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Speaker 1: Greetings, Welcome inside our three, The Jason Smith Show with

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Speaker 1: my best friend Mike Harmon.

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Speaker 3: Well dressed Hobo, Happy Friday night.

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Speaker 1: As we are now counting down to the first Sunday

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Speaker 1: Night NBC NBA game of the week.

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Speaker 4: Time, hey counts Lakers Nicks tickets going as much as

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Speaker 4: five hundred thousand dollars a seat for this game on

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Speaker 4: Sunday at the Garden.

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Speaker 5: Five hundred thousand do you get to play?

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Speaker 1: I thought, that's what I read each ticket like the

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Speaker 1: biggest nosebleed seat was five hundred thousand dollars.

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Speaker 3: I thought, I read that and the loss.

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Speaker 1: Come on, man for Lebron James's last game in MSG

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Speaker 1: as a Laker before he plays his real last game

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Speaker 1: there next year in Cleveland. I mean it's a big

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Speaker 1: ticket man.

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Speaker 6: Wait, it redirected me to Harry Styles tickets said that

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Speaker 6: was a more competitive market there.

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Speaker 7: The Lakers are going to be up by so many

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Speaker 7: points in the fourth quarter.

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Speaker 3: Brownie James is going to be doing between the legs dunk?

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Speaker 1: Does he get to do the windmill dunk? Is he

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Speaker 1: gonna be in the dunk contest?

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Speaker 3: Wow?

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Speaker 1: Okay, well, you know, hey, you talking about a guy

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Speaker 1: that should be you know, hey, I think Bronnie, Hey,

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Speaker 1: take a page for the Pro Bowl.

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Speaker 3: Put the guys in. The people want to vote.

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Speaker 5: All Starnie James, that is.

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Speaker 6: But see, you could get in at top level four

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Speaker 6: ninety not if Charles Oakley.

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Speaker 3: Okay, no, you can't get it no matter what you have.

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Speaker 5: You gotta you gotta wear a funny fake mustange.

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Speaker 3: You can be bringing sandwiches for everybody in the crowd,

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Speaker 3: not letting you in. No, okay, not.

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Speaker 5: Getting it sandwiches.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, your actual lois getting is three eighty two, one

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Speaker 6: of the last rows. Well behind the basket.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and how about we do this all right, Frostburg Ready,

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Speaker 1: loser gets you honest?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's oh no, no, no, not where gets johnis?

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Speaker 1: Because the wear doesn't need them all, but you agreed

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Speaker 1: to it. You said yeah, right, you just said yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: loser gets Yannis said you no, but you said.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 3: Oh wait, you're going in the fire.

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Speaker 6: I demand you can go to section four d row

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Speaker 6: two for fifty one hundred bucks that seedas in queens. Yeah,

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Speaker 6: but you can go and yell at your whoever yet

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Speaker 6: love or hate. I mean you two together at that

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Speaker 6: game would be fantastic.

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Speaker 5: Tights. You get ten grand.

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Speaker 1: Loser gets y honest because you need them. Loser gets deals.

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Speaker 1: Loser gets no deal.

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Speaker 5: Why not no deal?

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Speaker 1: Clearly, if you beat the Nicks, you're right, the records

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Speaker 1: are about the same. You go into New York and win. Yeah, okay, hey, you.

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Speaker 3: Going okay, Clearly you don't need him.

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Speaker 1: You'll have Austin Austin barn You're not getting Austin Barnes back.

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Speaker 1: We have him Auton Reeves back on Sunday.

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Speaker 3: You know, so you might not need him. We do.

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Speaker 3: You never know.

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Speaker 1: Now, look ahead of this game, right ahead of this game,

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Speaker 1: right because it's a big game Sunday. It's again, it's

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Speaker 1: the first NBA nighttime game involving You know that NBC's

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Speaker 1: got since they got the package back. Right, So it's

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Speaker 1: Sunday night basketball, which is starting to be a thing now,

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Speaker 3: Well obviously not during the Super Bowl, but now next week.

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Speaker 1: Now you have the Lakers and Knicks, who are two

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Speaker 1: teams that started out this season like, hey, we're both

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Speaker 1: going to be favorites to get to the finals. Clearly,

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Speaker 1: the Knicks were already coming into the season coming off

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Speaker 1: Knicks are the same kind of team. The Lakers surprised

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Speaker 1: everybody early on. Then Lebron James came back and the

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Speaker 1: Lakers started to lose. But you know, now, it looks

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Speaker 1: The Knicks have won three in a row. Ever since

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Speaker 1: the Yannis rumors came out, I felt like, oh wait

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Speaker 3: Man, Hey, I gotta make sure I straighten up and

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Speaker 3: fly right. Man.

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Speaker 1: Maybe Yannis won't even get traded, and the Knicks and

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Speaker 1: Lakers are gonna go yeah, we just needed a threat

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Speaker 1: of Yannis to be traded. Look, look out, Karl Anthony

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Speaker 1: Towns averaging twenty rebounds a game, Right, Luca had a

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Speaker 1: fat nothing he was getting traded. But Luca had a

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Speaker 1: triple double in the first half. Lebron was like, wait

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Speaker 1: a minute, I can't have one of those five point games.

