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Speaker 2: Well, that's right, you heard the man. It is that

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Speaker 2: time of week. My name is Bernie Frattle. We are

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Speaker 2: Lincoln Riley and those USC Trojans surrender the lead with

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Speaker 2: about a minute forty nine to go. Can they come

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Speaker 2: back and win? I don't think so, but we've got

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Speaker 2: drama as the Trojans looks like they're about to go

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Speaker 2: six and seven, But we shall see. Why complain when

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Speaker 2: I can listen to all the people complain about the

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Speaker 2: college football playoff? Just a word of the wise. You

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Speaker 2: may not remember, but in the last twenty semi final

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Speaker 2: games on the your prior formats, fourteen were decided by

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Speaker 2: fourteen points or more. At eight were decided by twenty

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Speaker 2: points or more. But we are here for it, and

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Speaker 2: don't act like you're not. Just like we are for

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Speaker 2: the NFL, even that crazy barn Burner Thursday night. Now,

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Speaker 2: this week had already seen its first shutout and some

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Speaker 2: first half score of gami. But now Thursday night we're

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Speaker 2: followed up by the lowest scoring game of the NFL season,

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Speaker 2: six to three punt fest, in which the Seahawks kept

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Speaker 2: their postseason well playoff hopes alive. They're still alive.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 2: I found an interesting tidbit that earlier this year, the

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Speaker 2: Seattle Mariners baseball team visited the Chicago White Sox more

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Speaker 2: than once, but they beat them twice, six to three

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Speaker 2: in Chicago. Yes, in baseball, and then Thursday night the

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Speaker 2: Seattle Seahawks beat the Chicago Bears sixty three. What are

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Speaker 2: the odds? I guess in this case hits one hundred percent.

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Speaker 2: Now we don't need to dwell on this game much longer.

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Speaker 2: But the Bears, here for scoring at home, lost their

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Speaker 2: tenth straight game, and they very much looked the part.

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Speaker 2: A total one hundred and seventy nine yards on offense,

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Speaker 2: but they got that first pick. Everybody's all panicky, we

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Speaker 2: better get Caleb. It's like the Raiders are all panicky.

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Speaker 2: What are we gonna do? I'll be dealing with that

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Speaker 2: this weekend. Very messy, messy finish in which Caleb wins

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Speaker 2: finally threw a pick. I'll tell you what, if you

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Speaker 2: had the prop for Caleb to not throw a pick,

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Speaker 2: You're sick. It was the last pick play of the game.

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Speaker 2: He threw a pick, and you saw what happen. First

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Speaker 2: pick in three hundred and fifty four passes. Now, Seattle

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Speaker 2: leads to the Cardinals to beat the Rams Saturday to

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Speaker 2: set up a Week eight team matchup for the NFC

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Speaker 2: West Crown. Hold that thought, because you see the reality

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Speaker 2: of it is when the NFL schedule makers get together,

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Speaker 2: I'm I'm jack for this trip, this tripleheader on Saturday,

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Speaker 2: I really am. The NFL does their best to create

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Speaker 2: interesting matchups late this season. It's hard to do because

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Speaker 2: injuries hit some teams early, some teams get eliminated. Some

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Speaker 2: teams draft Caleb number one, and you see what happens,

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Speaker 2: and they're all worried about the Raiders losing their number

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Speaker 2: one pick. Now, yeah, okay, and how was your day?

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Speaker 2: So sometimes the league has to get creative. So what

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Speaker 2: they do is they designate five matchups and how about

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Speaker 2: this this week? We had football Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, Sunday

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Speaker 2: and Monday. That's just the NFL. Now this year for

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Speaker 2: They select five games and three could be moved to

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Speaker 2: Saturday for a triple header, and so the NFL announced

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Speaker 2: their week seventeen games last week for the Saturday games,

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Speaker 2: which will play this Saturday tomorrow, all three games on

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Speaker 2: the NFL Network. The beauty of it is there are

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Speaker 2: storylines for every game. In some form or fashion. Each

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Speaker 2: one of these games has playoff implications. Leading off, the

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Speaker 2: Chargers go to the Patriots. Long gone is Brandon Staley, Hello,

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Speaker 2: Jim Harbaugh. We all know that the Chargers have talent.

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Speaker 2: That's never been the question. Why only once did they

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Speaker 2: make the playoffs since twenty eighteen, biggest collapse in NFL history. Frankly,

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Speaker 2: they had that twenty seven point deficit the Jaguars did

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Speaker 2: round game. That's the only playoff appearance in five seasons.

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Speaker 2: But guess what. The Chargers can clinch another playoff spot

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Speaker 2: the Chargers can also clinch if the Dolphins lose or

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Speaker 2: but that would be more satisfying. Just get the damn win.

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Speaker 2: Dan Campbell Pats three to twelve. But they are on

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Speaker 2: They like to get their jobs. They're getting pretty solid

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Speaker 2: The best the NFL can hope for is that a

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Speaker 2: The problem is their playoff homes are dead. But you know,

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Speaker 2: banana piel. The only thing Cincinnati can do is women hope, right.

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Speaker 2: They need all kinds of help. I laid it out

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Speaker 2: really isn't gonna matter. It's just it isn't gonna They

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Speaker 2: need three teams to collapse. They got to win their

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Speaker 2: the other hand, they've had an unexpected season with very

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Speaker 2: positive results. And there's a pretty interesting situational play here

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Speaker 2: for you gambling types. Sean McVay coming off check that

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Speaker 2: Sean Payton. He's the coach of the Broncos coming off

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Speaker 2: road nineteen and five against the spread. So I think

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Speaker 2: you're gonna get Max Max's effort out of the Broncos

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Speaker 2: why people don't understand and give him his flowers, not

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Speaker 2: his fault that the Bengals suck. He's shown for forty

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Speaker 2: I love that guy. So there you have it. That's

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Speaker 2: The Broncos won Super Bowl fifty. I'm sure you remember that.

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Speaker 2: A couple of good matchups too, by the way, just

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Speaker 2: something to watch. Cornerback Patrick Tertan he's surely a candidate

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Speaker 2: And I'm sure you fantasy wonks will still have, you know,

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Speaker 2: something to do, something to look forward to as well. Finally,

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Speaker 2: which would require three and a half wins between the Vikings, Bills,

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Speaker 2: if the Rams went, the bottom line is the Seahawks

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Speaker 2: if the Rams lose on Saturday Night, then the Rams

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Speaker 2: versus Seahawks will play each other Week eighteen. That'll decide

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Speaker 2: the division champion. Rams are laying in boatload of points.

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Speaker 2: you know why. But now, no matter what, it's a surprise. Frankly,

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Speaker 2: the Rams are in any position to win the NFC.

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Speaker 2: The start of the season one and four, there was

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Speaker 2: plenty of speculation they might even trade Matthew's affirst Cooper Cup. Course,

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Speaker 2: the Rams shot that down, but it was bandied about.

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Speaker 2: The Rams now come into Saturday's game with a nine

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Speaker 2: up till Lincoln Riley. That's what I call earning your money, man.

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Speaker 2: Burt Bell, or ain't given Saturday as Burt Bell would say.

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Speaker 2: Anybody can win, but the Rams are the biggest story

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Speaker 2: Saturday night. Give it up to Sean McVay. I mean,

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Speaker 2: great guest. He's led a really interesting life ten years

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Speaker 2: Clawsam Jim laire Naga resigned at Miami. And what we're

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Speaker 2: finding now is this nil transfer portal situation is how

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Speaker 2: reached a point where I think the college ranks are

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Speaker 2: losing good men for the wrong reasons. We're gonna we're

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Speaker 2: gonna talk about that. Plus some of these you know,

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Speaker 2: you know, we'll talk a little bit about what he

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Speaker 2: thinks about robot Empires. Larry won one hundred games in

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Speaker 2: and I want to talk about this golden hitter rule

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Speaker 2: So we're gonna cover it all. This is nil transfer

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Speaker 2: portal group think echo chamber of narrative is not going away.

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Speaker 2: It's only gonna get worse. It's gonna get a lot worse.

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Speaker 2: Day one, there were two thousand people they entered the portal.

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Speaker 2: And again, when wake Forth loses a stellar coach like

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Speaker 2: Dave Clausen, you gotta take a look at how is

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Speaker 2: this a situation where you take two steps forward and

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Speaker 2: three steps backward. We're not gonna stop watching the college game.

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Speaker 2: That's never gonna happen. But we're in a different world.

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Speaker 2: I'm Bernie Fraddle. We're coming to your line from Las Vegas,

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Speaker 2: in Las Vegas as welcome in a gentleman, one of

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Speaker 2: my favorites. Ten you're a major leaguer pitch in the

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Speaker 2: to have him on is particularly apropole given the state

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Speaker 2: of the state in college athletics. But first of all, Larry,

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Speaker 2: happy holidays. It's welcome and Larry sore and so Larry,

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Speaker 5: Buddy Bernie, always a pleasure to talk to you, you

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Speaker 5: know that. And happy holidays to you, my friend.

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much. And I'm stammering here a little

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Speaker 5: Well, Dave Clausen made it very clear that it was

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Speaker 5: it's just it hasn't happened. There are no rules. It's

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Speaker 2: He'll attend Michigan next year. They give him twelve million dollars.

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Speaker 2: Talker with Larry Sorenson, ten year Major leaguer pitching the

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Speaker 5: Well, he's a really, really intelligent guy. He went to

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Speaker 2: They might even walk into his office. He just leave

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Speaker 5: Well, he's known as a pretty patient, tolerable fellow. So

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Speaker 2: Exactly? I mean, I'm glad you brought up.

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Speaker 5: I don't see I don't see a happy ending to that.

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Speaker 2: I completely agree. Coaching is teaching. That's what these guys

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Speaker 2: You know, I don't want to sound like this subservient Uh,

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Speaker 5: And I'm all for student athletes getting some money because

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Speaker 5: And that's changed a lot now too. But they've just

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Speaker 2: No, I listen, I remember those days as well to

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Speaker 5: We saw programs at the football game. We would wander

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Speaker 2: That's not bad for back. That's not bad as if

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Speaker 2: and you're not winning and getting the national championship. How

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Speaker 2: long do those collectors want to keep pissing money down

431
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Speaker 2: a rat hole?

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Speaker 5: Well, and we've already seen it, you know, we've already

433
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Speaker 5: seen with some kids at different schools where they said

434
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Speaker 5: they told me if I, the assistant coach told me,

435
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Speaker 5: if I came, I would get this. I registered for school,

436
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Speaker 5: I went to class, I expected a check. I didn't

437
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Speaker 5: get a check. What's going on? And so that just

438
00:22:30,200 --> 00:22:32,520
Speaker 5: adds to the mess that it is. And you're right,

439
00:22:32,640 --> 00:22:36,560
Speaker 5: there's a big difference between the nil and getting the

440
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Speaker 5: money promised a different way, just pay to play. And

441
00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:42,560
Speaker 5: we're finding that some of that's falling through the cracks again,

442
00:22:42,680 --> 00:22:45,720
Speaker 5: you know, give them, give them something, find a way

443
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Speaker 5: to make it equal for more than just the superstar quarterbacks.

444
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Speaker 5: The other thing is is whether you're using it for

445
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Speaker 5: retention to keep players that you have already, or whether

446
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Speaker 5: you're using it for inducement to players that aren't at

447
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Speaker 5: your school yet. And the policy at a lot of

448
00:23:01,840 --> 00:23:05,040
Speaker 5: schools has been okay, you're here, you played your pression

449
00:23:05,040 --> 00:23:07,520
Speaker 5: and sophomore year, your junior year, We're going to give

450
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Speaker 5: you two million dollars. Whatever the case may be, is

451
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Speaker 5: a reward for what you've done for us. Well, not

452
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Speaker 5: enough schools decided to do it that way, so now

453
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Speaker 5: it's out of the window, out the door, and we've

454
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Speaker 5: got to keep up with the Joneses. So we're going

455
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Speaker 5: to a high school kid and saying we'll give you

456
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Speaker 5: two million dollars a year to come play at dear

457
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Speaker 5: old home.

458
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Speaker 2: You yeah, talk with Larry Sorenson. Ten year Major League

459
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Speaker 2: baseball player, All Star, thirty year broadcaster, former Detroit Tigers

460
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Speaker 2: broadcast team, currently Wake Forest. Larry, let's switch to baseball.

461
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Speaker 2: It's always my favorite to talk with you the robot.

462
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Speaker 2: Here's where I want to get your your take on

463
00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:48,800
Speaker 2: the robot thing which is coming. It's coming, and it's

464
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Speaker 2: not that I'm against it. I'm just kind of curious.

465
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Speaker 2: You know, we both know Ed Farmer and at Kline,

466
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Speaker 2: God rest your souls a farm. He told me a

467
00:23:56,320 --> 00:23:59,159
Speaker 2: story is first week into the big leagues, Kayline steps

468
00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:01,119
Speaker 2: up to the plate and was a pitch right, you know,

469
00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:03,840
Speaker 2: right down Broadway or whatever you want to call it.

470
00:24:04,200 --> 00:24:06,359
Speaker 2: Can get a ball you know, I think you know

471
00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:11,600
Speaker 2: Ed Rungky whoever ball won ball to Farmer loses his mind.

472
00:24:11,640 --> 00:24:14,240
Speaker 2: He says, where was that pitch? He goes, young man,

473
00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:16,159
Speaker 2: get back out there, mister Caline, and will let you know.

474
00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:19,400
Speaker 2: It's just strike by double muffle wall. So you got

475
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Speaker 2: a rope, Larry, You know, you had two hundred decisions

476
00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:23,720
Speaker 2: in the major leagues pitching an All Star game. How

477
00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:26,600
Speaker 2: would you feel because you, you know, you're a thinking guy.

478
00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:29,359
Speaker 2: You knew what jumpires had certain tendencies. Now you got

479
00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:31,840
Speaker 2: a freaking robot. How do you navigate your game plan

480
00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:33,120
Speaker 2: with the robots? Do you like this?

481
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Speaker 5: Well, it's funny you say it, because I was signing

482
00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:39,520
Speaker 5: some fan mail yesterday and some guy said that I

483
00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:41,680
Speaker 5: pitched the first game he ever went to in Cleveland.

484
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Speaker 5: And I looked it up, and all his numbers were

485
00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:46,680
Speaker 5: right for the box score for that game in Cleveland

486
00:24:46,680 --> 00:24:48,720
Speaker 5: in nineteen eighty three, And I looked at the time.

487
00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:51,320
Speaker 5: It was a nine inning game, and I gave up

488
00:24:51,359 --> 00:24:54,920
Speaker 5: ten base hits, gave up three runs, and it still

489
00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:57,680
Speaker 5: only took two hours and thirty eight minutes. It was

490
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Speaker 5: a seven to three game, you know, And it's time

491
00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:03,800
Speaker 5: of game that moved along because you did know the umpires,

492
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Speaker 5: So I think but umpires knew that I worked fast.

493
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Speaker 5: I like to work fast, They like to work fast,

494
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Speaker 5: so I probably had a bigger strike zone. So I

495
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Speaker 5: know that it's coming and I've got no problem with

496
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Speaker 5: it because it's going to be a standardization, and I

497
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Speaker 5: think that they will figure out the right way, and

498
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Speaker 5: I'm not sure they're quite there yet, but they'll get

499
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Speaker 5: rid of the little rinkles that are negative to it

500
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Speaker 5: and make it an equal opportunity for everybody. And take

501
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Speaker 5: away that story that you just talked about.

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Speaker 2: What do you think the reason, the real reason they're

503
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Speaker 2: doing this real reason. I know there's inconsistencies among umpires

504
00:25:36,040 --> 00:25:39,479
Speaker 2: and they're finding mistakes, and there's so much technology. You know,

505
00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:41,159
Speaker 2: it's right there in front of God and everybody. If

506
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Speaker 2: if an umpire misses a pitch, is that the reason

507
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Speaker 2: they're trying to make the zero mistakes.

508
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Speaker 5: I think that part of it is is they're trying

509
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Speaker 5: to find a way to eliminate throwing people out of

510
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Speaker 5: the game and causing those kinds of situations. And I

511
00:25:53,440 --> 00:25:55,600
Speaker 5: know there's a lot of people but enjoy watching a

512
00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:58,720
Speaker 5: guy get tossed from the dugout because he's complaining about

513
00:25:58,720 --> 00:26:01,800
Speaker 5: pitches being higher. Well, the truth of the matter is

514
00:26:01,800 --> 00:26:04,160
Speaker 5: from the dugout, all you can see is higher low.

515
00:26:04,480 --> 00:26:06,800
Speaker 5: You can't tell if the ball is over the plate

516
00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:09,120
Speaker 5: or not. Now they've got so many iPads around, they

517
00:26:09,119 --> 00:26:11,560
Speaker 5: may be getting different views, although I believe they're not

518
00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:14,000
Speaker 5: supposed to. But the only thing you can tell for

519
00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:16,720
Speaker 5: them from the dugout is higher low. I think they're

520
00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:18,840
Speaker 5: trying to take some of the complaining out of the game.

521
00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:21,360
Speaker 5: They're trying to keep people in the game because how

522
00:26:21,359 --> 00:26:23,919
Speaker 5: do you throw judge out because he's how far can

523
00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:26,879
Speaker 5: he go to complain compared to, like you just said,

524
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Speaker 5: Ed Farmer complaining about a pitch that he threw right

525
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Speaker 5: down the middle. So you know, again, standardization has to

526
00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:35,280
Speaker 5: be there for everybody.

527
00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:39,359
Speaker 2: All right, let's talk about this gold in bat rule,

528
00:26:39,440 --> 00:26:42,480
Speaker 2: which is being bandied about. Now. I don't believe it'll

529
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Speaker 2: ever come to fruition. To me, it feels like a

530
00:26:44,920 --> 00:26:48,399
Speaker 2: tremendous gimmick. But you know, let's say you're pitching and

531
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Speaker 2: you know, showhere Tani comes to the plate and whatever

532
00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:53,320
Speaker 2: happens happens, and all of a sudden. Now we're going

533
00:26:53,359 --> 00:26:55,440
Speaker 2: to use the gold in a bad let him bad again?

534
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Speaker 2: How do you feel about that as a picture? Have

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Speaker 2: you noticed, Larry, since nineteen sixty eight, they haven't done

536
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Speaker 2: any Do you think to help the pitchers? It's only

537
00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:02,119
Speaker 2: to help the hitters?

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00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:04,720
Speaker 5: Well, yeah, I've just become accustomed to that and say

539
00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:05,359
Speaker 5: it all the time.

540
00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:06,320
Speaker 6: Or do you know that?

541
00:27:06,560 --> 00:27:07,280
Speaker 2: Yeah?

542
00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:09,920
Speaker 5: I know for the hitters it always is, It always is. Now,

543
00:27:09,960 --> 00:27:12,679
Speaker 5: you know what? That might be the final straw for

544
00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:14,440
Speaker 5: me if they were to do something like that, because

545
00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:17,040
Speaker 5: that's not even worth the time to discuss. I just

546
00:27:17,440 --> 00:27:19,520
Speaker 5: and what happens if you face him twice in a row,

547
00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:21,440
Speaker 5: you strike him out once and then he gets right

548
00:27:21,480 --> 00:27:23,480
Speaker 5: back in the batter's box and it's all run. Is

549
00:27:23,520 --> 00:27:25,480
Speaker 5: that fair? I don't say so, you know, to make

550
00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:29,760
Speaker 5: somebody throw fifteen pitches or twenty pitches straight to Atani,

551
00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:32,560
Speaker 5: that's not right? In what world can that be the

552
00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:33,720
Speaker 5: right way to play the game?

553
00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:37,479
Speaker 2: Why do they need to gimmick up the game? I mean,

554
00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:38,879
Speaker 2: I know they're talking about it. You can only use

555
00:27:38,880 --> 00:27:40,880
Speaker 2: it after the seventhing or later, and you can only

556
00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:43,320
Speaker 2: do it once per game, or but what is it

557
00:27:43,480 --> 00:27:45,280
Speaker 2: Why do you have to gimmick up the game and

558
00:27:45,320 --> 00:27:48,760
Speaker 2: turn this into a beer pitch, a beer league softball league?

559
00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:51,399
Speaker 2: Why can't the game and the excitement we just had

560
00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:54,560
Speaker 2: a fabulous world series may not have been artistic, but

561
00:27:54,640 --> 00:27:57,520
Speaker 2: it was a terrific world series from an excitement standpoint? Right,

562
00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:00,679
Speaker 2: Why do we need gimmicks? Why does baseball feel it

563
00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:03,160
Speaker 2: needs gimmicks to sell the product?

564
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Speaker 5: Got no answer for you, Bernie, You know, I guess

565
00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:12,159
Speaker 5: it's a reflection on society today. Instant gratification, find a

566
00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:14,359
Speaker 5: new way. You know, there's a lot of people that

567
00:28:14,400 --> 00:28:17,159
Speaker 5: are out there that think baseball wasn't invented until they

568
00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:20,600
Speaker 5: were born in nineteen ninety five, you know, whatever year

569
00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:25,160
Speaker 5: it might be, but it's we're always looking for something different.

570
00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:29,359
Speaker 5: Everybody thinks that. I know that, and all you have

571
00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:31,920
Speaker 5: to do is go on Twitter for about a half

572
00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:34,359
Speaker 5: hour and you figure out that there's not a person

573
00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:36,760
Speaker 5: on there that believes they ever made a mistake. So

574
00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:42,360
Speaker 5: it's a fascinating process. I agree with you. I'm old school.

