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Speaker 1: Hello, welcome in side final hour tonight the Jason Smith

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Speaker 1: Show with my best friend Mike Harmon. And before we

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Speaker 1: get into the NBA, just really quick, boy, how things

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Speaker 1: have turned. It looks like the Dodgers are gonna lose

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Speaker 1: their fifth in a row thanks to home running the

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Speaker 1: ninth inning to tie at Corbyn. Carrol has gone deep

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Speaker 1: here in the tenth fertilizer Diamondbacks lead the Dodgers three

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Speaker 1: to one. Sing so bad for the Dodgers. Only the

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Speaker 1: Dodgers absolutely blow yoshinobah Yamamoto's near no hit her right

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Speaker 1: yet and no hit her into the sixth inning. And

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Speaker 1: not only that, but they cooked their bullpen along the way.

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Speaker 1: Yeah no, he got into the seventh. There could be

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Speaker 1: a three to one laws like it's so bad, like

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Speaker 1: they finally get a big game pitched, and now, well,

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Speaker 1: guess what sop embarrassing, we're cooking the bullpen as we're

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Speaker 1: gonna lose this game potentially three to one. But Otani

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Speaker 1: does bat in the tenth inning for the Dodgers, so

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Speaker 1: again three to one going to the bottom of the tenth.

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Speaker 3: Came into the game with an era just above a two.

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Speaker 3: He's been fantastic. And all we've been talking about with

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Speaker 3: the troubles, uh managing the arms rotation or bullpen with

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Speaker 3: a number of guys going in and out like a

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Speaker 3: damn revolving door. That you've had Yamamoto every fifth day

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Speaker 3: to be able to just say, all right, he's gonna

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Speaker 3: give you an effort, and then he goes into the

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Speaker 3: seventh and you still ended up in the bullpen and

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Speaker 3: working guys and Dave Roberts what was on a cruise

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Speaker 3: control kind of night became all nightmarish.

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Speaker 1: Meanwhile, the Angels have won five in a row, so that.

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Speaker 3: My face chang but literally seven innings pitch the one

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Speaker 3: hit aloud, nine strikeouts, goes one hundred and ten pitches.

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Speaker 3: Man gave them everything he had and then some and

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Speaker 3: for it all to go asunder this embarrassing.

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Speaker 1: That's fertilizer. Fertilizer. So again, but the Dodgers coming up

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Speaker 1: in the bottom of the tenth. We'll see how this

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Speaker 1: shakes out.

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Speaker 3: But to give credit on the other side, right, Nelson

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Speaker 3: goes five. Now you have four relievers for the Diamondbacks

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Speaker 3: to get you to this point.

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Speaker 1: So tonight we watched the Oklahoma City Thunder just take

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Speaker 1: fourteen to eighty eight to take a one game to

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Speaker 1: then lead in the Western Conference Final. We'll get to

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Speaker 1: that coming up in a minute. But tonight was the

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Speaker 1: Mike Malone. We can call him Mike now because he's

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Speaker 1: a broadcaster, not a coach. Mike Malone, former Nuggets head coach,

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Speaker 1: made his debut with the ESPN. Yeah all right, so

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Speaker 1: how was the coach gonna do? You know, how was

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Speaker 1: he gonna do? Well? He had this comment from tonight,

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Speaker 1: look Sga has a big night in the second half.

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Speaker 1: Didn't start out for a big game for shake Gildess Alexander,

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Speaker 1: but carries the team in the second half when they

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Speaker 1: turned a four point deficit into a big lead. They

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Speaker 1: wound up winning SGA winds up with thirty one points,

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Speaker 1: nine s, five rebounds. Here's Mike Malone on the court

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Speaker 1: after the game talking about the night that gild Justs

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Speaker 1: Alexander had. That's what they do.

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Speaker 4: They do it at an elite level and then shake

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Speaker 1: He showed wise he's the MVP. It's took over in the.

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Speaker 4: Second half, DIDs so in a very efficient manner and

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Speaker 1: Okay, so shake Gildas Alexander showing why he's the MVP. Right,

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Speaker 1: So Michael Malone by sorry, Mike Malone, why shake Gilders

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Speaker 1: Alexander is the MVP in the league. Did he let

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying no, no, he said. And the reason

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Speaker 1: from about six weeks ago talking about Nicola Jokic and

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Speaker 4: My thing is this, You know, if you didn't know

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Speaker 4: that the guy who's averaging a triple double, the guy

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Speaker 4: that no one's ever done. He wins the MVP ten

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Speaker 1: Now tonight, Shay Gilders Alexander, So let me think about it.

