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Speaker 2: All living the dream once again here on a fully

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Speaker 2: loaded Sports Saturday. This is Fox Sports Saturday and we're

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Speaker 2: who's back. Anita's back? Hi, Anita, how are you today?

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Speaker 3: Happy birthday? My are belated? Yes, who's born on fourth

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Speaker 3: of July? Only you, dude? Well, you know, here's the

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Speaker 3: thing about being born on the fourth of July. A

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Speaker 3: it's a very easy day for other people to remember.

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Speaker 3: When you think about most holidays. How many holidays is

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Speaker 3: actually born are no more for the date than the

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Speaker 3: actual name of the holiday. I mean, it's Independence Day,

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Speaker 3: but no where recalls that. They always call it the

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Speaker 3: fourth of July, So it's an easy day to remember.

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Speaker 3: By the way, my former boss Al Davis fourth of July,

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Speaker 3: George Steinbrenner fourth of July chats.

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Speaker 2: There are some big shoes to fill. I tell you,

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Speaker 2: we got a ton to do in a very short

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Speaker 2: amount of time, Anita. By the way, Adam Kaplan, our

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Speaker 2: NFL insider, it's gonna be joining us here in about

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Speaker 2: eighteen minutes.

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Speaker 1: Next hour. We'll check in with our NBA insider, Mark Medina.

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Speaker 2: But before we do that, I want to find out

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Speaker 2: about your Fourth of July because I understand Anita, that

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Speaker 2: you you are quite the grill master.

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Speaker 3: I have become that. So I moved into a new

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Speaker 3: apartment here in Hoboken, New Jersey, and I have this

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Speaker 3: wonderful backyard, which is like unheard of in this area

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Speaker 3: of town, right, And so I have a deck in

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Speaker 3: a huge backyard. I ordered this fantastic like swinky adult

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Speaker 3: pool and arrived from China. I was worried about the tariffs.

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Speaker 3: It arrived. It's great. My summer's rolling. I don't cook.

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Speaker 3: I'm not a cook. I'm not a chef. I don't cook.

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Speaker 3: I'm like, you know what, I gotta buy a grill.

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Speaker 3: I've got a deck, I've got a pool, I've got

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Speaker 3: a backyard. It's what you do, right, Steve.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, it's what you do.

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Speaker 3: So I went out I bought this, you know, Like,

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Speaker 3: I texted a bunch of my dude friends like, hey,

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Speaker 3: what kind of grill you know? Guys like you know

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Speaker 3: like every like you know, Oh, you got to get

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Speaker 3: the weber. You got to get the weber with the

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Speaker 3: two things on the side that keep your stuff hot.

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Speaker 3: I'm like, all right, all right, so I I buy

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Speaker 3: this grill. I can't stop grilling.

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Speaker 3: I have become a girl master, even to the point

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Speaker 3: where now I subscribe to a meat delivering company.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so you posted this on Instagram, right, and you

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Speaker 2: sent me this, and I was like, as you're opening

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Speaker 2: this box and there's enough meat there to last several lifetimes.

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Speaker 1: It seemed like to me, I mean, so do you

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Speaker 1: cook it all at once? I mean, did you use.

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Speaker 2: Because Fourth of July holiday is and by the way,

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Speaker 2: because it's on a Friday, this year really becomes a

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Speaker 2: Fourth of July weekend, right, And but I mean this

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Speaker 2: is this is the consummate day for barbecue is the

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Speaker 2: fourth of July. So did you cook it all? Did

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Speaker 2: you select a few things? Did you share it with

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Speaker 2: friends over? How did this all work?

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Speaker 5: Yest year?

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Speaker 1: Exactly?

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Speaker 3: I had about about ten to fifteen people come over

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Speaker 3: a lot of apparol sprits, and so I start off

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Speaker 3: It's all about the chicken. Either it's it's the barbecue

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Speaker 3: chicken or the bitchin good It's like a what do

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Speaker 3: you call it? The chicken the buffalo chicken sauce, so

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Speaker 1: It's like, like you into this.

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Speaker 3: I've got it down. I've got it down. My Fourth

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Speaker 3: of July was fantastic, Probably not is as great as

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Speaker 3: your birthday. But I will say this, because you mentioned

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Speaker 3: the fourth of July falling on Friday. Do you realize

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Speaker 3: now for the next four years, we are now set

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Speaker 3: a big green bow on this conversation and let's be

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Speaker 3: excited that like, Fourth of July is not going to

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Speaker 2: Absolutely great for all of us and for all of

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Speaker 2: our listeners out there. I hope you're Fourth of July

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Speaker 2: was great. Hope you're going to continue it. The entire

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Speaker 2: to get to something early on with you, Anita, because

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Speaker 1: Something about the Big Beautiful Bill.

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Speaker 2: So I saw something posted about NFL owners and the

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Speaker 2: Big Beautiful Bill about some of the tax write offs

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Speaker 2: that a very bitter Donald Trump. He was bitter because

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Speaker 2: he tried to buy the Buffalo Bills years ago and

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Speaker 1: And he basically had told people.

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Speaker 2: That if I if I ever become a president, I'm

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Speaker 2: going to get these guys, I'm coming after that because

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Speaker 1: And really that's a big part of it.

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Speaker 2: And so it was part of this big Beautiful bill,

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Speaker 2: and then it got eliminated at the last second some

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Speaker 2: kind of tax right off where it had been less

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Speaker 2: of a tax right off, you know, not a more,

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Speaker 2: NFL owners. But when we talk about these tax right offs,

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Speaker 2: this can have a major impact on the sports gambling industry.

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Speaker 2: I'm talking about the legal sports gambling that goes on

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Speaker 2: around the country. Now, obviously this is your forte this

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Speaker 2: some WNBA stuff We're going to get to a little

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Speaker 2: in favor of sports gambling legally, how the rule whatever

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Speaker 3: Yeah, first things first, regardless of what your political allegiances.

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Speaker 3: Put that aside, Like, I don't understand why this bill

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Speaker 3: is being called beautiful because it's it's far from it,

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Speaker 3: especially for gamblers. Okay, so pretty much, and I'm gonna

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Speaker 3: So pretty much at the end of the day, what

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Speaker 3: I'm a betting analyst, so I typically try to tell

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Speaker 3: try to help them win money. And if you're winning

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Speaker 3: anywhere between fifty four to fifty six percent.

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Speaker 3: What's going to happen with this big I'm gonna call

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Speaker 3: have to pay money taxes on your losses. Usually you

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Speaker 3: pay taxes, Steve on your winning.

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Speaker 2: That would make sense. Yeah, you win something, you got

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Speaker 2: to give a little back. So you're now saying that

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Speaker 2: if you lose, you're going to have to pay taxes

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Speaker 3: Yes, pretty much so so, but where this all comes

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Speaker 3: you know, they tried to limit their amount of money

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Speaker 3: put a twenty five cent tax on them per bet.

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Speaker 3: They've been trying to lose for a long time. Now

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Speaker 3: this big beautiful bill comes in and the margins are unwinnable.

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Speaker 3: So pretty much what happens is you get a penalty,

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Speaker 3: layman's terms. You know before, if you want to hundred

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Speaker 3: You're going to have to play pay a ten tax

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Speaker 2: So in other words, what you're saying, I'm gonna really

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Speaker 2: break this down at a what I call from me an.

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Speaker 1: Idiot level, that.

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Speaker 2: You are basically being penalized to win.

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Speaker 3: Just no, you're being penalized just to camble. All right,

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Speaker 3: So you're actually you have to pay, you have to

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Speaker 1: Okay, because the majority listen.

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Speaker 3: At the end of the day.

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Speaker 1: Okay, but where is this money going? See, this is

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Speaker 2: I don't know where that money sets. Well, we don't

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Speaker 1: That's the problem.

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Speaker 2: But when we when we talk about legalized sports gambling,

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Speaker 2: you know when it was not every state is embraced it.

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Speaker 2: But so you're saying, and the idea again of legalizing

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, so, again, just putting in simple terms, if you

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Speaker 3: to pay. You could only write off ninety percent of

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Speaker 3: what it's doing is it's really forcing you to have

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Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, you have to have a you know,

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Speaker 2: Well, my biggest concern, Anita, is is this going to

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Speaker 2: cut into your barbecuing because if you don't have Is.

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Speaker 3: That how we're is that how we're bringing this.

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Speaker 2: Full well, I mean, I mean I'm trying to figure

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Speaker 2: a lot of people are gonna have to figure this

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Speaker 2: out for themselves, but for you and have spent so

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Speaker 2: much time and continue to spend so much time breaking

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Speaker 1: Uh And and your reward is.

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Speaker 2: A beautiful apartment with a beautiful backyard now that you're

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Speaker 2: and all of a sudden that if you lose, I

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Speaker 2: you know, I hope you don't lose much, but if

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Speaker 3: Here's what it comes down to, Steve, I'm gonna I'm

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Speaker 3: gonna need more shows with you.

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm gonna I'm gonna have an open, open ticket

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Speaker 3: I promise you need fox to uh to to book

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Speaker 3: me for more shows with you in order to facilitate

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Speaker 3: my gambling habit. It's it's it's really seriously, it's I

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Speaker 2: us right now. First off, Adam, how was your fourth

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Speaker 9: I was good, Yeah, it's good. Lots of family stuff.

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Speaker 6: Couldn't do it this time around.

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Speaker 6: But you know that, you.

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Speaker 2: making the deals for Metcalf and Ramsey. Exactly why is

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Speaker 9: Yeah, so he got a three year extension and they

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Speaker 9: And you're right, Omar had done all their contracts. He's

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Speaker 6: Them in the league. For as long as I have

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Speaker 9: Have been one of those old school teams that doesn't

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Speaker 9: Not only do they acquire him, and I know Steeler

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Speaker 6: Well, no, this is a new thing.

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Speaker 9: There's been a talk inside their building for last year

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Speaker 9: And as you know, he's won two Super Bowls in

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Speaker 5: I agree with you.

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Speaker 6: This is completely different and I like it. They're being

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Speaker 3: So let's and high. By the way, it's been a minute,

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Speaker 3: happy fourth.

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Speaker 6: Too, Yes, Anida, how are you?

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Speaker 3: I can tell I'm great. I'm great twenty five I

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Speaker 3: I are in the same boat. But let's talk about

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Speaker 9: All Right, Nina, So let's start talking about Arthur Smith

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Speaker 9: the general. He's just me the offense accordion who calls

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Speaker 9: pat Friarmouth. Jonah Smith is a better football player. The

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Speaker 6: He ratches it up a notch and he wanted more money.

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Speaker 9: The Dolphins told him, we're not going to do They

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Speaker 6: And they found a team that they were able to

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Speaker 9: And this is a team that is going to play

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Speaker 6: And they don't really see neither. They don't really have

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Speaker 9: It'll be Roman Wilson, who didn't really play much. He

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Speaker 5: That's it.

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Speaker 9: That's the pass target tree. There's no other They don't

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Speaker 9: I mean, it's a very simple offense. But the pressure

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Speaker 9: Pressure is absolutely going to be on him.

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Speaker 2: We are now in the month of July here, and

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Speaker 1: My calendar, by the end of this month, we're gonna

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Speaker 2: And there's one other thing I want to bring up

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Speaker 1: I see where the.

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Speaker 1: Is it twenty years? I mean, if.

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Speaker 2: right now as far as NFL teams are concerned.

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Speaker 9: Yep, twenty to twenty five here, Steve is really it, Yeah,

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Speaker 9: because you have to have all the amenities. And it's

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Speaker 9: as fascinating that Cleveland's is going to get this Stone stadium,

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Speaker 9: and I I'll see the Browns of the summer in

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Speaker 9: training camp where they come to Philly for join practices

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Speaker 9: for the preseason game. So I look forward to talking

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Speaker 9: to their front office and management that's there. But yeah,

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Speaker 9: this is the new deal here. I mean, this is

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Speaker 9: really in. And you also want your own practice facility,

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Speaker 9: and we've seen that in recent years where teams are

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Speaker 9: finally like teams in hot weather.

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Speaker 6: It's really interesting.

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Speaker 9: The Jaguars never had one shot con finally got one built,

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Speaker 9: the Buccaneers finally got one built some years ago. And

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Speaker 9: then you obviously want, you know, your own stadium, and

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Speaker 9: we're seeing that. So to move this along, Yeah, the

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Speaker 9: expectancy is no more than twenty five years, it's And

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Speaker 9: the other thing is how much public money. That's the

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Speaker 9: big debate Steve, as you know, is how much public

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Speaker 9: money are you going to get? And how much is

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Speaker 9: can you financed it privately and publicly? That that's always

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Speaker 9: the fight.

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Speaker 3: Before we let you go. I'm curious there's one team

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Speaker 3: that I am just loving heading into this year. And

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Speaker 3: that's the Washington commanders.

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Speaker 9: Everyone else is now where were you last year, Anita.

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Speaker 3: Listen? I was on the Eagles last year. I just

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Speaker 3: and you mentioned Howie. I just think the Eagles take

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Speaker 3: a step back this year. I don't like all that

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Speaker 3: they've lost on the defensive side of the Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 3: but you know, I know Washington's defense is nothing to

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Speaker 3: write home about. But I think I think Daniels can

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Speaker 3: take us, you know, can build on his his Workie campaign.

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Speaker 3: The addition of Deebo Samuel, they improved the offensive line

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Speaker 3: for me. I really I think the commander are and

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Speaker 3: as you said, a lot of people are on them.

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Speaker 3: Are they really the sleeper to really make some noises?

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Speaker 6: Definitely not.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, probably not at this point.

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Speaker 6: But no, they're not asleep, and no they're there.

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Speaker 9: As you know in the gambling, there their win totals

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Speaker 9: like the nine and a half.

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Speaker 3: So what's your team? What's your team?

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Speaker 9: I see every Steve's Let let's give Steve credit. Heath

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Speaker 9: Denver was his. I didn't see it. The outsmaker's stand

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Speaker 9: at five and a half wins, I didn't. I didn't

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Speaker 9: see that at all. Actually, like the under I got

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Speaker 9: that wrung.

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Speaker 1: That was my one pick in need of that pre

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Speaker 1: season pick.

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Speaker 2: I picked the Broncos with their rookie quarterback to make

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Speaker 2: the play playoffs.

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Speaker 9: There might be the only one in this country because

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Speaker 9: in need of the line, whatever book you looked at,

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Speaker 9: it was either between four and a half or five

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Speaker 9: and a half wins. So the Seahawks are my team

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Speaker 9: that nobody's talking about because every year we just similarly

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Speaker 9: can't find that team, like the year the Jaguars came

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Speaker 9: out of nowhere and Doug Peterson doug first year. Unfortunately

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Speaker 9: after that it was terrible. Seattle's my team. No one's

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Speaker 9: talking about that division. The NFC West is wide open.

