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Speaker 1: Hello, Welcome inside final hour tonight The Jason Smith Show

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Speaker 1: with my bas friend Mike Harmon. Poors up showing how

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Speaker 1: Tony's return to the mound is a triumphant one yeah,

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Speaker 1: one inning pitch, two hits, one urn run aloud, twenty

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Speaker 1: eight pitches. As I told you the beginning of the night,

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Speaker 1: take the under for the strikeouts, take the under for

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Speaker 1: the walks. TODA, no strikeouts, no walks. You're welcome Tonight's

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Speaker 1: parlay for you right there, did knock in two runs.

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Speaker 1: Dodgers beat the Padres by the final of six three.

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Speaker 1: We'll have more on this story coming up in about

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Speaker 1: twenty minutes, but look Game five of the NBA Finals tonight,

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Speaker 1: thunderbeat the Pacers won twenty one oh nine, and look

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Speaker 1: you know, the game for a little while was the

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Speaker 1: TJ McConnell game, eighteen off the bench, and then it

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Speaker 1: turned into the Jalen Williams game pretty quick. Forty points

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Speaker 1: for Jalen Williams tonight, a two point game middle of

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Speaker 1: the fourth quarter that got a little weird for the

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Speaker 1: Thunder Despite the fact Halliburton was having a horrendous game,

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Speaker 1: Williams and SGA bail them out and now they are

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Speaker 1: one win away from the NBA title. Now, before we

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Speaker 1: get into this a little bit more, I just want

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Speaker 1: to say this tonight because clearly Halliburton was not playing well.

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Speaker 1: Was he dinged up a little bit? Yeah, But again

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Speaker 1: it couldn't have been that bad because he got He

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Speaker 1: played thirty four minutes, second most on the team. Why

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Speaker 1: McConnell was terrific, and he was getting into the lane,

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Speaker 1: he was making threes. He was feeling it tonight. But

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Speaker 1: you saw McConnell about the eight minute mark of the

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Speaker 1: fourth quarter. He plays high motor minutes. There's no hey,

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Speaker 1: creating and doing it all. There's times where hey, it's

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Speaker 1: is not is not for me. This is what we're

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Speaker 1: gonna do. But he played twenty two high leverage minutes night.

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Speaker 1: They needed him to score. He scored. He was shooting

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Speaker 1: when they took him out and the Pacers the lead

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Speaker 1: it's getting away from them, and they show him on

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Speaker 1: is absolutely done. He's not coming back. In eight and

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Speaker 1: And we were just talking about it the end of

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Speaker 1: gad I typed tortoise into Okay, dude, is just wait

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Speaker 1: But tonight where Halliburton wasn't feeling it and you're trying

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Speaker 1: up and up and up. More NBA is gonna be

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Speaker 1: out there, more NBA products out there. There's zero effect

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Speaker 1: on this. So to say that the ratings are low,

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Speaker 1: it's just a conversation. You can say, oh, look, not

427
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Speaker 1: as high as it is not. I don't like the NBA. Okay,

428
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Speaker 1: like Kevin Durant says, if you don't like it, don't watch.

429
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Speaker 1: But the NBA is fine, is not going anywhere. They're

430
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Speaker 1: not gonna suddenly have to have meetings going. Hey, you

431
00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:43,080
Speaker 1: know we've done some things. We shouldn't have done, and

432
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Speaker 1: we got to. I don't know what's gonna happen. Now,

433
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Speaker 1: we're all going out of business. We all have to

434
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Speaker 1: take less money. None of that is happening. No teams

435
00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:51,719
Speaker 1: are getting contracted. If anything, they're gonna have expansion. Like

436
00:21:51,840 --> 00:21:55,240
Speaker 1: there's no effect of the low finals ratings in the

437
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Speaker 1: NBA none, zero. It is some more poison pad negative

438
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Speaker 1: writing that Adam Silver gets to do counterpoint with in

439
00:22:02,960 --> 00:22:06,640
Speaker 1: terms of views and and throughput off of social media

440
00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:09,479
Speaker 1: apps goes back to the globalization of the game. To

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Speaker 1: your point, they've already signed the seventy six billion dollar deal.

