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Speaker 2: Well, that's right, you heard the man. Is that time

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Speaker 2: of week. My name is Bernie Friday. We are coming

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Speaker 2: to your live from the Fox Sports Radio studios here

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Speaker 2: in Las Vegas and takes you up to three am

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Speaker 2: Pacific six am Eastern, and we have a ton of

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Speaker 2: stuff to get to, a couple of great guests. Of course,

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Speaker 2: the midnight hour will be rollicking as always. But before

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Speaker 2: I begin tonight, I want to make an obvious statement,

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Speaker 2: never doubt the power of connectivity and the significant sports provide.

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Speaker 2: My good buddy Bob Pugh, who we were high school

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Speaker 2: football and baseball teammates. We remained connected throughout the decades,

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Speaker 2: and we were talking the other day and I want

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Speaker 2: to give him a shout out. Bob's a great guy.

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Speaker 2: And he had a home run, a big home run

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Speaker 2: in our CIF playoff game against Chafy High School. Pretty

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Speaker 2: much won the game for us, and that was significant

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Speaker 2: in itself. But what we didn't really realize to me

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Speaker 2: years later because a gentleman he hit the home runoff

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Speaker 2: of went on to be an All American left tackle

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Speaker 2: at USC went on to play ten years with the

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Speaker 2: Cincinnati Bengals, including the Super Bowls in the NFL Hall

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Speaker 2: of Fame as well. I'm talking about Anthony Munos. Bob

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Speaker 2: wondered if I remember that. Of course I remember. It'll

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Speaker 2: never forget it. So for what it's worth, as you know,

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Speaker 2: the connectivity sports provide and certainly the significance, and that

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Speaker 2: to me actually is kind of a cute little segue

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Speaker 2: and to how we have to begin the show tonight.

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Speaker 2: Because the Lakers, they're in an organization, they're a franchise

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Speaker 2: of eras, and I'm talking about going back seventy seven years.

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Speaker 2: The air began in Minnesota. They moved to Minneapolis, and

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Speaker 2: they were defined by George Mike and he dominated. The

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Speaker 2: Lakers won five championships during that period. The team relocated

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Speaker 2: to Los Angeles in nineteen six, and you had the

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Speaker 2: Elgin Baylor and Jerry West era. They reached the NBA

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Speaker 2: Finals six times, but lost to the Celtics each of

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Speaker 2: those times. And you get to the seventies, Will Chamberlain

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Speaker 2: arrived one of the greatest teams. The seventy two Lakers

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Speaker 2: won the championship thirty three games in a row. They

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Speaker 2: won probably a record. They don't have to be broken. Then,

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Speaker 2: of course the Showtime Era, which I'm most familiar with

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Speaker 2: because I was an intern at the Forum. Magic's rookie year, Magic,

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Speaker 2: Kareem James Worthy. They brought a brand of basketball. Jerry

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Speaker 2: Buss had bought the team in July seventy nine. Pat

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Speaker 2: Riley with his Italian suits, slipped back here. They reached

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Speaker 2: the NBA finals nine times in twelve years, won five championships.

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Speaker 2: That was the Magic Era. And of course Kareem I

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Speaker 2: want to talk about him in just a second, because

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Speaker 2: the notion that DeAndre eight would actually help the Lakers. Okay,

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Speaker 2: I could come up with a funny, smart ass line

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Speaker 2: right now. I want to keep my role going on

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Speaker 2: the Laker eras. Then you entered the Shaq Kobira from

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Speaker 2: ninety six to four. Phil Jackson joined that group. They

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Speaker 2: had kind of a new dynasty, three consecutive championships between

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Speaker 2: two thousand and two thousand and two. Then the Kobe

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Speaker 2: Era by himself for twelve years. They added two more

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Speaker 2: championships twenty nine and twenty ten. That takes us up

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Speaker 2: to twenty eighteen to the present. I'm calling it the

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Speaker 2: Clown Era. Thank you, Lebron, your clown. We're gonna talk

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Speaker 2: about this in the Mannight Hour. Yeah, I get it.

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Speaker 2: They won a championship in twenty twenty, and I won't

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Speaker 2: take it away from it. That's the year. If you

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Speaker 2: heard me on the air, been with Fox eight years now,

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Speaker 2: I called it the Hotel California Finals. You can check

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Speaker 2: out any time you want, but you can never leave. Look,

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Speaker 2: I won't give Hi an asterisk for one reason. Everybody

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Speaker 2: was in the same boat. It's the Roger Morris comparison

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Speaker 2: to Babe Ruth. Marris had sixty one home runs. Ruth

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Speaker 2: at sixty, Maris got eight more games. He played in

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Speaker 2: one hundred and sixty two games versus one hundred and

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Speaker 2: fifty four. That doesn't diminish the accomplishment. It merely puts

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Speaker 2: an asterisk on it. That's all. So I won't put

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Speaker 2: they would not have won that championship if they'd hadn't

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Speaker 2: that four months off and they didn't have to travel otherwise.

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Speaker 2: Look what they've done since five of the seven years

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Speaker 2: either missed the playoffs or get knocked out in the

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Speaker 2: first round. They look worse and worse as the season

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Speaker 2: goes on. The bottom line is this that all time

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Speaker 2: off is not created equal. So I'm tired of hearing

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Speaker 2: the bottom line is, yeah, they won one kind of

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Speaker 2: all right, so let's just leave that there. So what

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Speaker 2: the hell exactly happened this past week? Let me tell

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Speaker 2: you what you're witnessing, the slow beginning of the end

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Speaker 2: of Lebron James. And for the last several years it's

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Speaker 2: appeared so Lebron was prepared to end his career in

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Speaker 2: more speculation. He opted into his fifty two million dollars

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Speaker 2: player option for next season, which is his right. No

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Speaker 2: he should have opted out if he really wants to

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Speaker 2: win a championship. But Lebron wants to have his cake

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Speaker 2: and eat it too. So right now, there's no retirement announcement,

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Speaker 2: no planning of a farewell tour. But I'll tell you this.

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Speaker 2: What happens Sunday made one thing extremely clear. This is

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Speaker 2: the beginning of the end for the self proclaimed best

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Speaker 2: player to ever grace a basketball court. It's kind of

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Speaker 2: a double dose of captivating reality because of course, when

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Speaker 2: you're forty, right, you should be near retirement. James is

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Speaker 2: the longest tenured player ever. I think he's played less

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Speaker 2: games than Robert Parrish, but that that's beside the point. Okay,

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Speaker 2: So by opting in, James will now become an unrestricted

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Speaker 2: free agent next offseason. And James has never been a

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Speaker 2: free agent. This is his twenty third year in the league.

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Speaker 2: He's never not been the guy. He's not the guy now,

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Speaker 2: Luca is. He's never been on an expiring contract. And

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Speaker 2: you know, look, Rich Paul, who's done a fabulous job

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Speaker 2: with all his clients, said he told ESPN that quote.

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Speaker 2: James wants to compete for a championship and he recognizes

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Speaker 2: that the Lakers are building for the future. That's a contradiction,

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Speaker 2: isn't it. What happened to the ring culture soliloqually Lebron

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Speaker 2: had a couple of weeks ago. Lebron will never retire,

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Speaker 2: at least not in his own mind. His career has

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Speaker 2: spanned seven presidential terms, playing in the NBA. He's like

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Speaker 2: the pyramids are just always there. Yet it is going

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Speaker 2: to come to an end in Los Angeles. It may

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Speaker 2: happen before the season. I don't think so, because there's

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Speaker 2: no willing dance partner. It could come to the end

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Speaker 2: during the season. That could happen. But by the end

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Speaker 2: of next year, the clown era of Lebron will be done.

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Speaker 2: This is a simple reality. Luka Doncic, the twenty six

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Speaker 2: he is. We'll see if he ever wins a championship.

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Speaker 2: He's going to be the centerpiece of direct the future

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Speaker 2: of the franchise. With all due respect for James, they're

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Speaker 2: already planning for life without him. Any future Laker title

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Speaker 2: contention is going to center around Luka Dancic, which means,

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Speaker 2: for once in his career, Lebron James his leverage went

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Speaker 2: bye bye. I'm not sad, are you? This might be

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Speaker 2: the greatest day of my life. See here's the thing.

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Speaker 2: Lebron James has had his way, and I'm not going

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Speaker 2: to list the litany of things, but a little later

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Speaker 2: in the show I'm going to talk about I'm going

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Speaker 2: to dive into NFL NBA free agency a little bit

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Speaker 2: more fervently, and what I'm going to do is list

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Speaker 2: the winners and losers. The Lakers is one of the losers.

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Speaker 2: Think about this for a second. J. J. Reddick had

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Speaker 2: such little trust in his bench that he went the

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Speaker 2: entire second half of a playoff game without a single substitution.

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Speaker 2: That has ever once happened in NBA history until it

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Speaker 2: did against the Minnesota Timberwolves. I want to say it

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Speaker 2: was like Sunday, May twenty seventh or something like that.

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Speaker 2: It was a Sunday. Now Rob Polinka, who frankly has

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Speaker 2: you figure, well, they're going to go out and start

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Speaker 2: to add some meaningful pieces if they can, right. Well,

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Speaker 2: not so fast there, of course. Instead, Dorian Finney Smith,

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Speaker 2: one of the five players JJ Reddick trusted, says I'm

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Speaker 2: out of here. He departed for the Rockets. He got

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Speaker 2: Who are much improved. They replaced him with the legendary

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Speaker 2: Jake Larevia. If you've never heard of them, you know,

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Speaker 2: I guess you never watched Lake Forest basketball. He's serviceable,

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Speaker 2: nothing wrong with him. It's a downgrade from Dorian Finney Smith.

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Speaker 2: The Lakers, also, let's be honest, desperately need a center

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Speaker 2: to pair with Luka Dancic. DeAndre Ayton was one of

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Speaker 2: the few remaining options after the center market dried up.

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Speaker 2: But his attitude, in his effort, that was the reason

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Speaker 2: will tell you I saw Chris Wood back in December

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Speaker 2: twenty fourteen when UNLV knocked off number three Arizona right

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Speaker 2: before Christmas clown all over DeAndre eight, and I've never

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Speaker 2: gotten that out of my mind. So I'll get to

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Speaker 2: that in a second. The Lakers have tremendously limited cap space.

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Speaker 2: After Lebron says, Okay, you don't want to give me

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Speaker 2: a multi year deal, We'll take a little less, but

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Speaker 2: I want more years. Okay, screw it, I'll take my

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Speaker 2: fifty two mate. No one else is gonn offer me that.

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Speaker 2: That hamstrings the Lakers tremendously, so If you're gonna tell

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Speaker 2: me the Lakers have improved this offseason, I'm gonna tell you.

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Speaker 2: You're almost said something really nasty, and I'm glad I didn't.

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Speaker 2: They haven't improved. There a matter of fact, the gap

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Speaker 2: the Rockets and the Timberwolves and even the Clippers has grown.

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Speaker 2: Now back to DeAndre eight here's what you're getting. Now,

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Speaker 2: Maybe he'll make a liar out of me. What the hell?

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Speaker 2: He only missed one hundred and four games in the

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Speaker 2: last four years while averaging fourteen points a game. He

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Speaker 2: ain't that old. I mentioned Kareem abduing Jabbar. You know,

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Speaker 2: after the age of forty, Jabbar got to the finals

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Speaker 2: three times and won two more championships eighty seven and

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Speaker 2: eighty eight, and then they lost in eighty nine when

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Speaker 2: Magic got hurt to the Pistons. What if I told

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Speaker 2: you at age forty Kareem played seventy eight games. At

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Speaker 2: age forty one, he played eighty games. At age forty two,

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Speaker 2: he played seventy four. So his final three years he

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Speaker 2: missed ten games. In the last four years. DeAndre eighten,

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Speaker 2: he's missed one hundred and four games. Be very concerned,

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Speaker 2: Laker fans, be very concerned. By the way, be sure

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Speaker 5: Bernie. Yeah, she said, Plumper of NBA News, You got

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Speaker 2: As soon as I get home, I'm gonna look that

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Speaker 2: I forget it. I'm not going to start with humor.

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Speaker 5: Well, you said ten seconds. I'll keep it simple. He's

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Speaker 2: looking at a playing team. Wow, Mark, they got worse.

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Speaker 2: You can't tell me they got better. We saw the

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Speaker 2: Well, let me address a couple of those things, because

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Speaker 2: I can't Mark. I trust my eyes. They tell me

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Speaker 5: this though. He really he took his game to another level,

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Speaker 5: especially in the twenty twenty one playoffs, and part of

425
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Speaker 5: that had to do with his talent and accepting tough

426
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Speaker 5: coaching for Monnie Williams and tough accountability from Chris Paul.

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Speaker 5: I think the short term he can buy into that

428
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Speaker 5: because he knows he's at rock bottom. He wants to

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Speaker 5: turn his career around. It's the Lakers pressure cooker. It's

430
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Speaker 5: Lebron James who doesn't play. You know. Michael Thompson, he's

431
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Speaker 5: a fellow Bhemians, huge fan, often in his ear. But

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Speaker 5: I think that at some point the question is going

433
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Speaker 5: to be, Okay, you can do this short term, but

434
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Speaker 5: can you do it long term? I think it's very telling.

435
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Speaker 5: Michael Thompson is always the Laker optimist, right and He's

436
00:23:43,840 --> 00:23:46,200
Speaker 5: a huge Dendre Ayton fan. I think it's telling that

437
00:23:46,640 --> 00:23:49,399
Speaker 5: on one hand, he thought that he could be the

438
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Speaker 5: next David Robinson, which is a stretch, obviously, but he

439
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Speaker 5: admitted to me this weekend or this week that he's

440
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Speaker 5: had an unachieving career and he thought that he would

441
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Speaker 5: be a multi year All Star by this point he hasn't.

442
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Speaker 5: And he totally understands the skepticism that someone like you,

443
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Speaker 5: someone like me, and other NBA fans have about him,

444
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Speaker 5: and he's his message is you know what it's it's

445
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Speaker 5: put up or shut up time, and you're with the Lakers.

446
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Speaker 5: This is a huge opportunity with all the championship history,

447
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Speaker 5: the litany of great centers, playing with Lebron James, playing

448
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Speaker 5: with Luca. If this stuff doesn't get you motivated, then

449
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Speaker 5: you know there's no other solution here. So what I'm

450
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Speaker 5: getting at is there is a weird feeling that because

451
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Speaker 5: he's at rock bottom, all he can go is up,

452
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Speaker 5: and I think for the short term that can help him.

453
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Speaker 5: It's more of the long term, you know later on

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Speaker 5: the season, next season, how well he can sustain that.

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Speaker 2: Yep, never mind, the horse is blind, Just keep loading.

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Speaker 2: The cart, Well, we're going to have next spring, and

457
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Speaker 2: we're kind of an opposite side. You're maintaining a modicum

458
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Speaker 2: of objectivity when mine is basically subjectivity. But again, I

459
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Speaker 2: trust my eyes. They tell me a lot in twenty one. No,

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Speaker 2: a lot of time.

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Speaker 5: Ago, Bernie. I'm skeptical as well. I'm just free laying

462
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Speaker 5: the optimist that Michael Thompson has. You know that he's about.

463
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Speaker 5: But I think it's telling that someone who is always

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Speaker 5: bullish on the Lakers, championship chances everything else has his

465
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Speaker 5: own set of doubts over someone he's a huge fan

466
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Speaker 5: of because of the Bahamas connections. I think, if anything,

467
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Speaker 5: it really reinforces our concern level.

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Speaker 2: Sounds like the bad New News Bearers when Englman got

469
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Speaker 2: a file ball in the seventh inning and coach Morris

470
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Speaker 2: Buttermaker said, relaxed boy, as Rome wasn't built in the day,

471
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Speaker 2: and Alfred Lutter said, no, Coach, it took several hundred years.

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Speaker 2: I don't like this movie. I'll tell you we're gonna

473
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Speaker 2: have some fun next year, and I'll admit if I'm wrong.

474
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Speaker 2: By the way, the Bucks, I believe their title chance

475
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Speaker 2: has actually improved this came as a shock to me

476
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Speaker 2: they were able to sign Miles Turner, and I think

477
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Speaker 2: that you know, no more Damian Lillard. We get that,

478
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Speaker 2: but I got a funny feeling that might a little

479
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Speaker 2: bit of fire under Jannison Antenna Coople.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I actually agree the Damian Lower trade or not

481
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Speaker 5: trade the wave was very surprising. As Chris Hans reported,

482
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Speaker 5: it didn't sit well with the honest I'd get it,

483
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Speaker 5: but Damian Lower wasn't likely going to play next season

484
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Speaker 5: anyway because of his Achilles injury. I think it's also

485
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Speaker 5: telling that you know, people around Daman Loward say, don't

486
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Speaker 5: feel sorry for him. He's actually pretty happy about this

487
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Speaker 5: because it's a win win situation. He gets he can

488
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Speaker 5: go home to Portland, be closer to his family rehab,

489
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Speaker 5: he can look at a different set of options to

490
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Speaker 5: join a team that he feels is a better fit,

491
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Speaker 5: can help him point a title. And you know, even

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Speaker 5: in this scenario that he takes a discount because of

493
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Speaker 5: fore he's on his career with age and achilles, He's

494
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Speaker 5: still going to get paid for Milwaukee. So all that

495
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Speaker 5: is gravy for all sides. I'm with you on the

496
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Speaker 5: Miles Miles Turner signing. He's a huge upgrade over brook Lopez,

497
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Speaker 5: great defender, great stretch fund. I've part of the fact

498
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Speaker 5: that they let brook Lopez go and wave Damian Lillward

499
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Speaker 5: gave them the kind of money to spend a miles

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Speaker 5: term pluck them away from Indiana, which was a sleep

501
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Speaker 5: at the wheel. I mean, they spent almost his entire

502
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Speaker 5: career making him available in trade rumors and then they say, okay,

503
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Speaker 5: he's the number one priority this offseason, all of a

504
00:27:20,359 --> 00:27:23,280
Speaker 5: sudden they don't have enough money to spend huge loss

505
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Speaker 5: for Indiana, and so the Bucks still have question marks.

506
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Speaker 5: But you know, the reality is the Eastern Conference is

507
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Speaker 5: going to take a back seat this upcoming season because

508
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Speaker 5: Jason Tatum's out with an achilles, tires Halburn's out with

509
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Speaker 5: an achilles. You know, the Knicks, they're in a transition faith.

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Speaker 5: I think the Mike Brown hires good, but they still

511
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Speaker 5: have questions about the roster. So everything is up in

512
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Speaker 5: the air in the Eastern Conference. So even though on

513
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Speaker 5: paper they still have some question marks, all they need

514
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Speaker 5: to do is have a fighter's chance and then they

515
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Speaker 5: can make some noise.

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Speaker 2: Last thing mark the Boston solve like superior to be

517
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Speaker 2: stripping is stripping themselves down to the studs? Are they

518
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Speaker 2: just punning on next season they move off? Drew Holidy.

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Speaker 2: I realized Jason Tatum's injury casts a paul over the

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Speaker 2: whole season. But you know, no more porzingis, no more

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Speaker 2: Al Horford, no more Luke Cornett thoughts on the Celtics

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Speaker 2: next year.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, well, I don't think it's going to get down

524
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Speaker 5: all the way to the studs. They're gonna keep Jaylen Brown.

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Speaker 5: I would be very surprised if that happens. But I

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Speaker 5: think the broader point you're making, it's on point. I mean,

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Speaker 5: they've had to make some cost savings because of second

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Speaker 5: Apron concerns. I think the other part is, you know,

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Speaker 5: they're very well aware that even though they haven't given

530
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Speaker 5: timeline and they're you know, given positive progress reports on

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Speaker 5: Jason Tatum, it's very unlikely he'll come back to play

532
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Speaker 5: next season. So I think it's kind of a batter

533
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Speaker 5: of hitting the pause button and just collect assets developed

534
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Speaker 5: from within and then once Jason Tatum's back, make another run.

535
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Speaker 5: So yeah, I mean they're trying to find that fine line,

536
00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:04,720
Speaker 5: good balance between not tearing the studs, but you know,

537
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Speaker 5: trying to clean out their clause.

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Speaker 6: A little bit.

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Speaker 2: So one of my great listeners, mister Lucky, tweeted at

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Speaker 2: both of us, says, allow me to quote chick hern

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Speaker 2: on the upcoming season, the Lakers have two chances of

542
00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:17,520
Speaker 2: winning the title, slim and none. Slim just left town.

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00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:21,000
Speaker 2: He's got a meme of Luca who I am. Then

544
00:29:21,080 --> 00:29:24,480
Speaker 2: he closes with quote, the Lakers couldn't guard their suitcase

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00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:26,760
Speaker 2: at the airport. He's not wrong. They're flawed when you

546
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Speaker 2: compared to some of these teams we've mentioned, like Houston

547
00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:33,080
Speaker 2: and Denver, it's a they're flawed. Man, You got the

548
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Speaker 2: last word.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, they have a lot of flaws. Now, I do

550
00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:41,240
Speaker 5: think that that image of Luca is not real. I

551
00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:44,120
Speaker 5: have everything I've heard from people is that he has

552
00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:47,200
Speaker 5: gotten in better shape, he's toned down all that stuff.

553
00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:50,160
Speaker 5: But the reality is, none of this stuff is going

554
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Speaker 5: to mean anything until the season actually starts. I do

555
00:29:54,040 --> 00:29:57,240
Speaker 5: think of all the things that are concerning the Lakers,

556
00:29:57,600 --> 00:29:59,640
Speaker 5: Luca Doctis is at one of them. He's going to

557
00:29:59,760 --> 00:30:03,320
Speaker 5: have a much better second season with more time with Lebron,

558
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Speaker 5: more time with the roster in general, more time to

559
00:30:06,760 --> 00:30:09,920
Speaker 5: you know, fully recover from the calf injury that sidelined

560
00:30:10,000 --> 00:30:11,640
Speaker 5: them for a good bit before you even play with

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Speaker 5: the Lakers, as well as address up of the condition issues.

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Speaker 5: So I think you know you're going to see a

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Speaker 5: significantly improved version of Luca Dodtrich. But the Lakers have

564
00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:25,520
Speaker 5: even more problems in that with Lebron and question marks

565
00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:28,920
Speaker 5: about what's going to happen with him as well as

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Speaker 5: the rest of their supporting cast. But Luca will be

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Speaker 5: a bright spot.

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Speaker 2: Fair enough, Mark great stuff is always buddy, And as

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Speaker 2: we say at the end of this segment, every Saturday night,

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Speaker 2: I can't wait to see what the new secle brings

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Speaker 2: for next Saturday.

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Speaker 5: Well, how about this for a tease. I'm in Vegas

573
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Speaker 5: for Summer League, so I'll break down Bronni James's return.

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Speaker 2: I don't think he's going to play in the Summer League?

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Speaker 6: Is he?

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Speaker 5: He is?

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Speaker 2: Is he really?

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Speaker 5: Yes? Oh my goodness, get your tickets. I mean it's

579
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Speaker 5: probably already sold out.

580
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Speaker 2: But I can get a credential. But I'm actually on

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Speaker 2: a playing tomorrow morning five am. I'm glad you told me.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna wait till the season's over to you till

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Speaker 2: I come back. All right, good stuff, Mark, We'll see

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Speaker 2: you next week, Buddy, coming up. We set up the

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Speaker 2: Midnight How. We have three great, salacious, fun rollicking topics.

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Speaker 2: As you know, twenty one minutes from now, it will

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Speaker 2: be twelve midnight. Literally in Las Vegas, that's where I live.

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Speaker 2: Las Vegas be twelve midnight, and perhaps where you live

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Speaker 2: it'll be twelve minute. And also, but I can tell

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Speaker 2: you figuredly it's twelve minute everywhere, which means you get

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Speaker 2: the last word. Eight seven seven nine nine six six

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Speaker 2: three sixty nine eight seven seven ninety nine one Fox.

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Speaker 2: Let's hear from you. The callers have been fantastic. You're

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Speaker 2: the one that makes six segment. Let's blow it up tonight.

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Speaker 2: Tonight's gonna be a lot of fun. It's always a

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Speaker 2: lot of fun. We're not trying to solve the world's problems.

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Speaker 2: We got three topics here. I think you really get

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Speaker 2: a kick out of. I'm Bernie Fraddle. We're come to

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Speaker 2: your line from the Las Vegas Fox Sports Radio Studios.

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Speaker 2: Keep it locked. You're listening to the Bernie Frattle Show

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Speaker 2: on Fox Sports Radio. All right, back on the Bernie

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Speaker 2: Frattle show Fox Sports Radio. Comeing from the Las Vegas

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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio studios. Take hip to three am Pacific,

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Speaker 2: six am Eastern. Just getting started. We are fourteen minutes

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Speaker 2: away from the midnight hour eight seven seven nine nine

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Speaker 2: six six three six nine eight seven seven ninety nine

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Speaker 2: on Fox. It will be midnight literally here in fourteen

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Speaker 2: minutes in Las Vegas where I live. But it's midnight

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Speaker 2: figuredly everywhere. Because you get the last word topic number one,

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Speaker 2: How could it not be Lebron? He opted in his

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Speaker 2: powerplay failed, He's not getting a multiple year deal for

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Speaker 2: the first time in twenty three years. He's not the guy.

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Speaker 2: And oh, by the way, he is on an expiring contract.

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Speaker 2: It's never happened to him. He's still gonna be a

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Speaker 2: first ballot Hall of Famer all that. We're not gonna

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Speaker 2: talk about his legacy. We're not gonna talk about whether

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Speaker 2: or not he gets a statue. I don't even know

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Speaker 2: why people want statues. It never looks like the person anyway. Look,

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Speaker 2: what I'd like to know is I want to know

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Speaker 2: how you feel when Lebron's done? Who me? Yep? You

621
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Speaker 2: will you be sad or you be glad? The epitome

622
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Speaker 2: is sad. Is when Magic Johnson had a nineteen ninety

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Speaker 2: one November nineteen ninety one press conference that he had

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Speaker 2: to retire because he he had aids that was sad

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Speaker 2: and he ended up coming he had a wonderful life. Okay,

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Speaker 2: so we'll keep it simple and you can comment, you

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Speaker 2: can tell me why. But when Lebron's done, maybe you're

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Speaker 2: done with the Lakers, done with the NBA. You may

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Speaker 2: hang around three more years. I think he's going to

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Speaker 2: he wants to. But when he's finally done it, you

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Speaker 2: can't see him play anymore. You're gonna have to you know,

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Speaker 2: we'll follow him on Twitter because he'll tweet ninety three

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Speaker 2: thousand times a day. Will you be sad or will

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Speaker 2: you be glad? There's an old saying there's only two

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Speaker 2: tests of people in life. Those are those where you

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Speaker 2: are happy when they walk into the room or you're

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Speaker 2: happy when they leave the room. There So tell me

638
00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:00,479
Speaker 2: how you feel about Lebron and that situation, because we

639
00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:04,640
Speaker 2: are nearing the end. Okay, make no mistake. What you

640
00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:09,359
Speaker 2: saw this last week is it's extremely clear the self

641
00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:12,840
Speaker 2: proclaimed best player to ever grace the basketball court that

642
00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:15,520
Speaker 2: we're nearing the end. This is the simple reality.

643
00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:17,200
Speaker 7: Now.

644
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:21,239
Speaker 2: I hate that we have to do this, but we

645
00:34:21,320 --> 00:34:26,640
Speaker 2: have to. So. The WNBA All Star Game is July nineteenth,

646
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Speaker 2: and let me give you some perspective before I get

647
00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:34,279
Speaker 2: into the topic. In twenty twenty three, Asia Wilson, who

648
00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:36,799
Speaker 2: I think arguably is the best player of the WNBA,

649
00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:41,279
Speaker 2: she got more All Star fan votes than anybody in

650
00:34:41,280 --> 00:34:46,640
Speaker 2: the entire league, total of ninety and sixty Well, this year,

651
00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:51,600
Speaker 2: Caitlin Clark got the most votes of any fan of

652
00:34:51,800 --> 00:34:53,359
Speaker 2: any player in the league for the All Star Game

653
00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:56,799
Speaker 2: fan votes, the number one million, two hundred and ninety three,

654
00:34:57,200 --> 00:35:00,239
Speaker 2: five and twenty six. That's an increase the third teen

655
00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:04,439
Speaker 2: thousand percent in two years over Asia Wilson, she won

656
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Speaker 2: the NBA. Kitlin Clark won the NBA All Star Fan

657
00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:11,799
Speaker 2: vote with one zero point three million votes. But as

658
00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:16,880
Speaker 2: for her peers, they ranked her ninth among guards, not

659
00:35:17,360 --> 00:35:23,960
Speaker 2: all WNBA players guards. Clark's averaging about nineteen points nine assists.

660
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,200
Speaker 2: All that blah blah blah. She's missed some time with

661
00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:30,160
Speaker 2: the injury and the already I mean, her fellow players

662
00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:33,640
Speaker 2: rated Kitlin Clark as quote the second best guard on

663
00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:38,360
Speaker 2: her own team, behind Kelsey Mitchell Clark took it in stride,

664
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Speaker 2: says she's excited to host the Fever, to host the

665
00:35:40,760 --> 00:35:45,319
Speaker 2: All Star Game. She's a captain, right dig vital If

666
00:35:45,320 --> 00:35:47,440
Speaker 2: you ever get a chance to meet dig viteal, He's

667
00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:50,160
Speaker 2: everything is advertised. He's the nicest human being and what

668
00:35:50,200 --> 00:35:53,920
Speaker 2: a storied life. He never says anything. He tweeted out

669
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Speaker 2: absolute pure jealousy in caps that w NBA players voted

670
00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:03,200
Speaker 2: Kaitlyn clar the ninth best guard. Someday they we'll realize

671
00:36:03,239 --> 00:36:05,520
Speaker 2: what she's done for all the players in the w NBA.

672
00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:09,600
Speaker 2: Charted planes, increasing salaries, sold out crowds, and proved TV ratings.

673
00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:16,240
Speaker 2: These are facts. He's calling it pure jealousy. H Clark

674
00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:20,200
Speaker 2: is always a conversation starter and she always generates considerable reaction.

675
00:36:21,040 --> 00:36:23,680
Speaker 2: The fans voted one point three million they want her

676
00:36:23,800 --> 00:36:26,520
Speaker 2: the players ninth best among guards, second best on our

677
00:36:26,560 --> 00:36:29,880
Speaker 2: own team. Okay, that's that's the part that slays me.

678
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:33,279
Speaker 2: The WNBA continues to actually set viewership records because of

679
00:36:33,360 --> 00:36:37,759
Speaker 2: Caitlin Clark's She doesn't play their down fifty percent. By

680
00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:40,040
Speaker 2: the way, her first sneaker release was a week ago.

681
00:36:40,440 --> 00:36:43,799
Speaker 2: It was an instant sellout from Nike's Kobe V line

682
00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:47,719
Speaker 2: and is now selling for two times the retail price

683
00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:52,440
Speaker 2: of one hundred and ninety dollars on the aftermarket. You

684
00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:55,160
Speaker 2: tell me why you think this happened, Give me your thoughts.

685
00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:56,560
Speaker 2: We know what we know. You know, we know what

686
00:36:56,719 --> 00:37:03,160
Speaker 2: Dick Vitale had to say. So topic number one. Lebron

687
00:37:03,239 --> 00:37:06,520
Speaker 2: is nearing the end. You saw what happened. He opted in.

688
00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:09,200
Speaker 2: He didn't get what he wanted, which is an extension,

689
00:37:09,239 --> 00:37:10,879
Speaker 2: so he said, screw it. I'll take the fifty two million.

690
00:37:10,880 --> 00:37:13,400
Speaker 2: No one else is gonna offer me that he's hamstrung

691
00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:17,000
Speaker 2: the Lakers, he'll play. I believe the likelihood is he's

692
00:37:17,040 --> 00:37:19,480
Speaker 2: in Los Angeles almost the whole year. If not the

693
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Speaker 2: whole year, we'll see, but this will be his last

694
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Speaker 2: year in LA. Not it out in my mind unless

695
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Speaker 2: some completely unforeseen happens. You never say never, But I

696
00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:31,440
Speaker 2: think he'll land somewhere else if he does leave LA.

697
00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:35,160
Speaker 2: And at one point he's going to retire. He has

698
00:37:35,239 --> 00:37:39,799
Speaker 2: to because no one's gonna want him. And how will

699
00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:41,960
Speaker 2: you feel about that? Will you be sad or glad?

700
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:47,320
Speaker 2: And you can give your your justification. Why again, Caitlin

701
00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:52,080
Speaker 2: Clark leads all vote getters by the fans in the WNBA.

702
00:37:52,320 --> 00:37:55,080
Speaker 2: She got one point three million votes. Compare that to

703
00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:59,040
Speaker 2: two years ago when Angie Wilson got ninety five thousand votes.

704
00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:01,720
Speaker 2: But yet her Here is the people she plays against,

705
00:38:02,040 --> 00:38:05,680
Speaker 2: and there's sort of an odd irony here. They game

706
00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:09,759
Speaker 2: plan for Caitlyn Clark. They you know, they rush her,

707
00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:13,600
Speaker 2: They double teamer, They Mauller. Why she's only the ninth

708
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:15,040
Speaker 2: best guard? Why are you doing that? Why are you

709
00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:18,480
Speaker 2: leaving Kelsey Mitchell wide open? If Caitlin Clark is only

710
00:38:18,520 --> 00:38:20,319
Speaker 2: the ninth best guard and the second best player on

711
00:38:20,320 --> 00:38:23,120
Speaker 2: her team. Seems like an interesting dichotomy to me. But

712
00:38:23,239 --> 00:38:25,560
Speaker 2: be that as it may. The fans like her. The

713
00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:30,320
Speaker 2: players don't give me your reasons. Why. Finally every year

714
00:38:30,480 --> 00:38:32,640
Speaker 2: and I've gotten to do the July fourth show with

715
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Speaker 2: Arnie three years in a row. Last night, Aaron and

716
00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:37,760
Speaker 2: Arnie worked together as a great show. But we've always

717
00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:41,960
Speaker 2: talked about the hot dog eating contest in some of

718
00:38:42,040 --> 00:38:43,919
Speaker 2: Joey Chestnuts X Boys. I'm gonna get that a little

719
00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:46,279
Speaker 2: bit later, But I got a question for you. Is

720
00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:49,160
Speaker 2: it possible they've been doing this hot dog eating contest

721
00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:52,320
Speaker 2: since nineteen sixteen. But is it possible to jump the shark?