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Speaker 9: Sam Darnold, I'm gonna he's playing the same offense that

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Speaker 9: he did last year. West Coast old school, West Coast

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Speaker 9: did a great job with it. I like their draft

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Speaker 9: are starting to build there. They're my upset special to

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Speaker 9: be a wild card in the NFC.

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Speaker 2: All right, final question, are the Eagles ever going to

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Speaker 2: get their Super Bowl rings?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 9: This is crazy. Well, they'res just to get them this month.

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Speaker 9: Yeah I got delayed. Yeah, that was a bizarre situation.

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Speaker 9: The last time that they won in seventeen. It happened

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Speaker 9: in June that they got them. And I'll tell you what,

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Speaker 9: Jeffrey Loriy, their owner, is incredible. Like talking to some

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Speaker 9: of the coaches, fron Offs people, they spare no expense

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Speaker 9: in partying and all that. They're the one organization that

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Speaker 9: just does it. They just do it right. And you know,

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Speaker 9: I mentioned Howie Roseman, he's turned his career around. And

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Speaker 9: when you've got to support of your owner Anita and Steve,

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Speaker 9: when you know he could have let Howie go after

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Speaker 9: Doug Peterson got fired, and he stayed with him and

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Speaker 9: that was a great move. Not most owners would not

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Speaker 9: have done that. But Jeffrey Lourie is a phenomenal owner

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Speaker 9: and I'm kind of surprised by the way he's not

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Speaker 9: got involved in other sports like Josh Harris, the six

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Speaker 9: sh owner who who also owns the Commanders and his

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Speaker 9: ownership group. Kind of surprise Jeffrey's not owned other sports properties.

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Speaker 2: Well, enjoy the rest of your Fourth of July holiday.

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Speaker 2: I mean, it's a weekend situation here, so Adam, enjoy

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Speaker 2: the rest of the weekend, and thanks so much. We'll

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Speaker 2: check in with you next week sounds good. See Adam Kaplan,

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Speaker 2: our NFL insider Johnny is there. Now let's find out

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Speaker 2: what is a trending? And Martin is standing by.

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Speaker 1: Right now, I am you are you turn your hat around?

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Speaker 5: Why is that? You know, Steve? This has been a

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Speaker 5: point of contention the last few weeks.

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Speaker 1: And then the fact that you continue to wear it

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Speaker 1: weekend after weekend after we'd never seen it.

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Speaker 2: So Anita is new to this, So I'm going to

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Speaker 2: fill her in on this. So Anita, he has to well,

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Speaker 2: here's the deal. Does the color or the logo make

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Speaker 2: a cap? For instance, I was in New York City

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Speaker 2: with my boys back in twenty seventeen.

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Speaker 1: I love how and I had a black.

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Speaker 10: If somebody asked the question, they then quantify why they

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Speaker 10: feel the way they feel with letting him.

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Speaker 1: I'm just going to ask this.

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Speaker 2: I was, I was in New York and I I

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Speaker 2: had a make a difference.

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Speaker 1: I had a black Yankee cap, but the the New

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Speaker 1: York logo was also blackened out.

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Speaker 3: So I've seen that happy right.

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Speaker 2: And I loved it. It was a really really cool hat.

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Speaker 2: But in other words, what what what? What Martin's been

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Speaker 2: worrying is a Dodgers cap. But it's black, it's not blue,

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Speaker 2: and so he insists it's not a Dodgers cap. It's

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Speaker 2: an l A cap. How do you feel about that?

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Speaker 3: I have to see it.

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Speaker 1: It's the l A logo, just like you would see

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Speaker 1: on a Dodger's cap.

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Speaker 3: Said, it's just it's all black. It's it's it's similar

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Speaker 3: to your Yankee head.

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Speaker 2: Correct, it's a black cap instead of a blue cap. Right,

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Speaker 2: is that a Dodger cab or is that just an

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Speaker 2: l A black cap.

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Speaker 3: No, it's a Dodgers hat. Right, you bought it as

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Speaker 3: a Dodgers hat. It's a Dodgers hat.

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Speaker 1: I did not buy.

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Speaker 5: I asked you a question. What color does the Dodgers?

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Speaker 3: Where? Blue?

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Speaker 5: Rest my case?

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Speaker 1: Okay, see he goes by the Yankees.

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Speaker 3: The Yankees don't wear black either. The Yankees wear like

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Speaker 3: a deep blue pinstripe.

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Speaker 1: He thinks this span like he thinks the Yankees would

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Speaker 1: be a Yankees. Yeah, he would not call that a Yankees.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it is the Yankees. Where you know the Navy.

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Speaker 1: The fact is you show up with this cat now

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Speaker 1: all the time. So you're trying to make a statement here.

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Speaker 3: But is it is it the logo. Is it the

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Speaker 3: same font?

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Speaker 1: It's the exact same.

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Speaker 3: It's the font of the Dodgers.

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Speaker 1: The las.

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Speaker 5: Does you say Dodgers anywhere?

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Speaker 6: It's black?

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Speaker 5: It's a black hat.

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Speaker 3: Are you not a Dodgers fan? What's I don't? Are

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Speaker 3: you not a Dodgers fan.

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Speaker 10: I'm Dodger ambivalent. Unlikely when they do well. And I

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Speaker 10: live in Los Angeles, it's a happier city where the Dodgers.

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Speaker 1: He didn't like him yesterday eighteen to one.

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Speaker 5: That was ugly. Yeah, I saw the scrolls like, oh.

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Speaker 3: Wow, were there any garbage cans in the dugout?

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Speaker 2: I don't know, but that was the worst loss in

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Speaker 2: Dodgers Stadium history.

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Speaker 10: I heard the color co one of the color conversators

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Speaker 10: not to bring up old wounds, but it's almost like

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Speaker 10: they know what's coming. It was that way. It was batting.

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Speaker 2: They had one guy that came in, the guy named

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Speaker 2: Noah Davis, gave up ten runs in one inning.

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Speaker 1: All earned.

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Speaker 5: That's impressively bad.

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Speaker 3: That is very impressively bad.

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Speaker 10: Let's run through the active baseball games. I won't take

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Speaker 10: up too much more of your time. Top of the

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Speaker 10: eighth inning, the Orioles and the Braves six to six.

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Speaker 10: The bottom of the eighth inning, the Bruins and the

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Speaker 10: Marlins two to two. The Yankees and the Mets on

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Speaker 10: FS one right now, the Mets with an eleven to

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Speaker 10: five lead in the bottom of the seventh inning, Yankees

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Speaker 10: wearing the Navy hat. They're not wearing black or white.

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Speaker 10: Oh my goodness, and a Mets batters got hit in

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Speaker 10: the head. Jack, Watch right there, just got hitting the

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Speaker 10: head by Sandridge. That's a tough one. That is he's

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Speaker 10: going to be checked out. It looks like he's okay,

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Speaker 10: but that was a scary thing to just turn and watch.

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Speaker 10: Bottom of the eighth inning, the Diamondbacks with a five

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Speaker 10: to one lead over the Royals.

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Speaker 5: Back to you, guys. See this is the problem.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I know.

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Speaker 10: This is the The Mets have these funky gray hats on.

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Speaker 10: This is not a Mets hat.

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Speaker 1: I agree, see, don't get me agree. No no, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: oh they're a Mets cap. But they're an ugly Mets cap.

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Speaker 1: Oh is what I'm saying. Hey, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: good thing. I want to boo. That was like care

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Speaker 1: him off his elbow into his ear.

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Speaker 2: See that he wants to change the subject. I do

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Speaker 2: because that's not what I said. What I said was

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Speaker 2: it's not something I would wear. Okay, ugly, thank you

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Speaker 2: very much, Martin.

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Speaker 1: We appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: By the way, we're coming you live from the Fox

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Speaker 2: It will always pop up at the top of your screen. So, Anita,

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Speaker 2: I was going to ask you, you know, we have

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Speaker 2: and games that day. To bet On and Jeff Schwartz

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Speaker 2: who used to do a regular Saturday show with me

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Speaker 2: before he became part of that Sunday show. I kidded

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Speaker 2: him a week ago because he filled in last week,

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Speaker 2: and I said, Jeff, I listened to you guys all

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Speaker 2: the time, and all you talk about is WNBA. That's

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Speaker 2: all you talk about. I mean when they're saying, all right,

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Speaker 2: what's your best play of the day. Even crack Cracker

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Speaker 2: Burger is like WNBA. So I want to ask you, Anita,

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Speaker 2: because I started behind the scenes with sort of like

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Speaker 2: asking Jeff about betting WNBA versus NBA, and he goes, well,

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Speaker 2: NBA is very much a challenge, but it seems like

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Speaker 2: they haven't quite figured out the w NBA yet. And

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Speaker 2: if you do your homework and you really break it down,

664
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Speaker 2: there's some great plays out there, seemingly every day. So

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Speaker 2: how have you hand handled the obvious increase interest in

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Speaker 2: the w NBA, not just a viewers standpoint, from my

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Speaker 2: gambling standpoint, it's.

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Speaker 3: A great question, and it's it's really interesting, right because

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Speaker 3: more people are gambling on the w NBA, more people

670
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Speaker 3: are watching the w NBA, all because of one human being,

671
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Speaker 3: and that is Caitlin Clark. And you cannot convince me otherwise.

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Speaker 3: You you talked about w NBA, you mentioned w NBA

673
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Speaker 3: it was a showkiller. Now it's not. And she she

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Speaker 3: hasn't even been.

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Speaker 1: Playing right, She's that with this coin injury.

676
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Speaker 3: She's out with a groin injury, and we're still talking

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Speaker 3: w NBA and oh, by the way, I do have

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Speaker 3: a w NBA play for you tonight, seven o'clock. The

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Speaker 3: Sparks going up against the Fever. I do like the Fever,

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Speaker 3: even though Caitlin Clark is out Fever favored by minus

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Speaker 3: five and a half and their their last game. I

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00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:01,240
Speaker 3: went against them because they were coming off of the

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Speaker 3: Commissioner Cup win against the Links, and I'm sure you

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Speaker 3: saw the video.

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Speaker 6: They're in there.

686
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Speaker 3: They're towerkin, they're popping the bubbly, they're doing right. Like

687
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Speaker 3: nobody parties like the Fever right, And so I'm like, okay,

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00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:19,160
Speaker 3: now they're going up against the Aces, who've been struggling

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Speaker 3: as of late. So but like, these girls were partying

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Speaker 3: hard after wishing winning the Commissioner's Cup, and I went

691
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Speaker 3: up against them and they crushed the Aces by twenty

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Speaker 3: seven points. So I'm not gonna gamble against them again.

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Speaker 3: They are surprisingly good even without Caitlin Clark, which is scary.

694
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Speaker 3: They've won four of their last five. Why they're getting

695
00:31:41,520 --> 00:31:43,600
Speaker 3: the ball more into the paint with Boston and Howard

696
00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:46,360
Speaker 3: Mitchell is shooting thirty seven percent from downtown.

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Speaker 6: You know, there's just it.

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Speaker 3: I will say this, the WNBA is a little bit

699
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Speaker 3: more easier to handicap because you have a lot more

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Speaker 3: consistency with the players. I will say that. But my

701
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Speaker 3: play tonight is the fever at minus five and a half.

702
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Speaker 3: And again we are talking WNBA. We are watching WNBA

703
00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:11,920
Speaker 3: because Claitlyn Clark is now. I've you can sit there

704
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Speaker 3: and I know you and I have been covering sports

705
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Speaker 3: for a long time. Right what Michael Jordan had in

706
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Speaker 3: regard to the NBA, what Tiger Woods had in regard

707
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Speaker 3: to the to the PGA, Caitlin Clark has that type

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Speaker 3: of power and that type of influence and that type

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Speaker 3: of draw to a sport that, let's be honest, was

710
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Speaker 3: struggling before.

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Speaker 2: I one hundred percent agree and I've said this right

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Speaker 2: now today. She is the most influential athlete in the world,

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Speaker 2: hands down. She is the most influential in terms of

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Speaker 2: spotlight on her individual sport by far. You mentioned Jordan

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Speaker 2: back in the AA, you mentioned a Tiger Woods, You

716
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Speaker 2: mentioned Muhammad Ali back in the world of boxing, back

717
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Speaker 2: in There are very few of these where you can

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Speaker 2: see a discernible difference on when they're playing and when

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Speaker 2: they're not playing, and just the magnitude of their presence

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Speaker 2: in terms of interest and eyeballs.

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Speaker 1: It's a very short list, but as we see it.

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Speaker 2: Here today in twenty twenty five, she is the single

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Speaker 2: most influential athlete, man or woman on the planet.

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Speaker 3: I'm just going to share this really quick. The Indiana

725
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Speaker 3: Fever franchise is currently valued at three hundred and thirty

726
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Speaker 3: five million dollars, making it the third most valuable WNBA team.

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Speaker 3: The value represents a significant two hundred and seventy three

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Speaker 3: percent increase. I'm going to repeat that again because I

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Speaker 3: want folks to marinate in this two hundred and seventy

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Speaker 3: three percent increase with the with the addition of Caitlin

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Speaker 3: Clark and now the WNBA the league's total value reaching

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Speaker 3: three point five billion dollars, all because of one year

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Speaker 3: human being. You're absolutely right, Steve.

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Speaker 2: It's crazy, I mean crazy, but it is a reality,

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Speaker 2: all right. Coming up on the other side, we've got

736
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Speaker 2: to get to some NBA news, uh, and obviously free

737
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Speaker 2: agency underway. We're gonna get some thoughts about teams that

738
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Speaker 2: have helped themselves eventually we're gonna get to the Lakers.

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Speaker 2: But let's talk Eastern Conference wide open right now. With

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Speaker 2: obviously season ending injuries to Jason Tatum Halliburton, Uh, you know,

741
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Speaker 2: Dyllian Damian Lillard is out of Milwaukee.

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Speaker 1: When it doest settles, which way should.

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Speaker 2: We lean as the team to beat in the Eastern Conference,

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Speaker 2: We'll break it down.

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Speaker 1: This is Fox Sports Saturday.

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Speaker 2: You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio Steve Hartman and

747
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Speaker 2: Anita Marx here Fox Sports Saturday.

748
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Speaker 1: We're live from the Fox Sports Radio studios. All right.

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Speaker 2: In the next hour, Mark Mendin, our NBA insider, will

750
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Speaker 2: join us. We'll get into the this with Lebron James, obviously,

751
00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:06,359
Speaker 2: the changing dynamic in the Western Conference, Kevin Durant now

752
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Speaker 2: a Houston Rocket.