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Speaker 1: Let me think of this for a second, because something

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Speaker 1: had to have changed for Mike Malone to change to

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Speaker 1: So Yokic was the MVP, Nuggets were playing well, Jamal

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Speaker 1: Murray came back, No, probably not there. Well, can I

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Speaker 1: Go ahead, Frostford, what do you got because I'm coming

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Speaker 1: up with a blank right now? They fired his ass.

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Speaker 1: Oh that's right.

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Speaker 3: So is this his way of saying that jokicch had

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Speaker 3: a conversation with the kros which resulted in him and

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Speaker 1: You may all have said anybody but Jokicic, Yet no

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Speaker 1: times out of ten. Now, look, there's the school of

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Speaker 1: There's a school of thought that, well, he's saying he's

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Speaker 1: get you that. Okay, Shagil Lexander's going to win the MVP,

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Speaker 1: because I think he is. But there's but you said

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Speaker 1: This is what it means to work in the media,

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Speaker 1: Mike Malone. This is what it means. You say things

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Speaker 1: and you go counter opposite to what you said not

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Speaker 1: very long ago. Uh, this is gonna get brought up.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, I get that. There could be well, and

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Speaker 1: that'll be his way to get out of it. I'm sure, Well,

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Speaker 1: how do I get out of this? Well, So, well,

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Speaker 1: he's going to win the I think he's gonna win

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Speaker 1: the MVP. But no, no, ten times out of ten

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Speaker 1: you said Jokis was the MVP ten times out.

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Speaker 3: Of ten Because this was an extraneous comment in the

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Speaker 3: middle of an analysis of a game, right, he didn't

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Speaker 3: have to say anything about the MVP trophy related to

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Speaker 3: this particular comment. This is when you say an SGA

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Speaker 3: took over you at twenty points in the second half

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Speaker 3: efficient blah blah blah. You decided to do the sideswipe,

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Speaker 3: That's what you did to Jokich by saying, and he's

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Speaker 3: gonna you know, he's the MVP, Like you didn't need

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Speaker 3: to talk about the MVP. Oh, that wasn't the question.

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Speaker 3: The question was about second half of this game and

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Speaker 3: how it got away, and let's talk about the greatness

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Speaker 3: that is the thunder in this particular game.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, he's gonna learn a lesson. This is petty.

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Speaker 1: He's gonna learn a lesson. Look, he's gonna and it's

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Speaker 1: going to be. It's going to be brought up and

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Speaker 1: I get, like I said, it's gonna be easy for

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Speaker 1: what I'm saying is I believe that he's the no

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Speaker 1: no no, But but you said a month a month ago,

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Speaker 1: yoge's ten times out of ten? How can you call

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Speaker 1: this guy the MVP. Now he'll be able to downplay it,

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Speaker 1: but it's gonna be a big expensive lesson that remembered

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Speaker 1: Hey in the media, Yeah, I him and Andy Pettt. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they're misremembering. Uh, but he's gonna he's gonna get that.

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Speaker 1: Oh boy, I did say that a few weeks ago.

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Speaker 1: Or he's just gonna say, yeah, he's the MVY pedal

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Speaker 1: stump for Yokich anymore. Can't stand any of those guys.

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Speaker 1: They didn't listening, they didn't want to watch film, they

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Speaker 3: Now if he did that, I mean I'd buy a shirt. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: I'd buy a Michael.

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Speaker 1: Malone don't call me Mike Mike T shirt.

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Speaker 3: I whatever slogan he wants to put on there in

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Speaker 3: whichever name he wants to be Mike, he wants to

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Speaker 3: proudly say that's my guy. If that's what he came

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Speaker 3: back with. Like the Kronkeys, I know, Nicola had me

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Speaker 3: thrown out. You know what, I carried his ass for years.

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Speaker 3: I got him to three MVP's and that's how I'm thanked.

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Speaker 3: If he did all of that, then I'm in. Then

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Speaker 3: I become the biggest Mike Michael Malone guy you could

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Speaker 3: possibly have Otherwise. Oh, what we did before they were

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Speaker 3: ousted in Game seven was the fact that I wanted

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Speaker 3: they had the bold strategy that the Kronkys said, forget it,

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Speaker 3: this is fool's gold. Let's cut this and move on

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Speaker 3: with the organization. That's why I wanted them to win,

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Speaker 3: whether Adamman was doing anything on the coaching sideline or not.

