WEBVTT - Dallas Cowboys, Sneed to Titans, & Shohei Ohtani

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<v Speaker 2>All Right, welcome man, What driving Nick great? Episode two

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<v Speaker 2>twenty four A ton to do Today? The NFL officially

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<v Speaker 2>changed it's kickoff rule. I'm actually fascinated by that. I

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<v Speaker 2>think it's a good change. We do need to get

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<v Speaker 2>into the gambling scan doles now plural encircling our sports leagues. Also,

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<v Speaker 2>since you've last seen me, I had surgery on my arm.

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<v Speaker 2>I have a steel plate there, so that's why you

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<v Speaker 2>see this rat. But otherwise I'm doing great. Before we

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<v Speaker 2>get to any of that, though, this is not a

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<v Speaker 2>sports topic.

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<v Speaker 3>This is just a.

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<v Speaker 2>My thoughts on something that just happened so overnight. If

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<v Speaker 2>you haven't seen it, a ship crashed into the Francis

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<v Speaker 2>Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore and the bridge collapsed, and

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<v Speaker 2>obviously thoughts and if you're the prayerful type, prayers with

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<v Speaker 2>the missing people and with anyone in the moment directly impacted.

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<v Speaker 2>But the reason I'm starting the show with that is

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<v Speaker 2>that will be one of the three, maybe one of

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<v Speaker 2>the two, single biggest things to happen in this country

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<v Speaker 2>this year. I don't think people have fully yet. It

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<v Speaker 2>just happened hours ago, wrapped their minds around what that

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<v Speaker 2>bridge in that port city being destroyed by a ship

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<v Speaker 2>gone awry means. But what it means for people's livelihoods,

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<v Speaker 2>what it means for commerce, what it means for trade,

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<v Speaker 2>what it means for a city that couldn't really take

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<v Speaker 2>many more body blows. What it means for their economy

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<v Speaker 2>is right now almost unfathomable. And so I don't want

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<v Speaker 2>to start the show off on a down note.

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<v Speaker 3>But this is.

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<v Speaker 2>A type of worldwide event that I don't know if

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<v Speaker 2>And again, it just happened overnight, so a lot of

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<v Speaker 2>you guys are probably just finding out about it right now.

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<v Speaker 2>But the impact of it and the import of that

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<v Speaker 2>is almost impossible to overstate. So if you have friends, family,

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<v Speaker 2>loved ones, anyone, obviously you're checking on them to make

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<v Speaker 2>sure they're safe. If they're in the Baltimore area, make

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<v Speaker 2>sure they weren't on the bridge, anything like that. But furthermore,

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<v Speaker 2>if you have anyone that works in Baltimore, check on

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<v Speaker 2>them because their lives are about to be turned upside

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<v Speaker 2>down in for not a short period of time. And

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<v Speaker 2>so I know that's an odd way to start the show,

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<v Speaker 2>but I really believe it's one of the most significant

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<v Speaker 2>events that happen in this country in at least a year,

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<v Speaker 2>and it's you know, I don't want to say it's

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<v Speaker 2>nobody's fault. We don't know what happened. It looks like

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<v Speaker 2>the the you know, I'm not a shipping expert, but

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<v Speaker 2>a ship from Singapore lost control and ran into the bridge.

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<v Speaker 2>And so there's that. It is an odd way to

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<v Speaker 2>start the show. I admit we will do a very

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<v Speaker 2>very harsh tone shift in about twenty seconds to the

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<v Speaker 2>regular show. But it is a very very significant event

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<v Speaker 2>for the entire world, particularly for the United States, and

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<v Speaker 2>for the good people of Baltimore. Okay, now to the

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<v Speaker 2>Official Sports Show. I know it's an awkward transition, but

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<v Speaker 2>I'm all right with that. Here's what did not make

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<v Speaker 2>the cut the mizz offering to trade and Jason Kelcey

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<v Speaker 2>and WWE. That doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

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<v Speaker 2>Patrick Mahomes evidently lost a bet, so he had to

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<v Speaker 2>dress up like a cow. I don't really care about

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<v Speaker 2>that either. And now, speaking of things I don't care about,

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<v Speaker 2>we have our demand was wearing these sunglasses if you're

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<v Speaker 2>watching on YouTube, as a gag. When I sat down

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<v Speaker 2>to see him in the chair in LA and I

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<v Speaker 2>thought they looked so good on him. You know, I

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<v Speaker 2>decided to use my fifty one percent voting power of

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<v Speaker 2>the show and mandated that he not only wear those

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<v Speaker 2>shades today, but that might just be his look moving forward.

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<v Speaker 2>So give us those thoughts in the comments. So you're

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<v Speaker 2>now seeing Demanse Demanse. The producers also want me to

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<v Speaker 2>talk about the Bachelorette, which I understand is wildly popular

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<v Speaker 2>but I know nothing about. So go ahead, we're having

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<v Speaker 2>a con. Well this is okay. So this is the

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<v Speaker 2>NFL Coaches photo, which is not the bachelorette.

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<v Speaker 4>Uh.

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<v Speaker 2>Here's the thing about the NFL coaches photo. If you're

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<v Speaker 2>watching on YouTube, there are people most know. There's my guy,

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<v Speaker 2>Andy Reid looking as glorious as ever. Is that Dave

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<v Speaker 2>Canalis next to him? I know it's.

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<v Speaker 4>I think we're about to run through a quick little

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<v Speaker 4>quiz for you. So I think you got the first

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<v Speaker 4>one obviously, before.

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<v Speaker 2>We move on to anymore. I was gonna say, yeah,

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<v Speaker 2>so it goes John Harbaugh, Jim Harbaugh, Andy Reid, I

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<v Speaker 2>think Dave Canalis, and then best I can tell that

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<v Speaker 2>guy next to Dave Canalis is producer Matt Fully and

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<v Speaker 2>shout out to him for getting in the picture. But

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know who that is. All right, go ahead

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<v Speaker 2>there you, oh Matts in both places. I don't know

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<v Speaker 2>what else we have. We can go through it quickly

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<v Speaker 2>because I know for the audio listeners this probably isn't

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<v Speaker 2>really popular for them because they can't see what we're doing.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know who that is. I cannot I cannot identify.

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<v Speaker 3>That's Brian call.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh, Brian Callian. Okay, he just got his first head

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<v Speaker 2>coaching job. Shout out Brian Callahan. All right, next, well

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<v Speaker 2>he's sitting next to Mike McDaniel. I'm not good at this,

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<v Speaker 2>and this is not my bit, guys, this is Kyle

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<v Speaker 2>Branton p f T commenter's bit. Just tell me who

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<v Speaker 2>they are. I don't think this is good content. Mike McDonald,

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<v Speaker 2>Mike McDonald, Oh, the Ravens decordinator. And who's the guy

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<v Speaker 2>on the other side of him, Zach t the other

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<v Speaker 2>yellow circle, that's Zach Taylor. Glow up, Zach Taylor. Good

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<v Speaker 2>for him. I should have known that, you know what.

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<v Speaker 2>It's kind of a grainy photo. But I'm not good

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<v Speaker 2>at things like that. I'm not good at like remembering players' numbers.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not remember good at remembering coaches faces. Okay, now

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<v Speaker 2>to the actual show. So I'm just gonna take this

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<v Speaker 2>from here before we get to some of the other topics.

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<v Speaker 2>Because last week we said, demanse we were gonna wait

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<v Speaker 2>and hold off on the Otani story until more news

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<v Speaker 2>came out, and I'm glad we did. And then as

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<v Speaker 2>the Otani story, Otani finally talks, and we'll get into that.

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<v Speaker 2>There's a John tay Porter story, and you might say

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<v Speaker 2>it was John tay Porter and he's the brother of

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<v Speaker 2>Michael porter junior. He was a big time recruit from

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<v Speaker 2>Missou who never really got his career off the ground

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<v Speaker 2>because of injuries. He's on a two way contract and

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<v Speaker 2>there are very suspicious betting patterns involving his player, props

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<v Speaker 2>and games. He left early with injury or ailment. I

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<v Speaker 2>want to start with Otani, and I'm going to start

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<v Speaker 2>in a place that I don't think anyone else has

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<v Speaker 2>started or discussed. But to me it is the most obvious,

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<v Speaker 2>which is this. The Otani story can be about gambling

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<v Speaker 2>in the micro, in the macro. To me, what it

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<v Speaker 2>is about is this. You can't, in any walk of life,

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<v Speaker 2>whether it be the United Nations, international communication or the

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<v Speaker 2>world's greatest baseball player, have just one factor, authentication on

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<v Speaker 2>your interpreter. I know that sounds ridiculous, but I mean

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<v Speaker 2>this adamantly. Every time I read anything about the Otani story,

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<v Speaker 2>what comes to mind is got to have two interpreters.

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<v Speaker 2>The idea that you would ever be totally reliant on

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<v Speaker 2>one other person in all communications, in all business dealings,

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<v Speaker 2>financial dealings, everything to one guy. Of Course, that guy

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<v Speaker 2>is susceptible to corruption. Of course you're susceptible to get

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<v Speaker 2>and robbed. You gotta you gotta go too, interpreters. And

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not blaming Otani for this, because it seems like

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<v Speaker 2>the solo interpreter is what everyone always does, but that

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<v Speaker 2>has always struck me as perilous. If the interpreter has

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<v Speaker 2>his own uh ulterior motives or dishonesty or whatever, it

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<v Speaker 2>doesn't have to be a gambling problem allegedly. It could

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<v Speaker 2>be anything. It could be you know what, I'm mad

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<v Speaker 2>at the guy I work for. I want him to

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<v Speaker 2>look like a jerk in the media. It could be

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<v Speaker 2>I don't like that reporter. I don't want his actual

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<v Speaker 2>smart question to be perceived as a smart question to

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<v Speaker 2>I can't imagine I really empathize with Otani or with

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<v Speaker 2>anyone that has to do business dealings or real communication

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<v Speaker 2>through an interpreter, because you've got to feel a little powerless.

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<v Speaker 2>And because of that, and the reason I'm starting there,

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<v Speaker 2>it is because of that that I tend to believe Otani.

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<v Speaker 2>So here's what I mean, And this is the angle

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<v Speaker 2>that I don't think enough people have looked at it from.

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<v Speaker 2>If every single interaction you have with your employer, with

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<v Speaker 2>your teammates, with your sponsors is run through another individual

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<v Speaker 2>who is literally translating that obviously is the person you

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<v Speaker 2>trust more than any person in the world. That obviously

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<v Speaker 2>is a person who would have access to your bank accounts.

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<v Speaker 2>That obviously is a person you would implicitly believe it.

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<v Speaker 2>And so like, who would be the easiest person in

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<v Speaker 2>the world for me to scam? The answer is Demanse

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<v Speaker 2>or my wife or Diora, not because they're dumb, but

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<v Speaker 2>because they that we operate from a place of like

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<v Speaker 2>implicit trust. If Demanse called me and was you know

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<v Speaker 2>what I mean, as he did actually a few months ago,

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<v Speaker 2>was like, hey, what's your recommendations on how I file taxes?