722
00:38:53,400 --> 00:38:59,040
Speaker 2: Did you watch it? He was back? Remember he was

723
00:38:59,120 --> 00:39:01,400
Speaker 2: banned last year of a Naddy did for some meatless

724
00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:04,359
Speaker 2: hot dog. I'm talking about Joey Chestnut and I bet

725
00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:05,880
Speaker 2: you can't name who the winner was last year. Of

726
00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:08,680
Speaker 2: course you can't. It was Patrick Bertoletti. Shout out to

727
00:39:08,719 --> 00:39:12,640
Speaker 2: Patrick Bertoletti. He gave fifty eight hot dogs. I believe

728
00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:15,840
Speaker 2: chest Nut he's seventy and a half. But there's no

729
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:19,200
Speaker 2: more world records anymore. They can't go anymore. It's done.

730
00:39:19,239 --> 00:39:22,520
Speaker 2: They've reached the human limit in hot dogs. There's no rival.

731
00:39:22,600 --> 00:39:26,960
Speaker 2: Kobayashi's gone. So every year it's this mundane spectacle, but

732
00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:29,239
Speaker 2: it's fun. And it's the fourth of July. Some of

733
00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:31,000
Speaker 2: these people have been hooked up to a blender since

734
00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:32,359
Speaker 2: a minute they got out of bed and they're hooting

735
00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:34,880
Speaker 2: and hollering. It's kind of cool. But has it jumped

736
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:38,440
Speaker 2: the shark? Are you watching it? There's no rival, no Kobayashi,

737
00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:41,239
Speaker 2: no more world records. You know. They try to make

738
00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:43,120
Speaker 2: a big deal out of Joey Chestnunt being back. What

739
00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:45,719
Speaker 2: it's not like he was back from Lukemi or something.

740
00:39:45,760 --> 00:39:48,320
Speaker 2: He's back. He took a year off, so we got Lebron.

741
00:39:48,600 --> 00:39:52,759
Speaker 2: We'd be glad or sad when he's gone. Finally, Caitlin Clark,

742
00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:55,319
Speaker 2: what the hell happened? Number one among the fans, number

743
00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:58,480
Speaker 2: ninth among guards, two on our own team, among the players.

744
00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:01,240
Speaker 2: And then, of course the Nathan hot Dog eating contest?

745
00:40:01,640 --> 00:40:04,359
Speaker 2: Has it jumped to shark? Did you watch it? There's

746
00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:07,240
Speaker 2: no rival, there's no Kobayashi, there's no more world records.

747
00:40:07,719 --> 00:40:09,600
Speaker 2: There you have it. The midnight hour, dial him up,

748
00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:12,239
Speaker 2: eight seven, seven, nine and night on Fox. Keep it locked.

749
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Speaker 2: You're listening to the Bernie Frowner Show on Fox Sports Radio.

750
00:40:16,719 --> 00:40:19,439
Speaker 1: You don't listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

751
00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:21,680
Speaker 2: Yep, that's right, you heard the man. The Bernie Frowner

752
00:40:21,719 --> 00:40:24,960
Speaker 2: Show keeps rolling right along. We'll take up to three

753
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:28,520
Speaker 2: am Pacific, six am Eastern from the Fox Sports Radio

754
00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:33,720
Speaker 2: studios here in Las Vegas, and the phone are lighting

755
00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:36,920
Speaker 2: up and I'm happy to see it real quickly. The

756
00:40:36,960 --> 00:40:41,080
Speaker 2: midnight hour. We've got Lebron. His days are numbered? Will

757
00:40:41,120 --> 00:40:43,919
Speaker 2: you be glad or sad when he leaves the game?

758
00:40:44,520 --> 00:40:49,959
Speaker 2: Caitlin Clark number one among her among fans one point

759
00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:52,239
Speaker 2: three million votes, compared that to ninety five thousand two

760
00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:56,120
Speaker 2: years ago that Asia Wilson got but ninth among guards,

761
00:40:56,520 --> 00:40:58,399
Speaker 2: second on her run team. Well, why do they player

762
00:40:58,520 --> 00:40:58,839
Speaker 2: so hard?

763
00:40:58,840 --> 00:40:58,960
Speaker 8: Then?

764
00:40:59,000 --> 00:41:01,920
Speaker 2: If it's kind of an odd ecotomy and then finally

765
00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:04,360
Speaker 2: has a Nathan's hot done, geting contest jumped to shark.

766
00:41:04,640 --> 00:41:07,719
Speaker 2: There's no rivalry, no Kobayashka, no more world records. I'm

767
00:41:07,719 --> 00:41:10,080
Speaker 2: sure you remember Patrick Berdoletti winning it last year with

768
00:41:10,160 --> 00:41:14,040
Speaker 2: fifty eight dogs. All right, very simple, it's been that

769
00:41:14,120 --> 00:41:17,640
Speaker 2: hour eight seven seven nine nine, six six three six nine.

770
00:41:17,680 --> 00:41:19,560
Speaker 2: Please be patient. We're gonna get to all you, all

771
00:41:19,640 --> 00:41:23,800
Speaker 2: your opinions matter. We begin with Kevin in Los Angeles. Kevin,

772
00:41:24,080 --> 00:41:27,279
Speaker 2: start us off tonight, Buddy, what's going on?

773
00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:27,640
Speaker 9: Ernie?

774
00:41:27,880 --> 00:41:28,800
Speaker 2: How are you doing? Buddy?

775
00:41:29,719 --> 00:41:33,640
Speaker 9: Hey, I'm a big big Laker fan. Look, you gotta

776
00:41:33,680 --> 00:41:35,680
Speaker 9: look at the parameters of what happened with the team

777
00:41:35,760 --> 00:41:38,960
Speaker 9: last season when they ran in the Minnesota. They became

778
00:41:38,960 --> 00:41:42,359
Speaker 9: a one dimensional perimeter team. If Luca didn't make the shot,

779
00:41:42,440 --> 00:41:44,040
Speaker 9: Lebron had to make the shoft they didn't make it,

780
00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:46,840
Speaker 9: that was it. They had no inside presidence. So keeams

781
00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:49,880
Speaker 9: are just sagging off and just going on Luca and

782
00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:53,080
Speaker 9: Lebron when you get eight and at least you're giving

783
00:41:53,160 --> 00:41:55,960
Speaker 9: some low post presence where teams will have to pay

784
00:41:56,360 --> 00:41:58,440
Speaker 9: if they get up on Luca, which will get the

785
00:41:58,520 --> 00:42:01,600
Speaker 9: lob for eight and with Lebron and Luca. Now when

786
00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:04,560
Speaker 9: they ain't had a great player like Devin Booker on Phoenix.

787
00:42:04,600 --> 00:42:06,440
Speaker 9: He saw what he did in twenty twenty one. They

788
00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:08,440
Speaker 9: got to the finals and he had one of the

789
00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:12,160
Speaker 9: most dominant stretches of a big especially against the Lakers

790
00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:13,919
Speaker 9: and Anthony Davis. I mean, he was putting up twenty

791
00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:17,200
Speaker 9: two points twenty five rebounds, and people say he was

792
00:42:17,239 --> 00:42:20,360
Speaker 9: motivated for a MAX contract. Well, he's gonna be motivated

793
00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:22,640
Speaker 9: for another MAX contract. And the Lakers had him counted

794
00:42:22,719 --> 00:42:25,440
Speaker 9: for two years on a bargain from a buyout from Portland.

795
00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:27,240
Speaker 9: They didn't have to give up any of their core players.

796
00:42:27,480 --> 00:42:30,439
Speaker 9: Dalton connect Austin reeves to get a Jared Allen.

797
00:42:30,760 --> 00:42:32,360
Speaker 2: Here's what I want you to do, Kevin. I want you.

798
00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:34,279
Speaker 2: I want you to call my show next March. We

799
00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:38,040
Speaker 2: can call anytime, call every week, but let's revisit this, okay,

800
00:42:38,160 --> 00:42:40,120
Speaker 2: because what I really want to find out tonight is

801
00:42:40,280 --> 00:42:42,600
Speaker 2: Lebron's days are numbered? Will you be glad or sad

802
00:42:42,640 --> 00:42:46,360
Speaker 2: when he's gone?

803
00:42:45,880 --> 00:42:49,719
Speaker 9: I would be sad because he's a great player for

804
00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:52,080
Speaker 9: the Lakers. I won't be I won't. I won't be

805
00:42:52,640 --> 00:42:56,520
Speaker 9: mad about it because they'll they'll have more roster flexibility,

806
00:42:56,719 --> 00:42:59,360
Speaker 9: and they preserve the flexibility to guys like Jonathan and

807
00:42:59,440 --> 00:43:00,640
Speaker 9: jokers who two years.

808
00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:03,680
Speaker 2: Sarah got you fair enough? All right? Anything on Caitlin

809
00:43:03,719 --> 00:43:05,960
Speaker 2: Clark or the Nathan's Hot Tag union contest?

810
00:43:06,480 --> 00:43:09,479
Speaker 9: Okay, Caitlyn Clark, this is the dumbest thing I've ever

811
00:43:09,520 --> 00:43:12,440
Speaker 9: heard of. I've been a WNBA fancist nineteen ninety six

812
00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:15,480
Speaker 9: a certain sceptions Kaitlyn Clark. The league has grown because

813
00:43:15,480 --> 00:43:18,040
Speaker 9: of Kaitlin Clark. What Michael Jordan is to the NBA

814
00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:20,440
Speaker 9: is what Kaitlyn Clark is to the w NBA. And

815
00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:24,000
Speaker 9: for those women to be so so egotistical and so

816
00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:28,040
Speaker 9: jealous makes no sense because she's changed the league with

817
00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:32,000
Speaker 9: the with the private des the charter flights, with the revenue,

818
00:43:32,040 --> 00:43:34,880
Speaker 9: with ticket sales, with the contracts going up. That's all

819
00:43:35,239 --> 00:43:38,640
Speaker 9: Kaitlyn Clark. She's boxed office, She's Magic Johnson, Larry Bird.

820
00:43:39,000 --> 00:43:42,040
Speaker 9: So for those players not understand what's happening with that

821
00:43:42,160 --> 00:43:45,799
Speaker 9: league right now. They have no understanding about business and

822
00:43:45,920 --> 00:43:50,000
Speaker 9: basketball business as a whole. Kaitlyn Clark is WNBA basketball

823
00:43:50,120 --> 00:43:52,880
Speaker 9: right now, and she's the reason why the league is exploding.

824
00:43:52,960 --> 00:43:55,880
Speaker 9: What Angel Reefs and Kaitlyn Clark is, That's what magic

825
00:43:55,920 --> 00:43:58,239
Speaker 9: and Bird was in the age for the NBA, and

826
00:43:58,280 --> 00:44:01,120
Speaker 9: these players got to start recognizing it. Kaitlyn Clark is

827
00:44:01,239 --> 00:44:03,120
Speaker 9: box office, and she drives the lead.

828
00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:08,160
Speaker 2: She drives a fair enough good good stuff anything real

829
00:44:08,239 --> 00:44:10,400
Speaker 2: quickly on the Hot Dog, any contest?

830
00:44:10,440 --> 00:44:10,640
Speaker 6: Does it?

831
00:44:10,719 --> 00:44:11,319
Speaker 2: Jumped the Shark?

832
00:44:12,040 --> 00:44:13,920
Speaker 9: Bring Kobyashi back?

833
00:44:16,680 --> 00:44:18,959
Speaker 2: Well, remember Kevin, thanks a lot, Kevin, I appreciate you many,

834
00:44:19,040 --> 00:44:24,600
Speaker 2: very well prepared call. Look, Kobayashi and uh Joey Chestnut

835
00:44:24,760 --> 00:44:28,120
Speaker 2: had that one off last September and kobey Ashi's lost

836
00:44:28,160 --> 00:44:30,560
Speaker 2: the yard office fastball. They should bring him back because

837
00:44:30,560 --> 00:44:33,200
Speaker 2: he's a draw too. But man, I don't know. Joe

838
00:44:33,200 --> 00:44:35,440
Speaker 2: and Miami Joint just welcome in Joe the Bernie Frowdles Show.

839
00:44:35,440 --> 00:44:35,799
Speaker 2: How are you?

840
00:44:36,560 --> 00:44:36,799
Speaker 5: Hey?

841
00:44:36,800 --> 00:44:37,200
Speaker 10: How are you?

842
00:44:37,320 --> 00:44:37,680
Speaker 5: First of all?

843
00:44:37,719 --> 00:44:43,239
Speaker 11: Great show, real quick on Easting's number one, no hot

844
00:44:43,239 --> 00:44:46,040
Speaker 11: dog great? You know, it's just fun to see Chestnut

845
00:44:46,200 --> 00:44:49,000
Speaker 11: so without a rivalry, it's still great. So okay, I

846
00:44:49,000 --> 00:44:52,640
Speaker 11: think that's so we still love it. Caitlyn Clark, It's

847
00:44:52,680 --> 00:44:57,360
Speaker 11: it's very obvious. Look she represents in all honesty everything

848
00:44:57,400 --> 00:44:59,840
Speaker 11: that's that's the opposite of the rest of the NBA.

849
00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:04,839
Speaker 11: He is heterosexual, white and just nice and they hate that.

850
00:45:05,160 --> 00:45:07,560
Speaker 11: Just at the bottom line, it's beyond obvious, and that's

851
00:45:07,560 --> 00:45:10,840
Speaker 11: just what it is. And then number three is just

852
00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:14,920
Speaker 11: with the Lakers Lebron. I'm big Lakers fam man in

853
00:45:14,920 --> 00:45:15,719
Speaker 11: many years.

854
00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:18,240
Speaker 12: But he's still really, really good.

855
00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:22,000
Speaker 11: So what I don't understand is just that. Why why

856
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:23,759
Speaker 11: are they kind of looking two years from now? Why

857
00:45:23,840 --> 00:45:26,320
Speaker 11: not just right now? Why didn't to get Miles Turner,

858
00:45:26,960 --> 00:45:29,120
Speaker 11: Like I don't want toe Lebron go. He's still super good,

859
00:45:29,600 --> 00:45:32,120
Speaker 11: so he just needs some help. I'm not sure why

860
00:45:32,160 --> 00:45:33,840
Speaker 11: people are not in on that training.

861
00:45:34,960 --> 00:45:37,080
Speaker 2: Okay, fair enough, we're two for two, so people like

862
00:45:37,080 --> 00:45:40,319
Speaker 2: to see Lebron hang around. Fair enough? Thank you. Joe

863
00:45:40,719 --> 00:45:44,920
Speaker 2: Steve in Kansas City, never a man lacking shyness, take

864
00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:45,319
Speaker 2: it away.

865
00:45:46,560 --> 00:45:49,600
Speaker 13: Your is big Ernie and All Star. Fourth of July,

866
00:45:50,680 --> 00:45:55,359
Speaker 13: the of the mid nine hour. You know, I'm kind

867
00:45:55,360 --> 00:45:59,320
Speaker 13: of glad for Lebron. Actually, he's is shown some maturity

868
00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:04,920
Speaker 13: by taking I've senior golf according to these posts.

869
00:46:04,640 --> 00:46:06,799
Speaker 2: Yeah, now, was that a golf swinger? Is he trying

870
00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:08,080
Speaker 2: to kill a snake in a phone booth?

871
00:46:08,120 --> 00:46:12,560
Speaker 13: I couldn't tell he's better than Charles Barkley. Listen, I'm

872
00:46:12,560 --> 00:46:14,480
Speaker 13: here in rumors he may try and go out to

873
00:46:14,560 --> 00:46:17,680
Speaker 13: the senior Tour. He's finally maturing. You're not trying to

874
00:46:17,719 --> 00:46:20,879
Speaker 13: tell me that he's the He's Michael Jordan, that no one,

875
00:46:21,120 --> 00:46:24,120
Speaker 13: you know, no one's ever gonna consider him. I think

876
00:46:24,200 --> 00:46:28,400
Speaker 13: Medina Magic was exactly right that DeAndre Ayton's about to

877
00:46:28,480 --> 00:46:32,080
Speaker 13: lead the league and miss practices and Playton Fly, miss

878
00:46:32,080 --> 00:46:34,800
Speaker 13: times for practices and Playton Fly. It is going to

879
00:46:34,880 --> 00:46:36,319
Speaker 13: be fascinating to see how it plays.

880
00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:38,640
Speaker 2: Only missed one hundred and four games the last four years.

881
00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:41,360
Speaker 2: I mean, all right, so are you going to be

882
00:46:41,400 --> 00:46:42,880
Speaker 2: sad or glad when Lebron leaves?

883
00:46:43,480 --> 00:46:49,680
Speaker 13: Listen, I I'm glad that Lebron is finally finding passion

884
00:46:49,880 --> 00:46:54,279
Speaker 13: in something besides going on podcasts and blowing hot air.

885
00:46:54,400 --> 00:46:56,480
Speaker 13: Let him let him play golf. I mean, let him

886
00:46:56,480 --> 00:46:58,240
Speaker 13: do it, Tony Romo and try out.

887
00:46:58,080 --> 00:47:01,200
Speaker 2: For this He said every year, need to get a plate. Yeah,

888
00:47:01,280 --> 00:47:03,440
Speaker 2: you all need to get a clue. All right, move on,

889
00:47:03,920 --> 00:47:06,160
Speaker 2: let's get to Caitlin Clark. What the hell happened there?

890
00:47:06,280 --> 00:47:07,600
Speaker 13: Okay, let's get in.

891
00:47:07,719 --> 00:47:08,560
Speaker 14: Let's get into this.

892
00:47:08,719 --> 00:47:12,040
Speaker 13: And now Skip Bayless has been out front and saying

893
00:47:12,080 --> 00:47:16,760
Speaker 13: that that the the elderly players are going to rebel,

894
00:47:17,360 --> 00:47:20,080
Speaker 13: are going to revolt against the league. That's that's what's

895
00:47:20,120 --> 00:47:23,200
Speaker 13: happening here. Is that is that the referees have been

896
00:47:23,239 --> 00:47:28,040
Speaker 13: instructed to give Caitlin and her space and Page Beckers,

897
00:47:28,440 --> 00:47:32,160
Speaker 13: but the elderly contingent I'll call them the Britney Grinder,

898
00:47:32,480 --> 00:47:35,919
Speaker 13: whoever you want to call them, Asia Wilson, that they

899
00:47:35,920 --> 00:47:39,279
Speaker 13: are going to revolt against the league if they if

900
00:47:39,280 --> 00:47:43,120
Speaker 13: they don't keep doing the Detroit bad Boys piston inside

901
00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:45,680
Speaker 13: the ball. So we're at an impass here that no

902
00:47:45,719 --> 00:47:48,200
Speaker 13: one's going to do anything. I think the move for

903
00:47:48,320 --> 00:47:51,759
Speaker 13: Caitlyn Clark is to immediately take that offer from the

904
00:47:51,800 --> 00:47:55,080
Speaker 13: Big Three and ice Cuban, take ten million dollars in

905
00:47:55,160 --> 00:47:59,880
Speaker 13: play both and force the w NBA's hand. She's in

906
00:48:00,400 --> 00:48:03,719
Speaker 13: after that, after she won the Commissioner's Cup, she kind

907
00:48:03,719 --> 00:48:06,399
Speaker 13: of was complaining a little bit after, you know, she's

908
00:48:06,440 --> 00:48:09,640
Speaker 13: finally she's finally waking up and waking up to the

909
00:48:09,640 --> 00:48:12,520
Speaker 13: fact that they're getting that they're not getting paid anything.

910
00:48:12,920 --> 00:48:15,080
Speaker 13: And she was complaining a little bit in the locker room.

911
00:48:15,120 --> 00:48:18,600
Speaker 13: I don't think anybody really picked that up. But you know,

912
00:48:18,840 --> 00:48:22,520
Speaker 13: she they're not Nike and they're not doing anything for her,

913
00:48:22,960 --> 00:48:25,160
Speaker 13: so she needs to do she needs to do for

914
00:48:25,200 --> 00:48:29,840
Speaker 13: herself or he's just gonna get injured. Now, onto Joey, Onto,

915
00:48:29,920 --> 00:48:34,239
Speaker 13: Joey Chestnut and Kobyashi. I think it's all. I think

916
00:48:34,239 --> 00:48:35,360
Speaker 13: it's a wonderful event.

917
00:48:35,960 --> 00:48:36,120
Speaker 15: Uh.

918
00:48:36,360 --> 00:48:37,719
Speaker 13: I think bring everybody back.

919
00:48:37,760 --> 00:48:38,239
Speaker 5: I don't care.

920
00:48:38,320 --> 00:48:41,360
Speaker 13: I don't care if Kobyashi eats five hot dogs. He

921
00:48:41,520 --> 00:48:44,759
Speaker 13: deserves the spot, he deserves a place of honor. He's

922
00:48:44,760 --> 00:48:48,160
Speaker 13: a winner. It's like the Masters. Once you it's like

923
00:48:48,239 --> 00:48:52,120
Speaker 13: the Masters of hot Dogs. Once you win, you always

924
00:48:52,360 --> 00:48:54,799
Speaker 13: you always get to come back to the to the

925
00:48:54,920 --> 00:48:59,160
Speaker 13: champions table, no matter what. And Joey Chestnut still has

926
00:48:59,200 --> 00:49:02,840
Speaker 13: to go for seventy six dogs and the record. So

927
00:49:02,920 --> 00:49:05,919
Speaker 13: I don't think it'll ever go away, going away.

928
00:49:06,120 --> 00:49:09,640
Speaker 2: I've just had that's right, all right, thanks a lot, buddy.

929
00:49:10,400 --> 00:49:12,839
Speaker 2: It's not going away. And I you know, I watched

930
00:49:12,880 --> 00:49:15,040
Speaker 2: it myself, but I'm just wondering if it's losing some

931
00:49:15,080 --> 00:49:18,959
Speaker 2: of its luster. Spock's weed and Oregon, You're on fire

932
00:49:19,000 --> 00:49:20,680
Speaker 2: to that on Twitter, buddy, take it away.

933
00:49:21,200 --> 00:49:23,360
Speaker 8: Hey, I'm glad it didn't have to tee off because

934
00:49:23,400 --> 00:49:25,120
Speaker 8: these other calls have been excellent.

935
00:49:26,280 --> 00:49:29,239
Speaker 2: Well you have Flint too, show switching out there.

936
00:49:30,040 --> 00:49:32,640
Speaker 8: All right, Well, Lebron, I'm going to say something a

937
00:49:32,680 --> 00:49:36,439
Speaker 8: little strange, And what I'm going to say is I'm

938
00:49:36,680 --> 00:49:41,960
Speaker 8: sad that I am glad that Lebron is getting out.

939
00:49:42,680 --> 00:49:45,239
Speaker 2: He made me around three more years. But when he's

940
00:49:45,239 --> 00:49:47,160
Speaker 2: finally gone go ahead.

941
00:49:46,960 --> 00:49:49,400
Speaker 8: Yes I will, I will be pleased. He is the

942
00:49:49,400 --> 00:49:53,280
Speaker 8: most self centered. There is no team in Lebron. Basketball

943
00:49:53,360 --> 00:49:55,759
Speaker 8: is supposed to be a team sport, and everything he

944
00:49:55,800 --> 00:50:00,359
Speaker 8: does is just to set himself up for whatever is

945
00:50:00,400 --> 00:50:04,560
Speaker 8: that he wants. He lost me when he did the

946
00:50:05,040 --> 00:50:10,840
Speaker 8: half hour hour show where it was Miami, I'm taking

947
00:50:10,840 --> 00:50:11,960
Speaker 8: my talents to Miami.

948
00:50:12,280 --> 00:50:13,680
Speaker 7: I mean that was a complete.

949
00:50:13,320 --> 00:50:16,200
Speaker 2: Either or not. That's been fifteen years now. If Duley

950
00:50:16,280 --> 00:50:18,759
Speaker 2: know it, let's I got you on that spot. So

951
00:50:18,840 --> 00:50:23,080
Speaker 2: let's jump to Caitlin Clark and the Nathan's Outdoor Contest.

952
00:50:23,600 --> 00:50:27,960
Speaker 8: Kaitlyn Clark, like like everybody said, she is the Jordan,

953
00:50:28,719 --> 00:50:32,480
Speaker 8: the Michael Jordan of basketball. I believe that all these

954
00:50:32,480 --> 00:50:37,319
Speaker 8: other women would rather relegate themselves back to obscurity than

955
00:50:37,360 --> 00:50:40,080
Speaker 8: have Kate and Clark in the league. It's a sad thing.

956
00:50:40,960 --> 00:50:42,400
Speaker 8: I don't understand these people.

957
00:50:42,640 --> 00:50:43,200
Speaker 5: And don't you.

958
00:50:43,120 --> 00:50:47,560
Speaker 2: Find it ironic that they rankor ninth among guards? Yes,

959
00:50:47,600 --> 00:50:49,640
Speaker 2: it sure as hell guard her a lot tougher than

960
00:50:49,719 --> 00:50:51,120
Speaker 2: Kelsey Mitchell, who.

961
00:50:52,920 --> 00:50:56,920
Speaker 8: Yes, they're extremely hypnocritical and we all know where it

962
00:50:56,960 --> 00:51:00,960
Speaker 8: comes from. And it's sad that that the w n

963
00:51:01,000 --> 00:51:05,040
Speaker 8: b A League won't take action to like write the

964
00:51:05,080 --> 00:51:05,719
Speaker 8: ship if you.

965
00:51:05,640 --> 00:51:06,160
Speaker 14: Know what I mean.

966
00:51:07,120 --> 00:51:12,759
Speaker 2: Well, the commissioner is non existent. There the leadership less

967
00:51:13,480 --> 00:51:16,600
Speaker 2: and the damn thing I've ever seen? All Right, a

968
00:51:16,600 --> 00:51:18,920
Speaker 2: hot dog eating contest is a jump to shop.

969
00:51:19,920 --> 00:51:22,920
Speaker 8: Yeah, absolutely, when Joey is king, there is no question

970
00:51:23,000 --> 00:51:26,200
Speaker 8: about that. I'd love to have. Uh I forget the

971
00:51:26,239 --> 00:51:29,080
Speaker 8: guy that that one before I think what they need

972
00:51:29,080 --> 00:51:29,399
Speaker 8: to do.

973
00:51:29,480 --> 00:51:31,319
Speaker 2: Yeah, Kobe Ashi and then last year had a guy

974
00:51:31,360 --> 00:51:34,680
Speaker 2: named Patrick Bertoletti. He's a a trivia question, go ahead,

975
00:51:34,800 --> 00:51:35,400
Speaker 2: trivia answer.

976
00:51:35,440 --> 00:51:37,319
Speaker 8: There's two more things I want to say.

977
00:51:37,600 --> 00:51:39,040
Speaker 14: They need a guy that looks.

978
00:51:38,800 --> 00:51:41,399
Speaker 8: Like John Belushi to be a part of the hot

979
00:51:41,440 --> 00:51:42,120
Speaker 8: dog eating hut.

980
00:51:42,320 --> 00:51:43,880
Speaker 2: That'd be for the jello eating contest.

981
00:51:43,880 --> 00:51:49,799
Speaker 14: If absolutely he needs I'm a ZiT and the other thing.

982
00:51:49,840 --> 00:51:52,200
Speaker 2: They need to give up with the German attack Pearl

983
00:51:52,200 --> 00:51:56,520
Speaker 2: Harmer Forgan, you got the last word.

984
00:51:57,200 --> 00:52:00,040
Speaker 8: They need to change the hot dogs and make it

985
00:52:00,120 --> 00:52:02,640
Speaker 8: more interesting. They need to go ahead and use the

986
00:52:02,760 --> 00:52:07,560
Speaker 8: Costco quarter pounders or something more challenging and kind of,

987
00:52:08,040 --> 00:52:10,560
Speaker 8: you know, kind of regress to like, you know, maybe

988
00:52:10,600 --> 00:52:13,080
Speaker 8: they can eat thirty hot dogs, but they're the big.

989
00:52:12,880 --> 00:52:15,120
Speaker 6: Ones, all right.

990
00:52:15,200 --> 00:52:19,320
Speaker 2: Well, always always entertaining their spot. Appreciate you, buddy, Alan

991
00:52:19,440 --> 00:52:21,520
Speaker 2: Saint Louis, welcome back in. How are you tonight?

992
00:52:21,920 --> 00:52:25,600
Speaker 16: What's up? Bertie? How are you I I'm doing grab

993
00:52:25,600 --> 00:52:28,080
Speaker 16: a start with the hot dog eating contests, right, Okay,

994
00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:32,120
Speaker 16: as long as Nathan's is a sponsor, it hasn't jumped

995
00:52:32,120 --> 00:52:36,640
Speaker 16: the shark. And trust me, this contest does a lot

996
00:52:36,640 --> 00:52:39,560
Speaker 16: for the sale of Nathan's hot dogs. It's all about

997
00:52:39,600 --> 00:52:42,560
Speaker 16: business and let's face it, it's in the middle of

998
00:52:42,600 --> 00:52:46,120
Speaker 16: the morning, early afternoon, fourth of July. It's a great

999
00:52:46,160 --> 00:52:51,080
Speaker 16: filler for ESPN because nobody else is really watching tv'spectacle.

1000
00:52:51,160 --> 00:52:53,880
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't. I can't disagree with anything. And to

1001
00:52:53,960 --> 00:52:58,200
Speaker 2: boot my good buddy Jeremy Schaefter's the name drop Jeremy. Yeah,

1002
00:52:58,560 --> 00:53:01,439
Speaker 2: it's been closed for twenty eight years. He was part

1003
00:53:01,440 --> 00:53:04,040
Speaker 2: of the event. So I accept that, Alan, You're right. Yeah,

1004
00:53:04,040 --> 00:53:06,840
Speaker 2: I mean that's a pragmatic kind of a view. So

1005
00:53:06,920 --> 00:53:09,160
Speaker 2: let's get to Lebron and Kitlin Clark.

1006
00:53:10,120 --> 00:53:14,400
Speaker 16: Lebron concerned And when I say I will be glad

1007
00:53:14,440 --> 00:53:18,120
Speaker 16: when he leads the league, it's nothing personal. I'm just

1008
00:53:18,200 --> 00:53:21,560
Speaker 16: sick and tired of all the personal attacks towards him.

1009
00:53:22,000 --> 00:53:24,880
Speaker 16: You know, he may be with the previous call and

1010
00:53:24,960 --> 00:53:27,759
Speaker 16: said a little self centered or whatever, but what this

1011
00:53:27,800 --> 00:53:32,000
Speaker 16: guy has done for basketball and what he's done outside

1012
00:53:32,040 --> 00:53:35,279
Speaker 16: of basketball, you know, people don't want to talk about that.

1013
00:53:35,560 --> 00:53:39,080
Speaker 16: He's put hundreds of kids through school, through college, never

1014
00:53:39,120 --> 00:53:42,120
Speaker 16: got in trouble with the law, never had married, no problems.

1015
00:53:42,280 --> 00:53:45,960
Speaker 16: But once he's on the court, he's polarizing. And you know,

1016
00:53:46,080 --> 00:53:49,759
Speaker 16: I can't watch a talk show or listen to a

1017
00:53:49,800 --> 00:53:52,680
Speaker 16: talk show on the radio where some tolls is just

1018
00:53:52,920 --> 00:53:55,279
Speaker 16: it's just bashing him for no reason. And I'm just

1019
00:53:55,320 --> 00:53:55,840
Speaker 16: tired of it.

1020
00:53:55,920 --> 00:53:56,200
Speaker 14: Man.

1021
00:53:56,520 --> 00:53:58,759
Speaker 2: You know, well, you know, I gotta be fair because

1022
00:53:58,760 --> 00:54:00,920
Speaker 2: I've been guilty of it myself. We can hold two

1023
00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:05,800
Speaker 2: thoughts concurrently about his records, but he's it just feels

1024
00:54:05,840 --> 00:54:09,480
Speaker 2: like Allan, so many things he's done are so disingenuous

1025
00:54:09,640 --> 00:54:12,920
Speaker 2: or self serving, and people are put off by that.

1026
00:54:13,280 --> 00:54:16,600
Speaker 16: Bernie. I think the difference with you criticize him and

1027
00:54:16,719 --> 00:54:21,480
Speaker 16: other people. You don't take it personal. No, no, you're

1028
00:54:21,560 --> 00:54:25,880
Speaker 16: You're just offered a constructive, constructive criticism, which is fine.

1029
00:54:26,160 --> 00:54:29,879
Speaker 16: You could just tell by the tonal people voices. I mean,

1030
00:54:29,920 --> 00:54:33,560
Speaker 16: everybody knows that Steven A. Smith doesn't really care for him,

1031
00:54:33,840 --> 00:54:35,880
Speaker 16: you know, and sometime it just takes over the show

1032
00:54:36,200 --> 00:54:38,440
Speaker 16: you got to host, over your your radio o your station,

1033
00:54:38,800 --> 00:54:42,960
Speaker 16: who I believe doesn't like Lebron. So that's just one thing.

1034
00:54:43,120 --> 00:54:46,359
Speaker 16: Basketball will be fine without him because it's so many

1035
00:54:46,360 --> 00:54:49,080
Speaker 16: good stars, you know. So that's on that they I'm

1036
00:54:49,080 --> 00:54:52,480
Speaker 16: going to get to Caitlin Clark, go ahead. I think

1037
00:54:52,520 --> 00:54:56,840
Speaker 16: these players are crazy and I'm using that term. Do

1038
00:54:56,960 --> 00:55:02,000
Speaker 16: they realize what this woman is of the WNBA? And

1039
00:55:02,080 --> 00:55:04,319
Speaker 16: I say they better take a good look at her

1040
00:55:04,400 --> 00:55:10,000
Speaker 16: this year? She suffering little injuries. Now Caitlin Clark is

1041
00:55:10,200 --> 00:55:15,120
Speaker 16: one career in the injury away from the w NBA

1042
00:55:15,320 --> 00:55:20,480
Speaker 16: players losing everything they got. If nobody thinks that this

1043
00:55:20,600 --> 00:55:26,160
Speaker 16: TV contract that WNVAJ sign isn't tied to Caitlin Clark.

