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Speaker 1: Greetings, Welcome in Side our three of The Jason Smith

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Speaker 1: Show with my best friend Mike Harmon.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 1: Dodgers lead the Padres three to one in the bottom

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Speaker 1: of the seventh Andy Pater has the red hot future

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Speaker 1: All Star. Andy pa has his hit up near his

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Speaker 1: head dirty and it seems like everything is okay now

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Speaker 1: kind of gave a nod of the pictures taken out

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Speaker 1: of the game. Wandy Perralta now in for the Padres.

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Speaker 1: I'm telling you, Dodgers and Padres are gonna brawl at

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Speaker 1: some point this season.

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Speaker 4: They're gonna have to just go sprint into the dugout

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Speaker 4: and start beating the hell out of Shildt at some

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Speaker 4: point bypass the pictures. The catchers whoever may be in

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Speaker 4: on the what's being called from the dugout and just

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Speaker 4: go straight to the source.

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Speaker 1: Uh, that's frostburg actually fighting Mike Schildt. When I say

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna fight this guy, I mean.

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Speaker 4: That would be even more than the White Sox fans

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Speaker 4: going after the Royals first base.

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Speaker 1: Coach off these years. Yeah, no, this would be Frostburger.

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Speaker 1: Here comes with Here comes a guy in a Chargers

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Speaker 1: hat and a sandy kofex Jersey going after Mike Schiltz

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Speaker 1: raining Haymakers down. I'll stab them with my Vin Scully

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Speaker 1: bubblehead tack with a Vin Scully bubble Now that makes

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Speaker 1: Monsey an accessory though, Oh yeah, yeah, you brought her

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Speaker 1: into it, Mike. Yeah no, no, no, yeah. If if

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Speaker 1: Moncy provided the weapon that, yeah, no, I would, I would,

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Speaker 1: I would back off. I back off it. So again,

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Speaker 1: Dodgers lead the Padres three to one. Now, Dodgers continuing

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Speaker 1: to back in the bottom of the seventh inning. Fan

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Speaker 1: favorite keyk Hernandez legend for La not called on to

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Speaker 1: pitch just yet. No, maybe they get up big though

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Speaker 1: you might see him the ninth inning. This game gets

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Speaker 1: if it gets to like you know, ten eleven one,

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Speaker 1: you might see keyk and the ninth, especially with those

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Speaker 1: glasses he's got on. Come on, that's balling. You saw

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Speaker 1: what it was eleven nothing that weekended. Hang on a second,

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Speaker 1: got escalated quickly, it was I blink. I mean really,

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Speaker 1: you know, I'll give you a big bull prediction. Now,

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Speaker 1: the way the Dodgers use Key k to pitch the

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Speaker 1: end of these games, this is gonna. This is gonna

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Speaker 1: for some kind of change in Major League Baseball because

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Speaker 1: you know, Baseball doesn't like that. No, no, here's position

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Speaker 1: player coming, especially when Dodgers brought him in the sixth inning. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: he gave him the sixth inning. And now he's closing

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Speaker 1: out of the ginnings. Yeah, yeah, closing out of the game.

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Speaker 1: That that's eleven. Nothing like Baseball does not want this,

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Speaker 1: and there's gonna and it would be great because if

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Speaker 1: baseball had some kind of rule that says, hey, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna we're gonna increase the active roster by one or

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Speaker 1: two positions strictly for you to be able to bring

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Speaker 1: out two more bullpen pitchers. Okay, great, Right, if all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden it becomes Hay instead of you know,

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Speaker 1: twenty six man roster, it's gonna be We're gonna have

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Speaker 1: a certain amount. You can have x amount of position

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Speaker 1: spots so you can't manipulate it, so you can have

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Speaker 1: enough relievers. So we can see that happen. And again

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Speaker 1: you're creating jobs, right, you're creating sixty more jobs and

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Speaker 1: make get League Baseball. Everybody wins. Everybody wins. Union would

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Speaker 4: Veteran players maybe not so much because you're already talking

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Speaker 4: about that that divide when you're trying to go younger.

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Speaker 4: I mean because we talked to John Paul Morosi about

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Speaker 4: that a couple of weeks ago. Right, of all the

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Speaker 4: call ups and that not just the star power call ups,

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Speaker 4: but a lot of rosters where like, wow, you got

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Speaker 4: be the key k Hernandez rule. So he'd get like

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Speaker 1: Oh that's nice. At least, you know there's his goggles

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Speaker 1: and his no no, no, they would take that helmet

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Speaker 1: You have to turn it on its side and then

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Speaker 1: I'm not dropping nachos. I'm not dropping no. Uh yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, got to take care of your It's funny

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Speaker 1: because that play that happened the Mets game where Louis

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Speaker 1: craziest baseball plays in college? What's the ruling on this?

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Speaker 1: my wife Pam is like obsessed with this, like the

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Speaker 1: last years, with coaching all different things. I wanted to rules.

