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Speaker 2: We'll look forward to your calls. You know, fifty nine

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Speaker 2: midnight in Las Vegas literally, and from where you sit

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Speaker 2: it may be twelve midnight literally, but certainly twelve midnight figuratively.

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Speaker 2: And we'll look forward to your calls. The callers have

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Speaker 2: been just fantastic. I'll set that up a little bit later,

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Speaker 2: on that as well. Many things to get to tonight,

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Speaker 2: Plenty of high jinks. But we begin with sort of

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Speaker 2: a simple axiom, as anybody in any in any walk

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Speaker 2: think it's fair. It's not a platitude, it's a reality.

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Speaker 2: It's not what happens to you, it's it's how you react, right.

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Speaker 2: And for instance, in my athletic career, I came from

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Speaker 2: a sport where there were there was failure every fifteen seconds.

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Speaker 2: The pitcher fails to throw strike, the hitter fails to

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Speaker 2: hitter fails to reach base, and it repeats every fifteen

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Speaker 2: seconds for about three hours until someone wins the game,

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Speaker 2: which teaches you two things about failure. One, failure is

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Speaker 2: never final, and number two, failure is simply a natural

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Speaker 2: part of the progression on the way to finding success.

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Speaker 2: So where am I going with this? Well, tomorrow, at

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Speaker 2: four o'clock Pacific time, it's likely that the bronni residency

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Speaker 2: For now, did the Lakers play the Bulls and Bronni's

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Speaker 2: had about five to six Summer League games between here

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Speaker 2: I will hold my final judgment for a year, but

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Speaker 2: you pretty much know how I feel. But Bronni was

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Speaker 2: obviously the son of a famous basketball player, and as

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Speaker 2: Yogi Berra might say, they have different similarities. They're both

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Speaker 2: coming in with a lot of hype. Whether you like

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Speaker 2: it or not. All right, people say, oh, it's a

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Speaker 2: big deal. Well, well, you're making a big deal about

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Speaker 2: a fifty fifth draft pick for well, the fifty fifth

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Speaker 2: is Brownie James and they force fed this upon us,

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Speaker 2: and people want to know his name's not Isaiah Long.

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Speaker 2: Who's Isaiah Long? You don't know, do you? Well? Isaiah

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Speaker 2: Wong was the fifty fifth overall pick last year. By

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Speaker 2: he averaged eleven points per game in this summer league

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Speaker 2: that's Isaia Wong. No one talked about it last year.

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Speaker 2: Do you wonder why? All right now I want to

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Speaker 2: reference it really a really good, a really good summer

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Speaker 2: I mean, if you're gonna try to shove down my throat. Wow,

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Speaker 2: after starting out zero for fifteen he was he got

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Speaker 2: a thirteen point game. Oh my god, that's like Wilt

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Speaker 2: He had a very impressive performance for the Pelicans yestherday.

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Speaker 2: He actually had twenty five points, eleven to thirteen from

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Speaker 2: Here's a guy named Devin Booker. You may have heard

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Speaker 2: She knows who Devin Booker is. Devin Booker came through

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Speaker 2: So where am I going with this? You know I've

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Speaker 2: And lebron James Senior very much lived up to it.

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Speaker 2: He lived up to the hype. He looked like an

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Speaker 2: right away. Well, there was the same kind of hype

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Speaker 2: on Bronnie James. I cannot believe how many people actually

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Speaker 2: Are you kidding me? That is far beyond what I

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Speaker 2: in a Haystad bet. This is ridiculous. They're betting he

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Speaker 2: might be Rookie of the Year. Okay, you need to

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Speaker 2: I digress. But there are expectations on Brownie, whether he

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Speaker 2: in one manner of speaking, I'm going to give Ronnie

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Speaker 2: react after they've experienced failure. Brownie miss shot after shot,

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Speaker 2: look bad doing it. He's not a point guard. He

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Speaker 2: He's not a playmaker. He rushes back on offense and

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Speaker 2: am I going with this again? For the third time. Bronnie,

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Speaker 2: in his own way, has carried himself like a professional,

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Speaker 2: the responsibility of his height. After every misshot, turnover, whatever

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Speaker 2: his countenance, his facial expressions, his demeanor, how he has

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Speaker 2: interacted with his teammates. He's very measured, he's very respectable.

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Speaker 2: Lebron James raised an elegant young man. We're gonna find

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Speaker 2: I don't think really matters as long as Lebron gets

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Speaker 2: get on with their lives. But I said I would

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Speaker 2: hold withhold full judgment for one year. But in the meantime,

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Speaker 2: Most likely this is the last time I'll be talking

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Speaker 2: Strip, and lies there lies the conundrum. Allen. Let's take

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Speaker 2: But the debt financing, the club was supposed to borrow

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Speaker 7: Not yet, but they do plan to get three hundred billion.

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Speaker 6: A's that dealt with the Raiders. And you know, when

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Speaker 7: Fell through from Sheldon Adelson people here in Las Vegas Rebre,

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Speaker 8: You know, they that stock gap and did but that

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Speaker 7: It was quicker, and that's you know, for people who

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Speaker 2: Okay, you laid that out. Well, what measurable tangible progress

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Speaker 7: Not much, Bernie. I mean, right now we have the

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Speaker 2: It's a skeleton now. It's weird to drive.

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Speaker 7: By it, guess yeah, And you know right now, there's

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Speaker 2: Talking with Alan Snell, LV, sports Biz has very much

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Speaker 7: Yeah, we did learn that the Stadium board in Las

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Speaker 2: I think you know, you're so knowledgeable on this Alan,

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Speaker 2: We can discuss that another day. But the one thing

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Speaker 7: And it is bizarre, Bernie, that you have a team

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Speaker 2: Well, great stuff is always Allan, and we're going to

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Speaker 2: I don't know. I just there's an old saying, don't

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Speaker 2: Where's the money? John Fisher has got to come up

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Speaker 7: Alan, Yeah, K, keep it yeah, Actually, I mean keep

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Speaker 2: You talked about that last ten yep. So, Alan, great stuff.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate your efforts. I know you've been up to

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Speaker 7: Hey great, always great talking with it, Bernie. Keep up

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Speaker 2: Thanks, thank you all. It's Alan Snow LV sports Biz.

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Speaker 2: You can follow him on Twitter at LV sports Biz.

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Speaker 2: He's got a website he really does in a very

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Speaker 2: Coming up, we actually have an All Star Game Saturday

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Speaker 5: All right, Bernie.

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Speaker 9: In the late slate of Major League Baseball Friday night,

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Speaker 9: had lost six of its previous seven games headed into

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Speaker 9: the All Star Break, Hunter Brown pitched six scoreless innings

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Speaker 9: for Houston. They defeated Seattle three to nothing. Bobby Wood

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Speaker 9: Junior a home run for the Royals seven to one.

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Speaker 9: The final there as they defeated the White Sox. Corbyn

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Speaker 9: Burns picked up his tenth winner of the season for Baltimore.

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Speaker 9: They defeated Sexist and nine to one. It was the

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Speaker 9: Guardian seven and the Padres nothing. Juan Soda with four

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Speaker 9: hits for the Yankees. They defeated Tampa Bay six to one,

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Speaker 9: who had victories for Arizona, Pittsburgh and Detroit. And golf

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Speaker 9: Shane Lowry a two stroke lead through the first couple

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Speaker 9: of rounds at the Open Championship, Scottie Scheffler five strokes

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Speaker 9: back Tiger Woods and Roy McElroy missed the cut and

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Speaker 9: news out of the NFL, the Ravens signed a former

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Speaker 9: Pro Bowl safety Eddie Jackson, to a one year contract

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Speaker 9: back to Bernie Frido.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Kevin so if you heard me on the

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Speaker 2: Ben Malors Show Sunday night. I spent a little bit

446
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Speaker 2: of time putting my boot to the nuts of all

447
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Speaker 2: the All Star games that are in existence. Okay, the

448
00:25:40,160 --> 00:25:44,720
Speaker 2: NBA's game is a glorified practice. The NFL Pro Bowl

449
00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:46,760
Speaker 2: is now non existent. I mean, I don't know what

450
00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:51,240
Speaker 2: you call that. Now, the NHL, beyond the skills competition,

451
00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:54,800
Speaker 2: it's not much to watch either. Major League Baseball. Well,

452
00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:56,480
Speaker 2: this should tell you everything you needed to know. Paul

453
00:25:56,480 --> 00:25:59,320
Speaker 2: Schemes was terrific, But after he left the game, frankly

454
00:25:59,400 --> 00:26:01,359
Speaker 2: got boring. They know how much I love baseball? And

455
00:26:01,400 --> 00:26:04,320
Speaker 2: what was the story of the jerseys? Those weren't jerseys.

456
00:26:04,359 --> 00:26:08,160
Speaker 2: Those were Beer League Bowling jerseys that you can buy

457
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Speaker 2: for one hundred and ninety four bucks. And if you

458
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Speaker 2: buy one of those for one hundred ninety four bucks,

459
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Speaker 2: maybe you're in first in line for a front of

460
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Speaker 2: the botomy or you really want to show somebody they

461
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Speaker 2: love them, And that's fine. If that's what you want

462
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Speaker 2: to do. You wear that thing around. Yeah, I don't know,

463
00:26:21,119 --> 00:26:26,240
Speaker 2: not so much, just saying, just saying, But Saturday night,

464
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Speaker 2: even though I have crapped all over All Star games,

465
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Speaker 2: what they become even though he used to just really

466
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Speaker 2: look forward to them and anticipate them. We have sort

467
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Speaker 2: of this possible savior and this is gonna matter. This

468
00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:46,680
Speaker 2: game is actually going to matter to the players involved

469
00:26:47,160 --> 00:26:50,880
Speaker 2: because of the storylines. This is a potential doozy. You've

470
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Speaker 2: got Team USA that'll be heading off to Paris next

471
00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:56,320
Speaker 2: week to play in the Olympics, and you all know

472
00:26:56,359 --> 00:27:00,960
Speaker 2: there was some controversy and selecting that roster. I think, frankly,

473
00:27:00,960 --> 00:27:02,840
Speaker 2: they put together a good roster and I didn't really

474
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Speaker 2: have that much of an almbridge with it. But I

475
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Speaker 2: understand all the storylines. I do. But they're gonna play

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Speaker 2: Team w NBA. Those are the all stars that quote

477
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Speaker 2: didn't make the Olympic team. And this is a game

478
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Speaker 2: that's gonna be dripping with tension, dripping with angst, dripping

479
00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:26,680
Speaker 2: with personal agendas. You can bet the game. Bet MGM

480
00:27:26,800 --> 00:27:30,080
Speaker 2: has made TSA a slight favorite. They're laying five and

481
00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:35,560
Speaker 2: a half points, and I will say, though, that might

482
00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:41,400
Speaker 2: be a light line because the team, the Olympic team stacked. Okay,

483
00:27:41,400 --> 00:27:44,560
Speaker 2: you got Asia Wilson, Brianna Stewart, Dana Tarossi, Britney Grant

484
00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:47,800
Speaker 2: or Kelsey plump. You've got a roster full of veterans

485
00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:51,880
Speaker 2: man that have won championships, but and they're a little

486
00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:54,000
Speaker 2: banged up. They're a little banged up. So I don't

487
00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:55,440
Speaker 2: know how cautious are going to be. But I think

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Speaker 2: once it tips off, it's gonna be hatfields of McCoy's.

489
00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:02,159
Speaker 2: I really do. And of course you've got Caitlyn Clark

490
00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:05,199
Speaker 2: and Angel Reese on the same side, both playing for

491
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Speaker 2: Team WNBA, and apparently the fever coach Christie Size is intimated.

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Speaker 2: I don't know that I didn't hear this directly, that

493
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Speaker 2: the snub that Caitlyn Clark got from the Olympic team

494
00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:19,120
Speaker 2: woke up a monster. You see the season she's having.

495
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Speaker 2: She leads the entire league and assists. I know people

496
00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:25,359
Speaker 2: have made a big deal about turnovers. Okay, that's like saying, well,

497
00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:26,920
Speaker 2: Lebron can't be in the Hall of Fame because he's

498
00:28:26,920 --> 00:28:28,480
Speaker 2: turned the ball over more than anybody Else's part of

499
00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:31,200
Speaker 2: the game. She gets blitzed every plays. She set too

500
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Speaker 2: many other records for me. You know, Reggie Jackson struck

501
00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:36,199
Speaker 2: out two thousand, five hundred and sixty eight times in

502
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Speaker 2: his career. He had five hundred and sixty three home

503
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Speaker 2: runs and won five World Series. He was mister October.

504
00:28:41,800 --> 00:28:43,520
Speaker 2: But would you say, well, he can't, he can't be

505
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Speaker 2: an MVP. Struck out too much. A turnover is like

506
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Speaker 2: a strikeout. All right, No, don't go there. Caitlyn Clark

507
00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:50,640
Speaker 2: has lit it up and somebody's got a call out.

508
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Speaker 2: With all the respect to Gino Oriema who said she

509
00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:56,640
Speaker 2: was set up for failure, yeah not so much. Well

510
00:28:56,680 --> 00:29:00,720
Speaker 2: you got Kaitlyn Clark and injuries and several other good players,

511
00:29:00,720 --> 00:29:08,120
Speaker 2: including Arique ogging away. I'm sorry, folks, you know, I

512
00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:09,880
Speaker 2: know I'm going to hell on a scholarship for not

513
00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:12,680
Speaker 2: being able to pronounce that name. But she won the

514
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Speaker 2: All Star Game MVP. The last time this matchup happened

515
00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:18,040
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty one. Three years ago, you had the

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Speaker 2: Olympic team play the All Stars, and the All Stars

517
00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:25,000
Speaker 2: beat them, and for some reason, Arique said, I'm taking

518
00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:27,160
Speaker 2: my name out of the Team USA pool this year

519
00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:30,280
Speaker 2: because I don't like the politics and a roster selection

520
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:34,440
Speaker 2: just to say that, that's tension right there. So this

521
00:29:34,520 --> 00:29:38,280
Speaker 2: is an All Star game, I think that'll be terrific

522
00:29:38,320 --> 00:29:43,280
Speaker 2: to watch. And the skills competition was pretty good Friday night.

523
00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:46,160
Speaker 2: You can bet the game there is going to be

524
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Speaker 2: real bragging rights. You can be you can be sure

525
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Speaker 2: that if the Team USA loses to the WNBA quote

526
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Speaker 2: unquote All Stars with Caitlin and Angel, that's going to

527
00:29:57,880 --> 00:29:59,360
Speaker 2: be one hell of a storyline and we will be

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00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:02,040
Speaker 2: talking about it O night. Do I think that's gonna happen?

529
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Speaker 2: Probably not, But I want to see what's going to

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Speaker 2: happen because I've been a watch, which is more than

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Speaker 2: you can say for the Major League Baseball All Star Game.

532
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Speaker 2: After Paul Scheme's left, he has, you know, a great start,

533
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Speaker 2: Shohyotani hits a ball nine hundred feet, But what was

534
00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:25,200
Speaker 2: the story those goofy jerseys. It's just there's no there's

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Speaker 2: no teeth in these games. There's no tension in these games.

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Speaker 2: Right coming up, I'm going to set up the midnight

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Speaker 2: Hour topic. The calls have been just superb for the

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Speaker 2: past several months, and I expect they will be tonight

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Speaker 2: eight seven, seven ninety nine on Fox eight seven seven

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Speaker 2: nine to nine six six three six ' nine. I'll

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Speaker 2: set those topics up because, as I said, in twenty

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Speaker 2: two minutes from where I sit here in Las Vegas.

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Speaker 2: It will in fact be twelve midnight. Literally the clock

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Speaker 2: will say twelve midnight. We have listeners and callers from

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Speaker 2: around the world. Gentlemen has been calling in every week

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Speaker 2: from Australia. We have callers from Ireland, Japan and all

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Speaker 2: around the country, so figuratively in those areas it'll be

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Speaker 2: twelve midnight and twelve minute hours. He kind of got

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Speaker 2: the last word. We'll have kind of a three part

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Speaker 2: topic and I look forward to getting folks thoughts tonight,

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Speaker 2: and of course we'll bring the crew in as well.

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Speaker 2: With with Bree and Mark and Kevin. I'm Bernie Fraddle.

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Speaker 2: We are coming to you line from the Las Vegas

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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio tyrerack dot com studios. Keep it locked

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Speaker 2: right here. You're listening to the Bernie Frattle Show on

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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 3: the nation. Catch all of our shows at foxsports Radio

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Speaker 3: listen live.

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

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Speaker 2: Coming to you live from the tire dot com studios

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Speaker 2: here in Las Vegas. Take up to two and Pacific

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00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:59,040
Speaker 2: five am Eastern we are just fourteen minutes away from

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Speaker 2: the top of the hour. That means midnight hour. From

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Speaker 2: where I sit here in Las Vegas, it's twelve midnight.

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Speaker 2: From where you sit, it might be twelve midnight. Figuratively,

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Speaker 2: it'll be the midnight hour. Look to get your calls.

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Speaker 2: Eight seven seven nine nine, six six ' three six ' nine.

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Speaker 2: All right, I'm already on record the w NBA All

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Speaker 2: Star Game five point thirty Pacific time on Saturday night, Bree,

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00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:26,960
Speaker 2: will you be watching?

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Speaker 10: I will be watching just to see Caitlin Clark and

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Speaker 10: Angel Reese like team up together. I think that's going

575
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Speaker 10: to be a really fun watch for sure.

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Speaker 2: Agree that alone, right there is ninety percent of the draw.

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00:32:41,040 --> 00:32:44,560
Speaker 2: But it's not just that, because I also think that

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Speaker 2: this will be a hotly contested game, because some of

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Speaker 2: those young ladies that are not on the Olympic team

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00:32:51,920 --> 00:32:53,760
Speaker 2: maybe believe they should have been, and here's their chance

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Speaker 2: to prove it. Kevin figures, will you be watching the

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Speaker 2: All Star Game Saturday night?

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Speaker 9: You know, Bernie, most likely not.

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Speaker 11: It's not going to be appointment viewing for me.

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Speaker 9: But I'll say this, I don't necessarily have a lot

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Speaker 9: in the pipeline schedule for Saturday. So if I'm around

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Speaker 9: and there's nothing else going on, I'll flip it on.

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00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:11,840
Speaker 9: But I'll answer it by saying it's not necessarily appointment

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Speaker 9: viewing for.

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Speaker 2: Me, and that's fair. I appreciate that. I appreciate your candor,

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00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:21,160
Speaker 2: But how about the outcome or any potential storylines might

592
00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:24,160
Speaker 2: be that Might that be something that will get your

593
00:33:24,200 --> 00:33:26,200
Speaker 2: curiosity after the game, you want to take a look

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Speaker 2: see you to find out what happened.

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Speaker 9: For sure, Like I'd like to believe, or like to

596
00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:32,240
Speaker 9: hope that there is a competitive fire within Caitlin Clark

597
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Speaker 9: that you'd want to go out and try to drop

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Speaker 9: forty or something on the USA team just to say, hey,

599
00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:38,120
Speaker 9: you know, I should have made the team.

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Speaker 11: I know she's not.

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Speaker 9: She says all the right things, but you know there's

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Speaker 9: a competitor in there somewhere. So I like to believe,

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Speaker 9: or like to hope that she would try to come

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Speaker 9: and try to put an example out there and show

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Speaker 9: people I deserve as much as anybody to be on

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Speaker 9: the team. Whether she actually does or does, and we

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00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:54,040
Speaker 9: can discuss that, but I would think I would love

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Speaker 9: to see that sort of aspect so that's a major

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Speaker 9: storyline that I would hope to come out of it.

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Speaker 2: And I agree with everything you just said that and

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Speaker 2: I would even take it a step further. I think

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00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:04,840
Speaker 2: she wants to be on the team that wins, as

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Speaker 2: does Angel Reese, and so that'll be I think the

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Speaker 2: prevailing line. But also, you know, Mike Angelies get another

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Speaker 2: double double my Caitlin Clark have one of those nights,

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Speaker 2: you know, where you get off the bus and the

617
00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:17,640
Speaker 2: hoop looks like the ocean and you're just, you know, drinking.

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Speaker 2: So again, these are all things will be anticipating, Mark Ramsey.

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Speaker 2: Will you be watching the w NBA All Star Game?

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Speaker 12: Kevin took my word. It's not appointment. Watching the game

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Speaker 12: is not fast enough for me. I will only worry

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Speaker 12: about watching highlights. I'm not gonna sit and watch the game.

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Speaker 2: Fair enough, but you will watch the highlights.

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Speaker 12: I want to see what Caitlyn did.

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Speaker 2: Okay, this is exactly where I thought we'd be going

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Speaker 2: with this. And later in the show, obviously there was

627
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Speaker 2: big news involving the WNBA and the media write steel

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00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:52,360
Speaker 2: that they're about to receive. I'll give you the details

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Speaker 2: at the one am hour Pacific four a m. Eastern.

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00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:59,800
Speaker 2: There's a real storyline there. And look, this is a

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00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:02,840
Speaker 2: that's lost money twenty six years in a row. But

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00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:04,840
Speaker 2: for the grace of God and the deep pockets of

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Speaker 2: the NBA, they exist. Let's just be honest. All of

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00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:11,720
Speaker 2: a sudden, this year, there have been sixteen games where

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00:35:12,239 --> 00:35:16,239
Speaker 2: north of one million viewers watched just a regular season game.