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<v Speaker 2>Like that conversation starts from a place of this person

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<v Speaker 2>will only ever give me good advice, will only ever,

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<v Speaker 2>or even if it's not good advice, give me their

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<v Speaker 2>what they think is good advice, and will only ever

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<v Speaker 2>have my best interests at heart. And so if in

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<v Speaker 2>that moment I was like, oh boy, I got upside

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<v Speaker 2>down in some investments. My credit's wrecked and I need

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<v Speaker 2>to start fresh. I'm gonna rip off Demons's credit, he

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<v Speaker 2>would it would he would be the easiest mark in

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<v Speaker 2>the world because of our relationship. So if if Otani

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<v Speaker 2>relies on this guy for everything, then of course this

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<v Speaker 2>guy could rip him off for millions of dollars. And

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<v Speaker 2>so that is then where I actually, when it comes

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<v Speaker 2>to the Otani part of this, have more of an

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<v Speaker 2>issue with the Dodgers, and so this is a paragraph

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<v Speaker 2>from the Athletic that I think is the most intriguing

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<v Speaker 2>part of the story. Also, a quote also under scrutiny

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<v Speaker 2>is how the Dodgers and Otani's representatives entrusted Missihara, who's

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<v Speaker 2>the interpreter, entrusted Missahara enough to have him be the

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<v Speaker 2>lone point person to Otani while they knew Missahara was

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<v Speaker 2>the subject of this line of questioning. Rather that rather

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<v Speaker 2>they followed their typical order of operations. Every communication went

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<v Speaker 2>from the Dodgers agent nez Balelo pardon me if I'm

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<v Speaker 2>mispronounced it, or is represented at CAAA went through Missahara,

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<v Speaker 2>even without Otani present. This meant no one from the

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<v Speaker 2>Dodgers or CIA supposedly ever, talked to Otani directly about

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<v Speaker 2>the looming story involving Missahara before the interpreter talked to

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<v Speaker 2>the entire team. After Wednesday's opener, Misera now claims he

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<v Speaker 2>never misinterpreted anything while interpreting for Otani. But think about

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<v Speaker 2>that for a moment. What that is saying is that

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<v Speaker 2>the Dodgers and Otani's representatives were aware that there were

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<v Speaker 2>these allegations of some level of impropriety by the interpreter,

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<v Speaker 2>and at no point did they then be like, Hey,

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<v Speaker 2>can we find someone else that speaks Japanese? Call them

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<v Speaker 2>in here, get show a in here, tell the interpret

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<v Speaker 2>to go somewhere else for a minute while we make

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<v Speaker 2>sure show hey knows everything that is wild. That is

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<v Speaker 2>so irresponsible That to me is the most suspicious part

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<v Speaker 2>of this. The idea that they would say, oh my goodness,

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<v Speaker 2>the interpreter is subjected to a gambling probe. Somebody's gotta

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<v Speaker 2>tell Otani, we'll have the interpreter do it. What that

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<v Speaker 2>seems like, at best incredibly careless and at worst nefarious.

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<v Speaker 2>And the reason I say it worse nefarious is it

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<v Speaker 2>makes me wonder if everyone was hoping that somehow this

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<v Speaker 2>story could just go away, that somehow that the company

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<v Speaker 2>line of interpreter did all of this on his own,

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<v Speaker 2>and then Otani, because he's such a great guy, just

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<v Speaker 2>covered the debts. That's the cleanest version of this, because

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<v Speaker 2>the new version, which is the interpreter, did all this

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<v Speaker 2>on his own and then stole from Otani. That involves

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<v Speaker 2>not MLB investigations, not even just IRS investigations, but federal investigations.

0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:26.880
<v Speaker 2>That involves subpoena power, that involves depositions, that involves talking

0:16:26.960 --> 0:16:32.480
<v Speaker 2>under oath, and it would again my initial read on

0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:36.560
<v Speaker 2>it is folks were hoping that this could go away,

0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:42.280
<v Speaker 2>and it obviously isn't. Now as a gambler, there are

0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:46.600
<v Speaker 2>also a lot of other to me curious questions that

0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:56.560
<v Speaker 2>arose up to an including what bookie is giving this

0:16:56.800 --> 0:17:03.760
<v Speaker 2>guy multiple millions of dollars in credit I'm sure will

0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:08.399
<v Speaker 2>be made whole at some point unless the guy was

0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:14.040
<v Speaker 2>representing Listen, I'm backed by one of the biggest sports

0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:16.719
<v Speaker 2>stars in the world. Now that doesn't mean he was

0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:20.119
<v Speaker 2>backed by one of the biggest sports guys in the world.

0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:27.800
<v Speaker 2>But as again as a lifelong gambler, let me tell

0:17:27.840 --> 0:17:33.040
<v Speaker 2>you typically how something like this would go if I

0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:40.280
<v Speaker 2>brought Demanse to my semi weekly poker game and he

0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:43.879
<v Speaker 2>played with me a couple times, and he was introduced

0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:47.680
<v Speaker 2>as my guy orever or even if I didn't bring him,

0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:51.480
<v Speaker 2>but everyone publicly knew he was with me, and then

0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:57.720
<v Speaker 2>Demanse showed up without me and lost money. He probably

0:17:57.760 --> 0:18:02.480
<v Speaker 2>could do that a couple time time and be like, hey, yeah,

0:18:02.520 --> 0:18:06.840
<v Speaker 2>to put it on my dad's tab. But by about

0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:10.920
<v Speaker 2>the third time or if and when the figure got

0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:13.879
<v Speaker 2>to a real amount of money, I would get a

0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:18.080
<v Speaker 2>phone call like, hey, I'm sure everything's fine, not accusing

0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:22.000
<v Speaker 2>anyone of anything, but just so you know, Demons has

0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:25.520
<v Speaker 2>run up this much on your tab? Are you good?

0:18:26.160 --> 0:18:29.360
<v Speaker 2>Are we cool? Do you want us to cut him off? Whatever?

0:18:30.359 --> 0:18:36.080
<v Speaker 2>The idea that this got to millions and then the

0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:43.959
<v Speaker 2>marker was called in strikes me as abnormal. Okay, And

0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:47.520
<v Speaker 2>I know that there's a lot of these days what

0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:51.119
<v Speaker 2>I would call just misinformation about how gambling works. I

0:18:51.200 --> 0:18:55.360
<v Speaker 2>know there was a story Bruno Mars ohs the MGM

0:18:55.560 --> 0:19:00.520
<v Speaker 2>fifty million. No he doesn't, No, he doesn't. I'm done

0:19:00.520 --> 0:19:05.520
<v Speaker 2>you right now with knowing nothing that's not true. You

0:19:05.560 --> 0:19:07.520
<v Speaker 2>know how I know it. You can't run up a

0:19:07.520 --> 0:19:11.240
<v Speaker 2>fifty million dollar bill, not possible. Doesn't matter how liquid

0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:15.280
<v Speaker 2>you are, doesn't matter now, And theoretically there, if the

0:19:15.520 --> 0:19:18.560
<v Speaker 2>play is we want the bill to run up so high,

0:19:18.760 --> 0:19:22.320
<v Speaker 2>so we theoretically quote own the guy. I understand that

0:19:22.320 --> 0:19:25.720
<v Speaker 2>that sounds good in the movies. That's not how these

0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:31.360
<v Speaker 2>things actually work out. At some point, gambling debts become

0:19:31.520 --> 0:19:35.120
<v Speaker 2>too large to be paid, and that's why they need

0:19:35.160 --> 0:19:38.040
<v Speaker 2>to be That's why anyone that's ever gambled with a bookie.

0:19:38.560 --> 0:19:41.959
<v Speaker 2>You have a figure. So if you bet one hundred

0:19:42.000 --> 0:19:45.360
<v Speaker 2>bucks a weekend, maybe the figure's five hundred dollars. If

0:19:45.359 --> 0:19:48.560
<v Speaker 2>you bet ten thousand a weekend, maybe the figures fifty

0:19:48.600 --> 0:19:52.840
<v Speaker 2>thousand dollars. But whatever it is, the figure is once

0:19:52.960 --> 0:19:57.400
<v Speaker 2>I am plus or minus this amount, we clear the ledgers.

0:19:57.760 --> 0:20:01.480
<v Speaker 2>You either pay up every Tuesday morning, or you pay

0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:04.359
<v Speaker 2>up when the number hits a figure. That's how it works.

0:20:04.760 --> 0:20:10.240
<v Speaker 2>The idea that Otani's interpreter figure would be, you know,

0:20:11.160 --> 0:20:17.080
<v Speaker 2>at least north of a few million dollars strikes me

0:20:17.240 --> 0:20:23.160
<v Speaker 2>as odd, and that's another thing that I would want

0:20:23.800 --> 0:20:31.360
<v Speaker 2>further investigated. None of this implies Otani's to blame here,

0:20:32.119 --> 0:20:37.120
<v Speaker 2>or that Otani had knowledge of it. One other thing

0:20:37.160 --> 0:20:40.159
<v Speaker 2>about how this could happen on the money side of things,

0:20:40.400 --> 0:20:44.240
<v Speaker 2>and then we'll get to John day Porter. The money

0:20:44.359 --> 0:20:49.480
<v Speaker 2>side of things is a whole nother issue, which is

0:20:49.520 --> 0:20:52.919
<v Speaker 2>people like, how could you not know this much money

0:20:53.920 --> 0:20:57.959
<v Speaker 2>was taken out of your account? And the answer is,

0:20:59.640 --> 0:21:05.280
<v Speaker 2>if you trust people to handle your money, you're every

0:21:05.440 --> 0:21:11.320
<v Speaker 2>one of us, myself included, that trusts other people to

0:21:11.520 --> 0:21:16.239
<v Speaker 2>handle our money is susceptible to being stolen from. And

0:21:16.280 --> 0:21:19.480
<v Speaker 2>it is a trade off that a lot of us

0:21:19.520 --> 0:21:23.600
<v Speaker 2>that trust other people to handle our money just sign

0:21:23.680 --> 0:21:27.359
<v Speaker 2>up for and keep our fingers crossed. That's just the truth.

0:21:28.160 --> 0:21:34.199
<v Speaker 2>When like I right now, there are three people in

0:21:34.240 --> 0:21:44.159
<v Speaker 2>the world who, if they wanted to, could probably I

0:21:44.200 --> 0:21:50.240
<v Speaker 2>don't want to say, clean me out, but get tens

0:21:50.280 --> 0:21:54.880
<v Speaker 2>of thousands of dollars without me potentially knowing about it

0:21:55.320 --> 0:21:59.000
<v Speaker 2>for months. And you might say, like, that's not supposed

0:21:59.000 --> 0:22:00.960
<v Speaker 2>to be a flex That's not anything about how much

0:22:01.000 --> 0:22:04.760
<v Speaker 2>money I have or whatever. It's just the the people

0:22:04.960 --> 0:22:13.159
<v Speaker 2>in charge of my my actual money. Am I Like

0:22:13.280 --> 0:22:16.720
<v Speaker 2>it's like I get bank statements every month? That's true,

0:22:17.119 --> 0:22:20.679
<v Speaker 2>But that's a PDF file. Am I calling the bank

0:22:20.920 --> 0:22:25.560
<v Speaker 2>every month, getting a human being on the phone saying,

0:22:25.600 --> 0:22:29.360
<v Speaker 2>here's the account number, read me the you know the balance?

0:22:29.520 --> 0:22:29.560
<v Speaker 3>No?