1044
00:55:26,480 --> 00:55:28,920
Speaker 16: You think they're gonna keep paying if she gets a

1045
00:55:29,000 --> 00:55:32,080
Speaker 16: career in the injury, They're gonna go back to be

1046
00:55:32,239 --> 00:55:35,520
Speaker 16: it on planes sitting next to some crying baby or

1047
00:55:35,560 --> 00:55:38,560
Speaker 16: some drunk woman who's got to complain about why her

1048
00:55:38,640 --> 00:55:42,000
Speaker 16: husband isn't any good. All the perks state, all the

1049
00:55:42,040 --> 00:55:45,640
Speaker 16: perks they got, they better take a good look. They

1050
00:55:45,680 --> 00:55:47,800
Speaker 16: better take a good look at it, because one Kaitland

1051
00:55:47,840 --> 00:55:50,520
Speaker 16: Clark is gone, everything else gone. And well, you don't

1052
00:55:50,719 --> 00:55:53,160
Speaker 16: do what I do. I'll go into this. I checked

1053
00:55:53,160 --> 00:55:56,240
Speaker 16: the attendance a lot of WNBA games.

1054
00:55:56,400 --> 00:55:57,760
Speaker 14: Yep, nobody.

1055
00:55:57,880 --> 00:56:01,120
Speaker 16: You know, with the reception of a few cities, nobody's

1056
00:56:01,120 --> 00:56:04,200
Speaker 16: going asho talk that mess. All she wants to the

1057
00:56:04,320 --> 00:56:06,879
Speaker 16: average about three or four thousand of corgo. And when

1058
00:56:06,880 --> 00:56:09,880
Speaker 16: they're on the road, they aren't drawing people. You know,

1059
00:56:10,160 --> 00:56:14,120
Speaker 16: this this thing with asereson Caitlin Clark, it's just a myth.

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Speaker 16: It's all one side. And so the w NBA players,

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00:56:17,320 --> 00:56:19,920
Speaker 16: they better take a look at what's going on, because

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Speaker 16: when she's got their little injuries this year, and I

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00:56:23,040 --> 00:56:25,840
Speaker 16: hope she is healthy, but that thing Bill vote to

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00:56:25,880 --> 00:56:28,759
Speaker 16: her the ninth not the ninth best player, the ninth

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00:56:28,800 --> 00:56:33,600
Speaker 16: best guard in a WNBA. That's ridiculous. And I think

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Speaker 16: they bet they better watch it because once she's gone,

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Speaker 16: every other person, the commercials are gone. Everything take care

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Speaker 16: of Bernie the Gospel.

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Speaker 2: According to Alan, By the way, I only need to

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Speaker 2: start an emo's pizza eating contests with the great pizzas

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Speaker 2: in Saint Louis. I don't care what anybody says. Great stuff,

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Speaker 2: Andre Emmett, Bryceon Texas, Todd, Niawa, Andrew and Bakersfield. You're

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Speaker 2: all getting in. Please be patient. I greatly appreciate your patience.

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Speaker 2: All right back on the Bernie Frattle Show, The Midnight

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Speaker 2: Hour continues, a rollicking midnight hour. Callers have been great

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Speaker 2: so far. We go back out to the full lines.

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Speaker 2: Andre in Massachusetts. Thanks to your patients, Andrea.

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Speaker 7: Litter Rip, Bernie, how you doing?

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Speaker 17: Thanks for taking the call. In terms of Lebron, we

1095
00:57:58,680 --> 00:58:03,080
Speaker 17: can't be naive when we have greatness with us, right,

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00:58:03,240 --> 00:58:07,080
Speaker 17: and Lebron he's transcended. He's top two all time as

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00:58:07,080 --> 00:58:09,200
Speaker 17: far as I'm concerned, So we need to appreciate this

1098
00:58:09,400 --> 00:58:11,919
Speaker 17: for as long as it lasts. Right, these supernovas, these

1099
00:58:11,920 --> 00:58:14,760
Speaker 17: blue moons, right, it might might not be in your

1100
00:58:14,800 --> 00:58:17,560
Speaker 17: lifetime that you see a player that literally is on

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00:58:17,640 --> 00:58:19,600
Speaker 17: the top of Mount Olympus when it comes to all

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Speaker 17: time greatness. So I think he should play as far

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00:58:22,200 --> 00:58:24,640
Speaker 17: as long as possible. I think forty five is not

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Speaker 17: out of the realm of conversation, specifically because Bryce and

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00:58:28,080 --> 00:58:30,440
Speaker 17: Bron here there, and because of all the health and

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00:58:30,480 --> 00:58:32,960
Speaker 17: fitness stuff he does, and also because it's a pitty

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Speaker 17: pat too in.

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Speaker 2: I noted doubt my mind, he probably wants to play

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Speaker 2: the forty five. But go ahead, go ahead, buddy.

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Speaker 17: I've been noticed as sad when he decided to hang

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00:58:44,360 --> 00:58:46,959
Speaker 17: him up because again, growing up in the Jordan era,

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Speaker 17: you know what I mean, and then what Jordan, Well,

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Speaker 17: there was not because Jordan left the ninety eight, then

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Speaker 17: he came back, and so there wasn't too many years

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Speaker 17: between those. And obviously Kobe was a bridge. But the

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00:58:55,720 --> 00:58:58,440
Speaker 17: more Lebron, the better hope he stays as long as possible.

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00:58:58,480 --> 00:59:02,200
Speaker 17: But the situation the NBA, right, Caitlin Clark roll over

1118
00:59:02,240 --> 00:59:05,000
Speaker 17: a million votes, Okay, but she's the ninth best guard,

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Speaker 17: not ninth best player, ninth best guard given what the players,

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Speaker 17: what the players are saying, so obviously there's animist there.

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Speaker 17: There's jealousy, right, it's not what it's not greed, right,

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00:59:15,400 --> 00:59:17,760
Speaker 17: it's it's envy that that brings us down to that

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Speaker 17: in a number of uh, right, just quantified, but it's

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Speaker 17: just not helpful for anybody. So I do think at

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Speaker 17: a certain point we talked about like Bird and Magic

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Speaker 17: and how it was good for the NBA, and now

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Speaker 17: you've got Clark and Angel Reese and those rivalries are good.

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Speaker 17: But overall we're hearing too much about the bickering about

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Speaker 17: Caitlyn Clark rather than celebrating Kaitlyn Clark.

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Speaker 2: And it's distinct never mentioned ninth best guard, which of

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Speaker 2: course has been the theme tonight's second best on our

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Speaker 2: own team. Well that's the case. Why do they defensively

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Speaker 2: game plan for Kitlyn Clark so much more aggressively than

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Speaker 2: Kelsey Mitchell? Right, Okay, see the hypocrisy.

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Speaker 17: He is, she's a generational talent.

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Speaker 14: Right.

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Speaker 17: We saw this coming from the awesome eighties when Larry

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Speaker 17: Bird come into the NBA nineteen eighty all right and

1139
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Speaker 17: was giving people the business from day one, went toe

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Speaker 17: to toe with Doctor Jay's first year, won a championship

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Speaker 17: in year two, okay, and there was some pushback because

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Speaker 17: people weren't used to this tick from French Liqus coming

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Speaker 17: out here. And he's just as good as anybody else,

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Speaker 17: if not better.

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Speaker 10: One three straight MVPs.

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Speaker 17: My point is David Thurdin didn't allow those you know,

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Speaker 17: those things to dominate the narrative. We saw magic and

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Speaker 17: bird and that's what accelerated the NBA into the stratage.

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Speaker 17: Here Wnba, I'm hearing, I'm hearing too much of the

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Speaker 17: bickering and the envy and not the celebration and go ahead,

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Speaker 17: right is that it's different. Michael Jordan was a cultural

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Speaker 17: phenomenon because of the air Jordan's okay, so it was

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Speaker 17: it was it was what he was doing on the court,

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Speaker 17: but then also the things that he did off the

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Speaker 17: court that just lifted him into the stratus. Where so

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Speaker 17: Caitlyn Clark, it mostly just what she's doing on the court.

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Speaker 7: You're not buying her shoes.

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Speaker 17: So it's taking away, exapping some of the energy from

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Speaker 17: what should be rising. It should be a rising hot

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Speaker 17: grawl boat. You got other callages. Hot dog contest. We

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Speaker 17: need some competition for Joey Chestnut. I don't watch the

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Speaker 17: hot dog contest, Burne. That's not my top of tea.

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Speaker 17: I want to sit down and I want to enjoy

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Speaker 17: some good So how they just throw down these hot dogs?

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Speaker 17: Sixteen seven, it's not for me, but I certainly got

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Speaker 17: to respect Joey Chestnut, you know. And I do tune

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Speaker 17: in when he has the rivalry to see who want

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Speaker 17: I don't watch it though. I can't watch him right,

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Speaker 17: It's just it doesn't do me well. I need to

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Speaker 17: sit down, I get my costa, my school, your dell,

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Speaker 17: you know, and I just want to enjoy the food.

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Speaker 17: So I don't want to do all that stuff.

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Speaker 7: But you are correct.

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Speaker 17: It's an American. It's an America. Fourth of July. Somebody

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Speaker 17: challenged Joey Chestnuts so we can enjoy a hot dog contest. Bernie,

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Speaker 17: I'm throwed to be with you.

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Speaker 14: Okay, thanks having.

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Speaker 7: On the show.

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Speaker 2: I always appreciate it. Right, nicely done, and Rick, all

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Speaker 2: these appreciate your thoughts. Am. I what's up man, Bernie?

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Speaker 18: Fred to hope you had a great Fourth of July?

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Speaker 18: How are you doing?

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01:01:54,440 --> 01:01:56,400
Speaker 2: I didn't blow any fingers off, so that's good. I

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01:01:56,440 --> 01:01:57,280
Speaker 2: got that going for me.

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Speaker 18: Yeah, same here all ten fingers?

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Speaker 16: Are you know?

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Speaker 18: Accounting for you?

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Speaker 2: I told you I told you I met Jason Pierre

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Speaker 2: Paul once. Did I tell you about that? I gave

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Speaker 2: him a high three? Oh? No, go ahead, you got

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Speaker 2: the floor.

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Speaker 18: Hey, and I did see something earlier before I get

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01:02:11,480 --> 01:02:13,280
Speaker 18: into this that Jason Pierre Paul wants to end his

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Speaker 18: career as a New York Giant, And I feel like

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Speaker 18: that was ironic coming out, But yeah, for sure.

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Speaker 2: But all right, so we got Lebron, we got can't

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Speaker 2: when we got the hot dog getting contest, I'll.

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Speaker 18: Start with Lebron. My answer has changed on this over

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Speaker 18: the past few years as I've started to get older

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Speaker 18: and realize like what people are saying in terms of

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Speaker 18: their comments. I think Lebron is a great player. What

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Speaker 18: he does on the court is great and you can't

1203
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Speaker 18: discount it. But the thing that irks me about Lebron,

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Speaker 18: and we've had this discussion before on this show, Bernie Frida,

1205
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Speaker 18: is the stuff that he says. It's very disingenuous, like

1206
01:02:43,760 --> 01:02:46,040
Speaker 18: you were saying, like the whole The thing that made

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Speaker 18: me a little bit mad this week was when he said, oh,

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Speaker 18: I'm taking the fifty two million dollars, which on the

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Speaker 18: one hand, it's like, get your money, but then you

1210
01:02:53,080 --> 01:02:55,880
Speaker 18: come out and complain that the Lakers can't do anything

1211
01:02:55,920 --> 01:02:57,960
Speaker 18: and they don't have money, and you don't think that

1212
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Speaker 18: this roster is capable of winning a chance be and

1213
01:03:00,280 --> 01:03:03,320
Speaker 18: shit when you could have restructured that deal and taken

1214
01:03:03,400 --> 01:03:06,320
Speaker 18: less money to help the team out if you truly wanted.

1215
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Speaker 14: To win with that team.

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Speaker 18: The thing is the reason why the Lakers are in

1217
01:03:10,160 --> 01:03:12,960
Speaker 18: this situation. I mean, half of it is Rob dwinkferre

1218
01:03:13,000 --> 01:03:15,560
Speaker 18: okaying it, but we have to admit that Lebron James

1219
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Speaker 18: has been the reason why they're giving up these assets.

1220
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Speaker 2: So the b I got to get to the bottom line.

1221
01:03:20,360 --> 01:03:22,000
Speaker 2: Are you going to be glad or sad when he

1222
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Speaker 2: leaves the game? Glad?

1223
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Speaker 18: And I hate to say it because he's a great player,

1224
01:03:25,640 --> 01:03:27,560
Speaker 18: but it's just I'm tired of it. I want to

1225
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Speaker 18: see these new stars like Kay Cunningham, my Anthony Edwards,

1226
01:03:30,920 --> 01:03:35,920
Speaker 18: like SGA, like Nikoy Jokis, Caitlin Clark. Though jealousy. I mean,

1227
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Speaker 18: all the callers said it one hundred percent perfectly how

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Speaker 18: I would say it. I just think it's absolutely crazy

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Speaker 18: how ninth best guard and she is literally the reason why.

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Speaker 7: This league is the league that it is.

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Speaker 18: In today's game, and I know that they've lost the

1232
01:03:48,440 --> 01:03:51,120
Speaker 18: money and you're talking about their whole financial situation not

1233
01:03:51,200 --> 01:03:54,240
Speaker 18: being the best, but ninety five thousand votes compared to

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Speaker 18: one point two million votes is all you need to know.

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Speaker 18: This woman has brought the sport to a whole other

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Speaker 18: level and it sucks, Like I understand, like maybe these

1237
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Speaker 18: players they do have that feeling in the back of

1238
01:04:04,520 --> 01:04:06,920
Speaker 18: their mind where they're like, Okay, maybe I should have

1239
01:04:06,960 --> 01:04:08,680
Speaker 18: been this player. But you have to give credit to

1240
01:04:08,760 --> 01:04:10,680
Speaker 18: Caitlin Clark because she has done so much for the

1241
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Speaker 18: game of basketball as a whole.

1242
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Speaker 2: For these women, so everybody does better, fellow players.

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01:04:15,520 --> 01:04:18,240
Speaker 9: Uh hot Dog hot Dog Competition.

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Speaker 18: I don't really watch it, for say, but I do

1245
01:04:21,120 --> 01:04:23,000
Speaker 18: keep up with it on Twitter and I get to

1246
01:04:23,040 --> 01:04:26,360
Speaker 18: get the ESBN notifications. I can never eat seventy and

1247
01:04:26,360 --> 01:04:28,520
Speaker 18: a half hot dog, So I give all the credit

1248
01:04:28,520 --> 01:04:30,400
Speaker 18: in the world to Joey Chestna. I feel bad for

1249
01:04:30,440 --> 01:04:34,120
Speaker 18: his toilet after what you're doing is great. I hope

1250
01:04:34,120 --> 01:04:36,640
Speaker 18: there's some sort of rivalry, some sort of person that

1251
01:04:36,640 --> 01:04:39,240
Speaker 18: can catch them up. Maybe if they're smart, you got

1252
01:04:39,240 --> 01:04:40,800
Speaker 18: to go to one of these YouTubers. I don't know

1253
01:04:40,800 --> 01:04:42,400
Speaker 18: if you guys anyone in the back or you know

1254
01:04:42,520 --> 01:04:45,640
Speaker 18: who Matt Stony or Eric the Electric is. But bringing

1255
01:04:45,680 --> 01:04:47,920
Speaker 18: a guy in like those guys who are professional eaters

1256
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Speaker 18: on the internet and see what can happen with that?

1257
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Speaker 2: All right, buddy, thanks a lot. Em Brice in Texas,

1258
01:04:54,760 --> 01:04:57,280
Speaker 2: thanks for hanging on. What do you got for us tonight?

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Speaker 19: Well, also start by saying put in my Patiota Arnie

1260
01:05:02,000 --> 01:05:02,840
Speaker 19: to not call in the night.

1261
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Speaker 14: But I guess he.

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Speaker 19: Deleted that email for the fourth of July weekend. But

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01:05:07,480 --> 01:05:10,560
Speaker 19: as far as the Joey Chessnunt thing, real quick, the

1264
01:05:10,680 --> 01:05:12,520
Speaker 19: last guy I literally just said what I was about

1265
01:05:12,560 --> 01:05:14,919
Speaker 19: to say is I don't think that the hot dogg

1266
01:05:14,920 --> 01:05:18,240
Speaker 19: geting contest is well off its feels, but there is

1267
01:05:18,440 --> 01:05:20,920
Speaker 19: definitely room for them to go and experiment into like

1268
01:05:21,080 --> 01:05:24,520
Speaker 19: YouTube or social media to kind of grow it some more.

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Speaker 19: I would say this weekend, I've seen more posts about

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Speaker 19: Joey Chessnunt than I have baseball or anything else when

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Speaker 19: it's ports related.

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01:05:31,880 --> 01:05:35,000
Speaker 2: That's the same point. That's an excellent point. Thoughts on

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01:05:35,080 --> 01:05:36,640
Speaker 2: lebron and Caitlyn Clark.

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01:05:37,920 --> 01:05:40,680
Speaker 19: Uh, Kaitlyn Clark, I'm going to sound like the Broken Records,

1275
01:05:40,880 --> 01:05:44,120
Speaker 19: like they love the noise.

1276
01:05:44,280 --> 01:05:47,120
Speaker 6: The WNBA loves this noise, and even though it's.

1277
01:05:47,000 --> 01:05:50,600
Speaker 2: Hiring and the I don't like the rivalry twenty three

1278
01:05:50,640 --> 01:05:52,800
Speaker 2: million fans vote for her to be in the All

1279
01:05:52,800 --> 01:05:55,160
Speaker 2: Star Game, and the players every ninth. Tell me why

1280
01:05:55,240 --> 01:05:56,040
Speaker 2: you think that happened?

1281
01:05:57,520 --> 01:05:59,840
Speaker 19: The noise, it's it's it's the same they're running the

1282
01:06:00,040 --> 01:06:03,280
Speaker 19: Linda McMahon Vince McMahon playbook. The more more rivalry, the.

1283
01:06:03,320 --> 01:06:08,040
Speaker 2: More the top from the commissioner. I'm not arguing with you.

1284
01:06:08,080 --> 01:06:09,919
Speaker 2: I'm just I mean your theory. I'm not gonna argue

1285
01:06:09,920 --> 01:06:11,240
Speaker 2: with your theory. It's just I don't think they're that

1286
01:06:11,360 --> 01:06:13,160
Speaker 2: smart style bolical.

1287
01:06:13,160 --> 01:06:14,160
Speaker 20: I don't think the commissioner.

1288
01:06:14,160 --> 01:06:15,520
Speaker 19: I don't think the commissioner is doing it.

1289
01:06:15,600 --> 01:06:16,880
Speaker 6: But the non.

1290
01:06:16,760 --> 01:06:19,480
Speaker 2: Action's certainly allowing it, right.

1291
01:06:19,400 --> 01:06:22,960
Speaker 19: The non action is basically encouraging it. And the agents

1292
01:06:23,040 --> 01:06:26,280
Speaker 19: that are working with these players are not coming out

1293
01:06:26,280 --> 01:06:29,240
Speaker 19: and saying anything either, Like, nobody's saying anything about it

1294
01:06:29,280 --> 01:06:32,000
Speaker 19: except the media in the in the community, which is

1295
01:06:32,040 --> 01:06:35,240
Speaker 19: what's boosting the NBA or the WNBA right now. So

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01:06:35,280 --> 01:06:38,680
Speaker 19: in my opinion, they slightly love the noise, so they'll

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01:06:38,680 --> 01:06:40,480
Speaker 19: shut up about it because the more noise they have,

1298
01:06:40,560 --> 01:06:41,840
Speaker 19: the more people that are involved.

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01:06:41,840 --> 01:06:44,200
Speaker 2: Like you said, all right, that's an interesting theory. Bryce,

1300
01:06:44,240 --> 01:06:47,360
Speaker 2: that's a thoughtful theory. I won't dismiss it. I don't

1301
01:06:47,400 --> 01:06:49,200
Speaker 2: know if I agree, but I won't dismiss it. I

1302
01:06:49,240 --> 01:06:51,840
Speaker 2: appreciate you Bryce, thanks for checking in, and thanks to

1303
01:06:51,880 --> 01:06:55,480
Speaker 2: your patience. Todd and Iowa. Are you a first time

1304
01:06:55,560 --> 01:06:57,280
Speaker 2: or two? The Men That Hour and the Bernie Fottle Show?

1305
01:06:58,080 --> 01:07:00,840
Speaker 21: First time calling in? Love your show. Thanks for giving

1306
01:07:00,840 --> 01:07:01,760
Speaker 21: me an opportunity here.

1307
01:07:02,080 --> 01:07:04,000
Speaker 2: Thanks, thanks for checking in. Don't be a stranger.

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01:07:05,040 --> 01:07:06,320
Speaker 7: Uh As I.

1309
01:07:06,280 --> 01:07:08,600
Speaker 21: Really I'm thinking the hot dog thing isn't my thing,

1310
01:07:08,760 --> 01:07:12,080
Speaker 21: but I'm thinking if we combine hot dogs eating and

1311
01:07:12,240 --> 01:07:14,919
Speaker 21: golf and let the guys take a stroke off every

1312
01:07:14,920 --> 01:07:16,840
Speaker 21: hot dog, then when they're done eating the hot dog,

1313
01:07:16,960 --> 01:07:18,680
Speaker 21: they got to go shoot around at golf and see

1314
01:07:18,680 --> 01:07:19,160
Speaker 21: how well they.

1315
01:07:19,160 --> 01:07:19,520
Speaker 2: Do with that.

1316
01:07:20,200 --> 01:07:21,640
Speaker 21: I think that makes it a lot more interesting.

1317
01:07:22,640 --> 01:07:23,240
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1318
01:07:24,640 --> 01:07:27,320
Speaker 21: Uh, Caitlyn Clark is a reason why I called from

1319
01:07:27,480 --> 01:07:30,720
Speaker 21: from I would love Caitlyn Clark, love everything that she

1320
01:07:30,920 --> 01:07:32,280
Speaker 21: has brought to the game.

1321
01:07:32,680 --> 01:07:32,840
Speaker 14: Uh.

1322
01:07:33,080 --> 01:07:35,720
Speaker 21: She's made me interested in women's basketball. You told me

1323
01:07:35,800 --> 01:07:38,680
Speaker 21: five years ago ifout have cared, i'd have said, your nuts.

1324
01:07:38,720 --> 01:07:41,160
Speaker 21: But we are through the looking glass on this. I

1325
01:07:41,200 --> 01:07:44,360
Speaker 21: am invested in what she's doing. I'm interested. I find

1326
01:07:44,240 --> 01:07:47,520
Speaker 21: it a compelling storyline. He had to call her previously. Alan,

1327
01:07:47,600 --> 01:07:50,360
Speaker 21: I think he was talking about, don't don't these people

1328
01:07:50,600 --> 01:07:53,080
Speaker 21: know that they they've got to know what they're what

1329
01:07:53,120 --> 01:07:54,920
Speaker 21: she's bringing to the game, and what she's bringing to

1330
01:07:55,000 --> 01:07:55,400
Speaker 21: the league.

1331
01:07:56,440 --> 01:07:59,440
Speaker 2: That therein lies the irony to kill the golden goose

1332
01:07:59,480 --> 01:08:02,640
Speaker 2: like that repeat. I thought, I actually it was dumb

1333
01:08:02,720 --> 01:08:04,360
Speaker 2: enough to think that maybe they put it all behind

1334
01:08:04,400 --> 01:08:07,480
Speaker 2: him last year and the w NBA would transition this year.

1335
01:08:07,680 --> 01:08:09,120
Speaker 2: It's just as bad, if not worse.

1336
01:08:09,520 --> 01:08:11,920
Speaker 21: Well, I think I love this call, but I'll disagree

1337
01:08:11,960 --> 01:08:13,960
Speaker 21: with it. I'm going I'm going to offer that they

1338
01:08:14,000 --> 01:08:16,960
Speaker 21: don't know and uh, I'm just going to offer the

1339
01:08:17,240 --> 01:08:21,040
Speaker 21: critical basketball theory. I think this is this is a

1340
01:08:21,200 --> 01:08:25,439
Speaker 21: political ideological thing that is being brought brought into all

1341
01:08:25,520 --> 01:08:27,880
Speaker 21: of this, and I think the commissioner is part of

1342
01:08:27,920 --> 01:08:30,160
Speaker 21: all this, and it's kind of going against the oppressor

1343
01:08:30,200 --> 01:08:32,840
Speaker 21: class and they don't want Caitlin Clark to be the

1344
01:08:32,880 --> 01:08:36,760
Speaker 21: face of the league. And that's where if you're if

1345
01:08:36,800 --> 01:08:40,639
Speaker 21: she's ninth best guard in the league, I think everyone

1346
01:08:40,640 --> 01:08:44,479
Speaker 21: that voted her below number two, uh, should be declared

1347
01:08:44,479 --> 01:08:48,760
Speaker 21: academically ineligible and not be allowed to play. This is

1348
01:08:48,880 --> 01:08:51,720
Speaker 21: this is something I don't. I really really think that

1349
01:08:52,280 --> 01:08:55,519
Speaker 21: these people just don't know, They just don't understand. They

1350
01:08:55,520 --> 01:08:58,639
Speaker 21: think if it weren't for her, one of them would

1351
01:08:58,640 --> 01:09:02,000
Speaker 21: be that person. And I really think that that's the deal,

1352
01:09:02,400 --> 01:09:05,640
Speaker 21: and I think they're living in a fantasy land. The

1353
01:09:06,040 --> 01:09:09,120
Speaker 21: All Star voting is clear. We're spending an hour having

1354
01:09:10,000 --> 01:09:13,360
Speaker 21: having extended talk about the w NBA back in twenty

1355
01:09:13,400 --> 01:09:15,920
Speaker 21: twenty three. I don't think there's an entire hour on

1356
01:09:16,000 --> 01:09:17,759
Speaker 21: overnight sports talk radio that was devoted.

1357
01:09:17,880 --> 01:09:19,840
Speaker 2: No, none of it. None of us did. But this

1358
01:09:19,920 --> 01:09:21,880
Speaker 2: transcends the league. Are anything else. I just want to

1359
01:09:21,880 --> 01:09:22,639
Speaker 2: get to all the callers.

1360
01:09:22,640 --> 01:09:28,240
Speaker 22: Dodd, Yeah, Lebron, James. If you're in the argument for

1361
01:09:28,320 --> 01:09:30,760
Speaker 22: best player ever with Jordan, I think it's Jordan. But

1362
01:09:30,800 --> 01:09:33,000
Speaker 22: if you're in the argument, I want you to stick

1363
01:09:33,000 --> 01:09:34,519
Speaker 22: around as long as long as you can.

1364
01:09:34,600 --> 01:09:35,200
Speaker 5: That's all I got.

1365
01:09:35,280 --> 01:09:36,320
Speaker 18: Thank you, Okay, thank.

1366
01:09:36,200 --> 01:09:38,720
Speaker 2: You, good stuff. Andrew and Bakersfield, welcome in.

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01:09:38,720 --> 01:09:44,840
Speaker 15: Buddy, Hey, Bernie. I always wanted to ask you. Is

1368
01:09:44,920 --> 01:09:47,559
Speaker 15: Stil Collins from Detroit? I always wondered, why do you

1369
01:09:47,640 --> 01:09:49,479
Speaker 15: play his version of that song?

1370
01:09:50,560 --> 01:09:53,879
Speaker 2: Well? I only played Motown and my producer Mark Ramsey

1371
01:09:53,920 --> 01:09:55,920
Speaker 2: asked if we could add it a couple three years ago,

1372
01:09:56,280 --> 01:09:59,240
Speaker 2: and I said, sure, it is actually the Motown version

1373
01:09:59,400 --> 01:10:02,200
Speaker 2: song that was originally recorded by the Supreme, so we

1374
01:10:02,280 --> 01:10:03,000
Speaker 2: keep it in the loop.

1375
01:10:03,600 --> 01:10:08,920
Speaker 15: Okay, cool for Lebron non blinking.

1376
01:10:09,720 --> 01:10:10,960
Speaker 7: Let me go to Kate the.

1377
01:10:10,960 --> 01:10:14,040
Speaker 2: Bottom line, you'd be sad or glad when he finally

1378
01:10:14,040 --> 01:10:16,800
Speaker 2: hangs him up. I've seen enough of the guy. If

1379
01:10:16,800 --> 01:10:19,120
Speaker 2: you click tomorrow, I'll be the best day of my life. Okay,

1380
01:10:19,120 --> 01:10:20,519
Speaker 2: you'd be sad, fair enough?

1381
01:10:20,560 --> 01:10:24,680
Speaker 15: Continue on why because he's good.

1382
01:10:26,520 --> 01:10:28,840
Speaker 2: That's good enough for me. We don't need to overthink this.

1383
01:10:28,920 --> 01:10:32,200
Speaker 2: Let's get to the Caitlin Clark snub as it were,

1384
01:10:32,240 --> 01:10:34,360
Speaker 2: I say that in air quotes, and then the Nathan

1385
01:10:34,439 --> 01:10:35,519
Speaker 2: South dogg getting contest.

1386
01:10:36,120 --> 01:10:40,720
Speaker 15: Yes, Kaitlin Clark, Okay, I just think of soccer. W

1387
01:10:40,960 --> 01:10:49,160
Speaker 15: NBA is kind of like a pioneer into progressing women's

1388
01:10:49,200 --> 01:10:53,840
Speaker 15: sports soccer. Similar you think of lend and Donovan or

1389
01:10:53,960 --> 01:10:59,000
Speaker 15: Christian Polistic and they're great and you want them on

1390
01:10:59,040 --> 01:11:01,799
Speaker 15: the team. And I'm talking about the fact that Kaitlyn

1391
01:11:01,840 --> 01:11:07,120
Speaker 15: Clark wasn't on the Olympic team. I just think that

1392
01:11:07,320 --> 01:11:10,920
Speaker 15: if you have someone who's good, there's no reason not

1393
01:11:11,080 --> 01:11:15,280
Speaker 15: to promote them because fair enough.

1394
01:11:15,360 --> 01:11:18,680
Speaker 2: I it just makes too much sense. I get it.

1395
01:11:18,800 --> 01:11:22,280
Speaker 2: Uh so we got Lebron, we got Caitlin real quickly

1396
01:11:22,320 --> 01:11:24,320
Speaker 2: on the hot dog getting contest. Does it jump the shark?

1397
01:11:25,120 --> 01:11:26,800
Speaker 10: What does that come from?

1398
01:11:26,880 --> 01:11:27,479
Speaker 15: That phrase?

1399
01:11:27,840 --> 01:11:30,439
Speaker 2: Well, it actually comes from a Happy Days episode when

1400
01:11:30,920 --> 01:11:33,879
Speaker 2: the fawns was worn a leather jacket and went surfing

1401
01:11:34,840 --> 01:11:38,599
Speaker 2: and it jumped over a shark. And the bottom line

1402
01:11:38,680 --> 01:11:41,679
Speaker 2: is it became a metaphor for Okay, after that, Happy

1403
01:11:41,760 --> 01:11:44,640
Speaker 2: Days became a kind of a dumb show. It just

1404
01:11:44,800 --> 01:11:47,639
Speaker 2: has it when when when people say that, it means

1405
01:11:47,680 --> 01:11:50,439
Speaker 2: that okay, you've you've overstayed, You're welcome. Now, I'm not

1406
01:11:50,479 --> 01:11:53,599
Speaker 2: implying that it has. It's just that there's no rivalry anymore.

1407
01:11:53,600 --> 01:11:55,839
Speaker 2: There's no more role records. It's it's the same spectacle

1408
01:11:55,840 --> 01:11:57,880
Speaker 2: of year. It's just the same thing every there's nothing new.

1409
01:11:58,439 --> 01:12:00,600
Speaker 2: That's all. So without overthinking it, I mean, if you

1410
01:12:00,600 --> 01:12:03,280
Speaker 2: still like it, most people still do. I watched it

1411
01:12:03,680 --> 01:12:06,280
Speaker 2: just wondered if you thought, you know, it's just completely

1412
01:12:06,280 --> 01:12:07,240
Speaker 2: lost its luster. Now.

1413
01:12:07,880 --> 01:12:11,599
Speaker 15: I I was thinking about economically, okay, because I'm thinking

1414
01:12:11,640 --> 01:12:14,960
Speaker 15: sitting here, like, man, all those hot dogs couldn't someone's

1415
01:12:15,040 --> 01:12:19,240
Speaker 15: starving and affter you know somewhere eat those. So my

1416
01:12:19,360 --> 01:12:22,720
Speaker 15: thought is, if you're in a good economy and you're

1417
01:12:22,720 --> 01:12:25,800
Speaker 15: already giving to people and everyone, then it's like a

1418
01:12:25,840 --> 01:12:28,960
Speaker 15: celebration and you can have the contest. But like right now,

1419
01:12:29,040 --> 01:12:31,320
Speaker 15: maybe people aren't interested because they're like, what are we

1420
01:12:31,400 --> 01:12:31,920
Speaker 15: doing here?

1421
01:12:32,720 --> 01:12:37,000
Speaker 2: All right? That's interesting. I appreciate it. Thanks a lot, Andrew.