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00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:20,720
Speaker 2: The game a couple of nights ago involving the Fever

637
00:35:20,920 --> 00:35:23,720
Speaker 2: was one point seven million fans. All of those sixteen

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00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:27,960
Speaker 2: games fifteen involved Indiana Fever fans or check that involved

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00:35:28,000 --> 00:35:31,240
Speaker 2: Indiana Fever games. Well, guess who plays for the Indiana Fever.

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Speaker 2: She's in the All Star Game along with the Double

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00:35:34,719 --> 00:35:38,399
Speaker 2: double Machine, Angw Reese. So they've been rivals. I don't

642
00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:40,839
Speaker 2: really don't think Adrian Reese likes her, but tomorrow they're

643
00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:43,520
Speaker 2: going to be teammates, and Injuries even said last week

644
00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:45,080
Speaker 2: she says she thought it'd be really cool to play

645
00:35:45,120 --> 00:35:47,759
Speaker 2: with her, So those two decide. I don't think the

646
00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:50,320
Speaker 2: disparity is that big between the All Stars and the

647
00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:54,120
Speaker 2: USA team. I don't. And then a one game affair

648
00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:57,440
Speaker 2: and anything can happen. So the first question I'm going

649
00:35:57,520 --> 00:36:01,319
Speaker 2: to have for the callers midnight at eight, seven, seven,

650
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:03,840
Speaker 2: nine to nine on Fox is will you be watching

651
00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:07,200
Speaker 2: the All Star Game? And the reason I asked that

652
00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:13,160
Speaker 2: is because all Star games anymore are boring. They suck.

653
00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:17,520
Speaker 2: There just isn't any drama, There isn't any real competition.

654
00:36:18,120 --> 00:36:21,879
Speaker 2: No one cares. The NBA game is a glorified practice.

655
00:36:22,239 --> 00:36:26,160
Speaker 2: The NFL Pro Bowl is a complete fagazy it's an embarrassment.

656
00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:29,759
Speaker 2: And the NHL is just a sort of the skills competition.

657
00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:32,680
Speaker 2: There's no goaltending, there's no checking, there's no fighting. And

658
00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:35,719
Speaker 2: as I mentioned, baseball my sport, I got a bit.

659
00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:39,120
Speaker 2: No one cares like they used to. The jerseys were brutal,

660
00:36:40,040 --> 00:36:42,040
Speaker 2: they used to be the novelty. See them line up.

661
00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:46,160
Speaker 2: So will you even be watching? That's number one? Number two,

662
00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:51,600
Speaker 2: This is an honest question because all Star Games were events,

663
00:36:51,640 --> 00:36:55,440
Speaker 2: they were congregations. They were larger than life, you know,

664
00:36:55,520 --> 00:36:58,480
Speaker 2: sort of viewing opportunities to get the world's greatest on

665
00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:01,680
Speaker 2: one stage. That's how the Major League Baseball All Star Game,

666
00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:03,760
Speaker 2: which was the first of all the All Star Games,

667
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:06,400
Speaker 2: started back in nineteen thirty three at the Chicago World's

668
00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:09,680
Speaker 2: Faring in the city of Chicago because a writer by

669
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Speaker 2: the name of Archward of the Chicago Tribune wrote a

670
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:15,719
Speaker 2: letter and said, let's host this All Star game. Let's

671
00:37:15,719 --> 00:37:17,800
Speaker 2: see if we can get the leagues together. It was

672
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:20,319
Speaker 2: in the midst of the depression. We'll cheer people up.

673
00:37:20,480 --> 00:37:22,000
Speaker 2: It'll be a great event. It was only supposed to

674
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:25,720
Speaker 2: be a one time deal. It evolved into the Midsummer Classic.

675
00:37:26,719 --> 00:37:28,920
Speaker 2: It was a huge I've covered one All Star game

676
00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:32,839
Speaker 2: and I've been to three. Now it's lost its luster tremendously.

677
00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:36,160
Speaker 2: Even the home run Derbies jumped the Shark. So the

678
00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:38,720
Speaker 2: one game where they play defense, even it's kind of boring.

679
00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:40,319
Speaker 2: I thought the game was kind of boring the other

680
00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:43,880
Speaker 2: night after Paul Schemes left. It just was and everybody's

681
00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:46,200
Speaker 2: kind of smiling and they're talking to guys. It's not

682
00:37:47,000 --> 00:37:50,960
Speaker 2: a major league competition. So the question is I have

683
00:37:51,719 --> 00:37:54,319
Speaker 2: The second part of the question is have all star

684
00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:57,719
Speaker 2: games jump the Shark? Are all Star games cooked? You

685
00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:01,160
Speaker 2: may watch the WNBA All Star Game, but if Caitlin

686
00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:03,360
Speaker 2: Clark and Ajer Rees weren't in it, I bet you wouldn't.

687
00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:07,080
Speaker 2: So we will be watching Saturday night. Number one. Number

688
00:38:07,080 --> 00:38:10,120
Speaker 2: two are all Star games of all you know of

689
00:38:10,120 --> 00:38:12,839
Speaker 2: the four major sports? Are they cooked? Have they jumped

690
00:38:12,880 --> 00:38:15,440
Speaker 2: the shark? Are they even worth having anymore?

691
00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:17,840
Speaker 13: You know?

692
00:38:18,800 --> 00:38:21,640
Speaker 2: Is an appointment watching? Or do you even care? And

693
00:38:21,719 --> 00:38:27,400
Speaker 2: then The Athletic, which is a terrific publication, did a

694
00:38:27,560 --> 00:38:32,080
Speaker 2: survey about a week ago. Which league has the worst

695
00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:34,879
Speaker 2: All Star Game? I like to hear from you. Which

696
00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:39,000
Speaker 2: are the four leagues? I'm not counting the WNBA here, NFL, NBA,

697
00:38:39,239 --> 00:38:43,399
Speaker 2: Major League Baseball, NHL? Which league has the worst All

698
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:43,959
Speaker 2: Star Game?

699
00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:44,279
Speaker 1: So?

700
00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:48,040
Speaker 2: Will you be watching Saturday Night? Number two? Do all

701
00:38:48,080 --> 00:38:51,239
Speaker 2: Star games serve any fruitful purpose anymore? And do we

702
00:38:51,320 --> 00:38:54,880
Speaker 2: have a situation where they've simply jumped the shark and

703
00:38:54,880 --> 00:38:57,520
Speaker 2: lost their luster and you just don't care? Or two

704
00:38:57,520 --> 00:39:03,040
Speaker 2: gimmicky and three for your money, which of the four

705
00:39:03,080 --> 00:39:06,680
Speaker 2: games is the worst? Now? That was really interesting. What

706
00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:08,560
Speaker 2: I really caught my eye about this survey that the

707
00:39:08,560 --> 00:39:14,880
Speaker 2: Athletic did was two of the four sports compiled ninety

708
00:39:14,920 --> 00:39:20,480
Speaker 2: two percent of all votes, the other two wopping eight percent.

709
00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:24,920
Speaker 2: And I would have been wrong. I would have thought

710
00:39:25,000 --> 00:39:29,880
Speaker 2: the least worst of the All Star games was was different?

711
00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:32,719
Speaker 2: And I'll share that with you. So will you be

712
00:39:32,760 --> 00:39:36,239
Speaker 2: watching the All Star Game WNBA All Star Games Saturday Night?

713
00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:39,480
Speaker 2: Have All Star Games jumped the shart? Are they cooked?

714
00:39:40,120 --> 00:39:43,440
Speaker 2: And which of the four is the worst? Eight seven, seven,

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Speaker 2: nine to nine on Fox eight seven seven, nine nine

716
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Speaker 2: six six three six ' nine. Let's get them lined up.

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Speaker 2: The callers have been fabulous the past few months. Remember,

718
00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:56,879
Speaker 2: the most boring conversations are when people agree. So let's

719
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Speaker 2: get it on. You listen to the Bernie Frattle Show

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Speaker 2: on five Sports Radio.

721
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Speaker 1: Don't listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

722
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Speaker 2: Yup, that's right, you heard the man. Bernie Fraddle Show

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Speaker 2: part question tonight, will you be watching e WNBA All

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Speaker 2: Star Games Saturday? Have All Star Games jump the shark?

731
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Speaker 7: In?

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Speaker 2: Which of the four major sports of those All Star

733
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Speaker 2: games is the worst in your opinion? You got it?

734
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Speaker 2: It's time. It's the midnight hour.

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Speaker 1: Start right now, the midnight hour.

736
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Speaker 2: All right, the callers are what make this You've been

737
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Speaker 2: nothing short of sensational the seven and a half months

738
00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:04,200
Speaker 2: we've been doing this, and I expect nothing different tonight

739
00:41:04,239 --> 00:41:07,239
Speaker 2: eight seven seven nine six six three six nine. Please

740
00:41:07,280 --> 00:41:10,720
Speaker 2: be patient, nobody gets shut out. We go to Kansas

741
00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:12,960
Speaker 2: City to start things off. Steve, Welcome to the Bernie

742
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Speaker 2: Frittle Show. Get us started tonight.

743
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Speaker 14: All right, vernon, Vernie, We're gonna get start a leadoff spot.

744
00:41:20,840 --> 00:41:25,520
Speaker 14: I'm trying to get a cooking here. You know, we've

745
00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:30,160
Speaker 14: truly reached a status of equality in the USA when

746
00:41:30,160 --> 00:41:34,920
Speaker 14: our overpaid female millionaires are just as lazy as our

747
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:41,480
Speaker 14: overpaid male millionaires basketball players. I was watching Caitlin Clark

748
00:41:41,560 --> 00:41:45,920
Speaker 14: eating popcorn while watching the three point contest, and Sabrina

749
00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:50,240
Speaker 14: iron Escu will not be playing was not playing as well,

750
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Speaker 14: So I will be certainly watching tomorrow night because of this.

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00:41:56,840 --> 00:41:59,040
Speaker 14: This coach for our national team.

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00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:03,680
Speaker 15: Coach wanted to talk about Caitlin Clark, that she was

753
00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:07,480
Speaker 15: in the trenches with Caitlin Clark and then't like basically

754
00:42:07,520 --> 00:42:09,799
Speaker 15: said that she didn't like how she reacted. So I

755
00:42:09,840 --> 00:42:12,240
Speaker 15: would just I would just give the ball to kitl

756
00:42:12,320 --> 00:42:14,960
Speaker 15: and have her put up about forty or fifty. I

757
00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:19,200
Speaker 15: would have Caitlin shoot about twenty threes against these old girls,

758
00:42:19,440 --> 00:42:22,279
Speaker 15: and they was had their jealous and they resent the

759
00:42:22,360 --> 00:42:25,200
Speaker 15: fact that they're not getting the money that Caitlyn and

760
00:42:25,320 --> 00:42:28,600
Speaker 15: Angel are getting right now, and then they need to

761
00:42:28,600 --> 00:42:31,160
Speaker 15: be put back and they're putting these old old brogs

762
00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:33,920
Speaker 15: need to be put back in their plays. It's a

763
00:42:34,040 --> 00:42:36,600
Speaker 15: simple circle of life. It's simple, as simple as that.

764
00:42:37,320 --> 00:42:39,120
Speaker 15: And the ratings are going to be through the roof.

765
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Speaker 15: That's great, that's fantastic. I think the worst the worst

766
00:42:45,520 --> 00:42:47,080
Speaker 15: All Star games.

767
00:42:47,160 --> 00:42:49,200
Speaker 6: Boy, I tell you this is this is this is

768
00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:50,240
Speaker 6: a tough snifty to fifty.

769
00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:55,040
Speaker 15: The NBA All Star Game and the NFL Flag Football Game.

770
00:42:55,280 --> 00:42:58,840
Speaker 15: I mean, there's no distinction between between the two. I

771
00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:02,640
Speaker 15: mean I really can't. I really can't tell you which

772
00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:06,160
Speaker 15: which is which is worse. But I'll give it to

773
00:43:06,200 --> 00:43:09,280
Speaker 15: the NBA just because there they don't play any defense

774
00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:12,799
Speaker 15: at all, and in the NFL at least try and

775
00:43:13,160 --> 00:43:13,440
Speaker 15: do a.

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Speaker 2: Little Yeah yeah, before that, it's stunk.

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Speaker 15: Well, what was the other question? What was Well?

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Speaker 2: Real quickly, because I want to get to all the call, Steve,

779
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Speaker 2: do you think you've reached a point where All Star

780
00:43:26,719 --> 00:43:28,720
Speaker 2: games have simply jumped the sharp or they cooked?

781
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Speaker 15: Well, you know, I want to see I know this

782
00:43:32,719 --> 00:43:36,600
Speaker 15: may be controversial, and I you know, I want to

783
00:43:36,640 --> 00:43:41,040
Speaker 15: see the end the Major League Baseball go back to

784
00:43:41,120 --> 00:43:44,520
Speaker 15: the World Series format. I want to see home field advantage.

785
00:43:44,880 --> 00:43:47,640
Speaker 15: I want to see stakes. I would be okay with

786
00:43:47,719 --> 00:43:50,799
Speaker 15: the NBA Finals being a home game with the all

787
00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:54,960
Speaker 15: the or USA versus the World. You need to change

788
00:43:55,040 --> 00:43:56,799
Speaker 15: formats you need there you go.

789
00:43:56,719 --> 00:44:00,239
Speaker 2: You're on some well, thank you, thank you, Steve. Good call.

790
00:44:00,320 --> 00:44:02,399
Speaker 2: That's something we're going to discuss in a future show.

791
00:44:02,560 --> 00:44:06,239
Speaker 2: There are formats a USA versus the World in both

792
00:44:06,280 --> 00:44:10,799
Speaker 2: baseball and basketball has been suggested, but for now, this

793
00:44:10,840 --> 00:44:14,160
Speaker 2: is what we got. Andre from Massachusetts, you're up next.

794
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Speaker 2: What are your thoughts on these questions?

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Speaker 16: How are you doing? Bernie?

796
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Speaker 17: Thanks so much for taking the call.

797
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Speaker 18: Listen.

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Speaker 17: I'm going to be locked in for the WNBA All

799
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Speaker 17: Star Game, first of all, because I do appreciate the

800
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Speaker 17: format team USA versus World. I'm interested to see Caitlin

801
00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:32,560
Speaker 17: Clarks kind of maybe show some of the veteran players

802
00:44:32,600 --> 00:44:36,440
Speaker 17: give them their come uppence because her statistics have been

803
00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:39,160
Speaker 17: really the equivalent of some of these veteran guards.

804
00:44:39,360 --> 00:44:39,560
Speaker 2: Right.

805
00:44:39,960 --> 00:44:42,279
Speaker 17: Originally, I thought that, you know, leaving her off Team

806
00:44:42,360 --> 00:44:46,319
Speaker 17: USA only was appropriate because there is kind of a

807
00:44:46,360 --> 00:44:49,040
Speaker 17: pecking order and a lot of times players don't make

808
00:44:49,040 --> 00:44:51,520
Speaker 17: the team until they're in their mid twenties. But Kaitlan

809
00:44:51,560 --> 00:44:54,440
Speaker 17: clark statistics are really the equivalent and better and some

810
00:44:54,520 --> 00:44:57,160
Speaker 17: of the players on Team USA. So I like to

811
00:44:57,160 --> 00:44:58,320
Speaker 17: see that back and forth.

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Speaker 13: I'm interested.

813
00:44:59,480 --> 00:45:02,240
Speaker 17: I have in terms of the worst All Star Games,

814
00:45:02,360 --> 00:45:05,920
Speaker 17: the previous caller really laid it out, and the NBA

815
00:45:06,040 --> 00:45:09,440
Speaker 17: takes the crown simply because it's it's literally lay up lines.

816
00:45:09,480 --> 00:45:13,600
Speaker 17: They play absolutely no defense. There's more defense Bernie in

817
00:45:13,640 --> 00:45:16,880
Speaker 17: the Rico Hines UCLA runs that to take place in

818
00:45:16,920 --> 00:45:19,720
Speaker 17: the summer in California than there is in the NBA

819
00:45:19,880 --> 00:45:22,840
Speaker 17: All Star Game, which is an absolute miscarriage of justice

820
00:45:23,040 --> 00:45:25,719
Speaker 17: because it's the All Star Game and such event. That's

821
00:45:25,760 --> 00:45:28,120
Speaker 17: what really brought the NBA back in the eighties under

822
00:45:28,120 --> 00:45:30,200
Speaker 17: the leadership of David Sterns, and the fact that the

823
00:45:30,239 --> 00:45:32,920
Speaker 17: players don't even have not only the common sense, but

824
00:45:32,960 --> 00:45:36,319
Speaker 17: the decency frankly to like compete and make it a

825
00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:37,880
Speaker 17: reasonably good game for the fans.

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Speaker 15: It's out of this world.

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Speaker 17: For football, it's not as bad because they're running from

828
00:45:42,680 --> 00:45:45,160
Speaker 17: you know, it's not running, but the fear of injury,

829
00:45:45,200 --> 00:45:48,400
Speaker 17: the CTE, you know, and the fact that they never play.

830
00:45:48,680 --> 00:45:50,640
Speaker 17: That's really the reason why they had to go to

831
00:45:50,680 --> 00:45:54,960
Speaker 17: flag football, just because the theory of contact forced them

832
00:45:54,960 --> 00:45:59,520
Speaker 17: to the NBA. They're just flat out insensitive, inconsiderate.

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00:45:59,280 --> 00:46:04,320
Speaker 2: Real quickly, Andre, have All Star games in general outlive

834
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Speaker 2: their useful life.

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Speaker 17: At this point, Bernie, I have to say no because

836
00:46:08,920 --> 00:46:10,960
Speaker 17: you know, I'm not young like I used to be.

837
00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:13,560
Speaker 17: But as a kid, an All Star Game it's like

838
00:46:13,640 --> 00:46:16,399
Speaker 17: sand lots. It's a really big deal. So for those

839
00:46:16,440 --> 00:46:20,120
Speaker 17: fans that are coming up that next generation, they're indispensable.

840
00:46:20,239 --> 00:46:22,920
Speaker 17: That's what really ties them in and forms those connections

841
00:46:23,160 --> 00:46:25,400
Speaker 17: so that they have to remain. It's just the NBA.

842
00:46:26,560 --> 00:46:30,560
Speaker 17: You know, they've they've they've rested on their laurels.

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00:46:31,040 --> 00:46:36,400
Speaker 2: Appreciated, Buddy, good call, Thank you, Andre, Mike from Modesto

844
00:46:36,960 --> 00:46:39,000
Speaker 2: return caller. What are your thoughts tonight?

845
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Speaker 19: A great show is always Barnie. Women's basketball. I just

846
00:46:45,880 --> 00:46:47,880
Speaker 19: don't care. I'm sorry, I don't see.

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Speaker 2: Just so I know on the record, so you will

848
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Speaker 2: not be watching Saturday night, correct, I.

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Speaker 19: Will not want Okay, okay, All Star games are crap now.

850
00:46:57,160 --> 00:47:01,040
Speaker 19: They really are what destroyed the baseball all the fact

851
00:47:01,080 --> 00:47:05,680
Speaker 19: of the bad uniforms. They trying to make it gimmicks,

852
00:47:05,719 --> 00:47:10,000
Speaker 19: like the problem is when they made Inner League play,

853
00:47:10,080 --> 00:47:11,600
Speaker 19: you took the novelty at it.

854
00:47:11,600 --> 00:47:14,000
Speaker 2: The true, very true.

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00:47:14,680 --> 00:47:17,600
Speaker 19: The greatest thing about the All Star Game is it's

856
00:47:17,600 --> 00:47:21,120
Speaker 19: the only time, besides the World Series you saw those

857
00:47:21,200 --> 00:47:24,600
Speaker 19: great players face each other. Who could ever forget when

858
00:47:24,680 --> 00:47:28,680
Speaker 19: John Cruk saw Randy Johnson for the first time, And

859
00:47:28,719 --> 00:47:30,920
Speaker 19: now it's just no big deal. They play in their

860
00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:33,520
Speaker 19: league play, we see him play each other. So it's

861
00:47:33,560 --> 00:47:35,960
Speaker 19: just another game with bad uniforms now, not even there,

862
00:47:36,200 --> 00:47:40,359
Speaker 19: not even their team uniforms. Okay, football, that's the worst.

863
00:47:41,120 --> 00:47:43,719
Speaker 19: I mean, it's down the flag football now. I quit

864
00:47:43,800 --> 00:47:48,359
Speaker 19: watching when they had that great idea to move the

865
00:47:48,440 --> 00:47:51,880
Speaker 19: Pro Bowl ahead of the Super Bowl so the top

866
00:47:51,960 --> 00:47:56,200
Speaker 19: four teams wouldn't participate anymore, that's correct, And now we're

867
00:47:56,200 --> 00:47:59,680
Speaker 19: playing flag football. It's all horrible.

868
00:47:59,719 --> 00:47:59,959
Speaker 13: Burn.

869
00:48:00,560 --> 00:48:03,080
Speaker 19: I think they should just stop, either fix it or

870
00:48:03,200 --> 00:48:06,799
Speaker 19: stop and they'll never stop fixed baseball because of the

871
00:48:06,840 --> 00:48:11,000
Speaker 19: novelty of airy play and the money they're making. So

872
00:48:11,480 --> 00:48:13,520
Speaker 19: no matter what they do the All Star Game, it

873
00:48:13,560 --> 00:48:16,520
Speaker 19: will never ever be the shame. Now that's a shame.

