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Speaker 1: Hello, Welcome and side hour two The Jason Smith Show

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Speaker 1: with my best friend Mike Harmon, Live from the Tireck

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Speaker 1: dot com studios where we just watched, well, a very

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Speaker 1: compelling ending depending on what you bet. Middle of the game,

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Speaker 1: the Thunder, who are what twenty seven and a half?

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Speaker 1: You could have gotten the Wolves with twenty seven and

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Speaker 1: a half at halftime? Right, no plus thirty one plus

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Speaker 1: thirty one? Final score Thunder one twenty four Timberwolves ninety four.

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Speaker 1: As Harmon stood up, just.

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Speaker 3: Play.

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Speaker 1: There's no such thing as useless three pointers? Why you

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Speaker 1: just laugh?

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Speaker 4: Right?

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Speaker 1: They make the shot one twenty four ninety one.

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Speaker 5: The Thunder run out the shot clock violation.

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Speaker 1: Okay, fine ball.

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Speaker 5: Comes in with four seconds left, twenty four foot three

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Speaker 5: point shot booming.

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Speaker 1: It's like, wow, I'll tell you. Okay, So the Thunder

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Speaker 1: are headed to the NBA Finals. I have a week

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Speaker 1: and a day off. Game one of the NBA Finals

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Speaker 1: is next Thursday. Their first time in the finals since

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Speaker 1: twenty twelve. And again, when you have three MVPs over

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Speaker 1: a twelve year span, I think you're underachieving. I think

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Speaker 1: you're under it. KD and Westbrook and SGA, I think

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Speaker 1: you're underachieving. Wait, we're the little engche of the cook.

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Speaker 1: Now you've had three MVPs over a ten years.

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Speaker 5: Fans a lot of stars, and you had James Harden.

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Speaker 1: You couldn't hold onto him. Okay, a lot of James Areden. Uh. Now, look,

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Speaker 1: this is a game that was long decided. Basically, Look,

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Speaker 1: the Thunder got out to a lead and the Tea

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Speaker 1: coming in, yeah, we'll put up a little bit of

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Speaker 1: a fight. When things start going our way, we know

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Speaker 1: we're done. And the Tea Wolves just absolutely knew they

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Speaker 1: were done in the middle of the first half of

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Speaker 1: this game, right, And it was just they never threatened,

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Speaker 1: They never really pushed forth with some kind of push

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Speaker 1: like what I said at the beginning of the show,

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Speaker 1: if the NBA wanted to put in a rule that

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Speaker 1: if you're up three to zero or three to one

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Speaker 1: and you're going home for a game, we can end

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Speaker 1: the series. Circus Vargas know something. We don't need to

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Speaker 1: play it because it's a waste of everybody's time, because

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Speaker 1: teams down three zip, three to one going on the road,

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Speaker 1: forget it, forget it, you're not you're they put it away,

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Speaker 1: and it's a waste of television, a waste of space.

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Speaker 1: We had games like this. So if the NBA wanted

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Speaker 1: to set now three to two, no, no, no, and

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Speaker 1: and three two if that, if if the and three

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Speaker 1: we'll keep that going. But three one or three to zero,

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Speaker 1: if that team down is going on the road, okay, No, No,

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Speaker 1: the series you can clinch getting that third win of

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Speaker 5: Is replaced with the live theatrical version of Scooby Doo

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Speaker 5: and the Kiss, you know, rock and Roll Mystery or

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Speaker 5: something that way, you.

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Speaker 1: Get to tell them, you know you did. Everybody that

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Speaker 1: a big party, and they have.

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Speaker 5: Certainly there's a bounce house movie. There's a bounce house.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, there's face painting, there's crafts. You can make bracelets,

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Speaker 5: There's a big contest, I mean side cage. Okay, folks

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Speaker 1: Life be, but you gotta make it a family friendly

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Speaker 5: Gotta make it nice for the people and still come out.

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Speaker 5: The players still have to show up and make appearances.

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Speaker 1: They We're just gonna anoint you because there's a lot

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Speaker 1: to worry about Well, there's a celebration, curt a week off.

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Speaker 1: that a week That's how that's you'd buy. That would

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Speaker 1: it wouldn't be as big of a waste of time. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: this was awful. I'd rather watch this instead of the

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Speaker 1: Pro Bowl, right, so we have that, But if.