575
00:28:42,720 --> 00:28:45,120
Speaker 5: I love that, and I'll take that back to college

576
00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:48,280
Speaker 5: football with what they're trying to do, because what was

577
00:28:48,360 --> 00:28:51,200
Speaker 5: better than going into the office on Monday morning and

578
00:28:51,280 --> 00:28:55,160
Speaker 5: having you know, discussions with your buddies over the water cooler,

579
00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:58,240
Speaker 5: back when there were water clolors over which team won

580
00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:00,400
Speaker 5: the football game that week or the week eating up

581
00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:03,120
Speaker 5: to the Michigan Ohio State game. What was more fun

582
00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:05,920
Speaker 5: than that week as the tension built during the course

583
00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:08,640
Speaker 5: of the week. And now it's just Now it's just

584
00:29:08,680 --> 00:29:11,560
Speaker 5: the individual trying to figure out which prop that they're

585
00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:15,240
Speaker 5: going to make and keeping and having that conversation with themselves.

586
00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:17,480
Speaker 5: And it's different. I don't think it's better.

587
00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:21,840
Speaker 2: Last thing, Larry, we lost a real gym last week.

588
00:29:22,320 --> 00:29:25,760
Speaker 2: Ricky Henderson. He played the game with joy. He did things.

589
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:27,680
Speaker 2: Know what you're gonna do? You know, eighty one lead

590
00:29:27,680 --> 00:29:32,000
Speaker 2: off home runs right on down the line, right. And

591
00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:35,080
Speaker 2: I'm sure you faced him many times. Your your thoughts

592
00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:38,400
Speaker 2: as a player who competed against Ricky Henderson, the lasting

593
00:29:38,440 --> 00:29:38,960
Speaker 2: memory that.

594
00:29:38,920 --> 00:29:42,000
Speaker 5: You have, Well, I played with him in nineteen eighty

595
00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:42,959
Speaker 5: four in Oakland.

596
00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:44,760
Speaker 2: First, that's right, that's right, you did, that's right.

597
00:29:45,520 --> 00:29:48,400
Speaker 5: Yeah, And he called me Gary for most of spring

598
00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:51,480
Speaker 5: training until we got the regular season, even though I've

599
00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:54,520
Speaker 5: been even though I faced over seven years before that.

600
00:29:55,320 --> 00:30:01,200
Speaker 5: But Ricky unbelievable athlete, unbelievable physique building. You never saw

601
00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:03,520
Speaker 5: him doing some of the things the other guys were

602
00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:05,360
Speaker 5: doing to keep that physique. And maybe he was going

603
00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:08,120
Speaker 5: to a gym by himself before I know he stretched

604
00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:11,240
Speaker 5: every night after the games. Well, the last thing he

605
00:30:11,280 --> 00:30:13,600
Speaker 5: said he did before he went to bed was to stretch.

606
00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:15,680
Speaker 5: But when you talk to him, man, he knew his baseball.

607
00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:17,960
Speaker 5: I asked him, I said, how would you slow you

608
00:30:18,040 --> 00:30:20,520
Speaker 5: down if you were me? And he said, you get

609
00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:23,280
Speaker 5: Ricky off his toes. Man, Ricky don't run when he's

610
00:30:23,320 --> 00:30:25,800
Speaker 5: not on his toes. And so I learned how to

611
00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:28,400
Speaker 5: hold the ball longer to get him back on his heels.

612
00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:31,880
Speaker 5: But his quads were so magnificent, so strong, that he

613
00:30:31,880 --> 00:30:34,000
Speaker 5: could stay on his toes longer than the average guy

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Speaker 5: before he started his sprint towards second And Steve Borrows,

615
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Speaker 5: another Michigan guy who was on manager, had the stopwatch

616
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Speaker 5: and he said, you can't get him. He said, Larry,

617
00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:45,000
Speaker 5: you're a one three, five to home play, which is

618
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:47,160
Speaker 5: pretty good at the time. He said, my catchers is

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Speaker 5: two to two. And he said, you, Ricky doesn't take

620
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Speaker 5: that long to get to second base. You can't get him.

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Speaker 5: So he was. He was always interesting to be around,

622
00:30:58,160 --> 00:31:01,400
Speaker 5: played the game hard every single day he was. He

623
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Speaker 5: had his quirks, but great teammate, played hard every day.

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Speaker 5: You can't ask so.

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Speaker 2: Much more than that million percent, Larry, great stuff is

626
00:31:08,440 --> 00:31:11,280
Speaker 2: always always appreciation you making time happy New Year. We'll

627
00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:11,920
Speaker 2: talk soon, pal.

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00:31:12,680 --> 00:31:14,080
Speaker 5: All right, Berdie, you take care.

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Speaker 2: As Larry Sorenson, ten year Major leaguer, played with Ricky

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Speaker 2: Henderson broadcast football and baseball for Wake Forest. Covered a

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Speaker 2: lot of good ground there. We are twenty one minutes

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Speaker 2: away from midnight here in Las Vegas. It will be

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00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:31,120
Speaker 2: midnight literally and perhaps figuratively where you are, and that

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00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:33,040
Speaker 2: means it's time for the Midnight Hour. And the callers

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Speaker 2: have been sensational. I've been looking forward to this one.

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Speaker 2: We're going to set up the Midnight Hour topics. Be

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Speaker 2: ready to roll eight seven seven nine nine six six

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Speaker 2: three six ' nine eight seven seven ninety nine on Fox.

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Speaker 2: Will have a couple to choose from thought provoking. I

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Speaker 2: know the calls would be great. We'll get to that

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Speaker 2: coming up. B'm Bernie Fraddlewick, coming you live from Las Vegas,

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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio, Tyrack dot Com Studios keep it locked

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Speaker 2: you listen to The Bernie Fraddle Show on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: we're thirteen minutes away from midnight literally here in Las

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Speaker 2: twelve midnight literally, but figuratively it's twelve midnight everywhere. Because

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Speaker 2: we do the midnight hour every Friday night on The

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Speaker 2: Bernie Frattle Show, and doing it for about a year,

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Speaker 2: the callers been fantastic. You get a chance to weigh

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Speaker 2: in and it's thought provoking. And then you've heard me

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Speaker 2: to talk about? Wells, this one kind of sells itself.

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Speaker 2: This has been a year of tremendous sports stories and

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Speaker 2: a year of athlete impact. And what I want to

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Speaker 2: know from you folks tonight is which of these stories,

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Speaker 2: which event, which athlete in twenty twenty four had the

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Speaker 2: most lasting impact on you? Captured your attention, captivated your imagination,

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Speaker 2: will be remembered for decades. All right, now, you can

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Speaker 2: remember we had a fabulous world series. We really did.

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Speaker 2: Shohetani was part of the world series. You probably forgot

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Speaker 2: right now. Remember Packard Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs

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Speaker 2: repeated and now there they're going for a three pet

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Speaker 2: That is a story in and of itself. Who can

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Speaker 2: forget Caitlin Clark. She completely captivated the basketball world in

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, broke every record. I mean, I'm telling you,

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Speaker 2: the Caitlin Clark effect is absolutely real. And it's going

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Speaker 2: to be felt for decades. All right, Noan Lyles love

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Speaker 2: more Hateum you talked about him in twenty twenty four,

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Speaker 2: sim Own Biles right down down the line show, Hey, Tony,

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Speaker 2: these are people and events that are transcended. We've never

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Speaker 2: really seen before. Maybe Scottie Scheffler caught your attention. He

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Speaker 2: won his second Master's championship in three years, the fourth

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Speaker 2: youngest player to do it, you know, so to each

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Speaker 2: his own Victor wimbin Yama broke upon the scene. And

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Speaker 2: if you're a hockey walk Connor McDavid, but only they

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Speaker 2: can't all hold your attention and be talked about for

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Speaker 2: years down the road. I know which one is going

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Speaker 2: to hold my attention because it's going to be a

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Speaker 2: lasting effect not just on the world of women's sports,

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Speaker 2: but sports as well. Juan Soto signing the biggest contract ever?

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Speaker 2: Are you kidding me? That's the story. Jake Paul and

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Speaker 2: Mike Tyson reminded us that we are suckers, me included.

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Speaker 2: We are relentlessly obnoxious in our pursuit to enjoy competition

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Speaker 2: as well as well gladiator sports. And that's a Friday

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Speaker 2: night hundreds of millions of people tuned in, and people

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Speaker 2: wanted to see Jake Paul get smashed. He didn't. People

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Speaker 2: didn't feel they got what they paid for. Right, college

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Speaker 2: football this nil thing going nuts. So I've given you

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Speaker 2: lots of choices, and I'm not trying to lead the

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Speaker 2: witness here. You tell me what you like, but I

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Speaker 2: want to know from everybody which event athlete in twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty four captivated your attention and will be talked about

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Speaker 2: the most in your life over the next years, decades.

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Speaker 2: Perhaps Now there's a couple other ones too. I'm just

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Speaker 2: gonna invoke their names right now. One is Aaron Rodgers

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Speaker 2: and one is Mike McCarthy. So if you would have

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Speaker 2: asked me four weeks ago, will Mike McCarthy be back

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Speaker 2: with the Cowboys next year? I would have said no. Well,

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Speaker 2: guess what, I think it's about a seventy percent chance

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Speaker 2: that Jerry Jones is going to run it back. He

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Speaker 2: likes Mike McCarthy. If you listen to some of the

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Speaker 2: statements that Jones has made recently complimenting Mike McCarthy, I'm

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Speaker 2: keeping things glued together and they're having a respectable finish.

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Speaker 2: What I mean, what happened in the first ten weeks.

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Speaker 2: Are you kidding me? But here's another twist to this story.

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Speaker 2: There's a chance that even if Jerry Jones wants Mike

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Speaker 2: McCarthy back, can't make this stuff up, McCarthy might leave

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Speaker 2: of his own volision end up with another NFL job

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Speaker 2: somewhere else, if you could believe that. So the question is,

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Speaker 2: should Mike McCarthy be back with the Cowboys? Should he?

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Speaker 2: Will he? What are your thoughts? Not Aaron Rodgers if

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Speaker 2: you haven't seen the three part series Aaron Rodgers Netflix Enigma,

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Speaker 2: don't bother. It's self serving, it's boring, it's elongated. I

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Speaker 2: don't really care that much about ayahuasca. Some of the

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Speaker 2: things I was curious about were never answered. Rogers, I think,

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Speaker 2: continues to be lack self awareness. And then this last week,

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Speaker 2: I think he's dropped hints that he would like to

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Speaker 2: run it back with the Jets one more time. And

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Speaker 2: do I think that's gonna happen. I think the odds

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Speaker 2: are against it, but it's not a zero. It's not

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Speaker 2: a zero. Rogers is guaranteed no money next year, but

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Speaker 2: he has a thirty five million dollars roster bonus if

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Speaker 2: he's on the roster, and I believe it's a twenty

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Speaker 2: five million dollar capit. But if Rogers really wants to

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Speaker 2: come back so bad, you know, the other day you

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Speaker 2: ask woody typical Rogers, snarky fashion. The problem is that

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Speaker 2: Jets don't have a plan B. But what a dumpster

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Speaker 2: fire that is? And is there any no, is there

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Speaker 2: any evidence that would cause you to believe that the Jets,

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Speaker 2: as a collective group led by Aaron Rodgers could fix

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Speaker 2: their ill wills next year when they couldn't this year. Now,

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Speaker 2: Colin had a theory and he might not be wrong.

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Speaker 2: It took Rogers about ten weeks to get his sea

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Speaker 2: legs under him. He recovered from his injury, but really

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Speaker 2: wasn't recovered. He had to get back and get in

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Speaker 2: game shape and see the real bullets fly. And he's

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Speaker 2: actually been okay in the last few weeks. And on paper,

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Speaker 2: the Jets have a roster that should be doing a

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Speaker 2: lot better than they did. So will Mike McCarthy be

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Speaker 2: back next year? Should he be back in Dallas? Will

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Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers be back and the Jets next year? Should

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Speaker 2: he be back with the Jets next year? And then,

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Speaker 2: of course we've had a year full of athletes and

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Speaker 2: events and games that have really filled our plate, filled

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Speaker 2: our palate, and I would say that, you know, I'm

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Speaker 2: looking forward to the opinions that people have. Is which

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Speaker 2: is the one that's going to captivate you most? And

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Speaker 2: I'll give mind when we come back. So eight seven, seven, nine,

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Speaker 2: nine six sixty three six nine, eight seven, seven ninety

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Speaker 2: nine on Fox. The callers have been great. Let's light

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Speaker 2: it up tonight. That's bringing the new year. This is

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Speaker 2: our final one of the twenty twenty four. I really

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Speaker 2: want to hear what you got to say. And there's

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Speaker 2: also the ramt if you've got something else you want

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Speaker 2: to get off your mind. So here we go the

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Speaker 2: midnight hours upon us. Keep it locked. Listen to the

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Speaker 2: Bernie Fraddle Show on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: We waste no time. It is that time. It's the

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Speaker 2: midnight hour, all right. The sports stories or athletes that

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Speaker 2: captivated you the most? Should will Aaron Rodgers back in

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Speaker 2: New York next year? Should will Mike mccarthur be back

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Speaker 2: in Dallas? Take it anywhere you want it or bring

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Speaker 2: your own rant. Christopher in North Carolina leads us off tonight.

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Speaker 2: How are you, sir?

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Speaker 7: Good evening, burning, Happy holidays to you and your staff.

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Speaker 7: I just wanted to tell you that I think the

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Speaker 7: first thing that really upsets me is the MLB salaries,

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Speaker 7: and let me say why. And then the thing that

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Speaker 7: I'm excited about is the college football playoffs, even though

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Speaker 7: I said it was a joke last week in Hilton Head.

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Speaker 7: Bottom line, you can't have a seven hundred and fifty

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Speaker 7: million dollars salary where MLV teams are printing money and

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Speaker 7: not pass on the expenses through the pants. Why do

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Speaker 7: I have to go to a minor league ballpark to

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Speaker 7: watch a ball game because I can't afford a three

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Speaker 7: hundred dollars ticket for my wife and I and thirty

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Speaker 7: dollars for a hot dog if I still lived in Connecticut.

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Speaker 7: It's just absurd. The money keeps going higher and higher

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Speaker 7: and higher. I'll never ever be able to go to

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Speaker 7: a major League both ball game again.

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Speaker 5: Because it's so expensive. I can't even.

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Speaker 7: Afford to go to a hockey game here in North Carolina.

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Speaker 7: A ticket in the center, I.

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Speaker 5: Seet is two hundred and seventy dollars a piece.

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Speaker 7: Are you kidding me? I'm paying a mortgage payment to

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Speaker 7: go watch a sporting event. I don't think so. Secondly,

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Speaker 7: I do agree that the college football Playoff is still

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Speaker 7: a work in product. I admit, and I said it

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Speaker 7: was a joke. And the reason I said that is

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Speaker 7: all the games last week were a waste of time.

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Speaker 7: The new year's games will be fun. I'm excited. I

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Speaker 7: give college football a huge bravo A plus thanks for trying,

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Speaker 7: because at least it's not a computer that's trying to

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Speaker 7: determine it. It's on the field that the players decide,

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Speaker 7: that the teams decide, and then if you still don't

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Speaker 7: like it, then don't watch. It's the best that they have.

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Speaker 7: It's something worthwhile. These kids want to play. Those that

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Speaker 7: are not NFL bone, but they want to play. That's

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Speaker 7: what's exciting.

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Speaker 5: Bertie.

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Speaker 7: Thank you so much. Mary, not Mary, Christmas anymore, New

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Speaker 7: Year to you and your staff.

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Speaker 2: All right, thanks so much, Christopher, appreciate your thoughts. Just

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Speaker 2: to set the record straight. I don't really know how

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Speaker 2: you correlate the amount ticket prices or charts, et cetera,

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Speaker 2: and relate that to salaries per se. And I know

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Speaker 2: that the TV contracts are about a billion eight and

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Speaker 2: each Major League Baseball team receives three hundred and seventy

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Speaker 2: eight million dollars in revenue every year, every year, and

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Speaker 2: about twenty percent of that can be local TV deals

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Speaker 2: they have broadcast, right, it's any merchandise sales, ticket sales, sponsorships, concessions,

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Speaker 2: all that. But he's not wrong. It's very expensive to

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Speaker 2: go to a Major League Baseball game. And I feel

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Speaker 2: like all pro sports are starting to care to the

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Speaker 2: corporate world rather than the single fan, and I think

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Speaker 2: there has to be some adjustments there. There are things

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Speaker 2: they can do. They can create family knights, they can

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Speaker 2: create you know, cheaper seats in certain sections. Good stuff.

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Speaker 2: Christopher Stephen, Kansas City joint. Just welcome in, Steve. Are

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Speaker 2: you there, Steve? Steve in Kansas City? Hello, Hello, all right,

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Speaker 2: we are having an issue there. Either that or it's

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Speaker 2: one hell of a Marcel Marceau invitation. If we can

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Speaker 2: get Steve rallied and his following issues, we'll get him

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Speaker 2: back in the queue. Let's go to Jerry in Virginia. Jerry,

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Speaker 2: welcome in.

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Speaker 5: Hey, Thanks Bernie.

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Speaker 8: So I got two.

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Speaker 5: I got two.

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Speaker 9: Stories that captivated to be one positive and one negative.

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Speaker 9: The positive was Al Horford finally winning a championship with

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Speaker 9: the Boston Celtics.

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Speaker 5: He's been an.

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Speaker 9: Amazing player, respectable guy on and off the court. Love

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Speaker 9: love seeing him win his one and only championship so far.

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Speaker 9: The negative compelling story for me is Bill Belichick not

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Speaker 9: finding another job in the NFL and having to settle

859
00:44:06,440 --> 00:44:12,920
Speaker 9: for a college gig. Nothing against UNC, but you know, basically,

860
00:44:13,040 --> 00:44:15,520
Speaker 9: I think he's probably doing up on chasing that all

861
00:44:15,640 --> 00:44:20,719
Speaker 9: time winning coaching record with that Don Jule hold so, but.

862
00:44:21,120 --> 00:44:23,319
Speaker 10: I don't know, it seems beneath him.

863
00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:27,240
Speaker 9: So that really shocked me. And to me, it's almost

864
00:44:27,239 --> 00:44:28,080
Speaker 9: like a ball from Grace.

865
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Speaker 2: So Jerry, Yeah, let's hold that thought Jerry, I want

866
00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:33,440
Speaker 2: to ask you a question because I'm going to continue

867
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Speaker 2: to follow this story and I'll have a guest on

868
00:44:36,120 --> 00:44:40,719
Speaker 2: Monday from Boston. Okay, here's where I'm going with that.

869
00:44:41,480 --> 00:44:43,440
Speaker 2: It sounds like neither one of us are buying that

870
00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:46,440
Speaker 2: this is authentic. Something's missing a chapter here. And I

871
00:44:46,480 --> 00:44:49,920
Speaker 2: know that years ago, Don Jula, after deflate gat or

872
00:44:50,120 --> 00:44:54,160
Speaker 2: some of the alleged scandals, said you thought Belichick's record

873
00:44:54,200 --> 00:44:56,359
Speaker 2: was tainted and that made Belichick want to catch him

874
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Speaker 2: all the much more. Do you think it ends well

875
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Speaker 2: at North Carolina? How do you think that up there?

876
00:45:01,120 --> 00:45:01,239
Speaker 11: Uh?

877
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Speaker 9: I think he'll be short lived, to be honest with you,

878
00:45:06,760 --> 00:45:11,520
Speaker 9: and I think he'll always continue to maybe put Steelers

879
00:45:11,520 --> 00:45:14,480
Speaker 9: out there, to go back to the NFL, to do

880
00:45:14,640 --> 00:45:17,120
Speaker 9: exactly what you said, is to catch that record and

881
00:45:17,200 --> 00:45:20,759
Speaker 9: to maybe even surpass Shula. I'm wondering if this is

882
00:45:20,840 --> 00:45:24,040
Speaker 9: just a minor step back in his in his thought

883
00:45:24,480 --> 00:45:28,960
Speaker 9: Bob is you know, I personally from Boston, I think

884
00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:31,600
Speaker 9: he's lost his fastball, you know what I mean? He

885
00:45:31,960 --> 00:45:36,360
Speaker 9: was an amazing coach, but let's face it, his drafting,

886
00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:40,240
Speaker 9: the coaching, the supporting cast he had with the Matrix

887
00:45:40,440 --> 00:45:45,919
Speaker 9: last few years was was very very leaked. So I think,

888
00:45:46,080 --> 00:45:51,520
Speaker 9: to me, this is a temporary stop and he's gonna

889
00:45:51,560 --> 00:45:53,759
Speaker 9: wait and see if he goes back to the NFL. Now,

890
00:45:53,800 --> 00:45:56,839
Speaker 9: if he doesn't get the call unfortunately, I think that's

891
00:45:56,880 --> 00:45:59,480
Speaker 9: where he's gonna probably have his last coaching gig.

892
00:45:59,680 --> 00:46:00,000
Speaker 8: What do you?

893
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Speaker 5: Thank you?

894
00:46:01,120 --> 00:46:03,920
Speaker 2: All right? Thanks for checking in, Jerry. I don't know

895
00:46:03,960 --> 00:46:05,160
Speaker 2: how this is going to end. I just think it's

896
00:46:05,160 --> 00:46:06,560
Speaker 2: going to end well in North Carolina. I think he's

897
00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:07,880
Speaker 2: got a chance to end up back in the NFL.

898
00:46:08,440 --> 00:46:10,440
Speaker 2: Good stuff in Al Horford too. These are the kind

899
00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:11,399
Speaker 2: of things I'm looking for.

900
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Speaker 8: Al.