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Speaker 1: She asked me, why did this happen? Why did this happen?

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Speaker 1: Why couldn't you do this? Why couldn't you this Whenever

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Speaker 1: Facebook going, hey, why does this happen here? Why? Why

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Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my goodness, I'm suddenly it's like she

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Speaker 1: seen that a hundred times before. Yeah, why was this?

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Speaker 1: Why why was this play allowed to stand? Why was

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Speaker 4: Reminds me of a clip I saw earlier with it

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Speaker 4: mister Brownstone and actual keeps yelling no, no, no, bad obsession.

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Speaker 4: That's what I'm taking bad obsession for Pam. Right there,

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Speaker 1: Like, no, no, no, and he keeps drumming. If you

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Speaker 1: can't play the right song, you can't be in this band.

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Speaker 1: I will hire Stephen Adler again. And I can't stand

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Speaker 1: the guy. At least he knew what songs to play

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Speaker 1: Happy Birthday, Dizzy Read and my mom and Paul McCartney.

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Speaker 1: Oh wow, that's pretty that's pretty good. Triumph. Yeah, that's

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Speaker 1: podcast with Steve Nash in which he bemoaned ring culture.

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Speaker 1: Says it fans and media, everybody is obsessed too much

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Speaker 1: with players having to win and getting rings, and you

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Speaker 1: can't quite appreciate their careers the way you should. Here's

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Speaker 3: Funny, I don't know, I don't know why I've discussed

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Speaker 3: be all of everything. You sit here and tell me,

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Speaker 3: you know, Alan Iverson and Charles Barkley and Steve Nash,

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Speaker 3: you know, you know, wasn't unbelievable, like, oh, they can't

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Speaker 3: be talked about or discussed with these guys is because

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Speaker 3: this guy won one ring or won two rings or

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Speaker 3: one like it's just it's just weird to me, it's

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Speaker 3: like Sam Peyton Manning can't be in the same room

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Speaker 3: they don't never discuss that any sport, right, or telling

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Speaker 3: me that Dan Marino is not the greatest slinger of

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Speaker 1: Wow, Okay, so, first of all, Peyton Manning has two.

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Speaker 4: Rings, but and categorically untrue because that's said all the time.

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Speaker 1: Do we include Damn Britton? No, he didn't win.

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Speaker 1: Without a doubt for his entire NBA career. Okay, this

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Speaker 1: is without a doubt. Lebron James's biggest fault. He is

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Speaker 1: too sensitive. He has wanted from the moment he has

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Speaker 1: Michael Jordan got when he played, and it's just not

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Speaker 1: thinks he should be celebrated for everything he does. Doesn't

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Speaker 1: understand why he's polarizing, doesn't stand why people love him,

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Speaker 1: Michael Jordan came around in this era. Guess what he'd

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Speaker 1: Oh look at this, he's playing baseball. This is ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: It's a different life now that Lebron was in than

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Speaker 1: God out There. Lebron is playing in the social media age.

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Speaker 1: He's the first big superstar whose career is that great

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Speaker 1: has wanted the universal hug that Michael Jordan got. He

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, but you're polarizing and are you really obsessing

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Speaker 1: over conversations that other people have about who the greatest

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Speaker 1: is of all time? I'm sorry your name is not

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Speaker 1: all time. Other people say Michael Jordan's the greatest. Are

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Speaker 1: winning championships is kind of how we parse things out right.

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Speaker 1: It's about winning. That's why the scoreboard is up. That's

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Speaker 1: why fans watch. Fans don't watch because I just want

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Speaker 1: to appreciate greatness. Now, fans want to see their teams win.

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Speaker 1: We are in a winning culture, right, we want to

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Speaker 1: see winning. I can't watch the Jets and just be

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Speaker 1: excited that, Hey, they get together on Sundays and do

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Speaker 1: something together, and the uniforms look good. The throwback logo

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Speaker 1: is great. But I don't care that they lose forty

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Speaker 1: four to three. They get to run around the field

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Speaker 1: we want to see teams with this is how it goes.

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Speaker 1: And this shows you his sensitivity to something like that.

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Speaker 1: You're really you're so upset because people say, you know,

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Speaker 1: you don't have enough ring. You have enough rings, you

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Speaker 1: have enough rings. But because you know Jason Smith won

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Speaker 1: four eight seven six, Hey, hi, JJ Reddick says something

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Speaker 1: don't like this as being debated that so and such

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Speaker 1: a player is not as good. These are the debates

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Speaker 1: to keep sports going. This is what keeps you paid

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Speaker 1: like you have for the past twenty five years. Because

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Speaker 1: But all of this to.

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Speaker 4: Say, yeah, you're concerned with it. Do you want to

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Speaker 4: Michael Jordan's just gonna be that ghost that they talk

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Speaker 1: now in the hotline for all the latest from Vegas.