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Speaker 5: You want to bear hears, yeah, I'd rather watch that,

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Speaker 5: not this game.

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Speaker 1: Not this game. I'd rather watch a practice. Here's that,

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Speaker 1: not a game, not a game, not a game. Here's

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Speaker 1: how it sounded at the end with thunder TV.

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Speaker 6: Ninety four of the Final A thirty point route. Not

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Speaker 6: a single day went by this season, but Oklahoma City

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Speaker 6: did not hold the best record in the West. And

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Speaker 6: now this historic, relentless thunderstorm has unstoppably, emphatically and officially

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Speaker 6: earned the Moniker Best.

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Speaker 1: In the West. Okay, yes or no? Was that written

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Speaker 1: down and he read off it written? Now, that was

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Speaker 1: a WWE provo.

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Speaker 2: I had that.

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Speaker 5: Ready and packed and I was waiting for him to

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Speaker 5: tell me. He was at the Hartford Civic Center on

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Speaker 5: Saturday night. I think it's at the door one hundred percent.

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Speaker 5: He had that call, and maybe he wrote it at halftime.

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Speaker 1: Because you know what, in his mom's basement doesn't But

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Speaker 1: I'm like, Okay, play it again. There's no way that

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Speaker 6: One four ninety four of the Final A thirty point

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Speaker 6: this season, but Oklahoma City did not vote the worst

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Speaker 6: record in the West. And now this historic, relentless thunderstorm

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Speaker 1: Unstoppably emphatically. Now that's all written down. That's all written down.

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Speaker 5: Either that or he was channeling Jackie Childs from Seinfeld

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Speaker 5: the late great Dusty row Your face is my case

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Speaker 1: All right, I'm gonna write this down so I get

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Speaker 1: adjectives I want to indubidly. Yeah, I had this, I

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Speaker 1: So what's it? What? What's a big takeaway from a

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Speaker 1: game that was not in doubt over the course of

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Speaker 1: the past two and a half hours. Matt Pinto on

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Speaker 1: a Clippers guy for a while, Right, pretty sure he's

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Speaker 1: that bad? Yeah? Pretty wow?

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Speaker 1: Frostburg off the top rope. What was worse? What was

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Speaker 1: what was worse that? Or Tanner Scott today? What was

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Speaker 1: you want to come say that to my face. Yea,

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Speaker 1: he worked for the Hornets and some Yeah, I don't

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Speaker 1: know how many I'm gonna have left. But that's the thing.

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Speaker 1: You can't waste a Kurshaw day, and he did. You

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Speaker 1: probably have you get me all rolled up? Smith, you

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Speaker 1: probably have. I don't know that you have twelve Kershaw days. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: digit man? Yeah, that's tough. Yeah, that's tough, man. Right

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Speaker 1: back to that stuff. Now.

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Speaker 5: Look, you know we're pondering the meaning of life. Look

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Speaker 5: what happened and we went going from a burial today.

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Speaker 5: Your life was better than this game. Oh, if you're

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Speaker 5: not gonna show up, put that up on the big screen.

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Speaker 1: Instead of face painting, man, face painting, I'm an expert.

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Speaker 1: I did it for you. Barkley and Kenny Smith get

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Speaker 1: their faces painted instead. That would be kind of cool.

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Speaker 1: You literally have the clown mask for whatever you look like.

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Speaker 2: Elsa.

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Speaker 1: Yes, I got the Elsa face paint. I look awesome.

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Speaker 5: They gave me a little sparkles that yeah, okay, But

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Speaker 5: like the ice trails.

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Speaker 1: Sure, we've had the conversation the last few nights about

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Speaker 1: all listen, if you're really the face of the league

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Speaker 1: And Ann Edwards, you got to show up, right, will up?

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Speaker 1: I told you, why did I pick the Thunder to win?

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Speaker 1: Why did I pick the Thunder? Look? I know that

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Speaker 1: SGA was going to be a more consistent superstar throughout

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Speaker 1: this series, and he was, and SGA had and SGA

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Speaker 1: was there and led the He led the Thunder every

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Speaker 1: single game, right, I mean it was. This is a

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Speaker 1: the MVP in the NBA this year thirty one, thirty eight,

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Speaker 1: fourteen and the loss. Okay, I got not.

