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Speaker 3: Show with Me, Mike Rman. No Jason Tonight, Aaron Torres

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Speaker 3: in instead. As we are watching the NCAA Tournament, it

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Speaker 3: has our wrapped attention here on a Friday night. As

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Speaker 3: we've gotten to halftime in your game and by your

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Speaker 3: Michigan State closing it to an eight point game, kind

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Speaker 3: early blowout sequence and when Steve de Sager called it Ova, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: you've been staring daggers at the news desk for about

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Speaker 3: twenty five minutes now to say, IM not like trade vision,

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Speaker 4: Not make an eye contact with you, to say, right now,

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Speaker 4: we got some issue bill former friend of the show,

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Speaker 4: Billy Packer. Yeah, I heard about that a couple of times.

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Speaker 4: By the way, for those scoring at home, I believe

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Speaker 4: it is a combined three of eighteen from three in

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Speaker 4: the Iowa State Tennessee game right now. So yeah, a

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Speaker 4: lot of a lot of big, you know, big ten

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Speaker 4: toughnesses like you said, and it's uh anyway.

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Speaker 3: So you want to throw up another Arnie span your

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Speaker 3: reference there when you know three pointers aren't hitting the spot?

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Speaker 4: What is Arnie Spanish said?

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Speaker 3: Have you not watched any of the clips he tries

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Speaker 3: to send you of his three point mark? Oh show?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, he's he's about three for eighteen. Maybe you

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Speaker 4: know he he you know he plays basketball. I think

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Speaker 4: sort of, he's still out there. I give it the

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Speaker 4: old try. I mean, look, I can't I can't fault him.

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Speaker 4: I appreciate that level of dedication to the craft. I

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Speaker 4: wonder how long you have to run your phone to

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Speaker 4: get the one clip that is actually postable that he

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Speaker 4: social that's fair point.

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Speaker 3: So it's get a couple of us possessions and shots.

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Speaker 4: A couple of nosession. I think it's a couple of

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Speaker 3: I mean, I know that the guy's uniforms have definitely

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Speaker 3: I lived there many many years ago. I hope to

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Speaker 3: When you look at football, women's basketball and Wade coming

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Speaker 4: You can. The departure from NC State was messy. I

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Speaker 4: what people have to understand about the will Wade situation.

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Speaker 4: The ad who fired him was actually fired himself about

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Speaker 4: people who don't remember, there was a very viral clip

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Speaker 4: was Scott Woodard. Will Scott Woodward be able to hire

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Speaker 4: the next head coach? And the Governor of Louisiana at

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Speaker 4: the press conference said I would let Donald Trump hire

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Speaker 4: hire my next head coach. So there was animosity there.

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Speaker 4: Scott Woodward was fired, and what was interesting was, remember

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Speaker 4: will Wade, to your point, Mike was fired for cause

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Speaker 4: justifiably about four years ago, twenty twenty two. And he

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Speaker 4: so the ad at McNee State is now at LSU.

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Speaker 4: The school president from McNee State is now at LSU.

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Speaker 4: So one the guys and girls that fired him the

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Speaker 4: I it was a clunky departure, but I don't think

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Speaker 4: And oh, by the way, you know, if you think

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Speaker 3: No, there's no question. I mean, we can go on

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Speaker 3: same thing. Right, if you've got a changing of people

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Speaker 3: We talked about the Kevin Willard situation where folks in

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Speaker 3: And we talk about this with the NFL, we talk

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Speaker 3: the devil you don't kind of situation. It's like, all right,

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Speaker 3: they may have their issues, but they're a good coach

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Speaker 3: and the rules that they broke four years ago are

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Speaker 3: no longer the rules of engagement here. And he worked

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Speaker 3: well for us in this case at McNee state. But

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Speaker 3: like the Willard situation, became a all right, there was

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Speaker 3: a power void. Am I that guy? Am I not

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Speaker 3: in a press conference, that becomes Nolan void as soon

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Speaker 3: as that guy's out the door, right, Like, guy, you

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Speaker 4: Well, And that is the one thing I would say, though,

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Speaker 4: he you know, without being without doing the one hundred

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Speaker 4: He stated it in a manner in which his intention

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Speaker 4: He's not gonna put himself out there like that. But

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Speaker 4: I do agree with that part of there's the balance

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Speaker 3: So some of it is an acting job, yes, and

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Speaker 4: I heard there was a complaint. I didn't see what.

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Speaker 3: Oh no, we'll watch that clip. It's it's it's amazing,

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Speaker 3: uh in many levels. But but generally there is gonna

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Speaker 3: we talk about the rosters, right. I heard a conversation

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Speaker 3: Mick Crohna was having here locally with Petros and Money

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Speaker 3: last night with Arnie, but just kind of talking about,

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Speaker 3: you know, switching into the recruiting retention guy, and that's

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Speaker 3: always been the case, and that's that's the other part

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Speaker 3: I think for coaching, that that they don't get to play.

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Speaker 3: Oh the rules have changed, and I got my job

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Speaker 3: got that much harder. You've always had to try to

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Speaker 3: Like that's been there for a while and the advent

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Speaker 4: And I was gonna say too. It's one thing if

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Speaker 4: When you're at UCLA, you have the money. And it's

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Speaker 4: the same by the way, at wherever, iow State, Kentucky,

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Speaker 4: whatever it's It is partly about creating an atmosphere where

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Speaker 4: not sure that Mick cronin necessarily does that. I know

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Speaker 4: There are easy ways to fix it. No top five

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Speaker 4: It's just like everything Adam Silver does is so overcomplicated

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Speaker 3: then sure, why wouldn't you fall below that line?

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Speaker 4: I mean all world sure, second best players at Steph

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Speaker 4: Castle maybe.

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Speaker 3: Okay.

434
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Speaker 4: Both drafted by the Spurs after bad seasons. Boston Celtics

435
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Speaker 4: unless I miss something, Jason Tatum, Jalen Brown drafted by

436
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Speaker 4: the Boston Celtics. Oklahoma City, Yes, Shay was was part

437
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Speaker 4: of a trade, a trade that worked out in their

438
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Speaker 4: favor when he was the young guy. Jalen Williams drafted

439
00:23:35,320 --> 00:23:38,480
Speaker 4: by the team. Uh. Chet Holmgren drafted by the team.

440
00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:40,400
Speaker 4: You could go on and on down. List Denver, by

441
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Speaker 4: the way, who maybe isn't even in that top tier.

442
00:23:42,760 --> 00:23:47,120
Speaker 4: Jokich Murray drafted by that team. So this is still

443
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Speaker 4: the best way to accumulate talent, accumulate franchise talent, and

444
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Speaker 4: uh build yourself a championship team. And so this is

445
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Speaker 4: the this is part of my frustration. Oh, by the way,

446
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Speaker 4: Cad Conahan was gonna in the MVP until he had

447
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Speaker 4: a collapse, long drafted by the Detroit Pistons. And so

448
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Speaker 4: it's just like you're trying. I understand, by the way,

449
00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:10,720
Speaker 4: totally understand what you're saying about the competitiveness of these games.

450
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Speaker 4: But what are the Utah Jazz supposed to do? What

451
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Speaker 4: are the new Brooklyn Nets supposed to do? Like, I

452
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Speaker 4: don't know. It's just this is the proven way to

453
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Speaker 4: actually build a championship team. I don't understand what the

454
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Speaker 4: issue is.

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Speaker 3: Go ahead, no, no, But just from I think go

456
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Speaker 3: go sport to sport, it's you hold up those franchises,

457
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Speaker 3: those select few that actually have the acumen not to say, hey,

458
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Speaker 3: that free agent's really good, we can schmooze him. Like

459
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Speaker 3: go back to the idiocy I make everybody got mad

460
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Speaker 3: at Lebron James, but they all took their tours. Of course,

461
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Speaker 3: I remember the Carmelo Anthony going to Chicago and the Pomps.

462
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Speaker 4: How many of those have actually worked out for the team,

463
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Speaker 4: though Lebron and Bosch did, But Carmelo was a free agent.

464
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Speaker 4: Kyrie KD were free agents. You go on and on

465
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Speaker 4: down the list. It's not as many as you think that.

466
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Speaker 4: Well it wasn't for Kd's clown shoe we talked about.

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Speaker 3: We never know. I mean, I think it could be

468
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Speaker 3: a different universe. But all of that to say is

469
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Speaker 3: that you could grab free agents and certainly it's done.

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Speaker 3: Baseball is a whole different animal because you know, now

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Speaker 3: the Dodgers were evil because the rules are there, and

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Speaker 3: because the owners were all dopey with TV rules that

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Speaker 3: they allowed them years ago that they've now really capitalized

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Speaker 3: upon all these years later, which is the whole thing. Hey,

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Speaker 3: by the way, happy anniversary to the ownership group of

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Speaker 3: the Dodgers. Today's the anniversary that they took possession from

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Speaker 3: Frank McCourt. Oh wow, okay, how about that. There was

478
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Speaker 3: a picture of Magic Johnson that showed up on my

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Speaker 3: Twitter feed that included that.

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Speaker 4: So, as I say, I thought you were gonna say

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Speaker 4: it had been one year since they took over the

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Speaker 4: bus Family, I was like, it can't be a.

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Speaker 3: Year or no, no, no, not quite. Well, yeah, I

484
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Speaker 3: have to look that up as to when that officially

485
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Speaker 3: went down. As we watched the Dodgers and diamondbackskin after it.

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Speaker 3: But it's the kind of thing that you still have

487
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Speaker 3: to have an infrastructure to evaluate players, whether they're obvious, hey,

488
00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:11,720
Speaker 3: just plug and play, or guys coming off injury, guys

489
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Speaker 3: that have been underutilized, or where something seems to be

490
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Speaker 3: missing in their development. Right, And that's one of the

491
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Speaker 3: things the Dodger's been very good about in their system

492
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Speaker 3: of bringing guys that are kind of discarded. And yes,

493
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Speaker 3: there's the over the top monies for some of these players,

494
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Speaker 3: but there's a lot of guys that have built up

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Speaker 3: that roster through the years. It's like, Okay, that's the

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Speaker 3: guy that they expected in insert city here, and then

497
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Speaker 3: they fix something in their swing, they fix something in

498
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Speaker 3: the fielding, they fix something in terms of their delivery

499
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Speaker 3: to home plate, and add it all up and now

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Speaker 3: you've got the success. And even then it's still the

501
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Speaker 3: narrowest of margins to get those World teams seven.

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Speaker 4: I was on air in this seat on a Saturday

503
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Speaker 4: night with the Saga and Jason Martin, and it did

504
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Speaker 4: not look like they were winning that game seven.

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Speaker 3: There for a very long time, right, So you take

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Speaker 3: all that for the NFL. What do we have seven

507
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Speaker 3: franchises that you say are stable and really no year

508
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Speaker 3: to year. Here's the directions, here's how we build a

509
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Speaker 3: team and where we go. You might have a dip

510
00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:14,879
Speaker 3: once in a while. Baltimore is in a weird spot

511
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Speaker 3: with whatever DaCosta is doing right now. And maybe he

512
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Speaker 3: was smarter than a Fox because he got to keep

513
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Speaker 3: his bet draft picks and brings in to Hendrickson, not

514
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Speaker 3: the same player as Crosby, a little bit of a

515
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Speaker 3: lesser guy with some injury history of his own. But

516
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Speaker 3: you still get to keep those picks and keep moving on. Fine.

517
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Speaker 3: But you know, we talk about San Francisco, We talk

518
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Speaker 3: but even those teams are they getting over They're consistently good,

519
00:27:38,359 --> 00:27:40,800
Speaker 3: but are they great? No? And in the NBA, to

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Speaker 3: your point, how many teams do you trust? You go

521
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Speaker 3: back San Antonio. It's a couple of generations. They've seemed

522
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Speaker 3: to find that big man that Geschwart and Webby's a.

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Speaker 4: Whole other seem to find him.

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Speaker 3: They seem to find well, because that's the other thing

525
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Speaker 3: we go into, frozen envelopes and chaos in the draft process.

526
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Speaker 3: There's Derek as he goes to Chicago, there's Lebron to Cleveland,

527
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Speaker 3: whatever else. All of those things, I might put a

528
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Speaker 3: little tinder flag.

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00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:09,120
Speaker 4: Happens the team traded.

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Speaker 3: After all of that craziness.

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Speaker 4: Wow, look at that, there's Coper flag.

532
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Speaker 3: One point eight percent chance. Who knew. But even if

533
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Speaker 3: you love or hate the invisible hand, it still comes

534
00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:26,520
Speaker 3: back to you need to find and develop talent and

535
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Speaker 3: then fill in the gaps around that. In the NBA,

536
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Speaker 3: you don't have to do that with very many bodies, right,

537
00:28:32,640 --> 00:28:36,040
Speaker 3: because most teams run out what he guys, Yeah, maybe

538
00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:39,720
Speaker 3: a knife, depending on how that team's constructed. You know,

539
00:28:39,880 --> 00:28:43,200
Speaker 3: Boston gets the win because Tatum decides, unlike a lot

540
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Speaker 3: of guys, he actually wants to come back and play basketball. Unbelievable.

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Speaker 3: I celebrated it. I had noise makers and a little

542
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Speaker 3: little New Year's Eve hat and everything. It's like everybody

543
00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:53,800
Speaker 3: else is taken days off. Look, this guy wants to

544
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Speaker 3: play basketball. Let's celebrate the hell out of him.

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Speaker 4: We should, and we really, we actually really should, because

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Speaker 4: I thought that was pretty Honestly, I thought it was

547
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Speaker 4: a little crazy, to be honest, but hey, but.

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Speaker 3: This fortune favors the bold. Oh wait, I shouldn't say

549
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Speaker 3: that that was that Matt Damon commercial. He's Aeron Torres

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Speaker 3: in for Jason Smith at Aaron Underscore Tours, where you

551
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Speaker 3: find him a couple of hotly contested games here late. Sorry, buddy,

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Speaker 3: that's the way it works. Be sure to check out

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Speaker 3: the YouTube channel for the show. Search Jason Smith's Show

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Speaker 3: for an update of everything going around in our sporting universe.

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Speaker 3: The man the legend of the myth. He wants to

562
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Speaker 3: throw a couple innings as well. It's Steve Desager.

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Speaker 6: They may need me. By the way, I'm glad you

564
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Speaker 6: mentioned about Frank McCourt no longer being Dodge your owner.

565
00:29:53,480 --> 00:29:55,800
Speaker 6: I really don't care who he sold to. It's still

566
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Speaker 6: worth celebrating because not as many people as should remember

567
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Speaker 6: this that the Los Angeles Dodgers filed for bankruptcy own. Yeah,

568
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Speaker 6: when Frank McCourt was the owner in twenty eleven, they

569
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Speaker 6: were going to miss payroll, not just for the employees

570
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Speaker 6: in the office, for Major League Baseball players in the

571
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Speaker 6: middle of the season if they didn't file for bankruptcy.

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Speaker 3: Wow, now he gets forty five hours a car in

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Speaker 3: the park.

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Speaker 6: I don't want to hear that. No, forty a few

575
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Speaker 6: paid advance. Meanwhile, at Dodger Stadium, tonight's LA got his

576
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Speaker 6: championship rings. You know, they've really invested into the team,

577
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Speaker 6: you know, with cash with the new owners.

578
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Speaker 3: About that, I think.

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Speaker 4: End the stadium court has already sold his do you know?

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Speaker 6: And no gondola on site from Frank Emma Shean was

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Speaker 6: Tonight's starter, six strikeouts in three and a third, but

582
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Speaker 6: as soon as he left, reliever Jack Dryer allowed the

583
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Speaker 6: tying two run doubles. So it's Arizona four to four

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Speaker 6: in LA in the bottom of the fourth. And as

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Speaker 6: we taught college basketball, I mentioned last hour that there

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Speaker 6: was a Final Four game.

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00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:02,160
Speaker 3: I looked it up.

588
00:31:02,160 --> 00:31:04,120
Speaker 6: Couldn't believe it was two thousand and eight. It's been

589
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Speaker 6: a while when Billy Packer on the air for CBS

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Speaker 6: actually called the game saying that's it, this is over.

591
00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:13,520
Speaker 6: In the first half, a big lead for Kansas.

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Speaker 3: This game is over business, Yes it is.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

594
00:31:20,080 --> 00:31:21,920
Speaker 4: Was seven and a half to go in the first half.

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Speaker 6: It was thirty eight twelve Kansas over North Carolina, and

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Speaker 6: North Carolina of course made it a game by the

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Speaker 6: second half, but did eventually lose. So I guess Billy Packer,

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Speaker 6: same as tonight from the Great Beyond.

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Speaker 3: Is saying see, I was right. I was right.

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Speaker 6: I'm sure if he was calling this he would say, yeah, Connecticut,

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Speaker 6: it was over, and the same thing is happening here.

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Speaker 6: The opponent, Michigan State, making it a game. We have

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Speaker 6: ten minutes to go in their Sweet sixteen contest in

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Speaker 6: DC Yukon. After the first ten minutes was up twenty

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Speaker 6: five to six. Now forty four forty two?

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Speaker 2: Oh what lay up?

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Speaker 6: In a foul for the Spartans. It is tied at

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Speaker 6: forty four with ten minutes left in this game. The

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Speaker 6: winner gets Duke. Sunday, five pm Eastern Time. Number one

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Speaker 6: Duke had to come from behind to beat Saint John's

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Speaker 6: eighty to seventy five. Blue Devils were down ten early

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Speaker 6: in the second half. In the Midwest Region one seed

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Speaker 6: Michigan eliminated Alabama ninety to seventy seven. Wolverines in Chicago

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Speaker 6: on Sunday will face the winner of the game that's

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Speaker 6: at halftime right now, Yes, only halftime at this hour.

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Speaker 6: Tennessee thirty four to thirty three over Iowa State in

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Speaker 6: the Women's Sweet sixteen. Late third quarter, Duke and lsu

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Speaker 6: are tied at sixty five. Earlier victories for Yukon, Ucla

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Speaker 6: and Notre Dame in the NBA, Boston did not have

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Speaker 6: Jalen Brown out with calf Titaness, so Peyton Pritchard had

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Speaker 6: thirty six points off the bench, and the Celtics beat

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Speaker 6: Atlanta one oh nine, one oh two at Denver a

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Speaker 6: triple double another from Nikola Jokic. Nuggets won their fifth straight,

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Speaker 6: beating Utah one thirty five one twenty nine, and the

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Speaker 6: Clippers won at Indiana one fourteen to one thirteen Kawhi

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Speaker 6: Leonard twenty eight points, including the game winner in the

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Speaker 6: last second. The Clips had trailed by twenty four at

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Speaker 6: Indiana early in the second quarter. Just two NHL games,

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Speaker 6: Tonight Rangers six to one winners at home against Chicago.

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Speaker 6: Detroit won five to two at Buffalo. Tiger Woods was

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Speaker 6: arrested on suspicion of Dui and Florida. No injuries reported.

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Speaker 6: At high speed, he hit a truck, his car flipped

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Speaker 6: on its side and skidded to Major League Baseball. The

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Speaker 6: Yankees were three nothing winners today at San Francisco, with

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Speaker 6: three runs in the sixth Aaron Judge two run homer,

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Speaker 6: Giancarlos Stanton a solo homer, and in fact, Tony Vittello

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Speaker 6: from the University of Tennessee is the Giants manager. He

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Speaker 6: has been shut out twice to start his major league career.

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Speaker 6: AP says his Tennessee baseball team was shut out twice

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Speaker 6: the past two years total in one hundred and thirty

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Speaker 6: eight games. He's one of the rare managers of the

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Speaker 6: last forty years in the majors to be shut out

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Speaker 6: his first two games starting his career. Updating Yukon forty

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Speaker 6: eight forty seven over Michigan State under nine minutes to

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Speaker 6: go in their Sweet sixteen matchup.

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Speaker 3: Bick to you, thanks so much, Steve. What more on

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Speaker 3: San Francisco, because yesterday we talked about the Fugsee nine

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Speaker 3: nine to nine challenge. I don't know if you've heard

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Speaker 3: about that, but people are crying foul at Dodger Stadium.

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Speaker 3: Not because the ticket prices, not because of the parking. No,

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Speaker 3: it's how thirsty are you? And can you drink your fill? Hey?

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Speaker 3: He's Aaron Torres in for Jason Smith. Suddenly he's in

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Speaker 3: wrapped attention and nerves are starting to come through. I'm

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Speaker 3: Mike Carmen. Continue with the note from dout.

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Speaker 2: Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith

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

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Speaker 2: pm Pacific.

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Speaker 3: Hey, welcome back in Fox Sports Radio. Jason Smith sell

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Speaker 3: with me Mike Harmon. Second half both of these Sweet

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Speaker 3: sixteen games, Yukon clinging to a two point lead over

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Speaker 3: Michigan State. I watched Jackson Cohler after a big make

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Speaker 3: and one situation. I immediately thought, Drago's kid, Yeah, let's

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Speaker 3: go get another Rocky out there. So you've got that game,

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Speaker 3: You've got Iowa State currently down four to Tennessee first

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Speaker 3: minute of the second half. Plenty of action that might

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Speaker 3: actually not end by the time we get off air.

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Speaker 3: Here Aaron Torres in for Jason Smith. Tonight Aaron Underscore

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Speaker 3: tour has check out everything he's got. Pop him here

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Speaker 3: on Saturday nights alongside Jason Martin on the network and

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Speaker 3: we're watching also the Dodgers and the Diamondbacks. Four. Now

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Speaker 3: I mentioned, you know, confections and these ballpark gastronomic delights,

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Speaker 3: they all have their tours. Right, here's what we added

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Speaker 3: for this year or whatever else. And one of the

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Speaker 3: big things in San Francisco that was uncovered was here's

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Speaker 3: your nine to nine to nine challenge. So nine hot dogs,

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Speaker 3: nine beers, nine innings. Oh wow, and here's the deal whatever, Well,

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Speaker 3: san Francisco had one. It was fifty five bucks. So

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Speaker 3: people like, cool, what kind of you know, domestic beers? Whatever? No, no, no,

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Speaker 3: you got nine mini hot dogs. Oh okay, nine basically

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Speaker 3: shot glasses with the team logo and a twenty four

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Speaker 3: ounce beer for your fifty five bucks. Oh so there's

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Speaker 3: your nine beers. If you portion it out properly at

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Speaker 3: about two and a half to three ounces per it's

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Speaker 3: got to be shy of three right, three times nine? Yeah? Anyway, Well,

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Speaker 3: now Dodger Stadium. Here's the latest. There's a giant tumblry

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Speaker 3: you can get that looks like an O tany jersey

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Speaker 3: the name and number and all you can drink on

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Speaker 3: the day of purchase.

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Speaker 4: Oh, how much would you pay? I mean, I know

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Speaker 4: what it costs, so that soft.

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Speaker 3: Drinks all through a game.

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Speaker 4: Oh see, if it's not beer, I don't really care.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, it's one so soft drinks.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. I so how much would I pay for the cup?

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Speaker 4: That's basically the yes.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: So here's the thing. I know how much it costs,

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Speaker 4: so and I think I would pay that because I

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Speaker 4: like Otani though.

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Speaker 3: Okay, so it becomes the collectible that goes up on

705
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Speaker 3: your stand and you'll use it, and I'm sure it's

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Speaker 3: a nice quality cup. Obviously, check to make sure it's

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Speaker 3: dishwasher safe and all of those fun things. Otherwise the

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Speaker 3: Otani seventeen goes away. But since we discussed, seventy five

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Speaker 3: bucks is the cost of this and people are losing

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Speaker 3: their minds? Sure right, it's the cost of doing business.

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Speaker 3: If you decide you want to be one of probably

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Speaker 3: a million people that'll buy one of those by the

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Speaker 3: end of the year. Because this is always you know,

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Speaker 3: the question of the collectibles, right, the fight for the

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Speaker 3: bobbleheads and ring replicause I know the Mets are doing

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Speaker 3: a replica nineteen eighty six Championship Ring thing tomorrow, and

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Speaker 3: you've got all these Bobblehead days and whatever else that

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Speaker 3: there's a limited number that might be ten thousand, gonna

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Speaker 3: ask twenty. With these cups, they don't seem to be limited,

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Speaker 3: or at least nothing I saw in the reporting, at

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Speaker 3: least earlier today. I was like, all right, it's only

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Speaker 3: gonna be the first home stand or whatever. It just

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Speaker 3: seems like it's, say, here's the promotion. All you can

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Speaker 3: drink sodis on the day of purchase. So it's not

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Speaker 3: a Hey, I got there on Friday, I'm going back Sunday.

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Speaker 3: I'm taking my O ton cap. No, I'm gonna show

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Speaker 3: me that receipt. Yeah, so seventy five bucks. That's an

728
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Speaker 3: awful lot of subt I mean, but you can keep

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Speaker 3: refilling it, go dump it to your friends and whatever else.

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Speaker 3: So I mean, you could play that game if you want.

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Speaker 3: You still cost per per coke or diet coke or

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Speaker 3: whatever else goes in. But for seventy five bucks, people

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Speaker 3: are crying foul.

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Speaker 4: I mean it's it's a collector's item. I mean, it's

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Speaker 4: just how much do you want to play pay for

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Speaker 4: collectors at them? I think that's I think that's uh uh,

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Speaker 4: what's the right word. It's it's soft, like you know

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Speaker 4: what you're gonna pay. You could pay for the normal

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Speaker 4: twelve dollars Coca cola, seven dollars Coca cola or whatever

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Speaker 4: you're paying for the collectors.

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Speaker 3: But that's it. You know, your collector's cup coca is

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Speaker 3: probably gonna be fifteen to twenty bucks for just the schedule,

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Speaker 3: the one that they've sold forever. Sure, now it's an otani,

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00:39:25,719 --> 00:39:28,319
Speaker 3: you celebrate otani. Someone's got to pay that bling it

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Speaker 3: up selling on Etsy.

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Speaker 4: Well, that's what I was gonna say. I was gonna

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Speaker 4: say exactly what you just said. I was like, I'll

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Speaker 4: just wait until they start popping up on eBay and

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Speaker 4: I'll just buy mine there.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 4: I don't know about a used soda cup that that

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Speaker 4: doesn't well.

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Speaker 3: But you're gonna clean it. I mean, you can size.

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Speaker 4: I was gonna say, I think, oh, it was more.

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Speaker 4: I hope that it gets sent to me clean. But yes,

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Speaker 4: well there's.

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Speaker 3: Well that's there's no what do you what are you kidding?

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Speaker 3: You'd still clean it when you showed up.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but it's it's all sticky and gross. I don't

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Speaker 4: know anyway I would so I am a I am

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Speaker 4: a experiences guy. So if if I love do Otani

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Speaker 4: that much, and I do love watching them plays at

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Speaker 4: bet right now, as a matter of fact, I would

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Speaker 4: pay for it. I don't know. Listen, but get your

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Speaker 4: normal eight dollars cup of soda, and it's probably even

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Speaker 4: more than that, if that's what you know. If you

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Speaker 4: don't want to pay, don't pay. But it is a

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Speaker 4: collector's item by definition, there is a limited supply. By definition,

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Speaker 4: you pay for exclusivity. And I don't know.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's the the rule of you know what the

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Speaker 3: market will bear. Right. They call it the limited edition souvenir,

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Speaker 3: so we'll see it's a textured plastic to resemble the

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Speaker 3: jersey and whatever that feel is. And again to your point,

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Speaker 3: it's like going out to dinner, going to a movie,

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Speaker 3: a game of play, whatever else, Like you decide what

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Speaker 3: it's worth, right, Yes, some folks will bemoan the cost

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Speaker 3: of Disneyland. Well, for some people, that's there once in

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Speaker 3: a lifetime experience, as opposed to treating it like the

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Speaker 3: park down the street. Yes, so the value proposition becomes

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Speaker 3: a much different thing. In this particular case. It's not

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00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:07,000
Speaker 3: about the cheap, super lowse or whatever you're you're ingesting

782
00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:09,480
Speaker 3: at that point. It's the I got this cup.

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00:41:10,040 --> 00:41:13,080
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, it's some people think it's crazy to spend

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Speaker 4: one thousand dollars or five thousand or ten thousand on

785
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Speaker 4: a vacation. Some people say, I work all year for that,

786
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Speaker 4: And so for me, you know, I'm not here to

787
00:41:20,560 --> 00:41:23,399
Speaker 4: pocket watch anybody. If you like Ozani, get the cup,

788
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Speaker 4: but don't complain about it though. It is by definition

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Speaker 4: a collector's item, so deal with it.

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Speaker 3: It's like TV shows when everybody starts complaining, It's like,

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Speaker 3: if you don't like it, don't watch fifty eight fifty

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Speaker 3: five Yukon coming down the stretch. When we continue, are

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Speaker 3: you winning? We'll find out