901
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Speaker 2: He's a Michigan guy. He went to Florida, took him

902
00:46:14,600 --> 00:46:17,719
Speaker 2: almost twenty years and lead to get that championship. Mike

903
00:46:17,760 --> 00:46:19,800
Speaker 2: and Medesko. Welcome in, Mike. How are you, buddy.

904
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Speaker 7: I'm doing great, Bernie.

905
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Speaker 5: You know Bernie.

906
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Speaker 7: I grew up in the Bay Area. My dad was

907
00:46:25,080 --> 00:46:29,520
Speaker 7: at an upper middle class family. He had a season

908
00:46:29,640 --> 00:46:33,239
Speaker 7: tickets from my whole time growing up, I got to

909
00:46:33,239 --> 00:46:39,520
Speaker 7: see Ricky Henderson play many games in Oakland as a kid.

910
00:46:39,560 --> 00:46:42,439
Speaker 7: This guy was a great person. He would be out

911
00:46:42,480 --> 00:46:45,960
Speaker 7: there after the game at the gate signing autographs. For

912
00:46:46,200 --> 00:46:50,160
Speaker 7: kids for a long time. I personally got balls from

913
00:46:50,239 --> 00:46:53,520
Speaker 7: him as a kid, a signed back from him that

914
00:46:53,640 --> 00:46:55,680
Speaker 7: I still had today that I gave to my son

915
00:46:55,719 --> 00:47:00,200
Speaker 7: a long time ago. But he still has an incredible guy,

916
00:47:00,920 --> 00:47:04,799
Speaker 7: an incredible player, and he loved to play, but he

917
00:47:04,920 --> 00:47:07,360
Speaker 7: loved kids. And that's why I remember the most about

918
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Speaker 7: Ricky Henderson. Now I give you that story to say this.

919
00:47:12,960 --> 00:47:18,640
Speaker 7: I also saw Jose Conseco go forty forty Okay, that

920
00:47:18,760 --> 00:47:23,120
Speaker 7: was incredible then, and I'm a Dodger fan, big Dodger fan,

921
00:47:23,200 --> 00:47:25,680
Speaker 7: so I want to when the Dodgers came to Kennel Stick.

922
00:47:26,320 --> 00:47:28,280
Speaker 7: Back in the day, I always cut the Dodger games

923
00:47:28,920 --> 00:47:36,200
Speaker 7: but lived at Oakland, especially during the summer. Now Otani incredible.

924
00:47:36,800 --> 00:47:42,080
Speaker 7: The Dodgers sign him. He goes fifty to fifty his

925
00:47:42,280 --> 00:47:43,160
Speaker 7: first year in l.

926
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Speaker 2: A story, and they win the World Series.

927
00:47:45,760 --> 00:47:48,440
Speaker 7: And he wins the series and next year he's going

928
00:47:48,480 --> 00:47:52,200
Speaker 7: to start pitching again. And I'm gonna as a Dodger fan,

929
00:47:52,239 --> 00:47:54,239
Speaker 7: I'm gonna get this to see this guy play for

930
00:47:54,360 --> 00:47:59,680
Speaker 7: many years, I think. And God knows that the Dodgers

931
00:47:59,719 --> 00:48:02,640
Speaker 7: loaded now how many titles they can win, and they're

932
00:48:02,640 --> 00:48:05,160
Speaker 7: gonna pay for it later, so I'm gonna enjoy it now.

933
00:48:05,239 --> 00:48:07,200
Speaker 7: But anyway, I just wanted to drop that story. And

934
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Speaker 7: how good of a guy Ricky was.

935
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, No, I've been around Ricky many times in

936
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Speaker 2: anything else. Mike, No, thank you for the time, Bertie,

937
00:48:14,400 --> 00:48:17,400
Speaker 2: Thanks buddy. So those are all big stories. Ricky Henderson

938
00:48:17,480 --> 00:48:20,680
Speaker 2: passing huge story. It is shoe itally and what he

939
00:48:20,719 --> 00:48:22,640
Speaker 2: did his first year in the National League, first year

940
00:48:22,680 --> 00:48:25,319
Speaker 2: with the Dodgers, the number two media market goes fifty

941
00:48:25,320 --> 00:48:30,040
Speaker 2: to fifty and they win the World Series. Back out

942
00:48:30,040 --> 00:48:34,040
Speaker 2: to Virginia, Nick and Virginia joint. Just welcome in, Nick, Hey, Bernie,

943
00:48:34,120 --> 00:48:36,040
Speaker 2: how are you doing good? Doing well, sir?

944
00:48:36,080 --> 00:48:39,440
Speaker 11: Thank you, Happy, happy holidays, and happy to thank you, sir.

945
00:48:39,719 --> 00:48:43,240
Speaker 11: My two stories all's gonna bring the Lions are thirteen

946
00:48:43,280 --> 00:48:47,279
Speaker 11: and two. I remember when they were Owen sixteen.

947
00:48:47,600 --> 00:48:49,200
Speaker 2: I covered that team in two thousand and eight.

948
00:48:53,280 --> 00:48:56,520
Speaker 12: That's just that's insane, that's wow.

949
00:48:56,840 --> 00:48:59,000
Speaker 2: It's a story. But they're going to have to finish

950
00:48:59,080 --> 00:48:59,879
Speaker 2: the job this year.

951
00:49:00,480 --> 00:49:01,640
Speaker 12: Oh yeah, for sure, definitely.

952
00:49:02,680 --> 00:49:02,759
Speaker 11: So.

953
00:49:03,480 --> 00:49:05,200
Speaker 12: And the other thing I was gonna bring to the

954
00:49:05,239 --> 00:49:11,360
Speaker 12: table Jade and Daniels, how quickly they turned the commanders

955
00:49:11,400 --> 00:49:15,680
Speaker 12: around and I'm a Commander fan, and like last year

956
00:49:15,880 --> 00:49:17,960
Speaker 12: was just terrible, and I'm like, I know they were

957
00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:22,200
Speaker 12: talking about with their offensive coordinator Kirk Cliff Kingsbury. It's like,

958
00:49:22,880 --> 00:49:25,320
Speaker 12: maybe try to trade up and try to get Caleb Williams,

959
00:49:25,320 --> 00:49:28,600
Speaker 12: but like you gotta do a historic hall for it.

960
00:49:28,640 --> 00:49:31,520
Speaker 12: And I'm glad we got Jayden because Caleb, I don't

961
00:49:31,520 --> 00:49:33,360
Speaker 12: know how we would do it with him, but I

962
00:49:33,360 --> 00:49:35,080
Speaker 12: think we got I think we got to write the draft.

963
00:49:35,239 --> 00:49:39,440
Speaker 2: There's no question. I mean, not only is Jade and

964
00:49:39,520 --> 00:49:43,560
Speaker 2: Daniels producing on the field, It's pretty clear he has

965
00:49:43,600 --> 00:49:47,880
Speaker 2: a temperament and field he there's a certain field general

966
00:49:48,480 --> 00:49:51,920
Speaker 2: leadership quality he has and he was drafted number two behind.

967
00:49:52,640 --> 00:49:56,040
Speaker 2: So I think Raiders fans are crazy to worry. Like

968
00:49:56,160 --> 00:49:58,640
Speaker 2: good stuff, Nick, appreciate you checking in. Thanks so much,

969
00:49:59,560 --> 00:50:03,000
Speaker 2: Uh Lynn in San Diego, Horey buddy, Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas,

970
00:50:03,040 --> 00:50:04,919
Speaker 2: whatever you celebrate, We're with you.

971
00:50:05,040 --> 00:50:07,840
Speaker 13: Thank you, Bernie saying to you your great, great staff.

972
00:50:07,880 --> 00:50:09,640
Speaker 8: Off of people that are over there.

973
00:50:11,200 --> 00:50:12,520
Speaker 5: You have a great show man.

974
00:50:12,680 --> 00:50:15,600
Speaker 8: So happy this form that you have because.

975
00:50:16,200 --> 00:50:18,880
Speaker 13: You're one of the few stations that ask people to

976
00:50:18,920 --> 00:50:20,360
Speaker 13: call in and answer the phone.

977
00:50:20,440 --> 00:50:23,799
Speaker 14: So that means a lot to listeners out here who

978
00:50:23,840 --> 00:50:25,239
Speaker 14: really want something to say.

979
00:50:25,280 --> 00:50:28,560
Speaker 2: You know, sure, sure, so uh pick any of the

980
00:50:28,560 --> 00:50:30,480
Speaker 2: subjects we're talking about and run with it.

981
00:50:32,080 --> 00:50:35,880
Speaker 13: Look, Uh their last caller took he took it away

982
00:50:36,080 --> 00:50:40,200
Speaker 13: what I was going to say. But obviously Jaydon Daniels

983
00:50:40,239 --> 00:50:43,839
Speaker 13: this year got me, uh you know much for much

984
00:50:43,880 --> 00:50:47,440
Speaker 13: set TV and I and I love his amazing point

985
00:50:48,840 --> 00:50:52,279
Speaker 13: and so like for for me right now, I got

986
00:50:52,280 --> 00:50:56,120
Speaker 13: to watch on him. He's brought that Commander's team way up.

987
00:50:56,680 --> 00:50:59,440
Speaker 2: He's definitely a big story. And we haven't even no

988
00:50:59,480 --> 00:51:01,880
Speaker 2: one talks about the fact that he won the Heisman

989
00:51:01,960 --> 00:51:05,480
Speaker 2: Trophy and then got dafted and and and we know

990
00:51:05,600 --> 00:51:10,200
Speaker 2: the history of Heisman Trophy winners and their relative success

991
00:51:10,200 --> 00:51:13,600
Speaker 2: in the NFL at least the quarterback position. That's right,

992
00:51:13,920 --> 00:51:16,239
Speaker 2: Any other big stories that caught your attention this year? Lynn?

993
00:51:16,920 --> 00:51:20,040
Speaker 13: Uh kat Le Clark, hands down?

994
00:51:20,120 --> 00:51:22,160
Speaker 15: Come on, Now, that girl is bad.

995
00:51:22,280 --> 00:51:25,120
Speaker 5: Yeah, she hated on, but she gets hated on.

996
00:51:25,239 --> 00:51:28,319
Speaker 6: But if you know basketball, she does it all.

997
00:51:28,520 --> 00:51:30,919
Speaker 13: You just got to give her some love.

998
00:51:32,239 --> 00:51:34,000
Speaker 2: And she sold a lot of tickets and made a

999
00:51:34,040 --> 00:51:35,360
Speaker 2: lot of people a lot of money.

1000
00:51:35,560 --> 00:51:40,400
Speaker 7: And uh, the quarter around turned the NBA around.

1001
00:51:40,680 --> 00:51:41,800
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think.

1002
00:51:43,760 --> 00:51:44,360
Speaker 8: Go ahead, Bernie.

1003
00:51:44,760 --> 00:51:45,880
Speaker 2: No, you were talking good?

1004
00:51:46,760 --> 00:51:47,839
Speaker 5: Oh no, before you go?

1005
00:51:48,120 --> 00:51:54,160
Speaker 8: Uh uh that other subjects we were just talking about.

1006
00:51:54,239 --> 00:51:55,480
Speaker 2: You want to Heisman?

1007
00:51:55,960 --> 00:51:59,320
Speaker 14: Uh after that you wanted that's a comment on Oh

1008
00:51:59,520 --> 00:52:03,719
Speaker 14: well Aaron or Mike McCarthy. Yes, Mike McCarthy, no go

1009
00:52:03,920 --> 00:52:08,920
Speaker 14: because motivators win in the NFL, and he's flat lined.

1010
00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:10,120
Speaker 5: He doesn't look happy.

1011
00:52:11,000 --> 00:52:13,520
Speaker 15: He's not gonna win nothing or go anywhere.

1012
00:52:13,560 --> 00:52:18,160
Speaker 13: So like if I'm the owner or whatever, I don't

1013
00:52:18,160 --> 00:52:21,640
Speaker 13: want him back. But you have to take in consideration

1014
00:52:21,800 --> 00:52:24,240
Speaker 13: the personality of Jerry Jones.

1015
00:52:24,280 --> 00:52:25,640
Speaker 5: That's the perfect coach for him.

1016
00:52:25,680 --> 00:52:28,399
Speaker 6: But I hope Jerry don't think he's going to ever

1017
00:52:28,440 --> 00:52:29,040
Speaker 6: win anything.

1018
00:52:30,120 --> 00:52:32,200
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm in agree with you, Lenn. Happy new year, Bud.

1019
00:52:32,239 --> 00:52:34,560
Speaker 2: We'll talk to you on the other side, Pal Stephen,

1020
00:52:34,640 --> 00:52:37,200
Speaker 2: Kansas City is back. Had a little foam issue, Steve Well,

1021
00:52:37,239 --> 00:52:39,640
Speaker 2: welcome back in the fold. What are your thoughts on

1022
00:52:39,680 --> 00:52:40,640
Speaker 2: our subject matter today?

1023
00:52:40,960 --> 00:52:44,520
Speaker 5: Hey, BERI, we've got.

1024
00:52:44,400 --> 00:52:46,480
Speaker 2: The biggest sports stories of the year that impacted you.

1025
00:52:46,520 --> 00:52:50,120
Speaker 2: Should Aaron Rodgers be back? Willie, Mike McCarthy are you there?

1026
00:52:50,760 --> 00:52:54,600
Speaker 5: Well? I think Mike McCarthy is a good tall guy.

1027
00:52:54,719 --> 00:52:57,000
Speaker 7: For Jerry I think he's going to be back for

1028
00:52:57,040 --> 00:52:57,839
Speaker 7: sure too.

1029
00:53:00,120 --> 00:53:01,239
Speaker 2: I don't know, but.

1030
00:53:02,920 --> 00:53:05,200
Speaker 5: Aaron Rodgers were all sort of sick.

1031
00:53:04,960 --> 00:53:09,120
Speaker 16: Of And you know, obviously, the individual of the Year

1032
00:53:09,239 --> 00:53:15,080
Speaker 16: is probably Caitlin Clark. She distinguished herself amongst all else

1033
00:53:15,200 --> 00:53:18,239
Speaker 16: by overcoming all the things that she had to overcome

1034
00:53:18,320 --> 00:53:23,640
Speaker 16: in society and maintaining her grace and poise and all

1035
00:53:23,680 --> 00:53:28,759
Speaker 16: around all americanness. I will vote for the Chiefs obviously

1036
00:53:28,920 --> 00:53:30,920
Speaker 16: is the team of the year. We're trying to do

1037
00:53:31,040 --> 00:53:35,279
Speaker 16: the Mount Everest of an NFL three peat, which have

1038
00:53:35,400 --> 00:53:38,360
Speaker 16: never been done, hopefully with They're going to have twenty

1039
00:53:38,400 --> 00:53:41,560
Speaker 16: six days for Hollywood Brown to learn how to catch

1040
00:53:41,560 --> 00:53:44,759
Speaker 16: a pass from and timing from Patrick Mahomes.

1041
00:53:44,760 --> 00:53:48,320
Speaker 17: And I would say that the three pete is definitely

1042
00:53:48,320 --> 00:53:49,279
Speaker 17: on the table, but.

1043
00:53:49,200 --> 00:53:55,239
Speaker 16: The Lions are The Lions are a fitting challenger for sure.

1044
00:53:55,320 --> 00:53:59,279
Speaker 16: But I think the overwhelming you know, those prospect of

1045
00:53:59,400 --> 00:54:02,960
Speaker 16: Travis ls retirement after the.

1046
00:54:02,920 --> 00:54:04,640
Speaker 18: Game, and the huge.

1047
00:54:04,400 --> 00:54:07,400
Speaker 19: Ratings that they had better than the moon landing, that

1048
00:54:07,480 --> 00:54:10,120
Speaker 19: would that makes them the number one team, you know,

1049
00:54:10,280 --> 00:54:15,160
Speaker 19: just the incredible amount of publicity and attention of the

1050
00:54:15,280 --> 00:54:18,799
Speaker 19: Lions Chiefs Super Bowl, with the potential three peat or

1051
00:54:18,880 --> 00:54:21,320
Speaker 19: the Lions finally getting over the humps.

1052
00:54:21,360 --> 00:54:28,839
Speaker 2: So that would be incredible, right, all right, thanks man, Andre, Manuel, Poppy, Jim,

1053
00:54:28,880 --> 00:54:31,839
Speaker 2: and Saint Louis. You're up next. Eight seven, seven, nine

1054
00:54:31,880 --> 00:54:34,440
Speaker 2: nine six sixty three six nine to ben. That hour continues.

1055
00:54:35,239 --> 00:54:39,040
Speaker 2: Just so people know, Kaitlyn Clark's jersey, your number twenty

1056
00:54:39,040 --> 00:54:43,120
Speaker 2: two jersey, will be retired on February second at Iowa

1057
00:54:43,239 --> 00:54:47,239
Speaker 2: at a game against USC And guess what, it's a

1058
00:54:47,280 --> 00:54:50,000
Speaker 2: hot ticket. All right now, let me give this some

1059
00:54:50,080 --> 00:54:53,719
Speaker 2: quick perspective. When Kaitlyn Clark played her final game at

1060
00:54:53,719 --> 00:54:57,280
Speaker 2: Carver UH, the tickets were going for about three hundred

1061
00:54:57,280 --> 00:54:59,120
Speaker 2: and fifty eight dollars for standing romoli in four to

1062
00:54:59,200 --> 00:55:01,840
Speaker 2: fifty for a seat. The ticket to see her jersey

1063
00:55:01,880 --> 00:55:05,480
Speaker 2: retired seven hundred and eleven dollars. You tell me the

1064
00:55:05,520 --> 00:55:08,200
Speaker 2: Caitlin Clark effect isn't real. Oh, by the way, she

1065
00:55:08,239 --> 00:55:10,759
Speaker 2: can play a little bit too. I'm Bernie Frattle. We're

1066
00:55:10,760 --> 00:55:13,160
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1067
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Speaker 2: Radio tarrac dot Com studios here in Las Vegas. The

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Speaker 4: FSR to 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: come to you from the Taract dot Com studios here

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Speaker 2: in Las Vegas. Back out to the phones. The midnight

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Speaker 2: hour is Rockin' Andre in Massachusetts joins us. Welcome and Andre, how.

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Speaker 15: You doing, Bernie, Thanks for taking the call.

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Speaker 5: Listen.

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Speaker 15: Number one sports story that intrigues me is somebody gonna

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00:55:52,400 --> 00:55:55,480
Speaker 15: step up to the throne, Patrick Mahomes. We have this

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00:55:55,680 --> 00:56:01,600
Speaker 15: MVP conversation going on between the incumbent defender, Lamar Jackson

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00:56:01,719 --> 00:56:04,040
Speaker 15: and then the King of the North as I like

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00:56:04,080 --> 00:56:06,759
Speaker 15: to call them, Josh amp Okay, who's a little bit

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00:56:06,880 --> 00:56:07,440
Speaker 15: up and down.

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00:56:07,719 --> 00:56:08,680
Speaker 12: Lamar is surging.

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00:56:08,760 --> 00:56:11,360
Speaker 15: So these two guys duking it out for the MVP.

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00:56:11,600 --> 00:56:15,080
Speaker 15: But overall, you know, MVP's you know, it's all what

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00:56:15,520 --> 00:56:18,920
Speaker 15: do they say if it's in butts for candy and

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00:56:19,000 --> 00:56:19,440
Speaker 15: nuts at all?

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Speaker 18: Be a merry Christmas.

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00:56:20,560 --> 00:56:22,080
Speaker 15: One of these guys gonna get in the board in

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00:56:22,120 --> 00:56:23,400
Speaker 15: terms of Super Bowls and winning.

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Speaker 2: Right, you're speaking my language, Johnny I gotta tell you,

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00:56:28,239 --> 00:56:31,600
Speaker 2: I don't think. I don't think Baltimore will beat the Chiefs.

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00:56:31,640 --> 00:56:34,400
Speaker 2: I think the Bills could, but I don't know that

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00:56:34,480 --> 00:56:36,560
Speaker 2: they will. Someone's gonna have to go through an arrowhead.

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Speaker 2: I don't expect the Chiefs to lose. They could lose

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Speaker 2: them in Super Bowl. But I think they're in the

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Speaker 2: Super Bowl. Do you agree?

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00:56:44,000 --> 00:56:48,000
Speaker 15: I do, because quietly they're winning all of these close games,

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00:56:48,200 --> 00:56:50,759
Speaker 15: all right, but by them securing that number one seed,

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00:56:50,760 --> 00:56:54,320
Speaker 15: as you say, super Bowl, the past is going through Arrowhead.

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00:56:54,560 --> 00:56:57,840
Speaker 15: And the Ravens more talented though they may be this

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00:56:57,960 --> 00:57:00,320
Speaker 15: year with Derrick Henry, they had it all up for

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00:57:00,360 --> 00:57:03,640
Speaker 15: themselves last year in Baltimore and they blew it okay,

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00:57:04,160 --> 00:57:06,080
Speaker 15: And so I just can't get that out of my mind.

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00:57:06,160 --> 00:57:09,600
Speaker 15: Now they're going to go into Kansas City, even though

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00:57:09,600 --> 00:57:12,319
Speaker 15: they're more they just I believe it kind of went

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00:57:12,440 --> 00:57:14,840
Speaker 15: when I see it. So the Canadon North with Josh Allen,

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00:57:15,200 --> 00:57:19,000
Speaker 15: Lamar Jackson and then Patrick Mahomes sitting there as the

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Speaker 15: de factoka, that storyline intrigues me. In terms of low

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00:57:22,440 --> 00:57:24,440
Speaker 15: lights for this year, Bernie, I got to tell you

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00:57:25,080 --> 00:57:29,480
Speaker 15: sad to see Jim lare Naga stepping down at Miami

1115
00:57:29,640 --> 00:57:32,840
Speaker 15: and this this kind of it's really what have you got?

