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Speaker 1: here we are on Wednesday, and for the time I

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Speaker 1: will say this, The Knicks game is ending, the varsity

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Speaker 1: game is ready to begin. WHOA, whoa?

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Speaker 2: WHOA?

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Speaker 1: Are you just saying that because Tyler Kolak got a

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Speaker 1: couple of minutes here at the I mean, what do

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Speaker 1: we talk see some of the guys that next had

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Speaker 1: in that game at the end. I think Walt Fraser

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Speaker 1: played a couple of minutes, was it, Daddy. I mean

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Speaker 1: you had fourteen or fifteen guys, Yeah, find their way

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Speaker 1: on to the court. Uh yeah. So they were looking

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Speaker 1: at each other like they'd never met. No, fine, am

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Speaker 1: I'm Jim, Hey I'm Alex. How you doing nice to meet?

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Speaker 1: Job guys were in the same laundry. Do you want

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Speaker 1: to play point card or do you want me to play?

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Speaker 1: Because I would like to play point Okay, that that's fine.

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Speaker 1: I'll play Rock Paper Scissors for that final. So yes, look,

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Speaker 1: big doubleheader of the night. The opening game, the Knicks

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Speaker 1: just roll past the Minnesota Timberwolves h fourteen. It's a

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Speaker 1: good game at half, it was, and then the Knicks

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Speaker 1: just to say, hey where the Knicks. We're pulling away.

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Speaker 1: Go New York, Go, New York.

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Speaker 2: Go.

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Speaker 1: But well, the Wolves didn't have KG, No they did.

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Speaker 1: They didn't have Tom Googleatta either. It was a huge loss.

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Speaker 1: That's that's that's that's very difficult. Sure the Googs, Yeah no,

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Speaker 1: you're not winning that game. Not winning but Marbury shoes,

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Speaker 1: I mean all of that stuff. We are now getting

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Speaker 1: potentially Western Conference Finals preview. We are getting Spurs and

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Speaker 1: the Lakers, Wemby and Luca are playing. I just I

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Speaker 1: did this? Did you verify that? I? Well, okay, they

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Speaker 1: show last five minutes. They showed Wemby in the locker

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Speaker 1: room getting dressed. They had a graphic on Luka doncic so,

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Speaker 1: I I have to was a graphic graphic on Luca.

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Speaker 1: We got no visual, but Luca was in the graphic.

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Speaker 1: Luca was in Laker gear, not in the slimming but

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Speaker 1: it wasn't a gear for him from the interwebs, like, no,

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Speaker 1: it was actually him, like it was Harry Potter with

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Speaker 1: the moving person. Well, it's like the trading cards. You

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Speaker 1: can't expect Dumbledore to stay forever. Video of Wemby, uh

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Speaker 1: before the game and a graphic of Luca. I I'm

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Speaker 1: pretty sure we're feeling good about this, Okay, Yeah, no,

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Speaker 1: that's good. And your guy Austin Reeves is ready and

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Speaker 1: loaded for Bear. I'm sure. I mean, look, this is

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Speaker 1: because he's like your hero. Now, this is what Look,

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Speaker 1: he's the Scottie Pippen till Luca Duncheon is Michael Jordan

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Speaker 1: Lebron's coming back. Lebron's coming back is Bill Wennington when

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Speaker 1: he comes back. I mean, come on, man, you got

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Speaker 1: Luca Is is Mike and and Austin Reeves is Pippin'

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Speaker 1: uh Ruey hot Chimore is bj Armstrong. Just be careful.

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Speaker 1: Phil Jackson has been lured out of whatever made because

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Speaker 1: Lebron is Luke Longley when he comes back. Maybe maybe

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Speaker 1: he's Maybe he's Horace Grant. Maybe he's Steve Kerr like Lebron.

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Speaker 1: Lebron's coming back to Grant with or without goggles. Uh,

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Speaker 1: with goggles, He's with goggles, he's a force. Yeah, no,

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Speaker 1: without goggles, he might be Harvey. You don't know. I

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Speaker 1: mean just look, this is a big and look and

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Speaker 1: It was a bullet and he It all goes back

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Speaker 1: to the Harry Potter thing. Watching. Look. ESPN is doing

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Speaker 1: Malika and of Wemby. There's a big one of Luca

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Speaker 1: call him Michael. Yeah, hey, listen, I don't want you

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Speaker 1: to put anything Lakers behind me, put that behind her. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I don't want that. I don't want the Lakers be

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Speaker 1: Luca graphic, that would have been funny as hell, like

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Speaker 1: I mean too big. Look, this is a huge game tonight.

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Speaker 1: on the court. Again, Luca's going to play right. But Wemby,

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Speaker 1: we've talked about not surprised that the Spurs are this good. Remember,

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Speaker 1: they were my long shot NBA Finals pick because at

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Speaker 1: some point Wemby's becoming the best player in the NBA.