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Speaker 3: That it was cool that they had the guts to

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Speaker 1: But now this Michael Malone, if he took that tact.

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Speaker 3: Strumming a guitar like he was the rock back in

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Speaker 3: But to say that, you know what, screw it. I

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Speaker 3: don't have to stump for him. I'm not the coach

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Speaker 3: anymore and begging for calls or anything else. Like SGA

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Speaker 3: gets now that that if Malone did that, I'd love it.

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Speaker 3: I mean that'd be I'd give him a Capitol jay

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's learning a big lesson tonight. All I

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Speaker 1: did was saying, s j Z. Yeah. But here's the thing, Mike,

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Speaker 1: this is what you said. Here's a oh wow. Okay.

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Speaker 1: So this is what it's like to be in the media.

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Speaker 1: Everybody that thinks they can do it, Hey, I can

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Speaker 1: do the media. I can say things, I can give

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Speaker 1: you hot takes. I get that, but understand that it's

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Speaker 1: little bit more difficult than you think is Wait, people

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Speaker 1: remember it, yeah, people, it took all of eight seconds.

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Speaker 1: I walked away. I walked out here after he said SJAZMFP.

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Speaker 1: I said, Shay, like six weeks ago, he said, Yokich

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I mean, how do you face Yamamoto in

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Speaker 1: Hey Tay, he comes home and we go home. Stephen Elson,

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Speaker 1: Dodgers TV on the call. A three to one deficit,

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Speaker 1: But this is what the Dodgers do, right, Hey, just

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Speaker 1: gonna get from every night because he is consistently great

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Speaker 1: that way, and Edwards not the same. Edwards is a

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Speaker 1: phenomenally talented player. He's terrific and when he's rolling, he's rolling.

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Speaker 1: But he'll have too many games in a series in

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Speaker 1: which you need more from him, and tonight was one

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Speaker 1: of those nights where you needed more from Ann Edwards. Right,

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Speaker 1: Julius Randall kept them afloat in the first half or

436
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Speaker 1: hitting five threes. He's hitting Caitlin Clark logo threes, going

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Speaker 1: back down court smiling and shrugging his shoulders. Hey, I'm

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Speaker 1: not right. He had five threes in the first half

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Speaker 1: and they had a four point lead. Ann Edwards five

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Speaker 1: of thirteen from the floor, overall tight just took thirteen shots,

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Speaker 1: five points in the third quarter, zero points in the

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Speaker 1: fourth quarter. Yeah, all right, this is one of those

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Speaker 1: games where you need more from Ann Edwards either he does.

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Speaker 1: He's too passive. He doesn't take over a game. He

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Speaker 1: doesn't set the tone. Remember that was something that Chris

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Speaker 1: Finch talked about after Game one in the last round,

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Speaker 1: Hey needed more from you an Edwards, and ed Edwards said, no,

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Speaker 1: I thought I played a pretty good game defensively, A

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Speaker 1: couldn't hit anything on offense. Right, that was it. And

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Speaker 1: we played you that quote early. If we can grab that,

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Speaker 1: Chris Finch is miles fit, Miles Finch, Miles Finch, peaches

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Speaker 1: are vulnerable. Let me know, let me know, we have that.

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Speaker 1: Chris Finch. This is after game one. They look, whoaa wha,

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Speaker 1: what just happened? Says he needed more out of from

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Speaker 1: Anthony Edwards was asked about it after the game and

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Speaker 1: he basically says, hey, you know what, we needed more

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Speaker 1: and Edwards disagreed with him. He has games like this

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Speaker 1: and Edwards has at least a couple of games a

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Speaker 1: series where you need more from me. You need him

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Speaker 1: to set that tone, and he didn't do it tonight,

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Speaker 1: and he was passive and it was a ten point

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Speaker 1: deficit going to the fourth quarter and he didn't score, right,

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Speaker 1: I know, he went to the locker room, he was

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Speaker 1: dinged up a little bit, and he came back he

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Speaker 1: played the second half. Well, you're on the court and

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Speaker 1: you played right. Here is here is Chris Finch from

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Speaker 1: ten days ago, And he may as well have said

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Speaker 1: it tonight after the game again ten days ago, talking

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Speaker 1: about and Edwards and his effort in a loss. What

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Speaker 1: is there to talk about.

