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Speaker 1: Cousins hot take coming up there in a few minutes.

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Speaker 1: So I think there's a picture of you superimposed over

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Speaker 1: Leo DiCaprio's facing flame drawer. How about that? What's bout

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Speaker 1: a time in Hollywood? So the Lakers and Thunder, We'll

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Speaker 1: keep you updated. If it gets closer, Vladia gives you direction.

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Speaker 1: I don't even think it's halftime yet. No, no, it's

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Speaker 1: early in the third quarter, eight and a half to go.

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Speaker 1: The Thunder lead the Lakers ninety to fifty eight, and

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Speaker 1: it's been a thirty point game basically since the ten

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Speaker 1: minute mark of the first quarter. That's about right. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: the Thunderer saying yeah, yeah, oh Lucas the MVP. I okay,

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Speaker 1: that's nice. Lakers are doing pretty well, that's nice. I

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Speaker 1: guarantee you. The thunder have had this game circled on

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Speaker 1: their calendars for a couple of weeks, going, oh Lakers, okay,

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Speaker 1: let's see where the chance and people aren't talking about us.

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Speaker 1: I guarantee you they have been foaming at the mouth

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Speaker 1: to play this game, and they have just blown the

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Speaker 1: doors off the Lakers in the beginning of this game.

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Speaker 1: And it was a fantastic month of March, no question

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Speaker 1: about it. For Luka Doncics personally and for the team.

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Speaker 1: Beating a number of would be contenders as opposed to

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Speaker 1: early on the record looked great. But against teams that

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Speaker 1: you know, were what's that word trying, it was a

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Speaker 1: little bit suspect. But all of a sudden, the month

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Speaker 1: of March, you turned into that calendar, they turned the

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Speaker 1: calendar and they played really well. We'll have a tremendous

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Speaker 1: streak going, right. What they and the Spurs were doing

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Speaker 1: all month long fantastic. But for okay, see it was

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Speaker 1: the fun. Hey, we're just doing our thing and pseudo anonymity,

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Speaker 1: a little bit of occasionally the sga oh look what

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Speaker 1: he gets away with nonsense, but for the most part,

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Speaker 1: just going about their business. And now it's it's winning time. Hey,

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Speaker 1: welcome to April. Yeah, I'll see. It's okay, you guys say,

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Speaker 1: that's great. You guys are playing, that's great. It's awesome,

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Speaker 1: you guys. You guys gotta feel great about yourself. You

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Speaker 1: have a really nice run here to get all the

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Speaker 1: way to third place. That's great. We'll see you on

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Speaker 1: Thursday night at our place. We'll see you there. I'm

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Speaker 1: thinking Jonathan Groff going okay, yeah. Now. The latest in

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Speaker 1: the Tiger Woods accident injury situation arrest came out earlier

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Speaker 1: today and kind of came out in waves because the

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Speaker 1: body cam footage of Tiger Woods accident after police got

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Speaker 1: Tiger Woods really seems out of it, saying I looked

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Speaker 1: Tiger Woods body cam footage that has been made public

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Speaker 1: over the past few hours, coming from right after his accident. Right,

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Speaker 1: do you have is your vallet and brings in the car?

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Speaker 3: You got it?

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Speaker 2: I got it all so long.

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Speaker 3: Other than the clubs, is there anything else in there

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Speaker 1: The sticks the golf right right, because there's no one

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's only minus the putter, right, Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Is that putter? Just the one that you take over

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Speaker 1: Wow, there is I want fourteen majors with that putter.

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Speaker 1: to take some time away to help better himself. And

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Speaker 1: and to see Tiger with that thousand yard stare. But

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Speaker 1: he's on one knee and the cops say, are you

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Speaker 1: okay like that? Yeah, I'm okay like this. You're okay

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Speaker 1: you know one fourteen major that putter, I need the sticks,

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Speaker 1: that's my putter. To think about what's next for Tiger

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Speaker 1: We've heard a lot about that, right, So to kind

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Speaker 1: wants to know what's next for Tiger? What's next? What's next?

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Speaker 1: He says he's gonna go and take some time and

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Speaker 1: every single day. All Right. You're talking about a pill

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Speaker 1: situation that is not new. You're talking about things that

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Speaker 1: has been different for Tiger Woods. Now, this is going

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Speaker 1: on almost twenty years of Tiger Woods dealing with this

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Speaker 1: because it's been twenty years, he's not someone's gonna show

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Speaker 1: And I don't mean that you're never gonna see him again.

