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Speaker 2: This is the best of the Jason Smith Show with

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Speaker 2: Mike Harmon on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 3: Oh that is us, That is us. Good evening, everybody.

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Speaker 4: Aaron Torres, Arnie Span, You're in for the guys tonight

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Speaker 4: Jason Smith and his best friend Mike Harmon right here

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Speaker 4: on Fox Sports Radio.

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Speaker 3: The bonus hour of the show.

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Speaker 4: You want to be part of the show, real simple,

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Speaker 4: Aaron underscore Torres at Twitter.

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Speaker 3: I'm its Thinking Genius one.

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Speaker 4: Like Corey said, maybe Torres can sove an age old riddle?

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Speaker 4: Why does Thinking Genius refer to our four as the

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Speaker 4: bonus hour when Jason and Mike always do a four

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Speaker 4: hour show. Well, I don't do a four hour show.

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Speaker 4: I do a three hour show. So my fourth hour

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Speaker 4: is the bonus hour?

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Speaker 3: What do they call it?

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Speaker 4: Man?

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Speaker 3: What are they just well fourth hour?

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Speaker 5: They all seused to be a three hour show too.

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Speaker 3: Oh I didn't know that.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, back, wow, look at that back when I started

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Speaker 6: now eight years ago in a day. Because it's on

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Speaker 6: the East coast, it's uh, I guess it's July fifth, but.

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Speaker 4: Yes, today was Aaron Torres's anniversary at Fox Sports Radio. HM,

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Speaker 4: so congratulations to you. I didn't think you'd make it

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Speaker 4: this long to be Do.

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Speaker 6: You want to talk Gordon Hayward signing with the Celtics?

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Speaker 6: That was the big topic July fourth, twenty eighteen, I mean,

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Speaker 6: are twenty seventeen. I remember I was like nervous all day,

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Speaker 6: like what are we gonna to And you know, Mike,

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Speaker 6: Mike Harmon did a great job of just sending over

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Speaker 6: you know, hey, these are the eight nine stories that

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Speaker 6: we might talk about, and it's like I got pages

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Speaker 6: of notes.

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Speaker 5: Like oh, this like quirky Wimbledon story.

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Speaker 6: Of whatever, and I'm like, oh, you know, you know,

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Speaker 6: first that first show, you know you're over prepared, and

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Speaker 6: then probably like an hour before he went on air,

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Speaker 6: Gordon Hayward signed with the Celtics, and uh kind of

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Speaker 6: blew up the rundown. But it gave us something to

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Speaker 6: talk about, and uh, it's been smooth sale ever since then.

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Speaker 4: Which co host that you've worked with has taught you

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Speaker 4: the most?

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Speaker 3: Has really?

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Speaker 4: You know, said, Wow, this guy is fantastic. I could

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Speaker 4: learn from him. Probably somebody that went to University of Arizona.

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Speaker 4: I'm guessing that lives in Vermont.

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Speaker 3: But you you could.

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Speaker 6: You said about him, you said, the coast that's taught

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Speaker 6: me the least.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Oh wow, Wow, you're so mean. I try to

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Speaker 4: be so nice to you, and this is what I got.

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Speaker 3: Mean Mike. Even Mary says you're so mean to me.

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Speaker 5: Mike caught me fat on air two days No, I.

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Speaker 3: Just said you.

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Speaker 4: I just said, it looks like you're a little bloated,

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Speaker 4: and it looks like you've been eating salt sandwiches.

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Speaker 5: Yes, that was the exact quote for paid him.

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Speaker 3: You ever had a salt sandwich? I'm sure you have.

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Speaker 5: No, I don't think I've ever had a just a

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Speaker 5: salt sandwich.

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Speaker 3: No, that doesn't that's not on your menu.

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Speaker 6: No, I'm trying to eat healthier. I'm about to be forty,

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Speaker 6: so I gotta.

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Speaker 4: Get out of here.

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Speaker 3: How did you get so old?

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Speaker 5: I know that's how it works. This is also the

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Speaker 5: youngest that I'll ever be right now, I gotta take advantage.

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Speaker 3: All right, we got a lot to get to.

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Speaker 4: Like I said, we did start off by talking about

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Speaker 4: the Nathan's Hot Dog.

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Speaker 3: I think people are kind of burnt out about it.

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Speaker 4: I thought people be excited this year. Joey just up

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Speaker 4: it was great to see Joey and he wanted and

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Speaker 4: blew away the competition. I think people are getting a

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Speaker 4: little burnt out about this and something has to be done,

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Speaker 3: Maybe they'll put Steven A. Smith on the broadcast.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, something has got to be newer. Is this the

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Speaker 4: best it's going to be?

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Speaker 3: We'll just do it every year? What do you think erin? Yeah?

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Speaker 6: I mean personally, and I know I'm not supposed to

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Speaker 6: me because I find it disgusting. But I mean, you know,

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Speaker 6: it's what we talked about last hour is it's almost

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Speaker 6: like the you know, the old Yukon women's basketball that

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Speaker 6: because they went too much? And I will say it

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Speaker 6: just it does feel like, you know, Joey Chestnut has

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Speaker 6: I don't know if it's a Tyreek Hill. We got

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Speaker 6: to have them, uh, you know, eat against an animal

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Speaker 6: Obviously once upon a time raced to Cheetah. I don't

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Speaker 6: know if we have to do something like that, but uh, there's.