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Speaker 1: He was twenty six and three, eight out of sixteen

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Speaker 3: Hey, I need to step up here.

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Speaker 1: DeAndre eight and had twenty eight points and thirteen rebounds.

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Speaker 1: DeAndre eight and who you know would probably be in

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Speaker 1: some kind of trade for Yannis. I don't want to

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Speaker 1: go anywhere. Maybe just the threat and Yannis is.

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Speaker 3: Helping everybody play. Well.

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Speaker 5: Well, here's the problem, though.

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Speaker 6: You're gonna have to convince them that the trade deadline

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Speaker 6: continues to evolve.

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Speaker 5: There's really no deadline.

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Speaker 1: We still do this. Yeah, we can still do this. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: don't worry about it. We'll find a week to shuffle

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Speaker 1: you off at any time.

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Speaker 3: We petition the league. It's everything is fine.

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Speaker 5: We got the Knicks exemption. Yeah, what does that mean?

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Speaker 1: Uh? This is a special exemption that the Knicks and

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Speaker 1: Lakers are both allowed to make trades all the way

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Speaker 1: up until the end of the season.

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Speaker 5: For the league, Yes, it would, but.

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Speaker 1: It expires in the playoffs, right, No, no, no, because

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Speaker 1: the end of the playoffs when when other star players

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Speaker 1: who aren't in the playoffs, when their contracts expire, the

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Speaker 1: Knicks can go get them because they're free agency.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I like the way this works.

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Speaker 1: Oh, that'd be a great deal that you know. The

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Speaker 1: that would fall for that. Well, of course, of course

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Speaker 1: the league is doing that for the Knicks and the

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Speaker 1: Lakers of course are doing that for not doing it

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Speaker 1: for us, doing it for Nix and the Lakers though,

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Speaker 1: of course are doing that.

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Speaker 6: Somebody might have just heard those last two sentences and

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Speaker 6: they're writing a harshly worded letter to Adam Silver.

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Speaker 1: You know, the thing is right with both of these teams.

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Speaker 1: And look, everybody's dream finals would be Nixon Lakers, right

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Speaker 1: of course it would be.

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Speaker 8: Uh.

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Speaker 1: I wish I could sit here and say both of

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Speaker 1: them seem to have solved their issues, and both of them,

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Speaker 1: you know, and and hey, they just need to do

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Speaker 3: But they both don't right that.

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Speaker 1: The Knicks clearly are said, I've seen this out of

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Speaker 1: the Knicks before, where they play motivated for a couple

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Speaker 1: of games, then all of a sudden, they can't stop anybody. Defensively,

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Speaker 1: speaking of defensive, the Lakers really can't stop anybody. And

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Speaker 1: Lebron James his defense kills them on Knights and they

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Speaker 1: played really good teams right tonight was the Wizards.

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Speaker 3: They won twelve games this year.

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Speaker 1: If the Knicks or the Lakers are gonna get to

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Speaker 1: at their paths as being incredibly difficult. I'm telling you

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Speaker 1: as a Knicks fan, their path is incredibly difficult. Right

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Speaker 1: you look at the Lakers. Do they have enough right now?

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Speaker 1: Not just to get past the Thunder. They don't have

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Speaker 1: to beat the Spurs, they have enough to beat the Nuggets.

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Speaker 1: With Jokic back now, I mean he plays his first

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Speaker 1: you know, let's just let's temper expectations. Yeah, thirty one,

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Speaker 1: twelve and six for Yokicheah, I think Yokic is fine right,

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Speaker 1: Even the Rockets are playing extremely well without Fred van Vliet,

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Speaker 1: and there's all hey, they can make a big move

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Speaker 1: of the deadline. Look, Katie is playing terrific for them.

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Speaker 1: So the Lakers have problems. Obviously, they have teams ahead

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Speaker 1: four teams, the Knicks maybe only have one, maybe two

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Speaker 1: you gotta worry about. But you get to the playoffs

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Speaker 1: against this young Pistons team, and are they gonna have

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Speaker 1: enough against them? A team that's gonna have home court advantage.

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Speaker 1: They barely had enough against the Pistons last year. If

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Speaker 1: the Celtics get Jason Tatum back or they make a

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Speaker 1: big deadline deal to be even better, Like I could

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Speaker 1: see the Knicks. What happened Jalen Brown scoring thirty five

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Speaker 1: feel like the Knicks need to make a move that

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Speaker 1: I see the Celtics. I could see the Cavaliers who

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Speaker 1: are starting to get hot right now they get in

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Speaker 1: the playoffs. Dono Mitchell comes into MSG and he lights

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Speaker 1: it up and scores thirty eight in Game one and

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Speaker 1: forty seven in Game two, and he wears his Mets

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Speaker 1: hat on the way homes. Oh, look, everything is wonderful.