874
00:48:17,040 --> 00:48:21,120
Speaker 2: Thank you right, great stuff outstanding, Mike, see bringing it tonight,

875
00:48:21,920 --> 00:48:24,879
Speaker 2: Jim for Massachusetts. Always look forward to what you got

876
00:48:24,880 --> 00:48:28,600
Speaker 2: to say. You never pull punches and you've got the floor.

877
00:48:29,920 --> 00:48:32,320
Speaker 20: First of all, Bernie, I am definitely gonna be watching

878
00:48:32,360 --> 00:48:37,520
Speaker 20: the the WNBA team USA an All Starde game because

879
00:48:37,719 --> 00:48:40,120
Speaker 20: you're gonna stop watching a basketball game and then a

880
00:48:40,120 --> 00:48:43,560
Speaker 20: hockey game is gonna break out. Those girls got something

881
00:48:43,560 --> 00:48:47,839
Speaker 20: to prove, and I believe Angel Reese and Kate wincolok

882
00:48:47,880 --> 00:48:51,040
Speaker 20: A're gonna put their well let's say animosity aside toward

883
00:48:51,080 --> 00:48:53,880
Speaker 20: each other and they're gonna do some pick and rolls

884
00:48:53,880 --> 00:48:56,680
Speaker 20: and blind pass. They're gonna make them girls look foolish,

885
00:48:57,000 --> 00:48:59,319
Speaker 20: and it's gonna get testy, and then it's gonna get ugly,

886
00:48:59,360 --> 00:49:02,120
Speaker 20: and I'm gonna love every minute of it, you know.

887
00:49:02,320 --> 00:49:04,120
Speaker 20: So that's what I think is going to happen there

888
00:49:04,840 --> 00:49:07,319
Speaker 20: as fire as all the All Star Games goes. After

889
00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:10,719
Speaker 20: watching that NBA All Star Game, they're the worst. Come on,

890
00:49:11,360 --> 00:49:15,719
Speaker 20: let's just scrap that and everything. And then the All

891
00:49:15,719 --> 00:49:18,239
Speaker 20: Star Game for baseball. Why would I want to watch

892
00:49:18,280 --> 00:49:21,040
Speaker 20: grown men playing in pajamas. I don't understand that.

893
00:49:21,520 --> 00:49:21,839
Speaker 6: You know.

894
00:49:23,960 --> 00:49:26,720
Speaker 2: Those jerseys are on sale for one hundred and ninety

895
00:49:26,719 --> 00:49:30,880
Speaker 2: four bucks. You too could be the proud ounner. Go ahead, Jim, Yeah,

896
00:49:31,080 --> 00:49:33,760
Speaker 2: I mean, come on, it's a bowling league, beer jerseys.

897
00:49:33,800 --> 00:49:34,279
Speaker 2: What it is?

898
00:49:35,120 --> 00:49:38,160
Speaker 20: I know exactly so. But the thing is, you know

899
00:49:38,280 --> 00:49:41,120
Speaker 20: in the NFL game, you know they're doing flag football

900
00:49:41,120 --> 00:49:43,279
Speaker 20: now and stuff like that. I agree with your previous call.

901
00:49:43,400 --> 00:49:44,799
Speaker 20: When I was a kid, I used to like to

902
00:49:44,880 --> 00:49:48,799
Speaker 20: watch that stuff. But that's when they really cared and

903
00:49:48,840 --> 00:49:51,479
Speaker 20: they really put it into it because they know the

904
00:49:51,520 --> 00:49:54,680
Speaker 20: fans were watching and everything. But now they make so

905
00:49:54,800 --> 00:49:58,760
Speaker 20: much money and there's so much wary about getting a hurt.

906
00:49:59,200 --> 00:50:02,040
Speaker 20: I think you just should scrap all the stuff. But

907
00:50:02,160 --> 00:50:04,600
Speaker 20: I just can't wait for that WNBA All Star Game

908
00:50:04,640 --> 00:50:07,360
Speaker 20: that I'm telling you. I hope they have the best

909
00:50:07,560 --> 00:50:09,920
Speaker 20: rest in the league working now on because that one's

910
00:50:09,960 --> 00:50:13,960
Speaker 20: gonna be you know, Testy, and I think those girls

911
00:50:14,200 --> 00:50:17,960
Speaker 20: Caitlin Cock and Reese and that's crowd. They're gonna lay

912
00:50:18,000 --> 00:50:20,239
Speaker 20: down the hammer and say, hey, you know what, there's

913
00:50:20,280 --> 00:50:21,560
Speaker 20: a new generation in town.

914
00:50:21,880 --> 00:50:22,080
Speaker 21: You know.

915
00:50:22,520 --> 00:50:24,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, let me tell you all right, great stuff

916
00:50:24,840 --> 00:50:28,799
Speaker 2: is always Jim appreciated, appreciate the candor. I'm not gonna lie.

917
00:50:29,000 --> 00:50:32,960
Speaker 2: I'm rooting for the Clark Reese duo to upset this

918
00:50:33,000 --> 00:50:35,160
Speaker 2: Olympic team so they can head to Paris knowing that

919
00:50:35,200 --> 00:50:37,520
Speaker 2: they lost to the girls that were not picked. Do

920
00:50:37,560 --> 00:50:40,680
Speaker 2: I think that's gonna happen? Probably not, But that's why

921
00:50:40,680 --> 00:50:44,920
Speaker 2: I'm watching, because I believe it could. Eight seven, seven, nine, nine,

922
00:50:45,040 --> 00:50:47,200
Speaker 2: six six, three sixty nine. We're gonna continue with the

923
00:50:47,239 --> 00:50:49,520
Speaker 2: midnight hour. No one gets shut out. We want to

924
00:50:49,520 --> 00:50:52,279
Speaker 2: hear your calls. Will you be watching the WNBA All

925
00:50:52,280 --> 00:50:55,720
Speaker 2: Star Game Saturday night? In general, have all Star games

926
00:50:55,920 --> 00:50:58,120
Speaker 2: jumped the shark? Not that they're going to cancel them,

927
00:50:58,160 --> 00:51:01,319
Speaker 2: but they're just blase. And of course, which of the

928
00:51:01,320 --> 00:51:04,520
Speaker 2: four is by far the worst? Trevor and Poppy, You're

929
00:51:04,600 --> 00:51:07,279
Speaker 2: up next, So Hank Tight, I'm Bernie Fratto coming to

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Speaker 2: you live from the Las Vegas Fox Sports Radio tyrac

931
00:51:10,880 --> 00:51:13,080
Speaker 2: dot com studios. KEEVII Locktright here, you listening to the

932
00:51:13,080 --> 00:51:14,800
Speaker 2: Bernie Frattle Show on Fox Sports Radio.

933
00:51:16,080 --> 00:51:18,960
Speaker 3: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in

934
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Speaker 3: the nation. Catch all of our shows at Foxsports Radio

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Speaker 3: dot Com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to listen.

936
00:51:27,120 --> 00:51:31,680
Speaker 4: Live, Hey gang, listen is Jay Glazer, host of Unbreakable,

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Speaker 4: a mental wealth podcast, and every week we will have

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Speaker 4: on leader from sports entertainment like Sean McVay, Lindsey Vaughn,

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Speaker 4: Michael phelf, David Spade, got Fiemi, and also those who

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Speaker 4: can help us in between the ears, anyone from a

941
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Speaker 4: therapist to someone like Ed Milett or John Gordon. We've

942
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Speaker 4: all been through some sort of adversity to get to

943
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Speaker 4: the top.

944
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Speaker 5: We've all used different tools.

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Speaker 4: Listen to Unbreakable with Jay Glazer and Mental Wealth podcast

946
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Speaker 4: on the iHeartRadio app, podcasts or wherever you get podcasts.

947
00:52:05,800 --> 00:52:08,680
Speaker 2: All right back on the Bernie Fattle Show Fox Sports Radio.

948
00:52:08,719 --> 00:52:11,160
Speaker 2: Come you live from the Tarac dot Com studios here

949
00:52:11,200 --> 00:52:15,520
Speaker 2: in Las Vegas. We are in the throes of another baffle.

950
00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:18,600
Speaker 2: Midnight hour callers have been great eight seven seven nine

951
00:52:18,680 --> 00:52:22,640
Speaker 2: nine six six three six nine, eight seven seven ninety

952
00:52:22,719 --> 00:52:25,120
Speaker 2: nine on Fox. Are you gonna watch the w NBA

953
00:52:25,280 --> 00:52:29,440
Speaker 2: All Star Game Saturday Night? Have all Star games in general?

954
00:52:29,560 --> 00:52:32,680
Speaker 2: Jump to Shark and of the four major sports, which

955
00:52:32,719 --> 00:52:35,839
Speaker 2: All Star game do you believe is the worst? Back

956
00:52:35,840 --> 00:52:40,120
Speaker 2: out to the phones, Trevor from Sherwood. Now is that Sherwood, Oregon? Trevor?

957
00:52:41,120 --> 00:52:46,439
Speaker 6: That is correct, Bernie is Northwest. You got the floor,

958
00:52:46,560 --> 00:52:50,120
Speaker 6: my friend, welcome in also known as spoxweeds.

959
00:52:50,560 --> 00:52:53,040
Speaker 2: Oh drinking on? What are you drinking to night? Man?

960
00:52:53,040 --> 00:52:54,200
Speaker 2: Real quickly? What are you drinking?

961
00:52:54,760 --> 00:52:55,239
Speaker 15: Were having?

962
00:52:55,280 --> 00:52:59,600
Speaker 6: We're having a large shot of bush mis Irish whiskey

963
00:52:59,719 --> 00:53:02,759
Speaker 6: and a Foster's back, a little boilermaker actions tonight.

964
00:53:03,040 --> 00:53:06,680
Speaker 2: There you go, nicely done, summer day. Go ahead.

965
00:53:07,680 --> 00:53:10,120
Speaker 6: So the first thing I want to say is your

966
00:53:10,360 --> 00:53:14,839
Speaker 6: first caller from Kansas City definitely is wearing a wife beater.

967
00:53:17,960 --> 00:53:21,480
Speaker 2: You're listening to Ben mallardson and night. Are you what

968
00:53:21,640 --> 00:53:24,760
Speaker 2: I invoked at with Adam Auslim? Okay, it's all good,

969
00:53:24,840 --> 00:53:26,880
Speaker 2: it's all We're all one big happy family.

970
00:53:26,920 --> 00:53:27,080
Speaker 15: Here.

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00:53:27,520 --> 00:53:29,080
Speaker 2: Are you going to watch the game Saturday night?

972
00:53:31,080 --> 00:53:34,359
Speaker 6: I'm gonna, I might in a different way. What I'm

973
00:53:34,440 --> 00:53:36,880
Speaker 6: going to do is I'm going to record it because

974
00:53:36,920 --> 00:53:40,719
Speaker 6: I'm probably going to watch something else like the British Open.

975
00:53:40,760 --> 00:53:42,800
Speaker 6: I know you I supposed to say the British Open,

976
00:53:42,840 --> 00:53:48,040
Speaker 6: but that and then later on when there's not anything

977
00:53:48,520 --> 00:53:52,040
Speaker 6: like that might supersede the w n B A. I

978
00:53:52,080 --> 00:53:56,120
Speaker 6: am interested in seeing how Caitlyn Clark and Angel Reese

979
00:53:56,280 --> 00:54:01,480
Speaker 6: cooperate and if they're in frenemies too much to win,

980
00:54:01,719 --> 00:54:05,719
Speaker 6: or if they're really good competitors. So that's that's where

981
00:54:05,800 --> 00:54:06,799
Speaker 6: how I'm gonna work it.

982
00:54:07,400 --> 00:54:09,399
Speaker 2: Well fair enough so that counts as yes, you're gonna

983
00:54:09,440 --> 00:54:11,320
Speaker 2: because you're curious about the outcome, and I want to

984
00:54:11,320 --> 00:54:12,879
Speaker 2: see who wins the game. I want to see if

985
00:54:12,880 --> 00:54:15,640
Speaker 2: these All Stars can give the Olympic team and they're

986
00:54:15,640 --> 00:54:18,600
Speaker 2: come up. It's like Jim in Massachusetts said, all right,

987
00:54:18,680 --> 00:54:21,440
Speaker 2: so in general, have all All Star games jumped the shark?

988
00:54:21,440 --> 00:54:23,919
Speaker 2: And which of the four is the worst? Oh?

989
00:54:24,000 --> 00:54:26,200
Speaker 6: Absolutely, they've jumped the shark. I mean they've done They've

990
00:54:26,280 --> 00:54:28,279
Speaker 6: dumbed it down to the point where it's it's it's

991
00:54:28,360 --> 00:54:33,200
Speaker 6: not what you're tuning in for. And now they have

992
00:54:33,400 --> 00:54:38,080
Speaker 6: a chance to experiment year by year though. I mean, imagine,

993
00:54:38,560 --> 00:54:41,719
Speaker 6: say the everybody's complaining about the uniforms for the email B,

994
00:54:42,480 --> 00:54:47,440
Speaker 6: what if they decided to make the uniforms the brat

995
00:54:47,719 --> 00:54:51,600
Speaker 6: you know, Speedo Onesie and imagine Alex poolholst In one

996
00:54:51,600 --> 00:54:51,839
Speaker 6: of them.

997
00:54:51,960 --> 00:54:54,640
Speaker 2: Just I just threw over my mouth. By the way,

998
00:54:55,040 --> 00:54:57,799
Speaker 2: for what it's worth, this got so much attention that

999
00:54:57,920 --> 00:55:02,400
Speaker 2: Rob manfred is uh is considering going back to just

1000
00:55:02,600 --> 00:55:05,279
Speaker 2: game jerseys. I think that's gonna gather somnum. But that's

1001
00:55:05,280 --> 00:55:08,120
Speaker 2: a conversation for a different day. Which are the four

1002
00:55:08,239 --> 00:55:09,200
Speaker 2: is the worst? In your view?

1003
00:55:10,400 --> 00:55:13,279
Speaker 6: Which is it's it's basketball? I mean, it's just well,

1004
00:55:13,320 --> 00:55:16,399
Speaker 6: it's just people chucking up threes. And what they need

1005
00:55:16,440 --> 00:55:19,000
Speaker 6: to do is they need to change the rules to

1006
00:55:19,160 --> 00:55:22,359
Speaker 6: make it more competitive. Take away the three?

1007
00:55:23,600 --> 00:55:26,680
Speaker 2: Take away something, Oh, that's you know what, that's not

1008
00:55:26,719 --> 00:55:29,359
Speaker 2: a bad idea. Great stuff, my man, hold it down,

1009
00:55:30,000 --> 00:55:32,719
Speaker 2: enjoy your beverages, and don't keep behind the wheel, which

1010
00:55:32,760 --> 00:55:36,520
Speaker 2: I know you will not do. Poppy, what's happening at Poppy?

1011
00:55:37,480 --> 00:55:42,440
Speaker 22: Hey, Bernie's right here midnight? Ever, let's go great.

1012
00:55:42,239 --> 00:55:44,520
Speaker 2: You're gonna watch the game Saturday night, Poppy.

1013
00:55:44,719 --> 00:55:46,120
Speaker 22: Well, you know what, I was gonna do a lot

1014
00:55:46,160 --> 00:55:48,400
Speaker 22: of comparison watching the game. When I was younger and

1015
00:55:48,400 --> 00:55:50,720
Speaker 22: I would play basketball with my kids, with my friends,

1016
00:55:50,719 --> 00:55:52,719
Speaker 22: we would play basketball in the street and we're like, hair,

1017
00:55:52,760 --> 00:55:54,960
Speaker 22: he's gonna watch the All Star Game and I'm like, yeah,

1018
00:55:54,960 --> 00:55:57,040
Speaker 22: I want to watch Michael Jordan's Oh what do you

1019
00:55:57,080 --> 00:56:00,560
Speaker 22: think it's gonna do against Kobe the rookies? It's short, Quoby,

1020
00:56:00,600 --> 00:56:02,480
Speaker 22: who do you think? Like we were talking it was

1021
00:56:02,520 --> 00:56:05,000
Speaker 22: before the internet. We were interested in seeing the game,

1022
00:56:05,120 --> 00:56:07,879
Speaker 22: you know who's gonna win, and we would talk about

1023
00:56:07,920 --> 00:56:10,239
Speaker 22: we were interested. And now the All Star game, you know,

1024
00:56:10,360 --> 00:56:13,479
Speaker 22: like for the man's like not very interested, they don't

1025
00:56:13,600 --> 00:56:15,759
Speaker 22: want to play the game. But for me and now

1026
00:56:15,840 --> 00:56:18,520
Speaker 22: was a grown up. For the w NBA, I'm not

1027
00:56:18,680 --> 00:56:22,080
Speaker 22: really interested. But on the betting wise, I am interested

1028
00:56:22,120 --> 00:56:22,560
Speaker 22: in who was.

1029
00:56:22,600 --> 00:56:24,480
Speaker 2: Okay, they're gonna cover the spread. The five and a

1030
00:56:24,520 --> 00:56:26,279
Speaker 2: half is the live He's gonna cover the five and

1031
00:56:26,280 --> 00:56:26,640
Speaker 2: a half.

1032
00:56:27,160 --> 00:56:29,840
Speaker 22: Yeah, I think they will because you know Clark and

1033
00:56:29,920 --> 00:56:32,520
Speaker 22: Angel Rees and there's another All Star in the w NBA.

1034
00:56:32,640 --> 00:56:36,520
Speaker 22: They didn't get selected for Team USA. They're angry, they're hungry,

1035
00:56:36,760 --> 00:56:39,040
Speaker 22: and Team you say, is probably gonna be playing hard

1036
00:56:39,080 --> 00:56:41,600
Speaker 22: the first half. In the second half, that's when Clark's

1037
00:56:41,600 --> 00:56:44,440
Speaker 22: gonna blow off Angel Reves and it's gonna get banana.

1038
00:56:44,560 --> 00:56:47,040
Speaker 22: So I think five and a half that will cover Bernie.

1039
00:56:47,320 --> 00:56:49,120
Speaker 2: You take the dog here, all right? Have all Star

1040
00:56:49,200 --> 00:56:50,160
Speaker 2: Games jumped the shark.

1041
00:56:51,200 --> 00:56:53,799
Speaker 22: Yeah, they've done the time. Like I said earlier, you know,

1042
00:56:53,880 --> 00:56:58,000
Speaker 22: they're really not not interesting. Doesn't doesn't catch myself. But

1043
00:56:58,120 --> 00:57:00,439
Speaker 22: I think I have a suggest how this get better?

1044
00:57:00,440 --> 00:57:03,160
Speaker 22: Which one's the worst? The NFL flag football. I used

1045
00:57:03,160 --> 00:57:05,280
Speaker 22: to be a coach shot in San Diego black football,

1046
00:57:05,440 --> 00:57:07,840
Speaker 22: and I think they should have the kids. I was

1047
00:57:07,960 --> 00:57:11,840
Speaker 22: watching Bernie ESPN. I was watching these women play flag football,

1048
00:57:11,840 --> 00:57:14,319
Speaker 22: which is the future for our youth, and maybe they

1049
00:57:14,320 --> 00:57:17,200
Speaker 22: shouldn't have like the kids the man the boys and

1050
00:57:17,400 --> 00:57:21,080
Speaker 22: you know the girls with the adults like Max Krogby

1051
00:57:21,160 --> 00:57:23,880
Speaker 22: be a captain and some players playing with these kids.

1052
00:57:24,000 --> 00:57:26,600
Speaker 22: I think they'll be more interesting, especially since the flag

1053
00:57:26,640 --> 00:57:29,120
Speaker 22: football games in Las Vegas do a little bit change

1054
00:57:29,120 --> 00:57:31,680
Speaker 22: and have the kids like the top nice and wide.

1055
00:57:31,800 --> 00:57:34,520
Speaker 2: All right, you enjoy your weekend. We will put that

1056
00:57:34,560 --> 00:57:37,560
Speaker 2: in the suggestion box. My friend, you heard Poppy, He's

1057
00:57:37,760 --> 00:57:39,800
Speaker 2: give some good bets on the show. He said, take

1058
00:57:39,840 --> 00:57:42,120
Speaker 2: the points, take the five and a half points. We'll

1059
00:57:42,120 --> 00:57:45,760
Speaker 2: see if Poppy is correct. The mundo The Midnight Hour

1060
00:57:45,880 --> 00:57:49,640
Speaker 2: just simply would not be complete without the comedic stylings

1061
00:57:49,640 --> 00:57:54,400
Speaker 2: of Manuel and Guardina. Manuel Capassa.

1062
00:57:56,640 --> 00:58:05,880
Speaker 16: Faction came in the chain we like. I love that song, Bernie,

1063
00:58:06,320 --> 00:58:10,000
Speaker 16: and I know you can appreciate this because our favorite

1064
00:58:10,080 --> 00:58:16,920
Speaker 16: PBA bowler, Roy Munson, walk like a super soart grabbing

1065
00:58:16,960 --> 00:58:21,200
Speaker 16: a pizza off of somebody else's plate. Oh God, bless him.

1066
00:58:21,280 --> 00:58:25,560
Speaker 2: Right, I gotta tell you that maybe Woody Harrelson's best.

