 8: Here, Rick, Rick.

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Speaker 2: It's a big change from twenty four hours ago. I mean,

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Speaker 2: it was a big long dance in the studio about

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Speaker 2: the minutes being played by the reserves.

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Speaker 1: Here's roster. I'll tell you, Mike, look twenty four hours ago. Rick,

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Speaker 1: after the game, I'm really on the show last night,

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Speaker 1: like third straight game over one hundred and thirty points.

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Speaker 1: Mcal Bridges looks like a different guy. Karl Anthony Towns

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Speaker 1: looks like he's bought in. He's playing, he's playing the

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Speaker 1: bench guys and they're playing big minutes, and Clarkson's playing minutes.

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Speaker 1: And Josh Hart he's gonna be dinged up all year,

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Speaker 1: but he's back in the I'm like, okay, they got

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Speaker 1: everything going right now. But you know, the Knicks game

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Speaker 1: and have nice things.

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Speaker 6: I would not over dramatizes, you know, basically because of

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Speaker 6: That should give you confidence that with or without Jalen Brunston.

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Speaker 6: The New York Knicks are just going to keep rolling,

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Speaker 6: and this is actually an opportunity for him to rest

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Speaker 1: Oh okay, that made you feel better than Rick.

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Speaker 6: That's great, Rick, spin doctor Caroline Levitt.

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Speaker 4: Got nothing on me.

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Speaker 8: Bro.

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Speaker 1: I love Rick. That's the greatest thing. I'm going to

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Speaker 1: get that on a loop and play. It's gonna be

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Speaker 1: my ringtone on my phone from now on.

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Speaker 2: Daily Positivity just sell that one burst run into the finals.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I only, I only.

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Speaker 6: Uh, I got about two or three of those a year, and.

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Speaker 1: Let's say it. I'm spent. We'll get you one after.

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Speaker 6: The holidays, maybe maybe a while before you hear another one.

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Speaker 1: There you go.

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Speaker 2: Well, all right, let's take a look at one of

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Speaker 2: the games that just finished up. Lakers go out and

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Speaker 2: get absolutely thumped by Okay, see but Lebron James working

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Speaker 2: out with the G League squad And I mean, was

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Speaker 2: this just a step up in class and a thumping

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Speaker 2: or does this get to we reset the Lakers a

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Speaker 2: little bit as to where they are in the packing order? Yeah?

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Speaker 6: I think I said when they when they went on

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Speaker 6: the when they went on this road trip, or before

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Speaker 6: they went on the road trip, that I really wanted

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Speaker 6: to see them on this trip because if you look

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Speaker 6: at if you really break down the teams that they

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Speaker 6: they're the only team of consequence that they played was Minnesota,

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Speaker 6: and Minnesota doesn't look like Minnesota right now. I mean

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Speaker 6: everybody else, the memphisis and some of the other teams

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Speaker 6: that they had played. I just I wanted to see what,

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Speaker 6: you know, I didn't think they were a true reflection

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Speaker 6: of who the Lakers are, particularly when you have a

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Speaker 6: Luca Donson's coming back. He's in shape, playing with Slovenia

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Speaker 6: and EuroBasket. He has a little something to prove. Austin

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Speaker 6: Reaves is obviously gunning for a thirty million dollars a

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Speaker 6: year contract and has a lot to prove. But I

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Speaker 6: back in the fold, but also them getting this dose

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Speaker 1: Really look like.

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Speaker 6: And this is an Oklahoma City team that was missing

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Speaker 6: Jalen Williams and Luke Dort. I mean, they're not even

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Speaker 6: at full strength. I just don't know in the big

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Speaker 6: picture that the Lakers have enough to really be competing

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Speaker 6: for anything more than getting into the playoffs and potentially

433
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Speaker 6: winning around That's just the reality this team. Nothing's changed dramatically.

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Speaker 6: I mean, you need to build a specific team around

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Speaker 6: Luca to take advantage.

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Speaker 1: Of what he does.

