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Speaker 2: I was thinking about this, Rich, This is the longest

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Speaker 2: I have gone without speaking to you in I don't know,

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Speaker 2: seven years, maybe, yeah, I mean, I mean, I'm really

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Speaker 2: thinking about this. So Rich has been off the last

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Speaker 2: two Sundays. Yeah, we haven't spoken off air, and I

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Speaker 2: was just thinking about the fact that how long has

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Speaker 2: it been where we had gone two full weeks plus

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Speaker 2: without speaking to each other.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna guess, I'm gonna guess. Yeah, it's gotta be

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Speaker 1: it's more than five years ago. Oh yeah, I mean it's.

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Speaker 2: I mean, when did you when did you start broadcasting

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Speaker 1: That was twenty sixteen, I think that summer.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So I mean it's been over seven years. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: oh yeah, anything going on in your life, anything I

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Speaker 2: you know, catch me up on you have any more kids,

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Speaker 2: anything else like that, or no more kids?

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Speaker 1: No more kids, we're out of the baby making business. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I've been. I've been making some delectable recipes.

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Speaker 2: Hold on, I have to stop for a second. Hear

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Speaker 2: speaking of recipes. So you're you're in San Diego's Uniting

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Speaker 2: studio here, but I brought in for Sam and for

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Speaker 2: Bow and for Montcy. Denise made some banana chocolate chip cake.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, bread, the banana bread with the chocolate chips

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Speaker 2: and yeah yeah, moist and you know, and has anybody

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Speaker 2: partaken yet? Everyone's sort of holding off right now?

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Speaker 1: Wow? Wow, I would not be holding off.

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Speaker 2: And they're in individual little boxes, so she really wrapped

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Speaker 1: See. That's that's the Those are the touches that Denise

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Speaker 2: So it makes it really good.

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Speaker 1: It puts it over the top.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so there's the first bike comes from Sam. Sam.

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Speaker 2: How's that first bite?

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Speaker 1: How's that?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Oh yeah, exactly aphoria. Yeah indescribable, isn't it. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I mean you can't talk and eat at the same

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Speaker 2: a big faux pot. Yeah, big faux pot.

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Speaker 2: I mean that was incredible, incredible, all right, very very good.

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Speaker 2: Uh So that's where we're going today. We got a

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Speaker 2: lot of things to cover here today. By the way,

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Speaker 2: I heard you yesterday on your Saturday show here on

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Speaker 2: the vast Fox Sports Radio network. Yeah, and you know

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Speaker 2: it's like a gambling show, and.

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Speaker 1: I we'll talk some gambling. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we're gonna talk about a wager that you recommended

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna surprise you because I was listening. I was thinking, hmmm,

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Speaker 2: little bit later on. Here's the thing about the NBA plus.

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Speaker 2: And by the way, yesterday Bucky Brooks and I broke

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Speaker 2: into a lot of NFL draft stuff because well that's

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Speaker 2: what Bucky does, right, he has his mock drafts, And

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Speaker 2: the overwhelming majority of the people were enjoying. We were

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Speaker 2: breaking down the AFC West teams, the NFC West teams

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Speaker 2: know my team is this blah blah blah. There was

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Speaker 2: we got to talk NBA playoffs. Okay, Well here was

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Speaker 1: It's a strange year, and I think it's actually a

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Speaker 1: It's just it's a lot. It's a lot of postseason basketball.

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Speaker 2: Yesterday, it was a prime example in this first game

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Speaker 2: And yet the one stat that apparently everyone was missing

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Speaker 2: And so this is this is where when you have

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Speaker 2: I mean, how about Monk class Night with thirty two points?

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Speaker 2: Are you kidding me? And the Lakers got nothing out

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Speaker 1: Oh it's a huge factor. It is an enormous factor.

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Speaker 1: You want guys who understand the grind of the postseason

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Speaker 1: That's going to aid them here in this series. Have

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Speaker 1: they have. They've done it many times and they've found

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Speaker 1: They have Thompson and Curry and Green, They've been through

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Speaker 1: the Sacramento Kings, for example, Fox and Malik Monk. I

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Speaker 1: mean they went off. You know, they score thirty plus

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Speaker 1: know if they can sustain that. This was this was

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Speaker 1: That place was going absolutely bonkers. But this is a

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Speaker 1: long series and veteran experience may really aid the Warriors here.

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Speaker 2: Well, think about this. Two years ago, of course, Warriors

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Speaker 2: were eliminated in the play in that's not the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: The last six times that the Warriors have been in

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Speaker 2: I want to believe Darvin Ham is a good coach

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Speaker 2: He says the right things in the right and I've

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but Lebron James is a king maker, you know,

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Speaker 2: I don't think he'd have been there one year before

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Speaker 1: But that go ahead, Tyron Lou Yeah, I mean, what

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Speaker 2: All right, So Moncey came in with her ice coffee.

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Speaker 2: It's the Grande Ice Brown Shake Express, so with the

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Speaker 2: one pomp of brown sugar and light ice.

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Speaker 6: Yeah nice, that's nice.

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Speaker 2: So you haven't engaged yet in the I did, no, no, no.

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Speaker 7: I went to get a four because you know, I'm

435
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Speaker 7: wearing lipstick, so I wanted to be coffee.

436
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Speaker 6: So I just tried it. It is really good.

437
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Speaker 7: Sam was right, that like layer of like I don't know,

438
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Speaker 7: like is it brown sugar that's like crusted at the end.

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Speaker 7: Super good. Super And yeah, right when I put my

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Speaker 7: fork in it, I could tell it was gonna be good.

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Speaker 7: You know, like you could tell right when I put

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Speaker 7: the fork in it.

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Speaker 6: I was like, oh no, no, no, so delicious.

444
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Speaker 7: It's so good and it's perfect to have with coffee,

445
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Speaker 7: you know what I mean.

446
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Speaker 2: That's why I saw it. When you said the coffee,

447
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Speaker 2: It's like you have the perfect comedy.

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Speaker 6: Perfect combo. It's so good. So thank you, Denise. Yeah,

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Speaker 6: because I can't.

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Speaker 7: My baking skills are by the cookie dough already made

451
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Speaker 7: and put it in the oven and.

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Speaker 6: Hope for the best.

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Speaker 2: Really a plus, I can exactly.

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Speaker 6: No, Yeah, yeah, for sure, I think you know.

455
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Speaker 7: Dear and Fox's performance last night for the Sacramento Kings

456
00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:04,680
Speaker 7: was pretty a plus if you ask me. They took

457
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Speaker 7: down the Warriors final game of Saturday's NBA Playoffs, one

458
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Speaker 7: twenty six to one twenty three. The Warriors had two

459
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Speaker 7: chances to get a three in and it didn't work out.

460
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Speaker 7: Sacramento came out on top.

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Speaker 6: This is what Steve.

462
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Speaker 7: Kerr had to say after the game, head coach of

463
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Speaker 7: the Warriors.

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Speaker 5: The issue was the offensive boards.

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Speaker 8: He had seventeen of them, a lot of them in

466
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Speaker 8: the second half when we had built that ten point lead,

467
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Speaker 8: and that allowed their shooters to get open you know,

468
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Speaker 8: late third they made their run they had I think

469
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Speaker 8: they got several buckets off of offensive boards and that

470
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Speaker 8: really hurt our momentum.

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Speaker 6: I mean, it's true, but it was a close game

472
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Speaker 6: the whole way. The whole way was a very close.

473
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Speaker 7: Exciting game. Although yes, seventeen offensive boards is no bueno.

474
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Speaker 7: Another thing that's super funny. I don't know if you

475
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Speaker 7: guys have seen this.

476
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Speaker 6: JR.

477
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Speaker 7: Smith was recently on The Old Man in the Sea

478
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Speaker 7: with JJ Reddick, his podcast, and he was taught about

479
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Speaker 7: guarding Steph Curry and he brought up that in twenty

480
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Speaker 7: fifteen Matthew Della Dova. He was like, I love Deli,

481
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Speaker 7: I really do, but Deli almost died trying to guard

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Speaker 7: Steph Curry.

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Speaker 6: This is what Daron Fox said last night.

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Speaker 1: Did y'all see that clip with j R. Smith, you know,

485
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Speaker 1: talking about Deli. Did y'all see that clip? Real? It's real?

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Speaker 1: I mean, obviously, you know I didn't guard Steph the

487
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Speaker 1: entire game, but like most of the first quarter, most

488
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Speaker 1: of the fourth quarter, I guarded him.

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Speaker 2: Uh yeah, that's that clip is real.

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Speaker 7: Because you're just running around, you're just chasing Curry. Is

491
00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:39,400
Speaker 7: he doesn't stop moving. Curry, if you watch him, does

492
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Speaker 7: not stop moving on the court. He just keeps going.

493
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Speaker 7: The playoff action today starts at three pm Eastern time.

494
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Speaker 6: You guys were just talking about it. Memphis is gonna

495
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Speaker 6: host the Lakers. Three pm is when it all starts.

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Speaker 7: A little baseball news, Yankees have placed gion Carlos Stanton,

497
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Speaker 7: who had a good start to the season. He was

498
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Speaker 7: hitting well ten day Angelius with the strain hamstring that

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Speaker 7: he suffered yesterday against Twins. And an NFL news, the

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Speaker 7: Dolphins've signed wide receiver Chosen Anderson to.

501
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Speaker 6: A one year contract. Chosen and chosen, chosen, yeh chosen.

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Speaker 2: The artist formerly known as Robbie exactly.

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Speaker 6: Thank you me chosen one, the chosen one.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, very very good.

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Speaker 6: Thanks to you guys.

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Speaker 2: So yesterday morning, I was on my way to the

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Speaker 2: gym and I'm listening to you, okay, and it was

513
00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:46,680
Speaker 2: right at the end of the show, and you're making

514
00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:50,320
Speaker 2: some bets, best bets for the NBA playoffs.

515
00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:51,400
Speaker 1: That's right, that's right.

516
00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:57,120
Speaker 2: And you had a long shot bet that just resonated

517
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Speaker 2: with me, and he said, put some money down on this.

518
00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:02,880
Speaker 1: I really like this bet a lot.

519
00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:09,960
Speaker 2: And this bet is that the Phoenix Suns will sweep

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Speaker 2: the Los Angeles Clippers in the first round of the playoffs.

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Speaker 2: What were the odds on that was like plus thirty

522
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Speaker 2: eight hundred.

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Speaker 1: Or yeah, I want to say it was plus three

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Speaker 1: eighty and then that's me eighty. Right, I like the

525
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Speaker 1: Suns to win it all, which is plus five sixty

526
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Speaker 1: something like that. Last I looked at the futures odd

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Speaker 1: for the NBA Championships.

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Speaker 2: All right, So let's take a look at this series

529
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Speaker 2: because again there's so many X factors. Both of these

530
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Speaker 2: teams are loaded with talent, loaded with talent, but we

531
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Speaker 2: have a lot of unknowns. But let's start with Phoenix

532
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Speaker 2: and Kevin Durant. So Kevin Durant, since being acquired by

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Speaker 2: the Suns, has played only eight games. The Suns have

534
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Speaker 2: won all eight of those games. And not only is

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Speaker 2: the averaging twenty six points a game and fifty seven

536
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Speaker 2: percent from the field. His three point shooting as a

537
00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:11,640
Speaker 2: Phoenix Sun is fifty three percent. Now, he concedes the

538
00:29:11,720 --> 00:29:15,080
Speaker 2: fact that chemistry is a big part of it, and

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00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:17,800
Speaker 2: he hasn't played a lot obviously with Chris Paul and

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00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:20,320
Speaker 2: Devin Booker and DeAndre Aid and they haven't been together

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Speaker 2: very much. But he says, we'll figure it out. And

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Speaker 2: I got to believe that because one thing about Kevin Durant,

543
00:29:28,640 --> 00:29:32,000
Speaker 2: we have seen over the course of his career, as

544
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Speaker 2: great as he's been, one of the all time greats,

545
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Speaker 2: he can take at a next level in the postseason.

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Speaker 2: And I believe that the motivation is there. I think

547
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Speaker 2: that sometimes again you go through all the motions and

548
00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:49,800
Speaker 2: Durant says, yeah, you know, I've played a lot of games.

549
00:29:49,960 --> 00:29:52,520
Speaker 2: Maybe I needed to rest up for the playoffs. I

550
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Speaker 2: think we're going to see Aggie way off the charts

551
00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:59,680
Speaker 2: Kevin Durant in this postseason. So I agree with you say.

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00:29:59,680 --> 00:30:02,000
Speaker 2: And then on the other side, just quickly on the Clippers,

553
00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:04,240
Speaker 2: we don't know about Paul George. In fact, it was

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Speaker 2: reported that Paul George, who we know, won't be playing

555
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Speaker 2: today at least with the knee that he apparently was

556
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Speaker 2: out there. He won't be on the court till he's

557
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Speaker 2: one hundred percent. Well, who's on hundred percent?

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Speaker 1: Not a good sign.

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Speaker 2: That's not a good when you say, well until what

560
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Speaker 2: you mean at ninety five percent, you're not going to

561
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Speaker 2: be on the court because without Paul George going against

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Speaker 2: this son's lineup, the Clippers have no chance. Kawhi doesn't

563
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Speaker 2: even matter, and they got it. Look, I like Zubot's

564
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Speaker 2: Norman Powell. I mean, we don't know what's going to

565
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Speaker 2: go on with Russell Westbrook, but to him, they have players,

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Speaker 2: but it's not gonna be enough. So I love your

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Speaker 2: prediction of a Phoenix Suns sweep of this first round

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Speaker 2: series against the Clippers.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, look, I uh, I just don't. I don't love

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Speaker 1: how the Clippers are constructed. It just doesn't. It made

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Speaker 1: sense to me when they put these pieces together. Don't

572
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Speaker 1: get me wrong, kawhim George, I was like, whoa, look

573
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Speaker 1: out the Western Conference. It felt like a gravitational shift.

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Speaker 1: But after watching years of this, and I know Kawhi

575
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Speaker 1: had the knee injury, and I know that they haven't

576
00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:16,360
Speaker 1: played a ton of basketball together, and sure we could

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Speaker 1: say the same thing about Katie and Booker on the

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Speaker 1: other side of this matchup. But I when I look

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Speaker 1: at this Clippers team, there's just something off chemistry, gameplay.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if Pig and Kawhi's games really match

581
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Speaker 1: up quite as well as Kevin Durance and Devin Bookers

582
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Speaker 1: when and frankly, this is more of a credit to

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Speaker 1: Durant than it is to Booker. Think about Kevin Durant,

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Speaker 1: everything everybody said before he joined the Warriors, how are

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Speaker 1: they going to make room for KD? How are they

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Speaker 1: going to have two guys or three guys if you

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Speaker 1: count Klay Thompson, Steph Curry and Kevin Durant share one

588
00:31:52,760 --> 00:31:56,400
Speaker 1: basketball How is this ever gonna work out? Well? KD

589
00:31:56,840 --> 00:32:00,200
Speaker 1: was willing to take a back seat sometimes if there

590
00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:03,040
Speaker 1: were hotter hands, if the Splash Brothers were going off,

591
00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:07,160
Speaker 1: he he would disappear, and he was fine with it.

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00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:10,080
Speaker 1: He didn't care about the box score. He cared about

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Speaker 1: winning championships. That's why he left the Thunder in the

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Speaker 1: first place. That's why he sacrificed all of the social

595
00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:20,760
Speaker 1: media backlash and the fan base backlash from Oklahoma City

596
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Speaker 1: in order to join a winner and then help them

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Speaker 1: to two championships. And when you talk about motivation, when

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Speaker 1: you talk about what team has turned up the heat

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00:32:30,280 --> 00:32:32,720
Speaker 1: on the rest of the West, it's not the Clippers.

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Speaker 1: The Clippers have literally limped into this postseason and it

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Speaker 1: sort of feels like just because they are who they are,

602
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Speaker 1: they have the stars in place. What they're gonna win?

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Speaker 1: I don't buy it.

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Speaker 2: Hold on second, here we have somebody that's ready to

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Speaker 2: walk out of the building right down.

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Speaker 1: I know who it is, and I can't believe I

607
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:51,200
Speaker 1: forgot about it.

608
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Speaker 2: He is the ultimate Clippers fan. Maas is absolutely so

609
00:32:57,360 --> 00:33:00,280
Speaker 2: irate right now. And what is going on or in

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Speaker 2: the show.

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Speaker 7: Rude dude, is why you are oh, no, sweep for

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Speaker 7: a sweep. Listen, I'm not saying the Clippers are gonna win,

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Speaker 7: but a sweep is what you're calling. Here we go, Rich,

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Speaker 7: I cannot with you right now. You know I enjoyed

615
00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:17,800
Speaker 7: you talking about all the meat and animals you eat. No,

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Speaker 7: I will outstand for it now. Not only are you

617
00:33:20,840 --> 00:33:23,040
Speaker 7: talking about my Clippers, now, I hope that all you

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Speaker 7: eat for the rest of your life is broccoli.

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Speaker 6: Because this is just so a sweep. A sweep?

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Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, okay, let okay. Paul George is hurt, so

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Speaker 1: you're without arguably your best player. Now, Kauai obviously is

622
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Speaker 1: very talented, and we know Kawhi in the postseason. Yeah

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Speaker 1: he can be magic, but you're one of your best players.

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Speaker 1: If not your best player is hurt. You have Kevin

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Speaker 1: Durant on the court. The Sons are eight and oh

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00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:51,120
Speaker 1: when when Durant's healthy? I mean now, he's had his

627
00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:54,000
Speaker 1: issues with injury. He rolled his ankle in the layup line.

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Speaker 1: He had been out for a long time. But the

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Speaker 1: Sons are in my mind, Mancy, they're the hungrier team.

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Speaker 2: I sort of feel like the Clippers. Clippers gotta be.

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Speaker 7: You're right, there's more pressure on Kevin Durant and the

632
00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:14,319
Speaker 7: Suns because we've lost Paul George. But if Kawhi I

633
00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:16,239
Speaker 7: think is our best player, and right now he has

634
00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:18,680
Speaker 7: played back to backs, he is playing the best basketball

635
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Speaker 7: he's played in a hot second. If he wants to

636
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:24,640
Speaker 7: shut Kevin Durant down, he can just focus on defense

637
00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:27,840
Speaker 7: and shut him down. Now, Devin Booker obviously can step

638
00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:30,960
Speaker 7: and I understand that, but we can we can do damage.

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Speaker 7: I don't I I don't think we're gonna win the series.

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Speaker 7: And that's me being realistic here. I just do not

641
00:34:36,440 --> 00:34:38,720
Speaker 7: not once did I think the Suns would sweep the Clippers.

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Speaker 1: Wait.

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Speaker 5: Wait, Kawhi Leonard cannot shut down Kevin Durrant.

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Speaker 6: If he focuses just on defense.

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Speaker 7: I can't expect Kawhi to play defense and then go

646
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Speaker 7: offensively as hard as he can, so that if he

647
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Speaker 7: just focuses on defense, then the scoring has to come

648
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Speaker 7: from other people.

649
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Speaker 6: Can I know that.

650
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Speaker 5: Kevin Durant had one leg? What was that five years ago?

651
00:34:58,320 --> 00:35:01,040
Speaker 5: And he gave Kawhi the business? He had like eleven

652
00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:02,880
Speaker 5: points in five minutes or something like that on Hi

653
00:35:02,920 --> 00:35:03,839
Speaker 5: before is a kill.

654
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Speaker 1: And he gives up so much high to him MANSI,

655
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Speaker 1: I mean mid rage jumper. There's there's only so much

656
00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:12,640
Speaker 1: you can do if you're giving up half a foot

657
00:35:12,680 --> 00:35:13,719
Speaker 1: to another human being.

658
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Speaker 5: And if Kawhi is going to go spend all his

659
00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:18,560
Speaker 5: energy on offense or are you saying that Russell Westbrook

660
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Speaker 5: is gonna have to I mean defense, Harry or yeah,

661
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Speaker 5: I'm defense. I'm sorry, Like Kawhi has to do everything.

662
00:35:24,840 --> 00:35:25,600
Speaker 6: But Kawhi doesn't.

663
00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:29,359
Speaker 7: If he if he can make Kevin Durant uncomfortable and

664
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Speaker 7: drop fifteen points, not thirty, not forty, and the other

665
00:35:33,239 --> 00:35:36,719
Speaker 7: Clippers Zubac does what he does in the center. And

666
00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:39,520
Speaker 7: you know, Nick Batoum is really streaky. But let's say

667
00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:41,680
Speaker 7: he has a good game. I just don't I don't.

668
00:35:41,480 --> 00:35:44,400
Speaker 6: See a sweep. The Suns will probably win, but I

669
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Speaker 6: do not see.

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Speaker 2: Sorry, I didn't want a mutiny here. This was the key.

671
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Speaker 2: Everybody's got to air it out. Short rebuttal, short rebuttal.

672
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Speaker 1: Look, And this is just to defend the statement about

673
00:35:55,120 --> 00:35:57,840
Speaker 1: being the hungrier team, because you're the one who commented, like,

674
00:35:57,880 --> 00:36:00,399
Speaker 1: how are the Clippers not the hungrier team? Just think

675
00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:02,960
Speaker 1: about what's happened to the Suns recently. They made the

676
00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:05,879
Speaker 1: NBA Finals in twenty one, all right, they had the

677
00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:08,840
Speaker 1: best record in the NBA sixty four and eighteen and

678
00:36:08,920 --> 00:36:12,360
Speaker 1: twenty two, right, they get knocked out in the second round.

679
00:36:12,640 --> 00:36:15,560
Speaker 1: This team has been a burgeoning success. They I mean,

680
00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:17,640
Speaker 1: they went toe to toe with the champs two years

681
00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:20,719
Speaker 1: ago and they were the best team in the regular season. Again,

682
00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:22,800
Speaker 1: no rewards for being the best team in the regular

683
00:36:22,840 --> 00:36:24,400
Speaker 1: season last year, and.

684
00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:27,279
Speaker 2: Then they went all in this trade deadline.

685
00:36:27,360 --> 00:36:29,239
Speaker 1: They said, you know, what, the hell with it.

686
00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:31,120
Speaker 2: We're tired of being the bridesmaids.

687
00:36:31,400 --> 00:36:33,200
Speaker 1: We need to be the ones walking back down the

688
00:36:33,239 --> 00:36:36,279
Speaker 1: altar with the grand prize, like, we have to get

689
00:36:36,320 --> 00:36:38,800
Speaker 1: the job done. So they went out and they leveraged

690
00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:43,520
Speaker 1: their future, bringing Kevin Durant, and I look again, those

691
00:36:43,640 --> 00:36:48,000
Speaker 1: things are meaningful being that close for that long. You know,

692
00:36:48,160 --> 00:36:50,880
Speaker 1: Chris Paul, you know, you throw so many other storylines.

693
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:54,600
Speaker 1: That's meaningful stuff. Kevin Durant, this is a legacy making

694
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Speaker 1: move for him. If he doesn't win a championship with

695
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Speaker 1: the Suns, everybody's going to talk about his career and

696
00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:04,040
Speaker 1: lawed his career because he's one of the greatest basketball

697
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Speaker 1: he's ever played. But when you think about it, they're

698
00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:09,840
Speaker 1: gonna say, yeah, but his championships were bought. He needed

699
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Speaker 1: to go to the Warriors and ride cottails to win

700
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Speaker 1: his championships. If he wins this one with the Suns,

701
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Speaker 1: he's the reason why the Sons win the championships. So

702
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Speaker 1: this to me again, just to defend the point, the

703
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Speaker 1: Sons are the hungrier team here, all right.

704
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Speaker 2: I thought it was a good back and forth on

705
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Speaker 2: that one. We haven't even started that series yet. All right,

706
00:37:31,600 --> 00:37:35,799
Speaker 2: all right, we got a lot of stars obviously in

707
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Speaker 2: these NBA playoffs. Who is the most Valuable Player in

708
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Speaker 2: the NBA? We've got the answer. This is Fox Sports Sunday.

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Speaker 1: Are you hungry?

710
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Speaker 2: Steve Harman and a Rich Arnberger. This is Fox Sports Sunday.

711
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:57,600
Speaker 2: We're live from the Tyraq dot Com studios. So the

712
00:37:57,680 --> 00:38:01,279
Speaker 2: votes are already in for MVP is voted on the

713
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Speaker 2: regular season. We could have an argument all day of

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Speaker 2: whether or not a chicolu the playoffs. That's why, to

715
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Speaker 2: me and a lot of people, NBA Playoffs, NBA Finals

716
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Speaker 2: MVP maybe is a much more significant award than the

717
00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:16,839
Speaker 2: regular season MVP. But it's been back and forth, Rich,

718
00:38:16,920 --> 00:38:18,640
Speaker 2: you know, is it going to be Embiid, It's going

719
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Speaker 2: to be jokicch And what people have to remember is

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Speaker 2: the most valuable player in this league, as great as

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Speaker 2: those two are, is Yiannis. You know, Jannis went back

722
00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:35,360
Speaker 2: to back MVPs, and what we have seen in this

723
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Speaker 2: MVP voting over the years, like how is it that

724
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Speaker 2: Lebron James has not won an MVP awards since twenty fourteen?

725
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Speaker 2: He won four out of five and they just thought,

726
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Speaker 2: ah enough same they had with Michael Jordan. I mean,

727
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:53,239
Speaker 2: Jordan literally should have been MVP every year. You could

728
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Speaker 2: make the same argument with Lebron James that he was

729
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Speaker 2: the best player in the league. They wanted to give

730
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Speaker 2: it to Stepford years. Let's give one to Duran. How

731
00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:05,840
Speaker 2: about Westboard Harden, he needs one. He hasn't won one yet,

732
00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:09,960
Speaker 2: and we're seeing it again. If you if I had

733
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Speaker 2: a lineup and I could choose between Embiid, Jokic and Yannis,

734
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Speaker 2: I'm taking you. Honis that to me is the best

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Speaker 2: player in the NBA.

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Speaker 1: He's certainly one of the most efficient basketball players we've

737
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Speaker 1: ever seen. It feels like there's no wasted steps, there's

738
00:39:29,680 --> 00:39:34,919
Speaker 1: no wasted moments with the honest defensively, offensively, I mean,

739
00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:38,839
Speaker 1: freak is the appropriate nickname for a player of his

740
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Speaker 1: caliber athletically being gifted like he is. But then just

741
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Speaker 1: from the standpoint of his ability to ball handle, his

742
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Speaker 1: ability to work off ball, his ability to create space

743
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Speaker 1: for himself and drain shots and finish at the rim,

744
00:39:53,200 --> 00:39:56,239
Speaker 1: and yeah, he just does all the things, man, and

745
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Speaker 1: I love watching his game and I agree with you,

746
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Speaker 1: I think, And this is the reason Steve and I

747
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:04,160
Speaker 1: know we have this to the debate because it's important

748
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Speaker 1: to you, and it's important to a lot of people.

749
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Speaker 1: But this is the reason why NBA All Stars and

750
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Speaker 1: MVPs and Hall of Fames all that stuff doesn't really

751
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Speaker 1: matter to me because it's subjective and it's usually wrong

752
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Speaker 1: in my very subjective opinion.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, by the way, people say, wow, he's not a

754
00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:26,400
Speaker 2: great three point shooter. Neither was Michael Jordan, Right, I

755
00:40:26,440 --> 00:40:29,040
Speaker 2: mean the bottomlight is he does more in the court

756
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Speaker 2: than any other player in this league. Hey, the draft,

757
00:40:32,480 --> 00:40:35,359
Speaker 2: the NFL Draft less than two weeks away. We're gonna

758
00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:38,320
Speaker 2: break down the latest news. This is Fox Sports Sunday.

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Speaker 2: Oh yes, rolling on on this beautiful Sunday. NBA playoffs

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Speaker 2: are underway, we've got Major League Baseball. We're gonna get

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Speaker 2: some conversation in on where we stand with the MLB,

762
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Speaker 2: and we got the NFL Draft less than two weeks way.

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Speaker 2: Once again, we are broadcasting live from the ti rag

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Speaker 2: dot com studios Tyraq dot com. We're gonna help get

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Speaker 2: So while the NBA playoffs are the start of they're endless.

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Speaker 1: I mean again, we're gonna be doing this for two months.

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Speaker 2: I have two months, and you know, one thing about

771
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Speaker 2: the I'm not you know, Lebron really set it after

772
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Speaker 2: the Lakers survived, They're playing game against Minnesota, his total

773
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Speaker 2: disdain for this playing and ultimately the seven and eight

774
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Speaker 2: seeds both got into the playoffs. So you know, just

775
00:41:36,719 --> 00:41:40,360
Speaker 2: wasted time is basically what it is, wasted energy to

776
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Speaker 2: get more people to watch.

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Speaker 1: I guess.

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Speaker 2: I mean everything's money related, I understand that, but I

779
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Speaker 2: know you're a big proponent of in terms of playoffs,

780
00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:52,720
Speaker 2: less is more. Oh yeah, and imagine if the opening

781
00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:54,920
Speaker 2: round of the NBA playoffs or like they used to

782
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Speaker 2: be three out of five or really go back in

783
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Speaker 2: the day, people, you really have to go back in history.

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Speaker 2: But in nineteen eighty eighty one, Magic Johnson's second season,

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Speaker 2: so the Lakers obviously won the championship his rookie year,

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Speaker 2: his famous forty two point fifteen rebound, seven assist night

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Speaker 2: when Kareem was on the bench to win the Lakers

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Speaker 2: the championship. The next year, they play the Houston Rockets

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Speaker 2: with Moses Malone in the first round, it's two out

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Speaker 2: of three, two out of three. Lakers lose the first

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Speaker 2: game at home. Wow, wake up call. They go to Houston,

792
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Speaker 2: they win, all right, order is restored, Lakers come home, lose.

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Speaker 1: Yep, gone, yep.

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Speaker 2: You had to imagine a first round of the playoffs.

795
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Speaker 2: I like baseball sort of escalates things, don't they. Right?

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Speaker 2: You know, it's like, you know, two out of three,

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Speaker 2: three out of five, four out of seven. You don't

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Speaker 2: get four out of seven in baseball until you actually

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Speaker 2: get two the league championship series. Yeah, why can't you

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Speaker 2: do the same thing in the NBA first round?

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Speaker 1: So long?

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00:42:57,160 --> 00:43:00,919
Speaker 2: How about first round? Two out of three, round three

803
00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:04,200
Speaker 2: out of five? Now you got the conference championships. Fine,

804
00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:06,960
Speaker 2: four out of seven, NBA Finals four out of seven.

805
00:43:07,239 --> 00:43:10,319
Speaker 2: But imagine how on the edge of our seat we

806
00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:13,239
Speaker 2: would be, how important every game would be in these

807
00:43:13,280 --> 00:43:16,240
Speaker 2: opening rounds. If you're saying, all right, one seed versus

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Speaker 2: an eight shouldn't have a problem, right, two out of

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Speaker 2: three that are not stumbled. That's why I'm the Lakers

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Speaker 2: in eighty eighty one. It could happen now to me,

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Speaker 2: It would make these playoffs so much better.

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Speaker 1: Why why are the NFL playoff ratings and viewership numbers

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Speaker 1: so high year after year after year. Do you really

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Speaker 1: think it's because all of a sudden there's a ton

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Speaker 1: more Philadelphia Eagles fans, or a ton more San Francisco

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Speaker 1: forty nine Ers fans, or Bills fans or Chiefs fans

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Speaker 1: or Bucks fans. Now, it's because there's urgency. Look, I

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Speaker 1: mean I get swept up in college basketball for a

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Speaker 1: month and a half every single college bat basketball season. Now, look,

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Speaker 1: I follow a team, and that team, especially being as

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Speaker 1: successful as they've been, it makes it a lot more

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Speaker 1: fun to follow college basketball. But I really start dialing

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Speaker 1: it up when the when March madness hits. Why because

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Speaker 1: it's single elimination. Because it's fun watching watching teams play

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Speaker 1: for their proverbial playoff lives and existence. That's fun. I

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Speaker 1: don't know any of the stars in college basketball outside

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Speaker 1: of the select handful who really are going to be

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Speaker 1: impact players potentially at the next level. I mean, just

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Speaker 1: like everyone else, I'm there because when something's urgent, when

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Speaker 1: you know something's going to be talked about the next day,

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Speaker 1: regardless of whether you're a sports talk radio show host

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Speaker 1: or if you're working off the back of a trash truck,

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Speaker 1: like it's going to be talked about the next day.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be all over the papers. People are

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Speaker 1: interested in urgency the NBA playoffs, and for the most part,

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Speaker 1: Major League Baseball's playoff has a real lacked urgency for

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Speaker 1: a long time. I love the rule changes in the MLB.