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Speaker 1: Look at I always wanted to play here, I couldn't

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Speaker 1: get here. Oh it's okay, this is my team now,

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Speaker 1: oh my city. No, if you're the Knicks and the

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Speaker 1: Lakers and you want to get to the finals, it's

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Speaker 1: not just hey, a slight tweak to your roster. This

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Speaker 1: is doing something bold. Whether it's Giannis, whether it's somebody else,

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Speaker 1: this is we need to kind of remake our identity

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Speaker 1: in a way at the deadline that is significant that

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Speaker 1: gets us past our issues. Both teams, it's defensively for

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Speaker 1: the Knicks, it's a little bit of offensive firepower, a edition

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Speaker 1: of defense for the For the Lakers, it's really getting

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Speaker 1: the health back and getting Austin Reeves back and then

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Speaker 1: figuring out to get back to the team you were

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Speaker 1: at the beginning of the year with Lebron there, like,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of there's a lot of stuff that is, hey,

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Speaker 1: how do we figure this out now and balance this

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Speaker 1: once Reeves comes back, because that injury really is just

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Speaker 1: crushed them because you look at how well the Lakers

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Speaker 1: was just Luca and Reeves, And sometimes simplicity is the

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Speaker 1: best thing you can do.

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Speaker 3: Hey, you knew the top two guys were, you knew

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Speaker 3: the support guys. Everything is great.

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Speaker 1: Now Lebron is there, and it's okay, how are we

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Speaker 6: But they're playing much better basketball, and you look suddenly

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Speaker 6: But all of it comes back to this trade deadline

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Speaker 5: To add to anything.

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Speaker 6: Okay, good, hate that long yeah, everybody in the front

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Speaker 3: That year got bad.

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Speaker 1: Look, if you're the Knicks, you certainly have the big

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Speaker 1: Rob Polinka found a way to make a trade for

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Speaker 6: The Paul Allen estate said, we are not selling the squad.

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Speaker 1: If you're asking me, what, I what is with this

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Speaker 1: we're at, Yeah, the Seahawks are gonna be up for sale.

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Speaker 3: And maybe Mark Walter buy him? Right? Why not? Right?

439
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Speaker 1: You know he's got everybody, he's got two other big teams,

440
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Speaker 1: got the Dodgers, he's got the Lakers, by the Seahawks,

441
00:20:00,680 --> 00:20:00,919
Speaker 1: why not.

442
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Speaker 3: The guy's got the money, he can maybe do that.

443
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Speaker 2: Yeah.

444
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Speaker 5: I would say this, as you go down the process, right.

445
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Speaker 3: Look at you do a job on the ROSSI I

446
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Speaker 3: would say this. It's catchy, isn't it.

447
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Speaker 9: Yeah?

448
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Speaker 5: It does. You know, you put it in there and

449
00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:12,440
Speaker 5: it becomes an earworm. And here we are.

450
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Speaker 6: Blazers are being sold. It's an estimated four billion for them.

451
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Speaker 6: What's interesting to me is timing with this and why

452
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Speaker 6: the Seahawks also would want not just the distraction. Look,

453
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Speaker 6: Bill Belichick gave them enough cover for a week. Okay,

454
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Speaker 6: so that that's goad plenty of legs. But it's the

455
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Speaker 6: idea that the media rights are going to be renegotiated

456
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Speaker 6: here in short order. So you know what the price

457
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Speaker 6: of poker is coming up, you don't want to play

458
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Speaker 6: without that part of the equation being factored into what

459
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Speaker 6: your valuation of the team is. You know it's going up,

460
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Speaker 6: but you miss, you know, miss that estimate by a

461
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Speaker 6: couple hundred million dollars. It's like missing your forecast as

462
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Speaker 6: a fortune five hundred company to your shareholders. Oops, we

463
00:21:01,119 --> 00:21:05,040
Speaker 6: forecast a little too aggressively this time around. Well we

464
00:21:05,080 --> 00:21:08,880
Speaker 6: didn't enough and we shorted. Stock goes up. Same thing here, Hey,

465
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Speaker 6: we give you this. Well, they don't want to leave

466
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Speaker 6: any pennies on the table. No matter what Paul Allen's

467
00:21:14,280 --> 00:21:17,400
Speaker 6: wishes were and how things were written out for how

468
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Speaker 6: the team would eventually be sold. You know, you're trying

469
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Speaker 6: to maximize and when you look at when the rights

470
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Speaker 6: deals are going to be renegotiated, all these extra players.

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Speaker 6: I mean, we talked about it yesterday, that Christmas Day

472
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Speaker 6: game that became a giant albatross on the quarterly and

473
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Speaker 6: fiscal year earnings for Peacock that each NFL team's looking around,

474
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Speaker 6: going I want in. We got the note today that

475
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Speaker 6: the salary caps going up at least twenty two million dollars, right,

476
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Speaker 6: so yeah, you know, price a poker goes up, valuation

477
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Speaker 6: goes up. Everybody wins, exit out bout a Fresca exit

478
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Speaker 6: Swallen Dome.

479
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Speaker 3: The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon live from the

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Speaker 3: Fox Sports Radio Studio. So just no, officially the Seahawks

481
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Speaker 3: eye there are or aren't for sale.