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Speaker 4: People that race the horse too, a race horse really yeah,

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Speaker 3: I cant way.

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Speaker 5: I haven't even asked you. Did you have a good

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Speaker 5: July fourth? Did you do anything? I don't mean to

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Speaker 4: No, No, mine was good. Do a whole heck of

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Speaker 4: a lot. You know, family is in town. But uh,

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Speaker 4: just kind of chilled. I ate two hot dogs after

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Speaker 4: the hot dog get he comes rrect. Thought you were tired. Yes,

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Speaker 4: I'm like I can down two of them. That's not

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Speaker 5: It's like you know when you I don't know, I

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Speaker 5: can't think of a good analogy.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, a little spicy mustard a little sour kraut. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: relish on that. So there you go. Okay, finish that

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Speaker 4: thing off, all right. I want to get to Lebron

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Speaker 4: and the Lakers, my friend. Do let me ask you

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Speaker 4: this before we get to Lebron's coming back and all that.

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Speaker 4: What did you make of him in the Cavalier facility?

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Speaker 4: I know he says he works out there every summer.

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Speaker 4: And what do you think about the hat? What do

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Speaker 4: you want to play golf? That said welcome home? Was

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Speaker 4: he trying to send the message or is he just

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Speaker 4: playing games on social media?

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Speaker 3: What do you think is going on?

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Speaker 6: Listen, everything Lebron does is tactical and by design. Yes,

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Speaker 6: I agree, yes, and so I don't think any of

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Speaker 6: this is by accident. By the way, I was filling

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Speaker 6: the quote unquote leaked Instagram video from dinner where he said, Oh, Savannah,

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Speaker 6: who's his wife, wants me to retire after this year.

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Speaker 6: It's like, right, Oh, someone just so happened to be

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Speaker 6: one realized it. Okay, cool, Lebron whatever. So yeah, no,

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Speaker 6: I mean Listen. I don't think it's by accident. I

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Speaker 6: do think he wants to go to Cleveland. Listen, he

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Speaker 6: has always gone to It's it's amazing to me because

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Speaker 6: he's always blown up every situation that he's had. You know,

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Speaker 6: he puts so much pressure on whatever organization he's in

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Speaker 6: to win, win, win, win win, and then you get

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Speaker 6: to a point where they've they've given up all their

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Speaker 6: draft capital, all their young assets, all their this, all

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Speaker 6: there that, and all of a sudden he looks up

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Speaker 6: and he can't win. And so listen, I think Cleveland

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Speaker 6: right now is probably closer to an NBA finals, especially

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Speaker 6: given the fact that they're in this East, which is

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Speaker 6: kind of a mess right now with all the injuries.

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Speaker 5: So I don't know. I don't think it's accidental.

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Speaker 6: I maybe he's worked out at the Cleveland facility every offseason.

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Speaker 6: He's never posted about it when he's been on the

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Speaker 4: Oh, I had no idea he worked out that the

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Speaker 6: What I think is the more interesting question is would

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Speaker 6: Cleveland actually want him, because again, you know, you just

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Speaker 6: don't know what they would have to give up. I mean,

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Speaker 6: I've seen some Jared Allen stuff. I've seen some Darius

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Speaker 6: Garland stuff, but you know you're gonna have to give

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Speaker 6: up a lot for a forty one year old Lebron.

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Speaker 6: I just I think this is what I would say,

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Speaker 6: lot of places, which is kind of crazy to think about.

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Speaker 4: No, do you think I was gonna say, do you

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Speaker 4: think waker fans if you took a poll, what percentage

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Speaker 3: What percentage would want him gone?

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Speaker 6: I think the percentage that would not want him back

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Speaker 5: I think it's like seventy five to eighty percent. Because

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Speaker 5: here's the other thing too.

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Speaker 6: You got to remember they have Luca now right, Like

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Speaker 6: it'd be one thing if you still you know, if

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Speaker 6: you had Anthony Davis, he's on the other side of thirty.

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Speaker 5: He can't stay healthy.

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Speaker 6: You have a twenty five year old just now entering

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Speaker 6: his prime right in Luka Doncic, and so I think

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Speaker 6: everybody's just ready to build around him and be as

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Speaker 6: it may. And I think the other thing too, and

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Speaker 6: it goes back to what we talked about earlier. But

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Speaker 6: you know, Lebron signs that or I guess you would

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Speaker 6: say he agreed, he opted into the contract, and he

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Speaker 6: immediately is like, well, you know, I want to build

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Speaker 6: a championship team. And it's like, Lebron, we're not trading

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Speaker 6: future draft picks to get some dude that you want

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Speaker 6: it Like this ain't five years ago, man, Like this

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Speaker 6: ain't what it was, and.

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Speaker 5: Yeah it is now.

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Speaker 4: The Lakers had fifty wins last year, but so did

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Speaker 4: Denver and the Clippers, min Soda and the Warriors had

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Speaker 4: forty eight, as well as Memphis. So even though the

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Speaker 4: Lakers were the three seed, they could have easily been

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Speaker 4: the eight seed. They were always separated by two games.

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Speaker 4: My question is this Lakers won fifty games. Tough question

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Speaker 4: because the Lakers are gonna trade. If they trade Lebron,

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Speaker 4: they're gonna get obviously something in return. How many games

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Speaker 4: do the Lakers win without Lebron on the team for

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Speaker 4: next year? They won fifty this year, how many do

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Speaker 4: they win next year with no Lebron?