442
00:22:13,320 --> 00:22:15,600
Speaker 1: Nobody's saying I want some of my money back now,

443
00:22:15,720 --> 00:22:20,200
Speaker 1: because Live Sports is still the last bastion of salvation

444
00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:25,159
Speaker 1: for the advertising world in terms of rates. Right, Super

445
00:22:25,160 --> 00:22:28,880
Speaker 1: Bowl for February has already sold out. Maybe they held

446
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Speaker 1: a couple back to rate, but the base of hey

447
00:22:33,320 --> 00:22:36,800
Speaker 1: you want in price spoker goes up every year for

448
00:22:36,880 --> 00:22:40,240
Speaker 1: the NBA Finals. Sure you can, you can complain, and

449
00:22:40,840 --> 00:22:44,399
Speaker 1: it makes for good headlines that you have people that

450
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Speaker 1: cover the league as part of the official coverage that

451
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Speaker 1: made bemoan different aspects of the game, or you know,

452
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Speaker 1: try to figure out what the fix is. The Hey,

453
00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:56,840
Speaker 1: we need these stories. You need to know who these

454
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Speaker 1: players are. It's like, no, you don't. People will come

455
00:23:00,280 --> 00:23:03,399
Speaker 1: or they won't. Their friends will come along for the

456
00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:07,680
Speaker 1: rod or they won't. And if a star does break through,

457
00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:12,000
Speaker 1: say shake Gildess, Alexander and the Oklahoma City Thunder roll

458
00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:14,440
Speaker 1: through and they win. Here, Yeah, they've got to navigate

459
00:23:14,480 --> 00:23:17,879
Speaker 1: some contractual things. Jalen Williams forty tonight, he's in the

460
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Speaker 1: third year of his rookie deal. He's got to get

461
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Speaker 1: paid eventually. Chat's gonna have to get paid eventually. All

462
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Speaker 1: of those things you're gonna have to figure out. That's fine.

463
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Speaker 1: But if they've suddenly become a team that are one

464
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Speaker 1: of the last standing every year, guess what, hate watching

465
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Speaker 1: becomes a real thing. So even those that are preperally

466
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Speaker 1: checking in now and again, they start to come on

467
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Speaker 1: board a little bit more because now we start talking

468
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Speaker 1: about those legacy plays, second titles, third titles, comparing them

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Speaker 1: to the people that you love. So maybe you're on

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Speaker 1: the fringes and you check in now and again, No,

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Speaker 1: you come back a little bit more. But television ratings

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Speaker 1: aren't the be all to end all, we watch it

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Speaker 1: for every network program. It's a new normal right of

474
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Speaker 1: trying to decide what's the success, what is it? How

475
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Speaker 1: many streaming minutes becomes a much bigger metric than how

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Speaker 1: many people watched it live. What's the throughput the following

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Speaker 1: twenty four hours right live today, but on insert streaming

478
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Speaker 1: service the twenty four hours later, what's that carried through binge?

479
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Speaker 1: Watching all of those things. We're in a different world

480
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Speaker 1: even with sports, that we consume things in a much

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Speaker 1: different way, and the metrics will eventually reflect that. But

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Speaker 1: in the interim, if you want to do complaining theater

483
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Speaker 1: about television ratings, have at it. Those that care already

484
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Speaker 1: in the room, and they're just gonna kind of point

485
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Speaker 1: their fingers and laugh back at you like they're Nelson

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Speaker 1: Mounts exit about a Fresca exit. Swellendme. These NV eight ratings,

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Speaker 1: they're just irrelevant conversations. Another big basketball story coming up

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Speaker 1: in ninety seconds, but first special delivery. Steve Desager has

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Speaker 1: what's trending in the wide world of sports, where the

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Speaker 1: battle to be the second best team with the second

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Speaker 1: best record in the National League. He took off tonight

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Speaker 1: with the Dodgers and the Padres. Steve, how did that go?

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Speaker 1: There are other teams doing very well, thank you, including.