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Speaker 1: Our man. He's on Twitter at Todd Furman, former ozmaker

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Speaker 6: Everything is good, gentlemen and smith. I've been out for

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Speaker 1: We are well okay. First of all, Whoopy Goldberg would

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Speaker 5: This is a Nick in a microcosmy.

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Speaker 1: Dude, if they said, Okay, you're getting Gannis, but Doc

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Speaker 6: Do you think Giannis wants to continue playing for Doc rivers?

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Speaker 4: Your question and all of this, Well, that was trying

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Speaker 6: It's a weird state of affairs around the NBA, But

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Speaker 6: whether it's Kevin Durant's landing spot, the Knick's head coach

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Speaker 6: You know a lot of books have taken those numbers down,

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Speaker 6: But Yeah, this Durant situation continues to get more and

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Speaker 4: So let's start to the finals curiosity with the calf

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Speaker 5: To back the home underdog.

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Speaker 6: I'm not going to say that the Indiana Pacers have

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Speaker 1: Dude, TJ McConnell can't play twenty five minutes without looking

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Speaker 5: Done at the break.

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Speaker 6: three hundred and sixty five days on any of.

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Speaker 5: The short shots on the board.

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Speaker 6: But this is a Florida Panthers team that does have

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Speaker 6: a couple of key decisions on me to make in

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Speaker 6: free agency. Aaron eck Blad, Brad Marsham and Sam Bennet

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Speaker 6: going to be the three biggest. We'll see if they

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Speaker 6: can retain one, two, or maybe even all three of them.

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Speaker 6: Who knows what direction the Edmonton Oilers will look to

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Speaker 6: go as they retool their roster, because anybody who watched

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Speaker 6: that Stanley Cup Final had to come away with a

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Speaker 6: similar thought process that there was a chance that the

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Speaker 6: Oilers could have lost all six of those games if

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Speaker 6: it wasn't for a bound here or there, and they

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Speaker 6: felt further away from winning a Cup this year than

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Speaker 6: they did when they went down three games to nothing

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Speaker 6: last year against the same Panthers. And then, of course,

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Speaker 6: the NHL is a league more than any of the

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Speaker 6: other major sports, although maybe I can't say that given

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Speaker 6: the improvalle run from the Pacers, that does lend itself

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Speaker 6: the teams coming from off the pace. So I think

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Speaker 6: if you have the foresight to identify, you know, some

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Speaker 6: of the longer shots, and never a bad idea to

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Speaker 6: start to build out that portfolio before some of the

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Speaker 6: key names hit free agency officially when we get to July.

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Speaker 4: First, Arman in Vegas, Todd Furman, our guest at Todd

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Speaker 4: Furman on Twitter, at bet the Board pod as well

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Speaker 4: as bet the Board Podcast, longtime friend of the show

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Speaker 4: here Jason Smith and me Mike Garmon here from the

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Speaker 4: Fox Sports Radio studios in La Todd one of the

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Speaker 4: giant storylines yesterday, the Franks chaos.

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Speaker 1: In the WNBA.

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Speaker 4: Are we getting some kind of handle now when we

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Speaker 4: talk about game to game odds or is it still

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Speaker 4: a very small market.

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Speaker 6: It's still a small niche market, but it is no

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Speaker 6: doubt grown in popularity from a betting perspective, and the

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Speaker 6: Indiana Fever, as we see in the TV ratings, generate

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Speaker 6: buzz in the betting markets as well. Anytime Caitlin Clark

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Speaker 6: is out there, healthy and able to play at her

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Speaker 6: full capacity, it's going to grab eyeballs and her prop markets,

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Speaker 6: whether they're points, rebounds, or assists.

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Speaker 5: Definitely a market.

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Speaker 6: That has grown in popularity amongst recreational betters. But watching

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Speaker 6: that game last night, it's amazing that the Fever don't

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Speaker 6: have an enforcer on the roster.

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Speaker 5: There has to be a female.

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Speaker 6: Equivalent of Rick Mahorn out there somewhere looking for minutes

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Speaker 6: at a key juncture of the game to try and

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Speaker 6: go out there and inflict physical harm. Because if the

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Speaker 6: league's not going to do anything about it, the Fever

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Speaker 6: coaching staff and the players on that roster need to

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Speaker 6: do everything they can to protect their face of their

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Speaker 6: franchise and make sure that she's not getting tossed around

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Speaker 6: like a rag doll on a regular basis.

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Speaker 1: Well, what of her MVP odds done in the last

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Speaker 1: few days as you come back from injury.

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Speaker 6: You know, it's always interesting because when a player misses

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Speaker 6: as much time as she did, you're going to see

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Speaker 6: that number drift out. And when you look at the

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Speaker 6: fisha Collier she asserted herself and as a heavy odds

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Speaker 6: on favorite or price tag right around minus three dollars.

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Speaker 6: But Klin Clark's price when she was dealing with that

494
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Speaker 6: quad injury drift drifted as high as five to one.