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Speaker 3: And let's say one piece to the puzzle.

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Speaker 6: Do you think do you think they would take assuming

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Speaker 6: Lucas relatively healthy, do you think they would take a

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Speaker 6: significant step back?

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Speaker 4: I mean you mean like five hundred Is that what

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Speaker 4: you're saying?

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Speaker 6: Like, I still think they're a playoff team with a

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Speaker 6: core led by Luca, don't you.

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Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely, absolutely not.

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Speaker 4: I don't know if they win fifty games, but I

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Speaker 4: have to see what piece they get back in a

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Speaker 4: Lebron trade. Probably nothing great or anything like that.

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Speaker 5: Isn't that kind of funny?

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Speaker 4: Right? It's crazy. That's why I said, did they retire

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Speaker 3: So maybe you show him a little respect.

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Speaker 4: That way he did win you an NBA championship, or

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Speaker 6: I mean, you go through guys that have had impact

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Speaker 5: So I don't know what they will do. Probably they

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Speaker 3: Think he's gone.

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Speaker 4: I don't think he's gonna play for the Lakers this year.

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Speaker 4: But when Cleveland, I think he'll be gone.

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Speaker 5: I don't know, man, I just I don't. If you're Cleveland,

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Speaker 4: I don't think he's wanted in Los Angeles anymore. I

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Speaker 4: I think if you took Au Pollard, be seventy thirty,

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Speaker 4: we want Lebron traded. And you're talking about the second

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Speaker 4: There is a negative stereotype with him. I don't know

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Speaker 5: Let me ask you a question.

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Speaker 6: Do you think if the Calves come back as constituted,

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Speaker 3: Not give you two or three. I mean, don't take it.

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Speaker 5: I mean you have to match salary though, that's the thing.

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Speaker 4: But I brought this up earlier. You could pull shenatigans.

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Speaker 4: The new owners of the Lakers, the Walter Group, they

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Speaker 3: You can't do that.

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Speaker 6: By the way, one other last Laker slash Lebron question.

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Speaker 6: And let me just say this really quick, JMR and

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Speaker 5: So like I have heard a lot of I have

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Speaker 6: Aggressive DeAndre Ayton takes this week where it's like, oh yeah,

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Speaker 4: If he stays, if he stays healthy, I believe he's

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Speaker 3: Let's be honest, Yes, but he needed somebody like.

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Speaker 5: That to your point earlier.

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Speaker 6: If if the Lakers They're gonna obviously add some stuff.

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Speaker 6: But if this is the core of their team in

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Speaker 6: whoever else you can? Like? Like, if they had DeAndre

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Speaker 5: In Round one.

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Speaker 6: I'm not in five, but I think it would have

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Speaker 4: So well, they can't get Yannis because you got to

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Speaker 4: I'd love to get Jannis on the Lakers, you know

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Speaker 4: And what's gonna happen to Dame Lollard? Where's he going

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Speaker 3: I mean, who knows? Is it Boston? What's he gonna do?

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Speaker 6: I'm a little confused on this. So you're signing him,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, but you don't have to give him any real

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Speaker 4: So you're getting him on like the bargain basement money

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Speaker 4: there is what you're doing.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't The Warriors does not make any sense

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Speaker 4: Who retires first, Steph Curry or Lebron.

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Speaker 3: Who's gonna recall it quits.

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Speaker 5: First good question. I think Lebron. I mean, I think

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Speaker 4: I promise you that that's not gonna What about.

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Speaker 5: Kad You think KD moves the needle anymore?

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Speaker 3: No, I don't think so.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think he's another guy, another guy to bring

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Speaker 4: They're obviously better. I just don't think it's going to

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Speaker 6: Do you think like like Lakers with DeAndre a in

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Speaker 4: I mean, they had a better record to begin with anyway,

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Speaker 5: I mean, they did just win the championship, so can't

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Speaker 4: And the and the Eastern Conference is pretty much already done.

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Speaker 3: It's Cleveland and the Knicks.

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Speaker 4: Good evening, everyone, Aeron Torres, Arnie Span, You're in for

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Speaker 4: the guy inside, Jason Smith AND's best Fred Mike Harmon.

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Speaker 4: By the way, Next week in Vegas, the Cooper Flag

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Speaker 4: debut in the Summer League. I know you like to

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Speaker 4: go to some of the NBA Summer Got there in Vegas?

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Speaker 4: You have any plans of going or what not?

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Speaker 5: This year? To start? What starts his Friday?

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Speaker 4: It starts, Yeah, no, it starts tomorrow. But they don't play. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: they don't play until the tenth I believe.

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Speaker 6: Oh I think the Vegas one doesn't start till yeah,

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Speaker 6: probably the tenth. Yeah, they do, like the Utah one

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Speaker 6: or San Francisco or whatever.

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Speaker 5: I saw, like Ace Bailey debuts in his hot seconds.

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Speaker 4: So I'm dying to see Cooper Flag. I want to

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Speaker 4: see what he's gonna do. Any expectations or what.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I think he's gonna be really good, you know,

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Speaker 5: I think.

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Speaker 3: Oh, gee, wait to go out on the limb there,

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Speaker 3: really good.

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Speaker 5: I think he'll be. I think he'll do. I think

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Speaker 5: he'll be a solid and now I think he'll be

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Speaker 5: really good.

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Speaker 6: I just think that he's just so different than the

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Speaker 6: normal prospect because he's not a guy that just goes

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Speaker 6: out and gets forty.

