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Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to Fox Sports Saturday. I'm Alex Curry here with

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Speaker 2: Carmen Vitally. Thank you for spending your Saturday afternoon with us,

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Speaker 2: and might I add your Gracie Award winning Fox Sports

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Speaker 2: Saturday show.

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Speaker 3: Let's Go. It's Heartily. That was this week. I feel

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Speaker 3: like this week is stragged by I can't believe it.

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Speaker 3: But yes, Monday, that was Monzy Monday was announced incredible honor,

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Speaker 3: kind of like I just I can't believe it. And

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Speaker 3: it's so funny to me because I mean, it's it's

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Speaker 3: a really big deal that we are and have been

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Speaker 3: one of the only national shows to feature two women

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Speaker 3: more than two women from the stuff that we have done,

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Speaker 3: thanks to Tracy, thanks to Nikki, thanks to Bridget Condon.

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Speaker 3: But it's so interesting. It's so fun to get those

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Speaker 3: awards though, and see like the other winners and it's like, yeah,

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Speaker 3: motherhood in Gaza and you're like, oh yay, oh oh,

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Speaker 3: we just talk about sports. We just talk about sports.

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Speaker 3: It's fine, but it's really cool and it's I tweeted

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Speaker 3: this out after we got it, where it was just like,

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Speaker 3: you know, I didn't hear voices that sounded like mine

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Speaker 3: on the radio when I was growing up listening to

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Speaker 3: sports radio, sports talk radio. And it's really cool to

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Speaker 3: be those voices.

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Speaker 4: No, it's really beautiful.

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Speaker 2: When we started the show in twenty twenty three, like

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Speaker 2: like you mentioned, we were the only female led national

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Speaker 2: radio show, and the goal was to change that. And

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Speaker 2: we've done that, and we've brought more women on board,

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Speaker 2: letting everybody know that. You know, this is a fun

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Speaker 2: space for us too, and we can crush it. And

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Speaker 2: I'm so excited. So thank you everyone involved in the show.

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Speaker 2: Thank you the fans for tuning in and hanging out

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Speaker 2: every Saturday. And then to car me and me for

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Speaker 2: doing the damn thing. Yeah, us doing the damn thing.

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Speaker 2: Happy madness to you guys. This is one of the

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Speaker 2: best times of year in sports. Everything is happening, March Madness.

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Speaker 2: The Elite Eight kicks off today, we have MLB opening weekend, NBA,

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Speaker 2: NHL is in like the final stretch of the season,

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Speaker 2: like getting ready for playoffs.

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Speaker 4: What's gonna happen?

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Speaker 3: No, I got it, Like I gotta see if I

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Speaker 3: can get to a black Hawks name.

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Speaker 2: Before you know, have you not been? I haven't what

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Speaker 2: are their playoff chances.

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Speaker 3: No, they're not. No, okay, No, we went at the

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Speaker 3: beginning of the season. Actually we went in November and

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Speaker 3: we were there for CONNORV. Bandart's first career hat trick.

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Speaker 3: So it was a really cool game. And it was

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Speaker 3: my fiance is first black Hawks game, and so I said, well,

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Speaker 3: is this enough to convert you? And hopefully so. Although

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Speaker 3: I think all this Dallas friends would be a little

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Speaker 3: sad to hear that.

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Speaker 2: It's funny because I was such I have such a

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Speaker 2: deep haha to the black Hawks because the Kings beat

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Speaker 2: them in Game seven game I was, yeah, I was

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Speaker 2: a King sideline reporter when we won that Stanley Cup,

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Speaker 2: but they were on our route to win the Stanley Cup.

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Speaker 2: So I always just see black Hawk fans and I'm like,

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Speaker 2: I was.

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Speaker 3: Well, but that was that was That was an off

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Speaker 3: here for the Hawks because they won three championship.

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Speaker 5: They were.

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Speaker 4: A powerhouse. Now both our teams are struggling a bit.

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Speaker 3: You know, Remember I'm all in on Connor Bdard if

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Speaker 3: I if I Yeah, I'm glad to get some NHL

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Speaker 3: talking here because honestly, hockey is the sport that I

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Speaker 2: I tell everybody when they're last, like what you cover

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Speaker 2: all the sports, what's your favorite sport cover? I'm like

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Speaker 2: live event to cover hockey, Like you have to go playoffs,

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Speaker 2: you have to go to a hockey game, like be

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Speaker 2: there in the arena and experience, because there's nothing like it.

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Speaker 2: There's absolutely it's NonStop. It is so electric. It's like

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Speaker 2: even if you don't understand what's going on, you are

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Speaker 2: going to be on your feet, drinking, cheering with everybody.

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Speaker 3: And especially fun tradition about hockey here in Chicago and

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Speaker 3: such a cool it's such a cool sport. It's such

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Speaker 4: It's electric.

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Speaker 2: And let me tell you, I swear like hockey players

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Speaker 2: And I always say, I think it's because they can

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Speaker 4: Out on the ice and then they're done and then

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Speaker 4: it's like cool. No, like nothing else build.

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Speaker 3: Oh, hanging out with hockey players is so much fun. Oh,

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Speaker 3: it's like they're they're the most like they're just they're

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Speaker 3: just grown up children that are just so excited to

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Speaker 3: They don't take themselves seriously. It's all I think hockey

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Speaker 3: players can be some of the best professional athletes that

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Speaker 4: I love this, love a good NHL rant and playoffs

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Speaker 3: We don't have enough opportunity to do so, but we

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Speaker 3: will for the playoffs where there will be we will

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Speaker 3: we will cover them.

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Speaker 4: Yes we will.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna talk about it all today. We're also going

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Speaker 2: to hit some Lake show because.

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Speaker 4: Like m not just because like.

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Speaker 2: You know, I'm a hometown hero, love them team, but

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Speaker 2: like are they a championship team? We're gonna talk about

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Speaker 2: who's moving on to the final four? Do we like

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Speaker 2: the new baseball ABS system. We're gonna talk about the

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Speaker 2: NFL draft next month. We have the host of the

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Speaker 2: Athletic Football Show, Dave Hellman, joining us an hour two

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Speaker 2: to kind of break that down. We have a Rosh

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Speaker 2: mccausey from the Sporting Tribune. In about thirty minutes. We

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Speaker 4: Wise at the news desk. So it's gonna be fun.

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Speaker 2: But let's start in the NBA with the pros and

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Speaker 2: the question that's been circling the sports world.

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Speaker 4: I just mentioned it. Are the Lakers a championship team.

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Speaker 2: Okay, you asked me this a couple months ago, I'd

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Speaker 2: say that's funny, Absolutely not. But they are currently third

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Speaker 2: in the building two weeks ago. It was their last

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Speaker 2: his first buzzer beater game winner in OT as a Laker,

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Speaker 2: and the place went wild. I mean also three of

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Speaker 2: their their stars showed up that night, from Lebron laying

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Speaker 2: that free throw, to then getting it back to making

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Speaker 2: And after the game, you could feel something shift with

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Speaker 2: the reason it's working is because of Lebron taking a

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Speaker 2: allowing them to finally mesh. And you got a tip

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Speaker 2: that are still playing as well as he is, Like

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Speaker 2: he is still a goat. He's putting his ego aside

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Speaker 2: and it's allowing this combination to work well.

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Speaker 3: If Luca doesn't get suspended.

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Speaker 4: Next game, yeah, so it's a game, it will be

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Speaker 4: a one game suspension.

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Speaker 3: Yes, it was games left. Okay got his sixteenth technical

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Speaker 3: against the Magic that got repealed that and now he

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Speaker 3: he could be out for one game, but it is

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Speaker 3: one game. I do I have. I'll be honest, I

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Speaker 3: don't know how you get past the Oklahoma City Thunder

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Speaker 3: only thing going against them is their lack of experience

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Speaker 3: in the postseason. Recent experience in the postseason, should say.

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Speaker 3: But also I think the Lakers have relied a lot

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Speaker 3: Marcus Smart Yes, to be kind of their go to

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Speaker 3: perimeter stopper. He's been very injury prone this season and

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Speaker 3: Luca and Austin Reeves even they can get attacked in

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Speaker 3: not to me a recipe for that's sustainable for the

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Speaker 3: just leaving no doubt as to the best team in

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Speaker 3: just I look at those guys and for as well

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Speaker 3: as Luca has been doing lately, I don't see how

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Speaker 3: you get past those guys. I really don't.

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Speaker 2: So You've made a lot of really great points here, right,

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Speaker 2: that's all. Let me give you that. But you mentioned Luca.

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Speaker 2: Obviously he might be out next game with that suspension,

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Speaker 2: but he's had twelve straight games.

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Speaker 3: Can I just say one thing? By the way, I

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Speaker 3: was I was reading an article about this and it

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Speaker 3: was like, if he gets suspended, he will forfeit one

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Speaker 3: one hundred and seventy fourth of his salary. Do you

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Speaker 3: know what that like? That that comes out to.

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Speaker 4: I'm like, okay, let's just rub it in.

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Speaker 6: What is it?

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Speaker 3: Two hundred and forty six thousand dollars. That is one

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Speaker 3: one hundred and seventy four.

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Speaker 4: That's what he makes a game.

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Speaker 3: That's what he makes a game. So that's like, that

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Speaker 3: is one one hundred and seventy fourth of his salary,

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Speaker 3: is what it's And I was like, what it's not

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Speaker 3: that's that's that can't be a game per game because

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Speaker 3: there's not that many one hundred that's not one hundred

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Speaker 3: and seventy four games in a season. So it's maybe

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Speaker 3: I don't know, I don't know how that math was.

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Speaker 3: It was on ESPN, but it was a one one

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Speaker 3: one hundred and seventy I think it probably you have

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Speaker 3: to take into account like roster bonuses and like signing

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Speaker 3: bonuses and all that other stuff that come with it.

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Speaker 3: But regardless, one one hundred and seventy fourth of his salary.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, and I'm just like.

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Speaker 2: When that's what that's a lot of money is that's

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Speaker 2: a lot.

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Speaker 3: In a day, Lucas, it's in one day. Yeah, look

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Speaker 4: And like, you know, this man is out, he has

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Speaker 2: All right, guys, Happy March Madness. The Elite eight is set.

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Speaker 2: Iowa and Illinois at three oh nine PMPT. What a

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Speaker 4: And I don't think that's an over exaggeration.

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Speaker 3: There are so many Big Ten teams that they're hannibalizing

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Speaker 4: I don't think it's been done. I think a conference

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Speaker 3: their time and March Madness is their time. The Big

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Speaker 3: Ten's like stopping down the door and being like, hey,

439
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Speaker 3: we're not just football schools, we're also basketball schools.

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Speaker 4: Oh, it is going to be absolutely wild. Iowa Illinois.

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Speaker 6: Now.

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Speaker 2: I used to do a show called Tailgate forty eight

443
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Speaker 2: on Big Big Ten Network, and we went to all

444
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Speaker 2: the Big Ten campuses and like, we're at the tailgates,

445
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Speaker 2: We're at everything.

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Speaker 4: The whole town shuts down, you guys.

447
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Speaker 2: Yes, for big events, big games, people start drinking the

448
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Speaker 2: moment the sun comes.

449
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Speaker 3: Up before depending on the time of year.

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Speaker 4: Wild.

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Speaker 2: I heard Jonas Knox talking about it on the show

452
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Speaker 2: before us, but I guess they are limiting alcohol sales

453
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Speaker 2: on Illinois campus.

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Speaker 3: I'm so upset with them. I like my group chat

455
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Speaker 3: was blowing up with this because it's a ton of

456
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Speaker 3: Big ten people in that group chat, and I'm like, people,

457
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Speaker 3: what is sec Southern people?

458
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Speaker 7: Rage?

459
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Speaker 4: This is what sports are all about.

460
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Speaker 2: You're supposed to go why and rage and make bad decisions.

461
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Speaker 3: But like you know, if I know anything about my

462
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Speaker 3: Big ten brethren, they will just be prepared because it

463
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Speaker 3: just says that they're stopping Yeah, you have to buy

464
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Speaker 3: the alcohol early.

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Speaker 4: You're stopping selling I think after an hour.

466
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Speaker 3: After so they're stop stopping selling in glass bottles after

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Speaker 3: five pm.

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Speaker 2: Which does you should do that anyway? Otherwise it's gonna

469
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Speaker 2: be like the buzz everywhere.

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Speaker 3: It's like six or seven pm. They're going to cut

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Speaker 3: off liquor sales, like to go stuff and like.

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Speaker 4: Whatever, I'm all right, only buy one.

473
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Speaker 3: It's fine. Like at that point, you've been drinking all day.

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Speaker 3: If you went to a Big ten school. The cool

475
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Speaker 3: part about going to I mean the historical Big ten

476
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Speaker 3: schools is that they are located mostly in college towns,

477
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Speaker 3: so like they are not located in big cities except

478
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Speaker 3: for I mean.

479
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Speaker 4: I went to Heart and sold the town.

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Speaker 3: And so like you're talking when you're talking for instance,

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Speaker 3: Illinois and Iowa, you're talking about Iowa City, Iowa and

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Speaker 3: Champagne or Bana, Illinois. So like these are these are

483
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Speaker 3: towns where the only thing in that town is the

484
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Speaker 3: university and it cultivates such a cool atmosphere. I was

485
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Speaker 3: just telling my fiance actually the other day, I'm like,

486
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Speaker 3: there's nothing like and this was this is more in

487
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Speaker 3: the fall because it's where I had the most experience,

488
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Speaker 3: But there's nothing like a crisp fall day on a

489
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Speaker 3: Big ten campus, like during football and then changing leaves

490
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Speaker 3: are changed, and like even it permeates because like I

491
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Speaker 3: grew up at outside Chicago, but like I was very

492
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Speaker 3: well aware of, like a line in basketball was really

493
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Speaker 3: good when I was younger, and I remember we went

494
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Speaker 3: down to state for my for palms. I was on

495
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Speaker 3: the dance team in high school and we went down

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Speaker 3: to State for the state competition. I remember freaking out

497
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Speaker 3: because we got to use the Illinois men's basketball locker room,

498
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Speaker 3: and I'm like I have a picture of myself in

499
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Speaker 3: d Brown's locker because like we were, and we were

500
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Speaker 3: I think we wrote them a note like we were all.

501
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Speaker 3: So the entire state gets involved. I mean, this is

502
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Speaker 3: such a it's such a cool thing to have this

503
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Speaker 3: happen where we can all get on board and and

504
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Speaker 3: you know, the mid West can just shine.

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Speaker 4: It's so fun.

506
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Speaker 2: I had never experienced Midwest fall time culture until I

507
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Speaker 2: did that show mad respect.

508
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Speaker 4: There's mad respects.

509
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Speaker 2: It's a real Chris Morning. It's a relifous and it's

510
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Speaker 2: so fun. It's wild. All right, let's chick in with

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Speaker 2: Martin Wise and see what's trending.

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Speaker 9: And women's college basketball playing to advance to the Elite

513
00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:32,000
Speaker 9: eight Sweet sixteen action between Kentucky and Texas. The one

514
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Speaker 9: seed Longhorns have a fifty nine to thirty five lead

515
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Speaker 9: over the five seed Wildcats two nine left in the

516
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Speaker 9: third quarter. They'll meet The winner of this game will

517
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Speaker 9: meet two seed Michigan, who'll be Louisville earlier today. Seventy

518
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Speaker 9: one to fifty two men's tournament gets started later today.