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Speaker 1: I thought it might take Toio closer till the All

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Speaker 1: Star break, but it's happening. Now, We're into November and

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Luca lost to Phoenix. Yeah, but it's okay. Well,

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Speaker 1: I think I think they'll take You'll take six up,

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Speaker 1: he'll take five, six up, one down, You'll you'll take

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Speaker 1: that for this. But the Lakers, the Lakers are so

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Speaker 1: like the Spurs are fun, right, Like they're coming back

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Speaker 1: and now finally they have a star that's more exciting

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Speaker 1: that fade away off the glass. Boy, that's fun. That's

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Speaker 1: the Spurs is here being a dominant team in the

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Speaker 1: Western Conference, right, because it's not surprising, oh, when a

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Speaker 1: I can't believe more people weren't on the Spurs this year.

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Speaker 1: But the Lakers. This is just absolutely fascinating because this

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Speaker 1: is the exact opposite of how anyone, including Lebron, thought

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Speaker 1: keeping him out. He's not in the circle of trust anymore.

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Speaker 1: He is way outside. He is way outside Ben stillers

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Speaker 1: He's so far outside. You know, both each want the

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Speaker 1: how do I get my cachet back with the Lakers?

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Speaker 1: Without me? They might not start out great. Maybe Luca

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Speaker 1: then I get a little bit of my Hey, don't remember,

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Speaker 1: it's still Lebron's team. Is still Lebron's team, right, But

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Speaker 1: what have we seen instead? Luca has been terrific, And

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Speaker 1: when Luca's been out, Austin Reeves has won games all

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Speaker 1: you know, the Indiana Fever are functioning better without Caitlin

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Speaker 1: Lakers and see how they function They are functioning incredibly

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Speaker 1: well without Lebron James. They're functioning well without I mean really,

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Speaker 1: I mean obviously not for a long period of time,

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Speaker 1: but nights when Luca misses, they've still been okay. Right.

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Speaker 1: You watch Austin Reeves forty points fifty points thirty in

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Speaker 1: get involved in what did you say? Did anybody really

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Speaker 1: figure things out. They figured things out without Lebron James.

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Speaker 1: I mean, think about that when he comes back. How

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Speaker 1: And the questions were, uh, Mellow, how are you going

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Speaker 1: do you mean for it's my offense? This guy's been

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Speaker 1: look better so far without Lebron James. I never thought

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Speaker 1: i'd say that, Yet here we are. Well, I mean

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Speaker 1: doing this thing with his you know, top seventy five book.

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Speaker 1: they were all with Dan Patrick and he validated a

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Speaker 1: point I've made for a long time. What's that? He said?

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Speaker 1: The guy you wished he would have coached was Christian Laytner.

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Speaker 1: How about that they're selling the Christian Layightner thing forever

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Speaker 1: that he was just in a terrible uh oh circumstance.

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Speaker 1: He was a t wolf for all those years. But

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Speaker 1: you look at what the Lakers have been and he

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Speaker 1: got what six seven guys averaging exactly averaging double digit

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Speaker 1: Reeve's average still averaging nine assists per game. So you're

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Speaker 1: moving the ball and guys are finding their roles, and

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Speaker 1: you me, you know, harken back to last year where

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of standing around with all right, who,

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Speaker 1: how's this flowing? I mean, how many possessions did each

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Speaker 1: guy take off? Where you can go back and isolate,

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Speaker 1: all right, there's Luca. He's not even in frame right,

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Speaker 1: vice versa, and overall it's still played. It played well,

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Speaker 1: it's just disjoin it here. For this first part of

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Speaker 1: the season, with Lebron on the shelf, they've been able

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Speaker 1: to figure it out. When Luca's not there. Everybody's relishing

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Speaker 1: the extra minutes, the extra touches, knowing that they might

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Speaker 1: be part of a deal. Like that's the other part,

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Speaker 1: Like a lot of these guys are just trying to

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Speaker 1: find their mark to show their value either with JJ

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Speaker 1: Reddick and what the Lakers are building or if not,

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Speaker 1: auditioning for another team. Because there's no way I don't

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Speaker 1: near the trade deadline in terms of what this Lakers

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Speaker 1: NBA on the way Game of the Night. Spurs lead

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Speaker 1: as far as we can with the Kyler Murray experience,

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Speaker 1: and somebody else is going to say, yes, we will

425
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Speaker 1: take him. There's many different quarterback gurus that think, oh,

426
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Speaker 1: we can turn him into something, whether it's the Jets

427
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Speaker 1: or the Dolphins or the Browns, or somebody's gonna say, oh, no,

428
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Speaker 1: I know how to do it.

429
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Speaker 2: We can do it.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so you figure out the money, you figure out

431
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Speaker 1: a trade, right, Money's always figure outable. It's always figure

432
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Speaker 1: out able. You can always figure it out. Figure out able.

433
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Speaker 1: I made that up right now, figure out able. So yeah,

434
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Speaker 1: Kyler Murray is going to be traded in the off

435
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Speaker 1: sea and maybe the Cardinals get to point where they

436
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Speaker 1: just let him go and eat whatever money they need

437
00:20:53,800 --> 00:20:57,480
Speaker 1: to eat. However, now you want to push this forward here,

438
00:20:57,560 --> 00:20:59,399
Speaker 1: he is on ir now, so he's got to miss

439
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Speaker 1: at least four games, which will take you into December. Today,

440
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Speaker 1: Jonathan Gann and head coach of the Cardinals, said it

441
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Speaker 1: isn't season ending. Murray's got a chance to return if

442
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Speaker 1: his foot gets healthy. Quote, I really do hope that happens.

