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Speaker 2: My man, what's going on? How are you on this

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Speaker 2: lovely Saturday? Doing pretty well?

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Speaker 1: It's been a busy week, so today was more relaxing

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Speaker 1: than a lot of sports Saturdays have been in terms

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Speaker 1: of just the live stuff, but never a shortage of

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Speaker 1: things happening during the course of the week to get into.

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Speaker 2: Both on and off the field. Plenty to get into.

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Speaker 2: And you know, there's nothing certainly on the field that's

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Speaker 2: really pressing or new or whatever, but certainly from a

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Speaker 2: you know, free agency obviously, this is a time of

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Speaker 2: year where the NBA starts to ramp up. I mean,

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Speaker 2: people I don't eve want to say they joke because

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Speaker 2: I think there's some truth to it. Is that sometimes

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Speaker 2: the NBA offseason and kind of the chess pieces moving around,

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Speaker 2: it's more interesting than the season itself. And today felt

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Speaker 2: like that day. Obviously it was kind of opt out

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Speaker 2: day where if you were opting out of a contract,

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Speaker 2: he had to alert your team. We will talk about

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Speaker 2: Lebron James momentarily, but I think we both feel and

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Speaker 2: I think we speak for a lot of people when

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Speaker 2: we say he's gonna be a Laker. It's just you know,

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Speaker 2: how he works that contract and what it means for

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Speaker 2: his future teammates. The one that feels interesting to me,

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Speaker 2: and you know, I want to be careful how I

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Speaker 2: frame this because I think he's a good player that

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Speaker 2: has value. I wouldn't use the word superstar, wouldn't use

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Speaker 2: the word franchise change or anything like that. But the

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Speaker 2: one that does seem interesting is Paul George. He actually

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Speaker 2: got traded almost five years ago to the day. It

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Speaker 2: was July fifth, twenty nineteen. Happened right in the middle

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Speaker 2: of my wedding, stopped my wedding when he got traded

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Speaker 2: to the Clippers, alongside Kawhi Leonard, who obviously signed with

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Speaker 2: the Clippers that evening. And we come full circle Kawhi

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Speaker 2: signs that three year extension just a few months ago,

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Speaker 2: and obviously, look Paul George thought he was getting that

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Speaker 2: extension as well, the Clippers are being a little bit

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Speaker 2: more cautious with how they spend and so because of it,

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Speaker 2: he declined his forty eight point seven million dollar option.

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Speaker 2: Today he will enter free agency, and among the teams

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Speaker 2: he plans to meet with over the coming days, he

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Speaker 2: will still meet with the Clippers, but also the seventy

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Speaker 2: six ers and Orlando Magic. Just first thoughts, quick thoughts

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Speaker 2: when you see this news, Jamark.

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Speaker 1: I'm not surprised by it, kind of had been talked

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Speaker 1: about for a couple of weeks. I'm with you, and

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Speaker 1: I mean I've told you this off air and probably

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Speaker 1: on air over the last handful of years. But I

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Speaker 1: understand how good Paul George is. I'm a thunder fan,

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Speaker 1: so I mean, he played for my team for a

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Speaker 1: couple of years as well. I know he's a good player.

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Speaker 1: He's never done anything in the playoffs. He's he That's

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Speaker 1: why I don't like I understand, like you said, you

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Speaker 1: don't want to call him a superstar. I'm kind of

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Speaker 1: with you. He's a great piece but never has he

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Speaker 1: joined a team and taken them to the promised Land.

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Speaker 1: I'm not putting him in like James Harden territory where

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Speaker 1: you can't where where I just shudder to believe you

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Speaker 1: can win with him or anything like that. But I

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Speaker 1: think that he gets so much hype and I don't

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Speaker 1: Another thing that's fascinating, and this is I've read articles

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Speaker 1: like for guys that are of a certain age, Paul

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Speaker 1: George is like their favorite basketball player.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Brandon Miller called him the vat.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, like there's several, but it's not just him. But

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Speaker 1: I think it was Miller that sort of put it

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Speaker 2: So I have a quick funny story about that. You know,

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Speaker 2: different walks of life, and you can kind of tell, okay,

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Speaker 2: And you know there's there's a younger, you know guy

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Speaker 2: always trying to learn about our business. And so, you know,

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Speaker 2: I see him in the hallway later, Hey man, where

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Speaker 2: one of these I can't even remember, like not clutch points,

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Speaker 2: you think will go viral? And he's like, you know,

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Speaker 2: like asking these kids about Paul George And I was

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Speaker 2: like really, and he's like, yeah, they all love and

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Speaker 2: people forget number two pick in last year's draft, Brandon Miller.

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Speaker 2: I think somebody asked him mj or Lebron, who's the goat.

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Speaker 2: He goes, Paul George is my goat. And so I

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Speaker 2: only bring it up because again I'm blanking on what

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Speaker 2: either there to get something that's interesting or viral or whatever.

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Speaker 2: But he said, he was like, dude, you will not.

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Speaker 2: Paul George is all the rage with the kids now.

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Speaker 2: And I was just like, okay, if you say so,

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Speaker 2: I was like sort of blown away.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, it's interesting, and he's a guy that

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Speaker 1: for his career's averaged twenty point eight and you know,

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Speaker 1: he's shot well from the field. I wouldn't call it

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Speaker 1: his numbers, they stuck up pretty well. He's thirty three

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Speaker 1: he reminds me a lot of McGrady, because McGrady was

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Speaker 1: another guy that got talked about to me far more

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Speaker 1: so good, he's an incredible player and all this, but

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Speaker 1: he never it never ended up translating to anything too massive.

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Speaker 1: But like so he was looking at the Magic that

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Speaker 1: get paid and not win a championship, that's probably a

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Speaker 1: good place to go. You look at some of these others.

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Speaker 1: He could go back to the Clippers, I guess, but

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Speaker 1: the one that's intriguing at least is to go to Philly.

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Speaker 1: And that's kind of been the scuttle butt for a

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Speaker 1: couple of months that he could go team up with

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Speaker 1: him and maybe that's the star Embiid has not had

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Speaker 1: he hadn't had a guy, and that's still technically in

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Speaker 1: his priming that he's played a lot of basketball. He's

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Speaker 1: still I mean, just this past year he average twenty

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Speaker 1: I don't know what it does, but the Celtics need

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Speaker 1: a challenger, and the Knicks go get Bridges and they're

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Speaker 1: clearly going all in. The Pacers did not have a

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Speaker 1: particularly strong draft. Miami looks like they're fading a little bit.

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Speaker 1: So you look at this. If you are Philadelphia, to

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Speaker 1: keep pace, this might be a movee you have to

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Speaker 1: make so that you have two guys to go with

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Speaker 1: the two guys in New York and the whole Villanova

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Speaker 1: of these other teams. So FUI is the one place

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Speaker 1: where it might make sense for him to go if

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Speaker 1: he thinks he might be able to win, because you

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Speaker 1: put those guys together and you build around them properly,

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Speaker 1: and you hope they stay healthy and maybe you have

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Speaker 1: something there. I can understand why you would try that

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Speaker 1: if you're Philadelphia, for sure.

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Speaker 2: I'll get back to the stuff in a secon let

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Speaker 2: me ask you a question though, And again, maybe it's

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Speaker 2: more interesting because I live in La whatever, but is

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Speaker 2: I think anybody who covers the NBA has kind of

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Speaker 2: said this is like, once you extend Paul or Kawhi

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Speaker 2: Leonard excuse me, three year, one hundred and fifty three

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Speaker 2: million dollars extension signed in January, don't don't you like, like,

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Speaker 2: isn't Paul George and I And by the way, we're

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Speaker 2: not salary cap experts, and I know the new salary

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Speaker 2: like you gotta try, Like I don't really understand the

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Speaker 2: point of bringing back Kawhi. We all know they're opening

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Speaker 2: that new arena, uh this coming season. And oh, by

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Speaker 2: like when they're both on the court, they're really good together.

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Speaker 2: just bring it up because I just find it interesting

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Speaker 2: that you go back all in on Kawhi, who has

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Speaker 2: been significantly less healthier than Paul George. But Paul George

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Speaker 2: is kind of where you draw the line and say, hey,

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Speaker 2: you know, I mean we you know, you play hard

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess from a if they're on the floor standpoint,

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Speaker 1: Kawhi can probably do more for you even now, but

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Speaker 1: Paul George is going to be out there more often,

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Speaker 1: I would think, even though he's gone. I mean, he's

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Speaker 1: had injuries as well, But I don't know, Kawhi is

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Speaker 1: I don't think you can build around Kawhi Leonard, and

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Speaker 1: if you're the Clippers, you look at Paul George.

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Speaker 2: Paul George just played seventy four games this regular season.

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Speaker 1: That's that's more than I would have thought. But he's

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Speaker 1: coming off the year prior. He played fifty six thirty one,

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Speaker 1: and then of course he was kind of an iron

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Speaker 1: man for four years prior to that. But seventy four

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Speaker 1: three for him. So he played a lot of basketball

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Speaker 1: and his stats were solid. He was ninety percent from

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Speaker 1: the throw line again, almost twenty three points a game.

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Speaker 1: He was strong like that was a really good year.

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Speaker 1: Of the two of them right now, Paul George is

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Speaker 1: probably the one that is that I would almost say

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Speaker 1: is more valuable and more trustworthy. But I don't know.

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Speaker 1: And if you're going to you're not gonna win with Kauwhai.

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Speaker 2: Don't disagree at all. Be curious to see again. Paul

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Speaker 2: I actually maybe we'll talk a little bit of Nicks

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Speaker 2: in the NBA. Paul George ops out of his deal

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Speaker 2: I really do love this. Michale bridges to the nixt story.

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Speaker 2: I think they call it the Roommates Podcast or something.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, I don't know that there's anything else to add.

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Speaker 2: I mean, do I do think it is important, you know,

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Speaker 2: with the way that Tibbs kind of coaches that team.

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Speaker 2: It's kind of what we're just talking about with the

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Speaker 2: seventy six ers, is you hate to say it from

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Speaker 2: the Mbeed perspective, but like you kind of just have

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Speaker 2: to bake in that mbiad's gonna miss some time with injuries,

439
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Speaker 2: and like, I really wish this wasn't true, and I

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Speaker 2: hope I'm wrong on this, but I kind of feel

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Speaker 2: like when you have a Tibbs coach team, like you

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Speaker 2: have to account for everybody's probably not making it through

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Speaker 2: the entire way because you know, you have you know,

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Speaker 2: every guy's expected to play, you know, forty one minutes

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Speaker 2: a night every night that they're available, and so to

446
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Speaker 2: just have another dude that's like a fringe All Star

447
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Speaker 2: caliber dude. I just think in the big picture helps them,

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Speaker 2: and I think to the point we made earlier, j Mart,

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Speaker 2: I think I would put them at number two definitively

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Speaker 2: right now in the East. And I think even if

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Speaker 2: the Philadelphia got Paul George, I'd probably feel the same way.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I definitely think that makes it more interesting.

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Speaker 1: But you're I'm with you. I think the Knicks are

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Speaker 1: the are the one team that I look at, and

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Speaker 1: this is what I said last week, even before this move.

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Speaker 1: They're the team that if they made a had a

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Speaker 1: good off season, they would be the team I'd look

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Speaker 1: at to potentially challenge Boston first. Now, I do think

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Speaker 1: Indiana will be heard from, and certainly if the Sixers

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Speaker 1: were to get Paul George, that makes that fascinating. But

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Speaker 1: I like the NBA with the Knicks being good. Sure,

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Speaker 1: I like it. I love their playoff run. I enjoyed

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Speaker 1: all of those games. So them not just coming back

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Speaker 1: and running back everything changing up just a little bit,

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Speaker 1: but still paying Annonobe too. Sure, so they didn't him

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Speaker 1: and the deal. I hesitate to say it, but the

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Speaker 1: Knicks a contenders they are flat out contenders barring injury.

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Speaker 2: No doubt about it. Fun story and again, Michale Bridges,

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Speaker 2: I'm with you. I think it makes them the definitive

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Speaker 2: number two. Tell you what, Jason will come back. We'll

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Speaker 2: talk about the Los Angeles Lakers because Paul George ops out.

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Speaker 2: We talked about that. Lebron James ops out as well,

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Speaker 2: and is there a high profile teammate ready to join him.

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Speaker 2: We'll discuss that next, but first let's toss it over

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Speaker 2: the news desk first time for our show this evening.

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Speaker 2: Steve de Seger, what is trending? Hello, gentlemen. We did

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Speaker 2: have a.

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Speaker 5: Game on Fox TV, well two of them, depending on

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Speaker 5: your region, and both were quite interesting at the end.

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Speaker 5: First off, Baltimore edged Texas six to five, saved to

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Speaker 5: Craig Kimberrel, who did walk a couple in the ninth

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Speaker 5: to make it interesting. Texas has lost six in a

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Speaker 5: row and Ranger star Corey Seeger left early hit by

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Speaker 5: a pitch on the left wrist. It is swollen. Initial

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Speaker 5: X rays were negative. The Dodgers scored seven times in

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Speaker 5: the top of the eleventh and one at San Francisco

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Speaker 5: fourteen to seven. Shoeo Tani with an early home run,

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Speaker 5: his twenty sixth. The Dodgers have won fourteen of their

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Speaker 5: last seventeen played at San Francisco. The Giants tonight left fifteen.

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Speaker 1: Men on base.

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Speaker 5: As for the two games in progress the Lake contest.

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Speaker 5: The Twins in the fifth lead to to one at

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Speaker 5: Seattle now and the Tigers are holding on at Anaheim

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Speaker 5: three to two over the Angels in the bottom of

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Speaker 5: the fifth. Atlanta was a ten inning winner against Pittsburgh

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Speaker 5: two to one. The Padres won their fifth in a

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Speaker 5: row eleven to one at Boston two homers for Manny Machado.

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Speaker 5: Cleveland won again seven to two at Kansas City on

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Speaker 5: FS one the Cubs. He and half with a two

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Speaker 5: run homer in the top of the eighth. Cubs one

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Speaker 5: at Milwaukee five to three. The Yankees Juan Soto did

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Speaker 5: not play today due to a bruised hand. Pitcher Nester

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Speaker 5: Cortes took the loss nine to three at Toronto, and

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Speaker 5: Vladimir Guerrero Junior of the Blue Jays had six RBIs,

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Speaker 5: including a two run homer in the first inning, three

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Speaker 5: run double in the sixth, RBI single in the eighth.

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Speaker 5: He is white hot. In fact, since RBI's became an

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Speaker 5: official stat in the major leagues over one hundred years ago,

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Speaker 5: only one other guy has had the six game span

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Speaker 5: that he's currently on to have at least nineteen RBIs

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Speaker 5: and ten extra base hits over a six game span

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Speaker 5: a It's Guerrero Junior right now. Be Reggie Jackson is

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Speaker 5: the only other one on the list from the nineteen

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Speaker 5: sixty nine a's in Copa America attendance in Miami tonight

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Speaker 5: sixty five thousand is Argentina one again two nothing over Peru.

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Speaker 5: Liono Messi was out with a groin entry. Argentina at

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Speaker 5: three to zero wins the group and it'll start the

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Speaker 5: quarterfinals on July the fourth. Chile is out eliminated after

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Speaker 5: a zero zero tie in Orlando against Canada. Mexico plays

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Speaker 5: Sunday nights on Fox TV against Ecuador in Arizona. The

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Speaker 5: US plays Monday night and will likely need to beat

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Speaker 5: first place Uruguay to advance. That Monday game is on

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Speaker 5: FS one from Kansas City. At the Euros, wins for

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Speaker 5: hosts Germany and for Switzerland, which dominated Italy two and

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Speaker 5: I think Italians are out. In fact, the Swiss outshot

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Speaker 5: him thirteen to three at one point. Fox TV will

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Speaker 5: have both of the Sunday games from overseas the Clippers.

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Speaker 5: Paul George did opt out of his contract. He'll be

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Speaker 5: a free agent. Russell Westbrook will return to the Clippers,

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Speaker 5: reportedly picking up his four million dollar option and two

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Speaker 5: WNBA games wins for Seattle and Las Vegas.

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Speaker 2: Back to you. Thank you very much, Steve Seger, Fox

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Speaker 2: Sports Radio, Fox Sports Saturday and Er Tours. Jay Smartin

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Speaker 2: broadcasting live from the Tyreck dot Com studios mentioned a

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Speaker 2: few times, but in addition to Paul George opting out

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Speaker 2: of his contract. Of course, the news broke early today,

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Speaker 2: well before noon Eastern time or right around new Eastern time,

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Speaker 2: that Lebron James has opted out of the final year

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Speaker 2: of his contract with the Los Angeles Lakers and jaymar

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Speaker 2: I think there were two kind of reactions to it.

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Speaker 2: Not surprising, and I think that the two thoughts are

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Speaker 2: either one, he can renegotiate a contract that allows him

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Speaker 2: to include a no trade clause, which obviously you know.

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Speaker 2: I think at this point in his career, I understand

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Speaker 2: why he would want it, although I don't think the

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Speaker 2: Lakers would ever trade him. But that's neither here nor there.

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Speaker 2: But the other thing, I think it opens up the

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Speaker 2: possibility that, hey, maybe after a couple of weeks where

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Speaker 2: his son got drafted, his podcast, buddy got hired as

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Speaker 2: the head coach, maybe it's possible that he could potentially

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Speaker 2: be willing to take, you know, a deal below market value.

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Speaker 2: And I think, excuse me, Rich Paul even said to

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Speaker 2: ESPN on Saturday, Lebron is prioritizing roster improvement. He's been

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Speaker 2: adamant about exuding all efforts to improve the roster, the

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Speaker 2: insinuation being he could leave a little bit of money

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Speaker 2: on the table to help the Los Angeles Lakers. And

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Speaker 2: so I'm just curious from your perspective, you know, by

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Speaker 2: the way, I'm not gonna sit here and like criticize

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Speaker 2: Lebron if he wants the full, you know, the full

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Speaker 2: whatever he's allowed to get under the CBA. I will say, though,

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Speaker 2: I do think that at a time where I think

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Speaker 2: there are some Lakers fans that are frustrated how the

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Speaker 2: last couple of weeks have gone, how Lebron seemingly has

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Speaker 2: control over a lot of the big decisions in the franchise.

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Speaker 2: I think it'd be a good step to kind of,

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Speaker 2: you know, men's some fences with the fan base if

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Speaker 2: he were to take a little bit less to help

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Speaker 2: the team.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and it would then also look like he was

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Speaker 1: trying to win, because when your son gets drafted and

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Speaker 1: he's not really an NBA player of any he's not ready.

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Speaker 1: He's probably a couple of years away from really being

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Speaker 1: able to do anything if everything were to go. I

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Speaker 1: read that piece of the Athletic where they basically said, look,

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Speaker 1: he's not an NBA player right now. He is a

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Speaker 1: couple of years away if everything goes perfect with his development.

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Speaker 1: So there's a lot of ifs in that statement. But

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Speaker 1: so you bring him in. So the question then is,

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Speaker 1: all right, you got what you wanted, but that's not

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Speaker 1: a winning move. So how much do you care about winning?

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Speaker 1: So you try to change that around. You take less

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Speaker 1: money and then they're able to do some other things

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Speaker 1: around you to actually improve the team. You have D'Angelo

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Speaker 1: Russell opt in, which gives them a little bit more

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Speaker 1: flexibility than they would have had he opted out. But

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Speaker 1: I will say this, I don't know what the actual

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Speaker 1: league minimum is, but if Lebron James wants to make

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Speaker 1: history and upset the union something fierce. Come out and

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Speaker 1: take the lowest amount of money that he is actually

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Speaker 1: able to take under the collective Margaining Agreement, and point

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Speaker 1: blank just say go get some guys. I'm going to

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Speaker 1: take the least amount of money available. I mean, he's

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Speaker 1: already a billionaire. I don't know how much you could

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Speaker 1: spend in a lifetime. I know, no one almost no

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Speaker 1: one will say that they have enough money. There's always

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Speaker 1: more that you can make. But his career after basketball

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Speaker 1: is going to net him whatever he wants on top

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Speaker 1: of everything else. If he wants to to change some

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Speaker 1: of the perception, then don't go for the max. Don't

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Speaker 1: even go close to the max. Go for the least

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Speaker 1: amount possible and then say hand that around. Remember when

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Speaker 1: Brady took less money and how that was talked about, course,

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Speaker 1: and then the same difference with Aaron Rodgers in Green

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Speaker 1: Bay not doing it, and all that. The optics are phenomenal, Lebron,

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Speaker 1: if you were to do this, do I think he's

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Speaker 1: going to do it? Absolutely not, And the Union would

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Speaker 1: try to stop him because they want you to go

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Speaker 1: for as much money as humanly possible every time I

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Speaker 1: get that, but from a history standpoint, somebody at his

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Speaker 1: level coming out and taking the he couldn't take less

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Speaker 1: money just to help the team so that they would

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Speaker 1: have more money to go lure some other free agents,

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Speaker 1: which would help them likely in the future. It would

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Speaker 1: set up his buddy JJ Reddick for success. All of

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Speaker 1: those kinds of things. The story would be incredible and

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Speaker 1: it would be positive all the way across the board. Again,

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Speaker 1: not going to happen, but I wanted to at least

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Speaker 1: throw it out there as a thought experiment. If you

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Speaker 1: have as much money as Lebron James does, with as

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Speaker 1: much opportunity to make a ton more off the court

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Speaker 1: for decades after you stop playing, then why not do

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Speaker 1: something unprecedented for somebody of his stature and just take

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Speaker 1: the league minimum and make that a story.

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Speaker 2: The league minimum, according to uh Google, is one point

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Speaker 2: one million dollars. Think about that, So, I mean he

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Speaker 2: he made about he made fifty one point four million

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Speaker 2: this year. Imagine him taking a fifty million dollar salary

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Speaker 2: cut to help the team. Listen, don't think that that's

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Speaker 2: necessarily gonna happen, but well, I will say two things though,

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Speaker 2: is that one like you said, I think it's hard,

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Speaker 2: and we're going to get into BRONI in the next hour,

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Speaker 2: and there's a lot of layers to that. But I

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Speaker 2: think it's hard to say that Lebron and the Lakers

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Speaker 2: are fully in whatever it takes to win, you know, MO,

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Speaker 2: because you can't be when I understand it's the second

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Speaker 2: round pick. I understand it's the fifty fifth pick in

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Speaker 2: the draft, but your window with Lebron is right now,

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Speaker 2: and there were guys that were available that could potentially

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Speaker 2: help you, not as a starter, but as an eighth

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Speaker 2: ninth man, as a defensive piece, as a three point

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Speaker 2: shooting piece. There are pieces. So I bring it up

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Speaker 2: because I don't think that most people. I think it's

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00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:25,160
Speaker 2: they want to win, but it's on Lebron's term, so

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Speaker 2: I think that would make a difference. And then I

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Speaker 2: think the other thing too. I do think there's some

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Speaker 2: fences that have to be mended with this, with this

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Speaker 2: fan base, because it just feels like, like I said,

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Speaker 2: over the last couple of weeks, it does feel like

649
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Speaker 2: a lot of people have been rubbed the wrong way

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Speaker 2: by the decisions that have been made clearly in some way,

651
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Speaker 2: shape or form to appease Lebron. And so I know

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Speaker 2: we're kind of just going over exactly what you just said, Jason,

653
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Speaker 2: but I think it would go a long way with

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Speaker 2: the fan base. Even I think the league minimum would

655
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Speaker 2: be an incredible story. But I think even taking less

656
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Speaker 2: to kind of open things up more, I think would

657
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Speaker 2: go a long way in in showing the fan base

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Speaker 2: that you were still serious about winning.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and even look, if you take a substantial amount

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Speaker 1: less because there's a free agent that you really think

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Speaker 1: can help that basketball team, and the perception is that

662
00:32:13,440 --> 00:32:16,280
Speaker 1: you're right about that, then that's going to help as well.

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Speaker 1: I think the perception right now, at least from Afar,

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Speaker 1: even though I'm on the opposite coast, basically from where

665
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Speaker 1: you are out there, where you're a lot more plugged

666
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Speaker 1: into it, is Lebron James looks like he's wearing his

667
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Speaker 1: own jersey with his own name on the front of it,

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00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:33,760
Speaker 1: as opposed to the Lakers. It's not like he's a Laker,

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Speaker 1: he's Lebron James. He hasn't come across to me like

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Speaker 1: he's particularly concerned with the people watching them play at home.