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Speaker 1: I mean that stuff has made the opening rounds of

839
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Speaker 1: their postseason way more interesting. The NBA needs to do

840
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Speaker 1: the same thing.

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Speaker 2: By the way, you go back to your third season

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Speaker 2: in the NFL when your Patriots lose to a nine

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Speaker 2: and seven Giants team that was actually outscored that season. Yep,

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Speaker 2: if that's a two out of three, I'm betting on

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Speaker 2: the Patriots.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, of course you would.

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Speaker 2: I mean, if that had been a two out of

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Speaker 2: three and you lose that first game, you probably demolish

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Speaker 2: them in the next couple of games. Like, Okay, we

850
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Speaker 2: got the wake up goal.

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Speaker 1: We were a much better team. We had some injuries,

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00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:43,280
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, but like back in twenty twelve,

853
00:45:43,360 --> 00:45:47,680
Speaker 1: like you know, this was among the better Patriots teams

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Speaker 1: ever fielded. It just doesn't matter though, when you're playing

855
00:45:52,000 --> 00:45:57,040
Speaker 1: one game. Guess what. Mario Manningham made an unbelievable catch,

856
00:45:57,360 --> 00:46:01,319
Speaker 1: Wes Welkler dropped a really important ball, Gronx ankle was hurt.

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00:46:01,480 --> 00:46:04,120
Speaker 1: We had some you know, mix ups on the offensive line.

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00:46:04,719 --> 00:46:08,320
Speaker 1: Things happen when you're playing one game for all the marbles.

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00:46:08,680 --> 00:46:11,880
Speaker 1: It makes it so much more enjoyable for the fans.

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00:46:11,920 --> 00:46:14,840
Speaker 1: And yeah, I mean to your point, these NBA playoffs,

861
00:46:14,920 --> 00:46:17,560
Speaker 1: like we're excited because they've started. And don't get me wrong,

862
00:46:17,600 --> 00:46:20,040
Speaker 1: there's teams that I'm really high on. I can't wait

863
00:46:20,080 --> 00:46:22,799
Speaker 1: to see the Suns tonight. I'm really excited to see

864
00:46:22,800 --> 00:46:25,719
Speaker 1: what the Grizzlies can do. I'm really excited to see

865
00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:28,640
Speaker 1: what the Bucks can do. You know, So I'm either conference.

866
00:46:28,680 --> 00:46:30,759
Speaker 1: I have teams that I'm really excited to watch. But

867
00:46:31,520 --> 00:46:34,279
Speaker 1: I again, this is such a long process that there

868
00:46:34,280 --> 00:46:37,040
Speaker 1: are times during the NBA postseason where you kind of

869
00:46:37,080 --> 00:46:39,920
Speaker 1: lose the scent where you're like, geez, where are we

870
00:46:40,160 --> 00:46:41,440
Speaker 1: Like what what round are we in?

871
00:46:41,560 --> 00:46:43,319
Speaker 2: Well, I mean, this is what's gonna happen. We get

872
00:46:43,320 --> 00:46:45,720
Speaker 2: here next week, we're gonna be like, oh, these series

873
00:46:45,760 --> 00:46:49,319
Speaker 2: are still going on. So these all these series that

874
00:46:49,360 --> 00:46:52,919
Speaker 2: are starting this weekend. We're still gonna be talking about

875
00:46:52,920 --> 00:46:55,120
Speaker 2: it next week and that's the first round of four.

876
00:46:55,560 --> 00:46:58,000
Speaker 2: So we got a long way. We'll pace ourselves through

877
00:46:58,040 --> 00:47:01,000
Speaker 2: these NBA playoffs. One thing that is a little more

878
00:47:01,120 --> 00:47:04,200
Speaker 2: urgent right now is the NFL Draft. We are now

879
00:47:04,239 --> 00:47:08,640
Speaker 2: eleven days away from the NFL Draft. I love this

880
00:47:08,920 --> 00:47:15,400
Speaker 2: time because there's so much speculation about this guy's going here.

881
00:47:15,520 --> 00:47:19,640
Speaker 2: It's a lot of noise and for people that work

882
00:47:19,760 --> 00:47:22,680
Speaker 2: for these NFL teams and how this operates with NFL

883
00:47:22,800 --> 00:47:26,920
Speaker 2: teams at this point, so you put up your own board.

884
00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:29,600
Speaker 2: Every team has their own board. They've ranked every one

885
00:47:29,640 --> 00:47:34,440
Speaker 2: of these players simultaneously, they're having to figure out what

886
00:47:34,560 --> 00:47:37,480
Speaker 2: everybody else is going to do. The only team that

887
00:47:37,640 --> 00:47:41,280
Speaker 2: knows that they have one hundred percent choice of everyone

888
00:47:41,320 --> 00:47:43,080
Speaker 2: on the board right now, it is in Carolina Panthers

889
00:47:43,080 --> 00:47:45,759
Speaker 2: because they have the first overall pick. That's the only

890
00:47:45,960 --> 00:47:48,120
Speaker 2: that's the only pick in the draft where you don't

891
00:47:48,120 --> 00:47:51,920
Speaker 2: have to worry about anybody else, because even the Texans

892
00:47:51,920 --> 00:47:53,759
Speaker 2: that two have to worry about when Carolina is going

893
00:47:53,800 --> 00:47:55,920
Speaker 2: to do at number one. What if the you know

894
00:47:55,960 --> 00:47:58,239
Speaker 2: you're trying, are they going to take Stroud? Are they

895
00:47:58,239 --> 00:48:00,920
Speaker 2: gonna take young and if they take the guy that

896
00:48:00,960 --> 00:48:03,040
Speaker 2: we don't want, are we going to trade out of

897
00:48:03,040 --> 00:48:07,480
Speaker 2: the spot. So there's so much working behind the scenes,

898
00:48:07,600 --> 00:48:09,960
Speaker 2: not only in how you prepare your board and which

899
00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:13,400
Speaker 2: players you like in order, but all the other teams

900
00:48:13,440 --> 00:48:16,239
Speaker 2: how you know, because if that guy's taking off the board,

901
00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:19,279
Speaker 2: what's our plan? B CD. There's so much of this

902
00:48:19,400 --> 00:48:23,800
Speaker 2: going on behind the scenes. I love it. It's really crazy. Yeah,

903
00:48:23,840 --> 00:48:26,759
Speaker 2: but always, but always, it comes down to quarterbacks, right,

904
00:48:27,239 --> 00:48:31,280
Speaker 2: And we see it every single year in the NFL Draft,

905
00:48:31,680 --> 00:48:34,360
Speaker 2: where at the last second a team in need of

906
00:48:34,400 --> 00:48:38,080
Speaker 2: a quarterback panics and they make a bold move to

907
00:48:38,120 --> 00:48:44,160
Speaker 2: move up in the draft. Chicago Bears Trubisky. I mean,

908
00:48:44,239 --> 00:48:47,320
Speaker 2: we can go through so many of these instances where

909
00:48:47,360 --> 00:48:49,719
Speaker 2: teams say, yeah, we'll sit and then all of a

910
00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:52,879
Speaker 2: sudden they hit the panic button. And so if you're

911
00:48:53,880 --> 00:48:57,400
Speaker 2: Houston at too, and remember they also have the twelfth

912
00:48:57,400 --> 00:49:01,360
Speaker 2: pick in this draft, if you're Arizona three in the

913
00:49:01,480 --> 00:49:04,600
Speaker 2: at four, your phone is ringing off the hook of

914
00:49:05,040 --> 00:49:11,040
Speaker 2: teams trying to move up to get Anthony Richardson Will Levis.

915
00:49:12,800 --> 00:49:16,040
Speaker 2: I don't get it. These these are these these two

916
00:49:16,120 --> 00:49:23,200
Speaker 2: quarterbacks in particular are pure speculation quarterbacks you got, you know,

917
00:49:23,239 --> 00:49:26,080
Speaker 2: and then that's that's like who's ready now and who

918
00:49:26,120 --> 00:49:28,359
Speaker 2: do we believe like five years amow, it's really gonna

919
00:49:28,400 --> 00:49:28,719
Speaker 2: be good?

920
00:49:28,960 --> 00:49:30,640
Speaker 1: I know, but we say this a lot about a

921
00:49:30,640 --> 00:49:31,759
Speaker 1: lot of quarterbacks. Hang on.

922
00:49:31,920 --> 00:49:34,040
Speaker 2: It happens every year. I I I.

923
00:49:35,520 --> 00:49:38,680
Speaker 1: Understand, I hear what you're saying, and I really, I

924
00:49:38,719 --> 00:49:43,480
Speaker 1: really do enjoy this debate that happens annually around this time,

925
00:49:44,560 --> 00:49:47,960
Speaker 1: you know, where we start talking about certain quarterbacks like, well,

926
00:49:48,000 --> 00:49:50,319
Speaker 1: we know they're gonna work at the next level, so

927
00:49:50,400 --> 00:49:53,239
Speaker 1: let's look at the tier down whoa whoa, whoa whoa

928
00:49:53,440 --> 00:49:57,000
Speaker 1: not so fast? How many people said that Sam Darnold

929
00:49:57,120 --> 00:49:59,920
Speaker 1: was going to be winning championships a lot? You know,

930
00:50:00,120 --> 00:50:03,960
Speaker 1: how many people really like Josh Rosen coming out of UCLA.

931
00:50:04,800 --> 00:50:08,600
Speaker 1: You know, I'm just saying, it's very easy for people

932
00:50:08,800 --> 00:50:11,960
Speaker 1: to start overlooking the fact that the NFL is a

933
00:50:12,080 --> 00:50:15,440
Speaker 1: very different beast in college football. And sometimes it's the

934
00:50:15,520 --> 00:50:18,279
Speaker 1: guy who you least expect who's going to have the

935
00:50:18,280 --> 00:50:22,239
Speaker 1: most success. And sometimes it's because he got drafted into

936
00:50:22,280 --> 00:50:25,239
Speaker 1: a better environment. You know, he got to develop more

937
00:50:25,320 --> 00:50:30,080
Speaker 1: slowly around better players, around better coaching. I mean, whoever

938
00:50:30,200 --> 00:50:34,000
Speaker 1: goes to Carolina. Don't get me wrong, I have a

939
00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:36,759
Speaker 1: lot of respect for Frank Reich, but they're going to

940
00:50:36,880 --> 00:50:39,319
Speaker 1: one of the worst football teams in football last year.

941
00:50:39,840 --> 00:50:43,360
Speaker 1: Whoever goes to the Houston Texans is going to be

942
00:50:43,480 --> 00:50:46,160
Speaker 1: joining forces with a guy who's never done it at

943
00:50:46,480 --> 00:50:49,960
Speaker 1: head coach before. And the reason is because the Houston

944
00:50:50,000 --> 00:50:54,120
Speaker 1: Texans were dreadful last season. So as much as we

945
00:50:54,200 --> 00:50:56,520
Speaker 1: want to say and a lot of it's true about

946
00:50:56,520 --> 00:51:01,200
Speaker 1: c J. Stroud or Bryce Young, you know, the is

947
00:51:00,680 --> 00:51:06,799
Speaker 1: it's such a double edged sword being drafted number one

948
00:51:06,840 --> 00:51:11,200
Speaker 1: or number two overall, because you are inheriting a mess.

949
00:51:11,960 --> 00:51:15,879
Speaker 1: You're going someplace that needs you desperately to be the

950
00:51:15,920 --> 00:51:18,880
Speaker 1: reason why they're not a mess anymore. And that's really

951
00:51:18,960 --> 00:51:22,160
Speaker 1: difficult to do when you're one player, first of all,

952
00:51:22,640 --> 00:51:25,200
Speaker 1: on a football team, which we know is the ultimate

953
00:51:25,239 --> 00:51:28,799
Speaker 1: team sport. And second of all, it's really difficult when

954
00:51:28,800 --> 00:51:31,520
Speaker 1: you're a rookie and you're learning this all for the

955
00:51:31,560 --> 00:51:33,439
Speaker 1: first time. You're going through this all for the first

956
00:51:33,440 --> 00:51:37,120
Speaker 1: time and again sometimes with brand new head coaches, Sometimes

957
00:51:37,120 --> 00:51:39,200
Speaker 1: with brand new head coaches in new environments. In the

958
00:51:39,239 --> 00:51:41,279
Speaker 1: case of Frank Reich, he's not a brand new head coach,

959
00:51:41,320 --> 00:51:43,960
Speaker 1: but he's brand new to the Carolina Panthers. He doesn't

960
00:51:43,960 --> 00:51:45,839
Speaker 1: know that roster yet, not as well as he did

961
00:51:45,880 --> 00:51:49,120
Speaker 1: the Colts or the Philadelphia Eagles before that. So there's

962
00:51:49,200 --> 00:51:52,040
Speaker 1: a lot of learning that's going on in these organizations.

963
00:51:52,080 --> 00:51:54,920
Speaker 1: And then you're gonna insert one of these two players

964
00:51:54,960 --> 00:51:58,000
Speaker 1: and just assume they're NFL ready. I got news for you.

965
00:51:58,080 --> 00:52:00,480
Speaker 1: One of these two guys, per the statistic, is going

966
00:52:00,520 --> 00:52:03,799
Speaker 1: to suck. That's the reality of the situation. It's like

967
00:52:03,880 --> 00:52:07,360
Speaker 1: a forty forty five percent hit rate in the first

968
00:52:07,480 --> 00:52:11,839
Speaker 1: round with quarterbacks. It's the reality of the sport. And

969
00:52:11,880 --> 00:52:15,800
Speaker 1: it's not their fault. They're great college players, but c J. Stroud,

970
00:52:15,840 --> 00:52:18,759
Speaker 1: Bryce Young, if they go one and two, one of

971
00:52:18,800 --> 00:52:21,760
Speaker 1: them's gonna stink. I mean, that's just per the odds.

972
00:52:21,840 --> 00:52:24,560
Speaker 1: I don't know which one. Nobody knows. And by the way,

973
00:52:24,719 --> 00:52:28,280
Speaker 1: go further down the list to Will leviv Will Levis

974
00:52:28,640 --> 00:52:32,760
Speaker 1: or Anthony Richardson. When you start talking about those guys,

975
00:52:33,080 --> 00:52:35,120
Speaker 1: one of those two guys most likely is gonna be good.

976
00:52:35,200 --> 00:52:37,879
Speaker 1: If we're just comparing the two, one of those two

977
00:52:37,880 --> 00:52:40,239
Speaker 1: guys is going to be a franchise player. We just

978
00:52:40,600 --> 00:52:43,480
Speaker 1: I mean again, we're just talking about probability and statistics.

979
00:52:43,520 --> 00:52:46,879
Speaker 1: We're talking about analyzing drafts for you know, decades at

980
00:52:46,880 --> 00:52:50,319
Speaker 1: a time. That's how this all works. So I get it.

981
00:52:50,320 --> 00:52:55,000
Speaker 1: It seems all very bizarre on draft day, the decision

982
00:52:55,160 --> 00:52:57,840
Speaker 1: some of these teams make. But you also got to remember,

983
00:52:58,120 --> 00:53:01,799
Speaker 1: just because you're choosing, you know, whatever it is last

984
00:53:01,840 --> 00:53:05,440
Speaker 1: year's draft, who was the first overall pick. I'm blanking,

985
00:53:05,600 --> 00:53:08,080
Speaker 1: But just because you're picking first in the draft doesn't

986
00:53:08,080 --> 00:53:12,120
Speaker 1: mean that you're getting a franchise transforming player.

987
00:53:12,120 --> 00:53:14,480
Speaker 2: And just because you're picking last week two years ago,

988
00:53:14,560 --> 00:53:16,560
Speaker 2: he had Trevor Lawrence one, well, this was the he

989
00:53:16,640 --> 00:53:20,200
Speaker 2: had quarterbacks won two three, Trevor Lawrence, who looks like

990
00:53:20,239 --> 00:53:23,560
Speaker 2: he will be good as advertised, followed by Zach Wilson

991
00:53:23,560 --> 00:53:27,640
Speaker 2: and Trey Lance. I mean, Zach Wilson is already out

992
00:53:27,800 --> 00:53:32,160
Speaker 2: and Trey Lance has been replaced by the last pick

993
00:53:32,200 --> 00:53:33,279
Speaker 2: in the draft from a year ago.

994
00:53:33,520 --> 00:53:37,120
Speaker 1: And that's that's a perfect example. That's a perfect example

995
00:53:37,320 --> 00:53:41,120
Speaker 1: of how Brock Purdy was an afterthought.

996
00:53:41,280 --> 00:53:43,439
Speaker 2: That was two years ago. How about three years ago?

997
00:53:43,520 --> 00:53:46,040
Speaker 2: Remember the Green Bay Packers moved up in this draft

998
00:53:46,120 --> 00:53:49,040
Speaker 2: So this was the draft again as far as quarterbacks

999
00:53:49,040 --> 00:53:52,400
Speaker 2: were concerned, where he had Joe Burrow going number one overall,

1000
00:53:52,520 --> 00:53:55,759
Speaker 2: lived up to the hype. Fifth overall pick Tua and

1001
00:53:55,920 --> 00:53:59,400
Speaker 2: you know he looks better after last season. Herbert was

1002
00:53:59,400 --> 00:54:02,120
Speaker 2: the very next pick, and then later in the first round,

1003
00:54:02,120 --> 00:54:06,040
Speaker 2: the Packers move up to get Jordan Love. Yep, guess

1004
00:54:06,040 --> 00:54:08,920
Speaker 2: who was taken twenty seven picks later in the second round,

1005
00:54:09,200 --> 00:54:12,480
Speaker 2: Jalen Hurts. Exactly. You could have had Jalen Hurts, but

1006
00:54:12,560 --> 00:54:14,239
Speaker 2: you moved up to get Jordan Love.

1007
00:54:14,400 --> 00:54:15,120
Speaker 1: But who knows.

1008
00:54:15,160 --> 00:54:17,719
Speaker 2: Maybe Jordan Love is going to be as good as advertised.

1009
00:54:17,760 --> 00:54:19,440
Speaker 2: We haven't really seen him play yet. He's going to

1010
00:54:19,480 --> 00:54:21,719
Speaker 2: finally get his opportunity with the Packers, all right. On

1011
00:54:21,760 --> 00:54:24,000
Speaker 2: the other side, I want to get to one team

1012
00:54:24,080 --> 00:54:28,920
Speaker 2: in particular when it comes to a quarterback situation and

1013
00:54:29,120 --> 00:54:34,239
Speaker 2: do they have it right? They think they do, but

1014
00:54:34,360 --> 00:54:37,600
Speaker 2: maybe there could be yet another twist. Which team is it?

1015
00:54:37,800 --> 00:54:40,640
Speaker 2: We'll tell you. This is Fox Sports Sunday, Steve Harbin

1016
00:54:40,719 --> 00:54:45,160
Speaker 2: and Rich Arnberger on a beautiful Sunday. Once again, this

1017
00:54:45,239 --> 00:54:48,480
Speaker 2: is Fox Sports Sunday. We're alive from the Tirak dot

1018
00:54:48,560 --> 00:54:52,399
Speaker 2: Com studio. So last week you had Easter celebration, rich

1019
00:54:53,840 --> 00:54:55,480
Speaker 2: Zach correct hanging out with the family.

1020
00:54:55,560 --> 00:54:57,239
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

1021
00:54:57,239 --> 00:55:01,840
Speaker 2: And then the sunday before that, you were off.

1022
00:55:02,760 --> 00:55:05,960
Speaker 1: Yeah. The sunday before that, I was a late ad

1023
00:55:06,080 --> 00:55:09,840
Speaker 1: to a theme park visit. And let me tell you something,

1024
00:55:10,080 --> 00:55:12,520
Speaker 1: there's nothing better than going to theme park with a

1025
00:55:12,520 --> 00:55:15,800
Speaker 1: four year old who refuses to be in a stroller. Yeah,

1026
00:55:15,840 --> 00:55:19,760
Speaker 1: because that means dad's carrying him at some point for

1027
00:55:19,920 --> 00:55:20,799
Speaker 1: a long time.

1028
00:55:20,920 --> 00:55:22,560
Speaker 2: Now, you don't want to carry them, although you have

1029
00:55:22,640 --> 00:55:26,560
Speaker 2: to be careful. So I had a situation once when

1030
00:55:26,560 --> 00:55:32,880
Speaker 2: my boys were let's see four and a half and three, yeah,

1031
00:55:32,920 --> 00:55:36,160
Speaker 2: and my daughter was literally one month old.

1032
00:55:36,440 --> 00:55:37,560
Speaker 1: Uh huh.

1033
00:55:37,600 --> 00:55:41,040
Speaker 2: Our buddy, Ralph Ervin had his wedding at Disneyland.

1034
00:55:41,160 --> 00:55:41,799
Speaker 1: Oh there you go.

1035
00:55:41,880 --> 00:55:44,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, And so we went to this wedding with a

1036
00:55:44,600 --> 00:55:47,880
Speaker 2: one month old and the four year old. And so

1037
00:55:48,080 --> 00:55:50,799
Speaker 2: obviously mom is full time with a one month old

1038
00:55:50,880 --> 00:55:54,560
Speaker 2: leaving dad, you know, with the four and a half

1039
00:55:54,640 --> 00:55:56,840
Speaker 2: year old and the three year old that's in a

1040
00:55:57,480 --> 00:56:02,840
Speaker 2: ridiculously crowded Disneyland. And I had that one panic moment

1041
00:56:03,080 --> 00:56:08,719
Speaker 2: oh yeah, yeah, where the boys got separated slightly, and

1042
00:56:08,800 --> 00:56:13,040
Speaker 2: so as I'm reaching for one, I turn and for

1043
00:56:13,080 --> 00:56:15,160
Speaker 2: a split second, the other one's missing.

1044
00:56:16,520 --> 00:56:17,760
Speaker 1: Panic worst.

1045
00:56:18,080 --> 00:56:21,759
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, I've quickly found out where he was and I'm like,

1046
00:56:21,840 --> 00:56:27,680
Speaker 2: don't you ever leave my side again? The pressure was, amit?

1047
00:56:27,760 --> 00:56:30,000
Speaker 2: So I understand that. Well, I'm glad you're back here.

1048
00:56:30,280 --> 00:56:30,920
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah.

1049
00:56:30,960 --> 00:56:35,439
Speaker 2: Because one team, it's a really interesting team going into

1050
00:56:35,480 --> 00:56:40,200
Speaker 2: this NFL draft. The San Francisco forty nine Ers do

1051
00:56:40,280 --> 00:56:42,840
Speaker 2: not have a first or second round pick. No they don't,

1052
00:56:43,040 --> 00:56:47,399
Speaker 2: but they have three compensatory picks that they picked up

1053
00:56:47,480 --> 00:56:53,560
Speaker 2: because a couple of teams hired people from their front

1054
00:56:53,600 --> 00:56:57,280
Speaker 2: office and you get a compensatory pick for that. Also,

1055
00:56:57,560 --> 00:57:02,520
Speaker 2: minority hirings, you got an extra pick when they hired

1056
00:57:03,040 --> 00:57:06,000
Speaker 2: you know a certain you know there's ways to pick

1057
00:57:06,080 --> 00:57:08,880
Speaker 2: up extra picks. So this is a team that I

1058
00:57:08,960 --> 00:57:11,799
Speaker 2: look at the forty nine ers, and if you save quarterback,

1059
00:57:12,480 --> 00:57:16,600
Speaker 2: I dare say there isn't a better roster in the NFL.

1060
00:57:16,640 --> 00:57:19,080
Speaker 2: There might be some equally as good, but I'm talking

1061
00:57:19,080 --> 00:57:22,400
Speaker 2: about impact guys on both sides of the ball. The

1062
00:57:22,400 --> 00:57:25,360
Speaker 2: forty nine er roster, save quarterback, is as good as

1063
00:57:25,400 --> 00:57:29,160
Speaker 2: any roster in the league. That being said, the quarterback

1064
00:57:29,200 --> 00:57:33,520
Speaker 2: position to me is still a huge question mark. You've

1065
00:57:33,560 --> 00:57:36,760
Speaker 2: got Trey Lance, who you you know, trade it up

1066
00:57:36,800 --> 00:57:38,840
Speaker 2: to get at third overall a couple of years ago,

1067
00:57:39,040 --> 00:57:42,040
Speaker 2: just two years ago, and it seems like he's been

1068
00:57:42,080 --> 00:57:46,040
Speaker 2: beaten out by a guy Brock Purdy who doesn't do

1069
00:57:46,080 --> 00:57:49,760
Speaker 2: anything really wrong. But I don't still know if he's

1070
00:57:49,800 --> 00:57:53,240
Speaker 2: the right guy. And then they made a really interesting

1071
00:57:53,280 --> 00:57:57,480
Speaker 2: addition in Sam Darnold. I say that because you say, well,

1072
00:57:57,480 --> 00:58:00,480
Speaker 2: why why would the forty nine ers pick up Sam Darnold?

1073
00:58:00,800 --> 00:58:04,560
Speaker 2: Very simple because a few years ago, back in that

1074
00:58:04,600 --> 00:58:07,040
Speaker 2: twenty nineteen draft, when the argument was is that Baker

1075
00:58:07,040 --> 00:58:09,520
Speaker 2: Mayfield is gonna be Sam Donald, who's the best quarterback

1076
00:58:09,520 --> 00:58:14,040
Speaker 2: in this draft? Obviously John Lynch and Kyle Shanahan thought

1077
00:58:14,040 --> 00:58:17,040
Speaker 2: that Sam Donald was the guy. So you know, you

1078
00:58:17,120 --> 00:58:19,920
Speaker 2: never forget that. I've seen this many times, teams that

1079
00:58:20,040 --> 00:58:22,000
Speaker 2: fall in love with guy one year and it's only

1080
00:58:22,040 --> 00:58:24,240
Speaker 2: four years ago. It's not like ten years ago. It's

1081
00:58:24,280 --> 00:58:28,479
Speaker 2: only four years ago. They're like, the problem with Sam

1082
00:58:28,520 --> 00:58:30,320
Speaker 2: Donald was he's been in the wrong place at the

1083
00:58:30,360 --> 00:58:33,880
Speaker 2: wrong time. Let's let's see what we got here. Maybe

1084
00:58:33,880 --> 00:58:37,000
Speaker 2: there's nothing, but maybe we've got something here. This is

1085
00:58:37,040 --> 00:58:41,040
Speaker 2: still wide open. I mean wide open in my opinion,

1086
00:58:41,400 --> 00:58:44,439
Speaker 2: by the end of this twenty twenty three season, I'm

1087
00:58:44,440 --> 00:58:47,440
Speaker 2: not quite sure who the quarterback of this team is

1088
00:58:47,480 --> 00:58:51,080
Speaker 2: going to be. And there are options. You can still

1089
00:58:51,080 --> 00:58:53,480
Speaker 2: try to convince Tom Brady to come out of retirement.

1090
00:58:54,000 --> 00:58:57,640
Speaker 2: You could have been in the bidding maybe for Aaron Rodgers,

1091
00:58:57,680 --> 00:59:00,200
Speaker 2: although doubtful the Packers would do any deal. Obvious see

1092
00:59:00,240 --> 00:59:02,560
Speaker 2: with the forty nine ers, and there is a Lamar

1093
00:59:02,680 --> 00:59:05,760
Speaker 2: Jackson that's floating out there right for the taking, although

1094
00:59:05,760 --> 00:59:08,160
Speaker 2: they don't have any one picks this year. But I

1095
00:59:08,280 --> 00:59:11,000
Speaker 2: just find it interesting that the forty nine Ers, a

1096
00:59:11,040 --> 00:59:15,520
Speaker 2: team that seemingly has everything else, is good at quarterback.

1097
00:59:15,680 --> 00:59:18,080
Speaker 2: Is that just because they really believe in these quarterbacks?

1098
00:59:18,280 --> 00:59:21,040
Speaker 2: Or is it because Kyle Shanahan has the mindset that

1099
00:59:21,640 --> 00:59:24,520
Speaker 2: I can pretty much put any quarterback into my system

1100
00:59:24,840 --> 00:59:25,959
Speaker 2: he'll be successful.

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00:59:26,040 --> 00:59:29,840
Speaker 1: Well, I think what forty nine Er fans are people

1102
00:59:29,880 --> 00:59:33,320
Speaker 1: who care how deep they go into this year's postseason

1103
00:59:33,640 --> 00:59:38,600
Speaker 1: need to focus on is what this signing of Sam

1104
00:59:38,680 --> 00:59:43,000
Speaker 1: Donald says about Trey Lance. Look, if Trey Lance was

1105
00:59:43,120 --> 00:59:45,760
Speaker 1: who the forty nine Ers thought he should be, they

1106
00:59:45,760 --> 00:59:49,080
Speaker 1: would have never signed Sam Donald. They just wouldn't have

1107
00:59:50,280 --> 00:59:55,000
Speaker 1: like Trey Lance obviously is not working. This is my assessment.

1108
00:59:55,160 --> 00:59:58,040
Speaker 1: I'm not basing this on anything other than just reading

1109
00:59:58,080 --> 01:00:02,480
Speaker 1: the tea leaves, just based on what we've seen with

1110
01:00:02,480 --> 01:00:05,920
Speaker 1: with Sam Donald signing. I mean, think about it, Trey

1111
01:00:06,040 --> 01:00:09,120
Speaker 1: Lance got hurt early in the season. I mean, his

1112
01:00:09,200 --> 01:00:12,400
Speaker 1: ankle's fine, unless unless we're not getting reports on how

1113
01:00:12,440 --> 01:00:15,880
Speaker 1: bad his ankle is. Like maybe maybe that's the reason why.

1114
01:00:16,000 --> 01:00:18,600
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna leave it there. There's plausible there's a

1115
01:00:18,600 --> 01:00:22,200
Speaker 1: plausible situation where Sam Donald's or excuse me, where Trey

1116
01:00:22,320 --> 01:00:25,400
Speaker 1: Lance's ankle still is in all the way healed and

1117
01:00:25,680 --> 01:00:29,440
Speaker 1: it was almost an insurance signing bringing in Sam Donald. Okay,

1118
01:00:29,480 --> 01:00:33,480
Speaker 1: there's a possibility where that's the case. But most likely

1119
01:00:34,280 --> 01:00:37,320
Speaker 1: what's happened here is they have some belief and they

1120
01:00:37,360 --> 01:00:40,400
Speaker 1: have some trust because you have a a half season

1121
01:00:40,440 --> 01:00:43,480
Speaker 1: with Brock Purdy and you watched him in the postseason.