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Speaker 6: And maybe the most interesting thing for me is the

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Speaker 6: fact that the league is moving toward less dominance, less

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Speaker 6: ball dominant by the superstars, and more distribution and more

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Speaker 6: depth and versatility being the key. And that's not how

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Speaker 6: Luca plays. That's not how Luca has ever played. And

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Speaker 6: it's going to be interesting whether he's capable even in

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Speaker 6: this kind of shape, if he's able to sustain his

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Speaker 6: excellence over the course of the season with everybody else

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Speaker 6: taking a different approach.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because I feel it's gonna be like this. Luca

447
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Speaker 1: is Jordan, Austin Reeves is Pippin, and now Lebron can

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Speaker 1: come back and be Horace Grant.

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Speaker 7: If he wears the goggles see see Kindred Spirits there, right,

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Speaker 7: You know, I think it's it's kind of weird rick

451
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Speaker 7: that you know, because you know Lebron, it's hard to

452
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Speaker 7: not think that everything is calculated.

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Speaker 2: But boy, on the day the Lakers go to Oklahoma City,

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Speaker 2: where they know they're likely going to get pounded, he

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Speaker 2: gets back to.

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Speaker 1: Practice with the South Bay Lakers. Hey, I'm on the Hey,

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Speaker 1: I know we're gonna get killed tonight. Hey maybe I'm

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Speaker 1: the future. Maybe you need me now?

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Speaker 6: I look, I don't I agree with you. I think

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Speaker 6: everything that he does is calculated. There's there's a design

461
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Speaker 6: and a plan that serves him behind everything that he does.

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Speaker 6: That's being he has been very successful in doing exactly that.

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Speaker 6: I just honestly, I don't see him as being the

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Speaker 6: answer to whatever ills that they have, no matter how

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Speaker 6: he comes back, no matter what kind of attitude he

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Speaker 6: has coming back.

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Speaker 4: And the hardest part for me to see is what.

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Speaker 6: They really need is for him to say, you know what,

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Speaker 6: I'm forty one years old. This is Luka Doncish's team now.

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Speaker 6: And Austin Reeves is ascending. I don't know if I

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Speaker 6: can put star quite on it, but ascending quality player.

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Speaker 6: I love the chemistry between Luca and and Reeves. I

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Speaker 6: mean they just they seem to genuinely like playing with

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Speaker 6: each other. I would say the same for Smart, Marcus Smart.

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Speaker 6: And so I would love to see Lebron realizing this

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Speaker 6: is probably my last, you know, significant run. Let me

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Speaker 6: see how I can sit in, Let me be a

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Speaker 6: part of this, let me let me contribute in any

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Speaker 6: way that I can, because it's no longer my show.

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Speaker 6: I just don't know if he's capable of doing that,

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Speaker 6: of letting letting go, and this, this little maneuver here

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Speaker 6: would suggests.

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Speaker 4: Now, I still I need that spotlight.

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Speaker 6: That spotlight. That spotlight is like oxygen for me. I

485
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Speaker 6: can't I can't live without the attention being on me.

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Speaker 6: And and I think as a result, this is going

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Speaker 6: to be an awkward exit when it when it shouldn't be.

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Speaker 6: It doesn't have to be. But the idea that somehow

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Speaker 6: they're going to feature Lebron at this point in his

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Speaker 6: career with what else the Lakers have and don't have, just.

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Speaker 4: Doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

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Speaker 6: But I don't know that he's I don't know that

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Speaker 6: he's conscious of that, because I think if he was,

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Speaker 6: I think we would have seen a different demeanor on

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Speaker 6: the bench up to this point. But it's almost like

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Speaker 6: he's I'm going to pretend like I'm not part of

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Speaker 6: this guy. You're not extending me. It's not my show

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Speaker 6: that I'm just going to be. I'm going to be

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Speaker 6: over here, and and for a guy of his ability

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Speaker 6: and basketball IQ in the various ways that what his

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Speaker 6: support means to the rest of the players on that roster,

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Speaker 6: that he's decided that he's going to be a stoic,

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Speaker 6: it doesn't suggest that he's ready to play the role

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Speaker 6: that I think, for all concern would be the role

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Speaker 6: to play.