443
00:21:14,600 --> 00:21:16,600
Speaker 1: We got a lot of ball to play one day

444
00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:18,840
Speaker 1: at a time where he sits right now, he's got

445
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Speaker 1: to pour into his health bucket and get ready to

446
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Speaker 1: get healthy. I will give you this Bowl prediction right now,

447
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Speaker 1: Kyler Murray has played his final game for the Arizona Cardinals.

448
00:21:29,359 --> 00:21:32,200
Speaker 1: Because you know, you can see you and see the

449
00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:33,760
Speaker 1: writing on the wall. You can see they know they

450
00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:35,840
Speaker 1: have to move on from him, right They're knowing this.

451
00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:39,160
Speaker 1: Seeing Brissette play Monday night against Dallas and I really

452
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Speaker 1: like Dallas defense, but still seeing him do this, you

453
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Speaker 1: know we're moving on. You want to be able to

454
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Speaker 1: trade him. You don't have to just cut and move on.

455
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Speaker 1: And if he's not healthy, that's going to be really,

456
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Speaker 1: really difficult to do. You put him out there and

457
00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:56,119
Speaker 1: a guy that's had a trouble staying healthy late in

458
00:21:56,160 --> 00:21:59,200
Speaker 1: the season, he gets hurt in December, what if he's

459
00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:02,080
Speaker 1: not healthy? In Mark teams are gonna say, yeah, I

460
00:22:02,240 --> 00:22:04,800
Speaker 1: like Kyler Murray, but man, there's like seven quarterbacks. We

461
00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:06,240
Speaker 1: can go in the first round and we can get

462
00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:09,080
Speaker 1: Garrett Nutsmeyer at seventeen. You know, we can get Ty

463
00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:12,800
Speaker 1: Simpson at twenty two. Whatever it's going to be. I

464
00:22:12,920 --> 00:22:14,320
Speaker 1: think I kind of like that and said it's a

465
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Speaker 1: little bit too much of a gamble for me. So

466
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Speaker 1: he's got to be healthy at the end of the

467
00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:20,480
Speaker 1: number one thing for the Cardinals. He's got to be

468
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Speaker 1: healthy at the end of the season. So it's pretty

469
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Speaker 1: easy quite honestly. You have a quarterback that the team

470
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Speaker 1: is playing better with, so you leave him in there.

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Speaker 1: If you get to December and you're still in the

472
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Speaker 1: thick of it, he gets to stay the quarterback. If

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Speaker 1: you're not. He still stays the quarterback because he's the

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Speaker 1: backup and Kyler Murray's got to stay healthy. Ey Ei

475
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Speaker 1: this bolt, he's played his last down for the Arizona Cardinals. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't think there's any way you bring him back

477
00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:49,280
Speaker 1: at this point. Foot injuries like the nebulous back thing

478
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Speaker 1: where you can drag that out as long as you want,

479
00:22:51,880 --> 00:22:54,600
Speaker 1: and that is always what has made Kyler Murray special

480
00:22:54,960 --> 00:22:58,520
Speaker 1: is his ability to scramble, to improvise, and to make plays.

481
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Speaker 1: What did that not? You great success with his other

482
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Speaker 1: teammates this year in trying to do that when he

483
00:23:05,359 --> 00:23:08,159
Speaker 1: was still at one hundred percent, Marvin Harrison Junior was

484
00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:12,440
Speaker 1: reduced to a bystander and usually didn't really anticipate the

485
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Speaker 1: ball finding him, which is why you had some of

486
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Speaker 1: the drops issues where it just there was no connection.

487
00:23:18,840 --> 00:23:21,040
Speaker 1: Marvin Harrison Junior is right now the happiest guy in

488
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Speaker 1: the world. Why he was the game plan for this week,

489
00:23:23,640 --> 00:23:25,840
Speaker 1: and he's got a guy that delivers the ball on time.

490
00:23:26,440 --> 00:23:29,159
Speaker 1: Guess what he gets what he wants because he's the

491
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Speaker 1: guy you're moving forward with. Kannon. Also, he's like Tua,

492
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Speaker 1: I don't want him in front of a microphone. He

493
00:23:34,800 --> 00:23:36,960
Speaker 1: sounds like an idiot every time he gets in front

494
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Speaker 1: of a microphone. Yeah, but you can't, but you can't

495
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Speaker 1: restrict coaching. But he did that for He's done four

496
00:23:41,680 --> 00:23:44,480
Speaker 1: or five interviews and his story has changed. You sit

497
00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:47,800
Speaker 1: down with whoever your trainer is, sit down with a

498
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Speaker 1: pr person and get your story right and stick to

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Speaker 1: the speaking. Cardinals, come on, man, They're lucky that every

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Speaker 1: week they can actually get the cameras working. I was

501
00:23:55,880 --> 00:23:57,800
Speaker 1: so hopeful this year that they were finally going to

502
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Speaker 1: take a step forward after defense, they did all that

503
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Speaker 1: stuff for Harrison.