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Speaker 2: You know, listen, I don't want to get too off

1068
00:58:29,840 --> 00:58:31,720
Speaker 2: with a tangent here, but I've always said bowlers are

1069
00:58:31,760 --> 00:58:34,360
Speaker 2: the best athletes. And because you know why, they can

1070
00:58:34,440 --> 00:58:36,400
Speaker 2: drink a beer, eat a hot dog, and smoke a

1071
00:58:36,400 --> 00:58:39,200
Speaker 2: cigarette while they're doing the sport. It doesn't affect him.

1072
00:58:39,520 --> 00:58:41,439
Speaker 2: Give Lebron a beer while I was trying to drive

1073
00:58:41,480 --> 00:58:45,000
Speaker 2: the lane, right you give give ay Rod? Give a

1074
00:58:45,160 --> 00:58:47,040
Speaker 2: Rod a cigarette in his mouth while he's trying to

1075
00:58:47,080 --> 00:58:50,560
Speaker 2: turn on a slider, right right. Give Wayne Gretzky a

1076
00:58:50,560 --> 00:58:51,920
Speaker 2: hot dog when he's trying to beat the gold. He

1077
00:58:51,920 --> 00:58:55,200
Speaker 2: ain't gonna happen, Roy Munson, Ioway stay champion in nineteen

1078
00:58:55,240 --> 00:58:56,640
Speaker 2: seventy nine, my friend, go.

1079
00:58:56,600 --> 00:59:00,720
Speaker 16: Ahead, that's right, hey, and Lebron and he wouldn't take

1080
00:59:00,720 --> 00:59:02,919
Speaker 16: a beer. He would take like one of those red

1081
00:59:02,960 --> 00:59:05,200
Speaker 16: wines or something like it did on the bench back

1082
00:59:05,200 --> 00:59:08,840
Speaker 16: in the day. Say so, as far as the All

1083
00:59:08,880 --> 00:59:12,560
Speaker 16: Star Games, they have definitely jumped the shark to the

1084
00:59:12,560 --> 00:59:15,600
Speaker 16: point that I think I saw Pinky Tusca, Daryl and.

1085
00:59:15,520 --> 00:59:16,080
Speaker 13: The Girl.

1086
00:59:18,520 --> 00:59:20,280
Speaker 2: Reference get out here.

1087
00:59:21,480 --> 00:59:22,200
Speaker 22: You know what I mean?

1088
00:59:22,760 --> 00:59:23,480
Speaker 16: Are you gonna, by the.

1089
00:59:23,440 --> 00:59:25,000
Speaker 2: Way, you're gonna watch the game before I forget I

1090
00:59:25,200 --> 00:59:28,960
Speaker 2: got to know, man, you're gonna watch the gamest I.

1091
00:59:27,040 --> 00:59:32,200
Speaker 16: Mean, I don't know, he replied, Hey, nah, man not,

1092
00:59:32,600 --> 00:59:35,400
Speaker 16: you couldn't pay me to watch that garbage. And you

1093
00:59:35,440 --> 00:59:38,600
Speaker 16: know what, as far as like I think our guy

1094
00:59:38,760 --> 00:59:41,600
Speaker 16: bring it Home to Rome from Tennessee said it best.

1095
00:59:42,080 --> 00:59:45,320
Speaker 16: The problem is the money, Bernie. You know, none of

1096
00:59:45,360 --> 00:59:50,040
Speaker 16: these guys give a ratsass about these exhibitions, albeit an

1097
00:59:50,080 --> 00:59:53,360
Speaker 16: All Star game. The money's too good. These guys would

1098
00:59:53,480 --> 00:59:58,000
Speaker 16: rather have their week in Cancun for their week or

1099
00:59:58,240 --> 01:00:01,840
Speaker 16: just R and R, so it'll never be the same.

1100
01:00:03,000 --> 01:00:07,000
Speaker 16: The one that is the biggest sham, he's just the

1101
01:00:07,160 --> 01:00:09,720
Speaker 16: flags football. Are you skating to me?

1102
01:00:10,440 --> 01:00:13,520
Speaker 22: Flash football? I mean, if I.

1103
01:00:13,480 --> 01:00:15,800
Speaker 16: Wanted to watch flag football, go to the local junior

1104
01:00:15,880 --> 01:00:17,040
Speaker 16: high you know what I mean.

1105
01:00:17,120 --> 01:00:20,120
Speaker 2: So that's all I got for Well, I gotta tell you, man, Well,

1106
01:00:20,160 --> 01:00:22,760
Speaker 2: one last thing, and by the way, good good, good stuff.

1107
01:00:22,880 --> 01:00:27,480
Speaker 2: Uh Manuel, as always. You know Roy Munson, he lost

1108
01:00:27,520 --> 01:00:29,320
Speaker 2: his hand when they stuck it in the ball returned.

1109
01:00:29,600 --> 01:00:31,720
Speaker 2: That's a fugazy you. I stuck my hand in the

1110
01:00:31,720 --> 01:00:33,280
Speaker 2: ball return once and I didn't lose my hand.

1111
01:00:34,080 --> 01:00:36,760
Speaker 16: Hey, thank God for that, because I.

1112
01:00:36,720 --> 01:00:38,480
Speaker 2: Really didn't do that. But but I got to tell

1113
01:00:38,480 --> 01:00:42,280
Speaker 2: you something, Manuel. Next time, we're gonna talk about ishmael Bord,

1114
01:00:42,400 --> 01:00:46,640
Speaker 2: my favorite character played by Randy Quaid. Okay, dude, head game, dude,

1115
01:00:46,680 --> 01:00:49,680
Speaker 2: head game. Man. If you folks don't know what we're

1116
01:00:49,680 --> 01:00:53,480
Speaker 2: talking about, then get your ass over to watch Kingpin somewhere.

1117
01:00:54,040 --> 01:00:57,439
Speaker 2: Renn it do something. Let's squeeze in one more bend

1118
01:00:57,480 --> 01:00:59,400
Speaker 2: from Australia. Good to hear from you.

1119
01:00:59,480 --> 01:00:59,600
Speaker 13: Ben.

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01:00:59,640 --> 01:01:02,680
Speaker 2: How's that everything down there peeling well?

1121
01:01:02,760 --> 01:01:02,920
Speaker 23: Mate?

1122
01:01:02,960 --> 01:01:05,800
Speaker 2: How about yourself doing wonderful? I might even have some

1123
01:01:05,840 --> 01:01:07,280
Speaker 2: Tim Tams Leader as a snack.

1124
01:01:08,600 --> 01:01:10,640
Speaker 19: Hey, treat yourself, made, treat yourself.

1125
01:01:11,240 --> 01:01:13,880
Speaker 2: That's right. You only live once or maybe I don't know.

1126
01:01:13,960 --> 01:01:16,480
Speaker 2: All right, my friend, are you going to watch the

1127
01:01:16,560 --> 01:01:20,640
Speaker 2: game the WNBL I'm like, I'm like.

1128
01:01:20,600 --> 01:01:23,440
Speaker 23: The other guys, mate, I watched the highlights of it. Okay,

1129
01:01:23,720 --> 01:01:28,080
Speaker 23: see what happens because all Star games are all star games.

1130
01:01:28,160 --> 01:01:31,800
Speaker 23: But at least this one has got something to play for. Yes,

1131
01:01:31,960 --> 01:01:33,640
Speaker 23: so there'll be a little bit of a little bit

1132
01:01:33,680 --> 01:01:36,640
Speaker 23: of bite in the contest, which will make it worth watching,

1133
01:01:36,720 --> 01:01:37,480
Speaker 23: I guess.

1134
01:01:37,920 --> 01:01:40,200
Speaker 2: But in general, do you think all Star games have

1135
01:01:40,360 --> 01:01:42,160
Speaker 2: kind of outlived their life?

1136
01:01:43,520 --> 01:01:45,520
Speaker 23: Yeah, they're done. I mean you look at play with

1137
01:01:45,640 --> 01:01:49,720
Speaker 23: the free player movement between conferences and divisions and everything else.

1138
01:01:49,800 --> 01:01:53,560
Speaker 23: There's no no loyalty to your own division, so making

1139
01:01:53,640 --> 01:01:56,640
Speaker 23: that once upon a time it would have been meant

1140
01:01:56,720 --> 01:01:59,040
Speaker 23: something to play for the NFC or the AFC and

1141
01:01:59,080 --> 01:02:04,280
Speaker 23: the Pro Bowls, but now everyone's jumping around between constances

1142
01:02:04,320 --> 01:02:07,000
Speaker 23: and divisions and everything else. Yes, it just doesn't mean

1143
01:02:07,080 --> 01:02:10,160
Speaker 23: as much. And they're all paid way too much and

1144
01:02:10,360 --> 01:02:11,920
Speaker 23: nobody wants to risk an injury.

1145
01:02:13,920 --> 01:02:19,480
Speaker 2: That's all true, all true. Wait on one last thing, Ben,

1146
01:02:19,560 --> 01:02:22,200
Speaker 2: one last thing, which of the four games do you

1147
01:02:22,200 --> 01:02:23,080
Speaker 2: think is the worst?

1148
01:02:24,680 --> 01:02:26,720
Speaker 6: Uh? To coin flip?

1149
01:02:26,720 --> 01:02:29,880
Speaker 23: The playing the NBA in the NFL? All right, thank

1150
01:02:29,920 --> 01:02:32,600
Speaker 23: you crap each other in their damn hot to watch.

1151
01:02:34,240 --> 01:02:37,800
Speaker 2: Yep, I'm an agreement. All right, you take care down there, band,

1152
01:02:37,800 --> 01:02:41,080
Speaker 2: appreciate you, Bud and uh and uh I think you

1153
01:02:41,200 --> 01:02:45,520
Speaker 2: checked every box in terms of his description, Uh, Kurt,

1154
01:02:45,560 --> 01:02:48,240
Speaker 2: you're going to be next. Uh, We're going to take

1155
01:02:48,240 --> 01:02:50,560
Speaker 2: more calls eight seven, seven, nine nine sixty six three

1156
01:02:50,600 --> 01:02:54,560
Speaker 2: six nine. I will reveal the results of this, uh

1157
01:02:54,920 --> 01:02:59,040
Speaker 2: of this poll, that this survey that the Athletic did

1158
01:02:59,080 --> 01:03:01,640
Speaker 2: as to which league has the worst All Star Game?

1159
01:03:01,680 --> 01:03:03,000
Speaker 2: And we got to get the crew in as well,

1160
01:03:03,040 --> 01:03:05,000
Speaker 2: get their thoughts. Are they're gonna watch Saturday night, which

1161
01:03:05,040 --> 01:03:08,920
Speaker 2: they've already answered, but have all Star games? Are they cooked? Now?

1162
01:03:08,920 --> 01:03:10,600
Speaker 2: They kind of jumped the sharp, Not that they're gonna

1163
01:03:10,600 --> 01:03:13,600
Speaker 2: be canceled, but are they cooked? And which of the

1164
01:03:13,640 --> 01:03:15,600
Speaker 2: four is the worst. But first, let's go to our guy,

1165
01:03:16,200 --> 01:03:18,760
Speaker 2: Kevin Figure, who mollywops his updates.

1166
01:03:19,160 --> 01:03:21,360
Speaker 9: Yes, sir, thank you, Bernie will toss starbarts in Major

1167
01:03:21,440 --> 01:03:25,120
Speaker 9: League Baseball from Friday night. Dodgers certainly did not mollywop

1168
01:03:25,280 --> 01:03:27,520
Speaker 9: the Red Sox, but they did pick up a four

1169
01:03:27,560 --> 01:03:29,720
Speaker 9: to one victory, Freddy Freeman in the bottom of the

1170
01:03:29,720 --> 01:03:32,520
Speaker 9: eighth inning, hitting the grand Slam that would end up

1171
01:03:32,520 --> 01:03:35,800
Speaker 9: being the eventual game winner. LA had lost six of

1172
01:03:35,840 --> 01:03:38,680
Speaker 9: its previous seven games headed into the All Star break.

1173
01:03:38,920 --> 01:03:42,040
Speaker 9: Hunter Brown pitted six scoreless innings for Houston. They defeated

1174
01:03:42,080 --> 01:03:44,640
Speaker 9: Seattle three and nothing and now have a half game

1175
01:03:44,720 --> 01:03:47,400
Speaker 9: lead in the American League West. Bobby Witt Junior a

1176
01:03:47,440 --> 01:03:49,200
Speaker 9: home run for the Royals in a seven to one

1177
01:03:49,280 --> 01:03:52,040
Speaker 9: victory over the White Sox, Corbyn Burns getting his tenth

1178
01:03:52,040 --> 01:03:54,400
Speaker 9: win of the season for Baltimore. They beat up Texas

1179
01:03:54,480 --> 01:03:56,680
Speaker 9: nine to one. The Guardians with a seven to nothing

1180
01:03:56,760 --> 01:03:59,680
Speaker 9: victory over the Padres. Jose were miras to RBI there

1181
01:04:00,040 --> 01:04:02,360
Speaker 9: four hits for Juan Soto as the Yankees defeated Tampa

1182
01:04:02,400 --> 01:04:05,520
Speaker 9: Bay six to one and Detroit Pittsburgh in Arizona also

1183
01:04:05,560 --> 01:04:08,440
Speaker 9: picking up victory. Shane Lowry and Golf a two stroke

1184
01:04:08,520 --> 01:04:10,960
Speaker 9: lead to the first couple of rounds of the Open Championship.

1185
01:04:11,200 --> 01:04:13,800
Speaker 9: Third round action set to get underway in about thirty

1186
01:04:13,800 --> 01:04:15,600
Speaker 9: minutes or so from now, with people at the bottom

1187
01:04:15,600 --> 01:04:19,040
Speaker 9: of the standings beginning their rounds. Scotty Scheffler's five strokes

1188
01:04:19,080 --> 01:04:21,959
Speaker 9: back Tiger Woods and Roy McElroy missed the cut. News

1189
01:04:21,960 --> 01:04:23,920
Speaker 9: out of the NFL, the Ravens signed former Pro Bowl

1190
01:04:24,000 --> 01:04:25,480
Speaker 9: safety Eddie Jackson.

1191
01:04:25,320 --> 01:04:28,680
Speaker 11: To a one year contract. All right back to Bernie Freddle.

1192
01:04:28,920 --> 01:04:33,400
Speaker 2: All Right, thanks Kevin eight seven seven nine nine six

1193
01:04:33,480 --> 01:04:37,080
Speaker 2: six three six nine eight seven. Fox The Minnight Hour

1194
01:04:37,160 --> 01:04:40,360
Speaker 2: rolls on. Will you be watching the WNBA All Star

1195
01:04:40,440 --> 01:04:43,960
Speaker 2: Game Saturday night? Yes, there is a storyline, There are

1196
01:04:43,960 --> 01:04:49,440
Speaker 2: actually multiple storylines. In general, have All Star games perhaps

1197
01:04:49,520 --> 01:04:53,240
Speaker 2: jumped the shark no longer serve a fruitful purpose? I'm

1198
01:04:53,240 --> 01:04:55,120
Speaker 2: not saying they're gonna cancel him or should they, but

1199
01:04:55,720 --> 01:04:57,800
Speaker 2: just my thoughts and which of the four is the worst?

1200
01:04:58,520 --> 01:05:02,320
Speaker 2: Back to the phones, Kurt in Southern California. Welcome in again, Kurt.

1201
01:05:02,360 --> 01:05:02,880
Speaker 2: How are you.

1202
01:05:03,720 --> 01:05:04,440
Speaker 13: Hello, Barn?

1203
01:05:05,360 --> 01:05:05,880
Speaker 2: How you doing?

1204
01:05:08,000 --> 01:05:10,160
Speaker 13: As for the four All Star Games.

1205
01:05:11,440 --> 01:05:12,320
Speaker 2: The different leagues?

1206
01:05:12,680 --> 01:05:14,840
Speaker 13: Yep, it would be to me, it would be like

1207
01:05:15,800 --> 01:05:18,920
Speaker 13: being in an elevator with four people they all have

1208
01:05:19,080 --> 01:05:21,200
Speaker 13: bad gas, and asking which one is worse?

1209
01:05:22,720 --> 01:05:24,800
Speaker 2: Take off from one of my analogies a couple of

1210
01:05:24,840 --> 01:05:29,840
Speaker 2: weeks ago. Yeah, Look, they're not entertaining anymore, although they've

1211
01:05:29,920 --> 01:05:32,560
Speaker 2: kind of they kind of hold us hostage because we

1212
01:05:32,640 --> 01:05:36,120
Speaker 2: find ourselves watching them. Are you going to watch the

1213
01:05:36,200 --> 01:05:37,560
Speaker 2: w NBA game Saturday night?

1214
01:05:37,560 --> 01:05:37,760
Speaker 20: Though?

1215
01:05:38,600 --> 01:05:43,280
Speaker 13: Yes, and hopefully yes if I have the opportunity. And

1216
01:05:43,400 --> 01:05:47,680
Speaker 13: I think that Reee and Clark they should be laying

1217
01:05:47,760 --> 01:05:48,480
Speaker 13: five and a half.

1218
01:05:50,080 --> 01:05:52,960
Speaker 2: Well, it's a pretty stack that. The USA team's pretty

1219
01:05:52,960 --> 01:05:56,600
Speaker 2: stacked with a lot of championships. It's a it's a

1220
01:05:56,640 --> 01:05:57,880
Speaker 2: four quarter game, go ahead.

1221
01:05:59,240 --> 01:06:02,680
Speaker 13: Sports should be played on merits and production, not on

1222
01:06:02,880 --> 01:06:07,200
Speaker 13: politics and money. Anyway, getting back to the four all

1223
01:06:07,240 --> 01:06:12,840
Speaker 13: star leagues, the NHL, I think should play with plastic

1224
01:06:12,880 --> 01:06:14,880
Speaker 13: sticks and pucks.

1225
01:06:15,320 --> 01:06:18,680
Speaker 2: Which are the four is the worst.

1226
01:06:19,080 --> 01:06:22,160
Speaker 13: Probably the NBA, which should probably go back to half

1227
01:06:22,200 --> 01:06:24,360
Speaker 13: court and play with a NERF ball and the nerf net.

1228
01:06:26,720 --> 01:06:30,280
Speaker 13: I think we're now then. I think the NFL should

1229
01:06:30,280 --> 01:06:34,160
Speaker 13: play with nerf balls and breakaway pajamas in bubble wrap.

1230
01:06:35,280 --> 01:06:38,120
Speaker 2: I think the NFL should play full contact with no pads.

1231
01:06:39,240 --> 01:06:42,680
Speaker 13: Yeah, and in Major League Baseball should play with whistle

1232
01:06:42,760 --> 01:06:48,000
Speaker 13: balls and whistle bats belcral mixed.

1233
01:06:49,520 --> 01:06:52,800
Speaker 2: That's right, all right. We know the commissioners are all listening,

1234
01:06:52,880 --> 01:06:54,560
Speaker 2: so I wouldn't be surprised if they adopt some of

1235
01:06:54,560 --> 01:06:59,320
Speaker 2: those ideas. Good stuff is always cood. Appreciated Man Glenn

1236
01:06:59,360 --> 01:07:03,120
Speaker 2: from him California joins us. Good evening, glenho are you

1237
01:07:04,240 --> 01:07:04,760
Speaker 2: I'm fine?

1238
01:07:04,840 --> 01:07:07,160
Speaker 21: Thank you for taking my call. I think the NFL

1239
01:07:07,320 --> 01:07:12,040
Speaker 21: is probably the worst because they have no contact. They

1240
01:07:12,040 --> 01:07:15,120
Speaker 21: should have contact in the in the All Star Game. Yeah,

1241
01:07:15,240 --> 01:07:19,000
Speaker 21: just like to have contact in the Major League baseballers

1242
01:07:19,000 --> 01:07:22,720
Speaker 21: should have contact in the All Star Game for NFL.

1243
01:07:23,920 --> 01:07:27,640
Speaker 2: Remember when Pete Rose crashed into Ray Fosse? Oh yeah,

1244
01:07:27,760 --> 01:07:31,000
Speaker 2: can you imagine anything like that? Even Henck remotely happening today?

1245
01:07:31,600 --> 01:07:33,640
Speaker 2: Different world than my friend. All right, will you be

1246
01:07:33,760 --> 01:07:38,200
Speaker 2: watching Saturday night? That's really the key question. I believe

1247
01:07:38,240 --> 01:07:41,200
Speaker 2: the WNBA has something to offer Saturday Night, replete with

1248
01:07:41,280 --> 01:07:43,600
Speaker 2: lots of storylines. Will you be watching?

1249
01:07:44,640 --> 01:07:44,880
Speaker 18: Yes?

1250
01:07:44,920 --> 01:07:45,360
Speaker 19: I will.

1251
01:07:47,240 --> 01:07:51,520
Speaker 2: And what would be the primary draw? Is it Caitlin Clark?

1252
01:07:51,880 --> 01:07:53,360
Speaker 2: That'll be the primary draw? Is that it?

1253
01:07:54,440 --> 01:07:55,720
Speaker 13: Yeah?

1254
01:07:55,840 --> 01:07:56,080
Speaker 5: Yep?

1255
01:07:56,440 --> 01:07:58,000
Speaker 2: All right? And which of the four do you think

1256
01:07:58,080 --> 01:07:58,919
Speaker 2: is the worst?

1257
01:08:00,040 --> 01:08:01,160
Speaker 21: I think the NFL is.