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Speaker 1: And it's because, and again, it's easy to look at

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Speaker 1: and say, well, you got your guys, coach, and now

673
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Speaker 1: you got your son in the second round who was

674
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Speaker 1: not really wouldn't have been wouldn't have even been close

675
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Speaker 1: to have actually deciding to go to the draft if

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Speaker 1: he wasn't your son. He's not even going to do

677
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Speaker 1: a two way contract to potentially even go to the

678
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Speaker 1: G League. No, he's gonna be there with you on

679
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Speaker 1: the bench and all these things. Everything's about him and

680
00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:08,840
Speaker 1: it always has been. And even the articles that are

681
00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:10,320
Speaker 1: now being written are, well, who are you going to

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Speaker 1: surround him with, because now that he's all in and

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Speaker 1: he's gonna opt out and potentially take less money, that

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Speaker 1: you've got to surround him, Like I mean, that's what

685
00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:19,680
Speaker 1: they've been doing, is catering to him for years. So

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Speaker 1: I think that if you want to talk about fences

687
00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:26,240
Speaker 1: that need to be mended, that would be my view

688
00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:29,840
Speaker 1: from way away from la is that it would be

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Speaker 1: nice for it to feel like Lebron was in it

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Speaker 1: for the Lakers and not in it for himself, his family,

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Speaker 1: all of those things. And you know that may be

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Speaker 1: naive of me, because there's a lot of guys in

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Speaker 1: the league that you could blame for the same thing.

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Speaker 1: But I just think this would be an unprecedented move

695
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Speaker 1: that would make the opinion of Lebron James shift in

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Speaker 1: a lot of ways, because it would be it would

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Speaker 1: be the very definition of unselfish, unless you just think

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00:33:56,840 --> 00:33:59,680
Speaker 1: that championships make you selfish, which I do not not

699
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Speaker 1: if that's what you do for a living is play

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Speaker 1: sports to win titles.

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Speaker 2: No doubt. And so it does become interesting because it

702
00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:08,200
Speaker 2: does appear as though he's ready to take less money

703
00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:12,279
Speaker 2: and a very interesting name has emerged as a potential

704
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Speaker 2: future Laker. We'll discuss that name next. Is it realistic

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Speaker 2: and what impact would this individual have? That's next Fox

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Speaker 2: Sports Radio.

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

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Speaker 2: Welcome back everybody, Fox Sports Radio. Eric Torris, Jason Martin broadcasting,

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Speaker 2: and I from theti iraq dot com studio. So before

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Speaker 2: the break, talked a little bit about Lebron James opting

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00:34:37,719 --> 00:34:40,600
Speaker 2: out of his contract. He's expected to re sign with

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Speaker 2: the Lakers, maybe at a little bit of a discount

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00:34:43,160 --> 00:34:48,200
Speaker 2: to help them build a contender around him. And I

714
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Speaker 2: bring it up because there is certainly an intriguing name

715
00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:58,759
Speaker 2: that has emerged as a potential teammate. That man none

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00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:03,160
Speaker 2: other than these one of Lakers legend Michael Thompson, Clay Thompson.

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Speaker 2: So several different reports today, sham Strania reporting alongside Andrew

718
00:35:08,200 --> 00:35:12,239
Speaker 2: Slater with The Athletic that the Warriors are preparing to

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00:35:12,320 --> 00:35:16,920
Speaker 2: lose Clay Thompson in free agency. But then after that,

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Speaker 2: Mark Stein, who's very plugged and I believe he lives

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Speaker 2: in the Dallas area, said that the Mavericks were perceived

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Speaker 2: to be an early favorite, but Lebron James is hopeful

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Speaker 2: per league sources, that the Lakers can mount a bid

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Speaker 2: to challenge Dallas. So let me ask you, I mean,

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Speaker 2: let's just start with the Lakers side of things. I mean,

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Speaker 2: is this the piece that, in your opinion, they need,

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00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:49,760
Speaker 2: like a guy that helps get them to a level

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Speaker 2: that they're not currently at.

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Speaker 1: There was a time when he was an elite perimeter defender,

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Speaker 1: not quite any more at his age and with the

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00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:01,719
Speaker 1: injuries that he's with, but still, this is a guy

732
00:36:01,880 --> 00:36:07,560
Speaker 1: that shoots about thirty nine percent from three just last year.

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Speaker 1: That was a career low. But we know what he

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Speaker 1: can do from distance.

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Speaker 2: He's not that career by the way, No, it's not.

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Speaker 1: His career number from three. As a matter of fact,

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Speaker 1: for his entire career is forty one percent, which is ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: But he's a guy. I mean, he averaged eighteen last year.

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00:36:26,360 --> 00:36:28,520
Speaker 1: It was a down year. I figured this was going

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Speaker 1: to be the year. I've said for months, along with

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Speaker 1: a lot of other people, that I felt like he

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00:36:32,800 --> 00:36:34,800
Speaker 1: was gonna end up in LA. He still shots ninety

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00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:36,600
Speaker 1: three percent from the free throw line. He could still

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00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:38,960
Speaker 1: help you in some ways. Didn't play as many minutes,

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00:36:39,000 --> 00:36:42,080
Speaker 1: and maybe he wouldn't be expected to. But what the

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00:36:42,160 --> 00:36:46,160
Speaker 1: Lakers need and needed were other guys that could get buckets,

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00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:50,400
Speaker 1: guys that could make shots, and they had streaky guys.

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Speaker 1: And the thing about Clay is he kind of became

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Speaker 1: streaky this past year. It feels like the Warriors fans

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Speaker 1: were ready to move on. I think if they wanted him,

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00:36:57,160 --> 00:36:59,480
Speaker 1: if Golden State wanted him, they would have found a

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Speaker 1: way to keep it. And I just think that that

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00:37:02,320 --> 00:37:05,839
Speaker 1: relationship soured enough that he wants to go somewhere else.

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00:37:05,920 --> 00:37:08,880
Speaker 1: The Dallas thing is intriguing because that's another team that

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00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:12,360
Speaker 1: wants to add another score and another veteran guy that

756
00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:16,480
Speaker 1: understands what it means to win and see what they

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00:37:16,480 --> 00:37:18,320
Speaker 1: can do, because they're certainly in we need to go

758
00:37:18,360 --> 00:37:21,879
Speaker 1: ahead and win now mode. Kyrie still very very good

759
00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:23,759
Speaker 1: and Luca in his prime, so you want to do

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00:37:23,800 --> 00:37:28,520
Speaker 1: everything that you can there. The Lakers feel like I've

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00:37:28,560 --> 00:37:30,200
Speaker 1: long thought he was going to end up there. I'd

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Speaker 1: be shocked if he went to Dallas over LA, especially

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Speaker 1: now that you hear Lebron saying what Lebron is saying.

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Speaker 1: It's something about his dad being there and him. It

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Speaker 1: just feels like him being a Laker is something that

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Speaker 1: is supposed to happen, that's been written into stars at

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Speaker 1: some point. If he wasn't going to just stay his

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00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:49,080
Speaker 1: entire career in Golden State, my feeling has been all

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Speaker 1: along he was going to go to the Lakers this year.

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Speaker 1: So that's exactly where I am. I understand why if

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00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:55,240
Speaker 1: you want to go win a title right now, Dallas

772
00:37:55,280 --> 00:37:57,640
Speaker 1: is going to be a better opportunity, I think. But

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Speaker 1: it just feels right for Klay Thompson to end up

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Speaker 1: in a Lakers' uniform.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. See, I think two different things can be true.

776
00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:09,720
Speaker 2: Is I think the Dallas is the better basketball situation.

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00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:12,720
Speaker 2: Like for the Lakers, I think the problem with the Lakers,

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Speaker 2: like they're just there's one. There's obviously just not a

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Speaker 2: lot outside of Lebron and Ad. We'll talk about Dalton

780
00:38:19,520 --> 00:38:21,440
Speaker 2: connect in the next hour. He's actually a draft pick

781
00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:23,680
Speaker 2: that I think can help that too. We both love him,

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00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:27,000
Speaker 2: we do, but but I don't like Klay Thompson is

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Speaker 2: just another older dude that, as you said, especially defensively,

784
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Speaker 2: and I'm not going to like bore people with like, well,

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00:38:33,560 --> 00:38:35,759
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. But it's like, I just

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Speaker 2: it feels like a lot of the same. Like I

787
00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:43,360
Speaker 2: remember when the end of the Lebron era in Cleveland

788
00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:45,799
Speaker 2: was happening, and all they kept doing was bringing on

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Speaker 2: his buddies who were older veteran guys. Remember one year

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Speaker 2: they had Derreck Rose and I think he I think

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Speaker 2: even d Wade came through for like a twelve fifteen

792
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Speaker 2: game stretch whatever. And so I just bring it up

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Speaker 2: because I gotta look that up. Maybe I'm totally making

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00:38:59,040 --> 00:39:01,040
Speaker 2: that up off the top of my head, but I

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Speaker 2: bring it up because it just it kind of feels

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00:39:04,280 --> 00:39:08,000
Speaker 2: like that, like it's one of those like fantasy basketball.

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00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:10,120
Speaker 2: It looks good. By the way, d Way did play

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00:39:10,200 --> 00:39:13,240
Speaker 2: forty six games in Cleveland in the twenty seventeen season.

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Speaker 2: I didn't I do not remember that many games, but

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Speaker 2: I bring it up because it just it feels like

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00:39:18,400 --> 00:39:22,280
Speaker 2: one of those that looks cool on paper. I don't

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00:39:22,320 --> 00:39:24,799
Speaker 2: know that it fundamentally makes them a better team now again,

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00:39:24,920 --> 00:39:27,960
Speaker 2: JJ Reddick has talked about wanting more spacing, wanting more

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00:39:28,000 --> 00:39:31,759
Speaker 2: shooting around Lebron, but I think Dallas is the move.

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Speaker 2: I think at some point, you know, I get the

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00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:36,920
Speaker 2: nostalgia with the Lakers, and he grew up a Lakers

807
00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:39,440
Speaker 2: fan and going to Lakers games with his dad. But

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Speaker 2: it's like Dallas was right on the cuffs. They don't

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00:39:42,080 --> 00:39:45,680
Speaker 2: really need that much more and obviously Luca is very

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00:39:45,719 --> 00:39:48,600
Speaker 2: much in his prime. I don't know what's gonna happen.

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Speaker 2: I just know what I think the smart decision is

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00:39:51,600 --> 00:39:53,040
Speaker 2: for Klay Thompson.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think I would agree with that.

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Speaker 1: He's again I talked about how he was an elite defender.

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Speaker 1: Now he's subpar because he's slow and he's been in

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Speaker 1: league for a while. He's just not quite the same

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Speaker 1: player as he was. That's the one thing for the

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Speaker 1: Lakers that I don't like about it is I mean,

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Speaker 1: They're already a little too old in their key spots.

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Speaker 1: This is not going to make them more athletic against

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Speaker 1: those younger teams that are running gone in the West.

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Speaker 1: I don't know like it fits, but it doesn't necessarily

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Speaker 1: fit in twenty twenty four for where I think the

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Speaker 1: Lakers need to be headed.

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Speaker 2: Don't disagree. And part of the reason why is because,

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Speaker 2: as we discussed momentarily or a moment ago, excuse me,

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Speaker 2: they use the fifty fifth pick on Bronnie James. So

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Speaker 2: I'll tell you what, Jason, we will come back. We'll

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Speaker 2: talk a little bit about Bronnie James, the fifty fifth

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Speaker 2: pick in the draft, what it means for the Lakers.

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Speaker 2: And I think an interesting question is this really actually

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Speaker 2: in just one moment. So, Jay Mart we talked a

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00:41:19,239 --> 00:41:22,640
Speaker 2: lot about NBA free agency in hour one, and certainly

843
00:41:22,680 --> 00:41:25,879
Speaker 2: the future of the Los Angeles Lakers kind of danced

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Speaker 2: around the big news. And that's of course that with

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Speaker 2: the fifty fifth pick, the Los Angeles Lakers did in

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Speaker 2: fact draft Bronnie James lebron soon. Let me ask you this.

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00:41:34,560 --> 00:41:38,040
Speaker 2: I don't know if you were watching the draft live

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Speaker 2: or whatever. It was obviously day two, it was on Thursday.

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Speaker 2: The debate was going on, so it was early. I

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Speaker 2: think it started at four pm Eastern one Pacific. I'll

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Speaker 2: say this, maybe I'm crazy. It felt like there were

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Speaker 2: some people that were surprised that this actually happened. I

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00:41:57,160 --> 00:42:01,800
Speaker 2: maybe it's again this whole, this whole, like last month

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Speaker 2: with the Lakers, there's been a lot of stuff that

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Speaker 2: I felt was obvious that seemed to catch people off guard.

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Speaker 2: Whether it was the JJ Reddick higher, whether it was

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Speaker 2: kind of the clunky Dan Hurley pursuit. It felt, was

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Speaker 2: there any doubt in your mind as Day two opened

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Speaker 2: up that Brownie James was gonna be selected with the

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Speaker 2: fifty fifth pick by the Los Angeles Lakers.

861
00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:26,040
Speaker 1: No, unless somebody took him first, which would have been preposterous.

862
00:42:27,040 --> 00:42:29,680
Speaker 1: I mean, it was the worst. Sometimes you just believe

863
00:42:29,760 --> 00:42:32,880
Speaker 1: what people say, like sometimes things just turn out to

864
00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:36,960
Speaker 1: be right. Just because you didn't think he was an

865
00:42:37,080 --> 00:42:40,160
Speaker 1: NBA level talent, which pretty much no one does. At

866
00:42:40,200 --> 00:42:43,560
Speaker 1: this stage, we knew this was gonna happen. It was

867
00:42:43,920 --> 00:42:46,000
Speaker 1: pretty much written there, and you knew it. When he's

868
00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:48,480
Speaker 1: not taking all the workouts that are out there, he's

869
00:42:48,520 --> 00:42:51,920
Speaker 1: taken two of them. It was just it was everywhere,

870
00:42:52,239 --> 00:42:55,840
Speaker 1: and it was the I the second day of the draft,

871
00:42:55,880 --> 00:42:58,320
Speaker 1: that was the thing everybody wanted to see. Wasn't gonna happen.

872
00:42:58,440 --> 00:43:00,720
Speaker 1: But I was just waiting for it to come across

873
00:43:00,719 --> 00:43:02,560
Speaker 1: and be official so we could move on because it

874
00:43:02,600 --> 00:43:05,840
Speaker 1: wasn't a story in terms of it being a shock

875
00:43:05,920 --> 00:43:08,120
Speaker 1: or a surprise. It would have been a shock and

876
00:43:08,160 --> 00:43:10,000
Speaker 1: a story if it hadn't happened.

877
00:43:10,920 --> 00:43:14,359
Speaker 2: So I agree hundred percent with that. Now that it

878
00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:19,080
Speaker 2: has happened, I'll give you my opinion. Say you tell

879
00:43:19,080 --> 00:43:21,080
Speaker 2: me if you disagree or not. So I think two

880
00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:24,640
Speaker 2: things can be true, is listen. We talked about a

881
00:43:24,680 --> 00:43:26,560
Speaker 2: lot in hour one. I don't love the way that

882
00:43:26,600 --> 00:43:30,040
Speaker 2: I think Lebron has largely hijacked the Lakers. I think

883
00:43:30,080 --> 00:43:32,600
Speaker 2: it's different if it's the Cleveland Cavaliers, if it's an

884
00:43:32,640 --> 00:43:36,719
Speaker 2: organization that hasn't had much historical success and you're in

885
00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:39,480
Speaker 2: your prime and you're calling your shots of you know, hey,

886
00:43:39,520 --> 00:43:42,880
Speaker 2: I want this guy, help facilitate that, make sure this

887
00:43:42,880 --> 00:43:45,359
Speaker 2: guy ends up on the team whatever. I think it's

888
00:43:45,400 --> 00:43:48,040
Speaker 2: different when it's twenty sixteen and you have your team

889
00:43:48,040 --> 00:43:50,879
Speaker 2: in the finals every year. But at the same time,

890
00:43:50,960 --> 00:43:53,960
Speaker 2: what I'll say is this is that I think that

891
00:43:54,600 --> 00:43:59,319
Speaker 2: if you have the opportunity to, you know, maneuver some

892
00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:01,440
Speaker 2: things to help about your child, I think that's something

893
00:44:01,480 --> 00:44:05,080
Speaker 2: that a lot of parents would do in that situation.

894
00:44:05,239 --> 00:44:09,239
Speaker 2: And you know, there's a million examples of nepotism, and

895
00:44:09,560 --> 00:44:11,399
Speaker 2: it is what it is. It is nepotism. I think

896
00:44:11,440 --> 00:44:14,680
Speaker 2: even you know, everybody would agree on that. I think

897
00:44:14,719 --> 00:44:17,640
Speaker 2: there were two things that did kind of bother me

898
00:44:17,840 --> 00:44:21,440
Speaker 2: in the moment, though, and one, you know, one, I

899
00:44:21,880 --> 00:44:24,520
Speaker 2: think you had to be kind of watching the draft,

900
00:44:24,520 --> 00:44:27,000
Speaker 2: but there was kind of this weird moment where steven

901
00:44:27,040 --> 00:44:29,560
Speaker 2: A and Woj kind of went on this weird rant

902
00:44:29,600 --> 00:44:33,319
Speaker 2: about if you think this is nepotism, like, well, there's

903
00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:36,400
Speaker 2: nepotism in the front offices and on coaching staffs and

904
00:44:36,440 --> 00:44:38,560
Speaker 2: on ownership and blah blah blah blah blah, this and that,

905
00:44:39,360 --> 00:44:43,520
Speaker 2: and it was like, yeah, but it is still nepotism.

906
00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:45,080
Speaker 1: Yes, Like you can't just but it's not. What about

907
00:44:45,080 --> 00:44:48,600
Speaker 1: it ism doesn't work here? Like yeah, I get it. Yeah, okay,

908
00:44:48,640 --> 00:44:51,560
Speaker 1: those might be anstists and nepotism as well. This is

909
00:44:51,600 --> 00:44:56,000
Speaker 1: the highest profile example of nepotism I've seen in pro

910
00:44:56,040 --> 00:44:56,640
Speaker 1: sports ever.

911
00:44:56,960 --> 00:44:58,880
Speaker 2: Well, and that's what I was gonna say is I

912
00:44:58,920 --> 00:45:03,280
Speaker 2: think my problem isn't that Lebron moved some chest pieces

913
00:45:03,320 --> 00:45:05,000
Speaker 2: around to help out his son. Again, I think that's

914
00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:08,000
Speaker 2: what virtually every parent would do if given the opportunity.

915
00:45:08,480 --> 00:45:11,600
Speaker 2: I think my problem was more the coverage of it,

916
00:45:12,120 --> 00:45:14,920
Speaker 2: in which, you know, the people that were broadcasting the

917
00:45:14,960 --> 00:45:18,440
Speaker 2: event live basically told us how we were allowed to

918
00:45:18,680 --> 00:45:21,799
Speaker 2: feel and how not to feel. And then I think

919
00:45:21,840 --> 00:45:23,960
Speaker 2: there was also the part that you kind of just

920
00:45:24,080 --> 00:45:26,719
Speaker 2: mentioned in passing, which is like then there was the

921
00:45:26,719 --> 00:45:29,520
Speaker 2: whole well, you know, I mean, it's like and even

922
00:45:29,600 --> 00:45:31,560
Speaker 2: Rob Polink at the Prescott well, no, you know, we

923
00:45:31,640 --> 00:45:33,839
Speaker 2: really believe in this kid's upside and blah blah whatever.

924
00:45:33,880 --> 00:45:38,719
Speaker 2: It's like, if I know, Rob Polinka can't directly come

925
00:45:38,719 --> 00:45:40,879
Speaker 2: out and just say, yeah, look, we used the pick

926
00:45:40,960 --> 00:45:43,799
Speaker 2: because it's what Lebron wanted or whatever, blah blah blah.

927
00:45:43,840 --> 00:45:45,960
Speaker 2: But those were the two things that kind of bothered

928
00:45:45,960 --> 00:45:49,200
Speaker 2: me in the moment. I don't blame Bronni, he had

929
00:45:49,440 --> 00:45:51,400
Speaker 2: largely nothing to do with this. I mean, you know,

930
00:45:51,520 --> 00:45:55,160
Speaker 2: if somebody's gonna draft you, you obviously aren't gonna not

931
00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:59,359
Speaker 2: take that opportunity. It was kind of being told how

932
00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:02,359
Speaker 2: to feel. But then also on top of that, it

933
00:46:02,400 --> 00:46:05,480
Speaker 2: was like basically it was shoved down our throat. No, no, no,

934
00:46:05,520 --> 00:46:07,719
Speaker 2: this kid's a legitimate prospect, trust us on this, and

935
00:46:07,760 --> 00:46:11,919
Speaker 2: it's like, no, you literally talked to pretty much anybody

936
00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:15,920
Speaker 2: who covers this sport, who watched him at USC who whatever,

937
00:46:16,520 --> 00:46:19,560
Speaker 2: nobody actually thinks he is. And so that was kind

938
00:46:19,560 --> 00:46:22,360
Speaker 2: of my issue with it in real time was more

939
00:46:22,800 --> 00:46:25,960
Speaker 2: how it was covered than the actual news drop itself.

940
00:46:26,040 --> 00:46:28,880
Speaker 1: So you mentioned steven A. I remember seeing a headline

941
00:46:29,600 --> 00:46:33,479
Speaker 1: the day before saying that was like a big time

942
00:46:33,560 --> 00:46:35,680
Speaker 1: like you need to go watch this video, and it

943
00:46:35,880 --> 00:46:40,520
Speaker 1: was Smith suggesting that the Lakers shouldn't do it, it was

944
00:46:40,520 --> 00:46:42,480
Speaker 1: going to bring them the wrong kind of attention. And

945
00:46:42,520 --> 00:46:45,480
Speaker 1: then the next day he got drafted, and there was

946
00:46:45,520 --> 00:46:48,320
Speaker 1: a video on that same site trying to tell you

947
00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:50,839
Speaker 1: to view it that was Steven A saying it can't

948
00:46:50,840 --> 00:46:53,400
Speaker 1: get any better for the Lakers than drafting Brownie. And

949
00:46:53,440 --> 00:46:56,920
Speaker 1: I'm just kind of like, you have to say what

950
00:46:57,000 --> 00:46:58,719
Speaker 1: you have to say to stay on somebody's good side,

951
00:46:58,719 --> 00:47:01,000
Speaker 1: don't you like that? That's kind of how I looked

952
00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:02,920
Speaker 1: at it, because if you look at draft experts that

953
00:47:03,040 --> 00:47:06,600
Speaker 1: didn't they were just trying to break down was this

954
00:47:06,640 --> 00:47:09,680
Speaker 1: guy prospect? And you could tell they weren't really in

955
00:47:09,960 --> 00:47:13,040
Speaker 1: the club. They were being a lot more honest about

956
00:47:13,040 --> 00:47:16,160
Speaker 1: this yet. And then you have some of those that

957
00:47:16,200 --> 00:47:18,480
Speaker 1: you know were tied in with Rich Paul, tied in

958
00:47:18,560 --> 00:47:20,920
Speaker 1: with Lebron, and they were saying stuff like, I mean,

959
00:47:21,040 --> 00:47:25,440
Speaker 1: remember the other great father son duos, that this brings

960
00:47:25,520 --> 00:47:27,520
Speaker 1: up and this could be another example. This might be

961
00:47:27,560 --> 00:47:29,320
Speaker 1: the best. And I saw one that compared it to

962
00:47:29,360 --> 00:47:31,480
Speaker 1: Bill and Luke Walton, and I was like, shut up.

963
00:47:31,719 --> 00:47:33,880
Speaker 1: Luke Walton was like a Player of the Year candidate

964
00:47:34,480 --> 00:47:38,520
Speaker 1: at Arizona, an incredible college player who then had a

965
00:47:38,680 --> 00:47:42,280
Speaker 1: nice NBA career as well with the Lakers.

966
00:47:42,320 --> 00:47:44,520
Speaker 2: And I don't see his father was very much removed

967
00:47:44,560 --> 00:47:45,520
Speaker 2: from the league at that much.

968
00:47:45,680 --> 00:47:48,800
Speaker 1: Yeah, and certainly his father was not why he got anywhere.

969
00:47:48,920 --> 00:47:50,960
Speaker 1: I mean, his father just gave him some jeens and

970
00:47:50,960 --> 00:47:54,120
Speaker 1: I'm sure helped him growing up in terms of playing

971
00:47:54,160 --> 00:47:55,839
Speaker 1: with him and all that. And that's not to say

972
00:47:55,880 --> 00:47:58,200
Speaker 1: Lebron's not doing that as well. And yes, I'm torn

973
00:47:58,280 --> 00:48:01,440
Speaker 1: because I've got two daughters and I heard Jason Smith

974
00:48:01,440 --> 00:48:03,960
Speaker 1: say this, I agree. Would I do almost anything for him? Yeah,

975
00:48:04,160 --> 00:48:06,560
Speaker 1: I'm not going to go Felicity Huffman and Laurie Laughlin

976
00:48:06,640 --> 00:48:08,920
Speaker 1: route try to get them into school and go to prison.