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Speaker 7: I mean, they're the leader of the team, and you

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Speaker 7: got to come out and set the tone. You know

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Speaker 7: in all ways that that happens, and if your SHOT's

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Speaker 7: not going like, you still have to carry the energy,

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Speaker 7: you know. So I don't think there's if I got

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Speaker 7: to talk to guys about having the right energy coming

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Speaker 7: into opening around game, opening the second round game, then

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Speaker 7: you know we're not you know, we're not on the

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Speaker 7: same page.

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Speaker 1: So again, he could have said that after the game tonight.

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Speaker 1: Remember he said that, and Edwards blew him off after

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Speaker 1: the game, right, we say have Yeah, I thought I

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Speaker 1: played well defensive. Yeah, I don't go you're gonna you

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Speaker 1: get too many games from him that are like that.

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Speaker 1: And and in a series in which you're playing a

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Speaker 1: team where you're matched evenly against, or you have a

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Speaker 1: little bit of advantage, you're younger, you can maybe get

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Speaker 1: away with that. You're not getting away with that against

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Speaker 1: the Thunder. They're the best team in the NBA. This

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Speaker 1: was a game you could have stolen because you were

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Speaker 1: up by four and a half time and Edwards had get

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Speaker 1: to play well, but Julius Reynolds said, hey, I'll carry

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Speaker 1: I got big shoulders, I'll carry us. Right. Randall had

494
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Speaker 1: a great first half. This game was out there for you,

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Speaker 1: like this was out there for for the for the Wolves,

496
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Speaker 1: because you gotta steal something, right, you can't. You can't

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Speaker 1: rely on on a we'll get do this, go back

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Speaker 1: and tie the series at two. This game was out there,

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Speaker 1: but and Edward was just too passive, couldn't take over,

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Speaker 1: couldn't set the tone. All these things you want your

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Speaker 1: superstar to do. And if you're gonna win series at

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Speaker 1: this point, your superstars gotta play like a super So

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Speaker 1: there's nobody that's won championships and one NBA Finals and

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Speaker 1: one Super Bowls where yeah, we won despite the fact

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Speaker 1: our Superstar was terrible. No, you don't win that way.

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Speaker 1: You needed that. That's why I picked the thunder because

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Speaker 1: I know I'm gonna get that from SGA every night.

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna get it from n Edwards.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, only the Denver Broncos and Peyton Manning Hi. Anyway,

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Speaker 3: as we go through it, I mean a lot of

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Speaker 3: things at play here, right, good first half for Julius

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Speaker 3: Randall shooting the lights out, and it's enough because everybody

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Speaker 3: else is shooting terribly. Nine of thirty five in the

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Speaker 3: first half for everybody else. Anthony Edwards to your point,

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Speaker 3: fourth quarter, he took a single shot.

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Speaker 1: One shot.

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Speaker 3: He had one fewer shot attempt on the night than

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Speaker 3: Dante DiVincenzo did off the bench.

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Speaker 1: He just kept shooting three of thirteen from three over

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Speaker 1: the course of the evening. But when we look at Edwards,

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Speaker 1: and it's something that Finch had to address in the

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Speaker 1: post game, is there were just a number of instances

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Speaker 1: where they started doing the full on let's stalk referees,

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Speaker 1: let's stand around and complain and delay of game warnings

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Speaker 1: and sequences where you're yelling at officials because you're mad

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Speaker 1: about the inequity of foul calls forty four total for

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Speaker 1: the night. Gobert was on the bench with two quick

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Speaker 1: ones and for Finch he talked about quote, we talked

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Speaker 1: about that before the series started, and we have to

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Speaker 1: be able to put that to the.

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Speaker 3: Side and get on with the next play. Mentally, at

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Speaker 3: one point, Anthony Edwards so frustrated on a foul call

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Speaker 3: as SGA flew towards the basket and he's laying underneath

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Speaker 3: splayed out, he just flipped the ball towards SGA's crotch

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Speaker 3: like technical full already a two shot foul plus the

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Speaker 3: technical and keep on going. But you saw that multiple

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Speaker 3: times right on offense where you couldn't get into sets

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Speaker 3: because you've got Cruso, who is this generation's Dennis Rodman

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Speaker 3: or insert your favorite defender here, that he gets to

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Speaker 3: do what he wants for better for it, I mean,

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Speaker 3: because we've watched it all playoffs right with shorts, the

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Speaker 3: physicality of the playoffs. What you're looking at is you

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Speaker 3: want star calls. You've got to force the issue. If