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Speaker 1: What's going to happen with the Warriors? Is Lebron gonna

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Speaker 1: get traded?

755
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Speaker 2: All of this kind of stuff will break down coming

756
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Speaker 2: up in the next hour, but right now, in need,

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Speaker 2: I want to focus in on the East.

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Speaker 1: And this is just.

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Speaker 2: To me, it's really crazy because obviously no one expected

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Speaker 2: the Indiana Pacers to win the Eastern Conference this past season.

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00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:30,680
Speaker 2: It was a team that was made up of rejects.

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Speaker 5: Think about it.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, every one of.

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Speaker 2: Their key players was deemed expendable by another team. Not everyone,

765
00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:41,520
Speaker 2: but most of their key players were deemed expendable by

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Speaker 2: another team, and they piece it all to the other.

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Speaker 2: Give Rick Carlisle credit. He proved that he is one

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Speaker 2: of the elite coaches in the NBA. And it had

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Speaker 2: it not been for the injury to hall of Burton

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Speaker 2: the games And by the way, what was your play

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Speaker 2: on Game seven? Because you know, this was a series

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Speaker 2: that I dismissed Indiana like most people did. I was

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Speaker 2: trying to okay, and I won't pick them at four.

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Speaker 2: Indiana will get a game, you know, they'll get a game.

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Speaker 2: You know they've shown a lot of spirit in this postseason.

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Speaker 2: But honestly, Oklahoma City, coming off you know, one of

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Speaker 2: the ten best regular seasons in NBA history, should steam

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Speaker 2: roll this team.

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Speaker 1: They didn't. Two questions, what was your play going into

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Speaker 1: Game seven?

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Speaker 2: And if Halliburton, who got off to hot start in

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Speaker 2: that Game seven, had stayed healthy, would we be sitting

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Speaker 2: here talking about the NBA champion Indiana Pacers.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: So I made a hard pivot prior to the championship

786
00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:40,319
Speaker 3: series starting, I had OKC in five. I thought, just

787
00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:42,840
Speaker 3: like you, I thought Pacers will win one game. I

788
00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:46,279
Speaker 3: just thought, okay, see was that good? And then and

789
00:36:46,320 --> 00:36:49,680
Speaker 3: then once the series began and I started seeing what

790
00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:53,680
Speaker 3: whoa like Pacers like? They're playing with house money. Nobody

791
00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:56,000
Speaker 3: like you said, who was on the Pacers. They weren't

792
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Speaker 3: expected to be here. Halliburton was just arguable no offense

793
00:37:01,280 --> 00:37:06,040
Speaker 3: to you know, our our NBA MVP and SGA. But

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00:37:06,440 --> 00:37:11,160
Speaker 3: to me, Halliburton was was outperforming anyone on that court

795
00:37:11,200 --> 00:37:17,200
Speaker 3: in that series. So again, had OKC in five pivoted hard.

796
00:37:17,600 --> 00:37:19,880
Speaker 3: I thought I had the Pacers on the money line

797
00:37:19,920 --> 00:37:22,640
Speaker 3: in that game. If Halliburton would not have gone down,

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00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:24,480
Speaker 3: I think the Pacers would have won. I think we

799
00:37:24,520 --> 00:37:26,520
Speaker 3: would have had a game seven, and I would not

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Speaker 3: be shocked at the paper Pacers won the NBA Championship

801
00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:35,400
Speaker 3: this year. Quick, little cool nugget, Steve Jenny Bousek, who's

802
00:37:35,440 --> 00:37:38,240
Speaker 3: the beautiful blonde you see sitting next to Rick Carlisle

803
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Speaker 3: on the on the Indiana Pacers bench, My teammate in

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00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:46,239
Speaker 3: flag football. Really, she was the assistant coach for the

805
00:37:46,320 --> 00:37:49,440
Speaker 3: Miami Soul. She came to Miami, I met her, we

806
00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:52,719
Speaker 3: started playing football together. I was her quarterback. I'm not

807
00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:55,680
Speaker 3: sure if you've heard the stories that she designs plays

808
00:37:55,719 --> 00:37:57,880
Speaker 3: for the Pacers based on her flag football.

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00:37:57,960 --> 00:37:58,920
Speaker 1: I had no idea.

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00:37:59,360 --> 00:38:04,000
Speaker 3: You didn't know this. So she designs NBA plays for

811
00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:07,799
Speaker 3: the Pacers based on my flag football plays that I

812
00:38:07,880 --> 00:38:09,000
Speaker 3: designed for our team.

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00:38:10,280 --> 00:38:10,800
Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 2: Yes, well, then she gets a lot of credit that

815
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Speaker 2: she's probably not getting right now until this very moment.

816
00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:19,840
Speaker 3: So and mark my word, Steve, she will be the

817
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Speaker 3: next head coach of the Pacers. You heard it here first.

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Speaker 1: Okay, slow down a second here, slow down, by the way.

819
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Speaker 3: I'm just throwing it. I'm throwing it out there. I

820
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Speaker 3: think I think Rick Carlisle is grooming her to take on.

821
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Speaker 3: I think you will see Jenny Boosek be the first

822
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Speaker 3: female head coach in the NBA.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so I would give her a lot.

824
00:38:40,880 --> 00:38:43,480
Speaker 2: You know, we talk about Becky Hammond, obviously you're talking

825
00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:47,000
Speaker 2: about another woman now that has got connections to the NBA.

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Speaker 2: When the Knicks, we're talking about Don Staley. No knock

827
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Speaker 2: on Don Staley, who obviously proven to be one of

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Speaker 2: the best college basketball coaches in the country. But if

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Speaker 2: you don't have that NBA experience. I mean it's I mean,

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Speaker 2: it's it's an endless list of some of the most

831
00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:05,880
Speaker 2: successful college coaches of all time that have tried their

832
00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:08,719
Speaker 2: hand at the NBA with no NBA background, and they

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00:39:08,719 --> 00:39:12,440
Speaker 2: have failed miserably. So I dismissed that. So when we

834
00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:16,560
Speaker 2: look at the East right now, the Pacers obviously without Halliburton,

835
00:39:17,320 --> 00:39:20,640
Speaker 2: and obviously their big man has gone as well. And

836
00:39:20,680 --> 00:39:25,799
Speaker 2: then you look at Boston, what exactly is Boston just

837
00:39:25,840 --> 00:39:29,600
Speaker 2: gutting their organization right now? I mean Tatum obviously most

838
00:39:29,719 --> 00:39:32,640
Speaker 2: likely is out for the year, and then they just

839
00:39:32,680 --> 00:39:35,600
Speaker 2: decide we got to unload people. Is that a reset

840
00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:37,880
Speaker 2: all of a sudden? Obviously the odds on the Celtics

841
00:39:38,080 --> 00:39:43,319
Speaker 2: have fallen through the into a hole that's ridiculous from

842
00:39:43,400 --> 00:39:46,440
Speaker 2: where they were just a year ago. What exactly do

843
00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:48,000
Speaker 2: you see with the Celtics and how are they going

844
00:39:48,040 --> 00:39:51,000
Speaker 2: to put that thing back together? Because like the Lakers,

845
00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:54,520
Speaker 2: like the Next like certain organizations in this league, this

846
00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:57,640
Speaker 2: league needs the Celtics to be competitive.

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00:39:57,440 --> 00:39:58,440
Speaker 1: Do they? I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I mean, listen, if ever there was a time I'm

849
00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:02,880
Speaker 3: to push the reset button, it's now, because you're not

850
00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:05,799
Speaker 3: gonna have Jason Tatum this season, so I understand why

851
00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:08,759
Speaker 3: they're doing that. But you know, the Knicks new head

852
00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:12,319
Speaker 3: coach in Mike Brown, some question marks there.

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00:40:12,680 --> 00:40:15,360
Speaker 1: Awful Higher, it's awful higher.

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00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:18,319
Speaker 2: I love Mike Brown. He's a great guy. I got

855
00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:19,560
Speaker 2: to know him a little bit when he was at

856
00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:22,360
Speaker 2: the Lakers. I can't think of a worse fit for

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Speaker 2: New York City than Mike Brown.

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00:40:24,400 --> 00:40:28,200
Speaker 3: It's wide open for Cleveland, it is. It's wide open

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00:40:28,320 --> 00:40:31,360
Speaker 3: for Donovan Mitchell. A healthy Donovan Mitchell, top five and

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Speaker 3: clutch time scoring.

861
00:40:32,520 --> 00:40:35,839
Speaker 2: But they were so disappointing in the playoffs this past year.

862
00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:40,200
Speaker 3: But the competition in the East is it's it's it's

863
00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:41,320
Speaker 3: going to be non existent.

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Speaker 2: All right, Well, we were thinking of Cleveland and Oklahoma

865
00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:47,320
Speaker 2: City sort of on the same level, different conferences. Cleveland

866
00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:50,040
Speaker 2: didn't make it, Okase did. We're gonna get to Lebron.

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Speaker 2: Where's he going next? We'll tell you Fox Sports Saturday.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to Fox Sports.

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Speaker 2: Rolling along here on another busy sports Saturday. Sports Saturday,

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Speaker 2: we're broadcasting live from the Fox Sports radio studios. Mark Mendeina,

871
00:41:05,200 --> 00:41:07,440
Speaker 2: our NBA insider, will be joining us coming at Pier

872
00:41:08,000 --> 00:41:10,880
Speaker 2: in about twenty minutes, he'll break down a lot of

873
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Speaker 2: activity around the NBA.

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Speaker 1: So Anita.

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00:41:15,320 --> 00:41:18,800
Speaker 2: At the end of last season, when the Lakers embarrass

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00:41:18,840 --> 00:41:22,279
Speaker 2: themselves in that playoff series against the Minnesota Timberwolves and

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Speaker 2: JJ Reddick one of the worst coaching jobs in the

878
00:41:26,800 --> 00:41:32,040
Speaker 2: history of the NBA postseason, I said at the time

879
00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:36,600
Speaker 2: that Lebron James had played his final game as a Laker.

880
00:41:37,560 --> 00:41:40,240
Speaker 1: And everybody's like, oh, what are you talking about?

881
00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:43,759
Speaker 2: WHOA what are you talking about? Well, then, what was

882
00:41:43,760 --> 00:41:44,439
Speaker 2: it a week ago?

883
00:41:44,600 --> 00:41:44,759
Speaker 5: Right?

884
00:41:44,920 --> 00:41:48,160
Speaker 2: And he decides to pick up his player option, And

885
00:41:48,400 --> 00:41:51,240
Speaker 2: I came on, I said, well, looks like I was wrong,

886
00:41:52,080 --> 00:41:54,520
Speaker 2: and then all of a sudden, not so fast.

887
00:41:55,680 --> 00:42:00,239
Speaker 1: So here here's here's what we hear. And really it

888
00:42:00,280 --> 00:42:01,919
Speaker 1: comes from Rich Paul.

889
00:42:02,000 --> 00:42:04,279
Speaker 2: I mean, he's the guy that sort of throws it

890
00:42:04,320 --> 00:42:08,040
Speaker 2: out there right when he talks about that, Yes, he's

891
00:42:08,080 --> 00:42:10,839
Speaker 2: picking up his player option with the Lakers, but you know,

892
00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:14,520
Speaker 2: he's about winning a championship sort of like, let's see

893
00:42:14,520 --> 00:42:16,120
Speaker 2: what the Lakers do in the offseason.

894
00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:18,920
Speaker 1: Of course, when you say that, well, the Lakers are

895
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:21,680
Speaker 1: very limited on what they can do because of the

896
00:42:21,680 --> 00:42:22,880
Speaker 1: contract he just signed.

897
00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:25,160
Speaker 2: And that's why you have to settle for a DeAndre

898
00:42:25,239 --> 00:42:27,160
Speaker 2: Ayight and we'll get to that in a moment, Anita,

899
00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:32,600
Speaker 2: But just staying with the Lakers and Lebron James, you're

900
00:42:32,640 --> 00:42:36,279
Speaker 2: still talking about a player that has to be recognized

901
00:42:36,520 --> 00:42:39,120
Speaker 2: as one of the top fifteen, if not top ten.

902
00:42:38,960 --> 00:42:40,000
Speaker 1: Players in the league.

903
00:42:40,120 --> 00:42:43,080
Speaker 2: A year ago, he scored twenty four points a game,

904
00:42:43,239 --> 00:42:46,840
Speaker 2: seven rebounds, eight assists, shot over fifty percent from the

905
00:42:46,840 --> 00:42:49,520
Speaker 2: field thirty eight percent from the three point line. He's

906
00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:52,760
Speaker 2: still one of the absolute elite players in this league.

907
00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:56,040
Speaker 2: But he comes with a hefty price tag. Yes, it's

908
00:42:56,040 --> 00:43:00,680
Speaker 2: a dumpable contract because it's an aspiring deal. What's your gut,

909
00:43:00,760 --> 00:43:02,920
Speaker 2: am I going to turn out to be right with

910
00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:05,239
Speaker 2: my prediction that he had played his final game as

911
00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:08,440
Speaker 2: a Laker or come start of this season, will Lebron

912
00:43:08,520 --> 00:43:13,120
Speaker 2: James still be in a Lakers uniform.

913
00:43:13,200 --> 00:43:20,040
Speaker 3: So there's a lot to unpack here. Yes, listen, and

914
00:43:20,120 --> 00:43:23,120
Speaker 3: you talk about Rich Paul quote unquote, Lebron wants to

915
00:43:23,120 --> 00:43:25,640
Speaker 3: compete for a championship. He knows that the Lakers are

916
00:43:25,640 --> 00:43:29,680
Speaker 3: building for the future, he understands, but he values a

917
00:43:29,719 --> 00:43:33,120
Speaker 3: realistic chance of winning it all. It's impossible for the

918
00:43:33,200 --> 00:43:37,640
Speaker 3: Lakers or any team to win having to pay him

919
00:43:37,920 --> 00:43:41,520
Speaker 3: fifty two point six million dollars, okay at his age,

920
00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:44,480
Speaker 3: and not to say, you know, one could argue top

921
00:43:44,520 --> 00:43:47,759
Speaker 3: ten player in the NBA still, but at his age,

922
00:43:48,120 --> 00:43:50,719
Speaker 3: you know, you're talking about load management for him. So

923
00:43:51,040 --> 00:43:55,440
Speaker 3: you need to find the right elixir of paying him

924
00:43:55,480 --> 00:43:59,080
Speaker 3: a salary that you can afford that the team doesn't

925
00:43:59,080 --> 00:44:02,280
Speaker 3: can penalize with the apron blah blah blah. That's above

926
00:44:02,280 --> 00:44:04,520
Speaker 3: my pay grade in regard to how that all works.