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Speaker 5: To say everybody's thrown away is thirty eight, forty and

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Speaker 1: Okay. He led them to the NBA Finals and and

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Speaker 1: Edwards had two games at least where he didn't show up.

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Speaker 1: That's the whole thing with Ann Edwards. But yet still

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Speaker 1: He's Jordan. He's Jordan. You want to really have a

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Speaker 1: who could be that. This is your guy? Sga is

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Speaker 1: your guy. This is a guy who suddenly has led

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Speaker 1: the thunder as you ord Matt Pinto say, not a

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Speaker 1: day out of first place. This year, he wins the MVP.

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Speaker 1: They are into the NBA Finals and will enter as

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Speaker 1: an overwhelming favorite to win this series. In probably five games.

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Speaker 1: Sga has shown in a very short amount of time,

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Speaker 1: still twenty five years old, that he is the best

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Speaker 1: is exciting. That is someone that you can push and say, hey,

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Speaker 1: this guy is really just getting started. He just wins

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Speaker 1: the MVP. Now he's really just getting going. Everybody loves him.

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Speaker 1: Everybody loves Sga. He doesn't have any detractors. Everybody say, well,

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Speaker 1: I wish he would do this more, he would do this,

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Speaker 1: he would do this. He is universally loved. This is

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Speaker 5: Well, I mean you have the obvious of the free

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Speaker 5: throw merchant. Well, he didn't need to do it today

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Speaker 5: because they beat the absolute snot out of these guys

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Speaker 5: that's always in the back pocket. And that's the thing

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Speaker 5: to remember, right, is that it's there when you need

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Speaker 5: it and you can lean into it. And certainly Anthony

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Speaker 5: Edwards in this game tried to. He just didn't get

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Speaker 5: thing that comes against him is he's playing for the Thunder. Well,

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Speaker 5: if they go on a run. And this is where

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Speaker 5: it gets interesting, right, is where we've been talking about

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Speaker 1: Palmer Rosi. All right, what do you got, Pope?

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Speaker 1: Hey, have you heard from the Pope yet? You said

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Speaker 4: So, first of all, good evening, great with you. I

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Speaker 4: That not that we're entirely off topic, but did I

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Speaker 4: actually explain to you why why my name is the

435
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Speaker 4: name that it is. So my mom heavily under under

436
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Speaker 4: sedation after after giving birth to me, the whole thing,

437
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Speaker 4: which will which will surprise no one. I was kind

438
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Speaker 4: of a real pain during the whole process. So so

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Speaker 4: she's a little bit sedated that they come in with

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Speaker 4: all the documents. Okay, Chris, what are you going.

441
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Speaker 3: To name your child?

442
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Speaker 4: And and she said John Paul. And they said, how

443
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Speaker 4: are you gonna spell? Are you gonna spell John? And

444
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Speaker 4: she said, well, the same way you always spell it jo.

445
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Speaker 4: When is there any other way to spell it? And

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Speaker 4: they said, well, some people these days like going with

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Speaker 4: j O N. And She's like, oh, okay, let's do that.

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Speaker 4: That sounds great. How I was named Jay when I

449
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Speaker 4: am not Jonathan. She just had this the the the

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Speaker 4: nurse at Marquette General Hospital. Uh, just asked the right

451
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Speaker 4: question of the right person at the right time, and

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Speaker 4: she said, yeah, yeah, leave off the age, because I

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Speaker 4: say so j O N.

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Speaker 1: The way you say it is like when I go

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Speaker 1: into a rest of they go, would you like extra

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Speaker 1: cheese for an extra seventy five cents? Let's go with that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: let's go with that. Yeah, that's how your mom made

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Speaker 1: that decision. Yeah, extra cheese, let's go with that. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: let's hear it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah exactly, I would like the extra age. It's gonna

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Speaker 4: cost you next to twenty five bucks. Okay, yeah. Yeah.

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Speaker 5: They swaddled me in pink because they ran out of blue.

463
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Speaker 5: So for a minute I was Michelle until they slapped

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Speaker 5: mom awake.

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Speaker 3: He was the real pain.

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Speaker 4: So we're not going to go with the h see there.

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Speaker 1: You go, all right?

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Speaker 5: So I got asked the question for Prostburg here JP

469
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Speaker 5: what happens here with the Dodgers back end of game

470
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Speaker 5: situation because they run Kershaw Day and Scott's already blown

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Speaker 5: five saves.