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Speaker 2: Here we go.

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Speaker 1: Connor gets hurt every fine they got trade back. Oh no,

506
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Speaker 1: he gets hurt. Now you got De Mercado and cast

507
00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:13,320
Speaker 1: of thousand Banana the tailpipe every year with the Cardinals.

508
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Speaker 1: Every year with the Cardinals, and they're in the division

509
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Speaker 1: where there there is no ability to uh slip. No,

510
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Speaker 1: because because every team is much better. Even the forty

511
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Speaker 1: nine ers, who I think are absolutely overrated, I'm not

512
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Speaker 1: going to believe in them, even they are much better.

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Speaker 1: They're good enough on any given Sunday to come and

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Speaker 1: get you. Yeah, and if they get healthy, but they're

515
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Speaker 1: they're a problem. But for the Cardinals with with Kyler Murray.

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Speaker 1: You know, look, the Jets gave Justin Fields two years,

517
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Speaker 1: forty million dollars the tail ye Mendoza next year. Phan,

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Speaker 1: I mean, you keep going down, like you keep going

519
00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:51,440
Speaker 1: to fire. I'm like, I like the physical to us.

520
00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:53,760
Speaker 1: He's also a guy that helped get Brian Kelly fire.

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Speaker 1: So but unless that was the plan, you never know. Checkers,

522
00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:02,359
Speaker 1: but you're doing chess. He was playing chess for the

523
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Speaker 1: rest of his year before becoming a potential top pick

524
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Speaker 1: of the draft. I like the cut of your jim.

525
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Speaker 1: But for Kyler Murray, we've seen him play well in Spurts.

526
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Speaker 1: Can't stay healthy. That has been the knock forever, and

527
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Speaker 1: now you have all this nebulous stuff. I only have

528
00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:21,159
Speaker 1: joke about the Cardinals. They should be writing a giant

529
00:25:21,200 --> 00:25:23,399
Speaker 1: ass check for the way they've handled this because this

530
00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:26,240
Speaker 1: has been like if Lamar Jackson. I mean, because that

531
00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:29,359
Speaker 1: was ham handed the thing against the Bears before you

532
00:25:29,400 --> 00:25:32,240
Speaker 1: saw snooph On Lee out there. This is one hundred

533
00:25:32,320 --> 00:25:35,760
Speaker 1: times worse what they've done because they're fumbling over their

534
00:25:35,880 --> 00:25:38,199
Speaker 1: words and how they're going, oh now we're gonna put

535
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Speaker 1: them on ir Yeah, like wait a minute, Thursday or Friday,

536
00:25:41,520 --> 00:25:45,560
Speaker 1: he was probably gonna start for Monday's game. And between

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Speaker 1: then and now, what happened? What did I miss?

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Speaker 3: Oh?

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Speaker 1: They played well against the Dallas defense, and suddenly you

540
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Speaker 1: have great confidence in Jacoby Brissett for the rest of

541
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Speaker 1: this year. Ham handed Now meanwhile, outside of the okay,

542
00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:03,879
Speaker 1: it's almost a ham season. He has played his last

543
00:26:04,080 --> 00:26:08,800
Speaker 1: down for the Cardinals had run. The Colts are hoping

544
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Speaker 1: to get Sauce Garter to make his debut this week

545
00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:15,280
Speaker 1: they play Overseas. Uh, not sure yet because he was

546
00:26:15,320 --> 00:26:17,520
Speaker 1: in concussion protocol and when the team had to buy

547
00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:19,800
Speaker 1: you don't need to go through all the different U

548
00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:23,439
Speaker 1: qualifications to get back, So they're hoping to get him back.

549
00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:25,560
Speaker 1: Shane Sikin said, that's the plan. They're hoping to get

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Speaker 1: him back this weekend when they play London, and they

551
00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:31,040
Speaker 1: can't wait to unwrap him and all the and I

552
00:26:31,119 --> 00:26:34,200
Speaker 1: get it, and let me just say this, just wait.

553
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Speaker 1: You'll see. You'll see you have an expectation for a

554
00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:41,560
Speaker 1: Sauce Gardener that is through the roof that you're gonna

555
00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:44,200
Speaker 1: throw him out there, and Drake Lennon's gonna say, please stop,

556
00:26:44,280 --> 00:26:46,879
Speaker 1: I can't even get open and gets a bath. You'll see.

557
00:26:47,640 --> 00:26:51,000
Speaker 1: You'll see he's not the same guy. You're gonna put

558
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Speaker 1: him in zone coverage. That's great. You traded for a guy.

559
00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:55,440
Speaker 1: You're gonna give him thirty five million dollars years. We

560
00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:59,560
Speaker 1: can play a cornerback in zone coverage. Okay, everybody thinks

561
00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:03,160
Speaker 1: you're getting the Sauce Gardener that was four years ago.

562
00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:05,720
Speaker 1: Sauce Gardener. He is not that guy. And you and

563
00:27:05,760 --> 00:27:08,439
Speaker 1: I talked about some of the metrics that have been

564
00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:10,680
Speaker 1: out there for him the last couple of days where

565
00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:12,440
Speaker 1: he ranks at the top of the NFL, and I'm like,

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00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:14,800
Speaker 1: you gotta be kidding me, man, that's not the case.

567
00:27:15,080 --> 00:27:17,399
Speaker 1: You see what the quarterback rating is when they're targeting

568
00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:20,480
Speaker 1: Sauce guarded quarterback ratings are over one fifteen. Like this

569
00:27:20,680 --> 00:27:23,200
Speaker 1: is trust me, I've seen every snap the guy's played.

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Speaker 1: He's not the guy he was last year, who was

571
00:27:25,600 --> 00:27:27,080
Speaker 1: not the guy who was the year before that, who

572
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Speaker 1: is not nearly the guy he was as a rookie

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Speaker 1: right now. A lot of it is we talked about

574
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Speaker 1: the rule change, the hand the hand responsibilities that you

575
00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:37,760
Speaker 1: can't get away with anymore. That has always whistled. It's

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00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:39,560
Speaker 1: not all on him. It's a different way they call

577
00:27:39,680 --> 00:27:42,000
Speaker 1: the game, and that really screwed him. But you think

578
00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:43,800
Speaker 1: you're getting this guy that's gonna come in and say

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Speaker 1: I got everything. Yeah, just wait. Just just remember me

580
00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:50,280
Speaker 1: saying it. This is not me being bitter Jets fan.

581
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Speaker 1: I'm just saying just wait. You think you're getting one

582
00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:56,560
Speaker 1: thing with Sauce Gardener and you're not. You're getting something else.

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00:27:56,760 --> 00:27:59,479
Speaker 1: Just wait. Lua Anna Rumo is ready to make magic

584
00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:03,000
Speaker 1: just way in Germany this week. How about that? So

585
00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:06,560
Speaker 1: go get yourself a nice big stein Indianapolis six and

586
00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:09,000
Speaker 1: a half point favorite. Uh, we'll see if he gets

587
00:28:09,040 --> 00:28:11,920
Speaker 1: the matched up with Drake London a bunch because right

588
00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:14,280
Speaker 1: now they got nobody else that scares you out of

589
00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:19,479
Speaker 1: it except Robinson Nijean. You're staying him out of the backfield,

590
00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:21,200
Speaker 1: but that's not what I do. But he's their best player.

591
00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:25,000
Speaker 1: The rest of their receivers still on the side of Milkirk.

592
00:28:25,119 --> 00:28:27,160
Speaker 1: You cover Kyle Pitts. Do we still need to cover

593
00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:30,200
Speaker 1: Kyle Pitts? The breakout is not happening. Okay, we're not.

594
00:28:30,840 --> 00:28:34,080
Speaker 1: Morooney actually gonna play this week. I mean it's not

595
00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:38,400
Speaker 1: gonna be crazy because Sauce Gardener. Yes, it's not a

596
00:28:38,560 --> 00:28:40,080
Speaker 1: it's not a great day. It's not. It's not a

597
00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:42,160
Speaker 1: great day for a matchup against a team with with

598
00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:45,120
Speaker 1: with tons of great offensive options where we have to

599
00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:48,880
Speaker 1: stop this guy outside of Robinson. But they're gonna expect

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00:28:48,920 --> 00:28:51,280
Speaker 1: one thing out of Sauce Gardener and it's not gonna

601
00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:55,000
Speaker 1: be there. And the Colts are gonna go, huh, that's

602
00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:57,000
Speaker 1: not what I thought was gonna happen. That's not it's

603
00:28:57,040 --> 00:28:58,640
Speaker 1: not the guy we thought. We're gonna bring it shut.

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00:28:58,840 --> 00:29:01,720
Speaker 1: Just watch just on Robinson London and a lot of

605
00:29:01,840 --> 00:29:04,680
Speaker 1: question marks. Exit out about a Fresco exit swollen down

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00:29:04,720 --> 00:29:07,520
Speaker 1: the Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmen

607
00:29:07,760 --> 00:29:09,480
Speaker 1: time out to find out what's trending in the wide

608
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Speaker 1: world of sports of someone who dressed as Philly Karen

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Speaker 1: for Halloween. It's Monty Belangyo's that's right.

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Speaker 4: I did.

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Speaker 3: Thanks to you, Jason for giving me the suggestion.

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Speaker 1: On a late notice. That's what I'm here for you.

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00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:23,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, and we had other ideas that we want sharing

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00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:26,280
Speaker 3: case you know, maybe I'd decide to still do it, Okay,

615
00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:28,960
Speaker 3: But yeah, we talked about it, and you really inspired me,

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Speaker 3: so thank you.

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Speaker 2: It came out.

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Speaker 1: How come you're not wearing the wig anymore? I think

619
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Speaker 1: you would still wear the wig.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 3: I like my hair. I like my long hair, and

622
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Speaker 3: I like my darker hair. And I really was scaring people.

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Speaker 3: People legit thought, I like snuck into this studio and

624
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Speaker 3: they were going to introduce my, introduce themselves to me,

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Speaker 3: or escort me out the building.

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Speaker 1: Wow, that's how much they didn't recognize me. Okay, Martin

627
00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:54,240
Speaker 1: couldn't even do the show. Well, he just kept staring

628
00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:57,040
Speaker 1: at me. I won't say. When I saw you post

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Speaker 1: a picture of yourself as Philly Karen, I knew it

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Speaker 1: was you.

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Speaker 2: You and I talked about it.

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00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:04,120
Speaker 1: Yeah, so is that why you knew? But well, it

633
00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:06,920
Speaker 1: also still looked like you kind of. I mean, you

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00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:10,880
Speaker 1: didn't do anything to alter the face. Yeah, I am

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00:30:11,000 --> 00:30:11,240
Speaker 1: with you.

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Speaker 2: I am just telling you.

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Speaker 3: Most people's reaction was that I did not look like

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Speaker 3: myself at all.

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Speaker 1: I will say this though, that is impressive because generally

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Speaker 1: folks can wander around here and nobody says it word. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they just assume they're working on another show or something.

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Speaker 1: I was like, I don't know, so the fact that

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Speaker 1: they actually, yeah, I had a question for a minute

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Speaker 1: was good. Yeah, that's right, that's right.

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Speaker 3: We'll start in the NBA, fellas, where all the threes

646
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Speaker 3: are falling for the Spurs. Really, they've already hit four

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Speaker 3: in the first quarter, while the Lakers are one of eight.

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Speaker 3: So the Spurs of a twenty three to eighteen lead

649
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Speaker 3: late in the first but Luka Danciic eight points so far,

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Speaker 3: No Austin Reeves for La in this one. Nikola Jokich

651
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Speaker 3: of course, almost to a triple double twenty one points,

652
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Speaker 3: eight rebounds and eleven assists, and we're only halfway through

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Speaker 3: the third quarter where their Nuggets are leading the eighty

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Speaker 3: two to seventy five down to the final four minutes.

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Speaker 3: In Dallas as a Pelican are on top of the

656
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Speaker 3: Mavericks ninety four to eighty eight. Cooper Flag has sixteen

657
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Speaker 3: points and eight rebounds. Klayt Thompson came off the bench

658
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Speaker 3: for this one in Dallas, the Thunder on top of

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Speaker 3: the Blazers right now, thirty six to sixteen late in

660
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Speaker 3: the first quarter. Kings losing at home to the Warriors

661
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Speaker 3: after the first quarter thirty two to twenty five and

662
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Speaker 3: the Warriors are playing without Jimmy Butler and without Steph Curry.

663
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Speaker 3: The games that have wrapped up Cavaliers over the seventy

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Speaker 3: six ers, Pistons over the Jazz, the Nets get their

665
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Speaker 3: first win of the season. They outscored the Pacers win

666
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Speaker 3: twelve to one oh three. Celtics cruise pass. The Wizards

667
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Speaker 3: won thirty six to one oh seven. Rockets defeated the

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Speaker 3: Grizzlies won twenty four to one oh nine. John Rant

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Speaker 3: seventeen points in the loss, and the Knicks came alive

670
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Speaker 3: in the second half and took over beat the Timberwolves

671
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Speaker 3: one thirty seven to one fourteen. When it comes to

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Speaker 3: the NHL, the Flames right now on top of the

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Speaker 3: Blue Jackets two to one after the first period, and

674
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Speaker 3: another historic milestone for Alexovechkin. He has reached nine hundred

675
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Speaker 3: career goals as the Capitals crushed the Blues already six

676
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Speaker 3: to one. A little NFL for you Cardinals quarterback. You

677
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Speaker 3: guys just talked about Kyler Murray on IR because of

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Speaker 3: his foot injury. Texans r quarterbacks CJ shot out for

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Speaker 3: Week ten against Jacksonville because of his concussion. Davis Smills

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Speaker 3: will get the start on Sunday and forty nine ers

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Speaker 3: quarterback Brock Party Limited in practice once again. Back to

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Speaker 3: you guys, Thanks a bunch mine.

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Speaker 1: But when you score a milestone goal, the first person

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Speaker 1: to get to nine hundred in the NHL, alex Ovechkin,

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Speaker 1: you get to be the play of the day. At

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Speaker 1: a pluck behind to at Benningchen, we're going to play it,

714
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Speaker 1: and he gave it away to Wolveatchkan. The pluck's centered

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Speaker 1: up here for Check for the drive and a pluck

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Speaker 1: that is its nine one.

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Speaker 4: Hundred guys for Alexander Ostend.

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Speaker 1: The nine one hundred club has its first paper, so

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Speaker 1: there it is Capital's radio network on the call. Yes,

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Speaker 1: the first person to hit the nine hundred goal mark

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Speaker 1: in NHL history. Alex Ovechkin, of course very publicly broke

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Speaker 1: the record. Broke Wayne Gretzky's record last year against the Islanders.

723
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Speaker 1: Came into this year with eight hundred and ninety seven.

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Speaker 1: Now this is this is a great debate, and I

725
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Speaker 1: love this topic because we we we talk a lot

726
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Speaker 1: about when's the next time we're getting a three hundred

727
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Speaker 1: game winner in Major League Baseball? When's the next three

728
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Speaker 1: thousand hit member we're gonna get if we're ever gonna

729
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Speaker 1: get one again? Like, Okay, we've seen that. I've seen

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Speaker 1: guys get the three thousand. It's I've seen guys get

731
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Speaker 1: the three hundred wins. I've seen that, But this is

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Speaker 1: something we've never seen. Every goal Alex Ovechkin scores continues

733
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Speaker 1: to improve his record nine hundred goals. He is forty

734
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Speaker 1: years old than the final year of his contract. A

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00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:08,320
Speaker 1: thousand would really be something, big fat number, right, the

736
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Speaker 1: one thousand goals, Now here's the thing. Coming off of

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Speaker 1: last year, I said, yeah, he'll get there. It's a

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Speaker 1: little over two years because he scored forty four goals

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Speaker 1: last year. Ye Now, the run to get to Gretzky's record,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure help him a little bit. So when you're

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Speaker 1: forty thirty nine years old and you score forty four goals, okay,

742
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Speaker 1: I got to think in a couple of years you're

743
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Speaker 1: gonna get there. But thirteen games so far this year,

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Speaker 1: that's just the third goal of the year for Alexovechkin,

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Speaker 1: and he's got to get to at least nine to thirty.

746
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Speaker 1: You want to say, if he thinks about saying, I'll

747
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Speaker 1: continue to do it. But even then you have to

748
00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:53,680
Speaker 1: think you're two full seasons away from getting there. So

749
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Speaker 1: I thought coming into this year, I'm like, Okay, he'll

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Speaker 1: score forty four goals, he'll finish at nine thirty five, nine,

751
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Speaker 1: and then go, hey, man, nine to forty. I can

752
00:36:01,719 --> 00:36:04,279
Speaker 1: see one thousand, right, I can see it. I'll come

753
00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:08,160
Speaker 1: back for another year. I'm gonna score thirty or forty goals.

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Speaker 1: Then let's say I really slow down my final year,

755
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Speaker 1: I only score twenty. I'll get to a thousand, right cause,

756
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Speaker 1: cause I have carte blanche to play for the Capitol

757
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Speaker 1: as long as I want. As long as I'm not

758
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Speaker 1: making big, drastic demands and salary wise, they'll let me stay.

759
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Speaker 1: But now a thousand seems so far away. I thought

760
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Speaker 1: for sure the end of last year he was gonna

761
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Speaker 1: get it. But when you get to be forty and

762
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Speaker 1: you start out and you have three goals in thirteen games,

763
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Speaker 1: that's not a big. That doesn't pour ten that I

764
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Speaker 1: think you can get there, because look, father time catches

765
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Speaker 1: up with you all at once. Father Time doesn't just

766
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Speaker 1: I'm gaining. I'm gaining.

767
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Speaker 2: No.

768
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Speaker 1: Father Time just grabs you from behind and pulls you

769
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Speaker 1: down right, That's what happens. So that like the big

770
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Speaker 1: DK Metcalf Buda Baker play from from like four years ago,

771
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Speaker 1: that's what father time does. And now three and thirteen games,

772
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Speaker 1: he's got to go on an absolute heater. And even

773
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Speaker 1: like I said, even if he gets another thirty this

774
00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:06,400
Speaker 1: year in his last fifty games, fifty five, that's not

775
00:37:06,560 --> 00:37:09,279
Speaker 1: close enough. I thought for certain he was there. Now

776
00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:13,120
Speaker 1: that this thirteen game star tells me, yeah, man, he's

777
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Speaker 1: not gonna and this is gonna be his last year.

778
00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:17,600
Speaker 1: And life comes at you fast man. You know you

779
00:37:17,680 --> 00:37:19,440
Speaker 1: look at three and thirteen games. I really thought we

780
00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:21,480
Speaker 1: were gonna go back to last night when Drew Dowdy

781
00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:24,479
Speaker 1: uh set the team record for the Kings for most

782
00:37:24,560 --> 00:37:27,439
Speaker 1: goals by a defenseman, passing Rob Blake with one hundred

783
00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:30,160
Speaker 1: and sixty two. Congratulations Drew Dowdy. But I mean we

784
00:37:30,239 --> 00:37:34,080
Speaker 1: look at this getting to nine hundred, this this is

785
00:37:34,160 --> 00:37:36,800
Speaker 1: gonna stand seemingly forever. I mean, your next guy's on

786
00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:40,000
Speaker 1: the list that are active sid the kid has six

787
00:37:40,160 --> 00:37:44,040
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty four, he's thirty eight, right, and then

788
00:37:44,040 --> 00:37:46,480
Speaker 1: you go to Stamcoast and then it's a drop to