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Speaker 1: But Tiger is still trying to find a way to play.

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Speaker 1: He's still trying to find his way now that he's

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Speaker 1: not the competitive Tiger Woods that he was because when

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Speaker 1: It gives me my purpose. But still trying to do

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Speaker 1: some degree, and this is armchair psychiatrists, golf was the release, right,

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Speaker 1: the far right corner. Okay. President Trump, alluding to the

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Speaker 1: Mike Harmcks Spell Yeah, the extended introddition of One Night

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Speaker 1: like this. Right, you have to say, how is this guy,

428
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Speaker 1: if he's any good, is he going to be a

429
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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Pirate? Trevor, No, forget it, right, So I understand that,

430
00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:26,080
Speaker 1: and I get it, and I see that that's how

431
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Speaker 1: it's done. How to keep this long term and hopefully

432
00:22:28,320 --> 00:22:31,000
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Pirates can finally compete again. Right, it's a

433
00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:36,080
Speaker 1: great day. This is what should have happened with Paul Skins.

434
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Speaker 1: And I don't know why, And I guarantee you every

435
00:22:39,400 --> 00:22:42,280
Speaker 1: day the Pirates think about it because they have Paul

436
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Speaker 1: Skins under control for the next four years, right, the

437
00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:47,800
Speaker 1: time to get Paul Skins and say, hey, Paul, how

438
00:22:47,800 --> 00:22:51,119
Speaker 1: about you know, before your MLB debut, how about a

439
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Speaker 1: six year deal for one hundred and ten million dollars. Right,

440
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Speaker 1: that's when you do something.

441
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Speaker 2: Now.

442
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Speaker 1: They're not going to do it now because they're not

443
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Speaker 1: Paul Skans is going to get a two hundred and

444
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Speaker 1: fifty million dollar contract when he becomes a free agent.

445
00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:03,879
Speaker 1: So they're not gonna make and they're not gonna make

446
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Speaker 1: out on the deal by signing him, right, they got

447
00:23:06,359 --> 00:23:08,919
Speaker 1: him for the next four years. They're not gonna say, okay,

448
00:23:09,200 --> 00:23:11,560
Speaker 1: how about four years after that, we give you another

449
00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:13,280
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty million. And they're not gonna do it.

450
00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:15,560
Speaker 1: They've missed their window to do this with Paul Skins.

451
00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:18,520
Speaker 1: And I don't know why they didn't. This was something

452
00:23:18,520 --> 00:23:20,320
Speaker 1: the team's been doing for a little while. The Braves

453
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Speaker 1: had done it for a while. Right they got you

454
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Speaker 1: have Ronald Acunya, who's someone who, hey, they made out

455
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Speaker 1: on that couple of deals. They didn't make out on.

456
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Speaker 1: But they're able to win the World Series and and

457
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Speaker 1: keep it keep a great young group of players, and

458
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Speaker 1: they do it by giving them way more money than

459
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Speaker 1: you would get your first few years in the league.

460
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Speaker 1: But it's also uh, not nearly what they would get

461
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Speaker 1: when they hit the market as free agents, right, because

462
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Speaker 1: you see what's going on again, I don't know why

463
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Speaker 1: it didn't happen with Paul Skeins. And the next four

464
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Speaker 1: years are going to be really, really difficult because Paul

465
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Speaker 1: ski it's fourth that's a long ass time for Paul

466
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Speaker 1: Skin starts seeing some real money or a team that's

467
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Speaker 1: gonna win. Because you know, the Pirates, while they gave

468
00:23:57,320 --> 00:23:59,800
Speaker 1: they gave Connor Griffin all their money, right, they all

469
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Speaker 1: then gets to him. There's no money for Paul Skins.

470
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Speaker 1: There's no way to do this, there's no So they're

471
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Speaker 1: just gonna hold on to him for the next four

472
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Speaker 1: years and hope that well Paul Skeans the next four years,

473
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Speaker 1: we do something until he leaves for us and goes

474
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Speaker 1: to the Yankees or everything else. Now, could Paul Skins

475
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Speaker 1: make it difficult by saying I don't want to be here.