977
00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:13,360
Speaker 1: I'm also not going to do something that's going to

978
00:48:13,440 --> 00:48:15,800
Speaker 1: reflect poorly on them for something they had no control

979
00:48:15,840 --> 00:48:18,720
Speaker 1: over it. Yes, that's the part of It's like, Yes,

980
00:48:19,480 --> 00:48:23,160
Speaker 1: the same people that are going to tell you that

981
00:48:23,200 --> 00:48:25,960
Speaker 1: this is okay, that this is just a father's love

982
00:48:26,280 --> 00:48:29,280
Speaker 1: are the same ones that were going down LeVar Ball's

983
00:48:29,320 --> 00:48:34,799
Speaker 1: throat years ago. And the difference there was Lonzo Ball,

984
00:48:34,840 --> 00:48:36,840
Speaker 1: which was the one that was really kind of the

985
00:48:36,880 --> 00:48:39,560
Speaker 1: crux of all this was an NBA player. He was

986
00:48:39,600 --> 00:48:42,520
Speaker 1: a lottery pick. Without his dad doing all that, he

987
00:48:42,640 --> 00:48:46,520
Speaker 1: was still a lottery pick. This kid averaged four points

988
00:48:46,560 --> 00:48:49,399
Speaker 1: a game for a USC team that was not good

989
00:48:49,400 --> 00:48:54,520
Speaker 1: at all, And there's just no comparison here, so you

990
00:48:54,560 --> 00:48:57,120
Speaker 1: can't tell me. And then when I continually read stuff

991
00:48:57,160 --> 00:49:00,440
Speaker 1: to the effect of and I saw this quoted from

992
00:49:00,640 --> 00:49:02,759
Speaker 1: one of those guys, one of those guys that are

993
00:49:02,760 --> 00:49:06,480
Speaker 1: clearly plugged in to the Lebron side of things, saying, man,

994
00:49:06,520 --> 00:49:08,760
Speaker 1: there's just I think it was Woesh actually said there's

995
00:49:08,840 --> 00:49:12,000
Speaker 1: just nothing but upside. It's like, well, right, because he's

996
00:49:12,000 --> 00:49:16,200
Speaker 1: starting at zero, Like yeah, like yeah, if you come

997
00:49:16,239 --> 00:49:19,440
Speaker 1: in after like for Zach Edie, there's a lot of

998
00:49:19,480 --> 00:49:23,000
Speaker 1: potential downside here compared to where he was and now

999
00:49:23,000 --> 00:49:24,359
Speaker 1: what's he going to be in the league and all

1000
00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:26,120
Speaker 1: those kinds of things. We can get into that. But

1001
00:49:26,200 --> 00:49:29,640
Speaker 1: for Brownie, dude's coming off a four point and a

1002
00:49:29,840 --> 00:49:31,880
Speaker 1: hard ailment and all that kind of stuff. I'm glad

1003
00:49:31,880 --> 00:49:34,439
Speaker 1: that that's over for him and he's stepping straight into

1004
00:49:34,480 --> 00:49:36,680
Speaker 1: the LA Lakers. Do you think he might get better?

1005
00:49:37,560 --> 00:49:40,319
Speaker 1: I would say there's a good chance that he can

1006
00:49:40,360 --> 00:49:43,200
Speaker 1: get better. I don't think he can get worse from

1007
00:49:43,200 --> 00:49:46,040
Speaker 1: where he is right now. So it's like you're bending

1008
00:49:46,040 --> 00:49:50,600
Speaker 1: over backwards to find a way to say something complimentary here,

1009
00:49:51,040 --> 00:49:54,160
Speaker 1: as opposed to just evaluating it honestly and saying, right now,

1010
00:49:54,160 --> 00:49:56,880
Speaker 1: he's not an NBA player, but he's going to get

1011
00:49:56,920 --> 00:50:00,520
Speaker 1: an opportunity. But there's no reason to like, these are

1012
00:50:00,520 --> 00:50:02,719
Speaker 1: not the droids you're looking for this thing, like, you

1013
00:50:02,800 --> 00:50:05,319
Speaker 1: know why he's in the league. And if you're not

1014
00:50:05,360 --> 00:50:08,600
Speaker 1: willing to say that in an article, then I don't

1015
00:50:08,600 --> 00:50:10,520
Speaker 1: really need to pay too much attention to you, because

1016
00:50:10,520 --> 00:50:12,480
Speaker 1: I understand that a lot of your opinions are not

1017
00:50:12,520 --> 00:50:13,200
Speaker 1: going to be your own.

1018
00:50:13,400 --> 00:50:15,719
Speaker 2: Well, and let me even I saw because I saw

1019
00:50:15,719 --> 00:50:17,560
Speaker 2: some of this too. Is like and by the way,

1020
00:50:17,640 --> 00:50:20,520
Speaker 2: look we know you know we'll give the caveat right now.

1021
00:50:20,560 --> 00:50:22,680
Speaker 2: First of all, by all accounts a great kid. He

1022
00:50:22,760 --> 00:50:23,439
Speaker 2: didn't look.

1023
00:50:23,480 --> 00:50:25,480
Speaker 1: I hope he I will say this real quick before

1024
00:50:25,520 --> 00:50:28,160
Speaker 1: we go any further. I hope he's a star. I

1025
00:50:28,160 --> 00:50:31,520
Speaker 1: hope he's great. I hope everything about this turns around

1026
00:50:32,200 --> 00:50:35,680
Speaker 1: and this ends up being some kind of unbelievable documentary

1027
00:50:35,760 --> 00:50:38,160
Speaker 1: down the road where the kid was vilified and he

1028
00:50:38,200 --> 00:50:40,280
Speaker 1: came in was great. And this is not against Lebron

1029
00:50:40,360 --> 00:50:42,239
Speaker 1: James wanting his son to fail or anything else. I

1030
00:50:42,239 --> 00:50:44,440
Speaker 1: hope his son succeeds and it's a great NBA player.

1031
00:50:44,440 --> 00:50:47,120
Speaker 1: I hope we're covering him for a long time. I

1032
00:50:47,280 --> 00:50:50,720
Speaker 1: just know that right now he probably didn't deserve this opportunity.

1033
00:50:50,360 --> 00:50:52,720
Speaker 2: No doubt. And actually, you know, let me even pivot

1034
00:50:52,760 --> 00:50:54,480
Speaker 2: really quick. I was going to go in a different direction.

1035
00:50:54,560 --> 00:50:57,719
Speaker 2: But you know, one thing, I will say one thing

1036
00:50:57,760 --> 00:50:59,600
Speaker 2: I don't necessarily agree with. By the way, the only

1037
00:50:59,640 --> 00:51:03,080
Speaker 2: point I was to make was great kid. But the

1038
00:51:03,120 --> 00:51:05,279
Speaker 2: one other thing that I heard and I actually want

1039
00:51:05,320 --> 00:51:07,520
Speaker 2: to get to a different point before we get to

1040
00:51:07,560 --> 00:51:10,440
Speaker 2: break and continue the conversation. But because I saw some

1041
00:51:10,480 --> 00:51:12,400
Speaker 2: of this yesterday, well it's like, well, you know, I mean,

1042
00:51:12,440 --> 00:51:15,360
Speaker 2: he had the very serious heart situation, and you know,

1043
00:51:15,400 --> 00:51:17,759
Speaker 2: he was projected as a top ten pick before that,

1044
00:51:17,840 --> 00:51:20,520
Speaker 2: and it's just you and it's like we talked about

1045
00:51:20,520 --> 00:51:22,959
Speaker 2: this months ago, Jason, and he was he.

1046
00:51:22,880 --> 00:51:26,280
Speaker 1: Was projected as a top ten pick by one guy, right, by.

1047
00:51:26,160 --> 00:51:28,920
Speaker 2: One guy who I mean, it's see listen, let me

1048
00:51:28,960 --> 00:51:30,560
Speaker 2: just say this and I said this at the time,

1049
00:51:31,040 --> 00:51:34,799
Speaker 2: is that to use a bad pun and I'm not

1050
00:51:34,840 --> 00:51:36,919
Speaker 2: trying to use a pun, but it's the only appropriate word.

1051
00:51:37,440 --> 00:51:39,920
Speaker 2: When when that mock draft came out whatever it was

1052
00:51:39,920 --> 00:51:42,279
Speaker 2: eighteen months ago, the first mock draft of twenty twenty

1053
00:51:42,280 --> 00:51:44,839
Speaker 2: four that had Brownie James in the top ten, it

1054
00:51:45,000 --> 00:51:48,320
Speaker 2: was no pun intended mocked by everyone in the basketball

1055
00:51:48,360 --> 00:51:50,759
Speaker 2: community because it was just I mean, you know, I

1056
00:51:50,800 --> 00:51:53,040
Speaker 2: think he was like the twenty ninth ranked player in

1057
00:51:53,120 --> 00:51:55,320
Speaker 2: his own high school class, and even that was probably

1058
00:51:55,400 --> 00:51:57,480
Speaker 2: a little bit high, and that was based on upside,

1059
00:51:57,520 --> 00:52:00,600
Speaker 2: So don't sell me that as well. I mean, he

1060
00:52:00,640 --> 00:52:03,000
Speaker 2: was a top ten pick before. No, no, no, that has

1061
00:52:03,000 --> 00:52:04,759
Speaker 2: nothing to do with it. Real quick, I want to

1062
00:52:04,760 --> 00:52:06,560
Speaker 2: ask you this, and I want to kind of switch

1063
00:52:06,600 --> 00:52:09,520
Speaker 2: the conversation in a minute. But one thing I have

1064
00:52:09,719 --> 00:52:12,120
Speaker 2: heard and I don't know that I agree with, is

1065
00:52:12,600 --> 00:52:16,640
Speaker 2: you know that that Bronnie himself is going to get

1066
00:52:16,640 --> 00:52:18,759
Speaker 2: a lot of hate. And I don't know that I

1067
00:52:18,840 --> 00:52:22,520
Speaker 2: agree with that because I just feel like, and again,

1068
00:52:22,560 --> 00:52:24,640
Speaker 2: I've been wrong on every story about the Lakers the

1069
00:52:24,719 --> 00:52:26,640
Speaker 2: last couple months, so maybe I'll be wrong on this one.

1070
00:52:27,239 --> 00:52:32,440
Speaker 2: I think everybody kind of knows that Lebron Lebron's been

1071
00:52:32,440 --> 00:52:35,760
Speaker 2: pulling strings on this since probably Bronni was in freshman

1072
00:52:35,840 --> 00:52:38,520
Speaker 2: sophomore in high school. I mean, this was I don't

1073
00:52:38,600 --> 00:52:42,840
Speaker 2: think like Bronnie is going to deal now. Maybe maybe

1074
00:52:42,840 --> 00:52:45,960
Speaker 2: in that Lakers locker room, if you know they're losing

1075
00:52:46,040 --> 00:52:49,080
Speaker 2: games and he's seeing anything more than one or two

1076
00:52:49,120 --> 00:52:52,920
Speaker 2: possessions in one game, then yeah, Like I but I

1077
00:52:52,960 --> 00:52:56,880
Speaker 2: don't think like if if the Lakers hit the road

1078
00:52:57,719 --> 00:53:00,040
Speaker 2: like that, Bronni becomes the bad guy because I I

1079
00:53:00,120 --> 00:53:02,040
Speaker 2: feel like most fans are smart enough to know he

1080
00:53:02,080 --> 00:53:04,680
Speaker 2: had nothing to do with this, and you're not gonna

1081
00:53:04,800 --> 00:53:07,440
Speaker 2: not take advantage of the opportunity if it's presented to you,

1082
00:53:07,480 --> 00:53:10,680
Speaker 2: even it's even if it's presented unfairly. Like, do you

1083
00:53:10,760 --> 00:53:13,560
Speaker 2: think that Bronni becomes a bad guy in all this

1084
00:53:13,600 --> 00:53:15,720
Speaker 2: because I just don't see that. I really don't.

1085
00:53:16,120 --> 00:53:21,720
Speaker 1: No, I mean, he hasn't done anything that would garner

1086
00:53:21,800 --> 00:53:26,279
Speaker 1: him that. I feel like those that are gonna kind

1087
00:53:26,280 --> 00:53:28,879
Speaker 1: of laugh if he's not good are gonna be doing

1088
00:53:28,920 --> 00:53:31,200
Speaker 1: so at his father's expense, not him. That's how it's

1089
00:53:31,200 --> 00:53:34,520
Speaker 1: all gonna be. It's all gonna be sent towards lebron

1090
00:53:34,560 --> 00:53:37,360
Speaker 1: And I do think there is probably a moment it

1091
00:53:37,400 --> 00:53:42,040
Speaker 1: will happen at a Lakers home game where Bronni will

1092
00:53:42,080 --> 00:53:45,240
Speaker 1: get in, maybe in a garbage time situation or something

1093
00:53:45,320 --> 00:53:47,439
Speaker 1: like that, and Lebron will be out there and there'll

1094
00:53:47,480 --> 00:53:50,080
Speaker 1: be some moment and a photo opportunity, and he'll probably

1095
00:53:50,080 --> 00:53:53,000
Speaker 1: get a standing ovation like there'll be a positive response

1096
00:53:53,040 --> 00:53:55,880
Speaker 1: to that moment, and look, that's gonna be touching and heartwarming.

1097
00:53:55,920 --> 00:53:58,680
Speaker 1: And look, whether or not I agree with how Lebron

1098
00:53:58,719 --> 00:54:00,400
Speaker 1: has gone about this, I love the fact that he

1099
00:54:00,440 --> 00:54:04,319
Speaker 1: loves his kid. That same thing with Lvar Ball, like

1100
00:54:04,960 --> 00:54:07,400
Speaker 1: nobody could ever say LaVar Ball didn't care about his children.

1101
00:54:07,760 --> 00:54:09,279
Speaker 1: He may have gone about it in the wrong way,

1102
00:54:09,360 --> 00:54:12,880
Speaker 1: and he might have been, you know, insufferable in a

1103
00:54:12,920 --> 00:54:14,959
Speaker 1: lot of ways, but he certainly was paving a way

1104
00:54:15,360 --> 00:54:17,440
Speaker 1: for his kids as best as possible and all that.

1105
00:54:17,560 --> 00:54:20,040
Speaker 1: So there's a there's always a way to look at

1106
00:54:20,080 --> 00:54:23,200
Speaker 1: this that isn't entirely negative. But you're right, I don't

1107
00:54:23,280 --> 00:54:27,600
Speaker 1: think the hate is coming for Brawny. I think it's come.

1108
00:54:27,760 --> 00:54:31,279
Speaker 1: Any kind of hate or any kind of reveling in

1109
00:54:31,320 --> 00:54:34,520
Speaker 1: whatever struggles he might encounter is going to be sent

1110
00:54:34,680 --> 00:54:37,920
Speaker 1: directly through him, straight to his dad.

1111
00:54:38,560 --> 00:54:40,960
Speaker 2: I agree with that, and I think that is an

1112
00:54:41,000 --> 00:54:43,640
Speaker 2: interesting part of this conversation. I'll tell you what I

1113
00:54:43,640 --> 00:54:46,400
Speaker 2: think there is kind of another interesting part of this

1114
00:54:46,480 --> 00:54:49,520
Speaker 2: conversation as far as when it actually does happen, when

1115
00:54:49,560 --> 00:54:51,680
Speaker 2: Bronni does see the court. We know it will come

1116
00:54:51,719 --> 00:54:54,879
Speaker 2: at some point with Lebron, and I think people are

1117
00:54:55,000 --> 00:54:58,040
Speaker 2: missing a narrative on that. We'll discuss that next. Should mention.

1118
00:54:58,120 --> 00:55:01,120
Speaker 2: By the way, shortly after the show, our podcast will

1119
00:55:01,120 --> 00:55:02,960
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1120
00:55:02,960 --> 00:55:04,600
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1121
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1122
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1123
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1124
00:55:11,920 --> 00:55:15,320
Speaker 2: you'll see this show posted. Right after we get off air, Jason,

1125
00:55:15,320 --> 00:55:18,239
Speaker 2: we'll come back and again there's one more layer of

1126
00:55:18,280 --> 00:55:20,440
Speaker 2: this that I do want to get to from the

1127
00:55:20,520 --> 00:55:23,000
Speaker 2: Bronni Lebron perspective. Then we can talk to the rest

1128
00:55:23,000 --> 00:55:24,879
Speaker 2: of the draft you mentioned. Zach Edie will hit on him,

1129
00:55:24,880 --> 00:55:27,840
Speaker 2: maybe a little bit on Bronni's new teammate, Dalton Connect.

1130
00:55:28,280 --> 00:55:33,120
Speaker 2: That's all next. Fox Sports Radio. Welcome back everybody, Fox

1131
00:55:33,120 --> 00:55:37,080
Speaker 2: Sports Radio, Eric Tors, Jason Martin Broadcasting, and I from

1132
00:55:37,120 --> 00:55:40,799
Speaker 2: the Tireck dot Com studios before the break, we're talking

1133
00:55:40,800 --> 00:55:44,480
Speaker 2: a little bit about Bronnie James, the newest Los Angeles Laker,

1134
00:55:44,960 --> 00:55:48,759
Speaker 2: drafted fifty fifth overall and really just you know a

1135
00:55:48,800 --> 00:55:52,080
Speaker 2: lot of the discourse around him. But there is one thing, Jason,

1136
00:55:53,440 --> 00:55:55,799
Speaker 2: there's part of the conversation we talking about, one part

1137
00:55:55,800 --> 00:55:58,120
Speaker 2: that I disagree with. I don't think Bronni is a

1138
00:55:58,200 --> 00:56:01,280
Speaker 2: villain in any of this. I think, you know, he's

1139
00:56:01,560 --> 00:56:03,560
Speaker 2: you know, he's on the other side of something that

1140
00:56:03,800 --> 00:56:07,279
Speaker 2: a situation that his father can control. Whatever. Why I

1141
00:56:07,360 --> 00:56:12,719
Speaker 2: bring it up is because, you know, something about this

1142
00:56:12,840 --> 00:56:17,200
Speaker 2: conversation does strike me that I just I don't think

1143
00:56:17,440 --> 00:56:20,600
Speaker 2: is accurate or I don't think it's gonna go down,

1144
00:56:20,800 --> 00:56:23,200
Speaker 2: or let me put it this way, there's a part

1145
00:56:23,239 --> 00:56:26,839
Speaker 2: of the conversation that I just disagree with fundamentally, and

1146
00:56:26,840 --> 00:56:31,960
Speaker 2: that's this. I keep hearing so many people like, you know,

1147
00:56:32,080 --> 00:56:34,520
Speaker 2: even the people that admit like it's a little bit weird, okay,

1148
00:56:36,640 --> 00:56:38,600
Speaker 2: But I hear him say, well, you know, it's weird,

1149
00:56:38,719 --> 00:56:41,759
Speaker 2: and Bronnie's not really the fifty fifth best player and

1150
00:56:41,800 --> 00:56:47,040
Speaker 2: he probably shouldn't have been drafted. But man, like that

1151
00:56:47,239 --> 00:56:49,800
Speaker 2: moment when they step on the court together, it's all

1152
00:56:49,840 --> 00:56:55,080
Speaker 2: gonna be worth it. And I don't know how I

1153
00:56:55,120 --> 00:56:59,440
Speaker 2: feel or or the accomplishment that will come once they

1154
00:56:59,520 --> 00:57:01,759
Speaker 2: step on the court together will make it all worth it.

1155
00:57:01,800 --> 00:57:06,759
Speaker 2: And listen, do I think that when Bronnie checks in

1156
00:57:06,800 --> 00:57:11,160
Speaker 2: when the Lakers are playing you know, the Brooklyn Nets

1157
00:57:11,200 --> 00:57:14,920
Speaker 2: on a Tuesday, you know, in December or whatever, and

1158
00:57:14,960 --> 00:57:18,720
Speaker 2: Bronnie James checks in and they hug at mid court, Like, yeah,

1159
00:57:18,800 --> 00:57:22,000
Speaker 2: it's going to be a cool moment. But like everyone

1160
00:57:22,080 --> 00:57:24,520
Speaker 2: keeps telling me how cool of a moment. It's like,

1161
00:57:24,760 --> 00:57:28,680
Speaker 2: how it's gonna be this amazing moment, and like I

1162
00:57:28,840 --> 00:57:31,560
Speaker 2: just I don't know. I don't really feel like it's

1163
00:57:31,680 --> 00:57:36,160
Speaker 2: going to be because everybody knows that it was manipulated

1164
00:57:36,280 --> 00:57:40,320
Speaker 2: and you know whatever, and that Bronnie frankly is just

1165
00:57:40,360 --> 00:57:43,680
Speaker 2: not worthy of being an NBA player at this point

1166
00:57:43,720 --> 00:57:47,240
Speaker 2: in his life, like you know, the thing that made

1167
00:57:47,400 --> 00:57:50,160
Speaker 2: and I know, I think we're both even a little

1168
00:57:50,160 --> 00:57:53,280
Speaker 2: bit young to truly have like great perspective on the

1169
00:57:53,360 --> 00:57:57,080
Speaker 2: Ken Griffy Junior Ken Griffy Senior moment. The thing that

1170
00:57:57,160 --> 00:58:00,600
Speaker 2: made it cool was that it was totally organic, like

1171
00:58:00,840 --> 00:58:02,920
Speaker 2: King Graffy Senior was definitely at the tail end of

1172
00:58:02,960 --> 00:58:07,360
Speaker 2: his career, but Kening Griffey Junior is this ascending superstar

1173
00:58:07,480 --> 00:58:09,960
Speaker 2: that makes the bigs at nineteen twenty years old, and

1174
00:58:10,000 --> 00:58:11,720
Speaker 2: they just so happen to be on the same field

1175
00:58:11,760 --> 00:58:16,040
Speaker 2: together and that's what made it cool and so like,

1176
00:58:16,120 --> 00:58:17,720
Speaker 2: I just don't think this is going to be the

1177
00:58:17,800 --> 00:58:21,840
Speaker 2: same because it's been orchestrated, it's been manipulated, and listen,

1178
00:58:21,880 --> 00:58:24,280
Speaker 2: I think there is a cool element of it. Is

1179
00:58:24,360 --> 00:58:26,720
Speaker 2: pretty cool that Lebron whether you love him or hate him,

1180
00:58:26,800 --> 00:58:29,400
Speaker 2: is still good enough at forty years old to be

1181
00:58:29,480 --> 00:58:31,880
Speaker 2: in the league when his son gets there. But I

1182
00:58:31,920 --> 00:58:34,680
Speaker 2: don't know, I don't think it's gonna be this like

1183
00:58:35,360 --> 00:58:37,959
Speaker 2: just you know, I don't know. I've said my piece.

1184
00:58:38,040 --> 00:58:39,680
Speaker 2: I think you know where I'm going with this. I

1185
00:58:39,720 --> 00:58:42,120
Speaker 2: don't think it's going to be the moment that people

1186
00:58:42,160 --> 00:58:43,120
Speaker 2: are making it out to be.

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00:58:44,080 --> 00:58:47,400
Speaker 1: Well, I think it's a there's two ways to look

1188
00:58:47,400 --> 00:58:49,080
Speaker 1: at it. I do think it'll be a cool moment,

1189
00:58:50,000 --> 00:58:55,400
Speaker 1: and I think it will be something special for Daddy.

1190
00:58:56,120 --> 00:58:58,400
Speaker 2: Yes, that's kind of where.