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Speaker 3: you're Anthony Edwards, you can't be passive, and the passivity

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Speaker 3: of only having thirteen shot attempts and yes he did

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Speaker 3: go down with the same ankle that afflicted him a

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Speaker 3: little bit last round. He played thirty seven minutes. You're

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Speaker 3: on the court, you have to be impacting, and he

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Speaker 3: did early on because he was part of the sequencing

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Speaker 3: that would lend getting the ball into Julius Randall's hands,

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Speaker 3: recognizing the hot hand. But on offensive sets where he's

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Speaker 3: not touching it and your only shot is attempt in

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Speaker 3: the fourth quarter is a three point shot, that's not

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Speaker 3: you take it to the rack, because that's the one

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Speaker 3: thing that the Thunder did consistently. They didn't settle for

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Speaker 3: three point shots. With bad, bad ball handling early seven

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Speaker 3: turnovers in the first quarter, what do they want to do?

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Speaker 3: They wanted to get out on the break and force

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Speaker 3: the issue.

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Speaker 1: So what did you do?

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Speaker 3: You got a lot of fall attempts right you're living

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Speaker 3: at the free throw line, and with go bear sideline,

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Speaker 3: you had to go deep into that roster. Guys that

564
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Speaker 3: hadn't gotten their name called in a long time. We're

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Speaker 3: suddenly up off the bench for Finch trying to buy

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Speaker 3: some minutes. That's when your superstar needs to take the

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Speaker 3: realm that the helme and just say it's mine and

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Speaker 3: I've got a battle this guy one on one. If

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Speaker 3: you're the face of the league, you show up in

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Speaker 3: the fourth quarter, right what you If you're the face

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Speaker 3: of the league, you show up in the second half,

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Speaker 3: you show you show up there, you show up for

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Speaker 3: that game. Face of the league shows up.

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Speaker 1: I got three or four jokes, but I I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: be kind face the leaf. If you're the face of

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio, you show up four hours a night.

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Speaker 1: I show up every damn right time now to find

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Speaker 1: out what's trending in the wide world of sports. A

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Speaker 1: guy who was the face of Fox Sports Radio, it's

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Speaker 1: Steve Desager. He has what's trending that doesn't bude well

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Speaker 1: for Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 8: To the NBA Game one of the Western Conference Finals

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Speaker 8: that okay see did go to the thunder and that

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Speaker 8: come back against Minnesota one fourteen to eighty eight. Shay

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Speaker 8: gil Jess Alexander had shot two of thirteen from the

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Speaker 8: floor first half, but finished thirty one points and nine

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Speaker 8: assists on the stat sheet. Julius Randall twenty eight points

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Speaker 8: in defeat. The rest of his team finished twenty of

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Speaker 8: seventy from the field. The East Finals starred Wednesday, with

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Speaker 8: Indiana at New York to Spurs. Stefan Castle headlines the

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Speaker 8: NBA All Rookie Team WNBA wins for Las Vegas and Atlanta,

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Speaker 8: which won at Indiana ninety one to ninety twenty one

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Speaker 8: points for Brittany Grinder. In the loss, Caitlin Clark had

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Speaker 8: twenty seven points eleven assists. Game one of the NHL's

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Speaker 8: East Final to Florida five to two at Carolina. Dallas

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Speaker 8: will host Edmonton and the opener of the West Final Wednesday.

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Speaker 8: The Boston Bruins gave general manager Don Sweeney a two

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Speaker 8: year extension. NFL teams will allow players to compete in

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Speaker 8: flag football at the LA Olympics in twenty twenty eight.

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Speaker 8: The Bears gave former chiefs guard Joe Tooney a two

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Speaker 8: year extension. Kurt Busch was voted into the NASCAR Hall

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Speaker 8: of Fame. Fox TV will have the Indy five hundred

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Speaker 8: this Sunday. In baseball's late game, the Dodgers ended a

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Speaker 8: four game losing streak, getting three runs in the bottom

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Speaker 8: of the tenth to beat Arizona four to three. The

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Speaker 8: Diamondbacks had hit homers in the ninth and tenth innings,

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Speaker 8: both off closer for LA to enter Scott, but the

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Speaker 8: Dodgers do get the victory and Yoshinobu Yamamoto, tonight's LA

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Speaker 8: starter did have a no hitter through six innings, eventually

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Speaker 8: had seven innings of work, nine strikeouts, one hundred ten

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Speaker 8: pitches thrown. The Angels won their fifth game in a row,

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Speaker 8: seven to five at the A's, who've lost seven straight.