476
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Speaker 1: You gotta trade me, I gotta get out. I'm not

477
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Speaker 1: gonna I want a new contract. My new team's gonna

478
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Speaker 1: sign me to a new contract. Yeah, it could get

479
00:24:22,760 --> 00:24:25,080
Speaker 1: really ugly. But I get that this is the wave

480
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Speaker 1: of the future. But I really I look at this

481
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Speaker 1: and I go, how did the Pirates not do this

482
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Speaker 1: with skeens. I get it's a starting pitcher, but this

483
00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:35,239
Speaker 1: is the way you're doing it. And I bet you

484
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Speaker 1: they rue that they didn't do it because it's too

485
00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:39,879
Speaker 1: late to do it now, way too late. They should

486
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Speaker 1: have done it two years ago, when when it was okay,

487
00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:45,680
Speaker 1: you can say, well, we don't know how your major

488
00:24:45,760 --> 00:24:47,840
Speaker 1: league career is gonna go. We think you're gonna be great.

489
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Speaker 1: Why wouldn't we think of But you never know. You

490
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Speaker 1: never know. You never know what adult shoulder problem, elbow problem,

491
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Speaker 1: You never know. Here's one hundred and thirty million dollars

492
00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:59,919
Speaker 1: for the next seven years or eight years, and okay,

493
00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:02,359
Speaker 1: you have one hundred third. You have generational wealth for

494
00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:05,200
Speaker 1: three or four generations of your family, and whatever happens,

495
00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:07,480
Speaker 1: you're taken care of. But now, hey, I've been in

496
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Speaker 1: the league a couple of years, I won the cy young,

497
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Speaker 1: I feel pretty good. Yeah, I can wait four years now.

498
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Speaker 1: I don't need to sign one of those contracts like that.

499
00:25:15,359 --> 00:25:16,720
Speaker 1: I look back, I look at what the Pirates to

500
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Speaker 1: day go this. This is a smart risk. You have

501
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Speaker 1: to do it, but wow, that should have happened with

502
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Speaker 1: Paul skin. No, that's it. I mean you mentioned everything

503
00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:26,920
Speaker 1: that goes along with starting pitchers and to some degree

504
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Speaker 1: that inevitability of the big injury that comes and decimates

505
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Speaker 1: a guy for a year. Or do you decide, hey,

506
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Speaker 1: that guy pitching once every fifth day is not worth it? Right?

507
00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:41,840
Speaker 1: And then if you're a small market and look, by

508
00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:44,879
Speaker 1: way of comparison, Griffin's gonna get this one hundred and

509
00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:47,480
Speaker 1: forty million dollar deal. The payroll for the Pirates for

510
00:25:47,520 --> 00:25:50,600
Speaker 1: this year is one to twenty, right, I mean, just

511
00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:53,119
Speaker 1: to put it in perspective, right, the white Sots tried this,

512
00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:56,240
Speaker 1: and every guy except for Lewis Robert, who had some

513
00:25:56,280 --> 00:25:59,040
Speaker 1: pretty good moments, all the other guys went belly up,

514
00:25:59,119 --> 00:26:01,760
Speaker 1: right Mancatta and Jimenez and all the other Not to

515
00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:04,360
Speaker 1: say they didn't have little stretches where they showed glimpses

516
00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:06,240
Speaker 1: of the guys that they thought they would be, but

517
00:26:06,320 --> 00:26:11,080
Speaker 1: consistency didn't work and that went belly up. So your

518
00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:14,720
Speaker 1: gun shy again until Ishbia takes over fully to spend

519
00:26:14,720 --> 00:26:17,880
Speaker 1: any more money with Pittsburgh, with Griffin, to your point

520
00:26:18,119 --> 00:26:20,440
Speaker 1: is if he becomes the player he's supposed to about

521
00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:23,400
Speaker 1: midway through this deal, when the Yankees and everybody else

522
00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:26,760
Speaker 1: are sniffing around, he's at a very low cost on

523
00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:29,480
Speaker 1: a relative basis. So you can play the game of

524
00:26:29,520 --> 00:26:31,600
Speaker 1: all right, how much are you bringing back because you're

525
00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:34,479
Speaker 1: getting this great contract, not just a great player, but

526
00:26:34,520 --> 00:26:36,879
Speaker 1: you got him for another four years or whatever whatever

