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Speaker 1: go on a Sunday Night America. Glad You're with us

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Speaker 1: with e from salam Mark Willard, Fox Sports Radio. I

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Speaker 1: feel like pretty much the idea behind every teen movie, Ephraim,

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Speaker 2: And then someone does.

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Speaker 1: A slow clap and everybody learns a lesson, and you've

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Speaker 2: That's pretty much a teen.

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Speaker 1: Movie and I and I feel like I'm in the

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Speaker 1: middle of one right now because I said to you

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Speaker 1: last week, oh my gosh, it's gonna be the most

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Speaker 1: Lakers thing ever to bring Chris Paul onto the team.

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Speaker 1: I mean, who would want Chris Paul at age thirty eight,

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Speaker 1: so ridiculous, so Laker to go get a name, even

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Speaker 1: though he doesn't really have the same ooph that he

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Speaker 1: used to have. And here we are seven days later,

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Speaker 1: and yeah, yeah, Chris Paul's on the Warriors.

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Speaker 2: So I guess this is the way it's going to go.

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Speaker 3: I'm happy that he didn't land in La.

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Speaker 1: Oh you are.

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Speaker 3: Look, I thought you were into it.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 3: What I said was, I can see it how it

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Speaker 3: could work. Is that something we needed. No, what we

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Speaker 3: don't need to do is get older. We don't need

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Speaker 3: age and injuries. That's what you don't need. When your

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Speaker 3: core is already aging Anthony Davis, Lebron James and dealing

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Speaker 3: with injury Anthony Davis, Lebron James, Lebron James. You don't

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Speaker 3: need to add someone who's older with the same injury history.

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Speaker 3: That is a recipe for a disaster because now that

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Speaker 3: spot is taken by someone who could be younger, healthier

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Speaker 3: understand it. I can see how it's working given these scenarios.

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Speaker 3: But if that's something that I would be like, yes, No,

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Speaker 3: that's not that's not That's not what we're trying to do.

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Speaker 1: Man.

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Speaker 3: We're trying to really put these pieces together, similar to

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Speaker 3: what we did at the trade deadline. All right, Now,

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Speaker 3: if you can enhance and get better at those spots,

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Speaker 3: that we got better at then absolutely do it. But

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Speaker 3: if not, what I would do is I would bring

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Speaker 3: those those people back and play a whole year with him,

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Speaker 3: you know, something something like that. Can we compete at

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Speaker 3: this level with those people? Now they're available talent out

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Speaker 3: a real shooter because we're still waiting for Beasley to

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Speaker 3: make a three pointer. Right, he's leading the league. I

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Speaker 3: think he was shooting at forty six percent of something

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Speaker 3: like they got to the Lakers and were just waiting,

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Speaker 3: just waiting for one to go in. So if we

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Speaker 3: can really you know, three and D. Guys love that

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Speaker 3: someone who can alleviate some of the scoring punch. I

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Speaker 3: love how D'Angelo Russell did prior to the prior to

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Speaker 3: the playoffs. But that's it's it's not rocket science, man,

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Speaker 3: it's it's we saw how would it could work. They

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Speaker 3: just ran into the best team in the league in

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Speaker 3: my opinion, in the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: Well, and they did go on and win the championship.

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Speaker 1: So I think it's easy to say that. I'm glad

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Speaker 1: you use the word understand. You didn't want it, but

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Speaker 1: you understand it, because that is exactly how I think

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Speaker 1: a Warriors fan should feel. I'll explain that in a

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Speaker 1: clear to me, maybe even as as far back as

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Speaker 1: end and into the playoffs that for a variety of reasons,

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Speaker 1: Jordan Poole got to go. All of those reasons his fault, Nope,

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Speaker 1: you saw evidence all over the place, a pile of

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Speaker 1: evidence that the whole organization and all of the teammates,

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Speaker 1: a variety of reasons. That is not an okay way

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Speaker 1: to handle it the way Draymond did, but that happened,

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Speaker 2: So if you know that Jordan Poole.

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Speaker 1: Has got to go, and the league knows that Jordan

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Speaker 1: Poole has got to go, that obviously limits his trade value.

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Speaker 2: And then the other side to it.

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Speaker 1: And as it was directly explained to me Ephraim, and

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Speaker 1: I know fans aren't big into this, but the bottom

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Speaker 1: line is is the Collective Bargaining Agreement has new penalties

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Speaker 1: for teams that are over the tax starting after this year.

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Speaker 1: And it was straight said to me, here's the deal.

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Speaker 1: If you're an NBA team over the tax after this season,

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Speaker 1: you have flat out are not doing four players making

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Speaker 1: over thirty million dollars a year. You're not doing it, period,

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Speaker 1: hard brick wall No. And so if that's the case,

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Speaker 1: well then you got to get somebody on a one

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Speaker 1: means to me, if you kept Jordan Poole, Klay Thompson's

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Speaker 1: Warriors career is about to be over. And I know

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Speaker 1: there may be some people who think, go ahead and

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Speaker 1: Big Three still has their merits, still has their basketball

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Speaker 2: Do I understand it?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Absolutely I do. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: It's you know, it's going to be a situation with

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Speaker 3: and it's gonna hit hard. Yeah, man, it's gonna hit hard.

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Speaker 3: And these billionaires and these owners. I mean, you you

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Speaker 3: want to write a five hundred million dollar check not

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Speaker 3: five of the billionaire. You're paying a penalty. Brother, That

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Speaker 3: that is I mean, that's a tough check to write.

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Speaker 1: Oh man. And you're you're losing your mid level I mean,

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Speaker 1: like you are. You are losing players. You're going you

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Speaker 1: are build a team to help you win. Can't build

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Speaker 3: I think, you know, the NBA and the new Collective

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Speaker 3: Bargaining Agreement is like, all right, well we were about

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Speaker 3: not a lot is gonna be ready to step up

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Speaker 3: and write that type of check, because first of all,

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Speaker 3: you're not guaranteeing anything. You're not. We look what the

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Speaker 3: Phoenix Suns is about to have to do.

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Speaker 1: Mm hmm.

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Speaker 3: That's a lot of money, and it's long money. It's

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Speaker 3: not it's not the end. These guys are three four years.

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Speaker 3: So I want to get back to building teams. The

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Speaker 3: all great. I think that time in the NBA has passed.

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Speaker 3: I think the new collective Bargain agreement and the penalties

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Speaker 3: I think it's because of that reason. I think we're

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Speaker 3: going to force teams and gms to really do the

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Speaker 3: work and put it build a team out. And I

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Speaker 3: think it's good for basketball. I think it's good for

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Speaker 3: the Denver Championships, like the Broncos, but the Denver Nuggets

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Speaker 3: a bona fide superstar, two superstars, one MVP, and they

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Speaker 3: building it the right way.

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Speaker 1: Now if you go how long, how long can they

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Speaker 1: keep it? That's my question. But that's development at this point.

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Speaker 1: That's what development is for, right.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but no one expects y'all guys in the draft

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Speaker 3: look what Miami has done case in point, the team

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Speaker 3: be about. Coaching is paramount, GMS and decisions. Paramount. You're

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Speaker 3: gonna have to Hey man, you're gonna have to build it.

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Speaker 3: It's not baseball. It's not baseball. I'm waves with you.

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Speaker 1: The problem is, though, once you build it, you should

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Speaker 2: And that's what I don't like.

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Speaker 1: That's what the NBA won't let you do, which is

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Speaker 1: if you built it, you know you and I talked

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Speaker 1: then in my opinion, you should be allowed some flexibility

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Speaker 3: That's how the NBA is implementing parody, right. They're not

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Speaker 3: think it'll be a time where we get to see

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Speaker 3: like And I'll say this, the only person that I've

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Speaker 3: is Lebron James. You got to remember Lebron James was

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Speaker 3: going to finals prior to going to Miami. Prior to

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Speaker 3: he was going to finals, but he didn't have any talent.

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Speaker 1: Yep, Booby, tell of a dope.

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Speaker 3: Wh what.

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Speaker 1: I love?

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Speaker 3: Mark? I like think about those Cleveland teams.

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Speaker 1: Oh Man like Larry Hughes might have been the best

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Speaker 3: Right, that lends to his greatness. Not very very few

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Speaker 3: people can do that, no doubt, very few people can

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Speaker 3: The Celtics started it, Lebron did it, then so on

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Speaker 3: and so forth. Now we have to pivot. We had

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Speaker 3: a new we need a new direction. Something else got

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Speaker 3: to happen. So you know, we're gonna see. We won't

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Speaker 3: see how this thing shakes out.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna see. And actually that's what I would love

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Speaker 1: to find out from your next So that's laid out

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Speaker 2: Right right, who have a history of not liking one another.

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Speaker 7: Okay, this is just a matter of appeasement.

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Speaker 8: do to be on the team. None of this is official.

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Speaker 8: There's no announcement yet from Grant Hill, who's managing director.

437
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Speaker 8: But Walker Kessler, who was on the All Rookie team

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Speaker 8: Brandon Ingram and Calbridges, Austin Reeves and others. Steve Kurb

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Speaker 8: Golden State is the US head coach this year. Assistants

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Speaker 8: include from the Heat Eric Spolster, whose mom is from

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Speaker 8: the Philippines. Team USA will be playing in Manila in

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Speaker 8: this tournament.

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Speaker 1: Back to you, I want to try to say this

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Speaker 1: with a rye grin and without stepping in mud, but

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Speaker 1: are you allowed to just open up a map and

446
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Speaker 1: pick whatever country you want?

447
00:26:11,760 --> 00:26:11,960
Speaker 2: Now?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, there's a deadline.

449
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Speaker 2: Is that the deal?

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Speaker 1: Right? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Like, my great grandma knew somebody who once went to.

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Speaker 1: Italy, so I'm not for Italy relatives.

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Speaker 2: It sounds like that.

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Speaker 8: Now, this happens all the time in Olympics where you've

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Speaker 8: got a parent or grandparent and therefore you've got options,

456
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Speaker 8: or this happens in this Gold Cup tournament. Now, the

457
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Speaker 8: US just got a guy that decided to play for

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Speaker 8: the US instead of England. But because Ben Caro Aaron

459
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Speaker 8: Torres talked about this last night. Ben Caro was going

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Speaker 8: to play for Italy at the Olympics and then it

461
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Speaker 8: was moved back a year because of the pandemic in Japan,

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Speaker 8: and so he never wound up playing for Italy at all,

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Speaker 8: So he's going to debut for the US.

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Speaker 7: Apparently that's the deed.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I get it, but I don't get it, and

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Speaker 1: other like don't you wish everybody was just playing for

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Speaker 1: I don't know the nation where they were born.

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Speaker 2: Is that too simple?

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Speaker 7: It's probably enough answers, Yes, it is enough spots.

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Speaker 1: Right, like, yeah, I got you, I get it, but

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Speaker 1: I don't get it.

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Speaker 8: Didn't Becky Hammond play for Russia? I mean, if you

473
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Speaker 8: can get a past.

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Speaker 1: The World Baseball Classic was the best one you had.

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Speaker 1: Guys who are right? Yes, somebody named Bob Smith is like,

476
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Speaker 1: I'm Brazilian.

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Speaker 2: We're doing it.

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Speaker 8: You're just like, okay, we're going to see it at

479
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Speaker 8: the Women's World Cup next month. Jamaica's goalie is white

480
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Speaker 8: from New.

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Speaker 1: Jersey, perfect, perfect, whatever it takes. That would not have

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Speaker 1: worked in Cool Runnings, That's all I'm gonna say.

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Speaker 2: Okay, it would not have worked.

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Speaker 1: The story would not have been as good, but anyway,

485
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Speaker 1: all right, thanks Steve. Great stuff always live in the

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Speaker 1: Tirereck dot Com Studios.

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Speaker 2: Mark Willard ephrom salaam h.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, man, there are all kinds of questions and a

489
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Speaker 1: lot of them, I guess will get answered over the

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Speaker 1: next week, week and a half, two weeks. In the NBA, seemingly,

491
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Speaker 1: the omni president Dame Lillard question is out there as well.

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Speaker 1: I always look at situations like this and I just

493
00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:22,959
Speaker 1: think to myself, Look, we put our opinion into situations

494
00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:26,280
Speaker 1: like this way too much. In other words, go back

495
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Speaker 1: to Kevin Durant joining the Warriors, and everybody like, for

496
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Speaker 1: months upon end, how can you do it?

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Speaker 2: Why are you doing it? What does this say about you?

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Speaker 1: I do think you can boil it down to why

499
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Speaker 1: did he go to the Warriors dot dot dot?

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Speaker 2: Because he wanted to?

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Speaker 1: Period.

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Speaker 2: That really is the end of the story.

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Speaker 1: And so for me, where Dame Lillard plays the rest

504
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Speaker 1: of his basketball career, that's all I want to know. Dude,

505
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Speaker 1: play where you want to play. I will say, though,

506
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Speaker 1: especially as they turn it over, they've got good young players.

507
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Speaker 1: They just got scooted. A lot of people are excited

508
00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:04,160
Speaker 1: about him. He does not want to be a part

509
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Speaker 1: of a rebuild. He does not want to hold the

510
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Speaker 1: hands of young players. He's thirty two, He's still got

511
00:29:11,000 --> 00:29:14,920
Speaker 1: some game and some time. Wouldn't you love to see

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Speaker 1: that guy late in the playoffs. I really would. I'm

513
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Speaker 1: a big fan of this player, love Dame Lillard. He

514
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Speaker 1: deserves it.

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Speaker 3: But his loyalty is his loyalty, and if the organization

516
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Speaker 3: isn't going to put something together to maximize his abilities

517
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Speaker 3: and his talents while he has them, then as a player,

518
00:29:40,800 --> 00:29:43,480
Speaker 3: you really have to start looking in the mirror like

519
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Speaker 3: is this now? If you're content with being there and

520
00:29:47,200 --> 00:29:50,520
Speaker 3: an amount of money you've made, the generational wealth that

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Speaker 3: you've been able to acquire for your family, then hey,

522
00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:58,720
Speaker 3: you write it out. You're big in the community there,

523
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Speaker 3: get it. I understand that was his sentiment from the

524
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Speaker 3: things he said in the past. If that's changed, and

525
00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:09,080
Speaker 3: if that hunger for a championship, are to be able

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Speaker 3: to compete for a championship increases, then it can't be there.

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Speaker 3: Mm hmm in my opinion.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, two hundred and thirty three million dollars so far. Yeah, right, So,

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Speaker 1: you know, I don't know if it's if it's still

530
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Speaker 1: about that. It's always on some level about that, but

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Speaker 1: you know, jeez. Being I'm also a huge fan of players.

532
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Speaker 1: I think there's a financial value to being in one

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Speaker 1: uniform for a career. I think there's a financial value

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Speaker 1: to that. Now, maybe less so in Portland, Oregon than

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Speaker 1: if he was in Los Angeles or New York, but

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Speaker 1: there's a financial value to never putting on another jersey

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Speaker 1: and emotional value.

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Speaker 2: If that's what drives him, great.

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Speaker 1: I'll just say, like you said, it's always been one

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Speaker 1: thing with Dame, and it sounds like to me he's

541
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Speaker 1: starting to waiver. He hasn't said it publicly. Why would he.

542
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Speaker 1: I don't think he ever will. He's not going to

543
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Speaker 1: do that to his Portland fan base, but it sounds

544
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Speaker 1: to me behind the scenes like he's starting to waiver

545
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Speaker 1: on what we call loyalty. And I would never call

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Speaker 1: Dame Lillard disloyal. But if he's wavering, man, then find

547
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Speaker 1: a way, find a way to get that guy somewhere

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Speaker 1: here in the next few weeks where he can leave

549
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Speaker 1: a little bit more of an imprint in the month

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Speaker 1: of June in the National Basketball Association.

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Speaker 3: I agree with that. I think he deserves it. I

552
00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:59,800
Speaker 3: think he's done everything for a franchise that you can

553
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Speaker 3: play possibly do outside of bringing the championship. But was

554
00:32:02,880 --> 00:32:07,440
Speaker 3: we know you can't do that yourself, and you know,

555
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:13,400
Speaker 3: just a consummate class act. Really what you want your

556
00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:16,560
Speaker 3: your the face of your franchise to be, right, And

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00:32:17,200 --> 00:32:19,600
Speaker 3: I be remiss to I keep saying it. But the

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Speaker 3: work he does in the community is tremendous. It's tremendous.

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Speaker 1: Got two years left on the deal at about ninety

560
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Speaker 1: three million dollars. Somehow, somehow, some way that feels like

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Speaker 1: a bargain. That is definitely a bargain. I mean in

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Speaker 1: this NBA, right, that is definitely. It sounds wild. But

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Speaker 1: I give you a list of players that are making

564
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Speaker 1: about that money, and I bet he's the best one.

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Speaker 3: Hey Man, come on to LA lost to the Lakers,

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Speaker 3: LA not.

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Speaker 1: Exactly not.

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Speaker 2: All right?

569
00:33:06,080 --> 00:33:11,320
Speaker 1: More on that situation, plus a big name football player

570
00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:14,480
Speaker 1: who's on the search for a new spot as well.

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Speaker 1: We'll get into all of that with Ephram salav Mark Willard.

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Speaker 1: This is Fox Sports Radio, Okay Live tyreg dot Com Studios.

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Speaker 2: I mean, that was already.

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Speaker 1: One pretty big surprise, right, and I would say that

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Speaker 1: poor zingis that deal kind of coming together the way

576
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Speaker 1: it did to Boston. Marcus Smart goes to the Memphis Grizzlies. Bro,

577
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Speaker 1: what else we got in store? We're sitting here talking

578
00:33:38,280 --> 00:33:41,800
Speaker 1: about Dame what else, Man, You think this is going

579
00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:45,680
Speaker 1: to be a surprise laden a couple of weeks in

580
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Speaker 1: the association, I do.

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Speaker 3: I think teams are trying to figure out ways two.

582
00:33:57,240 --> 00:34:01,600
Speaker 3: And you know every year teams go through this process.

583
00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:09,640
Speaker 3: But now with the amount of talent that well, really

584
00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:15,560
Speaker 3: you people have access to, right, the amount of talent

585
00:34:15,680 --> 00:34:21,640
Speaker 3: that can and will be moved, We've never had a

586
00:34:21,719 --> 00:34:25,560
Speaker 3: time where we've seen the last few years, the recent

587
00:34:25,640 --> 00:34:29,520
Speaker 3: years of the upward mobility of superstars. Look what we

588
00:34:29,560 --> 00:34:34,840
Speaker 3: did this trade deadline. So now we're at a situation

589
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:42,880
Speaker 3: where you nothing's off the table. Yeah, I mean, nothing's

590
00:34:42,920 --> 00:34:45,400
Speaker 3: off the table. It's funny, No, it's not. It calms

591
00:34:45,440 --> 00:34:48,880
Speaker 3: down though. You remember every time somebody was elimited from

592
00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:50,840
Speaker 3: the playoffs, it's like, well, we got to make changes.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, Jalen Brown has got to go, and Damien or

594
00:34:55,200 --> 00:34:58,520
Speaker 9: Joe l Embiid had got to go, and James Harden,

595
00:34:58,560 --> 00:35:01,520
Speaker 9: who had a rebirth of sorts this year, had a

596
00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:04,839
Speaker 9: bad last game, and this that damn it.