927
00:44:04,560 --> 00:44:11,520
Speaker 3: But and then having a roster and a bench, especially

928
00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:14,719
Speaker 3: as long and is as grueling as the NBA is.

929
00:44:14,920 --> 00:44:16,879
Speaker 3: I mean, look, we just got done talking about what

930
00:44:16,960 --> 00:44:20,000
Speaker 3: a plethora of guys who already have Achilles injuries right

931
00:44:20,840 --> 00:44:23,480
Speaker 3: to be able to come in and compete and sustain

932
00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:29,120
Speaker 3: and win. So Lebron at his age, the load management

933
00:44:29,320 --> 00:44:32,800
Speaker 3: that comes with him at this stage in his career,

934
00:44:33,160 --> 00:44:35,560
Speaker 3: but having to pay him fifty two point six million dollars,

935
00:44:36,440 --> 00:44:40,440
Speaker 3: no team could win with that. So if Lebron really

936
00:44:40,480 --> 00:44:43,760
Speaker 3: wanted to win, Steve, here's the question, here's the real question.

937
00:44:44,280 --> 00:44:47,040
Speaker 3: If Lebron valued and how much money does one human

938
00:44:47,080 --> 00:44:49,520
Speaker 3: being need in a lifetime? Right, Lebron James has made

939
00:44:49,600 --> 00:44:54,040
Speaker 3: enough money for his children's children's children's children to not

940
00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:56,719
Speaker 3: have to work a day of their lives. So if

941
00:44:57,360 --> 00:45:01,840
Speaker 3: what really matters for Lebron is to win a championship, Steve,

942
00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:05,360
Speaker 3: he should have opted out. You're you're you're now forcing

943
00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:12,719
Speaker 3: you're now forcing the Lakers you know, to to Well,

944
00:45:12,760 --> 00:45:14,600
Speaker 3: they can't trade him because he's got he's got a

945
00:45:14,680 --> 00:45:18,280
Speaker 3: no trade clause where he wants to go. They don't

946
00:45:18,320 --> 00:45:21,040
Speaker 3: want him because they would have to give too much

947
00:45:21,120 --> 00:45:23,839
Speaker 3: up to get him, and realize that they wouldn't win

948
00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:26,319
Speaker 3: with him because they would have to give so much

949
00:45:26,480 --> 00:45:32,120
Speaker 3: up in regard to players and potential draft picks for

950
00:45:32,280 --> 00:45:35,759
Speaker 3: the future. You don't wanna, you don't wanna handicap your

951
00:45:35,880 --> 00:45:38,799
Speaker 3: organization because you bring him in to try to win

952
00:45:38,880 --> 00:45:42,319
Speaker 3: one where you just don't have the right mix of

953
00:45:42,440 --> 00:45:46,680
Speaker 3: roster depth and and and the taxes or the apron

954
00:45:47,400 --> 00:45:48,239
Speaker 3: that you have to pay.

955
00:45:48,560 --> 00:45:51,080
Speaker 2: Well, but here is the thing, Anita, and and by

956
00:45:51,120 --> 00:45:55,200
Speaker 2: the way, this was all orchestrated by team Lebron. So

957
00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:58,319
Speaker 2: when we go back when uh, you know Sham's is

958
00:45:58,320 --> 00:46:01,840
Speaker 2: putting out something by five weeks ago, you know the

959
00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:04,080
Speaker 2: rich Paul's out there saying, well, it looks like we're

960
00:46:04,080 --> 00:46:06,319
Speaker 2: gonna have to pick up the player option. That was

961
00:46:06,400 --> 00:46:09,720
Speaker 2: his way of saying, Lakers were looking for a long

962
00:46:09,800 --> 00:46:14,240
Speaker 2: term deal. Yeah, we'll take less, but we want years. Well,

963
00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:16,920
Speaker 2: once the sale of the Lakers went down, that was

964
00:46:16,960 --> 00:46:19,879
Speaker 2: out the window. I mean, that was not gonna happen.

965
00:46:19,920 --> 00:46:22,080
Speaker 2: They were not going to give him years. And so

966
00:46:22,120 --> 00:46:23,840
Speaker 2: they're like, we'll screw you. Then we'll just pick up

967
00:46:23,840 --> 00:46:27,040
Speaker 2: the option. And that's that's pretty much how this played out.

968
00:46:27,280 --> 00:46:30,279
Speaker 3: But let's let's let's take let's take the let's take like,

969
00:46:30,400 --> 00:46:34,080
Speaker 3: let's really talk about Lebron James, Steve right again. How

970
00:46:34,160 --> 00:46:36,240
Speaker 3: much money does one human being need in a lifetime?

971
00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:39,359
Speaker 1: I understand it, but I remember the conversation.

972
00:46:38,960 --> 00:46:41,480
Speaker 3: I wanted to win. Yeah, here and and let's and

973
00:46:41,520 --> 00:46:47,040
Speaker 3: here's the bigger The bigger conversation is, you know, the

974
00:46:47,080 --> 00:46:51,040
Speaker 3: conversation of Michael Jordan Lebron James the greatest of all time?

975
00:46:51,960 --> 00:46:55,040
Speaker 3: If he really and we live in a society, we

976
00:46:55,160 --> 00:47:02,680
Speaker 3: live in a sports uh youse where we value championships.

977
00:47:02,920 --> 00:47:05,880
Speaker 3: I do not in team sports. I think it's a farce.

978
00:47:06,080 --> 00:47:07,160
Speaker 3: But that's a conversation.

979
00:47:07,160 --> 00:47:09,000
Speaker 2: Well, I agree with you because I've always said this

980
00:47:09,080 --> 00:47:12,000
Speaker 2: about championships. I told this to Kobe to his face.

981
00:47:12,560 --> 00:47:15,440
Speaker 2: When you say I'm a five time champion, you're you're wrong.

982
00:47:15,680 --> 00:47:18,440
Speaker 2: It's not an individual a team sporting. You were on

983
00:47:18,520 --> 00:47:21,720
Speaker 2: five teams that won championship. You can talk about all NBA,

984
00:47:21,880 --> 00:47:26,120
Speaker 2: All Star Games, scoring, all that's individual stuff. And when

985
00:47:26,160 --> 00:47:29,080
Speaker 2: you talk about, well, you know I won five championships,

986
00:47:29,120 --> 00:47:31,880
Speaker 2: No you didn't. You didn't win five championships. You were

987
00:47:31,920 --> 00:47:34,640
Speaker 2: on five championship teams, whether you were the key guy

988
00:47:34,960 --> 00:47:37,400
Speaker 2: or the last guy on the bench. That is a

989
00:47:37,560 --> 00:47:39,600
Speaker 2: team and not an individual accomplishment.

990
00:47:39,719 --> 00:47:41,880
Speaker 3: So you and I agree on that, But the majority

991
00:47:41,920 --> 00:47:43,520
Speaker 3: of the country they do not.

992
00:47:43,719 --> 00:47:44,799
Speaker 1: They don't even think about it.

993
00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:45,440
Speaker 3: They know.

994
00:47:45,640 --> 00:47:47,680
Speaker 1: And that's when people there's a five time champion.

995
00:47:47,880 --> 00:47:49,960
Speaker 3: When people say that Tom Brady's the greatest quarterback of

996
00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:52,960
Speaker 3: all time, I laugh. But of course, you know, when

997
00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:58,040
Speaker 3: you hashtag Tom Brady on on X, the emoji of

998
00:47:58,080 --> 00:47:59,960
Speaker 3: a goat comes up. It makes me want to vomit.

999
00:48:00,120 --> 00:48:04,280
Speaker 3: But nonetheless, if Lebron James, we live in this world

1000
00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:08,200
Speaker 3: where we equate championships in team sports to the greatest

1001
00:48:08,239 --> 00:48:11,680
Speaker 3: of all time, if he really wanted to win a championship,

1002
00:48:12,080 --> 00:48:15,040
Speaker 3: he would have opted out, and he would have done

1003
00:48:15,040 --> 00:48:17,680
Speaker 3: what Tom Brady did for years and years and years

1004
00:48:17,719 --> 00:48:21,040
Speaker 3: with the Patriots, and that's take less money so that

1005
00:48:21,239 --> 00:48:25,400
Speaker 3: your team could build the right personnel around you that

1006
00:48:25,440 --> 00:48:26,480
Speaker 3: you have the best offer.

1007
00:48:26,520 --> 00:48:29,040
Speaker 2: He did that in Miami, though, Anita, I mean he

1008
00:48:29,120 --> 00:48:32,640
Speaker 2: took the exact same salary, not just Dwayne Waye, but

1009
00:48:32,719 --> 00:48:33,360
Speaker 2: Chris Bosh.

1010
00:48:33,600 --> 00:48:37,120
Speaker 1: He took the exact same salary. Look Kobe Bryant back.

1011
00:48:36,960 --> 00:48:39,040
Speaker 2: In the day when he signed that three year extension

1012
00:48:39,160 --> 00:48:42,080
Speaker 2: after blowing out his achilles, I asked him. I asked

1013
00:48:42,160 --> 00:48:44,439
Speaker 2: him point playing. I said, Kobe, would you ever take

1014
00:48:44,520 --> 00:48:47,560
Speaker 2: less money to, you know, maybe free up some money

1015
00:48:47,560 --> 00:48:49,640
Speaker 2: to sign other players? And his answer was, it's not

1016
00:48:49,719 --> 00:48:53,239
Speaker 2: my problem. And you know what, Laker fans had no

1017
00:48:53,280 --> 00:48:55,960
Speaker 2: problem either, because he had earned that, at least in

1018
00:48:56,000 --> 00:48:58,680
Speaker 2: their minds, for everything he'd given the Lakers over the year.

1019
00:48:58,960 --> 00:49:01,200
Speaker 2: Of course, by his last season, they were a seventeen

1020
00:49:01,200 --> 00:49:02,759
Speaker 2: and sixty five basketball team.

1021
00:49:03,360 --> 00:49:05,560
Speaker 1: I just everything you're.

1022
00:49:05,440 --> 00:49:08,160
Speaker 2: Saying, I'm on the same page as far as Lebron

1023
00:49:08,280 --> 00:49:10,920
Speaker 2: is concerned. But also understand this, at no point of

1024
00:49:10,960 --> 00:49:13,040
Speaker 2: his career as Lebron ever been the highest paid player

1025
00:49:13,040 --> 00:49:18,080
Speaker 2: in the NBA. Ever, neither was Tom Brady. Tom Brady

1026
00:49:18,080 --> 00:49:19,759
Speaker 2: always took less money, did he not?

1027
00:49:19,960 --> 00:49:22,640
Speaker 1: He was never the highest paid quarterback in the NFL. Ever,

1028
00:49:23,840 --> 00:49:25,680
Speaker 1: So don't I don't know.

1029
00:49:25,760 --> 00:49:29,920
Speaker 2: I mean, in some respects, I understand Lebron, Lebron's situation,

1030
00:49:30,239 --> 00:49:34,640
Speaker 2: but the way this played out this time, I just

1031
00:49:34,719 --> 00:49:38,440
Speaker 2: think he was like, don't screw with me, because I'll

1032
00:49:38,440 --> 00:49:41,720
Speaker 2: screw with you guys. And again if you're the Lakers.

1033
00:49:41,800 --> 00:49:43,960
Speaker 2: This is why the new ownership is so key for

1034
00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:47,319
Speaker 2: the organization. They need to turn the page. I love

1035
00:49:47,400 --> 00:49:49,560
Speaker 2: Genie Buss, but you know it's all about her friends

1036
00:49:49,560 --> 00:49:51,560
Speaker 2: taking care of people that are loyal to her.

1037
00:49:52,000 --> 00:49:53,600
Speaker 1: Those days are over.

1038
00:49:54,680 --> 00:49:57,120
Speaker 3: But here's another thing. When it comes to Lebron James,

1039
00:49:57,160 --> 00:49:59,880
Speaker 3: I feel like every organization he's with in is poor,

1040
00:50:01,360 --> 00:50:04,040
Speaker 3: like him and pat Riley with the Miami Heat. You

1041
00:50:04,080 --> 00:50:06,640
Speaker 3: mentioned the Miami Heat poorly, No.

1042
00:50:06,640 --> 00:50:09,680
Speaker 2: Well, poorly for pat Riley and poorly for Lebron. He

1043
00:50:09,680 --> 00:50:12,120
Speaker 2: went to Cleveland and won another championship, right.

1044
00:50:11,960 --> 00:50:15,360
Speaker 3: But then, but then what happened ownership with with Cleveland

1045
00:50:15,719 --> 00:50:19,160
Speaker 3: ended poorly, right, Like, I just I feel like there,

1046
00:50:19,520 --> 00:50:23,400
Speaker 3: I feel like it's always something. It's like you know,

1047
00:50:23,440 --> 00:50:26,799
Speaker 3: you've got these organizations that bend over backwards, pay him

1048
00:50:26,800 --> 00:50:31,840
Speaker 3: a ton of money, allow him to you know, decide

1049
00:50:32,120 --> 00:50:36,080
Speaker 3: or or be a decisional factor in regard to coaching

1050
00:50:36,400 --> 00:50:39,280
Speaker 3: and roster and that. Like, you know, he pretty much

1051
00:50:39,520 --> 00:50:42,640
Speaker 3: is like a pseudo owner on whatever team he's on,

1052
00:50:43,200 --> 00:50:48,839
Speaker 3: his group, his you know, posse whatever they get, you know,

1053
00:50:49,120 --> 00:50:54,080
Speaker 3: certain treatment, right like can park underneath the stadium whatever.

1054
00:50:54,480 --> 00:50:58,520
Speaker 3: It's like, organizations bend over backwards, gives him whatever he wants.

1055
00:50:59,120 --> 00:51:02,279
Speaker 3: But then and then and then we're always here. We

1056
00:51:02,360 --> 00:51:04,600
Speaker 3: always end up here where it's like.

1057
00:51:06,080 --> 00:51:11,440
Speaker 2: Not not on good footing, but they got a championship

1058
00:51:11,480 --> 00:51:13,440
Speaker 2: out of it. I guess that's his play. Here's what

1059
00:51:13,480 --> 00:51:15,960
Speaker 2: I see in the resume of Lebron James and as

1060
00:51:16,000 --> 00:51:21,320
Speaker 2: are someone that has faulted well no seven years, either

1061
00:51:21,520 --> 00:51:24,040
Speaker 2: missing the playoffs or being bounced in the first round.