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Speaker 2: I really thought as you started breaking that down, Rick,

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Speaker 2: you were going to start singing a little I Live

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Speaker 2: for the applause, applause, a little Lady Gaga describing Lebron James.

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Speaker 2: But let's go to one of his former teammates there

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Speaker 2: in Dallas as they await his return from a calf strain,

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Speaker 2: maybe a trade piece and.

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Speaker 1: All of that.

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Speaker 2: But Nico Harrison's not there to make any decisions as

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Speaker 2: he was finally ousted and Dallas gets to close that

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Speaker 2: chapter kind of on the trade that was.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Nico Harrison, I understand is is legally going to

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Speaker 6: change his name to fall guy because that's ultimately what

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Speaker 6: he was here by owner Patrick Durmont DeMont.

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Speaker 4: Excuse me, they don't.

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Speaker 6: They don't. They don't rush into that deal when they did,

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Speaker 6: they don't keep it undercover and you know, not not

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Speaker 6: open the doors to the best deal possible. In fact,

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Speaker 6: Nico Harrison doesn't begin looking to trade Luka Datcic actively

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Speaker 6: unless ownership says, hey, you know what, we want him gone.

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Speaker 6: And you can say the same thing for the little

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Speaker 6: deal that everybody's busting his chops on, the Quinton Grimes

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Speaker 6: Caleb Martin deal. Caleb Martin has signed up for ten

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Speaker 6: million for the next couple of years. Quentin Brian's Quentin

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Speaker 6: Grimes thinks that he's a thirty million dollar a year player,

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Speaker 6: and I'm sure made that clear to the Dallas Mavericks.

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Speaker 6: And right now the new ownership is like, we're not

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Speaker 6: paying thirty million dollars a year for Quinton Grimes, and

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Speaker 6: we're not paying three hundred and sixty five million dollars

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Speaker 6: for Let's not forget I mean, I feel like we've

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Speaker 6: forgotten the fact that Luka Dotson's missed what I think

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Speaker 6: thirty two of the first forty nine games last season

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Speaker 6: and they were struggling to stay above five hundred, and

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Speaker 6: you had new ownership. That's looking at the possibility of

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Speaker 6: we got to give this guy three hundred and sixty

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Speaker 6: five million dollars.

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Speaker 4: I mean, if you're going to move him, if you

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Speaker 4: decide you don't.

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Speaker 6: Want to gamble that, then you open it up and

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Speaker 6: you trade him for more than We're going to try

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Speaker 6: to still chase a championship right now. But I can't

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Speaker 6: help but feel that that Niko Harrison was doing the

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Speaker 6: bidding of the ownership and at the very least, well,

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Speaker 6: you may want to take the heat off and you

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Speaker 6: want to satisfy the fans. I would have liked ownership

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Speaker 6: to take some culpability and responsibility and say, hey, we

551
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Speaker 6: signed off on this. Maybe you don't say you initiated all.

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Speaker 6: I think that's what happened, but at least at least

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Speaker 6: carries some of the water. And now you know, MAVs

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Speaker 6: fans are all MAVs fans are all giddy because Nico

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Speaker 6: Harrison and out of the building. Well, guess what you

556
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Speaker 6: know what you got? You got Mike Sinley. You don't

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Speaker 6: even have a GM.

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Speaker 4: You got an owner.

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Speaker 6: Who has named two guys to fight it out over

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Speaker 6: who's going to be GM and which tells me that

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Speaker 6: he doesn't know which one should be. And one of

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Speaker 6: them is the guy who grabbed the.

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Speaker 4: Beer out of out of Luka Dantych's.

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Speaker 6: Hand in the locker room when they were celebrating getting

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Speaker 6: to the twenty twenty four finals.

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Speaker 4: Mike Finley, so good luck with all of.