1422
01:12:37,640 --> 01:12:39,200
Speaker 2: This is going to be one of those nights where

1423
01:12:39,200 --> 01:12:41,320
Speaker 2: we go over time because we got to get to

1424
01:12:41,360 --> 01:12:44,200
Speaker 2: Tony VG in North Carolina, Mike the Leprechaun, Greg and

1425
01:12:44,200 --> 01:12:48,280
Speaker 2: Texas Domingo and San Diego. If you dial in before

1426
01:12:48,360 --> 01:12:50,360
Speaker 2: one am Pacific, you're getting in as long as you're

1427
01:12:50,400 --> 01:12:52,720
Speaker 2: willing to wait. And I try to move as quick

1428
01:12:52,720 --> 01:12:54,360
Speaker 2: as I can. Callers do a good job. They have

1429
01:12:54,400 --> 01:12:56,479
Speaker 2: a lot to say, and I just want to make

1430
01:12:56,479 --> 01:12:59,559
Speaker 2: sure we're not too redundant, and we standpoint. But that's

1431
01:12:59,600 --> 01:13:03,040
Speaker 2: an interesting seeing angle there by Andrew. Later in the show,

1432
01:13:03,080 --> 01:13:06,920
Speaker 2: I'm going to share with you some of Joey chestnuts

1433
01:13:06,960 --> 01:13:10,960
Speaker 2: other exploits, okay, because he owns about seventy five eating records,

1434
01:13:10,960 --> 01:13:13,000
Speaker 2: I mean, one hundred and forty one hard boiled legs

1435
01:13:13,000 --> 01:13:15,240
Speaker 2: in eight minutes. What'll I get going on that later

1436
01:13:15,280 --> 01:13:17,559
Speaker 2: we'll have some fun with it, but the midnight hour

1437
01:13:17,600 --> 01:13:19,080
Speaker 2: will continue. We're gonna get to all of it. As

1438
01:13:19,080 --> 01:13:22,040
Speaker 2: long as you dial in before one am Pacific, four

1439
01:13:22,040 --> 01:13:25,400
Speaker 2: am Eastern. I promise we'll get to you. Just be patient,

1440
01:13:26,120 --> 01:13:27,960
Speaker 2: keep it locked you listen to the Bernie Fraddle Show

1441
01:13:28,080 --> 01:13:31,639
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio. All right, back on the Bernie Frattle Show.

1442
01:13:31,680 --> 01:13:34,920
Speaker 2: The midnight hour continues. We will be going overtime, so

1443
01:13:34,960 --> 01:13:37,200
Speaker 2: if I don't get to you before we get to

1444
01:13:37,240 --> 01:13:38,640
Speaker 2: the top of the hour, we will get to you

1445
01:13:38,720 --> 01:13:42,840
Speaker 2: right after one am Pacific, four am Eastern. Just hanging

1446
01:13:42,880 --> 01:13:45,519
Speaker 2: in there. I appreciate the patience. Tony and Miami. How

1447
01:13:45,560 --> 01:13:48,080
Speaker 2: are you, buddy? Hey, Bernie?

1448
01:13:48,120 --> 01:13:48,640
Speaker 6: Happy for it.

1449
01:13:48,760 --> 01:13:51,800
Speaker 12: Let's try to fit these calls in, like Kobyashi before

1450
01:13:51,840 --> 01:13:52,320
Speaker 12: four am.

1451
01:13:52,360 --> 01:13:53,840
Speaker 6: I'm going to make this record setting.

1452
01:13:55,720 --> 01:14:00,920
Speaker 12: I have nothing on anything else except you want to

1453
01:14:00,960 --> 01:14:05,200
Speaker 12: know if I'll be happy or sad when number twenty

1454
01:14:05,240 --> 01:14:09,360
Speaker 12: three or thirty two or whatever his number is, you know,

1455
01:14:09,720 --> 01:14:13,639
Speaker 12: takes his crown off at Burger King. I am actually

1456
01:14:13,680 --> 01:14:18,000
Speaker 12: going to have a gathering and it's gonna be it's

1457
01:14:18,040 --> 01:14:23,840
Speaker 12: gonna be sponsored by Nugenics and if We're gonna call

1458
01:14:23,880 --> 01:14:26,960
Speaker 12: it the conclusion. We're all gonna get drunk on white Claw.

1459
01:14:28,200 --> 01:14:31,320
Speaker 12: We're all gonna get drunk on white Claw, and it's

1460
01:14:31,320 --> 01:14:35,320
Speaker 12: gonna bee hundred dollars white Claw in all of the

1461
01:14:35,479 --> 01:14:37,800
Speaker 12: proceeds are gonna go to Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk.

1462
01:14:37,880 --> 01:14:38,439
Speaker 6: It'll be great.

1463
01:14:38,760 --> 01:14:46,960
Speaker 12: Oh seriously, though, in wrapping it up, he should absolutely

1464
01:14:47,760 --> 01:14:50,679
Speaker 12: take it as an honor for anyone over the age

1465
01:14:50,720 --> 01:14:54,320
Speaker 12: of I would say fifty who actually saw a magic

1466
01:14:54,400 --> 01:14:57,880
Speaker 12: bird Isaiah, and obviously the greats before that. If he

1467
01:14:58,120 --> 01:15:00,320
Speaker 12: if he is mentioned in the top ten, you take

1468
01:15:00,320 --> 01:15:03,240
Speaker 12: that as an absolute honor. I'm in my early forties.

1469
01:15:03,560 --> 01:15:06,200
Speaker 12: I did not get to see you know, magic Isaiah.

1470
01:15:06,560 --> 01:15:10,400
Speaker 12: I mean the majority the context of it, watching them

1471
01:15:10,680 --> 01:15:13,960
Speaker 12: not necessarily live but on TV. And you know the

1472
01:15:14,000 --> 01:15:17,639
Speaker 12: guys that did see I definitely.

1473
01:15:18,280 --> 01:15:20,200
Speaker 6: I mean I have him. I have him where I

1474
01:15:20,240 --> 01:15:20,840
Speaker 6: have him ranked.

1475
01:15:20,880 --> 01:15:23,959
Speaker 12: If five A, five B, I saw four better players

1476
01:15:24,680 --> 01:15:27,479
Speaker 12: that walked up that hill, didn't take the helicopter and cheat.

1477
01:15:28,160 --> 01:15:29,400
Speaker 12: We all see it as it is.

1478
01:15:29,760 --> 01:15:32,360
Speaker 6: And to the other callers before or you.

1479
01:15:32,360 --> 01:15:35,000
Speaker 12: Know, there's a couple that said he is a family men.

1480
01:15:35,080 --> 01:15:36,360
Speaker 6: We don't know who he is so.

1481
01:15:36,320 --> 01:15:37,040
Speaker 21: Please stop that.

1482
01:15:37,880 --> 01:15:40,439
Speaker 12: We don't know what any of these people are, especially now.

1483
01:15:40,560 --> 01:15:45,479
Speaker 12: So for what he did, he is a competitor, he

1484
01:15:45,680 --> 01:15:47,320
Speaker 12: is a champion. I'm not gonna take.

1485
01:15:47,160 --> 01:15:47,880
Speaker 6: That away from him.

1486
01:15:47,880 --> 01:15:50,920
Speaker 12: I do not hate him, but yeah, we're we're gonna

1487
01:15:50,960 --> 01:15:51,240
Speaker 12: move on.

1488
01:15:52,280 --> 01:15:54,280
Speaker 6: And I know you got the other callers. Let's try

1489
01:15:54,320 --> 01:15:56,840
Speaker 6: to fit it in and switch some water down. Burn.

1490
01:15:56,920 --> 01:15:59,640
Speaker 6: I love your happy force and enjoy the rest of

1491
01:15:59,680 --> 01:16:00,000
Speaker 6: the weekend.

1492
01:16:00,360 --> 01:16:03,000
Speaker 2: Thanks John. I mean you're just being You're being honest. Okay,

1493
01:16:03,000 --> 01:16:06,320
Speaker 2: he just doesn't resonate with you. There's an old sin.

1494
01:16:06,400 --> 01:16:08,920
Speaker 2: You can buy dance lessons, but you can't buy rhythm.

1495
01:16:09,479 --> 01:16:14,560
Speaker 2: The other players you mentioned, Bird Magic, Jordan or t Kolbe.

1496
01:16:15,040 --> 01:16:17,559
Speaker 2: Those guys had a panache about them that Lebron just

1497
01:16:17,600 --> 01:16:19,599
Speaker 2: wishes he had. And I think that's where I kind

1498
01:16:19,600 --> 01:16:22,800
Speaker 2: of fall short with him. VJ in North Carolina. Thank

1499
01:16:22,800 --> 01:16:24,160
Speaker 2: you for your patience, Welcome in.

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01:16:25,320 --> 01:16:28,559
Speaker 23: Thank you, Thank you, Bade for taking my call. First,

1501
01:16:28,640 --> 01:16:29,960
Speaker 23: I want to get to Lebron.

1502
01:16:30,080 --> 01:16:30,479
Speaker 14: Lebron.

1503
01:16:32,200 --> 01:16:34,160
Speaker 23: I'm going to be sad when when he's gone. He's

1504
01:16:34,200 --> 01:16:37,639
Speaker 23: the greatest player of our generation. I don't think people

1505
01:16:37,680 --> 01:16:40,000
Speaker 23: really understand that when he's gone, he's gone, and it's

1506
01:16:40,000 --> 01:16:42,439
Speaker 23: going to be a void there with that. Like he

1507
01:16:42,880 --> 01:16:44,880
Speaker 23: like I said, he's the greatest player of our generations,

1508
01:16:44,960 --> 01:16:49,400
Speaker 23: I don't he is what it is. Okay, when it

1509
01:16:49,400 --> 01:16:52,240
Speaker 23: comes to Caitlin Clark, I'm going to be a contrarian

1510
01:16:52,280 --> 01:16:55,639
Speaker 23: to the rest of the callers. The players rate they're knife.

1511
01:16:56,160 --> 01:17:00,240
Speaker 23: Let's be honest. She has not been this good this year.

1512
01:17:00,439 --> 01:17:04,040
Speaker 23: She leaves the league in turnovers, She her numbers across

1513
01:17:04,080 --> 01:17:07,360
Speaker 23: the board have been down. She's not the best player

1514
01:17:07,400 --> 01:17:09,280
Speaker 23: on her team. She's not the second best player on

1515
01:17:09,320 --> 01:17:12,960
Speaker 23: the team. That would go to Leah Boston and Kelsey Mitchell. Like,

1516
01:17:13,320 --> 01:17:15,840
Speaker 23: I need the rest of America to start being honest

1517
01:17:15,880 --> 01:17:18,639
Speaker 23: about Caitlyn Clark. She just has not been that good

1518
01:17:18,640 --> 01:17:23,160
Speaker 23: this year. So I think the players are being absolutely honest.

1519
01:17:23,560 --> 01:17:27,360
Speaker 2: Would it be fair though, to surmise VJ that she

1520
01:17:27,479 --> 01:17:30,479
Speaker 2: set so many records for rookie year that there's a

1521
01:17:30,560 --> 01:17:35,320
Speaker 2: natural slight drop off. Yeah, he's been hurt with groin injury,

1522
01:17:35,439 --> 01:17:40,519
Speaker 2: and of all the all the flavorant finals committed in

1523
01:17:40,560 --> 01:17:43,120
Speaker 2: the league, twenty percent against her. So I don't think

1524
01:17:43,120 --> 01:17:45,880
Speaker 2: it's a level playing field. Your point is respected, I

1525
01:17:46,000 --> 01:17:48,200
Speaker 2: got you, but I don't agree with it, continue on.

1526
01:17:49,960 --> 01:17:53,639
Speaker 23: And I'll get the Joey chests. Night I watched the Hoddle.

1527
01:17:53,760 --> 01:17:57,479
Speaker 23: I enjoyed it. Joey's to go and I enjoyed him

1528
01:17:57,800 --> 01:18:01,240
Speaker 23: taking down everyone. I still enjoy a hot dog getting contests.

1529
01:18:01,800 --> 01:18:04,200
Speaker 2: Hey, listen, I appreciate your call. Thank you for your

1530
01:18:04,240 --> 01:18:06,400
Speaker 2: patience and hanging on, and don't be a stranger, okay,

1531
01:18:06,760 --> 01:18:10,320
Speaker 2: because I appreciate your candor and you backed up your

1532
01:18:10,600 --> 01:18:14,720
Speaker 2: opinion with relevant specifics. She has Caitlin Clark has not

1533
01:18:14,760 --> 01:18:18,320
Speaker 2: been as good this year. She hasn't, but maybe because

1534
01:18:18,400 --> 01:18:21,120
Speaker 2: we're it's juxtaposed against the rookie season that was off

1535
01:18:21,120 --> 01:18:25,280
Speaker 2: the charts after people like Geno Orima said you would

1536
01:18:25,320 --> 01:18:27,519
Speaker 2: even basically make it in the league, and so many

1537
01:18:27,600 --> 01:18:30,040
Speaker 2: others said that. At least I think Geno Oremy has

1538
01:18:30,040 --> 01:18:34,280
Speaker 2: said something similar to that, And so there's just this

1539
01:18:34,439 --> 01:18:36,200
Speaker 2: dichotomy where the fans want to see her, but the

1540
01:18:36,200 --> 01:18:38,639
Speaker 2: players have kind of kind of got in for Yeah,

1541
01:18:38,680 --> 01:18:41,520
Speaker 2: she has lined a lot of turnovers, can't that's undeniable.

1542
01:18:42,160 --> 01:18:44,960
Speaker 2: Stevie Wonder can see that. But that's like saying, you know,

1543
01:18:45,400 --> 01:18:47,719
Speaker 2: Reggie Jackson's not that good because he struck out too much.

1544
01:18:48,040 --> 01:18:50,240
Speaker 2: I'd rather focus on the home runs in the strakeouts,

1545
01:18:50,240 --> 01:18:53,040
Speaker 2: but the callers are just fair. That was a really

1546
01:18:53,080 --> 01:18:56,760
Speaker 2: good call. Okay, you opened it up by saying I'm

1547
01:18:56,760 --> 01:18:59,280
Speaker 2: going to be a concernon That's what we want though,

1548
01:18:59,400 --> 01:19:05,000
Speaker 2: also because the most boring conversations are when everybody agrees

1549
01:19:05,520 --> 01:19:10,040
Speaker 2: and not everybody has to agree. And again VJ was inbolviating.

1550
01:19:10,120 --> 01:19:14,920
Speaker 2: He was basically giving a thoughtful opinion and he justified

1551
01:19:14,920 --> 01:19:16,439
Speaker 2: it with specific and he did to say one thing

1552
01:19:16,479 --> 01:19:19,000
Speaker 2: that's true. When Lebron's gone, there will be a void.

1553
01:19:19,240 --> 01:19:22,080
Speaker 2: There will actually be a void. Now we'll see you

1554
01:19:22,479 --> 01:19:26,920
Speaker 2: believe me. Great players have retired and the league goes on.

1555
01:19:27,760 --> 01:19:30,120
Speaker 2: And I never get into the Jordan versus Lebron argument.

1556
01:19:30,160 --> 01:19:31,840
Speaker 2: I think you have to recuse yourself if you haven't

1557
01:19:31,840 --> 01:19:34,880
Speaker 2: seen him both play courtside I have. All I would

1558
01:19:34,880 --> 01:19:36,479
Speaker 2: say is if my life is on the line, then

1559
01:19:36,520 --> 01:19:38,719
Speaker 2: I needed to win one game. It would be Jordan,

1560
01:19:38,880 --> 01:19:42,160
Speaker 2: not Lebron, Mike the Leprechaun, Greg and Texas Domingo and

1561
01:19:42,200 --> 01:19:44,320
Speaker 2: San Diego, Jeff and Denver, Rick and Louisiana. You all

1562
01:19:44,360 --> 01:19:46,759
Speaker 2: got in under the bell. We're gonna take your calls

1563
01:19:46,800 --> 01:19:49,759
Speaker 2: coming over the top of the hour, So hold those thoughts.

1564
01:19:49,840 --> 01:19:52,679
Speaker 2: I appreciate your patience, and I appreciate all the calls tonight.

1565
01:19:52,960 --> 01:19:55,280
Speaker 2: We don't have to agree. We don't have to agree.

1566
01:19:55,320 --> 01:19:57,840
Speaker 2: It just gets you fluffy if we all agree. So

1567
01:19:58,280 --> 01:20:00,719
Speaker 2: keep it up, keep up the great work, keep it locked.

1568
01:20:00,800 --> 01:20:03,840
Speaker 2: Because you're listening to the Bernie Frattle Show on Fox

1569
01:20:03,880 --> 01:20:04,799
Speaker 2: Sports Radio.

1570
01:20:06,360 --> 01:20:09,080
Speaker 1: Don't listen, Hey, no, Fox Sports Radio Radio.

1571
01:20:13,240 --> 01:20:16,200
Speaker 2: That's straight. You heard the man. Bernie Frattle Show keeps

1572
01:20:16,280 --> 01:20:20,840
Speaker 2: rolling right along, and so does the midnight Hour continuing

1573
01:20:20,880 --> 01:20:23,760
Speaker 2: on from the Fox Sports Radio studios here in Las

1574
01:20:23,880 --> 01:20:27,439
Speaker 2: Vegas for going overtime. We have five callers to get to.

1575
01:20:27,640 --> 01:20:30,840
Speaker 2: They have been patient, so let's get to these. We

1576
01:20:30,920 --> 01:20:33,800
Speaker 2: begin with Mike the Leprechaun. Mike, welcome in.

1577
01:20:35,200 --> 01:20:35,400
Speaker 20: Hi.

1578
01:20:35,479 --> 01:20:36,640
Speaker 7: I'm in an elevator right now.

1579
01:20:36,640 --> 01:20:39,080
Speaker 20: Hold, but I'm up to mind. I'm in LA right now.

1580
01:20:39,120 --> 01:20:42,680
Speaker 2: Actually, let's get to the point, my friend, because I

1581
01:20:42,720 --> 01:20:45,720
Speaker 2: got other callers on the line, so we have three tops.

1582
01:20:45,800 --> 01:20:49,000
Speaker 7: So I'm gonna say, I'm pretty sad about the people

1583
01:20:49,040 --> 01:20:50,160
Speaker 7: in Texas.

1584
01:20:50,439 --> 01:20:52,320
Speaker 10: But anyway, that's very side.

1585
01:20:52,800 --> 01:20:55,479
Speaker 7: So chilly chessa he is of that, Jenny.

1586
01:20:55,760 --> 01:20:56,240
Speaker 10: I think He's on.

1587
01:20:56,400 --> 01:21:00,760
Speaker 7: Seventeen in a row, which is amazing. Oh, thank god

1588
01:21:00,760 --> 01:21:03,880
Speaker 7: if the elevator I'm in La right now. But so

1589
01:21:04,640 --> 01:21:10,040
Speaker 7: Joey Chaws is a Jaws is amazing. And also, don't

1590
01:21:10,040 --> 01:21:10,759
Speaker 7: forget the lady.

1591
01:21:11,160 --> 01:21:14,040
Speaker 2: She has eleven time Mickey Pseudo. So so the bottom

1592
01:21:14,040 --> 01:21:16,960
Speaker 2: line is you like it, and it hasn't I'm not wrong.

1593
01:21:17,000 --> 01:21:19,280
Speaker 2: It hasn't lost its luster. The hot talk contest is

1594
01:21:19,320 --> 01:21:20,320
Speaker 2: still No.

1595
01:21:20,560 --> 01:21:24,639
Speaker 9: It's brilliant. American needs more fun these days.

1596
01:21:24,680 --> 01:21:27,360
Speaker 2: Thank got it. That's a fair take, all right, how

1597
01:21:27,360 --> 01:21:30,360
Speaker 2: do you feel about Lebron, Caitlin Clark? Lebron is near

1598
01:21:30,400 --> 01:21:30,840
Speaker 2: to the end.

1599
01:21:30,920 --> 01:21:33,840
Speaker 9: Yes, no, yes, do you know what he should do?

1600
01:21:34,240 --> 01:21:34,479
Speaker 7: Well?

1601
01:21:34,520 --> 01:21:36,200
Speaker 10: He should watch his ego.

1602
01:21:36,000 --> 01:21:36,479
Speaker 20: A little bit.

1603
01:21:37,439 --> 01:21:38,800
Speaker 7: He should do at least one more year.

1604
01:21:38,840 --> 01:21:39,799
Speaker 10: He should come to Boston.

1605
01:21:39,960 --> 01:21:41,080
Speaker 9: Boston could use them for.

1606
01:21:41,040 --> 01:21:42,360
Speaker 7: One year like Shaquille and Leo.

1607
01:21:43,000 --> 01:21:45,599
Speaker 9: My god, he would be very popular in Boston.

1608
01:21:46,080 --> 01:21:46,640
Speaker 10: I give you that.

1609
01:21:47,720 --> 01:21:50,120
Speaker 9: And yeah, is that fair enough?

1610
01:21:50,680 --> 01:21:53,680
Speaker 20: He should go to box them and then Kate and.

1611
01:21:53,680 --> 01:21:54,559
Speaker 10: Kate and talks.

1612
01:21:54,760 --> 01:21:57,600
Speaker 17: She is injured, she's not oprated.

1613
01:21:58,040 --> 01:21:59,960
Speaker 9: Cage Bucker's will be better, I think in time.

1614
01:22:00,240 --> 01:22:04,680
Speaker 20: But she's having the saphomore Trump that.

1615
01:22:04,960 --> 01:22:08,080
Speaker 2: Might be a fair point. Thank you, Leprechaun. There's something

1616
01:22:08,080 --> 01:22:09,760
Speaker 2: to be said for that which we haven't really got to,

1617
01:22:10,400 --> 01:22:12,800
Speaker 2: but didn't really answer the question as to why he

1618
01:22:12,880 --> 01:22:15,320
Speaker 2: thinks the league would only have her as a ninth

1619
01:22:15,320 --> 01:22:18,360
Speaker 2: best guard when they sure guard are different than someone

1620
01:22:18,360 --> 01:22:20,000
Speaker 2: who's only to be the ninth best guard. But good

1621
01:22:20,120 --> 01:22:23,120
Speaker 2: Thanks for checking in, Greg and Texas. Thanks for your patience.

1622
01:22:23,160 --> 01:22:23,559
Speaker 2: Welcome in.

1623
01:22:24,120 --> 01:22:24,760
Speaker 20: What's going on?

1624
01:22:24,800 --> 01:22:25,000
Speaker 14: Man?

1625
01:22:25,680 --> 01:22:30,960
Speaker 20: Okay, let's go to the So we got the first one,

1626
01:22:31,000 --> 01:22:34,320
Speaker 20: which is grown. I'll be sad when he retires because

1627
01:22:34,640 --> 01:22:37,920
Speaker 20: seeing a guy his age do things he's done is

1628
01:22:37,960 --> 01:22:41,520
Speaker 20: truly remarkable, and then setting the bar for the flops

1629
01:22:41,600 --> 01:22:45,200
Speaker 20: that's never going to be broken. And most of all,

1630
01:22:45,920 --> 01:22:49,680
Speaker 20: I'll be happy because Jerry Jones will once again be

1631
01:22:49,720 --> 01:22:54,639
Speaker 20: the worst general manager of all the sports. So that's

1632
01:22:54,640 --> 01:22:58,040
Speaker 20: where I'm at with that. With Kitin Clark, I think

1633
01:22:58,080 --> 01:23:02,200
Speaker 20: it goes deeper. Although the gentleman that called in really

1634
01:23:02,240 --> 01:23:04,679
Speaker 20: stay in the facts that she's not having a good season.

1635
01:23:05,080 --> 01:23:08,840
Speaker 20: That's truly valid. So I can't really bat on the

1636
01:23:08,920 --> 01:23:13,360
Speaker 20: people at all. But what I can say is perhaps

1637
01:23:13,439 --> 01:23:18,160
Speaker 20: the w NBA needs a code of ethics and make

1638
01:23:18,240 --> 01:23:22,400
Speaker 20: these people more professional or maybe perhaps post their boats.

1639
01:23:23,280 --> 01:23:24,559
Speaker 20: So I'll leave it at that.

1640
01:23:26,640 --> 01:23:28,880
Speaker 2: Are you there, I'm here, I'm listening.

1641
01:23:28,720 --> 01:23:32,280
Speaker 20: All right, okay, And then to the hot dog eating contest.

1642
01:23:32,720 --> 01:23:34,680
Speaker 20: I think if they the old thing I can think

1643
01:23:34,720 --> 01:23:36,640
Speaker 20: of they can do is expand it to where you

1644
01:23:36,680 --> 01:23:40,400
Speaker 20: have hot dogs, tacos, hamburgers, and at the n have

1645
01:23:40,720 --> 01:23:45,439
Speaker 20: just you know, a megathon of settle lamb just a.

1646
01:23:45,439 --> 01:23:49,280
Speaker 2: Little bit, and that's been suggested. Thanks a lot. Look,

1647
01:23:49,320 --> 01:23:51,679
Speaker 2: the only problem is sponsored by Nathan's. And a little

1648
01:23:51,720 --> 01:23:53,920
Speaker 2: later in the show, we'll have a little fun segment

1649
01:23:53,960 --> 01:23:57,639
Speaker 2: where I'll get to some of Joey Chestnuts eating eating records. Okay,

1650
01:23:57,800 --> 01:23:59,800
Speaker 2: I mean one hundred and three white castles and eight

1651
01:23:59,800 --> 01:24:03,799
Speaker 2: minut it's those little Hostess donuts. Two hundred and fifty

1652
01:24:03,840 --> 01:24:06,320
Speaker 2: seven up in six minutes. All right, we know it's

1653
01:24:06,320 --> 01:24:09,760
Speaker 2: hot dog record seventy six in ten minutes. I don't

1654
01:24:09,760 --> 01:24:11,200
Speaker 2: think you'll ever break it. I just don't.

1655
01:24:11,720 --> 01:24:12,040
Speaker 20: Uh.

1656
01:24:12,120 --> 01:24:15,400
Speaker 2: Domingo and San Diego, Welcome into the Bernie Fradlesield. This

1657
01:24:15,479 --> 01:24:16,360
Speaker 2: is your first time calling.

1658
01:24:17,040 --> 01:24:19,080
Speaker 19: Oh no, this doesn't like my fourth time calling.

1659
01:24:19,120 --> 01:24:19,599
Speaker 5: I'm not that.

1660
01:24:19,600 --> 01:24:21,800
Speaker 2: Smart, Domingo. I'm sorry, buddy, I got a fool man,

1661
01:24:22,200 --> 01:24:22,840
Speaker 2: go ahead.

1662
01:24:22,640 --> 01:24:25,080
Speaker 7: It's cool man. F'm the mingo in San Diego.

1663
01:24:25,120 --> 01:24:27,559
Speaker 24: Hey, I do want to chime in about the hot

1664
01:24:27,600 --> 01:24:31,120
Speaker 24: dogg eyeing the contact and Lebron James and Kiln Clark.

1665
01:24:31,320 --> 01:24:32,080
Speaker 10: Okay, I don't know.

1666
01:24:32,840 --> 01:24:34,360
Speaker 7: I'm thirty three or four years old.

1667
01:24:34,920 --> 01:24:37,200
Speaker 24: I've seen Lebron James and ever since he went in

1668
01:24:37,240 --> 01:24:39,840
Speaker 24: high school. I've seen Joey Test that ever since I

1669
01:24:39,960 --> 01:24:42,839
Speaker 24: was like in high school. Also, I've seen these guys dominate.

1670
01:24:43,280 --> 01:24:45,320
Speaker 24: I'd be so sad when me both of these guys

1671
01:24:45,439 --> 01:24:49,639
Speaker 24: actually decided to finish and their careers, even Joey Test

1672
01:24:49,760 --> 01:24:51,080
Speaker 24: and Lebron James, I don't know.

1673
01:24:51,720 --> 01:24:52,080
Speaker 18: I seen.

1674
01:24:52,240 --> 01:24:55,840
Speaker 24: I've seen the Lebron dominating high school win championship.

1675
01:24:56,120 --> 01:24:57,720
Speaker 7: If you went to college, I think he would have.

1676
01:24:57,880 --> 01:24:59,520
Speaker 7: He would have went to Ohio.

1677
01:24:59,040 --> 01:25:01,800
Speaker 19: State Chestnut when he won.

1678
01:25:03,040 --> 01:25:05,040
Speaker 24: He's like a seventeen time I don't know what the

1679
01:25:05,120 --> 01:25:09,120
Speaker 24: record is, seventeen times a hot dog eating Nathan hot

1680
01:25:09,200 --> 01:25:12,519
Speaker 24: dog eating contest winner. He'll holds other record. He'd beat

1681
01:25:12,560 --> 01:25:16,800
Speaker 24: Kobe Yashi, he'd beat mat Stony, Lebron James beat who

1682
01:25:17,920 --> 01:25:21,560
Speaker 24: Paul Pierce, He'd beat Dwight Howard. So I don't know,

1683
01:25:22,000 --> 01:25:25,320
Speaker 24: greatness is right there, at least for Kaitlin Clark. I

1684
01:25:25,439 --> 01:25:26,760
Speaker 24: think we have to be Patrie Rapper.

1685
01:25:27,280 --> 01:25:28,320
Speaker 9: I don't think he's up.

1686
01:25:28,320 --> 01:25:33,120
Speaker 24: To the greatness as Lebron James or or Chowy Chestnut,

1687
01:25:33,600 --> 01:25:35,800
Speaker 24: but maybe she will. I think we just have to

1688
01:25:35,840 --> 01:25:38,080
Speaker 24: be patient right now, that's my call for tonight.

1689
01:25:38,200 --> 01:25:40,120
Speaker 2: All right, excellent de Mano and he bring up a

1690
01:25:40,160 --> 01:25:43,840
Speaker 2: couple of good points. It's undeniable, Frank Sinatra said, at

1691
01:25:43,840 --> 01:25:46,840
Speaker 2: best for something to be said for longevity, Lebron's been

1692
01:25:46,880 --> 01:25:48,960
Speaker 2: in the league. His rookie year was oh three h four.

1693
01:25:49,880 --> 01:25:52,360
Speaker 2: Twenty years later, twenty two years later, twenty is twenty

1694
01:25:52,400 --> 01:25:56,200
Speaker 2: third year, he's still competing and putting up good numbers.

1695
01:25:56,640 --> 01:26:02,040
Speaker 2: Longevity is something that's revered, I believe, saying with Joey Chestmutt.

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Speaker 2: So that's that's really an excellent thing. That's one of

1697
01:26:04,160 --> 01:26:06,040
Speaker 2: the midnight hour callers are so good. You get these

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01:26:06,080 --> 01:26:10,800
Speaker 2: different angles, and I think that when they've been such

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01:26:10,840 --> 01:26:12,880
Speaker 2: a fixture for so long, I guess it doesn't surprise

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01:26:12,960 --> 01:26:15,760
Speaker 2: me that so many people will be sad when Lebron leaves.

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01:26:15,760 --> 01:26:15,840
Speaker 20: Now.

1702
01:26:15,840 --> 01:26:17,720
Speaker 2: I know there are other factions who feel differently, but

1703
01:26:18,160 --> 01:26:20,400
Speaker 2: we're dealing with the callers on our show tonight, Jeff

1704
01:26:20,439 --> 01:26:22,960
Speaker 2: in Denver. You are up next. Welcome into the Bernie Frash.

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01:26:24,360 --> 01:26:26,519
Speaker 10: Hey, Bernie. First off, I just want to give you props.

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01:26:27,120 --> 01:26:31,320
Speaker 10: One of the greatest shows, open minded, knowledgeable, and just

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01:26:32,080 --> 01:26:33,000
Speaker 10: everything in general.

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01:26:33,240 --> 01:26:34,320
Speaker 6: One of the greatest show.

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01:26:35,320 --> 01:26:37,400
Speaker 2: We didn't lose you, did we No, I'm here.

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01:26:37,520 --> 01:26:38,000
Speaker 14: Can you hear me?

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01:26:38,400 --> 01:26:39,920
Speaker 2: I can hear you? Just fine, All of a sudden,

1712
01:26:39,960 --> 01:26:42,920
Speaker 2: it just it just stopped. And you can go on

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01:26:43,080 --> 01:26:46,080
Speaker 2: as long as you like with your oratory. No, go ahead.

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01:26:46,560 --> 01:26:49,320
Speaker 10: Oh, you're the greatest show ever. You're just so knowledgeable,

1715
01:26:49,400 --> 01:26:52,200
Speaker 10: open minded. You take everything you spin it roll and

1716
01:26:52,400 --> 01:26:54,160
Speaker 10: get a great show to listen to.

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01:26:54,640 --> 01:26:59,080
Speaker 2: First of all, appreciate that very much. All right, start

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01:26:59,120 --> 01:27:01,320
Speaker 2: with any of these three times topics, going anywhere you want.

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01:27:02,040 --> 01:27:04,920
Speaker 10: Oh, the Lebron thing, I'd be so happy for him

1720
01:27:04,960 --> 01:27:08,280
Speaker 10: to go. I just have never I mean, he's put

1721
01:27:08,360 --> 01:27:12,280
Speaker 10: up great numbers, good player, but he's a me player.

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01:27:12,760 --> 01:27:12,960
Speaker 14: M e.

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01:27:13,240 --> 01:27:14,080
Speaker 5: He's a me player.

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01:27:14,080 --> 01:27:16,040
Speaker 14: He's never been a team player.

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01:27:16,520 --> 01:27:18,559
Speaker 10: The best player in the league. I'm I'm in Denver,

1726
01:27:18,760 --> 01:27:23,679
Speaker 10: so yes watching Nicolekic. I named my dog after Joker.

1727
01:27:24,560 --> 01:27:26,320
Speaker 10: That guy is the best player.

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01:27:26,360 --> 01:27:26,880
Speaker 5: In the league.

1729
01:27:26,920 --> 01:27:29,080
Speaker 10: I think because he's a team player.

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01:27:29,520 --> 01:27:32,439
Speaker 2: Lebron is a me player. He's got a real panache

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01:27:32,439 --> 01:27:35,000
Speaker 2: about him too. Jokchez he's got that ry sense of

1732
01:27:35,120 --> 01:27:38,200
Speaker 2: humor and he's kind of got this earthy common sense.

1733
01:27:38,640 --> 01:27:40,439
Speaker 2: He didn't care about a trade. He wanted to get

1734
01:27:40,479 --> 01:27:42,960
Speaker 2: back to his home country, right that. He's just there's

1735
01:27:43,000 --> 01:27:46,760
Speaker 2: a real authenticity about Jokic too. But go ahead, oh.

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01:27:46,760 --> 01:27:50,000
Speaker 10: When they too, when they changed the when they fired Maloney,

1737
01:27:50,000 --> 01:27:52,280
Speaker 10: He's like, it's a job. I'm just really good at

1738
01:27:52,320 --> 01:27:52,639
Speaker 10: my job.