1191
00:58:58,240 --> 00:59:02,160
Speaker 1: I am on. I you can't call it an accomplishment

1192
00:59:02,240 --> 00:59:06,640
Speaker 1: because Bronni hadn't accomplished anything. That's the problem. He hasn't

1193
00:59:06,680 --> 00:59:10,200
Speaker 1: earned it. He has not. He doesn't. If he had

1194
00:59:10,280 --> 00:59:13,760
Speaker 1: gotten to the league and he was actually seen as

1195
00:59:14,360 --> 00:59:17,640
Speaker 1: a top fifty player, top sixty player or whatever like

1196
00:59:17,640 --> 00:59:19,920
Speaker 1: that and deserve to be drafted, this will be a

1197
00:59:19,960 --> 00:59:22,400
Speaker 1: completely different story. But and I was listening to it

1198
00:59:22,440 --> 00:59:25,000
Speaker 1: going to break. LeVar Arrington made a really good point

1199
00:59:25,040 --> 00:59:27,200
Speaker 1: earlier this week on Two Pros and a Cup of

1200
00:59:27,280 --> 00:59:29,520
Speaker 1: Joe when he said, think about the rest of that

1201
00:59:29,600 --> 00:59:33,000
Speaker 1: locker room when they have to cut some guys. Yep,

1202
00:59:33,480 --> 00:59:37,160
Speaker 1: and Bronnie is sitting there cool as a cucumber because

1203
00:59:37,200 --> 00:59:39,880
Speaker 1: he's still going to be there, even though he's clearly

1204
00:59:39,920 --> 00:59:42,160
Speaker 1: going to be the worst guy on that roster. What's

1205
00:59:42,200 --> 00:59:44,760
Speaker 1: that going to do in the locker room? Sometimes you

1206
00:59:44,760 --> 00:59:47,320
Speaker 1: get what you want and it turns out not to

1207
00:59:47,400 --> 00:59:49,760
Speaker 1: be the best thing in the world. Sometimes you end

1208
00:59:49,840 --> 00:59:51,520
Speaker 1: up in the job that you've thought that you were

1209
00:59:51,720 --> 00:59:53,320
Speaker 1: going to be in for a very very long time,

1210
00:59:53,360 --> 00:59:54,960
Speaker 1: and you worked hard to get there and it's just

1211
00:59:55,000 --> 00:59:57,800
Speaker 1: not all it was cracked up to be, and you

1212
00:59:57,920 --> 01:00:01,120
Speaker 1: have to look at things in real Maybe you've changed

1213
01:00:01,120 --> 01:00:03,760
Speaker 1: a bit, Maybe this is not going to be that

1214
01:00:03,800 --> 01:00:06,000
Speaker 1: moment for Lebron, maybe when it does happen, he's going

1215
01:00:06,080 --> 01:00:09,080
Speaker 1: to realize, Man, you know what, I may as well

1216
01:00:09,120 --> 01:00:12,680
Speaker 1: have just done this, like I may well have just

1217
01:00:12,720 --> 01:00:17,040
Speaker 1: written this into a story, because there's nothing real about this.

1218
01:00:17,040 --> 01:00:20,520
Speaker 1: This is all artificial. This is AstroTurf. This was designed

1219
01:00:20,560 --> 01:00:23,480
Speaker 1: and controlled by me. So it's not like this is

1220
01:00:23,520 --> 01:00:27,040
Speaker 1: a cool moment other than I manufactured this and made

1221
01:00:27,080 --> 01:00:29,520
Speaker 1: it happen. So I think the only one that gets

1222
01:00:29,560 --> 01:00:31,720
Speaker 1: anything out of it really is probably going to be father,

1223
01:00:31,800 --> 01:00:33,720
Speaker 1: and may be some because I'm sure he loves his dad,

1224
01:00:33,800 --> 01:00:36,160
Speaker 1: But in terms of it being some kind of accomplishment

1225
01:00:36,160 --> 01:00:38,520
Speaker 1: where we're going to look at it as like this

1226
01:00:38,920 --> 01:00:41,560
Speaker 1: iconic thing, No, I think it will be a talking

1227
01:00:41,600 --> 01:00:43,600
Speaker 1: point and there'll be a lot of things said about it,

1228
01:00:43,640 --> 01:00:45,080
Speaker 1: and there'll be a man, it's nice to see a.

1229
01:00:45,080 --> 01:00:47,080
Speaker 2: Father's love for his son and all that kind of stuff.

1230
01:00:47,520 --> 01:00:51,680
Speaker 1: True, but you have to separate that from the way

1231
01:00:51,720 --> 01:00:54,000
Speaker 1: in which it happened, and I don't think you're going

1232
01:00:54,080 --> 01:00:55,760
Speaker 1: to be able to do that entirely well.

1233
01:00:55,760 --> 01:00:57,960
Speaker 2: And that's my point is, like people were like, it's

1234
01:00:57,960 --> 01:00:59,840
Speaker 2: going to be this incredible woman, I think it's going

1235
01:00:59,880 --> 01:01:02,439
Speaker 2: to be an incredible moment for Lebron. But I think

1236
01:01:02,440 --> 01:01:05,880
Speaker 2: it is also going to be a thing, like so

1237
01:01:06,080 --> 01:01:11,040
Speaker 2: many things in this world that is kind of something

1238
01:01:11,040 --> 01:01:15,520
Speaker 2: that either A appeases or B boosts his ego. That's all.

1239
01:01:15,520 --> 01:01:17,680
Speaker 2: It's gonna be just another you know, to use a

1240
01:01:17,680 --> 01:01:19,840
Speaker 2: bad term, like another notch under his belt, like okay, cool,

1241
01:01:19,880 --> 01:01:22,400
Speaker 2: he did this high scoring this, oh and he played

1242
01:01:22,400 --> 01:01:24,520
Speaker 2: with his son. But again, I don't know. I don't

1243
01:01:24,560 --> 01:01:28,160
Speaker 2: want to belabor this point, and we can get over

1244
01:01:28,200 --> 01:01:30,640
Speaker 2: to saga in a second. But I just I think

1245
01:01:31,200 --> 01:01:33,120
Speaker 2: I do think when they hug it center Corn or

1246
01:01:33,120 --> 01:01:35,720
Speaker 2: whatever it ends up being, it will be cool. But

1247
01:01:35,800 --> 01:01:38,120
Speaker 2: I just I don't think it's going to be like

1248
01:01:38,160 --> 01:01:43,320
Speaker 2: this unbelievable thing that everybody's expecting, because again, it's been manufactured.

1249
01:01:43,360 --> 01:01:45,440
Speaker 1: So let me say this. You said, you said a

1250
01:01:45,640 --> 01:01:50,400
Speaker 1: very good word there. You said incredible. I know how

1251
01:01:50,440 --> 01:01:53,760
Speaker 1: we usually take incredible, but as you said it, immediately

1252
01:01:53,920 --> 01:01:55,960
Speaker 1: was like, I just want to look it up and

1253
01:01:56,040 --> 01:01:58,560
Speaker 1: see how it's actually defined, because I understand that there

1254
01:01:58,560 --> 01:02:01,840
Speaker 1: are different ways to look at it, but the number

1255
01:02:01,880 --> 01:02:08,160
Speaker 1: one definition of incredible is too extraordinary and improbable to

1256
01:02:08,240 --> 01:02:13,919
Speaker 1: be believed, so implausible as to elicit disbelief. In that case,

1257
01:02:13,960 --> 01:02:16,040
Speaker 1: it is going to be an incredible moment because it's

1258
01:02:16,040 --> 01:02:20,880
Speaker 1: going to lack credibility. That's the problem with the entire

1259
01:02:20,960 --> 01:02:25,320
Speaker 1: circumstance is that Bronnie James doesn't have credibility as an

1260
01:02:25,400 --> 01:02:28,920
Speaker 1: NBA player. So when the moment comes, it's just going

1261
01:02:29,000 --> 01:02:31,800
Speaker 1: to feel like you've just watched a sports movie and

1262
01:02:32,000 --> 01:02:34,040
Speaker 1: it had this was the end of it before the

1263
01:02:34,040 --> 01:02:36,200
Speaker 1: credits roll, and you're supposed to get excited about it.

1264
01:02:36,800 --> 01:02:40,120
Speaker 1: But it's just going to be for one guy. Really,

1265
01:02:40,160 --> 01:02:41,600
Speaker 1: I don't even think it's'd be for Bronnie. I think

1266
01:02:41,640 --> 01:02:46,680
Speaker 1: it's going to be for one guy, his moment, his amusement,

1267
01:02:46,880 --> 01:02:49,400
Speaker 1: his ego, as you mentioned. But I think that's right.

1268
01:02:49,440 --> 01:02:51,960
Speaker 1: I think that's the exact word to use, incredible, because

1269
01:02:51,960 --> 01:02:55,520
Speaker 1: it lacks credibility, Like you can't believe it, there's nothing

1270
01:02:55,560 --> 01:03:00,600
Speaker 1: to back it up. It's completely implausible. I wanted to

1271
01:03:00,640 --> 01:03:01,280
Speaker 1: make that point.

1272
01:03:01,800 --> 01:03:04,680
Speaker 2: No, and and maybe the best way that I can

1273
01:03:04,680 --> 01:03:05,960
Speaker 2: frame it, I'll be really quick. So I want to

1274
01:03:05,960 --> 01:03:09,400
Speaker 2: get to seger is, you know, like and this goes

1275
01:03:09,440 --> 01:03:13,560
Speaker 2: back a little bit to the point we were talking

1276
01:03:13,600 --> 01:03:16,000
Speaker 2: before the break about nepotism and how we're supposed to

1277
01:03:16,080 --> 01:03:18,960
Speaker 2: feel and everyone's like wow, I mean, nobody cared when

1278
01:03:19,320 --> 01:03:22,680
Speaker 2: Jannis's brother was drafted and it was like yeah, but

1279
01:03:22,760 --> 01:03:27,680
Speaker 2: we all get that Fanasais is only on the team

1280
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Speaker 2: because Yannis basically whatever, and like there's an understanding about that.

1281
01:03:31,800 --> 01:03:36,000
Speaker 2: And I think again, others trying to sell us that

1282
01:03:36,440 --> 01:03:38,640
Speaker 2: you know this, Others trying to sell us that this

1283
01:03:38,760 --> 01:03:40,960
Speaker 2: is legitimate and it could work, and blah blah blah.

1284
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Speaker 2: It's just it's it's it's it's it's a unique story.

1285
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Speaker 2: I don't know that it's going to have the effect

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Speaker 2: that I think a lot of people do. Fox Sports

1287
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Speaker 2: Radio eron towards Jason Martin broadcasting Live Froth. The Tirec

1288
01:03:51,240 --> 01:03:53,080
Speaker 2: dot Com studios will come back hit on a couple

1289
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Speaker 2: other notes from the twenty twenty four NBA draft that

1290
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Speaker 2: is in just a moment. Before we get to that, though,

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Speaker 2: let's go over toss it over the Who's destin Seger?

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Speaker 2: What's training? My friend? Hello, gentlemen, And I'm glad.

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Speaker 5: You phrased it that way that Bronnie James getting drafted

1294
01:04:06,560 --> 01:04:09,680
Speaker 5: is not an accomplishment and it was treated like it

1295
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Speaker 5: was by the ESPN.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel about for the kid. You know, it's like.

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Speaker 5: Him getting to play minutes with USC after the healthscare.

1298
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Speaker 5: That's an accomplishment. No ESPN though, they also said during

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Speaker 5: their coverage, and Bronnie's been vocal about wanting to get

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Speaker 5: out of his father's shadow. Really, that's why he's been

1301
01:04:26,280 --> 01:04:29,080
Speaker 5: wearing his dad's number. That's why he worked out for

1302
01:04:29,200 --> 01:04:31,760
Speaker 5: dad's team. That's why he's drafted for dad's team. He

1303
01:04:31,840 --> 01:04:33,680
Speaker 5: really wants to get out of the shadow, be his

1304
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Speaker 5: own man. By the way, Stat's Inc. Says lebron James

1305
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Speaker 5: would be the fifth father in the major sports in

1306
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Speaker 5: history to play on the same team with his sons.

1307
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Speaker 5: You mentioned the Griffies, Gordi Howe played with his two

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Speaker 5: sons in pro hockey. There was something about the Nesser

1309
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Speaker 5: family of nineteen twenty NFL.

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Speaker 1: I cannot confirm ash.

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Speaker 5: And I did not realize Tim Rain's senior. Apparently they

1312
01:05:00,160 --> 01:05:03,160
Speaker 5: played with Tim junior about twenty years ago when Junior

1313
01:05:03,240 --> 01:05:05,920
Speaker 5: had a cup of coffee with the Orioles. So there.

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Speaker 5: As for what's going on in the NBA, the Clippers

1315
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Speaker 5: Paul George did opt out of his contract. He'll be

1316
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Speaker 5: a free agent. Russell Westbrook will return to the Clippers,

1317
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Speaker 5: reportedly picking up his four million dollar option the Athletics,

1318
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Speaker 5: as Patrick Williams intends to re sign with the Bulls

1319
01:05:22,120 --> 01:05:26,400
Speaker 5: five years, ninety million dollars. The NBA free agency negotiating

1320
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Speaker 5: window opens tomorrow at six pm Eastern Time. The new

1321
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Speaker 5: league year opens on July sixth, which would be next Saturday.

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Speaker 5: The Summer League starts July twelfth in Las Vegas. I

1323
01:05:36,320 --> 01:05:38,680
Speaker 5: don't know who's planning for the Lakers, but my goodness,

1324
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Speaker 5: I'll be watching Summer League in Vegas on July the twelfth.

1325
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Speaker 5: As for Copa America, attendance in Miami tonight was sixty

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Speaker 5: five thousand and on FS one. Argentina defeated Peru two nothing.

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Speaker 5: Legal Messi was out with a groin injury. Argentina at

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Speaker 5: three and zero wins its group and their coach Tonight

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Speaker 5: was serving a one game suspension. Argentina will start the

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Speaker 5: quarterfinals on July the fourth is out. It was eliminated

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01:06:01,560 --> 01:06:05,440
Speaker 5: after a zero zero tie against Canada in Orlando. Mexico

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Speaker 5: plays Sunday night on Fox TV from Arizona against Ecuador.

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Speaker 5: Venezuela plays last pace Jamaica. Brazil's Group finale comes Tuesday

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Speaker 5: against Tuino Columbia, and then there's the US, which might

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Speaker 5: be out on Monday night. At the Euros, wins for

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Speaker 5: host Germany and for Switzerland, which dominated Italy, which is

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Speaker 5: now out to nothing for the Swiss. Germany's win was

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Speaker 5: two nothing over Denmark. In the WNBA two games, Las

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Speaker 5: Vegas and Seattle the winners. NASCAR's Infinity Race went to

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Speaker 5: John Hunter and Nimachek at Nashville. We've got two late

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Speaker 5: games in Major League Baseball. In Anaheim, the Angels have

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Speaker 5: tied it up against Detroit. It's five to five now

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01:06:42,360 --> 01:06:45,720
Speaker 5: top of the ninth. Minnesota still leads at Seattle five

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Speaker 5: to one in the top of the eighth inning. And

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Speaker 5: two great games on Fox TV tonight depending on your region.

1346
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Speaker 5: There was the game in Baltimore, Orioles six ' five

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Speaker 5: over Texas. The Rangers have lost six in a row.

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Speaker 5: Corey Seeger the Rangers left early hit by a pitch.

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01:07:00,760 --> 01:07:05,280
Speaker 5: Initial X rays were negative. The Dodgers scored seven times

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01:07:05,320 --> 01:07:08,360
Speaker 5: in the eleventh inning and one at San Francisco fourteen

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Speaker 5: to seven. Show Hey Otani with his twenty sixth home

1352
01:07:11,720 --> 01:07:14,439
Speaker 5: run of the season. That's nine Homers in the last

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01:07:14,440 --> 01:07:18,160
Speaker 5: twelve games for him, Giants left fifteen men on base,

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01:07:18,480 --> 01:07:21,320
Speaker 5: the Atlanta Braves edge Pittsburgh in ten innings two to one,

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01:07:21,720 --> 01:07:23,840
Speaker 5: Cubs in Cleveland h one on the road, and the

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Speaker 5: Padres as well. Padres have won five in a row.

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Speaker 2: Back to you, Thank you very much, Steve Disager to

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Speaker 2: Sega will be back with us in just one moment

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Speaker 2: with his extended up day. Fox Sports radio eron toors

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Speaker 2: Jason martinbroadcasting live from the Tyrek dot Com studios. Jmar

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Speaker 2: A couple other notes from the draft. I mean, let's

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01:07:41,840 --> 01:07:46,320
Speaker 2: just do the doll Connect thing now. Listen. I don't

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01:07:46,320 --> 01:07:48,640
Speaker 2: even know how much jj Reddick had to do with

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01:07:48,640 --> 01:07:50,920
Speaker 2: with the pick as much as Rob Polinka. But if

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Speaker 2: we're going to criticize Polenka for, you know, trying to

1366
01:07:54,200 --> 01:07:56,720
Speaker 2: sell us that Brownni's like this legitimate prospect and they

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01:07:56,720 --> 01:07:59,040
Speaker 2: would have taken him at fifty five regardless of his name,

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01:07:59,520 --> 01:08:02,280
Speaker 2: we should all give Lincoln jj Reddick a little bit

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01:08:02,320 --> 01:08:05,480
Speaker 2: of credit because I thought Darlin Connect, largely perceived to

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Speaker 2: be a top ten pick, fell to seventeen. They got him,

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Speaker 2: and listen, you know, I don't care about being twenty

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Speaker 2: three years old, when you have a forty year old superstar,

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01:08:16,760 --> 01:08:18,599
Speaker 2: and I think that's a kid that can come in

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01:08:18,840 --> 01:08:24,200
Speaker 2: step in next year contribute on that team. So overall,

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01:08:24,240 --> 01:08:26,519
Speaker 2: would probably say the biggest takeaway from me in round one,

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01:08:27,000 --> 01:08:29,960
Speaker 2: Darlon connect was probably the steal of the draft, if

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01:08:30,040 --> 01:08:31,360
Speaker 2: you will, by the Los Angeles Lakers.

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01:08:31,400 --> 01:08:31,559
Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean there were certain ways that you could talk

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01:08:33,200 --> 01:08:36,200
Speaker 1: about some reaches, but I agree with you. For him

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01:08:36,240 --> 01:08:39,240
Speaker 1: to fall into their lap basically it is perfect for them.

1382
01:08:39,680 --> 01:08:41,680
Speaker 1: He does exactly what they need. He's a guy that

1383
01:08:41,760 --> 01:08:43,920
Speaker 1: can get to the rack, but he also can flat

1384
01:08:43,920 --> 01:08:46,519
Speaker 1: out shoot, and that is something that they have been

1385
01:08:46,560 --> 01:08:50,640
Speaker 1: so inconsistent with. He is a gym rat. He is

1386
01:08:51,400 --> 01:08:53,479
Speaker 1: just he's gonna I think he's gonna walk in there

1387
01:08:53,680 --> 01:08:55,920
Speaker 1: and not just help them immediately. I think he's gonna

1388
01:08:55,920 --> 01:08:59,000
Speaker 1: be pretty popular there immediately as well. Like he plays

1389
01:08:59,000 --> 01:09:01,200
Speaker 1: with a tennasty fire, he's got a little bit of

1390
01:09:01,240 --> 01:09:03,040
Speaker 1: swagger to him. Of course, I do the show out

1391
01:09:03,040 --> 01:09:04,640
Speaker 1: of Nashville, so I saw a whole lot of his

1392
01:09:04,680 --> 01:09:09,240
Speaker 1: act at Tennessee last year. He's a tremendous player. I

1393
01:09:09,320 --> 01:09:11,439
Speaker 1: was shocked he was still sitting there for them to

1394
01:09:11,479 --> 01:09:14,880
Speaker 1: take he fits them, and it's a good spot for

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01:09:14,960 --> 01:09:16,360
Speaker 1: him to land. To him, it's pretty cool to go

1396
01:09:16,400 --> 01:09:21,040
Speaker 1: play with Lebron James. I mean, ask his son. But no,

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01:09:21,120 --> 01:09:25,920
Speaker 1: I loved it. I thought there were several teams that

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01:09:26,080 --> 01:09:29,760
Speaker 1: could have used him that went with other players where

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Speaker 1: I was a little bit surprised, And the kind of

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01:09:33,960 --> 01:09:36,720
Speaker 1: narrative about what he's twenty three in the history of

1401
01:09:36,760 --> 01:09:39,960
Speaker 1: guys over twenty two being drafted has just been terrible

1402
01:09:40,000 --> 01:09:42,440
Speaker 1: in the NBA is like, right, but every guy's individual,

1403
01:09:42,560 --> 01:09:45,880
Speaker 1: he's twenty three, not thirty three's And look, they're about

1404
01:09:45,880 --> 01:09:47,840
Speaker 1: to hand a couple thirty three year olds two hundred

1405
01:09:47,840 --> 01:09:50,639
Speaker 1: plus million dollars over the next few days. So don't

1406
01:09:50,640 --> 01:09:52,680
Speaker 1: tell me twenty three is like the end of the

1407
01:09:52,760 --> 01:09:56,439
Speaker 1: kid's career. Like that's just absurd to me. So I

1408
01:09:56,479 --> 01:09:59,040
Speaker 1: think that's going to end up being the steal of

1409
01:09:59,040 --> 01:10:02,080
Speaker 1: the draft. There's a couple of other candidates you could

1410
01:10:02,080 --> 01:10:05,640
Speaker 1: maybe put in there, but connect was definitely my favorite.

1411
01:10:07,000 --> 01:10:09,799
Speaker 1: He was definitely, without question, my favorite pick of the round.

1412
01:10:10,120 --> 01:10:13,719
Speaker 1: And just it was a it was it felt almost

1413
01:10:13,720 --> 01:10:15,240
Speaker 1: like a coup for the Lakers. It's not like they

1414
01:10:15,280 --> 01:10:17,640
Speaker 1: had to do anything to make it happen. It was

1415
01:10:17,760 --> 01:10:22,519
Speaker 1: just kind of like this was just a beautiful way

1416
01:10:22,560 --> 01:10:25,040
Speaker 1: for them to land something that they actually needed. He

1417
01:10:25,080 --> 01:10:27,800
Speaker 1: actually does something that they lacked, and he's going to

1418
01:10:27,840 --> 01:10:30,160
Speaker 1: bring He's going to bring a lot of energy to

1419
01:10:30,240 --> 01:10:32,200
Speaker 1: that team on the offensive side. I think he was

1420
01:10:32,400 --> 01:10:33,320
Speaker 1: a wonderful pick for.

1421
01:10:33,280 --> 01:10:37,520
Speaker 2: Them, real quick. Uh, Zach Edy going number nine to Memphis,

1422
01:10:38,240 --> 01:10:40,040
Speaker 2: I'll toss it over to you first. I have a thought.

1423
01:10:40,120 --> 01:10:42,519
Speaker 2: But Zach Edy, I think we all thought he was

1424
01:10:42,520 --> 01:10:44,519
Speaker 2: going first round. But number nine in Memphis was a

1425
01:10:44,560 --> 01:10:46,439
Speaker 2: little bit surprised to me. Yeah, I just I don't

1426
01:10:46,479 --> 01:10:48,680
Speaker 2: get it. I mean, I do for Memphis because this

1427
01:10:48,720 --> 01:10:50,760
Speaker 2: is this kind of thing they've done. Like they they're

1428
01:10:50,800 --> 01:10:53,519
Speaker 2: the you know, they're they're a team that that can

1429
01:10:53,600 --> 01:10:55,439
Speaker 2: draft some size and likes to draft some size.

1430
01:10:55,479 --> 01:10:58,320
Speaker 1: And I understand I heard all this, the stuff about

1431
01:10:58,360 --> 01:11:01,479
Speaker 1: how Edie got better better every year and his defense

1432
01:11:01,520 --> 01:11:03,200
Speaker 1: got better every year. And he's a big guy that

1433
01:11:03,240 --> 01:11:05,320
Speaker 1: gets fouled a lot, that makes his free throws, And

1434
01:11:05,760 --> 01:11:09,920
Speaker 1: I understand why you would want to take a flyer here.

1435
01:11:10,920 --> 01:11:13,559
Speaker 1: I just who's he going to guard? And how fast

1436
01:11:13,640 --> 01:11:15,519
Speaker 1: is how fast is he going to have to be?

1437
01:11:17,360 --> 01:11:20,639
Speaker 1: It's a totally different speed. His game was perfect for college,

1438
01:11:20,680 --> 01:11:23,519
Speaker 1: but I don't know if it translates or not. I

1439
01:11:23,560 --> 01:11:25,960
Speaker 1: can understand, like when you see somebody that big and

1440
01:11:26,000 --> 01:11:28,519
Speaker 1: with that kind of wingspan, it's yes, I get it,

1441
01:11:29,120 --> 01:11:30,960
Speaker 1: and looks like he's got a good head on his

1442
01:11:31,000 --> 01:11:33,839
Speaker 1: shoulders and all of those things, and he did improve

1443
01:11:33,960 --> 01:11:36,800
Speaker 1: year after year after year. I just don't know. He

1444
01:11:36,840 --> 01:11:39,080
Speaker 1: feels a little clunky to me, and a lot of

1445
01:11:39,080 --> 01:11:40,960
Speaker 1: the things he was able to do in college where

1446
01:11:41,000 --> 01:11:44,240
Speaker 1: he did not get exposed, I think he could get

1447
01:11:44,280 --> 01:11:47,880
Speaker 1: exposed in the NBA. And he's a guy that he

1448
01:11:47,920 --> 01:11:50,840
Speaker 1: needs to get out of the way so that John

1449
01:11:50,840 --> 01:11:53,439
Speaker 1: Morant can get to the rack. And he's a guy

1450
01:11:53,439 --> 01:11:56,400
Speaker 1: that kind of lumbers a little bit, and especially on

1451
01:11:56,439 --> 01:11:58,760
Speaker 1: the inside, he wants to play slower, and that's a

1452
01:11:58,800 --> 01:12:03,200
Speaker 1: team that likes playing fast. So I don't love it.