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Speaker 4: They got some problems and and you know, they've they've

473
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Speaker 4: obviously tried to go with some external solutions that they

474
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Speaker 4: brought Intraveno, who pitched fine so that he was he

475
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Speaker 4: was good today. They they need to probably be a

476
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Speaker 4: bit more aggressive now looking at the waiver wire and

477
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Speaker 4: or potentially digging backing some of these charters. It's they're

478
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Speaker 4: trying to do something that really no team has ever

479
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Speaker 4: done to my knowledge, which is basically throw six or

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Speaker 4: seven starters at the league and then hope the bullpen

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Speaker 4: figures it out. And it's not really a great operation

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Speaker 4: in my opinion. I mean that they're still in first place,

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Speaker 4: they're still going to make the playoffs. They'll be fine

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Speaker 4: to a large extent, but I'm not seeing right now

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Speaker 4: a bullpen that looks like one that's going to be

486
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Speaker 4: able to navigate all of October, and they're going to

487
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Speaker 4: have to address it. Fortunately for them, we're now at

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Speaker 4: the end of May. June usually is when trade stuff

489
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Speaker 4: starts getting kicked around. And there are a number of

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Speaker 4: teams Marlins now, the Orioles, you would assume based on

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Speaker 4: the way they're playing, the Pirates, other ball clubs, the

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Speaker 4: Rockies certainly, but again are you going to be asking

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Speaker 4: the Rockies for their relievers right now? So there's just

494
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Speaker 4: there's a lot of a lot of need for bullpen

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Speaker 4: around the game. And I think this is just the

496
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Speaker 4: Dodgers having to live with the flawed nature of their plan.

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Speaker 4: It may still work out, but it's not foolproof when

498
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Speaker 4: you've got this many starters who are unable to start

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Speaker 4: on four days rest. I think the last I checked,

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Speaker 4: I believe only one or two games this entire season

501
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Speaker 4: for the Dodgers were started on regular rest. And eventually

502
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Speaker 4: the bill is coming due, and with a lot of

503
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Speaker 4: Dodger relievers injured, they may have to get more aggressive

504
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Speaker 4: than just waiver claims and sending out Barnes and tailor.

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Speaker 4: I mean, they're gonna have to probably be a little

506
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Speaker 4: bit more aggressive with the way they are managing their

507
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Speaker 4: roster now to make sure they have coverage or else.

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Speaker 4: I'm afraid for their standpoint that the injuries might compound

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Speaker 4: on themselves.

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Speaker 1: John Palm Morosi our guest right now, and it is

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Speaker 1: a big time in the life of John Palm Rosi.

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Speaker 1: Not only is he moving closer into nailing down that

513
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Speaker 1: interview with Pope Leo, things have to be great around

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Speaker 1: the Rossi household right now, and I got to think

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Speaker 1: around well, around your dad as well, because John, Paul,

516
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Speaker 1: the Tigers are the best team in baseball, and you

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Speaker 1: look at all the other teams, all the Yankees. Yes

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Speaker 1: they're scaring everybody. Now they're injured, but still it's a

519
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Speaker 1: bad division. The Tigers are the best team in baseball.

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Speaker 4: They are, and they just they just beat the Giants

521
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Speaker 4: in three straight a really good team. Good teams find

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Speaker 4: ways to respond, and they lost the first three games

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Speaker 4: of that series against Cleveland. They come back Sunday with

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Speaker 4: Schoobl's absolute masterpiece, which I just think was one of

525
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Speaker 4: the best pitch games any of us have seen all year,

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Speaker 4: and then they play the Giants and just find different

527
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Speaker 4: ways to win. Tommy Cainley two winnings, scoreless today. Again.

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Speaker 4: Candy is the kind of guy, by the way, that

529
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Speaker 4: the Dodgers I'm sure they would love to have right now.

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Speaker 4: So there's there are a lot of interesting story lines

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Speaker 4: with the Tigers team, I think Torkelsen's resurgence has been

532
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Speaker 4: one of them. You're seeing Colt Keith who had a

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Speaker 4: huge day to day to really help them win that

534
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Speaker 4: ball game. Riley Green I still think is going to

535
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Speaker 4: be an All Star. And the rotation is is solid

536
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Speaker 4: and Jackson job did not finish five innings today, but

537
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Speaker 4: man does he have a special arm. It just they

538
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Speaker 4: pitched really well and their lineup is deeper than it

539
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Speaker 4: was last year when they when they almost made the

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Speaker 4: World Series, or when at least almost made the Alcs.