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01:27:53,360 --> 01:27:54,000
Speaker 7: That's all it is.

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01:27:54,400 --> 01:27:58,920
Speaker 10: So that in respect to Lebron, yeah, he's put up

1741
01:27:58,920 --> 01:28:02,040
Speaker 10: great numbers, but he just I've watched him take place

1742
01:28:02,160 --> 01:28:02,960
Speaker 10: off on defense.

1743
01:28:03,560 --> 01:28:04,679
Speaker 6: This does not play defense.

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01:28:04,760 --> 01:28:07,519
Speaker 10: So I'll be glad to see him going. Kaitlyn Clark,

1745
01:28:08,240 --> 01:28:10,640
Speaker 10: the best way I can describe Kitlyn Clark is the

1746
01:28:10,720 --> 01:28:15,479
Speaker 10: glass slipper of Sendorola. The w NBA should be happy

1747
01:28:15,600 --> 01:28:19,720
Speaker 10: that she found the glass slipper. And every team, even

1748
01:28:19,800 --> 01:28:23,400
Speaker 10: in the NFL, when somebody has a good year, they

1749
01:28:25,040 --> 01:28:31,880
Speaker 10: uh program their defense or they fok focus on that player.

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01:28:32,600 --> 01:28:35,040
Speaker 10: So of course her numbers are down this year because

1751
01:28:35,160 --> 01:28:39,040
Speaker 10: everybody's going to focus on her and that's why her

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01:28:39,120 --> 01:28:39,720
Speaker 10: numbers are down.

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01:28:39,760 --> 01:28:40,439
Speaker 6: Do you agree with that?

1754
01:28:41,120 --> 01:28:44,400
Speaker 2: Sure, they've made adjustments since she's not healthy. She still

1755
01:28:44,439 --> 01:28:47,439
Speaker 2: has some big games. She's still a walking highlight reel.

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01:28:48,560 --> 01:28:49,519
Speaker 10: Right, she's the glass.

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01:28:50,000 --> 01:28:52,760
Speaker 2: People want to watch her play and she's a.

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01:28:53,000 --> 01:28:55,479
Speaker 14: Would you do you like the the.

1759
01:28:56,960 --> 01:28:58,479
Speaker 10: Comparison to the glass slipper?

1760
01:28:59,160 --> 01:29:01,080
Speaker 2: Yeah? I think you're right. And I thought you were

1761
01:29:01,080 --> 01:29:03,280
Speaker 2: about to say strike midnight if they don't knock this off,

1762
01:29:03,360 --> 01:29:05,719
Speaker 2: because I think a lot of people have had about

1763
01:29:05,800 --> 01:29:07,639
Speaker 2: enough of it. We get it. You don't like her, okay,

1764
01:29:08,600 --> 01:29:11,080
Speaker 2: but what she's done for the league? Go, okay, you

1765
01:29:11,160 --> 01:29:11,880
Speaker 2: got the last word.

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01:29:12,400 --> 01:29:15,840
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, she's the reason the league has expand that

1767
01:29:15,920 --> 01:29:17,599
Speaker 10: she's the reason the league is going to be going

1768
01:29:17,680 --> 01:29:21,919
Speaker 10: to expand. Without her, they wouldn't have any coverage.

1769
01:29:23,000 --> 01:29:23,920
Speaker 14: Yeah, well we did that to.

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01:29:25,600 --> 01:29:26,960
Speaker 2: Oh the hot dog eating contest.

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01:29:27,520 --> 01:29:31,400
Speaker 10: Oh respect greatness. I mean I could not fathom.

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01:29:31,560 --> 01:29:32,320
Speaker 14: I don't even.

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01:29:32,320 --> 01:29:35,760
Speaker 10: Understand how one person could eat that much. I mean,

1774
01:29:35,960 --> 01:29:40,639
Speaker 10: it's greatness. It's it's just greatness. If put him on showing,

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01:29:41,040 --> 01:29:44,040
Speaker 10: I mean, if one person can do that and no

1776
01:29:44,080 --> 01:29:47,400
Speaker 10: one else can do it, then respect me. It's just greatness.

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01:29:47,960 --> 01:29:49,920
Speaker 10: I couldn't fathom eating how many.

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01:29:49,800 --> 01:29:54,879
Speaker 2: Hot dogs not in ten minutes? Jeff, don't be a stranger.

1779
01:29:54,880 --> 01:29:56,760
Speaker 2: I appreciate you, Car, I appreciate you listening to the show.

1780
01:29:56,800 --> 01:30:01,439
Speaker 2: Thanks for your nice comments. Uh, Rick in Louisia always interesting.

1781
01:30:01,720 --> 01:30:04,120
Speaker 2: You are bringing us home tonight. Rick, you'll be the

1782
01:30:04,240 --> 01:30:05,799
Speaker 2: final word on all these matters.

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01:30:06,760 --> 01:30:10,439
Speaker 14: All right, and thanks, thanks, Bernie, and I hope you're

1784
01:30:10,439 --> 01:30:11,639
Speaker 14: doing all right, sir.

1785
01:30:12,880 --> 01:30:13,480
Speaker 2: Alrighty.

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01:30:14,120 --> 01:30:20,800
Speaker 14: Starting with the hot dog eating, I'm just more power

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01:30:20,920 --> 01:30:23,720
Speaker 14: to him if he can just gobble them down like that.

1788
01:30:23,920 --> 01:30:26,479
Speaker 14: But I think that if he go like you said

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01:30:26,520 --> 01:30:30,559
Speaker 14: he has done the egg eating contest, that could really

1790
01:30:30,680 --> 01:30:34,600
Speaker 14: work to advantage because one thing about it, if he

1791
01:30:34,720 --> 01:30:37,160
Speaker 14: gets back in there he can you know, he'll have

1792
01:30:37,400 --> 01:30:42,840
Speaker 14: gas to sail. Price of gas goes up. We just

1793
01:30:42,960 --> 01:30:45,519
Speaker 14: called him. Hey, man, we need you to any.

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01:30:45,360 --> 01:30:48,680
Speaker 2: Rate the comedic stylings of Rick and Louisiana opening up

1795
01:30:48,720 --> 01:30:52,880
Speaker 2: for Shecky Greed and the Catskills this week Saturday. Don't

1796
01:30:52,920 --> 01:30:55,160
Speaker 2: forget to try to semi bonelet spaghetti and tip those

1797
01:30:55,200 --> 01:30:57,960
Speaker 2: waiters and waitresses. Hey, no tax on tips up to

1798
01:30:58,000 --> 01:31:00,960
Speaker 2: twenty five thou hell yeah, let's oh, I'm sorry.

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01:31:01,040 --> 01:31:03,680
Speaker 14: Rick got the floor that's all right, that's all right.

1800
01:31:04,280 --> 01:31:07,920
Speaker 14: The next one, what I think Kayln Claude should consider

1801
01:31:08,920 --> 01:31:16,720
Speaker 14: is retirement and then have everybody begged her back. Not

1802
01:31:17,080 --> 01:31:19,720
Speaker 14: any intentions of staying out, but stay out for a

1803
01:31:19,840 --> 01:31:23,160
Speaker 14: while so they can miss her, because sometimes people got

1804
01:31:23,280 --> 01:31:26,080
Speaker 14: to miss you and then realize, well, we made a mistake,

1805
01:31:26,240 --> 01:31:28,960
Speaker 14: we shouldn't have been so blah blah blah. You know,

1806
01:31:29,120 --> 01:31:32,360
Speaker 14: so retiring come back back. My suggestion.

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01:31:33,720 --> 01:31:36,479
Speaker 2: That one it's fun Lebron. Will you be sad or

1808
01:31:36,560 --> 01:31:40,320
Speaker 2: glad when he's played his last game? Did you see

1809
01:31:40,360 --> 01:31:42,760
Speaker 2: the tears crocodile to your head?

1810
01:31:45,120 --> 01:31:52,360
Speaker 14: I will be sad. I'm gonna be sad because for

1811
01:31:52,479 --> 01:31:58,080
Speaker 14: the last twenty years during basketball season, it's always about him,

1812
01:31:58,439 --> 01:32:01,600
Speaker 14: whether he's on the bench, whether he makes whether he

1813
01:32:01,800 --> 01:32:05,400
Speaker 14: wins the championship, whether he loses the championship when he

1814
01:32:05,600 --> 01:32:08,719
Speaker 14: was going to it. It's always about what he didn't

1815
01:32:08,800 --> 01:32:13,200
Speaker 14: do as opposed to what he did. So you know,

1816
01:32:13,320 --> 01:32:17,600
Speaker 14: here we have right now, Okay c has won a championship,

1817
01:32:17,640 --> 01:32:22,360
Speaker 14: but we ain't really hear nothing about them or Shay Alexander.

1818
01:32:22,840 --> 01:32:25,280
Speaker 14: But what I am looking forward to, based on some

1819
01:32:25,479 --> 01:32:28,600
Speaker 14: rumors I'm here, I would like to see him go

1820
01:32:29,400 --> 01:32:34,120
Speaker 14: to New York or Houston. That would be interesting. But

1821
01:32:34,280 --> 01:32:38,520
Speaker 14: you know, if he goes to New York, his retirement

1822
01:32:38,680 --> 01:32:41,160
Speaker 14: may be sooner them, we think, because New York ain't

1823
01:32:41,160 --> 01:32:44,519
Speaker 14: gonna put up with it. He's losing if he's on

1824
01:32:44,720 --> 01:32:48,519
Speaker 14: the team. So you might want to encourage that, Hey,

1825
01:32:48,720 --> 01:32:49,679
Speaker 14: go to New York.

1826
01:32:50,120 --> 01:32:53,160
Speaker 9: We'd like to see Lebron in New York's and she say, you.

1827
01:32:53,280 --> 01:32:55,360
Speaker 2: Want to see him? Know what's funny about that, Rick,

1828
01:32:55,520 --> 01:32:57,760
Speaker 2: He's had a alliance with New yorksince twenty ten. He

1829
01:32:57,880 --> 01:32:59,920
Speaker 2: visited with the Knicks before he had his press conference

1830
01:33:00,439 --> 01:33:04,639
Speaker 2: about taking his talents to Miami. And there was always

1831
01:33:04,640 --> 01:33:07,400
Speaker 2: a thought that Lebron would like to play in New York.

1832
01:33:08,160 --> 01:33:10,720
Speaker 2: And you know, they could actually trade Carl. I think

1833
01:33:10,720 --> 01:33:13,080
Speaker 2: they could trade Karl Anthony Towns straight off for Lebron

1834
01:33:13,120 --> 01:33:15,679
Speaker 2: and the salaries would match. Do I think that's gonna happen?

1835
01:33:15,760 --> 01:33:17,000
Speaker 2: I did sick at the end of the day. No,

1836
01:33:17,200 --> 01:33:20,640
Speaker 2: but you raise an intriguing point. Anything else, Rick, No,

1837
01:33:20,880 --> 01:33:23,600
Speaker 2: that's it all right, buddy, appreciate your patience and hanging on.

1838
01:33:24,000 --> 01:33:26,479
Speaker 2: I want to thank all the callers. We had some

1839
01:33:26,600 --> 01:33:29,679
Speaker 2: new ones tonight, Jeff and VJ and Todd and Iowa

1840
01:33:30,240 --> 01:33:32,879
Speaker 2: and a lot of the great regulars. This was interesting

1841
01:33:32,920 --> 01:33:37,080
Speaker 2: tonight because my read was wrong. I think the advanced

1842
01:33:37,160 --> 01:33:40,800
Speaker 2: majority of the folks tonight will be a little sad

1843
01:33:40,840 --> 01:33:43,720
Speaker 2: when lebron leafs. They're looking at a little bit more pragmatically.

1844
01:33:43,760 --> 01:33:46,519
Speaker 2: And that's fair. And we didn't always agree, and that's

1845
01:33:46,560 --> 01:33:50,800
Speaker 2: okay too. But I really appreciate the folks who take

1846
01:33:50,840 --> 01:33:55,160
Speaker 2: the time dial in and wait on hold. You are

1847
01:33:55,200 --> 01:33:57,960
Speaker 2: the ones who deserve all the credit for the popularity

1848
01:33:57,960 --> 01:34:00,120
Speaker 2: of the midnight hour. By the way, shortly after the show, Oh,

1849
01:34:00,800 --> 01:34:02,880
Speaker 2: our podcast will be going up. If you missed any

1850
01:34:02,920 --> 01:34:04,919
Speaker 2: of tonight' show'll be sure to check out the podcast.

1851
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1852
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1854
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Speaker 2: you get your podcasts. You'll see tonight show posted right

1855
01:34:17,120 --> 01:34:21,639
Speaker 2: after we get off the air. Coming up, final thought

1856
01:34:21,800 --> 01:34:24,719
Speaker 2: on NBA Free agency, because it was really active this week.

1857
01:34:25,160 --> 01:34:26,680
Speaker 2: I think there were four teams I'll put in the

1858
01:34:26,680 --> 01:34:29,320
Speaker 2: winter category and three teams I'm going to put in

1859
01:34:29,360 --> 01:34:32,040
Speaker 2: the loser category, and I'll nail them all with bullet

1860
01:34:32,080 --> 01:34:35,479
Speaker 2: points and relevant specifics. I'm Bernie Fraddleworck Comedy live from

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01:34:35,520 --> 01:34:38,800
Speaker 2: the Las Vegas Fox Sports Radio Studios. Don't go away.

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01:34:54,160 --> 01:34:57,559
Speaker 2: All right back on the Bernie Fraddle Show, Fox Sports Radio.

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01:35:01,000 --> 01:35:03,240
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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio and the iHeart Radio app. All right.

1879
01:35:29,520 --> 01:35:31,800
Speaker 2: Putting a cap around NBA Free agency because it was

1880
01:35:31,960 --> 01:35:36,640
Speaker 2: very active. There were because of the movement, there have

1881
01:35:36,680 --> 01:35:40,200
Speaker 2: been various changes in championship odds, and so let's break

1882
01:35:40,240 --> 01:35:43,200
Speaker 2: it down. These are the four winners. Denver is a

1883
01:35:43,240 --> 01:35:46,280
Speaker 2: clear winner. Their championship odds went from seventeen to one

1884
01:35:46,360 --> 01:35:48,680
Speaker 2: to eight to one to win the title. And when

1885
01:35:48,680 --> 01:35:51,160
Speaker 2: you look at their war room, they got it done.

1886
01:35:51,320 --> 01:35:54,559
Speaker 2: First they trade Michael Porter Junior for Cam Johnson. Now

1887
01:35:54,760 --> 01:35:57,400
Speaker 2: those two players have a similar profile their wings scorers

1888
01:35:57,439 --> 01:36:00,240
Speaker 2: and high volume three point shooters. But the last couple

1889
01:36:00,240 --> 01:36:03,760
Speaker 2: of years, Porter Junior has had a difficult shooting twenty

1890
01:36:03,840 --> 01:36:05,680
Speaker 2: five percent from behind the arc, couldn't throw a pee

1891
01:36:05,680 --> 01:36:08,439
Speaker 2: in the ocean, had a rough series against the Thunder.

1892
01:36:09,200 --> 01:36:12,560
Speaker 2: Johnson is on a much cheaper contract, and that was

1893
01:36:12,640 --> 01:36:16,439
Speaker 2: able to you know, that enabled the Nuggets to clear

1894
01:36:16,520 --> 01:36:20,320
Speaker 2: up cap room to sign other impact players, including Bruce Brown,

1895
01:36:20,840 --> 01:36:23,120
Speaker 2: who helped the Nuggets win the championship in twenty twenty

1896
01:36:23,200 --> 01:36:26,439
Speaker 2: three alongside Jokic. By the way, Denver also signed Tim

1897
01:36:26,439 --> 01:36:30,280
Speaker 2: Hardaway Junior. He shoots about thirty six percent from behind

1898
01:36:30,320 --> 01:36:33,479
Speaker 2: the arc for the Pistons last year. And the Nuggets

1899
01:36:33,479 --> 01:36:37,760
Speaker 2: also got Jonas Valanciunis, who's a backup center. But what

1900
01:36:37,880 --> 01:36:39,479
Speaker 2: he's going to do is take a little bit of

1901
01:36:39,520 --> 01:36:43,400
Speaker 2: pressure off of Nikole Jokic when he's not on the floor,

1902
01:36:45,200 --> 01:36:48,080
Speaker 2: you know Denver can maintain a little bit better. So

1903
01:36:49,040 --> 01:36:51,360
Speaker 2: give Denver a huge A plus. He addressed all their

1904
01:36:51,439 --> 01:36:54,960
Speaker 2: areas of concern by a surrounding Yokick with shooters and

1905
01:36:55,080 --> 01:36:58,320
Speaker 2: adding depth and giving him a reliable backup center. Now

1906
01:36:58,360 --> 01:37:00,560
Speaker 2: I realize they're not the favorite to win it, but

1907
01:37:00,640 --> 01:37:05,160
Speaker 2: they closed the gap with the thunder and the Nuggets

1908
01:37:05,200 --> 01:37:07,439
Speaker 2: are very very real next year, And since no one

1909
01:37:07,520 --> 01:37:11,800
Speaker 2: repeats in the nba'd be interesting to see the Atlanta Hawks.

1910
01:37:11,800 --> 01:37:13,800
Speaker 2: We haven't talked much about them. They went from twenty

1911
01:37:13,880 --> 01:37:16,040
Speaker 2: five to one to nine to one to win the East.

1912
01:37:16,680 --> 01:37:19,639
Speaker 2: Remember Jalen Johnson, He's a guy who wants to average

1913
01:37:19,720 --> 01:37:23,120
Speaker 2: nineteen points, ten rebounds, five assists and was on his

1914
01:37:23,200 --> 01:37:25,360
Speaker 2: way to make an All Star team, but he only

1915
01:37:25,400 --> 01:37:29,080
Speaker 2: played thirty six games because he had a terrible injury. Okay,

1916
01:37:29,160 --> 01:37:32,840
Speaker 2: now his return should really boost the hawks chances. The

1917
01:37:33,000 --> 01:37:37,519
Speaker 2: East is declining, it appears to be declining for the reasons.

1918
01:37:37,560 --> 01:37:39,920
Speaker 2: You already know. You got Trey Young, he had a

1919
01:37:39,960 --> 01:37:44,360
Speaker 2: ker high and assists last season. Dyson Daniels almost improved

1920
01:37:44,360 --> 01:37:46,400
Speaker 2: player winner, and you had the number one or the

1921
01:37:46,439 --> 01:37:50,479
Speaker 2: first overall pick Zachary Reshia say they're all returning with

1922
01:37:50,640 --> 01:37:54,000
Speaker 2: more experience. By the way, Atlanta was also active in

1923
01:37:54,080 --> 01:37:57,519
Speaker 2: the offseason. They traded for Christaph Parsingis. They signed the

1924
01:37:57,640 --> 01:38:01,360
Speaker 2: kail Alexander Walker. He's a very good backcourt partner for

1925
01:38:01,479 --> 01:38:05,400
Speaker 2: Trey Young, an excellent ballhander, a tenacious defender. Now you've

1926
01:38:05,400 --> 01:38:09,439
Speaker 2: got rent protection for Zingis Alexander Walker. Will you know

1927
01:38:09,960 --> 01:38:12,840
Speaker 2: swarm opposing guards? Atlanta has should have one of the

1928
01:38:12,920 --> 01:38:16,640
Speaker 2: best defenses in the NBA next year. After ranking in

1929
01:38:16,720 --> 01:38:23,360
Speaker 2: the bottom half. The Bucks, well, they actually improved a

1930
01:38:23,479 --> 01:38:25,920
Speaker 2: little bit. They went from seventy five to one to

1931
01:38:25,960 --> 01:38:27,800
Speaker 2: win the title to fifty to one to win the title,

1932
01:38:28,960 --> 01:38:30,559
Speaker 2: twenty five to one to twenty to one to win

1933
01:38:30,600 --> 01:38:33,639
Speaker 2: the East. Somehow they managed to get Miles Turner away

1934
01:38:33,800 --> 01:38:38,559
Speaker 2: from Indiana, so no more Damian Lillard. I think Miles

1935
01:38:38,600 --> 01:38:42,120
Speaker 2: Turner is a big upgrade over Brook Lopez, and he

1936
01:38:42,160 --> 01:38:47,080
Speaker 2: will pair well with Jannis, who obviously is their best player,

1937
01:38:47,080 --> 01:38:49,600
Speaker 2: a stretch bag who can also protect the rim. But

1938
01:38:49,760 --> 01:38:52,679
Speaker 2: the Bucks long term outlook might be a little bleak,

1939
01:38:52,760 --> 01:38:54,640
Speaker 2: but at least for next year, it's just kind of

1940
01:38:54,680 --> 01:38:58,320
Speaker 2: a short term play. The Bucks thought they would entice

1941
01:38:58,800 --> 01:39:02,000
Speaker 2: Giannistry manage a but you just don't know. He's still

1942
01:39:02,080 --> 01:39:08,800
Speaker 2: mulling his future. So if at backfires, maybe maybe Milwaukee's

1943
01:39:08,800 --> 01:39:10,920
Speaker 2: not in the winter category. Maybe they're in the loser category.

1944
01:39:11,000 --> 01:39:13,760
Speaker 2: But I still think you saw how good Miles Turner

1945
01:39:13,880 --> 01:39:15,800
Speaker 2: was in the NBA Finals and during the playoffs with

1946
01:39:17,200 --> 01:39:21,000
Speaker 2: the with the Indiana Pacers, so that can only help

1947
01:39:21,320 --> 01:39:24,320
Speaker 2: the Bucks and help you, honis the Rockets look out.

1948
01:39:25,280 --> 01:39:27,160
Speaker 2: They went from eighteen to one to eight to one

1949
01:39:27,200 --> 01:39:30,400
Speaker 2: to win the title, and they're legit. They are super athletic.

1950
01:39:32,160 --> 01:39:35,679
Speaker 2: They got off the schneid before the free agency even started.

1951
01:39:36,479 --> 01:39:39,120
Speaker 2: On the same day of the game seven of the finals,

1952
01:39:39,160 --> 01:39:42,439
Speaker 2: what two Sundays ago, the Suns traded Kevin Durant to

1953
01:39:42,479 --> 01:39:45,719
Speaker 2: the Rockets, and that's what basically abade. The odds shortened

1954
01:39:45,720 --> 01:39:47,559
Speaker 2: from eight to eighteen to one to eight to one.

1955
01:39:48,320 --> 01:39:50,599
Speaker 2: I think Durant is motivated to win one more title.

1956
01:39:50,840 --> 01:39:52,519
Speaker 2: He wasn't great in Phoenix, and I don't know what

1957
01:39:53,760 --> 01:39:58,559
Speaker 2: he's an enigma. He's a misunderstood guy, but he's incredibly talented.

1958
01:39:58,880 --> 01:40:00,200
Speaker 2: You saw what he did in the Olympic and you

1959
01:40:00,240 --> 01:40:03,160
Speaker 2: saw what he did with them with the Golden State Warriors.

1960
01:40:03,920 --> 01:40:08,639
Speaker 2: But it wasn't just Kevin Durant that the Rockets acquired.

1961
01:40:08,680 --> 01:40:11,720
Speaker 2: They didn't stop there because when free agency opened up,

1962
01:40:12,040 --> 01:40:15,479
Speaker 2: they wasted no time getting Dorian Finney Smith from the Lakers,

1963
01:40:15,800 --> 01:40:18,559
Speaker 2: who's a great three and d forward shot forty one

1964
01:40:18,640 --> 01:40:21,720
Speaker 2: percent from behind the arc last year. Then Houston also

1965
01:40:21,800 --> 01:40:25,320
Speaker 2: pegged Clint Capella, who's better than DeAndre Aiden. And I'm

1966
01:40:25,439 --> 01:40:29,559
Speaker 2: convinced that the Lakers would have much rather had Clint

1967
01:40:29,640 --> 01:40:34,320
Speaker 2: Capella than DeAndre Aiden. And all of a sudden, you

1968
01:40:34,439 --> 01:40:38,200
Speaker 2: got this monster front court featuring alt parents singing and

1969
01:40:38,320 --> 01:40:41,200
Speaker 2: Steven Adams Houston. This is a team that wanted to

1970
01:40:41,400 --> 01:40:44,280
Speaker 2: be wanted to commit to size, and they did. This

1971
01:40:44,479 --> 01:40:47,519
Speaker 2: is Ema Udoka. This is his stock in trade. He

1972
01:40:47,680 --> 01:40:50,720
Speaker 2: utilizes big lineups. He's got two big lineups that will

1973
01:40:50,720 --> 01:40:52,920
Speaker 2: grab offensive rebounds. And what does that do? That creates

1974
01:40:52,960 --> 01:40:56,479
Speaker 2: extra possessions and that puts pressure on your competition. The

1975
01:40:56,640 --> 01:40:59,880
Speaker 2: Rockets tied now for the second best overall odds to

1976
01:41:00,000 --> 01:41:02,519
Speaker 2: win the West at plus five hundred, which is basically

1977
01:41:02,600 --> 01:41:04,719
Speaker 2: five to one, and third best to win the title

1978
01:41:04,800 --> 01:41:06,280
Speaker 2: at plus eight fifty, which is eight and a half

1979
01:41:06,360 --> 01:41:09,120
Speaker 2: to one. So they're just right there neck and neck,

1980
01:41:09,439 --> 01:41:14,200
Speaker 2: basically neck and neck with the Thunder and the Nuggets

1981
01:41:15,320 --> 01:41:18,400
Speaker 2: the losers. I don't know, man, I mean we'll talk,

1982
01:41:18,600 --> 01:41:21,000
Speaker 2: you know, in about thirty minutes. We've got Jeff Austin

1983
01:41:21,040 --> 01:41:24,280
Speaker 2: coming up from Boston. The Celtics went from eighteen to

1984
01:41:24,400 --> 01:41:26,280
Speaker 2: one to twenty eight to one to win the title.

1985
01:41:29,400 --> 01:41:31,320
Speaker 2: You know, Mark Medina was right. They didn't strip all

1986
01:41:31,320 --> 01:41:33,280
Speaker 2: the way to the studs because you still got Jalen Brown.

1987
01:41:33,360 --> 01:41:36,800
Speaker 2: But they really stripped down. They've essentially punted on next

1988
01:41:36,840 --> 01:41:39,559
Speaker 2: season because you got Jason Tatum rehabbing on then Achilles,

1989
01:41:40,280 --> 01:41:44,559
Speaker 2: and with Jalen Brown and Derek White still in Boston

1990
01:41:45,240 --> 01:41:49,000
Speaker 2: and Tatum's injury in the Celtics exorbited payroll, well guess what.

1991
01:41:49,439 --> 01:41:52,519
Speaker 2: They no longer have Drew Holliday, Christaps persingas al Over

1992
01:41:52,680 --> 01:41:57,760
Speaker 2: and Luke Cornett. Without Tatum, the Celtics have no chance

1993
01:41:57,800 --> 01:42:02,280
Speaker 2: in the championship. Let's just speak true, okay, Especially the

1994
01:42:02,400 --> 01:42:05,040
Speaker 2: rest of the East will take advantage of Boston's misfortune

1995
01:42:05,080 --> 01:42:07,679
Speaker 2: because some of them are going all in. The Celtics

1996
01:42:07,680 --> 01:42:09,400
Speaker 2: st have the six best outs to win the East,

1997
01:42:09,960 --> 01:42:12,760
Speaker 2: just ahead of the Pistons, but that might be gaming

1998
01:42:12,840 --> 01:42:16,120
Speaker 2: Boston too much credit. All right. Now, when Tatum returns

1999
01:42:16,160 --> 01:42:18,920
Speaker 2: for the twenty six to twenty seven season, then they'll

2000
01:42:18,960 --> 01:42:21,840
Speaker 2: be well positioned to build around that trio of Tatum,

2001
01:42:21,880 --> 01:42:25,200
Speaker 2: Brown and White. Until then, you cannot say that Boston

2002
01:42:25,680 --> 01:42:30,640
Speaker 2: is a contender. They were contender this last year. They

2003
01:42:30,680 --> 01:42:34,080
Speaker 2: got beat by a hungry your team, and they won

2004
01:42:34,160 --> 01:42:37,280
Speaker 2: it all the year before. So if Boston regressed, yes

2005
01:42:37,320 --> 01:42:41,800
Speaker 2: they have, this next year will be a mulligan for

2006
01:42:42,000 --> 01:42:47,320
Speaker 2: the Celtics. I'd begrudgingly say this, but I think the

2007
01:42:47,479 --> 01:42:49,360
Speaker 2: Pacers took a step back too, and they went from

2008
01:42:49,400 --> 01:42:51,360
Speaker 2: fifteen to one to twenty five to one to win

2009
01:42:51,400 --> 01:42:57,960
Speaker 2: the East. All right, and I'll give them top credit.

2010
01:42:58,120 --> 01:43:00,280
Speaker 2: Rick Carlisle almost pulled it off. Will never know what

2011
01:43:00,320 --> 01:43:02,640
Speaker 2: would have happened if Tyree Saliburton hadn't gotten hurt in

2012
01:43:02,720 --> 01:43:06,120
Speaker 2: Game seven. It's a what if rumination. They were literally

2013
01:43:06,160 --> 01:43:08,920
Speaker 2: twenty four minutes away from the first NBA championship, and

2014
01:43:09,080 --> 01:43:11,360
Speaker 2: now they dropped to the ninth ben stops to win

2015
01:43:11,400 --> 01:43:16,080
Speaker 2: the conference the following season. Well, let's add it up.

2016
01:43:16,880 --> 01:43:19,560
Speaker 2: It all began win Tyree Saliburton tore his achilles in

2017
01:43:19,600 --> 01:43:21,679
Speaker 2: the opening quarter of Game seven. So if you think

2018
01:43:21,840 --> 01:43:28,040
Speaker 2: the Pacers are anywhere near as formidable next year as

2019
01:43:28,080 --> 01:43:29,479
Speaker 2: they were this year, because they're not going to have

2020
01:43:29,600 --> 01:43:34,760
Speaker 2: Tyres Halliburton. No even last year's run was considered improbable

2021
01:43:34,800 --> 01:43:37,560
Speaker 2: and inspiring. No one expected them to do it, but

2022
01:43:37,680 --> 01:43:39,639
Speaker 2: they earned it. They were legitimate. They were that good.

2023
01:43:40,280 --> 01:43:45,479
Speaker 2: All right, Halliburton is gone next season because of injury.

2024
01:43:45,840 --> 01:43:48,040
Speaker 2: They have no chance without their best player and a

2025
01:43:48,120 --> 01:43:52,920
Speaker 2: point guard. And Tyler Halliburtons is a really good point guard.

2026
01:43:53,160 --> 01:43:55,760
Speaker 2: You might not get enough credit for what a good

2027
01:43:55,800 --> 01:43:59,080
Speaker 2: feel generally is. He dictates pace, he dictates style, he

2028
01:43:59,120 --> 01:44:02,760
Speaker 2: distributes the ball, can shoot, he can pass. You know,

2029
01:44:03,080 --> 01:44:06,559
Speaker 2: I've said this a thousand times on the air. Isaiah

2030
01:44:06,600 --> 01:44:08,920
Speaker 2: Thomas once told me he thought point guard was the

2031
01:44:09,080 --> 01:44:14,280
Speaker 2: most important position in all of sports. Why well, because

2032
01:44:15,760 --> 01:44:17,639
Speaker 2: one man with the ball in his hand could dictate

2033
01:44:17,720 --> 01:44:20,479
Speaker 2: the movements of nine other people. And Tyree Saliburton did that.

2034
01:44:21,200 --> 01:44:24,400
Speaker 2: Then the Pacers lose Miles Turner and free agency. They

2035
01:44:24,479 --> 01:44:26,160
Speaker 2: not only lose them, they lose them to a bitter

2036
01:44:26,360 --> 01:44:31,519
Speaker 2: rival in Milwaukee. Miles Turner spent his entire ten year

2037
01:44:31,640 --> 01:44:33,840
Speaker 2: career in Indiana. It was a huge part of their

2038
01:44:34,360 --> 01:44:36,479
Speaker 2: playoff rount He's part of the heart and soul. Now

2039
01:44:36,520 --> 01:44:39,679
Speaker 2: Indiana has no center that creates an even more difficult

2040
01:44:39,720 --> 01:44:42,320
Speaker 2: path to win the title. As you know, there aren't

2041
01:44:42,320 --> 01:44:44,920
Speaker 2: any starting centers on the market that I can see

2042
01:44:44,960 --> 01:44:47,759
Speaker 2: that would step in and replace Miles Turner. So without

2043
01:44:47,840 --> 01:44:51,479
Speaker 2: two key starters, I think the Pacers are in for

2044
01:44:51,520 --> 01:44:54,720
Speaker 2: a mulligan against again next year. Right, They've had a

2045
01:44:54,840 --> 01:44:55,719
Speaker 2: terrible ten days.

2046
01:44:56,360 --> 01:44:56,479
Speaker 14: You know.

2047
01:44:56,640 --> 01:45:01,479
Speaker 2: First, first, you know Tyre's Caliburton are terrible. Two weeks,

2048
01:45:02,280 --> 01:45:07,120
Speaker 2: Haliburton tears his achilles, and then of course they lose

2049
01:45:07,200 --> 01:45:10,040
Speaker 2: Miles Turner finally, and not to beat a dead horse,

2050
01:45:10,080 --> 01:45:13,439
Speaker 2: which I am. The Lakers only dropped from eight to

2051
01:45:13,600 --> 01:45:15,240
Speaker 2: one to eight and a half to one to win

2052
01:45:15,320 --> 01:45:18,120
Speaker 2: the West. But I just cannot see it. I think

2053
01:45:18,200 --> 01:45:20,880
Speaker 2: the gap between when you already saw the gap between

2054
01:45:20,880 --> 01:45:23,080
Speaker 2: the Lakers and Minnesota and saw the gap between Minnesota

2055
01:45:23,120 --> 01:45:27,080
Speaker 2: and OKAC. Come on, man, and I'm gonna repeat what

2056
01:45:27,120 --> 01:45:30,320
Speaker 2: I said earlier, Okay, JJ Reddick had such little trust

2057
01:45:30,360 --> 01:45:34,519
Speaker 2: in his bench that he went the entire second half

2058
01:45:35,439 --> 01:45:38,400
Speaker 2: of a playoff game without a single substitution. For the

2059
01:45:38,479 --> 01:45:45,000
Speaker 2: first time in NBA history, Rob Polenka the Lakers' front office, well,

2060
01:45:45,960 --> 01:45:49,120
Speaker 2: some expected him to immediately try to add some meaningful pieces.