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Speaker 6: Numbers come down substantially, so if you look around, you

496
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Speaker 6: can find her in that two to one, you know,

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Speaker 6: five to two price range, and that's where you fall

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Speaker 6: off a cliff to the likes of Brianna Stewart, Asia Wilson,

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Speaker 6: Sabrin nine ESQ and everybody else in the league.

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Speaker 5: So it clearly appears to be.

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Speaker 6: A two women race atop the board, and you can

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Speaker 6: understand why given the impact both those players have had

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Speaker 6: and the Indiana Fever now third on the odds board

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Speaker 6: to win the WNBA Championship behind the Liberty and the

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Speaker 6: Minnesota Link.

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Speaker 4: So todd as we hit these summer months, right, NHL

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Speaker 4: in the books, we still have the NBA Draft, at

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Speaker 4: least one more game for the finals. Where do people

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Speaker 4: start investing their money? We see more baseball, we s,

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Speaker 4: more golf racing, or do they just spend it on

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Speaker 4: lavish vacations.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, international table tennis. No.

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Speaker 6: This is where sportsbooks try and figure out how fast

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Speaker 6: they can get people that were betting some of the

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Speaker 6: more traditional stick and ball sports to start playing in

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Speaker 6: the online casino, to blow through their bank rolls long before.

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Speaker 5: Football season gets here. But this is no doubt.

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Speaker 6: The dog days of summer when you look at the

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Speaker 6: betting calendar and some of the events that are there.

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Speaker 6: You mentioned golf, and golf has one hundred percent grown

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Speaker 6: in popularity, you know, kind of really burst onto the

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Speaker 6: scene as a betting vehicle during COVID when people were

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Speaker 6: looking for other avenues. Motorsports a much smaller niche.

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Speaker 5: But until we get to the Hall.

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Speaker 6: Of Fame game in early August, and of course regular

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Speaker 6: season college football and the start of the NFL season,

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Speaker 6: you know, these are the slowest month on the betting calendar,

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Speaker 6: and it's why sportsbooks no doubt celebrate the years that

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Speaker 6: they have a euro international soccer tournament, and of course,

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Speaker 6: next year here in the state's the World Cup, which

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Speaker 6: which did do all sorts of record breaking handle, assuming

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Speaker 6: that the Red, White and Blue are able to get

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Speaker 6: out of the group stage.

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Speaker 1: He's on Twitter at Todd Furman. That is Todd Underscore Furman.

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Speaker 1: Check out the Bet the Board podcast as well. See

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Speaker 1: him on CBS Todd as always, Buddy, appreciate it, man.

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Speaker 1: We'll talk to you next week. Have fun.

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Speaker 5: You got it, gentlemen. Hopefully we catch up next week.

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Speaker 6: The Nicks may actually know who's calling the shots on

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Speaker 6: their bench, but I'm not optimistic about it happening that quickly.

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Speaker 1: No chance. Very good, Oh any good? Tod's Todd Furman,

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Speaker 1: not Todd Underscore froman Todd Firk got it bad fuck

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Speaker 1: Nick show. Now he had to take the swipe. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's nice there. It's a low hanging fruit at this point.

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Speaker 4: As the draft creeps ever closer, getting deeper into that,

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Speaker 4: we've got a bunch of players that are saying, I

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Speaker 4: don't want to go work out with this guy, LaMelo Ball.

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Speaker 4: We've got Ace Bailey, I'm not really gonna work out

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Speaker 4: for the Sixers. So we have some intrigue at the

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Speaker 4: top of the draft, but otherwise it's that Nick's head

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Speaker 4: coaching job that really gets a lot of headlines. Buddy,

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Speaker 4: now to find out what's trending in the wide world

553
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Speaker 4: of sports. And someone who had the over on Arkansas

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Speaker 4: lsuto and celebrated the walk off.

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Speaker 7: I didn't have the over. I feel for those Arkansas fians. Man,

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Speaker 7: that Omaha curs is real. Yeah, So LSU came back

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Speaker 7: to defeat Arkansas. As you guys are just mentioning, they're

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Speaker 7: gonna face Coastal Carolina on Saturday in the first game

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Speaker 7: of a best of three championship series. Coastal Carolina eliminated

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Speaker 7: Louisville earlier today, eleven to three. They've also won twenty

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Speaker 7: six in a row. In baseball, the Dodgers left the

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Speaker 7: bases loaded in the seventh inning. In fact, they the

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Speaker 7: Padres struck out show Hey O Tawny right now. They

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Speaker 7: had an opportunity to score again, but the Padres held

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Speaker 7: them up. With Andy Pajz at the plate, Dodgers are

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Speaker 7: still up though it's three to one and they're about

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Speaker 7: to start the ninth inning in La Astro, still on

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Speaker 7: top of the A's nine to two. It's the top

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Speaker 7: of the ninth inning.

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Speaker 2: Where are the A's playing Sacramento, sacrament.