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Speaker 3: The Philadelphia Phillies, who are up to forty three wins

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Speaker 3: five straight victories. They won five two at Miami. The

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Speaker 3: idle Mets have lost three in a row. First in

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Speaker 3: the NLS, just two games over the Pills. Trey Turner

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Speaker 3: three hits, including a leadoff homer.

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Speaker 1: So the Phillies have the best record of the National League.

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Speaker 1: Oh oh no, wait they don't. Who does Steve? My

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Speaker 1: Internet's down?

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Speaker 4: Okay, I'm gonna start taking bets from everybody here of

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Speaker 4: how long this conversation is actually gonna last. In the

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Speaker 4: twenty twenty five season, the Detroit Tigers have forty six wins,

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Speaker 4: by the way, the Mets with forty five, the Cubs

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Speaker 4: with forty four, and the Dodgers.

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Speaker 1: Now with forty four wins.

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Speaker 3: After beating San Diego six to three in the NS,

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Speaker 3: the Dodgers are first two and a half games over

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Speaker 3: the idle Giants. The Padres are four back. Dylan Cees

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00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:57,680
Speaker 3: took the loss in LA tonight five innings of work.

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Speaker 3: He'll out five runs in the bottom of the fourth,

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Speaker 3: nine strikeouts for his start.

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Speaker 1: But a loss.

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Speaker 3: This was the beginning of a four game series, and

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Speaker 3: a man who hadn't pitched in a game in nearly

517
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Speaker 3: two years was on the mound as the opener for

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Speaker 3: the Dodgers, sho Heyotani and is won inning, allowed to

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Speaker 3: run on a sack fly. Twenty eight pitches did average

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Speaker 3: ninety nine miles an hour on his fastball, and he

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Speaker 3: said afterwards he anticipates pitching once per week now adding

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Speaker 3: some innings so he doesn't tax the bullpen as much.

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Speaker 3: It's an all bullpen game today and tomorrow with this

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Speaker 3: injured Dodgers rotation. By the way, Otani is still the

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Speaker 3: dh still leading off, and in fact in the thirty

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Speaker 3: had an RBI double and in the fourth inning and

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Speaker 3: RBI single. And today Otani's former interpreter reported to prison.

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Speaker 3: Ibe mis O'Hara was sentenced to fifty seven months for

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Speaker 3: stealing nearly seventeen million dollars from Otani.

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Speaker 1: Otani's an I'll pitch again, what hebe goes to prison? Hey,

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Speaker 1: here we go pitch tonight. The leading vote getters.

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Speaker 3: For the All Star Game are Otani in the National League,

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Speaker 3: Aaron Judge in the American League. At first base in

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Speaker 3: the Al Paul go go Old Schmid is just ahead

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Speaker 3: of Vladimir Guerrero Junior. The Yankees for runners in scoring

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00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:08,359
Speaker 3: position in New York tonight one for eighteen. They lost

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Speaker 3: one nothing in eleven innings to the Angels as the

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00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:13,400
Speaker 3: Yanks left bases loaded in the bottom of the eleventh.

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Speaker 3: DH gen Carlos Stanton of New York was activated went

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Speaker 3: two for four after the elbow injuries. Tampa Bay seven

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Speaker 3: to one over Baltimore, which had just four hits. The

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Speaker 3: Rays with fourteen hits. The Tampa Bay Rays, their last

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Speaker 3: twenty five games, have a record of nineteen and six.

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Speaker 3: Boston won its six straight game two nothing at Seattle.

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Speaker 3: The win to Lucas Gilito rookie Roman Anthony with a

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Speaker 3: home run, and the A's ended Houston's five game winning

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Speaker 3: streak three to one on a walkoff homer by Nick Kurtz.