1122
01:00:43,800 --> 01:00:46,840
Speaker 1: He didn't look amazing, but he looked sturdy. He looked

1123
01:00:46,880 --> 01:00:50,560
Speaker 1: like he could handle it. And I'm sure there's some

1124
01:00:50,640 --> 01:00:54,320
Speaker 1: belief in Brock Purdy at this point. What I'm positive of,

1125
01:00:54,880 --> 01:00:58,280
Speaker 1: if Trey lance is healthy, they do not have any

1126
01:00:58,320 --> 01:01:02,840
Speaker 1: belief in Trey Lance. That Sam Donald signing means so yeah,

1127
01:01:02,880 --> 01:01:06,360
Speaker 1: I mean they are unsettled at quarterback because the person

1128
01:01:06,400 --> 01:01:09,360
Speaker 1: who they would most want to be their starting quarterback

1129
01:01:09,720 --> 01:01:12,080
Speaker 1: is injured with an elbow and the person who they

1130
01:01:12,160 --> 01:01:14,600
Speaker 1: drafted traded up to draft in the top of the

1131
01:01:14,640 --> 01:01:17,920
Speaker 1: first round to be their quarterback of the future in

1132
01:01:18,000 --> 01:01:21,240
Speaker 1: their view, can't play the position at this level. Otherwise

1133
01:01:21,280 --> 01:01:24,280
Speaker 1: you would never sign Sam Darnald. The reason why Sam

1134
01:01:24,360 --> 01:01:27,360
Speaker 1: Donald's there is just in case Brock Purdy can't go

1135
01:01:27,520 --> 01:01:30,760
Speaker 1: at first. Trey Lance is a problem for the forty

1136
01:01:30,840 --> 01:01:34,040
Speaker 1: nine ers. Trey Lance. Every single day. John Lynch shows

1137
01:01:34,080 --> 01:01:37,160
Speaker 1: up at his office every single day, Kyle Shannan shows

1138
01:01:37,200 --> 01:01:39,480
Speaker 1: up at his office and they start talking about the

1139
01:01:39,600 --> 01:01:42,440
Speaker 1: roster and they get to Trey both of them, I

1140
01:01:42,640 --> 01:01:45,600
Speaker 1: guarantee it, they have a sinking feeling in their stomach

1141
01:01:45,640 --> 01:01:47,680
Speaker 1: and they think, wow, yeah, we missed on that one,

1142
01:01:48,000 --> 01:01:49,520
Speaker 1: and then they move on to the next guy on

1143
01:01:49,600 --> 01:01:53,600
Speaker 1: the roster because they did. Because if Trey Lance was

1144
01:01:53,680 --> 01:01:57,160
Speaker 1: the guy, we wouldn't be having a discussion about Brock

1145
01:01:57,200 --> 01:01:59,920
Speaker 1: Purdy right now. Brock Purdy would be a placeholder for

1146
01:02:00,080 --> 01:02:03,040
Speaker 1: Treya Wance. If Trey Lance was the guy, we wouldn't

1147
01:02:03,080 --> 01:02:06,240
Speaker 1: even be having a conversation about Sam Donald because Trey

1148
01:02:06,320 --> 01:02:08,480
Speaker 1: Lance would be the guy. He's not the guy. So

1149
01:02:08,760 --> 01:02:11,520
Speaker 1: unfortunately for the forty nine Ers, they're gonna need to

1150
01:02:11,560 --> 01:02:14,840
Speaker 1: find a way to have Brock Purdy if healthy, or

1151
01:02:14,880 --> 01:02:18,080
Speaker 1: Sam Darnald to start the season. Before Brock Purdy is healthy,

1152
01:02:18,560 --> 01:02:20,320
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to find a way to get him

1153
01:02:20,320 --> 01:02:23,080
Speaker 1: involved in the offense. So Trey Lance, I promise you,

1154
01:02:23,120 --> 01:02:24,560
Speaker 1: this is how the season is gonna go. You can

1155
01:02:24,560 --> 01:02:27,680
Speaker 1: mark my words. They're gonna have packages where Trey Lance

1156
01:02:27,720 --> 01:02:30,960
Speaker 1: comes onto the field. They're gonna have packages where Trey

1157
01:02:31,040 --> 01:02:33,760
Speaker 1: Lance is down at the goal line or on short yardage,

1158
01:02:33,960 --> 01:02:36,400
Speaker 1: and they're gonna show off Trey Lance, although he's not

1159
01:02:36,400 --> 01:02:37,920
Speaker 1: gonna get a lot of playing time because you don't

1160
01:02:37,920 --> 01:02:40,160
Speaker 1: want to expose Trey Lance, and they're gonna try to

1161
01:02:40,200 --> 01:02:42,840
Speaker 1: trade him for the maximum value they could get back

1162
01:02:42,840 --> 01:02:45,440
Speaker 1: fro him because they need to move on from Trey Lance.

1163
01:02:45,640 --> 01:02:48,120
Speaker 1: He's not working in the forty nine ers system. You

1164
01:02:48,280 --> 01:02:51,320
Speaker 1: don't sign Sam Darnald if he was, because otherwise you'd

1165
01:02:51,360 --> 01:02:53,360
Speaker 1: be all set at quarterback. Right now, We've got Trey

1166
01:02:53,440 --> 01:02:55,640
Speaker 1: Lance coming off the ankle, but he's gonna be fine

1167
01:02:55,680 --> 01:02:58,040
Speaker 1: in time for the end of OTAs, and he's gonna

1168
01:02:58,040 --> 01:03:00,160
Speaker 1: be our starting quarterback until Brock comes back, and then

1169
01:03:00,160 --> 01:03:02,920
Speaker 1: maybe we have a quarterback competition unless Trey Lance is

1170
01:03:02,920 --> 01:03:06,080
Speaker 1: playing well enough to be our starting quarterback. That's that's

1171
01:03:06,080 --> 01:03:08,680
Speaker 1: the reason why they signed Sam Darnold. It has nothing

1172
01:03:08,680 --> 01:03:10,920
Speaker 1: to do with Brock Party. It has everything to do

1173
01:03:11,000 --> 01:03:11,600
Speaker 1: with Trey Wanz.

1174
01:03:11,640 --> 01:03:12,880
Speaker 2: I'll tell you one thing he has to do with

1175
01:03:12,920 --> 01:03:15,560
Speaker 2: Brock Party. He makes eight hundred and seventy thousand dollars

1176
01:03:15,600 --> 01:03:18,160
Speaker 2: a show that helps eight hundred and seventy thousand. And

1177
01:03:18,160 --> 01:03:21,400
Speaker 2: by the way, that's non negotiable, so agreement between the

1178
01:03:21,400 --> 01:03:25,640
Speaker 2: players union and the league. He will make eight seventy's.

1179
01:03:25,720 --> 01:03:28,200
Speaker 2: There's no there's nothing he can do about it. There's

1180
01:03:28,240 --> 01:03:30,680
Speaker 2: nothing the team will do about it, even if they

1181
01:03:30,720 --> 01:03:34,120
Speaker 2: wanted to pay him more money. So, when you're starting quarterback,

1182
01:03:34,240 --> 01:03:37,800
Speaker 2: assuming Party will be healthy, is making eight hundred and

1183
01:03:37,800 --> 01:03:40,560
Speaker 2: seventy thousand dollars when you have other quarterbacks in this

1184
01:03:40,640 --> 01:03:44,800
Speaker 2: league making more than forty million dollars, Boy, that gives

1185
01:03:44,800 --> 01:03:48,240
Speaker 2: you a little flexibility to address some other needs on

1186
01:03:48,280 --> 01:03:50,680
Speaker 2: your team. All right, let's find out what is trending

1187
01:03:50,760 --> 01:03:55,160
Speaker 2: right now, and Moncey don't is Moncey's still here? I

1188
01:03:55,200 --> 01:03:58,240
Speaker 2: mean after the I came back change, I came back.

1189
01:03:58,720 --> 01:04:01,560
Speaker 2: She by the way, Rich, as soon as we finished

1190
01:04:01,560 --> 01:04:05,800
Speaker 2: that segment, I mean, she came storming into the student.

1191
01:04:06,560 --> 01:04:09,600
Speaker 2: Oh the thing she said about you. I was trying

1192
01:04:09,600 --> 01:04:12,360
Speaker 2: to distance myself, like you know, I was just no,

1193
01:04:12,480 --> 01:04:14,480
Speaker 2: I was just throwing it out there when we were talking.

1194
01:04:14,600 --> 01:04:16,800
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm one hundred and twenty miles away from

1195
01:04:16,840 --> 01:04:19,880
Speaker 1: Monty right now. I felt the heat. I mean I

1196
01:04:19,440 --> 01:04:21,560
Speaker 1: had I had to take the headphones off out of

1197
01:04:21,640 --> 01:04:23,080
Speaker 1: point because that was like.

1198
01:04:23,240 --> 01:04:27,400
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, yeah, No. I was not happy with what

1199
01:04:27,440 --> 01:04:29,040
Speaker 6: you said, which is why I stopped listening to you.

1200
01:04:29,040 --> 01:04:30,640
Speaker 6: So I don't know what you've said. Ever since then,

1201
01:04:31,160 --> 01:04:32,280
Speaker 6: I only listen to Steve.

1202
01:04:32,360 --> 01:04:32,480
Speaker 1: Now.

1203
01:04:32,520 --> 01:04:32,800
Speaker 8: That's it.

1204
01:04:32,840 --> 01:04:35,640
Speaker 6: I don't know anything you've said. I can't I can't

1205
01:04:35,640 --> 01:04:37,080
Speaker 6: take you seriously anymore.

1206
01:04:37,160 --> 01:04:41,240
Speaker 7: Anyway, guys, the NBA Action were about thirty minutes away

1207
01:04:41,600 --> 01:04:42,920
Speaker 7: from the playoffs continuing.

1208
01:04:43,040 --> 01:04:43,840
Speaker 6: It all starts with.

1209
01:04:43,840 --> 01:04:46,520
Speaker 7: The Lakers and the Grizzlies at three pm Eastern Time,

1210
01:04:46,760 --> 01:04:48,280
Speaker 7: followed by the heat in the Bucks.

1211
01:04:48,280 --> 01:04:50,160
Speaker 6: But there are four games in total.

1212
01:04:49,840 --> 01:04:53,080
Speaker 7: Today, one of which Rich things my Clippers are gonna

1213
01:04:53,080 --> 01:04:54,920
Speaker 7: get swept by the Suns. But when I gonna talk

1214
01:04:54,960 --> 01:04:57,680
Speaker 7: about that, that is at eight pm Eastern time. Let's

1215
01:04:57,680 --> 01:04:59,600
Speaker 7: talk about baseball because we've got a lot going on.

1216
01:05:00,000 --> 01:05:00,120
Speaker 9: Oh.

1217
01:05:00,240 --> 01:05:02,520
Speaker 7: I just read that the Dodgers have placed catcher Will

1218
01:05:02,520 --> 01:05:05,440
Speaker 7: Smith on the seven day concussion list, and there is

1219
01:05:05,480 --> 01:05:08,720
Speaker 7: no report as to where he suffered when he suffered,

1220
01:05:09,040 --> 01:05:12,040
Speaker 7: but he is on the seven day concussion list. Catcher

1221
01:05:12,040 --> 01:05:14,440
Speaker 7: Will Smith for the Dodgers. The Yankees have placed young

1222
01:05:14,480 --> 01:05:16,360
Speaker 7: Carlos Stand on the ten day injured list with a

1223
01:05:16,440 --> 01:05:19,840
Speaker 7: strange hamstring that he suffered yesterday against the Twins. Right now,

1224
01:05:19,880 --> 01:05:22,360
Speaker 7: the Yankees are beating the Twins one zero. They're about

1225
01:05:22,360 --> 01:05:24,760
Speaker 7: to start the bottom of the fourth inning. The Guardians

1226
01:05:24,760 --> 01:05:26,880
Speaker 7: have taken the lead over the Nationals for three. Bottom

1227
01:05:26,880 --> 01:05:29,240
Speaker 7: of the fourth inning as well, and the Red Sox

1228
01:05:29,280 --> 01:05:32,320
Speaker 7: have taken the lead over the Angels. Former Dodger Justin

1229
01:05:32,320 --> 01:05:34,120
Speaker 7: Turner hit a home run and the Red Sox are

1230
01:05:34,200 --> 01:05:35,600
Speaker 7: up two to one top.

1231
01:05:35,440 --> 01:05:36,320
Speaker 6: Of the fifth inning.

1232
01:05:36,640 --> 01:05:39,280
Speaker 7: The Rays, who we thought maybe we're gonna break the

1233
01:05:39,320 --> 01:05:42,840
Speaker 7: record to fourteen start fourteen wins.

1234
01:05:42,560 --> 01:05:43,320
Speaker 6: To start the season.

1235
01:05:43,480 --> 01:05:45,520
Speaker 7: They lost the last two games, but right now they

1236
01:05:45,560 --> 01:05:47,720
Speaker 7: are beating the Blue Jays three to one. Bottom of

1237
01:05:47,760 --> 01:05:50,240
Speaker 7: the third inning. Phillies up on the Reds two zero.

1238
01:05:50,320 --> 01:05:53,280
Speaker 7: Top of the first Diamondbacks up on the Marlins one zero.

1239
01:05:53,360 --> 01:05:54,920
Speaker 6: They're about to start the fifth.

1240
01:05:54,680 --> 01:05:57,360
Speaker 7: Inning, and the Pirates and the Cardinals are tied at

1241
01:05:57,400 --> 01:05:58,200
Speaker 7: one apiece.

1242
01:05:58,520 --> 01:06:02,080
Speaker 6: Top of the second inn. Mean back to you guys.

1243
01:06:02,120 --> 01:06:05,640
Speaker 2: Night mon see, thank you very much. I was thinking

1244
01:06:05,680 --> 01:06:12,120
Speaker 2: about something here, Rich, if you have a sun who

1245
01:06:12,560 --> 01:06:13,640
Speaker 2: has wait.

1246
01:06:13,520 --> 01:06:15,960
Speaker 1: Wait wait, are we talking like the Phoenix Suns who

1247
01:06:16,000 --> 01:06:16,840
Speaker 1: are going to sweep togother?

1248
01:06:17,920 --> 01:06:18,000
Speaker 9: You?

1249
01:06:19,560 --> 01:06:21,440
Speaker 2: He was, so I say I set him up for

1250
01:06:21,440 --> 01:06:25,080
Speaker 2: that as well. By the way, it'll be interesting where

1251
01:06:25,120 --> 01:06:30,520
Speaker 2: we are in that series a week from today. Yes, yes, now,

1252
01:06:30,640 --> 01:06:33,760
Speaker 2: if Rich's prediction is right, I think they would be.

1253
01:06:33,960 --> 01:06:36,760
Speaker 2: In fact, I'd have to check the schedule of that series.

1254
01:06:38,760 --> 01:06:40,560
Speaker 6: Let's see, Game four would be on Thursday.

1255
01:06:40,720 --> 01:06:42,800
Speaker 2: Game four would be on Thursday, so we could be

1256
01:06:42,840 --> 01:06:46,080
Speaker 2: sitting here really wait a second.

1257
01:06:45,920 --> 01:06:49,360
Speaker 7: Yeah, Thursday, for sure, play Thursday, because I'm planning to

1258
01:06:49,360 --> 01:06:49,960
Speaker 7: go to Disneyland.

1259
01:06:49,960 --> 01:06:51,640
Speaker 2: And I was like, oh man, they can't be Game

1260
01:06:51,680 --> 01:06:55,160
Speaker 2: four already, No, it can it can't be. No, it might.

1261
01:06:55,040 --> 01:06:56,680
Speaker 6: Be game one, but for sure they played Thursday.

1262
01:06:56,680 --> 01:07:00,240
Speaker 7: Because I looked into it looked possibly going on here.

1263
01:07:00,240 --> 01:07:02,960
Speaker 2: Here's let's see the schedule. Here we go. So the

1264
01:07:02,960 --> 01:07:06,400
Speaker 2: Clippers Sun series we got today Tuesday, Thursday's game.

1265
01:07:06,280 --> 01:07:07,840
Speaker 1: Three, Saturday would be game four.

1266
01:07:08,360 --> 01:07:10,560
Speaker 2: So if Rich is right, we will be sitting here

1267
01:07:10,600 --> 01:07:14,480
Speaker 2: and that series will be over right today. Now if

1268
01:07:14,480 --> 01:07:17,600
Speaker 2: that is, I don't know, you may you might you

1269
01:07:17,640 --> 01:07:19,920
Speaker 2: know Rich, you know took off a couple of Sundays.

1270
01:07:20,240 --> 01:07:22,440
Speaker 2: We may not see you next Sunday. If the Clippers

1271
01:07:22,440 --> 01:07:23,120
Speaker 2: go out and force.

1272
01:07:23,440 --> 01:07:24,919
Speaker 6: If Rich is here, I'll be here.

1273
01:07:25,040 --> 01:07:27,760
Speaker 2: Oh you'll be there? Okay, all right, right boy, So

1274
01:07:27,800 --> 01:07:29,760
Speaker 2: that's that's where will be a week from now.

1275
01:07:29,840 --> 01:07:33,240
Speaker 1: Will either be like I told you so or are.

1276
01:07:34,600 --> 01:07:37,640
Speaker 2: Or how about how about if the Clippers where to

1277
01:07:37,680 --> 01:07:38,480
Speaker 2: sweep the Suns.

1278
01:07:39,200 --> 01:07:45,960
Speaker 7: Well, I mean, let's not get crazy, let's.

1279
01:07:46,000 --> 01:07:49,280
Speaker 1: Shuts down ad and yeah, all right, how about this

1280
01:07:49,600 --> 01:07:54,840
Speaker 1: if if the Clippers, if the Clippers sweep the Suns, uh,

1281
01:07:55,080 --> 01:07:58,000
Speaker 1: MONTI has to to cook me a steak.

1282
01:07:58,280 --> 01:08:01,439
Speaker 7: If the Clippers sweep this, sons, I have to cook

1283
01:08:01,480 --> 01:08:02,040
Speaker 7: you a steak.

1284
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Speaker 1: Wait, no, no, I have to cook you a broccoli.

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Speaker 6: No, I want an eggplant, egg.

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Speaker 2: Plant, okay, eggs all right, I'm making my I would

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Speaker 2: you use your flamethrower on eggplant?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Oh I could do that. Yeah, I got no

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01:08:18,920 --> 01:08:21,080
Speaker 1: problem with that. I'll bring the flame throw up to

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Speaker 1: the parking lot. We'll have ourself aparty. And then if Mansey,

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01:08:26,439 --> 01:08:29,360
Speaker 1: if the if the sun sweep the Clippers, then you

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01:08:29,640 --> 01:08:32,880
Speaker 1: have to flamethrow a steak for me. I'll show you

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01:08:32,880 --> 01:08:33,439
Speaker 1: how to use it.

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01:08:33,560 --> 01:08:37,200
Speaker 2: Fine, all right, so steak versus egg plant sweep only

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Speaker 2: on either side.

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Speaker 7: You know, even though I never said the Clippers were

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01:08:40,200 --> 01:08:41,280
Speaker 7: gonna sweep a fine?

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01:08:41,560 --> 01:08:45,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, done deal, Hi, mind seeing you can't wait for that?

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01:08:45,040 --> 01:08:45,320
Speaker 1: All right?

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01:08:45,439 --> 01:08:48,360
Speaker 2: So there we go. Well know, bye, next Sunday.

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Speaker 1: All right.

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01:08:49,520 --> 01:08:51,479
Speaker 2: I was thinking about this for a second. If you

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01:08:51,479 --> 01:08:52,519
Speaker 2: have a son is an.

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01:08:52,479 --> 01:08:54,120
Speaker 1: S O N son, got it?

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01:08:54,160 --> 01:08:58,960
Speaker 2: Got it, and they have some kind of athletic aptitude,

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01:08:59,320 --> 01:09:02,919
Speaker 2: And as a parent, you're like, all right, what sports

1307
01:09:02,920 --> 01:09:09,040
Speaker 2: should I direct my son towards? Football? Baseball, basketball? I say,

1308
01:09:09,080 --> 01:09:13,439
Speaker 2: none of the above. It's got to be golf. I

1309
01:09:13,560 --> 01:09:16,439
Speaker 2: was looking at golf. I don't know if you saw this.

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01:09:16,600 --> 01:09:20,120
Speaker 2: So in answer to the Live Golf Tour, the PGA

1311
01:09:20,320 --> 01:09:24,640
Speaker 2: Tours Top Players led by the Way by Rory McElroy

1312
01:09:25,280 --> 01:09:29,320
Speaker 2: had this deal now where the top golfers have to

1313
01:09:29,360 --> 01:09:32,040
Speaker 2: play in so many events during the course of the year,

1314
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Speaker 2: meaning not just the majors, but other events, can get

1315
01:09:35,040 --> 01:09:38,880
Speaker 2: all the top names together and this week get the Heritage,

1316
01:09:38,960 --> 01:09:41,000
Speaker 2: which is going on right now. You got all the

1317
01:09:41,040 --> 01:09:43,160
Speaker 2: top names there. I mean John Ram's there after winning

1318
01:09:43,200 --> 01:09:45,719
Speaker 2: the Master of the whole thing. McElroy was not there.

1319
01:09:46,240 --> 01:09:50,120
Speaker 2: He got fined three million dollars. How many times does

1320
01:09:50,120 --> 01:09:53,639
Speaker 2: the sports do you hear about a player getting fined

1321
01:09:53,840 --> 01:09:57,840
Speaker 2: three million dollars for not showing up an event. The

1322
01:09:57,880 --> 01:10:00,400
Speaker 2: reason he was fined three million is that he was

1323
01:10:00,439 --> 01:10:02,960
Speaker 2: the guy behind the agreement that said you had to

1324
01:10:02,960 --> 01:10:05,640
Speaker 2: play in certain events. He had already missed one. You

1325
01:10:05,640 --> 01:10:08,080
Speaker 2: were only allowed to miss one. He misses the second.

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01:10:08,080 --> 01:10:10,320
Speaker 2: We still don't know why. Maybe he still bummed out

1327
01:10:10,360 --> 01:10:14,280
Speaker 2: about his dreadful Master's performance, but he could swallow three

1328
01:10:14,439 --> 01:10:18,280
Speaker 2: million dollars, yeah, quite easily. So I was looking at

1329
01:10:18,320 --> 01:10:21,720
Speaker 2: this rich about the Live Tour, and this is the

1330
01:10:21,800 --> 01:10:24,519
Speaker 2: money that was earned last year. The first year Lived Tour,

1331
01:10:24,560 --> 01:10:29,360
Speaker 2: they only had eight tournaments. Eight tournaments and none of

1332
01:10:29,360 --> 01:10:31,920
Speaker 2: them over fifty four holes. Right, that's the whole idea

1333
01:10:31,920 --> 01:10:36,959
Speaker 2: of Live l IV fifty four Uh huh. Dustin Johnson

1334
01:10:37,760 --> 01:10:40,519
Speaker 2: on the first year of the Live Tour made this

1335
01:10:40,600 --> 01:10:44,639
Speaker 2: is salard, this is individual, team and bonus thirty five

1336
01:10:44,680 --> 01:10:45,840
Speaker 2: point six million dollars.

1337
01:10:46,120 --> 01:10:47,000
Speaker 1: Not a bad haul.

1338
01:10:47,640 --> 01:10:50,639
Speaker 2: Brandon Grace, could you pick him out of a lineup?

1339
01:10:51,040 --> 01:10:52,519
Speaker 1: Have no idea who that man is?

1340
01:10:52,800 --> 01:10:55,000
Speaker 2: Sixteen point six million.

1341
01:10:56,400 --> 01:10:57,120
Speaker 1: That's decent.

1342
01:10:59,200 --> 01:11:01,040
Speaker 2: And then I was looking at like this local kid

1343
01:11:01,080 --> 01:11:03,400
Speaker 2: in La named Matthew Woolf. He went to high school

1344
01:11:03,400 --> 01:11:06,519
Speaker 2: with my kids. He decided to a young player, right,

1345
01:11:06,960 --> 01:11:09,080
Speaker 2: he decided, Hey, I'm gonna jump on that lane. He

1346
01:11:09,120 --> 01:11:13,160
Speaker 2: played it four point two million. The amount of money

1347
01:11:13,200 --> 01:11:18,920
Speaker 2: these golfers are making is so mind blowing with little

1348
01:11:19,720 --> 01:11:21,559
Speaker 2: wear and tear in the body. And by the way,

1349
01:11:21,560 --> 01:11:24,240
Speaker 2: you can continue to play this sport because you get

1350
01:11:24,360 --> 01:11:27,240
Speaker 2: the revival when you're fifty on that senior turn to

1351
01:11:27,240 --> 01:11:33,320
Speaker 2: make more millions. I just don't understand why, if you

1352
01:11:33,560 --> 01:11:37,639
Speaker 2: have the ability to play this game, why you would

1353
01:11:37,640 --> 01:11:40,920
Speaker 2: want to have any other living What could possibly be

1354
01:11:40,920 --> 01:11:44,519
Speaker 2: better in terms of making a living than golf? Because

1355
01:11:44,520 --> 01:11:46,640
Speaker 2: the difference now is you say, wow, ye had to

1356
01:11:46,680 --> 01:11:48,439
Speaker 2: earn your money. If you don't make the cut. I

1357
01:11:48,479 --> 01:11:51,160
Speaker 2: understand that, but if you can get on this live tour,

1358
01:11:51,520 --> 01:11:55,639
Speaker 2: oh my, I mean it's unbelievable how much money these

1359
01:11:55,640 --> 01:11:56,439
Speaker 2: guys are making.

1360
01:11:56,600 --> 01:12:01,120
Speaker 1: I will say this, I mean you, yeah, you have

1361
01:12:01,200 --> 01:12:05,320
Speaker 1: to you have to admit that the Live Tour for

1362
01:12:05,439 --> 01:12:10,400
Speaker 1: all the negativity it received in the before it's launched,

1363
01:12:10,439 --> 01:12:13,920
Speaker 1: you know, in the sort of preamble to its launch, uh,

1364
01:12:14,160 --> 01:12:17,040
Speaker 1: and then all the negativity it received when it launched,

1365
01:12:17,520 --> 01:12:20,439
Speaker 1: and all the negativity that these golfers who have jumped

1366
01:12:20,439 --> 01:12:24,240
Speaker 1: ship on the PGA to join the Live Tour had

1367
01:12:24,400 --> 01:12:28,200
Speaker 1: had garnered when it launched. Really, what we're down to

1368
01:12:28,600 --> 01:12:31,439
Speaker 1: is the only golfer who's still sort of carrying the

1369
01:12:31,479 --> 01:12:35,480
Speaker 1: banner as the villain of all this is Phil Mickelson.

1370
01:12:36,160 --> 01:12:39,679
Speaker 1: Phil Mickelson, Really, I mean, nobody talks about Brooks Kopka anymore.

1371
01:12:40,040 --> 01:12:42,960
Speaker 1: I mean they do, but not in nearly the negative

1372
01:12:43,040 --> 01:12:47,120
Speaker 1: light that they were when he left the PGA for

1373
01:12:47,280 --> 01:12:50,760
Speaker 1: the the Live Golf Tour in the first place. Same

1374
01:12:50,800 --> 01:12:54,720
Speaker 1: thing with d Chambeau, Same thing same thing with uh,

1375
01:12:56,120 --> 01:12:58,360
Speaker 1: what's the other big name that I'm blanking on right now?

1376
01:12:58,520 --> 01:13:02,080
Speaker 1: Another young golfer, But Phil Mickelson. I think it's both

1377
01:13:02,120 --> 01:13:05,840
Speaker 1: based off of his comments in the you know, the

1378
01:13:06,080 --> 01:13:11,040
Speaker 1: the the biography that was written about him, and then

1379
01:13:11,120 --> 01:13:13,000
Speaker 1: kind of the way that he's handled some of the

1380
01:13:13,040 --> 01:13:16,439
Speaker 1: pr since has really led to him being the villain,

1381
01:13:16,520 --> 01:13:19,519
Speaker 1: the face of all this, and so it's continued to

1382
01:13:19,560 --> 01:13:21,840
Speaker 1: follow him to a certain extent, but it's not a

1383
01:13:21,920 --> 01:13:24,640
Speaker 1: much lower roar. So I guess what I'm trying to

1384
01:13:24,680 --> 01:13:27,760
Speaker 1: say is you've had a lot of these golfers who

1385
01:13:27,960 --> 01:13:29,960
Speaker 1: have sort of weathered the storm, and on the other

1386
01:13:30,040 --> 01:13:33,800
Speaker 1: side of it, you know what, they are rich. They

1387
01:13:33,800 --> 01:13:37,200
Speaker 1: are wealthy beyond their wildest dreams, and they were before

1388
01:13:37,280 --> 01:13:40,760
Speaker 1: they joined livetour, but now they've made even more generationally

1389
01:13:41,920 --> 01:13:46,679
Speaker 1: enhancing wealth. And so I look, I get it. There's

1390
01:13:46,680 --> 01:13:48,559
Speaker 1: a lot of people are upset the way the Live

1391
01:13:48,640 --> 01:13:52,719
Speaker 1: golf tour is funded, and I completely understand why those

1392
01:13:52,760 --> 01:13:57,439
Speaker 1: concerns would be so valid. But the reality of is

1393
01:13:57,520 --> 01:14:00,400
Speaker 1: it's not going away, at least not for now. And

1394
01:14:00,920 --> 01:14:04,360
Speaker 1: sports we do this all the time. Like there are

1395
01:14:04,400 --> 01:14:07,000
Speaker 1: a lot of soccer fans right there are a lot

1396
01:14:07,080 --> 01:14:09,360
Speaker 1: of soccer fans across the entire world. There's a lot

1397
01:14:09,400 --> 01:14:12,400
Speaker 1: of soccer fans in the United States. There's a lot

1398
01:14:12,479 --> 01:14:15,760
Speaker 1: of really shady, corrupt things that happen in the world

1399
01:14:15,840 --> 01:14:18,880
Speaker 1: of soccer. Right there's a lot of these pros who

1400
01:14:18,920 --> 01:14:23,000
Speaker 1: are funded by really bad people, and that still remains

1401
01:14:23,040 --> 01:14:26,680
Speaker 1: one of the most popular sports on the planet. I

1402
01:14:26,680 --> 01:14:30,000
Speaker 1: guess what I'm trying to say is like there really is.

1403
01:14:30,640 --> 01:14:33,639
Speaker 1: There is no reason in my mind why the Live

1404
01:14:33,720 --> 01:14:36,680
Speaker 1: Tour won't work as long as it stays funded and

1405
01:14:36,800 --> 01:14:39,840
Speaker 1: continues to push the PGA to make either good or

1406
01:14:39,880 --> 01:14:42,280
Speaker 1: bad decisions. I think this is an example of a

1407
01:14:42,280 --> 01:14:44,880
Speaker 1: bad decision. I think the idea of them paying their

1408
01:14:44,880 --> 01:14:48,280
Speaker 1: players more in prize perses for the tournaments that they

1409
01:14:48,280 --> 01:14:51,320
Speaker 1: participate in already, that's probably a good decision. That's something

1410
01:14:51,360 --> 01:14:53,840
Speaker 1: that's going to encourage more golfers to want to play

1411
01:14:53,840 --> 01:14:56,360
Speaker 1: for the PGA Tour. But if you're going to choose

1412
01:14:56,400 --> 01:14:59,920
Speaker 1: between the coward and the stick right now, and you know,

1413
01:15:00,040 --> 01:15:02,800
Speaker 1: oh what the stick is, it's a three million dollar

1414
01:15:02,960 --> 01:15:06,000
Speaker 1: fine to go on the PGA Tour if you miss

1415
01:15:06,080 --> 01:15:08,160
Speaker 1: one of these events that you're supposed to play in,

1416
01:15:08,240 --> 01:15:11,880
Speaker 1: like Rory just got, Man, that's a pretty steep penalty. Steve,

1417
01:15:11,920 --> 01:15:13,839
Speaker 1: I don't think that's the right move for the PGA

1418
01:15:13,960 --> 01:15:14,240
Speaker 1: right now.

1419
01:15:14,280 --> 01:15:16,840
Speaker 2: Well, it's something he agreed upon though, that he was

1420
01:15:16,920 --> 01:15:19,200
Speaker 2: one of the leaders in putting this whole thing in place,

1421
01:15:19,520 --> 01:15:22,320
Speaker 2: more of the top golfers and more tournaments. By the way,

1422
01:15:22,680 --> 01:15:25,679
Speaker 2: interesting at the Masters that two guys that were considered done,

1423
01:15:26,360 --> 01:15:31,080
Speaker 2: Phil Mickelson and Brooks Kopka finished live golfers tied for second.

1424
01:15:32,320 --> 01:15:34,080
Speaker 2: Amazing how that all happened?

1425
01:15:34,160 --> 01:15:34,479
Speaker 1: All right?

1426
01:15:34,479 --> 01:15:37,200
Speaker 2: Coming up on the other side, Major League Baseball off

1427
01:15:37,320 --> 01:15:42,559
Speaker 2: and running, and some major changes have happened this season.

1428
01:15:43,080 --> 01:15:45,120
Speaker 2: So what's the update. We'll tell you. This is Fox

1429
01:15:45,120 --> 01:15:49,519
Speaker 2: Sports Sunday, Steve Harvin, rich Ornberger, Fox Sports Sunday or

1430
01:15:49,560 --> 01:15:51,800
Speaker 2: Alive from the tire rag dot Com studios. I was

1431
01:15:51,880 --> 01:15:56,200
Speaker 2: just talking to Iowa Sam Rich. Yeah, and brought this

1432
01:15:56,360 --> 01:16:00,280
Speaker 2: up to Bow as well, one of our favorite eat

1433
01:16:00,360 --> 01:16:02,520
Speaker 2: places in San Diego Loopes.