1258
01:08:02,080 --> 01:08:04,560
Speaker 2: All right, Thanks a lot, Glenn, appreciate your call to night, buddy.

1259
01:08:05,520 --> 01:08:07,800
Speaker 2: All right, let's spill the beans eight seven, seven, nine, nine,

1260
01:08:07,880 --> 01:08:10,240
Speaker 2: sixty six three sixty nine in a minute. I want

1261
01:08:10,280 --> 01:08:12,720
Speaker 2: to get the crew in here. We've still got time

1262
01:08:12,720 --> 01:08:16,120
Speaker 2: to get some more callers in. According to The Athletic,

1263
01:08:16,200 --> 01:08:23,120
Speaker 2: the survey they conducted drum roll please, the NFL sixty

1264
01:08:23,200 --> 01:08:26,000
Speaker 2: one percent checked in as the worst All Star game

1265
01:08:26,439 --> 01:08:32,160
Speaker 2: from the respondents, The NBA second thirty one percent. So,

1266
01:08:32,200 --> 01:08:35,120
Speaker 2: as I mentioned at the top of the hour, ninety

1267
01:08:35,120 --> 01:08:40,679
Speaker 2: two percent of the votes were comprised between the NBA

1268
01:08:40,800 --> 01:08:44,559
Speaker 2: and the NFL, and for obvious reasons, this surprised me,

1269
01:08:44,680 --> 01:08:50,720
Speaker 2: though I would have thought that the least worst of

1270
01:08:50,760 --> 01:08:52,800
Speaker 2: the four All Star Games would have been Major League

1271
01:08:52,840 --> 01:08:56,760
Speaker 2: Baseball because they actually played defense. And if you can't

1272
01:08:56,800 --> 01:08:59,479
Speaker 2: tell me digging in against Paul Schemes and that you

1273
01:08:59,520 --> 01:09:03,599
Speaker 2: know he's facing you know, Aaron Judge and he's facing

1274
01:09:03,640 --> 01:09:07,120
Speaker 2: a Gunner Henderson and he's facing Juan Soto, that was real.

1275
01:09:07,479 --> 01:09:11,320
Speaker 2: They were trying. But in fact, the MLB, he got

1276
01:09:11,360 --> 01:09:13,880
Speaker 2: five percent, is the worst All Star Game, and the

1277
01:09:13,960 --> 01:09:17,720
Speaker 2: NHL only three percent. I would have had those backwards

1278
01:09:17,720 --> 01:09:20,400
Speaker 2: I would have thought of before. The Major League Baseball

1279
01:09:20,439 --> 01:09:25,160
Speaker 2: game is still watchable if you can not focus on

1280
01:09:25,200 --> 01:09:30,000
Speaker 2: those Beer League Bowling jerseys. But look the Paul Skeins matchups,

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01:09:30,000 --> 01:09:31,720
Speaker 2: the show heo tiny home run, there were some good

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Speaker 2: defensive plays. It's somewhat watchable, even though it's kind of

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01:09:34,920 --> 01:09:37,600
Speaker 2: boring and it kind of flows the Pro Bowl, the

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Speaker 2: Schmo Bowl, that's what they call it in the Athletic Listen.

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Speaker 2: Sixty one percent of the respondent said it's by far

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Speaker 2: the worst. It's I understand the NFL his their hands

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01:09:49,439 --> 01:09:52,080
Speaker 2: are kind of tied now. They've tried to tweak fourmats,

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01:09:52,120 --> 01:09:56,640
Speaker 2: They've tried to introduce new features. Nothing sticks. There's no

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01:09:56,720 --> 01:09:59,680
Speaker 2: way for a collision sport like the NFL in this

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01:09:59,800 --> 01:10:02,960
Speaker 2: day age, with the money involved and the injuries and such,

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01:10:03,520 --> 01:10:06,320
Speaker 2: to create a completely separate game and make players care

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01:10:06,320 --> 01:10:09,320
Speaker 2: about it and play the way they would in a

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01:10:09,360 --> 01:10:12,599
Speaker 2: real game. If they go to eighteen game season. Pro

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Speaker 2: Joe Burrow has suggested that they play the game in

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01:10:15,280 --> 01:10:18,160
Speaker 2: mid season, right, I think you should do something involving

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Speaker 2: college all stars or something and do that. And maybe

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01:10:21,640 --> 01:10:23,120
Speaker 2: if you're named to a Pro Bowl team, you have

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01:10:23,200 --> 01:10:26,160
Speaker 2: in center to be named. You know, there's some financial incentive.

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Speaker 2: But and of course the NBA, they know their All

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01:10:30,560 --> 01:10:32,360
Speaker 2: Star games sucks, so they wouldn't have created the n

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01:10:32,439 --> 01:10:36,320
Speaker 2: season tournament that has actual stakes, has actual real money

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01:10:36,800 --> 01:10:40,519
Speaker 2: and some pride. And how about those Lakers first ever

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01:10:40,680 --> 01:10:44,559
Speaker 2: NBA team to hang a banner for the inn League

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01:10:45,000 --> 01:10:48,400
Speaker 2: Tournament in season tournament which took place here in Vegas,

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01:10:48,439 --> 01:10:51,639
Speaker 2: and hey, you can't can't knock it. It got tremendous

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01:10:51,720 --> 01:10:54,920
Speaker 2: ratings and the players. I mean there was there was

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01:10:55,000 --> 01:10:58,600
Speaker 2: kind of a playoff atmosphere to it. The thought is

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01:10:58,720 --> 01:11:02,320
Speaker 2: the MLB is can considering implementing something like the n

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Speaker 2: Season Tournament. I don't know if they'll ever do it,

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01:11:05,439 --> 01:11:07,439
Speaker 2: but you have some mid season stakes instead of like

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01:11:07,479 --> 01:11:10,320
Speaker 2: an actual All Star game or a ron robin tournament

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01:11:11,200 --> 01:11:14,200
Speaker 2: involving maybe a million dollars a player. They got to

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Speaker 2: do something right at a minute, we'll bring in the crew.

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Speaker 2: Is bringing the crew and get their thoughts on which

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Speaker 2: of the four is the worst of the All Star games?

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01:11:24,479 --> 01:11:27,880
Speaker 2: And frankly, if we're being honest, has the concept of

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01:11:27,920 --> 01:11:30,360
Speaker 2: an All Star Game and this year, in this man's

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01:11:30,360 --> 01:11:33,200
Speaker 2: major league climate just simply gone the way to the

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01:11:33,280 --> 01:11:35,479
Speaker 2: Dodo Bird. I mean, they're not going to cancel them.

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01:11:35,479 --> 01:11:39,960
Speaker 2: I get it. They're profitable events, but from a fans standpoint,

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01:11:40,120 --> 01:11:43,160
Speaker 2: it's not even a reasonable, in fact simile of what

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01:11:43,240 --> 01:11:45,840
Speaker 2: the regular season games and certainly the playoff games are.

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01:11:45,880 --> 01:11:48,360
Speaker 2: And it used to be, trust me, it actually really

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01:11:48,439 --> 01:11:50,840
Speaker 2: used to be. There was a real pride factor. And

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01:11:51,040 --> 01:11:52,679
Speaker 2: you know, one of the other callers brought up, there's

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Speaker 2: no more interleague play. There's a lot to be said

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01:11:54,680 --> 01:11:56,960
Speaker 2: for that. There's a lot to be said for that.

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01:11:57,400 --> 01:11:59,719
Speaker 2: When Bo Jackson gets in the bat the box against

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01:11:59,720 --> 01:12:01,840
Speaker 2: that Lee Hammicker and hits a four er foot home

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01:12:01,880 --> 01:12:04,000
Speaker 2: run to start the game in Anaheim, and those two

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01:12:04,040 --> 01:12:06,760
Speaker 2: teams would never play unless it's the postseason. There was

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01:12:06,760 --> 01:12:10,000
Speaker 2: real panache there. There was something there. By the way,

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Speaker 2: shortly after the show tonight, our podcast would be going up.

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Speaker 2: posted Right after we get off the year coming up,

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01:12:30,600 --> 01:12:33,400
Speaker 2: we're bringing the crew get their thoughts on these very

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Speaker 2: important societal questions. I'm Bernie Fratto. We're comedy live from

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01:12:42,720 --> 01:12:44,240
Speaker 2: Fratto Show on Fox Sports Radio.

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01:12:45,240 --> 01:12:48,160
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01:12:58,120 --> 01:13:00,320
Speaker 2: All right back on the Bernie Frattle Show, wrap it

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01:13:00,400 --> 01:13:04,120
Speaker 2: up the midnight hour outstanding as always. Back out to

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Speaker 2: the phone lines. Paul from North Carolina. Paul, you're gonna

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01:13:07,479 --> 01:13:10,479
Speaker 2: watch the w NBA All Star Game Saturday night.

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Speaker 24: I'm sorry, Bernie here, I'm sorry, but my phone brought

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01:13:14,439 --> 01:13:14,680
Speaker 24: up here.

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Speaker 2: You peta sure?

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Speaker 13: Are you?

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Speaker 2: The first question? Will you be watching the w NBA

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01:13:20,240 --> 01:13:21,880
Speaker 2: All Star Game on Saturday night?

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01:13:22,960 --> 01:13:25,080
Speaker 24: I will, Bernie. I run a restaurant, so I'll have

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Speaker 24: it on in my restaurant. I will think of my

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01:13:26,720 --> 01:13:29,280
Speaker 24: undivided attention, but I'll certainly have it on in the restaurant,

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Speaker 24: which I would never have done prior to the season.

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Speaker 2: Great point. Great point, but there's broad based appeal now,

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01:13:34,880 --> 01:13:37,080
Speaker 2: so it all starts. So did you have the Major

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Speaker 2: League Baseball All Star Game on Tuesday night in the restaurant?

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Speaker 13: I did?

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Speaker 2: Absolutely.

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Speaker 24: There wasn't many choices, so it was definitely.

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Speaker 2: And I would expect you to. But what's interesting is,

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Speaker 2: of the four major leagues, have all Star games jump

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Speaker 2: the Shark.

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Speaker 24: Yeah, I think so, Bernie. I mean, you know, I

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Speaker 24: think that all the Major League Baseball All Star Game

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Speaker 24: is the only one that really has any Phenostionrially because

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Speaker 24: you know, a heavy NBA it doesn't compete against anything.

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01:14:05,720 --> 01:14:07,439
Speaker 24: So it's really the only game in talent. So if

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Speaker 24: you're a sports fan, you watch the MLB All Star Game,

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01:14:10,240 --> 01:14:12,320
Speaker 24: you don't watch anything, and I don't think that's necessarily

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Speaker 24: true for the other sports.

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Speaker 2: Paul sounds good. Appreciate you checking in. We do this

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01:14:17,080 --> 01:14:20,320
Speaker 2: every Friday night at twelve midnight Pacific. Thank you for

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01:14:20,360 --> 01:14:25,639
Speaker 2: your time. Doug in San Diego, will you be watching

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01:14:25,680 --> 01:14:28,320
Speaker 2: the w NBA All Star Game on Saturday night?

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Speaker 18: I wouldn't miss it for the world, Bernie.

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Speaker 2: Do take sarcasm? Do I have to take sarcasm?

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Speaker 15: There's nothing else on.

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Speaker 13: I'll give it a watch, no question about it.

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Speaker 18: And I'll tell you what though, the All Star games,

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01:14:45,439 --> 01:14:50,720
Speaker 18: whatever sport, have degenerated into a joke. I remember when

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Speaker 18: the Pro Bowl was cool in the early nineties. Why

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01:14:55,680 --> 01:14:58,479
Speaker 18: there was one game Pro Bowl. I was in Buffalo.

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Speaker 18: Steve Casker got the MVP, blocked the field goal, returned

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01:15:02,760 --> 01:15:05,320
Speaker 18: to puntford touchdown. The guy was a god and he

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01:15:05,439 --> 01:15:07,760
Speaker 18: was going full boar. Everyone in that game was going

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01:15:07,760 --> 01:15:10,360
Speaker 18: full boar and admitted something to these guys. Now it

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01:15:10,400 --> 01:15:14,439
Speaker 18: doesn't mean anything, and that's a problem. Frankly, I don't

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Speaker 18: even know if they should have them anymore. Frankly, the

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01:15:17,200 --> 01:15:19,599
Speaker 18: Baseball All Star Game most bored me to death.

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Speaker 2: Uh, like he says every year kind of it was

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Speaker 2: kind of boring, you know.

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Speaker 21: And I don't know which is the worst of.

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Speaker 2: The four the final question, which is the worst of

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Speaker 2: the four?

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Speaker 21: Uh?

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Speaker 18: Oh uh, I wouldn't say the NBA.

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01:15:38,720 --> 01:15:40,200
Speaker 2: That's that's the one.

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Speaker 18: You know, at least they score a lot of points.

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Speaker 18: But it's just so it's just frank I just can't

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Speaker 18: even watch the NBA All Star Game. I won't even

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Speaker 18: bother watching.

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Speaker 2: All right, thanks for checking in, appreciate it, and uh,

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01:15:54,560 --> 01:15:57,720
Speaker 2: you know, look over the people can google this. But

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Speaker 2: over the years, uh, there have been players hurt in

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01:16:03,240 --> 01:16:08,000
Speaker 2: the uh in the Pro Bowl. I think Miles Garrett

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01:16:08,000 --> 01:16:10,559
Speaker 2: got hurt a few years ago and it's till injury

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01:16:10,600 --> 01:16:12,240
Speaker 2: bothered him for the remainder of the year. And there

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01:16:12,240 --> 01:16:15,200
Speaker 2: was a wide receiver where I think hurt both knees

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01:16:15,240 --> 01:16:19,559
Speaker 2: because is his uh feet got caught in the turf. Whatever.

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Speaker 2: But anyway, all right, let's let's get the crew involved here,

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Speaker 2: all right, Brie. Let's start with you, I know, you

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Speaker 2: mentioned you will watch the game Saturday night, But in general,

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Speaker 2: have All Star games jumped the shark? And which of

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Speaker 2: the in your view is the worst of the four.

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Speaker 10: I definitely think they've jumped this shark. I also think

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Speaker 10: just because like the increase of social media, we see

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Speaker 10: these athletes all the time just doing their random podcasts

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Speaker 10: on the side and posting all these things and these

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Speaker 10: little clips, and I don't know, I felt like the

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Speaker 10: All Star Game was like a cool way to kind

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Speaker 10: of see what, you know, different players' personalities and how

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Speaker 10: they interacted with each other. And now it's just not

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Speaker 10: really like a big deal, Like you just see them

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01:16:57,520 --> 01:17:00,280
Speaker 10: interact all the time, like on you know, just during

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Speaker 10: like the off season and different things like that. So

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Speaker 10: I think that's kind of why they're just not as

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Speaker 10: like a big deal. I think the NFL is the

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Speaker 10: worst one, probably because I have a soft spot for

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Speaker 10: the NBA, so I'll always be like a little bit

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01:17:13,040 --> 01:17:15,080
Speaker 10: more interested. But the NFL is the worst one for

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01:17:15,160 --> 01:17:18,600
Speaker 10: sure because flag football, I think is just an embarrassment.

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01:17:18,640 --> 01:17:21,000
Speaker 10: There's just no point, like just cancel the whole thing

1442
01:17:21,040 --> 01:17:21,639
Speaker 10: at this point.

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01:17:22,800 --> 01:17:24,599
Speaker 2: And that's the one that got the most vote. Sixty

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Speaker 2: one percent. Kevin figures your thoughts on this matter.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, all star games have jumped to shark, I think majorly,

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01:17:31,040 --> 01:17:34,120
Speaker 9: really for the same reason why a lot of regular

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01:17:34,160 --> 01:17:36,560
Speaker 9: season ratings in mini sports. I said the NFL, I

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01:17:36,560 --> 01:17:38,720
Speaker 9: guess in college football are kind of monolists to a

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01:17:38,720 --> 01:17:42,720
Speaker 9: certain degree. Everybody attaches meaning to to everything in these days,

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01:17:42,720 --> 01:17:44,479
Speaker 9: and if you don't win championships, or if you're not

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Speaker 9: working towards winning a championship, then nothing else that you

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01:17:46,880 --> 01:17:50,560
Speaker 9: do matters. So the antithesis of competing for a championship

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01:17:50,600 --> 01:17:53,200
Speaker 9: is any sort of all star game or exhibition. So

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01:17:53,400 --> 01:17:55,640
Speaker 9: the game doesn't matter to the players, the game is

1455
01:17:55,640 --> 01:17:57,360
Speaker 9: certainly not going to matter to the fans. So I

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01:17:57,400 --> 01:17:59,080
Speaker 9: think that is as big of a reason as any

1457
01:17:59,080 --> 01:18:01,120
Speaker 9: as to why there's a lack of effort and even

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01:18:01,200 --> 01:18:03,000
Speaker 9: lack of participation for some of these A lot of

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01:18:03,040 --> 01:18:04,519
Speaker 9: the guys just just bow out of the games that

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Speaker 9: don't participate to begin with, So I think that's part

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Speaker 9: of it. As far as which one is the worst,

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01:18:09,720 --> 01:18:13,240
Speaker 9: a man, I can't tie the NFL and the NBA,

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01:18:13,360 --> 01:18:14,840
Speaker 9: so I guess if I had to edge one over

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01:18:14,880 --> 01:18:17,080
Speaker 9: the other, I would say the NFL because even when

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Speaker 9: the NFL did play tackle football, they really didn't play

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01:18:20,280 --> 01:18:22,559
Speaker 9: tackle football. It was a great bastardization of what the

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Speaker 9: sport actually was. And you could say the same thing

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01:18:24,800 --> 01:18:27,479
Speaker 9: about the NBA. It's a giant dunk fest, but it's

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Speaker 9: just not the way that football is played, where you

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Speaker 9: have defensive lineman who just stand up and don't even

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Speaker 9: rush the quarterback, and nobody really puts in half of

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Speaker 9: an effort to do anything. So the NBA and NFL

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01:18:36,560 --> 01:18:38,479
Speaker 9: are equally bad, but I will give the nudge to

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01:18:38,520 --> 01:18:39,080
Speaker 9: the NFL.

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01:18:40,479 --> 01:18:45,519
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that bears that aligns with the survey in

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01:18:45,880 --> 01:18:48,760
Speaker 2: the athletic Okay, Mark Rams, so you got the frontal ward.

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01:18:48,800 --> 01:18:51,000
Speaker 2: I know you mentioned you it's not an appointment to watch.

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01:18:51,040 --> 01:18:53,519
Speaker 2: Same with Kevin for the WNB All Star Game, but

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01:18:53,640 --> 01:18:55,920
Speaker 2: you'll you'll take a peek. It's the final result.

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01:18:55,920 --> 01:18:58,400
Speaker 12: Maybe look at the highlights, maybe the highlights for the

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01:18:58,479 --> 01:19:00,479
Speaker 12: most part, just to see what happened, just to see

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01:19:00,479 --> 01:19:02,760
Speaker 12: what Caitlin Clark is that. But for them, I will

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01:19:02,760 --> 01:19:06,479
Speaker 12: not watch because the women's game is a little bit

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01:19:06,520 --> 01:19:07,280
Speaker 12: too slow for me.

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Speaker 2: Okay, how about all Star games in general? The four majors,

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01:19:11,040 --> 01:19:12,519
Speaker 2: you know, they've just gone the way to the Dodo

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01:19:12,520 --> 01:19:14,880
Speaker 2: Birdie and they're not going to cancel them. But is

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01:19:14,920 --> 01:19:17,160
Speaker 2: it forget it is they've jumped the shark.

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01:19:17,280 --> 01:19:20,200
Speaker 12: They've jumped the shark. They've jumped you know, they just

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01:19:20,280 --> 01:19:22,960
Speaker 12: jumped the shark. Everything they're they're not good anymore because

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01:19:23,000 --> 01:19:27,240
Speaker 12: the amount of competition has dropped. It seems like every

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01:19:27,280 --> 01:19:30,600
Speaker 12: player in almost every you know game, they all know

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01:19:30,720 --> 01:19:33,040
Speaker 12: each other. They maybe went to college together, they were

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01:19:33,080 --> 01:19:37,680
Speaker 12: on the same teams together, so there's no sense of competition.

1495
01:19:37,760 --> 01:19:42,160
Speaker 12: The competition is way down. Everybody so friendly. Nobody wants

1496
01:19:42,200 --> 01:19:44,160
Speaker 12: to get the better of their friend and show their

1497
01:19:44,160 --> 01:19:44,680
Speaker 12: friends up.

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01:19:44,720 --> 01:19:45,800
Speaker 2: So that's a lot part of it.

1499
01:19:45,840 --> 01:19:47,840
Speaker 12: The competition is gone, which is.

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Speaker 2: The exact opposite of the WNBA game Saturday, Which is why

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01:19:50,439 --> 01:19:54,120
Speaker 2: I think it's got a chance to be very interesting

1502
01:19:54,200 --> 01:19:57,400
Speaker 2: with a storyline that will bring with you Saturday night

1503
01:19:57,439 --> 01:20:01,280
Speaker 2: real quickly. Mark, which of the four majors of all

1504
01:20:01,280 --> 01:20:02,320
Speaker 2: Star games is the worst?

1505
01:20:02,840 --> 01:20:04,080
Speaker 12: Basketball is the worst?