519
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Speaker 9: Six to oh nine tip for Illinois and Iowa, three

520
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Speaker 9: seed versus nine seed. There Big ten action and eight

521
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Speaker 9: forty nine Eastern Tip in the West Regional Final between

522
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Speaker 9: one seed Arizona and two seed Purdue and base ball

523
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Speaker 9: Milwaukee Brewers first baseman Andrew Vaughan has been diagnosed with

524
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Speaker 9: a broken bone in his left wrist. He's expected to

525
00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:10,359
Speaker 9: miss four to six weeks. Jacob de Gram was scratched

526
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Speaker 9: from his start for the Rangers. He has next stiffness.

527
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Speaker 9: At the top of the ninth inning, the Cardinals lead

528
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Speaker 9: the Rays four to one. Top of the eighth, Cubs

529
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Speaker 9: two to I'm sorry, Cubs ten to two over the Nationals.

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Speaker 4: Top of the six.

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Speaker 9: Blue Jays won nothing over the A's Orioles A twins scoreless,

532
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Speaker 9: Rangers with they won nothing, lead over the Phillies both

533
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Speaker 9: of those in the second inning. Reds just put another

534
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Speaker 9: one on the board. They get two to nothing over

535
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Speaker 9: the Red Sox. Bottom of the first inning. Top of

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Speaker 9: the second Rockies and the Marlins won nothing. Colorado scoreless.

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Speaker 9: Between the Pirates and the Mets. In the NBA, Victor

538
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Speaker 9: weinbin Yama putting on a show. The San Antonio Spurs

539
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Speaker 9: have Doc Rivers with his hands on his knees looking

540
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Speaker 9: at the sky. Eighty to sixty two. The score right now,

541
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Speaker 9: six minutes left in the third quarter, Wemby with thirteen points.

542
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Speaker 9: But he's got four rebounds and five rebounds four is

543
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Speaker 9: just and one block that was a big point of contention.

544
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Speaker 9: He's just it's just so crazy to see him out there.

545
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Speaker 9: He is so much bigger than everybody else. He looks

546
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Speaker 9: like he's a high schooler. Seen, you're playing against eighth graders, ladies.

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Speaker 4: Back to you, Thank you, Martin.

548
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Speaker 2: I think I realized I might be the only person

549
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Speaker 2: that refers to game times in Pacific time? Like is

550
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Speaker 2: that just an unspoken rule that we're we have to

551
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Speaker 2: say Eastern even though I'm on the I'm on the

552
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Speaker 2: West coast and I'm on like Pacific Standard time.

553
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Speaker 9: Everything is based off of Eastern time because people live there.

554
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Speaker 9: Sixty to eighty percent of the country lives over there.

555
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Speaker 9: So like of the four hundred affiliates, like I don't know,

556
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Speaker 9: like three hundred soon probably here us there.

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Speaker 3: So sometimes you get to sneak it in Central, it's

558
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Speaker 3: like eight seven Central, but everything's based off Eastern. Sorry,

559
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Speaker 3: all right, fine, population density, man.

560
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Speaker 2: I mean, but yeah, but also, like I'm talking about it,

561
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Speaker 2: it's we're on the Pacific side of things.

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Speaker 4: Okay, we have a guest coming on.

563
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Speaker 2: I got to ask my producer here, is he able

564
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Speaker 2: to call in if we can't get through to him.

565
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Speaker 4: We're on the air, Yeah he can, he can. Is

566
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Speaker 4: there a never to call in? Or is this like

567
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Speaker 4: a full.

568
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Speaker 2: Like everyone's going to know if we we don't say

569
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Speaker 2: the number, I guess over the air, Text it to

570
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Speaker 2: me and I'll text it to him.

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Speaker 4: We're trying to get our.

572
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Speaker 2: Next guest on, but we're having we're having a moment

573
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Speaker 2: here and I can't you know, we're live, So we

574
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Speaker 2: just got to talk about it and figure it out

575
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Speaker 2: and see if it's going to happen.

576
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Speaker 4: AnyWho.

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Speaker 2: Until then, the other big matchup today Karmi Purdue against Arizona. Now,

578
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Speaker 2: I know you're you of a No, You're I'm you

579
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Speaker 2: don't hate hate you of a right hate them?

580
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Speaker 3: Is that what happens? I like, my bracket is so

581
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Speaker 3: shot to you know what right now because of the

582
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Speaker 3: fact that I think I had the u of a

583
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Speaker 3: going out in like before the Sweet sixteen, because I

584
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Speaker 3: just couldn't stand, like keep having them go further than that.

585
00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:06,960
Speaker 3: I just it was my head led or my heart led,

586
00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:09,159
Speaker 3: my head. It just I knew, I know that there

587
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Speaker 3: is a one seed.

588
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Speaker 2: Did they broke in my heart so many times? But

589
00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:15,120
Speaker 2: like he gains so much, I feel that, I feel that.

590
00:27:15,160 --> 00:27:16,840
Speaker 2: But you got to give it to them, like this

591
00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:19,720
Speaker 2: is their first Elite eight since twenty fifteen. I can't

592
00:27:20,119 --> 00:27:23,320
Speaker 2: I can't rely on them anymore again because they broke

593
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Speaker 2: my heart the last few years.

594
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Speaker 4: But okay, we just.

595
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Speaker 2: Got our guest on the phone, the owner of the

596
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Speaker 2: Sporting Tribune, A rash Marcazi.

597
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Speaker 4: Thanks for joining the show.

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Speaker 6: Thanks for having me. Sorry about the delay.

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Speaker 4: That's okay. We made it work.

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Speaker 2: You've had a fun couple at nights, Dodgers Opening Day,

601
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Speaker 2: then Lakers last night. So let's start with Lake show,

602
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Speaker 2: because they have been on a hot stretch, playing some

603
00:27:45,080 --> 00:27:48,600
Speaker 2: incredible basketball while they sit in that third.

604
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Speaker 4: Seed in the West.

605
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Speaker 2: Do you think that this team is a championship team

606
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Speaker 2: the way they're playing right now?

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Speaker 6: You know what, do you're a championship contending team? They're

608
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Speaker 6: in a weird you know, because I don't view them

609
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Speaker 6: as a team that's better than the Thunder or the Spurs.

610
00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:08,359
Speaker 6: Right they're in the certain seed right now. Could something

611
00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:11,520
Speaker 6: crazy happen along the way where you get into a

612
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Speaker 6: series where Luca goes off, I think that's where you've

613
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Speaker 6: got a puncher's chance with the Luca. Don just point

614
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Speaker 6: the way he is, where he's capable of Dirk dropping

615
00:28:21,760 --> 00:28:25,120
Speaker 6: sixty points or seventy points or something like that. So

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Speaker 6: if you can get into a longer series, maybe against

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Speaker 6: the Spurs, right the team that's not been there before,

618
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Speaker 6: and then you just seek into the conference finals and

619
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Speaker 6: you go up against the thunder and against the thunder

620
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Speaker 6: Wold of a year ago. But they did get pushed

621
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Speaker 6: to the limit by the Nuggets and the Pacers, So

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Speaker 6: you know, I don't view them as a championship team

623
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Speaker 6: right now, but with the talent they have, they can

624
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Speaker 6: certainly be in contention.

625
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Speaker 3: I want to talk about something that we were talking

626
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Speaker 3: about earlier Rash and just kind of Marcus Smart's impact

627
00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:58,280
Speaker 3: on this team and now that he's out with that

628
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Speaker 3: ankle injury, how much do you think that that kind

629
00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:04,480
Speaker 3: of affects the overall strategy and the way that this

630
00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:07,000
Speaker 3: team can play without him on the court.

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Speaker 6: I mean, he is a huge difference. I mean when

632
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Speaker 6: you look at the kind of like the beginning of

633
00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:13,600
Speaker 6: this turnarout he was such a big part of that,

634
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Speaker 6: and then you look at the struggles tanking. I mean,

635
00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:18,680
Speaker 6: if this team is to go on a run, they

636
00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:22,640
Speaker 6: do have to be one hundred percent healthy. And Markus Smart,

637
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Speaker 6: who with a guy that Luka Doncs called in the

638
00:29:26,280 --> 00:29:29,040
Speaker 6: mob season and said, we need you on this team.

639
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Speaker 6: If this team is going to content for a championship,

640
00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:34,240
Speaker 6: you have to be a part of it. So they

641
00:29:34,280 --> 00:29:36,720
Speaker 6: miss him right now. They still found a way to

642
00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:39,000
Speaker 6: win these games, but if they're going to contend in

643
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Speaker 6: the postseason, he has.

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Speaker 1: To come back well a rash.

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Speaker 2: Another reason it's working right now is because Lebron has

646
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Speaker 2: taken a step back and let Luca lead this team,

647
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Speaker 2: which is surprising to see from a superstar still playing

648
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Speaker 2: at a high level.

649
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Speaker 4: How impressed have you been with Lebron kind of taking

650
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Speaker 4: a step back in his role.

651
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean it's really kind of I never thought

652
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Speaker 6: we would see it, but it like even when the

653
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Speaker 6: players get introduced, you know, Lebron's not the last guy, right,

654
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Speaker 6: and so Lebron realizes if he's going to be on

655
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Speaker 6: a championship team during his last season, and again I

656
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Speaker 6: don't think this is his last season, but if he's

657
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Speaker 6: going to contend, He's gonna take a back seat, and

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Speaker 6: like Luca, I mean, by the way, the way to

659
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Speaker 6: let lucas playing, that makes it easier to do. If

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Speaker 6: there wasn't a Luca Dancic on this team who's playing

661
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Speaker 6: like one of the top four or four players in

662
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Speaker 6: the world, maybe it gets harder. But he realizes what

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Speaker 6: Luca's doing, and no one was more happy for Luca

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Speaker 6: when he rots all the heat than Lebron. So Lebron

665
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Speaker 6: knows this may not be his last season, but this

666
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Speaker 6: may be his last chance to perhaps win a title.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's interesting. Did you see by Chance on ESPN

668
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Speaker 3: and Jeremy Lynn broke down Luca's play as just like

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Speaker 3: how good he is when the ball starts in his

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00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:58,720
Speaker 3: left I mean he gave us the most like Xes

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Speaker 3: and O's explanation for why Luca has been so effective

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00:31:03,120 --> 00:31:06,360
Speaker 3: and what he can do against defenders, and it's led

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00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:09,000
Speaker 3: to these last couple of weeks. He what Luca's on

674
00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:13,640
Speaker 3: a forty point a game average tear. Is this sustainable

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Speaker 3: because of the way he plays into the postseason.

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Speaker 6: It's sustainable And we talked about it last night with

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Speaker 6: JJ Reddick and One of the things that he likes

678
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Speaker 6: about the way that he's playing is his You know

679
00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:28,280
Speaker 6: that he can get in the paint and he's being aggressive.

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Speaker 6: The one thing that he's got to watch for, and

681
00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:33,240
Speaker 6: this has been this case his entire career, is his

682
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:37,440
Speaker 6: temper and his pench out for complaining he's gonna get suspended.

683
00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:40,280
Speaker 6: To be honest, he probably should just take the technical

684
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:46,000
Speaker 6: serve the ones one game suspevention against against the Wizards.

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Speaker 6: I think it just move on because but he's got

686
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Speaker 6: a watch for him, you know, I mean every single

687
00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:54,360
Speaker 6: callum we've heard it since his time with the Mavericks,

688
00:31:54,600 --> 00:31:56,239
Speaker 6: like Carl's are not going to go your way one

689
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Speaker 6: hundred percent of the time. But you're right, the way

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Speaker 6: that he's playing right now now, I do think it's

691
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Speaker 6: sustainable because he's aggressive and he knows if this team

692
00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:09,080
Speaker 6: is gonna win, he's gonna have to be the focal points.

693
00:32:09,080 --> 00:32:10,360
Speaker 6: He's gonna have to beat the guy.

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Speaker 4: It's just fun to see them finally figure it out.

695
00:32:13,160 --> 00:32:16,240
Speaker 2: But let's switch gears because baseball is back, baby, and

696
00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:18,880
Speaker 2: the Dodgers have started their quest for a repeat.

697
00:32:18,920 --> 00:32:20,360
Speaker 4: They are two now to start the season.

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Speaker 2: We haven't had a franchise win three straight since the

699
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Speaker 2: Yankees in ninety eight to two thousand. Is this a

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Speaker 2: legitimate task for the Dodgers to repeat?

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Speaker 10: Yeah?

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Speaker 6: I mean listen, I mean it's this the rich kind

703
00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:38,920
Speaker 6: and richer, right, And like they didn't have any many

704
00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:41,280
Speaker 6: holes to fill, but they were like, you know what,

705
00:32:41,320 --> 00:32:42,920
Speaker 6: it'd be nice to get a clos there, and it'd

706
00:32:42,960 --> 00:32:44,600
Speaker 6: be nice to get some you know, help in the

707
00:32:44,680 --> 00:32:46,600
Speaker 6: outfield or whatever. And they go out and get Kyle

708
00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:49,680
Speaker 6: Tucker and they get to dead win Diaz. And what

709
00:32:49,800 --> 00:32:52,040
Speaker 6: an amazing kind of start to the season those two

710
00:32:52,080 --> 00:32:54,760
Speaker 6: guys have had in terms of Kyle Tucker, you know,

711
00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:57,760
Speaker 6: basically closing out these last two games with the Diaz

712
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:01,960
Speaker 6: with the live trumpet. By the way, how was that chill? Chills? Right? So,

713
00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:05,440
Speaker 6: like this team should not only win the World Series.

714
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Speaker 6: But here's the thing, and I tell people this because

715
00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:10,880
Speaker 6: they think they basically bought the World Series. Okay, so

716
00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:14,320
Speaker 6: that's fine, but look at their passing twenty four. They

717
00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:17,280
Speaker 6: were down, you know they did. They had to win

718
00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:21,200
Speaker 6: two straight games against the Padres to win that Division

719
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Speaker 6: Series in advance, and then you go into that World Series,

720
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Speaker 6: win the Grace World Series, of all time you go down.

721
00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:28,880
Speaker 6: They got to win back to back games in Toronto,

722
00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:31,760
Speaker 6: both of them in dramatic fashions, So it's not like

723
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Speaker 6: they've walked walked along and just has been like an

724
00:33:35,600 --> 00:33:39,280
Speaker 6: easy passing. I think that they three peat, but it

725
00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:41,800
Speaker 6: won't be like a simple thing that you know they're

726
00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:44,840
Speaker 6: gonna guys have guys get hurt along the way. But

727
00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:48,720
Speaker 6: this team is so stocked, they are amazingly talented.

728
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Speaker 3: I'm curious now. So we had the World Baseball Classic,

729
00:33:52,320 --> 00:33:55,560
Speaker 3: and to me, I think it just drummed up so

730
00:33:55,680 --> 00:33:59,920
Speaker 3: much excitement, so much enthusiasm, so much anticipation for the season.

731
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Speaker 3: And do you think that that's the case, and do

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Speaker 3: you think that players also see it that way with

733
00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:08,280
Speaker 3: kind of the fanfare increasing around the World Baseball Classic

734
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Speaker 3: or is it one of those things where you know,

735
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Speaker 3: we saw a few guys kind of pull themselves out

736
00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:14,480
Speaker 3: of The Baseball Classic early because they wanted to get

737
00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:16,759
Speaker 3: ready for the season. It obviously puts a little bit

738
00:34:16,760 --> 00:34:18,399
Speaker 3: more wear and tear on these guys before the season

739
00:34:18,480 --> 00:34:21,160
Speaker 3: officially starts. But where do you think the players kind

740
00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:24,480
Speaker 3: of land with this And what's been your experience now

741
00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:26,600
Speaker 3: leading into the regular season.