1434
01:16:03,040 --> 01:16:03,879
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness.

1435
01:16:04,000 --> 01:16:08,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I was sharing the idea of a burrito

1436
01:16:08,800 --> 01:16:11,559
Speaker 2: from this place. Like you know how it is with

1437
01:16:11,600 --> 01:16:14,439
Speaker 2: a burrito, like that first bite is all tortilla. Oh,

1438
01:16:14,479 --> 01:16:16,559
Speaker 2: I know, and usually the last bite's like all look,

1439
01:16:17,160 --> 01:16:19,840
Speaker 2: unless you go to this place, that first bite is

1440
01:16:19,880 --> 01:16:22,679
Speaker 2: fully loaded. And by the way, it's the only place

1441
01:16:22,720 --> 01:16:26,120
Speaker 2: I've ever seen Rich eat where he actually gets the

1442
01:16:26,320 --> 01:16:29,599
Speaker 2: extra bite in before he's actually swallowed the previous bite.

1443
01:16:30,040 --> 01:16:33,479
Speaker 2: I've never the double like the double bite. Yeah, you bite,

1444
01:16:33,520 --> 01:16:36,360
Speaker 2: you're chewing, and before he actually swallowed the first bite,

1445
01:16:36,400 --> 01:16:40,240
Speaker 2: you're already bitten in a second time. Oh yeah, And

1446
01:16:40,320 --> 01:16:42,880
Speaker 2: yet they've never been there. So I'm like, well, if

1447
01:16:42,880 --> 01:16:44,960
Speaker 2: you go down to San Diego, you should go down

1448
01:16:44,960 --> 01:16:47,880
Speaker 2: there once, because once you go down there.

1449
01:16:49,240 --> 01:16:52,879
Speaker 1: Yeah, I double up on the bite because I think

1450
01:16:53,240 --> 01:16:56,680
Speaker 1: I don't want any gap in the enjoyment, you know,

1451
01:16:56,840 --> 01:16:59,880
Speaker 1: Like you know how sometimes like you take a bite

1452
01:17:00,000 --> 01:17:02,240
Speaker 1: and you're like, oh my god, that's delicious, and then

1453
01:17:02,439 --> 01:17:05,560
Speaker 1: as it's kind of making its way back to the esophagus,

1454
01:17:05,640 --> 01:17:07,680
Speaker 1: you're like, now I'm sad because the flavor is no

1455
01:17:07,760 --> 01:17:11,360
Speaker 1: longer in my mouth. Well you know what incoming, here's

1456
01:17:11,400 --> 01:17:14,360
Speaker 1: the next one for you. So yeah, it's uh.

1457
01:17:14,439 --> 01:17:16,960
Speaker 2: I've eaten many metals. Are Rich a lot of great place.

1458
01:17:17,000 --> 01:17:19,800
Speaker 2: I've never seen the double bike quite like that chewing

1459
01:17:19,800 --> 01:17:20,160
Speaker 2: your food.

1460
01:17:20,240 --> 01:17:20,439
Speaker 1: Rich.

1461
01:17:20,520 --> 01:17:23,439
Speaker 2: You know, he was chewing, but he untill he actually

1462
01:17:23,600 --> 01:17:25,719
Speaker 2: swallowed the bite. He already had bitten in his Where

1463
01:17:25,720 --> 01:17:26,360
Speaker 2: are you gonna choke?

1464
01:17:27,160 --> 01:17:29,120
Speaker 5: I would love to do a segment with Rich where

1465
01:17:29,120 --> 01:17:31,280
Speaker 5: we like talked about the places that I've eaten in

1466
01:17:31,320 --> 01:17:34,200
Speaker 5: San Diego to see what he thinks of them, because oh.

1467
01:17:34,120 --> 01:17:37,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he's been down. How long you've been living

1468
01:17:37,439 --> 01:17:40,160
Speaker 2: in San Diego? Ten years? Yeah, came to the Chargers

1469
01:17:40,160 --> 01:17:44,679
Speaker 2: in twenty thirteen, that's right, so ten years actually ten years.

1470
01:17:44,720 --> 01:17:47,200
Speaker 1: This spring, by the way, is the ten year anniversary,

1471
01:17:47,200 --> 01:17:50,360
Speaker 1: because we moved in during OTAs well.

1472
01:17:50,400 --> 01:17:52,639
Speaker 2: We when we were doing our show together, we were

1473
01:17:52,720 --> 01:17:56,360
Speaker 2: sampling places. We were getting recommendations, you got to go

1474
01:17:56,360 --> 01:17:58,880
Speaker 2: to this place, gotta go this place. So yeah, bo,

1475
01:17:59,000 --> 01:18:00,680
Speaker 2: I mean we we pretty much which have covered the

1476
01:18:00,720 --> 01:18:04,479
Speaker 2: gamut when it comes to San Diego eateries, but you

1477
01:18:04,560 --> 01:18:05,960
Speaker 2: feel like you know them all.

1478
01:18:05,800 --> 01:18:07,800
Speaker 5: Well, no, it's just you know, there are places that

1479
01:18:07,840 --> 01:18:09,920
Speaker 5: I've been, like I've I've been to hodads of that

1480
01:18:10,000 --> 01:18:12,880
Speaker 5: Burger spoat that everybody likes, Yeah, nomenal, and I've heard

1481
01:18:12,920 --> 01:18:15,519
Speaker 5: different opinions on that. So I'm always curious to hear

1482
01:18:15,560 --> 01:18:17,160
Speaker 5: what local people actually think about.

1483
01:18:16,960 --> 01:18:19,840
Speaker 2: Foot Rich as a rundown. Is there Rich? Seriously, is

1484
01:18:19,840 --> 01:18:24,680
Speaker 2: there a single eatery that you've heard about that you

1485
01:18:24,840 --> 01:18:27,040
Speaker 2: not engage with yet in San Diego?

1486
01:18:27,520 --> 01:18:31,479
Speaker 1: I don't think so. I think I've been to every

1487
01:18:31,920 --> 01:18:33,439
Speaker 1: single one of them.

1488
01:18:33,280 --> 01:18:34,000
Speaker 2: Every one of them.

1489
01:18:34,080 --> 01:18:37,800
Speaker 5: Yeah, restaurants that haven't even opened yet, right.

1490
01:18:37,960 --> 01:18:41,120
Speaker 1: Actually, I've made it a point to wait outside of

1491
01:18:41,200 --> 01:18:43,760
Speaker 1: restaurants on opening day, like I treat it like it's

1492
01:18:43,800 --> 01:18:47,479
Speaker 1: opening day in Major League Baseball. For me, it would

1493
01:18:47,479 --> 01:18:49,920
Speaker 1: be like, oh my god, gods, there's a new speakeasy

1494
01:18:50,280 --> 01:18:54,400
Speaker 1: and they serve lobster fondue, and then yeah, I'll be

1495
01:18:54,560 --> 01:18:56,400
Speaker 1: right there with a fork and a knife.

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01:18:56,400 --> 01:18:59,839
Speaker 2: And what was that place when we got these loaded tots?

1497
01:19:00,360 --> 01:19:05,240
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, And of course rich BBQ, well that

1498
01:19:05,320 --> 01:19:07,679
Speaker 2: pic was that the one. No, it was a different place.

1499
01:19:07,800 --> 01:19:10,280
Speaker 2: It was one where you had him twice baking because

1500
01:19:10,439 --> 01:19:13,680
Speaker 2: there was so much on the loaded tots that you

1501
01:19:13,760 --> 01:19:16,000
Speaker 2: have to have the extra strength of the tots, so

1502
01:19:16,160 --> 01:19:19,720
Speaker 2: really crispy on the outside, still warm and soft inside,

1503
01:19:19,920 --> 01:19:22,640
Speaker 2: but to hold up under the weight of everything. On

1504
01:19:22,760 --> 01:19:24,080
Speaker 2: top of those times.

1505
01:19:23,600 --> 01:19:26,000
Speaker 1: I tell people this all the time. If you're gonna

1506
01:19:26,000 --> 01:19:29,200
Speaker 1: get loaded fries of any sort, you know, the cheese fries,

1507
01:19:29,320 --> 01:19:31,679
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, like any any kind of tot

1508
01:19:31,800 --> 01:19:34,040
Speaker 1: that has like a you know, sort of like a

1509
01:19:34,080 --> 01:19:37,439
Speaker 1: buffalo dress link, whatever it is, you want to get

1510
01:19:37,520 --> 01:19:41,080
Speaker 1: them twice fried because you want the consistency of the

1511
01:19:41,120 --> 01:19:45,519
Speaker 1: fry to hold up against all of the necessary ingredients

1512
01:19:45,680 --> 01:19:49,640
Speaker 1: or in kucha mal to create the delicious bite that

1513
01:19:49,680 --> 01:19:52,880
Speaker 1: you're looking for. Yeah, so twice fried, twice fried A

1514
01:19:53,080 --> 01:19:53,519
Speaker 1: remember the.

1515
01:19:53,840 --> 01:19:56,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, so this some mean bo you're gonna have to

1516
01:19:56,320 --> 01:19:58,400
Speaker 2: engage with with rich all right, So you're gonna have

1517
01:19:58,479 --> 01:20:01,599
Speaker 2: to look at his list, because again, if you haven't

1518
01:20:01,640 --> 01:20:04,160
Speaker 2: been to the place I already just mentioned, then you

1519
01:20:04,200 --> 01:20:07,479
Speaker 2: really haven't been to the best or one of the best.

1520
01:20:07,680 --> 01:20:10,919
Speaker 2: Yeah in the San Diego area, speaking of the best.

1521
01:20:11,080 --> 01:20:14,360
Speaker 2: Major League Baseball made some of the best moves of

1522
01:20:14,479 --> 01:20:20,080
Speaker 2: any sport in history. Other sports need to take note.

1523
01:20:20,120 --> 01:20:22,920
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1530
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Speaker 2: ready to tip off this matchup between the Lakers and

1531
01:20:45,680 --> 01:20:48,919
Speaker 2: the Memphis Grizzlies. I know, last year during the playoffs,

1532
01:20:49,000 --> 01:20:52,559
Speaker 2: Richie and I were just in gaga about Ja Morant.

1533
01:20:53,640 --> 01:20:56,280
Speaker 2: You know, Ja Brant had this suspension by his team

1534
01:20:56,360 --> 01:20:59,960
Speaker 2: after engaging activity. That was a bad look for him,

1535
01:21:00,040 --> 01:21:03,000
Speaker 2: bad look for the NBA, bad look for the organization.

1536
01:21:03,080 --> 01:21:05,559
Speaker 2: I applaud the Grizzlies, by the way for telling him

1537
01:21:05,560 --> 01:21:08,400
Speaker 2: you're gonna sit for a while. Uh, He's not sitting now.

1538
01:21:08,960 --> 01:21:13,840
Speaker 2: And he has played well since he was returned. And again,

1539
01:21:13,920 --> 01:21:16,679
Speaker 2: he's one of those guys that you want to see.

1540
01:21:16,760 --> 01:21:19,160
Speaker 2: I mean, obviously he got the Lebron's, he got the Durance,

1541
01:21:19,200 --> 01:21:21,519
Speaker 2: he got Steph Curries, he got like that. But of

1542
01:21:21,600 --> 01:21:24,760
Speaker 2: all these young players, the one guy you want to

1543
01:21:24,880 --> 01:21:28,439
Speaker 2: see in action, especially in a game that matters, is

1544
01:21:28,520 --> 01:21:29,040
Speaker 2: Ja Moran.

1545
01:21:30,000 --> 01:21:34,799
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I mean, look, the NBA, well, every sports

1546
01:21:34,880 --> 01:21:39,720
Speaker 1: league needs mussy players. Ja Moran has quickly become one

1547
01:21:39,720 --> 01:21:43,519
Speaker 1: of those musty players in the NBA. You know, you

1548
01:21:43,560 --> 01:21:48,320
Speaker 1: think about baseball, there's been this weird gap in some

1549
01:21:48,680 --> 01:21:51,920
Speaker 1: like in a in a true star. I think they've

1550
01:21:51,920 --> 01:21:54,559
Speaker 1: been trying for years to convince Mike Trout to be

1551
01:21:54,720 --> 01:21:58,280
Speaker 1: that guy and it just hasn't really worked, you know.

1552
01:21:58,439 --> 01:22:01,400
Speaker 1: And then Fernando Tatist Junior looked like he was gaining

1553
01:22:01,439 --> 01:22:04,639
Speaker 1: in that space and then got popped for performance enhancing drugs.

1554
01:22:04,640 --> 01:22:08,439
Speaker 1: So that really affected the ability for Major League Baseball

1555
01:22:08,479 --> 01:22:11,320
Speaker 1: to wrap their arms around him. And you think about

1556
01:22:11,320 --> 01:22:14,320
Speaker 1: the NFL. You got Tom Brady for two decades, and

1557
01:22:14,400 --> 01:22:16,760
Speaker 1: now that light is starting to flicker. But you have

1558
01:22:16,840 --> 01:22:21,240
Speaker 1: this new crop of quarterbacks that are becoming star players,

1559
01:22:21,280 --> 01:22:24,879
Speaker 1: like the Patrick Mahomes of the world, or the Josh Allens,

1560
01:22:24,960 --> 01:22:27,120
Speaker 1: or now the Jalen Hurts. You know, throw his name

1561
01:22:27,160 --> 01:22:31,680
Speaker 1: into the mix. It's Joe Burrow, justin Herbert. You know,

1562
01:22:31,760 --> 01:22:34,759
Speaker 1: the list goes on. In the NBA, it's been Lebron

1563
01:22:34,880 --> 01:22:37,960
Speaker 1: James for so long, it's just been a lot of

1564
01:22:38,080 --> 01:22:42,040
Speaker 1: Lebron James. It feels like Giannis his time has arrived,

1565
01:22:42,120 --> 01:22:45,519
Speaker 1: and Jokich is probably, like Lebron, closer to being finished

1566
01:22:45,560 --> 01:22:48,800
Speaker 1: with his career than starting his career. So a Jah

1567
01:22:48,840 --> 01:22:51,720
Speaker 1: Morant last year in the postseason, when I turned on

1568
01:22:51,840 --> 01:22:54,680
Speaker 1: his games, I was like, oh my god. I was like,

1569
01:22:54,720 --> 01:22:57,519
Speaker 1: this is it. This is a no brainer. Like the

1570
01:22:57,680 --> 01:23:01,240
Speaker 1: NBA is going to be fine in terms of star power.

1571
01:23:01,600 --> 01:23:04,320
Speaker 1: Like Jean Moran is the next era, He's the next

1572
01:23:04,360 --> 01:23:08,640
Speaker 1: generation of like highlight reel basketball from now for the

1573
01:23:08,680 --> 01:23:11,960
Speaker 1: next who knows, twelve, fifteen years, maybe twenty, who knows.

1574
01:23:13,040 --> 01:23:15,160
Speaker 1: And then we've had all these issues with John Moran

1575
01:23:15,240 --> 01:23:18,840
Speaker 1: off the court. You know the Instagram live where he's

1576
01:23:19,520 --> 01:23:25,320
Speaker 1: brandishing a weapon this countersuit now that's been launched regarding

1577
01:23:25,360 --> 01:23:27,800
Speaker 1: a seventeen year old who came to his house and

1578
01:23:27,840 --> 01:23:32,439
Speaker 1: they got into some alleged altercation which ended with him

1579
01:23:33,360 --> 01:23:37,880
Speaker 1: apparently or allegedly bringing out another firearm or maybe the

1580
01:23:37,920 --> 01:23:40,519
Speaker 1: same one, who knows. I mean, it just sort of

1581
01:23:40,520 --> 01:23:44,400
Speaker 1: feels like I want to, with every inch of my

1582
01:23:44,560 --> 01:23:48,679
Speaker 1: sports viewing soul wrap my arms around John Moran because

1583
01:23:48,680 --> 01:23:51,800
Speaker 1: of the talent he is on the court. However, if

1584
01:23:51,840 --> 01:23:55,000
Speaker 1: this stuff keeps happening, if things off the court pile up,

1585
01:23:55,600 --> 01:23:59,080
Speaker 1: I mean, eventually it's gonna have an effect on him

1586
01:23:59,120 --> 01:24:02,160
Speaker 1: on the court. Already has this season, Steve, he got

1587
01:24:02,200 --> 01:24:03,479
Speaker 1: suspended for eight games.

1588
01:24:04,400 --> 01:24:07,519
Speaker 2: Here's the thing about the NBA, though, while we highlight

1589
01:24:07,560 --> 01:24:11,320
Speaker 2: a guy like Jean Morant, overall, the NBA needs to

1590
01:24:11,360 --> 01:24:15,120
Speaker 2: look what Major League Baseball did this season. So major

1591
01:24:15,200 --> 01:24:18,240
Speaker 2: League Baseball had a big problem. And I am a

1592
01:24:18,280 --> 01:24:21,360
Speaker 2: traditionalist to the core, as you know, Rich And I'm

1593
01:24:21,360 --> 01:24:25,679
Speaker 2: not really all that big on change because just change

1594
01:24:25,680 --> 01:24:29,240
Speaker 2: alone doesn't necessarily make things better, right, But I will

1595
01:24:29,280 --> 01:24:33,479
Speaker 2: tell you this, The changes that Major League Baseball made

1596
01:24:33,479 --> 01:24:37,920
Speaker 2: in this offseason spearheaded, by the way, by well, the

1597
01:24:37,960 --> 01:24:42,160
Speaker 2: guy that pretty much created this mess. And you know

1598
01:24:42,200 --> 01:24:46,240
Speaker 2: who I'm talking about, of course, the former general manager

1599
01:24:46,280 --> 01:24:51,040
Speaker 2: of the Red Sox, former general manager of the Cubs,

1600
01:24:51,080 --> 01:24:54,639
Speaker 2: and who started his baseball career with the Sandego Padres,

1601
01:24:55,040 --> 01:24:59,400
Speaker 2: theo Epstein now working for Major League Baseball because his analytics.

1602
01:25:00,200 --> 01:25:00,840
Speaker 1: It created the.

1603
01:25:00,840 --> 01:25:04,519
Speaker 2: Game that we saw as recently as last season, and

1604
01:25:04,560 --> 01:25:08,720
Speaker 2: it wasn't satisfying to the eyeball. So he knew how

1605
01:25:08,720 --> 01:25:11,880
Speaker 2: to undo it. And so they introduced the pitch clock.

1606
01:25:12,560 --> 01:25:15,800
Speaker 2: They did away with the shift. They limited the number

1607
01:25:15,800 --> 01:25:17,920
Speaker 2: of throws to first base to hold on a runner.

1608
01:25:18,560 --> 01:25:20,800
Speaker 2: All basic changes made the bases a little bit bigger.

1609
01:25:20,840 --> 01:25:26,200
Speaker 2: They made changes, and it's all working. The average game

1610
01:25:26,560 --> 01:25:30,080
Speaker 2: is now a half hour shorter than it was a

1611
01:25:30,160 --> 01:25:34,599
Speaker 2: year ago. At this time, run scoring is up, stolen

1612
01:25:34,640 --> 01:25:37,719
Speaker 2: bases are up. The other day, I saw the Milwaukee

1613
01:25:37,800 --> 01:25:40,759
Speaker 2: Brewers against the Padres had three homers and six stolen

1614
01:25:40,800 --> 01:25:44,320
Speaker 2: bases in a game. Yeah, guys are running the bases.

1615
01:25:44,360 --> 01:25:48,040
Speaker 2: There's action on the scene, and even more so than

1616
01:25:48,080 --> 01:25:52,800
Speaker 2: at the ballpark. It's working on television. It's easy now

1617
01:25:52,840 --> 01:25:54,799
Speaker 2: to go through a two and a half hour game

1618
01:25:55,120 --> 01:25:58,040
Speaker 2: then a game that goes three to zero five. Major

1619
01:25:58,080 --> 01:26:00,280
Speaker 2: League Baseball made the change. Look what the Philly did

1620
01:26:00,320 --> 01:26:02,160
Speaker 2: here in the first inning against the Reds today, ray

1621
01:26:02,240 --> 01:26:06,360
Speaker 2: for This is the first inning home run, single walk, walk,

1622
01:26:06,560 --> 01:26:12,320
Speaker 2: single out, single double, single out, single, double out, nine

1623
01:26:12,360 --> 01:26:15,840
Speaker 2: runs on eight hits, first inning. This is what people

1624
01:26:15,880 --> 01:26:17,960
Speaker 2: want to see. They want to see action, they want

1625
01:26:18,000 --> 01:26:20,360
Speaker 2: to see runs. They want to see guys running around

1626
01:26:20,360 --> 01:26:22,439
Speaker 2: the bases. You know what I didn't see, and that

1627
01:26:22,560 --> 01:26:25,360
Speaker 2: after the opening home run another home run, not guys

1628
01:26:25,400 --> 01:26:29,679
Speaker 2: swinging for the fences, singles, doubles, walks, guys stealing bases,

1629
01:26:29,720 --> 01:26:34,639
Speaker 2: moving around the basis. That is why baseball can work.

1630
01:26:35,160 --> 01:26:36,760
Speaker 2: It presented in the proper way.

1631
01:26:36,880 --> 01:26:37,080
Speaker 1: Now.

1632
01:26:37,120 --> 01:26:41,599
Speaker 2: I say that looking at the NBA because I'm watching

1633
01:26:41,640 --> 01:26:45,320
Speaker 2: the NBA and after the breakout of the Golden State

1634
01:26:45,400 --> 01:26:48,439
Speaker 2: Warriors and the proliferation of threes, when I don't know,

1635
01:26:48,479 --> 01:26:50,160
Speaker 2: you have two of the best three point shooters in

1636
01:26:50,200 --> 01:26:52,879
Speaker 2: the history of the game, and Steph Curry and Klay Thompson.

1637
01:26:53,280 --> 01:26:56,680
Speaker 2: Everyone try to emulate that style, but they don't have

1638
01:26:56,680 --> 01:26:59,400
Speaker 2: Steph Curry and Klay Thompson. So you have a bunch

1639
01:26:59,439 --> 01:27:03,000
Speaker 2: of people stay at the three point line, shooting threes

1640
01:27:03,160 --> 01:27:06,920
Speaker 2: and bricking. It's not good basketball. I don't know how

1641
01:27:06,960 --> 01:27:10,519
Speaker 2: the NBA can make any kind of changes to make

1642
01:27:10,560 --> 01:27:14,920
Speaker 2: the game more watchable, but Baseball figured it out, and

1643
01:27:14,960 --> 01:27:17,080
Speaker 2: if they can do it, I think the NBA can

1644
01:27:17,160 --> 01:27:17,519
Speaker 2: as well.

1645
01:27:17,840 --> 01:27:21,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, listen, I think that change, like you said

1646
01:27:21,720 --> 01:27:24,760
Speaker 1: to start this, and I think I well, actually, I know,

1647
01:27:24,920 --> 01:27:30,000
Speaker 1: I completely agree with you, is difficult. Even good changes

1648
01:27:30,000 --> 01:27:32,640
Speaker 1: are difficult. How about this, Like you move into a

1649
01:27:32,680 --> 01:27:37,160
Speaker 1: better place, a better neighborhood, a better school system, everything's better.

1650
01:27:37,240 --> 01:27:40,000
Speaker 1: Maybe it's because you got a better job. It doesn't

1651
01:27:40,040 --> 01:27:44,760
Speaker 1: mean it's easy. I mean it's necessary. Change is always necessary.

1652
01:27:44,760 --> 01:27:46,920
Speaker 1: It's a part of life. We all know that. But

1653
01:27:46,960 --> 01:27:49,920
Speaker 1: it doesn't mean it's easy. Getting acclimated to even a

1654
01:27:49,960 --> 01:27:53,680
Speaker 1: better job is still difficulty. Getting acclimated to new neighbors

1655
01:27:53,880 --> 01:27:56,400
Speaker 1: and a new neighborhood, even if it's a better, safer,

1656
01:27:56,840 --> 01:28:00,840
Speaker 1: cleaner neighborhood, is difficult. Getting acclimated for your kids to

1657
01:28:00,920 --> 01:28:04,240
Speaker 1: a new school environment. It's tough. It's tough, you know,

1658
01:28:04,800 --> 01:28:07,120
Speaker 1: even if the people that they're going to be surrounding

1659
01:28:07,160 --> 01:28:11,439
Speaker 1: themselves with are better people, better character, better parents. Right,

1660
01:28:11,880 --> 01:28:16,400
Speaker 1: it's difficult. It's difficult. Change is tough. And when you

1661
01:28:16,439 --> 01:28:20,200
Speaker 1: look through the lens of shortsightedness, like a lot of

1662
01:28:20,200 --> 01:28:23,639
Speaker 1: baseball writers were, like a lot of baseball players were

1663
01:28:24,800 --> 01:28:28,280
Speaker 1: the resistance to these changes in Major League Baseball. I

1664
01:28:28,320 --> 01:28:34,200
Speaker 1: thought was ridiculous. I thought everybody who defended the romance

1665
01:28:34,360 --> 01:28:39,360
Speaker 1: of three or four hour baseball games sounded silly. They

1666
01:28:39,360 --> 01:28:42,840
Speaker 1: sounded like they were pearl clutching. They sounded like they

1667
01:28:42,840 --> 01:28:46,120
Speaker 1: were almost being purest for the sake of being purist.

1668
01:28:46,200 --> 01:28:48,599
Speaker 1: It's like, hey, in order to be in this club,

1669
01:28:49,080 --> 01:28:51,800
Speaker 1: you've got to subscribe to this newsletter. It's like, well,

1670
01:28:51,840 --> 01:28:54,439
Speaker 1: you know what, that's great until all the people who

1671
01:28:54,479 --> 01:28:58,320
Speaker 1: subscribe to that newsletter disappear, and then what happens, It

1672
01:28:58,360 --> 01:29:03,840
Speaker 1: goes away. Major League Baseball is approaching the intersection of

1673
01:29:03,880 --> 01:29:08,560
Speaker 1: an existential crisis. Okay, the game has gotten really flaccid,

1674
01:29:08,960 --> 01:29:12,680
Speaker 1: it's gotten really boring. It's not attracting new fans. It's

1675
01:29:12,720 --> 01:29:15,799
Speaker 1: hanging on with it for dear life. To its old fans,

1676
01:29:16,200 --> 01:29:18,880
Speaker 1: but they needed to make changes, and thank goodness they did,

1677
01:29:19,360 --> 01:29:22,519
Speaker 1: because now there's a reinvigoration. There's a lot more people

1678
01:29:22,560 --> 01:29:24,479
Speaker 1: talking about baseball all of a sudden, There's a lot

1679
01:29:24,520 --> 01:29:27,280
Speaker 1: more interest in baseball all of a sudden. The WBC

1680
01:29:27,400 --> 01:29:30,320
Speaker 1: has never seen better numbers than it did this year.

1681
01:29:30,720 --> 01:29:32,360
Speaker 1: The fact that all of a sudden, there was this

1682
01:29:32,560 --> 01:29:36,000
Speaker 1: talk about the changes during spring training to the pitch

1683
01:29:36,000 --> 01:29:38,160
Speaker 1: clock and the changes on the base path, how many

1684
01:29:38,160 --> 01:29:40,800
Speaker 1: more stolen bases people were seeing in spring training. There

1685
01:29:40,840 --> 01:29:44,000
Speaker 1: was actually excitement in a way that I haven't felt

1686
01:29:44,000 --> 01:29:46,640
Speaker 1: in a decade or better for major League Baseball to

1687
01:29:46,680 --> 01:29:50,240
Speaker 1: come back. So I think these changes were not only good,

1688
01:29:50,800 --> 01:29:53,719
Speaker 1: and I've been saying that since I've heard about these changes.

1689
01:29:53,800 --> 01:29:56,760
Speaker 1: I think they were necessary and I think it's about time.

1690
01:29:57,040 --> 01:30:00,280
Speaker 1: It's probably I'm not gonna say too late. I'm not

1691
01:30:00,320 --> 01:30:02,120
Speaker 1: going to say too late because I can't tell you

1692
01:30:02,160 --> 01:30:04,840
Speaker 1: what the future holds for major League Baseball. But it

1693
01:30:04,920 --> 01:30:07,719
Speaker 1: was probably later than it should have been. These changes

1694
01:30:07,760 --> 01:30:10,880
Speaker 1: should have come sooner because baseball needed a shot in

1695
01:30:10,920 --> 01:30:13,479
Speaker 1: the arm, and they tried all these other things Steve

1696
01:30:13,760 --> 01:30:17,160
Speaker 1: like juicing the baseballs. They tried all these things, Like

1697
01:30:18,560 --> 01:30:21,599
Speaker 1: for a while they were allowing for teams And trust

1698
01:30:21,600 --> 01:30:24,439
Speaker 1: me when I tell you this, the Major League Baseball

1699
01:30:24,520 --> 01:30:27,439
Speaker 1: was aware of the technology being used to steal signs.

1700
01:30:28,280 --> 01:30:30,160
Speaker 1: They were allowing that to go on for a long

1701
01:30:30,200 --> 01:30:34,040
Speaker 1: time before writing memos and then finally hitting the Astros

1702
01:30:34,080 --> 01:30:37,320
Speaker 1: with the suspensions and the bands and you know all

1703
01:30:37,360 --> 01:30:37,800
Speaker 1: the things.

1704
01:30:37,800 --> 01:30:40,799
Speaker 2: How about the spider tack. The spider tack, They allowed

1705
01:30:40,840 --> 01:30:43,880
Speaker 2: that good to go on. They knew about it for years,

1706
01:30:43,920 --> 01:30:47,320
Speaker 2: they knew about it. But yeah, this these changes were necessary.

1707
01:30:47,360 --> 01:30:49,200
Speaker 2: They were good changes, and I'm glad that they made

1708
01:30:49,200 --> 01:30:52,920
Speaker 2: those changes. To ask you a question based off your

1709
01:30:53,160 --> 01:30:56,840
Speaker 2: your thought process here, what changes should the NBA make

1710
01:30:57,080 --> 01:30:58,920
Speaker 2: in order to make their game better? Well that's a

1711
01:30:59,000 --> 01:31:01,719
Speaker 2: great lead in because let's see this, let's think about

1712
01:31:01,720 --> 01:31:04,439
Speaker 2: this for a second here, right, So, you watch NBA,

1713
01:31:04,640 --> 01:31:10,639
Speaker 2: especially regular season basketball, and seriously, for me, the only

1714
01:31:10,680 --> 01:31:13,960
Speaker 2: reason I'm watching NBA games usually is there what Charles

1715
01:31:13,960 --> 01:31:17,679
Speaker 2: Barkley has to say on TNT in the regular season.

1716
01:31:18,120 --> 01:31:21,640
Speaker 2: That's my sole reason is to be in whatever he

1717
01:31:21,840 --> 01:31:26,160
Speaker 2: has going on with Ernie and Kenny and Shaq is

1718
01:31:26,200 --> 01:31:31,559
Speaker 2: way more entertaining the game itself. So what changes can

1719
01:31:31,680 --> 01:31:37,679
Speaker 2: the NBA make to make the game more appealing on

1720
01:31:37,720 --> 01:31:41,719
Speaker 2: the court, we'll discuss. This is Fox Sports Sunday, Steve

1721
01:31:41,720 --> 01:31:46,120
Speaker 2: Harbin and or Rich Arnberger Here Fox Sports Sunday, and

1722
01:31:46,280 --> 01:31:49,880
Speaker 2: we are live from the ti raq dot Com studios.

1723
01:31:49,880 --> 01:31:52,800
Speaker 2: All right, off and running here. The Grizzlies and Lakers

1724
01:31:53,439 --> 01:31:55,479
Speaker 2: tied at eleven, got a timeout seven and a half

1725
01:31:55,479 --> 01:31:58,360
Speaker 2: minutes ago in the first quarter, and we're seeing, well

1726
01:31:58,360 --> 01:32:01,080
Speaker 2: we normally see an NBA games, bunch of guys taking

1727
01:32:01,120 --> 01:32:04,960
Speaker 2: three point shots. Lakers are one for five and the

1728
01:32:05,000 --> 01:32:11,000
Speaker 2: Grizzlies have missed theirs. You know, I'm thinking about the

1729
01:32:11,040 --> 01:32:14,280
Speaker 2: evolution of this game. So there are many people out

1730
01:32:14,280 --> 01:32:19,400
Speaker 2: there listening that will steadfastly maintain that Michael Jordan is

1731
01:32:19,439 --> 01:32:23,720
Speaker 2: the greatest player in NBA history, and there's plenty of

1732
01:32:23,800 --> 01:32:27,800
Speaker 2: ammunition to make that argument. In nineteen eighty eight, he

1733
01:32:27,840 --> 01:32:33,080
Speaker 2: won his first MVP award, played all eighty two games,

1734
01:32:33,160 --> 01:32:38,160
Speaker 2: which you don't see anymore. Obviously. He averaged thirty five

1735
01:32:38,160 --> 01:32:42,479
Speaker 2: points a game that year. Three point shooting.