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00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:08,879
Speaker 1: We has got to go. Julius Randall has got to go.

598
00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:14,080
Speaker 1: John Morant is a mess. Uh. The Kings need to

599
00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:18,239
Speaker 1: to get a veteran defender and Phoenix already made their

600
00:35:18,280 --> 00:35:22,920
Speaker 1: move dump Chris Paul. The Clippers have injured stars, The

601
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:25,920
Speaker 1: Lakers are in full Like I don't I don't want

602
00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:28,040
Speaker 1: to call it reboot, but do you keep what you're

603
00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:30,440
Speaker 1: doing or do you go do something else?

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Speaker 2: Right?

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Speaker 1: They want Kyrie Irving. Those chips are getting moved all

606
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Speaker 1: over the table. But it calms down, and so I wonder.

607
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Speaker 1: I wonder because if you actually go back to a

608
00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:45,680
Speaker 1: month ago, Ephraim, it almost felt like the rumors were

609
00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:48,560
Speaker 1: were running hotter than they are now. Maybe this is

610
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Speaker 1: just the calm before the storm. I haven't heard Kyrie Irving's.

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Speaker 5: Name in three weeks, but I think it's great. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: I think it's great for him. I think is great

613
00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:04,720
Speaker 5: for the league. I think he of course he's gonna

614
00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:07,319
Speaker 5: land wherever it is. I mean, he's gonna land.

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Speaker 2: But Zion I didn't even mentioned I didn't even mentioned Zion.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Look, first thing you got to realize is guys

617
00:36:18,080 --> 00:36:23,160
Speaker 3: who don't love the game are being exposed. Guys who

618
00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:24,840
Speaker 3: don't love the game are being exposed.

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Speaker 2: Do you think that's what it is with him?

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Speaker 3: See, when I say love the game, I'm not talking

621
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Speaker 3: about playing basketball Okay, that's easy. These guys are bread

622
00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:38,319
Speaker 3: to play basketball, they've been playing it since they could

623
00:36:38,400 --> 00:36:44,279
Speaker 3: could walk. But to love to play a sport and

624
00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:46,520
Speaker 3: be a pro addit. There are things that you have

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00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:50,640
Speaker 3: to do that come with that, and if you don't

626
00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:54,440
Speaker 3: love it enough, you get to see those things happening.

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Speaker 8: Mm hmm.

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Speaker 3: Right, if you loved it enough, you wouldn't let off

629
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Speaker 3: field issues affect you're on court play because that's what

630
00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:11,480
Speaker 3: you love to do. That goes for health, that goes

631
00:37:11,520 --> 00:37:17,120
Speaker 3: for indiscretions, all of these things. Right, It's one thing

632
00:37:17,120 --> 00:37:19,640
Speaker 3: to just say, oh, you don't love the game. Oh

633
00:37:19,680 --> 00:37:23,799
Speaker 3: he's not in the gym work. I'm talking about everything.

634
00:37:24,760 --> 00:37:29,480
Speaker 3: That's the love being available. You get hurt, you do

635
00:37:29,560 --> 00:37:35,200
Speaker 3: something right, all of these things you have. Zion's got

636
00:37:35,239 --> 00:37:38,480
Speaker 3: so much off the field stuff going on, No wonder

637
00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:44,640
Speaker 3: he wasn't ready to play. So when you let your

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00:37:44,719 --> 00:37:50,560
Speaker 3: off the court life affect and hamper you from what

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00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:52,920
Speaker 3: you do on the court. The reason you make your

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00:37:53,000 --> 00:37:58,359
Speaker 3: money that you don't have a love for it. You

641
00:37:58,360 --> 00:38:03,000
Speaker 3: don't have a love for it. If you let you're

642
00:38:03,320 --> 00:38:13,000
Speaker 3: off the court persona affect you and your team Sean Morant,

643
00:38:13,440 --> 00:38:18,840
Speaker 3: then you don't love it. You can't think about someone

644
00:38:18,880 --> 00:38:21,160
Speaker 3: coming into your house and taking something you love away.

645
00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:24,400
Speaker 3: You do anything to keep it, You do anything to

646
00:38:24,440 --> 00:38:29,120
Speaker 3: get it back. Correct. Yep, this is what I'm talking about.

647
00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:35,360
Speaker 3: As a professional athlete, you have to go to another

648
00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:39,760
Speaker 3: level mentally in terms of how you prepare, the things

649
00:38:39,760 --> 00:38:43,279
Speaker 3: you're willing to sacrifice, and the things you're willing to

650
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Speaker 3: do to continue to do the thing that you love.

651
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Speaker 3: Don't tell me you love it and you can't keep it.

652
00:38:52,719 --> 00:38:59,920
Speaker 3: That's not love. It goes for the same relationships. A man,

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Speaker 3: I love this girl, but you don't do what.

654
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Speaker 2: You don't do the things that come on.

655
00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:05,560
Speaker 6: Man.

656
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Speaker 1: All right, So I got three players then, and are

657
00:39:08,760 --> 00:39:13,600
Speaker 1: you telling me that the careers for Ben Simmons, John Moran,

658
00:39:13,840 --> 00:39:17,480
Speaker 1: and Zion Williamson are are dust?

659
00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:20,120
Speaker 3: They don't love it? Now, can they get it? They're

660
00:39:20,120 --> 00:39:24,560
Speaker 3: all young, even Ben Simmons young. There's a lot there's

661
00:39:24,560 --> 00:39:29,719
Speaker 3: a mental aspect of this game that the big time, right,

662
00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:32,560
Speaker 3: the more money, a lot younger you are. It's hard

663
00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:38,960
Speaker 3: to connect those things. So there there. That's why a

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Speaker 3: foundation and and you know, a good core, uh, you know,

665
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Speaker 3: a good you know organization, and we're always talking about

666
00:39:52,239 --> 00:39:54,600
Speaker 3: you know, Miami and the culture they have. All of

667
00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:59,759
Speaker 3: that matters. When you have a young, you know, well

668
00:39:59,800 --> 00:40:03,440
Speaker 3: paid a star, sometimes you have to help them with

669
00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:06,600
Speaker 3: the focus and explain. Have that same conversation I just

670
00:40:06,640 --> 00:40:09,680
Speaker 3: had about love. If you love something, this it right,

671
00:40:10,280 --> 00:40:11,880
Speaker 3: it's not Does you show up to the gym and

672
00:40:11,920 --> 00:40:13,680
Speaker 3: you roll the ball out there? You go shoot?

673
00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:17,960
Speaker 1: No? No? But finding it? Finding something like that if

674
00:40:18,000 --> 00:40:21,120
Speaker 1: it's not organic, all right? Brother, that that is a

675
00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:24,960
Speaker 1: difficult thing to do. Speaking of difficult things to do,

676
00:40:25,200 --> 00:40:27,240
Speaker 1: baseball hasn't been doing it for years.

677
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Speaker 2: We got to figure it out. Next.

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Speaker 1: Hey from we got a situation and we got to

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Speaker 1: There's a few different angles here. But if I asked you,

691
00:41:12,760 --> 00:41:15,120
Speaker 1: or if one of your sons big sports players, and

692
00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:20,920
Speaker 1: I know they love to play baseball, Hey, dad, would

693
00:41:20,960 --> 00:41:21,560
Speaker 1: you come.

694
00:41:21,440 --> 00:41:24,960
Speaker 2: Up to my room and explain to me what a

695
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:28,839
Speaker 2: back is? Go ahead?

696
00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:32,680
Speaker 3: What are you gonna say to him? Well, son, it's

697
00:41:32,719 --> 00:41:37,240
Speaker 3: one of per starts but doesn't finish his pitching motion.

698
00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:38,839
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.

699
00:41:40,000 --> 00:41:45,120
Speaker 3: And the hitter is awarded first base.

700
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Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna give you like a d on

701
00:41:50,200 --> 00:41:55,040
Speaker 1: your because the hitter is not awarded a damn thing.

702
00:41:55,840 --> 00:41:59,000
Speaker 1: But any base runner is allowed to move up, is

703
00:41:59,080 --> 00:42:02,720
Speaker 1: about to move up. And actually, there are so many

704
00:42:02,800 --> 00:42:05,799
Speaker 1: idio secrecies of a balk, like you're right if you

705
00:42:05,840 --> 00:42:07,680
Speaker 1: start your wind up and stop, that's one of them.

706
00:42:07,680 --> 00:42:11,480
Speaker 1: But the much more common one is, let's say you

707
00:42:11,520 --> 00:42:14,280
Speaker 1: throw over the first base as a left handed pitcher,

708
00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:17,400
Speaker 1: but the front part of your body also moves toward

709
00:42:17,480 --> 00:42:20,759
Speaker 1: home plate. In other words, you're trying to runner at

710
00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:24,600
Speaker 1: first right. But there's a hundred different ways to call

711
00:42:24,640 --> 00:42:27,160
Speaker 1: a balk, and the ones we actually get a deep

712
00:42:28,560 --> 00:42:32,320
Speaker 1: ahead because it was just wrong, man, Like you just

713
00:42:32,320 --> 00:42:34,279
Speaker 1: just since your son, your son's gonna be at the

714
00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:35,839
Speaker 1: plate and he's gonna be like you called a balk.

715
00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:38,880
Speaker 1: I'm going to first get your bought back here to

716
00:42:38,920 --> 00:42:44,880
Speaker 1: the batter's box man. But anyway, boy being is I

717
00:42:44,920 --> 00:42:48,560
Speaker 1: thought baseball was all about the fans this year, aren't

718
00:42:48,600 --> 00:42:56,720
Speaker 1: you pitchclock? No more shift, Let's get the young people involved.

719
00:42:58,200 --> 00:43:01,920
Speaker 1: But oh, by the way, let's break seven to seven

720
00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:08,440
Speaker 1: ties at Dodger Stadium with somebody's butt flinching completely accidentally

721
00:43:09,200 --> 00:43:12,880
Speaker 1: call time, send the winning run home, and have everybody

722
00:43:12,880 --> 00:43:15,319
Speaker 1: looking at each other like what happened? I don't know.

723
00:43:15,840 --> 00:43:16,640
Speaker 2: I don't know, Bob.

724
00:43:16,680 --> 00:43:18,920
Speaker 1: We're gonna have to go online later and find out

725
00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:21,880
Speaker 1: what the hell just happened. At meantime, the pitcher is

726
00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:24,120
Speaker 1: screaming bloody murder out on the field.

727
00:43:24,640 --> 00:43:26,240
Speaker 2: Here's what I'm getting at, Ephraim.

728
00:43:27,040 --> 00:43:29,920
Speaker 1: Add In those two plays at the plate, one that

729
00:43:30,160 --> 00:43:33,200
Speaker 1: hosed Texas, the other one that hosed the San Diego

730
00:43:33,360 --> 00:43:37,600
Speaker 1: Padres this week, where guys were out dead to rights,

731
00:43:37,640 --> 00:43:41,160
Speaker 1: but reviews suddenly called them safe because catchers were not

732
00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:45,560
Speaker 1: allowed to stand where catchers absolutely have to stand. Add

733
00:43:45,600 --> 00:43:48,840
Speaker 1: it all together, and the robo strike zone in the

734
00:43:48,880 --> 00:43:49,560
Speaker 1: minor leagues.

735
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Speaker 2: I think I am this close.

736
00:43:52,960 --> 00:43:56,720
Speaker 1: I am ready for the end of the human element

737
00:43:57,520 --> 00:44:02,600
Speaker 1: when it comes to this particular sport. Take it away, God,

738
00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:05,040
Speaker 1: I don't need it.

739
00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:06,959
Speaker 2: It's the easiest sport to call.

740
00:44:07,160 --> 00:44:13,600
Speaker 1: Can we agree on that? Yeah, you played football. That

741
00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:19,239
Speaker 1: feels harder to me to find out what somebody on

742
00:44:19,320 --> 00:44:23,040
Speaker 1: every play. There's something at multiple levels of the field.

743
00:44:24,480 --> 00:44:28,799
Speaker 1: If you ask people what do they watch, you know,

744
00:44:28,880 --> 00:44:31,520
Speaker 1: as the play is going, and you get ten different answers.

745
00:44:32,200 --> 00:44:36,880
Speaker 3: Lie severs, quarterback or defense. There's so many elements you

746
00:44:36,960 --> 00:44:42,080
Speaker 3: can watch on any given play. Yeah, I mean, it's

747
00:44:42,120 --> 00:44:45,000
Speaker 3: almost impossible to really truly officiate.

748
00:44:44,440 --> 00:44:49,279
Speaker 1: It, right, Right, But and basketball, my gosh, same thing,

749
00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:56,800
Speaker 1: right man, sing Baseball is moving at a much lower pace.

750
00:44:56,920 --> 00:45:04,840
Speaker 1: Plus its calls are largely factor fiction, therefore reviewable. Whose

751
00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:10,359
Speaker 1: foot hit the base first, let's review right, It's not

752
00:45:10,480 --> 00:45:14,440
Speaker 1: like pass interference, So to me, this is the easiest

753
00:45:14,480 --> 00:45:18,120
Speaker 1: one to do. Yet I end up more frustrated by

754
00:45:18,320 --> 00:45:22,640
Speaker 1: umpiring when watching that sport than any other sport. Part

755
00:45:22,640 --> 00:45:25,360
Speaker 1: of it is their attitude. I don't know why umpires

756
00:45:25,360 --> 00:45:28,239
Speaker 1: have decided they're the top of the totem pole. You're

757
00:45:28,239 --> 00:45:30,920
Speaker 1: not even allowed to speak to them, They pull that

758
00:45:31,120 --> 00:45:34,120
Speaker 1: mask off and look at you like you're their child.

759
00:45:34,640 --> 00:45:38,759
Speaker 1: How dare you? How dare you question my strike zone?

760
00:45:38,840 --> 00:45:42,360
Speaker 1: Even though there's a box on television and everyone watching

761
00:45:42,480 --> 00:45:45,560
Speaker 1: knows I just messed up, But how dare you even

762
00:45:45,640 --> 00:45:50,480
Speaker 1: speak to me about it? Player? You're a here, Oh gosh,

763
00:45:50,520 --> 00:45:55,560
Speaker 1: get over yourselves. So there's that. But secondly, and I

764
00:45:55,560 --> 00:45:58,400
Speaker 1: don't know if it's just because review is newest in

765
00:45:58,520 --> 00:46:01,320
Speaker 1: this sport, it feels like like they mess it up more.

766
00:46:01,840 --> 00:46:04,720
Speaker 1: Even when they send it off to New York, somebody,

767
00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:08,799
Speaker 1: some nameless, faceless person pipes back into a microphone. Oh

768
00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:12,840
Speaker 1: he's safe, And then they come out and he's safe,

769
00:46:12,880 --> 00:46:14,920
Speaker 1: and you're like, we've been watching it for five minutes,

770
00:46:14,960 --> 00:46:15,799
Speaker 1: he's out.

771
00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:17,000
Speaker 2: What do you mean he's safe?

772
00:46:17,560 --> 00:46:23,279
Speaker 1: So what are we really getting other than the way

773
00:46:23,320 --> 00:46:27,480
Speaker 1: we've always done it? And some sort of romanticism of

774
00:46:27,520 --> 00:46:29,279
Speaker 1: an overweight person yelling.

775
00:46:29,000 --> 00:46:34,279
Speaker 2: Strike like, sorry, I'm not trying to fat shape anybody.

776
00:46:33,960 --> 00:46:35,560
Speaker 3: But you know what I'm saying, like you are trying

777
00:46:35,600 --> 00:46:38,560
Speaker 3: to fat shape someone. I mean, I don't know how

778
00:46:38,560 --> 00:46:40,759
Speaker 3: to talk about pipe. I don't know what overweight had

779
00:46:40,760 --> 00:46:43,000
Speaker 3: to do anything. You just say it I'm just saying

780
00:46:44,640 --> 00:46:46,759
Speaker 3: I'm the type of friend that I'm gonna call you

781
00:46:46,840 --> 00:46:48,560
Speaker 3: on it. I don't I don't know what that was.

782
00:46:49,560 --> 00:46:51,920
Speaker 1: It's just it's just I just said it. Okay, it

783
00:46:51,920 --> 00:46:54,879
Speaker 1: didn't mean it. But that's that. That is an extraneous

784
00:46:54,920 --> 00:46:59,000
Speaker 1: part of this conversation. I don't know what we're getting

785
00:47:00,080 --> 00:47:04,719
Speaker 1: from the umpire being on the field anymore.

786
00:47:09,560 --> 00:47:14,759
Speaker 3: What are we getting the human element? I don't want that.

787
00:47:14,920 --> 00:47:15,560
Speaker 3: You don't want it.

788
00:47:16,360 --> 00:47:19,080
Speaker 2: Why would I want? What is that doing for us?

789
00:47:20,960 --> 00:47:21,920
Speaker 3: Nothing's perfect?

790
00:47:23,520 --> 00:47:25,200
Speaker 1: Uh, that's totally true.

791
00:47:26,480 --> 00:47:29,239
Speaker 3: That's totally we should have robots playing the game.

792
00:47:29,280 --> 00:47:33,040
Speaker 1: Then well, no, now that's not what I'm talking about

793
00:47:33,080 --> 00:47:35,839
Speaker 1: at all, because that would that would suggest and this

794
00:47:35,880 --> 00:47:38,240
Speaker 1: is actually part of the problem that we're all here

795
00:47:38,280 --> 00:47:42,319
Speaker 1: to see the umpires and we're not or we're here

796
00:47:42,320 --> 00:47:43,160
Speaker 1: to see the players.

797
00:47:49,120 --> 00:47:55,239
Speaker 3: I get it, man, but I get it. I understand. Yeah,

798
00:47:55,640 --> 00:48:02,800
Speaker 3: but there's an element to that that, you know, heightens

799
00:48:02,840 --> 00:48:03,920
Speaker 3: the excitement of it.

800
00:48:07,280 --> 00:48:13,040
Speaker 2: No, it does. I mean, do you even believe what

801
00:48:13,040 --> 00:48:13,960
Speaker 2: you're saying right now?

802
00:48:15,640 --> 00:48:16,040
Speaker 1: Okay?

803
00:48:17,520 --> 00:48:19,080
Speaker 2: I just I don't know. Man.

804
00:48:19,360 --> 00:48:22,400
Speaker 1: The whole thing feels off to me. The minor leagues

805
00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:25,720
Speaker 1: are already doing robo MPs. I think there are issues

806
00:48:25,760 --> 00:48:27,680
Speaker 1: with that too. We knew that there would be. That's

807
00:48:27,680 --> 00:48:30,799
Speaker 1: why they're trying to get the bugs out at the

808
00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:33,840
Speaker 1: minor league level. But even even the box on TV

809
00:48:35,239 --> 00:48:40,280
Speaker 1: is problematic. I think is very difficult on viewers because

810
00:48:40,480 --> 00:48:43,400
Speaker 1: even though I'm saying what I'm saying, I also understand

811
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Speaker 1: you can't ask human.

812
00:48:44,800 --> 00:48:46,400
Speaker 2: Beings to not be human.