527
00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:38,880
Speaker 1: else it would be at that time. But your point

528
00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:42,120
Speaker 1: about Skins, yeah, it's absolutely the case, and they rue

529
00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:46,560
Speaker 1: it every time out. But for Griffin in theory, you know,

530
00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:51,360
Speaker 1: as an everyday player, it begins that turnaround. It also begins,

531
00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:54,440
Speaker 1: and they could have done this with Skiings just the hey,

532
00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:57,560
Speaker 1: we're investing in our guys. Because I don't think there

533
00:26:57,600 --> 00:27:00,840
Speaker 1: was anybody that had any doubts that Paul's was going

534
00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:03,520
Speaker 1: to be some shade of where he is, right, It's

535
00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:05,080
Speaker 1: just a matter of did you think it would be

536
00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:08,320
Speaker 1: that high? Maybe a tick lower. Either way, you knew

537
00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:09,760
Speaker 1: he was going to be a great pitcher coming out

538
00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:14,040
Speaker 1: of college. Now what's funny is as I do traverse

539
00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:17,040
Speaker 1: the trading card memorabilia market, remember, because that was the

540
00:27:17,080 --> 00:27:20,520
Speaker 1: other thing the Pirates gaffed with Paul Skeens right one

541
00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:22,399
Speaker 1: of their other missteps when they should have gone and

542
00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:25,960
Speaker 1: bought that card and said, here's your million dollar card.

543
00:27:26,080 --> 00:27:28,959
Speaker 1: Is a good will. If you're our guy, we love you.

544
00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:33,560
Speaker 1: Let's put it on display and it's here forever. With Griffin,

545
00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:36,520
Speaker 1: the day before, I was watching a couple of higher

546
00:27:36,640 --> 00:27:40,480
Speaker 1: end products of his, and then twenty four hours later

547
00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:43,360
Speaker 1: they were back up for sale because someone bought him

548
00:27:43,359 --> 00:27:45,600
Speaker 1: and said, I don't know it hasn't even gotten to

549
00:27:45,640 --> 00:27:49,520
Speaker 1: me in shipping just yet, because I'm going to turn

550
00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:52,520
Speaker 1: around and I'm going to be able to flip it immediately.

551
00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:56,520
Speaker 1: The current high sale. Looking off of a recent repork,

552
00:27:56,840 --> 00:27:58,320
Speaker 1: you got a card at number out of five that

553
00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:01,280
Speaker 1: sold for thirty grand. Uh. That's just the tip of

554
00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:04,160
Speaker 1: the iceberg of what's to come coming out of Connor

555
00:28:04,200 --> 00:28:07,720
Speaker 1: Griffin products. But for the Pirates, it's a nice, big step.

556
00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:11,800
Speaker 1: It's an investment in the future. It's one Unfortunately you

557
00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:15,280
Speaker 1: can't clone him and get him to play other other

558
00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:19,120
Speaker 1: positions round out a starting lineup. But the long road

559
00:28:19,160 --> 00:28:22,000
Speaker 1: begins with the first step of showing you're serious as

560
00:28:22,040 --> 00:28:24,800
Speaker 1: an organization. Yeah, look, and you're seeing guys like this

561
00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:27,959
Speaker 1: with Tampa Bay, with with the Royals, with all these

562
00:28:27,960 --> 00:28:30,160
Speaker 1: small market teams that yeah, we're gonna keep our guy

563
00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:32,119
Speaker 1: that we think is that good if he if he

564
00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:34,960
Speaker 1: projects through the miners to be that nearer the number

565
00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:38,080
Speaker 1: one prospect in baseball the number two prospect. It's different

566
00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:40,200
Speaker 1: if Hey, a guy comes up and suddenly he's good,

567
00:28:40,480 --> 00:28:42,120
Speaker 1: what are you gonna do? Okay, great, he's good. But

568
00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:45,320
Speaker 1: someone that projects this way like this is gonna this

569
00:28:45,400 --> 00:28:48,480
Speaker 1: is start gonna be the norm. And this this record

570
00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:51,720
Speaker 1: that that he set is gonna get eclipsed by another

571
00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:53,880
Speaker 1: small market player coming up that's number one, picking the

572
00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:56,600
Speaker 1: dread that's gonna be a shortstop or power hitting first

573
00:28:56,600 --> 00:29:00,280
Speaker 1: baseman or center fielder. And and we're gonna look back

574
00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:02,560
Speaker 1: over the next four years and go, wow, Paul Skeans

575
00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:04,840
Speaker 1: is the one guy that didn't get that done, Like

576
00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:06,840
Speaker 1: how did the pirates not do that?