1062
00:51:24,120 --> 00:51:27,080
Speaker 2: Five of those seven years, a flukish run to the

1063
00:51:27,080 --> 00:51:29,960
Speaker 2: Western Conference Finals where they got swept out by Denver

1064
00:51:30,000 --> 00:51:32,279
Speaker 2: a couple of years ago, and then the.

1065
00:51:32,200 --> 00:51:36,439
Speaker 1: Bubble Championship, which was never celebrated in La So no,

1066
00:51:36,520 --> 00:51:37,560
Speaker 1: I mean there's and.

1067
00:51:37,480 --> 00:51:40,360
Speaker 2: By the way, that was preceded by five losing seasons

1068
00:51:40,360 --> 00:51:44,520
Speaker 2: I mean this, See the Lakers are becoming that myopic

1069
00:51:44,680 --> 00:51:47,480
Speaker 2: organization where they still talk about the greatness of the

1070
00:51:47,560 --> 00:51:51,520
Speaker 2: Lakers when the fact is, in the post Doctor Bus era,

1071
00:51:51,640 --> 00:51:54,440
Speaker 2: this team is a loser and has been a loser

1072
00:51:54,560 --> 00:51:57,680
Speaker 2: far more seasons than a winner. And that's where they

1073
00:51:57,719 --> 00:52:00,040
Speaker 2: are right now, and they're trying to get relevant. The

1074
00:52:00,120 --> 00:52:02,920
Speaker 2: league did them a huge favor by allowing the Luka

1075
00:52:03,000 --> 00:52:05,400
Speaker 2: Doncis steal to come about.

1076
00:52:05,440 --> 00:52:07,320
Speaker 1: This is why I keep waiting for the NFL.

1077
00:52:07,440 --> 00:52:11,280
Speaker 2: The NBA front off, the league office is somehow intervene

1078
00:52:11,280 --> 00:52:14,359
Speaker 2: here and figured this whole thing out where Lebron can

1079
00:52:14,400 --> 00:52:17,600
Speaker 2: win and the Lakers can win. I think there's just

1080
00:52:17,719 --> 00:52:20,920
Speaker 2: more people involved than just those in the Laker organization.

1081
00:52:21,120 --> 00:52:23,360
Speaker 2: All Right, we'll have more in this later, but coming up,

1082
00:52:23,360 --> 00:52:25,920
Speaker 2: we're gonna break down more on this and some of

1083
00:52:25,960 --> 00:52:27,879
Speaker 2: the other moves that have been made during this free

1084
00:52:27,920 --> 00:52:33,160
Speaker 2: agency period around the NBA winners losers. We're gonna break

1085
00:52:33,160 --> 00:52:36,640
Speaker 2: it down with Mark Medena or NBA Insider. This is

1086
00:52:36,680 --> 00:52:42,880
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Saturday, Steve Harvin and Anita Marx Here Fox

1087
00:52:42,920 --> 00:52:45,920
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1088
00:52:46,000 --> 00:52:49,560
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1089
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Speaker 2: of the best joining us right now, they can break

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00:53:13,160 --> 00:53:16,000
Speaker 2: down the NBA and all the craziness that's going on

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Speaker 2: right now with free agency.

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Speaker 1: Mark Medina is joining us once again.

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Speaker 2: All right, Mark, we got a lot of ground to cover,

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00:53:23,320 --> 00:53:25,719
Speaker 2: but let's start at the top. Or it could be

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00:53:25,760 --> 00:53:27,480
Speaker 2: the bottom if you want to look at it that way.

1102
00:53:27,520 --> 00:53:31,719
Speaker 2: The Lebron James situation, so again, you know that I

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00:53:31,920 --> 00:53:34,239
Speaker 2: said Mark at the end of the season after they

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00:53:34,760 --> 00:53:37,320
Speaker 2: were blown out by Minnesota in the first round, that

1105
00:53:37,480 --> 00:53:39,920
Speaker 2: Lebron James had played his last game as Laker. I

1106
00:53:39,960 --> 00:53:42,160
Speaker 2: went on, Rick, I say he will never play another

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00:53:42,239 --> 00:53:45,920
Speaker 2: game as a Laker, and then he signs his player

1108
00:53:45,920 --> 00:53:48,680
Speaker 2: option a week ago, and I'm like, well, maybe I

1109
00:53:48,760 --> 00:53:49,160
Speaker 2: was wrong.

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00:53:49,280 --> 00:53:50,760
Speaker 1: Well, maybe I wasn't wrong.

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00:53:52,080 --> 00:53:57,279
Speaker 2: So two questions here are the Lakers actively seeking to

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00:53:57,560 --> 00:54:03,480
Speaker 2: trade Lebron James, And are there any interested parties at

1113
00:54:03,520 --> 00:54:06,799
Speaker 2: all for the services of a player who still has

1114
00:54:06,840 --> 00:54:09,280
Speaker 2: to be ranked among the top ten or fifteen players

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00:54:09,320 --> 00:54:12,280
Speaker 2: in this league but comes with a fifty two million

1116
00:54:12,320 --> 00:54:14,720
Speaker 2: dollar price tag for next season.

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00:54:15,719 --> 00:54:18,439
Speaker 4: Yeah, Steeve a lot of good questions you presented here.

1118
00:54:19,360 --> 00:54:21,959
Speaker 4: I don't think the Lakers are actively looking to trade

1119
00:54:22,040 --> 00:54:25,600
Speaker 4: Lebron James, but they're certainly listening. But I think what

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00:54:25,880 --> 00:54:29,520
Speaker 4: the feedback is is that teams are saying, thanks, but

1121
00:54:29,680 --> 00:54:32,279
Speaker 4: no thanks. They love Lebron James is a talent, but

1122
00:54:32,880 --> 00:54:35,960
Speaker 4: it's not worth having to put up assets at equal

1123
00:54:36,480 --> 00:54:39,880
Speaker 4: fifty two million dollars, and I think also the Lakers

1124
00:54:39,920 --> 00:54:42,959
Speaker 4: aren't going to conclude that there's any assets combined that's

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00:54:43,040 --> 00:54:46,800
Speaker 4: worth it. And so I do still think that he's

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00:54:47,040 --> 00:54:49,720
Speaker 4: playing not only with the Lakers to start this season,

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00:54:50,200 --> 00:54:54,160
Speaker 4: but to end this season. But I think that this

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00:54:54,239 --> 00:54:57,120
Speaker 4: is the latest example that this is just going to

1129
00:54:57,120 --> 00:55:01,480
Speaker 4: be a transactional relationship on both sides. It's that Lebron,

1130
00:55:01,880 --> 00:55:04,359
Speaker 4: they'll punch in and punch out and still produce an

1131
00:55:04,360 --> 00:55:07,840
Speaker 4: all Star caliber level, but there might be more oxygen

1132
00:55:07,920 --> 00:55:10,319
Speaker 4: stucked out of the room when things don't go his

1133
00:55:10,400 --> 00:55:14,799
Speaker 4: way with the roster or team chemistry. And from the

1134
00:55:14,840 --> 00:55:19,400
Speaker 4: Lakers standpoint, they'll appreciate what he provides on the court,

1135
00:55:19,520 --> 00:55:22,919
Speaker 4: but they'll also roll their eyes and kind of huff

1136
00:55:23,000 --> 00:55:27,960
Speaker 4: and tough in silence and resentment when he is pouting

1137
00:55:28,000 --> 00:55:32,800
Speaker 4: about this. It's just very wild, but not surprising that

1138
00:55:32,880 --> 00:55:36,800
Speaker 4: it's gotten to this point because ever since the Luca

1139
00:55:36,880 --> 00:55:39,320
Speaker 4: Doca trade, the writing on the wall was that the

1140
00:55:39,400 --> 00:55:42,439
Speaker 4: Lakers are trying to pivot from the Lebron James era.

1141
00:55:43,000 --> 00:55:44,840
Speaker 4: But I think in their mind it didn't have to

1142
00:55:44,920 --> 00:55:47,200
Speaker 4: be in either or Lebron should still be on the

1143
00:55:47,200 --> 00:55:50,640
Speaker 4: team and help pass the torch to Luca, and I

1144
00:55:50,680 --> 00:55:52,839
Speaker 4: think that that's what their conclusion is going to be

1145
00:55:53,120 --> 00:55:57,560
Speaker 4: moving forward. But his statement certainly didn't help romanticize any

1146
00:55:57,600 --> 00:55:58,720
Speaker 4: feelings on other sides.

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00:56:00,000 --> 00:56:02,120
Speaker 3: So Steve and I were talking before you joined us.

1148
00:56:02,360 --> 00:56:04,120
Speaker 3: You know, at the end of the day, if it's

1149
00:56:04,120 --> 00:56:09,759
Speaker 3: about winning, Lebron could have should have opted out and

1150
00:56:09,840 --> 00:56:13,239
Speaker 3: then go in and play and try to find a

1151
00:56:13,280 --> 00:56:16,640
Speaker 3: team that you know would best fit his skill set

1152
00:56:16,680 --> 00:56:22,160
Speaker 3: at forty his his load management, that's going to best

1153
00:56:22,160 --> 00:56:25,879
Speaker 3: suit him to potentially go in and win another championship,

1154
00:56:26,400 --> 00:56:29,759
Speaker 3: and he did not. Kind of do you agree with

1155
00:56:29,800 --> 00:56:30,680
Speaker 3: that notion or not?

1156
00:56:32,400 --> 00:56:35,080
Speaker 4: I think you make a great point. I think here's

1157
00:56:35,120 --> 00:56:37,680
Speaker 4: the problem. Lebron James wants to have his cake and

1158
00:56:37,719 --> 00:56:40,719
Speaker 4: eat it too, so he wants to get paid. And

1159
00:56:40,760 --> 00:56:43,960
Speaker 4: if he were to opt out, he would see that

1160
00:56:44,480 --> 00:56:47,680
Speaker 4: there's not a market for fifty two million dollars for him,

1161
00:56:48,280 --> 00:56:51,120
Speaker 4: you know. And I think that the Lakers, you know it,

1162
00:56:52,200 --> 00:56:54,880
Speaker 4: it's important for them to take care of star players.

1163
00:56:54,880 --> 00:56:59,399
Speaker 4: In Lebron's defense, he's still playing at a reasonably high level,

1164
00:56:59,480 --> 00:57:02,600
Speaker 4: least enough to make an all start team, but he's

1165
00:57:02,680 --> 00:57:06,120
Speaker 4: not going to be commanding the kind of top dollar

1166
00:57:06,200 --> 00:57:10,040
Speaker 4: that he would get in, you know, earlier in his career.

1167
00:57:10,160 --> 00:57:13,160
Speaker 4: And I think, let's be frank, guys, if he did

1168
00:57:13,280 --> 00:57:16,280
Speaker 4: take take a pay cut, on one hand, he would

1169
00:57:16,320 --> 00:57:18,840
Speaker 4: be lauded for the sacrifice and all that, But if

1170
00:57:18,840 --> 00:57:22,040
Speaker 4: it got to the point where it's mid level veterans

1171
00:57:22,240 --> 00:57:25,600
Speaker 4: minimum just to join a stacked team already, you know,

1172
00:57:25,640 --> 00:57:27,800
Speaker 4: we saw what happened when Kevin Durant joined the Golden

1173
00:57:27,800 --> 00:57:31,600
Speaker 4: State Warriors. His championships wouldn't be met with the same

1174
00:57:31,680 --> 00:57:34,440
Speaker 4: kind of respect, especially when it comes to goat debate

1175
00:57:34,960 --> 00:57:38,280
Speaker 4: as it was in normal circumstances. So you know, I

1176
00:57:38,320 --> 00:57:42,120
Speaker 4: don't fault Lebron for that, especially even though he's a billionaire.

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Speaker 4: If he wants to be an owner down the line,

1178
00:57:44,440 --> 00:57:47,960
Speaker 4: every amount of money he makes is going to count

1179
00:57:48,120 --> 00:57:51,240
Speaker 4: toward his ability to do that. But I think with

1180
00:57:51,400 --> 00:57:54,200
Speaker 4: him opting in, he should have sent the message, you

1181
00:57:54,240 --> 00:57:56,760
Speaker 4: know what, he does want to win a championship, but

1182
00:57:56,800 --> 00:57:58,560
Speaker 4: it should be about, hey, I want to help the

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00:57:58,680 --> 00:58:04,520
Speaker 4: Lakers win a championship season. So you know, again, regardless

1184
00:58:04,520 --> 00:58:08,920
Speaker 4: of the decisions he's he's making, it's been unfortunely been

1185
00:58:08,960 --> 00:58:10,640
Speaker 4: about he wants to have his cake in.

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Speaker 2: Either two and then he had the DeAndre Ayton situation.

1187
00:58:15,080 --> 00:58:18,520
Speaker 2: So this is a guy a classic example. He's not alone,

1188
00:58:18,560 --> 00:58:21,480
Speaker 2: by the way, and this is in sports across the board,

1189
00:58:21,880 --> 00:58:24,160
Speaker 2: where guys put up numbers that you look at the

1190
00:58:24,200 --> 00:58:27,080
Speaker 2: surface and like, wow, I mean, this guy's played seven

1191
00:58:27,160 --> 00:58:31,000
Speaker 2: years and he has averaged a double double every one

1192
00:58:31,080 --> 00:58:35,200
Speaker 2: of those years, every one seven for seven. So you're like, well,

1193
00:58:35,200 --> 00:58:38,200
Speaker 2: okay's consistent and he you know, this is what you're

1194
00:58:38,240 --> 00:58:40,080
Speaker 2: looking for for a big man. Then you dig a

1195
00:58:40,080 --> 00:58:42,680
Speaker 2: little deeper and then you find out that he is

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00:58:42,720 --> 00:58:46,760
Speaker 2: one of those athletes that literally produces empty numbers. And

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00:58:47,040 --> 00:58:49,400
Speaker 2: if you really look at it, his best numbers were

1198
00:58:49,400 --> 00:58:52,120
Speaker 2: his second year in the league and both rebound and scoring.

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Speaker 2: So he made peak here. But here's the problem for

1200
00:58:54,680 --> 00:58:58,960
Speaker 2: the Lakers with the Aighton situation. If he actually has

1201
00:58:59,000 --> 00:59:01,680
Speaker 2: a great year, he'll opt out.

1202
00:59:02,240 --> 00:59:03,560
Speaker 1: Yeah, he'll opt.