1736
01:32:43,040 --> 01:32:44,960
Speaker 1: You're ready for this, Rich, let me hear it.

1737
01:32:45,280 --> 01:32:48,000
Speaker 2: So in nineteen eighty eight, averaging thirty five points a

1738
01:32:48,040 --> 01:32:54,120
Speaker 2: game for the season, eighty two games his three point shooting,

1739
01:32:54,160 --> 01:32:58,919
Speaker 2: he was seven for fifty three. That's thirteen point two percent.

1740
01:33:00,080 --> 01:33:05,640
Speaker 2: He made seven three point shots in eighty two games

1741
01:33:06,920 --> 01:33:11,320
Speaker 2: and still averaged thirty five points a game. Wow, So

1742
01:33:11,479 --> 01:33:16,120
Speaker 2: I mean, try, I'm just how's that possible? How could

1743
01:33:16,160 --> 01:33:18,840
Speaker 2: you possibly average thirty five points a game when he

1744
01:33:18,880 --> 01:33:23,120
Speaker 2: only made seven threes the entire year and shot thirteen percent?

1745
01:33:23,400 --> 01:33:25,760
Speaker 2: How great could he be if he only made thirteen

1746
01:33:25,840 --> 01:33:28,040
Speaker 2: percent of his three Well, obviously it was a much

1747
01:33:28,040 --> 01:33:32,120
Speaker 2: different game. So if you're unaware of how the NBA

1748
01:33:32,320 --> 01:33:35,960
Speaker 2: was played back in those days, that's not the way

1749
01:33:35,760 --> 01:33:38,479
Speaker 2: the offenses were set up with a man in the post.

1750
01:33:39,479 --> 01:33:41,960
Speaker 2: And when one season was this against thineteen eighty eight,

1751
01:33:42,120 --> 01:33:45,360
Speaker 2: there's here's what I'll give to you though.

1752
01:33:45,439 --> 01:33:47,799
Speaker 1: Yeah, what was that number again that he hit.

1753
01:33:48,200 --> 01:33:50,519
Speaker 2: In eighty two games, played every game that year? He

1754
01:33:50,560 --> 01:33:53,040
Speaker 2: made seven out of fifty three to three pointers for

1755
01:33:53,080 --> 01:33:53,759
Speaker 2: the season.

1756
01:33:54,400 --> 01:33:59,080
Speaker 1: Okay, In nineteen eighty eight, the league average for field

1757
01:33:59,120 --> 01:34:04,120
Speaker 1: goal or excuse me, three pointers made was thirty two percent.

1758
01:34:04,560 --> 01:34:08,080
Speaker 1: So I mean, I I just went he shot thirteen percent. Yeah, yeah,

1759
01:34:08,080 --> 01:34:10,479
Speaker 1: I went back just to double check, like what the

1760
01:34:10,560 --> 01:34:13,639
Speaker 1: league average was, because now obviously that's ballooned. It's thirty

1761
01:34:13,640 --> 01:34:17,120
Speaker 1: six percent this past season. It was thirty five percent

1762
01:34:17,360 --> 01:34:19,479
Speaker 1: thirty five and a half last season. The year before

1763
01:34:19,520 --> 01:34:22,680
Speaker 1: that thirty six percent, almost thirty seven percent. So it

1764
01:34:22,760 --> 01:34:26,320
Speaker 1: has gone up league wide by about five percent points

1765
01:34:26,360 --> 01:34:30,880
Speaker 1: since eighty eight. But still he was dreadfully below the

1766
01:34:30,960 --> 01:34:32,080
Speaker 1: league average.

1767
01:34:31,760 --> 01:34:34,599
Speaker 2: And yet nobody argued, no, it was not even a factor.

1768
01:34:34,720 --> 01:34:37,559
Speaker 2: Obviously when they were voting on MVP because he was

1769
01:34:37,640 --> 01:34:41,320
Speaker 2: the Most Valuable Player that year, Nobody even thought about

1770
01:34:41,320 --> 01:34:44,960
Speaker 2: it. It was like an afterthought. So let's just start with

1771
01:34:45,000 --> 01:34:47,320
Speaker 2: the three point shooting and the proliferation of it. And

1772
01:34:47,360 --> 01:34:50,400
Speaker 2: I remember the analytics. The Rockets were big on this

1773
01:34:50,479 --> 01:34:53,600
Speaker 2: with James Harden, and they were trying to do the analytics.

1774
01:34:53,640 --> 01:34:55,439
Speaker 2: I mean, I remember Harden would just camp at the

1775
01:34:55,439 --> 01:34:58,120
Speaker 2: three point line, dribble, dribble, dribble, dribble. I mean he

1776
01:34:58,479 --> 01:35:00,679
Speaker 2: they actually, I don't know who is in charge this

1777
01:35:00,880 --> 01:35:02,760
Speaker 2: when you know you're low man on the totem pole,

1778
01:35:03,240 --> 01:35:06,559
Speaker 2: when you're in charge of counting dribbles during an NBA game,

1779
01:35:07,280 --> 01:35:11,639
Speaker 2: There actually was a stat and James Harden had more

1780
01:35:11,760 --> 01:35:15,639
Speaker 2: dribbles than any player in the league by forty percent. Yeah,

1781
01:35:16,400 --> 01:35:19,920
Speaker 2: and the analytics that the Rockets had determined was is

1782
01:35:19,920 --> 01:35:23,519
Speaker 2: that Harden camps at the three point line, dribbling and

1783
01:35:23,560 --> 01:35:27,640
Speaker 2: shoots the ball. It's going to be much more proficient,

1784
01:35:29,720 --> 01:35:33,600
Speaker 2: more efficient in terms of scoring than it would be

1785
01:35:33,640 --> 01:35:35,680
Speaker 2: if he was driving the lane or you know, and

1786
01:35:35,720 --> 01:35:37,599
Speaker 2: plus he was always picking up fouls as well as

1787
01:35:37,640 --> 01:35:41,479
Speaker 2: the potential of four point play. All of that's great.

1788
01:35:41,840 --> 01:35:44,240
Speaker 2: It was the same kind of analytics that took baseball

1789
01:35:44,280 --> 01:35:48,160
Speaker 2: in a different direction. But standing there watching somebody just

1790
01:35:48,280 --> 01:35:52,080
Speaker 2: dribble a basketball until the clock winds down and then

1791
01:35:52,160 --> 01:35:54,600
Speaker 2: casting off a three, whether it goes in or not,

1792
01:35:55,160 --> 01:35:55,879
Speaker 2: is not compelling.

1793
01:35:56,479 --> 01:35:56,800
Speaker 1: It's not.

1794
01:35:57,760 --> 01:36:01,960
Speaker 2: If you want to go back YouTube it, watch Michael

1795
01:36:02,040 --> 01:36:05,920
Speaker 2: Jordan highlights from nineteen eighty eight, not just Jordan, but

1796
01:36:06,000 --> 01:36:08,840
Speaker 2: how everybody else was playing the game. And you tell

1797
01:36:08,920 --> 01:36:12,880
Speaker 2: me if that brand of basketball wasn't better and more

1798
01:36:13,080 --> 01:36:16,760
Speaker 2: entertaining than what we see thirty five years later.

1799
01:36:16,960 --> 01:36:20,799
Speaker 1: Well, listen, I am the type of person who tries

1800
01:36:20,920 --> 01:36:26,720
Speaker 1: to look at things objectively. You know, what did we game?

1801
01:36:26,760 --> 01:36:29,840
Speaker 1: Would we lose? You know, there is a part of

1802
01:36:29,880 --> 01:36:33,439
Speaker 1: me that really yearns for the way the NFL used

1803
01:36:33,439 --> 01:36:36,680
Speaker 1: to be played. Right from the standpoint of all the

1804
01:36:36,680 --> 01:36:41,960
Speaker 1: big hits you saw and all of the drama that

1805
01:36:42,120 --> 01:36:44,840
Speaker 1: was created when you had a really tough nosed wide

1806
01:36:44,920 --> 01:36:47,840
Speaker 1: receiver who would go over the middle to catch a

1807
01:36:47,880 --> 01:36:51,559
Speaker 1: football and he didn't alligator armit, he didn't body catch it.

1808
01:36:51,760 --> 01:36:54,639
Speaker 1: He reached out, stretch his arms out, and he took

1809
01:36:54,640 --> 01:36:56,320
Speaker 1: the hit and found a way to keep it in

1810
01:36:56,320 --> 01:37:00,559
Speaker 1: his grasp, like those guys, those Warriors who played in

1811
01:37:00,600 --> 01:37:05,160
Speaker 1: the slot back when the NFL could actually could actually

1812
01:37:05,280 --> 01:37:08,240
Speaker 1: hit a receiver and time it up with the football

1813
01:37:08,320 --> 01:37:11,040
Speaker 1: arriving and sometimes honestly, the defense got a little bit

1814
01:37:11,840 --> 01:37:17,920
Speaker 1: of latitude there. Tho. Those were days where, like you

1815
01:37:18,000 --> 01:37:22,559
Speaker 1: really enjoyed football for the physicality, not just at the

1816
01:37:22,600 --> 01:37:25,559
Speaker 1: offensive line and defensive line and the linebacker and running

1817
01:37:25,560 --> 01:37:28,640
Speaker 1: back position, but also from the wide receiver standpoint. But

1818
01:37:28,680 --> 01:37:32,000
Speaker 1: the games evolved, you know, the games evolved player safety.

1819
01:37:32,080 --> 01:37:35,120
Speaker 1: We've become way more aware of what those big hits

1820
01:37:35,200 --> 01:37:38,920
Speaker 1: do to the players now than then we had any

1821
01:37:38,960 --> 01:37:41,439
Speaker 1: idea of back then. Back then, I mean, and this

1822
01:37:41,520 --> 01:37:44,160
Speaker 1: is standard practice. This was still being discussed when I

1823
01:37:44,200 --> 01:37:46,960
Speaker 1: was playing football, and it was recent. It was reason

1824
01:37:47,040 --> 01:37:49,679
Speaker 1: my last year was twenty fourteen. Used to just say, hey,

1825
01:37:50,240 --> 01:37:52,840
Speaker 1: your bell got wrong, and then you just got back

1826
01:37:52,880 --> 01:37:54,719
Speaker 1: in there. You kind of shrugged it off. You shook

1827
01:37:54,760 --> 01:37:57,720
Speaker 1: it off, like we just know so much now that

1828
01:37:57,800 --> 01:38:02,320
Speaker 1: the game had to change. Basketball. Back then, it was

1829
01:38:02,520 --> 01:38:07,719
Speaker 1: way more physical than it is now. We complain about

1830
01:38:07,840 --> 01:38:12,280
Speaker 1: players getting injured now because then it obviously dilutes the

1831
01:38:12,280 --> 01:38:15,840
Speaker 1: the ability for the league to promote its stars, and

1832
01:38:15,920 --> 01:38:19,439
Speaker 1: it dilutes the the success of teams because without a

1833
01:38:19,479 --> 01:38:22,320
Speaker 1: star like a Paul George for the Clippers, by by example,

1834
01:38:22,920 --> 01:38:25,320
Speaker 1: the Clippers are going to be without PG for the

1835
01:38:25,360 --> 01:38:28,240
Speaker 1: opening round of the postseason against the Suns, and I

1836
01:38:28,680 --> 01:38:31,160
Speaker 1: just predicted that the Suns would sweep this series. So

1837
01:38:31,680 --> 01:38:34,080
Speaker 1: you know, there's that. But getting back to the point,

1838
01:38:34,280 --> 01:38:36,720
Speaker 1: it really does, I mean, it hampers the ability for

1839
01:38:36,840 --> 01:38:40,360
Speaker 1: these teams or these these these this league to have success.

1840
01:38:40,439 --> 01:38:43,640
Speaker 1: Like so, I mean, it's it's kind of like you

1841
01:38:43,920 --> 01:38:46,639
Speaker 1: take it or leave it, like Steve, I mean, would

1842
01:38:46,680 --> 01:38:50,080
Speaker 1: you prefer the physical physicality to return but not maybe

1843
01:38:50,240 --> 01:38:52,760
Speaker 1: get to see Lebron James perform as well as he

1844
01:38:52,840 --> 01:38:55,360
Speaker 1: has to almost his forties.

1845
01:38:55,439 --> 01:38:58,960
Speaker 2: Okay, So here's the point. Okay, you mentioned the physicality

1846
01:38:59,000 --> 01:39:02,240
Speaker 2: of the game. That's same Michael Jordan, and he was

1847
01:39:02,280 --> 01:39:05,920
Speaker 2: getting racked every game. Right, He's going against that Piston's team.

1848
01:39:06,240 --> 01:39:12,280
Speaker 2: They're pummeling this guy in Michael Jordan's last season two

1849
01:39:12,320 --> 01:39:15,480
Speaker 2: thousand and two, two thousand and three season with Washing Wizards,

1850
01:39:15,640 --> 01:39:17,920
Speaker 2: and we're carrying a few extra lbs at that point

1851
01:39:17,960 --> 01:39:21,240
Speaker 2: of his career. Out of eighty two games and a year,

1852
01:39:21,320 --> 01:39:24,639
Speaker 2: by the way, he turned forty during that season over

1853
01:39:24,760 --> 01:39:28,200
Speaker 2: than Lebron James is right now, out of eighty two games,

1854
01:39:28,240 --> 01:39:32,679
Speaker 2: he played eighty two games. He didn't miss a single

1855
01:39:32,840 --> 01:39:36,040
Speaker 2: game that year, not one. Let me give you another

1856
01:39:36,080 --> 01:39:38,280
Speaker 2: stat as far as games played. Talk about making the

1857
01:39:38,360 --> 01:39:43,000
Speaker 2: NBA better. John Stockton played nineteen seasons of the Utah Jazz.

1858
01:39:43,360 --> 01:39:47,479
Speaker 2: He played every single game in seventeen of those nineteen years.

1859
01:39:48,080 --> 01:39:52,639
Speaker 2: His teammate Karl Malone big Man, in his eighteen seasons

1860
01:39:52,640 --> 01:39:56,120
Speaker 2: of the Utah Jazz, never missed more than two games

1861
01:39:56,120 --> 01:40:00,439
Speaker 2: in any year. So when we talk about making the

1862
01:40:00,560 --> 01:40:03,919
Speaker 2: NBA better, part of it is something that Kevin Durant

1863
01:40:04,080 --> 01:40:07,920
Speaker 2: mentioned having played just eight games with his Phoenix Suns teammates.

1864
01:40:08,240 --> 01:40:12,080
Speaker 2: It's called chemistry. We get better basketball when we have

1865
01:40:12,240 --> 01:40:14,760
Speaker 2: guys on the court that are familiar with each other.

1866
01:40:15,120 --> 01:40:17,160
Speaker 2: If you go back to the glory days of a

1867
01:40:17,200 --> 01:40:19,599
Speaker 2: lot of great teams in the past, whereas the Lakers,

1868
01:40:19,600 --> 01:40:21,800
Speaker 2: the Celtics, the Bulls, whatever team you want to choose

1869
01:40:21,800 --> 01:40:24,200
Speaker 2: in the past. One thing about the box scores of

1870
01:40:24,240 --> 01:40:27,800
Speaker 2: those games. They were amazingly consistent. Everyone had a defined role.

1871
01:40:28,160 --> 01:40:31,559
Speaker 2: You could pretty much they were interchangeable. You knew how

1872
01:40:31,600 --> 01:40:34,360
Speaker 2: many assist a guy would have, rebounds, points, and everything else.

1873
01:40:34,760 --> 01:40:38,320
Speaker 2: That's based on guys playing together. When you have these

1874
01:40:38,760 --> 01:40:41,000
Speaker 2: disjointed teams where guys are in and out of the

1875
01:40:41,040 --> 01:40:46,000
Speaker 2: lineup constantly, guess what you don't have. No, I get mistry, listen,

1876
01:40:46,080 --> 01:40:51,120
Speaker 2: and that lack of chemistry is a big deficiency. I

1877
01:40:51,160 --> 01:40:55,040
Speaker 2: think right now in what we're seeing in NBA basketball.

1878
01:40:54,680 --> 01:40:57,240
Speaker 1: I'm not disagreeing with you. I think the NBA needs

1879
01:40:57,240 --> 01:41:01,320
Speaker 1: to make changes. I think that the NBA is going

1880
01:41:01,439 --> 01:41:04,960
Speaker 1: the way baseball was going before they decided to make

1881
01:41:05,000 --> 01:41:07,799
Speaker 1: some changes to the size of the bases, the pitch clock,

1882
01:41:08,320 --> 01:41:11,080
Speaker 1: banning of the shift in the infield, et cetera, et cetera.

1883
01:41:11,720 --> 01:41:14,760
Speaker 1: You know, those were good changes. Baseball needed to make

1884
01:41:14,800 --> 01:41:19,080
Speaker 1: those changes. However, I will say this, if we're going

1885
01:41:19,160 --> 01:41:21,800
Speaker 1: to compare eras if we're gonna pair like you know

1886
01:41:22,000 --> 01:41:25,840
Speaker 1: how you just did Jordan against Lebron for example. You

1887
01:41:25,880 --> 01:41:29,920
Speaker 1: know Jordan, And again this is kind of getting away

1888
01:41:29,920 --> 01:41:32,040
Speaker 1: from the topic at hand. I'm going to give you

1889
01:41:32,080 --> 01:41:34,639
Speaker 1: some solutions in my mind that would fix the NBA,

1890
01:41:34,840 --> 01:41:36,400
Speaker 1: and it would fix it real quick.

1891
01:41:37,920 --> 01:41:39,559
Speaker 2: I will hang on to it. On the other side,

1892
01:41:39,600 --> 01:41:40,200
Speaker 2: I got Jordan.

1893
01:41:40,280 --> 01:41:43,400
Speaker 1: On the other side, Jordan, though he had four years

1894
01:41:43,439 --> 01:41:46,680
Speaker 1: off before he turned in the performance you were just disgusting.

1895
01:41:47,200 --> 01:41:49,559
Speaker 1: He had one year of minor league baseball where he

1896
01:41:49,600 --> 01:41:52,720
Speaker 1: didn't have the wear tear of an NBA season, and

1897
01:41:52,760 --> 01:41:55,240
Speaker 1: then he had three years of retirement before coming back

1898
01:41:55,280 --> 01:41:55,559
Speaker 1: with the win.

1899
01:41:55,680 --> 01:41:57,240
Speaker 2: Okay, what about Stockton? Them alone?

1900
01:41:57,479 --> 01:41:59,880
Speaker 1: Okay, I made him miss any seasons and they didn't.

1901
01:42:00,479 --> 01:42:03,280
Speaker 1: I'm saying exceptions don't prove the rule. But we're talking

1902
01:42:03,280 --> 01:42:06,160
Speaker 1: about exceptional players, and when we're comparing Stockton and Malone,

1903
01:42:06,200 --> 01:42:08,960
Speaker 1: they're not even the conversation with Lebron James all right,

1904
01:42:09,000 --> 01:42:10,680
Speaker 1: I would never say either one of them are the

1905
01:42:10,680 --> 01:42:11,280
Speaker 1: greatest of all.

1906
01:42:11,360 --> 01:42:14,679
Speaker 2: Load management is a major problem for this league, no question,

1907
01:42:14,760 --> 01:42:17,559
Speaker 2: and it's not been addressed. We have a commissioner that's

1908
01:42:17,560 --> 01:42:20,840
Speaker 2: afraid of the players apparently to say anything negative, saying

1909
01:42:20,840 --> 01:42:23,960
Speaker 2: he sees no negatives. You know, revenue is amazing, because

1910
01:42:24,439 --> 01:42:27,240
Speaker 2: you know, again, where's the money coming from. I don't

1911
01:42:27,240 --> 01:42:30,240
Speaker 2: want to get into that. The bottom line here is

1912
01:42:30,520 --> 01:42:34,280
Speaker 2: I'm watching basketball that is disjointed. There's a lack of

1913
01:42:34,360 --> 01:42:36,920
Speaker 2: chemistry on the court, and that has to do with

1914
01:42:37,000 --> 01:42:39,320
Speaker 2: guys sitting out a multitude of games. All right, we'll

1915
01:42:39,320 --> 01:42:41,679
Speaker 2: get more into this on the other side, but first,

1916
01:42:41,760 --> 01:42:45,400
Speaker 2: let's find out what's trending right now. And let's ask

1917
01:42:45,439 --> 01:42:48,840
Speaker 2: you Monsi. So, Manzi, you are a diehard Clippers fan.

1918
01:42:48,920 --> 01:42:52,000
Speaker 2: How happy are you that once again this year? I

1919
01:42:52,080 --> 01:42:56,400
Speaker 2: look and Kawhi Leonard missed thirty games this year and

1920
01:42:56,720 --> 01:43:01,080
Speaker 2: Paul George miss twenty six games this year. You traded

1921
01:43:01,479 --> 01:43:03,760
Speaker 2: every draft pick you have for the next decade to

1922
01:43:03,760 --> 01:43:06,719
Speaker 2: get Paul George who wouldn't have been there, And Kawhi

1923
01:43:06,760 --> 01:43:08,759
Speaker 2: Leonard said he was going to join the Clippers unless

1924
01:43:08,800 --> 01:43:12,559
Speaker 2: you get me Paul George. Yeah, how's that working for you? No?

1925
01:43:12,560 --> 01:43:15,400
Speaker 6: No, no, the Clipper curse is alive and well, well wait.

1926
01:43:15,200 --> 01:43:17,479
Speaker 2: A second, is it curs because you have your star

1927
01:43:17,560 --> 01:43:21,479
Speaker 2: player Kawhi Leonard, who's the is the face of load manager, right, he.

1928
01:43:21,439 --> 01:43:24,599
Speaker 7: Definitely started it all years ago, you know, Yes, thirty

1929
01:43:24,640 --> 01:43:27,719
Speaker 7: games this year. Yes, I meanted more of Paul George

1930
01:43:27,800 --> 01:43:29,960
Speaker 7: getting injured this late in the season, that the Clipper

1931
01:43:30,000 --> 01:43:33,760
Speaker 7: curse is alive and well, but we definitely, you know,

1932
01:43:33,840 --> 01:43:36,920
Speaker 7: experienced that load management like nobody else with both of them,

1933
01:43:37,120 --> 01:43:40,519
Speaker 7: which totally sucks. This load management is getting out of hand.

1934
01:43:40,560 --> 01:43:43,839
Speaker 7: And yes, Kawhi started it before he was a raptor.

1935
01:43:44,080 --> 01:43:46,200
Speaker 7: It all started with the Spurs. You know, he definitely

1936
01:43:46,280 --> 01:43:48,720
Speaker 7: took that on. Even though nobody really talks about it.

1937
01:43:48,680 --> 01:43:51,040
Speaker 2: It was Spurs talked about it. That's why they got it.

1938
01:43:51,280 --> 01:43:53,679
Speaker 7: But at the time it wasn't looked at as load

1939
01:43:53,720 --> 01:43:57,200
Speaker 7: management like that term didn't come when Kawhi wasn't playing,

1940
01:43:57,240 --> 01:43:59,559
Speaker 7: you know what I'm saying now, that's what we referred

1941
01:43:59,560 --> 01:43:59,760
Speaker 7: to it.

1942
01:43:59,800 --> 01:44:01,160
Speaker 6: But he definitely was.

1943
01:44:01,439 --> 01:44:04,960
Speaker 7: The leader in that, and yes, Pop and at the time,

1944
01:44:05,000 --> 01:44:08,479
Speaker 7: the players definitely addressed the fact that he seemed fine

1945
01:44:08,520 --> 01:44:10,160
Speaker 7: to play and he didn't want to play, that he

1946
01:44:10,240 --> 01:44:13,400
Speaker 7: wasn't ready to play. So it's it's a very frustrating thing.

1947
01:44:13,439 --> 01:44:16,360
Speaker 7: It's happening across the NBA. And what's crazy is that

1948
01:44:16,400 --> 01:44:19,200
Speaker 7: a couple maybe like a week two ago, NBA released

1949
01:44:19,240 --> 01:44:21,640
Speaker 7: the numbers, and like, the numbers for the NBA in

1950
01:44:21,680 --> 01:44:24,600
Speaker 7: attendance and like viewership were higher.

1951
01:44:24,280 --> 01:44:27,639
Speaker 6: Than last year. Despite this load management, fans are still

1952
01:44:27,680 --> 01:44:31,599
Speaker 6: going to these games. That's what's crazy. I don't know.

1953
01:44:32,040 --> 01:44:34,240
Speaker 7: I was shocked to see those numbers a week or

1954
01:44:34,240 --> 01:44:36,679
Speaker 7: two ago that the NBA released, Like it's like, really,

1955
01:44:36,720 --> 01:44:39,080
Speaker 7: fans are still going because it's hard. It's hard to

1956
01:44:39,080 --> 01:44:41,599
Speaker 7: go to a game not knowing who you're gonna watch. Yeah,

1957
01:44:41,640 --> 01:44:44,160
Speaker 7: it's it's very difficult to buy tickets, like at the

1958
01:44:44,200 --> 01:44:45,840
Speaker 7: end of the season, you know, maybe the last game

1959
01:44:45,880 --> 01:44:48,519
Speaker 7: I suppose, but it is hard to buy tickets not

1960
01:44:48,720 --> 01:44:51,040
Speaker 7: knowing who you are going to watch.

1961
01:44:51,080 --> 01:44:54,880
Speaker 1: I will say this from a fan attendant arena. The

1962
01:44:55,200 --> 01:44:59,840
Speaker 1: play in the playing tournament has helped encourage, yes, tea

1963
01:45:00,360 --> 01:45:02,120
Speaker 1: to stay alive longer.

1964
01:45:02,280 --> 01:45:05,120
Speaker 6: Yes, you know, so where that has been a positive.

1965
01:45:05,360 --> 01:45:08,639
Speaker 1: Yeah, you used to have like maybe really I mean

1966
01:45:08,960 --> 01:45:12,559
Speaker 1: realistically the bottom twelve teams maybe even more, maybe the

1967
01:45:12,560 --> 01:45:16,040
Speaker 1: bottom half of the league kind of bowing out by

1968
01:45:16,040 --> 01:45:17,120
Speaker 1: the end of the regular season.

1969
01:45:17,240 --> 01:45:19,240
Speaker 2: Now there's actually a little.

1970
01:45:19,040 --> 01:45:21,479
Speaker 1: Bit of like want to left in a lot of

1971
01:45:21,520 --> 01:45:23,679
Speaker 1: these teams to buy for that seventh and eighth.

1972
01:45:23,479 --> 01:45:24,280
Speaker 6: Spot for sure.

1973
01:45:24,320 --> 01:45:27,280
Speaker 7: I agree the playing tournament has been successful. I think

1974
01:45:27,360 --> 01:45:30,599
Speaker 7: it has been successful in helping people not bow out,

1975
01:45:30,640 --> 01:45:32,120
Speaker 7: so earlier teams not bow out.

1976
01:45:32,200 --> 01:45:33,840
Speaker 2: Le Bron's not a fan, that's for sure.

1977
01:45:34,200 --> 01:45:37,200
Speaker 6: Exactly well, but it's fun.

1978
01:45:37,240 --> 01:45:39,519
Speaker 7: The games have been fun, they've been exciting, so it

1979
01:45:39,600 --> 01:45:43,160
Speaker 7: has worked out, Lebron. James, though, right now has two points,

1980
01:45:43,200 --> 01:45:44,599
Speaker 7: so be quiet, Lebron.

1981
01:45:44,840 --> 01:45:47,160
Speaker 6: It's Anthony Davis who's been pretty hot right now for

1982
01:45:47,160 --> 01:45:47,639
Speaker 6: the Lakers.

1983
01:45:47,680 --> 01:45:50,920
Speaker 7: He actually has eight points, three blocks, five rebounds, and

1984
01:45:51,000 --> 01:45:53,920
Speaker 7: we're just about to end the first quarter. LA does

1985
01:45:53,960 --> 01:45:56,759
Speaker 7: have a three point lead over the Memphis Grizzlies. Thirty

1986
01:45:56,760 --> 01:46:00,280
Speaker 7: to twenty seven is the score for the Grizzlies. Aaron

1987
01:46:00,360 --> 01:46:03,479
Speaker 7: Jackson Junior leading all scores. He also has eight points,

1988
01:46:03,479 --> 01:46:06,240
Speaker 7: so he and ad are definitely battling it out.

1989
01:46:06,520 --> 01:46:08,400
Speaker 6: But yeah, guys, this is this load management.

1990
01:46:08,439 --> 01:46:09,080
Speaker 2: It's crap.

1991
01:46:09,240 --> 01:46:11,400
Speaker 6: Let's move on to Major League baseball. You know it's

1992
01:46:11,400 --> 01:46:13,439
Speaker 6: not crap. The Phillies. The Phillies scored.

1993
01:46:13,280 --> 01:46:15,400
Speaker 7: Nine runs in the first inning, top of the first inning,

1994
01:46:15,560 --> 01:46:17,519
Speaker 7: and they're beating the Reds ten to one top of

1995
01:46:17,560 --> 01:46:19,920
Speaker 7: the fourth inning. Ah, that's crazy. I don't know who

1996
01:46:19,960 --> 01:46:22,360
Speaker 7: was pitching, but no Bueno. Braves are beating the Royals

1997
01:46:22,400 --> 01:46:23,960
Speaker 7: four to one. They're about to start the bottom of

1998
01:46:24,000 --> 01:46:25,840
Speaker 7: the six inning with the Pirates still up on the

1999
01:46:25,840 --> 01:46:28,040
Speaker 7: Cardinals by one run, two to one. Top of the

2000
01:46:28,080 --> 01:46:31,240
Speaker 7: six inning, Yankees still beating the Twins by two runs,

2001
01:46:31,240 --> 01:46:31,800
Speaker 7: two zero.

2002
01:46:31,840 --> 01:46:33,000
Speaker 6: Bottom of the eighth inning.

2003
01:46:33,280 --> 01:46:35,240
Speaker 7: The Rays have come back to life after losing the

2004
01:46:35,320 --> 01:46:37,880
Speaker 7: last two games to the Blue Jays. They're up seven

2005
01:46:37,920 --> 01:46:40,440
Speaker 7: to one bottom of the sixth inning, and the Guardians

2006
01:46:40,439 --> 01:46:42,760
Speaker 7: have taken the lead over the Nationals six to five,

2007
01:46:43,000 --> 01:46:45,599
Speaker 7: top of the eighth inning. And this was a crazy

2008
01:46:45,640 --> 01:46:48,559
Speaker 7: stat that ESPN just posted about Lebron and the Grizzlies.

2009
01:46:48,640 --> 01:46:53,759
Speaker 7: Lebron has played in two hundred and sixty six postseason games.

2010
01:46:53,840 --> 01:46:55,240
Speaker 6: Lebron James alone two.

2011
01:46:55,200 --> 01:46:58,040
Speaker 7: Hundred and sixty six, the Grizzlies as a team, two

2012
01:46:58,120 --> 01:46:58,960
Speaker 7: hundred and fifteen.

2013
01:47:00,120 --> 01:47:01,559
Speaker 6: As it's so experienced, Well, just.

2014
01:47:01,479 --> 01:47:03,960
Speaker 2: What allows when you get to the NBA Finals eight

2015
01:47:04,200 --> 01:47:05,120
Speaker 2: straight years?

2016
01:47:05,200 --> 01:47:06,719
Speaker 6: Yes, ever so many years?

2017
01:47:06,720 --> 01:47:08,959
Speaker 7: So by himself two hundred and sixty six the Grizzlies

2018
01:47:08,960 --> 01:47:10,320
Speaker 7: two hundred and fifteen.