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Speaker 8: You know.

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Speaker 6: It's like he again, is a great defender, he's a

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Speaker 6: great playmaker and so but I think that's the right

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Speaker 6: team for him. I mean, I think, you know, listen,

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Speaker 6: I still stand by. I'll just be real. I think

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Speaker 6: the lottery was rigged. But wow, independent of that, I

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Speaker 6: think that it is a good landing spot for him

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Speaker 6: because he's not a guy that just is going to

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Speaker 6: take over games offensively, and that's obviously not a place

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Speaker 6: where he'll have to do that.

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Speaker 4: I expect him to average eighteen to twenty points a game.

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Speaker 4: I think he's going to be something like we have

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Speaker 4: never seen in a long long time. I hope, I

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Speaker 4: hope he can carry the team a little bit, but

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Speaker 4: I'm not sure it's going to help him down there,

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Speaker 4: we'll see how good they're gonna be.

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Speaker 3: I expect the world from him.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I think that this kid is going to

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Speaker 4: be great, and I'll be curious to see how many

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Speaker 4: points he's going to be able to put up in

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Speaker 4: how many shots he's going to be able to get

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Speaker 4: his first year, if he's going to, you know, take

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Speaker 4: it easy a little bit, you know, back off a

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Speaker 4: little bit until he feels the game or what's gonna happen.

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Speaker 4: But I just love this kid. I'm dying to see

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Speaker 4: him play. I can't wait till he plays in the

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Speaker 4: Summer League. I'm looking forward to it.

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Speaker 6: Now, I think, and I think it'll be fun when

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Speaker 6: you know, again, it's hard because the MAVs probably aren't

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Speaker 6: going to have their real roster at any point this

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Speaker 6: year with Kyrie Irving. But I will say, you know,

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Speaker 6: we were just talking about, you know, Katie with the Rockets.

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Speaker 6: If Lebron stays with the Lakers, like how many contenders

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Speaker 6: are there really and where do they all stack up.

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Speaker 6: It's like, again, I know Kyrie is not going to

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Speaker 6: be back this year realistically, at least not anytime early,

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Speaker 6: but like, if that team is healthy and again You're

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Speaker 6: asking Kyrie off a major injury, plus Anthony Davis to

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Speaker 6: stay healthy.

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Speaker 5: That team is in the conversation.

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Speaker 6: I mean Kyrie healthy, Anthony Davis healthy, Daniel Gafford, Cooper fly.

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Speaker 6: That's a really good team again on the rare instance

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Speaker 6: when all their parts are healthy.

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Speaker 4: You asked me what I thought about Mike Brown being

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Speaker 4: the head coach of the New York Knicks.

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Speaker 3: Isn't it crazy?

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Speaker 4: All that build up to, like what the Knicks are

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Speaker 4: going to do, and they want to get permission now

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Speaker 4: this team and this coach, and they get denied here.

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Speaker 4: I think they were denied five times, unbelievable by five

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Speaker 4: different teams out there. They finally hire a coach, they

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Speaker 4: get Mike Brown, and.

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Speaker 3: Then everything stops. It's like, okay, they got a coach now.

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Speaker 4: I said, it's not really that big of a deal

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Speaker 4: because the Knicks were still the second favorite to go

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Speaker 4: to win the East without a coach.

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Speaker 3: Seriously, so how much.

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Speaker 4: Of a differences are really going to make? I think

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Speaker 4: Mike Brown's going to be a good coach. I think

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Speaker 4: he'll do is just as good as a job as Thibodeau did.

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Speaker 4: Look no disrespect to Thibodeau and the back to back

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Speaker 4: fifty win seasons are tremendous. Should have been in the

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Speaker 4: NBA Finals this year. But I like Mike Brown nothing.

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Speaker 4: He won't move the needles or anything like that, you know,

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Speaker 4: even though he learned under Steve Kerr. Also, he's not

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Speaker 4: Steve Kerr or Phil Jackson.

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Speaker 3: But I think he's gonna be good. I think it

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Speaker 3: was a good higher for the Knicks.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean it's not a bad like, it's not

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Speaker 6: a bad hire, but it's just I don't know, man.

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Speaker 6: I guess it's weird because we've I think you and

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Speaker 6: I talked about this last week. But like when they

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Speaker 6: fired Tips, I was cool with it because I assumed

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Speaker 6: that there was an obvious you know, that there was

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Speaker 6: a plan.

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Speaker 5: We're gonna go get Mike Malone.

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Speaker 6: I thought they were gonna go get Dan Hurley to

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Speaker 6: be perfectly honest, or you know whoever, Jay Wright, and

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Speaker 6: I guess my only issue is that there was clearly

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Speaker 6: no plan.

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Speaker 5: But I also don't think that Mike Brown.

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Speaker 6: I do think there's like a little bit of revisionist

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Speaker 6: history on Mike Brown is. Like I think maybe it's

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Speaker 6: because there's so many Knicks fans and they want it

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Speaker 6: to work. But people, you know, oh, Mike Brown did

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Speaker 6: Mike Brown made the finals. Mike Brown made the finals?

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Speaker 6: What at this point eighteen years ago? Like, come on,

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Speaker 6: it was two thousand and seven, that's eighteen years ago. Like,

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Speaker 6: can we chill out with Mike Brown made the finals. Oh,

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Speaker 6: he's got to this much win percentage, just like yeah,

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Speaker 6: it's because he coached Lebron for four years when they

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Speaker 6: were winning fifty to sixty games every year. It's you know,

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Speaker 6: it's just it's just frustrating.