1203
00:59:03,280 --> 00:59:05,480
Speaker 2: Out, and he'll look for more money elsewhere, and that'll

1204
00:59:05,520 --> 00:59:08,280
Speaker 2: be the end of it. If he doesn't pan out,

1205
00:59:08,880 --> 00:59:11,600
Speaker 2: you're saddled with him for a second year. I mean,

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00:59:11,760 --> 00:59:13,920
Speaker 2: to me, I look at this as sort of a

1207
00:59:13,960 --> 00:59:16,800
Speaker 2: lose lose. I know, he wasn't their first priority. It

1208
00:59:16,920 --> 00:59:19,320
Speaker 2: was sort of just, you know, the last man standing.

1209
00:59:20,120 --> 00:59:24,320
Speaker 2: But I don't see any upside at all with DeAndre

1210
00:59:24,400 --> 00:59:27,240
Speaker 2: Ayton unless they were to win a championship this season.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

1212
00:59:28,440 --> 00:59:30,480
Speaker 4: I mean, here's the thing. This is what happens when

1213
00:59:30,480 --> 00:59:35,080
Speaker 4: you sign a wild card player to fulfill your literal

1214
00:59:35,160 --> 00:59:38,360
Speaker 4: number one priority that you've set on record to address

1215
00:59:38,400 --> 00:59:41,000
Speaker 4: this offseason with getting the center position. Now, part of

1216
00:59:41,000 --> 00:59:42,919
Speaker 4: that had to do with the fact that he's best

1217
00:59:42,960 --> 00:59:46,360
Speaker 4: center available. They already struck out on Brook Lopez and

1218
00:59:46,440 --> 00:59:50,160
Speaker 4: quint Capella wasn't available. So he settled for planed CD

1219
00:59:50,320 --> 00:59:53,240
Speaker 4: or F or whatever. But the point that he made

1220
00:59:53,280 --> 00:59:57,760
Speaker 4: about DeAndre and with his numbers is completely on point,

1221
00:59:57,920 --> 01:00:00,160
Speaker 4: because if it was just about that, you would think

1222
01:00:00,520 --> 01:00:04,240
Speaker 4: he's a great player, he's unstoppable. But the problem is he's

1223
01:00:04,240 --> 01:00:07,760
Speaker 4: had a lot of injuries. He doesn't always perform consistently

1224
01:00:07,880 --> 01:00:10,400
Speaker 4: when he's, you know, not the number one option, which

1225
01:00:10,440 --> 01:00:13,720
Speaker 4: happens a lot. Sometimes he'll get frustrated. And I think

1226
01:00:13,720 --> 01:00:16,000
Speaker 4: that this quote that he said to me last year,

1227
01:00:16,040 --> 01:00:18,400
Speaker 4: in the midst of being with Portland, having a lot

1228
01:00:18,480 --> 01:00:21,080
Speaker 4: of injuries, the scrutiny his time with Phoenix, I asked

1229
01:00:21,080 --> 01:00:24,120
Speaker 4: if he had something to prove, and he said, this

1230
01:00:24,200 --> 01:00:25,920
Speaker 4: is a direct quoie. He said, I don't have anything

1231
01:00:25,960 --> 01:00:28,040
Speaker 4: to prove. I'm a MAX player and I'll continue to

1232
01:00:28,080 --> 01:00:30,440
Speaker 4: be a MAX player. That did not sit well with

1233
01:00:30,520 --> 01:00:33,400
Speaker 4: people in the organization, and he's not a MAX player

1234
01:00:33,440 --> 01:00:36,280
Speaker 4: moving forward. I think it's also telling that there is

1235
01:00:36,360 --> 01:00:39,160
Speaker 4: a recipe for him to have a quote unquote bounce

1236
01:00:39,200 --> 01:00:42,560
Speaker 4: back year because of the reputation, because of the Lakers

1237
01:00:42,640 --> 01:00:46,240
Speaker 4: championship history, and players like Lebron, James and Luca could

1238
01:00:46,320 --> 01:00:49,120
Speaker 4: keep him in check. But Chris Paul kept him in

1239
01:00:49,200 --> 01:00:51,320
Speaker 4: check in Phoenix, and he bought in, but then he

1240
01:00:51,480 --> 01:00:54,560
Speaker 4: soured on it eventually, And so I think it's telling

1241
01:00:54,800 --> 01:00:58,000
Speaker 4: talking to Michael Thompson. He's a proud Bahemian. He has

1242
01:00:58,040 --> 01:01:00,960
Speaker 4: this kinship with DeAndre and if you know him well,

1243
01:01:00,960 --> 01:01:03,800
Speaker 4: Michael is a Laker fan. He's very optimistic and so

1244
01:01:03,840 --> 01:01:06,840
Speaker 4: he is of a believer that this will be the

1245
01:01:06,840 --> 01:01:09,680
Speaker 4: redemption year. But I think it's very telling that Michael

1246
01:01:09,800 --> 01:01:15,040
Speaker 4: talking to him. He talked about DeAndre Aiden's career as underachieving.

1247
01:01:15,160 --> 01:01:18,240
Speaker 4: He projected him to be a multi year All Star

1248
01:01:18,400 --> 01:01:21,120
Speaker 4: already and he hasn't been that because of what we

1249
01:01:21,280 --> 01:01:24,120
Speaker 4: just outlined. He looks straight on paper, but he doesn't

1250
01:01:24,480 --> 01:01:27,320
Speaker 4: utilize the talent to the best of his capabilities, and

1251
01:01:27,360 --> 01:01:29,280
Speaker 4: a lot of it is self inflicted.

1252
01:01:30,720 --> 01:01:35,280
Speaker 3: In looking at the West right, you saw Denver pretty

1253
01:01:35,320 --> 01:01:39,200
Speaker 3: much give OKAC their best run for their money in

1254
01:01:39,280 --> 01:01:42,600
Speaker 3: the championship. We could sit here and argue if Haliburton

1255
01:01:42,600 --> 01:01:44,960
Speaker 3: wouldn't have gone down, maybe the Patiers would be the

1256
01:01:45,000 --> 01:01:50,160
Speaker 3: champions right now. I love what Houston did bringing in Katie,

1257
01:01:50,640 --> 01:01:53,720
Speaker 3: and I like the moves that Denver made. If there

1258
01:01:53,880 --> 01:01:56,440
Speaker 3: is a team outside the Lakers that you think can

1259
01:01:56,640 --> 01:01:58,720
Speaker 3: upset the Apple Cart with OKC.

1260
01:01:59,320 --> 01:01:59,800
Speaker 1: Who is it?

1261
01:02:01,000 --> 01:02:03,360
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's what you mentioned. I would put

1262
01:02:03,400 --> 01:02:07,040
Speaker 4: Houston the best team to challenge Okasee. And it's not

1263
01:02:07,120 --> 01:02:11,080
Speaker 4: just Kevin Durant, who's obviously a huge player, because you

1264
01:02:11,120 --> 01:02:13,960
Speaker 4: know he's had injury concerns ever since injuring his achilles

1265
01:02:13,960 --> 01:02:16,480
Speaker 4: in twenty nineteen, but went on the floor. He's still

1266
01:02:16,480 --> 01:02:18,920
Speaker 4: one of the most efficient scorers in the league. But

1267
01:02:19,000 --> 01:02:22,320
Speaker 4: also what Houston didn't give up. They still have Aman Thompson,

1268
01:02:22,600 --> 01:02:25,680
Speaker 4: who's a great wing player, one of the fastest players

1269
01:02:25,720 --> 01:02:29,280
Speaker 4: in the league. They still have Alfern Goun who's morphing

1270
01:02:29,400 --> 01:02:32,600
Speaker 4: into a very elite center. They have a great coach

1271
01:02:32,920 --> 01:02:36,320
Speaker 4: in Imo Odoka, who's turned the teams the defensive identity around.

1272
01:02:36,360 --> 01:02:40,040
Speaker 4: They also have another championship tested player, Bred van Leek,

1273
01:02:40,080 --> 01:02:43,480
Speaker 4: great competitor, great locker room guy, great two way player.

1274
01:02:43,760 --> 01:02:46,920
Speaker 4: I would put Denver Dennis third because you have an

1275
01:02:47,040 --> 01:02:51,280
Speaker 4: MVP candidate in Nikoleokat Shamal Murray is healthier. The fact

1276
01:02:51,320 --> 01:02:54,840
Speaker 4: that they traded Michael Porter Junior is huge because he

1277
01:02:54,880 --> 01:02:58,440
Speaker 4: was a great player, great scorer, but he's an inconsistent defender,

1278
01:02:58,680 --> 01:03:02,360
Speaker 4: and he also had a lot of injuries throughout his career.

1279
01:03:02,400 --> 01:03:04,440
Speaker 4: But the fact that they're able to get Cam Johnson,

1280
01:03:04,640 --> 01:03:07,360
Speaker 4: who is much more consistent as a two way player,

1281
01:03:07,800 --> 01:03:10,880
Speaker 4: automatically thrust Denver back to the mix. You also throw

1282
01:03:10,880 --> 01:03:14,320
Speaker 4: in the fact that they got Bruce Burrow Bowen in

1283
01:03:14,400 --> 01:03:17,920
Speaker 4: the free agency market after losing him in free agency

1284
01:03:17,920 --> 01:03:21,160
Speaker 4: two years ago. He was a very important wing defender

1285
01:03:21,560 --> 01:03:24,520
Speaker 4: on their championship team in twenty twenty three. So as

1286
01:03:24,560 --> 01:03:27,840
Speaker 4: of right now, I would put OKC number one, and

1287
01:03:27,880 --> 01:03:31,720
Speaker 4: then number two Huston and then Denver three, and the

1288
01:03:31,760 --> 01:03:33,440
Speaker 4: rest of the West is kind of up for perhaps

1289
01:03:33,480 --> 01:03:34,280
Speaker 4: at this point.

1290
01:03:34,120 --> 01:03:35,280
Speaker 1: I know we're up against the clock.

1291
01:03:35,280 --> 01:03:37,400
Speaker 2: I got to sneak in one more, Anita, and I

1292
01:03:37,960 --> 01:03:43,160
Speaker 2: gotta do this Yannis. Obviously they dumbed the Lillard. I

1293
01:03:43,160 --> 01:03:45,160
Speaker 2: don't know why you'd be upset because he can't play

1294
01:03:45,200 --> 01:03:48,120
Speaker 2: next year. You bring in Miles Turner, who's a solid player.

1295
01:03:48,400 --> 01:03:50,080
Speaker 2: Didn't cost you an arm in a leg to get

1296
01:03:50,120 --> 01:03:53,400
Speaker 2: Miles Turner. Is janis happy enough to want to stay

1297
01:03:53,400 --> 01:03:55,560
Speaker 2: in Milwaukee. You look at his deal he signed through

1298
01:03:55,960 --> 01:03:58,400
Speaker 2: twenty seven. Then he's got the player option for the

1299
01:03:58,400 --> 01:04:01,000
Speaker 2: twenty seven to twenty eight season, and how's this all

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Speaker 2: going to play out for Giannis and Milwaukee.

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Speaker 4: We'll make it quick staved per the clock, per Christains.

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Speaker 4: Giannis isn't happy that they waved Damian Lillward, but it's fine.

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01:04:10,080 --> 01:04:12,480
Speaker 4: He wasn't gonna play next season anyway because of those chilies.

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01:04:12,560 --> 01:04:15,720
Speaker 4: Dame's actually fine with that because open slate of rehabbing

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Speaker 4: options and he's still going to get paid. I don't

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Speaker 4: think Giannis is going to be upset enough to request

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Speaker 4: a trade, though, because it's in his nature to be loyal.

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Speaker 4: But they did get Miles Turner. He's a great center,

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Speaker 4: and so there's a lot of question marks about the Bucks.

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Speaker 4: But I do think the Bucks should trade Gianness just

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Speaker 4: to start over. They've lost three consecutive first round exits.

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Speaker 4: But I don't think Giannis is going to be angry

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Speaker 4: enough to say that one out.

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Speaker 2: All right, great stuff, as always, Mark, very busy around

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Speaker 2: the association.

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Speaker 1: Well check in with you next week. We appreciate it, Mark, thank.

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Speaker 4: You, Dave and need to the best appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: That's Mark Medina there, oh, Anita, we got a lot

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Speaker 2: to talk about it on the other side.

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Speaker 1: But first, but first, let's find out what is trending

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Speaker 1: right now? Why do you look different to me all

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Speaker 1: of a sudden?

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Speaker 5: Do you put your glasses on?

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Speaker 6: Well?

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Speaker 5: I do that to read. Those are my readers. I

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Speaker 5: can't see that well.

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Speaker 10: I mean, I just I don't know. I can't answer

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Speaker 10: the question. Steve, I'm not inside that.

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Speaker 1: Uh looks like he tilted his black Dodgers cap farther

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Speaker 1: back on his head. I was going to say, is

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Speaker 1: it a busy day today? Eh?

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Speaker 10: Yeah, I mean ESPN is showing the Savannah Bananas right now.

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Speaker 2: So they're the hottest team in baseball. Apparently they sold

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Speaker 2: that Angel Stadium twice. I think the Angels could do that.

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Speaker 10: No, in fact, I know they can't do that right now.

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Speaker 10: I went to an Angels Tigers game earlier this season,

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01:05:38,800 --> 01:05:41,920
Speaker 10: and it was more to park than it was to

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Speaker 10: actually watch the game.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's but they're very popular. I love that stuff.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 10: So, we had actually two of the best teams in

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Speaker 10: baseball playing right now, the Detroit Tigers and the Los

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Speaker 10: Angeles Dodgers. Spent with Torkolsen just hit a home run

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Speaker 10: to give the Tigers and won nothing lead over the

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Speaker 10: Guardians show. Hey, so tiny pitching and hitting. Today's fifteen

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Speaker 10: pitches into his second inning on.

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01:06:05,760 --> 01:06:07,400
Speaker 5: A three to two count with nobody out.

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Speaker 10: I think gave up a hit in his first Yeah,

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Speaker 10: gave up, excuse me, one hit in the top of

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Speaker 10: the first inning.

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Speaker 5: But back out there now and yeah for one inning.

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Speaker 10: Pitch complete, but he's as he delivers his the payoff

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01:06:20,480 --> 01:06:23,840
Speaker 10: pitch to the first batter of the second inning. But

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01:06:24,000 --> 01:06:27,480
Speaker 10: earlier today we saw the Twins beat the Ray six

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Speaker 10: to five, Cardinals beat the Clubs eight to six, Blue

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Speaker 10: Jays and extras four to three over the Angels, Red

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Speaker 10: Sox ten to three over the Nationals, Phillies five to

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Speaker 10: one over the Reds in extras. The Orioles beat the

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Speaker 10: Braves nine to six. That was a six to six

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Speaker 10: game for a most of it. The Mets just took

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Speaker 10: care of the Yankees twelve to six. Yankees in a

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01:06:47,360 --> 01:06:49,960
Speaker 10: world of hurt. Recently, and the Diamondbacks beat the Royals

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01:06:50,120 --> 01:06:54,600
Speaker 10: seven to one. Clark Schmidt expected to undergo Tommy John surgery.