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Speaker 7: I keep wanted to obviously say Oakland, But in Sacramento.

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Speaker 1: It's the top of the ninth inning.

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Speaker 7: They did had call that game that I was complaining

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Speaker 7: about because of weather. Yeah, well guys, because I complained.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: So, the Reds did beat the Twins four to two

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Speaker 7: and six innings because of the rain delay or the

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Speaker 7: weather delay. The Braves shut out the Mets five zero.

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Speaker 7: The Royals had a sixty to three win over the Rangers,

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Speaker 7: and the Guardians defeated the Giants board to two in

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Speaker 7: San Francisco. The Phillies earlier today took down the Marlins

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Speaker 7: four two. In the Red Sox defeated the Mariners three

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Speaker 7: to one. Red Sox making a trip now to San

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Speaker 7: Francisco to take on the Giants and an old friend

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Speaker 7: by the name of Rafael Devers in the NBA. Yeah,

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Speaker 7: the Lakers are being sold ten billion dollars to Mark Walter,

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Speaker 7: who is also the CEO of the guggenheind Gret.

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Speaker 1: Great Mark Wahlberg is buying the Lakers Mark Walter.

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Speaker 5: Wow.

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Speaker 7: First first Coldstone, now Mark Wahlberg. Now, I'm just gonna

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Speaker 7: saying all the wrong things.

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Speaker 1: That's gonna be a lot of good vibrations. Get up

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Speaker 1: the Lakers this year? What was the game show host

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Speaker 1: to Mark?

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Speaker 6: Mark too right?

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Speaker 1: Same w Yeah yeah, Well Mark wahlbergs yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 7: Ten billion dollars to Mark Walter, who is the CEO

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Speaker 7: of a bunch of places, apparently including the Guggenheim group

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Speaker 7: that owns the Dodgers, But Jeanie busses expecting me to

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Speaker 7: remain with the franchise. And in college hoops, ESPN reporting

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Speaker 7: that Rutgers star Ace Bailey has canceled his workout with

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Speaker 7: the seventy six ers. Bailey remains the only US based

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Speaker 7: prospect yet to visit any NBA teams, but the Sixers

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Speaker 7: have not ruled out selecting Bailey with the third overall pick.

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Speaker 7: In NFL news, the Ravens signed cornerback jay Air Alexander

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Speaker 7: to a one year deal. And in the NHL, the

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Speaker 7: Panthers are going to hold their Stanley Cup championship parade

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Speaker 7: on Sunday, but the Stanley Cup is already cracked and

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Speaker 7: the bottom is dented from their celebrations, but it will

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Speaker 7: be fixed. In time for they're parade.

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Speaker 1: Yay, they have a guy on call. We need you

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Speaker 1: all right, I'm ready to go.

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Speaker 2: I'm ready to go.

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Speaker 4: Come with a toolkit the guy that has to go

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Speaker 4: around with Yes, absolutely, shoulder.

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Speaker 1: Crack the top of it. Yeah, and they dented the

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Speaker 1: bottom already. You had it for twenty four hours. You

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Speaker 1: cracked the top of it and dented the bottom of it. Yep.

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Speaker 1: It might pass through thousands of hands at this point.

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Speaker 1: And come on, it's impressive that it's still even intact. Yeah. No, listen,

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Speaker 1: I get that, over the course of a summer, with

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Speaker 1: every player getting one day with the cup, something's gonna happen.

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Speaker 1: But now this is twenty four hours and it's already

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Speaker 1: been We got to release a book. Yet we're gonna

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Speaker 1: crack in a dent, all the stuff that if I

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Speaker 1: were to tell you they don't have the real cup.

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Speaker 1: Who's got the real cup?

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Speaker 4: We don't know what if they don't though, it's next

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Speaker 4: to the ark at the Covenant, Oh, one of those

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Speaker 4: government boxes at the end of.

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Speaker 1: So they have that guy who yelled at me once

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Speaker 1: for picking up the Stanley Cup travels with you. You

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Speaker 1: you did what the guy yelled I didn't tell you

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Speaker 1: that told you that story. Oh you did. I don't remember.

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Speaker 1: Stanley Cup. It is my best story. Okay, it's a

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Speaker 1: good story. So the guy who travels with the cup, right,

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Speaker 1: he's been traveling with the cup now for I think

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Speaker 1: thirty years. Okay, this is nineteen. No, it's two thousand,

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Speaker 1: two thousands and and uh this this is when I

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Speaker 1: was producing for KABC TV, right, worst job I ever had.

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Speaker 6: Uh.

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Speaker 1: It was Bruce for KBC TV, and the Stanley Cup

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Speaker 1: came in. They brought it to the newsroom and we're

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Speaker 1: doing it. Was doing part of this. Uh, I don't

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Speaker 1: know why it came in with coming through Los Angeles

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Speaker 1: in the off season and the guy with the travel

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Speaker 1: the cup had the cup. So he comes into the newsroom.