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Speaker 4: You brought you brought up Danny Hurley's name. Sure, do

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Speaker 4: you think Danny Hurley would have taken the job had

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Speaker 4: he known it was going to be Luka on the team,

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Speaker 4: that Lebron was going to be his way forced out

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Speaker 4: and that was going to be new owners.

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Speaker 6: So my personal opinion, and I truly believe this, is

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Speaker 6: that Dan Hurley was never taking the job.

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Speaker 5: I've said it from.

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Speaker 4: The Jason was a money grave thing for him.

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Speaker 6: No, it was, it was twofold. It was a money

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Speaker 6: grab for him. His deal wasn't getting done the way

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Speaker 6: that he wanted. And I believe and this goes back

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Speaker 6: to the Lebron stuff with the Lakers. I think the

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Speaker 6: Lakers were getting real pushback that they were very clearly

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Speaker 6: going to give the job to JJ Redick, And I

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Speaker 6: go back to that moment in time, people could say,

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Speaker 6: what are you talking about, and it's like, you got

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Speaker 6: to remember the Lakers were about to draft Bronni, Lebron's son.

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Speaker 6: They fired Darvin Ham after the opening round of the playoffs.

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Speaker 6: JJ Redick was asked about the job before the NBA Finals.

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Speaker 6: He said, I'll address my future after the finals. Well,

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Speaker 6: if you don't already have the job, there's nothing to address.

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Speaker 6: And so I think the Lakers were getting real push

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Speaker 6: they were getting real negative pushback of like, so you

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Speaker 6: fired this guy two months ago, you clearly are just

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Speaker 6: gonna hire Lebron's buddy was zero experience, and so I

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Speaker 6: think it was a scenario where both parties benefited by

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Speaker 6: going through the interview process. But I don't I don't

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Speaker 6: believe that he was ever seriously a candidate, and because

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Speaker 6: of it, I I don't I don't think he was

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Speaker 6: ever taking the job. But I don't think he was

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Speaker 6: ever taking the job because I don't think he was

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Speaker 6: ever a serious candidate.

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Speaker 4: It's too bapis I think he'd given real consideration now

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Speaker 4: he should.

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Speaker 3: How do you know it was going to be Luca

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Speaker 3: and no Lebron out there?

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Speaker 4: Right?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 6: I mean listen, you know, I listen. I love Dan Hurley.

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Speaker 6: I'm a Yukon guy. If you have a chance to

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Speaker 6: coach Luca in his prime, if you have aspirations to

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Speaker 6: coach in the NBA, it's harder to find a scenario

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Speaker 6: better than taking Luca in the heart of his prime.

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Speaker 5: But I mean that happened.

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Speaker 4: No, it didn't happen, But I thought it was gonna

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Speaker 4: be close. I I gave it a little bit more

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Speaker 4: credence than you did, to be honest.

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Speaker 6: Well, the other thing too, and again, you know Hurley

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Speaker 6: always talks about, you know, we recruit family, you know,

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Speaker 6: kind of like what Derek Shelby was saying, we recruit

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Speaker 6: families with this, with that, And it's like, so you're

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Speaker 6: gonna come to LA to deal with Lebron and Bronny

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Speaker 6: and I. And that's the other thing is like, I

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Speaker 6: I don't think the job remember this was pre Luca, obviously,

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Speaker 6: I don't think the job was that desirable. For that reason,

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Speaker 6: you have a forty one, forty years you know, soon

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Speaker 6: to be forty year old Lebron at the time. Right,

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Speaker 6: you have to draft his son, you have to coach

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Speaker 6: his son as if he's a real NBA player, even

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Speaker 6: though none of we all know.

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Speaker 5: That he isn't. And I that's why I think it

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Speaker 5: was always gonna be Reddick. Yah.

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Speaker 4: I think it was done once. Is Redick in trouble

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Speaker 4: with the new owners. Now with new owners, they're I mean,

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Speaker 4: you're paying a lot of money for the team. You're

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Speaker 4: gonna want to hire the coach that you want.

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Speaker 5: And he was handpicked by Lebron.

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Speaker 6: So it's like if, if, what, Whether you're right that

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Speaker 6: Lebron isn't there by the end of the by the

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Speaker 6: start of the season or not, we'll find out. But

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Speaker 6: he's Lebron's guy, there's no And here's the other thing.

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Speaker 6: Don't forget he threw Luca under the bus after the

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Speaker 6: season ended. Remember that, Oh, we need to get in

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Speaker 6: championship shape.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: Wow, So it had nothing to do with you playing

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Speaker 6: the starters the entire second half. It had nothing to

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Speaker 6: do with you not playing Jackson Hayes Like, it's just like,

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Speaker 6: I think that's an interesting byproduct of that whole situation

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Speaker 6: with the Lakers is if Lebron were to leave, JJ

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Speaker 6: was his guy. I don't think he's Mark Walter's guy

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Speaker 6: to your pointer, whoever's going to be in charge going forward?

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Speaker 4: Oh, I agree with your one hundred percent. Aaron Torres,

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Speaker 4: Orny Spaniard. We're in for the guys tonight. Let's get

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Speaker 4: a final check of what's happening out there. We check

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Speaker 4: it with Steve the saga one final time.

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Speaker 3: What's going on? The saga?

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Speaker 5: Hello again?