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00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:43,960
Speaker 3: Colorado hit two homers in the ninth to win at

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Speaker 3: Washington's sixty four nine straight losses for the Nationals Now

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Speaker 3: NBA Finals. Game five was this evening. Oklahoma City up

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Speaker 3: three games to two after beating Indiana one twenty to one,

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Speaker 3: oh nine forty points for Jalen Williams, Shay Gilgis Alexander

553
00:27:58,600 --> 00:28:02,000
Speaker 3: scored thirty one with ten. The Pacers did get within

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Speaker 3: ninety five ninety three with about eight minutes left. They

555
00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:07,600
Speaker 3: had been trailing by eighteen late first half, but Indiana

556
00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:11,400
Speaker 3: committed twenty two turnovers in this game and Tyrese Halliburton

557
00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:14,480
Speaker 3: was held to four points oh of six shooting. Indiana,

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Speaker 3: facing elimination, will be the home team on Thursday in

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Speaker 3: game six. The WNBA was off tonight. Stanley Cup Game

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Speaker 3: six is Tuesday. US men's soccer plays again on Thursday.

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Speaker 3: The next IndyCar Race on Fox TV Sunday, and college

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Speaker 3: baseball at a World Series game tonight LSU versus UCLA

563
00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:35,960
Speaker 3: that will resume at eleven am Eastern Time. They waited

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00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:38,400
Speaker 3: four hours until calling it for the night due to

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Speaker 3: a weather delay in Omaha. After three innings, LSU is

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Speaker 3: up five to three. Today, Arkansas pitched a no hitter

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Speaker 3: to eliminate Murray State three to zein gage Wood struck

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Speaker 3: out nineteen, a record for a nine inning game there.

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Speaker 3: The only other no hitters at the College World Series

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Speaker 3: incurred in nineteen fifty at nineteen sixty and this guy

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Speaker 3: today had a perfect game until he hit a back

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Speaker 3: in the eighth. He had thrown a career high six

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Speaker 3: innings in a regional a couple of weeks ago. In

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Speaker 3: this one, he threw one hundred and nineteen pitches back

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Speaker 3: to you.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, Steve. A great day, great great day. Now

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Speaker 1: things didn't turn up great for the Pacers tonight, but

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00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:18,840
Speaker 1: things are still kind of turning up Indiana. Right, we

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Speaker 1: told you last week. But the big bull prediction I

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Speaker 1: had right this weekend was Caitlin Clark returns twenty and

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Speaker 1: ten and they give the Liberty their first loss to

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Speaker 1: the WNBA season. Under promised, over delivered, big high profile game.

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Speaker 1: Sat what happened I meant, I clearly meant you. I

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Speaker 1: clearly meant to say twenty and ten in the first half.

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Speaker 1: It's not my fault. You didn't hear me say that,

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00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:43,040
Speaker 1: but I could check the tape. Incredible night for Caitlyn

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00:29:43,080 --> 00:29:47,120
Speaker 1: Clark on Saturday, at incredibly great moments after being out

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Speaker 1: for a couple of weeks. They do give the Liberty

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Speaker 1: their first loss. And again, we told you last week

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Speaker 1: she's gonna return and you're gonna say, wow. I didn't

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Speaker 1: know how much I missed you. Congratulations to everybody who

592
00:29:56,880 --> 00:29:59,680
Speaker 1: took that from us and rent it out there. Send

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Speaker 1: us okay, that's what I care. I'll buy food for

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Speaker 1: everybody here every single night. Send us checks. If you're

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Speaker 1: gonna take that specific stuff from me. I said, you're

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Speaker 1: not gonna You're not gonna realize how much you missed her.

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Speaker 1: And boy, nobody means more to her sport than Caitlyn Clark.

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Speaker 1: She had an incredible year last year. This year is

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Speaker 1: gonna be even bigger and better. And I'll tell you

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Speaker 1: what by game thirty right, because it's gonna take a

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00:30:21,720 --> 00:30:23,360
Speaker 1: little it's gonna take a little bit of time because

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00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:25,600
Speaker 1: the fever went out and they really went all in, Hey,

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Speaker 1: we want to maximize the Caitlin Clark window and win championships.