577
00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:07,080
Speaker 2: Well?

578
00:29:07,080 --> 00:29:09,320
Speaker 1: At some point they realize the error of their ways.

579
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Speaker 1: And at some point you have to show some confidence

580
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Speaker 1: in what you're doing right, any job, relationship, whatever you're doing,

581
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Speaker 1: walking your dog across the street, worried whether the guy's

582
00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:23,760
Speaker 1: gonna stop at the light. You gotta show absolute resolve

583
00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:26,840
Speaker 1: that this is the direction we're heading in. And for Pittsburgh,

584
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Speaker 1: someone in the front office set He's like, you know,

585
00:29:28,520 --> 00:29:30,200
Speaker 1: at some point we have to actually work from a

586
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Speaker 1: position of power and show that we're a serious organization.

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Speaker 5: The Thunder are literally just crushing the Lakers from the

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Speaker 5: Is he really injured or is he just getting embarrassed?

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 5: In the third quarter, the Cavaliers lead the Warriors seventy

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Speaker 5: shooting sixty three percent from the field, d'aron Fox eighteen

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Speaker 5: point seven rebound, seven rebounds, Kawhi Leernard thirteen points for LA.

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Speaker 5: The Hornets already defeated the Suns one twenty seven to

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Speaker 5: one oh seven. With the Suns lost, the Rockets have

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Speaker 5: clinched a playoff spot, and the Pistons, playing without some

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Speaker 5: still beat the Timberwolves, who were playing with that Anthony

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Speaker 5: Edwards one thirteen to oneh eight in that one. When

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Speaker 5: it comes to base ball going on right now, the Oh,

621
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Speaker 5: it was ten to one when I checked. Now it's

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Speaker 5: twelve to one. Atlanta up on the Diamondbacks in Arizona.

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Speaker 5: Twelve to one is the score bottom of the sixth inning.

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00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:32,600
Speaker 5: The Giants have also added some more runs against the

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Speaker 5: Mets in San Francisco. Seven to two is the score,

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00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:37,840
Speaker 5: bottom of the sixth inning there. The Twins earlier today

627
00:31:37,840 --> 00:31:40,120
Speaker 5: defeated the Royals five to one. The Blue Jays and

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Speaker 5: the White Sox. That game was postponed due to inclement weather.

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Speaker 5: And you guys were just talking about Connor Griffin. That's

630
00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:50,959
Speaker 5: step one in retaining Paul Skins. That's what they're thinking.

631
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Speaker 5: You know what I mean, yend right, like that is

632
00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:56,680
Speaker 5: step one in trying to keep Paul skeens doing this.

633
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Speaker 1: But that's what they're trying to do. Get everybody to

634
00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:01,600
Speaker 1: go see Baywine. It comes down, I mean, Doc, but

635
00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:03,760
Speaker 1: where's my money? Oh, we don't have enough money for you.

636
00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:06,880
Speaker 1: We give it all to this kid. Sorry, Paul, I

637
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Speaker 1: have thought you would like.

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Speaker 5: It if we have someone else next to you.

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. Yeah, no, of course, that

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Speaker 1: think absolutely was. He's gonna save twenty four runs a year. Listen, wait,

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Speaker 1: you've picked, You've been great, You've won a cy Young,

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Speaker 1: it's awesome. But this kid that's never even played, we're

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Speaker 1: going to give him one hundred and forty million dollars

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Speaker 1: because why not? Because why not?

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Speaker 5: At the NIT Semifinal and Men's college hoops, if you cared,

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Speaker 5: Tulsa defeated in New Mexico seventy four to sixty nine.

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Speaker 5: Auburn took down Illinois State eighty eight to sixty six.

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Speaker 5: Other NCAA news, Kansas sophomore Flory Badunga intends to declare

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Speaker 5: for the NBA Draft while maintaining his college eligibility, So

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Speaker 5: he's gonna enter the NCAA Transfer Portal because of that,

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Speaker 5: so he can keep his option open to return to college.