1453
01:12:03,240 --> 01:12:06,759
Speaker 1: And I definitely think at nine that was way too fast.

1454
01:12:07,120 --> 01:12:10,080
Speaker 2: So that's kind of my takeaway as well. And obviously, look,

1455
01:12:10,120 --> 01:12:11,920
Speaker 2: you know, obviously I was a guy that was a

1456
01:12:11,960 --> 01:12:14,040
Speaker 2: little critical of him in college, but he was an

1457
01:12:14,080 --> 01:12:17,600
Speaker 2: awesome college player, two National Player of the Year. My

1458
01:12:17,680 --> 01:12:23,240
Speaker 2: only real thought was not even the number selection, but

1459
01:12:23,280 --> 01:12:24,840
Speaker 2: even going back to the draft, I remember I was

1460
01:12:24,880 --> 01:12:28,960
Speaker 2: on local radio here Rogan and Rodney Kevin Figures does

1461
01:12:29,000 --> 01:12:30,960
Speaker 2: stuff with them, and I was on with those guys,

1462
01:12:30,960 --> 01:12:33,000
Speaker 2: and they asked me about him during the tournament, and

1463
01:12:33,040 --> 01:12:35,840
Speaker 2: I said, well, you know, the problem is is that,

1464
01:12:37,960 --> 01:12:41,519
Speaker 2: you know, like I thought even then, I was like,

1465
01:12:41,720 --> 01:12:44,719
Speaker 2: you know, somewhere in the twenties, and the thought process

1466
01:12:44,800 --> 01:12:47,280
Speaker 2: being like, Okay, he can have value as a dude

1467
01:12:47,360 --> 01:12:49,400
Speaker 2: that plays eight ten minutes off the bench, has a

1468
01:12:49,400 --> 01:12:52,639
Speaker 2: couple of foles, whatever, But when you're drafting him high,

1469
01:12:53,080 --> 01:12:55,840
Speaker 2: ultimately you're drafting him as a guy that you believe

1470
01:12:55,840 --> 01:12:59,640
Speaker 2: can play significant minutes. And basically the only value he

1471
01:12:59,760 --> 01:13:03,040
Speaker 2: had as is if you're basically running your entire offense

1472
01:13:03,080 --> 01:13:05,320
Speaker 2: through him. And obviously that's not something that's gonna happen

1473
01:13:05,320 --> 01:13:08,040
Speaker 2: at the NBA level. And so to bring it to Thursday,

1474
01:13:08,200 --> 01:13:10,920
Speaker 2: where I guess I get a little confused, as you said,

1475
01:13:11,200 --> 01:13:14,040
Speaker 2: is that even though Memphis was picking at number nine,

1476
01:13:14,240 --> 01:13:15,960
Speaker 2: they're one of the few teams that's ever gonna pick

1477
01:13:15,960 --> 01:13:19,880
Speaker 2: at nine that kind of has their established superstar and

1478
01:13:20,000 --> 01:13:23,360
Speaker 2: has their style of play, and basically you should be

1479
01:13:23,520 --> 01:13:26,320
Speaker 2: draft Listen, whether we like Joe don't like Joe dumb

1480
01:13:26,320 --> 01:13:28,640
Speaker 2: stuff off the court whatever, Like he is clearly the

1481
01:13:28,640 --> 01:13:32,040
Speaker 2: face of the franchise and you should be drafting pieces

1482
01:13:32,160 --> 01:13:35,360
Speaker 2: to fit him. And they've done that with Jared Jackson,

1483
01:13:35,360 --> 01:13:38,320
Speaker 2: They've done that with Brandon Clark. I just I don't

1484
01:13:38,360 --> 01:13:42,360
Speaker 2: see how Zach Edy fits in any scenario with John

1485
01:13:42,439 --> 01:13:47,120
Speaker 2: rant Like, as you said, John Moran's game, attack the basket, kickout, whatever,

1486
01:13:47,800 --> 01:13:50,320
Speaker 2: and Zach Edy I think kind of just frankly to

1487
01:13:50,360 --> 01:13:52,040
Speaker 2: your point, Jason kind of gets in the way. So

1488
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Speaker 2: it's an interesting draft pick. I listen, I wish the

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Speaker 2: kid nothing but the best. I just don't really see

1490
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Speaker 2: how he fits in with how they want to play

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01:14:01,160 --> 01:14:03,639
Speaker 2: with John Moran. Fox Sports Radio Air Tours Jason Martin,

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01:14:03,680 --> 01:14:06,160
Speaker 2: broadcasting live from the Tyrek dot com studios, will come

1493
01:14:06,200 --> 01:14:09,679
Speaker 2: back to Saga with his extended update. He's got all

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01:14:09,920 --> 01:14:12,200
Speaker 2: sorts of good stuff on things you might have missed

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01:14:12,200 --> 01:14:15,360
Speaker 2: from the world of sports today. That's next Fox Sports Rady,

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Speaker 2: Welcome back, everybody. Fox Sports Radio aer Tors Jason Martin

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01:14:19,160 --> 01:14:23,120
Speaker 2: broadcasting live from the Tyrek dot com studios. As we

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01:14:23,200 --> 01:14:27,240
Speaker 2: do every week around this time, let's toss it over

1499
01:14:27,280 --> 01:14:29,680
Speaker 2: to Steve Saga for his extended update to Saga, the

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Speaker 2: floor is yours just.

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01:14:31,080 --> 01:14:34,360
Speaker 5: About everything final. We do have a tenth inning starting

1502
01:14:34,360 --> 01:14:37,320
Speaker 5: at Anaheim. Angels Tigers tied at five, and in the

1503
01:14:37,439 --> 01:14:40,120
Speaker 5: ninth Twins are leading five to one at Seattle. We'll

1504
01:14:40,120 --> 01:14:43,000
Speaker 5: get to NBA Draft in a moment. But Atlanta with

1505
01:14:43,080 --> 01:14:45,040
Speaker 5: that ten inning win at home two to one against

1506
01:14:45,080 --> 01:14:48,200
Speaker 5: Pittsburgh today and quite a pitching duel as Max Freed

1507
01:14:48,240 --> 01:14:50,759
Speaker 5: went the first six innings for Atlanta, lowered his ERA

1508
01:14:50,880 --> 01:14:53,640
Speaker 5: to two point nine to one, and the rookie the

1509
01:14:53,640 --> 01:14:56,760
Speaker 5: first rounder for Pittsburgh, Paul Skens, with six innings with

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01:14:56,880 --> 01:14:59,639
Speaker 5: nine strikeouts. He's four and oh e er two point

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01:14:59,680 --> 01:15:03,280
Speaker 5: zero sixth terrifying. It's ridiculous how good he is at

1512
01:15:03,320 --> 01:15:07,479
Speaker 5: the major league level already. Meanwhile, the Baltimore Orioles, who

1513
01:15:07,520 --> 01:15:10,479
Speaker 5: held on six to five over Texas, saved to Craig Kimberrel,

1514
01:15:10,479 --> 01:15:12,680
Speaker 5: who tends to make it interesting. He did tonight with

1515
01:15:12,760 --> 01:15:15,840
Speaker 5: two walks in the ninth, but Baltimore hit another home run.

1516
01:15:15,880 --> 01:15:19,200
Speaker 5: That sixty home runs in the calendar month of June

1517
01:15:19,240 --> 01:15:22,519
Speaker 5: for them, and we have one more game to go tomorrow. Apparently,

1518
01:15:22,600 --> 01:15:25,519
Speaker 5: the Atlanta Braves had sixty one home runs in the

1519
01:15:25,520 --> 01:15:29,320
Speaker 5: month of June last summer, and the record for any

1520
01:15:29,400 --> 01:15:33,679
Speaker 5: calendar month the twenty nineteen Yankees with seventy four home

1521
01:15:33,760 --> 01:15:38,000
Speaker 5: runs in August of twenty nineteen. As for the NBA Draft,

1522
01:15:38,080 --> 01:15:42,240
Speaker 5: the first round on Wednesday drew four point four million viewers.

1523
01:15:42,479 --> 01:15:45,519
Speaker 5: NFL Draft first round got twelve million viewers this year

1524
01:15:45,680 --> 01:15:48,439
Speaker 5: just for the record, and in fact, let's compare daytime

1525
01:15:48,479 --> 01:15:52,479
Speaker 5: programming because Fox and FS one have had this euro

1526
01:15:52,640 --> 01:15:55,040
Speaker 5: Soccer tournament in the last couple of weeks and now

1527
01:15:55,080 --> 01:15:58,800
Speaker 5: that they've finished up the group stage, they averaged over

1528
01:15:58,960 --> 01:16:04,120
Speaker 5: one million viewers for daytime often weekday soccer from Europe

1529
01:16:04,520 --> 01:16:07,320
Speaker 5: on Fox and FS one, it was one point h

1530
01:16:07,520 --> 01:16:11,639
Speaker 5: five million viewers. NBA Draft second round got under nine

1531
01:16:11,680 --> 01:16:16,639
Speaker 5: hundred thousand viewers for ESPN on Thursday. Meanwhile, Fox got

1532
01:16:16,640 --> 01:16:20,120
Speaker 5: for the England game against Serbia one point eight million viewers.

1533
01:16:20,160 --> 01:16:22,640
Speaker 5: For the US lost this week against Panama two and

1534
01:16:22,680 --> 01:16:25,599
Speaker 5: a half million viewers, and for the US opener against

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01:16:25,640 --> 01:16:29,880
Speaker 5: Lowli Bolivia three point two million viewers. The Americans could

1536
01:16:29,880 --> 01:16:32,160
Speaker 5: be out Monday night. They will likely need to beat

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01:16:32,240 --> 01:16:34,800
Speaker 5: first place Uruguay to advance. That game will be on

1538
01:16:34,920 --> 01:16:37,280
Speaker 5: FS one from Kansas City due to be warm and

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01:16:37,320 --> 01:16:40,280
Speaker 5: windy there. The US and Panama are tied for second

1540
01:16:40,280 --> 01:16:42,880
Speaker 5: in the group, each with one win and one loss

1541
01:16:42,880 --> 01:16:45,360
Speaker 5: so far in the tournament, but Panama gets to play

1542
01:16:45,439 --> 01:16:49,120
Speaker 5: last place Bolivia on Monday in Orlando. Bolivia has lost

1543
01:16:49,439 --> 01:16:52,920
Speaker 5: fourteen straight Copa America matches dating back to twenty fifteen.

1544
01:16:53,200 --> 01:16:56,320
Speaker 5: Bolivia has one win in its last thirty two games

1545
01:16:56,320 --> 01:16:59,439
Speaker 5: in this tournament. It is ranked eighty fourth in the world.

1546
01:17:00,000 --> 01:17:02,120
Speaker 5: Basically it gets to be in this tournament because it

1547
01:17:02,200 --> 01:17:06,080
Speaker 5: is located in South America. So the US just lost

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01:17:06,080 --> 01:17:09,120
Speaker 5: to Panama somehow on Thursday, two to one on a

1549
01:17:09,160 --> 01:17:12,719
Speaker 5: lake goal eighty third minutes. Attendance in Atlanta was fifty

1550
01:17:12,800 --> 01:17:15,559
Speaker 5: nine thousand. By the way, attendance for the Argentina game

1551
01:17:15,600 --> 01:17:18,759
Speaker 5: in Miami sixty five thousand. Of course, they expected, probably

1552
01:17:18,800 --> 01:17:21,120
Speaker 5: when they bought tickets, that Liono Messi would play. He

1553
01:17:21,280 --> 01:17:24,040
Speaker 5: was out with a groin entry tonight. But Argentina won.

1554
01:17:24,080 --> 01:17:26,800
Speaker 5: They're three and zero. They'll win their group and they

1555
01:17:26,840 --> 01:17:29,720
Speaker 5: will start the quarterfinals July fourth. The Americans could be

1556
01:17:29,760 --> 01:17:32,360
Speaker 5: out Monday, in part because Tim way I got a

1557
01:17:32,400 --> 01:17:34,680
Speaker 5: red card in the eighteenth minute on Thursday, so the

1558
01:17:34,800 --> 01:17:37,519
Speaker 5: US played ten on eleven for most of the game

1559
01:17:37,560 --> 01:17:40,120
Speaker 5: after his punch to the back of an opponent's head,

1560
01:17:40,720 --> 01:17:43,760
Speaker 5: and the US against Panama all time had been seventeen

1561
01:17:43,800 --> 01:17:46,439
Speaker 5: and two with seven ties. But a year ago the

1562
01:17:46,520 --> 01:17:48,599
Speaker 5: US lost to him on penalty kicks in a Gold

1563
01:17:48,600 --> 01:17:51,800
Speaker 5: Cup semifinal, and the way our Jason Smith on the

1564
01:17:51,840 --> 01:17:54,599
Speaker 5: Thursday Night Show after this loss put it a lot

1565
01:17:54,600 --> 01:17:58,680
Speaker 5: of US men's soccer fans might be hate watching on

1566
01:17:58,800 --> 01:18:02,160
Speaker 5: Monday night. That is a chance to get coach Greg

1567
01:18:02,200 --> 01:18:06,240
Speaker 5: Berhalter fired. Finally, because this was the coach through the

1568
01:18:06,360 --> 01:18:09,439
Speaker 5: last World Cup, they let his contract expire. There were

1569
01:18:09,439 --> 01:18:12,599
Speaker 5: some controversies and eventually, after months of an interim guy,

1570
01:18:13,360 --> 01:18:16,320
Speaker 5: they rehired the old coach. And the record for the

1571
01:18:16,400 --> 01:18:19,800
Speaker 5: US men since October is just five five and one,

1572
01:18:19,960 --> 01:18:23,320
Speaker 5: And even if the US advances with an actual win

1573
01:18:23,520 --> 01:18:26,879
Speaker 5: on Monday Night, its quarterfinal would likely be against Brazil

1574
01:18:27,439 --> 01:18:30,719
Speaker 5: or Colombia next Saturday in Arizona. They already played Columbia

1575
01:18:30,760 --> 01:18:33,280
Speaker 5: in a to up match this month and it was

1576
01:18:33,320 --> 01:18:36,320
Speaker 5: a five to one loss to Columbia. Just for the record,

1577
01:18:36,760 --> 01:18:39,760
Speaker 5: to MLB again, we had a dodger game at San

1578
01:18:39,800 --> 01:18:42,599
Speaker 5: Francisco tonight on Fox TV for part of the country.

1579
01:18:42,640 --> 01:18:46,559
Speaker 5: Giants left fifteen men on base. Dodgers scored seven times

1580
01:18:46,600 --> 01:18:49,120
Speaker 5: in the top of the eleventh for a fourteen to

1581
01:18:49,160 --> 01:18:53,559
Speaker 5: seven wins. So I've mentioned Baltimore winning again. Orioles record

1582
01:18:53,640 --> 01:18:57,679
Speaker 5: fifty three and thirty Dodgers fifty two and thirty two

1583
01:18:57,760 --> 01:19:00,240
Speaker 5: so far. So we're roughly the halfway point of the

1584
01:19:00,240 --> 01:19:03,439
Speaker 5: major league season. But sho Hee Otani hit another home run,

1585
01:19:03,479 --> 01:19:06,679
Speaker 5: his twenty sixth of the season. He has nine homers

1586
01:19:06,720 --> 01:19:09,600
Speaker 5: in his last twelve games. The Yankees Aaron Judge in

1587
01:19:09,640 --> 01:19:11,920
Speaker 5: a loss at Toronto nine to three. Judge had an

1588
01:19:12,040 --> 01:19:16,840
Speaker 5: RBI single. He has eighty RBIs so far this year

1589
01:19:16,880 --> 01:19:19,960
Speaker 5: and as batting three thirteen. We are not done with

1590
01:19:20,040 --> 01:19:23,200
Speaker 5: the month of June. Left Juan Soto of the Yanks

1591
01:19:23,200 --> 01:19:25,680
Speaker 5: did not play today due to a bruised hand. We

1592
01:19:25,760 --> 01:19:28,280
Speaker 5: have the injury for the Rangers tonight. We're on a

1593
01:19:28,360 --> 01:19:32,320
Speaker 5: check swing. Corey Seeger of Texas was hit by a pitch.

1594
01:19:32,479 --> 01:19:36,160
Speaker 5: Initial X rays were negative. The wrist is swollen. And

1595
01:19:36,280 --> 01:19:38,960
Speaker 5: kudos to the Chicago White Sox for getting a win

1596
01:19:39,040 --> 01:19:41,840
Speaker 5: today eleven to three over Colorado, which has lost five

1597
01:19:41,920 --> 01:19:44,599
Speaker 5: in a row. The Rockies on the road eleven to

1598
01:19:44,640 --> 01:19:47,280
Speaker 5: thirty one, having about the same type of season as

1599
01:19:47,360 --> 01:19:50,520
Speaker 5: the White Sox. In fact, it's twenty seven wins for Colorado,

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01:19:50,600 --> 01:19:53,360
Speaker 5: twenty four for the White Sox so far twenty four

1601
01:19:53,400 --> 01:19:56,720
Speaker 5: and sixty one. But today the White Sox hit four

1602
01:19:56,720 --> 01:19:59,920
Speaker 5: home runs. Rockies had only four hits in the game,

1603
01:20:00,080 --> 01:20:03,400
Speaker 5: four for thirty. The Oakland A's only had two hits

1604
01:20:03,439 --> 01:20:05,519
Speaker 5: in their game. They lost three to nine at Arizona

1605
01:20:05,560 --> 01:20:08,240
Speaker 5: and Tampa Bay at home only two hits, lost eight

1606
01:20:08,320 --> 01:20:09,320
Speaker 5: one to Washington.

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01:20:09,400 --> 01:20:11,439
Speaker 2: Back to you, Thank you very much, Steve di Seger.

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01:20:11,600 --> 01:20:14,120
Speaker 2: This is Fox Sports Radio Er Tors Jason Martin taking

1609
01:20:14,160 --> 01:20:17,720
Speaker 2: you up till two a m. Eastern time. Still a

1610
01:20:17,760 --> 01:20:20,840
Speaker 2: lot to discuss. We gotta get back to the NBA,

1611
01:20:21,040 --> 01:20:23,720
Speaker 2: Paul George, the Lakers, what's their next movie? Talk a

1612
01:20:23,720 --> 01:20:27,479
Speaker 2: little bit about the NFL. Brandon Ayuk, we'll discuss him

1613
01:20:27,479 --> 01:20:32,000
Speaker 2: as well. That's all next Fox Sports Radio. Welcome in everybody,

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Speaker 2: Eastern time. Bernie Freddo of The Bernie Fratto Show will

1622
01:21:03,720 --> 01:21:07,280
Speaker 2: follow us. Bernie's got all sorts of good stuff. On

1623
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Speaker 2: what has been an interesting day in sports, Jason, you know,

1624
01:21:12,880 --> 01:21:15,720
Speaker 2: it's funny Saturday was. It was a busy day. There

1625
01:21:16,000 --> 01:21:18,800
Speaker 2: was obviously, you know, no major sport. You know, listen,

1626
01:21:18,840 --> 01:21:21,960
Speaker 2: I don't want to understell major League Baseball, but no football,

1627
01:21:22,160 --> 01:21:26,640
Speaker 2: no basketball, no hockey. We obviously have a you know,

1628
01:21:26,680 --> 01:21:28,840
Speaker 2: the Stanley Cup has been settled, the NBA Finals have

1629
01:21:28,920 --> 01:21:32,920
Speaker 2: been settled, the NBA Draft is behind us. But it

1630
01:21:33,040 --> 01:21:36,440
Speaker 2: was a busy day because essentially it was the unofficial

1631
01:21:37,000 --> 01:21:39,760
Speaker 2: kickoff too free agencies. So big story of the day

1632
01:21:39,800 --> 01:21:43,720
Speaker 2: in my opinion, Jason, Paul well lebron opting out is

1633
01:21:43,800 --> 01:21:46,720
Speaker 2: probably the biggest story. But as we discussed an hour

1634
01:21:46,800 --> 01:21:48,439
Speaker 2: one and we might discuss it a little bit here.

1635
01:21:49,800 --> 01:21:53,439
Speaker 2: You know, everybody knows he's coming back, and even Rich Paul,

1636
01:21:53,800 --> 01:21:56,280
Speaker 2: his agent, is on the record saying today, hey, you know,

1637
01:21:56,320 --> 01:21:58,920
Speaker 2: this is a situation where he's going to be back,

1638
01:21:58,960 --> 01:22:00,800
Speaker 2: and we're just trying to figure out out, you know,

1639
01:22:01,080 --> 01:22:03,280
Speaker 2: what kind of discount he can take to help the team.

1640
01:22:03,479 --> 01:22:07,840
Speaker 2: So the Paul George thing, to me is probably what

1641
01:22:08,040 --> 01:22:10,760
Speaker 2: stands out as far as the most intriguing news of

1642
01:22:10,760 --> 01:22:13,479
Speaker 2: the day. Paul George was set to make, you know,

1643
01:22:13,520 --> 01:22:16,200
Speaker 2: somewhere in the forty eight forty nine million dollar range,

1644
01:22:16,479 --> 01:22:19,280
Speaker 2: but decides to opt out with the Los Angeles Clippers.

1645
01:22:20,200 --> 01:22:23,680
Speaker 2: Now he can still re sign with them, and he

1646
01:22:23,880 --> 01:22:26,439
Speaker 2: is planning on meeting with them next week, but at

1647
01:22:26,439 --> 01:22:28,719
Speaker 2: the same time he will also meet with the Magic.

1648
01:22:28,760 --> 01:22:32,000
Speaker 2: He will also meet with the Philadelphia seventy six ers.

1649
01:22:32,240 --> 01:22:35,479
Speaker 2: Your thoughts on Paul George and his decision to opt out.

1650
01:22:35,720 --> 01:22:38,080
Speaker 1: I mean, he's kind of the crown jewel of free

1651
01:22:38,120 --> 01:22:40,360
Speaker 1: agency this year. There's gonna be some other nice pieces,

1652
01:22:40,400 --> 01:22:43,400
Speaker 1: but not in terms of star quality and not a

1653
01:22:43,439 --> 01:22:47,120
Speaker 1: guy that can come in and well, again I'm still

1654
01:22:47,120 --> 01:22:49,400
Speaker 1: negative on it just because or skeptical or a little

1655
01:22:49,400 --> 01:22:53,160
Speaker 1: bit down just because he's never amounted to a championship.

1656
01:22:53,200 --> 01:22:55,280
Speaker 1: But I know how good a basketball player he is.

1657
01:22:55,320 --> 01:22:57,360
Speaker 1: You pair him with the right person. That's a shot

1658
01:22:57,479 --> 01:23:02,280
Speaker 1: you take every time. Lebron doesn't count here because he's

1659
01:23:02,320 --> 01:23:05,000
Speaker 1: not going anywhere, so in terms of a piece that

1660
01:23:05,240 --> 01:23:07,240
Speaker 1: there's at least some question as to where he's gonna

1661
01:23:07,320 --> 01:23:09,720
Speaker 1: end up. Paul George is sort of the guy. His

1662
01:23:09,840 --> 01:23:14,160
Speaker 1: numbers are good, and again, he's not gonna win something

1663
01:23:14,200 --> 01:23:18,840
Speaker 1: by himself. Orlando is a young, young team that showed

1664
01:23:18,840 --> 01:23:21,280
Speaker 1: out a little bit last year, looks like they're on

1665
01:23:21,320 --> 01:23:23,200
Speaker 1: the right track. But I don't think a thirty three

1666
01:23:23,240 --> 01:23:26,040
Speaker 1: year old Paul George ends up going there if he

1667
01:23:26,040 --> 01:23:28,400
Speaker 1: actually wants to win a championship. And I think at

1668
01:23:28,400 --> 01:23:30,160
Speaker 1: this stage you start looking around him saying where it's

1669
01:23:30,160 --> 01:23:32,559
Speaker 1: the best chance to win a ring, because that's where

1670
01:23:32,600 --> 01:23:35,200
Speaker 1: I can separate myself from some of the other guys

1671
01:23:35,240 --> 01:23:39,080
Speaker 1: that I might be compared favorably to right now over

1672
01:23:39,120 --> 01:23:41,439
Speaker 1: the last couple of decades that didn't end up with

1673
01:23:41,479 --> 01:23:45,759
Speaker 1: a ring, but were regarded as really good basketball players.

1674
01:23:45,960 --> 01:23:48,360
Speaker 1: But I think you want that feather in your cap.