482
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Speaker 1: The cops got them or they don't. We're answering the questions.

483
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Speaker 1: We're giving you big opinions. They either are aren't.

484
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Speaker 5: For some that was hot take.

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Speaker 3: So I always go back to what was the uh?

486
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Speaker 3: What was what was it?

487
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Speaker 1: When he was doing the uh an SNL doing like

488
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Speaker 1: the hard hitting interview, saying what are the what are

489
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Speaker 1: the chances that so and so was drunk as a fish.

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Speaker 3: On New Year's Eve? Whoaah?

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Speaker 1: I wasn't that? I would say fifty percent. Why would

492
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Speaker 1: you say that? Because he either was or wasn't drunk

493
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Speaker 1: as a skunk on New Year's Eve, So it's fifty percent.

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Speaker 1: Uh Amari Bailey. Maybe you know the name, maybe you're

495
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Speaker 1: familiar with it a little bit. It was a big

496
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Speaker 1: freshman star at used to Lea a couple of years ago,

497
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Speaker 1: decided to enter the NBA draft, got drafted in the

498
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Speaker 1: second round, and got to the NBA for a little bit,

499
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Speaker 1: had a cup of coffee, and you know, this is

500
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Speaker 1: how it goes sometimes with with second round picks. You

501
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Speaker 1: sign a two way deal and you're hoping to stick

502
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Speaker 1: with your team, and maybe you do, maybe you don't,

503
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Speaker 1: but you're likely back and forth between the G League.

504
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Speaker 1: This is what happened to Bailey when he came in

505
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Speaker 1: and got and by the Hornets. He played ten games

506
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Speaker 1: during his rookie season and then spent the next two

507
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Speaker 1: years in the G League before being cut.

508
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Speaker 3: Over the summer. Now, why is his name a big deal?

509
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Speaker 1: Okay, not the first guy, not the last guy to

510
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Speaker 1: maybe make a bad decision, come out of the draft

511
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Speaker 1: earlier and not get drafted where he thought he.

512
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Speaker 3: Was going to.

513
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Speaker 1: This is because this is a late breaking story tonight

514
00:23:21,960 --> 00:23:24,920
Speaker 1: that is just it's so incredibly interesting and it's such

515
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Speaker 1: a big deal. He's trying to become the first basketball

516
00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:33,159
Speaker 1: player to return to college after playing in NBA games.

517
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Speaker 1: He has hired an agent and a lawyer to fight

518
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Speaker 1: for INSAE eligibility because he wants to join a college

519
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Speaker 1: team and play one more season. Before you think, wait,

520
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Speaker 1: but just what, Yes, I don't want to be a

521
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Speaker 1: twenty seven year old guy in college. I remember college

522
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Speaker 1: the best six years of my life. Right now, i'd

523
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Speaker 1: be a senior. So I'm just hoping to go back

524
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Speaker 1: for one more year or my eligibility, I'd still be

525
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Speaker 1: in college if I stayed. I want to go back

526
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Speaker 1: one more year, show everybody what I can do, and

527
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Speaker 1: then get another shot, other shot at the league. Now,

528
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Speaker 1: when this story broke today, all the way down the line,

529
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Speaker 1: I just saw it. No way, no way, no way,

530
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Speaker 1: you go pro. You forfeit your your eligibility to be

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Speaker 1: an amateur athlete. Not happening, not happening, not happening. Are

532
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Speaker 1: you sure about that? Because just watch I can see

533
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Speaker 1: him winning this case and getting to go back to college.

534
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Speaker 1: You think it can't happen. First, of all. Look at

535
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Speaker 1: college sports right now. We have not just blurred the

536
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Speaker 1: line between student and athlete, we have erased that line.

537
00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:38,119
Speaker 1: It's not student athlete anymore, it's athlete. Athletes are getting

538
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Speaker 1: paid incredible amounts of money in the in the tens

539
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Speaker 1: of millions of dollars to go play football, basketball, nil era,

540
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Speaker 1: the transfer era. We can go anywhere you want to.

541
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Speaker 1: There is no line for being an amateur athlete anymore.

542
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Speaker 1: There's there's no rules anymore really in anything. I mean

543
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Speaker 1: you look at you across the world. If something happens

544
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Speaker 1: somebody doesn't like, well, why do I have to obey

545
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Speaker 1: the law for that? Why don't I to do this?

546
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Speaker 1: We I have to follow this rule. I don't want

547
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Speaker 1: to do that. I don't want to do this. And

548
00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:06,480
Speaker 1: look at college basketball and college football, they're the biggest

549
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Speaker 1: ones of saying I don't have to follow that.

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Speaker 3: No, no, you kind of do it.

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Speaker 9: Now.

552
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Speaker 1: Why we'll make up the own rules as we go

553
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Speaker 1: along here in college sports, we don't need to do

554
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Speaker 1: any of that. College football changes every five minutes, every

555
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Speaker 1: five minutes, whether it's a playoff non playoff, and everything changes,

556
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Speaker 1: and college basketball.

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Speaker 3: Is part of that.