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Speaker 6: That MAVs fans you've got.

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Speaker 4: Now you're in a worse place than you were before.

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Speaker 6: Because here's the thing, whatever you want to say, Nico

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Speaker 6: Harrison built a roster, built a team that went to

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Speaker 6: the twenty twenty four finals, and as of the trade

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Speaker 6: deadline in twenty twenty four, they were not headed toward

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Speaker 6: the finals. They were a playing team. And he made

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Speaker 6: the moves to get Daniel Gafford and PJ Washington for

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Speaker 6: a number of guys who are not even in the

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Speaker 6: league right now, and off they go. And certainly Luka

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Speaker 6: Doncis was phenomenal until they got up against Boston. I mean,

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Speaker 6: he was a big reason, the biggest reason, without questioning,

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Speaker 6: why they got to the finals. But he wasn't the

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Speaker 6: only reason. And Nico Harrison was one of those other reasons.

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Speaker 4: And the fact that we're just going to dismiss.

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Speaker 6: All of that because ownership didn't want to pay Luka Doncic.

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Speaker 6: I just got a I have real issue with all

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Speaker 6: of the revisionist history in terms of what's happened with

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Speaker 6: the Dallas Mavericks over the last year.

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Speaker 1: Great stuff as always find him on Twitter at Rick Buker.

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Speaker 1: That is at Rick Buker, Fox Sports One on the

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Speaker 1: Ball podcast. Rick is always Buddy. Appreciated, my friend. We'll

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Speaker 1: talk to you next.

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Speaker 7: Week Walking Boots Show.

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Speaker 1: Well done, Rick, Thanks buddy. I curt my ankle in

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Speaker 1: the final two minutes. They didn't take me out of

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Speaker 1: the game, and now I'm gonna be out until Christmas Day. Wow,

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Speaker 1: who knows that's a bold proclamation, uh fact that you

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Speaker 1: may after that rant, you made it all about the

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Speaker 1: Nicks again. Come on, that was fantastic. He said, we're

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Speaker 1: going to the finals if she's getting the injury out

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Speaker 1: of the way. Now I dig thatre it.

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Speaker 2: Is he's gonna be rested and ready to go and

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Speaker 2: all of the ancillary players will rise up. That was

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Speaker 2: like a holiday gift. I don't think you're getting the

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Speaker 2: Jam of the Month or anything this year. Time out

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Speaker 2: to find out what's trending in the wide world of sports.

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Speaker 2: If someone who's told me many times, no matter what happens,

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Speaker 2: you gotta find a fall guy, it's Monty Belagno's.

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Speaker 5: I don't want to talk about this right now.

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Speaker 1: Wait, well, do you want to talk about what's wrong?

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Speaker 5: I don't want to give you an update.

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Speaker 1: Oh okay, how about do all the other games except

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Speaker 1: for the fact that the Nuggets are beating the Clippers by

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Speaker 1: twenty two? When did this happen, like over the course

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Speaker 1: of the last two and a half hours.

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Speaker 5: I just y'all, y'all, it was such a good game.

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Speaker 5: It was such a good game until it wasn't. Clippers

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Speaker 5: were in it and then they got outscored by Denver

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Speaker 5: in the third quarter. Bet it twenty two?

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Speaker 1: You bet this game day? Of course, I bet everything.

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Speaker 1: Clippers all day, every day? All right, okay, all day.

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Speaker 5: You call a Yokich making it look easy, all annoyed

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Speaker 5: that he has to play basketball.

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Speaker 1: Fifty two points.

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Speaker 5: You know it's true, he's mad that he has to

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Speaker 5: make a levee play basketball. But he has fifty two

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Speaker 5: damn points, eleven rebounds, six assists. Nuggets up on the

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Speaker 5: Clips one twenty to one hundred. Speaking of injuries, as

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Speaker 5: you mentioned Jalen Brunson right now, Kawhi Leonard apparently didn't

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Speaker 5: just sprain his ankle, he also suffered a significant foot spring.