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Speaker 6: I just love that it's sort of like playoff baseball

743
00:34:30,280 --> 00:34:32,480
Speaker 6: before the season. There's no other sport where we have

744
00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:34,800
Speaker 6: something like that. And I also love the fact a

745
00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:36,319
Speaker 6: way that by the way, like it was so great

746
00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:39,680
Speaker 6: to see TEAMUS a sweep in hockey, but to seem

747
00:34:39,920 --> 00:34:43,239
Speaker 6: that Azuela have that moment, and then if you're to

748
00:34:43,280 --> 00:34:46,160
Speaker 6: see Japan have that moment, like it really like what

749
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:49,960
Speaker 6: I'm excited for. And again we're we're here in Los Angeles,

750
00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:52,839
Speaker 6: like Los Angeles twenty eight baseball, Like you know, like

751
00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:55,840
Speaker 6: that is going to be a big moment for Team USA.

752
00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:59,120
Speaker 6: And now when you talk to players, Dave Roberts, by

753
00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:00,839
Speaker 6: the way, he's like, I I want to manage Team

754
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:03,399
Speaker 6: US day. And so the number of guys who want

755
00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:05,640
Speaker 6: to be a part of this now it's a big

756
00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:06,439
Speaker 6: deal for sure.

757
00:35:07,960 --> 00:35:10,520
Speaker 2: Ah Rosh, thank you so much for joining us. Are

758
00:35:10,520 --> 00:35:11,920
Speaker 2: you gonna Are you going to the game tonight?

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00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:14,920
Speaker 6: I am. I'm driving there right now. To me a

760
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:17,239
Speaker 6: fun topic, I thought you're gonna be there.

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Speaker 4: I'll be there so then I'll see you up in

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00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:22,719
Speaker 4: the press box. Yes, love that.

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Speaker 2: All right, We're gonna take a quick break here when

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Speaker 2: we come back the dues and the don'ts in sports.

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00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:39,200
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Speaker 3: Just do it.

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00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:08,440
Speaker 2: But now it is time for the dues and the

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00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:10,600
Speaker 2: don'ts in sports.

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00:36:10,760 --> 00:36:14,279
Speaker 5: High I love that putting a spotlight on the.

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00:36:14,320 --> 00:36:17,760
Speaker 2: Don't The subject brings me no joy.

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00:36:17,360 --> 00:36:18,800
Speaker 3: That's insane.

784
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:21,960
Speaker 5: It's time for the dues and the don'ts in sports.

785
00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:25,960
Speaker 4: Car Me, this first one breaks my heart. Do be

786
00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:26,880
Speaker 4: a better person.

787
00:36:28,320 --> 00:36:31,480
Speaker 2: Pukainakua is in the news again for all the wrong

788
00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:40,000
Speaker 2: read I've got t going okay. His most recent behavior,

789
00:36:40,120 --> 00:36:42,080
Speaker 2: he is being sued for assault and battery by a

790
00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:45,319
Speaker 2: woman who says he made a antisemitic statement and bit

791
00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:48,279
Speaker 2: her on the shoulder on New Year's Eve. There was

792
00:36:48,320 --> 00:36:51,200
Speaker 2: a photo of the actual bite marks that everyone could see,

793
00:36:51,239 --> 00:36:52,680
Speaker 2: or the big fold mouth mark.

794
00:36:53,560 --> 00:36:55,800
Speaker 4: This is now his third issue in a few months

795
00:36:55,800 --> 00:36:56,480
Speaker 4: off the field.

796
00:36:56,520 --> 00:37:01,080
Speaker 2: We had the antisemitic gesture on a podcast, he tweeted

797
00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:03,520
Speaker 2: about the rest after a game, got in trouble for that.

798
00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:06,040
Speaker 2: He drunk tweeted making fun of Sam Darnold after he

799
00:37:06,120 --> 00:37:10,120
Speaker 2: won the Super Bowl, and there were rumors kind of

800
00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:13,080
Speaker 2: circulating that the Rams were interested in Aj Brown. This

801
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:15,160
Speaker 2: kind of makes sense as to why the Rams are

802
00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:17,240
Speaker 2: not a team that put up with this kind of behavior.

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00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:20,040
Speaker 4: We have seen other teams that, you know, I have

804
00:37:20,080 --> 00:37:20,759
Speaker 4: a little.

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00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:24,319
Speaker 2: I don't know how to say it, they can deal

806
00:37:24,360 --> 00:37:26,200
Speaker 2: with this kind of stuff. The Rams are not one

807
00:37:26,239 --> 00:37:28,719
Speaker 2: of those. But Pooka's also up for his contract extension,

808
00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:31,640
Speaker 2: so all these things that are happening right now could

809
00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:34,440
Speaker 2: be costing him millions of dollars on top of his

810
00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:37,640
Speaker 2: gross behavior. If this is true, it could all be

811
00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:38,400
Speaker 2: gone in improvement.

812
00:37:39,880 --> 00:37:41,880
Speaker 3: Regardless of if it's sure, and I like, there's a

813
00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:45,000
Speaker 3: pattern of behavior here that has made Poka go from

814
00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:47,719
Speaker 3: like one of the players that I love watching the

815
00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:52,719
Speaker 3: most love to just like, oh, now I just feel icky.

816
00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:55,239
Speaker 3: It's now I just feel icky. I don't like now

817
00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:57,440
Speaker 3: I'm not rooting for you anymore. Dude, Like, no, you

818
00:37:57,480 --> 00:37:59,200
Speaker 3: can be as good as you are on the field,

819
00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:02,880
Speaker 3: don't matter if you are not a good person, and

820
00:38:02,920 --> 00:38:05,120
Speaker 3: it keeps coming out because you keep doing bad things

821
00:38:05,400 --> 00:38:07,040
Speaker 3: to people they're linked to each other.

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Speaker 2: Like he may have anti semitic gesture on a podcast

823
00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:11,799
Speaker 2: the first team that got him in trouble, and then

824
00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:14,879
Speaker 2: now he made an anti semetic statement and then the.

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00:38:14,840 --> 00:38:17,440
Speaker 3: Woman like after the first issue he was like, oh,

826
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Speaker 3: I didn't know, And I'm like, all right, well, now

827
00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:23,799
Speaker 3: now it's been caught doing something there's not and there

828
00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:26,360
Speaker 3: was never an excuse to begin with, But now that

829
00:38:26,440 --> 00:38:30,879
Speaker 3: you've been caught doing something similar again, now I'm like, okay, dude,

830
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Speaker 3: you might actually be anti smeetic. Yeah, you can't fiene

831
00:38:33,960 --> 00:38:39,160
Speaker 3: innocence anymore and ignorance no, So I'm I'm I'm so.

832
00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:45,399
Speaker 3: It's just I know he's young and whatever. That's it's

833
00:38:45,440 --> 00:38:48,520
Speaker 3: not an excuse especially when you are being invested in

834
00:38:48,600 --> 00:38:50,160
Speaker 3: so highly by a team.

835
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Speaker 4: Of a billion dollar franchise million dollar Frances.

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Speaker 3: More than more than a billion dollars and the Rams

837
00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:58,640
Speaker 3: are worth five or six billion at this point. You

838
00:38:58,680 --> 00:39:00,360
Speaker 3: can't you can't do that. And you're going to be

839
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:02,040
Speaker 3: under a limelight because you're in LA which is the

840
00:39:02,040 --> 00:39:04,839
Speaker 3: second largest market in the country, and you just and

841
00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:07,040
Speaker 3: because you're one of the faces. You should be one

842
00:39:07,080 --> 00:39:08,759
Speaker 3: of the faces of the lead with how good you

843
00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:12,439
Speaker 3: are on the field, but nobody you head down.

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Speaker 4: You're headed down the dark path of no return.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I like it all right. Well, on a better note,

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00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:19,839
Speaker 3: ye do coach hard.

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00:39:20,200 --> 00:39:20,439
Speaker 8: Yes.

848
00:39:20,719 --> 00:39:23,759
Speaker 3: Tarapin's head coach, Brenda Freese went viral for her tough

849
00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:29,120
Speaker 3: love approach with Alucci Okinawa. If you saw this exchange.

850
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:31,880
Speaker 3: Marilyn didn't end up winning the game, but a Lucci

851
00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:35,040
Speaker 3: had been struggling at that point and she was one

852
00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:36,719
Speaker 3: of the stars. She had meant so much to her team.

853
00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:39,000
Speaker 3: She had such a huge impact player that her coach

854
00:39:39,080 --> 00:39:42,520
Speaker 3: pulled her aside on you know, on the sideline, looked

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00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:44,919
Speaker 3: her in the face, I mean they were face to face, Yeah,

856
00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:47,879
Speaker 3: and told her, hey, I believe in you, but you

857
00:39:47,960 --> 00:39:50,640
Speaker 3: have to want this, this is your moment. And she

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00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:54,640
Speaker 3: was screaming in Alucci's face, but there was the eye contact.

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00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:56,520
Speaker 3: Aluci was locked in and she went out and I

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00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:58,799
Speaker 3: think she scored like seven straight points, yes, or something

861
00:39:58,800 --> 00:40:02,080
Speaker 3: like that right after. So it was just it was

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00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:06,640
Speaker 3: such a cool moment because you can you can coach hard,

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00:40:07,239 --> 00:40:09,239
Speaker 3: but it's it's something actually, Bruce arians you just say when

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00:40:09,239 --> 00:40:11,240
Speaker 3: I was with the Bucks all the time, like coach hard, love.

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Speaker 4: Of harder, and it was meaningful.

866
00:40:14,280 --> 00:40:17,120
Speaker 3: It was so meaningful in a China Hart.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's there's a difference of like.

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00:40:20,080 --> 00:40:22,000
Speaker 3: Me sound like tough love too.

869
00:40:22,200 --> 00:40:25,480
Speaker 2: Dude, he needs a handler, he needs a handler. It's

870
00:40:25,560 --> 00:40:27,880
Speaker 2: just since Cooper cup left, who was kind of his mentor,

871
00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:28,799
Speaker 2: it's gone down.

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00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:32,279
Speaker 3: Yeah, well grow up, grow up. That's some tough love.

873
00:40:32,719 --> 00:40:34,319
Speaker 4: That's just it's gross. All right.

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Speaker 2: We're in Tega quick break here, but when we come back,

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Speaker 2: we are headed to the NFL Baby Draft is right

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Speaker 2: around the corner. You're listening to Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to our two of Fox Sports Saturday. I'm Alex

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Speaker 2: Curry here with Carmen Vitali. Thank you for spending your

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Speaker 2: Saturday afternoon with us. Happy madness everybody.

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Speaker 4: We are just a.

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Speaker 2: Little over an hour away from the Elite eight tip

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Speaker 2: off six o nine pm ET.

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Speaker 4: You guys proud of me there? Yes, thank you very much,

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Speaker 4: so thank you, Iowa Ars Illinois.

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Speaker 2: Then for due versus Arizona tonight at eight forty nine

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Speaker 4: Like, who comes up with these times?

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Speaker 8: Can?

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Speaker 4: I just like wild six o nine and eight forty nine.

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Speaker 2: I love this because I set my alarms at like

892
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Speaker 2: incredibly random numbers.

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Speaker 3: Hi, I'm a I'm a fan of multiples of five.

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Speaker 3: My piece and my comfort lies and multiples of five.

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Speaker 2: I'm even numbers. Everything has to be an even number.

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Speaker 2: The volume on the TV has to be an even number.

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Speaker 2: I need volume, so I just I'll do even. But

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Speaker 2: this is nine and forty nine.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean some leagues have done that. I feel

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Speaker 3: like leagues do that every now and again. And it

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00:41:48,560 --> 00:41:51,480
Speaker 3: has to do with like broadcasts times and like their

902
00:41:51,640 --> 00:41:53,799
Speaker 3: commercial breaks that they need to get in and how

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Speaker 3: much they have and like all that other stuff. I mean,

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00:41:55,880 --> 00:41:57,560
Speaker 3: I'm sure that there's a reason for it, but it

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Speaker 3: is funny.

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Speaker 4: I love it. Okay, last hour, you guys we talked

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Speaker 4: to NBA.

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Speaker 2: Are the Lakers a championship team who's moving on to

909
00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:09,359
Speaker 2: the final four this hour, we're hitting opening week? Do

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00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:11,600
Speaker 2: we like the new baseball ABSs? So we'll get into

911
00:42:11,640 --> 00:42:13,760
Speaker 2: that just a little later. Who's gonna make the biggest

912
00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:16,520
Speaker 2: splash in the NFL draft next month?

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00:42:16,719 --> 00:42:20,719
Speaker 4: Are the Chiefs still a dynasty? I'd like We've got some.

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00:42:20,600 --> 00:42:24,320
Speaker 2: Thoughts here, but let's start with the pass rushers Karmi,

915
00:42:24,800 --> 00:42:30,040
Speaker 2: because they've been in the news right, more specifically Max Crosby,

916
00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:34,200
Speaker 2: over the last month. More information keeps coming out about this,

917
00:42:34,239 --> 00:42:35,200
Speaker 2: so let's just recap.

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Speaker 6: Right.

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Speaker 2: News broke on March sixth, Ravens traded two first round

920
00:42:39,880 --> 00:42:41,920
Speaker 2: picks for Crosby, which was a huge deal because he

921
00:42:41,960 --> 00:42:42,919
Speaker 2: never trade first round picks.

922
00:42:42,920 --> 00:42:45,080
Speaker 4: Obviously, new head coach who's looking to make a splash.

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00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:47,359
Speaker 2: Four days later, they call off the trade and it's

924
00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:49,480
Speaker 2: the Raiders who put out a statement sharing the news.

925
00:42:49,760 --> 00:42:51,640
Speaker 2: Then the Ravens later come out to say he did

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Speaker 2: pass his physical. Mind you, he's still recovering from a

927
00:42:54,680 --> 00:42:57,080
Speaker 2: knee surgery, so you knew what you were getting into.

928
00:42:57,520 --> 00:42:59,960
Speaker 2: They claimed it was chronic knee issues, but let's be honest,

929
00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:01,880
Speaker 2: most of the NFL is going to have that and

930
00:43:02,200 --> 00:43:05,640
Speaker 2: dealing with that. So once that went down, we knew

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00:43:05,640 --> 00:43:07,960
Speaker 2: the Raiders were not going to get another shot I

932
00:43:07,960 --> 00:43:09,879
Speaker 2: think at two first round picks, right.

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Speaker 4: That was that whole situation and dealing.

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Speaker 3: I mean, the Ravens were the only ones that were

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Speaker 3: offering two first round picks. That's the big thing here

936
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Speaker 3: is that that's the reason that the Raiders pulled the

937
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Speaker 3: trigger on that deal to begin with, because they wanted

938
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Speaker 3: two first round picks and the Ravens were the only

939
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Speaker 3: team that we're willing to get those up exactly the

940
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Speaker 3: right until they didn't.

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Speaker 2: After that, Crosby was back at the Raiders facility the

942
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Speaker 2: next day post it on Twitter. Everything happens for a reason.

943
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Speaker 2: Believe nothing you hear and half of what you see.

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Speaker 4: I'm a Raider.

945
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Speaker 2: I'm back run that shiz and you know what, that's

946
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Speaker 2: where he wants to be, That's where he should be.

947
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Speaker 2: I mean, they're looking like they're gonna be a better

948
00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:54,360
Speaker 2: team obviously than they were last year. They picked up

949
00:43:54,400 --> 00:43:57,000
Speaker 2: Tyler Linderbaum Center from the Ravens. They got a lot

950
00:43:57,000 --> 00:43:58,759
Speaker 2: of draft capital. We're assuming they're going to get their

951
00:43:58,800 --> 00:44:03,080
Speaker 2: quarterback in Sweet Sweet Baby Fernanda Mendoza. They signed some

952
00:44:03,120 --> 00:44:06,520
Speaker 2: strong linebackers in free agency. They're making all the moves

953
00:44:06,520 --> 00:44:08,960
Speaker 2: you'd hope for, and they have Clint Kubiak as their

954
00:44:09,000 --> 00:44:13,520
Speaker 2: new head coach, the Super Bowl winning Seahawks former offensive coordinator.