813
00:48:47,000 --> 00:48:51,279
Speaker 1: So I don't become furious at my television set, or

814
00:48:51,320 --> 00:48:54,120
Speaker 1: I try not to when the ball is one inch

815
00:48:54,160 --> 00:48:57,640
Speaker 1: outside the box and the umpire calls a strike, or

816
00:48:57,640 --> 00:49:00,319
Speaker 1: if it's one inch inside the box and the pier

817
00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:03,600
Speaker 1: calls a ball, I try not to get upset because

818
00:49:03,640 --> 00:49:06,200
Speaker 1: I'm like, y'all realize them can't see the box, right,

819
00:49:06,640 --> 00:49:09,000
Speaker 1: But I sit there with people, and if it goes

820
00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:13,400
Speaker 1: against my team, I'm no different. It drives you insane

821
00:49:14,560 --> 00:49:18,040
Speaker 1: because we can see the box, and every time there's

822
00:49:18,040 --> 00:49:21,319
Speaker 1: a close one, you get that replay. Here comes the ball,

823
00:49:21,400 --> 00:49:23,560
Speaker 1: the little picture and it's like boop, there's the spot

824
00:49:23,600 --> 00:49:25,560
Speaker 1: that it hit up. No, it wasn't a strike, but

825
00:49:25,880 --> 00:49:29,400
Speaker 1: your favorite hitters walking to the dugout. It drives you crazy.

826
00:49:29,840 --> 00:49:32,239
Speaker 1: So if we're gonna have that kind of technology, I

827
00:49:32,320 --> 00:49:33,640
Speaker 1: just feel like we should use it.

828
00:49:33,719 --> 00:49:38,200
Speaker 3: That's all it makes sense. I mean, you know, it's

829
00:49:38,239 --> 00:49:43,240
Speaker 3: all about getting it right. And I think that's that's

830
00:49:43,280 --> 00:49:46,120
Speaker 3: the most compelling part of what you're saying, is because

831
00:49:46,200 --> 00:49:48,920
Speaker 3: that's what sport is about. Sport is about get you know,

832
00:49:49,000 --> 00:49:52,400
Speaker 3: competing at the highest level and not letting, not letting

833
00:49:52,400 --> 00:49:56,560
Speaker 3: the wrong call affect the outcome of a game, which

834
00:49:56,600 --> 00:49:59,920
Speaker 3: athletes can't take. Neither can betting fan.

835
00:50:02,200 --> 00:50:04,880
Speaker 2: Oh, I mean it neither could regular fans.

836
00:50:05,160 --> 00:50:07,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, but when you get honey on the line, there's

837
00:50:07,680 --> 00:50:08,680
Speaker 3: a whole whole level.

838
00:50:09,520 --> 00:50:11,120
Speaker 2: Yeah. But that can help you as much as it

839
00:50:11,120 --> 00:50:11,640
Speaker 2: can hurt you.

840
00:50:13,239 --> 00:50:14,640
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true.

841
00:50:14,520 --> 00:50:17,160
Speaker 1: You know what I mean, that can go your way too.

842
00:50:17,520 --> 00:50:21,919
Speaker 1: And life as breaks. I understand that. I'm not trying

843
00:50:21,960 --> 00:50:26,560
Speaker 1: to remove the idea of breaks. I understand that completely,

844
00:50:27,040 --> 00:50:31,080
Speaker 1: But I just think the whole picture needs to be

845
00:50:31,320 --> 00:50:34,359
Speaker 1: adjusted in some way. And in the effort to come

846
00:50:34,440 --> 00:50:37,000
Speaker 1: up with some new rules that are either for fan

847
00:50:37,120 --> 00:50:42,120
Speaker 1: interest or for safety, we've kind of we've kind of

848
00:50:42,200 --> 00:50:44,279
Speaker 1: lost our way. Like I'll give you an example of

849
00:50:44,320 --> 00:50:47,440
Speaker 1: one that happened a few years ago, which is, you know,

850
00:50:47,520 --> 00:50:51,120
Speaker 1: once we got replaying baseball, let's say a runner is

851
00:50:51,120 --> 00:50:54,920
Speaker 1: stealing second base. Well, the human body at full speed

852
00:50:54,960 --> 00:50:58,960
Speaker 1: then goes into a slide and it hits this inanimate

853
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:03,279
Speaker 1: object on the ground, this white base, and invariably, when

854
00:51:03,320 --> 00:51:05,879
Speaker 1: your legs go over the top of it, because you're

855
00:51:05,920 --> 00:51:09,799
Speaker 1: running at full speed, there is a split second where

856
00:51:09,840 --> 00:51:13,719
Speaker 1: your body is no longer in contact with the base. Well,

857
00:51:13,760 --> 00:51:17,560
Speaker 1: infielders learned, well, just put the tag on, even if

858
00:51:17,560 --> 00:51:20,799
Speaker 1: it's late, but keep the tag on through the whole

859
00:51:20,800 --> 00:51:21,760
Speaker 1: process of the play.

860
00:51:22,520 --> 00:51:26,560
Speaker 2: And guys are getting called out because their.

861
00:51:25,760 --> 00:51:29,560
Speaker 1: Body is bouncing, as if there's anything anybody can do

862
00:51:29,640 --> 00:51:32,839
Speaker 1: about that, right, And then I don't know if did

863
00:51:32,840 --> 00:51:34,920
Speaker 1: you see either of these plays I'm talking about with

864
00:51:34,960 --> 00:51:37,520
Speaker 1: these plays at the plate? Did you see the Giants

865
00:51:37,560 --> 00:51:44,560
Speaker 1: Padres game on Wednesday night? No, Holy smokes, bro, Fernando

866
00:51:44,640 --> 00:51:47,400
Speaker 1: Tatis throws a guy out at the plate, and I

867
00:51:47,480 --> 00:51:49,520
Speaker 1: mean the ball was waiting for him when he was

868
00:51:49,560 --> 00:51:53,320
Speaker 1: about a step past halfway home and he just runs

869
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Speaker 1: into the tag, slides by the base because there's nowhere

870
00:51:57,280 --> 00:52:01,120
Speaker 1: for him to go, and he ever touched his home plate.

871
00:52:01,800 --> 00:52:04,960
Speaker 1: I'm at a restaurant, ephrom My sisters in town were

872
00:52:04,960 --> 00:52:07,759
Speaker 1: having dinner and we're watching the game, and I'm a

873
00:52:07,800 --> 00:52:12,160
Speaker 1: Giants fan, but we're watching with no sound. All of

874
00:52:12,200 --> 00:52:15,280
Speaker 1: a sudden, this guy is out by a country mile.

875
00:52:16,080 --> 00:52:18,120
Speaker 1: All right, let me just go back to our meal.

876
00:52:18,640 --> 00:52:20,680
Speaker 1: Next thing you know, they come back from commercial. People

877
00:52:20,719 --> 00:52:24,520
Speaker 1: are talking on the field. Stuff's going on. People have

878
00:52:24,600 --> 00:52:27,799
Speaker 1: headsets on. Giants were up one nothing at the start

879
00:52:27,840 --> 00:52:29,879
Speaker 1: of the play. Next thing you know, I look up,

880
00:52:30,200 --> 00:52:31,040
Speaker 1: it's two to nothing.

881
00:52:31,640 --> 00:52:32,760
Speaker 2: Well, what the hell happened?

882
00:52:33,400 --> 00:52:37,680
Speaker 1: Well, it turns out catcher Gary Sanchez was you know,

883
00:52:37,920 --> 00:52:40,520
Speaker 1: standing in front of the plate because that's where the

884
00:52:40,520 --> 00:52:44,320
Speaker 1: ball was thrown, and he caught it five seconds before

885
00:52:44,360 --> 00:52:46,919
Speaker 1: he needed to tags the guy out. But we got

886
00:52:46,920 --> 00:52:51,200
Speaker 1: this new rule, so we uncork the entire spirit of

887
00:52:51,239 --> 00:52:55,200
Speaker 1: the game and give the Giants a run, and they

888
00:52:55,200 --> 00:52:57,959
Speaker 1: would go on to get two more in that inning

889
00:52:58,080 --> 00:52:59,919
Speaker 1: and won the baseball game.

890
00:53:01,280 --> 00:53:04,680
Speaker 2: That's your human element.

891
00:53:08,680 --> 00:53:12,840
Speaker 3: My human Yeah, take it out of again.

892
00:53:14,000 --> 00:53:18,000
Speaker 2: I was like, those humans messed the heck up? Is

893
00:53:18,040 --> 00:53:18,720
Speaker 2: what happened?

894
00:53:20,640 --> 00:53:23,560
Speaker 3: Well, let's just make AI take over everything. Okay, already

895
00:53:23,600 --> 00:53:28,360
Speaker 3: trying to replace perfect perfect. Maybe they could do this show. No,

896
00:53:28,480 --> 00:53:30,840
Speaker 3: I ain't gonna do that. Yeah, I don't want to

897
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Speaker 3: do that.

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Speaker 1: All right, Coming up next, this might be near and

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Speaker 1: block form? What do you think of running backs?

915
00:54:25,200 --> 00:54:27,920
Speaker 3: Love them? Love them?

916
00:54:27,920 --> 00:54:28,200
Speaker 2: Okay?

917
00:54:28,920 --> 00:54:32,600
Speaker 3: Running backs made our jobs easier. It worked in tandem.

918
00:54:32,960 --> 00:54:35,560
Speaker 3: We made their jobs easier. They made our jobs easy.

919
00:54:37,480 --> 00:54:40,680
Speaker 3: When you can run the ball effectively, and I mean

920
00:54:40,760 --> 00:54:45,920
Speaker 3: really effective, you take the power away from the defense,

921
00:54:46,239 --> 00:54:48,920
Speaker 3: and that's what you're really used a power struggle. You

922
00:54:48,920 --> 00:54:56,000
Speaker 3: guys are fighting over yards inches, and if you if

923
00:54:56,040 --> 00:54:58,440
Speaker 3: you can take that power, if you can control that

924
00:54:58,600 --> 00:55:05,480
Speaker 3: power use of the ground game, I mean, you can

925
00:55:05,520 --> 00:55:10,319
Speaker 3: demoralize the team. Three things happen when you pass the ball,

926
00:55:10,360 --> 00:55:16,719
Speaker 3: and two of them are bad. So if you can

927
00:55:16,760 --> 00:55:22,600
Speaker 3: control the game on the ground, then you get to dictate, physically,

928
00:55:22,640 --> 00:55:27,520
Speaker 3: dictate and impose your will on your opponent. Think about it.

929
00:55:27,560 --> 00:55:30,960
Speaker 3: When I'm past blocking, I am backing up. I'm already

930
00:55:31,000 --> 00:55:36,160
Speaker 3: in a retreat motion. I'm backing up. My defender is

931
00:55:36,280 --> 00:55:39,560
Speaker 3: running at me full speed. They can see behind me.

932
00:55:39,719 --> 00:55:47,960
Speaker 3: I cannot. When I'm run blocking, I'm attacking. I'm firing

933
00:55:48,000 --> 00:55:52,240
Speaker 3: off the ball. I'm moving forward to gain the yard,

934
00:55:52,480 --> 00:55:58,680
Speaker 3: not backwards. So if you just look at it in

935
00:55:58,760 --> 00:56:04,680
Speaker 3: a physics way, which is more conducive, what would you

936
00:56:04,719 --> 00:56:07,960
Speaker 3: want to do more of you? And you need a

937
00:56:07,960 --> 00:56:11,000
Speaker 3: great running a good and great running back to be

938
00:56:11,160 --> 00:56:14,560
Speaker 3: able to do that. I've had the pleasure of blocking

939
00:56:14,600 --> 00:56:17,920
Speaker 3: for some great ones, Jamal Anderson, Clinton port Is, Fred Taylor,

940
00:56:18,960 --> 00:56:24,200
Speaker 3: you know Marian Foster. I've had the pleasure of really

941
00:56:24,480 --> 00:56:30,279
Speaker 3: blocking for some dynamic running backs. So I know what

942
00:56:30,400 --> 00:56:33,319
Speaker 3: a good running back does. I mean, I was with

943
00:56:33,360 --> 00:56:38,080
Speaker 3: Marshall in college Marshall Folk, what about a game changer?

944
00:56:38,880 --> 00:56:39,359
Speaker 1: M hmmm.

945
00:56:39,640 --> 00:56:42,160
Speaker 3: So to me as an offensive lineman, they hold it

946
00:56:42,239 --> 00:56:43,799
Speaker 3: up most value.

947
00:56:44,560 --> 00:56:49,200
Speaker 1: So what's interesting though, as a follow up question, is

948
00:56:50,000 --> 00:56:55,920
Speaker 1: when a running game is working, is it more the back.

949
00:56:56,760 --> 00:57:00,000
Speaker 2: Or is it more the system.

950
00:57:00,160 --> 00:57:05,480
Speaker 3: Uh, there's a combination of it. And and I'll explain

951
00:57:05,520 --> 00:57:09,880
Speaker 3: what that means. The system can get an if you

952
00:57:09,880 --> 00:57:12,680
Speaker 3: make it to the league, you're you can play. Okay, yeah,

953
00:57:12,760 --> 00:57:21,120
Speaker 3: there are no mistakes. Okay, some mistakes. The system can

954
00:57:21,160 --> 00:57:26,080
Speaker 3: allow you to have success. Now you put the ultra

955
00:57:26,240 --> 00:57:31,120
Speaker 3: talented in the right system and you get to real Davis. Now,

956
00:57:31,160 --> 00:57:37,440
Speaker 3: the Denver system was conducive to making a feasible running back. Good,

957
00:57:37,720 --> 00:57:43,560
Speaker 3: you're gonna get yards, right, Mike Anderson, I mean it

958
00:57:43,600 --> 00:57:48,360
Speaker 3: was it was. It was a host. You just Orlandos

959
00:57:48,360 --> 00:57:50,960
Speaker 3: Gary Right, good running backs. You can put them in

960
00:57:51,000 --> 00:57:55,520
Speaker 3: the right system. Boom, you got action. But you want

961
00:57:55,520 --> 00:57:57,560
Speaker 3: to go above them by you put Clinton Portis in

962
00:57:57,600 --> 00:58:00,920
Speaker 3: that system. You put to real days in that system.

963
00:58:00,960 --> 00:58:01,320
Speaker 4: Woof.

964
00:58:02,600 --> 00:58:02,800
Speaker 1: Right.

965
00:58:03,200 --> 00:58:06,280
Speaker 3: And I remember when I left Denver and I went

966
00:58:06,480 --> 00:58:11,439
Speaker 3: to Jacksonville and saw how dynamic Fred Taylor was. I said, brother,

967
00:58:11,480 --> 00:58:14,000
Speaker 3: if you was in that dinner system, you'd be rushed

968
00:58:14,000 --> 00:58:18,960
Speaker 3: for two thousand yards every year. That's the difference. That's

969
00:58:18,960 --> 00:58:21,920
Speaker 3: how I know what you know. I know what that is.

970
00:58:21,960 --> 00:58:24,720
Speaker 3: That question you ask, I know exactly what that is.

971
00:58:25,680 --> 00:58:30,280
Speaker 1: Well, I'm really curious about it because of the examples

972
00:58:30,320 --> 00:58:34,240
Speaker 1: that go in either direction, the one that's ringing in

973
00:58:34,240 --> 00:58:37,400
Speaker 1: my head right now and locally where I am.

974
00:58:37,960 --> 00:58:41,320
Speaker 2: You know, the forty nine ers were largely.

975
00:58:40,920 --> 00:58:43,440
Speaker 1: Made fun of when they made the deal for Christian

976
00:58:43,520 --> 00:58:49,120
Speaker 1: McCaffrey because of what they gave up. Oh oh gosh,

977
00:58:49,200 --> 00:58:51,040
Speaker 1: I could pull up all the stories where the forty

978
00:58:51,120 --> 00:58:53,840
Speaker 1: nine ers quote unquote paid too much for an injury

979
00:58:53,920 --> 00:58:57,840
Speaker 1: prone running back, which is a turn and burn position.

980
00:58:58,320 --> 00:59:02,040
Speaker 1: Kyle Shanahan can get produce activity out of someone else

981
00:59:02,120 --> 00:59:04,840
Speaker 1: for a lot cheaper, Okay, And then you saw it.

982
00:59:05,480 --> 00:59:06,760
Speaker 2: Then you saw it, and you went.

983
00:59:07,440 --> 00:59:15,280
Speaker 1: Oh oh, so they never lost another game.

984
00:59:16,760 --> 00:59:20,240
Speaker 2: Once he started starting until they got to the NFC.

985
00:59:20,400 --> 00:59:24,800
Speaker 1: Tod Now I get, okay, never mind, Christians amazing. And

986
00:59:24,840 --> 00:59:28,680
Speaker 1: then you put him in a system upgrade over what

987
00:59:28,720 --> 00:59:30,760
Speaker 1: he was doing before. And I'm not even saying the

988
00:59:30,800 --> 00:59:33,440
Speaker 1: previous one was bad, but when you put him in

989
00:59:33,440 --> 00:59:36,480
Speaker 1: a system upgrade, my god, second half of the year.

990
00:59:36,960 --> 00:59:38,760
Speaker 1: I thought that guy was the best player in the

991
00:59:38,880 --> 00:59:42,960
Speaker 1: NFL offensively, certainly among non quarterbacks.

992
00:59:43,520 --> 00:59:45,240
Speaker 2: So I get what you're saying.

993
00:59:45,880 --> 00:59:49,520
Speaker 1: The flip side to it, though, is at a position

994
00:59:49,560 --> 00:59:52,720
Speaker 1: where the NFL choose you up and spit you out.

995
00:59:52,760 --> 00:59:56,040
Speaker 1: And we already know this, And if you're after thirty,

996
00:59:56,400 --> 01:00:00,160
Speaker 1: forget it. But sometimes even when you approach thirty, let

997
01:00:00,240 --> 01:00:02,240
Speaker 1: me ask you about the name that's on my head

998
01:00:02,320 --> 01:00:08,800
Speaker 1: right now, Dalvin Cook. What do you think he still

999
01:00:08,880 --> 01:00:14,040
Speaker 1: has left? And how much does where he lands matter?

1000
01:00:16,360 --> 01:00:20,640
Speaker 3: First, I think he has a lot left and where

1001
01:00:20,680 --> 01:00:29,240
Speaker 3: he lands matters a whole bunch, because this is right,

1002
01:00:29,280 --> 01:00:36,320
Speaker 3: the evolution of running backs in your time in the

1003
01:00:36,440 --> 01:00:41,640
Speaker 3: league and all of that, and the devaluing of the position.

1004
01:00:44,600 --> 01:00:48,600
Speaker 3: I mean, everything is about. I mean, he's a game breaker.

1005
01:00:48,720 --> 01:00:52,320
Speaker 3: We've seen it, we've seen it, and I think he

1006
01:00:52,400 --> 01:00:54,360
Speaker 3: has a lot left in the tank. I think he

1007
01:00:54,440 --> 01:00:57,080
Speaker 3: needs to go to the right place. I think it's

1008
01:00:57,200 --> 01:00:58,200
Speaker 3: very important.

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01:00:58,920 --> 01:01:00,200
Speaker 1: Well, so why they give him up?