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Speaker 1: They bring it into the sports office. We we do

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Speaker 1: we do a bit with it with Bill Weir was

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Speaker 1: the was the Bill Weird Yeah, now he's like the

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Speaker 1: climate control guy. Uh, but he was the la you know,

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Speaker 1: anchor Rob Fukazaki has been on the show. So we

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Speaker 1: take pictures with the cup and everything else. We go

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Speaker 1: on on set with it, and you know, we got

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Speaker 1: to do it and we put it on on TV.

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Speaker 1: That night on the news, and so the cup, can

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Speaker 1: you get to it? Okay, you know, I'm sorry, but

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Speaker 1: the Russ distracted. It's a great saw. It's really distracted.

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Speaker 1: This is the longest lead up to I'm gonna tell

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Speaker 1: you something that all of our advertisers say. The music's

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Speaker 1: too distracting. It's distracting me. I'm saying the music's too low.

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Speaker 1: So he brings it in. It's in the bullpen and

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Speaker 1: I go, oh my god. I've always wanted to see

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Speaker 1: if I could pick up the Stanley Cup. So I

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Speaker 1: pick it up and I put it over my head

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Speaker 1: and I go wow. And the guy goes, what are

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Speaker 1: you doing? And he tells me, I go what, just

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00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:19,960
Speaker 1: what do you do? You can't pick up the Stanley Cup.

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Speaker 1: I go, oh, I'm sorry. I was I gonna do. No,

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Speaker 1: there's gotta be something for the players. And I go, okay,

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Speaker 1: it's not like I devalued the Stanley Cup by picking

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Speaker 1: it up. Okay, sorry, And he got mad at me.

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Speaker 1: Val he may got mad at me, like you ruined

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Speaker 1: the sanctity of the Cup. There's something for the players. Yes,

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Speaker 1: the NHL went out of there is not there. I

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Speaker 1: wanted to see if I could pick it up, What

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Speaker 1: am I gonna do? I'm the first guy?

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Speaker 4: What did you think it was one hundred pounds? He

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Speaker 4: could looked a one hundred pounds right over his head.

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Speaker 4: It's like thirty seven pounds.

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Speaker 1: Like it's heavy, like like Julia Luise dry fist as

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Speaker 1: a lane.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, they hit you with the white glove.

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Speaker 1: No, no, I challenged him to a duel. He walked

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Speaker 1: up and he slapped me with it and dropped the

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Speaker 1: gard But he yelled at me. You're like, you're surprised

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Speaker 1: that he yelled at you. He should have kicked your ass.

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Speaker 1: How is that?

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Speaker 3: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: He could now it was a bigger deer than he was.

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Speaker 1: Why is that such a big deal? Really, I earn it.

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Speaker 1: It was in there. I picked it all touch What

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Speaker 1: do you mean? What do you mean? We talked like

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Speaker 1: you did not earn it, like you know the Stanley

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Speaker 1: Cup rules. I've touched the Stanley Cup, don't okayned it?

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Speaker 1: And oh you earned it? But I didn't. Oh okay,

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Speaker 1: now I see. Well he didn't yell at me. That

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Speaker 1: doesn't Yeah, he I don't know why yelled at me.

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Speaker 1: I don't know why yelled We know why if he said, hey,

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Speaker 1: just don't drop it. I was like, oh, okay, I

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Speaker 1: get what you're saying. But he goes, there's got to

702
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Speaker 1: be something for the players, like what the players aren't

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Speaker 1: allowed to pick up the Stanley Cup? Like I don't know,

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Speaker 1: like the players are I don't get.

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Speaker 4: It because you were the kid. You know, you carry

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Speaker 4: the Stanley Cup with you.

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Speaker 1: What have you done? You carry the cup? I see

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Speaker 1: you hold the cup and carry it. What if you do.

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Speaker 4: In the last crusade, he's been challenged with keeping that

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Speaker 4: thing safe and there's raft like you, a.

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Speaker 1: Lot more to this than he's done. Is not more?

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Speaker 1: There absolutely is more. He told you that there's more.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, no, he yelled at me. So I put it down.

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Speaker 4: I said, okay, she's a lot of do it now.

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Speaker 4: Did you try to, you know, pour some mad dog

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Speaker 4: in there?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I don't want to say, hey, you know the stories

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Speaker 1: I heard what's been done to the Stanley Cup by players,

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Speaker 1: by the precious players who lost the cup or put

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Speaker 1: stuff in it that you don't want me even to

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Speaker 1: say that I know was in there. Now you're med

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Speaker 1: that I picked it up? Yes, okay, you know what?

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Speaker 1: You know what you stop as well, jus kind of

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Speaker 1: losing his hair. Mike Harmon live, he's fall radio studios.

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Speaker 1: What are you talking about? Continuing his reference nicely?

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Speaker 3: Do it?

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Speaker 1: Okay?

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Speaker 5: You know what?

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Speaker 1: And he's powerful. Yes, this whole show, this whole show

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Speaker 1: needs a time out. The entire show. All of you

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Speaker 1: need to tie straight over his head. How's their hair?

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Speaker 1: Is their hair good? Coming up next, Piggy best news

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Speaker 1: for the Lakers, ten billion dollars sale, Blank you blank

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Speaker 1: Mike Harmon. Dodgers Padres now tie that three in the

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Speaker 1: ninth The Padres put two across, So we got drama

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Speaker 1: Chavez ravine. Meanwhile, the drama today in Sports courtesy of

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Speaker 1: the Lakers, who are being sold. The Bus Family are

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Speaker 1: selling the Lakers to Mark Walter, who also owns part

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Speaker 1: of the LA Dodgers for a valuation of ten billion dollars. Walter, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, Walter, he did his homework. Jeenie Buss is

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Speaker 1: going to stay on as governor and so she's going

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Speaker 1: to run the Lakers for at least the next few years.

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00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:05,680
Speaker 1: The Bus family is going to keep a minority share

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Speaker 1: of the team just over fifteen percent for a period

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Speaker 1: of time as well. Uh So again, Mark Walter, the

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Speaker 1: franchise valuation approximately ten billion dollars. Is this your team, Walter?

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Speaker 1: Is it's not as bleeping team man. Uh Two things

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Speaker 1: on this, one bigger than the other is it's a

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Speaker 1: little sad because I kind of like the the what

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Speaker 1: we've seen in sports and what you and I have

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Speaker 1: grown up with that that certain teams have a hierarchy

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Speaker 1: and they have a succession plan where it stays in

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Speaker 1: one family and it's run this way, and it's a

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Speaker 1: beloved owner who the fans love and they wanted to

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Speaker 1: keep on and stay in the family, and then someone's

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Speaker 1: son or daughter inherits it and it goes on there.

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Speaker 1: And that's why we saw Indianapolis, and I like that

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Speaker 1: it's not always great because you know, sometimes the owner

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Speaker 1: is not a great owner and they don't win, but

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Speaker 1: still it's going to stay in the family anyway. But

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Speaker 1: I kind of missed because that's going away because it's

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Speaker 1: all hedge fun guys and people that now you're worth

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Speaker 1: in the hundreds of billions of dollars because it's no

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00:35:07,239 --> 00:35:09,839
Speaker 1: longer well, this guy's worth five billion dollars, but now

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Speaker 1: this guy's worth three hundred and twenty billion dollars and

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00:35:12,280 --> 00:35:14,360
Speaker 1: he bought a team because he felt like it today.

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Speaker 1: So I do miss that a little bit. But I

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Speaker 1: feel nothing but excited for the Lakers and Laker Nation

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00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:27,399
Speaker 1: because my big takeaway is maybe now the Lakers will

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Speaker 1: be good because since Jeanie Buss and her brothers and

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Speaker 1: her family took over the team from after doctor Bus

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Speaker 1: passed in twenty thirteen, they ain't been great. Man, this

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00:35:37,120 --> 00:35:39,960
Speaker 1: last thirteen years has not been good. Yes, they won

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Speaker 1: the title in twenty twenty, mainly because Lebron decided I

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Speaker 1: want to come to LA because I want the Lakers brand. Right, Okay, great,

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Speaker 1: And I'm not dismissing that because they won the title

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Speaker 1: as a very difficult title to win. They didn't have

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Speaker 1: any home field advantage in the bubble very hard to win,

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Speaker 1: and they did it. But overall, when you say, okay,

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Speaker 1: look at the last thirteen years, what do you have.

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Speaker 1: You've had Kobe into Lebron, now into Luca and you

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Speaker 1: have a title, and you have a five year stretch

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Speaker 1: of not making the playoffs. You have three first round exits,

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Speaker 1: you have one conference finals. Right, make it to the finals.

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00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:15,160
Speaker 1: That's great, and you have a title. But by and large,

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Speaker 1: last thirteen years, with the superstars they have had, they

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00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:19,560
Speaker 1: have not been able to figure it out. The bus

797
00:36:19,600 --> 00:36:22,600
Speaker 1: family not great at running the team. When Lebron came in,

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Speaker 1: he took over. He and Rich, Paul and Ad were

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Speaker 1: the shadow gms of this team. They were calling the shots.

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Speaker 1: Only finally have the Lakers sort of moved on from

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Speaker 1: that into hey, now we're moving to the Luca era

802
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Speaker 1: and Lebron, you don't have as much power as you did.