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Speaker 1: They brought in a new slew of players who had

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Speaker 1: You need some time to play together, new head coach,

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00:30:35,040 --> 00:30:36,920
Speaker 1: send you a little bit time for stuff to gel, right,

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00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:39,400
Speaker 1: You need that. And it was gonna be a little

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Speaker 1: bit longer because Caitlyn Clark's been out the last couple

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Speaker 1: of weeks, So it's gonna be a little bit. But

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Speaker 1: by game thirty right, we're out game ten right now,

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Speaker 1: by game thirty, the pay the Fever, the Pacers, the

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Speaker 1: Fever gonna be viewed as being the best team in

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Speaker 1: the W. They might not have the best record because

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Speaker 1: they're five and five now and the Liberty just lost

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Speaker 1: their first game and they're still fantastic, but they'll be

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Speaker 1: viewed as the best team in the W. And it's

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00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:04,920
Speaker 1: all gonna be about now. If Caitlyn Clark doesn't win

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00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:07,800
Speaker 1: a title, it's a disappointing season. People want to move

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Speaker 1: the goalpost for Kitlyn Clark, but it's now. By game thirty,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna realize this is a championship or bust year

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Speaker 1: for the Fever. That's the level they'll be playing at

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Speaker 1: because they brought in too much talent. They're loaded. You

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Speaker 1: just got to give them a little bit of time

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Speaker 1: together to get things going. Another twenty games by game thirty,

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00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:26,320
Speaker 1: remember you know you got the extra four games this year,

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Speaker 1: so you you get a little bit more. You got fifteen, right,

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00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:31,040
Speaker 1: we've down to time. It's about fifteen games left in

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Speaker 1: the regular season. We'll say the Fever is the best team.

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Speaker 1: Caitlyn Clark will be an overwhelming favorite for MVP, and

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00:31:36,840 --> 00:31:39,560
Speaker 1: it's gonna be Okay, Now she's got to win or

631
00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:42,240
Speaker 1: the season is a disappointment. That's how this is gonna

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Speaker 1: play out. Yeah, right now, Collier still the favorite at

633
00:31:45,680 --> 00:31:48,000
Speaker 1: minus four to twenty five. Clark all the way up

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00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:51,280
Speaker 1: to plus two point fifty during the injury time hadn't

635
00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:54,040
Speaker 1: drifted out to six to one or thereabouts. So you

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Speaker 1: have that Saturday during the day you sent me, look

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Speaker 1: a terrible connotation because it makes you feel like I'm

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Speaker 1: just rebounding my own shots. That's me bound. I'm rebounding

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Speaker 1: it's great. Yeah, who knew? It's the opposite world. It's

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Speaker 1: the bizarro world. But for Caitlin Clark and the Fever.

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Speaker 1: Fever are the third favorite towards the title at about

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Speaker 1: five to one. Right now, exit about a fresca, exits.

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Speaker 1: Get ready for what this series? If you thought last

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Speaker 1: year's all about Caitlin Clark, get ready. Nobody more important

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Speaker 1: to her sport than she is except Kelsey Plumb. Kelsey

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Speaker 1: Plum is big and o tawny to the Dodgers. Hey,

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Speaker 1: Kelsey Plumb was taking some time to heal. But coming

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Speaker 1: up next, boyd, do we have a crazy story out

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Speaker 1: of the NBA where maybe the most sought after player

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Speaker 1: this offseason has picked his team already? WHOA, that's next?

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Speaker 1: Jason Mike Fox.

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

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

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Speaker 2: pm Pacific.

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Speaker 1: Punk Rock Girl thirty seven years ago today thirty seven

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Speaker 1: years seven in a row in a Hot Rock Girl

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Speaker 1: by the Dead Milkman Row. This is uh sure? This

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Speaker 1: is my roommate in college's favorite song in the world.

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Speaker 1: This came out. He played it all the time. This again,

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Speaker 1: Like I'm playing Poison and Guns n' Roses and he's

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Speaker 1: playing this song over and over and over again. I'm like, dude,

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Speaker 1: come on, man, yeah. One of my cousins beat me

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Speaker 1: over the head with this for I stayed in Iowa

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Speaker 1: out with her and her family, and this was on

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Speaker 1: the playlist repeatedly. I never wanted to smash Cassette more

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Speaker 1: than that. So Happy anniversary, Dead Milkman, Jason Smith and

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Speaker 1: Mike Carmon just live for the Fox Sports Radio studios.