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Speaker 2: Don't sleep on the Raiders, I mean and don't. They're

956
00:44:18,560 --> 00:44:20,120
Speaker 2: not going to win their division. They're in the Chiefs,

957
00:44:20,160 --> 00:44:26,000
Speaker 2: Chargers and Broncos. It's a very interesting situation though with Crosby.

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Speaker 3: I appreciate that we've gotten some closure at this point

959
00:44:28,920 --> 00:44:31,919
Speaker 3: because GM John Spytech for the Raiders came out and said,

960
00:44:32,160 --> 00:44:36,719
Speaker 3: we're happy to have Max here and barring some incredible compensation,

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00:44:36,920 --> 00:44:41,239
Speaker 3: which again the Ravens deal was an incredible package. They

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Speaker 3: want to hang on to Max Crosby and that's always

963
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Speaker 3: been their attitude. And John Spytech came out and said that,

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Speaker 3: and it's true, like I said, they weren't. They didn't

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Speaker 3: part with Max Crosby for just any deal. They parted

966
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Speaker 3: with him to first rounders, no to that so exactly,

967
00:44:56,560 --> 00:44:58,520
Speaker 3: so like made him off. I couldn't refuse, you know

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Speaker 3: all that although and you know, the Ravens ended up

969
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Speaker 3: pulling back on that deal. But what is interesting though,

970
00:45:05,320 --> 00:45:08,759
Speaker 3: is because in the meantime, when the Raiders thought they

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Speaker 3: had a deal, they went out and they spent more

972
00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:15,600
Speaker 3: than any other team in a free agency, mostly because

973
00:45:15,719 --> 00:45:19,879
Speaker 3: they won the bidding war. With of Tyler Linderbaum, who

974
00:45:19,920 --> 00:45:22,919
Speaker 3: got paid. It was now the highest paid center by

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Speaker 3: a very large margin. This man is making nine million

976
00:45:26,040 --> 00:45:28,719
Speaker 3: dollars a year more than Creed Humphrey, who is at

977
00:45:28,719 --> 00:45:31,200
Speaker 3: this point now probably the best center in the league

978
00:45:31,280 --> 00:45:34,080
Speaker 3: on the Kansas City Chiefs. And so you reset the market,

979
00:45:34,200 --> 00:45:37,520
Speaker 3: not just barely, because when we see players reset the market,

980
00:45:37,560 --> 00:45:39,520
Speaker 3: it's usually at an increment of like one million, two

981
00:45:39,560 --> 00:45:42,279
Speaker 3: million a year or something like that, nine million a

982
00:45:42,440 --> 00:45:44,759
Speaker 3: year for a center. You now have a center being

983
00:45:44,760 --> 00:45:46,880
Speaker 3: paid twenty seven million dollars a year because the Raiders

984
00:45:46,880 --> 00:45:50,120
Speaker 3: were like, we need that for our incoming rookie quarterback.

985
00:45:50,160 --> 00:45:54,719
Speaker 3: And I pooleheartedly agree. I commend John Spytech for doing that,

986
00:45:54,760 --> 00:45:56,839
Speaker 3: and I commend for all the spending that they did.

987
00:45:57,040 --> 00:45:59,040
Speaker 3: But what's interesting about the Raiders is they were doing

988
00:45:59,120 --> 00:46:00,759
Speaker 3: that under the assumption that they weren't going to have

989
00:46:00,800 --> 00:46:03,960
Speaker 3: to pay Max Crosby's contract. And now the lucky thing

990
00:46:04,040 --> 00:46:06,279
Speaker 3: is though, and I think that this there's a there's

991
00:46:06,440 --> 00:46:07,480
Speaker 3: at the end of the day, this is going to

992
00:46:07,520 --> 00:46:09,880
Speaker 3: work out much better for the Raiders. Is you spent

993
00:46:10,080 --> 00:46:12,440
Speaker 3: like you didn't need, like you didn't have that contract

994
00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:14,800
Speaker 3: on the books, but you also now that the contract

995
00:46:14,840 --> 00:46:16,880
Speaker 3: is back on the books, you can still afford it.

996
00:46:17,360 --> 00:46:19,880
Speaker 3: So you maybe went out and you spent a little

997
00:46:19,880 --> 00:46:22,719
Speaker 3: more than you otherwise would have. But that's gonna mean

998
00:46:22,840 --> 00:46:25,000
Speaker 3: I think a bigger jump for this team, sure, and

999
00:46:25,160 --> 00:46:27,759
Speaker 3: this first year, and it's going to allow them to

1000
00:46:27,800 --> 00:46:30,399
Speaker 3: take advantage of having a quarterback on a rookie deal

1001
00:46:30,719 --> 00:46:34,040
Speaker 3: that much faster if you continue to add some good

1002
00:46:34,040 --> 00:46:35,960
Speaker 3: pieces in the draft and this that the other Like

1003
00:46:35,960 --> 00:46:38,239
Speaker 3: the Raiders still have a bunch of holes that they

1004
00:46:38,239 --> 00:46:40,280
Speaker 3: have to fill, but now it's a manageable amount.

1005
00:46:40,320 --> 00:46:42,600
Speaker 4: And if you draft, well a lot of draft capital.

1006
00:46:42,920 --> 00:46:45,160
Speaker 3: They have a lot of draft capital. And I mean

1007
00:46:45,200 --> 00:46:46,680
Speaker 3: they don't have the two first round picks like you

1008
00:46:46,719 --> 00:46:47,480
Speaker 3: were whatever, but.

1009
00:46:47,520 --> 00:46:50,160
Speaker 4: The first overall, that's they're gonna We're all assuming they're.

1010
00:46:50,160 --> 00:46:52,280
Speaker 3: That's going in this that's going to go to Fernando

1011
00:46:52,360 --> 00:46:54,440
Speaker 3: And but like the biggest, the biggest question mark with

1012
00:46:54,480 --> 00:46:56,879
Speaker 3: them has been the offensive line, and now you went

1013
00:46:56,920 --> 00:46:58,680
Speaker 3: and you got the anchor to that off to that

1014
00:46:58,800 --> 00:47:01,440
Speaker 3: unit in Tyler Linderbaum, and you have a guy that

1015
00:47:01,480 --> 00:47:05,759
Speaker 3: can help Fernando. So I'm I think at the end

1016
00:47:05,760 --> 00:47:07,319
Speaker 3: of the day, I don't know that the Raiders would

1017
00:47:07,360 --> 00:47:10,680
Speaker 3: have spent that much money had they not thought Max

1018
00:47:10,719 --> 00:47:12,799
Speaker 3: Crosby was off the books. But now that he's back

1019
00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:14,960
Speaker 3: on the books, they can still afford it because that's

1020
00:47:15,000 --> 00:47:17,920
Speaker 3: how much draft capital they had, or a monetary capital

1021
00:47:17,960 --> 00:47:19,960
Speaker 3: they had. It's on top of the draft capital. So

1022
00:47:20,120 --> 00:47:23,000
Speaker 3: I think the Raiders are actually I think they kind

1023
00:47:23,000 --> 00:47:25,600
Speaker 3: of put their rebuild in warp speed this first year.

1024
00:47:26,200 --> 00:47:29,520
Speaker 3: And I mean provided that doesn't come back to bite

1025
00:47:29,520 --> 00:47:31,920
Speaker 3: you in a couple of years when you do have

1026
00:47:31,960 --> 00:47:33,920
Speaker 3: to pay your quarterback and just that the other and

1027
00:47:33,920 --> 00:47:36,280
Speaker 3: provided that Fernando does work out for them, by the way,

1028
00:47:37,239 --> 00:47:39,240
Speaker 3: this could end up being a really great thing, and

1029
00:47:39,320 --> 00:47:42,040
Speaker 3: I'm happy for this is John Spytech's first year or

1030
00:47:42,120 --> 00:47:46,319
Speaker 3: second year with the franchise, Clint Kubiak's first year. I'm

1031
00:47:46,440 --> 00:47:48,400
Speaker 3: very interested to see how this goes because they do

1032
00:47:48,480 --> 00:47:52,160
Speaker 3: have some other weapons on that offense for Fernando in

1033
00:47:52,560 --> 00:47:55,880
Speaker 3: Rock Bowers and Ashton Dente that this could be a

1034
00:47:55,920 --> 00:47:59,640
Speaker 3: really good offense now with Clint Kubiak at the helm.

1035
00:48:00,160 --> 00:48:03,600
Speaker 4: Be better. It's not a high bar. They only won

1036
00:48:03,640 --> 00:48:04,640
Speaker 4: three games last year.

1037
00:48:05,080 --> 00:48:09,160
Speaker 3: I don't want to put any astronomical like aspirations or expectations.

1038
00:48:09,320 --> 00:48:10,719
Speaker 4: The temper of the expectation.

1039
00:48:10,800 --> 00:48:14,399
Speaker 2: You going with your brown, not your Brown's your Bears immediate, Like.

1040
00:48:14,480 --> 00:48:18,120
Speaker 3: I would rather be wrong and they outperform my expectations

1041
00:48:18,880 --> 00:48:21,279
Speaker 3: then like that. That was That was the whole thing

1042
00:48:21,280 --> 00:48:22,680
Speaker 3: with the Bears. It was like, I'm happy to be

1043
00:48:22,719 --> 00:48:25,640
Speaker 3: wrong because they get better faster, but I'm also not

1044
00:48:25,680 --> 00:48:28,000
Speaker 3: going to expect that because otherwise I might be disappointed.

1045
00:48:28,120 --> 00:48:28,600
Speaker 4: So funny.

1046
00:48:28,640 --> 00:48:31,480
Speaker 2: The news came out this week that the Cowboys made

1047
00:48:31,560 --> 00:48:35,120
Speaker 2: three different offers for Crosby. The first offer was the

1048
00:48:35,160 --> 00:48:39,800
Speaker 2: twentieth overall pick in this draft and a player defensive tackle.

1049
00:48:40,480 --> 00:48:43,520
Speaker 2: Second offer was twelfth overall pick in the first round

1050
00:48:43,560 --> 00:48:45,520
Speaker 2: and a third round pick, and then the third offer

1051
00:48:45,640 --> 00:48:47,839
Speaker 2: was the twelfth overall pick and a second round pick.

1052
00:48:48,560 --> 00:48:49,279
Speaker 4: And they said, no.

1053
00:48:50,239 --> 00:48:52,920
Speaker 3: It's hysterical to me that the Cowboys were this. You

1054
00:48:53,080 --> 00:48:56,319
Speaker 3: just traded away. You just traded away. You're at your

1055
00:48:56,480 --> 00:48:59,439
Speaker 3: your eliteting.

1056
00:48:58,320 --> 00:49:00,440
Speaker 2: Letting Miga Parsons go, but these are the picks they

1057
00:49:00,480 --> 00:49:04,320
Speaker 2: got for him, And it also just has made that's.

1058
00:49:04,160 --> 00:49:06,080
Speaker 3: A wash because those are the picks you've got for

1059
00:49:06,280 --> 00:49:09,680
Speaker 3: Micael Parsons. Yeah, like one of the league's best pass rushers. Yeah,

1060
00:49:09,760 --> 00:49:11,439
Speaker 3: and you're just gonna turn around and use those picks

1061
00:49:11,440 --> 00:49:12,200
Speaker 3: on a pass rusher.

1062
00:49:12,360 --> 00:49:16,000
Speaker 4: Sure, what kind of business is that? That's we messed

1063
00:49:16,080 --> 00:49:16,919
Speaker 4: up business?

1064
00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:21,400
Speaker 3: Yeah, like when Witch who could have done pssibly foreseen that?

1065
00:49:21,920 --> 00:49:23,320
Speaker 4: Yeah? Okay.

1066
00:49:23,520 --> 00:49:27,560
Speaker 2: In other big news being reported, the Browns restructured Miles

1067
00:49:27,560 --> 00:49:34,359
Speaker 2: Garrett's contract. Now, what they changed was his option bonuses

1068
00:49:34,560 --> 00:49:39,000
Speaker 2: in twenty twenty six and twenty seven, twenty twenty eight. Basically,

1069
00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:42,480
Speaker 2: it changed when they were going to pay them. It

1070
00:49:42,520 --> 00:49:46,360
Speaker 2: was pushed back to seven days before the regular season

1071
00:49:47,080 --> 00:49:51,960
Speaker 2: each year. And what does this mean? The modifications benefit

1072
00:49:52,440 --> 00:49:56,160
Speaker 2: the team. Cleveland has more flexibility to create cap space

1073
00:49:56,200 --> 00:50:00,200
Speaker 2: each year, and then I guess Garrett benefits with the

1074
00:50:00,239 --> 00:50:04,319
Speaker 2: modified option payments. But what everyone's talking about is this

1075
00:50:04,440 --> 00:50:07,239
Speaker 2: kind of allows the Browns, like are they going to

1076
00:50:07,320 --> 00:50:09,680
Speaker 2: trade him? Like they came out and they said no,

1077
00:50:10,280 --> 00:50:13,040
Speaker 2: But this would give the Browns time to think about it. Now,

1078
00:50:13,080 --> 00:50:15,520
Speaker 2: remember this, you know, Miles Garrett just said the single

1079
00:50:15,560 --> 00:50:17,799
Speaker 2: season sack record. He won Defensive Player of the Year

1080
00:50:18,120 --> 00:50:19,920
Speaker 2: and has a no trade claw, so he would have.

1081
00:50:19,920 --> 00:50:22,760
Speaker 4: To approve it. But since he's been.

1082
00:50:22,600 --> 00:50:25,480
Speaker 2: There in twenty seventeen, i mean his first season, they

1083
00:50:25,520 --> 00:50:29,120
Speaker 2: went oh to sixteen, the Browns have had a losing record,

1084
00:50:29,160 --> 00:50:31,359
Speaker 2: They've been a below five hundred team, They've had two

1085
00:50:31,400 --> 00:50:36,319
Speaker 2: winning seasons. He's been dominant individually, but he's not benefiting

1086
00:50:36,760 --> 00:50:41,560
Speaker 2: from the Browns. Like it would be great for Miles

1087
00:50:41,560 --> 00:50:43,359
Speaker 2: Garrett if they traded him somewhere. It's hard to find

1088
00:50:43,360 --> 00:50:43,919
Speaker 2: a worse team.

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Speaker 3: Well, here's the thing. The Browns. Well there's a lot

1090
00:50:48,160 --> 00:50:51,040
Speaker 3: with the Browns. But all right, So this does allow

1091
00:50:51,080 --> 00:50:53,720
Speaker 3: Cleveland to create more cap space because they could convert

1092
00:50:54,520 --> 00:50:57,880
Speaker 3: money earlier they can figure and it also gets like

1093
00:50:58,040 --> 00:51:00,879
Speaker 3: some of Miles Garrett's void years in like twenty twenty

1094
00:51:01,000 --> 00:51:03,279
Speaker 3: nine and twenty thirty, some of the money that was

1095
00:51:03,360 --> 00:51:06,840
Speaker 3: like deferred to those years was then converted into roster

1096
00:51:06,920 --> 00:51:11,120
Speaker 3: bonuses in the intermed like in those years coming up,

1097
00:51:11,280 --> 00:51:13,879
Speaker 3: so he gets some of that money earlier. Which that's

1098
00:51:13,920 --> 00:51:18,440
Speaker 3: why that makes this contract more trade friendly because now

1099
00:51:18,480 --> 00:51:21,040
Speaker 3: you don't have to deal with all of that money

1100
00:51:21,080 --> 00:51:23,840
Speaker 3: being kicked down the line and dealing with Boyd years

1101
00:51:23,840 --> 00:51:27,360
Speaker 3: five years into the future. The Browns also are petitioning

1102
00:51:27,440 --> 00:51:31,480
Speaker 3: right now to be able to kick to trade draft picks.