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01:01:05,720 --> 01:01:08,120
Speaker 3: I mean, do I have an answer for that? Because

1011
01:01:08,120 --> 01:01:10,040
Speaker 3: I don't think they should have given him up.

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01:01:10,840 --> 01:01:13,880
Speaker 1: Okay, and that's fair, and money is always a part

1013
01:01:13,880 --> 01:01:16,760
Speaker 1: of it. But Dalvin is not only is he not thirty,

1014
01:01:17,120 --> 01:01:20,360
Speaker 1: he's really not particularly close. He's twenty seven years old.

1015
01:01:21,320 --> 01:01:23,560
Speaker 1: He's twenty seven years old. And I get it when

1016
01:01:23,600 --> 01:01:26,800
Speaker 1: teams break off the running back. It is what the

1017
01:01:26,800 --> 01:01:29,320
Speaker 1: Panthers did with McCaffrey. It's like, look, if we're not

1018
01:01:29,400 --> 01:01:32,520
Speaker 1: winning right now, then what are we doing? Or maybe

1019
01:01:32,520 --> 01:01:35,280
Speaker 1: in the Vikings case, they feel like they could get

1020
01:01:35,360 --> 01:01:40,000
Speaker 1: similar production from a player for a lot less money.

1021
01:01:40,320 --> 01:01:44,200
Speaker 1: In Madison, the Dallas Cowboys felt like they had to

1022
01:01:44,240 --> 01:01:47,920
Speaker 1: pay Zeke. Now they're like, not only can we get

1023
01:01:47,920 --> 01:01:50,960
Speaker 1: the same we think we can get better production from

1024
01:01:51,320 --> 01:01:56,640
Speaker 1: Tony Pollard. That's always the way the wheel turns. But

1025
01:01:56,800 --> 01:02:02,760
Speaker 1: it feels like this happened fast. And normally when a

1026
01:02:02,800 --> 01:02:05,800
Speaker 1: team has that, okay, should we pay him? We kind

1027
01:02:05,840 --> 01:02:08,440
Speaker 1: of have to pay him. Okay, let's pay him. And

1028
01:02:08,480 --> 01:02:12,560
Speaker 1: they did with Dalvin. And all he's done is give

1029
01:02:12,600 --> 01:02:16,959
Speaker 1: you at minimum eleven hundred yards and minimum pretty good

1030
01:02:17,360 --> 01:02:23,400
Speaker 1: and pretty good durability position and and yep, four point

1031
01:02:23,480 --> 01:02:27,120
Speaker 1: four at the minimum yards per carry. That was last year,

1032
01:02:27,160 --> 01:02:30,000
Speaker 1: but the year prior four point seven, the year before that,

1033
01:02:30,560 --> 01:02:33,320
Speaker 1: my god, he was absolutely off the planet.

1034
01:02:33,400 --> 01:02:38,200
Speaker 3: We had a year where he's he's he gave you

1035
01:02:38,360 --> 01:02:40,000
Speaker 3: less than four yards.

1036
01:02:40,160 --> 01:02:47,160
Speaker 1: Year this this feels like Le'Veon bell light where you're

1037
01:02:47,360 --> 01:02:50,840
Speaker 1: you're going, Wait a minute, you guys. I played fantasy

1038
01:02:50,880 --> 01:02:55,040
Speaker 1: football and this guy's the best player in the damn league.

1039
01:02:55,160 --> 01:03:02,040
Speaker 1: And the team's like, that's nice, and the team usually

1040
01:03:03,080 --> 01:03:04,200
Speaker 1: ends up being right.

1041
01:03:09,400 --> 01:03:12,440
Speaker 3: Now. I don't think they're right in this case. Okay,

1042
01:03:12,800 --> 01:03:23,040
Speaker 3: I like that because when you have a talent like that, right,

1043
01:03:24,680 --> 01:03:30,680
Speaker 3: and you don't have a Hall of Fame quarterback, you

1044
01:03:30,680 --> 01:03:35,480
Speaker 3: don't have one of the elite quarterbacks that guy, then

1045
01:03:35,560 --> 01:03:41,200
Speaker 3: you need higher talent at other positions. You have it

1046
01:03:41,240 --> 01:03:46,080
Speaker 3: at receiver WHI Jefference one of the top, if not

1047
01:03:46,280 --> 01:03:50,120
Speaker 3: arguably the best receiver in the league, but you need

1048
01:03:50,160 --> 01:03:54,080
Speaker 3: to be able to offset that. You don't want teams

1049
01:03:54,160 --> 01:03:57,919
Speaker 3: to be able to just hone in on your guy.

1050
01:03:59,480 --> 01:04:01,720
Speaker 3: Kirk Cousin since is great, but he's not.

1051
01:04:04,040 --> 01:04:05,560
Speaker 6: The guy.

1052
01:04:06,360 --> 01:04:08,800
Speaker 3: So if you want to attack a team offensively, you

1053
01:04:08,880 --> 01:04:10,760
Speaker 3: want to be able to do it two prongs. You

1054
01:04:10,800 --> 01:04:15,640
Speaker 3: want to be able to do it landing by air.

1055
01:04:16,440 --> 01:04:20,160
Speaker 3: And I think when you take that weapon away, you're

1056
01:04:20,200 --> 01:04:29,800
Speaker 3: going to make it harder on Kirk Cousins, right, like

1057
01:04:30,040 --> 01:04:33,400
Speaker 3: you're gonna make it harder to get those yards down

1058
01:04:33,440 --> 01:04:38,360
Speaker 3: the field when you don't have to put eight in

1059
01:04:38,440 --> 01:04:44,360
Speaker 3: the box. That's a problem, that's a real thing. So

1060
01:04:44,400 --> 01:04:48,680
Speaker 3: I don't think they should have done that, and it'll

1061
01:04:48,720 --> 01:04:53,640
Speaker 3: be more difficult for them offensively moving forward.

1062
01:04:55,880 --> 01:04:59,280
Speaker 1: Well, you may have just brought up the reason why

1063
01:04:59,520 --> 01:05:03,919
Speaker 1: they did it, which we'll get to here in about ninety.

1064
01:05:03,600 --> 01:05:05,040
Speaker 2: Seconds or more.

1065
01:05:05,120 --> 01:05:07,160
Speaker 1: Because when we start hanging out with Steve, to say,

1066
01:05:07,360 --> 01:05:09,920
Speaker 1: it usually goes well, and then sometimes we hang out a.

1067
01:05:09,920 --> 01:05:10,720
Speaker 2: Little bit of Steve Gers.

1068
01:05:10,760 --> 01:05:13,160
Speaker 1: So I don't want to put a cap on it. Steve,

1069
01:05:13,200 --> 01:05:15,600
Speaker 1: all right, good, you say whatever you want to say.

1070
01:05:15,960 --> 01:05:18,680
Speaker 7: Who's counting the words? We're just having fun on the show.

1071
01:05:19,240 --> 01:05:21,800
Speaker 8: By the Sunday night ballgame at Dodger Stadium is going

1072
01:05:21,840 --> 01:05:23,800
Speaker 8: to the bottom of the ninth and La has come

1073
01:05:23,840 --> 01:05:26,400
Speaker 8: back in this one as well, three runs bottom of

1074
01:05:26,400 --> 01:05:28,080
Speaker 8: the eighth. They go to the ninth now with the

1075
01:05:28,200 --> 01:05:30,840
Speaker 8: four to four tie against Houston, which of course has

1076
01:05:30,840 --> 01:05:34,160
Speaker 8: been booed every night at Dodger Stadium. The Astros reliever

1077
01:05:34,280 --> 01:05:36,920
Speaker 8: that blew the lead tonight in the eighth, Rafio Montero,

1078
01:05:37,640 --> 01:05:40,440
Speaker 8: now as an era of seven point seven to six

1079
01:05:40,560 --> 01:05:43,440
Speaker 8: for the season. He gave up an RBI doubled Freddie

1080
01:05:43,440 --> 01:05:46,560
Speaker 8: Freeman that is his career hit number two thousand.

1081
01:05:46,640 --> 01:05:49,480
Speaker 7: He gave up the tying two run homer to Will Smith.

1082
01:05:49,200 --> 01:05:50,960
Speaker 8: For four going to the bottom of the ninth in

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Speaker 8: La Arizona is the first place team in the NLS

1084
01:05:53,560 --> 01:05:55,720
Speaker 8: two and a half games over the Giants after winning

1085
01:05:55,760 --> 01:05:58,280
Speaker 8: at San Francisco five to two. For the moment, the

1086
01:05:58,360 --> 01:06:01,640
Speaker 8: Dbacks are two and a half up on Washington and

1087
01:06:01,720 --> 01:06:05,000
Speaker 8: Colorado with wins in London Saint Louis seven to five

1088
01:06:05,080 --> 01:06:07,480
Speaker 8: over the Cubs. The loss to Marcus Stroman, who left

1089
01:06:07,520 --> 01:06:10,640
Speaker 8: with a blister. He's now nine to five Atlanta one again.

1090
01:06:10,680 --> 01:06:13,920
Speaker 8: The Braves record is fifty to twenty seven, seven to

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Speaker 8: sixth the final at Cincinnati, Matt Olson, who's batting two

1092
01:06:16,880 --> 01:06:19,520
Speaker 8: thirty six, hit his twenty fifth home run of the

1093
01:06:19,560 --> 01:06:21,919
Speaker 8: season that is tied for the major league lead. We're

1094
01:06:22,000 --> 01:06:24,960
Speaker 8: just shy of the midway point of the season. Miami

1095
01:06:25,000 --> 01:06:28,080
Speaker 8: two nothing winners against slumping Pittsburgh. Luisa Riaz of the

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01:06:28,120 --> 01:06:30,880
Speaker 8: Marlins went one for four, who is batting average dropped

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Speaker 8: to three ninety nine extra inning wins from Minnesota and Milwaukee.

1098
01:06:34,960 --> 01:06:37,400
Speaker 8: Philadelphia scored four in the bottom of the eighth to

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01:06:37,440 --> 01:06:40,640
Speaker 8: beat the Mets seven to six, Yankees five to three

1100
01:06:40,680 --> 01:06:43,520
Speaker 8: over Texas with three runs bottom of the eighth Florida

1101
01:06:43,600 --> 01:06:46,320
Speaker 8: Gators six home runs. Today, they stayed alive at the

1102
01:06:46,320 --> 01:06:49,840
Speaker 8: College World Series, beating up LSU twenty four to four,

1103
01:06:50,360 --> 01:06:52,880
Speaker 8: forcing a Game three of the best of three tomorrow.

1104
01:06:53,240 --> 01:06:57,000
Speaker 8: Fox TV is carrying a USFL semifinal Tonight. They have

1105
01:06:57,080 --> 01:06:59,920
Speaker 8: started the fourth quarter and at Birmingham it's the Stallion

1106
01:07:00,240 --> 01:07:03,800
Speaker 8: forty to thirteen over the New Orleans Breakers. By the way,

1107
01:07:03,840 --> 01:07:07,440
Speaker 8: about thirty or so of this year's NFL draft choices

1108
01:07:07,480 --> 01:07:10,479
Speaker 8: are still unsigned, but that means that about two hundred

1109
01:07:10,520 --> 01:07:13,520
Speaker 8: and thirty have signed, but the top three rookie quarterbacks

1110
01:07:13,520 --> 01:07:17,000
Speaker 8: are each still unsown. NASCAR has a four hundred at

1111
01:07:17,120 --> 01:07:19,880
Speaker 8: Nashville tonight. They're about three fourths of the way through it.

1112
01:07:20,280 --> 01:07:23,920
Speaker 8: Ross Chastain in the lead, Denny Hamlin is running second

1113
01:07:24,360 --> 01:07:27,680
Speaker 8: ke and Bradley won the Travelers Championship in Connecticut by

1114
01:07:27,720 --> 01:07:30,160
Speaker 8: three strokes. And a few weeks back we talked about

1115
01:07:30,240 --> 01:07:34,360
Speaker 8: on the lady side, Rose Zang from Stanford, where she

1116
01:07:34,480 --> 01:07:37,800
Speaker 8: just won her second straight individual NCAA title. She just

1117
01:07:37,880 --> 01:07:41,640
Speaker 8: turned twenty She recently won her pro debut. She just

1118
01:07:41,680 --> 01:07:45,080
Speaker 8: finished top ten in her first major ever. She moved

1119
01:07:45,160 --> 01:07:47,520
Speaker 8: up to a tie for eighth place, finishing only three

1120
01:07:47,600 --> 01:07:51,360
Speaker 8: shots back at the Women's PGA Final Round sixty seven.

1121
01:07:51,400 --> 01:07:54,280
Speaker 8: She's from southern California. She was named the world's top

1122
01:07:54,320 --> 01:07:57,280
Speaker 8: amateur in each of the last three years and in college.

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Speaker 8: This year at Stanford she won eight times in ten starts,

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01:08:00,720 --> 01:08:04,000
Speaker 8: breaking Tiger Wood Stanford record. She was the top ranked

1125
01:08:04,040 --> 01:08:06,840
Speaker 8: amateur golfer in the world for a record one hundred

1126
01:08:06,880 --> 01:08:10,760
Speaker 8: and forty one consecutive weeks. And now she's a pro.

1127
01:08:10,880 --> 01:08:12,920
Speaker 8: And for the weekend, she just earned two hundred and

1128
01:08:12,960 --> 01:08:16,599
Speaker 8: fifteen thousand dollars for her top ten finish. Apparently she's

1129
01:08:16,640 --> 01:08:19,080
Speaker 8: gonna play all the majors. US Women's Open is in

1130
01:08:19,160 --> 01:08:20,479
Speaker 8: two weeks at Pebble Beach.

1131
01:08:20,680 --> 01:08:21,080
Speaker 1: Back to you.

1132
01:08:22,000 --> 01:08:22,920
Speaker 2: Oh I love it.

1133
01:08:23,040 --> 01:08:29,519
Speaker 1: Say the name slow again, Rose Rose Zang Zang exactly cool.

1134
01:08:30,160 --> 01:08:31,599
Speaker 2: Yeah, she is something special.

1135
01:08:31,600 --> 01:08:34,360
Speaker 1: And then the other thing, guys, Steve was just bringing

1136
01:08:34,439 --> 01:08:36,360
Speaker 1: up that Dodger game that's going on right now.

1137
01:08:36,960 --> 01:08:39,479
Speaker 2: You know who's there, You know who's there with a

1138
01:08:39,560 --> 01:08:40,719
Speaker 2: real real good see.

1139
01:08:40,720 --> 01:08:42,600
Speaker 7: Oh I did see this puting.

1140
01:08:44,600 --> 01:08:54,000
Speaker 1: The newest wed to get remember of the Golden State Warriors. Yo, Chris,

1141
01:08:54,800 --> 01:08:58,520
Speaker 1: if I'm about to join a fan base that already

1142
01:08:58,640 --> 01:09:00,960
Speaker 1: hates me, like, dude, do what you want to do?

1143
01:09:00,960 --> 01:09:01,280
Speaker 10: Do you?

1144
01:09:01,640 --> 01:09:02,040
Speaker 2: Okay?

1145
01:09:03,040 --> 01:09:03,439
Speaker 3: Do you?

1146
01:09:04,760 --> 01:09:08,320
Speaker 1: If I'm about to join a fan base that's already

1147
01:09:08,479 --> 01:09:10,320
Speaker 1: looking at me with a stank.

1148
01:09:10,080 --> 01:09:15,240
Speaker 8: Eye, Well, I do recall when he was a slipper,

1149
01:09:15,800 --> 01:09:17,800
Speaker 8: he like threw out the first pitch and got booed

1150
01:09:17,800 --> 01:09:19,519
Speaker 8: when he was introduced because he had a gotlipper.

1151
01:09:19,760 --> 01:09:22,519
Speaker 1: Yeah, because he's a clipper, Yes, yes, I remember that.

1152
01:09:23,280 --> 01:09:25,679
Speaker 1: But dude, he's not wearing a Dodger hat. Is he

1153
01:09:25,720 --> 01:09:26,639
Speaker 1: is wearing a Dodger hat?

1154
01:09:26,680 --> 01:09:29,200
Speaker 8: I did not see a Dodger head Houston. I assume

1155
01:09:29,240 --> 01:09:31,679
Speaker 8: there's some sort of Houston connection here that I'm missing.

1156
01:09:31,840 --> 01:09:34,040
Speaker 1: Maybe. Yeah, if he wants to be an Astro fan,

1157
01:09:34,160 --> 01:09:37,920
Speaker 1: then then that's fine. But if I'm about to join

1158
01:09:37,960 --> 01:09:41,040
Speaker 1: a fan base that already doesn't like me, I might

1159
01:09:41,560 --> 01:09:45,200
Speaker 1: stay away from Dodger Stadium for I don't know, like

1160
01:09:45,240 --> 01:09:45,639
Speaker 1: a week.

1161
01:09:46,240 --> 01:09:48,760
Speaker 8: Yeah, his hat went backwards, but it was not a

1162
01:09:49,120 --> 01:09:52,240
Speaker 8: Dodger blue hat, o car more like dark blue.

1163
01:09:56,000 --> 01:10:00,599
Speaker 1: Oh boy, this is gonna be something else. There's gonna

1164
01:10:00,600 --> 01:10:01,280
Speaker 1: be something else.

1165
01:10:01,439 --> 01:10:04,880
Speaker 3: To see if he actually plays I still have Yeah.

1166
01:10:04,960 --> 01:10:09,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's now. I'm telling you. Now, people people who

1167
01:10:09,200 --> 01:10:12,120
Speaker 1: I know here who are like dialed, you know how

1168
01:10:12,160 --> 01:10:16,800
Speaker 1: it is like dial not me dialed. They're like, Chris

1169
01:10:16,800 --> 01:10:18,920
Speaker 1: Paul is here to play, here to play basketball for

1170
01:10:18,960 --> 01:10:31,559
Speaker 1: the Warriors, and what capacity assistant GM capacity? A lot

1171
01:10:31,560 --> 01:10:33,760
Speaker 1: of pride, A lot of pride going on.

1172
01:10:34,080 --> 01:10:36,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, no doubt.

1173
01:10:36,960 --> 01:10:40,080
Speaker 1: I got the same questions you have, man, I got

1174
01:10:40,120 --> 01:10:41,439
Speaker 1: the same questions you have.

1175
01:10:42,120 --> 01:10:45,679
Speaker 2: And and you know people were always a leader. Yes,

1176
01:10:45,800 --> 01:10:47,400
Speaker 2: he's a leader. He's a veteran.

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01:10:47,640 --> 01:10:52,519
Speaker 1: He's also the kind of leader who has has gone

1178
01:10:52,560 --> 01:10:57,160
Speaker 1: way overboard at times. Go ask play Griffin how his

1179
01:10:57,200 --> 01:11:04,640
Speaker 1: relationship was with Chris Paul. Yes, a lot of play yep. So,

1180
01:11:06,120 --> 01:11:10,720
Speaker 1: like I'm with you, that's not welcome here in that

1181
01:11:10,840 --> 01:11:16,040
Speaker 1: locker room because they've already got that guy. They've already

1182
01:11:16,120 --> 01:11:20,600
Speaker 1: got that guy, and apparently that guy doesn't like him,

1183
01:11:20,640 --> 01:11:23,360
Speaker 1: so then again, maybe they don't have that guy.

1184
01:11:23,880 --> 01:11:28,559
Speaker 3: He's a free agent agent. Here's a free agent himself

1185
01:11:28,560 --> 01:11:29,160
Speaker 3: in LA.

1186
01:11:30,520 --> 01:11:34,160
Speaker 1: Not going to l A although although I know.

1187
01:11:35,960 --> 01:11:39,280
Speaker 2: You know he's eating croissants in France.

1188
01:11:38,920 --> 01:11:44,320
Speaker 1: With they got matching bucket hats.

1189
01:11:46,360 --> 01:11:48,479
Speaker 2: You think they went into a souvenir shop.

1190
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Speaker 3: Man, best.

1191
01:11:54,400 --> 01:11:57,200
Speaker 1: Anybody in here speak English, because we need ourselves some

1192
01:11:57,280 --> 01:11:58,720
Speaker 1: matching bucket hats.

1193
01:12:00,040 --> 01:12:03,280
Speaker 3: Can say to be like us if we're we're over there, man,

1194
01:12:03,880 --> 01:12:06,479
Speaker 3: oh yeah, yeah, we like.

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01:12:06,920 --> 01:12:09,240
Speaker 1: We're gonna need our croissants to be the exact same

1196
01:12:09,320 --> 01:12:13,000
Speaker 1: size because we would like them to match before we

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01:12:13,120 --> 01:12:15,040
Speaker 1: devour them.

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Speaker 2: We're in the Tyraq dot com studios.

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Speaker 1: Okay, did you did you stumble upon the reason why

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01:12:22,479 --> 01:12:26,839
Speaker 1: the Vikings gave up on Dalvincook? And is it because

1201
01:12:26,840 --> 01:12:29,680
Speaker 1: of one of the other players on the roster. More

1202
01:12:29,760 --> 01:12:32,120
Speaker 1: on that coming up in just a sec right here

1203
01:12:32,120 --> 01:12:38,760
Speaker 1: on Fox Sports Radio. All right, we're live in the

1204
01:12:38,800 --> 01:12:43,000
Speaker 1: Tirak dot com studios with Everom Salama, Mark Wetherd.

1205
01:12:44,000 --> 01:12:46,920
Speaker 2: I mean it's about Justin Jefferson, isn't it. You mentioned it?

1206
01:12:47,600 --> 01:12:52,599
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's great, you know, like it's it's contract extension time.

1207
01:12:53,520 --> 01:12:57,479
Speaker 1: And as far as the offensive side of the ball

1208
01:12:57,640 --> 01:13:02,360
Speaker 1: in the NFL right now, and I don't know if

1209
01:13:02,360 --> 01:13:07,080
Speaker 1: there's a player out there, certainly non quarterback, who I'm

1210
01:13:07,120 --> 01:13:11,679
Speaker 1: more excited about than Justin Jefferson. You know, you talk

1211
01:13:11,720 --> 01:13:18,200
Speaker 1: about game changer, So that's that's why, that's why you

1212
01:13:18,280 --> 01:13:18,960
Speaker 1: do what you do.

1213
01:13:19,479 --> 01:13:21,360
Speaker 2: And and you can.

1214
01:13:21,200 --> 01:13:23,479
Speaker 1: Call it a bad decision, and maybe it will be,

1215
01:13:24,240 --> 01:13:27,679
Speaker 1: but maybe they could have looked for a different place

1216
01:13:28,880 --> 01:13:32,360
Speaker 1: to uh to find the money. But the bottom line

1217
01:13:32,520 --> 01:13:35,240
Speaker 1: is is if I asked you the same conversation we

1218
01:13:35,240 --> 01:13:38,720
Speaker 1: were having ten minutes ago about Dalvin Cook, and I said, well,

1219
01:13:38,760 --> 01:13:42,519
Speaker 1: what if it does come down to choice A or

1220
01:13:42,600 --> 01:13:46,080
Speaker 1: choice B, you can only have one on your team,

1221
01:13:46,200 --> 01:13:48,760
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook or Justin Jefferson. What are you doing?

1222
01:13:49,600 --> 01:13:53,360
Speaker 3: Oh, you got to take you know, Justin Jefferson.

1223
01:13:53,280 --> 01:13:57,679
Speaker 2: Justin Jefferson, right right? So I think that's what that was, right.

1224
01:13:58,160 --> 01:13:59,920
Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know about that though.

1225
01:14:03,200 --> 01:14:05,280
Speaker 1: I don't know that's gone. That's gonna be a big

1226
01:14:05,280 --> 01:14:06,040
Speaker 1: old extension.

1227
01:14:06,040 --> 01:14:06,200
Speaker 5: Man.

1228
01:14:06,280 --> 01:14:09,320
Speaker 1: The wide receiver money has gone crazy the last two years.

1229
01:14:09,320 --> 01:14:13,000
Speaker 3: It's crazy. It's crazy. But are they doing it this

1230
01:14:13,160 --> 01:14:14,639
Speaker 3: offseason or Knicks?

1231
01:14:15,040 --> 01:14:18,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, this it's time.

1232
01:14:19,960 --> 01:14:25,519
Speaker 1: That that drift class Jefferson, Nick Bosa, it's time. It's

1233
01:14:25,520 --> 01:14:28,320
Speaker 1: gonna be like, that's gonna be like this is a

1234
01:14:28,400 --> 01:14:31,720
Speaker 1: calm before the storm. NBA free agency is gonna do

1235
01:14:31,800 --> 01:14:33,960
Speaker 1: its thing for the next few weeks. But I think

1236
01:14:34,400 --> 01:14:38,479
Speaker 1: when you get to August right deadline spur action or

1237
01:14:38,520 --> 01:14:41,120
Speaker 1: people showing up to camp as somebody holding out all

1238
01:14:41,120 --> 01:14:43,960
Speaker 1: of a sudden, that's a surprise. That's what you'll you'll see.

1239
01:14:44,479 --> 01:14:50,519
Speaker 1: That's when you'll see Bosa and Justin Jefferson and you

1240
01:14:50,560 --> 01:14:52,120
Speaker 1: know they're they're a handful more.

1241
01:14:52,240 --> 01:14:55,920
Speaker 3: Do you do it at a time when you could

1242
01:14:57,280 --> 01:15:02,519
Speaker 3: take hold of of of the division? You see what

1243
01:15:02,600 --> 01:15:15,120
Speaker 3: I'm saying, like I'm trying to figure out, Like I'm like, Okay,

1244
01:15:15,360 --> 01:15:21,519
Speaker 3: you have the best quarterback in the division, so let's

1245
01:15:21,560 --> 01:15:26,840
Speaker 3: make a real run at this thing. Let's make a

1246
01:15:26,880 --> 01:15:27,360
Speaker 3: run at it.

1247
01:15:28,600 --> 01:15:31,439
Speaker 1: There are people in Detroit who would argue who the

1248
01:15:31,520 --> 01:15:34,639
Speaker 1: actual favorite is, and I get it.

1249
01:15:34,720 --> 01:15:37,320
Speaker 3: I love what Detroit has done and where they're headed,

1250
01:15:37,880 --> 01:15:40,040
Speaker 3: but they're not there yet. We have to see it

1251
01:15:40,160 --> 01:15:42,880
Speaker 3: play out. We've seen Detroit have good years and then

1252
01:15:42,920 --> 01:15:46,320
Speaker 3: the next fall off the map. I know Dan Campbell's different.

1253
01:15:46,760 --> 01:15:49,559
Speaker 3: We made fun of him talking about biting knees and ankles.

1254
01:15:49,800 --> 01:15:53,760
Speaker 3: That team has bought in. I'm excited to see what

1255
01:15:53,840 --> 01:16:01,639
Speaker 3: they have. But I mean Minnesota with Justin, with Delvin,

1256
01:16:02,080 --> 01:16:10,679
Speaker 3: with everything that defense, I'm trying right now to take

1257
01:16:10,720 --> 01:16:24,679
Speaker 3: control of this division right now, and so I just look,

1258
01:16:24,800 --> 01:16:27,559
Speaker 3: maybe they got somebody, you know, young and in the

1259
01:16:27,600 --> 01:16:34,599
Speaker 3: backfield that they feel can give them enough. But like

1260
01:16:34,680 --> 01:16:37,599
Speaker 3: I said, there are no elite quarterbacks in this division.

1261
01:16:40,600 --> 01:16:43,040
Speaker 3: So in my mind, that means it's up for grabs.

1262
01:16:45,040 --> 01:16:46,200
Speaker 3: No elite quarterbacks there.

1263
01:16:46,760 --> 01:16:49,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can make that. You could extend your point

1264
01:16:49,160 --> 01:16:52,200
Speaker 1: even further than that. I mean, look at the entire conference.

1265
01:16:53,280 --> 01:16:57,559
Speaker 1: I mean if I if I take Philadelphia and San

1266
01:16:57,600 --> 01:16:58,840
Speaker 1: Francisco off the.

1267
01:16:58,760 --> 01:17:00,679
Speaker 3: Board, then it's open.

1268
01:17:00,800 --> 01:17:04,200
Speaker 1: Tell me. Tell me who you know for sure is

1269
01:17:04,280 --> 01:17:06,639
Speaker 1: going to be good in the entire conference.

1270
01:17:09,080 --> 01:17:17,559
Speaker 3: Yeah, I can't. I mean maybe Dallas, maybe Detroit, Dallas though,

1271
01:17:17,680 --> 01:17:24,040
Speaker 3: you know, but you look at that division. The Chicago Bears,

1272
01:17:24,080 --> 01:17:27,920
Speaker 3: the Detroit Lions, the Green Bay Packers, the Minnesota Vikings.

1273
01:17:27,920 --> 01:17:33,160
Speaker 3: Who would you put your money on? Uh, Dalvin Cooks

1274
01:17:33,160 --> 01:17:38,280
Speaker 3: and Minnesota. I'm putting my money there. I'm putting my

1275
01:17:38,280 --> 01:17:38,840
Speaker 3: money there.

1276
01:17:40,520 --> 01:17:42,040
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1277
01:17:42,160 --> 01:17:44,400
Speaker 3: But that means I get it, and I get it's

1278
01:17:44,400 --> 01:17:46,839
Speaker 3: a chess game and you're trying to move things around.

1279
01:17:46,920 --> 01:17:50,679
Speaker 3: You want to be your ultimate value this way that way.

1280
01:17:51,520 --> 01:17:54,200
Speaker 3: But at a time where a Hall of Fame quarterback

1281
01:17:54,280 --> 01:18:01,760
Speaker 3: exit the division, you know, I just I'm like Okay, well,

1282
01:18:01,920 --> 01:18:05,200
Speaker 3: let's roll this thing. We're gonna we're gonna figure it out,

1283
01:18:05,479 --> 01:18:06,559
Speaker 3: and we're gonna make it happen.

1284
01:18:09,520 --> 01:18:14,920
Speaker 1: Listen crazy with you? No, you're not, You're not crazy.

1285
01:18:15,840 --> 01:18:20,120
Speaker 1: This isn't even anything against Dalvin. My mind just goes

1286
01:18:20,720 --> 01:18:24,439
Speaker 1: almost like a gambler. When a team gives up on

1287
01:18:24,479 --> 01:18:27,479
Speaker 1: a running back. I look at the history, and the

1288
01:18:27,600 --> 01:18:31,839
Speaker 1: history tells me that usually means we've seen that running

1289
01:18:31,880 --> 01:18:35,240
Speaker 1: back's best days, even when I feel like, but wait

1290
01:18:35,240 --> 01:18:38,400
Speaker 1: a minute, man, he crushed it just last year. But

1291
01:18:38,560 --> 01:18:43,919
Speaker 1: these teams from Le'Veon Bell to Todd Gurley, even players

1292
01:18:44,000 --> 01:18:47,800
Speaker 1: like Alvin Kamara whose career looked like he was just

1293
01:18:47,840 --> 01:18:52,200
Speaker 1: gonna be a star, and now it's just fits and starts.

1294
01:18:52,760 --> 01:18:57,000
Speaker 1: And when teams move on from players at that position,

1295
01:18:57,880 --> 01:19:03,559
Speaker 1: it usually means curtains on some level.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I wouldn't say that. I mean his kids, twenty

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Speaker 3: six years old. He's done nothing but give you, like

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Speaker 3: I said, four plus yards to carry, somebody's gonna pay. Look,

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Speaker 3: if I'm the Jets, now you really want to make

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Speaker 3: a move, uh breeze coming off that injury. Right, If

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Speaker 3: I'm Baltimore, you know, if I'm Kansas City.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Miami, Miam makes sense.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, all makes sense. If I'm Dallas, all makes sense. Well,

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Speaker 1: I mean right, you got you got Pollard. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm with you. I just know what the history says.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, the history of draft prospects is

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Speaker 1: interesting too.

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Speaker 2: More on that next.

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Speaker 1: Oh, we had another draft since we last spoke, ephrom

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Speaker 1: and you know how it triggers me. Not the draft itself,

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Speaker 1: your assigned reading, Ephraim. Did you read everybody's draft grades

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Speaker 1: after the NBA Draft on Thursday?

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Speaker 2: Did you do that?

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Speaker 1: Good for you?

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Speaker 2: Total waste of time.

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Speaker 1: I saw one blogger who covers a certain team after

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Speaker 1: their first pick gave that team an f and then

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Speaker 1: loved so much what they did in the second round

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Speaker 1: that they changed the entire grade to an A. Okay, great,

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Speaker 1: that's fun. So here's one thing I do wonder about.

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Speaker 1: I wonder what your thoughts are, Victor winbin Yama. How

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01:21:24,400 --> 01:21:26,680
Speaker 1: much of a sure thing is he?

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Speaker 2: Actually?

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Speaker 3: I don't think anybody in the draft is a sure thing.

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01:21:30,720 --> 01:21:34,439
Speaker 3: And that's baseball, basketball, football, Hockey doesn't work like that.

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01:21:39,120 --> 01:21:43,640
Speaker 3: Being a professional athlete is difficult. I don't think a

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01:21:43,720 --> 01:21:46,960
Speaker 3: lot of people realize just how difficult that is because

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01:21:47,680 --> 01:21:52,719
Speaker 3: we get seduced by watching these people, watching their highlight tapes,

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01:21:53,240 --> 01:21:59,439
Speaker 3: hearing how much of this are that they are. But

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Speaker 3: you cantangibly do it, then it's all a hypothetical, potential

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01:22:07,600 --> 01:22:12,639
Speaker 3: based scenario. There are no sure things until they are

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01:22:12,720 --> 01:22:16,800
Speaker 3: sure things. If this young man comes out and exhibits

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01:22:16,840 --> 01:22:22,200
Speaker 3: the type of dominance that he's had and the different

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01:22:22,240 --> 01:22:24,400
Speaker 3: leagues he's played in since he was a kid, still

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01:22:24,439 --> 01:22:29,880
Speaker 3: a kid, but then now you can start building on that.

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01:22:29,960 --> 01:22:34,320
Speaker 3: You start having this conversation after the first year, can

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01:22:34,360 --> 01:22:36,920
Speaker 3: he be an All Star his rookie year? Very few

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01:22:37,000 --> 01:22:42,200
Speaker 3: rookies can do that. Very few rookies can do that. Yeah,

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01:22:42,320 --> 01:22:45,439
Speaker 3: can he be an All NBA player his rookie year?

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01:22:46,600 --> 01:22:53,840
Speaker 3: Even less can do that. So talk to me around

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01:22:54,040 --> 01:22:59,519
Speaker 3: the trade deadline and after the All Star break, and

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01:22:59,560 --> 01:23:02,679
Speaker 3: then I'll have a better assessment because it's a different game,

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01:23:03,439 --> 01:23:11,640
Speaker 3: it's different responsibilities, there's less practice. So can you adjust

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01:23:11,800 --> 01:23:17,840
Speaker 3: to that type of life on the road? You're very

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01:23:17,920 --> 01:23:22,920
Speaker 3: rarely home. And I know he's been playing pro for

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01:23:23,000 --> 01:23:26,080
Speaker 3: a long time, but it's not the NBA. It's only

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01:23:26,120 --> 01:23:32,080
Speaker 3: one NBA, just like it's only one NFL. So it

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01:23:34,360 --> 01:23:40,880
Speaker 3: as we've seen with players, highly recruited players, it's more

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01:23:40,920 --> 01:23:50,519
Speaker 3: than just basketball. John Moran, Zion Williams, Ben Simmons, it's

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01:23:50,560 --> 01:23:54,960
Speaker 3: more than just basketball. All of those things have to

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01:23:55,080 --> 01:23:58,960
Speaker 3: click and work together for it to be a surefire thing.

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01:24:00,040 --> 01:24:02,559
Speaker 3: Very few Lebron James Is to come into the league.

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Speaker 1: Well, and even when Lebron came in the league, right

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01:24:06,479 --> 01:24:09,520
Speaker 1: right when he came into the league though, like I,

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Speaker 1: one of the things that I've always thought was the

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Speaker 1: most impressive thing about Lebron is he didn't just solidify

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Speaker 1: and justify being the number one overall selection.

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Speaker 2: He went way past that, right.

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Speaker 1: I think the rarest thing in sports is when you

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Speaker 1: have massive hype that is surpassed.

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Speaker 3: Yes, you can exceed the hype.

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Speaker 1: Exceed the hype, because that is what we do well, right,

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Speaker 1: especially in the social media age. We can do the hype.

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Speaker 1: That's the easy part. Meeting the hype is very difficult.

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Speaker 1: Exceeding the hype, good grief. I can't think of more

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01:24:49,200 --> 01:24:52,320
Speaker 1: than a few examples, and off the top of my head,

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01:24:53,439 --> 01:24:58,120
Speaker 1: you know, maybe none beyond the guy we're just talking about,

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01:24:58,760 --> 01:25:01,240
Speaker 1: because the hype train. Like I know all kinds of

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01:25:01,240 --> 01:25:04,840
Speaker 1: players who who exceeded their expectations, but there was no

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Speaker 1: hype around Tom Brady when he came into the league.

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Speaker 1: So uh, that's the hardest thing to do in sports,

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Speaker 1: and for Victor it is going to be very, very difficult.

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01:25:16,120 --> 01:25:18,760
Speaker 1: Like I give you an example right now of one

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01:25:18,800 --> 01:25:22,000
Speaker 1: who plays on the team where I sit right now,

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Speaker 1: Andrew Wiggins.

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Speaker 2: Is that a disappointing draft pick or not?

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Speaker 3: For for the team who made it? Yeah, for the Timberwolves, Yes,

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Speaker 3: because it didn't pay any dividends, all.

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Speaker 1: Right, And I mean this guy's had not you know,

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Speaker 1: I don't know what words you want to use for

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01:25:44,200 --> 01:25:44,839
Speaker 1: his career.

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Speaker 2: He has made he has made an All Star team.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he has the numbers that you would want. There

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01:25:52,160 --> 01:25:57,519
Speaker 1: are intricacies to the conversation his relationship with Karl Anthony Towns.

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Speaker 1: Is he an NBA one? Is he a two? Is

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01:26:00,680 --> 01:26:02,439
Speaker 1: he best suited as a three? But I mean he's

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01:26:02,439 --> 01:26:04,720
Speaker 1: got a he's got a ring now and he was

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01:26:04,760 --> 01:26:08,880
Speaker 1: the second best player on that team by far, as

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Speaker 1: as recently as going into Game four of the NBA

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Speaker 1: Finals last year. If if things go a certain way,

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01:26:16,520 --> 01:26:20,080
Speaker 1: Andrew Wiggins could have been Finals MVP. And then Steph

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01:26:20,120 --> 01:26:23,760
Speaker 1: had a memorable forever performance in Game four and that

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01:26:23,840 --> 01:26:28,559
Speaker 1: was the end of that. But that the pick correct

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01:26:29,040 --> 01:26:34,360
Speaker 1: correct So it didn't work out for They traded him

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01:26:34,720 --> 01:26:38,040
Speaker 1: for DiAngelo Russell, who doesn't play.

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Speaker 2: For them now anymore either.

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Speaker 3: Right, So when you start saying things like that, Lebron

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01:26:43,680 --> 01:26:49,120
Speaker 3: James was great for Cleveland, was great for getting him

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Speaker 3: out of the seller, taking Tim to the finals, leaving,

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Speaker 3: coming back and then winning the championship. That pick worked out.

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Speaker 3: Kobe Bryant was great for the Lakers that trade day

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Speaker 3: with Charlotte. That was perfect. It worked. Twenty years five championship.

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01:27:08,200 --> 01:27:11,600
Speaker 3: That worked. Magic Johnson was great for the Lakers. It

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01:27:11,680 --> 01:27:16,120
Speaker 3: worked from the beginning came into the league with hype

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01:27:16,200 --> 01:27:26,960
Speaker 3: and lived up to it. Jordan, it worked, it worked, but.

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Speaker 2: He wasn't even the number one overall pick, right, do

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Speaker 2: you know what I mean?

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Speaker 1: Like I Shaq Shack, I think met the hype.

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01:27:36,439 --> 01:27:38,200
Speaker 3: Shaq did meet the hype.

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01:27:38,560 --> 01:27:44,960
Speaker 1: Yeah, bast most number one overall picks do not. And

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Speaker 1: that doesn't mean that they're a bust. So Victor winban Yama,

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Speaker 1: this is interesting me. I don't know if you saw

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Speaker 1: the video that's circulating online today, and I don't know

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01:27:54,200 --> 01:27:57,479
Speaker 1: what it means, but he arrived in San Antonio and

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01:27:57,760 --> 01:27:59,599
Speaker 1: cameras are everywhere, and he went through like a little

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Speaker 1: mini work out. My man, my man missed like eleven

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01:28:03,479 --> 01:28:08,439
Speaker 1: shots in a row. No defense out there. Well that's

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01:28:08,520 --> 01:28:11,439
Speaker 1: been made. Two shots that they were both dunks, exactly.

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna suddenly be I'm not gonna be concerned.

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Speaker 3: Still waiting for Clay Timpson to make a shot, right, easy,

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01:28:20,720 --> 01:28:22,920
Speaker 3: big fit. But but you get what I'm saying. Klay

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01:28:23,000 --> 01:28:27,240
Speaker 3: Thomps one of them dynamic, but listen, one of the

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01:28:27,280 --> 01:28:31,720
Speaker 3: most dynamic shooters. I'm not We've seen Steph Curry and

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01:28:31,840 --> 01:28:35,360
Speaker 3: we've seen Steph Curry struggle that's basketball.

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01:28:35,960 --> 01:28:38,920
Speaker 1: But what I'm saying Curry, what I'm saying, you don't

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01:28:38,960 --> 01:28:41,920
Speaker 1: see him struggle by himself on a practice court.

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01:28:42,439 --> 01:28:43,200
Speaker 2: You don't do that.

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01:28:43,840 --> 01:28:46,320
Speaker 1: Was he that way in a row?

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01:28:46,439 --> 01:28:48,599
Speaker 3: Was he that way his rookie year though? Or did

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01:28:48,600 --> 01:28:51,080
Speaker 3: he have to get there? He wasn't that he Steph

1441
01:28:51,120 --> 01:28:54,519
Speaker 3: Curry wasn't made. He wasn't that. Come on, now, nobody was.

1442
01:28:54,560 --> 01:28:57,439
Speaker 3: Nobody was watching him like that. Nobody was watching him

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01:28:57,439 --> 01:28:59,719
Speaker 3: the way they're watching Victor woman Yama.

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01:28:59,720 --> 01:29:00,639
Speaker 2: And I think that.

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01:29:00,560 --> 01:29:04,519
Speaker 1: Goes to your larger point that you're talking about.

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01:29:04,560 --> 01:29:05,599
Speaker 2: Like I asked you.

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01:29:07,439 --> 01:29:11,360
Speaker 1: About the expectations and one of the chances that you know,

1448
01:29:11,400 --> 01:29:13,479
Speaker 1: he becomes a star, And the first thing you started

1449
01:29:13,520 --> 01:29:16,800
Speaker 1: talking about was all the stuff other than basketball. Yep.

1450
01:29:18,320 --> 01:29:23,120
Speaker 1: You started talking about where you sleep and how you

1451
01:29:23,200 --> 01:29:29,080
Speaker 1: handle pressure and fans and media and all of this stuff.

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01:29:29,320 --> 01:29:32,519
Speaker 3: The one I get it here, man, Once you get there,

1453
01:29:33,720 --> 01:29:38,639
Speaker 3: that's when the work begins. People think you work hard,

1454
01:29:38,760 --> 01:29:41,280
Speaker 3: all that hard work paid off. You made it there,

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01:29:42,080 --> 01:29:45,000
Speaker 3: hey man, Once you get there, that's when the real

1456
01:29:45,040 --> 01:29:54,559
Speaker 3: work begins. I know, I know, I've seen guys first

1457
01:29:54,640 --> 01:29:59,040
Speaker 3: round draft picks, second round draft picks come and go

1458
01:30:02,200 --> 01:30:06,560
Speaker 3: while there's little old seventh round draft pictures keeps ongoing.

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01:30:09,600 --> 01:30:22,559
Speaker 3: There's a reason the work. The work is after you

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01:30:22,680 --> 01:30:26,240
Speaker 3: get there. You don't work hard to get there. I'm

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01:30:26,280 --> 01:30:29,559
Speaker 3: not saying that work isn't hard and and and isn't needed.

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01:30:30,320 --> 01:30:33,120
Speaker 3: But the real work is is what you do when

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01:30:33,160 --> 01:30:35,960
Speaker 3: you get there. Because people have a tendency to relax.

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01:30:36,600 --> 01:30:42,800
Speaker 3: I made, Mama, I made it. Hm hmm, that's the mentality,

1465
01:30:42,840 --> 01:30:45,800
Speaker 3: Mama I made. All that hard work is finally paid off.

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01:30:46,600 --> 01:30:48,719
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, it is three.

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01:30:48,560 --> 01:30:54,880
Speaker 3: Years you're signing, you're selling insurance for Geico or All

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01:30:54,920 --> 01:30:55,960
Speaker 3: Sticks or whoever.

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Speaker 1: Not that there's anything wrong with that.

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01:30:57,920 --> 01:31:02,120
Speaker 3: There's nothing wrong with that at all, nothing at all.

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01:31:05,320 --> 01:31:13,720
Speaker 3: But that wasn't the grand design. So you know, keep

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01:31:13,760 --> 01:31:16,879
Speaker 3: it all in context. Man, I love these young players.

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01:31:16,960 --> 01:31:22,400
Speaker 3: I want them to do well. But the work. Now,

1474
01:31:22,439 --> 01:31:24,559
Speaker 3: you gotta go to work. Yeah, you're gonna have days

1475
01:31:24,560 --> 01:31:27,599
Speaker 3: where you miss eleven shots. You're gonna have days where

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01:31:27,640 --> 01:31:31,360
Speaker 3: you don't feel good. You're gonna have days where you

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01:31:31,400 --> 01:31:35,760
Speaker 3: know it just it doesn't make sense. You have days

1478
01:31:35,760 --> 01:31:38,120
Speaker 3: where you have a lot of responsibilities you might not

1479
01:31:38,360 --> 01:31:41,880
Speaker 3: you quite might not be ready for. But what do

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01:31:41,920 --> 01:31:45,840
Speaker 3: you do when you have those days, how do you

1481
01:31:45,880 --> 01:31:49,000
Speaker 3: deal with them? How do you adjust? And how do

1482
01:31:49,040 --> 01:31:53,960
Speaker 3: you keep sight of the goal? And that's to win games,

1483
01:31:54,000 --> 01:31:56,880
Speaker 3: that's to be get yourself to be the best player.

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01:31:56,600 --> 01:31:59,840
Speaker 1: You can be. What if I ask you right now

1485
01:31:59,840 --> 01:32:02,800
Speaker 1: to place a bet and I will give you and

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01:32:02,800 --> 01:32:05,640
Speaker 1: and this isn't whether they match hype or become an

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01:32:05,680 --> 01:32:11,479
Speaker 1: All Star, but the best player out of this draft.

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01:32:11,920 --> 01:32:15,320
Speaker 3: And you have to pick either victor or the field.

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01:32:17,360 --> 01:32:23,120
Speaker 3: I take the field, me too, take the field, me too.

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01:32:23,920 --> 01:32:26,599
Speaker 3: School Henderson's nice, yep?

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01:32:27,120 --> 01:32:27,479
Speaker 1: Uh?

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01:32:28,200 --> 01:32:32,400
Speaker 3: The Alabama kid, Brandon, It's it's yep. It's some good

1493
01:32:32,479 --> 01:32:36,439
Speaker 3: it's some good players in this draft. And you know

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01:32:36,479 --> 01:32:38,920
Speaker 3: who I think who didn't get drafted. I think it's

1495
01:32:38,920 --> 01:32:42,800
Speaker 3: gonna be dynamic, the kid out of Kansas State, the

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01:32:42,840 --> 01:32:43,400
Speaker 3: point guard.

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01:32:45,760 --> 01:32:49,120
Speaker 2: Oh, I like him too.

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01:32:49,280 --> 01:32:52,560
Speaker 3: And he went to Toronto. Why are we met Toronto?

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01:32:52,680 --> 01:32:53,679
Speaker 2: Blanking on his name?

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01:32:53,880 --> 01:32:54,000
Speaker 3: Uh?

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01:32:56,080 --> 01:32:56,360
Speaker 1: Uh?

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01:32:56,640 --> 01:32:58,280
Speaker 2: Noel Noel?

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01:32:58,560 --> 01:33:03,960
Speaker 1: No yeah, brother Marquees Marquis bro yes man.

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01:33:04,240 --> 01:33:04,960
Speaker 2: I like him too.

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01:33:05,080 --> 01:33:11,120
Speaker 3: I would like Lakers to sign him twenty twenty in Toronto,

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01:33:11,960 --> 01:33:12,719
Speaker 3: twenty twenty.

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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh.

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01:33:13,680 --> 01:33:16,080
Speaker 3: In the tournament, nobody says magic.

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01:33:16,880 --> 01:33:19,080
Speaker 2: Why did not? Well? You know what I bet it was.

1510
01:33:19,200 --> 01:33:21,920
Speaker 1: And it's interesting that he was willing to sign a

1511
01:33:21,960 --> 01:33:24,439
Speaker 1: two way. I know a lot of guys that got

1512
01:33:24,520 --> 01:33:26,840
Speaker 1: left until the end of the second round because teams

1513
01:33:26,880 --> 01:33:30,040
Speaker 1: start calling them in the twenties in the thirties and

1514
01:33:30,040 --> 01:33:31,840
Speaker 1: saying will you do a two way, and some of

1515
01:33:31,880 --> 01:33:35,080
Speaker 1: them are like no, And then of course then they

1516
01:33:35,080 --> 01:33:37,120
Speaker 1: don't end up getting picked, and then they.

1517
01:33:36,920 --> 01:33:38,760
Speaker 2: Sort of don't have a choice.

1518
01:33:39,120 --> 01:33:43,479
Speaker 1: But sometimes you can get a real player in the

1519
01:33:43,479 --> 01:33:46,400
Speaker 1: forties and fifties if you're just willing to give them

1520
01:33:46,400 --> 01:33:53,400
Speaker 1: some guaranteed dope. Man, he's gonna be nice. Yeah, I

1521
01:33:53,520 --> 01:33:56,160
Speaker 1: like him too. I'm with you. I like him all right.

1522
01:33:56,240 --> 01:33:59,479
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Speaker 1: We're not done with the Chris Paul story at all today,

1527
01:34:16,320 --> 01:34:20,120
Speaker 1: but also coming up next are the preseason NFL Power

1528
01:34:20,240 --> 01:34:23,679
Speaker 1: rankings courtesy of the league. Out of whack We'll dive in.

1529
01:34:24,040 --> 01:34:27,040
Speaker 1: That's e from salam Mark Willard and it's Fox Sports

1530
01:34:27,120 --> 01:34:32,120
Speaker 1: Radio All righty from Mark Willardy from salam tyreck dot

1531
01:34:32,160 --> 01:34:34,640
Speaker 1: com studio Steve will be along with the details of this.

1532
01:34:34,720 --> 01:34:37,200
Speaker 1: But Sunday Night Baseball is over. The Astros are defeat

1533
01:34:37,240 --> 01:34:41,000
Speaker 1: of the Dodgers in extra innings. But there's been stuff

1534
01:34:41,040 --> 01:34:45,280
Speaker 1: about this on social media. I see it even now.

1535
01:34:46,160 --> 01:34:48,800
Speaker 1: I would like to know what is the statute of limitations?

1536
01:34:48,840 --> 01:34:51,720
Speaker 1: This is just me thinking out loud and asking a

1537
01:34:51,840 --> 01:34:54,720
Speaker 1: question when are we all going to be over this

1538
01:34:54,840 --> 01:34:55,599
Speaker 1: Astros thing?

1539
01:34:56,520 --> 01:34:58,040
Speaker 2: Like are we going to be?

1540
01:34:58,760 --> 01:35:00,639
Speaker 1: Are we all just gonna get mad at the logo

1541
01:35:00,760 --> 01:35:03,480
Speaker 1: for the rest of our lives? Like Patriots.

1542
01:35:04,920 --> 01:35:06,759
Speaker 2: It's not even the same team anymore.

1543
01:35:07,479 --> 01:35:10,240
Speaker 1: I mean that I get because you're talking about it's

1544
01:35:10,240 --> 01:35:15,759
Speaker 1: like the same coach who in theory ran the crime unit.

1545
01:35:15,840 --> 01:35:16,479
Speaker 2: You know what I mean.

1546
01:35:17,400 --> 01:35:22,000
Speaker 1: Dusty Baker is quite possibly the most likable human being

1547
01:35:22,040 --> 01:35:25,280
Speaker 1: on the planet. And oh, by the way, a Dodger

1548
01:35:25,400 --> 01:35:30,599
Speaker 1: great and the Dodger fans listen. I can't relate. I

1549
01:35:30,680 --> 01:35:35,040
Speaker 1: don't know what it's like to have a World Series

1550
01:35:35,439 --> 01:35:37,960
Speaker 1: at least feel like it got ripped from you.

1551
01:35:38,960 --> 01:35:40,120
Speaker 2: I have questions.

1552
01:35:40,640 --> 01:35:43,040
Speaker 1: I would like to know how if one team new

1553
01:35:43,120 --> 01:35:45,040
Speaker 1: balls that were coming and the other team didn't.

1554
01:35:45,080 --> 01:35:46,639
Speaker 2: How did we get to seven games?

1555
01:35:47,120 --> 01:35:51,280
Speaker 1: I've heard things, whispers, what have you, but they're unsubstantiated,

1556
01:35:51,280 --> 01:35:53,639
Speaker 1: so I can't really run with it. So if Dodger

1557
01:35:53,680 --> 01:35:56,760
Speaker 1: fans want to continue to believe that their team is

1558
01:35:56,920 --> 01:36:00,439
Speaker 1: just a tiny, little innocent flowers, never done anything wrong,

1559
01:36:00,760 --> 01:36:04,400
Speaker 1: cute little things, that's fine. You can believe that. But

1560
01:36:04,479 --> 01:36:07,639
Speaker 1: I also get it. One team got caught. No one

1561
01:36:07,640 --> 01:36:09,519
Speaker 1: else has been caught except for sort of kind of

1562
01:36:09,520 --> 01:36:15,600
Speaker 1: the Red Sox maybe, But like we've decided that the Astros,

1563
01:36:16,479 --> 01:36:23,240
Speaker 1: with all different players, are the devil, and that's fine.

1564
01:36:24,080 --> 01:36:26,280
Speaker 1: I just got the question, when's this gonna be over?

1565
01:36:26,479 --> 01:36:28,519
Speaker 1: Because I'd like you to wake me and then I

1566
01:36:28,520 --> 01:36:29,840
Speaker 1: can watch an Astros game.

1567
01:36:29,840 --> 01:36:37,280
Speaker 3: Then I don't know. You know, baseball fans they're different.

1568
01:36:38,240 --> 01:36:41,960
Speaker 3: They're gonna hold a grudge, all of that. So it

1569
01:36:42,080 --> 01:36:46,439
Speaker 3: was just so egregious. I guess they don't. They're not

1570
01:36:46,439 --> 01:36:47,120
Speaker 3: gonna let it go.

1571
01:36:47,960 --> 01:36:50,120
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm looking at their lineup right now.

1572
01:36:51,320 --> 01:36:53,960
Speaker 1: Bragman was bat and second, and I think might have

1573
01:36:54,000 --> 01:36:57,439
Speaker 1: had a key hit in extra innings. He might he did, Okay,

1574
01:36:57,520 --> 01:37:01,519
Speaker 1: he singled in the was the eventual game winning run.

1575
01:37:02,200 --> 01:37:06,519
Speaker 1: Bregman was there Bregman was a part of this, But

1576
01:37:07,800 --> 01:37:11,519
Speaker 1: who else was? Oh Two's not even in the lineup

1577
01:37:11,560 --> 01:37:17,280
Speaker 1: the night carlays for the Twins. He's still there. Korea

1578
01:37:17,400 --> 01:37:24,560
Speaker 1: is a twin. I mean, yes, somebody you know, Mauricio

1579
01:37:24,760 --> 01:37:31,960
Speaker 1: Dubon is uh is their leadoff hitter tonight. Dubon I

1580
01:37:31,960 --> 01:37:34,519
Speaker 1: don't even think it was in America yet when this happened,

1581
01:37:36,960 --> 01:37:39,400
Speaker 1: let alone. Was he a member of the Houston Astros.

1582
01:37:39,400 --> 01:37:45,280
Speaker 1: He just got traded there last year. So the anger fine,

1583
01:37:46,080 --> 01:37:49,160
Speaker 1: but I don't know right.

1584
01:37:49,720 --> 01:37:52,760
Speaker 3: People still feel a certain type of way about the Raiders.

1585
01:37:54,560 --> 01:37:57,679
Speaker 1: Oh, with the tuck rule, but that wasn't their fault

1586
01:37:57,680 --> 01:37:59,360
Speaker 1: though Raiders didn't do that.

1587
01:37:59,479 --> 01:38:01,000
Speaker 2: The officials did that.

1588
01:38:01,360 --> 01:38:06,280
Speaker 3: I'm just talking about it in terms of, you know, well,

1589
01:38:06,320 --> 01:38:10,120
Speaker 3: I guess that'd be more of the fans radio friends

1590
01:38:10,120 --> 01:38:10,759
Speaker 3: out of control.

1591
01:38:11,760 --> 01:38:19,439
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, the Raiders are just exactly the almost pushed

1592
01:38:19,439 --> 01:38:22,800
Speaker 1: my eighty two year old grandmother down the stand because

1593
01:38:22,800 --> 01:38:26,240
Speaker 1: she wanted to see her grandson play. Again kidding me,

1594
01:38:26,640 --> 01:38:33,320
Speaker 1: I'm saying in Oakland, Yes, oh my gosh, you know,

1595
01:38:33,439 --> 01:38:37,360
Speaker 1: I get it. I get it, I get it. There

1596
01:38:37,400 --> 01:38:42,080
Speaker 1: are certain organizations in sports. You're right, they perpetuate it.

1597
01:38:42,360 --> 01:38:44,479
Speaker 1: And then as soon as someone brings it up, they'll

1598
01:38:44,520 --> 01:38:48,200
Speaker 1: they'll have a video of something that happened one time

1599
01:38:48,240 --> 01:38:49,160
Speaker 1: in another stadium.

1600
01:38:50,000 --> 01:38:52,799
Speaker 2: Look, it could happen to stop. Stop.

1601
01:38:53,280 --> 01:38:58,640
Speaker 1: It's ludicrous to think that visiting a Raider game is

1602
01:38:58,720 --> 01:39:00,000
Speaker 1: like visiting anywhere else.

1603
01:39:00,600 --> 01:39:03,400
Speaker 2: Quite frankly, maybe it's not anymore.

1604
01:39:03,920 --> 01:39:08,680
Speaker 1: I went to the forty nine Er Raider game on

1605
01:39:08,760 --> 01:39:10,559
Speaker 1: New Year's Day in Las Vegas.

1606
01:39:10,840 --> 01:39:13,160
Speaker 2: Now, I didn't go full red.

1607
01:39:13,680 --> 01:39:16,439
Speaker 1: I had a very subtle, just forty nine or hat

1608
01:39:17,080 --> 01:39:17,840
Speaker 1: and that's it.

1609
01:39:17,920 --> 01:39:19,120
Speaker 2: And then I had just a.

1610
01:39:19,000 --> 01:39:22,479
Speaker 1: Blank gray hoodie on, just a forty nine er hat,

1611
01:39:22,520 --> 01:39:26,559
Speaker 1: and we're doing our thing. And the stadium was split

1612
01:39:26,680 --> 01:39:30,920
Speaker 1: fifty to fifty in terms of the rooting interest, and

1613
01:39:31,000 --> 01:39:35,439
Speaker 1: it was it was enjoyable, and everybody was actually pretty

1614
01:39:35,439 --> 01:39:37,599
Speaker 1: good to each other. I saw maybe one incident and

1615
01:39:37,640 --> 01:39:40,960
Speaker 1: it was mild. But outside of that, you know, they're

1616
01:39:41,000 --> 01:39:43,840
Speaker 1: in Vegas now, they were not contending for anything.

1617
01:39:43,960 --> 01:39:45,920
Speaker 2: It was the last week of the regular season.

1618
01:39:46,560 --> 01:39:50,040
Speaker 1: All of that stuff maybe factors into it, but come on, man, Yeah,

1619
01:39:50,080 --> 01:39:55,479
Speaker 1: there are certain organizations who deserve their reputation, but the

1620
01:39:55,520 --> 01:39:58,760
Speaker 1: Houston Astros are not one of them. As far as

1621
01:39:58,840 --> 01:40:04,000
Speaker 1: like behavior, surrounding the organization. They just got caught cheating,

1622
01:40:04,760 --> 01:40:07,920
Speaker 1: which I don't know. It's kind of funny to me

1623
01:40:08,600 --> 01:40:12,639
Speaker 1: that we would go so crazy over an organization being

1624
01:40:12,760 --> 01:40:16,599
Speaker 1: caught cheating, As if there's ever been an organization ever

1625
01:40:16,960 --> 01:40:21,080
Speaker 1: or player in professional sports that doesn't try to bend

1626
01:40:21,120 --> 01:40:21,599
Speaker 1: the rules.

1627
01:40:22,280 --> 01:40:26,719
Speaker 2: That's never existed. Like sometimes it's super innocent.

1628
01:40:27,439 --> 01:40:30,240
Speaker 1: Remember when Derek Jeter tried to get the umpire to

1629
01:40:30,320 --> 01:40:33,120
Speaker 1: think that the ball hit him and is walking around

1630
01:40:33,240 --> 01:40:37,400
Speaker 1: like writhing in pain. How about the recently acquired and

1631
01:40:37,479 --> 01:40:40,800
Speaker 1: discussed Chris Paul who always is on the ground when

1632
01:40:40,800 --> 01:40:44,160
Speaker 1: no one touched him. That's trying to get the officials

1633
01:40:44,160 --> 01:40:48,799
Speaker 1: to not know what's going on. It's much more innocent.

1634
01:40:48,880 --> 01:40:53,439
Speaker 1: But it's it's not all on the up and up either.

1635
01:40:55,479 --> 01:40:58,799
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's you know, you always trying to find it

1636
01:40:58,920 --> 01:41:07,920
Speaker 3: an advantage as sure, always and that comes with a

1637
01:41:07,960 --> 01:41:11,000
Speaker 3: lot of different things and in manifesting a lot of

1638
01:41:11,000 --> 01:41:16,439
Speaker 3: different ways. But when you cheat the system like that,

1639
01:41:16,760 --> 01:41:20,240
Speaker 3: like Team Wide, I get it.

1640
01:41:20,280 --> 01:41:23,160
Speaker 1: I get it. It's quite it feels like a crime ring.

1641
01:41:23,880 --> 01:41:26,719
Speaker 1: But we don't even care when someone takes steroids anymore.

1642
01:41:28,520 --> 01:41:32,599
Speaker 1: Like an NFL fan right now is like man DeAndre Hopkins.

1643
01:41:32,600 --> 01:41:35,040
Speaker 1: He'd look pretty good in my team's uniform, no doubt

1644
01:41:35,040 --> 01:41:41,000
Speaker 1: about it. Nobody cares. We're all screaming if you're less

1645
01:41:41,040 --> 01:41:44,080
Speaker 1: than sixty years old, you're like, put Bonds and Clemens

1646
01:41:44,120 --> 01:41:47,680
Speaker 1: in the Hall of Fame, you stuffy librarians. Stop it.

1647
01:41:48,400 --> 01:41:51,280
Speaker 1: We don't care. But we care about that one for

1648
01:41:51,360 --> 01:41:51,960
Speaker 1: some reason.

1649
01:41:54,120 --> 01:41:59,600
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's I mean, they stole a world.

1650
01:41:59,320 --> 01:42:06,800
Speaker 2: Series maybe, or they were just the team they got.

1651
01:42:09,320 --> 01:42:13,040
Speaker 3: It's always tell me you think, but it's always yeah,

1652
01:42:13,280 --> 01:42:17,120
Speaker 3: every yeah, everything else is speculatory.

1653
01:42:17,240 --> 01:42:20,880
Speaker 1: Fine, fine, but that would be like like whenever you

1654
01:42:20,920 --> 01:42:25,760
Speaker 1: know anybody you ever know who's got a UI, if

1655
01:42:25,800 --> 01:42:28,280
Speaker 1: they were like, this is literally the first time I've

1656
01:42:28,280 --> 01:42:30,920
Speaker 1: ever had a drink in my life, you'd be like, bs,

1657
01:42:31,479 --> 01:42:34,040
Speaker 1: there's no way the Astros are the only team doing

1658
01:42:34,080 --> 01:42:34,680
Speaker 1: something like this.

1659
01:42:35,240 --> 01:42:38,000
Speaker 3: Well, you know, you know who's not the only team

1660
01:42:38,400 --> 01:42:43,160
Speaker 3: uh or the only team member not trying to skirt

1661
01:42:43,200 --> 01:42:48,880
Speaker 3: the rules. This guy, Steve Sager is a rule follower.

1662
01:42:49,640 --> 01:42:50,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a straight arrow.

1663
01:42:50,840 --> 01:42:55,080
Speaker 8: Is they Stephen r the seg that's all right, banging

1664
01:42:55,160 --> 01:42:56,519
Speaker 8: the trash can for this show.

1665
01:42:56,720 --> 01:43:00,280
Speaker 7: Another great Sunday Night. Jimson Astra was.

1666
01:43:00,240 --> 01:43:03,360
Speaker 8: Eleven inning winners in La, ending the Dodgers four game

1667
01:43:03,439 --> 01:43:06,639
Speaker 8: winning streak six to five. Arizona, the first place team

1668
01:43:06,680 --> 01:43:09,160
Speaker 8: in the NL West, won at San Francisco five two

1669
01:43:09,280 --> 01:43:11,960
Speaker 8: Diamondbacks two and a half games over the Giants, three

1670
01:43:12,080 --> 01:43:14,799
Speaker 8: up on the Dodgers. Now, by the way, Mookie Bets

1671
01:43:14,800 --> 01:43:16,200
Speaker 8: at the Dodger game tonight a.

1672
01:43:16,160 --> 01:43:17,200
Speaker 7: Leadoff home run.

1673
01:43:17,560 --> 01:43:21,120
Speaker 8: The Dodger franchise record is nine leadoff homers in a season.

1674
01:43:21,200 --> 01:43:24,599
Speaker 8: This is already number eight. We're not yet halfway through

1675
01:43:24,840 --> 01:43:28,320
Speaker 8: the season. That'll happen over the next week. We'll get

1676
01:43:28,360 --> 01:43:31,559
Speaker 8: to the mathematical halfway point. But also today we had

1677
01:43:31,680 --> 01:43:34,600
Speaker 8: a Toronto victory in the home game against Oakland. It

1678
01:43:34,720 --> 01:43:37,519
Speaker 8: was twelve one Blue Jays and George Springer of the

1679
01:43:37,560 --> 01:43:40,599
Speaker 8: Blue Jays ex of Houston, by the way, with career

1680
01:43:40,720 --> 01:43:44,519
Speaker 8: leadoff homer number fifty five. He's number two all time

1681
01:43:44,880 --> 01:43:48,240
Speaker 8: in that category, behind Hall of Famer Ricky Henderson, who

1682
01:43:48,320 --> 01:43:52,800
Speaker 8: had eighty one career leadoff homers. Henderson also played over

1683
01:43:52,920 --> 01:43:57,240
Speaker 8: three thousand games in his long career with Houston. Springer

1684
01:43:57,280 --> 01:44:01,519
Speaker 8: had the Astros single season record twelve leadoff homers a

1685
01:44:01,560 --> 01:44:04,160
Speaker 8: few years ago game in London this morning saw Saint

1686
01:44:04,160 --> 01:44:06,439
Speaker 8: Louis down four nothing to the rival Cubs in the

1687
01:44:06,479 --> 01:44:08,599
Speaker 8: top of the first, Cards came back for a seven

1688
01:44:08,600 --> 01:44:09,240
Speaker 8: to five win.

1689
01:44:09,720 --> 01:44:12,080
Speaker 7: Next year it's Mets against Phillies.

1690
01:44:11,640 --> 01:44:14,799
Speaker 8: In London, and for twenty twenty five, the MLB Players

1691
01:44:14,920 --> 01:44:18,240
Speaker 8: Union approved a possible series in Paris. Mets were at

1692
01:44:18,240 --> 01:44:22,200
Speaker 8: Philadelphia today. Mets were doing Mets things, four runs in

1693
01:44:22,240 --> 01:44:24,559
Speaker 8: the bottom of the a Phils wins seven to six.

1694
01:44:25,200 --> 01:44:28,280
Speaker 8: They got the four runs on a fielder's choice, bases

1695
01:44:28,320 --> 01:44:32,120
Speaker 8: loaded walk and two bases loaded hit batters for the win.

1696
01:44:33,120 --> 01:44:35,559
Speaker 8: Ten batters to the plate in the inning, just one

1697
01:44:35,720 --> 01:44:37,840
Speaker 8: hit and the Mets lose that way.

1698
01:44:37,920 --> 01:44:40,640
Speaker 7: Mets record thirty five and forty two.

1699
01:44:40,840 --> 01:44:43,240
Speaker 8: Yankee scored three times bottom of the eighth to beat

1700
01:44:43,320 --> 01:44:46,320
Speaker 8: Texas five to three. Atlanta one again seven to six

1701
01:44:46,360 --> 01:44:49,240
Speaker 8: at Cincinnati. Minnesota in ten innings was a six to

1702
01:44:49,320 --> 01:44:52,240
Speaker 8: three winner at Detroit. Twins are first in the AL Central,

1703
01:44:52,280 --> 01:44:55,200
Speaker 8: two games over Cleveland, which lost at home in ten

1704
01:44:55,240 --> 01:44:58,760
Speaker 8: innings to Milwaukee five to four. Wins for Tampa Bay

1705
01:44:58,800 --> 01:45:01,840
Speaker 8: and the White Sox Baltimore beat Seattle three to two.

1706
01:45:01,880 --> 01:45:04,719
Speaker 7: Mariners held to just three hits. Miami had two.

1707
01:45:04,640 --> 01:45:07,559
Speaker 8: Nothing win over Pittsburgh. Luisa Riaz of the Marlins went

1708
01:45:07,600 --> 01:45:10,800
Speaker 8: one for four. He's betting three ninety nine victories for

1709
01:45:10,880 --> 01:45:13,960
Speaker 8: Colorado and Washington. The Florida Gators stayed alive in the

1710
01:45:13,960 --> 01:45:18,640
Speaker 8: College World Series, beating LSU twenty four to four, forcing.

1711
01:45:18,280 --> 01:45:20,280
Speaker 7: A Game three of the best of three tomorrow.

1712
01:45:20,520 --> 01:45:24,160
Speaker 8: Carlos Alcarez won the Queen's Club Final at Wimbledon, tune

1713
01:45:24,240 --> 01:45:25,240
Speaker 8: up his first title on.

1714
01:45:25,200 --> 01:45:25,960
Speaker 3: A grass court.

1715
01:45:26,320 --> 01:45:30,400
Speaker 8: Keegan Bradley took the Travelers Championship in Connecticut by three strokes.

1716
01:45:30,640 --> 01:45:33,320
Speaker 8: NASCAR had a four hundred at Nashville tonight, won by

1717
01:45:33,439 --> 01:45:37,519
Speaker 8: Ross Chastain. Martin Truex Junior finished second. Fox TV had

1718
01:45:37,520 --> 01:45:40,960
Speaker 8: a USFL semifinal this evening at Birmingham, which is now

1719
01:45:41,080 --> 01:45:44,439
Speaker 8: nine to two after whipping New Orleans forty seven to

1720
01:45:44,520 --> 01:45:48,759
Speaker 8: twenty two. The league's championship game is Saturday in Canton, Ohio,

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Speaker 8: and US Men's Soccer continues the Gold Cup Tournament Wednesday

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Speaker 8: night on FS one. Tonight in Houston on FS one,

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Speaker 8: Mexico was a four to nothing winner over Hondura.

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Speaker 1: Spec You Steve, great stuff.

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01:46:02,120 --> 01:46:03,960
Speaker 2: Appreciate you this evening for sure.

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Speaker 1: Yep, we're live in the tie rack dot Com Studios.

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01:46:08,080 --> 01:46:11,000
Speaker 1: Alrighty from what if? I uh, what if I give you.

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Speaker 2: Pro Football Focus.

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01:46:16,600 --> 01:46:21,760
Speaker 1: Twenty twenty three NFL Power rankings, and you hit the

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01:46:21,800 --> 01:46:25,840
Speaker 1: buzzer when you hear one that sounds out of whack

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01:46:25,880 --> 01:46:26,200
Speaker 1: to you.

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01:46:26,640 --> 01:46:29,160
Speaker 2: Okay, I'll start at the top.

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Speaker 1: Chiefs Eagles number three, forty nine Ers number four, Cincinnati Bengals.

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Speaker 3: Well, hold on five, I'm hit. I'm hitting the buzzer

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01:46:44,320 --> 01:46:48,240
Speaker 3: on three, I'm hitting the buzz boy.

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01:46:48,400 --> 01:46:49,200
Speaker 4: Whoa, whoa, whoa.

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Speaker 1: What what mister mister mister Kyle Shanahan LoveFest from Salam.

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01:46:58,320 --> 01:47:00,160
Speaker 2: The only reason the buzzer.

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01:47:00,200 --> 01:47:04,120
Speaker 3: On three is because we don't know what the quarterback

1740
01:47:04,160 --> 01:47:09,440
Speaker 3: situation is. Ah, what if they want the quarterback situation

1741
01:47:09,600 --> 01:47:09,920
Speaker 3: to be?

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01:47:10,320 --> 01:47:14,519
Speaker 1: We do? We don't? We do? We don't? They do?

1743
01:47:14,760 --> 01:47:16,880
Speaker 1: They do not? They do?

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01:47:17,640 --> 01:47:20,960
Speaker 2: They hope he's fine, he's gonna be healthy.

1745
01:47:20,920 --> 01:47:25,360
Speaker 3: And okay, I get all of that, But is he fine?

1746
01:47:25,400 --> 01:47:25,639
Speaker 1: Though?

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01:47:26,320 --> 01:47:28,479
Speaker 3: I know he's the starter. I know and look and

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01:47:28,600 --> 01:47:36,040
Speaker 3: if he is, okay, but until that happens, nah, not

1749
01:47:36,080 --> 01:47:37,800
Speaker 3: putting him there next?

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01:47:37,920 --> 01:47:43,320
Speaker 1: Okay. So that's fine, that's fine. Ahead of schedule, that

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01:47:43,360 --> 01:47:47,320
Speaker 1: doesn't anything ahead of schedule doesn't. Okay, No, It doesn't.

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01:47:47,600 --> 01:47:50,960
Speaker 1: It doesn't because if there was. By the way, I'm

1753
01:47:51,080 --> 01:47:54,080
Speaker 1: fascinated by the fact that it sounds like if he

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01:47:54,200 --> 01:47:55,320
Speaker 1: were healthy.

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01:47:55,439 --> 01:47:57,000
Speaker 2: You would have no problem putting that.

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01:47:57,200 --> 01:47:57,679
Speaker 1: No problem.

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01:47:57,760 --> 01:47:59,120
Speaker 3: I love rock Party.

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01:47:59,720 --> 01:48:03,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, even though Joe Burrow and Josh Allen apparently are

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01:48:03,120 --> 01:48:04,000
Speaker 1: right behind him.

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01:48:04,160 --> 01:48:07,600
Speaker 3: No, they just have The forty nine have a better team.

1761
01:48:07,280 --> 01:48:11,160
Speaker 1: Yep, at best best non quarterback roster in the NFL.

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01:48:11,280 --> 01:48:15,880
Speaker 1: But I would say by far, yes, yes, okay, all right,

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01:48:16,360 --> 01:48:19,200
Speaker 1: So where would you put the Niners? I will put

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01:48:19,240 --> 01:48:24,000
Speaker 1: him on behind Okay, So so you like the Bengals,

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01:48:24,080 --> 01:48:26,880
Speaker 1: and then the Bills and then the forty nine ers yep,

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01:48:27,160 --> 01:48:31,320
Speaker 1: all right, all right, let's keep going. Number six, the

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01:48:31,400 --> 01:48:39,840
Speaker 1: New York Jets. Number seven. Okay, let's see what said

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Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys, number eight, San Diego Chargers.

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01:48:50,120 --> 01:48:55,000
Speaker 2: Yes, I said that correctly. I would the San Diego Chargers.

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01:48:56,840 --> 01:48:57,120
Speaker 1: MM.

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01:48:58,040 --> 01:49:03,680
Speaker 3: I will put the Charges ahead of the Cowboy. I

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01:49:03,680 --> 01:49:06,520
Speaker 3: would put the Chargers ahead of the Cowboys.

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01:49:06,960 --> 01:49:09,599
Speaker 1: You know better than anyone with your San Diego roots

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01:49:09,640 --> 01:49:13,400
Speaker 1: that the Chargers, the Chargers should not ever have expectations.

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Speaker 3: I understand that. But the thing that the Cowboys lost,

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01:49:18,400 --> 01:49:25,200
Speaker 3: the Chargers now have which is more Uh huh. That's

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01:49:25,200 --> 01:49:29,320
Speaker 3: a good point. It's a good point, and that's going

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01:49:29,360 --> 01:49:37,440
Speaker 3: to be a huge difference. That's why I would do that.

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Speaker 2: Jets.

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Speaker 3: I'm okay with the Jets. Young corps is outstanding. They

1781
01:49:44,560 --> 01:49:47,840
Speaker 3: were on the CUSP with no quote, with three of

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01:49:47,840 --> 01:49:53,000
Speaker 3: the worst quarterbacks in the league all on one team.

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01:49:53,040 --> 01:49:55,599
Speaker 3: So they've upgraded at that position.

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Speaker 1: Yep.

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01:49:57,479 --> 01:50:04,200
Speaker 3: So I'll give them that preseason power rankings. They upgraded

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01:50:04,240 --> 01:50:07,160
Speaker 3: the position they needed to. They did everything they needed

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Speaker 3: to do in the offseason to get better, So yes,

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Speaker 3: I would. I would give them that.

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01:50:15,120 --> 01:50:17,799
Speaker 1: I actually have more of an issue with with who's

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01:50:17,800 --> 01:50:20,920
Speaker 1: sitting at ten, eleven, and twelve and why they're not

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01:50:21,120 --> 01:50:24,439
Speaker 1: higher because while the Cowboys are at seven, the Chargers

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01:50:24,479 --> 01:50:31,360
Speaker 1: are at eight at number nine of the Cleveland Browns.

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01:50:32,120 --> 01:50:33,639
Speaker 3: Come on, man, who's teen?

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01:50:33,800 --> 01:50:36,799
Speaker 1: Then at number number ten is the Baltimore Ravens.

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Speaker 3: Oh I would. I would definitely twitch that out.

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01:50:39,280 --> 01:50:44,040
Speaker 1: Yep, and keep going because number eleven is the Miami Dolphins.

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Speaker 3: Oh no, I would. Cleveland is now falling to thirteen, so.

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Speaker 2: Number twelve is the Jacksonville Jaguars.

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Speaker 1: No over Cleveland, I agree.

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Speaker 2: Number thirteen New York Giants.

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Speaker 3: That works, Okay, Yeah, that works.

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01:51:03,840 --> 01:51:08,600
Speaker 1: Then vit then Vikings, then Lions, then Seahawks.

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01:51:08,680 --> 01:51:11,160
Speaker 3: That rounds out the top half of the league. I

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01:51:11,200 --> 01:51:14,760
Speaker 3: would put the Browns at the end of that.

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Speaker 1: I agree with you.

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01:51:16,920 --> 01:51:19,360
Speaker 3: I would put him right after was it the Lions

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01:51:19,360 --> 01:51:23,479
Speaker 3: with the last team? The Lions, the no, the Seahawks,

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Speaker 3: I would put him right after the Yeah, I'm with you, man,

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01:51:27,439 --> 01:51:30,360
Speaker 3: I like I got to see something. I know that

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01:51:30,400 --> 01:51:33,639
Speaker 3: this is not nothing to do with how Deshaun Watson

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01:51:33,760 --> 01:51:36,280
Speaker 3: likes to relax, and it has everything to do with

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01:51:36,320 --> 01:51:37,559
Speaker 3: how he looked when he played.

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Speaker 2: I get that he was gone a long time, but

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Speaker 2: I wasn't very impressed.

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Speaker 3: No, it was hard to watch it sometimes, But I

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01:51:49,120 --> 01:51:51,720
Speaker 3: get that quarterbacks a hard position to play when you

1817
01:51:51,760 --> 01:51:55,360
Speaker 3: haven't played for two years. Yeah, no matter how much talent,

1818
01:51:55,400 --> 01:51:58,160
Speaker 3: it's going to take some time. The league has gotten faster,

1819
01:51:59,080 --> 01:52:03,880
Speaker 3: defenses have got and better, so it's going to take

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01:52:03,920 --> 01:52:10,120
Speaker 3: you time too. And I think that's why Cleveland they

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01:52:10,120 --> 01:52:13,520
Speaker 3: were okay with the what was a twelve game suspension

1822
01:52:14,600 --> 01:52:18,599
Speaker 3: because they at least eleven they got them back and

1823
01:52:18,640 --> 01:52:22,360
Speaker 3: got them on the field, opposed to having set out

1824
01:52:22,360 --> 01:52:28,240
Speaker 3: the entire year again. They needed to start this process

1825
01:52:28,960 --> 01:52:34,040
Speaker 3: of getting better or knocking the rust off now and

1826
01:52:34,120 --> 01:52:40,040
Speaker 3: now they'll be pushing the gas this upcoming season. But

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01:52:40,160 --> 01:52:42,759
Speaker 3: I still don't think they're above any of those teams.

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Speaker 3: All right, who's in the bottom five? We'll get to

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01:52:46,320 --> 01:52:48,719
Speaker 3: that coming up next. Plus, remember a few weeks ago

1830
01:52:49,439 --> 01:52:52,599
Speaker 3: when you just could not contain yourself and you had

1831
01:52:52,600 --> 01:52:54,040
Speaker 3: to brag about your sound a little bit?

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01:52:54,880 --> 01:52:59,519
Speaker 1: Yo? Yeah, yeah, I need to do that for a second. Okay,

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01:53:00,120 --> 01:53:03,000
Speaker 1: do that forir a soon. Yeah yeah, Wait. Do you

1834
01:53:03,000 --> 01:53:06,880
Speaker 1: hear what happened today? That's coming up next on Fox

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Speaker 1: Sports Radio one.

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Speaker 10: Oh, and Bragman pulls it in the left field. That's

1837
01:53:13,280 --> 01:53:16,080
Speaker 10: a base hit, bracing the third and a round third.

1838
01:53:16,160 --> 01:53:19,559
Speaker 10: Now coming home is Dubont. The throw home is cut off.

1839
01:53:19,640 --> 01:53:23,040
Speaker 10: Dubont scores on Bregman's single, and the Astros late at

1840
01:53:23,120 --> 01:53:24,200
Speaker 10: six to five.

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01:53:24,240 --> 01:53:26,559
Speaker 2: All right with Epram Salaam Mark Willard.

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01:53:26,880 --> 01:53:30,960
Speaker 1: That is Sports Talk seven ninety kb m E, the

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Speaker 1: com we're in the tie rack dot com studios. Look,

1849
01:53:51,680 --> 01:53:53,200
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, you and I are

1850
01:53:53,680 --> 01:53:57,320
Speaker 1: are cut from from a couple of similar cloths, which is,

1851
01:53:57,640 --> 01:54:03,200
Speaker 1: there's absolutely nothing that will light us up more than

1852
01:54:03,640 --> 01:54:10,040
Speaker 1: our kids. And I've got my oldest who is a

1853
01:54:10,120 --> 01:54:15,920
Speaker 1: budding high school golfer, and he is sixteen years old.

1854
01:54:16,040 --> 01:54:19,400
Speaker 1: So he got up at six o'clock this morning and

1855
01:54:19,479 --> 01:54:23,519
Speaker 1: he drove himself about ninety minutes to go to this

1856
01:54:23,600 --> 01:54:30,519
Speaker 1: weekend's Junior Tour of Northern California golf stop. There's one

1857
01:54:30,760 --> 01:54:34,320
Speaker 1: almost every week, every few days, and he was signed up,

1858
01:54:34,360 --> 01:54:37,600
Speaker 1: and he drove about ninety minutes to get to this tournament.

1859
01:54:38,120 --> 01:54:41,840
Speaker 1: And he got there early and warmed himself up and

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01:54:42,040 --> 01:54:45,760
Speaker 1: got ready to go. And I did because I couldn't

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01:54:45,760 --> 01:54:47,560
Speaker 1: be there today to go with him. So I did

1862
01:54:47,600 --> 01:54:49,920
Speaker 1: what I've learned is the best thing to do, which

1863
01:54:50,000 --> 01:54:53,920
Speaker 1: is just stay off of the app until late in

1864
01:54:54,120 --> 01:54:57,880
Speaker 1: the game. And he's not someone who's usually contending to

1865
01:54:57,920 --> 01:54:58,800
Speaker 1: win these things.

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01:54:59,480 --> 01:55:02,120
Speaker 2: But at about the fifteenth hole and I.

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01:55:02,080 --> 01:55:08,640
Speaker 1: Went, oh, oh, hey, look at you, young buck, And

1868
01:55:08,720 --> 01:55:11,000
Speaker 1: so then I was kind of glued to the phone

1869
01:55:11,720 --> 01:55:14,800
Speaker 1: and his buddy actually finished in.

1870
01:55:14,840 --> 01:55:18,640
Speaker 2: A tie for the lead, and my guy, out of.

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01:55:18,600 --> 01:55:22,880
Speaker 1: Forty nine players, finished in sixth place and for the

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01:55:22,920 --> 01:55:27,680
Speaker 1: first time ever shot a better round than my best

1873
01:55:27,720 --> 01:55:31,240
Speaker 1: ever round. It was also obviously his best ever round.

1874
01:55:31,320 --> 01:55:35,880
Speaker 1: He shot a three over par seventy five today and

1875
01:55:35,960 --> 01:55:39,440
Speaker 1: finished in sixth place at that tournament. And yeah, he

1876
01:55:39,520 --> 01:55:43,600
Speaker 1: didn't win, but that's for me, not even close to

1877
01:55:43,640 --> 01:55:46,280
Speaker 1: what the whole thing is about. But I was just

1878
01:55:46,360 --> 01:55:48,640
Speaker 1: like I couldn't wait for him to get back home

1879
01:55:49,040 --> 01:55:52,520
Speaker 1: to give him a big old hug. I'm blown away

1880
01:55:53,440 --> 01:55:56,680
Speaker 1: by the way these he and his teammates, the way

1881
01:55:56,720 --> 01:55:59,360
Speaker 1: these young dudes are out there playing golf at age

1882
01:55:59,400 --> 01:56:01,360
Speaker 1: fifteen and so crazy.

1883
01:56:01,400 --> 01:56:04,160
Speaker 3: Brother, congratulations, that's it.

1884
01:56:06,680 --> 01:56:09,480
Speaker 1: Does. It's like there's not much especially with it as

1885
01:56:09,520 --> 01:56:12,080
Speaker 1: a competitor and an athlete at any level. You did

1886
01:56:12,080 --> 01:56:15,320
Speaker 1: it at the professional level, but like it's one of

1887
01:56:15,320 --> 01:56:18,040
Speaker 1: those things, right, they're always trying to compete to beat you,

1888
01:56:19,000 --> 01:56:21,000
Speaker 1: and you just keep it a secret where you're like

1889
01:56:21,760 --> 01:56:25,240
Speaker 1: they don't know that you actually want them to. Like

1890
01:56:25,280 --> 01:56:28,320
Speaker 1: it's the one area in life where I can't wait

1891
01:56:28,360 --> 01:56:31,680
Speaker 1: to lose. It's like, brother, you know when they finally

1892
01:56:31,720 --> 01:56:34,720
Speaker 1: beat you and they're like, oh, they're peacocking, and you're

1893
01:56:34,720 --> 01:56:37,000
Speaker 1: just sitting there thinking to yourself, I've been sitting here

1894
01:56:37,040 --> 01:56:40,200
Speaker 1: waiting for three years for you to do this, and

1895
01:56:40,240 --> 01:56:43,840
Speaker 1: you finally did, and so good on you. I'm I'm

1896
01:56:44,240 --> 01:56:48,880
Speaker 1: I'm glad to not be anywhere near the golfer that

1897
01:56:49,000 --> 01:56:51,680
Speaker 1: my son now is awesome, awesome.

1898
01:56:52,000 --> 01:56:55,120
Speaker 3: I love it. Both my kids were a million times

1899
01:56:55,200 --> 01:57:00,680
Speaker 3: better than I wasn't their respective ages and their bestketball journey.

1900
01:57:00,680 --> 01:57:04,280
Speaker 3: I didn't even play baseball, so I love every second

1901
01:57:04,320 --> 01:57:07,800
Speaker 3: of it. I want to tag on to that and

1902
01:57:08,160 --> 01:57:12,320
Speaker 3: till my beautiful nine year old now happy birthday. Today

1903
01:57:12,360 --> 01:57:14,360
Speaker 3: is Elijah's birthday, nine years old.

1904
01:57:14,440 --> 01:57:17,720
Speaker 2: Oh, happy birthday to the young fella.

1905
01:57:17,920 --> 01:57:21,320
Speaker 3: I had rushed over from sky Zone, the trampoline place

1906
01:57:22,440 --> 01:57:24,280
Speaker 3: prior prior to us going.

1907
01:57:24,320 --> 01:57:25,520
Speaker 2: I love sky Zone.

1908
01:57:26,160 --> 01:57:28,520
Speaker 3: Oh gosh, a happy birthday.

1909
01:57:28,760 --> 01:57:30,920
Speaker 2: He go on the phone. Yeah, he go on the

1910
01:57:30,960 --> 01:57:32,840
Speaker 2: phone pit seven times.

1911
01:57:32,880 --> 01:57:33,480
Speaker 1: All that. Man.

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01:57:33,800 --> 01:57:38,280
Speaker 3: They have this yes, this basketball you know, bouncy house

1913
01:57:38,280 --> 01:57:41,600
Speaker 3: basketball court is they just was going crazy. Man, So

1914
01:57:42,200 --> 01:57:43,720
Speaker 3: shout out to them, and they shout out to my

1915
01:57:43,720 --> 01:57:48,400
Speaker 3: beautiful wife. Yesterday was our anniversary been together twenty years,

1916
01:57:48,440 --> 01:57:54,040
Speaker 3: married seventeen. My god, yeah, man, yeah, it's it's a

1917
01:57:55,280 --> 01:57:56,000
Speaker 3: look at you.

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01:57:56,000 --> 01:57:57,919
Speaker 1: You know, I'm sitting here that I'm like, I'm impressed

1919
01:57:57,920 --> 01:58:02,280
Speaker 1: that you're doing the show tonight. Kids, birthday, good on you.

1920
01:58:02,440 --> 01:58:05,400
Speaker 3: I'm locked inn man. We you know it's all good.

1921
01:58:05,960 --> 01:58:10,280
Speaker 1: We I remember you worked on you worked on Christmas.

1922
01:58:09,800 --> 01:58:13,440
Speaker 3: Your Father's Day. It's just, you know, it's part it's

1923
01:58:13,520 --> 01:58:15,800
Speaker 3: part of like I'm there for my kids. I also

1924
01:58:15,880 --> 01:58:20,440
Speaker 3: have responsibilities, so you know, I try to let them

1925
01:58:20,440 --> 01:58:22,520
Speaker 3: see that look we can. Me and my wife were

1926
01:58:22,520 --> 01:58:25,120
Speaker 3: in Vegas for Friday Saturday. We went to see us

1927
01:58:25,160 --> 01:58:29,160
Speaker 3: You're on Friday, went to see Adele on Saturday, and

1928
01:58:29,360 --> 01:58:32,120
Speaker 3: after the Adele concert last night, we drove home, woke

1929
01:58:32,240 --> 01:58:36,040
Speaker 3: up to our kids and his friends to sky Zone

1930
01:58:36,600 --> 01:58:39,120
Speaker 3: and then as they headed home, I came over here

1931
01:58:39,120 --> 01:58:41,240
Speaker 3: to go to work and then I'll go and we'll

1932
01:58:41,280 --> 01:58:44,000
Speaker 3: have a little cake when I get like, it's just

1933
01:58:44,120 --> 01:58:45,520
Speaker 3: this is life, man.

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Speaker 2: That's how we're do it.

1935
01:58:47,000 --> 01:58:50,200
Speaker 1: Yeah. People, Daddy, where do you gotta go? You say,

1936
01:58:50,240 --> 01:58:52,320
Speaker 1: I gotta go pay for sky Zone. That's what you

1937
01:58:52,360 --> 01:58:53,000
Speaker 1: gotta do. Work.

1938
01:58:53,080 --> 01:58:56,560
Speaker 3: People always talking about work life balance. You gotta work

1939
01:58:56,600 --> 01:58:57,720
Speaker 3: at work life balance.

1940
01:58:57,920 --> 01:58:59,920
Speaker 2: That's right. Life.

1941
01:59:00,160 --> 01:59:04,440
Speaker 1: If what are you gonna balance, will not balance itself.

1942
01:59:05,280 --> 01:59:09,640
Speaker 1: So I promised. I promised the bottom five. Tell me

1943
01:59:09,640 --> 01:59:14,280
Speaker 1: if anything sparks Panthers, Colts, Rams, Texans, Cardinals. That's the

1944
01:59:14,320 --> 01:59:16,560
Speaker 1: bottom five of the PFF power rank.

1945
01:59:16,720 --> 01:59:19,720
Speaker 3: No, that's about right. That sounds about right. That sounds

1946
01:59:19,720 --> 01:59:22,640
Speaker 3: about right. I think the Texans will be better, uh

1947
01:59:22,680 --> 01:59:25,880
Speaker 3: than they have been. I loved Amico Ryans, I love

1948
01:59:25,920 --> 01:59:31,960
Speaker 3: what they're doing. But yeah, that's that's that's right.

1949
01:59:33,720 --> 01:59:36,200
Speaker 1: Rams, Rams would love themselves from Kayler Williams.

1950
01:59:36,280 --> 01:59:39,240
Speaker 3: Huh oh, yeah, the deal be perfect.

1951
01:59:39,360 --> 01:59:43,240
Speaker 1: That's the deal. There. It would it would, it absolutely would. Well,

1952
01:59:43,480 --> 01:59:47,840
Speaker 1: my man, Happy anniversary, Happy birthday to your young buck.

1953
01:59:48,840 --> 01:59:51,800
Speaker 1: So glad you were you were with us tonight, and

1954
01:59:51,920 --> 01:59:53,800
Speaker 1: we'll do it again next week. We'll have some more

1955
01:59:53,840 --> 01:59:55,240
Speaker 1: work life balance, that's right.