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Speaker 1: So outside of the NBA Finals, big headline today, The

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Speaker 1: Athletic reports that Kevin Durant has his next destination in mind. Okay,

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Speaker 1: the team he wants to play for more than any

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Speaker 1: other is Nick. No, don't say no. You know what

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Speaker 1: I wanted to play for, Doc. I heard. I heard that,

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Speaker 1: you know, I heard that his overtures would be rebuffed

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Speaker 1: and the Knicks don't want to like good Blank you

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Speaker 1: We could have you could have come here like six

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Speaker 1: years ago when you were really, really good, but no, No,

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Speaker 1: you wanted to go play for bleeping Brooklyn instead. No,

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Speaker 1: beat it, beat it, go play someplace else. You dobs Mary, Mary, Mary,

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Speaker 1: stop that. Now, let's keep it, Hey, b C. I'll

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Speaker 1: called Doc Rivers Frostburg. She's doing this. It's like showing

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Speaker 1: the dimples and smiling. I's like, you can't be mad

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Speaker 1: at me. Doc River Frostburg does have Doc? Does I know?

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Speaker 1: I know, I know, but no sort of repeat it.

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Speaker 1: K you didn't want to come and we needed just

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Speaker 1: six years ago.

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Speaker 2: Now we don't need you. No good.

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Speaker 1: Look, can we go back to you and play someplace else?

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Speaker 1: Is that your normal sports talk radio? Because they're on

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Speaker 1: to be like no, they said no. In fact no,

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Speaker 1: His overtures were rebuffed, rebuff rebuffet, rebuffet. But supposedly, Kaby

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Speaker 1: according to Athletic, he wants to play for the Spurs

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Speaker 1: over all the other teams, okay, favorite teams right now

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Speaker 1: are the Spurs or at the top of that are

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Speaker 1: that are at the top of his list the Spurs,

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Speaker 1: the Heat and the Rockets. Okay, fine, Now there are

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Speaker 1: two states with no state income tax to take him

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Speaker 1: from that two point five percent. Like we joked with

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Speaker 1: Rick Baker because he needs He hasn't made any money

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Speaker 1: in his career. He's got to worry about that well,

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Speaker 1: and he's made a lot, like when he went to

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Speaker 1: the Bay Area. One of the things we lauded on

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Speaker 1: the show, which made me look like a true nerd,

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Speaker 1: was all the investments he'd been making. Me meeting all

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Speaker 1: the titans of Silicon Valley. It was as much about

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Speaker 1: playing basketball and winning titles as it was building empire.

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Speaker 1: But uh, I'll tell you that now. Beat it. We

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Speaker 1: didn't he didn't want to be there six years ago.

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Speaker 1: We don't need you now. But the Spears, according to

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Speaker 1: these different reports about what's being batted back and forth

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Speaker 1: between the Spurs and the Suns, they're not on the

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Speaker 1: same page. Like the Sons potentially want Steph Castle, which

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Speaker 1: I'm like, beat it. The guy I told you I

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Speaker 1: would take number one overall was gonna win Rookie of

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Speaker 1: the Year. What happen? He won Rookie of the Year.

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Speaker 1: Beat it. You're not getting Steph Castle right? If we can,

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Speaker 1: if you can do a package around somebody else. Okay, Now,

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Speaker 1: I told you I'm not a big fan of KD

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Speaker 1: because he's a guy that gets his points. That's what

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Speaker 1: he does. He gets his stats, though he doesn't lead

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Speaker 1: you anywhere. Isn't let anybody anywhere in six years, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: didn't lead the Nets anywhere, he didn't lead the Suns anywhere.