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Speaker 1: Do you really think he can't go to a court

559
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Speaker 1: of law that already ruled for players before in a

560
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Speaker 1: big landmark ruling that Hey, they can sue for name,

561
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Speaker 1: image and likeness, they can get paid, they can be

562
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Speaker 1: treated as employees, they can be doing You really think

563
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Speaker 1: they're going to get a ruling against them, because I

564
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Speaker 1: can easily see a judge saying, well, a certain amount

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Speaker 1: of pro experience doesn't give them an advantage in college.

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Speaker 1: So I can see a ruling where it's if you

567
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Speaker 1: don't go past a certain number of games professionally, you

568
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Speaker 1: can go back to college as long as it's within

569
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Speaker 1: your normal eligibility time. You can't just go for six

570
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Speaker 1: years and go back and play. If you go to

571
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Speaker 1: school as a freshman or a sophomore and you flame

572
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Speaker 1: out after your first year, you're never get an NBA game,

573
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Speaker 1: or you play in less than ten games, whatever it's

574
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Speaker 1: going to be, then you can go back for however

575
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Speaker 1: long your eligibility is, and then make another shot at

576
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Speaker 1: the draft and then you're done. You think that can't happen,

577
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Speaker 1: of course that can happen, And I can see Bailey

578
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Speaker 1: winning this, get into it back to college, and that

579
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Speaker 1: opens a whole different can of stuff for anybody. You're

580
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Speaker 1: talking about college basketball players that would do that in

581
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Speaker 1: a second, how many NFL players would do how many

582
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Speaker 1: quarterbacks that would get You know, hey, I'm going praying.

583
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Speaker 1: That's a little bit tougher in the NFL because you

584
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Speaker 1: don't have as much time. But when you know, if

585
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Speaker 1: your tills talking about eligibility being over a five year period,

586
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Speaker 1: you go pro after your junior year. Let you know what,

587
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Speaker 1: Take somebody like Kyle McCord for example, Right, Kyle McCord

588
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Speaker 1: goes pro after his big junior year at Syracuse. He

589
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Speaker 1: was suing the NCAA to get back and play one

590
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Speaker 1: more year because he felt that Ohio State screwed him

591
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Speaker 1: out of a year when he was there. Right, Kyle

592
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Speaker 1: McCord went went pro. He thought he was going to

593
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Speaker 1: get drafted earlier six round pick he was with the Eagles,

594
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Speaker 1: never got in the game, the Eagles cut him, and

595
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Speaker 1: now he's trying to make it work with a new team.

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Speaker 3: You tell me, if they told.

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Speaker 1: Kyle McCord, hey, you could go back to school for

598
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Speaker 1: one year, he wouldn't say, Hey, I want to go

599
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Speaker 1: back one more year because I want to get paid

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Speaker 1: nil kind of money. He's not getting paid anything. Right now,

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Speaker 1: I'll go back to school for one year because I'd

602
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Speaker 1: be technically be a senior my fifth year and a

603
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Speaker 1: five year window. Hey, I would be here if I

604
00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:24,800
Speaker 1: could go back play one year then get into the

605
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Speaker 1: shot at the NFL draft. Absolutely, you could see that

606
00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:30,080
Speaker 1: happen with lots of guys. So and and the fact

607
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Speaker 1: that we the fact that we've blurred this line already.

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Speaker 1: Mike tells me that you really think the court of

609
00:27:35,720 --> 00:27:37,760
Speaker 1: law is gonna stand up and do this again. No,

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Speaker 1: I can easily see Bailey winning this.

611
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Speaker 6: So what I'd love to see them do is figure

612
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Speaker 6: it out for the rest of these sports. Right we're

613
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Speaker 6: watching the Australian Open, we watch some of these other tournaments.

614
00:27:46,920 --> 00:27:49,000
Speaker 6: You got guys winning major prize and it's like, how

615
00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:51,520
Speaker 6: much could they keep ten thousand because they don't want

616
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Speaker 6: to lose their amateur eligibility. They waiting one hundred and

617
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Speaker 6: fifty grand yeah to keep ten thousand, Like what the hell?

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Speaker 5: Like, what are we doing?

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Speaker 1: That's a year of I that's a year of their tuition,

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Speaker 1: especially in these places where they don't give athletic scholarships.

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Speaker 6: But since we're talking here. You know, you've already really

622
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Speaker 6: erased the line between amateurism and professionalism long long ago,

623
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Speaker 6: and to your point, at least for the short term. Yeah,

624
00:28:21,119 --> 00:28:23,320
Speaker 6: you could make that court ruling of you got to

625
00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:28,680
Speaker 6: be within certain parameters of games played or on par

626
00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:32,479
Speaker 6: and on path with you what your original graduating class was.

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Speaker 1: But what does that even mean really anymore? Is that

628
00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:38,120
Speaker 1: the running five years that we go with.