2019
01:47:10,680 --> 01:47:13,280
Speaker 2: Back to you, guys, hi, mind see well, I just

2020
01:47:13,640 --> 01:47:16,679
Speaker 2: getting back to this whole load management thing. So they're

2021
01:47:16,760 --> 01:47:20,360
Speaker 2: talking about the new collective bargaining agreement the players Union

2022
01:47:20,560 --> 01:47:24,680
Speaker 2: and the league about you know, setting certain minimum requirements

2023
01:47:24,720 --> 01:47:30,160
Speaker 2: in games play to qualify for postseason awards. Now it's interesting.

2024
01:47:30,240 --> 01:47:33,679
Speaker 2: So the Dallas Mavericks just got hammered by the NBA

2025
01:47:33,840 --> 01:47:36,920
Speaker 2: for sitting all those players in that last game that

2026
01:47:38,320 --> 01:47:40,880
Speaker 2: still they were still in the mix to possibly get

2027
01:47:40,920 --> 01:47:44,719
Speaker 2: into the play in round, and they made a decision

2028
01:47:44,800 --> 01:47:47,479
Speaker 2: as an organization. By the way, can you imagine Jason

2029
01:47:47,560 --> 01:47:49,519
Speaker 2: Kidds still having a job when he called out the

2030
01:47:49,600 --> 01:47:53,920
Speaker 2: organization before the game. Before the game, He's like, by

2031
01:47:53,960 --> 01:47:57,000
Speaker 2: the way, the organization has made a decision, we're going

2032
01:47:57,040 --> 01:47:59,760
Speaker 2: to sick Kyrie half the team. And then Daunton's played

2033
01:47:59,760 --> 01:48:02,400
Speaker 2: twelve minutes that night, and they lose the game to

2034
01:48:02,560 --> 01:48:05,439
Speaker 2: obviously give themselves a better chance at a high lottery pick.

2035
01:48:05,880 --> 01:48:08,360
Speaker 2: And I love this. The NBA said, well, we're finding

2036
01:48:08,400 --> 01:48:12,200
Speaker 2: them fear because it's detrimental to the league. I'm like, okay,

2037
01:48:13,360 --> 01:48:16,640
Speaker 2: teams have been doing this a lot recently. But I

2038
01:48:16,680 --> 01:48:18,720
Speaker 2: thought it was interesting because Chris Paul, of course, one

2039
01:48:18,720 --> 01:48:21,800
Speaker 2: of the big leaders of the players union, said and

2040
01:48:21,880 --> 01:48:25,040
Speaker 2: I think this is legitimate that a lot of these

2041
01:48:25,080 --> 01:48:29,080
Speaker 2: decisions about load management are not made by the player.

2042
01:48:30,080 --> 01:48:32,880
Speaker 2: They're play made by the team, which was pointed out

2043
01:48:32,880 --> 01:48:36,160
Speaker 2: in this decision by the Mavericks organization that sit all

2044
01:48:36,160 --> 01:48:39,040
Speaker 2: those players in that last game. He said, a lot

2045
01:48:39,080 --> 01:48:43,240
Speaker 2: of the teams now are making the decision that trying

2046
01:48:43,280 --> 01:48:46,519
Speaker 2: to keep their players healthy, that they are telling the

2047
01:48:46,560 --> 01:48:52,599
Speaker 2: players you're gonna sit yeah. And if a team makes

2048
01:48:52,680 --> 01:48:57,880
Speaker 2: a decision to sit me, And by the way, a

2049
01:48:57,880 --> 01:49:01,320
Speaker 2: lot of these postseason honors, whether it's All NBA or

2050
01:49:01,439 --> 01:49:04,400
Speaker 2: any kind of awards, are usually tied to some kind

2051
01:49:04,400 --> 01:49:08,280
Speaker 2: of incentive pay for the players. Then all of a sudden,

2052
01:49:08,320 --> 01:49:10,599
Speaker 2: you're skating on thin ice, right, you got a situation

2053
01:49:10,640 --> 01:49:12,280
Speaker 2: where the team says, well, do we really want to

2054
01:49:12,280 --> 01:49:15,880
Speaker 2: pay those extra money? We're gonna sit you an extra game. Yeah,

2055
01:49:15,960 --> 01:49:18,479
Speaker 2: but now I can't make the All NBA t ah. Yeah, yeah,

2056
01:49:18,520 --> 01:49:21,160
Speaker 2: but we're more important have you healthy for the playoffs.

2057
01:49:21,200 --> 01:49:24,240
Speaker 2: So I'm not a big fan of that. I'm really

2058
01:49:24,320 --> 01:49:28,960
Speaker 2: not a big fan about limiting how many games you

2059
01:49:29,040 --> 01:49:32,240
Speaker 2: have to play or a certain threshold for you to

2060
01:49:32,320 --> 01:49:36,640
Speaker 2: qualify for postseason awards, because ultimately it's the teams that

2061
01:49:36,680 --> 01:49:40,599
Speaker 2: are paying out these postseason award bonuses, and they could

2062
01:49:40,600 --> 01:49:42,160
Speaker 2: just sit a guy saying, eh, we don't want to

2063
01:49:42,200 --> 01:49:46,400
Speaker 2: pay that money. I'm looking for an answer here, and

2064
01:49:46,439 --> 01:49:48,080
Speaker 2: I can't figure it out quite yet.

2065
01:49:49,479 --> 01:49:53,960
Speaker 1: Look, the answer to this question is simple, and I'll

2066
01:49:53,960 --> 01:49:58,160
Speaker 1: actually give you one answer to this question that I

2067
01:49:58,200 --> 01:50:01,920
Speaker 1: could see feasibly happening, and the other one will not.

2068
01:50:03,479 --> 01:50:06,680
Speaker 1: I'll start with the won't happen. The NBA needs to

2069
01:50:06,720 --> 01:50:10,120
Speaker 1: shorten its season. It desperately needs to play less games.

2070
01:50:10,760 --> 01:50:13,840
Speaker 1: Eighty two games is simply too many. The players don't

2071
01:50:13,880 --> 01:50:16,320
Speaker 1: want to do it, the fans don't want to watch it.

2072
01:50:17,680 --> 01:50:20,280
Speaker 1: Like we were talking about in our last segment, here

2073
01:50:20,400 --> 01:50:24,000
Speaker 1: steve the physicality of the game and the interest in

2074
01:50:24,040 --> 01:50:26,960
Speaker 1: players to play every single game and be iron men

2075
01:50:27,000 --> 01:50:29,320
Speaker 1: and you know, be on the court for their teammates

2076
01:50:29,320 --> 01:50:32,000
Speaker 1: and have that camaraderie and have that chemistry heading into

2077
01:50:32,000 --> 01:50:35,120
Speaker 1: the postseason. It used to matter to players. It doesn't

2078
01:50:35,160 --> 01:50:39,120
Speaker 1: matter to players anymore because guess what, what's incentivising them

2079
01:50:39,160 --> 01:50:41,960
Speaker 1: to stay on the court. Nothing. If they're allowed to

2080
01:50:42,000 --> 01:50:44,479
Speaker 1: take off twenty five percent to thirty percent of their

2081
01:50:44,520 --> 01:50:48,680
Speaker 1: season and still gain access to the postseason. Because the

2082
01:50:48,800 --> 01:50:50,960
Speaker 1: role players are good enough to float them during that

2083
01:50:51,080 --> 01:50:53,720
Speaker 1: time off, why would they be on the court If

2084
01:50:53,760 --> 01:50:55,920
Speaker 1: their pay is going to be the same, why would

2085
01:50:55,960 --> 01:50:59,120
Speaker 1: they be on the court. They've lost control of this

2086
01:51:00,040 --> 01:51:03,519
Speaker 1: and the players, frankly have it's foolish. So if you

2087
01:51:03,600 --> 01:51:08,080
Speaker 1: played say sixty games or fifty five games instead of

2088
01:51:08,280 --> 01:51:12,599
Speaker 1: eighty two, well, obviously fifty five is fifty six games.

2089
01:51:12,680 --> 01:51:17,320
Speaker 1: If you played less games and you had the opportunity

2090
01:51:17,360 --> 01:51:20,840
Speaker 1: for fans in a very limited or i should say

2091
01:51:21,000 --> 01:51:27,960
Speaker 1: more limited supply get to see these games, the demand

2092
01:51:27,960 --> 01:51:28,639
Speaker 1: would be higher.

2093
01:51:28,680 --> 01:51:32,280
Speaker 2: You also understand, playing less games means less revenue coming in,

2094
01:51:32,320 --> 01:51:34,880
Speaker 2: both in the arenas and in television revenue, and that

2095
01:51:34,920 --> 01:51:38,599
Speaker 2: means salaries come down. Are the players willing to take

2096
01:51:38,600 --> 01:51:39,280
Speaker 2: a pay cut?

2097
01:51:39,439 --> 01:51:42,799
Speaker 1: Well, so that's the problem, that side of the argument.

2098
01:51:42,840 --> 01:51:45,719
Speaker 1: That's how you fix this. But it'll never happen because

2099
01:51:45,760 --> 01:51:48,639
Speaker 1: players won't be interested in taking a pay cut. Here's

2100
01:51:48,640 --> 01:51:51,400
Speaker 1: a sneaky way you could get this done. How about

2101
01:51:51,439 --> 01:51:54,519
Speaker 1: instead of twelve minute quarters you play ten minute quarters.

2102
01:51:55,040 --> 01:51:59,240
Speaker 1: Does the game really change? No? No, not really. You're

2103
01:51:59,280 --> 01:52:02,240
Speaker 1: still playing a two of them, But you figure you're

2104
01:52:02,240 --> 01:52:06,840
Speaker 1: shaving off eight minutes every single game. You know, by

2105
01:52:07,960 --> 01:52:14,320
Speaker 1: the third game, you've already basically saved yourself a half.

2106
01:52:15,280 --> 01:52:19,519
Speaker 1: By the sixth game, every sixth game you're resting a

2107
01:52:19,600 --> 01:52:24,000
Speaker 1: full game. Now extrapolate that over a season, you're shaving

2108
01:52:24,040 --> 01:52:27,080
Speaker 1: off a significant amount of the season. You're still selling

2109
01:52:27,120 --> 01:52:30,639
Speaker 1: the same product to the to the networks. These players

2110
01:52:30,640 --> 01:52:34,760
Speaker 1: are getting the rest that they apparently require, and you're

2111
01:52:34,840 --> 01:52:37,720
Speaker 1: making it so that there's no longer an excuse to

2112
01:52:37,800 --> 01:52:41,080
Speaker 1: take twenty percent or thirty percent of the season off.

2113
01:52:41,240 --> 01:52:43,200
Speaker 1: And as a result of this, you could say, hey, look,

2114
01:52:43,240 --> 01:52:46,080
Speaker 1: we're gonna pay you the same salaries. Okay, we're selling

2115
01:52:46,120 --> 01:52:49,160
Speaker 1: the same product to these advertisers, to these networks, so

2116
01:52:49,200 --> 01:52:51,519
Speaker 1: we're gonna make this. We're gonna yield the same amount

2117
01:52:51,560 --> 01:52:55,000
Speaker 1: of profits. But now we have to put a rule

2118
01:52:55,040 --> 01:52:58,200
Speaker 1: in place. We met you halfway, Actually we met you

2119
01:52:58,280 --> 01:53:00,680
Speaker 1: more than halfway, because the entire our league is going

2120
01:53:00,720 --> 01:53:03,160
Speaker 1: to get to enjoy this, not just star players who

2121
01:53:03,200 --> 01:53:06,120
Speaker 1: decide to sit out twenty five percent of the league year.

2122
01:53:06,439 --> 01:53:09,600
Speaker 1: Every player gets to sit out something close to or

2123
01:53:09,640 --> 01:53:12,280
Speaker 1: above twenty five percent of the league year by reducing

2124
01:53:12,320 --> 01:53:15,160
Speaker 1: the quarters to ten minute quarters. Now, as a result

2125
01:53:15,240 --> 01:53:18,800
Speaker 1: of that, you have to put into every NBA contract.

2126
01:53:18,800 --> 01:53:21,040
Speaker 1: This is going to be baked into it. If you

2127
01:53:21,280 --> 01:53:25,719
Speaker 1: miss more than x y percentage of the season, whether

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Speaker 1: it's due to your health or otherwise, you're going to

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Speaker 1: sacrifice a certain and it could be a significant portion

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Speaker 1: of your salary. Now, to me, that's fair to me.

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Speaker 1: That's meeting the players where they're at, and it's meeting

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Speaker 1: the owners where they're at. You're still appeasing the networks,

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Speaker 1: You're still giving the advertisers what they want.

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Speaker 2: What do you think of that solution? I like that solution.

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Speaker 2: I like that as a possibility. There's one other rule

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Speaker 2: I like to see changed in the NBA that works

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Speaker 2: for basketball on a different level. And to get to that,

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Speaker 2: by the way, the Lake right now lead the Grizzlies

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Speaker 2: thirty five, thirty one, ten forty to go in the

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Speaker 2: second quarter, and the guy that's been knocking down shots

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Speaker 2: Austin Reeves. Austin Reeves making some shots there, and moransof

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Speaker 2: to a fairly slow start, although the dynamic matchup between

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Speaker 2: Jaron Jackson and Anthony Davis is playing out all right,

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Speaker 2: We'll continue on just finding ways to make the NBA

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Speaker 2: a little more watchable. This is Fox Sports. Sunday and

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Speaker 2: bounce past the curry.

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Speaker 9: He turns, he wheels, he fires, he misses bones with

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Speaker 9: a redounds and Sacramento has won game number one. After

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Speaker 9: seventeen years without a playoff experience, they have.

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Speaker 1: Risen to the occasions.

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Speaker 2: KHTK Kings Radio Network, Sacramento celebrating their first playoff game,

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Speaker 2: playoff winning seventeen years taking out the raigning world champion

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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Sunday and we are live from the Tyraq

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Speaker 2: dot com studios keeping our eye on this NBA matchup

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Speaker 2: here first game of the day, Lakers taking on the Grizzlies.

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Speaker 2: And the Lakers look really good right now, forty two

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Speaker 2: to thirty five against again a Grizzlies team that had

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Speaker 2: the best home record of any team not just this

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Speaker 2: year in the NBA, best record at home by any

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Speaker 2: NBA team in the last six years. So we talked

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Speaker 2: earlier about having experienced. By the way, Lebron is two

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01:55:42,520 --> 01:55:44,560
Speaker 2: of seven, he's not doing much. It has only four

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Speaker 2: points in this game, but Hatchamurro has come off the

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Speaker 2: benches at eight points. So they're getting production throughout this lineup.

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Speaker 2: And the good thing for Lakers is they are healthy

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Speaker 2: right now, so we'll see what kind of damage they

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Speaker 2: can do. But so far, a good start for the Lakers.

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Speaker 2: On the road against the Grizzlies. We're just talking about

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Speaker 2: ways of making the NBA better, and here's one thing

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Speaker 2: you were talking about. I love this idea of reducing

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Speaker 2: the quarters from twelve to ten minutes. College basketball games

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Speaker 2: are forty minutes, not forty eight minutes, and they're divided

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Speaker 2: into halves and not quarters. Yep, I love that. The

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Speaker 2: one thing I love about having two halves instead of

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Speaker 2: four quarters is momentum in a game. It also has,

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Speaker 2: you know, bench timing guys in and out of the lineup.

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Speaker 2: But imagine if we had an MBA where the games

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Speaker 2: were not forty eight minutes but forty minutes and there

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Speaker 2: were no quarters and just halves. I think it's a

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Speaker 2: better game because I think when a team gets a

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Speaker 2: little momentum. Sometimes you get to the quarter break and

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01:56:43,520 --> 01:56:47,000
Speaker 2: it breaks. I think you can sustain it. I think

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Speaker 2: you sustain the audience as well. They don't go anywhere,

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Speaker 2: games still going on, sort of like hockey, right, they're periods.

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Speaker 2: You know. The great thing about hockey is you got

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Speaker 2: these twenty minute periods and they just it's NonStop and boom,

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Speaker 2: you know, you get the break. The other thing I

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Speaker 2: would love to see in the NBA that they have

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Speaker 2: in the college game is the one in one rule.

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Speaker 2: I don't understand why the NBA doesn't do this. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: I love this because it suddenly puts pressure, especially in

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Speaker 2: late game, late half situations, of making the first free

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Speaker 2: throw in order to get the second free throw. These

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Speaker 2: are two things that I think in the college game work.

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Speaker 2: You put it at an NBA level, I think it's

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Speaker 2: even better. Those are the things I would like to see.

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Speaker 1: All right. I agree with the one in one. I

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Speaker 1: disagree with the taking the quarters out of the NBA.

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Speaker 1: I'd actually prefer it if you put quarters into college basketball.

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Speaker 1: And I know that's a little bit sacrilegious because of

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Speaker 1: how well college basketball works, but I actually do like

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Speaker 1: the quarter break. I do like the fact that you know,

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Speaker 1: and don't get me wrong, I'm not I'm not thrilled

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Speaker 1: with how much average and gets jammed into these quarter

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Speaker 1: breaks on an NBA during the course of an NBA game.

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Speaker 1: But I do like that third to fourth quarter break

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Speaker 1: because there are certain teams that we've come to know

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Speaker 1: as fourth quarter teams. You know, teams that can overcome

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Speaker 1: a deficit and they're aware of the sec the situation

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Speaker 1: and the circumstances and they find a way. I kind

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Speaker 1: of like that. That also, that statistical category like fourth

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Speaker 1: quarter scoring and you know, fourth quarter free throw percentage.

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Speaker 1: I think that I think that creates a lot of

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Speaker 1: drama in the NBA that's actually kind of lacking in

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Speaker 1: college basketball. But I do agree with the foul shooting.

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Speaker 1: I do think that's you're onto something there absolutely at

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Speaker 1: the NBA level.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I just again, when we watch the collegiate game

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Speaker 2: in terms of overall talent, there's just it's night and

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Speaker 2: date with the NBA. I mean, as you know, when

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Speaker 2: we look at the college All American teams every year,

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Speaker 2: you never heard these guys. Again, some of these guys,

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Speaker 2: the guys that are successful at the NBA level barely

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Speaker 2: have a cup of coffee. At the collegiate level, most

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Speaker 2: of these guys are one and dones. I'm mean to

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Speaker 2: look at the project. I've seen some of the mocked

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Speaker 2: NBA drafts. I don't see anything other than freshman overseas guys,

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Speaker 2: G league guys out of the top fifteen. So I

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Speaker 2: just think those things will make and the idea of

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Speaker 2: the two halves as opposed to the four quarters again

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Speaker 2: is sustaining the audience. You know, a lot of times

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Speaker 2: I'm watching an NBA game and it's just a dreadful

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Speaker 2: first quarter, they go to a break. I'm like, I'll

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Speaker 2: tune in later in the fourth quarter. It just it's

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Speaker 2: an excuse for me to turn off the game for

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Speaker 2: a while. Whereas if you have continuous action for the

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Speaker 2: entire half, now you got me locked in until halftime.

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01:59:45,160 --> 01:59:48,400
Speaker 2: It's assuming things are happening on the court. So that's

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Speaker 2: where it's going back and forth. By the way, I'm

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Speaker 2: going to get back to a little Major league baseball

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Speaker 2: coming up on our next hour. We're not gonna have

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Speaker 2: John Palm Morosi. I think he's in London. Oh yeah,

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01:59:58,480 --> 02:00:01,200
Speaker 2: JP's in London. But that doesn't mean we got a

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Speaker 2: lot to talk about, including a historic day yesterday and

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Speaker 2: why it's more important than ever for the MLB. This

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Speaker 2: is Fox Sports Sunday, rolling along Hair on this big,

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Speaker 2: big Sunday, we got NBA Playoffs underway, Major League Baseball

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Speaker 2: rolling along. There's a lot of things happening in the

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Speaker 2: world of sports, and we're covering it all right here

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Speaker 2: know sometimes circumstances prevent people from being in certain places

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Speaker 2: at certain times, but I can't have you taken off

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Speaker 2: multiple Sundays. Hey, I need my fix. Yeah, you know,

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Speaker 2: I need my rich fix.

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Speaker 1: I get it.

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Speaker 2: That's on me, Doug, Yeah, that's on me, because you

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Speaker 2: know I'm never here. I mean a lot of people

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Speaker 2: are like, why don't you ever take it? I mean, seriously,

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Speaker 2: take a day. I'm like, no, I can't. It's it's

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Speaker 2: been a weird time for me, you know, because I

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Speaker 2: don't have right now, like a Monday through Friday gig. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: and I'm finding things to do to keep myself busy.

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Speaker 2: But you know me, Rich, I gotta work off.

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Speaker 1: Well. Yeah, you are the classic workaholic. It fuels you,

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Speaker 1: it is, it is what you wake up. I look,

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Speaker 1: I'm we at one point in our time working together,

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Speaker 1: we worked seven days a week together. Yeah, And there

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Speaker 1: was a point where I remember thinking to myself, like,

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Speaker 1: all right, we've been doing this for about two weeks

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Speaker 1: and there's no end in sight.

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Speaker 2: None.

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Speaker 1: And I was thinking like, oh, I should probably I

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Speaker 1: should probably take a day off because I'm going to

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Speaker 1: strangle them. And then I talked to you about it.

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Speaker 1: I think we had this conversation on air and you went, oh,

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Speaker 1: I just I was just really enjoying it.

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Speaker 2: Yes, a lot of people I get this a lot.

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Speaker 2: They go, you know, dude, you talk so much. I mean,

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Speaker 2: I meion, are you like in lovely your own voice?

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Speaker 2: And the answers yes, yeah, I mean nothing energizes me

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02:02:04,520 --> 02:02:08,680
Speaker 2: like listening to myself talking good and Rich knows out

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02:02:08,720 --> 02:02:11,240
Speaker 2: of a lot of frustration. Many times he'll say things

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Speaker 2: I haven't heard a word, he said, not a single word,

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Speaker 2: because I'm so enamored by the next thing I'm going

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Speaker 2: to say. By the way, quite a turnaround this Lakers

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Speaker 2: Grizzlies game. Big run by the grizz and suddenly they're

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Speaker 2: up fifty four to fifty in this game. So Grizzlies

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Speaker 2: turning it on and again. This is a team that

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Speaker 2: was an amazing thirty five and six in home games

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Speaker 2: this year. We're talking earlier about Major League Baseball making

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Speaker 2: some wholesale changes. By the way, you're down in the

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Speaker 2: San Diego area, Padres obviously getting a little hype before

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Speaker 2: the season began. It's been a little uneven so far.

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Speaker 2: What's the buzz down there in San Diego with the

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Speaker 2: Padres right now?

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Speaker 1: Well, look, i mean it's early in the season. Ye,

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Speaker 1: so what you're seeing is pretty typical of an opening

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Speaker 1: day for any baseball team. There's a huge pop, everybody's

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Speaker 1: excited to get down to the ballpark, and then you know,

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Speaker 1: you start you start really sinking your teeth into the

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Speaker 1: baseball season and realizing, hey, this is a marathon, not

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Speaker 1: a sprint, and you know, they're just above even in

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Speaker 1: terms of their record, and it's it's it's really everybody

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Speaker 1: waiting with baited breath for Fernando Tatis Junior to get

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Speaker 1: back to the club.

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Speaker 2: So he had three home runs in a minor league

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Speaker 2: game the other day.

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Speaker 1: Fernando Tatis Junior, and I understand this is triple A.

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Speaker 1: This is not major league baseball, but has been absolutely

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Speaker 1: tearing the sweet living cover off of the baseball I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna give you some quick stats on what we know

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Speaker 1: to be one of the rising stars, if not a

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Speaker 1: star in major league baseball. Seven games, he's gone fifteen

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Speaker 1: for twenty eight. That's a five point thirty six batting average,

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Speaker 1: six home runs, eight extra base hits, fourteen RBI, six walks,

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Speaker 1: two strikeouts, only two stolen bases, and an OPS of

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Speaker 1: one point or excuse me, one thousand, eight hundred and

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Speaker 1: sixty eight. Yes, okay, So look I again, it's it's

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Speaker 1: triple A. It's minor league baseball. He is an absolute

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Speaker 1: star at the major league baseball level, but he hasn't

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Speaker 1: been healthy for a long time, so there were a

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Speaker 1: lot of people who were very concerned with how he

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Speaker 1: was going to look. He also had been put on

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Speaker 1: this performance enhancing drug suspension. A lot of people were

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Speaker 1: talking about what does that mean? You know, is he

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Speaker 1: going to perform somewhere less than what he has been

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Speaker 1: because maybe he's been on performance enhancing drugs this whole time,

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02:04:45,400 --> 02:04:47,520
Speaker 1: or you know, maybe he's going to be lacking for

2338
02:04:47,640 --> 02:04:52,800
Speaker 1: confidence if there was even a brief interlude with peds.

2339
02:04:53,280 --> 02:04:56,040
Speaker 1: It appears none of that is the case. He is

2340
02:04:56,680 --> 02:04:59,240
Speaker 1: exactly where he had left off in terms of being

2341
02:04:59,240 --> 02:05:01,520
Speaker 1: a baseball player, and we're going to see a lot

2342
02:05:01,560 --> 02:05:05,320
Speaker 1: of him here at the major league level on the twentieth,

2343
02:05:05,360 --> 02:05:08,760
Speaker 1: which is when his suspension ends, because I would assume

2344
02:05:09,320 --> 02:05:13,440
Speaker 1: with a long ramp up at Triple An, he's going

2345
02:05:13,520 --> 02:05:16,240
Speaker 1: to be placed directly into the lineup, and we're going

2346
02:05:16,280 --> 02:05:19,280
Speaker 1: to see Fernando Tatis Junior as soon as he's available.

2347
02:05:19,360 --> 02:05:21,680
Speaker 2: Well, and they need him back. I mean, this is

2348
02:05:21,720 --> 02:05:23,880
Speaker 2: a guy who we haven't seen in a major league

2349
02:05:23,920 --> 02:05:28,160
Speaker 2: game since twenty twenty one, and this is a guy

2350
02:05:28,160 --> 02:05:30,600
Speaker 2: that was being touted by Major League Baseball to be

2351
02:05:30,680 --> 02:05:34,800
Speaker 2: the face of the sport. It will be interesting. Obviously,

2352
02:05:34,840 --> 02:05:37,120
Speaker 2: there was a lot of fallout when he was about.

2353
02:05:37,480 --> 02:05:39,680
Speaker 2: You and I were covering this. We're all counting down,

2354
02:05:39,680 --> 02:05:42,480
Speaker 2: all right, Fernando's finally coming back and then literally days

2355
02:05:42,480 --> 02:05:47,160
Speaker 2: before he's about to return, Bam gets busted yep for

2356
02:05:47,280 --> 02:05:50,200
Speaker 2: the ped so and he's admitted it. I mean he's

2357
02:05:50,600 --> 02:05:55,600
Speaker 2: he's taken responsibility and understands that a lot of damage

2358
02:05:55,640 --> 02:05:57,880
Speaker 2: was done and whether he can get it back that

2359
02:05:57,960 --> 02:06:01,160
Speaker 2: star power, we'll see. One way get star power back

2360
02:06:01,520 --> 02:06:03,600
Speaker 2: is to perform at the level we've seen him in

2361
02:06:03,640 --> 02:06:07,680
Speaker 2: his young major league career. Yesterday was Jackie Robinson Day

2362
02:06:07,720 --> 02:06:12,200
Speaker 2: in Major League Baseball. April fifteenth is the anniversary of

2363
02:06:12,480 --> 02:06:15,440
Speaker 2: his first major league game back in nineteen forty seven.

2364
02:06:16,200 --> 02:06:21,520
Speaker 2: I'm always amazed his wife, Rachel, is one hundred years old.

2365
02:06:22,320 --> 02:06:25,880
Speaker 2: She'll be one hundred and one in July. I met

2366
02:06:25,880 --> 02:06:28,320
Speaker 2: this woman about ten years ago when I think she

2367
02:06:28,400 --> 02:06:31,200
Speaker 2: was ninety at the time. She didn't look a day

2368
02:06:31,240 --> 02:06:36,240
Speaker 2: over sixty five. I was like, this is an amazing woman,

2369
02:06:36,480 --> 02:06:39,600
Speaker 2: beautiful lady, and just so full of life and everything else.

2370
02:06:39,720 --> 02:06:42,720
Speaker 2: Just absolutely amazing, really carrying on the legacy of her

2371
02:06:42,800 --> 02:06:46,240
Speaker 2: late husband. Unfortunately, because he suffered from diabetes, he died

2372
02:06:46,240 --> 02:06:48,400
Speaker 2: of a heart attack at age fifty three. I mean,

2373
02:06:48,440 --> 02:06:53,240
Speaker 2: he was gone young. But it also is a reminder

2374
02:06:53,360 --> 02:06:57,280
Speaker 2: again to me in watching all the players wear forty two,

2375
02:06:57,360 --> 02:06:59,200
Speaker 2: and I love the Major League Baseball has done this

2376
02:07:00,160 --> 02:07:06,360
Speaker 2: in honor of a person whose legacy to me is

2377
02:07:06,400 --> 02:07:09,440
Speaker 2: grown over the years, and to try to put perspective

2378
02:07:09,520 --> 02:07:12,880
Speaker 2: on what he did and how much he meant, not

2379
02:07:12,960 --> 02:07:15,320
Speaker 2: just a Major League Baseball or the world of sports

2380
02:07:15,480 --> 02:07:18,240
Speaker 2: to our country. I mean, you know, Brown versus the

2381
02:07:18,240 --> 02:07:22,600
Speaker 2: Board of Education was seven years after Jackie Robinson broke

2382
02:07:22,680 --> 02:07:25,600
Speaker 2: into a Major league baseball. You know, this is before

2383
02:07:25,960 --> 02:07:28,560
Speaker 2: the civil rights movement with doctor King. I mean, was

2384
02:07:28,960 --> 02:07:32,760
Speaker 2: there were so many things that happened after Jackie Robinson

2385
02:07:33,880 --> 02:07:36,720
Speaker 2: and again putting in perspective where major League Baseball was

2386
02:07:36,720 --> 02:07:40,280
Speaker 2: in nineteen forty seven. No one's talking NFL. There wasn't

2387
02:07:40,320 --> 02:07:44,600
Speaker 2: even an MBA. And basically in nineteen forty seven, it

2388
02:07:44,680 --> 02:07:48,040
Speaker 2: was Major League baseball. It was college football, it was boxing,

2389
02:07:48,120 --> 02:07:50,280
Speaker 2: it was horse racing. I mean, those are like the

2390
02:07:50,320 --> 02:07:54,480
Speaker 2: major sports in America in nineteen forty seven. So the

2391
02:07:54,480 --> 02:07:58,560
Speaker 2: spotlight on Major League Baseball was so much. And you know,

2392
02:07:59,000 --> 02:08:02,480
Speaker 2: I thought this yesterday talking about greatest athletes of all

2393
02:08:02,560 --> 02:08:04,960
Speaker 2: time and we get in that conversation with a Muhammad

2394
02:08:04,960 --> 02:08:08,120
Speaker 2: al Li was it, Michael Jordan, If you want to

2395
02:08:08,120 --> 02:08:10,480
Speaker 2: go old school guy like Jim Thorpe, you know, guys

2396
02:08:10,560 --> 02:08:14,840
Speaker 2: like this and Jackie Robinson. When he attended UCLA played

2397
02:08:15,040 --> 02:08:18,520
Speaker 2: four sports. I mean, he was on the basketball team, football,

2398
02:08:18,880 --> 02:08:22,360
Speaker 2: led the nation of punt returns, track star. His worst

2399
02:08:22,360 --> 02:08:25,240
Speaker 2: sport by far was baseball. When you're in college, he

2400
02:08:25,280 --> 02:08:28,240
Speaker 2: had under one hundred and that then he served in

2401
02:08:28,440 --> 02:08:30,600
Speaker 2: the military during World War Two. He comes out, plays

2402
02:08:30,640 --> 02:08:33,440
Speaker 2: one year of Negro league baseball, one year of minor

2403
02:08:33,480 --> 02:08:35,960
Speaker 2: league baseball after he signs with the Brooklyn Dodgers, and

2404
02:08:35,960 --> 02:08:37,680
Speaker 2: then he's in the majors and he's Rookie of the

2405
02:08:37,760 --> 02:08:39,920
Speaker 2: Year and fifth in the MVP voting as a rookie.