789
00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:49,200
Speaker 1: you know, the guys that are just getting underway. So

790
00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:52,600
Speaker 1: maybe whatever, But we talk about salaries, we talk about,

791
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Speaker 1: you know, all the other considerations of trying to have

792
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Speaker 1: this longevity and the game changing as they all do

793
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Speaker 1: and it evolve. But for for Avechkin, it's a it's

794
00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:06,440
Speaker 1: a hell of a run. Like I just remember him

795
00:38:06,640 --> 00:38:10,320
Speaker 1: first coming onto the scene. It seems like yesterday. So

796
00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:12,239
Speaker 1: you blink and all of a sudden, he's a forty

797
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Speaker 1: year old guy. Uh slogging and logging away. The impressive

798
00:38:15,800 --> 00:38:18,239
Speaker 1: thing is he's done this, you know, even with the

799
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Speaker 1: scoring drought, he got to this mark. It's only fourteen

800
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Speaker 1: games more than what Gretzky played in his career. So

801
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Speaker 1: I mean, you talk about parallels and and running it together,

802
00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:33,399
Speaker 1: but nine hundred nice even number. I'm out, but yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know. But here's the thing though, is that that's

804
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Speaker 1: why this is so cool because this goes, this goes

805
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Speaker 1: way past hockey in that when you think of the

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Speaker 1: big records in the history of sports. You think about okay, uh,

807
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Speaker 1: you think of Emitt Smith's rushing record. I don't know,

808
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Speaker 1: if the top of my head, with the exact numbers.

809
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Speaker 1: I don't thinknybody does. I don't think Emtt Smith does.

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Speaker 1: What the exact number of his rushing records? Does? You

811
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Speaker 1: think about the home runs? Barry Bond seven sixty two? Okay?

812
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Speaker 1: You know, Hank Aaron seven fifty five, that was always

813
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Speaker 1: we had that, Willy Mays at six sixteen, right, right,

814
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Speaker 1: Babe Ruth at seven fourteen, like those were numbers that

815
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Speaker 1: were you had forever. There's only a handful of numbers

816
00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:10,520
Speaker 1: in sports that you can reside and you hear that

817
00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:12,080
Speaker 1: number and you off top you that's how many home

818
00:39:12,160 --> 00:39:14,480
Speaker 1: runs for this guy? That's this, that's this, Ted Williams

819
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Speaker 1: four h six, right, you know for two? This is sure.

820
00:39:19,120 --> 00:39:23,800
Speaker 1: This is a it's a it's a crazy thing to

821
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Speaker 1: think that hockey, this would be the number one most

822
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Speaker 1: well known, right, yeah. Thousand goals thousand, yeah, Alexevetchkin one

823
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Speaker 1: thousand goals in Angel Street, one thousand goals, one thousand goals.

824
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Speaker 1: It would be it would it would break it would

825
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Speaker 1: be bigger than home runs, be bigger than than rushing yards,

826
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Speaker 1: bigger than touchdowns. Whatever you want to say, win wins

827
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Speaker 1: for a coach in NFL history, whatever number you could say,

828
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Speaker 1: one thousand goals. Yeah, that that cuts through everything, and

829
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Speaker 1: that would be the number one record people would know.

830
00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:53,359
Speaker 1: People our age growing up would know that record. Gen

831
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Speaker 1: Z would know up knowing that record, knowing it's a

832
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Speaker 1: thousand goals for a guy, it's nice. It's the biggest

833
00:39:57,920 --> 00:40:00,080
Speaker 1: even round number you could think of that someone and

834
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Speaker 1: can get to it's a thousand, and instead it doesn't

835
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Speaker 1: look like he's gonna get there. It's sad. No, yeah,

836
00:40:05,640 --> 00:40:07,400
Speaker 1: means sad. Look, you never know. He could go on

837
00:40:07,520 --> 00:40:10,200
Speaker 1: a little bit of a tear and not looking ahead

838
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Speaker 1: on the schedule. But as we talk about, you know,

839
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Speaker 1: you're forty years old, you're already in rarefied air, still skating.

840
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Speaker 1: At the point, obviously I mentioned Pete Rose, you get

841
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Speaker 1: to your record forty two fifty six, which he probably

842
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Speaker 1: inscribed nine hundred billion times before he passed. But for Ovechkin, yeah,

843
00:40:26,680 --> 00:40:29,560
Speaker 1: it would be nice to get to a thousand, But yeah,

844
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Speaker 1: that looks like a very difficult task at this point.

845
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Speaker 1: It looks so close at the end of last year,

846
00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:37,319
Speaker 1: and now now it looks so far away. We were

847
00:40:37,400 --> 00:40:39,919
Speaker 1: chronicling at the end of last season. Yeah, it's great

848
00:40:40,239 --> 00:40:42,920
Speaker 1: exit out about a Fresca exit. Swollen down The Jason

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Speaker 1: nets more on Spurs, Lakers, and we break down the

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Speaker 1: biggest sports debate of the last thirty six hours. That's next,

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Speaker 1: Jason to Mike Fox.