1675
01:23:48,479 --> 01:23:52,040
Speaker 1: So the best chance to do that is to go

1676
01:23:52,080 --> 01:23:55,040
Speaker 1: to Philadelphia. I mean, that's the bet you make. I

1677
01:23:55,040 --> 01:23:59,320
Speaker 1: mean Embiid's health notwithstanding that's a team with him and

1678
01:23:59,439 --> 01:24:03,280
Speaker 1: MAXI that you put him there in an Eastern Conference

1679
01:24:03,360 --> 01:24:07,479
Speaker 1: that's still very top heavy. I think you put yourself

1680
01:24:07,600 --> 01:24:09,840
Speaker 1: right there in the mix with them. You stay with

1681
01:24:09,840 --> 01:24:12,639
Speaker 1: the Clippers, I just don't think they're they can pay

1682
01:24:12,680 --> 01:24:14,760
Speaker 1: him more if they wanted to. It's two twenty one

1683
01:24:14,800 --> 01:24:18,200
Speaker 1: to twelve, I think on a four year deal either place,

1684
01:24:18,760 --> 01:24:20,519
Speaker 1: so he can still make more money if he were

1685
01:24:20,560 --> 01:24:23,559
Speaker 1: to end up staying with the Clippers. But I just

1686
01:24:23,640 --> 01:24:28,160
Speaker 1: think ultimately this ends up with him in Philadelphia, and

1687
01:24:28,479 --> 01:24:30,760
Speaker 1: I think that makes the Eastern Conference a little bit deeper,

1688
01:24:30,760 --> 01:24:33,240
Speaker 1: a little bit more interesting, gives him a little bit

1689
01:24:33,320 --> 01:24:36,639
Speaker 1: more star power, and that helps the league. Not that

1690
01:24:36,640 --> 01:24:39,320
Speaker 1: that's part of the decision process, of course, but I

1691
01:24:39,400 --> 01:24:41,759
Speaker 1: just think that that just seems like where it's trending,

1692
01:24:41,840 --> 01:24:45,240
Speaker 1: And just because of who I've seen mentioned him to

1693
01:24:46,000 --> 01:24:49,160
Speaker 1: Philadelphia as a possibility in the last month, it just

1694
01:24:49,200 --> 01:24:51,679
Speaker 1: seems like behind closed doors, and that's been talked about

1695
01:24:51,720 --> 01:24:53,640
Speaker 1: a lot, Like I know Golden State was looking at

1696
01:24:53,720 --> 01:24:55,960
Speaker 1: him for a time, but that deals now did so

1697
01:24:56,040 --> 01:24:57,720
Speaker 1: I just I think he's hen end up in Philadelphia,

1698
01:24:57,720 --> 01:24:59,000
Speaker 1: and I think that's probably the right move.

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01:25:00,000 --> 01:25:02,759
Speaker 2: I mean, I think it just feels like it's trending

1700
01:25:02,800 --> 01:25:04,800
Speaker 2: that way. And with the Clippers. We talked about this

1701
01:25:04,800 --> 01:25:06,519
Speaker 2: a little bit earlier in the show. If anybody missed it,

1702
01:25:06,520 --> 01:25:08,240
Speaker 2: make sure to go back and download the podcast. But

1703
01:25:08,800 --> 01:25:11,240
Speaker 2: it's a little bit surprising that they don't appear to

1704
01:25:11,320 --> 01:25:13,960
Speaker 2: be more aggressive given that they just gave Kawhi Leonard

1705
01:25:14,000 --> 01:25:17,439
Speaker 2: a big extension. And I'm not saying that you extend,

1706
01:25:17,520 --> 01:25:20,800
Speaker 2: that's extending, Paul George is the answer to all your problems.

1707
01:25:21,080 --> 01:25:23,679
Speaker 2: What I am just saying, though, is that it does

1708
01:25:23,720 --> 01:25:28,040
Speaker 2: feel like to me, is that basically like if you

1709
01:25:28,320 --> 01:25:32,720
Speaker 2: are going to extend Kawhi, they're kind of they're not

1710
01:25:32,800 --> 01:25:35,640
Speaker 2: quite tied at the hip, but like this era is

1711
01:25:35,800 --> 01:25:38,439
Speaker 2: kind of it feels like it's sort of dependent on

1712
01:25:38,479 --> 01:25:40,720
Speaker 2: both of them. Now, maybe the argument is we have

1713
01:25:40,840 --> 01:25:44,760
Speaker 2: James Harden now, we don't need two wings. But it's

1714
01:25:44,800 --> 01:25:46,160
Speaker 2: like you know we were talking about it earlier, is

1715
01:25:46,160 --> 01:25:48,160
Speaker 2: like Paul George, say what you want about him. Has

1716
01:25:48,160 --> 01:25:50,360
Speaker 2: he had the best moments in the playoffs? No, but

1717
01:25:51,479 --> 01:25:54,519
Speaker 2: he is dependable. He did play seventy plus games this year,

1718
01:25:55,840 --> 01:25:58,719
Speaker 2: and so I'm just surprised the Clippers are not being

1719
01:25:59,200 --> 01:26:01,840
Speaker 2: more aggressive. But ultimately they got to do what's best

1720
01:26:01,880 --> 01:26:06,080
Speaker 2: for them. I will say from a fan perspective, I

1721
01:26:06,080 --> 01:26:08,160
Speaker 2: would like to see him in Philly because I do

1722
01:26:08,240 --> 01:26:10,680
Speaker 2: think I don't know, I don't know that they're like

1723
01:26:11,240 --> 01:26:14,759
Speaker 2: that close, but I don't think if MBID can be healthy,

1724
01:26:14,760 --> 01:26:17,080
Speaker 2: I don't think they're that far. I think they finally

1725
01:26:17,240 --> 01:26:21,200
Speaker 2: have that dude that fits well alongside him, Tyrese. Maxie

1726
01:26:21,280 --> 01:26:24,840
Speaker 2: is obviously a burgeoning star, but you need just a

1727
01:26:24,880 --> 01:26:27,360
Speaker 2: little bit more. And I think the thing you know

1728
01:26:27,400 --> 01:26:30,400
Speaker 2: we talked about now, one, it's not just that you

1729
01:26:30,520 --> 01:26:33,040
Speaker 2: need Maxi or it's not just that you need another

1730
01:26:33,120 --> 01:26:36,080
Speaker 2: guy for the playoffs. I think it's that you have

1731
01:26:36,200 --> 01:26:39,559
Speaker 2: to at this point assume that Joel Embid is going

1732
01:26:39,600 --> 01:26:42,280
Speaker 2: to miss a fair amount of the regular season and

1733
01:26:42,560 --> 01:26:45,200
Speaker 2: you can't just bottom mouse is not the right word,

1734
01:26:45,200 --> 01:26:47,800
Speaker 2: but you can't, you know, fall apart. If he's gonna

1735
01:26:47,840 --> 01:26:51,120
Speaker 2: miss twenty games over the course of a season, you

1736
01:26:51,160 --> 01:26:53,799
Speaker 2: can't go four and sixteen in those games because obviously

1737
01:26:53,840 --> 01:26:56,559
Speaker 2: that's going to have big time implications with your playoff seeding.

1738
01:26:56,600 --> 01:26:58,040
Speaker 2: And that's kind of what happened this year, right They

1739
01:26:58,080 --> 01:27:02,320
Speaker 2: ended up as whatever they were, the six seeds, seven seeds,

1740
01:27:02,320 --> 01:27:06,719
Speaker 2: something like that, and it's because Joel m being missed

1741
01:27:06,720 --> 01:27:09,360
Speaker 2: so much time and they struggled with him without him,

1742
01:27:09,360 --> 01:27:12,040
Speaker 2: excuse me. So I'd be curious to see where Paul

1743
01:27:12,080 --> 01:27:15,160
Speaker 2: George ends up. I think Philly's the right spot for him,

1744
01:27:16,160 --> 01:27:18,479
Speaker 2: and as selfishly as a basketball fan, I hope that's

1745
01:27:18,479 --> 01:27:21,120
Speaker 2: where he ends up real quick. By the way, do

1746
01:27:21,120 --> 01:27:22,160
Speaker 2: you have anything else on Paul.

1747
01:27:22,000 --> 01:27:23,920
Speaker 1: Jordan's I agree with you. I mean, I'm looking at

1748
01:27:23,920 --> 01:27:26,080
Speaker 1: it again from a fan perspective, and I think that's

1749
01:27:26,160 --> 01:27:28,800
Speaker 1: the best that's the best place for him for the

1750
01:27:28,880 --> 01:27:31,880
Speaker 1: league standpoint, and I think that it's best for a

1751
01:27:32,040 --> 01:27:35,800
Speaker 1: consumer as well. Like I just I would like to

1752
01:27:35,880 --> 01:27:38,519
Speaker 1: watch that team play and see what they could be

1753
01:27:38,560 --> 01:27:41,559
Speaker 1: at full strength, And again, you never know how that

1754
01:27:41,680 --> 01:27:44,120
Speaker 1: ends up playing out. But that's where I hope he

1755
01:27:44,200 --> 01:27:46,080
Speaker 1: ends up to real quick.

1756
01:27:46,280 --> 01:27:48,120
Speaker 2: The other there's some more big news. We talked about

1757
01:27:48,160 --> 01:27:53,080
Speaker 2: Lebron but but Klay Thompson, Shams shams Is and the

1758
01:27:53,160 --> 01:27:57,360
Speaker 2: Athletic are reporting that the Warriors are basically moving. They're

1759
01:27:57,520 --> 01:27:59,760
Speaker 2: under the assumption that he will not be back next year.

1760
01:28:00,280 --> 01:28:02,080
Speaker 2: And I think Mark Stein was probably one of the

1761
01:28:02,080 --> 01:28:06,160
Speaker 2: early ones on the Dallas Mavericks as a potential landing spot.

1762
01:28:06,240 --> 01:28:10,000
Speaker 2: But now there have been increasing reports over the last

1763
01:28:10,000 --> 01:28:13,160
Speaker 2: couple of hours that because Lebron has opted out, because

1764
01:28:13,200 --> 01:28:15,200
Speaker 2: he may be willing to take a little bit less money,

1765
01:28:15,439 --> 01:28:18,559
Speaker 2: that the Lakers could be an option for Klay Thompson

1766
01:28:18,640 --> 01:28:21,439
Speaker 2: as well. Do you have a spot that you think

1767
01:28:21,560 --> 01:28:24,320
Speaker 2: is a better spot for Klay Thompson, Dallas or the Lakers.

1768
01:28:24,680 --> 01:28:26,920
Speaker 1: I mean, I think that the Lakers is the one

1769
01:28:26,960 --> 01:28:30,800
Speaker 1: that makes sense just from a where he's from and

1770
01:28:30,840 --> 01:28:32,960
Speaker 1: his dad and all that like, in terms of him

1771
01:28:33,000 --> 01:28:35,640
Speaker 1: going to win. I mean, Dallas is ready made to

1772
01:28:35,640 --> 01:28:37,320
Speaker 1: go try and win. Right now, we know that we

1773
01:28:37,439 --> 01:28:39,240
Speaker 1: just saw it. They may have been a bit ahead

1774
01:28:39,240 --> 01:28:43,040
Speaker 1: of schedule, but with a star like Luca and with

1775
01:28:43,200 --> 01:28:46,840
Speaker 1: Kyrie really being a good piece for them and being

1776
01:28:46,880 --> 01:28:50,439
Speaker 1: a star again, you know, you add that to the mix.

1777
01:28:50,520 --> 01:28:53,280
Speaker 1: You add another guy that could make a shot for you.

1778
01:28:54,520 --> 01:28:56,840
Speaker 1: That helps. The only thing is at his age, with

1779
01:28:56,960 --> 01:28:59,960
Speaker 1: his injuries, he has slowed down a lot. His defenses

1780
01:29:00,120 --> 01:29:02,840
Speaker 1: not what it was, So really you have to bring

1781
01:29:02,920 --> 01:29:05,400
Speaker 1: him in knowing what you're getting and what you're not getting,

1782
01:29:05,640 --> 01:29:07,760
Speaker 1: and there are gonna be moments where he is just

1783
01:29:07,880 --> 01:29:11,040
Speaker 1: not firing on all cylinders. And he's certainly he can

1784
01:29:11,120 --> 01:29:13,360
Speaker 1: be kind of streaky at this stage in his career

1785
01:29:13,360 --> 01:29:16,240
Speaker 1: as a shooter too, so you have to factor that in.

1786
01:29:16,840 --> 01:29:20,080
Speaker 1: But presuming that you need him to come in and

1787
01:29:20,200 --> 01:29:23,400
Speaker 1: make shots and go to the free throw out and

1788
01:29:23,439 --> 01:29:27,920
Speaker 1: make free throws, potentially, you know, I like either spot,

1789
01:29:28,040 --> 01:29:32,040
Speaker 1: but I think the better fit Basketball was is probably Dallas.

1790
01:29:32,320 --> 01:29:34,600
Speaker 2: Yeah, I do too, And I get that there is

1791
01:29:34,720 --> 01:29:36,880
Speaker 2: a you know, it's not even a level, it's just

1792
01:29:36,960 --> 01:29:42,679
Speaker 2: it is nostalgia, the idea of you know, him playing

1793
01:29:42,680 --> 01:29:44,880
Speaker 2: with the Lakers because of course his father played there,

1794
01:29:44,920 --> 01:29:46,960
Speaker 2: won championships there. I believe was the number one overall

1795
01:29:46,960 --> 01:29:50,280
Speaker 2: pick with the Lakers, you know, a while back. But

1796
01:29:50,880 --> 01:29:53,040
Speaker 2: I just look at it and I just think, man,

1797
01:29:53,160 --> 01:29:54,720
Speaker 2: you know, and by the way, you know, I'd be

1798
01:29:54,760 --> 01:29:58,439
Speaker 2: curious from Klay Thompson's perspective, is like, this is gonna

1799
01:29:58,439 --> 01:30:02,200
Speaker 2: sound weird, But is it about winning at the highest level?

1800
01:30:02,240 --> 01:30:03,760
Speaker 2: You know, because I think if it's about winning at

1801
01:30:03,760 --> 01:30:05,519
Speaker 2: the highest level, it's hard to argue if the team

1802
01:30:05,520 --> 01:30:08,439
Speaker 2: that was the runner up in the NBA Final, you know,

1803
01:30:08,479 --> 01:30:10,800
Speaker 2: the team that made the NBA Finals and couldn't close

1804
01:30:10,840 --> 01:30:13,280
Speaker 2: the door. And by the way, couldn't close the door

1805
01:30:13,280 --> 01:30:15,519
Speaker 2: in large part because they just didn't have enough offensive pop.

1806
01:30:15,560 --> 01:30:17,960
Speaker 2: I mean, I think it's hard to argue that that's

1807
01:30:18,400 --> 01:30:20,880
Speaker 2: you know, that that's not the better basketball situation. And

1808
01:30:20,920 --> 01:30:25,200
Speaker 2: so what I would be interested in is like, what

1809
01:30:25,200 --> 01:30:27,040
Speaker 2: what does interest him at this point? I mean, obviously

1810
01:30:27,040 --> 01:30:29,920
Speaker 2: he's got familiarity with the Lakers, with with LA. He

1811
01:30:30,000 --> 01:30:31,400
Speaker 2: grew up in the area.

1812
01:30:32,080 --> 01:30:34,000
Speaker 1: And obviously that's why I think that's where it'll be. Yeah,

1813
01:30:34,000 --> 01:30:36,000
Speaker 1: I got That's why that didn't The reason why not

1814
01:30:36,040 --> 01:30:38,439
Speaker 1: to interrupt you is just he doesn't have to go

1815
01:30:38,479 --> 01:30:42,160
Speaker 1: win a championship because he already has multiple ranks like that,

1816
01:30:42,160 --> 01:30:44,200
Speaker 1: that doesn't factor in the same way it does for

1817
01:30:44,240 --> 01:30:48,400
Speaker 1: an aging player that hasn't actually won a championship. The

1818
01:30:48,400 --> 01:30:52,760
Speaker 1: fact that he has had all the success means that

1819
01:30:52,800 --> 01:30:54,760
Speaker 1: he can pick and choose and do things based on

1820
01:30:55,520 --> 01:30:59,559
Speaker 1: potentially a different a different metric. And that's why I

1821
01:30:59,600 --> 01:31:01,960
Speaker 1: think that a lot of the stuff you just laid out,

1822
01:31:01,960 --> 01:31:04,000
Speaker 1: the nostalgia and all that, I think that's why he

1823
01:31:04,080 --> 01:31:06,240
Speaker 1: ultimately ends up in LA because he doesn't need to

1824
01:31:06,280 --> 01:31:09,720
Speaker 1: go gravy train a championship. At this point, where's he

1825
01:31:09,760 --> 01:31:11,439
Speaker 1: going to be happiest, and I find it hard to

1826
01:31:11,479 --> 01:31:13,120
Speaker 1: believe that wouldn't end up being la.

1827
01:31:13,720 --> 01:31:17,840
Speaker 2: Very fair point, very interesting point. I happen to agree that,

1828
01:31:18,000 --> 01:31:19,880
Speaker 2: And that's why I am curious because he's one of

1829
01:31:19,920 --> 01:31:22,000
Speaker 2: the few players. I mean, he's got whatever it is,

1830
01:31:22,120 --> 01:31:25,040
Speaker 2: four rings or whatever it is, and it's like, you know,

1831
01:31:25,080 --> 01:31:26,800
Speaker 2: he doesn't have to go ring chasing, and so I'll

1832
01:31:26,840 --> 01:31:29,760
Speaker 2: be curious to see where he ends up again, Mark

1833
01:31:29,800 --> 01:31:32,960
Speaker 2: Stein reporting earlier in the day that Dallas was the

1834
01:31:33,040 --> 01:31:35,680
Speaker 2: early favorite. But if Lebron James is willing to take

1835
01:31:35,680 --> 01:31:37,880
Speaker 2: a little bit less money, and his agent Rich Paul

1836
01:31:37,920 --> 01:31:40,839
Speaker 2: did say today that he is, then it'll be curious

1837
01:31:40,880 --> 01:31:43,439
Speaker 2: to see where he ends up. Fox Sports Radio Eritords

1838
01:31:43,479 --> 01:31:45,920
Speaker 2: Jason Martin, broadcasting live from the tyreck dot com studios,

1839
01:31:45,960 --> 01:31:48,320
Speaker 2: will come back, maybe talk a little bit of football.

1840
01:31:49,000 --> 01:31:51,559
Speaker 2: Brandon Ayuk. I don't really know what the heck's going

1841
01:31:51,600 --> 01:31:53,679
Speaker 2: on with that guy. We'll try to figure it out together.

1842
01:31:53,920 --> 01:31:58,320
Speaker 2: That's next. Fox Sports Radio. Welcome back, everybody. Fox Sports

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01:32:02,439 --> 01:32:04,439
Speaker 2: dot com studios. We are taking you up till two

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1850
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Speaker 2: get your podcasts, and you'll see this show posted right

1853
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Speaker 2: after we get off air. All right, Jason, We've obviously

1854
01:32:32,439 --> 01:32:34,760
Speaker 2: hit on quite a bit of basketball with the course

1855
01:32:34,800 --> 01:32:38,400
Speaker 2: of the last couple hours. Obviously, between the draft and

1856
01:32:38,800 --> 01:32:43,000
Speaker 2: the free agency period, there is no doubt that basketball,

1857
01:32:43,040 --> 01:32:45,799
Speaker 2: at least for a few more weeks, is the focal

1858
01:32:45,840 --> 01:32:47,439
Speaker 2: point of what we're going to be talking about. But

1859
01:32:47,760 --> 01:32:51,240
Speaker 2: obviously the NFL and football is really you know, it's

1860
01:32:51,280 --> 01:32:55,000
Speaker 2: about to ramp up here very quickly and feels like

1861
01:32:55,040 --> 01:32:58,639
Speaker 2: there's not very much going on except for this brand

1862
01:32:58,920 --> 01:33:02,640
Speaker 2: weird Brandon I You situation. So you know, listen, he's

1863
01:33:02,720 --> 01:33:05,200
Speaker 2: entering the final year of his rookie deal, set to

1864
01:33:05,240 --> 01:33:10,679
Speaker 2: make fourteen million, wants more, and you know, I'll spare

1865
01:33:10,680 --> 01:33:13,040
Speaker 2: everybody the details, but I mean, there's been all sorts

1866
01:33:13,080 --> 01:33:15,240
Speaker 2: of stuff over the last couple weeks. I mean, he's

1867
01:33:15,720 --> 01:33:18,480
Speaker 2: spent some time with Jaden Daniels from the Washington Commanders,

1868
01:33:18,479 --> 01:33:21,599
Speaker 2: that's his former teammate back back in their Arizona days.

1869
01:33:22,760 --> 01:33:25,839
Speaker 2: He told Jaden Daniels on a post in social media,

1870
01:33:25,920 --> 01:33:29,120
Speaker 2: they don't want me back. Blah blah blah blah blah.

1871
01:33:29,240 --> 01:33:31,320
Speaker 2: What do you make of this situation? I'll just be quick,

1872
01:33:31,439 --> 01:33:33,120
Speaker 2: is that, you know, I look at the forty nine

1873
01:33:33,240 --> 01:33:36,720
Speaker 2: ers and listen, you know, older team, veteran team, just

1874
01:33:36,760 --> 01:33:38,519
Speaker 2: feels like they got a lot of dudes to pay,

1875
01:33:39,240 --> 01:33:41,839
Speaker 2: and or a lot of dudes that have been paid.

1876
01:33:42,400 --> 01:33:44,320
Speaker 2: And I just think Brandon Ayukx in a tough situation

1877
01:33:44,360 --> 01:33:47,080
Speaker 2: where he's very productive obviously seventy three catches last year,

1878
01:33:47,520 --> 01:33:50,240
Speaker 2: thirteen hundred yards receiving, but just feels like he's in

1879
01:33:50,280 --> 01:33:52,200
Speaker 2: the back of the line right now and I don't

1880
01:33:52,200 --> 01:33:53,800
Speaker 2: really know how much there is he can really do

1881
01:33:53,840 --> 01:33:54,280
Speaker 2: about it.

1882
01:33:54,479 --> 01:33:56,920
Speaker 1: Well, he doesn't have the leverage right now and he's

1883
01:33:56,920 --> 01:33:59,679
Speaker 1: trying to generate it. Really good piece of the athletic

1884
01:33:59,720 --> 01:34:03,960
Speaker 1: from Randy Mueller, who of course executive for a long time,

1885
01:34:04,040 --> 01:34:07,280
Speaker 1: does a football on GM podcast now and he breaks

1886
01:34:07,280 --> 01:34:09,479
Speaker 1: this thing down better than you're going to see it

1887
01:34:09,479 --> 01:34:11,680
Speaker 1: in most places, because he's honest, even about how the

1888
01:34:11,720 --> 01:34:14,120
Speaker 1: media tries to create a narrative that the media is

1889
01:34:14,160 --> 01:34:18,960
Speaker 1: out for itself in a lot of these cases. One

1890
01:34:18,960 --> 01:34:20,800
Speaker 1: of the things he says, I'll just quote it. He says,

1891
01:34:20,840 --> 01:34:23,080
Speaker 1: be careful how you interpret what is said publicly. That

1892
01:34:23,120 --> 01:34:26,240
Speaker 1: includes by the way Ayuk and Jayden Daniels and they

1893
01:34:26,320 --> 01:34:28,880
Speaker 1: said they don't want me back thing. He says, knows

1894
01:34:28,920 --> 01:34:31,920
Speaker 1: what he's doing. Many in the media also have an agenda,

1895
01:34:31,960 --> 01:34:35,840
Speaker 1: seeking to create suspense or injury. Some have said Sam

1896
01:34:35,880 --> 01:34:38,719
Speaker 1: Fran has watched the negotiation, while others argue the Niners

1897
01:34:38,720 --> 01:34:40,680
Speaker 1: will have to release other players to make room for

1898
01:34:40,720 --> 01:34:43,400
Speaker 1: this contract. And then he goes into that and he

1899
01:34:43,439 --> 01:34:45,559
Speaker 1: talks about how productive Iyuk has been and how he

1900
01:34:45,600 --> 01:34:49,559
Speaker 1: compares pretty favorably to Justin Jefferson, more so than Ceedee

1901
01:34:49,600 --> 01:34:51,680
Speaker 1: Lamb and Jamar Chasey, the other two guys that are

1902
01:34:51,720 --> 01:34:55,320
Speaker 1: set to get paid big time money. And he actually

1903
01:34:55,400 --> 01:34:58,880
Speaker 1: mentions that behind closed doors in the NFL, it's the

1904
01:34:58,920 --> 01:35:02,200
Speaker 1: Aman Ross Saint Round contract that has sort of raised

1905
01:35:02,200 --> 01:35:06,600
Speaker 1: eyebrows and upset people behind the scenes, and that that

1906
01:35:06,800 --> 01:35:11,360
Speaker 1: right there that basically getting paid he will send a

1907
01:35:11,360 --> 01:35:16,040
Speaker 1: gift basket to Aman Ross Saint Brown. But I think

1908
01:35:16,080 --> 01:35:20,160
Speaker 1: it is intriguing in that the Niners are a team

1909
01:35:20,200 --> 01:35:23,200
Speaker 1: that runs the ball with McCaffrey and could throw it

1910
01:35:23,240 --> 01:35:29,320
Speaker 1: to McCaffrey. They have George Kittle, they have Deebo, even

1911
01:35:29,360 --> 01:35:32,880
Speaker 1: though it sounds like maybe it's Ayuk that stays and

1912
01:35:32,920 --> 01:35:35,439
Speaker 1: Deebo is the one that gets moved in this case.