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Speaker 6: But that's fine, and that'll hold for two or three years,

630
00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:44,880
Speaker 6: just like the college football playoffs and everything else. Why

631
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Speaker 6: because there's more money to be had, and if this

632
00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:49,040
Speaker 6: is an opportunity to get some of those players to

633
00:28:49,080 --> 00:28:51,560
Speaker 6: stick around for next year. We're already talking about that

634
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Speaker 6: for college football this year, right as we look at

635
00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:58,320
Speaker 6: the draft and certainly the basketball. College basketball has been

636
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Speaker 6: aided tremendously by this. And Bailey is one of those examples.

637
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Speaker 6: Probably had a bunch of people tell him he'll be

638
00:29:05,440 --> 00:29:07,600
Speaker 6: drafted in the back half of the first round.

639
00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:09,120
Speaker 5: But as soon as you're pick.

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Speaker 6: Thirty three, Ta dah, there's no guaranteed money unless you're

641
00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:15,760
Speaker 6: Brownie James. And then you go on it and you

642
00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:18,920
Speaker 6: try to scrape by and see if you can't make it,

643
00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:20,800
Speaker 6: and for a lot a lot of these guys that

644
00:29:20,840 --> 00:29:24,600
Speaker 6: are then done and women and everybody on this kind

645
00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:28,440
Speaker 6: of path. So yeah, I think Bailey will will have

646
00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:31,960
Speaker 6: a lawsuit that gets a good look and it's going

647
00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:34,960
Speaker 6: to open the door for guys to come on back through,

648
00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:37,680
Speaker 6: no question about it, because it makes the game better.

649
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Speaker 6: And in theory, these guys who might have been marginal

650
00:29:41,040 --> 00:29:44,360
Speaker 6: talents might have been Like, right, he's a second round pick.

651
00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:46,800
Speaker 6: He played ten games in the NBA before the G

652
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Speaker 6: League and the release. Maybe there's an opportunity for him,

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Speaker 6: goes to the right situation, plays a year, and goes

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Speaker 6: on to have an NBA career. If nothing else, he'll

655
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Speaker 6: go and make some money in the interim that'll help

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Speaker 6: set him up for the rest of his life. He'd

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Speaker 6: like to think there's a class or two or some

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Speaker 6: learning to be done along the way. But like that's

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Speaker 6: me getting greedy. Exit about a Fresca exit swollen. Don't

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Speaker 6: you think it can't happen?

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Speaker 1: Just watch time now to find out what's trend to

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Speaker 1: get the wide rule of sports. So someone who's been

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Speaker 1: called the Amari Bailey of Fox Sports Radio, if he could,

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Speaker 1: he'd like to go back to college for one more year.

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Speaker 3: It's Steve Desager.

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Speaker 7: Best eaton I had. That was four years worth of.

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Speaker 9: By the way, the Seahawks news that you brought up,

668
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Speaker 9: and yes, the estate of Paul Allen disputed the ESPN report.

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Speaker 9: They're really not for sale right now. The estates finalizing

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Speaker 9: the sale of the NBA Blazers.

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Speaker 7: What people need to know as the.

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Speaker 9: Background is Paul Allen owned both the NBA team and

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Speaker 9: Portland and the NFL team in Seattle. He passed away

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Speaker 9: eight years ago. His sister is executor of the trust.

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Speaker 9: She was the one, for example, not just running both teams.

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Speaker 9: She accepted the NFC Championship trophy this past Sunday. It's

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Speaker 9: in the will that she has to eventually sell both

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Speaker 9: teams donate the proceeds to charity. They're in the process

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Speaker 9: of selling ones. So when they say we have no

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Speaker 9: news on the Seahawks sale, okay, I believe that.

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Speaker 7: But eventually, maybe not day after.

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Speaker 9: The Super Bowl, but eventually they are selling the Seahawks.

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Speaker 7: Absolutely.

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Speaker 3: They win the Super Bowl and they hold up the trophy.

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Speaker 3: Go chatting with me. Seahawks were for sale, We're for sale.

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Speaker 7: I guess the price goes up.

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Speaker 5: But that's just yet. It's a higher valuation.

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Speaker 9: Right already, absolutely already. The Vikings news today not quite

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Speaker 9: so celebratory. They fired general manager Quasi Adolfo Mensa after

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Speaker 9: four years, and their search for a new GM starts.

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Speaker 9: After the draft. In April, the Packers gave multi year

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Speaker 9: extensions to not only their head coach, but to their

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Speaker 9: general manager and also to their director of football operations.

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Speaker 9: The Steelers' new defensive coordinator is Patrick Graham from the Raiders.

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Speaker 9: Ravens hired a guy who was on the Bear staff

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Speaker 9: this past season, Declan Doyle. The new offensive coordinator in Baltimore.

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Speaker 9: Buffalo's new OC is Pete Carmichael. Next season's NFL salary

698
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Speaker 9: cap is due to be over three hundred million dollars

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Speaker 9: per team for the first time. It was under two

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Speaker 9: hundred and eighty million this past season. Patriots quarterback Drake

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Speaker 9: May missed practice due to illness today. The Super Bowl

702
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Speaker 9: is a week from Sunday, with New England against Seattle.