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00:57:32,880 --> 00:57:35,480
Speaker 15: Jay Wright out of there? Nick Saban out of there?

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00:57:35,720 --> 00:57:40,480
Speaker 15: In terms of the new college football. So the culture

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00:57:40,680 --> 00:57:46,880
Speaker 15: is weaker, You're losing your luminaries, your leaders. But Nick Saban,

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Speaker 15: here's my concluding point, Bernie, you were the highest paid

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Speaker 15: employee in Alabama for how many years? Okay, it was

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00:57:53,000 --> 00:57:55,240
Speaker 15: the free market for the coaches. You guys were making

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00:57:55,280 --> 00:57:58,480
Speaker 15: money handover fits since time in memorial and now the

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00:57:58,560 --> 00:58:01,000
Speaker 15: players are included in that. So I don't understand why

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00:58:01,040 --> 00:58:03,760
Speaker 15: so many people are thunderstruck. All right, you go out there,

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Speaker 15: you have one good season.

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Speaker 5: What's the first thing coaches do.

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00:58:05,880 --> 00:58:09,040
Speaker 15: They renegotiate, They get the godfather guilds, and it's all hunky,

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Speaker 15: it's all good and well. So now the players have

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00:58:11,840 --> 00:58:14,760
Speaker 15: that same opportunity. You have to change with the time coaches.

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Speaker 15: So I'm disheartened because the culture and the game is suffering.

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00:58:19,160 --> 00:58:21,240
Speaker 15: But at the same time, what's good for the goose

1132
00:58:21,360 --> 00:58:23,440
Speaker 15: is good for the gander. So these coaches should be

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00:58:23,480 --> 00:58:26,160
Speaker 15: able to adapt because everybody's making money handle or fit.

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Speaker 15: I appreciate the time, Bernie.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Thanks andre A. Very thoughtful journalistic point. It's

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00:58:32,280 --> 00:58:34,360
Speaker 2: all fun and games till someone loses an eye, right,

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00:58:34,400 --> 00:58:38,600
Speaker 2: I mean the hypocrisy which Andre just aptly pointed out.

1138
00:58:38,920 --> 00:58:43,520
Speaker 2: Coaches could come and go whenever they want, basically, And

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00:58:43,560 --> 00:58:46,800
Speaker 2: so now the shoes on the other foot, and the

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00:58:46,840 --> 00:58:50,840
Speaker 2: irony is Jim Laernege who resigned today or Friday or

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00:58:50,880 --> 00:58:55,640
Speaker 2: Thursday or whatever. The final four team he put together

1142
00:58:55,880 --> 00:58:58,920
Speaker 2: a couple of years ago was a lot of transfers,

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00:58:59,040 --> 00:59:01,320
Speaker 2: and then they all wanted to transfer. So there's a

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00:59:01,360 --> 00:59:03,800
Speaker 2: bit of an irony there by the way to Andre's point,

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00:59:03,840 --> 00:59:05,600
Speaker 2: and I've been I've had the cheese back on the

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00:59:05,640 --> 00:59:08,040
Speaker 2: show the entire year. All of a sudden, Now in

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00:59:08,080 --> 00:59:11,360
Speaker 2: their last eleven days they're not just squeaking by. They're

1148
00:59:11,400 --> 00:59:14,240
Speaker 2: three and zero in their last eleven days point differential

1149
00:59:14,280 --> 00:59:16,680
Speaker 2: plus forty one. They're averaging twenty six points a game,

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00:59:16,680 --> 00:59:20,480
Speaker 2: and given a twelve, that's pretty good.

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00:59:21,760 --> 00:59:21,960
Speaker 8: Man.

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00:59:22,080 --> 00:59:23,880
Speaker 2: Well and Guardiana, what's happening?

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00:59:23,920 --> 00:59:28,600
Speaker 20: Buddy Jo's bona celebrace?

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00:59:29,640 --> 00:59:33,480
Speaker 6: They say, I'm lazy, but it takes so much time.

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Speaker 21: No, little little Joe Walsh, shoot to me, Bernie Fredo, Hey, Bernie,

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00:59:39,680 --> 00:59:42,640
Speaker 21: first off, marry Christmas.

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Speaker 6: To you and the whole gang who make our Friday

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00:59:45,360 --> 00:59:48,840
Speaker 6: nights and our Saturday nights the best they can be

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00:59:49,320 --> 00:59:51,320
Speaker 6: with the Fox Sports Radio family.

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Speaker 5: I really appreciate you guys.

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00:59:53,320 --> 00:59:55,320
Speaker 6: You know, as a working man, you got to get

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00:59:55,320 --> 01:00:00,000
Speaker 6: me through my shifts. Nothing beloved, Hey, real quick. For Christmas,

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01:00:00,280 --> 01:00:03,320
Speaker 6: I got a breeze threes. My kids got me some DVDs.

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01:00:03,400 --> 01:00:09,000
Speaker 6: Man The Kingpin, The Fast Times, That Richmont High, and

1165
01:00:09,080 --> 01:00:13,320
Speaker 6: the George Romero Classic Creep Show. All right, So those

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Speaker 6: are my breeze threes for tonight. As far as memorable

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01:00:18,000 --> 01:00:22,000
Speaker 6: moments for twenty twenty four, in nineteen eighty one, a

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Speaker 6: young kid who fell in love with baseball. When Fernando

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Speaker 6: Vealnezuela and the Dodgers took care of the Yankees, I

1170
01:00:30,200 --> 01:00:33,080
Speaker 6: found out that that was the marquee matchup of baseball.

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01:00:33,400 --> 01:00:36,760
Speaker 6: I had to wait forty three years to see it again,

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01:00:37,480 --> 01:00:41,640
Speaker 6: but I saw my Dodgers put a swift pass kicking

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01:00:42,240 --> 01:00:45,880
Speaker 6: on New York's Yankees and Mets in one.

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Speaker 5: Failed swoop, and it was glorious.

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Speaker 3: Man. So that was my twenty twenty four to remember.

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Speaker 3: Dave Roberts and Andrew Friedman are cemented as God in

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Speaker 3: Los Angeles and rest in peace. Rickey Hendry saying, once again, Bernie,

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Speaker 3: you are the man. Appreciate you and the crew out well.

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Speaker 2: Thanks so man, We'll always appreciate you as well, and

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Speaker 2: all the listeners and all the callers. I appreciate you

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Speaker 2: bringing and let's not forget rest in peace. Fernando Alnzuela two.

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Speaker 2: I you know very much. Remember the summer of eighty one,

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Speaker 2: Fernando Mania. He was incredible and he actually broke in

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Speaker 2: an eighty But then in eighty one was the strike

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Speaker 2: shortened season. They had a fifty day break there and

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Speaker 2: in between the Dodgers ended up beating the Yankees in

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Speaker 2: the eighty one series. After losing to the Yankees in

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Speaker 2: seventy seven and seventy eight, they do it again in

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, and the irony they Fernando Allen's Whila passes.

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Speaker 2: Rest in peace, Fernando as well. Poppy in San Diego.

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Speaker 2: How's it going, Poppy?

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Speaker 20: Hey? Going good? Happy New Year, Ernie, New York to you,

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Speaker 20: Bernie and.

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Speaker 15: The whole crew.

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Speaker 20: How's it going all right? But right back at you, man, Thanks,

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Speaker 20: I'm just the champions here of Bernie's fucking bet first time.

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Speaker 20: He Bernie's fucking bet is here. And look what I

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Speaker 20: want to say about Mike McCarthy. You know I have

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Speaker 20: my conspiracy theory.

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Speaker 5: So look, Jerry Jones is the Jerry Jones world.

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Speaker 22: So he called.

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Speaker 20: Dion prime Time, Hey, Primetime, you want to be the

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Speaker 20: coach for next year? And Primetime said, hey, you know,

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Speaker 20: I love you and everything, Jerry, but you know what,

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01:02:23,200 --> 01:02:25,480
Speaker 20: I don't think they're gonna get you. Guys gonna get

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Speaker 20: the number one draft picks. So it's either gonna go

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Speaker 20: to the Giants or the Raiders. And I'm going where

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Speaker 20: my boy's going, Jerry. So that that's my conspiracy theory.

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Speaker 20: Why Jerry Jones is sucking up to Mike McCarthy. Do

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Speaker 20: I think he deserves to be there?

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Speaker 5: Hey?

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Speaker 20: No, but he'll be there and then onto the erin Rogers.

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Speaker 20: Thanks for telling us about that. On Netflix, I was

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Speaker 20: watching a little bit.

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Speaker 9: I'll watch it was a little bit boring.

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Speaker 20: You know what I'd rather watch on Netflix, Bernie, I'd

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Speaker 20: rather watch Jerry Jones next year, the Jerry Jerry Jones

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Speaker 20: World on Netflix documentary what they're gonna talk about him?

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01:02:58,120 --> 01:03:01,000
Speaker 20: I'd rather know. I want to watch that about Jerry Jones,

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01:03:01,000 --> 01:03:04,320
Speaker 20: he's more interesting. You know, it's America, he said.

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01:03:04,800 --> 01:03:07,600
Speaker 2: The NFL network has done you know, their version of

1222
01:03:07,600 --> 01:03:10,080
Speaker 2: a thirty for thirty on on Jerry Jones. It's pretty good.

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Speaker 2: And as you know, he played football at Arkansas with

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Speaker 2: Jimmy Johnson. They were part of a national championship team.

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Speaker 20: Yeah, exactly, And I'd rather see that. And for I

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Speaker 20: guess for my my rant, my players that I like

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Speaker 20: for the year that I really liked. I like Otani

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Speaker 20: Otani with his record home run.

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Speaker 5: And stealing the basis.

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Speaker 20: I really love that. I'm not a big baseball fan,

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Speaker 20: bi Sogi Otani. I loved it, you know, from the

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Speaker 20: dog and everything that this.

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Speaker 2: Incredible season for Otani and they won, and they won.

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Speaker 2: That's the thing.

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Speaker 5: They won, Yeah, they won.

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Speaker 20: So I really loved that Otani and I wanted to

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Speaker 20: give U my ret my what I'm really looking for

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Speaker 20: this U football Sunday at the Commanders versus the Falcons.

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Speaker 20: Jalen Daniels, a rookie, for my opinion's gonna be rookie

1240
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Speaker 20: of the Year. So I really like the lines minus

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Speaker 20: four Bernie, that's my free and I'm excited to see

1242
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Speaker 20: Jaylen Daniels on prime Time on Peacock. You know what

1243
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Speaker 20: I mean.

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Speaker 2: I'll tell you what, Poppy, So you I'm doing Mallard's

1245
01:04:07,280 --> 01:04:09,880
Speaker 2: son and you can call back. I'm kind of with you.

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Speaker 2: Thanks for checking in, Pop, always appreciate it. Uh. The

1247
01:04:15,120 --> 01:04:19,600
Speaker 2: Falcons have become this trendy pick with Michael Pennix and

1248
01:04:19,800 --> 01:04:24,240
Speaker 2: he's played one game against the almost non NFL team.

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Speaker 2: I shouldn't really say that. That's not fair, but too

1250
01:04:27,280 --> 01:04:29,640
Speaker 2: short of a sample size, I think this, you know.

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01:04:29,720 --> 01:04:32,840
Speaker 2: I know that it's a typical letdown spot after you know,

1252
01:04:33,240 --> 01:04:36,800
Speaker 2: Washington what they did to Philadelphia last week. But I

1253
01:04:37,360 --> 01:04:39,800
Speaker 2: can't back Atlanta here, so you might be right, Poppy,

1254
01:04:39,840 --> 01:04:42,000
Speaker 2: You'll have to. You know, we'll give you your flowers.

1255
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Speaker 2: You can call it Sunday night to Mallard if you

1256
01:04:43,840 --> 01:04:46,720
Speaker 2: wentn't call it anyway? Right, Jim out to Saint Louis.

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Speaker 2: How's it going, Jim? Are you having an Emo's pizza

1258
01:04:49,160 --> 01:04:49,760
Speaker 2: by any chance?

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Speaker 22: Ah?

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Speaker 21: Not at the moment, but I did today.

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Speaker 2: Nicely done. I love Emo's pizza. They cut it in

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01:04:55,760 --> 01:04:57,960
Speaker 2: squares man, nice and thin. Anyway, I'm just that's my

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Speaker 2: little I love Saint Louis. Great. You know the the

1264
01:05:00,560 --> 01:05:02,560
Speaker 2: hill that Charlie Gidles on the hill. Go ahead, you

1265
01:05:02,640 --> 01:05:03,160
Speaker 2: got the floor?

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Speaker 5: Okay.

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Speaker 12: The thing that people seem to be ignoring about.

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Speaker 23: Our Kani, Yes, the reason that he did what he

1269
01:05:12,000 --> 01:05:15,960
Speaker 23: did was because he stopped pitching. If he continues to pitch,

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Speaker 23: he's going to ruin his career.

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Speaker 11: I guarantee it.

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Speaker 2: I don't feel ruin his career. He may not have

1273
01:05:21,800 --> 01:05:24,640
Speaker 2: the same type of prolific offensive numbers, but he already

1274
01:05:24,640 --> 01:05:26,000
Speaker 2: improved when he was in ANAHEO.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's it's I think it's a big mistake for

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01:05:30,680 --> 01:05:33,360
Speaker 5: him to try and pitch. That's just my take on that.

1277
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Speaker 2: That's so highly effective he's been able to. It's not

1278
01:05:36,480 --> 01:05:39,120
Speaker 2: just that he's doing it. He statistics as a pitcher

1279
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Speaker 2: are outstanding.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, but look at his batting.

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01:05:44,040 --> 01:05:47,040
Speaker 7: When he was pitching, he becomes immediate.

1282
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Speaker 2: I don't have the numbers in front of me, but

1283
01:05:49,280 --> 01:05:51,600
Speaker 2: he a lot of home runs. He didn't steals many bases,

1284
01:05:51,640 --> 01:05:54,480
Speaker 2: I'll give you that, but he a lot of home

1285
01:05:54,560 --> 01:05:56,760
Speaker 2: runs and he hit for average and a lot of

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Speaker 2: extra baseins. So, uh, is that so anything else tonight? Jim?

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Speaker 11: Yeah, I got a book for you.

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Speaker 5: Go ahead, do you read.

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Speaker 12: I try you like to read, but forts books?

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Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, what's it called.

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01:06:17,200 --> 01:06:18,280
Speaker 11: My Losing Season?

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01:06:19,480 --> 01:06:22,480
Speaker 2: And who's Pat Conroy?

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01:06:22,640 --> 01:06:22,840
Speaker 1: Is it?

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01:06:23,640 --> 01:06:26,720
Speaker 2: Is it a is it a true story or is

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01:06:26,720 --> 01:06:29,640
Speaker 2: it one of those what? Okay, go ahead real quickly.

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Speaker 2: What's it about?

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Speaker 5: It's just about uh his experience growing up.

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Speaker 22: Uh he wrote that book, the great hit, the Great Santini.

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Speaker 5: Do you remember that?

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Speaker 2: One?

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Speaker 11: Of course his father was his father was a pilot.

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Speaker 7: Okay, so this is just about the.

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01:06:46,840 --> 01:06:51,320
Speaker 19: Son of the great Centini and his experience was going

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01:06:51,360 --> 01:06:54,800
Speaker 19: to the I think the military academy playing basketball.

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Speaker 18: It's a fabulous steward.

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Speaker 2: All right, I'll check it out. Sounds good. Appreciate you

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Speaker 2: checking in, Jim. Joy the rest of your evening there,

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Speaker 2: James and Los Angeles is next. How's going, James?

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01:07:06,280 --> 01:07:07,080
Speaker 8: What's up? Bernie?

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Speaker 5: How you doing?

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Speaker 10: Man? Uh?

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Speaker 15: Great year this year is sports.

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Speaker 23: So I got a few points.

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Speaker 12: I want to jump off to.

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Speaker 23: The first thing I'm going to follow.

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Speaker 8: Bout boy Manny.

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Speaker 22: I love the Dodgers bringing back that East coast West

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Speaker 22: coast rivalry.

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Speaker 5: We we we put the we put the.

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Speaker 22: Yankees in their place and uh beat them down like

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Speaker 22: they like they need to be. You know, the New

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01:07:29,080 --> 01:07:34,360
Speaker 22: York nine got nothing coming this year, so we we definitely,

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Speaker 22: we definitely put them down. I want to say the

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Speaker 22: things that I that I well, one thing I said

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Speaker 22: I love and one thing I hate is the thing

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Speaker 22: that I love is VI Raiders man. JaMarcus Russell really

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Speaker 22: set us back. And there's no way, there's no way

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Speaker 22: we can screw up this draft picks.

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Speaker 2: They will go ahead.

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Speaker 20: I don't.

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Speaker 8: I don't, I don't think so.

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Speaker 22: But the way you we get your door or we

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Speaker 22: get uh Travis Hunter.

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Speaker 23: You know we're we're gonna be watching Toward the Top

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Speaker 23: special where Tom Brady involved in it. We're not gonna

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Speaker 23: have no losing James.

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Speaker 22: No more so go Raiders that are doing this and that.

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Speaker 23: And one thing that really sticks in my craw is

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01:08:20,000 --> 01:08:26,760
Speaker 23: being a lifelong Aaron Pryor apologist. Just the depth of

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Speaker 23: boxing man, the way that it's the way that great boxer.

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Speaker 2: I actually think I've got another call, James, I love you.

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01:08:33,880 --> 01:08:37,599
Speaker 2: I actually think Aaron Pryor would have beaten Floyd.

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Speaker 5: I do.

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01:08:39,240 --> 01:08:42,559
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, you have to call it that because too,

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01:08:43,960 --> 01:08:46,479
Speaker 2: and in Sugary Leonard would have too. They were finished. Yes,

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Speaker 2: you all right, James, don't be a strange I want

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Speaker 2: to get to all the calls.

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Speaker 5: UH.

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Speaker 2: David in l A, David Phoenix, Roberto, Bryce and Texas.

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Speaker 2: off the air. Back out to the phone lines, David

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Speaker 2: in last angels, I believes up next? Do I have

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Speaker 2: that right? David?

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Speaker 5: All right, Bernie, how's it going?

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01:10:04,600 --> 01:10:05,000
Speaker 2: Good? Sir?

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Speaker 5: You okay? Good good?

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Speaker 21: Oh a robot, It's about time. It's about time. It's

1377
01:10:12,000 --> 01:10:15,160
Speaker 21: too many times I'm looking at that game, that ball

1378
01:10:15,280 --> 01:10:17,400
Speaker 21: is straight down the center and that guy I call

1379
01:10:17,479 --> 01:10:22,760
Speaker 21: a ball or out. You know, I'm betting they have to.

1380
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Speaker 5: Get the calls right.

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01:10:24,000 --> 01:10:29,000
Speaker 2: Sure, I accept that logic there, there's no question that

1382
01:10:29,120 --> 01:10:32,360
Speaker 2: on a nightly basis, with the technology that exists now,

1383
01:10:32,360 --> 01:10:36,400
Speaker 2: they're exposing uh, inconsistent calls and consistent strike zones and

1384
01:10:36,439 --> 01:10:37,320
Speaker 2: miss calls that you just.

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01:10:37,320 --> 01:10:40,640
Speaker 21: Said, right, And the announcers doing the game they just

1386
01:10:40,680 --> 01:10:43,080
Speaker 21: asked like they didn't see that. It's frustrating when I

1387
01:10:43,080 --> 01:10:44,360
Speaker 21: have my money rolling.

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01:10:45,320 --> 01:10:48,240
Speaker 2: That makes it even more frustrating anything else, David, I

1389
01:10:48,240 --> 01:10:49,599
Speaker 2: want to make sure I get you all these callers.

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Speaker 20: No, that's it's thank you, thanks for checking.

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Speaker 2: In, Pal. Appreciate you. David Phoenix. How are you, Dave?

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Speaker 17: How are you Bud very good, so I do want

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01:10:59,800 --> 01:11:02,760
Speaker 17: to I'm in on o'tani and Kaitlin Clark. But first

1394
01:11:02,880 --> 01:11:06,600
Speaker 17: on the college football playoffs, I think people need to

1395
01:11:06,640 --> 01:11:10,080
Speaker 17: be aware that these next two games could be similar

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01:11:10,120 --> 01:11:13,160
Speaker 17: to the first four, with Boise State playing and then

1397
01:11:13,200 --> 01:11:16,080
Speaker 17: Arizona State playing, and if they go the way those

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01:11:16,120 --> 01:11:18,320
Speaker 17: first four did, we're going to hear a lot more

1399
01:11:18,360 --> 01:11:19,799
Speaker 17: complaining from Lane Kiffin.

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01:11:19,840 --> 01:11:23,559
Speaker 2: And Lane Kiffin can go fly a kite. He lost

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01:11:23,560 --> 01:11:26,639
Speaker 2: as a fourteen favorite point favor to Kentucky. He lost

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01:11:26,720 --> 01:11:30,160
Speaker 2: his a twelve point favorite to Louisville. We are together

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01:11:30,280 --> 01:11:32,040
Speaker 2: on that one. And by the way, Dave, I just

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01:11:32,080 --> 01:11:33,599
Speaker 2: want to get decide of me to cut you off.

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01:11:33,960 --> 01:11:37,040
Speaker 2: The last twenty semi final games, fourteen were decided by

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01:11:37,160 --> 01:11:40,920
Speaker 2: fourteen points or more. Eight were decided by twenty points

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01:11:41,040 --> 01:11:42,760
Speaker 2: or more. Let's see what you got to say on

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01:11:42,800 --> 01:11:44,640
Speaker 2: the other subjects.