1913
01:35:35,880 --> 01:35:38,160
Speaker 1: They just paid Juwan Jennings. They didn't pay him big money,

1914
01:35:38,200 --> 01:35:40,439
Speaker 1: but they paid him decent money and he's a really

1915
01:35:40,520 --> 01:35:43,160
Speaker 1: productive guy and a hard worker that you want on

1916
01:35:43,200 --> 01:35:47,439
Speaker 1: your team. I think that Ayuk could be a bigger

1917
01:35:47,640 --> 01:35:52,760
Speaker 1: star somewhere else because he does have wide receiver one ability,

1918
01:35:52,880 --> 01:35:55,040
Speaker 1: but they don't usually use him that way. Even though

1919
01:35:55,080 --> 01:35:57,120
Speaker 1: as you said, I mean he had seventy five catches

1920
01:35:57,160 --> 01:35:59,400
Speaker 1: on one hundred and three targets or whatever it was.

1921
01:36:00,840 --> 01:36:02,920
Speaker 1: I find it really interesting looking at the whole thing,

1922
01:36:03,000 --> 01:36:05,920
Speaker 1: because you hadn't been talked about very much like when

1923
01:36:05,960 --> 01:36:08,840
Speaker 1: you talk about great players, like some of the guys

1924
01:36:08,880 --> 01:36:11,439
Speaker 1: that have been paid Tyreek and aj Brown and Jaylen

1925
01:36:11,479 --> 01:36:15,839
Speaker 1: Waddle and Justin Jefferson, and we mentioned Chase and Lamb.

1926
01:36:16,080 --> 01:36:18,400
Speaker 1: It's not like Ayyuk's been talked about in that list

1927
01:36:18,920 --> 01:36:21,680
Speaker 1: ever before, but now he's kind of out here. But

1928
01:36:21,760 --> 01:36:24,080
Speaker 1: it does seem like and Mueller lays this out, and

1929
01:36:24,080 --> 01:36:27,080
Speaker 1: again I would definitely encourage if you have a subscription

1930
01:36:27,120 --> 01:36:31,439
Speaker 1: of The Athletics read this article. The Niners are in

1931
01:36:31,479 --> 01:36:33,759
Speaker 1: no hurry to pay him because they don't have to be,

1932
01:36:33,760 --> 01:36:36,360
Speaker 1: because they have the leverage here. They're a team that

1933
01:36:36,680 --> 01:36:39,120
Speaker 1: a lot of times doesn't pay until the last minute,

1934
01:36:39,600 --> 01:36:41,880
Speaker 1: and they could make him play under this next year

1935
01:36:41,920 --> 01:36:44,360
Speaker 1: and then franchise in a year after that. And he's

1936
01:36:44,400 --> 01:36:47,080
Speaker 1: not in a position because of the way the bargaining

1937
01:36:47,080 --> 01:36:49,880
Speaker 1: agreement is set to kind of hold out in the

1938
01:36:49,880 --> 01:36:52,920
Speaker 1: way that some guys have, So he may be stuck,

1939
01:36:53,000 --> 01:36:55,280
Speaker 1: he may be playing for what he doesn't want to

1940
01:36:55,280 --> 01:36:58,799
Speaker 1: play for, or become a malcatent and potentially let rookies

1941
01:36:58,880 --> 01:37:02,040
Speaker 1: or younger players come in and make it so he

1942
01:37:02,040 --> 01:37:04,559
Speaker 1: doesn't have as much value a year from now. So

1943
01:37:04,760 --> 01:37:07,640
Speaker 1: I just think that right now that neither team is

1944
01:37:07,680 --> 01:37:10,439
Speaker 1: at a spot where or neither side meaning I uke

1945
01:37:10,479 --> 01:37:13,360
Speaker 1: in his side, and the team they're not in a

1946
01:37:13,400 --> 01:37:16,200
Speaker 1: place of one of them has something to lose, And

1947
01:37:16,240 --> 01:37:18,679
Speaker 1: that's one of the things that Mueller points out right

1948
01:37:18,760 --> 01:37:20,920
Speaker 1: out of the start. He says, teams tend to hunker

1949
01:37:20,960 --> 01:37:23,200
Speaker 1: down on their position based on facts that might make

1950
01:37:23,280 --> 01:37:26,720
Speaker 1: sense only to them. A player and his representation will

1951
01:37:26,760 --> 01:37:29,120
Speaker 1: almost always make their case based on a different set

1952
01:37:29,160 --> 01:37:31,400
Speaker 1: of facts. And when timing in this case is not

1953
01:37:31,600 --> 01:37:33,479
Speaker 1: is not of the essence. It's easy to ask for

1954
01:37:33,520 --> 01:37:37,000
Speaker 1: the moon until one side has something to lose. Demands

1955
01:37:37,000 --> 01:37:39,639
Speaker 1: can be wide ranging or easily dismissed. We're still any

1956
01:37:39,840 --> 01:37:42,840
Speaker 1: still in June. There's plenty of time here. Nobody is

1957
01:37:42,840 --> 01:37:45,439
Speaker 1: in a rush. You wants to go ahead and try

1958
01:37:45,479 --> 01:37:47,400
Speaker 1: to get this done as fast as possible. I get that,

1959
01:37:47,520 --> 01:37:49,800
Speaker 1: but I also think San Francisco is just going to

1960
01:37:49,880 --> 01:37:50,760
Speaker 1: kind of wait this out.

1961
01:37:51,040 --> 01:37:54,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, And that's kind of my thought as well. As

1962
01:37:54,160 --> 01:37:58,960
Speaker 2: I understand that, you know, listen, we're you know, National Network,

1963
01:37:59,040 --> 01:38:01,519
Speaker 2: and you know, the NFL pays the bills in many ways,

1964
01:38:02,360 --> 01:38:05,160
Speaker 2: I just don't find it that interesting because I don't like,

1965
01:38:05,520 --> 01:38:07,719
Speaker 2: it just feels to me like this is a big

1966
01:38:07,800 --> 01:38:11,920
Speaker 2: story because one, there's nothing else really going on, but two, like, yeah,

1967
01:38:12,120 --> 01:38:14,519
Speaker 2: I mean, I know, statistically Brandon Ayuk was you know,

1968
01:38:14,560 --> 01:38:17,880
Speaker 2: statistically awesome and everything last year, but like, I don't know.

1969
01:38:17,960 --> 01:38:20,439
Speaker 2: I look at the forty nine Ers and and it's

1970
01:38:20,479 --> 01:38:25,000
Speaker 2: it's the offense runs through Christian McCaffrey, and you know,

1971
01:38:25,120 --> 01:38:28,120
Speaker 2: you look at the rest of the roster. Obviously Nick

1972
01:38:28,160 --> 01:38:30,519
Speaker 2: Bosa got paid, Obviously, Trent Williams is a future Hall

1973
01:38:30,560 --> 01:38:33,679
Speaker 2: of Famer. Obviously, George Kittle's a future Hall of Famer.

1974
01:38:33,720 --> 01:38:37,439
Speaker 2: And so like it just feels like, like you said,

1975
01:38:37,600 --> 01:38:40,080
Speaker 2: kind of it's a it's an unfortunate situation for Brandon

1976
01:38:40,120 --> 01:38:42,480
Speaker 2: ayuk Is. It just doesn't seem like it's a priority

1977
01:38:42,760 --> 01:38:44,360
Speaker 2: and what I would be interested in. And I think

1978
01:38:44,400 --> 01:38:47,240
Speaker 2: this is where it gets kind of interesting, is you know,

1979
01:38:47,280 --> 01:38:50,040
Speaker 2: if he does throw too much of a fit. The

1980
01:38:50,080 --> 01:38:52,120
Speaker 2: forty nine Ers did draft a wide receiver in the

1981
01:38:52,160 --> 01:38:55,519
Speaker 2: first round in Ricky Piersoll. And it's it's not as

1982
01:38:55,600 --> 01:38:59,800
Speaker 2: though Kyle Shanahan in the past hasn't you know, found

1983
01:38:59,800 --> 01:39:02,080
Speaker 2: creation of ways to get to get his guys involved.

1984
01:39:02,120 --> 01:39:05,240
Speaker 2: And so I'm not saying he's not replaceable, or I'm

1985
01:39:05,280 --> 01:39:09,240
Speaker 2: not saying he's not very valuable, I should say, but

1986
01:39:09,320 --> 01:39:11,920
Speaker 2: it just feels like one of those where again it

1987
01:39:11,960 --> 01:39:13,439
Speaker 2: feels like it's a little bit of a bigger deal

1988
01:39:13,439 --> 01:39:16,000
Speaker 2: because there isn't a ton going on, but it also

1989
01:39:16,080 --> 01:39:18,040
Speaker 2: just feels like a fine line where, like you said,

1990
01:39:18,120 --> 01:39:20,920
Speaker 2: nobody really has anything to lose right now. But I

1991
01:39:20,960 --> 01:39:24,160
Speaker 2: would put the you know, the Venn diagram of who

1992
01:39:24,280 --> 01:39:28,280
Speaker 2: has more to lose the longer this goes on more

1993
01:39:28,280 --> 01:39:30,400
Speaker 2: with Brandon Ayuk. It's not that he's not a good player,

1994
01:39:30,439 --> 01:39:33,320
Speaker 2: but it's that, you know, the offense runs through Christian McCaffrey.

1995
01:39:33,320 --> 01:39:39,200
Speaker 2: As I said, you know, Kyle Shanahan has always seemed

1996
01:39:39,200 --> 01:39:42,160
Speaker 2: to find guys to kind of plug and play in

1997
01:39:42,160 --> 01:39:44,360
Speaker 2: that system. And it's not to say Brandon and Ayuk

1998
01:39:44,400 --> 01:39:47,200
Speaker 2: won't get paid somewhere right I just don't know that

1999
01:39:47,240 --> 01:39:49,880
Speaker 2: it's necessarily going to ultimately be in San fran if

2000
01:39:50,120 --> 01:39:51,480
Speaker 2: you know, if there's not some negotiation.

2001
01:39:51,840 --> 01:39:54,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I think that that's part of it.

2002
01:39:54,200 --> 01:39:57,160
Speaker 1: I also think one thing that we are saying, like

2003
01:39:57,400 --> 01:40:00,800
Speaker 1: wider receivers are getting paid big time money, and it

2004
01:40:00,920 --> 01:40:03,560
Speaker 1: makes sense and we all saw it coming. But what

2005
01:40:03,640 --> 01:40:05,439
Speaker 1: we're also seeing is a lot of guys coming out

2006
01:40:05,439 --> 01:40:07,960
Speaker 1: of college that can play YEP and they can play

2007
01:40:08,000 --> 01:40:10,719
Speaker 1: the receiver position, and that's only going to get bigger

2008
01:40:11,160 --> 01:40:14,880
Speaker 1: as they as kids are watching wide receivers get paid

2009
01:40:14,880 --> 01:40:16,519
Speaker 1: this kind of money, more of them are going to

2010
01:40:16,560 --> 01:40:18,360
Speaker 1: want to be wide receivers. So there's going to be

2011
01:40:18,400 --> 01:40:21,639
Speaker 1: a bigger depth at that position coming out of college

2012
01:40:21,680 --> 01:40:24,280
Speaker 1: because more guys are going to be trying to make

2013
01:40:24,280 --> 01:40:26,840
Speaker 1: their hey that way as opposed to trying to be

2014
01:40:26,920 --> 01:40:30,680
Speaker 1: running backs, for example, because things have shifted. So I

2015
01:40:30,680 --> 01:40:32,400
Speaker 1: think the word you use as one that I've been

2016
01:40:32,439 --> 01:40:35,120
Speaker 1: thinking about for the last couple of hours as I've

2017
01:40:35,160 --> 01:40:38,720
Speaker 1: been looking into this story more and more is I

2018
01:40:38,760 --> 01:40:42,640
Speaker 1: think he's really good, but is he irreplaceable? And I

2019
01:40:42,640 --> 01:40:46,559
Speaker 1: think that becomes sort of the storyline and maybe just

2020
01:40:47,280 --> 01:40:49,479
Speaker 1: that's what you're going to be talking about around the

2021
01:40:49,479 --> 01:40:52,599
Speaker 1: negotiating table. It gets ugly behind closed doors. We don't

2022
01:40:52,600 --> 01:40:57,240
Speaker 1: generally hear about it. But is Brandon Iyuke irreplaceable? Are

2023
01:40:57,280 --> 01:40:59,000
Speaker 1: a lot of the guys that are getting paid big

2024
01:40:59,000 --> 01:41:01,120
Speaker 1: money are going to be ask king for big money?

2025
01:41:01,160 --> 01:41:05,439
Speaker 1: Are they irreplaceable? You has not been talked about like

2026
01:41:05,479 --> 01:41:08,880
Speaker 1: he's an irreplaceable player. Now we're hearing about it. I

2027
01:41:08,920 --> 01:41:10,920
Speaker 1: think you're right. Some of that is because there's not

2028
01:41:10,960 --> 01:41:14,400
Speaker 1: any other news and IUK has forced his way, you know,

2029
01:41:14,479 --> 01:41:17,920
Speaker 1: to the front of the line here in June. But

2030
01:41:19,760 --> 01:41:23,919
Speaker 1: I don't think what he does can't be necessarily found elsewhere,

2031
01:41:24,040 --> 01:41:26,320
Speaker 1: or at least I don't think that's not something they

2032
01:41:26,360 --> 01:41:28,880
Speaker 1: will push if they have to, because they're not going

2033
01:41:28,920 --> 01:41:30,840
Speaker 1: to pay a cent more than they absolutely have to.

2034
01:41:31,720 --> 01:41:34,240
Speaker 2: Don't disagree. And as you said, it's not as though,

2035
01:41:35,720 --> 01:41:38,479
Speaker 2: you know, it feels urgent now because again, I just

2036
01:41:38,479 --> 01:41:40,960
Speaker 2: don't think there's much going on. But as you said,

2037
01:41:41,000 --> 01:41:43,360
Speaker 2: you know, play out this season could franchise tag him

2038
01:41:43,360 --> 01:41:45,400
Speaker 2: in the future, and so there's the possibility that this

2039
01:41:45,479 --> 01:41:48,599
Speaker 2: doesn't get resolved anytime soon. Fox Sports Radio Erra towards

2040
01:41:48,640 --> 01:41:50,880
Speaker 2: Jason Martin, broadcasting live from the tyreq dot Com too

2041
01:41:50,920 --> 01:41:53,080
Speaker 2: is we'll come back and Jason, I think for the

2042
01:41:53,120 --> 01:41:57,519
Speaker 2: first time ever, we have ourselves a college baseball topic

2043
01:41:57,600 --> 01:42:00,880
Speaker 2: that I want your opinion on. Yeah, that's right, baby,

2044
01:42:01,160 --> 01:42:04,000
Speaker 2: we'll be talking about that next but first final time

2045
01:42:04,040 --> 01:42:07,360
Speaker 2: with us this evening, Steve de Seger, what is trending? Everything?

2046
01:42:07,360 --> 01:42:09,920
Speaker 5: Final in Major League Baseball? As the Angels won their

2047
01:42:10,000 --> 01:42:12,280
Speaker 5: six in a row a ten inning went over Detroit

2048
01:42:12,360 --> 01:42:15,759
Speaker 5: six to five. Earlier, Texas lost at six straight games

2049
01:42:15,800 --> 01:42:18,439
Speaker 5: six ' five at Baltimore, and Corey Seeger of the

2050
01:42:18,520 --> 01:42:21,200
Speaker 5: Rangers left early hit by a pitch on the left wrist.

2051
01:42:21,439 --> 01:42:24,479
Speaker 5: Initial X rays were negative, although the wrist is swollen.

2052
01:42:24,760 --> 01:42:28,320
Speaker 5: The Dodgers in eleven innings won fourteen to seven at

2053
01:42:28,360 --> 01:42:31,080
Speaker 5: San Francisco as the Giants left fifteen men on base.

2054
01:42:31,280 --> 01:42:34,320
Speaker 5: Shohe Otani with his twenty sixth home run, Will Smith

2055
01:42:34,360 --> 01:42:37,599
Speaker 5: three hits, three RBIs. Today in ten innings at Atlanta

2056
01:42:37,640 --> 01:42:40,240
Speaker 5: Braves two to one over Pittsburgh, the Pirates offense with

2057
01:42:40,320 --> 01:42:44,040
Speaker 5: runners in scoring position went zero for ten. Houston beat

2058
01:42:44,040 --> 01:42:46,160
Speaker 5: the Mets in New York nine to six. Mets had

2059
01:42:46,200 --> 01:42:48,680
Speaker 5: won four straight, but Houston got three runs in the eighth,

2060
01:42:48,760 --> 01:42:51,160
Speaker 5: two in the top of the ninth. Arizona and pitcher

2061
01:42:51,280 --> 01:42:54,720
Speaker 5: Zach Gallon beat Oakland three to nothing. The A's just

2062
01:42:54,800 --> 01:42:57,920
Speaker 5: two hits, two for twenty eight at the plate. Washington

2063
01:42:58,000 --> 01:43:00,559
Speaker 5: won eight one at Tampa Bay Rays offense two hits,

2064
01:43:00,560 --> 01:43:03,400
Speaker 5: two for twenty eight. The late game tonight at Seattle

2065
01:43:03,439 --> 01:43:05,760
Speaker 5: went to Minnesota five to one over the Mariners, winning

2066
01:43:05,800 --> 01:43:08,960
Speaker 5: pitcher Pablo Lopez with nine strikeouts in six innings of

2067
01:43:09,000 --> 01:43:11,679
Speaker 5: work on FS one today, the Cubs got an eend

2068
01:43:11,680 --> 01:43:13,920
Speaker 5: Halp two run homer top of the eighth and won

2069
01:43:13,960 --> 01:43:16,839
Speaker 5: five to three at Milwaukee. Cub starter and Justin Steele

2070
01:43:16,880 --> 01:43:18,800
Speaker 5: had another good outing, but he's zero and three on

2071
01:43:18,840 --> 01:43:22,120
Speaker 5: the season. No decision for his six innings of work. Today,

2072
01:43:22,400 --> 01:43:25,400
Speaker 5: Cleveland wins again seven to two at Kansas City. Tan

2073
01:43:25,479 --> 01:43:28,360
Speaker 5: or byby seven and two got the win. Jose Ramirez

2074
01:43:28,400 --> 01:43:32,519
Speaker 5: is twenty third homer Guardians record fifty two and twenty nine.

2075
01:43:32,720 --> 01:43:34,720
Speaker 5: The Padres won their fifth in a row. They won

2076
01:43:34,800 --> 01:43:37,200
Speaker 5: nine of their last ten. After a victory at Boston

2077
01:43:37,240 --> 01:43:41,160
Speaker 5: eleven to one. Manny Machado two homers, five RBIs at Toronto,

2078
01:43:41,240 --> 01:43:44,840
Speaker 5: Vladimir Guerrero Junior a home run six RBIs, Blue Jays

2079
01:43:44,840 --> 01:43:47,800
Speaker 5: beat the Yankees nine to three. Juan Soto did not

2080
01:43:47,920 --> 01:43:50,599
Speaker 5: play for New York due to a bruised hand. Miami

2081
01:43:50,640 --> 01:43:54,120
Speaker 5: won three two at Philadelphia, beating starting pitcher Aaron Nola,

2082
01:43:54,200 --> 01:43:56,800
Speaker 5: who had been nine and three and he had nine

2083
01:43:56,800 --> 01:44:00,280
Speaker 5: strikeouts today in six and two thirds. Cincinnati one nine

2084
01:44:00,320 --> 01:44:03,320
Speaker 5: to four at Saint Louis, defeating starter Sonny Gray. Eli

2085
01:44:03,439 --> 01:44:06,439
Speaker 5: Da Cruz of the Reds with his fortieth stolen base

2086
01:44:06,520 --> 01:44:09,120
Speaker 5: of the season, and the White Sox sent Colorado to

2087
01:44:09,120 --> 01:44:12,240
Speaker 5: a fifth straight loss eleven to three White Sox with

2088
01:44:12,320 --> 01:44:15,960
Speaker 5: four homers. Rockies had only four hits. The Clippers Paul

2089
01:44:16,000 --> 01:44:18,639
Speaker 5: George opted out of his contract. He'll be a free agent.

2090
01:44:18,760 --> 01:44:22,679
Speaker 5: The NBA free agency negotiating window open Sunday six pm

2091
01:44:22,760 --> 01:44:27,000
Speaker 5: Eastern Time. Just two WNBA games, three more tomorrow. Today

2092
01:44:27,080 --> 01:44:30,400
Speaker 5: Las Vegas wanted Washington eighty eight seventy seven. Even though

2093
01:44:30,479 --> 01:44:32,840
Speaker 5: Kelsey Plumb was one of eight shooting from the floor,

2094
01:44:32,960 --> 01:44:36,240
Speaker 5: she did have eight assists. Washington now four and fifteen,

2095
01:44:36,720 --> 01:44:40,320
Speaker 5: Dallas four and fourteen. After losing at Seattle tonight ninety

2096
01:44:40,360 --> 01:44:43,879
Speaker 5: seven seventy six, Jewel Lloyd thirty points. At the Euros

2097
01:44:43,920 --> 01:44:48,200
Speaker 5: Today in the round of sixteen, Switzerland dominated Italy to nothing.

2098
01:44:48,240 --> 01:44:51,879
Speaker 5: The Italians are out, and then host Germany defeated Denmark

2099
01:44:51,880 --> 01:44:54,080
Speaker 5: to nothing with two second half goals. There was about

2100
01:44:54,080 --> 01:44:56,519
Speaker 5: a twenty five minute weather delay late first half in

2101
01:44:56,560 --> 01:44:59,000
Speaker 5: that one, lightning, heavy rain and hail.

2102
01:44:59,320 --> 01:44:59,960
Speaker 2: Fox TV.

2103
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:03,320
Speaker 5: We will add both of Sunday's games, England against Slovakia

2104
01:45:03,400 --> 01:45:06,680
Speaker 5: noon Eastern time. That Winter faces the Swiss and the quarterfinals,

2105
01:45:07,040 --> 01:45:10,600
Speaker 5: then Spain versus Georgia tomorrow. The Republic of that is

2106
01:45:10,720 --> 01:45:15,120
Speaker 5: winner hosts against host Germany next. As for the Americans

2107
01:45:15,160 --> 01:45:19,040
Speaker 5: in Copa America. US plays Monday night and will likely

2108
01:45:19,080 --> 01:45:22,599
Speaker 5: need to beat, not tie, first place Uruguay to advance.

2109
01:45:22,640 --> 01:45:26,040
Speaker 5: That'll be Monday night on FS one. Tonight in Miami,

2110
01:45:26,080 --> 01:45:29,519
Speaker 5: sixty five thousand fans on hand, Argentina won again two

2111
01:45:29,600 --> 01:45:32,880
Speaker 5: nothing over Peru. Chile is out of the tournament, eliminated

2112
01:45:32,920 --> 01:45:36,960
Speaker 5: after a zero zero tie against Canada in Orlando. Mexico

2113
01:45:37,040 --> 01:45:40,920
Speaker 5: plays Sunday night on Fox TV. The NASCAR's Infinity Race

2114
01:45:40,960 --> 01:45:43,160
Speaker 5: went to John Hunter Nimachek in Nashville.

2115
01:45:43,200 --> 01:45:46,400
Speaker 2: Back to you, thank you very much, Steve Disager, have

2116
01:45:46,479 --> 01:45:49,559
Speaker 2: a great evening. To Sager, I'll be back with you tomorrow.

2117
01:45:49,640 --> 01:45:54,120
Speaker 2: I'm with Willard again. So yeah, before Arnie, before Arnie

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Speaker 2: and Plank. By the way, uh Disager, before you leave,

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Speaker 2: I told j Martin about our uh the Willard said

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Speaker 2: in passing the IF I was sports Commissioner segment. So Jamar,

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01:46:07,560 --> 01:46:09,479
Speaker 2: I think we're gonna do that next week, is if IF?

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Speaker 2: Because it started with Willard. It was after the Travelers

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01:46:13,320 --> 01:46:17,439
Speaker 2: Championship and Willard was like, look, tournament was great. You know,

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01:46:17,560 --> 01:46:20,920
Speaker 2: fans rushed the green. He goes, but I watch golf.