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Speaker 1: So he's making good progress.

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Speaker 5: He's gonna go on the road trip with the Clippers,

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Speaker 5: but they're gonna have a better availability, a better idea

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Speaker 5: on his availability next week. Another injury Anthony Davis. He

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Speaker 5: missed his seventh straight game today for Dallas. His return

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Speaker 5: date is up in the air as Mavericks Governor Patrick

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Speaker 5: Dumont has requested a medical information that Davis is not

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Speaker 5: at risk of aggravating the capstrain that has had him out.

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Speaker 8: They do need him though.

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Speaker 5: Because the Mavericks lost again today to the Suns one

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Speaker 5: twenty three to one fourteen. Phoenix has won four in

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Speaker 5: a row. All five of the starters for Phoenix ended

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Speaker 5: in double digits. They were led by Devin Booker, who

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Speaker 5: had twenty six points. Victor Ie Banyama and Stefan Castle

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Speaker 5: both had a triple double. It did not matter. The

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Speaker 5: Warriors beat Spurs in San Antonio one twenty five to

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Speaker 5: one twenty. Steph Curry led the way with forty six points.

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Speaker 5: The thunder blew out the Lakers one twenty one to

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Speaker 5: ninety two. Shay Gil just Alexander thirty points and nine assists.

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Speaker 5: LA had twenty turnovers in the loss. Today, the Magic

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Speaker 5: hand the Nicks their first lost at home, coming out

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Speaker 5: on top one twenty four to one. Oh seven. Pistons

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Speaker 5: have won eight in a row. They defeated the Bulls

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Speaker 5: one twenty four to one thirteen. No Josh Giddy for

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Speaker 5: a second straight game for Chicago. No Kid Cunningham for

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Speaker 5: the Pistons in this one. Victory is also for the Cavaliers,

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Speaker 5: who handed Miami their first home loss. The Rockets, the Celtics,

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Speaker 5: the Hornets, Trailblazers, and Hawks, who recently crushed the King's

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Speaker 5: in Sacramento, won thirty three to one hundred. In the NHL,

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Speaker 5: there were four games. Rangers top the Lightning seven to three,

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Speaker 5: Oilers beat the Flyers two to one, Mammoth outscored the

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Speaker 5: Sabers five to two, and the Devils over the Blackhawks

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Speaker 5: four to three in overtime. When it comes to the NFL,

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Speaker 5: couple of news bits here Buccaneers running back Bucky Irving

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Speaker 5: and wide receiver Chris Godwin, we're limited in practice today.

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Speaker 5: The Broncos held running back JK. Dobbins out of practice

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Speaker 5: as they contemplate on whether to put him on IR

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Speaker 5: with that foot injury. Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson miss practice today,

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Speaker 5: but he should be on the field tomorrow. He's just

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Speaker 5: dealing with they sort nee. He's expected to start Sunday

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Speaker 5: in Cleveland. And in case you missed it, in college football,

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Speaker 5: Michigan State Football's the Michigan State football program must vacate

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Speaker 5: fourteen wins from twenty twenty two to twenty twenty four

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Speaker 5: seasons because of three ineligible players appearing in games.

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Speaker 1: So all of their wins, mel Tucker is the gift

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Speaker 1: that keeps on giving. They're still playing them. They're still

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Speaker 1: still playing many different ways. Yeah, and now you're losing

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Speaker 1: the wins. Stanton, Michigan. Yeah, uh huh, thank you very much,

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Speaker 1: Jas Jess. Coming up next are two Superstar Award winners

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Speaker 1: about to get traded. That's next Jason and Mike Fox

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Speaker 1: Sports Radio.

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Speaker 8: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith

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Speaker 8: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven

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Speaker 8: pm Pacific on Fox Sports Radio and the iHeartRadio app.

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio, The Jason Smith Show with my best

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Speaker 1: friend Mike Harmon, where MLB gave out hardware Today, Tarrek Scooble,

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Speaker 1: Paul Skeins are your cy young winners in the American

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Speaker 1: National League. And now that well we all thought was

686
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Speaker 1: gonna happen. Sure we can get to the more important

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Speaker 1: questions about these guys. When are they getting traded?