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Speaker 5: Right, Oh, just real quick.

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Speaker 17: Once those two games are done, I think the last

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01:11:48,080 --> 01:11:50,400
Speaker 17: six games of this tournament are going to be fantastic.

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01:11:51,040 --> 01:11:53,720
Speaker 17: All will be a touchdown or less point spread and

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01:11:53,800 --> 01:11:57,520
Speaker 17: there's going to be some great games. As far as o'tani,

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01:11:57,720 --> 01:12:01,360
Speaker 17: I think if there was Ballady for Major League Baseball

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01:12:01,400 --> 01:12:05,120
Speaker 17: Player of the Year both leagues combined. Aaron Judge would

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01:12:05,160 --> 01:12:09,320
Speaker 17: probably win over Otani this year. They both had great years,

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01:12:09,720 --> 01:12:12,759
Speaker 17: but the story of Otani getting that fifty to fifty

1418
01:12:12,800 --> 01:12:15,160
Speaker 17: and the way he did it in Miami with that

1419
01:12:15,280 --> 01:12:18,240
Speaker 17: fantastic game and then winning the World Series on top

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Speaker 17: of it, that's what puts him over the top. And

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01:12:21,600 --> 01:12:26,439
Speaker 17: then also Caitlin Clark absolutely needs to be celebrated. What

1422
01:12:26,640 --> 01:12:30,240
Speaker 17: she did for women's basketball, both pro and college. And

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01:12:30,320 --> 01:12:33,120
Speaker 17: she did it with her shooting and with her passing,

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01:12:33,800 --> 01:12:37,759
Speaker 17: and she brought fans into the stands and to watch

1425
01:12:37,840 --> 01:12:41,439
Speaker 17: TV in ways that had never been close to being done,

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01:12:41,520 --> 01:12:42,280
Speaker 17: not even close.

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Speaker 2: I'm an agreement, Dave. Listen, I wish we had more time.

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01:12:44,640 --> 01:12:47,759
Speaker 2: Don't be a stranger. We do this every week. Good stuff.

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01:12:47,840 --> 01:12:49,360
Speaker 2: Alberto and San Diego.

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Speaker 24: Welcome in Hilberto with us web any two, we y

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01:12:53,160 --> 01:12:55,880
Speaker 24: and we'vien listen before anything. I wish you the base

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01:12:55,920 --> 01:12:58,400
Speaker 24: for twenty twenty. Fine for you, your family and your

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01:12:58,439 --> 01:13:01,240
Speaker 24: co workers. Thank you in a great show. I call

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Speaker 24: with Bernie and I really wish the best and hopefully

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01:13:04,280 --> 01:13:10,280
Speaker 24: will be listening to you every weekend. Okay, listen, I'm

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01:13:10,320 --> 01:13:14,599
Speaker 24: a Dodger fan. Let's go Dodgers and the players are great.

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01:13:15,200 --> 01:13:17,880
Speaker 24: I love what Altanny did. I love what Swiman did

1438
01:13:18,080 --> 01:13:20,120
Speaker 24: coming back from that situation with his kid.

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01:13:20,200 --> 01:13:21,320
Speaker 2: But I have to.

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Speaker 10: I'm very happy, and I wish he would have won

1441
01:13:24,520 --> 01:13:29,439
Speaker 10: the Manager of the Year. For Dave Roberts, yeah, yeah,

1442
01:13:29,479 --> 01:13:31,880
Speaker 10: and they have so many injuries, they have.

1443
01:13:31,960 --> 01:13:34,120
Speaker 24: Barely starting people.

1444
01:13:35,080 --> 01:13:35,680
Speaker 2: Was decimated.

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01:13:36,240 --> 01:13:39,800
Speaker 10: And the way he handled that team, the way he

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01:13:40,040 --> 01:13:44,240
Speaker 10: led them for this World Series, it was incredible even

1447
01:13:44,320 --> 01:13:47,719
Speaker 10: in the regular season, having the best record in baseball again,

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01:13:48,040 --> 01:13:51,320
Speaker 10: So for me is Dave Roberts and the second one.

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01:13:51,479 --> 01:13:55,480
Speaker 10: Wouldn't it be poetic that if McCarthy leaves the Cowboys

1450
01:13:55,680 --> 01:13:57,120
Speaker 10: he gets hired by the Jet.

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01:13:57,400 --> 01:14:00,400
Speaker 2: Goodness gracious, that would be a disaster. Hilbert, I wish

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01:14:00,439 --> 01:14:02,599
Speaker 2: I had more time, big, big fellow. That I like that.

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01:14:02,600 --> 01:14:04,840
Speaker 2: That's funny. I know you have a little bit of

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01:14:04,840 --> 01:14:06,760
Speaker 2: tongue in cheek there, but you can't really anything out

1455
01:14:06,760 --> 01:14:08,160
Speaker 2: in this day and age. I just want to make

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01:14:08,200 --> 01:14:12,200
Speaker 2: sure I get to all the callers. Uh, Bryce in Texas, Uh,

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01:14:12,479 --> 01:14:13,519
Speaker 2: you go up next.

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01:14:15,160 --> 01:14:17,240
Speaker 18: All right, So I'll pack the little short ones first.

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01:14:17,280 --> 01:14:19,479
Speaker 18: As far as Aaron Rodgers, if he's coming back. That's

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01:14:19,479 --> 01:14:23,559
Speaker 18: all that end depend on his Madden ratings. The next

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01:14:23,720 --> 01:14:24,439
Speaker 18: video game.

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01:14:25,000 --> 01:14:27,879
Speaker 2: Yeah there's there's Yeah that classic.

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01:14:30,280 --> 01:14:33,840
Speaker 18: As far as McCarthy staying I live in Dallas, I

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01:14:33,880 --> 01:14:36,639
Speaker 18: think he's stuck like Jerry Jones, stuck with him. Jerry

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01:14:36,720 --> 01:14:39,439
Speaker 18: Jones is in his mid eighties, he's winning, an established coach,

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01:14:39,760 --> 01:14:42,120
Speaker 18: but he also wants all the control, and no established

1467
01:14:42,120 --> 01:14:45,320
Speaker 18: coach is going to come and follow Jerry Jones' rules,

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01:14:45,840 --> 01:14:48,679
Speaker 18: McCarthy rules. I think he just kind of stuck with him.

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01:14:49,760 --> 01:14:52,320
Speaker 2: You know, you're not wrong. Sometimes it's right there in

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01:14:52,360 --> 01:14:55,240
Speaker 2: front of isn't it anything else? Bryce Uh?

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Speaker 18: As far as like this year, I'm a big tennis guy.

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01:14:59,040 --> 01:15:01,000
Speaker 18: This is the passing of the guard. It's the first

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01:15:01,000 --> 01:15:02,720
Speaker 18: time in two thousand and three that one of the

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01:15:02,720 --> 01:15:07,160
Speaker 18: Big three hasn't won a Grand Slam. It's like Djokovic

1475
01:15:07,520 --> 01:15:09,880
Speaker 18: is on his way out and the doll retired this year,

1476
01:15:10,000 --> 01:15:12,720
Speaker 18: better retired a few years ago. This is the year

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01:15:12,760 --> 01:15:15,280
Speaker 18: that we'll start to see like we'll remember this being

1478
01:15:15,320 --> 01:15:19,320
Speaker 18: the beginning of the Carlo Talkrez Janix Center, Daniel Nedvedev,

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01:15:19,400 --> 01:15:20,360
Speaker 18: those guys stetting up.

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01:15:20,760 --> 01:15:22,880
Speaker 2: Yeah you may you may well be right, good stuff. Right,

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01:15:23,040 --> 01:15:25,559
Speaker 2: We're going deep in the cooking yar tonight. All right, Kyle,

1482
01:15:25,600 --> 01:15:27,639
Speaker 2: you will be the final call on this subject tonight,

1483
01:15:27,720 --> 01:15:29,760
Speaker 2: Kyle here in Vegas. Welcome here.

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01:15:29,880 --> 01:15:31,400
Speaker 8: What's going on?

1485
01:15:31,760 --> 01:15:32,200
Speaker 5: Bernie?

1486
01:15:32,640 --> 01:15:33,400
Speaker 2: Eonderful?

1487
01:15:34,439 --> 01:15:36,880
Speaker 8: I missed the show last night, which you take him

1488
01:15:36,920 --> 01:15:38,639
Speaker 8: over from that with Bro.

1489
01:15:38,760 --> 01:15:40,519
Speaker 2: You can catch me. You can catch me Sunday night.

1490
01:15:40,560 --> 01:15:41,160
Speaker 2: You can call in.

1491
01:15:41,200 --> 01:15:45,160
Speaker 8: Okay, bet that you already know so really, Quicks, there's

1492
01:15:45,200 --> 01:15:47,760
Speaker 8: somewhere out there Matt Eberfluss is wishing how he used

1493
01:15:47,760 --> 01:15:52,360
Speaker 8: that time out during the holiday, you know, a month ago. Yeah,

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01:15:52,960 --> 01:15:56,960
Speaker 8: Betts fans, I'm sorry. I am one two major letdown

1495
01:15:57,040 --> 01:15:59,280
Speaker 8: for all the Chicago sports team this year. We had

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01:15:59,400 --> 01:16:02,840
Speaker 8: one of the worst losing rates in baseball history. We

1497
01:16:02,960 --> 01:16:06,560
Speaker 8: have one of the most quart baby complaining female athletes

1498
01:16:06,680 --> 01:16:11,680
Speaker 8: in women's basketball history right now. Powder statuswas so for me,

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01:16:12,200 --> 01:16:14,400
Speaker 8: the most let down of the year of Chicago sports.

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Speaker 8: I love your show, Bernie. I'm not gonna hold you

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01:16:17,520 --> 01:16:19,120
Speaker 8: up too much longer. I know you got to get

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01:16:19,120 --> 01:16:22,439
Speaker 8: to that next uh that that next block, So go ahead.

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Speaker 8: Do you think I'm listening? We love you. You always

1504
01:16:24,920 --> 01:16:26,920
Speaker 8: know I'm gonna support you. On twenty twenty five as well.

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Speaker 2: Brother, Well, thanks so much, Kyle. I appreciate that. And

1506
01:16:29,880 --> 01:16:33,479
Speaker 2: all the callers who waiting tonight. I like that people

1507
01:16:33,720 --> 01:16:37,680
Speaker 2: were willing to go off script and talk about uh,

1508
01:16:38,080 --> 01:16:41,840
Speaker 2: you know, things that were more Al Horford. Okay, that

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01:16:41,960 --> 01:16:42,960
Speaker 2: meant something to that guy.

1510
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Speaker 10: Uh, you know.

1511
01:16:44,760 --> 01:16:48,439
Speaker 2: And all the callers are excellent. They always are. I

1512
01:16:48,479 --> 01:16:50,320
Speaker 2: will be you know, I've got my show Saturday night,

1513
01:16:50,360 --> 01:16:53,840
Speaker 2: I'm doing Mallard. Sunday, I'm doing Mallard New Year's Eve

1514
01:16:53,880 --> 01:16:57,719
Speaker 2: as well. We're gonna dive back into this subject because

1515
01:16:58,160 --> 01:17:01,760
Speaker 2: there's been a lot of rep our touch and I

1516
01:17:01,840 --> 01:17:07,479
Speaker 2: gotta tell you The Intelligencer, I think it's New York Maga,

1517
01:17:07,640 --> 01:17:13,840
Speaker 2: New York magazine. They gave their version of what they

1518
01:17:13,880 --> 01:17:17,720
Speaker 2: believed were the biggest sports stories of the year, and

1519
01:17:18,600 --> 01:17:22,960
Speaker 2: they didn't pull any punches. I gotta tell you. They

1520
01:17:22,960 --> 01:17:26,679
Speaker 2: got a little bit into sports gambling starting to fray

1521
01:17:26,720 --> 01:17:31,120
Speaker 2: a bit, and they brought excellent receipts. This is a

1522
01:17:31,200 --> 01:17:36,160
Speaker 2: very good journalistic piece. They talked about, you know, the

1523
01:17:36,200 --> 01:17:41,960
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four Olympics. They went deep into quote I'll

1524
01:17:42,040 --> 01:17:45,600
Speaker 2: quote them idiots trying to turn sports into a transgender

1525
01:17:45,640 --> 01:17:50,440
Speaker 2: culture war. And these are all things that made headlines.

1526
01:17:51,200 --> 01:17:54,519
Speaker 2: And so this is a topic we're not done with

1527
01:17:54,760 --> 01:17:58,040
Speaker 2: because obviously as we wind down twenty twenty four in

1528
01:17:58,040 --> 01:18:00,960
Speaker 2: the next few days, these are things are top of mind.

1529
01:18:01,000 --> 01:18:03,920
Speaker 2: But a great job everybody in the on the Midnight Hour.

1530
01:18:03,920 --> 01:18:05,400
Speaker 2: We've done it for a full year now and it's

1531
01:18:05,400 --> 01:18:07,640
Speaker 2: the callers you make it so thanks so much for

1532
01:18:07,680 --> 01:18:10,000
Speaker 2: all your efforts. Next up, we talk a little bit

1533
01:18:10,040 --> 01:18:13,599
Speaker 2: of movies. Breeze three, keep it lock, Bernie Fradders.

1534
01:18:14,439 --> 01:18:17,120
Speaker 1: Don't listening to Fox Sports Radio.

1535
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Speaker 2: Well that's right, you heard the man. The Bernie Fraddles

1536
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Speaker 2: Show just keeps rolling right along. Thanks so much to

1537
01:18:23,080 --> 01:18:26,720
Speaker 2: all the callers, Uh the Midnight Hour, you're what make

1538
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Speaker 2: that segment special. Uh my name is Bernie Frona. We

1539
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1540
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1544
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Speaker 2: to talk some movies. Time for Briest three.

1545
01:18:49,880 --> 01:18:58,760
Speaker 25: Not one, not two, but three. It's entertainment. It's good

1546
01:18:59,040 --> 01:18:59,679
Speaker 25: it's brief.

1547
01:19:00,000 --> 01:19:03,920
Speaker 26: Hey, take it away, alrighty. So on Sunday we saw

1548
01:19:03,960 --> 01:19:07,040
Speaker 26: The Lions do that trick play involving Jared Goff and

1549
01:19:07,120 --> 01:19:10,720
Speaker 26: Jamior Gibbs kind of like that, Like we thought they

1550
01:19:10,760 --> 01:19:12,559
Speaker 26: were kind of in the middle of like a fumble,

1551
01:19:13,360 --> 01:19:15,200
Speaker 26: but it was just a trick play. It's almost like

1552
01:19:15,240 --> 01:19:18,320
Speaker 26: this like weird kind of flea flicker thing, you know,

1553
01:19:18,400 --> 01:19:20,560
Speaker 26: without being an actual flea flicker. So it kind of

1554
01:19:20,560 --> 01:19:23,080
Speaker 26: got me thinking of movies that had some interesting plot

1555
01:19:23,120 --> 01:19:25,160
Speaker 26: twists that you didn't see coming, since that was like

1556
01:19:25,200 --> 01:19:28,519
Speaker 26: a trick play, right, So for the first one, I

1557
01:19:28,600 --> 01:19:32,679
Speaker 26: went Get Out, which I thought was like really fun.

1558
01:19:32,880 --> 01:19:37,439
Speaker 26: Jordan Peele obviously twenty seventeen a little bit more recent, right,

1559
01:19:38,400 --> 01:19:40,679
Speaker 26: so you know, I think we've all seen that movie.

1560
01:19:40,720 --> 01:19:41,920
Speaker 26: It's a great watch.

1561
01:19:42,560 --> 01:19:43,639
Speaker 27: Yeah, for pretty much.

1562
01:19:43,800 --> 01:19:47,120
Speaker 2: Oh during that coffee with the spoon, I think it

1563
01:19:47,320 --> 01:19:47,800
Speaker 2: became a.

1564
01:19:47,840 --> 01:19:51,080
Speaker 26: Visual that tea yeah with the click click Yeah. I

1565
01:19:51,320 --> 01:19:54,719
Speaker 26: like tea the click click. It's like a have Loov's

1566
01:19:54,880 --> 01:19:57,800
Speaker 26: kind of thing for sure. Crazy scene, it was, Oh

1567
01:19:57,840 --> 01:20:01,960
Speaker 26: my gosh. Alison Williams obviously Brian Williams's daughter. She was

1568
01:20:02,000 --> 01:20:04,839
Speaker 26: in Girls, one of the actors and Girls with Lena Dunham.

1569
01:20:05,320 --> 01:20:08,960
Speaker 26: Incredible actress. Not gonna lie. She really scared me, like

1570
01:20:09,240 --> 01:20:13,480
Speaker 26: terrified me definitely kind of obviously that there's a climax

1571
01:20:13,520 --> 01:20:16,280
Speaker 26: in that movie where she's you know, anyways, I don't

1572
01:20:16,280 --> 01:20:18,599
Speaker 26: want to give it away in case anybody hasn't seen it,

1573
01:20:18,880 --> 01:20:22,439
Speaker 26: but definitely a movie that just really scared me. And

1574
01:20:22,479 --> 01:20:26,880
Speaker 26: obviously the total twister at the very end. So that

1575
01:20:27,080 --> 01:20:29,680
Speaker 26: was I haven't seen any other Jordan Peele movie, though,

1576
01:20:29,720 --> 01:20:32,479
Speaker 26: I will say, like I wanted to see Nope, but

1577
01:20:32,520 --> 01:20:34,240
Speaker 26: I was kind of scared a little bit. It was

1578
01:20:34,320 --> 01:20:36,519
Speaker 26: like a little bit like alien ish, you know, and

1579
01:20:36,800 --> 01:20:40,200
Speaker 26: this one wasn't you know, obviously this is definitely just

1580
01:20:40,240 --> 01:20:43,439
Speaker 26: a little bit more kind of like drama terror ish.

1581
01:20:43,920 --> 01:20:46,479
Speaker 26: This is as far as horror movie as I go. Honestly,

1582
01:20:46,520 --> 01:20:48,280
Speaker 26: I'm just not like, and I don't even know if

1583
01:20:48,280 --> 01:20:50,000
Speaker 26: it's really a horror Bernie, I don't know, would you

1584
01:20:50,120 --> 01:20:52,800
Speaker 26: characterize that as horror ish?

1585
01:20:52,840 --> 01:20:55,519
Speaker 2: Well, it was tom and cheek, but it definitely had

1586
01:20:55,520 --> 01:20:59,559
Speaker 2: some visual scenes that were you know, designed to I

1587
01:20:59,600 --> 01:21:00,760
Speaker 2: think people.

1588
01:21:00,920 --> 01:21:04,040
Speaker 26: Yes, Yeah, so definitely like a thriller. So that was

1589
01:21:04,080 --> 01:21:06,400
Speaker 26: my first one, and then the second one I went

1590
01:21:06,439 --> 01:21:11,599
Speaker 26: the Prestige two thousand and six. Okay, Christopher Nolan, and

1591
01:21:11,640 --> 01:21:14,120
Speaker 26: we kind of see Christian Bale and Michael Kin in

1592
01:21:14,160 --> 01:21:16,320
Speaker 26: a different kind of environment. It was a year after

1593
01:21:16,360 --> 01:21:20,360
Speaker 26: the first Batman Begins came out, so you know, obviously,

1594
01:21:20,640 --> 01:21:23,599
Speaker 26: Michael Kaine his name is Cutter as opposed to Alfred,

1595
01:21:23,600 --> 01:21:27,240
Speaker 26: and he's Alfred and Batman. Obviously Hugh Jackman's in It

1596
01:21:27,280 --> 01:21:30,000
Speaker 26: is such an incredible movie. If you don't watch the

1597
01:21:30,040 --> 01:21:31,640
Speaker 26: movie for like two years, I feel like you can

1598
01:21:31,720 --> 01:21:35,639
Speaker 26: kind of forget what happens. I personally, I hadn't seen

1599
01:21:35,680 --> 01:21:37,760
Speaker 26: it in about three years before I saw it last

1600
01:21:37,800 --> 01:21:41,000
Speaker 26: year recently, and I actually forgot. I knew all these

1601
01:21:41,000 --> 01:21:43,080
Speaker 26: things that had led up to it. But there's a

1602
01:21:43,200 --> 01:21:45,640
Speaker 26: twist with Christian Bale at the very end that just

1603
01:21:45,760 --> 01:21:48,040
Speaker 26: kind of like was like, oh my gosh. I don't

1604
01:21:48,080 --> 01:21:50,679
Speaker 26: know if you've ever seen that, Bernie compared to like maybe.

1605
01:21:50,720 --> 01:21:52,360
Speaker 2: I didn't see to Prestige.

1606
01:21:52,439 --> 01:21:55,679
Speaker 26: Okay, Yeah, totally, I recommend, really great movie.

1607
01:21:55,760 --> 01:21:56,280
Speaker 27: Definitely.

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01:21:56,479 --> 01:22:00,360
Speaker 26: Yeah, got like a ninety two on Rotten Tomato two

1609
01:22:00,360 --> 01:22:04,400
Speaker 26: thousand and six, Like I said, an actual classic, I think.

1610
01:22:04,720 --> 01:22:07,320
Speaker 26: So that's my second one. And then obviously, you know

1611
01:22:07,360 --> 01:22:09,320
Speaker 26: I'm gonna throw in a rom com I Went Crazy

1612
01:22:09,320 --> 01:22:13,960
Speaker 26: Stupid Love Can't Go Wrong with Ryan Gosling, Steve, Steve Kroll,

1613
01:22:14,439 --> 01:22:19,400
Speaker 26: Emma Stone. Great movie that you know, that relationship between

1614
01:22:20,840 --> 01:22:23,519
Speaker 26: Steve Carroll and Ryan Gosling. And then at the very end,

1615
01:22:23,720 --> 01:22:27,000
Speaker 26: obviously a little twist with some family ties in there.