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01:46:20,920 --> 01:46:24,760
Speaker 2: He's like, can we please stop calling Saturday Moving Day

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01:46:25,080 --> 01:46:26,599
Speaker 2: and he just got he went on a rant about

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01:46:26,600 --> 01:46:28,599
Speaker 2: how much he hated He's like when I'm sports commissioner,

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01:46:28,600 --> 01:46:31,280
Speaker 2: blah blah blah. And Di Seger said, I think it'd

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Speaker 2: be a great It's like the segment that's Biorn for July. Yes,

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01:46:35,280 --> 01:46:38,080
Speaker 2: I was gonna say, so, oh yeah, so back of

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01:46:38,160 --> 01:46:40,760
Speaker 2: your head, think of some and you know, we can

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01:46:40,800 --> 01:46:41,360
Speaker 2: have some fun.

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Speaker 5: And my addition was that NASCAR needs to stop calling

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01:46:44,280 --> 01:46:48,280
Speaker 5: the Daytona five hundred their super Bowl because the super Bowl,

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01:46:48,360 --> 01:46:50,280
Speaker 5: you know, it's not the first race of the year.

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01:46:50,720 --> 01:46:54,880
Speaker 5: It's it decides the championship. That's what the super Bowl is.

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01:46:55,680 --> 01:46:59,600
Speaker 2: That's true. Yeah, and I just I just declared that

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01:46:59,640 --> 01:47:03,639
Speaker 2: we don't need the redraft article. So like like right

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01:47:03,680 --> 01:47:06,800
Speaker 2: before the NBA Draft, it's like, yeah, you know, twenty

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01:47:06,840 --> 01:47:09,639
Speaker 2: twenty four draft is this weekend. Let's redraft a twenty

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Speaker 2: eleven draft.

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Speaker 5: And let me tell you, those Timberwolves needed a point

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01:47:13,120 --> 01:47:16,320
Speaker 5: guard and they didn't take Yeah, if Steph Curry had

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01:47:16,320 --> 01:47:17,080
Speaker 5: been a nick, let me.

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01:47:17,240 --> 01:47:19,439
Speaker 2: It's like, but Steph Curry wasn't a nick, so we

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01:47:19,479 --> 01:47:22,040
Speaker 2: don't have to talk. It doesn't it's so stupid. So Anyway,

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01:47:22,040 --> 01:47:24,240
Speaker 2: we'll do that next week. Maybe Shay, you could start

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01:47:24,240 --> 01:47:26,360
Speaker 2: thinking some stuff too. Yeah, Shay's working hard.

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Speaker 5: Say, if you are a commissioner of sports that is

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Speaker 5: all sports, yes you can just give an edict.

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Speaker 2: Yes, And so we will do that next week. To Segur,

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01:47:34,400 --> 01:47:37,879
Speaker 2: thank you. I will see you tomorrow with Mark Willard

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01:47:37,880 --> 01:47:42,839
Speaker 2: really quick, Jason. So this story was kind of crazy.

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01:47:42,880 --> 01:47:45,479
Speaker 2: And I'll tell you. You know, you and I both love

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01:47:45,560 --> 01:47:49,760
Speaker 2: college sports. And again I say this is you just

2156
01:47:49,880 --> 01:47:54,320
Speaker 2: never know when something's gonna become a thing. And this

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01:47:54,920 --> 01:47:57,960
Speaker 2: Texas A and M baseball story, it blew me away

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01:47:58,080 --> 01:48:00,519
Speaker 2: how big it got. But I'll be very quick because

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01:48:00,520 --> 01:48:02,639
Speaker 2: I think most people know the story. By now, Texas

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01:48:02,680 --> 01:48:05,599
Speaker 2: A and N plays Tennessee for the national championship. It's

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Speaker 2: a three game series. Championship is Monday night. Tennessee beats

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01:48:09,680 --> 01:48:12,200
Speaker 2: Texas A and M by a single run, so the

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01:48:12,360 --> 01:48:16,320
Speaker 2: entire championship was decided by one run the day of

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01:48:16,439 --> 01:48:20,280
Speaker 2: that third game. The University of Texas the college base

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Speaker 2: their baseball program. The job opens. And not to bore people,

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01:48:23,280 --> 01:48:26,439
Speaker 2: but Texas baseball is kind of like Ohio State football.

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01:48:26,479 --> 01:48:28,679
Speaker 2: It's kind of deemed like basically maybe the best job,

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Speaker 2: you know, one of the top two or three whatever.

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01:48:31,560 --> 01:48:33,200
Speaker 2: So I bring it up because there's kind of like

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01:48:33,200 --> 01:48:35,800
Speaker 2: this passing rumor of, oh, maybe they can hire Texas

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01:48:35,840 --> 01:48:37,479
Speaker 2: A and M's coach, he's doing pretty well this year.

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01:48:37,520 --> 01:48:37,840
Speaker 1: Whatever.

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01:48:38,640 --> 01:48:42,639
Speaker 2: Well, literally a day later after the championship, Jim SLOs Nagle,

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Speaker 2: that's the guy's name, head coach Texas A and M

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01:48:45,720 --> 01:48:49,040
Speaker 2: takes the Texas job. And I'll tell you, you know, Jason,

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01:48:49,400 --> 01:48:54,040
Speaker 2: I knew. I thought it was kind of a niche thing.

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Speaker 2: This became a national talking point. I saw Chris mad

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01:48:57,840 --> 01:48:59,920
Speaker 2: Dog Russo talking about it on First Take, I saw

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01:49:00,320 --> 01:49:03,240
Speaker 2: Dan bayer Manzi Blanio was talking about it on our

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01:49:03,320 --> 01:49:07,360
Speaker 2: airwaves on Tuesday or Wednesday. I was sort of surprised

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01:49:07,360 --> 01:49:09,120
Speaker 2: by how big this story got. But at the end

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01:49:09,160 --> 01:49:12,080
Speaker 2: of the day, it wasn't just it wasn't just a

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01:49:12,160 --> 01:49:16,640
Speaker 2: coach leaving for their biggest rival a day after the

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Speaker 2: national championship. He also kind of belittled the media that

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01:49:20,680 --> 01:49:23,639
Speaker 2: had the audacity to ask him about it. And I'll

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01:49:23,680 --> 01:49:25,840
Speaker 2: tell you it just seemed to really strike a chord

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01:49:25,880 --> 01:49:29,400
Speaker 2: with college sports fans everywhere of like just rubbed a

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01:49:29,439 --> 01:49:31,160
Speaker 2: lot of people the wrong way. It felt like.

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Speaker 1: Jason Well and then you also had the reporter asked

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01:49:33,680 --> 01:49:39,280
Speaker 1: a question YEP, and Schlasnagel you know, snapped him off

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01:49:39,320 --> 01:49:42,160
Speaker 1: basically and was upset and oh, this is so disrespectful

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01:49:42,160 --> 01:49:44,840
Speaker 1: and all this I'm not even thinking about other jobs.

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01:49:44,840 --> 01:49:46,919
Speaker 1: In less than twenty four hours, he goes to Texas

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01:49:47,520 --> 01:49:51,639
Speaker 1: and then he ends up apologizing, and it did become

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01:49:51,680 --> 01:49:55,200
Speaker 1: a big deal and probably a bigger deal than it

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01:49:55,240 --> 01:49:58,360
Speaker 1: should have, except that Schlosnagel kind of made it worse

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Speaker 1: based on what he did. Did I don't I mean,

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Speaker 1: I just kind of shake here. I mean, at this

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Speaker 1: point in time, nothing would surprise me him ended up

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01:50:06,280 --> 01:50:09,360
Speaker 1: going to Texas and get paid big money. The am

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Speaker 1: M story was good. I mean, they got to the

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Speaker 1: College World Series final, and I don't think it was

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01:50:13,479 --> 01:50:15,160
Speaker 1: a one run game in the end. It was, but

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01:50:15,479 --> 01:50:17,679
Speaker 1: I mean they did a lot in that last half inning,

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01:50:17,760 --> 01:50:20,880
Speaker 1: but you know, they had their their best player went down,

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01:50:20,920 --> 01:50:23,760
Speaker 1: they lost their second starter, they weren't full strength. I

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01:50:23,800 --> 01:50:28,200
Speaker 1: think even apologized to their fans going into the actual

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01:50:28,240 --> 01:50:30,360
Speaker 1: College World Series and saying I'm sorry, we're not one

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Speaker 1: hundred percent, which was an interesting, interesting place to be

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01:50:34,840 --> 01:50:38,960
Speaker 1: but I don't know. I think it's I think the

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01:50:38,960 --> 01:50:40,960
Speaker 1: big you said that, you know, it was perfect for July.

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01:50:41,240 --> 01:50:44,920
Speaker 1: That's what de Seger had just said about that one

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01:50:44,960 --> 01:50:46,640
Speaker 1: topic we're gonna do next week, which would be a

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01:50:46,640 --> 01:50:49,640
Speaker 1: lot of fun. This is perfect for June. Like what

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01:50:49,720 --> 01:50:53,560
Speaker 1: else was happening, there wasn't something else that was gigantic

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01:50:53,640 --> 01:50:56,000
Speaker 1: in that moment that could have taken the attention. So

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01:50:56,080 --> 01:50:59,040
Speaker 1: this got more attention than it probably otherwise would have.

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01:50:59,880 --> 01:51:02,360
Speaker 1: And Texas is going to make something a bigger story

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01:51:02,360 --> 01:51:06,400
Speaker 1: almost any time. Everything's bigger in Texas and here, I

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01:51:06,400 --> 01:51:09,040
Speaker 1: think this story just kind of took it just ended

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01:51:09,120 --> 01:51:11,080
Speaker 1: up having a life of its own. But probably more

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01:51:11,240 --> 01:51:14,000
Speaker 1: it's not that big of a deal, but because of

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01:51:14,080 --> 01:51:16,439
Speaker 1: when it happened in the calendar and just sort of

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01:51:16,439 --> 01:51:19,599
Speaker 1: the circumstances surrounding it, I think it just kind of

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01:51:19,760 --> 01:51:22,519
Speaker 1: it became a big deal. I will say this, I

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01:51:22,600 --> 01:51:26,120
Speaker 1: really enjoyed watching all of the college baseball postseason this year,

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01:51:26,720 --> 01:51:29,400
Speaker 1: and certainly I watched a lot. My wife was super

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01:51:29,439 --> 01:51:31,800
Speaker 1: excited with Tennessee winning, of course, and a lot of

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01:51:31,840 --> 01:51:35,439
Speaker 1: our friends and everything else here. It was just it

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01:51:35,479 --> 01:51:39,320
Speaker 1: was fun. It's a really good event. To watch and

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01:51:39,600 --> 01:51:42,599
Speaker 1: they care and the fans get excited about it. I'd

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01:51:42,640 --> 01:51:45,519
Speaker 1: like to go to Omaha and actually see it. And

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01:51:46,840 --> 01:51:50,200
Speaker 1: whenever the SEGA starts talking about baseball right now, I

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01:51:50,280 --> 01:51:52,920
Speaker 1: just roll my eyes and I'm very upset. And it's

2235
01:51:52,960 --> 01:51:55,280
Speaker 1: not because the Braves aren't having the best year or

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01:51:55,320 --> 01:51:59,960
Speaker 1: whatever else. I mean, it's because of this stupid television

2237
01:52:00,080 --> 01:52:04,280
Speaker 1: crap where the Balie Sports and the Diamond deal and

2238
01:52:04,600 --> 01:52:06,760
Speaker 1: whatever's about to happen with baseball means I can't watch

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01:52:06,800 --> 01:52:09,400
Speaker 1: the Braves on TV anymore. I can only watch the

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01:52:09,520 --> 01:52:13,400
Speaker 1: national games because the regional networks have lost everything. And

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01:52:13,439 --> 01:52:16,360
Speaker 1: so I actually have an audio subscription to MLB so

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01:52:16,400 --> 01:52:19,400
Speaker 1: I can listen to radio broadcasts because I wanted to

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01:52:19,479 --> 01:52:21,120
Speaker 1: keep up with the team and I haven't been able

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01:52:21,160 --> 01:52:24,800
Speaker 1: to do it as much as possible. Baseball can't afford this, man,

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01:52:24,960 --> 01:52:27,960
Speaker 1: I agree, they just can't. Like they're not the NFL,

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01:52:28,120 --> 01:52:30,880
Speaker 1: where you know they're gonna survive this, Like they were

2247
01:52:30,920 --> 01:52:34,120
Speaker 1: actually on a pretty good tip last year. I'm like

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01:52:34,200 --> 01:52:36,559
Speaker 1: totally tuned out of baseball because of this, Like, and

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01:52:36,640 --> 01:52:38,840
Speaker 1: I don't think I'm alone, because there's a bunch of

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01:52:38,880 --> 01:52:41,640
Speaker 1: these regional teams that you can't watch them because of

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01:52:41,640 --> 01:52:46,400
Speaker 1: these archaic rules, these blackout rules, and they've got to

2252
01:52:46,439 --> 01:52:49,920
Speaker 1: get this figured out. Baseball is killing itself this year

2253
01:52:50,520 --> 01:52:53,080
Speaker 1: by not having a lot of these teams available to

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01:52:53,120 --> 01:52:56,360
Speaker 1: these fans. And I just felt like ranting myself for

2255
01:52:56,400 --> 01:52:58,000
Speaker 1: a bit, you know, talk about me being a commission

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01:52:58,040 --> 01:52:59,960
Speaker 1: and want to fix up and fix it. It's twenty

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01:53:00,160 --> 01:53:02,240
Speaker 1: twenty four. This is insane.

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01:53:02,320 --> 01:53:04,439
Speaker 2: We'll save that for next week because that's interesting because

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01:53:04,439 --> 01:53:07,439
Speaker 2: you know, living here in La Dodgers around every night

2260
01:53:07,439 --> 01:53:10,400
Speaker 2: and Angels around every night. So it's not something that

2261
01:53:10,680 --> 01:53:16,240
Speaker 2: I'm even really aware of, but it is interesting. But yeah,

2262
01:53:16,560 --> 01:53:19,400
Speaker 2: back to the college baseball thing, jimshlas Nagle. It was

2263
01:53:19,439 --> 01:53:21,400
Speaker 2: a perfect June topic. It wouldn't have been a big

2264
01:53:21,400 --> 01:53:23,400
Speaker 2: deal otherwise. The last thing I'll say on that is

2265
01:53:23,439 --> 01:53:26,679
Speaker 2: that I just think it's I think the other thing

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01:53:26,840 --> 01:53:29,680
Speaker 2: was is that because he took the job the next day,

2267
01:53:29,680 --> 01:53:32,280
Speaker 2: it was so obvious that he was negotiating while his

2268
01:53:32,320 --> 01:53:34,920
Speaker 2: team was competing for a championship. And again, you know,

2269
01:53:35,120 --> 01:53:43,479
Speaker 2: just just following people who are fans of Tennessee, of whoever, Arkansas, whatever,

2270
01:53:43,560 --> 01:53:46,719
Speaker 2: it's like, Oh that guy, that's kind of a crappy

2271
01:53:46,760 --> 01:53:49,960
Speaker 2: way to handle yourself as your team's playing for a championship.

2272
01:53:49,960 --> 01:53:53,080
Speaker 2: But Fox Sports Radio aeron towards Jason Martin will come back.

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01:53:53,200 --> 01:53:56,639
Speaker 2: One segment left, still a lot to cover. That's next

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Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio. Welcome back everybody. Fox Sports Radio, Eric

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01:54:01,360 --> 01:54:04,559
Speaker 2: Tors Jsmarin broadcasting live from the tyreck dot Com studios.

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01:54:04,560 --> 01:54:08,200
Speaker 2: We are taking up till two am Eastern Time, twelve

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01:54:08,280 --> 01:54:10,720
Speaker 2: minutes from now. Bernie Fratto of The Bernie Fratto Show

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01:54:10,760 --> 01:54:14,400
Speaker 2: will follow us. Bernie has all sorts of good stuff.

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01:54:15,080 --> 01:54:19,479
Speaker 2: On a busy, busy couple days in sports, jmart want

2280
01:54:19,479 --> 01:54:21,080
Speaker 2: to wrap on a little bit of a lighter note,

2281
01:54:21,360 --> 01:54:29,920
Speaker 2: and that is because in just a few days, a

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01:54:30,000 --> 01:54:32,960
Speaker 2: monumental moment that we've all been waiting for will occur,

2283
01:54:33,760 --> 01:54:37,400
Speaker 2: and that is that EA Sports will release its first

2284
01:54:37,440 --> 01:54:43,520
Speaker 2: college football game since twenty fourteen. The reason what we're

2285
01:54:43,520 --> 01:54:46,640
Speaker 2: talking about today, though, is because in the lead up

2286
01:54:46,680 --> 01:54:51,160
Speaker 2: to the release, EA Sports has been releasing some of

2287
01:54:51,200 --> 01:54:56,280
Speaker 2: their top twenty five lists with the game, and they

2288
01:54:56,320 --> 01:54:59,640
Speaker 2: seem to be causing quite a bit of controversy. Among them,

2289
01:55:00,480 --> 01:55:04,120
Speaker 2: they released the top ten loudest stadium's toughest places to

2290
01:55:04,120 --> 01:55:07,360
Speaker 2: play according to the EA Sports College Football twenty five

2291
01:55:07,440 --> 01:55:11,360
Speaker 2: game Tennessee does not make the top ten when I

2292
01:55:11,400 --> 01:55:14,320
Speaker 2: think most people agree Eland Stadium is as tough of

2293
01:55:14,360 --> 01:55:18,480
Speaker 2: a place to play as anywhere in college football. Also,

2294
01:55:18,720 --> 01:55:22,800
Speaker 2: they just released their power rankings just the other day.

2295
01:55:23,480 --> 01:55:26,960
Speaker 2: Among the teams that felt a little bit highly ranked

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01:55:27,080 --> 01:55:30,840
Speaker 2: or maybe misranked, Deon Sanders, Colorado, Buffalo's coming in at

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01:55:30,920 --> 01:55:35,520
Speaker 2: number sixteen. What do you make of these lists that

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01:55:35,640 --> 01:55:37,840
Speaker 2: EA College Football is dropping right now?

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01:55:38,080 --> 01:55:40,160
Speaker 1: This is what they do, and this is what AA

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01:55:40,200 --> 01:55:42,040
Speaker 1: has done for a long time. And the reason why

2301
01:55:42,080 --> 01:55:44,720
Speaker 1: is because it gets people to start talking about the game,

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01:55:45,360 --> 01:55:46,800
Speaker 1: and it hypes it up, and it puts it in

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01:55:46,800 --> 01:55:49,840
Speaker 1: front of everybody's face and everybody's social media feed without

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01:55:49,880 --> 01:55:53,440
Speaker 1: them having to pay a cent for advertising. And so

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01:55:54,640 --> 01:55:57,160
Speaker 1: especially when it's the individual players and things like that

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01:55:57,200 --> 01:56:00,280
Speaker 1: with Madden, like I remember Keenan Allen being Matt years

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01:56:00,320 --> 01:56:03,919
Speaker 1: ago and some of the players are. That's by design,

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01:56:04,520 --> 01:56:08,400
Speaker 1: because again it's free advertising. After every week of the season,

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01:56:09,840 --> 01:56:12,920
Speaker 1: they change the ratings based on what's actually happening on

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01:56:12,960 --> 01:56:15,440
Speaker 1: the field. So what they're doing before the season is

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01:56:15,560 --> 01:56:20,040
Speaker 1: basically just advertising. It's generating interest ahead of time. College

2312
01:56:20,040 --> 01:56:22,560
Speaker 1: football doesn't really need that much. But this is just

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01:56:22,640 --> 01:56:25,600
Speaker 1: reminding everybody, Hey, we're three weeks out. Game's gonna be

2314
01:56:25,640 --> 01:56:27,960
Speaker 1: here in three weeks, so we're gonna start dropping these

2315
01:56:28,000 --> 01:56:33,920
Speaker 1: things because there is nothing better than debating lists. There's

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01:56:33,960 --> 01:56:38,560
Speaker 1: nothing better then you disrespected me, and I'm gonna go

2317
01:56:38,680 --> 01:56:42,400
Speaker 1: yell about it because you at EA Sports, you big

2318
01:56:42,440 --> 01:56:46,800
Speaker 1: time video game sports fan people didn't understand that my

2319
01:56:46,880 --> 01:56:50,760
Speaker 1: stadium should have been regarded as louder, or my defense

2320
01:56:50,840 --> 01:56:53,760
Speaker 1: is better than this team's defense, or whatever else. It's

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01:56:53,760 --> 01:56:56,880
Speaker 1: just free advertising. It's fun, Like it's fun because it

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01:56:57,000 --> 01:57:02,480
Speaker 1: just shows how passionate everybody is. Many things to that extent,

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01:57:02,600 --> 01:57:05,840
Speaker 1: but it's just a very transparent attempt. Like anybody that

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01:57:05,920 --> 01:57:10,000
Speaker 1: takes these things seriously probably needs to calm down a bit,

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01:57:10,080 --> 01:57:12,920
Speaker 1: because I don't think that they are taken seriously at all.

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Speaker 1: That's just a way to generate discussion surrounding a product

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Speaker 1: that they want you to drop seventy bucks on in

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Speaker 1: three weeks.

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Speaker 2: It's funny, you know, obviously. So I'm not a gamer

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Speaker 2: at all, and I don't listen. I don't criticize anybody

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Speaker 2: who is is not. You know, I'm better than you. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: but no, I you know, I'll be honest, Like I

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Speaker 2: obviously saw the transparent effort to get people fired, I

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Speaker 2: didn't really realize as I was watching it all unfold

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Speaker 2: this week that this is what they do every single

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Speaker 2: year with the Madden rankings, and you know NBA two

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Speaker 2: K has you know, and these are things that get debated.

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Speaker 2: It's funny. I actually I had, you know, somebody from

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Speaker 2: like two K actually reach out to me a few

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Speaker 2: summers ago, like, hey, if you or anybody at Fox,

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Speaker 2: you know, if you want like a pre release of

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Speaker 2: our rankings so you could talk about it on the show.

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Speaker 2: And it's like and I didn't even again equate what

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Speaker 2: happened there with the college football game, but it was like, yeah,

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Speaker 2: like I get it, and I give you know them

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Speaker 2: credit because at the time it was like and I

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Speaker 2: just said, you know, I'm not a gamer, it's not

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Speaker 2: really my wheelhouse whatever, but I will tell you this.

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Speaker 2: And again, maybe it's because I'm not a gamer, but

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Speaker 2: I and maybe I'm just naive, but like I was

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Speaker 2: actually stunn like people were big mad when these rankings

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Speaker 2: started coming out this week, like the one that I

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Speaker 2: saw it started. It seemed like It started with the

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Speaker 2: stadium rankings loudest stadiums, and people were legitimately angry, fighting, arguing,

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Speaker 2: debating whatever. So credit EA because they have clearly gotten

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Speaker 2: people fired up about Yeah, I mean.

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Speaker 1: That's the thing. Like, not one person that's upset about that,

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Speaker 1: that was going to buy the game is now not

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Speaker 1: going to And all it did is just remind some

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Speaker 1: people that maybe didn't know or weren't sure or didn't

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Speaker 1: realize it was coming out in three weeks to hey,

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Speaker 1: it's coming out, squead and start saving your money. That's

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Speaker 1: all it is. This is definitely one of those all

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Speaker 1: publicity is good publicity things. They figured out years ago

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Speaker 1: that this worked, and so they make sure that it

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Speaker 1: wait until Madden comes out. It'll happened again and then

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Speaker 1: Madden will be all over people's social media feeds. And

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Speaker 1: it's just one of their marketing tactics and it has

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Speaker 1: certainly amounted to a lot of money for them.

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Speaker 2: No credit to them, And like I said, I hadn't

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Speaker 2: equated obviously. Again, you know, I've seen the outrage over Madden,

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Speaker 2: you know, at times in the lead up to a season,

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Speaker 2: but I never really like equated. Oh yeah, this is

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Speaker 2: kind of just what the brand does and good for

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Speaker 2: them because they certainly got a lot of people fired

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Speaker 2: up here over the course of the last couple of days.

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Speaker 2: Tell you what, Jay soon, We do got to get

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Speaker 2: out of here. First of all, reminder make sure to

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Speaker 2: download the podcast available shortly after the show if you

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Speaker 2: missed any of today's show. But we do have to run.

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Speaker 2: I want to thank the crew, producer Shay Mary on

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Speaker 2: the boards, Steve Disager, from my partner Jason Martin, I am,

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Speaker 2: of course, Aaron Torres, and coming up Fra Bernie Fraddo

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Speaker 2: the Bernie Fraddle Show. You know Bernie, He's got all

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Speaker 2: sorts of good stuff. Appreciate everybody listening. J Mar and

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Speaker 2: I will be back next Saturday. This is Fox Sports Radio.