2406
02:08:40,240 --> 02:08:43,480
Speaker 2: It's just amazing to me what this guy did. So

2407
02:08:43,600 --> 02:08:45,960
Speaker 2: his legend has sort of like superseded a lot of

2408
02:08:46,040 --> 02:08:48,440
Speaker 2: other things that he did. How great a baseball player

2409
02:08:48,440 --> 02:08:51,720
Speaker 2: he actually was. But to do what he did under

2410
02:08:51,800 --> 02:08:56,600
Speaker 2: the pressures that he felt, especially in the New York market, Wow,

2411
02:08:56,640 --> 02:09:00,840
Speaker 2: I just I'm more marvel every single year when we

2412
02:09:00,880 --> 02:09:04,160
Speaker 2: celebrate this Jackie Robinson day of who this man was

2413
02:09:04,840 --> 02:09:07,240
Speaker 2: and what it is he actually accomplished.

2414
02:09:07,400 --> 02:09:10,680
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know what, I bet you. You know,

2415
02:09:10,760 --> 02:09:14,600
Speaker 1: there's a lot of people who don't realize the cultural

2416
02:09:14,760 --> 02:09:19,920
Speaker 1: impact that Jackie Robinson has had because the stars that

2417
02:09:20,000 --> 02:09:23,200
Speaker 1: they have fallen in love with, who are people of color,

2418
02:09:23,440 --> 02:09:26,200
Speaker 1: like a Michael Jordan in my time as a kid,

2419
02:09:26,800 --> 02:09:31,000
Speaker 1: or you know Tiger Woods also, you know, cut his

2420
02:09:31,080 --> 02:09:33,640
Speaker 1: teeth on the PGA tour when I was a kid

2421
02:09:33,720 --> 02:09:38,200
Speaker 1: in the nineties, or Lebron James. Now, you know, these

2422
02:09:38,320 --> 02:09:44,560
Speaker 1: people are trailblazers. You know, the torch that Jackie Robinson

2423
02:09:44,720 --> 02:09:48,480
Speaker 1: lit was carried on by Michael Jordan, who became the

2424
02:09:48,560 --> 02:09:51,440
Speaker 1: face of a shoe company. You know, I just saw

2425
02:09:51,440 --> 02:09:54,560
Speaker 1: that movie air and we spoke recently on this show

2426
02:09:54,600 --> 02:09:57,760
Speaker 1: Steve to Sonny Vaccaro, and you know his belief that

2427
02:09:57,960 --> 02:10:01,160
Speaker 1: mj was gonna be who he became before any of

2428
02:10:01,240 --> 02:10:04,240
Speaker 1: us knew who Michael Jordan was outside of his you know,

2429
02:10:04,320 --> 02:10:09,560
Speaker 1: dominance at UNC. He couldn't do what he did without

2430
02:10:09,640 --> 02:10:13,920
Speaker 1: Jackie Robinson. Tiger Woods couldn't do what he did without

2431
02:10:14,040 --> 02:10:17,160
Speaker 1: Jackie Robinson. And when you think about how impactful those

2432
02:10:17,160 --> 02:10:21,400
Speaker 1: two especially have been to their sports because golf, I

2433
02:10:21,440 --> 02:10:25,480
Speaker 1: mean that was a segregated game. Even when Tiger Woods

2434
02:10:25,480 --> 02:10:28,120
Speaker 1: was teeing off in the nineties, I mean he was

2435
02:10:28,360 --> 02:10:31,640
Speaker 1: winning tournaments at places that didn't even allow black people

2436
02:10:31,680 --> 02:10:37,000
Speaker 1: to be members. It's pretty amazing and pretty special what

2437
02:10:37,240 --> 02:10:42,760
Speaker 1: Jackie Robinson was as a player, aside from what he

2438
02:10:42,800 --> 02:10:45,480
Speaker 1: was dealing with as a man in the society he

2439
02:10:45,560 --> 02:10:50,360
Speaker 1: lived in during that time. It's pretty remarkable, and I

2440
02:10:50,360 --> 02:10:53,839
Speaker 1: think it's important for anybody who cares about sports, especially

2441
02:10:53,880 --> 02:10:56,800
Speaker 1: for people who care about baseball, to go back and

2442
02:10:56,920 --> 02:11:00,800
Speaker 1: take a look at the historical impact that jack Robinson

2443
02:11:00,800 --> 02:11:02,600
Speaker 1: had on the game, and not only on the game

2444
02:11:02,600 --> 02:11:07,960
Speaker 1: of baseball, but obviously in sports in total. And then

2445
02:11:08,240 --> 02:11:11,120
Speaker 1: when when you really sort of widen the aperture and

2446
02:11:11,160 --> 02:11:16,600
Speaker 1: you include culture and you include you know, society. I mean,

2447
02:11:16,640 --> 02:11:18,760
Speaker 1: he had an enormous impact on a lot of things.

2448
02:11:19,040 --> 02:11:21,280
Speaker 2: I dare say I think one of the most significant

2449
02:11:21,600 --> 02:11:25,600
Speaker 2: persons of the twentieth century, without question, in any realm.

2450
02:11:25,640 --> 02:11:29,400
Speaker 2: By the way, watching this game right now, almost halftime.

2451
02:11:29,440 --> 02:11:32,920
Speaker 2: Grizzlies lead the Lakers sixty three to fifty nine. But

2452
02:11:33,000 --> 02:11:36,680
Speaker 2: the big story here Anthony Davis was let out the court.

2453
02:11:36,720 --> 02:11:41,120
Speaker 2: But what's going on with Ad? What's happening there? Where's both.

2454
02:11:42,880 --> 02:11:42,960
Speaker 1: Bo?

2455
02:11:43,080 --> 02:11:44,080
Speaker 2: What's happening with Ad?

2456
02:11:44,720 --> 02:11:47,240
Speaker 5: Sorry, I'm distraught over here. I know the same thing

2457
02:11:47,280 --> 02:11:49,720
Speaker 5: that always happens. Some freak injury is gonna end up

2458
02:11:49,720 --> 02:11:51,720
Speaker 5: being like a torn muscle or something like that. It

2459
02:11:52,280 --> 02:11:54,920
Speaker 5: looked like he it looked like he locked arms with

2460
02:11:56,000 --> 02:11:59,120
Speaker 5: Jared Jackson Junior. But it could be his shoulder too.

2461
02:11:59,120 --> 02:12:00,280
Speaker 5: He's in a locker.

2462
02:12:00,880 --> 02:12:06,480
Speaker 2: By the way, right down. Unbelievable again, Jean Morant went

2463
02:12:06,680 --> 02:12:10,040
Speaker 2: right down the court with just seconds remaining in the

2464
02:12:10,080 --> 02:12:12,160
Speaker 2: half and just knocked down a little jump shot. So

2465
02:12:12,160 --> 02:12:14,920
Speaker 2: it's halftime now. Grizzly is lead by a score of

2466
02:12:15,080 --> 02:12:19,960
Speaker 2: sixty five to fifty nine. Jared Jackson, by the way,

2467
02:12:20,040 --> 02:12:24,160
Speaker 2: has nineteen points in this game. We mentioned the fact

2468
02:12:24,200 --> 02:12:27,320
Speaker 2: that this is a tough matchup for ad Anthony Davis

2469
02:12:27,320 --> 02:12:30,360
Speaker 2: out right now. By the way, Davis five block shots

2470
02:12:31,200 --> 02:12:34,280
Speaker 2: in the first half. Right now, the Lakers trailing by

2471
02:12:34,320 --> 02:12:36,600
Speaker 2: a score of sixty five to fifty nine.

2472
02:12:36,760 --> 02:12:37,080
Speaker 1: All right.

2473
02:12:37,120 --> 02:12:39,880
Speaker 2: On the other side, you mentioned the movie Air. I

2474
02:12:39,920 --> 02:12:42,320
Speaker 2: want to get your thoughts on that movie. If you

2475
02:12:42,400 --> 02:12:45,640
Speaker 2: haven't seen it, you should. And we'll continue covering these

2476
02:12:45,760 --> 02:12:50,240
Speaker 2: NBA playoffs. Who will ultimately show the biggest upset of

2477
02:12:50,280 --> 02:12:53,440
Speaker 2: the first round. We'll tell you this is Fox Sports Sunday,

2478
02:12:53,680 --> 02:12:56,920
Speaker 2: Steve Harbin and Rich Hornberger here Fox Sports Sunday, and

2479
02:12:57,120 --> 02:13:00,920
Speaker 2: we are live from the tyrack dot Com studio. So halftime,

2480
02:13:01,400 --> 02:13:04,080
Speaker 2: Memphis leading the Lakers by a score of sixty five

2481
02:13:04,160 --> 02:13:07,520
Speaker 2: to fifty nine. We are a waiting word on this

2482
02:13:07,640 --> 02:13:11,200
Speaker 2: injury to Anthony Davis. When it happened, he literally you

2483
02:13:11,200 --> 02:13:13,880
Speaker 2: could see him saying, I can't feel my arm.

2484
02:13:14,920 --> 02:13:17,360
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, I've been watching this video.

2485
02:13:17,360 --> 02:13:20,080
Speaker 2: Now, you know injuries here, So if you have a stinger,

2486
02:13:20,280 --> 02:13:22,800
Speaker 2: I'm trying to figure that out. Where suddenly you know,

2487
02:13:22,920 --> 02:13:27,600
Speaker 2: something like that is at a stinger. I'm not familiar

2488
02:13:27,600 --> 02:13:30,600
Speaker 2: with this stuff. What would have him actually literally utter

2489
02:13:30,640 --> 02:13:32,080
Speaker 2: the words I can't feel my arm?

2490
02:13:32,560 --> 02:13:36,920
Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean maybe, And I think I'm giving probably

2491
02:13:37,040 --> 02:13:40,840
Speaker 1: more credit than is potentially deserved here based off what

2492
02:13:41,520 --> 02:13:49,920
Speaker 1: video footage we have to look at. Maybe Jackson quite

2493
02:13:50,000 --> 02:13:53,040
Speaker 1: literally struck a nerve on Anthony Davis on his way

2494
02:13:53,080 --> 02:13:55,440
Speaker 1: down from fighting for a rebound. Look, there was a

2495
02:13:55,480 --> 02:13:58,960
Speaker 1: misshot Davis came from beyond the three point arc. He

2496
02:13:59,080 --> 02:14:01,400
Speaker 1: got a hand on it his left hand. His right

2497
02:14:01,400 --> 02:14:04,800
Speaker 1: hand was sort of hip checking or you know, just

2498
02:14:04,880 --> 02:14:08,960
Speaker 1: kind of boxing out in air Jaron Jackson as he

2499
02:14:09,160 --> 02:14:12,960
Speaker 1: was coming down with the basketball. Jackson made another final

2500
02:14:13,000 --> 02:14:16,680
Speaker 1: attempt at swatting away the ball before falling out of bounds,

2501
02:14:17,040 --> 02:14:20,800
Speaker 1: and then Anthony Davis walks away holding his shoulder and

2502
02:14:20,880 --> 02:14:24,520
Speaker 1: like you said, was mouthing the words I can't feel

2503
02:14:24,520 --> 02:14:26,320
Speaker 1: my arm. I can't move my arm. Maybe it is

2504
02:14:26,360 --> 02:14:30,720
Speaker 1: what it was. Anyways, if you watch this video, I

2505
02:14:31,240 --> 02:14:36,000
Speaker 1: mean again, unless something absolutely freakish happened here, like maybe

2506
02:14:36,440 --> 02:14:40,680
Speaker 1: due to that minimal contact, his shoulder separated, or he

2507
02:14:40,840 --> 02:14:45,440
Speaker 1: broke his humorous which is that upper armbone, or you know,

2508
02:14:45,600 --> 02:14:48,400
Speaker 1: or maybe it was like a stinger or you know,

2509
02:14:48,840 --> 02:14:52,640
Speaker 1: a pinch nerve. This looks like Anthony Davis is gonna

2510
02:14:52,640 --> 02:14:53,760
Speaker 1: be fine for the second half.

2511
02:14:54,640 --> 02:14:57,640
Speaker 2: By the way, you mentioned the fact that you saw

2512
02:14:57,680 --> 02:15:01,360
Speaker 2: the movie Air. It's interesting. All the years that I

2513
02:15:01,440 --> 02:15:04,760
Speaker 2: knew Sonny, I used to say his name is Sonny Vicaro,

2514
02:15:05,680 --> 02:15:07,600
Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden I heard him say

2515
02:15:07,640 --> 02:15:11,240
Speaker 2: his own name, and it's Sonny Viccaro. I'm watching the

2516
02:15:11,280 --> 02:15:16,040
Speaker 2: movie Air and Matt Damon playing Sonny, says, my name

2517
02:15:16,080 --> 02:15:19,960
Speaker 2: is Sonny Vaccaro. But in the movie, Viola Davis, who

2518
02:15:20,000 --> 02:15:24,760
Speaker 2: plays Michael Jordan's mother, calls him Sonny Vaccaro. It's really

2519
02:15:25,120 --> 02:15:28,600
Speaker 2: in the movie, so she refers him Sonny Vacaro the

2520
02:15:28,760 --> 02:15:31,760
Speaker 2: entire movie, and he say in his own name, says

2521
02:15:31,800 --> 02:15:35,040
Speaker 2: it like Sonny does Sonny Viccaro. Well, whether it's Sonny

2522
02:15:35,120 --> 02:15:39,040
Speaker 2: Viccaro or Sonny Vaccaro, it really doesn't matter. The movie

2523
02:15:39,200 --> 02:15:43,440
Speaker 2: is unbelievable. I mean, this movie still on Rotten Tomatoes,

2524
02:15:43,520 --> 02:15:46,680
Speaker 2: ninety one percent from the critics, ninety eight percent from

2525
02:15:46,680 --> 02:15:49,360
Speaker 2: the audience. I love this, and says Ben Affleck in

2526
02:15:49,400 --> 02:15:52,600
Speaker 2: a terrific cast score with Air, which is much more

2527
02:15:52,720 --> 02:15:55,560
Speaker 2: entertaining than any movie about a long ago business deal

2528
02:15:55,640 --> 02:15:58,960
Speaker 2: has a right to be. This is just a really

2529
02:15:59,000 --> 02:16:02,520
Speaker 2: good movie about you. But it was an entertaining movie

2530
02:16:02,920 --> 02:16:05,640
Speaker 2: even if you knew nothing about Nike and Sonny and Air,

2531
02:16:05,720 --> 02:16:10,320
Speaker 2: Jordan's and everything else. It's just a good movie. I

2532
02:16:10,400 --> 02:16:13,680
Speaker 2: did get to go to the Red Carpet to see Sonny.

2533
02:16:13,760 --> 02:16:15,240
Speaker 2: We mentioned that that it was going to be. The

2534
02:16:15,280 --> 02:16:18,320
Speaker 2: Red Carpet was in Westwood. I took my son Drake

2535
02:16:18,360 --> 02:16:20,560
Speaker 2: down there. We saw Sonny there. He was there with

2536
02:16:20,720 --> 02:16:24,120
Speaker 2: Ed O'Bannon. I got pictures with Sonny and his wife Pam,

2537
02:16:24,160 --> 02:16:28,240
Speaker 2: and with Ed as well. But it's you know, I'm

2538
02:16:28,400 --> 02:16:32,520
Speaker 2: reminded again having known Sonny for thirty plus years that

2539
02:16:32,920 --> 02:16:38,120
Speaker 2: this guy's impact on his sport is immerasiable. Not only

2540
02:16:38,160 --> 02:16:41,440
Speaker 2: Woul the air Jordans, he introduced the first ever national

2541
02:16:41,640 --> 02:16:46,720
Speaker 2: high school basketball game back in the sixties. That led

2542
02:16:46,760 --> 02:16:49,039
Speaker 2: to a lot of these kids that otherwise would not

2543
02:16:49,080 --> 02:16:51,560
Speaker 2: have gotten that kind of notoriety to get attention from

2544
02:16:51,680 --> 02:16:55,320
Speaker 2: universities and eventually into the NBA, and then of course

2545
02:16:55,360 --> 02:16:59,360
Speaker 2: teaming with Ed O'Bannon in the case against the NCAA

2546
02:16:59,400 --> 02:17:01,760
Speaker 2: which they want one, which opened the door to what

2547
02:17:01,800 --> 02:17:03,640
Speaker 2: we have now with the name, image and likeness. By

2548
02:17:03,640 --> 02:17:06,119
Speaker 2: the way, I was talking to Ed and I said,

2549
02:17:06,160 --> 02:17:09,560
Speaker 2: you realize that this nil thing doesn't happen without you. Ed,

2550
02:17:09,840 --> 02:17:11,960
Speaker 2: any chance you get a little kickback, you know, from

2551
02:17:11,959 --> 02:17:12,840
Speaker 2: some of these deals.

2552
02:17:12,840 --> 02:17:13,600
Speaker 1: He just laughed.

2553
02:17:14,840 --> 02:17:17,360
Speaker 2: He goes, you know what, I'm okay, But yeah, I'm

2554
02:17:17,440 --> 02:17:20,240
Speaker 2: happy that these kids are now finally getting paid the

2555
02:17:20,280 --> 02:17:22,959
Speaker 2: money that was due them years ago. But all this

2556
02:17:23,080 --> 02:17:26,480
Speaker 2: around Sonny Vicaro or Sonny Vakara, whichever way you want

2557
02:17:26,520 --> 02:17:30,000
Speaker 2: to pronounce his name, and to me, when we talk

2558
02:17:30,080 --> 02:17:32,680
Speaker 2: about halls of fame, and you know I'm into him

2559
02:17:32,720 --> 02:17:34,800
Speaker 2: and you're not. But when we talk about halls of fame,

2560
02:17:35,000 --> 02:17:36,720
Speaker 2: the question is can you write the history of a

2561
02:17:36,760 --> 02:17:39,360
Speaker 2: sport without mentioning a name. I don't know how you

2562
02:17:39,360 --> 02:17:43,640
Speaker 2: can talk about the history of basketball without mentioning Sony Vikara.

2563
02:17:44,000 --> 02:17:44,520
Speaker 2: I don't know how you.

2564
02:17:44,520 --> 02:17:44,879
Speaker 1: Can do it.

2565
02:17:44,920 --> 02:17:46,160
Speaker 2: He belongs in the Hall of Fame.

2566
02:17:46,400 --> 02:17:49,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, I look, I can't disagree with that. I think

2567
02:17:49,640 --> 02:17:54,640
Speaker 1: that there are, like we know, role players on the

2568
02:17:54,680 --> 02:18:00,000
Speaker 1: outside of the sport who have just as much influenced

2569
02:18:00,120 --> 02:18:06,959
Speaker 1: as you know, owners or the players themselves. In certain cases. Look,

2570
02:18:06,959 --> 02:18:09,480
Speaker 1: the sport's played by the players, and that takes away

2571
02:18:09,560 --> 02:18:13,360
Speaker 1: nothing from the story of Michael Jordan. But but the

2572
02:18:13,440 --> 02:18:17,840
Speaker 1: fact that he became a cultural phenomenon is as much

2573
02:18:18,480 --> 02:18:24,600
Speaker 1: due to Sonny Vocaro's his his dogged pursuit of bringing

2574
02:18:24,680 --> 02:18:29,560
Speaker 1: him in as a Nike athlete as anything else. I mean,

2575
02:18:29,879 --> 02:18:32,080
Speaker 1: there's no doubt that he would have signed with a

2576
02:18:32,320 --> 02:18:37,080
Speaker 1: shoe company, likely Converse or Adidas at the time. Who

2577
02:18:37,160 --> 02:18:40,000
Speaker 1: he wore I guess when he was off the court,

2578
02:18:40,080 --> 02:18:42,600
Speaker 1: even though he wore Converse when he was on the

2579
02:18:42,640 --> 02:18:46,800
Speaker 1: court at UNC. It's just it's just one of those

2580
02:18:46,800 --> 02:18:52,560
Speaker 1: things where you need somebody to recognize greatness before everybody else.

2581
02:18:52,640 --> 02:18:54,480
Speaker 1: Is somebody who's ahead of the Curve and that's who

2582
02:18:54,480 --> 02:18:57,640
Speaker 1: he was. Here's here's the thing. I knew a lot

2583
02:18:57,680 --> 02:19:00,960
Speaker 1: about this story, and I was still surprised by this story.

2584
02:19:01,280 --> 02:19:04,320
Speaker 1: So I'm going to reserve talking about like the Michael

2585
02:19:04,400 --> 02:19:09,520
Speaker 1: Jordan Sonny Vacaro path and what they created together so

2586
02:19:09,600 --> 02:19:12,480
Speaker 1: that people can go and be surprised watching the movie

2587
02:19:12,480 --> 02:19:14,360
Speaker 1: on their own. But what I will say about the

2588
02:19:14,400 --> 02:19:19,240
Speaker 1: movie Air is I'm into documentaries, and I was blown

2589
02:19:19,320 --> 02:19:21,840
Speaker 1: away by how well this was done because it's not

2590
02:19:21,920 --> 02:19:25,760
Speaker 1: necessarily documentary style. It's a biopic. Ye, it's a movie

2591
02:19:25,840 --> 02:19:29,920
Speaker 1: made to entertain you. I think Ben Affleck played the perfect,

2592
02:19:30,800 --> 02:19:36,000
Speaker 1: you know, comical representation of Phil Knight. I thought Matt

2593
02:19:36,080 --> 02:19:39,440
Speaker 1: Damon acted as pants off, and I thought that the

2594
02:19:39,520 --> 02:19:42,760
Speaker 1: whole cast really supported what this movie was about, which

2595
02:19:43,240 --> 02:19:47,400
Speaker 1: it really wasn't about mj was. It was about Nike,

2596
02:19:47,640 --> 02:19:52,080
Speaker 1: and it was about somebody taking risks and somebody taking chances,

2597
02:19:52,640 --> 02:19:57,039
Speaker 1: and sports they're kinda That's kind of the thing with

2598
02:19:57,080 --> 02:19:59,800
Speaker 1: sports is everybody's risk takers. That's how you end up

2599
02:19:59,800 --> 02:20:02,879
Speaker 1: in a professional sport in the first place. So anyways,

2600
02:20:02,920 --> 02:20:07,080
Speaker 1: great movie, well, awesome, awesome acting performances all around.

2601
02:20:07,160 --> 02:20:11,040
Speaker 2: Any good movie has one thing. All good movies have

2602
02:20:11,120 --> 02:20:15,240
Speaker 2: one thing in common, and that is character development. You

2603
02:20:15,280 --> 02:20:18,640
Speaker 2: get to know Michael Jordan's mom because of Viola Davis.

2604
02:20:18,800 --> 02:20:22,600
Speaker 2: I mean, Jason Bateman, who's one of the Nike executives

2605
02:20:22,600 --> 02:20:24,800
Speaker 2: that sort of oversees a little bit. The son of

2606
02:20:24,840 --> 02:20:29,200
Speaker 2: a Caro character outstanding. I mean, you get to know

2607
02:20:29,280 --> 02:20:31,400
Speaker 2: the people in the movie, the guy that created the

2608
02:20:31,400 --> 02:20:35,400
Speaker 2: air Jordan's shoe dynamic, great stuff. I mean, that's how

2609
02:20:35,440 --> 02:20:37,760
Speaker 2: you make a good movie. At the end, you have

2610
02:20:37,840 --> 02:20:40,960
Speaker 2: to understand who each of the characters are. Whether they're

2611
02:20:41,040 --> 02:20:44,920
Speaker 2: living people or fictional doesn't matter. Definition of character, and

2612
02:20:44,959 --> 02:20:47,400
Speaker 2: they do it beautifully in this movie. Air Ben Affleck

2613
02:20:47,480 --> 02:20:49,880
Speaker 2: tremendous job. By the way, he was at the red carpet,

2614
02:20:49,879 --> 02:20:53,760
Speaker 2: as was Matt Damon. J Loo was there with her

2615
02:20:53,840 --> 02:20:56,959
Speaker 2: husband Ben, and she wanted to stay in the background.

2616
02:20:56,959 --> 02:20:59,240
Speaker 2: This was like his night. You know, a lot of

2617
02:20:59,280 --> 02:21:02,560
Speaker 2: people obviously to see j Loo. She looked great. And

2618
02:21:02,600 --> 02:21:04,560
Speaker 2: then of course Matt was there with his entire family,

2619
02:21:04,600 --> 02:21:06,040
Speaker 2: so we had a lot of fun out there. Was

2620
02:21:06,040 --> 02:21:08,320
Speaker 2: good to see them, but especially great to see Son.

2621
02:21:08,360 --> 02:21:09,840
Speaker 2: He was, by the way we heard him, you know,

2622
02:21:09,920 --> 02:21:13,120
Speaker 2: eighty three years young. What a tremendous interview. Gets still

2623
02:21:13,160 --> 02:21:16,720
Speaker 2: a lot of feedback about our Sonny Vikara interview, and

2624
02:21:17,040 --> 02:21:19,400
Speaker 2: he's as sharp as he's ever been, no light up

2625
02:21:19,400 --> 02:21:21,920
Speaker 2: at all. In fact, he was classic working at red carpet.

2626
02:21:22,040 --> 02:21:24,560
Speaker 2: Just do an interview after interview after interview after interview.

2627
02:21:24,680 --> 02:21:26,120
Speaker 2: By the way, did you notice at the end of

2628
02:21:26,160 --> 02:21:29,800
Speaker 2: the movie they did not show his face at the

2629
02:21:29,879 --> 02:21:31,480
Speaker 2: end of the credits, you know, they were just sort

2630
02:21:31,520 --> 02:21:35,200
Speaker 2: of updating where everybody is? He asked purposely. There's one

2631
02:21:35,240 --> 02:21:38,000
Speaker 2: scene where you see his back from a shot, you know,

2632
02:21:38,080 --> 02:21:41,959
Speaker 2: back in nineteen eighty whatever, mid eighties. But he requested not.

2633
02:21:42,320 --> 02:21:44,160
Speaker 2: I don't know why. I love Sonny and it looks great.

2634
02:21:45,040 --> 02:21:47,640
Speaker 2: Let's find out what's frending right now. I don't know

2635
02:21:47,640 --> 02:21:50,440
Speaker 2: if she's seen them. Let's find out. Moncey Belonda is

2636
02:21:50,480 --> 02:21:51,879
Speaker 2: Monse Have you seen the movie Air?

2637
02:21:51,959 --> 02:21:53,160
Speaker 6: I have not seen it yet.

2638
02:21:53,240 --> 02:21:56,720
Speaker 2: Okay, So if you want to see a good movie, yes,

2639
02:21:57,320 --> 02:22:00,560
Speaker 2: just a good movie that you'll walk out saying that

2640
02:22:00,280 --> 02:22:02,760
Speaker 2: was that was a good movie. Yeah, go see Air.

2641
02:22:02,879 --> 02:22:03,760
Speaker 2: I will promise you.

2642
02:22:04,120 --> 02:22:06,840
Speaker 6: I plan on it. I'm also very easily impressed. So

2643
02:22:07,640 --> 02:22:10,480
Speaker 6: I'll bring this who when na Yeah, with like movies.

2644
02:22:10,760 --> 02:22:12,640
Speaker 2: I feel like, what is your I mean, what's your

2645
02:22:12,720 --> 02:22:14,360
Speaker 2: favorite genre of movie?

2646
02:22:14,400 --> 02:22:17,880
Speaker 6: Well, so I actually don't do a lot of movies.

2647
02:22:17,920 --> 02:22:20,680
Speaker 6: I love scary movies. I hate when movies are three

2648
02:22:20,760 --> 02:22:21,240
Speaker 6: hours long.

2649
02:22:21,320 --> 02:22:23,440
Speaker 7: It took me two weeks to watch Wolf of Wall

2650
02:22:23,440 --> 02:22:26,360
Speaker 7: Street because it's too long. So I hate long movies,

2651
02:22:26,400 --> 02:22:28,840
Speaker 7: which I feel like it's a trend now and I

2652
02:22:28,879 --> 02:22:29,280
Speaker 7: hate it.

2653
02:22:29,320 --> 02:22:30,360
Speaker 6: So scary movies.

2654
02:22:30,480 --> 02:22:33,000
Speaker 7: I'm in my seat, Evil Dead Rises, I'm gonna be there.

2655
02:22:33,160 --> 02:22:34,840
Speaker 7: I can't wait to watch that. It's probably gonna be

2656
02:22:34,879 --> 02:22:37,320
Speaker 7: ninety minutes, no more than two hours. So I'm more

2657
02:22:37,320 --> 02:22:39,600
Speaker 7: of a TV kind of girl, but I do want

2658
02:22:39,640 --> 02:22:40,080
Speaker 7: to watch air.

2659
02:22:40,160 --> 02:22:42,039
Speaker 2: By the way, speaking of horror movies, I have a

2660
02:22:42,040 --> 02:22:46,279
Speaker 2: friend of mine who on Easter watches nothing but bunny

2661
02:22:46,480 --> 02:22:48,880
Speaker 2: horror movies. And I was thinking, well, how many of

2662
02:22:48,879 --> 02:22:51,360
Speaker 2: these movies could there be? And they send me.

2663
02:22:51,360 --> 02:22:54,040
Speaker 1: This list and I'm like, there's like twenty of these.

2664
02:22:54,200 --> 02:23:00,440
Speaker 2: Yeah, the horror movies based on rabbits or bunnies. That's

2665
02:23:00,440 --> 02:23:01,600
Speaker 2: how I did not know this.

2666
02:23:01,959 --> 02:23:03,560
Speaker 6: I didn't know there were that many. But that's not

2667
02:23:03,680 --> 02:23:04,280
Speaker 6: what's awesome.

2668
02:23:04,680 --> 02:23:07,920
Speaker 2: I was like that I did not know these movies.

2669
02:23:08,160 --> 02:23:10,640
Speaker 7: I gotta do that next year for Easter for sure.

2670
02:23:11,160 --> 02:23:13,920
Speaker 7: If you want to know what was trending, hashtag no

2671
02:23:14,320 --> 02:23:19,280
Speaker 7: Ad was trending. That's not the case because Ad is

2672
02:23:19,360 --> 02:23:21,880
Speaker 7: back on the floor. Reports are saying that he sustained

2673
02:23:21,920 --> 02:23:24,879
Speaker 7: a nerve stinger on his right arm.

2674
02:23:25,120 --> 02:23:27,560
Speaker 6: I thought, yes, so he is back on the core.

2675
02:23:27,760 --> 02:23:28,000
Speaker 2: You know.

2676
02:23:28,040 --> 02:23:31,120
Speaker 7: He has twelve points for the Lakers, seven rebounds, He

2677
02:23:31,120 --> 02:23:34,279
Speaker 7: get four blocks. But the Grizzlies are beating the Lakers

2678
02:23:34,320 --> 02:23:37,360
Speaker 7: sixty seven to sixty three. Early in the third quarter.

2679
02:23:37,520 --> 02:23:40,840
Speaker 7: Jaron Jackson Junior leads all scores. He's got twenty one

2680
02:23:40,879 --> 02:23:42,560
Speaker 7: points and five rebounds.

2681
02:23:42,640 --> 02:23:44,760
Speaker 6: They're shooting fairly the same from.

2682
02:23:44,640 --> 02:23:47,160
Speaker 7: The field, the Grizzlies forty nine percent from the field,

2683
02:23:47,320 --> 02:23:48,720
Speaker 7: the Lakers forty five percent.

2684
02:23:48,800 --> 02:23:50,120
Speaker 6: From the three point line, the.

2685
02:23:50,080 --> 02:23:53,800
Speaker 7: Grizzlies are shooting forty percent and the Lakers a typical

2686
02:23:53,920 --> 02:23:56,080
Speaker 7: twenty six percent from beyond the arc.

2687
02:23:56,160 --> 02:23:57,840
Speaker 6: But that's how it's going so far. We got a

2688
02:23:57,879 --> 02:23:59,720
Speaker 6: whole second half to see how this one ends.

2689
02:24:00,000 --> 02:24:02,760
Speaker 7: In Major League Baseball, some games have wrapped it up,

2690
02:24:02,800 --> 02:24:05,400
Speaker 7: like the Red Sox thanks to Justin Turner hitting that

2691
02:24:05,400 --> 02:24:07,680
Speaker 7: home run. They beat the Angels two to one. The

2692
02:24:07,760 --> 02:24:10,240
Speaker 7: Nationals held on to take down the Guardian seven to six.