1616
01:22:27,479 --> 01:22:32,240
Speaker 26: Also a really interesting movie for sure, and so yeah,

1617
01:22:32,280 --> 01:22:34,360
Speaker 26: and then Kevin Bacon makes a little appearance in there,

1618
01:22:34,360 --> 01:22:36,720
Speaker 26: so you kind of hate Kevin Bacon. Also, you see

1619
01:22:36,800 --> 01:22:38,960
Speaker 26: Josh Grobin in a kind of a weird role with

1620
01:22:39,479 --> 01:22:43,000
Speaker 26: Emma Stone. Totally didn't even think Josh Grobin acted, so

1621
01:22:43,040 --> 01:22:44,880
Speaker 26: that was kind of shocking to me a little bit.

1622
01:22:46,000 --> 01:22:48,840
Speaker 26: So yeah, so those were my three, and I'll throw

1623
01:22:48,840 --> 01:22:49,479
Speaker 26: it over to Mark.

1624
01:22:50,040 --> 01:22:53,200
Speaker 27: So my three, I'm gonna start with the movie from

1625
01:22:53,479 --> 01:22:58,160
Speaker 27: nineteen eighty five. It has Glenn Close and Jeff Bridges.

1626
01:22:58,360 --> 01:23:02,120
Speaker 27: It's called Jacket Edge. It's the story of a wealthy

1627
01:23:02,200 --> 01:23:07,920
Speaker 27: woman who's murdered. Her husband becomes the focus and the

1628
01:23:08,080 --> 01:23:14,320
Speaker 27: husband hires a female attorney to protect him. It's really good.

1629
01:23:14,920 --> 01:23:18,519
Speaker 27: You know, the husband is trying to, you know, show

1630
01:23:18,560 --> 01:23:21,000
Speaker 27: that he's innocent, and there's a lot of things going

1631
01:23:21,080 --> 01:23:25,640
Speaker 27: on and there's this crazy in my opinion, is crazy

1632
01:23:25,920 --> 01:23:28,280
Speaker 27: ending to it? I thought it was really good. From

1633
01:23:28,360 --> 01:23:31,439
Speaker 27: nineteen eighty five. My second movie when my last two

1634
01:23:31,479 --> 01:23:34,760
Speaker 27: have the same actor involved. The first one is Inception

1635
01:23:35,000 --> 01:23:43,360
Speaker 27: twenty ten Leonardo DiCaprio. Inception a thief who steals corporate

1636
01:23:43,400 --> 01:23:48,519
Speaker 27: secrets by means of dreams sharing technology. Crazy movie, just

1637
01:23:48,560 --> 01:23:51,559
Speaker 27: the whole concept of the way things are moving in it,

1638
01:23:52,040 --> 01:23:55,519
Speaker 27: and just all the optical illusions that go on.

1639
01:23:56,200 --> 01:23:57,240
Speaker 1: It was a really.

1640
01:23:57,479 --> 01:23:59,960
Speaker 27: Great movie for the you know, you have to see

1641
01:24:00,120 --> 01:24:01,920
Speaker 27: in the movie theaters, but if you know you can't

1642
01:24:01,920 --> 01:24:05,000
Speaker 27: do that, that's fine. But it's just a great movie visually,

1643
01:24:05,640 --> 01:24:08,080
Speaker 27: just the things that they're doing. And Leonardo was great

1644
01:24:08,120 --> 01:24:11,839
Speaker 27: as usual. And then my third movie is Shutter Island.

1645
01:24:12,479 --> 01:24:18,120
Speaker 27: That's twenty ten. Leonardo DiCaprio and Mark Ruffalo, two USh

1646
01:24:18,200 --> 01:24:21,960
Speaker 27: Marshals are sent to a mental institution to investigate the

1647
01:24:22,640 --> 01:24:29,600
Speaker 27: disappearance of a patient. Another mind twisting movie based on

1648
01:24:29,840 --> 01:24:33,160
Speaker 27: the whole situation on the two Marshalls having to go

1649
01:24:33,240 --> 01:24:37,200
Speaker 27: to this institution to figure out what's going on. Great movie,

1650
01:24:38,040 --> 01:24:42,280
Speaker 27: great ending to it. It's psychological, but it was a

1651
01:24:42,320 --> 01:24:45,200
Speaker 27: really good movie. So those are my three Jagget Edge

1652
01:24:45,720 --> 01:24:48,960
Speaker 27: inception and Shutter Island, Bernie, what do you have?

1653
01:24:49,320 --> 01:24:51,960
Speaker 2: So when the Lions ran that play last week, it

1654
01:24:52,000 --> 01:24:54,280
Speaker 2: came out of nowhere, and it was just one of

1655
01:24:54,720 --> 01:24:56,680
Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty plays in the game, and it's

1656
01:24:56,720 --> 01:25:01,240
Speaker 2: become kind of the Lions Matra, So I selected things

1657
01:25:01,240 --> 01:25:05,320
Speaker 2: that came once. Over The Cuckoo's Nest is still my

1658
01:25:05,320 --> 01:25:09,519
Speaker 2: favorite movie of all time. Yeah, okay, okay. So you

1659
01:25:09,560 --> 01:25:13,439
Speaker 2: remember the character Chief right the basketball game? Yes, And

1660
01:25:13,479 --> 01:25:16,160
Speaker 2: every time Randall B. McMurphy tries to talk to him,

1661
01:25:16,920 --> 01:25:19,240
Speaker 2: that guard says, what are you doing? Then Murphy can't,

1662
01:25:19,280 --> 01:25:21,360
Speaker 2: he can't hear an f and word you're saying, right,

1663
01:25:21,400 --> 01:25:24,080
Speaker 2: And then at the very end, he hands him a

1664
01:25:24,080 --> 01:25:26,720
Speaker 2: piece of juicy fruit bubblegum. He puts it in his

1665
01:25:26,800 --> 01:25:29,880
Speaker 2: mouth and he looks at a Jack Nicholson. It says,

1666
01:25:30,600 --> 01:25:35,280
Speaker 2: juicy fruit. God, Lord, you can talk, Chief. That scene

1667
01:25:35,400 --> 01:25:38,720
Speaker 2: is powerful, powerful, and you didn't know the Chief could

1668
01:25:38,720 --> 01:25:40,920
Speaker 2: talk for the whole two hours, right, So that came

1669
01:25:40,920 --> 01:25:44,599
Speaker 2: out of nowhere. Something else happened in that movie. You

1670
01:25:44,680 --> 01:25:50,360
Speaker 2: remember when Jack Nicholson and Danny DeVito and Christopher Lloyd,

1671
01:25:50,360 --> 01:25:52,960
Speaker 2: they're all jumping around me and my buddy Chess. We're

1672
01:25:52,960 --> 01:25:55,160
Speaker 2: gonna go watch the FN World Series. We're gonna break

1673
01:25:55,200 --> 01:25:57,479
Speaker 2: out of here, and they're playing the World Series on

1674
01:25:57,520 --> 01:26:00,479
Speaker 2: the radio and the world. You know, they're two great

1675
01:26:00,520 --> 01:26:04,840
Speaker 2: announcers in the history of baseball, Vince Gully and Ernie Harwell.

1676
01:26:04,880 --> 01:26:07,120
Speaker 2: There's tons of other announcers, but these guys are chronical.

1677
01:26:07,240 --> 01:26:11,599
Speaker 2: Ernie Harwell's based in Detroit, They're about the same age. Well,

1678
01:26:11,840 --> 01:26:15,080
Speaker 2: it wasn't until many years later I didn't realize that

1679
01:26:15,200 --> 01:26:19,639
Speaker 2: the baseball announcer calling the World Series game that all

1680
01:26:19,720 --> 01:26:23,000
Speaker 2: the well you call, inmates, I guess we're listening to,

1681
01:26:23,520 --> 01:26:26,759
Speaker 2: was Ernie Harwell's voice. Well, when I got to Detroit,

1682
01:26:26,800 --> 01:26:28,680
Speaker 2: I've covered it. I still have my media credit you

1683
01:26:28,760 --> 01:26:31,080
Speaker 2: with the Tigers, and Ernie Harwell was long since past.

1684
01:26:31,240 --> 01:26:34,479
Speaker 2: Is an amazing human being. I became good friends with

1685
01:26:34,600 --> 01:26:36,679
Speaker 2: Ernie Harwell. Then when I found out he did the

1686
01:26:36,760 --> 01:26:40,200
Speaker 2: voiceover in that movie again, it was a nice, pleasant

1687
01:26:40,439 --> 01:26:42,880
Speaker 2: like oh wow, you kid me right, Like how that

1688
01:26:42,920 --> 01:26:45,479
Speaker 2: Lion's play popped up. The third one is the movie

1689
01:26:45,520 --> 01:26:47,879
Speaker 2: my wife and I just saw about three weeks ago, Conclave.

1690
01:26:47,920 --> 01:26:51,000
Speaker 2: I can't recommend it highly enough. The Polpe died suddenly

1691
01:26:51,720 --> 01:26:55,080
Speaker 2: and they have to go through this process and John

1692
01:26:55,160 --> 01:26:59,360
Speaker 2: Lithgow and Stanley Tucci, the dialogue, the discourse, the back

1693
01:26:59,400 --> 01:27:02,920
Speaker 2: and forth, and you know, they have to vote on

1694
01:27:02,920 --> 01:27:04,519
Speaker 2: who they pick as going to be the new Pope.

1695
01:27:05,160 --> 01:27:07,640
Speaker 2: And I said, Preest, I met Pope. And it's a

1696
01:27:07,920 --> 01:27:11,559
Speaker 2: very intense, serious movie and it's filming in the Vatican.

1697
01:27:12,000 --> 01:27:13,800
Speaker 2: And so the point of the matter is is that

1698
01:27:14,479 --> 01:27:18,120
Speaker 2: you try to handicap in your mind who they are

1699
01:27:18,160 --> 01:27:20,800
Speaker 2: going to select as the Pope. And I started to

1700
01:27:20,840 --> 01:27:22,400
Speaker 2: figure it out, but I didn't think it would happen.

1701
01:27:22,920 --> 01:27:25,519
Speaker 2: I'm not giving anything away. I will tell you if

1702
01:27:25,520 --> 01:27:29,280
Speaker 2: you see the movie Conclave, the pope they selected is

1703
01:27:29,400 --> 01:27:31,759
Speaker 2: the one you would never guess. And when they announced

1704
01:27:31,800 --> 01:27:34,240
Speaker 2: it at the end, the way they announce it, it's

1705
01:27:34,360 --> 01:27:36,920
Speaker 2: very powerful. So the two cuckoos net scenes with the

1706
01:27:37,000 --> 01:27:39,599
Speaker 2: chief talk and an Ernie Howell and Conclave when they

1707
01:27:39,640 --> 01:27:40,280
Speaker 2: picked the pope.

1708
01:27:40,320 --> 01:27:42,400
Speaker 26: I'm excited. I did want to see Conclave. There was

1709
01:27:42,439 --> 01:27:44,200
Speaker 26: something about it. I was like, Oh, I would totally

1710
01:27:44,240 --> 01:27:46,560
Speaker 26: see that. So I'm excited. I'm definitely going to have

1711
01:27:46,600 --> 01:27:49,400
Speaker 26: to check that out. Just for my honorable mentions, I

1712
01:27:49,479 --> 01:27:52,719
Speaker 26: just had two I'd fracture. I think from two thousand

1713
01:27:52,760 --> 01:27:55,640
Speaker 26: and seven, I get another Ryan Gosling movie, kind of

1714
01:27:55,640 --> 01:27:57,519
Speaker 26: like a law movie, and then The Village at m

1715
01:27:57,640 --> 01:28:00,400
Speaker 26: Night Shyamalan at the very end, what kind that goes

1716
01:28:00,479 --> 01:28:02,599
Speaker 26: on with the time periods. I think it was really

1717
01:28:02,640 --> 01:28:03,080
Speaker 26: really good.

1718
01:28:03,360 --> 01:28:06,200
Speaker 2: Mark, you have an honorable mention, No not, I just had.

1719
01:28:06,240 --> 01:28:10,040
Speaker 2: I actually have one, and it's a classic cult movie

1720
01:28:10,720 --> 01:28:14,040
Speaker 2: that came out in nineteen seventy three. The movie is

1721
01:28:14,080 --> 01:28:17,280
Speaker 2: called Soil and Green and the world is starving and

1722
01:28:17,320 --> 01:28:20,280
Speaker 2: this company, Soylent, comes up with this great idea to

1723
01:28:20,320 --> 01:28:23,320
Speaker 2: feed the world, and they're feeding these little wafers and

1724
01:28:25,200 --> 01:28:28,200
Speaker 2: you know they claim it's from this ocean source, but

1725
01:28:28,760 --> 01:28:33,400
Speaker 2: you know something's off. And every time someone is about

1726
01:28:33,400 --> 01:28:35,320
Speaker 2: to spill the beans as to what Soil and Green

1727
01:28:35,439 --> 01:28:40,880
Speaker 2: really is, they die. And finally, at the very end,

1728
01:28:40,920 --> 01:28:43,400
Speaker 2: in Charlton Heston, who's obviously one of the legendary actors

1729
01:28:43,439 --> 01:28:45,439
Speaker 2: of our time, plays a very key role in Soil

1730
01:28:45,439 --> 01:28:47,920
Speaker 2: and Green. And I'm not giving anyway now if you

1731
01:28:47,920 --> 01:28:51,400
Speaker 2: haven't seen the movie, I mean people, at the very end,

1732
01:28:51,439 --> 01:28:56,360
Speaker 2: he yells out and it's shocking he was in the

1733
01:28:56,400 --> 01:29:00,639
Speaker 2: movie too. Edargie Robinson yeah, he yells out, and you've

1734
01:29:00,800 --> 01:29:02,519
Speaker 2: you've invested the time in the movie, and all of

1735
01:29:02,520 --> 01:29:06,320
Speaker 2: a sudden, its soil and green is people and they

1736
01:29:06,320 --> 01:29:09,439
Speaker 2: were taking dead byes. So anyway, that was a shock.

1737
01:29:09,520 --> 01:29:13,400
Speaker 2: So that was Yeah, it's a it's a very futuristic movie.

1738
01:29:14,360 --> 01:29:17,040
Speaker 2: And it's funny how they depict what twenty fifteen looked

1739
01:29:17,160 --> 01:29:19,519
Speaker 2: like they were. I'll tell you after we're coming out

1740
01:29:19,560 --> 01:29:22,280
Speaker 2: of the pandemic, they weren't that far off on certain things.

1741
01:29:22,280 --> 01:29:24,439
Speaker 2: It's kind of weird. But anyway, so that's it for me.

1742
01:29:25,160 --> 01:29:28,200
Speaker 26: It's like dystopian kind of thing. It sounds very dystopian.

1743
01:29:28,600 --> 01:29:31,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, very dystopian in the society. Yet it's it's a

1744
01:29:31,880 --> 01:29:35,000
Speaker 2: it's a thinking movie and it's intense to watch.

1745
01:29:35,840 --> 01:29:38,200
Speaker 26: But I like Charleston Heston. I'll check it out.

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01:29:38,520 --> 01:29:43,439
Speaker 2: Yeah. So all right, well, good stuff, guys. Another movie

1747
01:29:43,479 --> 01:29:49,040
Speaker 2: segment is in the books. Appreciate everybody's input. All right, well,

1748
01:29:49,040 --> 01:29:53,440
Speaker 2: we've talked about, you know, whether or not Mike McCarthy

1749
01:29:53,479 --> 01:29:56,600
Speaker 2: would come back and coach. Guess who else wants to

1750
01:29:56,640 --> 01:29:59,439
Speaker 2: come back and coach? And before you're dismissive of this,

1751
01:29:59,560 --> 01:30:01,400
Speaker 2: I think it's a pretty good idea. By the Way

1752
01:30:01,520 --> 01:30:04,439
Speaker 2: and number two. In the last couple of days since

1753
01:30:04,439 --> 01:30:07,960
Speaker 2: this individual announced he wants to come back and coach, Well,

1754
01:30:08,240 --> 01:30:12,759
Speaker 2: he's got an endorsement from a very, very prominent person.

1755
01:30:13,040 --> 01:30:16,280
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1756
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1771
01:31:01,880 --> 01:31:08,640
Speaker 2: studios here in Las Vegas. Well, it's inevitable. We've got

1772
01:31:09,000 --> 01:31:11,960
Speaker 2: Week seventeen wrapping up. We got a triple header. I'm

1773
01:31:12,000 --> 01:31:15,000
Speaker 2: talking about the NFL triple header Saturday at full Slate Sunday,

1774
01:31:15,000 --> 01:31:19,639
Speaker 2: and then Lions forty nine ers Monday, and then week eighteen,

1775
01:31:20,040 --> 01:31:23,439
Speaker 2: it's in the books. The playoffs start, and then the

1776
01:31:23,439 --> 01:31:26,439
Speaker 2: coaching carousel starts again. They're already two openings and we

1777
01:31:26,520 --> 01:31:30,040
Speaker 2: believe it'll be about seven this year. We know, well,

1778
01:31:30,080 --> 01:31:33,040
Speaker 2: at least for now, it doesn't look like Belichick is

1779
01:31:33,360 --> 01:31:35,400
Speaker 2: going to the NFL. But when you look at that

1780
01:31:35,439 --> 01:31:40,160
Speaker 2: goofy clause in his contract, Yeah, why did they put

1781
01:31:40,160 --> 01:31:42,920
Speaker 2: that in there? If he saw hell Ben on North

1782
01:31:42,960 --> 01:31:45,240
Speaker 2: Carolina and his first words were beat duke and oh,

1783
01:31:45,280 --> 01:31:47,439
Speaker 2: by the way, his dad was a coacher. Okay, we'll

1784
01:31:47,479 --> 01:31:49,200
Speaker 2: save that for a later I've already beat that up

1785
01:31:49,200 --> 01:31:52,080
Speaker 2: a little bit. But guess who wants back in. He's

1786
01:31:52,080 --> 01:31:54,559
Speaker 2: about to say, may's Bill Belichick as well. There are

1787
01:31:54,640 --> 01:31:59,760
Speaker 2: reports that not only is Pete Carroll not closed the

1788
01:31:59,760 --> 01:32:03,439
Speaker 2: door on wanting to coach in the NFL. And this

1789
01:32:03,479 --> 01:32:04,720
Speaker 2: is a guy who's won a Super Bowl and a

1790
01:32:04,760 --> 01:32:07,599
Speaker 2: bit at two of them. He's being quite specific. As

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01:32:07,640 --> 01:32:11,280
Speaker 2: a matter of fact, he has his eye on one

1792
01:32:11,479 --> 01:32:15,880
Speaker 2: I think would be a very prominent job. Yeah, Pete

1793
01:32:15,880 --> 01:32:18,400
Speaker 2: Carroll has interest in becoming the next coach of the

1794
01:32:18,479 --> 01:32:25,000
Speaker 2: Chicago Bears. Adam Schefter reported it this past week. I

1795
01:32:25,080 --> 01:32:28,160
Speaker 2: think if you're the Bears, you are crazy if you

1796
01:32:28,200 --> 01:32:33,160
Speaker 2: don't at least talk to Pete Carroll. He's led a

1797
01:32:33,200 --> 01:32:36,280
Speaker 2: team to a Super Bowl, won a Super Bowl, been

1798
01:32:36,320 --> 01:32:41,160
Speaker 2: to the Super Bowl twice, and won a national championship

1799
01:32:41,200 --> 01:32:45,840
Speaker 2: in college. That's pretty rare fight here. You know who

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01:32:45,920 --> 01:32:48,960
Speaker 2: else has done his stuff like that?

1801
01:32:49,640 --> 01:32:49,840
Speaker 15: Oh?

1802
01:32:49,960 --> 01:32:54,160
Speaker 2: Nothing? You know, guys like Jimmy Johnson, Jim Harball. Look,

1803
01:32:56,120 --> 01:32:59,519
Speaker 2: Pete Carroll, as you recall, joined the Seahawks. He left,

1804
01:32:59,760 --> 01:33:03,759
Speaker 2: you see, you know, somewhat unceremonious fashion after two thousand

1805
01:33:03,800 --> 01:33:06,479
Speaker 2: and nine, spent thirteen years in Seattle. Joined the team

1806
01:33:06,479 --> 01:33:12,559
Speaker 2: in twenty ten, and I think looking back, some people

1807
01:33:12,600 --> 01:33:15,719
Speaker 2: are still a little surprised the way Pete was pushed

1808
01:33:15,720 --> 01:33:20,240
Speaker 2: out given the success he had. You know, this is

1809
01:33:20,280 --> 01:33:24,599
Speaker 2: a guy who won a ton of games. They went

1810
01:33:24,640 --> 01:33:29,599
Speaker 2: to the playoffs, what multiple times? I think he went

1811
01:33:29,640 --> 01:33:32,800
Speaker 2: to the playoffs ten out of fourteen years in Seattle.

1812
01:33:33,640 --> 01:33:37,400
Speaker 2: He was fifty eight games over five hundred he has

1813
01:33:37,439 --> 01:33:42,240
Speaker 2: a proven track record of success. And the question is,

1814
01:33:42,280 --> 01:33:43,560
Speaker 2: you know, what do you do? Do you hire the

1815
01:33:44,240 --> 01:33:48,519
Speaker 2: next hot name and hopefully they can learn on the job.