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Speaker 8: Giants won again three to two over Kansas City and

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Speaker 8: another win for the Phillies. That's five straight Phillies with

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Speaker 8: a record of thirty and eighteen. They won seven to

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Speaker 8: four at Colorado, Kyle Schwarber his seventeenth home run, Jesus

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Speaker 8: Lozardo five and.

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Speaker 1: Oh got the win.

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Speaker 9: Detroit a five to four winner at Saint Louis with

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Speaker 9: a run in the top of the ninth. Riley Green

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Speaker 9: of the Tigers three hits, four RBIs. Chicago White Sox

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Speaker 9: ended a five game losing streak beating Seattle one nothing.

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Speaker 9: Milwaukee sent Baltimore to an eighth straight loss, five to two.

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Speaker 9: Cleveland at Minnesota was rained out after last night's game

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Speaker 9: was suspended by rain. Toronto shut out San Diego and

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Speaker 9: Dylan cee'ze three nothing Blue Jays only had three hits,

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Speaker 9: but two of them were homers. The Yankees got a

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Speaker 9: sixteenth homer this year from Aaron Judge. He's batting four

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Speaker 9: oh three. Yanksby Texas five to two. Winning pitcher Will

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Speaker 9: Warren had ten strikeouts in his five and two third

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Speaker 9: scoreless innings. Tampa Bay had Houston three to two with

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Speaker 9: two runs in the eighth and one in the ninth.

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Speaker 9: Pittsburgh ended a four game losing streak, shutting out the

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Speaker 9: Reds won nothing. Cincinnati had won five straight. Washington over

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Speaker 9: Atlanta five to three. The lost to Spencer Strider, just

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Speaker 9: off the injured list. Cubs won fourteen to one at Miami.

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Speaker 9: Boston shut out the Mets to nothing. Rafael Devers his

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Speaker 9: tenth home run. Walker Bueller, just off the injured list,

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Speaker 9: was kicked out in the third inning, but the Mets offense.

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Speaker 1: Went four for twenty twenty. That was a strike. I

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Speaker 1: believe that was the was right down the Blanke in middle,

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Speaker 1: something like that. You fertilizer, you Mets fan, Thank you, Steve. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that was terror. And Walker Buller gets thrown out of

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Speaker 1: the game and they bring in six relievers and the

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Speaker 1: Mets just can't hit any of them. It is awful.

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Speaker 1: But to be positive, I want to say this fantasy

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Speaker 1: baseball advice, What about Juan slow Mo, I don't I

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Speaker 1: don't care. If it's a guy making his MLB debut,

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Speaker 1: I don't care if it's a guy on a pitch count.

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Speaker 1: You stream whoever is facing the Rockies, You pick them up,

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Speaker 1: and you stream them and wave them the next day

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Speaker 1: here Baseball, pick up whoever is facing the rock Will

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Speaker 1: Warren tonight? Yes, pick them up, stream them, let them go.

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Speaker 1: That's how you do it. That's how you win.

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Speaker 3: Currently looking at the trying to bring up the odds

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Speaker 3: for tomorrowsk Yes, who's We'll get to it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, pitching coming up next. We pay our respects to

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Speaker 1: an absolute legend and get to the biggest NFL story

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Speaker 1: of the day that's both great and terrible. That's next.

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Speaker 1: Jason to Mike Fox.

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Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Gin Smith's

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

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Speaker 2: pm Pacific.

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with Mike Carmon

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Speaker 1: live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. And we'll remember

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Speaker 1: a legend coming up in a minute. But big story

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Speaker 1: from the NFL today. There will be flag football at

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Speaker 1: the Olympics in twenty twenty eight. Oh boy, Justin Jefferson

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Speaker 1: very excited to win a gold medal. He had been

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Speaker 1: at the forefront of trying to push the NFL to

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Speaker 1: vote to let NFL players play in flag football in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty eight here in Los Angeles when the Olympics come,

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Speaker 1: owners voted today thirty two to nothing to allow the

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Speaker 1: players to play in flag football. This is both great

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Speaker 1: and terrible. It's great because I get why they're voting it.

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Speaker 1: They're looking to push the NFL globally. No one's got bilt.

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Speaker 1: The Olympics is a once every two year event where

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Speaker 1: the entire globe watches. You're going to put the best

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Speaker 1: NFL players you can on the field during the Olympics.