2693
02:24:10,440 --> 02:24:12,880
Speaker 7: The Yankees DJ Lamayhew had a home run and they

2694
02:24:12,920 --> 02:24:16,280
Speaker 7: beat the Twins to zero. Rays, after losing two in

2695
02:24:16,320 --> 02:24:18,200
Speaker 7: a row, came back to life. Eight to one was

2696
02:24:18,240 --> 02:24:20,840
Speaker 7: the final score against the Blue Jays. The Diamondback shut

2697
02:24:20,840 --> 02:24:24,000
Speaker 7: out the Marlins five zero. The Bruis and the Padres

2698
02:24:24,120 --> 02:24:26,360
Speaker 7: just got going. Bruis are up one zero in the

2699
02:24:26,440 --> 02:24:29,680
Speaker 7: second inning. The Pirates and the Cardinals are still tied.

2700
02:24:29,680 --> 02:24:32,960
Speaker 7: They are playing in Saint Louis, tied at three apiece.

2701
02:24:33,040 --> 02:24:35,840
Speaker 7: Top of the ninth inning. Braves one run lead over

2702
02:24:35,840 --> 02:24:38,240
Speaker 7: the Royals five to four. Bottom of the ninth inning.

2703
02:24:38,280 --> 02:24:41,000
Speaker 7: They're playing in Kansas City and the Phillies that just

2704
02:24:41,120 --> 02:24:43,520
Speaker 7: keep scoring against the Reds they can't stop. Twelve to

2705
02:24:43,560 --> 02:24:46,080
Speaker 7: three is the score, top of the seventh inning.

2706
02:24:46,280 --> 02:24:49,000
Speaker 6: It's been fun, guys, back to you, except you Rich I.

2707
02:24:49,000 --> 02:24:53,440
Speaker 2: Was gonna say, wow, you pulled a punch on that one. Yes, yeah,

2708
02:24:53,440 --> 02:24:56,080
Speaker 2: But we'll see the bets. If you haven't heard, there's

2709
02:24:56,120 --> 02:25:00,959
Speaker 2: a bet on the table. There is because if there's

2710
02:25:01,000 --> 02:25:05,039
Speaker 2: a sweep in this series between the Clippers and the Suns,

2711
02:25:05,080 --> 02:25:07,240
Speaker 2: based on who sweeps who, and by the way, Game

2712
02:25:07,280 --> 02:25:09,800
Speaker 2: four will be Saturday, so when we come back next Sunday,

2713
02:25:10,040 --> 02:25:13,199
Speaker 2: the potential to sweep is there. There is a wager

2714
02:25:13,840 --> 02:25:17,160
Speaker 2: going on between Moncey and Rich on one end could

2715
02:25:17,200 --> 02:25:21,720
Speaker 2: be a flamed steak, on the other a flamed eggplant.

2716
02:25:22,000 --> 02:25:23,760
Speaker 6: That's right, Yeah, exactly, that's right.

2717
02:25:24,080 --> 02:25:26,879
Speaker 1: Well, and she did mention earlier in the update, she said,

2718
02:25:26,920 --> 02:25:29,680
Speaker 1: you know, I am easily entertained, which falls right in

2719
02:25:29,720 --> 02:25:31,039
Speaker 1: line with being a Clippers fan.

2720
02:25:31,240 --> 02:25:33,160
Speaker 6: I wow, like you at all?

2721
02:25:36,040 --> 02:25:38,320
Speaker 2: You remember the last two Sundays and Rich wasn't here.

2722
02:25:38,520 --> 02:25:40,080
Speaker 2: Mon Yeah, that was lovely.

2723
02:25:40,600 --> 02:25:42,039
Speaker 1: I didn't mean that I did it.

2724
02:25:42,080 --> 02:25:43,360
Speaker 6: Where is lucky that.

2725
02:25:44,920 --> 02:25:45,560
Speaker 1: Slipped out?

2726
02:25:45,800 --> 02:25:46,039
Speaker 2: Yeah?

2727
02:25:46,080 --> 02:25:48,040
Speaker 6: Sure it did?

2728
02:25:49,360 --> 02:25:52,400
Speaker 2: All right, mind set, we'll settle down and very very good.

2729
02:25:52,920 --> 02:25:55,520
Speaker 2: By the way, she had an episode yesterday. I'm the

2730
02:25:55,520 --> 02:25:58,480
Speaker 2: weirdest thing happened today. I don't know how you would

2731
02:25:58,480 --> 02:26:02,039
Speaker 2: explain this, right. So I walk out of my house

2732
02:26:02,440 --> 02:26:05,640
Speaker 2: to get in the smart car, and my car is

2733
02:26:05,800 --> 02:26:07,760
Speaker 2: on the street, okay, on the curve, and we live

2734
02:26:07,800 --> 02:26:11,480
Speaker 2: on a hill, so we're not near any marine street area,

2735
02:26:11,600 --> 02:26:13,920
Speaker 2: so basically the only people heading up the hill are

2736
02:26:13,959 --> 02:26:16,840
Speaker 2: people that live in the neighborhood. So I come out

2737
02:26:16,879 --> 02:26:21,200
Speaker 2: to my car and there's a car parked next to

2738
02:26:21,280 --> 02:26:24,600
Speaker 2: my car in the middle of the street. It's like

2739
02:26:24,640 --> 02:26:29,600
Speaker 2: a white sedan and it's got tinted windows, so I

2740
02:26:29,600 --> 02:26:33,800
Speaker 2: can't see actually who's in the car. So, and it's

2741
02:26:33,879 --> 02:26:36,560
Speaker 2: parked literally right next to my car, but it's in

2742
02:26:36,640 --> 02:26:40,840
Speaker 2: the street. So I get into my car and I figure, like, well,

2743
02:26:40,879 --> 02:26:42,840
Speaker 2: this person will see me get in my car. Well,

2744
02:26:42,879 --> 02:26:45,280
Speaker 2: probably like oh, maybe they stop to do something and

2745
02:26:45,320 --> 02:26:49,039
Speaker 2: they're going to move on. They don't move. So I

2746
02:26:49,120 --> 02:26:51,600
Speaker 2: pull out and I pull around this guy to leave.

2747
02:26:51,920 --> 02:26:54,280
Speaker 2: So I immediately call the house to Denise. I said, there's

2748
02:26:54,320 --> 02:26:57,520
Speaker 2: this car parked in front of our house with tinted windows.

2749
02:26:57,600 --> 02:27:00,760
Speaker 2: She goes outside, sort of hangs out like he's looking

2750
02:27:00,760 --> 02:27:03,360
Speaker 2: around the front of the house like something. Guy's just

2751
02:27:03,400 --> 02:27:10,119
Speaker 2: sitting there, not moving, tinted windows. Now eventually he did move,

2752
02:27:10,240 --> 02:27:13,400
Speaker 2: But why would I mean, if you wanted to let's

2753
02:27:13,400 --> 02:27:15,720
Speaker 2: say you wanted to make a phone call, right, I mean,

2754
02:27:15,760 --> 02:27:18,680
Speaker 2: there was there's curb space everywhere. You're not just gonna

2755
02:27:18,720 --> 02:27:22,840
Speaker 2: stop in the middle of the street. Huh on a

2756
02:27:22,879 --> 02:27:26,400
Speaker 2: street that gets almost zero traffic unless literally you live

2757
02:27:26,480 --> 02:27:30,080
Speaker 2: in the neighborhood. Just curious about whoever that is. If

2758
02:27:30,080 --> 02:27:33,920
Speaker 2: you're listening right now, we're watching you. It was just

2759
02:27:33,959 --> 02:27:37,240
Speaker 2: the weirdest thing. I'm like, why, I mean, and because

2760
02:27:37,240 --> 02:27:39,000
Speaker 2: the windows were I could see there was somebody in

2761
02:27:39,040 --> 02:27:41,760
Speaker 2: the car, but I couldn't really see much because the

2762
02:27:41,800 --> 02:27:43,039
Speaker 2: windows were tinted.

2763
02:27:43,680 --> 02:27:47,680
Speaker 1: Ever since marijuana has been legalized at the state level

2764
02:27:47,680 --> 02:27:51,320
Speaker 1: in California, Steve has been seeing all sorts of stuff.

2765
02:27:51,360 --> 02:27:53,480
Speaker 2: I was seeing this and it was really weird. Grizzlies

2766
02:27:53,480 --> 02:27:58,199
Speaker 2: are up seventy five to seventy over the Lakers right now, and.

2767
02:27:58,879 --> 02:28:02,680
Speaker 1: He predicted Anthony Davis. If you again, if you go

2768
02:28:02,800 --> 02:28:06,199
Speaker 1: back and watch the video of the injury, the quote

2769
02:28:06,240 --> 02:28:09,080
Speaker 1: unquote injury that Anthony Davis suffered at the end of

2770
02:28:09,120 --> 02:28:13,640
Speaker 1: the first half, you knew he was coming back for

2771
02:28:13,720 --> 02:28:16,520
Speaker 1: the second half. I mean again, unless this was one

2772
02:28:16,520 --> 02:28:20,600
Speaker 1: of those absolute freak things where you know something more

2773
02:28:20,720 --> 02:28:24,920
Speaker 1: happened and the video footage just can't reveal that much

2774
02:28:24,959 --> 02:28:29,440
Speaker 1: to you. The contact was so mini minimal between him

2775
02:28:29,440 --> 02:28:33,680
Speaker 1: and Jackson. I mean, it's I don't know, listen, Anthony Davis.

2776
02:28:33,720 --> 02:28:36,920
Speaker 1: I think I think there's a little bit of Hey,

2777
02:28:37,320 --> 02:28:41,920
Speaker 1: it's really difficult keeping a seven foot frame healthy for

2778
02:28:42,000 --> 02:28:42,520
Speaker 1: an entire set.

2779
02:28:42,720 --> 02:28:44,520
Speaker 2: But he does, by the way, I'm just watching made

2780
02:28:44,560 --> 02:28:47,880
Speaker 2: a nice turnaround jumper. So he had a stinger is

2781
02:28:47,920 --> 02:28:50,039
Speaker 2: basically what look and that can happen.

2782
02:28:50,080 --> 02:28:52,800
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that it didn't happen, but there's also

2783
02:28:53,280 --> 02:28:57,440
Speaker 1: there's this awareness, and I especially see this with basketball players.

2784
02:28:57,440 --> 02:29:01,720
Speaker 1: There's this awareness of how the public talks about you,

2785
02:29:02,360 --> 02:29:04,879
Speaker 1: and there's a certain yeah, and you see this with

2786
02:29:04,959 --> 02:29:08,080
Speaker 1: a lot of guys. They'll they'll play up certain injuries

2787
02:29:08,160 --> 02:29:11,560
Speaker 1: so that they get a little bit more cred for

2788
02:29:11,600 --> 02:29:13,800
Speaker 1: being a tough guy, you know what I mean. Like,

2789
02:29:14,400 --> 02:29:17,039
Speaker 1: and I don't know why, but it's one of those

2790
02:29:17,080 --> 02:29:19,800
Speaker 1: things that irks me as a fan of sport. Maybe

2791
02:29:19,800 --> 02:29:22,880
Speaker 1: it's because I played football and you don't see it

2792
02:29:23,120 --> 02:29:25,560
Speaker 1: nearly as much in football there, but there are just

2793
02:29:25,640 --> 02:29:28,800
Speaker 1: certain guys who they'll kind of limp around and they'll

2794
02:29:28,800 --> 02:29:31,160
Speaker 1: show you how hurt they are this way in postgame

2795
02:29:31,200 --> 02:29:33,920
Speaker 1: they get to tell you the first question they know

2796
02:29:34,160 --> 02:29:36,040
Speaker 1: is going to be asked is like, hey, you know

2797
02:29:36,160 --> 02:29:38,840
Speaker 1: the shoulder injury, Anthony, how were you able to come

2798
02:29:38,879 --> 02:29:40,400
Speaker 1: back out of the locker room and still be as

2799
02:29:40,440 --> 02:29:42,200
Speaker 1: effective as you were in the second half? You know,

2800
02:29:42,240 --> 02:29:45,440
Speaker 1: assuming the Lakers win and helping your team to a victory.

2801
02:29:45,720 --> 02:29:48,840
Speaker 1: Well you know, shoot, you know that really I thought

2802
02:29:48,879 --> 02:29:50,840
Speaker 1: it was gonna be more serious than it was. But

2803
02:29:51,040 --> 02:29:53,640
Speaker 1: you know, it's the playoffs and you just gotta you know,

2804
02:29:53,680 --> 02:29:55,560
Speaker 1: you gotta have your your head in the game, and

2805
02:29:55,920 --> 02:29:57,800
Speaker 1: nothing was going to keep me off the court man,

2806
02:29:57,920 --> 02:30:01,840
Speaker 1: And it's like you can almost predict before it's actually

2807
02:30:01,879 --> 02:30:06,039
Speaker 1: being sad. And so again, I mean this, this, this

2808
02:30:06,200 --> 02:30:08,440
Speaker 1: is just a personal thing. I'm sure there's other people

2809
02:30:08,480 --> 02:30:11,320
Speaker 1: who feel that way when they're watching basketball in the postseason.

2810
02:30:11,360 --> 02:30:14,240
Speaker 1: But I promise you if we fast forward right now

2811
02:30:14,320 --> 02:30:17,280
Speaker 1: to postgame, that's exactly how this is all going to

2812
02:30:17,320 --> 02:30:19,440
Speaker 1: be treated and handled, and then we're going to move

2813
02:30:19,440 --> 02:30:21,680
Speaker 1: on to Game two as if the shoulder never happened.

2814
02:30:21,680 --> 02:30:23,920
Speaker 2: Did you have one of those teammates that I mean,

2815
02:30:24,000 --> 02:30:27,879
Speaker 2: everyone's hurt in the NFL, everybody there's there's you know,

2816
02:30:27,920 --> 02:30:30,320
Speaker 2: and having worked for an NFL team and seeing these

2817
02:30:30,320 --> 02:30:33,120
Speaker 2: guys crawl in on a Monday, it's like, how are

2818
02:30:33,120 --> 02:30:34,600
Speaker 2: they going to be ready to play next week? And

2819
02:30:34,840 --> 02:30:37,720
Speaker 2: miraculously they get out there for another game. But did

2820
02:30:37,760 --> 02:30:41,680
Speaker 2: you ever have a teammate that would openly talk about

2821
02:30:41,879 --> 02:30:45,160
Speaker 2: how banged up they were or was that completely taboo,

2822
02:30:45,440 --> 02:30:48,760
Speaker 2: Like you would never no matter how hurt you were,

2823
02:30:49,240 --> 02:30:51,200
Speaker 2: you would never call attention to it.

2824
02:30:51,560 --> 02:30:54,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean there were guys like that. Yeah, of course,

2825
02:30:54,360 --> 02:30:58,280
Speaker 1: and they bothered everybody, like I mean, even if they.

2826
02:30:58,160 --> 02:31:00,400
Speaker 2: Were like, you're liking this guy, like, yeah, I'm too.

2827
02:31:00,600 --> 02:31:02,000
Speaker 2: I get it.

2828
02:31:02,400 --> 02:31:06,359
Speaker 1: Everybody has something and you know, and frankly, in basketball,

2829
02:31:06,480 --> 02:31:08,880
Speaker 1: I mean, if you make it to the playoffs, most

2830
02:31:09,000 --> 02:31:12,959
Speaker 1: likely everybody has play on the roster who's played significant minutes.

2831
02:31:13,560 --> 02:31:16,720
Speaker 1: Everybody's played through something that season. I mean it's eighty

2832
02:31:16,720 --> 02:31:19,840
Speaker 1: two games. How could you not have a sore hamstring

2833
02:31:19,959 --> 02:31:23,040
Speaker 1: or a sore calf, or a sore shoulder, or you know,

2834
02:31:23,600 --> 02:31:26,520
Speaker 1: wrench your back at some point or whatever. There's a

2835
02:31:26,560 --> 02:31:31,080
Speaker 1: million things broken finger, it happens. It's the guys who

2836
02:31:31,120 --> 02:31:34,960
Speaker 1: complain the most who you know, Look, they get known

2837
02:31:35,040 --> 02:31:38,119
Speaker 1: by their teammates as a complainer, they get known by

2838
02:31:38,120 --> 02:31:40,680
Speaker 1: the training staff as a complainer, they get known by

2839
02:31:40,680 --> 02:31:43,640
Speaker 1: the coaching staff as a complainer, and everybody knows how

2840
02:31:43,640 --> 02:31:45,760
Speaker 1: to deal with it. You just try not to fan

2841
02:31:45,920 --> 02:31:49,600
Speaker 1: the flame because you don't want them. You don't want

2842
02:31:49,720 --> 02:31:53,120
Speaker 1: them taking more time off than they actually need. So

2843
02:31:53,400 --> 02:31:56,360
Speaker 1: everybody just commiserates with them. They go, oh yeah, yeah, yeah,

2844
02:31:56,400 --> 02:31:59,440
Speaker 1: that really stinks. Yeah that hamstring, Yeah boy, those are

2845
02:31:59,480 --> 02:32:01,920
Speaker 1: tough man. Okay, good luck, you know, and you just

2846
02:32:01,920 --> 02:32:04,879
Speaker 1: sort of keep it moving because the reality is your

2847
02:32:05,000 --> 02:32:08,760
Speaker 1: only even if. And again, Anthony Davis is one of

2848
02:32:08,840 --> 02:32:12,039
Speaker 1: the best centers in the game. He is an unbelievable

2849
02:32:12,080 --> 02:32:14,480
Speaker 1: point scorer. He had five blocks in the first half.

2850
02:32:14,879 --> 02:32:19,400
Speaker 1: This guy's sensational. But when when you're a key player

2851
02:32:19,440 --> 02:32:23,000
Speaker 1: on a team and you're constantly unavailable, how key of

2852
02:32:23,040 --> 02:32:26,359
Speaker 1: a player are you? You know, it's it's the reality

2853
02:32:26,480 --> 02:32:30,320
Speaker 1: is durability is your most important ability. And if Anthony

2854
02:32:30,440 --> 02:32:34,240
Speaker 1: Davis isn't healthy for this postseason run for the Lakers,

2855
02:32:34,640 --> 02:32:39,200
Speaker 1: guess what. The Lakers aren't winning a championship. Everybody knows that.

2856
02:32:39,480 --> 02:32:41,400
Speaker 1: I hope Anthony Davis knows that.

2857
02:32:42,600 --> 02:32:48,480
Speaker 2: On the other side, college teammates taking very different directions

2858
02:32:49,480 --> 02:32:51,760
Speaker 2: tell you who they are. This is Fox Sports Sunday,

2859
02:32:52,160 --> 02:32:56,360
Speaker 2: Steve Harbin and Rich Hornberger Fox Sports Sunday Live from

2860
02:32:56,400 --> 02:33:00,200
Speaker 2: the tire rack dot Com Studios. What a thing the

2861
02:33:00,280 --> 02:33:08,359
Speaker 2: crew today? Iowa Sam who along with our brilliant producer

2862
02:33:08,400 --> 02:33:10,200
Speaker 2: Bo Benson there. I think they're both gonna. Are you

2863
02:33:10,240 --> 02:33:12,400
Speaker 2: guys gonna go in tandem down to loop as down

2864
02:33:12,440 --> 02:33:13,280
Speaker 2: there in San Diego.

2865
02:33:13,680 --> 02:33:15,040
Speaker 1: I think both of you guys should get it.

2866
02:33:15,120 --> 02:33:18,120
Speaker 2: I want them now. Yeah, and more banana bread please.

2867
02:33:18,240 --> 02:33:20,680
Speaker 5: That would imply that I would voluntarily spend my free

2868
02:33:20,720 --> 02:33:21,680
Speaker 5: time with Sam and.

2869
02:33:21,920 --> 02:33:23,800
Speaker 1: You would no.

2870
02:33:24,080 --> 02:33:26,360
Speaker 2: No, wow wow. By the way, if you want more

2871
02:33:26,400 --> 02:33:29,280
Speaker 2: banana bread, I think that Bo has some left. Wow

2872
02:33:29,400 --> 02:33:30,760
Speaker 2: now that he said that, I'm gonna take it.

2873
02:33:30,800 --> 02:33:31,000
Speaker 1: Yeah.

2874
02:33:31,040 --> 02:33:33,360
Speaker 5: No, Sam can't have it. It's not that I wouldn't

2875
02:33:33,400 --> 02:33:35,080
Speaker 5: want to do it. It's just that, you know, Yeah,

2876
02:33:35,120 --> 02:33:38,080
Speaker 5: I get I get about sixteen hours of Sam Kinsley

2877
02:33:38,120 --> 02:33:39,760
Speaker 5: each weekend, and that's more than enough for me.

2878
02:33:40,320 --> 02:33:43,199
Speaker 2: Yeah. But if you're sharing a burrito, it's plenty of Sam.

2879
02:33:43,280 --> 02:33:45,359
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a lot of Sam.

2880
02:33:45,400 --> 02:33:48,560
Speaker 2: I have any I've even mentioned their chips and guac

2881
02:33:48,640 --> 02:33:50,840
Speaker 2: and salts Man.

2882
02:33:51,200 --> 02:33:53,080
Speaker 1: They've got a salce of bar. Yeah.

2883
02:33:53,200 --> 02:33:54,720
Speaker 2: And by the way, if you eat there, you're gonna

2884
02:33:54,720 --> 02:33:56,080
Speaker 2: get the beer as well on tap.

2885
02:33:56,200 --> 02:33:59,000
Speaker 5: So I hope they're paying Steve for this.

2886
02:34:00,160 --> 02:34:02,320
Speaker 2: There's no pol plug over here, and I don't even

2887
02:34:02,320 --> 02:34:04,080
Speaker 2: think about it. I have no connecting to.

2888
02:34:04,120 --> 02:34:04,720
Speaker 1: That at all.

2889
02:34:04,920 --> 02:34:08,000
Speaker 5: I was like I was eating Loco and my burrito

2890
02:34:08,000 --> 02:34:09,879
Speaker 5: fell apart and Steve comes in here. He's just like,

2891
02:34:09,879 --> 02:34:11,039
Speaker 5: you know, that wouldn't happen.

2892
02:34:11,080 --> 02:34:13,279
Speaker 2: You know, Brios don't fall apart at Loop.

2893
02:34:16,000 --> 02:34:18,560
Speaker 1: Loo, But it was How funny would it be if

2894
02:34:18,640 --> 02:34:23,360
Speaker 1: like that's how this seventy plus year radio career comes

2895
02:34:23,440 --> 02:34:25,360
Speaker 1: crashing too alt.

2896
02:34:26,920 --> 02:34:29,040
Speaker 2: But then I get free, Loop is the rest of

2897
02:34:29,080 --> 02:34:29,520
Speaker 2: my life?

2898
02:34:29,560 --> 02:34:31,240
Speaker 1: You know, that'd be really good?

2899
02:34:31,600 --> 02:34:33,920
Speaker 2: H and Manci of course, even though she is no

2900
02:34:33,959 --> 02:34:36,400
Speaker 2: longer talking to you, I know, I know.

2901
02:34:36,440 --> 02:34:37,560
Speaker 6: Yeah, no, never again.

2902
02:34:38,080 --> 02:34:40,800
Speaker 1: I can't believe this is how it ends.

2903
02:34:41,160 --> 02:34:41,520
Speaker 6: I know.

2904
02:34:41,840 --> 02:34:43,920
Speaker 7: So I thought that you were going to say just

2905
02:34:44,040 --> 02:34:46,800
Speaker 7: crazy things today, blasphemous things.

2906
02:34:46,840 --> 02:34:50,520
Speaker 1: All I said was sons and four and then I

2907
02:34:50,600 --> 02:34:57,360
Speaker 1: really feel like since then you have been out of line,

2908
02:34:57,800 --> 02:35:01,920
Speaker 1: and I just I don't know what to do with this.

2909
02:35:02,560 --> 02:35:03,680
Speaker 6: I'm out of line.

2910
02:35:03,840 --> 02:35:07,560
Speaker 1: This working, this work environment has all of a sudden

2911
02:35:07,600 --> 02:35:11,920
Speaker 1: become very caustic, and yeah, I am mentally struggling.

2912
02:35:12,120 --> 02:35:12,400
Speaker 6: Good.

2913
02:35:12,840 --> 02:35:14,720
Speaker 2: The best part of this is we're going to have

2914
02:35:14,760 --> 02:35:18,040
Speaker 2: a resolve to this next Sunday. That's right, yes, because

2915
02:35:18,120 --> 02:35:21,920
Speaker 2: if if there is a sweep on either end, man, well,

2916
02:35:21,920 --> 02:35:24,840
Speaker 2: we're gonna have a Sunday show next week. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yea.

2917
02:35:25,520 --> 02:35:25,720
Speaker 1: Hey.

2918
02:35:25,720 --> 02:35:29,520
Speaker 2: I want to mention about these former teammates in college

2919
02:35:29,959 --> 02:35:32,760
Speaker 2: and how their careers have gone in very different directions.

2920
02:35:33,480 --> 02:35:36,640
Speaker 2: And it's not football teammates, and it's not basketball teammates.

2921
02:35:36,760 --> 02:35:40,360
Speaker 2: It's baseball teammates in college. And they were pitchers on

2922
02:35:40,440 --> 02:35:44,400
Speaker 2: the same staff at UCLA. One of them, Garrett Cole,

2923
02:35:44,959 --> 02:35:49,560
Speaker 2: today threw a two hit complete game shutout. They're great.

2924
02:35:49,920 --> 02:35:52,320
Speaker 2: The only time we ever see complete games nowadays usually

2925
02:35:52,320 --> 02:35:54,760
Speaker 2: when a guy has a no hitter, but he threw

2926
02:35:54,760 --> 02:35:57,800
Speaker 2: a two hit shutout, struck out ten walked only one

2927
02:35:58,160 --> 02:36:00,560
Speaker 2: through about like one hundred and nine pitches. That's old

2928
02:36:00,560 --> 02:36:02,600
Speaker 2: school right, by the way. He's also four and oh

2929
02:36:02,640 --> 02:36:04,960
Speaker 2: this year first got to get to four victories within

2930
02:36:04,959 --> 02:36:08,360
Speaker 2: the VRA under one. So Garrett Cole is very much

2931
02:36:08,400 --> 02:36:12,080
Speaker 2: on top of his game. His college teammate Trevor Bauer,

2932
02:36:13,400 --> 02:36:16,080
Speaker 2: and we have not heard the last of Trevor Bauer.

2933
02:36:16,680 --> 02:36:19,280
Speaker 2: Trevor Bauer, of course, after his three hundred and twenty

2934
02:36:19,280 --> 02:36:23,280
Speaker 2: four game suspension of Major League Baseball, is now in

2935
02:36:23,440 --> 02:36:28,800
Speaker 2: Japan and he made his debut for a minor league

2936
02:36:28,879 --> 02:36:33,040
Speaker 2: team in Japan, and apparently even though there were only

2937
02:36:33,040 --> 02:36:36,119
Speaker 2: twenty six hundred fans, very small minor league park. There

2938
02:36:36,120 --> 02:36:39,440
Speaker 2: were people lined up everywhere to see him pitch, and

2939
02:36:39,520 --> 02:36:43,720
Speaker 2: he pitched well. He allowed four hits, no runs, striking

2940
02:36:43,760 --> 02:36:48,959
Speaker 2: out six in four innings. He's still only thirty two

2941
02:36:49,120 --> 02:36:54,879
Speaker 2: years old. The Dodgers, by the way, still owe him

2942
02:36:54,920 --> 02:36:58,520
Speaker 2: twenty two and a half million dollars have to release it,

2943
02:36:58,560 --> 02:37:02,200
Speaker 2: and they still owe him all that money. Apparently fans

2944
02:37:02,200 --> 02:37:05,560
Speaker 2: of Japan are not bothered by his past. Hundreds lined

2945
02:37:05,600 --> 02:37:07,760
Speaker 2: up outside the stadium wanted to get a glimpse of

2946
02:37:07,760 --> 02:37:12,760
Speaker 2: the guy. He wore number ninety six because his goal

2947
02:37:12,840 --> 02:37:16,080
Speaker 2: is to have his fastball at average at ninety six.

2948
02:37:16,840 --> 02:37:19,680
Speaker 2: So let me ask you this, if he continues to

2949
02:37:19,800 --> 02:37:23,360
Speaker 2: pitch well over there, and again, he's only thirty two

2950
02:37:23,440 --> 02:37:25,080
Speaker 2: years of age, and by the way, his last season

2951
02:37:25,160 --> 02:37:27,760
Speaker 2: pitching with the Dodgers after they signed him after his

2952
02:37:27,840 --> 02:37:31,120
Speaker 2: cy young year in Cincinnati in twenty twenty, he was

2953
02:37:31,160 --> 02:37:33,080
Speaker 2: eight and five with a two fifty nine ERA and

2954
02:37:33,160 --> 02:37:36,119
Speaker 2: seventeen starts, So obviously he's still a premier pitcher. Would

2955
02:37:36,160 --> 02:37:38,720
Speaker 2: you take a shot at Trevor Bauer with all the

2956
02:37:38,760 --> 02:37:43,200
Speaker 2: baggage that he will carry with him after that incident

2957
02:37:43,320 --> 02:37:43,879
Speaker 2: with the woman.

2958
02:37:44,240 --> 02:37:47,320
Speaker 1: Well, let me tell you, and this isn't just true

2959
02:37:47,320 --> 02:37:49,920
Speaker 1: of Major League Baseball, this is true of all sports

2960
02:37:50,000 --> 02:37:55,600
Speaker 1: league leagues. And this is true across across many front offices.

2961
02:37:56,400 --> 02:38:00,640
Speaker 1: I mean, when you can play, that is that is

2962
02:38:00,680 --> 02:38:06,800
Speaker 1: the most powerful aspect of these discussions. Can Trevor Bauer

2963
02:38:06,840 --> 02:38:10,000
Speaker 1: pitch well, I mean, we'll see how he does in Japan,

2964
02:38:10,080 --> 02:38:13,880
Speaker 1: but it appears first out, Yeah he can. Can he

2965
02:38:13,879 --> 02:38:16,920
Speaker 1: help a Major League baseball team, Oh, there's no question.

2966
02:38:17,280 --> 02:38:20,200
Speaker 1: So if his name in terms of being cleared of

2967
02:38:20,360 --> 02:38:24,440
Speaker 1: any suspension, if he's completely a free agent to be

2968
02:38:24,600 --> 02:38:27,760
Speaker 1: signed at the end of this or this professional baseball

2969
02:38:27,760 --> 02:38:31,520
Speaker 1: season in Japan, I could almost guarantee you somebody will

2970
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Speaker 1: take the chance and sign him. Unless there is collusion,

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Speaker 1: unless every single team has agreed to secretly keeping Trevor

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Speaker 1: Bauer out of the league, and he's not accused of

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Speaker 1: him any further legal circumstances, then yeah, he's gonna pitch

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Speaker 1: him major League baseball again. He's just too talented not to.

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Speaker 1: And we all seen this happen time and time again.

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02:38:54,400 --> 02:38:59,040
Speaker 1: Look at Deshaun Watson. Deshaun Watson had at the time

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Speaker 1: where he was traded for by the Cleveland Browns and

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Speaker 1: given a guaranteed contract that dwarfed every other contract ever

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Speaker 1: signed by a quarterback in NFL history. He had twenty

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Speaker 1: plus civil suits against him for alleged sexual assault and

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Speaker 1: sexual misconduct. So going back to Trevor Bauer, Yeah, if

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Speaker 1: he continues to pitch well, and he pitches some part

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Speaker 1: of a full major league season in Japan or an

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Speaker 1: entire pro baseball season in Japan, yeah he'll be back

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Speaker 1: in Major League Baseball.

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Speaker 2: Unfortunately, every time I look up Bauer, see a picture

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Speaker 2: that reminds me of our producer. They bear a striking

2988
02:39:38,600 --> 02:39:43,000
Speaker 2: resemblance down in San Diego. He spooky, very spooky. By

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Speaker 2: the way, this back and forth game between the Lakers

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02:39:45,240 --> 02:39:48,200
Speaker 2: and the Grizzlies has suddenly swung the Lakers way. They

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Speaker 2: have a six point late with a minute ago in

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Speaker 2: the third quarter. Will it be eggplant? Will it be steak?

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Speaker 2: We'll find out next Sunday.