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Speaker 2: But it's also another great example in the pantheon of

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Speaker 2: our Major League Baseball world to show you that wins

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Speaker 2: mean less than they ever did for a starting pitch.

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Speaker 1: Hey, come on, man, Jacob de Grom can win back

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Speaker 1: to back saw Young's with four wins in each year,

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Speaker 1: ten wins A it's big by between them. They had

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Speaker 1: twenty three.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, once upon a time when you and I and

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Speaker 2: dinosaurs roam the earth, you had guys winning twenty three games.

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Speaker 1: Oh, now you're lucky if they start twenty three years.

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Speaker 1: So this is the big question, because rumors are are

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Speaker 1: abound for both players. Right, we'll do Schooble first. I

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Speaker 1: love Schooble, it's fantastic. No desire to trade for him

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Speaker 1: because he's gonna cost too much. The Tigers want all

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Speaker 1: sorts of They've already said we want all sorts of

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Speaker 1: prospects and players for him right now. If we're gonna

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Speaker 1: trade him a year ahead of free agency. He's a

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Speaker 1: Scott Boris client, so you know he's going to free agency.

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Speaker 1: So if you trade for him, you're only gonna have

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Speaker 1: him for this year, right He's not gonna be moved

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Speaker 1: because no one's gonna pay the Tigers price. And quite honestly,

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Speaker 1: the Tigers, they're a World Series caliber team. They're not

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Speaker 1: just gonna get rid of him now. They're gonna say, no,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna keep them this year and see if we

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Speaker 1: can get to the bleeping World Series. If the deadline

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Speaker 1: comes and the Tigers are out of it, yes, then

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Speaker 1: schoobl will get traded somewhere as a rental for a

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Speaker 1: couple of months, knowing full well he's gonna hit free agency.

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Speaker 1: But that's the only scenario he gets dealt because it's

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Speaker 1: just too much, because no one's gonna trade for him.

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Speaker 1: No one's gonna give up the prospects now, no one's

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Speaker 1: gonna trade for him knowing he's gonna be a free

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Speaker 1: agent because Scott Boris is never gonna re sign during

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Speaker 1: the season, So yeah, that's kind of a non starter.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, all this talk about schoobl getting Delta, the

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Speaker 1: Mets are gonna jump in all this like that's not

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Speaker 1: gonna happen. The Mets aren't gonna give up the top

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Speaker 1: five guys in their farm system for Terrek School. They're

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Speaker 1: just not gonna do it. Yeah, that's just.

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Speaker 2: The price we're talking about is you know, major league

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Speaker 2: ready players, probably two or three, and then let's raid

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Speaker 2: your farm systems. So it's a question of do you

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Speaker 2: have the backdoor deal of all right, we already know

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Speaker 2: the ballpark of what that deal is gonna look like, right,

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Speaker 2: five years, seven years, whatever the max money is, he's

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Speaker 2: gonna be twenty nine years old. Back to back Sye

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Speaker 2: Young's You know, I'd celebrate all South pause rolling through.

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Speaker 2: But if you're the Tigers, I mean, even if you

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Speaker 2: do have an opportunity to say, hey, we're in this,

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Speaker 2: I appreciate the cut of your jib of saying hey

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Speaker 2: we have to run this out, but you may be

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Speaker 2: left just holding the bag altogether because you don't win anything. No,

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Speaker 2: but right, and so and then you watch him walk

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Speaker 2: and you know, and you don't even get some low

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Speaker 2: level prospects.

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Speaker 5: I don't.

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Speaker 1: I don't know that you want to do that.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's a completely different scenario than that what

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Speaker 2: already Marino did because at least there he still got

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Speaker 2: to hold on to get guess.

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Speaker 1: What a lot of money show? Hey O, Tonnie.