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Speaker 1: It will be a front page story alongside basketball, track

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Speaker 1: and field. It's a big thing. You're gonna see great players.

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Speaker 1: No more than one per team per country. So like

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Speaker 1: for the United States team, there's be one member of

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Speaker 1: the Vikings with our sulby Justin Jefferson, one member the

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Speaker 1: Dolphins to fill out your roster.

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Speaker 3: And if you go back in your twenty three and

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Speaker 3: meters and find out you've got heritage else where. I'm

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Speaker 3: I'm team Italy.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go play there. So it's great for the

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Speaker 1: NFL because they're gonna get incredible amount of publicity. The

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Speaker 1: games are gonna look like when the Dream Team first

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Speaker 1: played against other teams in basketball in nineteen ninety two.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna be like Dream Team one thirty eight and

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Speaker 1: Gola thirty seven, right like that. That's what it's gonna

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Speaker 1: look like. We have the best NFL players playing other

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Speaker 1: other countries. I can't imagine how bad that's gonna look.

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Speaker 1: Really well. I mean, look, you never know. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you get into athleticism.

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Speaker 3: May maybe a guy's better at a pariette when he's

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Speaker 3: got a guy great reaching down, whereas in the NFL

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Speaker 3: you just go and blow them up.

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Speaker 1: Here, you've got to get to the flag. If it's

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Speaker 1: more than two plays for a touchdown, I'm gonna be disappointed. No, really,

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Speaker 1: three plays for a touch of really really three plays.

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Speaker 3: But immediately I start thinking about the marketing, merchandising sales.

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Speaker 3: As you say, you know, the global expansion, here's the

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Speaker 3: individual player brands. Here's some of what you've seen in

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Speaker 3: the games that have been parsed out to European countries.

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Speaker 3: But it's also a if. So twenty twenty.

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Speaker 1: Five, Now, how soon is there an NFL sponsored flag

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Speaker 1: football league? No next year called the Pro Bowl? Absolutely? Yeah, well,

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Speaker 1: play well played football is more intense than the Pro Bowl, justin.

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Speaker 1: Come on, man, it's way more intense, way more Now.

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Speaker 1: Here's the bad part, right, here's the bad part. And

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Speaker 1: I say this right now, don't take anybody from my team.

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Speaker 1: I don't want anybody from the not that you would

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Speaker 1: take a jet but in two years, you never know,

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Speaker 1: because maybe we lose an archmeric justin Fields could be

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Speaker 1: one hell of a flag foot the elusiveness. Come on,

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Speaker 1: don't take anybody from my team because I don't want

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Speaker 1: one of my players getting hurt in a situation it

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Speaker 1: doesn't mean anything. Don't take any of my players for

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Speaker 1: this crazy ass event because it happens when players play

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Speaker 1: more often, when they're playing a game they're not used

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Speaker 1: to playing. All you do is come down wrong on

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Speaker 1: somebody's foot or a player on another team wants to

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Speaker 1: make their legend by hitting you. I don't need that.

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Speaker 1: I don't need to watch Edwin Diaz get hurt celebrating

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Speaker 1: a win in the World Baseball Classic. Don't take any

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Speaker 1: of my players, take somebody.

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Speaker 3: Else a bunch of different jump cuts and stop and

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Speaker 3: start and whatever again because it's the flag. Instead of

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Speaker 3: just saying, art, I'm bracing for a safety to come

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Speaker 3: up and hit me that. Now it's you know, the

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Speaker 3: wiggle and the hips and the extra steps and trying

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Speaker 3: to be fancy footed that maybe you run yourself into

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Speaker 3: some trouble.

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Speaker 1: Telling you don't need it. Take anybody you want, taking

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Speaker 1: hero that'd be by jacket up.

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Speaker 5: Just you don't have to worry, Jason, these are the

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Speaker 5: best players in the worldly.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but if we want to maybe we'll get our Manning.

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Speaker 1: He'll be great and he'll want to play here. I

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Speaker 1: get it. I don't really have to worry the much.

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Speaker 1: But you never know. You never know, right, maybe they

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Speaker 1: want Sauce Gardner. You never know. Maybe they want Garrett Wilson.