1506
01:20:04,920 --> 01:20:09,240
Speaker 2: Okay? Interesting? So everybody, pretty much everybody was in agreement

1507
01:20:09,320 --> 01:20:11,080
Speaker 2: that it was either in the NFL or the NBA,

1508
01:20:11,200 --> 01:20:15,680
Speaker 2: But of the Athletic survey, the NFL got sixty one

1509
01:20:15,680 --> 01:20:17,120
Speaker 2: percent of the vote. I think I know why they

1510
01:20:17,120 --> 01:20:19,640
Speaker 2: don't even suit up in pads. And the NBA got

1511
01:20:19,680 --> 01:20:22,200
Speaker 2: the other thirty one percent because well, come on, it's

1512
01:20:22,240 --> 01:20:24,360
Speaker 2: just a I don't know what it is. It's a

1513
01:20:24,479 --> 01:20:26,880
Speaker 2: it's an end season, it's a layup line. As someone

1514
01:20:27,000 --> 01:20:30,280
Speaker 2: said earlier, one of the earlier callers, Well, the good

1515
01:20:30,320 --> 01:20:33,719
Speaker 2: news is the TV money is flowing for the NBA

1516
01:20:33,960 --> 01:20:37,280
Speaker 2: and the w NBA. Yeah, you're gonna want to hear this.

1517
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Speaker 1: Don't listen no, Fox Sports Radio Radio.

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1520
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1526
01:21:10,720 --> 01:21:14,080
Speaker 2: buying should be. Thanks to all the callers of the

1527
01:21:14,120 --> 01:21:18,200
Speaker 2: Midnight Hour as always, great job, really appreciated. Good thoughts

1528
01:21:18,240 --> 01:21:24,040
Speaker 2: by the crew as well, and regardless of whether or

1529
01:21:24,080 --> 01:21:26,639
Speaker 2: not you like the NBA. Don't like the NBA, watch

1530
01:21:26,880 --> 01:21:30,559
Speaker 2: the w NBA, or we'll make a point to sample

1531
01:21:30,600 --> 01:21:34,840
Speaker 2: the All Star Game Saturday night. One thing is sure,

1532
01:21:34,479 --> 01:21:38,200
Speaker 2: the TV networks are coming with a bag man. Just

1533
01:21:38,240 --> 01:21:43,600
Speaker 2: this last week, the NBA finalized TV deals with ESPN, NBC, Amazon,

1534
01:21:44,520 --> 01:21:47,080
Speaker 2: And even though you didn't hear me mentioned TN T

1535
01:21:47,080 --> 01:21:53,000
Speaker 2: TN T is still talking about matching. They have the

1536
01:21:53,200 --> 01:21:56,519
Speaker 2: right to match one of these deals. They're on the

1537
01:21:56,560 --> 01:22:02,759
Speaker 2: outside looking at the moment. Look in the current agreement,

1538
01:22:03,160 --> 01:22:05,639
Speaker 2: the one that just ended ESPN and TNT, they paid

1539
01:22:05,640 --> 01:22:10,400
Speaker 2: a combined two point six billion and i'm basically a

1540
01:22:10,479 --> 01:22:14,280
Speaker 2: nine year deal. This new deal that was ratified or

1541
01:22:14,520 --> 01:22:16,400
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's official yet, but it's an

1542
01:22:16,439 --> 01:22:20,760
Speaker 2: eleven year deal worth up to seventy six billion dollars.

1543
01:22:21,640 --> 01:22:25,120
Speaker 2: That's billion with a B. Now, we hear numbers banned

1544
01:22:25,120 --> 01:22:28,000
Speaker 2: about sports, But let me just give you a little

1545
01:22:29,240 --> 01:22:34,280
Speaker 2: perspective on the difference between say one million and one billion.

1546
01:22:35,120 --> 01:22:37,880
Speaker 2: If you started to count to a million, one second

1547
01:22:37,920 --> 01:22:41,880
Speaker 2: at a time, would take you twelve days. But if

1548
01:22:41,880 --> 01:22:44,080
Speaker 2: you wanted to count to one billion with a B

1549
01:22:44,560 --> 01:22:48,200
Speaker 2: one second at a time, that twelve days jumps to

1550
01:22:48,240 --> 01:22:54,760
Speaker 2: thirty three years, twelve days, thirty three years. That's a

1551
01:22:54,840 --> 01:22:59,040
Speaker 2: difference between one billion and one million. Well, the NBA

1552
01:22:59,320 --> 01:23:04,160
Speaker 2: and their network executives finalizing contracts that will make NBC

1553
01:23:04,240 --> 01:23:07,800
Speaker 2: and Prime Video partners ABC ESPN the home of the

1554
01:23:07,880 --> 01:23:14,599
Speaker 2: NBA Finals eleven years, seventy six billion dollars. Not elite

1555
01:23:14,600 --> 01:23:18,240
Speaker 2: governors have to approve the agreements. Blah blah blah, and

1556
01:23:19,400 --> 01:23:22,600
Speaker 2: T and T may still match. I don't know those details.

1557
01:23:23,800 --> 01:23:25,840
Speaker 2: And in course everybody wants to know that because of

1558
01:23:26,479 --> 01:23:30,400
Speaker 2: TNT Sports does not jump in. If they stand down,

1559
01:23:30,439 --> 01:23:33,479
Speaker 2: the upcoming season will be the final season of you know,

1560
01:23:33,640 --> 01:23:36,600
Speaker 2: Charles Barkley and all that stuff, and he said it

1561
01:23:36,600 --> 01:23:39,759
Speaker 2: will retire. And even though all three networks will presume,

1562
01:23:39,840 --> 01:23:44,040
Speaker 2: but that TNT Sports platform they had seem to get

1563
01:23:44,080 --> 01:23:45,960
Speaker 2: a lot of viewers, you know, with Ernie Johnson and

1564
01:23:46,000 --> 01:23:49,719
Speaker 2: Kenny the Jet Smith in shack. But I digress. Well,

1565
01:23:49,840 --> 01:23:54,479
Speaker 2: guess what, guess what? Looky here. It was reported on

1566
01:23:54,560 --> 01:23:59,559
Speaker 2: July sixteenth that the WNBA got a very nice media

1567
01:23:59,680 --> 01:24:06,000
Speaker 2: rights deal of their own two point two billion over

1568
01:24:06,040 --> 01:24:08,720
Speaker 2: the next eleven years. Now, if that doesn't sound like

1569
01:24:08,720 --> 01:24:10,599
Speaker 2: a lot to that's two hundred million a year their

1570
01:24:10,600 --> 01:24:13,800
Speaker 2: prior TV contract was maybe fifty million, and that doesn't

1571
01:24:13,840 --> 01:24:17,759
Speaker 2: begin to pay the bills. The WNBA has lost money

1572
01:24:18,280 --> 01:24:20,559
Speaker 2: twenty six straight years to the tune of about ten

1573
01:24:20,600 --> 01:24:22,840
Speaker 2: million a year, although this year, since they started to

1574
01:24:22,840 --> 01:24:26,639
Speaker 2: fly charter thanks to the Kitlin Clark effect, they're poised

1575
01:24:26,680 --> 01:24:29,360
Speaker 2: to lose about fifty million this year. As long as

1576
01:24:29,400 --> 01:24:32,040
Speaker 2: Santa Claus wants to keep writing checks, the league can

1577
01:24:32,080 --> 01:24:36,639
Speaker 2: stay in business. But the WNBA's next national media rights

1578
01:24:36,680 --> 01:24:41,559
Speaker 2: deal is coming into shape. They're set to receive two

1579
01:24:41,600 --> 01:24:44,559
Speaker 2: point two billion over the next eleven years. Again, that's

1580
01:24:44,600 --> 01:24:48,960
Speaker 2: two hundred million a year, and there's an there's actually

1581
01:24:49,280 --> 01:24:52,439
Speaker 2: an opportunity to earn even more than that during that period,

1582
01:24:53,560 --> 01:24:56,720
Speaker 2: according to some sources who were briefed on the specificity

1583
01:24:56,760 --> 01:25:03,240
Speaker 2: of the contract. Now, the NBA negotiated those WNBA deals.

1584
01:25:03,920 --> 01:25:06,599
Speaker 2: They just completed their rights talks which I just mentioned,

1585
01:25:07,120 --> 01:25:11,000
Speaker 2: and they reached an agreement with Disney, NBC, Amazon. Again,

1586
01:25:11,160 --> 01:25:13,639
Speaker 2: the NBA did eleven years seventy six billion, But the

1587
01:25:13,720 --> 01:25:18,360
Speaker 2: WNBA's national media rights agreement are also with those companies.

1588
01:25:18,800 --> 01:25:21,439
Speaker 2: So you'll be seeing games over the next eleven years

1589
01:25:21,439 --> 01:25:26,879
Speaker 2: on the WNBA. Regarding the WNBA, on ESPN, NBC, and Amazon.

1590
01:25:26,920 --> 01:25:31,439
Speaker 2: They're all going to have their own WNBA packages. They

1591
01:25:31,439 --> 01:25:33,599
Speaker 2: better hope Kitlin Clark doesn't retire. But be that as

1592
01:25:33,600 --> 01:25:35,840
Speaker 2: it may, I think the product's pretty good actually, as

1593
01:25:35,880 --> 01:25:37,960
Speaker 2: long as we have something in this country that I

1594
01:25:38,000 --> 01:25:41,439
Speaker 2: call the Canadian Football League syndrome. If people don't know

1595
01:25:41,479 --> 01:25:43,760
Speaker 2: who's playing, and they don't understand their rivalry and who

1596
01:25:43,800 --> 01:25:46,200
Speaker 2: to root for and who to hate, they don't watch.

1597
01:25:46,840 --> 01:25:49,200
Speaker 2: But you're starting to get some a lot more name

1598
01:25:49,400 --> 01:25:54,559
Speaker 2: recognition in the WNBA. The Kelsey Plumbs, the Asia Wilson certainly,

1599
01:25:54,600 --> 01:25:57,120
Speaker 2: the Angel Reeses, and the Caitlin Clarks, and there are

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01:25:57,120 --> 01:26:02,800
Speaker 2: many more too. So I guess it's my understanding that

1601
01:26:02,800 --> 01:26:05,360
Speaker 2: the NBA's Board of governors did approve the media rights

1602
01:26:05,360 --> 01:26:09,480
Speaker 2: deal the other day, but they're not official because Discovery,

1603
01:26:09,560 --> 01:26:12,800
Speaker 2: who's the parent company of TNT, maintains that it has

1604
01:26:12,840 --> 01:26:15,759
Speaker 2: matching rights for the NBA rights, but they haven't decided

1605
01:26:15,840 --> 01:26:18,200
Speaker 2: rather to exercise them yet. Now the NBA the adult

1606
01:26:18,400 --> 01:26:21,880
Speaker 2: check that the WNBA's current media deal, as I just said,

1607
01:26:22,720 --> 01:26:25,760
Speaker 2: is valued at only fifty million annually, so this new

1608
01:26:25,800 --> 01:26:29,479
Speaker 2: one will be four times larger, but it doesn't kick

1609
01:26:29,520 --> 01:26:35,120
Speaker 2: in until twenty twenty six. So if the WNBA gets

1610
01:26:35,120 --> 01:26:37,320
Speaker 2: certain ratings, so I think the new media rights fees

1611
01:26:37,400 --> 01:26:40,240
Speaker 2: could have as much as a six times multiple. It

1612
01:26:40,240 --> 01:26:42,800
Speaker 2: could grow even more than the fifty to two hundred

1613
01:26:42,800 --> 01:26:46,240
Speaker 2: million that it is right now. And apparently they're not done.

1614
01:26:46,360 --> 01:26:49,160
Speaker 2: They believe the WNBA believes it might be able to

1615
01:26:49,200 --> 01:26:52,720
Speaker 2: sell to other rights packages in addition to the ones

1616
01:26:52,720 --> 01:26:55,759
Speaker 2: they've already made agreements for that could bring in another

1617
01:26:56,000 --> 01:27:00,320
Speaker 2: sixty million annually. Now you're cooking. That would really helped

1618
01:27:00,320 --> 01:27:06,519
Speaker 2: the WNBA ride this wave because there has been increased interest,

1619
01:27:07,000 --> 01:27:11,200
Speaker 2: there has been increased media spending across women's sports. The

1620
01:27:11,360 --> 01:27:14,880
Speaker 2: NWSL they got a new media rights deal this year

1621
01:27:14,920 --> 01:27:17,880
Speaker 2: that's supposed to pay two hundred and forty million over

1622
01:27:17,960 --> 01:27:20,600
Speaker 2: four years, So that's sixty million a year. That's a

1623
01:27:20,600 --> 01:27:24,960
Speaker 2: big jump for them. And so look, the WNBA, this

1624
01:27:25,040 --> 01:27:29,280
Speaker 2: is something that they needed very much, but I think

1625
01:27:29,280 --> 01:27:32,639
Speaker 2: it's probably well earned considering how the game is marketed.

1626
01:27:32,640 --> 01:27:34,439
Speaker 2: Now now they're starting to call it the w right

1627
01:27:34,479 --> 01:27:39,880
Speaker 2: and people understand what that means. Listen, there's no way

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01:27:39,920 --> 01:27:42,360
Speaker 2: I've been doing this long time. In sports talk radio,

1629
01:27:42,760 --> 01:27:46,200
Speaker 2: we ever talked about the WNBA but sports are a

1630
01:27:46,200 --> 01:27:49,559
Speaker 2: microcossa for life. We don't have royalty in this country.

1631
01:27:49,560 --> 01:27:52,760
Speaker 2: Our athletes and our entertainers are our royalty. And if

1632
01:27:52,800 --> 01:27:56,200
Speaker 2: you witness the battles between LSU and IOWA the last

1633
01:27:56,240 --> 01:28:00,280
Speaker 2: two years and the natural rivalry that was formed between

1634
01:28:00,400 --> 01:28:04,880
Speaker 2: Angel Reese and Caitlin Clark that is now graduated to

1635
01:28:04,920 --> 01:28:08,519
Speaker 2: the w NBA strong comparisons to bird Magic. Don't want

1636
01:28:08,520 --> 01:28:11,680
Speaker 2: to go that far, but I do think the comparative

1637
01:28:11,760 --> 01:28:15,760
Speaker 2: analysis is apt, all right. So if you look at

1638
01:28:15,800 --> 01:28:20,240
Speaker 2: the NWSL soccer, I think in this country by and

1639
01:28:20,320 --> 01:28:23,519
Speaker 2: large has been more popular than women's basketball. They got

1640
01:28:23,560 --> 01:28:26,760
Speaker 2: themselves a nice bag for them. The WNBA is going

1641
01:28:26,800 --> 01:28:30,679
Speaker 2: to exceed that, and I think it has a measure

1642
01:28:30,680 --> 01:28:33,880
Speaker 2: of protection for the sovereignty in the league. Right So,

1643
01:28:35,280 --> 01:28:39,920
Speaker 2: and here's the kicker. There's a belief that the WNBA

1644
01:28:40,080 --> 01:28:45,519
Speaker 2: can continue to grow because if they do, there's a

1645
01:28:45,600 --> 01:28:50,679
Speaker 2: clause in the contract that has that allows both sides,

1646
01:28:50,920 --> 01:28:54,839
Speaker 2: the media partners and the WNBA to revisit the deals

1647
01:28:54,880 --> 01:28:58,280
Speaker 2: with good faith talks after three years if the league's

1648
01:28:58,280 --> 01:29:02,240
Speaker 2: growth is such that those those TV deals need to

1649
01:29:02,280 --> 01:29:06,160
Speaker 2: be repriced. So give it up to the NBA give

1650
01:29:06,200 --> 01:29:08,559
Speaker 2: it up to the w n b A. They both

1651
01:29:08,560 --> 01:29:12,519
Speaker 2: pulled in nice bags this week. And listen, let's face it,

1652
01:29:13,520 --> 01:29:16,880
Speaker 2: the NFL wasn't always this crazy, stupid popular. I think

1653
01:29:17,240 --> 01:29:18,680
Speaker 2: you know, gambling has had a lot to do with that,

1654
01:29:18,720 --> 01:29:20,280
Speaker 2: and fantasy football's had a lot to do with that,

1655
01:29:20,800 --> 01:29:23,120
Speaker 2: and the product has always been sensational, and then league

1656
01:29:23,200 --> 01:29:25,439
Speaker 2: markets and stars quite well. But I'll give you a

1657
01:29:25,479 --> 01:29:29,080
Speaker 2: quick example just as a comparative. Okay, you said, you know,

1658
01:29:29,840 --> 01:29:32,759
Speaker 2: things have changed so much now there are seven different

1659
01:29:32,760 --> 01:29:35,920
Speaker 2: modalities that you'll be able to If you want to

1660
01:29:35,920 --> 01:29:39,280
Speaker 2: watch all the games, you'll have to get you know,

1661
01:29:39,320 --> 01:29:44,280
Speaker 2: you'll have to watch on ESPN, ESPN Plus, the NFL, Netflix,

1662
01:29:44,360 --> 01:29:49,120
Speaker 2: Prime Video, Peacock, YouTube TV, as well as the three

1663
01:29:49,160 --> 01:29:54,160
Speaker 2: major networks. Now not all theirs are free. As a

1664
01:29:54,160 --> 01:29:56,840
Speaker 2: matter of fact, YouTube TV. If you say, I can't

1665
01:29:56,840 --> 01:29:59,240
Speaker 2: miss any games, so you're gonna pony f seventy three

1666
01:29:59,320 --> 01:30:04,000
Speaker 2: bucks for YouTube TV. That's seventy three a month, six

1667
01:30:04,040 --> 01:30:06,800
Speaker 2: dollars a month for Peacock, fifteen for Prime Video, seven

1668
01:30:06,840 --> 01:30:10,439
Speaker 2: for Netflix, eleven for ESPN Plus, and twenty two dollars

1669
01:30:10,439 --> 01:30:13,240
Speaker 2: for NFL Plus' one hundred and thirty five dollars a month.

1670
01:30:14,360 --> 01:30:18,200
Speaker 2: Multiply that times five months. If you want to watch

1671
01:30:18,360 --> 01:30:20,599
Speaker 2: every NFL game this year and not miss any of

1672
01:30:20,600 --> 01:30:23,559
Speaker 2: them for any reason, that's six hundred and seventy bucks.

1673
01:30:23,840 --> 01:30:26,840
Speaker 2: You'll tender if you want to miss not miss any

1674
01:30:26,960 --> 01:30:30,479
Speaker 2: NFL game. That's where we're at. And people will pay

1675
01:30:30,520 --> 01:30:32,600
Speaker 2: it and people will watch it. And I you know,

1676
01:30:32,640 --> 01:30:35,799
Speaker 2: I did a midnight hour last year during the playoff

1677
01:30:35,840 --> 01:30:37,880
Speaker 2: game Kansas City and Miami. They put the thing on

1678
01:30:37,960 --> 01:30:41,479
Speaker 2: a pay per view only well and I believe it

1679
01:30:41,560 --> 01:30:44,280
Speaker 2: was buppabob was a named Netflix or Amazon one of

1680
01:30:44,320 --> 01:30:46,639
Speaker 2: the one of them paid for the rights. You had

1681
01:30:46,640 --> 01:30:50,639
Speaker 2: to have it Amazon Prime, I think, and or maybe

1682
01:30:50,880 --> 01:30:52,640
Speaker 2: just for that one game. I should have had my

1683
01:30:52,720 --> 01:30:54,720
Speaker 2: notes in front of me, but I described this, but

1684
01:30:54,880 --> 01:30:58,640
Speaker 2: use only six ninety nine and the network paid I

1685
01:30:58,680 --> 01:31:00,599
Speaker 2: tink one hundred and ten million dollars for the rights

1686
01:31:00,600 --> 01:31:03,080
Speaker 2: for that one game, that one playoff game, a playoff

1687
01:31:03,120 --> 01:31:06,960
Speaker 2: game between Kansas and Miami. And guess what they had,

1688
01:31:06,960 --> 01:31:09,920
Speaker 2: like thirty million sales, So they spent one hundred and

1689
01:31:09,960 --> 01:31:11,400
Speaker 2: ten million to get it, and they brought back one

1690
01:31:11,439 --> 01:31:13,000
Speaker 2: hundred and eighty million. You do that a few times.

1691
01:31:13,000 --> 01:31:16,240
Speaker 2: You have a pretty good day. Yeah, so this is

1692
01:31:16,280 --> 01:31:20,599
Speaker 2: a real thing. The WNBA helps to satisfy our thirst

1693
01:31:20,960 --> 01:31:24,920
Speaker 2: for competition and our attraction to royalty in this country

1694
01:31:25,360 --> 01:31:28,640
Speaker 2: because many of these WNBA players, the Asia Wilson's, the

1695
01:31:28,680 --> 01:31:32,519
Speaker 2: Kelsey Plumbs, the Caitlin Clarks, the Angel Reeses, right on

1696
01:31:32,560 --> 01:31:35,120
Speaker 2: down the line, and I'm leaving some names out but

1697
01:31:35,160 --> 01:31:39,320
Speaker 2: you can't name them. All have become royalty. And look

1698
01:31:40,720 --> 01:31:43,720
Speaker 2: the Indi Nfever. We're just here in Las Vegas at

1699
01:31:43,720 --> 01:31:48,240
Speaker 2: Tmobile Arena. They do twenty thousand, three hundred and sixty

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Speaker 2: true story, the minif covered in official capacity, and many

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Speaker 2: I was just there as a fan, which means I

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01:33:25,800 --> 01:33:32,000
Speaker 2: have sat through three thousand national anthems? Did you happen

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01:33:32,040 --> 01:33:34,960
Speaker 2: to hear what happened to the national anthem the other night?