2061
01:45:49,880 --> 01:45:53,800
Speaker 2: Maybe they tried, but here's what happened instead. Dorian Finney Smith,

2062
01:45:53,880 --> 01:45:59,559
Speaker 2: one of the five players JJ Reddick actually trusted, departed

2063
01:45:59,600 --> 01:46:02,759
Speaker 2: for the right. The Lakers replaced him with Jake Lareva,

2064
01:46:03,080 --> 01:46:06,639
Speaker 2: who's a serviceable player who contribute, but a big downgrade

2065
01:46:06,640 --> 01:46:10,240
Speaker 2: from Finney Smith. The Lakers also desperately need a centertor

2066
01:46:10,320 --> 01:46:13,040
Speaker 2: pair with Luka Doncic. You know how I feel about

2067
01:46:13,080 --> 01:46:16,120
Speaker 2: DeAndre eight. He was one of the few remaining options

2068
01:46:16,640 --> 01:46:19,879
Speaker 2: because the center market dried up. But why was he available?

2069
01:46:20,439 --> 01:46:24,559
Speaker 2: Because his attitude net for concerns are well documented. They

2070
01:46:24,600 --> 01:46:26,640
Speaker 2: say he has talent, but then feel free to show it.

2071
01:46:26,840 --> 01:46:28,519
Speaker 2: Because when you miss one hundred and four games in

2072
01:46:28,560 --> 01:46:31,479
Speaker 2: four years, and now everybody talks about fourteen and ten,

2073
01:46:31,560 --> 01:46:36,160
Speaker 2: fourteen and ten, those are Jogi barristats man meaningless. And

2074
01:46:37,000 --> 01:46:39,639
Speaker 2: that's what I believe, because they don't lead to success.

2075
01:46:40,240 --> 01:46:43,679
Speaker 2: In the w column and I chronicle this earlier. Kareem

2076
01:46:43,720 --> 01:46:46,599
Speaker 2: Abdul Jabbar after the year of forty, after the age

2077
01:46:46,640 --> 01:46:49,280
Speaker 2: of forty, played three more seasons, missed eleven games in

2078
01:46:49,320 --> 01:46:52,040
Speaker 2: three years. DeAndre Eighton has missed one hundred and four

2079
01:46:52,120 --> 01:46:55,360
Speaker 2: games in four years. Jabbar played seventy eight games at

2080
01:46:55,360 --> 01:46:59,000
Speaker 2: the age of forty He played any games at the

2081
01:46:59,040 --> 01:47:05,639
Speaker 2: age of of forty one eight And Okay, I'm basically

2082
01:47:06,400 --> 01:47:10,240
Speaker 2: repeating myself and basically at the point of stuttering. Now

2083
01:47:11,320 --> 01:47:13,000
Speaker 2: if he gets on the floor, it makes a liar

2084
01:47:13,080 --> 01:47:15,800
Speaker 2: about me. Fine, I'll eat it.

2085
01:47:16,040 --> 01:47:16,680
Speaker 10: What do I care.

2086
01:47:17,680 --> 01:47:19,599
Speaker 2: We're just doing sports talk radio here. We're not trying

2087
01:47:19,640 --> 01:47:22,360
Speaker 2: to solve the world's problems. But here there's a deeper

2088
01:47:22,560 --> 01:47:24,840
Speaker 2: There's a deeper aspect to this that I think has

2089
01:47:24,920 --> 01:47:28,600
Speaker 2: been neatly ignored because the Lakers are an iconic franchise.

2090
01:47:29,479 --> 01:47:31,960
Speaker 2: I believe they are the most iconic franchise in the

2091
01:47:32,160 --> 01:47:35,960
Speaker 2: entire NBA. Boston fans might not like carrying that, but

2092
01:47:36,439 --> 01:47:42,160
Speaker 2: they are. And they've had many distinct eras defined by

2093
01:47:42,240 --> 01:47:45,400
Speaker 2: key players, defined by coaching styles, defined by championship runs.

2094
01:47:45,960 --> 01:47:49,680
Speaker 2: Starting seventy five years ago in Minnesota, all right, they

2095
01:47:49,760 --> 01:47:53,240
Speaker 2: actually won five championships with George Mike and the big

2096
01:47:53,400 --> 01:47:56,679
Speaker 2: seven foot center to war Glasses. Then in nineteen fifty

2097
01:47:56,720 --> 01:48:00,439
Speaker 2: eight they moved to Los Angeles and the Lake are

2098
01:48:00,520 --> 01:48:04,280
Speaker 2: actually nineteen sixty and that you know was part of

2099
01:48:04,360 --> 01:48:09,080
Speaker 2: the Jerry West, Gil Goodrich you know era, and they

2100
01:48:09,160 --> 01:48:11,960
Speaker 2: made the NBA Finals six times in the sixties, often

2101
01:48:12,040 --> 01:48:15,840
Speaker 2: facing the Celtics, but they couldn't secure a title. Jumped

2102
01:48:15,840 --> 01:48:17,880
Speaker 2: to the seventy one seventy two season. They set a

2103
01:48:17,960 --> 01:48:20,439
Speaker 2: record for the longest winning streak thirty three games in

2104
01:48:20,479 --> 01:48:23,920
Speaker 2: a row, and a championship with the aforementioned Jerry West

2105
01:48:23,960 --> 01:48:28,040
Speaker 2: and Will Chamberlain and Gail Goodrich. That era was a

2106
01:48:28,240 --> 01:48:32,120
Speaker 2: very successful era. You can't win every year. Then the

2107
01:48:32,160 --> 01:48:35,160
Speaker 2: Showtime Era began nineteen seventy nine. I'll never forget. Today

2108
01:48:35,479 --> 01:48:37,320
Speaker 2: it was announced that Jerry Buss bought the team from

2109
01:48:37,360 --> 01:48:40,240
Speaker 2: Jack King. Cook bought the Lakers the Kings in the

2110
01:48:40,320 --> 01:48:43,360
Speaker 2: Forum for sixty seven million dollars. His family just sold

2111
01:48:43,400 --> 01:48:45,519
Speaker 2: it for ten billion. I don't know if they sold

2112
01:48:45,600 --> 01:48:47,439
Speaker 2: the Kings in the Forum, and they're not in the

2113
01:48:47,479 --> 01:48:50,439
Speaker 2: Forum anymore. You would get the point. The arrival of

2114
01:48:50,520 --> 01:48:53,120
Speaker 2: Magic Johnson and to put the coaching style of Pat

2115
01:48:53,240 --> 01:48:55,920
Speaker 2: O'Reilly ushered in what was known as his Showtime era.

2116
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Speaker 2: He had to see it to believe it. High octane,

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01:48:58,479 --> 01:49:03,400
Speaker 2: fast paced style of play. Magic nine NBA appearances in

2118
01:49:03,479 --> 01:49:07,880
Speaker 2: twelve years and five championships. That was an incredible era.

2119
01:49:08,120 --> 01:49:10,840
Speaker 2: Now that they had a bit of a wall for

2120
01:49:10,960 --> 01:49:12,679
Speaker 2: four or five years, and then the Shaq and Kobe

2121
01:49:12,760 --> 01:49:16,280
Speaker 2: era began. In ninety six, the Lakers completely revitalized their

2122
01:49:16,360 --> 01:49:20,120
Speaker 2: franchise thanks to Jerry West. They acquired Shaquille O'Neil Kobe Bryant.

2123
01:49:20,360 --> 01:49:22,200
Speaker 2: They draft him as a seventeen year old, actually they

2124
01:49:22,200 --> 01:49:24,800
Speaker 2: did and Charlotte drafted him, but they acquired him. That

2125
01:49:25,000 --> 01:49:28,960
Speaker 2: duel along with coach Jackson. Phil Jackson led the Lakers

2126
01:49:29,040 --> 01:49:33,080
Speaker 2: to three consecutive championships from two thousand and two thousand

2127
01:49:33,080 --> 01:49:36,559
Speaker 2: and two. Shaq left and the Kobe Bryan era started

2128
01:49:36,600 --> 01:49:39,840
Speaker 2: in twenty oh four. Kobe led the Lakers winning two

2129
01:49:39,920 --> 01:49:42,519
Speaker 2: more championships in nine and o ten with the help

2130
01:49:42,560 --> 01:49:46,360
Speaker 2: of pau Gassault. And then after twenty eighteen, I'm calling

2131
01:49:46,400 --> 01:49:49,800
Speaker 2: it the clown era. The arrival of Lebron James marked

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01:49:49,840 --> 01:49:52,600
Speaker 2: a new chapter. Yes, they won a championship in the

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01:49:52,600 --> 01:49:54,519
Speaker 2: Bubble in twenty twenty, and you can't take it away

2134
01:49:54,560 --> 01:49:57,800
Speaker 2: from and you have to say it's legit because they

2135
01:49:57,840 --> 01:50:01,400
Speaker 2: were doing the same thing everybody else was. I'll draw

2136
01:50:01,479 --> 01:50:05,960
Speaker 2: the Parrots comparison. Again, Roger Maris said an asterisk when

2137
01:50:05,960 --> 01:50:08,200
Speaker 2: he had sixty one home runs beat baby with sixty

2138
01:50:08,240 --> 01:50:10,080
Speaker 2: because he got to do it in one hundred and

2139
01:50:10,160 --> 01:50:12,960
Speaker 2: sixty two games versus one hundred and fifty four. That

2140
01:50:13,080 --> 01:50:16,040
Speaker 2: doesn't diminish the accomplishment. All it does is make a

2141
01:50:16,120 --> 01:50:19,240
Speaker 2: notation that there was a distinction. There's a difference. So

2142
01:50:19,360 --> 01:50:21,479
Speaker 2: the Lakers are in the bubble. I call it the

2143
01:50:21,560 --> 01:50:24,120
Speaker 2: Hotel California. You could leave anytime you want, you could

2144
01:50:24,160 --> 01:50:27,599
Speaker 2: check anytime you want. You can never leave check whatever.

2145
01:50:29,240 --> 01:50:32,720
Speaker 2: Because it was goofy and I get you know, there

2146
01:50:32,800 --> 01:50:35,400
Speaker 2: was terrible conditions and all that. I don't know about

2147
01:50:35,400 --> 01:50:37,320
Speaker 2: all that, but it was weird. It was out of

2148
01:50:37,360 --> 01:50:42,000
Speaker 2: the ordinary. But here's the kicker. The Lakers benefited tremendously.

2149
01:50:42,120 --> 01:50:44,080
Speaker 2: They're weary bones from not having to play a game

2150
01:50:44,160 --> 01:50:46,280
Speaker 2: for four months and not having to travel once during

2151
01:50:46,320 --> 01:50:51,519
Speaker 2: the playoffs. I will never back off of that. Yes,

2152
01:50:51,720 --> 01:50:53,800
Speaker 2: other teams got rest too, but not all rest is

2153
01:50:53,840 --> 01:50:57,120
Speaker 2: created equally. In the other seven years Lebron's been around.

2154
01:50:57,200 --> 01:51:00,759
Speaker 2: Five of the seven they either didn't make the playoffs

2155
01:51:00,800 --> 01:51:02,840
Speaker 2: that got knocked out in the first round. So one

2156
01:51:02,920 --> 01:51:04,559
Speaker 2: year they went it, and then they had a nice

2157
01:51:04,600 --> 01:51:06,479
Speaker 2: run to the NBA Finals a couple years ago and

2158
01:51:06,479 --> 01:51:09,320
Speaker 2: got swept by Denver. So this era is about to

2159
01:51:09,360 --> 01:51:11,519
Speaker 2: come to an end. In the free agency, I don't

2160
01:51:11,520 --> 01:51:13,240
Speaker 2: feel the Lakers did a whole hell of a lot

2161
01:51:14,320 --> 01:51:17,760
Speaker 2: to really help themselves, and I just feel that this

2162
01:51:17,960 --> 01:51:23,360
Speaker 2: is going to be a odd, unique year, and I

2163
01:51:24,240 --> 01:51:26,439
Speaker 2: think Lebron is unhappy. For the first time in his

2164
01:51:26,520 --> 01:51:29,280
Speaker 2: twenty three years, he's not the guy Luca is. They're

2165
01:51:29,280 --> 01:51:30,840
Speaker 2: going to build around him, and for the first time

2166
01:51:30,880 --> 01:51:33,280
Speaker 2: in his twenty three years, he's going to work on

2167
01:51:33,360 --> 01:51:40,559
Speaker 2: an expiring contract that has never happened coming up, all right,

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Speaker 2: I've talked about this throughout the show, and during the

2169
01:51:43,439 --> 01:51:47,160
Speaker 2: midnight hour, I was appreciative that fans really still get

2170
01:51:47,160 --> 01:51:49,880
Speaker 2: a kick out of the hot dog eating contest, and

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01:51:50,000 --> 01:51:52,120
Speaker 2: so why I just wondered if it's lost its luster.

2172
01:51:52,520 --> 01:51:58,040
Speaker 2: There's no more Kobayashi, there's no more rivalry. Joy Chestnut

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01:51:58,120 --> 01:52:02,720
Speaker 2: missed the year Patrick Pertoletti fifty eight hot dogs. Chest

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Speaker 2: Nut ened at seventy seventy and a half, his record

2175
01:52:05,160 --> 01:52:08,840
Speaker 2: seventy six. Hard to believe he'll break that record. He's

2176
01:52:08,880 --> 01:52:11,080
Speaker 2: won the record He's won the competition seventy times, so

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01:52:11,320 --> 01:52:13,320
Speaker 2: it feels a little aning climactic, but it's fun. It

2178
01:52:13,400 --> 01:52:17,320
Speaker 2: kicks off the July fourth, and it's a bit of

2179
01:52:17,360 --> 01:52:22,320
Speaker 2: a spectacle, and I'm sure there's alcohol involved for the onlookers.

2180
01:52:23,800 --> 01:52:26,960
Speaker 2: But what's interesting, though, is Joey Chestnut is not just

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01:52:27,080 --> 01:52:31,800
Speaker 2: a hot dog eating aficionado. He holds I don't know

2182
01:52:32,120 --> 01:52:35,200
Speaker 2: fifty one world records. Hey, when I share with you

2183
01:52:36,160 --> 01:52:39,160
Speaker 2: some of the things, some of the categories of food

2184
01:52:39,200 --> 01:52:43,320
Speaker 2: where he holds world records in, you will scratch your head.

2185
01:52:43,320 --> 01:52:45,519
Speaker 2: By the way, it's not all junk food, you know.

2186
01:52:45,640 --> 01:52:50,799
Speaker 2: He holds the world record for asparagus eight twelve pounds

2187
01:52:50,920 --> 01:52:54,559
Speaker 2: twelve and a half pounds of asparagus in ten minutes,

2188
01:52:55,560 --> 01:52:57,920
Speaker 2: So he's looking out for his diet. Will continue with

2189
01:52:57,960 --> 01:53:00,000
Speaker 2: the rest of the Michigan's coming up. I'm Bernie Frattole

2190
01:53:00,439 --> 01:53:02,799
Speaker 2: Company live from the Las Vegas Fox Sports Radio Studios.

2191
01:53:02,880 --> 01:53:04,679
Speaker 2: Keep it locked. You're listening to the Bernie Frattle Show

2192
01:53:04,680 --> 01:53:08,000
Speaker 2: on Fox Sports Radio. What we're back on the Bernie

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01:53:08,000 --> 01:53:11,599
Speaker 2: Frattle Show Fox Sports Radio comany live from the Las

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01:53:11,680 --> 01:53:17,080
Speaker 2: Vegas studios Here in Las Vegas. So we've mentioned it

2195
01:53:17,160 --> 01:53:20,600
Speaker 2: at least seventy two times tonight. Julie Chestnut is not

2196
01:53:20,680 --> 01:53:24,479
Speaker 2: a one trick pony. So without further ado, let me

2197
01:53:24,600 --> 01:53:28,559
Speaker 2: share with you some of his other eating exploits. Dude

2198
01:53:28,600 --> 01:53:32,960
Speaker 2: canash right, So I told you he ate twelve and

2199
01:53:33,040 --> 01:53:38,080
Speaker 2: a half pounds asparagus in ten minutes, So you know

2200
01:53:38,160 --> 01:53:40,960
Speaker 2: he's not prone to not eating healthy.

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01:53:41,120 --> 01:53:41,240
Speaker 20: Right?

2202
01:53:41,640 --> 01:53:43,920
Speaker 2: Wait, I just screwed that up. That's terrible English. You

2203
01:53:43,960 --> 01:53:46,439
Speaker 2: know what I'm trying to say. I just butchered it.

2204
01:53:47,320 --> 01:53:49,679
Speaker 2: What if I told you he also weighs sixteen pounds

2205
01:53:49,760 --> 01:53:53,160
Speaker 2: of bologney in eight minutes. Now, sometimes you're gonna be

2206
01:53:53,160 --> 01:53:55,439
Speaker 2: a little hungry for dessert after that. So he ate

2207
01:53:55,800 --> 01:53:59,640
Speaker 2: fifteen pounds of boisonberry pie in eight minutes. Now he

2208
01:53:59,800 --> 01:54:02,040
Speaker 2: likes Mexican food too, Who doesn't we all love it?

2209
01:54:02,720 --> 01:54:06,519
Speaker 2: He ate fifteen pounds of burritos in ten minutes, eighty

2210
01:54:06,600 --> 01:54:11,840
Speaker 2: two carnitas tacos in eight minutes, and you even ate

2211
01:54:12,400 --> 01:54:16,599
Speaker 2: forty six cheese steak egg rolls in eight minutes. More dessert,

2212
01:54:17,160 --> 01:54:19,719
Speaker 2: seventeen and a half pounds of cherry pie in eight minutes.

2213
01:54:20,240 --> 01:54:22,880
Speaker 2: Everybody likes wings, right, whether you're not, you're like flat

2214
01:54:23,000 --> 01:54:26,160
Speaker 2: you like legs long form ba ba. He ate one

2215
01:54:26,280 --> 01:54:31,320
Speaker 2: hundred and eighty two chicken wings in thirty minutes. He

2216
01:54:31,560 --> 01:54:34,760
Speaker 2: likes his corn beef sandwiches two. He ate twenty eight

2217
01:54:34,840 --> 01:54:39,360
Speaker 2: ounce corn beef sandwiches in ten minutes. I talked about

2218
01:54:39,400 --> 01:54:44,120
Speaker 2: this earlier. Eggs hard boiled eggs one hundred and forty

2219
01:54:44,200 --> 01:54:49,440
Speaker 2: one hard boiled eggs in eight minutes. Now he might

2220
01:54:49,560 --> 01:54:52,680
Speaker 2: like beef tacos, but he also likes fish tacos. Joey

2221
01:54:52,800 --> 01:54:56,360
Speaker 2: Chestnut holds the world record for eating thirty six ounce

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01:54:56,520 --> 01:55:01,280
Speaker 2: fish tacos in only five minutes. Once again, probably reaching

2223
01:55:01,360 --> 01:55:03,240
Speaker 2: for the dessert. Maybe he went to the Iowa State

2224
01:55:03,320 --> 01:55:08,760
Speaker 2: Fair six pounds of funnel cake in ten minutes. Who

2225
01:55:08,840 --> 01:55:12,600
Speaker 2: doesn't like a grilled cheese sandwich or forty seven forty

2226
01:55:12,720 --> 01:55:18,800
Speaker 2: seven grilled cheese sandwiches in ten minutes. Maybe he's on

2227
01:55:18,880 --> 01:55:21,400
Speaker 2: the Mediterranean diet once in a while, because he wants

2228
01:55:21,480 --> 01:55:26,840
Speaker 2: eight thirty euros eight ounced euros in ten minutes. Now,

2229
01:55:26,880 --> 01:55:28,440
Speaker 2: everybody loves white castle burgers.

2230
01:55:28,520 --> 01:55:28,600
Speaker 20: Right.

2231
01:55:28,680 --> 01:55:31,320
Speaker 2: If you don't, something's wrong with you. Now I get it.

2232
01:55:31,440 --> 01:55:34,360
Speaker 2: Maybe you've been imbibing all night and you need something

2233
01:55:34,400 --> 01:55:37,320
Speaker 2: to soak it up. There's nothing wrong with that. It's

2234
01:55:37,360 --> 01:55:41,520
Speaker 2: as American as apple pie and Toyota. One hundred and three,

2235
01:55:42,600 --> 01:55:47,000
Speaker 2: one hundred and three white Castle burgers in eight minutes.

2236
01:55:48,160 --> 01:55:51,480
Speaker 2: Oh my god. Once again, you're probably reaching for some dessert,

2237
01:55:51,600 --> 01:55:56,520
Speaker 2: right Hostess donuts. Now, no word whether they were powdered

2238
01:55:56,640 --> 01:55:59,160
Speaker 2: or chocolate or whatever. But he ate two hundred and

2239
01:55:59,320 --> 01:56:01,880
Speaker 2: fifty seven and I have been six minutes. That's one

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01:56:01,920 --> 01:56:04,240
Speaker 2: that blows me away. I don't even know you can.

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01:56:05,040 --> 01:56:07,360
Speaker 2: Can you even throw two hundred and fifty seven Hostess

2242
01:56:07,400 --> 01:56:10,720
Speaker 2: donuts against a wall in six minutes? It's just do

2243
01:56:10,840 --> 01:56:13,680
Speaker 2: The matter is three hundred seconds, it's that's just about

2244
01:56:13,720 --> 01:56:18,600
Speaker 2: one every second, just about. We already know that he

2245
01:56:18,680 --> 01:56:20,760
Speaker 2: owns the world record for seventy six hot dogs in

2246
01:56:20,840 --> 01:56:24,520
Speaker 2: ten minutes. Once again, might be reaching for some dessert.

2247
01:56:25,480 --> 01:56:29,160
Speaker 2: Twenty six ice cream sandwiches in six minutes. If that

2248
01:56:29,240 --> 01:56:32,320
Speaker 2: ain't brain freeze, I don't know what is' that's torture.

2249
01:56:32,840 --> 01:56:36,880
Speaker 2: I think I like ice cream sandwiches, Hallopenia poppers. He

2250
01:56:36,960 --> 01:56:38,800
Speaker 2: might want to reach for the n acid pill after

2251
01:56:38,880 --> 01:56:43,600
Speaker 2: this one. One hundred and eighteen Jalapenno poppers in ten minutes. Yeah,

2252
01:56:43,600 --> 01:56:47,280
Speaker 2: there's your boy, Joey Chestnut, I've never had even one

2253
01:56:47,520 --> 01:56:52,160
Speaker 2: mutton sandwich, and I'm pretty sure I'm never gonna have

2254
01:56:52,200 --> 01:56:54,200
Speaker 2: a mutton sandwich. I don't even know what you get one.

2255
01:56:55,080 --> 01:56:59,920
Speaker 2: But Joey Chestnut had eighty one mutton sandwiches in ten minutes.

2256
01:57:00,240 --> 01:57:02,600
Speaker 2: They must be small because he can only I say

2257
01:57:02,680 --> 01:57:06,760
Speaker 2: only in air quotes, only ate twenty five Pistrami sandwiches

2258
01:57:06,840 --> 01:57:09,680
Speaker 2: in ten minutes. But he did eat forty three pepper

2259
01:57:10,480 --> 01:57:14,280
Speaker 2: pepperoni rolls in ten minutes and twenty three Philadelphia cheese

2260
01:57:14,280 --> 01:57:19,440
Speaker 2: steaks in ten minutes. How about ribs? People have ribs

2261
01:57:20,480 --> 01:57:25,160
Speaker 2: on Fourth of July? Right, fourteen pounds of pork ribs

2262
01:57:26,480 --> 01:57:30,120
Speaker 2: in twelve minutes, placed down the road here in Fay

2263
01:57:30,640 --> 01:57:34,760
Speaker 2: pull pork. Nine pounds six ounces of smoke pull pork

2264
01:57:35,200 --> 01:57:39,360
Speaker 2: in ten minutes. That is just forget it. As Guy

2265
01:57:39,440 --> 01:57:41,680
Speaker 2: Fury would say, that's out of bounds. Man, I don't

2266
01:57:41,680 --> 01:57:44,200
Speaker 2: know what the hell you do with that. Ramen noodles.

2267
01:57:45,160 --> 01:57:48,120
Speaker 2: Ramen noodles a favorite among college students on a budget.

2268
01:57:48,960 --> 01:57:51,880
Speaker 2: Ten cups of ramen noodles in one minute. In fifty seconds,

2269
01:57:53,200 --> 01:57:54,960
Speaker 2: you think a sodium might have gone through the roof

2270
01:57:55,040 --> 01:57:57,879
Speaker 2: on that one who doesn't like a little shrimp cocktail

2271
01:57:57,880 --> 01:58:00,640
Speaker 2: before their steak dinner, maybe twenty one pounds of it.

2272
01:58:00,920 --> 01:58:06,480
Speaker 2: Twenty one pounds of shrimp cocktail in eight minutes, by

2273
01:58:06,520 --> 01:58:11,160
Speaker 2: the way, equal opportunity. Joey Chestnut also likes soft tacos,

2274
01:58:11,200 --> 01:58:14,200
Speaker 2: soft beef tacos, ate fifty three of them in ten minutes,

2275
01:58:14,240 --> 01:58:16,680
Speaker 2: but managed to somehow eat one hundred and twenty six

2276
01:58:16,760 --> 01:58:20,600
Speaker 2: traditional tortilla tacos and only eight minutes and staying in

2277
01:58:20,680 --> 01:58:25,680
Speaker 2: the same motif joy Chestnut once he holds the world record,

2278
01:58:25,720 --> 01:58:31,240
Speaker 2: actually one hundred and two Tomali's and twelve minutes. Now,

2279
01:58:31,280 --> 01:58:33,880
Speaker 2: we're not that far from Thanksgiving, right, We're four months away.

2280
01:58:34,160 --> 01:58:36,680
Speaker 2: The future always has a way of arriving at a schedule.

2281
01:58:36,960 --> 01:58:39,000
Speaker 2: Snap your fingers, it will be here. He ate a

2282
01:58:39,080 --> 01:58:42,680
Speaker 2: whole nine and a half pound turkey in ten minutes

2283
01:58:42,840 --> 01:58:46,600
Speaker 2: by himself once again. Probably wants some dessert Twinkies. Who

2284
01:58:46,680 --> 01:58:50,200
Speaker 2: doesn't like twinkies? Well, maybe somebody doesn't, but I don't

2285
01:58:50,200 --> 01:58:52,240
Speaker 2: want to know that person. I like twinkies. I don't

2286
01:58:52,240 --> 01:58:55,000
Speaker 2: know if I've ever had one recently, But Joey Chestnut

2287
01:58:55,120 --> 01:58:57,560
Speaker 2: holds the record one hundred and twenty one twinkies in

2288
01:58:57,800 --> 01:59:02,360
Speaker 2: six minutes. Now, pizza, he's right out my alley. He

2289
01:59:02,560 --> 01:59:05,200
Speaker 2: ate a two foot pizza slice, six and a half

2290
01:59:05,280 --> 01:59:08,160
Speaker 2: of them and ten minutes. What does heat when he

2291
01:59:08,200 --> 01:59:10,360
Speaker 2: gets up for breakfast? Well, one morning he had aagle

2292
01:59:10,440 --> 01:59:13,760
Speaker 2: style waffles. It only took him eight minutes to eat

2293
01:59:13,960 --> 01:59:17,080
Speaker 2: eighty one of them. So you see. Joey Chestnut might

2294
01:59:17,160 --> 01:59:21,240
Speaker 2: be the winner of seventeen straight hot dog eating contest,

2295
01:59:21,280 --> 01:59:23,760
Speaker 2: winning his first one in two thousand and seven, taking

2296
01:59:23,800 --> 01:59:27,560
Speaker 2: the title away from six time champ Kobayashi, But he's

2297
01:59:27,600 --> 01:59:31,040
Speaker 2: not a one trick pony. Give it up to Joey

2298
01:59:31,160 --> 01:59:33,840
Speaker 2: chestnutt a five tool player. Keep it locked. It's Bernie

2299
01:59:33,840 --> 01:59:35,440
Speaker 2: Froodler Show on Fox Sports Radio.

2300
01:59:36,640 --> 01:59:39,320
Speaker 1: Don't listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

2301
01:59:39,760 --> 01:59:41,640
Speaker 2: That's right, you heard the man. The Bernie Frowdles Show

2302
01:59:41,720 --> 01:59:44,560
Speaker 2: keeps rolling right along. My name is Bernie Frodder. We're

2303
01:59:44,600 --> 01:59:47,800
Speaker 2: Kimedy live from the Fox Sports Radio compound here in

2304
01:59:47,880 --> 01:59:50,960
Speaker 2: Las Vegas. We'll take you up to three am Pacific,

2305
01:59:51,040 --> 01:59:55,120
Speaker 2: six a m. Eastern. It's been a rollicking show, specifically

2306
01:59:55,160 --> 01:59:57,920
Speaker 2: a rollicking midnight hour. We've covered a lot of ground.

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01:59:57,960 --> 01:59:59,880
Speaker 2: We're about to cover more. We welcome in a gentleman

2308
02:00:00,400 --> 02:00:03,400
Speaker 2: who's been on the show many times. He comes to

2309
02:00:03,520 --> 02:00:06,720
Speaker 2: us from Boston. He sees sports invests. Say hello to

2310
02:00:07,400 --> 02:00:09,800
Speaker 2: Jeff Dawson. Jeff, thanks for getting up early, pal.

2311
02:00:11,000 --> 02:00:15,360
Speaker 7: Oh Bernie, always a pleasure here back east. I'd like

2312
02:00:15,480 --> 02:00:19,000
Speaker 7: to say the sun is rising on Cape Cod as

2313
02:00:19,120 --> 02:00:21,480
Speaker 7: we speak. Happyfourth and July weekend to you.

2314
02:00:22,400 --> 02:00:25,520
Speaker 2: Back at you. So we were gonna have you on

2315
02:00:25,600 --> 02:00:28,120
Speaker 2: a couple of weeks ago, right after the Rafael devastrade,

2316
02:00:28,120 --> 02:00:29,760
Speaker 2: we just haded to wait. I'm kind of glad we

2317
02:00:29,920 --> 02:00:35,640
Speaker 2: did because through fifteen games with the Giants, Devers is

2318
02:00:35,880 --> 02:00:39,120
Speaker 2: hitting like two points above the Mendoza line, and he

2319
02:00:39,200 --> 02:00:43,040
Speaker 2: struck out twenty five times. And the Giants and him

2320
02:00:43,120 --> 02:00:46,800
Speaker 2: have struggled, But Boston hasn't been great shakes either. Now

2321
02:00:46,880 --> 02:00:49,920
Speaker 2: that the dust is settled the devastrade, what are the

2322
02:00:49,960 --> 02:00:53,680
Speaker 2: good folks in Boston? What is the synopsis regarding that?

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02:00:55,920 --> 02:00:58,880
Speaker 7: I mean, Bernie. The bottom line here is when you

2324
02:00:59,080 --> 02:01:04,200
Speaker 7: take a look back a half dozen years, Mookie Bett's

2325
02:01:05,080 --> 02:01:08,920
Speaker 7: hand of Vogarts and now Raphael Devers, the big three

2326
02:01:09,040 --> 02:01:14,760
Speaker 7: in Boston have all now left the building with nothing

2327
02:01:14,960 --> 02:01:21,160
Speaker 7: in return. And the Raphael Devers move had to be made.

2328
02:01:22,160 --> 02:01:25,800
Speaker 7: It was mishandled from Jump Street. It was mishandled from

2329
02:01:25,880 --> 02:01:29,640
Speaker 7: the spring training. Goora put his hat in the ring

2330
02:01:30,520 --> 02:01:35,640
Speaker 7: during spring training, and then once Henry and Breslo flew

2331
02:01:35,720 --> 02:01:39,840
Speaker 7: out to Kansas City to speak to Raphael, they didn't

2332
02:01:40,400 --> 02:01:43,080
Speaker 7: get a response that they were looking for. So once

2333
02:01:43,240 --> 02:01:47,600
Speaker 7: they left Kansas City, this trade was eminent. It was

2334
02:01:47,760 --> 02:01:51,120
Speaker 7: going to be made. They were just looking for a

2335
02:01:51,240 --> 02:01:54,360
Speaker 7: team that was going to take the whole contract two

2336
02:01:54,440 --> 02:01:57,200
Speaker 7: hundred and eighty eight million dollars. And at that point,

2337
02:01:57,320 --> 02:02:01,560
Speaker 7: once San Francisco says we're in, the deal was made

2338
02:02:03,000 --> 02:02:03,440
Speaker 7: fair enough.

2339
02:02:03,480 --> 02:02:05,800
Speaker 2: So I guess there's no looking back on we'd uppards.

2340
02:02:05,880 --> 02:02:08,240
Speaker 2: It's ironic now he's playing first base, but that's all

2341
02:02:09,040 --> 02:02:12,600
Speaker 2: water under the bridge. I don't know if anybody really

2342
02:02:12,680 --> 02:02:16,400
Speaker 2: wants to win the NL East, it probably is. It's

2343
02:02:16,440 --> 02:02:20,160
Speaker 2: probably glad for Bostonians to see the Yankees are struggling

2344
02:02:20,280 --> 02:02:23,680
Speaker 2: might lea but Boston's forty five and forty five, so

2345
02:02:23,800 --> 02:02:26,080
Speaker 2: we're at, you know' July fourth now, which is kind

2346
02:02:26,120 --> 02:02:29,440
Speaker 2: of this demarcation point. Sixty one percent of the teams

2347
02:02:30,600 --> 02:02:32,360
Speaker 2: in the last thirty years who were in first place

2348
02:02:32,400 --> 02:02:34,480
Speaker 2: on July fourth, go on to win their division. But

2349
02:02:34,640 --> 02:02:37,600
Speaker 2: that means four and ten, don't so do you like

2350
02:02:37,720 --> 02:02:40,440
Speaker 2: your chances in Boston to overtake Tampa Bay in Toronto?