1816
01:33:48,960 --> 01:33:50,840
Speaker 2: I mean, if you're the Bears, do you really bring

1817
01:33:50,880 --> 01:33:54,120
Speaker 2: in Ben Johnson? Because it's one thing to be an

1818
01:33:54,120 --> 01:33:56,880
Speaker 2: offensive coordinator, you're the head coach of the offense. One

1819
01:33:56,880 --> 01:33:58,640
Speaker 2: thing to be a defensive coordinator. They head coach of

1820
01:33:58,680 --> 01:34:03,599
Speaker 2: the defense. And but you are the head coach, you're

1821
01:34:03,600 --> 01:34:08,400
Speaker 2: the CEO. And Pete knows what to do. He's been there,

1822
01:34:08,520 --> 01:34:14,800
Speaker 2: done that. There's no question that he is the type

1823
01:34:14,840 --> 01:34:20,320
Speaker 2: of guy who would day one affect influence. He's a

1824
01:34:20,400 --> 01:34:25,680
Speaker 2: leader that Pete's not everybody's cup of tea. But I

1825
01:34:25,760 --> 01:34:30,479
Speaker 2: think that the Seahawks or checked out the Bears are

1826
01:34:30,560 --> 01:34:33,360
Speaker 2: crazy if they don't at least talk to Pete Carroll.

1827
01:34:33,360 --> 01:34:35,080
Speaker 2: They don't have to offer him the job. They may

1828
01:34:35,200 --> 01:34:38,160
Speaker 2: end up wanting to offer him the job when you

1829
01:34:38,240 --> 01:34:41,760
Speaker 2: consider what he may bring to the party. Now, what

1830
01:34:41,760 --> 01:34:43,280
Speaker 2: does he bring to the party? But no one knows

1831
01:34:43,280 --> 01:34:48,479
Speaker 2: that better than Richard Sherman. Earlier in the week, after

1832
01:34:48,680 --> 01:34:51,719
Speaker 2: it was reported that Pete Carroll had interest in that job.

1833
01:34:52,920 --> 01:34:56,519
Speaker 2: Before Thursday night's game, between the Bears and Seahawks, and

1834
01:34:56,600 --> 01:34:59,679
Speaker 2: Richard Sherman knows a thing or two about how to win,

1835
01:35:00,760 --> 01:35:03,519
Speaker 2: how to you know what it's like to play for

1836
01:35:03,560 --> 01:35:08,679
Speaker 2: Pete Carroll. He spoke very glowingly of Pete Carroll. Sherman

1837
01:35:08,720 --> 01:35:10,720
Speaker 2: would know. He played for Pete Carroll seven years. He

1838
01:35:10,720 --> 01:35:13,839
Speaker 2: won a Super Bowl with first team All Pro three times,

1839
01:35:14,200 --> 01:35:16,200
Speaker 2: had his best years under Pete Carroll, led the NFL

1840
01:35:16,240 --> 01:35:19,880
Speaker 2: in interceptions, and Sherman was Richard Sherman was asked, ot right,

1841
01:35:21,479 --> 01:35:25,880
Speaker 2: what would Pete Carroll bring to the Chicago Bears? And

1842
01:35:26,400 --> 01:35:29,200
Speaker 2: interestingly enough, and if you think of what the Bears

1843
01:35:29,280 --> 01:35:32,200
Speaker 2: identity is anymore, please tell me what the hell is it?

1844
01:35:32,640 --> 01:35:35,960
Speaker 2: When you got fans and it's great sports city, great

1845
01:35:36,000 --> 01:35:41,160
Speaker 2: football city, it's a Bears town, make no mistake, it's

1846
01:35:41,200 --> 01:35:44,559
Speaker 2: a Bears town, and they're yelling sell the team, and

1847
01:35:44,600 --> 01:35:48,519
Speaker 2: you continually see one debacle after another. I'm not so

1848
01:35:48,680 --> 01:35:51,280
Speaker 2: sure what you know where the mccaskey's heads are at,

1849
01:35:51,840 --> 01:35:55,040
Speaker 2: but I do know this. When you are in a

1850
01:35:55,120 --> 01:35:58,000
Speaker 2: division where you're watching Green Bay win thirteen games or

1851
01:35:58,120 --> 01:36:00,720
Speaker 2: eleven games, the Lions win third team games, and the

1852
01:36:00,760 --> 01:36:03,679
Speaker 2: Vikings than thirteen games and you're stuck in the middle

1853
01:36:03,720 --> 01:36:07,120
Speaker 2: of hell. I don't think Chicago fans should have to

1854
01:36:07,120 --> 01:36:09,880
Speaker 2: put up with that, and they support the team. So

1855
01:36:09,960 --> 01:36:13,760
Speaker 2: when Sherman was asked what exactly will Pete Carroll bring

1856
01:36:13,800 --> 01:36:18,320
Speaker 2: to Chicago, he went straight to the traits that the

1857
01:36:18,320 --> 01:36:25,599
Speaker 2: Bears don't have anymore, culture, stability, a developmental aspect. Here's

1858
01:36:25,640 --> 01:36:28,120
Speaker 2: a coach that can literally get the best out of

1859
01:36:28,120 --> 01:36:31,559
Speaker 2: whatever his players do well. Pete Carroll finds your ceiling

1860
01:36:32,120 --> 01:36:34,880
Speaker 2: and helps you get to your ceiling. You talk about quarterbacks,

1861
01:36:35,840 --> 01:36:38,920
Speaker 2: he doesn't need a world beater quarterback. Remember when he

1862
01:36:38,960 --> 01:36:44,280
Speaker 2: took over, they'd been in Seattle year or two. They

1863
01:36:44,280 --> 01:36:47,960
Speaker 2: had just signed Matt Flynn, and they picked up Russell Wilson,

1864
01:36:48,560 --> 01:36:55,160
Speaker 2: and Russell Wilson was decent at North Carolina, decent at Wisconsin.

1865
01:36:55,920 --> 01:36:58,960
Speaker 2: But Pete Carroll had the coones to start Wilson over

1866
01:37:00,920 --> 01:37:03,120
Speaker 2: Matt Flynn and knew what he was doing, and he

1867
01:37:03,120 --> 01:37:07,400
Speaker 2: helped Russell Wilson get to his ceiling, and they went

1868
01:37:07,439 --> 01:37:09,040
Speaker 2: to two Super Bowls and could have easily won a

1869
01:37:09,080 --> 01:37:11,720
Speaker 2: second when they know what happened there. He somewhat did

1870
01:37:11,760 --> 01:37:14,640
Speaker 2: the same thing with Gino Smith. He puts him in

1871
01:37:14,680 --> 01:37:20,320
Speaker 2: the best positions to maximize their potential. And that's what

1872
01:37:20,439 --> 01:37:24,599
Speaker 2: Richard Sherman believes he'd bring to Chicago. Well, guess what

1873
01:37:24,680 --> 01:37:28,439
Speaker 2: they need it because I don't dislike Caleb Williams, but

1874
01:37:28,479 --> 01:37:30,599
Speaker 2: I have real concerns about whether or not he has

1875
01:37:30,640 --> 01:37:33,840
Speaker 2: the temperament to navigate the quarterback position. And what it

1876
01:37:33,960 --> 01:37:35,519
Speaker 2: entails is the field general on the face of the

1877
01:37:35,520 --> 01:37:39,559
Speaker 2: franchise in the National Football League, and they lack that stability,

1878
01:37:39,560 --> 01:37:42,599
Speaker 2: They lack that culture. And Pete Carroll is a proven

1879
01:37:42,640 --> 01:37:46,719
Speaker 2: track record of providing exactly what a Caleb Williams might need.

1880
01:37:46,960 --> 01:37:50,519
Speaker 2: But also Pete Carroll is considered by Richard Truman to

1881
01:37:50,560 --> 01:37:53,639
Speaker 2: also be a great defensive coach and a great culture builder.

1882
01:37:54,360 --> 01:37:57,280
Speaker 2: And so when you consider that there are not many

1883
01:37:57,280 --> 01:38:00,559
Speaker 2: players who know Pete Carroll like Richard Sherman and his

1884
01:38:00,680 --> 01:38:05,120
Speaker 2: analysis on Pete Carroll is not only a rave review,

1885
01:38:06,000 --> 01:38:09,600
Speaker 2: but it also checks the boxes and speaks directly to

1886
01:38:11,080 --> 01:38:14,240
Speaker 2: the needs that they have in Chicago right now. And

1887
01:38:14,400 --> 01:38:19,760
Speaker 2: I know I keep repeating these words culture stability. The

1888
01:38:19,800 --> 01:38:21,680
Speaker 2: Bears are going to have to address that in their

1889
01:38:21,720 --> 01:38:25,880
Speaker 2: locker room, whether they whether they hire Pete Carroll or not.

1890
01:38:27,200 --> 01:38:29,320
Speaker 2: Pete Carroll's done it in college, and he's done it

1891
01:38:29,320 --> 01:38:34,040
Speaker 2: in the NFL, and he's asking the Bears to show

1892
01:38:34,080 --> 01:38:36,240
Speaker 2: interest in him because he's showing interest in the Bears.

1893
01:38:36,439 --> 01:38:40,920
Speaker 2: So I would just say this about that, at least

1894
01:38:41,080 --> 01:38:44,200
Speaker 2: talk to Pete Carroll. You don't have to hire him,

1895
01:38:44,520 --> 01:38:46,640
Speaker 2: but if you don't at least talk to him, then

1896
01:38:46,680 --> 01:38:50,920
Speaker 2: I have to question what is your game plan? Because

1897
01:38:50,920 --> 01:38:53,960
Speaker 2: coaches don't go on trees. The failure eight of coaches

1898
01:38:54,000 --> 01:38:58,360
Speaker 2: in the National Football League is monumental. And when you

1899
01:38:58,479 --> 01:39:01,599
Speaker 2: hire a first time guy who's never overseen an entire

1900
01:39:01,720 --> 01:39:04,719
Speaker 2: enterprise like that, you're asking him to do a lot,

1901
01:39:04,880 --> 01:39:07,479
Speaker 2: and you're asking him to learn on the job, and

1902
01:39:07,600 --> 01:39:10,080
Speaker 2: he's going to be you have to adapt to things

1903
01:39:10,080 --> 01:39:12,680
Speaker 2: he's not previously been exposed to, and not everybody can

1904
01:39:12,720 --> 01:39:15,880
Speaker 2: do it. We see it right and left. We see

1905
01:39:15,880 --> 01:39:17,840
Speaker 2: it right and left. There were thoughts that Thomas Brown,

1906
01:39:17,920 --> 01:39:20,880
Speaker 2: the interim guy, might make a name for himself. Nothing

1907
01:39:20,880 --> 01:39:23,640
Speaker 2: against Thomas Brown. He's owing for the Bears. They're no

1908
01:39:23,880 --> 01:39:26,479
Speaker 2: nearer than anything than they were with eber Flus or

1909
01:39:26,520 --> 01:39:30,519
Speaker 2: even before that. So ask yourself, Bears, how did you

1910
01:39:30,560 --> 01:39:32,280
Speaker 2: get here in the first place? And what do you

1911
01:39:32,320 --> 01:39:34,240
Speaker 2: do to get out of it. Maybe it has something

1912
01:39:34,240 --> 01:39:38,640
Speaker 2: to do with culture and leadership. We cover the other

1913
01:39:38,680 --> 01:39:43,160
Speaker 2: football here on the Berdie Frader Show spelled futbol. And

1914
01:39:43,200 --> 01:39:46,599
Speaker 2: so therefore it is time Chris perfets World of Soccer.

1915
01:39:48,360 --> 01:39:59,880
Speaker 4: The greatest goals, the thrilling finishes, the international drum, tell

1916
01:39:59,920 --> 01:40:05,280
Speaker 4: you bunch of ten people. It's all here in this

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01:40:05,479 --> 01:40:07,679
Speaker 4: report from the World of Soccer.

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Speaker 28: All right, Bernie on this edition in the World is Soccer,

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Speaker 28: we are going to a place we haven't been in

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Speaker 28: a while, which is talking about one of the most

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Speaker 28: storied franchises in English soccer, and we're talking about Manchester United.

1922
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Speaker 28: Now we've talked a lot about Manchester City and there

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Speaker 28: are problems that have taken the forefront, but we really

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Speaker 28: haven't talked about United because reill really United is really

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Speaker 28: tough to look at right now. Coming into the weekend,

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Speaker 28: they are way down on the table. Out of twenty

1927
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Speaker 28: teams in the Premier League. They were as of Friday

1928
01:40:38,800 --> 01:40:42,080
Speaker 28: ranked fourteenth with twenty two points. They have a chance

1929
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Speaker 28: to go up a little bit more here as they

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Speaker 28: prepare to play on Monday against a fifth Going into

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Speaker 28: the weekend, fifth place Newcastle United Club.

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Speaker 1: But I think the.

1933
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Speaker 28: Story of United has been rough and tumble landings as

1934
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Speaker 28: it has been for really the past few years for

1935
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Speaker 28: them has dimmed in a lot of ways, and once

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Speaker 28: again pressure is mounting on their brand new manager, Ruben Amorin,

1937
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Speaker 28: who's only really been with the club since November. It's

1938
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Speaker 28: usually a lot of time these clubs keep switching out

1939
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Speaker 28: manages all they can. I don't think he's going to

1940
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Speaker 28: He's taking some of the brunt of the criticism but

1941
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Speaker 28: saying you know that at United you are never safe.

1942
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Speaker 28: Every coach is in danger and opening up to the

1943
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Speaker 28: criticism that continues the club come over and over again

1944
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Speaker 28: for the manager at Manchester United, where it seems more

1945
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Speaker 28: like a curse than a blessing to walk the walk

1946
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Speaker 28: the sidelines of a club that has seen so much

1947
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Speaker 28: history behind them. But the nice thing is Amorn is

1948
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Speaker 28: getting some support and it's in the in. It's in

1949
01:41:48,120 --> 01:41:50,880
Speaker 28: the form of a person we haven't talked about in

1950
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Speaker 28: a while, and that is Crisciano Ronaldo. Well, the last

1951
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Speaker 28: couple of years might may very well have been about

1952
01:41:57,479 --> 01:42:00,960
Speaker 28: Leonel Messi and all Leonel Messi does and this, that

1953
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Speaker 28: and the other. Christiano Ronaldo continue to have made himself

1954
01:42:04,560 --> 01:42:07,960
Speaker 28: quite a name while playing over in Saudi Arabia, the

1955
01:42:08,080 --> 01:42:11,439
Speaker 28: Saudi Super Pro League still continuing onward through the winter,

1956
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Speaker 28: but at the Global Soccer Awards he did talk on

1957
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Speaker 28: a few things out here. One of the things he

1958
01:42:17,280 --> 01:42:22,240
Speaker 28: talked about was about the job that rumin Amrim was doing,

1959
01:42:22,680 --> 01:42:25,479
Speaker 28: and Ronaldo said that the Premier League is the most

1960
01:42:25,479 --> 01:42:29,160
Speaker 28: difficult league in the world. All teams are good, all

1961
01:42:29,200 --> 01:42:32,360
Speaker 28: teams fight, all the teams run, all the players are strong.

1962
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Speaker 28: I said this one and a half years ago and

1963
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Speaker 28: I will continue to say it. The problem is not

1964
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Speaker 28: the coaches. It's like an aquarium. If you have the

1965
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Speaker 28: fish inside and he's sick, and you take him out

1966
01:42:42,120 --> 01:42:43,360
Speaker 28: and you fix the problem, you put him in the

1967
01:42:43,360 --> 01:42:46,320
Speaker 28: aquarium again. In an aquarium, they will be sick again.

1968
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Speaker 28: The problem of Manchester United is the same. The problem

1969
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Speaker 28: is not always the coach. It's much more than that.

1970
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Speaker 28: If I will be the owner of a club, I

1971
01:42:53,920 --> 01:42:55,880
Speaker 28: will make things clear and adjust what I think is

1972
01:42:55,960 --> 01:42:59,839
Speaker 28: bad there. We really have to remember this that Christiano Ronaldo,

1973
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Speaker 28: longtime player for Manchester United, after leaving United in twenty

1974
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Speaker 28: twenty two, had a bit of a public falling out

1975
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Speaker 28: with the club. Some of that was directed at then

1976
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Speaker 28: manager Eric ten Hogg, but a lot of it was

1977
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Speaker 28: also directed to the Glazer family who owns Manchester United,

1978
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Speaker 28: and even after the sale of many of those shares

1979
01:43:24,000 --> 01:43:28,160
Speaker 28: to Sir Jim Ratcliffe, British billionaire and the hopes that

1980
01:43:28,200 --> 01:43:30,960
Speaker 28: he would take more of an active role in the organization,

1981
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Speaker 28: the Glazer family still are the majority owners of United,

1982
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Speaker 28: with Avraman Joel Glazer serving as co chairman. And as

1983
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Speaker 28: much as the Glazers are very good businessmen, many of

1984
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Speaker 28: the woes, it bears to be said, have come under

1985
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Speaker 28: the ownership of the Glazer family, to the point where

1986
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Speaker 28: Manchester United fans as a whole really regard the ownership

1987
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Speaker 28: as a sticking point, that the Glazers are something to

1988
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Speaker 28: be removed from the over look of Manchester United, and

1989
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Speaker 28: Ronaldo has had history with them, and Ronaldo in those

1990
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Speaker 28: times when it was falling out, did say that the

1991
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Speaker 28: Glazer family don't quote unquote don't care about the club. Yes,

1992
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Speaker 28: ownership is a thorny situation in the world of soccer

1993
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Speaker 28: because these teams are bound mostly on how they spend

1994
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Speaker 28: their money and how they conduct their finances. Ownership is

1995
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Speaker 28: a bigger deal than in some North American sports, and

1996
01:44:28,560 --> 01:44:31,799
Speaker 28: very much so that when you've changed managers this many times,

1997
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Speaker 28: when you've cleared out a lot of their soft football

1998
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Speaker 28: operations over and over, that ultimately the only place you

1999
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Speaker 28: can go still is ownership. These are expensive toys. You

2000
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Speaker 28: are expected to put money back into the club more

2001
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Speaker 28: than any other sport out there. There is no salary cap,

2002
01:44:51,160 --> 01:44:55,720
Speaker 28: there is no revenue sharing. In many places, it is

2003
01:44:55,840 --> 01:44:59,280
Speaker 28: you will spend or you will fall among the dinosaurs,

2004
01:44:59,479 --> 01:45:02,880
Speaker 28: and United for a lot of their fans have looked

2005
01:45:02,880 --> 01:45:06,800
Speaker 28: at the Glazer family and seen an absentee family who

2006
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Speaker 28: does not really.

2007
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Speaker 1: Steward the club very well.

2008
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Speaker 28: The fact of the matter is, if this was a

2009
01:45:13,560 --> 01:45:17,040
Speaker 28: ownership and a situation that we could really talk about

2010
01:45:17,080 --> 01:45:20,040
Speaker 28: Manchester United, there'd be no universe where we would consider

2011
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Speaker 28: them fourteenth on a table at any point in the

2012
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Speaker 28: season outside of maybe like the first five weeks of Shenanigans.

2013
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Speaker 28: Either way, fourteenth to this point in the season almost

2014
01:45:31,360 --> 01:45:35,400
Speaker 28: you know, are basically at the halfway point is quite

2015
01:45:35,439 --> 01:45:39,720
Speaker 28: frankly unacceptable. I don't know if Amrim will continue to

2016
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Speaker 28: see out to the end of the season. I don't

2017
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Speaker 28: really know what their problem is right now, other than

2018
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Speaker 28: they're just not playing great soccer. At the end of

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Speaker 28: the day, this has gone from being one of the

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Speaker 28: top clubs out there to a club that just really

2021
01:45:50,800 --> 01:45:54,920
Speaker 28: lacks culture on the field, they lack aggression and ultimately,

2022
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Speaker 28: while they do have some names, they are not stars

2023
01:45:58,000 --> 01:46:00,920
Speaker 28: and they are not a club that can really contend

2024
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Speaker 28: for much of anything. This is what I would say

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Speaker 28: in any sport, Bernie, you have to have a plan

2026
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Speaker 28: to get out of being a bad team, and once

2027
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Speaker 28: you have that plan, you have to stick by it.

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Speaker 28: I don't know what the plan is for Manchester United.

2029
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Speaker 28: I hope at some point they will have it, because

2030
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Speaker 28: soccer is better when we are talking about the Red

2031
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Speaker 28: Devils and meaningful Manchester derbys and things of that nature.

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Speaker 1: That'll do it for us on this edition.

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Speaker 28: We'll see you next time and in the new year

2034
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Speaker 28: on the world of soccer.

2035
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Speaker 2: And the new year is just around the corner, so

2036
01:46:32,120 --> 01:46:34,400
Speaker 2: it was a new day of football. I know that

2037
01:46:35,640 --> 01:46:40,320
Speaker 2: sports fans have wasted no time complaining in the last

2038
01:46:40,360 --> 01:46:43,720
Speaker 2: few days about the college football playoff because of the blowouts. Again,

2039
01:46:43,920 --> 01:46:47,599
Speaker 2: I'll remind people again that in the last twenty semi

2040
01:46:47,600 --> 01:46:51,120
Speaker 2: final games in the BCA. You know, well, there was

2041
01:46:51,160 --> 01:46:53,639
Speaker 2: no semifinal games in the BCS for me. Last twenty

2042
01:46:53,800 --> 01:46:57,240
Speaker 2: semi final games, fourteen were decided by fourteen points or

2043
01:46:57,240 --> 01:47:00,960
Speaker 2: more and eight were decided by twenty points or more.