0:22:30.680 --> 0:22:34.720
<v Speaker 2>Are those are pdf files? Pretty easily forgible if you

0:22:34.800 --> 0:22:39.720
<v Speaker 2>really want to. Yeah, So I know folks tend not

0:22:39.840 --> 0:22:43.320
<v Speaker 2>to have sympathy when people have money stolen, Like, how

0:22:43.359 --> 0:22:47.320
<v Speaker 2>could you not know? And the answer is it's pretty

0:22:47.359 --> 0:22:50.360
<v Speaker 2>easy not to know, because the whole idea behind it

0:22:50.400 --> 0:22:53.359
<v Speaker 2>is I'm paying you to take care of this because

0:22:53.400 --> 0:22:55.159
<v Speaker 2>either I'm not good at it or I don't have

0:22:55.240 --> 0:22:59.239
<v Speaker 2>time for it. So I find it totally believable that

0:22:59.280 --> 0:23:04.439
<v Speaker 2>Otani could have a few million dollars siphoned out of

0:23:04.440 --> 0:23:07.439
<v Speaker 2>his account and him not know it. So there's a

0:23:07.480 --> 0:23:14.159
<v Speaker 2>lot of to me, unfair speculation about Otani's involvement that

0:23:14.359 --> 0:23:18.800
<v Speaker 2>doesn't deal in the real world of how the and

0:23:18.880 --> 0:23:20.920
<v Speaker 2>I don't know how the uber wealthy work. I don't

0:23:20.960 --> 0:23:22.879
<v Speaker 2>even know how the actual wealthy work, but I know

0:23:22.920 --> 0:23:25.000
<v Speaker 2>how I work, and I've got a decent amount of money.

0:23:25.200 --> 0:23:27.720
<v Speaker 2>But how the uber wealthy, you know what I mean?

0:23:27.880 --> 0:23:30.720
<v Speaker 2>How often they're actually being like, all right, let me

0:23:30.840 --> 0:23:34.600
<v Speaker 2>call Bank of America and do a self audit. It's

0:23:34.640 --> 0:23:39.760
<v Speaker 2>just not happening. Okay, So that's the Otani thing. Did

0:23:39.760 --> 0:23:41.480
<v Speaker 2>that make sense to you? De mon' say everything I

0:23:41.480 --> 0:23:44.320
<v Speaker 2>did there. Sorry that I'm kind of icing you out here. Uh,

0:23:44.320 --> 0:23:46.720
<v Speaker 2>but I just wanna this is to know that that.

0:23:48.440 --> 0:23:51.320
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I get this is one of the touchier subjects

0:23:51.320 --> 0:23:53.280
<v Speaker 4>I guess, But at the end there it kind of

0:23:53.280 --> 0:23:55.880
<v Speaker 4>sounded like you were saying that there's no way Otani

0:23:55.960 --> 0:23:59.120
<v Speaker 4>knew that the money was being taken, Like, of how

0:23:59.160 --> 0:24:00.600
<v Speaker 4>did that much money he's taking.

0:24:01.200 --> 0:24:04.040
<v Speaker 2>I'm not saying there's no way he knew. I'm saying

0:24:04.080 --> 0:24:08.520
<v Speaker 2>I find it absolutely believable that he didn't know. I

0:24:09.000 --> 0:24:11.600
<v Speaker 2>think there are some people saying he had to know.

0:24:12.480 --> 0:24:17.280
<v Speaker 2>And what I'm saying is that I know this sounds weird,

0:24:18.080 --> 0:24:20.960
<v Speaker 2>but if you've got thirty five hundred dollars to your name,

0:24:22.640 --> 0:24:25.160
<v Speaker 2>you are going to know if someone took one hundred

0:24:25.160 --> 0:24:29.439
<v Speaker 2>and twenty bucks from you. If you've got two hundred

0:24:29.560 --> 0:24:32.679
<v Speaker 2>million to your name, you might not know if someone

0:24:32.720 --> 0:24:39.000
<v Speaker 2>took twenty million from you. That's what I was thinking, eventually, Yeah.

0:24:38.080 --> 0:24:40.359
<v Speaker 4>Go ahead, Yeah no, that was the same thing I

0:24:40.400 --> 0:24:42.240
<v Speaker 4>was saying, like four and a half million to tild Tani

0:24:42.359 --> 0:24:42.840
<v Speaker 4>right now.

0:24:42.760 --> 0:24:44.400
<v Speaker 3>Is I don't know what that is, but.

0:24:46.080 --> 0:24:50.280
<v Speaker 2>Right it's it's not it. The only way you're gonna

0:24:50.280 --> 0:24:52.760
<v Speaker 2>find out is if you do a self audit, because

0:24:52.760 --> 0:24:55.600
<v Speaker 2>there is nothing it is not an amount to where

0:24:55.640 --> 0:24:58.240
<v Speaker 2>there's ever a purchase or a thing he's trying to

0:24:58.280 --> 0:25:03.600
<v Speaker 2>do that he can't do. Also, like Otani's liquid cash

0:25:03.720 --> 0:25:07.639
<v Speaker 2>is not as real value, his contract is the seven

0:25:07.720 --> 0:25:11.919
<v Speaker 2>hundred million fully guaranteed he has that he can borrow

0:25:12.000 --> 0:25:14.680
<v Speaker 2>against that he can do whatever he wants. So all right,

0:25:15.160 --> 0:25:19.120
<v Speaker 2>So there's that. Now. The johntay Porter thing is actually

0:25:19.119 --> 0:25:26.520
<v Speaker 2>way more of a canary in the coal mine. Yeah, sinister, listen,

0:25:26.640 --> 0:25:28.800
<v Speaker 2>I'm not gonna accuse John tay Porter of anything. What

0:25:28.880 --> 0:25:33.080
<v Speaker 2>I will say is this, the circumstantial evidence appears to

0:25:33.080 --> 0:25:41.479
<v Speaker 2>be overwhelming. But take Johntay Porter out of this. This

0:25:41.640 --> 0:25:43.480
<v Speaker 2>is now where we have to have a real discussion

0:25:43.480 --> 0:25:51.359
<v Speaker 2>about gambling and about player props, and about this specific

0:25:51.520 --> 0:25:58.119
<v Speaker 2>type of corruption being inevitable, and our sports leagues needing

0:25:58.160 --> 0:26:03.959
<v Speaker 2>to decide whether or not they're going to care. So

0:26:04.040 --> 0:26:06.280
<v Speaker 2>I've been on the record about this that when it

0:26:06.280 --> 0:26:10.080
<v Speaker 2>comes to Pro basketball and Pro football, the sports we

0:26:10.160 --> 0:26:13.360
<v Speaker 2>talk about, the sports we gamble on that I don't

0:26:13.400 --> 0:26:16.880
<v Speaker 2>think fixed games are actually a problem or a thing.

0:26:17.440 --> 0:26:21.280
<v Speaker 2>And that's because I know how gambling works. I know

0:26:22.359 --> 0:26:27.399
<v Speaker 2>that it is all. It is incredibly difficult to get

0:26:27.520 --> 0:26:30.920
<v Speaker 2>you see all these fake tickets online. I know that

0:26:31.240 --> 0:26:35.439
<v Speaker 2>out there is a eighty thousand dollars John day Porter

0:26:35.680 --> 0:26:38.760
<v Speaker 2>same game. Part that that's not a real thing, guys,

0:26:39.280 --> 0:26:41.800
<v Speaker 2>And if it is a really honestly, if there was

0:26:41.840 --> 0:26:45.159
<v Speaker 2>a sports book out there that was accepting an eighty

0:26:45.280 --> 0:26:49.879
<v Speaker 2>thousand dollars same game parlay on an eighth man the

0:26:51.000 --> 0:26:55.040
<v Speaker 2>I'm not saying they deserve to be robbed, but there

0:26:55.760 --> 0:26:59.040
<v Speaker 2>they are. They are I don't want to say again,

0:26:59.119 --> 0:27:00.760
<v Speaker 2>I don't want to say they're asking for it, but

0:27:00.880 --> 0:27:05.080
<v Speaker 2>that is ripe for this type of incident. The reason

0:27:05.560 --> 0:27:08.320
<v Speaker 2>that I don't think you have to worry about players

0:27:09.000 --> 0:27:13.040
<v Speaker 2>fixing pro basketball or pro football games is because the

0:27:13.119 --> 0:27:18.919
<v Speaker 2>money doesn't make sense. It is almost impossible to get

0:27:19.040 --> 0:27:23.359
<v Speaker 2>down more than fifty grand on a random NBA game.

0:27:24.680 --> 0:27:33.439
<v Speaker 2>There is basically no NBA player that is involved enough

0:27:34.840 --> 0:27:39.000
<v Speaker 2>to have a definite impact on the result of a

0:27:39.080 --> 0:27:44.359
<v Speaker 2>game that fifty thousand dollars moves the needle for. In

0:27:44.400 --> 0:27:47.760
<v Speaker 2>the NFL, you can get down you know, a few

0:27:47.840 --> 0:27:53.800
<v Speaker 2>hundred thousand on an individual game, but unless you get

0:27:53.840 --> 0:28:00.200
<v Speaker 2>to the quarterback, it is very difficult to guarantee you're

0:28:00.280 --> 0:28:03.840
<v Speaker 2>going to have the impact on a game as a player,

0:28:04.320 --> 0:28:07.679
<v Speaker 2>and there are no quarterbacks that it would make sense

0:28:08.359 --> 0:28:11.280
<v Speaker 2>to throw a game for a few hundred thousand dollars

0:28:11.359 --> 0:28:13.480
<v Speaker 2>in a one off incident, and if you did it

0:28:13.560 --> 0:28:16.360
<v Speaker 2>multiple times, it certainly makes no sense because now your

0:28:16.400 --> 0:28:18.879
<v Speaker 2>career is over, and even if you don't get caught,

0:28:18.920 --> 0:28:21.760
<v Speaker 2>just because you must be terrible because you keep losing

0:28:21.840 --> 0:28:26.720
<v Speaker 2>US games. So my concern with game fixing and gambling

0:28:26.840 --> 0:28:29.919
<v Speaker 2>was always about college sports because the money matters a

0:28:29.920 --> 0:28:33.159
<v Speaker 2>lot to the kids, and because kids' brains are not

0:28:33.200 --> 0:28:36.920
<v Speaker 2>fully developed, kids do dumb things, and there's been corruption

0:28:37.160 --> 0:28:40.040
<v Speaker 2>and game fixing in college sports for as long as

0:28:40.080 --> 0:28:45.920
<v Speaker 2>college sports have existed. And the refs, because the every

0:28:45.960 --> 0:28:50.760
<v Speaker 2>ref can have a massive impact on any game, and

0:28:50.800 --> 0:28:53.040
<v Speaker 2>those amounts of money all of a sudden do matter.

0:28:53.640 --> 0:28:56.440
<v Speaker 2>So that's where the concern is for the fixing portion

0:28:56.560 --> 0:29:03.640
<v Speaker 2>of it. But then there's this whole sub genre of

0:29:03.720 --> 0:29:12.520
<v Speaker 2>gambling that has become ubiquitous since gambling became legal, and

0:29:12.560 --> 0:29:17.560
<v Speaker 2>that's the individual player props. That's the same game parlays.

0:29:18.240 --> 0:29:24.680
<v Speaker 2>That is the you can bet on any player doing anything,

0:29:26.720 --> 0:29:31.600
<v Speaker 2>and that's where, of course the money could work out

0:29:31.640 --> 0:29:36.680
<v Speaker 2>for some of these guys. Of course, if a guy's like,

0:29:36.720 --> 0:29:38.640
<v Speaker 2>hold on, I don't even have to impact if my

0:29:38.720 --> 0:29:43.120
<v Speaker 2>team wins or loses. I just need to make sure

0:29:43.280 --> 0:29:47.280
<v Speaker 2>that I don't hit a three, that I don't get

0:29:47.320 --> 0:29:52.760
<v Speaker 2>four assists, and all of a sudden, I can theoretically

0:29:52.800 --> 0:30:00.800
<v Speaker 2>make you know, ten twenty thirty grand. Obviously someone's going

0:30:00.840 --> 0:30:06.719
<v Speaker 2>to fall into that trap, somebody. And so now is

0:30:06.760 --> 0:30:13.680
<v Speaker 2>where the tougher, more awkward conversations begin, which is, do

0:30:13.800 --> 0:30:19.360
<v Speaker 2>our sports leagues care enough about that to tell their

0:30:19.400 --> 0:30:23.720
<v Speaker 2>official gambling partners which seem to be this endless faucet

0:30:23.720 --> 0:30:29.120
<v Speaker 2>of money for podcasts, television, sports leagues, all of it. Hey,

0:30:31.240 --> 0:30:36.400
<v Speaker 2>people want to better spread Okay, you're going to have

0:30:36.920 --> 0:30:40.720
<v Speaker 2>every single player on the team a player prop listed

0:30:41.680 --> 0:30:46.040
<v Speaker 2>with high limits on it of the bets you'll accept,

0:30:46.400 --> 0:30:49.760
<v Speaker 2>then we're not partnering with you. That's a real question.

0:30:52.040 --> 0:30:57.160
<v Speaker 2>And the well, right, so there's a lot of things right,

0:30:57.240 --> 0:31:00.120
<v Speaker 2>So there's a lot of pieces of this where that

0:31:00.000 --> 0:31:04.760
<v Speaker 2>that is all intertwined. And again I'm just here trying

0:31:04.800 --> 0:31:09.800
<v Speaker 2>to be honest with the audience. It is also uh

0:31:10.040 --> 0:31:13.280
<v Speaker 2>spot and Bamani has talked a lot about this. Arali

0:31:13.320 --> 0:31:16.000
<v Speaker 2>Boso Vulgarris has talked a lot about this. It has

0:31:16.120 --> 0:31:20.760
<v Speaker 2>become a more and more even prior to this real thing,

0:31:21.040 --> 0:31:26.960
<v Speaker 2>which is how compromised a lot of us opinion makers

0:31:27.000 --> 0:31:30.520
<v Speaker 2>are because all of us are either making money off

0:31:30.560 --> 0:31:34.200
<v Speaker 2>the gambling sponsors used to will in the future whatever

0:31:34.240 --> 0:31:39.560
<v Speaker 2>it is. And so you the question is do you

0:31:39.680 --> 0:31:45.800
<v Speaker 2>want to be forthright and honest with your audience or

0:31:45.840 --> 0:31:49.040
<v Speaker 2>do you want to make sure that you know what

0:31:49.040 --> 0:31:52.800
<v Speaker 2>I mean the money faucet turns on. It's a tough one, right,

0:31:53.880 --> 0:31:57.040
<v Speaker 2>And so we talk a ton of gambling on this show.

0:31:57.560 --> 0:32:01.520
<v Speaker 2>We have Enduring Football Season, a specific gambling show. I

0:32:01.800 --> 0:32:06.920
<v Speaker 2>personally am incredibly proud of how we do it. First

0:32:06.920 --> 0:32:09.880
<v Speaker 2>of all, I've been gambling my whole life. It is

0:32:09.920 --> 0:32:14.160
<v Speaker 2>something I enjoy. It is something that I know a

0:32:14.200 --> 0:32:18.960
<v Speaker 2>lot about. But also on this show, what do we do?

0:32:20.640 --> 0:32:23.840
<v Speaker 2>We pick games we do at the end of each

0:32:23.920 --> 0:32:28.080
<v Speaker 2>gambling episode. We do one like silly Long you know

0:32:28.080 --> 0:32:30.800
<v Speaker 2>what I mean. We will do Demand's teaser, which is

0:32:30.840 --> 0:32:34.320
<v Speaker 2>a straightforward bet, and we do the offer, which is

0:32:36.120 --> 0:32:38.960
<v Speaker 2>I think the way we position it as hey, look

0:32:39.000 --> 0:32:42.640
<v Speaker 2>at this as a likely losing wager, but that you

0:32:42.720 --> 0:32:45.360
<v Speaker 2>can have fun on. And I'm not telling people not

0:32:45.480 --> 0:32:51.960
<v Speaker 2>to do it. But the distinction between that and having

0:32:52.880 --> 0:32:58.160
<v Speaker 2>the vast majority of your gambling content be here is

0:32:58.200 --> 0:33:04.240
<v Speaker 2>this no brainer? Same game parlay about player props feels

0:33:04.280 --> 0:33:08.920
<v Speaker 2>a little different. And from the limited data we have

0:33:09.280 --> 0:33:13.760
<v Speaker 2>about places where gamblings become legal, what folks are betting

0:33:14.440 --> 0:33:18.520
<v Speaker 2>are parlays and player props. Because the upside's higher, it

0:33:18.560 --> 0:33:22.160
<v Speaker 2>feels more fun. I get all of that. We have

0:33:22.280 --> 0:33:28.280
<v Speaker 2>to be honest with the audience, which is those are,

0:33:28.520 --> 0:33:35.440
<v Speaker 2>in the long run, guaranteed losing wagers. Now that doesn't

0:33:35.440 --> 0:33:37.120
<v Speaker 2>mean you shouldn't make them.

0:33:37.240 --> 0:33:39.120
<v Speaker 3>It is it's.

0:33:38.960 --> 0:33:43.600
<v Speaker 2>A losing financial proposition to go to Dave and Busters.

0:33:44.560 --> 0:33:46.480
<v Speaker 2>But if you spend one hundred bucks and have a

0:33:46.520 --> 0:33:49.080
<v Speaker 2>ton of fun in the afternoon, you're not like, gosh

0:33:49.160 --> 0:33:51.840
<v Speaker 2>darn it, I thought I was gonna win money. It's like, no,

0:33:52.040 --> 0:33:55.880
<v Speaker 2>I was paying for my entertainment. And so I am

0:33:55.880 --> 0:33:59.000
<v Speaker 2>not saying people shouldn't do this or shouldn't be allowed

0:33:59.040 --> 0:34:01.800
<v Speaker 2>to do that. I have odd feelings about whether or

0:34:01.840 --> 0:34:02.640
<v Speaker 2>not it should.

0:34:02.400 --> 0:34:05.520
<v Speaker 3>Be playing for the Xbox on the top shelf.

0:34:06.560 --> 0:34:09.080
<v Speaker 2>Okay, well, yeah, that is a different level of gambling.

0:34:09.120 --> 0:34:12.800
<v Speaker 2>I guess sure, So maybe David Buster's was the wrong example,

0:34:13.160 --> 0:34:21.200
<v Speaker 2>but miniature golf or whatever it is positioning it as uh,

0:34:22.760 --> 0:34:32.360
<v Speaker 2>this is you know, smart money making is not honest.

0:34:33.239 --> 0:34:42.000
<v Speaker 2>It's just not And the reason we do the reason

0:34:42.120 --> 0:34:44.880
<v Speaker 2>we do it the way we do it on this show.

0:34:45.440 --> 0:34:47.160
<v Speaker 2>And I'm not trying to pat myself on the back.

0:34:47.239 --> 0:34:51.960
<v Speaker 2>It's just how I've always done it. Is we are

0:34:52.040 --> 0:34:56.360
<v Speaker 2>picking five games a week. We are incorporating the viig

0:34:57.080 --> 0:35:00.600
<v Speaker 2>into our plus minus, and we are keeping a ledger,

0:35:01.719 --> 0:35:05.799
<v Speaker 2>and we are letting you know throughout the year and

0:35:05.880 --> 0:35:08.800
<v Speaker 2>at the end of the year where we plus or minus,

0:35:09.520 --> 0:35:13.480
<v Speaker 2>and that way the audience knows where we're at, what

0:35:13.600 --> 0:35:17.000
<v Speaker 2>we're doing. And if you remember last year, I forget

0:35:17.000 --> 0:35:19.720
<v Speaker 2>which team it was, but there was, Oh it's the Jags.

0:35:20.520 --> 0:35:25.600
<v Speaker 2>My one belief in the Jags swung my entire year

0:35:26.000 --> 0:35:28.799
<v Speaker 2>from being plus a few thousand to where it ended

0:35:28.880 --> 0:35:31.680
<v Speaker 2>up being minus a few thousand because of the way

0:35:31.920 --> 0:35:35.879
<v Speaker 2>those bets worked and how many And so that I'm

0:35:35.920 --> 0:35:38.160
<v Speaker 2>not acting as if there is a writer or wrong

0:35:38.200 --> 0:35:39.960
<v Speaker 2>way to do it, but there is an honest way

0:35:40.000 --> 0:35:44.640
<v Speaker 2>to do it. And for the sports leagues, if you

0:35:44.719 --> 0:35:55.120
<v Speaker 2>are going to have be in bed fully with gambling,

0:35:55.239 --> 0:36:01.920
<v Speaker 2>companies that are offering more different ways to bet on

0:36:02.560 --> 0:36:08.480
<v Speaker 2>individual performance than any time ever before. If you do

0:36:08.680 --> 0:36:13.240
<v Speaker 2>all of that, the Johntay Porter story or something similar

0:36:13.800 --> 0:36:18.400
<v Speaker 2>is inevitable and it will not stop. It will not

0:36:18.520 --> 0:36:21.000
<v Speaker 2>go away, and it will not stop. And if they're

0:36:21.040 --> 0:36:23.880
<v Speaker 2>okay with that, they're okay with that. But let's not

0:36:24.120 --> 0:36:27.680
<v Speaker 2>act like we couldn't see this coming. Now. I don't

0:36:27.719 --> 0:36:33.920
<v Speaker 2>see the story of NBA star big name X, you know,

0:36:34.120 --> 0:36:37.600
<v Speaker 2>throws a game. I don't think that's coming because I

0:36:37.640 --> 0:36:43.160
<v Speaker 2>don't think the financial incentives are there. But I guarantee

0:36:43.239 --> 0:36:47.240
<v Speaker 2>you it has already happened in college sports multiple times

0:36:48.960 --> 0:36:53.879
<v Speaker 2>and folks just haven't caught it yet. And the ref

0:36:53.920 --> 0:36:58.919
<v Speaker 2>stuff would concern me because there are real financial incentives there.

0:37:00.360 --> 0:37:05.200
<v Speaker 2>All right, there's our gambling, our gambling and bridge collapse

0:37:05.280 --> 0:37:08.240
<v Speaker 2>portion of the show. Let's take a very quick break

0:37:08.320 --> 0:37:11.680
<v Speaker 2>and do our regular a bloc as scheduled. Take a

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<v Speaker 2>quick break, come back, and we'll do the regular show next.

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<v Speaker 2>What's Right?

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<v Speaker 3>All right?

0:37:20.640 --> 0:37:23.000
<v Speaker 2>Welcome back in What's Dry with Nick Wright? Episode two

0:37:23.440 --> 0:37:26.160
<v Speaker 2>twenty four. We had some breaking news before today's show,

0:37:26.200 --> 0:37:29.160
<v Speaker 2>demands about an NFL rule change. Let's get into that

0:37:29.239 --> 0:37:31.440
<v Speaker 2>before we get to Lugerius snead go ahead.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, the NFL just changed their kickoff rule. What do

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<v Speaker 3>you think about that?

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<v Speaker 2>So tentatively I like it. Let me explain to the

0:37:41.000 --> 0:37:44.279
<v Speaker 2>audience what it is. So you're still kicking off from

0:37:44.400 --> 0:37:49.560
<v Speaker 2>the thirty five, but everything else is wildly different. The

0:37:49.640 --> 0:37:53.319
<v Speaker 2>team that is kicking off will now have all other

0:37:53.480 --> 0:37:58.960
<v Speaker 2>ten guys lined up at the opponent's forty. The team

0:37:59.000 --> 0:38:03.879
<v Speaker 2>that is receiving will have everyone else except for their

0:38:03.920 --> 0:38:08.200
<v Speaker 2>return man, lined up between the thirty five and thirty,

0:38:08.280 --> 0:38:11.439
<v Speaker 2>so they will be five to ten yards apart, all right,

0:38:11.960 --> 0:38:15.440
<v Speaker 2>and then the return man will be somewhere between the

0:38:15.480 --> 0:38:19.080
<v Speaker 2>goal line and the twenty. Okay, so envision it. The

0:38:19.200 --> 0:38:24.520
<v Speaker 2>kickers in the normal place, The kicking team is moved

0:38:24.520 --> 0:38:28.120
<v Speaker 2>forward twenty five yards to the opposing team's forty. The

0:38:28.239 --> 0:38:30.880
<v Speaker 2>returning team is moved all the way back to between

0:38:30.920 --> 0:38:33.080
<v Speaker 2>the thirty and thirty five, and you have one or

0:38:33.080 --> 0:38:36.560
<v Speaker 2>two return men in between in the red zone, essentially

0:38:36.560 --> 0:38:40.359
<v Speaker 2>between the goal line and the twenty. No one can

0:38:40.600 --> 0:38:46.040
<v Speaker 2>move other than the kicker until the return man gets

0:38:46.080 --> 0:38:49.480
<v Speaker 2>the ball or the ball hits the ground. Okay, once

0:38:49.560 --> 0:38:54.399
<v Speaker 2>that happens, go play, go as far as you can.

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<v Speaker 2>Here are the unique, the really unique angles to it.

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<v Speaker 2>If the kick you kick it too short and you

0:39:06.480 --> 0:39:12.000
<v Speaker 2>don't get it too inside the twenty, the receiving team

0:39:12.040 --> 0:39:15.480
<v Speaker 2>gets the ball at the forty. If you kick it

0:39:15.560 --> 0:39:19.160
<v Speaker 2>too far and you kick it into the end zone,

0:39:19.920 --> 0:39:23.840
<v Speaker 2>the receiving team gets the ball at the thirty. So

0:39:23.920 --> 0:39:26.239
<v Speaker 2>there might be some teams that just say, you know what,

0:39:26.400 --> 0:39:29.520
<v Speaker 2>screw this, We're just gonna bomb this thing into the

0:39:29.600 --> 0:39:31.359
<v Speaker 2>end zone and give the other team the ball at

0:39:31.360 --> 0:39:35.720
<v Speaker 2>the thirty. That probably won't happen. There will be teams

0:39:35.760 --> 0:39:38.279
<v Speaker 2>that screw it up and you end up getting the

0:39:38.280 --> 0:39:41.400
<v Speaker 2>ball at the forty they kick it too short. But

0:39:41.480 --> 0:39:44.640
<v Speaker 2>what's mostly gonna happen is there's gonna be a kickoff.

0:39:45.080 --> 0:39:48.399
<v Speaker 2>It's gonna you know, land around the five to ten

0:39:48.480 --> 0:39:53.200
<v Speaker 2>yard line, and then you're gonna have ten blockers, ten

0:39:53.520 --> 0:39:56.520
<v Speaker 2>you know, attempted tacklers, the returnment and the kicker go

0:39:56.560 --> 0:39:59.439
<v Speaker 2>after it. So there will be way, way, way more

0:39:59.520 --> 0:40:05.239
<v Speaker 2>return That is a guarantee. The only potential negative is

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<v Speaker 2>the surprise on side kick is dead. Now. Now, if

0:40:09.719 --> 0:40:12.160
<v Speaker 2>you want to do an on side kick, you have

0:40:12.239 --> 0:40:15.200
<v Speaker 2>to do you have to tell people and then do

0:40:15.360 --> 0:40:21.040
<v Speaker 2>the onside kick. What I think is good about it is, uh,

0:40:22.640 --> 0:40:25.960
<v Speaker 2>the on side kick, I think, and you guys can

0:40:26.000 --> 0:40:28.600
<v Speaker 2>look this up. You see if I'm wrong, goes back

0:40:28.640 --> 0:40:31.880
<v Speaker 2>to the old on side kick formation where you had

0:40:31.880 --> 0:40:34.520
<v Speaker 2>a better chance of receiving it, the one that was

0:40:34.560 --> 0:40:37.960
<v Speaker 2>in place forever before, like five years ago. So in

0:40:38.080 --> 0:40:42.840
<v Speaker 2>general I like it. It will obviously reward this season

0:40:43.040 --> 0:40:46.600
<v Speaker 2>smarter teams that figure things out, quicker, better special teams,

0:40:47.200 --> 0:40:50.680
<v Speaker 2>things like that, and then once one or two smart

0:40:50.680 --> 0:40:53.000
<v Speaker 2>teams figures out the way to do it, everyone will

0:40:53.040 --> 0:40:57.400
<v Speaker 2>copy them. But I like this rule change, and I

0:40:57.480 --> 0:40:59.640
<v Speaker 2>also speaking of rule changes, then we can move on.

0:41:00.280 --> 0:41:06.360
<v Speaker 2>Don't really the hip drop tackle hyperventilation that was happening

0:41:06.920 --> 0:41:10.279
<v Speaker 2>yesterday I think is way overwrought. I think there will

0:41:10.320 --> 0:41:13.640
<v Speaker 2>be mark this for me. I'm gonna go ahead and

0:41:13.680 --> 0:41:19.320
<v Speaker 2>say fewer than one hip drop tackle penalty a weekend

0:41:19.400 --> 0:41:23.080
<v Speaker 2>league wide. I bet there are fewer than twenty called

0:41:23.120 --> 0:41:26.400
<v Speaker 2>over the course of the season. Players will adjust and

0:41:26.440 --> 0:41:30.640
<v Speaker 2>they're not gonna call I don't think the in between ones.

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<v Speaker 2>All right, let's keep going to Monday.

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<v Speaker 3>All right, So some other news.

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<v Speaker 4>Lugerius sneak got sent to the Titans for a twenty

0:41:38.080 --> 0:41:40.399
<v Speaker 4>twenty five draft pick or a twenty twenty five third

0:41:40.480 --> 0:41:40.959
<v Speaker 4>run pick.

0:41:41.040 --> 0:41:43.719
<v Speaker 3>Sorry, we know that you and the Chiefs.

0:41:43.520 --> 0:41:45.080
<v Speaker 4>Kingdom wanted to run it back so you guys can

0:41:45.080 --> 0:41:47.800
<v Speaker 4>get the three peat, But this was destined to happen.

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<v Speaker 4>Can't keep all those stars? Yeah, but doesn't this kind

0:41:51.800 --> 0:41:53.880
<v Speaker 4>of scare you? How many more good players do you

0:41:53.920 --> 0:41:56.120
<v Speaker 4>think you can? You can lose until you start to

0:41:56.120 --> 0:41:56.799
<v Speaker 4>worry about it.

0:41:58.360 --> 0:42:06.799
<v Speaker 2>So, I here's the thing I was. I'm not. I

0:42:06.920 --> 0:42:11.320
<v Speaker 2>never thought it was realistic that Chris Jones and Sneid

0:42:11.400 --> 0:42:15.560
<v Speaker 2>were both gonna be back under long term contracts. I

0:42:15.680 --> 0:42:19.400
<v Speaker 2>did start to think that Chris once Chris got signed,

0:42:19.680 --> 0:42:25.960
<v Speaker 2>that Snead might play under the tag. And obviously you

0:42:26.120 --> 0:42:30.400
<v Speaker 2>lose an excellent player, the team gets a little bit worse.

0:42:32.160 --> 0:42:34.600
<v Speaker 2>Lagarius Sneid is the one who punched out this A

0:42:34.719 --> 0:42:39.040
<v Speaker 2>Flowers fumble in the AFC title game. He didn't allow

0:42:39.080 --> 0:42:42.080
<v Speaker 2>a single touchdown in coverage in the regular season all year.

0:42:42.360 --> 0:42:46.240
<v Speaker 2>He was an excellent player. He also is sneaky older

0:42:46.280 --> 0:42:50.120
<v Speaker 2>than people think. Chris Jones is twenty nine, Lagarius Sneid

0:42:50.200 --> 0:42:53.360
<v Speaker 2>is twenty seven. He also has dealt with some slight

0:42:53.480 --> 0:42:59.040
<v Speaker 2>knee issues. Because of those two factors, giving him twenty

0:42:59.200 --> 0:43:03.520
<v Speaker 2>million dollars a year, Titans Game nineteen would not have

0:43:03.560 --> 0:43:07.200
<v Speaker 2>been smart in my opinion. And the Chiefs have shown

0:43:08.400 --> 0:43:12.040
<v Speaker 2>secondary is a spot they believe they can draft and

0:43:12.080 --> 0:43:16.279
<v Speaker 2>develop and they will move off guys. Kendall Fuller they

0:43:16.360 --> 0:43:18.600
<v Speaker 2>let go in free agency for a bunch of money.

0:43:18.760 --> 0:43:21.880
<v Speaker 2>Schavaria's Ward they let go in free agency for a

0:43:21.880 --> 0:43:25.480
<v Speaker 2>bunch of money. Honey Badger they let go in free agency.

0:43:25.560 --> 0:43:29.880
<v Speaker 2>And now Sneid they traded. Now folks are upset that

0:43:30.000 --> 0:43:33.560
<v Speaker 2>they only got a future third. Why did they not

0:43:33.760 --> 0:43:36.839
<v Speaker 2>get more? And the answer they didn't get more is

0:43:36.880 --> 0:43:41.520
<v Speaker 2>because because of Sneed's contract demands, which he earned and

0:43:41.560 --> 0:43:46.279
<v Speaker 2>I am happy for him. The market people were not

0:43:47.560 --> 0:43:51.800
<v Speaker 2>super excited about giving up a premium pick and paying

0:43:51.880 --> 0:43:55.360
<v Speaker 2>Lagarius Snead, and so because of that, this was about

0:43:55.360 --> 0:43:58.520
<v Speaker 2>as solid of a return as they were going to get.

0:44:00.120 --> 0:44:05.120
<v Speaker 2>And here's why there is a tangible benefit to this season.

0:44:05.360 --> 0:44:07.680
<v Speaker 2>I don't know if it's enough to offset losing Sneed,

0:44:08.520 --> 0:44:12.240
<v Speaker 2>but that twenty million that you opened up, they still

0:44:12.280 --> 0:44:16.080
<v Speaker 2>need to sign a tackle, They need to extend Creed Humphrey,

0:44:16.160 --> 0:44:20.279
<v Speaker 2>they might extend Tray Smith. That money you open up

0:44:20.360 --> 0:44:24.279
<v Speaker 2>right now is super valuable. Even though free agency has

0:44:24.320 --> 0:44:28.840
<v Speaker 2>passed its first couple phases. So if you told me

0:44:28.880 --> 0:44:31.400
<v Speaker 2>they could only keep one Snead or Chris Jones, I

0:44:31.440 --> 0:44:33.840
<v Speaker 2>feel like they kept the right one. They are gonna

0:44:33.840 --> 0:44:37.600
<v Speaker 2>have to pay Trent McDuffie a king's ransom in a year,

0:44:37.920 --> 0:44:41.400
<v Speaker 2>so they are preparing for that, and for all those reasons,

0:44:41.880 --> 0:44:44.319
<v Speaker 2>I'm not thrilled about it, but I don't think this

0:44:44.440 --> 0:44:47.239
<v Speaker 2>is a devastating blow for Kansas City, and I am

0:44:47.280 --> 0:44:51.360
<v Speaker 2>super happy for Lagarius Sneed, who has went through massive

0:44:51.440 --> 0:44:55.480
<v Speaker 2>life tragedies, has never made real NFL money, and now

0:44:55.560 --> 0:44:58.560
<v Speaker 2>gets paid based on his great work. All right, demons,

0:44:59.360 --> 0:45:00.880
<v Speaker 2>h what's the next we've got?

0:45:01.640 --> 0:45:01.960
<v Speaker 3>All right?

0:45:02.000 --> 0:45:05.239
<v Speaker 4>So Dallas is reportedly gonna let Dak's contract play out

0:45:05.360 --> 0:45:08.680
<v Speaker 4>instead of extending him. You said you would like that move,

0:45:09.600 --> 0:45:12.120
<v Speaker 4>but don't you. It's probably better to have an established

0:45:12.200 --> 0:45:13.960
<v Speaker 4>quarterback to be looking around for one.

0:45:13.840 --> 0:45:14.400
<v Speaker 3>Of this time.

0:45:15.160 --> 0:45:23.600
<v Speaker 4>But yeah, despite that, hold on, I'm sorry, go ahead, yeah, no, no, yeah,

0:45:23.640 --> 0:45:25.200
<v Speaker 4>So what do you what do you think about that move?

0:45:25.320 --> 0:45:26.120
<v Speaker 3>And why you talk?

0:45:26.200 --> 0:45:30.839
<v Speaker 2>I'll take some notes, Okay, Oh, that's why you were

0:45:30.840 --> 0:45:37.600
<v Speaker 2>grabbing your notepad. So yeah, the thing, you're fine. Uh.

0:45:37.920 --> 0:45:43.880
<v Speaker 2>The Cowboys are in a really rough spot. Dak Prescott

0:45:43.880 --> 0:45:47.520
<v Speaker 2>at sixty million a year as a disaster. Not having

0:45:47.520 --> 0:45:54.160
<v Speaker 2>a quarterback obviously is a potential disaster. I would not

0:45:55.719 --> 0:45:59.240
<v Speaker 2>pay Dak Prescott top of the market money. I would

0:45:59.320 --> 0:46:05.040
<v Speaker 2>prefer see how this year plays out and roll the dice.

0:46:06.000 --> 0:46:08.760
<v Speaker 2>I don't know that they're actually gonna have the guts

0:46:08.800 --> 0:46:16.640
<v Speaker 2>to do that, but very clearly demanse uh, I think

0:46:16.719 --> 0:46:23.800
<v Speaker 2>we know. You cannot win a Super Bowl with a

0:46:23.840 --> 0:46:28.560
<v Speaker 2>good ish quarterback paid like a great one. You can

0:46:28.600 --> 0:46:30.360
<v Speaker 2>win a Super Bowl with a bad quarterback and a

0:46:30.400 --> 0:46:32.760
<v Speaker 2>great events. You win a Super Bowl with a young quarterback.

0:46:32.800 --> 0:46:35.040
<v Speaker 2>You win Super Bowl with a great quarterback paid like

0:46:35.080 --> 0:46:38.360
<v Speaker 2>a great one. We have never seen under the current

0:46:38.440 --> 0:46:43.120
<v Speaker 2>salary cup cap construct a quarterback in that eight to

0:46:43.320 --> 0:46:47.880
<v Speaker 2>fourteen range, where Dak is eight to twelve range, paid

0:46:48.360 --> 0:46:51.400
<v Speaker 2>like he's the best and the team's good enough to

0:46:51.400 --> 0:46:55.080
<v Speaker 2>get to the super Bowl. So the Cowboys put themselves

0:46:55.120 --> 0:46:58.120
<v Speaker 2>in this position by giving Dak the no franchise tag,

0:46:58.200 --> 0:47:01.680
<v Speaker 2>no trade clause, so it's not they're not operating from

0:47:01.719 --> 0:47:04.520
<v Speaker 2>a position of strength. But what I wonder is if

0:47:04.560 --> 0:47:08.160
<v Speaker 2>they could take the strength back from Dak prep, if

0:47:08.200 --> 0:47:11.920
<v Speaker 2>they could regain leverage, if they do let this play

0:47:11.920 --> 0:47:15.920
<v Speaker 2>out and then say to Dak's agent, hey man, you

0:47:16.000 --> 0:47:17.759
<v Speaker 2>really want to go from being the quarterback of the

0:47:17.840 --> 0:47:21.480
<v Speaker 2>Dallas Cowboys to the quarterback of the Tennessee Titans. Is

0:47:21.480 --> 0:47:23.840
<v Speaker 2>that what you want to do? The quarterback of the

0:47:23.920 --> 0:47:27.800
<v Speaker 2>Dallas Cowboys to the what's another team that might be

0:47:27.960 --> 0:47:31.239
<v Speaker 2>in the quarterback market right now? The quarterback the New

0:47:31.280 --> 0:47:34.520
<v Speaker 2>York Jets. That's well, the commander is probably gonna draft

0:47:34.560 --> 0:47:37.120
<v Speaker 2>a kid it too. But is that what you want

0:47:37.120 --> 0:47:40.640
<v Speaker 2>to do? Or does it make more sense for you

0:47:40.719 --> 0:47:44.240
<v Speaker 2>to take a Kirk Cousins type of deal which pays

0:47:44.280 --> 0:47:46.920
<v Speaker 2>you good but not very top of the market and

0:47:47.000 --> 0:47:51.520
<v Speaker 2>continuing quarterback for the Cowboys. So if they actually can

0:47:51.600 --> 0:47:54.600
<v Speaker 2>stand true to this demanse, I think it would be

0:47:54.600 --> 0:47:58.120
<v Speaker 2>a gutsy good move. What are you drawing? What are

0:47:58.160 --> 0:47:58.480
<v Speaker 2>you doing?

0:47:59.520 --> 0:48:01.960
<v Speaker 4>I was making notes, taking everything that you were saying

0:48:02.000 --> 0:48:06.399
<v Speaker 4>in about you know, future sure quarterbacks.

0:48:05.920 --> 0:48:06.839
<v Speaker 3>And oh you're.

0:48:10.000 --> 0:48:13.800
<v Speaker 2>Oh, I get it now. Oh it's because Jerry Jones

0:48:13.880 --> 0:48:19.840
<v Speaker 2>was doodling. I saw Jerry in the Rundown, and I

0:48:20.000 --> 0:48:23.160
<v Speaker 2>forgot the Jerry Jones thing, and I was like, what

0:48:23.239 --> 0:48:26.200
<v Speaker 2>do they have my guy demanse doing? Why are they

0:48:26.239 --> 0:48:29.800
<v Speaker 2>having him doodle for no reason? But it's because Jerry

0:48:29.920 --> 0:48:33.400
<v Speaker 2>Jones just had pages and pages of doodles when he

0:48:33.520 --> 0:48:36.040
<v Speaker 2>was being interviewed at the owner's meetings. Okay, now I

0:48:36.160 --> 0:48:39.520
<v Speaker 2>understand it. Speaking of things I don't understand. Demon's a

0:48:39.640 --> 0:48:40.600
<v Speaker 2>JJ McCarthy.

0:48:41.760 --> 0:48:42.200
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.

0:48:42.360 --> 0:48:45.720
<v Speaker 4>So the JJ McCarthy I trained is obviously really crazy.

0:48:45.840 --> 0:48:49.600
<v Speaker 4>Right now, Folks like Jim Harbaugh saying JJ is even

0:48:49.600 --> 0:48:51.000
<v Speaker 4>better than Caleb Williams.

0:48:51.640 --> 0:48:52.520
<v Speaker 3>It's really crazy.

0:48:52.800 --> 0:48:55.920
<v Speaker 4>Some reports are some reports are Washington is considering taking

0:48:55.960 --> 0:48:59.520
<v Speaker 4>him as high as number two. All it took was

0:48:59.560 --> 0:49:03.280
<v Speaker 4>that and Zach Wilson pass at Pro Day. Which team

0:49:03.360 --> 0:49:06.440
<v Speaker 4>is gonna get sucked in? And why is it the Giants?

0:49:06.920 --> 0:49:08.759
<v Speaker 2>I don't know. I think he's gonna be gone before

0:49:08.800 --> 0:49:15.799
<v Speaker 2>the Giants can pick. I have six Listen, man, this

0:49:15.960 --> 0:49:22.520
<v Speaker 2>JJ McCarthy thing. I'm willing to open up the possibility

0:49:22.520 --> 0:49:25.759
<v Speaker 2>that I'm wrong, but I do not get it. I

0:49:25.840 --> 0:49:31.160
<v Speaker 2>admit I don't watch a ton of college football, but

0:49:31.440 --> 0:49:35.480
<v Speaker 2>last year I did watch a ton of Michigan because

0:49:35.520 --> 0:49:38.120
<v Speaker 2>they were the best team in college football. I didn't,

0:49:38.360 --> 0:49:40.759
<v Speaker 2>so like, did I watch a ton of Drake May

0:49:40.840 --> 0:49:44.040
<v Speaker 2>during the year? No, did I, by happenstance, watch a

0:49:44.040 --> 0:49:47.200
<v Speaker 2>ton of JJ McCarthy. Yes, and I'm acting like I

0:49:47.480 --> 0:49:50.480
<v Speaker 2>get these right every time. But at no point watching

0:49:50.520 --> 0:49:53.640
<v Speaker 2>Michigan play was I like, Oh, that guy future top

0:49:53.680 --> 0:49:58.200
<v Speaker 2>five pick. But he legitimately could go number two. He

0:49:58.320 --> 0:50:02.480
<v Speaker 2>absolutely could go top three. And if he doesn't, someone

0:50:02.560 --> 0:50:06.319
<v Speaker 2>is going to trade with either the Cardinals or Jim

0:50:06.400 --> 0:50:09.799
<v Speaker 2>Harbaugh's Chargers to move up to number five and get him.

0:50:10.640 --> 0:50:14.319
<v Speaker 2>So I don't get it. I flatly do not get it.

0:50:14.719 --> 0:50:17.560
<v Speaker 2>So WI question here, demon's is interesting.

0:50:17.600 --> 0:50:20.600
<v Speaker 4>Go ahead, Yeah, why if Harball is so high on him,

0:50:20.600 --> 0:50:25.120
<v Speaker 4>would he not just trade Herbert away to get a

0:50:25.200 --> 0:50:26.960
<v Speaker 4>war chest and get him.

0:50:27.200 --> 0:50:32.040
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, so I actually thought about this exact thing, And

0:50:32.080 --> 0:50:35.640
<v Speaker 2>the answer to that is because of the contract. First

0:50:35.640 --> 0:50:38.279
<v Speaker 2>of all, it would be crazy. But let's just say

0:50:38.320 --> 0:50:41.520
<v Speaker 2>Harball's adamant that he thinks JJ McCarthy is the best

0:50:41.600 --> 0:50:44.240
<v Speaker 2>quarterback in the draft, that he's awesome, and you would

0:50:44.239 --> 0:50:48.840
<v Speaker 2>have him obviously super cheap for four years. If all

0:50:48.920 --> 0:50:52.200
<v Speaker 2>those things were true, then trading Justin Herbert for like

0:50:52.320 --> 0:50:55.160
<v Speaker 2>four first round picks or you can't get four, but

0:50:55.200 --> 0:50:59.000
<v Speaker 2>three first round picks theoretically would make sense. The problem

0:50:59.120 --> 0:51:04.000
<v Speaker 2>is the contract Herbert signed is untradeable because of how

0:51:04.000 --> 0:51:09.640
<v Speaker 2>they structured it. So because of the bonuses that have

0:51:09.719 --> 0:51:13.720
<v Speaker 2>already been paid. Right now, if you were to trade

0:51:14.440 --> 0:51:21.719
<v Speaker 2>Justin Herbert, you would take on ninety five million dollars

0:51:21.760 --> 0:51:25.200
<v Speaker 2>in dead cap, so you just can't do it. So

0:51:25.360 --> 0:51:29.560
<v Speaker 2>trading Justin Herbert is not like financially possible. It also

0:51:29.640 --> 0:51:32.719
<v Speaker 2>would be crazy unless you believe JJ McCarthy's the best

0:51:32.800 --> 0:51:34.759
<v Speaker 2>quarterback in the draft, in which case it would make sense.

0:51:35.120 --> 0:51:38.880
<v Speaker 2>But it's not if he hadn't been signed to a

0:51:38.960 --> 0:51:42.040
<v Speaker 2>deal yet. It would make sense if he was under

0:51:42.040 --> 0:51:45.120
<v Speaker 2>the circumstance too, was under where it's like, oh, we

0:51:45.160 --> 0:51:48.439
<v Speaker 2>could trade him and then draft our guy. That would

0:51:48.480 --> 0:51:50.520
<v Speaker 2>be fine, But because of the contract Herbert signed, at

0:51:50.560 --> 0:51:53.360
<v Speaker 2>least according to the people at spot rack, he's not tradeable.

0:51:53.520 --> 0:51:55.600
<v Speaker 2>All right, quick break right back, wrap the show with

0:51:55.640 --> 0:51:58.640
<v Speaker 2>a game of freak outer, chill out, What's right?

0:52:03.040 --> 0:52:03.359
<v Speaker 3>All right?

0:52:03.400 --> 0:52:05.560
<v Speaker 2>Welcome back in What's Right? With Nick right real quick.

0:52:06.360 --> 0:52:09.120
<v Speaker 2>Shefter just tweeted the NFL is planning to play another

0:52:09.160 --> 0:52:12.040
<v Speaker 2>game this year on Christmas Day, which is on a Wednesday.

0:52:12.560 --> 0:52:15.920
<v Speaker 2>So a Wednesday Christmas Day game is coming. Mark me

0:52:16.000 --> 0:52:18.080
<v Speaker 2>down as someone that says that is a bad idea.

0:52:19.200 --> 0:52:26.359
<v Speaker 2>The NFL, I is, I think trying to grab up

0:52:26.440 --> 0:52:29.640
<v Speaker 2>too much real estate last year because of where Christmas

0:52:29.640 --> 0:52:32.840
<v Speaker 2>fell on the calendar, you could like the day of

0:52:32.880 --> 0:52:37.319
<v Speaker 2>the week. You could justify and explain it. Because let

0:52:37.360 --> 0:52:38.960
<v Speaker 2>me make sure I'm right on this. I think last

0:52:39.040 --> 0:52:41.960
<v Speaker 2>year Christmas was Christmas either on a Sunday or a Monday.

0:52:41.960 --> 0:52:43.120
<v Speaker 2>But let me just look, I have he right in

0:52:43.160 --> 0:52:51.319
<v Speaker 2>front of me. Christmas last year was on a Monday. No,

0:52:51.400 --> 0:52:54.680
<v Speaker 2>it was on a Monday, but there's usually football games

0:52:54.680 --> 0:52:56.920
<v Speaker 2>on Monday. It made sense with the schedule all of it.

0:52:57.640 --> 0:53:02.359
<v Speaker 2>Wednesday is the one day football are never played. It's

0:53:02.400 --> 0:53:04.920
<v Speaker 2>gonna be it's good. I don't even know scheduling wise,

0:53:04.960 --> 0:53:09.879
<v Speaker 2>how you're gonna do it. And putting games on Christmas Day,

0:53:10.080 --> 0:53:12.160
<v Speaker 2>I know it'll do a big number. I think. I

0:53:12.160 --> 0:53:15.200
<v Speaker 2>think long term it's a bad decision. All right, demand

0:53:15.400 --> 0:53:17.239
<v Speaker 2>let's keep going because the show's gone long. I know

0:53:17.280 --> 0:53:18.200
<v Speaker 2>that shocks everybody.

0:53:18.200 --> 0:53:21.680
<v Speaker 4>Go ahead, Yeah, Houston is now only one game behind

0:53:21.680 --> 0:53:25.640
<v Speaker 4>the Warriors and Draymond says that he's not scared, and

0:53:25.719 --> 0:53:27.879
<v Speaker 4>Steve Kurr is already arresting Stephen.

0:53:27.640 --> 0:53:28.799
<v Speaker 3>Curry for the playoffs.

0:53:29.560 --> 0:53:32.279
<v Speaker 4>Uh do you think that this Curry era will end

0:53:32.360 --> 0:53:33.760
<v Speaker 4>up ending in an eleven seed?

0:53:35.280 --> 0:53:38.439
<v Speaker 2>Well, I don't think that the Curry era is over,

0:53:38.520 --> 0:53:41.560
<v Speaker 2>but I do think the Warriors are gonna miss. I

0:53:41.600 --> 0:53:44.400
<v Speaker 2>think that if you look at what the Warriors, and

0:53:45.120 --> 0:53:46.880
<v Speaker 2>if we're gonna talk about why they're gonna miss, you

0:53:46.920 --> 0:53:49.440
<v Speaker 2>have to you have to talk about the fact that

0:53:49.600 --> 0:53:54.160
<v Speaker 2>Draymond Green was suspended for twenty one games and how

0:53:54.160 --> 0:53:58.879
<v Speaker 2>that impacted them. But what the Warriors have left. It's

0:53:58.960 --> 0:54:02.200
<v Speaker 2>not a gauntlet by any means. I understand that. But

0:54:02.360 --> 0:54:06.320
<v Speaker 2>here is what the Warriors have left on their schedule.

0:54:07.200 --> 0:54:12.920
<v Speaker 2>The following four on the road Miami, Orlando, Charlotte, San Antonio,

0:54:14.360 --> 0:54:21.439
<v Speaker 2>only one guaranteed victory Charlotte, then home for Dallas, then

0:54:21.640 --> 0:54:27.480
<v Speaker 2>back to Texas for at Houston, at Dallas home for Utah,

0:54:27.719 --> 0:54:31.960
<v Speaker 2>then at the Lakers at Portland Easy home for New

0:54:32.040 --> 0:54:37.359
<v Speaker 2>Orleans home for the Jazz. The Rockets, on the other hand,

0:54:38.080 --> 0:54:44.839
<v Speaker 2>have a slightly tougher schedule, but they are rolling. The

0:54:44.880 --> 0:54:48.799
<v Speaker 2>Warriors are I'd be really worried right now, and we'll

0:54:48.800 --> 0:54:51.759
<v Speaker 2>talk about the Suns in a minute. Right now, I

0:54:51.800 --> 0:54:55.080
<v Speaker 2>think the nine to ten play in game demanday is

0:54:55.120 --> 0:54:58.600
<v Speaker 2>gonna be Sun's rockets. I think the Warriors are gonna

0:54:58.600 --> 0:55:00.960
<v Speaker 2>fall out entirely, and I the Suns are gonna keep

0:55:01.000 --> 0:55:02.720
<v Speaker 2>collapsing or keep falling.

0:55:02.760 --> 0:55:05.640
<v Speaker 4>All right, next, All right, we're playing freak out or

0:55:05.680 --> 0:55:08.839
<v Speaker 4>chill out. My Celtics blew a thirty point lead last

0:55:08.920 --> 0:55:12.120
<v Speaker 4>night against the Hawks. Yeah, I know it's just one game,

0:55:12.200 --> 0:55:14.520
<v Speaker 4>But do you think it's a time for me to

0:55:14.560 --> 0:55:15.680
<v Speaker 4>freak out or chill out?

0:55:17.440 --> 0:55:20.200
<v Speaker 2>I'll tell you it's just one games, So go ahead.

0:55:20.280 --> 0:55:21.440
<v Speaker 2>I'm what's you're a yeah?

0:55:21.440 --> 0:55:24.760
<v Speaker 4>I mean they're they're already getting into their post postseason function.

0:55:25.080 --> 0:55:27.600
<v Speaker 4>They blew a thirty point lead to the Hawks. I

0:55:27.640 --> 0:55:30.600
<v Speaker 4>don't I'm not like one of those crazy fans. That's

0:55:30.760 --> 0:55:35.760
<v Speaker 4>just like like if if I'm very realistic, the Nuggets

0:55:35.760 --> 0:55:37.960
<v Speaker 4>are gonna kick your ass. If you're gonna do stuff

0:55:38.000 --> 0:55:40.520
<v Speaker 4>like that, you blew a thirty point lead to the Hawks.

0:55:40.640 --> 0:55:42.640
<v Speaker 4>I mean no, I'm just very realistic and I'm not

0:55:42.680 --> 0:55:44.960
<v Speaker 4>gonna do that. Oh you can be no, dude. If

0:55:45.000 --> 0:55:46.960
<v Speaker 4>they're gonna do that type of stuff not gonna be

0:55:47.000 --> 0:55:48.359
<v Speaker 4>I mean, you're not even gonna be able to get

0:55:48.360 --> 0:55:51.080
<v Speaker 4>away from the Bucks let on the Denver nights.

0:55:51.160 --> 0:55:54.120
<v Speaker 2>But uh, right, so that's the problem. The problem is

0:55:54.200 --> 0:55:56.959
<v Speaker 2>I don't think you should freak out about one game

0:55:57.000 --> 0:56:01.960
<v Speaker 2>you had won nine in a row. Uh, they took

0:56:02.000 --> 0:56:03.719
<v Speaker 2>your third off the gas and weren't able to put

0:56:03.719 --> 0:56:07.000
<v Speaker 2>it back on the gas. That's it. Thirty points is bad,

0:56:07.040 --> 0:56:11.120
<v Speaker 2>but that happens. But I just don't I don't like

0:56:11.200 --> 0:56:13.479
<v Speaker 2>the Celtics as much as I like the Bucks right now,

0:56:13.920 --> 0:56:19.560
<v Speaker 2>and there is a very real possibility that round one

0:56:20.840 --> 0:56:26.160
<v Speaker 2>Boston has to play Miami or Philly. Right now, the

0:56:26.280 --> 0:56:30.680
<v Speaker 2>seven to eight seed is Miami Philly, meaning the loser

0:56:30.760 --> 0:56:32.960
<v Speaker 2>of that game would then go into the next play

0:56:32.960 --> 0:56:35.440
<v Speaker 2>in game and then have to beat either Chicago or

0:56:35.440 --> 0:56:39.680
<v Speaker 2>Atlanta to then be the one seed or to play

0:56:39.680 --> 0:56:42.560
<v Speaker 2>be the eight seed. I wouldn't love that path at

0:56:42.600 --> 0:56:45.239
<v Speaker 2>all if I were Boston, and so I wouldn't freak

0:56:45.280 --> 0:56:47.040
<v Speaker 2>out about last night, But would I freak out in

0:56:47.080 --> 0:56:48.760
<v Speaker 2>general a little bit? All right? Next?

0:56:49.920 --> 0:56:52.360
<v Speaker 4>Uh, the Suns dropped to the to the player in

0:56:52.440 --> 0:56:55.879
<v Speaker 4>lucas their number, and they need to beat Lebron or

0:56:55.920 --> 0:56:58.440
<v Speaker 4>Steff it's not a long shot. Since it's not a

0:56:58.440 --> 0:57:00.600
<v Speaker 4>long shot to say they could be bouncing the postseason,

0:57:01.040 --> 0:57:03.160
<v Speaker 4>Katie is stuck with no outs. If you can't make

0:57:03.200 --> 0:57:07.439
<v Speaker 4>this work, should Durant freak out or chill out freak out?

0:57:08.160 --> 0:57:11.239
<v Speaker 2>You just lost to the Spurs without Wimby, which is

0:57:11.280 --> 0:57:15.839
<v Speaker 2>a travesty, a total travesty to lose that game. You

0:57:15.920 --> 0:57:20.680
<v Speaker 2>are now if you are Phoenix, you are in the

0:57:20.800 --> 0:57:23.800
<v Speaker 2>eighth seed. Now you're a half game out of being

0:57:23.800 --> 0:57:27.560
<v Speaker 2>in the sixth seed. You're also the only two losses

0:57:27.640 --> 0:57:31.760
<v Speaker 2>up on the Lakers in the nine seed. And we

0:57:31.760 --> 0:57:37.360
<v Speaker 2>were talking schedules the Suns. It's not only that they

0:57:37.440 --> 0:57:41.080
<v Speaker 2>have the hardest remaining schedule in the league by far,

0:57:42.240 --> 0:57:45.920
<v Speaker 2>it's that they have This is what the Suns are

0:57:45.960 --> 0:57:51.040
<v Speaker 2>about to start is the hardest ten game stretch demons

0:57:52.360 --> 0:57:59.280
<v Speaker 2>any team has had at any point all season. Here

0:57:59.440 --> 0:58:06.520
<v Speaker 2>are the one's final ten at Denver, at OKC, at

0:58:06.600 --> 0:58:12.880
<v Speaker 2>New Orleans, Home for Cleveland, home for Minnesota, Home for

0:58:13.000 --> 0:58:18.080
<v Speaker 2>New Orleans, Home for the Clippers, at the Clippers, at

0:58:18.160 --> 0:58:25.440
<v Speaker 2>the Kings, at the Timberwolves. So you play one, two, three,

0:58:25.760 --> 0:58:33.680
<v Speaker 2>four games against the West. One two, three, another one three,

0:58:34.120 --> 0:58:38.040
<v Speaker 2>four games against New Orleans and the Clippers, and then

0:58:38.160 --> 0:58:42.280
<v Speaker 2>Cleveland and Sacramento, and so I think the Sons are

0:58:42.280 --> 0:58:46.920
<v Speaker 2>going to drop to the nine spot. And folks killed

0:58:46.960 --> 0:58:49.320
<v Speaker 2>me when I said I didn't like the Bradley Beal. Addition,

0:58:49.680 --> 0:58:52.920
<v Speaker 2>when I said I don't buy into it, I that

0:58:52.920 --> 0:58:56.400
<v Speaker 2>that using all your chips, I'm getting Bradley Beal. They

0:58:56.480 --> 0:58:59.920
<v Speaker 2>just keep I've said it for I'll say it again.

0:59:00.200 --> 0:59:04.840
<v Speaker 2>They just have a slight They have Kevin Durant and

0:59:04.880 --> 0:59:07.920
<v Speaker 2>then a slightly worst version of Kevin Durant and Devin Booker,

0:59:08.600 --> 0:59:11.400
<v Speaker 2>and then a worst version of Devin Booker and Bradley Beal.

0:59:11.800 --> 0:59:15.960
<v Speaker 2>They have the same like archetype of player, just three

0:59:16.080 --> 0:59:21.680
<v Speaker 2>times over, and they have no moves to make moving forward. Yeah,

0:59:21.720 --> 0:59:23.680
<v Speaker 2>I'd be freaking out if I were Durant next.

0:59:24.760 --> 0:59:27.840
<v Speaker 4>All right, the Clippers have fallen off since Rusk got hurt,

0:59:28.280 --> 0:59:31.080
<v Speaker 4>James Harden win from closing out on Kawhid, putting a

0:59:31.200 --> 0:59:34.080
<v Speaker 4>Maxie in a headlock. Would once look like a serious

0:59:34.080 --> 0:59:37.920
<v Speaker 4>contender now looks like an unserious team. Should the Clipper fans,

0:59:38.200 --> 0:59:40.760
<v Speaker 4>if they exist, freak out or chill out.

0:59:41.920 --> 0:59:45.960
<v Speaker 2>Well, you got to freak out. If only someone had

0:59:46.000 --> 0:59:51.960
<v Speaker 2>warned you this was coming. So James Harden in his

0:59:52.120 --> 0:59:54.960
<v Speaker 2>last eight games, he's missed two, so it's the last

0:59:54.960 --> 0:59:59.400
<v Speaker 2>ten Clippers games. In his last eight games since March ninth,

1:00:00.080 --> 1:00:04.240
<v Speaker 2>he is thirteen points on thirty nine percent from the

1:00:04.240 --> 1:00:07.440
<v Speaker 2>field and thirty percent from three. It's that time of

1:00:07.520 --> 1:00:08.000
<v Speaker 2>year again.

1:00:08.480 --> 1:00:11.000
<v Speaker 3>It's that time. Okay, it's just.

1:00:11.280 --> 1:00:15.760
<v Speaker 2>That time of year. Uh and his post All Star

1:00:15.840 --> 1:00:17.960
<v Speaker 2>breaks swoon. At this point you can set your watch

1:00:18.040 --> 1:00:21.280
<v Speaker 2>to it. And the Clippers aren't good enough. And so

1:00:22.520 --> 1:00:27.320
<v Speaker 2>the now they're there, I expect them to stay out

1:00:27.360 --> 1:00:30.320
<v Speaker 2>of the play in and then I expect them to

1:00:30.360 --> 1:00:36.480
<v Speaker 2>get rolled in round one, either by Minnesota or who

1:00:36.520 --> 1:00:38.440
<v Speaker 2>could they be playing in round one? If they stay

1:00:38.480 --> 1:00:40.919
<v Speaker 2>the five, they could play New Orleans. They could beat

1:00:40.960 --> 1:00:43.880
<v Speaker 2>New Orleans, I suppose, and then just get annihilated in

1:00:44.000 --> 1:00:48.000
<v Speaker 2>round two. But Minnesota would beat them, Oklahoma City would

1:00:48.040 --> 1:00:51.120
<v Speaker 2>beat them. If they fall to the six. Obviously Denver

1:00:51.200 --> 1:00:55.880
<v Speaker 2>would beat them. And by the way, Laurie Reyes are

1:00:56.000 --> 1:01:01.680
<v Speaker 2>wonderful uh producer, social medium. She's a Clippers fan. She says,

1:01:01.720 --> 1:01:04.560
<v Speaker 2>I exist, so demands a u O Laian apology.

1:01:04.680 --> 1:01:08.000
<v Speaker 4>All right, sorry, all right things will look it up

1:01:08.040 --> 1:01:10.360
<v Speaker 4>for the Lakers. Eighty is playing out of his mind.

1:01:10.560 --> 1:01:14.080
<v Speaker 4>D Lo just broke the Lakers single season three point record.

1:01:14.640 --> 1:01:16.920
<v Speaker 4>It seems that they are peaking at the right time.

1:01:17.600 --> 1:01:19.640
<v Speaker 4>Should the West freak out or chill out?

1:01:21.640 --> 1:01:24.200
<v Speaker 2>So let me get Can I give you my Galaxy

1:01:24.240 --> 1:01:29.680
<v Speaker 2>brain Lakers take because listen, the West obviously goes through Denver. Okay,

1:01:29.880 --> 1:01:35.320
<v Speaker 2>we all know this. I'm gonna give you my The

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<v Speaker 2>whole idea for the Lakers has been if you're a

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<v Speaker 2>Lakers fan, like, well, maybe someone can beat Denver for us.

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<v Speaker 2>That's not really a plan, right, hoping someone else upsets Denver.

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<v Speaker 2>Here's now sneaky what I'm rooting for Lakers Denver? Round one?

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<v Speaker 2>Here's why. Let me explain. How is round one different

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<v Speaker 2>than all the other rounds? The games are so spread out,

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<v Speaker 2>so much time between them. Is the Lakers' only path

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<v Speaker 2>the beating Denver? Lebron being able to play like forty

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<v Speaker 2>two to forty four minutes a night along with ad Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>Probably now I'm seeing Denver's beating the Lakers like nine

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<v Speaker 2>straight games. Daniel right now is yelling in the control room.

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<v Speaker 2>I get all of it. Denver is the far better team,

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<v Speaker 2>but they can't beat Denver. Playing them every other day

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<v Speaker 2>is their only hope. The spread out first round where

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<v Speaker 2>you have two and sometimes three days between series. Maybe.

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<v Speaker 2>Now here's what I do think. I do think that

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<v Speaker 2>the Lakers can beat anyone in the West in a

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<v Speaker 2>series other than Denver, and so Denver, we could have

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<v Speaker 2>the same scenario as last year where the Lakers are

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<v Speaker 2>the seven and they played Denil the one they played

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<v Speaker 2>Denver in the conference finals. Like that absolutely could happen again. Uh,

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<v Speaker 2>It's not necessarily what I'm predicting, but I do think

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<v Speaker 2>the Lakers are dangerous. Uh. And the Lakers as opposed

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<v Speaker 2>to when we were talking about tough schedules, the Lakers

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<v Speaker 2>have a tough one tonight against Milwaukee that Lebron's probably

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<v Speaker 2>gonna miss. After that, here's what the Lakers got Memphis Pacers, Brooklyn, Toronto, Washington, Cleveland, Minnesota,

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<v Speaker 2>Golden State, Memphis, New Orleans, So Memphis, Brooklyn, Toronto, Washington, Memphis.

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<v Speaker 2>That's five games you've gotta win. Could the Lakers right

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<v Speaker 2>now because they if they want to get out of

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<v Speaker 2>the ninth spot, they let's say Phoenix is gonna go

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<v Speaker 2>four and six the rest of the way. Can the

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<v Speaker 2>Lakers go seven and three? I think they can and

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<v Speaker 2>catch them all right, Listen, We're not gonna do listener

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<v Speaker 2>questions because we this show went too long on a

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<v Speaker 2>million different things. Today thirty minute TV show. Today, I'm

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<v Speaker 2>gonna be on with Colin in about an hour and

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<v Speaker 2>a half. You want to check me out there? Demanse

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<v Speaker 2>looks like, how'd you feel with the shades? Is this

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<v Speaker 2>gonna be the new look? Because I like it?

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I just I need to get some I need

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<v Speaker 4>to get a different pair. This was the mock the

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<v Speaker 4>mock sunglass trot.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, yeah, get some all right, good.

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<v Speaker 3>Some better ones, but yeah, all right, definite.

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