2351
02:02:40,520 --> 02:02:41,520
Speaker 2: And I don't know what's going on with the.

2352
02:02:41,560 --> 02:02:45,920
Speaker 7: Yankees, Bernie, I can tell you this. I did not

2353
02:02:46,120 --> 02:02:49,040
Speaker 7: have this on my big go card. It is just amazing.

2354
02:02:49,080 --> 02:02:51,680
Speaker 7: The Yankees have now lock six in a row. He'd

2355
02:02:51,760 --> 02:02:55,320
Speaker 7: come the surgeon Toronto Blue Jays and just taking a

2356
02:02:55,400 --> 02:02:59,520
Speaker 7: quick look here Toronto fifty one and thirty eight, and

2357
02:03:00,400 --> 02:03:04,040
Speaker 7: that's a surprise in itself. Yankees now forty eight and

2358
02:03:04,120 --> 02:03:07,160
Speaker 7: forty one, so live three games back, and the Rais

2359
02:03:07,240 --> 02:03:10,440
Speaker 7: are just hanging around two as well. At forty eight

2360
02:03:10,560 --> 02:03:13,000
Speaker 7: and forty one. They're tied with the Yankees and the

2361
02:03:13,040 --> 02:03:15,920
Speaker 7: Red Sox at forty five and forty five. Will the

2362
02:03:16,040 --> 02:03:19,640
Speaker 7: Red Sox be buyers? Will they be sellers? I could

2363
02:03:19,760 --> 02:03:23,280
Speaker 7: just take it from my advantage point here and what

2364
02:03:23,640 --> 02:03:26,240
Speaker 7: they've been in this spot now three years in a row,

2365
02:03:26,840 --> 02:03:30,600
Speaker 7: and every year at this point, and when it becomes

2366
02:03:30,800 --> 02:03:34,800
Speaker 7: to the All Star break and then the deadline, we

2367
02:03:34,960 --> 02:03:38,520
Speaker 7: have a player or two on the IL that's getting

2368
02:03:38,640 --> 02:03:42,600
Speaker 7: ready to come back and then we'll sell a piece off.

2369
02:03:42,800 --> 02:03:47,000
Speaker 7: Or they have not been buyers or big buyers, I

2370
02:03:47,000 --> 02:03:52,320
Speaker 7: should say. I mean, what we're hoping here is Bregman

2371
02:03:52,800 --> 02:03:57,400
Speaker 7: extension come back sooner than later. That's number one. I

2372
02:03:57,480 --> 02:04:01,760
Speaker 7: would expect them, honestly to move off of Chapman. He's

2373
02:04:01,800 --> 02:04:05,680
Speaker 7: had an amazing year. They signed him for eleven million dollars.

2374
02:04:06,600 --> 02:04:07,480
Speaker 5: I know a lot of.

2375
02:04:07,560 --> 02:04:11,080
Speaker 7: Teams in contention that would be knocking down the door.

2376
02:04:11,680 --> 02:04:14,840
Speaker 7: We have Jordan Hicks to move into that closer role

2377
02:04:14,960 --> 02:04:18,160
Speaker 7: from the San Francisco deal endeavors, and we also have

2378
02:04:18,320 --> 02:04:22,959
Speaker 7: the left handed pitcher Harrison ready to come up from Woosters.

2379
02:04:23,080 --> 02:04:26,080
Speaker 7: So I don't expect them to be buyers. We're just

2380
02:04:26,240 --> 02:04:29,800
Speaker 7: hanging around. I think their under over was around eighty

2381
02:04:29,920 --> 02:04:32,760
Speaker 7: five eighty six. I don't think they're going to get there,

2382
02:04:32,880 --> 02:04:38,560
Speaker 7: but we're holding out optimism back here, Bernie, all right, let's.

2383
02:04:38,440 --> 02:04:43,200
Speaker 2: Jump to I talked about this earlier in the show Boston,

2384
02:04:43,880 --> 02:04:47,280
Speaker 2: the check that the Celtics really have fallen off a

2385
02:04:47,320 --> 02:04:50,839
Speaker 2: cliff a little bit. I mean, you lose Jason Tatum

2386
02:04:50,880 --> 02:04:55,160
Speaker 2: and now to injury, and thanks to you know, salary considerations,

2387
02:04:55,240 --> 02:04:57,960
Speaker 2: four more key players. Is this just a mulligan year

2388
02:04:58,040 --> 02:05:01,000
Speaker 2: for the the Celtics coming up.

2389
02:05:02,480 --> 02:05:03,160
Speaker 7: Well again, it's a.

2390
02:05:03,240 --> 02:05:05,560
Speaker 14: Good way to put this.

2391
02:05:07,640 --> 02:05:13,520
Speaker 7: We knew there was going to be implications for tax purposes.

2392
02:05:13,800 --> 02:05:18,400
Speaker 7: The first and second apron. You win the title two

2393
02:05:18,520 --> 02:05:25,280
Speaker 7: years ago, Tatum gets injured, they lose to the next Porzingis,

2394
02:05:26,000 --> 02:05:31,920
Speaker 7: Drew Holiday, a couple other pieces had to leave the garden.

2395
02:05:32,720 --> 02:05:36,960
Speaker 7: New ownership purchase the Celtics for six billion dollars looks

2396
02:05:37,080 --> 02:05:39,080
Speaker 7: like a dalc and the Lakers went.

2397
02:05:39,040 --> 02:05:39,920
Speaker 8: For ten billion.

2398
02:05:40,480 --> 02:05:46,680
Speaker 7: But the restructuring of the Celtics now Jalen Brown, Derek White,

2399
02:05:47,960 --> 02:05:55,320
Speaker 7: Prichard now incomes of potential Damian Lillard who also has injury,

2400
02:05:55,480 --> 02:05:57,680
Speaker 7: who will be out for the year. There's been talks

2401
02:05:57,800 --> 02:06:01,240
Speaker 7: that he might come to Bosman for a minimum was

2402
02:06:01,480 --> 02:06:04,360
Speaker 7: like five point seven million dollars, the Bucks paying the

2403
02:06:04,440 --> 02:06:08,520
Speaker 7: rest of the salary. There most experts, Bernie see the

2404
02:06:08,600 --> 02:06:13,320
Speaker 7: Celtics in that six seven eight maybe play in situation.

2405
02:06:14,400 --> 02:06:17,560
Speaker 7: I still think there's a cutter to still to be made.

2406
02:06:18,040 --> 02:06:22,120
Speaker 7: I don't think they're fully under the apron where they

2407
02:06:22,240 --> 02:06:23,600
Speaker 7: want to be for this year.

2408
02:06:23,680 --> 02:06:24,520
Speaker 20: And next year.

2409
02:06:24,960 --> 02:06:27,320
Speaker 7: They don't want to be in the repeaters tax as well.

2410
02:06:27,440 --> 02:06:32,120
Speaker 7: But not a lot of optimism here with this Celtics team.

2411
02:06:33,440 --> 02:06:39,080
Speaker 7: Maybe fifty wins tops, maybe six seven eight seed Bernie

2412
02:06:40,440 --> 02:06:42,880
Speaker 7: all right, I speaking.

2413
02:06:42,560 --> 02:06:48,080
Speaker 2: Of optimism, I actually think in it's legitimate, there should

2414
02:06:48,120 --> 02:06:50,280
Speaker 2: be optimism about the million Patriots. I mean, I know

2415
02:06:50,360 --> 02:06:53,320
Speaker 2: they were four and thirteen last year. But you bring

2416
02:06:53,400 --> 02:06:57,200
Speaker 2: in Mike Vrabel, you're bringing you know, Josh McDaniels as

2417
02:06:57,200 --> 02:06:59,320
Speaker 2: your offensive coordinator, are not much of a head coach,

2418
02:06:59,400 --> 02:07:01,760
Speaker 2: but he success there. Of course, you did have Brady,

2419
02:07:02,320 --> 02:07:04,200
Speaker 2: but this could be the Pat's best team in the

2420
02:07:04,280 --> 02:07:07,960
Speaker 2: last few years because they drafted well I thought, and

2421
02:07:08,200 --> 02:07:10,320
Speaker 2: they did a lot through free agency, and they have

2422
02:07:10,520 --> 02:07:12,960
Speaker 2: new leadership from the top down. By the way, I

2423
02:07:13,000 --> 02:07:15,800
Speaker 2: want to get your prediction as part of this question.

2424
02:07:16,280 --> 02:07:18,880
Speaker 2: They open up against the Las Vegas Raiders. I believe

2425
02:07:18,880 --> 02:07:21,360
Speaker 2: they're four four and a half point favorites and it's

2426
02:07:21,400 --> 02:07:22,800
Speaker 2: going to be here before you know it. I mean

2427
02:07:22,840 --> 02:07:25,960
Speaker 2: we're already into July. Basically, we're sixty days away from that. Now,

2428
02:07:27,280 --> 02:07:29,720
Speaker 2: how do you expect the Patriots to do? Could they

2429
02:07:29,800 --> 02:07:32,560
Speaker 2: be one of the teams like it's been done in

2430
02:07:32,600 --> 02:07:35,280
Speaker 2: the last twenty five years twenty five times that goes

2431
02:07:35,320 --> 02:07:37,960
Speaker 2: from worst to first. Now that's a tall order because

2432
02:07:37,960 --> 02:07:40,240
Speaker 2: you got Buffalo in there, right, But give me your

2433
02:07:40,480 --> 02:07:45,000
Speaker 2: takeaways on the Patriots and their optimism, Berdie.

2434
02:07:45,080 --> 02:07:51,080
Speaker 7: This is our hope in Boston for twenty twenty five,

2435
02:07:51,200 --> 02:07:56,600
Speaker 7: twenty six. A lot of people want us, are expecting

2436
02:07:57,000 --> 02:08:00,320
Speaker 7: and hoping to emulate what Washington did last year. Year,

2437
02:08:00,920 --> 02:08:07,320
Speaker 7: new head coach, new quarterback. I was gonna say the Redskins,

2438
02:08:07,400 --> 02:08:13,560
Speaker 7: excuse me, the Commanders took the NFC East by storm. Patriots,

2439
02:08:13,560 --> 02:08:17,680
Speaker 7: they're hoping Drake may year number two, Josh McDaniels back.

2440
02:08:17,800 --> 02:08:21,360
Speaker 7: They bring in, as you said, coach Rabell. They drafted

2441
02:08:21,480 --> 02:08:27,360
Speaker 7: Trevion Henderson, they drafted the wide receiver Kyle Williams. A

2442
02:08:27,520 --> 02:08:31,480
Speaker 7: lot of optimism back here. They spent a lot of

2443
02:08:31,560 --> 02:08:36,400
Speaker 7: money on free agency on the defensive side. I think

2444
02:08:36,480 --> 02:08:39,320
Speaker 7: the under over Bernie opened at seven and a half.

2445
02:08:39,480 --> 02:08:42,080
Speaker 7: I'm here in eight and a half now at local Wow.

2446
02:08:43,320 --> 02:08:44,840
Speaker 10: Yeah, that would be a big jump.

2447
02:08:45,960 --> 02:08:51,760
Speaker 7: Yeah, and I say pumped the brakes just for this reason.

2448
02:08:52,200 --> 02:08:55,919
Speaker 7: I think in the last three years, Bernie, the Patriots

2449
02:08:55,960 --> 02:08:59,720
Speaker 7: have won a total of four home games in the

2450
02:08:59,800 --> 02:09:05,760
Speaker 7: last three years. So that's with coach Mayo, that's with

2451
02:09:06,000 --> 02:09:09,040
Speaker 7: Belichick as he was getting ready to depart as well.

2452
02:09:09,240 --> 02:09:12,560
Speaker 7: So they do have a very soft start at home

2453
02:09:13,800 --> 02:09:16,800
Speaker 7: the beginning of their season. They could get their sea legs.

2454
02:09:16,840 --> 02:09:19,000
Speaker 7: They could come out three and one, four and one.

2455
02:09:20,080 --> 02:09:23,240
Speaker 7: What are they doing the back end here? It's Buffalo

2456
02:09:23,840 --> 02:09:26,800
Speaker 7: is definitely the favorite and should be the wind the East.

2457
02:09:27,320 --> 02:09:30,280
Speaker 7: I think the Patriots will be battling. I like the

2458
02:09:30,440 --> 02:09:32,880
Speaker 7: Jets as an upstart team there. I don't know what

2459
02:09:33,040 --> 02:09:37,440
Speaker 7: to make of Miami. I mean nine and eight eight

2460
02:09:37,680 --> 02:09:40,680
Speaker 7: nine I think is right where the Patriots would be,

2461
02:09:41,400 --> 02:09:45,120
Speaker 7: and at four and a half point favorites Bernie against anyone.

2462
02:09:45,320 --> 02:09:48,800
Speaker 7: I think it is a tall, tall order. I'd be

2463
02:09:49,120 --> 02:09:52,440
Speaker 7: leaning too, a higher scoring game looking at the over

2464
02:09:52,640 --> 02:09:56,080
Speaker 7: here first one to twenty seven wins. But I'd been

2465
02:09:56,200 --> 02:09:59,680
Speaker 7: leaning today, Bernie, I give me the four to half in.

2466
02:10:02,320 --> 02:10:05,480
Speaker 2: Yeah, I look out my fire on them too, actually,

2467
02:10:05,680 --> 02:10:08,760
Speaker 2: but that could be a field goal game, and you

2468
02:10:08,880 --> 02:10:11,879
Speaker 2: never know what's gonna happen. Finally, real quickly without overthinking

2469
02:10:11,920 --> 02:10:15,360
Speaker 2: it too much. Do you expect Lebron to finish this

2470
02:10:15,520 --> 02:10:19,320
Speaker 2: season with the Lakers or be traded during the season.

2471
02:10:19,440 --> 02:10:21,360
Speaker 2: Before the season, what are your thoughts?

2472
02:10:24,040 --> 02:10:27,800
Speaker 7: The million dollar question? I mean, who wouldn't opt into

2473
02:10:27,920 --> 02:10:31,200
Speaker 7: what over fifty million dollars they had to had to

2474
02:10:33,800 --> 02:10:38,120
Speaker 7: you know, where would he go in the middle of

2475
02:10:38,240 --> 02:10:43,880
Speaker 7: the year. I mean, would he go back to Cleveland? Yeah?

2476
02:10:44,080 --> 02:10:47,520
Speaker 7: I don't think they do either. I mean Miami, that's

2477
02:10:47,600 --> 02:10:50,400
Speaker 7: too late there. Would he go somewhere in the West.

2478
02:10:50,840 --> 02:10:53,960
Speaker 7: I think this is it, Bernie. I think you know,

2479
02:10:54,480 --> 02:10:56,880
Speaker 7: he made the bed. He's got to sleep in the bed.

2480
02:10:57,080 --> 02:11:00,200
Speaker 7: Maybe they can add a piece of two. Maybe it

2481
02:11:00,360 --> 02:11:03,640
Speaker 7: comes in the camp in shape. I mean that West

2482
02:11:03,880 --> 02:11:07,200
Speaker 7: is locked and loaded. I mean, look what the Rockets

2483
02:11:07,240 --> 02:11:11,960
Speaker 7: have done. You've got Okay, se defended Jamps. I think

2484
02:11:12,040 --> 02:11:16,160
Speaker 7: he ends up staying there. I think it's drama in Hollywood.

2485
02:11:16,720 --> 02:11:20,000
Speaker 7: Maybe the Swan song. Maybe this is what we can

2486
02:11:20,080 --> 02:11:22,160
Speaker 7: play into. This is your last year.

2487
02:11:22,600 --> 02:11:23,080
Speaker 20: Enjoy it.

2488
02:11:24,120 --> 02:11:26,560
Speaker 7: I'm gonna take that he sticks and stays.

2489
02:11:26,640 --> 02:11:30,800
Speaker 2: Bernie, Yeah, I'm with you. I just think that the

2490
02:11:31,040 --> 02:11:34,080
Speaker 2: market isn't as big when you consider the salary that

2491
02:11:34,160 --> 02:11:37,560
Speaker 2: they're you know, bound by Jeff great stuff. As always,

2492
02:11:37,600 --> 02:11:39,400
Speaker 2: the NFL is upon us as we are closer in

2493
02:11:39,440 --> 02:11:41,720
Speaker 2: college football. I want to get your thoughts on that.

2494
02:11:41,880 --> 02:11:44,560
Speaker 2: So get some rest there, buddy. Enjoy your Sunday in Boston.

2495
02:11:45,800 --> 02:11:47,240
Speaker 7: You as well, Bernie can't wait.

2496
02:11:47,280 --> 02:11:50,440
Speaker 2: You take care that is Jeff Austin E C Sports

2497
02:11:50,520 --> 02:11:54,879
Speaker 2: invest just kind of, you know, put poiri of subjects

2498
02:11:54,920 --> 02:11:58,320
Speaker 2: there because I think this Patriots are story this year,

2499
02:11:58,800 --> 02:12:01,120
Speaker 2: and the Celtics are ours this year, and so o

2500
02:12:01,200 --> 02:12:05,440
Speaker 2: the Red Sox. So something to just follow. Now, coming

2501
02:12:05,520 --> 02:12:11,240
Speaker 2: up a couple things. Major League Baseball is investigating a

2502
02:12:11,320 --> 02:12:14,680
Speaker 2: pitcher and you're gonna want to know why this is

2503
02:12:15,120 --> 02:12:19,080
Speaker 2: not exactly fun and games. This is starting to become

2504
02:12:19,160 --> 02:12:23,560
Speaker 2: more rampant. And oh, by the way, the Pittsburgh Steelers,

2505
02:12:24,040 --> 02:12:27,880
Speaker 2: the Pittsburgh Steelers. I've got a very odd sort of

2506
02:12:28,760 --> 02:12:33,600
Speaker 2: betting aspect about the Pittsburgh Steelers coming up this season.

2507
02:12:34,120 --> 02:12:36,440
Speaker 2: I'm Bernie Fraddlewick Company line from the Las Vegas Fox

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02:12:36,440 --> 02:12:39,240
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2514
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2524
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2525
02:13:30,240 --> 02:13:35,040
Speaker 2: is investigating Guardians, pitcher Luis or Tees over alleged gambling,

2526
02:13:35,440 --> 02:13:38,480
Speaker 2: apparently having to do with some prop that whether a

2527
02:13:38,560 --> 02:13:40,520
Speaker 2: pitch would be a ball or a strike. He's been

2528
02:13:40,560 --> 02:13:44,760
Speaker 2: placed on what's called non disciplinary paid leave at least

2529
02:13:44,800 --> 02:13:47,160
Speaker 2: through the All Star break which ends on July eighteenth,

2530
02:13:48,080 --> 02:13:50,600
Speaker 2: and the investigation, again has to do with gambling. So

2531
02:13:51,440 --> 02:13:53,200
Speaker 2: not a lot of details have come out. There's been

2532
02:13:53,240 --> 02:13:59,360
Speaker 2: some speculation and if the Guardians are not allowed to

2533
02:13:59,720 --> 02:14:04,080
Speaker 2: calm and I think the league wants to, you know,

2534
02:14:04,160 --> 02:14:08,120
Speaker 2: their confidential investigative process to be respected, which it will be.

2535
02:14:09,440 --> 02:14:12,360
Speaker 2: And because of what happened, Ortiz missed his start Thursday

2536
02:14:12,400 --> 02:14:16,160
Speaker 2: night against the Cubs and listen, this is serious. Major

2537
02:14:16,280 --> 02:14:18,400
Speaker 2: League Baseball as a zero tolerance policy now when it

2538
02:14:18,440 --> 02:14:21,560
Speaker 2: comes to gambling on baseball. Remember last year, San Diego

2539
02:14:21,600 --> 02:14:25,080
Speaker 2: Potter's infielder, to Competer Marcano was banned from Major League

2540
02:14:25,120 --> 02:14:29,200
Speaker 2: Baseball for life after an investigation revealed he placed tens

2541
02:14:29,240 --> 02:14:33,320
Speaker 2: of thousands of dollars on MLB related wagers. Not after that,

2542
02:14:33,800 --> 02:14:39,000
Speaker 2: you know, and I got to tell you, the Pteroles

2543
02:14:39,040 --> 02:14:42,720
Speaker 2: thing is real. So not long after that, an umpire

2544
02:14:42,840 --> 02:14:45,760
Speaker 2: was also fired over a gambling probe. So something to

2545
02:14:45,920 --> 02:14:48,680
Speaker 2: keep an eye on, something else to keep an eye on.

2546
02:14:48,720 --> 02:14:53,040
Speaker 2: The Pittsburgh Steelers have very much been the news incessantly.

2547
02:14:54,760 --> 02:14:57,760
Speaker 2: You can't swing a dead cat without hearing some radio broadcaster. Well,

2548
02:14:58,960 --> 02:15:03,320
Speaker 2: Mike Tallman might okay, let's let this play out. And

2549
02:15:03,560 --> 02:15:06,200
Speaker 2: the Steelers appear to be going kind of all in

2550
02:15:06,320 --> 02:15:11,360
Speaker 2: as it were. But the oddsmakers aren't necessarily on board

2551
02:15:12,560 --> 02:15:15,440
Speaker 2: with the Steelers since they haven't won a playoff game

2552
02:15:15,480 --> 02:15:19,600
Speaker 2: in eight years. And if you look at it objectively,

2553
02:15:23,240 --> 02:15:25,320
Speaker 2: a lot of odds makers aren't sure they'll make the playoffs.

2554
02:15:25,360 --> 02:15:25,440
Speaker 8: Now.

2555
02:15:25,480 --> 02:15:28,720
Speaker 2: I don't really know that I agree with that, but

2556
02:15:28,880 --> 02:15:33,520
Speaker 2: this is revealing, right, This is revealing now Remember that

2557
02:15:33,680 --> 02:15:38,280
Speaker 2: a point spread is not a predictor. Las Vegas sportsbook

2558
02:15:38,320 --> 02:15:40,840
Speaker 2: operators are not in the business of fortune telling or

2559
02:15:40,840 --> 02:15:44,680
Speaker 2: predicting the future. They're in the business of maximizing profits

2560
02:15:44,680 --> 02:15:48,440
Speaker 2: and minimizing risks. So a betty line is merely created

2561
02:15:48,600 --> 02:15:52,640
Speaker 2: to make equal action on both sides, and the book

2562
02:15:52,760 --> 02:15:55,160
Speaker 2: makes their money off the vigor ish. Remember, you have

2563
02:15:55,200 --> 02:15:56,760
Speaker 2: to put up one hundred and ten to one hundred.

2564
02:15:57,400 --> 02:16:00,240
Speaker 2: Usually it can be even more than that sometimes, but

2565
02:16:00,360 --> 02:16:03,240
Speaker 2: it's still revealing and worth noting that of the seventeen

2566
02:16:03,280 --> 02:16:07,440
Speaker 2: Steelers games this year, they're only favored in six of them.

2567
02:16:07,680 --> 02:16:13,040
Speaker 2: That means they're underdog eleven times. They're favored twice against

2568
02:16:13,080 --> 02:16:15,800
Speaker 2: the Browns six and a half at home and two

2569
02:16:15,840 --> 02:16:19,640
Speaker 2: and a half on the road. They're also favored opening

2570
02:16:19,720 --> 02:16:22,680
Speaker 2: night against the New York Jets minus three at the

2571
02:16:22,760 --> 02:16:25,400
Speaker 2: New York Jets. They're a one and a half point

2572
02:16:25,440 --> 02:16:29,200
Speaker 2: favorite at home versus Seattle, they visit Indianapolis where they

2573
02:16:29,240 --> 02:16:30,640
Speaker 2: are a three and a half point favorite, and then

2574
02:16:30,680 --> 02:16:32,920
Speaker 2: the only other time their favorite would be against the

2575
02:16:33,520 --> 02:16:35,720
Speaker 2: Miami Dolphins, where they're two and a half point favorites.

2576
02:16:35,800 --> 02:16:40,560
Speaker 2: So what does that basically mean? It means Pittsburgh is

2577
02:16:41,360 --> 02:16:45,960
Speaker 2: an underdog in eleven other seventeen games. Now by comparison,

2578
02:16:46,879 --> 02:16:50,039
Speaker 2: if you go back to last year, and that's when

2579
02:16:50,080 --> 02:16:53,480
Speaker 2: you had the tandem of Russell Wilson and Justin Fields.

2580
02:16:54,200 --> 02:16:57,480
Speaker 2: Remember the Pittsburgh Steelers actually won ten games, win ten

2581
02:16:57,560 --> 02:17:01,080
Speaker 2: and seven, but they were underdog in ten of the

2582
02:17:01,200 --> 02:17:04,960
Speaker 2: seventeen games last year. And the odds makers did their

2583
02:17:05,080 --> 02:17:08,480
Speaker 2: job because Pittsburgh went five and five against the number

2584
02:17:08,560 --> 02:17:12,480
Speaker 2: as a dog in those games, and that includes zero

2585
02:17:12,520 --> 02:17:14,960
Speaker 2: to five against the spread the final five games of

2586
02:17:15,000 --> 02:17:19,000
Speaker 2: the season. Of course, markets will speak and lines will

2587
02:17:19,120 --> 02:17:21,840
Speaker 2: change all the time, and the NFL is still a

2588
02:17:21,879 --> 02:17:23,840
Speaker 2: couple of months away from opening nights, and these are

2589
02:17:23,959 --> 02:17:27,920
Speaker 2: sund off lines, so real action hasn't come in yet

2590
02:17:28,040 --> 02:17:33,360
Speaker 2: on these lines, God forbid, nobody gets hurt, but the

2591
02:17:33,440 --> 02:17:35,760
Speaker 2: landscape could look a little different when they go to

2592
02:17:35,800 --> 02:17:38,320
Speaker 2: the Jets. I doubt they'll be more than a three

2593
02:17:38,360 --> 02:17:41,200
Speaker 2: point favorite. But you have to let this play out

2594
02:17:41,280 --> 02:17:44,120
Speaker 2: because once a line moves heavily in one direction, or

2595
02:17:44,200 --> 02:17:47,760
Speaker 2: what's a betty, action comes in heavily on one side,

2596
02:17:48,280 --> 02:17:50,640
Speaker 2: the bookmakers are going to move things around to attract

2597
02:17:50,640 --> 02:17:52,280
Speaker 2: the action on the other side. Again, they're not in

2598
02:17:52,320 --> 02:17:55,560
Speaker 2: the fortune telling business or their prediction business. They are

2599
02:17:55,680 --> 02:18:01,960
Speaker 2: in the business of maximizing profit and minimizing risks. If

2600
02:18:02,000 --> 02:18:04,040
Speaker 2: it would be nice, if you've got that in English,

2601
02:18:05,120 --> 02:18:10,640
Speaker 2: thank you for your participation. However, here's the thing. It

2602
02:18:10,760 --> 02:18:14,240
Speaker 2: seems unlikely that there are any you know, other blockbuster

2603
02:18:14,400 --> 02:18:18,200
Speaker 2: developments that will come out of the Steelers. And they're

2604
02:18:18,480 --> 02:18:22,400
Speaker 2: you know, they're what are we talking about here? They're

2605
02:18:24,120 --> 02:18:25,760
Speaker 2: moves there. I don't think you can't really make any

2606
02:18:25,800 --> 02:18:29,520
Speaker 2: more moves? Can they? Between now? And will they sign TJ. Watt?

2607
02:18:29,640 --> 02:18:31,400
Speaker 2: Will they lock he's do to make twenty one million

2608
02:18:31,440 --> 02:18:34,160
Speaker 2: this year. I'm hearing they're about to, you know, break

2609
02:18:34,240 --> 02:18:37,760
Speaker 2: the bank with TJ Watt. Okay, let's face it. I

2610
02:18:37,879 --> 02:18:41,560
Speaker 2: think TJ. Watt himself is worth two wins. I really

2611
02:18:41,640 --> 02:18:45,560
Speaker 2: believe that. And that is right now perhaps the biggest

2612
02:18:45,640 --> 02:18:50,400
Speaker 2: question mark facing the Steelers whether or not Pittsburgh will

2613
02:18:50,440 --> 02:18:53,600
Speaker 2: work out its contract impass with TJ. Watt. Here's a

2614
02:18:53,640 --> 02:18:56,240
Speaker 2: guy who's a four time All Pro He's in the

2615
02:18:56,400 --> 02:18:59,360
Speaker 2: final season of a one hundred and twelve million dollar

2616
02:18:59,480 --> 02:19:03,680
Speaker 2: contract extension, a four year extension. So far, TJ. Watt

2617
02:19:03,720 --> 02:19:06,480
Speaker 2: has held out of his Steelers mandatory veteran mini camp

2618
02:19:06,800 --> 02:19:12,400
Speaker 2: to try to force the team to renegotiate. But depending

2619
02:19:12,400 --> 02:19:14,360
Speaker 2: on who you listen to, they're either not close or

2620
02:19:14,400 --> 02:19:16,800
Speaker 2: the Steelers will end up doing what they need to

2621
02:19:16,879 --> 02:19:21,160
Speaker 2: do because look, TJ. Watt, you can't trade him. He's

2622
02:19:21,200 --> 02:19:26,359
Speaker 2: one of the NFL's best defenders. And you know if

2623
02:19:26,400 --> 02:19:30,720
Speaker 2: you lose him, Pittsburgh's not going to be favored in

2624
02:19:30,800 --> 02:19:32,960
Speaker 2: any more games, and they might be an underdog in

2625
02:19:33,520 --> 02:19:37,600
Speaker 2: more of those games. All Right, So the NFL is

2626
02:19:37,640 --> 02:19:42,640
Speaker 2: a wide open season by season extravagans every year. One

2627
02:19:42,640 --> 02:19:44,400
Speaker 2: of the things I'm going to talk about next week

2628
02:19:45,600 --> 02:19:48,959
Speaker 2: is there are eight teams that finished in last place

2629
02:19:49,560 --> 02:19:53,160
Speaker 2: last year, obviously because there're eight divisions, But the NFL

2630
02:19:53,200 --> 02:19:56,080
Speaker 2: has always been a league of parody, and it's because

2631
02:19:56,120 --> 02:19:57,760
Speaker 2: of the way they schedule, the way they draft, and

2632
02:19:58,320 --> 02:20:01,480
Speaker 2: teams can turn around fairly quickly after a poor season.

2633
02:20:02,720 --> 02:20:05,400
Speaker 2: And even though no team went from worse to first

2634
02:20:05,480 --> 02:20:08,800
Speaker 2: than its division last year, if you go back to

2635
02:20:09,879 --> 02:20:12,960
Speaker 2: twenty oh two two thousand and two, that's when the

2636
02:20:13,080 --> 02:20:18,120
Speaker 2: NFL transitioned to eight fourteen divisions, twenty five franchises have

2637
02:20:18,240 --> 02:20:22,840
Speaker 2: achieved that feat from going worst to first since twenty

2638
02:20:22,879 --> 02:20:24,800
Speaker 2: oh two. There were actually two teams did in one year.

2639
02:20:24,800 --> 02:20:27,120
Speaker 2: I think it was twenty eighteen. Remember the Chicago Bears

2640
02:20:27,160 --> 02:20:30,879
Speaker 2: did it with Mitch Trubisky. Remember him? People make fun

2641
02:20:30,920 --> 02:20:32,960
Speaker 2: of him. He's twenty five and sixteen as a starter,

2642
02:20:33,440 --> 02:20:35,280
Speaker 2: went to the playoffs two or three years and had

2643
02:20:35,360 --> 02:20:38,000
Speaker 2: there not been a double doing field goal miss, he

2644
02:20:38,120 --> 02:20:40,280
Speaker 2: might have won a playoff game. But I digress. But

2645
02:20:40,400 --> 02:20:44,560
Speaker 2: Cleveland finished last, The Giants finished last, The SAME's finished last,

2646
02:20:44,640 --> 02:20:49,440
Speaker 2: The Raiders, the Tennessee Titans, Chicago Bears, the aforementioned Chicago

2647
02:20:49,440 --> 02:20:51,280
Speaker 2: Bears are they were only five and twelve last year,

2648
02:20:52,040 --> 02:20:53,640
Speaker 2: and then of course the New England Patriots who we

2649
02:20:53,720 --> 02:20:56,440
Speaker 2: just talked about, and the San Francisco forty nine ers.

2650
02:20:56,480 --> 02:21:00,560
Speaker 2: For my money, I think the San Francisco has the

2651
02:21:00,640 --> 02:21:03,680
Speaker 2: best shot by far of going from worse to first.

2652
02:21:03,720 --> 02:21:06,640
Speaker 2: Not only they have the NFL's easiest drink to schedule,

2653
02:21:06,680 --> 02:21:08,720
Speaker 2: they did a similar turnaround not long ago. After they

2654
02:21:08,760 --> 02:21:12,160
Speaker 2: got smoked by the Chiefs in twenty twenty, they slipped

2655
02:21:12,160 --> 02:21:14,879
Speaker 2: from the standings in the next season. That's a pattern

2656
02:21:15,200 --> 02:21:17,199
Speaker 2: they're repeated. But you know what they did in twenty

2657
02:21:17,240 --> 02:21:19,120
Speaker 2: twenty one. They bounced back. They won ten games and

2658
02:21:19,240 --> 02:21:23,800
Speaker 2: got to the NFC title game. So they suffered tremendously

2659
02:21:23,840 --> 02:21:26,080
Speaker 2: from injuries last year. So all of a sudden, you're

2660
02:21:26,080 --> 02:21:28,480
Speaker 2: gonna have McCaffrey back, Trent Williams, Nick Bolsa, you get

2661
02:21:28,520 --> 02:21:32,039
Speaker 2: the picture. Next week we'll dive into the worst to first,

2662
02:21:32,160 --> 02:21:36,360
Speaker 2: we'll see what the Steelers do. I like their culture. Look,

2663
02:21:36,840 --> 02:21:40,080
Speaker 2: I get it, they've been people have been beaten on

2664
02:21:40,120 --> 02:21:42,120
Speaker 2: them because they haven't done much recently. What have you

2665
02:21:42,240 --> 02:21:43,720
Speaker 2: done for me lately? That's just the way it is

2666
02:21:43,760 --> 02:21:45,920
Speaker 2: in the world of sports, all right, what have you

2667
02:21:46,000 --> 02:21:47,680
Speaker 2: done for me lately? In the world of soccer, Well,

2668
02:21:47,760 --> 02:21:51,160
Speaker 2: Chris Prefet's about to tell us. Coming up, Chris Preffetts.