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Speaker 2: Sure he didn't rate anybody's farm system, but he got

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Speaker 2: to hold the bag with the the Tigers.

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Speaker 1: I don't think they get either. Yeah, it's gonna it's

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Speaker 1: it's a difficult situation to be a knowing full well

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Speaker 1: that he's going to be a free agent and the title. Look,

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Speaker 1: you know what, let's just go. If we're good and

755
00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:21,160
Speaker 1: we can win the World Series, great, if we lose

756
00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:23,520
Speaker 1: them with that, that's how baseball goes right. Every time

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Speaker 1: he starts, you say, this could be the last time

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Speaker 1: in a Tigers uniform. Tune in to a very special

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Speaker 1: broadcast only four episodes before the two episodes that precede

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Speaker 1: the mid season finale of an All New House. Now,

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Speaker 1: when it comes to Paul Skeens, it's a little different.

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Speaker 1: He went house. I did uh. Reports today from a

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Speaker 1: couple of different sources that Skeens wants to be a

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Speaker 1: Yankee and the Pirates know.

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Speaker 2: This, Temmage, I'm starting to swirl about the and I

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Speaker 2: got it.

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Speaker 1: We know he's not gonna stay in Pittsburgh. We know

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00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:03,400
Speaker 1: it's not gonna happen. But I want a different to

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Speaker 1: you instead of saying, oh the yank because I'm sure

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00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:07,160
Speaker 1: the Yankees will pony up, because again, the fans will

771
00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:09,839
Speaker 1: put too much pressure on the team to get Paul

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00:39:09,880 --> 00:39:12,480
Speaker 1: Skins right. And that's gonna just like the the Mavericks

773
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:16,160
Speaker 1: fans fired Nko Harrison. Yankee fans will get them Paul Skins.

774
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Speaker 1: But if you're Pittsburgh, okay, you know what, suck it up.

775
00:39:20,520 --> 00:39:22,719
Speaker 1: You got him under control for another two or three

776
00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:25,520
Speaker 1: years unless he makes a demand of I'm not playing

777
00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:28,040
Speaker 1: for this team anymore. I want out. Go sign a

778
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Speaker 1: couple of players so you can compete. Don't give me this. Well,

779
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Speaker 1: we're not gonna trade him because he's such an asset

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Speaker 1: to us. You're gonna go seventy and ninety two with

781
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Speaker 1: him unless you make some changes. I'm not saying, go

782
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Speaker 1: give guys seven years and two hundred and fifty million dollars,

783
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Speaker 1: but go sign a couple of guys for two years

784
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Speaker 1: and fifty million. Go go try to compete while you

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Speaker 1: have this, guy. Don't give me a oh, We're not

786
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Speaker 1: just gonna be a farm system for the teams that

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Speaker 1: are rich, like the Yankees and the Mets and the Dodgers. No,

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Speaker 1: go actually do something and spend some money. Don't sit

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Speaker 1: here tell me, oh, we don't have the cash. You

790
00:39:56,719 --> 00:39:58,520
Speaker 1: can go spend some money and go do it. I know,

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Speaker 1: I know you have money. I know revenue sharing is

792
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Speaker 1: a big deal. You can go get a couple of

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Speaker 1: guys under control.

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Speaker 2: Through twenty twenty nine, according to the two pieces of

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Speaker 2: information I find, we've got the Pirates spending eighty four

796
00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:14,880
Speaker 2: point four million dollars on payroll to go seventy one

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Speaker 2: to ninety one. They got one hundred and ten million

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Speaker 2: dollars from revenue sharing.

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Speaker 1: Go take some cash, Go go do it, dude. Do

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Speaker 1: your fans a favorite and maybe schemes will want to

801
00:40:23,640 --> 00:40:26,080
Speaker 1: stay you never know. But don't sit here and say, oh,

802
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Speaker 1: what can we do? What can we do? Coming up next,

803
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Speaker 1: we get back into the biggest basketball story of the night.

804
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Speaker 1: Guess who could be on his way back to playing

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Speaker 1: Fox