1103
00:51:31,560 --> 00:51:33,800
Speaker 3: Right now, you can trade up to three years in advance.

1104
00:51:34,200 --> 00:51:35,799
Speaker 3: The Browns want to be able to trade draft picks

1105
00:51:35,800 --> 00:51:39,480
Speaker 3: five years in advance, and so they are. It's not

1106
00:51:39,520 --> 00:51:41,680
Speaker 3: a coincidence that they're kind of trying to figure out

1107
00:51:41,719 --> 00:51:44,800
Speaker 3: the math on this. And really what this all boils

1108
00:51:44,840 --> 00:51:47,840
Speaker 3: down to, though, is that as of this past season,

1109
00:51:48,320 --> 00:51:52,680
Speaker 3: the Browns are their quarterback situation is costing them nearly

1110
00:51:52,719 --> 00:51:56,040
Speaker 3: forty two million dollars when they don't have a clear

1111
00:51:56,200 --> 00:51:59,040
Speaker 3: answer at quarterback, and it's because of the Shahn Watson

1112
00:51:59,080 --> 00:52:02,680
Speaker 3: deal still, which is absolutely insane that there is that

1113
00:52:02,760 --> 00:52:04,839
Speaker 3: much dead money left over from that. And then on

1114
00:52:04,840 --> 00:52:07,719
Speaker 3: top of the fact that you are trying to accumulate

1115
00:52:07,800 --> 00:52:10,640
Speaker 3: quarterbacks because you don't have a clear answer there. So

1116
00:52:10,760 --> 00:52:13,279
Speaker 3: when you have a team that is handicapped by the

1117
00:52:13,320 --> 00:52:16,080
Speaker 3: quarterback position, you better hope that quarterback is good. And

1118
00:52:16,120 --> 00:52:18,080
Speaker 3: that's not the case for the Browns. So because of that,

1119
00:52:18,680 --> 00:52:22,640
Speaker 3: on top of that, you're spending forty plus million a

1120
00:52:22,719 --> 00:52:25,799
Speaker 3: year on a pass Rusher like that is just not sustainable.

1121
00:52:25,800 --> 00:52:28,160
Speaker 3: The Browns at this point are trying to figure out

1122
00:52:28,560 --> 00:52:31,120
Speaker 3: how they can even get better when they have all

1123
00:52:31,160 --> 00:52:33,960
Speaker 3: of these cap constraints on them. So this is like,

1124
00:52:34,320 --> 00:52:37,200
Speaker 3: it's I don't know how you can just flat out

1125
00:52:37,200 --> 00:52:39,920
Speaker 3: come out and say, oh, we're not trading Miles Garrett. Well,

1126
00:52:40,320 --> 00:52:44,120
Speaker 3: if you get faced with a deal that gives you

1127
00:52:44,160 --> 00:52:47,080
Speaker 3: more capital like the Ravens did for the Raiders albeit

1128
00:52:47,120 --> 00:52:49,359
Speaker 3: that day to go through, if you get offered two

1129
00:52:49,440 --> 00:52:52,200
Speaker 3: first round picks, which is to me more stomachable for

1130
00:52:52,239 --> 00:52:55,280
Speaker 3: a guy like Miles Garrett, who is the unanimous player,

1131
00:52:55,320 --> 00:52:56,320
Speaker 3: a defensive.

1132
00:52:55,880 --> 00:52:58,520
Speaker 4: Player of the year right now, and he broke.

1133
00:52:58,320 --> 00:53:00,600
Speaker 3: The single season sack record he's at the time, I

1134
00:53:00,680 --> 00:53:03,440
Speaker 3: mean this is and he's not coming off a knee

1135
00:53:03,480 --> 00:53:06,359
Speaker 3: injury like like Max Crosby is. He's also a better

1136
00:53:06,360 --> 00:53:10,600
Speaker 3: all around player I think than Max Crosby, although that's

1137
00:53:10,719 --> 00:53:12,399
Speaker 3: I don't know. Max Rosby is a really good He's

1138
00:53:12,440 --> 00:53:13,240
Speaker 3: a good run stop.

1139
00:53:13,160 --> 00:53:14,960
Speaker 4: On the top of the energy keys. He is a

1140
00:53:15,080 --> 00:53:16,680
Speaker 4: leader in the locker room.

1141
00:53:16,680 --> 00:53:18,279
Speaker 3: Both, I mean, both of them do that. It's just

1142
00:53:18,360 --> 00:53:20,839
Speaker 3: one of those things where Miles Garrett is by far

1143
00:53:20,840 --> 00:53:22,560
Speaker 3: and away when you say who was the best best

1144
00:53:22,560 --> 00:53:24,440
Speaker 3: pass rusher in the league, If you say anyone other

1145
00:53:24,440 --> 00:53:28,160
Speaker 3: than Miles Garrett, you're wrong, You're wrong. Yeah, so that

1146
00:53:28,200 --> 00:53:30,200
Speaker 3: would make a trade more so. And then the fact

1147
00:53:30,200 --> 00:53:32,040
Speaker 3: that you've now moved money in a way that is

1148
00:53:32,080 --> 00:53:35,600
Speaker 3: more team friendly for more trade friendly. I think that

1149
00:53:35,640 --> 00:53:37,520
Speaker 3: there are going to be more teams that inquire.

1150
00:53:37,719 --> 00:53:41,240
Speaker 4: Do you think perhaps including do you think he gets traded?

1151
00:53:42,280 --> 00:53:44,760
Speaker 3: I don't know. I mean I was shocked when he

1152
00:53:44,800 --> 00:53:47,960
Speaker 3: did the extension, when he did the four years.

1153
00:53:47,160 --> 00:53:49,359
Speaker 4: And what do you know that we don't know?

1154
00:53:49,400 --> 00:53:52,840
Speaker 2: And then because he told us like they did not

1155
00:53:52,920 --> 00:53:56,160
Speaker 2: do well, like heat out said nothing he said.

1156
00:53:56,920 --> 00:53:58,880
Speaker 3: But at that point it was at that point it

1157
00:53:58,920 --> 00:54:01,680
Speaker 3: was the quarterballas and we were all like, well, what

1158
00:54:01,760 --> 00:54:03,600
Speaker 3: are they going to do with the quarterback situation? With

1159
00:54:03,600 --> 00:54:07,000
Speaker 3: the quarterback situation? And Miles came out after he did

1160
00:54:07,080 --> 00:54:09,400
Speaker 3: the deal and was like, yeah, well what they told me,

1161
00:54:09,520 --> 00:54:12,319
Speaker 3: like their plan for the quarterback position, it made me

1162
00:54:12,400 --> 00:54:12,960
Speaker 3: want to stay.

1163
00:54:13,200 --> 00:54:14,720
Speaker 4: So did they tell him something different?

1164
00:54:15,080 --> 00:54:16,920
Speaker 3: I have no idea what they told him, and if

1165
00:54:16,960 --> 00:54:19,600
Speaker 3: that's if they did tell him something different, which I

1166
00:54:19,680 --> 00:54:21,200
Speaker 3: have to imagine they did, because I don't know how

1167
00:54:21,239 --> 00:54:23,160
Speaker 3: you feel good about what just happened last year within

1168
00:54:23,239 --> 00:54:26,000
Speaker 3: the Cleveland Browns quarterback room. Then wouldn't you be a

1169
00:54:26,040 --> 00:54:28,040
Speaker 3: little salty if you were Miles Garret. Wouldn't you want?

1170
00:54:28,160 --> 00:54:31,400
Speaker 3: Wouldn't you at least grant that no trade clause? She waved,

1171
00:54:31,520 --> 00:54:34,279
Speaker 3: he should want, he should want, But I thought he

1172
00:54:34,320 --> 00:54:37,160
Speaker 3: should want even before this year. That's my That's my

1173
00:54:37,200 --> 00:54:38,920
Speaker 3: one thing where I'm like, I don't know. I can't.

1174
00:54:38,920 --> 00:54:40,680
Speaker 3: I can't pretend like I'm in the mind of Miles

1175
00:54:40,680 --> 00:54:42,760
Speaker 3: Garrett this point, because I would have thought he wouldn't

1176
00:54:42,760 --> 00:54:44,480
Speaker 3: have agreed to that extension. I thought he was going

1177
00:54:44,520 --> 00:54:48,279
Speaker 3: to be traded before that extension got done. I thought

1178
00:54:48,280 --> 00:54:50,799
Speaker 3: that that was I was so sure about that because

1179
00:54:50,800 --> 00:54:52,319
Speaker 3: I was like, why would you want to stay at

1180
00:54:52,320 --> 00:54:52,799
Speaker 3: this point? Bro?

1181
00:54:53,000 --> 00:54:54,320
Speaker 4: No one would want.

1182
00:54:54,080 --> 00:54:56,879
Speaker 2: To But I so I don't know an age old

1183
00:54:56,960 --> 00:54:58,880
Speaker 2: question like do you want the most money or do

1184
00:54:58,880 --> 00:55:00,480
Speaker 2: you want to be on a championship team? And some

1185
00:55:00,520 --> 00:55:02,759
Speaker 2: players want the most money and he can't fault them

1186
00:55:02,760 --> 00:55:05,600
Speaker 2: for that, like football is a short career to make

1187
00:55:05,680 --> 00:55:07,359
Speaker 2: your but Miles.

1188
00:55:07,040 --> 00:55:09,759
Speaker 3: Garrett is interesting because he is still going to get

1189
00:55:09,800 --> 00:55:12,319
Speaker 3: the most money even if he's on a championship team,

1190
00:55:12,800 --> 00:55:15,400
Speaker 3: Like if he goes and gets if a team trades

1191
00:55:15,440 --> 00:55:18,320
Speaker 3: for him that has real championship aspirations, it's not like

1192
00:55:18,360 --> 00:55:20,040
Speaker 3: they're going to get him at a discount because they

1193
00:55:20,040 --> 00:55:22,800
Speaker 3: have championship aspirations. He is the best pass rusher in

1194
00:55:22,840 --> 00:55:24,560
Speaker 3: the league and he has the accolades to back it up.

1195
00:55:24,840 --> 00:55:27,040
Speaker 3: You have to pay him top of market no matter what.

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00:55:27,719 --> 00:55:30,719
Speaker 3: And so I don't understand, Like I get it that, yeah,

1197
00:55:30,760 --> 00:55:34,000
Speaker 3: you want to prioritize money over a championship team for

1198
00:55:34,080 --> 00:55:36,759
Speaker 3: a certain point, but also Miles Garrett has done that.

1199
00:55:36,840 --> 00:55:39,640
Speaker 3: At this point, now I would think the focus would

1200
00:55:39,640 --> 00:55:41,560
Speaker 3: shift to all right, now I actually want to feel

1201
00:55:41,560 --> 00:55:44,640
Speaker 3: like what it feels like to win. But again, I

1202
00:55:45,640 --> 00:55:47,360
Speaker 3: was so sure that he was going to leave Cleveland,

1203
00:55:47,400 --> 00:55:49,840
Speaker 3: and then he signed a four year extension, So I

1204
00:55:50,400 --> 00:55:53,400
Speaker 3: don't know what he where his mind is, what he's thinking.

1205
00:55:54,200 --> 00:55:56,239
Speaker 3: I did think it was really sweet though, that he

1206
00:55:56,440 --> 00:56:00,520
Speaker 3: was in Milan Courtinazo Kim.

1207
00:56:00,920 --> 00:56:03,239
Speaker 2: I love that so much. That actually made me fall

1208
00:56:03,280 --> 00:56:05,239
Speaker 2: in love with him even more. That he is such

1209
00:56:05,239 --> 00:56:09,440
Speaker 2: a baddie of a partner and was out there supporting her,

1210
00:56:09,800 --> 00:56:14,719
Speaker 2: Like men who can handle strong, powerful women are the

1211
00:56:14,719 --> 00:56:17,000
Speaker 2: best men just putting that out.

1212
00:56:16,840 --> 00:56:21,920
Speaker 3: There, and I mean the athletic the athletics, I mean,

1213
00:56:21,960 --> 00:56:23,600
Speaker 3: but like that, I think that sometimes it takes that,

1214
00:56:23,680 --> 00:56:25,800
Speaker 3: it takes being with someone that is at that level.

1215
00:56:25,680 --> 00:56:26,560
Speaker 4: This is you to be better.

1216
00:56:26,800 --> 00:56:28,719
Speaker 3: And that's what actually Chloe Kim talked about that in

1217
00:56:28,760 --> 00:56:30,359
Speaker 3: an interview where she was like I didn't know that.

1218
00:56:30,560 --> 00:56:31,839
Speaker 3: She was like I was telling my therapist, I don't

1219
00:56:31,840 --> 00:56:33,480
Speaker 3: know that I'm ever going to find someone that is

1220
00:56:33,640 --> 00:56:36,440
Speaker 3: enough of my equal to really understand my life. And

1221
00:56:36,880 --> 00:56:37,640
Speaker 3: sure enough.

1222
00:56:38,600 --> 00:56:41,319
Speaker 2: Let me tell you someone who has been in a

1223
00:56:41,440 --> 00:56:45,080
Speaker 2: twenty year relationship. When you have someone on your level

1224
00:56:45,280 --> 00:56:47,840
Speaker 2: that is as motivated and dedicated as you are and

1225
00:56:47,920 --> 00:56:51,319
Speaker 2: pushes you to be better at what you do, it's

1226
00:56:51,360 --> 00:56:53,880
Speaker 2: the best thing that you can have. It's absolutely the

1227
00:56:53,880 --> 00:56:56,279
Speaker 2: best thing that you can have. I love it, and

1228
00:56:56,320 --> 00:56:57,879
Speaker 2: I'm happy for you because you're almost there.

1229
00:56:58,320 --> 00:57:00,640
Speaker 3: For For Coloney Kim's sake, I also want them to

1230
00:57:00,640 --> 00:57:03,239
Speaker 3: like just like get on a winning team. Lit Miles win.

1231
00:57:03,760 --> 00:57:05,880
Speaker 4: I know, I know, God, so do you.

1232
00:57:06,000 --> 00:57:06,880
Speaker 3: It's gonna keep up with her.

1233
00:57:06,960 --> 00:57:08,680
Speaker 4: I really think I didn't even think about this. The

1234
00:57:08,680 --> 00:57:09,920
Speaker 4: Cowboys might go after him.

1235
00:57:10,080 --> 00:57:12,640
Speaker 3: I mean, I just I threw that out because this

1236
00:57:12,800 --> 00:57:14,400
Speaker 3: is radio and of course you're gonna say that. And

1237
00:57:14,480 --> 00:57:15,839
Speaker 3: if they if they tried that hard.

1238
00:57:16,040 --> 00:57:18,640
Speaker 2: Do you have any insider information, No, I don't. You

1239
00:57:18,640 --> 00:57:21,240
Speaker 2: you're with Cowboy, I don't.

1240
00:57:21,280 --> 00:57:23,120
Speaker 3: But when you talk about when you talk about teams

1241
00:57:23,120 --> 00:57:26,800
Speaker 3: that have draft capital to part with and could potentially

1242
00:57:26,840 --> 00:57:29,720
Speaker 3: make it work through some more creative accounting, that's the

1243
00:57:29,760 --> 00:57:33,400
Speaker 3: other thing that like, I keep stressing this point because

1244
00:57:33,520 --> 00:57:35,680
Speaker 3: I also stress it with the Bears for various reasons.

1245
00:57:36,080 --> 00:57:41,560
Speaker 3: But you're only as creative as you are liquid as

1246
00:57:41,600 --> 00:57:45,520
Speaker 3: a team, like liquid with cash, because being creative. Talk

1247
00:57:45,560 --> 00:57:49,200
Speaker 3: about this, Miles Garretty structure, you're converting eight to nine

1248
00:57:49,280 --> 00:57:53,320
Speaker 3: million of two different seasons like void years into stuff

1249
00:57:53,320 --> 00:57:55,440
Speaker 3: that you're gonna have to pay them up front. And

1250
00:57:55,480 --> 00:57:57,200
Speaker 3: if you're gonna so, like you have to have buy

1251
00:57:57,240 --> 00:58:00,520
Speaker 3: in from ownership, and ownership has to be liquid as

1252
00:58:00,520 --> 00:58:03,440
Speaker 3: in liquid cash to be able to be that creative

1253
00:58:03,440 --> 00:58:06,360
Speaker 3: and to kind of restructure these things. Does Dallas do that? Yeah,

1254
00:58:06,400 --> 00:58:08,720
Speaker 3: Dallas can do that. Jerry Jones can do that if

1255
00:58:08,720 --> 00:58:09,960
Speaker 3: he wants to. It's a matter of it if he

1256
00:58:09,960 --> 00:58:10,480
Speaker 3: wants to or not.

1257
00:58:10,680 --> 00:58:12,720
Speaker 4: Literally, but the voice of the league.

1258
00:58:12,520 --> 00:58:14,919
Speaker 3: When you're looking at teams that could potentially be quote

1259
00:58:15,000 --> 00:58:19,200
Speaker 3: unquote creative and have draft capital to spare. I mean that,

1260
00:58:19,240 --> 00:58:21,640
Speaker 3: and who need a pass rusher because they traded away

1261
00:58:21,680 --> 00:58:25,360
Speaker 3: they're a pass rusher. That's like that description fits the

1262
00:58:25,440 --> 00:58:27,960
Speaker 3: Dallas Cowboys. But and if they were that involved in

1263
00:58:28,000 --> 00:58:31,000
Speaker 3: the Max Crosby trade, perhaps they're having conversations with Cleveland.

1264
00:58:31,040 --> 00:58:33,040
Speaker 3: I don't know, but I just I don't know that

1265
00:58:33,080 --> 00:58:35,520
Speaker 3: how you can completely shut down Miles Garrett being traded

1266
00:58:35,960 --> 00:58:39,040
Speaker 3: when you did this restructure and when you're in the

1267
00:58:39,200 --> 00:58:42,120
Speaker 3: salary cap constraints like the Browns are for the foreseeable

1268
00:58:42,120 --> 00:58:43,560
Speaker 3: future because of all the dead money you owe the

1269
00:58:43,640 --> 00:58:44,400
Speaker 3: quarterback position.

1270
00:58:44,480 --> 00:58:45,560
Speaker 4: Dude, I hope it happens for him.

1271
00:58:45,560 --> 00:58:46,920
Speaker 2: We're going to take a quick break here when we

1272
00:58:46,920 --> 00:58:50,000
Speaker 2: come back a new year, a new season, and new heights.

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00:58:50,160 --> 00:58:51,600
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00:58:53,120 --> 00:58:55,800
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00:58:55,800 --> 00:58:58,680
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1277
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Speaker 4: CARMEI yeah, happy opening week to all this.

1286
00:59:21,680 --> 00:59:25,439
Speaker 2: Yeah right, I'm actually headed to the Dodger game right

1287
00:59:25,480 --> 00:59:27,560
Speaker 2: after this and work in a double which is gonna

1288
00:59:27,560 --> 00:59:27,920
Speaker 2: be fun.

1289
00:59:29,520 --> 00:59:32,640
Speaker 4: The defending champs started.

1290
00:59:32,160 --> 00:59:36,080
Speaker 2: Their road to a three peet this weekend. Don't at

1291
00:59:36,160 --> 00:59:39,880
Speaker 2: me you guys. Thursday they won eight two. They unveiled

1292
00:59:39,880 --> 00:59:42,000
Speaker 2: their banner. They will Ferrell drive out their back to

1293
00:59:42,000 --> 00:59:45,080
Speaker 2: back World Series trophies on the field, which I will

1294
00:59:45,160 --> 00:59:48,040
Speaker 2: is definitely, like I think my all time favorite, like

1295
00:59:48,360 --> 00:59:52,919
Speaker 2: la celebrity sports fan who I absolutely love. Friday last

1296
00:59:53,000 --> 00:59:55,040
Speaker 2: night they won five to four kershat throughout the first

1297
00:59:55,080 --> 00:59:57,440
Speaker 2: pitch to Freddie Freeman, Dave Roberts handed in the ball

1298
00:59:57,560 --> 00:59:59,680
Speaker 2: obviously through a strike, and then the whole team came

1299
00:59:59,680 --> 01:00:02,320
Speaker 2: out to resent him with his ring. Have you seen

1300
01:00:02,360 --> 01:00:04,680
Speaker 2: these that say back to back? They open up with

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01:00:04,720 --> 01:00:07,640
Speaker 2: another diamond band ring inside. I think so they can

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Speaker 2: like wear it more regularly I've ever seen something like that,

1303
01:00:10,600 --> 01:00:11,520
Speaker 2: but it is like.

1304
01:00:12,560 --> 01:00:15,160
Speaker 3: Yeah, teams are finding more and more ways to figure

1305
01:00:15,160 --> 01:00:17,600
Speaker 3: out to have rings that like because I mean they're

1306
01:00:17,640 --> 01:00:19,800
Speaker 3: they're huge and they're way too big to actually wear,

1307
01:00:19,880 --> 01:00:22,280
Speaker 3: but they're finding ways to like, you know, oh, this

1308
01:00:22,320 --> 01:00:24,240
Speaker 3: one pops out, like I think the Liberty just did.

1309
01:00:24,320 --> 01:00:26,400
Speaker 3: The New York Liberty did it in the WNBA where

1310
01:00:26,400 --> 01:00:31,240
Speaker 3: they were just like they it can convert into a necklace, okay,

1311
01:00:31,280 --> 01:00:32,840
Speaker 3: and like you can wear like the top part of

1312
01:00:32,880 --> 01:00:34,800
Speaker 3: it as a necklace. And like some teams are like

1313
01:00:34,840 --> 01:00:37,280
Speaker 3: doing stuff like that where it makes it a little

1314
01:00:37,280 --> 01:00:40,560
Speaker 3: bit more manageable to you got to keep innovating because

1315
01:00:40,560 --> 01:00:42,240
Speaker 3: these like the rings can only be.

1316
01:00:42,280 --> 01:00:44,680
Speaker 2: So big and you only see really people wear them

1317
01:00:44,720 --> 01:00:48,280
Speaker 2: when they're at events or they're going to a broad

1318
01:00:48,440 --> 01:00:51,640
Speaker 2: they're on a broadcast, or like places where you're gonna

1319
01:00:51,680 --> 01:00:54,160
Speaker 2: get photographed. I know, like a handful of people have

1320
01:00:54,200 --> 01:00:56,200
Speaker 2: them in safe and they don't really come out unless

1321
01:00:56,240 --> 01:00:57,439
Speaker 2: like again.

1322
01:00:57,640 --> 01:00:59,680
Speaker 3: Yeah you're in it. Mine mine is still in my

1323
01:00:59,680 --> 01:01:02,400
Speaker 3: box and I don't ever wear it. Yeah, so it's

1324
01:01:02,440 --> 01:01:04,000
Speaker 3: just a little you know, I just need to like

1325
01:01:04,080 --> 01:01:06,240
Speaker 3: set it in there. Yes, that is it is huge

1326
01:01:06,240 --> 01:01:07,640
Speaker 3: and it's heavy humble bragg.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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01:01:08,120 --> 01:01:10,440
Speaker 3: Well when for those of you who don't know, I

1329
01:01:10,440 --> 01:01:13,240
Speaker 3: have a Super Bowl ring from the Tambay Buccaneers. They

1330
01:01:13,240 --> 01:01:15,520
Speaker 3: were kind enough to give me a ring when we

1331
01:01:15,560 --> 01:01:19,480
Speaker 3: won in twenty twenty, and honestly, that next season, which

1332
01:01:19,560 --> 01:01:21,640
Speaker 3: is actually the game I met my fiance at, they

1333
01:01:21,680 --> 01:01:24,600
Speaker 3: made us wear our rings and I'm like, how am

1334
01:01:24,680 --> 01:01:28,000
Speaker 3: I supposed to type? Like my job right now is

1335
01:01:28,280 --> 01:01:33,880
Speaker 3: typing and I can't move my somewhere. I can't move

1336
01:01:33,920 --> 01:01:34,360
Speaker 3: my hand.

1337
01:01:34,600 --> 01:01:36,840
Speaker 4: It's hilarious. Okay, I gotta get to something real quick.

1338
01:01:36,880 --> 01:01:41,520
Speaker 2: Because basically the big the big change this season in

1339
01:01:41,560 --> 01:01:45,280
Speaker 2: the MLBU guys is a new ABS, the Autoball Strike

1340
01:01:45,400 --> 01:01:49,680
Speaker 2: Challenge system, So basically you can challenge a baller strike.

1341
01:01:49,680 --> 01:01:52,240
Speaker 2: Each team starts a game with two challenges. But my

1342
01:01:52,520 --> 01:01:56,040
Speaker 2: favorite part about this kart me the players had to

1343
01:01:56,040 --> 01:01:57,400
Speaker 2: put their exact height.

1344
01:01:57,240 --> 01:01:59,800
Speaker 4: In because it's an exact measurement of the strike.

1345
01:01:59,600 --> 01:02:03,360
Speaker 2: Zone and so many players have gotten called out for

1346
01:02:03,480 --> 01:02:06,000
Speaker 2: lying about their high Gavin Lux went from six to

1347
01:02:06,080 --> 01:02:07,320
Speaker 2: two to five eleven.

1348
01:02:07,800 --> 01:02:10,320
Speaker 4: Alex Bregman went from six foot to five, right.

1349
01:02:10,160 --> 01:02:12,640
Speaker 3: Because now you're actually incentivized.

1350
01:02:12,040 --> 01:02:14,200
Speaker 2: Went from six foot to five nine to only have

1351
01:02:14,320 --> 01:02:17,400
Speaker 2: to because right, No, you're incentivized to be accurate.

1352
01:02:17,600 --> 01:02:21,040
Speaker 3: Right, you're incentivized to be accurate now, Whereas before it'd

1353
01:02:21,080 --> 01:02:23,480
Speaker 3: be like, oh, taller is better, bigger is better, But

1354
01:02:23,600 --> 01:02:26,200
Speaker 3: like with this, it's like, no, you have to be accurate.

1355
01:02:26,280 --> 01:02:28,400
Speaker 3: Otherwise it's not you're not going to get the correct

1356
01:02:28,400 --> 01:02:31,920
Speaker 3: strike sound, which I think is for no other reason

1357
01:02:32,200 --> 01:02:34,960
Speaker 3: that like I like this because of that. I think that,

1358
01:02:35,160 --> 01:02:39,320
Speaker 3: like I mean, I don't think tech should be seen

1359
01:02:39,360 --> 01:02:41,440
Speaker 3: as the enemy for a lot of reasons, and because

1360
01:02:41,480 --> 01:02:44,080
Speaker 3: we've already seen it kind of work in baseball. When

1361
01:02:44,120 --> 01:02:46,680
Speaker 3: you talk about the pitch clock, like innovations that have happened,

1362
01:02:46,960 --> 01:02:50,600
Speaker 3: it's to the rules in baseball have in my mind,

1363
01:02:50,640 --> 01:02:52,560
Speaker 3: and as someone who has watched baseball or whole life,

1364
01:02:52,920 --> 01:02:54,640
Speaker 3: I think it's made the game better. I think it's

1365
01:02:54,640 --> 01:02:57,840
Speaker 3: made it more digestible. I think it's like the pitchclock in.

1366
01:02:57,800 --> 01:02:59,919
Speaker 4: Particular, the best thing that happened to baseball.

1367
01:02:59,600 --> 01:03:01,720
Speaker 3: Is it's literally the best thing to happen to baseball.

1368
01:03:01,720 --> 01:03:04,560
Speaker 3: And I think that when you are talking about things

1369
01:03:04,640 --> 01:03:08,280
Speaker 3: that are so subjective, when you're talking balls and strikes

1370
01:03:08,320 --> 01:03:11,400
Speaker 3: in particular, it depends like it's so funny, Like, you know,

1371
01:03:11,480 --> 01:03:13,400
Speaker 3: you get a scouting report, and it's same in a

1372
01:03:13,400 --> 01:03:15,200
Speaker 3: lot of sports, but you get a scouting report for

1373
01:03:15,240 --> 01:03:17,640
Speaker 3: the ump crew that comes in. And as someone who

1374
01:03:17,720 --> 01:03:21,040
Speaker 3: worked in baseball front offices as an intern, like it

1375
01:03:21,480 --> 01:03:24,240
Speaker 3: was part of our job to tell the coaches and

1376
01:03:24,280 --> 01:03:27,360
Speaker 3: to like compile the like the stuff the stats about

1377
01:03:27,600 --> 01:03:30,760
Speaker 3: umpires as much as it was you know, the incoming

1378
01:03:30,800 --> 01:03:33,520
Speaker 3: team because this guy know is known to call balls

1379
01:03:33,560 --> 01:03:35,800
Speaker 3: when it's this like you know, like they have all

1380
01:03:35,840 --> 01:03:38,760
Speaker 3: of their tendencies because they're humane, and that's that's the case.

1381
01:03:38,800 --> 01:03:42,320
Speaker 3: But now when you add in technology as at least

1382
01:03:42,320 --> 01:03:44,360
Speaker 3: a safety net, because that's what this is, it's a

1383
01:03:44,360 --> 01:03:49,160
Speaker 3: safety net, I think that's a good thing. And we

1384
01:03:49,200 --> 01:03:50,160
Speaker 3: get to see the real heights of.

1385
01:03:50,160 --> 01:03:51,800
Speaker 2: Guys, and we get to see the real heights of guys.

1386
01:03:51,880 --> 01:03:53,840
Speaker 2: But it's also like we've seen games determined by this.

1387
01:03:53,920 --> 01:03:56,600
Speaker 2: I mean, let's the last pitch at the WBC Final

1388
01:03:56,880 --> 01:03:59,840
Speaker 2: that was not a strike, that was not a strike,

1389
01:04:00,240 --> 01:04:03,640
Speaker 2: And in moments like that, you know, moving forward, like

1390
01:04:03,760 --> 01:04:09,480
Speaker 2: in championship games, where that determines the outcome of a game, it's, yeah,

1391
01:04:09,520 --> 01:04:11,480
Speaker 2: it's going to be interesting, but I like that it's

1392
01:04:11,520 --> 01:04:11,960
Speaker 2: only two.

1393
01:04:12,520 --> 01:04:13,360
Speaker 4: We'll see how it goes.

1394
01:04:13,720 --> 01:04:14,600
Speaker 3: It's going to be interesting.

1395
01:04:14,840 --> 01:04:21,240
Speaker 4: Let's check in with Martin Wise and see what's trending. Carmen.

1396
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Speaker 9: I think it's kind of funny that you said you

1397
01:04:22,760 --> 01:04:24,760
Speaker 9: had to wear a ring at the game that you

1398
01:04:24,800 --> 01:04:25,560
Speaker 9: met your fiance.

1399
01:04:26,520 --> 01:04:28,160
Speaker 10: You're right, You're.

1400
01:04:28,200 --> 01:04:30,080
Speaker 4: So right, right, Shadowy.