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Speaker 1: He simply gets his points. If the Spurs were more

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Speaker 1: of a title contending team in a year, I would

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Speaker 1: say maybe they would, they would make that move. But

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Speaker 1: they know, okay, still with Wemby and Steph Castle, or

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Speaker 1: we still need a little bit of the way. He's

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Speaker 1: coming off of a massive health scare. So yeah, uh,

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Speaker 1: this is gonna be a bit of a root awakening

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Speaker 1: for Kevin Durant. When sudden it's like, wait, I can't

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Speaker 1: just pick the team I want to go to, Nope,

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Speaker 1: because for six years we've watched you not do anything

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Speaker 1: but score points, right, which is right? Name of the

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Speaker 1: game is score points. But he's been on teams with

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Speaker 1: great players. Couldn't lead the Nets all their stars. He

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Speaker 1: couldn't lead anywhere with Kyrie and Ben Simmons when we

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Speaker 1: thought he was a star, and James harden right went

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Speaker 1: to the Suns with Devin Booker and Bradley Built Nope,

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Speaker 1: still can't win games. So suddenly we're gonna put on

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Speaker 1: another team that's gonna work. No, beat it. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: call it what it is. Oh, everybody, everybody beat it,

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Speaker 1: k beat it, beat it. No. I was far more

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Speaker 1: interested in him as a an addition when we were

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Speaker 1: talking about it at the trade deadline. Well, we then

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00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:33,480
Speaker 1: would get word that well, he didn't feel like moving

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Speaker 1: in the middle of the season. He wanted to ride

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Speaker 1: it out to what end?

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Speaker 2: To what end?

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Speaker 1: You either gonna want to win at this point or

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Speaker 1: you don't. And I'm a big KD fan. I love

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Speaker 1: watching the guy play. But if I'm the Spurs or

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Speaker 1: the Rockets, with what I have to give up to

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Speaker 1: make that that exchange, there's no chance. Like with Houston,

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Speaker 1: it's moderately interesting. I'd love to see what the package is,

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Speaker 1: whether it's draft picks day, how much you have to lose.

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Speaker 1: That's the one place where I could say he would.

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Speaker 1: I'm still not thrilled about it, but it's where he

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Speaker 1: fits because clearly what the Rockets need is a guy

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Speaker 1: that can take those shots. At the end of game,

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Speaker 1: we talked about the one thing they were missing. So

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Speaker 1: we talked about it with Rick and he brought up Denver,

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Speaker 1: which is interesting. Go listen to the podcast after the

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Speaker 1: show for that fall and he said, I trade Jamal

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Speaker 1: Murray to get KD to den from Like whoa, well

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Speaker 1: all of that stuff. LA fan Justin Roster says, yes,

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Speaker 1: get rid of that guy. But like the heat are

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Speaker 1: interesting because we talked playing a mile high here forget it,

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Speaker 1: good luck, but we've talked about what kind of way.

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Speaker 1: But what we've talked about, Wow, I don't even know

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Speaker 1: how to stop off that. But what we talked about

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Speaker 1: with the Eastern Conference and having the opportunity like we're

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Speaker 1: talking about with your knicks, and you look at the

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Speaker 1: Pacers and you look at what the top of the

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Speaker 1: conference is. But Boston's in flux with the injury to Tatum. Milwaukee,

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Speaker 1: whether Giannis is there or not, Damian Lillard will not

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Speaker 1: be and they're old and there's cash strapped and everything else.

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Speaker 1: So from Miami there there's a bit of intrigued. As

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Speaker 1: much as you make fun of bucket hat. That was

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Speaker 1: said buckethead bucket hat over there. Yeah, Well, I mean,

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Speaker 1: look he's he's the lead guitar player right now for

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Speaker 1: him play you sure? Sure? But I met Shine a

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Speaker 1: new three year deal. Kad would fit the best with

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Speaker 1: with Houston because that's they're looking forth. They have really

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Speaker 1: good young players and they you know, and they're pretty

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Speaker 1: good leadership in Fred van Vliet, but they're missing that

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Speaker 1: one guy who you could PLoP in again. I'm not

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Speaker 1: thrilled with it, but that's the best fit. It's the

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Speaker 1: best fit. Not happening. Beat it. You didn't want to

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Speaker 1: be here six years ago. We didn't watch your six later. No, No,

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Speaker 1: that's done. Duc. That's like the girl from six years ago.

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Speaker 1: She's still hot. They always got your way. Fox Sports

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

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Speaker 1: Coming up next my buddy Ben maller on show. Hey

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Speaker 1: o Tani's return. This is Fox Sports