1364
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Speaker 10: Aaron Aaron Boone said that he had torn ucl and

1365
01:06:58,560 --> 01:07:01,280
Speaker 10: At Wimbledon, Novak Jokovic became the third player in the

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01:07:01,360 --> 01:07:03,480
Speaker 10: history of the Grass Tournament to reach one hundred victories

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Speaker 10: as he advances to the fourth round, so does Ben Shelton.

1368
01:07:06,600 --> 01:07:08,680
Speaker 5: Mike Brown, New York Knicks.

1369
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Speaker 10: Head coach, reportedly for four years forty million dollars.

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Speaker 5: His new contract. It's not bad work, I can get

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Speaker 5: to Steve.

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Speaker 1: No, No, that's not a bad job at all.

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Speaker 2: Good stuff. I always appreciate Martin. Thank you very very much.

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Speaker 1: And you got your show coming up with Zach Harper

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Speaker 1: right after ours. Looking forward to that. Once again.

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Speaker 2: This is Fox Sports Saturday, Steve Hartman and Anita Marks

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01:07:28,920 --> 01:07:31,440
Speaker 2: with you, coming to live from the Fox Sports Radio studios.

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01:07:31,440 --> 01:07:32,600
Speaker 1: Don't forget after the show.

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01:07:32,640 --> 01:07:35,160
Speaker 2: The podcast is going up, So if you miss any

1380
01:07:35,200 --> 01:07:38,080
Speaker 2: of today's show, check out the podcast. Search Fox Sports

1381
01:07:38,160 --> 01:07:41,080
Speaker 2: Radio wherever you get to podcasts, and follow and review

1382
01:07:41,120 --> 01:07:41,760
Speaker 2: the podcast.

1383
01:07:42,280 --> 01:07:43,840
Speaker 1: Rate it five stars of course.

1384
01:07:43,960 --> 01:07:46,320
Speaker 2: Again, just search Fox Sports Radio wherever you get to

1385
01:07:46,400 --> 01:07:49,440
Speaker 2: podcasts and you see today's show posted right after we

1386
01:07:49,480 --> 01:07:50,200
Speaker 2: get off the air.

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Speaker 1: Keep in our eye on show.

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Speaker 2: Hey Otani right now, Anita, and he's in his second inning.

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Speaker 1: This is his fourth start.

1390
01:07:58,120 --> 01:08:01,680
Speaker 2: First two starts one inning each, last start two innings.

1391
01:08:01,680 --> 01:08:04,160
Speaker 2: He's gonna go two innings again today.

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01:08:04,840 --> 01:08:06,640
Speaker 1: Do you get excited? About baseball.

1393
01:08:07,040 --> 01:08:11,160
Speaker 2: I mean, is it something that you really get excited about.

1394
01:08:11,240 --> 01:08:15,200
Speaker 2: I know, from a gambling standpoint, baseball is a tricky sport.

1395
01:08:15,320 --> 01:08:18,320
Speaker 2: I've known people that make money on baseball, a lot

1396
01:08:18,360 --> 01:08:21,080
Speaker 2: of money actually, but it's not something that people are

1397
01:08:21,120 --> 01:08:25,600
Speaker 2: always talking about. As I mentioned, when we talk about countdown,

1398
01:08:25,640 --> 01:08:28,680
Speaker 2: they're talking WNBA, not Major League Baseball.

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Speaker 6: Right.

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Speaker 3: By the way, the Dodgers, I had them on the

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01:08:31,280 --> 01:08:35,160
Speaker 3: money line coming into this matchup at minus one, considering

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01:08:35,160 --> 01:08:38,519
Speaker 3: they got spanked yesterday in their own ballpark. Tani, I

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01:08:38,560 --> 01:08:41,160
Speaker 3: do believe he's going to have a longer leash today.

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01:08:41,240 --> 01:08:43,439
Speaker 3: The bullpen at full disposal. I think we see Tanner,

1405
01:08:43,439 --> 01:08:46,599
Speaker 3: Scott Houston, has Valdez. He's got a forty eight percent

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01:08:46,840 --> 01:08:49,639
Speaker 3: hard hit rate, which is bottom ten major League Baseball

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01:08:49,840 --> 01:08:52,719
Speaker 3: against this Dodgers lineup. So I do like the Dodgers.

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01:08:52,760 --> 01:08:55,080
Speaker 3: As you said, they're already up one to zero top

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01:08:55,120 --> 01:08:57,680
Speaker 3: of the second. But to answer your question, I live

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01:08:57,720 --> 01:08:59,200
Speaker 3: here in New York. I have to be dude.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I know.

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01:09:01,280 --> 01:09:03,360
Speaker 2: Well, by the way, the Mets did a number on

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01:09:03,360 --> 01:09:04,400
Speaker 2: the Yankees today.

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01:09:04,680 --> 01:09:05,919
Speaker 1: What's wrong with the Yankees?

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01:09:06,840 --> 01:09:09,519
Speaker 3: Well, now Schmidt, they're saying he's gonna have Tommy John

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01:09:09,720 --> 01:09:10,800
Speaker 3: So now you know.

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01:09:12,280 --> 01:09:13,880
Speaker 1: By the way, okay, can I stop you for a

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Speaker 1: second here.

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Speaker 2: So I grew up a million years ago when actually

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Speaker 2: pitchers through complete games, I mean, as many as thirty

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01:09:21,600 --> 01:09:25,200
Speaker 2: complete games in a year was not outrageous by any stretch.

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01:09:25,479 --> 01:09:28,120
Speaker 2: I remember one year Mickey Loulitch with the Tigers through

1423
01:09:28,160 --> 01:09:31,439
Speaker 2: three hundred and seventy six innings in one season, three

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01:09:31,520 --> 01:09:34,400
Speaker 2: hundred and seventy six. We were talking about this other

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01:09:34,520 --> 01:09:36,920
Speaker 2: day because I was at the Kershaw game.

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Speaker 1: Well, I was sort of there.

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Speaker 2: I was doing TV, so one of those things where

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01:09:40,960 --> 01:09:42,840
Speaker 2: I was doing a preview and a lie from Dodgers

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01:09:42,880 --> 01:09:44,640
Speaker 2: Stadium on TV for the four of the five to

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Speaker 2: six o'clock I was there out there right and then

1431
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Speaker 2: you know, but they say, well, you got to get

1432
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Speaker 2: back to the studio by eight to fifteen. We got

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01:09:51,439 --> 01:09:53,920
Speaker 2: some rehearsal stuff you gotta do. I got no problem.

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Speaker 2: Three innings against the White Sox. He'll get three strikeouts

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Speaker 2: at three innings. No, he didn't. And I had a

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Speaker 2: leave and I actually missed the moment when he got

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Speaker 2: to three thousand. By the way, if starting pitching, he

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Speaker 2: continues as it is, he will be the last pitcher

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Speaker 2: with three thousand strikeouts.

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Speaker 1: Just do the math.

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Speaker 2: They're not even going to pitch enough innings for any

1442
01:10:11,960 --> 01:10:14,479
Speaker 2: pitcher ever to get to three thousand career strikeouts. But

1443
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Speaker 2: it just seems crazy. I mean, the Dodgers arm injuries everywhere.

1444
01:10:19,560 --> 01:10:24,200
Speaker 2: The less these guys pitch, the greater the degree of injuries.

1445
01:10:24,280 --> 01:10:26,400
Speaker 2: I mean, the old time, they never had these kind

1446
01:10:26,439 --> 01:10:29,519
Speaker 2: of injuries. Ever, these guys could pitch year after year,

1447
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Speaker 2: two fifty two, seventy.

1448
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Speaker 1: To three hundred innings year after year. Well, what did

1449
01:10:33,800 --> 01:10:37,160
Speaker 1: they throw his hard? That's the point, in other words,

1450
01:10:37,200 --> 01:10:40,519
Speaker 1: the idea of a pitcher. I remember many conversations with

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Speaker 1: pitcher and this was like in the early nineties when

1452
01:10:43,120 --> 01:10:47,440
Speaker 1: already we're seeing a slight transition in terms of expecting

1453
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Speaker 1: pitchers to go nine innings, maybe it was eight innings

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Speaker 1: or seven innings.

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Speaker 2: And the pitchers that would go nineties always say this, Anita, Look,

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Speaker 2: every bat, we would set up the hitter for the

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Speaker 2: next to bat. So I'm looking at the lineup, I'm

1458
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Speaker 2: going in the mindset I'm going to see this guy

1459
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Speaker 2: three or four times during the course of the game.

1460
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Speaker 2: So the way I pitch him the first time is

1461
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Speaker 2: going to be different than the second time, and you're

1462
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Speaker 2: not just sitting there trying to throw the ball one

1463
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Speaker 2: hundred miles an hour on every pitch. I don't know

1464
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Speaker 2: where where are the analytics here? You're paying an insane

1465
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Speaker 2: amount of money because all these contracts are.

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Speaker 1: Guaranteed for zero production. It doesn't make any sense.

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Speaker 2: I don't know who came up with the analytics that

1468
01:11:24,800 --> 01:11:26,960
Speaker 2: you don't you know, like swing as hard as you can.

1469
01:11:27,080 --> 01:11:28,920
Speaker 2: It is the best thing to do if you strike

1470
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Speaker 2: out all the time, or just throw the ball as

1471
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Speaker 2: hard as gam for as long as you can.

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Speaker 1: It's stupidity.

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Speaker 2: And so it just drives me nuts that somehow people

1474
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Speaker 2: are making millions of dollars laying out these analytics that

1475
01:11:41,439 --> 01:11:48,600
Speaker 2: are costing these franchises millions of dollars in unproductive salary.

1476
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Speaker 3: It's just and we see this. It's you know, in

1477
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Speaker 3: the NBA now it's become a three point shooting game,

1478
01:11:56,080 --> 01:12:00,720
Speaker 3: right in Major League Baseball. You know, it's it's it's

1479
01:12:00,720 --> 01:12:03,880
Speaker 3: about the hundred mile per hour fastball. And you know

1480
01:12:05,040 --> 01:12:09,280
Speaker 3: you're forcing your body to throw a ball in a

1481
01:12:09,439 --> 01:12:14,040
Speaker 3: very unnatural nature that your body was not built to do.

1482
01:12:15,520 --> 01:12:19,599
Speaker 3: And doing that consistently, it's gonna break down and you're

1483
01:12:19,640 --> 01:12:22,439
Speaker 3: gonna get injured. So no, it's it's it's not it's

1484
01:12:22,439 --> 01:12:24,839
Speaker 3: not the wisest thing. But to go back to your question,

1485
01:12:25,720 --> 01:12:30,360
Speaker 3: you know it's unfortunate. I don't know why baseball. Well,

1486
01:12:31,080 --> 01:12:36,240
Speaker 3: I okay. One of my beliefs is the reason that

1487
01:12:36,360 --> 01:12:38,440
Speaker 3: I think the w n b A is so successful

1488
01:12:38,479 --> 01:12:41,639
Speaker 3: is because now you've got this like, you know, larger

1489
01:12:41,680 --> 01:12:45,479
Speaker 3: than life, Caitlin Clark, that's taken over the world. Right,

1490
01:12:45,520 --> 01:12:49,720
Speaker 3: so now people are watching, Uh the w n b A.

1491
01:12:50,800 --> 01:12:54,880
Speaker 3: Major League Baseball doesn't have that player. I like, like,

1492
01:12:54,960 --> 01:12:55,559
Speaker 3: I think it's.

1493
01:12:55,400 --> 01:12:58,439
Speaker 1: Really what about does he move the needle?

1494
01:12:58,720 --> 01:13:02,200
Speaker 3: Who know who can? Who can connect with him?

1495
01:13:02,520 --> 01:13:02,720
Speaker 5: Right?

1496
01:13:02,800 --> 01:13:06,799
Speaker 3: He's got a translator, you don't. You don't see him

1497
01:13:07,240 --> 01:13:12,920
Speaker 3: on a lot of Major League baseball is missing personalities

1498
01:13:13,240 --> 01:13:18,040
Speaker 3: that people can connect to and and like or hate

1499
01:13:18,760 --> 01:13:23,759
Speaker 3: and want to watch either have success or have major failure.

1500
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Speaker 3: They don't have those people. They don't have those athletes,

1501
01:13:28,720 --> 01:13:33,440
Speaker 3: so nobody's tuning in. It's it really, it's it's it's unfortunate.

1502
01:13:33,760 --> 01:13:37,439
Speaker 3: It really is unfortunate. I mean, you can't you look

1503
01:13:37,479 --> 01:13:40,200
Speaker 3: at the stadiums, you look at city. You look at

1504
01:13:40,240 --> 01:13:42,960
Speaker 3: at Yankee Stadium, seats are empty. Folks don't want to

1505
01:13:42,960 --> 01:13:45,640
Speaker 3: go to baseball games anymore. It's not the same Steve.

1506
01:13:45,479 --> 01:13:47,720
Speaker 2: All right, So I'm one hundred percent on the same

1507
01:13:47,760 --> 01:13:50,080
Speaker 2: page with you on the Otani situation for much of

1508
01:13:50,080 --> 01:13:50,840
Speaker 2: the reasons you do.

1509
01:13:51,520 --> 01:13:53,720
Speaker 1: This is what I mean. People might take this the

1510
01:13:53,720 --> 01:13:55,960
Speaker 1: wrong way. Don't. It's just a fact.

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01:13:56,240 --> 01:13:58,719
Speaker 2: The fact is is that if you're a foreign born

1512
01:13:58,760 --> 01:14:02,360
Speaker 2: player and speak a different language, and you have value

1513
01:14:02,400 --> 01:14:06,439
Speaker 2: to an American team, where obviously more people speak English

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01:14:06,439 --> 01:14:09,120
Speaker 2: than any other language here in this country, you need

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01:14:09,160 --> 01:14:12,559
Speaker 2: to learn the language. I remember Fernando Vevenezuela, so he

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01:14:12,640 --> 01:14:15,200
Speaker 2: broke in. This was a nineteen twenty year old kid.