2669
02:21:51,080 --> 02:22:03,920
Speaker 25: World of Soccer, the greatest goals finishes, the international drum.

2670
02:22:05,879 --> 02:22:08,040
Speaker 2: Him him at the end of the level.

2671
02:22:09,120 --> 02:22:13,520
Speaker 26: It's all here in this report from the world of soccer, Well, Bernie.

2672
02:22:13,560 --> 02:22:16,320
Speaker 26: The summer marches on. We're kind of near the finish

2673
02:22:16,440 --> 02:22:19,959
Speaker 26: line for a lot of the twenty twenty five summer

2674
02:22:20,640 --> 02:22:24,000
Speaker 26: big events. As the Club World Cup is coming to

2675
02:22:24,120 --> 02:22:28,960
Speaker 26: a head. We have the semi final set Fluminence is

2676
02:22:29,120 --> 02:22:32,920
Speaker 26: the remaining of those Brazilian clubs we have lauded throughout

2677
02:22:32,920 --> 02:22:36,520
Speaker 26: the Club World Cup taking on English side Chelsea. And

2678
02:22:37,040 --> 02:22:41,400
Speaker 26: the rest is of course European parasing Germain against Real

2679
02:22:41,600 --> 02:22:46,320
Speaker 26: Madrid and really setting up for once again parising Germain

2680
02:22:46,480 --> 02:22:49,199
Speaker 26: taking on another one of its former stars, as Killian

2681
02:22:49,280 --> 02:22:53,400
Speaker 26: Embappe will be playing for Real Madrid. Meanwhile, in the

2682
02:22:53,680 --> 02:22:56,760
Speaker 26: CONCACAF Gold Cup. In spite of all the angst coming

2683
02:22:56,800 --> 02:23:01,280
Speaker 26: into the tournament, somehow we have arrived once again in

2684
02:23:01,440 --> 02:23:07,800
Speaker 26: the same familiar place. Sunday, July sixth, seven pm Eastern

2685
02:23:07,920 --> 02:23:12,840
Speaker 26: on Fox, we'll see the United States taking on Mexico somehow,

2686
02:23:13,040 --> 02:23:17,880
Speaker 26: in spite of angst for both countries, for Mexico trying

2687
02:23:17,920 --> 02:23:22,360
Speaker 26: to turn a chapter in its own story tradition, and

2688
02:23:22,840 --> 02:23:26,360
Speaker 26: for the United States coming into this tournament still looking

2689
02:23:26,400 --> 02:23:28,920
Speaker 26: for that first win for Mucio Polchettino and getting it

2690
02:23:29,040 --> 02:23:32,520
Speaker 26: in spades, and doing some of this without some of

2691
02:23:32,560 --> 02:23:35,120
Speaker 26: their stars. I mean, it is Conca calf But at

2692
02:23:35,160 --> 02:23:38,720
Speaker 26: the same time, USA Mexico has a lot of importance.

2693
02:23:39,360 --> 02:23:41,960
Speaker 26: It is the home of Dosa Sero. It is the

2694
02:23:42,160 --> 02:23:46,720
Speaker 26: great rivalry of the North American continent, and it is

2695
02:23:46,800 --> 02:23:51,000
Speaker 26: the only two teams nations really worth talking about from

2696
02:23:51,040 --> 02:23:55,280
Speaker 26: the Conca calf region. As USA Mexico will both of

2697
02:23:55,400 --> 02:23:59,040
Speaker 26: course be automatic bids to the World Cup, so this

2698
02:23:59,160 --> 02:24:01,920
Speaker 26: Gold Cup is per functory. But if you know anything

2699
02:24:01,920 --> 02:24:05,040
Speaker 26: about USA Mexico, you would hope there's pride on the

2700
02:24:05,120 --> 02:24:07,920
Speaker 26: line and you would hope there's will to keep playing,

2701
02:24:08,480 --> 02:24:11,400
Speaker 26: not just for any kind of tune up for a

2702
02:24:11,959 --> 02:24:15,000
Speaker 26: feasible World Cup in the future, but just because rivalries

2703
02:24:15,120 --> 02:24:19,240
Speaker 26: should be honored. You should get really fired up to

2704
02:24:19,320 --> 02:24:23,680
Speaker 26: play a rivalry, even when it's between countries. Unfortunately, that

2705
02:24:23,920 --> 02:24:26,680
Speaker 26: is not the main news of the week. The news

2706
02:24:27,080 --> 02:24:30,720
Speaker 26: is tragedy as the soccer world and really all of

2707
02:24:30,800 --> 02:24:34,080
Speaker 26: Europe mourns the passing of Diego Jota and his brother

2708
02:24:34,240 --> 02:24:39,760
Speaker 26: Andre Silva, both footballers. Diego Jota have been playing for

2709
02:24:39,920 --> 02:24:45,080
Speaker 26: Liverpool and was the big name that everyone gravitated to Liverpool,

2710
02:24:45,120 --> 02:24:49,280
Speaker 26: of course, lifting a trophy with an English Premier League title.

2711
02:24:50,280 --> 02:24:52,920
Speaker 1: The two were on a road.

2712
02:24:52,760 --> 02:24:59,240
Speaker 26: In northwestern Spain and their tire burst into while overtaking

2713
02:24:59,280 --> 02:25:05,000
Speaker 26: another car Lamborghini then left the road and caught fire

2714
02:25:05,240 --> 02:25:08,680
Speaker 26: and both were killed. Joja's death is a tragedy of

2715
02:25:08,760 --> 02:25:13,720
Speaker 26: three countries in Spain, especially in Portugal, where it sends

2716
02:25:13,840 --> 02:25:19,080
Speaker 26: reverberations deep into those of his countrymen who played alongside

2717
02:25:19,200 --> 02:25:23,039
Speaker 26: him and honored him as a fantastic Portuguese footballer.

2718
02:25:24,800 --> 02:25:26,080
Speaker 2: During the Women's.

2719
02:25:25,800 --> 02:25:28,080
Speaker 26: Euros which are going on right now in twenty twenty five,

2720
02:25:28,200 --> 02:25:33,360
Speaker 26: there was a massive ceremony to honor him during before

2721
02:25:33,600 --> 02:25:36,400
Speaker 26: the match, and of course it is a tragedy. In

2722
02:25:36,920 --> 02:25:40,440
Speaker 26: England where he played for Liverpool. Wimbledon going on right

2723
02:25:40,480 --> 02:25:44,039
Speaker 26: now actually relaxed their dress codes to allow for Portuguese

2724
02:25:44,120 --> 02:25:49,760
Speaker 26: players to pay honor and tribute to Diogo Jota. I

2725
02:25:49,879 --> 02:25:55,480
Speaker 26: believe it was Francisco cabral I wore a black ribbon

2726
02:25:55,720 --> 02:26:01,240
Speaker 26: on his tennis shirt during the match for Liverpool. It

2727
02:26:01,400 --> 02:26:05,560
Speaker 26: is another tragedy to a cabinet of tragedies that seems

2728
02:26:05,600 --> 02:26:09,440
Speaker 26: to follow around that club and unfortunately makes the slogan

2729
02:26:09,560 --> 02:26:14,320
Speaker 26: of you will never walk alone one of bitterness and

2730
02:26:14,640 --> 02:26:20,560
Speaker 26: bittersweet memories for this to come for Liverpool after one

2731
02:26:20,600 --> 02:26:24,760
Speaker 26: of their most fantastic seasons they've had in recent memories.

2732
02:26:25,040 --> 02:26:28,720
Speaker 26: For Jota, who is a major major part of this

2733
02:26:28,879 --> 02:26:35,039
Speaker 26: Championship winner winning Liverpool squad, it's not easy.

2734
02:26:35,760 --> 02:26:36,800
Speaker 3: It's not easy at all.

2735
02:26:37,600 --> 02:26:40,959
Speaker 26: Former Liverpool manager Jurgen Klop weighed in on this and said,

2736
02:26:41,120 --> 02:26:43,560
Speaker 26: this is a moment where I struggle. There must be

2737
02:26:43,600 --> 02:26:46,760
Speaker 26: a bigger purpose, but I can't see it. It is

2738
02:26:47,840 --> 02:26:51,320
Speaker 26: something that has gone beyond sports and brought a lot

2739
02:26:51,360 --> 02:26:54,520
Speaker 26: of people together about the procarity of life. For now,

2740
02:26:55,080 --> 02:26:57,320
Speaker 26: this has been the world of soccer. We honor Diego

2741
02:26:57,400 --> 02:27:00,560
Speaker 26: Jota and his life may rest piece.

2742
02:27:02,920 --> 02:27:06,360
Speaker 2: All right, a somber note, but I don't want to

2743
02:27:06,400 --> 02:27:10,200
Speaker 2: sign off the segment without reminding folks that four o'clock

2744
02:27:10,280 --> 02:27:15,000
Speaker 2: Pacific time later today PM Mexico and the United States

2745
02:27:15,160 --> 02:27:17,680
Speaker 2: for the Gold Cup. Conca calf and the US is in.

2746
02:27:17,800 --> 02:27:19,440
Speaker 2: They're they're going to the goal. They're going to the

2747
02:27:19,879 --> 02:27:21,720
Speaker 2: World Cup next year because we're hosting.

2748
02:27:21,440 --> 02:27:22,879
Speaker 20: It right now.

2749
02:27:22,920 --> 02:27:26,960
Speaker 2: I hate to break up the party, but if you lie,

2750
02:27:27,000 --> 02:27:28,800
Speaker 2: you're breaking one of the commandments. I'm not gonna lie.

2751
02:27:28,800 --> 02:27:31,120
Speaker 2: I think Mexico's gonna win two to one. It's not

2752
02:27:31,240 --> 02:27:34,120
Speaker 2: that the US isn't capable of winning the game, but

2753
02:27:34,320 --> 02:27:36,520
Speaker 2: and this is a heat rivalry, and it'll be It'll

2754
02:27:36,520 --> 02:27:39,800
Speaker 2: be a hell of a match, I believe. It's just listen,

2755
02:27:39,920 --> 02:27:42,800
Speaker 2: Mexico's Gold Cup roster man for man is simply stronger

2756
02:27:42,879 --> 02:27:45,160
Speaker 2: than what the US has. They have more depth on

2757
02:27:45,240 --> 02:27:46,920
Speaker 2: the bench and that could define the game. And oh,

2758
02:27:46,959 --> 02:27:49,280
Speaker 2: by the way, the US has played very well, but

2759
02:27:49,320 --> 02:27:51,560
Speaker 2: they haven't rotated much, so I don't know how much

2760
02:27:51,600 --> 02:27:54,280
Speaker 2: gas don't tank. These guys have left, and Mexico has

2761
02:27:54,320 --> 02:27:56,680
Speaker 2: I think a bit more quality in their attack, so

2762
02:27:56,800 --> 02:27:58,520
Speaker 2: I think it's a one goal game. I feel like

2763
02:27:59,320 --> 02:28:01,680
Speaker 2: Mexico wins two to one. And this is a part

2764
02:28:01,720 --> 02:28:03,040
Speaker 2: where I guess, I say, I hope I'm wrong. I

2765
02:28:03,080 --> 02:28:04,840
Speaker 2: don't know. You know, yeah, we have a rooting interest.

2766
02:28:04,879 --> 02:28:06,560
Speaker 2: I'd love to see the US win that game. It'd

2767
02:28:06,600 --> 02:28:09,960
Speaker 2: be nice. They haven't had much to cheer about like ever.

2768
02:28:10,640 --> 02:28:12,760
Speaker 2: I don't know, it's just not our sport. They always

2769
02:28:12,800 --> 02:28:15,760
Speaker 2: threaten it. It's going to be, but it's not. Coming up,

2770
02:28:15,800 --> 02:28:19,200
Speaker 2: we wrap up the show, and you know, college football

2771
02:28:19,240 --> 02:28:21,640
Speaker 2: is around the corner, and we always get a kick

2772
02:28:21,680 --> 02:28:26,960
Speaker 2: out of players that have distinctive names. And if by chance,

2773
02:28:27,160 --> 02:28:30,720
Speaker 2: you happen to watch any Bowling Green games this year,

2774
02:28:31,760 --> 02:28:35,200
Speaker 2: you will see an individual on the team and it's

2775
02:28:35,280 --> 02:28:39,400
Speaker 2: not even close. He's got the most distinctive name in

2776
02:28:39,520 --> 02:28:43,480
Speaker 2: all of college football. Maybe ever, I'll share it. Coming

2777
02:28:43,560 --> 02:28:45,959
Speaker 2: up I'm Bernie Friderick, coming to your life from Las Vegas,

2778
02:28:46,000 --> 02:28:48,840
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio Studios. Keep it locked, you're listening to

2779
02:28:48,879 --> 02:28:52,000
Speaker 2: the Bernie Fraddle Show on Fox Sports Radio. All right,

2780
02:28:52,080 --> 02:28:54,760
Speaker 2: wrapping it up on the Bernie Fraddle Show. I don't

2781
02:28:54,800 --> 02:28:58,480
Speaker 2: think my producers Mark and Brianna appreciate all the efforts

2782
02:28:58,959 --> 02:29:02,160
Speaker 2: turning all the dials, keeping us glued together, managing through

2783
02:29:02,920 --> 02:29:06,760
Speaker 2: all the phone calls on the midnight hour. Thanks for

2784
02:29:06,840 --> 02:29:11,800
Speaker 2: all the hard work and professionalism, very much appreciated. Before

2785
02:29:11,840 --> 02:29:17,800
Speaker 2: I get to the perhaps the most distinctive college football

2786
02:29:17,879 --> 02:29:21,360
Speaker 2: player name any of us have ever heard of, we

2787
02:29:21,440 --> 02:29:24,600
Speaker 2: should wish another Happy Bobby Benia Day. In case you

2788
02:29:24,680 --> 02:29:27,800
Speaker 2: missed it, it was Tuesday. Every in baseball circles, you know,

2789
02:29:27,879 --> 02:29:31,520
Speaker 2: every July first is recognized as Bobby Benia Day. And

2790
02:29:31,560 --> 02:29:34,080
Speaker 2: by the way, there's still ten of them left. This

2791
02:29:34,240 --> 02:29:39,240
Speaker 2: is going on through twenty thirty five. We celebrate Bobby

2792
02:29:39,280 --> 02:29:41,400
Speaker 2: Benia Day every July first, because that's the day the

2793
02:29:41,480 --> 02:29:44,760
Speaker 2: Mets have to pay Bobby Bania one point two million dollars.

2794
02:29:45,240 --> 02:29:48,640
Speaker 2: Even though Bobby Benia hasn't been in the Major League

2795
02:29:48,640 --> 02:29:52,280
Speaker 2: since two thousand and one, he receives yearly checks from

2796
02:29:52,320 --> 02:29:55,680
Speaker 2: the Mets because he agreed to a deferred deal back

2797
02:29:55,720 --> 02:29:58,800
Speaker 2: in two thousand. That's why Bobby Bania gets one point

2798
02:29:58,840 --> 02:30:02,120
Speaker 2: two million every July first, and that's why we call

2799
02:30:02,160 --> 02:30:04,320
Speaker 2: it Bobby Beania Day. And it's gonna run out. In

2800
02:30:04,840 --> 02:30:07,520
Speaker 2: twenty thirty five, Bobby Banill will be seventy two years old.

2801
02:30:07,520 --> 02:30:10,840
Speaker 2: To how did this happen? Well, Benina initially signed a

2802
02:30:10,959 --> 02:30:13,640
Speaker 2: five year, twenty nine million dollar contract with the Mets

2803
02:30:14,200 --> 02:30:17,360
Speaker 2: right before the nineteen ninety two season, but that's not

2804
02:30:17,520 --> 02:30:19,920
Speaker 2: the contract that led to Bobby Beania Day because what

2805
02:30:20,080 --> 02:30:23,039
Speaker 2: happened was after three and a half seasons with the Mets,

2806
02:30:23,480 --> 02:30:26,920
Speaker 2: Benina was traded away. So they went to Baltimore and

2807
02:30:27,000 --> 02:30:29,440
Speaker 2: signed a four year, twenty three million dollar contract with

2808
02:30:29,520 --> 02:30:32,640
Speaker 2: the Marlins in ninety seven, and that's the deal that

2809
02:30:32,720 --> 02:30:36,920
Speaker 2: resulted in Bobby Beania Day because with the Marlins they Miami,

2810
02:30:37,240 --> 02:30:40,080
Speaker 2: they were the Florida Marlins at the time. When they

2811
02:30:40,360 --> 02:30:44,760
Speaker 2: inked Bobby Bania to that contract, the team never intended

2812
02:30:44,800 --> 02:30:47,280
Speaker 2: to pay it out. See after helping the team win

2813
02:30:47,360 --> 02:30:50,160
Speaker 2: the World Series in ninety seven, Benina was traded the

2814
02:30:50,320 --> 02:30:54,360
Speaker 2: following year. They dumped everybody. Remember how the Florida Marlins

2815
02:30:54,360 --> 02:30:57,400
Speaker 2: was Jim Leland managed that team. He spent half the

2816
02:30:57,480 --> 02:30:59,800
Speaker 2: season with the Dodgers before he was traded right back

2817
02:30:59,840 --> 02:31:03,200
Speaker 2: to the Mets for the nineteen ninety nine season. If

2818
02:31:03,240 --> 02:31:04,680
Speaker 2: you followed all that, you're a better man than me.

2819
02:31:05,120 --> 02:31:05,280
Speaker 21: Now.

2820
02:31:06,000 --> 02:31:08,200
Speaker 2: Bania ended up struggling that season. He had like a

2821
02:31:08,280 --> 02:31:11,320
Speaker 2: bucks sixty only bat at one hundred and fifty times,

2822
02:31:11,360 --> 02:31:13,200
Speaker 2: and at the end of the season, the Mets told

2823
02:31:13,200 --> 02:31:14,680
Speaker 2: b Benia he was going to be released, but he

2824
02:31:14,800 --> 02:31:19,280
Speaker 2: still had five point nine million dollars remaining on his contract.

2825
02:31:20,320 --> 02:31:22,640
Speaker 2: So instead of paying out that five point nine million

2826
02:31:22,680 --> 02:31:25,160
Speaker 2: to Beanie immediately, the team wanted to defer payments on

2827
02:31:25,240 --> 02:31:28,400
Speaker 2: the deal, believing they could make more profit through investments

2828
02:31:28,440 --> 02:31:34,440
Speaker 2: with wait for it, Bernie Madoff true story. So as

2829
02:31:34,440 --> 02:31:37,640
Speaker 2: a result, the Mets agreed to pay Bania one million,

2830
02:31:38,200 --> 02:31:41,000
Speaker 2: one hundred and ninety three thousand, two hundred and forty

2831
02:31:41,000 --> 02:31:44,520
Speaker 2: eight dollars and twenty cents every year. But those payments

2832
02:31:44,879 --> 02:31:49,960
Speaker 2: didn't have to start for eleven years later, started in

2833
02:31:50,040 --> 02:31:54,320
Speaker 2: twenty eleven, and they goes till twenty thirty five. Well, obviously,

2834
02:31:54,440 --> 02:31:56,440
Speaker 2: you know Bernie Madoff was no longer with us. That

2835
02:31:57,080 --> 02:31:58,880
Speaker 2: he went to federal prison. That turned out to be

2836
02:31:58,920 --> 02:32:02,760
Speaker 2: a Ponzi scheme, and it was kind of embarrassing for

2837
02:32:02,879 --> 02:32:05,240
Speaker 2: the former Mets owner Jeff Wilpond, who was part of it,

2838
02:32:05,680 --> 02:32:09,720
Speaker 2: where he invested in it. So as a results of that,

2839
02:32:09,920 --> 02:32:13,760
Speaker 2: the five point nine million that Benia was owed swelled

2840
02:32:13,760 --> 02:32:15,440
Speaker 2: all the way to twenty nine point eight million. And

2841
02:32:15,440 --> 02:32:18,200
Speaker 2: that's not a bad deal for a player who hasn't

2842
02:32:18,240 --> 02:32:20,320
Speaker 2: taken a major league at bat once since two thousand

2843
02:32:20,320 --> 02:32:25,000
Speaker 2: and one. So the truth of the matter is patience.

2844
02:32:25,480 --> 02:32:28,600
Speaker 2: Patience truly is a virtue. Now I now, by the way,

2845
02:32:29,160 --> 02:32:31,680
Speaker 2: but Nia is not the only MLB player to receive

2846
02:32:31,800 --> 02:32:35,320
Speaker 2: deferred money. Check into Prince Fielder's contract. That's a faghees too.

2847
02:32:35,400 --> 02:32:38,920
Speaker 2: And as you know, the Dodgers famously are paying deferred

2848
02:32:38,959 --> 02:32:41,800
Speaker 2: money to Freddie Freeman and Mooki Betts long after they're

2849
02:32:42,000 --> 02:32:45,720
Speaker 2: done playing. And then that's been completely usurped by the

2850
02:32:45,840 --> 02:32:49,360
Speaker 2: deferred deal that Choi Otani's gotten. Ten years, seven hundred

2851
02:32:49,400 --> 02:32:54,200
Speaker 2: million dollar contract signed by Otani and six hundred and

2852
02:32:54,200 --> 02:32:58,160
Speaker 2: eighty million of that is deferred. Okay, by the way, again,

2853
02:32:58,240 --> 02:33:00,400
Speaker 2: I do this every year, but it was since just

2854
02:33:00,480 --> 02:33:03,480
Speaker 2: the first time an MLB team issued deferred payments, it

2855
02:33:03,520 --> 02:33:07,320
Speaker 2: happened to Catfish Hunter, Sparky Lyle, Bruce Souter, Jim Rice.

2856
02:33:07,760 --> 02:33:11,120
Speaker 2: They all got deferred money. But the thing about it

2857
02:33:11,280 --> 02:33:15,959
Speaker 2: is Bobby Bania not only gets that money from the Mets,

2858
02:33:16,000 --> 02:33:19,160
Speaker 2: he gets another five hundred thousand from the Oriols every year.

2859
02:33:19,520 --> 02:33:21,680
Speaker 2: And those payments started in twenty oh four and they

2860
02:33:21,760 --> 02:33:25,840
Speaker 2: end in twenty twenty nine. So that is probably all

2861
02:33:25,920 --> 02:33:30,000
Speaker 2: the Bobby Vania information you're going to ever get at

2862
02:33:30,040 --> 02:33:32,480
Speaker 2: this day and age. Look, he at one point was

2863
02:33:32,480 --> 02:33:34,160
Speaker 2: a very good player. He had a three year stretch

2864
02:33:34,200 --> 02:33:36,959
Speaker 2: from ninety eight to ninety or eighty eight to ninety one.

2865
02:33:36,959 --> 02:33:38,720
Speaker 2: I remember when he was on his free agency tour.

2866
02:33:39,320 --> 02:33:41,960
Speaker 2: He visited the Angels and he talked to talk and

2867
02:33:42,120 --> 02:33:44,200
Speaker 2: he turned out to be full of crap. He had

2868
02:33:44,240 --> 02:33:46,400
Speaker 2: no intention to sign with the Angels, but they coreed

2869
02:33:46,480 --> 02:33:48,840
Speaker 2: him right. He had just hit ninety eight home runs

2870
02:33:48,920 --> 02:33:50,440
Speaker 2: in the three years prior to made the All Star

2871
02:33:50,520 --> 02:33:54,600
Speaker 2: team all three years. Actually finished second in the MVP

2872
02:33:54,760 --> 02:33:58,800
Speaker 2: voting in the National League in nineteen ninety. So the

2873
02:33:58,879 --> 02:34:00,920
Speaker 2: truth of the matter is, you know, people make fun

2874
02:34:00,959 --> 02:34:02,760
Speaker 2: of this, but he was a pretty good player and

2875
02:34:03,800 --> 02:34:08,440
Speaker 2: businessmen you know, sometimes make questionable decisions. But Bobby Bania

2876
02:34:08,520 --> 02:34:13,640
Speaker 2: continues continues to benefit from this. And of course we'll

2877
02:34:13,720 --> 02:34:15,920
Speaker 2: run it back next July first too, because you have to.

2878
02:34:15,959 --> 02:34:18,320
Speaker 2: It's Bobby did. There's only ten of them left, all right.

2879
02:34:19,040 --> 02:34:21,560
Speaker 2: College football is just around the corner.

2880
02:34:22,800 --> 02:34:22,879
Speaker 21: Now.

2881
02:34:22,959 --> 02:34:26,280
Speaker 2: Over the years, there have been some some classic names

2882
02:34:26,360 --> 02:34:29,760
Speaker 2: in the in the world of sports. Uh, and certainly

2883
02:34:30,120 --> 02:34:36,240
Speaker 2: in basketball. I remember God Sham God and by the way,

2884
02:34:36,360 --> 02:34:39,960
Speaker 2: he won the five. Uh just tweeted in not to

2885
02:34:40,040 --> 02:34:43,160
Speaker 2: forget Steve young Side for deferred forty men with the

2886
02:34:43,280 --> 02:34:45,920
Speaker 2: La Express of the USFL. I remember that, like yesterday

2887
02:34:45,959 --> 02:34:48,800
Speaker 2: was nineteen eighty three. I went to some LA Express games.

2888
02:34:49,120 --> 02:34:51,480
Speaker 2: I don't believe he ever got very much of that money,

2889
02:34:51,959 --> 02:34:54,840
Speaker 2: but that was also a deferred contract. Good stuff you.

2890
02:34:55,160 --> 02:34:59,480
Speaker 2: That's some damn good USFL knowledge there, all right. But

2891
02:34:59,600 --> 02:35:03,920
Speaker 2: back to football, college football. So there is a player

2892
02:35:04,640 --> 02:35:10,120
Speaker 2: who is from Ohio and he's six to two d

2893
02:35:10,200 --> 02:35:12,040
Speaker 2: and twenty pounds. He played for Dayton last year and

2894
02:35:12,080 --> 02:35:16,720
Speaker 2: he transferred to Bowling Green and he's a pretty good player. Okay. Now,

2895
02:35:16,800 --> 02:35:19,600
Speaker 2: he was a three time Almos State running back and

2896
02:35:19,760 --> 02:35:22,119
Speaker 2: a linebacker when he went to high school at Keystone

2897
02:35:22,200 --> 02:35:24,959
Speaker 2: High School in Dayton, Ohio, then began his football career

2898
02:35:25,040 --> 02:35:28,320
Speaker 2: college at the University of Dayton, where he's playing defense now.

2899
02:35:28,400 --> 02:35:30,720
Speaker 2: He had twenty three tackles for loss last season. This

2900
02:35:30,879 --> 02:35:36,000
Speaker 2: year he's transferred to Bowling Green. But way back when,

2901
02:35:36,560 --> 02:35:39,840
Speaker 2: and by the way, there's a reason that this gentleman

2902
02:35:39,959 --> 02:35:42,280
Speaker 2: wanted his highlights to make it to ESPN last year,

2903
02:35:42,320 --> 02:35:44,560
Speaker 2: but none of them made it, so now he's transferred

2904
02:35:44,560 --> 02:35:46,960
Speaker 2: to Bowling Green. You got maction right on Tuesday night,

2905
02:35:47,160 --> 02:35:49,560
Speaker 2: Wednesday and Thursday night, you're going to get a chance

2906
02:35:49,640 --> 02:35:56,400
Speaker 2: to see this guy, probably on ESPN, which coincidentally allows

2907
02:35:56,480 --> 02:36:02,240
Speaker 2: us to segue and to what his name is. His

2908
02:36:02,400 --> 02:36:06,840
Speaker 2: name is Gideon Espn Lampron. He goes by the name ESPN.

2909
02:36:07,200 --> 02:36:10,400
Speaker 2: Can't make this up. His full legal name is Gideon

2910
02:36:10,680 --> 02:36:14,760
Speaker 2: Espn Lampron, but he goes by the name ESPN. Now

2911
02:36:14,840 --> 02:36:17,280
Speaker 2: he'll start at linebacker, I believe this year for Bowling Green.

2912
02:36:17,959 --> 02:36:21,520
Speaker 2: And the story has it that his father wanted to

2913
02:36:21,600 --> 02:36:25,120
Speaker 2: name him after ESPN despite his mother's wishes against it.

2914
02:36:25,200 --> 02:36:28,200
Speaker 2: Do you think can you imagine if the kid didn't

2915
02:36:28,320 --> 02:36:32,680
Speaker 2: like sports. Nothing against band or band camp, but what

2916
02:36:33,480 --> 02:36:38,080
Speaker 2: if it would have backfired, and his father admitted right,

2917
02:36:38,280 --> 02:36:41,080
Speaker 2: he did so with the whole the extreme hope that

2918
02:36:41,240 --> 02:36:45,320
Speaker 2: his son would be into sports. Thankfully that ended up

2919
02:36:45,360 --> 02:36:47,240
Speaker 2: being the case. But he knew it was a gamble.

2920
02:36:47,920 --> 02:36:51,280
Speaker 2: And is I believe his father's name is Briggs. He

2921
02:36:51,440 --> 02:36:53,960
Speaker 2: was quoted he said, quote it was a big gamble

2922
02:36:54,879 --> 02:36:59,000
Speaker 2: because well, you know, I could have ended up liking instruments,

2923
02:36:59,120 --> 02:37:00,680
Speaker 2: or he could have ended up being in the band

2924
02:37:00,760 --> 02:37:03,840
Speaker 2: or something like that, which is what I just said.

2925
02:37:03,879 --> 02:37:06,080
Speaker 2: Nothing against that, but he wouldn't have had kind of

2926
02:37:06,120 --> 02:37:11,560
Speaker 2: the same Uh. You know, umph as a linebacker named

2927
02:37:11,840 --> 02:37:14,840
Speaker 2: ESPN again, good player out of high school, three time

2928
02:37:14,920 --> 02:37:18,120
Speaker 2: All State running back and a linebacker, started at Dayton

2929
02:37:19,240 --> 02:37:21,760
Speaker 2: and he had twenty three tackles for lost last year.

2930
02:37:21,800 --> 02:37:23,480
Speaker 2: So this year he's going to Bowling Green. I don't

2931
02:37:23,520 --> 02:37:25,320
Speaker 2: know what his number is. You could probably find the roster.

2932
02:37:26,160 --> 02:37:27,800
Speaker 2: And he was upset that last year none of his

2933
02:37:27,879 --> 02:37:31,760
Speaker 2: highlights made it at Dayton on the ESPN, but he

2934
02:37:31,840 --> 02:37:36,359
Speaker 2: says he's looking forward to hopefully being on ESPN highlights

2935
02:37:36,400 --> 02:37:41,640
Speaker 2: this year. It's a natural, right, you gotta I would

2936
02:37:41,720 --> 02:37:44,680
Speaker 2: believe or think or wonder will ESPN kind of go

2937
02:37:44,959 --> 02:37:48,120
Speaker 2: a little more all out and covering this player since

2938
02:37:48,400 --> 02:37:52,160
Speaker 2: at his name is ESPN. Yeah, I think I think

2939
02:37:52,200 --> 02:37:58,520
Speaker 2: that might be a a good play, right, So again,

2940
02:38:00,200 --> 02:38:02,320
Speaker 2: make this stuff up. And this is why we like

2941
02:38:02,360 --> 02:38:07,360
Speaker 2: the world of sports so much, connectivity, significance, and you're

2942
02:38:07,400 --> 02:38:11,000
Speaker 2: the greatest invention. It's the greatest reality show. But you

2943
02:38:11,120 --> 02:38:14,040
Speaker 2: can script everything but the inning. Speaking of the inning,

2944
02:38:14,280 --> 02:38:16,960
Speaker 2: what will the ending be for Lebron? Because many people

2945
02:38:17,000 --> 02:38:19,240
Speaker 2: have thought tonight that he could end up somewhere else.

2946
02:38:19,720 --> 02:38:22,160
Speaker 2: Next week, I'm going to rank the teams he could

2947
02:38:22,240 --> 02:38:26,800
Speaker 2: potentially go to. Cleveland is potentially in the mix, The

2948
02:38:26,920 --> 02:38:30,119
Speaker 2: New York Mix are potentially in the mix, The Golden

2949
02:38:30,200 --> 02:38:32,400
Speaker 2: State Warriors are potentially in the mix, and believe it

2950
02:38:32,520 --> 02:38:36,520
Speaker 2: or not, the Dallas Mavericks could be in the mix.

2951
02:38:36,760 --> 02:38:39,560
Speaker 2: Or he could go to none of those teams. But

2952
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Speaker 2: could you see Lebron a Clipper or a Denver Nugget

2953
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Speaker 2: or a Spur or Brooklyn net doubt it. You never

2954
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Speaker 2: go back to Miami. I can't see him going to Boston.

2955
02:38:47,920 --> 02:38:51,400
Speaker 2: Too much bad blood, Oklahoma City, what for Indiana Common?

2956
02:38:52,160 --> 02:38:53,840
Speaker 2: And then at the bottom of the wrung, he ain't

2957
02:38:53,840 --> 02:38:56,199
Speaker 2: going to Utah, He ain't going to New Orleans or Charlotte.

2958
02:38:56,200 --> 02:38:58,280
Speaker 2: He ain't going to Washington. He ain't going to Sacramento

2959
02:38:58,920 --> 02:39:01,720
Speaker 2: or Toronto. And that's why we're watching this. It's become

2960
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Speaker 2: a soap opera. We don't know where he's going, and

2961
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Speaker 2: we don't know what his future is with the Lakers, really,

2962
02:39:07,520 --> 02:39:09,880
Speaker 2: because I know he's gonna play, is gonna give an effort,

2963
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Speaker 2: but it's gonna be weird. It's gonna do it for

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Speaker 2: the Bernie Frattles Show. We'll see you next Saturday night

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Speaker 2: at eleven pm. Keep it locked up next to the

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Speaker 2: Great Andy Furman on Fox Sports Radio