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Speaker 2: And Ingrid Andres became a household name. We'll chop it up.

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Speaker 2: Coming up. I'm Bernie frattlework company line from the Las

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Speaker 2: All right back in the Bernie Fottle Show, Fox Sports

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Speaker 2: Radio come to you live from me TAK dot com

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01:34:44,600 --> 01:34:49,840
Speaker 2: studios here in Las Vegas. You know file this under

1749
01:34:49,880 --> 01:34:55,320
Speaker 2: the headline. Perhaps there is no such thing as bad publicity.

1750
01:34:56,320 --> 01:35:00,240
Speaker 2: Let's say you sang the national anthem didn't go so well.

1751
01:35:00,960 --> 01:35:02,839
Speaker 2: Turned out, you might have had a few cream dements

1752
01:35:02,880 --> 01:35:06,080
Speaker 2: in you. You apologized the Major League Baseball, the fans,

1753
01:35:06,640 --> 01:35:11,360
Speaker 2: the whole nation. Young lady checked herself into a facility

1754
01:35:11,360 --> 01:35:14,720
Speaker 2: to get the help she said she needs, but not

1755
01:35:14,840 --> 01:35:18,960
Speaker 2: without benefiting somewhat. She picked up fifteen thousand Instagram followers

1756
01:35:19,000 --> 01:35:23,120
Speaker 2: in one day, and SoundCloud told TMC that her plays

1757
01:35:23,160 --> 01:35:28,000
Speaker 2: on music have increased by fifty percent. Fortunately, we have

1758
01:35:28,120 --> 01:35:32,599
Speaker 2: someone and our crew tonight that saw Ingrid Andres actually

1759
01:35:32,600 --> 01:35:35,479
Speaker 2: perform in person opening up for why don't you tell

1760
01:35:35,520 --> 01:35:38,599
Speaker 2: the story? Brie? Okay, call a story, Brie.

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01:35:38,640 --> 01:35:41,760
Speaker 10: So I went to go see Keith Urban at the

1762
01:35:41,800 --> 01:35:47,439
Speaker 10: Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas, probably about four years four

1763
01:35:47,520 --> 01:35:49,600
Speaker 10: years ago, right before COVID, so maybe like four and

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01:35:49,600 --> 01:35:53,519
Speaker 10: a half years ago, and she actually opened up for Keith,

1765
01:35:54,160 --> 01:35:56,960
Speaker 10: and I really liked her. She actually sang really good.

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01:35:57,080 --> 01:35:59,599
Speaker 10: I actually almost thought she sounded better than Keith Urban,

1767
01:35:59,640 --> 01:36:02,400
Speaker 10: which is kind of crazy. I was a little bit

1768
01:36:02,400 --> 01:36:05,120
Speaker 10: more entertained, and I was obviously there to see him,

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01:36:05,240 --> 01:36:08,200
Speaker 10: and so I was a kind of a fan of

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01:36:08,240 --> 01:36:10,040
Speaker 10: her for a little while, Like I had like two

1771
01:36:10,040 --> 01:36:16,559
Speaker 10: of her songs so on during the Hormun derby, I

1772
01:36:16,600 --> 01:36:19,439
Speaker 10: didn't know it was her. So I'm like running, I'm

1773
01:36:19,479 --> 01:36:21,080
Speaker 10: at work, running down the hallway, like.

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Speaker 14: Who is that?

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01:36:22,200 --> 01:36:25,040
Speaker 10: Like I had no idea, Like I had no clue.

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01:36:25,600 --> 01:36:27,680
Speaker 10: And then I was like that that sounds like a

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01:36:27,720 --> 01:36:30,240
Speaker 10: TikToker or some kind of like social media chick. Like

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01:36:30,280 --> 01:36:33,080
Speaker 10: I had no idea with her. And then when I

1779
01:36:33,120 --> 01:36:35,519
Speaker 10: saw it on the TV, I like screamed, I'm like,

1780
01:36:35,720 --> 01:36:38,599
Speaker 10: no way, Like so it surprised me a lot.

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01:36:38,760 --> 01:36:42,080
Speaker 2: So I can imagine. No, I can imagine. And and

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01:36:42,320 --> 01:36:46,280
Speaker 2: here's the thing. One of the reasons I wanted to

1783
01:36:46,360 --> 01:36:51,040
Speaker 2: I wanted to reference this tonight because look, first of all,

1784
01:36:51,200 --> 01:36:53,920
Speaker 2: I think she we're gonna throw her a hall pass

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01:36:53,960 --> 01:36:56,240
Speaker 2: here right, as I said at the top of my shoulder,

1786
01:36:56,240 --> 01:36:57,719
Speaker 2: and I it's not what happens. So how I react.

1787
01:36:58,360 --> 01:37:00,760
Speaker 2: She's really kind of owned up to it. And it's

1788
01:37:00,800 --> 01:37:03,519
Speaker 2: not a funny matter and just one of those deals

1789
01:37:03,600 --> 01:37:06,880
Speaker 2: you can't unring the bell. It's there in perpetuity. But

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01:37:07,720 --> 01:37:12,840
Speaker 2: she's not the only one who didn't exactly uh light

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01:37:12,880 --> 01:37:15,400
Speaker 2: it up. While doing the national anthem. One that comes

1792
01:37:15,400 --> 01:37:18,080
Speaker 2: to mind, and this happened back in nineteen ninety three

1793
01:37:18,200 --> 01:37:20,400
Speaker 2: and an an NBA game between the Bulls and the

1794
01:37:20,400 --> 01:37:25,200
Speaker 2: New Jersey Nets before they were the Brooklyn Nets Olympic champion.

1795
01:37:25,320 --> 01:37:27,800
Speaker 2: Carl Lewis gave it a whorl let's give it a.

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Speaker 22: Listen for the rent.

1797
01:37:30,560 --> 01:37:38,360
Speaker 1: But we was with god it please street me.

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01:37:40,439 --> 01:37:57,320
Speaker 4: The locked threw the ballopylag was still.

1799
01:38:01,000 --> 01:38:02,360
Speaker 5: I'll make a pard down.

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Speaker 1: She does that stars fan.

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01:38:10,760 --> 01:38:19,479
Speaker 2: Fan yet way.

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01:38:17,439 --> 01:38:18,840
Speaker 5: All the land.

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01:38:21,720 --> 01:38:25,760
Speaker 1: For the land up for free.

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01:38:29,840 --> 01:38:49,559
Speaker 2: And oh so the funny thing about that and the

1805
01:38:49,920 --> 01:38:53,439
Speaker 2: always gets me. Of course he was Carl Lewis, he

1806
01:38:53,520 --> 01:38:56,800
Speaker 2: was Olympic champion and he kind of bailed himself out

1807
01:38:56,880 --> 01:39:01,719
Speaker 2: sort of kind of right uh that night. Is Charlie

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01:39:01,720 --> 01:39:04,240
Speaker 2: Steiner still doing play by play for the Dodgers. He's

1809
01:39:04,760 --> 01:39:07,920
Speaker 2: still part of the Dodgers bro broadcast team.

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01:39:08,640 --> 01:39:08,960
Speaker 20: He is.

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01:39:09,040 --> 01:39:10,800
Speaker 9: He's had some health issues this year, so he has

1812
01:39:10,840 --> 01:39:12,679
Speaker 9: not called any games as of yet. But the hope

1813
01:39:12,760 --> 01:39:14,720
Speaker 9: is who returns to the booth. But technically, yes, he

1814
01:39:14,800 --> 01:39:16,200
Speaker 9: is still the radio voice of the Dodgers.

1815
01:39:16,240 --> 01:39:20,479
Speaker 2: Yes, thank you appreciate that. And the reason I asked

1816
01:39:20,520 --> 01:39:25,240
Speaker 2: that is because that night on the ESPN Sports Center,

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01:39:26,080 --> 01:39:29,280
Speaker 2: they replayed it a couple of times, and the funny

1818
01:39:29,280 --> 01:39:32,400
Speaker 2: part was the camera panned to Charlie Steiner watching it,

1819
01:39:32,439 --> 01:39:34,320
Speaker 2: and he's got his face in his hands. He is

1820
01:39:34,400 --> 01:39:36,879
Speaker 2: laughing so hard. And if you ever met Charlie Steiner,

1821
01:39:37,280 --> 01:39:39,439
Speaker 2: I don't say this something to draw a derogatory way,

1822
01:39:39,520 --> 01:39:43,400
Speaker 2: because he's a pro. He's what maybe five to five,

1823
01:39:44,600 --> 01:39:49,760
Speaker 2: and you know he's he likes us, he's likes he

1824
01:39:49,920 --> 01:39:52,360
Speaker 2: likes his noth Nothing wrong with that, nothing wrong with that.

1825
01:39:52,920 --> 01:39:54,559
Speaker 2: And I thought he was gonna fall off the chair

1826
01:39:54,640 --> 01:39:57,599
Speaker 2: that night. And if it's out there on YouTube at all,

1827
01:39:57,680 --> 01:40:03,839
Speaker 2: it's worth watching the Charlie stein ESPN Sports Center replay

1828
01:40:03,880 --> 01:40:07,160
Speaker 2: of the Carl Lewis debacle. And Charlie Steiner had a

1829
01:40:07,200 --> 01:40:10,719
Speaker 2: great line that night. He called him Francis Scott off key.

1830
01:40:11,160 --> 01:40:15,599
Speaker 2: Of course, Grant's Scott. He broke the Star Spangled banner again,

1831
01:40:16,800 --> 01:40:20,479
Speaker 2: Ingrid Andrews not the only one. Fergie had a bad

1832
01:40:20,520 --> 01:40:23,479
Speaker 2: All Star game in the NBA. She's sang the All

1833
01:40:23,479 --> 01:40:25,680
Speaker 2: Star Game or she's saying the national anthem of the

1834
01:40:25,680 --> 01:40:29,160
Speaker 2: All Star Game six seven years ago and it did

1835
01:40:29,200 --> 01:40:32,080
Speaker 2: not go well. This is something you can YouTube, and

1836
01:40:32,120 --> 01:40:34,640
Speaker 2: people have turned it into a mashup and made some remixes.

1837
01:40:35,680 --> 01:40:38,240
Speaker 2: To me, the all time worst and it's not even funny.

1838
01:40:38,400 --> 01:40:40,840
Speaker 2: It was Roseanne Barr, the Potterys and the Reds back

1839
01:40:40,840 --> 01:40:44,040
Speaker 2: in nineteen ninety and again you can easily YouTube this.

1840
01:40:45,360 --> 01:40:45,640
Speaker 18: It was.

1841
01:40:46,840 --> 01:40:50,479
Speaker 2: It was kind of a disgrace. Carl Lewis was trying.

1842
01:40:51,120 --> 01:40:56,960
Speaker 2: He just brutalized it, right, and Fergie, I think, you know,

1843
01:40:57,160 --> 01:40:58,960
Speaker 2: try to add a little too much of her own

1844
01:40:59,040 --> 01:41:03,680
Speaker 2: panache to it and it didn't work. And I think

1845
01:41:03,880 --> 01:41:06,760
Speaker 2: Ingram Anders was trying, but Roseanne Barr kind of made

1846
01:41:06,760 --> 01:41:09,240
Speaker 2: it into a kind of a parody joke and it

1847
01:41:09,280 --> 01:41:12,679
Speaker 2: wasn't real funny. And finally, another one of the all timers,

1848
01:41:12,720 --> 01:41:17,480
Speaker 2: Steven Tyler. He's saying the national anthem at the Indianapolis

1849
01:41:17,520 --> 01:41:20,680
Speaker 2: five hundred, many many many years ago, and this is

1850
01:41:21,520 --> 01:41:25,439
Speaker 2: worth watching, not so much because he was terribly off

1851
01:41:25,520 --> 01:41:27,679
Speaker 2: key or brutally off key. He was a rock star.

1852
01:41:28,360 --> 01:41:31,479
Speaker 2: He had to add his own, you know, style to it.

1853
01:41:31,760 --> 01:41:35,559
Speaker 2: But he changed the words. He kind of that kind

1854
01:41:35,560 --> 01:41:38,439
Speaker 2: of breaks the rules, right, changing the words the national anthem.

1855
01:41:38,439 --> 01:41:40,960
Speaker 2: If you're there to sing the national anthem, I think

1856
01:41:41,080 --> 01:41:42,639
Speaker 2: kind of you change the word. I mean, you don't

1857
01:41:42,720 --> 01:41:46,400
Speaker 2: change the words, do you? So again? You know, you

1858
01:41:46,439 --> 01:41:48,120
Speaker 2: throw a little bit of a bone and throw a

1859
01:41:48,120 --> 01:41:49,680
Speaker 2: lot a bit of a bone because she kind of

1860
01:41:49,760 --> 01:41:53,120
Speaker 2: came clean. And the truth of the matter is, you know.

1861
01:41:53,200 --> 01:41:55,160
Speaker 2: And by the way, how do I forget? I was

1862
01:41:55,160 --> 01:41:58,439
Speaker 2: talking to Breoff Flavor Flav. He just did the Star

1863
01:41:58,520 --> 01:42:01,920
Speaker 2: Spangled banner recently at an NBA game. I love Flavor Flave.

1864
01:42:03,080 --> 01:42:05,120
Speaker 2: You're gonna You're gonna have to watch it. You're gonna

1865
01:42:05,160 --> 01:42:08,400
Speaker 2: have to watch it. He's not known for his singing ability,

1866
01:42:08,880 --> 01:42:12,000
Speaker 2: so he gave the national anthem a try, of course,

1867
01:42:12,240 --> 01:42:14,559
Speaker 2: the greatest anthem of all time. No one can debate this.

1868
01:42:14,640 --> 01:42:18,720
Speaker 2: Whitney Houston during Super Bowl twenty five, nineteen ninety one,

1869
01:42:18,800 --> 01:42:21,840
Speaker 2: right after the Gulf Wars started. And you talk about

1870
01:42:21,840 --> 01:42:25,639
Speaker 2: a soulful Marvin Gay. Look the reason I do Motown music.

1871
01:42:25,760 --> 01:42:29,639
Speaker 2: I spent seventeen years there. I was born there, spent

1872
01:42:29,720 --> 01:42:35,040
Speaker 2: many years in the media there. Look, motown music is

1873
01:42:35,040 --> 01:42:40,040
Speaker 2: is soulful, it's feel good, it's timeless. Everybody likes it.

1874
01:42:40,800 --> 01:42:45,840
Speaker 2: Marvin Gay a legendary, you know, motown star. He gave

1875
01:42:46,120 --> 01:42:47,960
Speaker 2: too much of a soulful version of the anthem at

1876
01:42:48,000 --> 01:42:50,800
Speaker 2: the NBA All Star Game, and it's it didn't It

1877
01:42:50,840 --> 01:42:54,360
Speaker 2: didn't go over. It didn't go over. Even Jimmy Hendricks

1878
01:42:54,840 --> 01:43:00,760
Speaker 2: pulled one off, you know, a star spangle banner or

1879
01:43:00,800 --> 01:43:03,640
Speaker 2: what do you call it, you know, national anthem. So

1880
01:43:03,720 --> 01:43:05,479
Speaker 2: there's been there's been a lot of people that have

1881
01:43:05,640 --> 01:43:08,400
Speaker 2: that have done this right. So you gotta give You

1882
01:43:08,439 --> 01:43:12,599
Speaker 2: got to give Ingrid Andres some you know, some love.

1883
01:43:13,000 --> 01:43:15,080
Speaker 2: If she was good enough to open up for Keith Urban,

1884
01:43:15,920 --> 01:43:19,160
Speaker 2: then she's got some junk junking her trunk and she'll

1885
01:43:19,200 --> 01:43:21,000
Speaker 2: be okay, she'll be I like the way she handed

1886
01:43:21,040 --> 01:43:25,040
Speaker 2: herself afterward. We're for giving country. We're a country second chances,

1887
01:43:25,640 --> 01:43:28,720
Speaker 2: unless it comes to our soccer team coming out christophets

1888
01:43:28,760 --> 01:43:31,240
Speaker 2: World of Soccer. But first we go back to our guy,

1889
01:43:31,320 --> 01:43:32,880
Speaker 2: Kevin Figures with the latest.

1890
01:43:33,040 --> 01:43:33,639
Speaker 11: All right, Bernie.

1891
01:43:33,680 --> 01:43:35,880
Speaker 9: We had a full slate of baseball on Friday night,

1892
01:43:35,920 --> 01:43:38,599
Speaker 9: the first day of the regular season since the All

1893
01:43:38,600 --> 01:43:40,760
Speaker 9: Star break. The final game of the night saw All

1894
01:43:40,760 --> 01:43:43,519
Speaker 9: Star Freddie Freeman lead the Dodgers to a four to

1895
01:43:43,600 --> 01:43:46,320
Speaker 9: one win over the Red Sox with an eighth inning

1896
01:43:46,400 --> 01:43:50,080
Speaker 9: grand slam. Houston shut out the Mariners three nothing behind

1897
01:43:50,160 --> 01:43:52,960
Speaker 9: six innings from Hunter Brown. Cleveland as the best home

1898
01:43:53,000 --> 01:43:55,639
Speaker 9: record in the majors at thirty one and eleven. They

1899
01:43:55,680 --> 01:43:59,000
Speaker 9: blanked the Padre seven nothing. Baltimore scored all nine of

1900
01:43:59,040 --> 01:44:01,240
Speaker 9: its runs via the law ball. It was a nine

1901
01:44:01,280 --> 01:44:03,880
Speaker 9: to one final against the Rangers. In Texas, it was

1902
01:44:03,920 --> 01:44:06,800
Speaker 9: the Marlins six and the Mets four. Garrett col and

1903
01:44:06,800 --> 01:44:09,080
Speaker 9: the Yankees defeated the Ray six to one. You had

1904
01:44:09,120 --> 01:44:12,559
Speaker 9: wins for Colorado, Washington and Kansas City. Pittsburgh back over

1905
01:44:12,600 --> 01:44:15,120
Speaker 9: five hundred for the first time since late April. They

1906
01:44:15,160 --> 01:44:17,840
Speaker 9: walked off the Phillies eight to seven. And horse racing

1907
01:44:17,920 --> 01:44:20,080
Speaker 9: Churchill Downs has lifted the three year suspension of Hall

1908
01:44:20,080 --> 01:44:23,080
Speaker 9: of Fame trainer Bob Bafford and golf Shane Lowry. A

1909
01:44:23,120 --> 01:44:25,000
Speaker 9: two stroke lead to the first couple of rounds of

1910
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Speaker 9: the Open Championship. Brown three is just under way. Tiger Woods,

1911
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Speaker 9: Roy McRoy and Bryson Deshamba all missed the cut back

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Speaker 9: to Bernie Frido.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Kevin, appreciate it, Bud. At this time every week,

1914
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Speaker 2: listen whether it's in season, out of season, on the pitch,

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Speaker 2: off the pitch, and of course a week from Friday

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Speaker 2: week from yesterday. Well, when I signed on, it was

1917
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Speaker 2: eleven pm Friday night here in La Vegas, Friday, June

1918
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Speaker 2: July twenty sixth, the opening ceremonies at the Paris Olympics

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Speaker 2: will commence, and yeah, soccer will be a big part

1920
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Speaker 2: of it. Our men's team has been really a disappointment.

1921
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Speaker 2: They fire the coach. We'll see what happens next. And

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Speaker 2: by the way, Paris is looking pretty spiffed up. I

1923
01:45:10,960 --> 01:45:13,080
Speaker 2: was just in Paris and late Maine. They're ready to

1924
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Speaker 2: go for the Olympics. And that's something I think we

1925
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Speaker 2: will most of us be at least sampling. Will you

1926
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Speaker 2: be watching soccer? I don't know, but at this time

1927
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Speaker 2: every week we bring you Chris Purfett's World of Soccer.

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Speaker 3: The greatest goals, the thrilling finishes, the international drum. It's

1929
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Speaker 3: all here in this report from the world of soccer.

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Speaker 8: Well, Bernie we it Man, even years are very very

1931
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Speaker 8: busy here in the world of soccer. We are finally

1932
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Speaker 8: at what I could possibly call an off season for

1933
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Speaker 8: men's top level soccer. Copa America came to its thrilling

1934
01:46:02,240 --> 01:46:08,240
Speaker 8: conclusion Argentina over Columbia and euro Championship with Spain over

1935
01:46:08,360 --> 01:46:12,639
Speaker 8: England being the crowning moments where we finally finally put

1936
01:46:12,680 --> 01:46:16,479
Speaker 8: to arrest the seasons that were. Now obviously it's not

1937
01:46:16,479 --> 01:46:19,640
Speaker 8: completely true. We'll talk about Olympics in a second. You know,

1938
01:46:19,800 --> 01:46:23,639
Speaker 8: we've got you know, MLS, Major League Soccer and Liga

1939
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Speaker 8: MX here in North America, so it's not like it's

1940
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Speaker 8: completely stopped. For one Lionel Messi, I'm sure he wishes

1941
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Speaker 8: he could get a little bit of a break, especially

1942
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Speaker 8: with yet another injury plaguing him, But for most of

1943
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Speaker 8: the top flights of the world, for Europe and for

1944
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Speaker 8: everywhere else in the clubs and nations, it is finally

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Speaker 8: a pause.