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01:14:15,439 --> 01:14:19,360
Speaker 2: He had an interpreter for three years. By year four,

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01:14:19,560 --> 01:14:23,799
Speaker 2: Fernando was speaking English. I remember I Vladimir Guerrero played

1519
01:14:23,920 --> 01:14:28,120
Speaker 2: seventeen years in Major League baseball, never uttered a word

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01:14:28,200 --> 01:14:30,679
Speaker 2: of English, which is one of the reasons he wasn't

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01:14:30,680 --> 01:14:33,640
Speaker 2: a marketable player, even if he was a Hall of

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01:14:33,680 --> 01:14:38,120
Speaker 2: Fame player. And now we got sho Heyo Tani seven

1523
01:14:38,280 --> 01:14:41,080
Speaker 2: eight years in a Major League baseball celebrating, by the way,

1524
01:14:41,080 --> 01:14:46,040
Speaker 2: his thirty first birthday today. Why is there still an interpreter.

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01:14:45,680 --> 01:14:48,439
Speaker 3: There that probably doesn't want to doesn't want that.

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01:14:48,720 --> 01:14:51,920
Speaker 1: You can't tell, well, you can't tell. I know he

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01:14:52,120 --> 01:14:55,840
Speaker 1: knows English speak it. It would make a world.

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01:14:55,520 --> 01:14:58,120
Speaker 2: Of difference from a marketing standpoint. You know, the doctors

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01:14:58,160 --> 01:15:00,600
Speaker 2: aren't going to do anything that's disrupt I get it.

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01:15:00,640 --> 01:15:01,439
Speaker 1: I mean, he'd have.

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01:15:01,479 --> 01:15:04,479
Speaker 3: More requests for interviews, he'd be asked to do more.

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01:15:04,640 --> 01:15:08,640
Speaker 3: Probably doesn't want it. It probably doesn't want it. And like,

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01:15:08,840 --> 01:15:11,040
Speaker 3: I'm just gonna use this as an example. I'm totally

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01:15:11,040 --> 01:15:14,320
Speaker 3: different sport, individual sport, not a team sport, but still

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01:15:14,400 --> 01:15:17,280
Speaker 3: kind of It's still I find it fascinating with what's

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01:15:17,280 --> 01:15:19,920
Speaker 3: happened with Bryson D. Shambeau went as one of the

1537
01:15:19,920 --> 01:15:25,040
Speaker 3: most hated golfers, hated right like the mad scientist right like,

1538
01:15:25,479 --> 01:15:29,559
Speaker 3: and was very self absorbed. Thought he knew it all,

1539
01:15:30,320 --> 01:15:33,880
Speaker 3: designed his own clubs, knew it better than anyone else.

1540
01:15:34,160 --> 01:15:37,439
Speaker 3: And then and then the PGA Tour came out and said, hey,

1541
01:15:38,120 --> 01:15:41,759
Speaker 3: whoever gets the most followers, whoever gets the most social

1542
01:15:41,800 --> 01:15:46,599
Speaker 3: media interaction, gets an extra million dollars three million dollars

1543
01:15:46,640 --> 01:15:49,800
Speaker 3: at the end of the year. Bryson D. Shambo dove

1544
01:15:49,880 --> 01:15:55,120
Speaker 3: into that like nobody's business. Now everyone loves him.

1545
01:15:55,880 --> 01:15:59,040
Speaker 1: He's the guy out side. That's the joke of the

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01:15:59,040 --> 01:16:01,040
Speaker 1: whole thing. I mean, yes, this is the PGA Tour

1547
01:16:01,080 --> 01:16:02,080
Speaker 1: anything still loved.

1548
01:16:02,240 --> 01:16:02,880
Speaker 4: But whenever he.

1549
01:16:02,840 --> 01:16:06,840
Speaker 3: Plays in a major he's got more people following him.

1550
01:16:07,000 --> 01:16:08,680
Speaker 1: He's signing all the autographs.

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01:16:08,840 --> 01:16:09,880
Speaker 6: He scutty, I.

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01:16:09,920 --> 01:16:14,360
Speaker 3: Know, but why Because he's become a personality that people

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01:16:14,400 --> 01:16:17,120
Speaker 3: can connect to through social All.

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01:16:17,000 --> 01:16:20,080
Speaker 2: I know is if if you work for a company

1555
01:16:20,800 --> 01:16:25,200
Speaker 2: and you're a high profile employee of that company, they're

1556
01:16:25,200 --> 01:16:27,800
Speaker 2: always going to ask you to go the extra mile.

1557
01:16:29,080 --> 01:16:33,519
Speaker 2: That's normal, but apparently not in the sports world. All right,

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01:16:33,520 --> 01:16:35,880
Speaker 2: coming up on the other side, Anita, I'm gonna hold

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01:16:35,920 --> 01:16:38,600
Speaker 2: you to it. Some plays coming up. I'm keeping an

1560
01:16:38,600 --> 01:16:41,519
Speaker 2: eye right now on this Sparks Fever game. Tight score

1561
01:16:41,600 --> 01:16:43,679
Speaker 2: right now, three minutes to go in the second quarter.

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Speaker 2: This is Fox Sports Saturday, Steve Harvin and Anita Marks

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01:16:50,840 --> 01:16:53,479
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Saturday once again live from the Fox Sports

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01:16:53,560 --> 01:16:57,280
Speaker 2: Radio studios. Want to thank our crew today, Martin Weiss

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01:16:57,439 --> 01:17:00,320
Speaker 2: getting ready for a show with Carrie Rhodes. I understand.

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01:17:00,400 --> 01:17:03,760
Speaker 2: So you and Carrie coming up next right here on

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01:17:03,840 --> 01:17:08,800
Speaker 2: Fox Sports Radio. Mary Mack uh to be Mary Mack.

1568
01:17:11,000 --> 01:17:12,639
Speaker 2: She just has fun in life, and that's the way

1569
01:17:12,640 --> 01:17:16,080
Speaker 2: it's supposed to be. Ian also has fun as our producer,

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01:17:16,360 --> 01:17:19,479
Speaker 2: but sometimes he gets pretty serious. What sort of comes

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01:17:19,520 --> 01:17:22,519
Speaker 2: with the job. I understand that, Ian, But great job

1572
01:17:22,560 --> 01:17:27,400
Speaker 2: by everybody out there, by the way, Anita. These days,

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01:17:27,400 --> 01:17:31,160
Speaker 2: I split my time between La and Phoenix. I'm in

1574
01:17:31,320 --> 01:17:33,519
Speaker 2: LA because I got a ton of TV work over

1575
01:17:33,520 --> 01:17:35,599
Speaker 2: the last couple of weeks, but I will be heading

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01:17:35,640 --> 01:17:40,040
Speaker 2: back to Phoenix Wednesday. The temperature that day will be

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01:17:40,120 --> 01:17:44,679
Speaker 2: one fifteen fifteen, yeah, one fifty. But it's a dry heat,

1578
01:17:44,760 --> 01:17:47,400
Speaker 2: you know, well, it seemed like a lot of chapstick.

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01:17:48,000 --> 01:17:51,640
Speaker 2: It's not even that people like I said, there's like

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01:17:51,960 --> 01:17:56,800
Speaker 2: zero percent humidity. You know, it's dry. It's like it's

1581
01:17:56,840 --> 01:17:59,360
Speaker 2: like oven heat as what I call it. You know,

1582
01:17:59,439 --> 01:18:02,960
Speaker 2: like we're you you are, you're gonna get humidity. My son,

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01:18:03,040 --> 01:18:04,800
Speaker 2: my oldest son, was just in New York a couple

1584
01:18:04,840 --> 01:18:07,840
Speaker 2: of weeks ago, and it was just unbearable, he said.

1585
01:18:08,400 --> 01:18:10,920
Speaker 2: With the humidity was right through the roof. Oh yeah,

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01:18:10,920 --> 01:18:13,080
Speaker 2: he said, it was ninety percent human It's like two

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01:18:13,240 --> 01:18:14,240
Speaker 2: two three weeks ago.

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01:18:14,360 --> 01:18:15,280
Speaker 5: Two weeks ago.

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01:18:15,439 --> 01:18:17,599
Speaker 1: He was there and the humidity was off the charts.

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01:18:17,920 --> 01:18:20,479
Speaker 2: Uh, you sense pictures. I mean when you're not grilling,

1591
01:18:20,600 --> 01:18:22,120
Speaker 2: I mean you're enjoying the pool time.

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01:18:22,520 --> 01:18:25,240
Speaker 1: It looks beautiful. I mean, blue skies and everything else

1593
01:18:25,280 --> 01:18:26,000
Speaker 1: look wonderful.

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01:18:26,280 --> 01:18:27,320
Speaker 3: Isn't that a fun pool?

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01:18:27,760 --> 01:18:29,240
Speaker 1: That is a fun pool? Yes, it is.

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01:18:29,320 --> 01:18:31,640
Speaker 3: It's it's I tried to like, you know, it's an

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01:18:31,680 --> 01:18:33,400
Speaker 3: above ground pool, and I try to explain it. It's

1598
01:18:33,439 --> 01:18:35,160
Speaker 3: kind of it's like adult swinkie pool.

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01:18:35,280 --> 01:18:37,800
Speaker 1: Yea, right, but it but it works. But it is

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01:18:37,800 --> 01:18:39,479
Speaker 1: the humidity intense right now?

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01:18:39,560 --> 01:18:42,519
Speaker 3: Or no, we've had we've had a horrible spring. I

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01:18:42,560 --> 01:18:45,679
Speaker 3: mean the amount of rain, the amount of rain we've

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01:18:45,680 --> 01:18:50,160
Speaker 3: had here is just it's it's it's definitely it's. Uh,

1604
01:18:50,200 --> 01:18:53,479
Speaker 3: it's what's the word I'm looking for. It's put a

1605
01:18:53,600 --> 01:18:55,439
Speaker 3: damper on my pickleball game.

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01:18:55,880 --> 01:18:58,680
Speaker 2: Oh that's right, you're pick a ball game. Yeah, yep, yeah,

1607
01:18:58,720 --> 01:19:00,880
Speaker 2: you gotta be careful with that halftime. By the way,

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01:19:01,200 --> 01:19:02,799
Speaker 2: Fever leading the Sparks by.

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01:19:02,720 --> 01:19:06,880
Speaker 3: Three and the Dodgers are up now two. Oh how

1610
01:19:06,880 --> 01:19:08,120
Speaker 3: long do you think Otani goes?

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01:19:08,880 --> 01:19:11,360
Speaker 1: They said yesterday he was only going to go two winnings.

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01:19:11,760 --> 01:19:12,200
Speaker 1: That's it.

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01:19:12,920 --> 01:19:13,280
Speaker 5: That's all.

1614
01:19:13,320 --> 01:19:15,120
Speaker 1: They said he was going to do two winnings.

1615
01:19:15,720 --> 01:19:18,000
Speaker 2: They didn't use anybody, like I said, so weird with

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01:19:18,040 --> 01:19:19,800
Speaker 2: the Dodgers, you know, here they are with the best

1617
01:19:19,840 --> 01:19:22,800
Speaker 2: record in baseball game ahead of the Tigers and keithke

1618
01:19:22,800 --> 01:19:27,479
Speaker 2: A Hernandez and Miguel Rojas, two position players have each

1619
01:19:27,520 --> 01:19:28,400
Speaker 2: pitched in like half a.

1620
01:19:28,400 --> 01:19:29,320
Speaker 1: Dozen games this year.

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01:19:29,760 --> 01:19:32,240
Speaker 2: Like either they're blowing out somebody or they're getting blown

1622
01:19:32,280 --> 01:19:36,240
Speaker 2: out because they've run out of arms. They are supposedly

1623
01:19:36,240 --> 01:19:40,400
Speaker 2: getting glass now back soon. He pitched a really good

1624
01:19:40,479 --> 01:19:43,320
Speaker 2: game minor league rehab start, so he'll be back soon,

1625
01:19:44,720 --> 01:19:46,840
Speaker 2: you know. But obviously they're not going to take any

1626
01:19:46,920 --> 01:19:49,839
Speaker 2: chance of Otani. What they want is a healthy Otani

1627
01:19:49,960 --> 01:19:53,559
Speaker 2: come October. That's their priority. They're not worried about games

1628
01:19:53,640 --> 01:19:55,960
Speaker 2: right now when you're sitting atop the West by what

1629
01:19:56,080 --> 01:19:58,600
Speaker 2: six or seven games. So yeah, they're not going to

1630
01:19:58,880 --> 01:20:01,800
Speaker 2: force Outani. I mean, he wants to pitch more, they're

1631
01:20:01,880 --> 01:20:04,439
Speaker 2: just not going to let him yet. It'll come soon.

1632
01:20:05,320 --> 01:20:07,800
Speaker 2: Any other games you like to tout coming up here

1633
01:20:07,880 --> 01:20:10,960
Speaker 2: on the Ledger this week? Anything spark your interest?

1634
01:20:11,479 --> 01:20:14,040
Speaker 3: No, And I like what you did there, because the

1635
01:20:14,080 --> 01:20:18,559
Speaker 3: Sparks are down by three at the half but not.

1636
01:20:18,960 --> 01:20:20,720
Speaker 3: I mean, really, what's going on?

1637
01:20:20,960 --> 01:20:22,120
Speaker 1: Well, that's my whole point.

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01:20:22,120 --> 01:20:23,840
Speaker 2: I mean, I guess it's just w n B A

1639
01:20:24,000 --> 01:20:27,880
Speaker 2: w NBA WNBA, that's all it is. I mean, it's

1640
01:20:27,920 --> 01:20:31,320
Speaker 2: just unreal how we've suddenly come to a time where

1641
01:20:31,439 --> 01:20:34,920
Speaker 2: people are like, give me some give me some WNBA

1642
01:20:34,960 --> 01:20:37,640
Speaker 2: fan for me, SIM want to make a bet.

1643
01:20:38,000 --> 01:20:40,720
Speaker 3: This is this is, this is what we've amounted to.

1644
01:20:41,760 --> 01:20:44,680
Speaker 3: I'm looking at the games tomorrow. I mean, listen, you've

1645
01:20:44,720 --> 01:20:49,200
Speaker 3: you've got the Liberty at home against the storm and

1646
01:20:49,439 --> 01:20:51,800
Speaker 3: Liberty are favored by five and a half at home.

1647
01:20:52,520 --> 01:20:54,240
Speaker 3: I like the Liberty going Liberty.

1648
01:20:54,560 --> 01:20:55,120
Speaker 5: There it is.

1649
01:20:55,479 --> 01:20:57,960
Speaker 2: We'll break down all the WNB four and it's great

1650
01:20:57,960 --> 01:20:59,720
Speaker 2: to catch up with you. As always, We'll do it

1651
01:20:59,760 --> 01:21:02,519
Speaker 2: again down the line. Keep it here on Fox Sports Radio.