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Speaker 1: You never know. We said stars. Now, speaking of stars,

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Speaker 1: we lost an absolute legend today and George Went, who

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Speaker 1: passed away at the age of seventy six, very peacefully

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Speaker 1: in his sleep. George Went, of course, known mainly for

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Speaker 1: two big things, right for the bear skits on SNL

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Speaker 1: and obviously for playing Norm Peterson in Cheers. If there

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Speaker 1: was a Television Hall of Fame where you put characters

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Speaker 1: in and actors in, George went and Norm Peterson as

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Speaker 1: a first ballot, unanimous. Even the guy that didn't vote

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Speaker 1: for eachiro would vote for Norm Peterson. And George went

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Speaker 1: for the Television Hall of Fame because it would be

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Speaker 1: like thirty two nothing like the owners vote to let

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Speaker 1: people play in the in flag football. It would be unanimous.

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Speaker 1: Because Norm Peterson was one of the top five best

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Speaker 1: sitcom characters of all time, all the one liners he

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Speaker 1: had in Cheers, and anybody that's watched that show, whether

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Speaker 1: on reruns or watched it live, you're watching it now

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Speaker 1: on YouTube and you're watching the intros put together on

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Speaker 1: social media. I mean, George went Norm Peterson. Really, he

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Speaker 1: was an absolute legend. That character was legendary. Well, you know,

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Speaker 1: he had a great long career, a bunch of movies,

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Speaker 1: did a bunch of different things. But this is dark

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Speaker 1: side of the Moon, where where you just look at

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Speaker 1: and go that's absolutely his character, just absolute perfection.

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Speaker 3: Well, six Emmy nominations, eleven years, nearly three hundred episodes

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Speaker 3: Chicago Kids. So certainly a lot of run there back

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Speaker 3: home in terms of his career and ties to local theater,

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Speaker 3: the second city where he got his origins. Obviously Jason

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Speaker 3: sideikis his nephew and his run ted last and everything else,

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Speaker 3: and so they've done some bits through the years as well.

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Speaker 1: But for for George Went.

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Speaker 3: I mean that was that was the character, because he

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Speaker 3: was the one line smart ass, right, all of those openings.

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Speaker 3: Someone clipped him together eighteen minutes. I sat there and

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Speaker 3: wrapped attention, wondering which all right, sequencing? All right, here's

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Speaker 3: season one episode four. What was the comeback then?

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Speaker 7: Uh?

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Speaker 3: And all the way through uh? And he got to

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Speaker 3: close it out right. That's how integral to everything he was.

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Speaker 3: He's the guy closing it out with Ted Danson.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I look, he's his career, his life. And look

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Speaker 1: I spent today, you know, talking to my dad, our

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Speaker 1: favorite uh norm lines all the big entrances, and you know,

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Speaker 1: I forget you know that that, you know, all all

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Speaker 1: the great lines he had in the show. But his

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Speaker 1: entrances were just so incredibly impressive, like when when he

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Speaker 1: kind of think my favorites when he comes in and

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Speaker 1: what he says, draw you beer, mister Peterson already know

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Speaker 1: what they look like? What he just pour it for me?

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Speaker 1: Right like? Yeah? But with that in mind, how about

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Speaker 1: a little bit of super fans with George what's shake

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Speaker 1: and normal uns and a couple of chins. Ah, let's

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Speaker 1: hear it justin.

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Speaker 6: Welcome to another edition of Bill Schwirsky's super Fans. I'm

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Speaker 6: Bob Sworsky, sitting in for my brother Bill, who'll still

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Speaker 6: recovering from that dreadful heart attack with me has always

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Speaker 6: aren't a super fans Pat Arnold, Hey Bob, Carl Wallarski,

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Speaker 6: Hey bad, and title counter.

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Speaker 2: I'll worry you, Bob, real quick, real quick.

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Speaker 6: Once again, We're coming to you from Dika's Restaurant and

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Speaker 6: heart of Chicago to the city of the Big Shoulders,

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Speaker 6: home to a certain team which, come January will run

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Speaker 6: rough shot over the competition in Super Bowl twenty six,

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Speaker 6: a team that is known as Stubbars Bear.

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Speaker 1: There we go that one of the famous guys if

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Speaker 1: the hurricane is named Ditka, Hurricane Ditka forty six did

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Speaker 1: go to coach ten.

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Speaker 3: So good, so many, so many great one like I

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Speaker 3: was playing all of that because that is uh my

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Speaker 3: brothers and I on a late Friday night.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I'll tell you absolute legend. George went rest in

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Speaker 1: p seventy six years old. Well, I haven't had the

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Speaker 1: heart attack yet either. For Mike Im Jason, my buddy

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Speaker 1: Ben Mallar coming up next. You are listening to Fox

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