1401
01:04:31,080 --> 01:04:34,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, here, replace this with my next favorite ring, my

1402
01:04:34,440 --> 01:04:35,120
Speaker 2: new favorite ring.

1403
01:04:35,240 --> 01:04:37,280
Speaker 3: I was gonna say my new favorite ring. My favorite

1404
01:04:37,360 --> 01:04:39,280
Speaker 3: ring now is the one I have on my finger. Yes,

1405
01:04:39,320 --> 01:04:41,760
Speaker 3: and my my wedding band will be my second favorite ring,

1406
01:04:41,800 --> 01:04:43,640
Speaker 3: and this will be knocked down the third big You're

1407
01:04:43,680 --> 01:04:44,200
Speaker 3: so right.

1408
01:04:44,040 --> 01:04:46,000
Speaker 4: Martin, that's one of those. I'm sure he looked at

1409
01:04:46,040 --> 01:04:47,000
Speaker 4: it and was like, you gotta.

1410
01:04:46,840 --> 01:04:52,640
Speaker 3: Be kidding me, look at this. And now it's like

1411
01:04:52,720 --> 01:04:54,439
Speaker 3: now he just gets to look at it whenever because

1412
01:04:54,440 --> 01:04:56,880
Speaker 3: it's sitting at our house. That's hilarious.

1413
01:04:56,880 --> 01:04:59,680
Speaker 9: All right, Let's get to the Business Women's Sweet sixteen

1414
01:04:59,760 --> 01:05:02,959
Speaker 9: South Carolina, the one seed with a twenty eight to

1415
01:05:03,000 --> 01:05:07,320
Speaker 9: thirteen lead. I'm sorry over Oakladhoma, the four sheet eight

1416
01:05:07,280 --> 01:05:10,360
Speaker 9: to fifteen left. In the first half, there you saw

1417
01:05:10,360 --> 01:05:13,600
Speaker 9: two teams advanced to the Elite eight Michigan beating Louisville

1418
01:05:13,600 --> 01:05:16,800
Speaker 9: seventy one to fifty two, and another one seed Texas

1419
01:05:16,840 --> 01:05:20,240
Speaker 9: beating five sea Kentucky seventy six to fifty four about

1420
01:05:20,360 --> 01:05:23,440
Speaker 9: twenty five to Actually, there's an actual math to du

1421
01:05:24,040 --> 01:05:26,640
Speaker 9: twenty seven minutes away or thirty seven minutes away from

1422
01:05:26,640 --> 01:05:30,640
Speaker 9: the South Regional final between three seed Illinois and nine

1423
01:05:30,640 --> 01:05:34,200
Speaker 9: seed Iowa tips at six on ninth Eastern Time. In

1424
01:05:34,280 --> 01:05:36,920
Speaker 9: the NBA, the Bucks beat the Spurs beat the Bucks one,

1425
01:05:36,960 --> 01:05:39,360
Speaker 9: twenty seven to ninety five, winby with a twenty three

1426
01:05:39,400 --> 01:05:43,680
Speaker 9: point fifteen rebound day. Major League Baseball, the Brewers first

1427
01:05:43,720 --> 01:05:47,240
Speaker 9: baseman Andrew Vaughan. He's being diagnosed with a broken a

1428
01:05:47,320 --> 01:05:50,120
Speaker 9: bone and his left wrist that's expected to keep him

1429
01:05:50,160 --> 01:05:50,760
Speaker 9: out from four.

1430
01:05:50,640 --> 01:05:51,400
Speaker 3: To six weeks.

1431
01:05:51,600 --> 01:05:54,800
Speaker 9: Jacob deGrom will stch scratch from his start for the Rangers.

1432
01:05:55,040 --> 01:05:58,400
Speaker 9: Doe the next stiffness got two games already in the books.

1433
01:05:58,440 --> 01:06:00,960
Speaker 9: The Cardinals beat the Rays six to five an extra innings.

1434
01:06:01,160 --> 01:06:03,760
Speaker 9: Cubs beat the Nationals ten to two. Ian Happ with

1435
01:06:03,880 --> 01:06:06,880
Speaker 9: his first home run of the season. Some games about

1436
01:06:06,880 --> 01:06:09,080
Speaker 9: their wrap up BAPA the bottom of the scene.

1437
01:06:09,080 --> 01:06:10,680
Speaker 3: You get to talk about the Cubs and how I'm

1438
01:06:10,720 --> 01:06:12,320
Speaker 3: actually excited for them this year.

1439
01:06:12,560 --> 01:06:15,439
Speaker 4: You got one hundred and sixty more some time.

1440
01:06:15,520 --> 01:06:16,160
Speaker 3: We got time.

1441
01:06:16,640 --> 01:06:18,840
Speaker 9: At the bottom of the seventh, the A's took the

1442
01:06:18,920 --> 01:06:22,320
Speaker 9: lead over the Blue Jays six to three, Twins with

1443
01:06:22,400 --> 01:06:24,760
Speaker 9: a three to one lead over the Orioles. Those in

1444
01:06:24,800 --> 01:06:26,640
Speaker 9: the bottom of the bottom of the seventh, the top

1445
01:06:26,640 --> 01:06:28,640
Speaker 9: of the fifth respective the bottom of the fifth the

1446
01:06:28,760 --> 01:06:31,640
Speaker 9: Rangers lead to Phillies three to nothing, Reds with a

1447
01:06:31,760 --> 01:06:33,960
Speaker 9: four to three lead over the Red Sox, and the

1448
01:06:33,960 --> 01:06:36,480
Speaker 9: top of the fifth inning Ladies back to you.

1449
01:06:36,800 --> 01:06:38,960
Speaker 2: Thank you, Martin. You're listening to Fox Sports Saturday. I'm

1450
01:06:38,960 --> 01:06:41,280
Speaker 2: Alex Curry here with Carmen Vitali. It is time to

1451
01:06:41,280 --> 01:06:43,600
Speaker 2: bring in our next guest. We've already been talking about

1452
01:06:43,640 --> 01:06:45,800
Speaker 2: him today, the host of The Athletic Football Show and

1453
01:06:45,840 --> 01:06:47,880
Speaker 2: Bessie of our show, Dave Hellman.

1454
01:06:48,600 --> 01:06:49,560
Speaker 4: Thanks for joining us.

1455
01:06:50,400 --> 01:06:52,520
Speaker 8: Hey, y'all, it's great to be honest always.

1456
01:06:53,320 --> 01:06:55,600
Speaker 3: Did you hear Martin when he started his up take break?

1457
01:06:57,240 --> 01:06:58,720
Speaker 8: I think I came in right after that.

1458
01:06:58,960 --> 01:06:59,040
Speaker 6: No.

1459
01:06:59,480 --> 01:07:02,320
Speaker 3: I told this sorry about we were talking about championship rings,

1460
01:07:02,320 --> 01:07:04,760
Speaker 3: and I was like, we were talking about how they're not wearable,

1461
01:07:05,040 --> 01:07:08,000
Speaker 3: and I said that I was I was told by

1462
01:07:08,040 --> 01:07:10,960
Speaker 3: our CEO to wear mine on the first game of

1463
01:07:11,000 --> 01:07:13,560
Speaker 3: the next season after winning the Super Bowl, and it

1464
01:07:13,640 --> 01:07:17,520
Speaker 3: was actually the game that I met you for shadowing

1465
01:07:17,720 --> 01:07:19,880
Speaker 3: true and Martin was like, that's kind of ironic that

1466
01:07:20,040 --> 01:07:22,000
Speaker 3: you were wearing a ring when you met your.

1467
01:07:23,480 --> 01:07:26,040
Speaker 4: Which is a much bigger ring.

1468
01:07:26,160 --> 01:07:27,520
Speaker 8: I can't afford blinking like that.

1469
01:07:28,400 --> 01:07:31,920
Speaker 2: We laughed about that too, Dave. Let's talk some draft.

1470
01:07:32,080 --> 01:07:35,880
Speaker 2: We're engine closer here. Fernando Mendoza is expected to go

1471
01:07:36,000 --> 01:07:38,560
Speaker 2: first overall to the Raiders, but after that, it's not

1472
01:07:38,960 --> 01:07:42,200
Speaker 2: a super strong quarterback class. Alabama's Ty Simpson will likely

1473
01:07:42,200 --> 01:07:44,960
Speaker 2: be the second quarterback taken, and it picked up some

1474
01:07:45,040 --> 01:07:48,240
Speaker 2: steam this week with a few people claiming that he's

1475
01:07:48,320 --> 01:07:53,080
Speaker 2: better than Mendoza. Where do you think Ty gets taken?

1476
01:07:55,280 --> 01:07:59,160
Speaker 8: You know, it's funny because I really drove the train

1477
01:07:59,560 --> 01:08:03,480
Speaker 8: for Simpson during the twenty twenty five season.

1478
01:08:03,520 --> 01:08:05,480
Speaker 10: I thought, for a first year starter, he.

1479
01:08:05,480 --> 01:08:08,120
Speaker 8: Came out at the gates really strongly, and by like

1480
01:08:08,560 --> 01:08:11,280
Speaker 8: by like mid season, I was kind of on that

1481
01:08:11,320 --> 01:08:12,120
Speaker 8: train where I was like.

1482
01:08:12,040 --> 01:08:14,080
Speaker 10: You know, this guy might might be the best quarterback

1483
01:08:14,080 --> 01:08:17,120
Speaker 10: in the class. Unfortunately for him, he's a first year year,

1484
01:08:17,160 --> 01:08:17,960
Speaker 10: a first year starter.

1485
01:08:18,160 --> 01:08:20,880
Speaker 8: He really tailed off in the final five or so

1486
01:08:20,960 --> 01:08:22,960
Speaker 8: weeks of the season. I can't.

1487
01:08:23,040 --> 01:08:24,000
Speaker 10: I can't get there with.

1488
01:08:24,080 --> 01:08:27,120
Speaker 8: Him being as good of a prospect as Fernando. I

1489
01:08:27,200 --> 01:08:32,519
Speaker 8: do think. I would guess like his floor is like

1490
01:08:32,600 --> 01:08:35,479
Speaker 8: somewhere in the top fifty, like if he falls out

1491
01:08:35,479 --> 01:08:38,160
Speaker 8: of the first round, and I think that's possible, like

1492
01:08:38,240 --> 01:08:41,680
Speaker 8: maybe maybe somebody like the Jets or the Pittsburgh Steelers

1493
01:08:41,720 --> 01:08:43,800
Speaker 8: takes him late in the first but.

1494
01:08:43,840 --> 01:08:46,280
Speaker 10: I would guess he falls to the second round.

1495
01:08:46,560 --> 01:08:50,880
Speaker 8: And like pick pick thirty three onward, I would guess

1496
01:08:50,960 --> 01:08:53,439
Speaker 8: is his range like somewhere between thirty three and like

1497
01:08:53,479 --> 01:08:55,519
Speaker 8: forty five is where I guess it would happen.

1498
01:08:56,800 --> 01:08:59,479
Speaker 3: I want to get to this class overall because we

1499
01:09:00,000 --> 01:09:02,080
Speaker 3: actually we talked a lot in our NFL segment just

1500
01:09:02,120 --> 01:09:05,160
Speaker 3: about what's going on with the league's current pass rushers.

1501
01:09:05,200 --> 01:09:08,120
Speaker 3: But this draft in particular, really good along the defensive line.

1502
01:09:08,160 --> 01:09:11,439
Speaker 3: When you're talking defensive tackles, pass rushers, and for so

1503
01:09:11,479 --> 01:09:16,360
Speaker 3: many teams that clearly need help in that area, how

1504
01:09:16,400 --> 01:09:18,400
Speaker 3: many do you think, like I feel like usually we

1505
01:09:18,479 --> 01:09:21,800
Speaker 3: see an uneven split between offensive players that go in

1506
01:09:21,800 --> 01:09:24,240
Speaker 3: the first round and defensive players. It's usually more offensive heavy.

1507
01:09:24,240 --> 01:09:27,240
Speaker 3: Do you think this is a year where, especially given

1508
01:09:27,240 --> 01:09:30,160
Speaker 3: the lack of a strong quarterback class or at least

1509
01:09:30,160 --> 01:09:32,320
Speaker 3: one that we saw like two years ago, do you

1510
01:09:32,320 --> 01:09:33,680
Speaker 3: think that there's going to be a lot more kind

1511
01:09:33,720 --> 01:09:36,200
Speaker 3: of defensive players taken in this first round.

1512
01:09:37,000 --> 01:09:41,080
Speaker 8: I think it'll probably still be pretty balanced because I

1513
01:09:41,080 --> 01:09:43,840
Speaker 8: think there's like a minimum of five receivers, maybe as

1514
01:09:43,920 --> 01:09:45,800
Speaker 8: many as seven that are going to go in the

1515
01:09:45,840 --> 01:09:48,639
Speaker 8: first round. And then I think this is a very

1516
01:09:49,080 --> 01:09:52,240
Speaker 8: top heavy tackle class, and so I think if you

1517
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Speaker 8: want an offensive tackle, again, I think a minimum of five,

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Speaker 8: maybe as many as seven offensive tackles go.

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Speaker 10: So I mean that's that's tend to fifteen players right there.

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Speaker 8: So I do I do still think a fair amount

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01:10:04,479 --> 01:10:07,160
Speaker 8: of offensive players are going to go, even if there's

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Speaker 8: I do think it's kind of wild. I would guess

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01:10:10,240 --> 01:10:12,920
Speaker 8: only one quarterback in one running back get drafted on

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01:10:12,960 --> 01:10:14,599
Speaker 8: Thursday night, which is pretty unusual.

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Speaker 3: That is.

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Speaker 10: But to your to your other.

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Speaker 8: Part of that question, I love the defensive side of

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Speaker 8: this draft class. I love it a lot, and particularly

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Speaker 8: the big guys on the defensive front. I mean there's

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Speaker 8: obviously I think if you're following the draft, you know

1531
01:10:30,400 --> 01:10:34,960
Speaker 8: all about David Bailey and Arvel Reese. But man, like,

1532
01:10:35,120 --> 01:10:38,960
Speaker 8: all the way down the line, there's there's five to

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01:10:39,080 --> 01:10:43,000
Speaker 8: seven defensive linemans that I get really excited about. I

1534
01:10:43,000 --> 01:10:45,600
Speaker 8: mean a guy that jumps out to me, this is

1535
01:10:45,640 --> 01:10:47,400
Speaker 8: more of like a back of the first and first

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01:10:47,479 --> 01:10:50,280
Speaker 8: round kind of guy. But I love Dan Young out

1537
01:10:50,280 --> 01:10:53,600
Speaker 8: of the mazoo. I think I think he's an absolutely

1538
01:10:53,600 --> 01:10:56,840
Speaker 8: phenomenal player. Obviously I didn't even mention Ruben Bain. It's

1539
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Speaker 8: going to be fascinating to see what a guy with

1540
01:10:59,720 --> 01:11:02,599
Speaker 8: his tape look, you know, where he winds up falling

1541
01:11:02,720 --> 01:11:06,200
Speaker 8: because of his physical limitations. I don't think it should

1542
01:11:06,240 --> 01:11:09,080
Speaker 8: be very far. Like if he does quote unquote fall,

1543
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Speaker 8: I can't imagine it would be more than between ten

1544
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Speaker 8: and fifteen. Shoot. I know a lot of people have

1545
01:11:15,920 --> 01:11:19,519
Speaker 8: questions about Keldrick Foff, the Auburn pass rusher, who you know,

1546
01:11:19,600 --> 01:11:21,760
Speaker 8: he's a big physical guy, but he doesn't have a

1547
01:11:21,800 --> 01:11:25,240
Speaker 8: lot of great pass rush tape. But he's twenty years

1548
01:11:25,240 --> 01:11:27,800
Speaker 8: old and he's like six five to sixty five. Like,

1549
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Speaker 8: I have a feeling the NFL is gonna you.

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Speaker 3: Know, the NFL.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, they're probably gonna be willing to work with a

1552
01:11:34,320 --> 01:11:37,280
Speaker 8: guy like that, So yeah, I mean, I would guess

1553
01:11:37,920 --> 01:11:40,120
Speaker 8: there's as many as like six or seven.

1554
01:11:39,840 --> 01:11:43,320
Speaker 10: Pass rushers that could go. It's not in the first round.

1555
01:11:43,080 --> 01:11:44,639
Speaker 8: Then, like the top forty picks.

1556
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Speaker 10: I mean, I didn't you know, there's so many other guys.

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01:11:46,920 --> 01:11:50,320
Speaker 8: I like CJ. Parker out of Clemson. Dave Akis out

1558
01:11:50,320 --> 01:11:52,920
Speaker 8: of Illinois is another guy I love. I just I

1559
01:11:52,960 --> 01:11:55,759
Speaker 8: think there's gonna be past rushers all over the place

1560
01:11:55,760 --> 01:11:56,760
Speaker 8: for people that want them.

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Speaker 2: Now, Dave, you mentioned that top running back prospect Jeremi

1562
01:12:00,000 --> 01:12:02,120
Speaker 2: I love now he had early projections to go to

1563
01:12:02,120 --> 01:12:04,880
Speaker 2: the Chiefs or the Saints. But with those teams getting

1564
01:12:04,880 --> 01:12:07,439
Speaker 2: top running backs free agency, where do you see Love

1565
01:12:07,560 --> 01:12:08,080
Speaker 2: ending up.

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Speaker 8: It's a fascinating question, and it kind of it's it's

1567
01:12:12,120 --> 01:12:14,240
Speaker 8: kind of the question of the entire draft is Yeah,

1568
01:12:14,240 --> 01:12:15,960
Speaker 8: you know a lot of a lot of the best

1569
01:12:15,960 --> 01:12:20,840
Speaker 8: players in this draft are guys that don't play positions

1570
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Speaker 8: that you want to draft super highly. You know, I

1571
01:12:22,600 --> 01:12:25,240
Speaker 8: think most people would say, ah, we don't, we don't

1572
01:12:25,240 --> 01:12:27,240
Speaker 8: want to take a running back in the top five. Well,

1573
01:12:27,240 --> 01:12:29,439
Speaker 8: what if the running back is the best prospect in

1574
01:12:29,479 --> 01:12:32,320
Speaker 8: this draft class? And so where he goes is going

1575
01:12:32,360 --> 01:12:35,160
Speaker 8: to be interesting, I'll cheat a little bit. I think

1576
01:12:36,439 --> 01:12:38,920
Speaker 8: I think he could go as quickly as number four

1577
01:12:38,960 --> 01:12:41,640
Speaker 8: to Tennessee. That wouldn't shock me, because you need to

1578
01:12:41,680 --> 01:12:44,040
Speaker 8: get you know, you need to put weapons around cam Ward.

1579
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Speaker 10: With the Titans decide.

1580
01:12:45,439 --> 01:12:48,240
Speaker 8: They'd rather do something else, I wouldn't be shocked if

1581
01:12:48,320 --> 01:12:50,640
Speaker 8: John Harbaugh wants to do that and he winds up

1582
01:12:50,640 --> 01:12:53,320
Speaker 8: with the New York Giants, and if none of that

1583
01:12:53,479 --> 01:12:57,280
Speaker 8: works out, I lean toward thinking Washington would take him

1584
01:12:57,320 --> 01:12:57,759
Speaker 8: at seven.

1585
01:12:57,920 --> 01:12:59,280
Speaker 10: So I do think he's going.

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Speaker 8: To wind up being a top ten pick, because again,

1587
01:13:02,080 --> 01:13:04,960
Speaker 8: he's just he's a sure thing at the top of

1588
01:13:05,000 --> 01:13:07,439
Speaker 8: a draft that doesn't have a lot of sure things.

1589
01:13:07,479 --> 01:13:11,479
Speaker 8: And so I think one of those three places will

1590
01:13:11,520 --> 01:13:14,200
Speaker 8: be willing to take him, depending on how far he falls.

1591
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Speaker 8: I can't imagine, uh and and you know, for some reason,

1592
01:13:18,040 --> 01:13:19,960
Speaker 8: he were to fall outside the top ten, I can't

1593
01:13:19,960 --> 01:13:23,240
Speaker 8: imagine he would last much further than somewhere in the

1594
01:13:23,240 --> 01:13:25,559
Speaker 8: top fifteen. But yeah, I kind of feel like Washington

1595
01:13:25,720 --> 01:13:27,920
Speaker 8: is the place that would take him if he's still there.

1596
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Speaker 3: I'm glad that you brought up the fact that, yeah,

1597
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Speaker 3: like there are some of the best prospects when you talk,

1598
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Speaker 3: whether you're talking about Jeremiah Love or Sonny Styles, who

1599
01:13:36,400 --> 01:13:40,920
Speaker 3: is a hybrid kind of linebacker, those aren't positions that

1600
01:13:40,960 --> 01:13:44,760
Speaker 3: you normally take that high. But when it's prospect that

1601
01:13:44,840 --> 01:13:46,920
Speaker 3: is going to be an instant impact or like as

1602
01:13:46,920 --> 01:13:48,680
Speaker 3: sure of a thing as you can possibly have in

1603
01:13:48,720 --> 01:13:52,439
Speaker 3: the draft, what is your thought on building your team

1604
01:13:52,479 --> 01:13:54,720
Speaker 3: that way? Is it better to take the guy that

1605
01:13:54,760 --> 01:13:56,559
Speaker 3: you know is going to be a Day one starter

1606
01:13:56,680 --> 01:13:59,200
Speaker 3: for you, even if it's at a quote unquote lower

1607
01:13:59,280 --> 01:14:03,479
Speaker 3: valued position, or do you stick with positional value because

1608
01:14:03,560 --> 01:14:06,320
Speaker 3: of that? I don't know. That's how it is. You

1609
01:14:06,320 --> 01:14:09,679
Speaker 3: can probably tell how I see things from that question.

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Speaker 8: I mean, it's a fascinating debate. I don't. For the record,

1611
01:14:14,120 --> 01:14:15,880
Speaker 8: I don't think there's a right answer to it. And

1612
01:14:15,920 --> 01:14:18,080
Speaker 8: I think I mean, we just did a whole podcast

1613
01:14:18,120 --> 01:14:20,040
Speaker 8: about it. I mean, you could talk about it for

1614
01:14:20,080 --> 01:14:21,680
Speaker 8: a literal hour if you wanted to.

1615
01:14:22,320 --> 01:14:25,080
Speaker 10: I lean toward not trying to force.

1616
01:14:24,880 --> 01:14:26,360
Speaker 8: It if it's not there, you know.

1617
01:14:26,439 --> 01:14:30,680
Speaker 10: I mean, like, just for instance, the two top tackles

1618
01:14:30,720 --> 01:14:32,200
Speaker 10: in this draft class, Spencer.

1619
01:14:32,040 --> 01:14:35,840
Speaker 8: Fano out of Utah Francis Mauino out of Miami. They're

1620
01:14:35,880 --> 01:14:39,719
Speaker 8: both phenomenal players. There are plenty of people that project

1621
01:14:39,800 --> 01:14:42,040
Speaker 8: them all over the place. At the NFL level, they

1622
01:14:42,080 --> 01:14:44,719
Speaker 8: might play guard, it probably has to play right.

1623
01:14:44,560 --> 01:14:47,559
Speaker 10: Tackle instead of left tackle. If it's me.

1624
01:14:48,479 --> 01:14:51,760
Speaker 8: And you're trying to sort of squint and make projections

1625
01:14:52,000 --> 01:14:53,040
Speaker 8: and say.

1626
01:14:52,720 --> 01:14:55,360
Speaker 10: Well, if he's really.

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01:14:55,000 --> 01:14:57,800
Speaker 8: Great, then he could grow into this. That's where I

1628
01:14:57,880 --> 01:15:00,400
Speaker 8: start to get nervous. And I don't think you can

1629
01:15:00,439 --> 01:15:04,400
Speaker 8: get away with drafting a linebacker or a running back

1630
01:15:04,439 --> 01:15:07,760
Speaker 8: in the top ten every single year. And again, the

1631
01:15:07,800 --> 01:15:11,320
Speaker 8: other part of this is like, I'm sorry, you just

1632
01:15:11,439 --> 01:15:13,840
Speaker 8: you're kind of beholden to the talent group that you have,

1633
01:15:14,000 --> 01:15:16,880
Speaker 8: and this is not the strongest top of the NFL draft,

1634
01:15:16,960 --> 01:15:20,800
Speaker 8: Like the prototypical offensive tackle is not there this year,

1635
01:15:21,200 --> 01:15:24,439
Speaker 8: and so rather than try to force it, I'm all

1636
01:15:24,479 --> 01:15:26,680
Speaker 8: the way down to just take the sure thing. And

1637
01:15:26,800 --> 01:15:30,040
Speaker 8: I mean I'm a little biased because Sunny Styles is

1638
01:15:30,040 --> 01:15:32,800
Speaker 8: one of my absolute favorite prospects over the last few years.

1639
01:15:32,800 --> 01:15:35,960
Speaker 8: I just think he's a phenomenal player. I'm taking that

1640
01:15:36,000 --> 01:15:40,160
Speaker 8: guy every single time rather than trying to squint and

1641
01:15:40,760 --> 01:15:42,720
Speaker 8: hope for the best. You know, But that's just me.

1642
01:15:43,000 --> 01:15:45,280
Speaker 4: I'm just imagining the draft conversations. You guys are going

1643
01:15:45,320 --> 01:15:47,599
Speaker 4: to be having in your house. We've are pleased next

1644
01:15:47,640 --> 01:15:48,120
Speaker 4: few weeks.

1645
01:15:48,200 --> 01:15:50,240
Speaker 2: Dave, thank you so much for coming on the show.

1646
01:15:50,280 --> 01:15:52,639
Speaker 2: We love having you on as always anytime.

1647
01:15:52,680 --> 01:15:53,599
Speaker 8: Y'all happy to be here.

1648
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Speaker 2: All right, We're gonna take one more break here when

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Speaker 4: of the week.

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Speaker 2: And mine is the Spurs standing up for their Hispanic

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Speaker 2: fan base. There was a video that went viral of

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Speaker 2: an older white woman texting someone complaining about the quote

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Speaker 2: crazy Hispanic fans and questioning how they can afford tickets

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Speaker 2: insanely racist. But the most beautiful backlash came out of this.

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Speaker 2: All the Hispanic fans were posting their incredible seats, saying

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Speaker 2: I actually sit courtside, We're actually in the suites. Thanks,

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Speaker 2: And it took such beautiful pride.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, the.

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Speaker 4: Next yeah, the next game, they had shirts.

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Speaker 2: They had signs that said crazy Hispanic fans like just uplifting,

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Speaker 2: bringing the whole community together. But my favorite part was

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Speaker 2: that the Spurs came out and put out a statement

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Speaker 2: that like, they didn't have to get involved in this

1690
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Speaker 2: viral situation, but they did, and they said, all of

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Speaker 2: us in the Spurs organization are proud to live in

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Speaker 2: San Antonio, a city that shines and thrives because of

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Speaker 2: the culture and contributions of our Latino community. Inclusion is

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Speaker 2: the foundation for San Antonio Spurs. We strive to provide

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Speaker 2: an environment in our facility and across our community that

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Speaker 2: celebrates belonging and respecting, regardless of raith, race, or ethnicity.

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Speaker 4: Porvida. I just like the way that.

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Speaker 2: The community rallied around this was so beautiful and the

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Speaker 2: right way to go about something like this.

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Speaker 3: Like it's just it's funny because it happened. Well, so

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Speaker 3: last week. The reason I wasn't on the show last

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Speaker 3: week is I was actually at a wedding in Monterey, Mexico. Yeah,

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01:18:44,360 --> 01:18:46,559
Speaker 3: very dear friend of ours got married. Her family. A

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Speaker 3: lot of her family lives in Monterey. She grew up

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Speaker 3: in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas and it's Spurs country.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, oh my god.

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Speaker 3: And so even down in Mexico, Like I mean, in Mexico,

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Speaker 3: there were tons of Spurs. I saw a Spurs gear everywhere,

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01:18:58,760 --> 01:19:02,040
Speaker 3: I saw Spurs flags every where, and it's such a

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Speaker 3: It's such a way to bring a The NBA is

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Speaker 3: becoming more and more of an international game as it is,

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Speaker 3: and when you have a fan base that has a

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Speaker 3: cultural identity that includes your team, then absolutely, I'm so

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Speaker 3: glad that the Spurs recognized that and recognized it another

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01:19:21,360 --> 01:19:24,000
Speaker 3: cultural thing, although in a different way. My feel good

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Speaker 3: story of the week is just simply Opening Day in

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Speaker 3: Chicago because it's my love letter in Chicago baseball. I

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Speaker 3: am one of the few that does not hate either team,

1719
01:19:31,840 --> 01:19:33,840
Speaker 3: and if you bring a championship to my city, I'm

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Speaker 3: never gonna be mad at you. So I grew up

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Speaker 3: a Socks fan, and but I'm I love the Cubs.

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01:19:39,040 --> 01:19:41,120
Speaker 3: I lived in Wrigleyville for a time when I was

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Speaker 3: in college, and there is just an energy about the

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Speaker 3: city for Opening Day, where you know, bars are open

1725
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Speaker 3: early and everybody is just donning their either their Cubs

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Speaker 3: or their Socks gear. I'm a little bit more on

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Speaker 3: the northwest side of the city, so we see a

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Speaker 3: lot more Cubs gear out here, but it's just it's

1729
01:19:59,120 --> 01:20:02,280
Speaker 3: an incredible like ever already takes such such pride in yeah,

1730
01:20:02,320 --> 01:20:05,000
Speaker 3: which of our team, and the fact that, like, you

1731
01:20:05,120 --> 01:20:08,400
Speaker 3: make it through this harsh winner in Chicago, and then

1732
01:20:08,600 --> 01:20:11,000
Speaker 3: you get Opening Day as the signal like spring is here.

1733
01:20:11,080 --> 01:20:13,040
Speaker 3: We made it and now it's the best time of year.

1734
01:20:13,120 --> 01:20:15,839
Speaker 3: So happy Opening Week. I love Chicago.

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01:20:16,120 --> 01:20:18,360
Speaker 2: I'm with you, though, like I am the rare where

1736
01:20:18,479 --> 01:20:21,200
Speaker 2: born and raised Dodger fan. And then my first job

1737
01:20:21,200 --> 01:20:23,559
Speaker 2: out of college, I was Angel's sideline for ten years.

1738
01:20:23,600 --> 01:20:27,080
Speaker 2: So I love both teams so much. I'm going to

1739
01:20:27,439 --> 01:20:30,040
Speaker 2: Dodgers right after this, as soon as we're off. I'm

1740
01:20:30,040 --> 01:20:33,519
Speaker 2: going to Angels home opener next week. Like I am

1741
01:20:33,600 --> 01:20:35,600
Speaker 2: here for all of the baseball.

1742
01:20:35,640 --> 01:20:38,080
Speaker 4: We love baseball, and it's I'm so happy it's back.

1743
01:20:38,200 --> 01:20:41,639
Speaker 4: It's so beautiful. I just let's go. Thank you guys

1744
01:20:41,640 --> 01:20:44,800
Speaker 4: for spending your Saturday afternoon with us. Carme crushed it.

1745
01:20:44,880 --> 01:20:47,719
Speaker 4: We'll see you again next week, same time, same place,