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Speaker 13: Now.

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Speaker 11: I did mention the Olympics. They are coming up here.

1948
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Speaker 8: We're getting our first matches here in the twenty twenty

1949
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Speaker 8: four Olympics in France, in Paris here on Wednesday, Thursday,

1950
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Speaker 8: kicking off. I do get asked quite a bit by

1951
01:46:58,040 --> 01:47:02,160
Speaker 8: people asking me about men soccer at the Olympics. To

1952
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Speaker 8: reiterate and in case you don't know anything about men's

1953
01:47:05,120 --> 01:47:09,360
Speaker 8: soccer at the Olympics because of these European Championship tournament

1954
01:47:09,400 --> 01:47:12,320
Speaker 8: and Copa America, that sucks up all of the greatest

1955
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Speaker 8: players out there, and because of the massive demands put

1956
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Speaker 8: upon them with the schedule and everything else. Again, we've

1957
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Speaker 8: been playing almost NonStop soccer since last August. The men's

1958
01:47:23,200 --> 01:47:26,639
Speaker 8: side of the Olympics is actually a under twenty three

1959
01:47:26,840 --> 01:47:31,040
Speaker 8: format that means any players born on or after the

1960
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Speaker 8: first of January two thousand and one a will be

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Speaker 8: allowed to play, with a cavea that every nation is

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Speaker 8: allowed three overage players on those rosters. However, usually those

1963
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Speaker 8: top players are playing again over in euros or Copa

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Speaker 8: America or one of the other things, or just needing

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Speaker 8: the break.

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Speaker 11: It's fascinating. This is actually the first year we.

1967
01:47:55,120 --> 01:47:59,840
Speaker 8: Have all players born on or after the twenty first

1968
01:48:00,080 --> 01:48:03,479
Speaker 8: century has begun, which is a little bit of a

1969
01:48:03,720 --> 01:48:05,559
Speaker 8: jarring thing to really consider.

1970
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Speaker 11: The United States is qualified.

1971
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Speaker 8: They were through on the CONKA CAF Under twenty Championship.

1972
01:48:11,880 --> 01:48:18,280
Speaker 8: They will be taking parts, so will Spain, France, Egypt, Argentina, Japan,

1973
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Speaker 8: some of the ones names you've kind of come to expect.

1974
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Speaker 8: It's still a fascinating tournament, but it's a lot more

1975
01:48:24,320 --> 01:48:27,519
Speaker 8: of but with only sixteen teams in it, and on

1976
01:48:27,600 --> 01:48:30,000
Speaker 8: the under twenty three format, it's a lot more of

1977
01:48:30,040 --> 01:48:34,680
Speaker 8: a look into the future, into prospects that might be

1978
01:48:34,760 --> 01:48:38,760
Speaker 8: coming up might join the full men's roster, especially as

1979
01:48:38,760 --> 01:48:41,160
Speaker 8: we look to the future of the US Federation and

1980
01:48:41,240 --> 01:48:44,960
Speaker 8: the US men's team post Greg Berholter. It should be

1981
01:48:44,960 --> 01:48:48,240
Speaker 8: something interesting to keep an eye on there. And as

1982
01:48:48,360 --> 01:48:50,599
Speaker 8: much as I know that in the past, Killian Embape

1983
01:48:50,800 --> 01:48:54,320
Speaker 8: did express his wish to play in the Olympics being

1984
01:48:54,360 --> 01:48:57,639
Speaker 8: held in Paris, and he would be one of those

1985
01:48:57,640 --> 01:49:01,080
Speaker 8: overage players at age twenty five, But he, of course,

1986
01:49:01,160 --> 01:49:03,760
Speaker 8: through all of this and with the new signing.

1987
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Speaker 11: At Real Madrid, will not be in the Olympics.

1988
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Speaker 8: Honestly, well earned rest for him, especially with a very

1989
01:49:10,160 --> 01:49:12,360
Speaker 8: big season coming up with him with Real Madrid. But

1990
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Speaker 8: what about the women's side of the game, Well, the

1991
01:49:14,000 --> 01:49:17,720
Speaker 8: women's side is a full tournament at the Olympics. One

1992
01:49:17,720 --> 01:49:19,920
Speaker 8: of the benefits of the women's game not having these

1993
01:49:20,040 --> 01:49:24,080
Speaker 8: giant tournaments I like the men's euro or the men's

1994
01:49:24,120 --> 01:49:27,519
Speaker 8: Copa that takes so much importance on the senior side,

1995
01:49:27,680 --> 01:49:30,320
Speaker 8: it has allowed for the Olympics to be a sort

1996
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Speaker 8: of secondary tournament past the Women's World Cup, not probably

1997
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Speaker 8: of the same importance, certainly not with the same number

1998
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Speaker 8: of teams, but certainly one that people will tune into,

1999
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Speaker 8: one where the top players will be going there. And

2000
01:49:43,120 --> 01:49:46,280
Speaker 8: for the United States women's team, they are unfortunately in

2001
01:49:46,439 --> 01:49:53,080
Speaker 8: the group of death. They have drawn a group with themselves, Zombia, Germany,

2002
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Speaker 8: and Australia.

2003
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Speaker 11: Group B.

2004
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Speaker 8: Germany is I don't know how else to say it.

2005
01:49:59,360 --> 01:50:02,840
Speaker 8: They were the twenty sixteen gold medalists. They missed. They

2006
01:50:03,200 --> 01:50:08,559
Speaker 8: missed last time on some Double Jeopardy qualifying systems that

2007
01:50:08,640 --> 01:50:10,519
Speaker 8: was all based around World Cup placements.

2008
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Speaker 11: It's very confusing to really talk about.

2009
01:50:12,240 --> 01:50:15,400
Speaker 8: And Australia is going to be without their without their

2010
01:50:15,400 --> 01:50:19,480
Speaker 8: star striker Sam Kerr. She tore her acl back in January.

2011
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Speaker 8: But Zombia might be a very tough out in this group.

2012
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Speaker 8: Germany certainly probably favored to be at the top of

2013
01:50:25,840 --> 01:50:29,240
Speaker 8: Group B, not the United States. Germany favored to come

2014
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Speaker 8: out number one in this group. So the US really

2015
01:50:32,120 --> 01:50:36,080
Speaker 8: cannot really stumble at any point here, certainly certainly not

2016
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Speaker 8: after their last World Cup. And to be clear, I

2017
01:50:39,120 --> 01:50:41,400
Speaker 8: do not think this United States women's team is as

2018
01:50:41,439 --> 01:50:45,000
Speaker 8: dominant as they have been. That age of dominance is over.

2019
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Speaker 8: What about the World Cup champions what about the women's

2020
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Speaker 8: team from Spain. They are in a similarly just stacked group,

2021
01:50:53,520 --> 01:50:56,839
Speaker 8: Group C. Keeping your eye on this with Spain, Japan,

2022
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Speaker 8: Nigeria and Brascila.

2023
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Speaker 11: This is a phenomenal group there.

2024
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Speaker 8: And we round it out with Group A that will

2025
01:51:04,320 --> 01:51:09,080
Speaker 8: have France, Columbia, Canada and New Zealand. Very good tournament

2026
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Speaker 8: here for the women's side of things, certainly a lot

2027
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Speaker 8: to dive into there and certainly a lot of attention

2028
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Speaker 8: given to them. Probably not as much attention right now

2029
01:51:19,560 --> 01:51:21,960
Speaker 8: as is being given to the men's basketball team for

2030
01:51:22,000 --> 01:51:26,320
Speaker 8: Team USA, but the women's Team USA for soccer definitely

2031
01:51:26,360 --> 01:51:29,160
Speaker 8: someone to keep an eye on and certainly in the

2032
01:51:29,200 --> 01:51:31,559
Speaker 8: mix to try to get back to their old winning

2033
01:51:31,600 --> 01:51:34,599
Speaker 8: ways and bring home a gold medal and get back

2034
01:51:34,640 --> 01:51:37,360
Speaker 8: to that age where the United States was that dominant

2035
01:51:37,360 --> 01:51:40,000
Speaker 8: force in the women's game. As for the men's under

2036
01:51:40,000 --> 01:51:42,919
Speaker 8: twenty three, I believe France right now is the favorite,

2037
01:51:42,960 --> 01:51:46,760
Speaker 8: the home nation and one who has always had some phenomenal,

2038
01:51:46,840 --> 01:51:51,400
Speaker 8: phenomenal young talent coming up through the years here. Argentina

2039
01:51:51,640 --> 01:51:54,760
Speaker 8: is not far behind them. Spain obviously should be a

2040
01:51:54,880 --> 01:51:58,120
Speaker 8: very interesting one to keep an eye on, although Spain

2041
01:51:58,160 --> 01:52:02,040
Speaker 8: will not be with their phenomenon. Lamin Ya Mal, who

2042
01:52:02,280 --> 01:52:07,360
Speaker 8: was their star in Euros, a very young player, only

2043
01:52:07,439 --> 01:52:11,479
Speaker 8: about seventeen years old right now. He actually just turned

2044
01:52:11,520 --> 01:52:14,840
Speaker 8: seventeen a single day before the finals, so he played

2045
01:52:14,880 --> 01:52:17,840
Speaker 8: most of that tournament at age sixteen. He would qualify

2046
01:52:18,520 --> 01:52:21,679
Speaker 8: and his club Barcelona did give the approval to allow

2047
01:52:21,800 --> 01:52:23,880
Speaker 8: him to go to the Olympics. Clubs actually get the

2048
01:52:23,920 --> 01:52:27,000
Speaker 8: final say on Olympics because it's not really a FIFA thing,

2049
01:52:27,400 --> 01:52:31,799
Speaker 8: but Jamal absolutely deserves some well earned rest. Once again,

2050
01:52:32,040 --> 01:52:34,120
Speaker 8: many of these players have been playing a soccer non

2051
01:52:34,280 --> 01:52:38,080
Speaker 8: stop for over ten months. Right now, It's time for

2052
01:52:38,160 --> 01:52:40,160
Speaker 8: some breaks for a lot of people, even a young

2053
01:52:40,280 --> 01:52:42,720
Speaker 8: star like lamin Ya Mal. So it's time for some

2054
01:52:42,760 --> 01:52:45,480
Speaker 8: other people to shine here. Great time at the Olympics.

2055
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Speaker 8: I love the Olympics, Burnie. I've been to Atlanta and

2056
01:52:48,120 --> 01:52:50,320
Speaker 8: Sydney in my life. I really wanted to go to

2057
01:52:50,320 --> 01:52:53,720
Speaker 8: Tokyo when it happened before the pandemic. My dad and

2058
01:52:53,720 --> 01:52:55,840
Speaker 8: I are making plans to go to Brisbane one of

2059
01:52:55,840 --> 01:52:58,680
Speaker 8: these years, and now obviously coming here to la I

2060
01:52:58,720 --> 01:53:01,120
Speaker 8: love the Olympics, love of all the sports in them.

2061
01:53:01,160 --> 01:53:02,840
Speaker 8: I'm certainly going to be watching a lot of judo

2062
01:53:02,920 --> 01:53:06,960
Speaker 8: this summer and Olympic wrestling, and yes there will be

2063
01:53:07,040 --> 01:53:10,080
Speaker 8: soccer in the mix as well. Enjoy the summer, Burnie,

2064
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Speaker 8: We'll see you next time on the World of Soccer.

2065
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Speaker 2: I like the Olympics too, and soccer just won the

2066
01:53:16,520 --> 01:53:21,400
Speaker 2: many sports. A quick side note, Chris mentioned a seventeen

2067
01:53:21,439 --> 01:53:25,360
Speaker 2: year old did you see Thursday Night? A young man

2068
01:53:26,200 --> 01:53:29,840
Speaker 2: fourteen years old, fourteen years, two hundred ninety three days

2069
01:53:30,360 --> 01:53:34,519
Speaker 2: made histories from Chester, Pennsylvania. His name is Cavin Sullivan,

2070
01:53:35,000 --> 01:53:37,519
Speaker 2: the youngest player to ever appear in a Major League

2071
01:53:37,560 --> 01:53:40,439
Speaker 2: soccer game. He checked in at the eighty fourth minute.

2072
01:53:40,920 --> 01:53:44,640
Speaker 2: This dude belongs. He blew me away. He dribbled the

2073
01:53:44,680 --> 01:53:48,360
Speaker 2: ball up the field, great speed, launched a rocket off

2074
01:53:48,439 --> 01:53:50,960
Speaker 2: his left foot, shot on goal. Legit shot on goal,

2075
01:53:52,040 --> 01:53:55,280
Speaker 2: and he didn't score a goal. And then he was

2076
01:53:55,320 --> 01:53:58,599
Speaker 2: interviewed on Live TV and Sports Center and he took

2077
01:53:58,720 --> 01:54:04,240
Speaker 2: over the intervieween years old. He was funny, glib, quick

2078
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Speaker 2: on his feet, and his hair. He's got like a

2079
01:54:08,400 --> 01:54:13,000
Speaker 2: buzz cut and his hair is like silver gray, and

2080
01:54:14,720 --> 01:54:17,040
Speaker 2: I forget he was interviewing him, but he said, is

2081
01:54:17,040 --> 01:54:19,680
Speaker 2: that your natural color? And he joked around and says yeah,

2082
01:54:19,720 --> 01:54:21,800
Speaker 2: he go no, my mom does his shout out to

2083
01:54:21,840 --> 01:54:26,439
Speaker 2: my mom. And this guy has got nothing but good

2084
01:54:26,479 --> 01:54:29,839
Speaker 2: times ahead. He is going to be quite the media darling.

2085
01:54:29,920 --> 01:54:35,000
Speaker 2: And he's a terrific soccer player. Look, you can see

2086
01:54:35,000 --> 01:54:36,720
Speaker 2: it right away, usually in the great ones. Now he's

2087
01:54:36,720 --> 01:54:38,480
Speaker 2: got to follow up. We don't know you know where

2088
01:54:38,480 --> 01:54:40,720
Speaker 2: it goes, but I do know this where it goes.

2089
01:54:41,480 --> 01:54:43,720
Speaker 2: He's fourteen years old and he already signed a record

2090
01:54:43,760 --> 01:54:47,200
Speaker 2: breaking homegrown player deal. He'll learn more than five hundred

2091
01:54:47,240 --> 01:54:50,280
Speaker 2: thousand per season. And after signing that deal, you know,

2092
01:54:50,320 --> 01:54:53,160
Speaker 2: he's been playing for the Philadelphia Union, that's the MLS

2093
01:54:53,200 --> 01:54:56,520
Speaker 2: pro team there. He's performed very well. He's expected to

2094
01:54:56,640 --> 01:54:59,520
Speaker 2: join Man City when he turns eighteen. They want him

2095
01:55:00,200 --> 01:55:04,000
Speaker 2: years from now. His name is Cavin Sullivan. What an

2096
01:55:04,040 --> 01:55:09,640
Speaker 2: incredible debut. Unreal coming up, we wrap up the show,

2097
01:55:10,040 --> 01:55:12,560
Speaker 2: give you a glimpse of the Saturday night show. And

2098
01:55:12,680 --> 01:55:16,360
Speaker 2: also you know it will be it'll be weird for

2099
01:55:16,400 --> 01:55:19,280
Speaker 2: me not to see Nick Saban on the sidelines this

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01:55:19,400 --> 01:55:23,480
Speaker 2: year for Alabama games, but you will see Nick Saban.

2101
01:55:23,520 --> 01:55:27,000
Speaker 2: As a matter of fact, you already are seeing Nick Saban.

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Speaker 2: He made a prediction over his former team and how

2103
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Speaker 2: he thinks they'll do in the SEC and it didn't

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Speaker 2: exactly go over well with his players. We'll chop that up.

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Speaker 2: Coming up, I'm Bernie Frattle or Company live from Las Vegas,

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Speaker 2: All right, we are wrapping it up on the Bernie

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Speaker 2: Frattle Show. We are comingy live from the Tyrek dot

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Speaker 2: com studios here in Las Vegas. Before I go any further,

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Speaker 2: I want to thank my broadcast team back in Los Angeles.

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Speaker 2: They've been with me since eleven pm Pacific time on

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Speaker 2: Friday night. Kevin figures on all the updates, Good Input

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Speaker 2: two as well as the All Star Games, the current state,

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Speaker 2: the WNBA All Star Game Saturday night, and the poll

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Speaker 2: in which was the worst. Mark Ramsey, our technical producer,

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Speaker 2: turning all the dials, keeping us clued together, honoring my

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Speaker 2: penchant for motown music, and of course Bri the great

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Speaker 2: Bri taking all your calls tonight, offering her scouting. He

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Speaker 2: actually saw Ingrid Andres in concert open up for Keith Urban.

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Speaker 2: So see we span the globe here what we do.

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Speaker 2: Great job by the crew tonight, really appreciate it, and

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Speaker 2: of course great job by all the callers in the

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Speaker 2: midnight hour. Got some real characters and that's why we

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Speaker 2: do this every Friday night at midnight Pacific. From where

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Speaker 2: I sit, it is the midnight hour, literally, and from

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Speaker 2: where our listeners sit, for many, it's the mid eight

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Speaker 2: hour literally. So I'm figuratively. We've had calls from Australia tonight.

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Speaker 2: By the way, coming up on Saturday Show, we're going

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Speaker 2: to start to dive heavily into college football and the NFL.

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Speaker 2: What if I told you a week from next Thursday

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Speaker 2: is the Hall of Fame game. Yep, week from next Thursday, Thursday,

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Speaker 2: August first, We're we're thirteen days away, now, twelve days away.

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Speaker 2: It's coming down the pike for us. But so is

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Speaker 2: college football. You know it starts August twenty fourth, and

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Speaker 2: no more Nick Saban, no more, Jim Harber, I have

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Speaker 2: a College Football Experts Saturday Night Brad Power is a

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Speaker 2: great guy, the most knowledgeable you know, Brad power sports.

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Speaker 2: He's been there, done that. You don't want to miss

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Speaker 2: what he's got to say. And of course plenty of

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Speaker 2: NBA stuff. Will have Medina Magic at midnight where we

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Speaker 2: will cover all all the storylines happening. I'm gonna talk.

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Speaker 2: I'm going to tell you why I believe Saturday night

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Speaker 2: that Calin de Boor will have success at Alabama taking

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Speaker 2: over for a legend. The guy's a lifetime winner. His

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Speaker 2: career record as a coach is one oh four and twelve.

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Speaker 2: That's almost a nine hundred winning percentage to give them

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Speaker 2: some perspective. And I know Sabans coached a lot more games.

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Speaker 2: He's winning percentage as a college head coach is eight

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Speaker 2: oh two and Saban has seven national titles, but Dubor

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Speaker 2: actually has three and played for two more. I get it.

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Speaker 2: He started out at the ANI level, but no matter

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Speaker 2: where he's been, he coached in sux Falls, he was

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Speaker 2: sixty seven and three, he was twelve and six at

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Speaker 2: Fresno State, he was twenty five and three at Washington.

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Speaker 2: Look what that program did before and watch what they'll

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Speaker 2: do after. Here's why I think Bama's going to score

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Speaker 2: do well. He's got an offense that moves the ball

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Speaker 2: and scores points. And they're not just efficient, they're very entertaining.

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Speaker 2: We'll get into that Saturday night. Speaking of Nick Saban,

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Speaker 2: a guy have tremendous respect for looking forward to seeing

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Speaker 2: his commentary as he'll be working as an analyst for ESPN.

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Speaker 2: He's done the college football world by retiring in January

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Speaker 2: seven national titles. He was covering SEC media days this

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Speaker 2: past week. He's already delivered a noteworthy take that really

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Speaker 2: pissed some people off. On Tuesday, Nick Saban predicted that

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Speaker 2: Georgia and SEC newcomer would at Texas. The Texas Longhorns

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Speaker 2: would be the two teams competing in the SEC Championship

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Speaker 2: game this season. Now, one of Bama's players, an offensive lineman,

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Speaker 2: Tyler Booker, was asked on Wednesday about Saban's comments, and

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Speaker 2: his response was epic. He said, quote Coach Saban used

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Speaker 2: to always say, don't let some guy that lives in

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Speaker 2: their mom's basement determine how you feel. So I'm not

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Speaker 2: gonna let some guy who plays golf all day determine

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Speaker 2: how I feel. That broke the people up a little bit,

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Speaker 2: they laughed, and you know they will ignore the external factors.

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Speaker 2: Saban's no longer there, He no longer has his imprint

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Speaker 2: on that program. Well, he probably has the impact, but

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Speaker 2: he's long gone right basically, and Saban was not offended

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Speaker 2: by that. He's proud of the way the team he

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Speaker 2: left behind. The truth of the matter is is that

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Speaker 2: they don't have Nick Saban anymore. So there'll be a

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Speaker 2: target on Kalin Debor's back. But I think he's gonna

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Speaker 2: have a good season. We're gonna talk about all that

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Speaker 2: stuff coming up Saturday night, among many other things. We're

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Speaker 2: gonna preview the NFC West. We're gonna get into a

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Speaker 2: lot of football stuff because it's right around the corner.

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Speaker 2: So we'll see on these airwaves Saturday night, eleven pm.

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Speaker 2: It's gonna do it for the Bernie Frattle Show. In

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Speaker 2: the meantime, keep it locked right here on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: Up next The Fellas. Fox Sports Radio