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Speaker 9: And you guys are correct that the NBA Vegas Summer

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Speaker 9: League doesn't start till next week. WNBA was off tonight.

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Speaker 9: Caitlin Clark will miss a fifth straight game Saturday with

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Speaker 9: the groin, Andrew with.

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Speaker 5: By the WNBA, by the way, not playing.

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Speaker 6: I mean, I feel like I said this earlier, like

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Speaker 6: why was there no National TV baseball game today? Like

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Speaker 6: Dodgers Astro should have been on national TV. But then also, WNBA,

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Speaker 6: it's not MLB network.

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Speaker 9: You're talking about something that people.

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Speaker 6: Have Fox, ESPN. Yeah, exactly so, and it's the same

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Speaker 6: with the WNBA. Everybody's at home. You know, I was

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Speaker 6: looking for something to watch before I came in in

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Speaker 6: studio here.

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Speaker 5: So whatever, I.

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Speaker 9: Agree to all that in the day I become mission commissioner.

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Speaker 9: Not only everybody's playing every holiday Memorial Day, July fourth,

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Speaker 9: but absolutely there's wall to wall TV baseball.

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Speaker 4: You know what everybody's watching now is the Savannah Bananas.

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Speaker 9: That's correct, they'll be on again this weekend.

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Speaker 4: Did they saw at football stadiums like eighty thousand football?

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Speaker 3: They saw that?

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Speaker 9: Well, the Clemson Stateium when they're there at Angel Stadium

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Speaker 9: served for baseball.

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Speaker 6: Back to your point on MLB, because I heard this

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Speaker 6: day it's like, well, everyone's outside for the holiday. It's like,

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Speaker 6: first of all, people are home by ten pm. But

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Speaker 6: now like this is gonna sound like first world situation,

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Speaker 6: but it's like TV's are so cheap. I know a

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Speaker 6: lot of people that have TVs on their deck, TVs

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Speaker 6: on their patio, Like I was obviously not hosting for

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Speaker 6: Fourth of July.

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Speaker 5: But you're outside, even not tied to one room.

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Speaker 6: A yeah, now you have a TV setup while everybody's

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Speaker 6: outside barbecue.

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Speaker 9: And by the watch live games on the phone, which

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Speaker 9: of course great carrying around.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, and I what you said wal to wall Baseball,

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Speaker 6: I said it earlier today on my my Twitter feed,

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Speaker 6: I was like NBA or NFL owns Thanksgiving. Christmas Day

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Speaker 6: obviously is now split between. But it's like college football.

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Speaker 9: Already.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, but July fourth America America's pastime.

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Speaker 9: Baseball apple pie?

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Speaker 5: Yes, why are they not games on Walt Wall when

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Speaker 5: you're commissioner, Steve to sing.

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Speaker 9: And also the Sunday night baseball ratings have been quite good,

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Speaker 9: like the best in years this year.

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Speaker 5: This would have been in just punting on that book.

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Speaker 9: You know, theoretically they're getting back to talking that they

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Speaker 9: haven't actually said a follow goodbye because MLB hasn't signed

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Speaker 9: up anybody else to take over the games that ESPN.

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Speaker 4: Nobody else wanted it exactly, not.

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Speaker 5: At that price.

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Speaker 9: They didn't back down because they thought, my goodness, why

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Speaker 9: are we paying this so much? When Roku is paying

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Speaker 9: for Sunday mornings this much or Apple on Friday nights

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Speaker 9: that much? And so ESPN you can't again, when I

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Speaker 9: would be a commissioner, you can't say no to a

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Speaker 9: widespread network like that for your sport. Because the NHL

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Speaker 9: disappeared in most parts of the country when they got

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Speaker 9: off that channel. Well, Wimbledon will continue for the weekend,

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Speaker 9: and Carlos Alcarez is still alive. He advanced to the

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Speaker 9: fourth round today, as did number five Taylor Fritz of

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Speaker 9: the US women's number one Arena Sablenca one. A reminder,

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Speaker 9: US men's soccer plays the Gold Cup Finals Sunday against

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Speaker 9: Mexico on Fox TV from Houston at the FIFA Club

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Speaker 9: World Cup Quarterfinals. Saturday's matchups include Paris and German against

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Speaker 9: Bayern Munich. Tonight in Philadelphia, Chelsea was a two to

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Speaker 9: one winner over Brazil's Palmierras on an own goal late,

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Speaker 9: and Fox has the Women's Euros Germany shut out Poland

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Speaker 9: too nothing today. This Championships tournament started Wednesday Saturday on

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Speaker 9: Fox TV at the Women's Euros England against France. To baseball,

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Speaker 9: Houston won eighteen to one in LA for the Dodgers

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Speaker 9: biggest blowout loss ever at Dodgers Stadium. But they just

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Speaker 9: left the pitchers that you've never heard under way in

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Speaker 9: there and therefore eighteen to one and relief. Noah Davis,

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Speaker 9: for example, allowed ten runs in the six. Kansas City's

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Speaker 9: Vinnie Pasquentino with two homer six RBIs in a nine

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Speaker 9: to three win at Arizona. A's beat the Giants eleven

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Speaker 9: to two in Sacramento. The loss to Justin Verlander o

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Speaker 9: and six Detroit st Cleveland to an eight straight loss

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Speaker 9: two to one. Baltimore won three to two at Atlanta

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Speaker 9: behind Charlie Morton. White Sox at Colorado all weekend. I'll pause,

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Speaker 9: Well you say I'm not going three to two? The

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Speaker 9: White Sox were winners tonight, losing pitcher Antonio Senzatela is

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Speaker 9: three and twelve. Yankees have lost five straight, beaten by

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Speaker 9: the Mets six five today, Cubs eleven three over Saint Louis.

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Speaker 9: Eight home runs for the Cubs at Wrigley today a

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Speaker 9: franchise record in fact, all told, in the majors, there

741
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Speaker 9: were forty eight home runs today, the second most on

742
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Speaker 9: any single July the fourth Wow. Two of those long

743
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Speaker 9: balls from Seattle's cal Rawley in a six nothing win

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Speaker 9: against Pittsburgh. Cal Rawley has thirty five home runs this season.

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Speaker 3: Back to you, all.

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Speaker 4: Right, thank you, Steve, Have a good night.

747
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Speaker 3: My friend will see you tomorrow. You're gonna work tomorrow?

748
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Speaker 1: What sir?

749
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Speaker 5: All right?

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Speaker 3: I knew I scheduled yourself. It sounds like you did.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I will see you tomorrow. Let's get to some Twitter.

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Speaker 4: This is what you said, Aaron Jason b diving rights,

753
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Speaker 4: Bob Manford and MLB could own July fourth, But why

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Speaker 4: would you want to do that when you could have

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Speaker 4: the dog diving? It was literally what was on and

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Speaker 4: the hot dog eating contest. Because I have the world problems,

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Speaker 4: I understand, but frustrating.

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Speaker 6: So because somebody said they were like because somebody tweeted

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Speaker 6: at me, because I tweeted out like why is mlbnine?

760
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Speaker 6: Somebody is like, no one's in front of the TV

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Speaker 6: July fourth, And I'm like, I guarantee what and oh,

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Speaker 6: Baseball's on Nashable and I go, I guarantee whatever game

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Speaker 6: they put on would do it better rating than the

764
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Speaker 6: dog Olympics that were on.

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Speaker 4: So they had Wimbledon on, where people watching Wimbledon at all?

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Speaker 3: I think I'm decent.

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Speaker 5: I just know. Seventh, I was sitting at home.

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Speaker 6: I got home from what I was doing today seven

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Speaker 6: thirty eastern The Dog Dogs Jumping into Water was on

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Speaker 6: ESPN and ESPN two had some like documentary series about

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Speaker 6: Alabama football, and it's like, right, I knew they had.

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Speaker 6: Can we just can we get that Dodgers Astros game on.

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Speaker 6: And I'm not saying it because I live in LA,

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Speaker 6: but yeah, give us that.

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Speaker 4: I mean, not even one game. You thought they'd have

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Speaker 4: at least one game. They everything was on MLB or

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Speaker 4: Apple TV or something like that.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, and that was the other people like, well it's MLB,

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Speaker 6: they have games on MLBtv.

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Speaker 5: Well guess what. I don't have MLBtv. So does mean

781
00:34:46,600 --> 00:34:46,959
Speaker 5: no good?

782
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Speaker 3: You don't have MLB TV.

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Speaker 6: You know, I cut back the cable package for the summer.

784
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Speaker 6: I regret it. I'll get well, you know, once we

785
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Speaker 6: get a get closer to football, when I need red zone,

786
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Speaker 6: I'll ramp back up.

787
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Speaker 4: So, yeah, you gotta every day you have to have

788
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Speaker 4: red zone.

789
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Speaker 3: It's impossible.

790
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Speaker 4: Yeah, you can't watch football without the red zone.

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Speaker 5: There's no king else. Crazy huh.

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Speaker 3: All right, we'll come back. We'll wrap things up.

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Speaker 4: One final segment to go before we took it over

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Speaker 4: to Chris Plank. That's coming up next right here on

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Speaker 4: Fox Sports or Radio.

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

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

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Speaker 2: pm Pacific.

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Speaker 3: Everybody Hates Me?

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Speaker 4: Tarees Why everybody's Plank's mad at me because I was

801
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Speaker 4: texting him earlier today, going, hey, did you hear our interview?

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Speaker 4: You better use a cut or two. He goes, I'm

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Speaker 4: taking a nap and I just kept and I just

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Speaker 4: kept I just kept tweeting him, and he goes, oh,

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Speaker 4: I could see you disregarded my part of I'm taking

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Speaker 4: a nap and I just kept tweeting him. So he's

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Speaker 4: and Mary's mad at me. Mary, Yeah, because I complimented

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Speaker 4: her or something.

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Speaker 5: He's a damn line. He's lying really bad.

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Speaker 4: I just said, I go, you're going to club Bounce afterwards?

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Speaker 3: Never in my life. Yeah, because cub Bounce.

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Speaker 4: I just asked her if she was going, and she's

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Speaker 4: got all that club it's for plus size women.

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 4: But I didn't mean she was plus size. I meant

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Speaker 4: something else.

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Speaker 3: Oh, I could agree there.

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Speaker 5: It is Mary Mackett, if it makes you feel better.

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Speaker 6: Literally last episode, he's like, yeah, Tours, you've really put

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Speaker 6: on some weight since the that since I started working

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Speaker 6: with you.

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Speaker 5: Like, if I put on weight.

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Speaker 3: What are you?

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Speaker 1: Dude?

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Speaker 4: I look good?

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Speaker 3: I look good.

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Speaker 7: I I It took everything in me to restrain myself

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Speaker 7: from asking him out you.

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Speaker 5: Should have cursed him out.

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Speaker 4: I was being nice, barely, barely. This This is the

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Speaker 4: best I can do, all right. I want to get

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Speaker 4: to a couple of things before we do get out

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Speaker 4: of here. Uh sixty sixty eight? Try eighty six years ago?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, eighty six years ago, wa wasting radio?

835
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Speaker 4: When I was hosting radio July fourth, Right, July fourth,

836
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Speaker 4: nineteen thirty nine, one of the most famous speeches in

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Speaker 4: all of Major League Baseball was on that date.

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Speaker 3: Here it is right now, by Lou Garrick.

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Speaker 8: For the past two weeks, you've been reading about a

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Speaker 8: bad break today. I consider myself the luckiest man on

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Speaker 8: the face of the earth. That i might have been

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Speaker 8: given a bad break, but I've got an awful lot

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Speaker 8: to live for, thank you.

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Speaker 4: How many still resonates to this day?

845
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Speaker 3: Does it matter what aeron?

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Speaker 5: Absolutely? How many years ago do you say?

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Speaker 4: It was eighty six years ago today and we.

848
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Speaker 5: Still haven't found a cure for lu Gerrig's disease?

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Speaker 3: Kind of se Nope, nope, we have not.

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Speaker 4: Eighty six years ago, July fourth, nineteen thirty nine, and

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Speaker 4: he never did play again after that after that speech.

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Speaker 5: Now died shortly thereafter. I believe right.

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Speaker 3: Right, right, So sad. I'm very sad.

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Speaker 4: So I just figure had to play that because it

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Speaker 4: was on this day, so many, so many.

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Speaker 3: Years ago, years old. Wow.

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Speaker 4: Usually we don't talk about the ninth best player in

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Speaker 4: the w NBA or just be the ninth best player

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Speaker 4: in her position. What did you think of that when

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Speaker 4: you saw Caitlyn Clark and I heard people trying to

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Speaker 4: make excuses, Well, they only did the top four and

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Speaker 4: after the top four, blah blah blah.

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Speaker 3: The whole thing is ridiculous.

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Speaker 4: I still can't believe the hatred and the vitriol toward

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Speaker 4: Caate and Clark. It's it's mind boggling, to be honest

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Speaker 4: with you.

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Speaker 6: It is what I find interesting. We talked about it

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Speaker 6: with Dan Byer yesterday. Sophie Cunningham just by literally being

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Speaker 6: nice to Caitlin Clark is now the second most popular player.

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Speaker 8: I know.

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Speaker 3: That's awesome. I love that.

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Speaker 6: It's like all it took was somebody just being like, oh,

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Speaker 6: she's kind of cool, I'm gonna have her back, like

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Speaker 6: and you know, like I'm not trying to do like

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Speaker 6: the guy girl thing.

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Speaker 5: But you know, we all know, like you know, Michael.

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Speaker 6: Jordan had Charles Oakley, and you know Steph has Draymond

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Speaker 6: and it's like no one, like literally, no one stood

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Speaker 6: up for her for eighteen months, not a coach, not

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Speaker 6: a teammate, not the league.

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Speaker 5: It's a disaster. By the way, did you see Kaylyn

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Speaker 5: Clark call out the commissioner the other night by name?

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Speaker 5: Did you see that?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 3: I did not see that.

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Speaker 5: So I'll try to make this as quick as I

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Speaker 5: can't go.

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Speaker 6: They have something called like the WNBA Cup or the

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Speaker 6: Commissioner's Cup or something like that. It's like the n

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Speaker 6: season tournament for them. Indiana won it.

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Speaker 5: They were doing a live stream from the locker room afterward,

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Speaker 5: and apparently they make more money somehow from winning this

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Speaker 5: event than they do their whole salary combined or something.

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Speaker 5: And Kayln Clark was just like, how do we make

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Speaker 5: more money from this than the whole season?

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Speaker 6: And she literally goes Kathy. The commissioner's name is Kathy Engelberg. Kathy,

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Speaker 6: can you help us out or Kathy do something? And

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Speaker 6: I was like, I think Kayler Clark just called out

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Speaker 6: the commissioner. Like I think Kayler Clark is bigger than

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Speaker 6: the commissioner. I think she's she's trying to get the

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Speaker 6: commissioner booted.

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Speaker 4: But that's I'm a little sick and tired of the

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Speaker 4: whole Can we get more money?

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Speaker 5: All right?

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Speaker 4: For a league that's lost millions over the last twenty

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Speaker 4: five years.

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Speaker 3: Enough is enough?

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Speaker 5: Oh and you know what else?

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Speaker 6: We don't need another meme of uh Cooper flag salary

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Speaker 6: compared to the first pick.

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Speaker 5: Yes, because one league makes money and one league doesn't.

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Speaker 5: That is why one makes all.

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Speaker 4: We gotta wrap things up. I want to thank you

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Speaker 4: for show. First of all, great show, real quick. Thanks

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Speaker 4: to Mary doing a great job. Share our producer Ian

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Speaker 4: was in for the first half that people didn't think

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Speaker 4: I knew that. Thanks to the Sager. Thanks to Jason

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Speaker 4: and Mike for letting this fill in. Thanks to you

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Speaker 4: Torres always appreciated. Chris Plank coming up next. He'll probably

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Speaker 4: be a little cranky. That's next here on Fox Sports Radio.