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Speaker 5: When it comes to the NFL, free agent quarterback Kirk

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Speaker 5: Cousins headed to the Raiders. That's gonna be a deal

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Speaker 5: that's going to guarantee him twenty million dollars. The Raiders

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Speaker 5: are also going to be hosting quarterback for Nando Mendoza

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Speaker 5: for a Top thirty visit on Tuesday, and five time

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Speaker 5: Pro Bowl cornerback Stefan Gilmour announced his retirement from the

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Speaker 5: NFL after thirteen seasons and lastly, here guys, three time

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Speaker 5: Masters champion Phil Nicholson will not be playing in next

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Speaker 5: week's Masters, saying that he's taking an extended leaf from

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Speaker 5: playing as his family is dealing with a personal health matter.

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Speaker 1: Back to you, guys, first one without Tiger or Phil

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Speaker 1: Crazy nineteen ninety four. Unbelievable since nineteen ninety four. Thank you, Mina.

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Speaker 1: We're all we pops back then, Jason Smith Mike Harmon

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Speaker 1: live from the Fox Sports Radio Studios. Coming up next,

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Speaker 1: we break down an injury that might have a huge

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Speaker 1: effect on the NBA playoffs. It's next right here, James.

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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in

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Speaker 1: A welcome inside the Jason Smith Show with my best

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Speaker 1: friend Mike Harmon. Take off your uniform, take off your cleats,

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Speaker 1: take off your jockstrap from me, Hey, things can always

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Speaker 1: get worse. File I bring you the Lakers and the Thunder. Tonight,

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Speaker 1: the Thunder decided, Yeah, that's really cute. You guys been

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Speaker 1: playing really well. We'll see in our place. And oh boy,

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Speaker 1: has this been a blowout from the jump two minutes

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Speaker 1: ago in the fourth quarter. Right now, the Thunder lead

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Speaker 1: the Lakers one thirty seven to ninety one. Right, so

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Speaker 1: it's a forty five point lead, forty six point lead

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Speaker 1: for the Thunder, and this game has been over since

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Speaker 1: midway through the first quarter. They jumped out to a

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Speaker 1: fifteen point lead and that was it. Spread was nine

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Speaker 1: and a half. Computer models had it at a one

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Speaker 1: eighteen one thirteen final. Yeah, it's not quite going to

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Speaker 1: be that. No, not quite getting there.

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Speaker 5: No.

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Speaker 1: However, from the things can always get worse. File. Yeah, Okay,

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Speaker 1: Lakers have been hot. They lose a game at Oklahoma City,

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Speaker 1: No big deal, right, Well, this happened earlier in the game,

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Speaker 1: and now it could put the rest of the NBA

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Speaker 1: season in flux.

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Speaker 4: It's really become a wonderful player with the Knicks, and

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Speaker 4: now certainly here he.

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Speaker 1: Really is a great playmaker in the short role is

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Speaker 1: offensive rebound and defensive brebound is so important. Ops. And

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Speaker 1: let's hope this is nothing. He looks like he's in

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Speaker 1: a lot of pain now he is, and.

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Speaker 4: We Jeff had JJ telling us before the game that

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Speaker 4: because they have been healthy, that hamstring and he was

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Speaker 4: grabbing in the first quarter and he's.

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Speaker 1: So there it is on prime. Luka Donsich left the game.

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Speaker 1: He was going in with the ball for a bucket.

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Speaker 1: It looks like he was going to kind of stop

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Speaker 1: and give you that Luca fade away, and then he

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Speaker 1: just dropped the basketball and said that's it. Like you

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Speaker 1: could tell, Oh, he is done out of the game

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Speaker 1: with a hamstring injury. He will have an MRI tomorrow

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Speaker 1: to determine the severity of the injury. And this is Look,

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Speaker 1: it's bad enough for Luca, who has been the MVP

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Speaker 1: of the NBA this year. Look, we talked about a

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Speaker 1: lot before I went on vacation. Look, Luca's the MVP.