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Speaker 4: And so for me, they're they're they're a really good team.

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Speaker 4: This is not just a good start. And by the way,

543
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Speaker 4: they're in a pretty pretty solid Division two. Looking at

544
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Speaker 4: how good the second, third and fourth place teams are

545
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Speaker 4: in terms of their records. It's they're not just walking

546
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Speaker 4: through easy opponents here. They're playing good teams. And when

547
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Speaker 4: you sweep the Giants, you get a lot of attention,

548
00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:44,000
Speaker 4: which is deservedly. So right now for the Detroit Tigers, yeah,

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Speaker 4: I mean.

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Speaker 5: You also have a great bounce back from Javier Baiazy,

551
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Speaker 5: who's in the news a lot because his name is

552
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Speaker 5: mentioned whenever. I'll bring it back up, and we see

553
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Speaker 5: people Crol Armstrong bring fantastic things.

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Speaker 1: Don't bring that trade up.

555
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Speaker 4: That I've heard. I've heard young Petekor Armstrong is doing

556
00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:04,320
Speaker 4: a pretty good job there in Chicago. I actually had

557
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Speaker 4: a chance to watch him play in person this year.

558
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:09,320
Speaker 4: He's doing pretty well. I've I've got and you've got

559
00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:11,680
Speaker 4: a credit Jared Banner and the and the Cubs that

560
00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:13,199
Speaker 4: did a great job with the front office to bring

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Speaker 4: him over the time. But you're right, Hobby Bayas, despite

562
00:28:16,880 --> 00:28:20,720
Speaker 4: the the ejection over the weekend where he has the

563
00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:23,080
Speaker 4: issues with the strike zone, he is doing a great

564
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Speaker 4: job of feeding off of the emotional energy of Comerica Park,

565
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Speaker 4: which now is all of a sudden again one of

566
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Speaker 4: the more raucous ballparks in Major League Baseball.

567
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Speaker 5: So Pete Crow Armstrong is going to be the face

568
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Speaker 5: of Major League based on stop stop stop stop d.

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Speaker 4: He may well be, You'll be. I will say this,

570
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Speaker 4: he is going to be an All star. Nellison, You're

571
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Speaker 4: not going to get much sympathy from me, Jason. You've

572
00:28:42,880 --> 00:28:45,600
Speaker 4: got this is this is the market that that that

573
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Speaker 4: traded away John Smoltz for two months of dole. Alexander Okay,

574
00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:51,320
Speaker 4: so so there's not exactly You're not going to get

575
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Speaker 4: a whole lot of sympathy here, but I I understand

576
00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:58,960
Speaker 4: the pain. Uh listen, the Mets are. They're a fine team, Tyrone,

577
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Speaker 4: Taylor good.

578
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Speaker 1: You got to We're good. We're twelve, We're twelve games

579
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Speaker 1: over five hundred. We're good. We're absolutely good.

580
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Speaker 4: You're you're good. You're good.

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Speaker 1: I'm not as good as you, but you know, not as.

582
00:29:07,920 --> 00:29:09,800
Speaker 4: Good as the Phillies, not as good as the Phillies,

583
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Speaker 4: but you're good.

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Speaker 1: He's on Twitter at John Morosi, that is at John Morosi,

585
00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:19,520
Speaker 1: who is going to next steps into securing an interview

586
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Speaker 1: with Pope Leo also called Conclave two. So there it is.

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Speaker 1: There is a se starring John Paul Morossi. I just see,

588
00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:29,440
Speaker 1: I can see a movie. You know, your you you

589
00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:33,720
Speaker 1: journeying to Italy to interview the Pope and all the

590
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Speaker 1: the adventures you have getting there and trying to secure

591
00:29:36,520 --> 00:29:39,000
Speaker 1: the interview with the Pope. Like I think that's a movie.

592
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Speaker 4: Well, I gotta take some video. I gotta take some photos.

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Speaker 4: By the way, when you when you said the next

594
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Speaker 4: steps and Italian would be pros.

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Speaker 1: John Paul Morossi next step, he pro PASTI John Paul

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Speaker 1: is always Bundy O on the title. We'll work on

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Speaker 1: the will work shopping works. Have a good call, brother,

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Speaker 1: you see your buddy, There goes John Paul Morosi. Well,

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Speaker 1: I mean next steps to interview the pope. That's amazing,

600
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Speaker 1: so awesome time now to find out what's trending in

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Speaker 1: the wide world of sports from a guy who I

602
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Speaker 1: don't know. Martin, you ever interviewed the pope before?

603
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Speaker 5: Have you?

604
00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:19,720
Speaker 1: Or maybe you have. I don't know, never interviewed the pope.

605
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Speaker 7: But we did get the day off of school the

606
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Speaker 7: last time a new pope was elected at my Jesuit

607
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Speaker 7: High school, so that really you.

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Speaker 1: Got the day of Jesuit.

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Speaker 2: See, they got you too.

610
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Speaker 1: Like like you were getting ready to go to school

611
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Speaker 1: and instead of hey, it's snowing out, it was the

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Speaker 1: white smoke is out, stay home.

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Speaker 7: I believe the white smoke came around lunchtime. And then

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Speaker 7: after that they were like, all bets are off, everybody

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Speaker 7: go home.

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Speaker 1: I'm ditching for the day. We got a new pope.

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Speaker 1: So it's trending today.

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Speaker 7: We had some finals in some of these conferences, the

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Speaker 7: Western Conference of the NBA.

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Speaker 1: It's all settled up now.

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Speaker 7: Oklahoma City will advance to the NBA Finals after beating

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Speaker 7: Minnesota one twenty four to ninety four in Game five

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Speaker 7: of the Conference Finals. The NBA MVP SA Gildess Alexander

624
00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:04,520
Speaker 7: finished with thirty four points. Chet Holmgren added twenty two,

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Speaker 7: Jalen J. W. Williams with nineteen. Anthony Edwards finished with

626
00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:10,040
Speaker 7: nineteen points on eighteen shots.

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Speaker 1: The NHL's Eastern Conference.

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Speaker 7: Will be represented by the Florida Panthers as they beat

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Speaker 7: the Carolina Hurricanes live to three.

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Speaker 1: Carolina did jump out to a two to lead by

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Speaker 1: the end.

632
00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:20,680
Speaker 7: Of the first period, but Florida roared back by the

633
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Speaker 7: end of the second of taking the lead and never

634
00:31:22,840 --> 00:31:26,120
Speaker 7: looked back. In his first comment, says cutting kicker Justin

635
00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:28,920
Speaker 7: Tucker Ravens. Head coach John Harbo said the decision was

636
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Speaker 7: a quote complex decision making process between him, Steve, team

637
00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:39,440
Speaker 7: owner Steve Bashatti, President Sashi Brown, and general manager Eric Tacosta.

638
00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:42,440
Speaker 7: Pete Carl Armstrong got his fiftieth RBI and a two

639
00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:44,640
Speaker 7: to one win for the Cubs over the Rockies. The

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00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:46,680
Speaker 7: Braves and the Phillies play tomorrow.

641
00:31:46,840 --> 00:31:47,480
Speaker 1: Due to rain.

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00:31:47,840 --> 00:31:51,240
Speaker 7: Guardians outscored the Dodgers seven to four thanks to a

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00:31:51,280 --> 00:31:54,440
Speaker 7: three run homer in the eighth inning from Angel Martinez.

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00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:57,200
Speaker 7: Thanks a lot Tanner, Scott Clayton Kershaw five innutes, pitch

645
00:31:57,440 --> 00:32:01,800
Speaker 7: six hits, three strikeouts. He's out twenty six from three thousand.

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00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:05,200
Speaker 7: The Pirates caruses dinabacks ten to one, Paul Stein's six

647
00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:07,560
Speaker 7: and two Thursdy and He's pitch seven strikeouts from the

648
00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:10,760
Speaker 7: Brewers walk it off back to back games against the

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Speaker 7: Red Sox six to five and ten and exists when

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00:32:13,040 --> 00:32:15,840
Speaker 7: this three game sweep over there, White Sox top the

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Speaker 7: Mets nine to four, Giant Tigers edge the Giants four

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Speaker 1: Back to you, guys, thanks a bunch Martin, Jason Smith,

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Speaker 1: up next. Very harsh on n Edwards the last couple

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Speaker 1: this series absolutely deserved, right for a guy who' supposed

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Speaker 1: are into the NBA Finals with a crushing one twenty

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Speaker 1: four ninety four win over the Timberwolves was never in doubt.

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Speaker 1: We'll have more on them coming up in a few minutes.

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Speaker 1: But Anthony Edwards is someone who the last couple of

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Speaker 1: Nice Boy we've really been rough on, and rightfully so

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Speaker 1: because for the superstar. He's positioning himself to be for

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Speaker 1: the hype that he's been given from former athletes and pundits.

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Speaker 1: The guy doesn't show up a lot, and he doesn'

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Speaker 1: show up enough in big series and the Timberwolves are

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Speaker 1: going home. Didn't show up in Game one, didn't show

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Speaker 1: up in the previous game. And that's a problem, right

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Speaker 1: if you're the face of the league, which he's not,

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Speaker 1: but if you're gonna be the face league, you have

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Speaker 1: to show up in every playoff game. And he doesn't.

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Speaker 1: And part of it is and you know, and it's

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Speaker 1: a really big thing. And I know you know all

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Speaker 1: the criticism we've had him the last couple of nights,

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Speaker 1: but not I want to help a little bit because

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Speaker 1: I'm about that. I'm about that positive.

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Speaker 5: Here about the positivity, okay, because first off, it was

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Speaker 5: just a step up in class, right, you got the

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Speaker 5: victory lap after beating the Lakers, you take down the Warriors, well,

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Speaker 5: degree of difficulty, A lot of arguments about its STEPH

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Speaker 5: Curry unavailable, no big man that you have to worry about,

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Speaker 5: or swarming defense for the Golden State Warriors. We can

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Speaker 5: all stipulate to that. Here an attacking squad eight to

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Speaker 5: nine deep, that all come at you from all angles,

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Speaker 5: I believe. On the radio broadcast at some point they go,

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Speaker 5: I think he's got ten hands in his face.

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Speaker 1: Now you've heard him say after the game the other night,

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Speaker 1: I don't look like it. As I struggled, I didn't

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Speaker 1: get shot. They didn't let me get shots, which is, dude,

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Speaker 1: you have to find the shots. You have to find

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Speaker 1: find the way to impact the game. He made the basketball, Jason,

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Speaker 1: and he would he wouldn't take any responsibility for which

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Speaker 1: is not what stars do. Now, I was thinking about

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Speaker 1: this after Rick Buker said this last on the show

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Speaker 1: about Anthony Edward, which may be the most damning thing

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Speaker 1: about Edwards to this point. Now here's one of the

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Speaker 1: reasons why Rick Buker told us why Edwards sometimes tends

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Speaker 1: to struggle in situations like this.

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Speaker 3: Like sometimes he can't read the defense. He needs Dante

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Speaker 3: to tell him, Donte Defincenzo to tell him what the

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Speaker 3: defense is doing and how they're playing.

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Speaker 4: Like that is that is the most.

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Speaker 3: Alarming admission by a star player that I can recall

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Speaker 3: ever hearing in my life. I mean, we're talking about

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Speaker 3: we're comparing this guy to Michael Jordan's and he can't

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Speaker 3: read defenses. And if you can't read the defense and

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Speaker 3: it looks the floor looks muddy, you're going to be tentive,

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Speaker 3: in tentative. You're going to like not be sure of

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Speaker 3: where you can go. And if you can't, you can't,

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Speaker 3: like or from the mid range. Then all you're looking

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Speaker 3: for is is there a path for me to get

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Speaker 3: to the rim? And if there isn't, again, that's what's

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Speaker 3: going to make a guy hesitant or tentative.

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Speaker 1: Now, huge deal, right, that's a huge deal. I can't

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Speaker 1: read your defenses. I tell Dante DiVincenzo, I tell him

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Speaker 1: what's going on. This is what Anthony Edwards needs. Okay,

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Speaker 1: this is where he needs. A Hall of Famer who

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Speaker 1: cares about the game, who cares about him, someone like Shaq,

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Speaker 1: because Shaq can really say from personally to sit down

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Speaker 1: with him in the offseason and say, you need to

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Speaker 1: do more, you need to do more if you're really

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Speaker 1: going to do something in this league, because Shack can

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Speaker 1: say because at different points where Shack at the point

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Speaker 1: his career, Hey, I had fun the first few years

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Speaker 1: I was in movies. Everything was great, But then I

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Speaker 1: knew my legacy was at stake, so I knew I

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Speaker 1: had to get someplace else other than Orlando, and I

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Speaker 1: had to, you know, get with a team where we

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Speaker 1: were going to win. The businesses was about winning championships,

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Speaker 1: and look I went and I won three with the Lakers.

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Speaker 1: I went one more with the heat Shack Hall of

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Speaker 1: Famer needs to sit Anthony Edwards down and say, you

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Speaker 1: can't just exist on what you do. If you have

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Speaker 1: trouble reading the defenses, guess what you got to get

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Speaker 1: in the film and understanding. You got have coaches explain

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Speaker 1: things to you. You have to the light switch has

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Speaker 1: to go on for you to go that. You know,

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Speaker 1: everybody has a lot of talent, but eventually, if you

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Speaker 1: want to be one of the all time greats, you

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Speaker 1: got to bring something else to the party. And you

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Speaker 1: need to take this off season to say how do

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Speaker 1: I become the best version of myself and not be

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Speaker 1: someone who can go out there and either not know

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Speaker 1: what I see and be tentative and then not take

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Speaker 1: responsibility for it. He needs that sit down from someone

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Speaker 1: who'll listen to that will say, look, this is your legas,

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Speaker 1: this is your life, your career, this is what you

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Speaker 1: need to do if you really want to be that

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Speaker 1: next level guy. And hopefully Anthony Edwards listens and in

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Speaker 1: five years there's a big ESPN story about how, oh,

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Speaker 1: a conversation I had with Shack after the Western Conference

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Speaker 1: finals and twenty twenty five really set me on the

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Speaker 1: right path. Like, I'm hoping that's what we get well

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Speaker 1: as a conversation.

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Speaker 5: We've had numerous times, you and I over the years

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Speaker 5: as related to athletes translating their skills sets into the NFL. Right,

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Speaker 5: and certainly in these kind of terms, when you're looking

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Speaker 5: at the quarterback position where you have all world athletes

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Speaker 5: you've dominated, or refining your skills as a cornerback, as

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Speaker 5: a wide receiver, whatever. I mean, there's a different level

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Speaker 5: to it and nuance to separate good and athletic to

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Speaker 5: becoming great and consistently great.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 5: The Kyler Murray example always comes up. Yeah, take your

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Speaker 5: shots about the video games, whatever, But this is a

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Speaker 5: guy where everything came easy. Right, You're a Heisman winner,

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Speaker 5: you're a top draft pick in baseball, and then all

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Speaker 5: of a sudden it becomes the weight. I've got to

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Speaker 5: spend extra time in the film room and I've got

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Speaker 5: to spend extra time communicating with the wide receivers in

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Speaker 5: a rotating group of them, right, and try to get

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Speaker 5: that consistency of delivery and timing, et cetera. Same thing

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Speaker 5: on the NBA side, for for Anthony Edwards here is yeah,

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Speaker 5: it's gonna be a revolving door of teammates. We certainly

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Speaker 5: see that year to year, the way the salary cap

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Speaker 5: works and guys trying to get paid in trades and

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Speaker 5: everything else. But it's also the you can't just rely

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Speaker 5: on the brute strength of what you were when you

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Speaker 5: were drafted into the league. There's got to be an

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Speaker 5: evolution to it. Today would have been a great example

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Speaker 5: of it.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 5: He tried to affect the game, but it was all

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Speaker 5: on drives to the hoop. And if you're not getting a.

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Speaker 1: Call, no, right, you're not going to the game with

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Speaker 1: times a series where dude, this is killing your team.

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Speaker 5: But he's one of seven from three point range. You

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Speaker 5: can look at the shot chart. Consistently hitting from the

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Speaker 5: outside isn't there. The mid ranges are there. It's predicated

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Speaker 5: a lot on getting to the rack and affecting the

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Speaker 5: game that way. You've got to evolve, expand it. He

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Speaker 5: needs that, He needs that conversation with a Hall of

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Speaker 5: Famer and that will do him a war. Buy the

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Speaker 5: cameo coming up next as good as the thunder Ar

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Speaker 5: steamrolling into the NBA Finals.

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Speaker 1: Have they been really underachievers the last few years? WHOA,

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Speaker 1: that's next, Fox,