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Speaker 1: But man, I'm telling you, the Lakers have just they've

804
00:36:40,239 --> 00:36:43,000
Speaker 1: not been run great. And so yeah, the one thing

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Speaker 1: I always say you can't get passed if you're a

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Speaker 1: fan is a bad owner owner that's not winning. And so, okay,

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Speaker 1: the bus Fers had a lot of missteps. They haven't

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Speaker 1: run this team very well. You know, they've had talent

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Speaker 1: come in. So my big takeaway is that, yeah, maybe

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Speaker 1: things will be better now, maybe they'll win a little

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Speaker 1: bit more than they have in the past years, because

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Speaker 1: maybe it's a new way of doing business. Maybe it's

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Speaker 1: a new way of saying, hey, we're not gonna let

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Speaker 1: the players call the shots and we're not gonna say, okay,

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Speaker 1: Ad and Lebron, you want Russell Westbrook coming in, which

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00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:12,399
Speaker 1: a Lakers still are still getting past that really bad

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00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:14,960
Speaker 1: decision from three years ago. Like, maybe it's a different

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00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:17,719
Speaker 1: way of doing things, different way they're gonna spend money,

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Speaker 1: different kind of player they want to go after all.

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Speaker 1: That's I think if possibility now because I saw what

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Speaker 1: the last thirteen years are, maybe now things can be

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Speaker 1: better for the Lakers.

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Speaker 4: Well, it's the good and bad of running things as

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00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:34,160
Speaker 4: a mom and pop. That ownership, that equity, that familiarity,

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00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:39,360
Speaker 4: and that familial space that you've had right that long time,

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Speaker 4: long tenured and depending on where you're who you're a

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Speaker 4: fan of, and which teams you support, that can be

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Speaker 4: a good or a bad thing. Think about my love

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Speaker 4: hate relationship with everything Ryan's Dorfian. There have been some

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00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:54,960
Speaker 4: great moments. There's been a lot of bad moments along

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Speaker 4: the way, right in the way those businesses have been operated.

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Speaker 4: But he's always about the bottom line with But he's

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00:38:02,680 --> 00:38:05,719
Speaker 4: had money to spend if he so chose. With the

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Speaker 4: Bus family and with the changing economics of the NBA,

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00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:13,680
Speaker 4: you have you know, been hamstrung at times, and certainly

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Speaker 4: letting and going star power bring in Lebron and Clutch

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Speaker 4: Sports in Yeah, they seeded a lot of power over

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00:38:20,239 --> 00:38:23,319
Speaker 4: roster construction, et cetera. But they were also hamstrung in

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Speaker 4: terms of the valuation of the team being the only

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Speaker 4: real asset they had. Not that they didn't have some monies,

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00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:32,960
Speaker 4: but you didn't have money. Yeah, And that's what Walter

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00:38:33,320 --> 00:38:36,719
Speaker 4: and the Goggenheim Group and all of this they bring

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00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:39,440
Speaker 4: to the to bear is all right, money's never an

844
00:38:39,480 --> 00:38:42,040
Speaker 4: object to buy yourself out of a problem or to

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Speaker 4: go into the marketplace and say, second, Apron, who cares,

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00:38:45,719 --> 00:38:49,000
Speaker 4: we're about winning titles. You've seen what's happened with the Dodgers,

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00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:54,680
Speaker 4: the string of success, the implementation of a structure that

848
00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:58,200
Speaker 4: brings you just star after star, and you think we

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Speaker 4: need one more into an ocean's eleven coach, best to

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00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:03,600
Speaker 4: breed in terms of your management, in terms of your

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00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:06,680
Speaker 4: executive and now you bring that to the Laker brand

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00:39:07,120 --> 00:39:08,600
Speaker 4: that's so global.

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Speaker 1: As it is. Yeah, you have to be excited about

854
00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:13,080
Speaker 1: where this this heads. If you're a Laker fan. Yeah,

855
00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:16,360
Speaker 1: optimism is great. Now Genie bus running a team, you're like, okay,

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00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:18,080
Speaker 1: how much is gonna be more of the same. But

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00:39:19,239 --> 00:39:21,280
Speaker 1: they didn't. He didn't buy the team just to say Okay,

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00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:23,399
Speaker 1: the old owner is gonna do this. But that's just it.

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00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:26,560
Speaker 1: So it hands off, but not hands off. You gotta

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00:39:26,640 --> 00:39:29,080
Speaker 1: know what's a new day coming here, right, We're gonna

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00:39:29,080 --> 00:39:31,160
Speaker 1: get Luca taken care of. We're gonna get it. And

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Speaker 1: that's when all of a sudden, Okay, thank you, great,

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Speaker 1: Genie's gonna step down and it will be you know,

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Speaker 1: Walter and whoever else is running the team.

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Speaker 4: Put in your structure and go and win again. Maybe

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Speaker 4: maybe things can be good now, maybe the Lakers can

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Speaker 4: be good.

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Speaker 1: Think about it. Maybe you're remove Bomber. Hey, big celebration.

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Speaker 1: Will Smith will walk off home run for the Dodgers

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Speaker 1: they beat the Padres four to three. Will have more

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Speaker 1: on this game coming up in a few minutes. And

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Speaker 1: the biggest NFL story of the day coming your way

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Speaker 1: at over one hundred miles was an hour Jason and

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