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Speaker 1: What he's been able to do leading the Lakers up

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Speaker 1: doing it by himself. He was MVP earlier part in

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Speaker 1: the season. What he was doing the last couple of

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Speaker 1: months has been inhuman. But it's for the Lakers. It's

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Speaker 1: the reminder of, Wow, we still aren't past the can

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Speaker 1: we trust that Luca is gonna be healthy part, which

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Speaker 1: is what they needed to be able to trust going

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Speaker 1: forward for him to be their franchise player, right because

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Speaker 1: look at look at the Mavericks. Right, we make fun

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Speaker 1: of Nico Harrison and the band trade. Well, the Mavericks

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Speaker 1: were saying, why did they trade Luka Doncic. They didn't

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Speaker 1: like the fact he wasn't taking care of his body,

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Speaker 1: he missing a lot of games, and they didn't want

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Speaker 1: to pay him a lot of money. Right, he was

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Speaker 1: getting injured a lot. Right, You're coming off the NBA

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Speaker 1: Finals and you're injured and you're missing a lot of time.

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Speaker 1: And that supposedly was the last straw with the Mavericks

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Speaker 1: and why Nico wanted to move on from Luca. He's

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Speaker 1: not staying healthy. Can't stay healthy. Now, clearly we have

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Speaker 1: seen him do more, do more with his body, do

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Speaker 1: more to try to stay in shape. However, you can

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Speaker 1: only do so much if your body is not meant

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Speaker 1: for the riggers of the NBA. Your body is not

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Speaker 1: meant for the riggers of the NBA. Not that suddenly

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Speaker 1: he's Greg Odin, But the only thing that's been holding

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Speaker 1: Luca back over the course of his career has been

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Speaker 1: can we trust he's gonna stay healthy as he gets old?

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Speaker 1: Will he continue to take care of his body? Because

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Speaker 1: he didn't and now he's in his mid to late twenties,

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Speaker 1: and is he going to still do that? And here

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Speaker 1: he was in the middle of an MVP season and

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden going to the hoop for a

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Speaker 1: basket and all of a sudden hamstring MRI. This is

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Speaker 1: a big reminder of this is just why Luca was

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Speaker 1: dealt in the first place, and why the Lakers are

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Speaker 1: always gonna have to hold their breath if you go

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Speaker 1: forward with Luca as your franchise player. Yeah, we're trying

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Speaker 1: in year eight of this NBA career, plus all the

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00:38:16,239 --> 00:38:21,000
Speaker 1: weary Miles professional ball before he came to the to

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Speaker 1: the US and to the Mavericks. So I mean, you're

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Speaker 1: you're talking about a lot of wear and tear, and

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Speaker 1: in this particular case, it just fairly innocuous. Just pulls up,

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Speaker 1: drops the basketball and all of a sudden he's laying

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Speaker 1: on the court. Now, some of it is you're getting

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Speaker 1: boat raced. So maybe those pains are a little bit

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Speaker 1: more and maybe it's just precautionary because you're getting your

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Speaker 1: ass kicked on the road. You're not coming back in

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Speaker 1: this game, Okay, see smell blood in the water from

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Speaker 1: the opening tip and bludging them one thirty nine ninety six.

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Speaker 1: The people that stayed at the thunder game. Maybe they

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Speaker 1: get something cool for keeping the Lakers under one hundred.

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Speaker 1: But you know this is a They're scheduled to meet

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Speaker 1: up again here in short order. One more big battle.

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Speaker 1: This is supposed to be the MVP. Uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: winner takes it all. Meanwhile, Wendy's not playing and the

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Speaker 1: Spurs are up twenty four on the Clippers. Clippers decided, well,

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Speaker 1: the Lakers are terrible, so we're not. We're not only

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Speaker 1: gonna get a little bit of the shrapnel off of this,

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Speaker 1: they're gonna wear it. And JJ Reddick's gonna be mad

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Speaker 1: at Jason Smith. So Wenby saying, hey, I can go

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00:39:25,040 --> 00:39:26,759
Speaker 1: to that. Dude. It's the Clippers. We don't need you.

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Speaker 1: We're good. Just say, take take it easy. Just got

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Speaker 1: three more games's supposed to be the good game. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: after the last. We don't need to worry about it.

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Speaker 1: We need to do We don't need to You're all good.

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Speaker 1: You're all good. Exit about of Fresca exit Swelldoma got

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Speaker 1: more in the Luca injury coming up next, as well

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Speaker 1: as a great big NFL hot take from the biggest

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Speaker 1: football story of the Day, Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio,