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Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to Fox Sports Saturday. I'm Alex Curry here with

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Speaker 2: Carmen Vitally. Thank you for spending your Saturday afternoon with

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Speaker 2: Carmie me. It is a buzzer beater kind of week.

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Speaker 2: You guys in the NBA in March madness and me

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Speaker 2: getting here today. We just rolled in and we rolled

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Speaker 2: on and Carme and I obviously you can't see us,

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Speaker 2: but we are rocking the same vibe today. It's giving

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Speaker 2: mob wife chic. And I said that to Karmi right

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Speaker 2: when we came in, And what did you say back

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Speaker 2: to me?

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Speaker 3: Well, first of all, I ask, my culture is not

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Speaker 3: your costume.

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Speaker 2: But that's okay, it's nice, it's not I've I've been obsessed.

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Speaker 2: I remember you told me I went honorary Italian.

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Speaker 3: I know, I know, I know I did.

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Speaker 2: And animal print is my neutral. I like, I'm always

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Speaker 2: an animal.

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Speaker 3: I always give people stuff there because I'm like, this

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Speaker 3: is this has been my life. This is like all

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Speaker 3: my aunts, like my entire life. I'm really glad.

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Speaker 2: It's like my Jewish bubbies are like this is very

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Speaker 2: like big fur, animal print, all that.

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Speaker 3: Job well, because it's so trendy. My cousin who is

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Speaker 3: nice enough to be throwing one of my bridal showers

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Speaker 3: is uh, that's that's our theme, mom, because I realized

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Speaker 3: I one day. I was like texting her and I

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Speaker 3: was like, yeah, mob wife, mob wife, mob wife.

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Speaker 2: I'm a wife, a wife. So I love those realizations

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Speaker 2: in real time as you're just like.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna try. We're gonna try to do this in

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Speaker 3: the summer. I don't know how it's gonna work with me.

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Speaker 2: I love that that's like not a common like shower theme.

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Speaker 2: When you said it, I heard bachelorette in my ear. Okay,

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Speaker 2: love that.

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Speaker 3: Because I'm it's all my Italian side of the family

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Speaker 3: in Philadelphia, so like we all live this life anyway,

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Speaker 3: so we might as well.

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Speaker 2: I love that, which, okay, that makes sense because my

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Speaker 2: mom's side, the Jewish side, is Philadelphia, and that's where

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Speaker 2: like all my bubbies in this whole like vibe and

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Speaker 2: look comes from.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, just so you all know, I got a guy.

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Speaker 3: That's all I gotta say. Yeah, I got a guy.

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Speaker 2: I got it, I do. I literally I literally got

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Speaker 2: a guy for everything we've done a bit on that. Okay,

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Speaker 2: you guys March Madness. Who I just need to brag

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Speaker 2: for a moment here. I'm happy to report I am

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Speaker 2: currently in first place in the Fox bort in the

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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Bracket Challenge. What sorry, Steve Hartman just.

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Speaker 3: Hot start.

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Speaker 2: He was in first almost the whole time. My Elite

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Speaker 2: eight is all intact. These are all the matchups I selected.

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Speaker 2: We'll dive into the madness a little later in the show,

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Speaker 2: a little closer to all the games. Also, Happy MLB

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Speaker 2: Opening Week to all who celebrate. You heard Martin Wis

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Speaker 2: just say right now, the Yankees are absolutely destroyed. Yeah

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Speaker 2: Milwaukee right now? Twenty to seven? Is there an update?

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Speaker 2: I heard it had eight home runs nine nine. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: almost like a grand swammy, like absolutely insane. I mean

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Speaker 2: between that, the Dodgers picking up right where they left off,

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Speaker 3: Last Chicago teams. Yeah, a sweep of opening Day.

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Speaker 2: Yeah they did on top of the Bulls with.

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Speaker 3: That insane game, which we'll get to in a little bit. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: let's start in the NFL, because the quarterback dominoes have

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Speaker 2: all basically fallen. I mean, and then there was one

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Speaker 2: where we're all still on the Aaron Rodgers watch, but

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Speaker 2: the Giants and Russell Wilson reached an agreement a one

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Speaker 2: year ten point five million guaranteed up to twenty one

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Speaker 2: million in incentives, and Carmie, did you see it? He

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Speaker 2: already has his new tagline.

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Speaker 3: I mean, at this point, you have to keep you

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Speaker 3: have to keep the bid up, you have to keep

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Speaker 3: the bit up, Big Blue. You have to keep the

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Speaker 3: big Blue.

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Speaker 2: And Denver's like, let's rod did he have one in Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 3: He adopted the Pittsburgh which is here we go. Okay,

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Speaker 3: so he didn't have that.

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Speaker 2: He didn't come up with his own. Okay, go big Blue.

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Speaker 2: I just sorry I cried a little bit in laughter,

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Speaker 2: but Giants went out and got two guys. You know,

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Speaker 2: they said that they'll have the best guy, will Win

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Speaker 2: Russell Wilson, Jamis Jameis Winston. They still have Tommy DeVito

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Speaker 3: I'm excited for this quarterback room, but like.

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Speaker 2: Right, so many different personalities, but they could still like

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Speaker 2: none of these guys feel like the future for the Giants.

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Speaker 2: They could still get someone in the draft. They have

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Speaker 2: the third overall pick.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so what do you say?

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Speaker 2: Good question? What do you what do you do? Because

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Speaker 2: both rus and Jamis are not long term?

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Speaker 3: No, there are solutions. They're actually recreating what just happened

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Speaker 2: So I don't really know how change now. They don't

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Speaker 3: I don't I don't understand what the Giants in a

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Speaker 3: year that Joe Shane and Brian Dabole. Their jobs are

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Speaker 3: on the line, Their jobs are on the line, Their

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Speaker 3: seats are the hottest they could possibly be. And granted

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Speaker 3: this was not the year to need a quarterback and

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Speaker 3: Giants at the third overall pick, it's too rich for

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Speaker 3: Shitar Sanders. You're not gonna get cam Ward because I

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Speaker 2: There probably could Tans and Browns.

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Speaker 3: Well, yeah, those are the only two that he took

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Speaker 3: going to go for him. Well that remains to be seen.

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Speaker 3: But either way, Yeah, the interest in him is real,

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Speaker 3: regardless from the Tennessee Titans. So like you as the

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Speaker 3: New York Giants, yeah, you don't have a whole lot

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Speaker 2: Could you imagine though, adding should or Sanders to the

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Speaker 3: I mean you'd have to trade back for it, because third,

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Speaker 3: the third overall pick is way too rich for that.

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Speaker 3: That's reaching. And I know quarterbacks, you know they rise,

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Speaker 3: but I know at this point, because you added both

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Speaker 2: Which is crazy though, because you're you don't want to

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Speaker 2: expect to have this high of a draft pick again, right,

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Speaker 2: and you need a quarterback of the future if they have.

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Speaker 3: This high well, if they have this high of a

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Speaker 3: but he's going to be giving that and then you

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Speaker 3: can get your guys on the same This is this

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Speaker 3: is what happened with the Bears for so many years

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Speaker 3: the guys that drafted the quarterback aren't there anymore, yadda,

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Speaker 3: YadA YadA. You're I don't know what the Giants are doing,

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Speaker 3: I do think that the Giants defense, and again, this

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Speaker 3: need a quarterback to keep us afloat. And it's still

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Speaker 3: I mean, and that's what happened with the Steelers. And

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Speaker 3: to be fair, a playoff birth period for the Giants

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Speaker 3: would be a vast improvement.

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Speaker 2: It would be and you can do.

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Speaker 3: That if you have Russell Wilson steering the ship a

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Speaker 3: little bit, but you know, you can get production out

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Speaker 3: of Jameis Winston. You just it comes with the whole

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Speaker 2: It does, and the consistency is kind of what you're

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Speaker 3: But and there's not when you have two guys that

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Speaker 3: in camp, but hopefully like that's what the Steelers wanted,

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Speaker 3: but that didn't work out because Russ Gott injured and

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Speaker 3: then Justin Fields took over. And then it didn't really

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Speaker 3: work out with Justin because he couldn't give you much

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Speaker 3: to win new games. I but also like, and then

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Speaker 3: you had to bench Justin Fields for Russell Wilson. That

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Speaker 3: puts pressure on Russell Wilson. I've been through quarterback battles

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Speaker 3: and my Bruce arians said it to me best one

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Speaker 3: time when he was just like, if you have two quarterbacks,

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Speaker 3: you have none. And that's how I approach all of these.

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Speaker 2: It's hard because we keep seeing the same kind of

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Speaker 2: trend over and over again with Russell Wilson with each

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Speaker 2: of the new teams he's gone to. Because Monc goes.

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Speaker 3: He's a super Bowl winning quarterback. That's a pedigree that

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Speaker 3: you cannot ignore.

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Speaker 2: But no one's really buying the stick anymore. No one's

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Speaker 2: really buying the act.

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Speaker 3: And it says who he got another chance?

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Speaker 2: He has another chance, and the other team he's went

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Speaker 2: after one year, but obviously besides the Seahawks because that

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Speaker 2: was like his home base, like and been like, Nope,

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Speaker 2: we don't want to deal with this anymore. Nope, we

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Speaker 2: don't want to keep them. Nope, we're not going to

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Speaker 2: try to do this. So it's Kennedy because he has

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Speaker 2: that super Bowl winning I'm saying attached to his name,

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Speaker 2: which is interesting. But again, like the Giants, can they

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Speaker 2: be successful with this quarterback? Plug and play like they

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Speaker 2: have Molik neighbors because Wandall Robinson. They need it, They

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Speaker 2: need a running back. It's impossible to fill the shoes

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Speaker 2: a Saquon Barkley, I mean Tyrone Tracy did his best

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Speaker 2: as a rookie last year. But they can Russ make

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Speaker 3: These teams are no longer willing to play the Aaron

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're not gonna roll out the red carpet. That's

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Speaker 3: He was working through injury there too, but that injuries

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Speaker 3: to nine is a football score. It is a football score.

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Speaker 3: It's insane the defending champs to open their season like

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Speaker 3: with the bang. Obviously in Tokyo against the Cubs. We

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Speaker 3: talked about that while that was happening. That was such

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Speaker 3: a cool rot experience.

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Speaker 2: Then that had Opening Day at home this week, raised

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Speaker 2: their championship banner. On Thursday, ice Cube drove out the

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Speaker 2: World Series trophy on the field. They got their World

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Speaker 2: Series rings yesterday, and their Big three all have showed

446
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Speaker 2: up in these first two games. We got home runs

447
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Speaker 2: from Otani, from Freddie Freeman going off his former teammate

448
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Speaker 2: Jack Flaherty yesterday, and then Mookie Betts, like just a reminder,

449
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Speaker 2: this man was so sick the last few weeks. He

450
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Speaker 2: lost almost twenty five pounds. He had to come home

451
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Speaker 2: from Japan early, couldn't keep food down for weeks, but

452
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Speaker 2: did not miss a beat once he got back last night,

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Speaker 2: two home run game, including the walk off three run homer.

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Speaker 2: In extras, like it was just he talked about it.

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Speaker 2: He's like, yeah, I didn't lose strength, thankfully, but twenty

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Speaker 2: five pounds.

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Speaker 6: For a little guys a lot of weight to lose,

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Speaker 6: that is, especially when you probably don't have a lot

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Speaker 6: of fat anyway, no your cookies, Like yeah, exactly, and

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Speaker 6: as a professional athlete, you don't have your body pat

461
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Speaker 6: percentage is not a lot, so like when you're losing

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Speaker 6: weight you're losing muscle.

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Speaker 3: Uh so to not lose strength is a lot. But

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Speaker 3: between that and then the Yankees just you know, yeah,

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Speaker 3: doing what they did to the Brewers. You're telling me

466
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Speaker 3: the teams with the two highest payrolls are doing well,

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Speaker 3: that's weird.

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Speaker 2: Don't hate the player, hate the game.

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Speaker 3: It's totally so. I'm on board with that.

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Speaker 2: In baseball, I've gotten so much heat for that this week, like, oh,

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Speaker 2: who do you think like favorites. I'm like, it's gonna

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Speaker 2: be the same teams right now, Like they there's a

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Speaker 2: formula to win in baseball. Because I'm gonna be very

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Speaker 2: can I'm gonna be very because you can go out

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Speaker 2: and pay people.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna be very interested with what they did this offseason.

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Speaker 3: I'm gonna be very dog your seat now. I'm gonna

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Speaker 3: be very interested to see how the Boston Red Sox

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Speaker 3: challenge the Yankees. Okay, I think that there's going there's

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Speaker 3: that's my like. I think that they end up in

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Speaker 3: the World Series this year. Okay, I think that's very needs.

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Speaker 2: That's another storied franchise that needs to be great again.

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Speaker 2: It's just these leagues are better when the storied franchises

484
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Speaker 2: are doing great, and that's another one that.

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Speaker 3: Baseball is trying everything they can to to like remain relevant.

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Speaker 3: I love, I mean the game has changed, I think

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Speaker 3: for the better with the pitch clock and all that

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Speaker 3: kind of stuff.

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Speaker 2: Game change though, that's way possible.

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Speaker 3: MLB needs to do itself more favors by having MLB

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Speaker 3: TV work on opening.

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Speaker 2: They just also need to make the games accessible. Like

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Speaker 2: that's something that I could not be hard or.

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Speaker 3: As much as you are trying to get interest and

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Speaker 3: garner interest in this easy, it's not easy because there's

496
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Speaker 3: so many games that's so inflated. It's it's it's a sport.

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Speaker 2: They don't buy era in a lot of ways.

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Speaker 3: Uh, for you to not have your technology working so

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Speaker 3: that your fans can't actually watch the games. Although despite that,

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Speaker 3: the Brewers Yankees through the largest national opening Day audience

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Speaker 3: in seven years and they're on their opening day national wise.

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Speaker 3: And then I mentioned it before, but my Cubs and

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Speaker 3: my White Sox both won. I can't I can't claim both.

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Speaker 3: I'm I'm a White Sox fan, but like I'm all

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Speaker 3: so rush.

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Speaker 2: My hot takes brushed my angels.

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Speaker 3: My hot take is that I'm never going to be

508
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Speaker 3: bad at a team for bringing a championship to Chicago,

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Speaker 3: So I was happy when it comes one too.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there you go.

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Speaker 3: And then the Bulls had an insane game on that

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Speaker 3: same day.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're gonna We're gonna get to that a little

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Speaker 2: later in the show. But now let's let's check out

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Speaker 2: Martin Wise. What's trying to buddy.

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Speaker 7: That Yankee scores was trying to a beach of Brewers

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Speaker 7: earlier twenty to nine.

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Speaker 8: That's funny.

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Speaker 3: The memes, the memes are taking over.

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Speaker 7: They got nine runs, the Brewers did. Yankee scored nine

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Speaker 7: on home runs.

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Speaker 2: Damn.

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Speaker 8: I mean, yeah, it was Yankees had five hours.

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Speaker 3: I didn't realize that. I didn't realize that Aaron Judge

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Speaker 3: went back to back to back, like on the first

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Speaker 3: pitch of every app bat. Yeah, like back to back

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Speaker 3: to back.

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Speaker 7: That in the first day, former Yankee Mester quartet, and

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Speaker 7: it was all off.

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Speaker 2: Their former teammate, which makes it even better.

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Speaker 7: So you had to it was a little bit of

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Speaker 7: you tip something in practice, you know, Yeah, you know. Yeah,

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Speaker 7: Aaron Judge did have three home runs himself nine as

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Speaker 7: a team for New York. The Angels beat the White

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Speaker 7: Sox one to nothing. Games in progress right now.

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Speaker 8: We got a few.

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Speaker 7: Bottom of the eighth inning, the Cardinals lead the Twins

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Speaker 7: four to one. Bottom of the fifth, the Orioles doubling

539
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Speaker 7: up the Blue Jays eight to four. Bottom of the second,

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Speaker 7: scoreless between the Phillies and the Nationals. Bottom of the second,

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Speaker 7: same story, Rockies and Rays scoreless. There, Pirates lead the

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Speaker 7: Marlins one to nothing in the bottom of the first

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Speaker 7: and top of the second.

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Speaker 8: Giants with the one nothing lead over the Reds.

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Speaker 7: Scoreless in the al central between the Guardians and the Royals.

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Speaker 7: Top of the second inning. There and the women's March

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Speaker 7: Madness Tournament Sweet sixteen for one seed Texas and five

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Speaker 7: seed Tennessee Longhorns with a thirty four to thirty lead

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Speaker 7: over the Volunteers. Earlier today we saw TCU, the two seed,

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Speaker 7: advanced to the Elite eight, beating Notre Dames seventy one

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Speaker 7: to sixty two Hailey van Lyth with twenty six points

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Speaker 7: nine rebounds.

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Speaker 8: See dad, Assis, what did you say?

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Speaker 3: See her dad come down in the in the stands.

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Speaker 3: I don't know who who the player's dad was that

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Speaker 3: he went up to. He like slaps some guy and

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Speaker 3: he was like, let's go, and they like chest bumps.

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Speaker 3: It was all about like hailing, like a hitting the shot.

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Speaker 7: I was like, this is I was wondering, where slaps

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Speaker 7: some guy?

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Speaker 2: There's a south Park episode about this.

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Speaker 3: No, he like slaps him on the arm and then

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Speaker 3: he turns around realizes the tailor vand lift out they

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Speaker 3: knew each other and then they like chess pumped and

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Speaker 3: they were like so pumped about it. It was so

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Speaker 3: cute and an.

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Speaker 7: NFL news the bills and cornerback Christian Benford four year,

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Speaker 7: seventy six million dollar contract extension.

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Speaker 3: Nice back to you guys.

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Speaker 2: Thank you Martin. You're listening to Fox Sports Saturday. I'm

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Speaker 2: Alex Curry here with Carmen Vitali. We were broadcasting live

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Speaker 2: from the tyreq dot coms you News in Los Angeles

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Speaker 2: and it is time for our first guest. She is

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Speaker 2: the smartest sports mind on TVM, maybe a little biased.

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Speaker 2: NFL Networks analytics expert a Bessie of the show and

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Speaker 2: she just got bit by a camel and Kenya Cynthy

577
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Speaker 2: things enjoyed in the show. I'm still like crying laughing.

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Speaker 2: She sent me the video this morning of the actual

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Speaker 2: it got caught on film. You guys of a camel

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Speaker 2: biting Cynthia's arm. You're such a chance, such a champion.

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Speaker 9: I mean, I'm never going to have you know, those

582
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Speaker 9: like stupid icebreakers he has to do when you like

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Speaker 9: get new jobs or like go to something like that.

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Speaker 9: It's like, find a fun fact. I've got it down now.

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Speaker 9: I never think of a fun fact again. You know,

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Speaker 9: it's great, so it serves two purposes.

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Speaker 3: It's funny. I feel like you have a lot of

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Speaker 3: fun facts already, Cynthia, because of the way that you

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Speaker 3: cover the league in general. But now it's so good.

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Speaker 2: Okay, let's talk some quarterback free agency here, because last

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Speaker 2: week Rogers visited the Steelers but left without a deal.

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Speaker 2: He seems to be taking his time here on where

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Speaker 2: he's going to go or if he's going to play

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Speaker 2: next season. What is your gut feeling on Rogers. Does

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Speaker 2: it end up in Pittsburgh or do you think maybe

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Speaker 2: he retires he ends.

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Speaker 9: Up playing now, do I think it's Pittsburgh. I think

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Speaker 9: there's maybe better chance than most. But Aaron Rodgers wasn't

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Speaker 9: particularly interested in any of the offseason activities when he

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Speaker 9: was signed with the team. I mean, who's in Egypt,

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Speaker 9: I believe last year during much of training camp. So

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Speaker 9: I don't I'm not taking him not signing a deal

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Speaker 9: yet as any sort of like retirement news. I think

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Speaker 9: he's probably weighing his options of dealers versus what happens

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Speaker 9: in the GIRAFT is not regarded as a very highly

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Speaker 9: you know, talented quarterback dirafte or a line class for

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Speaker 9: that matter, So I think he's kind of taking his

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Speaker 9: time because you know, he he will likely have a

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Speaker 9: different sort of demand. I mean, he does never need

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Speaker 9: to play again if he doesn't want to write like

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Speaker 9: money like he's he's been an MVP as as you

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Speaker 9: were boring, like you've got all the things that you

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Speaker 9: know a lot of people would be potentially looking for.

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Speaker 9: So I just think he doesn't want to do anything

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Speaker 9: off season related.

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Speaker 3: If we're sticking to the quarterback situation, we were also

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Speaker 3: talking briefly about Kirk Cousins showing up in Cleveland at

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Speaker 3: its polet. But I'm kind of the milition say that

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Speaker 3: it doesn't make a whole lot of sense for Atlanta

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Speaker 3: to move him unless it's for of a premium pick,

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Speaker 3: because you already have all of this money tied up

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Speaker 3: that's guaranteed to Kirk Cousins right now, you might as

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Speaker 3: well keep him on the roster. What do you think

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Speaker 3: would be the where like, what pick would you need

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Speaker 3: to make that decision to move him? When does it

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Speaker 3: make sense for the Atlanta Falcons or how does it

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Speaker 3: make sense for the Atlanta Falcons to do that? Or

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Speaker 3: does it I don't.

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Speaker 9: Think it does. I'm kind of with you. I mean,

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Speaker 9: the reality is is I just don't know if there's

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Speaker 9: a I mean, Cleveland it too, I guess, but I

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Speaker 9: don't think they're gonna give I don't think they would

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Speaker 9: give Atlanta that. I don't think anyone believes Kirk Cousins

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Speaker 9: is solely healthy after the Achilles. I don't think anyone

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Speaker 9: thinks he's mobile in the way that you'd need to

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Speaker 9: justify a pick like that. But on the other hand,

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Speaker 9: maybe the Falcons are thinking about sunk costs and saying,

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Speaker 9: you know, we're not gonna we don't we want to

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Speaker 9: free up something on our fifty three. But I don't know.

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Speaker 9: I think a lot of it is that Kirk Cousins

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Speaker 9: one is very interesting because he is a good locker

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Speaker 9: room guy, and Cleveland does probably want to focus on

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Speaker 9: bringing in kind of good locker room guys to help

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Speaker 9: you with a to help with a rookie. But I

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Speaker 9: don't I don't know if it'd be worth you know

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Speaker 9: that it would have to be some some very I

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Speaker 9: just don't know if it'd be worth it for Atlanta

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Speaker 9: or how they're viewing them.

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Speaker 2: Okay, let's move to the Vikings in their quarterback situation,

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Speaker 2: because a few weeks ago they reportedly moved on from

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Speaker 2: the possibility of signing Rogers, but then their GM seemed

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Speaker 2: to kind of keep the door open with like a

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Speaker 2: cryptic comment this week, do you think there's still a

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Speaker 2: chance at JJ isn't the starter and they bring in

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Speaker 2: someone else, a veteran presence, maybe even still of Rogers

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Speaker 2: to Minnesota.

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Speaker 9: I don't think that the Vikings roster is in any

658
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Speaker 9: way set. I don't think their quarterback room is in

659
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Speaker 9: any way set. I think some of the I don't

660
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Speaker 9: know if they you know, when when you're asking Kevin

661
00:29:42,560 --> 00:29:47,040
Speaker 9: O'Connell things during free agency, a lot of their goal

662
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Speaker 9: is to they don't owe us to tell us the truth,

663
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Speaker 9: right like they can say we're not interested in Rogers

664
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Speaker 9: but that doesn't mean really anything. So I would say

665
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Speaker 9: they're not interested. They can say like, as of you

666
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Speaker 9: know today, Mark twenty ninth or whatever, we're not interested

667
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Speaker 9: in Aaron Rodgers. Sure, but that's that's because you have

668
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Speaker 9: a meeting with him in two weeks, right, So you're

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Speaker 9: not lying, but you're not necessarily giving the disclosures that

670
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Speaker 9: fans would like to know. But I just think he

671
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Speaker 9: it's a must if he does go there, he has

672
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Speaker 9: to change his number to four and.

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Speaker 3: Make football the bar circle. Yeah, circle of life complete. Yeah,

674
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Speaker 3: all right. I want to move on to a group

675
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Speaker 3: that's part that's near and dear to both of our hearts,

676
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Speaker 3: the offensive line, because you mentioned it already. I feel

677
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Speaker 3: like a lot of people are loop like lumping the

678
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Speaker 3: trenches in together in this draft, say, oh, it's a

679
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Speaker 3: good trench class. It's a really good defensive line class.

680
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Speaker 3: What I'm hearing around the league. And I just wrote

681
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Speaker 3: a story about this too, where it's not exactly the

682
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Speaker 3: best offensive line class. And I feel like that was

683
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Speaker 3: reflected in free agency when you saw the inflated kind

684
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Speaker 3: of value of interior offensive line in particular, where you

685
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Speaker 3: have teams giving up draft picks and then signing guys

686
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Speaker 3: to big time deals, or planning to sign guys to

687
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Speaker 3: big time deals, all that kind of stuff. So where

688
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Speaker 3: do you see this positional value going. Do you see

689
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Speaker 3: it kind of still on an upward trajectory for interior

690
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Speaker 3: offensive line or do you think it was more because

691
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Speaker 3: it was just indicative of this class. It's not as

692
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Speaker 3: good of a class as people think it is. Maybe

693
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Speaker 3: it'll kind of reset itself. Or do you kind of

694
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Speaker 3: expect these contracts to keep going up?

695
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Speaker 9: I mean until we see I think the unfortunate you

696
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Speaker 9: got to go back to me one step further and say,

697
00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:26,000
Speaker 9: the unfortunate kind of unintended consequence of being allowed to

698
00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:28,360
Speaker 9: have the transfer portal function in the way that we do,

699
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Speaker 9: is that we have a lot of uncertainty around these

700
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Speaker 9: O lines. They look worse than ever. They are playing

701
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Speaker 9: with different quarterbacks often like each year, which not only

702
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Speaker 9: makes it hard. You know, there's some people like, oh,

703
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Speaker 9: we can see what the quarterbacks like in a bunch

704
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Speaker 9: of different systems now, and I'm kind of like, I

705
00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:45,400
Speaker 9: don't know how much of the playbook can you really

706
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Speaker 9: learn an eight or nine games?

707
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Speaker 3: Yep?

708
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Speaker 9: And the answer is is I just don't think you

709
00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:50,920
Speaker 9: can learn a lot. So I find a pulling guard.

710
00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:53,239
Speaker 9: Oh wait, you know, like there's just none right, So,

711
00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:55,640
Speaker 9: and it doesn't mean that they can't. It just means

712
00:31:55,640 --> 00:31:58,720
Speaker 9: that it's a much bigger estimation than it has been

713
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Speaker 9: in the past because these guys aren't getting kind of

714
00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:04,400
Speaker 9: circumstances to grow, like we need to be able to see. Like,

715
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Speaker 9: you know, there's a gout of LSU that's largely considered

716
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Speaker 9: the best tackle in this class, and his arms are

717
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Speaker 9: two inches shorter than any all pro in the past

718
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Speaker 9: like twenty years. So and I understand that, you know,

719
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Speaker 9: maybe some people are like oh arms were, but he'd

720
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Speaker 9: be better suited as a guard. And there's a there's

721
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Speaker 9: a couple of guys here that would be good interior

722
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Speaker 9: offensive line picks if you have the right tackles next

723
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Speaker 9: to them or the right center next to them. But

724
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Speaker 9: I don't but this class, and I've studied a lot

725
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Speaker 9: of old lines like that's I'm going to master's agree,

726
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Speaker 9: And I spend way too much time and money on this,

727
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Speaker 9: and I just don't. This is especially if you're really

728
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Speaker 9: in need of like a really tough tackle, You're you're

729
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Speaker 9: going to really have to. You're going to have to

730
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Speaker 9: have a good eye and a great trainer and someone

731
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Speaker 9: who can really be a great teacher of the game

732
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Speaker 9: to them because they're both classes. They're so raw. They're

733
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Speaker 9: just all clay, lumps of.

734
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Speaker 2: Clay, lumps of clay. Now, there's been a lot of

735
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Speaker 2: way I love that great.

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Speaker 3: You are big.

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Speaker 1: Giant.

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Speaker 9: Marge loves the play none the left. There's a lot

739
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Speaker 9: of play.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so day before we ate, you know, there's been

741
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Speaker 2: a lot of free agency moves. Which one do you

742
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Speaker 2: think will have the biggest impact next season?

743
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Speaker 9: Oh, one hundred percent the quarterback in Las Vegas. I

744
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Speaker 9: think that. You know, it's so interesting to me. It

745
00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:25,080
Speaker 9: says so much about Gino and about what the state

746
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Speaker 9: of Pete Carroll creating. So I'm Pete Carroll. I take

747
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Speaker 9: over a place that has seen a turnstyle of coaches,

748
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Speaker 9: and what's the first move I make. I don't get

749
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Speaker 9: the guy that I won a Super Bowl with. I

750
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Speaker 9: get the guy we brought in later, I get the

751
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Speaker 9: guy who was You know that that says a whole

752
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Speaker 9: lot if you ask me, And I think that a

753
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Speaker 9: lot of the ways that they're kind of addressing issues

754
00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:52,080
Speaker 9: where I think it's very smart. Is a great strategy

755
00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:54,640
Speaker 9: to be able to double down on positional value. So

756
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:57,240
Speaker 9: now they've given themselves the option to be able to

757
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Speaker 9: draft a quarterbacktion one fall and arrange they like not

758
00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:02,720
Speaker 9: first round, but you know later on, and then you

759
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Speaker 9: have like you know, you already have a great past

760
00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:10,120
Speaker 9: catching situation for a team that's picking this high, meaning

761
00:34:10,400 --> 00:34:13,440
Speaker 9: it's not necessarily a wide receivers. But rock Bowers was

762
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Speaker 9: really obviously breaking Mike Dikta's record being the rookie pass leader,

763
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Speaker 9: breaking Pukunukua's records, Like, you know, you have something really

764
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Speaker 9: special there. So that helps you can start building around

765
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Speaker 9: a position and a player like that. And also personality wise,

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Speaker 9: brock Powers, he's pretty quiet with the media, but he's

767
00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:32,359
Speaker 9: a great team player. I've heard zero things about him

768
00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:34,399
Speaker 9: that would be of any concern. So you've got Max

769
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Speaker 9: Crosby anchoring the defense, You've got Brock Powers anchoring the offense.

770
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Speaker 9: You're in a really good spot, especially with a veteran

771
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Speaker 9: like Gino who's dealt with an O line that's allowed

772
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Speaker 9: him to get you know, last year that's the Seattle

773
00:34:44,000 --> 00:34:44,799
Speaker 9: O line was not good.

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Speaker 5: So that's that'll be that.

775
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they do. But I love your enthusiasm and

776
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Speaker 2: your hopefulness for Vegas. Cynthia. We love you. Thank you

777
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Speaker 2: so much for coming on the show.

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Speaker 1: Love you guys.

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Speaker 9: Don't get it up by any camels on the way home.

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Speaker 3: Thanks.

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Speaker 2: Then, all right, guys, then we come back the dues

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Speaker 2: and the don'ts in sports. You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

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Speaker 2: Welcome back to Fox Sports Saturday of Alex Curry here

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Speaker 2: the Carmen Battalion. We are broadcasting live from the tire

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Speaker 2: dot Com Studios in Los Angeles. Thank you for spending

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Speaker 2: your Saturday afternoon with us.

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Speaker 3: But it is Saturday afternoon or what? Thanks to you

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Speaker 3: Saturday afternoon.

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Speaker 2: Ch oh, got it? Got it now? We love Okay,

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Speaker 2: it's time for the dues and don'ts and sports Highlight.

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Speaker 8: I love that.

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Speaker 2: And putting a spotlight on the don't the subject brings

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Speaker 2: me no joy.

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Speaker 3: That's insane.

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Speaker 1: Next time for the dues and the dots in sports.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I got to do here and this one was like,

798
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Speaker 2: like you know, I wanted to give like a high

799
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Speaker 2: five chest bomb, like tell yeah, do support your peers

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Speaker 2: now heartbreaking news this week, Juju Walkins tore her ACI.

801
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Speaker 2: But after that happened, Yukon star Paige Becker's reached out

802
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Speaker 2: to Juju, let her know that she was there if

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Speaker 2: she needed anything. Page came back from two very serious

804
00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:14,080
Speaker 2: knee injuries stronger than ever, she said. We exchanged numbers now,

805
00:36:14,440 --> 00:36:17,800
Speaker 2: so we are locked in and whatever she needs mentally, physically,

806
00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:21,520
Speaker 2: needs to vent, needs to ask questions. It's a long

807
00:36:21,680 --> 00:36:23,920
Speaker 2: process and you learn a lot about yourself. But that's

808
00:36:23,960 --> 00:36:26,480
Speaker 2: a real leader right there. Like these are two of

809
00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:30,760
Speaker 2: the greatest names right now in women's college basketball page.

810
00:36:30,760 --> 00:36:34,680
Speaker 2: Obviously head to the w next year, but it's like

811
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Speaker 2: to have that kind of support, especially like acl like

812
00:36:38,360 --> 00:36:41,239
Speaker 2: Juju's probably missing all of next season. She'll probably come

813
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Speaker 2: back her senior year, but it's a mental game. It's

814
00:36:44,719 --> 00:36:46,320
Speaker 2: a mental comeback game, and to have that kind of

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Speaker 2: support from another grade who's been through something like that

816
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Speaker 2: in your sport is huge.

817
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm just so sad because like if ankle injury happened,

818
00:36:54,960 --> 00:36:56,960
Speaker 3: and then that happened, you're like, those things are connected,

819
00:36:56,960 --> 00:37:01,560
Speaker 3: they're very connected, a right, it just happens.

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Speaker 2: It's just hilarious, Okay.

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Speaker 3: Don't stop linivating, no innovating, don't stop innovating the Yankees.

822
00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:12,360
Speaker 3: So we just saw the Yankees put a hurting on

823
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Speaker 3: the bruise. Right nine, I believe was the final score.

824
00:37:15,640 --> 00:37:20,640
Speaker 3: Home runs, dinger after dinger after dinger. Apparently. Yeah, the

825
00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:23,040
Speaker 3: Yankees created new bats by moving a lot of the

826
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Speaker 3: wood into the label. So the hardest part of the

827
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Speaker 3: bat strikes the ball. What Lucy Birge, who is hysterical

828
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Speaker 3: on social media, I love her. She quotes me and said,

829
00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:35,120
Speaker 3: this sounds like a George Costanza idea, except that it worked.

830
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Speaker 3: Oh and it does. It sounds like this is George

831
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Speaker 3: Stanza and the Yankees front office going like what if?

832
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Speaker 1: What if?

833
00:37:42,719 --> 00:37:47,000
Speaker 2: Here we are but it worked, dude, that's crazy, hilarious.

834
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Speaker 2: That a crazy.

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Speaker 3: It's not technically illegal, I'm assuming, so no, I.

836
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Speaker 2: Mean, don't ask for permission, ask for forgiveness, like, just

837
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Speaker 2: kind of just do it and see how it works.

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Speaker 3: It's out. All the other teams are gonna try.

839
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Speaker 2: And I'll try to good or I'll be able to

840
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Speaker 2: try to testball.

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Speaker 3: Man, Damn, don't stop in it. It's an old sport,

842
00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:12,600
Speaker 3: but hey, can't. It doesn't mean you can't teach a

843
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Speaker 3: new dog, ear old dog, new tricks.

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Speaker 2: No love that also like we want to see dingers

845
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Speaker 2: like fingers all day.

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Speaker 3: That's and we can't advocate for said anymore dangers.

847
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Speaker 2: Please okay, do take time for your fans. One of

848
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Speaker 2: Steph Curry's biggest fans is an eighty six year old grandmother.

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Speaker 2: They just did a whole feature on it recently. She

850
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:38,520
Speaker 2: plans her daily schedules around his games, like the cutest

851
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Speaker 2: little old lady like takes notes during his game, and

852
00:38:42,160 --> 00:38:44,480
Speaker 2: she said she ended up finding Steph Curk. She was

853
00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:46,960
Speaker 2: just browsing the TV one day and saw one of

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Speaker 2: his pressers where his two year old daughter was sitting

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Speaker 2: on his lack yeah, and was like, huh, who is that?

856
00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:57,439
Speaker 2: She'd never watched like basketball games before, said she felt

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Speaker 2: like an immediate addict, like after watching the first game, like, well,

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00:39:01,160 --> 00:39:04,000
Speaker 2: he's also very fun to watch exactly god addicted, never

859
00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:06,279
Speaker 2: misses his game. She finally got to meet him in

860
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Speaker 2: real life, and she shared one of her notes from

861
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Speaker 2: her kids, like she's I think she's a grandmother of

862
00:39:12,480 --> 00:39:15,839
Speaker 2: like seven grand kids, but everyone says she has eight

863
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:17,560
Speaker 2: because Steph Curry is one of them. And it said,

864
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Speaker 2: think if the kids told her thank you for teaching

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Speaker 2: us to love God each other and Steph Curry and

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Speaker 2: it's just it's the cutest.

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Speaker 9: Thing that is. All right.

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Speaker 3: I have another baseball related Uh do lean in because

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Speaker 3: the Bajor League Baseball for the debacle with MLB dot TV. Yes,

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Speaker 3: they themselves have put out some fire hype videos. So

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00:39:38,040 --> 00:39:41,680
Speaker 3: one prior to opening day was set Kendrick's TV off. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it was phenomenal. I watched it like five times, so good.

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Speaker 2: here when we come back. March madness is heating up.

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Speaker 3: Elit eight.

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Speaker 2: Curry here with Carmen Vitally. Thank you for spending your

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924
00:41:59,520 --> 00:42:05,680
Speaker 2: you guys, March madness. Last night we got some great games,

925
00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:10,120
Speaker 2: like Higher Seeds it's the theme last two days. Higher

926
00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:13,880
Speaker 2: Seeds one All one on Thursday, Duke Florida, Alabama, Texas

927
00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:16,480
Speaker 2: Tech Higher Seeds All One yesterday too, Michigan State, Tennessee,

928
00:42:16,520 --> 00:42:22,520
Speaker 2: Auburn and Houston Michigan State. That was a close battle

929
00:42:22,640 --> 00:42:25,279
Speaker 2: down to the final seconds. Michigan State think was down

930
00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:28,399
Speaker 2: as much as like ten, but then pulled away late

931
00:42:28,440 --> 00:42:30,000
Speaker 2: in the game. But I think the game of the

932
00:42:30,080 --> 00:42:36,759
Speaker 2: night that buzzer beater Perdue and Houston number one, Like

933
00:42:37,200 --> 00:42:40,279
Speaker 2: Houston almost blew a ten point lead and they would

934
00:42:40,320 --> 00:42:44,040
Speaker 2: have been the first one seed out of the tournament,

935
00:42:44,800 --> 00:42:47,200
Speaker 2: but they were tied with two point eight seconds left

936
00:42:47,239 --> 00:42:51,320
Speaker 2: in the game. Houston had the ball an incredible inbound

937
00:42:51,520 --> 00:42:54,480
Speaker 2: pass and bucket by using passed it Day and got

938
00:42:54,520 --> 00:42:57,200
Speaker 2: it right back for the easy layup to score. And

939
00:42:57,320 --> 00:42:59,919
Speaker 2: that was That was the game that kept my braw

940
00:43:00,120 --> 00:43:05,359
Speaker 2: get intact. How's how's your bracket doing?

941
00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:07,840
Speaker 3: I actually can't see it right now. Why I don't know.

942
00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:09,799
Speaker 3: It's not letting me so I don't let me remember.

943
00:43:09,960 --> 00:43:10,600
Speaker 2: Let me see if I can.

944
00:43:11,680 --> 00:43:14,520
Speaker 3: I although the biggest one for me, honestly was that

945
00:43:14,640 --> 00:43:18,240
Speaker 3: Auburn Michigan game a couple of nights ago, where Auburn

946
00:43:18,680 --> 00:43:21,839
Speaker 3: was like they were down I think almost twenty yeah

947
00:43:22,120 --> 00:43:23,719
Speaker 3: in the four, like in the in the late in

948
00:43:23,719 --> 00:43:27,200
Speaker 3: the second half, and like Michigan just kind of imploded

949
00:43:27,320 --> 00:43:31,200
Speaker 3: and Auburn comes roaring back, and that was that was Yeah,

950
00:43:31,320 --> 00:43:34,600
Speaker 3: that was good. I like that one too. I don't

951
00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:36,880
Speaker 3: mean I have Michigan State winning at all. So like

952
00:43:37,040 --> 00:43:39,680
Speaker 3: my I know that my final is still intact because

953
00:43:39,719 --> 00:43:42,640
Speaker 3: my final was Michigan State Duke Okay, so I know

954
00:43:42,760 --> 00:43:44,839
Speaker 3: that's still intact. I don't I can't see the rest

955
00:43:44,880 --> 00:43:46,440
Speaker 3: of it. I don't know why it's not showing up,

956
00:43:46,520 --> 00:43:47,279
Speaker 3: it's not popping up.

957
00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:50,440
Speaker 2: I don't mean, I don't mean to brag, but my

958
00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:54,400
Speaker 2: Elite eight are completely intact, and that has me in

959
00:43:54,480 --> 00:44:00,520
Speaker 2: first place in the Fox Sports Bracket Challenge. I don't

960
00:44:00,520 --> 00:44:02,280
Speaker 2: think I've ever been first in any of these Bragget

961
00:44:02,400 --> 00:44:04,319
Speaker 2: challenges before. So I'm just, you know, I'm gonna let

962
00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:06,759
Speaker 2: it sink in for a moment and just just a

963
00:44:06,760 --> 00:44:09,080
Speaker 2: little humble brag, just feel good about it. I mean,

964
00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:13,280
Speaker 2: there's not there's not many girls like Carmie me uh, Moncey,

965
00:44:13,520 --> 00:44:16,040
Speaker 2: there's not There's not many of us in this Bragget Challenge.

966
00:44:16,120 --> 00:44:18,239
Speaker 3: So just it's funny because like, for as much as

967
00:44:18,239 --> 00:44:20,160
Speaker 3: we were talking about how the women's tournament, there's not

968
00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:22,799
Speaker 3: a whole lot of mystery in the women's tournament. There's

969
00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:25,280
Speaker 3: not a whole lot of mystery here in the men's Tournament,

970
00:44:25,320 --> 00:44:27,799
Speaker 3: because every single one of the games that are being

971
00:44:27,840 --> 00:44:30,960
Speaker 3: played between today and tomorrow, h Houston, Tennessee that's a

972
00:44:30,960 --> 00:44:32,800
Speaker 3: one in a two seed, Florida, Texas Tech that's a

973
00:44:32,840 --> 00:44:36,320
Speaker 3: one and a three seed. You got Michigan State, Auburn

974
00:44:36,400 --> 00:44:38,239
Speaker 3: one in a two seed, Duke Alabama one in a

975
00:44:38,280 --> 00:44:40,880
Speaker 3: two seed. So like, yeah, the lowest seed you have

976
00:44:41,160 --> 00:44:43,200
Speaker 3: left right now is a three seed, and that's.

977
00:44:43,440 --> 00:44:46,719
Speaker 2: Texas Tech, which is starting They starting in an hour.

978
00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:47,080
Speaker 9: Here.

979
00:44:47,160 --> 00:44:48,400
Speaker 2: Let me let me open it up for you.

980
00:44:48,920 --> 00:44:51,080
Speaker 3: Can Well, you can't see mine. That's the thing is,

981
00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:51,520
Speaker 3: you can't see it.

982
00:44:51,520 --> 00:44:54,520
Speaker 2: You can yeah, So if you go to the leader board,

983
00:44:54,840 --> 00:44:55,840
Speaker 2: then you can click on.

984
00:44:56,400 --> 00:44:59,239
Speaker 3: Oh all right, well that's not populating for me, right.

985
00:44:59,400 --> 00:45:03,000
Speaker 2: If you go to the leader board, here we go, Carmen. Okay,

986
00:45:03,000 --> 00:45:06,680
Speaker 2: So your lead day you have Auburn, Michigan State, Duke Wisconsin,

987
00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:10,680
Speaker 2: and then you had Memphis, Texas Tech, and Houston, Illinois.

988
00:45:10,719 --> 00:45:13,279
Speaker 3: I was saying, Memphis screwed me, Illinois screwed me, Yeah,

989
00:45:14,200 --> 00:45:15,719
Speaker 3: because I don't know. I have a soft spot for

990
00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:19,719
Speaker 3: Memphis because because I'm from Chicago and Derek Rose is

991
00:45:20,600 --> 00:45:23,040
Speaker 3: the best player we've had outside of Michael Jordan and

992
00:45:23,160 --> 00:45:25,239
Speaker 3: you know, all the nineties bulls. But I have such

993
00:45:25,280 --> 00:45:27,520
Speaker 3: a soft spot for Derek Rose. I actually got to

994
00:45:27,680 --> 00:45:33,280
Speaker 3: work the West Regional with Memphis in the tournament in college,

995
00:45:33,600 --> 00:45:38,239
Speaker 3: which was really freaking cool. I've worked two West Regionals

996
00:45:39,000 --> 00:45:40,400
Speaker 3: and so I got to see the Sweet sixteen, the

997
00:45:40,440 --> 00:45:43,080
Speaker 3: Elite eight great. It was so cool, and but I

998
00:45:43,239 --> 00:45:45,759
Speaker 3: just have this soft spot for Memphis because of Derek Rose,

999
00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:48,160
Speaker 3: and I put them in my final four. I was like, hey,

1000
00:45:48,320 --> 00:45:49,160
Speaker 3: and then it didn't work out.

1001
00:45:49,200 --> 00:45:51,279
Speaker 2: But like, honestly, like when you're picking these brackets, like

1002
00:45:51,400 --> 00:45:53,200
Speaker 2: you can do all the research, you can think you

1003
00:45:53,320 --> 00:45:55,880
Speaker 2: know what's gonna happen, but like that's the madness of

1004
00:45:56,000 --> 00:45:58,040
Speaker 2: the March. Madness is anything can happen. And I feel

1005
00:45:58,120 --> 00:46:02,400
Speaker 2: like there are so many like connection picks. Y, oh

1006
00:46:02,440 --> 00:46:02,960
Speaker 2: for sure.

1007
00:46:02,880 --> 00:46:03,080
Speaker 9: I have.

1008
00:46:03,280 --> 00:46:05,640
Speaker 2: I have a personal connection here. I have a personal

1009
00:46:05,719 --> 00:46:07,239
Speaker 2: connection here. I want to root for this, so I'm

1010
00:46:07,280 --> 00:46:07,800
Speaker 2: going to root for that.

1011
00:46:07,960 --> 00:46:10,040
Speaker 3: My fiancee actually does the opposite, which I love. No,

1012
00:46:10,600 --> 00:46:12,640
Speaker 3: you know, he you know, he has a connection to

1013
00:46:13,239 --> 00:46:16,239
Speaker 3: the team that like, and he picks against his own

1014
00:46:16,320 --> 00:46:18,880
Speaker 3: team so that way, if his team loses to win, win,

1015
00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:21,600
Speaker 3: it's a win win. If his team loses, he's like, great,

1016
00:46:21,680 --> 00:46:22,400
Speaker 3: that's fine.

1017
00:46:22,960 --> 00:46:24,360
Speaker 2: That's a weird bit of torture.

1018
00:46:24,520 --> 00:46:27,239
Speaker 3: If his team wins, he's like great, I'm happy. And

1019
00:46:27,320 --> 00:46:28,719
Speaker 3: I'm like, you know what, I don't know that I'm

1020
00:46:28,760 --> 00:46:30,799
Speaker 3: that much of a mascist, but like we'll see.

1021
00:46:30,920 --> 00:46:35,040
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's I'm The more you explain Dave to me,

1022
00:46:35,120 --> 00:46:37,960
Speaker 2: the more you guys make sense. Oh sure, everything you

1023
00:46:38,040 --> 00:46:41,680
Speaker 2: guys do. But today we got Texas Tech number three again,

1024
00:46:41,840 --> 00:46:46,440
Speaker 2: number one Florida starting in about an hour. I need

1025
00:46:46,560 --> 00:46:49,680
Speaker 2: Florida to win. Florida is seeking the first the program's

1026
00:46:49,719 --> 00:46:53,800
Speaker 2: first Final four berth since twenty fourteen. But again, like

1027
00:46:54,080 --> 00:46:58,240
Speaker 2: Texas Tech battled back from like a sixteen point deficit

1028
00:46:58,320 --> 00:47:00,719
Speaker 2: to end up winning in overtime, so like there is fight.

1029
00:47:01,400 --> 00:47:03,680
Speaker 2: There is fight in this team, like so that that's

1030
00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:05,040
Speaker 2: gonna be a great one. That's the first one we

1031
00:47:05,120 --> 00:47:08,040
Speaker 2: got coming up tonight. Next is number two Alabama against

1032
00:47:08,120 --> 00:47:12,360
Speaker 2: number one Duke. That's at five point fifty pm PT today,

1033
00:47:12,560 --> 00:47:15,400
Speaker 2: another matchup I had obviously meeting in the Elite eight.

1034
00:47:15,400 --> 00:47:18,279
Speaker 2: Because I had all these teams meeting in the Elite eight,

1035
00:47:18,360 --> 00:47:20,120
Speaker 2: I have Duke winning it all, so I need them

1036
00:47:20,160 --> 00:47:22,560
Speaker 2: to advance. To the final four and Cooper Flag has

1037
00:47:22,840 --> 00:47:27,920
Speaker 2: just been unbelievable. E scored thirty points and Duke's win

1038
00:47:28,239 --> 00:47:31,160
Speaker 2: like it's it's great. But then again, Alabama set the

1039
00:47:31,200 --> 00:47:33,799
Speaker 2: record for most three pointers in a March Madness game,

1040
00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:39,840
Speaker 2: five Like that was insane, insane, absolutely insane.

1041
00:47:39,960 --> 00:47:42,799
Speaker 3: It's not it's usually it's not conceivable to see these

1042
00:47:42,840 --> 00:47:46,759
Speaker 3: guys like these scores, No, like run up like they

1043
00:47:46,840 --> 00:47:48,840
Speaker 3: did win that Bama game. I mean, I was just

1044
00:47:49,840 --> 00:47:51,920
Speaker 3: what did that end up? The final score ended up

1045
00:47:51,920 --> 00:47:56,320
Speaker 3: being one hundred and thirteen to eighty Yeah, wild, Yeah.

1046
00:47:56,160 --> 00:47:58,360
Speaker 2: That's that's a lot for a college game. Tomorrow, we

1047
00:47:58,440 --> 00:48:02,960
Speaker 2: got number two Tennessee Againstumber one Houston. I need Houston

1048
00:48:03,160 --> 00:48:08,080
Speaker 2: to win here. But Tennessee dominated their third matchup with

1049
00:48:08,280 --> 00:48:13,120
Speaker 2: Kentucky this season despite losing the two regular season games.

1050
00:48:13,160 --> 00:48:14,680
Speaker 2: So that was a big that was a big come

1051
00:48:14,760 --> 00:48:16,120
Speaker 2: up for them. And then Michigan State.

1052
00:48:16,040 --> 00:48:18,160
Speaker 3: Really does the team beach you three times?

1053
00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:22,200
Speaker 2: No, we saw that with USC and UCLA women's side

1054
00:48:23,320 --> 00:48:26,840
Speaker 2: sc beat them both. I think it was like regular

1055
00:48:26,920 --> 00:48:30,200
Speaker 2: season and then the final, the final Big Ten Championship game,

1056
00:48:30,280 --> 00:48:32,319
Speaker 2: UCLA came through to get the number one overall seed

1057
00:48:32,400 --> 00:48:35,920
Speaker 2: to come into the March Madness Tournament and then the

1058
00:48:36,040 --> 00:48:40,080
Speaker 2: last game tomorrow Michigan State number two against number one Auburn.

1059
00:48:40,560 --> 00:48:42,880
Speaker 2: I have Michigan State in the final. This was again,

1060
00:48:43,040 --> 00:48:45,880
Speaker 2: this was a This was a connection pick. And I

1061
00:48:46,000 --> 00:48:49,440
Speaker 2: want to be honest. One of our colleagues, Michael Bucklan

1062
00:48:49,680 --> 00:48:52,759
Speaker 2: Buck is a huge Michigan State. I think he's a

1063
00:48:52,840 --> 00:48:58,279
Speaker 2: family member that's on the coaching staff. Did okay, but

1064
00:48:58,360 --> 00:49:01,319
Speaker 2: he still has someone connected on that team, and that's

1065
00:49:01,520 --> 00:49:02,839
Speaker 2: just like his heart and soul.

1066
00:49:03,000 --> 00:49:06,200
Speaker 3: So for Buck, you know, my best friend in the

1067
00:49:06,360 --> 00:49:08,640
Speaker 3: entire world went to Michigan State. I've been toton State

1068
00:49:08,880 --> 00:49:10,960
Speaker 3: multiple times. It was one of the other colleges that

1069
00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:13,400
Speaker 3: I frequented while I was in college. So that's my

1070
00:49:14,080 --> 00:49:16,960
Speaker 3: connection to Michigan State. You had that, you have them

1071
00:49:17,040 --> 00:49:18,239
Speaker 3: in the I'm winning at all.

1072
00:49:18,320 --> 00:49:19,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, I's gonna say we have the same final.

1073
00:49:20,080 --> 00:49:22,080
Speaker 2: I just have Duke winning and you have Michigan.

1074
00:49:21,719 --> 00:49:22,880
Speaker 3: State, Michigan State winning at all.

1075
00:49:22,920 --> 00:49:26,520
Speaker 2: Okay, So there we go. Connection. Okay, But let's talk

1076
00:49:26,520 --> 00:49:34,640
Speaker 2: about the women's side, who yesterday top seed UCLA taken

1077
00:49:34,680 --> 00:49:36,800
Speaker 2: down Ole Miss to advance to the Elite eight for

1078
00:49:36,880 --> 00:49:40,560
Speaker 2: the third time in school history, and it was a

1079
00:49:40,600 --> 00:49:43,319
Speaker 2: good like turnaround for UCLA because they only led by

1080
00:49:43,360 --> 00:49:45,520
Speaker 2: one at half, but like absolutely took off in the

1081
00:49:45,560 --> 00:49:48,319
Speaker 2: third quarter. Kiki Rice went on an eight to ohero run.

1082
00:49:48,440 --> 00:49:54,440
Speaker 2: Lauren Betts just absolutely dominated both bets, actually carrying LA

1083
00:49:54,560 --> 00:49:59,480
Speaker 2: teams to victories yesterday. Love that and UCLA will now

1084
00:49:59,600 --> 00:50:04,160
Speaker 2: face LSU Sunday tomorrow and noon that's going to be

1085
00:50:04,200 --> 00:50:04,680
Speaker 2: a good one.

1086
00:50:04,880 --> 00:50:07,279
Speaker 3: Well that well, the men's side doesn't have a lot

1087
00:50:07,320 --> 00:50:08,960
Speaker 3: of mystery, like the women's side still doesn't have a

1088
00:50:09,000 --> 00:50:11,640
Speaker 3: lot of mystry. All four one seeds are still in it. Texas, UCLA,

1089
00:50:11,920 --> 00:50:15,239
Speaker 3: USC and South Carolina. I can't wait for tomorrow because

1090
00:50:15,280 --> 00:50:18,160
Speaker 3: UCLA g's number three lsue, what's going to be insane?

1091
00:50:18,200 --> 00:50:20,759
Speaker 3: And then South Carolina gets number two Dukes. So we're

1092
00:50:20,840 --> 00:50:23,880
Speaker 3: now faced with another situation where we were last year

1093
00:50:23,920 --> 00:50:26,680
Speaker 3: or two years ago with Yukon where it's there. There's

1094
00:50:26,680 --> 00:50:29,640
Speaker 3: still the potential that one school can win both the

1095
00:50:29,680 --> 00:50:32,880
Speaker 3: men's and the women's tournaments because both the men and

1096
00:50:32,960 --> 00:50:35,680
Speaker 3: women in Duke at Duke are in their are in

1097
00:50:35,760 --> 00:50:39,440
Speaker 3: their respective tournaments. So Duke is in the women's tournament,

1098
00:50:39,520 --> 00:50:41,120
Speaker 3: Duke is the number two seed and the men's tournament,

1099
00:50:41,200 --> 00:50:43,680
Speaker 3: Duke is the number one seed. But yeah, so they

1100
00:50:43,719 --> 00:50:47,840
Speaker 3: have the potential to sweep the NCAA tournament men's and women's.

1101
00:50:47,840 --> 00:50:50,400
Speaker 3: That would be cool. But number one Texas and tennis

1102
00:50:50,440 --> 00:50:53,520
Speaker 3: in number five Tennessee is happening right now. They're tied

1103
00:50:53,600 --> 00:50:56,480
Speaker 3: fifty in the fourth quarter. Eight thirty left in the

1104
00:50:56,480 --> 00:50:58,880
Speaker 3: fourth quarter. They're tied at fifty. So that'll be interesting.

1105
00:50:59,040 --> 00:51:01,680
Speaker 2: That is going to be interesting. But the heartbreaking news

1106
00:51:01,719 --> 00:51:03,840
Speaker 2: of the week, you guys, in the women's tournament was

1107
00:51:04,000 --> 00:51:08,640
Speaker 2: Juju Walkins tearing her ACL in her right knee. I mean,

1108
00:51:08,680 --> 00:51:12,800
Speaker 2: it is not just a heartbreaking injury, but a loss

1109
00:51:13,200 --> 00:51:17,359
Speaker 2: for USC and women's basketball because she is just such

1110
00:51:17,440 --> 00:51:22,040
Speaker 2: a polarizing, captivating player. She's most likely missing all of

1111
00:51:22,200 --> 00:51:24,319
Speaker 2: next season. Would come back her senior year to play

1112
00:51:24,360 --> 00:51:28,120
Speaker 2: at USC, and she was the most impactful player for

1113
00:51:28,520 --> 00:51:31,200
Speaker 2: I think for a team like US is not the

1114
00:51:31,280 --> 00:51:35,160
Speaker 2: same without Juju. But I had a feeling like after

1115
00:51:35,239 --> 00:51:37,880
Speaker 2: she got injured in Game one, she rolled her left

1116
00:51:38,040 --> 00:51:40,520
Speaker 2: ankle badge, she heard her left wrist too, and she

1117
00:51:40,560 --> 00:51:42,279
Speaker 2: went down and she didn't return to that game, and

1118
00:51:42,320 --> 00:51:48,320
Speaker 2: she was limping because by a lot handshakes after looked

1119
00:51:48,480 --> 00:51:50,719
Speaker 2: painful for her walking and then when she was talking

1120
00:51:50,760 --> 00:51:52,880
Speaker 2: about it, like no, not a big deal, not going

1121
00:51:52,920 --> 00:51:55,640
Speaker 2: to miss a game. That's when you get worried for

1122
00:51:55,760 --> 00:51:59,000
Speaker 2: a player really injuring themselves because when you're already dealing

1123
00:51:59,080 --> 00:52:03,680
Speaker 2: with one injury, you're body tries to overcompensate, favor aside

1124
00:52:03,920 --> 00:52:08,640
Speaker 2: favor different parts of your body so you don't rehurt

1125
00:52:08,880 --> 00:52:13,760
Speaker 2: that ankle, and she ends up tearing her right acl

1126
00:52:13,920 --> 00:52:18,480
Speaker 2: and it's just worst case scenario, heart like heartbreaking, like

1127
00:52:18,560 --> 00:52:20,960
Speaker 2: the sports world like mourning that whole situation.

1128
00:52:21,239 --> 00:52:25,200
Speaker 3: Like it's just yeah, I mean inside pagebackers. She She

1129
00:52:25,360 --> 00:52:28,279
Speaker 3: texted her Don Staley, texting, yeah, are like I don't

1130
00:52:28,320 --> 00:52:30,719
Speaker 3: think Juji Watkins is a polarizing findeers figure. She's like

1131
00:52:30,960 --> 00:52:33,560
Speaker 3: well liked by everyone. I don't think there's anyone that

1132
00:52:33,719 --> 00:52:37,920
Speaker 3: like has anything bad to say about Juju beloved. This

1133
00:52:38,040 --> 00:52:39,840
Speaker 3: is one of the most beloved stars right now.

1134
00:52:40,200 --> 00:52:42,200
Speaker 2: I don't mean it in the like bad pull like

1135
00:52:42,719 --> 00:52:44,879
Speaker 2: I guess, polarizing. I see it in two different ways.

1136
00:52:44,920 --> 00:52:46,560
Speaker 2: There can be like the negative side it's just like

1137
00:52:46,640 --> 00:52:48,160
Speaker 2: oh my god. And then it's just like someone that

1138
00:52:48,239 --> 00:52:49,960
Speaker 2: you can't take your eyes off of. And you love

1139
00:52:50,040 --> 00:52:51,839
Speaker 2: watching because you know whenever they have the ball, they're

1140
00:52:51,840 --> 00:52:52,719
Speaker 2: going to do something great.

1141
00:52:52,920 --> 00:52:55,600
Speaker 3: Well, don Staley said, She's like Juju is loved by

1142
00:52:55,600 --> 00:52:57,480
Speaker 3: all of us and like all across it's it's such

1143
00:52:57,480 --> 00:52:59,600
Speaker 3: a huge loss and it is going to impact you.

1144
00:52:59,640 --> 00:53:00,560
Speaker 2: I've seen, yes it is.

1145
00:53:00,760 --> 00:53:03,120
Speaker 3: That's the biggest thing here too. Where now this actually

1146
00:53:03,200 --> 00:53:04,800
Speaker 3: does add a little bit of mystery to the women's

1147
00:53:04,800 --> 00:53:07,360
Speaker 3: tournament because USC is still in it, there's still a

1148
00:53:07,440 --> 00:53:10,360
Speaker 3: top seed, there's still an incredible team outside of Juju.

1149
00:53:10,480 --> 00:53:13,960
Speaker 3: But in basketball, that's the biggest thing where one person

1150
00:53:14,480 --> 00:53:16,880
Speaker 3: can make the difference. Yes they can, it's not as

1151
00:53:17,040 --> 00:53:20,360
Speaker 3: much of, you know, a whole collective effort when you

1152
00:53:20,520 --> 00:53:22,640
Speaker 3: have someone that is as capable of taking over a

1153
00:53:22,680 --> 00:53:26,400
Speaker 3: game like Juji Watkins's. Yeah, so I'm heartbroken for her.

1154
00:53:26,480 --> 00:53:28,840
Speaker 3: I'm very interested to see how this kind of affects,

1155
00:53:28,920 --> 00:53:31,800
Speaker 3: like the trajectory of her career, whether she does decide

1156
00:53:31,840 --> 00:53:33,479
Speaker 3: to come back or I mean, like no one doubts

1157
00:53:33,560 --> 00:53:36,080
Speaker 3: Juju's talent, so she could come out even as an

1158
00:53:36,120 --> 00:53:38,880
Speaker 3: injured player and it would be fine. So like that's

1159
00:53:38,880 --> 00:53:39,520
Speaker 3: the other thing too.

1160
00:53:39,480 --> 00:53:42,920
Speaker 2: Where I'm still need to play four years in college

1161
00:53:43,040 --> 00:53:47,359
Speaker 2: so she's a sophomore junior year. I don't see her

1162
00:53:47,400 --> 00:53:50,439
Speaker 2: really coming back maybe towards the end of the season,

1163
00:53:50,480 --> 00:53:54,120
Speaker 2: because it's almost acals are tough. It can be up

1164
00:53:54,200 --> 00:53:57,360
Speaker 2: to a year recovery, So she would come back fully healthy,

1165
00:53:57,440 --> 00:54:01,680
Speaker 2: probably her senior year. What's you like, what's usc gonna do?

1166
00:54:01,840 --> 00:54:04,719
Speaker 2: She is the face of that team and the star,

1167
00:54:05,280 --> 00:54:08,800
Speaker 2: so I yeah, and like I also.

1168
00:54:08,680 --> 00:54:10,560
Speaker 3: Have to think that, like this is something like the

1169
00:54:10,719 --> 00:54:12,640
Speaker 3: draw just isn't going to be there for these for

1170
00:54:12,960 --> 00:54:15,400
Speaker 3: for that game as it would have been if she's playing. No,

1171
00:54:15,760 --> 00:54:17,080
Speaker 3: I tuned into that game because of her.

1172
00:54:17,719 --> 00:54:21,560
Speaker 2: Everyone. Yeah, it's the Caitlyn Clark effect, like the Paige

1173
00:54:21,600 --> 00:54:25,560
Speaker 2: Becker's effect, the like it's when there's stars on that team,

1174
00:54:26,520 --> 00:54:30,200
Speaker 2: that's what's drawing you to the TV to see what's

1175
00:54:30,239 --> 00:54:30,560
Speaker 2: going on.

1176
00:54:30,840 --> 00:54:33,120
Speaker 3: And just in general, it just it sucks because she's

1177
00:54:33,440 --> 00:54:35,680
Speaker 3: she was clearly playing through pain and that's that's the

1178
00:54:35,760 --> 00:54:38,800
Speaker 3: risky run is your body does overcompensate for stuff like

1179
00:54:38,840 --> 00:54:42,680
Speaker 3: that as it just it's the worst injury too, And

1180
00:54:42,800 --> 00:54:44,560
Speaker 3: it was like it was just so heartbreaking to see

1181
00:54:44,560 --> 00:54:44,879
Speaker 3: it happen.

1182
00:54:45,239 --> 00:54:48,520
Speaker 2: It was so oh, oh my gosh, Okay, alex carry

1183
00:54:48,560 --> 00:54:50,319
Speaker 2: carbon fatalite here, We're gonna take a quick break when

1184
00:54:50,360 --> 00:54:55,040
Speaker 2: we come back. Lebron bring in the heat and catching

1185
00:54:55,080 --> 00:54:57,600
Speaker 2: the heat this week both on and off the court.

1186
00:54:57,640 --> 00:55:02,520
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1189
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Speaker 2: So Lebron is back with the Lakers, but things have

1200
00:55:38,440 --> 00:55:41,880
Speaker 2: been getting heated both on and off the court this

1201
00:55:42,080 --> 00:55:45,000
Speaker 2: week now. He did a long interview with Pat McAfee

1202
00:55:46,200 --> 00:55:48,160
Speaker 2: this week where there was a couple different points that

1203
00:55:48,200 --> 00:55:52,680
Speaker 2: have kind of gone viral. The first one was sharing

1204
00:55:53,760 --> 00:55:57,920
Speaker 2: that him and Michael Jordan don't talk because he's quote

1205
00:55:58,760 --> 00:56:06,680
Speaker 2: still playing. Let's let's take a moment here, because let's

1206
00:56:07,520 --> 00:56:11,279
Speaker 2: let's be honest. Jordan doesn't talk to Lebron because he's

1207
00:56:11,280 --> 00:56:14,479
Speaker 2: still his big as competition. Like we saw the last Dance.

1208
00:56:15,080 --> 00:56:20,560
Speaker 2: Jordan holds every grudge imaginable. It's part of his greatness.

1209
00:56:21,239 --> 00:56:25,279
Speaker 2: Like also like they're not under any obligation to talk. No,

1210
00:56:25,840 --> 00:56:29,839
Speaker 2: Like I don't understand why daily basis like who's the ghost?

1211
00:56:30,040 --> 00:56:31,840
Speaker 3: Why do you why do you want to? Like like

1212
00:56:32,160 --> 00:56:35,200
Speaker 3: and Lebron said, like they don't have a bad relationship. No,

1213
00:56:35,360 --> 00:56:36,800
Speaker 3: He's like, they just don't talk all the time. And

1214
00:56:36,840 --> 00:56:39,160
Speaker 3: he's like when I'm done playing, like I would hope,

1215
00:56:39,200 --> 00:56:40,719
Speaker 3: I would think and I would hope that like we

1216
00:56:41,320 --> 00:56:44,319
Speaker 3: we do talk all the time that I know he.

1217
00:56:44,400 --> 00:56:47,160
Speaker 2: Does, But I don't know if Jordan was Jordan's like

1218
00:56:47,280 --> 00:56:49,040
Speaker 2: King Patty as.

1219
00:56:48,960 --> 00:56:51,080
Speaker 3: Soon as Jordan knows where Lebron stands as far as

1220
00:56:51,120 --> 00:56:52,160
Speaker 3: like all of his records.

1221
00:56:51,880 --> 00:56:55,239
Speaker 2: And everything like that, and it's done at the end

1222
00:56:55,239 --> 00:56:56,800
Speaker 2: of the day, Like I don't.

1223
00:56:56,640 --> 00:56:59,319
Speaker 3: Really know that there is anything Lebron can do at

1224
00:56:59,440 --> 00:57:03,120
Speaker 3: this stage that drastically changes the conversation between these two

1225
00:57:03,160 --> 00:57:05,520
Speaker 3: either your team or either you're a Jordan person or

1226
00:57:05,560 --> 00:57:07,480
Speaker 3: you're a Lebron person. I don't think there's much that

1227
00:57:07,560 --> 00:57:09,120
Speaker 3: he can do at this point that's going to like

1228
00:57:09,360 --> 00:57:11,840
Speaker 3: sway that either way, because like the biggest thing with

1229
00:57:11,960 --> 00:57:16,400
Speaker 3: Jordan is he started winning and kept winning. He didn't

1230
00:57:16,520 --> 00:57:20,160
Speaker 3: stop winning for like a six year stretch, a seven

1231
00:57:20,240 --> 00:57:27,080
Speaker 3: because of the lag. But like the Bulls did not

1232
00:57:27,240 --> 00:57:30,360
Speaker 3: won three pet but two three peats, So Jordan won

1233
00:57:31,040 --> 00:57:34,320
Speaker 3: that many titles and then and with the same team

1234
00:57:34,360 --> 00:57:36,400
Speaker 3: and all that kind of stuff, So there's not there's

1235
00:57:36,480 --> 00:57:39,760
Speaker 3: like Lebron is not going to win three titles back

1236
00:57:39,840 --> 00:57:42,800
Speaker 3: to back to back before he exits the league and

1237
00:57:43,280 --> 00:57:45,560
Speaker 3: he has records over Jordan. I just I think this

1238
00:57:45,680 --> 00:57:47,440
Speaker 3: is such a like I don't know why people are

1239
00:57:47,440 --> 00:57:51,080
Speaker 3: getting upset about this, Like, no, yeah, Jordan is really

1240
00:57:51,200 --> 00:57:53,800
Speaker 3: really competitive. He's an absolute psychopath.

1241
00:57:53,880 --> 00:57:57,240
Speaker 2: He's just like a psycho as it gets. It's why

1242
00:57:57,320 --> 00:58:00,960
Speaker 2: he was who he was and he he is he

1243
00:58:01,080 --> 00:58:03,360
Speaker 2: still is, and he's so happy that social media was

1244
00:58:03,840 --> 00:58:04,560
Speaker 2: when he was a player.

1245
00:58:04,800 --> 00:58:07,680
Speaker 3: I think everybody should be happy. But like, also, like

1246
00:58:08,040 --> 00:58:09,800
Speaker 3: my man's out on a golf course. All right, he

1247
00:58:09,880 --> 00:58:12,640
Speaker 3: doesn't want to be bothered. He's fine. He's making his billions,

1248
00:58:12,880 --> 00:58:17,040
Speaker 3: like literally just sitting back making his billions, making his billions. Yes,

1249
00:58:17,520 --> 00:58:17,959
Speaker 3: he's fine.

1250
00:58:18,000 --> 00:58:18,920
Speaker 2: It's absolutely insane.

1251
00:58:18,960 --> 00:58:20,280
Speaker 3: I think it's I think it's a silly.

1252
00:58:20,640 --> 00:58:22,680
Speaker 2: It's just like, no, it's not because we're still like

1253
00:58:22,920 --> 00:58:24,640
Speaker 2: it's because I'm still playing. It's like, no, because you

1254
00:58:24,720 --> 00:58:26,600
Speaker 2: were still his biggest competition right now, you were compared

1255
00:58:26,640 --> 00:58:27,479
Speaker 2: to him on a daily base.

1256
00:58:27,440 --> 00:58:29,000
Speaker 3: Because he's still playing. So like I get it. So

1257
00:58:29,080 --> 00:58:30,760
Speaker 3: like when he stops and when he stops playing, I

1258
00:58:30,840 --> 00:58:32,280
Speaker 3: have to imagine that these guys are going to be

1259
00:58:32,280 --> 00:58:32,760
Speaker 3: great friends.

1260
00:58:33,440 --> 00:58:34,200
Speaker 2: It'll be interesting.

1261
00:58:34,760 --> 00:58:37,000
Speaker 3: Yeah. And also like Jordan, he keeps to himself in general,

1262
00:58:37,080 --> 00:58:39,120
Speaker 3: Like Jordan's not like you know, he's not going on

1263
00:58:39,280 --> 00:58:41,600
Speaker 3: he's not doing appearances, he's not in the media, he's

1264
00:58:41,640 --> 00:58:46,280
Speaker 3: not whatever. Like Jordan hasn Jordan beat the game because

1265
00:58:46,480 --> 00:58:48,840
Speaker 3: he had all his success in a time where he

1266
00:58:48,920 --> 00:58:50,760
Speaker 3: didn't have to be in the limelight outside of how

1267
00:58:50,800 --> 00:58:53,320
Speaker 3: he wanted to be. And then he moved into the

1268
00:58:53,360 --> 00:58:55,720
Speaker 3: business sector where he is now a billionaire because of

1269
00:58:55,800 --> 00:58:58,600
Speaker 3: the Jordan brand, and did all of these things really

1270
00:58:58,640 --> 00:59:01,000
Speaker 3: well and now he's just faded back in. He's like,

1271
00:59:01,320 --> 00:59:03,520
Speaker 3: y'all can talk about me, I don't care, and then

1272
00:59:03,680 --> 00:59:05,560
Speaker 3: like he comes out he does the Last Dance documentary,

1273
00:59:05,560 --> 00:59:07,520
Speaker 3: which was some huge because that's the only time he's

1274
00:59:07,520 --> 00:59:10,400
Speaker 3: ever gotten in front of a camera basically since he retired.

1275
00:59:10,480 --> 00:59:13,720
Speaker 2: The timing was like, so I with COVID, everyone waiting,

1276
00:59:13,760 --> 00:59:14,520
Speaker 2: it's all we were watching.

1277
00:59:15,080 --> 00:59:18,280
Speaker 3: And it was also Jordan's chance to write write his

1278
00:59:18,360 --> 00:59:21,040
Speaker 3: own narrative about it too, and he had complete and

1279
00:59:21,160 --> 00:59:24,080
Speaker 3: total autonomy over that show. So like I'm I'm the

1280
00:59:24,080 --> 00:59:27,640
Speaker 3: biggest Jordan's stand. I have twenty three tattooed on me.

1281
00:59:27,720 --> 00:59:29,880
Speaker 3: Now you do I tell you this when at the

1282
00:59:29,920 --> 00:59:31,440
Speaker 3: Super Bowl I went to the Jordan house. I got

1283
00:59:31,480 --> 00:59:33,200
Speaker 3: invited to the Jordan house. They were doing free tattoos.

1284
00:59:33,240 --> 00:59:35,840
Speaker 3: I now have twenty three tattooed on my ribcage four

1285
00:59:35,920 --> 00:59:40,280
Speaker 3: Jordan's I was a kid of the nineties in Chicago.

1286
00:59:40,880 --> 00:59:44,040
Speaker 2: Fact, fun fact. Okay, then then I need your thoughts

1287
00:59:44,080 --> 00:59:49,560
Speaker 2: on the other hot topic that's been just so overplayed now,

1288
00:59:49,800 --> 00:59:53,480
Speaker 2: the stephen A beef. We talked about this actually a

1289
00:59:53,520 --> 00:59:54,720
Speaker 2: whole thing about this, Okay.

1290
00:59:54,880 --> 00:59:58,280
Speaker 3: I it's not that I'm a huge wrestling person but

1291
00:59:58,440 --> 01:00:05,880
Speaker 3: it reeks of wrestling, like manufacturing narratives and turn heel

1292
01:00:06,040 --> 01:00:08,360
Speaker 3: on each other and all this other stuff like that

1293
01:00:08,560 --> 01:00:10,840
Speaker 3: is what this sounds like, because otherwise, how in the

1294
01:00:10,920 --> 01:00:16,200
Speaker 3: world would you have Lebron getting on ESPN's second biggest

1295
01:00:16,240 --> 01:00:20,919
Speaker 3: show with ESPN's second biggest personality and talking mess about

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Speaker 3: the first biggest personality. Yes, this is all It reeks

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Speaker 3: of calculation to me. Yeah, reeks, it has to.

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Speaker 2: It has to. It's just like, why are we still

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01:00:30,560 --> 01:00:33,680
Speaker 2: talking about it? Oh, it's getting weird. It's it's getting weird.

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01:00:33,800 --> 01:00:36,640
Speaker 3: Like I think it's just being manufactured. But like it's

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01:00:36,680 --> 01:00:39,120
Speaker 3: also like it's really funny too because Lebron has been

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01:00:39,240 --> 01:00:41,960
Speaker 3: very high profile in on the court too, which is

1303
01:00:42,000 --> 01:00:44,440
Speaker 3: what makes this all even more relevant because that went

1304
01:00:44,480 --> 01:00:46,240
Speaker 3: against the Pacers. Lebron has the tip in.

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01:00:46,760 --> 01:00:49,360
Speaker 2: From the Lucas shot right the buzzer beater that they won,

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01:00:49,600 --> 01:00:50,760
Speaker 2: and then the next day.

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01:00:50,880 --> 01:00:53,760
Speaker 3: And then the next day there is the best photo

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01:00:53,840 --> 01:00:56,800
Speaker 3: ever of Josh Giddy with his arm up after hitting

1309
01:00:56,840 --> 01:00:59,760
Speaker 3: the half court shot to win like Hail Mary with Lebron,

1310
01:01:00,560 --> 01:01:03,360
Speaker 3: with Lebron in the background going you're kidding and like

1311
01:01:03,480 --> 01:01:06,160
Speaker 3: it's just his face. It was like, you're kidding. My

1312
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Speaker 3: One of my best friends in the entire world is Adam.

1313
01:01:08,200 --> 01:01:10,760
Speaker 3: I mean who was on that call. It was him

1314
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Speaker 3: and Stacy King. That call is now the call, that's Ryan.

1315
01:01:14,160 --> 01:01:15,480
Speaker 3: It's call the season already.

1316
01:01:15,600 --> 01:01:18,000
Speaker 2: I have chills, like it's the call of the season

1317
01:01:18,080 --> 01:01:20,160
Speaker 2: already saying that whole sequence.

1318
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Speaker 3: The whole the twelve second sequence, three threes, yeah, in

1319
01:01:23,720 --> 01:01:26,760
Speaker 3: twelve seconds to beat the Lakers. If you haven't seen

1320
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Speaker 3: any of the videos, I don't know how. You're clearly

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01:01:28,960 --> 01:01:29,480
Speaker 3: not online.

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01:01:29,520 --> 01:01:30,000
Speaker 2: It's insane.

1323
01:01:30,080 --> 01:01:33,960
Speaker 3: Go online. There is a duo of guys. It's like

1324
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Speaker 3: the Shep Brothers. Yeah that they recreate calls.

1325
01:01:38,440 --> 01:01:39,760
Speaker 2: Oh, they just did the hockey one too.

1326
01:01:39,840 --> 01:01:41,480
Speaker 3: They just did the hockey one with all the fights,

1327
01:01:41,720 --> 01:01:45,560
Speaker 3: the Battle of Alberta, but they just did They did

1328
01:01:45,680 --> 01:01:49,200
Speaker 3: Adam and Stacy King's call, and it was it was

1329
01:01:49,280 --> 01:01:51,520
Speaker 3: like one of those sentury moments for Adam sent that

1330
01:01:51,600 --> 01:01:55,400
Speaker 3: to me. It was fantastic. I love. I mean, I'm

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01:01:55,440 --> 01:01:59,240
Speaker 3: a Bulls fan. I know there are around them too, like.

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Speaker 2: I okay, we talked about this last week and you're like,

1333
01:02:02,000 --> 01:02:04,840
Speaker 2: why can't they just be like woud you you said

1334
01:02:04,880 --> 01:02:06,760
Speaker 2: something where You're like, I just want them to be

1335
01:02:07,160 --> 01:02:08,760
Speaker 2: I don't know if it was like relevant or good

1336
01:02:08,800 --> 01:02:11,360
Speaker 2: again or something. Now, then look what you talked into

1337
01:02:11,600 --> 01:02:14,520
Speaker 2: You're right, You're right, talked into the universe, talked it

1338
01:02:14,520 --> 01:02:15,120
Speaker 2: into the Unica.

1339
01:02:15,960 --> 01:02:18,840
Speaker 3: It's because of me, Kobe White. Kobe White has been

1340
01:02:18,880 --> 01:02:22,280
Speaker 3: on fire all season. Josh Gitty has gotten on fire

1341
01:02:22,280 --> 01:02:23,080
Speaker 3: over the last month.

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01:02:23,280 --> 01:02:26,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was insane. Everyone knows his name now, that's

1343
01:02:26,000 --> 01:02:27,480
Speaker 2: all I'm gonna say. A shot like that, in a

1344
01:02:27,560 --> 01:02:31,520
Speaker 2: moment like that over a superstar team like Luca and

1345
01:02:31,640 --> 01:02:34,680
Speaker 2: Lebron and the Lakers, that's how you thrust yourself into

1346
01:02:34,680 --> 01:02:35,160
Speaker 2: the spotlight.

1347
01:02:35,560 --> 01:02:38,360
Speaker 3: In March, Kobe White twenty nine point five points per game,

1348
01:02:38,600 --> 01:02:41,360
Speaker 3: thirty seven point three or three points percentage, two time

1349
01:02:41,400 --> 01:02:43,480
Speaker 3: Player of the Week. He's the only other person other

1350
01:02:43,560 --> 01:02:47,200
Speaker 3: than Michael Jordan to do that back to back for

1351
01:02:47,360 --> 01:02:50,120
Speaker 3: the Bulls. For the Bulls, Josh Gitty twenty two point

1352
01:02:50,160 --> 01:02:53,000
Speaker 3: five points per game, ten rebounds per game, a nine

1353
01:02:53,040 --> 01:02:55,920
Speaker 3: point five assists per game, forty one point two percent

1354
01:02:56,240 --> 01:02:58,280
Speaker 3: three percent three point percentage.

1355
01:02:59,160 --> 01:03:02,240
Speaker 2: I like, yeah, he's living the dream right now.

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01:03:02,440 --> 01:03:05,240
Speaker 3: In March, the Bulls have come alive and I'm just

1357
01:03:05,320 --> 01:03:09,200
Speaker 3: like all right, thank you, Thank you guys, Yeah, thank you.

1358
01:03:09,640 --> 01:03:10,960
Speaker 3: I did. I spoke that into existenly.

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Speaker 2: You did that. That was your that was your conversation

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01:03:13,720 --> 01:03:14,120
Speaker 2: last time.

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Speaker 3: I really hope that the Bulls retain both Josh and Kobe.

1362
01:03:17,240 --> 01:03:18,720
Speaker 2: They can do it, yep.

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01:03:19,600 --> 01:03:21,760
Speaker 3: And I don't even think it'll cost anything past the

1364
01:03:21,840 --> 01:03:23,920
Speaker 3: luxury tax I think that they can do it underneath

1365
01:03:24,520 --> 01:03:26,360
Speaker 3: the cat. But we'll see.

1366
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Speaker 2: They they're ninth, okay, they need they both in the

1367
01:03:30,200 --> 01:03:34,080
Speaker 2: East right now. Lakers are currently fourth, well tied same

1368
01:03:34,160 --> 01:03:36,680
Speaker 2: record with the Grizzlies, but they hold the tiebreaker, so

1369
01:03:36,720 --> 01:03:40,280
Speaker 2: they're right above and Lakers are facing the Grizzlies tonight,

1370
01:03:41,120 --> 01:03:44,320
Speaker 2: a new look Grizzlies who just fired their head coach

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01:03:44,400 --> 01:03:46,800
Speaker 2: this week, which makes no sense when you're in a

1372
01:03:46,840 --> 01:03:49,160
Speaker 2: playoff position because they're sore. There has to be way

1373
01:03:49,200 --> 01:03:52,520
Speaker 2: more to this story behind the scenes that we don't know,

1374
01:03:53,200 --> 01:03:54,720
Speaker 2: but once more of that comes out, we'll dive deeper.

1375
01:03:54,840 --> 01:03:57,640
Speaker 2: Let's now check in with Martin Why see what's trending.

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01:04:01,000 --> 01:04:03,240
Speaker 7: Getting down to the wire in Birmingham and the Sweet

1377
01:04:03,280 --> 01:04:06,320
Speaker 7: sixteen for the women one she Texas with a sixty

1378
01:04:06,440 --> 01:04:08,880
Speaker 7: three to fifty nine lead over five seed Tennessee just

1379
01:04:09,080 --> 01:04:11,560
Speaker 7: under two minutes left in the fourth quarter of the

1380
01:04:11,640 --> 01:04:14,840
Speaker 7: winner obviously advances to the Elite Eight. They'll be met

1381
01:04:14,880 --> 01:04:18,439
Speaker 7: there by TCU, and they'd beat Notre Dame earlier today

1382
01:04:18,480 --> 01:04:21,320
Speaker 7: seventy one to sixty two. Haley Van Lyth had twenty

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01:04:21,400 --> 01:04:24,360
Speaker 7: six points, nine rebounds, four assists. It's also her fifth

1384
01:04:24,440 --> 01:04:27,400
Speaker 7: time going to the Elite Eight as a college basketball

1385
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Speaker 7: player in Major League Baseball.

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Speaker 3: I mean that's you know, hey, fun fact. Don't hate

1387
01:04:32,960 --> 01:04:34,840
Speaker 3: them game or don't hate the player, hate the game.

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Speaker 3: I mean that's all we did.

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Speaker 2: You say eighth okay, fit, Okay, it was like fifth time.

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Speaker 3: But she's been transferring the last three years. She's transferred.

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Speaker 8: She last maybe I think she's been tc the last

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01:04:47,680 --> 01:04:52,720
Speaker 8: two years. But she was at LSU with the tcut

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Speaker 8: from somewhere.

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01:04:54,880 --> 01:04:55,480
Speaker 3: Else, somewhere else.

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Speaker 8: I don't know. I don't know, I don't know, but

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01:04:58,840 --> 01:05:00,560
Speaker 8: I know she's been in college making.

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01:05:01,560 --> 01:05:04,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, she's a march madness fet what's that called Van Wilder?

1398
01:05:04,640 --> 01:05:07,360
Speaker 2: Was that the crazy seven eight years of college?

1399
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Speaker 8: That COVID year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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01:05:15,320 --> 01:05:19,160
Speaker 7: The Yankees beat the Brewers twenty to nine. The Yankees

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01:05:19,240 --> 01:05:23,200
Speaker 7: hit nine home runs as a team, nine Aaron Judge

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01:05:23,240 --> 01:05:25,720
Speaker 7: had three by himself, and Angels beat the White Sox

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01:05:25,800 --> 01:05:28,560
Speaker 7: one the nothing, and the Cardinals beat the Twins five

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01:05:28,680 --> 01:05:29,120
Speaker 7: to one.

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Speaker 8: Got a bunch of games in progress right now. Orioles

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Speaker 8: with a.

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Speaker 7: Nine to five lead over the Blue Jays, and the

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01:05:34,200 --> 01:05:36,320
Speaker 7: bottom of the eighth, top of the six all tied

1410
01:05:36,400 --> 01:05:38,440
Speaker 7: up between the Phillies Internationals to apiece.

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01:05:38,840 --> 01:05:41,360
Speaker 8: The Rockies have a one nothing lead over the Rays.

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Speaker 8: Bottom of the fifth inning.

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Speaker 7: Also bottom of the fifth inning squared away between Pittsburgh

1414
01:05:45,480 --> 01:05:47,360
Speaker 7: and Miami tide one apiece.

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01:05:47,440 --> 01:05:49,600
Speaker 8: Two to two, the score between San Francisco and.

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01:05:49,640 --> 01:05:52,320
Speaker 7: Cincinnati the start of the sixth inning, and at the

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01:05:52,800 --> 01:05:56,479
Speaker 7: also top of the sixth inning, the Guardians three Royals one.

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01:05:57,080 --> 01:06:00,840
Speaker 8: In NFL news, the Bills and cornerback Christian and Ben Fete.

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01:06:00,720 --> 01:06:03,800
Speaker 7: Greets Way four year, seventy six million dollar extension and

1420
01:06:03,960 --> 01:06:06,000
Speaker 7: the Texans designed form of culture.

1421
01:06:05,720 --> 01:06:08,080
Speaker 8: Linebacker EJ Speed to a one year deal work up

1422
01:06:08,080 --> 01:06:08,800
Speaker 8: to five million.

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Speaker 2: Back to you guys, Thank you Martin. You're listening to

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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Saturday. I'm Alex Curry here with Carmen Vitali.

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01:06:14,400 --> 01:06:16,720
Speaker 2: We're broadcasting live from the tire dot Com Studios in

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Speaker 2: Los Angeles and it's time for our next guest. She's

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Speaker 2: a sports anchor, Bears reporter at Fox thirty two Chicago.

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Speaker 2: Cassie Carlson, thanks for joining the show.

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Speaker 9: Thanks for having me on.

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01:06:26,120 --> 01:06:29,840
Speaker 2: Excited to talk to you ladies, and I know Congratulations.

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01:06:30,200 --> 01:06:32,000
Speaker 3: She is now the play by play voice of the

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01:06:32,080 --> 01:06:36,680
Speaker 3: Chicago Red Stars, Chicago Stars, Chicago Stars past the Red Stars.

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Speaker 10: We love this branding this here. It's a little confusing,

1434
01:06:40,280 --> 01:06:43,440
Speaker 10: but I'm super excited. You know, Fox Chicago partnered up

1435
01:06:43,480 --> 01:06:46,760
Speaker 10: with the Chicago Stars to broadcast some of their games locally,

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01:06:46,840 --> 01:06:50,080
Speaker 10: So we have seven games on Fox Chicago starting tomorrow,

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01:06:50,240 --> 01:06:52,440
Speaker 10: and it's going to be a super fun time. As

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01:06:52,440 --> 01:06:56,360
Speaker 10: someone who grew up like idolizing Mia Ham, Shannon Box,

1439
01:06:56,520 --> 01:06:59,280
Speaker 10: all those US Woes national team players, I'm like, wow,

1440
01:06:59,320 --> 01:07:01,000
Speaker 10: this is a kind of ah me a moment right now.

1441
01:07:01,080 --> 01:07:04,120
Speaker 10: So it's super exciting and I'm very glad to be

1442
01:07:04,160 --> 01:07:04,480
Speaker 10: part of it.

1443
01:07:04,760 --> 01:07:08,800
Speaker 2: Congratulations, what did dream Come true? Congratulations? That's so awesome.

1444
01:07:09,840 --> 01:07:12,720
Speaker 2: Let's talk some Bears because they have already done a

1445
01:07:12,800 --> 01:07:16,520
Speaker 2: lot this offseason to support Caleb Williams in his second year.

1446
01:07:16,840 --> 01:07:19,160
Speaker 2: What are your CARMEI and I talk a lot about

1447
01:07:19,200 --> 01:07:22,680
Speaker 2: this about tempering expectations, but what are your expectations for

1448
01:07:22,840 --> 01:07:23,880
Speaker 2: him in twenty twenty five?

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01:07:24,960 --> 01:07:27,600
Speaker 10: Oh, In Caleb Williams, I think you have to frame

1450
01:07:27,640 --> 01:07:31,520
Speaker 10: it like he's, you know, starting over. This is essentially

1451
01:07:31,600 --> 01:07:32,840
Speaker 10: I feel like you have to treat it like this

1452
01:07:33,000 --> 01:07:35,360
Speaker 10: is his rookie season, because he went through so many

1453
01:07:35,520 --> 01:07:39,680
Speaker 10: changes with coaches during his actual rookie season, and you

1454
01:07:39,720 --> 01:07:42,880
Speaker 10: can argue that he really wasn't placed in a good

1455
01:07:42,960 --> 01:07:45,520
Speaker 10: position to succeed, although we thought he was going to

1456
01:07:45,640 --> 01:07:48,600
Speaker 10: be heading into the season after he was drafted. I

1457
01:07:48,680 --> 01:07:51,960
Speaker 10: think it was really glaring that Ryan Poles just worked

1458
01:07:51,960 --> 01:07:54,640
Speaker 10: from the outside in instead of working from the inside out.

1459
01:07:55,000 --> 01:07:57,480
Speaker 10: And we've seen all these teams that are having success

1460
01:07:57,680 --> 01:08:01,520
Speaker 10: with Detroit with the Eagles, they all have very strong

1461
01:08:01,680 --> 01:08:05,080
Speaker 10: lines and Caleb Williams don't have that. He was tactically

1462
01:08:05,320 --> 01:08:09,400
Speaker 10: eighty times. I think it's starting over, and luckily, you know,

1463
01:08:09,440 --> 01:08:11,560
Speaker 10: I think he's very happy obviously with them hiring the

1464
01:08:11,680 --> 01:08:14,400
Speaker 10: number one candidate and Ben Johnson, someone who said is

1465
01:08:14,520 --> 01:08:16,559
Speaker 10: going to rip this thing down to the studs. They're

1466
01:08:16,560 --> 01:08:19,200
Speaker 10: going to build it around Caleb Williams and his personnel

1467
01:08:19,320 --> 01:08:22,040
Speaker 10: strength and then also be able to sit in a

1468
01:08:22,120 --> 01:08:24,760
Speaker 10: room with Caleb Williams starting next week when they have

1469
01:08:24,920 --> 01:08:28,360
Speaker 10: that extra ota because of the new coaching staff, and

1470
01:08:28,880 --> 01:08:31,920
Speaker 10: get to see, you know, how Caleb looks at the game,

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01:08:32,000 --> 01:08:33,920
Speaker 10: but also he wants Caleb to be able to see

1472
01:08:33,960 --> 01:08:35,920
Speaker 10: the game through how Ben Johnson sees the game. And

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01:08:35,960 --> 01:08:38,400
Speaker 10: I think that's going to be the most important thing

1474
01:08:38,640 --> 01:08:42,160
Speaker 10: is that relationship right there, And hopefully Caleb feels confident

1475
01:08:42,240 --> 01:08:44,559
Speaker 10: given the fact that they've overhauled the interior of their

1476
01:08:44,640 --> 01:08:48,560
Speaker 10: offensive line. Run game, I would expect to take a

1477
01:08:48,680 --> 01:08:51,040
Speaker 10: huge step forward because we know Ben Jonson loves to

1478
01:08:51,080 --> 01:08:53,519
Speaker 10: run the ball. We'll see if they add anything else

1479
01:08:53,600 --> 01:08:56,439
Speaker 10: in the draft. But I think it's like you got

1480
01:08:56,560 --> 01:08:58,679
Speaker 10: to frame it like Caleb Williams is kind of starting over,

1481
01:08:59,400 --> 01:09:01,920
Speaker 10: but I think those expectations that he had of you know,

1482
01:09:02,080 --> 01:09:05,479
Speaker 10: being the franchise quarterback and setting a new standard water

1483
01:09:05,560 --> 01:09:07,280
Speaker 10: quarterback can be in Chicago are still there.

1484
01:09:07,680 --> 01:09:09,559
Speaker 3: Yeah, And that's kind of been my whole thing too,

1485
01:09:09,600 --> 01:09:12,519
Speaker 3: where I'm like, I don't know that Chicago fans are

1486
01:09:12,600 --> 01:09:15,800
Speaker 3: going to give him the patients or the grace if

1487
01:09:15,960 --> 01:09:18,360
Speaker 3: I know anything about you and I both know growing

1488
01:09:18,439 --> 01:09:22,720
Speaker 3: up there. But my biggest thing and what I'm so

1489
01:09:22,920 --> 01:09:25,639
Speaker 3: curious to see is because again Bears are three time

1490
01:09:25,760 --> 01:09:29,720
Speaker 3: off season champs and they've added all these wonderful things.

1491
01:09:31,240 --> 01:09:33,240
Speaker 2: They are it makes sense. It's a good it's a

1492
01:09:33,280 --> 01:09:33,679
Speaker 2: good take.

1493
01:09:34,040 --> 01:09:38,280
Speaker 3: My biggest concern right now, Cass is the intangibles, because

1494
01:09:38,280 --> 01:09:41,120
Speaker 3: they've done everything right on paper, and I've seen it

1495
01:09:41,200 --> 01:09:42,840
Speaker 3: like they've done things that I've wanted them to do

1496
01:09:42,960 --> 01:09:44,519
Speaker 3: for years and so like, for the first time, I

1497
01:09:44,600 --> 01:09:48,120
Speaker 3: find myself actually getting optimistic about this team. But Ben

1498
01:09:48,160 --> 01:09:50,439
Speaker 3: Johnson has ever been a head coach before. Ben Johnson

1499
01:09:50,560 --> 01:09:54,360
Speaker 3: hasn't actually coached Caleb Williams yet. Caleb Williams has come

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01:09:54,400 --> 01:09:56,960
Speaker 3: out and said he's not the like, not everybody can

1501
01:09:57,040 --> 01:09:59,760
Speaker 3: coach him. How do you see this going, knowing being

1502
01:09:59,800 --> 01:10:01,400
Speaker 3: in front of Ben Johnson, being in front of Kalla

1503
01:10:01,439 --> 01:10:03,479
Speaker 3: Williams for as long as you have now cast, how

1504
01:10:03,560 --> 01:10:06,760
Speaker 3: do you see those personalities meshing so that they can

1505
01:10:06,920 --> 01:10:08,560
Speaker 3: have a really good working relationship.

1506
01:10:09,280 --> 01:10:10,880
Speaker 10: Yeah, I think that's going to be an interesting part.

1507
01:10:10,920 --> 01:10:13,320
Speaker 10: And I remember we had this conversation Carmen at the

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Speaker 10: Combine that Ben Johnson is intense right every time he speaks,

1509
01:10:17,920 --> 01:10:20,439
Speaker 10: you know, he kind of is like a He doesn't

1510
01:10:20,479 --> 01:10:22,360
Speaker 10: really look like he's an intense guy, but every time

1511
01:10:22,400 --> 01:10:24,479
Speaker 10: he speaks, I think he is a very pointed message.

1512
01:10:24,920 --> 01:10:28,960
Speaker 10: And I think back to, you know, when Shane Waldron

1513
01:10:29,040 --> 01:10:31,679
Speaker 10: was the offensive coordinator. He was kind of a laissez

1514
01:10:31,760 --> 01:10:33,920
Speaker 10: faire kind of guy, and that's how he appeared towards us,

1515
01:10:34,000 --> 01:10:38,040
Speaker 10: and from everything I heard, he treated Caleb Williams like

1516
01:10:38,200 --> 01:10:41,000
Speaker 10: very like gentlely, like that was the guy. We don't

1517
01:10:41,040 --> 01:10:44,320
Speaker 10: touch him, we don't critique him all that. Then you

1518
01:10:44,439 --> 01:10:47,360
Speaker 10: have Thomas Brown, who had I think the exact opposite approach,

1519
01:10:47,479 --> 01:10:49,320
Speaker 10: telling Caleb Williams that you're going to be treated like

1520
01:10:49,400 --> 01:10:52,880
Speaker 10: every single other player on this team. And I felt

1521
01:10:52,920 --> 01:10:55,000
Speaker 10: like you kind of saw them butt heads a tad

1522
01:10:55,080 --> 01:10:57,280
Speaker 10: bit because of the different kind of approaches. Now, I

1523
01:10:57,320 --> 01:10:59,720
Speaker 10: think Ben Johnson coming in and having a full off

1524
01:10:59,800 --> 01:11:02,400
Speaker 10: seat in to really learn his quarterback, he's going to

1525
01:11:02,439 --> 01:11:05,040
Speaker 10: build a relationship with him, and I think that will

1526
01:11:05,080 --> 01:11:08,000
Speaker 10: be part of how he learns how to work with him.

1527
01:11:08,280 --> 01:11:10,960
Speaker 10: I think he had that with Jared Goff obviously, and he,

1528
01:11:11,479 --> 01:11:14,200
Speaker 10: to his credit, you know, credits Jared Goff with doing

1529
01:11:14,280 --> 01:11:17,679
Speaker 10: everything and having all the sex. The success was because

1530
01:11:17,840 --> 01:11:21,320
Speaker 10: of what he put in so I'm kind of curious

1531
01:11:21,400 --> 01:11:23,639
Speaker 10: in that. But I think just the way we've seen

1532
01:11:24,240 --> 01:11:27,479
Speaker 10: Caleb Williams, you know, publicly answer all the questions, he

1533
01:11:27,560 --> 01:11:30,280
Speaker 10: said he wants to be coached, So if you're asking

1534
01:11:30,400 --> 01:11:32,200
Speaker 10: to be coached, you can't complain. And then you also

1535
01:11:32,320 --> 01:11:35,160
Speaker 10: got the guy that you wanted, and he also got

1536
01:11:35,200 --> 01:11:38,440
Speaker 10: the offensive line that you wanted. Pair that with you know, Romadunze,

1537
01:11:38,479 --> 01:11:41,800
Speaker 10: who they drafted alongside of him last year. So I

1538
01:11:41,880 --> 01:11:44,000
Speaker 10: think it will be an interesting thing to see. I

1539
01:11:44,040 --> 01:11:46,160
Speaker 10: think it's going to be interesting again, you know, as

1540
01:11:46,240 --> 01:11:49,400
Speaker 10: you said, temper expectations. What if they you know, have

1541
01:11:49,520 --> 01:11:50,240
Speaker 10: a losing.

1542
01:11:50,040 --> 01:11:53,280
Speaker 3: Record come right then what happens right then?

1543
01:11:53,360 --> 01:11:56,760
Speaker 10: What happens? So I think that's all going to be interesting.

1544
01:11:57,160 --> 01:12:01,519
Speaker 10: But I think Ben Jonson's resume as a coordinator, given

1545
01:12:01,560 --> 01:12:03,720
Speaker 10: the fact that you know, the Lions had a top

1546
01:12:03,800 --> 01:12:07,680
Speaker 10: three scoring offense the last three years, I think that

1547
01:12:07,920 --> 01:12:10,879
Speaker 10: does hold some weight. And I don't think the previous

1548
01:12:11,040 --> 01:12:15,720
Speaker 10: coaching staff had any sort of reputation or you know,

1549
01:12:15,800 --> 01:12:17,920
Speaker 10: ground to stand on with what they had accomplished, because

1550
01:12:17,920 --> 01:12:20,360
Speaker 10: they hadn't acomplished anything. So I think there's kind of

1551
01:12:20,439 --> 01:12:23,840
Speaker 10: respector already. But yeah, I think I think he's going

1552
01:12:23,880 --> 01:12:25,200
Speaker 10: to be pushed hard, and I don't know if he

1553
01:12:25,360 --> 01:12:27,439
Speaker 10: knows how hard yet. I think that's gonna be an

1554
01:12:27,479 --> 01:12:28,960
Speaker 10: interesting development as time goes on.

1555
01:12:29,200 --> 01:12:31,800
Speaker 2: Okay, So staying on this theme of tempering expectations because

1556
01:12:31,800 --> 01:12:34,360
Speaker 2: as you said earlier, like kind of think of this

1557
01:12:34,439 --> 01:12:37,639
Speaker 2: as Caleb Williams like first real seasons. There's so many changes,

1558
01:12:37,720 --> 01:12:40,400
Speaker 2: and then this is Ben Johnson's first time being a

1559
01:12:40,439 --> 01:12:44,040
Speaker 2: head coach. So what does Ben Johnson have to do

1560
01:12:44,720 --> 01:12:47,400
Speaker 2: in his first season as a head coach to have

1561
01:12:47,520 --> 01:12:49,200
Speaker 2: it be considered successful.

1562
01:12:50,240 --> 01:12:53,720
Speaker 10: Well, I think it all surrounds Caleb Williams because that's

1563
01:12:54,200 --> 01:12:57,120
Speaker 10: that's the nucleus right there. Yeah, he's the most important

1564
01:12:57,160 --> 01:13:00,120
Speaker 10: person in that building. And so if Ben Jonson and

1565
01:13:00,320 --> 01:13:05,160
Speaker 10: can make Caleb Williams take the next step and look better,

1566
01:13:06,240 --> 01:13:07,880
Speaker 10: put up more points, I think it's going to be

1567
01:13:07,920 --> 01:13:10,479
Speaker 10: a huge thing. More explosive plays that we didn't see

1568
01:13:10,600 --> 01:13:12,760
Speaker 10: last year. I think that's going to be the bulk

1569
01:13:12,800 --> 01:13:14,000
Speaker 10: of it. And I think like if we see the

1570
01:13:14,080 --> 01:13:16,000
Speaker 10: run game really take a step forward, I think we're

1571
01:13:16,040 --> 01:13:17,760
Speaker 10: going to be happy with how the Bears look. I

1572
01:13:17,800 --> 01:13:20,439
Speaker 10: don't everyone saying, like, you know, they made all these

1573
01:13:20,479 --> 01:13:23,000
Speaker 10: moves in free agency to make the playoffs. You know,

1574
01:13:23,000 --> 01:13:24,960
Speaker 10: they're still in a really good division. They were really

1575
01:13:25,000 --> 01:13:28,160
Speaker 10: really tough road schedule ahead of them too this year,

1576
01:13:28,200 --> 01:13:30,080
Speaker 10: which I think is going to play a huge part

1577
01:13:30,120 --> 01:13:31,840
Speaker 10: of it as well. So I don't know if you

1578
01:13:31,920 --> 01:13:33,479
Speaker 10: want to say, oh, they're going to make the playoffs,

1579
01:13:33,560 --> 01:13:35,800
Speaker 10: but I mean, there should be no ten game losing streak,

1580
01:13:35,880 --> 01:13:39,040
Speaker 10: that's for sure, because that to me shows that again,

1581
01:13:39,160 --> 01:13:41,280
Speaker 10: then the head coach doesn't have the respect of the

1582
01:13:41,400 --> 01:13:43,400
Speaker 10: locker room. If I want to see them be able

1583
01:13:43,479 --> 01:13:46,880
Speaker 10: to win close games and just be situationally smart, you know,

1584
01:13:46,960 --> 01:13:49,160
Speaker 10: we haven't really had that in the past three years,

1585
01:13:49,240 --> 01:13:52,560
Speaker 10: so I think all those would be steps forward, but

1586
01:13:52,960 --> 01:13:55,679
Speaker 10: just being competent. The Bears have not been competent lately,

1587
01:13:55,840 --> 01:13:58,840
Speaker 10: so I think if Ben Jonson can show that and

1588
01:13:59,000 --> 01:14:01,439
Speaker 10: show that he has kind of a handle on the

1589
01:14:01,520 --> 01:14:03,400
Speaker 10: locker room, people are going to give them a year

1590
01:14:03,400 --> 01:14:04,920
Speaker 10: at least better.

1591
01:14:05,400 --> 01:14:09,640
Speaker 2: Okay, good lord, No, that's ever. No, that's being realistic.

1592
01:14:10,120 --> 01:14:11,680
Speaker 2: We have to let you go. But real quick, where

1593
01:14:11,720 --> 01:14:14,120
Speaker 2: do you see them finishing in the NFC norths.

1594
01:14:16,400 --> 01:14:18,439
Speaker 3: I hate that question too, Cass really tough.

1595
01:14:18,439 --> 01:14:21,160
Speaker 10: You know, because I really liked obviously with the Bears

1596
01:14:21,240 --> 01:14:23,000
Speaker 10: hid but the Vikings came run for their money and

1597
01:14:23,040 --> 01:14:26,120
Speaker 10: what they did in free agency, so I mean they

1598
01:14:26,720 --> 01:14:29,760
Speaker 10: I don't know if the Packers finished fourth though, either. Yeah,

1599
01:14:30,320 --> 01:14:32,160
Speaker 10: it does ever seem to be that way. I think that.

1600
01:14:32,520 --> 01:14:33,960
Speaker 10: I mean, the Bears are kind of like, you gotta

1601
01:14:34,000 --> 01:14:36,840
Speaker 10: you gotta show it, so I think they're probably still

1602
01:14:36,840 --> 01:14:38,880
Speaker 10: at the bottom of the division. I can see them

1603
01:14:38,960 --> 01:14:40,839
Speaker 10: finishing over the Packers and third.

1604
01:14:40,720 --> 01:14:43,560
Speaker 3: Though it's probably going to take fourteenth fifteen games to

1605
01:14:43,600 --> 01:14:43,960
Speaker 3: win again.

1606
01:14:44,720 --> 01:14:49,320
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's approven year. Cassie. Congratulations once again on

1607
01:14:49,400 --> 01:14:51,599
Speaker 2: all your success the new show. Thank you so much

1608
01:14:51,640 --> 01:14:52,040
Speaker 2: for coming on.

1609
01:14:52,880 --> 01:14:54,679
Speaker 10: Thanks for having me. Happy Saturday.

1610
01:14:54,760 --> 01:14:57,200
Speaker 2: Thanks, Happy Saturday. All Right, we're and take one more

1611
01:14:57,200 --> 01:14:59,200
Speaker 2: break here when we come back our feel good stories

1612
01:14:59,280 --> 01:15:04,360
Speaker 2: of the week. You're listening to Fox Sports Radio. Welcome

1613
01:15:04,479 --> 01:15:07,160
Speaker 2: back to Fox Sports Saturday. I'm Alex Curry here with

1614
01:15:07,200 --> 01:15:09,800
Speaker 2: Carmen Vitally. We are broadcasting live from the Tire dot

1615
01:15:09,840 --> 01:15:12,960
Speaker 2: Com studios in Los Angeles, and I was just cracking up.

1616
01:15:13,000 --> 01:15:14,120
Speaker 2: Carmen was talking about this.

1617
01:15:14,880 --> 01:15:16,880
Speaker 3: I think I just might make it my feel good story. Actually,

1618
01:15:17,080 --> 01:15:19,720
Speaker 3: so I'll go first thing, Yeah, I was gonna mention it,

1619
01:15:19,800 --> 01:15:22,519
Speaker 3: so you just do that. So we mentioned it a

1620
01:15:22,560 --> 01:15:24,479
Speaker 3: little bit when we were talking about how the Laker

1621
01:15:24,600 --> 01:15:26,040
Speaker 3: with everything with the Lakers and how the Bulls just

1622
01:15:26,080 --> 01:15:27,960
Speaker 3: beat them a home and away series. By the way,

1623
01:15:27,960 --> 01:15:29,439
Speaker 3: the Bulls beat them here in LA and they beat

1624
01:15:29,439 --> 01:15:32,960
Speaker 3: them in Chicago in dramatic fashion where the Bulls hit

1625
01:15:33,000 --> 01:15:37,479
Speaker 3: three flee three three, three threes last twelve seconds. There

1626
01:15:37,479 --> 01:15:41,160
Speaker 3: we go. If I could talk the call though, Yeah,

1627
01:15:41,280 --> 01:15:43,200
Speaker 3: and there's I mean, when you when you think back

1628
01:15:43,240 --> 01:15:46,920
Speaker 3: on big moments in sports, yeah, there's a soundtrack to it.

1629
01:15:47,040 --> 01:15:50,240
Speaker 3: There is. And the soundtrack is the play by play

1630
01:15:50,320 --> 01:15:53,320
Speaker 3: and the color analysts that are calling the game, and

1631
01:15:53,560 --> 01:15:56,160
Speaker 3: that's what you remember. You remember the moment, but you

1632
01:15:56,240 --> 01:15:59,400
Speaker 3: remember the moment with a soundtrack. And it is two

1633
01:15:59,479 --> 01:16:01,639
Speaker 3: of the best in the entire business. It is Adam

1634
01:16:01,640 --> 01:16:04,840
Speaker 3: I mean play by play for the Bulls and Stacy King,

1635
01:16:04,960 --> 01:16:07,799
Speaker 3: who played for the Bulls. They are the best little pairing.

1636
01:16:08,960 --> 01:16:11,559
Speaker 3: Adam and I grew up one town away from each other.

1637
01:16:11,880 --> 01:16:14,519
Speaker 3: Adam is also a NFL play by play on Fox

1638
01:16:14,680 --> 01:16:17,519
Speaker 3: with MLB play by play on Fox. You will not

1639
01:16:17,600 --> 01:16:20,080
Speaker 3: find a better play by play guy than Adam Aman

1640
01:16:20,479 --> 01:16:22,720
Speaker 3: and we've had him on the show. He was a

1641
01:16:22,760 --> 01:16:25,000
Speaker 3: great friend of mine. Full disclosure, I'm bragging in my

1642
01:16:25,000 --> 01:16:29,040
Speaker 3: friend a little bit right now. But that call of

1643
01:16:29,200 --> 01:16:31,679
Speaker 3: that game and then it's and now in this wage

1644
01:16:31,680 --> 01:16:34,400
Speaker 3: of social media, Shipmates is the account that I want

1645
01:16:34,400 --> 01:16:37,000
Speaker 3: to shout out because these two guys the re create

1646
01:16:37,080 --> 01:16:41,400
Speaker 3: a bunch of these like landmark classic all time calls,

1647
01:16:42,040 --> 01:16:44,240
Speaker 3: and they did it for Adam and Stacey, and it

1648
01:16:44,800 --> 01:16:47,160
Speaker 3: made Adam like that was one of the pinch me

1649
01:16:47,240 --> 01:16:49,680
Speaker 3: moments where it's so funny for as someone as accomplished

1650
01:16:49,680 --> 01:16:52,960
Speaker 3: as he is, Yeah, to have that and have like

1651
01:16:53,120 --> 01:16:57,160
Speaker 3: the viral moment from an account that you find really entertaining,

1652
01:16:57,560 --> 01:17:00,640
Speaker 3: recognize how great you were. It was like he was

1653
01:17:00,680 --> 01:17:03,560
Speaker 3: so cute how Adam was so incredibly excited about it,

1654
01:17:03,920 --> 01:17:06,200
Speaker 3: because I'm like, the fun part is the call that

1655
01:17:06,320 --> 01:17:08,479
Speaker 3: you made. Adams just like, no, the fun part is

1656
01:17:08,520 --> 01:17:11,960
Speaker 3: that chetmates like just move on it. So I just

1657
01:17:12,479 --> 01:17:14,080
Speaker 3: I want to shout them out because it's such a

1658
01:17:14,160 --> 01:17:16,840
Speaker 3: cool experience that and it's a regular season game too.

1659
01:17:16,880 --> 01:17:20,200
Speaker 3: We had the call of the season you did already.

1660
01:17:20,360 --> 01:17:20,880
Speaker 5: And like that.

1661
01:17:22,640 --> 01:17:24,560
Speaker 2: I just had chills. That was like I was like

1662
01:17:24,640 --> 01:17:26,800
Speaker 2: finishing listening to it right before we came on live.

1663
01:17:26,960 --> 01:17:29,000
Speaker 3: I mean, and I had Stacey King with Sandford and

1664
01:17:29,080 --> 01:17:32,240
Speaker 3: Son references like it's just hysterical. They are such a

1665
01:17:32,280 --> 01:17:34,679
Speaker 3: good tandem team. But if you haven't seen it, yeah,

1666
01:17:34,800 --> 01:17:38,280
Speaker 3: no go, I mean so good.

1667
01:17:38,320 --> 01:17:40,400
Speaker 2: They did another one this week that also went viral,

1668
01:17:40,560 --> 01:17:44,240
Speaker 2: and that was like the Battle for Alberta. The sports

1669
01:17:44,280 --> 01:17:47,799
Speaker 2: are so soft and the call of literally the entire team.

1670
01:17:48,400 --> 01:17:49,880
Speaker 3: Yeah it was. There was a goalie, there was a

1671
01:17:49,920 --> 01:17:50,400
Speaker 3: goalie fight.

1672
01:17:50,560 --> 01:17:50,760
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1673
01:17:51,520 --> 01:17:54,839
Speaker 3: In the NHL. Yeah, oilers, oilers, oilers, flames.

1674
01:17:54,960 --> 01:17:58,120
Speaker 2: Yeah, the entire team gets in a fight. Like even

1675
01:17:58,120 --> 01:18:00,879
Speaker 2: the goalies get in a fight. It's it's so beautful.

1676
01:18:00,920 --> 01:18:02,920
Speaker 3: If you watch hockey, man, there's nothing better than a

1677
01:18:02,960 --> 01:18:03,360
Speaker 3: goal there.

1678
01:18:03,560 --> 01:18:04,120
Speaker 2: There's nothing.

1679
01:18:04,240 --> 01:18:05,240
Speaker 3: It doesn't happen very often.

1680
01:18:06,000 --> 01:18:08,680
Speaker 2: That's that's when you know, it's like getting good and.

1681
01:18:08,720 --> 01:18:14,000
Speaker 3: Then again I feel bad. I don't know, I don't

1682
01:18:14,000 --> 01:18:15,840
Speaker 3: know the play by playing the color analysts that were

1683
01:18:15,880 --> 01:18:19,439
Speaker 3: on that call, but it was. I mean, that's that's when, like,

1684
01:18:19,680 --> 01:18:23,120
Speaker 3: you know, it's just it's the fun. Yes, yeah, like

1685
01:18:23,320 --> 01:18:25,799
Speaker 3: never forget that. There is a soundtrack to your favorite

1686
01:18:25,840 --> 01:18:26,639
Speaker 3: moments in sports.

1687
01:18:26,840 --> 01:18:30,040
Speaker 2: Freddie Freeman, the walk Off Grand Sam Grand Slam with

1688
01:18:30,120 --> 01:18:33,880
Speaker 2: Joe Davis. Yes, Freddy Meat, Freddy meet Gibby, and then

1689
01:18:33,920 --> 01:18:38,200
Speaker 2: they had that for Opening Day this on Thursday, they

1690
01:18:38,280 --> 01:18:41,800
Speaker 2: had Gibby throw the first pitch to Freddy like they

1691
01:18:41,840 --> 01:18:45,000
Speaker 2: did the Freddy Meat Gibby and that that call was

1692
01:18:45,200 --> 01:18:47,960
Speaker 2: just iconic and it's still attached to that moment. That's

1693
01:18:48,000 --> 01:18:49,960
Speaker 2: what you listen to every sandem you see that play,

1694
01:18:50,000 --> 01:18:54,080
Speaker 2: which is so cool. Okay, so my feel good. Something

1695
01:18:54,120 --> 01:18:56,680
Speaker 2: I love watching is when minor leaguers get told that

1696
01:18:56,720 --> 01:19:01,400
Speaker 2: they're going to the big leagues and Yankees catcher I

1697
01:19:01,439 --> 01:19:04,759
Speaker 2: don't want to. J c Escara was in the Yankees

1698
01:19:04,800 --> 01:19:07,080
Speaker 2: farm system. He worked part time as a substitute teacher

1699
01:19:07,160 --> 01:19:10,800
Speaker 2: and Uber driver. Throughout his minor league career, was living

1700
01:19:10,880 --> 01:19:13,800
Speaker 2: paycheck to paycheck, trying to support his dream like they

1701
01:19:13,840 --> 01:19:15,519
Speaker 2: all do, to make it to the big leagues. And

1702
01:19:15,840 --> 01:19:18,920
Speaker 2: on Sunday he got news that he made the major

1703
01:19:19,000 --> 01:19:21,720
Speaker 2: league roster and the twenty nine year old twenty nine

1704
01:19:21,800 --> 01:19:24,680
Speaker 2: years old, like that is you put in a lot

1705
01:19:24,720 --> 01:19:26,559
Speaker 2: of time to like hopefully make it to the big

1706
01:19:26,640 --> 01:19:31,360
Speaker 2: leagues if you're still in it. Immediately calls his mom crying, says,

1707
01:19:31,439 --> 01:19:34,439
Speaker 2: we did it. We're going to New York. She's screaming,

1708
01:19:35,080 --> 01:19:39,799
Speaker 2: he's crying. Another like, never give up on your dreams story,

1709
01:19:40,560 --> 01:19:43,720
Speaker 2: which is just I love these no matter what part

1710
01:19:43,760 --> 01:19:46,400
Speaker 2: of your career you're in. Like, like you said, Adam,

1711
01:19:46,479 --> 01:19:49,320
Speaker 2: getting this moment call in the game, this twenty nine

1712
01:19:49,400 --> 01:19:54,519
Speaker 2: year old like minor leaguer finally getting a shot at

1713
01:19:54,560 --> 01:19:56,920
Speaker 2: the big leagues and the Yankees and getting that you've

1714
01:19:56,960 --> 01:19:58,000
Speaker 2: made it moment is just.

1715
01:19:58,320 --> 01:20:01,560
Speaker 3: Base It makes it the farm system and everything in

1716
01:20:01,600 --> 01:20:04,000
Speaker 3: baseball is so hard because there's just as many politics

1717
01:20:04,040 --> 01:20:07,120
Speaker 3: as it is like whether or not you have talent.

1718
01:20:07,400 --> 01:20:09,439
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, all right, thank you guys so much for

1719
01:20:09,520 --> 01:20:12,080
Speaker 2: spending your Saturday afternoon with us. We'll see you next week,

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Speaker 2: same time, same place,