2044
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Speaker 2: So what are you complaining about? And stop at lane Kiffin.

2045
01:47:05,320 --> 01:47:08,200
Speaker 2: You had your chance. You were fourteen point favorite and

2046
01:47:08,280 --> 01:47:11,240
Speaker 2: lost to Kentucky. Twelve point favorite lost to Louisville a

2047
01:47:11,320 --> 01:47:14,840
Speaker 2: home game, so you know, take a hike. I also

2048
01:47:14,960 --> 01:47:20,120
Speaker 2: get that Thursday night's game wasn't exactly a barn burner, right.

2049
01:47:20,800 --> 01:47:26,280
Speaker 2: It was a stinker, and the NFL does their best

2050
01:47:26,600 --> 01:47:30,040
Speaker 2: to try to create good matchups, but it was a

2051
01:47:30,040 --> 01:47:31,880
Speaker 2: low scoring game of the NFL, a six to three

2052
01:47:31,920 --> 01:47:35,040
Speaker 2: punt fest. The Bears lost their tenth straight game. Caleb

2053
01:47:35,160 --> 01:47:40,800
Speaker 2: Williams finally threw a pick. But Saturday's triple header is meaningful.

2054
01:47:41,400 --> 01:47:43,360
Speaker 2: So we're gonna give you something to look forward to.

2055
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Speaker 2: It all kicks off here in just a few hours.

2056
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Speaker 2: What is the meaning of these three games? Well tell

2057
01:47:51,000 --> 01:47:53,120
Speaker 2: you coming up. I'm Bernie Fraddle. We're coming a line

2058
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Speaker 2: from Las Vegas Fox Sports Radio, Tireck dot Com Studios.

2059
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Speaker 2: Keep it locked. You're listening to the Bernie Fraddle Show

2060
01:47:57,720 --> 01:48:00,800
Speaker 2: on Fox Sports Radio. All right, we are wrapping it

2061
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Speaker 2: up on the Bernie Fratters Show. Come you live from

2062
01:48:02,680 --> 01:48:08,000
Speaker 2: the Tarak dot Com studios here in Las Vegas. Before

2063
01:48:08,000 --> 01:48:09,599
Speaker 2: I go any further, I want to take my broadcast

2064
01:48:09,600 --> 01:48:14,320
Speaker 2: team back in Los Angeles. Mark and Brienna. Good job,

2065
01:48:14,360 --> 01:48:18,120
Speaker 2: great teamwork to Marbo Downs keeping us slued together, and

2066
01:48:18,800 --> 01:48:24,880
Speaker 2: onward and upward. Appreciate everybody's efforts. All right, in a

2067
01:48:24,920 --> 01:48:30,360
Speaker 2: few hours here you will see the Los Angeles Chargers efforting.

2068
01:48:30,400 --> 01:48:33,479
Speaker 2: We have a very good triple header Saturday, and I'm

2069
01:48:33,479 --> 01:48:35,080
Speaker 2: going to share with you why I think it's a

2070
01:48:35,160 --> 01:48:38,160
Speaker 2: very good triple header. Now, to be fair of the NFL,

2071
01:48:38,240 --> 01:48:40,920
Speaker 2: because I know Thursday night was a stinker. What are

2072
01:48:40,960 --> 01:48:43,760
Speaker 2: you gonna do? Right? The NFL does its best to

2073
01:48:43,800 --> 01:48:47,519
Speaker 2: get interesting matchups. They do their best to get compelling matchups.

2074
01:48:47,560 --> 01:48:52,240
Speaker 2: Hard to predict the future. Sometimes injuries ruin a team season.

2075
01:48:52,920 --> 01:48:56,280
Speaker 2: Sometimes other teams clinch and start to put it in

2076
01:48:56,320 --> 01:49:00,120
Speaker 2: cruise control. Other teams they're just a dumpster fire. What

2077
01:49:00,160 --> 01:49:04,439
Speaker 2: are you gonna do? So there are three that were

2078
01:49:04,479 --> 01:49:08,600
Speaker 2: moved to Saturday for a triple header. Which is today

2079
01:49:08,680 --> 01:49:13,919
Speaker 2: and week seventeen is upon us. We had games Wednesday,

2080
01:49:14,360 --> 01:49:16,920
Speaker 2: we had games Thursday. Now we have three games Saturday

2081
01:49:17,000 --> 01:49:21,000
Speaker 2: as full Slate Sunday and then Monday Lines and forty

2082
01:49:21,080 --> 01:49:23,719
Speaker 2: nine Ers. But the beauty of it is is that

2083
01:49:23,960 --> 01:49:28,960
Speaker 2: all three of Saturday's games at least have some playoff implications.

2084
01:49:29,479 --> 01:49:32,600
Speaker 2: So here are the angles for each game. Give it

2085
01:49:32,680 --> 01:49:34,720
Speaker 2: up to the Chargers. Noan Harbaugh took over. You know,

2086
01:49:34,760 --> 01:49:36,360
Speaker 2: we wouldn't stink it up as bad as brand As

2087
01:49:36,439 --> 01:49:39,959
Speaker 2: Day did. But not everybody thought they'd make the playoffs

2088
01:49:39,960 --> 01:49:45,200
Speaker 2: the first year, not because they lack talent, but they've

2089
01:49:45,200 --> 01:49:48,000
Speaker 2: had talent for the last six years, and then the

2090
01:49:48,080 --> 01:49:51,080
Speaker 2: last six years they only made the playoffs once, and

2091
01:49:51,520 --> 01:49:54,400
Speaker 2: no one wants to remember that because they were leading

2092
01:49:54,400 --> 01:49:57,799
Speaker 2: the Jacksonville Jaguars. The Chargers were by twenty seven points

2093
01:49:58,600 --> 01:50:00,840
Speaker 2: and the Jags came back to beat the Chargers. That

2094
01:50:00,880 --> 01:50:04,040
Speaker 2: was in a twenty twenty two wild card game. I

2095
01:50:04,080 --> 01:50:06,280
Speaker 2: think that should have sealed a fate for Brandon Staley,

2096
01:50:06,280 --> 01:50:08,280
Speaker 2: but he got to hang around one more year. That

2097
01:50:08,439 --> 01:50:12,679
Speaker 2: is the only appearance that the Chargers franchise, the playoff

2098
01:50:12,680 --> 01:50:15,200
Speaker 2: appearance they've made in the last five seasons. But guess

2099
01:50:15,280 --> 01:50:19,000
Speaker 2: what if the Chargers beat New England Saturday, they will

2100
01:50:19,000 --> 01:50:22,360
Speaker 2: clinch another playoff spot. The Chargers, well, technically they can

2101
01:50:22,400 --> 01:50:27,320
Speaker 2: also clinch if the Dolphins. If the Chargers can also

2102
01:50:27,439 --> 01:50:31,080
Speaker 2: clinch if they don't win, if the Dolphins lose and

2103
01:50:31,120 --> 01:50:34,519
Speaker 2: the Colts lose. But you want to take care of business, right,

2104
01:50:34,600 --> 01:50:38,519
Speaker 2: Dan Campbell, Pat's early three to twelve. But guys get

2105
01:50:38,520 --> 01:50:40,880
Speaker 2: fired up to play on a national stage. Maybe that

2106
01:50:40,960 --> 01:50:44,360
Speaker 2: motivates the Patriots. New England did give Buffalo a little

2107
01:50:44,360 --> 01:50:46,840
Speaker 2: bit of scare last week in a twenty four to

2108
01:50:46,880 --> 01:50:50,080
Speaker 2: twenty one loss. Buffalo had been coming off that big

2109
01:50:50,360 --> 01:50:53,559
Speaker 2: you know game the week before in Detroit. But the

2110
01:50:53,600 --> 01:50:56,479
Speaker 2: patch are still playing hard. NFL players do play hard.

2111
01:50:56,920 --> 01:50:58,760
Speaker 2: The only thing, Rod, may you know we're earlier one

2112
01:50:58,760 --> 01:51:01,000
Speaker 2: of the callers talked about the two Lions, the team

2113
01:51:01,000 --> 01:51:03,720
Speaker 2: I covered. The only intelligent thing Rod marrinally said that

2114
01:51:03,800 --> 01:51:05,680
Speaker 2: year was that, you know, one hundred percent of what

2115
01:51:05,720 --> 01:51:07,280
Speaker 2: you do is reserved one hundred percent of the time

2116
01:51:07,280 --> 01:51:09,519
Speaker 2: by somebody in the National Football League, and it probably

2117
01:51:09,520 --> 01:51:10,920
Speaker 2: got you on tape. So if you want to keep

2118
01:51:10,960 --> 01:51:14,439
Speaker 2: working in this league, you're being watched, you're being evaluated.

2119
01:51:14,560 --> 01:51:17,120
Speaker 2: You're going to see an effort on New England. Plus

2120
01:51:17,120 --> 01:51:19,559
Speaker 2: they'd like to, you know, pee on the Chargers, pray

2121
01:51:19,600 --> 01:51:21,719
Speaker 2: a little bit right. Chargers can still make the playoffs

2122
01:51:21,760 --> 01:51:25,760
Speaker 2: if they lose, but why make their path harder. By

2123
01:51:25,800 --> 01:51:27,519
Speaker 2: the way, you get to watch Drake May. I think

2124
01:51:27,520 --> 01:51:29,800
Speaker 2: they're getting solid play. The Patriots are from Drake May.

2125
01:51:29,840 --> 01:51:34,120
Speaker 2: So the best that the NFL can hope for is

2126
01:51:34,120 --> 01:51:37,040
Speaker 2: that at least a team who's three and twelve will

2127
01:51:37,120 --> 01:51:40,000
Speaker 2: keep it competitive. And you could say Thursday in the

2128
01:51:40,080 --> 01:51:44,120
Speaker 2: game was competitive sixty three, but it was I forget.

2129
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Speaker 2: There's no adjective I can come up with that's clever

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Speaker 2: on that one. So there you have it. That's the

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01:51:51,240 --> 01:51:55,240
Speaker 2: situation with the Chargers. Should the Chargers, when they're currently

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Speaker 2: the number six seed, if they beat the Patriots and

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01:51:58,200 --> 01:52:00,800
Speaker 2: the Raiders over the final two weeks, they could even

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01:52:00,880 --> 01:52:02,320
Speaker 2: end up being the fifth seed. At least there it

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01:52:02,320 --> 01:52:04,519
Speaker 2: looks like they're gonna be the number six seed, and

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01:52:04,560 --> 01:52:06,600
Speaker 2: their playoff probability when you throw all this into a

2137
01:52:06,600 --> 01:52:09,240
Speaker 2: blenders about ninety four percent. So not a whole hell

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01:52:09,280 --> 01:52:12,120
Speaker 2: of a lot of mystery there. Up next, the Broncos

2139
01:52:12,120 --> 01:52:17,759
Speaker 2: and Bengals Cincinnati is still trying to get into a postseason. Yeah,

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01:52:18,880 --> 01:52:21,920
Speaker 2: they brought it on themselves. Here's all the here's all

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01:52:21,920 --> 01:52:25,639
Speaker 2: the Bengals have to do. Went out against the Broncos

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01:52:25,640 --> 01:52:29,000
Speaker 2: and Steelers. They didn't get at least one additional loss

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01:52:29,320 --> 01:52:32,439
Speaker 2: from the Broncos, Dolphins, and Colts. Well, they do play

2144
01:52:33,280 --> 01:52:37,960
Speaker 2: the Broncos, so they can take care of that, but

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01:52:38,040 --> 01:52:40,040
Speaker 2: they have to have the Colts and Dolphins all losing.

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01:52:40,040 --> 01:52:43,800
Speaker 2: They have to win. The probability is not good. But

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01:52:43,920 --> 01:52:47,719
Speaker 2: you're still gonna see Cincinnati and Denver. You're still gonna

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01:52:47,720 --> 01:52:51,400
Speaker 2: see these teams put up an effort. Right now. Denver

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01:52:52,479 --> 01:52:55,400
Speaker 2: they're the number seven seed, they're in third place in

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01:52:55,439 --> 01:52:57,920
Speaker 2: the ANFC West. They need to win one of its

2151
01:52:57,920 --> 01:53:03,120
Speaker 2: final two games doing cheermaking the playoffs. They play, Denver plays,

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01:53:03,240 --> 01:53:05,760
Speaker 2: you know, on the road against Cincinnati, which I just

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01:53:05,760 --> 01:53:08,080
Speaker 2: said later on today, But then they come home to

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01:53:08,080 --> 01:53:11,559
Speaker 2: host the Chiefs week eighteen. Will the Chiefs rest their starters?

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01:53:11,560 --> 01:53:13,719
Speaker 2: You know it's again you're putting it into the hands

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01:53:13,720 --> 01:53:16,240
Speaker 2: of the gods. Win Denver and you're in. So this

2157
01:53:16,280 --> 01:53:19,920
Speaker 2: is gonna be a good matchup. The Bengals playoffs hopes

2158
01:53:19,920 --> 01:53:22,599
Speaker 2: aren't dead. They're not looking good. I just said that

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01:53:22,840 --> 01:53:24,880
Speaker 2: they got to win and then hope they're gonna have

2160
01:53:24,960 --> 01:53:27,960
Speaker 2: rope burns from the rosary, praying that someone else helps

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01:53:28,000 --> 01:53:31,080
Speaker 2: them out. It's a rare, weird year for the Bengals

2162
01:53:31,320 --> 01:53:33,400
Speaker 2: when you have a quarterback Joe Burrow, by the way,

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01:53:34,000 --> 01:53:36,800
Speaker 2: put up the kind of numbers he's had forty three

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01:53:36,880 --> 01:53:40,280
Speaker 2: hundred yards passing almost forty touchdowns, and that they're seven

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Speaker 2: and eight with a little chance of making the postseason. Well,

2166
01:53:43,040 --> 01:53:46,160
Speaker 2: you can point to the defense. The Bengals elected not

2167
01:53:46,240 --> 01:53:48,320
Speaker 2: to sign a couple of defensive players of left Town.

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01:53:48,680 --> 01:53:50,439
Speaker 2: Maybe that's it, maybe that's not it. I don't know,

2169
01:53:50,439 --> 01:53:53,160
Speaker 2: but they're getting MVP level play from the quarterback and

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01:53:53,160 --> 01:53:55,479
Speaker 2: they still have a losing record. Meanwhile, give it up

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01:53:55,479 --> 01:53:57,879
Speaker 2: to the Broncos. Sean Payton has turned this thing around.

2172
01:53:58,840 --> 01:54:03,120
Speaker 2: They've had a very unexpected season, but it's trending upward.

2173
01:54:03,479 --> 01:54:07,960
Speaker 2: Bow Knicks was the sixth quarterback taking in the NFL Draft,

2174
01:54:08,800 --> 01:54:11,320
Speaker 2: but he's had a very strong rookie season. And if

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01:54:11,400 --> 01:54:14,360
Speaker 2: Jayden Daniels wasn't doing what Jayden Daniels is doing in Washington,

2176
01:54:14,439 --> 01:54:16,759
Speaker 2: I think bow Knicks would be the Rookie of the Year. Meanwhile,

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Speaker 2: the Broncos are nine to six. The Broncos can clinch

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01:54:20,080 --> 01:54:23,360
Speaker 2: a playoff berth with a win on Saturday, or even

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Speaker 2: a tie. Again, the Broncos have not been a fixture

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Speaker 2: in the playoffs. If the Broncos get in this year,

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Speaker 2: and they got about a seventy five percent chance to

2182
01:54:33,160 --> 01:54:35,680
Speaker 2: do it be their first playoff appearance since the end

2183
01:54:35,720 --> 01:54:38,120
Speaker 2: of the twenty fifteen season. That's when they had some

2184
01:54:38,160 --> 01:54:40,840
Speaker 2: guy named Peyton Manning. He started this final game the

2185
01:54:40,920 --> 01:54:43,560
Speaker 2: Broncos won Super Bowl fifty. I'm sure you remember that.

2186
01:54:44,320 --> 01:54:46,800
Speaker 2: A couple good matchups too, against a couple of young studs.

2187
01:54:46,800 --> 01:54:49,640
Speaker 2: Patrick Stertan the second. He's a candidate, I think for

2188
01:54:49,760 --> 01:54:53,440
Speaker 2: NFL Defensive Player of the Year against Jamar Chase, who

2189
01:54:53,520 --> 01:54:57,320
Speaker 2: is also making a case for the offensive player of

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01:54:57,440 --> 01:55:01,720
Speaker 2: the year. I explained Cincinnati situation. Explain Denver situation. One

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01:55:01,760 --> 01:55:05,800
Speaker 2: other thing to note, Sean Payton has quite a track record,

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01:55:06,320 --> 01:55:09,040
Speaker 2: which is coming off a road loss and goes on

2193
01:55:09,080 --> 01:55:12,720
Speaker 2: the road the following week nineteen and five against the spread,

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01:55:12,720 --> 01:55:14,840
Speaker 2: Denver's catching three and a half points. I think this

2195
01:55:14,920 --> 01:55:18,680
Speaker 2: is a fistfight in the phone booth. I don't know

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01:55:18,720 --> 01:55:22,080
Speaker 2: who prevails. I think Denver though, and the points is

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01:55:22,120 --> 01:55:25,440
Speaker 2: the play Finally, the Cardinals at the Rams. This would

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01:55:25,440 --> 01:55:27,480
Speaker 2: have been a lot more exciting if the Arizona didn't

2199
01:55:27,840 --> 01:55:30,560
Speaker 2: screw the pooch and get eliminated from the playoffs last week. Still,

2200
01:55:30,560 --> 01:55:33,240
Speaker 2: the Rams, they got plenty to play for. The Rams

2201
01:55:33,280 --> 01:55:36,360
Speaker 2: had the chance to clinch the NFC West title heading

2202
01:55:36,400 --> 01:55:39,520
Speaker 2: into this week, but they can't clinch on Saturday night

2203
01:55:39,680 --> 01:55:42,920
Speaker 2: due to Seattle prevailing on Thursday. But they can get

2204
01:55:43,000 --> 01:55:45,680
Speaker 2: very close. The Rams can clinch this week if they

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01:55:45,720 --> 01:55:49,160
Speaker 2: beat the Cardinals and they secure the strength of the

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01:55:49,160 --> 01:55:52,840
Speaker 2: scheduled tiebreaker over Seattle, which I'm not going to go

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Speaker 2: into that formula because it involves the Vikings bills, forty

2208
01:55:55,480 --> 01:55:58,240
Speaker 2: nine ers commanders, and it has to do with win differentials.

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Speaker 2: Just hold that thought. If the Rams beat the Cardinals,

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01:56:01,280 --> 01:56:03,440
Speaker 2: they can wait till Sunday, and it looks like they're

2211
01:56:03,440 --> 01:56:05,800
Speaker 2: going to begin. But if the Rams win, the Seahawks

2212
01:56:05,840 --> 01:56:08,640
Speaker 2: are gonna need a ton of help to take that division.

2213
01:56:09,200 --> 01:56:13,120
Speaker 2: The Seahawks are in a position to be begging and

2214
01:56:13,160 --> 01:56:15,960
Speaker 2: the Rams are in a position. Look, they're in great position.

2215
01:56:16,000 --> 01:56:18,240
Speaker 2: They beat the Jets last week. They're a game ahead

2216
01:56:18,240 --> 01:56:22,120
Speaker 2: in the NFC West with the Cardinals, and I think

2217
01:56:22,160 --> 01:56:23,800
Speaker 2: they handle the Cardinals. You're paying a little bit of

2218
01:56:23,800 --> 01:56:26,960
Speaker 2: a tax there. Seattle losing home to the Vikings doesn't

2219
01:56:26,960 --> 01:56:29,640
Speaker 2: then it's postseason dream. But now the Seahawks must win

2220
01:56:29,680 --> 01:56:34,320
Speaker 2: out and they need all kinds of help. Rams they're

2221
01:56:34,360 --> 01:56:36,840
Speaker 2: the story. Wow, And they lost forty one to tend

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01:56:36,840 --> 01:56:38,960
Speaker 2: to Seattle back in like week two or three, But

2223
01:56:39,000 --> 01:56:42,080
Speaker 2: no Cooper Cup went out hurt and no Puka Nikula.

2224
01:56:42,720 --> 01:56:45,160
Speaker 2: Give it up to Sean McVay, who's done it again.

2225
01:56:45,520 --> 01:56:47,440
Speaker 2: They start the season one and four. There was plenty

2226
01:56:47,480 --> 01:56:49,800
Speaker 2: of speculation the Rams might even be willing to trade

2227
01:56:49,840 --> 01:56:52,880
Speaker 2: Matt Stafford that got kyboshed, or even Cooper Cup. But

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01:56:52,920 --> 01:56:54,960
Speaker 2: guess what, all of a sudden, now the Rams are

2229
01:56:55,000 --> 01:56:57,920
Speaker 2: eight and two in their last ten. The Niners are gone,

2230
01:56:58,080 --> 01:57:01,360
Speaker 2: the Seahawks are inconsistent, the car Dinals, they're already been eliminated.

2231
01:57:01,720 --> 01:57:05,920
Speaker 2: Given that the Rams, they're in the pole position to

2232
01:57:06,040 --> 01:57:08,920
Speaker 2: wrap things up for themselves nicely. So good triple header

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01:57:09,560 --> 01:57:12,040
Speaker 2: on Saturday coming up here in a few hours. I'll

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Speaker 2: be back on these airwaves Saturday night at eleven PM

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Speaker 2: to break it down and look into Sunday as well. Meantime,

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Speaker 2: keep it locked right here in Fox Sports Radio up

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Speaker 2: next to the Fellas. Good evening, enjoy it,