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Speaker 9: Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold limited in practice again with his

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Speaker 9: oblique injury, but he has no injury designation for the

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Speaker 9: actual game. The A's gave shortstop Jacob Wilson a seven

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Speaker 9: year extension worth seventy million dollars. He finished second for

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Speaker 9: AL Rookie of the Year last season. The Royals gave

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Speaker 9: first baseman Vinnie Pasquentino a two year contract reportedly worth

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Speaker 9: eleven million dollars plus incentives, avoiding arbitration. The Braves invited

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Speaker 9: lefty pitcher Martine Perez to spring training. He only had

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Speaker 9: ten starts last season with the White Sox due to injuries.

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Speaker 9: Reliever David Robertson retired at the age of forty. The

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Speaker 9: Twins parted ways with team president Derek Foulvey. He had

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Speaker 9: run Minnesota's baseball operations for a decade. Former Stanford baseball

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Speaker 9: coach Mark Marquis passed away at the age of seventy eight.

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Speaker 9: In the NBA's late game at Golden State, Pistons are

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Speaker 9: holding on one twenty four to one twenty against the

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Speaker 9: Warriors two and a half minutes left in the game,

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Speaker 9: cag Cunningham twenty eight points. Brooklyn ended a seven game

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Speaker 9: losing streak with a win at Utah one ninety nine

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Speaker 9: and home wins also for Phoenix Orlando, New York, which

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Speaker 9: is won five in a row and for Denver, which

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Speaker 9: beat the Clippers one twenty two to one oh nine.

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Speaker 9: Nikola Jokic back on the court. He'd missed a month

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Speaker 9: with a knee injury, but at thirty one points in

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Speaker 9: twenty five minutes tonight, Boston and the Lakers each one easily.

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Speaker 9: It was the New Orleans over Memphis. Grizzlies have lost

728
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Speaker 9: five straight and there was a top ten matchup in

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Speaker 9: college hoops tonight on Fox TV, Number three Michigan twenty

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Speaker 9: and one now a victory at number seven Michigan State

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Speaker 9: eighty three seventy one to you.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, Steve O.

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Speaker 1: The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Harmon

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Speaker 1: coming up next, without a doubt, my favorite NFL story

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Speaker 1: of the day, a story eighteen years.

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Speaker 3: In the making. That's next Jason and Mike Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith

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Speaker 2: Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven

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Speaker 2: pm Pacific.

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Speaker 10: Some say I could make the Pro Bowl, whether I

741
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Speaker 10: have seven touchdown and ten interceptions, or I wait till

742
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Speaker 10: I've been to the league for eighteen.

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Speaker 3: Years from my first nomination.

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio Jason Smith Show with my best friend

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Speaker 1: Mike Harmon.

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Speaker 5: Yesir, eighteen years it.

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Speaker 1: Has taken, which I guess ends the conversation of is

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Speaker 1: Joe Flecco elite eighteen years?

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Speaker 5: Eighteen years years?

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Speaker 3: And on his eighteenth there he found out he got

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Speaker 3: in U.

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Speaker 1: Joe fle at forty one, earned his first Pro Bowl

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Speaker 1: nod in his career.

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Speaker 3: Shane Falco, he's been at Shane Falco. Yeah, I think

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Speaker 3: I think Joe Flacco and Shane Falco.

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Speaker 1: Actually, I think that I think that movie may have

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Speaker 1: debuted Flacco's rookie year.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know how long how long ago

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Speaker 3: was the replacements?

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Speaker 5: What year was the replacements last year?

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Speaker 3: Okay, so all right, so not.

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Speaker 1: Quite not quite eighteen, but you know, all right, so

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Speaker 1: eight years after, you know, before Keanu Reeves became famous

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Speaker 1: as John Wick.

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Speaker 3: Uh, this was this was out there.

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Speaker 1: He gets his first Pro Bowl games nod and and

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Speaker 1: already the reaction has been, this is an absolute embarrassment.

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Speaker 1: Joe Flacco barely started. Look, he had a great four

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Speaker 1: game stretch when the Bengals traded for him, trying to

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Speaker 1: save their season because Joe Burrow was hurt. Eleven touchdowns

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Speaker 1: in four weeks wasn't his fault. I mean they did

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Speaker 1: lose to the Jets, but I mean I mean he

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Speaker 1: played pretty well then, you know, a couple of ok weeks.

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Speaker 1: By that time it was over because the Bengals went

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Speaker 1: one to three while Flacco was there. Burrow came back

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Speaker 1: and that was it. Right, So Flacco plays a handful

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Speaker 1: of games. He plays in thirteen games total his game

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Speaker 1: started games where he actually played the lion's share of

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Speaker 1: the game. He played about nine games or ten games total,

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Speaker 1: fifteen touchdowns, ten picks. His quarterback rating was well below average.

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Speaker 1: It was twenty points below averages.

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Speaker 3: But Joe Flacco makes the Pro Bowl. Right, Oh, this

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Speaker 3: is awful. This is awful.

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Speaker 1: This now has turned into a great story. And now

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Speaker 1: I love the Pro Bowl, right this story? Love the

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Speaker 1: Pro Bowl?

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Speaker 3: Love me, you love the cause.

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Speaker 1: This on the heels of the Shador Sanders story being

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Speaker 1: Shadoor Sanders making it in after seven touchdowns and ten picks. Right,

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Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl is saying, they're telling us, listen, don't

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Speaker 1: take us seriously anymore.

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Speaker 3: We are the oscars of the NFL.

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Speaker 1: We give people rewards when we can anoint them and

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Speaker 1: celebrate their career and their popularity. That's why people win Oscars.

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Speaker 1: That's why the actors win Oscars. Directors, but they don't

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Speaker 1: win because oh, this movie was said, So when can

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Speaker 1: we reward someone for the.

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Speaker 3: Career they had?

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Speaker 1: Right, And here's Shador Sanders, who is incredibly popular, and okay,

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Speaker 1: he's someone that's gonna get people talking about the Pro Bowl.

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00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:28,440
Speaker 1: All right, great Joe Flacco, great story. Here he is

802
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Speaker 1: after eighteen years and the next few days with guys

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Speaker 1: like Shador Sanders and Joe Flacco. Hey, we're celebrating Flacco's career.

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Speaker 1: We're celebrating the fact that he's somewhat popular. Still, Sanders

805
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Speaker 1: is very popular. He gets opinions moving on him. I

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Speaker 1: love the NFL as embracing this. There's no game anymore,

807
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Speaker 1: So what are you worried about? Really, there's no game.

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Speaker 1: It's really the Pro Bowl games. It's like going It's

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Speaker 1: like you're taking all these players and you're going to

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Speaker 1: a carnival and you're playing all the games.

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Speaker 3: Hey, go on the tilt and whirl. Then we're gonna

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Speaker 3: go on the road.

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Speaker 1: Then we're gonna try to win in a giant panda

814
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Speaker 1: from a bottle ring toss. Like that's what the Pro

815
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Speaker 1: Bowl games are. So when you understand this is what

816
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Speaker 1: it is, don't take it seriously. It's a week in

817
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Speaker 1: the calendar where hey, we try to make a little

818
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Speaker 1: bit of news. We put some popular people out there

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Speaker 1: that you can consume what they have to offer. And

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Speaker 1: I'm sure Shador Sandals will make at least one big

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Speaker 1: headline sometime in the next few days. Yeah, this is

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Speaker 1: what the Pro Bowl is. It's the oscars of the NFL.

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Speaker 6: Now, yeah, he may actually throw football over a mountain

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Speaker 6: before it's all said done, just because he can to

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Speaker 6: get you a big headline and while wearing a headband.

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Speaker 6: But it's it's long jumped the shark right, the old

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Speaker 6: Fonsie Happy Days reference for those that want to go

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Speaker 6: through it. I actually watched some of that season two

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Speaker 6: that was available on one of the streaming services, and

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Speaker 6: it had an alternate Chuck. I didn't even realize there

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Speaker 6: was a second Chuck. It killed off the first actor

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Speaker 6: and brought in another guy just madness before Chuck disappeared

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Speaker 6: into the nether Netherlands forever.

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Speaker 5: Not Netherlands, but you know, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 6: But the idea being that for this like it's long

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Speaker 6: been nothing but a sideshow anyway, the old.

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Speaker 1: If you don't like it, don't watch. You can still

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Speaker 1: bet on certain aspects of it. Go have some fun

839
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Speaker 1: with it. See some of your favorites.

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Speaker 6: Maybe get an interview where a guy decides to get

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Speaker 6: a little little more candid than he would in the

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Speaker 6: normal environs. Right, it's nice and lucy goosey, but all

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Speaker 6: of it to say, yeah, we.

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Speaker 1: Stop thinking of this as a real football game. Thirty

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Speaker 1: years ago, twenty years ago. I don't pick your line

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Speaker 1: of demarcation, but certainly not anytime recently, and now it's

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Speaker 1: legitimately flag football.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean, look, it doesn't as long as you get

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Speaker 1: that this is what the Pro Bowl is, and all

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Speaker 1: of us I won't watch the Pro Bowl anymore. Were

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Speaker 1: you watching anyway? I mean really, I will watch the

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Speaker 1: Pro Bowl. You know there's no game, right. I wonder

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Speaker 1: how many people that say, oh, your door, Sanders makes

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Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl. I'm not watching. How many people think

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Speaker 1: there's actually still a game that they play. I bet

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Speaker 1: you half the people they actually still a game. They

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Speaker 1: actually there's no game. There's no game. This is what

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Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl is, and we are just and instead

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Speaker 1: of hiding it, they're embracing, like the NBA still tries

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Speaker 1: to hide.

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Speaker 3: Their All Star weekend. Like we actually play a game.

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Speaker 3: Yeah that's great.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, don't remember a lot of the folks in the

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Speaker 6: collective business that argue about what happened in a game

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Speaker 6: didn't actually.

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Speaker 5: Watch the game anyway. So you take it home with

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Speaker 5: a great assault.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, just get that this and they're telling you, hey,

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Speaker 1: don't take us seriously. We're a fun week now, and

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Speaker 3: That's what we have fun with it.

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